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DAVID GELSTON, THOMAS STORM, DANIEL HALE, PHILIP TEN EYCK, S. SOUTHWICK, Managers.
June 6—*
Pursuant to a decree from the Court of Chancery I shall sell at Public Auction in the town of Piacataway on Thursday the first day of November next—
ALL the Real estate of Thomas Clagett, Esq. late of Prince George's county deceased, containing in the whole about the quantity of eighteen hundred acres, of which that beautiful and highly improved Lot in the town of Piacataway is a part. These lands lie near the navigation of Potomac river, the farthest is about three miles distant. They will be divided into parcels to make it the more convenient to purchasers. The whole is a good fertile soil, well adapted to the growth of corn, tobacco, and small grain. The purchaser or purchasers of the whole or of any part thereof to give bond with approved security to the trustee for the payment of the purchase money with interest thereon in four equal annual installments from the day of sale and on the ratification of the sale by the chancellor and on the receipt of the purchase money (and not before) the trustee will convey the land to the purchaser and his heirs free from all claim of the heirs of the said Thomas Clagett.
THOMAS DUCKETT, Trustee. Prince George's county, September 26—rawtdof
THE Copartnership between Nicholas Voss and Charles Glover & Company, is this day dissolved—all those indebted to the said firm are requested to settle with Nicholas Voss, under the firm of
CHARLES GLOVER, & Co
FURNITURE AT AUCTION.
To be sold at public sale, on Tuesday the 2d and October, adjoining Stelle's hotel on Capitol Hill, a large and complete assortment of Household Furniture, consisting of beds, bedding, tables, chairs, kitchen utensils, &c. &c. Terms of sale will be cash for all sums not exceeding forty dollars, and approved endorsed negotiable notes at 90 days for larger, at either the bank of Washington or Columbia. Sale to begin at ten o'clock. Washington, Sept. 24—42
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Intelligence from Paris—from the 12th to the 27th of July, 1804.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE 14TH JULY.
The 26th of Messidor, the anniversary of the 41th of July, all the members of the Legion of Honor who were in Paris, solemnly took the oath prescribed in the presence of the Emperor.
At six in the morning the ceremony was announced by a salute of artillery. The troops composing the garrison of Paris having repaired at 10 o'clock to the Place du Carrousel, filed off before his majesty, and formed a line from his palace to the Invalids.
Before noon her majesty the Empress set out from the palace, and crossed the garden of the Thuilleries between the lines of troops. Her retinue consisted of four carriages, one with eight horses, and three with six. The Empress was accompanied in her coach by the princesses, the sisters and sister-in-law of his majesty the Emperor. The other carriages were filled by the ladies of the Palace, the first chamberlain, and the first equoy. The troops presented arms. The governor of the Invalids, and the Grand Master of the ceremonies, met her Majesty at the Grand Portico, and conducted her to the decorated tribune that had been prepared for her in front of the Imperial Throne.
At noon, his majesty the Emperor, under the discharge of a salute of artillery, set out on horseback from the palace, preceded by marshals of the empire and followed by the colonel generals of his guard, and the great officers of the crown, his aid-de-camps and the staff of the palace. The procession was opened by chasseurs, and closed by the horse grenadiers of the Imperial guard. Numerous discharges of cannon of the Invalids announced the arrival of his Majesty. The governor of Invalids came without the gate to receive his Majesty, and present to him the keys of the Hotel. The grand dignitaries, ministers, and the great officers of the empire who did not come on horseback, as also the members of the great council, and grand Chancellor, and the grand Treasurer of the legion of honor, met at the same place, and took their stations in the procession.
The cardinal Archbishop of Paris, with his clergy, received his Majesty at the door of the church, and presented to him the incense and holy water. The clergy, in procession, conducted his Majesty, under a canopy of the Imperial throne, to the music of a military march, and amidst the loudest acclamations. His Majesty was placed on the throne, having behind him the colonel-general of the guard, the governor of the Invalids, and the great officers of the crown. On the two sides and on the second step of the throne, were placed the grand dignitaries; on the lower, and to the right, the ministers; to the left, the marshals of the empire; at the foot of the steps of the throne, the grand master and the master of the ceremonies; in the front of the grand master, the grand chancellor and the grand treasurer of the legion of honor. The aid-de-camps of the Emperor were standing in a line on the steps of the throne. On the right of the altar the cardinal legate was placed under a canopy and in an armed chair, which had been prepared for him. To the left of the altar was the cardinal archbishop of Paris, with his clergy. Behind the altar, in an immense amphitheatre, were arranged 700 invalids, and 200 young pupils of the polytechnic school. All the nave was occupied by the great officers, commanders, officers and members of the legion of honor.
The grand master of the ceremonies, having received the command of his Majesty, invited the cardinal legate to officiate, and his eminence began the celebration of the mass.
After the gospel, the grand master of the ceremonies, having received the orders of his majesty, conducted to the steps of the throne the grand chancellor of the legion of honor, who pronounced an eloquent discourse on the events of the day, on the miseries of political troubles, and on the gratitude due to the hero who, while he preserved the principles upon which the revolution commenced, had been able to terminate the calamities which followed it. The orator pointed out in a striking manner, the duties which the legion of honor imposed on all its members, and forcibly displayed the numerous advantages which must result from this union of the most illustrious supporters of the government and of the country.
After this discourse the great officers
of the legion, being called successively by the grand chancellor, approached the throne, and individually took the prescribed oath. The great officers having taken the oath, the Emperor covered himself, and addressing the commanders, officers, and legionaries, pronounced, in a strong and animated voice, these words:
Commanders, officers, Legionaries, Citizens, and soldiers, you swear by your honor to devote yourself to the service of the Empire, to the preservation of its territory in its integrity, to the defence of the Emperor, the laws of the Republic, and the property which they have consecrated; to combat by all the means which justice, reason, and the laws authorize, every enterprise which shall tend to restore the feudal regime. In fine, you swear to concur with all your power to the maintenance of liberty and equality, the first basis of our constitution.
All the members of the Legion of Honor standing, and with their hands raised, repeated at once, "I swear it." The shouts of "Vive l'Empereur" were then renewed on all sides. These last words, pronounced with the accent of a profound energy, impressed the minds of all present with a lively emotion, with which they long continued to be penetrated. It is difficult to describe the sensation which this moment produced. The monuments of French glory suspended in the vaults of the nave, in which were assembled the bravest warriors, the numerous ranks of aged and wounded soldiers, and the youth, representing the glory and the hope of their country; lastly, the religious solemnity of the mass, concurred most powerfully to exalt the imagination, and give preface of the glorious duration to an institution formed under such auspices.
Mass being ended, the decorations of the Legion were deposited at the foot of the throne, in gold and silver.
M. de Segur, the Grand Master of the ceremonies, then took the two decorations of the order, and gave them to M. de Talleyrand, the Grand Chamberlain. The latter presented them to his Imperial Highness Monseigneur Prince Louis, who attached them to the habit of his Majesty. New shouts of Vive l'Empereur were then heard several times repeated. The Grand Chancellor of the Legion invited the Great Officers to approach the throne, to receive successively from the hands of his Majesty the decorations, which the Grand Master of Ceremonies presented to him on a golden plate. The Grand Chancellor then called the Commanders, afterwards the Officers, and lastly the Legionaries, who all came to the foot of the throne to receive individually the decorations from the hands of the Emperor.
His Majesty particularly fixed his attention on those brave veterans whose glorious services were attested by their mutilations. He interrogated many of them relative to the places and actions in which they had received those noble wounds.
This assemblage of the most distinguished citizens of all classes and of all ages, presented a spectacle equally noble and affecting: the soldier, the general, the pontiff, the magistrate, the administrator, the man of letters, the celebrated Artists, receiving each the rewards of his talents and his labour, seemed only to compose one family, which pressed around the throne of a hero, to adorn and support it. A lively and profound emotion was visible in every countenance; and this august and brilliant ceremony impressed the minds of all present with a reverence at once religious and martial.
The fete was terminated by a Te Deum, which, as well as the mass was the composition of M. le Sueur, the Director of the Imperial Chapel.
At 3 o'clock his Imperial Majesty, under the discharge of a salute of artillery, left the church with the same retinue, and in the same order in which he had arrived. The return of her Imperial Majesty the Empress, was likewise made in the same order which had been observed in her way thither. Their Majesties, in all the places through which they passed, were saluted with the unanimous acclamations of an immense concourse of spectators. A salute of artillery announced the re-entrance of the Emperor into the palace of the Thuilleries.
In the evening the palace and gardens were illuminated, as were also the principal edifices of Paris. At 9 o'clock there was a concert on the terrace of the Imperial palace, and at ten a fire-work was displayed on the Pont Neuf; but the attention of the public was naturally diverted by the presence of their
Imperial Majesties, who appeared, and remained a long time at the entrance of the vestibule of the Salle des Gardes, in such a manner as to be seen by all the spectators. When the concert was ended, their Majesties, holding each other by the hand, approached to the edge of the terrace, when they bowed to the public, as if to testify how much they were sensible of the acclamations and testimonies of affection of which they had been the object in the course of the day.
