Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer (Alexandria [Va.]), 1803-03-08 00:00:00

Public Vendue.
On FRIDAY,
At 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store,
 Rum in hogheads and barrels.  French Brandy in pipes,  Gin in pipes and bds.  Whiskey and Apple Brandy in bds.  Sugar in hds. tierces and bds.  Coffee in tierces and bags,  Chocolate  White and brown Soap } in boxes,  Mould and dip'd Candles }  Raisins in kegs, boxes and jars,  Figs in kegs and frails,  Queens Ware in crates,  FURNITURE, &c. 
ALSO,
A variety of DRY GOODS,
 Among which are,  Cloths, Coatings,  Kerseymeres, Duffs,  Plains and Kersies,  Negro Cottons, Serges,  Elasticks, blue Friezes,  Calimancoes and Russells,  Yarn Stockings,  Chintzes and Calicoes,  Irish Linens, Silesia do.  Piatillas,  Osnaburgs and Ticklenburgs,  Muslins and Mullin Hand'fs,  India Muslins and Table Cloths  Bandanna Handkerchiefs,  Silk Stockings,  Coloured Threads, Hats,  Plated Candlesticks,  And sundry other Articles. 
P. G. MARSTELLER.
March 8.
Sales by Auction.
On WEDNESDAY,
At 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Vendue Store, the corner of King and Union Streets.
 Rum in hds. and barrels,  Whiskey in barrels,  Apple Brandy in barrels,  Gin in casks,  Wine in pipes and quarter casks,  Molasses in hds.  Sugar in hds. and barrels,  White and brown Soap in boxes,  Coffee in casks and bags,  Raisins in kegs and boxes,  Queen's Ware, and 
ALSO,
A variety of DRY GOODS.
 —AMONG WHICH ARE—  Broad Cloths,  Cassimeres,  Kersies,  Coatings,  Halfhicks,  Fearnought,  Blankets,  Planes,  Negro Cottons,  Worsted and other Stockings,  Irish Linens,  Calicoes,  Threads,  Chintzes,  Bedricks,  Oznaburgs,  Sewing Silks,  Muslin and Mullin Handkerchiefs,  India Cottons, &c &c. 
THOS. PATTEN, Auctioneer.
March 5.
SALE POSTPONED.
THE Sale of the LAND conveyed to me, as Trustee for Colin Auld, by John D. Orr, hitherto advertised to take place at the Coffee House in Alexandria, on the first of March next, is postponed by consent of the parties interested, until Tuesday the 15th of that month, when the property will be exposed to Sale at the said Coffee-House for ready money in terms of the Deed of Trust.
EDMUND J. LEE.
Fed. 28.
Just received and for Sale by JOSEPH DYSON, A QUANTITY OF FRESH ORANGES, By the hundred or smaller quantity. Jan. 19.
We have received by the Sloop Mary, from Portsmouth, 10 tons Bar Iron, A few bales Russia Sheetings and Duck, A few bds. of excellent Mackerell, A few hds. N. E. Rum, And a few bales low priced Muslins, which will be sold cheap.
RICKETTS, NEWTON, & Co. Feb. 23.
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Is hereby given, that an Election for Fifteen DIRECTORS for the Marine Insurance Company of Norfolk, will be held at the Exchange Coffee House on Wednesday the 16th day of March next.
 Thomas Newton,  Wm. Pennock,  R. E. Lee,  Moses Myers,  R. Blow,  Theo. Armstead,  Jno. Granberry. 
Norfolk, February 18, F25 d15
CLOVER SEED, Warranted of the last crop.
Just received and for Sale by the Subscribers.
A few tierces of fresh CLOVER SEED. RICKETTS, NEWTON, & Co. Feb. 28.
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Has just received and offers for Sale, A few barrels of Rhode Island Cyder, Rhode Island Cheese, Codfish and some barrels of excellent APPLES. Feb. 18.
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Spangled Shoes.
S. CLARK has this day opened an elegant assortment of Ladies Spangled, Kid and Morocco Shoes. March 1.
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JOHN G. LADD,
Has on hand, at his Ware-House, Prince Street Wharf, the following articles, which he offers by wholesale very cheap for cash or a short credit:
 Loaf and brown Sugars,  Havanna white, do.  A few boxes India Sugars,  Coffee and Cotton,  West-India and New-England Rum,  Boston Beef,  Mackerel, Shad and Herrings,  Pickled Codfish, dried,  Mould and dip'd Candles,  Candle and common Soap,  Cheese,  Soal Leather,  Bar Iron, flat and square,  Cordage, of all sizes, sewing Twine,  Coarse and fine Salt, Salt Petre,  Sweet Oil, Spermaceti do. for lamps, & Tanners Oil,  Alum, Copperas, and Brimstone,  Gun Powder, Poland Starch,  Pearl ashes, Pepper Cassia,  50 lb. fresh Nutmegs,  A few boxes Olives and Capers,  Writing Paper, and a few Paper Hangings, 
 Shoes of all sorts,  50 lb. sewing Silks, Window Glass,  Tumblers and other glass ware,  Cotton Yarn, Russia Sheetings,  Revens Duck,  1 case Bandanno Handkerchiefs,  A few bales India, do.  Cottons, of different qualities,  1 box Irish Linens,  Bed cords, leading lines, &c.  Cotton, Wool, and Playing Cards,  100 boxes Chocolate,  20 casks 4d. 6d. 8d. 10d. 20d. flat point nails,  100 tons Plaister Paris,  A few coarse Woolens,  Men's fine and coarse Hats,  Tea Table sets of China,  Some Lyngnumvita,  Holland Gin, of an excellent quality,  A few pipes best Cogniac Brandy,  Cordials in barrels,  Madeira,  Sherry,  Lisbon,  Malaga, and best Claret 
WINES.
 Raisins in boxes, best Spanish Segars,  Imperial,  Hyson,  Young Hyson, & Hyson Shulang 
TEAS.
