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National Intelligencer.
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER
VOL. IX.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. 1328.
VE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1809.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
The horse Carlo 83 Powerful Horse CARLO, Imported from England by the late Robert Wals, esq. Member of Congress.
CARLO is a rich Brown Bay, full 16 hands high; he will stand at my plantation in Prince George's county, and at the city of Washington, a week alternately, throughout the Season, which will begin immediately at the city of Washington, where enquiries may be made at the hotels of Mr. Long, of Mr. Lindsay or Mr. Rhodes. Carlo will be at my stables on the 2nd of April:— he will stand at TWENTY DOLLARS each Mare the Season, which will end on the 1st of August, but Sixteen Dollars will be received in full if paid during the Season, and One Half Dollar to the Groom. Notes of hand or the money must be sent with the Mares. Good pasturage at my plantation gratis for the Mares that come from a greater distance than 8 or 10 miles; and at the City 20 Mares will be furnished with pasturage at Petworth, the seat of John Taylor, esq. and others at the seat of Robert Brent, esq. mayor of the city, at Fifty Cents per week, each Mare. The fencers are all excellent, and the managers will be directed to take the utmost care of the Mares, but there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Carlo has an extraordinary character as a foal-getter, as certificates in the hands of his owner, W. Thornton, esq. will testify.
ISAAC DUCKETT.
March 27, 1809.
PEDIGREE.
CARLO was gotten by Baloou, one of the best sons of Highflyer, (which was by King Herod, his dam by Blank, by the Godolphin Arabian, his grand dam by Regulus, also by the Godolphin Arabian); his dam, own sister to Peter Pindar, by Javelin, a high bred son of Eclipse; ("Javelin stood at twenty guineas a Mare and one guinea the Groom." Racing Cal. 1798, p. 307); his grand dam, Sweetheart, by King Herod; his great grand dam, by Snap; his gt gt grand dam by Regulus, which was by the Godolphin Arabian; his gt gt gt grand dam by Snap, which was by Flying Childers; his gt gt gt gt grand dam the Banbury Widdrington mare, (dam of Shepherds Crab, &c.) by Partner, (grand sire of King Herod); his gt gt gt gt gt grand dam, the sister of Squirrel's dam, by Blood-buttocks; his gt gt gt gt gt gt grand dam by Greyhound, (the Barb); his gt gt gt gt gt gt gt grand dam by Muleless; his gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt grand dam by Brimmer, which was by the Yellow Turk, out of a royal mare; his gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt grand dam by Place's White Turk; his gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt grand dam by Dods-worth, (the Barb); his gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt grand dam, the Layton Barb mare.
Original Pedigree in the possession of W. Thornton, the proprietor, sworn to before the Lord Mayor of London, and signed by JAMES HALLOWAY.
Carlo was imported from England young, before he was trained, and Robert Wals, esq. not being a sportsman, the horse was never tried.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Allen, Philadelphia, to Dr. Thornton, dated 26th of March, 1809.
"I think you have got one of the best horses in this country, in the imported horse Carlo. I have two colts of his get out of full bed mares, coming one year old this spring, 14 hands high now, and every way stout in proportion. I will enter them in a sweep-stake with any colts of the same age, the sum not to exceed one thousand dollars."
THOMAS ALLEN.
April 15—cop3t
NATIONAL MUSEUM.
THE very flattering encouragement the Subscriber has met with from a number of Gentlemen of the highest respectability and rank, among whom he has the honor to name the President of the United States and Dr. Samuel J. Mitchell of New York—has induced him respectfully to announce to the Public, his determination to commence the establishment of a NATIONAL MUSEUM, connected with a GALLERY OF PORTRAITS, in the city of Washington, where a Building well calculated for the purpose is now preparing.
The great and obvious utility of such an institution at the seat of the National Government, it is presumed will strike every liberal and enlightened mind in so forcible a manner as to render any further detail in the present instance unnecessary.
C. BOYLE.
March 20—
District of Columbia, Washington county, to wit.
IN the case of EDWARD GANTT an insolvent debtor in the county aforesaid. Six months from and after the first day of March next is limited and appointed for the creditors of said insolvent to bring in and exhibit their claims to the trustee.
Ordered that this notice be published in the National Intelligencer and Washington Federalist once a month during said time.
By order of the hon. Wm. Cranch, Esq. chief judge of the circuit court of the district of Columbia.
WM. BRENT, Ck.
February 23, 1809.
Those indebted to the insolvent's estate, are hereby noticed to pay the same without delay, otherwise suit will be brought for recovery.
THOMAS HERTY, Trustee.
March 27—w6m
CONTINUATION OF LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
FEBRUARY 7.
STATE OF THE NATION.
Earl GROSVENOR rose to make his promised motion for a committee on the state of the nation to which he thought, when the events that had lately happened, and the disasters which the country had experienced were considered, there could be scarcely any objection. He would observe as a preliminary, that if their Lordships should accede to the motion, and it should appear upon the inquiry which must then take place, that his majesty's ministers had, by their misconduct, disappointed the hopes and expectations of the nation, he should then follow it up by a motion to address his majesty to dismiss them from his confidence and Councils. It has been said, that there exists a conspiracy to write down illustrious persons, and to write down the Constitution; he did not know that any such conspiracy existed, but he was aware that most improper paragraphs had appeared in some of the public journals, particularly one which he instanced, in which a noble Lord, in that House, had been accused of furthering the views of Bonaparte:— He trusted, however, that the licentiousness of the press could be restrained by the existing laws, and that no attempt would be made to introduce any new law to curtail the liberty of the press, upon which rested so much of the freedom of the people. His Lordship went over all the events which had lately happened in Sweden, Spain and Portugal, contending that with respect to all of them an inquiry was absolutely necessary, the blame resting, as it did upon his majesty's ministers.— With respect to Spain, ministers had declined to make a communication to that House before the close of last session, upon which its opinion could be taken, as to the line of conduct most proper to be pursued, they seemed determined that their Lordships should neither "pursue the triumph" nor "partake of the gale;" they were anxious to monopolise to themselves all the popularity of the measures to be adopted towards Spain, and now that those measures had failed, and disasters had ensued, instead of success, it was but just that they should have all the unpopularity which resulted from the failure of their measures. The subsequent conduct of the campaign in Spain loudly demanded inquiry; first, with respect to the part of the country chosen for its commencement, and which no one in the country, except his majesty's ministers, seemed to think advisable. Secondly, as to the advance of the army into the heart of Spain with the moral certainty of being compelled to retreat. And thirdly, as to that most disastrous retreat, in which the heaviest losses were sustained in horses, money, baggage and artillery; and in which the most severe privations and distress were suffered by the officers and soldiers. Another point also, which demanded inquiry, was the non arrival of the transports at Corunna, by which the army were detained some days, and by which so much valuable blood was spilt in the battle at that place. It was impossible to give too much praise to the valor of our troops in that action; but was it necessary that they should fight merely to shew, what every one knew before, that they were brave? It was a subject of the deepest regret, that the valor of our troops, eminently displayed as it had been in the glorious victory of Vimiera, and in the glorious repulse before Corunna; and the bravery of our navy in the Baltic, had been only available to prove the valor of our troops & seamen, without being of the slightest use to the great cause in which we were engaged. Much had appeared at the Court of Inquiry on the Convention of Cintra, to prove the necessity of an enquiry of the nature he now moved for, particularly the unofficial letters, written by the Secretary of State for the War Department, directing Sir Hew Dalrymple to take the advice of Sir Arthur Wellesley. That gallant officer doubtless possessed great merit; but would it not have been more fair and manly to have given him at once the command than to have placed two officers in the situation in which they were upon that occasion, and in which it seemed as if Sir Hew Dalrymple was commander de jure, and Sir A. Wellesley commander de facto? The delay of the troops in Portugal before they commenced their march for Spain, formed also another subject for inquiry. He had hopes that the cause of the Spanish nation was not desperate; but there must be more efficacy in the support of that cause, to give it a chance of success. In the present situation of the country the want of a responsible minister was most deeply felt. He did not mean to make any personal attack upon the noble duke at the head of the Treasury; but it was evident that he was not the efficient responsible minister of the country. Noble Lords on the other side might say that they were responsible ministers; but it was impossible that eleven or twelve could be punished—there must be one minister responsible to the country for the acts of his administration. Upon all these grounds, and others connected with the situation of the country, and the events of the last six months, his Lordship contended that an enquiry was absolutely necessary and concluded by moving, "That the House do resolve itself into a committee of the whole House, to take into consideration the state of the nation."
The Duke of MONTROSS thought the noble Earl had not been correctly informed upon many of the topics on which he had spoken; to go through all of them, in the manner proposed by the noble Earl, would take up at least two sessions. The noble Earl had spoken of some improper paragraphs that had appeared in a public journal, reflecting upon the conduct of a noble Lord on the other side, his noble friend; others might be quoted reflecting upon the conduct of other noble Lords. Agreeing with the noble Earl in his sentiments, respecting the liberty of the press, he trusted that if the press went beyond its due limits, its licentiousness would be punished. As to the propriety of any new law, upon the subject of which the noble Earl had spoken, he should deliver no opinion until the case was made out. He could only speak upon most of the topics alluded to by the noble Earl, from the same information which the noble Earl seemed to rely upon, and which had been chiefly derived from the public journals; he did not think, therefore, that the House was at all in a state to go into the inquiry proposed by the noble Earl, nor did he think the mode proposed was that which the House ought to adopt. Noble Lords on the other side, had moved for information upon different points, and when in possession of that information, they could bring those points distinctly before the House; but the general inquiry proposed by the noble Earl was not, in his opinion, the mode of inquiry which ought to be adopted. With respect to the campaign in Spain and Portugal, the plan, as far as he was informed, was good, it being, as he contended, an object of great importance to Spain, and also to this country, to free Portugal from the French, thereby relieving the Spaniards from the enemy in their rear, and at the same time opening the Tagus to our trade, and relieving our old ally. It was afterwards intended to support the armies of Blake and Castanos, that if necessary the army of the latter should retreat to the South, and that our army should retreat to Portugal to defend that country against the French. It unfortunately happened that the armies of Blake and Castanos were destroyed, and that there was no Spanish army for our army to join.—With respect to the convention in Portugal, his Majesty's ministers, abiding by the decision of the court of inquiry, with respect to the military part of it, had distinctly disapproved of the diplomatic part. With respect to the subject generally, he thought the motion of the noble Earl, not the mode in which any inquiry ought to be instituted.