The Emperor was dressed, according to the custom, in the most simple manner—that is to say, the uniform of his guard. The head dresses of the princesses were rich diadems; that of the Empress was entirely composed of diamonds.
At the moment the Emperor was preparing to leave the Imperial palace, a young man of between 17 or 18 years of age threw himself on his knees at the foot of the throne, exclaiming pardon! The Emperor interrogated him, but it was with difficulty he could explain himself, and say, that he solicited the pardon of his father, whose name (Deurems) has been well known in the revolution. The air of candor in this young man, and the extreme emotion which he manifested, affected his Imperial Majesty, and he granted him the pardon which he requested.
While the Emperor distributed to the Legion of Honor their decorations, an officer, much mutilated by severe wounds, presented himself with confidence to receive a cross, though he had not any letter of advice as a member of the Legion. Of this the Emperor was assured on enquiry, but he nevertheless presented to him a cross, on the certificate of glory which his wounds presented.
The house of her Majesty the Empress, it is said, is almost completed. Madame de la Rochefoucault is appointed her Lady of Honor; Madame Lavallet her dressing Lady; and Madame Les Marechales, Ladies and Ney, and Mesdames de Vande, d'Arberg, Saviny, and Duchesel, were appointed her Ladies of the Palace.
The Emperor has appointed Vice-Admiral Latouche, Colonel General Inspector of the coasts of the Mediterranean.
Cardinal Fesch is appointed Grand Almoner to the Emperor, his nephew.
Each of their Imperial Highnesses, the Princesses, Sisters to the Emperor, is to have her private establishment and household, consisting of one Court Marshal, one Master of the Horse, one Prefect of the Palace, one Master of the Ceremonies, two Chamberlains, two Ladies in Waiting, four Maids of Honor, six Ecuyers, eight Pages, four Chambermaids, six Valets de Chambre, six coachmen, and ten grooms and porters, not including valets, butlers, flunkies, jockies, cup-bearers, cooks, &c. The expense of the whole is taken from his Majesty the Emperor's private purse, and no person can obtain any appointment without being previously approved of by his Majesty the Emperor, whose commission they will receive.
The dress of the Emperor at his coronation is to be white, covered with a richly embroidered purple mantle. His golden crown will be surrounded with laurels, olive and oak branches, emblematical of victory, peace, and civic virtues.
BRITISH FUNDED DEBT, &c.
[The following statement was laid before the British House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the 24th July last.]
1. That the total amount of the Public Funded Debt of Great Britain, was, on the 1st of February, 1803, 567, 808,978, of which 67,235,915, has been purchased by the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt, and 19,180,587, had been transferred to them on account of land tax redeemed; leaving a funded debt unredeemed of 480,572,476, and that the amount of annuities charged on Great Britain (after deducting what have fallen in) was on the 1st of February, in short annuities, and for lives, 539,979, and in long annuities 1,015,410.
2. That the total amount of public debt, created in Great Britain for account of Ireland, was on the 1st of February, 1803, 22,348,000, of which had been purchased by the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt, 1,123,415, leaving a

fund d debt unredeemed of 21,224,583. together with long annuities to the amount of 7,791.  3. That the total amount of the Public Funded Debt, created in Great Britain for account of the Emperor of Germany, was, on the 1st of February, 1803, 7,502,633. of which 375,137. had been purchased by the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt; leaving a funded debt unredeemed of 7,127,496. together with Annuities to the amount of 230,000. which will expire in 1810.  4. That the amount of the outstanding demands, unprovided for on the 5th of January, 1803, exclusively of unfunded debt, and of the anticipation of certain duties annually voted, was 292,630. That the deficiency of ways and means for the year 1803, was 171,431. making the amount of demands unprovided for on the 5th January, 1803, 464,061.  5. That the unfunded debt, exclusive of the anticipation in the usual form of certain duties annually voted, and of those provided for by the acts of 1802, amounted on the 5th of January, 1803, to 9,435,248. exclusive also of 3,000,000. advanced by the Bank without interest, for the renewal of their Charter, to be repaid in 1806.  6. That the total amount of the public funded debt of Great Britain, was on the 1st of February, 1804, 532,008,978. of which 77,693,467. had been purchased by the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt; and 21,147,888. had been transferred to them on account of land tax redeemed; leaving a funded debt unredeemed of 434,167,623. and that the amount of annuities charged on Great Britain (after deducting what have fallen in) was on the 1st of February, in short annuities, and for lives, 516,383. and in long annuities, 1,047,494. and that a further debt, amounting to 18,200,000. capital stock, has been created by the sums borrowed in the present session of parliament.  7. That the total amount of the Public funded debt, created in Great Britain, for account of Ireland, was, on the 1st of February, 1804, 25,548,000. of which there had been purchased by the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, long annuities to the amount of 16,208. and that a further debt amounting to 8,190,000. Capital stock has been created by sums borrowed in the present session, in Great Britain, on account of Ireland.  8. That the total amount of public funded debt, created in Great Britain, for account of the Emperor of Germany, was on the 1st of February, 1804, 7,502,633. of which 459,828. has been purchased by the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt; leaving a funded debt of 7,042,805. together with annuities to the amount of 230,000. which will expire in 1810.  9. That the amount of the outstanding demands, unprovided for on the 5th of January, 1804, exclusive of unfunded debt, and of the anticipation of certain duties annually voted, was 2,024,083. that the surplus of ways and means for the year 1803, was 1,870,664. reducing the amount of demands unprovided for on the 5th of January, 1804, to 652,421. the whole of which has been paid off or provided for in the present session.  10. That the unfunded debt, exclusive of the anticipation in the usual form of certain duties annually voted, and of Exchequer bills provided for by acts in 1803, amounted on the 5th of January, 1804, to 16,305,607. exclusive also of 3,000,000. advanced by the Bank, without interest for the renewal of their charter, to be repaid in 1806, of which sum of 16,305,607. 2,768,801. has been paid off or provided for in the course of the present session.  11. That the annual charge on account of the public debt of Great Britain, after deducting the charges of management on loans redeemed by the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, and the interest on the stock transferred for the redemption of the land tax, was, on the 1st of February, 1804, 24,110,475. and that a further charge has been incurred on account of the sum borrowed in the present session, amounting to 756,190.  12. That the sum annually applicable to the reduction of the national debt of Great Britain, in pursuance of the several acts relating thereto, was, for the year 1803, 6,211,626. being about 1-77th part of the sum owed debt existing in 1803, and may for the year 1804, be estimated at 6,851,192. being about 1-73rd part of the unredeemed debt existing in 1804.  13. That the net produce of the permanent taxes existing previous to the 5th January, 1793, was   In the year ended £  on 5 January 1793 14,234,000  on 5 January 1794 13,941,000  on 5 January 1795 13,858,000  on 5 January 1796 13,557,000  on 5 January 1797 14,292,000  on 5 January 1798 13,852,000  on 5 January 1799 14,275,000  on 5 January 1800 15,743,109  on 5 January 1801 14,194,539  on 5 January 1802 14,497,225 
on 5 January 1803 15,429,000 & on 5 January 1804 14,900,000 Which last sum exceeds the net produce of the permanent taxes on the 5th January 1793, by 617,000. and is exclusive of a large increase of arrears outstanding.  14. That the total net produce of the permanent taxes, in the year ending 5th January, 1803, amounted to 23,246,681. including, 713,325. paid for bounties on corn and rice, imported in the year 1802: and on the 5th January 1804, the total net produce of permanent taxes amount to 37,754,724. including 48,977. for bounties on corn and rice imported in the year 1803.  15. That the official value of all imports into Great Britain in the year ending the 5th of January 1803, was 31,442,318. and on an average of six years, ending the 5th of January 1803, was 23,419,626. That the official value of all imports into Great Britain in the year ending 5th January, 1804, supposing the imports from the East Indies (of which no account has yet been made up) to be the same as in the preceding year, was 27,441,874. and on an average of six years, ending the 5th January, 1804, was 29,490,945.  16. That the official value of the British manufactures exported from Great Britain, in the year ending the 5th of January 1803, was 25,993,129. and on an average of six years, ending the 5th of January, 1803 was 22,942,800. That the official value of British manufactures exported from Great Britain in the year ending the 5th of January, 1804, was 22,252,101. and on an average of six years, ending the 5th of January 1804, was 23,834,240. And that the real value of British manufactures exported in the year ending the 5th of January 1803, may be estimated at 48,500,633. and in the year ending the 5th of January 1804, at 40,100,870.  17. That the official value of foreign merchandise exported from Great Britain in the year ending the 5th January 1803 was 19,127,831. and on an average of six years ending the 5th January 1804, was 15,402,959. That the official value of foreign merchandise exported from Great Britain in the year ending the 5th January 1804, was 14,537,148. and on an average of six years ending the 5th January 1804, was 15,328,500. And that the real value of foreign merchandise exported in the year ending the 5th January 1803, may be estimated at 14,418,337. and in the year ending on the 5th of January 1804, at 9,323,257.  18. That in the year ending 5th January 1803, the number of British vessels entered inwards in Great Britain, was 10,347; their tonnage 1,378,620 and the number of men employed in them 38,035. That the number of British vessels cleared outwards was 10,282, their tonnage 1,345,621, and the number of men employed in them 37,304. That in the year ending 5th January 1803, the number of foreign vessels entered inwards, in Great Britain was 5,497, their tonnage 730,135, and the number of men employed in them 40,520; & that the number of foreign vessels cleared outwards, was 5,629, their tonnage 804,880 and the number of men employed in them 42,414.  19. That in the year ending the 5th of January 1804, the number of British ships entered inwards in Great Britain, was 11,396, their tonnage 1,514,365, and the number of men employed to navigate them 93,004. That the number of British ships cleared outwards was 11,072, their tonnage 1,444,810, and the number of men employed to navigate them 92,940. That in the same year the number of foreign ships entered inwards, in Great Britain was 4,252, their tonnage 638,034, and the number of men employed in them 38,660. That the number of foreign ships cleared outwards was 3,662, their tonnage 574,542, and the number of men employed 30,414, making an increase in the year 1803, as compared with the year 1802 of British vessels enterwards, viz. 1049 ships 235,745 tons, 4669 men; and an increase of British vessels cleared outwards, of 790 ships, 99,219 tons, 5536 men; and making a diminution in the year 1803, compared with the year 1802, in the number of foreign vessels entered inwards, viz. ships 1,245, tons 142,121, men 6860; and a diminution of foreign vessels cleared outwards, of ships 1974, tons 230,338, men 12,000.  20. That the number of Registered vessels belonging to the British dominions, employed in trade in the year 1803, was 20,553; their tonnage 2,128,055, and number of men navigating the same, 154,530. And in the year 1803, the number of vessels was 21,445; their tonnage 2,288,249; and the number of men 155,445; being an increase of 877 ships, of 110,194 tons, and of 915 men.  21. That the total sum to be raised in Great Britain, in the year 1804, may be estimated as follows:   Interest on public funded debt, charges of management, and sinking fund on the 5th of Feb. 1804. 24,110,475 