A few thousand feet of Ash Plank suitable for Carriage Makers. ALSO, Dearborn's Truly Just Patent Balance, to weigh with great facility, from ounces to tons. N. B. Those gentlemen who bespeak Balances are now respectfully informed that they are ready. Feb. 28.
Cash given for rags.
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Possession given immediately, A large Brick Warehouse adjoining R. Newton and Co. and a comfortable Dwelling House, on Prince street. For particulars enquire of RICKETTS, NEWTON & Co. Jan. 18.
The sale of the Walnut Tree FARM, &c. advertised to be sold the 10th of March is postponed.
TOBIAS LEAR.
March 4.
Notice.
Whereas Joseph Cary did by Deed of Trust, dated the 1st of August, 1800, convey to the subscribers, for the benefit of the creditors, all his property real and personal of every description, we thereby give notice, that by and with the advice and consent of the creditors, we have appointed Mr. John M'Iver, out agent and attorney in fact, who is fully authorised and empowered to collect and receive all debts due to the said Cary, either in his individual capacity or otherwise.
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In pursuance of said power I hereby call upon all persons who are indebted to Joseph Cary, either in his individual capacity or otherwise, to make immediate payment, and such as have claims against the said Cary, are requested to lodge the same with me.
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Agent and Attorney in Fact for the Trustees of Joseph Cary. March 4.
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
No. — XII.
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.
The interval between this and the last number, has been owing partly to the intervention of other matter which in our opinion required immediate discussion, and partly to a desire that those distant semi-weekly federal papers which had begun to reprint this examination at a late day, might have an opportunity to overtake us. We hope to be able to finish without any further material interruption.
"In the department of finance, (says the President) it is with pleasure I inform you, that the receipts of external duties for the last twelve months, have exceeded those of any former year, and that the ratio of increase has been also greater than usual. This has enabled us to answer all the regular exigencies of government, to pay from the treasury within one year, upwards of eight millions of dollars principal and interest, of the public debt, exclusive of upwards of one million paid by the sale of bank stock, and making in the whole a reduction of nearly five millions and a half of principal, and to have now in the treasury four millions and a half of dollars, which are in a course of application to the further discharge of debt, and the current demands. Experience too, so far authorises us to believe, if no extraordinary event supervenes, and the expences which will be actually incurred shall not be greater than were contemplated by Congress at their last session, that we shall not be disappointed in the expectations then formed."
After delivering some very sagacious axioms in politics, such as observing that "as the effect of peace on the amount of duties is not yet fully ascertained, it is the more necessary to practice every useful economy; (as if there is any state of things where a useful economy ought not to be practised) and that for the same reason we ought "to incur no expence which may be avoided without prejudice;" (as if expence ought ever to be incurred which might without prejudice have been avoided) and after gravely informing us that "those collectors of internal taxes who had executed their duties were of course out of commission," (as if this were an extraordinary cause for felicitation to the assembly of the nation) and that "in a few states where the arrangements for the direct tax had been retarded, it will still be some time before the system is closed," (as if Virginia ever intended or expected to "close the system" by paying her proportion of the land tax, of which the eastern states have long since paid their proportion;) and after observing, that no use had been made of the act of last session for "prolonging the foreign debt by reloads," &c. our worthy President thus modestly and honorably and honestly concludes this part of his subject:
"When effects so salutary result from the plans you have already sanctioned, when merely by avoiding false objects of expence, we are able without a direct tax, without internal taxes, and without borrowing, to make large and effectual payments towards the discharge of our public debt, and the emancipation of our posterity from that mortal canker, it is an encouragement, fellow citizens, of the highest order, to proceed as we have begun in substituting economy for taxation, and in pursuing what is useful for a nation placed as we are, rather than what is practised by others under different circumstances."
When the Chief Magistrate addresses himself to the people, we expect that a decent respect for his elevated station should unite with a prudent regard for his own private character, to prevent him from exposing himself to be openly detected in a breach of veracity or even an attempt to deceive. Any material deviation from strict rectitude here must sooner or later prove fatal to him, however strongly entrenched he may be in a personal popularity. Whether Mr. Jefferson, in the above statement, has dealt fairly and ingenuously by the people, or justly towards his predecessors in office, it has now become our painful duty to examine. To render ourselves easily intelligible to the great body of the people is our aim, and if, in doing this, we are led into minute and long protracted discussion, as we foresee we shall be, we still
hope that the importance of the subject will afford us sufficient apology.
The manner in which the President speaks of the "receipts of external duties," is calculated to convey the idea that the duties themselves have actually accrued to the government within the past congressional year, that is to say, from the 1st of October, 1801, to the 30th of Sept. 1802. But it is material to advert to the distinction between duties becoming due and duties becoming payable; because they really are, in law phrase, a debitum in presenti, solvendum in futuro ; due at one, but payable at a future day.
The "Act for the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," passed March, 1799, among other things, directs that "where the amount of the duty on goods imported in any ship or vessel, on account of one person only, or of several persons jointly interested, shall not exceed fifty dollars, the same shall be immediately paid; and if exceeding that sum shall, at the option of the importer or importers, be paid, or secured to be paid, by bond; if on articles the produce of the West Indies (salt excepted) the one-half in three and the other half in six months; on salt in nine calendar months; on madeira and all other wines in twelve calendar months; on all goods, wares or merchandise (other than wines, salt and teas imported from Europe) one-third in eight, one-third in ten, and one-third in twelve calendar months; and all goods, wares or merchandise (other than wines, salt and teas) imported from any other place than Europe and the West Indies, one half in six, one quarter in nine, and the other quarter in twelve months from the date of each respective importation; and on teas imported from China or Europe, it shall be at the option of the importer or importers either to secure the duties thereon on the same terms and stipulations as on the other goods, wares and merchandise imported, or to give bond to the collector of the district where any such teas shall be landed, in double the amount of the duties thereupon, with condition for the payment in two years from the date of such bond;" but the practice as to teas, as we are informed, has been to secure the duties thereon upon the same terms as on other goods imported; that is, at six, nine and twelve months.
