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National Intelligencer
WASHINGTON ADVERTISER
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
NO. 1402.
FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1809.
MERINO WOOL. The following is an extract of a letter from Chancellor Livingston to Edmund Watson of Pittsfield, Mass. on the subject of this important article:
Lebanon Springs, 12th Sept. 1809
Dear Sir, "On the subject of cotton, on which we conversed fully when at your house, I will suggest an idea, which is striking, to show how easy it will be for the northern states to rival the southern in substituting the value of the cotton by our Merinos. One million of Merino sheep will give five million pounds of fine wool, supposing them to be composed of ewes and wethers in equal proportions. Five million pounds of fine wool are worth now ten millions of dollars; and even at the peace price in England, seven and one half millions of dollars."
"Fourteen million pounds of cotton (the quantity exported in one year from South Carolina and Georgia) taking the short and long staple together at the lowest value, is not worth five millions of dollars at the London market. The states of New York and Massachusetts, either of them without a material change in their agriculture, except a substitution of Merino for other sheep, can raise as much wool as shall equal in value to the export of cotton. But how easy it would be once at that point, to double all our Merino flocks—thus leave a larger quantity of wool, than we now have from the same number of sheep, for domestic purposes, of fine wool instead of coarse—and all the surplus for exportation, or to go into future home manufactures."
Alexandria, Oct. 2.
The laudable rules of society has always held it as rather unseemly to speak much of one's self; but when our neighbors are puffing themselves for their individual credit, enterprize, industry and prosperity in trade, it may be held excusable to state some facts relative to the growth and prosperity of the town of Alexandria; and we assume as a fact, that the town of Alexandria has, for the last 25 years, gradually progressed both in population and wealth, with but the little interruption it experienced in the year 1803, which we hope will prove a blessing in disguise, and act only as a momentary check: for, with that dear bought experience, we have established a police which promises fair to ward off a similar evil in future. The population of Alexandria in 1806, was 5915; in 1807, 6208; in 1808 no census was taken; but by examining the list of Poll Tax, it must have been a greater increase than the preceding year, which will make 6647, and the present year has, from the same tax list, doubled any former year, making our population 7500 at least. We observe by Poulson's Philadelphia Gazette, that 223 brick houses have been built in that city the present year, and by viewing our own improvements we find that 34 houses have been built in Alexandria, of which 23 are brick. Now the plain rule of three will inform us, that Alexandria, with a population of 7500 inhabitants, has built in proportion as many houses as Philadelphia, with a population of upwards of 70,000. On the first of June last, bricks could not be had here to build a house; since that period near four million of bricks have been burnt in Alexandria. There has been inspected in Alexandria for the half year ending the 1st Sept. 91,447 barrels of flour, and 620 hds. of tobacco, the latter inspection not more than two years revived. In 1806 there were not more than two weavers' looms in town, now there are upwards of 20—and this year a carding mill and cotton factory have been established on the margin of the town—two new rope walks have been built this year, and considerable improvement to the wharves, which present to the view, in approaching the town by water, a continuation of piers, representing regularations to a fort—which proves the wealth deposited in that particular improvement. The great western turnpike road will this season be turned upwards of 26 miles, and a bridge is building over Great Hunting Creek, adjoining town, which will shorten the southern mail road 1 and 3/4 miles in the small distance of 7, you connect with the town a large and fertile plain of country, before almost unconnected by its bad and circuitous route.
Much as we have been depressed in common with our fellow citizens, by the late deranged state of commerce, we have continued to progress with a steady pace, both in population and wealth, and we are persuaded few towns in the United States hold out greater advantages to the man of business, preferring a society who are moral, industrious and economical—main in their manners, and hospitable without parade or affectation.
Daily Gazette.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The Address of the New York Historical Society
Having formed an association which has since been incorporated, for the purpose of discovering, procuring and preserving whatever may relate to the natural, civil, literary, and ecclesiastical history of our country, and particularly of the state of New York, we solicit the aid of the liberal, patriotic and learned, to promote the objects of our institution.
The utility of societies for the advancement of science, has been so fully proved by the experience of the most enlightened nations of Europe, and by that of our own country, that there can be no need, at this time, of any formal arguments in support of their claim to public patronage. But it may be observed, that, in this state, if we except the Agricultural Society, there is no association for purposes of general knowledge; and the want of a regular, minute, and authentic history of New York, renders the combined efforts of individuals for that object more peculiarly necessary.
It is well known that many valuable manuscripts and papers relative to the history of our country remain in the possession of those who, though unwilling to entrust them to a single person, yet would cheerfully confide them to a public institution, in whose custody they would be preserved for the general benefit of society. To rescue from the dust of obscurity or private repositories such important documents, as are liable to be lost or destroyed, by the indifference or neglect of those into whose hands they may have fallen, will be a primary object of our attention.
The paucity of materials, and the extreme difficulty of procuring such as relate to the first settlement and colonial transactions of this state, can be fully perceived by those only who have meditated on the design of erecting an historical monument of those events, and have calculated the nature and amount of the resources: For without the aid of original records and authentic documents, history will be nothing more than a well-combined series of ingenious conjectures and amusing fables. The cause of truth is interesting to all men, and those who possess the means, however small, of preventing error, or of elucidating obscure facts, will confer a benefit on mankind by communicating them to the world.
Not aspiring to the higher walks of general science, we shall confine the range of our exertions to the humble task of collecting and preserving whatever may be useful to others in the different branches of historical inquiry. We feel encouraged to follow this path by the honorable example of the Massachusetts Society, whose labors will abridge those of the future historian, and furnish a thousand lights to guide him through the dubious track of unrecorded time. Without aiming to be rivals, we shall be happy to co-operate with that laudable institution in pursuing the objects of our common researches: satisfied if, in the end, our efforts shall be attended with equal success.
Our enquiries are not limited to a single state, or district, but extend to the whole continent: and it will be our business to diffuse the information we may collect in such manner as may best conduce to general instruction. As soon as our collection shall be sufficient to form a volume, and the funds of the society will admit, we shall commence publication, that we may better secure our treasures by means of the press, from the corruptions of time and the power of accident.
That this object may be sooner and more effectually attained, we request that all who feel disposed to encourage our design will transmit, as soon as convenient, to the society— Manuscripts, records, pamphlets, and books relative to the history of this
country, and particularly to the points of inquiry subjoined.
Orations, sermons, essays, discourses, poems and tracts; delivered, written, or published on any public occasions, or which concern any public transaction, or remarkable character or event.
Laws, journals, copies of records and proceeding of congresses, legislatures, general assemblies, conventions, committees of safety, secret committees for general objects, treaties & negotiations with any Indian tribes, or with any state or nation.
Proceedings of ecclesiastical conventions, synods, general assemblies, Presbyteries, and societies of all denominations of christians.
Narratives of missionaries, and proceedings of missionary societies.
Narratives of Indian wars, battles and exploits; of the adventures and sufferings of captives, voyagers and travellers.
Minutes and proceedings of societies for the abolition of slavery, and the transactions of societies for political, literary and scientific purposes.
Accounts of universities, colleges, academies and schools; their origin, progress and present states.
Topographical description of cities, towns, counties, and districts, at various periods, with maps, and whatever relates to the progressive geography of the country.
Statistical tables—tables of diseases, births and deaths, and the population; of meteorological observations and facts relating to climate.
Accounts of exports and imports at various periods, and of the progress of manufactures and commerce.
Magazines, reviews, newspapers, and other periodical publications, particularly such as appeared antecedent to the year 1783.
Biographical memoirs and anecdotes of eminent and remarkable persons in America, or who have been connected with its settlement and history.
Original essays and disquisitions on the natural, civil, literary, or ecclesiastical history of any state, city, town or district.
As the society intend to form a library, and cabinet, they will gratefully receive specimens of the various productions of the American continent and of the adjacent islands, and such animal, vegetable and mineral subjects as may be deemed worthy of preservation. Donations also of rare and useful books and pamphlets, relative to the above objects, will be thankfully accepted, and all communications duly noticed in the publications of the Society.
JOHN PINTARD.
Recording Sec'y.
Sept 15th, 1809.
FROM THE TIMES.
A letter from a gentleman in Bowling Green, to his friend in Russellville, (Ken.) descriptive of a Cave.
Bowling Green, June 16, 1809.
DEAR SIR,
On the 12th of the present inst. I, in company with a number of others, went to see a large Cave that has lately been discovered in this county. It is found on the lands of a Mr. Brown, on the north side of the road leading from Stewart's ferry to the widow Lucas's; it is one mile from the ferry, and four easterly of Bowling Green. The ground immediately over the cavern is depressed about 8 or 10 feet below the common level of the barrens; in the bottom of this depression is the hole by which we were to descend; it is four feet in diameter, and through a solid rock; after descending about six feet, we passed through the rock: a dark gloomy vault then presented itself to view in every direction; in sinking five and twenty feet more, we came to the spot that supported our conductor, a small perpendicular pole above 30 feet long; when the fire was thrown down, and our candles lighted up, we discovered that we were standing on the summit of a subterranean mountain that broke off so abruptly to the westward, that if any one of us had fallen from the pole in climbing down or up, he must have rolled near 100 feet before he came to the bottom, except some casual circumstance had prevented, such as an intervening rock that had detached itself and fallen from the arch above.