 Interest, charges of management, &c. to be paid between the 5th of Feb. 1804, and the 5th Jan. 1805, on stock created by loans of the present session to the amount of 18,200,000. 487,000  Civil government of Scotland, pensions on revenue, militia and defenders, warrants, bounties for promoting fisheries, &c. estimated to be the same as in the year ending Jan. 5, 1804. 723,056  Charges of collecting and management of the revenue, estimated to be the same as in the year ending the 5th of Jan. 1804. 1,955,368  Proportion to be defrayed by Great Britain of the civil list and other charges on the consolidated fund of Great Britain (the charges on the consolidated fund of Ireland which is likewise a joint charge, being included in the supplies) 15 17ths of 1,346,043. 1,187,690  Supplies voted in 1804, for Great Britain exclusively. 2,292,578  Supplies voted in 1804, for G. Britain and Ireland, proportion to be defrayed by Great Britain 15 17ths of 40,510,691. 35,744,735  Advance to Ireland 4,500,000  Interest for loans to the Emperor of Germany. 497,528  Making in the whole 71,498,431  22. That the funds applicable to discharge the sum required for the service of the year 1804, may be estimated as follows:  The gross receipt of the permanent revenue (after deducting the repayment of over entries, drawbacks, &c.) estimated to be the same as in the year ending 5th Jan. 1804. 35,440,278  Add excess of permanent duties outstanding and under bond on 5th Jan. 1804, beyond their amount on 5th January 1803, after deducting 250,000. the proportion of wine duty bonded by and the average imputation of the last five years. 712,000  Allowed to brewers, which ceased in June 1803. 95,000  Further produce of taxes 1803, to 5th Jan. 1804, taking as estimated for the whole year at 680,000. 430,000  Estimated produce to the 5th Jan. 1805, of the permanent taxes imposed in the present session, taken as estimated for the whole year at 800,000. 200,000  Small branches of the hereditary revenue, and imposts monies repaid, estimated to be the same as in the year ended 5th Jan. 1804. 350,000  Lottery, after deducting the proportion of Ireland. 270,000  War taxes, estimated to produce to 5th April, 1805. 15,440,000  Surplus ways and means for the year 1803, 1,370,000  Loan. 14,500,000  Vote of credit for Great Britain. 2,500,000  Making in the whole £. 71,807,278 
FROM THE AUTHOR.
TO THE FRENCH INHABITANTS OF LOUISIANA.
A publication having the appearance of a memorial and remonstrance, to be presented to Congress at the ensuing session, has appeared in several papers. It is therefore open to examination, and I offer you my remarks upon it. The title and introductory paragraph are as follows:  "To the Congress of the United States, in Senate, and House of Representatives convened."  "We the subscribers, planters, merchants, and other inhabitants of Louisiana, respectfully approach the Legislature of the United States, with a memorial of our rights, a remonstrance against certain laws which contravene them, and a petition for that redress to which the laws of nature, sanctioned by positive stipulations have entitled us."  It often happens that when one party, or one that thinks itself a party, talks much about its rights, it puts those of the other party upon examining into
their own, and such is the effect produced by your memorial.  A single reading of that memorial will shew it is the work of some person who is not of your people. His acquaintance with the cause, commencement, progress, and termination of the American revolution decides this point; and his making our merits in that revolution the ground of your claims, as if our merits could become yours, shews he does not understand your situation.  We obtained our rights by calmly understanding principles, and by the successful event of a long, obstinate, and expensive war. But it is not incumbent on us to fight the battles of the world for the world's profit. You are already participating, with us, any merit or experience in obtaining it, the blood of freedom acquired by ourselves; and in proportion as you become initiated into the principles and practice of the representative system of government, of which you have yet had no experience, you will participate more, and finally be partakers of the whole. You see what mischief ensued in France by the possession of power before they understood principles. They earned liberty in words but not in fact. The writer of this was in France through the whole of the revolution, and knows the truth of what he speaks; for after endeavoring to give it principle he had nearly fallen a victim to its rage.  There is great want of judgment in the person who drew up your memorial. He has mistaken your case and forgotten his own; and by trying to court your applause has injured your pretensions. He has written like a lawyer, straining every point that would please his client, without studying his advantage. I find no fault with the composition of the memorial, for it is well written; nor with the principles of liberty it contains considered in the abstract. The error lies in the misapplication of them, and in assuming a ground they have not a right to stand upon. Instead of their serving you as a ground of reclamation against us, they change into a satire on yourselves. Why did you not speak thus when you ought to have spoken it. We fought for liberty when you stood quiet in slavery.  The author of the memorial injudiciously confounding two distinct cases together, has spoken as if he was the memorialist of a body of Americans, who after sharing equally with us in all the dangers and hardships of the revolutionary war had retired to a distance and made a settlement for themselves. If in such a situation, Congress had established a temporary government over them in which they were not personally consulted, they would have had a right to speak as the memorial speaks. But your situation is different from what the situation of such persons would be, and therefore their ground of reclamation cannot of right become yours. You are arriving at freedom by the easiest means that any people ever enjoyed it; without contest, without expense, and even without any contrivance of your own. And you already so far mistake principles that under the name of rights you ask for powers: power to import and enslave Africans; and to govern a territory that we have purchased.  To give color to your memorial you refer to the treaty of cession (in which you were not one of the contracting parties) concluded at Paris between the governments of the United States and France.  "The third article (you say) of the treaty lately concluded at Paris declares that, the inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States, and, in the mean time, they shall be protected in the enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the exercise of the religion they profess."  As from your former condition you cannot be much acquainted with diplomatic policy, and I am convinced that even the gentleman who drew up the memorial is not, I will explain to you the ground of this article. It may prevent your running into further errors.  The territory of Louisiana had been so often ceded to different European powers that it became a necessary article on the part of France, and for the security of Spain the ally of France, and which accorded perfectly with our own principles and intentions, that it should be ceded no more; and this article, stipulating for the incorporation of Louisiana into the union of the United States stands as a bar against all future cession, and at the same time as well as "in the mean time;" secures to you a civil and political permanency, personal security and liberty which you never enjoyed before.  France and Spain might suspect (and the suspicion would not have been ill founded had the cession been treated for in the administration of John Adams, or when Washington was President, and Alexander Hamilton President over him) that we bought Louisiana for the British government, or with a view of selling it to her; and though such suspicion had no just ground to stand upon with respect to our present President Thomas Jefferson, who is not only not a man of intrigue, but who professes that honest pride of principle that cannot be intrigued with, and which keeps intriguers at a distance, the article was nevertheless necessary as a precaution against future contingencies. But you, from not knowing the political ground of the article, apply to yourselves personally and exclusively what had reference to the territory to prevent its falling into the hands of any foreign power that might endanger the Spanish dominions in America, or those of the French in the West India islands.  You claim (you say) to be incorporated into the union of the United States, and your remonstrances on this subject are unjust and without cause.  You are already incorporated into it as fully and effectually as the Americans themselves are, who are settled in Louisiana. You enjoy the same rights, privileges, advantages and immunities which they enjoy, and when Louisiana, or some part of it shall be erected into a constitutional state, you also will be citizens equally with them.  You speak in your memorial, as if you were the only people who were to live in Louisiana, and as if the territory was purchased that you exclusively might govern it. In both these cases you are greatly mistaken. The emigrations from the United States into the purchased territory, & the population arising therefrom will, in a few years exceed you in numbers. It is but twenty six years since Kentucky began to be settled, and it already contains more than double your population.  In a candid view of the case, you ask for what would be injurious to yourselves to receive, and unjust to us to grant. Injurious, because the settlement of Louisiana will go on much faster under the government and guardianship of congress than if the government of it were committed to your hands; and consequently the landed property you possessed as individuals when the treaty was concluded, or have purchased since, will enhance much faster in value. Unjust to ourselves, because as the reimbursement of the purchase money must come out of the sale of the lands to new settlers the government of it cannot suddenly go out of the hands of congress. They are guardians of that property for all the people of the United States. And besides this, as the new settlers will be chiefly from the U. States it would be unjust and ill policy to put them and their property under the jurisdiction of a people whose freedom they had contributed to purchase. You ought also to recollect that the French revolution has not exhibited to the world that grand display of principles and rights that would induce settlers from other countries to put themselves under a French jurisdiction in Louisiana. Beware of intriguers who may push you on from private motives of their own.  You complain of two cases, one of which you have no right, no concern with; and the other is founded in direct injustice.  You complain that Congress has passed a law to divide the country into two territories. It is not improper to inform you, that after the revolutionary war ended, Congress divided the territory acquired by that war, into ten territories; each of which were to be erected into a constitutional state when it arrived at a certain population mentioned in the act; and in the mean time, an officer appointed by the President, as the governor of Louisiana now is, presided, as governor of the western territory, over all such parts as have not arrived at the maturity of statehood. Louisiana will require to be divided into twelve states or more; but this is a matter that belongs to the purchaser of the territory of Louisiana, and with which the inhabitants of the town of New Orleans have no right to interfere: and besides this it is probable that the inhabitants of the other territory would chuse to be independent of New Orleans. They might apprehend, that on some fluctuating pretence, their produce might be put in requisition, and a maximum price put on it; a thing not uncommon in a French government as a general rule, without refining upon sentiment, one may put confidence in the justice of those who have no inducement to do us injustice; and this is the case Congress stands in with respect to both territories, and to all other divisions that may be laid out, and to all inhabitants and settlers of whatever nation they may be.  There can be no such thing as what the memorial speaks of, that is, of a governor appointed by the President, who may have no interest in the welfare of Louisiana. He must from the nature of the case, have more interest in it than any other person can have. He is entrusted with the care of an extensive tract of country, now the property of the United States, by purchase. The value of those lands will depend on the encreasing prosperity of Louisiana, its agriculture, commerce, and population. You have only a local and partial interest in the town of New Orleans or its vicinity; and if, in consequence of exploring the country, new seats of com-
