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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. III.
WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
No. CCCLXXII.
FIVE DOLLS. PER ANN.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9th, 1803.
PAID IN ADVANCE.
[By Authority.]
SEVENTH CONGRESS
OF THE
UNITED STATES;
AT THE SECOND SESSION, Begun and held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday, the sixth of Decem- ber, one thousand eight hundred and two.
AN ACT
Supplementary to the "Act concerning Consuls and Vice-Consuls, and for the further protection of American Sea- men."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That before a clearance be granted to any vessel bound on a foreign voyage, the master thereof shall deliver to the collector of the customs, a list, contain- ing the names, places of birth and resi- dence, and a description of the persons who compose his ship's company, to which list the oath or affirmation of the captain shall be annexed, that the said list contains the names of his crew, to- gether with the places of their birth and residence, as far as he can ascertain them, and the said collector, shall deliv- er him a certified copy thereof, for which the collector shall be entitled to receive the sum of twenty-five cents; and the said master shall moreover enter into bond with sufficient security, in the sum of four hundred dollars, that he shall exhibit the aforesaid certified copy of the list to the first boarding officer, at the first port in the United States, at which he shall arrive on his return there- to, and then and there also produce the persons named therein, to the said board- ing officer, whose duty it shall be to exam- ine the men with such list, and to re- port the same to the collector, and it shall be the duty of the collector at the said port of arrival, (where the same is different from the port from which the vessel originally sailed) to transmit a copy of the list to reported to him, to the collector of the port from which said vessel originally sailed: Provided , That the said bond shall not be forfeited on account of the said master not produc- ing to the first boarding officer, as afore- said, any of the persons contained in the said list, who may be discharged in a for- eign country with the consent of the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent there residing, certified in writing, under his hand and official seal, to be produced to the col- lector with the other persons composing the crew as aforesaid; nor on account of any such person dying or absconding, or being forcibly impressed into other service, of which satisfactory proof shall be then also exhibited to the collector.
SECT. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of every master or commander of a ship or vessel, be- longing to citizens of the United States who shall sail from any port of the Uni- ted States, after the first day of May next, on his arrival at a foreign port, to deposit his register, sea letter, and Me- diterranean passport, with the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice- commercial agent, (if any there be at such port;) that in case of refusal or neglect of the said master or commander, to deposit the said papers as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay five hundred dollars, to be recovered by the said consul, vice- consul, commercial agent, or vice-com- mercial agent, in his own name, for the benefit of the United States, in any court of competent jurisdiction; and it shall be the duty of such consul, vice- consul, commercial agent, or vice-com- mercial agent, on such master or com- mander producing to him a clearance from the proper officer of the port, where his ship or vessel may be, to deliv- er to the said master or commander all of his said papers: Provided , such mas- ter or commander shall have complied with the provisions contained in this act, and those of the act to which this is a supplement.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever a ship or vessel belonging to a citizen of the United States, shall be sold in a foreign country, and her company discharged, or when a seaman or mariner, a citizen of the United States, shall, with his own consent, be discharged in a foreign country, it shall be the duty of the master or commander to produce to the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, the list of his ship's company, cer- tified as aforesaid; and to pay to such consul, vice-consul, commercial agent,
or vice-commercial agent, for every sea- man or mariner so discharged, being de- signated on such list as a citizen of the United States, three months pay, over and above the wages which may then be due to such mariner or seaman, two thirds thereof to be paid by such consul, or commercial agent, to each seaman or mariner so discharged, upon his engage- ment on board of any vessel to return to the United States, and the other re- maining third to be retained for the pur- pose of creating a fund for the payment of the passages of seamen or mariners, citizens of the United States, who may be desirous of returning to the United States, and for the maintenance of A- merican seamen who may be destitute, and may be in such foreign port, and the several sums retained for such fund shall be accounted for with the treasury every six months by the persons receiving the same.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, vice- commercial agents of the United States, from time to time to provide for the ma- riners and seamen of the United States, who may be found destitute within their districts respectively, sufficient subsistence and passages to some port in the United States, in the most reasonable manner, at the expense of the United States, subject to such instructions as the Secre- tary of State shall give; and that all masters and commanders of vessels be- longing to citizens of the United States, and bound to some port of the same, are hereby required and enjoined to take such mariners or seamen on board of their ships or vessels, at the request of the said consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents or vice-commercial agents respectively, and to transport them to the port in the United States to which such ships or ves- sels may be bound, on such terms not ex- ceeding ten dollars for each person, as may be agreed between the said master and consul, or commercial agent. And the said mariners or seamen shall, if able, be bound to do duty on board such ships or vessels according to their several ab- ilities; Provided , That no master or cap- tain of any ship or vessel shall be obliged to take a greater number than two men to every one hundred tons burthen of the said ship or vessel, on any one voyage; and if any such captain or master shall refuse the same on the request or order of the consul, vice-consul, commercial a- gent or vice-commercial agent, such captain or master shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each mariner or seaman so refused, to be reco- vered for the benefit of the United States in any court of competent jur- isdiction. And the certificate of any such consul or commercial agent, given un- der his hand and official seal, shall be prima facie evidence of such refusal in any court of law having jurisdiction for the recovery of the penalty aforesaid.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the seventh and eighth section of the act, intitled, "An act concerning consuls and vice-consuls," be and the same are hereby repealed; and that the Secretary of State be authorized to reim- burse the consuls, vice-consuls, commer- cial agents or vice-commercial agents, such reasonable sums as they may hereto- fore have advanced for the relief of sea- men, though the same should exceed the rate of twelve cents a man per diem.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for every consul, vice-consul, commercial agent and vice-commercial agent of the Uni- ted States, to take and receive for every certificate of discharge of any seaman or mariner in a foreign port fifty cents; and for commission on paying and receiv- ing the amount of wages payable on the discharge of seamen in foreign ports, two and a half per centum.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That if any consul, vice-consul, com- mercial agent or vice-commercial agent, shall falsely and knowingly certify, that property belonging to foreigners is pro- perty belonging to citizens of the Uni- ted States, he shall on conviction there- of, in any court of competent jurisdic- tion, forfeit and pay a fine not exceed- ing ten thousand dollars, at the discre- tion of the court, and be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three years.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That if any consul, vice-consul, com- mercial agent or vice-commercial agent, shall grant a passport or other paper cer- tifying that any alien, knowing him or her to be such, is a citizen of the Uni- ted States, he shall on conviction there- of, in any court of competent jurisdic- tion, forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all powers of attorney executed after the thirtieth day of June next in a
foreign country for the transfer of any stock of the United States, or for the receipt of interest thereon, shall be ver- ified by the certificate and seal of a consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice-commercial agent, if any there be at the place where the same shall be executed, for which the person giving the certificate shall receive fifty cents.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED, February 28, 1803, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT
To prevent the importation of certain Persons into certain States, where, by the laws thereof, their admission is prohibited.
BE it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of A- pril next, no master or captain of any ship or vessel, or any other person, shall import or bring, or cause to be imported or brought, any negro, mulatto, or other person of color, not being a native, a citizen, or registered seaman of the United States, or seamen natives of countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope, into any port or place of the Uni- ted States, which port or place shall be situated in any State which by law has prohibited or shall prohibit the ad- mission or importation of such negro, mulatto, or other person of color, and if any captain or master aforesaid, or any other person, shall import or bring, or cause to be imported or brought into any of the ports or places aforesaid, any of the persons whose admission or importa- tion is prohibited as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one thousand dollars for each and every negro, mulat- to, or other person of color aforesaid, brought or imported as aforesaid, to be paid for and recovered by action of debt, in any court of the United States, one half thereof to the use of the United States, the other half to any person or persons prosecuting for the penalty; and in any action instituted for the recovery of the penalty aforesaid, the person or persons sued may be held to special bail: Provided always , That nothing con- tained in this act shall be construed to prohibit the admission of Indians.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no ship or vessel arriving in any of the said ports or places of the United States, and having on board any negro, mulatto, or other person of color, not being a native, a citizen, or registered seaman of the United States or seamen natives of countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope as aforesaid, shall be admit- ted to an entry. And if any such negro, mulatto, or other person of color, shall be landed from any such ship or ves- sel, in any of the ports or places a- foresaid, or on the coast of any State pro- hibiting the admission or importation as aforesaid, the said ship or vessel, together with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States; and one half of the net proceeds of the sales on such forfeiture shall inure and be paid over to such person or persons on whose information the seizure on such forfeiture shall be made.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the collectors and other officers of the customs, and all other officers of the revenue of the Uni- ted States, in the several ports or places situated as aforesaid, to notice and be governed by the provisions of the law now existing, of the several States prohibiting the admission or importation of any negro, mulatto, or other person of color, as aforesaid. And they are hereby enjoined vigilantly to carry into effect the said laws of said States, con- formably to the provisions of this act, any law of the United States to the con- trary notwithstanding.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ARON BURR, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED, Feb. 28, 1803. TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT
To provide an additional armament for the protection of the seamen and com- merce of the United States.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized and em-
powered to cause to be built, or to be purchased (if the exigencies of the ser- vice shall require it) four vessels of war, to carry not exceeding sixteen guns each, to be armed, manned and fitted out for the protection of the seamen and com- merce of the United States in the Me- diterranean and adjacent seas, and for other purposes as the public service may require.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of ninety six thousand dol- lars be, and hereby is appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, out of any monies in the Treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized and empow- ered to cause to be built, a number not exceeding fifteen gun boats, to be arm- ed, manned and fitted out, and employ- ed for such purposes as in his opinion the public service may require; and that a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dol- lars be, and hereby is appropriated for this purpose out of any monies in the Treasury of the United States not other- wise appropriated.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate. APPROVED, Feb. 28, 1803. TH: JEFFERSON, President of the United States.
