The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1804-05-23 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. IV.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. DLXVI.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23d, 1804.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
TO BE SOLD
AT public sale on Wednesday the 5th of June, at Montgomery courthouse, at Mr. Robb's Tavern, at 12 o'clock—a Tract of Land called DUNLAH—the property of R. Lee, esq. lying within 2 miles of the courthouse, containing 300 acres of valuable farming land.
Mr. William Clements, living near the premises will show them to any person inclined to purchase. One third of the purchase money to be paid down, the remainder in 9 and 12 months—Also in George Town the next day, at Mr. McLaughlin's Tavern at 12 o'clock, the following parcels of Land, two undivided fourth parts of Scotch Ordinary near George Town, containing in the whole 73 acres. One undivided fourth part of a Tract of Land called Read's swamp, containing 467 acres, near Pilcraway.
Two undivided fourth parts of a Tract of Land called Beall's Reserve, near the latter Tract, containing 310 acres.
JAMES CLERKLE.
May 16,—15 Jun.
Public Sale.
By virtue of a decree of the circuit court of the district of Columbia for the county of Washington sitting as a court of chancery, at the suit of William H. Dorsey, Nicholas Heages, George Craig and Adam Whann, against Agnes Jackson, executrix; William Jackson, executor; Jonathan Jackson, Matthew Jackson, Elizabeth Jackson and Susanna Jackson, infant heirs of Jonathan Jackson, deceased, defendants—Will be exposed at public auction to the highest bidder at the Union Tavern in George Town on Thursday the 7th day of June next, at 11 o'clock A.M. all the right, title, and interest of said Jonathan Jackson, deceased, to the following lots of ground in the city of Washington—the lots numbered 21 and 22 in square numbered 75, the lot numbered 2 in square numbered 154, and part of a lot numbered 24 in square numbered 75, which said part of a lot has now on it the ruins of a brick house, barns together with a house of Mr. Hodgson's then occupied as a War Office. And all the right, title and interest of the said J. Jackson to the following lots or parcels of ground in George Town, that lot of ground on the north of Causeway Street, beginning on the north of said street at the distance of 23 feet westerly from the south wall of Joseph Peck's house, and running thence westerly 26 feet and running back 125 feet—Also that lot of ground on Washington Street, adjoining to the south side of the house now occupied by Wm. A. Rind, fronting on said street 47 feet and running back 120 feet—and also that lot of ground on the north west corner of Congress and West Streets of Beall's second addition to George Town fronting on each street 40 feet. The terms of sale are one years credit from the day of sale, the purchaser or purchasers giving their bonds, with approved security for the purchase money, with interest thereon.
AGNES JACKSON, WILLIAM JACKSON, } trustees.
May 18—37w
N. B. We hereby give notice to all persons having claims against the estate of the said Jonathan Jackson, deceased, either for debts due, or legacies bequeathed, to bring them into court within three weeks after the above sale.
A. J. W. J.
NOTICE.
A Legionary Court will sit on the 6th day of June next at 10 o'clock in the morning at Mr. Rhodes's Tavern in the city of Washington, for the purpose of laying fines on officers—hearing appeals, &c. &c. &c.
A punctilious attendance of the members is earnestly requested.
By order of Lt. Col. D. G. BRENT.
WM. D. BEALL,
Adj. 1st L. M. D. C.
May 18—law 6 Jun
Valuable Land for Sale.
The executors of the last will and testament of Anthony Holmead deceased, will sell at private sale about forty acres of Land adjoining the city of Washington at the northern extremity of 20th Street west. This land is generally allowed to be one of the handiest situations near the city, having a beautiful prospect of nearly the whole of the city of Washington, Alexandria and George Town, and any person inclined to purchase this valuable property, will be shown the same, and know the terms by application to the subscriber near the premises.
JOHN HOLMEAD.
November 11—w1f
To be Sold,
At public sale, at Mr. John Barney's Columbian Inn, on the 10th day of September next, at 2 o'clock, P. M.
ALL the right, title, interest, and estate of Nicholas February (an insolvent debtor) in, and to sixteen and three quarter acres of land, with a dwelling house thereon, in the vicinity of George Town, also some household and kitchen furniture.—Terms of sale, the purchaser to give bond with approved security, payable in six months after the day of sale, any person wishing to view the property before the sale, may apply to the subscriber. In the above case, the creditors are requested to exhibit their claims within the time limited, to the subscriber.
CHARLES BEATTY, Trustee.
George Town March 7
National Intelligencer.
THOUGHTS on the LIMITS to which the RIGHT of SUFFRAGE ought to be extended.
(Continued.)
The equal interest of all men in government having been by some writers denied, let us examine the arguments on which the denial rests, as this branch of the discussion is of radical importance. All are agreed that life and liberty are at least of equal value with property. But it is said that however valuable these possessions may be, they can only be secured by those who enjoy other qualifications than are inseparable from them, and that these qualifications consist in superior endowments of mind not to be found among the poorer classes of society. Hence the necessity of restricting political rights to men of information and liberal views. Men of other descriptions are affirmed to be incompetent to self government. But this is not all. They are not only unable to govern themselves; but their narrow minds, prejudices and interests render them dangerous rulers of a society which they undertook to protect not only life and liberty, but property also. It is, therefore, contended, that they will sap the rights of property, and reduce the possessions of all to a level with their own.
This objection entirely turns upon the ignorance and imaginary interest of the lower class of the people. An unprejudiced view of the state of society in this country will demonstrate that neither the one nor the other exist. That man cannot be called ignorant who has sense enough to perform all the duties required of him. He is relatively as wise as Deity itself. Now the duty required of an American citizen, supposing the right of suffrage to be universal, is the discriminating selection of rulers. Here begins and ends his political duties so far as respects the principles in discussion. The only enquiry is, whether the American people, collectively taken are sufficiently enlightened to make a wise choice of their rulers, a choice not absolutely perfect, but as good as could be effected in any other way. It is necessary to observe that the discharge of this duty does not require that every citizen voting should make the best choice, but only that a majority of the citizens should concur in making it. Now, it is most evident that without being wise myself, I may be perfectly able to decide who are the wisest men in the community. This capacity unquestionably exists in a great majority of the American people. This arises from the peculiar state of society which allows every man time to reflect for himself, which calls the powers of his mind into constant and habitual exercise from the freedom of pursuit that our government guarantees, from the nature of a popular government that animates enquiry and diffuses information, and from that equality among the citizens that produces a promiscuous intercourse among all descriptions of citizens. From these united circumstances, it may be safely affirmed that the whole people of the United States are competent to choose their own rulers. Montesquieu, indeed, speaking of other states possessed of information infinitely less than that enjoyed by the American people, says, "The people are extremely well qualified for choosing those whom they are to entrust with part of their authority. They have only to be determined by things to which they cannot be strangers, and by facts that are obvious to sense."
Again—"Should we doubt of the people's natural capacity, in respect to the discernment of merit, we need only cast an eye on the series of surprising elections made by the Athenians and Romans; which no one surely will attribute to hazard."
If such was the dispassionate conviction of a profound writer on government, who lived under a monarchy & was the apologist of its vices, may we not safely affirm that the unprejudiced judgment of a republican will lead him to the same conclusion?
It is, indeed, the pride of a republican government that the elements of its existence have all that simplicity and energy that, in combination, ever produce the greatest effects and promise the longest duration to the works to which they are attached. What can be more simple than every citizen voting for his rulers once a year? What more energetic than the expression of the national will through rulers thus chosen? The people are not called upon to make laws for themselves. They are only required
to name those who are to make them. In this nomination, every citizen is not obliged to consult his own judgement, or be guided by his own limited information. He has, on the contrary, open to him, the opinions of the wisest men in the community. It is, from this consideration, that, where the most extended right of suffrage exists, the wisest choice will always be made. All the information of the community will unite in the selection. Every species of knowledge will be combined. The rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak, the refinement of education, and the strong sense of uneducated genius, will form a common stock. Each description of citizens will advance their claims, and urge their pretensions. Public opinion will be enlightened, and thus a more discriminating choice be effected than could be accomplished in any other way. We may accordingly appeal to the whole experience of the world, and find that popular elections have uniformly educed from the mass of society the greatest talents. From this view we may fairly infer that the people have sense enough to govern themselves through their rulers.
But we are told that an imaginary interest, the offspring of ignorance, will induce those who have little or no property to sap the rights of those who have considerable property and thus reduce the possessions of all to a level with their own.
Whatever force this argument may have in reference to the condition of the people under despotisms, monarchies, and aristocracies, it can have no correct application to that of a people under a republican government, much less can it apply to a people situated as the American people are. In the former instances, the acquisitions of property being, in general, the result of fraud or force, and being accompanied by the most humiliating depression and misery of the poor, from which they can never hope to be relieved by ordinary means, a sense of distinct and hostile interests will necessarily arise, and a desire however cloaked, universally prevail, to humble their proud oppressors, and tumble their lofty battlements in ruin. This is the tax which tyrants ever pay for the enjoyment of power and pleasure. Their continuance is insecure. Their subjects are a combustible volcano; and a single spark, thrown among them, may, in a moment, produce the widest conflagration. In such a state there is nothing fixed. There is no common interest that unites the members of the society to the government and to each other. As the prince acquired all he possesses by violence, so are his slaves ready, without scruple, on the fairest prospect of success, to use the same means that he so successfully employed. In such a state property must be insecure. The little security attached to it depends upon denying to the great body of the people the least participation in political power.
