The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1803-08-19 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. III.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCCCXLI.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19th, 1803.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
From the French papers.
PARIS, May 25.
The declaration of the king of England has just appeared. It is accompanied with a volume of papers of 145 folio pages. This volume contains seventy-two articles, among which ten only are official, and even of these many are insignificant. Sixty-two are extracts of letters from ministers to their agents, and from English agents to their cabinet, letters which have doubtless been fabricated by the Chancellerie, agreeably to the will of ministers. These notes which are the most important, and the most proper for shewing to the English people the proceeding of the French government, and true spirit of the negotiation, have been carefully suppressed; and what appears the last degree of shamelessness, and even of folly, is that in the note of Lord Whitworth, dated the 10th of May, and given in page 112 of the official papers of London, the most essential passage is omitted, with an infidelity which could not escape censure.
The Monitor then proceeds to give, in a double column containing the note in its original state, and which had been printed by ministers. The difference between them consists in some expressions, which are applied to the proposition made by Talleyrand, on the 10th of May. It then proceeds to say: "This infidelity," continues the Monitor, "committed for the purpose of concealing a false allegation which can no longer be sustained, required the commission of another. The English ministers have, consequently, suppressed the note, transmitted in answer on the 12th May, which note was of the following tenor:
PARIS, May 12.
"The undersigned has it in charge to acquaint his excellency Lord Whitworth, ambassador to his Britannic majesty, that the First Consul, having proposed, in his note of the 14th of this month, that the island of Malta should be placed in the hands of one of the three guaranteeing powers, Russia, Austria or Prussia, it would not be sufficient to set that proposition aside, to argue on the refusal which his majesty the emperor of Russia might make of receiving this trust, since the intentions of their majesties the emperor of Germany and the king of Prussia, would remain to be known."
"That besides the assertion contained in his excellency's note, dated the 30th of this month, and which is expressed in these terms, 'from the refusal of his majesty the emperor of Russia to accede to it,' is entirely contrary to the guarantee which his imperial majesty formally offered, with the slight alterations which the First Consul made no difficulty of adopting, and which he knows that the English ministry refused meditating, beyond doubt, even then, the strange pretension of retaining Malta."
"That, farther, this assertion is also an absolute opposition to the assurances which the First Consul has received from Peterburgh, since the message of his majesty has been known there, and which have just been renewed to him by an authentic communication, which count de Marloff yesterday gave of the intentions of his court."
"It hence results, that it is impossible to reconcile the last communication made by his excellency Lord Whitworth, with the fresh confirmation, which has just been received, of the dispositions of his majesty the emperor of Russia, and that it cannot, but be supposed, that his Britannic majesty, when better informed, will, of himself lose no time in causing to be given to his excellency, instructions different from those which he has communicated, in the name of his government."
(Signed) "C. M. TALLEYRAND."
"Yet the English nation calls itself free, and the parliament represents the nation . . . ."
"The whole of this production is translating, and it shall be inserted in this journal, for nothing ought to be concealed from the French people."
"If they have had the impudence to suppress the most important notes, and to mutilate those of which the original is in the hands of our government, what reliance can be placed on details of conversation altered by the English ministry to suit their own interest."
"It would be difficult to conceive the spirit of madness which has for several months actuated the cabinet of London. It, no doubt, believes that we have neither ink nor arms."
"But what does the cabinet of London care for the opinion of Europe and what of posterity? The parliament will
have agreed to its address: many of the members will have been animated by lying reports. This is all that the English ministers desire."
These observations are followed by a communication to the great constitutional authorities of the different proclamations issued by his majesty with respect to the renewal of hostilities, and the whole concludes with these remarks:—
"Thus has the English government commenced hostilities by the ruin of one or two miserable merchant vessels, which, under the faith of treaties, were peaceably on their voyage off our own coasts. It has committed this act of hostility without a declaration of war, without any of the formalities acknowledged and agreed upon between civilized nations, and has followed the odious principle of a public law created by itself alone, and which are barbarous in every point of view."
"It is with reluctance that the government of the republic has been compelled, in order to make reprisals, to declare prisoners of war all the English enrolled in the militia who are in the French territory."
"It will leave to England the task of commencing every thing that is illiberal; but the French people are bound to act toward England as England acts with respect to France.—A different conduct has been too long held out to Europe. It is specifically that which has authorized England to constitute for herself a public right, to which she is at present so habituated, that every action of just reciprocity appears to her an injustice."
PARIS, June 10.
This day we have in the official order, for a day of public prayer, the following letter addressed to the Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops of France, by the First Consul.
SIRS, The motives of the present war are known to all Europe. The perfidy of the king of England, who has scorned the sanctity of treaties, by refusing to return Malta to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem—who has attacked our merchant ships previous to a declaration of war, the necessity of defence obliges us to take up our arms, for which purpose I write you this letter, to the end that you order prayers to be offered, imploring Heaven to bless our arms. The tokens you have given of your zeal for, and attachment to the state, answers me that you will, with pleasure, conform to my sentiments.
Written at St. Cloud, the 18th Prairial, Year 11th, (7th June, 1803.) (Signed) BONAPARTE.
There is no doubt but this circular will meet with general approbation from the clergy. The consistory of the reformed church of Paris has returned the following reply.
Citizen First Consul, The religion of God is the friend of peace, and this character belongs, in the most decided manner to his ministers. It was therefore the real sentiment of the reformed Church of Paris, which wished you success, when you exchanged the flaming sword of war for the Olive branch of peace. But alas, citizen First Consul, why have we not been suffered to enjoy longer the fruits of your labor? Why are you forced, however reluctant, again to try the hazards of war; again to gird on the sword? We regret with you this painful necessity. But confiding with you in the justice of our cause, we unite with all France in wishing you success.
The consistory of the reformed church of Paris, is composed of citizens who, equally as landholders, magistrates, and merchants, are among the number of those who have nothing dearer at heart, than to avenge an unjust attack on their country.
But the same citizens offer you here the homage of the whole congregation. At the same time that sentiments of humanity induce them to wish ardently the return of a peace, consistent with rational honor, which cannot but be favorable to the service of God. They also promise you their assistance, to the extent of their abilities, in producing that desired event. Yes, they congratulate themselves, that they are in this respect united with all ranks of citizens who form the extended population of this republic.
Accept, Citizen First Consul, the expression of our zeal for the good of our country; and while our Joshua multiplies, our Moses shall not get tired of holding up his hands to the God of battles praying his blessings on the efforts of our legions, so much accustomed to conquer: while the rash boastings of our
enemies shall only serve to give an additional stimulus to our exertions, and our success will be more valued, the more dearly it is purchased.
Done in consistory at Paris, 12th Prairial, 11 Year. (Signed) P. H. MARRON, President. RABAUT junior, Sec'y.
June 16.
The departure of the First Consul for Brabant will take place on Saturday or Sunday next—he will be accompanied by the minister of the exterior department, and the counsellor of State, Grellet, who for some months past has visited the department of Belgium.
Those English found in the departments formerly the province of Normandy, and imprisoned, have received orders to depart for Fontainebleau.
HAMBURGH, June 3.
I am sorry to inform you, that since my last, this city has been in a state of the most painful anxiety and confusion, owing to the progress which the French are making in the north of Germany.
The intelligence of a convention between Russia and Prussia, for the protection of the Hanse-Towns, proves to have been a gross imposition. Neither Russia nor Prussia seem inclined to protect this city from invasion, and the following facts may be relied on.
On the first instant, at half past nine in the morning, a letter arrived here from Paris, by an express, from Senator Schulze, one of the deputies of the government of this city, announcing that the Chief Consul had declared his firm resolution to occupy this free state and its dependencies, for the purpose of shutting the Elbe, and excluding Britain from the only port left her in the north of Germany.
The minister of his Prussian majesty, the co-adjutant protector of the north of Germany, delivered on the second instant a note to the senate, in answer to an application to him, to know whether his Prussian majesty, in case of an invasion, would be pleased to protect that city, and its commerce and liberties, according to the security it ought to enjoy by virtue of the treaty of Luneville. This more states that his Prussian majesty is truly surprised that the Senate of Hamburg should presume that he should, to gratify their most humble supplications, involve himself and his subjects in a war with France.
This conduct of his Prussian majesty is the more difficult to be accounted for, as it is certain that he will lose nearly one-eighth part of the revenue of this place by the suspension of commerce with England; and that in Silesia alone upwards of 100,000 individuals will be reduced to beggary.
