Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1807-09-24 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
VOL. VII.]
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1807.
[No. 2026.]
Sales at Vendue.
On every Tuesday and Friday WILL BE SOLD
At the Vendue Store, corner of Prince and Water streets.
A Variety of Dry Goods, Groceries, &c.
Particulars of which will be expressed in the bills of the day.—All kinds of goods which are on limitation and the prices of which are established, can at any time be viewed and purchased at the lowest limitation and prices.
R. G. Marsteller, v. m.
TWO APPRENTICES to the Biscuit-baking business, will be taken on ap- plication to
B. RICKETTS,
September 4. d3w
WANTED
A middle aged woman, capable of manag- ing a house. To one of good character libe- ral wages will be given. Enquire of the Prin-
Sep. 9. d
Twenty thousand lbs.
Porto Rico Green Coffee and St. Croix Sugars, received per the schooner Fletcher and Riley, from St. Thomas. For sale by,
R. Veitch and Co.
OR,
C. Powell.
July 21. dff.
Wanted to Purchase.
A few shares Alexandria Bank Stock and well-secured Ground Rents. Apply to
WM. GROVERMAN.
Sept. 12. d2w
A Miller Wanted.
To a man who understands the Milling Business, and can produce good re- commendations for industry, sobriety, &c. Good wages will be given by applying to
M. Miller.
June 20. d.
Public Sale.
By virtue of a deed of trust from PHILIP HAMILTON and MARY his wife, to the sub- scribers, to secure a debt owing by him to the estate of Alexandria, on THURSDAY the 24th day of October next, will be exposed to sale, on credit of six, twelve and eighteen months, carrying an interest from that day, equal to 10 per cent per annum on the sum of the town of Alexandria, to wit:
An undivided Moiety of a piece of Ground, with the improvements, lying up- on the west side of Royal-street and to the northward of King-street, fronting twenty- three feet six inches on Royal-street, and ex- tending back one hundred and twenty-three feet five inches—the whole ground subject to an annual rent of fifteen pounds twelve shil- lings, Virginia currency.
A piece of Ground, lying up- on the west side of Columbus-street and to the southward of King-street, extending on Columbus-street sixty-six feet seven inches to the line of the alley one hundred and sixteen feet to another alley fourteen feet ten inches wide, then northwardly with the line of that alley twenty-six feet seven inches, then eastwardly twenty-four feet three inches and an half, then northwardly forty feet, then eastwardly nine- ty-one feet eight inches and an half—subject to an annual rent of forty-nine dollars fifteen cents.
A Square of Ground, con- taining two acres, lying on the south side of Wolfe-street, north side of Wilkes-street, west side of Patrick-street, and east side of Henry-street.
A large Frame Store & Ware- house, built upon a piece of ground lying on the south side of Prince-street and to the east- ward of Fairfax-street, the ground is thirty feet six inches front on Prince-street, the building nearly covers the whole front, the building is insured.
James Keith,
John C. Herbert,
September 16 [17] dts
Thirty casks fresh Rice,
Just received,
And for sale by
Mordecai Miller.
September 22. d
Public Sale:
On SATURDAY, the 10th day of October next, will be sold, on the premises:
A Tract of Land, belonging to the estate of Captain Richard Conway, de- ceased; containing seven hundred and thirty- nine and half acres, adjoining the lands of William Fitzhugh, Mrs. Washington, of Hayfield, Mr. Dulany and Mr. Cooke, and lying between six and seven miles from Ar- Alexandria. A particular description of the land is supposed unnecessary, as any dispos- ed to purchase will probably examine it.— The terms of sale will be on a credit of six, twelve and eighteen months; bond, with ap- proved security, together with a mortgage on the premises will be required. Persons dis- posed to attend the sale will meet at 11 o'clock at Mr. Bonison's tavern, on the Colchester road, from whence it is proposed to proceed to the land and to commence the sale precise- ly at 12 o'clock. This tract will be divided to accommodate purchasers.
And on the Monday following, the 12th day of October,
Will be sold, on the premises,
A tract of Land, lying on the west side of the old road leading from the falls church to Alexandria, containing one hun- dred and eighty-five acres, being a part of a tract of land sold by William H. Territt to Baldwin Dade. This land will be laid off in lots of about twenty-five acres each.
At the same time and place will be sold,
Some Lots of the Stump Hill Tract, containing from three to five acres each—the terms of sale the same as the a- bove.
And on Wednesday, the 14th of the same month,
Will be sold for ready money, at public auc- tion, at the coffee-house, in Alexandria, Thirty-six Shares of Alexandria Bank Stock.
WILLIAM HERBERT, N. FITZHUGH, E. I. LEE,
September 15. dts
Valuable Lands for Sale.
In pursuance of a decree of the honorable the United States Circuit Court, of the district of Columbia, for the county of Alexandria, will be sold, on the premises, on Tuesday, the 29th day of September next, to the highest bidder, on a credit of six, twelve, and eighteen months,
One Moiety of a Tract of Land, called "Abingdon," formerly the residence of Mr. Robert Alexander, lying on the Pot- omac and Four-mile-creek, and about 3 miles above the town of Alexandria, commanding a handsome view of the Potomac, Alexan- dria, Washington City and George-Town, and the new road to Washington passing nearly through the center of the tract, which contains 553 acres, and is laid off into four lots of different sizes to accommodate pur- chasers, a plat of which may be seen at any time on application to the subscribers.