The Earl of DARNLEY urged the necessity of inquiry in the mode proposed by the noble Earl, by which all the facts might be brought before the House, relating to those events which had happened within the last six months, and which loudly demanded inquiry.
Lord GRENVILLE was surprised that any objection should be made to going into the proposed inquiry, after ministers had so recently and repeatedly declared their readiness and their anxiety to meet inquiry with respect to their conduct. By the inquiry proposed by the noble Earl, all the facts respecting that conduct would be elicited, and the House enabled to form its judgment. In the course of that inquiry they would be enabled to ascertain the instructions given to officers in command, and the discretion which was left to those officers. It might be said, that ministers were not responsible for the exercise of a discretion entrusted to officers whom they employed, but it was of the utmost importance to the country that the whole subject should become matter of inquiry; and, however their feelings might revolt at entering into any investigation involving the conduct of an officer now no more, yet public duty demanded that they should ascertain the exercise of that discretion, in order to complete the inquiry which was so absolutely called for. He did not wish to trouble their lordships with a repetition of what he had said before upon topics involved in this discussion, nor could he allude to information not before the House, although that was the only room in the country, in which information long since before the public, was not made the subject of conversation. Amongst other topics it was surely highly necessary to inquire from what cause it arose, that our army, sent to Sweden, remained inactive on board the ships which conveyed it there, and that the gallant officer who commanded it, Sir John Moore, was obliged to escape almost in disguise. After ministers had so loudly called for inquiry, he could not conceive why they should now oppose it. The mode proposed, was that which had been adopted by Parliament upon former occasions, when the state of events appeared to demand it. When the army of Cornwallis surrendered in America, the mode of inquiry proposed, was by a committee on the state of the nation, which was, upon that occasion, agreed to for the very purpose of inquiring. It appeared, therefore, that the mode of inquiry proposed by the noble Earl was sanctioned by precedent, and the practice of Parliament, and he thought it the best mode of inquiry which could be adopted on the present occasion.
The Lord CHANCELLOR said, that his Majesty's ministers, at the prorogation of the last session, had left Parliament with the impression that it was the general and he might say the unanimous opinion both of the people and the legislature, that everything ought to be done, which the resources of the country would admit of, in assisting the Spanish nation against the unprincipled and unprovoked attack of their enemy. The question now to be considered was, whether they had executed the trust, with which they were charged, conformably to the wishes and expectations of the country. He admitted that the question was of importance, and well worthy of inquiry; but, as ministers had not shrunk from investigation, he could not agree either in the necessity or propriety of a motion of so general a nature as had been proposed by the noble Earl, (Grosvenor) on this evening. He was willing to allow, that for their conduct upon any of the important measures which had been adopted during the recess, they were responsible; and it was competent for the noble Earl, or any other member of that House, to call them to account upon each of these measures individually. But after twenty-five years experience in Parliament, he could not help thinking that it required much serious deliberation before their Lordships acceded to an enquiry of so general a nature, and which might branch out into a variety of topics, as that which it was now proposed to institute. If, for example, the noble Lord thought that there was any thing relative to the campaign in Portugal, or in Spain, or to the Cintra Convention, in which his majesty's ministers were criminally implicated, he might, with perfect propriety, submit a motion to the House upon any of these subjects, which would lead to the investigation of the merits or demerits of their conduct. But he trusted that their
Lordships, before sanctioning a proposition for so large an enquiry as that which was now moved for, would seriously consider the extensive range which it might afterwards be found necessary to take, and which would occupy so much time that it would completely obstruct the progress of any public business. It had been said on the first night of the session, by a noble Lord, that the misconduct of ministers was so obvious, that no inquiry was necessary to establish it. In reply to this imputation, ministers had then said, "hear us before you condemn us; move for any information you may think proper, and we assure you that we shall be as ready to grant, as you to call for it." Instead of this, however, the noble Earl had come forward with a motion, not for a specific inquiry into a particular measure, but for a general inquiry into the state of the nation, comprehending even the existing laws for regulating the press. As the noble Earl had thought proper particularly to advert to the liberty of the press, he (Lord Eldon) took this opportunity of expressing his opinion that the law, as it at present stood, was quite equal to curb its licentiousness, provided it was duly enforced. But he mentioned this subject principally for the purpose of shewing the indefinite extent to which the inquiry moved for by the noble Earl might be carried. His Lordship concluded with saying, that if the noble Earl was desirous of information respecting the grounds of any part of the conduct of ministers, he would take upon himself to assure him that it would not be refused to him even to the most unlimited extent; but he did not think that their Lordships would be of opinion that this was precisely the time to go into an enquiry into all the various topics connected with the general state of the nation.
Lord ERKINE contended that, if ever there was a time at which a motion for general inquiry ought to be entertained, the present was the moment. It was a moment, which, of all others that had ever occurred in the history of the country, loudly called for the counsel and incorporation of Parliament. With what had just fallen from his noble and learned friend upon the Woolsack, respecting the press, he most heartily concurred. He knew nothing on earth which in his mind approached nearer to perfection, than the English law upon this subject; and if breaches of them at any time occurred, he thought that the persons calumniated were more culpable in not resorting to that protection which they held out, equally to the characters of all, than to the printers and publishers of the libels. Supposing, therefore, that the House were to go into a committee of inquiry, he did not conceive that their attention would be at all directed to any topic connected with the public press. With respect to the suggestion which had fallen from his noble and learned friend, of dividing or restricting the inquiry, he hoped that the noble Earl would not object to it, provided that he was not excluded from calling for investigation upon any particular subject on which he might conceive information to be necessary. His Lordship was of opinion, that ministers were particularly culpable in not having consulted Parliament upon the measures which were adopted at so important a crisis; and above all, in having suffered four months to elapse before they sent any assistance to Spain. An inquiry into their past conduct was especially called for, at a time when another expedition was reported to be in contemplation, and when the whole world was combined against us. On other grounds the motion should have his most hearty concurrence.
The Lord CHANCELLOR said a few words in explanation.
Earl GROSVENOR professed that he would have no objection to frame his motion in any shape in which the object of it might be best attained, and to divert the inquiry into different branches, if it was supposed that it would be more convenient and eligible to proceed in this method than in that which he had proposed.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL acknowledged that this crisis was most important, and that the motion of the noble Earl was strictly parliamentary. He acknowledged also, that similar

motions had been on former occasions made and agreed to. But in the course of the last twenty years, amid all the awful events which had happened during that time, though motions of a similar nature had been frequently made, in no one instance had they ever been carried into effect. He could not help remarking also that such motions had been repeatedly made when an administration of which before the noble Baron (Grenville), and the noble Earl (Grosvenor) were members, and neither in the case of the retreat from Dunkirk, or the loss of Holland, had they been acceded to. The reasons for rejecting them on those occasions were the same which should influence his vote on the present, namely, the indefinite nature of such inquiries, and the consideration whether another and more convenient course may not be adopted. The generality of the inquiry moved for, he contended to go far to defeat its object. The noble Earl had indeed said, that he would have no objection to restrict his motion. But would it not be better first to call for information, where information was wanted, than to proceed at once to inquiry, and then by the very act in some measure to prejudice ministers, the merits of whose conduct it was the professed object to investigate. This course, in the present instance, his Lordship thought, was particularly prescribed, because all the facts which he had heard stated, respecting either the loss of our army or the campaign in Portugal, were extremely incorrect. With regard to the campaigns both in Spain and Portugal, there would not be the least objection to give the fullest possible information to enable Parliament completely to decide upon the conduct of government, and all that he now asked of their Lordships, was not to pass a censure upon that conduct before they had the means of judging of it.
Lord HASTINGS (Earl Moira) in a glowing and animated speech, impressed upon their Lordships' attention the importance and urgency of the motion for inquiry. Ministers pleaded their innocence—why then did they object to the only means of vindicating it in the face of the country and of the world? The subject of the present evening's discussion was one in which every individual was interested; he trusted, therefore, that their Lordships would act under a deep and solemn impression of the importance of the question on which they were called upon to decide. He had asserted on a former night, and he was ready now to maintain, that Ministers had been obviously guilty of the grossest misconduct in regard to the Spanish Peninsula, and to Spain. After having embroiled Sweden with Denmark, they had abandoned our ally in his utmost need. In consequence of their refusal to accede to the proposition which had been made by the American government, and the continued suspension of intercourse between the two countries, no flaxseed had been imported into Ireland, which would occasion a stoppage, or at least a decline in the linen manufacture of that country, in which no less than half a million of persons were employed. The noble Lord proceeded to take a review of their conduct in regard to Spain. Upon wrong information, received from Sir Charles Cotton, that there were only 5000 French at Lisbon, they had sent out a force to Portugal, and during the operations in Portugal they had not taken a single step to prepare for the march of our army into Spain. When reinforcements also were sent out to this army, instead of their being sent to join it, they sailed to the remotest point of the Peninsula, and to the most barren province in the kingdom, which they went to deliver—thus rendering it impossible for the commander for a considerable time to undertake any enterprise with the smallest chance of success. After dilating upon these points at some length, his Lordship concluded with adjourning them to pause and seriously to reflect upon the consequences before they negatived an inquiry which was so loudly called for both by past errors and the awful results to which, if not speedily corrected, they might eventually lead.
Lord HARROWBY said, that the speech of the noble Earl did not at all times apply to the question before their Lordships. He said, he did not want information to criminate ministers, and yet he complained that no information was given; and he would even have this information supplied with a disregard of all the established forms of parliamentary proceeding. In modern times the method now proposed to incipate this enquiry had been uniformly and wisely rejected. Why had it been abandoned? Because such a mode seemed to presuppose a cause of complaint against those upon whose conduct no examination had been instituted. The
regular form was to apply for those documents which noble Lords should consider necessary to assist their purpose; and having obtained those, to examine if there were sufficient grounds for any investigation; and on discovering those grounds to proceed upon the enquiry. The intention appeared to be not seriously to execute the duty the motion manifestly suggested—to search into the real state of the country.
Lord GRENVILLE interposed, said, that for his part he designed most gravely to discuss in such a committee the subject professedly before it.