Such is the state of this city, whilst fugitives from Hanover are daily arriving to escape French tyranny.
LONDON, June 11.
Last night in the House of Commons, 40,000 seamen and marines were voted, being 100,000 in all, including 50,000 for the peace establishment, and 10,000 voted when the armaments began. From the minister's account, 70,000 are now in service; and we understand that 80,000 was the number required for all the ships already put in commission.
Messrs. it is said, will command the French army in Bretagne and Normandy. There is no intention of employing Moreau or M'Donald.
It was reported at Paris that Fouché was to be reappointed minister of Police, but the joy expressed by the Jacobins, was the reason for dropping the design.
June 13.
Letters from Berlin repeat the account that the king is determined to observe the strictest neutrality. Nothing farther is said of the cordón for the protection of the north. The equipment of the Russian fleet in the Baltic is said to be merely for manoeuvres. We fear the French will be suffered to gratify themselves by excluding us from Hamburgh, at least there is not any sufficient security for their refraining from such acts of violence.
The king of Etruria is dead, and the queen declared regent. It is probable this kingdom will not subsist long in its present form, or under its new dynasty.
There is a report that a convention has been concluded between France and Austria, by which the possession of the Turkish province of Wallachia is guaranteed to the latter. The frequent alarm excited on the Austrian frontiers
by the Pacha of Widdien, &c. is stated as the pretext for this measure.
June 14.
The arrival of Mr. Gernont, the French messenger, which we noticed yesterday, has given rise to much speculation. A messenger was sent to his majesty, who yesterday arrived in town. He was waited upon by the chancellor of the exchequer and lord Hawkesbury. The Hanoverian minister and the duke of Cumberland were likewise present at the interview. It was conjectured that the dispatches sent by the French government related to some proposition of accommodation. It was thought that the first consul, now that his troops are in possession of Hanover, had offered to evacuate it, provided this country would evacuate Malta, a proposition founded upon such a compromise, and which would recognize the right of France at all times to make a seisin against any British claim or possession, was not very likely to be accepted. It was said, also, that the proposals of France were connected with the mediation of Russia and Prussia, but a French courier could not regularly bring any propositions of that nature. Had any mediation now been offered, and in reference to the present circumstances of the belligerents, such an offer could only come through the Russian or Prussian ministers. The funds experienced some rise on the reports respecting the object of the French minister's dispatches.
Private letters from Hamburgh leave little room to hope that the French will even refrain from seizing that place, as well as the king's continental dominions. Passengers by the packet, which left Cuxhaven on the 6th, say that Hanover has been actually taken possession of by the French troops, to the amount of 16,000 men; that a French corps of 8000 were within two days march of Cuxhaven, & that 10,000 were directing their route for Stadt. The agent at Cuxhaven so fully expected their arrival there, that he had detained the packet three days, till a bye-boat arrived in which he might, in case of necessity, make his escape.
All British ships in Hamburgh were hastening away, some only with half cargoes on board, in consequence of an order fixed up at the Exchange by the British consul. Fourteen merchantmen had arrived at Cuxhaven under convoy of a frigate bound to Hamburgh, but upon learning the above intelligence, had resolved to come back.
The loan, it will be seen, is larger for England than the ministers gave notice of on Saturday. The terms are favorable to the public. We are sorry to find, however, that the new loan was yesterday at a discount. If it continues so, we are afraid it will tend to injure the public credit, and to produce confusion in the money market. It was at first at a premium of one per cent. then fluctuated at a discount of 3-4 per cent. and left off at 1-2 discount.
Between ten and eleven o'clock yesterday morning, the gentlemen who had prepared lists for the loan, waited upon the minister to specify the terms upon which they were willing to take it.
The biddings were on the long annuities as follow:—
  Eldale and Co. 6l. 5d.   Goldsmids, 8l. 4d.   Baring and Co. 8l. 4d.   Sprot, 12l. 5d.   The Bankers, 12l. 5d. 
Eldale and Co. taking the lowest quantity, are of course the contractors.
It is laid an expedition will be sent back from Malta to re-occupy Alexandria, and thus secure the exclusion of the French from Egypt. Another expedition is talked of against some of the Portuguese settlements, should France invade that kingdom.
An order has been issued at Paris for sending all the English to Valenciennes. The women who chose to leave France are exempted from this order, but lord Elgin, who was at Paris in his way home from Constantinople on account of his ill health, is detained. Lord Hawkesbury is said to have made a representation respecting lord Elgin, who, it is well known, was absent in a public character.
June 15.
The first Helvetic Diet is to assemble in August next, when it will receive orders to enter into treaties of alliance with France, Spain and the Italian Republic.
The naval preparations of Russia, appear not to be so extensive as was stated; she has merely fitted out a squadron for the protection of the trade of the Baltic.
June 14.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer opened his budget yesterday, and entered into a detailed view of the great plan by which it is intended to provide for the exigencies of the war.
The following is an abstract of his statement:—
Of the articles which compose the new taxes, the total under the head of customs, is as follows:
  Addition of 20l. per cent. on the duties now paid on Sugar, of 12 1-2 per cent. on other articles imported . . . . . £.1,300,000   Duties on manufactures exported, ad valorem , 1 per cent. to Europe, and 3 per cent. to the other parts of the world . . . . . 460,000   Duty on cotton wool imported at 1 penny per lb. . . . . 250,000   Increased tonnage duty . . . . . 150,000   Total . . . . . £.2,160,000 
Even admitting the deduction of the drawback, there would remain at least 2,000,000.
Among the excise articles, the Chancellor of the Exchequer classed
Coarse tea, at 15 per cent. ad valorem Fine do. 45 per cent.
Under the general head of wine, we suppose port wine, there is an additional tax of 10 per cent. on every ton, or 5 per cent. on every pipe, the produce of which the minister estimated at 600,000l. Spirits, whether foreign or home made, are now at 5s. 2d. per gallon. He now proposes an additional duty of 50 per cent. or 8s. 7d. per gallon, calculating its produce at 1,500,000l. The total of the new duties, as excise, would be—
  New duty on tea, ad valorem , 45 per cent. on fine teas, 15 per cent. on coarse teas . . . . . £.1,300,000   New duties on wine 10l. per ton . . . . . 500,000   New duties on spirits (foreign or home made) 2s. 7d. per gallon . . . . . 1,500,000   Additional duty on Malt, 2s. per bushel . . . . . 2,700,000   Total . . . . . £.6,000,000 
Mr. Addington then adverted to his plan for a tax upon property, which, in the abstract, is as follows:— To the proprietor of land, 1s. in the pound. Tenant ditto, 9d.
This part he proposed to be modified for Scotland in the proportion of 6d. in the pound only. The foregoing would, therefore, he thought, produce
  From property in lands or houses, from interest of money in the funds; or elsewhere, and from all incomes entirely independent of industry, . . . . . £.3,375,000   On tenants' rents, . . . . . 500,000   Trades, . . . . . 625,000   Salaries and professions, . . . . . 200,000 
Total £.4,700,000
Our readers will observe, that the gross amount of taxes properly denominated war taxes, is twelve million a half.
But the minister has calculated upon receiving within this year, only the sum of four million and a half.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 3.
MOTION FOR CENSURING MINISTERS.
MR. PATTEN rose to call the attention of the House to his long promised motion, and spoke to the following effect:— "Sir, In bringing forward the motion which I am about to submit to the House, I must say I feel regret that the task has not been undertaken by many gentlemen in every respect more calculated from their talents and rank to give to it the effect which I think it deserves; and I must confess, that in rising this day, my reluctance is very considerably increased by the importance of the resolutions which have been sanctioned by the vote of this House. It is now the third time that I have trespassed upon their indulgence, and in the review of the conduct of his majesty's ministers which I have to take, and in the observations I have to offer, I shall endeavor to repay the indulgence I have so liberally experienced, by detaining the House as shortly as I possibly can. It is, however, necessary for me to detail the particular reasons by which I have been actuated in submitting to gentlemen the resolutions I mean to propose, and to justify the conduct I have felt it incumbent upon me to adopt. A short time

before the recess, I gave notice of a motion, the object of which was, an enquiry into the state of the nation. At that time I was perfectly convinced, from the conduct of his majesty's ministers, in withholding all communication since the conclusion of the treaty of Amiens, to the period when his majesty's gracious message was delivered, that they had given strong grounds for an enquiry. During so long an interval no reason was allowed to transpire, which could either enlighten Parliament or the public mind. So far were they from communicating the real situation of this country with respect to France, that they went so far as to hold out confident hopes of peace; that at one moment they gave orders for retaking colonies and conquered possessions; the next moment counter orders, and in every important instance showed themselves to little acquainted with the real views of the French government, and the true spirit and object of their own, as to furnish against themselves grounds of investigation, which were irresistible.