Our lights prepared, we began our march down the rapid descent to the westward; the first thing that arrested
our attention in particular, was human bones, which were found in considerable numbers from within a few feet of where we landed, until we reached the bottom of the mountain; bones of every description are to be found in abundance, though mostly decayed and broken to pieces; yet two skulls were taken out entire a few days anterior to our visiting the place; one of them I examined; it is larger than common, the sinus frontis is flatter; the superciliary ridge of the os frontis higher; the two tables and diploe thicker than in any human skull I ever before noticed. A callus formed by the dropping of water covered the os occipitis and osa parietalia nearly to the coronal suture; this was the case with many of those in the Cave; one place in particular, not less than half a bushel of bones lay congealed together, and in many others they are to be found adhering to the rocks so tenaciously as not to be got off without breaking; these bones appear to have been the natural consequences resulting from the effusion of much blood; that they were slain in battle is to be inferred from the following circumstances:
First, the appearance of old fortifications and places of defence in the vicinity of the Cave, which are prominent features of trouble. Secondly, the manner in which the bones lie plainly shows that they were thrown down from the top in a hurry, and left to roll off promiscuously, as the situation below and chance directed them. 3dly, from the appearance as to the time they have lain there, all equally superannuated and corroded down by the unrelenting hand of time. 4thly, because they appear to have been the bones of adults exclusively; many of them old men; here, as in other viviparous animals of the class mammalia, age is evinced by the teeth; the incisors and molares being considerably worn away by long and frequent mastication; that they are bones of men and not of women is suspected from the following circumstance:—Those of men are larger in general, the processes and rugosities more prominent, and the fosse sinuses and sinuosities for the insertion and lodgement of the muscles, tendons, nerves and blood vessels, are more distinctly marked in men than in women, all which circumstances seem plainly to occur in those immediately under our consideration; besides, it is a well known fact that the aborigines of America are, and ever were, tenacious of their dead; and will, at the risk of their lives, bear off the bodies of their slain brethren to a safe place of deposit; here, then, they found it, and here it was that the earth opened her bowels to receive them, reeking from their hands, and here no doubt she has preserved them for ages, free from intrusion or contempt, until the present more inquisitive and audacious generation has dared to insult their manes by tramping on their ashes with unhallowed feet.
We next directed our course to the south part of the cave. After passing over rough uneven ground, we came to a small valley near the southern termination; on pursuing it a few yards eastwardly, it made a short turn to the left, round some high rocks, and led down to a deep hole of water, which is conjectured to be a part of Long's big spring. From appearances there is no doubt but this water breaks up in the time of a flood, & inundates the whole convexity contained in the cavern, notwithstanding the elevated part, at this time, is above one hundred feet above the level of the water.
Our course was next directed to the northern extremity, (the site is from north to south) but nothing remarkable presented in this part, the situation is higher, the bottom more broken with small sinks among a large bed of rocks; at the termination there is a large sink of water like unto a well, and appeared to be about ten feet down to the water. About twenty yards east of where we went in, stands a pillar of stone, somewhat in the shape of a cone, near two feet thick at the base and about 8 or 9 feet high; when dressed with a hat from a few yards distance, cuts a very gigantic appearance. The whole length of this vault, is supposed to be an hundred yards; the area may be computed between one and two acres; the altitude of the western ascent sixty degrees. After the lapse of an hour spent in this gloomy abode of death, we all unanimously ascended the pole and landed again safe in this upper
world; too well satisfied with what had been seen, to entertain the most distant thought of putting even to the test, the experiment of staying, assuming the silent but awful repose of the dead.
Boston, Sept. 16.
Military. —On Wednesday last, the Washington Infantry, commanded by Captain Loring, marched to Rockbury, and visited Major General Heath, who received them with every mark of attention that became a soldier, and addressed them in the following laudatory manner:
Officers and Members of the Washington Infantry.
Permit me, gentlemen, to express the pleasure I have enjoyed in viewing your soldier-like appearance, and the correctness with which you handled your arms. Be pleased to accept my thanks for your polite invitation to sit down with you at the Punch Bowl hotel. Particular circumstances I told me that honor. Be pleased also to accept my thanks for your presenting yourselves, before my house, and giving me military honors. Thus much for myself personally.
As a citizen of the United States, my native country, that country, whose independence and sovereignty, honor and prosperity, are my primary objects, I thank you for those exertions you are making to render yourselves as far as in you lies, her able saviors and defenders. Your youth and your energy, peculiarly form you for this noble service. Napoleon, the great captain of the age, is shaking a large portion of the world with arms composed of young men like you. Such are like a strong man, whose quiver is filled with chosen arrows, who never will be afraid to speak with an enemy in the gate.
Oh that my fellow countrymen were more convinced of the vast importance of establishing a correct system of military tactics and discipline, supported by military schools and academies which would render our young men accomplished soldiers. While this remains neglected, your example, (with that of others like you) is the more important, to arouse and animate others; but should you fail in this, you will not lose your reward; for should you ever be called to a field of battle, (which Heaven forbid in our as yet happy country) your skill in the use of arms and knowledge of tactics, will then be of unspeakable advantage to you, and ensure an ample share of merited distinction. More than once you have volunteered your services to government; be not weary in well doing; for although your numbers are but small, your discipline and your patriotism will make way for you.—As soldiers and as citizens, may Heaven's favors descend upon you.
WM. HEATH.
The company then proceeded to Brookline, and practised firing at a target; after which they partook of a cold collation. They were honored with the presence of gen. Dearborn, commodore Tingey, and many other gentlemen.
FROM THE ENQUIRER.
BRITISH EXPENDITURES.
Col. Wardle , in the British House of Commons, on the 19th June, stated the burdens of the country, and the grievances from which he thought it might be relieved. In the course of his observations he said that the public expenditure in 1803, amounted to 71 millions of money, and from the survey of the estimates presented for 1809, it had increased to 79 millions. He proposed to make the following alterations by which enormous sums might be saved.
The regiments of horse guards and blues, which now consist of 22,000 men, he would reduce to 500, as they were only intended for parade.
There is at present 23,399 dragoons, which he would reduce to 15,000.—This would save the country 1,276,000l. annually.
The foreign troops in the British service, amount to 22,978, the expense of this corps is 180,000l. per annum. He would discharge these foreign troops, to be bad policy, to employ foreigners.
The royal staff corps, he deemed useless, as their duty appertained to the engineers. The annual expense of this corps is 2,000l.
The militia of the united kingdom costs the country annually three mil-

By allowing half the men to end a month employed at the harvest 50,000 might be saved.
The annual expenditure of the local militia was 1,218,000 out of this 800,000 was allowed for the staff, which he deemed a profligate expenditure.
The clothing of this corps cost 32 per man, whereas a jacket and trousers being all that was necessary for uniform, might be procured for half a crown, 700,000 might be saved this way every year.
The volunteer force cost 1,000,000 per annum. This was useless; for the spirit of the country, and the attendant advantages on the service, such as exemption from ballot, &c. ought be sufficient to induce men to enter into it.
The royal waggon train cost 43,993 per annum. This is useless, because it can only be employed at home.
The staff of the army 449,649 per annum. He could show that 200,000 per annum might be saved.
The recruiting staff, cost 340,000 per annum; 100,000 might be saved.
The expense of clothing the troops might be reduced, so as to save annually 135,000.
In supplies for the troops 300,000 per annum might be saved.
The clothing sent to the Spanish levies, might have been contracted for, at a cheaper rate, and 100,000 have been saved.
The military expenditure in 1805 was 117,314,420 1806 15,275,350 1807 15,296,539 1808 17,490,000
The whole charge for collection of the revenue, in the present year, amounts to 2,316,516, one million might be saved by reducing the commissions, &c. to 3 per cent.
The duties levied in Ireland, amount to 5,531,650 and the charge of collecting it was 328,633/ being at the rate of 9/10 per cent. A saving of 234,519/ might be made in this.
The Post-office revenue in Scotland, is collected at an expense of 12 per ct. in the gross.
By abolishing the office of commissioners for auditing the public accounts, 75,000 per annum might be saved.
That several millions might be saved from the Post-office, fortifications, military roads, barracks, &c. &c. It was supposed that 455,000,000 of the public money was unaccounted for, as money was always voted upon general estimates.
THE ALLOCATION OF HIS HOLINESS PIUS VII. TO THE EMPEROR BONAPARTE.