But the delineation of our state of society has not one common feature with this picture. Here there is no power acquired by violence or fraud, and property is the fruit of industry. It is, moreover, widely diffused; and there is scarcely a citizen who does not enjoy a measure of it. Those, who are to day poor, may be rich to-morrow. There are no laws to repress industry or to encourage monopoly; on the contrary their enlightened policy, wherever it interposes, aids the one by disallowing the other. Every thing is consequently in a state of mutation. Neither riches or poverty are necessarily attached to any particular orders of men. The whole national wealth is a common stock, and in a state of unceasing distribution among the most industrious and intelligent members of society. In such a state of things, labour itself is as much property, as a freehold estate. He who possesses the capacity, by his own hands, of acquiring annually five hundred dollars, is as rich as the idle man who enjoys a clear estate in land of five hundred dollars a year. Can there, then, be any reason, for excluding the former from a participation in political rights, while the latter is admitted to a full enjoyment of them? Which is the most useful member of society; he who adds to its common stock by his labor, or he who diminishes that stock by his idleness and inactivity?
Nor is it possible for any other than a common interest to exist in such a state of society. What I expect to obtain to-morrow, I will be as solicitous of having protected by wise laws, as though I already held it. Hence those who are in a course of acquiring property by regular industry will be as strenuous defenders of the rights of property as
those who hold it by hereditary tenure or from personal acquisition. Nay they will be more strenuous defenders of it. From principles, intimately interwoven in our natures, it is a fact that we entertain a higher value for expected than acquired possessions, and also for those possessions that are acquired by ourselves than for those that come to us from others.
From these considerations alone it is evident that property, so far from being injured by universal suffrage, would be secured by it. But there are other considerations of great weight, which merit a full development of their effects, but which our present limits inhibit.
Such are the following:
1. Property is in its effects so fragile and efficacious that it is scarcely possible to prevent its having an attendant influence. This influence constitutes it at once its own protectress, and gives it an empire in all the private transactions of life, and in all the public affairs of nations. Next to the vital air we breathe, it mingles itself with all the concerns of our lives. From the power connected with riches, mankind will ever be dazzled by them, and err rather by too excessive an admiration than by too great an hostility to them. Those who possess them will, therefore, inevitably find their way into every department of the government. The same remark applies to those possessed of great talents. Can there be a more forcible illustration of the truth of this than the remarks of Montesquieu.
"We know," says he, "that though the people of Rome assumed to themselves the right of railing plebeians to public offices, yet they never would exert this power; and though at Athens the magistrates were allowed, by the law of Aristides, to be elected from all the different classes of inhabitants, there never was a case, says Xenophon, that the common people petitioned for employments that could endanger either their security or glory."
The same effect has been conspicuously illustrated in our most important elections. Our three successive chief magistrates have been men of great talents, and either rich, or in independent circumstances.
2. Nothing can so endanger the rights of property as the impression that they are upheld by an interest distinct from the common interest. This will unavoidably excite a jealousy between the rich and the poor. The former will aim at oppressing the latter to abridge their power, and the latter will lose no opportunity of retaliating on their oppressors. To deny to the poor an equal participation in political rights will produce this impression. This has been the course of events in all countries where the rights of property have been invaded. The rich first oppressed the poor, who, when an opportunity offered, deprived their oppressors of the instruments of their oppression by an equal distribution of their possessions.
3. Where the right of suffrage is universal, there will be a general, not to say universal spirit of content with the government, the laws, and the state of things superinduced by them. Hence all those alarming convulsions and insurrections will be avoided which are the graves of property.
Having seen that the rights of property, so far from being endangered by universal suffrage, will derive additional security from it, let us reverse the picture, and enquire into the probable effects of a denial of it. This is a view of the subject, at least of equal importance with that just taken, as it is the happiness of all its citizens, and not of a part, that it is the duty of a republican government to secure.
(To be concluded.)
PUBLIC SALE.
By order of the Orphans court of Washington county in the district of Columbia will be sold to the highest bidder on Saturday the second day of June next, at the late dwelling house of Richard Frazer deceased, at the hour of 11 o'clock in the forenoon of said day—The personal estate of said Richard Frazer deceased, consisting of negroes, store goods, household furniture, two lots on lease, on one of which lots is erected a two story frame house and other improvements, together with a variety of other articles.
The terms of sale are—For all sums not above 20 dollars, cash. For purchases above that amount a credit of 6 months—bond with good security to be given for payment with interest from the day of sale.
SAM. N. SMALLWOOD, admr. Washington, May 18—3t
From the American Daily Advertiser
MR. POULSON,
The following excellent original paper on various important agricultural subjects, has already been published in various forms in the United States, and in Europe, and has deservedly excited very general attention.—As however some may not have yet seen it, and as the great truths it sets forth, are intimately connected with the farming interest, I request you will again give it insertion. The philosophical speculator into the theory of vegetation, cannot fail of being gratified by the development of principles, which have unfortunately been too little attended to in this country, but the practical farmer will apply the important doctrines, to the preservation of the quality of his grain, and no longer give into the absurd notions, which have too generally prevailed among our agricultural citizens, respecting the inevitable deterioration of seed sown on the same ground, and the necessity of frequently renewing our seed from remote places.
Cooper's Point, 17th April, 1799.
RESPECTED FRIEND,
Kind providence having placed me in a station of life which obliged me to procure a living by industry, and that principally in the agricultural line, it has caused me to be a strict observer of the works of nature, with respect to such parts of the vegetable creation as have come under my particular notice, and have been greatly embarrassed at the opinion very generally entertained by farmers and gardeners, that changing seeds, roots and plants to distant places, or different soils or climates, is beneficial to agriculture, not agreeing with my observations on practice. This induced me to make many experiments on that head, all of which, in more than forty years practice, have operated to prove to my satisfaction, that the above opinion is not well founded, and if so, must be extremely prejudicial to agriculture, as it turns the attention of the husbandman from what appears to me one great object, viz, that of selecting seeds and roots for planting or sowing, from such vegetables as come to the greatest perfection in the soil which he cultivates.
What induced me to make experiments on that head, was observing that all kinds of vegetables were continually varying in their growth, quality, production and time of maturity. This led me to believe that the great Author of nature, has so constructed that wonderful machine, if I may be allowed the expression, as to incline every kind of soil and climate to naturalize all kinds of vegetables, that it will produce at any rate, the better to suit them, if the agriculturists will do their part in selecting the most proper seed.
In support of which I will take the liberty of subjoining a few facts and experiments out of an inconceivable number which have all combined to prove the above to my satisfaction.
In, or about the year 1746, my father procured the seeds of the long warry squash, which have been kept on the farm ever since without changing, and are now far preferable to what they were at first. Our early peas were procured from London the spring before Braddock's defeat, and have been planted successively every season since on the place. They have not been changed and are now preferable to what they were when first obtained. The seed of our asparagus was procured from New York, in the year 1752, since which time I have not planted a seed but what grew on my beds, and by selecting the seed, from the largest stalks I have improved it greatly.
A complaint is very general, that potatoes of every kind degenerate, at which I am not surprised, when the most proper means to produce that effect is constantly practiced; to wit, using or selling the bells, and planting the refuse; by which means almost the whole of those planted are the produce of plants the most degenerated. The consideration of which induced me to try an opposite method. Having often observed that some plants or vines produced potatoes larger, better shaped, and in greater abundance than others, without any apparent reason except the operation of nature, it induced me to save a quantity from such only for planting the ensuing season, and I was highly gratified in finding their production exceed that of others of the same kind, planted at the same time, and with every equal advantage, beyond my expectation, in size, shape, and quantity; this induced me to continue the practice, and I am

satisfied that I have been fully compensated for all the additional trouble. A circumstance happened respecting potatoes, which may be worth relating: a woman whom I met in market requested me to bring her a bushel of Sweet potatoes for seed the next market day, which I promised to do, but going through the market on that day, previous to her coming for the potatoes, I observed the woman selling such as I had brought for her; when she came, I asked her the reason why she wanted potatoes for seed, while they were selling their own; her answer was that his father said if they did not get seed from me once in three or four years, their potatoes would be good for nothing. Query, if she had used the same means in selecting her potatoes for planting as I did whether she would have profited by changing with one who used the other method.
In discoursing with a friend who lived at a great distance from me on the above subject, he introduced two instances in favour of changing seed, one was asparagus, the radish seed, he had from me, the production of both he said was preferable to any thing of the kind ever seen in that neighbourhood which was near 100 miles distant, to which he ascribed the benefit; but in two or three years the radishes degenerated so as to be no better than what he had before; I asked his method of saving seed, he said he had no other radishes in his garden, and when he had pulled what was fit for use let the other go to seed. I then told him my method, viz: As soon as radishes are fit for use, I dig up ten or twelve of those which please me best, as to colour, shape, &c. and plant them at least 100 yards from where any others bloom at the time they do—this, I informed him, was the best method I knew of to improve any kind of vegetables, varying the process agreeable to their nature; and as he had, in my opinion, taken the most proper method to degenerate his, I asked if he thought I should be benefited by exchanging with him? his answer was, he believed I was the best gardener.
