The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1802-08-18 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. II.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCLXVI.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18th, 1802.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
[FROM THE AURORA.]
AGRICULTURE.
An account of a visit to the principal Vine-Yards of Pennsylvania, by a member of the Vineyard company in Kentucky.
Every thing relating to agriculture is so interesting to America, that I shall be excused publishing a short account of the state and progress of the Vineyards in Pennsylvania.
Having some business to transact in Philadelphia, I thought it a favourable opportunity to see with my own eyes, the comparative state of vine dressing between Pennsylvania and Kentucky.
At Port Republic, Montgomery county, I remarked the vines were too much loaded, even with wood and fruit, in proportion to the strength of the plant, which must suffer by it, if Dr. Seraphin does not order them to be cut very low, and bestow a quantity of manure, equal to the wood and fruit which the vines have to support.
At Norristown I saw some plants of the Lisbon, Champaigne, Burgundy, and Constantia wine, which gen. Swaine had planted in the Spring. If they had been planted in the fall, he would have been more certain of success; nevertheless, with a little care, there is no doubt but they will succeed.
At Spring Mill I found Mr. Legaux's Vineyard, which had been cut last autumn. One part of it was capable of being ploughed between the rows, with a light plough and one horse. In the other part which is too steep for the plough, he uses particular instruments of his own invention, extremely proper for the purpose; because the ground may be opened 18 inches in depth, without injuring the roots; and may be turned with as much ease, as a common plough.
The young shoots were in a prosperous condition; the leaves were opened and the grapes began to make their appearance. On some I might reckon 10, 15 or 20, others 30 or 40, and even as many as 70 bunches of grapes on one plant.
It is impossible, even in Europe, any thing more flourishing of the kind, for the season, could be seen. The whole vineyard, which contains about 6 acres, promises a rich harvest of fruit, and an immense quantity of plants; if the wood comes to maturity, which has been always the case in this country, on account of the temperature of our autumns and the extreme heat of Summer.
Near this, which is the mother vineyard of the United States, there is a rock, which, by the industry of Legaux, has been converted into an excellent kitchen and flower garden, and where he has a nursery of more than 15 different kinds of plants of the vine, at the service of the public, such as Burgundy, Champaigne, Bourdeaux, Constantia, Lisbon, Madeira, Muscatel, white black and red Malaga, and fine plants of all the different kinds of native American, to which the vine dresser of Spring Mill pays the same attention as European plants, with a view of ascertaining whether a proper culture would not ameliorate them, which would be a great advantage to the country, since they are already inured to the climate.
About 300 paces from thence is the new vineyard and nursery, which the Pennsylvania company incorporated by act of assembly, hath recently established. The land appears well chosen and in good order, so that there can be no doubt but the plants will succeed, especially as the gentle declivity is such, that no water can be lost, or the vineyard receive any injury from heavy rains—added to this, if there should ever happen a dry season there is an inexhaustible spring of water, exposed to the sun, with which the whole ground may be watered at pleasure.
Both the choice of the ground and the manner in which it has been planted, prove, either a good theory, or experimental practice in the kind of agriculture in the president and directors of that company,—But if the plants which may amount to 7 or 8000 had been planted in the fall instead of the spring, I suppose they would have looked much better. However, as it is, the plants are in general in a thriving state.
At four miles from Philadelphia, on the Ridge-road, is the vineyard of Mr. Montmolin, containing about 1000 plants, principally of the same kinds with ours in Kentucky. This vineyard is in excellent order, planted in right lines, well cut and dressed, ploughed with the same kind of instrument, which is used in Switzerland, which goes deep and preserves the roots of the vine. It is well adapted for strong land, which it
turns up without being trodden, and consequently is less exposed to the influence of the sun and atmosphere.
The plants in the vineyard are strong and vigorous, the branches are disposed in the best manner possible for ripening the fruit, which now begin to make their appearance.
The land is well chosen, and the best possible exposition for a vineyard. There is also a nursery for about 1300 plants, planted at about a foot distance from each other, which appeared to me a proper interval for a nursery.
On the left of the vineyard is a kitchen garden, an orchard, and a nursery for young fruit trees; among which are a prodigious number of young grafts which succeeded very well.
But what pleased me as much as any thing, and which ought to occupy the attention of every agriculturalist, was the excellent state of the farm yard. There was as much manure collected from a plantation of 40 or 50 acres as we generally find on one of 4 or 500 in this country.
This superiority in rural economy must be owing to the care the proprietor takes of his cattle.
I was astonished, however, after finding every thing in such excellent condition, that the espaliers should be so ill cut, and the branches disposed with so little judgement. It certainly could not be the same gardener who engraved the trees and laid out the garden, that pruned the espaliers.
To prune trees and dress them in the manner of espaliers is an operation of art, which never intended that the action of vegetation should be stopped, or that the tree should be subject to incisions, which disturb the order and mechanism of their organisation, or derange the circulation of the sap, which then takes a course different from that intended by nature. Nevertheless, when this operation is well managed, a man of taste may make his trees take any form which pleases his fancy, and dispose of them in such a manner that while they carry abundance of fruit, they may be an ornament to the garden for a number of years. This shews the value of a good gardener.
These, however, I am sorry to say it, were managed so ill, that they never can last long, nor carry much fruit, at the same time that they present a disagreeable coup d'oeil.
I understood that about a mile from Mr. Montmolin's there was another vineyard, not yet taken notice of in the public papers. I therefore went to pay it a visit, and was charmed to see a plantation in such good order, an excellent garden furnished with every kind of vegetables, and above all, a vine yard, which by its appearance promised well.
The agreeable and the useful were here found united with success, in such a way as to do great credit to the proprietor, Mr. Peter Kahn, of Philadelphia. I was told by the gardener that the plants were of the Lisbon, Malaga and Madeira wines; but they were far from being well pruned, that is to say there were too much wood and fruit; and if Mr. Kahn does not order them to be cut, in two or three weeks, the plants must suffer considerably, and the confusion will be so great, that the branches can never be placed in order. In every other respect the vines are strong, planted on good land, well aired, on a gentle declivity facing the south, three miles from the city. The fruit carried to the market of Philadelphia, must necessarily reimburse, with interest, the expense of this charming establishment.
It is yet to be known, whether the juice of the Madeira plants will yield a wine equal to that imported; the consumption of which is so great, and which to the great detriment of America, carries away an immense capital which might be retained in the country, if more particular attention was given to this branch of agriculture.
Dr. James Mease, (the first American who established a vineyard in Pennsylvania) has chosen an excellent situation, near the centre of the ground plan of Philadelphia, on the line of Cherry Alley. He has about 3000 plants of different kinds of grapes, in a southern exposure, which commands the sun from morning till night. The land appeared to me a little too strong, but Dr. Mease, a zealous friend to agriculture, and to every thing that belongs to it, knows how to administer that kind of manure proper to give to his wine a generous spirit, such as a light and fancy soil commonly yields. All his plants were set from cuttings last autumn, and proper very well, and some had even grapes; but the doctor will certainly not think of enjoying them this year, knowing, as he does, that it is better for cuttings,
first to be supplied with good roots, and some wood, before they bear fruit. A distance of four feet is exactly observed betwixt each plant; but two plants have been put in each hole left one should miss; and in case of both growing, one may be transplanted next year, to enlarge the vineyard. I approve very much of this method of planting the vine, and the more so, when they are only cuttings without roots.
During the summer and part of the autumn it will be very agreeable to the citizens of Philadelphia to have near them a specific against the sickness which has so often desolated the European art.
The most celebrated doctors of Europe, Buchan, Tissot, Mead, Tronchain, Liauteau, Cullen, Debais de Rochefort, &c. agree that the grape is the best solvent of the bile, cures the most obstinate dysenteries, is very good in all obstructions of the abdominal viscera, the most obstinate jaundice, and above all, in the black sickness, the hypochondria, and in diseases of the skin; for the grapes are an excellent aperient and purifier of the blood; but they must not be given in small doses. In these cases they should be made almost the only nourishment, eating 10, 12, or 15 pounds a day. All those who have used them, in this manner, have found great advantage from them.
And among others I have heard it related upon good authority, that an officer of the former king of France's household, who had been long affected with an hypochondriacal affection, with an intermitting fever and obstructions in the abdominal viscera. His colour, which was a black yellow, looked horrible. Grapes were recommended to him, by one of the most celebrated physicians in France, he purchased several acres of vineyard in the neighbourhood of Paris; and, when the grapes were in season, he ate upwards of 30lb a day, which perfectly restored him to health. Several similar cures have been effected by this delicious fruit when every other remedy had failed, and who knows but it might be efficacious in the yellow fever, which afflicts the seaports of the United States. I confess that formerly it was not so much in our power to make the experiment as it is at present, when upwards of twenty vineyards have been established, and many more projected for the next fall. After the great success which we have had in this species of agriculture, as well here as in Pennsylvania, we need not doubt that our climate is as favourable for the vine as that of Europe, where it was an exotic a few centuries ago, while it is natural in our hemisphere, though to our shame, and contrary to our true interest, we have hitherto neglected it.
I have also seen several trellises in the gardens of Philadelphia, but they all appeared too much loaded with fruit and wood at top, and little or nothing below, or on the sides. At the next pruning the defect ought to be remedied, otherwise the vines will soon perish, and must be replaced with others which would share the same fate if not better managed. When we wish to enjoy too soon and too much, we should not expect to enjoy long.
I called also on Mr. ——, I forgot his name, a Frenchman of a noble family, who has about two acres in vineyard, half a mile from Philadelphia, by the way of South Second street. This vineyard is of another kind from those mentioned above. The vines are planted in such a manner as to form a counter Espalier, one side of which faces the south, and the other the north; as, by this method, the fruit can never be ripe at the same time it is not so well adapted for those who should be desirous of making wine; but near Philadelphia where the grapes may be sold for table, it answers very well, as by that means, the market may be supplied for several weeks successively.