Since the time, when by the decree of Providence, notwithstanding our unworthiness, we were invested with the sovereign pontificate, you have been a witness of our wish for the peace of the Catholic Church. You have been a witness of our wishes for the spiritual peace of the French people and of our paternal condescension. You have been a witness of the benefits, which we have conferred on the Gallican Church, yourself & your subjects. You have been a witness that under all the circumstances, we have lent ourselves, as far as lay in our power, to all the concessions and concordats with the French Empire and kingdom of Italy. In fine, you have been a witness of the immense sacrifices which we have made to the detriment of our people, for the benefits and the repose of the French and Italian nation; & which are such, that our subjects already in misery are unable to procure the means of subsistence. You however, in return for so many favors, have not ceased to fill our hearts with bitterness, to reduce us to the greatest extremities under false pretences and to harass our conscience. In return for the ecclesiastical concordate, you have not ceased to seek to destroy it by separate laws, called organic. You have made to us propositions, calculated to that effect, and irreconcilable with the morality of the gospel and with the unalterable maxims of the universal Catholic church. In return for these benefits the states of the Holy See have had to support the enormous burdens of your troops, in such a way, that since the year 1801 up to the present time, they have wasted 5 millions of Roman crowns, without keeping the solemn promise of reimbursement by the kingdom of Italy. In return for these sacrifices you have despoiled us of the Duchies of Benevento and of Ponte Corvo, under promises of indemnifying the Holy See, in the most generous manner. In return for our condescension, you have demanded our sanction to articles contrary to the law of nations, to the unity and the canons of the church, to the good of the Catholics of other kingdoms, and destructive of our independence and of the liberty of the church. To accomplish these designs you have invaded as an enemy, not our states only, but the estates given to the
Apostolic See by the piety & generosity of sovereigns for the most part French, states consecrated to the independence and to the liberty of the successor of St. Peter, and confirmed to the common father of all the faithful, by all the Catholic princes, during eleven centuries of possession, in order that the common father might enjoy, in the midst of his children, complete liberty and independence. In short you have invaded, as an enemy, the capital itself; you have caused the military to revolt; you have occupied with an armed force the post-office and the printing houses; you took from us our counsellors, who aided us in conducting the affairs of the Catholic church, and the ministers of justice; you have even kept us prisoners in our Apostolic residence, while our people were trod upon by your soldiers. We even appeal to yourself, to pronounce your own conduct marked by a contempt of all the rights of nations, of your sacred duties and your people. We appeal even to you as a man whom we have consecrated, and who had sworn to repair the losses and to maintain the right of the church. Take care, however, lest if you do not stop short, we should exercise, though in all humility of heart, that authority which ALMIGHTY GOD has placed in our hands; take care lest you add new motives to make known to the world the justice of our cause; for then, all the misfortunes which shall fall on our conduct must be passed to your personal responsibility.
IMPERIAL DECREE.
In the palace of the Tuileries, 29th March, 1809.
LEGION OF HONOR.
Statutes for the organization of the Imperial Napoleon Establishments. NAPOLEON, by the grace of God, and the constitutions, emperor of the French, king of Italy, and protector of the confederation of the Rhine, &c. &c.
We have decreed and do decree what follows:
Art. I. The imperial Napoleon establishments shall be under the special protection of a princess of our royal family, who is to inspect those establishments, to see that the regulations are strictly executed, and to lay before us their wants. She shall take the title of protectress.
TITLE I. Number of pupils and conditions of their admission.
II. Six hundred ladies, daughters, sisters, nieces or cousins german, of the members of the legion of honor, shall be educated in two separate establishments belonging to the legion, viz. 300 in the imperial establishment of Ecouen, and 300 in that of Saint Denis.
III. Of this number of 600 young ladies, 200 shall be educated at the expence of their families, 300 half at the expence of the legion, and 100 entirely at the expence of the legion.
IV. Those who are educated whether half or entirely at the expence of the legion, must be daughters or sisters of members of the legion of honor.
Those who are educated entirely at the expence of the legion must be either daughters, sisters, nieces or cousins german of members of the legion.
V. The board and education is fixed at 1000 francs. The half boarders pay 500 francs.
VI. At their entrance, both the free boarders and those who pay the sum of 400 francs, being the value of the cloaths and necessaries to be immediately furnished by the establishment.
VII. The parents and pupils must engage to pay yearly into the chests of the legion of honor, the sum of 400 francs, to be laid out in subscriptions in the ledger. The capital and the interest at the rate of 3 per cent. shall accumulate during ten years, and at the expiration of that period the whole sum shall be paid to the pupil.
VIII. The parents or relations of the pupils shall not be held to pay the annual sum; but otherwise they must produce a responsible person to give security to receive the pupil upon her leaving the establishment.
IX. No pupil can be taken away from the establishment by her relations until she is eighteen years old or until her education is completed.
X. No pupil can remain in the establishment after the age of 20 years, unless the protectress has granted a special authorization for that purpose.
TITLE II. Organization and distinction of ranks.
XI. Every establishment shall be directed by a governess, who shall be appointed by us upon the presentation of the protectress.
XII. The governess shall take the following oath from the hands of the protectress.
"Madam, I swear before God to your . . . . to fulfil the obligations which are prescribed, and not to make use of the authority which is confided to me except to bring up the pupils in an attachment to their religion, their
sovereign, their country and their parents; to be for every pupil a second mother, and to prepare them by the example of good morals and labor, to the duties of a virtuous wife and good mother of a family, which they will be one day called upon to fulfil."
XIII. Every establishment shall have six female dignitaries, six ladies of the first class, and twenty young ladies, or ladies of the second class, who shall have the title of demoiselles.
Art. XIV, XV, XVI, and XVII, regulate the forms of appointing these ladies.
TITLE III. Relates to the interior regulation, police and discipline.
TITLE IV. Organises the council of administration—salaries and expenditure.
The art. XXV States that the treasurer of the legion of honor shall pay yearly into the chest of each establishment, 800 francs for every pupil admitted gratuitously, and 400 francs for every half boarder.
TITLE V. General Provisions.
XXIX. The high chancellor of the legion of honor is held to make, at least once a year, a general visit in the imperial Napoleon establishments, in order to make a report to us of their state and wants; he shall cause the council of administration to be held in his presence, and shall receive the complaints which may be made to him.
XXX. The demoiselles, ladies and dignitaries may, in virtue of a special order from the protectress, pass from one establishment to another when the service may require such a removal.
XXXI. We reserve to ourselves to grant an honorary distinction to the ladies of the imperial Napoleon establishments, who may have rendered important services in the administration of those institutions.
XXXII. We also reserve to ourselves to regulate, by a particular decree, the means of granting places to the widows of members of the legion of honor, and a momentary asylum to the wives of the members of the legion of honor who may be absent on our service.
XXXIII. Our high chancellor of the legion of honor is charged with the execution of the present decree.
Signed, NAPOLEON. By the Emperor's command, The minister secretary of state, Signed, H. B. MARET.
London, August 14.—The gloom which envelopes the political horizon is rapidly increasing, and forms a lamentable contrast to the sunshine of hope with which it was so lately illumined. In the interval between the battles of Aspern and Wagram, the people of England, deluded by pompous artificial narratives under the plausible title of "Austrian Official Accounts," by daily fabrications from the banks of the Elbe, the Weser and Danube, by fallacious statements of the flight of king Joseph from Madrid and the critical distress of Napoleon at Vienna—believed the moment to have at length arrived, when the mighty armament preparing on our coasts should give the final blow to the paramount ascendancy of France on the continent of Europe. Meanwhile the preparations of Napoleon silently and vigorously approached maturity—and that attained—within one short week the empire of Austria was crushed to atoms. From that moment the grand object of our expedition was frustrated—the blow was struck, and it was impossible to hesitate in believing that our efforts had been procrastinated until the accomplishment of the grand object of the armament had become impracticable. The expedition, however, at last sailed on the 28th of July—and on the 8th of August an army of 50,000 British troops, the best appointed, perhaps, of an equal number of men ever assembled for a military purpose, and supported by an irresistible fleet, is lingering before the town of Flushing, a place which we have been led to believe, from many quarters, and some of them most respectable, would fall an easy conquest to even a flying squadron with a few thousand men.
In the preceding letter in the Gazette, the enemy is stated to be "active and enterprising, and the garrison has certainly received considerable reinforcements, from the opposite coast, nor has it been in the power of the flotilla hitherto to prevent it." That Flushing will ultimately fall, there can be no doubt—but in the interval thus given to the enemy by its resistance, a force will be organised which renders it doubtful whether they will not even become the assailant of our invading army.—From the concluding passage of Lord Chatham's first letter it is very clear that the defence of the enemy is as general as it is vigorous. "By letters from lieut. gen. sir John Hope, I find that the enemy had, on the 5th
inst. come down with 23 gun-vessels, before Batz, on which they kept up a smart cannonade for some hours, but were forced to retire by the gun from the fort, and every thing has since remained quiet in that quarter." To hear a gen. at the head of an invading army of 50,000 men, with many hundred vessels of every description, from a line of battle ship to a Deal boat coolly narrate an attack by 23 gun vessels of the enemy, and apparently congratulate himself on every thing having since remained quiet, is of itself a very discouraging symptom, to say nothing of the reinforcements thrown into Flushing, and the vigorous sorties of the garrison!!! It is at the present moment useless to probe this affliction subject. The probable result of the expedition will be the reduction of Flushing—and an unsuccessful attempt to ascend the Scheldt—for the city of Antwerp does not at present appear in much greater danger than the town of Chatham. Whether in the present circumstances of the country, the island of Walcheren is an adequate result of the efforts of such an armament, we leave to wiser heads to determine.
The delusion with respect to Spain is dissipated—whether Cuesta could not or would not fight when Sir Arthur Wellesley proposed to attack Victor—whether he be a traitor—a coward—or an idiot, is now immaterial—the enemy retired a few hours after that on which the attack was meditated.—For the means of advancing in pursuit of the enemy, Sir Arthur is obliged to wait until they shall have been provided by the Spaniards. On this subject he has written a letter to major gen. Donoghue, adjutant gen. of the Spanish army—and a very angry letter we dare say it is, since ministers have thought proper to withhold it from the public. That any thing can now be done to save the Peninsula, there can surely be no one so credulous as to hope. If Sir Arthur Wellesley should ever reach Madrid, it may be feared that the difficulties & danger of his retreat will surpass those of his advance. The Spaniards will not assist themselves—we have not sent a sufficient force into the peninsula to expel their invader, even while the whole force of Napoleon was in Germany. What infatuation!—what insanity!—can induce a hope that sir Arthur Wellesley can effect the deliverance of the peninsula, when reinforcements from France shall pour into Spain! !—It is impossible that our army can long maintain themselves in the interior of Spain. Napoleon promised last year that not a village in Spain should be in a state insurrection by Christmas. The war with Austria interfered with the punctilious execution of that threat. It is not impossible that before next Christmas, he will perform that which he had promised to effect in the preceding year.
