The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser. (Washington City [D.C.]), 1803-04-27 00:00:00

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. III
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCXCII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27th, 1803.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
LEBOO
Will cover the ensuing season, to commence the first day of April, and end on the last day of June, on Mondays and Tuesdays at Queen Anne; Wednesdays and Thursdays at the farm of the subscriber, and Fridays and Saturdays at Bladensburg; at the rate of 16 dollars per Mare, cash, and half a dollar to the groom; the money to the groom to be paid with the mare, and a note for the balance, with the assumption of Messrs. Clagett or Hodges, of Queen Anne, or Messrs. Lowndes or Bruce, of Bladensburg, payable on the first day of December next, will be received.
Leboo is eight years old, a fine bright bay, 15 hands three inches high, a star and two white feet. He has proven himself both a sure and good foal-getter, having covered at four years old 25 mares, all of whom proved with foal; the colts are equal in size and beauty, to any in the part of the country, and except in two instances, they were alike as to colour. At four years old Leboo won the colts' purse at Annapolis; on the next day he won the City purse, and on the third day he won a purse in Prince George's county, immediately after having travelled upwards of 30 miles. The next spring, at 5 years old, he won the first day's purse at Annapolis; the fall after he won at Mr. Taylor's Levees at Alexandria, one heat, was lame and drawn; a few days after he won the first day's purse at Governor's town. At 6 years old he won the first day's purse at Annapolis; the fall after he won the purse again at Annapolis, the jockey club purse at Governor's town, the purse at Frederick town, and the city of Washington; running 11 miles, by mile, at the last mentioned place, beating Mr. Taylor's Levees. At seven years old he received a forfeit of 900 dollars at Havre-de-Grace, proceeded on to German town, won the first heat, afterwards fell lame, and was beat by Gen. Ridgely's Hambletonian, whom he had beaten three times before.
Leboo was got by High Flyer, his blood and figure equal to that of any other horse, and his pedigree may be seen by applying to the subscriber.
OSBORN SPRIGG. Prince George's County, March 28. tf
The Subscriber will furnish good pasture, at half a dollar per week, but will not be answerable for accidents or escapes.
NOTICE.
In the matter of JOHN JACK, Bankrupt.
The subscriber being appointed Assignee of the Estate and effects of JOHN JACK Bankrupt. All persons indebted to the said Bankrupt, are requested to make immediate payment otherwise legal steps will be indiscriminately taken to compel them.
RICHARD FORREST, Assignee. January 26 tf
FOR SALE OR RENT,
A two story frame House and Lot, in square 728 (situate near the Capitol) as present occupied by John C. Dixon. Possession may be had the first day of May next. For terms apply to
ALEXANDER MCCOMICK, East Capitol Street. April 4 epit
All persons having claims or demands of any nature against the subscriber, are requested to exhibit their accounts, without delay, to JOHN HEWITT or RICHARD FORREST, Esqrs. of the city of Washington, who are authorised, in my name, to adjust and settle the same; and all persons indebted to me are requested to make payment to either of the gentlemen above named. SAMUEL BLODGET. March 30. tf
Charlotte Hall School.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
That the Trustees will set up on the 2d Monday in May, to the lowest bidder, the building of a house at Charlotte Hall for the residence of the Principal; agreeably to a plan which will then be submitted.
An advance of one half the cash will be made to the undertaker upon giving bond and security to be approved of by the Board of Trustees.
Signed by order, NEALE H. SHAW, Regr March 19, 1803. cp 2m in m
Carpenters and Labourers Wanted.
Wanted to work on the Bridge over the eastern Branch of Potomac, a number of rough Carpenters, also a number of labourers by the month, to whom employment will be given during the whole of the summer. Their wages will be paid monthly, and the best prices will be given. Application to be made to the Subscriber.
WILLIAM BRENT. Treasurer of the Eastern Branch Bridge Company April 18th. cp 3w.
WANTED.
A man servant to hire by the month or year in a small family, he must be a good house servant—and understand driving a carriage, to such person with good recommendation (and none else need apply) very liberal wages will be given, apply at this office. April 19, 1803. 3t
From the Aurora.
THOMAS PAINE.
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES. AND PARTICULARLY TO THE LEADERS OF THE FEDERAL FACTION. LETTER THE SIXTH.
The malignant mind, like the jaundiced eye, sees every thing through a false medium of its own creating. The light of Heaven appears stained with yellow to the distempered sight of the one; and the fairest actions have the form of crimes in the venomous imagination of the other.
For several months, both before and after my return to America in October last, the apostate papers, calling themselves federal, were filled with paragraphs and essays respecting a letter from Mr. Jefferson to me at Paris, and the tone of them knew the contents of the letter, nor the occasion of writing it, malignity taught them to suppose it, and the lying tongue of injustice lent them its aid.
That the public may be no longer imposed upon by federal apostasy, I will now publish the letter, and the occasion of its being written.
The treaty negotiated in England by John Jay, and ratified by the Washington administration, had so disgracefully surrended the right and freedom of the American flag, that all the commerce of the United States on the ocean became exposed to capture, and suffered in consequence of it. The duration of the treaty was limited to two years after the war; and consequently, America could not, during that period, relieve herself from the chains which that treaty had fixed upon her.
This being the case, the only relief that could come from Europe, out of something originating in Europe, that would, in its consequences extend to America. It had long been my opinion that commerce contained within itself the means of its own protection; but as the time for bringing forward any new system is not always happening it is necessary to watch its approach, and lay hold of it before it passes away.
As soon as the late emperor Paul of Russia abandoned his coalition with England and became a neutral power, this crisis of time, and also of circumstance, was then arriving; and I employed it in arranging a plan for the protection of the commerce of neutral nations during war, that might, in its operation and consequences, relieve the commerce of America. The plan, with the pieces accompanying it, consisted of about forty pages. The Citizen Bonneville, with whom I lived in Paris, translated it into French.—Mr. Skipwith the American consul, Joel Barlow, and myself, had the translation printed and distributed as a present to the foreign ministers of all the neutral nations then resident in Paris. This was in the summer of 1800.
It was entitled Maritime Compact [in French Pacte Maritime ]. The plan, exclusive of the pieces that accompanied it, consisted of the following preamble and articles.
MARITIME COMPACT
Being an UNARMED ASSOCIATION of nations for the protection of the rights and commerce of nations that shall be neutral in time of war.
Whereas, the vexations and injuries to which the rights and commerce of neutral nations have been, and continue to be, exposed during the time of maritime war, render it necessary to establish a law of nations for the purpose of putting an end to such vexations and injuries, and to guarantee to the neutral nations the exercise of their just rights. We, therefore, the undersigned powers form ourselves into an association and establish the following as a law of nations on the seas.
Article 1. Definition of the rights of neutral nations.
The rights of nations, such as are exercised by them in their intercourse with each other in time of peace, are, and of right ought to be, the rights of neutral nations at all times; because,
First, Those rights not having been abandoned by them remain with them. Secondly, Because, those rights cannot become forfeited, or void, in consequence of war breaking out between two, or more other nations.
A war of nation against nation being exclusively the act of the nations that make the war, and not the act of the
neutral nations, cannot, whether considered in itself or in its consequences, destroy or diminish the rights of the nations remaining in peace.
Article 2.
The ships and vessels of nations that rest nearer and at peace with the world during a war with other nations, have a right to navigate freely on the seas as they navigated before that war broke out, and to proceed to, and enter, the port or ports of any of the belligerent powers, with the consent of that power, without being seized, searched, visited, or any ways interrupted, by the nation or nations with which that nation is at war.
Article 3.
For the confirmation of the aforesaid rights, we, the undersigned powers, engaging to each other our sacred faith and honour, declare,
That if any belligerent power shall seize, search, visit, or any ways interrupt any ship or vessel belonging to the citizens or subjects of any of the powers composing this association, then each, and all of the said undersigned powers will cease to import, and will not permit to be imported into the ports or dominions of any of the said undersigned powers, in any ship or vessel whatever, any goods, wares, or merchandise, produced or manufactured in, or exported from, the dominions of the power so offending against the association hereby established and proclaimed.
Article 4.
That all the ports appertaining to any and all of the powers composing this association shall be shut against the flag of the offending nation.
Article 5.
That no remittance or payment in money, merchandise, or bills of exchange, shall be made by any of the citizens, or subjects, of any of the powers composing this association, to the citizens or subjects of the offending nation, for the term of one year, or until reparation be made. The reparation to be made at the times the amount of the damages sustained.
Article 6.
If any ship or vessel appertaining to any of the citizens or subjects of any of the powers composing this association shall be seized, searched, visited, or interrupted, by any belligerent nation, or be forcibly prevented entering the port of her destination, or be seized, searched, visited or interrupted, in coming out of such port, or be forcibly prevented from proceeding to any new destination, or be insulted or visited by any agent from on board any vessel of any belligerent power, the government or executive power of the nation to which the ship or vessel so seized, searched, visited or interrupted belongs, shall, on evidence of the fact, make public proclamation of the same, and send a copy thereof to the government, or executive, of each of the powers composing this association, who shall publish the same in all the extent of his dominions, together with a declaration, that at the expiration of days after the publication the final articles of this association shall be put in execution against the offending nation.