The sale will commence at 12 o'clock.
Thomas Swann, G. Deneale, Edmund I. Lee,
August 23 dts
Notice is hereby given.
THAT in consequence of a deed of trust from Henry D. Hooe, late of Prince William county, deceased, to secure the sum of three hundred and eighty-one pounds nine- teen shillings and three pence, due to Alex- ander Smith, of Alexandria, from the said H. D. Hooe—on the first day of the next dis- trict court to be held at Hay-Market, in Prince William county, (being the 18th day of next month) I shall proceed to sell to the highest bidder, for ready money, A TRACT OF LAND, situate in the county of Fauquier, containing one hundred and fifty acres—which Land has on it a Mill, a Store House and a comfortable Dwelling House, with necessary Out Houses; is situated about five miles from Hay-Market, and was formerly occupied by Nathan Matthew. The sale will take place at the tavern of Benjamin Breough, in the town of Hay-Market.
R. Young.
September 12 dts
THE SUBSCRIBER
Takes the liberty, respectfully, of informing the inhabitants of Alexandria,
THAT HE WILL COMMENCE
AN EVENING SCHOOL,
On MONDAY EVENING the 21st of this present month.
TERMS—Three Dollars, if the learner furnish himself with light: or if the subscriber supply him with light, Four Dol- lars per quarter of a year.
Note.—If any young gentlemen should be inclined to study Geometry, Trigonometry, Surveying, Navigation, &c. they will please to apply to the subscriber to know the terms; for to such the subscriber could make it con- venient to attend, if requested, either a little before or after the regular hours of school.
Hours of attendance, from six till nine o'clock, P. M.
J. PARADISE.
September 16. d7t
PUBLIC SALE.
In pursuance of a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery, held on the capitol, in Richmond, March 5 1807, will be sold, on the premises, on Thursday the 1st day of October next, to the highest bidder, for cash,
A House and Lot.—Also, an unim- proved Lot, situated on the north side of Duke-street, between Columbus and Alfred- streets, the property of Amos Alexander.
The sale will commence at 12 o'clock.
Cuthbert Powell, Phineas Janney, Thomas Janney,
Sept. 8. dts
Land for Sale.
TO be Sold, on the premises, on Thursday the 15th of October next, a small TRACT OF LAND, lying in the county of Fairfax, containing about one hundred and for- ty acres. This Land lies about seven or eight miles of Alexandria and George-Town, has a sufficient quantity of wood and meadow land, and is well watered. It lies adjoining the seat of Dr. Henry Rose, and would make a com- fortable retreat for a town family in the sickly season. Capt. Joseph Powell will show the Land to any person wishing to view it, before the day of sale, when the terms which is ex- pected to be accommodating, will be made known by
The Legatees of Nathan Smith, dec'd.
September 9. dts
Just Received,
By the brig Louisa, John Macnamara, master, from Madeira,
And for Sale by the Subscriber,
7 pipes and 12 quarter casks prime London particular WINE, of the brand of Scott & Co. fit for immediate use.
James Patton.
August 21
ALSO,
Bills on London for Sale;
Drawn by J. P.
The subscriber has on hand,
A few Bales of GOODS suitable to the ap- proaching season, which he will dispose of at a low advance, on a liberal credit, viz.
BLUE KERSEYS BLUE CLOTH MIXED COATINGS BAIZES WHITE SWANSKIN MIXED FLANNELS NARROW CLOTHS FLANNEL SERGE BEAVER COATING DOWLAS
Also, just Landing,
13 hhds. St. Croix SUGAR, of good qua- lity.
2 puncheons St. Croix RUM, 3d prf. and
3 pipes Cognac BRANDY, 4th prf.
James Patton.
September 10 d
JAMES SANDERSON
Offers for Sale, on moderate terms,
5000 lbs. best Green Coffee 19 tierces fresh Rice 20 kegs fresh Raisins 12 tierces green Copperas 5 pipes Cognac Brandy 10 hhds. 4th proof Jamaica 30 barrels N. E. Rum 25 barrels Whiskey 10 bales Cotton 5 boxes Cotton and Wool Cards 12 boxes Tin Plates. AND IN STORE, 26 hhds. South Potomac Tobacco.
IN COMMON COUNCIL,
19th September, 1807.
ORDERED,
THAT Samuel Harper, Benjamin Shreve, and Richard Weightman, be appointed com- missioners to hold an election at the house lately occupied by John Bogan, on the first day of October next, for the purpose of elect- ing a member of the Common Council for ward no. 1, in place of Benjamin Shreve, ju- nior, resigned.
Teste.
JAMES M. M'REA, c. o.
September 21. d1w
JUST RECEIVED,
Per schooner Freight, Capt. Thomas, from Portland, and for sale by
Lawrasan and Fowle,
45,000 feet prime boards 100 barrels New-England rum 2 pipes cognac brandy, 4th proof 100 sides seal leather.
September 18. d
SOAL LEATHER.