Every merchant knows that the importations received in the fall of 1801, and most of those ordered for the spring of 1802, are to be considered as war-importations, made on a calculation of a continuance of the war. The peace was not known here till late in November, 1801, and the spring orders had been then principally, though not all, given. From these importations arose these "receipts of external duties to the last twelve months," which the President now ostensibly boasts of as "exceeding those of any former year," a great proportion of which must be carried to the credit of the year preceding, and the remainder was owing to a favourable state of things, which no longer exist. On this subject we have reason to believe, the mass of readers have been led into an important error, by the turn given to it in the Message.
But what shall we do with the concluding member of the sentence, in which we are told that the "ratio of increase [of duties] has been also greater than usual?" To enable the public to judge how far the President is correct in point of fact, we shall not merely deny this, but we shall oppose to it the authority of his own secretary of the Treasury. In Mr. Gallatin's last report, we find a statement (B) "exhibiting the amount of revenue accrued on account of duties on importation for each quarter, from the 1st of October, 1800, to the 30th of September, 1802;" and from this statement we shall now give the following extract:
   Quarters ending Gross revenue accruing during each quarter.     31st Dec. 1800, 2,946,740   31st March, 1801 1,257,779   30th June, 4,373,044   30th September, 4,054,503   31st December, 2,565,303   31st March, 1802, 1,376,063   30th June, 3,759,828   30th September, 2,661,057   1,098,761  
From this official document of Mr. Gallatin's it appears not only that the President is materially incorrect as to what he has said about the "ratio of increase," but that a defalcation of revenue has al-
ready taken place which is quite alarming. During the last quarter, that is from June to September, when the effects of peace have hardly begun to manifest themselves, there has been a diminution from the preceding quarter of no less than One million, ninety eighty thousand, seven hundred and sixty one dollars, and the next quarter must present a still more discouraging aspect. Yet with these facts directly before him, the President tells the people with much apparent exultation, that "the ratio of increase in the receipts of external duties has been greater for the last twelve months than usual;" that these "salutary effects result from the plans they [the present Congress] have sanctioned," and that "it is an encouragement of the highest order to proceed as they have begun, in substituting economy for taxation." Really we are at a loss whether most to admire the sense of justice or of becoming modesty in this exalted personage.
From the London Mirror of the Times of January 8.
The French government has commenced the year with a demonstration of its bitterness of spirit, and malignity of heart, which might excite no common apprehensions of the instability of peace, were we not justified in looking to a continuance of its blessings from a consideration, not only of the actual situation of the Republic, but of our own spirit and resources, adequate and prepared as they are, to meet every crisis. The article to which we allude, appeared in the Moniteur of the 1st inst. The sentiments and language of which it consists would be beneath our animadversions, were they not brought forward in an official paper, and characterised by the authority of Bonaparte himself. His paper bullets, are, however, as harmless and contemptible, as those he uses in the field of battle are destructive and dreadful.
Under the mask of attacking one of His Majesty's Ministers, for asserting in the House of Lords the propriety of converting to our own advantage and security, any favourable change which may occur on the continent, the First Consul does not scruple to involve in one common charge, supported by the foulest calumnies and the most scandalous libels, several distinguished members of the British Parliament, and Government itself. His favorite and primary object in the publication of this petulant and rancorous Manifesto, it would be difficult to point out, but that it is intended to aniver several purposes, few will doubt who have considered its various topics with attention.
He may at once be desirous of persuading the people of France of the sincerity of his pacific intentions, and of holding out this country as the object of general detestation in consequence of its secret intrigues to disturb the tranquility of Europe; he may wish to diffuse an alarm capable of affecting our public credit, or to extort from us a formal renunciation of all political interest and connection with the Continent. But whatever Bonaparte's views may be, the means he employs to accomplish them tends solely to his own confusion and disgrace.
When, for instance, it is maintained, that the emissaries of Great Britain are employed in framing plots and fomenting troubles at Rome and Naples, what in n of impartial and independent principles is there, either in this country or throughout Europe, who can refrain from expressing his indignation and contempt? When it is asserted, that an English frigate, which happens to touch twice in six months at the port of Genoa, is charged with the special mission of exciting a conspiracy against the Ligurian Republic, can the First Consul himself, can any of his council of State, of his Senate, his tribunate, or his Legislative Body, refrain from blushing at the impudence and fallhood of the charge? The accusation of our giving an asylum and protection to assassins and robbers in Jersey, and the mean arts employed to irritate and inflame the Courts of Petersburg and of Berlin against our Government, are too contemptible to require any refutation. It is, however, no inconsiderable satisfaction to us, that the invectives and calumnies, which we have thus noticed are in every just point of view, calculated to produce an end directly contrary to that intended. They must materially contribute to make the great powers of Europe more jealous and distrustful of the ambitious designs of the First Consul than they seem to be, while his Majes-
ty's Ministers must exercise more vigilance and activity in the measures which may be deemed necessary, both in our foreign and domestic state, for the prosperity and safety of the empire.