This method of counter espaliers has many difficulties, it requiring a greater expense than the common mode of culture, because all the labour must be done by hand; in a country where manual labour is so dear, I therefore prefer the method followed by Messrs. Montmolin, Legaux and Mease, which is the same that we practice in Kentucky. Nevertheless the vines looked well, but bleeding too much, having been cut too late in the spring, which will bring an abortion of the fruit, and injure the wood, which ought to be the cultivator's hope for the next year. The land is good, light and substantial; having been 50 or 60 years cultivated as a garden by the Germans, whose industry in the amelioration of land, and in every thing which relates to agriculture is well known. It however is not in so airy a situation as a vineyard ought to be; and must, on that account, be more subject to mildew, and
to make the leaves fall before the fruit is ripe; it must also be more subject to insects than land enjoying a freer circulation of air. The vines also appear to me to have been cut too short, especially in land so moist and rich in vegetation; for, to cut plants too short, and discharge the sap, which is in full force, on a good, deep, moist soil, prevents the production of fruit and exhausts the vine in producing suckers—such a method of cutting appears to me most suitable to weaker vines, planted on land better aired and less inhabitants.
(To be continued)
Biography.
LORD KENYON.
No profession has afforded better opportunity for the exercise of great talent, and none has rewarded it with higher honors, or higher emolument, than that of the law. It is a profession also, which has this peculiar advantage, that it offers encouragement to that sort of skill which is within the reach of moderate abilities, but which is only acquired by long habits of diligent research and patient assiduity.
The subject of the following memoir was gradually elevated to one of the highest offices of his profession. No man ever set out upon his career, with fewer advantages derived from nature, or fortune, or connexion. He was born at Gredington, in Flintshire, in which country his father resided on his estate, and filled the office of justice of the peace. Mr. Kenyon was educated at Ruthin, in Denbighshire, and at a very early age, was removed, by the choice of his parents, in order to be placed in the office of Mr. Tomlinson, an eminent attorney at Newmarket, in Cheshire, as an articled clerk.
At the expiration of his articles, Mr. Tomlinson died, and as it was intended Mr. Kenyon should have carried on the practice in conjunction with that gentleman, an important change took place in the destination of his life. Determined to enter on the wider space of exertion, which the profession of a counsellor allotted to him, he entered at Lincoln's Inn, in Trinity term, 1754, and was called to the bar in Hilary term, 1761.
During the first years of his profession, Mr. Kenyon's advancement was slow. It was probably retarded by those causes, which must always operate against professional men, who are not pushed into notice by the exertions and recommendations of strong and powerful connections. And it would be no derogation from the talents of Mr. Kenyon, if it were remarked, that he was not fitted, by the peculiar powers of his mind, and the appropriate character of his genius, to make an impression at first in any respect adequate to the solidity and depth of his judgment. The department of the science on which he was most intensely occupied, was that of conveyancing; a line of the profession which peculiarly demands habits of precise and patient industry, rather than splendid exertions of talent.
But the merit of Mr. Kenyon, as a found lawyer, and an industrious practitioner, were by no means overlooked. He rose into practice gradually, but his footing was sure and strong. The greater part of his business was what is called chamber business; that of giving opinions on cases submitted to his judgment, and of drawing conveyances, and bills in equity. In this branch of the profession, he arrived at very considerable eminence, and no legal opinion carried with it more weight and authority than that of Mr. Kenyon.
About this time, he contracted an intimacy with Mr. Thurlow, afterwards Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, a circumstance to which some have attributed his rise at the Chancery bar; but it is surely more probable that he ensured his success by his own talents and application. In the court of Chancery, his practice was very extensive and lucrative; and he had already acquired a very large fortune by his business in that court, when, in the year 1782 he was appointed Attorney-General, and Chief Justice of Chester. In his promotion to the Attorney-Generalship, Mr. Kenyon is a singular instance of the acquisition of that honor, without serving the intermediate office of Solicitor-General.
About this period he was brought into Parliament, and in the memorable debates on Mr. Fox's coalition took a very zealous and animated part against that unfortunate measure. As a political character, he was exposed to satirical merriment in the facetious criticisms of the Rolliad, prefixed to which there is a
very admirable likeness of Sir Lloyd Kenyon, master of the rolls. To this latter office he was appointed in the year 1788, a place of considerable rank and honour in the profession, but by no means equal in emolument to the lucrative income he derived from his professional exertions.
In this situation he remained till 1788, when the venerable earl of Mansfield resigned his seat on the bench, to the great regret of the bar and the country, after having presided so many years in the court of King's Bench, with a dignity and firmness so highly honorable to his judicial character. It is said that this great man maintained a struggle with his increasing infirmities, and kept his firmness, notwithstanding the weakness of his health, for the purpose of procuring his vacant seat for a judge to whom he was personally attached by long habits of friendship. Sir Lloyd Kenyon, however, received this great distinction, on the resignation of Lord Mansfield, and was at the same time honoured with a peerage.
After his promotion to the Chief Justiceship of England, his lordship exhibited a more conspicuous part on the theatre of public life. A function of such extensive influence, and occupying so vast a space in the eyes of mankind, necessarily exposes the character and the conduct of those who exercise them, to much scrutiny and animadversion. He who is placed at the head of the first criminal and civil judicature of the country, in which the most momentous controversies of law are decided, and the most solemn questions of property adjusted, must be clothed with more than human perfection, to escape censure and imputation. But concerning the integrity of Lord Kenyon, no dispute ever entered into the mind of any one, who has been at all conversant with the business of our courts of justice. There is, however, an excess of zeal in morals as well as in religion, which may occasionally betray the best and the wisest men, into intemperance and vehemence of expression. Perhaps the noble judge was too frequently carried away by his generous enthusiasm. But much ought to be indulged to feeling when it is on the side of virtue; and that is a cold and austere philosophy which would restrain the feelings of an honest mind, when they are employed in the service of good morals and religion.
In exhibiting an impartial character of Lord Kenyon, it is impossible not to advert to the quickness and irritability of his temper which have been frequently objected to him. These unquestionably are not judicial qualities. Succeeding to a man so remarkable for the mildness and urbanity of his manners, it is not extraordinary that too much animadversion should have been exercised on the temper of the noble judge. The want of courtesy is more peculiarly noticed in a situation of such high rank and such honourable estimation. Yet we believe it to have been in a great measure a habit arising from a constitutional irritability, which has been frequently found to baffle all the vigilance and all the efforts made to subdue it. But it cannot be denied, that there is nothing more directly derogatory to the dignity of the judicial character, than the exhibition of a fretful and choleric disposition.
If the name of Lord Kenyon descends to posterity, it will descend with the praises of all good men, for his firm and persevering exertions, to keep the channels of law clear and unpolluted by low and sordid practices. Over the attorney of his court he exercised a vigilant and salutary authority, of which the utility has been already very extensively experienced. No profession contains within it more honorable and upright practitioners; none has afforded greater encouragement to low and desperate adventurers. These are evils inseparable from the profession; but it is the duty of those entrusted with the administration of the laws, to preserve them in purity and soundness, as far as human caution and vigilance can be extended. These low petty-luggers in law, the professors of man and despicable evasions, have contributed to bring law itself into dishonourable estimation among those, who from their partial views, are led into unjust inferences against the system itself. But it ought to be remembered, that by the ordinary dispensations of Providence, great evils grow up with great benefits; and that the worst and most pernicious evils are engendered in the ignorance of the greatest of blessings.
Nor can it be forgotten, in a review of the public character of Lord Kenyon, that he most effectually vindicated the cause of virtue and morality in those trials of adultery, which at different times were brought before him. He expressed a virtue as indignation in terms at once expressive and appropriate. Neither rank, nor wealth, nor station were pro-

incapable of these loathsome and detestable transgressions, and under his Lordship's direction, the most exemplary damages have been awarded to plaintiffs in those cases which have appeared under any circumstances of aggravation. His Lordship has, in this respect, done much towards the reformation of this fashionable and prevailing profligacy. Yet much remains to be done, and the efficacy of the law concerning adultery, as it now stands, is necessarily very limited and imperfect. If adultery be an offence against good morals, if the violation of the marriage bed be a crime deserving of civil denunciation, a law which merely operates as a pecuniary penalty, must be ineffectual to its reformation and extirpation. Civil punishment ought to be adjusted to the magnitude of the crime; and if this be an offence of high enormity, there is surely some palpable defect in our jurisprudence, which considers it only as a civil trespass, for which a defendant is to make a pecuniary compensation.
Another feature of Lord Kenyon's magisterial character is to be discerned in the severity with which he administered the justice of the land, on the pernicious tribe of gamblers, who have for some years infested this metropolis. This proved a difficult but not impracticable undertaking; the vice having imperceptibly tainted the morals of the people in every condition of life, a vice, however, by no means natural to Englishmen, but the fruit of those foreign importations, which, with the manners and luxuries, have introduced the follies and profligacy of other countries.
It were impossible to give a minute account of Lord Kenyon's public life, which would be the history of what has been transacted in the Court of King's Bench, for nearly these last ten years. Of his decisions, for the most part, the fairness and soundness are undoubted. Those are his best judgments, in which cases of real property are determined; and they abound with all the learning and ingenuity which are communicated by long practice, and the long exercise of his mind on these subjects.
The style of Lord Kenyon was chiefly technical, consisting of phrases and words derived from a long course of legal reading. In the use of language, he was very unskilful; he sometimes clothed strong ideas in energetic diction; but his strength of expression was never softened by grace or elegance. In his sentences he was quaint and affected; having acquired from intercourse with books of legal discussion, the stiff and unbending formality of the writers of law, none of whom, except Lord Bacon, and Sir William Blackstone, had any skill in the art of composition. Nor was this apparent quaintness relieved by his newly acquired habit of throwing Latin quotations into speeches, without only considering how far they illustrated or applied to the subject on which he was discoursing, and by means of which his diction was sometimes ludicrously pyballed, and incongruous. For these defects, an imperfect or irregular education will account. But it was easy, notwithstanding, to observe, in the speeches of Lord Kenyon, the operations of a strong understanding, illuminated by clear and distinct perceptions.