Doctor FENDALL, OPERATOR UPON TEETH.
IS just arrived in George Town, (on his way to Alexandria) and may be seen and consulted at the Union Tavern, kept by Mr. McLaughlin, at any time. The sooner appli- cations are made to the Doctor the better, as his continuance in Town will be uncertain, having been long absent from his residence, to which place he is anxious to return.
DR. FENDALL cures the scurvy in the gums, be it ever so inveterate, in a short time; loosens loose teeth, by making the gums grow firm up to them; renders teeth white and beautiful; prevents their decay; keeps such as are so, from becoming worse, even to old age; fills up those that are hollow with gold or lead, which will not only render them useful, but prevents their aching and further decay; extracts teeth and stumps with ease; makes and fixes artificial teeth. His Colum- bian antiphlogistic Dentifrice for preserving the teeth, gums, locks, &c. and superior he thinks both in clearance and efficacy to any other, is still sold by the Doctor. George Town, Union Tavern, February 22, 1803. Ma-tf.
TAKE NOTICE.
WILL sell five hundred and fifty acres of Land whereon I live, in Fairfax county, within five miles of the court house, and with- in twenty of the City of Washington, Alex- andria, Dumfries, and twelve of the Oca- quann mills, it is a healthy situation, the land fertile, and has about two hundred acres of wood to cut, there is a great proportion of white and red oak, popular and hickory tim- ber—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, eight for the third, and two years for the last payment, a purchaser will find me on the premises. Feb 21st. THOS POLLARD. U.
NOTICE.
In the case of ROBERT M' MUNN a Bankrupt.
WHEREAS a commission of bankruptcy under the act of Congress entitled "An act to establish an uniform system of bank- ruptcy throughout the United States," hath been awarded against Robert M' Munn of the City of Washington, in the district of Co- lumbia, merchant and trader—and whereas the major part of the commissioners named in said commission, have declared him Bank- rupt within the meaning of said act of Con- gress; he is hereby required to surrender him- self to the commissioners in said commission named, or the major part of them on the tenth day of March instant, the 28th day of March instant, and on the 13th day of April next, at the hour of 4 o'clock P. M. on each of said days at the public hall in the city and county of Washington, then and there make a full and fair disclosure and discovery of his estate and effects. At any of said meetings, the creditors of said bankrupt are notified to prove debts against him, at the second to choose an assignee or assignees of his estate, and at the third his certificate will be granted by the commissioners, the due number of his creditors assenting. Persons holding any of his property or indebted to him, will please not to deliver or make payment of the same to him, but to give notice thereof to JOHN C. DENT, Secretary to the Commissioners.
March 2. 2-w3w.
WANTED.
One or two Boys to learn the BOOT AND SHOE-MAKING Business— Apply to JOHN CROOKSHANK. George Town, Jan. 29, 1803. th.
National Intelligencer.
Congress of the United States.
House of Representatives.
FEBRUARY 18, 1803.
BANKRUPT LAW.
Mr. Newton called for the order of the day on the report of the select com- mittee to whom was referred the me- morial from sundry merchants of Nor- folk—the report declares that it is inex- pedient to repeal the Bankrupt Law.
Mr. Southard hoped that a bill re- fecting the location of military land warrants would be first taken up.
Mr. Newton called the report would be taken up. He should consider a re- fusal to take it up now as a denial to take it up during the session.
Mr. Bacon was for taking up business in its regular course without debate.
Mr. Varnum was in favor of taking into consideration the Bankrupt Law.
Mr. Griswold moved a postpone- ment till the first Tuesday in Novem- ber.
Mr. Hastings was against a postpone- ment. The evils under the Bankrupt Law were very great; and if amend- ments could be made, they ought to be made immediately.
Mr. S. Smith was in favor of the mo- tion to postpone, as a discussion of the Bankrupt Law would consume more time than could be spared.
Mr. Griswold said it was not his in- tention to put aside all amendments to the present system of Bankruptcy. His view, on the contrary, was to put the question of repeal out of the way, that the proper amendments might be made. If the House agreed to his motion, he should then move instructions to the se- lect committee to report such, if any, amendments as they might deem advise- able. He thought the principle of the Bankrupt Law correct; that there were at this time defects under that law he also believed. He, therefore, wished it amended.
Mr. Newton observed that the select committee had considered it inexpedient to report any amendments before the question of repeal had been decided; as the proposition of amendments would be entirely nugatory in case the House determined to repeal the law. He re- marked that notwithstanding the long period for which the Bankrupt Law had existed in England, still great doubts existed among the ablest legal characters in that country whether it was not pro- ductive of more evil than good. The evils in this country were undoubtedly very great. But he was averse at that time, on a preliminary question, to go in- to a debate on the effects of the law. He concluded by calling for the Yeas and Nays.
Mr. Goddard said it was not because he was very friendly to the Bankrupt Law that he was in favor of the motion of postponement. Unless the law could be so amended as to obviate the existing evils, he should vote for its repeal. But he was for postponing the question of re- peal, that they might immediately take up the necessary amendments.
Mr. Hastings would be in favor of a repeal unless two amendments were made: The one to extend the benefits under the law to all classes of citizens who were indebted beyond a certain sum; the other, that the property of the Bankrupt, or a certain part of it, should be liable to satisfy his debts. As the act now stands, it gives a mono- poly of benefit to one class of citizens, and is a kind of usurpation of property. He was against the motion to postpone.
Mr. Thatcher said at the House, at this late period of the session was thin, they ought to be cautious in repealing an act of great importance, when the people were not fully represented. He was in favor of the motion to postpone.
Mr. Bayard was in favor of the mo- tion. Such a law ought not to be re- pealed at so late a period of the session. It would be impossible to lay the deci- sion was the result of mature delibera- tion. He had heard a great deal of de- clamation against this law, from some gen- tlemen well acquainted with its provi- sions, and from others who had scarcely read the title of the act. My opinion, said Mr. Bayard, is that the commer- cial world cannot exist without such an act. Its necessity arises from the na- ture of trade, and does not belong to o- ther classes of citizens. It is founded on the principle that commerce is built on great credits; and great credits pro- duce great debts. Owing to the

resolves arising from these and other circumstances the most diligent and honorable merchant may be ruined without committing any fault. Not so as to the other classes of citizens; either the cultivators of the soil, the mechanics or those who follow a liberal profession. They live on the profits of their labour, or on profits derived from credit. It was, therefore, not necessary for other descriptions of persons to contract extensive debts, or to depend on third persons who may ruin them. If a man, who lives by his personal exertions, becomes deeply indebted beyond his ability to pay, it will be owing to fraud or gross neglect; owing to fraud, if he contracts debts knowing his inability to pay; or gross neglect arising from personal indolence which prevents him from making those exertions of labour and exercising that industry that would extricate him from embarrassment. In neither of which cases is he entitled to relief. I will ask if this is the case with the merchant. I will ask if either in Europe, or in this country, a merchant can carry on extensive business without incurring great debts. And his property is always at the mercy of the winds and waves, and the fraud or negligence of third persons. It follows, therefore, that however industrious or faithful he may be, he is liable to be ruined. Besides, what a large description of persons are merchants, and how much public wealth, and national revenue depend upon their pursuits, and let me then ask whether it is not good policy to accord to them a law that belongs to the nature of the profession they follow? If gentlemen knew as that the law ought to be accorded to other descriptions of persons, I have no objection to extending it to them. But give me leave to lay it by to have their law;—the insolvent law. Gentlemen say the person, but not the property, ought to be liberated under the Bankrupt Law. I believe, however, in some of the States, both person and property are liberated under their insolvent laws. Be this right or wrong, the property of the merchant ought to be liberated, because it is otherwise impossible for him ever to rise from the pressure of great debts; and without great debts there cannot be great credit. Therefore, as a merchant you cannot have him without such a law, and you will deny of the benefit derived from his labour. A lawyer may owe ten thousand pounds, and not the less eloquent; a mechanic may be in debt without his labour being obstructed. Nay, this may be a stimulus to him to exert himself to pay off his debts, which cannot in most cases be considerable, and is may afterwards accumulate property. But a merchant deeply in debt can never entertain the hope of discharging them. All other classes of citizens not living on credit, and incurring debts of great magnitude, may entertain a reasonable expectation of paying them off; but no such hope can come to the merchant, both from the magnitude of his debts, and the difficulty, under the pressure of these debts, of making any exertions to relieve himself. The circumstances make a Bankrupt Law necessary to the merchant. The insolvent law is an ample provision for others. But there are numerous other advantages of a system of Bankruptcy; some of which I will state, although it is not to be expected that an exposition of this incidental kind, I can be prepared to go fully into the subject. It is necessary that a control should be lodged with the creditor over a debtor whose property is in a state of delapidation, such as to lose himself and others from ruin. I know that many gentlemen are in the habit of considering this law as exclusively in favor of debtors; but this is not correct. For it arms the creditor with a salutary power over the debtor to rescue himself from ruin. Insolvent laws are exclusively for the benefit of the debtor. You may see the debtor under these laws squandering his property, and sinking into an abyss of ruin, without permitting the creditor to interpose. Not so under the Bankrupt law. In a variety of cases it is in the power of the creditor to compel the debtor to surrender his property, and partition it among his creditors. The practical benefit of this has been experienced in many cases. There has been one case in Philadelphia, in which I am credibly informed 500,000 dollars has been saved. A merchant failed for a million of dollars. Not one farthing was got till a commission of Bankruptcy was taken out; under which ten shillings in the pound had been divided. There was another case, I am informed, in Baltimore in which 300,000 dollars have been saved. Under the Bankrupt law, it is no uncommon thing to have dividends. I will ask if any such thing has ever happened under an insolvent law? The law appears to be obnoxious to some persons because the property of the Bankrupt is liberated; but why keep it in churlish under the Bankrupt law, when it is acknowledged that no benefit is derived from the opposite course under the Insolvent laws. I call on gentlemen to show that the situation of society was better under the insolvent, than it now is under the Bankrupt law. We must have one or the other. We, on our side, show the benefits of the Bankrupt law—let gentle-
