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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. V.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. 106XXXI.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18th, 1805.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 29.
DEBATE ON THE GEORGIA CLAIMS.
In committee of the whole, Gen. VARNUM in the chair. After reading over the report of the committee of claims, which concludes with submitting the following resolution.
Resolved, That three commissioners be authorised to receive propositions for compromise and settlement, from the several companies or persons having claims to public lands within the pre- sent limits of the Mississippi territory, and finally to adjust and settle the same in such manner as in their opinion will conduce to the interest of the United States: Provided , That in such settle- ment the commissioners shall not exceed the limits prescribed by the convention with the state of Georgia.
Mr. DANA moved that the com- mittee rise and report the resolution.
Mr. J. RANDOLPH wished before the committee rose, that the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Dana) would assign some reasons for the adoption of the resolution—No two things could be more opposite than the prefatory statement made by the committee of Claims and the resolution which termi- nated the report. As there were no reasons assigned, he suspected the gen- tleman had kept them back with a view of surprising the House by their novelty; but he hoped the committee would not agree to the motion unless some better cause were assigned for its adoption than had been hitherto made known.
Mr. DANA said the committee of Claims in the report now before the committee of the whole had confined themselves to a statement of facts deriv- ed from the documents referred to them. He conceived it to be the business of the committee of Claims to investigate the facts, and arrange them in such a manner as to free the House from the labor of detail—they had done this, and the report was a summary of all that had passed in review before them.—It was left to gentlemen to reason on the case according to their course of re- flection. Whether the committee reas- oned on the subject, well or ill, he did not know that gentlemen were bound to follow them in their conclusion. In- deed, he apprehended that were the reasoning ever so energetic, it would not go to satisfy every gentleman. On a question like the present, he despaired of making it satisfactory to the gentle- man who had asked for reasons. He was persuaded that gentleman could not be convinced by any argument the com- mittee might have used, and it was idle to call upon them to perform impossibi- lities.
The question on the committee's ris- ing, and reporting their agreement to the resolution was put, and carried— Ayes 61—Noes 50.
The Speaker having resumed the chair, Gen. Varnum reported the fore- going resolution as agreed to.
Mr. BRYAN called for the reading of that rule of the House, which restrains interested persons from voting.
The Clerk read the same, as follows: "No member shall vote on any ques- tion in the event of which he is immi- diately and particularly interested; or in any other case, where he was not pres- ent when the question was put."
A motion was made to consider the report of the committee of the whole, and carried; Ayes 64—Noes 51.
Mr. CLARK moved a proviso as an amendment declaring, that no part of the five millions of acres reserved should go to compensate the claimants under the act of Georgia, passed in 1795.
Mr. J. RANDOLPH called the yeas and nays on the amendment.
Mr. DANA observed that the report on the table had been made on the ap- plication of persons claiming land under the act of 1795. The amendment, laid he, is nothing more or less than a denial to comply with the prayer of the peti- tioners, and whether it was not to all in- tents and purposes a substitute for the resolutions agreed to in the committee of the whole, he would leave to the Speaker. If it were decided to be a substitute, it could not be received con- formably to the rules of the House.
The Speaker said the resolution re- ported from the committee of the whole was a general one, including all claims; the amendment went to limit and con-
fine the resolution to a particular class, and therefore he conceived it to be in order.
Mr. J. RANDOLPH. It must be manifest to the House that this discus- sion is forced upon those who are oppo- sed to the report of the committee: that we are not prepared at this time to meet it. I am among those who hoped that some reasons would be assigned, if in- deed reasons can be found, to warrant the step about to be taken. I did hope that, instead of a string of facts and state- ments which were already before the House, the committee would have given us something new in the shape of argu- ment, justificatory of the resolution which they have recommended. But I have been disappointed. Nothing is offered either in the report itself, or in debate, which throws a single gleam of light on the subject. I have particular reasons to deprecate a discussion at this time. I shall not trouble the House by detailing them, but briefly state that I feel myself unequal to an immediate investigation of this question, as well from personal indisposition as from the pressure of other important business which has left me but little leisure to attend to this. The few moments which I have been able to devote to it, have convinced me that much new and important matter remains to be brought to light. But no apology will be re- ceived:—we are driven to a vote by an inflexible majority.
The objection taken by the gentle- man from Connecticut (Mr. Dana) and the doubt which he raised on the point of order, respecting the amendment of- fered by my worthy colleague, (Mr. Clark) discloses his drift, and that of the committee of Claims, whilst it proves the necessity of some such amend- ment to save the citizens of the United States and their property from spoliation and plunder. The gentleman has stated truly that his object was to further the claim of the New England Mississippi land company. As I fear I shall have full occasion to exert my voice, I must beg that the memorial of the agents of that company may be read by the Clerk.
The petition was read accordingly. Mr. J. RANDOLPH then called for the reading of the act of Georgia of February 1796, generally called the rescinding act, and he hoped they would have silence whilst the act was reading, as it was a very important one, and ought to influence the decision on the present subject.
The act was read in compliance with the request. After it was finished, Mr. Clark mo- ved to adjourn.
On the division, there were 52 ayes, and 55 noes. So the motion was lost. Mr. CLARK requested that the act of 1795, under which they derived their pretended titles might be read.
While the Speaker was reading the same, Mr. DANA rose and enquired whether it was necessary to read the whole of the law, or whether gentlemen would not be satisfied with the reading of such part of it as bore upon the pre- sent question.
Mr. J. RANDOLPH called the gen- tleman to order for interrupting the Speaker in his reading.
Mr. SPEAKER. The objection ought to have been made (if at all) when the reading of the law was first called for.
The reading was continued to the end of the act—when,
Mr. J. CLAY moved that the House adjourn.
On a division there were 53 ayes and 60 noes. Motion lost.
Mr. J. RANDOLPH. Perhaps it may be supposed, from the course which this business has taken, that the adversaries of the present measure indulge the ex- pectation of being able to come forward, at a future day—not to this House, for that hope is desperate, but to the pub- lic, with a more matured opposition than it is in their power now to make. But past experience has shown them that this is one of those subjects which pollution has sanctified—that the hallowed mys- teries of corruption are not to be pro- faned by the eye of public curiosity.— No, Sir, the orgies of Yazoo specula- tion are not to be laid open to the vul- gar gaze. None but the initiated are permitted to behold the monstrous sacri- fice of the best interests of the nation on the altars of corruption. When this abomination is to be practised we go into conclave. Do we apply to the press? that potent engine the dread of tyrants and of villains, but the shield of freedom and of worth:—No, Sir, the press is gagged. On this subject we have a virtual sedition law—not with a specious title, but irresistible in its
operation, which, in the language of a gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Gris- wold) goes directly to its object. The demon of speculation at one sweep has wrested from the nation their best—their only defence and closed every avenue of information. But a day of retribution may yet come. If their rights are to be bartered away and their property squandered, the people must not, they shall not be kept in ignorance by whom, or for whom it is done.
We have often heard of party spirit, of caucuses as they are termed, to settle legislative questions—but never have I seen that spirit so visible as at this time. The out-of-door intrigue is too palpable to be disguised. When it was proposed to abolish a judiciary system reared in the last moments of an expi- ring administration, the detailed cir- cumstances of a midnight hour, when the question of repeal was before the House, it could not be taken until midnight, in the third or fourth week of the discussion.— When the great and good men who now fill, and who [whatever may be the will of our opponents] I hope and trust will long fill the executive chair, not to his own honor than to the happiness of his fellow citizens: when he, Sir, recommended the repeal of the in- ternal taxes, delay succeeded delay, and discussion was followed by discussion, until patience itself was worn thread- bare.—But now, when public plunder is the order of the day, how are we treat- ed? Driven into the committee of the whole, and out again, in a breath, by an inflexible majority, exulting and stubborn in their strength, a decision must be had, instanter. The advocates for the proposed measure feel that it will not bear a scrutiny. Hence this pre- cipitancy. They wince from the touch of examination and are willing to hur- ry through a painful and disgraceful dis- cussion. But it may be asked why this tenacious adherence of certain gentle- men to each other on every point con- nected with this subject. As if ani- mated by one spirit, they perform all their evolutions with the most exact dis- cipline, and march in firm phalanx di- rectly up to their object. Is it that men combined to effect some evil pur- pose, acting on previous pledge to each other, are ever more in unison than those who seeking only to discover truth, obey the impulse of that conscience which God has placed in their bosoms. Such men do not stand compromised.— They will not stifle the suggestions of their own minds, and sacrifice their pri- vate opinions to the attainment of some common, perhaps some nefarious ob- ject.
