Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer (Alexandria [Va.]), 1802-12-08 00:00:00

Sale by Auction.
On SATURDAY.
At 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store, the corner of King and Union Streets.
 Rum in hhds. and barrels,  Whisky in barrels,  Apple Brandy in barrels,  Gin in casks,  Wine in pipes and quarter casks,  Molasses in hhds.  Sugar in hhds. and barrels,  White and brown Soap in boxes,  Coffee in casks and bags,  Raisins in kegs and boxes,  Queens' Ware, and 
ALSO
A variety of DRY GOODS.
 Broad Cloths,  Cassimeres,  Kerseys,  Coatings,  Halfthicks,  Fearnought,  Blankets,  Planes,  Negro Cottons,  Worsted and other Stockings,  Irish Linens,  Calicoes,  Threads,  Chintzes,  Bedricks,  Oznaburgs,  Sewing Silks,  Muslin and Muslin Handkerchiefs,  India Cottons, &c &c. 
THOS. PATTEN, Auctioneer. November 19.
Public Sale.
On FRIDAY,
At ten o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store,
 Rum in hogheads and barrels.  Whiskey in barrels,  Gin in casks and barrels,  Port wine in casks,  Molasses in hhds.  Sugar in hhds and bls.  White and brown soap in boxes,  Chocolate in boxes,  Coffee in tierces and bags,  Raisins in kegs and boxes,  Queens Ware in crates, handsomely assorted, 
ALSO,
A variety of DRY GOODS,
 Superfine cloth and Kersemeres,  Narrow Cloth, and Flannels,  Irish Linens, and Oznaburgs,  Sail duck of different qualities,  Chintzes and Calicoes,  Cambric and Cotton shawls,  India Muslin and Table Cloaths,  Coloured threads and sowing silks,  Ribbons, Hats, and  A number of other articles. 
P. G. MARSTELLER, November 19. Vendue-Master.
NOTICE.
BATTALION COURTS of ENQUIRY will be held at Mr. Gadsby's, on Wednesday the 8th of December, at 10 o'Clock, A. M. for the purpose of assessing Fines for non-attendance in the Militia.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE Subscribers having commenced business in the house lately occupied by Mr. George N. Lyles, on Fairfax Street, in the town of Alexandria, beg leave to inform their friends and the public, that they have for sale, DRY GOODS, JAPANED WARE and GROCERIES, and daily expect a complete assortment of CASTINGS, which they will dispose of at the most reduced prices for Cash, Flour or Tobacco.
THOMAS L. WASHINGTON & Co.
N. B. They will also transact business on commission, and take the liberty of acquainting those who may favour them with their confidence, that they will endeavour to merit the trust reposed in them, by a faithful attention to their interest. Nov. 23.
For Freight or Charter, The BRIGANTINE EAGLE , Burthen 176 tons, 10 months old, an excellent staunch vessel, completely equipped and sails fast.
For Sale on board said Brig, 2500 bushels Liverpool SALT, and a few chaldrons British Coals. Apply to J. G. LADD, or to Captain Teny on board, at Prince Street wharf. Oct. 29.
Just received, and for Sale by ABEL WILLIS, A FRESH SUPPLY OF Rhode-Island CHEESE, Apples, Crab Cyder, by the barrel, of the first quality, Cranberries, Sweet Oranges, Lemons, by the box, Best Rhode-Island Potatoes, Mackerel, by the barrel, together with a general assortment of GROCERIES and NUTS. Nov. 16.
WILLIAM HODGSON. Has received by the Brutus, from Liverpool, an assortment of FALL GOODS. He has also on hand, A choice parcel of Grenada Rum, Liverpool fine Salt, bottled London Brown Stout, Porter in casks, 6 doz. each old, Port Wine in bottles, a ton of Sheathing Paper and a quantity of Grindstones. Oct. 15.
Just Received, And for Sale at THOMAS PATTEN'S Vendue Store, at the corner of King & Union Streets, a handsome assortment of MAHOGANY FURNITURE, CONSISTING OF 3 large handsome Sideboards, 1 small do. do. 1 Scrutoire and Book Case, 1 large sett Dining Tables, 2 pair Card Tables, 2 ladies' Scrutoires, 2 Stand Tables, 1 Breakfast do. 8 Quarter do. 2 Wash Stands. Nov. 18.
Ten Dollars Reward. STOLEN lately from the Subscriber living near Potomac Run, in Stafford county a BLACK MARE , about 14 hands high. She had a Star in her forehead, some white hairs on her neck, near the shoulder, and three of her feet are white above the hoof. The Mare is old, but she was in good order when taken away. Whoever will secure her, so that I get her again, shall receive the above Reward. ROBERT BUCHAN. Dec. 4.
For SALE, or RENT, THE STORE I have occupied for sometime past, situated on Prince Street, opposite Col. Hooe's. There is no stand in town more eligible or better calculated for carrying on an extensive wet or dry Good Business. The Cellar perfectly dry, with a door at each end, will hold one thousand barrels of Flour. Twenty-five hundred barrels may be stowed upon the Premises without any inconvenience to the occupant. For terms apply to WILLIAM OXLEY. December 7.
LOST Yesterday a SMALL BUNCH of KEYS. —Whoever will leave them at this office shall receive One Dollar Reward. December 7. For SALE, by  WM. HARTSHORNE, Two pipes London market Madeira WINE, four years old. December 16.
JOHN GARDNER LADD, Has for Sale, Loaf and brown Sugars, Rum, Molasses, Coffee, Brandy and Geneva, Sherry, Lisbon, Malaga, and Madeira } WINES. Russia Sheetings and Deck, India Cotton, A few boxes fine and coarse hats, A great variety of Shoes, Cotton and Wool Cards, Best American Playing Cards, Soap and Candles, Corle and fine Salt, Red Seal Leather, James River manufactured Tobacco, Cordage, Paper, Glass, Alum, Cheese, Codfish, Shad, and Herrings, Hyson, Hyson Shulan, Souchong, and Bohea } TEAS. Refined Salt Petre, Cordials in barrels, Sweet Oil in boxes, Spermaceti, ditto. Fresh Chocolate in boxes, &c. &c. Also, about 50 hhds. Potomac TOBACCO. Nov. 11.
NOTICE. THE co-partnership of James Patton & James Dykes having expired—those indebted to said concern are requested to make payment and those having claims are desired to bring them forward for settlement. JAMES PATTON, JAMES DYKES. FOR SALE by the Subscriber at the Warehouse which the above concern occupied, 10 Hhds of ALLUM, of the first quality from 5 to 7 cwt. each. Wanted to purchase for cash, a few thousand bushels of WHEAT, and ninety shares of Columbia bank stock. JAMES PATTON. Nov. 22.