800 sides RED SOAL LEATHER, just received and for sale by
Lawrasan and Fowle,
Who have also on hand, 4 bales plains 7 ditto Kendall cottons—which they will sell on liberal terms.
September 18. d
BRYAN HAMPSON
HAS FOR SALE.
10 pipes old port 3 do. Madeira 20 quarter casks Lisbon 12 do. particular Tenerife 15 do. Malaga 15 pipes old cognac brandy 5 do. 4th proof Holland Gin 5 hhds. 3d proof Antigua rum 12 do. first quality molasses 6 do. green copperas 2 do. alum 20 do. brown sugar 20 bags pimento 15 do. pepper 10 cks young hyson 10 do hyson skin 5 do. imperial 100 bags green coffee 150 kegs madder 50 do. ground ginger 30 do. raisins 1200 lbs. bacon, well cured 5 kegs salt petre
A quantity of fine and ground alum salt. At all times he has the first quality flour for family use on hand—with a number of other articles—all of which he will sell low on his former terms.
Aug. 31 d
For Sale or Rent,
A convenient two story BRICK HO. SE with back buildings, &c. situate on D. & C. street, between Pitt and St. Asaph-streets.
ALSO,
A commodious frame STORE, on King street, between Royal and Pitt-streets.
Apply to LAWRENCE HOOFF.
August 21. eo
District of Columbia.
NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that the Consul General of Portugal to the United States of America, has authorised the subscriber to legalize all papers that may be necessary for vessels bound from the ports of this district to any in Portugal or Madeira.
Those masters of vessels who may omit having their bills of health thus certified, will be liable to undergo quarantine.
It is requisite that any article shipped for account of a Portuguese subject, should be declared and sworn to, as Portuguese proper- ty; and the bills of lading legalized as above.
Lewis Deblois.
May 16. d
The Subscriber
Returns his most grateful thanks to the in- habitants of this town, for the patronage he has heretofore received, and earnestly solicits a continuance of the same: He likewise takes this method to inform them that, on Monday evening, the 28th of September inst. he in- tends opening a NIGHT SCHOOL at his Academy on Prince-street, where will be taught Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and any branch of the Mathematics.—Any young gentlemen desirous to become acquainted with any of the above branches will meet with due attention from
G. W. Carlin.
September 13. d

TRIAL
OF COLONEL A. BURR.
(Continued by adjournment and held at the Capitol in the Hall of the House of Delegates,) for High Treason against the U. States.
OPINION
Of the Court on the motion to arrest the evidence. Delivered on
MONDAY, August 31.
[CONTINUED.]
The counsel for the prosecution have charged those engaged in the defence with considering the overt act as the treason, whereas it ought to be considered solely as the evidence of the treason; but the counsel for the prosecution seem themselves not to have sufficiently adverted to this clear principle, that though the overt act may not be itself the treason, it is the sole act of that treason which can produce conviction. It is the sole point at issue between the parties. And the only division of that point, if the expression be allowed, which the court is now examining, is the constructive presence of the prisoner on the fact charged.
To return then to the application of the cases.
Had the prisoner set out with the party from Beaver to Blannerhasset's island, or perhaps had set out for that place, though not from Beaver, and arrived in the island he would have been present at the fact;—had he not arrived in the island but taken a position near enough to co-operate with those on the island, to assist them in any act of hostility, or to aid them if attacked, the question whether he was constructively present would be a question compounded of law and fact, which would be decided by the jury, with the aid of the court so far as respected the law. In this case the accused would have been of the particular party assembled on the island, and would have been associated with them in the particular act of levying war said to have been committed on the island.
But if he was not with the party at any time before they reached the island; if he did not join them there or intend to join them there; if his personal co-operation in the general plan was to be offered elsewhere at a great distance in a different state; if the overt acts of treason to be performed by him were to be distinct overt acts; then he was not of the particular party assembled at Blannerhasset's island, and was not constructively present, aiding and assisting in the particular act which was there committed.
The testimony on this point so far as it has been delivered is not equivocal. There is not only no evidence that the accused was of the particular party which assembled on Blannerhasset's island, but the whole evidence shows he was not of that party.
In felony then admitting the crime to have been completed on the island, and to have been advised, procured or commanded by the accused, he would have been incontestably accessory but not a principal.
But in treason it is said the law is otherwise because the theatre of action is more extensive.
The reasoning applies as strongly in England as in the United States. While in '15 & '45 the family of Stuart fought to regain the crown they had forfeited, the struggle was for the whole kingdom; yet no man was ever considered as legally present at one place when actually at another; or as aiding in one transaction while actually employed in another.
With the perfect knowledge that the whole nation may be the theatre of action, the English books unite in declaring, that he who counsels procures or aids treason, is guilty accessory and solely in virtue of the common law principle, that what will make a man an accessory in felony makes him a principal in treason. So far from considering a man as constructively present at every overt act of the general treason in which he may have been concerned, the whole doctrine of the books limits the proof against him to those particular overt acts of levying war with which he is charged.
What would be the effect of a different doctrine? Clearly that which has been stated. If a person levying war in Kentucky may be said to be constructively present and assembled with a party carrying on war in Virginia at a great distance from him; then he is present at every overt act performed any where, and may be tried in any state on the continent, where any overt
act has been committed; he may be proved to be guilty of an overt act laid in the indictment in which he had no personal participation, by proving that he advised it, or that he committed other acts.