Having given vent to that effusion of indignation which I feel, and which I trust I shall never fail to feel and to ex- press on this detestable subject, permit me now to offer some brief and hasty remarks on the point in dispute. They will be directed chiefly to the claim of the New England Mississippi land com- pany whom we propose to debar [with all the other claimants under the act of 1795] from any benefit of the five mil- lions of acres, reserved by our compact with Georgia, to satisfy such claims not specially provided for in that compact, as we might find worthy of recompence. I shall direct my observations more par- ticularly to this claim because it has been more insisted upon, and more ze- alously defended than any other. It is alleged by the memorialists, who style themselves the agents of that company, that they, and those whom they repre- sent, were innocent purchasers:—in other words, ignorant of the corruption and fraud by which the act from which their pretended title was derived, was passed. I am well aware that this fact is not material to the question of any legal or equitable title, which they may set up.—but as it has been made a pre- text for exciting the compassion of the legislature, I wish to examine into the ground upon which this allegation rests. Sir, when this act of stupendous vil- lany was passed in 1795, attempting under the forms and semblance of law, to rob unborn millions of their birth right and inheritance, and to convey to a band of unprincipled and flagitious men a territory more extensive, and beyond comparison more fertile than any state of this union, it caused a sensation scarcely less violent than that produced by the passage of the stamp act or the shutting up of the port of Boston:— with this difference, that when the port bill of Boston passed, her southern brethren did not take advantage of the forms of law, by which a corrupt legis- lature attempted to defraud her of the bounty of nature:—they did not specu- late on the necessities and wrongs of their abused and insulted countrymen.—
I repeat, that this infamous act was succeeded by a general burst of indigna- tion throughout the continent. This is matter of public notoriety—and those (I speak of men of intelligence and edu- cation, purchasers too of the very coun- try in question,) those who affect to have been ignorant of any such circumstance, I shall consider as guilty of gross and wilful prevarication. They offer indeed to virtue the only homage which she is ever likely to receive at their hands— the homage of their hypocrisy. They could not make an assertion within the limits of possibility less entitled to cre- dit.
Yes, the act of the 7th of January 1795 excited emotions of detestation and abhorrence, equal to those produced by the stamp act, or port bill of Boston. But this was not all. It drew upon it the immediate attention of the federal government. The authority which is about to be produced to the House is one which I am not in the habit of pro- stituting to every light occasion. It is one from which those who are daily endeav- oring to shelter their crimes and their folly under its venerable shade will not dare to appeal. Upon looking into the journals of this house, I find the following message from the President, dated on the 17th of February 1795.
"Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentle- men of the House of Representatives."
"I have received copies of two acts passed on the 28th day of December, 1794." [This, Sir, is the act which the wavering virtue of the governor induced him to reject.] "The other on the 7th of January, 1795." [The act under which the different companies, from one of which the memorialists derive their pretended title, claim] "For appropri- ating and selling the Indian lands within the territorial limits claimed by that state. These copies, though not offi- cially certified, have been transmitted to me in such a manner, as to leave no room to doubt their authenticity. These acts embrace an object of such magni- tude, and in their consequences may so deeply affect the peace and welfare of the United States, that I have thought it necessary now to lay them before Con- gress."
Here, Sir, is ample notice to the whole world. This message was refer- red to a select committee: consisting of Mr. John Nichols, Mr. Macon, Mr. Fudley, Mr. Murray, Mr. Boudinot, Mr. Ames, and Mr. Sherburne: on whose report, after solemn deliberation in the committee of the whole, the House on the 26th of the same month came to the following resolution. "Re- solved, that the President of the United States be authorised to obtain a cession from the state of Georgia of their claim to the whole, or any part, of the land within the present Indian boundaries." [The very land which the act of the 7th of January had attempted to alienate and sell:] and the bill which I now hold in my hand, was accordingly brought in, pursuant to the resolution and passed the House on the 2d day of March. But unfortunately the session closed, of necessity, on the following day, and this House is well apprised that the forms of the Senate will not permit any bill to be hurried through that body. A single negative is sufficient to prevent it. The subject was not suffered however to sleep—An act was subsequently passed opening a negotiation with Georgia for the territory in question, of which we have received from her a solemn transfer. Is this notice, or is it not? On a for- mal message from the President laying before them the act of 1795—so totally invalid and worthless was that act in their eyes, in such utter contempt did they hold the pretended rights of the grantees under it—that the House of Representatives immediately passed a bill impowering the President to receive a grant of the very land which that act had previously and fraudulently attempt- ed to convey to the four companies. With what face could the President re- commend, or Congress endeavor to ob- tain from Georgia a cession of the whole, or any part of the land within her In- dian boundaries, if they believed that the land in question had been conveyed to others by a fair and bona fide sale? If they attached to the act of January 1795 any idea of validity? The man who answers this objection shall have my thanks. But, perhaps I shall be told that this was the act of a single branch of the legislature and not a law. True, Sir; but it was a solemn avowal to the whole world that Congress had a right to legislate on the subject. It was notice on the 17th and 26th days of February, 1795, that the act passed by
the state of Georgia, in the preceding month, was void and of no effect—it was loudly proclaimed by the convention of that state, which met in the succeed- ing May, and was finally consummated by the rescinding act of the 15th of February, 1796, which was subsequent- ly enregistered on the constitution of Georgia. And yet the New England Mississippi land company, under a deed of contemporaneous date (as they say) with this last act, a deed containing not merely a special warranty, but a spe- cial covenant that no recourse shall be had against the sellers, for any defect of title in them; a covenant which clearly indicates notice on the part of the buyers of such defect; claiming un- der a deed by which they purchased such title only as the grantees of 1795, had to sell, in whose stead and place they agree to stand; this company affect to have no notice of any defect of title in those of whom they bought. Sanction the claim of this company, or any other derived from the act of 1795, and what effect do you declare? You record a solemn acknowledgement that Congress have unfairly and dishonestly obtained from Georgia a grant of land to which that state no longer possessed a title, having previously sold it to others for a valuable consideration, of which transaction Congress was at the time fully apprized. Are you prepared to make this humiliating confession? To identi- fy yourselves with the swindlers of 1795? To acknowledge that you have unfairly obtained from another that to which you knew he had no title? I trust, Sir, we have not yet reached this point of moral and political depravity.
The agents of the New England land company are unfortunate in two points. They set out with a formal endeavor to prove that they are entitled to their proportion of fifty millions of acres of land, under the law of 1795, and this they make their plea to be admitted to a proportional share of five. If they really believed what they say, would they be willing to commute a good le- gal, or equitable claim for one tenth of its value. Their memorial contains moreover a suggestion of falsehood. They aver that the reservation of five millions, for satisfying claims not other- wise provided for, in our compact with Georgia, was specially intended for the benefit of the claimants under the act of 1795, and that we are pledged to satisfy them out of that reservation. Now, Sir, turn to the 6th volume of your laws, and what is the fact? In the first place so much of the reserved five millions, as may be necessary is appro- priated specifically for satisfying claims derived from British grants not regrant- ed by Spain, and as much of the resi- due as may be necessary is appropriated for compensating other claims, not re- cognised in our compact with Georgia. An appropriation for certain British grants specially, and for other claims generally, is falsely suggested to have been made for the especial benefit of the claimants of 1795—and the reservation of a power in the United States to quiet such claims as they showed dem- worthy of compensation, is perverted into an obligation to compensate a parti- cular class of claims; into an acknow- ledgement that such claims are worthy of compensation. Can this House be in- veigled by such bare faced effrontery? Sir, the act containing this appropriation clause was not brought to a third read- ing till the first of March. Our pow- ers expired on the 4th: it was at the 2d session of the 7th Congress. It was in the power of those opposed to the corrupt claims of 1795 to have defeated the bill by a discussion. But, Sir, they abstained on this ground. If the appro- priation of the five millions had not been made at that session, the year, within which, by our agreement with Georgia it was to be made, if at all, would have expired before the meeting of the next Congress: and it was urged, by the friends of the bill, that there were se- veral descriptions of claims to which no imputation of fraud could attach; that by making a general appropriation we secured to ourselves the power of re- compensing such claims as, on exami- nation, might be found worthy of it, whilst we pledged ourselves to no class of claimants whatever. But that if we should suffer the term speci- fied, in our compact with Georgia, to elapse without making any appropria- tion, we should preclude ourselves from the ability to compensate any claims, not specially provided for, however just and reasonable we might find them, on in- vestigation, to be. Under these circum- stances, and I appeal to my excellent friend from Maryland, who brought it up for the correctness of my statement, the

opponents of the bill gave it no other opposition than a silent vote. And now, Sir, we are told that we stand pledged, and that an appropriation for British grants not re-granted by Spain, specially, and for such other claims against the state of Georgia, generally, as Congress should find quiet worthy, was made for the special benefit of a particular description of claimants, branded too the deepest odium; who dare to talk to us of public faith and appeal to the national honor.