Public Vendue. By virtue of a Deed of Trust to the Subscribers, will be sold, on the 24th day of this present month, at 3 o'Clock, P. M. on the Premises, The frame HOUSE situated on King Street near the corner of Columbus Street, at present occupied by John and Samuel Leard, subject to a ground rent of £. 20 per annum. Terms of payment Cash. JOHN & THOS. VOWELL. Dec. 3. JAMES WILSON, Has received, by the Industry, from London, an extensive Assortment of FALL GOODS, Which will be offered for Sale immediately, by the piece or package. Also, by the above Vessel, Seven pipes and 18 hhds. genuine old Port Wine, two years in bottles. Nov. 1.
Washington Society. THE Members of the WASHINGTON SOCIETY of Alexandria, will please to take Notice, that a regular stated meeting of the said Society will be held at Gadsby's Hotel, on Tuesday the 14th day of this month, at 11 o'Clock, A. M.—Punctual attendance is requested. G. DENEALE, Sec'y. Dec. 6.
LOST, On Friday between Alexandria and James Patton's house, or from thence to Mount Vernon, a small Red Morocco Pocket-Book, Containing a Pocket Almanac, and sundry papers which can be of no use to any person but the owner—It had Mr. Latimer's name (of Philadelphia) wrote in it. The finder will be rewarded by leaving it with the Printer of this paper. December 16.
FOR SALE, On the 3d day of January next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at Mr. Anderson's Mill on Dogue run in the county of Fairfax, the residue of the personal estate of the late General George Washington, yet unsold, CONSISTING OF Forty-five MULES, upwards of thirty OXEN, and a variety of plantation utensils, Waggons, Carts, Blacksmith's Tools, &c. Six months credit will be allowed, the purchasers giving bond with approved sureties. At the same time will be hired, during the life of Mrs. FRENCH, Forty or Fifty NEGROES. The Executors will let, for the term of one or two or three years, A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE, In the city of Washington, situated near the capitol, and adjoining the house now occupied by General Dearborne.—The tenant to be at liberty to erect upon the premises, such necessary and permanent out houses and improvements as he may think proper, provided the value thereof does not exceed one years rent, from which it will be deducted. For terms apply to Mr. Richard Forrest, in the city of Washington, or to Lawrence Lewis of Fairfax county. THE EXECUTORS. December 6.
500 Dollars Reward. ON Saturday the 20th inst. I wrote a letter to Messrs. PICKET, POLLARD and JOHNSTON, of Richmond, including BANK NOTES, as per Numbers, &c. annexed, amounting to Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Dollars, which letter was given to WILLIAM BELL, then my clerk, to put into the Post-Office, which he did not do, but has absconded with the Letter, and its contents. The above Reward will be paid for apprehending him with the whole of the money, or in proportion for a part of it; or I will give Two Hundred Dollars for apprehending him without the money. He is about 30 years of age, dark complexion, hair and eyes; speaks low and rather in a whining tone of voice; has a bashful appearance when spoken to; is about six feet high, spare made, and has broad features. He left Norfolk on Tuesday the 23d inst. and was seen on board a vessel bound for Baltimore. His dress was of a light colour when he went away; but it is probable he has changed it. EDWARD JOHNSTON. One Note of the Manhattan Company, dated Aug. 2, 1799, for 100 dollars. Ten Notes of the Norfolk Branch Bank, 100 dollars each, viz. No. 3523, dated May 1, 1800. Nos. 3449, 3449, 3416, 3558, 3554, 3532, 3506, 3502 and 3492, dated October 2, 1801. Fifteen Notes of the same Bank, for 50 dollars each, viz. No. 3062, dated May 2, 1800. Nos. 2843, 2761, 2759, dated July 21, 1801. No. 675, of January 16, 1801. Nos. 3948, 3918, dated June 2, 1800. Nos. 2563, 2522, dated May 19, 1801. Nos. 3866, 3867, 4056, 4085, 4086 & 4082, dated October 2, 1801. Norfolk, Nov. 27, 1802. Just received, and for Sale by the Subscribers, 40 bbls. prime Boston B E E F.  JANNEY & PATON. December 6. JOSEPH RIDDLE, & Co. HAVE received a considerable addition to their assortment per the Industry, capt. M'Kenzie, from London. Nov. 2. Printing in all its variety, executed at this office with neatness and dispatch.

DANIEL SMITH,  At his Manufactory in Union Street, makes and has on Hand,  Cut Nails and flooring Brads, of a superior quality, which he offers for Sale by the cask, at the following prices: 20d. 12d. and 10d. Nails at 8d. per lb. 8d. do. at 8 3/4d. do. 6d. do. at 9 3/4d. do. 4d. do. at 10 3/4d. do. 3d. do. at 11 3/4d. do. 20d. 12d. & 10d. flooring Brads at 7 1/2d. per lb. 8d. do. at 8d. do. The retailing Prices are, one penny per b. higher. He has Sprigs and Tacks of every size, and wide and narrow Hoop- Iron for Sale. December 6. eo3tia12t
FOR SALE,  SIXTY NEGROES that have been well treated and brought up, of all ages and both sexes; house servants & mechanics, but mostly plantation Negroes. Information may be had by applying to the Printer hereof. Dec. 6. eo3tf
For SALE, by  WILLIAM I. HALL,  on Merchants' Wharf, London particular Madeira (Bill) Wine, in pipes, hhds. and quarter casks, Boston Beef, of excellent quality, in barrels, PORK in do. Tongues and Sounds, in kegs, Mould and dipt Candles, in small boxes, N. England Rum, in bbls. Cadiz and Turk's Island Salt. Dec. 3. d3teo3t
For SALE, by  JOHN M'KINNEY, 10 Ton first quality RUSSIA HEMP.  ALSO, 8 hhd's of best Antigua Sugars. Dec. 3. eo7t
Ten Dollars Reward.
DESERTED from the Public Guard in the City of Richmond, on the 28th of last month, JOHN HINCHEY. He is about 5 feet 7 inches high, has light hair, is near sighted and squints a little, dowa look and swarthy complexion. The above reward will be paid to any person who will deliver him to one of the Officers of the Public Guard. ALEX. QUARRIER, C. R. C. Dec. 6. eo3tf
Twenty Dollars Reward.
STOLEN from the Subscriber, living in Louisa County, Virginia, the 7th of Nov. a SORREL HORSE, about 4 feet 10 inches high, docked very short, two hind Feet white, with a Star and a Blaze in his Face, the Blaze beginning at the Star very small, and spreads so as to cover his nose, shod all round; paces well and fast, trots and canters. He is supposed to have been stolen by a Soldier who deserted from the Public Guard, in the city of Richmond. The above Reward will be paid for giving such information that the Horse may be got, and an additional Re- ward of Twenty Dollars for apprehending the Thief. JOHN S. SMITH. Louisa County, Va. Dec. 6. eo3tf
ADVERTISEMENT.