This is perhaps too extravagant to be in terms maintained. Certainly it cannot be supported by the doctrine of the English law.
The opinion of judge Patterson in Mitchell's case has been cited on this point. 2 Dal. 348.
The indictment is now specially stated, but from the case as reported it must have been either general for levying war in the county of Allegany and the overt act laid must have been the assemblage of men and levying of war in that county; or it must have been a detail of the treasonable transactions in that county. The first supposition is the most probable, but let the indictment be in the one form or the other, and the result is the same. The facts of the case are, that a large body of men of whom Mitchell was one, assembled at Braddock's fields in the county of Allegany, for the purpose of committing acts of violence at Pittsburg. That there was also an assemblage at a different time at Couches' fort, at which the prisoner also attended. The general and avowed object of that meeting was to concert measures for resisting the execution of a public law. At Couches' fort, the resolution was taken to attack the house of the inspector, and the body there assembled marched to that house and attacked it. It was proved by the competent number of witnesses, that he was at Couches' fort armed, that he offered to reconnoitre the house to be attacked, that he marched with the insurgents towards the house, that he was with them after the action attending the body of one of his comrades who was killed in it; one witness swore positively that he was present at the burning of the house, and a second witness said that "it ran in his head he had seen him there."—That a doubt should exist in such a case as this, is strong evidence of the necessity that the overt act should be unequivocally proved by two witnesses.
But what was the opinion of the judge in this case? Couches' fort and Neville's house being in the same county, the assemblage having been at Couches' fort and the resolution to attack the house having been there taken, the body having for the avowed purposes moved in execution of that resolution towards the house to be attacked, he inclined to think that the act of marching was in itself levying war. If it was, then the overt act laid in the indictment was consummated by the assemblage at Couches' and the marching from thence, and Mitchell was proved to be guilty by more than two positive witnesses. But without deciding this to be the law, he proceeded to consider the meeting at Couches', the immediate marching to Neville's house, and the attack and burning of the house, as one transaction. Mitchell was proved by more than two positive witnesses to have been in that transaction, to have taken an active part in it, and the judges declared it to be unnecessary that all should have seen him at the same time and place.
But suppose not a single witness had proved Mitchell to have been at Couches' or on the march, or at Neville's. Suppose he had been at the time notoriously absent in a different state. Can it be believed by any person who observes the caution with which judge Patterson required the constitutional proof of two witnesses to the same overt act, that he would have said Mitchell was constructively present, and might on that strain of a legal fiction be found guilty of treason? Had he delivered such an opinion what would have been the language of this country concerning it? Had he given this opinion, it would have required all the correctness of his life to strike his name from that bloody list in which the name of Jeffries is enrolled.
But to estimate the opinion in Mitchell's case, let its circumstances be transferred to Burr's case. Suppose the body of men assembled in Blannerhasset's island had previously met at some other place in the same county, and that Burr had been proved to be with them by four witnesses: That the resolution to march to Blannerhasset's island for treasonable purposes had been there taken: that he had been seen on the march with them; that one witness had seen him on the island, that another thought he had seen him there; that he had been seen with the party directly after leaving the island; that this indictment had charged the levying of war in Wood county generally; the cases would then have been precisely parallel, decisions would have been the same.
In conformity with principle and with authority then, the prisoner at the bar was neither legally nor actually present at Blannerhasset's island; and the court is strongly inclined to the opinion that without proving an actual or legal presence by two witnesses, the overt act laid in this indictment cannot be proved.
But this opinion is controverted on two grounds.
The first is that the indictment does not charge the prisoner to have been present.
The second, that although he was absent, yet as he caused the assemblage, he may be indicted as being present, and convicted on evidence that he caused the treasonable act.
(To be continued.)
The following well-written remarks from Bell's Weekly Messenger, a London paper will be read with much pleasure, by every real friend to the United States.
CONSEQUENCES AND IMPOLICY OF A WAR WITH AMERICA.
The intelligence of the week has produced one event upon which it is impossible to reflect without a sentiment of indignation. The intemperance of one of our admirals has nearly involved us in a war with America. The intemperance of the party-writers at home has hurried them not only to approve of the conduct of our officers, but to make the unqualified assertion, that a war with America would be an undoubted good—an absolute advantage to us.
A war with America an undoubted good! We really wish that these advocates for war would consult the merchants of London, Liverpool, and Bristol. They would soon be compelled into other conclusions.
America, say these advocates, monopolizes the whole of our colonial carrying trade. This is a manifest injury to British commerce. Indeed! Why is it, good friends, that our merchants prefer the Americans as carriers to carriers of their own nation? For no other reason, but because as a neutral, America can afford to take their commodities at a lower freightage. And is not this an indispensable advantage both to the individual merchant and to the general commerce of the country? Are not our commodities thus enabled to come cheaper to market, and thereby ensure a more certain and more speedy sale.
It appears, therefore, in this point of view, the carrying trade of America is of real benefit to the general commerce of England.
But the shipping trade, say the party-writers, must proportionately suffer: Certainly. But it will not, we hope, be contended, that the interests of the general commerce are to be sacrificed to one particular branch; the shipping or country trade.