Extract of a letter from lieutenant general the right hon. sir Arthur Wellesley, K. B. to lord viscount Castlereagh, dated Talavera, August 1.
Since I had the honor of addressing you on the 29th of July, the enemy have continued to keep a rear guard of about ten thousand men on the heights on the left of the Alberche.
The extreme fatigue of the troops, the want of provisions, and the number of wounded to be taken care of, have prevented me from moving from my position.
Brigadier general Crauford arrived with his brigade on the 29th in the morning, having marched 12 Spanish leagues in little more than twenty-four hours.
From the same—same place and date. When I addressed you this morning, I had not received the report from the outposts. It appears that the enemy withdrew the rear guard, which was posted on the heights on the left of the Alberche last night at eleven o'clock, and the whole army marched towards Santa Olalla; I conclude with an intention of taking up a position in the neighborhood of Guardamaria.
Extract of a letter from Rio Janeiro, dated August 3.
"A Spanish vessel has just arrived here in 14 days from Buenos Ayres, with information that the new viceroy had arrived there from Spain, and a governor at Montevideo; that on the 13th ult. Liniers gave up the government quietly, and had retired on an annuity, and the rank of field marshal, in consideration of past services. Senior Elio, late governor of Montevideo, gave up at the same time. No English or neutral vessels will be allowed to enter the river without a licence, from the Spanish Junta, or the governor of Buenos Ayres—which may generally be obtained here."
EDUCATION. THE REV. WALTER D. ADDISON of Georgetown, District of Columbia will board and instruct in the Latin and Greek languages, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, a few more Young Gentlemen, at sixty-five pounds per annum, payable quarterly in advance. Letters addressed to him at this place will be attended to. Georgetown, August 21.—2awtf.
WASHINGTON CITY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9.
It will be seen by the article under the head of New York, that Don Lewis de Onis, Minister Plenipotentiary from Ferdinand VII. to the U. States, has arrived at that city.
RETURNS OF THE MARYLAND ELECTION, CONTINUED. FREDERIC COUNTY. Official Return.
Table with 2 columns: Republican, Federal. Schley 2759 Baer 2773 M'Gill 2755 I.H. Thomas 2770 Meyers 2698 I. Thomas 2755 Mason 2726 Sappington 2737
QUEEN ANN'S COUNTY. James Brown, Daniel C. Hopper, John E. Spencer and John Palmer, republicans, are elected by a majority of three to one.
CAROLINE COUNTY. Republican, Federal.
Table with 2 columns: Republican, Federal. F. Holbrook 876 I. Young 482 P. Willis 840 R. Heighett 448 H. Driver 788 T. Goldsborough 367 A. Jum 765 I. Cooper 325
ANN ARUNDEL COUNTY. State of the poll.
Table with 2 columns: State of the poll. I. S. Belt 1167 A. Dorsey 903 O. Williams 827 T. Sellin 792 R. Meriken 723 A. Warfield 762
The four first are elected. CITY OF ANNAPOLIS. Joseph Sands 132 James Boyle 129 No opposition.
SOMERSET COUNTY. T. Bailly, J. Gale, L. Winder, and J. Cottman, federal, are elected.
Table with 2 columns: REP. FED. City of Baltimore 2 County of Baltimore 4 Hartford 4 Frederick 1 3 Washington 4 Montgomery 4 Anne Arundel 4 City of Annapolis 2 County of P. George 4 Charles 4 Calvert 1 3 St. Mary's 4 Cecil 4 Kent 4 Queen Anne 4 Caroline 4 Talbot 4 Dorchester 4 Somerset 4
The above Recapitulation shews that, even allowing Allegany and Worcester each to have returned 4 federalists, there is a decided majority of four in the House of Delegates of Maryland. Worcester is said to have chosen two Republican members.
Delaware Election FOR Members of the State Legislature. NEW CASTLE COUNTY.
Republican Candidates all elected as usual. The highest on each ticket stands as follows: Republican 1514 Federal 218
KENT COUNTY. Highest on each ticket as follows: Republican 837 Federal 959
A great increase of Republicanism.
The Legislature of the State of Tennessee met on the 18th ult. Joseph M'Minn was unanimously chosen Speaker of the Senate, and Gen. Joseph Dickson of the House of Representatives.
On the 20th a committee of both Houses were appointed to draft an address to the government of the U. S. expressive of the sense of the Legislature on the late conduct of the British government.
On the 21st the following resolution was adopted by the House of Representatives:
"Whereas the free navigation of the Mobile river, together with all the navigable water courses composing the same, would have a tendency, in a high degree, to promote the interests and happiness of the citizens of the state of Tennessee, therefore
Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the state aforesaid, that our representatives in the Congress of the U. S. be instructed, and our Senators requested to exercise their utmost endeavors to procure the free and unmolested navigation of said rivers."
The following is the commencement of the address of the late Governor of Tennessee, JOHN DEWITT, on his retiring from office:
"I have the honor of once more addressing you, probably for the last time, and I sincerely wish I was able to communicate to you more satisfactory and agreeable information with respect to our national concerns. It appears that some of the belligerent powers have become callous and regardless of their national dignity and honor, and that reliance can no longer

be placed on a nation, which, contrary to all former established rules and principles, disregards and renders null and void the solemn acts and engagements entered into by their legal and regularly constituted ministers. The general government have, contrary to all expectation, been compelled to revert to the former position taken prior to the arrangement and adjustment entered into between our government and Mr. Erskine the British Minister. This breach and violation of national faith and confidence has naturally involved the commercial relations of the U.S. as well as the peace and dignity of the same, in the disagreeable predicament labored under for many months past, and time only can unfold what may be the result."
The following is an answer from the President of the U.S. to an address of the Legislature of Tennessee at their late session.
"To the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Tennessee."
"I have received, fellow citizens, your address bearing date the 22d of April."
"The circumstances of the period which led to this expression of your sentiments, were well calculated to produce anxiety in the minds of citizens cherishing an ardent love of peace, though ready to maintain the rights of their country, even at the expence of that blessing. Of any culpable share in bringing on so extraordinary a state of things, you very justly acquit the government and people of the U.S. who have given the most ample proofs of their desire to preserve the relations of amity with all nations, without requiring more in return than an undisturbed enjoyment of the fruits of their honest industry. In this expectation, reasonable as it was we were disappointed. No appeals either to the justice, or the sound interests of the great contending nations, arrested the multiplied wrongs which assailed our honor and our rights."
"One of those powers at length, yielding to better counsels, has stepped forward in a spirit of conciliation, which according with that always entertained on our side, has issued in a removal of the weight which more immediately pressed on our situation. And should the same spirit be extended, as is promised, to the remaining points of difference, it may lead to that permanent harmony and confidence which a mutual interest prescribes to both. Nor will we suppress the hope, that correspondent inducements, seconded by such an example, may produce a like change in the policy of other belligerents, and thus lay a foundation for the general tranquility and unobstructed prosperity of our country."
"In the mean time, prudence forbids an unlimited reliance on a favorable course of events; whilst patriotism enjoins a union of all citizens in a readiness to maintain the national rights and honor, and a discountenance of attempts to weaken, by dividing them."
"I tender my sincere thanks for the kind manner in which you express the interest you take in the successful discharge of the arduous trust committed to me; whatever inadequacy I feel in other respects, I can pledge myself for an undiminished attachment to the independence, the union, and the constitution of our country, and for those zealous endeavors to advance its happiness, in which I am promised the valuable support and co-operation of the citizens of Tennessee."
"JAMES MADISON."
"Washington, May 30, 1809."
THE NEW WORLD. No. II.
An enquiry into the National Character of the People of the United States of America.
As the American people have, as it were, carved their productive country out of the stupendous forest which covered their dominions, so have they made out of the systems of policy, morals and religion of the old world, their own plan of justice and civilization in relation to the Indian aborigines: their own penal code for unhappy criminals: a complete extinction of the commerce in men: their own constitutions of social freedom and of federative union, and their own blessed establishment of religious liberty. Since, however, this enquiry ought to be so conducted, as to satisfy the most intelligent among ourselves, and to carry conviction to the sagacious and the candid in the foreign world, it may be well to discontinue these cursory views of important facts, however indicative of national character. They will arise, in a more impressive manner, in the course of the investigation.
It is a matter indispensable to truth in this enquiry attentively to consider what this country really was between its first settlement in the beginning of the seventeenth century and its separation from the British connection towards the close of the eighteenth.
This country certainly was, during that period, strongly of the colonial character; but it will be found inaccurate to consider it as a mere and exclusive English establishment, as to the birth of its stock of inhabitants, as to the institutions it established, and as to the letter and spirit of its laws. The English materials in our composition were very considerable; but we derived much from other kingdoms, states, and churches: much from our own necessities, occasions, dispositions and faculties. If some of the families planted in the late American provinces were from the land of Newton, Milton, Bacon, Coke, Shakespeare and Malborough, others were from the countries of Luther, Calvin and Menno, Grotius, Puffendorf and Vattel, De Witt, Gussavus and the great Frederick, Leibnitz, Boerhaave and Linneus, Swift, Burke, Hutcheson, Hume, Stuart, Ferguson, Napier, Knox, Buchanan, Hunter and Monroe. Let us revive, then, with attention, certain historical truths, remembering that it is not worse to have been derived from all the nations of the wise, the learned and the good, than to have been derived from one alone; and that salutary institutions and principles, obtained from the British kingdoms (as they are now called) or from the continent of Europe or from the resources of our own minds, are no derogation from the merits of those, which are really Anglican. They have all contributed to the present conformation of our national character.