MY Son HENRY MOORE & my- self had agreed, before he left this, that I should keep up the BROKER'S BUSI-  NESS he had been engaged in, during his residence in Kentucky, and be particularly attentive to LAND TRANSACTIONS, which might produce me some profit here, and be of service to him there. As he has made a settlement in that country, I take this method of informing the public, that I will undertake to buy and sell LANDS, and negotiate in any other way for them, and that I will also attend to any other business commonly done in the Line of a Broker. I am empowered to sell several valua- ble Lots in different parts of the Town of Alexandria; some well situated for busi- ness; one adjoining the Bank, 24 feet front on the north side of Cameron Street, and 123 feet five inches deep. This Lot will either be sold for Cash or exchanged for Lands adjoining the town. LEON MOORE. Nov. 26. eo3tf
Cash given for rags.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THOMAS PAINE.
To the citizens of the United States.
LETTER THE FOURTH.
AS Congress is on the point of meeting, the public papers will necessarily be occu- pied with the debates of the ensuing Ses- sion, and as in consequence of my long ab- sence from America, my private affairs re- quire my attendance (for it is necessary I do this or I could not preserve as I do my Independence) I shall close my address to the public with this letter.
I congratulate them on the success of the late elections, and that with the addition- al confidence that while honest men are chosen and wise measures pursued, neither the treason of apostasy, masked under the name of federalism, of which I have spo- ken in my second letter, nor the intrigues of foreign emissaries, acting in concert with that mark, can prevail.
As to the licentiousness of the papers calling themselves federal , a name that a- postasy has taken, it can hurt nobody but the party or the persons who support such papers. There is naturally a wholesome pride in the public mind that revolts at open vulgarity. It feels itself dishonored even by hearing it, as a chaste woman feels dishonor by hearing obscenity she can- not avoid. It can smile at wit or be diverted with strokes of satirical humour, but it detests the blackguard . The same sense of propriety that governs in private companies governs in public life. If a man in company runs his wit upon ano- ther it may draw a smile from the per- sons present, but as soon as he turns a blackguard in his language the company gives him up, and it is the same in public life. The event of the late elections shews this to be true; for in proportion as those papers have become more and more vul- gar and abusive, the elections have gone more and more against the party they sup- port or that supports them. Their pre- decessor, Porcupine had wit. These scrib- blers have none. But as soon as his black-  guardism (for it is the proper name of it) outrun his wit, he was abandoned by eve- ry body but the English Minister that protected him.
The Spanish proverb says, " there ne-  ver was a cover large enough to hide it-  self ," and the proverb applies to the case of those papers and the shattered remnant of the faction that supports them. The falsehoods they fabricate, and the abuse they circulate, is a cover to hide some- thing from being seen, but is not large e- nough to hide itself. It is a tub thrown out to the whale to prevent its attacking and sinking the vessel. They want to draw the attention of the public from thinking about or enquiring into, the measures of the late administration and the reason why so much public money was raised and expended. And so far as a lie to day, and a new one to-morrow, will answer this purpose it answers theirs. It is nothing to them whether they be be- lieved or not, for if the negative purpose be answered the main point is answered to them.
He that picks your pocket always tries to make you look another way. Look, says he, at yon man tother side the street, —what a nose he has got! —Lord yonder is a chimney on fire! D'ye see yon man going along in the salamander great coat? That is the very man that stole one of Ju- piter's satellites and sold it to a country- man for a gold watch, and it set his breech- es on fire. Now the man that has his hand in your pocket does not care a far- thing whether you believe what he says or not. All his aim is to prevent your look- ing at him; and this is the case with the remnant of the federal faction. The lea- ders of it have imposed upon the country, and they want to turn the attention of it from the subject.
In taking up any public matter I have never made it a consideration, and never will whether it be popular or unpopular, but whether it be right or wrong . The right will always become the popular if it has courage to shew itself, and the shortest way is always a straight line. I despise expedients; they are the gutter hole of politics, and the sink where repu- tation dies. In the present case, as in every other, I cannot be accused of using any; and I have no doubt but thousands will hereafter be ready to say, as Gou- verneur Morris said to me, after having abused me pretty handsomely in Congress, for the opposition I gave to the fraudu-
lent demand of Silas Deane of two hun- dred thousand pounds sterling, Well! we  were all dupes and I among the rest.
Were the late administration to be cal- led upon to give reasons for the ex- pence it put the country to, it can give none. The danger of invasion was a bubble that served as a cover to raise taxes and armies to be employed for some other purpose. But if the people of Ame- rica believe it true, the cheerfulness with which they supported those measures and paid those taxes, is an evidence of their patriotism, and if they suppose me their enemy, though in that supposition they did me injustice, it was not injustice in them. He that acts as he believes, though he may act wrong, is not conscious of wrong.
But though there was no danger, no thanks are due to the late administration for it. They sought to blow up a flame between the two countries; and so in- tent were they upon this, that they went out of their way to accomplish it. In a letter which the secretary of state, Ti- mothy Pickering, wrote to Mr. Skip- with, the American consul at Paris, he broke off from the official subject of his letter to thank God in very exalting lan- guage, that the Russians had cut the  French army to pieces. Mr. Skipwith, after shewing me the letter, very prudent- ly concealed it.
It was the injudicious and wicked a- crimony of this letter, and some other like conduct of the then secretary of state that occasioned me, in a letter to a friend in the government, to say, that if there was any official business to be done in France, till a regular minister should be appointed, it could not be trusted to a more proper person than Mr. Skipwith.  He is, said I, an honest man, and will do  business, and that with good manners  to the government he is commissioned to  act with a faculty which that Bear Ti-  mothy Pickering wanted, and which the  Bear of that Bear, John Adams, never  possessed.
In another letter to the same friend in 1797, and which was put unsealed un- der cover to Col. Burr, I expressed a sa- tisfaction that Mr. Jefferson since he was not president, had accepted the vice presidency; for said I, " John Adams has  such a talent for blundering and offending,  it will be necessary to keep an eye over  him. " He has now sufficiently proved that though I have not the spirit of pro- phecy I have the gift of judging right; and all the world knows, for it cannot help knowing, that to judge rightly , and to write clearly , and that upon all sorts of subjects; to be able to command thought, and be always master of one's temper in writing, is the faculty only of a serene mind, and the attribute of hap- py and philosophical temperance. The scribblers, who know me not and who fill their papers with paragraphs about me, beside their want of talents, drink too many flings and drams in a morning to have any chance with me. But, poor fellows! they must do something for the little pittance they get from their em- ployers. This is my apology for them.