In or about the year 1772, a friend sent me a few grains of a small kind of Indian corn, the grains of which were no larger than a goose shot, which he informed me by a note in which they were inclosed, were originally from Guinea produced from 8 to 10 ears on a stalk. Those grains I planted, and found the production to answer the description, but the ears were small, and few of them opened before I saved some of the largest and earliest, and planted them between rows of larger and earlier kinds of corn, which produced a mixture to advantage; then I sowed seed from stalks that produced the greatest number of the largest ears, and first ripe, which I planted the ensuing season, and was not a little gratified to find its production preferable, both in quantity and quality, to that of any corn I had ever planted. This kind of corn I have continued to plant ever since, selecting that designated for seed in the manner I would with others to try, viz:—When the first ears are ripe enough for seed, gather a sufficient quantity for early corn, or for replanting, and at the time you with your corn to ripen generally, gather a sufficient quantity for planting the next year, having particular care to take it from stalks that are large at bottom, of a regular taper, not over tall, the ears set low containing the greatest number of good sizeable ears of the best quality; let it dry speedily, and from the corn gathered as last described, plant your main crop, and if any hills should miss, replant from that first gathered, which will cause the crop to ripen more regularly than is common; this is a great benefit.
The above method I have practiced many years, and am satisfied it has increased the quantity, and improved the quality of my crops beyond the expectation of any person who has not tried the experiment. The distance of planting corn, and the number of grains in a hill, are matters many differ in; perhaps different soils may require a difference in both these respects; but in every kind of soil I have tried, I find planting the rows six feet asunder each way, as nearly at right angles as may be, and leaving not more than four stalks on a hill, produces the best crop. The common method of saving seed corn, by taking the ears from the crib or heap, is attended with two disadvantages; one is the taking the largest ears, which have generally grown but one on a stalk. This lessens the production; the other is, taking ears that have ripened at different times, which causes the production to do the same.
A striking instance of plants being naturalised happened by col. Matlack sending some water-melon seed from Georgia, which he informed me by letter were of superior quality: knowing seed from vegetables which had grown in more southern climates required a longer summer than what grew here, I gave them the most favorable situation, and used glass to bring them forward, yet very few ripened to perfection; but finding them to be as excellent in quality as described, I saved seed from those first ripe; and by continuing that prac-
tice four or five years, they became as early water-melons as I ever had. Many admit the above errors from foreign flax seed producing the best flax in Ireland; but when it is considered that it is the bark of the stalk only that is used in Ireland, which is in the best perfection before the seed is ripe, and that part not used from any other plant except hemp, the argument falls to the ground when applied to other vegetables.
For many years past, I have renewed the whole seed of my winter grain, from a single plant which I have observed to be more productive, and of better quality than the rest, which I am satisfied, has been of great use, and I am fully of opinion, that all kinds of garden vegetables may be improved by the foregoing methods, particular care being taken that different kinds of the same species of vegetables are not in bloom at the same time near together as by that happening, they mix, degenerate, and each kind is injured. I am sensible the foregoing will meet with great opposition and contradiction, but as an experiment is safe and easy, I hope it will induce persons of more leisure, ability, and observation than myself, to make trial as a means of improving the agriculture of our country—Such is the sincere wish of my friend, JOSEPH COOPER.
From the NEWARK CENTINEL.
VIRGINIA INFLUENCE. A desire to sever the New England states from the federal union, has for some time been evidently recognized by some of the leading characters in the opposition. Finding themselves completely conquered in the middle and southern states, and their party dwindling into extreme insignificance in the northern, they have remodelled their machinations, in order to preserve that power which they so iniquitously exercised, during the administration of Mr. Adams. As the most effectual means to insure this, a separation has been seriously meditated, and even announced by gasconading threats, in some of the northern papers. In order to make this plan popular, (with the Yankees) a most unwarrantable use has been made of that bug-bear, that frightful and insatiable monster denominated Virginia Influence! This state, one of the most patriotic and enlightened in the union, has been represented as verging to the uncontrollable domination, and unlimited direction of the general government; as taking rapid strides towards that power by which the remainder of the union is to be subjugated, and its influence demolished. Time would fail us to enumerate the subtle arts, the perilous means pursued by the federalists, to render the state of Virginia odious and detested by her northern brethren—all of which act as a powerful stimulus to instigate the people of New England to oppose the measures of government; to secede from the union of states, and erect themselves into a distinct and separate government. The innumerable evils, and ruinous consequences resulting from such separation, are too plain to every discerning need much expatiation. Two separate governments could not possibly continue under the circumstances naturally incident to a separation of this kind. One or the other must fall; an equilibrium of power could not possibly be sustained—and without it, the weakest would be the discomfited slave of the other. As a specimen of the hatred, and of the jealousy with which these principles are inculcated and instilled into the minds of the people, we extract a toast given at Boston, and drank with applause, in union with others, at a public festival of the leading federalists of that city, in honor of Mr. Gore, a commissioner under the British treaty, and who has returned.
"May the dominion of Virginia be limited by the constitution, or at least by the Delaware."
Here is a plain and palpable insinuation, that there is reason to believe that "Virginia dominion" will overleap the bonds of the constitution. That the unscrupulous of the rights of the neighbouring states, would sacrifice at the shrine of ambition, their constitutional and individual privileges. What are we to understand by the phrase "at least by the Delaware," except that the waters of that river should be the separation line between the two governments? The toast admits precisely of this definition. A Virginian President is at the helm of affairs; he is also a republican. We have opposed him "with all our strength and with all our minds," but he still retains the confidence of the people, and daily increases in popularity. If we cannot oust him from his exalted seat, and place a northern federalist in the chair of state, we are ready and determined to secede from the union, and no longer be servile to the humiliating "dominion of Virginia." This is the language of many of our warm political opponents.
To our friends who revere the constitution which binds us together for our mutual safety and independence, we pledge our feeble labors in its support. With them we will rejoice, that the influence,
which was inadequate to replace Mr. Adams in the Presidential chair, is also too effeminate to dissolve our national compact. With them we will unite in hymns of praise, that peace predominates on this part of the earth, and that good will is entertained towards men.
Foreign Intelligence.
PARIS, 1st Germinal (March 22.)
SPECIAL MILITARY COMMISSION. JUDGMENT.
In the name of the French People. This day, 30th Ventose (March 21) in the 12th year of the Republic, the Special Military Commission, formed of the first military division by virtue of a decree of the Government dated the 28th inst. founded upon the law of the 19th Fructidor, year 5, and consisting of seven members, viz: Citizens Hulin, general of brigade, President; Guiton, colonel, commandant of the first regiment of cuirassiers; P. Zancourt, colonel, commandant of the first regiment of light infantry; Ravier, colonel, commandant of the 18th regiment of infantry of the line; Borrois, colonel, commandant of the 96th regiment of infantry of the line; Rabbe, colonel, commandant of the 2d regiment of the municipal guard of Paris; D'Autancourt, captain major of the gendarmerie, exercising the functions of captain-reporter; and Molin, captain of the 18th regiment of the line, Secretary; all named by the general in chief Murat, governor of Paris, and commander of the first military division.
The which president, members, reporter, and Secretary, stand not to be accused or to each other in the degree of infamy prohibited by law.
The commission convoked by the order of the general in chief, governor of Paris, organized itself at the chateau de Vincennes, in the apartment of the commander of the place, for the purpose of trying Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien, born at Chantilly the 2d August, 1772, in height 705 millimetres, hair and eye brows of a bright chestnut colour, long oval countenance, well shaped, grey eyes, small mouth, aquiline nose, and chin a little pointed.
A custody, 1st, Of having taken up arms against the French Republic.
2nd. Of having tendered his services to the English government; the enemy of the French people.
3rd. Of having received and accredited near him the agents of the said government, of having procured for them the means of contriving to establish a channel of intelligence in France, and of having conspired with them against the internal and external safety of the state.
4th. Of having put himself at the head of an assemblage of French emigrants and others, in the pay of England, formed on the frontiers of France, within the counties of Fribourg and Baden.
5th. Of having procured intelligence from Strasburg, tending to excite an insurrection in the neighbouring departments for the purpose of creating a diversion favorable to England; and
6th. Of being one of the abettors and accomplices of the conspiracy contrived by the English against the life of the First Consul, and that in case of the success of this conspiracy, he was to enter France.
The sitting having been opened, the President ordered the Reporter to read all the evidences for and against the accused.
The reading being ended, the President ordered a guard to bring forward the accused, who was introduced before the commission free and unlettered.
He was asked his name, surname, age, place of nativity, and domicile.
He answered, his name was Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien, 32 years of age, born at Chantilly near Paris, having left France since the 16th July, 1789.
After having gone through the interrogatories, he read the reporter sum up the evidence, and the defence of the accused, and the latter having declared he had nothing further to offer in his justification, the president requested to know if the members had any observation to make. On their replying in the negative, and before collecting their opinions, he ordered the accused to retire. The accused was reconducted to prison by his escort; and the reporter, the secretary, and the citizens present retired at the invitation of the President. The commission deliberating with closed doors, the president put the question on the articles of accusation separately, beginning with the youngest in rank, the president giving his opinion last, and on each, the accused was unanimously declared guilty.
The President then put the question relative to the application of the punishment; and the votes being again collected, were declared in the following manner.