Article 7.
If reparation be not made within the space of one year, the said proclamation shall be renewed for one year more and so on.
Article 8.
The association chooses for itself a flag to be carried at the mast-head conjointly with the national flag of each nation composing this association.
The flag of the association shall be composed of the same colours as compose the rainbow, and arranged in the same order as they appear in that phenomenon.
Article 9.
And whereas it may happen that one or more of the nations composing this association may be, at the time of forming it, engaged in war, or become so in future, in that case, the ships and vessels of such nation shall carry the flag of the association bound round the mast, to denote that the nation to which she belongs is a member of the association and a respecter of the laws.
N. B. This distinction in the manner of carrying the flag is merely for the purpose, that neutral vessels having the flag at the mast-head, may be known at first sight.
Article 10.
And whereas it is contrary to the moral principles of neutrality and peace, that any neutral nation should furnish to the belligerent powers, or any of them, the means of carrying on war against each other; we, therefore, the powers, composing this association, de-
clare, that we will, each one for itself, prohibit in our dominions the exportation or transportation of military stores, comprehending gun powder, cannon, and cannon-balls, fire-arms of all kinds, and all kinds of iron and steel weapons used in war, excluding therefrom all kinds of utensils and instruments used in civil or domestic life, and every other article that cannot, in its immediate state, be employed in war.
Having thus declared the moral motives of the foregoing article, we declare also the civil and political intentions thereof, to wit,
That as belligerent nations have no right to visit or search any ship or vessel belonging to a nation at peace, and under the protection of the laws and government thereof, and as all such visit or search is an insult to the nation to which such ship or vessel belongs, and to the government of the same; we, therefore, the powers composing this association, will take the right of prohibition on ourselves, to whom it properly belongs, and by whom only it can be legally exercised, and not permit foreign nations, in a state of war, to usurp the right of legislating by proclamation for any of the citizens or subjects of the powers composing this association.
It is therefore, in order to take away all pretence of search or visit, which, by being offensive, might become a new cause of war, that we will provide laws, and publish them by proclamation, each in his own dominion, to prohibit the supplying, or carrying to, the belligerent powers, or either of them, the military stores, or articles before mentioned, annexing thereto a penalty to be levied or inflicted upon any persons within our several dominions, transgressing the same. And we invite all persons, as well of the belligerent nations as of our own, or any other, to give information of any knowledge they may have of any transgression against the said law, that the offenders may be prosecuted.
By this conduct we restore the word contraband [ contra and ban ] to its true and original signification, which means against law, edict, or proclamation; and none but the government of a nation can have, or can exercise, the right of making laws, edicts, or proclamations, for the conduct of its citizens or subjects.
Now, we, the undersigned powers, declare the aforesaid articles to be a law of nations, at all times, or until a congress of nations shall meet to form some law more effectual.
And we do recommend that immediately on the breaking out of war between any two or more nations, that deputies be appointed by all the neutral nations, whether members of this association or not, to meet in congress, in some central place, to take cognizance of any violations of the rights of neutral nations.
Signed, &c.
For the purpose of giving operation to the aforesaid plan of an unarmed association, the following paragraph was subjoined:
It may be judged proper for the order of business, that the association of nations have a president for a term of years, and the presidency to pass by rotation, to each of the parties composing the association.
In that case, and for the sake of regularity, the first president to be the executive power of the most northerly nation composing the association, and his deputy or minister at the congress to be president of the congress—and the next most northerly to be vice-president, who shall succeed to the presidency, and so on. The line determining the geographical situation of each to be the latitude of the capital of each nation.
If this method be adopted it, will be proper that the first president be nominally constituted in order to give rotation to the rest. In that case the following article might be added to the foregoing, viz. The constitution of the association nominates the Emperor Paul to be first president of the association of nations for the protection of neutral commerce and securing the freedom of the seas."
The foregoing plan, as I have before mentioned, was presented to the ministers of all the neutral nations then in Paris, in the summer of 1800.—Six copies were given to the Russian general Springporten; and a Russian gentleman who was going to Petersburg took two, expressly for the purpose of putting them into the hands of Paul. I fit the original manuscript, in my own hand writing, to Mr. Jefferson, and also
wrote him four letters, dated the 1st, 4th, 6th, & 16th October, 1800, giving him an account of what was then going on in Europe, respecting neutral commerce.
The case was, that in order to compel the English government to acknowledge the rights of neutral commerce, and that free ships make free goods, the Emperor Paul, in the month of Sept. following the publication of the plan, shut all the ports of Russia against England—Sweden and Denmark did the same by their ports, and Denmark shut up Hamburg. Russia shut up the Elbe and the Weser. The ports of Spain, Portugal, and Naples were shut up, and in general all the ports of Italy except Venice, which the Emperor of Germany held, and had it not been for the untimely death of Paul, a law of nations founded on the authority of nations, for establishing the rights of neutral commerce and the freedom of the seas would have been proclaimed, & the government of England must have consented to that law, or the nation must have lost its commerce: And the consequence to America would have been that such a law would, in a great measure, if not entirely, have released her from the injuries of Jay's treaty.
Of all these matters I informed Mr. Jefferson. This was before he was President, and the letter he wrote me after he was President was in answer to those I had written to him and the manuscript copy of the plan I had sent him. Here follows the letter.
WASHINGTON, March 18, 1801.
Dear Sir,
Your letters of Oct. 1st, 4th, 6th, 16th, came duly to hand, and the papers which they covered were, according to your permission, published in the newspapers and in a pamphlet, and under your own name.* These papers contain precisely our principles and I hope they will be generally recognized here. Determined as we are to avoid, if possible, wasting the energies of our people in war and destruction, we shall avoid implicating ourselves with the powers of Europe, even in support of principles which we mean to pursue. They have to many other interests different from ours that we must avoid being entangled in them. We believe we can enforce those principles as to ourselves by peaceable means, now that we are likely to have our public councils detached from foreign views. The return of our citizens from the frenzy into which they had been wrought, partly by ill conduct in France, partly by artifices practiced upon them, is almost entire, and will, I believe, become quite so. But these details, too minute and long for a letter, will be better developed by Mr. Dawson the bearer of this, a member of the late Congress, to whom I refer you for them. He goes in the Maryland sloop of war, which which will wait a few days at Havre to receive his letters to be written on his arrival at Paris. You expressed a wish to get a passage to this country in a public vessel. Mr. Dawson is charged with orders to the captain of the Maryland to receive and accommodate you back if you can be ready to depart at such a short warning. Robt. R. Livingston is appointed minister plenipotentiary to the republic of France, but will not leave this, till we receive the ratification of the convention by Mr. Dawson. I am in hopes you will find us returned generally to sentiments worthy of former times. In these it will be your glory to have steadily laboured and with as much effect as any man living. That you may long live to continue your useful labours and to reap the reward in the thankfulness of nations is my sincere prayer. Accept assurances of my high esteem and affectionate attachments.
TH: JEFFERSON.
This, citizens of the United States, is the letter about which the leaders and tools of the federal faction, without knowing its contents or the occasion of writing it, have wailed so many malignant falsehoods. It is a letter, which on account of its wise economy, and peaceable principles and its forbearance to reproach, will be read by every good man and every good citizen with pleasure, and the faction, mortified at its appearance, will have to regret that they forced it into publication. The least atonement they can now offer is to make the letter as public as they have made their own infamy, and learn to lie no more.
The same injustice they shewed to Mr. Jefferson they shewed to me. I had
* The plans, with the papers accompanying it, were published by S. H. Smith, of the Federal City.

considered itself in Europe, and at my own expense, in forming and promoting a plan that would in its operation, have benefited the commerce of America; and the federal faction here invented and circulated an account in the papers they employ, that I had given a plan to the French for burning all the towns on the coast from Savannah to Baltimore. Were I to present them for this [and I do not promise that I will not, for the liberty of the press is not the liberty of lying] there is not a federal judge, not even one of midnight appointment, but will, from the nature of the case, be obliged to condemn them. The fact, however, cannot be denied, they have been retained in any thing. They have had their full swing of lying uncontradicted: they have availed themselves, unopposed, of all the arts hypocrisy could devise; and the event has been, what, in all such cases it ever will, and ought to be, the ruin of themselves.
The characters of the late and present administrations are now sufficiently marked, and the adherents of each keep up the distinction. The former administration rendered itself notorious by outrage, excomical parade, false alarms, a continued increase of taxes, and an unceasing clamour for war; and as every vice has a virtue opposed to it, the present administration moves on the direct contrary line. The question, therefore, at elections is not, properly a question upon persons, but upon principles. Those who are for peace, moderate taxes, and mild government, will vote for the administration that conducts itself by those principles, in whatever hands that administration may be.
There are in the United States, and particularly in the middle states, several religious sects whose leading moral principle is PEACE. It is, therefore, impossible that such persons, consistently with the dictates of that principle, can vote for an administration that is clamorous for war. When moral principles rather than persons, are candidates for power, to vote is to perform a moral duty, and not to vote is to neglect a duty.
