Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1808-02-25 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
VOL. VIII.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1808.
[No. 2102.]
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.
P. G. Marsteller, v. M.
WANTED
A middle aged woman, capable of managing a house. To one of good character liberal wages will be given. Enquire of the Printer.
Sept. 9.
HEMP FOR SALE.
I HAVE on hand, ten tons of the first quality CLEAN COUNTRY HEMP, I wish to sell for cash, or on a time.
Bryan Hampson.
December 30.
PROFILES.
CUT AND FRAMED;
AND PROFILE LIKENESS'S DONE IN GOLD LEAF ON GLASS; NEXT door to Mr. I. ROBIN'S Store on King Street, nearly opposite the Indian Queen Tavern.
January 15. dtf.
TEN PIPES
Choice Cognac Brandy, 8 hlds. West-India Rum. 10 qt. casks. L. P. Teneriffe Wine, 16 casks Beer, 155 Sures Marine Insurance Stock, For Sale by
Callett and Fisk
November 17. d
RAILS WANTED.
The Subscriber wishes to purchase about two thousand Chesnut or Oak Rails, to be delivered at his farm on Came-ron.
J. H. HOOE,
Jan. 13. 2aw.
TO RENT.
and possession given on the 14th of November next.
The three story Brick House on the corner of King and Columbia-streets, now occupied by Mr. John Roberts.—For terms apply to Col. GEORGE DENEALE, living next door, or to the subscriber.
Nicholas Voss,
City of Washington, Oct. 20. dtf
JAMES SANDERSON,
Offers for sale very low, 25 hogsheads Muscovado Sugar, 70 bags green Coffee, 15 hogsheads well flavored Rum, 5 pipes Cognac Brandy, 12 quarter casks Sherry Wine, 12 bales Tennessee Cotton And as usual
A general assortment of the best Wines, Spirituous Liquors, Teas and Groceries.
BRYAN HAMPSON
HAS FOR SALE.
10 pipes old port } WINES. 5 do. Madeira 30 quarter casks Lisbon 12 do. particular Teneriffe 15 do. Malaga 15 pipes old cognac brandy 5 do. 4th proof Holland Gin 5 hlds. 3d proof Antigua rum 1 do. first quality molasses 6 do. green copperas 2 do. alum 20 do. brown sugar 20 bags pimento 15 do. pepper 10 chests young hyson } TEAS. 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.
I want to Hire,
A NEGRO MAN and a BOY, by the month or until the first of next January.
R. T. HOOE.
Feb. 15. d
GREEN COFFEE.
5000 lb. best Green COFFEE
FOR SALE BY
James Sanderson.
Feb. 13. d
FOR SALE,
A Negro Woman, a complete House Servant.
Apply to
The Printer.
December 22. d
Fishing-Shore to Rent.
I will rent my Fishing-Shore, at the mouth of Dogue-Creek, for the next season, or longer if desired.
Bushrod Washington,
Mount-Vernon, Jan. 15. 2aw6w
COTTON AND SUGAR.
Just received and for sale on moderate terms, 29 bales Upland Georgia COTTON, and 20 barrels brown SUGAR, both of a superior quality.
A. Newton.
February 9. d
NOTICE.
THOSE indebted to the estate of James Lawson, on account of purchases made at Occoquan, under a decree of the federal court, are hereby informed that their bonds are in possession of the subscriber and that he is authorised to receive payments.
Thomas Swann,
2aw4w
A Brick House for Sale.
THE Brick House occupied by Mrs. Mitchell, on the north side of Prince-street, between Fairfax and Water-streets, is offered for sale on a liberal credit. For particulars apply to
John C. Vowell.
ALSO, TO RENT,
The House lately occupied by Mrs. Fitzgerald, situate on Water-street, having every convenience to accommodate a genteel family. Immediate possession may be had.—Apply as above.
January 12. 6m
MR. GENERIS
Has the pleasure to inform his Friends and the Public,
THAT he has commenced his Practisimo Balls, and will continue them as heretofore. Mr. GENERIS begs the parents who have children to be instructed, will please to send them as soon as possible, so as to give them an opportunity of improving sufficiently, as he intends to have an Exhibition at the conclusion of his school for their amusement which will serve to create ambition.
November 12. co
NOTICE.
THE subscriber having qualified as executor to the estate of Col. Thomas Blackburn, deceased, respectfully requests those who have claims against the estate, to lodge them properly authenticated, in the hands of Robert I. Taylor, of Alexandria, or John H. Peyton, of Dumfries, attorney at law, who will forward them immediately to the subscriber. Those persons indebted to the deceased, will please make payment to either the above mentioned gentlemen, or
T. Blackburn.
Rippon Lodge, Jan. 8. cof
For Sale,
A VALUABLE MERCHANT MILL, containing two pair of Stones and the necessary machinery for manufacturing flour; also a Mill for grinding corn and rye, and a Saw Mill, all in complete order. This property is very convenient to Alexandria, and situated in a most excellent neighborhood for heat and for retailing goods. For the amount of the purchase, wet and dry goods could be taken for a considerable part or perhaps all, or some Alexandria property would be taken for a part. For further particulars enquire of the PRINTER.
February 10. d
In Common Council,
FEBRUARY 10, 1808.
Ordered, That the following persons be appointed commissioners for superintending the elections to be held in the different wards of the town on Tuesday the first day of March next, for the purpose of electing members of the common council for the ensuing year:—viz.