Delicacy forbids us to say much concerning the political character of the noble Lord. It would have contributed more to the genuine and durable reputation of his Lordship, if he had on no occasion exhibited, in his judicial station, a mind heated and exasperated by the politics of the day. It is a reflection, which ought to be impressed on the minds of all in high and elevated ranks, that the fame which is acquired by a subservience to the intrigue or passions of the times, is fugitive and precarious; that the instrument of a party is soon forgotten, and the very memorial of his name soon buried in oblivion. But he who, in the discharge of his duties to his country, holds a steady course betwixt the contending factions, neither tempted by the hope of professional preferment, nor terrified by the menaces of ministerial hatred, has secured a reputation, which is beyond the reach of political caprice, or personal malice.
His Lordship was much esteemed in private life. He married in 1773, his cousin Mary, daughter of George Kenyon, Esq. of Peels, in Lancashire, by whom he had three sons, Lloyd, George, and Thomas. The only surviving son is George the present Lord Kenyon.
From the EXAMINER.
A new political, moral and religious nomenclature has been invented to the eastward, in order to excite a prejudice against every thing that is Virginian—because they know, that every Virginian is democratic. Is a man attached to the principles of liberty, and republican government, which are synonymous terms? It is with New-England prietests, Virginianism .
Is a man possessed of that gaité du coeur , that antipathy to mean actions, that hatred to "the slime that sticks on filthy deeds," which is characteristic of a cultivated mind, and an advanced state of civilization? It is Virginianism .
Is he possessed of liberal principles on
tion, intolerance, and priest-government; cherishes theological amenity, toleration, and the confinement of the clergy to their peculiar pastoral duties? It is Virginianism .
With what pretensions can printers who are in the daily practice of inculcating such principles of disunion , come forward, and assume the name of friends to the UNITED STATES? With what channel is impudence, can such men come forward, and in language gross and offensive, call Virginians Jacobins, Disorganizers, and other opprobrious epithets, borrowed from the kings, the nobles, and the priests of enslaved Europe—outrageous, who are afraid of being 'hunted from their foot-stools of power' by the lawless hands of Russian innovators? Such however is the curious fact.
From the EX.
Many inhabitants of Virginia now represented in congress have no voice in elections, being denied the freeman's oath because they are black .
Many inhabitants of Connecticut now represented in congress have no voice in elections, being denied the freeman's oath because they are poor .
Virginia disfranchises the poor black-man.
Connecticut "the poor white-man."
Virginia calls nobody the representatives of poor men, of ragamuffins, who have no more voice in elections than beasts.
Connecticut calls somebody the representatives of the men, of slaves, who have no more voice in elections than brutes.
Virginia does not rail at Connecticut for saying that her blacks are treated like cattle. Connecticut rails at Virginia for saying that her poor are created blacks—that so far as elections are concerned, that there is no difference between.
A disfranchised black man, is like a disfranchised white man, except that one is black and the other white. Our federal papers have repeatedly called on us to relent this insult. Insult! good heavens! who insults us the most, the Virginian who compares us to the fawning slaves, or priests and rulers who brought us into that situation? Virginia does not, like Connecticut, compel her disfranchised citizens to arm themselves, and present their breasts as a bulwark against the bayonet of their enemies, to shed their blood in defence of a government solely employed in forging, fixing, and riveting their chains.
Militia men of Connecticut! look through the ranks of your companies. How many freemen are there? how many of the well-born? Where are the militia? Dining with the officers. Where are the members of the council & assembly? They made the law and prudently executed themselves. Nobles, noble patriots! Where are the justices of peace? Lolling with laziness on the step-stones of the sanctuary. Where are the lawyers? Looking contemptuously at you from the windows of their offices. Where is the poor widow's son, whose six months' wages are to clothe himself and support his helpless mother and orphan brothers and sisters? Does he not stand in the ranks, armed by his own industry, and cheerful, though he knows he must not only lose the present day but work perhaps two in the fall to make up the lost time? Where is the child of fortune, the member of college? Walking in his gown on the smooth grass-green with some fair nymph: early excused from all public burdens, he never feels their weight, and is one day destined to be a legislator; a legislator who will pile tax upon tax, pauper upon pauper, here a little and there a great deal, without any sympathy for the embarrassments of the poor. He can already tune his voice adroitly to the federal key, and prattle very prettily about taxes that amount to only "one cent a man." Magnanimous young man, does it become you to despise a larger sum than you ever earned? Fumble your pockets, scratch your head—alas! I fear that your one cent when put in the balance would be found wanting!
Thus stand the tables when your country is to be defended at the point of the bayonet; but how are they changed when your rights are to be defended by the dint of the ballot! Look through the ranks—how many militia-men are there? how many of the well-born? Where are your ministers now? Writing votes. Nay, have not some of them been so very valiant, that after they exhausted the ammunition of their inkstands they have pierced their fingers and written federal votes in letters of blood? Where are the members of the council and assembly? They made the law, and prudently enacted that themselves should preside. Nobles, noble patriots! Where are the justices of the peace? are they now lolling on the step-stones, or are they anxiously measuring the depth of your purse, to see if you have sufficient grace to be made free, or looking with a step-mother's smiles at those who dare vote for Jacobins? Where are the lawyers? Do they now stand afar off at their office windows, looking contempt? or are they about to share the labour of the day, and with
finishing respect? Where is the poor widow's son? he now called to lose a day from his six months' bondage? No: he is excused, but may, if he will be orderly, look in at the door. Where is the young man of fortune, the member of college? With powdered head, and out-turned toes and self-sufficient strut, he goes from rank to rank with packages of votes, nicely copied from the Pope's last bulls.
O Connecticut, Connecticut! How long will ye suffer these things to be? How long must my feeble hand write upon the planter of the wall,
MENE TEKEL.
From the REPUBLICAN GAZETTEER.
SHALL war and bloodshed be provoked between the different portions of the UNION?—and between the individual Citizens of this country?—Is there too much happiness in the nation?—Is there too much harmony between States, Counties, Towns, Parishes and Families?—Must every seed of happiness be choked?—Any one who knows the history of these States, knows that we ought, and have every reason to harmonize.—In the first settlement of the country did not the natives pressing on all sides, compel us to be united?
When the town of Boston was besieged did not every town in the then thirteen Colonies sympathize in our sufferings?—When the storm of war broke on our devoted Province, did not the Refugees of Virginia rush to our aid? Shall we amid peace and plenty, and wantonness, make these our enemies who were in the time of our distress our friends ?—Forbid it Justice! Forbid it God!
Why shall we talk of the inordinate influence of any particular portion of the United States?—The federal laws operate on individuals, not on States; the same laws are for Rhode Island that are for North Carolina; for Massachusetts, that are for South Carolina; for Connecticut, that are for Virginia.
For God's sake do not let us quarrel against any section of the Union, merely for being a bright constellation in our political hemisphere—Let us not grow wroth with the country that has produced for us a Peyton Randolph, a Washington, a Perdeton, a Jefferson, a Madison, and others; especially when we have produced and are willing to hug to ourselves—hug amongst ourselves New-Englandmen ; an host of worthies.
If Massachusetts is more profuse in great talents than any other portion of the globe—let our works praise us, and not we ourselves.—Let our sages, our legislators, and heroes toil not for me, nor my parish, nor for my state; but look (like their own liberal souls) to objects worthy themselves. Can the veterans of the revolutionary army, who have gathered laurels, and tasted the rich fruit of friendship in every quarter of their country, ( their country , for they saved it)—can they consent to see any part severed from the rest—not only severed but antagonized?—Will they see with tranquil acquiescence their sons rising up to be actors on a more contracted stage than their valor has achieved and destined for them?
For Heaven's sake let us cling to the Constitution, as the ark of our peace at home, our respectability abroad;—Let us acquiesce in the provisions of the Federal Pact.
No state has an universal suffrage ; property is regarded every where as a criterion of power; if South Carolina has more wealth of any kind, than we or if Maryland has—or any other state, why, let us acquiesce, till we ourselves so wholly disregard property in apportioning our representation and taxation, as that tag rag and bob tail , and all the " rust-scuff ," all the " wild Irishmen ," &c. &c. are admitted by law on an equality with ourselves.
If we possess no slaves, we pay no taxes for them.—Congress are as judicious as any assembly can be in selecting the proper objects of taxation, & encouragement. There is a bounty on the exportation of our fish, and procured to the fish exporters by our President.—On what southern product is there a bounty?
In short, there is no diversity of interest throughout the Union. I hope in God no artificial one can be created or believed to exist. The people will always choose those men whom they can best confide in; and let those who wish for a dismemberment of the states in order to have a little hell of their own, and reign in it, who cannot endure the light of wealth, but what they possess; of honors, but what they monopolize; of learning and philosophy, unless it grew on the north of the Hudson, diminish, and diminish the circumference of their influence and respectability till it becomes small enough for their narrow minds to rule and represent.
In Exchange.
VALUABLE property in the borough of York, is offered in exchange for property in or near the Federal City.—Enquire at this office.
August 2, 1802. ep3w
FROM THE MEDICAL REPOSITORY.
Spontaneous Decomposition of a fabric of Silk.
On the night of March 19th, 1802, during the Session of Congress at Washington, Jonathan Dayton, one of the Senators then attending from the state of New Jersey, sustained a loss of a pair of black silk stockings in an uncommon manner. On undressing himself at bedtime, his stockings were the last of his garments which he took off. The weather being cold, he wore two pair, the inner of wool and the outer of silk. When he stripped off the silk stockings, he let them drop on a woolen carpet lying by the bed-side, and one of his garters, which was of white woolen serretin, fell down with the stockings. The outer stockings, on being pulled off, were thrown at some distance, near the foot of the bed. He observed, on separating and removing the silk stockings from the woolen ones, that there was an unusual snapping and sparkling of electric matter. But as he had been long acquainted with the appearance, it attracted but transient notice.