That persons who were hunting after places, offices and contracts, should be advocates for war, taxes, and extravagance, is not to be wondered at; but that so large a portion of the people who had nothing to depend upon but their industry, and no other public prospect but that of paying taxes, and bearing the burden, should be advocates for the same measures, is a thing which needs not really accounted for. But reason is recovering her empire, and the fog of delusion is clearing away.
THOMAS PAINE.
Bordentown, on the Delaware, N. Jersey, April 21, 1803.
LEHIGH NAVIGATION. LOTTERY. SECOND CLASS.
Five thousand dollars the highest prize!
THIS Lottery will positively commence drawing at the city of Philadelphia, on the first Monday of September next. The prizes will be paid thirty days after its conclusion, of which public notice will be given. Such as are not demanded within twelve months shall be considered as relinquished for the benefit of the Navigation. The Managers depend principally upon the proceeds of this lottery for finishing the Navigation of the Lehigh. This will open an intercourse by water to Philadelphia at above four hundred miles, including only twelve and an half miles portage near its conjunction with the Schuylkill at Vicksburg, thereby forming a new source of trade, affording a plentiful supply of coal, lumber, &c. the advantages of which will be immense; and an easy conveyance to the owners of lands and farms in the vicinity by which they can send their produce to market.
Tickets may now be had at five dollars of George Taylor, jun. No. 67. William Blackburn, 117, Chestnut Street. Edward Stow, 73, Street. James Greenworth, 34. March 15, 1803.
S C H E M E.
Table with 2 columns: Prize amount, Number of prizes. Includes: 1 Prize of 5000 dolls. viz. Cash 3000, 20 shares stock 2000; 1 two thousand dollars, 2 one thousand dollars, 5 five hundred dollars, 6 three hundred dollars, 6 two hundred dollars, 13 one hundred dollars, 20 fifty dollars, 75 twenty dollars, 1800 six dollars.
1938 prizes, 5002 blanks, 7000 tickets, at five dollars each, is 35000. The prizes subject to a deduction of fifteen per centum.
FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Although the Spanish Minister on the part of his Court, has lately given our government the most unequivocal assurance, that our citizens shall, without delay, be again permitted to make use of the port of New Orleans as a place of deposit, still we find the "partisans of war" unwilling to abandon a subject which they vainly flattered themselves would greatly embarrass the administration.
It has been intimated in some of the "opposition papers," that the late communication from the Spanish Minister was only intended to amuse government, and lull us into security. But let me ask these exclusive patriots, what reason have we to suppose that the court of Spain would act so dishonorable a part? Has the former conduct of that government ever evinced such duplicity? There are, I believe, no examples of it; on the contrary, it is almost universally acknowledged, that the court of Spain have ever fulfilled, with punctuality and good faith, all their engagements with other nations.
It has likewise been said that "if the court of Spain are now really disposed to do justice to our complaints, it can only be attributed to the spirited exertions of the minority in Congress." Arrogance and presumption have ever characterised this party, but seldom has it been carried to such a height as of late; and never was it more apparent than in this assertion: for it is a well known fact that the hostile resolutions which were brought forward by the "opposition party" in Congress was on or about the first of February last, and could not possibly have been known in Spain, before the Minister's dispatches left that country. Therefore the pacific remonstrances of the President, and not the inflammatory resolutions of the minority in Congress, induced his Catholic Majesty to dispatch a visit to this country, with orders to the government of Louisiana, to permit our citizens to deposit their property at New Orleans, as usual, "until the two governments shall come to an agreement about another equivalent place."
Although the administration have been greatly calumniated for not adopting measures which must inevitably have plunged us in a war, still we find that they have not been neglectful of the duty which they owe their country. Our just cause of complaint against Spain has been removed, without an appeal to arms. The administration have, in this case and all others, rendered themselves worthy of the confidence reposed in them by their fellow citizens; let us not, therefore, withhold that tribute of approbation and applause which is so justly due them, and let us exert ourselves to counteract the dangerous machinations of those who, without the least cause, are continually calumniating our most virtuous patriots, & denouncing every measure of the government.
BRUTUS.
FOR SALE.
One half of the valuable Tracts of LAND, in Stafford county, called Bell Plains and Hickory Bottom, late the property and residence of George Lee Waugh, deceased. Upon the land are an excellent dwelling house, with four rooms on each floor, and passage; a large barn, kitchen, dairy and smoke house; bounded on one side by Potomac creek, where is an excellent fishery, and abundance of wild fowl in the season. This land will be sold altogether, or in lots, as may best suit the purchasers. Any person desirous of viewing it, will be shown Bell Plains, by applying to Mr. Carey Seldon, who lives convenient, and the Hickory Bottom tract by Mr. John Sweetman, who can also show all the lines.
If this land is not disposed of by private sale, it will be set up to the highest bidder, at Mr. Elze's tavern in Frederickburg, on Friday the 6th day of May next, where a plat will be shown to those who wish to purchase. Two thirds of the purchase money must be paid down. Twelve months credit will be given for the balance, on giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date. For other particulars apply to the subscriber, who is authorised by the devisees to bargain for the same.
GAWIN CORBIN TURBERVILLE. King George county, Doegg, April 2.
TO LET.
And be entered upon immediately, three well finished BRICK HOUSES, NEARLY opposite Morin's Tavern, on Twelfth street very near Pennsylvania Avenue, built for the WASHINGTON BUILDING COMPANY. The Houses will be rented on very reasonable terms. Apply to THOMAS CARPENTER near the President's Square. Dec. 18.
Tan-Bark Wanted.
THE subscribers want to purchase a quantity of TAN-BARK, for which they will give from six to eight dollars a cord. CHRISTIAN KURTZ, THOMAS HYDE, BAKER & DAWSON. George Town, April 6.
TAKE NOTICE.
I WILL sell five hundred and fifty acres of Land whereon I live, in Fairfax county, within five miles of the court house, and within twenty of the City of Washington, Alexandria, Dumfries, and twelve of the Occoquan mills, it is a healthy situation, the land is fertile, and has about two hundred acres of wood to cut, there is a great proportion of white and red oak, poplar and hickory timber—There is nearly one hundred acres of prime land for meadow, I will give six months credit for one fourth of the purchase money—twelve months for the other quarter, eighteen for the third, and two years for the last payment, a purchaser will find me on the premises.
THOS. POLLARD. Feb. 21st.
In Chancery, April 11th, 1803.
The Attorney General, at the Relation and instance of William Lodge and Alexander Adams, versus, Thomas Orme and Thomas Beall of George.
The object of the bill is to vacate a Grant issued to THOMAS BEALL of George, the defendant, for a tract of land called "Prospect Valley" in Montgomery county, or to obtain a conveyance to the relators of so much thereof as is included in a Certificate of Survey, in the name of the relators called "Hard to come at," and for an account of the profits thereof.
The bill states, that the relators obtained a land warrant to effect vacant land in said county, that it was located with the surveyor of the county on the land afterwards included in the last mentioned survey. That THOMAS ORME obtained the assignment of a warrant that had issued to a certain Patrick Magruder, that at the time he obtained the warrant, it was out of date, but that he fraudulently made the survey first mentioned and antedated it, so as to bring it within the time the warrant was by law admitted to operate, that the assignment of the warrant, if at all made to Beall, in whose name the survey was made, was also antedated, that the survey was made for the use and benefit of Orme, who was then a deputy surveyor of the county aforesaid, and to whom Beall has since the patent conveyed the land, and that Beall resides in the District of Columbia.
It is thereupon the motion of the complainants ordered, that they cause a copy of this order to be inserted at least once in each of three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer of the City of Washington, before the fifth day of May next to the end, that the said Beall may have notice of this application and of the subject and object of this bill, and may be warned to appear in the Court in person or by a solicitor on or before the 6th day of September next, to show cause wherefore a decree should not pass as prayed.
1st. SAMUEL HARVEY HOWARD. April 10. 3w. R. C. C.
STRAY COW.
STRAYED from the subscriber, this morning, a brindle COW, heavy with calf the left horn broken off, which is tied up with canvas, two hind legs white, as high as the hams, a small piece cut off one of her ears. Whoever will deliver said Cow to the subscriber, shall be liberally rewarded.
THOMAS CULLIN. At the Navy Yard. April 13. 43.
FOR SALE OR RENT.
THAT elegant three story BRICK HOUSE, on the corner of Falls & Frederick Street in George Town, lately occupied by Mr. Pichon.
Likewise.
THE two well finished three story BRICK HOUSES, adjoining that occupied by Mr. Samuel H. Smith, Printer, on the Pennsylvania Avenue, east of the centre Market House, City of Washington—Apply to GEORGE THOMPSON, George Town. Geo. Town, O.S. 20. tf.
Ten Dollars Reward.
STOLEN or strayed, on Saturday night last, from Mr. Queen's plantation, a bay COLT, three years old, about 15 hands high, black mane and tail, and has a black stripe down his rump. Whoever will bring the said horse to Mr. Donogherty's Tavern, Bladensburg, shall be paid the above reward, and all reasonable expenses. April 13. 4p5t.
