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A new & revised edition of Mr. EDWARDS's History of the West Indies , with a third volume, (completed by his amiable author a short time previous to his death) has lately been published in London. This third volume contains the interesting and important history, with a large Map of the Island of St. Domingo, or Hispaniola, as also that of Tobago; likewise a history of the war in the West Indies from its commencement in 1733 and a tour of it William Young through several of the islands. It is accompanied by a highly finished portrait of Mr. Edwards, a history of his life written by himself, and a precatory advertisement by Sir William Young, Baronet, M. P. F. R. S. &c. under whose editorship it has been given to the public.
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FROM THE LONDON MONTHLY REVIEW, FOR APRIL, 1805.
THE CLAIMS OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIA COLONISTS.
To the right of obtaining necessary supplies from America, and of employing the necessary means of effectually obtaining those supplies under a limited and duly regulated intercourse, stated and vindicated, in answer to Lord Sheffield's Strictures. By G. W. JORDAN, Esq. F. R. S. Colonial Agent for Barbadoes.
Political economy it seems, like religion, has its bigoted as well as its rational professors; and examples of each kind are afforded by the parties who now demand our consideration. So closely attached is Lord Sheffield to the navigation laws, that he will allow of no deviation from them, however imperiously required by circumstances; and the dictates of policy, or the calls of humanity, or the pressure of famine, are in his mind scarcely adequate excuses for any departure from the rigid enactments of our marine regulations. His lordship had censured the Dutch property act, the repeal of American countervailing duties, and the admission of American shipping into our West India islands, under licences severally granted by the privy council here, and by the respective governments of the islands abroad. Mr. Jordan, however, triumphantly combats the views of the noble lord on all these points. The first two indeed, are now merely events of past history; but it should seem that Mr. Jordan was of opinion that it would facilitate his success in debating the latter point, if he shewed that, in matters of like import, lord S. was not entitled to the credit which previous reputation had a tendency to secure to him, but that on the contrary his ideas were confined, and that he labored under prejudices which materially misled him.
In order to comprehend the third point in dispute we must take a brief historical view of it. Mr. Jordan informs us that various articles, of which the colonies are in want, cannot be supplied by Great Britain, among which are those of the first necessity; that the American states, when subject to Great Britain, were accustomed to furnish these commodities to the West India islands; that they were principally conveyed in American bottoms; that the purchasers paid for them in produce; and that when the American war broke out, the colonies, debarred of this important traffic, were reduced to extreme hardships. When peace became re-established, the necessity of a renewal of this intercourse between the islands and the American main land was universally felt and admitted; and accordingly it was allowed and regulated by the 28th of the king. In passing this statute, the legislature took it for granted that the circuitous voyages of British ships—vessels furnished by England, and such as the islands themselves would build—would be fully adequate to the transport of the American supplies; and it therefore enacts that these goods shall be imported solely in British bottoms. This expectation has completely failed; so that, from the date of the statute to the present time, licences, sanctioned by parliament have been issued by the privy council here, and by the several governments of the islands, dispensing with its provisions, and allowing the admission of American vessels, in order to prevent the inhabitants from starving, and to supply them with materials to enclose the produce which was to be conveyed to the mother country. The legislature, in passing the before mentioned act, recognised the necessity of the intercourse between the islands and America, and had no idea of shackling it by directing an inadequate mode of carriage: but that the mode which it did establish was wholly inadequate, the experience of more than ten years demonstrates. Nothing can more strongly prove this fact, than the regular issue of licences dispensing with the provisions of the statute during the whole of that time. The council at home is above suspicion; and the governors abroad, as is here shewn, exercise the power under a very serious responsibility.
"I know," says the author, "the case to have occurred, when during the continuance of war, and whilst Great Britain, in extreme distress, had opened her ports to all ships, and paid bounties upon all species of corn and grain, and upon Indian corn among the rest, drawing thence from the colonies all means of supply, instead of sending them any, that letters of the strictest and harshest tenor were received by the chief of a colony respecting the admission of American vessels, and holding out in prospect the dangers annually indemnified against, although the colony was at that very time in a state of the greatest distress, and many whites and negroes had
actually perished of famine, or of disease which famine had provoked. At this very period, supplies of flour, embarked in this kingdom for the colonies, were by order actually relanded and retained."
Lord Sheffield is here shewn to have censured the licences, without stating the urgent circumstances which rendered them absolutely indispensable. It is also proved that he charges the merchants and planters with seeking an unlimited intercourse with America, while they only solicit that the wisdom of the legislature should provide effectual means for carrying on that restricted communication, without which the islands cannot subsist, and which Great Britain has hitherto allowed.
Mr. Jordan is anxious not to entrench on the claims of the parent state; he acknowledges her right to monopolise the whole trade of her colonies, and all its appurtenances, imports, exports, and carriage: but if from choice or necessity, she abandons any part of this commerce, as in the case of the present instance with regard to the more heavy articles required by the colonies, she either ought to leave them to supply the defect in their own way, or else should effectually make this provision on their behalf. The British government sanctioned the intercourse, but it provided an insufficient channel for it; and when the legislature had granted such permission, shall it be a reproach to the planters and merchants to require that without which the grant is ineffectual, that without which they must have died of famine, and the produce have perished for want of the means of package? Yet it is such a dispensation with the requisitions of an imperious act of Parliament which the noble lord so strongly censures. It is not a dispensing power, as opposed to a regular and established law, that forms the burden of his lamentation, but the existence of the dispensations in any shape; yet the real situation of things proclaims that the islands would have been depopulated, and their produce wasted, if the act of Parliament had been, as it desired, rigorously enforced.
It is here justly observed that, if Great Britain allows a colony to carry on a branch of commerce with another state, it ought to be governed by the same policy with that which regulates the like intercourse on the part of the mother country. Now Great Britain allows goods to be imported in its own shipping, and in that of the state of which they are the produce; the principal navigation laws are therefore founded in national reciprocity; and it would be impossible to pass more strict navigation statutes, seeing that they effect other states as well as the state enacting them. In our traffic, then, with another nation, the ships of that nation and the ships of this country indifferently import the goods which belong to that nation. If we place a colony in the same situation with regard to a branch of commerce, it is natural that the same rule should be observed; namely, that the goods imported should be brought indifferently in the shipping of Great Britain, or of the colony, or in the shipping of the country whence they are derived.
Mr. Jordan, who views its subject in all its bearings, rightly marks that another state is a party in this matter; that we must legislate with her in view as well as ourselves; and that we ought to observe the reciprocity which is consulted in the chief navigation acts. We may enact that we shall export and import in colonial or British bottoms between the colony and America, but America will have a right to complain of the want of reciprocity, and most probably will not fail to exercise that right. The colony, quoad this particular traffic, should be regarded as identified with the Metropole: and the same rule should direct the intercourse with foreign states.
It is also a very important observation of this author, that, if in peace we supply the colonies with American articles in British bottoms, the conveyance of the same articles in time of war in American bottoms will be, on our own construction of the laws of nations, a contraband trade, and be liable to lawful capture by our enemy; whereas, by acting on the provisions of our leading marine statutes, that is, by admitting American produce (to the extent limited by the 28th of George III.) to be brought indifferently in English or American bottoms, the colonies in time of hostility will in regard to necessaries and other essential articles, be put out of all hazard. We trust that considerations, so ably stated, and so temperately urged, will not long fail of producing the desired end; namely, an act which would effectually secure to the colonies the benefits contemplated by the 28th of the king, but to which it has proved utterly inadequate.
If the colonial intercourse with America is confined to its legal limits, (and Mr. J. observes that such is the vigilance of the revenue officers, that there can be no apprehension of this not being done,) it ought to be regarded with sa-
tisfaction rather than jealousy; since it can only grow in proportion to the great carrying trade with England. It is, he tells us, as little the interest as the duty of the West-India proprietors, to wish that this valuable monopoly should be invaded. On the part of himself and his constituents, he renounces any intention of directly or indirectly diminishing this grand source of British wealth; and on the contrary he contends that the necessary regulations which he recommends, if once fixed on a legal unchanging basis, would materially increase the consignments to the parent state. For the particulars of the detail into which Mr. J. enters, we must refer our readers to his very able and instructive pamphlet.