men, if they can, show those of the Insolvent law. We show that under the Bankrupt law, it is in the power of the creditor to save the property of the debtor; which is not the case under the Insolvent law. We show that the Bankrupt law is productive of an equitable impartiality, and that it prevents those improper preferences which take place under the Insolvent laws, and those frauds to which the creditor is actually exposed. Let gentlemen recollect that, under the Bankrupt law, a debtor cannot get his commission without the consent of two thirds of his creditors, which restriction prevents him from favouring his creditors. Are any such benefits derived from the Insolvent laws? There are states, in which, under these laws, the person of the debtor, without an incarceration of his person, on a nominal settlement of his debts, is liberated. In cases of this kind, where is the benefit of the creditor? The debtor never comes forward until he is a ruined man, until the schedule of his property will scarcely pay the expenses attending his insolvency. So desperate are these cases, that I do not remember to have ever heard of a dividend. Thus you forfeit all the advantages and expose yourselves to all the evils of the Bankrupt law, in no view which I can take of the subject, can I ever consent to repeal the law. I have heard much of the evils attending its execution, but I have never seen them. I believe as the United States are one great commercial republic, it behoves us to have one uniform rule co-extensive with the union, that the merchant in New Hampshire may know the laws of Georgia. I believe that one great evil of the bankrupt system is its exception of landed property to be for the payment of debts, as it is my conviction that no country can be commercial where land is not answerable for the payment of debts. The exemption of lands from a liability to be sold for the payment of debts is a remnant of feudal policy, and ought to be consigned to the same tomb with its other remainings. I believe also, that states whose lands cannot now be sold will be benefited by the liability. This exemption is to be found only in countries where the possession of power brings hereditary great improvements, and to lock up the property of the country; and even in some of those countries the lands of merchants are liable to be sold for the payment of their debts. Even in England where there is so much reason, from the nature of the government, to fetter property, entailed lands are liable to be sold for the payment of debts. For it has been found that a merchant could obtain an extensive credit, invest his property in lands, and let his creditors at default, enriching himself and his family at the expense of his creditors. This became an encouragement to contract large debts for the express purpose of investing his money in lands, and thus shutting it up from the reach of his creditor. And, no doubt, the same evil has been felt in all the states where the like cause exists. For this circumstance is well known to merchants who have dealings in such states, and to indemnify themselves for their risk they will require a premium on the sale of their goods. The gentleman from Virginia has informed us that the Bankrupt Law has long existed in England, and that to this day it is considered in that country as doubtful whether it has not produced greater injury than benefit. I believe the first Bankrupt Law in that country was passed in the year 1544. Since which it has been uninterruptedly in existence. The commercial world and the British Parliament are satisfied with it. What then does it amount to, that a few speculative men in their closets are against it? No nation would so long have suffered its continuance without experiencing benefit from it. Now, their system, thus matured by the experience of ages, we have adopted with numerous emendations rendering it more correctly applicable to our own circumstances; and our merchants are satisfied. But it is said there are defects in the law. No doubt of it. It is impossible for the human mind, where the relations are so infinite, to form a perfect system. The law was originally designed as an experiment, as such it was passed for five years. Now, after having run but for two years, we are about to repeal it. How are its benefits to be ascertained, until the operation of the law is fairly tried? Repeal it now, and you will be soon called upon again to pass it in a crude state. Whereas, if as the defects of the law appear, you apply the knife or cautery, the probability is that in a few years you will so amend it as to make it universally acceptable. There is great force in the observation that the question of repeal is very different from that involved in the original passage—between the giving it existence at all, and the continuing it after it has gone into effect. I hope at this late period of the session the system will not be abolished. The next Congress will be a more numerous body, and will represent more fully the people, and it is shall then appear to be the sense of the nation to repeal, it can be done. Mr. Bacon, said the gentleman from
Delaware, said to be better acquainted with the interests of professional men and of merchants than with the interests of the cultivators of the soil; he seemed to consider the cultivators of the soil as capable of calculating their income and expenditures to a cent. This was not so. The gentleman was mistaken. Suppose a cultivator sells his farm or his produce to a trader. Suppose the trader fails, and takes the benefit of the Bankrupt Law, is no the husbandman left without remedy? It is no uncommon thing for a man, to abandon the culture of his land, to get a few goods, open a shop, and live in high style; to incur large debts, from which he is relieved by the Bankrupt Law, while the husbandman who trusted him is ruined, without being permitted to avail himself of such relief. I have known many such instances, and I believe these little ostensible merchants very generally avoid the interests of the beneficiaries of the act. It is generally, I believe, these pedlars and shop keepers that have taken its benefit. If the gentleman were as well acquainted with the landed interest, as with that of professional men and merchants, I believe we should have been spared the necessity of hearing a great deal of the learned gentleman's speech. The gentleman asks if the country is in a worse situation now than before the passage of the act. In return, I will call on him to show whether it is in a better situation now than it was then. For these reasons I hope the motion of postponement will not obtain. Mr. Hastings. The gentleman from Delaware has called upon gentlemen to point out the evils of the Bankrupt Law. I will point out its effects in Massachusetts compared with those of the Insolvent laws. Under the insolvent laws in that state if a debtor insolvent that he has not property sufficient to pay his debts and prison charges, he is liberated from confinement. But any property, which he may afterwards acquire, is liable to be taken to discharge his just debts. Is it so with respect to the Bankrupt Law? Under the Bankrupt Law he is discharged from all his debts. Not only so, but he receives a part of his property where with to recommence business. Under the insolvent laws his property remains entire and untouched. Here then is a violation of contract between the creditor and the debtor. A mechanic may fail in consequence of a debt due to him by a merchant who becomes bankrupt. The merchant's property is immediately liberated; but not so with the mechanic. The law is an ex post facto law. Before its passage the mechanic gave credit to the merchant on the faith of the insolvent law. Is not the contract then dissolved by the Bankrupt Law? And does not this go to impair the obligation of contracts? Such a law may, perhaps, be necessary and useful in England; but there is a wide difference between the people of America and England. A large proportion of the people of that country is engaged in commercial pursuits; here the great occupation is agriculture. Therefore the situation of the two countries is not analogous. But I believe that even in England the Bankrupt Law was obtained by commercial influence, and is continued by commercial influence. There the merchant exclusively enjoys the benefit of the act; while the mechanic, the farmer, the lawyer, and the clergyman must lie in prison unless Parliament passes a general act of liberation. Our bankrupt law is a transfer of the English law, with certain alterations. Here in case of fraud, the bankrupt is liable to fine and imprisonment; there he is punished with death. There if he is guilty of gross neglect, he is not only refused a commission, but is put into the pillory, and there if he is declared a bankrupt a second time, and does not divide fifteen shillings in the pound, his person is liable to arrest. Here the case is essentially different. Here the expenses are enormous. I have known instances where the property surrendered has not been sufficient to pay the sum. Six dollars a day are allowed to the commissioners, and if engaged but for a quarter of an hour each commissioner is entitled to six dollars. The law was meant as an experiment; and the gentleman says, though in operation three years, we have not had experience of its good effects. We certainly have experienced that it is destitute of justice; and I believe if it is continued longer, it will be to give a legislative sanction to fraud. I have always considered the business well managed under the Insolvent laws of the several states; nor have I ever heard of any complaints under that law in Massachusetts. I, therefore, believe it best that the business be left to the regulation of the states. I believe the bankrupt law to be entirely for the benefit of the debtor. I ask, if it be for the benefit of the creditor to have his contract dissolved, and the liability of the property of the debtor affected? If it shall be continued, I hope the title of the act will be changed, and that instead of an act for establishing an uniform system of bankruptcy, it will be called an act for establishing an uniform system of fraud throughout the United States. Mr. Lusk. If the proposition to re-
