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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
Vol. V.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. DCCXVI.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
FRIDAY MAY 10th, 1805
PAID IN ADVANCE
IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHASE.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20.
[Continued.]
The testimony having closed on both sides, MR. EARLY rose, and addressed the Senate as follows:
Mr. President, There is no attitude, in which the government of this nation can be viewed, more completely demonstrative of the efficacy of its principles than that in which it is now placed. We are now occupied in an act well calculated to test the practicability of those principles, and to prove their fitness or unfitness for the condition of that country over which they are destined to rule. There is presented before this great depositary of national justice, a highly important officer of the government, charged with acts violative of some of its leading and most essential principles. An officer who has been clothed with the function of administering to a great and rising people the blessings of freedom in their most vital relations, is the object against whom charges of this serious nature are exhibited. He stands charged with violating the sacred charter of our liberties, and with acting at nought the most holy obligations of society. He stands charged with perverting the high judicial functions of his office for the purposes of individual oppression, and of staining the pure crmine of justice by political party spirit. These charges are founded upon transactions which have passed in review before an enquiring world, and which in the estimation of the representatives of the American government have cast a foul reproach on their national character. To this tribunal have they appealed for a vindication of that character. Hither do they appeal for the preservation of the dearest principles of their liberty, and for the sure support of their most sacred rights. It is here they must enter the complaints of the nation. It is here they must drag the guilty to punishment.
The first article, preferred by the House of Representatives in support of their impeachment, charges a conduct upon the respondent, which strikes at one of the most vital principles of the government of this nation; the right of "trial by an impartial jury." It ought never to be forgotten that the deprivation of this right was one of the injuries for which the people of this country put to the risk of a revolution all that was dear. Nor ought it to be forgotten that the security of this right forms one of the greatest safeguards of the federal constitution. "In all criminal trials the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district."
The relative rights of judges and juries have at some periods of judicial history been so little understood, and the limits of each so indistinctly marked, that the benefits of the institution of jury trial were left much at the mercy of arbitrary and overbearing judges. But it was reserved for the honor of modern times to dissipate this uncertainty so fatal to justice, and to fix down the establishment upon its only proper foundation; that of the right to determine without control, both the law and the fact in all criminal cases whatsoever. This right has now been so long practiced upon in the United States, and may be considered as so well established, that it is scarcely to be expected we shall witness upon that point any difference of opinion. Still less is it to be expected that we shall witness such difference, when we are discussing principles which apply to cases capital. In such cases it is the glory of the laws of this country, that the offence of the accused should be left exclusively to the judgment of those least liable to be swayed by the weight of accusing influence. It is no part of my intention to deny the right of judges to expound the law in charging juries. But it may be safely affirmed that such right is the most delicate they possess, and the exercise of which should be guarded by the utmost caution and humanity.
The accused shall enjoy the right to a "trial by an impartial jury." We charge the respondent with deliberately violating this important provision of the constitution, in wresting from John Fries the privileges of having his case heard and determined by an impartial jury: For that the respondent took upon
himself substantially to decide the case by prejudging the law applying thereto, at the same time accompanying the opinion thus formed and thus delivered, by certain observations and declarations calculated necessarily to create a predisposition against the case of Fries, in the minds of those who had been summoned to serve upon the jury, thereby making them the reverse of impartial.
These were the acts of a man who, from his own declarations, appears to have well understood upon what points the defence would turn. It was the act of a man, who it appears had been well informed of all that passed at the previous trial of Fries; who knew that there was no dispute as to facts, and that the whole of the defence depended upon the discussion and determination of those very principles of law which he had thus prejudged, and upon the application of those authorities which he had thus excluded from the hearing and very presence of those who were to pass upon the life and death of the accused. No argument had been heard from counsel; no opportunity had been afforded to prove that the offence committed did not amount to the crime charged; no defending voice had been raised in behalf of the accused; but without being heard, and without having had any opportunity to be heard, his case was adjudged against him. I say, adjudged against him without the chance of being heard. For surely the case was adjudged against him, when the only point upon which it was defendable was determined against him, and that determination publicly announced from the bench. That this was done before the accused could possibly have had a chance of being heard is placed beyond contradiction by all the testimony. And that the judge knew the point, which he thus prejudged, to be the only ground upon which the defence rested, is perfectly clear. For from what his own declarations at the time of announcing the opinion, it appears that he was well acquainted with all that had passed at the previous trial of Fries.
But, Sir, we must look further into the progress of this transaction. It was not enough, that the poor trembling victim of judicial oppression should thus have his dearest privileges snatched from him by a prejudication of his case! It was not enough, that the impartiality of those who were to compose his jury, should be converted into a predisposition against him, by the imposing authority of solemn declarations from the bench! But the small remaining darling hope of life was to be smothered by a preclusion of his counsel from a giving the law to the jury. This fact, though sternly denied in the answer of the respondent, has nevertheless been established in a manner which must irresistibly force conviction upon the mind. Mr. Lewis affirms it positively. Mr. Dallas confirms it in a manner peculiarly strong. Not being himself present when the opinion was delivered to the bar, he received from Mr. Lewis a statement of what had passed, and in an address to the court afterwards repeated distinctly this statement, and particularly that part which attributed to the judge a declaration that if the counsel had any thing to say upon the law, they must address themselves to the court and not to the jury.
To this statement no reply was made by the court, either correcting or denying it. Thus stands the evidence in the affirmative. Opposed to this we have the negative testimony of Messrs. Rawle, Tilghman, and Meredith, who have no recollection of any such declaration. I address myself to those who well know the difference between affirmative and negative testimony. I address myself to those who well know the established rule in the law of evidence, that the testimony of one affirmative witness countersails that of many negative ones—and I am sure that I address myself to those who must feel the complete coincidence of this rule with the dictates of common sense. Upon this ground alone we might safely rest our proposition. But, Sir, we will not rest it here. It appears from the testimony of the witnesses on both sides, that almost every observation from the counsel to the court on the second day was predicated upon the idea that something had been said on the preceding day restrictive of their privileges. These observations, although addressed to the court and carrying this feature prominent in their face, were neither contradicted nor corrected by the court. This was a strong tacit admission of the correctness of the idea upon which they were based. But, Sir, we have not only this tacit admission, but we have in testimony, this strong and impressive de-
claration from Judge Chase, that "the counsel might be heard in opposition to the opinion of the court, at the hazard of their characters."
But, Mr. President, we have the positive admission of the respondent, in page 18 of his answer, that certain observations were made by him condemning the use of common law authorities upon the doctrine of treason, and also condemning authorities under the statute of treason, but prior to the English revolution. (Here the passage was read.) By a reference to page 22 of the answer, it will be found that the respondent admits that these observations of his were made on the first day; yet, Sir, nothing of all this is remembered by Messrs. Rawle, Tilghman, or Meredith. How light then, how extremely light must their bare want of recollection weigh against the positive affirmative testimony of Mr. Lewis, and Mr. Dallas.
Considering my position as uncontroversially established, I will proceed to observe, that the offence with which Fries stood charged was the highest possible offence which can be committed in a state of society. The punishment annexed to its commission was the highest possible punishment known to our laws. The accused was therefore entitled to every possible indulgence. In favor of life, not only every possible ground should be occupied by counsel to the jury, but every possible argument listened to and weighed with patience and forbearance: and it should never be forgotten, that Judge Chase had such a conduct as an example before him in a previous trial of the same case. Yes, Sir, a brother judge of his, who has since gone to the world of spirits, had set him an example, conspicuous for the purity of its excellence, and which should have arrested his career in the commission of this cruel outrage upon all humanity. But Judge Chase predetermines the law; then prohibits counsel from proving to the jury that the law was not as laid down. This was in effect an extinguishment at once of the whole right of jury trial. All the privileges and all the benefits of that institution were swept at once from an American court of justice, and scarcely the external form preserved. The law was predetermined by the judge, and the accused was debarred from pleading it to the jury. Of what avail is it, Sir, that the jury should be made judges of law and of fact, when the law is not permitted to be expounded to them? Of what avail is it that the accused should have a trial by jury, when he is prevented from stating and explaining to the jury the only grounds upon which his case is defendable? The right to hear and determine facts is not more the right of a jury, than the right to hear and determine the law. To deprive them then, of the privilege of hearing and determining the law, is as much a violation of their rights, as to deprive them of the privilege of hearing and determining facts. The right of the accused to be heard upon the facts to the jury, is not more his right, than the right of being heard upon the law to the jury. To deprive him then of the privilege of being heard upon the law to the jury, is as much a violation of his rights, as to deprive him of the privilege of being heard upon the facts to the jury.