My anxiety to get back to America was great for several years. It is the country of my heart, and the place of my political and literary life. It was the American revolution that made me an au- thor, and forced into action the mind that had been dormant, and had no wish for public life; nor has it now. By the accounts I received, she appeared to me to be going wrong, and that some me- ditated treason against her liberties lurk- ed at the bottom of her government. I heard that my friends were oppressed, and I longed to take my standing among them; and if other " times to try men's souls ," were to arrive that I might bear my share. But my efforts to return were ine- fectual.
As soon as Mr. Monroe had made a good standing with the French government, for the conduct of his predecessor had made his reception as minister difficult, he wanted to send dispatches to his own government by a person to whom he could also confide a verbal communication, and he fixed his choice upon me. He then applied to the committee of public safety for a passport; but as I had been voted again into the con- vention, it was only the convention that could give the passport; and as an appli- cation to them for that purpose would have made my going publicly known, I was obliged to sustain the disappointment and Mr. Monroe to lose the opportunity.
When that gentleman left France to re- turn to America, I was to have come
with him. It was fortunate I did not. The vessel he failed in was visited by a British frigate that searched every part of it, and down to the hold for Thomas Paine. I then went, the same year, to embark at Havre. But several British frigates were cruising in sight of the port who knew I was there, and I had to re- turn again to Paris. Seeing myself thus cut off from every opportunity of return- ing that was in my power to command, I wrote to Mr. Jefferson, that if the fate of the election should put him in the chair of the presidency, and he should have oc- casion to send a frigate to France, he would give me the opportunity of return- ing by it, which he did. But I declined coming in the Maryland, the vessel that was offered me, and waited for the fri- gate that was to bring the new Minister, Mr. Chancellor Livingston, to France; but that frigate was ordered round to the Mediterranean; and as, at that time, the war was over, and the British cruisers call- ed in, I could come any way. I then a- greed to come with Commodore Barney in a vessel he had eng-g-er. It was again fortunate I did not, for the vessel sunk at sea, and the people were preserved in the boat.
Had half the number of evils befallen me, that the number of dangers amount- to, through which I have been preserv- ed, there are those who would ascribe it to the wrath of Heaven; why then do they not ascribe my preservation to the protecting favour of Heaven. Even in my worldly concerns I have been blessed. The little property I left in America, and which I cared nothing about, not e- ven to receive the rent of it, has been increasing in the value of its capital more than eight hundred dollars every year for the fourteen years and more that I have been absent from it. I am now, in my circumstances, independent, and my eco- nomy makes me rich. As to my health it is perfectly good, and I leave the world to judge of the state of my mind. I am, in every instance, a living contra- diction of the mortified federalists.
In my publications I follow the rule I began with in Common Sense , that is to consult with nobody, nor let any body see what I write till it appears publicly. Were I to do otherwise, the case would be, that between the timidity of some, who are so afraid of doing wrong they ne- ver do right, the puny judgment of o- thers, and despicable craft of preferring  expedient to right , as if the world was a world of babies in leading strings. I should get forward with nothing. My path is a right line, as straight and clear to me as a ray of light. The boldness (if they will have it to be so) with which I speak on any subject, is a compliment to the judgment of the reader. It is like saying to him, I treat you as a man, not  as a child. With respect to any worldly object, as it is impossible to discover any in me, therefore what I do, and my man- ner of doing it, ought to be ascribed to a good motive.
In a great affair, where the happiness of man is at stake, I love to work for no- thing; and so fully am I under the influ- ence of this principle that I should lose the spirit, the pleasure, and the pride of it, were I conscious that I looked for reward; and with this declaration I take my leave for the present.
THOMAS PAINE.
Federal City, Lowell's Hotel, Dec. 3, 1802.
From the (Richmond) RECORDER.
[CONTINUED.]
MR. THOMAS PAINE
"There is in America, more than in "any other country, a large body of peo- "ple who attend quietly to their farms, "or follow their several occupations, who "pay no regard to the clamours of ano- "nymous scribblers, who think for them- "selves, and judge of government, not "by the fury of newspaper writers, but "by the prudent frugality of its measures, "and the encouragement it gives to the "improvement and prosperity of the "country; and who, acting on their own "judgment, never come forward in an "election but on some great occasion.— "When this body moves, all the little "barking of scribbling and witless curs "pafs for nothing. To say to this in- "dependent description of men you must "turn out such or such persons at the next "election, for they have taken off a great "many taxes, and lessened the expenses of "government; they have dismissed my son, "or my brother, or myself from a lucra-

time office in which there was nothing to do, is to shew the cloven foot of fac- tion, I preach the language of ill dis- guised mortification. In every part of the Union, this faction is in the age- nies of death, and in proportion as its fate approaches, it gnashes its teeth, and struggles. My arrival has struck it as with a hydrophobia; it is like the light of water to canine madness.
All this is mighty serious and solemn. The conclusion, also is remarkably rem- perate and modest. As to the first sen- tence, it is certain that the citizens of America derive their information almost exclusively from Newspapers. Very few political pamphlets are published. In some states, it is common for members of Congress to write circular letters to their constituents. But these two sources of in- formation did not, when put together, produce one five hundredth part of the im- pression which arises from newspapers. Of this Mr. Jefferson was perfectly conscious, when he paid me fifteen dollars for writ- ing paragraphs in the Aurora. At that time, the president gave it as his fixed opinion, that newspapers were more like- ly to be impressive than books. He was perfectly right. Mr. Paine may tell us, if he can, where people are to get infor- mation unless from newspapers; or by what other means they are to judge of the frugality of government? As for the improvement and prosperity of the country, they are above the encouragement of any government. They arise from the efforts of individuals. Government is chiefly known by the expense which it occasions. It is a sort of complex constable, a som- thing hired to keep the peace, and nothing more. In Common Sense, Mr. Paine has very fully explained this doctrine. He observes that society arises from our wants and government, from our vices. The definition is perfect. Government is to society, what a bridle is to a horse, or a dose of salts to the human body. They produce no positive good, but they pre- vent the existence of evil. Is a nation the more prosperous for being taxed, or does a cornfield produce a better crop on account of the rail fence that surrounds it? No! But still taxes and rail fences are often necessary; and you may with equal reason say that a rail fence enrich- ed your land, as that taxes promise the im- provement and prosperity of the country. All this explanation has been fully proved by Mr. Paine himself in an hundred pas- sages of his Rights of Man.
I return to the subject of newspapers. In fact it is their weakness, or ability, that must decide the fate of every administrati- on. Put the case that the reasons upon each side are equally good, and that all the prints of the one party are entrusted to a conductor as richly gifted by nature as Thomas Paine. Put Cheetham, and Blake, and Jones, and Miss Smith, at the head of his adversaries. They could have no more chance with Paine than Madison had with Patrick Henry, or than the mod- ern writers of farce would have with Shakespeare. In six weeks, he would make them fly, like chaff before the wind, and do by himself half the business of a president's election.