However, Sir, I may be found inadequate to the task I have this day undertaken, permit me to assure the house that I have been induced to it by the sentiments I entertain for the welfare and happiness of my fellow-subjects of Great Britain. I thought that parliament and this house were entitled to every kind of communication which could be afforded, consistent with circumstances and the duty of his majesty's ministers. I felt that in undertaking it, I was justified by the opinion of the people of Great Britain, which left no doubt upon the subject. If gentlemen took the trouble to look to the commercial interests of the country, or to the transactions of foreign nations, they would find that the influence which then prevailed was fatal to every kind of commerce and speculation. They would find that trade was locked up in our ports, and that the spirit of enterprise, the great source of our opulence when properly directed, was nearly, if not altogether, extinguished. But, Sir, it may be said, that I once took a risk, to the execution of which I candidly confess myself incompetent. It was upon this ground, that gentlemen of great talents and rank, not only in the opinion of this country, but of Europe, have been accused of aiming by their difference of sentiment from his majesty's ministers, at places and emoluments, and in order to prevent an accusation of so unworthy a nature from being in the slightest degree countenanced, I came forward, and proposed the enquiry. It was from that motive, that I, an humble individual, both in talents and situation, was induced to offer myself to the attention of the house. I have, however, to state that, which I think will not lower me in the opinion of the house, that I have nothing to hope or fear from the event of my motion; that I feel a grateful and honest pride in observing, I belong to no party, and that I cannot be accused of having for my object the gratification of personal or selfish feelings. I know that I have, since the first notice which I had the honour of giving, subjected myself to a variety of calumnies out of this house, to many misrepresentations, and insinuations, beneath my notice. I feel for them the most absolute contempt, but with respect to other gentlemen, who are implicated in them, I cannot avoid expressing my concern that they should have taken place. I have been represented in some of the public papers as the tool and instrument of these gentlemen; and in noticing the accusation, I do it merely from my wish to rescue the right hon. gentlemen below me (pointing to the bench on which Mr. Windham, Mr. T. Grenville, Lord Temple, &c. sit) from any imputation which might attach to them upon that account. Let me, at the same time, assure the house, that I feel no common pride in being classed with such men; men who have established their character on the highest possible grounds in this country, and who are looked up to with respect in every cabinet of Europe. Upon the subject of the attacks that have been made against the conduct of the first Lord of the Admiralty, I have very little to offer. It has, indeed, been said, that fifty ships of the line would be ready for actual service in the course of a very short time; and that many other things were to be found in papers supposed to be connected with ministers. An hon. gentleman under the gallery has, on a former occasion, alluded to the immense preparations carrying on in the ports of the French Republic, but I cannot bring myself to believe, whatever these preparations have been, that they were designed against this country.
Upon this head, which has been the source of much comment and speculation, I have some information to state derived, I have reason to think, from undoubted authority. It has been the cause of considerable alarm to the country, to hear that formidable naval armaments were carrying on in the ports of France; yet I have heard, from a quarter which leaves no doubt upon the subject, that when Lord Whitworth received his majesty's message to parliament, communicating that intelligence, he himself did not know of any such armaments. That this was the fact is confirmed by the statement of the first consul, and by the
positive assurances of M. Talleyrand. I am also informed of the sentiments of an officer of great eminence in the civil line of France, who declared that the naval force preparing in the ports of the Republic, was not sufficient for the wants and exigencies of the colonial service. I now come to a view of the papers and documents which are upon your table, relative to the late negotiation, and the immediate causes of the present rupture. I cannot conceive that there is a single man in this house, or in the country, with a spark of English spirit in his veins, who is not satisfied that the first consul ultimately aimed a fatal blow at the ruin of our power and independence. But although this is a proposition which cannot be controverted, it does not go to extenuate the measures pursued by his majesty's ministers in their discussions with the government of France. We are called upon to take into consideration the conduct of the king's ministers, as it arises out of the papers on the table; and the result is, that they have been kept in a continual state of aggression, insult and degradation, by the first consul. I contend, Sir, that the first act of aggression ought not to have been suffered, that a firm and determined stand should have been made to it, and that such an opportunity to conciliate and invalidate the pretensions of France, and to enforce our own just claims, ought not to have been passed, by unnoticed and neglected, as I lament to say it was. But his majesty's ministers not only did not think proper to resist a first and single act of aggression, but they openly admit from the evidence of the papers upon your table, that they have suffered patiently and ignominiously a long series of aggression, injuries, and degradations. It is so far strange, such inexcusable a line of conduct, that I feel it my duty this day to object. Have they, or have they not complained of the full views, the unbounded ambition, the extravagant spirit of aggression and encroachment manifested by the government of France? We know from their own admission, that they have not done so when they ought to have been most active in their remonstrances and complaints. But at the same time I read by grants, that all these injuries and causes of complaint, when taken in the aggregate, form an irresistible ground for the vigorous prosecution of hostilities.
We have indeed something like a new subject of the hostile views of the French government in the appointment of commercial commissioners; but in that case I most decidedly contend, that no remonstrance on our part was necessary. A remonstrance was, in my humble opinion, on the contrary, a proof of our weakness and fears. What was the conduct which his majesty's ministers were in that instance bound to pursue? They ought to have sent them away at once, as unworthy of credit, and then they should have followed it up by a demand of satisfaction. In adverting to the melancholy situation of Switzerland and Holland, I feel myself actuated by considerations which affect my own country very nearly. I cannot be ignorant that they contended for their independence and liberties, and cannot but lament that their struggle has proved ineffectual. They have even, in the wretched and abject condition to which they are reduced, less to hope for than the most servile province dependent upon France. The petty states of Italy may exist, and even possess some gratification under the power of France because that gratification necessarily arises from a comparison between their present and their former situation, but neither Switzerland nor Holland, can be contented under the control of the French Republic. France can never forgive the importance, the boldness, and the desire to rescue themselves from the yoke, manifested by Switzerland and Holland. In the feelings and wrongs of these countries we are deeply implicated, because we have the same tyranny to oppose which enslaved them. At the time, when orders were issued for the surrender of the Cape of Good Hope, were not ministers as fully acquainted with every act of aggression and injury offered by France as they are now, when I have the honor of addressing you, with the single exception of Col. Sebastiani's mission to Egypt? There are, Sir, many other strong grounds, on the justice of which I could rest my charges against his majesty's ministers, but I shall content myself with accusing them of withholding all communication from Parliament; of suspending the functions of this house; of having issued such orders as they were not warranted to do from their own knowledge and conviction; of compromising the honor and dignity of his majesty's crown; and of essentially injuring the interests of his people. I beg, Sir, I may be clearly understood when I state, that at this moment gentlemen are called upon to direct their attention solely to external objects; that this is not a time for them to enter into disputes and contests with respect to internal regulations; and that questions of a more important nature, involving as they do the very existence of the country, demand their consideration and decision. We are now in a crisis which
calls for all the talent, all the mental ability, the country can afford; and as we require of the people every aid which their resources and property can supply, we should, in our turn, contribute to their security, by the exertion and combination of those mental powers that are best calculated to ensure their safety, and promote their dearest interests. I shall not trouble the house any longer, more particularly when I reflect that I have trespassed more upon their indulgence than I originally intended. I shall, therefore, Sir, read the resolutions which I intend to submit to their consideration.
"1. Resolved, That it appears to this house, from the declaration of his majesty, which has been laid before the house by his majesty's command, that the conduct of the French Republic since the conclusion of the definitive treaty, has been such, as to be construed by his majesty's ministers as inconsistent with good faith, moderation and justice, and as forming one series of aggression pursued by France for the purpose of degrading, vilifying and insulting his majesty's government."