merce and agriculture are found, your interest will be diminished. The President has the care of the whole, and will naturally be more interested in the prosperity of the whole than you are in that of a part. He is responsible to the whole nation for the management of the territory, and will be more likely to act for the general good than you are for your own particular interest. The law divides the country into two territories, and each will have its own governor appointed by the President, so that you will not be under the jurisdiction of a single governor who may have no interest in the welfare of the whole. The President will appoint governors who are likely to be impartial and to act for the good of both territories. This is a much fairer arrangement than if you were to be under the jurisdiction of a single governor who might be partial to one part of the country. The law also provides for the eventual admission of both territories into the union as equal states, which secures to you an equal share of the benefits of the union. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of appointing officers, and he will appoint those who are likely to be impartial and to act for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the protection of the property of all the people, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of making treaties, and he will make those which are likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the support of the public credit, and for the maintenance of the public faith. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of coinage, and he will coin money which is likely to be of good value. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the borrowing of money, and for the payment of the debts of the United States. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of laying and collecting taxes, and he will lay and collect those which are likely to be fair and equal. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the regulation of commerce, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of granting patents, and he will grant those which are likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the establishment of post offices, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of fixing the standard of weights and measures, and he will fix that which is likely to be fair and equal. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the punishment of crimes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of reprieving and pardoning offenders, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the admission of new states into the union, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of calling the militia into service, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of imposts, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of borrowing money, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of direct taxes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of coinage, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the borrowing of money, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of laying and collecting taxes, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the regulation of commerce, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of granting patents, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the establishment of post offices, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of fixing the standard of weights and measures, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the punishment of crimes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of reprieving and pardoning offenders, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the admission of new states into the union, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of calling the militia into service, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of imposts, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of borrowing money, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of direct taxes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of coinage, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the borrowing of money, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of laying and collecting taxes, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the regulation of commerce, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of granting patents, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the establishment of post offices, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of fixing the standard of weights and measures, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the punishment of crimes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of reprieving and pardoning offenders, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the admission of new states into the union, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of calling the militia into service, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of imposts, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of borrowing money, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of direct taxes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of coinage, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the borrowing of money, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of laying and collecting taxes, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the regulation of commerce, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of granting patents, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the establishment of post offices, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of fixing the standard of weights and measures, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the punishment of crimes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of reprieving and pardoning offenders, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the admission of new states into the union, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of calling the militia into service, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of imposts, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of borrowing money, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of direct taxes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of coinage, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the borrowing of money, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of laying and collecting taxes, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the regulation of commerce, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of granting patents, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the establishment of post offices, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of fixing the standard of weights and measures, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the punishment of crimes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of reprieving and pardoning offenders, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the admission of new states into the union, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of calling the militia into service, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of imposts, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of borrowing money, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of direct taxes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of coinage, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the borrowing of money, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of laying and collecting taxes, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the regulation of commerce, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of granting patents, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the establishment of post offices, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of fixing the standard of weights and measures, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the punishment of crimes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of reprieving and pardoning offenders, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the admission of new states into the union, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of calling the militia into service, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of imposts, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of borrowing money, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of direct taxes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of coinage, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the borrowing of money, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of laying and collecting taxes, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the regulation of commerce, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of granting patents, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the establishment of post offices, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of fixing the standard of weights and measures, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the punishment of crimes, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of reprieving and pardoning offenders, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the admission of new states into the union, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The President has the power of calling the militia into service, and he will do that which is likely to be for the good of all the people. This is a great security for your rights and interests. The law also provides for the laying of imposts, and for the maintenance of the public order. This is a

mercy should offer, his general interest would lead him to open them, and your partial interest to shut them up.
There is probably some justice in your remark, as it applies to the governments under which you formerly lived. Such governments always look with jealousy, and an apprehension of revolt, on colonies increasing in prosperity and population, and they tend to keep them down. But when you argue from the conduct of governments dilatory and despotic, to that of domestic and free government, it shows you do not understand the principles and interest of a republic, and to put you right is friendship; we have had experience and you have not.
The other case to which I alluded as being founded in direct injustice, is that in which you petition for power, under the name of rights, to import and enslave Africans!
Dare you put up a petition to Heaven for such a power, without fearing to be struck from the earth by its justice?
Why then do you ask it of man against man?
Do you want to renew in Louisiana the horrors of Domingo?
COMMON SENSE.
SPANISH WRONGS.
A meeting was held at the city coffee house on Thursday agreeable to public advertisement, on the subject of Spanish wrongs; upon the extent and measure of the wrong there was but one opinion, and a draft of a memorial to government on the subject was offered to the meeting by one of the sufferers, of which we have obtained a copy, the original was referred to a committee of three gentlemen; who it is presumed will report to another meeting.
(Aurora.)
That your memorialists, with a considerable number of their fellow-citizens by various modes of aggression and deprivation by Spanish subjects under the sanction, countenance or authority of the government, and by the government and subordinate governments of his catholic majesty, have been deprived of their property, suffered insult, injury, waste, and cruelty; feeling alive to those privations, and those wrongs, representations were made by some to the government of the United States, while others vented their sufferings in the public prints, the records of which bear ample testimony to the numerous and severe afflictions of the citizens of the United States from those sources.
That during the continuance of these hostilities in which Spain was a party, her own maritime commerce annihilated, her policy dictated and her colonial governments adopted a system different from the usual routine of Spanish traffic. The vessels of the United States were invited & permitted, our merchants were lured and engaged to convey the perishing produce of those colonies to the mother country and elsewhere. Many of our most valuable vessels were engaged for that purpose, they arrived in their colonies and were admitted, but no sooner was peace known to have occurred, than the former rigid system of Spain was renewed, their own licences abrogated, and those vessels, their officers and seamen subjected to all the vexatious proceedings of power, faithlessness and cruelty, by which many of your memorialists are reduced from affluence to want, and rendered unable to pay their just debts.