Lord HARROWBY said a full exposition of the public affairs would paralyse the efforts of the country. He admitted, in common with the noble Lords opposite to him, that it was an important crisis, that there were times, when all the energies of the nation of a mighty people were required to meet the danger with which we were surrounded; he acknowledged that we stood on an eminence where we could discern no intermediate landing places to break our fall, and being in this awful situation, he called upon noble Lords, on the other side of the House, not to diminish the general enthusiasm, not to infatuate the public ardor, ( hear! hear! hear! ) but to exert all their talents, and employ all their influence to animate that fervid sensibility on which the national security so essentially depends.
Lord GRENVILLE hoped, after the language that had been employed by his noble friend, he might be indulged for a few moments. No word he had ever uttered, and no thought he had ever entertained, could meet the construction their Lordships had seen so recently applied. Far was it from his wish to paralyse the efforts of the nation, by exhibiting a discouraging view of the state of affairs. His constant endeavor had been to invite into action every moral and physical power, that the collective virtue and strength of the country might protect us, under the perils to which we were exposed. He knew that the means of defence with which we were provided were extensive: we had a brave and powerful navy which rode triumphant on the ocean, we had a gallant and invincible army, if its valor we had not rendered ineffectual by its misapplication; but, by the most fatal errors, the best blood of the defenders of England had been poured forth to no purpose; instead of triumph and glory, we had experienced only defeat and disgrace. With all these great resources, from the talents and prowess of our naval and military forces, we were hurled headlong towards ruin, and nothing could save us but a total change of system, and abandonment of all that had been hitherto regarded as necessary to the public safety; and an adherence to principles and measures precisely opposite to those which had been adopted. In such a course the energies of the nation might be advantageously employed. In truth to preserve the state, those energies must be called forth, and the country must know, that its security was only to be derived from the full application of all its multiplied powers; but this vast accumulation of national strength would be unproductive, unless it be directed by consummate wisdom. The question being now called for, it was read from the Woolsack, and was negatived without a division. The House immediately adjourned.
CORRESPONDENCE
Between the Ministers of RUSSIA, FRANCE & ENGLAND on the subject of a GENERAL PEACE.
No. I. Letter from Count Nicholas de Romanzoff to Mr. Secretary Canning, dated Erfurth, Sept. 30 (Oct. 12) Received Oct. 21.
TRANSLATION.
SIR, I send your excellency a letter which the Emperors of Russia and France write to his majesty the king of England. The emperor of Russia flatters himself that the king of England will feel the grandeur and sincerity of this step. She will there find the most natural and the most simple answer to the overture which has been made by admiral Saumarez. The union of the two empires is beyond all change, and the two emperors have formed it for peace as well as for war.
His majesty has commanded me to make known to your excellency that he has nominated plenipotentiaries who will repair to Paris, where they will await the answer which your excellency may be pleased to make to me. I request you to address it to the Russian ambassador at Paris. The plenipotentiaries named by the Emperor of Russia will repair to that city on the continent to which
the Plenipotentiaries of his Britannic majesty and his allies shall have been sent.
In respect to the basis of the negotiation, their imperial majesties see no difficulty in adopting all those formerly proposed by England, namely, the uti possidetis , and every other basis founded upon the reciprocity & equality which ought to prevail between all great nations.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed)
Count NICHOLAS DE ROMANZOFF. To his excellency Mr. Canning, &c.
No. III. Letter from his majesty the Emperor of the Russians, and Bonaparte, to his majesty, dated Erfurth, 12th of Oct. 1808. Received 21st. Oct.
TRANSLATION.
SIR, The present circumstances of Europe have brought us together at Erfurth. Our first thought is to yield to the wish and the wants of every people, and to seek in a speedy pacification with your majesty, the most efficacious remedy for the miseries which oppress all nations. We make known to your majesty our sincere desire in this respect by the present letter.
The long and bloody war which has torn the continent is at an end, without the possibility of being renewed. Many changes have taken place in Europe; many states have been overthrown. The cause is to be found in the state of agitation and misery in which the stagnation of maritime commerce has placed the greatest nations. Still greater changes may yet take place, and all of them contrary to the policy of the English nation. Peace, then, is at once the interest of the people of the continent, as it is the interest of the people of Great Britain. We unite in entreating your majesty to listen to the voice of humanity, silencing that of the passions; to seek with the intention of arriving at that object, to conciliate all interests, and by that means to preserve all the powers which exist, and to insure the happiness of Europe and of this generation, at the head of which providence has placed us.
ALEXANDER. NAPOLEON.
No. III. Letter from M. De Chamagny to Mr. Secretary Canning, dated Erfurth, 12th Oct. 1808. Received Oct. 21st.
TRANSLATION.
SIR, I have the honor to transmit to your excellency a letter which the Emperor of the French and the Emperor of the Russians write to his Britannic majesty. The grandeur & the sincerity of this step, will, without doubt, be felt. That cannot be attributed to weakness which is the result of the intimate connection between the two greatest sovereigns of the Continent, united for peace as well as for war. His majesty the Emperor has commanded me to make known to your excellency, that he has nominated Plenipotentiaries, who will repair to that city on the continent to which his majesty the king of Great Britain and his allies shall send their Plenipotentiaries. With respect to the basis of the negotiation, their majesties are disposed to adopt those formerly proposed by England herself; namely the uti possidetis , and any other basis founded upon justice, & the reciprocity and equality which ought to prevail between all great nations. I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration.
CHAMPAGNY.
His excellency Mr. Canning, &c.
No. IV.—The inclosure No. IV. is verbatim the same as No. II. the joint letter of Alexander & Napoleon, except that this letter, which is transmitted by the French minister, is signed Napoleon—Alexander. In the one letter Alexander signed first, in the other Napoleon.
No. V. Letters from Secretary Canning to the Russian ambassador at Paris, dated Foreign-office, 28th Oct. 1808.
SIR,
Having laid before the king my master, the two letters which his excellency the count Nicholas de Romanzoff, has transmitted to me from Erfurth, I have received his majesty's commands to reply to that which is addressed to him, by the official note which I have the honor to enclose to your excellency. However desirous his majesty might be to reply directly to his majesty the emperor of Russia, you cannot but feel, sir, that from the unusual manner in which the letter signed by his imperial majesty, was drawn up, and which has entirely deprived them of the character of a private and personal communication, his majesty has found it impossible to
adopt that mark of respect towards the emperor of Russia, without at the same time acknowledging titles which his majesty never has acknowledged.
I am commanded to add to the contents of the official note, that his majesty will hasten to communicate to his majesty the king of Sweden, and to the existing government of Spain the proposals which have been made to him. Your excellency will perceive that it is absolutely necessary that his majesty should receive an immediate assurance, that France acknowledges the government of Spain as party to any negotiation.—That such is the intention of the emperor of Russia, his majesty cannot doubt.
His majesty recollects well the lively interest which his imperial majesty has always manifested for the welfare and dignity of the Spanish monarchy, and he wants no other assurance that his imperial majesty cannot have been induced to sanction by his concurrence or by his approbation, usurpations, the principle of which is not less unjust than their example is dangerous to all legitimate sovereigns. As soon as the answers on this point shall have been received, and as soon as his majesty shall have learnt the sentiments of the king of Sweden, and those of the government of Spain, I shall not fail to receive the commands of his majesty for such communications as it may be necessary to make upon the ulterior objects of the letter of count Romanzoff.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed)
GEORGE CANNING.
To his Excellency, the Russian Ambassador, at Paris.
No. VI. Letter from Mr. Secretary Canning to M. de Chamagny, dated Foreign Office, 28th October, 1808.
SIR,
Having laid before the king my master the two letters which your excellency transmitted to me from Erfurth, one of which was addressed to his majesty, I have received his majesty's commands to return, in answer to that letter, the official note which I have the honor herewith to enclose.—I am commanded to add, that his majesty will lose no time in communicating to the king of Sweden and to the government of Spain the proposals which have been made to his majesty.—Your excellency will see the necessity of an assurance being immediately afforded to his majesty, that the admission of the government of Spain as a party to the negotiation is understood and agreed to by France. After the answer of your excellency upon this point shall have been received, and so soon as his majesty shall be in possession of the sentiments of the king of Sweden and of the government of Spain, I shall receive his majesty's commands to communicate with your excellency on the remaining points of your letter.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed)
GEORGE CANNING.
No. VII.—OFFICIAL NOTE.
The king has uniformly declared his readiness and desire to enter into negotiation for a general peace on terms consistent with the honor of his majesty's crown, with fidelity to his engagements, and with the permanent repose and security of Europe. His majesty repeats that declaration.—If the condition of the continent be one of agitation and of wretchedness; if many states have been overthrown, and more are still menaced with subversion; it is a consolation to the king to reflect, that no part of the convulsions which have already been experienced, or of those which are threatened for the future, can be in any degree imputable to his Majesty. The King is most willing to acknowledge that all such dreadful changes are indeed contrary to the policy of Great Britain.
If the cause of so much misery is to be found in the stagnation of commercial intercourse, although his Majesty cannot be expected to hear, with unqualified regret, that the system devised for the destruction of the commerce of his subjects has recoiled upon its authors, or its instruments, yet it is neither in the disposition of his majesty, nor in the character of the people over whom he reigns, to rejoice in the privations and unhappiness even of the nations which are combined against him. His majesty anxiously desires the termination of the sufferings of the continent. The war in which his majesty is engaged, was entered into by his majesty for the immediate object of national safety. It has been prolonged only because no secure and honorable means of terminating it have hitherto been afforded by his enemies.
But in the progress of a war, begun for self-defence, new obligations have been imposed upon his majesty, in
behalf of powers whom the aggressions of a common enemy have compelled to make common cause with his majesty; or who have solicited his majesty's assistance and support in the vindication of their national independence. The interests of the crown of Portugal and of his Sicilian majesty are confided to his majesty's friendship and protection.—With the king of Sweden his majesty is connected by ties of the closest alliance, and by stipulations which unite their counsels for peace as well as for war. To Spain his majesty is not yet bound by any formal instrument; but his majesty has, in the face of the world, contracted with that nation engagements not less sacred and not less binding upon his majesty's mind, than the most solemn treaties. His majesty, therefore, assumes that, in an overture made to his majesty for entering into negotiations for a general peace, the relations subsisting between his majesty and the Spanish monarchy, have been distinctly taken into consideration; and that the government acting in the name of his Catholic majesty Ferdinand the Seventh, is understood to be a party to any negotiation in which his majesty is invited to engage.