He fell asleep, and remained undisturbed till morning, when the servant entered to kindle the fire. The man observed that one of the leather slippers, lying on the carpet, and partly covered by one of the stockings, was very much burnt. Mr. Dayton then rose, and found that the leather over which the stockings had lain was converted to a coal. The stockings were changed to a brown, or what is commonly called a butternut colour. And although, to the eye, the slices of the legs, and even the threads of their clocks, appeared to be firm and entire, yet, as soon as an attempt was made to touch and handle them, they were found to be wholly destitute of cohesion, their texture and substance being altogether destroyed. Nothing but a remnant of carbonic matter was left, except that a part of the heel of one of the stockings was not decomposed.
Though this destruction of the stockings took place during the night, when nobody saw the manner and circumstances of the process, yet there was evidence enough of the evolution of much caloric while it was going on; for every thing in contact with the stockings was turned to a coal or cinder. Beside the slipper before mentioned, the garter was burnt. It had fallen partly on the carpet, and partly on and between the stockings. As far as it touched the stockings it was perfectly disorganized and carbonated, and immediately beyond that limit was as found as ever. The part of the carpet, with its fringe, which lay between the stockings and the floor, was in like manner totally destroyed, just as far as it was covered by the stockings and no farther. The wooden plank, which was of pitch pine, was also considerably scorched; and beneath the place where the thick folds of the stockings had lain, was converted to charcoal or lamp-black to a considerable depth. In throwing down the stockings when they were pulled off, it happened that about a third part of the length of one of them fell not upon the carpet, but upon the bare floor. The part of the stocking was decomposed like the rest, and the floor very much scorched where it had lain.
There was very little fire on the hearth, and the little there was, was eight or nine feet distant. The candle had been carefully extinguished and stood on a table in another direction, and about equally distant. Indeed, no application of burning coals or of lighted candles could have produced the effects which have been described. It would seem that the combustion, if it may be so called, proceeded from a surcharge of antiphlogiston (caloric,) or electric (electricity,) in the silk, accumulated by means not well understood; and that, not being referable to any known external agent, it may, in the present state of our information, be termed spontaneous.
The substances chiefly consumed were leather, wool, silk, and resinous wood. The linen lining of the slipper was indeed destroyed, as far as the leather it touched was destroyed. But where it did not come in contact, it escaped; and the fire showed no disposition to burn even the linen beyond the boundaries prescribed to it on the leather.
What is the theory of this phenomenon? With what other facts is it immediately connected? Whatever new science may determine on these points, one thing seems to be evident, that if spontaneous combustion can happen thus to bodies so little inflammable as leather, silk and wool, that instances of its occurrence in bodies easier to burn are more frequent than is generally supposed.
FROM LATE LONDON PRINTS.
Laharpe, in his correspondence with the Grand Duke of Russia, the late emperor Paul, relates a number of curious anecdotes of literary men. Voltaire had such a passion for writing and publishing, that he used to boast that he kept three presses at work night and day! The famous J. Leclerc, in the last century, retained the passion for writing to his dying day. In a very advanced age he had no
ter, and reading the proof sheets, which were never published, but burnt in his back parlour!
Bonaparte is now setting up for a Pope in politics. He will allow all countries under his direction to become Catholic Republics, but he himself must be the visible head of the whole! We have often heard of Democracies called many headed monsters , but now a day they are to have but one head !
It is much to be feared that many people who are delighted with the Lottery-office pretty well in the end discover it to be a bank vault!
Soupers , so long suspended, are again commenced at Paris, and are likely to sup the roots which have lately prevailed. The people of taste and mode prefer the Soupers , because the parties were small and select, conversation was agreeable, and the entertainment was intellectual. They allege that nothing can be more noisy, knifelike, and fatiguing than a rout. There does not appear to be any thing very barbarous in this opinion.
General MENOU's trophies appear to be an Egyptian Wife , and a Civet Cat , and the curious Parisians follow them in crowds, asking which is which ?
CROMWELL is said to have chosen the name of Protector , because it was without a precedent, and no one could define its power. BONAPARTE's Consulship seems as unintelligible, and if like any thing ever seen, may perhaps resemble the office of Dictator , with additions and improvements!
The police seems very severe on that class of people who call themselves conjurors , and who indeed have as few pretensions to the name as those in much higher stations. Both take money out of the pockets of the public, by foreclosing what never comes to pass.
The noble donation sent to Greenwich Hospital anonymously, affords these public spirited and patriotic gentlemen who supported the war for the advantages it brought them, an excellent opportunity of taking credit in the easiest manner possible. When suspected, they smile and nod; but none of them deny the charge .
It has been remarked, perhaps with truth, that our purveyors of fashion have too frequently dubbed their articles with French names, before the French have thought proper to make up a hat, or trim a handkerchief to the honour of any of our heroes. In this our Milliners and our Ministers are alike agreed, to let the French have every thing their own way, and the Definitive Treaty take its course. People of higher rank would not have permitted either a bouquet or an expedition to be fitted out, until a reciprocity had been established.
The supplementary papers to the convention of St. Peterburg, printed for the use of the house of commons, contain an explanatory declaration of the second section of the third article, as follows: "In order to prevent any doubt or misunderstanding with regard to the contents of the second section of the third article of the convention concluded the 5—17th June, 1801, between his majesty the emperor of all the Russians, the said high contracting parties have agreed and declared, that the freedom of commerce and navigation granted by the said article to the subjects of a neutral power, does not authorise them to carry, in time of war, the produce and merchandise of the colonies of the belligerent power direct to the continental possessions, nor vice versa , from the mother country to the enemies colonies; but that the said subjects are to enjoy the same advantages and faculties in this commerce as are enjoyed by the most favored nations, and especially by the United States of America."
The following article from Weimer , represents the manoeuvres of a society, once celebrated throughout Europe for its ambition, and its intrigues to have excited considerable alarm (the Jesuits ) has employed its missionaries to revive among the most superstitious devotees of Germany, the principles for which they have been banished from almost every country in Europe.
Weimer, February 10.
A learned traveller gives us an account of an apostolic mission, sent six years ago to Upper Sumbia, by the remains of the Jesuits at Augsburg. Provoked by the government of the country, this mission took no share in quelling those disorders, which it was afterwards necessary to repel by force. But, in revenge, the reverend fathers distributed a profusion of rosaries, consecrated crosses, &c. They also attempted to work some miracles, and circulated the most absurd legends. At the same time, some of their preachers delivered some very indolent sermons on the different sins of luxury, of which one of them reckoned up 2000, to his rustic hearers. They determined that actions committed during dunkeln were not criminal; and the secretary of the mission was heard to say,

that it was necessary to alter the people to prepare them for the re-establishment of the order.
The college of Jesuits at Augsburg has always shown itself the enemy of knowledge and liberty: and rears a race of fanatics, or hypocrites, who, under the cloak of devotion, are guilty of the grossest immorality.
The same traveller relates a remarkable anecdote of one of the chiefs of the college, who was a member of the mission. A young man, who was to be expelled the college for eating meat on Friday, pleaded that it was less criminal than if he had frequented places of debauchery; "What do you advance?" said the father, with a holy zeal; "the fault which in the latter case, you would have committed, would at least have been a human sin; but to eat meat on Friday, is a diabolical sin."
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, August 18, 1802.
The deaths in Philadelphia on the 13th inst. were 4, and on the 14th 5.
The Board of Health of Baltimore have resumed the emission of Bills of Health. They state that the fever has ceased to betray any contagious quality, and that the whole mortality for 7 days preceding the 16th amounts to only 16 persons.
The Albany and Schenectady Turnpike Company, have contracted for clearing the track of the turnpike in its whole extent, of the breadth of 58 feet, of all logs, wood, brush, lumps, roots, and fences, and for forming an arch of 42 feet, with ditches of 8 feet on each side. The road to approach as near a level as the nature of the ground will admit, and in no instance to exceed an elevation or depression of four degrees from a horizontal line. The contract amounts to 26,000 dollars—the work to be completed by the 15th day of November next. The tract of the turnpike is a perfectly straight line, connecting the cities of Albany and Schenectady, and abridges the distance from the present route nearly two miles in sixteen.
In the Pease's Genealogical Manual (Genealogisches Handbuch) a list of the Family of Bonaparte is inserted for the first time. It appears to contain some particulars hitherto not generally known.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, born Aug. 15, 1767; wife Josephine, widow of General Beauharnais; her full name was Josephine; born in Martinique, 1762; married December 1796.
Step Children—Eugene Beauharnais, Cecile Beauharnais, married Jan. 4, 1802, to Louis Bonaparte, brother of her step-father.
Brothers and Sisters—Joseph Bonaparte; Lucien Bonaparte, a widower without children; Louis Bonaparte, married to Cecile Beauharnais; Maria Bonaparte married in 1797, in Italy, to General Leclerc; Caroline, married in 1800, to General Murat; Jerome, Guise Maria; Adela, married in 1800 to General Giacochio.
Parents—Charles Bonaparte, born at Ajaccio, in 1739, first a Lawyer, afterwards in the Army; his widow, Letitia Raniolini, was celebrated for her beauty.
Uncle by the Father's Side—Napoleon, late Canon at Miniato at Tedesco, in Tuscany.
EDMUND BURKE had a rooted hatred for Merchants, which term he used to say was synonymous with "thieves." "Do not talk to me (said he one day in the House of Commons) of the liberality of a merchant: His God is his gold—his country his invoice—his desk his altar—his ledger his bible—his church his exchange—and he has faith in none but his banker."
Philadelphia, August 12.
Extract of a letter from a respectable commercial house in New Providence, to another in N. York, dated 27th July, 1802, received by the Sloop Surprise, captain Johnson.
"The Governor of this Island has issued his proclamation, declaring this port shut for the present to American vessels; and said provisions are not admissible from America, even in British vessels."
TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST.
New-York, August 10, 1802.
SIR, Finding that a story long since propagated under circumstances which it was expected would soon consign it to oblivion, (and by which I have been complimented at the expense of Generals Washington and La Fayette) has of late been revived, and has acquired a degree of importance by being repeated in different publications as well in Europe as America, it becomes a duty to counteract its currency and influence by an explicit disavowal.
The story imports in substance, that
it was necessary to alter the people to prepare them for the re-establishment of the order. General Washington, with the approbation or connivance of General Washington, ordered me, as the Officer who was to command the attack on a British redoubt, in the course of the siege of York Town, to put to death all those of the enemy who should happen to be taken in the redoubt; and that through motives of humanity I forbore to execute the order.