The authors and founders of empires naturally attract the public regard. The united Americans revere the name of the Genoese Columbus, and cherish his memory as a common sentiment—an universal feeling. They zealously resist the justice of the pretensions of the Etrurian Americus to give his name to their country. As the second order of their discoverers, they respect both the Venetian Cabots and Americus Vesputius. The fame of discovering this new world is yielded with candor and affection to these four enterprising Italians, who belonged not to any of the nations that have given settlers to this country. The enthusiasm with which Columbus, the Cabots and Americus are respectively regarded, is felt equally by the native and the naturalized; for the consequent advantages of those discoveries, at such a crisis as the close of the fifteenth century, equally benefit our whole population. At the memorable epocha of the first effectual North American settlements, the monstrous Colossus of ecclesiastical tyranny bestrode all Christendom, exercising its sacrilegious force, through dungeons, fines, tortures and murders, in direct collision with the authority of Heaven, over the human conscience. Considering the solemn and astonishing truth, that in the first eighteen long centuries of the christian era, no one government beyond the Atlantic conceded the freedom of religion to its citizens or subjects, it ought not to be a matter of any surprise, that the united Americans unanimously look back with reverence at the enterprise of Columbus. Well indeed may they consider him as the blessed guide, under Divine Providence, who led the oppressed children of conscience of many nations to this land of religious peace.
COLUMBIANUS. From the Connecticut Courant.
The war in Europe has lasted, with short intermissions, now about seventeen years; and more blood has been spilt in this period, than had been shed for several centuries past in the same place and time. We in this country have been all but spectators of the atrocities of the French revolution, of the massacres at Paris, at Varsailles, and St. Domingo; and of the immense slaughters, from time to time, on the fields of battle; for although we have not been actually eye witnesses of those horrible scenes, we have read the accounts of them over and over again, in our newspapers and other publications. We burn with desire to know the news from abroad, as well as at home: and when we hear of a great battle being fought, can hardly rest, till we know the particulars. If the battle happened to terminate to our liking, we rejoice and exult, notwithstanding the vast numbers slain and wounded; nay how much greater is the number slain, provided that they belong to the adverse party, by so much greater is the joy at the victory.
It has not been uncommon to hear between neighbors a dialogue of the following nature: "Glorious news; have you heard it?—What news?" "Why the army of _____ has been beaten with the loss of twenty-five thousand men left dead on the field of battle." "Twenty five thousand men killed! that's good; but how many lost the conquerors?" "Only five thousand." "Would that this news may prove true."
Here let us pause, and view this affair with the eye of a moralist, or rather with the feeling of a christian. Thirty thousand fellow beings slain in one battle! when the sun rose upon them in the morning, they were well in health, and brisk in spirits; before the sun had set, their mangled ghastly corpses were heaped together over the ground. Thirty thousand immortal accountable beings all called together in an instant before the dead tribunal! How sudden the summons! how solemn the trial! how few of them prepared to meet it! The most of those poor fellows were dragged into the service as an ox is drawn into the slaughter-house; so that we cannot reasonably blame them; although the cause for which they fought were never so wrong.
Let us extend our view to the scenes of domestic grief, occasioned by this battle. It is reasonable to suppose that those men, on an average, left as many as four near relations each, to mourn their deaths. We have sometimes witnessed the overwhelming grief of a single family at the loss of one of its members, that has died a broad of sickness, or been swallowed up in the ocean, and have felt a degree of sympathy on such occasions. But here behold a hundred and twenty thousand mourners, lamenting at one and the same time, the fall of husbands, fathers, brothers and friends.
We will now come back to the field of battle. Over and above the consideration of the slain, we must bring into the account the wounded also, which in numbers usually exceed the former. See the bloody field! There lie thousands and thousands of dead; and there also lie thousands and thousands of mangled wretches, suffering the most excruciating pains, pouring out their groans, and calling upon God and man for mercy.
I well know that in the awful convulsions which now shake the world, our feelings cannot be neutral with respect to the issue of the contest between the warring nations. We are constrained to rejoice, and may innocently rejoice, when that side prevails which justly appears to be in the right. But the question is, whether, even though victory declare for that party, which we believe to be supporting the better cause, we are not bound, nevertheless, by the laws of humanity, not to say christianity, to commiserate deeply the wretched mass of sufferers; also, whether there is not need of special care, lest in contemplating the battle of warriors and garments rolled in blood so frequently as we do, and so unfeelingly as is often done, we lose the sympathies of our nature, and particularly that horror at individual bloodshed & murder which seems to be natural to the human mind.
Capture of Senegal by the British. Quebec, Sept. 14.—The Surrey, capt. Potts, sailed from Madeira July 28, and from Fayal August 13.—Captain Potts has communicated the following intelligence:
"The fortress and dependencies of Senegal surrendered on the 12th of July to his majesty's forces, under the command of commodore Valentine, of his majesty's ship Solebay."
New-York, Oct. 4. SPANISH AFFAIRS.
Late last night the Spanish frigate Cornelia, capt. Don John Roderigues de Arias, arrived at the quarantine ground. She sailed from Cadiz on the 20th of August. This vessel has brought out his excellency Don Lewis de Onis, minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary from his Catholic majesty Ferdinand the 7th to the United States of America. Also Don Bartholomew Rengenet, consul from his Catholic majesty for Philadelphia, their ladies, daughters and domestics, and Mr. Richard Bailey, of this city.
After the battle of Talavera the British and Spanish armies were only prevented from pursuing their victory and following the French in their retreat by the want of provisions and forage, the French having burnt and destroyed the harvests. This same circumstance induced the combined armies to fall back a short distance tance on the Tagus. On their way thither they heard of marshal Soult, with a detachment of the French army of about 20,000 men, which had been sent back upon the rear of the English for the purpose of cutting them to pieces on the retreat to Lisbon, which the French had so assuredly calculated upon. But the battle of Talavera returning out rather contrary to their expectations, the marshal returned by the road he came; his army being without artillery or even necessities.
During the battle of Talavera a Spanish regiment which was not in the engagement, left the ground in a panic and reported in Talavera that all was lost, in consequence of which the incident of the army offered all the
provisions to fall back to the Tagus, by means of which hasty measure, the army which had been engaged for nearly 2 days, found itself without provisions for nearly forty-eight hours. For this misconduct, the brigadier who commanded the regiment, was executed on the spot, and orders given to put to death every third officer and every tenth man of the soldiers. Part of the executions took place, but a stop was put to them by the humane interposition of Sir Arthur Wellesley.
On Sir A. Wellesley's retiring, he sent a flag of truce to the French, informing them that the great heat of the climate prevented his taking his wounded with him, and requesting that he might have permission to send his surgeons to attend them: which was granted.
Madrid had been abandoned by the French, king Joseph had retired with 6000 men to Somma Sierra, a strong pass situated on the road from Madrid to France, supposed to be for the purpose of securing a retreat, as Besresford with a combined army of Portuguese, Spanish and English, Romana with the army of Galicia and Asturias, and the duke of Paruque were coming down upon Madrid, with, as was said, 800,000 men.
The duke of Paruque had already taken Salamanca from the French, and Romana was in Valladolid by the last accounts.
The marquis of Wellesley, ambassador from England, had been received with the greatest enthusiasm.—Numbers of the women went out to meet him, though the weather was excessively hot, and the people unharnessed his horses, and drew his carriage themselves near a league, amidst the acclamation of thousands; a circumstance which had never occurred in any part of Spain before, not even on the entrance of a king.—The marquis has assisted at several meetings of the junta, and had inspired new life in the hearts of the Spanish patriots.
The army of reserve, consisting of about 12,000 good troops had marched from Seville, Cadiz, &c. to join the combined armies on the Tagus.
Blake was by the last accounts collecting an army and stores in Tortosa, to march into Arragon to assist the people who had risen en masse against the French and had confined them to the environs of Saragossa, which they had fortified.
The mountaineers of Navarre, Arragon and Catalonia, had made incursions into France, levying contribution and destroying villages.—To check their progress and defend their own territory, it had been found necessary to detach 15000 French troops from the army of Navarre, by the road of Irun.
The different French armies in Spain are now supposed to amount to about 90,000 men, and it has been calculated that nearly 200,000 who entered the country, have perished in various ways or are prisoners of war.
A few days before the Cornelia sailed, the San Fulgencia, a 74 had arrived at Cadiz, with nearly 8 millions of dollars from Lima, and a frigate that sailed in company with further supplies had stopped at the Rive La Plata and was daily expected at Cadiz. Part of the Spanish fleet at Cadiz had gone round to Ferrol to bring back the fleet that lay there and had been recovered by the Gallacians from the French to whom it had formerly been treacherously delivered.
MARRIED, on the 29th August, Mr. Jas. Murray, jun. lately of this city, to Miss Charlotte Ralcliffe, of Worcester county, Maryland.
POSTSCRIPT.
Baltimore, October 7.
The ship Diana, Capt. Holbrook, arrived here last evening in 40 days from Liverpool. We have received London papers from the 17th to the 24th of August. They are chiefly filled with accounts and details of the operations on Walcheren, by the army under Lord Chatham, and the fleet under Admiral Strachan. Flushing surrendered by capitulation on the 15th of August—the garrison, sick and well, becoming prisoners of war. It had been most tremendously bombarded for the two nights previous to the signature of the articles of capitulation, which event was delayed by the demand, on the part of the French general, of more favorable terms for the Irish brigade which defended the place.