Assured of his present victory, the author invites his adversary to a fresh contest; and since the point, which the noble lord is solicited to discuss, possesses interest not merely as a subject on which political polemics may try their skill and knowledge, but claims our notice in various other respects of incomparably greater importance, we shall record the challenge in our pages: not so much from a hope of occasioning a literary tournament in which the present champions will take the lead, as in the more gratifying expectation of calling the attention of various good judges, and of the government, to a topic which strikes us as being of the utmost consequence.
"Over the remaining heads of recapitulation, as already disposed of, I hasten that I may supply your lordship with matter for further consideration, and with other subjects of strictures. I wonder that the free ports of the West Indies have escaped your lordship's animadversion. These are ports, established for the purpose of carrying on a trade in which none but foreign vessels are or can be employed. I introduce this subject, not merely for the information of your lordship, but for the purpose of drawing the attention of government thereto. Here is indeed a formidable invasion of the navigation and colonial systems of the empire. Yet I introduce this subject for the express purpose of recommending to government to extend these principles and practices now applied, and obtaining in only particular cases and situations, to the general and permanent establishment of a trade, not limited to ports and places, but to be opened to all the British West India islands and colonies. It is possible to open a South American trade, as well as that of North America, which, without any respect to the nature of the shipping employed, shall, by a due enumeration and restriction of the permitted articles, of exchange or carriage, with perfect safety and propriety increase indefinitely the British import, export, and carrying trades of the West-India islands.
These islands are so disposed along the coasts, or stretched across between the principal points of South and North America, that access to them from both the continents may at all times be had by the simplest and cheapest species of navigation. The approach of British vessels to the continent of South America is partially or totally forbidden by the great European powers who possess it. Under these circumstances, British vessels cannot be used in the intercourse with it. Great Britain, therefore, of necessity indeed, but with her accustomed wisdom, has opened certain ports in the colonies to vessels of these foreign countries, in order that they may bring in the enumerated articles she desires to obtain, and that they may carry the enumerated articles she wishes to dispose of, or such as are necessary to support the trade. The first enumeration contains articles of territorial produce of that part of the continent, and bullion among the rest; the other consists of goods of British manufactures, or import, or articles of territorial produce of the islands. Great Britain does not upon this occasion consider her navigation and colonial system, as not at any time, upon any occasion, or under any circumstances to be invaded. She looks to the objects and purposes of those systems. She wants raw materials; she wants markets for her various articles of manufacture, commerce, and produce; she wants encouragement and extensive employment for her shipping. By neglecting all consideration of the use, as militating against her navigation and colonial systems, of these petty vessels, which serve to associate her islands with the continent, she obtains all the objects of those systems, materials, markets, and increased carriage. The ports of her islands become ports of the continent, and these vessels are only as the port vessels and lading droghers of other countries. British ships carry to, and bring away from the islands the commodities laden in, and unladed from these vessels, and neither their employment or their numbers is to be contemplated or calculated upon by Great Britain, but as proofs of the extension of her own commerce and proper navigation.
Instead, therefore, of a port in Grenada, a port in Dominica, two in Jamaica, one in Tortola, one in the Bahamas,
it might upon these principles well be recommended to Great Britain, to extend the provision of the free Ports Acts to all the islands, or to the custom house ports of all the islands. It might further be proposed, by enlarging and combining all the principles and practices which alike prevail in the West India intercourse with the Northern and Southern portions of America, to form one general, simple, and consolidated system, that should connect them all, which should embrace and comprehend the at present enumerated articles of import and export between the whole continent and the islands, and permit between them the employment, jointly with British ships, of one decked vessels, of all the countries growing the commodities imported into the islands. I submit this proposal to the severity of your lordship's strictures. I suggest it for the consideration of ministers.
In this view of the subject, what is there to be objected against North American vessels of this description, that will not apply to the Spanish launches of South America, and what is there to recommend the droghers of the Oronoko, and of the river of the Amazons, that will not also favor the sloops and schooners of the Delaware and the Chesapeake? They are all but as the country boats of all the other nations of the world, employed wherever our commerce extends, to bring to and deposit in ports of access, commodities for use or for transport. They are auxiliary and subservient to the great traders of the deep who may pass by them with their woven wings without jealousy or envy.
I again most seriously and earnestly recommend to his Majesty's ministers, to establish a general American intercourse with all the British West India colonies upon these general principles, and I do not hesitate to say, that if Great Britain still continues to refuse the employment of these petty vessels, for these purposes, and in the manner proposed, that she sacrifices, and continues to sacrifice her navigation, to her navigation and colonial systems.
If we have been taught, at an immense expence, to think justly on the subject of colonies, and if we have exploded the notion of a right of taxing them, we ought to have regarded the attempt to tax foreign states as scarcely less impracticable, or less unjust. As this is an error which, like the fatal one before committed, is calculated for popularity, we insert the able exposure of it by the pen of Mr. Jordan.
"Unfortunately, during the late war, an idea was taken up, against all principles of political wisdom and public justice, to tax foreign nations, by retaining part of the drawback, upon the re-exportation of sugar from Great Britain. This was a great breach of parental faith, on the part of Great Britain; it was a great breach of justice thus to take away a portion of the accidental profits of commerce which they only are honorably entitled to, who risk at all times equally the loss and the profit. Like all other great violations of principle, this also was attended with consequences directly, indirectly, and remotely injurious to all whom it affected. One of these indirect and remote consequences, was an attempt made for the first time, in the ports of the colonies, to establish those distinctions between the exports to the United States, in British and American vessels. Sugar and coffee were either absolutely prohibited to American vessels, or limited to specified portions of their return cargoes. Considerable impediments to the obtaining of supplies or necessaries were thus vexatiously created and perpetuated, and great inconveniences sustained. Not among the least was the considerable drainage of specie, complained of in all the colonies. American vessels are compelled, either to leave a particular colony without dealing, or they draw out from amidst the population of the country, these large portions of gold or silver money, which, retained the amidst the ranks of society by all the principles and energies of political existence and combination, yield only to the most powerful actions, and like the last portions of moisture which give form and solidity to natural bodies, are only in the extreme cases separated and carried off. The specie thus obtained was immediately laid out to purchase without restriction, return cargoes of produce among the foreign islands, to their great encouragement, and to the considerable vexation and injury of the British colonists. This drainage of specie was attended with considerable loss, not only to the planters, but to government also, in the article of exchange. From a considerable per centage, and in our market, where the money point of exchange is fixed at forty per cent. government could frequently get only twenty-five per cent. or a smaller per centage on the bills she was obliged to sell for the purpose of maintaining her establishments. This certain loss, considerably overbalancing any contingent interests, deserves the attention and regulation of government.
"This unprincipled and abortive attempt to tax foreign nations, by im-

porting among them commodities loaded, with domestic articles, was at length abandoned. Something like a better system has succeeded. Regulations have been formed, according to which, although at times and under increasing prices, increasing portions of the drawback on sugars may be retained, yet, in compensation for this, it is with some apparent fairness provided, that in other cases a bounty shall be superadded when the prices fall beyond a certain point. There is, indeed, in the ascending scale of bounties but one solitary step of compensation, whilst in the descending the drawbacks are diminished through many and various degrees of decline, into total extinction. All assurance also is suspended, as to the permanent benefits of this arrangement by its limited existence, and consequent dependence upon uncertain opinions, and upon political events and combinations yet more uncertain.
"From discussions of this sort, all questions of finance ought upon principle to be excluded. Whatever sacrifices commerce may make to navigation, she should make none to revenue."
Readers who prefer instruction to amusement will set a high value on the present pamphlet; and the superior order of persons will discern in it much of that accuracy and precision, which men of scientific views and habits sometimes happily introduce, into the treatment of subjects on which moral probabilities are alone concerned. We take leave of it with the acknowledgment that it has highly gratified and instructed us; and we cordially recommend it to the attentive perusal of all who are possessed of either commercial or political influence.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17.
The President of the United States left this city on Monday on a visit to Monticello.
By a circular letter from the Secretary of State dated on the 12th July, 1805, the Consuls and Commercial Agents of the U. States are instructed to forbear to issue any certificate whatever relative to purchases of foreign vessels by citizens of the U. States, except to such persons as may satisfy the Consuls and Commercial Agents, that the purchase was made without knowing this alteration in their instructions; and they are also restrained from allowing the exception itself after the expiration of two months from the date of the advertisement they are directed to publish of this instruction.