Positively and unequivocally I declare, that no such nor similar order, nor any intimation nor hint resembling it, was ever by me received or understood to have been given.
It is needless to enter into an explanation of some occurrences on the occasion alluded to, which may be conjectured to have given rise to the calumny. It is enough to say that they were entirely unconnected with any act of either of the Generals who have been accused. With esteem, I am, Sir, your obedient servant.
A. HAMILTON.
New-York, August 13. Yesterday arrived and anchored below the Narrows, two French frigates, from Guadeloupe. La Consolante, which arrived at quarantine on Tuesday, came up this morning and anchored off Governor's Island. She fired a salute, which was returned from Fort Jay. About 300 black prisoners from Guadeloupe, are on board La Consolante, and it is said the other frigates have also a number on board.
On Wednesday evening the Grand Jury, appointed to assess the quantum of damages sustained by CALEB S. RIGGS, Esq.; in consequence of a libel published against him some time ago by Mr. DAVID DENNISTON, editor of the American Citizen, brought in a verdict of 500 dollars.
Letters received in this city yesterday from Havana mention that the Intendant still continued in confinement in the Moro by order of the Governor; and that flour was selling at the Havana for thirty dollars per barrel.
PROCLAMATION.
By order of the Governor and Captain General of the Havana.
Inasmuch as having understood that notwithstanding the repeated regulations (or provisions) which I have published and communicated for the expulsion of strangers, some remain in contravention of the law and the laws which govern in the matter after the term fixed for its effect had expired.
I do, therefore, ordain and order, that at the expiration of eight days, reckoned from the publication of this Proclamation, be presented before my Lieutenant Assessor General, from four in the evening, all those who remain in this city and its suburbs, producing those permanent or temporary passports or licences which they may have, in order that they may be examined, and an account be taken before the Notary of the Government, he giving me a statement of the affairs which his opinion to the end (or in order) that these regulations may have their full and due effect.
That whosoever shall not present himself, (or shall not be presented) in the cited or required time, shall be fined fifty ducats therefor—and which exacting I authorize the Lieutenant Assessor, who shall execute it through the Alguacil Major or first Constable, and the respective Alcaldes of the ward or captain of division, and shall cause that an account be made thereof through the office of the government, and deposited with the receiver of fines, to be reserved for applications as may be most conformable. That the said communities of the ward and captains of divisions make an exact list or register of all residing in their quarters or districts, who ought to present themselves to the said Lieut. Assessor, in the said proper term of eight days, (or incur a penalty of fifty ducats if they omit the same, and ten for every one of those who shall be left comprehended therein) with expression of the name, quality, estate, country, employment, conduct, and time of residence in this island, the street and houses in which they live.
And in order that all may be informed of or receive this notice, this Proclamation shall be announced in handbills and through the Gazette.
(Signed) SOMERUELOS. Havana, 1st July, 1802.
PORTLAND, August 9, 1802.
COMMUNICATION.
"TEXT. Is he faithful to the Constitution?—COMMENT."
WILLIAM WIDGERY, Esq. Commissioner of Bankruptcy.
As the Editor of the Centinel has furnished the text, I shall take the liberty to deliver a short discourse from the same, and conclude with such remarks, as the importance of the subject may justify.
Who shall say that William Widgery is unfaithful to the Constitution? It is well known he opposed the adoption of the Constitution in Convention with all the independence, and ability, of which he was master. But that was the proper time and place to examine the complicated machine, generally, and minutely; to adopt, or reject, as in his judgment, the public good might demand. The public will remember the conduct of this gentleman, when the question was decided by that Convention. Did he not with great candour and magnanimity, declare, "We have had a fair, and full examination. I reject the voice of the people, and the majority of that voice is against me. I have opposed from principle; from principle I will now faithfully support the Constitution." Was not this the substance of what he delivered? And has he violated this declaration? I believe he has not.
Let me now ask, if, for opposing the Constitution as he did, he is to be proscribed from every office of honor or profit? The administration of Washington will furnish a reply, which would of itself be a sufficient answer to the text, and the comments. Men were honored with important appointments, who distinguished themselves by opposing the Constitution. As many are disposed to censure the President, and would destroy all confidence, between the government, and the people, I shall, from my knowledge of the officers in this case, attempt to justify the President, and strengthen the confidence of the good people in their constituted authorities, by stating some other circumstances.
Mr. Widgery is a firm, undeviating republican. The fact he so long held in the legislature of this state, and the commission he so long held as a justice of the peace, and of the quorum, gave him an opportunity to acquire a general, and some legal knowledge of business. Furthermore let it be generally known that this commission was renewed by Governor Strong during the last winter. Where was the Constitution, when the wisdom of Massachusetts, did this? We find him a Director in the Maine Bank, and what is of much consequence in this appointment, he has long been concerned, "more or less," in commercial business; and is a very suitable man for the office conferred, in the opinion of ADMINISTRATION.
to adopt, or reject, as in his judgment, the public good might demand. The public will remember the conduct of this gentleman, when the question was decided by that Convention. Did he not with great candour and magnanimity, declare, "We have had a fair, and full examination. I reject the voice of the people, and the majority of that voice is against me. I have opposed from principle; from principle I will now faithfully support the Constitution." Was not this the substance of what he delivered? And has he violated this declaration? I believe he has not.
Let me now ask, if, for opposing the Constitution as he did, he is to be proscribed from every office of honor or profit? The administration of Washington will furnish a reply, which would of itself be a sufficient answer to the text, and the comments. Men were honored with important appointments, who distinguished themselves by opposing the Constitution. As many are disposed to censure the President, and would destroy all confidence, between the government, and the people, I shall, from my knowledge of the officers in this case, attempt to justify the President, and strengthen the confidence of the good people in their constituted authorities, by stating some other circumstances.
Mr. Widgery is a firm, undeviating republican. The fact he so long held in the legislature of this state, and the commission he so long held as a justice of the peace, and of the quorum, gave him an opportunity to acquire a general, and some legal knowledge of business. Furthermore let it be generally known that this commission was renewed by Governor Strong during the last winter. Where was the Constitution, when the wisdom of Massachusetts, did this? We find him a Director in the Maine Bank, and what is of much consequence in this appointment, he has long been concerned, "more or less," in commercial business; and is a very suitable man for the office conferred, in the opinion of ADMINISTRATION.
NOTICE.
COMMITTED on the 24th of July negro JAMES, five feet six and an half inches high, about 50 years of age—says he was set free by John Wilson, of St. Mary's county. Committed on the 4th of August REBECCA, a woman, five feet three and an half inches high, appears to be about 27 years of age, has a scar over her left eye—says she was sold by Joshua Poor (who lives near Port Tobacco) to a person going to Georgia. The above negroes, if not taken away by their owners, will be sold agreeably to law, for their jail fees.
ROBERT MCLEAN, jailor. Washington, Aug. 18, 1802. raw3t
NOTICE.
THE passengers of the Sloop Berkey for Norfolk and New-York are informed that she will sail for Alexandria tomorrow morning, where she will lay for 24 hours and wait for those that may come; and if she should be under the necessity of leaving any of the passengers, they will proceed by the first opportunity to Norfolk, and enquire for David Gouly or John Davis, where all monies or property deposited will be left.
JAMES STEWART. Aug. 16, 1802. e3t
WAX-WORK.
MR. DAVENPORT respectfully informs the ladies and gentlemen of this City and George-Town, that he has open at the Seven Buildings over the clerk's office, a new and elegant Exhibition of Wax-Works.
Consisting of twenty-five figures, as large as life—Among which are the following characters—A striking likeness of the late General GEORGE WASHINGTON.
In another apartment the illustrious hero is represented as fallen a victim to death; his Lady and domestics weeping around him. His Excellency THOMAS JEFFERSON, President of the United States.
The late general BUTLER, who fell in St. Clair's defeat, represented as wounded in his leg and breast, and an Indian sucking on him with his tomahawk.
Mrs. SIDDONS, in the character of the Grecian Daughter, relieving her Father from prison, by kneeling before the Emperor.
MATERNAL AFFECTION, represented by a Lady with two beautiful Children.
BEAUTIES.
The Virginia Beauty—The Friends Beauty—The New-Jersey Beauty—The Maryland Beauty.
Old Darby and Joan, enjoying themselves over their bottle and pipe—The Poor Mendicant asking alms—And sundry other Figures.
* * The exhibition will be opened from 9 o'clock in the morning till 9 in the evening, and will positively be removed from this town on Monday the 23d inst. therefore, all who wish to see this collection, must improve the present opportunity. Admittance, half a dollar for grown persons—Children half price.
The above Figures are new, good Likenesses, and elegantly finished. August 18, 1802. it
Tennessee Company.
THOSE interested in the Company, and who have not signed the deed of trust, are hereby notified, that the subscriber will attend at the city of Washington on the 20th of December next, to give them an opportunity of complying with this regulation of the company.
JAMES STRAWBRIDGE, May 26, 1802. raw20d
WHEREAS, by a law of Congress passed on the 26th day of April 1802, it was enacted, "That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to receive claims to lands for military services, and claims for duplicates of warrants issued from his office, or from the land office of Virginia, or of plots and certificates of surveys founded on such warrants, suggested to have been lost or destroyed; until the first day of January next, and no longer; and immediately thereafter to report the same to Congress, designating the number of claims of each description, with his opinion thereon."
Notice is hereby given, To all persons claiming lands for military services, that they must lodge in this office, prior to the first day of January next, documents to prove the validity of their claims.
Commissioned officers, hussars and dragoons' heirs, or their legal representatives must produce evidence to prove that they served in the army of the United States to the end of the war, or that they were deranged by a resolution of Congress, which did not bar their claim to military bounty lands. It will also be necessary for the representatives of officers, &c. killed in the service to produce evidence to prove that the person was "slain by the enemy."
Non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, or their legal representatives must produce evidence to prove, that they enlisted to serve in the army of the United States during the war, and that they actually served until the end of said war. It will also be necessary for the representatives of non-commissioned officers, &c. who were enlisted during the war and were killed in the service, to produce evidence to prove that they were "slain by the enemy."