peal be postponed, the committee will be permitted to introduce amendments. I hope therefore that the postponement will prevail. The objections to the law are so contradictory that I am at a loss to decide upon them. The gentleman from Massachusetts has stated a number of objections, and yet he wishes to embrace within the system farmers and mechanics, or in other words to extend what he considers an evil, is, in my opinion, unnecessary how to decide the propriety of the principle of dividing the property of a bankrupt among his creditors, and liberating that which he may subsequently acquire from seizure. This principle has already been carried into effect, and I am bold to say, has been attended with good effects in Massachusetts. What were the previous effects under the Insolvent laws of that state?—The creditor, who was the most vigilant, or who had the most acute lawyer, attached the whole property of the debtor, which is now divided among the creditors. Then there was a conveyance of all property before the debtor availed himself of the act of insolvency—now such a conveyance is nugatory. I can name a number of respectable merchants of large capitals, who have been unfortunate, in consequence of the situation of the country, by French and English depredations, who by availing themselves of the provisions of the Bankrupt law, have divided their property and have afterwards brought into activity their faculties as merchants. Is not this a substantial benefit? The operation of the law is also more just and equal than the Insolvent laws. As to the expenses alluded to, they are reduced one half by the law of the last session. The wisdom of those who have gone before us, has decided on the benefit of the act, and it has been borne out by events. What the effects of the European peace will be we have not had time to see; in two years we shall be better able to decide on the utility of the system. The capital of our merchants has not yet found its level. There have been great and precarious voyages adventured upon during the war, and I believe this law will put down easily from their difficulties those who have suffered. It is therefore most prudent to let the law expire, if it is to cease, by its own limitation. The evils of the system are less numerous than under the old system; though I know the opinions of the commercial world differ. The penalties of this act too are milder than those under the English act; so are all our penalties under other acts, and wisely so. I am sensible there have been abuses under this act, but its having produced more salutary effects, I am in favor of its continuance. Mr. Smith. The discussion of this day ought to convince gentlemen that those were in the right who prayed them not to go into it, as it has effectually destroyed the doing any business for this day. Another reason in favor of postponement is to give legal gentlemen time to turn over their books, and to understand what the bankrupt law really is—and to ascertain whether the objectionable parts to which they refer are in the law or not. For I believe the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Hastings) who has pointed out the objectionable provisions in the law, will not, on examination, find them. As already observed, the law is an experiment intended to be tried for five years. Gentlemen are now for cutting off two years. Is this giving the experiment a fair trial? I understand this to be the distinction between the bankrupt law and the insolvent law. The insolvent law is made to relieve the debtor from his debts, and for his benefit alone. The bankrupt law is made for the benefit of the creditor against fraudulent debtors. For this purpose it was passed; and as far as I am acquainted with its effects, they have operated favorably. What were the effects of the insolvent law on the creditor? Merchants of large dealings in the habit of giving their names and receiving that of a friend to endorse their paper obtained discounts on what were termed accommodation notes; which in tottering circumstances, considering themselves bound to secure those who had lent them their names in preference to their real bona fide creditors, they became false to the latter—that is they favored those who had lent them their names, and nothing else, the whole property went to them, while not a dollar remained for the man who had sold his wheat or his tobacco, or any other article. Against these the door was shut. What was the consequence? A petition came forward from the man thus insolvent, who in Maryland is released from his debts, without either a lien on his person or property. In Massachusetts, we are informed the person, but not the property, is released. And what is the effect of holding any property he may thereafter acquire answerable for his previous debts? You will banish him from the state where such laws exist to those where they do not exist. While he remains subject to such laws he will be idle. Pardon me for the expression, he will be a dead horse that will not work. But he will go where he can.
get an act for himself with some prospect of rising in the world. Now what are the effects in similar circumstances under the bankrupt law? Merchants know generally very well when a man is on the lotter; and when especially they hear that a man in trade is about to secure his securities, they bring him immediately under the provisions of the bankrupt law; and thereby secure the farmer, as well as themselves—so the farmer is at home and does not know the situation of the merchant indebted to him. But merchant watches merchant—and as soon as a commission is taken a fair dividend of the effects of the bankrupt is made among all his creditors. In Philadelphia, not long since, a merchant failed for a great sum—the necessary oaths were taken, and he was likely to get off with two or three hundred thousand dollars, which was however ultimately secured to his creditors under the bankrupt law. In Maryland a merchant in great trade failed for a very large sum. It is true the eye of jealousy was for some time fixed upon him. But money to the amount of 240,000 dollars, that would otherwise have been lost, was seized hold of by the bankrupt act, and but for which the fair creditor's claims would have been defeated. Here then is the distinction between the insolvent and the bankrupt law. In the last there is a fair and honest dividend among the creditors—in the first all such division is defeated, and the effects of the debtor are secured to his friends before he is declared an insolvent. But it is said the bankrupt law has defects. This is a reason for postponing it until the next session, when the aid of gentlemen, who perceive its defects, can be obtained to remove them. But how remove them? By applying its provisions till further than they now extend? The great objection in England is that it is extended too far. I will ask gentlemen, who hold this language, whether they wish to extend it to the whole farming interest? If they do so extend it, I will tell them the farmer will owe them but little obligation. What will be the consequence?—That his landed estate, owing to his misfortunes, will be brought before the commissioners and swept away; whereas, as at present, by working his estate, he may in a few years liberate it from the liens upon it. It is asked, if the community has been benefitted by this act. I will answer that the commercial part of the community has been benefitted; and this is proved by our not having received a single petition for its repeal from any quarter. Mr. Smith repeated his conviction that the law was made for the benefit of the creditor, and not the debtor. It was true that the debtor might feel obliged by the liberation of his person and property; but the creditor, if he had any feeling of justice, would also be satisfied with this effect. No man of feeling would refuse to give up his debts, when his debtor gave up all his property. This, indeed, was the universal practice of merchants. He never knew an instance of the reverse; and they generally went further, and relinquished to the debtor his furniture. But it seems our law is different from the English law. Gentlemen say our law differs from that, inasmuch as under the English system, on a second bankruptcy, the person of the bankrupt only is liberated unless he divide fifteen shillings in the pound;—and they affirm this is not the case under our law. If he could prove that this was the case under our law, he hoped he should be able to induce gentlemen to postpone the bill until the next session, that they might by that time acquire a better understanding of it. The 57th section of our law is in the following words: [Here General Smith quoted the 57th section.] Now this is verbatim and liberatim the same with the British law. I can, said General Smith, give no stronger argument for the postponement. (To be Continued.) NOTICE. This is to give Notice, that the Subscribers of Washington City, have obtained from the Orphan's Court of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, letters of Administration on the personal estate of JOHN M'CARTY, late of the City and County of Washington deceased—All persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof to the subscribers, at or before the 26th day of August next, they may otherwise by law be excluded from all benefit of the said estate. Given under our hands this 24th day of February A. D. 1803. REIMOND BARRY, } Adm's. MICHAEL SCOTT. } N. B. Such persons who have in their possession books or other property of the deceased will please to deliver them to the administrators without delay. R. B. M. S. taw 3w. FOR SALE, A Blacksmith, who is a prime workman, and his WIFE, an excellent Washer and Ironer. Enquire of the Printer. Feb. 21. 7t.

District of Columbia, County of Washington, to wit:
ON the petition of RICHARD WILSON, an insolvent debtor, confined in the prison of Washington County for debt, offering to deliver up for the use of his creditors, all his property, real, personal and mixed, to which he is in any manner entitled, a schedule whereof is annexed to his petition. It is ordered and directed that notice of such application be published in the National Intelligencer and Washington Federalist, for one week before the hearing on the 17th day of March instant, requiring the attendance of the creditors of the said Richard Wilson, at the court house of the county of Washington, in the Capitol, on the said day, between the hours of 9 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, at which time and place will be administered to the said Wilson the oath of an insolvent debtor, as prescribed by the act of Congress passed at the 1st session, entitled "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia" and a trustee will then and there be appointed for the benefit of the creditors of the said Richard Wilson according to law.
By order of William Cranch, Esq. assistant Judge of the circuit court of the district of Columbia, made the 5th day of March 1803.
U. FORREST, Clerk.
Public Sale.
WILL be sold on Tuesday the 15th instant, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon for CASH, at the House occupied by the subscriber on the New-Jersey Avenue, four articles of Household and Kitchen FURNITURE, consisting of Mahogany Tables, pine and walnut ditto, chairs, bedsteads and bedding, a side board, chest of drawers, looking glasses, pot-ovens, &c. &c.
LUND WASHINGTON.
Lost by, or Stolen from, a Lodger at STELLER'S HOTEL, on Thursday last, a POST NOTE, issued by the Bank of Baltimore, for two hundred and fifty Dollars to John Thomas, and indorsed with his name, in blank. The number of the Note and the day of issuing it, are not remembered; but believed to be dated on the 10th of September, 1803.
If the above note is offered in Payment, or to be changed, an enquiry is requested to be made from whom it has been received. If any person will discover the thief, so that he may be convicted, he shall receive fifty Dollars. If any person will deliver the Note to my bar-keeper, he will pay him 20 Dollars, and no questions asked.
PONATIUS D. STELLER.
March 2.
A Valuable Farm for Sale.
BY virtue of a decree of the Chancellor of Delaware, in the case of WM. H. DORSEY, Complainant, against JOHANNA and PETER CASANAVE, infant heirs and ANN CASANAVE and NICHOLAS YOUNG, administrators of PETER CASANAVE, Defendants—The subscriber will on Friday the 18th day of March next, offer for Sale at public auction, the plantation or Farm called "Fair Hill" and the adjoining tract of Land called "George the Third" containing in the whole about 470 acres. The said Lands will be sold together. This Land is advantageously situated, being about 18 miles distant from Georgetown, and about 8 miles from Montgomery Point. The Land is of good quality, and has more than a plentiful supply of Wood and Lumber. The improvements upon it are costly, being a large and convenient dwelling house, brick stable, and other necessary out-buildings. The Sale will take place at 12 o'clock at the dwelling house. Possession at which W. H. Dorsey formerly resided.