When this body moves, all the little barkings of scribbling, and vicious curs, pass for nothing. Yes! But what moves this body? The press. And what are American's best loved of reading? Newspapers.
To say you need care for both par- tisans, at the next election, for they have taken off a great many masks, and exposed the expenses of government, is to throw the cloven foot of faction. It would be the cloven foot of necessity; it would be such an absurdity as never was and never will be made. But people might say "a number of taxes were im- posed to pay off the national debt." They were collected without differ- ence, and with very little opposition. They have been expected to carry favor with you, at the expenses of public util- ity. The republicans represented the ex- istence of the national debt, and they have destroyed the only constitutional source by which a part of it could be paid. This is the real aggregate of profligacy and inconsideration. To suppose this farce, they have been compelled to sell their government shares to the bank of the United States. By these shares they made a clear annual profit of forty thousand dollars, besides their interest in the other property of the bank. The shares produced a regular dividend of eight per cent. So that the sale is exactly the same
thing with an eight per cent loan. — You know the racker that they raised against Adams, when he borrowed upon these terms. The stock has been sold in a private manner, when it should have been put up in detached parcels to the highest bidder. The stock has been sold to a foreign banking com- pany, when it could have found abun- dance of purchasers at home. If it was a good bargain, we should have kept it among ourselves. But, to make bad worse, the paper has been sold for an hundred and thirty thousand dollars less than its current price in the mar- ket. And then we have a prattle a- bout republican savings.
The party brag of lessening the ex- pences of government. They have set aside the mint; and the sixteen addi- tional judges. For all this I thank them; and here my panegyric must ex- pire. They reduced the navy to be- fore. But for this we are no more obliged to them than for the summer that warms, or the winter that freezes. The powers of Europe put an end to the war, and to their own piratical de- predations, without consulting Tho- mas Jefferson. Hence, a navy was no longer wanted; and if we are to judge from the report of their famous committee, the less that they meddle with maritime affairs, it is just so much the better. This committee first informed mankind that the navy yard where ships are built is the very same thing with the dock where ships are laid up. With a degree of ignorance, or of impudence, also, that seldom has been matched, their official printer, * and Paine's selected editor, affirmed that six seventy-four gun ships could be built in the little dock yard at Phi- ladelphia, when he might have known that the thing, was physically impos- sible; when he might have known that instead of six seventy-fours, it could hardly serve to hold the timbers of one forty-four gun frigate. What a sort of a secretary to the navy must Robert Smith be, when he suffered such absurdities to pass without extinction? And, by the way what do you think of our little ci de vant wenching re- publican secretary of state, who has pro- moted the foundation of a scheme, by which three hundred thousand thieves and strumpets are to be turned loose on the state of Virginia?
As to reducing the expenses of go- vernment, has not the present Con- gress voted an hundred and twenty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty dol- lars for the charge of one year's In- dian treaties, when the Creeks and Che- rokees are constantly committing mur- ders, † and when a thousand frontier riflemen, at fifty dollars per scalp, would sweep the left bank of the Mis- sissippi in less than six weeks? Is it not a shame to give eight dollars per day, besides all expenses, to commissioners for Indian treaties, when a French or British treaty is discussed for the bare six dollars? Why should Albert Gallatin get five thousand dollars per annum, after asserting and voting that his predecessor should have but four thousand? And is it not the consum- mation of impudence to prate about ex- tinguishing the public debt, when at the present rate, six hundred thou- sand dollars a year are pinned to the tail of it?
Mr. Paine speaks of the federal faction as in the spirit of death. I am for no- thing of all this. In New York, there are at least six daily newspapers; and on- ly one or two republican. If you judge by the state of advertisements, and that is no bad criterion, nine tenths of all the merchants property in the city belongs to the federalists. This federalists live in daily necessity of it. Three of them are decidedly federal. Brazier's was very much so, and the Military Republican. Brown was hardly kept upon its legs. At Alexan- dria, and Washington, we have Hunt, Sawyer, and the City, upon one side, and Miss Smith, and the Library Ad- vertiser upon the other. At Baltimore, the Federal Gazette takes the lead, and to day the Herald at Norfolk. I received, the Boston a water color- ing to take up a federal paper, at Charleston (S. C.) where it seems there is a strong opposition to Jefferson. At Fredericksburg, there is only one pa- per.
When the article is going to press, an evening paper in the newspapers says that the Lib- erty Bell is in market. Several of them have and they are not with them in regard.
per, which is federal. At Petersburg, Lynchburg, Staunton, at Fredericktown, in Maryland, at York and Lancaster in Pennsylvania, the federal printers are at least upon equal terms with their adver- saries. North Carolina swarms with federal newspapers. Six months ago, Jones and Duane were so kind as to tell the world that the federalists had bought "The Recorder." The consequence of this falsehood was that we have got a much better set of subscribers than Jones and Duane put together. We have at this moment, above a thousand subscribers that have paid us in advance. Compare this with Duane's more than forty; and with Jones's outstanding accounts of six thou- sand dollars; and then let Mr. Paine judge whether all this looks like a faction that is in the agonies of death; and that in pro- portion as its fate approaches, gnashes its teeth and struggles.
If any person on the continent is, at this time gnashing his teeth, it must be Thomas Jefferson. What between his inaugural speech contrasted with his two letters to Callender, between Mr. Walker's lady, and Black Sally, between his letter to Peter Carr, and his paste- board tender to Mr. Gabriel Jones, ‡ the president, IF he has one remaining spark of sensibility, must find himself a truely miserable being. As Fielding says of Bish, his situation can in that case, be envied only by a man who is just going to be hanged. In the court of public opinion, Mr. Jefferson stands convicted, irrecoverably convicted, of hypocrisy, of treachery, of ingratitude, of impiety, of personal cowardice, and of brutal lust.
‡ Vid. next week's Recorder. (To be continued.)
Alexandria Advertiser.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8. COMMUNICATION.
MELANCHOLY COMPARISONS. REPUBLICS have long been charged with ingratitude towards their servants and most useful citizens, and the melan- choly truth is so fully established in Ame- rica, that it cannot be disproved, tho' it be denied; when our beloved Washington at the close of the war which ended our struggle for independence, resigned the high trust reposed in him at the commencement of that struggle, every heart was full of gratitude; and the citizens suffered no op- portunity to escape of testifying this lau- dable principle. Scarcely released from the toils and dangers of war, he was again to add to his military exploits, the more brilliant and successful ones in the cabinet. The people freed by his valor and judg- ment from a foreign yoke, required a union, and the doubtful task to him in a great measure, was assigned of forming a government, so as to meet at once the dif- ferent interests and bring into unison the different customs and manners of the peo- ple extended over the vast continent of America, so as not to infringe upon the one nor interfere with the other. How far he succeeded let united America answer; yea, let those who enjoy the comforts and those who have experienced the advantages of twelve years "successful experiment." Answer, and I am persuaded all Americans will acknowledge (except a few unprin- cipled demagogues) that their most sanguine expectations have been exceeded. After this faint picture of all that can be good and great, as a pious, charitable and hu- mane man; as a warrior and as a states- man, peculiarly eminent, let us draw the melancholy comparison.