On Monday at an election held by the Contributors to the Permanent Institution for the Education of youth in the City of Washington, the following citizens were duly chosen Trustees for the ensuing year.
Samuel H. Smith, William Cranch, Gabriel Duvall, Thomas Munroe, Robert Brent, Thomas Tingey.
The entire board consists of Thirteen Trustees; and the remaining seven are to be elected by the Council on Monday next.
WILLIAM BRENT is appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court, in the room of General Forrest deceased.
A letter from Captain Meriwether Lewis to the President of the United States.
Fort MANDAN, April 7th, 1805.
DEAR SIR, HEREWITH inclosed you will receive an invoice of certain articles, which I have forwarded to you from this place; among other articles you will observe by reference to the invoice 67, specimens of earths, salts, minerals, and 60 specimens of plants; these are accompanied by their respective labels, expressing the days on which they were obtained, the places where found, and also, their virtues, and properties when known; by means of these labels, reference may be made to the chart of the Missouri, forwarded to the Secretary of War; on which the encampment of each day has been carefully marked; thus the places at which these specimens have been obtained may be easily pointed out and again found should any of them prove valuable to the community on further investigation.
You will herewith also receive a part of Captain Clark's private journal, the other part you will find inclosed in a separate tin box. This journal will serve to give you the daily details of our progress, and transactions.
I shall dispatch a canoe with three, perhaps four persons, from the extreme navigable point on the Missouri or the portage between this river and the Columbia river, as either may first happen; by the return of this canoe I shall send you my journal and some one or two of the best kept by my men. I have sent a journal kept by one of the sergeants to Captain Stoddert at Fort Lewis, in order as much as possible to multiply the chances of saving something, we have encouraged our men to keep journals, and seven of them do so; to whom in this respect we give every assistance in our power.
I have transmitted to the Secretary at War every information relative to the Geography of the country we possess, together with a view of the Indian nations, containing information relative to them, on those points with which I conceived it important the government should be informed.
By reference to the muster rolls forwarded to the War Department, you will see the state of the party; in addition to
which we have two interpreters, one negro man servant to Captain Clarke and one Indian woman, wife to one of the interpreters, and a Mandan man, whom we take with a view to restore peace between the Snake Indians and those in this neighbourhood, amounting in total with ourselves to 33 persons; by means of the interpreters and Indians we shall be enabled probably to converse with all the Indians we shall meet on the Missouri. I have forwarded to the Secretary at War, my public accounts rendered up to the present day; they have been much longer delayed than I had any idea that they would have been when we departed from the Illinois; but this delay under the circumstances which I was compelled to act, has been unavoidable. The provision perogue and her crew could not have been dismissed in time to have returned to St. Louis, last fall, without evidently in my opinion hazarding the fate of the enterprise in which I am engaged, and I therefore did not hesitate to prefer the censure that I may have incurred, by the detention of these papers, to that of risking in any degree the success of the expedition. The detention of these papers has been a source of serious disquiet and anxiety to me, and the recollection of your particular charge upon that subject, has made it still more poignant. I am fully aware of the inconveniences which must have arisen to the War Department from the want of these vouchers, previous to the last session of Congress; but how to avert it was out of my power to devise. From this place we shall send the Barge and crew early to-morrow morning, with orders to proceed as expeditiously as possible to St. Louis, by her we send our dispatches, which I trust will get safe to hand; her crew consists of ten able bodied men, well armed, and provided with a sufficient stock of provisions to last them to St. Louis; I have but little doubt they will be fired on by the Sioux, but they have pledged themselves to us that they will not yield, while there is a man of them living. Our baggage is all embarked on board six small canoes, and two perogues; we shall set out at the same moment that we dispatch the barge, one or perhaps both of these perogues we shall leave at the falls of the Missouri; from whence we intend continuing our voyage in the canoes and a perogue of skins, the frame of which was prepared at Harpers Ferry. This perogue is now in a situation that will enable us to prepare it in the course of a few hours; as our vessels are now small, and the current of the river more moderate, we calculate on travelling 20 or 23 miles per day, as far as the falls of the Missouri; beyond this point, or the first range of rocky mountains, situated about 100 miles farther, any calculation with respect to our daily progress, can be little more than bare conjecture. The circumstance of the Snake Indians possessing large stocks of horses, is much in our favor, as by means of horses the transportation of our baggage will be rendered easy and expeditious over land from the Missouri to the Columbia river. Should this river not prove navigable where we first meet with it, our present intention is to continue our march down the river, until it becomes so, or to the Pacific Ocean. The map which has been forwarded to the Secretary at War, will give you the idea we entertain of the connection between these rivers, which has been formed from the corresponding testimony of a number of Indians, who have visited that country, and who have been separately and carefully examined. On that subject, we therefore think it entitled to some degree of confidence. Since our arrival at this place, we have subsisted principally on meat; with which our guns have supplied us amply, and have thus been enabled to reserve the parched meal, portable soup and a considerable proportion of pork and flour, which we had intended for the more difficult parts of our voyage. If Indian information can be credited, the vast quantities of game with which the country abounds, through which we are to pass, leaves us but little to apprehend from the want of food. We do not calculate on completing our voyage within the present year, but expect to reach the Pacific Ocean and return as far as the head of the Missouri, or perhaps to this place before winter. You may therefore expect me to meet you at Monticello, in September 1806. On our return we shall probably pass down Yellow Stone river, which from Indian information, waters one of the fairest portions of our continent. I can foresee no material or probable obstruction to our progress, and entertain therefore the most sanguine hopes of complete success. As to myself, individually, I never enjoyed better health, than I have since we commenced our voyage. My inestimable friend and companion Captain Clarke, has also enjoyed good health generally; at this moment every individual of the party is in good health and excellent spirits, zealously attached to the enterprise, and anxious to proceed; not a whisper of discontent, or murmur is to be heard among them, but all in unison act with the most perfect harmony. With such men I have every thing to hope and but little to fear.
We have at length the satisfaction of presenting our Paper in a new dress, after experiencing no inconsiderable disappointment in our arrangements. The species of new type, principally relied upon, being much smaller than that previously used, will enable us, on extraordinary occasions, to offer a larger mass of matter than it has heretofore been in our power to do.
It may not be altogether useless to avail ourselves of this occasion, to remark that the same principles, that have, from the commencement of the National Intelligencer to the present
day, guided the Editor, will continue to be observed. It has been his effort by the diffusion of facts and correct political sentiments to enlighten the public mind, and to fortify the convictions of his fellow citizens in favor of their republican institutions. Sincerely believing that their happiness depends upon the establishment of these institutions and on their correct administration, he has been persuaded that the people of America only require information to think and to act correctly. It has been his ambition to make his Press the vehicle of such information, in its most interesting forms.
There is one topic which may, perhaps, on this occasion, justify a distinct notice. In several states, divisions having arisen among the republicans on subordinate points, the Editor determined, at an early day, to pass them over either lightly, or with entire silence. Various considerations led him to consider this not only as policy, but duty. Having full confidence in the ability of the republicans of the respective states to settle their differences more amicably without than with the interposition of others, it was thought most advisable to leave them to themselves; thus avoiding much of that inflammation which was likely to arise from an extension of their disputes. The great object of the National Intelligencer being to enforce the leading principles of republicanism, this abstinence was considered, and still is considered as no unimportant branch of Editorial duty. Fortunately, in all the cardinal points of republicanism, we are agreed; and it is universally acknowledged that the administration of the general government is admirably conducted for the maintenance of pure principles, and the peace and prosperity of the nation. To preserve this unity of sentiment and confidence unimpaired, so long as it is merited, is of all objects the greatest. This has been, and will continue to be, the polar star of the National Intelligencer. So long as it continues, liberty has nothing to fear from the assaults of its enemies, or the errors of its friends.
THERE is a curiosity, implanted by nature in the human mind, that prompts it to extend its views into future times, and to sketch in imagination the scenes that may then arise. Indulging this natural feeling, it may not be uninteresting, or even unprofitable, to contemplate the state of things which may exist a few years hence. There is no country on earth in which a short period will produce so striking a change.
The present population of the United States may be computed at six millions. In twenty-three years it will amount to twelve millions; in forty-six years to twenty-four, and in seventy years, to fifty millions. Let us carry our minds forward to this period, and endeavour to delineate our situation at that period in other respects.