"The special military commission unanimously condemn to the punishment of death, Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon, Duke d'Enghien, as a reparation for the crimes of acting as a spy of holding correspondence with the enemies of the Republic, and of an attempt against its internal and external safety."
Ordered, That the captain reporter read the present judgement immediately to the condemned in the presence of the guard assembled under arms; and that a copy thereof be forwarded, in the usual manner, according to law, to the minister of war, the grand judge, and the general in chief, governor of Paris.
Done and adjudged, at the same public sitting, the day, month, and year aforesaid; and the members of the commission with the reporter and secretary, have signed the minutes. (Signed)
GUITON, &c. &c.
MINISTRY OF THE GRAND JUDGE.
List of the brigands armed by the British minister to attack the life of the first consul.
First landing on the 21st August, at the foot of the Cliff de Berville, from an English cutter, cap. Right.
1. George Cadoudal, alias Georges, ex-chief of the Brigands.—2. Villeneuve.—3. Lahay St. Hillaire.—4. Quere, called Goussier, arrested on the 11th October, in the Rue de Rochefoucault.—5. La Bonte, called Kircher, his real name is Bèche.—6. Picot, called le Petit, arrested the 7th February, Rue du Bac.—7. Froche, the son, arrested at T on the first February.—8. Jean Marie, under the name of Lemaire, confidential clerk of Georges.
Second landing at the same place, in the beginning of December, from an English vessel of the Royal Navy, capt. Thos. Wright.
1. Jean Marie, the same as before. 2. Coster, called St. Victor, one of the accomplices of the 3d Nivose, arrested on the 8th February in the Rue Xaintonge.—3d. Armand Polignac, eldest son of the duke de Polignac, arrested in the Rue St. Dennis, 28th February.—4. Jean Louis.—5. Lemerier.—6. Tamerlan.—7. Lelan, called Brutus.—8. Pierre Jean.
Third Landing on the 16th of January, from an English Cutter, captain Thos. Wright.
1. Jean Marie. The same as in the preceding disembarkations; constantly returning to England to bring the other brigands.—2. Pichegru, Charles ex-general, arrested at Paris the 27th of February.—3. Lajolais, ex-general, under the name of Frederick, and Deville, sent to London in November last, by Moreau, to Pichegru: upon his return to Paris he was the go-between between Moreau and Pichegru. Arrested at Paris, Feb. 14.—4. Ruzon, known among the brigands by the name of Gros-majour, arrested at Paris, March 5. 5. Jules Polignac, second son of the duke of that name, arrested on the 3d of March.—6. Rochette, called Rochette Brun, and Richmont, arrested on the 5th of March.—7. Armand Gaillard, of Rouen.
Accomplices who did not land at Berville; some have been in France for several years, others landed in Brittany, and were to recruit brigands there, to send them to Paris:
1. Gaillard Rioul, of Rouen, known by the names of St. Vincent, Houvel, and Duval.—2. Desol de Gresselles, concealed at Paris, where he waited for Georges: he went in a coach on the 11th of Sep. to St. Loo, and brought him to Paris.—Arrested on the 10th of Nov. on the Boulevard Italien.—3. Bouvet de Lozier, one of the principal confidants of Georges, charged to procure him lodgings at Paris, and the environs.—4. Abraham Augustus Charles d'Holier.—5. Ruben Lagourdiere, who came from Rennes to join the assassins. Arrested on the 7th of Feb. in one of the Houses of the Band rue du Bage.—6. Barbou Milbry, called Ba-co.—7. Roger, called Liseau, came from England by way of Brittany, went to Paris with a forged passport from Rennes: arrested in Rue Sainctougue, on the 8th of Feb. 8. Herve, shoemaker, at Rennes.—9. Merelle, of St. Paers, a subaltern assassin, arrested on the 7th of Feb. 10. Noel Ducorps, commissary of the brigands, arrested at Aumale on the 28th of January.—11. Louis Ducorps, his son, an ex-Chouan, and robber of diligences.—12. The ex-marquis de Riviere, the confidant of the count D'Artois. The portrait of that prince was found upon him, with this inscription: "Given by the count D'Artois to his faithful aide-de-camp de Riviere, for the perilous journeys undertaken in his service." Arrested on the 3d of March. 13. Edouard Guilliere le Paige, sent from London into Brittany, for the purpose of forming a rallying point of insurrection, and to recruit forty assassins to be sent to Paris.—14. Even, a notary and ex-Chouan.—15. Duverger. 16. Guillemot, chief of the horde in the Morbihan.—17. Gambert, the same.
18. Jacques Eveno, surnamed Great James.—19. Hector.—20. Le Chevalier de Voley.—21. Troufler.—22. Rohu, a Chouan.—23. Gometz principal confidant of Georges.—24. Jacques Audran, the same.—25. Guerin Buillard, formerly a major general.—26. Jacques Duchemin.—27. St. Hubert. 28. Coliton.—29. Jean.—30. Moreau, general, had an understanding with the enemies of the state; communicated with Pichegru; sent to London, even since the war, to confer with the enemies, through the medium of Pichegru; held communications with Georges, through Frezier and Villeneuve; since Pichegru's arrival at Paris, he saw him several times. Once Pichegru was in company with Georges. Moreau communicated with Pichegru through Rolland, Lajolais, and Frezieres. Arrested on the 14th Feb.—31. Frezieres, Private Secretary to Moreau, communicated with Georges through Villeneuve, principal confidant of Pichegru, and brought Pichegru several times to Moreau. He is fled.—32. Laborie, general instigator and adviser of Moreau. He is fled.—33. Badonville, former Aide-de-Camp to Pichegru, spy upon our armies, correspondent of Wickham, agent of Pichegru, arrived at Paris as soon as he knew Pichegru was there. Arrested on the 3d March.—34. The Abbé David, charged with tying the first knot of all this plot; arrested on the 6th Dec. last year, as he was going to London to Pichegru. Brought to the Temple on the 13th Dec.—35, 36, 37, 38. Victor Couhery, Roland, arrested on the 3d Feb. and Monnier, arrested on the 5th Feb.
The Grand judge: (Signed) REGNIER.
London, March 20.
It is reported that Bonaparte arrived at Boulogne on Friday last. He has published a proclamation to his army at that place, wherein, after accusing England of having formed a conspiracy to assassinate him, he proceeds to say, that "the time is not distant when he will procure them an opportunity to be convinced that intriguers, however successful in plots, are never valiant in the field; and that iron at all times must conquer gold." He pretends to pity Moreau and Pichegru, who have, he says, fallen victims to British perfidy; and promises to lead the army in person to revenge the dishonor done to France, in the corruption of two of her greatest men. This fineffe may answer the First Consul's purpose, of silencing the clamours of his soldiers; but we trust that ministers will not suffer British honor to stand committed, for want of a fair and decisive refutation of so scandalous a stigma.
It is also said, that Bonaparte has left Paris to avoid the torrent of petitions from the friends of Moreau, Pichegru, and the other accused persons, whom he has ordered to be executed the moment his obsequious courts of justice shall have found them guilty. The armies in Holland and Hanover meant to petition in favor of Moreau; but their commanders refused to forward their memorials. Several officers have been arrested and sent to Paris, as instigators of this measure.
Every person above fifteen years of age, in France, whether male or female, is obliged to carry a card, or pass, containing a minute description of his or her person.
The military council at Bressuire, in the department of Deux Sevres, has condemned to death Jacques Jauret, Augustine Michel, Jean Penaud, Jean You, with sixty other persons, formerly Chouans: they were executed immediately. The crime was, that they had no passes.
The military commission at Nantes, on the 4th ult. condemned to death, Pierre Gauron, for being found without a pass. He was executed the same day. Gauron was formerly an officer among the Chouans.
The following is an extract of a letter from Paris, of the 20th March, published in a London paper of the 4th ult.
"Last Saturday all the gates or barriers were again shut at 6 o'clock in the morning, and continued so for 48 hours. During this time every person walking in the streets was arrested who had no pass, and a general domiciliary visit took place; I say a general, because the first consul, to show an example of submission, when the country is in danger, did not except his own palace, where even two suspicious persons were arrested. Talleyrand's brother was, (although released in 24 hours) arrested at the hotel in Rue de Bacques. The terror is now so great, and honor and duty so entirely vanquished, that G—— and L—— were given up by their own relatives; M—— by his wife; and poor R——, by his sister and brother-in-law, whom he saved from destruction in 1792. Mde. Demas suffered in the temple the agony of sixty hours confinement. During her stay, the old duchess de H—— and her grand daughter were brought in there. You know the former is above eighty, and the latter not fourteen years of age. They had been denounced by their own servants."

The prison of Georges is unknown; but those of Pichegru and Moreau are changed almost every 24 hours. They have been by turns in the Temple, in the Abbey, in La Force, at Vincennes, and in the Conciergerie. The dread of their numerous partisans has caused these tyrannical measures of precaution. Pichegru has been very ill from the wounds he received when taken, and it has even been reported that he was dead; but I heard, this day, that he was still in La Force, that when yesterday, he was ordered to be removed to the Temple again, he was unable to rise from bed. He has two very deep wounds in his hand, and has been delirious.  The examinations of the prisoners are continued every day separately, but they have not yet been confronted. Their interrogatories are very voluminous, and it is supposed that they will not appear before any tribunal this week. Every day some more persons are suspected or implicated. The first confidential last Friday for Massena, Macdonald, and Lecourbe, and they have since left town, which has produced the report, that they have been exiled until the state trials are over.  Last night the camp equipage of the first continental left, for the second time in ten days, this city for the coast, but a courier has ordered them back again. Last Tuesday they were at Amiens, but received orders by the Telegraph to return. You can judge from these contradictory movements, how impossible it is to say when the destiny of England will finally be determined. That it is, however, not distant, is the common opinion.