"2. That his majesty's ministers have not since the treaty of peace to the time of issuing his majesty's declaration, neither communicated to parliament the real sense which they entertained of the system of conduct pursued by France, nor the steps taken by his majesty's government thereupon; and that they have thereby prevented this house from having the opportunity of properly discharging its real functions; and that by their having thus improperly withheld such communications, they have materially embarrassed the commerce of the country, deceived the expectations, and depressed the spirit of the people."
"3. That it was the duty of his majesty's ministers to embrace some more early opportunity of obtaining reparation to this country for the injuries which had been offered to it by the continued aggression on the part of France, and that such reparation was to be procured by dignified and temperate remonstrances, and that if such conduct had been pursued more seasonably, this country might have avoided the necessity of going to war, even before his majesty, by the reduction of his forces, had in a manner put out of his hands the most essential means of procuring reparation after the failure of others; and that such a conduct on the part of ministers, was a manifest neglect and omission highly injurious to the public interest."
"4. I beg leave, Sir, to state here, that I shall move the two first resolutions, and then wait the pleasure of the house, which, if favorable, I shall follow by two more, and conclude with a fifth."
"4. That it appears to this house, that upon the 4th day of October last, counter orders were issued by his majesty's government for the evacuation of the Cape of Good Hope, and that on the 16th of November the spirit of France had been manifested by aggression, violence and insults, for which no redress had been attempted to be obtained; that the Spaniards and other Powers had been withdrawn from the island of Malta, and that Parma and Piacenza had been added to the dominion of the French Republic; Switzerland had been attacked, and the territory of the Batavian Republic occupied by armies of the French government; that the first consul of France at the same time entertained all his plans relative to the Turkish Empire, which appear from the papers before the house; and from all these circumstances it is evident, that by the evacuation of the Cape, during such transactions, his majesty's ministers have acted contrary to their duty, and have imprudently exposed to danger his majesty's government."
"5. That by all these instances of misconduct in the present ministers of his majesty's government, they have proved themselves unworthy of the confidence reposed in them, in such an important crisis as the present undoubtedly is."
The first resolution was seconded by Mr. T. Grenville, and read from the Chair.
(To be continued.)
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WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19.
We learn that, the CONVENTION between the United States and France, ceding to us LOUISIANA, was ratified on the part of France by the First Consul on the 22nd of May; and that Mr. Jay is on his way to this country with the ratifications.
A statement, in some measure incorrect, having been made in an Alexandria print of the reported capture of an American vessel by an Algerine frigate, it becomes proper to state the circumstances on which the report is founded.
Mr. Cathcart, our former consul at Tripoli, but residing now at Leghorn, has enclosed to the secretary of state an extract from the Florence Gazette containing an article under the Naples head, dated June 14, stating that an action had a short time before taken place between an Algerine frigate and an American vessel which had lately failed from Naples, with Mr. Smith, charge des affaires, on board, who had come from Rome for the purpose of taking a passage home. The American vessel was obliged to yield to superior force.
Since the receipt of this letter, another of subsequent date, viz. June 22, has been received from Mr. Cathcart, advising that he had received no further information respecting the capture. Considering it, however, possible, he immediately wrote circulars to the several American consuls on the Barbary coast requesting their interpolation in case the vessel should prove to be captured.
The belief of this information should, in our opinion, be received with some hesitation. It may be no other than a report arising from the capture, about the same time, of a Neapolitan frigate by the Adams. Or if an American vessel has been captured, it may have been by a Tripoline cruiser. The vessels of the Barbary powers are so similar to each other in appearance, that frequent mistakes arise in appropriating them to their respective nations.
The New-York board of health announce that on the 13th inst. there were 10 new cases and 4 deaths, and on the 14th, 11 new cases, and 1 death, of the prevailing fever.
KENTUCKY ELECTIONS.
The elections for Representatives in Congress have taken place in Kentucky. John Fowler is re-elected without opposition.
John Boyle, is also elected without opposition.
In the fourth district, four counties give Mr. Sandford 1,609 votes; Mr. Johnson 374, Mr. Henry 370, and Mr. Daves 168.
Mr. Sandford is probably elected. General Walton and Major Bedinger are probably elected by two other districts.
The Frankfort Palladium says "Our republican friends at a distance may be assured, that Kentucky will send to the eighth Congress an unanimous republican representation."
Thus it appears, notwithstanding all the measures of violence or intrigue, pursued by the opponents of the present administration, to alienate the affections of the Western people, they remain steadfast in the faith of their fathers, and bid fair to leave it as their best legacy to their children. We have been told, from high authorities, that Kentucky had changed her politics. We doubted, and demanded proofs. Our enemies were silent. We now give them demonstration that they have not changed, but that they remain as firm republicans as they ever were.
We believe these sentiments in that region of America will be immutable—Why?—Because there a spirit, truly American, prevails; there, there are no shackles of prejudice for either France or England; and there the leading interest is agriculture, which will long continue to be predominant.
There is considerable force in many of the remarks of the Editor of the National Argus on the manifesto of the French government, which are inserted in our subsequent columns. But the idea of the Editor, that in entertaining such sentiments of the conduct of the present government of France, he stands "almost alone among the advocates of the republican cause," is certainly erroneous. On the contrary, so far as our observations have extended, there is scarcely a respectable republican press in the United States that has not condemned in terms of the severest reprobation most of the leading measures of the First Consul.
The same observation has induced us to consider the only sincere friends of that distinguished character as numbered among the enemies of republicanism in this country.
The fact is that the French revolution in its early stages kindled among our citizens the liveliest enthusiasm. There was a sublimity in the spectacle
of a great nation breaking the chains which had been imposed upon her for ages, that drew forth the admiration of every genuine friend to liberty. Nor was it surprising that a people, who had recently established their own liberties, by the assistance of France, should burst with transports of joy the dawn of liberty in that country. When too it is recollected that the revolution, for several years, proceeded without reproach, and developed a succession of acts only equalled by the brilliant talents of those who achieved them, it is pronouncing an eulogium upon the hearts of our countrymen to say that they rejoiced in all the triumphs and sympathised in all the failures of the republic. Such feelings demonstrated their ardent and sincere devotion to liberty, and that they cherished them not only on account of the happiness it promoted among themselves, but from the good which it was calculated to bestow on others.
Unfortunately, however, the scene changed. The people of France were not permitted to manage their concerns in their own way. The tyrants of Europe interposed; armed forces threatened their subjugation, and intrigue and corruption filled the interior. Though the valour of the French soldiery vanquished all external force, the seeds of dissension were sown within; the arm of citizen soon was raised against citizen; and the most cruel outrages on humanity ensued. These chilled the enthusiasm of our feelings in favor of the revolution. Still we hesitated to abandon the cause of those who, it was hoped, would return to those just, humane and magnanimous sentiments which had so conspicuously shone in their early conduct. Estimating as of no light value the blessings of liberty, we entertained a liberal and honorable indulgence for the failings of those engaged in asserting it for a nation containing twenty-five millions of souls. As yet, however the spark might be obscured, it was not extinguished, and we hoped that events would prove it inextinguishable.
But a dark cloud soon overshadowed those hopes. We saw a military man, in violation of the laws of his country, those laws which he had sworn to support, draw his sword upon all legitimate authority, disperse by the bayonet the representatives of the people, and dictate a system of government that deprived the people of all their rights.
With the establishment of this system, with the empire of this man, fell the liberties of his country. All the measures that have since followed have been so many features of a gloomy system of military usurpation.
With those events the favour of America has perished. Our attachment to France was not a blind devotion to a particular country, but to the sacred cause of liberty. Had that cause been asserted, with equal glory in Great Britain or Turkey, equally great would have been our enthusiasm. No sooner, therefore, did the degeneracy of the French nation abandon their great cause, than we withdrew our admiration and action, all ground of sympathy was removed. We continued to with the welfare of the nation, as we wish that of every other nation, but we viewed her in the same light with all the nations that surrounded her.
And with regard to him who had seized the rod of empire, however dazzled with the glory of his military fame, we contemplated him in his true character;—that of a military usurper and the subverter of the liberties of his country.