There are, indeed, certain advantages, which are essential to neutrals, and which no belligerent power should grudge to its neutral neighbor, inasmuch as they themselves fully participate in the benefit. Commerce would not only languish, but, in many respects would be totally extinguished, if these neutral mediums were to be prohibited.
In what manner, for example, is it, that our colonial produce obtains admission into France and Germany, in despite of all the oppressive regulations of the French Emperor? It is only through those neutral mediums. In a word what America takes with one hand she gives tenfold with the other. She is above a carrier or an agent. Her flag covers the English as well as the French manufactures. She has no partiality but that of gain, and as this may be procured equally on either side, so will America be found equally advantageous to both.
If America were to be cut off from the carrying trade, say the party-writers, the British merchant would be compelled to employ his own countrymen.
We have already answered this argument. The employment of the neutral medium is of benefit to the general commerce, and the interest of one branch must be consulted at the expence of the whole. The merchants must not send their commodities into foreign markets, at a price amounting to a prohibition of all purchase for no other purpose but that they would employ their own countrymen. They must not pay convoy and insurance on commodities (sugars, for example) which will scarcely pay the freightage.
A very shallow objection is here made. These commodities, say they, are articles of necessity; the buyers must have them, and will therefore pay the price, be it what it may.
In the first place, other commodities will enter into competition with them, and though not so good, the difference being more than compensated by the interior price, will assuredly find a preference.
In the second place, in the circumstance of any advanced price, even the necessary
buyers take a less quantity than usual. But this diminished consumption is so much dead loss to the merchant & manufacturer. It will not, we hope, be contended, that there is a new thing in the advance of price which can indemnify him for his diminished trayment of his advanced expence. If he add any thing beyond, it is a forced contribution of his profits beyond their natural level, and of course subject to their natural undersold by those who will sell at a far lower price. He gains nothing, therefore, as we have above said, by his advanced price and therefore must necessarily lose by his diminished sale.
Such, then, would be the necessary effects of forcing trade into an unnatural channel—or compelling our merchants, in the event, and under every circumstance, to employ only British shipping, and dismiss the neutral medium.
Our commerce would suffer, and ultimately our shipping. We should shortly have more ships, but fewer commodities. The ship-builders would then have just cause of complaint, that had employed their capitals in building vessels, which have only to rot in the docks.
The result is, that nothing is to be gained by a war with America. In her carrying trade, she carries for us, and she carries for our enemy. It would be a manifest injury to our general commerce to deprive her of the former, and with respect to the latter, we should not gain that of which we should deprive America. We could not supply her place by becoming carriers to our enemy; neither should we much distress the enemy by cutting off this mean of conveyance—we should only throw his carrying trade into another channel—whilst the Danes are neutral, it would be to no purpose to cut off the neutral medium of America.
We might add, that we perhaps gain as much on one hand as we lose on the other by this neutral communication—America carries English manufactures as often at least as she carries French—we might almost say, that in her character as a neutral trader she carries scarcely any thing else but English goods.
We have entered into some detail upon this subject, as there seems to be a strange misconception upon the first principles of political economy—It is contended, for the first time, that the merchant will lose nothing by being compelled to sell dear; and that it is a matter of perfect indifference in commerce, whether the commodity reaches its market by a direct road, and therefore at a natural price, or through all the obstacles of possible interruption, and therefore at a very disproportionable and a very unnatural price.
"The only difference would be," say they, quoting the words of Mr. Randolph, an American Senator, "that the Americans will have to give a joe for a commodity, where they formerly gave a dollar."
This might be the difference to such a man as Mr. Randolph, who could equally afford to have the commodity whether it cost a joe or a dollar. But it would be very different with respect to the Americans in general—Every one could not purchase at a joe who purchased at a dollar. Some would endeavor therefore to do without it, others would begin to think of substitutes. Necessity is the mother of invention.—Let us not drive the Americans to resources from which it may be afterwards very difficult to recall them.
TRANSLATED
For the New York Mercantile Advertiser.
FROM LATE FRENCH PAPERS.
PARIS. July 20.
Yesterday, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, agreeably to the order of his majesty the emperor and king, his serene highness the prince arch chancellor of the empire repaired to the senate, in order to communicate to its members the two treaties of peace signed with Russia and Prussia.
His serene highness was received with the accustomed ceremonial, and having taken his seat, he said.
"Gentlemen, the rapid course of the victories of his majesty, the emperor and king, was the certain omen of a glorious peace. Our hopes are accomplished by the two treaties of peace which I bring to the senate. His majesty would not suffer them to be made public until they were laid before you. The senate duly appreciate the delicacy of this reserve, and it will perceive therein a new proof of the attention of our august sovereign, in maintaining the forms consecrated by custom and our laws.
Amidst the great results which these political transactions present, there is one that will interest your liveliest affections. Doted as you are, gentlemen, to the glory of

the imperial dynasty, with what satisfaction will you not see its splendor, continually in- creasing, elevate to the throne of Weisbach a young prince whose wisdom & courage have just been signified by deeds so noble. In that, as well as in every other disposi- tion forming these treaties, you will trace, the constant cares of the emperor, to consolidate the order of the empire, to consolidate the great system of which he has laid the basis. Your hearts will applaud the conceptions of a genius friendly to humanity, whose views and precautions all tend to spare the effusion of human blood. The continent may at length calculate upon a durable peace. The memorable interviews which have just taken place on the borders of the Niemen, are the pledges of long tran- quility. The tokens of mutual esteem and confidence which have been establish- ed between the sovereigns of the two most powerful nations of Europe, present a barrier against which all the efforts of hated and ambition will henceforward prove abortive."