(Signed)
GEORGE CANNING.
(Correspondence to be continued)
PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 30.—Now indeed, we have the miseries of war brought home to our own doors; for the scenes here are beyond any pen to describe, occasioned by the arrival of so many transports with troops just taken from the field of battle, the wounds of some, of whom have never been dressed, while others are dying for want. No less than 900 women have been landed, all ignorant whether their husbands were dead or living. In this town and the neighborhood upwards of 5000 have been subscribed for the relief of the sufferers; and a committee of gentlemen have been sitting, by rotation, night and day, since Thursday last, in order to afford supplies of food, cloathing, and assistance to those who required immediate aid; and every woman, of every description, who had a second garment, has given it to the sufferers. Every house has become an hospital; for every family receives a sick or wounded person, giving food and necessaries of all kinds. Notwithstanding those exertions, great numbers are dying every day; all business gives way to the calls of suffering humanity. Ladies in person attend the sick and wounded, dressing the wounds of the soldiers themselves; thus supplying the want of sufficient number of medical men, at the same time that many of the wounds, from not having been examined, were in a putrid and most offensive state.
These are not exaggerations; they are certain facts, witnessed by many thousands. Every female in Plymouth is employed in making shirts, petticoats, caps, gowns, and necessary cloathing for the women. The Patriotic Fund, I am afraid, will have more claims than it will be able to answer.
FOR RENT,
TWO of the HOUSES in the Row commonly called the SEVEN BUILDINGS,
At present in the occupancy of Messrs. Munroe & Whetcroft. Possession may be had the 1st of MAY next.—Enquire of
Mr. JOHN HOYE, Union Tavern, or the SUBSCRIBER, Who will also RENT a Small but convenient BRICK DWELLING pleasantly situated near the lower Bridge, Rock Creek. Possession may be had as above. Enquire near the premises of
LEONARD HARBAUGH, Jr. Washington, April 14—3t
FOR SALE,
The unexpired time of a NEGRO GIRL,
Aged about 13 years, who has been accustomed to House work, and has, about 4 years to serve. Terms will be liberal. Enquire of
JOSIAH FOX. Navy Yard, April 14—
PUBLIC-SALE.
PURSUANT to a decretal order of the Chancery District Court of Williamsburg, will be offered for sale, on the 4th Monday in May next, at Westmoreland Court House, being court day, that very valuable FARM, situated on Nomony river, in the county of Westmoreland, the property of JOHN MATTHEWS, late of said county, containing 643 Acres. A credit of twelve months will be given, the purchaser executing to the commissioners acting under the aforesaid order, bond with approved security, and a deed of trust on the land to secure the payment of the purchase money according to the terms of the decree. April 14—ts
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD
RANAWAY from the Subscriber on the 1st inst. a negro man named GEORGE, thirty-five or six years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, slender made, very nearly black complexioned; has a down look when spoken to, and supposed to have a scar on his tongue, occasioned by a fall from a horse; no other visible mark recollected. Had on & took with him when he went away, an old blue cloth coat patched on the elbows, a country cloth jacket and a pair of trowsers made of a hand row, a pair of white cotton stockings striped on the top, an old felt hat, and a pair of light colored pantaloons. It is supposed that he will try to get to Rockingham county in the state of Virginia, in pursuit of a woman he claims as a wife, who was bought and carried from this neighborhood to that county by a certain Daniel Smoot of that county. The above reward will be given if taken up out of this state and secured in jail so that I get him again, and Fifteen Dollars if taken up in this state and secured so that I get him.
JOSEPH BENNETT. Ridge, St. Mary's county Md. April 14—3t

WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, APRIL 14.
REGISTER OF THE MARINE CORPS OF THE U. S.
Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant. FRANKLIN WHARTON. Major.—DANIEL CARMICK. Captains.
John Hall, James Thompson, Anthony Gale, Edward Hall, Henry C. Callahan, Michael Reynolds.
First Lieutenants.
John B. Ferrick, Albert Greenleaf, Paymaster John W. Williams, Quarter-master Charles D. Cox, Archibald Henderson, Adjutant, Richard Smith, Robert D. Wainwright, William Anderson, Thomas H. Pinckney, Thos. R. Swift, Lee Massey, John Brooks, Andrew Hasell, Peter W. Winthrop, and Samuel Miller.
Second Lieutenants.
Lawrence Cruise, Ichabod B. Crane, Roger Jones, Edward P. Wilmer, H. M. Parker, William D. Wilson, John Crabb, Henry H. Ford and James Ragland.
The following article, from a London print of Feb. 18, is given only as affording intelligence that flagrant violations or evasions of the embargo laws have taken place. It is needless to observe to any one in this country that the London editors have wholly mistaken the mode in which these vessels have departed from the country. We can but lament that the evasions of the law were so numerous as to warrant their supposition.
"The commercial people here have been much surprised by the arrival, within these two or three days, of no fewer than 23 ships from America laden with cotton, grain, &c. and giving us a seasonable supply of many other valuable commodities. On enquiry, we find that all these are consigned to the house of Sir Francis Baring and Co. and that they come, not like their predecessors, with the stigma of violating the embargo, but under the licence and authority of the republican government. It is well known, that the mercantile house just alluded to is the agent of the United States for the payment of the demands of claimants in this country on the American funds. It has become necessary to the credit of the republic, that these demands should be satisfied, and the difficulty was, under the circumstances of the embargo and non-intercourse acts, to discover the means by which such payments should be made here. There is no doubt it will be found, that Messrs. Baring have undertaken to discharge the accruing debt to the proprietors of American stock, and that the consignment of these cargoes and others is the mode provided for their repayment."
The bill for purchasing Dr. Hoack's Botanic Garden, stated in the National Intelligencer some time ago to have been passed by the Legislature of New York, was lost in the Assembly by a majority of three.
"All the talents of the country." Every day produces some new evidence in support of this hitherto unknown fact. The scintillations of federal genius succeed each other so rapidly as to envelope our astonished senses in a consumed blaze. If our federal friends improve in this ratio, to what a sublimity of conception and brilliancy of expression may they not at length arrive! Does any one wish to detract from the character of federal talents? Let him read the following toast, drank by the federalists of the New York Legislature at "an Elegant entertainment," and be dumb for ever!
"The new patent state Carriage—The skeleton of a Mammoth—drawn by Terrapins—harnessed by Proclamations—and driven by a Monkey—a pleasant tete a tete across the bog swamps of Louisiana, to the safe hotel in Carter's mountain—there Embargo perpetual—and all the people say amen."
VIRGINIA ELECTION.
Nottoway County—For Congress. Peterson Goodwyn 109 John Pegram 94 Sussex County—For Congress. Edwin Gray 187 Wm. Massenburg 144 Richard Byrd 79 City of Richmond—For Congress. John Clopton 105 Charles Dabney 55 For the State Legislature. Andrew Stevenson 104 Alex. M'Rae 70 Loudoun County—For Congress. Wm. Tyler 143 Joseph Lewis 528
The Alexandria Advertiser supposes, Fairfax being the only remaining county in the latter district, that Mr. Lewis will certainly be elected.
Captain Burnham confirms the capture of Martinique. He says it surrendered on or about the first of March—that the British had thrown 15,000 shells into Fort Bourbon, and nearly demolished the fortifications, before the place surrendered. The French prisoners were to be sent to France in British vessels; but if not exchanged in 3 days after their arrival they were to be carried to England. Phil. Inquirer.
INSANITY
QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE PRIUS DEMENTAT.
From the New York Evening Post. "There are thousands every day denouncing the claims made upon that nation (the English) as unjust and unreasonable and openly declaring that it is our true policy to rescind those claims, TAKE PROTECTION UNDER THE BRITISH NAVY and unite with her against the Emperor of France."!!!
From the Boston Gazette. "It is better to suffer the amputation of a limb, than to lose the whole body. We must prepare for the operation."
From ditto. "Wherefore then is New-England asleep? Wherefore does she submit to oppression of enemies in the SOUTH, who are themselves SLAVES, and would make us so? Have we no MOSES who inspired by the GOD of our fathers, and will lead us out of Egypt?"
From the Repository. "It behoves us to speak, for STRIKE WE MUST, if speaking does not answer."
Philadelphia, April 10.
OLMSTED'S CASE—Yesterday morning, at an early hour, the marshal eluded the vigilance of the guards appointed to protect the daughters of David Rittenhouse, and entered into the parlor of Mrs. Sergeant, where she and her children were sitting. They were so much terrified by his appearance that he found it necessary to attempt to pacify them, and in the mean time Mrs. Sergeant, who had not been seen by him, left her own house by the back door, and passed through her garden to the house of Mrs. Waters, where the ladies secured themselves by locking the door. The marshal attempted to enter at the same door, but the guard had become alarmed, and drove him with fixed bayonets from the house.
April 10. So sanguine are some of our merchants, that the non-intercourse with England and her dependencies, will be speedily removed; that policies were opened on Saturday last, and large sums underwrote at fifteen per cent. that our trade with England would be opened on or before the first of May next. Philadelphia True American
Baltimore, April 13.
Yesterday arrived at this port the Spanish ship Sagunta, Ferera, in 17 days from Havana. By this arrival we learn that a mob of a serious nature threatened the repose of that place, but had been quelled by the timely interposition of the governor, and police, who acted from motives of personal safety. The mob was composed of blacks and the dregs of the populace, set on by actors behind the scene, to be revenged on the peaceable French inhabitants in retaliation for the disorders in Spain. In consequence of this affair business for two or three days was at a stand at Havana. The governor had issued his proclamation forbidding an assemblage in the streets of more than four persons. The ringleaders of this business have been seized, who with about 200 of their deluded followers, are incarcerated in the dungeons. The property which had been plundered is recovered. The negroes are fleeing to the mountains and the military are in pursuit—General Wilkinson and suite arrived at that port on his passage to New Orleans in the United States brig Hornet, from Charleston, which vessel brought the news of the raising of the embargo. Flour was plenty, at from $2 25 to 25 per bbl. Colonial produce on the rise.
Louisville, March 1.
On the 24th of February, a hand some brig from Marietta, capt. Boyle, arrived and passed the rapids in safety. On the 26th—a detachment of U. States troops, about 400, composed of field Artillerists, Infantry & Riflemen, commanded by capt. Peter, passed the rapids in 16 boats, bound for New Orleans, they had on board about 40 fine horses, ordnance and military stores to a considerable amount.