JUST COME TO HAND,
AND FOR SALE AT RAPINE, CONRAD & CO.'S BOOK STORE, New-Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol.
A Prospect of exterminating the Small-Pox.
being a narrative of facts concerning the progress of the new inoculation in America; together with practical observations on the local appearance, symptoms, and mode of treating the King Pox; including some letters to the author, from some distinguished characters—By Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. professor of that theory and practice of medicine in the University of Cambridge—Price One Dollar. R. C. & Co. have always on hand a good assortment of MEDICAL BOOKS, which they will sell at very moderate prices. April 4. M & F6t.
Came to the subscriber's plantation.
the 23d of March a Bay Horse about thirteen and a half hands high, appears to be about seven years old this Spring, he has some white spots on his back; the owner is desired to come, prove his property pay charges and take him away. WILLIAM MULLIKIN. April 10, 1803.
WILD MEDLEY,
WILL stand in the city of Washington, to be let to mares at twenty five dollars the season which will commence on the 10th of March instant, and end on the 10th day of August, next; but twenty dollars will be received in full discharge, if paid within the season, and one dollar to the groom in all cases. Good and extensive pasturage, well inclosed, at 50 cents per week, near the city; but, though the utmost care will be taken, there will be no responsibility for accidents or escapes. The above horse is in the highest form, and with uncommon powers. He measures full fifteen hands three inches high, and is a useful deep blood bay. He was lately purchased of Mr. Stubblefield of Gloucester county, Virginia, by W. Thornton—Enquiries concerning this capital horse may be made at Mr. Rhodes's, and Mr. Lovell's Tavern. March 8th, 1803.
P E D I G R E E.
(Which cannot be excelled.) Wild Medley was gotten by the imported horse old Medley, his dam by Wild Air, his grand dam by Shandy, his great grand dam was the famous running mare old Sportley, which was gotten by old Janus. The dam of Sportley was purchased by General Thomas Nelson from the Spaniards, and sold by him to Col. Lewis Burwell of Gloucester county.
Given under our hands this 14th day of January, 1801.
Means Thornton, Lewis Burwell.
I had the following from good authority Wild Medley, (which was foaled the property of Mr. Nuttall of Gloucester county) ran at four years old four times, and never was pushed, but won every race under a hard pull. He won at King William court-house the three mile heats. He won at Gloucester another purse, and lastly was run by Colonel Hopkins at Hanover Town, and won as I heard, with much credit, the four mile heats. His owner then died, and he has not run since, but has been kept as a stud.
William Johnston.
I certify that I saw Wild Medley run at Urbanna, and in the two mile heats double distance even of the best horses in the country. The first heat, although he carried fifteen pounds over weight, and his rider kept him back as much as laid in his power.
Ralph Wormeley, Jun.
I do certify, that I had two foals got by Wild Medley, a filly four years old this spring sold to John Tayloe, Esquire, of Mount Airy, for 1200 dollars, and a colt now three years old this spring, for which I would not take less than 1500 dollars; and I also am acquainted with several of Wild Medley's colts, which I think as fine as any I know, and I think him a good getter as any horse that ever stood in these parts.
John Wood.
Gloucester county, March 1, 1803. Wood's filly won the Urbanna Sweepstakes last June, beating Mr. Hall's horse; my filly, by Cormorant; an colt Kemp's filly, by American; and I think (but am unable to say positively) she distanced the field the second heat. I also understood she won the Sweepstakes at Wood's Ordinary in Gloucester, by distancing the field. Both these Sweepstakes were two mile heats.
John Tayloe.
I do certify, that I have seen Wood's filly and colt now in training at Mount Airy, the set of John Tayloe, Esq. and I think them both elegant; the colt the finest of his age I ever saw. I have also seen Mr. Gibb's colt, and think him fine. I am credibly informed that Mr. Giles Cook, Colonel Thomas Roan, Major Thomas Hartley, Mr. William Roberson, Mr. Joseph Hall, and several others, all from 300 to 800 dollars for each of their colts by Wild Medley; and I never heard of a horse having so good a character as a foal-getter, nor so much lamented in leaving a place, as Wild Medley in leaving Gloucester county.
Given under my hand this 4th March, 1803. William Johnston. 1aw.
IN CHANCERY April 5, 1803.
ON application to the Chancellor by petition in writing of John Thomas, the third of Montgomery County, praying the benefit of the act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors passed at the last session on the terms therein mentioned, and a schedule of his property and a list of his creditors on oath being annexed to his petition and the Chancellor being satisfied by competent testimony that the said John Thomas the third hath resided in the State of Maryland, the two last years preceding the passage of the said act. It is thereupon adjudged and ordered that the said John Thomas the third by causing a copy of this order to be inserted once in each of three successive weeks in the National Intelligencer during the present month, give notice to his creditors to appear in the Chancery Office at ten o'clock on the tenth day of May next, for the purpose of recommending a trustee for their benefit on the said Thomas's then and there taking the oath by the said act required for delivering up his property.
True Copy, Test, SAMUEL HARVEY HOWARD. 3w. R. C. C.
CHARLES VARDEN, TAYLOR, FROM PHILADELPHIA.
HAS received from Philadelphia an elegant assortment of the best quality Superfine Clothes, Calfskins, Silk Floratine, Black and fancy silk moleskin velvet, white & figured Marcellas, Swandowns, Toilmnettes, Velveteens, Fancy cords, Coating, &c. With a variety of other articles suitable for the winter season. N. B. Ladies Habits, Regimentals and Navy uniforms made in the first style of fashion. New-Jersey Avenue, the second House from the Capitol Square. December 3, 1802.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27.
DIED—on the 25th April, 1803, Mrs. ANN FRETTON BRENT, wife of Daniel Cartol Brent, Esquire, of the City of Washington—Her conduct through life has spoken her panegyric—
"Each lonely scene shall thee restore, For thee the tear be duly shed; I lov'd till life could last no more, And mourn'd till thy's felt he dead."
VIRGINIA ELECTION
For Members of Congress.
The following republican citizens are elected:
Messrs. Randolph, Moore, Jones, Newton, A. Trigg, J. Trigg, Goodwyn, Clopton, Dawson, Eppes, Holmes—These republican citizens certainly elected. The following federal citizens are elected.
Mr. Lewis—one.
In two districts the only contest is between republicans.
Thus stands the election of Virginia: of the result of which we hear so much federal boasting.
There is this day published at the office of the National Intelligencer, in a pamphlet, "A Vindication of the Measures of the present Administration: By Algernon Sidney." Taken from the National Intelligencer. Also for sale at Mr. Rapine's book-store.
We recommend this able performance to our readers as worthy of perusal and preservation.
Federalism has become outrageous at the restoration of our Mississippi rights, and the destruction of all its splendid visions of war and energetic government. The violation of these rights ed the vengeance of its partisans; they declared national honor insulted, national interest prostrated and called for the avenging arm of war. They declared themselves friends of peace, at the moment they demanded war measures to preserve it. The administration and the nation, valuing too highly the blessings of peace wantonly to hazard them, resolved, in the first instance, to try the effect of pacific remonstrance. This, in the opinion of their adversaries, was cowardice and crime. They laughed at the idea of gaining any thing by negotiation. They declared that nothing was to be got but by the bayonet. This idea they inculcated far and wide. In the New-England states, where most of the presses are enlisted in their service, they represented the administration of the federal government as pusillanimous and prepared to surrender national independence rather than to appeal to arms. They profited of the criminal delusion. They gained their elections in New-Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Emboldened by the success of their deception they rallied their forces in New-York, and determined under a veteran leader to make a desperate stand. Their press teemed with deception; and the election being soon to take place they promised themselves with the fruits of a delusion that they knew could only be temporary. But if its effects should be permanent; if they carried their men; they felt little regard for the means.
Unfortunately, however, for them, the letter of the Marquis de Casa Yrujo, announcing the restoration of our Mississippi rights, reached New-York on Saturday. It ought to have been received as a death blow to the hopes of federalism. It ought to have struck with dismay its violent partisans and consigned them to eternal silence. It proved the extravagance of their fears; the folly or guilt of measures that would have led to immediate war; the wisdom of the government in preserving peace; and the falsehood of every calumny that had been propagated against them.
But, notwithstanding, this complete triumph of truth, misrepresentation, with its thousand tongues, still will utter falsehoods, more weak, if possible, than criminal.
The Evening Post asks whether "this is any thing more than a sheer, downright impudent attempt to impose upon, and to gull the people of the United States, in the most gross and shameful manner?"—Again—"But admitting it every word to be precisely true and correct, what is the amount of it? The place of deposit is to be restored for the present—and what then? Is any reparation for losses promised? Is the conduct of the Spanish Intendant disavowed, or himself censured in even the slightest manner?"
"The place of deposit is to be restored for the present—AND WHAT THEN?"
ANSWER. We have restored to us all we ever possessed; all that our treaty rights justify our claiming; and the nation is kept in peace.—Is this nothing? Let the millions answer, whole prosperity and lives must carry us thro' all those wars in which the madness of infatuated ambition may plunge the nation. Let the honest farmer, who now enjoys his

are side pleasures, and all the felicities of domestic life, and the promise of increasing wealth, by whether HE is indifferent to peace?