A report has been in circulation for some days, that the Council of State has passed a resolution, conferring on the First Consul a title of Royalty. It rests entirely upon the authority of private letters which coinciding in their statement of the fact differ in the name with which the Ruler of the French people is to be dignified. Some assert that he is to be styled Emperor of the Gauls, while others declare he is to be graced with the modest appellation of His Consular Majesty. Although the Paris Journals do not notice this nominal alteration for the change cannot add a single particle to his real and substantial power, it is considered highly probable. Some time must elapse before it can be submitted to the sanction of the Great Constituted Authorities, and until that moment shall arrive, we may fairly presume that none of the Parisian prints will dare to publish it. The unexampled successes of Bonaparte may justify this new elevation of the minds of the people of France, and he may consider his past fortunes—
"As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme"
The statement of finance given in the official paper, furnishes in its general results a total increase in the annual revenue of the Republic, which could not be expected by those who, for the last 3 years viewed with attention the wretched situation of the public credit, commerce, and manufactures of France. An augmentation of one hundred and ten millions of francs (above five millions sterling) is said to have taken place within the 9th, 10th, and 11th year of the Republic, in the receipts of the treasury, and a considerable accumulation is confidently looked to in the course of the ensuing year. Deficient as we are of the details and items on which this financial representation is founded, it would be unfair to challenge its accuracy, and we shall content ourselves with remarking, that the prosperity of another country cannot upon the just grounds of honest emulation, prove a subject of anxiety to Englishmen.
We yesterday received Paris papers to the date of January 3d inclusive; they are chiefly important as containing further diatribes against this country. Both the Moniteur and Cles du Cabinet of the 3d inst. exhibit articles of this description. The former taking an opportunity of contradicting a falsehood, which it had been the sole means of circulating, relative to a respectable banking house on the continent having been the channel for transmitting money from the faction in this country inimical to peace, to its emissaries, makes the following remark: "There are houses at Frankfort, Nuremberg, and Hamburg, which have long been the medium thro' which the crimes excited on the continent have been paid for. If it be true that the hostile faction, the faction unfriendly to the repose of Europe, intend to continue wasting the treasures of that brave, and in many respects illustrious people, and seconding the views of Duthiel, Dandre, the Bishop of Arras, Greville, &c. we advise them to be upon their guard, and we warn the magistrates of these places to watch—to be equally circumspect; for every country, principally the trading towns, which shall afford an asylum to the agents of that faction, because their magazines are beyond the seas; and again, because in the contest they do not make use of blood, but of money, should feel by experience, that avar carries calamities with it, which their weakness renders more liable than others to become a prey to. Towns, therefore, that depend on trade, are peculiarly interested that peace may be of long duration."
NEW-YORK, March 2.
Extract of a letter from capt. B. Glover of the ship Delight, of New-York, to his owners, dated Belfast, Jan. 16, 1803. "On the 29th of last month I was cast away about 20 miles southward of this place, in a very distressing gale. The lives of all on board were saved at the greatest hazard. The ship being very strong, gave us an opportunity of preserving the cargo before the bilged which has all been carted up to Belfast. We went on shore with the loss of our anchors and our mast. The second day after being wrecked we were assisted with an arm-

ed force from Port Ferry to protect the cargo."  Arrived brig Sea Nymph, Parke, Bordeaux; sloop Rose, Sherwood, Newbern. Cleared, ship Dianna, Hunter, Newbern.  Arrived since our last. Brig Sea Nymph, Parke, from Bordeaux. Sailed from Bordeaux the 28th December, and the river, the 5th January. Left the following American vessels, ship Olive Branch, Tear, for New Orleans; brig Minerva, Main, for New York, via Madeira. Ship Dianna, from Baltimore, arrived in the river Jan. 5. Spoke January 6, at the mouth of the river, ship Three Sisters, from Charleston; at the same time passed a brig yellow sides, no figure, supposed to be an American. Sailed in company, a ship belonging to Salem for India.  An American ship, in ballast was lost at the mouth of the river on the 27th or 28th of Dec. neither the captain or any of the crew had arrived at Bordeaux when capt. P. failed. By what information he could get from the pilots, and other circumstances, capt. P. supposes it was the Folenby, of Rhode Island, the crew all saved, but the ship entirely lost. Feb. 16, lat. 30, 5, long. 70, 20, saw a ship with colors in distress: came up with and spoke her, she proved to be the Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de Montserrat, capt. Geronimo Espana, bound from Havana to Carthagena having on board the crew of the sloop Mary, of New York, captain Van Buskirk, which foundered in the Gulph near Cape Florida on the 9th. Capt. P. took them on board. Capt. B. was 10 days from Jamaica when the sloop foundered, and they were 9 hours in the long boat. Feb. 20, lat. 32, long. 74, 30, spoke sch'r Catilla, bound from Baltimore to New Orleans.
By this Day's Mail.
SALEM, February 22. Arrived sch'r Betsey, Tucker, 45 days from Surinam, via the Vineyard. Left there, ship Leonora, Williams, of Boston; sch'rs Amelia, Cliff, of N. London; Courier, Cook, of Boston; brig Apollo, Beal, of do. sch'r Ann Eliza, Brown, of Rhode Island; ship Rambler, Downe, of Boston; brig Venom, Felton, N. London; sloop Diana, Allen, Alexandria; sch'r Recovery, Shuckfield, of New York. Spoke, in the River Parramaribo, bound up, Capt. Newman, in a sch'r from Newburyport, and capt. Cook, in a sch'r from New-London.  Alexandria Advertiser. TUESDAY, MARCH 8.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Washington Branch Bank yesterday, Joseph Carlton, Esq. was re-elected president for the ensuing year.  To Col. FRANCIS PEYTON. A week has passed since your supposed improper conduct respecting the militia bill was publicly notified to you: And a public denial was required from you, as the means of exculpating you from a charge, which, if true, forever destroys all pretensions, on your part, to veracity or respect. You have been silent; from which your fellow citizens are entitled to infer, that you did really most unwarrantably misrepresent their sentiments and wishes—but, as it is possible that your silence may result from some other cause than guilt, I will make one more effort to draw from yourself some information whereupon to clear you—if I fail your condemnation follows.  Some men are so circumstanced by office as that custom requires not of them to notice and to answer every censure on their actions, that issues to the world through the press—In which predicament, it is allowed, the President doth justly stand—but we have yet to learn that a petty Colonelcy of Militia, confers on its possessor authority to follow such example:—and if your vanity hath led you into so ridiculous an error you ought to be set right, and taught to estimate yourself more justly.  It is known to the public that two members of the Senate, who supported this oppressive bill, did avow in Senate that they had received authentic assurances that it was approved of by the Citizens of this Town—it is known too, that you have been unceasing in your attendance upon
Congress, and in your applications to the members, while it was pending; and that no one but yourself, from hence, did interfere about it. These, with various other circumstances of common notoriety, furnish sufficient grounds whereon to suspect your whole conduct in this affair; if you approved the law, it is not my intention to deny your right, or to question your motives for so doing; but if you represented it as approved of by your fellow-citizens, then have you made a representation false as it is injurious to them all; and if you dare not, or will not pointedly deny what has been urged against you, suspicion will be converted into certainty. Will you yet move forward, Col. Peyton? Will you assert that you did not, directly or indirectly, inform Mr. Thompson, Gen. Bradley, Gen. Jackson, or any other member of Congress, that your Militia bill was approved of and desired by the citizens of Alexandria or the county?—Your imaginary dignity and consequence are too frail coverings to resort to. Sir, they shall not serve. If you now hesitate to repel the charge of falsehood, respecting your unasked representation of the wishes of your fellow citizens, it fixes upon you forever, and they ought to, as I trust they will, treat you as a calumniator of their principles; as a betrayer, for your purposes, of their best interests; and, as such, not only to deny you all confidence hereafter, but to petition the proper power to remove you from a command, for which your total inexperience renders you, at best, unfit; and to which your insidious conduct respecting this injurious bill, leaves you without a shadow of pretension.