From Bell's Weekly Messenger of Feb. 15. London, Feb. 15. AMERICAN CONNECTIONS. The investigation which is at present carried on in the House of Commons, has so unaccountably fixed the public attention, as to leave little curiosity for any other subject. In our present article therefore, it is necessary to be short in order to be read. If we except the late intelligence from America, little of importance has occurred since our last. But America must now be considered as the only power of any great importance to us in political consideration, as the only power whom we can really and substantially make a friend, and the only power, with the exception of France, whom we have reason to fear as an enemy. It appears by the late intelligence, that the Embargo and Non-Intercourse acts have passed; and the new election having seated Mr. Madison in the Presidential chair, America will continue to be administered on the same principles of government as during the power of Mr. Jefferson. America however does not hesitate to hold out her hand to conciliate. Repeal your orders of council, she says, and trade with me, as you will. As this subject is to undergo a solemn debate, in Parliament during the
present week, we shall offer a few remarks upon it.
What is the policy of these orders of council? Are they useful to us or mischievous? Do they promote or counteract our proposed ends? Do they produce greater mischief to the enemy or to ourselves?
But the worst effect of these orders of council is, that in shutting you from the ports of America, it has made your decrees of prohibition and search a mere mockery. Your marine tyranny can have now no object of gratification; your arbitrary statutes are self repealed; The exclusion from America co-operating with the exclusion from the Continent, you are left to enjoy all the command of the sea, but not of its trade.
The lines at St. Roque are dismantled, and the cannon removed to Gibraltar—that is a fact of no small importance, as being a more decisive instance of confidence than has yet been displayed by the Spaniards towards this country. How greatly is it to be deplored, that confidence should have so long been withheld!
PROPOSALS
For carrying the MAILS of the United States on the following post routes, will be received at the GENERAL POST OFFICE, in Washington City, until the tenth day of June next, inclusive.
IN MAINE.
1. From Scodias Falls by Scodie, Dennysville, Machias, Jones, Addison, Harrington, Steuben, Gouldsboro', and Sullivan to Trenton, once a week. Leave Scodie Falls every Wednesday at 6 A M, arrive at Dennysville by noon. Leave Dennysville at 1 P M, and arrive at Sullivan the next Saturday by 10 A M—Returning—Leave Sullivan every Saturday at 2 P M, arrive at Dennysville on Tuesday by noon. Leave Dennysville at 1 P M and arrive at Scodie Falls by 3 P M. 2. From Dennysville to Eastport once a week. Leave Dennysville every Tuesday noon, and arrive at Eastport at 8 P M. Leave Eastport every Wednesday at 6 A M and arrive at Dennysville by 11 A M. 3. From Trenton, by Bluehill, Castine, Bucksport, Prospect, Belfast and Ducktrap, to Camden, Thomastown, Warren, Weldsboro', Noblesboro', and New-Castle, to Wiscasset, once a week from Trenton to Castine, and twice from thence to Wiscasset. Leave Trenton every Saturday at 2 P M, and arrive at Castine by 8 P M. Leave Castine every Sunday and Tuesday at 6 A M and arrive at Wiscasset on Tuesday and Thursday by 8 P M. Leave Wiscasset every Wednesday and Friday at 4 A M and arrive at Castine on Friday and Sunday by 8 P M and arrive at Trenton on Saturday by 11 A M. 4. From Bucksport, by Frankfort, Hampden, Bangor, Eddington and Orrington, to Bucksport, once a week. Leave Bucksport every Saturday at 4 A M and arrive at Eddington on Monday by 4 P M. Leave Eddington every Tuesday at 4 A M and arrive at Bucksport by 8 P M. 5. From Wiscasset, by New Milford, Gardner and Hallowell, to Augusta, once a week. Leave Wiscasset every Friday at 4 A M and arrive at Augusta by 7 P M. Leave Augusta every Thursday at 7 A M and arrive at Wiscasset by 7 P M. 6. From Portland, by Falmouth, Gray, New Gloucester, Lewiston, Green, Monmouth and Winthrop, to Augusta, once a week. Leave Portland every Monday at 8 A M and arrive at Augusta on Tuesday by 6 P M. Leave Augusta every Saturday at 6 A M and arrive at Portland on Sunday by 6 P M. 7. From Hallowell, by Augusta, Vassalboro', Winslow, Waterville, Fairfield and Canaan, to Norridgewock, once a week. Leave Hallowell every Saturday at 6 A M and arrive at Norridgewock on Sunday by 6 P M. Leave Norridgewock every Monday at 6 A M and arrive at Hallowell on Tuesday by noon. 8. From Vassalboro', by Fairfax, Unity and Colledgetown, to Hamden, once a week. Leave Vassalboro' every Monday at 6 A M and arrive at Hamden on Tuesday by 10 A M. Leave Hamden every Tuesday at 2 P M and arrive at Vassalboro' on Wednesday by 6 P M. 9. From Hallowell, by Augusta, Mount Vernon, Unity, Sharon, Farmington, Chester, Readfield and Augusta, to Hallowell, once a week. Leave Hallowell every Saturday at 6 A M and arrive at Farmington on Monday by 10 A M. Leave Farmington every Monday at 2 P M and arrive at Hallowell on Tuesday by 6 P M. 10. From Wiscasset, by Bath, Brunswick, North Yarmouth and Falmouth, to Portland, three times a week. Leave Wiscasset every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 A M and arrive at Portland by 8 P M. Leave Portland every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 7 A M and arrive at Wiscasset by 6 P M. 11. From New Milford, by Ballstown, Palermo and Davidstown, to Belfast, once a week. Leave New Milford every Friday at noon, and arrive at Belfast on Saturday by 6 P M. Leave Belfast every Sunday at 6 A M and arrive at New Milford on Monday by 6 P M. 12. From Brunswick, by Boudoin, Litchfield and Hallowell, to Augusta, once a week. Leave Brunswick every Tuesday noon, and arrive at Augusta by 7 P M. Leave Augusta on Wednesday at 4 A M and arrive at Brunswick by noon. 13. From Portland, by Windham, Bridgetown, Waterford, Paris, Buckfield, Livermore, Turner, Norway and Poland, to Portland, once a week. Leave Portland every Tuesday at 8 A M and arrive at Turner on Thursday by 10 A M. Leave Turner every Saturday at 6 P M and arrive at Portland the next Monday by 4 P M. 14. From Portland, by Saccapapoe, Gorham, Standish, Eliabontown, Hiram and Brownfield, to Fryeburg once a week. Leave Portland every Monday at 6 A M and arrive at Fryeburg by 10 A M—Returning—Leave Fryeburg every Tuesday at 2 P M and arrive at Portland on Wednesday by 6 P M. 15. From Portland, by Gorham, Buckstown, Limereck, Limington, Parsonsfield, Newfield, Sapeague, Lebanon, Doughty's Falls, Sanford, Alfred and Waterboro', to Portland, once a week. Leave Portland
every Monday at 11 A M and arrive at Doughty's Falls on Wednesday by 6 P M. Leave Doughty's Falls on Thursday at 6 A M and arrive at Portland the next Monday by 8 A M.
16. From Wiscasset to Booth Bay, once a week. Leave Booth Bay every Wednesday at 7 A M and arrive at Wiscasset by 11 A M. Leave Wiscasset at 1 P M and arrive at Booth Bay by 5 P M.
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
17. From Portsmouth, by Dover, Rochester, Middlestown, Ossipee, Moultonboro' Center Harbor, and Plymouth to Haverhill and Newbury, Vt. and from Newbury, by Haverhill, Plymouth, New Hampshire, Meredith, Gilmanton, Nottingham and Durham, to Portsmouth, once a week. Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday at 2 P M and arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 P M. Leave Plymouth on Friday at 6 A M and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 P M and at Newbury by 7 P M—Returning—Leave Newbury every Saturday at 6 A M and arrive at Plymouth by 6 P M. Leave Plymouth at 11 A M and arrive at Portsmouth on Tuesday by 10 A M. 18. From Fryeburg, in Maine, by Conway, Bartlett, Rosebrooks and Jefferson to Lancaster once in two weeks. Leave Fryeburg every other Tuesday at 1 P M and arrive at Lancaster on Wednesday by 6 P M. Leave Lancaster every other Monday at 6 A M and arrive at Fryeburg on Tuesday by 10 A M. 19. From Exeter, by Epping, Nottingham, Epsom, Pembroke, Concord, Salisbury, Grafton, Lebanon and Pelham, to Hanover, once a week. Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 9 A M and arrive at Concord by 10 A M on Wednesday. Leave Concord at 11 A M and arrive at Salisbury by 3 P M. Leave Salisbury at 4 P M and arrive at Hanover on Friday by 8 A M—Returning—Leave Hanover every Friday at 1 P M and arrive at Concord on Saturday by 2 P M. Leave Concord at 3 P M and arrive at Exeter on Monday by 3 P M. 20. From Exeter, by Newmarket and Durham, to Dover, once a week. Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 6 A M and arrive at Dover by 11 A M. Leave Dover at 1 P M and arrive at Exeter by 7 P M the same day. 21. From Haverhill, Ms. by Chester and Pembroke, to Concord, twice a week. Leave Concord every Wednesday and Saturday at 5 A M and arrive at Haverhill by 11 A M. Leave Haverhill every Tuesday and Friday at 1 P M and arrive at Concord by 3 P M. 22. From Portsmouth, by Exeter, Kingston, Haverhill, Andover, Wilmington, Woburn, Medford and Charlestown, to Boston, three times a week. Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3 A M and arrive at Exeter by half past 7 A M. Leave Exeter at 8 A M and arrive at Boston by 7 P M—Returning—Leave Boston every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 A M and arrive at Exeter by half past 3 P M. Leave Exeter at 4 P M and arrive at Portsmouth by 7 P M. 23. From Exeter, by Chester, Londonderry, Merrimack, Amherst, Peterboro', Marlboro', Keene & Chesterfield, to Brattleboro', once a week. Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 8 A M, arrive at Amherst on Wednesday evening, and at Keene on Thursday by 3 P M. Leave Keene at 4 P M and arrive at Brattleboro', on Friday by 6 P M—Returning—Leave Brattleboro' every Saturday at 4 A M and arrive at Keene by 9 A M. Leave Keene at 10 A M and arrive at Exeter the next Monday by 3 P M. 24. From Salisbury, by Andover, New Chester and Bridgewater to Plymouth, and thence by Holderness, New Hampton and Sanborntown, to Salisbury, once a week, and the reverse the next week. Leave Salisbury every Thursday at 6 A M and arrive at Plymouth by 6 P M. Leave Plymouth Friday 6 A M and arrive at Salisbury by 6 P M. 25. From Haverhill, by Bath, Littleton, Dalton, Lancaster, Guildhall, Lunenburg and Concord, to Littleton, thence by Bath, to Haverhill, once a week. Leave Haverhill on Saturday at 5 A M and arrive at Guildhall on Tuesday by 4 P M. Leave Guildhall on Tuesday by 5 P M and arrive at Haverhill on Friday by 5 P M. 26. From Haverhill, Ms. by Salem, to Windham, once a week. Leave Windham every Monday at 6 A M and arrive at Haverhill by 1 P M. Leave Haverhill every Monday at 4 P M and arrive at Windham on Tuesday by noon. 27. From Hanover, by Oxford, to Haverhill, once a week. Leave Hanover every Friday at 9 A M and arrive at Haverhill by 6 P M. Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 8 A M and arrive at Hanover by 6 P M.