You will observe by my notes, that the boats were despatched in due season to meet the Intrepid, agreeable to our arrangement; but circumstances rendering it advisable for lieut. commandant Decatur to enter upon the enterprise much earlier than was intended, the junction with the boats was consequently delayed until after the ship was on fire, and the Ketch retreating out of the harbour.  I have the honor to be, Your very obedient servant, (Signed) CHARLES STEWART, Commodore Edward Preble, Commander of the U. States Squadron in the Mediterranean.
On board of the KETCH INTREPID at Sea, February 17th, 1804. SIR, I have the honor to inform you, that in pursuance of your orders of the 1st inst. to proceed with this Ketch off the Harbour of Tripoli, there to endeavour to effect the destruction of the United States, late frigate Philadelphia, I arrived the company with the United States Brig Syren, Lieut. Commandant Stewart on the 7th, but owing to the badness of the weather, was unable to effect any thing until last evening when we had a light breeze from the N. E. at 7 o'clock I entered the harbour with the Intrepid, the Syren having gained her station without the harbour in a situation to support us in our retreat. At half past 9 laid her along side the Philadelphia, boarded, and after a short contest carried her—I immediately fired her in the store rooms, cock pit, and birch deck, and remained on board until the flames had issued from the main deck, hatchways and ports, and before I got from along side, the fire had communicated to the rigging and tops. Previous to our boarding, they had got their Tompions out, and hailed several times, but none a gun fired.
The noise occasioned by boarding, & contending for possession (although no fire arms were used) gave a general alarm on shore, and on board their cruisers which lay about a cable and a half length from us, and many large boats filled with men lay around, but from whom we received no annoyance. They commenced a fire on us from all their Batteries on shore, but with no other effect than one shot passing through our top-gallant sail.  The frigate was moored within half gun shot of the Bashaw's Castle, and of the principal Battery. Two of their cruisers lay within two cables length on the starboard quarter, and their gun-boats within half gun shot on the starboard bow—She had all her guns mounted and loaded, which as they became hot, went off—As she lay with her broadside to the town, I have no doubt but some damage has been done by them—Before I got out of the harbour, her cables had burnt off, and she drifted in under the Castle, where she was consumed. I can form no judgment as to the number of men that were on board of her—there were about 20 killed—a large boat full got off, and many leapt into the sea. We have made one prisoner, and I fear from the number of bad wounds he has received, will not recover, although every assistance and comfort has been given him.
I boarded with sixty men and officers, leaving a guard on board the Ketch for her defence; and it is with the greatest pleasure I inform you, I had not a man killed in this affair, and but one slightly wounded. Every support that could be given I received from my officers, and as the conduct of each was highly meritorious, I beg leave to enclose you a list of their names—Permit me also, Sir, to speak of the brave fellows I have the honor to command, whose coolness and intrepidity was such, as I trust will ever characterize the American tairs.  It would be injustice in me, were I to pass over the important services rendered by Mr. Salvador the Pilot, on whose good conduct the success of the enterprise in the greatest degree depended—He gave me entire satisfaction.
I have the honor to be, with great respect, your most obedient servant, (Signed) STEPHEN DECATUR, Jun. Commodore Edward Preble, commanding the United States Squadron in the Mediterranean.
The following is a list of the officers employed on board the Ketch Intrepid under my command in boarding and destroying the Frigate Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli on the 16th inst.    James Lawrence,  Lieutenants.    Joseph Bainbridge,    Jonathan Thom,  Surgeon.    Lewis Herman    Ralph Izard, belonging to the Constitution. John Rowe, do. Charles Morris, do. Alex. Laws, do. John Davis, do. Thomas M'Donough, Enterprize. Thos. Oakley Anderson, Syren.
The friends of humanity and of an enlarged policy look with uncommon solicitude to the measures of the legislature of South-Carolina, respecting the admission of slaves. It has been affirmed, and we hope truly, that the citizens of that state are hostile to the continuance of the unfortunate act, which, after a long period of virtuous abstinence, opened the avenue to this disgraceful traffic.
If this be a fact, let the voice of the people be expressed, in tones so audible as to rescue their character from the liberal reproach cast upon it. The injury already done cannot be retrieved, but it may be checked; and it may be made to appear to the world that the people of our sister state of S. Carolina will not suffer the promotion of the narrow interests of a day to outweigh those of ages. It may be, that our feelings run away with our judgment on this subject, when we hold the opinion that at some future day, unless this great evil be repressed or eradicated, we shall pay, in the blood of our best citizens, the cost of the unfortunate experiment now trying. Would to God we could awaken those most deeply interested to the vigorous prosecution of those measures which can alone save our country from the mournful scenes which bid fair in a neighboring country, to convert one of the fairest regions of the earth into a howling wilderness; and where civilized man has become, from the surrounding contagion, almost a savage.
The address made to the virtue of South-Carolina, by the National Legislature cannot, we should think, fail in union with other powerful motives, to arrest all further importation of slaves. The constitutional power of imposing a tax of ten dollars on each imported slave was undoubted; and it was only on the ground of policy that it was forbore to lay it. The delegates of the state, notwithstanding their variance of politics, concurred in the assurance that, if Congress waved the interposition of their power, the obnoxious law would be repealed. Nor do we believe, had it not been for this assurance, and the confidence it created in the measures of the state legislature, that Congress would have forbore to lay the tax, and thus to have inflicted a deep wound on the character of a respectable, and in most respects an enlightened state. We may go further, and declare our belief, that but for this confidence, an amendment would long since have been proposed to the constitution, and have been by this time probably ratified, prohibiting all further importations. Those who may be disposed to entertain doubts of this, need only recollect that no measure has ever occurred in this country which has excited a larger share of indignation, and that in this sentiment men of all political descriptions concurred, and manifested a zeal, which, while its cause continues, can never subside. Let them recollect that the decided interests of New-Hampshire, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, are hostile to the existence of slavery in any shape whatever; and that Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, Ohio, and Kentucky are equally adverse to new importations. We forbear speaking of Georgia and Tennessee as we are not particularly acquainted with their sentiments on this point.
Did we not fully rely on the virtuous feelings of the people of South-Carolina, we might touch a chord of interest that ought, we think, of itself to procure a repeal of the odious law. Will not the interest of every existing slave holder, who does not himself engage in the new importations, be deeply impaired by them? In proportion to the number of slaves, according to an inverse ratio, will be their value; and just in proportion to the addition made to the present stock will be the diminution of value. Let the present holders of this species of property only realize this,—and it is as certain as their existence—and they must perceive that unless they purchase to a considerable extent negroes newly imported, they will in truth be losers.
New-York Election. The Albany Register states the final majority in favour of Mr. Lewis over Mr. Burr to be 8,782.  Connecticut Election. Total votes for governor, for Jonathan Trumbull, 11,108 William H. Hall, 6,870 Federal majority 4,076
Last year the majority for Trumbull was 6,304—this year it is 4,076. From which it appears that the federal majority this year is 2,228 less than the last.  The Legislature of South Carolina, considering that knowledge is the surest basis of a free government, and that its attainment ought to be facilitated by every class of citizens, have passed a law dividing their state into 119 school Districts, for each of which they appropriated the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars a year for paying a master to teach reading, writing and arithmetic.
Each district to keep its school-house in repair, and to rebuild it when necessary. To be under the care of trustees.  New-York, May 18. The brig Rolla, capt. Hamlen, arrived at this port yesterday from Bordeaux. She left there on the 1st of April, and was embargoed in the river until the 12th. Our papers by her are to the 30th March, inclusive. They are almost entirely engrossed with accounts from the frontier towns of the arrestation of persons implicated in the late conspiracy; but preserve a profound silence respecting Moreau, Pichegru, and the other leading characters. Of Moreau, we are only informed that citizens Chateaubriand, Legarde, and Bonnet are to his official defenders.
The ministers of all the European Powers at peace with the French Republic, have testified to the First Consul the indignation which their respective governments feel at the attempt which has been made to create new troubles in France, and thereby to disturb the tranquillity of Europe.
The members of the military commission, instituted for the trial of the Duke d'Enghien, have unanimously sentenced him to death, and their judgment was followed by immediate execution. The authentic copy of their proceedings on this subject is in our possession, and will be translated for tomorrow's paper.
It has been proposed in the Tribunate to unite all the civil laws into one code, under the title of Code civil des Francaise.
Mr. Smith, As the Election for City Council men will be held in a few days I would wish you would give the following ticket a place in your paper and oblige a subscriber.   Samuel Speake,  C. W. Stephenson,  G. M'Dermot Roe,  James Hoban,  Peter Lenox,  Adam Lindley,  Walter Heilman,  Richard Forrest,  Daniel Carroll,  William Prout,  Griffith Combe,  Henry Igle,  R. W. Peacock,  George Haddad,  James D. Barry,  Fontain D. Stelle,  John T. Frost. 