Assuming it as a fact that our wealth and resources will increase in the ratio of our numbers, it will be in the power of the general government, with as little burthen to the people as is imposed at present, to raise an annual revenue of eighty million of dollars, supposing specie not then to have depreciated, or a sum correspondently larger to its depreciation. At this period, unless some unexpected disaster should occur, or we should fall into some egregious folly, we may calculate upon there being no national debt; and consequently upon the ability of the government to devote the whole of the revenue raised to objects of immediate and present utility.
It is probable that with the extinguishment of the debt, the people will be released from a large part of their present taxes. Say one half, and there will still remain a revenue of forty millions.
The lands belonging to the United States, will at this time, have become of great value, and it will not be extravagant to estimate them as producing annually ten millions.
On what object will this immense treasure be disbursed?
The answer to this question is infinitely important. The actual and necessary expenses for the ordinary support of government cannot, on a liberal allowance, exceed five millions. The residue will establish a vast fund, whose direction will be productive of the greatest good or evil.
Three great objects, it would appear, will come into competition. Internal improvements, education, and a naval establishment. Either of these may absorb the whole, or it may be divided among them. There is no country on earth in which there can be a wider field for internal improvements; nor is there any country, in which greater political effects would probably flow from those improvements being carried on under the auspices of the general government. The great advantages resulting therefrom would be system, liberality, & economy. Canals would be cut and roads made not for local but for general purposes; the scale on which improvements were made would be munificent, and nothing being done unless recommended by general views and the general interest would insure the truest economy, that economy which steered clear of all waste of labor. The inevitable effect of such a plan pursued by the general government would be to make it dearer to the people, by uniting them to it by the strong ties of interest. Another effect, perhaps still more important, would be the intermixture of interests that would arise among the remote parts of the union by an interchange of their commodities, and an association of their citizens. No causes more auspicious to harmony, and the indissolubility of the union can be conceived.
Forty-five millions of dollars annually expended would defray the expense of making ten thousand miles of turn-
pike road, and twelve hundred miles of canal navigation. Such a sum, applied for a term of twenty years, would establish turnpikes of two hundred thousand miles in extent, and canals twenty-four thousand miles in extent. Supposing the populated part of the United States to embrace at this period a district of a thousand miles square, we should have turnpike roads, passing, in the direction of East and West, from one end of the district to the other, in parallel lines, at the distance of ten miles from each other, intersected by similar and equidistant roads in the direction of North and South. And, thus, there will be no part of this immense district, that will not be approached by a turnpike within the distance of five miles, while the greater part of it will be much nearer, and one half within one mile and a half. This will appear evident, when it is considered that the effect of the above roads would be to divide the whole country into plots of ten miles square, on each side of which there will pass a turnpike. The centre of these plots will be exactly five miles from the roads, and just as you recede from the centre, you will necessarily approach one or the other of them.
We shall also have canals, passing in the direction of East and West, from one end of the district to the other in parallel lines, at the distance of about eighty miles from each other, intersected by similar and equidistant canals in the direction of North and South. When the term parallel lines is used, it is only for the purpose of giving a general view of the distances of the canals from each other, as it would not probably be practicable to carry them far either in straight or parallel lines. In this case no part of the district would be more than forty miles from canal navigation, while one half of it would be within ten miles, and one fourth within five miles.
The effects of such an arrangement in increasing intercourse would be astonishing. Every part of the country would be enabled to carry its productions to market. In the first instance the turnpike would be easily approached, and that once gained, a few miles traveling would reach a canal, whence, at a very trifling expence, productions could be carried to some great commercial or manufacturing deposit. The necessary effect would be the production in each district of country of those articles for which the soil and climate would be most favorable; and the interchange of these for productions most congenial to other districts. By these means the whole productive faculties of the nation would be embarked and directed in the most useful channels, and it is no extravagant computation to suppose that one half the labor now used in the production of a given quantity of consumable matter would be competent to it.
Another great object to which the resources of the United States may be applied is education. I am aware, that on this subject there is much diversity of opinion, as well on the abstract propriety of governmental interference, as on the constitutional power of Congress to interfere. With regard to the latter difficulty, if it has any force, it may easily be overcome. The constitution itself, being subject to amendment, may be modified so as the most efficaciously in this respect to advance the general welfare; and if, hereafter, it shall be found that a system of general education would be best promoted by being placed under the auspices of the general government, there would probably be but little difficulty, in so modifying the power, as to guard it against all apprehended abuses. If the power shall be considered dangerous, when exclusively placed in the hands of the general government, provision may be made for its exercise being entrusted to the state governments, or to bodies independent both of the general and state governments, and the government of the United States be alone under the obligation of raising and investing the revenues destined for this object.
With regard to the abstract propriety of governmental interposition, it is probable the ultimate decision of this point will depend upon the modes devised for its exercise. If plans can be devised so unexceptionable, as to admit the great benefits that would inevitably flow from such a direction of the national resources, while they excluded the leading evils apprehended from it, it may rationally be expected that popular favor would gradually attach itself to it, whatever preconceived prejudices may have existed.
Supposing such a plan to be approved, how competent would the resources of the United States be to carry it into effect? The answer is easy. Forty-five annual millions would be more than competent to the most extensive and munificent plan which has ever been suggested, as well for the purpose of extending to the whole community the benefits of education, as for fostering the most splendid establishments for the encouragement of the arts and sciences. Such a plan, once established, and wisely directed, we might consider the republic as placed on an imperishable foundation. Other free states have been eternally exposed to the collisions of factions, until they have been shaken to their centres; good men been driven from the administration of their governments, and power been usurped by tyrants and demagogues. Whence has this arisen but from the ignorance of the great body of the people, who have, unreflectingly suffered themselves to be made the instruments of designing and unprincipled men? Take away this ignorance, give the people, in its room, knowledge and vigilance, and the greatest danger to which liberty has been, or can be exposed, is removed. Who, too, can estimate the effects of such a plan in adding to the comfort, and increasing the elegancies and refinements
of social enjoyment. Science would lift her head to prouder heights than have ever heretofore been reached, and the arts could not fail to flourish with unprecedented luxuriansy! Our institutions, our habits, and our country would attract the attention, command the homage, and secure the imitation of an admiring world. The grandeur of power, founded on the affections of the people, and constantly diffusing happiness among them, would blaze with more captivating splendours, than have ever irradiated the thrones of tyrants! Feeling, fashion, interest and good sense would surround such a government with ramparts unassailable by hostility; and could any human institutions lay claim to immortality, such institutions might.
It would betray an ignorance of the human heart, to hope, that centuries hence our manners will continue as simple as they now are. Luxury will keep pace with our growth; and he is a wise man, who, instead of attempting altogether to check its progress, devises the best way of directing its course; thus, disarming it of many of its deleterious properties, and rendering it the cause, in many respects, of positive blessings.
We are here then presented with two vast objects, not incompatible with, but promotive of each other, which must in future times from their great utility, and from their intimate connection with our peculiar ideas, and the structure of our governments, lay claim to serious attention. Will they receive that attention which shall hereafter entitle them to be considered as radical and inherent features of national policy? Happy for America, happy for the world, happy for the cause of liberty and truth, if this shall be the case! Then, indeed, we may hope that America will run a different race from the great nations that have preceded her; that her ways will be those of peace; and that the numerous millions within her limits will attain and preserve the largest measures of felicity that are allotted to mortals.
But should a different destiny hang over our country; should her career develop the triumph of power over right, of strength over justice, of ambition over patriotism, then has the world, the cause of virtue, and of liberty every thing to dread from the colossal giant of the new world. Commensurate to her strength will be her schemes of ambition and conquest. Resistance will only consolidate her energies, and render the fate of vanquished nations and extinguished empires more humiliating. War will light her lurid torch, and disorder fill the universe.
It is not difficult to foresee that, under such views, a navy would become the mighty instrument of aggrandizement and terror; and should such views prevail, it is equally clear that all plans for internal improvement, for general education and the advancement of the arts and sciences would give way to the embodying a great warlike force. To this the resources of the United States would be fully adequate. A navy composed of two hundred ships of the line might be created, which, growing with her numbers and resources, would not fail to command the empire of the seas.
What would be the effects of such an establishment upon other nations, and what would be its effect on ourselves?