AMERICANS, this is the man that Cal- ender called (by and with the advice and assistance of his friend ***) a mur- derer; the same that Duane, alias Dunn, of Cioamell, charged with treason, and HE who Paine declares to be a blunderer, a cold, icy-hearted being, who neither loved his friends nor hated his enemies; the adepts of these three monsters are re- iterating the same from the borders of N. Hampshire to the confines of Georgia. — Thirteen years ago, before Americans were duped by these masters and teachers of the new school; before the Americans had been taught ingratitude, such allega- tions would have been treated with meri- ted contempt, and the base authors would have soon met exemplary punishment; but alas! how are we changed, the adepts of these monsters the pupils of Philo- sophy , haunt every place where the weak and in- temperate resort, catching the effluvia of over-heated zeal and improving upon the
passions of the ignorant, they artfully in- stil the poison of pretended patriotism, till the poor deluded and unguarded zealot, filled with the fire of ingratitude and trea- son, issues forth to increase the number. We find their labours not only in the ja- coblin prints, but we find them laboring in the infamous cause even in the streets of our cities, advocating the conduct of a Bona- parte & ridiculing the services of a Wash- ington. A thousand false and scandalous libels are fabricated by foreign hirelings, and daily propagated by deluded Ameri- cans. What a comparison, and yet how true; how debased and subservient, the same men who boldly asserted their rights in opposition to Britain's fleets and armies, now suffer themselves to be loaded with fetters, with chains forged by the Vul- cans of eternal infamy, a Duane and a Paine. My heart, as an American, sick- ens at the comparison; my blood boils at the insult of injured greatness; but Jef- ferson is President, and Gallatin holds America's purse. Americans, consider this: review the comparative situation, made yesterday, of our country, and the foregoing of our patriots. To-morrow we will compare the men of '76 and '89 with the men of 1801, after which let us PAUSE, but not long, or it will be too late — too late indeed.
A VIRGINIAN. (To be continued.)
THANKSGIVING HYMN.
I. FATHER of our feeble race, Wife, benificent and kind, Spread o'er nature's ample face, Flows thy goodness unconfined, Musing in the silent grove, On the busy walks of men, Still we trace thy wondrous love, Claiming large returns again. II. Lord, what offering shall we bring, At thine altars when we bow; Hearts, the pure unfullied spring, Whence the kind affections flow; Soft compassions feeling foul, By the melting eye expressed Sympathy at whose controul Sorrow leaves the wounded breast. III. Willing hands to lead the blind, Bind the wound or feed the poor, Love embracing all mankind, Charity with liberal store; Teach us, O thou heavenly King, Thus to show our grateful mind, Thus the accepted offering bring, Love to thee and all mankind.
Public Sale.
Will be added to Friday's Sales, Holland GIN, in pipes, French Brandy in pipes, N. England Rum in barrels, A quantity of Cordage, Hops in bags, India Muslins, Silk Handkerchiefs, A quantity of coarse Woolens, &c. P. G. MARSTELLER. December 7.
Public Sale.
On Friday the 17th inst. will be sold at the Vendue store, Two bales of BAIZES, Green, blue, pink, scarlet, and black, and napt on both sides. P. G. MARSTELLER. December 8.
Just received and for SALE or barter for FLOUR or TOBACCO, by Thomas L. Washington & Co. Four pipes of four & an half years old LONDON MARKET MADEIRA WINE. December 8. dff
PUBLIC VENDUE.
On the 20th day of this month will be sold, at Vendue, on the Premises, That HOUSE and LOT on Washington street, lately occupied by Jacob Smith, and adjoining the Lot now in the possession of William Cash, at the corner of King and Washington streets. THOMAS PATTEN. December 8. dts
TO BE LET,
THE brick house, on Prince- street, now in the possession of Mrs. Alex- ander near the corner of Pitt-Street. Pos- session to be given on the 15th of this month — apply to Mrs. Fletcher, or to THOS. PATTEN. Dec. 8. d

SAMUEL BISHOP, BOOKSELLER, & STATIONER
Respectfully informs the Public that he has received from Lee & Co's Patent and Family Medicine Store, Baltimore, a fresh assortment of the following Valuable Medicines,
Which are in high esteem and general use throughout the United States, many of them being sold cheaper than the drugs of which they are compounded, can be purchased at a retail store.
TAKE NOTICE,
That S. Bishop is appointed the ONLY Agent for Alexandria,
DR. HAMILTON'S ELIXIR,
A sovereign remedy for Colds, Obsolete Coughs, Asthma, Catarrhs, Sore Throats, and Approaching Consumptions.
To parents who may have children afflicted with the HOOPING COUGH.
This discovery is of the first magnitude, as it is an immediate relief, checks the progress, and in a short time entirely removes the most cruel disorder to which children are liable—the Elixir is perfectly agreeable, and the dose so small, that no difficulty arises in taking it.
From LUTHER MARTIN, Esq. Attorney-General of the State of Maryland.
Gentlemen,
I comply with your request in stating my opinion of Hamilton's Elixir. It has been used in my family for two or three years past, with uniform success, whenever colds, coughs, or similar complaints have rendered medicine necessary. I have myself found it an excellent and agreeable remedy for a very painful and troublesome affection of the breast, accompanied with forensis and with obstructed and difficult breathing.
On these accounts I do not hesitate to recommend Hamilton's Elixir, as a valuable medicine, and deserving public attention.
LUTHER MARTIN.
Mr. Abijah Healy, Bridge-Street, Baltimore, was cured by one bottle of Hamilton's Elixir of a very complicated disorder, occasioned by a severe cold caught several months ago. He breathed with the greatest difficulty, and was often thrown into weakening sweats when he attempted to walk any distance, and his voice would frequently fail in such a degree that he could only attempt to whisper, he has been upwards of six weeks without a return of his complaints, and desires to give this public testimony in favour of this invaluable medicine.
Dr. Hamilton's GRAND RESTORATIVE,
Is recommended as an invaluable medicine, for the speedy relief and permanent cure of the various complaints which result from dissipated pleasures—juvenile indiscretions—residence in climates unfavourable to the constitution—the immoderate use of tea, frequent intoxication, or any other destructive intemperance—the unskillful or excessive use of mercury—the diseases peculiar to females, at a certain period of life—bad lying in, &c. &c.