His serene highness having then handed the two treaties, they were read by the sen- ator Duperc, one of the secretaries. The reading being ended, the senator Lacépède, speaker of the senate made the following reply. My Lord,
The reading of the two treaties of peace which his majesty the emperor and king has been pleased through your serene high- ness to communicate to us, impress upon the senate, new sentiments of the liveliest gratitude.
After so many harvests of glory, so many prodigies, and so much good, the senate feels more than ever the necessity of paying to his imperial and royal majes- ty its homage and its vows.
We know we shall soon have the advan- tage, so precious for every Frenchman, of enjoying the august presence of the great- est of monarchs. But days, hours and e- ven moments, seem like so many ages to our just impatience.
I then move senators; first, that the senate orders the transcription upon its registers of the treaty with Russia, and of that with Prussia.
Secondly, that a special committee be charged to draft an address expressive of the sentiments of love & respect with which the senate is so deeply affected for his imperial and royal majesty.
The two motions of senator Lacépède, were unanimously agreed upon.
The committee appointed to frame the address, consists of his eminence cardinal Fesch, mess. Lacépède, Moïse, Laplace, and Semoisville. They will make their report on Monday the 27th inst.
Conformably to orders from his majes- ty the emperor and king, transmitted to his serene highness, the prince arch-chancel- lor of the empire, his excellency the grand master of the ceremonies prescribed to the heralds to proclaim, in Paris the peace which has just been signed with Russia & Prussia. This publication has taken place yesterday the 24th of July, as follows.
At 5 o'clock in the evening, the heralds on horse back, attended by 24 justices of the peace, and a numerous detachment of troops, set off from the Thuilleries, and proclaimed throughout Paris the articles of the treaties concluded between his majesty the emperor of the French and king of I- taly, protector of the confederation of the Rhine, and their majesties the emperor of all the Russias and the king of Prus- sia.
The train in all its rounds was followed by an immense concourse of people, who evinced their gladness and gratitude by the liveliest transports and cries a thousand times repeated of vive l'Empereur . In the evening there was a general illumina- tion.
The emperor is expected here to-morrow the day following. It is supposed he will go direct to St. Cloud.
INVARIABLE CURE FOR A FELON. Take a piece of Rock Salt, about the size of a butternut, wrap it in a green cabbage leaf, and be sure, if not, in brown wet paper. Lay it in hot embers, and cover it as you would to bake an onion; after about twenty minutes, take it out and powder it as fine as possible. Take hard soap and mix the powdered salt with so much of the soap, that it will make a ball. If the soap has but little turpentine in it, as may be known by the smell, then add a little turpentine, but if the soap smells pretty strong of the turpentine, none need be added. Apply the salve when made, to the part af- fected by the felon, and it will in a few hours break the felon, and it will in a few hours totally destroy the felon, and remove all pain. If the felon has suppurated or has got mat- ter in it, after the pain is removed it must be opened as other sores are.
[Newburyport Gazette.]
Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24.
The hon. George Jones is appointed a sen- ator in Congress from the state of Georgia, in place of the late Mr. Baldwin.
Captain Jenkins, of the ship Ann, informs us that the city of Bourdeaux was illuminated on the 1st of August, for three days, in con- sequence of the peace on the continent; and that Bonaparte arrived in Paris, from the Grand Army on the 27th July. [ Mer. Adv. ]
By virtue of a precept of the Secretary of the Navy of the 12th inst. a Court of Enquiry will be held at Norfolk, on the 5th of October, in the case of Commodore Barron. The court will be composed of the following officers, viz.
Captain Alexander Murray, President. Captain Isaac Hull, and Captain Isaac Chauncy.
These gentlemen are the same with those, previously appointed, with the exception of Commodore Preble, whose long illness and consequent death prevented the court from sitting at an earlier period.
In looking over Aikin's Athenaeum for the month of August, we were struck with the following interesting paragraphs:
"The committee of the House of Com- mons appointed to inquire into the state of the West India trade, is expected soon to make its report. Rumour states that very positive evidence has been given by many of our principal merchants relative to the expediency, or as it is termed the necessity of interrupting the trade carried on by the Americans, with the French and Spanish islands. As this matter is likely to come very soon before Parliament, where it will probably lead to animated discussions, we shall briefly explain to our readers the me- rits of both sides of the question.