H. DEARBORN. War Department, Aug. 16, 1802. law3t
State of Maryland,
IN CHANCERY.
August 7, 1802.
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Nicholas Carroll, Daniel Carroll, of Duddington, William Smith, Abraham Vanbibber, and Isaac Vanbibber.
versus
Anne Ogle, Rebecca Dulany, John Tasker Carter, Robert Mitchell, Priscilla Mitchell, Spencer Ball, Betsey Landers Ball, John James Maund, Harriet Lucy Maund, John Chenn, Sarah Fairfax Chenn, Harriot Peck, John Carter Peck, Emanuel Peck, Hugh Quinlan, Tasker Carter Quinlan, Thomas Jones, Frances Tasker Jones, Thomas Jones the younger, Sarah Jackall Jones, Elizabeth Jones, Jane Jones, Sophia Carter, Julia Carter, Ann Lowndes, Francis Lowndes, Benjamin Stoddert, Benjamin Stoddert the younger, Elizabeth Ann, Harriot, Richard, William, Rebecca, and Christopher Stoddert, Charles Lowndes, Levi Gantt, Harriot Gantt, and Benjamin Lowndes.
THE object of this bill is to obtain the recording of an indenture of bargain and sale from Benjamin Tasker, deceased, the ancestor of the defendant, whose heirs at law they are stated to be, to Daniel Dulany and Company, for a tract of land called "Diney Groves," which indenture bears date July 2, 1751, and was duly acknowledged on the month of the same month, but hath not yet been recorded, the omission to record not having proceeded from a fraudulent design or intention in any person whatever.
The bill states that the said conveyance was for the use of the said Daniel Dulany, Charles Carroll, son of Daniel, Doctor Charles Carroll, of Annapolis, Chas. Carroll of Annapolis, and Benjamin Tasker, Jun. and their heirs, in equal full parts, as tenants in common and not as joint tenants; that their interest and estate under the said indenture hath passed by sundry devises and meina conveyances, to the complainants in fee simple, as tenants in common, who are now seized and possessed of the said land; that the said Benjamin Tasker the bargainer died intestate, leaving four daughters his only children and co-heiresses at law, of whom Anne Ogle and Rebecca Dulany the defendants are two; that Frances Carter and Elizabeth Lowndes, the other two of the said daughters, are dead, and that the other defendants are, by marriage or descent, their representatives and heirs at law.
The bill further states, that the defendant Rebecca Dulany resides in the state of Rhode Island; the defendants John Tasker Carter, George Carter, Robert Mitchell, Priscilla Mitchell, Spencer Ball, Betty Landers, John James Maund, Harriet Lucy Maund, John Chenn, Sarah Fairfax Chenn, Harriot Peck, John Carter Peck, Emanuel Peck, Hugh Quinlan, Tasker Carter Quinlan, Thomas Jones, Frances Tasker Jones, Thomas Jones the younger, Sarah Jackall Jones, and Elizabeth Jones, reside in the state of Virginia; and that the defendants Charles Lowndes, Francis Lowndes, Benjamin Stoddert, Levi Gantt, Harriot Gantt, and Benjamin Lowndes, reside in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.
It is on the complainant's motion ordered, That they procure a copy of this order, to be inferred at least once in each of three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer, and in the Maryland Gazette, before the fifteenth day of September next, to the intent that the aforesaid defendants, and all other persons (if any there be) who are heirs of the said Benjamin Tasker, deceased, may have notice of the complainants' application, and of the substance and object of their bill; and that each of the said heirs may be wanted to appear here in person or by a solicitor, on or before the second Tuesday in December next, to show cause why a decree should not pass as prayed.
Test. SAMUEL H. HOWARD, Reg. Cur. Can. Aug. 18, 1802. law3t
Proposals
By A. DAVIS & J. DIXON, For reprinting by subscription, that scarce and valuable work, the DEBATES
And other proceedings of the Convention of Virginia.—To which will be annexed, a copious index.
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I. This work shall be printed with a neat type, on good paper, in one large octavo volume, and contain upwards of 600 pages. II. It will be bound in boards, and delivered to subscribers at the moderate price of three dollars a half. III. To those who will to have their copies elegantly bound and lettered, the price will be four dollars. IV. As this is a work of great magnitude, and as much expense will be necessarily incurred, two dollars from each subscriber will be required in advance. V. The price will be considerably enhanced to non subscribers.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The above publication was procrastinated on account of the copy-right being vested in Mr. Davis, who has now agreed to print the book in conjunction with the subscriber. The public are therefore respectfully informed, that the work will be put to press, so soon as a sufficiency of subscribers are obtained to indemnify the expense of paper. Upon an accurate calculation, the price mentioned in the former proposals was found too small; the subscriber has thought proper to enhance it, and he hopes that those who felt intended to patronize the undertaking, will not on that account withhold their support, for so trivial an alteration.
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District of Virginia,
RICHMOND, Supervisor's Office, June, 30, 1802.
IT being believed that considerable portions of lands in the back counties of the state of Virginia, on which the Direct Tax of the United States remains unpaid, are owned by persons residing out of the state; and the same having been advertised, in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 16th of March last, in summary of the act entitled "An act to lay and collect a Direct Tax within the United States," as may be seen by the notification of the Supervisor on the 2d of June last, and running in the Examiner of 15th of June last, that being the paper in which the laws of the state are printed, to be held for the tax and costs, in all cases where the same shall not be paid within six months from the date of the notification agreeably to the 2d section of the said an ordinary act; it is recommended to all who own lands in the said state, whereon they do not know the tax to have been paid, or take measures for having the same paid, which have been lodged at the Supervisor's Office at Richmond, as directed by the said notification, and examined, in order to the determining & paying the tax where due. And as to those who own lands have been asked in the name of persons heretofore owning, but who have alienated them, it is further recommended that, upon finding to whom the transfer is, all names known to have been at any time connected as owner or owners with any of the said tracts in question be first inserted, the better to give the examination. The sale will take place generally by the month of December next, on dates which may be seen in the notification referred to above. This short sketch of the business is published in time of the papers of other states as a means of more certainly calling the attention of persons concerned to the subject.
E. GARTINGTON, Supervisor of the District of Virginia. Aug. 16, 1802. raw3m
For Sale,
A TRACT or parcel of land consisting of 240 acres, more or less, situate the property of Robert Buchanan, deceased, lying in Prince George County, Maryland, and on the point branch of the Eastern Branch of the Potomac River. Any person inclined to purchase, may view the wood and meadow land, as also the improvements and situation. If the above land is not sold before the 25th day of August, it then will be offered for public sale—Also all the whole of the following property of said estate: Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, household and kitchen furniture, and plantation utensils. Terms of public sale for the same one third cash, and a credit of twelve months for the balance, by giving bond with interest and approved security. For the personal property all sums over 50 dollars 12 months credit, by giving bond as above; all sums not exceeding 50 dollars, cash. The above land is situated about five miles from Bladensburg and ten from Georgetown. Possession will be given in December next.
JAMES DUCHAN, Adm'g Exec. April 26, 1802. law1A25
For Sale or Rent,
LOT No. 10, on square 143, City of Washington, not far from Taylor's building on which is erected a two story brick house with two rooms on the lower floor, and a good garage and cellar. For further particulars apply at this office.
Also for sale a Negro Woman, who is a good cook and house maid—a negro girl about nine years old—Apply as above. July 21, 1802. raw3t

AGREABLY to a Deed of Trust from Anthony Addison to the Subscriber, will be offered
For Sale,
TO the highest bidder, by Public Auction, at Ezall's Hotel, in the City of Washington, on Monday the 9th day of August next, all that tract of land lying and being on the Eastern Branch of the Potomac, opposite to said City called "Chichester," with addition re-surveyed, containing three hundred acres.
On the above-mentioned tract of land, is the Ferry Landing, so well known by the name of "Dyer's Ferry," now in the occupation of Capt. Nayler.
The Sale to commence at 12 o'clock in the forenoon—Terms of sale cash.
WM BRENT. June 30, 1802. The above sale is postponed till Saturday the 9th day of October next. Aug. 16, 1802.
In the Case of URIAH FORREST a Bankrupt.
WHEREAS a Commission of Bankruptcy hath been issued against URIAH FORREST of the county of Washington, in the district of Columbia, and he being declared bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender himself to the commissioners in the said commission named, or the major part of them, on the 19th and 30th days of July instant, and on the 19th day of August next at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, of each day, at the house of William Rhodes, Keeper, in the City of Washington, and to make a full discovery and disclosure of his estate and effects, when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their debts—at the second sitting, to choose assignees—and at the last sitting, the said bankrupt is required to furnish his examination, and the creditors are to attend to, or dissent from the allowance of his certificate. All persons indebted to the said bankrupt, or who have any of his estate or effects, are not to pay or deliver the same, to any person, not appointed by the commissioners, but give notice thereof to
JOHN C. DENT, Sec. to the Commissioners. July 12, 1802.
FOR SALE.
A TRACT of land containing 2,500 acres lying immediately on the river Potomac, in the county of Northumberland, Virginia, late the residence of PRESLEY THORNTON, Esq. Seventeen hundred acres of which are of the most valuable kind of low ground on the river; between three and four hundred acres heavily timbered, the remainder is wavy high land extremely productive. The soil of this tract is equal to any in the state for cultivation of corn, wheat, tobacco, timothy, and small grain of all kinds. On this tract are a large commodious two story brick mansion house and two offices, a large brick stable, a valuable barn, cow house and many other out houses, all in good repair. The orchards and garden contain a variety of valuable fruit trees, and the waters abound with excellent fish and oysters. It is situated about a day's fall from Alexandria, Baltimore or Norfolk—There are two good mill sites for grain, or sawmills on this estate, and plenty of cedar and chesnut timber, exclusive of the heavy timber, which if sawed up into framing will command a price to the City of Washington, nearly equal to the value of the land. The terms will be made easy to the purchaser or purchasers, and the tract will be divided into two or more plantations if necessary—Apply to
MICHAEL PETERS, junr. No. 85, Walnut Street Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Nov. 17. optf
City Hotel, BROADWAY NEW-YORK.