Copy of a letter from Lord Hawkesbury to Mr. King, dated, Downing-street, May 19, 1803. Sir,
Having laid before the king your letter of the 15th of this month, in which you inform me, that a treaty was signed at Paris on the 30th of last month, by the Plenipotentiaries of America and France, by which the complete sovereignty of the town and territory of New Orleans, as well as of all Louisiana, has been acquired by the United States:—I have received his majesty's commands to express to you the pleasure with which his majesty has received this intelligence, and to add, that his majesty regards the care which has been taken to frame this treaty as not to infringe any right of Great Britain in the navigation of the Mississippi as the most satisfactory evidence of a disposition on the part of the government of the United States, correspondent to that which his majesty entertains, to promote and improve that harmony and good understanding which so happily subsists between the two countries, and which are so conducive to their mutual benefit. I have it also in command to assure you Sir, that the sentiments which you have expressed in making this communication, are considered by his majesty's government as an additional proof of that cordiality and confidence which you have uniformly manifested in the whole course of your public mission, and which have to justify entitled you to the esteem and regard of his majesty's government.
I desire you to accept the assurance of the distinguished consideration with which I have the honor to be, &c. HAWKESBURY. Rufus King, Esq. &c.

M. TALLEYRAND'S MANIFESTO.
WE had looked forward, with impatience, for the publication of the French Manifesto, presuming that the ingenuity of Talleyrand would suggest some plausible answer to the complaints of the British government, and some colourable defence of the measures which have produced a renewal of hostilities in Europe.
The subtle minister has studiously avoided the different complaints which had been reciprocated between the two governments, has confined himself to the retention of Malta, and abandoned every other point of discussion. The proposed restraints upon the press, and the banishment of the emigrants, (which had been the subjects of pointed and repeated instructions from the French government to their ministers in London, and which had been enforced in almost every conference between Lord Whitworth and M. Talleyrand) are passed over, as objects of inferior moment, and as not deserving a place in the ultimatum, which is to close the discussion.
Whatever may have been the ostensible causes of the rupture, it is well known that the British government have been inclined to the war, by a rapid accession of strength to the French Republic, which had threatened to subvert the BALANCE OF POWER in Europe.
"There is," says he, another very strong shade of difference between Europe and other parts of the globe, which powerfully confirms the supposition we have stated;—and that is, the remarkable opinion entertained by all the European states, respecting that famous part of the Droit Public, known by the name of the BALANCE OF POWER.
M. Talleyrand has complained in severe terms, of the short period of 35 hours, allowed by Lord Whitworth, for an answer to his ultimatum. Under any other circumstances there would have been force in this complaint.
and mildness which regulate the more humane mode of modern warfare."
If this doctrine is correct, it was sufficient for the British Government, without disputing about Malta or any national insult or indignity they may have received, to have proclaimed to the world, what the whole world already knows, that France was rapidly gaining "such an accession of power as might prove fatal to the independence of Europe."
The eighth article of the treaty of Amiens has provided that, "the territories, possessions and rights of the Sublime Port shall be maintained entire, as they were before the war."
That the French government have been projecting an expedition to Egypt, which comprises a part of the Turkish Empire, is a fact which is not now contested.
The change in the political state of Europe, through the agency of the French, which threatened to destroy the BALANCE OF POWER, was in itself a violation of the treaty, and a "fair cause for war."
It is considered how much time had been consumed, in entering upon the threshold of the discussion, without the least prospect of meeting on a single point; when it is considered what indignities the British government had received, by the unprecedented requisitions of the French minister, and what personal insults Lord Whitworth had received, from the intemperate language of the First Consul, no apology can be necessary for abruptly closing a negotiation, fruitful in nothing but recrimination and complaint.
March, the day on which the government was outrageously insulted in the presence of the assembled representatives of Europe, he would have strictly conformed to the etiquette of diplomatic usage, and would have done nothing more than the dignity of his nation required.
We have been induced to this brief analysis of the French minister, not so much because it prevents any new ground for discussion, as from a wish to enforce the remarks we have heretofore made on the British declaration.
On the subject of French politics we have long had but one persuasion, and this we have uniformly and decidedly avowed.—While a single vestige of liberty remained amid the ruins of their republic, we felt an attachment to their government and an interest in their success.
The Editor of the National Register, when he engaged in the arduous task of conducting a public paper, did not surrender the right of judging and determining for himself.—If to be a republican, it is necessary on every occasion, to become a partisan of France, and to follow them through all the mazes of their resolutions, from tyranny to anarchy, and from anarchy back again to despotism; he is then ready to acknowledge he has no claim to the character he has assumed.
WAR AGAINST HOLLAND.
London, June 17. Lord Hawkesbury, at the bar of the house, presented the following most gracious message from his majesty:
His majesty thinks it right to inform the House of Commons, that, from an anxious desire to prevent the calamities of war being extended to the Batavian Republic, he communicated to that government his disposition to respect their neutrality, provided that a similar disposition was manifested on the part of the French government, and that the French forces were forthwith withdrawn from the territories of the Batavian republic.
His majesty has at all times manifested the deepest and most lively interest for the prosperity and independence of the United Provinces.
[After the message was read, an address of thanks for the communication passed nemine contradicente.]
FAINT SYMPTOMS OF PACIFICATION.
London, June 18. Nothing is more certain, than that ministers are acting up to the full extent of the pledge given by Lord Hawkesbury in the house of Commons on Mr. Fox's motion, namely, that they would not only accept the mediation of Russia, but represent their cause to that power, with a view of engaging its good offices as a mediator.
The mediation of Russia is now much the subject of conversation. A Caledonian article states, that M. Otto passed through that city some days ago, and embarked with his suite.
The arrival of the brig William, from Liverpool, and the ship Oliver Elphinstone from Amsterdam, has furnished the editor of the Mercantile Advertiser with London papers to the 15th June, and Dutch prints to the 19th, both inclusive.
From the latter we learn that citizen Lantier, Prefect at Louvain, is appointed to succeed Barnadotte as ambassador from France to the United States.
BISCUIT BAKE HOUSE.
Near the Sugar House New Jersey Avenue. THE subscriber has commenced the above business in all its various branches; where merchants or owners of vessels may be supplied on reasonable terms; also private families with the best of Crackers.
PETER MILLER. Washington August 19.
By his excellency JOHN F. MARKER, governor of the state of Maryland.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it appears unto me, by an inquest taken in Kent county, before Joseph Hylton, Esq. one of the coroners of the said county, that an atrocious murder hath been committed on the person of ROBERT ASHLEY, late of Kent county, by a certain Ephraim Armstrong, alias of said county, who hath since absconded and fled from justice;
GIVEN in council, at the city of Annapolis, under the seal of the state of Maryland, this fifth day of August, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and nine.
By his excellency's command, NINIAN PINKNEY, Clerk of the governor and council.
Description of the person of Ephraim Armstrong.
He is about thirty-five years of age, of a muscular make, five feet ten inches high, wears his own hair, which is short, black, and curls very much; his eyes are small, black and piercing; his complexion brown; his countenance remarkably dark and gloomy; when he speaks he works his mouth about a good deal.
IN COUNCIL.
Annapolis, August 5, 1803. Ordered, That the foregoing proclamation and description be published four times in each week for the space of four weeks, in the Telegraph, American, and Federal Gazette, at Baltimore; the National Intelligencer at Washington; the Maryland Gazette, at Annapolis; the Republican Advocate, Herald, and Smith's paper at Frederick Town; and Mr. Battie's paper at Easton.
District of Columbia, Washington County, ss.
By the Orphan's Court, August 16th, 1803. CHARLES HYDE, having made application for letters of administration on the estate of Thomas Keen deceased a soldier in the late captain D. Brice's company of the 1st Sublegion who died in 1795, and of Jonathan Coffin deceased a soldier in Capt. Kinbury's company.
TO COTTON MANUFACTURERS.
THE Publisher offers to make the following machinery, and to rent them to work in any part of the United States.
Carding engine, either single or double, with flat cards or top rollers, as may be required, and the cylinders of any length from 30 to 32 inches.
Drawing frames, with as many spindles as shall be required—each system having three or four heads, (according as they are ordered) will draw from 30 to 35lb. of cotton per day.
Rowing frames, with any number of heads, each having two roving cans, will rove from 30 to 35lb. per day.
Water spinning frames, of 84 spindles; (42 on each side) which will spin from two to two and a half bunks on each spindle per day, the hank being 840 yards in length.
Mules, of from 60 to 216 spindles each, which will spin by an experienced hand, from one to one and a half bunks per spindle, daily.
Twisting frames, to double and twist the yarn into two or three threads, for flockings, fringes, netting, tamponing, &c.