Informed of these violences, your memorialists considered in the wisdom and energy of their government to obtain their redress and compensation, considering themselves entitled to protection while engaged in fair and honest commerce under the flag of the United States, which your memorialists respectfully declare they have not transferred.
With entire satisfaction, therefore, your memorialists learned that the government of the United States were engaged in negotiations for that purpose; but they conceive themselves called upon to express their corresponding disappointment on the publication of the treaty of Madrid, of the 11th August, 1802, which referred so much to interpretation, so much to chance! The adjustment of Claims by commissioners, your memorialists cannot but approve, but the duties of commissioners, it is conceived, should be chiefly confined to the decision of items and amount of demands, the justice of claims as to principles being first expressly recognized by treaty; with respectful submission, your memorialists beg leave to suggest, on this occasion, that, as the United States render justice to all other nations and people, equity requires, and the relation existing with the citizens, call upon the government to demand for them a compensation for captures made by privateers, whether under French or Spanish colors, fitted out or condemned in any Spanish port, in like manner as the United States have done in a similar case, for all American property seized in any Spanish colony which had been permitted to be imported therein by the government of the colony for all detentions of American vessels in Spanish ports or colonies, and freights and demurrage
lost by any interference or prohibition of the colonial or local government, for all improvements of American citizens under any unjust pretence whatever.
That your memorialists, in common with their government and fellow citizens feel the force, and confess the fact and sincerity of the declaration, that "no nation can too highly prize the value and preservation of peace, but that one object should be still dearer to us—our national independence." That heavily as your memorialists have felt the hand which has invaded it, they rely on the wisdom and firmness of the government of the United States, to obtain their adequate redress, so long and so cruelly delayed, pledging themselves that if negotiations fail for that purpose, they will with their lives and fortunes, support whatever measures the government of the United States may adopt, to maintain its honor, independence, and future security, and to obtain satisfaction and suitable redress for those aggravated wrongs.
RATISBON, July 13.
This day, in the Diet, the Imperial Royal Comitial Envoys made the following declaration; on which no observations were made by the Directory of the Empire.
Verbal declaration of the Imperial and Royal Legation at the Diet in circulo:
"The Imperial and Royal Legation has it in commission to signify, that his Imperial Majesty participates, at all times, in the confidence which his Electoral Highness of Baden entertains in the friendly sentiments of France towards the German Empire; and on this confidence was founded the hopes of his Majesty, that as the incidents at Ettenheim and Offenburg were of that nature, on which the most friendly and greatest powers have never omitted to enter into satisfactory explanations, the French court would receive, in an amicable manner, and be desirous to comply with the request of the Empire, for a friendly explanation.
"As his Majesty, therefore, in this natural view of the subject, cannot apprehend that the measure proposed, instead of procuring the satisfaction desired, should produce any new disagreeable consequences, he cannot but be of opinion, that the proposed deliberation of the Diet should be proceeded to. The Legation, therefore, has it in commission, if the other comitial Legations shall receive instructions, to proceed to the opening of this deliberation, and to give their votes suitable to their declarations of the 14th May."
PARIS, July 23.
It is said that the Russian charge d'affaires has given in his ultimatum to our government—one of the objects is the evacuation of Hanover—he waits a categorical answer—and has requested his passports may accompany it, if unfavorable. This rumor has reduced the funds from 59 to fifty one!
WASHINGTON CITY.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23.
Among the effects of the dreadful hurricane experienced in the Southern states, we learn that our gun boat, No. 1, has been lodged in a corn field on Whitemarch island, about eight miles from where she drifted, and within twenty feet of a navigable creek. The loss she sustained is very inconsiderable; being little more than that of her cable and boat. Neither the gun boat, or her crew, received any injury. It is thought she will be restored to navigable water without difficulty.
We offer, in our paper of to day, two leading articles extracted from French and English prints; the first exhibiting the extravagant pomp which ushers in a new Imperial Dynasty; the second, the expence of a long established monarchical government. It is probable that among a people, unaccustomed to the sacred homage paid to kings, and, who, on the contrary, are in the habit of considering all men equal, the diamonds, and diadems, and ensignia, and other honorable baubles will be rather amusing than awful; but when they proceed to peruse the second article, exhibiting the enormous debt which the people of England, the country from which they sprang, have paid for the parade of royalty, for the aggrandizement of a few men, neither by nature or education superior to thousands around them, they will reflect with
deep attention on the infinite importance of imbibing correct political principles, and on the high duty of guarding them with unceasing vigilance.
Accounts from Vermont state there is but little doubt of the re-election of James Elliot, as a member of the House of Representatives of the United States.
On Monday last came on before the Circuit Court, the trial of JACOB BRAY and PHILIP WILLIAMS, charged with forging Bank-Notes, and passing them knowing them to be forged. The jury on Wednesday brought in a verdict of GUILTY of passing Bank-Notes knowing them to be forged.
It is the wish of the Editor of the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER to engage an individual well qualified to REPORT THE DEBATES OF CONGRESS. Immediate application, with the terms that will be agreeable, is requested.
Editors of papers are requested to insert this advertisement a few times.
The following Extracts of Letters from an American captive in Tripoli, are given in the Philadelphia Gazette.
TRIPOLI, May, 21.
"Since my last, nothing worthy of recital has occurred, except the death of one of our crew. I fear this will be the purport of all future letters; as the summer is fast approaching, and the heat will naturally have a fatal effect upon your unfortunate countrymen, who are daily yoked to a large waggon, which they are obliged to drag into the country, where it is loaded with heavy timber for their return."
April 7.
"A few days ago, a small craft, under English colors was captured by the Syren, on this station; in consequence of which the Bashaw sent for the British consul to know whether a United States vessel dare to take any articles out of a vessel under the protection of his majesty's colors? Mr. M'Donough answered in the negative, also gave the Bashaw a written certificate or passport. The vessel was immediately laden with a very valuable cargo, belonging to the Bashaw's subjects, and set sail for Malta; but unfortunately for his majesty's Consul, she was captured almost under the forts. Captain Stewart ordered her for Syracuse. The Bashaw sent for Mr. M'Donough, and afterwards giving him sufficient abuse, ordered him to quit his dominions in 12 hours. The next day he set sail for Malta in a small craft; but was captured off the harbour by the Syren, and sent to Syracuse. His excellency is very much enraged at the conduct of the British Consul, and is determined not to receive him again, let the consequence be what it may, we are in hopes this affair will bring Lord Nelson off this station."
"Five months have already expired of our captivity, and yet no hopes of our country's redeeming us! However, I trust, they will recollect in whole hands and at a whole mercy we are. Adieu."
Extract from a letter from a respectable character at Natchez, dated 24th Aug.
"There has been a banditti in the neighbourhood of B-you Sarah, on the south of the line, the object of whom was to plunder under pretence of giving freedom to West Florida."
"They made an attempt to surprize the fort of Baton Rouge, but being now driven by the militia into the Mississippi territory, they feel themselves at home and perfectly at ease, as the magistrates do not give them the least trouble, although many of them went in arms from hence to attack the Spanish government."
INDIANA TERRITORY.
Letters have been received covering governor Harrison's proclamation, for elections to be held at the different court houses, on the 11th day of September next, in all the counties throughout the Indiana Territory, to take the vote of the freeholders on the question of entering into the second grade of government.
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Philadelphia, Sept. 24.
On Saturday evening last, William Barry, a mariner from Norfolk, aged nineteen, was stopped in the street by several Spanish sailors; and without any provocation on his part, stabbed in four places. He was taken to the Pennsylvania Hospital where he languishes under his deep wounds. This outrage incensed the American sailors, & several scenes of riot and violence occurred in the course of yesterday; and last night we are informed, a body of these inconsiderate men, armed with clubs, &c. proceeded
to a house inhabited by the crew of a Spanish vessel now in port, and commenced a most violent assault. The building was almost entirely demolished, and we are informed, 5 or 6 Spanish sailors either killed on the spot, or so severely wounded, as to render their lives precarious. Several of them have been taken to the Hospital, and the ring-leaders of the riot committed to goal.
POLITICAL.
"As the period of the election of the President of the United States draws near, party spirit seems to acquire a new character of prejudice and malignity. The President cannot make a single territorial distribution, he cannot venture on the slightest exercise of power without exposing himself to the most vulgar, unmeaning abuse. The elections for the members of the Senate and House of Representatives exhibit more than their usual degree of violence and malignity. For any man to give his vote in favor of the president, is in other words, to consign himself to the execration of all that party; who have chosen to dignify themselves with the name of the oldest and most tried friends of the constitution of the United States. Whatever Mr. Jefferson's politics may be, he has surely at least the merit of distinguishing them in a spirit of extraordinary moderation."
Lon. pap.
From the FREEMAN'S JOURNAL.