The French colonies were formerly ob- liged, in the same way as ours, to send the whole of their produce to the mother coun- try. The law by which this necessity is enforced in Britain, is commonly, but not with strict propriety, called our navigation law. The fact is, that independent of the general provisions of the navigation law, we have for 150 years specifick acts of Parliament in the same spirit, and more comprehensive in their operation, in re- gard to the colonies, than the celebrated navigation laws of Cromwell. Be this as it may, the French colonies have sent home their produce to the mother country exclusively for more than a century. In war this was a matter of no small difficul- ty, but as there was no other means of dis- posing of it, the only alternative was to let it remain in the colonies or hazard the conveyance. In the present war however Talleyrand discovered that America was a very convenient medium for carrying on this commerce, and accordingly a month had scarcely elapsed, after the renewal of hostilities in 1806, when Bonaparte issu- ed a decree opening the French colonies to the Americans. This trade has since been carried on to an amazing extent, and almost the whole continent of Europe is by these means supplied with West-India produce. No treaty could have been more advantageous to both parties. Ameri- ca produces in plenty the provisions and timber, which are wanted in the West- Indies. The West Indies pay her with sugar, rum, coffee and other articles of tropical growth, which do not interfere with her own productions, and which are equally useful, for her own consumption, and for traffic with other countries. Such a liberal export does she make of West- India produce, that in the year 1806 no fewer than 211 American ships entered the port of Amsterdam, importing 45,000 hogsheads of sugar.
In consequence of the cheapness of con- veyance by neutrals, and of the obstacles thrown into the way of our commerce by Bonaparte's prohibitory decrees, there is no demand whatever on the continent for British produce, except on terms at which it is quite ruinous to sell. Matters have been going on at this rate, above two years, but they are now come to a state at which the merchants consider it incum- bent on them to exert all their influence to induce the ministry to put a stop to the American intercourse with the enemy's colonies. A measure of this nature was no doubt in contemplation by Mr. Pitt in 1805, but his successors viewed the matter in a very different light. Their sentiments on this head were stated at length in the inquiry into the state of the nation, pub- lished in March last year. At that period however it is to be remarked, that the in- tercourse in question had not yet done so much mischief; nor had Bonaparte then at-
tempted to exclude us so completely from the continent.
The only objection to intercourse is the dread of a war with America or rather of the mere suspension of a trade which takes off a yearly value of between eight and nine millions of our manufactures. Any inter- ruption of so important a traffic should certainly, if possible, be avoided: and no prospect of aggrandisement to ourselves, or of injury to our enemies would justify a measure calculated to produce a rupture of this kind. But if the prosperity of our commerce and our shipping be at stake, the case is widely different. The hostile act would obviously be directed against France, not against America to whom we have no antipathy. In carrying it into ef- fect, as far as it regards America, we should be solicitous to avoid an offensive or per- emptory conduct; and with these precau- tions (which by the by our government have seldom been very skilful in observ- ing) it is probable that no quarrel with America would ensue, for although our loss in such a contest would not be small, the loss of America would be ten times greater.
❧ PALMER'S PACKET will sail for NORFOLK on Saturday.
PUBLIC SALE.
On TUESDAY , the 6th day of October next, will positively be sold, at the Vendue-Store, on a credit of three months, for approved endorsed negotiable notes,
Two bales of Broad Cloths, from 11 to 18 shillings sterling costs.
2 ditto napt and plain Coatings, from 6 to 12 shillings sterling costs.
P. G. Marsteller.
September 24
Journeyman wanted.
A person who understands manufacturing PIANO FORTES , will meet with good en- couragement by applying to
John Sellers, Prince-street, Alexandria.
September 24.
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District of Columbia, County of Alexandria, ss.
July Term, 1807. James Sanderson, complainant vs. Hannay and Logan, and Wm. Hodgson, defendants
The defendants Hannay & Logan not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court upon affidavit, that the said defendants Hannay and Logan are not inhabitants of this district—on motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants Hannay & Logan do appear here on the first day of November Term next, and enter their appearance to the suit and give security for performing the decrees of the court, and that the other defendant Wm. Hodgson do not pay away, convey or secrete, the debts by him owing to, or the estate and effects in his hands belonging to the said absent defendants Hannay and Logan until the further order or decree of the court, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in both of the public newspapers published in this county, for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of said county.
A Copy. Teste. G. Deneale, C. C. law2m. August 12
District of Columbia, County of Alexandria, ss.
July Term, 1807. James Sanderson, complainant vs. Francis Peyton and Cuthbert Powell, defendants
The defendant Francis Peyton , not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court upon affidavit, that the said defendant Francis Peyton, is not an inhabitant of this district—on motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant Francis Peyton, do appear here on the first day of November term next, and enter his appearance to the suit and give security for performing the decrees of the court, and that the other defendant Cuthbert Powell, do not pay away, convey or secrete,
District of Columbia, County of Alexandria, ss.
July Term, 1807. Joseph Baxter, complainant vs. Washington Pierce, and Henry K. May, defendants
The defendant Washington Pierce , not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court upon affidavit, that the said defendant Washington Pierce is not an inhabitant of this district—on motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant, Washington Pierce, do appear here on the first day of November term next, and enter his appearance to the suit, and give security for performing the decrees of the court, and that the other defendant Henry K. May, do not pay away, or secrete the debts by him owing to, or the estate and effects in his hands belonging to the said absent defendant Washington Pierce, until the further order or decree of the court, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in both of the public newspapers published in this county, for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of said county.
A Copy. Teste. G. Deneale, C. C. law2m. August 13
District of Columbia, County of Alexandria, ss.