But, Sir, we are assailed by a train of reasoning on the part of the respondent, in exoneration of his conduct, which it may be proper to notice in part at this stage of the argument. He informs us in his answer, that the law of treason having been solemnly settled by prior adjudications, he was not at liberty to depart from the principles so settled, even had he thought them incorrect, and he enters into a lengthy discussion to show the importance of uniform adherence to doctrines properly considered and solemnly established. It is no part of my intention to dispute either the correctness of the decisions previously made upon the constitutional doctrine of treason, or the propriety of an adherence to those decisions on the part of Judge Chase. For although I consider both extremely questionable, they yet appear to me to constitute no part of the present enquiry. This enquiry is whether the judge was authorized or can be excused for delivering an opinion upon the law before counsel were heard on the part of the accused, and for debarring counsel from the exercise of their constitutional privilege to address the jury on the law as well as the facts, thereby making the opinion thus prejudged and thus extrajudicially delivered completely decisive of the case. And give me leave to say, Sir, that the reasoning, resorted to by the respondent to excuse this conduct on his part is, in my opinion, an aggravation
of his offence. It is of importance truly that juries should be guarded against improper impressions from counsel, by having the law previously explained to them. And it is a favour to counsel to be informed that the ground they mean to occupy is not tenable, that they may look out for other resources. Would not this reasoning go to authorize a judge in all criminal prosecutions to settle the law before the case was heard? He has nothing else to do, Sir, according to this doctrine, than to inform himself of the facts, as in Fries's case, and then before any trial is had settle the law; at the same time prohibiting counsel from arguing that to the jury. And if the reason that the law has been so solemnly settled that it cannot be departed from is to form an excuse, the more settled the law, the longer practiced upon, the stronger the reason. In every case of murder or theft then it is to confer a favour on the counsel to inform them what grounds are not tenable. It is of importance to instruct the jury what the law is upon the case, that they may be guarded against improper impressions, and then to render this object effectual, prevent the counsel from arguing the law to the jury. In the case of Fries, I hold it that the knowledge of the judge that the case depended solely upon legal principles is a circumstance highly aggravating his offence. He knew that there was no dispute as to facts, and that by thus prejudging the law, he fixed the destiny of the accused. But it was material to do this to guard the jury from improper impressions! My God! has it come to this? And is this the amount of our boasted constitutional right of jury trial, that they whose exclusive right it is to determine both the law and the fact, are to be guarded from improper impressions by the prejudged, extra judicial opinion of him who possesses no right to determine either!
We are told by the respondent, that he not only never interdicted the counsel for Fries from arguing the law to the jury, but that he afterwards on the next day expressly offered to let them take as wide a range as they pleased. Mr. President, I must confess I have been disappointed. I had expected that much of the defence against the first article would have rested upon the transactions of that day. I had so expected, not because of any opinion of my own, that from them any substantial excuse could be extracted; but because public opinion had somewhat inclined to rest an excuse upon that foundation. For myself, it has been my misfortune to be unable to perceive in this part of the transaction any features other than such as afford additional proof of the unjust and oppressive intent with which the judge appears to have acted. Indeed, Sir, the respondent must himself have considered the transactions of the second day, as dangerous topics. He has touched them lightly indeed. His conduct had been so free from blame as is contended in the answer, why was an appearance of fairness to be cast over the scene by having the papers recalled upon which the opinion had been written, whilst the opinion itself remained? A short view of this part of the transaction may not be unimportant. It may afford us some strong proofs of the motives of the respondent. We are involuntarily led to inquire why the papers were recalled? What it because of the oppressive tendency with which they operated upon the case of the accused? Was it because of any conviction on the part of the judge of the impropriety of the steps he had taken, or compulsion for the cruel situation in which he had placed poor Fries? No, Sir! The papers were recalled because of the firm and manly stand made by the counsel. It was because those counsel were men of characters too independent, and were governed by a sense of duty too high to submit to such a prostration of their rights. The determination to recall the papers was not taken until after it was seen that the counsel would abandon their cause rather than acquiesce in a conduct so oppressive and so injurious.
This recalling of the papers was a farce acted for the purpose of giving a specious appearance to the face of things; but the folly thereof could only be exceeded by the criminality of the first act. Was the crime the greater because the opinion was written? Was it the act of writing the opinion and throwing down the paper to the bar which constituted the evil to Fries? Or was it the formation of a prejudged and extrajudicial opinion completely decisive of the case, and the communication of that opinion in the very presence of those who were to try the accused? In my opinion it was the last. The evil
was complete by the act of prejudication, and withdrawing the paper could have no possible effect. The case of the accused had been predetermined—predetermined by the judge who had no right to determine it at all; and the counsel were left to the forlorn hope of convincing the judge that the opinion delivered by him was erroneous. They might be heard in opposition to the opinion of the court at the hazard of their characters. This is his declaration on the second day.
If then I were asked, as were Fries's counsel, on the second day, by the other judge, and as I know many are now entitled to ask, whether, if an error had been committed, I would not suffer it to be corrected? I would answer that this was an act which from its nature admitted of no correction. It was a crime complete in its performance, and complete in all its baneful consequences. Repentance even had there been any, could have afforded no relief; it came too late. As well might a man, after he had inflicted a mortal wound upon another, ask to be forgiven, because before the death of the wounded he was brought to relent, from an apprehension of the consequences. In my opinion, Judge Chase had committed the sin not to be repented of.
As to the proffered permission to the counsel on the second day that they might proceed without the restrictions before imposed, it has been my misfortune to be unable to perceive either any proof of a disposition to relent on the part of the judge, or any privileges to the counsel which placed them on their client upon ground more advantageous than that on which they had before stood. On the contrary, I think I perceive in the whole of the judge's conduct taken together, on the second day, a deliberate design to impose upon the understanding of those present, by exhibiting the external form of fairness, whilst he continued to hold on upon the substance of injustice. For notwithstanding the appeared from his expressions at first a disposition to permit the counsel to argue the cause without any restraint, yet it ought to be kept in constant recollection, that when brought to explain himself, the general permission which had been thus apparently given, was restricted to restrictions of very serious import. The counsel were permitted to argue the law to the jury, but the manner in which they should do so would be regulated by the court. The counsel were permitted to lay down the law, but should not read cases which were not law. That common law cases, and cases under the statute of treason, but prior to the revolution in England, were not law and should not be read, was at the consequence! The counsel might argue the law to the jury, but were interdicted from the use of those authorities, which in their opinion bore most strongly upon the case, and upon which it was within the knowledge of the judge; they had principally relied in the prior trial. They might lay down the law to the jury, but should not read cases which were not law. And who was to determine whether the cases offered by counsel were or were not law? The judge. And pray, Sir, was not the right of the jury to determine the law, as effectually invaded by the judge's taking upon himself to determine each case as it was offered, as their right was invaded by the judge's determining upon the whole together? I maintain, Sir, that it is not the right of the judge in criminal, and especially in capital cases, to determine that any case is not law; for it he can determine that question as to a single authority, and upon that ground writ it from the jury, he may do so as to all, and thus as effectually abolish the great privilege of trial by jury. I know it may be objected to this reasoning, that unless some restriction is imposed upon counsel, they may abuse their privileges by reading anything however inapplicable to the jury. This, Sir, is to suppose an extreme case, and it is never correct to reason from extreme cases. It is no proof against a privilege, that it is subject to be abused. And there is a security against extreme abuse in this privilege, from the regard which professional men necessarily feel for their professional reputation.
Here, Mr. President, we might close the argument upon the first article. But it is not possible; no, Sir, not possible here to stop our reflections. When we review the ground which has been already travelled over; when in that review we behold an American citizen summoned to the bar of justice to undergo a trial in which his life is at stake; when we behold his judge, contrary to

CHARLOTTE CORDEE,
ASSASSINATOR OF
MARAT.
Translated from the French of M. du Brac.
Charlotte Cordée was born at St. Saturnin des Lignères, in the year 1768. Nature had bestowed on her a handsome person, wit, feeling, and masculine energy of understanding. She received her education in a convent; but, disdaining the frivolous minutiae of that species of education, she laboured with constant assiduity to cultivate her own powers, and hourly strengthened that bent of her imagination towards the grand and sublime, which accorded with the inflexible purity of her manners, while it fitted her for that perilous enterprise to which, at the age of 23, she fell a self-devoted sacrifice.
Her love of study rendered her careless of the homage that her beauty attracted, and her desire of independence caused her to refuse many offers of marriage from men to whom her heart was indifferent. But even philosophy and patriotism could not always render the breast of her fair and heroic disciple invulnerable to the shafts of love. The young and handsome Belzunce, major-second of the regiment of Bourbon, quartered at Caen, became devoted to her, and succeeded in inspiring her with a passion as virtuous as profound. This young officer was massacred on the 11th of August, 1789, by a furious multitude, after Marat, in several successive numbers of his journal, called L'Ami du Peuple , had denounced the unfortunate Belzunce as a counter-revolutionist.
From that moment the soul of Charlotte Cordée knew no happiness, and reposed only on the desire of vengeance upon him whom she believed to be the author of her misery.
Her hatred of Marat became yet more vehement after the events of the 31st of May, when she beheld him who had decreed the death of Belzunce now master as it were of the destiny of France; while the deputies, whose principles she loved and whose talents she honoured, were proscribed and destitute fugitives, and looking vainly to their country, to Frenchmen and the laws, to save them from the outstretched sword of tyranny. Then it was that Charlotte Cordée resolved to satisfy the vengeance of her love, and snatch her country from the grasp of the tyrant.
To execute with perseverance and caution that which she had planned upon principle, was natural to the determined and steady mind of Charlotte Cordée. She left Caen on the 9th of July, 1793, and arrived about noon on the third day at Paris. Some commissions with which she was charged by her family and friends occupied her the first day after her arrival. Early on the next morning she went to the Palais Royal, bought a knife, and, getting into a hackney coach, drove to the house of Marat. It was not then possible for her to obtain an audience of him, though she left nothing unessayed that she thought likely to influence in her favor the persons who denied her admittance.