Mark me well Sir, if the citizens do but once turn their view upon you as their enemy, your fancied power and greatness will vanish in a moment; and leave you in your original insignificance, but more proper station; you will then find that your obnoxious conduct has only contributed to the existence of a hated law; from the unequal and unjust effects of which the Citizens will seek to guard themselves by soliciting the President, in a respectful manner, to vest the execution of it in some more deserving man than you; if you can acquit yourself Sir, you must do it now—silence under such a call as this will preclude all justification at a later day.
A CITIZEN.
Communication. MR. PRINTER.—Observing some toasts in the Expositor of yesterday, said to have been drank by a "respectable number of the inhabitants of Alexandria," I wish you to mention, that this number consisted of twelve; and, I presume, in the eyes of the Editor of the Expositor, derived its respectability, in a great degree, from being favored with the company of the man who reflected so much honor on the Corporation, by appointing him their Printer.  No Friend To Bachanalian Rejoicings.
A law suit was lately determined in Upper Saxony, which lasted so long, that four Judges, sixteen Barristers and nine Attorneys, who were engaged in it, died during the process. How happy would it be for the peace of society, if a few of our law suits every year were attended with some of those lucky circumstances!
We copy the following article from an Edinburgh paper: "While I was at Smyrna there was a girl afflicted with a cancer in her lips, and the gum was affected. The European physicians consulted on the measure to be taken, and agreed that they saw no other method than to cut it out; and the girl had already submitted herself to that decision. By an accident of that nature which men cannot account for, an old American came to them just in time to prevent the application of the knife. "Do nothing," said the American, "I will cure her;" and when he had pledged himself strongly, the physicians consented. "He procured a copper vessel, newly tinned in the inside (an essential circumstance) and having poured a certain quantity of olive oil into it, he made it boil over a small fire, sufficiently to keep it gently agitated, and so for three times in twenty four hours. With this the oil resolved itself to the consistency of an ointment, and by constantly rubbing the part affected, he cured her in fourteen days. Nothing else was done. "The physicians supposed that the oil
received its virtue from the fire, and it was communicated by its long boiling over the fire."
We have been favored with a Liverpool Price Current of the 22d Jan. received by the ship Washington, from which we extract the following:
Prices Current, Liverpool, Jan. 22, 1803.    Sugar, Muscovado, brown, cwt. 32 35 6   Middlings, 36 33   Good, 39 42   Fine, 43 52   Clayed, Tetes, 35 44   Powders, 57 65   Havannah brown, 36 42   white, 54 65   Coffee, ordinary, 82 93   Middlings, 54 100   Good, 101 109   Triage, 55 75   Cocoa, West-India, 70 78   Carracas, 100 105   Ginger, white, 65 70   Black, 30 35   Pimento, 7 1/2 7 1/2   Hides, Buenos Ayres 8 9   Cuba, 5 1/2 6   West-India, 5 5 1/2   Fustic, 111 131   Logwood, { Campeachy 20 22   chipt, { Honduras 17 19   { Jamaica 15 10 16 10   Nicaragua { small 28 33   wood, { large 42 48   Mahogany, Cuba 1 4 2 4   Hispaniola 1 8 2 8   Honduras 1 2 2   Cotton, Bourbon 3s 3s 6   Surinam 2 2 2   Berbice 1 10 2   Sr. Domingo 1 4 1 8   Bahama 1 6 1 10   Common West India 1 5 1 7   Carthagena 1 4 1 5   Carracas 1 1 3   Surat 10 1 1   Porto Rico 1 10 2 2   N. Orleans bags } square bales } 11 1 3 1/2   Natchez 11 1 3 1/2   Short staple, bags } square bales } 1 1 2 1/4   Sea Island   bowed 1 6 1 10   inferior 1 6 2   middling 2 2 2 8   fine 2 9 3   Cochineal 16 18   Indigo, Mississippi 5 7   Spanish 6 10 9   Sr. Domingo 5 7 6   East India 5 10   Bourbon 4 6 7 
Price of American produce, after payment of duty.