IN VERMONT.
28. From Littleton, N. H. by Littleton, Vt. St. Johnsbury, Danville, Walden, Greensboro', Craftsboro', Eden and Johnson, to St. Albans, once in two weeks. Leave Littleton, N. H. every other Monday at 6 A M and arrive at St. Albans the next Wednesday by 6 P M. Leave St. Albans every other Thursday at 6 A M and arrive at Littleton, N. H. on Saturday by 6 P M. 29. From Windsor, by Woodstock, Royalton, Randolph, Williamson, Berlin, Montpelier, Middlesex, Waterbury, Bolton, Jericho and Williston, to Burlington, once a week. Leave Windsor every Saturday at 2 P M, arrive at Montpelier on Monday by 3 P M and at Burlington on Tuesday by 1 P M—Returning—Leave Burlington at 3 P M on Tuesday, arrive at Montpelier on Wednesday by 6 P M and arrive at Windsor on Friday by 10 A M. 30. From Montpelier, by Berlin, Barre, Washington, Corinth, Bradford, Newbury, Ryegate, Barnet, Peacham and Danville, to St. Johnsbury, once a week. Leave Montpelier every Thursday at noon, arrive at Newbury on Friday by 7 P M. Leave Newbury every Saturday at 5 A M and arrive at St. Johnsbury by 5 P M. Returning—Leave St. Johnsbury every Sunday at 6 A M and arrive at Montpelier on Tuesday by 11 A M. 31. From Rutland by Pittsford, Brandon, Leicester, Sadsbury, Middlebury, New Haven, Vergennes, Ferrisburg, Charlotte, Shelburne, Burlington, Colchester, Milton, Georgia, St. Albans & Swanton to Higganote twice a week. Leave Rutland every Wednesday and Saturday at 4 A M, arrive at Burlington by 8 P M. Leave Burlington every Thursday and Monday at 4 A M and arrive at Higganote by 8 P M. Returning—Leave Higganote every Wednesday and Saturday at 4 A M and arrive at Burlington by 8 P M. Leave Burlington every Monday and Thursday at 4 A M and arrive at Rutland by 8 P M. 32. From Royalton by Tunbridge, Chelsea and Vershire to Corinth once a week. Leave Royalton every Thursday at noon &
arrive at Corinth on Friday by noon. Leave Corinth every Friday at 2 P M and arrive at Royalton on Saturday by noon.
33. From Rutland by Castleton, Panton, Benson, Orwell, Shurton, Addison, Vergennes, Willsboro', Essex, Ch. Tien and Plattsburg to Champlain, once a week. Leave Rutland every Monday at 6 A M and arrive at Plattsburg by 10 A M. Leave Plattsburg at 11 A M and arrive at Champlain on Thursday by 10 A M. Returning—Leave Champlain every Thursday at 2 P M and arrive at Rutland the next Sunday by 6 P M.
34. From Middlebury by New Haven, Mendon, Hydesburg, Williston, Jericho, Essex, Westford, Fairfax, Fairfield and Sheldon to Hunsburg, and thence by Berkshire, Enosburg, Bakersfield, Cambridge, Underhill, Jericho, Richmond, Huntingdon, Starksboro' and Bristol to Middlebury, once a week. Leave Middlebury every Monday at 6 A M, arrive at Jericho by 4 P M and at Hunsburg on Thursday by 2 P M. Returning—Leave Hunsburg every Thursday at 3 P M and arrive at Middlebury on Sunday by 7 P M.
35. From Rutland by Clarendon, Shrewsbury, Saltash and Reading to Windsor, once a week. Leave Rutland every Monday by 6 A M and arrive at Windsor on Tuesday by 10 A M. Returning—Leave Windsor every Tuesday at 2 P M and arrive at Rutland on Wednesday by 7 P M.
36. From Rutland by Timnath, Wallingford, Danby, Dorset, Manchester, Arlington, Shaftsbury, Bennington and Pittstown to Lansingburg twice a week. Leave Rutland every Tuesday and Friday at 4 A M and arrive at Bennington on Wednesday and Saturday by 9 A M. Leave Bennington every Wednesday and Saturday at 9 A M and arrive at Lansingburg by 4 P M. Returning—Leave Lansingburg every Monday and Thursday at 8 A M and arrive at Bennington by 3 P M. Leave Bennington at 3 P M and arrive at Rutland on Tuesday and Friday by 8 P M.
37. From Rutland by Cavendish, Chester, Rockingham, Bellows Falls and Westminster to Walpole, once a week. Leave Rutland every Thursday at 6 A M and arrive at Walpole on Friday by noon. Leave Walpole every Saturday at 6 A M and arrive at Rutland on Sunday by 10 A M.
38. From Bennington by Marlboro' Wilmington and Woodford to Brattleboro', once a week. Leave Bennington every Friday at 6 A M and arrive at Brattleboro' by 6 P M. Leave Brattleboro' every Saturday at 4 A M and arrive at Bennington by 4 P M.
IN MASSACHUSETTS.
39. From Newburyport to Haverhill twice a week. Leave Newburyport every Tuesday and Friday at 5 A M and arrive at Haverhill by 11 A M. Leave Haverhill every Tuesday and Saturday at 1 P M and arrive at Newburyport by 7 P M. 40. From Salem by Danvers, Topsfield and Roxford to Haverhill, once a week. Leave Salem every Monday at 1 P M and arrive at Haverhill by 6 P M. Leave Haverhill every Monday at 5 A M and arrive at Salem by 10 A M. 41. From Boston by Salem and Manchester to Gloucester, three times a week. Leave Gloucester every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 A M and arrive at Boston by 9 P M. Leave Boston every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 6 A M and arrive at Gloucester by 6 P M. 42. From Salem to Marblehead, six times a week. Leave Salem every day (Sunday excepted) at noon and arrive at Marblehead by 1 P M. Leave Marblehead every day at 2 P M and arrive at Salem by 3 P M. 43. From Boston by Medford, Woburn, Beleria, Reimsford, Tyngsboro', Dunstable, Amherst, Framson, Washington and Claremont to Windsor Vt. twice a week. Leave Boston every Tuesday and Friday at 3 A M, arrive at Beleria by noon, and at Amherst by 4 P M. Leave Amherst at 4 P M, lodge at Framson and arrive at Windsor on Wednesday and Saturday by 2 P M. Returning—Leave Windsor every Tuesday and Friday at 11 A M and arrive at Amherst on Wednesday and Saturday by 3 A M. Leave Amherst on Wednesday and Saturday at 8 A M and arrive at Boston by 8 P M.
STOP THE SWINDLERS.
1000 DOLLARS REWARD, WILL be paid for the apprehending and delivery of JOHN THOMAS & HONORE MONPOEY, who absconded from this city on Tuesday or Wednesday last, having swindled several persons to a considerable amount.
JOHN THOMAS is a small thickset well made man, of about 5 feet 4 inches high, 34 or 35 years of age, dark complexion, short black hair, and a very black beard, speaks fast and usually with a smile on his countenance; has a remarkable scar on one side of his face; much inclined to dress; pretends to have some knowledge of horses, and frequently rides on a good one. Said Thomas resided for many years in Union street, where he kept a boarding house and grocery store.
HONORE MONPOEY is about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, a Creole of St. Domingo, speaks broken English, of slender make, is lame in one foot, has a dark swarthy complexion, with short coarse curly hair, so much so that many would not take him for a white man, but from his residence in this city for many years past, he has generally been considered as such; pitted with the small pox, speaks fast, though he stammers while he speaks; usually very slovenly in his dress; pretends to have a knowledge of horses, having lately been in the habit of trafficking in the above species of property, as well as letting public chairs. Monpoey resided at the corner of Wentworth and King streets, where he kept a grocery store. From their connexions, it is highly probable they have travelled the same road, and may make for St. Mary's Georgia or New Orleans.
Five Hundred Dollars reward will be paid for apprehending and delivering either; or One Thousand Dollars for both.
WASHINGTON POTTER,
WILLIAM POTTER, DANIEL LATHAM, PHILIP COHEN, JOSHUA BROWN,
Committee on behalf of the creditors
N. B. The Printers throughout the Southern states and New Orleans are requested to insert the above three times, and to send their bills for payment.
Charleston, March 1. 25.

Alexander Greer and Wife, against Benoni Wheat and Mary his wife, and others, heirs of John Jordan, late of Charles county, deceased.
THE object of the bill is to obtain a sale of certain tracts of land of which the said John Jordan died seized and possessed, in fee simple, for the purpose of paying a debt due from the said John Jordan to the aforesaid Alexander Greer and Sally his wife, Executrix of the last will and testament of William Freeman Studdert deceased. It is stated that the above named defendants have removed out of the state since the filing of the bill. It is, therefore, on the application of the Complainants, for an order of sale, that the Complainants be allowed a copy of this order, to be inserted three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer , before the first day of May next, give notice to the absent defendants of this application, and of the substance and object of the bill, that they may be warned to appear here in person, or by solicitor of this court, on or before the first Monday of September next, to show cause wherefore a decree should not pass as prayed.