NOTICE THE voters of the three wards, the one East of Sixth street, and the two West of Sixth street, are requested to meet at the Center Market on Saturday next at 6 o'clock P. M. for the purpose of Nominating 18 proper persons to be chosen at the ensuing election for the City Council men. Washington May 23.
GUN-LOCK FILERS WANTED. A Number of the above profession will meet with good encouragement by applying to the subscriber in Washington city, between the President's house and the Center market. Application by letter will be duly attended to. MATTHIAS HART. May 23—3t
30 Dollars Reward. RUNAWAY from the Subscriber, living near Dumfries in Virginia, on the 15th inst. A Negro or dark Mulatto named PRINCE, about 22 years of age, about five feet nine inches high, bow legs, has a mark on his face occasioned by a fall from a horse and a scar on one of his wrists, from a cut with a broken glass bottle. I will give thirty dollars reward for apprehending and bringing said negro home. ROBERT GRAHAM. May 23—3t
To be sold at public venue ON Saturday the 22 day of June next at 12 o'clock a two-story frame House, near the twenty-buildings, adjoining the house of the late Mr. Frazier. A credit of 6 months will be given upon receiving good security. JAMES THOMPSON. May 23.—3t.
PUBLIC SALE. By order of the orphan's court of Washington county, in the district of Columbia, will be sold on Saturday the 9th day of June next, at public auction, at the late dwelling house of James O'Brien, deceased, at the fourth end of South Capitol Street in the City of Washington at 11 o'clock in the forenoon.  The personal estate of said James O'Brien, deceased, consisting principally of household furniture, cattle, ferry boats, &c. Besides a variety of other articles.  Terms of sale—Cash for purchases not exceeding $20 Dollars, for purchases above that sum a credit of six months, bond with good security being given for payment, with interest from the day of sale. JOHN O'BRIEN, Administrator. City of Washington, May 23—3t
RICH. BECK. HIGH STREET GEORGE TOWN, HAS just received from Philadelphia and Baltimore a large and elegant assortment of Spring and Summer goods, all of which he will sell uncommonly low for cash. George Town, May 21—3t
Will be offered at PUBLIC SALE,
ON Monday the 18th of June, if fair, or the next fair day, eight hundred acres of land, lying in the county of Loudoun, on both sides of Little river, immediately in the fork of the great roads leading from Alexandria to Abingdon and Snickers gaps, just above the termination of the new turnpike now paving from Alexandria to the ford of Little river, and ten miles from Leesburg. More than three hundred acres of the above tracts are yet uncleared and well timbered, and a great portion of the remainder has been cleared within the last three years. The soil has been found by experiment well adapted to the Plough of Paris, and is not inferior in natural fertility, to any below the Blue Ridge. Besides the improvements on this land, which consist of a large barn containing a treading floor and granaries, of two dwelling houses, a framed meat house and dairy, and quarters sufficient for the accommodation of sixty negroes. It affords one of the best farms on Little River, for a large manufacturing mill, and an excellent situation for a store & tavern. The whole tract is susceptible of a convenient division by means of the river and the road to Abingdon's gap, into three or four lots, one of 360 acres, of which 100 acres are in wood, and upon which are the chief improvements—one of 50 acres, comprehending the mill seat and 40 or 30 acres of it capable of being converted into good meadow—and one lot of 390 acres, or two of 195 each, which afford the best farming land, and on one of which, immediately at the fork of the above roads, is the situation for the store and the tavern. Under this division the whole of this tract of land has been leased out for the present year.
At any time before the day of sale, a more perfect description of it, may be obtained from Mr. Solomon Beaton now residing on it, by any person desirous of purchasing. The terms will be one third in cash, or in bills for sixty days, negotiable at the bank of Alexandria, and the balance in two annual installments, the punctual payment of which, with interest, will be required to be secured by bonds with approved personal security, and a mortgage on the premises. A perfect title comprehending a general warrantee, will be made to the purchaser on the day of sale, and possession will be given him on the 1st day of next January by
CHARLES FENTON MERCER. May 23—1aw11 Jun. The subscribers are desirous of selling by private contract, eleven thousand acres of land, lying on the river Ohio, in the state of Virginia, and just below the mouth of the Great Kanawha, for which, they will take in payment, public securities, bank stock, or lands in Loudoun, or any of the adjacent counties.
JOHN FENTON MERCER, CHARLES FENTON MERCER. HAT MANUFACTURY.
The subscriber informs his customers and the public generally, that he has discontinued business in the city of Washington, and has opened shop on Bridge street near the Union Tavern—he solicits the continuance of former customers, and hopes that all others who may chance to call and purchase his manufacture will be amply suited. If neatness and good work be requisites. JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—1t
Wm. S. NICHOLS & Co. HAVE this day received an elegant and large assortment of Spring goods, amongst which are, Chintzes and Calicoes Bed tickings, Plain & colored cambric muffs, Diaper & Dipper Chambray muffs, Table cloths, Superfine and common sheets, Linen and German dimities, Handsome laces, Long lawns, Do. fans, Irish linens, Ladies garters, Striped Hollands, vic nic gloves, Do. cottons, Sattin and Marseilles Apron and Shirting waistcoats, checkes, Bombacets and willi- Cotton calimeres, bores, Yellow Nankeens, Umbrellas and para- Dark colors, do. soles of all sizes and India dimities, an excellent quality, White jeans, Large and small tea Book and jacanet muffs boards, Lins, Ladies purses, Do. handkerchiefs, Glove ties, Extra silk and kid Linen and cotton hand- gloves of a superior kerchiefs, quality, Pullicaz, do. Ladies silks and cotton, Guarras and Baftas, Hose with laced clocks, white platillas, all round on the instep, Brown, do. Gentlemen's hosiery, Ticklenburgs and oz- India and French lace nabrigs, string, Pattyburns or German Mantua, rolls, Forscene or Italian silks, Liverpool china plates, India Persians, Glass ware, Elegant silk shawls, Grals & grain scythes, India do. do. Knives and forks, well Black cambric, assorted, Sarceens of all colors, Kid & Morocco shoes, Pantaloons stockings, Muffs, do. London fashionable Mews, do. hats, With a number of other articles, which they will sell very low for cash. George Town, May 21—2w
The copartnership existing between the subscribers under the firm of QUINN and FITZGERALD is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All persons having claims against said firm are requested to bring in their accounts for settlement and all those who are indebted will please to make payment to George Quinn who is authorised to settle the same. GEORGE QUINN, EDWARD FITZGERALD, May 17—3t  The Subscriber informs his customers and the public in general that he carries on business as usual at his store, F street where he has on hand a large and general assortment of groceries which he will sell on the most reduced terms for cash. GEORGE QUINN.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23.
OFFICIAL.
To the hon. ROBERT SMITH, Secretary of the Navy. United States Ship Constitution, Syracuse Harbour, Feb. 19, 1804.
Sir—I have the honor to inform you, that the United States brig Syren, lieut. commandant Stewart, and Ketch Intrepid of 4 guns, lieut. commandant Decatur, arrived here last evening from a cruise. They left this port the 31 inst. with my orders to proceed to Tripoli and burn the frigate (late the United States frigate) Philadelphia, at anchor in that harbour. I was well informed that her situation was such as to render it impossible to bring her out, and her destruction being absolutely necessary to favour my intended operations against that city, I determined the attempt should be made.
I enclose you copies of my orders on this occasion, which have been executed in the most gallant and officer-like manner, by lieut. commandant Decatur, assisted by the brave officers and crew of the little Ketch Intrepid under his command. Their conduct in the performance of the dangerous service assigned them cannot be sufficiently estimated.—It is beyond all praise. Had lieut. Decatur delayed one half hour for the boats of the Syren to have joined him, he would have failed in the main object, as a gale commenced immediately after the frigate was on fire, and it was with difficulty the Ketch was got out of the harbour. The Syren, owing to the lightness of the breeze in the evening, was obliged to anchor a considerable distance from the city, which prevented her boats from rendering much assistance, as they might have done, had they entered the harbour earlier. Lieutenant Stewart took the best position without the harbour, to cover the retreat of the Intrepid, that the lightness of the wind would admit of—his conduct through the expedition has been judicious and meritorious—but few of the officers of the squadron could be gratified by sharing in the danger and honor of the enterprise. In justice to them, I beg leave to observe that they all offered to volunteer their services on the occasion; and I am confident whenever an opportunity offers to distinguish themselves, that they will do honor to the service.
I enclose you lieut. commandant Stewart and Decatur's official communication, with the names of the officers on board the Ketch.
With the highest respect, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedt humble servt. EDWARD PREBLE.
United States Brig Syren, Syracuse Harbour, Feb. 19, 1804. SIR,
I have the honor to enclose for your information the principal occurrences and observations during our late expedition, in company with the Ketch Intrepid, lieut. commandant Decatur, to effect the destruction of the frigate Philadelphia in the harbour of Tripoli, and on the happy termination of that enterprise I heartily congratulate you. I only have to lament that a junction had not been formed with the Intrepid by the boats of the Syren under the command of lieut. Caldwell, as I make no doubt they would have been able to carry and destroy one or both of the cruisers lying near the frigate.

A GREAT BARGAIN.
THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS will be taken and payment made easy, to the purchaser, for the following valuable property free from any incumbrance whatever.