July Term, 1807. Zebulon Robinson, complainant vs. Washington Pierce, and Henry K. May, defendants
The defendant Washington Pierce , not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court upon affidavit, that the said defendant Washington Pierce is not an inhabitant of this district, on motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant Washington Pierce do appear here on the first day of November term next, and enter his appearance to the suit, and give security for performing the decrees of the court; and that the other defendant Henry K. May, do not pay away, convey, or secrete, the debts by him owing to, or the estate and effects in his hands belonging to the said absent defendant Washington Pierce, until the further order or decree of the court; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in both of the public newspapers published in this county for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of said county.
A Copy. Teste. G. Deneale, C. C. law2m. August 13
GREAT BARGAINS.
INTENDING to remove to the state of Tennessee as soon as possible, I wish to dispose of the following valuable and increasing property upon low terms, which property I inherited from my ancestors, who have had a legal title to the same for upwards of one hundred years.
One tract well known by the name of ABINGDON, being on the Potomac river between Alexandria and George Town, and nearly opposite the city of Washington, beautifully situated, containing about Four Hundred acres, now leased to the Mr. Wises for three hundred and sixty dollars per annum with other stipulations contained in the said lease.
One other tract contiguous to the first, leased to William Fraser for forty dollars per annum, containing about sixty acres.
One other tract containing ten acres of bottom land, adjoining the Four Mile Mill tract.
One other tract contiguous to the Abingdon estate, and within two and a half miles of George-Town, containing 725 acres. The greatest part of this land is heavily covered with red and white Oak.
Three thousand acres on the Scioto River, in the state of Ohio.
This tract descended to me from my uncle George D. Alexander, being one moiety of the land he was entitled to for his military services during the revolutionary war. All the title papers with the wills under which I am entitled to the above property, are in the hands of BALDWIN DANE, Esq. to whom application will please to be made for terms &c. being legally authorised to contract and dispose of all the above valuable property, for which good and satisfactory titles will be given.
Walter S. Alexander. August 13.
TO RENT,
THE BRICK HOUSE lately occupied by the subscriber, situate on Duke-street. There is a good kitchen with a pump at the door, smoke-house, stables, and garden. For terms apply to K. JANNEY. 9th mo. 2d.
CLASSICAL SCHOOL.
MR. MACRATH , having signified to the trustees of the Alexandria Academy, his intention of withdrawing himself from that institution at the expiration of the current month,—will resume his Private School on Thursday the first of October, in his dwelling house in Prince-street. The amount of tuition to be the same as in the classical department in the Academy.
Being furnished with a large pair of English globes, constructed on the modern improvements, he will instruct his upper classes in geography and all the useful problems on the globes. Due attention will also be paid to history and mythology, so essentially necessary to a right understanding of the classics.
The occasional visits of gentlemen of the learned professions and other literary characters will be gratefully acknowledged.
September 19.
District of Columbia, County of Alexandria, ss.
July term, 1807. Thomas Lawrason and William Powle, trading under the firm of Lawrason and Powle—Complainants,
vs. Washington Pierce and Henry K. May, Defendants;
The defendant Washington Pierce , not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, upon affidavit, that the said defendant, Washington Pierce is not an inhabitant of this district—on motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant Washington Pierce do appear here on the first day of November term next and enter his appearance to the suit, and give security for performing the decrees of the court; and that the other defendant Henry K. May, do not pay away, convey, or secrete, the debts by him owing to, or the estate and effects in his hands belonging to the said absent defendant Washington Pierce until the further order or decree of the court, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in both of the public newspapers published in this county, for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of said county.
A copy, Teste. G. Deneale, C. C. law2m. Aug. 13.
One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber some time in the beginning of August, 1805, a dark Mulatto Woman, named MILLY , she is tall and boney, has bushy hair, and all her upper fore teeth are out, has a high nose and remarkably thick lips, on one of her thumbs she has had a bone felon which occasions them to differ in appearance. She took with her two children, one a boy named Ben, now about 10 years of age, not very black; the other a bright mulatto girl named Betsy, about 7 years of age, has straight hair. She was seen in Baltimore about the first of September, 1806, and passed by the name of Betsy . Whoever takes up and secures said Runaways, so that I get them again, shall receive, if taken in Maryland or Virginia, One Hundred Dollars , or if at a greater distance the above reward and reasonable charges if brought home.
John Dougherty. law3m. September 18.
ONE CENT Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber about the tenth of May last, a Mulatto Boy named Christopher Duffy , about 5 feet 2 or 3 inches high, 19 years of age. Whoever takes up said Runaway and brings him home, shall receive the above reward but no charges.
Henry Nicholson. 31
25 Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY , some time in the month of November or Dec. last, a negro man by the name of SAM , who was hired in the town of Alexandria to a Mr. Robert Smith. He was about 30 years of age, about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, very straight, of rather a yellowish or taney complexion, stutters a little, has a soft voice and generally seems humble and timid when spoken to. He had a wife at col. Jemmeson's in the county of Dinwiddie, and may perhaps be lurking in that neighborhood, but I think it more probable he may have gone to the state of Maryland. If taken in the state of Virginia and brought to me I will give the above reward; if in the state of Maryland and brought to me I will give 30 dollars reward.
Baldwin M. Lee. Virginia, Westmoreland county, July 24. [30]