Being returned to her hotel, she wrote the following letter to Marat—
"Citizen—I am just arrived from Caen. Your love for your country inclines me to suppose you will listen with pleasure to the secret events of that part of the republic. I will present myself at your house; have the goodness to give orders for my admission, and grant me a moment's private conversation: I can point out the means by which you may render an important service to France."
In the fear that this letter might not produce the effect she desired upon Marat, she wrote a second letter, still more pressing, which she intended to carry with her, and leave for him, in case she was not received. It was expressed as follows—
"I wrote you this morning, citizen Marat. Have you received my letter? I cannot imagine it is possible you have, when I find your door still closed against me. I entreat that you will grant me an interview to-morrow. I repeat, that I come from Caen—that I have secrets to reveal to you of the highest importance to the safety of the republic. Besides, I am cruelly persecuted for the cause of liberty. I am unfortunate; to fly that, is sufficient to entitle me to your protection."
It was unnecessary to present the second letter; for, when Charlotte Cordée arrived at the house of Marat, between seven and eight in the evening, and looked impressively in her desire to see him, to the woman who opened the door, Marat, who heard her from his bath, where he then was, concluded it was the person from whom he had received the letter of the morning, and ordered that she should immediately be admitted.
Being left alone with him whom she intended to immolate to the manes of her lover and the injuries of her country, and sitting close by his side, she answered with the most perfect self-possession his
eager questions concerning the proscribed deputies that were at Caen. He demanded their names, with those of the magistrates of Calvados, all of whom she named accurately. While she wrote memorandums of their conversation upon his tables, Charlotte Cordée measured with her eye the spot whereon to strike; when, Marat having said that all these deputies and their accomplices should presently expiate their treason upon the scaffold, her indignation received his words as the signal of vengeance; she snatched the weapon from her bosom, and buried the entire knife in his heart! A single exclamation escaped the miserable wretch—"For me!" he said, and expired.
Tranquil and unmoved amidst the general consternation, Charlotte Cordée, as if she promised to atone for the murder however she deemed it necessary, by a public death, did not even attempt her escape. She had received several violent blows on her head from a neighbour of Marat, the person who ran into the room on hearing the news of his assassination; but when the armed force arrived, she put herself under their protection. An officer of the police drew up minutes of the assassination, which she cheerfully signed, and was then conveyed to the prison of the Abbey.
Calumniated, abused, and even personally ill-treated by the faction of Marat, she was three days exposed in her dungeon to all their insults and ill usage, before she was brought to trial. During this interval, she had found means to write to her father, imploring his forgiveness for having thus disposed of her life without his concurrence.
It was in the presence of the men about to decide upon her death, one should have seen Charlotte Cordée, to have felt the grandeur of her character. The records of the trial, and her own letters, give but a faint picture of her dignified and noble deportment. If she spoke to her judges, it was neither with the wild energy of a demoniac, nor did she affect the language of innocence; it was with the self-satisfaction of a voluntary victim, who feels it natural to devote her life to the salvation of her country, who did not welcome death as the expiation of a crime, but received it as the inevitable consequence of a mighty effort to avenge the injuries of a nation. While the curses of an inceased and prejudiced people resounded on all sides, she betrayed neither scorn nor indignation. When she looked upon the angry multitude, her eyes expressed a generous pity for the sufferings and delusion of her countrymen. If she despised the men who sat in judgment on her life, she forbore to insult them; but replied to their reiterated questions with a composure and presence of mind that astonished them: while her face and person were animated with the bloom of youth and beauty, her words were graced with the eloquence of a sage!
The defence made by her counsel, deserves to be recorded here for its peculiar propriety in her circumstances.
"You have heard," said her counsel, altogether confounded by the courage she had displayed, "the answers of the prisoner: she acknowledges her guilt; she even acknowledges, in a very deliberate manner, her long predetermination of the event. She has not suffered any of the most revolting of its circumstances to pass unnoticed by you. She confesses the whole charge, and does not seek in any manner to justify herself. This immovable temper, this absolute deflection of herself, in the very presence, I may say, of death; this absence of all remorse; these are so far from being natural, that they can only be resolved into that political phrensy, which places a poignard in the hands of a maniac; and it is for you, citizens jurors, to determine what weight this consideration ought to have in the balance of justice."
After the tumult and loud applause that followed her condemnation had ceased, she addressed herself to her counsel—"You have defended me," she said, "in a manner as generous as delicate: it was the only one that could have rendered me that service which was in your power: accept my thanks and my esteem. These gentlemen inform me that my property is confiscated; but there are some little debts to pay in my prison; and, as a proof of the esteem I bear you, I give the performance of this my last duty into your hands."
The hour of her punishment had drawn immense crowds into every avenue to the place of execution. When she appeared alone with the executioner in the cart, in despite of the constrained attitude in which the fat, and of the disorder of her dress, (for, with a littleness of malice, they had despoiled her of every thing that could contribute to the decency of her appearance) she excited the silent admiration of those even who were hired to curse her. One man alone had courage to raise his voice in her praise: he was a deputy from the city of Mentz: his name was Adam Lux. He cried—"She is greater than Brutus!" He published the same sentiment, and signed his own condemnation. He was shortly after guillotined.
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, FEB. 28.
The Rotterdam paper contains a note of the Executive Directory, at the Hague to the Legislative Body, dated the 11th inst. of which the chief object is not to deny, but to complain, of the statements of M. M. Van Hasselt and Wyngaarden, which they assert to be exaggerated and declamatory, not becoming true patriots, but calculated rather to further private designs, and to call upon these members to point out distinctly the economy and retrenchments they have alluded to in their speeches. It is very difficult to collect, from the perusal of this very elaborate note, that the Directory are in the smallest degree averse to the opinions of the members; and one would rather suspect they were concurring to the same ends, than seriously contending about anything. They equally deplore the miserable dilapidation of the country; and if not with equal strength of terms and argument, yet implicitly they both attribute it to the war they have been forced into by France, and the tyranny and injustice of that treacherous government. Times.
HAGUE, FEB. 17.
The note from the State Directory to the Legislative Body, relative to the opinions delivered by the members Van Hasselt and De Lange Van Wyngaarden, on the impost which was lately decreed, is worded as follows, viz.
"The Hague, Feb. 11, 1805. The State Directory of the Batavian Republic to the Legislative Body of the Batavian commonwealth. CITIZENS,
"In tracing the history of all ages, we learn, that inasmuch as the concord and good understanding between those to whom the execution of the highest authority is committed, have always been the corner stones of commonwealths, so much has the discord and clashing of the same powers undermined the edifice of states, and hastened their overthrow.
"Our brave ancestors were convinced of this truth, and woeful experience has demonstrated, in our country, the fatal effects of contrary maxims. It was then reasonably to be expected of those whose duty it is to take particular care of the welfare of the state, and of the concerns of the people that they would not have exaggerated or misrepresented the fatal and critical state of the country, by disseminating suspicion, strife, confusion, and discord; but, on the contrary, that they would have endeavored to defend it, by the exercise of true patriotism, laying aside all private sentiments and unfounded oppositions; but, to our sorrow, we have lately experienced the contrary, by the publication of the opinions delivered by your fellow members, the citizens Van Hasselt and De Lange Van Wyngaarden, in your close assembly, on the petition for the year 1805, sent in by us, and the proposition founded thereon, for a provisional contribution.
"We shall not examine how far your said members may be justified for making public, by the press, their opinions, given in a close assembly (for their silence leaves no doubt of the opinions, which have appeared in their names in the public newspapers, being really their own); since we readily leave, to your wisdom to pronounce judgement thereon, we confine ourselves solely to their contents.
"We cannot conceal from you, that their tone and tenor have greatly amazed us, and are in no ways compatible with the regard and decency which the members of the highest constituted powers of the state owe to each other. We very readily acknowledge, that it is not, perhaps, desirable, that all the members of a government should think alike, and with unanimity in all affairs relative to the management of the concerns of the country, and of the people; but we also know, that although a man's sentiments may and ought to be delivered with manly expressions and power of argument, yet this gives no right for bringing forward general, vague, hazarded, and, above all, unproved accusations and insinuations against one of the highest constituted powers of the state.
"It is this, and nothing else, we have seen beaming through the opinions of the two members of your assembly.
"We all of us, as well as you, are thoroughly convinced of the truth, that the extraordinary contributions and imposts, with which the inhabitants of the country have been for so many years, and still are, loaded, are very heavy, and almost unbearable; but we know, and you cannot deny it, that a concurrence of the most fatal circumstances, and the consequences of the most disastrous wars, in which the state has been involved, render them a paramount necessity.
"These accusations and insinuations, moreover, are not only levelled at the state directory, but more especially at the legislative body, as principally running on objects which have been approved by it; besides that, they are general and destitute of proof, we could not suppose they could originate with persons who appear to value themselves
all precedent and in violation of every feeling of humanity, pre-occupying the only road upon which the case of the accused was defensible, and closing upon him this only possible avenue to safety, truly I feel that my feeble powers of language are not competent to a description of the scene; it must be left to the strong expression of silence. For this violation then in the name of the American people we denounce Judge Chase. We denounce him for invading their most valuable privilege, the trial by jury. We denounce him for taking into his own unhallowed hands, the disposal of the life of an American citizen; and we invoke the justice of the nation to expiate by the proper punishment this most unholy sin.