And is proved by long and extensive experience to be absolutely unparallelled in the cure of Nervous disorders, Consumption, Lowness of spirits, Loss of appetite, Impurity of the blood, Hysterical affections, Inward weakness, Seminal weakness, Fluoribus, (or whites) Barrenness, Violent cramps in the stomach and back, Indigestion, Melancholy, Pain in the stomach, Gout in the limbs, Relaxations, Involuntary emissions, Obsolete ulcers, Impotency, &c. &c.
HAMILTON'S ESSENCE and EXTRACT of MUSTARD,
A safe and effectual remedy for gout, rheumatism, palsy, sprains, bruises, pains in the face and neck, &c. &c. And has performed more cures in the above complaints than all the other medicines ever before made public.
From Dr. Weatherburn, Wythe county, Virginia.
Gentlemen,
I purchased of you the preparations you call Hamilton's Essence, or Extract of Mustard, which I believe has perfectly removed a chronic rheumatism (of that kind named Plica) or of the hip joint under which I had laboured for a long time, and which had baffled every article in the Materia Medica, and every mode of treatment received into practice for the cure of this obstinate disease. If you think this letter useful you are at liberty to make it public.
Yours, &c.
P. WEATHERBURN.
John Healy, rope-maker, South Second-Street, between Mary and Christian-Streets, Philadelphia, recently married with as follows, namely, his wife, Mary Healy, was so severely afflicted with a violent rheumatism, very dangerous in its nature, and of a severe and distressing kind, that she was at length reduced to the necessity of apprehension of remaining a cripple for life, notwithstanding the most respectable medical advice was followed, and every probable remedy attempted: when seeing several cases of cures performed by Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mustard, they were procured from Mr. Wick, No. 17, South Second-Street. The first application enabled her to walk several steps, and the use of one bottle restored her to her usual state of health and strength.
JOHN HEALY.
Sworn and subscribed before Ebenezer Fergerson, Esq. one of the justices of the peace for Philadelphia County.
HAMILTON'S
WORM DESTROYING LOZENGES.
Which have within four years past cured upwards of one hundred and twenty thousand persons of both sexes, of every age, and in every nation, of various dangerous complaints arising from worms, and form obstructions or foulness in the stomach and bowels.
This medicine bears no analogy whatever of similar title, so commonly composed of as operating with violence; on the contrary, a particular excellence of this remedy is its being suited to every age and constitution; contains nothing but what is perfectly innocent, and is so mild in its operation that it cannot injure the most delicate pregnant lady, or the tenderest infant of a week old, should no worms exist in the body; but will, without pain or griping, cleanse the stomach and bowels of whatever is foul or offensive, and thereby prevent the production of worms and many fatal disorders. They are particularly efficacious in carrying off all gross humours and eruptions; feverish and bilious complaints, and are the safest and mildest purgative that can be used on any occasion.
Description of Worms, and the symptoms by which they are known.
Worms which infest the human body, are chiefly of four kinds, viz. the Terec or large round worm, the Ascarides, or small maw worm, the Cucurbitina, or short, flat, white worm, and lastly, the Tania, or tape worm, so called from its resemblance to tape; this is often many yards long, and is full of joints—it is most hurtful, and most difficult to cure.
Among the symptoms attending worms, are disagreeable breath, especially in the morning—Bad and corrupted gums—itching in the nose and about the seat—Convulsions and epileptic fits, and sometimes privation of speech—Starting and grinding of the teeth in sleep—Irregular appetite, sometimes loathing food, and sometimes voracious—Purging, with slimy and fetid stools—Vomiting—Large and hard belly—Pains and sickness at the stomach—Pains in the head and thighs, with lowness of spirits—Slow fever, with small and irregular pulse—A dry cough—Excessive thirst—Sometimes pale and unhealthy countenance, and sometimes the face bloated and flushed.
Persons afflicted with any of the above symptoms, should have immediate recourse to HAMILTON'S WORM DESTROYING LOZENGES, which have been constantly attended with success in all complaints similar to those above described.
A dose of this medicine given occasionally during the warm season, will effectually prevent the vomiting and purging of children, a dreadful disorder which annually destroys thousands of the infant part of our cities. It is likewise the mildest and most certain remedy known and has restored to health and strength a great number when in an advanced stage of this fatal complaint. Particular and plain instructions are given for every part of the necessary treatment in such cases.
Children generally take this medicine with eagerness; having a pleasing appearance, and an agreeable taste.
CASES OF CURES.
(Selected from thousands) the authenticity of which any person may ascertain, either by letter or personal application.
TAPE WORM.
Mr. SAMUEL FULLER, Inn-keeper, on the Harford road, ten miles from Baltimore, began about 20 months ago to be grievously afflicted with a tape worm, which increased fast in size and strength, so as to excite the most horrid sensations by its writhing motions and intolerable pains, resembling the gnawing and tearing of his bowels, which deprived him of his necessary sleep, and caused such dreadful apprehensions as cannot be conceived but by one in a similar situation—his appetite wasted rapidly, and with that his strength, so that he was unable to attend to any business—when he heard of some excellent cures performed by Hamilton's worm lozenges, he took a large dose, which brought away about FOUR YARDS of the worm (now in the possession of Lee & Co.)—but a renewal of his pains soon convinced him that this monstrous repule had recovered its first vigour—Application was made to Lee & Co. for more of their medicine, with their advice—from which resulted the total expulsion of his formidable enemy, in several pieces, which he supposed to be SIX or EIGHT YARDS more. A few months have since elapsed, and Mr. Fuller is now in perfect health. The above facts are well known to a numerous circle of his neighbours, and himself will gratify any who may wish to make further inquiries on the subject. Although Hamilton's worm lozenges produce such powerful effects, when necessary, yet they are perfectly innocent and mild in their operation on the human body, even taken in large doses, as Mr. Fuller will testify—their particular mildness is abundantly evident in innumerable cures of infants.
Communicated by Dr. John Spangler, York-town, Pennsylvania.
Letter from the reverend Mr. JOHN MOLTHER, minister of the Moravian church, in York-town.
York, January 4th, 1802.
Dear Sir,
Dr. Hamilton's lozenges have been recommended to me as a very adequate means for the cure of children afflicted with worms. I procured a box for the use of my family, to try, whether by means of this medicine, I might be enabled to gain a point, which, to accomplish, different other means had proved abortive. My eldest boy had a very sickly appearance, was very restless at night, grew leaner from time to time; in short, he seemed to be in a precarious state of health, which would yield to none of the medicines administered, until I gave him two doses of lozenges agreeably to the directions, which carried off a substance to all appearance a mucus, but upon close inspection quite reple
with very small living animals. Not one of that sort of worms which usually afflict children came from him. Since that period he grew remarkably better in health, and though lean, has got a fresh and lively complexion. Upon different occasions I have used this medicine as a purging substitute, and found it to answer exceedingly well, without bringing on belly-ache, or any of those disagreeable sensations, so often occasioned by purging medicines. Upon the whole, I judge this medicine to be, besides its main object, one of the most salutary means for restoring lost appetite, and promoting a proper state of digestion, by carrying off that bilious substance, which engenders so much indisposition both among children and adults.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, JOHN MOLTHER.