Terms of Sale.—The purchaser to pay to the subscriber the sum of 1350 £ current money, immediately on the ratification of the Sale. And give bond with security to be approved by the Chancellor to pay the residue of the purchase money within six months from the day of Sale, with interest from the date. After ratification of the sale and receipt of the whole purchase money, a conveyance will be made by the subscriber to the purchaser of all the said property and his or her heirs of all the rights, title and estate of the petitioner and of the dependants or either of them therein.
SAMUEL BROOKE, Trustee.
N. B. One quarter of an acre including the family burial ground at Fair Hill is excepted from the Sale.
Feb. 22, 1803.
NEW ORLEANS.
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THE Mississippi Question Fairly Stated, And the Views and Arguments of those who clamor for war, examined. Price 25 cents.
March 2.
The Debate on the Mississippi in the Senate of the United States.
THIS important Debate, is now transferring to publication in a pamphlet, and will be published with all convenient dispatch by WILLIAM DRAKE, at his Bookstore, in Washington City, and at Philadelphia.
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March 9.
U. FORREST, Clerk.
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GYMNASTIES, Translated from the German of SAUZAN.
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AN ESSAY ON IRISH BILLS.
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CONTENTS.
 Chap. 1. Young Errours.  2. Etymology of Irish Bull's uncertain.  3. Originality of Irish Bulls disputed.  4. Irish Newspapers.  5. The criminal law of Bulls and Lills.  6. Little Tommick.  7. The Bliss of Ignorance.  8. Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.  9. Practical Bulls.  10. The Dublin shoe Black.  11. The Hibernian Mandarin.  12. Irish Wit and Eloquence.  13. The Brogue.  14. Bath coach conversation.  15. Bath coach conversation.  16. The Life Incognito. 
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Maps, Plans and Charts.
JOHN MARCH, STATIONER.
George Town, Potomack, Has Received from England the following Maps, Plans & Charts, viz.
 MAPS of South America, South Carolina & Georgia, Province of New-York, St. Domingo, New-Jersey, Province of New Hampshire, Newfoundland, Rhode Island, Yucatan, and Frontiers of Georgia.  Plans of Newport, City of New-York, Environs of New-York, St. Elizabeths, Port Royal, and Port Royal Trinidad, Sandy-Hock, Windward Passage, Harbour of St. Johns, Port Royal and Florida Keys, and Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
The above are by Faden, of London; and will be sold cheap for Cash.
March 7.
NOTICE.
THE Inhabitants of the 1st district of the city of Washington (which includes all that part of the City South of Pennsylvania Avenue and west of 6th street west) and others holding property in said district, are hereby informed that the Subscriber will attend for the purpose of receiving their taxes at Mr. Rhodes Tavern from the first day of next month (every day Sunday excepted) from 3 o'clock P. M. till 6 o'clock P. M. to the gift thereof. It is hoped early attention will be paid to this notice, as the law requires the tax shall be paid within one month from the date of notice, otherwise their property will be subject to distraint and sale which will be very disagreeable to the subscriber.
WASHINGTON BOYD, Treasurer of the City of Washington. Feb. 28.
The Subscriber respectfully
informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of the district, that he is enabled to furnish them with PIANO FORTE'S of a superior quality, which he will ensure for 12 months, provided they are not ill treated. The Pianos being gone from the first hours, can be had as low as any in Baltimore or Philadelphia of the kind.
One of Alford's potent Pianos, superior to any other in town, may be seen at his house, where an assortment of musical Books, Violin Strings, Bridges, &c. may constantly be had. Also, a few dozen Violins of superior quality.
N. B. The Subscriber has removed to the House of Mr. Robert Clarke, formerly occupied by the French Nuns, where it is ready to receive a few Scholars on the Piano, Violin, &c. or to instruct in singing.
F. A. WAGLER. George Town, March 2.
NOTICE.
In the case of Frederick Conrad, Bankrupt.
WHEREAS a commission of Bankruptcy under the act of Congress, entitled "An act to establish an uniform system of Bankruptcy throughout the United States" hath been awarded against Frederick Conrad, of the City and county of Washington, merchant and trader—And whereas the major part of the Commissioners in said commission named, have declared the said Frederick Conrad, Bankrupt within the meaning of said act of Congress, he is hereby required to furnish under his hand to the said Commissioners in said commission named or the major part of them on the 10th day of March next, on the twenty first day of said March and on the tenth day of April next, at the hours of 4 o'clock P. M. on each of said days, at the Public Gast of Washington County—then and there to make a full and fair disclosure and discovery of his estate and effects—At the said meetings, or any of them, the creditors of the said Bankrupt, are required to prove their claims—at the second, to choose an assignee or assignees of his estate—and at the third to assent or dissent from or to his certificate—All persons holding any of the property of the said Bankrupt, or who are indebted to him, are hereby required to pay and deliver the same to
J. C. DENT, Sec. To the Commissioners. February 28th, 1803.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, March 9, 1803.
On Monday the PRESIDENT of the United States left the City for Monticello.
List of Appointments made by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Robert E. Cochran, of South Carolina, marshal of that district, vice Charles B. Cochran resigned.
Joseph Wood, of the North Western Territory, Register of the land office at Marietta, vice Priscilla Foster resigned.
John Lehman, of the same Territory, to be a Commissioner for the purpose of ascertaining the rights of persons claiming lands under John Cleves Symes, vice W. G. Goff resigned.
Daniel Bissell, of the Indiana Territory, Collector for the District of Maclaw, and Inspector of the Revenue for port of Maclaw, vice William Charles resigned.
David Ker, of the Mississippi Territory, to be a Judge in that Territory, vice Daniel Felton resigned.
James Anderson, of South Carolina, Commercial Agent for the port of Geste in France.
Isaac Coxe Barnet, of New Jersey, Commercial Agent at Antwerp.
Aaron Vale, of New York, Commercial Agent of the United States at L'Orient in France.
Thomas Lovell, of B.ston, Commercial Agent at La Rochelle.
Leveut Harris, of Pennsylvania, Consul at Rotterdam.
John Martin Baker, of New York, Consul for the Islands of Minorca, Majorca and Ivica.
Marian Lomar, of Maryland, Consul for the Island of Madeira.
William Patterson, of New York, Commercial Agent at Naniz in France.
William H. Harrison, re-appointed Governor of the Indiana Territory, and appointed a Commissioner to treat with certain Indians, North West of the Ohio.
Thomas T. Davis, of Kentucky, a Judge in the Indiana Territory, vice W. Clarke, deceased.
Jesse Spencer, of Ohio, to be Register of the land office at Chillicothe, vice Thomas Worthington resigned.
Isaac Ilesley jun. of Massachusetts, Collector for the district of Portland vice Nathaniel T. Folsom removed.
Isaac Dayton of New York, Surveyor and Inspector of the Port of Hudson vice I. C. Ten Broeck removed.
Joel Burt, of New York, Collector and Inspector for the district and port of Ohio.
Thomas Dudley, of North Carolina, Surveyor for the port of Swansborough vice A. Carmel, deceased.
Charles Willing Byrd, of Ohio to be Judge of the Dist. Ct. of Ohio.
Michael Baldwin of Ohio, to be Attorney for the same District.
David Zeigler, of Ohio, to be Marshal of the District of Ohio.
Cato West, of the Mississippi Territory, to be Secretary of the Territory, vice John Steele, whose term has expired.
Zachariah Stevens, of Massachusetts, to be Surveyor and Inspector for the port of Gloucester, vice Samuel Whittmore, removed.
Joseph Story of do. to be naval officer for the district of Salem and Beverly, vice W. Pickman removed.
John Heard, of New Jersey, inspector of the revenue, for the port of Perth Amboy.
William Brewer, of N. Carolina, Surveyor and Inspector for the port of Nixenton, vice Hugh Knox, resigned.
Since the rising of the Senate.
Hare Browne Trist, Collector for the district of Mississippi, vice John F. Carmichael.
We notice that by a new arrangement, the City of Richmond in Virginia has been divided into three wards, nominated Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe.
A correspondent, who expresses pleasure on reading in a late Palladium, Dr. Jenner had received "a valuable diamond ring from the Empress Russia," conceives that the American public would be still more gratified to hear, that the celebrated Jenner lately sent Dr. Waterhouse a silver box, of exquisite workmanship, inlaid with gold, and inscribed thus, "Edward Jenner to Benjamin Waterhouse," and supercribed by an intimate friend in these words, "From the Jenner of the Old, to the Jenner of the New World."
Washington, Jan. 18, 1803.
"Sir—Soon after the date of my letter to you of December 10, the memorial of the senate and house of representatives of Kentucky, to the president of the U. States and the senate and house of representatives of congress, came to
hand. In that letter I informed you that we had reason to believe, that the suspension of the right to deposit at New Orleans, was an act merely of the Intendant, unauthorised by his government; that immediately on information of it we had taken measures to have it rectified, and that we had been seconded in this by the cordial interposition of the minister of his catholic majesty, residing here. Further information, showing that this act of the intendant was unauthorised, has strengthened our expectation that it will be corrected.