To suppose that such a mighty engine of power, uncontrollable by others, would adhere to the rigid principles of justice, and confine its energies to the redressing of wrong and maintaining right, would be to indulge Eutopian weakness, and to supplant for the uninterrupted experience of history the visions of romance. Occasions would arise, and they would be seized with eagerness, for curbing and eventually crushing every rival interest. If successful, they would not fail to be as ruinous to the victor as vanquished; for that power which had proved irresistible on the ocean, and in warfare with foreign powers, would be turned with augmented force, when it ceased to have external enemies, upon the liberties of the country to which it owed its birth. The issue would be no less certain and awful than that so frequently found on the records of history. If unsuccessful, a protracted, perhaps ceaseless war would be waged with the other parts of the world. Nations, feeble in themselves, would be driven into a confederacy terminable only with the cause that produced it. One thing is indisputable. Vast, and almost boundless wealth would be exhausted in inflicting evils on the human race, instead of promoting their happiness.
Here then is presented to our view a picture of the future fate of our country, and of those distinctive traits which may hereafter characterise her policy. On the one hand, under a wise and benevolent direction, her resources may lift her to the most honorable elevation among nations, and may surround her with brighter and more durable glories than are recorded in the annals of time. While, on the other hand, the same resources, under a weak and vicious direction, will only carry her to that dangerous height, from which her fall and that of surrounding nations may be the more conspicuous and awful.
These views will teach us the infinite importance of correct views, even at the present day, as on the principles now established as the ground work of our future greatness, must eminently depend the stability of liberty, the duration and extension of our prosperity, and the general welfare of a large portion of mankind.
Philadelphia, July 12.
Don Joseph Cabrera has lately been tried before the Mayor's Court, and convicted of having counterfeited three checks on the bank of Pennsylvania, in the name of the Marquis Yrujo, Spanish minister—we have not heard the sentence of the court.

APPOINTMENT AND DURATION OF STATE AND OF UNITED STATES AUTHORITIES.
Table with 4 main columns: STATES, EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL. It lists appointment and duration for various states and federal authorities.
DOVER, N. H. Important Discovery.—A number of men digging up the earth, in this town, for the purpose of making an aqueduct...
NEW-YORK, July 9. We learn by the ship Mary Ann, from St. Bartholomews, that Lord Nelson was still in pursuit of the French fleet...
Extract of a letter dated Trinidad, June 12, to the Editor of the Morning Chronicle.
"The Hero of the Nile paid us a visit last week. He came here in pursuit of the French fleet which had escaped from the Mediterranean."
"There is a great disparity of force. Lord Nelson has but 12 sail and the French 30. Martial law is in full force here..."
July 13. We have received by captain Starbuck, of the brig Ann Maria, a printed copy of the new constitution of the empire of Hayti.
A letter from Antigua of June 20, says, beside the 14 sail captured by the French off that place, was the schooner Argo bound to New-York.
Captain O'Brien, from Point Petre, informs, that about 30 pilots were taken at that place out of their beds at night, and put into small boats...
DEGREE OF THE COURT OF VICE ADMIRALTY, OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. In the case of the American Brig Juno, captain Packard, from the Havana and Matanzas, to Providence...
This was the case of an American vessel, taken on a voyage from the port of Matanzas, in the island of Cuba, to Rhode Island in America...
It appeared that the vessel had first gone to the Havana, where she had taken on board a part of her cargo, and from thence proceeded to the Matanzas...
On the part of the captors it was contended, that by going from the Havana...
to the Matanzas, which port neutrals never were allowed to enter for the purposes of trade in time of peace, the vessel must be considered as engaged in a new and unusual trade...
On the other hand, it was alleged, on behalf of the claimant, that the voyage was perfectly fair and such as a belligerent had no right to interrupt...
His honor the judge, by his decree, ordered further proof to be adduced, to prove that neutrals during peace had been permitted to enjoy the trade in which this vessel was engaged...
Extract from the Barbadoes Mercury, received by the Gypsy.
BRIDGE-TOWN, JUNE 25. Rear admiral the hon. Alexander Cochrane, in his majesty's ship Northumberland; and his majesty's ship Jason, capt. Champain; Barbadoes, capt. Noure; Pheasant, capt. Henderson; and Lilly, capt. Morrison...
Lieut. general sir Wm. Myers and suit arrived on board the Northumberland, and his army which he so gallantly and promptly volunteered with Lord Nelson...
By these arrivals we learn, that Lord Nelson, to his own great disappointment and that generally of his fleet, and the army embarked with him, not having found the enemy at Trinidad...
Lord Nelson spoke this vessel, and received information from her of the capture, and of the situation of the enemy, who was then supposed to be off Bermuda...
Admiral Cochrane, although of necessity obliged to resume his station here, nevertheless offered his ship to Lord Nelson, and would have shifted his flag to a frigate...
To be Sold, Or exchanged for other property in the City, or its vicinity.
TWO valuable and contiguous TRACTS of LAND in the state of Kentucky, the one containing 6880 acres, and the other 6252 acres...
Apply to the subscriber, JOHN BECKLEY, City of Washington, July 17—cp2m
In Chancery, June 28, 1805.
ON application of Alexander Corree, trustee for the benefit of the creditors of Rinaldo Johnson, an insolvent debtor of Prince George's county...
A true copy, SAMUEL H. HOWARD, R. C. C. July 17—w3t
Twenty Dollars Reward.
STOLEN from the subscriber about One o'clock on Sunday the 14th inst. A large BAY HORSE six years old, blind of the right eye...
GEORGE BLAGDEN. Washington July 17—3t
FOR SALE, ONE HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND, in a healthy situation near Hugh's bridge on Rock Creek...
Mr. Wm. Carroll on Rock Creek will show the land and give any information to persons wishing to purchase.
ROBERT BRENT. Washington, July 17—w22o Aug.
Fifty Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, living near the Bowling Green, on the 23d inst. a negro man named PETER, who sometimes calls himself BRANDY...
I will give the above reward if taken out of the state of Virginia, and thirty dollars if taken in the state, and out of this county...
JOHN G. WOOLFOLK. July 17—
RUNAWAY NEGRO.
WAS committed to the jail in Washington county, in the district of Columbia, on the 29th of June last, a negro man, supposed to be a runaway...
DANL. C. BRENT, marshal of the district of Columbia. July 17—3tw.
BOOT-MAKING.
JOHN MINCUM, boot maker, from Philadelphia, respectfully acquaints his friends, former customers, and the public, that he has recommenced his business...
New Jersey Avenue, July 17—eptf.
District of Columbia, County of Washington, to wit.
UPON the Petition of WILLIAM MURRAY an insolvent debtor confined in jail, in the county of Washington, in the district aforesaid...
By the hon. Wm. Cranch, eq. WM. BRENT, Ck.
In Council, Annapolis, May 16, 1805.
ORDERED, That the act to provide for the trial of facts in the several counties of this state, and to alter, change and abolish, all such parts of the constitution...
By order, NINIAN PINKNEY, Clerk.
AN ACT To provide for the trial of facts in the several counties of this state, and to alter, change and abolish, all such parts of the constitution...
BE it enacted by the general assembly of Maryland, That this state shall be divided into six judicial districts in manner and form following to wit: St. Mary's, Charles and Prince George's counties...
II. And be it enacted, That in any suit or action at law hereafter to be commenced or instituted in any county court of this state...
III. And be it enacted, That if any party preferred or indicted in any of the county courts of this state, shall suggest in writing to the court...
IV. And be it enacted, That the attorney general, or the prosecutor for the state, shall suggest in writing to any county court, before whom an indictment is or may be depending...
V. And be it enacted, That there shall be a court of appeals, and the same shall be composed of the chief judges of the several judicial districts of the state...
VI. And be it enacted, That all and every part of the constitution and form of government which relates to the court of appeals...
VII. And be it enacted, That if this act shall be confirmed by the general assembly, after the next election of delegates...
May 31—2a3m
IN CHANCERY, June 27, 1805.
Thomas P. Wilson, vs John George Beckwith, John Beckwith, William Lodge, Eliza O. Williams, Simon Nichols and Barbara his wife...
The object of the bill filed in this cause is to obtain a decree for the sale of a parcel of land lying in Montgomery county...
It is thereupon on motion of the complainant, ordered, adjudged and decreed that he cause a copy of this order to be inserted once in each of the three weeks in the National Intelligencer...