DR. HAHN'S TRUE and GENUINE GERMAN CORN-PLAISTER.
An infallible remedy for corns, speedily removing them, root and branch, without giving pain.
THE GENUINE PERSIAN LOTION,
So celebrated among the fashionable throughout Europe, as an invaluable cosmetic, perfectly innocent and safe, free from corrosive and repellent minerals (the basis of other lotions) and of unparalleled efficacy in preventing and removing blemishes in the face and skin of every kind, particularly freckles, pimples, inflammatory redness, scurf, tetter, ring worms, sun burns, prickly heat, &c.
The Persian Lotion operates mildly, without impeding that natural, insensible perspiration which is essential to health. Yet its salutary effects are speedy and permanent, rendering the skin delicately soft and clear, improving the complexion, and restoring the bloom of youth. Never failing to render an ordinary countenance beautiful, and a handsome one more so.
THE RESTORATIVE POWDER for the TEETH and GUMS.
This excellent preparation comforts and strengthens the gums, preserves the enamel from decay, and cleanses and whitens the teeth, by absorbing all that acrimonious slime & foulness, which suffered to accumulate, never fails to injure and finally ruin them.
DR. HAHN'S GENUINE EYE-WATER.
A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eyes, whether the effect of natural weakness or of accident, defluxions of rheum, dullness, itching and filth on the eyes, never failing to cure those maladies which frequently succeed the small pox, measles and fevers, and wonderfully strengthening a weak sight. Hundreds have experienced its excellent virtues, when nearly deprived of sight.
TOOTH ACHE DROPS.
The only remedy yet discovered which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe instances.
THE SOVEREIGN OINTMENT for the ITCH,
Which is warranted an infallible remedy at one application, and may be used with perfect safety by pregnant women, or on infants a week old, not containing a particle of mercury, or any other dangerous ingredient whatever, and is not accompanied with that tormenting smart which attends the application of other remedies.
THE ANODYNE ELIXIR.
For the cure of every kind of head-ache.
INDIAN VEGETABLE SPECIFIC.
A safe and speedy remedy for the venereal disease.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
For the prevention and cure of bilious and malignant fevers,
IS RECOMMENDED
DR. HAHN'S ANTI-BILIOUS-PILLS.
The operation of these pills is perfectly mild, so as to be used with safety by persons in every situation, and of every age.
They are excellently adapted to carry off superfluous bile, and prevent its morbid secretions—to restore and amend the appetite—to procure a free perspiration, and thereby prevent colds, which are often attended with fatal consequences—a dose never fails to remove a cold, if taken on its first appearance. They are celebrated for removing habitual costiveness—sickness at the stomach, and severe head-ache—and ought to be taken by all persons on a change of climate.
Sold likewise by S. Pleasants, Richmond; Rofs and Douglass, Petersburg; T. Green, Frederickburgh; G. Purdie, Smithfield; M. Jones, Suffolk; Dr. Miller, Winchester; R. Green, how, Williamsburg; and J. Shaw Leesburg.
B E E F.
A few barrels of good BEEF (lately packed) just received and for sale by BENJAMIN SHREVE, jun.
October 14
The Subscriber has received, 12,000lb. Green Coffee, entitled to drawback, and 18 bales of Cotton, which he will sell low.
He has also for Sale, Molasses of the first quality, and A few blds. of Sugar.
ROBERT YOUNG.
October 13.
JOSIAH FAXON, & Co.
Very respectfully inform their friends and customers that they have received from Boston and New-York, their fall assortment of
LADIES & GENTLEMENS Fashionable Shoes, & Slippers. Mens large coarse Shoes, Boys, Misses and Childrens Shoes, of almost every description.
They have also the following goods on hand, VIZ:
4 Pipes first proof Geneva, 50 Barrels New-England Rum, 30 Do. Mackerel, 10 Do. Salmon, 10 Boxes Maud Candles, 20 Do. Dips do. 3 Casks Claret Wine, 40 Barrels Boston Beer, 60 Kegs James River manufactured Tobacco, 1 Box gentlemen's fine Hats, 1 Bhd. Atom, 1 Box half pint Tumblers, 7 M. feet N. England Boards, 200 Bushels James River Coal, suitable for Smith's work, Coarse and fine Salt, Nova-Scotia Grindstones, A few barrels of Apples, Rhode-Island Lime, &c. &c.
Nov. 26.
FOR SALE,
On Wednesday the 15th day of December next, if fair, if not the next fair day, at Leeton, in Fairfax County two miles from the town of Centerville,
SOME
Valuable Negroes,
To discharge the debts due from the estate of George R. L. Turberville, deceased, that are at this time made known to the Administrator. Six months credit will be allowed the purchasers on their giving bond with approved security, or three per cent will be allowed to those purchasers who choose to pay ready money.
GARVIN CORBIN, TURBERVILLE,
Administrator.
Nov. 16.
86 cods
CARVING, GILDING, and VARNISHING.
Mrs. RACHEL ATKINS,
(From Philadelphia)
In Prince-Street, between Fairfax and Water-Streets, next door to Dr. Dick's in the house lately occupied by GROVE WRIGHT:
Respectfully informs the citizens of Alexandria that she intends residing here for a few months, and will be happy in executing any orders in the above branches of business. She regilds and varnishes old frames so as to make them appear like new—and likewise varnishes them with a particular kind of varnish that will bear washing.
She has on hand,
A large and elegant assortment of Prints, Looking-Glasses, & GIRANDOLES.
of every description, which will be sold on the lowest terms for cash.
Orders from a distance will be punctually attended.
Nov. 15.
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A Wharf, Warehouses & Dwelling Houses.
TO RENT,
For one or a term of years, that Wharf with all the Warehouses thereon, situated on the corner of Princess and Union-Streets, now in the occupation of Mr. Kenneth Mathison, of which possession may be had the first day of January next.
That two story brick Dwelling House situated opposite the above property, to which there is a pretty large garden, possession of which may be had the first day of next month.
Also, that two story framed Dwelling House, near the corner of Princess and Water-Streets, lately occupied by Mr. John M'Iver—of this, immediate possession may be had.
HEPBURN & DUNDAS,
Who want to purchase or hire two or three good plantation NEGROES.
Nov. 16.
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WM. GROVERMAN, Offers his services to the public a Broker & in the Commission line. Notes and Checks discounted. Punctuality and secrecy may be relied on.
PRINTED DAILY BY S. SNOWDEN.