The second, third, and fourth articles, exhibited by the House of Representatives, charge the defendant with a course of conduct upon a particular trial which affords no grounds of accusation. In this case it is true no unfortunate individual was charged with an offence which demanded his life as an expiation; yet, Sir, there were other rights involved equally sacred in the laws of a free country. The liberty and the property of the accused were the price of a conviction.
In casting our eyes over the ground upon which the different scenes of the trial passed now about to be examined are spread, we are struck with a feature not usual in the history of human concerns. It would seem that even the restraint of appearances was no longer felt. We find the respondent setting out with a conduct, which seemed to prove that the fate of the accused was fixed. We find him pursuing a system of conduct throughout, which wrested from the accused some of his best established and most valuable privileges. We find him endeavoring to heap shame and odium on those who occupied the station of advocates, because they would not tamely yield to his unwarrantable invasion of long established rights.
Mr. President, notwithstanding the labored attempts made by the defendant in his answer to exculpate himself from imputation in compelling Mr. Basset to serve upon the jury in the trial of Callender—yet, Sir, I must be permitted to say that these attempts appear to me to be only the exertions of a mind conscious of impropriety, and seeking to impose upon the understanding of others. The test adopted, by which to try the impartiality of the jurors, in that case may possibly by some be held a correct one; but the manner of applying that test as then practised upon, is what I believe can be accounted for upon no other supposition than that of a determination on the part of the judge to procure the conviction of the accused. Upon what other principle can it be accounted for, that the jurors should be asked "whether they had formed and delivered an opinion upon the charges laid in the indictment, when they knew not and were not suffered to know what those charges were? Why else could it be laid down by the judge, that because the individuals called to serve upon the jury, did not know what charges were in the indictment (having never then it nor heard it read) that therefore they could not have formed and delivered an opinion upon the subject? And why else did the judge, when this monstrosity was contradicted by the fact of one of the jurors delivering in open court an opinion upon the whole subject of those charges, without having seen, or heard the indictment read; why else did the judge, in the teeth of this damning fact, order the juror sworn?
Every juror sworn might, like Mr. Basset, have formed and delivered an opinion which concluded the conviction of the accused, and yet because they did not know that the subject matter of such opinion constituted the charges in the indictment, having neither seen it nor heard it read, the expression of such opinion, created no disqualification. Unworthy evasion! An evasion which prevents the doctrine of disqualification in a juror from receiving any practical operation. An evasion which effectually puts at nought that principle of the constitution so often adverted to in a former part of the argument, that "the accused shall enjoy the right of a trial by an impartial jury." Upon this point I beg leave to read two authorities.—Mr. Early here cited 3 Bac. Abr. 756, and C. L. 157 I.
But we are told by the respondent in his answer, that the declaration made by Mr. Basset, did not disqualify him, because it contained no direct opinion as to the guilt of the traverser. This is a understanding to be the amount of all the labored reasoning and nice distinctions drawn by the respondent upon this point. There is, Sir, a plain common sense rule to govern us upon this subject, which in my opinion is as safe in its application as it is reasonable in its principle. A juror must be indifferent. How must he be indifferent? What kind of indifference is this which is made necessary? The manner in which Judge Chase has
stated and explained this rule is certainly calculated to confuse and mislead.—"The juror, says he, must be indifferent between the government and the accused as to the subject matter."
Must the juror in reality be indifferent between the parties as to the subject matter of prosecution only? Will not a prejudice against the accused, flowing from other causes, create a disqualification? I address myself to those who well know that partiality, arising from a variety of relations in society, as well as prejudices arising from a variety of causes, destroys that character of indifference necessary to render a juror competent, and that this partiality or prejudice need not relate to the subject matter of prosecution.
So also I apprehend that this character of indifference is as effectually destroyed by a prejudice as to the subject matter, without any prejudice as to the person. I mean the prejudice of a pre-judication of the criminality of the subject matter. We meet with the rule every day, that it is good cause of challenge to a juror that he hath expressed an opinion upon the subject matter of prosecution. Wherefore then the manner of stating the rule, which we find adopted in the answer? Most evidently to suit the respondent's case. What, Sir, must a juror, to be so prejudiced as to be disqualified, have expressed an opinion not only that the subject matter of prosecution was criminal in law, but that the person prosecuted was the author of the crime? Yes, Sir, according to the doctrine of the answer, he must have prejudged both law and fact. In other words, although Mr. Basset had formed and delivered an opinion that such a book as "The Prospect Before Us," came within the sedition law, yet not having said that Callender was the author or publisher, he was still a competent juror. Suppose a man indicted for murder, in a case where there is no dispute as to the fact of killing (and here there was no dispute as to the fact of publishing) but the defence set up was that he was excusable. A juror has given his opinion, in reference to the act, that such a killing does amount to murder, but without saying that the person prosecuted was the murderer; will any man say that this expression would not disqualify him? I am bound to presume not. Sir, in the case of Callender, although Mr. Basset did not say that the person prosecuted was guilty, yet he did in effect say that whoever wrote or published the book was guilty. And give me leave to remark here that in prosecutions for libels, the question of law, as to their criminality, is generally the only question of dispute. The fact of publication is one about which there seldom occurs any difficulty, and has to be proven merely because not admitted. To have expressed an opinion then upon the question of law in such cases is substantially to have prejudged the whole case. A juror under such circumstances cannot be called impartial. As well might it be alleged that Judge Chase himself was impartial, as to the case of Fries, after he had delivered the opinion which we have before discussed.
We are told in the answer that the guilt of the traverser was not prejudged by Basset, for another reason; that as the charges to make them criminal must have been false, so Callender might have exculpated himself by proving their truth. But, Sir, the traverser was at liberty to rest his defence either upon a justification or want of criminality in law, or upon both. He was not bound to disclose which, nor could the judge officially know which. Both and each of these grounds were proper for the jury to determine under the plea. The acquittal of the traverser then did not depend exclusively upon the proof of the truth of the charges.
Again we are told that the juror barely expressed his opinion upon the book, as the contents thereof had been represented to him. The same may be said of almost every other case. Few, very few jurors are spectators of a murder, or an act of treason. Any opinion they may have formed and delivered of the actual guilt of the person charged must be in nine cases out of ten, from representation. Few, very few of the jurors who were summoned in the case of Fries, had been spectators of the acts which were alleged to have been treasonable; probably not one of them. Yet we learn from the answer of Judge Chase, that in that very case several were repelled from serving, because of the opinions which they acknowledged they had given. Such opinions must in nine cases out of ten be bottomed upon representation. There are numerous secret crimes, which from their very nature preclude the possibility that an opinion concerning them, however positive, and however decisive of the conviction of the accused, should be founded upon any previous knowledge of facts. And yet, Sir, I presume no person will deny that in such cases, a juror may nevertheless so express an opinion as to disqualify himself from serving.
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for a servant, and (as they pretend) disinterested love of their country.
"We may ask with confidence, has not the state directly endeavored to display other means of providing for the deficit in the exigencies of the state, which to them appeared more uniform and less oppressive? But which of you have thought proper to allege the impracticability, or at least the excessive difficulty, as a ground of refusal, without any other, better, or fitter, and at the same time less oppressive means being communicated to us, either in the reasons for the refusal, or in the conferences held thereon? which silence, on your part, caused the old way of contribution to prevail, of the propriety of which you have yourselves convinced by its approval."
"We are not ignorant that savings are necessary, and that without them, let us do what we will, the state must be lost; but we ask, are any essential savings possible at this time? Are not many expenses inseparable consequences, not only of the present order of things, but also of arrangements, which, having flowed from the changes in the constitution in 1795, must still take place?"
"Many expenses, and certainly of no trifling nature, the state directly incurred and established, and they must continue, according to the present regulation of the state, which (upon what grounds, we confess, we do not comprehend) is called a constitutional necessity."
"What the state directly has said, relative to the inperious necessity for consenting to the extraordinary petition, with its consequences and appurtenances was, and remains true; and although the directory has revoked the proposition made in a note of the 7th of Jan. last, yet the premises of that letter are not cancelled thereby, and it has never been admitted that it contained any thing derogatory to your assembly, which never can be or has been our intention, whereof we hope the majority of your assembly is convinced."