Test SAML. H. HOWARD, Reg. C. C. July 10—w3t
ENTERTAINMENT FOR Man and Horse.
THE subscriber takes this method to inform the public, and particularly those travelling to the City of Washington, that he has opened a house of entertainment...
THOMAS THORPE. July 3—12wif.

SHELL LIME. WELL burnt with found wood, at 16 dollars per hundred bushels, a less quantity will be sold at this price. It will be delivered in any part of the city or George Town at from 17 to 20 dollars per hundred, the price to be paid on delivery apply to COHN CONINGHAM, at the Brewery in Funks Town, C. W. N. B. Application must be made within ten days from this date. July 10-3t
Rapine, Conrad, & Co. On New Jersey Avenue Capitol Hill, HAVE just received and offer for sale, at a low price, a quantity of PERUVIAN BARK by the pound and smaller quantity. They have also, lately received an addition to their former assortment of books and stationery. July 10-
TO BE SOLD, AT PUBLIC VENDUE, At Gadsby's Hotel in Alexandria, on Monday the 10th day of September, at 12 o'clock noon. A tract of LAND late Presley's, situated in Northumberland County, Virginia, lying immediately on the Potomac river. The following description is given of this property by persons well acquainted with it: "It contains 2 500 acres, 1700 acres of which are the most valuable low ground on the river, between 3 and 400 acres heavily timbered, and the remainder very high land extremely productive. The soil of this tract is equal to any in the state for the cultivation of corn, wheat, tobacco, timothy, and small grain of all kinds. On this tract is a large commodious Brick Mansion House and two Offices, a large Brick Stable, a large Barn, Cow House, and many other out buildings. The Orchards and Garden contain a variety of valuable fruit trees, and the waters abound with excellent fish and oysters. It is situated about a day's sail from Baltimore, Alexandria, and Norfolk. There are two good mill sites for grist and saw mills on the estate, and plenty of cedar and chesnut timber, for which an excellent market may be found, for which an excellent market may be found at the City of Washington." The terms of sale are - one fourth cash, one fourth in one year, one fourth in 18 months, and the residue in two years from the day of sale. The payments to be secured by bonds, with mortgages on the premises, and to be on interest from the day of sale. For further information, application may be made in behalf of the subscriber, Thomas Gadsby, to Richard Peters, Jun. attorney at law in the city of Philadelphia, or to William Lewis, in the same city, (Philadelphia, Phila.) THOMAS GADSBY, W. LEWIS. June 19-cpt-ep16
Runaway Negro. WAS committed to the jail of Frederick county, Maryland, on the 19th day of May last, as a runaway, a negro man named JIM, who says he is the property of a certain John Chew Thomas. He is about 23 years of age, five feet three inches high; has thick lips and long woolly hair; his left hand and right have been considerably injured by a wagon. His clothes are, a striped gingham jacket, a swansdown waistcoat, white cambric small clothes, woollen stockings, an old fur hat, and a muslin shirt. His owner is desirous to release him, or he will be sold for his jail fees agreeable to law. GEORGE CREAGER, Sheriff of Frederick County. June 12th-1805. xaw&w.
NOTICE. THE creditors of Richard Frazier deceased are requested to attend, with their accounts properly attested, at Rhodes's tavern in the city of Washington, on Tuesday the 18th day of August next at 11 o'clock, A. M. as then and there the subscriber under the direction of the Orphan's Court will make a dividend of the assets in hand. SAMUEL N. SMALLWOOD, Administrator. City of Washington, July 1-w3t
Traveller's Hall. THE subscriber tenders his sincere thanks to his friends for the very liberal encouragement which they have bestowed on him. He will finish one of his new rooms in a few weeks, which will be large enough to dine near 200 persons at a time, and will shortly after have the remainder of his additional building completed, which will give him a front of near 100 feet, in the most agreeable part of the town, and in the centre of business being on the highest part of the public square. He has on hand, and has contracted for a constant supply of the best wines, and foreign spirituous liquors imported, and country provisions, stable forage, foreign & state newspapers - and has secured a quantity of liquors sufficient for the use of his table and bar during the season. He assures his friends, and that respectable part of the public who have patronized him, that there shall be nothing wanting which his time or purse will command, to render the TRAVELLER'S HALL a home of entertainment for genteel guests only, equal to any in America. R. BRADLEY. Lexington, Kentucky, March 1st 1805. N. B. A description from the TRAVELLER'S HALL to the Gwynian Springs in the summer, and to Frankfort during the session of the Legislature. March 27-ep3m.
Twenty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscriber's plantation near this place, on Monday the 10th of June, PHIL, Who commonly calls himself Phil Brice a dark mulatto, aged about twenty four years, five feet eight or nine inches high, remarkably quick in speaking, though with difficulty when spoken to, his clothing unknown. Having acquaintances in Baltimore, Alexandria and the city of Washington, I think it probable he has gone to one of those places. The above reward will be paid to any person who shall bring him home, or ten dollars for lodging him in any jail, so that I get him again. WM. B. BEANES, Upper Marlborough, July 12-6w
RUNAWAY NEGRO. WAS committed to the jail of Washington county as a runaway slave, on the 10th of June inst. a negro man by the name of JOHN COOPER, but now says his right name is RANDOL, about 37 years old, very black colour, 5 feet 7 inches high, has a scar on his left knee, had on when he was committed a short blue jacket, black silk waistcoat, blue cloth pantaloons and a fine linen shirt, says he belongs to Mary Thomas, near the Orange Springs, Virginia - His owner is desirous to prove property, pay charges and take him away, or he will be sold within ninety days from the date hereof for his jail fees agreeable to law. DANL. C. BRENT, marshal of the district of Columbia June 28-1aw&w.
IRON WORKS FOR SALE. IN Wythe county State of Virginia, on Cripple Creek about 15 miles from the Great Kanawha and 40 miles from the north fork of Holston which affords a tolerable safe navigation to a prodigious scope of the western country, where perhaps iron is in greater demand than in any other quarter of the United States. Cripple Creek affords a sufficiency of water for both forge and furnace, being fed by bold never failing springs. The furnace and all the buildings have been commenced within 4 or 5 years - they consist of dwelling houses, kitchens, and a store house; also, a large and convenient stable - the forge has long been completed. It is supposed to be the best built forge in Virginia, being cut of choice timber felled at proper seasons and executed by a first rate forge carpenter from Pennsylvania. It works three fires and two hammers, is sixty feet long and fifty wide, well covered with joint slingles. There are between 7 and 800 acres of land attached to these works, some of it of excellent soil, and any quantity may be procured within 6 or 8 miles for from 1 to 8 dollars per acre. The ore banks appear to be inexhaustible, lying within one mile of the furnace and good roads. From one of the banks the ore may be conveyed by water within 10 miles of the furnace, with the considerable expense of 40 or 50 dollars. The quality of the iron is acknowledged by those who have used it to be equal to any. It is particularly sought for by lock makers, saddle tree makers, cutlers, &c. The demand for iron in that country is far beyond what is made, and is selling from 40 to 50 dollars per ton. I have no hesitation to say, contracts on not a very long credit can be had for almost any quantity yearly, as from that quarter a considerable portion of the western country is supplied. As it is supposed a purchase of this magnitude would not be made, without a view of the property by those inclined to purchase, it is deemed unnecessary to give a further description. Letters addressed to me at Abington, Virginia, will be duly attended to. I will also sell my SALT WORKS On Holston in Washington county Virginia, which is now rented at 10,000 Dollars a year. I have adjoining to it between 5 and 6,000 acres of land well covered with timber, a considerable proportion of which in point of fertility is equal to any land whatever, and will afford 3 or 400 acres of meadow, nearly 100 being now in good timothy. The buildings which are extensive are in a good state of preservation. FRANCIS PRESTON. May 1-ep
Pursuant to a decree of the Court of Chancery, I shall sell at Public Auction in the town of Piscataway, on Tuesday the 6th day of August next, ALL the real estate (not heretofore sold) of Thomas Clagett, Esq. late of Prince George's county deceased, containing about the quantity of eleven hundred acres, of which that handsome well improved lot in the town of Piscataway is a part. Two hundred and twenty-five acres of good forest land part of Marlow's resurvey, being about three miles from Piscataway - eight hundred and fifty acres, part of several different tracts, commodiously adjoining each other on Piscataway creek, about a quarter of a mile from the Tobacco Warehouse, on the navigation of Potomac river - This is a valuable tract of land, and will be sold in one body, or divided into lots as may best suit those who wish to purchase. These lands will be sold on a credit of four years, payable in four equal annual installments, the purchaser or purchasers giving bond with approved security to the trustees on interest from the day of sale - on the chancellor's ratifying the sale and the whole of the purchase money being paid (and not before). The trustee by a good deed, will convey and transfer to the purchaser or purchasers and his or their heirs, the land to him, her, or them sold, free, clear, and discharged from all claims of the heirs of the aforesaid Thomas Clagett. THOMAS DUCKETT. Prince George's county, } June 14-00p1st
Ten Dollars Reward. WAS missed on Sunday, the 5th of May a double cased silver Watch, maker's name Crosthwaite, Dublin, and in the outer case was a watch paper with Mr. Parker's name of Philadelphia - Whoever will bring the said watch to the office of the National Intelligencer, shall receive the above reward, and no questions will be asked. May 19-4t.