A SET of law mills working two saws—a grit mill with two run of stones and bolting machine, also a cotton and rice machine complete all worked by water, also one saw mill about 200 yards from the former and on the same dam, now about finishing that will work from two to fourteen saws under the same roof—this mill is injured for three years after her being completed—they now going in good repair and the whole in a progressive way of improvement, with about Ten thousand acres of land all adjoining and immediately contiguous to the mills, on which are several valuable farms. The timber for mills are inexhaustible and unexceptionable good—they are situated on the waters of Drowning Creek ninety seven miles from George Town South Carolina, to which place the lumber is carried being rafted at the mills without the trouble of hauling, a valuable convenience. The stream is equal if not superior to any in the States of North or South Carolina—the grit mills command a custom at times of 30 or 40 miles around them. The situation at the mills is high, pleasant and very healthy, on which is a good two story house with piazza, a good kitchen, stables, carriage and harness houses and other necessary out buildings with a new horse house completely finished, it being an excellent stand for a country store. Application to be made to the Subscriber at Millville near Lumberton in North Carolina, or for any information respecting the premises, to Samuel D. Purvis at the city of Washington.
WM. NORMENT. Millville N. C. Dec. 12. N. B. Any part of the above property will be sold as may best suit a purchaser. Dec. 23—tf
—NOTICE—
BY virtue of a decree of the circuit court of the district of Columbia in the suit of Valentine Peyton, against Mary Cooks & Alexander Stedman and J. wife, Joseph Wilson and Robert Brown defendants, in chancery, will be sold at the premises to the highest bidder at public sale on the 14th day of June next, all that piece or parcel of Land known and distinguished by lot, No. 5. in square No. 253 in the city of Washington, together with the houses and appurtenances according to the terms of the said decree, which are as follows, to-wit: one third of the purchase money within six months from the time of the sale with interest thereon until the same shall be paid, one other third in twelve months from the time of the said sale with interest thereon as aforesaid, and the residue in eighteen months from the time of the said sale with interest thereon as aforesaid; and if the purchaser or purchasers of the said premises shall fail to make his payments or either of them at the periods before mentioned it shall and may be lawful for the said marshal, and he is hereby ordered upon giving ten days notice of the time and place of the said sale to sell again the said premises upon the following terms of payment, that is to say, for as much cash as may be necessary to discharge the sum which may be due at the time of such sale, and the residue at such time or times as were upon the first sale appointed for the payment thereof. And if the said premises upon the said second sale, shall not sell for as much as upon the first, the purchaser or purchasers, at the said first sale shall be accountable and liable for the deficiency. It is further decreed and ordered that the marshal do bring into court the money arising from the sale of the said premises from time to time as the same shall be received, to be subject to such distribution as the court shall from time to time direct and appoint; & the said marshal is further decreed and ordered to report to this court his proceedings herein, in order that a final decree be made and the title of the purchaser be confirmed, until which said final decree the said premises shall remain bound to the payment of the purchase money. The improvements are a small framed Dwelling House with a shed and a small stable, the sale will commence precisely at 12 o'clock.
DANL. C. BRENT, Marshal. May 14—1141am.
REMOVAL.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Has removed to the house above Mr. RHODES (LATE LOVEL'S) HOTEL, near the President's Square. In addition to the present stock of goods, an Handsome Assortment Is expected immediately. Gentlemen at a distance, by sending a line by post, will be waited upon with all possible expedition. T. C. will pledge himself to execute any order with a table, expedition and moderation of charge, which shall not be excelled by any.
ROBER. BRENT. Washington May 16—31
NOTICE.
A Battalion court of enquiry for the first battalion of the first legion of Militia of the district of Columbia, for the assessment of fines will be held on Friday the 25th May (instant) at Rhodes's tavern at ten o'clock in the forenoon—at which all persons concerned are notified to attend. Washington, 16 May—5t.
At a meeting of a number of democratic republicans at the city of Annapolis, on Friday the 20th day of April, 1804, GASSAWAY WATKINS having been chosen chairman, and NICHOLAS BREWER, secretary, the following resolutions were entered into and ordered to be published in the National Intelligencer, Maryland Gazette, and American.
WHEREAS this meeting have been published certain resolutions entered into by a meeting of republican citizens of Prince George's county, at Upper Marlborough, on the 10th instant; and whereas this meeting highly approve of the principles contained in said resolutions, and believe that the adoption of similar measures in Anne-Arundel county would tend to secure the election of democratic republican characters as electors of President, and vice-President, member of congress and delegates to the general assembly.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the democratic republicans of Anne-Arundel county to meet at the places of holding elections for their respective districts, on the 26th of May next, and appoint five delegates to meet in general committee, at the city of Annapolis, on the 16th of June, to fix on proper characters to be supported as delegates to the next general assembly.
Resolved, That the general committee as aforesaid, determine on four characters whom they may consider best calculated to unite the democratic republican interest of this county as candidates at the next election of delegates, and this meeting pledge themselves to support the characters that may be designated by the committee aforesaid.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the general committee aforesaid, when thus assembled, to appoint a committee of their own body to consult with any similar committee that may be appointed by Prince George's county, on the proper character to be run as representative in the next congress of the United States, and this meeting in like manner pledge themselves to support any character that may be fixed upon by such general committee of the two counties.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the aforesaid general committee of Anne-Arundel county, to appoint a federal committee of their own body to consult with any similar committees of Baltimore city, and that part of Montgomery county composing the electoral district, on the proper characters to be brought forward as electors of President, and Vice President, and this meeting in like manner pledge themselves to support the characters that may be thus designated by the committees of this electoral district of President and Vice-President.
Gassaway Watkins, Chairman, Test, Nicholas Brewer, Secretary. (BY AUTHORITY.) Scheme of a Lottery. To build an Academy in the city of Richmond.
   Dollars.     1 Prize—last drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, 20,000   1 do. 10,000   1 do. 5,000   5 do. of 1,000 make 5,000   6 do. — 500 — 3,000   10 do. — 200 — 2,000   20 do. — 100 — 2,000   100 do. — 50 — 5,000   250 do. — 30 — 7,500   420 do. — 25 — 10,500   1,500 do. — 20 — 30,000   3,000 do. — 15 — 45,000   1 first drawn ticket after 1,000 having a blank to its number, 250   1 do. after 2,000 do. 250   1 do. do. 3,000 do. 250   1 do. do. 4,000 do. 250   1 do. do. 5,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 6,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 8,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 10,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 12,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 13,000 do. 500   1 do. do. 14,000 do. 1,000   5,325 prizes, 150,000   9,675 blanks, not two to a prize,   15,000 tickets at 10 dollars each, 150,000   N. B. Prizes subject to a deduction of 15 per cent.  
This lottery has been authorised by the legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purposes of erecting a seminary of learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view, it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dolls. and 2,500 dolls. in addition, for defraying the expenses attendant on drawing the lottery. Citizens of the first respectability have been selected as trustees, and they have pledged themselves to use their utmost exertions to carry it into effect. The scheme has the advantage of giving to each adventurer, a chance for some very large prizes, whilst the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so great as to invite the friends of the intended institution to partake in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The treasurer of the state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay the amount of the prizes to the fortunate adventurers. It is believed that the above considerations will induce a rapid sale of tickets, and the drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number shall be sold to authorise it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next.
Richmond, March 22—tf T Tickets to be had of Robert Pollard Doct. John Brockenbrough, jun. Wm. Price (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, jun. and William Prichard.
Cheap Goods.
JOHN COX HAS received a large and handsome assortment of Spring and Summer goods, and is happy in having it in his power to sell them unusually low. George Town, May 14—ep2m
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 15th day of June next, inclusive. (Continued.) IN VIRGINIA.
 44. From Clarkburg by Buchanan Settlement to Randolph ch. once in two weeks.  Leave Clarkburg every other Monday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Randolph ch. by 6 p.m.  Leave Randolph ch. every other Tuesday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Clarkburg by 6 p.m.  45. From Kenhawa ch. by Point Pleasant, Gallipolis and the Sal. Springs to Chillicothe once in two weeks.  Leave Kenhawa ch. every other Friday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Chillicothe on Monday by 10 a.m.  Leave Chillicothe every other Monday by 2 p.m. & arrive at Kenhawa ch. on Thursday by 6 p.m.  46. From Marietta, Ohio, to Wood ch. once a week.  Leave Marietta every Tuesday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Wood ch. by 6 p.m.  Leave Wood ch. every Wednesday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Marietta by 6 p.m.  47. From Lancaster ch. to Kilmarnock once a week.  Leave Lancaster ch. every Monday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Kilmarnock by 11 a.m.  Leave Kilmarnock every Monday at 1 p.m. & arrive at Lancaster ch. by 6 p.m.  48. From Prince Edward ch. by Letters Store, Wheeler's Springs and Campbell ch. to New London once in two weeks.  Leave Prince Edward ch. every other Saturday at 6 a.m. & arrive at New London on Sunday by 6 p.m.  Leave New London every other Monday at 8 a.m. & arrive at Prince Edward on Tuesday by 6 p.m. 
IN NORTH-CAROLINA.