THE Subscriber most respectfully informs his friends and the public, that the above Hotel will be opened on the first of May ensuing, when their patronage is earnestly solicited. He avails himself of this opportunity to return his sincere and grateful thanks to those societies, parties, and gentlemen, who have given him their support, and assures them that a continuance of their favors will be a stimulus to future exertions to please; and that the utmost attention shall be given for their comfort and accommodation.
Boarding may be had by the day, week, month, or year. Families travelling, may be elegantly accommodated with lodging and sitting rooms; and, if preferred, have dinners &c. in their apartments.
The Hotel being so well known, it is almost useless to say, that it is situated in one of the most healthy and pleasant parts of the city; commanding an extensive view in every direction, not only of the city itself, but also of the Narrows, the North and East Rivers, the state of New-Jersey, York and Long-Island, etc. &c.
A handsome coffee-room will be fitted up in the principal story; where gentlemen may have tea, coffee, chocolate, soups, and refreshments in general, at the shortest notice. All the leading newspapers in the union, will be regularly taken in.
Public dinners and suppers in a plain or elegant style, either for large or small parties. Also, beef steaks, oysters, &c. regularly furnished. An ordinary every day at half past 2 o'clock, by the public's obedient servant,
JOHN LOVETT. N. B. Rooms to let by the month or year. April 21, 1802. optf
Burnet and Rigden, JEWELLERS & WATCH-MAKERS, RESPECTFULLY inform the public, that they have just received, and for sale, a handsome assortment of
Gold and Silver WATCHES, Gold, gilt and steel chains, seals and keys, A variety of the most fashionable jewelry knife cases and fine knives, Plated eaters of various kinds, Silver and steel mounted spectacles, Ladies and gentlemen's pocket-knives, A quantity of the most fashionable prints, superbly framed and glazed.
And constantly keep an assortment of silver plate of their own manufacture, with a variety of fancy articles: all of which they are enabled to sell on the most reasonable terms. July 14, 1802. optf
Lots for Sale,
Or to Let on Ground-Rent. HE Subscriber offers to sell or to lease one hundred Lots, advantageously situated; some in the vicinity of the Capitol, and others near the Navy Yard; for cash, credit or wet or dry goods.
WILLIAM PROUT. Washington City, April 5, 1802. sawf
Potomack Navigation.
AT a general meeting of the Potomack Company held on Wednesday the 2d instant, a dividend on the Capital Stock at the rate of three per cent per annum was declared for the time, since the Locks at the Great Falls have been opened; and five dollars and fifty-five cents per share, the amount thereof, will be paid to the respective stockholders, or to their legal representatives, on demand, by the Treasurer of the Company. By order of the Board.
JO. CARLETON, Treasurer. Georgetown, Aug. 11, 1802. cpbt
FOR SALE,
LOOKING-GLASSES & FURNITURE.
The subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has just received from New York various kinds of Looking-Glasses, from 5 to 70 dollars each.—Also cane tables, bureaux, &c. of an elegant and fashionable make. He continues to manufacture and sell all kinds of ornaments for chimney-pieces, door caps, iron-plate pieces, metal fishes, &c. &c.
GEORGE ANDREWS. April 14, 1802. entf
TO RENT,
And possession given immediately. A TWO STORY brick house on F Street near the War Office, containing two parlors, six bed rooms, and a kitchen, with an excellent garden, coach house, stable, &c.—The house is newly painted and papered; it was formerly occupied by Mr. Dexter, and lately by Mr. John Brown. Enquire of Clement Dorsey, Esq. George-Town; or of the subscriber, who has for sale a well finished three story brick house opposite the Six Buildings, and a variety of City Lots in the most eligible situations. The above House will be sold for less than any gentleman could build it. The payments will be made easy on the whole of the above property.
WILLIAM DYER. April 7, 1802. cpft Building Materials will be taken in part payment. W.D.
CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR from Philadelphia, Capitol Hill, New-Jersey Avenue. HAS received an assortment of summer goods consisting of the best superfine Cloths.
Cameliers, Silk Barrabees, English Striped Nankeens, White India Dimities, White and printed Marcellas, With a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season.
N. B. Ladys Habits, Regimentals and Navy uniforms, made in the first style of fashion. July 2, 1802. ef
Thomas Carpenter, TAYLOR,
HAS just received an elegant and fashionable assortment of summer goods, consisting of London superfine cloths and cameliers; India, Manchester, and silk striped nankeens; cotton cameliers, beoplegue, Bengal elegant white chord for pantaloons, white and coloured marcellas, jaues and satin cross-overs; silk ginghams, black and other coloured striped fabrics, &c.—All which he will make up on the most reasonable terms, and in the most neat and fashionable manner—Pennsylvania Avenue, well of the President's square. May 24, 1802. cpft
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber having a full power of attorney from THOMAS LAW, Esq. of this City, during his absence on a visit to Europe, requests all persons having business with the said Mr. Law, to apply to him. WM. BRENT.
N. B. Persons indebted to Mr. Law, will please to call on Wm. Brent for the settlement of their accounts—he being alone authorised to receive all monies due to him in this country. August 2, 1802. cpbt
PROPOSALS
By THOMAS HERTY, For publishing by subscription an Appendix to his Digest of the Laws of the United States.
IT will contain all the public acts of the two preceding and present session of Congress, that is, the acts of the first and second sessions of the Sixth, and the first session of the Seventh Congress. It will be printed in the same order of arrangement, and have reference to such parts of the aforesaid work, as shall be repealed, is suffered to expire, or which may otherwise undergo alterations subjected to which, will be given, a correct table of the duties on imports and tonnage, and a nest Index; this, connected with the foregoing, will embrace the whole law in force.
CONDITIONS.
It will be put to press immediately after the close of the present session of Congress, (provided a sufficient number offer to defray the expense of the work) and be ready for delivery in about two months thereafter.
The price to subscribers will be one dollar and fifty cents in boards, to be paid for on delivery. It shall be neatly printed on good paper.
Subscriptions received by the Editor, at his Conveyancing Office, near the Treasury Department, City of Washington; and by those in whose hands proposals are left.
March 22, 1802. sawt
Public Sale.
Under a decree of the Chancellor of Maryland, will be sold, to the highest bidder, on Saturday the 4th day of September next, at Rhodes's Tavern in the city of Washington.
LOTS No. 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27 in square No. 105, in the said city. said lots will be sold separately and on a credit of six months; but the purchaser must give bond with security, to be approved by the chancellor, for the payment of the purchase money, with interest from the day of sale. When such payment be made, the trustee will convey all the right and estate of James M. Lingan, Ann Calenave, Nicholas Young, Johanna and Peter Calenave, parties to the said decree, to the purchasers.
JOHN HEWITT, Trustee. Washington, Aug. 11, 1802. sawt
IMPORTED
In the Robert from Liverpool, and now opening for Sale at the Subscriber's Store, New-Jersey Avenue, Capitol Hill, City of Washington—
A general assortment of Iron-ware, Ang. Cutlery, Sadlery and Brass Wares.—Spades and shovels, Sheet Iron, Tin in Boxes, Brass Kettles, Corn Hoes, Nail, Glue; Locks, Hinges and Screws, Carpenters planes, Saws, Braces and Bits, Screw drivers, &c. Knives and Forks, Cruet Stands, Iron Wire, Brushes, Smiths Hammers, Files, Vices, Screw plates, &c. Razors, Penknives, Spoons, Japaned Tea Tray, Waiters and Bread Baskets—a few sets of gentlemen's tools in chests, and a variety of articles too tedious to particularize. Also, 2 cases of Keeland's fowling guns, which will be sold very low for cash, or approved notes.
H. INGVL. June 28, 1802. 3tw3w twf
District of Columbia, } County of Washington } By the Orphans' Court July 22, 1802.
DEBORAH STEWART having exhibited an exemplification of the last will and testament of Walter Stewart, late of Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania deceased, and applied for letters testamentary thereon; and the said Deborah H. Stewart, being appointed executrix by said will; but Blair M'Clenachan, Francis West, and William Tilghman, also named executors in said will, not appearing, it is ordered, That summons issue to the said Blair M'Clenachan, Francis West, and William Tilghman, to show cause why letters shall not issue to the said Deborah Stewart as prayed; and also that the five notice of her application, by publishing a copy of the order in a Washington or Georgetown newspaper, to be inserted once a week four weeks successively.
JOHN HEWITT, Reg. August 9, 1802. sawt
Last Notice
In the case of ALEXANDER COCHRAN, Bankrupt.
NOTICE is hereby given, That a final certificate of discharge will be granted to the said Alexander Cochran, bankrupt, on Saturday the 14th day of the present month of August, at the court room in the Capitol, between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock A.M. unless cause to the contrary be then and there shown by the creditors of the said bankrupt or some of them, or some one on their behalf.
By order of William Kirby, Esq. judge of the District Court of the District of Columbia, this 2d day of August A.D. 1802.
THOMAS HERTY, Secretary to the commission. August 6, 1802. sawt
A Valuable Farm for Sale, In King George County & State of Virginia.
THIS Farm contains five hundred and thirty-five acres—about three hundred and fifty of which are cleared and divided into three fields with good inclosures—it is situated on Potomac river, and bounded on the South East side for a mile and half by Rezier's creek, which affords a great abundance of fine fish and wild fowl, crabs, oysters, &c.—thirty miles from Fredericksburg, forty four from Alexandria, and fifty from Washington City.
On this land are very extensive shell banks, exclusive of the advantages to be derived from these banks by the lime business, they are very favourable to the production of corn and wheat, and the soil inexhaustible; there are about sixty or seventy acres of this kind of land, and the balance that is cleared of an excellent quality, and a great number of springs of fine water; it can with certainty be classed among the most healthy situations below the falls of Potomac—indeed, the natural advantages attending this place are innumerable.