True Copy. Test NICHOLAS BREWER, Reg. C. Cr. March 31—w3l.
BORDENTON ACADEMY.
THE Subscriber having purchased the Bordentown Academy , purposes to open it on the 1st of May next for the reception of Young Gentlemen who are desirous of pursuing a course of Education. This place is situated upon a high bank of the river Delaware in the state of N. Jersey, about twenty miles from Philadelphia, and about sixty-five from New York, about nine from Burlington, seven from Trenton, & fifteen from Princeton. The advantages of this situation for health and retirement, two great requisites for literary institutions, cannot well be excelled.
1 st . In the schools of this Academy shall be taught in the manner pursued at the College of New Jersey, the English , the French , the Latin , and Greek Languages; Writing, Arithmetic, Mathematics, Geography, Astronomy, History, Logic, Rhetoric, and the principles of the Christian Religion . And for the benefit of a highly useful and respectable class of young men, those who are intended for the pursuits of Agriculture upon a large scale, a course of Geometry , Mechanics and Hydraulics will be taught, together with the most useful parts of Arithmetic , Geography and History .
2 d . Public examinations of the Pupils shall be held half yearly, and Premiums awarded to those who have made the greatest progress in improvement. Specimens of their skill in public speaking shall be exhibited after the examinations are ended.
3 d . The vacations of the Schools shall not exceed four weeks in the year, viz. two in the Spring and two in Autumn. Any occasional holy-day shall be at the discretion of the Principal of the Academy.
4 th . The first fifteen pupils shall be instructed by the subscriber, and for every other fifteen pupils a capable instructor shall be provided. It is however to be understood that the subscriber will have the general care and direction of all the classes and pupils.
5 th . Every two pupils shall be furnished with a commodious bed-room which shall be kept clean and in good order, and shall be open to the inspection and command of the teachers at any time.
6 th . The price of board and tuition, together with fuel and candles for the schools, shall be two hundred dollars per annum, paid in equal half yearly payments in advance. And if the pupil who has advanced his money should not continue a member of the Academy during the time for which he has advanced it, a proportional part of it shall be refunded.
7 th . The arrangements of the Academy shall not prevent the pupils from acquiring, at the request and expense of their parents or guardians, such accomplishments as may not be taught in the common academical course.
8 th . The price of board and tuition has been laid at the rate abovementioned, that young gentlemen who come from plentiful tables at home may be decently and agreeably accommodated, and may have no cause of complaint on the subject of their diet.
9 th . The hours of study shall be from six o'clock in the morning till 6 o'clock in the evening in the summer, and from 9 o'clock in the morning till 8 in the evening in the winter, except the usual time allowed for meals and relaxation.
10 th . All due diligence and fidelity shall be used to make the course of Academic education in these schools more accurate and substantial than we commonly find it in the seminaries of this country. And the subscriber pledges himself to endeavor, with a paternal regard, to instil right moral principles into the minds of the youth committed to his care; and to guard their health and dearest interest from every danger.
ANDREW HUNTER. Princeton, (N. J.) March 1, 1809.
Princeton, March 1, 1809.
The subscriber has long had the pleasure of being personally and particularly acquainted with the Rev. Mr. Hunter, who proposes to the public the re-establishment of the Academy at Bordentown under his immediate inspection and superintendence. He has the most perfect confidence in Mr. Hunter's classical knowledge and accuracy, and in his skill in teaching. His constant employment for many years in the instruction of youth must have long since made him acquainted with the best methods of imparting, with facility and correctness, the principles of language, and in general the elements of a good and useful education to the young mind. The subscriber likewise entirely acquiesces in the representation which Mr. Hunter has given of the salubrity of Bordentown, and of its peculiar fitness in other respects, to the objects of a good and useful Academy.
SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH, President of the College of New Jersey. April 10—
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE,
THAT the subscriber hath obtained from the Orphans Court of St. Mary's county and state of Md. letters of administration on the Personal Estate of RICHARD BOND , late of the aforesaid county and state, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, for adjustment, with the proper vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, living in St. Mary's county and state of Md. at or before the 13th day of July next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from a benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this 13th day of January 1809.
REBECCA WHITE BOND, Executrix January 20—mōmUG
NOTICE.
WAS committed to the jail of Frederic county, Maryland, on the 15th day of February last, a negro man, who calls himself Phil Blake —he is about 5 feet 6 inches high, stout made—he appears to be about 23 or 24 years of age—he has a small scar near his left eye, occasioned, as he says, by a stroke from his master—his back denotes him to have been severely whipped in his time—his clothing when committed, were as follows: a drab colored great coat, a dark brown roundabout, a swansdown waistcoat, old pantalettes, shoes and stockings, all much worn, a good wool hat, and wears his hair platted over his forehead—he says he belongs to Dr. Wm. P. Matthews, on Elk Ridge, within 5 miles of Elk Ridge landing. The owner is hereby requested to come and release him, otherwise he will be sold for his prison fees according to law.
GEORGE CREAGER, Sh. Fr. Cy. March 20—wSt
THE Editor of the National Intelligencer , Washington city; Evening Post , at Baltimore; and Republican Star , at Easton, are requested to insert the above once a week for eight weeks each.
SAMUEL STETTINIUS,
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NEAR THE CENTRE MARKET. HAS added to his former stock of DRY GOODS.
A new supply of White Cotton Cambrics, of various qualities and prices.
Elegant Calicoes, Furniture do.
S. STETTINIUS, called upon by the liveliest impressions of gratitude towards both the Ladies and Gentlemen of this city for their respective favors which they were pleased to indulge him with these many years in the above branch of business, begs leave to acknowledge that he thinks it a most incumbent duty on him, to sell his Dry Goods as low and reasonable as the present difficulties in trade possibly will admit, and he will with pleasure embrace the opportunities which might be offered him by a kind public for manifesting the same to all respects.
He has also just received by the schooner Regulator , Capt. James Bowie, from Baltimore, more, and offers for sale by WHOLESALE,
 30 Boxes first quality of Brown Sugar,  6 do. white do.  1000 Pounds first quality of Green Coffee  5000 do. Second do. do.  1000 do. Third do. do. 
2 Pipes Holland Gin, and which will be disposed of lower than by the present situation of Dutch trade, can be expected.
 15 Boxes Tin,  12 Do. Window Glass, 10 by 12.  1 Trunk of Furniture Calicoes,  1 Do. of Fashionable do.  1 Do. of Undressed Clintz and French Muslin,  3 Dozen Cambric Handkerchiefs,  1 Bale of Dowlas, No. 6, 7, 17, 18, 19, 20,  3 Boxes, containing Ticklenburgh, Oil Cloth, Diaper Table Cloth, Do. Towelling do. Bed Ticks,  Tapes No. 25, Do. 13,  Sewing Silk, cloth color, Do. do. Black do. 
 Marking Cotton, No. 12, 20, 30, 45,  500 Pieces of Silk Ribbons, Satin, Lutestring Glazed, of all Numbers,  100 Do. Galloon do. No. 1-4, 1-2, 3-4, 1, 2, 4.  Palmel Ribbands,  25 Dozen White Cotton Stockings for men, 25 Do. do. do. women,  50 Do. Ladies Combs of various prices  50 Pieces Boot Straps,  Cotton Stripes,  Linen do.  Colas 
 Tail de Cotton,  1000 Pounds Spanish Sole Leather,  1000 Do. Slaughter Hides, do.  1 Dozen Hog skins,  25 Pieces Bandanna Handkerchiefs,  1 Trunk White Cotton, Cambrics assorted,  1 Chest Old Hyson Tea,  1 Do. Young do.  6 Do. Hyson Skin do. of 13 lbs. each,  12 Pieces Dimity,  Elegant Brass Candlesticks,  Coat Buttons, Gilt and Silvered,  Waistcoat do. 
All of which he now offers low for Cash or good paper.
Washington, March 10—3l&wtf
State of Maryland—In CHANCERY,
March 20, 1809.
William Deakins and others, against Thomas S. Lee, Peter Casanave and others.
ORDERED that the several claims filed in the said suits will be determined on after the fourth day of the ensuing July term on application—the claims objected to by the Auditor are those of Uriah Forest and William Deakins, the claim of David Lynn for a preference in the last mentioned likewise remains to be considered. Deposits taken on three days notice to the opposite parties will be received in evidence.
True Copy. Test NICHOLAS BREWER, Reg. C. Cr. March 31—w3t.
CHARLES H. HARDEN,
MERCHANT TAYLOR, RESPECTFULLY informs the gentlemen of the district of Columbia and Public in general, that he has received by a late arrival from Philadelphia, a Choice Assortment of superfine Cloths, Cassimeres, single and double milled, superfine Coating, black silk Florentines. Likewise an elegant assortment Spencelets & rich silk Moleskins for Waistcoats with a variety of other articles suitable for the season. Regimentals and Navy Uniforms made in the most elegant and uniform style of fashion.
Richard Norwell's celebrated PATENT PARALLEL SUSPENDERS far superior to any hitherto in use can be had on the same terms retail, as at his Manufactory. November 27—tf
NOTICE.
WILL be exposed to PUBLIC SALE on the 15th day of April next at Drummonds tavern Navy Yard, all the right, title, claim and interest of JOHN VINTT in and to a part of a LOT in square No. 930, on Eighth street, 20 feet in front, running back 75 feet, with a Two Story BRICK HOUSE thereon, and other improvements, which property Mr. John Dobbins now occupies, taken by virtue of a writ of fieri facias , issued from the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the county of Washington, at the suit of Lewis Clephann. Terms of sale cash. Sale to commence precisely at 12 o'clock.
WASHINGTON BOYD, Marshal. March 15—tawts
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
LOST, a SILVER WATCH with hands telling the day of the month on the face of her, and capped—Mott, maker, New York. Whoever will return the Watch to this office, shall receive the above sum, and no question asked. Wednesday, March 1, 1809—
PUBLIC SALE.
BY VIRTUE of a decree from the High Court of Chancery of Maryland, directed to me as trustee, for the purpose of paying a sum of money therein mentioned, due from Philip Fitzhugh deceased to Isaac and Malton Schatfield , will be sold at Public Auction, on the premises to the highest bidder on the 22d day of April next at 12 o'clock, one undivided moiety or half of the Adelphi Mills and about 30 acres of Land belonging thereto, lying in Prince Georges county, and the whole of from 27 to 30 acres of Land adjoining the above mentioned Land; the Mill House is large and built of stone, 3 pair of 5 feet Burr stones; a stone store house and stable, and there is several other out buildings, Smiths Shop, &c. The terms will be made known on the day of Sale. The creditors are hereby warned to exhibit their claims within six month from the day of Sale.