"In order, however, to provide against the hazards which beset our interests and peace in that quarter, I have determined, with the approbation of the senate to send James Munroe, late governor of Virginia, with full powers to him and our ministers in France and Spain, to enter with those governments into such arrangements as may effectually secure our rights and interests in the Mississippi, and in the country eastward of that. He is now here and will depart immediately. In the mean time, knowing how important it is that the obstructions shall be removed in time for the produce which will begin to descend the river in February, the Spanish Minister has at our request, reiterated his interposition with the Intendant of New Orleans.
"I enclose you a resolution of the House of Representatives on this subject, which, with the measures taken by the executive, will, I hope, furnish new grounds for the confidence which the legislature of Kentucky is pleased to express in the government of the United States, and evince to them that government is equally and impartially alive to the interests of every portion of the union.
"I pray you to accept assurances of my high respect and consideration. "TH: JEFFERSON. "The Gov. of Kentucky."
Letter from the hon. John Breckenridge, to his friend near Frankfort. "Washington, 20th Jan. 1803. "DEAR Sir,
The conduct of the Intendant at New Orleans has excited considerable sensibility here, and it would have been much greater had it not been pretty generally believed that the measure was not authorized by the court of Spain. Measures for redress were taken very early by the President and the Spanish Minister here, believing that the Intendant was acting without authority, sent a pilot boat to Orleans with dispatches, hoping that by his interposition, things would be reinstated in their former condition.
"The subject was also taken up by the house of representatives, and after sundry discussions, in all of which there appeared but one sentiment as to our natural as well as stipulated right to the navigation of the Mississippi, and of the unalterable determination of the general government to support it, the subjoined resolution was adopted. [The resolution was published in a former paper.]
"The conduct, however, of the Intendant in this instance, has plainly manifested, that from the present arrangements we cannot promise to our commerce much prosperity or duration. Indeed I am satisfied that the tranquillity of the union will be liable to such frequent interruption, that it cannot be long preserved in such a state of things, and I am equally satisfied, that the western commerce cannot prosper. Under these impressions, I was much gratified at the appointment of Mr. Munroe, as Minister Plenipotentiary to the courts of France and Spain, who in conjunction with our Ministers resident there, will, I trust, be able to accomplish an object which I conceive all important to the western states, and without which they will never rise to that prosperity and importance designed for them by nature; I mean the enlargement of our territory on the east side of the Mississippi to such an extent as will effectually secure our commerce on that river.
"Unfortunately, however, for the western people, should Orleans continue shut up against them, until the result of the mission is known, considerable injury will be sustained. But we must submit to it. It is the course which the existing state of things has induced the President to take, and which seems to promise us, ultimately, the greatest and most lasting good. Should, however, the mission prove abortive, and should our rights continue to be denied or interrupted, I have confidence that the general government will resort not only to those measures which will completely invest us with, but as completely protected us in, its enjoyment. In such a resort, there cannot fail to be an union of sentiment and of action. No American, of whatever party he may be, can hesitate in adding to restore the violated rights of so large a portion of the community.
"I am far from thinking, therefore, that our western affairs wear an unpropitious aspect; for admitting the interdiction shall be taken off to-morrow, this government will, I trust, never consent to the continuance of a state of things
so precarious and defective as the present.
The whole commerce of near half a million of people, ought not to remain subject to the whim or avarice of foreign officers, not liable (so far as I know) to be controuled by any authority on this side the Atlantic. Some new arrangements ought to be made on this subject at least. But I look forward to arrangements of a higher and different nature, as being the probable result of this mission. I look for such an acquisition of territory on the Mississippi, at least, as will forever free our commerce from the controul of every foreign nation, and place it where it will ultimately be placed, under the exclusive direction of our government. Col. Monroe is now here, and expects to sail from New-York about the first of next month; and I think it probably we shall hear from him by midsummer.
"With my usual respect and esteem, "I am, my dear Sir, "Your friend and servt". "JOHN BRECKENRIDGE."
Richmond, March 2.
At a meeting of those Citizens of Richmond who approve of the Administration of Thomas JEFFERSON, held at the Capitol on the 28th day of February, the following resolutions were adopted, as preparatory to the celebration of the re-establishment of republican government in the Government of the United States.
Resolved,—That the restoration of the principles of 76 which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidential Chair, forms an epoch honorable to the distinguished services of the people of the United States, who disentangling themselves from the influence of presidential patronage, and arriving at truth through independent representations almost impenetrable, produced a revolution, upon the representative system, at peaceful, as judicious and magnanimous.
Resolved, therefore,—That a republican festival be prepared on the 28th of March, to celebrate that happy event.
Resolved, that a committee be appointed to contract for furnishing an entertainment—that they procure public, receive subscriptions, and correspond with such of our fellow Citizens in the adjacent counties as may probably wish to unite with us in reviving those feasts, which it is always our interest to promote and cherish; and the following committee was appointed.—Robert Mitchell, Joseph Scott, Meriwether Jones, Samuel Pleasants, Benjamin Tate, Lewis Hervie, William Moseley, John H. Foulke, Jacob J. Cohen, William Price, Gervase Storis, Joseph Seldin, Henry L. Bitcoe, and Benjamin Hatch. er.
Resolved, That the Committee be directed to request William Lindsay, to deliver an Oration, adapted to the principles which gave rise the intended Festival.
Resolved,—That the committee request the favor of Captain Myers and his Company of Artillerists, to assist in the celebration of the auspicious 4th of March.
ROBERT MITCHELL, Chairman. SAMUEL COLEMAN, Secretary.
A meeting of the Committee of Arrangement for the Festival on the 28th instant, is required this evening at 4 o'clock, at the Eagle Tavern.
Superintendent's Office, Washington 8th March 1803.
THERE will be wanting for public use in this city large quantities of fire-wood, foundation stone, lime, sand, and some bricks—Proposals to supply the same will be received on the fourth day of next month, by THOMAS MUNROE, Superintendent.
N. B. A number of laborers and some timber for joists &c. will also be wanted. March 9. cpt4A.
District of Columbia, County of Washington, to wit:
ON the petition of NATHAN SEGER, an insolvent debtor, confined in the prison of Washington county for debt, offering to deliver up for the use of his creditors, all his property, real, personal and mixed, to which he is in any manner entitled, a schedule whereof is annexed to his petition. It is ordered and directed that notice of such application be published in the National Intelligencer, and Washington Federalist for one week before the hearing on the 17th day of March instant, requiring the attendance of the creditors of the said Nathaniel Seger at the court house of the county of Washington in the Capitol on the said day, between the hours of 9 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, at which time and place will be administered to the said Seger the oath of an insolvent debtor as prescribed by the act of Congress passed at the 1st session, entitled "an act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia" and a trustee will then and there be appointed for the benefit of the creditors of the said Nathaniel Seger according to law.
By order of William Cranch, Esq. assistant Judge of the circuit court of the district of Columbia, made the 5th day of March 1803.
U. FORREST, Clerk.
March 9.

IN COUNCIL, ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 25, 1803.
ORDERED, That the act, entitled, An act respecting the debts due to this state, and the debtors thereof, and for other purposes, be published once in each day, for the space of four weeks successively, in the Maryland Gazette, at Annapolis; the Baltimore American, the Telegraph; the National Intelligencer, Mr. Smith's paper, at Baltimore; Mr. Garet's paper, at Frederick-Town, and Mr. Grew's paper, at Hager's Town.
By order, NATHAN PINNEY, Clerk.
An ACT respecting the debts due to this state, and the debtors thereof and for other purposes.
It is enacted, by the general assembly of Maryland, That the treasurers of the respective shires, with the advice and under the direction of the governor and council, be and they are hereby vested with all and singular the powers and authorities necessary for, and incident to, the demanding, requiring and obtaining, the payment of all arrearages and balances whatever due to the state from the debtors thereof; and the said treasurers of the eastern and western shires, and the auditor, are hereby severally required to furnish the governor and council, when requested, with exact statements of such arrearages and balances; and the governor and council are hereby authorised and empowered to direct suits to be commenced against such debtors of the state as they may think proper and expedient, and appoint an attorney or attorneys to prosecute and conduct any particular suit or suits, as aforesaid; provided, that all suits due to the state shall be paid to the treasurers of the western or eastern shires respectively, and to no other person or persons whatsoever.
And be it enacted, That the governor and council be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to make composition with any of the debtors of the state, and direct the respective treasurers to take bonds to the state with sufficient security, and give time for payment, not exceeding two years.
And be it enacted, That the several sheriffs and clerks of the several counties shall make payment of all monies due to the state, and received by them, or which may hereafter be received by them, for fines, penalties, forfeitures and emendments, and forfeitures, recognizances, and for ordinary receivers and marriage licenses within the time limited by law, and if not, the governor and council may direct suits to be brought against any defaulting sheriff or clerk for recovery of the same, and may credit any money that the party is not chargeable with by law.