Looms, for weaving any width with the fly shuttle, either single or double looms.
Warping mills, either woollen, cotton or linen yarn.
The above machinery will be made and set to work in any part of the United States, by the subscriber, who has served an apprenticeship to the above business, in Manchester, and followed it for twenty two years.
Any person who may want any of the above machinery, may see the same kind at work, at his manufactory, Upper Darby, Delaware county, seven and a half miles from Philadelphia, where they will receive any satisfaction as to the price, when the size and quantity of the machinery wanted shall be described; and letters from the country directed to the care of the Editor of the Aurora will be duly attended to.
PETER FITONHEAD. Philadelphia July 13.
A CARD.
H. O. HEBERT (from Philadelphia) offers the attention of citizens of Baltimore in general, and invalids in particular, to his Air Pump Vapour Bath, a machine constructed on the most improved principles, the efficacy of which in gout, rheumatism, palsy, contractions and enlargements of the joints, withered and enlarged limbs, cutaneous and many other diseases, both chronic and acute, can be testified by many self-evident persons, who have had recourse to it.
This machine comprehends, and combines the application of fomentation and the cupping glass, two of the most powerful external applications for the removal of disease, and that on a plan more extensive than has ever been known.
As many persons who have never seen the apparatus might be deterred from using it either from the reports of prejudiced persons, or fear, they are respectfully assured that its introduction is not attended with either pain or inconvenience. It possesses all the good effects of warm bathing, without its attendant consequences, debility and repletion; on the contrary, it invigorates and strengthens the whole system, but particularly the part to which the machine is applied. Persons desirous of further information respecting the nature and effects of this machine, will please to apply to the proprietor, at No. 3, East Street near the assembly room.
N. B. The Air Pump Vapour Bath is particularly adapted for the removal of all obstructions occasioned by violent colds, which are the forerunners of consumption, &c.
Complaints peculiarly incident to females, which too generally baffle the remedies hitherto applied, and to which the vapour frequently full victims in the prime of life, are readily and effectually removed by the application of this machine.
May 21.
Patent Horizontal Wind-Mill.
The subscriber offers to the gentlemen farmers and others of Maryland, and the other states, an invention, which for utility has not been exceeded by any piece of machinery which this or perhaps the last century can boast of. It is a peculiarly, though simply, constructed horizontal Wind-Mill, adapted to the grinding of all sorts of grain, and at the same time threshing out wheat and rice, fanning them and pounding the latter, powdering plaster of Paris, cutting tobacco, &c. &c.
A model of this wind-mill can be viewed on Federal Hill, where it is kept for the convenience of viewing it in operation, by applying to Mr. March, No. 4, fourth Gay-street, by whom all the terms will be made known for the model, only to be a mill at, or for the patent right for a whole house; or by JOHN BAPTIST AVELINE, The Inventor, Have de Grace.
WANTS EMPLOYMENT.
IN a bare or counting room, a young man with a pen can give an indispensable recommendation. He understands book-keeping, writes a fair hand, and was bred to the fore-keeping business. A line addressed to the Editor of this paper will be attended to.
August 3, 1803. SAW27

I WILL sell five hundred and fifty acres of Land whereon I live, in Fairfax county, within five miles of the court house, and within twenty of the City of Washington, Alexandria, Dumfries, and twelve of the Occoquan mills, it is a healthy situation, the land fertile, and has about two hundred acres of wood to cut, there is a great proportion of white and red oak, popular and hickory timber. There is nearly one hundred acres of prime land for meadow, I will give six months credit for one fourth of the purchase money—twelve months for the other quarter, eighteen for the third, and two years for the last payment, a purchaser will find me on the premises.
THOS. POLLARD. Feb. 21st.
CHARLES VARDEN, TAYLOR, FROM PHILADELPHIA.
HAS received from Philadelphia an elegant assortment of the best quality Superfine Cloths, Cashmeres, Silk Bortune, Black and fancy silk molekin velvet, white & figured Marcellas, Swandowns, Tolliettes, Velveteens, Fancy cords, Coatings, &c.
With a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season. N. B. Ladies Habits, Regiments and Navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New-Jersey Avenue, the second House from the Capitol square. December 8, 1802.
50 DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber living at Popes Creek in the county of Westmoreland, and state of Virginia, on the 19th inst. a negro man named FRANK, by trade a blacksmith, of a tawny complexion, long visage and remarkable fine loft voice; about forty-five years of age, five feet four or six inches high, straight limbed. He generally wore a long tail'd coat; but it is not known certainly what clothes he took with him—he may easily be detected, as he has taken with one of his youngest sons named John, who is not more than 9 years of age and is of a very stock complexion and a long visage, like his father. I am induced to think, Frank has made for some of the large towns particularly Alexandria or Baltimore, in the former, of which, or its neighborhood, he has a free brother by the name of Rogers, who did live near Dr. Smith's, upon Ravenworth in the county of Fairfax. The above reward will be given to any person who will secure said Frank with his son and give information thereof to the subscriber. And 100 dollars if taken out of the state, and the money paid as soon as I get him.
RICHARD STUART. July 20.
HICKORY WOOD.
PROPOSALS will be received until the last day of July for furnishing, for the use of the House of Representatives of the United States, One hundred cords of Hickory wood, which must either have been cut last winter, or must be cut in the month of August. The whole quantity is to be delivered at the most convenient wharf, or at the Capitol, by the last day of September. It is expected that any person undertaking this business will have no objection to bind himself under a penalty for the faithful performance of the contract. For further particulars apply to THOMAS CLAXTON, Capitol Hill. July 20, 1803.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS THE HIGHEST PRIZE,
GERMAN ROMAN CATHOLIC HOLF PRIEST CHURCH
LOTTERY.
In the City of Philadelphia.
 1 Prize of ten thousand dollars 10,000  1 five thousand 6,000  1 three thousand 3,000  1 two thousand 2,000  5 one thousand 5,000  10 five hundred 5,000  20 three hundred 3,000  20 two hundred 4,000  35 one hundred 3,500  50 fifty 4,500  100 twenty 2,000  6000 seven 42,000 
6174 prizes, dollars 90,000 11720 blanks, less than two to a prize. 13000
The prizes will be paid thirty days after the conclusion of the drawing, subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent.
The first drawn numbers on the 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th, and 35th days of drawing, will be entitled to a prize of 500 dollars each.
The first drawn numbers on the 40th, 45th, 50th, and 55th will be entitled to a prize of 1000 dollars each.
The first drawn number on the last day of drawing, when only 600 tickets shall be in the wheel, will be entitled to a prize of 6000 dollars.
From the extraordinary demand for these tickets, from every part of the Union, it is expected that the drawing will commence at a much earlier day than was at first contemplated, and that the tickets will be raised considerably before that period.
They may be had at Six dollars of GEORGE TAYLOR, jun. No. 67, Chesnut MATTHEW M'CONNEL, 82, S. 3rd St. D. C.
Whole tickets 6 Quarter tickets, 1 75 Half, 3 25 Eighth, 95 Letters post-paid, including the cash, shall be duly attended to, and St. Augustine and New York lottery prizes received in payment. July 20.
PRINTING INK
OF AN EXCELLENT QUALITY,
FOR SALE AT
TIMOTHY CALDWELL'S
Near the West Market, City of Washington, who has to Let on Ground Rent a number of Lots in eligible situations.
June 22.
Lots for sale.
In eligible situations, and upon very advantageous terms—A plan of the several squares in which they are contained may be seen and terms thereon by applying to, ROBERT W. PEACOCK.
Attorney at law and conveyancer.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR
HAS just received by recent arrivals at Philadelphia, from England, and the East Indies, a handsome assortment of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, of the best quality, also Patent water proof Cloths and Cashmeres, superior Navy Blue and other colours; handsome NAVY & FASHIONABLE BUTTONS, &c., Gentlemen's ARMY, NAVY and FASHION served with expedition and taste.
New Jersey Avenue, seventh house from Capitol Square and Pennsylvania Avenue near the President's square. April 13 1803.
FIRST LEGION.
ATTENTION!