The improvements are a two story framed dwelling house, sixty-four feet long, commanding a beautiful view of the creek and river; one other house intended for an office, twenty-six feet by eighteen with three rooms and a cellar in good repair; a large house, including a stable for eight horses, a corn-house, carriage house, faddle and harness room, and a commodious granary above, and other convenient buildings on the Farm—a small orchard of well chosen apples and peach-trees—the yard and garden inclosed this spring, with pales and railing—The whole plantation in good repair, and the land in a great state of improvement.
The terms of Sale will be made known by Mr. Francis Whiting, who in a short time will be a resident of Berkeley county, or by the subscriber on the premises.
WILLIAM P. FLOOD. July 9, 1802. tf
FOR SALE.
TWO large superb Looking glasses just imported from London. One Plate measuring 103 by 40 inches, The other, 84 by 40 do. with suitable ornaments—apply to
Wm. HODGSON. Alexandria, June 30, 1802. 12c
New Invention.
The Improved Saw-Mill, for which the subscriber has obtained a Patent.
THIS improvement saves the sawyer much labour, and the work is also much more expeditions. The log being shabbled, turned down, and the saw started, the whole operation proceeds without further manual aid; for, the instant the cut is finished, the log moves back, and at the same time is urged to the utmost extremity by the machine, ready for another cut in two thirds of a minute. The saw resumes its action in the log, and thus moves in alternate succession until the whole be cut up in any given dimensions, at which time the mill shuts up if required, or at any number of cuts for which the sawyer prepares, for his attendance is unnecessary.
Any person or persons inclining to purchase the privilege of erecting this valuable and simple machine, or of adding the improvement, which may readily be affixed to any saw Mill already in use, will please to apply to the subscriber at West Brandywine Bridge, on the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road, Pennsylvania; or by application to Dr. Thornton, City of Washington, who is empowered to dispose of the patent right; a complete operating model may be seen which shows the most exact manner, and performs all the various movements of a large saw mill. He will also furnish the drawings and description.
In consequence of numerous applications from persons whose saw mills are not in constant operation, and to render the benefit more extensive, I have thought it proper to reduce the price of the privilege to eighty dollars; and I will return twenty dollars to every person who has already purchased the improvement at one hundred, that no discrimination may be made. The improvement may cost about twenty dollars. The earnings may be already exceeded, at the City of Washington, at prime cost.
MOSES COATES. August 2, 1802. sawt
Valuable property for Sale.
On Monday the 23d day of August next,
WILL be sold at public sale at Mr. Semmes's tavern, Georgetown. A Mill, Millseat and 42 1/2 acres of land adjoining, lying on Rock Creek, and within a mile and an half of Georgetown and the City of Washington; and at the same time and place will be offered for sale, 500 acres of valuable land, lying about 7 miles from Georgetown, on the Fred-rick road; there are on the premises, two tenements with the necessary buildings in tolerable repair, a number of bearing fruit trees, 10 or 12 acres of meadow, and fifty more may be made at a small expense, there is a sufficiency of timber and wood for the use of the plantation.
And on Wednesday the 25th at the house of Benjamin Ray, on the premises 560 acres of land, about 16 miles from Georgetown, and 4 miles from Montgomery court house; there are several fine orchards on this tract. It will be sold together or in lots, as shall be found most advisable.
And on Monday the 30th, at the house of Barton Brown, on the premises, 850 acres of rich limestone land, of the first quality, lying in Washington county, on the Potomac river, about 3 miles above Williamsport, and binding on the river upwards of two miles. This land is immensely heavily timbered, a great proportion remains in wood, the clear land is fresh and highly productive; this land is laid off into 5 lots, with a house on each lot, which answer for temporary accommodations. Mr. Brown, who lives on the premises, will show the lines of the different lots.
The whole of the above property will be sold on a credit of one, two, and three years with interest. And at the same time and place, the sale to continue from day to day till all is sold—about thirty valuable negroes, men, women and children, work horses, cattle and hogs, plantation utensils, and the crop on the ground, on a credit of twelve months, bonds on interest, with approved security will be required of the purchasers. Any persons desirous of purchasing the above property, or any part thereof at private sale, will please to apply to Col. Francis Deakins, or Philip B. Key, Esq. Georgetown, or the Subscriber.
WALTER MACKALL. Benedict, July 14, 1802. sawt
BOOKS & STATIONARY,
Just Published and for sale, at RAEFINE, CONRAD & Co's Book-store, New-Jersey Avenue, a little South of the Capitol.
A Dissertation on the freedom of Navigation and Maritime commerce, and such rights of States, relative thereto, as are founded on the law of Nations—adapted more particularly to the United States—by William Barton, Member of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, &c.
Secret Memoirs of the Court of Peterburg—particularly towards the end of the reign of Catherine the 2d and the commencement of that of Paul the 1st.
Physical investigations and deductions, from medical facts, relative to the causes, nature and remedies of the diseases of a warm and vitiated atmosphere—by William Barnwell, M.D. &c.
Observations relative to the peace with Bonaparte—by William Cobbett.
The Political writings of John Dickinson, Esq. late President of the State of Delaware, and Governor of Pennsylvania, in 2 vols.
Lectures on History, delivered in the Normal School of Paris—by C. F. Volney, author of the Ruins of Empires, &c.
Lyrical Ballads, with other Poems—by W. Wordsworth.
A Voyage round the World, performed in the years 1785, 6, 7, & 8—by M. De La Peyrouse.
The Poetical works of Hector Macneill, Esq. 2 vols. with plates.
R. C. & Co. have always on hand a general assortment of stationery, of a good quality, as also a good collection of school books adapted to the Greek, Latin, and English classes.
In a few days will be published 'Select Novels,' vol. 5th & 6th, in that uniform handsome style with proceeding volumes.
A valuable collection of London and Dublin publications, particularly periodical works in the best repute, are expected in a few days. June 10, 1802.
SUPERINTENDANT'S OFFICE,
Washington, June 19, 1802.
IN pursuance of the directions of the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to abolish the Board of Commissioners in the City of Washington and for other purposes," and by virtue of the act of assembly of the State of Maryland, entitled "A further Supplement to the act concerning the Territory of Columbia, and the City of Washington," the lots mentioned in the subjoined list (many of which are amongst the best lots in the city) will be exposed to sale by Public Auction at this office on Monday the 30th day of August next.
The sale will commence at ten o'clock A.M. and be continued by adjournment.
The terms of the sale will be, the purchase money to be paid down, or before ten o'clock on the next day of sale. In cases of default in payment as aforesaid, the purchaser will be deemed void, the lots to be purchased will be liable to re-sale under this advertisement, without other notice, and the defaulters may afterwards be rejected as bidders during the sale.
THOMAS MUNROE, Superintendent.
List of Lots in the City of Washington referred to in the above advertisement, viz.
No. 2 in square No. 1, no 2 in sq 2, no 3 in sq north of sq 4, no 24 6 in sq 5, no 1 7 8 in sq 6, no 1 3 in sq 7, no 2 3 8 12 in sq 8, no 1 2 3 12 13 14 15 16 17 in sq 17, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 19 20 in sq 20, no 2 12 in sq 23, no 1 5 6 7 10 11 23 24 25 28 29 in sq 28, no 1 2 3 in sq 29, no 1 2 6 in sq 30, no 1 2 8 10 14 15 in sq 31, no 1 2 7 8 9 10 11 25 26 in sq 33, no 3 4 5 6 7 in sq 37, no 1 8 in sq 40, no 1 2 3 4 5 14 15 16 in sq 41, no 11 12 13 14 15 16 in sq 42, no 2 in sq 43, no 2 in sq 47, no 5 6 in sq 57, no 4 in sq 59, no 1 in sq 60, no 7 in sq 61, no 2 3 in sq 71, no 6 7 8 10 11 12 15 in sq 75, no 1 2 3 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 22 28 29 30 in sq 76, no 9 10 in sq 77, no 6 7 8 in sq 81, no 3 in sq 83, no 1 2 3 17 18 in sq 85, no 7 8 14 15 20 21 in sq 86, no 4 7 in sq 87, no 10 11 in sq 88, no 3 4 5 in sq 99, no 1 in sq south of sq 104, no 12 in sq 107, parts of no 3 12 in sq 118, no 4 5 6 in sq 119, no 5 7 8 in sq 120, no 15 16 17 18 19 24 25 26 27 in sq 126, no 20 in sq 141, no 11 in sq 142, no 2 3 4 and half of 18 in sq 143, no 6 in sq 144, no 2 3 7 8 9 10 12 13 in sq 158, no 1 4 5 6 in sq 161, no 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 in sq 164, no 3 4 in sq 170, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 in sq 172, no 1 2 5 6 7 10 11 12 13 16 17 21 in sq 185, no 1 2 4 7 8 9 14 15 16 in sq 196, no 15 16 in sq 198, no 1 9 12 12 15 in sq 222, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 in sq 247, no 6 in sq 253, no 12 in sq 258, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 in sq 344, no 7 in sq 345, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 17 18 19 20 in sq 374, no 1 4 5 8 9 12 in sq 403, no 3 4 5 6 7 in sq 404, no 6 in sq 409, no 2 3 6 7 10 11 in sq 437, no 2 3 4 5 6 in sq 438, no 7 in sq 439, no 1 2 3 4 11 in sq 452, no 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 in sq 453, no 24 in sq 454, no 5 12 13 19 20 24 25 26 in sq 457, no 1 in sq south of square 464, no 3 4 5 6 in sq 492, no 5 9 10 in sq 493, no 4 5 6 7 in sq 494, no 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 28 in sq 517, no 2 4 6 8 in sq 518, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 in sq 529, no 20 in sq 531, no 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 in sq 534, no 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 in square 535, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 in sq 557, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 in sq 558, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 in sq 565, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 in sq 567, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 in sq 568, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 in sq 569, no 2 4 6 in sq 570, no 2 in sq 572, no 3 in sq 577, no 3 in sq 579, no 1 in sq north of sq 580, no 4 14 in sq 580, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 in sq 581, no 2 18 in sq 583, no 1 in sq north of sq 583, no 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 in sq 584, no 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 in sq 585, no 9 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 in sq 587, no