"The state directory, consisting of men, who may fail, and must fail, as long as they are men, is very far from asserting that it could not have erred; but surely, if it erred, it did so with a good intention, and will always be found ready, whenever mistakes or errors are disclosed to its view in a proper and fit manner, to redress and amend the same. And being convinced of this, it cannot pass unnoticed, the accusations and insinuation displayed in the opinions of your aforesaid members; but owes to itself, to your assembly, and to the nation, to take it up; and finds itself obliged (without entering into ample detail for the purpose of refuting those opinions) to insist, that your aforesaid members, Van Bussel, and Dr. Lunge Van Wyngaarden, be summoned by you, to state the savings they alluded to not in general expressions, but explicitly, and with distinction of the objects; and to prove their accusations and insinuations against the directory, to enable the state directory, by a disclosure and notification of the ministerial intrigues in plotting with the enemies of the state, to inflict co-sign punishment on the guilty, if there be any. If they do this, the laid citizens will be indeed men well deserving of their country; but if they neither can nor will do this, the directory is obliged (far from ranking them with the true friends of the country, without whose disinterested zeal and co-operation, all endeavor to save it would long since have proved fruitless,) to consider them as belonging to that class of men, who, far from loving their country, prefer, on the contrary, listening to their own passions and private views, rather to increase the public danger, by their hazrded, unproved, and undfined accusations and indications, under the mask of love to their country and of zeal for the good of the people, than to contribute, by an honest co-operation, to its welfare, and thus to recover that country, by joint exertions with those to whom it is really dear, from the brink of ruin."
"Health and respect, " J. P. BECKER. "By order of the state directory, " C. G. HULTMAN."
The above note is put into the hands of the members But h, Van Hooff, Lean, Siderius, and Vander Meulen, to be taken into consideration by the assembly, how far the same may form a point for deliberation.
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. Arect; And has on hand, a general assortment dry goods, Groceries, wines and spirituous liquors. Porter, Hardware and Cutlery, Queenware, China and Glass, Flour, Corn, and Corn-meal, Oats, and Chopped 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.
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, MAY 10.
A new Fount of Type having been engaged for the National Intelligencer, the type on which this paper is now printed is offered for sale.
New York, May 6. Capt. Thomas informs, that the French had demanded and received from the inhabitants of Lubec, 200,000 marcs banco, for the privilege of a free trade through Hanover.
There is no news by the brig Paulina from Bordeaux—She sailed on the 26th of March, after an embargo of ten days.
So alarmed are the inhabitants of Germany left the yellow fever should be introduced into their country, that they have lately issued orders of total exclusion from their ports, against all American vessels; and in the course of last winter, sufficiently cold, one would suppose to destroy infection, caused several vessels to perform a long quarantine. The brig New Jersey, Capt. Wade, of Philadelphia, arrived in the Texel in the month of Decem. last, and performed quarantine. In March she went round to the river Jade, and was forced to perform quarantine a second time. The brig Olive, captain Teubner, of New York, and ship Lovina, of Philadelphia, arrived at Rook Haven, in the Elbe, in Nov. and were obliged to perform a quarantine of 45 days, exposed to the severity of the winter. They arrived at the Jade on the 20th March with part of their outward cargoes on board.
We have been favored with Hamburg papers to the 7th March, received by the ship Live Oak, from Varel, but their contents have been in general anticipated by the arrivals from Britain. The quarantine law of Denmark, it appears, has lately been amended, and an extract from it, dated Copenhagen, March 2, says, "all vessels, goods, and passengers, arriving from the south coast of Spain and Portugal, Leghorn, the West Indies, and North America, especially from Charleston and New York, are to be considered as coming from suspicious ports, and will in consequence be subject to severe quarantine."
A passenger on board the ship Hermione, from Teneriffe, informs us that an express had arrived from Bordeaux with intelligence of the sailing of a secret expedition from England of great magnitude.
When the ship Live Oak left Varel, it was reported that the emperor of Russia had entered into an alliance with England, and would commence operations in the course of the summer.
Captain Cornwall, of the brig Georgia Packet from Porto Rico, states that the French squadron had landed 5000 men in the city of St. Domingo, under the command of General La Grange, and had an engagement with the negro army in which gen. Dessalines was defeated.
Philadelphia, May 3. The Lovely Lass, brings Paris dates to the 14th only. Bonaparte was preparing to leave Paris for Milan, to attend the coronation of Joseph, as king of Lombardy.
"A decree has been passed, authorizing the payment from the national treasury of 300 livres per annum to every exile from St. Domingo. To every married man 500, and for each child 100. This circumstance renders the report of Bonaparte's demanding indemnity from our government for property carried from St. Domingo rather probable."
MAY 4. A letter from Cadiz dated March 1st, to a gentleman in this city, says, "Gen. Moreau fails for the United States in a few days. I shall write to you by that opportunity." So that the story of his having taken the command of a Spanish army, is erroneous.
CHARLESTON, April 26.
Extract of a letter from Beaufort, (S. C.) dated April 22.
"There has been a dreadful hail storm on Paris and St. Helena Islands. Our friend, who was very forward in planting, has suffered more than he did in the hurricane; his cotton totally destroyed—also corn. One of the chimnies of his house blown down, together with his cotton and negro houses; and scarcely a green leaf to be seen on this island. The damage done at St. Helena has not, as yet, been ascertained."
Washington, May 10. I would wish to lease my property in the vicinity of the Navy Yard in this city, for three years. A. B. WOODWARD. 3t—wtf
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Having considered the effects of local jealousy, it remains to consider those of luxury, which imply an extensive population. It has undoubtedly been the frequent effect of this weakness to produce a dissoluteness and depravity of manners, which have proved the destruction of the existing forms of government. But it does not follow that, in all states of society the result will be the same. We hope that our system is calculated to preserve a state of manners very different from the corrupt condition to which most of the old nations of the world have been reduced. This hope is founded upon these impressions. Knowledge being open to, and within the reach of all, we may confidently rely upon a wider diffusion of it among all classes of our citizens, than in any other nation. With regard to political knowledge this is more especially the case. For a few annual dollars it is in the power of any man to receive a newspaper which will make him tolerably acquainted with the course of political events, and qualify him to judge of the conduct of rulers. Nothing is more certain than that the exercises of the mind are the best antidote to the excesses of sensual enjoyment. This effect is in part produced by the occupation of time, and in part by the elevation of thought it habitually inspires. Such too is the nature of republican institutions as at the same time that they require, to produce a general illumination of mind. Now the history of other nations shews us that a general prostration of morals has almost universally been preceded by the corruption of the great, which has been followed by the gradual vitiation of the lower ranks. Political institutions, instead of furthering, by equal laws, the interest of all classes, have concentrated wealth and power in the hands of a few by despoiling the great body of the people. The favored few have not usually been remarkable for virtue, or talent. Hence they have, in most cases, surrendered themselves to sensual indulgence; and it is, therefore, to the court, or a surrounding aristocracy that we are to ascribe the first corruption of manners. This evil our republican systems have completely eradicated. Office is never the passport to immoderate wealth; and is, in most cases, subversive rather than promotive of interest. So far then as the eradication of this evil goes it tends essentially to alter the state of manners of the American people, and to distinguish them from any other people. So far from having the tendency of monarchical governments, our systems have tendencies directly opposite. For our governments and laws, as it were, by a provident foresight, have established principles which efficaciously, though silently operate to the division of overgrown estates. And such is the effect of governments upon sentiment, that in the disposition of property a revolution of the utmost importance has already been effected, and it is now a rare thing for a parent to give the whole, or even the greater part of his property to one of his children. Should this take place in a solitary instance, it rarely occurs that the aggrandized heir follows, on his decease, the example.
It being likewise the spirit of the laws to inhibit all monopolies, and to render the path of industry and enterprise alike open to all, permanent accumulations of wealth are prevented. The two great sources of luxury appear, therefore, in a republican government, to be dried up, or in a high degree diminished. So far our prospect looks fair. Still, however, the higher orders in this country become as luxurious and diff-lute as they are in other nations, a powerful barrier still remains in the great body of the people. In the European state of society, the enormous wealth of the higher orders necessarily produces the extreme poverty of the lower orders, who are disabled, by the wretched situation to which they are reduced, from opposing the views of the former, or the results to which their vices and follies lead. Hence some ambitious individual, rendered powerful by his wealth or talent, prostrates, without difficulty, every vestige of liberty, or opposition to his views. But in this country, where great equality of posses-
sions subsist, and where consequently the two extreme orders of rich and poor are very limited in numbers, and still more so in relative talent, we find in the intermediate class, which constitutes the nation, the greatest virtue, and the largest portions of good sense and talent. Such a body will feel too fully its own importance to be either the servile imitators or the passive instruments of the rich. They will feel that pride which arises from a just estimate of their strength and their merits, and from a firm conviction that they are invincible. Let it too be recollected that many of the germs of servitude, of the rapid aggrandizement of the few and the depression of the many, are not, and never will be planted in the American soil. Among these, perhaps, the most powerful is immoderate manufactures. These can never exist among us. Our territory is so extensive, as to afford employment, for centuries to come, to a majority of the nation, and to fertile in almost every article of consumption, as to supply us with every thing we want. Hence, though we may possibly manufacture to the extent of our own wants, we shall never be under the necessity of manufacturing articles to afford us subjects for exchange for articles of necessity.
These remarks, while they encourage us to hope that our liberties will not be lost by the influence of those causes which have destroyed the liberty of other nations, likewise point out to us our duty. They demonstrate the commanding necessity of that rigid adherence to justice which has heretofore characterized our laws. They demonstrate the immense value of the axiom "that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights"—among which "are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Respecting these principles as the basis of all our legal codes, we shall not only maintain the present rights of our citizens, but we shall by new provisions fortify them. Let us then on all occasions avow these principles as a part of our creed; and let us hold up to reprobation every attempt made to lessen the respect in which they are held.