The subjoined communication to the public from the Editor of the Register, is copied from that paper of last evening. We thought it our duty to reserve from publication, at least for a time, an offer of the papers "GRAVIERA MANENT" at the office of the Freeman's Journal before their appearance in any newspaper. As the source from which they came, was proposed to be reserved from us (unless we agreed to publish) by the person who presented the full number at this office; as there was a declaration made that we should be PAID, if we would publish; as the offerer seemed to be a foreigner, and as the contents appeared to be very objectionable, coming from a foreign government, we gave them a decided rejection. The application was accompanied by a circumstance, which proved the bearer to be in personal and familiar connexion with a Spanish public officer. We considered it as our duty to go further than a mere decided rejection; and hence it was that we placed our facts and observations, in a sure and guarded manner, before the government of the United States, and paid the closest attention to the subsequent workings of the matter here.
The Herculaneum manuscripts.
Great progress has been made, under the auspices of the Prince of Wales in the unrolling and recovery of the papyri found in the ruins of Herculaneum. The Rev. Mr. Heyter has been at Naples for a considerable time, engaged with a number of assistants, in this important work; and scholars of every country will be delighted to hear that he has made rapid progress in the task. Previously to the interference of the prince of Wales, eighteen manuscripts had been opened in the course of 46 years; but under his auspices nearly 90 have been opened in little more than 2 years. This is a patronage worthy of the prince. Mr. Heyter writes from Portici in May last, that tho' the difficulties in travelling the almost extinguished papyri are incredible, and the operation of course must be dilatory, as the persons employed may even yet be considered as learners, yet every day new lights are opening to them. About 80 manuscripts have been unrolled under his directions entirely or in part. Among these, 7 were latin, in consequence of a fatal accident they were reduced to powder. He has discovered at the end of one manuscript the name of Demetrius Phalerus. Fragments of 4 of Epicurus are ready for publication; the engravings of one book, and 6 columns of another are completed. A treatise on Anger, another D. Natura Deorum, as well as a logical essay by Philodemus are also ready for publication. The treatise on Anger is anonymous. That of D. Natura Deorum appears to be by Phaedrus, the friend of Cicero.
ENTERTAINMENT FOR MAN AND HORSE.
THE Subscriber takes this method to inform the public, and particularly those, whose business calls them to the city of Washington, that he has opened a house, opposite the Bank for the accommodation of travellers, where he has provided himself with good stabling, and other requisites for that purpose, and on reasonable terms.
THOMAS THORPE. September 28—3t
Wanted Immediately,
A GOOD BLACKSMITH, Who will meet with generous encouragement and steady employment—Enquire of the Printer. Washington St. t. 28—3t
Ten Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, on the 25th instant, a NEGRO GIRL named ANN or NAN, about 19 years of age, rather slender and tall, and of a black complexion. She had on when she went away, a short gown and petticoat, of coarse blue cloth and it is not known that she took with her any other cloaths. Having purchased her of Mr. John Brent, near Port Tobacco, it is probable she may bend her course that way. The above reward will be paid on delivering her at this place, or ten dollars if she be confined in any jail, out of the district of Columbia, and information thereof given to me, so that I may again get her.
DAVID RAWN City of Washington, near the six buildings. September 28. 18—4—tf.
IN CHANCERY September 17, 1804.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, against Aquila Béal and Grace his wife, Elizabeth Holliday and Margaret Holliday, which Grace, Elizabeth and Margaret are the only children and co-heiresses of Leonard Holliday the younger, late of Prince George's county deceased.
THE object of this bill is to obtain a sale of the real estate of the said Leonard Holliday, for the payment of a debt due to the complainant upon the ground, that the personal estate has proved insufficient.
The bill states, that the said Leonard Holliday in his life time, and at the time of his death was indebted to the complainant, on bond bearing date, October 25, 1781, with condition for the payment of 149. 5s. 3d. current money with interest from the date of judgment was obtained on the said bond, in the General Court for the Western Shore of Maryland, at May term, 1797, to be recovered on the payment of the above sum, with interest and costs—that on January 23, 1804, there was due on the said judgment, for principal, interest, and costs, after giving credit for all payments, the sum of 258. 12s. 01. 2d. current money. no part of which has been paid, that the said Leonard Holliday departed this life intestate, leaving a considerable Real Estate, and the defendants, Grace, Elizabeth, and Margaret his only children and co-heiresses, that the personal estate of the said Leonard is so far exhausted, as to be insufficient for the payment of the complainant's debt; that the defendant Aquila, hath intermarried with the defendant Grace, and that all the defendants reside in George Town in the District of Columbia.
It is thereupon, and on the complainant's motion ordered, that he cause a copy of this order to be inferred in the National Intelligencer once at least in each of three successive weeks, before the end of October next, to the intent, that the defendants may have notice of his application to this court, and of the substance and object of his bill, and may be warned to appear here in person or by a solicitor, before the last day of February next, to show cause wherefore a decree should not pass as prayed.
True copy, Test SAMUEL H. HOWARD, R. C. C. September 28—wjt
PATENT WIND-MILL.
THE subscriber having purchased Mr. John Avilhe's interest in a patent Wind-mill for the District of Columbia—Will sell rights to those desirous of erecting them in said district, an inspection of the model at the Secretary's office, will sufficiently prove the utility of this machine in manufacturing grain, plaster of Paris, paints, snuff &c. and sawing of timber or rope. Farther information may be obtained by applying to Mr. Benjamin Perkins, President's square, or near the Seven Buildings to
JOHN M'ILWEE. September 28—1aw3m
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber, being legally and fully authorised, by his assignees, to adjust, and settle finally, all the concerns of his former estate, surrendered under the laws of Pennsylvania, of Maryland, and of the United States, hereby calls on all persons indebted to said estate, to make payment to him; and on all who have claims, to render him their accounts, with notice of what property's still held in pledge for securing payment. JAMES GREENLEAF. Philadelphia, April 13—wtf
NOTICE.
The subscriber having been legally authorised, by Messrs Henry Pratt Thomas Willing Francis, John Miller, just John Ashley, and Jacob Baker, trustees of a fund created from the joint and separate estates of Robert Morris, John Nicholson and James Greenleaf, and generally denominated, the "Aggregate Fund," hereby calls on all persons, having any claims or pretensions by Mortgage or otherwise, to any of the objects of the said Fund, to make the same known to him, with a view to their adjustment. And all persons disposed to purchase any of the property of the said Fund either for cash, or on terms of short credit, are desired to make early application to JAMES GREENLEAF. Philadelphia April 13—wtf
The property of the AGGREGATE FUND lying in or near the river Potomac, consists of a large number of house lots in the city of Washington.
A number of handsome brick houses and a few wooden houses in do. Awharf and store in do. Lands on the Battery branch, opposite do. Do. on Hunting Creek near Alexandria. Do. adjoining Fort Cumberland. Do. about 12 miles from do.
The subscriber will in person receive applications on any of the objects of his agency, at Mr. Stelles hotel, until the 10th inst. after which until farther notice, he requests that all applications may be made to capt. Thomas Tingey, William Cranch, esq or Mr. Samuel Elliot, jun.
JAMES GREENLEAF. Washington, June 4—3t wtf

CHARLES VARDEN, MERCHANT TAYLOR. Has received from Philadelphia in addition to his former stock, a handsome assortment of goods, consisting of the best London and Spanish superfine cloths and cassimeres, white and fancy Marcellines, colored and white janes, india nankins, cotton cassimeres, black silk and satin Florentines, with a variety of other articles suitable for the summer season. N. B. Ladies habits, regimentals, and navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New Jersey avenue near the Capitol, June 8—tf.
REMOVAL. THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR, Has removed to the house above Mr. Rhodes (late Lovel's) Hotel, near the President's Square. In addition to the present stock of goods, an Handsome Assortment is expected immediately. Gentlemen at a distance, by sending a line by post, will be waited upon with all possible expedition. T. C. will pledge himself to execute any order with a taste, expedition and moderation of charge, which shall not be excelled by any. April 16—tf.
TO RENT, A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE in the city of Washington, situate on that beautiful ridge north east of the Seven Buildings, on I Street, Lot No. 3, square 106, is present occupied by Mrs. Scott. Possession may be had the 1st of August next. Under said house is a good dry cellar, on the back of the lot is a fl. . . and near the premises a pump of most excellent water. Enquire of Mrs. Scott, or of the subscriber High Street at Doctor John Beatty's George Town. ABSALOM JOY. June 29—tf
FOR SALE. The following City Lots, ON A LIBERAL TIME, Upon Security, viz. LOTS—3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, in square No. 919. — Lots 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 938. Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, & 16, in sq. No. 986. Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19, in square No. 1042. Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13, in square No. 1066. Apply to CHARLES MINIFIE, Washington City, or to RICHARD C. JONES, at Philadelphia. Washington, August 3—tf. N.B. C. M. has many other lots for sale or ground rent (on easy terms to improvers,) and in eligible situations.