But it seems, according to the Post, "the place of deposit is to be restored for the present"—disingenuous artifice! The word of the Marquis Yrujo are, "his Catholic Majesty has provided that the deposit shall continue at New Orleans until the two governments shall come to an agreement about another equivalent place."
What more could his Catholic Majesty do or promise? He might have named the equivalent place and imperiously said take it or nothing. But with becoming politeness he has made the fixing the equivalent place the joint act of the two governments. And are federalists ready to swear that no propositions on this point have been made? We say not that they have. But they may have accompanied the published communications.
But it seems the cession of Louisiana to France renders nugatory all interposition of Spain. To this there is a plain answer. Who took the right of deposit from us? Spain. Who now restores it? Spain—Can her acts be called nugatory which have the great effect; or will the postilion of our rights be the less real because they flow from the fidelity of Spain, instead of the justice or the policy of the mighty ruler of France?
It would seem as if federalists expected from the March of Spain a communication from Bonaparte. But had he spoken for the First Consul would they not have treated what he said with contempt? Such declarations would have been absurd, and would have been deserving of ridicule. Let the First Consul answer for himself. His actions will develop his views. He may, though it cannot be expected that he will, invade our rights. When he does invade them, it will be time enough to demand redress. And the people of the United States need be under no alarm lest that demand should not be made. The conduct of the government towards Spain, presents the best pledge of it. Our RIGHTS are SACRED. We will preserve them; and whether the aggressor be mighty or feeble, our course will be the same.
In the first Chamber of the City Council of Washington April 20, 1803.
Resolved That the communication of the mayor of the 14th last month be published.
THOMAS HERTY, Sec. Copy of Communication. Gentlemen of the 1st and 2d chambers of the City Council.
Enclose for your inspection two accounts rendered by the Treasurer of the city of his receipts and expenditures, and of the sums expended on each object for which appropriation was made. These accounts are accompanied by a letter stating his reasons for not having, at its date, entered upon the business of collection.
I have obtained a loan from the branch bank of the United States, in this city, of one thousand dollars, and the said monies arising from the taxes shall be applied in conformity with the act authorizing the loan towards its discharge. This sum and that arising from the tax on hackney carriages, constitute almost the amount received by the Treasurer as you will see by his accounts; and in the application of it under the acts of the corporation a due regard has been paid to economy.
I have not deemed it proper to apply for a further loan as I am authorized to do, under an expectation that the Treasurer will be able to proceed in his collection in such a manner as to render that measure unnecessary.
The act to lay and collect a tax on hackney coaches at the date of the Treasurer's account had produced two hundred and sixty dollars.
I have licenced a market in the west and another in the east of the city—The centre market having been provided by law with the necessary weighing and measuring instruments, it is submitted to the council whether the other two markets ought not to be provided also with like instruments at the public expense—I have likewise licenced a pair of hay scales near the west market. Mr. M'Garty, the owner of those on the capitol hill being dead, it is for the council to determine, if his representatives do not proceed to execute the duties which were required of him relating thereto, whether it will not be proper to grant a licence to some other person, who would build a house and establish like instruments in the same quarter of the city.
The money appropriated for the opening of west 14th street not being deemed adequate to the object, in such a manner as might be most desirable and no subscriptions having offered, in aid of the fund, I caused so much only to be done to it, as I deemed sufficient for marking its direction, and permitting carts and waggons to pass without difficulty.
You will observe by the enclosed letter from the trustees of the poor that the money appropriated for the support
of the poor will not be sufficient to meet the objects of expenditure which may occur before April—The council, with this information, will say what is to be done in this case—It would conduce much to the economy of this department, if the corporation had a house in which the poor might be kept; and as the county of Washington has such a house in the city, it is not improbable that some arrangement might be made with the commissioners about it, which would be mutually advantageous.
The time limited for the citizens to provide themselves with fire buckets has been too short, especially as no provision exists for publishing the acts of the corporation except through the medium of newspapers—Many innocent persons therefore, from ignorance of the provisions of the law, may have incurred its penalties; and it will be proper in the council to pass some act of indemnity.—The same observations apply to the act relating to sealing weights and measures.
The act for lighting and keeping the streets alighted in the city has not yet been carried into effect, from the difficulty of procuring persons to attend to the business, owing to the very inconsiderable inducement authorised by the act—I trust however no inconvenience has yet occurred from the delay: and as the spring is now approaching the expense may be still longer avoided without inconvenience.
I feel some difficulty in the execution of the act which relates to keeping the public pumps in repair—there have occurred some instances, where it would be necessary to take up the walls of the wells, in order to make them deeper, and this operation being so very expensive, and so far above the reach of the funds appropriated to the object of keeping the pumps and wells in repair, that I have directed the contractor to confine himself to repairing the pumps, and to cleaning out the bottoms of the wells, where it was not necessary to take up the walls.
Presuming that it was intended by the act of incorporation to give all the powers necessary to regulate the police of the city, I cannot but recommend to the two chambers to review that instrument, to determine whether they do not possess powers to authorize, by law, the appointment of many officers essential to the place, viz.—Inspectors of flour and salted provisions as well as inspectors of tobacco within the city—Harbor masters and all other officers necessary to carry the acts made by the corporation, under their charter, into effect.—It may be proper also, to examine their powers about taxing retailers of spirituous liquors and ordinary keepers—These last powers have been heretofore exercised by the court, but as the corporation appears to have concurrent power, it is presumed the court would yield it to them as far as it relates to those objects in the city.—I recommend this review to the council from having understood that there are respectable opinions which countenance this construction, that the foregoing powers are vested in the city corporation.
The foregoing communication is made in consequence of the resolution of the first branch of the city council. ROBERT BRENT, March 14th 1803.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Winchester, dated April 23.
"Mr. Holmes's election is now certain—he has a majority of 657 votes, and all the counties in his district have voted, except Augusta.—It is federal, but he will not lose a majority of 200."
An extract of a letter from the American Consul at Gottenburgh, dated the 8th of January, mentions, "That nearly one half of that city was consumed by fire, and that merchandise of every description had fallen a sacrifice to the flames."
Philadelphia, April 23. Extract of a letter from N. w Orleans, dated March 16, 1803.
"The freighting business is totally cut up—There are now in port, seventy vessels, and twenty-five more at the English turn, and if any more come, I do not know how they will find employ. You are concerned in vessels enough, and I would not advise you to send any more—The present freight for cotton is 2 1/2 cents to the United States, 3 to 3 1/2 to Europe."
Philadelphia, 22d April.
Extract of a letter from a Mercantile Gentleman at Rouen, dated March 5, 1803.
"This port being the nearest to Paris of any other, and being situated on the river Seine which runs through it, nothing more need be said as to the advantages that must of course arise to those who address their merchandise direct through this channel for that market—in fact the most part of the goods for Paris from all the ports in this country whether from Marseilles, Bordeaux, Nantes, L'Orient, Havre, &c. are actually relanded here and put into barges to mount the river at a small expence;
or loaded on carts, if greater expedition is required. This is likewise the channel for great part of Germany and Switzerland. And that nothing may be wanted to complete the situation of this place for trade, Government has lately granted the same privileges to this port as those on the coast, namely, that of depositing foreign goods till they are sold, with liberty to re-ship them for any other market. All West-India produce fetch a better price here than in any other place, on account of its vicinity to Paris."
"In this city, and its environs, are very considerable manufactures of all kinds, which alone consume prodigious quantities of your produce, viz. pot and pearl ash, cottons, fish oil, indigo, dye and other woods, sumac, queritrón or American bark, &c. Madder roots (in French alizari) is an article of which there are at least 10,000 bags annually consumed by our dyers for the Turkey red, and by the calico printers, who al make use of considerable quantities of East-India white goods."
"In a late conversation I had with the honorable Mr. Livingston, your Minister, at Paris, I recommended the culture of madder roots in America, which is an article of very great importance, and the consumption of which is daily augmenting in England, as well as here; and from the increased demand, its price has nearly doubled since the peace. It is grown in Turkey, Barbary, in the south of France, Holland &c. but the most esteemed is the Cyprus, which is now at the most exorbitant price of 180 livers per cwt. The Dutch grow and manufacture it into a powder, and export it to England and France, in great quantities. As you have land and climates of all descriptions in your country, I have no doubt of its answering on a trial being made, and of its becoming an article of commerce with you as extensive as lucrative.—Shumac is likewise much in demand here, and nearly of the same consumption, but I never saw any American in this market. The most esteemed here is that of Malaga. Queritrón or American bark, is in repute here, though as yet little known; and the small quantity we have, comes through London at an advanced price."
Extract of a letter, just received at New York, dated Gibraltar, March 9.