And be it enacted, That whenever there shall be occasion to expose to public sale any confiscated British property that remains unsold, or the property of any debtor to the state or his securities, by virtue of any execution already issued, or to be issued for this purpose, the governor and council shall be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to appoint a fit and proper person to act in this behalf on the part of the state, who is hereby directed and required, before he proceeds to act, to give bond, with sufficient security to the state, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties required of him; and such bond shall be made upon such public notice, and upon such terms, as the governor and council shall direct; and such person so appointed as aforesaid to act for and in behalf of the state, in case of the sale shall be directed to be made on a credit, which shall in no case exceed two years, take bond to the state, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the treasurers of the respective shires from the purchasers; and all bonds taken by any person appointed as aforesaid shall be deposited with an accurate list thereof subscribed by him, in the treasury of the western shire, and shall be a lien upon the real property of such purchasers, and their securities, from the respective dates, or so much thereof as shall be mentioned in a schedule thereto annexed, and the said purchaser shall make report of all such bonds to the next general assembly thereafter; provided nevertheless, that the said person so appointed as aforesaid, shall, and he is hereby directed, at the time of any sale of any confiscated property in virtue of this act, to make known that he only sells the right of this state thereto, and that the state doth not warrant the title to the same, or any part thereof, but the purchase must be in all respects at the risk of the purchaser.
And be it enacted, That in all cases of unsatisfied debts, where the same shall be considered a debt, and in all cases of suits depending in chancery with any state debtors, the governor and council shall be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to make compromises upon such terms and principles as they shall think equitable and just; and if, under the terms of any compromise made as aforesaid, the property heretofore purchased shall be taken back and revested in the state, the governor and council may appoint a fit and proper person to sell the same at public sale, upon such notice, and upon such terms, as they shall direct; and the said person so appointed, before he proceeds to act, shall give bond to the state, with sufficient security conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required of him, and shall take bond to the state, with good and sufficient security, to be approved of by the treasurers of the respective shires, if such sale shall be directed to be on a credit, which shall in no case exceed two years, and the bonds, when taken, shall be deposited with the treasurer of the western shire, and reported by the treasurer to the next general assembly thereafter.
And be it enacted, That in all cases in chancery where no compromise is effected, the governor and council shall be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to direct the attorney general to prosecute and defend the same to immediate final decision, and in cases of difficulty, to direct aid to the attorney general, by employing any person to attend to surveys where necessary, or otherwise to assist in the prosecution or defence of said suits, to be paid out of the contingent fund of five hundred pounds.
And be it enacted, That if any bond debtor to the state for confiscated property, or otherwise, shall neglect to
make payment agreeably to the condition of his bond, and sundry resolves of the general assembly, the governor and council may direct process to issue for the whole principal and interest then due, or may proceed on any execution against any state debtor already issued, and served and suspended, as occasion may require, or may direct any execution to be delayed as long as they may think expedient and necessary; and no process shall issue against any of the public debtors unless by the direction of the governor and council; and all sales of property taken by feri facias at the suit of the state, may be suspended by the governor and council from time to time, as they may think most to the advantage of the state, and may direct executions against the body of any state debtor to be entered "not called by consent."
Whereas many persons have made discoveries of British property, confiscated property, or property liable to confiscation, to the governor and council, the late intendant, and late agents of the state, and have made application to purchase the same upon the terms held out by law to the discoverers: And whereas there is no person invested with authority to estimate the value, or fix a reasonable price for the said property, and to compound with the person or persons making such discovery, or with the person or persons applying to purchase the same. Be it enacted, That the governor and council be and they are hereby empowered to compound with all persons who have heretofore made discovery of British property, confiscated property, or property liable to confiscation, either to the governor and council, the late intendant, or any of the state agents, and to allow not exceeding one third of the value of such property to any person or persons having made such discovery, and who shall make application to the governor and council on or before the first day of May next, to compound for and purchase the same, and the said governor and council are hereby authorised to dispose of such property to such applicants, and take bonds with good and sufficient security, to be approved of by the treasurer of the western shire, for the purchase money, bearing interest, payable to the state at the periods that may be agreed on.
And be it enacted, That if such discoverers shall not make known to the governor and council the title of the state to the property aforesaid, on or before the first day of May next, or shall refuse or neglect, on or before that day, to agree for the purchase of the same, that then the governor and council shall be and they are hereby authorised to sell and dispose of the state's right to the said property to any person or persons applying to purchase the same, or may appoint a fit and proper person as aforesaid, who shall give bond as aforesaid, to sell the same at public sale in the manner as herein before directed, without making such discoveries, who refuse or neglect as aforesaid, any compensation.
And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons purchasing as aforesaid any confiscated British property under the authority of this act, to prosecute any suit or suits, either in law or equity, in the name of the state, for recovery of said property for their use; provided that the said state shall not be liable to pay any costs incurred in prosecution of said suits, but that the same shall be paid by the person or persons for whose use said suits shall be prosecuted; and provided also, that in all such sales, so to be made by the governor and council, or under their direction and appointment, it shall be made known, and it shall be a condition thereof, that they only sell the right of the state thereto, and that the state doth not warrant the title to the same, or any part thereof, but that the purchase must be in all respects at the risk of the purchaser.
And be it enacted, That on all sales to be made by the governor and council, and under their direction and appointment, of confiscated property, in pursuance of this act, deeds shall be executed by the chancellor to the purchaser or purchasers, in the same manner as for other confiscated property heretofore disposed of.
And be it enacted, That in all cases where bonds shall be taken in virtue of this act, such bonds shall be a lien on the real property of the obligors from the date thereof, or on so much of the said real property as the governor and council shall think sufficient, to be particularly mentioned in a schedule to be annexed to the said bond, in which case it shall be a lien on the property contained in such schedule, and no more, such bond and schedule to be lodged with the treasurer of the western shire, and all such bonds shall express the county in which the obligors respectively reside; and the treasurer of the respective shires shall, within one month after they receive them respectively, cause them, with the schedules annexed to them, to be recorded in the office of the clerks of the western and eastern shores respectively, at the expence of the obligors, and a copy of said record, certified under the hand and official seal of the clerk in whose office the same record shall have been made, shall be as good evidence in any court of law or equity in this state
as the original bond would be if it was produced.
And be it enacted, That the governor and council be and they are hereby requested to make communications to the next general assembly of the several proceedings under this act.
And be it enacted, That the governor and council be and they are hereby authorised to allow to any person whom they shall think proper to appoint to sell any real property directed to be sold in virtue of this act, a sum not exceeding three per centum on the amount of any sale.
THEO. HOLT Has for sale, at his Nursery Garden, Eastern Branch, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
FRESH GARDEN SEEDS, Which he has imported from London, per ship Sheppard, to Norfolk, and others of his own sowing—consisting of
  Early Peas, very  White Spanish do.    Early Charlton do.  Early Scarlet Radish.    Dwarf Marrowfat do.  Mixed do.    Large Marrowfat do.  Spanish do.    Dwarf Prussian do.  White Turnip do.    Dwarf Union do.  Long Prickly Cucumber.    Dwarf Prussian do.  Green Turkey do.    Large Windsor Beans.  Nasturtion.    Turkey Longpod do.  Parasly.    Dwarf Bunch do.  Spinage.    Lima do.  Red Beet.    Saddlecrop do.  Early Horn Carrot.    Early York Cabbage.  Long Orange do.    Early Battersea do.  Large Parsnip.    Early Sugarleaf do.  Loal Lettuce.    Large Drumhead do.  Brown Dutch do.    Green Savoy do.  Mixed do. many sorts.    Red Pickling do.  Solid Celery.    Scotch Kale.  Endive.    Brocoli forts mixed  White Asparagus.    Early Cauliflower.  Common.    Late do.  Salsify, &c. &c. &c.    Early Dutch Turnip.     Late do.     Large Tripoli Onion.   
A variety of different kinds of Fruit Trees, Flowering Shrubs, Flower Seeds, Garden Hoes and Rakes, various sizes; imported Roots of fine Mixed Tulips, Double Hyacinths, Double Jonquils, Crown Imperials, Double Snow Drops. Anemones, Persian Ranunculus, Persian Iris, Crocuses, &c. A quantity of Lombardy Poplars, proper size for planting.
Washington, Jan. 21, 1803. 2wtf
Valuable Lands For Sale.
Will be sold to the highest bidder by the Executors of the late GEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON, the following tracts of Land, at the times and places hereafter mentioned, viz.
On the first Monday in April on the premises.
600 acres lying in Charles County in the state of Maryland near a place called the Hill Top, about 16 miles above Port Tobacco.
On the 2d Monday in April on the premises.
519 acres in Montgomery county in the state of Maryland, in the neighbourhood of Frederick town, not far from Kittitown.
On the 15th day of April at Charles Town.
453 acres in Jefferson county Virginia, about two miles west of Charles town, also, 240 acres lying in Hampshire county on Potomac river, about 12 miles above Bath.
On the 16th of April on the premises.
1600 acres in Jefferson county on the south fork of Bullskin.
On the 18th day of April on the premises.
183 acres in Jefferson county in Wermley's line.
On the 20th of April on the premises.
571 acres in Frederick county 1 1/2 miles south of Battle town.
On the 22d of April at Paris.
2431 acres on Ashbey's, and 885 acres on Chatias run in Fauquier county.
One fourth of the amount of the purchase money to be paid down, and the balance in three annual instalments to be secured by a mortgage on the premises, and to carry interest from the day of Sale.
THE EXECUTORS. Feb. 28. March 4—ep22a.
ELISHA RIGGS, BRIDGE STREET. Has an extensive assortment of dry goods, viz.