Just opened, and for sale by Rapine, Conrad, & Co. CAPITOL HILL. Doctor Wheaton's Patent JAWNDICE BITTERS; a cure for all jaundice and bilious complaints. Also his patent ITCH OINTMENT; an infallible cure for the itch, and every other humor of the skin. June 24-7t
Twenty Dollars Reward STRAYED or stolen from the subscriber on the night of the 4th instant, two GRAY HORSES , one a large bay six years old, one of his eyes appears to be injured, his tail bobbed very short, shod all round; the other an old horse, with two white hind feet, several white saddle spots, has a switch tail, which has been lately cut at the ends; the first accustomed to the carriage, trots & paces, the second made use of as a road horse, trots easy, but paces badly, very lately shod all round. As I am satisfied they have been stolen, I will double the reward, on conviction of the thief or thieves, and on getting the horses. DANIEL CARROLL of Dud'n. July 12-F&Wtm.
I will sell upon a liberal credit, the following valuable property. MY plantation on St. Charles's branch, containing 800 acres, about three miles from Upper Marlboro, and not more than one from Patuxent River. Few plantations in Prince George's County combine greater advantages, or flatter an industrious man with better prospects of profit. The situation of the dwelling house is elevated, pleasant and remarkably healthy. The spring water, fine and abundant - The arable land, extremely favorable to the growth of Tobacco, Corn and all kinds of small grain. The meadows, sure to remunerate, are extensive, and with proper management will produce two hundred tons of Hay annually - This plantation abounds with fire wood, rails, and fine timber, so distributed that little labor is required in making the necessary repairs, and much can be spared in the vicinity of a good market towards refunding the purchaser his money. In 1803 it produced 28,000 lb. of tobacco, with only 11 hands, the product would have been greater the next year, but for the succession of uncommon frosts. The dwelling, out houses, four tobacco houses and four quarters, are in good repair, and the plantation abounds with fruit trees. The purchaser may be furnished with the negroes on it, about 40 in number, twelve of whom are working hands and of them eleven are men. Mules, horses, about sixty head of cattle, a waggon, a cart, and every necessary for carrying on said plantation. Strawberry Hill, containing 180 acres with two miles of Upper Marlboro, on the post road leading from thence to the City of Washington. The soil is remarkably fertile and nearly one third may be made good meadow. The buildings are sufficient for a small family, who, with care and industry, would be sure to resp. on land, so congenial to the growth of tobacco, corn, small grain and grass, the full benefit of their labor. Its situation renders it a pleasing retreat to a gentleman of fortune, disposed to take the advantages it promises to health, and amuse himself with the cultivation of a small rich plantation in a genteel neighborhood, at the distance of about 12 miles from the seat of the general government, to which the road is very level, and nearly equal to a turnpike. Four hundred acres of land about 2 miles from Hancock in Washington County Maryland. About 40 acres of this land is cleared, and a small house on it; the balance heavily timbered, well watered and level, the post road from Hancock to Allegany passes through it; near the road about the centre of the land is a fine spring, well calculated to turn a few mill, or to carry on a Distillery; timber may be easily taken from this land to Hancock, and from thence floated to the city of Washington, where it always commands a handsome price. 1 Lot in the City of Washington, sq. 652. No. 12 fronting 173 feet 7 inches on South North Street, and 55 feet 3 inches on half Street West. WM. B. BEANES. Upper Marlboro, July 10-10w.
TURNIP SEED. THEO: HOLT has for sale Fresh Turnip Seed, warranted good. Mustard Seed for Pickles, &c. and every kind of Garden Seed usually grown in the Fall. Washington city, June 24-3w2w
Bailey Washington, IN the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Osborn, New Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol, has just received and opened, in addition to his former stock of Goods, the following articles which he is selling at the most reduced prices. Superfine and second do. do. broad cloths, do. striped silk & fancy do. Cotton kersemeres, do. Yellow, blue, and do. pantaloon do. mixed nankeens, do. women's colored and do. Calicoes & furnitures, white silk do. Brown Hollands and do. do. black & white do. round Dowlass, cotton do. 4-4 & 7-8 Irish linens, do. fatin beaver mitts do. 4-4 & 6-4 colored do. do. gloves, do. mouselin, do. white, black silk & do. 4-4 & 6-4 white do. do. do. 4-4 Chambery do. do. pick nick silk mitts, do. 4-4 & 6-4 tambores do. do. white & brown do. mouselin shawls, do. thread gloves, do. 5-4 & 6-4 striped do. do. Beaver and white do. Bandanna, linen, and do. do. cotton handkerchiefs, do. white & black silk do. Dimities, do. do. Coarse & fine hats, do. women's kid shoes, do. Men's white & black do. black Morocco and leather do. silk stockings, do. do. do. raw do. do. do. brown thread and do. ALSO Crockery, Hardware and C'clery. Sugars by the box Sugars, Teas, &c. &c. &c. June 26-4t.
RAGS. THE highest price CASH, given for clean RAGS, by EDGAR PATTERSON, George town, and SAMUEL SETTERLUS, near the Centre market, Washington. March 8-tf.
Whereas my wife Elizabeth voluntarily without any provocation abieted herself from my bed and board, I therefore caution the public from crediting her on any account as I am determined not to pay any debts of her contracting. THOMAS WILLIAMS. Washington city, July 10-3t
CERTAIN reports having gone abroad that the subscriber is the person alluded to as cautioning the public against crediting his wife, the public are informed that the mistake has originated from the advertisement of a certain "Thomas Williams" of the Navy Yard, the name of whose wife is also the name of the subscriber. THOMAS WILLIAMS, Blacksmith, New Jersey Avenue. July 15-3t.
To Printers. FOR SALE. A Fount of Pica, entirely new, weighing 567 pounds, cast by Binny & Ronaldson, of Philadelphia, and sent to this city by mistake. Apply to A. & G. WAY, Printers. Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Centre Market. Washington City, July 15-tf. N. B. If the above fount should not be disposed of in two weeks from this date, it will be returned to the Founders.