"Yesterday by accident, I saw part of a private letter from Mr. O'Brien, at Algiers, to Mr. Gavino, our Consul at this place. As near as I can recollect, he expresses great fears that a rupture will shortly take place between the Dey of Algiers and the United States, owing to our government sending the annual tribute in Cash, instead of naval stores, which he is in great want of. This circumstance, added, to the great present he has lately received from the court of Madrid, has made a demand of 180,000 dollars from the court of Great Britain, as an equivalent for eighteen slaves that made their escape from Oran in an English vessel; this demand I do not think will be complied with. He has also broke his treaty with France, and made a demand upon that government of 60,000 dollars."
"Mr. O'Brien, after saying that he does not think himself safe at Algiers, requesting Mr. Gavino to forward his letters under cover, to the Swedish Consul, concludes with."
"On the 10th of February, a Spanish frigate arrived with the new Spanish Consul, who brought a present to the Dey of 50,000 dollars, besides 120 fathoms, (making 120,000 dollars to pay the arrears due from the court of Madrid to the Regency. Upon the receipt of the money the Dey ordered their cruisers to be ready for sea next week. There is no knowing the force of the Dey's squadron."
A letter of Rousseau to his bookseller at the Hague.
Sir, I am very sorry for that embarrassment which you tell me you lie under, on account of the Savoyard's Creed, inserted in my Emilius; but I declare to you again, once for all, that no power on earth, no censure, no threats, no violence, shall ever prevail on me to suppress a syllable of what I have written. As you did not think it necessary to consult me with regard to the contents of my manuscript, when you treated for the copy, you have no right to make application to me now, on account of the obstacles you may meet with to its publication; especially as the bold truths, scattered up and down in my other works, might very naturally suggest to you, that this was by no means exempted from the like. I am astonished you should ever conceive that a man, who takes so many precautions that his works may not be altered after his decease, would permit them to be mutilated during his life time.
With respect to the several reasons you have urged, you might have spared yourself that trouble, by supposing that I had myself reflected on what was proper to be done. You tell me, that I am censured even by persons of my own way of thinking, approve what I have done; nor is there any action of
my whole life with which my heart is more perfectly satisfied. In ascribing glory to God, and endeavouring to promote the real good of mankind, I have done my duty. Whether they profit by it, or not; whether they approve or blame me for my conduct in so doing, concerns me not: I would not give a straw to convert their censure to applause. As for the rest, to take things in so light, what can the world do to me more than the infirmities of my nature will very speedily do of themselves? The public can neither confer nor deprive me of my reward: this depends not on any human power. You see, therefore, that my measures are taken, let what will happen; for which reason, I would advise you to press me no farther on the subject; as every thing you can possibly advance will be absolutely to no purpose.
Yours, &c. J. J. ROUSSEAU.
The blessings of the Kine-Pock among the Indians.
Extract of a letter from the Rev. Dr. Gant, Chaplain of Congress, dated 28th ult. to Dr. Waterhouse.
"I inoculated twelve of the Miami Indians at the request of their chief, and supplied them with matter. About two months after they left Washington, I received a letter from their Interpreter, informing me that the matter proved active, and that three hundred had been inoculated and gone well through it; and that by the time I could receive the letter, double that number would submit to inoculate; so that it is probable it will extend through all the neighbouring tribes."
(CIRCULAR.) To the Artists and Manufacturers of the United States.
The association of ARTISTS and MANUFACTURERS, instituted in Philadelphia, for the purpose of promoting the arts and manufactures of the United States, having resolved to present a memorial and petition to congress, at their next session, for the more effectual encouragement and protection of domestic industry, request of their brethren every where dispersed, and of similar associations, as far as lies in their power, to transmit answers to the following questions:
Has your trade increased since the peace of 1783, in the same proportion as the population of the United States or of the state you inhabit?
If it has not increased in the same proportion, what are the reasons that, in your opinion, have retarded its progress?
What is the proportion of apprentices to journeymen, and of natives to foreigners, in your township or state?
How are apprentices taken in your trade, and for what period of time?
What has been the average of journeymen's wages for the last seven years; and is it customary to work by the piece or by time?
Are you under the necessity of obtaining any of your tools, or any other commodity, manufactured or unmanufactured, from a foreign nation, in order to finish your goods for the market; and what duty do the tools or other articles pay on exportation?
You are requested also to state what duties are imposed on your finished goods when imported into foreign ports, distinguishing those countries where they are totally prohibited. And as it is intended that the petition requesting an alteration in any law relative to the arts, shall be liberal and founded on reciprocity, you will also state on what terms foreign goods, of the same or similar manufacture to yours are admitted into the United States, that this association may be enabled to state with certainty whether foreign or domestic mechanical industry receives the greatest encouragement and protection from the government of the United States. And if any petition has been presented to Congress, from your trade, you will please to inform us what were its objects and the reception it met with.
In addition to these facts your opinion will be thankfully received as to the kind of protection against foreign competition, that it would be necessary to obtain from Congress.
Our views in collecting the above information will be obvious to every person; it is therefore hoped, that similar societies, and individuals where there are no societies will as speedily as possible furnish such knowledge as they may be possessed of, and transmit it to the secretary, at Philadelphia post paid.
The days for balloting for new members, who have been previously recommended to the society will be on the fifth Monday of every month exactly at 7 o'clock at Mr. Littlewood's.
Signed by order. J. LITHGOW, Sec'y.
CULTURE OF POTATOES.
Letter from Joseph Barrell, Esq. to the corresponding Secretary of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society.
Pleasing-Hill, Jan. 1, 1803. In the spring of the last year, I found in the ground a large Irish apple potato,
toe, which had lain there all winter. This potatoe contained twelve eyes, which I carefully separated, and planted in four different hills in my garden, three eyes in each hill. I dunged the hills well with horse dung which had rotted in the hot-bed the last season; from these four hills I gathered two hundred and thirty-two potatoes; two hundred and ten of them were fit for the pot, and one hundred of the largest weighed thirty-four pounds. The core of this potatoe, without either skin or eye, I cut into six pieces, and planted in one hill; from this I gathered twenty-two potatoes, all very small, none bigger than a large cranberry; so that the whole produce was two hundred and sixty-four. It is remarkable, all the potatoes that were from the core were of the true Irish apple kind, and all that were from the eyes were of a kind very much like the English whites.
It should be remarked, that the Irish apple potatoe is not a great bearer, and that the pall season was not favorable to potatoes.
Memo. The whole produce of this potatoe I have preserved, and mean next season, to give it a fair trial, and notice the produce of the whole.
I have, for several years, made experiments on potatoes, some of which I communicated to the Society, and from them I am fully convinced, that small potatoes are as good for feed as large, that three in a hill is better than a large quantity, that cut potatoes are better than whole, and that the eyes are best of all.
The past season I planted my potatoe field chiefly with eyes, and had in some parts, a prodigious increase; and in the field throughout, full as large a crop as any of my neighbors, although they planted from eight to ten bushes on an acre, and I planted a short half bushel on an acre, and had I cut the eyes carefully, I am sure there would not have been a peck to an acre. In this method there will be an immense saving of more than nineteen twentieths of the seed, which is well worth the attention of every farmer who dares to differ from the practice of his father. My overstock, wanting faith in this method, planted a single large potatoe, with many eyes in a hill by itself; he gave it three times as much dung as any other hill, and it produced only thirty-four potatoes of all sizes. I am, &c. JOSEPH BARRELL.
FOR SALE,
At public vendue, at Rhodes's City Tavern on Saturday the 21st May next, the following valuable lots in the City of Washington, viz.
LOTS No. 1 and 2 in square No. 35. Lots No. 17 and 18 in square No. 47 and lots No. 1 and 2 in square No. 141—for approved rates negotiable at 6 and 12 months with interest.
Thomas Herty will show the lots and titles to any person inclined to purchase at private sale, previous to the above time.
J. CONNOR, Auctioneer. April 25, 1803.
THOMAS CARPENTER, TAYLOR HAS just received by recent arrivals in Philadelphia, from England, and the East Indies, a handsome assortment of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, of the best quality, also Patent water proof Cloth's and Cashmere's, superior Navy Blue and other colours; handsome NAVY & FASHIONABLE BUTTONS, &c. Gentlemen of ARMY, NAVY and FASHION served with expedition and taste.
New Jersey Avenue, seventh house from Capitol Square and Pennsylvania Avenue near the President's square. April 13 1803.
CARVING & GILDING.
THE Subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public in general he has commenced the above business on the Pennsylvania Avenue a few doors east of Mr. Martin's Tavern, where all kinds of looking glass and picture frames window and bed cornices, grandoles, brackets, &c. &c. may be had on the shortest notice, he flatters himself by constant attention to give general satisfaction to those who may please to favour him with their order. ISAAC COOPER.
Whereas the Commissioners
named and authorised in the commission of bankruptcy awarded and issued against ISAAC POLOCK, of the district of Columbia, have certified to the honorable William Cranch, assistant judge of the circuit court of the district of Columbia, that the said Isaac Pollock hath in all things conformed himself to the directions of the act of the United States for establishing an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States—Notice is hereby given that the said certificate will be allowed and confirmed as the act of Congress aforesaid directs, unless cause be shown to the contrary on or before the 25th day of April next, on which day, between the hours of 9 and 12 o'clock, the judge will attend at Stella's Hotel, in the city of Washington.
By order of the honorable Wm. Cranch.