  Wheat 8 7 9   Flour, wheaten, super. 36 37   ditto, fine 34 35   Rye flour 18 20   Indian Corn meal 14 16   Rye 3 9 4 6   Indian corn 3 3 3 6   Flaxseed, for crushing 8 9   Pot ashes, new, Boston 37 38   New-York 35 36   Peral do. 39 40   Rice, new, in bond 29 30   duty paid for home consumption 38 40   Shumac, patent 14 16   Bees wax 230 240   Turpentine 21 22   Pitch 11 12   Resin 14 16   Tar 24 25   Deer skins in the hair 1 1 9   Indigo, Carolina 3 6 6   Pig iron 80 100   Staves W. O. bbl. Philadelphia 81 10   Hhd. do 15 20   Pipe, do. 20 25   Bbl. New-York 6 8   Hhd. do. 12 17   Pipe, do. 20 24   Logs oak 3s 3 3   pine 2 1 2   Plank oak 5 6   pine 4 1/2 4 3/4   Boards oak 3 3 1/2   pine 2 1/2 2 3/4   Duty unpaid.    Tobacco, York and James river 3 3/4 6 3/4   Rappahannock 3 5 3/4   Potomac 3 5 3/4   Georgia 3 5   Carolina 3 5   Stemmed 5 7   Maryland brown 3 1/4 4 1/4   coloury 4 1/2 5 1/4   kitefoot 6 1/4 7 1/4 
"Secrets worth knowing" out at P. A letter received from Washington gives the substance of the following curious, amusing, interesting, important, startling anecdote. Mr. Wright a democratic Senator from Maryland was appointed by the Senate on his own motion, to go down to the House with a message, as being more respectful than to send it by the secretary. When he came to the House General Moultrie was speaking on the subject of his Georgia claim, but he insisted on entering immediately, and was introduced. In his perturbation or self-importance, he forgot to have the galleries cleared, but in the midst of a thousand spectators, informed the speaker that he had been sent by the honorable Senate to inform the House that they had concurred with the House in their secret resolutions and passed the bill for placing two millions of dollars in the hands of the president, to be by him disposed of in any manner that to him may seem fit and best. And that they had passed another bill for appropriating two thousand five hundred dollars to the purposes of external commerce. Ten thousand worlds would have been given if the words could be recalled. Alas! 'Twas not to be done.
Thus, after all the care with which the administration have nursed the secret with which they have gone so long big, their hopes are, in an unlucky moment, blasted by the meddling officiousness of an unskillful midwife; in a word, our administration has miscarried.
[New-York Evening Post.]
LOTTERY, No. I. FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE, (New York.) 22d Day's drawing. 1830, 14150, 16296, 100 dolls. 2778, 5828, 9911, 10264, 23635, 50 dolls. 6989, 7823, 9312, 16501, 24569, 24404 31772, 20 dolls. Gain of the wheel this day, 1290 dolls. Total gain, 9040.
The SHIP Governor Strong , will sail in 15 days for Falmouth; for passage only (having excellent accommodations) apply to A. HENDERSON & Co. The Governor Strong is intended to be an early Fall Ship from Liverpool. March 8. e03t
FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AN AMERICAN BREED OF SHEEP.
I WILL give a PREMIUM of FORTY DOLLARS, for the finest RAM LAMB, that can be produced in the month of March, 1805, then a year old. The Lambs to be inspected by four gentlemen of judgment and respectability; two to be chosen by the breeders and two by myself, they having power to choose a fifth. In addition to the premium the breeder of the fortunate Lamb will be entitled to demand a Ram of the improved breed, at any time within ten years after the day of producing, gratis. The fortunate Lamb will wear a collar with the breeder's name thereon, together with an appropriate inscription. The place of shewing will be any where within the Territory of Columbia. G. W. P. CUSTIS. Mount Washington, March 8. 1aw3w
Notice. All persons having claims against the estate of William Triplett, of Round-Hill, deceased, are requested to bring them forward for adjustment and payment; and all those indebted to the estate, are respectfully called upon to make immediate payment to the Executors—it being their anxious wish to close all the accounts, and settle with the legatees as soon as possible. CHARLES LITTLE, GEO. TRIPLETT, } Ex'ors. March 1. d
FOR SALE, A LIKELY NEGRO GIRL, about 16 years of age. Apply to the Printer. Dec. 18.

For Falmouth & a Market
The American Ship GEORGE & MARY, expected here to receive a cargo of Tobacco in a few days. The usual advances will be made on consignments by this ship to Thomas Middleton and Co. London; but early application must be made, as the greater part of her cargo is already engaged.
R. T. HOOE, & Co.
Who have just received from Madeira, by the ship Courier , via Norfolk,
A few pipes London particular WINE, which they will sell at a low price.
They have also on hand, Dry Lisbon and Calcavello Wines, Raisins in jars and boxes, Almonds in bags, and London Porter in casks. Jan. 27. eo
To Let,
A 2 story frame HOUSE situate in Fairfax street, next door to Dr. Kennedy's, lately occupied by Mr. Jenkins. For terms apply to
GEO. CORYELL.
March 5. eo3t
Notice.
Come to the subscriber's place within two miles of Alexandria, on the road to Hartshorne's mill the 22d of February, a stray COW and CALF; (the Calf supposed to be about 6 weeks old) the Cow is marked with a swallow-fork in the right ear, and an overkeel in the left. The owner is desired to come, prove property, pay charges and take them away.
MICHAEL FIELDING
March 3. 1803 eo3t
Douglass & Mandeville,
King street, opposite David W. Scott's, OFFER FOR SALE, ON THE MOST MODERATE TERMS, Muscovado Sugar in hhds. and barrels,
 Loaf Sugar in bds.  Coffee in bags and bds.  A few qrs. casks old Malaga Wine, West-India, and } RUM  New England } in hhds. and bds.  Mould and dipp'd Candles in boxes, Brown and white Soap do.  Allum, Ground Allum } SALT,  And Blown } SALT,  Butter in Firkins.  Best Muscadel Raisins in boxes,  A large quantity of Plaister Paris. 
They keep a constant supply of FLOUR of a superior quality, for the use of families who may favor them with their custom.