DOCTOR MACRUDER, HAS for sale a few hogsheads ath proof Jamaica spirits, linseed and lamp oil, spirits of turpentine, window glass, glaziers, diamonds, glue, lamp black, white lead, Spanish brown, yellow ochre, chalk, Spanish whiting, Venetian red, red lead, verdigris, drop lake, flake white, patent yellow, rofe and Dutch pink, kings yellow, Turkey umber, gold and silver leaf, painters and sweepers brushes, camel hair pencils, water colours in boxes, Spanish indigo, fig blue, arnott, red wood, alkanet, madder, logwood, turmeric, salt petre, alum, copperas, twine, oil, pearl barley, timothy and clover seed, tamarinds, castor oil, marble mortar, spring trusses, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace, Chings worm destroying lozenges, an assortment of paper hangings, playing cards, copy slips, ink powder, English Latin, Greek and French school books, large family bibles, and his usual complete assortment of drugs and medicine, patent medicine, surgeons instruments, &c. George Town, July 20—tf
HAT MANUFACTURY. The subscriber informs his customers and the public generally that he has discontinued business in the city of Washington, and has opened shop on Bridge street near the Union Tavern—he solicits the continuance of former customers, and hopes that all others who may chuse to call and purchase his manufacture will be amply suited, if neatness and goodness be requisites. JOEL BROWN. George Town, Feb. 17—tf
Travellers Hall. THE subscriber has lately been induced from the rapid increase of his custom to purchase a lot of ground adjoining that on which he lives for the purpose of building a dining room and assembly room, each 54 feet by 32 feet so inches with six additional lodging rooms, and intends to finish them before the ensuing winter; which together with his tavern and house will occupy a front of near one hundred feet in the most agreeable part of the town and in the center of business being on the highest part of the public square. He has considerably increased the furniture &c. of his house and tables. His domestics and servants are of the most faithful dispositions and properly qualified for the departments to which they are assigned. He has a constant supply of the best stable forage; imported and country provisions, imported liquors, &c. of the first quality, foreign newspapers, &c. And his ice will most probably last through the hot weather. The distinguished preference which the first characters have already given him, fills him with gratitude. He offers his sincere thanks to all his good friends and begs leave to assure them that neither his time nor his purse shall be spared in attempting to render the Travellers Hall a house of entertainment, for GENTLEMAN GUESTS ONLY, equal to any in America. P. BRADLEY. Lexington, Kentucky, June 12, 1804. A Stage runs from the Travellers Hall to the Olympic Springs in the summer and to Frankfort during the sessions of Assembly. June 29—3m
NOTICE. THE subscriber intends to petition the next General Assembly for an act of insolvency to release him from debts he is unable to pay. SAMUEL S. HARWOOD. Montgomery County, Maryland. September 21—3t
AN ACT Providing for the establishment of semi-annual Fairs. BE it enacted by the First and Second Chambers of the City Council of Washington, That two FAIRS be held in every year within the city of Washington for the sale of all kinds of cattle, goods wares, and merchandise, on the first Wednesday of May and November, under such regulations as the Mayor may prescribe, of which Fairs he shall make due notification. In virtue of powers vested in me by the above act, I do hereby order and direct that the Fairs authorised thereby shall be held on the public grounds appropriated in the plan of the city of Washington for the Mall on the south side of the Tyber, extending from the Bridge at the Centre Market to the river Potomac, and that the continuance of said Fairs shall be for three days successively, viz. on the first Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in May and November. ROBERT BRENT, Mayor. September 14—
JUST PUBLISHED, HERIY'S DIGEST Of the Laws of Maryland, VOL. II. PRICE 2 DOLLARS 25 CENTS, In blue paper.
District of Columbia, to wit: BE it remembered, that on this twenty-fifth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and four, Thomas Heriy, Esq. of the said district, Conveyancer and Notary Public, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit: "A Digest of the Laws of Maryland, being a complete system alphabetically arranged of all the public acts of assembly, now in force and of general use, from the first settlement of the state, to the end of November session 1803, inclusive—to which is added, the acts of Congress for the district of Columbia, from the assumption of jurisdiction to the end of the session, which terminated in April 1804, inclusive—Also a variety of precedents, (adapted to the several acts) for the use of justices of the peace; and also a table explanatory of sundry technical Law terms, Volume 2nd. In conformity to the act of the Congress for the United States, intitled, "An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." G. DENEALE, Clerk of the district of Columbia. The above may be had at the publisher's office for the present. September 5—tw4t
THOMAS W. PAIRO, RESPECTFULLY informs the ladies and gentlemen, and the public of the city and vicinity, that he has opened store at the well corner of the Seven Buildings, where he intends to keep always a full assortment of dry and fancy goods. He imports his broad cloth and other woollens, &c. &c. himself, and buys the rest at Philadelphia, chiefly for cash—he therefore is able to sell as low as any merchant, and hopes that his reasonable terms will induce the citizens of Washington to encourage him. City of Washington, 19th Sept. 1804—3t
American Printed goods. Calicoes, Shaw's, Pocket Handkerchiefs, &c. manufactured by the subscribers near Baltimore, and sold at No. 13 Calvert street.
TO REMOVE new undertakings, and so prejudicial to manufacturing attempts in America, they think it proper to observe, that nothing is wanting in the business to enable good artists to perform their work here as well as in Europe. That they have these artists; that two of the partners were bred to the business in a factory of the best repute carried on by their father, & long afterwards by themselves. They trust that while foreign goods are received without a question, an unreasonable suspicion will not prevent their countrymen from giving that trial to their goods, which only can prove their value. Besides a natural doubt, they know that certain interests, national as well as individual, will suggest objections to their undertaking. They have no difficulty in saying, that work of the like kind shall be as well executed here, as in other countries. The colors capable of being fixed, will be found as permanent; the cloths perhaps better substance, and the prices lower than of the imported cottons. M'CULLOCH & LUNNUY, Baltimore, No. 13 Calvert Street. Sept 17—tf
TO BE SOLD By private contract, an estate called Chichester, lying on the banks of the Eastern Branch, immediately opposite the city of Washington. This estate extends from near the foot of the Bridge to a little below the Navy-Yard, and contains 695 acres of land. It is laid off in lots of from 83 to 117 acres. Dyers Ferry is on it. The price and conditions of sale may be known on application to captain Marbury of Blue Plains opposite Alexandria, to colonel Hanlon, of the Navy-yard, or to the subscriber. Captain Marbury who has a plat of the estate, may be spoken with on any Thursday at the Bank of Columbia. ANTHONY ADDISON: Barnaby, Prince Georges County. September 12—2aw3w
A TEN THOUSAND Dollar Prize, Now to be had for the small sum of SIX dollars! SCHEME OF A Lottery for the use of THE GERMAN TRINITY CHURCH, In SIXTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Which will positively commence drawing at the state house in this city the fourth Monday of November next, prizes will be received in payment for such tickets as may remain for sale during the drawing, or the cash advanced for them, on allowing a small discount. From the great proportion already sold, it is expected that the tickets will soon be raised to six dollars and an half.
   Prize of 10 thousand dolls. 10,000    1 Three thousand 3,000  1 Two thousand 2,000  1 One thousand 1,000  4 Five hundred 2,000  10 Three hundred 3,000  20 Two hundred 4,000  35 One hundred 3,500  90 Fifty 4,500  100 Twenty 2,000  600 Seven 4,200  1st drawn No. on the 10th day 500  1 15th 500  1 20th 500  1 25th 500  1 30th 500  1 35th 500  1 40th 1,000  1 45th 1,000  1 50th 1,000  1 55th 1,000  1st drawn No. on the last day when there shall be only 600 tickets in the wheel, 6,000  
6274 Prizes. Dollars,—90,000 Considerably less than two blanks to a prize. The prizes to be paid 30 days after the close of the drawing—Subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. TICKETS for sale by. GEORGE TAYLOR, Jun. No. 85, South Second Street, or MATTHEW M'CONNELL, No. 82. Chestnut Street. ADAM PREMR, No. 134, fourth sixth fl. } ANTHY. HOOKLEY, No. Corner of Green } Commissioners. and third streets, } CHARLES BOWMAN, No. 16 Budd Street. } Whole tickets—6 dollars Half tickets—3 25 Quarter tickets—1 75 Prizes in other lotteries received in payment. Letters addressed to either of whom, post-paid and inclosing the cash, will be duly attended to. Aug. 27th—2aw115N.