 49. From Danville Va. to Lenox-Castle N. C. once a week.  Leave Danville every Monday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Lenox-Castle by 6 p.m.  Leave Lenox-Castle on Tuesday by 6 a.m. & arrive at Danville by 6 p.m.  50. From Scotland Neck by Green-burg & Roads to Windsor once a week.  Leave Scotland Neck every Thursday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Windsor by 7 p.m.  Leave Windsor every Friday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Scotland Neck by 6 p.m.  51. From Newbern to Beaufort once in two weeks.  Leave Newbern every other Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Beaufort by 6 p.m.  Leave Beaufort every other Saturday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Newbern by 6 p.m.  52. From Halifax to Enfield once a week.  Leave Halifax every Thursday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Enfield by 11 a.m.  Leave Enfield every Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Halifax by 6 p.m.  53. From Neillson's ferry by Orange-burg, Barnwell ch. by Tredways and Town Creek to Campbellton once a week.  Leave Neillson's ferry every Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Campbellton on Friday by 10 a.m.  Leave Campbellton every Friday at 6 p.m. and arrive at Neillson's ferry on Monday by 6 p.m.  54. From Statesburg to Columbia once a week.  Leave Statesburg every Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Columbia by 6 p.m.  Leave Columbia every Saturday by 8 a.m. and arrive at Statesburg by 7 p.m. 
IN OHIO.
 55. From Warren by Cleveland, fort Miami and Raisin river to Detroit once in two weeks.  Leave Warren every other Saturday at 10 p.m. and arrive at Detroit the next Saturday by 3 p.m.  Leave Detroit every other Saturday at 10 p.m. and arrive at Warren the next Saturday by 3 p.m.  56. From Chillicothe to Alexandria once a week.  Leave Chillicothe every Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Alexandria by 11 a.m.  Leave Alexandria every Tuesday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Chillicothe by 7 p.m.  57. From Steubenville to New Lisbon once in two weeks.  Leave Steubenville every other Monday at 6 a.m. and arrive at New Lisbon by 6 p.m.  Leave New Lisbon every other Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Steubenville by 6 p.m.  58. From Chillicothe to Franklin once in two weeks.  Leave Chillicothe every other Tues- 
 day at 6 a.m. and arrive at Franklin on Thursday by 6 p.m.  Leave Franklin every other Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Chillicothe on Sunday by 6 p.m.  59. From Zaneville by Tuscarora to Gadenhutton once in two weeks.  Leave Zaneville every other Monday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Gadenhutton by 6 p.m.  Leave Gadenhutton every other Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Zaneville by 6 p.m.  60. From Cincinnati by Hamilton, Franklin, Dayton, Staunton, Wainefville, Deerfield and Charleston, to Cincinnati once a week.  Leave Cincinnati every Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive Staunton on Wednesday by 4 p.m.  Leave Staunton every Wednesday at 6 p.m. and arrive at Cincinnati on Friday by 6 p.m. 
IN INDIANA.
 61. From Massac by Girardeau in Louisiana to New Madrid once in two weeks.  Leave Massac every other Thursday at 2 p.m. arrive at Cape Girardeau on Friday by 6 p.m. Leave Girardeau the next Saturday at 6 a.m. arrive at New Madrid on Sunday by 4 p.m.  Returning.—Leave New Madrid every other Monday at 8 a.m. and arrive at Girardeau on Tuesday by 6 p.m. Leave Girardeau on Wednesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Massac the next Thursday by 10 a.m.  62. From Kaskaskias by Geneva to Girardeau once in two weeks.  Leave Kaskaskias every other Friday at noon and arrive at Girardeau on Saturday by 6 p.m.  Leave Girardeau every other Sunday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Kaskaskias on Monday by 2 p.m.  63. From Cahokia to St. Louis once in two weeks.  Leave Cahokia every other Monday at 4 a.m. and arrive at St. Louis by 10 a.m.  Leave St. Louis every other Monday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Cahokia by 8 p.m. 
IN KENTUCKY.
 4. From Springfield by Green 6 ch ydair ch. Cumberland ch. and Jackson ch. T. to Blackburns Springs, T. once in two weeks.  Leave Springfield every other Monday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Blackburns Springs on Thursday by 10 a.m.  Leave Blackburns Springs every other Thursday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Springfield the next Sunday by 6 p.m.  65. From Washington to Augusta once a week.  Leave Washington every Wednesday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Augusta by 6 p.m.  Leave Augusta every Thursday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Washington by 6 p.m.  66. From Frankfort to Henry ch. once a week.  Leave Frankfort every Tuesday at 4 a.m. and arrive at Henry ch. by 11 a.m.  Leave Henry ch. every Tuesday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Frankfort by 8 p.m. 
IN TENNESSEE.
 67. From Dixelons Springs by Lebanon ch and Rutherford ch to Nashville, once in two weeks.  Leave Dixelons Springs every other Monday, at 6 a.m. and arrive at Nashville on Tuesday by 10 a.m.  Leave Nashville every other Tuesday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Dixelons Springs on Wednesday by 6 p.m. 
IN MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
 68. From Natchez to Fort Stoddart once in two weeks.  Leave Natchez every other Friday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Fort Stoddart the next Thursday by noon.  Leave Fort Stoddart every other Friday at 6 a.m. & arrive at Natchez the next Thursday by noon. 
IN N. ORLEANS TERRITORY.
 69. From Loftus's heights by Pinckneyville, Little Sarah Creek, Big Sarah Creek, Thompson's Creek, Buller's Plains, Baton Rouge, Iberville or Manchoc Church, Abbeville, La Forche, Cantrills German and Red Churches to New-Orleans once a week.  Leave Loftus's heights every Friday at 2 P.M. & arrive at New-Orleans the next Monday by 5 P.M.  Leave New-Orleans every Tuesday at 7 A.M. & arrive at Fort Adams the next Friday by 10 A.M. 
NOTES.
 1. The Postmaster-general may expedite the mails and alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contracts, he stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby.  2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time is specified.  3. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving 
after the time prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continues until the departure of any depending mail whereby the mails destined for such destination are delayed, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred.
4. Newspapers as well as letters are to be sent in the mail; and if any person making proposals, desires to carry newspapers, other than those conveyed in the mail, for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals for what sum he will carry with the emolument, and for what sum without that emolument.
5. Should any person making proposals desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals the alteration desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of the contract.
6. Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly, in the months of August, November, February and May, in one month after the expiration of each quarter.
7. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail.
8. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals.
9. The Postmaster-general reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end whenever three failures happen which amount to the loss of a trip each.
10. The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of October next, and are to continue in force for two years.
GIDEON GRANGER, Postmaster-General. General Post-Office, Washington City February 23, 1804. Feb. 27—2awt15ju.
TO RENT,
And immediate Possession given, A Two story Frame House, in the City of Washington, situated on N. F street, square 224—containing 4 rooms beside two garret rooms, piazza and pantry, kitchen, floor room, &c. with a good garden—lately occupied by Mrs. Lee, adjoining to Mr. Xaupie's store—Also that convenient two-story frame on same square, late in possession of Dr. Tabs, opposite to which Robert Peacock, Esq. lately resided—consisting of 6 rooms, and two garret rooms, piazza and balcony to south front, cellar with dry well, kitchen, carriage house, stable, an excellent garden, with every convenience fit for the reception of a genteel family. For particulars enquire at Mr. Rhode's tavern, Mr. Xaupie's store, or to the subscriber
REDMUND PURCEL. January 13, 1804—tf
House & Lot for sale.
BY virtue of a deed of trust from JOHN KENNEDY to the subscribers, will be sold by public sale, at Rhodes's Tavern, in the City of Washington, on Friday the 25th day of May next, at 5 o'clock P.M. for ready money, part of Lot No. 1, in square No. 291 in said City, fronting 54 feet on Pennsylvania Avenue and 100 feet 2 inches on 12th street west, conveyed by the Commissioners to the said Kennedy, with the two stowry brick dwelling house built thereon, at present occupied by Augustus B. Woodward, Esq.
George Thomson, John Murdock. April 27.
** As the proceeds of the above sale are intended to be paid into my hands, a bond or notes with approved security, bearing interest from date, and payable one third in 6, one third in 12 and one third in 18 months will be accepted of from the purchaser, in place of cash.
JOHN LAIRD. April 30.—ep2m
CHARLES VARDEN,
TAYLOR, FROM PHILADELPHIA. HAS received from Philadelphia an elegant assortment of the best quality Superfine Cloths, Cassimeres, Silk floratine, Bl-zz and fancy silk moleskin velvet, white & figured Marseilles, Swandowns, Toilingnettes, Velvet teens, Fancy cords, Coating, &c. 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, the second House from the Capitol Square. November 8, 1803
FIVE DOLLARS
Will be given by the subscribers for apprehending and securing in jail so that we get him again, EDWARD VIDLER, an apprentice to the Taylor's business—He is about eleven years old and small of his age; he was taken on the sixth inst. from Baltimore by his mother and carried to the city of Washington, and it is supposed he is now with his father at Mr. P. Miller's near Barry's wharf. All persons are forewarned, harboring or carrying off said boy at their peril, as we are determined to put the law in force to its utmost rigor against them from the publishing of the above.
B. YOE & J. COMPTON, No. 92, Market street. Baltimore May 9—3t&ep3t
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber, being legally and fully authorised, by his assignees, to adjust, and settle finally, all the concerns of his former estate, surrendered under the laws of Pennsylvania, of Maryland, and of the United States, hereby calls on all persons indebted to said estate, to make payment to him; and on all who have claims, to render him their accounts, with notice of what property still held in pledge for securing payment. JAMES GREENLEAF. Philadelphia, April 13—wtf