The islands of Schowen and Duiveland have also surrendered. The expedition was said to have excited a great sensation in Holland. Considerable quantities of powder, besides cannon and shot of various descriptions, were found in Flushing.
The next operation to be underwent, says the Statesman, "is the reduction of Fort Sille. To defend the passage of Scheldt, at this particular point, the French admiral is said to have brought down a strong force of frigates
and gun-boats. If, however, the evacuation be impracticable for our vessels of war, strong as is Fort Sille, the passage will, in all probability, be forced in less time than has been consumed before Flushing. The ultimate success of the expedition against Antwerp, must however finally depend upon the strength of the army that may be collected for its defence."
MARYLAND ELECTION.
A letter from a gentleman in Cumberland, Allegany county, Maryland, to his correspondent in this city, bearing date the 31 instant, states that on the closing of the poll on that day, the writer had heard from three election districts of that county, to wit:—Old Town, Cumberland and Holman's; and that in those three, the lowest federal candidate had forty five votes more than the highest republican. It was feared that the republican majority from the other districts would not over balance this number. The republican Sheriff, it was believed, would prevail. The districts still to be heard from are Smirkin's, Hays's and Western Port, which, in 1803, when the republicans gained the ascendancy there, gave a republican majority of 75.
FOR SALE!!! TWO HUNDRED SHARES In the BANK OF WASHINGTON. Enquire of the Editor. October 9—3t
TO RENT, The westernmost of the SIX BUILDINGS, In the city of Washington lately occupied by Mrs. Lanside—Possession can be had immediately. For terms apply to JOHN HAVEN in Georgetown, or HONORE MARTIN. Rockville, October 9—1m
FOR RENT, The large Three Story BRICK HOUSE on K street near the Lower Bridge, in the city of Washington, lately occupied by Judge Duckett, deceased.
For terms apply to JAMES DUNLOP or to Mr. MILLIGAN at his Book-store in Georgetown. October 9—3t
CABINET AND CHAIR MANUFACTORY.
THE Subscriber informs his friends and the public in general, that he still continues to carry on the Cabinet and Chair Making business in all their various branches, at his shop on Pennsylvania avenue between the Six and Seven buildings; where every article in his line may be had at the shortest notice and on the most reasonable terms.
He has for sale a quantity of MAHOGANY of a very superior quality which he will dispose of on reasonable terms to Cabinet Makers or others.
WILLIAM WORTHINGTON, Jr. October 9—
WASHINGTON JOCKEY CLUB RACES. The Washington Jockey Club Races will commence on Tuesday the 24th day of October next.
ON the first day will be run for a Purse of 700 dollars, four miles and repeat, free for any horse mare or gelding.
WEDNESDAY, The second day, will be run for a Purse of 350 dollars, three miles and repeat, free as above, the winning Nag of the first day excepted—and
THURSDAY, The third day, will be run for, the Colts Purse of 300 dollars, two miles and repeat, free only for Colts and Fillies.
It is believed that the Purses will not be less than as above stated, although the amount of each cannot now be known with positive certainty, because it is made up in part, from the gate tolls.
The racing on each day is to be conducted in all respects agreeably to the rules of the Club.
N. B. The members of the Club are particularly requested to meet at the Union Tavern on Monday evening preceding the first day's race. Application for Boothe ground to be made at the Bar of the Union Tavern.
By order of the Stewards. Georgetown, October 9—1m
St. Mary's county court, August Term, 1809.
WHEREAS the Commissioners appointed on the petition of John B. Davis, praying that a commission might issue to ascertain whether the Real Estate of Hezekiah Davis late of St. Mary's county deceased, would admit of division without injury to his representatives, having made a report to this court, stating that the said estate would not admit of a division without loss and injury to all the parties entitled: and whereas all the representatives of the said deceased have been summoned to appear in St. Mary's county court to show cause if any they have, why the report aforesaid should not be ratified, except Judith Davis, who it is represented resides out of this state. It is thereupon ordered and adjudged, that the said John B. Davis by causing a copy of this order to be inserted in the National Intelligencer once a week for four weeks successively three months before the first Monday of March next, he give notice to the said Judith Davis to be and appear before the court at Leonardtown in said county on the first Monday of March next, to show cause if any she has why the report aforesaid should not be ratified.
Test JO: HARRIS, Clk. October 9—74t
FOR SALE WITHOUT RESERVE, THIS DAY, the 9th Inst. at Mr. Rhoads's Hotel Pennsylvania avenue, TWO BRICK STORES,
Adjoining the Seven Buildings, with the Lot on which they are erected; one Lot in square 119, two do. being the entire east front of sq. 222, and two do. in sq. 378 fronting on 9th street contiguous to Messrs. May's buildings. The sale of the above property advertised for the 13th Inst. having been unavoidably postponed, the sale will commence on the 9th inst. precisely at 3 o'clock, when a tract of LAND in Butler County state of Pennsylvania will also be struck off to the highest bidder.
SAM. SPEARS, Auctioneer. October 9—5t

FELLOW CITIZENS.
THE undersigned, GEORGETOWN, making in Corporate and General Incorporation, found out the advantages that would result from an enlargement of its business.
In confirmation to its formation, the individual articles of association are believed to be equal to those of any other similar association in the Union. It is, therefore, the wish of the undersigned, that the same be established, and that the same be subject to the laws of the State.
It is, therefore, the wish of the undersigned, that the same be subject to the laws of the State.
UNION BANK OF GEORGETOWN.
The undersigned, and the several persons herein after named, being the subscribers, associating together, have formed a company or limited partnership, and do mutually agree to be bound by the following articles of association, to wit: The first and title of the Union Bank of Georgetown, shall be as follows: The said company or partnership, shall be subject to the laws of the State of Ohio, and to the rules and regulations herein after set forth. And we do hereby covenant and agree, each with the other, and declare that we and all persons who at any time hereafter may transact business with said company, shall be bound and concluded by these our fundamental articles of association.
ARTICLE 1.
The partnership shall be continued for the term of 21 years, from and after the signing of the subscription, unless a change is sooner obtained; but the proprietors of two-thirds of the capital stock of the company may, by their written consent, vote at a general meeting to be called for that express purpose, dissolve the same at any prior period. Provided, that notice of such meeting and its object shall be published in one or more of the Georgetown newspapers once a week, for six months previous thereto; and if the President and Directors at their first meeting after the election in the last year of the said term, two-thirds of that body concurring, shall be of opinion, that it will be proper and expedient to continue the partnership for a further limited term not exceeding 21 years, they shall have power to decide on the same, and shall immediately make known their decision by publication in one or more Georgetown newspapers, and the President and Directors are hereby authorized at any time, to apply for and accept such charter as may be offered upon, with the conference of nine members of that body.
ARTICLE 2.
The capital stock of the Union Bank of Georgetown shall consist of one Million of Dollars, money of the United States, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each, two dollars to be paid on each share at the time of subscribing—three dollars at thirty days, five dollars at sixty days—and five dollars at ninety days from the time of subscribing; and a failure to make punctiliously any payment after the first, shall incur a forfeiture of all that shall have been paid on each share, and such share shall be sold by the president and directors for the benefit of the company. And the remaining thirty-five dollars on each share, may be paid at the discretion of the stockholders at any time after the bank goes into operation, provided that not more than fifty thousand dollars shall be thus paid in any one year, unless the president and directors should think it more expedient. Provided likewise that the interest or dividends to be paid thereon shall not commence until the first day of the month next ensuing such payments.
ARTICLE 3.
The copartnership shall transact its business in Georgetown, and shall commence its operations as soon after the payment of the fourth installment as circumstances will permit.
ARTICLE 4.
The subscriptions shall be opened at the Union Tavern in Georgetown, on the first Monday in November next, under the direction of Robert Beverly, Thomas Beal, (of George) Nimian Magruder, Elisha Riggs, Andrew Smith, John Peter, Francis Dodge, Samuel Davidson, Thomas Corcoran, Adam King, John Teackle, Thomas Turner, Daniel Renner, Charles J. Nourse, George Magruder, Richard Farrott, or a majority of them.
At Fredericktown on the same day, under the direction of William Campbell, John M'Pherson, William M. Beall, George Creager, James Lawrence Bringle or a majority of them, where no more than 2000 shares shall be subscribed.
At Hagerstown on the same day, under the direction of Ely Williams, Doctor Schmevley, Samuel Ringold, John Harry, Edward Taligman, or a majority of them, where no more than 1250 shares shall be subscribed.
At Rockville on the same day, under the direction of Thomas Wilson, Thomas Linstead, Charles Gassaway, Robert P. Magruder, James Locklin, or a majority of them, where no more than 1250 shares shall be subscribed.
At Brookville on the same day, under the direction of Doctor John Bowie, Caleb Bentley, Thomas Riggs, Thomas Davis, Bernard Gelpling, or a majority of them, where no more than 1250 shares shall be subscribed.
At Upper Marlborough on the same day, under the direction of Gen. Walter Bowie, Edward Calvert, Isaac Duckett, Doctor W. Hill, John Hodges, or a majority of them, where no more than 2000 shares shall be subscribed.