Feb. 26. eo6t
J. & JAS. H. TUCKER,
Have for Sale,
 14 Hhds. first quality, Muscovado Sugar,  25 Bds. do. do.  25 Bags green Coffee,  1200 Bushels coarse Salt,  500 Spanish Hides,  1000 Hanks Seine Twine, 
And a general assortment of
GROCERIES.
N. B. Cash given for Indian Corn.
Jan. 31. eo.
Notice.
ALL persons having claims against FRANCIS H. ROZER , Esq. deceased, of Notley Hall, are desired to bring them in properly authenticated; and those owing the estate, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscriber, who is authorised to settle the same.
THOMAS L. WASHINGTON, Alexandria.
ALSO,
To LEASE or RENT,
(Upon moderate terms,)
Two or three good Fisheries, on the Maryland side of the Potomac, between Alexandria and Broad Creek. Apply as above, or to Benjamin Dulany, Esq. Belmont, near the premises.
Feb. 18. eo
VALUABLE PROPERTY,
For Sale or Rent.
THOSE two three story BRICK HOUSES on the corner of King and Columbus streets. They will be sold separate or together, as may be preferred, or they may be rented for one or more years. Apply to
THOMAS PATTEN.
Dec. 29. eo
DENTISTRY.
THE Ladies and Gentlemen of Alexandria are respectfully informed, that T. BRUFF, Dentist, is preparing to pay them a visit. Those who wish to employ him are requested to forward their applications, under seal, to this office, that he may receive them on his arrival, and attend the applicants in their turn. Having settled in Washington City, he cannot be long absent from his customers there, and means to attend only such as make timely application. He will furnish customers with the best dentifrice and excellent brushes. Those afflicted with the scurvy, may find speedy and permanent relief.
March 1. eo7t
Notice.
Will be sold to the highest bidder on the 10th of March next, if fair, if not the next fair day, at Red Hill, the Plantation of Geo. Hunter, dec'd,
Fifteen likely NEGROES, consisting of Men, Lads, Women and Children, the property of the said deceased, at a credit of nine months, the purchasers giving bonds and approved security on the day of sale, at which time the property will be delivered.
GEORGE BEARD, Administrator.
Some purchasers at the last sale of the 29th Nov. not having complied with the terms thereof, the articles they purchased will again be sold, if not bonded before the day of this sale.
Fairfax County, Feb. 15. eo4ds
ADAM LYNN
Has just received,
A HANDSOME ASSORTMENT OF Jewelry, plated, Japaned & fancy GOODS, of a superior quality, and of the newest Patterns,
CONSISTING OF
 Gold Lockets, Rings, Ear-Rings, Bracelets, Watch Keys, Seals; pear Rings, Bracelets, &c. plated Urns, Tea Pots, Castors, Candlesticks, &c. Japaned Urns; Tea Trays and Bread Baskets; gilt Necklaces, Brooches, Bracelets, Watch Keys, Seals, Chains, &c. Knives & Forks, Penknives, Razors, Scissors; Paints in boxes; marking Types in boxes complete; Snuff Boxes; plated & steel Spurs; gold and silver Epaulets; Lace Cord, Thread, Spangles, Pearls, silver Thimbles, Tooth Picks & Pencil Cases, with a number of other articles. 
He has also for Sale,
Watchmakers Materials, and gilt and common Watch Keys, by the dozen, and Crucibles.
He manufactures, as usual, all kinds of Gold and Silver Work, to any pattern. Nov. 24. d3teotf.
William Hartshorne
HAS FOR SALE,
A HOUSE & LOT on Water street, adjoining on the North side of Major Muncaster's; a LOT on the corner of Fairfax and Wilkes' street, near which is a pump from which good water is had. Also, three LOTS on Prince street, joining Stewart's cabinet work shop. For this property Marine Shares at par will be taken.
About 100 bushels good Oats
Seed, for Cash, may be had at his Mill. For Sale or Rent,
A BRICK HOUSE next door to Bennett and Watts' in King street. Possession may be had on the first of the 5th Month next.
2d mo. 12. eo
POSTPONEMENT.
THE Sale of the Land in the county of Loudoun, belonging to the estate of George Carter, deceased, was unavoidably postponed, owing to the indisposition and consequent absence of one of the Executors. It will now certainly take place on Thursday the seventh of April next, at the town of Leesburg, and on the same terms formerly advertised.
LANDON CARTER, jun. } Executors THOMAS L. LEE, }
Jan. 24. 2aw18t
Notice.
ALL persons having claims on the estate of the late Mrs. Martha Washington, are requested to exhibit their accounts properly proved; and those persons indebted to the said estate are desired to make immediate payment.
THOMAS PETER, Acting Executor.
March 3. 2aw
JOSIAH FAXON, & Co.
Have just received, and offer for Sale, at their store on the corner of Prince and Water streets,
A general assortment of ladies, gentlemen, misses, boys and childrens'
SHOES,
of almost every description; large coarse shoes and boots for fishermen. Also,
Geneva in pipes,
N. E. Rum in bds.
Mackerel in do.
No. 1 & 2 Beef and Pork, (Boston Inspection,)
Mould and dipp'd Candles,
A few doz. Sifters and Sugar boxes,
N. E. Plank,
Fresh Rhode Island Lime,
James River manufactured Tobacco in kegs,
James River Coal, suitable for Smith's work,
Also, on board the sloop Hannah , at Harper's Wharf,
A cargo of coarse SALT, suitable for the fishery. Any gentleman wishing to purchase, will find an allowance by taking it from on board.
Cash given for Indian Corn.
March 4. eo5t
FOR SALE.