URLAH FORREST, Clerk. April 4
NOTICE.
It is mutually agreed by the subscribers, that from and after this date the partnership that has heretofore subsisted between us, be dissolved.
ROBERT MILLER, JOHN DOUGLAS. April 13

PROPOSALS
FOR CARRYING THE Mails of the United States, On the following Post Roads...
IN MAINE.
1. From Soodie by Dennysville, Machias, Jones, Addis, Harrington, Steubenville, Sullivan and Trenton, to Plantation No. 6 on the West side of the St. John's River once a week...
May 1st to November 1st.
Leave Portland every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. and arrive at Portsmouth by 7 a.m. Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 7 1/2 a.m. and arrive at Portland by 8 1/2 p.m.
November 1st to May 1st.
Leave Portland every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1 1/2 p.m. and arrive at Portsmouth the next days by 1 p.m. Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 12 1/2 noon, and arrive at Portland the next days by 11 1/2 a.m.
day and Saturday at 3 a.m. and arrive at Portsmouth by 7 a.m. Leave same every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 1/2 a.m. and arrive at Portland by 8 1/2 p.m.
November 1st to May 1st.
Leave Portland Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 1 1/2 p.m. and arrive at Portsmouth the next days by 1 p.m. Leave Portsmouth every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12 1/2 noon, and arrive at Portland the next days by 11 1/2 a.m.
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
14. From Portsmouth by Dover, Rochester, Middlesex, Ossipee, Mount Vernon, Centre Harbour, Plymouth, New Hampton, Meredith, Gilmanstown, Nottingham & Durham to Portsmouth once a week, and by the contrary route the next week, so as to carry the mail alternately. Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Plymouth on Thursday 7 p.m. Leave Plymouth every Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Portsmouth the next Tuesday by 9 a.m.
15. From Portsmouth N. H. by Exeter, Kingston, Havrehill, Andover, Wilton, Woburn and Medford to Boston three times a week. Leave Portsmouth every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. and arrive at Boston by 7 p.m. Leave Boston every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3 a.m. and arrive at Portsmouth by 7 p.m.
16. From Exeter by Chester, Londonderry, Amherst, Peterboro, Marlboro and Keene to Walpole once a week. Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Amherst on Wednesday by 7 p.m. Leave Amherst on Thursday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Keene by 7 p.m. Leave Keene Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Walpole on Friday by 10 a.m. Returning. Leave Walpole every Friday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Keene by 7 p.m. Leave Keene on Saturday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Amherst by 6 p.m. Leave Amherst at 7 p.m. and arrive at Exeter on Monday by 3 p.m.
17. From Exeter by Nottingham, Concord, Salisbury, Grafton, Canaan and Lebanon to Hanover once a week. Leave Exeter every Tuesday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Concord on Wednesday by 10 a.m. Leave Concord at 11 a.m. and arrive at Hanover on Friday by 9 a.m. Returning. Leave Hanover every Friday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Exeter on Monday by 3 p.m.
18. From Havrehill Ms. by Chichester, Pembroke, Boscawen, Salisbury, Plymouth, Rumney and Havrehill to Newbury, Vt. once a week. Leave Havrehill every Tuesday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Chichester by 5 p.m. and at Concord on Wednesday by 10 a.m. Leave Concord at 4 p.m. and arrive at Plymouth on Thursday by 7 p.m. and arrive at Havrehill on Friday by 5 p.m. Leave Havrehill at 3 1/2 p.m. and arrive at Newbury by 7 p.m. Returning. Leave Newbury every Saturday at 6 a.m. on Monday by 10 a.m. Leave Concord at 11 a.m. and arrive at Havrehill, Ms. on Tuesday by 10 a.m.
19. From Hanover by Oxford to Haverhill once a week. Leave Hanover every Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Haverhill by 5 p.m. Leave Haverhill every Saturday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Hanover by 6 p.m.
20. From Havrehill by Bath, Littleton and Dalton to Lancaster once a week. Leave Lancaster every Thursday at 3 p.m. and arrive at Havrehill on Friday by 5 p.m. Leave Havrehill every Saturday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Lancaster on Monday by 8 a.m.
21. From Groton, Ms. by Townsend, Athol, New Ipswich, Jaffrey, Marlboro, Keene and Goshen to Battleboro once a week. Leave Groton every Thursday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Battleboro on Friday by 10 a.m. Leave Battleboro every Friday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Groton on Saturday by 3 p.m.
IN VERMONT.
22. From Rutland by Clarendon, Tinmouth, Danby, Dorset, Manchester, Arlington, Shasbury, Bennington, Langenburg and Troy to Albany twice a week. Leave Rutland every Monday and Thursday at 8 a.m. and arrive at Bennington on Tuesday and Friday by 8 p.m. Leave Bennington every Thursday and Saturday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Albany by 4 p.m. Returning. Leave Albany every Monday and Thursday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Bennington by 7 p.m. Leave Bennington every Tuesday and Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Rutland on Wednesday and Saturday by 3 p.m.
a week. Leave Rutland every Monday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Winifred on Tuesday by 10 a.m. Leave Winifred every Tuesday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Rutland on Wednesday by 6 p.m.
26. From Burlington by Jericho, Montpelier, Williamstown, Randolph, Royalton and Woodstock to Windsor once a week. Leave Burlington every Wednesday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Montpelier on Thursday by 10 a.m. Leave Montpelier on Thursday 11 a.m. and arrive at Windsor on Friday by 7 p.m. Returning. Leave Windsor every Saturday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Montpelier on Monday by 5 p.m. Leave Montpelier on Monday by 4 p.m. and arrive at Burlington on Tuesday by 3 p.m.
27. From Montpelier by Barre, Washington, Cambs, Bradford, Newbury, Ryegate, Barre, Peacham and Danville to St. Johnsbury once a week. Leave Montpelier every Thursday at noon, and arrive at Newbury on Friday by 7 p.m. Leave Newbury on Saturday at 6 a.m. and arrive at St. Johnsbury by 5 p.m. Returning. Leave St. Johnsbury every Tuesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Montpelier on Thursday by 11 a.m.
28. From Middlebury by New Haven, Monson, Hinesburg, Williston, Jericho, Essex, Westford, Fairfax, Fairfield and Sheldon to Huntingburg, and from thence by Berkshire, Ennsburg, Bakersfield, Cambridge, Underhill, Jericho, Richmond, Huntington, Starksboro, and Bristol to Middlebury once a week. Leave Middlebury every Wednesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Huntingburg on Friday by 11 a.m. Leave Huntingburg at 2 p.m. and arrive at Middlebury the next Monday by 7 p.m.
29. From Rutland by Grafton, Fairhaven, Benon, Orwell, Shoreham and Addison to Vergennes once a week. Leave Rutland every Monday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Fairhaven by 10 a.m. Leave Fairhaven at noon, and arrive at Vergennes on Tuesday at 2 p.m. Returning. Leave Vergennes every Tuesday at 4 p.m. and arrive at Fairhaven on Wednesday by 6 p.m. and at Rutland on Thursday by noon.
30. From Bennington by Marlboro, Wadsworth and Woodford to Brattleboro once a week. Leave Bennington every Thursday at 9 p.m. and arrive at Brattleboro on Friday by 11 a.m. Leave Brattleboro every Friday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Bennington on Saturday by 4 p.m.
31. From Rutland by Cavendish, Grafton, Rockingham, and Bellows Falls to Walpole, N. H. once a week. Leave Rutland every Wednesday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Walpole on Thursday 6 p.m. Leave Walpole every Saturday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Rutland on Sunday by 10 a.m.
IN MASSACHUSETTS.
32. From Newburyport by Amesbury to Haverhill once a week. Leave Haverhill every Monday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Newburyport by 11 a.m. Leave Newburyport same day at 1 p.m. and arrive at Haverhill by 8 p.m.
33. From Salem by Danvers, Topsfield, Boxford and Beverly to Haverhill once a week. Leave Salem every Friday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Haverhill by 11 a.m. Leave Haverhill at 1 p.m. and arrive at Salem by 7 p.m. the same day.
34. From Boston by Salem to Gloucester three times a week. Leave Boston every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Gloucester by 6 p.m. Returning. Leave Gloucester every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Boston by 6 p.m.
35. From Salem to Marblehead six times a week. Leave Salem every day, Sunday excepted, at noon, and arrive at Marblehead by 1 p.m. Leave Marblehead at half past 2 o'clock p.m. and arrive at Salem by 4 p.m.
36. From Boston by Billerica, Chelmsford, Lowell, Nashua, Manchester, Amherst, N. H. Francisstown, Washington and Clermont to Windsor Vt. once a week. Leave Boston every Wednesday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Amherst by 8 p.m. Leave Amherst on Thursday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Windsor on Friday by 10 a.m. Returning. Leave Windsor every Friday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Amherst on Saturday by 8 p.m. Leave Amherst on Monday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Boston by 8 p.m.
37. From Billerica by Patucket Bridge, Dracut, Lowell and Wicwasic to Londonderry once a week. Leave Billerica every Monday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Londonderry by 11 a.m. Leave Londonderry at 1 p.m. and arrive at Billerica by 8 p.m.