The conclusion of the memorial is amazing enough. After having played over the force, which was acted by the Yazoo Squad at the last session, affecting to believe that an appropriation has been made by the act of March 1803, for their especial benefit, they pray that Congress will be pleased to give them—what? that to which they assert they are entitled?—by no means—an eighth or tenth part of it—which said eighth or tenth part, if we may credit them, has been already appropriated to their use by law. From a knowledge of the memorialists, and those whom they represent, can you believe for a moment that if they had the least faith in the volume of argument (I am sorry to prove the word) which they have presented to the House to prove the goodness of their title, can you believe that under such an impression they would accept a paltry compromise of two shillings in the pound—much less that to obtain it they would descend so low. Sir, when these men talk about public faith & national honor, they remind me of the appeals of the unprincipled gamester and veteran utterer to the honor of the thoughtless spendthrift, whilst in reality they are addressing themselves to his vices and his folly.
I have confined myself on this occasion principally to the question of notice, because it has been made an engine to play upon the generous feelings of many, and not because I deemed it material to the question of title. It is not my intention to travel over the ground which I occupied at the last session on the following important points. That Georgia had no right to make the sale; that even if she had, the contract being laid in corruption and fraud, was null and void, ab initio; that, consequently, the question of notice was not material to the question of title, in the hands of third persons; since, the original grant being obtained by bribery and fraud, no right could vest under it; and that the grantees of 1795 could not sell a greater, or better title, than they themselves possessed; and that even if these positions were as false, as they are indisputably true, the present case presents a monstrous anomaly to which the ordinary and narrow maxims of municipal jurisprudence ought not, and cannot be, applied. It is from great first principles, to which the patriots of Georgia so gloriously appealed, that we must look for aid in such extremity. Yes, extreme cases, like this call for extreme remedies. They bid defiance to palliatives, and it is only from the knife, or the actual cautery, that you can expect relief. There is no cure short of extirpation. Attorneys and judges do not decide the fate of empires.
The right of the state of Georgia to sell (although I do not propose to go largely into that question) is denied by your own statute book, by turning to which you will find, that so far from being able to transfer to others the right of extinguishing Indian title to land, she has not been able to exercise it for her own benefit. It is only through the agency of the United States that she can obtain the extinguishment of Indian title to the soil within her limits, much less could she delegate it to a few Yazoo men. But, as has been repeatedly stated on former discussions of this subject, even if the question of right on the part of Georgia to sell, and on the part of the grantees to take, be conceded, it cannot be controverted that the fraudulent and corrupt atempt of the legislature of 1795 to betray the interests of those who had confided in them, was, ipso facto, void; that no right could be vested, by it, in the instigators and participators of the fraud, and that those could not convey to others a better title than they themselves possessed. If the authority were worth anything, I myself would cite that of the memorialists themselves and of the committee of claims, in support of this position. It is allowed by these authorities, that the title of the purchasers, at second and third hand, is diminished in the ratio which five millions of acres bears to the whole territory, which they modestly admit to contain thirty-five millions of acres, although there is the best reason to believe it to be nearer fifty. Now, Sir, they have not condescended to explain to us by what legerdemain it comes to pass, that a title to thirty-five millions of acres (to take their own statement) is depreciated in their hands so fearfully as to quantity, is reduced to one seventh of its value, whilst the quality of the title to that seventh is proportionally raised. Plain, honest men would reason very differently. A man of this stamp would argue somewhat in this way. If the corrupt and corrupting grantees of 1795, sold a claim to thirty-five millions
of acres to third persons, surely those persons would have the same title to the whole of the property which they had purchased, that they could pretend to let up to any part of it. It would never occur to such a man, that whilst, as to quality, these persons had bought a better title than the vendors themselves had to sell, yet, by some unintelligible process, this better title was in quantity, and of course in value, wasted in their hands to one seventh part of its original worth: in other words: was seven times worse, and at the same time better, than the title of the original grantees. Discoveries such as these have been reserved for the profound legal learning of the agents of the New-England Mississippi land company, and the ingenuity of the committee of claims! What, Sir, would you say to a pretender to your estate, who after laying claim to the whole of it, and writing a volume of argument (if I may so abuse the term as to apply it to the sophisticated trash which I hold in my hand) in support of his pretensions, should make it the ground work of a proposal to receive a seventh, or a tenth part of what he declared him legally and equitably entitled to, and should at the same time affirm that you were "bound in honor" to accede to his modest, considerate and generous proposition? Would you not scout him from your presence as a swindler, as a disturber of the peace of society, or would you be trepanned by his artifice, or bullied by his effrontery out of your property?
The government of the United States on a former occasion, did not, indeed, act in this firm and decided manner. But those were hard, unconstitutional times, which ought never to be drawn into precedent. The first year that I had the honor of a seat in this House, an act was passed of a nature not altogether unlike the one now proposed. I allude to the case of the Connecticut reserve, by which the nation were swindled out of some three or four millions of acres of land, which, like other bad titles, had fallen into the hands of innocent purchasers. When I advert to the applicants by whom we were then beset, I find that among them was one of the very persons who style themselves agents of the New-England Mississippi land company, who seems to have an unfortunate knack at buying bad titles. His gigantic grasp embraces with one hand the shores of lake Erie and stretches with the other to the bay of Mobile. Millions of acres are easily digested by such stomachs. Goaded by avarice, they buy only to sell, and sell only to buy. The retail trade of fraud and imposture yields too small a flow a profit to gratify their cupidity. They buy and sell corruption in the gross, and a few millions, more or less, is hardly felt in the account. The deeper the play, the greater their zest for the game and the stake which is set upon their throw, is nothing less than the patrimony of the people. Mr. Speaker, when I see the agency that has been employed on this occasion, I must own that it fills me with apprehension and alarm. This same agent is at the head of an executive department of our government, subordinate indeed in rank and dignity, and in the ability required for its superintendence, but inferior to none in the influence attached to it. This officer, possessed of how many snug appointments and fat contracts, let the voluminous records on your table of the mere names and dates and sums declare, having an influence which is confined to no quarter of the country, but pervading every part of the union, with offices in his gift amongst the most lucrative, and at the same time the least laborious, or responsible, under the government, so tempting as to draw a member of the other House from his seat, and place him as a deputy at the feet of your applicant; this officer presents himself at your bar, at once a party and an advocate. Sir, when I see this tremendous patronage brought to bear upon us, I do confess that it strikes me with consternation and dismay. Is it come to this? Are heads of executive departments of the government to be brought into this House, with all the influence and patronage attached to them, to extort from us, now, what was refused at the last session of Congress? I hope not, Sir. But if they are, and if the abominable villainy practised upon, and by the legislature of Georgia, in 1795, is now to be glossed over, I for one will ask what security they, by whom it shall be done, can offer for their reputations, better than can be given for the character of that legislature? I will pin myself upon this text, and preach upon it as long as I have life. If no other reason can be adduced but a regard for our own fame, if it were only to rescue ourselves from this foul imputation, this weak and dishonorable compromise ought to receive a prompt and decisive rejection. Is the voice of patriotism lulled to rest? that we no longer hear the cry against an overbearing majority, determined to put down the constitution, and deaf to every proposition of compromise? Such were the dire forebodings to which we have been heretofore compelled to listen. But if the enmity of such men be formidable, their
friendship is deadly destruction, their touch pollution. What is the spirit against which we now struggle, which we have vainly endeavored to stifle? a monster generated by fraud, nursed in corruption, that in grim silence awaits its prey. It is the spirit of FEDERALISM! That spirit which considers the many as made only for a few, which sees in government nothing but a job, which is never true to itself, as when false to the nation. When I behold a certain party supporting, and clinging to such a measure, almost to a man, I see only men faithful to their own principles; pursuing, with steady step and untired zeal, the uniform tenor of their political life. But when I see associated with them, in firm compact, others who once rallied under the standard of opposite principles, I am filled with apprehension and concern. Of what consequence is it that a man smiles in your face, holds out his hand and declares himself the advocate of those political principles to which you also are attached, when you see him acting with your adversaries upon other principles which the voice of the nation has put down, which I did hope were buried, never to rise again in this section of the globe. I speak of the plunder of the public property. Say what we will, the marrow and pith of this business will be found in the character of the great majority of its friends,—who stand, as they have before stood, on this floor, the unblushing advocates of unblushing corruption. But this it may be said is idle declamation. We may be told, as we have been told before, that the squanderers of the public treasure are the Guardians of the people against their worst enemies, themselves: that, to protect them from farther dilapidation, it is necessary to give this cerberus of corruption, this many headed dog of hell a sop: that is to your interest to pacify him: and this sentiment is re-echoed by his yells. Good God! Sir, can you believe, can any man believe it,—is there a woman, or child, in the country weak enough to credit it,—that a set of speculators, out of pure regard to the public interest, are willing to sacrifice thirty millions of acres of land?—that they press their offer to accept a seventh or a tenth of their claim, from motives of patriotism? Can you believe that their love of country has got the better of their avarice, that their virtue is equal to such a sacrifice at the shrine of the public welfare? Such men I repeat it, are formidable as enemies, but their friendship is fraught with irretrievable death. I fear indeed the "Dana os, et dona ferentes." But after the law, in question, shall have passed, what security have you that the claimants will accede to your terms of compromise?—that this is not a trap, to obtain from Congress something like a recognition of their title to be hereafter and against us? Sir, with all our wisdom, I seriously doubt our ability to contend with the arts and devices of these claimants, if they can once entangle us in the net of our own legislation. Let the act of March 1801, of which already they have made so dextrous a use, be remembered. They themselves have pointed out the course which we ought to pursue. They have told us, that so long as we refrain from legislating on this subject, their case is hopeless. Let us then persevere in a "wise and masterly inactivity."