JOSEPH L. SCHOLFIELD, Trustee. 3d month 31st, 1809—3w
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THE undersigned, Merchants, and Masters of vessels now in the port of Havana, having been called upon by Captain WILLIAM WILKINS , commander of the brig WILLIAM , of Dumfries, lately arrived from Baltimore to this port in distress, to examine and report the true situation of the said vessel, we do hereby certify and declare, that we went on board said vessel, and after strict examination, found the said brig's stern was started out and loose from its frame, the stern post entirely moved out of its place, and the stern in every part so wrecked, that the crew was obliged to confine it together with a hawser at sea—we also found that the said vessel made a great deal of water while lying in this port in smooth water—We also found her water ways all open, and her main top-mast carried away, and also the head of her foremast rotten and gone: We give it as our decided opinion, that the said vessel cannot proceed to sea in her present situation, and must be discharged to undergo a thorough repair. Given under our hands at Havana, this twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine.
 Signed, WM. L. RICHARDSON,  ROBERT DAWSON,  DANIEL SHAW,  I. TABER,  CLEMT. CATHELL. 
Extract of a letter from Mr. Vincent Gray, under date 22 February, 1809.
"The brig has been sold for the best price she would command. To ship this cargo back to the United States, and pay a freight of 4 or 5 $ per barrel is out of the question, and no tribunal would ask it, as the freight and insurance from hence would amount to more than the flour would be worth on its arrival in the United States. Some of the cargo it appears, was thrown over board, and a quantity damaged."
(Signed) VINCENT GRAY. March 17—cp 1m.
NOTICE.
THE persons who claim title to the following LOTS in Georgetown , are notified that their titles are defective in consequence of their having neglected to avail themselves of the compromise agreed on in the case of Beatty and Davidson . The representatives of Gen. Davidson are yet willing to assent to the same compromise, and all who apply by the 10th May next may obtain deeds on those terms—the lots claimed by those who do not apply will be proceeded against. If those persons desire any information on this subject they can apply to Mr. Abner Ritchie or to F. S. Key, esq. Georgetown. Letters from those who do not reside in the District (post paid) will be attended to.
ANNE MARIA DAVIDSON, Executrix & devisee of Gen. JOHN DAVIDSON.
 The following are the Lots in Beatty and Davidson's addition to Georgetown , referred to in the above notice—Lots No. 2 & part of lot No. 3,—lots Nos. 4, 6, 15, 30, 41, 43, 44, 52, 58, 59, 60, 65, 67, 71, and part of lot 72—lots no. 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 87, 91, 92, 94, 103, 104, 105, 109, 110, 113, 114, 118, 119, 121, 123, 125, 129, 130, 132, 133, 135, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 148, 149, 154, 155, 163, 166, 168, 170, 175, 176, 194, 195, 196, 205, 207, 211, 212, 214, 216, 220, 225, 227, 230, 231, 236, 237, 239, 245, 248, 256, 257, 258, 259, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 267, 269, 270, 272, 273, 275, 278, 279, 282, 287, 288, 289, 290, 294, and 295. 
March 22—110m
WANTS A SITUATION,
AS a Private Tutor or Public Teacher, either in town or country, a young MAN, qualified to teach English, including the practical branches of the Mathematics. A line addressed to C. A. city of Washington, will be duly attended to.
N. B. Unexceptionable recommendations will be given. March 29—2awtf
PROPOSALS
By THOMAS J. ROGERS & OTHERS, (Of Easton, Pennsylvania,)
For publishing by subscription, a new and valuable work, to be entitled
THE AMERICAN SENATOR, Or Select DEBATES in the Congress of the United States.
TO THE PUBLIC.
IN offering this work to the American people, the Editors deem little need be said in its praise. It is to perpetuate as well the names as the talents of the sons of America, and to rescue from oblivion the eloquence of the American Senate. It has long been a source of regret to the lovers of oratory, that hitherto the debates in the Congress of the United States have been suffered to pass into oblivion, or preserved only in the ephemeral productions of the day. Oration, which would have done honor, to a Cicero or a Demosthenes, to a Chatham or a Curran, have been suffered to expire for the want of the fostering hand of a kind parent. No attempt has ever been made to give them a substance capable of enduring for ages to come. The Editors, proud of their country, and anxious to transmit to posterity monuments of her fame and her glory, are determined to publish in volumes the speeches that may be delivered by the Representatives of the people of the United States. These they are not ashamed to put in competition with the most eloquent of antiquity. If Rome had her Cicero, and Greece her Demosthenes, America had her Ames. If Great Britain boasts of her Burkes, her Foxes, and her Chathams, why not America boast of her Madisons and her Dickenson, her Giles's and her Bayards, her Pinckneys and her Livingstons?
In reading this work, the patriot may rejoice that his country has yet her defenders, and liberty her advocates. The student may contemplate with pleasure and delight the manly eloquence displayed by his countrymen, while the statesman may here study the true interests of his country. All ranks and all classes will be interested in a work, that has for its object, to preserve and perpetuate the talents and eloquence of our enlightened statesmen.
In the formation of these volumes, the Editors will be guided by a strict and impartial attention to the merits of the speeches alone; and if, on any interesting question, a greater number of orations should be published on one side, than are to be found on the other, the Editors will not be considered as blameable. Nor can they be answerable, on which side, the strength of the argument will lie. Their object is to give to the world a fair specimen of American genius, and by publishing the debates on each side of any question which may be agitated, a better opportunity will be given to every citizen of thinking and of judging for himself. It is in this manner, and in this manner alone, by enlightening the people of the United States, and exhibiting every measure proposed or adopted in its proper colors, that the liberties of the country will be preserved.
Prefixing to the orations on any particular subject, a concise narrative will be given of the object of them, and the orations will be selected without reference to parties or politics.
The Editors had intended to have commenced their publication with the next Presidency; but as the debates during the present session of Congress have been extremely interesting to men of all parties, the Editors have thought it most proper to commence with them, as in all probability the debates during the ensuing legislature, will have a strong relation to the acts and proceedings of the present one.
CONDITIONS.
 I. The work shall be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are obtained to defray the expenses of printing.  II. The debates of each Session will be comprised in a large Octavo volume, to contain about 400 pages.  III. The work shall be handsomely printed, on a good paper, with a new Small Pica Type , and delivered to subscribers at Two Dollars the volume in Boards. To non-subscribers the work will be enhanced.  IV. A list of Subscribers' names will be given at the end of the work. 
Orders from Booksellers and others will be promptly attended to. Easton, February 27.
Bank of Columbia, March 15, 1809.
The Board of Directors having this day declared a dividend for the half year ending the 20th inst. at the rate of Eight per Cent. per annum. The same will be paid to the Stockholders or their representatives on or after Monday the 20th inst.
WILLIAM WHANN, Cashier. March 20—3w
SEBASTIAN SPRING.
SITUATED near the new turnpike road between Washington and Alexandria, about three quarters of a mile from the Washington Bridge.
The Subscriber has opened a House of Entertainment for the accommodation of travellers, the citizens of both places and their vicinity—Public Dinners and Tea Parties, &c. &c. will be furnished on a short notice in the style required.
He will always keep supplied with the best of Madeira, Port, Claret and Champagne—and will endeavor generally to keep the dainties of the season. A private room will be kept for the accommodation of Ladies.
He flatters himself that the encouragement he may receive, will enable him to extend his present plans.
A. LINDO.
N. B. A few good male and female servants wanted; for such liberal wages will be given.
April 3—1awtf
District of Columbia, Washington county, to wit:
ON the petition of JEHIEL CROSSFIELD , an insolvent debtor, confined in the prison of Washington county aforesaid for debt. Notice is hereby given to the creditors of the said Jehiel Crossfield that on the 17th day of April 1809 at 9 o'clock A.M. at the court Room in Long's hotel in the city of Washington, the oath prescribed by the act of Congress, entitled "An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia," will be administered to the said Jehiel Crossfield, and a trustee appointed, unless sufficient cause be then and there shown to the contrary.
Ordered that this notice be published three times in the National Intelligencer & Washington Federalist before that day.
By order of the honorable Wm. Cranch, esq. chief judge of the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia.
WM. BRENT, CLK. April 10—3t
10,000 DOLLARS, MAY BE GAINED BY 1-2 DOLLARS!!
In the Third Class of the Lottery authorized by law for removing obstructions in the RIVER LEHIGH, IN PENNSYLVANIA.
   SCHEME.     2 prizes of $10,000 each 20,000   2 5,000 10,000   2 2,500 5,000   3 1,000 3,000   6 500 3,000   15 200 3,000   30 100 3,000   60 50 3,000   150 20 3,000   300 10 3,000   13,800 5 69,000   35,630 not 2 1-2 blanks to a prize.  
50,000 tickets at 2 1-2 dollars, 125,000
To draw 500 tickets each day at the State House in Philadelphia, and the prizes to be paid by Thomas Abbot, esq. the treasurer of that city, 30 days after the conclusion of the drawing, subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. Prizes not demanded in twelve months after the close of the drawing, to be considered as relinquished to the Lottery.
Part of the above prizes determinable as follows:
 The 1st drawn ticket on the 1st, 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th, 35th, 40th, 45th, 50th, and 55th, days $200 each.  do. on the 60th, 65th, 70th & 75th do. 500 do.  do. on the 80th and 85th do. 1000 do.  do. 90th do. 2500 do.  do. 95th do. 5000 do.  do. 100th do. 10000 do. 
The two $10,000 prizes to receive each in part payment 25 shares of the Lehigh Stock, at 100 dollars each, The two 5000 dollars 10 shares The two 2500 do. 5 do.
Societies, associations, and individuals purchasing not less than 50 tickets will be allowed to pay for them by instalments much to their interest.
Letters post-paid, and enclosing the cash, will be duly attended to, and prizes of Lotteries in the cities of Philadelphia, and New York, will be received in payment, by
GEORGE TAYLOR, Jun. No. 85, South Second street, Philadelphia, and JOHN DAVIDSON, Washington city, December 12—wtf
NOTICE.