SUPERFINE London Cloths and Cassimerees, fashionable cords and waistcoatings, fine Irish and white Russia sheeting, best double mill'd drab cloths, Italian crapes, laces, lace veils and shawls, best white Satin, black satins and lute strings, madras plads for dresses and shawls 5-4, 4-4 and 7-8, fine London, Chintzes very fine, and other linen and cotton cambricks, laces and mens pocket books, and gloves, fine nap'd calfmerees and coatings, ladies and mens silks and cotton hosiery very fine shearing flannels and cottons, cotton counterpans and rose blankets, mens Satin, Florentine and Toilenettes, Irish and German Linens, morocco, kid, and leather shoes and bows.
A L S O, Many other articles, which being selected on the best terms, will be sold very low for cash. George Town, Feb. 14. ev & 3w.
FOR SALE. EXCELLENT Butter in Firkins, Whiskey in Barrels, and Sherry Wine in quarter Casks. WM. BRENT, New Jersey Avenue near the Capitol. Feb. 4. tf.
JUST RECEIVED, And for Sale by the Subscriber, A quantity of Bacon, Hogs Lard, Firkin Butter, Whiskey, bar Iron, Plain Monids, &c. &c. He has on hand a general assortment of Carpenters tools, of a very good quality; all kinds of which will be sold low for cash. ALEXE. M'CORMICK. March 2. tf.
City Hotel, BROADWAY NEW-YORK.
THE Subscriber most respectfully informs his friends and the public, that the above Hotel will be opened on the first of May ensuing, when their patronage is earnestly solicited. He avails himself of this opportunity to return his sincere and grateful thanks to those societies, parties, and gentlemen, who have given him their support, and assures them that a continuance of their favors will be a stimulus to future exertions to please; and that the utmost attention shall be given for their comfort and accommodation.
Bording may be had by the day, week, month, or year. Families travelling, may be elegantly accommodated with lodging and sitting rooms; and, if preferred, have dinner &c. in their apartments.
The Hotel being so well known, it is almost useless to say, that it is situated in one of the most healthy and pleasant parts of the city; commanding an extensive view in every direction, not only of the city itself, but also of the Narrows, the North and East Rivers, the state of New-Jersey, York and Long-Island &c. &c.
A handsome coffee-room will be fitted up in the principal floor; where gentlemen may have tea, coffee, chocolate, soups, and refreshments in general, at the shortest notice. All the leading newspapers in the union, will be regularly taken in.
Public dinners and suppers in a plain or elegant style either for large or small parties. Also, beef steaks, oysters, &c. regularly furnished. An ordinary every day at half past 2 o'clock, by the public's obedient servant,
JOHN LOVETT. N. B. Rooms to let by the month or year. April 21, 1802. eptf.
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 BRIB 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, Oct. 20. tf.
Members of Congress, Travellers, and those gentlemen whose business call them to the City of Washington, are respectfully informed that the subscriber has established the UNION TAVERN & WASHINGTON HOTEL,
On Pennsylvania Avenue, first house east of the President's, and one mile from the Capitol.
THERE is a payment all the way, and the accommodations are equal to any in the United States, having thirty rooms fitted up in an elegant manner. Also, a large Coffee Room, 34 feet by 22—and a room over the same, now finishing, convenient for the reception of any public meetings, with a pleasant view of the Potomac and the surrounding country. All the principal newspapers in the Union are taken and regularly filed. WILLIAM LOVELL. N. B.—To Let, a coach and single horse chair. Nov. 26. 3m.
170,038 Acres of Land.
THIS body of land, in one entire and inclusive survey, is offered for sale to any individual or company, who may incline to purchase for the purposes of settlement and emigration. It is situated in the state of Virginia, on the Great Kenawha River, Montgomery county, and is distinguished by the name of "The Great Bend of the Kenawha," being intersected by the Piney river, Great and Little Bluestone rivers, Coal river, and uyandot river, as also by numerous other creeks and waters, running into said rivers. Numerous mill-sites, inexhaustible bodies of coal, and great appearances of ores, metals, salt springs and salt licks, are to be found on this tract, besides which, sugar may be made thereon to any amount, the sugar cane bud being in almost every part. For fertility of soil, growth of timber, fitness for cultivation, salubrity of climate, and natural advantages, this body of land stands unrivaled by any tract of equal quantity in Western America; it will be submitted for sale to an entire purchaser, until the first day of June next, on very advantageous terms; after which, it cannot be disposed of at any price the present proprietor being compelled to a division thereof. An inalienable title will be given, and for further particulars, as to terms of sale and payment, enquire of JOHN BECKLEY, Esq. Clerk to the House of Representatives of the United States, at the city of Washington. November 1, 1802. tf.
CHARLES VARDEN, TAYLOR, FROM PHILADELPHIA.
HAS received from Philadelphia an elegant assortment of the best quality Superfine Cloths, Calfmerees, Silk florantine, black and fancy silk molekin velvet, white & figured Marcellas, Swandowns, Toilenettes, 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. tf.
Thomas Carpenter, TAYLOR.
HAS received a very handsome assortment of goods, consisting of superfine cloths, calfmerees and coatings of all colours.
Patent water proof Cloths, Silk and woolen Molekins, Toilenettes, velveteens, &c. of inferior quality. From which, and an acquisition of the newest fashions and the best workmen, he can assure whatever commanded. Pennsylvania Avenue, near the President's Square, and New Jersey Avenue, about eight houses from Capitol Square. Dec. 1, 1802. tf.
TO BE LET, And immediate possession given.
Two new two story Brick HOUSES, completely finished, with extensive back-buildings, situated at the intersection of E and thirteenth streets, immediately in the neighbourhood of the Bank, and within a short distance of Pennsylvania Avenue, in the city of Washington. For terms, which will be very moderate, apply to Mr. BENJAMIN PATTERSON, near the Union Tavern, George-town, or in Baltimore to D. WILLIAMSON. George-town, 26 Jan. 1803. 19t.
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. Jan. 26. tf.
TO LET,
And be entered upon immediately, three well finished Brick Houses,
NEARLY opposite Morn'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. 14. eptf.
TO BE SOLD,
At Public Sale, on Thursday the tenth of March,
The Subscriber's life estate, in that valuable FARM, known by the name of the Walnut Tree Farm, situated on the south side of the river Potomac, about four miles below Alexandria. This farm contains 360 acres, of which about 100 are in wood, and the rest arable. The buildings consist of a two story brick house, handsomely finished, and a two story frame kitchen adjoining the house; a two story frame house for an over-seer; a frame quarter capable of accommodating 15 or 20 persons; and a large well built barn, with grainaries, stables, and an extensive shed for cattle. The beauty and salubrity of this situation is exceeded by none on the river Potomac. The arable land is divided into convenient fields, and the soil is good for the production of small grain. There are on the premises a thriving young orchard of apple and peach trees and about 40 acres of wheat in the ground.
The extent of this farm on the river (being more than a mile) affords an opportunity for an industrious farmer to collect large quantities of manure, and the excellent FISHERY attached to it, on which are two very good and convenient fish houses, most greatly enhance its value.
At the same time will be sold on the premises (if not disposed of before at private sale) upwards of twenty NEGROES together with the stock of Horses, Cattle, Sheep and farming utensils on the place.
The terms of payment to be cash for all sums under one hundred dollars, from one to two hundred dollars sixty days credit; and for all sums above two hundred dollars, one half in sixty, and one half in ninety days, the purchaser giving approved notes negotiable in the Banks of Alexandria or Columbia. TOBIAS LEAR. Feb. 25. eptm.
SALES BY AUCTION.
By order of the Orphans Court, of the County of Washington, in the District of Columbia, will be sold to the highest bidder, at the Auction Room of the subscriber in George Town, on Wednesday the 16th of March next, at 11 o'clock A. M. the personal property of JOHN MCARTY, late of the City of Washington, deceased, consisting of wearing apparel, Household Furniture, and sundry other articles. A L S O,
Will be sold on the premises,
to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 24th March next, the right and title of the said deceased to the following property on Capitol Hill, in the said city of Washington, namely a half Lot in square 690, with the two story frame house, completely finished, thereon erected—part of Lot No. 3, in square No. 7, with the two story frame house thereon erected, at which is kept the hay scales. Terms of Sale Cash, for all sums under 20 dollars, for all sums above 20 dollars, a credit of six months will be given by giving bonds or notes with approved security, bearing interest from the day of sale. S. CONNOR, Auctioneer. Geo. Town, March 2. 2w.
NOTICE.
Will be sold, on the premises, to the highest bidder, for cash, on Thursday the third day of March next, at 11 o'clock, A. M.—
A Lot of Ground in the City of Washington on Square numbered 950, fronting 15 feet on G. street, and 50 feet on 9th street, each being a little east of the Marine Barracks.
This lot is offered for sale to satisfy a debt due to me by HENRY DUNLAP of George Town. The title is indisputable. ALEXANDER M'CORMICK. Feb. 18th 1802. tf.
TO RENT.
The Subscriber will Rent on reasonable terms a two story BRICK DWELLING House and lot—
SITUATED near the Capitol of the United States, in square 759—Possession may be had immediately by.
SAMUEL N. SMALLWOOD. N. B. I will exchange the above property in part for land in or near the District of Columbia. Feb. 7. 12w3w.