Whenever a bill shall be introduced in conformity to the principles of the report, if such should unfortunately be the decision of the house, I trust that some gentleman more competent than myself will be ready to give it a more effectual opposition. My weak health and want of preparation unfit me for the task. But, Sir, if this claim is to be admitted, I hope we shall not fail to go the whole length of our principle—that we shall not narrow down to five millions of acres a legal or equitable title to fifty. If Congress shall determine to sanction this fraud upon the public, I trust in God we shall hear no more of the crimes, and follies of the former administration. For one I promise that my lips upon this subject shall be closed in eternal silence. I should disdain to prate about the petty-larcenies of our predecessors, after having given my sanction to this atrocious public robbery. Their petty delinquencies will vanish before it, as the stars of the firmament fade at the effulgent approach of a summer's Sun. (To be continued.)
This day is Published, BY SAMUEL H. SMITH. And for Sale at Rspino's Book-store, PRICE ONE DOLLAR AND A QUARTER. ADDRESSES OF THE Successive Presidents OF THE UNITED STATES, TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, At the opening of each Session, with their answers, from the commencement of the present government, to January 1, 1805. Together with the Inaugural Addresses during the same period, and the FAREWELL ADDRESS of George Washington. February 11—
(By Authority.) AN ACT For carrying into more complete effect the tenth article of the Treaty of Friendship, Limits and Navigation, with Spain. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever any Spanish vessel shall arrive in distress, in any port of the United States, having been damaged on the coasts, or within the limits of the United States, and her cargo shall have been unladed in conformity with the provisions of the sixtieth section of the act intitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," the said cargo or any part thereof, may, if the said ship or vessel should be condemned, as not sea-worthy, or be deemed incapable of performing her original voyage, afterwards be re-laden on board any other vessel or vessels, under the inspection of the officer who superintended the landing thereof, or other proper person. And no duties, charges or fees whatever, shall be paid on such part of the cargo, as may be re-laden and carried away, either in the vessel in which it was originally imported, or in any other whatever. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the collector of the district of Norfolk, in Virginia, shall be, and he hereby is authorised and required, to refund to the owners or agents of the Spanish brigantine Nancy, (which vessel arrived in distress at that port in the year one thousand eight hundred and four) the amount of the duties secured by him, on such part of her cargo as was re-exported: Provided, that the debenture or debentures issued by the said collector for the drawback of the duties on the exportation of the said cargo, shall be duly surrendered to him and cancelled. NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. February 14, 1805—APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Authorising the Post Master General to make a new contract for carrying the mail from Fayetteville, in North Carolina, to Charleston in South Carolina. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Post Master General shall be, and hereby is authorised to make a new contract for carrying the mail in a line of stages between the town of Fayetteville, in the state of North Carolina and the city of Charleston in the state of South Carolina, upon such terms and conditions as he may deem most conducive to the interest of the United States: Provided, That he does not exceed the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars, annually, beyond the amount of the present contract; and that no contract made in virtue of this act shall extend beyond the time to which the present contract extends. NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. February 14, 1805—APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Making appropriations for the support of the military establishment of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and five. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expense of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and five, for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines, and armories, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say: For the pay of the army of the United States, three hundred and two thousand, seven hundred and ninety six dollars: For forage, four thousand four hundred and eighty eight dollars: For the subsistence of the officers of the army and corps of engineers, thirty one thousand three hundred and twenty nine dollars and fourteen cents: For the subsistence of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, one hundred and seventy nine thousand and nine dollars and sixty nine cents: For clothing, eighty five thousand dollars: For bounties and premiums, fifteen thousand dollars: For the medical and hospital department, twelve thousand dollars: For camp equipage, fuel, tools, expense of transportation, and other contingent expenses of the war department, eighty one thousand dollars: For fortifications, arsenals, magazines, and armories, one hundred and thirty three thousand two hundred and ninety six dollars and eighty eight cents: For purchasing maps, plans, books, and instruments for the war department, and military academy, five hundred dollars: For the pay and subsistence of the commandants, in Louisiana, five thousand nine hundred and seventy one dollars and seventy seven cents: For the Indian department, ninety two thousand six hundred dollars: Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations, herein before made, shall be paid and discharged, out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate, February 14, 1805. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
For purchasing maps, plans, books, and instruments for the war department, and military academy, five hundred dollars: For the pay and subsistence of the commandants, in Louisiana, five thousand nine hundred and seventy one dollars and seventy seven cents: For the Indian department, ninety two thousand six hundred dollars: Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations, herein before made, shall be paid and discharged, out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate, February 14, 1805. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
MAP OF VIRGINIA. FOR THE INTELLIGENCER.
Messrs. Dickson and Pascud, THE object of the enclosed letter will be answered by publishing it: I have therefore to request that you will insert it in your next paper. A rough draught of the Map therein referred to, has been submitted to the inspection of the members of the General Assembly, who have generally expressed their approbation of the work, and offered their friendly interposition to insure its publication. In consequence of which, an ingenious and competent artist has been engaged to engrave the map, which I flatter myself will be executed in a style not inferior to any similar work in the United States. Proposals will be handed to you in a few days. I am your's, &c. &c. WILLIAM PRENTIS, Petersburg, Feb. 6, 1805.
Dear Sir, The Map of Virginia, to which you have lent so considerable assistance in the collection of some of the necessary materials, is nearly completed. For the forwardness of the work, I am indebted to Mr. Wm. Davis, whom I have found to be a neat, correct and intelligent draughtsman. In making to our countrymen your proposals for the publication of this map, it will be proper to mention in a few words, the data upon which it is founded. These ought to be known, in order that some previous judgment may be formed of its pretensions to public attention and encouragement; and also, that it may not be supposed, a greater degree of accuracy is assumed, than the information possessed will warrant. For this purpose, it may be stated— 1st. That the latitude and longitude of several important points, unascertained till of late, afford so many essential requisites in the formation of a map, and cannot fail, as far as they extend, to conduct to greater accuracy. 2ndly. That plots of counties, furnished by their surveyors; particularly by those of the trans-mountain and middle parts of the state, have been collected with much labor, and very considerable success; that surveyors also, which have been made of the boundaries of counties, of the courses of rivers, of the bearings of mountains, and of the distance of places, have been sought for with the greatest diligence, and obtained, except in a few instances. 3rdly. That the exposure of the first delineation to the animadversion of the Representatives in Richmond, whose local information may be presumed to be correct, has afforded the means of retrenching many errors, and of supplying a deficiency in materials. Lastly, The completion of the boundaries of the state, together with the labors of those who have preceded in the same work, furnish principles for geographical combination, which lead, in some cases to, useful results.
Such is the ground work of the map. Its size, which will be 5 feet 6 inches in length, and 3 feet 8 inches in breadth, will be found, I think, sufficiently suited to the magnitude of the state. With respect to the delineation, it is observed, that accuracy, so far as the present state of the geographical knowledge of this country could be obtained, and will permit, has been studiously aimed at. The degree of correctness of which the map may boast, is probably short of that which might be attained by the interposition of the Legislature of Virginia. It is only her fiat, which can give existence to a perfectly just picture of herself. In the mean time, I flatter, myself, that the representation which is now proposed to be exhibited, imperfect as it may be in some respects, will still be found more satisfactory, than any which hath hitherto appeared; and will aid in the promotion of that geographical knowledge, which is the most interesting to every Virginian. I am, dear Sir, Yours, very respectfully, J. MADISON. Williamsburg, Feb. 1, 1805. Mr. Wm. PRENTIS, Petersburg. It is requested that the Editors of the Virginia Argus, Enquirer, and National Intelligencer, will insert the above once in their respective papers. February 15
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WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18.
We this day commence the debate on the claims for Georgia lands. The reader will notice some remarks made by Mr. J. Randolph, relative to the press...
At the last session of Congress the Georgia claims were taken into consideration by the House of Representatives on the 7th day of February. At that time the Editor reported the debates, and was at his seat.
At a subsequent period of the session the debate was resumed on Mr. J. Randolph's resolutions. The whole of this debate was given in the National Intelligencer at great length.
So far from there having been the least indisposition on the part of the Editor to give publicity to every word laid on the Georgia claims, it has been, and still is to him cause of regret...
These are the facts attending this affair. They are stated to remove error, and to show that in this instance, as in every other, the Editor has been guided by principles of strict impartiality and justice.
HIGH COURT OF IMPEACHMENT.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15.