To be Sold, On Thursday the 27th day of September on the premises to the highest bidder, if not disposed of by private sale before that day. THE tract of land whereon I now live in Fairfax Co. Virginia, on Pope's Head creek, containing 550 acres, the situation is agreeable and healthy; there is on it an excellent mill seat on the above mentioned creek, with an inexhaustible quantity of grey tree stone, and an abundance of good red and white oak, poplars, and hickory timber to erect the dam and necessary buildings on the spot; there is on this creek which washes this tract, for about two miles, a very considerable portion of the first quality meadow land, there is a considerable quantity of fresh land, just opened, and nearly half of the tract to cut; it is situated about 20 miles of George Town, Washington, Alexandria and Dumfries, it is considered the best piece of forest land in the country—the terms of payment will be one third paid down, one third in 18 months and the other third in three years; an inalienable title will be made to the purchaser. The public is assured that the sale will take place if not privately disposed of before the day of sale, as I am determined to remove to the state of Kentucky this fall—Also on the same day and place, will be sold, all my stock of every sort, plantation utensils, household and kitchen furniture and the present crop now on hand for ready cash. THOMAS POLLARD. August 22—tdof
500 Dollars Reward. WHEREAS on the first day of April last a Negro fellow named STROTHER and his wife named PHILLIS absconded from my plantation near Chester court house South Carolina—and as I have reason to suspect that some white person or persons has been accessory in said negroes elopement, or has feloniously carried them away—I hereby offer the above reward upon conviction of any white person concealing or carrying away said negroes. Forty dollars with all reasonable expences will be paid for lodging said negroes in any jail and giving notice by letter to me at Chester C. H. South Carolina, so that I may get them, or twenty dollars for each; that is, if they are taken by any person after this date—any jailor or other persons giving notice to me of said negroes, that they are lodged in any jail before this date shall be very handsomely rewarded. STROTHER is 22 or 23 years of age, little yellow complexioned, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, stout made, crooked legged, very large feet, has a four countenance, has large scars on his back occasioned by a severe whipping, by his former overseer in Virginia for rebelling against him. PHILLIS is 20 or 22 years old, of a middle size, trim made, black complexion, has a small lip when she speaks—said negroes formerly belonged to Mr. Edward Carter, in Prince William county, state of Virginia, where it is supposed (if they have eloped of themselves) they will try to go. Any letters of information will be very thankfully received. JOHN JOHNSTON. Chester C. H. South Carolina, July 11—1awtf
FOR SALE. A Tract or parcel of land, containing one hundred thousand acres, surveyed in tracts of one thousand acres each, lying on the great and little Satilla rivers in the counties of Wayne and Taliaferro in the state of Georgia, distant about 40 miles from the town of St. Mary's and the sea. This land is an undivided moiety of two adjoining tracts containing each 100,000 acres, and is remarkable for its extensive forests of large and valuable yellow pine, and the luxuriant growth of natural grass, affording an inexhaustible range of pasturage for cattle. A great bargain may be had to a purchaser of the whole undivided moiety; for terms of sale apply to JOHN BECKLEY. City of Washington. Sept. 12—tf.
(BY AUTHORITY.) Scheme of a Lottery. To build an ACADEMY in the city of Richmond. Dollars. 1 Prize—last drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, 20,000 1 do. 10,000 1 do. 5,000 5 do. of 1,000 make 5,000 6 do. — 500 — 3,000 10 do. — 200 — 2,000 20 do. — 100 — 2,000 100 do. — 50 — 5,000 250 do. — 30 — 7,500 420 do. — 25 — 10,500 1,500 do. — 20 — 30,000 3,000 do. — 15 — 45,000 1 first drawn ticket after 1,000 having a blank to its number, 250 1 do. after 2,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 3,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 4,000 do. 250 1 do. do. 5,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 6,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 8,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 10,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 12,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 13,000 do. 500 1 do. do. 14,000 do. 1,000 5,325 prizes, 150,000 9,675 blanks, not two to a prize. 15,000 tickets at 10 dollars each, 150,000 N. B. Prizes subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. This lottery has been authorised by the legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purposes of erecting a seminary of learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view, it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dolls. and 2,500 dolls. in addition, for defraying the expenses attendant on drawing the lottery. Citizens of the first respectability have been selected as trustees, and they have pledged themselves to use their utmost exertions to carry it into effect. The scheme has the advantage of giving to each adventurer a chance for some very large prizes, while the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so great, as to invite the friends of the intended institution to partake in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The treasurer of the state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay the amount of the prizes to the fortunate adventurers. It is believed that the above considerations will induce rapid sale of tickets, and the drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number shall be sold to authorise it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next. Richmond, March 2—tf Tickets to be had of Robert Pollard Esq. John Brockenbrough, jun. Wm. Price (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, jun. and William Prichard.
WAS committed to the goal of Frederick county, on the 25th July last, JOE, about 28 years old, five feet 8 inches high, yellowish complexion, has scars on each of his hands, with burns, particularly on the left hand: His clothes are tow linen shirts and trowers, a blue great coat, &c. He says he belongs to col. WILLIAM WINN, of Harford county, North Carolina, and that he has been absent from his master about two years. If his OWNER does not release him he will be sold for his GOAL FEES agreeably to law. GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick county. Aug. 22—1aw8t.
NEW Store, BY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. The subscriber informs the public that he has commenced business in the house formerly occupied by MR. QUINN, F. Street; And has on hand, a general assortment of dry goods, Groceries, wines and spirituous liquors. Porter, Hardware and Cutlery, Queenware, China and Glass, Flour, Corn, and Corn-meal, Oats, and Chopped rye, Candles and Soap by the box, Country whiskey by the barrel, and a few casks of genuine old Irish whiskey, All of which he will sell low for cash or country produce. The HIGHEST prices, given for country produce, CASH. FRANCIS CLARK. Aug. 29—wtf.
Valuable Land for Sale. The executors of the last will and testament of Anthony Holmead deceased, will sell at private sale about forty acres of Land adjoining the city of Washington at the northern extremity of 20th street west. This land is generally allowed to be one of the handsomest situations near the city, having a beautiful prospect of nearly the whole of the city of Washington, Alexandria and George Town, and any person inclined to purchase this valuable property, will I shewn the same, and know the terms by application to the subscriber near the premises. JOHN HOLMEAD.
50 Dollars reward, STRAYED or stolen from the commons of Washington city, between Saturday and Monday the 7th and 9th of July, inst. a pair of bright BAY HORSES, of the following descriptions:—One about fifteen and a half hands high over the shoulders, and about two inches lower over the hips, supposed to be eight years old, black mane and tail, mane on the right side, trots and canters, a star in the forehead, both hind ancles white, and has partly on the inner side of each, uniformly placed, about one inch above the hoof at black spot of about three quarters of an inch diameter; no other striking natural marks are recollected. This horse is supposed to be three fourths English blooded; he is when in flesh very handsome, and moves with ease and elegance. He is now much reduced in appearance by a long journey, his back something injured by the saddle, and has old marks of similar abuse. The other horse is about fifteen and a half hands high before, and the same behind, six years old, not so handsomely built in any respect as the other, but carries himself very well, trots hard, canters easy and racks a little, his mane and tail are likewise black; his mane thin and on the right side; left hind ancle white; has a star in the forehead, and a slip in the nose, mostly inclined to and running into the left nostril; a circular brand on the left shoulder, with a character in the center believed to be intended for an A. He is not so low in flesh as the other, the new saddle marks are worse, but he has few or no old ones, except a slight appearance of a former naval gal. They were shod all round. If stolen the above reward will be paid on conviction of the thief; if strayed and found within 20 miles of Washington city a reward of 20 dollars will be given, and if beyond that distance, 40 dolls. expenses included, on their return to Phineas Bradley, Washington city, or Renner and Buffard, George Town. August 1—1awtf
MEDITERRANEAN PASSPORTS Notice is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport; issued to vessels of the United States, that from the eighth day of July next those of the new form will be issued as the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport of which they may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange; and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use. Department of State, 23rd of May, 1804. The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Collectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices. May 30—2w6m
This is to give notice, THAT the subscriber, of Calvert County, in the State of Maryland, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of said County, letters of Administration on the personal estate of Nathan Smith, late of the county aforesaid, deceased. All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, at or before the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and five—they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under my hand this eighteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and four. THEODORE HODGKIN, Adm'r. September 19—1aw3t
NOTICE. BY Virtue of a decree of the high court of chancery of the state of Maryland will be sold at public auction at Caton's tavern in the city of Annapolis at twelve o'clock on Saturday the twenty ninth day of the present month, the lot of ground now in the occupation of Wm. Brown of the city of Annapolis. This lot begins at the intersection of North East Street and Scotch Street, and bounds on Scotch Street one hundred and seventy five and an half feet, then with a line parallel with North East Street to the Severn river, then bounding on and with the river to North East Street and then with N. East Street to the beginning. The improvements are a large convenient brick dwelling house beautifully situated on the river. Kitchen and out houses of different kinds and a pump of excellent water. Any further description is thought unnecessary as persons who are disposed to purchase, will probably make themselves acquainted with the property previous to the day of sale. The terms of sale are that the purchaser shall give bond with security to be approved by the trustee for paying the purchase money with interest within six months from the day of sale. NICH. BREWER, Trustee. September 10—w3t
Ten Dollars Reward. RAN Away from the subscriber on Friday, the first inst. a negro Wench called RA CIEL, about twenty years of age, no perceptible mark—She is stout made, has a bashful look when spoken to, speaks quick, apparently far advanced in pregnancy. Her clothing cannot be described as she took with her several articles belonging to her mistress. I will give the above reward if she is lodged in any jail in the state, and all reasonable charges it brought home. FRANCIS CLARK. Aug. 29—wtf.