These remarks further demonstrate the propriety of advancing the interests of learning by all legitimate means; of diffusing among the subordinate ranks such a mass of knowledge, as shall tend to keep the administration of the government in their hands, with more advantage to the nation than would result from its deposition in the hands of a king or an hereditary Senate, as shall make the people proud of the high distinction they enjoy of governing themselves, and as shall enable them to crush, by the irresistible force of public opinion, all attempts subversive of liberty.
On these two means, much, very much of our national glory depends. It would perhaps be best, if there were no season of intellectual infancy, and if, as soon as we were born, we were able, by the exercise of an enlightened judgement, to think for ourselves. This, however, is contrary to the ordinance of our natures. Until we have attained manhood, and generally a much more advanced age, we are under the necessity of consulting, and being governed by the ideas of others. Hence the necessity of a leading national creed on political subjects. The result generally of the ablest judgments and the purest motives, such a creed may be expected to contain no doubtful or unimportant principle. That too which has been sanctioned by time and an almost universal appropriation, addresses itself to the youthful mind with more force than the advice of any one man however respected; as in its support may be cited the names of illustrious men, not of a particular age or sect, but of all ages and all opinions.
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The subscriber has for sale,
A few Pipes and half Pipes genuine London Particular Madeira wine. Claret in boxes, Hylon, Souichong, & } Teas by the chest, Hylon Chulan } Cognac Brandy by the pipe or quarter cask, 1st proof French do. of good flavor, do. do. A few Khs Melasses, 9 hds old Jamaica Rum of excellent quality, x butt dry Lisbon Wine and a few demijohns. WM. BRENT. May 10—3w.
NOTICE.
WAS committed to the jail of Frederick county as a runaway, a negro man who calls himself GILBERT DAY, and says he belongs to John Hold, of Baltimore county, Maryland. He is about 18 or 20 years old, 5 feet 7 inches high; his clothing is a striped Nankien coat, black cassimere waistcoat, olabang shirt, and an old pair of dark cloth pantaloons. He is very lark, and has a pleasant countenance. If his master does not release him he will be sold for his jail fees agreeably to law. GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick County. April 15—wtf
CELEBRATED WARM SPRINGS In VIRGINIA.
THE subscribers have taken a lease of ten years, of the highly celebrated Medicinal Springs in the county of Bath called the WARM SPRINGS, to justify named for their great cures and general relief in many complaints.
They are now preparing every necessary comfort and accommodation to suit the amusement of those who have health, (and to promote the recovery of those who want it) and it is deemed necessary to make these things widely known, because complaints have heretofore been made against the entertainment which has been offered.
Preparations are made for at least one hundred constant boarders, besides transient guests for the accommodation of which, the subscribers will make all possible exertions; and they flatter themselves, that those who may place confidence in this advertisement, will not find the smallest cause for regret or complaint.
ROBERT & GEORGE TURNER. May 1—epfw
An extensive Field for Speculation, is offered in the Sale of the POWHATATAN ESTATE,
Which lies contiguous to the lower limits of Richmond, contains 2000 acres of land, borders next a mile on James river, and runs 5 miles back.
The principal part is fine grain land, covered with valuable timber, convenient to a saw mill erected thereon, which has cut 1700 feet per day, and co-nected with a grist and manufacturing mill, on a constant stream with two pair of stones.
There is a small farm, with a commodious brick mansion, ice house, the usual offices, and two fisheries.
It has many elegant suites for building, furnished with good water, commanding views of the city, falls and shipping, which lie opposite to them.
There is a beautiful level already laid out into lots, at right angles, on the river.
The peculiar advantages of this property are multiplied by a late act for the establishment of an inspection of tobacco on it, and the act for uniting the upper and lower navigation by locks, which as the proper point of junction render it valuable for store houses.
Few persons are unacquainted with the political importance of Richmond, as the capital of the most influential state of the union, nor its commercial advantages from the immense quantities of coal, flour and tobacco, which pass through its market—and will it be necessary to add? that these advantages will be shortly increased by the western produce brought through the Kanawha to this navigation and deposit, to be thence shipped directly abroad when the contemplated improvement of the lower navigation shall be complete.
It is submitted to men of consideration whether a purchase by shares either to fall out or improve parts of this growing estate, would not in a few years afford a certain and handsome remuneration for their attention; being free from those contingencies to which many institutions are liable.
In such an establishment the proprietor would willingly participate. A liberal credit will be allowed the purchasers on payment of interest and further particulars made known by applying to Mr. Robert Atkinson near Petersburg. Mr. Alexander Fulton, Baltimore, M rs .s. Prosser and Moncure, Richmond, or the subscriber on the premises. W. MAYO. Powhatan, near Richmond, Virg. May 1—wtf
City Lots for Sale.
THE undermentioned lots of ground are offered for sale, either separately or by squares, on liberal terms either for cash or on credit—they are all free from mortgage or encumbrance, and are subject to no litigation or contest, as the titles are derived by immediate conveyances from the chancellor of Maryland and the commissioners of Washington, to Messrs. Henry Pratt, Thomas Williams, Francis John Miller, junior, John Ashley and Jacob Baker, trustees of the Aggregate Fund.
Square No. 54. Lot no. 9. 14. 72. Lots no. 2. 4. 8. 10. 12. 13. 14. 15. 18. 84. Lot no. 1. Sq. 35. Lots no. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Sq. 491. Lots no. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Sq. 642. Lots no. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Sq. 643. Lots no. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Sq. 644. Lots no. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Sq. 645. Lots no. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Sq. 646. Lots no. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Sq. 647. Lots no. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Sq. 648. Lots no. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Sq. 649. Lots no. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Sq. 650. Lots no. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Sq. 651. Lots no. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 1

Traveller's Hall. THE subscribers to the Traveller's Hall have been encouraged by the very liberal encouragement which they have bestowed on him. He will finish one of his new rooms in a few weeks, which will be large enough to dine near 200 persons at a time, and will shortly have the remainder of his additional building completed, which will give him a front of near 100 feet, in the most agreeable part of the town, and in the centre of business being on the highest part of the public square. He has on hand, and has contracted for a constant supply of the best wines, and foreign spirituous liquors imported, and country provisions, stable forage, foreign & state newspapers—and has secured a quantity of liquors sufficient for the use of his table and bar during the season. He assures his friends, and that respectable part of the public who have patronized him, that there will be nothing wanting which his time or purse will command, to render the Traveller's Hall a house of entertainment for genteel guests only, equal to any in America. R. BRADLEY. Lexington, Kentucky, March 21st 1805. N. B. A free dinner from the Traveller's Hall to the Gwynn Springs in the summer, and to Frankfort during the session of the Legislature. March 27—4p.m.
Ten Dollars Reward. WAS missed on Sunday, the 5th of May, a double cased Silver Watch, maker's name, Crellin, No. 1234, and in the outer case, was a watch paper with Mr. Packer's name of Philadelphia—Whoever will bring the said watch to the office of the National Intelligencer, shall receive the above reward, and no questions will be asked. May 10—tf.
District of Columbia, Washington county, to wit: UPON the petition of JEREMIAH CONNER, an insolvent debtor confined in jail in the city of Washington, in the district of Columbia praying relief under the act of Congress, entitled, "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia," notice is hereby given to the creditors of said Jeremiah Conner, that on the 29th day of April, at 9 o'clock, A. M. at the court room in the Capitol the oath of an insolvent debtor will be administered to the said Jeremiah Conner, and a trustee appointed agreeably to the said act, unless sufficient cause then and there be shown to the contrary. It is ordered that this notice be published twice in the National Intelligencer and Washington Federalist before that day. By order of the hon. Wm. Crampton, esquire, assistant judge of the Circuit court of the district of Columbia. U. FORREST, Clk.