The Court was opened at 10 A. M. Present the MANAGERS, accompanied by the House of Representatives; and Mr. CHASE, attended by his Counsel.
We omitted to notice, in our last, the appearance of Mr. Charles Lee, as counsel for Judge Chase.
William Wirt, Meriwether Jones, Hugh Holmes, Aquilla Hall, Thomas Hall, John Harvey, Riden Bishop, and Philip Stewart, were again called on the part of the prosecution, without answering.
The President enquired of the Managers whether they had closed the testimony which it was intended to adduce in behalf of the House of Representatives.
Mr. Rodney replied that several of the witnesses being absent, it was the hope of the Managers that should they hereafter attend, their testimony would be received after that on the part of Judge Chase was closed.
The President observed that such a desire appeared to be reasonable; but that the future admission of testimony on the part of the House of Representatives must depend on the discretion of the court at the trial.
The President, then addressing himself to Judge Chase, informed him that he might proceed with his defence.
When Mr. Harper rose, and in a speech of about half an hour, stated the grounds of the defence which the respondent meant to make.
Samuel Ewing, Edward J. Coale, William Rawle, William Meredith, Luther Martin, James Winchester, and William Marshall, were examined on behalf of Judge Chase. The court adjourned at about 3 o'clock.
SATURDAY, FEB. 16.
The court was opened at 10 A. M. Present the MANAGERS, accompanied by the House of Representatives, and Judge CHASE, attended by his counsel.
David Mead Randolph, John Marshall, Edmund Lee, John A. Cheveslier, Robert Gamble, Philip Gooch, and David Robertson, were examined on behalf of Judge Chase. When the court rose, at about half past 2 o'clock.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13.
Mr. Tenney from the committee of revival and unfinished business, presented a bill to revive and make permanent the act to prescribe the mode of taking evidence in cases of contested elections for members of the House of Representatives of the United States...
On motion, Resolved, That this House will attend in the chamber of the Senate, this day at noon for the purpose of being present at the opening and counting of the votes for President and Vice-President of the U. States; that Mr. Joseph Clay and Mr. Roger Griswold be appointed tellers, to act jointly with the teller appointed on the part of the Senate, to make a list of the votes for President and Vice-President of the U. States, as they shall be declared; that the result shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall announce the state of the vote, which shall be entered on the journals; and if it shall appear that a choice hath been made agreeably to the constitution, such entry on the journals, shall be deemed a sufficient declaration thereof.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter and report from the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of war and the comptroller of the Treasury, commissioners under the act for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia, which were read and referred to the committee appointed to enquire whether any, and if any, what amendments are necessary to the several acts regulating the grants of land to the refugees from Nova Scotia and Canada.
Mr. Dana, from the committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of William Breck, jun. of New Hampshire, which was referred to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Dana, from the same committee, made a report on the memorial of Richard Taylor, of Kentucky, which was referred to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.
A message was received from the President of the United States, as follows:
"To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States."
"In the message to Congress at the opening of the present session, I informed them that treaties had been entered into with the Delaware and Piankeshaw Indians for the purchase of their rights to certain lands on the Ohio. I have since received another entered into with the Sacs and Foxes, for a portion of country on both sides of the river Mississippi: these treaties having been advised and consented to by the Senate, have accordingly been ratified; but, as they involve conditions which require legislative provision, they are now submitted to both branches, for consideration."
"TH: JEFFERSON."
"Feb. 13 1805."
The above message, together with the treaties, was referred to the committee of Ways and Means.
On motion, Resolved, That the committee of Ways and Means be instructed to enquire into the salaries and compensations of the officers of the two Houses of Congress as established by law, and report such alterations therein as they may deem expedient.
The House according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole House.
Mr. DAWSON in the chair,
On the bill authorizing the secretary at war, to issue military land warrants; and after some time spent therein, the committee rose and reported the bill without amendment.
The House then proceeded to consider the said bill, and having made some
progress therein, it was
Ordered, That the further consideration thereof be postponed until to-morrow.
A message was received from the Senate, notifying that at half past two the Senate will be ready to proceed on the trial of Samuel Chase.
A petition was presented from Ithmael Giddens of Yorktown, Virg. and also, one from Nathan Putnam, of Davis, Essex county, Mass. which were severally referred to the committee of Claims.
On motion,
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire into such committee as may be appointed by the Senate, to wait on the President and to notify to him his re-election to the office of President of the United States.
Ordered, That Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Gregg and Mr. Varnum, be appointed a committee, on the part of this House, pursuant to the said resolution.
The House then resolved itself into a committee of the whole House, and attended the trial of Samuel Chase, and after some time spent therein, the committee returned, and Mr. Speaker having resumed the chair,
Mr. Varnum reported that the committee had attended the said trial, and that a farther progress had been made therein.
Adjourned.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14.
Mr. George Clinton jun. from New-York, after being sworn, took his seat in the House.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of State, accompanied by an abstract of all the evidences of title to land claimed under any act or pretended act of the state of Georgia, passed or pretended to be passed, in the years 1789 and 1795, recorded in his office, specifying the dates of the instruments, the names of the parties, the quantity of land with the species of warranty and any proviso or condition that may be annexed, which were ordered to be printed.
A message was received from the Senate, notifying that at 12 o'clock the Senate will be ready to proceed on the trial of Samuel Chase and that in future, the trial will commence at 10 o'clock; also, that they have agreed to the resolution of this House for the appointment of a committee to enquire what measures are necessary for the accommodation of the President of the United States for the term commencing on the 4th of March next, and that they had appointed a committee for that purpose.
The House then resolved itself into a committee of the whole, and attended the trial of Samuel Chase, and after some time spent therein, the committee returned, and Mr. Speaker having resumed the chair.
Mr. Varnum reported that the committee had attended the said trial, and that a farther progress had been made therein.
Adjourned.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15.
The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, and attended the trial of Samuel Chase, and after some time spent therein, the committee returned, and Mr. Speaker having resumed the chair.
Mr. Varnum reported that the committee had attended the said trial, and that a farther progress had been made therein.
The Speaker laid before the House, a letter from the secretary at War, accompanied by sundry documents relative to the situation of the public buildings on the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, and the probable expense of finishing the same, &c. and also a statement of the number of the officers and privates in the actual service of the U. States during the year 1803 and 1804, with the names of the posts where they were stationed, &c. and which were read and ordered to lie on the table.
A message was received from the Senate, notifying that they have passed the bill making appropriations for the support of government for the year 1805, with amendments.
Mr. J. Randolph reported a bill making an appropriation for the payment of witnesses summoned on the part of the United States in support of the impeachment of Samuel Chase, which was read the first and second time and committed to a committee of the whole House immediately.
The House accordingly resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
Mr. DAWSON in the chair, And after some time spent therein, the committee rose and reported the bill with amendments, which were taken into consideration and concurred in by the House.
Ordered, that it be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
The speaker laid before the House a letter and report from the Secretary of the Treasury, on the petition of John M'Fadon and John M'Fadon and Francis Johnson.
Referred to the committee of claims. Also, a letter, accompanied with an annual statement of the district tonnage
of the United States on the 31st of December, 1803, together with an explanatory letter from the Register of the Treasury.
Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Crowninshield, from the committee of commerce and manufactures, reported a bill for the relief of Robert Patton & Co. and others, which was read the first and second time and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Crowninshield from the same committee, made a report on the memorial of Stephen Kingston, of the city of Philadelphia.
Ordered to lie on the table.
The House proceeded to the consideration of the amendment proposed by the Senate to the bill making appropriations for the support of government for the year 1805, when
The bill, with the amendments, was ordered to be referred to the committee of Ways and Means.
Adjourned to half past nine to-morrow.
Foreign Intelligence.
New-York, Feb. 11.
We are enabled to lay before the readers of the Mercantile Advertiser this day the last European advices that have hitherto been received on the American continent. In addition to the extracts subjoined, it is stated by the Editor of the Charleston Courier that captain Erving, had previous to his departure perused a London paper of the 22d December, containing the official declaration of war against Spain on the part of Great Britain.
The Paris Argus of the 21st Nov. says, "among the presentations on Sunday last were, his excellency Mr. Livingston, minister plenipotentiary from the United States, who delivered his credentials and took leave.
"His excellency general Armstrong who presented his credentials in quality of minister plenipotentiary of the United States to America."
NEW-YORK, February 12.
INTERESTING.
By the arrival yesterday, of the brig Friendship, from New Orleans, we have received papers to the 1st January, by which it appears, that some dissatisfaction prevails in that city, occasioned by a number of Spanish soldiers being retained by the Marquis de Casa Calvo, late governor of the province of Louisiana. These discontented had assumed a seditious aspect, that the following resolution was passed in the legislative council, on the 29th December, immediately on their forming a quorum:
Legislative Council, December 29.