At Liberty Town on the same day, under the direction of Francis H. Sappington, Abraham Crowder, Joshua Delapaine, Robert Cummings, Jeremiah Browning, or a majority of them, where no more than 1000 shares shall be subscribed.
At Taneytown on the same day, under the direction of John M'Calip, John Ross Key, Joseph Little, Thomas Jones, Doctor J. S. Smith, or a majority of them, where no more than 1000 shares shall be subscribed.
At Port Tobacco on the same day, under the direction of John B. Ford, (P. T.) Col. Thibau Stewart, Francis Digges, Gen. Caleb Hawkins, Col. Samuel Chapman, or a majority of them, where no more than 2000 shares shall be subscribed.
And the commissioners aforesaid shall open the subscription books at 10 o'clock A. M. and shall continue open until four P. M. and shall remain open between those hours for one day at least, and for the term of three or 35 days sooner or later; and if it should happen that more than the stipulated number of shares shall be subscribed on the first day, then the commissioners aforesaid are to apportion them among the subscribers, by deducting from the highest
subscriptions, until they are reduced to the proper number, or if more persons subscribe than there are shares, the commissioners are to cast lots to decide to whom they shall belong. But if at any of the places of subscribing, the shares should not all be subscribed in three days, then the commissioners at the different places are to return the remainder, together with the books and money, to the commissioners in Georgetown, who will apportion any surplus shares to such places or subscription as may be deficient. But no person or persons, bodies corporate or otherwise, shall be permitted to subscribe on the first day of opening the books for more than fifteen hundred shares; and if the stock be not all taken the first day, the books shall remain open on the second day, on the same terms as on the first; but if the subscription be not filled on the second day, then the commissioners may permit any person or persons, bodies corporate or otherwise, to subscribe for any number of shares until the whole is complete.
The commissioners, after having decided to whom the shares may belong, will issue receipts to the different stockholders, for the monies received of them at the time of subscribing, which receipts with the original subscription shall be deemed good evidence of the quantity of stock to which such subscribers shall be entitled in this company, until scrips or certificates therefor shall be issued; and as soon as the bank goes into operation the president and directors will issue the scrips or certificates.
ARTICLE 5.
The affairs of the company shall be conducted by fifteen directors and a president, whose place, if chosen from among their number, shall be supplied by that body; and four of the directors, with the president, shall form a board or quorum for transacting all the business of the company. In case of his sickness or necessary absence, his place may be supplied by any director whom he, by writing under his hand, may nominate for that purpose, or in case of his not making such nomination, the board may appoint a president from their own body to act during his absence; and the directors who may be appointed at the first election, shall hold their seats until the first Monday in April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. And the directors from and after that period shall be elected for one year, by the stockholders for the time being, and each director shall be a stockholder at the time of his election, and shall cease to be a director, if he should cease to be a stockholder; and no director of any other bank shall at the same time be a director of this bank. Every share shall entitle its proprietor to a vote, and all stockholders shall vote at elections by ballot, in person or by proxy, which proxy, in all elections after the first, shall be made in such form as the president and directors shall prescribe. But no officer of the bank receiving a salary shall be permitted to vote as a proxy for any stockholder.
ARTICLE 6.
A general meeting of the stockholders of the company shall be held on the first Monday in April in every year (except the next April) at such place as the president and directors shall appoint, by giving four weeks notice in one or more of the newspapers in Georgetown, for the purpose of electing directors for the ensuing year, who shall take their seats at the board the succeeding day, and immediately proceed to elect the president; but for the more immediate organization of the business of the company, the first election shall be held on the fifth Wednesday in November next, under the direction of the commissioners appointed to receive subscriptions in Georgetown. And the president and directors for the time being shall continue to hold their offices until others shall be appointed in their places.
ARTICLE 7.
The president and directors are hereby fully empowered to make, revise, alter or amend all such rules, orders, bye laws and regulations for the government of the company, and that of their officers, servants and affairs, as they shall, from time to time, think expedient, not inconsistent with law or these articles of association; and to use, employ and dispose of the joint stock, funds or property of the said company, (subject only to the restrictions herein after mentioned) as to them may seem expedient.
ARTICLE 8.
All bills, bonds, notes and every contract and engagement on behalf of the company, for the payment of money, shall be signed by the president and countersigned or attested by the cashier of the company; and the funds of the company shall in no case be held responsible for any contract or engagement whatever, unless the same shall be so signed, and countersigned or attested as aforesaid.
ARTICLE 9.
The books, papers, correspondence and funds of the company shall at all times be subject to the inspection of a board of directors.
ARTICLE 10.
The said president and directors shall have power to appoint a cashier, and all other officers and servants for executing the business of the company, and to establish the compensation to be paid to the president and all other officers and servants of the company respectively, and which, together with all other necessary expenses, shall be defrayed out of the funds of the company.
ARTICLE 11.
The president and directors shall have power to call a general meeting of the stockholders for the purposes relative to the concerns of the company, giving at least six weeks notice in one or more of the newspapers in Georgetown, specifying in such notice the object or objects of such meeting.
ARTICLE 12.
The shares of capital stock at any time owned by any individual stockholder, shall be transferable according to such rules as may, conformably to law, be established in that behalf by the president and directors; but all debts actually due and payable to the company (days of grace for payment being passed) by a stockholder must be satisfied before such transfer shall be made, unless the president and directors shall direct to the contrary.
ARTICLE 13.
No transfer of stock in this company shall be considered as binding upon the company, unless made conformably to a rule to be established in that behalf by the president and directors; and it is further expressly agreed and declared, that any stockholder who at any time, in manner aforesaid, sells his stock or shares in this company to any other person or persons whatever, shall thereupon cease to be a member of this
company; and that any person or persons who shall accept a transfer of any stock or shares in this company, shall thereupon become, and be a member of this company, according to these articles of association.
ARTICLE 14.
It is hereby expressly and explicitly declared to be the object and intention of the persons who associate under the name or firm of "The President and Directors of the Union Bank of Georgetown," that the joint stock or property of the said company, exclusive of dividends to be made in the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall alone be responsible for the debts and engagements of the said company; and that no person who shall or may deal with this company, or to whom they shall or may become in any wise indebted, shall on any pretence whatever have recourse against the separate property of any present or future member of this company, or against their persons, excepting the officers and servants of said company, in regard to the faithful discharge of their respective duties in the conduct of the affairs and administration of the funds of said company; but all persons accepting any bond, bill or note, or other contract of this company, signed by the president and countersigned by the cashier, of the company for the time being, or dealing with it in any other manner whatsoever, thereby respectively give credit to the said joint stock or property of the said company, and thereby respectively disavow having recourse on any pretence whatever to the person or separate property of any present or future member of this company (excepting as before mentioned). And all suits to be brought against this company (if any shall be) shall be brought against the president for the time being, and in case of his death or removal from office, pending any such suit against him, measures shall be taken at the expense of the company for substituting his successor in office as a defendant, so that persons having demands upon the company may not be prejudiced or delayed by that event; or if the person suing shall go on against the person first named as defendant (notwithstanding his death or removal from office) this company shall take no advantage, by writ of error or otherwise of such proceeding on that account; and all recovery had, in manner aforesaid, shall be conclusive upon the company, so far as to render the company's said joint stock or property liable thereby, and no further; and the company shall immediately pay the amount of such recovery out of their joint stock, but not otherwise. And in case of any suit at law the president shall sign his appearance upon the writ, or file common bail thereto; it being expressly understood and declared, that all persons dealing with said company, agree to these terms and are bound thereby; and will not require special bail from any person for or on account of any claim or demand upon the said company.
ARTICLE 15.
Dividends of the profits of the company, or so much of said profits as shall be deemed expedient and proper, shall be declared half-yearly in the first week in October and April in each year; the amount of said dividend shall from time to time be determined by the president and directors, at a meeting held for that purpose, and shall in no case exceed the amount of the net profits actually acquired by the company, so that the capital stock of the said company shall never be impaired by dividends; but the directors shall be at liberty to retain at least one per cent upon the capital as a fund for future contingencies.
ARTICLE 16.
If the said directors shall at any time willfully and knowingly make or declare any dividend which shall impair the said capital stock, all the directors present at the making or declaring of said dividend and consenting thereto, shall be liable in their individual capacities to the company, for the amount or proportion of said capital stock so divided by the said directors; and each director who shall be present at the making or declaring such dividend, shall be deemed to have consented thereto, unless he shall immediately enter in writing his dissent on the minutes of the proceedings of the board, and give public notice to the stockholders, that such dividend has been declared.
ARTICLE 17.
These articles of agreement shall be published in one newspaper in Georgetown, and one in Washington, once a week for one month, and for the further information of all persons who may transact business with or in any manner give credit to said company, every bond, bill, note, or other instrument or contract, by the effect or terms of which the company may be charged, or held liable for the payment of money, shall specially declare, in such form as the president and directors shall prescribe, that payment shall be made out of the joint funds of the Union Bank of Georgetown, according to the present articles of association, and not otherwise: a copy of the 14th article of this association shall be inserted in the bank book of every person depositing money or other valuable property with the company for safe keeping, or a printed copy shall be delivered to every such person, before any such deposits shall be received from him. And it is hereby expressly declared, that no engagement can legally be made in the name of said company, unless it contain a limitation or restriction to the effect above recited, and the company hereby expressly disavow all responsibility for any debt or engagement which may be made in their name, not containing a limitation or restriction to the effect aforesaid.
ARTICLE 18.