PUBLIC SALE. IN virtue of an order issued from the hon. court of Calvert county, will be offered at public sale, on the 28th day of August next, (if fair, if not, the first fair day thereafter) at the late mansion of Benjamin Ward, deceased, at the hour of 12 o'clock, a valuable plantation, containing 184 acres of Land, lying on the Chesapeake Bay, in Calvert county. The improvements are a small dwelling house, kitchen, tobacco house, corn house, and other out houses; a large orchard of fine fruit. This fertile spot has every advantage, it abounds in heavy timber, and has a great proportion of rich low ground, capable of being made into meadow at a very trifling expense. The soil is extremely rich - tobacco, wheat, rye, and Indian corn, grow with little labour - the neighbourhood affords a society of very genteel and friendly people - places of worship surround it - convenient to mills, and a ware house for the inspection of tobacco within two miles of the premises. This Land will be laid off in small parcels, or sold all together, as may best suit purchasers. - Bond with approved security will be required, carrying interest from the day of sale, payable in two equal payments, the first in 12, and the last in 18 months from the day of sale. WM. M. CARCAUD, DAVID L. WEEMS, CHAS. WILLIAMSON, Commissioners. July 3-ep8w
On a liberal credit. THE subscriber will dispose of at private sale, his estate called Chichester, lying on the eastern branch, immediately opposite the city of Washington. This tract of land containing 667 acres is laid off in lots from 83 to 144 acres for the convenience of purchasers. Plats of the estate and the terms of sale are in the hands of colonel Hanson at the navy yard, and Charles Wayman of George Town. The lots will be shown by Mr. Wedden, living on the premises, near the Eastern Branch bridge. ANTHONY ADDISON. Barnaby, 12th June 1805-tf
West Indies. BERNARD M'MAHON SEEDSMAN, No. 128. CHESNUT STREET. PHILADELPHIA, Has just imported from London by the ship Columbia, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF Garden Seeds, PARTICULARLY of such kinds as are usually in demand in the West Indies, and in other hot climates; and also of such sorts as are necessary for summer and fall sowing in the United States. They are all fresh, of the last season's growth, and will be disposed of on moderate terms. TURNIP SEED. He has likewise imported from one of the most eminent Turnip farmers in England, a quantity of the genuine White Norfolk field Turnip seed, which is the most profitable kind yet known for cattle feeding, and exceeded by none for ordinary purposes. FLOWER ROOTS. His flower roots being now taken up, his friends and the public may be supplied with upwards of three hundred varieties of the most superb Tulips, all named, and arranged in their proper divisions, a large collection of the best double Hyacinths, Anemones, Ranunculus, and Jonquils; likewise Crown Imperial, crocus spring and autumnal Cyclamen roots, with several other kinds. BOOKS. He is constantly supplied with the best and most approved works on Agriculture, Botany and Gardening, and in a few weeks will have ready for publication his treatises on AMERICAN GARDENING, adapted particularly to the climates, seasons, and vegetable productions, that are, or may be profitably cultivated in the United States. He is also supplied with the best English flour of mustard and split peas; white and brown mustard seed for pickles, &c. watering pots, bas mats, pruning, grafting, and inoculating knives; garden rakes, hoes, rees, lines, spades, shovels, trowels and edging irons, hot bed lights and glass, Lyncouth glasses, red, white, and yellow clover seed, burnet, lucerne, ray grass, timothy, herd grass and orchard grass seeds, lentils, vetches, peas, beans and every other necessary article in the seed trade. M'MAHON invites, may he solicit a correspondence and reciprocity of services with the admirers of curious and useful vegetable productions, in the United States and elsewhere; and having it considerably in his power, being generally supplied with an immense number of scarce, curious, and valuable seeds, he hopes they will find in him an attractive and useful correspondent. July 15.
Land for Sale. THE subscriber offers for sale, on moderate terms, the tract of Land whereon he lives, containing 530 acres, between Richmond and Fredericksburg, 25 miles from the latter and 40 from the former; the Land is remarkably level, and well watered; there is about 250 acres to clear and plentifully stocked with pine and oak timber, and about 30 acres of good meadow land. The buildings are, an elegant and well finished two story dwelling house, with two large rooms and a fine airy passage below, and three rooms above stairs, with a dry cellar under the whole house; a barn, corn house, stable, carriage house and all other necessary buildings in good repair; a beautiful young apple orchard of choice fruit now in its prime, and about 600 bearing peach trees. The situation is uncommonly healthy. Also, a small tract on South River, within 22 miles of Fredericksburg, containing 325 acres, nearly the whole of which is level, and the soil well adapted to the culture of Indian corn, wheat and clover, with a small proportion on the river suitable for a meadow. There is on this tract a dwelling house, which at a small expense may be put into good repair and rendered a comfortable and commodious residence for a small family. The terms of sale made known by application to ANTHONY NEW. Caroline, July 3-2aw2w.
WILLIAM ESENBECK PROPOSES to open, on the 15th day of July, near the Treasury, a school, in which will be taught the Latin, French, and German Languages. The school will be open every day, excepting Sunday, from 6 to 8 o'clock in the morning, and from 4 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Price of tuition ten dollars a quarter. William Esenbeck, being fully acquainted with the above languages, as well as the English, and having, in the previous part of his life, for ten years kept a school in which they were taught, trusts that he will be enabled to give general satisfaction. As William Esenbeck will not commence his school unless at least six scholars shall be previously engaged, he invites an early application on the part of parents who are desirous of instructing their children in the foregoing languages. June 28.
STELLE'S HOTEL & CITY TAVERN. THE Subscriber takes this method of thanking his friends and the public for their favors whilst on the Capitol Square and begs leave to acquaint them that having purchased and now occupying the tavern, late Tunnicliff's hotel; which he has commenced enlarging and improving - he respectfully solicits a continuance of the patronage of his friends and the public, assuring them that 'tis his full determination to fit up his present hotel, and so to conduct it, as to merit, he hopes, the preference of the public travelling, as well as those coming to the permanent seat of the Government of our Land of Liberty. PONTIUS D. STELLE. Washington City, March 25-tf
ADAM KING, & Co. AT their wine Store in High Street George Town, have in addition to their stock of old wines, laid in a large and general assortment of all kinds of Liquors and Groceries suitable to the present season; where bills of any description, in their line, will constantly be filled up on the shortest notice and they flatter themselves, from the quality of their wines, &c. they will be able to give general satisfaction to all those who may think proper to favor them with a call - where all kind of commission business as usual will be attended to with the utmost attention. George Town, November 5-tf
Fifty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscriber living near the Bowling Green on the 23rd inst. a Negro Man named PETER, between thirty and forty years old, about five feet ten inches high, he is black and rather spare made, had on when he went out a light drab colored coat, a red striped waistcoat, corduroy or thickset breeches and dark mixed stockings, has lost the greater part of all his toes on the left foot, and when spoken to is very apt to appear surprised, I will give the above reward if taken out of the state of Virginia, and thirty dollars if taken in the state and out of this county, and ten dollars if taken in the county or confined in any jail so that I get him, or if brought home all reasonable charges paid. JOHN G. WOOLFOLK. Caroline July 10-ep3w.
CHARLES H. VARDEN, MERCHANT TAILOR. Has received from Philadelphia a handsome assortment of FALL goods, consisting of the best London and French superfine cloths, cassimere, patent Besnet's cord, coilets, fancy and white Marseilles, black and figured silk, molekins, fancy silk, Marseilles, constitution cords, velvets, Genoa cord, silk and fustian Florentines, superfine coating, knapped cloths, 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 near the Capitol, December 10-tf
RAGS. The highest price, in Cash or Books, will be given for any quantity of clean Linen and Cotton RAGS, by Rapine, Conrad and Co. Capitol Hill. June 24-
W. S. Nicholls. & Co. HAVE just received from Philadelphia and Baltimore, an elegant supply of Spring and Fashionable goods, which they are determined to sell on the lowest terms for cash. July 3-6t
Land for Sale. THE subscriber offers for sale, on moderate terms, the tract of Land whereon he lives, containing 530 acres, between Richmond and Fredericksburg, 25 miles from the latter and 40 from the former; the Land is remarkably level, and well watered; there is about 250 acres to clear and plentifully stocked with pine and oak timber, and about 30 acres of good meadow land. The buildings are, an elegant and well finished two story dwelling house, with two large rooms and a fine airy passage below, and three rooms above stairs, with a dry cellar under the whole house; a barn, corn house, stable, carriage house and all other necessary buildings in good repair; a beautiful young apple orchard of choice fruit now in its prime, and about 600 bearing peach trees. The situation is uncommonly healthy. Also, a small tract on South River, within 22 miles of Fredericksburg, containing 325 acres, nearly the whole of which is level, and the soil well adapted to the culture of Indian corn, wheat and clover, with a small proportion on the river suitable for a meadow. There is on this tract a dwelling house, which at a small expense may be put into good repair and rendered a comfortable and commodious residence for a small family. The terms of sale made known by application to ANTHONY NEW. Caroline, July 3-2aw2w.
WILLIAM ESENBECK PROPOSES to open, on the 15th day of July, near the Treasury, a school, in which will be taught the Latin, French, and German Languages. The school will be open every day, excepting Sunday, from 6 to 8 o'clock in the morning, and from 4 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Price of tuition ten dollars a quarter. William Esenbeck, being fully acquainted with the above languages, as well as the English, and having, in the previous part of his life, for ten years kept a school in which they were taught, trusts that he will be enabled to give general satisfaction. As William Esenbeck will not commence his school unless at least six scholars shall be previously engaged, he invites an early application on the part of parents who are desirous of instructing their children in the foregoing languages. June 28.