Mr. Pollock proposed the following resolution:
Whereas certain troops of his Catholic majesty, yet remain in the city, appearing daily in the streets with arms, to the great annoyance of the good citizens thereof. And whereas a guard is regularly mounted at the house of the Marquis de Casa Calvo by those troops who are said to be detained for that purpose solely. And whereas the government of the United States have ever held inviolate the rights of hospitality, by a full protection of those who are under its laws, without foreign aid.
Therefore, Resolved, As the sense of the members of the legislative council, that such practices are not only dangerous to the peace and quiet of this city, but derogatory to the dignity of the government of the United States, and an infringement of its sovereignty.
Resolved further, that the president of the council be directed forthwith to transmit a copy of the preceding resolution to his excellency the governor of this territory.
Which resolution was read the first time, and agreed to.
Ordered that the above resolution be taken into farther consideration on Monday next.
BANK OF NEW ORLEANS—By accounts from New Orleans, we learn that the contemplated Bank in that city, has its shares nearly filled, and is expected to get into operation in a short time.
CHARLESTON, January 30. The ship In-rep'd, captain E. Steed, has arrived at Savannah, in 49 days from Liverpool.
Capt. Erving, arrived at this port yesterday, in 23 days from Ramligate, England, brought two London papers of the date of December 17. Extracts from the papers received by those arrivals, will be found in our preceding columns. Bonaparte has been crowned emperor, by the Pope.
A note on the margin of a Liverpool paper, states that the English Minister had left Madrid. It will be seen that the Spanish Minister in England had received his passports, and was to set out for home on the 17th December.
The Porte has not yet acknowledged Bonaparte's authority, in a way acceptable to the Corsican.
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TO THE PUBLIC.
DURING the present year, J. Ogilvie will continue to instruct youth in the city of Richmond. In addition to the various branches of literature and science heretofore taught in his school, his pupils will have an opportunity of studying the higher branches of mathematical science, a more extensive course of natural philosophy, the dead languages, and the French and Spanish languages. In teaching the higher branches of Mathematical science and the dead languages, J. Ogilvie will be assisted by Mr. Wood of this city, whose superior proficiency and skill in Mathematical and Physical science eminently entitled him to public patronage. The French and Spanish languages will be taught, by Mrs. Bannard, with whose ability and qualifications in the line of his profession, the citizens of Richmond are sufficiently acquainted. These arrangements, whilst they will considerably diminish J. Ogilvie's emoluments, will greatly enlarge the utility of the school. The principal advantages of schools conducted by a single teacher, are, the principal and uninterrupted pressure of exertion, the dissipation of thought amongst such a variety of studies as a most to preclude the possibility of pre-eminent skill or proficiency in any one department of knowledge, and the consequent imperfection and incompleteness of the course. These disadvantages will be radically obviated by the preceding arrangements. This modified and extended, the plan of education which will be pursued in this school, will embrace probability, as comprehensive and complete a course of literature and science as can be reasonably expected in a seminary, to totally destitute of every sort of extrinsic support. The school will be opened on the second Monday in January.
P. S. Mr. Wood will teach the arts of drawing and painting, to such young gentlemen as may be desirous to acquire some knowledge and skill in these highly elegant and useful accomplishments.
February 18 1 mi.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
WHEREAS by the first article of the terms and conditions declared by the President of the United States on the 17th day of October, 1794, for regulating the materials and manner of buildings and improvements on the Lots in the City of Washington, it is provided "that the owner and party walls of all houses in the said city shall be built of brick or stone." And by the third article of the same terms and conditions it is declared "that the wall of no house shall be higher than forty feet to the roof in any part of the city, nor shall any be lower than thirty five feet on any of the Avenues." And whereas the above recited articles were found to impede the settlement in the city, of mechanics and others, whose circumstances did not admit of erecting houses authorised by the said regulations, for which a use the operation of the said articles has been suspended by several acts of the President of the United States, from the fifth day of June, in the year 1796, to the first day of January next—and beneficial effects arising from such suspensions having been experienced, it is deemed proper to revive the same with the exception hereafter mentioned.
Wherefore I THOMAS JEFFERSON, President of the United States, do declare that the first and third articles above recited shall be, and the same are hereby suspended until the first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, and that all houses which shall be erected in the said city of Washington previous to the said first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, conformable in other respects to the regulations aforesaid, shall be considered as lawfully erected, except that no wooden house covering more than three hundred and twenty square feet, or higher than twelve feet from the sill to the eve shall be erected, nor shall such house be placed within twenty four feet of any brick or stone house.
Given under my hand the twentieth day of December, 1804.
TH: JEFFERSON.
Dec 24—1804
NEW Store.
BY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. The subscriber informs the public that he has commenced business in the house formerly occupied by,
MR. QUINN, F. Street;
And has on hand, a general assortment dry goods, Groceries, wines and spirituous liquors.
Porter, Hardware and Cutlery, Queen-ware, China and Glass, Flour, Corn, and Corn-meal, Oats and Hopped rye, Candles and Soap by the box, Country whiskey by the barrel, and few casks of genuine old Irish whiskey All of which he will sell low for cash or country produce
The HIGHEST prices, given for country produce, CASH
FRANCIS CLARK.
Aug. 29—wtf.
100 DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY, two months ago, about the middle of November, a Negro Man, named TOM DANIEL, five feet ten inches high, black complexion, has lost some of his jaw teeth, very knock-kneed, about 45 years of age. It is supposed that he has made to the northward, and has a free pass. He took with him a grey mare, and is very fond of driving a cart—apply to
RALPH LANE, Centreville,
Fairfax county, Virginia.

FALL GOODS.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Pennsylvania Avenue, near the President's Square.
HAS just received a very handsome assortment of Fall Goods. Orders received with the greatest dispatch and fashion, and on the most moderate terms. Oct 31—tf
TO PRINTERS.
THE subscriber takes Order for Type from the well known Foundry of William Caslin, Jun. and Co London.—Specimens and list of London prices to be seen at Mr. Geo. W. Riggs, Georgetown.
CHARLES WIROMAN, No. 215, Market-Street, Baltimore. Jan. 10. tf.
American Printed goods.
Calicoes, Shawls, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. manufactured by the subscribers near Baltimore, and sold at No. 13 Calvert Street.
To remove that distrust often felt respecting new undertakings, and so prejudicial to manufacturing attempts in America, they think it proper to observe, that nothing is wanting in the business to enable good articles to perform their work here as well as in Europe. That they have these articles; that two of the partners were bred to the business in a factory of the best repute carried on by their father, long afterwards by themselves. They trust that while foreign goods are received without a question, an unreasonable suspicion will not prevent their countrymen from giving that trial to their goods, which only can prove their value. Besides a natural doubt, they know that certain interests, national as well as individual, will suggest objections to their undertaking. They have no difficulty in saying, that work of the like kind shall be as well executed here, as in other countries. The colors capable of being fixed, will be found as permanent; the cloths perhaps better substance, and the prices lower than of the imported cottons.
M'CULLOCH & LUNNUY, Baltimore, No. 13 Calvert Street. Sept. 17—tf
CHARLES H. VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR.
Has received from Philadelphia a handsome assortment of FALL goods, consisting of the best London and French superfine cloths, cassimeres, patent Bennet's cord, toiletsets, fancy and white Marcellilles, black and figured silk, moleskins, fancy silk, Marcellilles, constitution cords, velvets, Genoa cord, silk and satin Florentines, superfine coating, knapped cloths, with a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season.
N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, December 10—tf
Charlotte-Hall School.
THE Trustees having met this day according to adjournment; and having considered the great increase of responsibility attached to the duties of the Principal from the flourishing state of the Institution, resolved to raise his salary to 1000 dollars per annum, they then proceeded, by ballot, to an election; and the Rev. George Ralph was unanimously chosen.
The Trustees acquaint the public of this arrangement and that the classes are now open. The Stewards house, also, has been fully repaired and every comfortable accommodation attended to, for the reception of boarders.
Terms for the present year. Tuition, twenty dollars per annum. Board 28: 7s. 6d. Maryland Currency. and 2: 10s. od. if bed and bedding be furnished. Payments to be made quarterly and one quarter always in advance. (Signed.) By order, NEALE H. SHAW, Reg. Feb. 11.—5t
Tucker's Blackstone.
May be had for the present at the subscription price of J. MARSH, Georgetown, Wm. Tyane, and Rapine, Conrad & Co. city of Washington—J. Kennedy, and Messrs. Gray's, Alexandria—Mr. Brundige, Dumfries—Mr. Henderson, Fredericksburg—Mr. S. Piegants, and Mr. Fritchard, Richmond—Boniface, Conrad, and Co. Norfolk—Somerville, Conrad & Co. Peterburg—J. Bell, Winchester—J. Swape, Newton—J. Alberts, and Wm. Somerville, Martinsburg—J. G. G. G., Raleigh—Bailey and Walter, Charlott—Conrad, & Co. G. Hill, S. Butler, Benjah, Warner and Hamah, Baltimore—the book stores generally in Philadelphia—Messrs. Swords, New York, and C. Bingham, Boston. February 11—cp4w
ROBERT CHERRY.