AT a Legionary Court of Enquiry, held on the 15th day of March last, in obedience to a law passed at the last session of Congress, entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the organization of the Militia of the District of Columbia," ordered that the following be the Uniform to be worn by all non-commissioned officers and privates belonging to the battalion companies of the first Legion while on duty, viz. A DARK BLUISH COAT of ordinary length, WHITE VEST, WHITE BREECHES and WHITE STOCKINGS, or WHITE PANTALOONS and WHITE STOCKINGS, or WHITE OVERALLS, with SHOES and ROUND BLACK HAT: which Uniform having been approved by the Brigadier General, is now published by order of the said court. WM. D. BEALL, Clerk of L. C. B.
Sec. 27. And be it further enacted, That all non-commissioned officers and privates, belonging to battalion companies, shall appear while on duty, uniformly clothed, the color and fashion of which uniforms to be determined on for the respective legions, by the first legionary courts of enquiry which shall be held, and to be approved of by the Brigadier General; provided the expense of the same, additional to that of usual, ordinary, and cheap clothing, does not exceed five dollars for each person, and every such non-commissioned officer, or drummer, or fifer, or private, appearing at any muster held after three months from the time that such uniform shall have been determined on, and the order relative thereto shall have been published, in some newspaper within the legionary district and not wearing the same, shall be fined five dollars for each offence, unless he can make it appear to the satisfaction of the court of enquiry of the battalion to which he may belong, that he was unable to equip himself.
NEW BOOKS.
Just imported in the ship Active, from London, via Philadelphia, and for sale by RAPINE, CONRAD & CO. New-Jersey Avenue, near the capitol, a choice collection of new and valuable books—amongst which are
 Burk's works, 8 vols. 8vo.  Pratt's Gleanings, 5 vols. 8vo. elegant.  Percy's Voyage, 2 vols. 8vo.  Mickle's Lucian, 2 vols. 8vo.  Link's Travels, 8vo.—Clavigero's Mexico, 2 vols. 4to.  Sancho's Letters, 8vo.  Memoirs of Pius the 6th, 2 vols. 8vo.  Scgur's Frederic William and 3 vols. 8vo.  Soulaive's Memoirs of Louis 16th, 6 vols. 8vo.  Spallanzani's Travels, 4 vols. 8vo.  Watson's Philip and 3rd, 5 vols. 8vo.  Helen Maria Williams' Skerries, 2 vols. 8vo.  Gibbon's Roman Empire 12 vols. 8vo.  Grandpre's Voyage in the Indian Ocean 2 vols.  Memoirs of Polignacs, 8vo.  Reynier's State of Egypt, 8vo.  Cavallo's Natural and Experimental Philosophy, a new and valuable work, 4 vols. 8vo.  Beissam's Moral Philosophy, 8vo.  Payley's (Dr.) Natural Theology, 8vo.  Adams on the Microscope, with plates.  Brown's Travels into Africa, 4to.  Horman's do.  Grant's Life of France.  Delphine 6 vols. 12mo.  War Office 3 vols. 12mo.  Microcosm 5 vols. 12mo.  The Benevolent Jew, 2 vols. by Geo. Walker.  Infidel Father, 3 vols. 12mo.  Monk of Madrid 4 vols. 12mo.  Lorinton 2 vols. 12mo.—Home 5 vols. 12mo.  Romance of the Pyrenees, 4 vols. 12mo.  The Savage of Aveyron, 12mo.  Tales of Superstition 12mo.  Broad Grins, by G. Coleman.  Boscowen's Poems, 12mo.  Atala—Glover's Athenais, 3 vols. 8vo. 
In addition to the above they have always on hand a collection of well afforded books on education, science, and amusement, which they will sell at such prices as cannot fail of giving general satisfaction.
FOR SALE,
For a term of 5 years, A LIKELY young and healthy NEGRO MAN, about 23 years of age for sale by— ROBERT M c CLAN. Washington May 25.
FOR SALE
By LEWIS CLEPHAN East of the Branch bank on E. street City of Washington.
PAINTERS COLORS OF ALL SORTS.
 White Lead in kegs  Red Lead,  and dry,  Spruce, Ocher,  Stone Ocher of superior quality,  Patent Yellow,  Gold Litage,  Turkey Umber,  Prussian Blue, 1st and 2nd quality,  Vermilion,  Beit Carmine drop black,  Kings Yellow,  Painters Brushes of all sorts,  Linseed oil and spirits of turpentine,  Window glass 10 by 12—8 by 10, and 7 by 9.  Gold and silver leaf by the pack or book,  Large sheet glass cut to any size. 
Gentlemen sending their Sashes will have them neatly glazed and on moderate terms. All orders from the country will be carefully attended to. August 3.
BY AUTHORITY.
SCHEME OF A LOTTERY,
To build a Catholic Cathedral Church in the City of Baltimore.
 Dollars.  1 prize of 20,000  1 ditto 10,000  2 do 5000 10,000  5 do 1000 5,000  10 do 500 5,000  15 do 200 3,000  200 do 100 20,000  200 do 50 10,000  200 do 25 5,000  2500 do 20 50,000  4000 do 15 60,000  1 first drawn ticket after 2000, having a blank to its number, 500  1 do after 4000 do 500  1 do after 6000 do 500  1 do after 8000 do 500  1 do after 10,000 do 500  1 do after 12,000 do 500  1 do after 15,000 do 500  1 do after 18,000 do 500  1 do after 20,000 do 2,000  1 last drawn ticket, which may have a blank to its number, 4,000 
7154 Prizes, 210,000 15,856 Blanks—Not two to a prize. 210,000 Tickets, at 10 dollars each, 210,000
The laudable purpose of this lottery—the many very valuable prizes offered, and there not being two blanks to a prize, are considerations which give the managers reason to hope for a rapid sale of the tickets. The drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number of tickets shall be sold to authorize it; and thirty days after the completion of the drawing, the prizes will be paid to the fortunate adventurers; subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent. Such prizes as shall not be demanded within twelve months after the drawing is finished, shall be considered as relinquished for the benefit of the church.
For the satisfaction of those at a distance, it may be necessary to mention, that the managers have given bond to the mayor and city council in the sum of 120,000 dollars, for the due payment of the prizes which may be drawn.
Tickets to be had of the managers, or of such persons as may be appointed by them.
 Managers.  Right rev. Bishop Carroll,  Rev. Francis Beckton,  Messrs. David Williamson,  Robert Waith,  Charles Chequiere,  Patrick Bennet,  Arnold Livers,  Luke Tiernan,  Francis I. Mitchell. 
July 13, 1803. The managers have lodged a number of tickets in the above lottery in the hands of Wm. Brent and James D. Barry for sale.
All persons having claims or
demands of any nature against the subscriber, are requested to exhibit their accounts, without delay, to JOHN H. SWIT or RICHARD FORREST, Esqrs. of the city of Washington, who are authorized, in my name, to adjust and settle the same, and all persons in debt to me are requested to make payment to either of the gentlemen above named. SAMUEL BLODGET. March 30.
LANDS FOR SALE.
THE subscriber wishes to sell a tract of land situate near the foot of the Blue Ridge and Short Hills in Loudoun county Virginia, bounded partly by Potomac river within two miles of Harpers Ferry and the mouth of Shenandoah. It is of strong good soil, answering perfectly well for Planter of Paris, and contains by patent 2340 acres. It is so well known as a valuable and fine tract of land that a further description is unnecessary to those who incline to purchase will naturally view and examine it. A clear and indisputable title will be given by the subscriber. There is no mortgage, judgment, debt, lease, claim or demand whatsoever against any part, it having been always let to tenants at low annual rents who are raised and removable at will; but the occupying tenants (through favor only) have been permitted to claim from any coming in tenant one half of the deposit money as may be settled between them, for the improvements and good will, the other half going to the landlord. There are at present sixteen or seventeen tenants upon the estate at very low rents. And it is recommended as an object well worth the attention of any person who would purchase the whole to parcel it into lesser farms to the resident tenants or others wishing to purchase parts of it. The terms of sale are a portion of one fourth paid down in money, or in approved negotiable paper, and the remainder in one two or three years as may be agreed upon carrying interest from the day of sale. Application may be made personally, or by letter, to the subscriber residing at Warrenton on Potomac river, near to Alexandria, to James M c Ilhene near the premises, or to Mr. John Janney merchant in Alexandria. THOMAS ALWOOD DIGGES. July 15, 1803.
FOR SALE.
By RAPINE CONRAD & CO.
WHEATON'S GENUINE PATENT
JAUNDICE BITTERS.