38. From Boston by Concord and Littleton to Groton once a week, and from Boston by Concord and Westford to Groton once a week. Leave Boston every Wednesday and Saturday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Concord by 11 a.m. Leave Concord at noon, and arrive at Groton by 5 p.m. Returning. Leave Groton every Monday and Thursday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Concord by 11 a.m. Leave Concord at 1 p.m. and arrive at Boston by 7 p.m.
every Monday and Thursday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Concord by 11 a.m.
40. From Leominster by Westminster, Templeton, Gerry, Athol, New Salem, Wendell and Montague to Greenfield by the Turnpike road once a week. Leave Leominster every Thursday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Greenfield by 7 p.m. Leave Greenfield every Saturday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Leominster by 7 p.m.
41. From Boston by Dedham, Medford, Medway, Bellingham, Milford, Mendon, Uxbridge, Douglas, Thompson, Paxton, Ashford and Tolland to Hartford Ct. once a week. Leave Boston every Tuesday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Hartford on Thursday by 5 p.m. Leave Hartford every Friday at 8 a.m. and arrive at Boston on Monday by 4 p.m.
42. From Boston by Dedham, Wrentham, Attleboro, Providence, R. I. Scituate, Plainfield, Chittenden, New London, Lyme, Saybrook, Killingworth, Guilford and Branford to New Haven once a week.
May 1st to November 1st.
Leave Boston every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Providence by 2 p.m. and at New Haven on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 2 1/2 p.m. Returning. Leave New Haven every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at half past 5 a.m. and arrive at Providence on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 7 a.m. and at Boston by 3 p.m.
November 1st to May 1st.
Leave Boston every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8 a.m. and arrive at Providence by 6 p.m. Leave Providence on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4 a.m. and arrive at New London by 8 p.m. Leave New London every Wednesday, Friday and Monday at 4 a.m. and arrive at New Haven by 8 p.m. Returning. Leave New Haven every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 4 a.m. and arrive at New London by 8 p.m. Leave New London every Wednesday, Friday and Monday at 4 a.m. and arrive at Providence by 8 p.m. Leave Providence every Thursday, Saturday and Tuesday, and arrive at Boston by 4 p.m.
May 1st to November 1st.
Leave Boston every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Taunton on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by 1 p.m. and at New Bedford at 8 p.m. Returning. Leave New Bedford every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 9 p.m. and arrive at Taunton on Wednesday, Friday and Monday by 11 a.m. and at Boston by 8 p.m.
November 1st to May 1st.
Leave Boston every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Taunton by 8 p.m. Leave Taunton in half an hour and arrive at New Bedford on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by 8 p.m. Returning. Leave New Bedford every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Taunton by 8 p.m. Leave Taunton in half an hour and arrive at Boston on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by 8 p.m.
44. From Boston by Milton, Randolph, Bridgewater, Raynham, Taunton, Dighton, Somerset and Swazey to Warren R. I. once a week. Leave Boston every Monday at 3 p.m. and arrive at Warren on Tuesday by 10 a.m. Leave Warren every Thursday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Boston on Saturday at 10 a.m.
45. From Boston by Dorchester, Quincy, Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, Hanover, Pembroke and Kingston to Plymouth twice a week. Leave Boston every Tuesday and Friday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Plymouth by 7 p.m. Leave Plymouth every Monday, and Thursday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Boston by 7 p.m.
46. From Hingham by Cohasset Scituate, Marshfield and Duxbury to Kingston once a week. Leave Hingham every Wednesday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Kingston by 11 a.m. Leave Kingston every Wednesday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Hingham by 8 p.m.
47. From Plymouth by Sandwich, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, Quatam, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Bellingham and Truro to Provincetown. Leave Plymouth every Wednesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Sandwich by 10 a.m. Leave Sandwich at 11 a.m. and arrive at Provincetown on Friday by noon. Returning. Leave Provincetown every Friday by 3 p.m. and arrive at Plymouth on Sunday by 6 p.m.
48. From Sandwich by Falmouth, and Holmhurst to Edgartown once a week. Leave Sandwich every Wednesday noon and arrive at Edgartown on Thursday by 1 p.m. Leave Edgartown every Thursday at 4 p.m. and arrive at Sandwich on Wednesday by 10 a.m.
49. From New Bedford to Nantucket twice a week. Leave New Bedford every Monday and Friday at 3 a.m. and arrive at Nantucket by 8 p.m. Leave Nantucket every Wednesday and Monday at 3 a.m. and arrive at New Bedford by 8 p.m.
with every Wednesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Newport on Thursday by 2 p.m.
51. From Providence by North Providence, Cumberland, Mendon, Upton, Grafton, Worcester, Holden, Rutland, Barre, P. T. Ashford, Orange, Warwick, Northfield and Hinsdale to Battleboro, and thence by Wendell, New Salem, Peterboro, and the same route to Providence once a week. Leave Providence every Tuesday at 10 a.m. and arrive at Battleboro on Friday by 9 a.m. Leave Battleboro every Friday at 2 p.m. and arrive at Providence on Monday by 5 p.m.
52. From Worcester by Boyleston to Lancaster once a week. Leave Worcester every Wednesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Lancaster by noon. Leave Lancaster every Wednesday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Worcester by 6 p.m.
53. From Brookfield by Belchertown, Haully, Northampton, Chieffield, Worthington, Partridgefield, Dalton, Pittsfield, Hancock and New Lebanon to Albany once a week. Leave Brookfield every Monday and Thursday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Worthington by 8 p.m. Leave Worthington every Tuesday and Friday at 4 a.m. and arrive at Albany by 7 p.m. Returning. Leave Albany every Wednesday and Saturday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Brookfield on Friday and Monday by 7 p.m.
54. From Springfield by West Springfield, Westfield, Russell, Blandford, London, Bethlehem, Tyringham, Stockbridge and West Stockbridge, to Kinderhook once a week. Leave Springfield every Thursday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Kinderhook on Friday by 6 p.m. Leave Kinderhook every Saturday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Stockbridge by 6 p.m. Leave Stockbridge on Tuesday at 4 p.m. and arrive at Springfield on Wednesday by 5 p.m.
55. From Springfield by South Hadley to Northampton once a week. Leave Springfield every Monday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Northampton by 11 a.m. Leave Northampton every Monday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Springfield by 7 p.m.
56. From Bennington Vt. by Pownal, Williamstown, Alford, Lanesboro, Pittsfield, and Lenox to Stockbridge once a week. Leave Bennington every Wednesday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Stockbridge by 6 p.m. Leave Stockbridge every Thursday at 6 a.m. and arrive at Bennington by 6 p.m.
RHODE ISLAND.
57. From Providence by Barrington, Bristol and Warren to Newport 6 times a week in summer and three times in winter.
May 1st to November 1st.
Leave Providence every day Sunday excepted at 7 a.m. and arrive at Newport by 4 P.M. Leave Newport every day Sunday excepted at 8 A.M. and arrive at Providence by 4 p.m.
November 1st to May 1st.
Leave Providence every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 a.m. and arrive at Newport 4 p.m. Leave Newport every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 7 a.m. and arrive at Providence 4 p.m.
58. From Providence by East Greenwich, Little R. R. and Wickford to Tiverton once a week. Leave Providence every Friday at 4 a.m. and arrive at Tiverton by 11 a.m. Returning. Leave Tiverton every Friday at 1 p.m. and arrive at Providence by 8 p.m.
59. From Newport by Towerhill, Charlestown, Westerly, Stonington Co. and Groton, to New London, twice a week. Leave Newport every Tuesday and Thursday at 10 a.m. and arrive at New London on Wednesday and Friday by 3 p.m. Returning. Leave New London every Tuesday and Thursday at 9 a.m. and arrive at Newport on Wednesday and Friday by noon.
60. From Providence to Taunton once a week. Leave Providence every Monday at 10 a.m. and arrive at Providence by 3 p.m. Leave Providence every Tuesday at 5 a.m. and arrive at Taunton by noon.
In Case of WILLIAM DYER, A BANKRUPT.
WHEREAS a commission of bankruptcy, founded on the act of Congress, entitled "An act to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," hath been awarded against William Dyer, of the city of Washington, a trader; and whereas the major part of the commissioners in the said commission named, have desired the said William Dyer to be bankrupt; he is hereby required to surrender himself to the said commissioners, or the major part of them on the 2nd of March instant, and on the 9th and 28th days of April next, at the hour of 5 o'clock P.M. on each of said days at the public hall in Washington county, then and there to make a full and true discovery, & disclosure of his estate and effects, when and where the creditors are to come prepared to prove their claims, at the second sitting, to choose assignees, and at the third, to assent to or dissent from the allowance of his certificate, all persons indebted to the said bankrupt, or who have any of his estate or effects in their hands, are not to pay or deliver the same to him, but give notice thereof to
JOHN C. DENT,
Secy. to the Commissioners.
March 18th 1807w
STONE-CUTTERS.
Wanted to work at the Capitol, a number of good stone-cutters, to whom generous wages will be given. GEORGE BLAGDEN. Washington, April 22. 3r