HAS removed his store, to the house of Mr. George Blagden New Jersey Avenue on the Eastern Branch, where he has just received (in addition to his former stock) by the Schooner Flyland from Philadelphia a general assortment of groceries and liquors of superior quality, with a few boxes India chana of the best quality, eighty pieces to the set; all of which he will sell wholesale and retail at the most reduced prices for cash, or in exchange for country produce—All orders in his line will be executed with punctuality and dispatch; he flatters himself on the quality of his articles he will be able to render ample satisfaction to his friends and all those who may be pleased to favor him with their custom. All kinds of commission business will be attended to with the utmost attention. Washington city Dec. 12—tf
THE subscribers have opened a GROCERY STORE in the house near the Capitol, lately occupied by Mr. JAMES D. BERRY—where they have for sale, low, for cash or in exchange for country produce.
 Genuine Cogniac brandy,  Inferior French do.  Old Jamaica spirits,  Madeira,  Sherry, } Wines, by the quarter cask  Lisbon, } and case, or smaller quantity.  Claret,  Brown Sugar, 1st and 2d quality  Loaf and Lump, do.  Molasses,  Firkin Butter,  Mould Candles,  Sweet Oil,  Spices of different kinds,  Fig Blue,  Starch,  Almonds,  Anchovies, } in bottles.  Capers, }  Powder and Shot,  Excellent Wine Vinegar,  Gin,  Whiskey,  Hylon,  Imperial, } Teas, fresh, and of superior quality.  Young Hylon, }  Salt Herrings in Barrels.  PETER HEALY, & Co. Washington October 31—tf
ADAM KING, & Co.
AT their wine Store in High Street George Town, have in addition to their stock of old wines, laid in a large and general assortment of all kinds of Liquors and Groceries suitable to the present season; where bills of any description, in their line, will constantly be filled up on the shortest notice and they flatter themselves, from the quality of their wines, &c. they will be able to give general satisfaction to all those who may think proper to favor them with a call—where all kind of commission business as usual, will be attended to with the utmost attention. George Town, November 5—tf
FOR SALE.
THE subscriber intending to decline his present business, offers FOR SALE two Coaches with vegetation blinds, likewise Gigs and Plated Harness, with or without Horses. If not disposed of at private sale, they will be sold at Auction on Saturday the 23d inst. opposite Stelle's Hotel.—the sale to commence at 12 o'clock
Also for sale, Any quantity of WOOD by the cord. Application to be made to the subscriber at the place formerly occupied by Mr. George Walker, near the Capitol. THOMAS BARWISE. Feb. 8.—tf.
NOTICE.
THE Legionary Court of enquiry which met by adjournment the 2d instant, is again adjourned to meet at the Union Tavern in George-Town, the 5th March next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. As there is business of importance to come before the Court, it is hoped the members will be punctual in their attendance.
By order, Wm. B. BEALL, Clk. 1st. L. M. D. C. Feb. 8.—10t
This day is published by SAMUEL E. SMITH, —price 50 cents— A DEFENCE of the MEASURES OF THE ADMINISTRATION of THOMAS JEFFERSON. BY CURIUS. Taken from the National Intelligencer.
To the Refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia, Take Notice.
THAT all those persons who claim and have located any tract or parcel of land within the state of Ohio, which has been appropriated by Congress for the relief of the Refugees, must pay the tax due on the same on or before the first Monday in April next, together with the penalty of 25 per cent. to be paid to the Collector in the respective county or counties where the land lies; otherwise so much of each tract will be sold (after thirty days notice) as will satisfy the amount of tax and penalty of 25 per cent. for each year in which the payment of the same has been neglected on each and every tract listed in the year 1804 and which were liable to taxation for the four preceding years.
The above advertisement is made by one who feels a lively interest in the welfare of the revolutionary citizens, whose property is implicated as above stated. From like motives, it is hoped that the PATRIOTIC PRINTERS throughout the United States will give the above a few insertions in their papers.
NOTICE.
To facilitate to claimants under the 7th article of the treaty with Great Britain the receipt of the third installment due on the 25th July next, in instances in which they have not constituted the public agent in London, their special attorney, it has been thought proper to draw to the United States such monies of the above description as may not be drawn from him by the individuals themselves prior to the 1st of September next. The agent is accordingly instructed to cease paying them after that date; but after the 1st of November next, they will be again payable at the city of Washington, to those who have right, or to their attorneys duly authorized. Department of State, February 4, 1805. * * Note, The Printers of the Laws of the United States are requested to insert the above four times in their gazettes. Feb. 13—4t
For Sale,
A pair of elegant young CARRIAGE HORSES; Also an Elegant London made Curricule and a Coach—Apply at this office. February 13—tf
From the solicitations, and at the earnest request of several friends, the Proprietor of the MYSTERY, is induced to postpone his departure until Saturday afternoon, when he positively leaves George town; those therefore who intend visiting this astonishing machine, will please to take the present opportunity, as it positively leaves this place for the West Indies. Independent of its many performances, the proprietor assures the public that a sight of the machine alone will gratify them. February 11—3t * * To be seen at Mr. Knowles' opposite the Union Tavern, George-Town.
PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A New Work on the principles of Steam Engines to be entitled, Young Steam Engineer's GUIDE. By OLIVER EVANS.
TO CONTAIN A General description and investigation of the principles of the engines used in England where the steam, is used as an agent to form a vacuum, and to act with a power only equal to the weight of the atmosphere.
Also of the new and simple principle discovered by the author, of obtaining unlimited power, and working steam engines with a power equal to five or ten atmospheres, either against the pressure of the atmosphere in the most simple form, or with the use of a vacuum to take off that resistance; and to show why doubling the fuel on the new principle produces about fifteen times the power and effect.
Drawings of the simple and cheap, new form of engines suitable for producing and containing such great power in the least space, and with the least weight, to fit them for various purposes, for which no others would answer. Tables of the size and proportions of engines of the different powers, from the power of one man to that of one hundred horses, to suit different purposes; with the assistance of a professional English steam engineer of long experience and great abilities, capable of communicating many secrets in the engine art, that will render the work highly useful, and which are not to be found in any other work.
The author hopes to be able to show, and demonstrate principles (part of which he has already in use) by the application of which he can make engines at half the price of those heretofore used; not exceeding one fifth, or perhaps one tenth part of the weight to produce equal powers, and which will not require more than one third, or one fourth part of the fuel and which will serve the great purposes of raising water to water our cities, of sawing ship timber, mahogany and marble stone, grinding malt, paints, chocolate, plaster and turning lathes, &c. in cities—sawing timber on or near navigable waters; grinding grain, draining mines, working forges and furnaces, where water falls cannot be obtained—propelling boats against the stream, on all our rivers where hand power are now used, and transporting heavy burdens on turnpike roads, with great advantages over the means by which these things have hitherto been done. He may also touch on several other mechanical and philosophical subjects which may lead to useful discoveries.
CONDITIONS.
The work shall be printed on good paper and neatly bound. But as it will be original and the subject abstruse, and will be extended no farther than the author may be enabled to proceed in, no estimate can be made of the expense of the engravings, nor of the price of the book. He can only say that it will be delivered to subscribers on the lowest terms that can be afforded; and should it exceed Four Dollars a copy, they shall be at liberty to refuse the work.
A list of the subscribers will be annexed. Subscribers for six copies shall receive the seventh gratis.
NOTICE is hereby given to ROBERT BOYES and JAMES BOYES, if now living, children of Robert Boyes, who was the son of the late Col. J. C. of Londonderry in the county of Rockingham and state of New Hampshire, deceased; which said Robert the elder left Londonderry aforesaid upwards of thirty years ago, married in Baltimore in the state of Maryland, and removed to Virginia and there died; that, if they will apply to Silas Hutton of Salem in the state of New Hampshire, now in the city of Washington, or to Alexander Boyes of Londonderry aforesaid, may hear of some property worth their attention. The several printers of Virginia and Maryland will serve the cause of humanity by republishing the above. Jun. 9
FOR SALE.
A Tract or parcel of land, containing one hundred thousand acres, surveyed in tracts of one thousand acres each, lying on the great Satilla and St. Mary's rivers in the counties of Wayne and Tallasse in the state of Georgia, distant about 40 miles from the town of St. Mary's and the sea. This land is an undivided moiety of two adjoining tracts containing each 100,000 acres, and is remarkable for its extensive forests of large and valuable yellow pine, and the luxuriant growth of natural grass, affording an inexhaustible range of pasture for cattle. It is also favorable for the culture of cotton, and lies in a very healthy district of country. A great bargain may be had to a purchaser of the whole undivided moiety; for terms of sale apply to JOHN BECKLEY, City of Washington. Sept. 12—tf
A Family of Negroes FOR SALE.