THE Public have seen of late, my petition for the benefit of the Insolvent act. In order to a right understanding of the cause of my being reduced to that very disagreeable dilemma, I would barely state, that, being in the year 1801, special bail together with a person residing a considerable distance from this city, and who has been about two years in jail; executions were obtained against me at this court; that intending to leave the district, I some time since, applied to the gentleman who had the management of the suit, and offered him my bond, payable to annual instalments, for any sum I could raise from my industry in three or four years, if further process in the business would be stopped; he said, he had it not in his power to accede to my proposition. It is well known to some of the most respectable gentlemen in the district, that I had both legal and friendly counsel, from men who would not advise me to any thing dishonest, or dishonorable, to take the benefit of the insolvent act immediately, which I would not consent to—but executions being soon after served upon me, and not having money to pay the debt, I was under the necessity of availing myself of the provisions of a law I never expected or intended to shelter myself under. Except in the case of the person for whom I was bail, I had but two creditors—one, my particular and old friend, to whom upon a final settlement, there might be due between 30 and 40 dollars—the other, a person who in the opinion of my lawyer and myself, could hardly be considered as such; but as I had some doubts upon the subject, he was returned a creditor. My assets and the debts due to me, were considerably more than what was due to my creditors; yet it was beyond my power to avoid what has befallen me. If my creditors were more numerous than they are, I would not hesitate to say, that notwithstanding my having got clear by the Insolvent Law I would as soon as able, discharge every debt due on my own account. It is with much reluctance I would at any time trouble the public with my affairs; but I owed it to my character, to give this plain statement of facts. JEREMIAH CONNER. City of Washington, May 2—3t
Valuable Property For Sale. THE subscriber offers for sale a two story BRICK DWELLING HOUSE, 30 by 40 feet containing 15 rooms with cellar under the whole, and two acres of ground in the town of Bladensburg, Prince George's county Maryland, 4 miles from the city of Washington with a stable and other necessary out houses, a garden well enclosed, containing a variety of vegetables and fruit trees, surrounded by Lombardy Poplars, a clean stream of water running along one side of the property and is about 100 feet from the county wharf; there are three good springs of water contiguous to the premises one of which is the spring spring. Also a corner lot adjoining the above described premises, containing about half an acre, on which is a frame house 34 by 50 feet an excellent stand for a retail or wholesale store, not more than 50 feet from the county wharf. The terms of sale will be made to suit the purchaser and immediate possession will be given. ALEXANDER McDONALD. Bladensburg May 8—3t
SPRING GOODS. JOHN COX, [GEORGE TOWN] Has received a part of his Spring assortment of Dry Goods, which were selected from the late arrivals from New York—he has also received from Baltimore a quantity of GERMAN LINENS, consisting of Tictenburs, Osnaburs, Hem-pins, Rullians, Brown Roles, &c. all of which will be sold low by piece or retail. May 3—cpam
NOTICE. IN obedience to general orders the First Battalion of the 1st Legion of Militia of the District of Columbia will meet for inspection in the city of Washington, on the vacant ground south of the President's House and near the Tyber, on Saturday the 4th May next, at 10 o'clock in the morning, & the Second Battalion of the same Legion will meet on the vacant ground east of High Street continued in George Town, commonly called the Old Orchard, on Saturday the 11th May next, at 10 o'clock in the morning. By order of Lt. Col. J. P. VAN NESS. WM. D. BEALL, Adj. April 19—10:
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 Besant's cord, toiletnets, fancy and white Marseilles, black and figured silk, moleskins, fancy silk, Marseilles, 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
STELLE'S HOTEL & CITY TAVERN. THE Subscriber takes this method of thanking his friends and the public for their favors whilst on the Capitol square and begs leave to acquaint them that having purchased and now occupying the tavern, late Tunnicliff's hotel; which he has commenced enlarging and improving—he respectfully solicits a continuance of the patronage of his friends and the public, assuring them that 'tis his full determination to fit up his present hotel, and so to conduct it, as to merit, he hopes, the preference of the public travelling, as well as those coming to the permanent seat of the Government of our Land of Liberty. PONTIUS D. STELLE. Washington City, March 25—tf
STRANGER IN FRANCE. Just opened, and for sale by Rapine, Conrad, & Co. THE STRANGER IN FRANCE; OR A TOUR FROM DORVONSHIRE TO PARIS; By JOHN CARR, Esq. Price 150 Cents. 29—1w2w.
FOR SALE. I am desirous to dispose of the HOUSE belonging to me in West Tenth street, in the City of Washington. The person, who may be inclined to purchase it, will observe I am not the proprietor of the ground. He will have to make a detached bargain for that. I will take $30 dollars in hand, for the improvements, or 1000 dollars, twenty dollars paid every six months, and the interest secured. A. B. WOODWARD. May 6—6t
To be sold at public auction, on Thursday the 20th of May next, at 12 o'clock, at Mr. STELLE'S in the city of Washington, if not sooner disposed of by private contract, of which due notice shall be given to the public, the estate called Chichester, lying on the Eastern Branch, immediate y opposite the city of Washington, and extending from near the foot of the bridge to some distance below the Navy Yard. This tract of Land, containing 697 acres, is laid off in Lots from 33 acres to 117 for the convenience of purchasers. Plats of the estate, and the terms of sale, are in the hands of Col. Hanlon, at the Navy Yard, and Capt. John Davidson at Rhode's Hotel, or Charles Mayman, of Georgetown. The lots will be shown by Mr. Wedden, living on the premises, near the bridge. Should the weather prove bad on the 20th of May, the sale will take place on the next fair day. ANTHONY ADDISON. Barnaby, April 19—9t2w.
Twenty Dollars Reward. RANAWAY from the subscriber on the second day of January last, a likely negro man named AMP, but frequently goes by name of ARMSTEAD, he is about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, upwards of 25 years of age, rather of a yellowish complexion, has a tolerable large nose, and speaks very quick when interrogated—he has been hired to Mr. John Woolfolk for three years past, for the purpose of taking care of the large horses at Mr. Todd's Tavern. I do expect he will endeavor to pass as a free man, and is lurking about some town. Whoever will deliver the said negro to me, or confine him in any jail so that I get him again shall receive the above reward. LEWIS COLLINS. Caroline county, May 6—2p3w N. B. Masters of vessels and others are warned from harboring said runaway at their peril. L. C.
One Hundred Dollars Reward. ON Friday evening the 22nd inst. ROBERT W. PEACOCK, confined in the Jail of Washington County of the District of Columbia, upon a conviction of forgery at December Term, 1804, escaped from said Jail. He was before this conviction a practicing Attorney in the City of Washington, and is very well known in Virginia and Maryland, having resided in both. He is a stout man, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, about 34 or 35 years of age, locks young of his age, has blue eyes, full face, fair and ruddy complexion, light hair, which he wears tied behind. He is also very much inclined to corpulency. Whoever apprehends the said felon, and secures him in any Jail, so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward from DANIEL C. BRENT, Marshal of the District of Columbia. March 25—tf
SURVEYING. THE Subscriber who was regularly bred to LAND SURVEYING, respectfully informs the public, that he now undertakes business in that Department, which he executes with accuracy and expedition, and warrants his surveys to be correct. His mode of practice, which comprises essential improvements, he has no doubt, will be found to meet the approbation of the judicious, and presumes, that on trial, it cannot fail to obtain the patronage of those gentlemen who are interested in the sale or purchase of land. Commands addressed to him at the Treasury of the United States, or Rhodes's hotel, city of Washington, will receive attention. RICHARD FREEMAN, April 23—cpam
MRS. SMITH and MRS. WILLY respectfully acquaint their friends and the public, that they have removed their boarding school from the house they occupied in Water Street, to a large brick house fitted up for a school, in the Main street near Mr. Francis Lowndes, with a good garden, yard, and excellent spring of water. They solicit the patronage of the inhabitants of George town and its vicinity, which they have hitherto experienced, and gratefully acknowledged. They teach reading, writing, English grammar and geography. The best masters attend to instruct the young ladies in music, dancing, arithmetic, French and drawing. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Willy continue to teach penmanship, marking, embroidery in lamb's wool, silk and chenille, with a variety of other kinds of needle work, in the afternoon. April 26—6w.
THE subscribers have opened a GROCERY STORE in the house near the Capitol, lately occupied by Mr. JAMES D. BARRY—where they have for sale, low, for cash or in exchange for country produce. Genuine Cogniac Brandy, Superior French do. Old Jamaica Spirits, Madeira, } Wines, by the quarter cask Lithon, } and case, or smaller quantity. Claret, } Brown Sugar, 1st and 2d quality Loaf and Lump, do. Molasses, Finkin 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, } Teas, fresh, and of superior quality. Imperial, } Young Hylon, } Salt Herrings in Barrels. PETER HEALY, & Co. Washington October 31—tf
The three following Stations will cover at the Bowling Green the present season. DAREDEVIL, Sire of Sheldon, Brutus, Desdemona, Magnet, Mr. Harrison's colt (now Mr. Goodrich's) and many other good racers; at SIX UNIAS EACH MARE, and one dollar to the groom to be discharged any time before the first of August next, by the payment of 5 guineas, or 20 dollars if sent with the mare. Good pasturage gratis. Servants boarded at 10s. 6d. per week; gentlemen wishing their mares fed will please send money with them to purchase grain or it cannot be had. Notes for six guineas will be expected with the mares that do not remain with the horse, those left must be paid for before they are removed. Great attention will be paid them, but no responsibility for accidents or escapes.
VOLUNTEER, At TEN DOLLARS EACH MARE, And half a dollar to the groom. He is a fine bay horse, of good size, very stout and strong, with a great deal of bone, very fine action, and uncommon speed, and very likely to get good horses either for the carriage or saddle. Volunteer has been considered among the best running horses, and has won several races, among them a jockey club purse at Frederickburg, and another at Richmond, and is as high bred a horse as any in the state; he was got by Bedford, his dam Favorite, a very fine English mare got by O'Kelly's famous Italian Volunteer, (one of the best sons of Eclipse) her dam by Mr. Fenwick's celebrated stallion, Matchem, &c. &c.