A Medicine extremely useful when Jaundice and Bilious complaints are prevalent among the citizens of America and the West Indies. They are a useful and efficacious medicine for curing jaundice and bilious disorders, and removing that linking, faint distressed feeling at the stomach, difficulty of breathing, loss of appetite, and sleepy, dull heaviness in the fore part of the day, weakness and trembling of the limbs, dizziness of the head, and yellowness of countenance, complaints so common to jaundice and bilious people. Likewise Wheaton's Patent
ITCH OINTMENT:
The only medicine in the world which will certainly cure the Itch, without having in it any thing either dangerous or disagreeable; it being composed mostly of ingredients never before discovered or used in that disorder. August 8.
COMMITTED on the 24th day of July last, to the goal of Prince George county Maryland, a negro man by the name of Richard about five feet one or two inches high, appears to be thirty years old or upwards a dark complexion, has a scar on the right side of his forehead, and a small scar near the left eye, has lost two or three of his upper teeth—his clothing an old snabrig shirt, brown bell trowsers, and the crown of an old wool hat, says he belongs to general B. Kerseim, near Port Tobacco Charles county, and that he was hired to Mr. O'Brien in the city of Washington—his owner is requested to release him from goal or he will be sold out for his prison fees as the law directs. THOMAS MACGILL, Sheriff, Prince George county Md. August 3, 1803.
WAS committed to the jail of Baltimore county as a runaway servant, on the 6th instant, JOHN PHILIP WORM, a German, about 23 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches, high, light complexion, red hair, grey eyes, has on a blue cloth coat and pantaloon, striped cotton jacket with sleeves, and an old wool hat; he is a baker by trade, and says he belongs to messrs. Blair and Volkman, living in Lombard street, Philadelphia. If his master or masters do not release him, he will be sold for his jail fees according to law. James Wilson, Sheriff, June 20.
Conveyancer's Office.
THOMAS HERTY,
Grateful for past favors, in-
forms his friends and the public, that he continues to prepare CONVEYANCES OF LAND, and every other species of DEED or INSTRUMENT in the line of his profession, with legal precision, and on moderate terms, Titles investigated, &c.
A choice selection of lots on the Pennsylvania avenue and in other desirable situations in the City to lease or sell. N. B. Herty's Abridgement of the laws of Maryland in 1 vol. and Herty's Digest of the laws of the United States in 1 vol. for sale at the above office. City of Washington, April 18 1803.
MECHANICS HALL.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has opened a House of Entertainment, on the east way in George Town, at the sign of the Golden Square and Compass, for the accommodation of travellers and others, entitled the Mechanics Hall.
All those who do not think themselves above a mechanic, will find their interest to call on him, as he pledges himself to the public to be moderate in his charges, and to keep a supply of the best of every article in his line of business. Having several genteel rooms with fire places in each, parties on business can have private rooms. Oyster suppers while in season will be prepared or the north notice. Beer and porter. Also, newspapers of different politics, regularly filed in the bar room. He also keeps a small assortment of Oysters of the best quality, which he sells low. Any favor in either line will be gratefully acknowledged, by the public's humble servant, ANDREW McDONALD.
A few genteel persons may be accommodated on moderate terms with boarding by the week, month or year. A woman, well acquainted with cooking, and of good character, is wanted, to whom liberal wages will be given. August 3.
Treasury of the United States,
Washington August 15, 1803.
WHEREAS by an act of Congress dated
May the 8th, 1792, entitled "An act to provide for a Copper Coinage," in the second section thereof, it is enacted,
"That after the expiration of six calendar months from the time when there shall have been paid into the Treasury by the said Director (of the Mint) in cents and half cents, a sum not less than fifty thousand Dollars, which time shall forthwith be announced by the Treasurer in at least two gazettes or newspapers, published at the seat of government of the United States for the time being, no copper coins or pieces whatsoever, except the said cents and half cents, shall pass current as money, or shall be paid or offered to be paid or received in payment for any debt, demand, claim, matter or thing whatsoever; and all copper coins or pieces, except the said cents and half cents, which shall be paid or offered to be paid or received in payment contrary to the prohibition aforesaid, shall be forfeited, and every person by whom any of them shall have been paid or offered to be paid or received in payment, shall also forfeit the sum of ten dollars, and the said forfeiture and penalty shall and may be recovered with costs of suit for the benefit of any person or persons by whom information of the incurring thereof shall have been given."
And whereas it appears by the books of this office, that more than fifty thousand dollars in cents and half cents have been paid into the Treasury. I now therefore, in obedience to the said act, do hereby give public notice of the same. TH. T. TUCKER, Treasurer United States. August 15.
NOTICE.
LEGIONARY ORDERS.
A Legionary Court of Enquiry, under the Militia Law, will be held at Rhodes's Tavern in the City of Washington, on Thursday the 25th instant, at 9 o'clock in the morning, for the purpose of hearing appeals from the Battalion Courts, and assessing fines for offences and for other purposes.
A punctual attendance of the members will be expected. By order of Lieut. Col. Com'dt Brent, WM. D. BEALL, Adjutant. Aug. 10, 1803.
FOUND in Washington city, a few days since, an old Pocket Book containing some money: the owner may have it by describing the same and paying the price of this advertisement. Information to be had from the Editor of the National Intelligencer. August 12.
A Young gentleman of respectable connections and character acquainted with mercantile business in the wholesale and retail line, and well qualified as a clerk generally, would be glad to engage for a short period on moderate terms in an office or a store. Enquire of the printer. August 12.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or stolen, on Saturday morning, the 6th instant, from Washington City, a bright bay MARE, eight years old, about fourteen hands and a half high, twitch tail, a shoe off one of her hind feet, some white hairs on her fore leg near the hooflock, light made, her under jaw bone crooked, no white about her, but what is above described. Whoever takes up, and delivers the said mare to William Keen, or Mr. Duane's book store, in Washington City, shall receive the above reward. August 13.
ORDINANCE
Of his Danish Majesty, defining what is to be observed by foreign vessels in regard to quarantine regulations.
HIS Majesty the King most graciously ordered by his mandate of the 14th of October last, that whenever any accounts are received of the existence of the yellow fever in the United States of America, or when no particular advice is received to the contrary from the minister resident there, all American vessels which are not provided with health certificates from the beginning of the month of July until the end of the year are to submit to certain quarantine regulations, and even if they are provided with such certificates, these vessels are still prohibited from communicating with the shore, before they have been visited by the appointed health physician, and if he has the least suspicion, then the vessel must be dealt with accordingly, in conformity to which, no American vessels during such a time shall be piloted, except having hoisted the green flag.
Which gracious command is hereby published for the regulation of all concerned. Given at the Danish Royal Chancery, on the 5th of November, 1802.
Extract of an ordinance concerning quarantine regulation, and rules, to be observed by navigators who touch at the ports or coasts of the royal Danish dominions, dated at Copenhagen, the 14th November, 1800.
1. Every vessel belonging to our dominions shall have a green flag on board, to be used as preferred hereafter.
2. Whenever a vessel arrives from a place where there has been contagion, and in all other cases of suspicion, such as having been visited by any vessel from the Barbary coast, having bales of merchandise on board from suspected places, and having not undergone a quarantine since in any other place, or having had any violent sickness on board during the voyage, then the green flag shall be hoisted at the head of the mainmast, before any communication is had with any person whatever from the shore, and before anchor is cast.
3. The commander of any vessel offending against these orders, shall pay a fine of 500 rix dollars, (400 dollars) to no dangerous consequences ensue from his misconduct; but if otherwise he shall be punished with 12 years labor in the fortification—and should any malicious intent be proved upon him, he shall labor in irons during his life. Any vessel having had communication with another vessel that is suspicious, shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions.
4. Should such a vessel be under the necessity of immediate communication with the shore, she must hoist her own national colors from the foretop, or under the green flag if she has no foremast.
5. After hoisting the color on the fore top, the signal for a pilot, the pilot shall immediately go on board, but not leave the ship board until the health physician has visited her—and for every day that the pilot is detained, he shall receive one rix doll.
6. To prevent unnecessary delays to such vessels, as are arrived from places that might be suspected, (such as the Mediterranean or the West Indies) but still are secure and free from contagion, not having been at infected places, nor having any infected merchandise on board, and not having had communication with any vessel which could be suspected—nor had any one sick or dead during the voyage, we do