THE subscribers will dispose of by private sale (pursuant to the will of Ann Digges deceased) the following negroes without dividing any one of the family from the other, viz. GEORGE, aged about 47 or 48 years, stout and healthy, a very handy negro for every part of field work and a good mower, reaper and stacker of grain, &c.—GRACE his wife, aged about 37 years, brought up in a regular family as a house servant, to which she is fully equal, and is a remarkable good seamstress, laundress, and a tolerable cook. Also their two children, one a girl about three years old, and an infant at the breast. Application to be made to THOS. DIGGES of Warburton near Piscataway, or WM. CARROLL, Rock creek, Montgomery county, Executors. Jan. 30—wjt
A FEW Hundred bushels of white, well burnt SHELL LIME, will be sold for cash, at 16 DOLLARS the 100 bushels, if applied for immediately, a less quantity than 100 bushels will not be sold at this price. Apply to CON. CONNINGHAM. November Cash will be given for WELL cleaned BARLEY
In CHANCERY, Dec. 27, 1804. Benjamin R. Morgan, executor of Benjamin Morgan, deceased. vs William Jones, executor of Wm. Slubey, deceased, and William Ringgold, James Ringgold, and Richard Ringgold, executors of James Ringgold, deceased, who was a creditor of the said William Slubey.
The object of the bill is, to establish a claim which the complainant sets up, partly in his own right, and in part as executor of Benjamin Morgan deceased, his relict and father against the estate of the said William Slubey late a copartner in the house of Morgan and Slubey; to compel the production of the books of account of the said house, and to have the said claim, or a ratable proportion of it, paid out of the monies which have arisen from the sales of the said Slubey's real estate, heretofore made under a decree of this court, for the payment of his debts.
The bill states, that the said Benjamin Morgan & Wm. Slubey deceased were the persons who composed the said house of Morgan and Slubey; that the house, at the dissolution of the partnership was largely indebted to the said Morgan, for goods imported from foreign countries, or purchased here, for its use, on his sole credit or with his separate funds; and for debts paid for it by him, out of his private property; that the said Morgan and Slubey, on the 20th January 1785, gave their joint bond to Frederic Pison, surviving partner of the house of Pison and Booth of England, for the sum of 3541 3s. 8d. Sterling, which was then due to the latter, house from that of Morgan and Slubey, on the balance of their accounts for partnership dealings; that the house of Morgan and Slubey, during the life time of the said Morgan, continued to reduce this debt, by successive payments out of the partnership funds; and that after his death and previous to the 23th of August 1796, Slubey made some further payment to a small amount; so that on the last mentioned day, the balance remaining due for principal and interest, according to a settlement then made with the agent of Pison, amounted to 14681 6s. 8d. Sterling; for which sum the complainant, relying on the insufficiency of the partnership funds, and of Slubey's private estate, for his indemnification, promised to give his own bonds, payable at several times; that on the 4th May 1799 after Slubey's death, he did in compliance with this engagement, execute his several bonds to the said agent, for the abovenmentioned sum, with interest from August 23th 1796, the day of settlement; one of which bonds, amounting to 5000, he has paid, and is responsible for the rest. That after his raters death he could obtain no settlement of the partnership accounts, nor any payment of the sums due to him from the house of Morgan and Slubey, as executor, nor a sight of the partnership books, either from Slubey, in his life time, or since his death from his executor, the defendant Jones; who has repaid to the Complainant no part of the sums, for which he gave his bonds as aforesaid to the agent of Pison; and that the said Jones has removed from this state, to New-York in the state of New-York, where he now resides. On these grounds the relief is prayed.
The defendants' James William and Richard Ringgold have appeared to the bill, and put in their answer; but the defendant Jones has made no answer or appearance, and cannot, by reason of his absence from this state, be served with the process of this court.
It is thereupon ordered, that the complainant cause a copy of this order, to be published once in each of three weeks in the National Intelligencer, before the eighteenth day of February next; to the intent, that the said Jones may have notice of the complainant's application, and of the substance and object of this bill, and be warned to appear here, in person, or by solicitor, on, or before the first day of June term next, to show cause, wherefore a decree should not pass as prayed by the bill.
True copy, Feb. SAMUEL H. HOWARD. Reg. Cur. Can. Feb. 8.—raw3w
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE proprietor wishes to SELL or RENT, on moderate terms, a neat two story framed house, eligibly constructed for the accommodation of a private family. Situated on 11th near F street, about 150 yards from the Bank and nearly the same distance from the Theatre. Persons wishing to purchase or rent, will please to apply to Mr. William Woodward, Pennsylvania Avenue, or to the subscriber. Possession may be had on the 21st day of April next. MARK STOCKWELL. 29th Jan.—2awtf
AN ACT
More effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon Lands within this Commonwealth.
Passed January 29, 1803. Sec. 1. WHEREAS numerous inconveniences and losses have accrued to this Commonwealth, from the want of an adequate mode for the subjection of Lands to the payment of taxes: and whereas it is a principle in well organized governments, that property should be holden subservient to the purposes thereof.
Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That when the taxes upon any tract or survey of land, shall have remained unpaid for the space of two years, such tract or survey of land, shall be forfeited to the Commonwealth, and subject to location, according to the terms prescribed by an act, entitled "An act for the reducing into one, the several acts concerning the land office, ascertaining the terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated lands, for settling the title and bounds of lands, directing the mode of processing, and prescribing the duty of surveyors" so far as the said act applies to waste and unappropriated lands, and not to forfeit land; and title thereto shall be acquired by the said location, and by the payment of the taxes due upon such tract or survey of land; Provided nevertheless, That the tract or survey of land so aforesaid forfeited shall be subject to the redemption of the former rightful and proper owner, at any time within one year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, upon the payment of the taxes due thereupon, with interest upon the same from the time they became payable.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That at any time within six months after the annual return of the list of inhabitants or delinquent taxes for the non payment of the taxes upon land into his office, the auditor of this Commonwealth shall cause this act to be published for three several times in the Gazette of the printer of this Commonwealth and in some news paper of general circulation, published at the seat of the general government: Provided always, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize the location of any lands within the purview of this act, before the expiration of the time limited for the redemption thereof: nor to affect the rights of infants, femes covert, or persons of unsound mind, until one year after the disabilities shall have ceased.
Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts, within the purview of this act, are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day of March next.
(A Copy) Test. JAMES PLEASANTS, Jun. C. H. D. Richmond, Virginia, Feb. 3—3t
PUBLIC SALE.
BY virtue of a decree of the circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Washington, in the suit of Samuel Speake complainant, against Joshua Gregg, defendant in chancery, will be sold to the highest bidder at public auction on Saturday the sixteenth day of March next, at the Union Tavern, in George Town, all that part of two lots of ground in Thomas Beale's addition to George Town, known and distinguished by the numbers one hundred and thirty-four and one hundred and thirty-five, beginning for the first part at sixty feet southerly from boundary number thirty seven on Washington street and running easterwardly parallel with Dumbarton street sixty feet, then southerwardly parallel with Washington street sixty feet, to lot number one hundred and forty-four, then westerwardly with said lot to Washington street, then with said street northwardly to the beginning, being and intended to be the half of said lot—beginning for the second part of lot number one hundred and thirty-five, being the fourth half of said lot number one hundred and thirty-five and adjoining lot number one hundred and thirty-four, at the end of the third line of lot number one hundred and thirty-four, and running reverse with said third line sixty feet, then easterwardly parallel with Dumbarton street sixty feet, then southerwardly parallel with Washington street sixty feet, then to the beginning, being and intended for the fourth half of the above described lots, with the improvements thereon.
The sale will commence at 4 o'clock P. M. The terms of sale, ready money, or money to be paid immediately on the courts ratifying the same, the time of which ratification will be notified in the same papers in which the sale is advertised, after the report of the said sale will be made to the court, which report will not be made until the court commences their next sitting, for the county of Washington.
HENRY WHETCROFT, Trustee. February 15—3w
NOTICE.
THE subscriber intends to embark for England early in the next month, for the purpose of importing his Fall Goods. As the object will require a considerable sum of money, he requests all those indebted to him, to call and pay their accounts immediately. ELISIA RIGGS.
CASH will be given for a quantity of GOOD TOBACCO.
He has on hand, and will continue to keep as usual, an extensive assortment of DRY GOODS, which will be sold much lower than the regular prices for Cash. Feb. 15.—7t
FOR SALE,
BY virtue of a deed of trust, executed by Robert Ware Peacock, to the subscriber, for the purposes therein mentioned, will be exposed for sale, at Rhodes's tavern in the city of Washington, on Saturday the 2nd day of March next, at 4 o'clock P. M. for ready money, to the highest bidder, all the right and estate vested in me by virtue of a deed of trust from Robert Ware Peacock, bearing date the 22nd day of June 1804, to part of lot numbered one, in square numbered two hundred and ninety one in the plan of the city of Washington, with the Houses and improvements thereon. Possession to be given on or before the first day of April next ensuing. JOHN DAVIDSON, Trustee.