A TRACT of Land on Acquia Creek in the County of Stafford state of Virginia, containing 105 acres - it adjoins Mr. Daniel C. Brent's Richmond tract, is one mile from Potomac river, 12 1/2 from Fredericksburgh, and 48 from the City of Washington. The land is level and the soil of a good quality, and is uncommonly well adapted to the growth of wheat and Indian corn, it has on it an overseer's house, a good barn, and some other small houses, a good apple orchard, a stone quarry on the bank of the creek, from which stone may be conveyed to market at less expense than from any other in that part of the country, eight or ten acres of valuable meadow land, and several of the best fishing shores on that creek, one of which, and four acres of land are rented for 22 pounds per annum. On the opposite side of the creek are large banks of the richest shell marl, by which the whole of this land might, with little expense, be rendered very fertile it being nearly surrounded by the creek - the marl might be carried in boats to almost any part of it. The tract is supposed to have a sufficiency of timber on it, but should the purchaser wish it, he may be supplied with any quantity of the proprietor's wood land on the opposite side of the creek, not exceeding 50 acres, at a moderate price. The facility of conveying produce to Alexandria and the City of Washington from this farm must render it an advantageous possession to any person residing in either. For terms apply to
PHINEAS JANNEY, Alexandria.
March 2. 1063w
For SALE, or RENT,
THE STORE I have occupied for sometime past, situated on Prince street, opposite Col. Hooe's. There is on hand in town more eligible or better calculated for carrying on an extensive wet or dry Good Business. The Cellar perfectly dry, with a door at each end, will hold one thousand barrels of Flour. Twenty-five hundred barrels may be flowed upon the Premises without any inconvenience to the occupant. For terms apply to
WILLIAM OXLEY.
December 7. eo
NOTICE.
Will positively be Sold, at Public Sale on the premises, the first day of April if fair, if not the next fair day thereafter,
A tract of LAND in the county of Loudoun, on Goose Creek, near the Mill formerly owned by Col. Simon Triplett, containing 500 acres, a considerable part of which is in Wood; formerly the property of Augustine Love, and by him conveyed to Alexander Gordon, and by said Gordon conveyed to the subscribers for the benefit of his creditors. One fifth of the purchase money to be paid on the day of sale, two fifths in twelve months, and the remaining two fifths in eighteen months from the day of sale; for which payments approved security will be required.
JONAH THOMPSON, BENJ. COMEGYS, JACOB HOFFMAN.
Jan. 18. eo4ds
TO LET,
A CONVENIENT
Two Story HOUSE, With a good Kitchen and Smoke House adjoining. Also, a Stable for two horses, &c. &c. with a well improved garden of half an acre.
The situation is very pleasant, having a fine prospect of the river. For particular enquiry of the Printer.
Jan. 14. eo
Dividend.
The Commissioners named and authorised in and by a commission of bankruptcy, awarded and issued forth against James Gillies , of the town of Alexandria, intend to meet on Monday the 18th day of April next at 3 o'clock in the afternoon at the House of Peter Hoffsell in said Town, in order to make a Dividend of the Estate and effects of the said Bankrupt, when and where the creditors, who have not already proved their debts under the said Commission, are hereby required to come prepared to prove the same or they will be excluded the benefit of the said Dividend.
JOHN M'IVER, Assignee.
March 3. 2aw 10t.
Notice.
The subscribers being appointed assignees of the estate and effects of ISAAC M'PHERSON , late of Prince William County, a Bankrupt, give notice, to all persons indebted to the said Isaac M'Pheron, or who have any of his effects, not to pay or deliver the same to any person, other than the subscribers, or such as shall be duly authorized by them.
BENJAMIN BOTTS, TIMOTHY BRUNDIGE.
Domfries, March 2. 012t
Will be offered for Sale,
At a credit of three months, at the tavern of John Gooding, near Cameron Run, on Thursday the 24th day of March, inst. if fair, if not the next fair day,
A L.L. and singular the personal estate of the late Bryan Lord Fairfax , deceased, (except certain legacies) consisting of one stage waggon and gear, one riding chair; also, a number of Books of various kinds, in number 194, bound, and a quantity of pamphlets; one waggon and gear, one silver watch and two gold rings, all his wearing apparel, &c. together with all the farming utensils.
The purchasers are to give bond, with approved security, to the executor. All sums under 30s. will be cash. The sale will begin at 10 o'clock.
HENRY GUNNELL,
Agent for the Executor.
March 3. 1aw3t
A great Bargain in Land.
Will be sold at the Coffee House in Alexandria, on Wednesday the 1st of June next,
A valuable tract of Land lying on the waters of the Occoquan River, about three miles from Mr. Elliott's Mills; containing five hundred and twenty six acres, as by Deed of a General Warrantee bearing date of the 11th February, 1802, from the late Charles Turner to the subscribers. This Land is well adapted to corn, wheat and tobacco, and is well timbered of the growth of oak, hickory, and poplar; and the improvements are a comfortable dwelling house, kitchen, smoke house, stable, &c. with several fine springs of water together with a fine flourishing young orchard of peach and apple trees, and the situation considered remarkably healthy.
Any person wishing to view the land, may be shown it by applying to Edward Washington Esquire, who now has it in possession, and Christmas's next, when it will be delivered up to the purchaser.
The advantage of cutting Cord Wood from this Land is very great, there being a great abundance and navigation near at hand.
The terms of sale will be for approved paper, payment at two, four and six months.
WM. NEWTON, J. MUNCASTER, HEZ. SMOOT, } Trustees
March 5. 9aw
For Sale,
Some likely Cattle, Mules and Colts, likewise some valuable Negroes. Apply to
STEPHEN CAYWOOD, Notley-Hall.
Feb. 19. 2aw 19M
Tan Bark Wanted.
THE subscribers want to purchase a large quantity of Tan Bark, for which they will give a generous price, if delivered in good order.
EZRA KINSEY and Co. AND ISAAC SHREVE.
FOR SALE,
Spanish Hides, Tanners' Oil, and Hatters' Wool.
EZRA KINSEY and Co.
Feb. 5. 1aw8t