FORTUNIO, (THE TEAZER,) At FIVE DOLLARS each mare, he was got by Cermorant his dam a thoroughbred mare by Old Janus. The season will end the first day of August next. JOHN HOOMES. Bowling Green, April 15—w1st
IRON WORKS FOR SALE. IN Wythe county state of Virginia, on Cripple Creek about 15 miles from the Great Kanawha and 40 miles from the north fork of Holston which affords a tolerable safe navigation to a prodigious scope of the western country, where perhaps iron is in greater demand than any other quarter of the United States. Cripple Creek affords a sufficiency of water for both forge and furnace, being fed by bold never failing springs. The furnace and all the buildings have been commenced within 4 or 5 years—they consist of dwelling houses, kitchens, and a store house; also, a large and convenient stable—the forge has not long been completed. It is supposed to be the best built forge in Virginia, being out of choice timber felled at proper seasons and executed by a first rate forge carpenter from Pennsylvania. It works three fires and two hammers, is sixty feet long and sixty wide, well covered with joint shingles. There are between 7 and 800 acres of land attached to these works, some of it of excellent soil, and any quantity may be procured within 6 or 8 miles from iron 1 to 8 dollars per acre. The ore banks appear to be inexhaustible, lying within one mile of the furnace and good roads. From one of the banks the ore may be conveyed by water within 10 steps of the furnace, with the considerable expense of 40 or 50 dollars. The quality of the iron is acknowledged by those who have used it to be equal to any. It is particularly sought for by lock makers, saddle tree plasters, cutlers, &c. The demand for iron in that country is far beyond what is made, and is selling from 40 to 50 per ton. I have no hesitation to say, contracts on not a very long credit can be had for almost any quantity yearly, as from that quarter a considerable portion of the western country is supplied. As it is supposed a purchase of this magnitude would not be made, without a view of the property by those inclined to purchase, it is deemed unnecessary to give a further description. Letters addressed to me at Abington, Virginia, will be duly attended to. I will also sell my SALT WORKS On Wolfson in Washington county Virginia, which is now rented at 10,000 Dols. a year. I have adjoining to it between 5 and 6000 acres of land well covered with timber, a considerable proportion of which in point of fertility is equal to any land whatever, and will afford 3 or 400 acres of meadow, nearly 100 being now in good timothy. The buildings which are extensive are in a good state of preservation. FRANCIS PRESTON. May 1—
PROPOSALS, For carrying the Mails of the United States, on the following post-roads, will be received at the General post-office, in Washington, until the 10th day of July next, inclusive. [Continued.] 48. From Springfield, by West Springfield, Ruffin, Blandford, London, Bethlehem, Tyringham, Stockbridge and West Stockbridge, to Kinderhook once a week. Leave Springfield every Thursday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Kinderhook on Friday by 6 p.m. Leave Kinderhook every Saturday by 6 a.m. and arrive at Stockbridge by 6 p.m. Leave Stockbridge every Tuesday at 4 p.m. and arrive at Springfield on Wednesday by 6 p.m. 49. From Boston by Dedham, Medfield, Medway, Bellingham, Milford, Medford, Uxbridge, Douglas, Hopedale, Pomfret, Ashford, and Tolland to Hartford once a week. Leave Boston every Tuesday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Hartford on Thursday by 5 p.m. Leave Hartford every Friday at 8 a.m. and arrive at Boston on Monday by 4 p.m. 50. From Boston by Dedham, Wrentham, Attleboro, Providence, Scituate, Plainfield, Jewett's city, Chelsea, New London, Lyme, Saybrook, Killingworth, Guilford and Branford to New Haven three times a week. May 1 to November 1. Leave Boston every Monday Wednesday and Friday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Providence by noon. Leave Providence on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday by 1 p.m. Return—Leave New Haven every Monday Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. and arrive at Providence on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday at 4 a.m. and arrive at Boston same day by noon. November 1 to May 1. Leave Boston every Monday Wednesday and Friday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Plainfield by 8 p.m. Leave Plainfield every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday at 4 a.m. and arrive at New Haven by 8 p.m. 51. From Boston, by Milton, Canton, Easton, Taunton, Berkeley and Freeland, to New Bedford three times a week. May 1 to November 1. Leave Boston every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday at 3 a.m. and arrive at New Bedford by 8 p.m. Return—Leave New Bedford every Monday Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. and arrive at Boston by 8 p.m. November 1 to May 1. Leave Boston every Monday Wednesday and Friday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Taunton by 7 p.m. Leave Taunton every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday at 3 a.m. and arrive at New Bedford by 7 p.m. Return—Leave New Bedford every Monday Wednesday and Friday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Taunton by 8 p.m. Leave Taunton every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday at 4 a.m. and arrive at Boston by 6 p.m. 52. From New Bedford to Nantucket twice a week. Leave New Bedford every Tuesday and Saturday at 9 p.m. and at Nantucket in 24 hours. Leave Nantucket every Friday and Tuesday at 3 a.m. and arrive at New Bedford by 8 a.m., wind and weather permitting. 53. From Boston by Dorchester, Quincy Braintree, Weymouth, Hovey's, Pembroke and Kingston, to Plymouth 3 times a week. Leave Boston every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Plymouth by 6 p.m. Leave Plymouth every Monday Wednesday and Friday at 7 a.m. and arrive at Boston by 6 p.m. 54. From Weymouth by Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate, Marshfield and Duxbury to Kingston once a week. Leave Weymouth every Wednesday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Kingston by 11 a.m. Leave Kingston every Wednesday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Weymouth by 7 p.m.
55. From Plymouth by Sandwich, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, Chatham, Orleans, Barnham, Wellfleet, Wellinggate and Truro to Provincetown once a week. Leave Plymouth every Wednesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Sandwich by 10 a.m. Leave Sandwich at 11 a.m. and arrive at Provincetown on Friday at 11 a.m. Leave Provincetown every Friday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Plymouth on Monday by 6 p.m. 56. From Sandwich by Falmouth and Holmeshole to Edgartown once a week. Leave Sandwich every Wednesday at 11 a.m. and arrive at Edgartown on Thursday by 1 p.m. Leave Edgartown every Thursday by 7 p.m. and arrive at Sandwich by 7 p.m. 57. From Sandwich by Wareham, Rochesett, New Bedford and Little Compton to Newport once a week. Leave Sandwich every Wednesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Newport on Thursday by 3 p.m. Leave Newport every Thursday at 6 p.m. and arrive at Sandwich on Saturday by 5 p.m.
IN RHODE ISLAND. 58. From Providence by Barrington, Warren and Bristol to Newport six times a week in summer and three in winter. May 1 to November 1. Leave Providence every day (Sunday excepted) at 7 a.m. and arrive at Newport by 4 p.m. Leave Newport every day (Sunday excepted) at 8 a.m. and arrive at Providence by 4 p.m. November 1 to May 1. Leave Providence every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 a.m. and arrive at Newport by 4 p.m. Leave Newport every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday at 7 a.m. and arrive at Providence by 4 p.m. 59. From Providence by East Greenwich, Wickford and Little Rest to Towerhill once a week. Leave Providence every Friday at 4 a.m. and arrive at Towerhill by 11 a.m. Leave Towerhill every Friday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Newport by 7 p.m. 60. From Newport by South Kingstown, Charlestown, Westerly, Stonington, Ct. and Groton, Ct. to New London once a week. May 1 to November 1. Leave Newport every Tuesday and Thursday at 10 a.m. and arrive at New London on Wednesday and Friday by 3 p.m. Leave New London every Tuesday and Thursday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Newport on Wednesday and Friday by noon. November 1 to May 1. Leave Newport every Monday and Wednesday by noon and arrive at New London on Tuesday and Thursday by 6 p.m. Leave New London every Wednesday and Friday at 4 a.m. and arrive at Newport on Thursday and Saturday by 10 a.m.
IN CONNECTICUT. 61. From Hartford by Simsbury, Granby, and Granville to Blandford once a week. Leave Hartford Leave Blandford 62. From Hartford by Simsbury, West Simsbury, New Hartford, Winchester, Norfolk, Canaan, Sheffield, Hattiesdale & Glavestock to Hudson once a week. Leave Hartford every Thursday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Hudson on Saturday by 10 a.m. Leave Hudson every Friday at 2 p.m. & arrive at Hartford the next Monday by 7 p.m. 63. From Hartford by Farmington, Harwington, Litchfield, Washington, New Milford, Danbury, Ridgefield, Salem & Bedford to New York once a week. Leave Hartford every Tuesday at 2 p.m. arrive at Litchfield on Wednesday by 9 a.m., at New Milford by 3 p.m. and arrive at New York on Friday by 11 a.m. Return—Leave New York every Friday at 6 p.m. arrive at New Milford on Monday by 9 a.m. at Litchfield by 3 p.m. and arrive at Hartford by 10 a.m. on Tuesday. (To be continued.)
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
RAGS. THE highest price CASH, given for clean RAGS, by EDGAR PATTERSON, George town, and SAMUEL STETTENUS, near the Centre market, Washington March 8—tf.
FOR SALE, At the Navy Yard, nearly opposite Mr. Dobbins's Tavern, a two story BRICK HOUSE, at present occupied by Mr. Thomas Mattingly, Baker, for rent apply to the subscriber. SAMUEL RUSS. May 3—3t
ON Friday the 10th day of May next between the hours of 12 and 3 o'clock, at Mr. Stelley's hotel in the city of Washington, near the premises, will be offered to public sale on a credit of six months, a two story brick house, with two rooms and a passage on each floor, a garet and good dry cellar; situated on lot No. 10 in square 728 on East Capitol street, near the Capitol. Negotiable notes bearing interest from the date, with approved endorers payable at the city of Washington or Georgetown banks, to be given by the purchaser in one hour after the sale, when immediate possession will be given and a clear title made to the purchaser when the money is fully paid, by SAMUEL TYLER. April 17—w3t