The company shall in no case be owners of any ships or vessels, or directly or indirectly be concerned in the sale, or importation or exportation, purchase, sale, deposit, or sale of any goods, wares or merchandise what soever, (bills of exchange, bank stock, public securities, and union only excepted,) and except such ships, vessels, goods, wares, or merchandise, as shall be truly pledged to them by way of security for debts due, owing or growing due to said company, or purchased by them to secure such debts so due to the said company.
ARTICLE 19.
If any vacancy shall at any time happen among the directors by death, resignation, or otherwise, the residue of the directors for the time being, shall elect a director to fill the vacancy.
ARTICLE 20.
The company shall not purchase or hold any lands, tenements, or other real estate, other than such as may be necessary for the convenient transaction of its business, unless such lands, tenements and real estate shall have been bona fide mortgaged to the
company by way of security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in the course of dealing, or purchased to secure debts contracted with or due to the company; and in every instance in which the company may become owners or claimants of lands, tenements, or real estates, the president and directors are empowered to sell or dispose of the same in such manner as they may deem beneficial for the company.
ARTICLE 21.
As soon as the bank goes into operation, it shall be the duty of the president and directors, if they shall think it expedient, to open an interest account for every deposit that may thereafter be made in bank, under such regulation as they may prescribe; and for such deposit they may allow an interest at the rate of not more than three per cent per annum. And such rule, if thus adopted, shall be immutable, unless, by the authority of the stockholders at a general meeting, it should be ordered otherwise.
ARTICLE 22.
Thirty days preceding every election (after the first) of president and directors, there shall be made out a complete list of the stockholders, showing their names and the number of shares held by them, which list shall be open at the bank for the inspection of any stockholder during the said period of 30 days. But if this article should prove inconvenient to the interests of the institution, it may be dispensed with by the president and directors.
ARTICLE 23.
Any number of stockholders, not less than one hundred, who together shall be proprietors of 25 hundred shares, may, at any time, apply to the president and directors to call a general meeting of the stockholders; and if by them refused, the said number of stockholders, proprietors of not less than the number of shares aforesaid, shall have power to call a general meeting of the stockholders, giving at least sixty days notice in one or more of the public newspapers in Georgetown, specifying in such notice the object or objects of such call.
ARTICLE 24.
Immediately on the dissolution of this association, prompt and effectual measures shall be taken by the directors then existing, for closing all the concerns of the company, and for dividing the capital and profits which may remain among the stockholders, in proportion to their respective interests. Should it be thought expedient by the president and directors of this institution to admit a subscription to this institution in behalf of the United States at the time of its incorporation, the same may be done for any sum not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars.
In witness whereof, &c. &c. &c. September 22—
TUITION.
MR. & MRS. GRAT, Having moved their English School to G street nearly opposite to Mr. G. Dival's, very respectfully informs the citizens of that vicinity, that they will continue, with assiduous application, the Instruction of Youth. Misses will be taught Reading, Writing, Geography, English Grammar, Arithmetic, and all kinds of Needle work, with the strictest attention to Ethics. Also beg leave to thank their patrons for the encouragement they have received since they came to the city. Washington, October 4—3t
JUST PUBLISHED
And for Sale by R. C. Weightman and Joseph Milligan.
The Correspondence of JOHN ADAMS,
Late President of the U. States. Including the First Eighteen Letters. Price 25 Cents. Oct. 4—
NOTICE.
The subscriber has commenced the practice of the LAW, and opened an office in the town of Upper Marlborough, Prince George's county. THOS. G. ADDISON. Aug. 30—ep5w.
CHALLES J. NOURSE.
Offers for sale—Chateaux Marquana Claret in boxes of 1 dozen. Genuine Old London Particular wine in half pipes and quarter casks. Best Sallad Oil in baskets of 6 bottles each, &c. &c. &c. George Town, May 24—tf
MONEY LOST.
ABOUT the 20th of July last, a Letter containing two bank notes of one hundred dollars each, was put into the Post office at Winchester, directed to Joseph Janney, Alexandria, which letter has not been received, and is supposed to have been (by mistake) put under a wrong cover, or may have been misdirected, and gone to a post office different from that to which it was intended to be sent. It is therefore requested of the different post masters throughout the U. S. if any letter directed to Joseph Janney, should come under their notice, that they send the same either to him, or to the subscriber. If the letter has in any way fallen into private hands, I will give fifty dollars reward for the money and no questions asked. DANIEL LEE. Winchester, Sept. 4—tf.
PORT TOBACCO JOCKEY CLUB RACES.
The Port Tobacco Jockey Club Races will commence on Tuesday the 21st day of Oct. next.
ON THE FIRST DAY.
Will be run for a purse of two hundred and fifty dollars, four miles and repeat, free for any horse, in race or gelding.
WEDNESDAY, THE SECOND DAY.
Will be run for a purse of one hundred and twenty dollars, two miles and repeat, free as above, the winning horse of the first day excepted.
WILLIAM D. HARRISON, Sec. 8-p. 22—4R.
CITY PROPERTY FOR SALE.
THE subscriber offers for sale that valuable Lot No. 19, in square No. 446, running back 93 feet, together with the improvements thereon, consisting of two one and a half story frame houses and kitchens. This property will be sold below its value for cash if applied for previous to the first day of October next, if not, it then will be sold at public auction. This property now rents for $100 per annum, from its being situated near the Navy Yard. It is supposed its value will increase. JOSEPH GASTON, near the Navy Yard Gate, Washington City. Sept. 18—18.
LANDS IN THE STATE OF OHIO AND KENTUCKY.
FOR SALE.
BY Virtue of the Last Will and Testament of Robert Means, deceased, the subscriber offers for sale all the lands of the testator in the states of Ohio & Kentucky. As there is a large quantity of these tracts, and the quality in general good, they are well worth the attention of all persons desirous of purchasing lands in those parts of the country. The tracts are of various sizes, and consequently calculated to suit purchasers of all descriptions. Further information respecting the said Lands may be obtained from Mr. Walter Dow, residing in, or near the town of Chillicothe in the State of Ohio. DANIEL CALL, Executor of the last Will & Testament of Robert Means, dec'd. Richmond, July 19—tf.
A VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.
WILL be sold in pursuance of the last Will and Testament of Samuel Parsons, Esq. deceased, at Public Sale on the premises on the 15th day of November next (if not previously disposed of, and in case of sale notice will be given) that very valuable Farm in Montgomery county late the residence of the said deceased; containing about Seven Hundred Acres of Land, Three Hundred Acres at least in wood and fine timber; the residue under good enclosures and every acre arable; lays level and remarkably well for cultivation and may be made very rich in a few years by the use of plaster and clover; in fact, it is as desirable a farm as any in the county of its size and may be very conveniently divided to accommodate purchasers; it lies about 18 miles from Georgetown and the city of Washington, five from Montgomery court house and within three miles of the Potomac River.
A further description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed that those inclined to purchase will view the property.
The terms of sale, which will be accommodating, may be known by applying to the subscribers living in Georgetown, district of Columbia, or will be made known on the day of sale. THO: TURNER, SAML. TURNER, Executors. July 28—tdos
The time of the above Sale is changed from the 15th to Friday the 10th day of November next, at 12 o'clock.
THOS. TURNER, SAML. TURNER, Ex'rs. October 4—
BANK OF COLUMBIA.
September 14, 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 Wednesday next. WILLIAM WHANN, Cash. September 18—3.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARDED.
ABSCONDED on the 21st of July last, from the subscriber, (manager at the arm of Mr. Isaac Duckett, on South river, near Annapolis) Negro TOM, a small black fellow, lost the sight of one eye. Had on when he absconded, ornabage shirt and trousers. Any person taking up said Negro and bringing him to the subscriber, or securing him in jail, so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward. This Negro was purchased of Capt. J. S. Brooks about five years since; it is probable he may be in the neighborhood of Upper Marlborough. HENRY BASFORD. August 7—tf
VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.
I WILL sell the tract of land in which I reside, called BUSSARD ISLAND, lying on Patuxent River, in Calvert county, and nearly opposite to Benedict, containing by estimation, seven hundred three and a quarter acres of as fertile land as can be found in the state of Maryland, one third of which is in wood and very heavily timbered, and as well watered for the convenience of stock as any tract of its size in the state.
The arable part of this plantation is level and much of it covered with oyster shells, and is divided into three fields, each of which will produce two hundred barrels of corn with a reserve of prime tobacco land sufficient to grow fifty bushels of tobacco annually, and with very little labor more meadow may be reclaimed than will be found sufficient. No land can be better adapted to the growth of corn, tobacco and wheat, and few plantations hold out stronger inducements to stimulate an industrious man. It binds for a considerable distance on the river & lies nearly in square. The oysters, and wild fowl are to be had at all times. Stock of every description, particularly sheep, thrive and improve wonderfully when removed to this land, a convincing proof of the nutritious quality of the grass, which it produces in great abundance. The improvements are sufficient to accommodate a small family. A more particular description is not necessary, a purchaser will naturally view the premises. My price for the above tract of land is sixteen thousand dollars—one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid on the day of possession, and the balance in five equal annual payments, with interest from the day of sale. I will sell at public sale on the 20th December next, in the town of Upper Marlborough, all the personal estate on the above premises, consisting of a number of valuable horses, mules, cows, sheep, hogs, plantation utensils, household and kitchen furniture on a scale of twelve hundred, the purchaser giving bond with approved security, for all sums under $2000 will be required. N. B. If the above tract of land is not disposed of, it will be for rent the ensuing year. RICHARD W. HARWOOD. Sept. 1—tdo Dec.