  John Hunter,  For the 1st ward.    Wm. Harper,    John Muncaster,  For the 2d ward.    Andrew Flemming,    Robert Anderson,  For the 3d ward.    Bernard Bryan,    Abraham Faw,  For the 4th ward.    William Rhodes,    William Newton,  For the 4th ward.    James Lawrason,    John Johnston,  For the 4th ward.    Ferd. Marsteller  
The election for the first ward to be held at John Lomax's tavern on Prince street, for the second ward at the Council Chamber, for the third ward at John Hodgkin's tavern on King street, and for the fourth ward at Mr. Mc Knight's house on St. Asaph street, opposite Mr. John Janney's.
Test.
Jas. M. M c Rae, C. C.
February 12 dtm
PUBLIC SALE.
BY virtue of a decree of the superior court of Chancery for the Richmond district, in a suit therein depending, wherein George Fitzhugh is plaintiff, and John D. Orr and Ferdinando Fairfax are defendants, the subscribers or any two of them who may be present, will on the last Monday in February 1808 before the front door of the court house of Prince William county, sell at public auction for ready money, a
Tract of LAND,
Containing about 145 Acres. Lying in the county of Prince William. A particular description of which may be seen by reference to a deed from George Fitzhugh, to John D. Orr, dated 17th December 1792, recorded in Prince William county court.
Wm. A. G. Dade,
John Lawson,
Benj. Botts.
Feb. 8. Comrs. dis.
Lemons by the box, Lisbon Wine in quarter casks, And about 4000 bushels coarse Salt, Mould Candles in small boxes, of superior quality, Window Glass in boxes,
For Sale, by
Robert T. Hooe & Co.
January 20. cof
Just Received,
Per the Schooner Jane, Captain Crocker, from Boston, and for sale by the subscriber, 8 puncheons Jamaica Spirits 6 barrels first quality Cheese 10 do. mens stout shoes 100 sides Soak Leather of extra nice quality 30 boxes dry Cod-Fish.
Said Schooner Jane returns to Boston. For freight or passage apply to
John G. Ladd.
December 31. d
JOSEPH MANDEVILLE,
CORNER OF KING AND FAIRFAX-STREETS,
HAS RECEIVED,
6000 lb. Gofhen Cheele 1st quality,
  1 1/2 ton assorted Patent Shot,  TEAS.    80 half chests & boxes Imperial,    Young Hyson, &  TEAS.    Hyson-skin,  
 5 pipes choice Cognac Brandy,  40 blls. Rye. Whiskey,  15 cases old Mecoc Claret superior quality,  70 lb. Nutmegs,  50 dozen London Mustard,  5 casks London refined Salt-petre,  15 casks chewing Tobacco small twist,  30 boxes Soap,  25 do. mould and dipp'd Candles,  45 kegs yellow ground Ginger,  30 boxes Havanna Segars,  5 cwt. Zante Currants,  Raisins in boxes and casks,  Pearl and hulled Barley,  A small quantity basket salt. 
Which with a very general assortment of Wines, Liquors and Groceries, he will sell low for cash, produce, or the usual credit.
Nov 16
Wanted to Purchase or Hire,
A NEGRO BOY.
From 16 to 20 years of age—none need apply but such as can be well recommended. Apply to
JOHN GADSBY.
Feb. 24. d
FISH.
THE subscriber will engage to supply from one to two millions of HERRINGS during the coming season, at six shillings per thousand—at his landing four miles below Alexandria.
William Foote,
February 22. 2aw
Land for Sale at Auction.
WILL be sold at Public Sale at a credit of 12 and 3 years, on Tuesday 22d day of March next, upon the premises, the following tract of LAND; to wit
One Tract containing 374 acres, lying in Fairfax county upon the Ox road, adjoining the lands of Edward Washington and about 2 1/2 miles from the town of Occoquan. This Tract is all in wood, lies level and is well watered, and at least one half is valuable meadow land.
ALSO,
An undivided moiety of a tract in the county of Prince William, containing 130 acres, whereon George Mills now lives, immediately upon the river and 2 miles above the town of Occoquan, will be sold the following day being the 23d day of March.
ALSO,
One other tract on the following day, being the 24th day of March,
Containing about 200 acres.—This land is under cultivation, lies well, is well watered and is in a good neighbourhood, adjoining the Lands of Wm. Grant in Prince William county, in a good neighbourhood, about 18 miles from the town of Occoquan, and 15 from Dumfries. The purchaser cannot have possession of this tract before the 1st of Jan. 1809.
ALSO,
Will be sold the following day on the premises, being the 25th day of March,
One other Tract of Land containing 200 acres, immediately at Bland's ford upon Occoquan river, and 15 miles above the town of Occoquan, this land is well improved has good buildings calculated for a tavern, store and distillery, with convenient out-houses.
Indisputable titles will be given the purchaser, to each of these tracts, on the first payment being made, the purchasers giving a trust deed on all the premises to secure the payment of the other two thirds.
N. Ellicott,
Occoquan, Feb. 10, [15]. dis.
Landing and for Sale,
From the brig Favorite, capt. John Stacey 4 bales Russia SHEETINGS 3 do. RAVENS DUCK 12 do. ALMONDS 2 hlds. COFFEE 50 bls. new RUM
John G. Ladd.
Also from brig Ruth, capt. Tubey, 24 bls. and 3 hlds. RUM Linseed, Spermaceti and Tanners' OIL SOAL LEATHER, CODFISH in boxes SALMON in barrels A quantity of SHOES, &c.
FOR SALE AS ABOVE.
A RUNAWAY.
ON the 3d instant, immediately after having struck several times his overseer, ran away from Notley-Hall farm, opposite Alexandria, a negro fellow called BILLY, between 21 and 22 years of age: he is well made, stout and strong: his skin very black, eyes small, nose flat, mouth large, lips extremely thick, countenance bad, and his voice weak and boyish; is also slow and surly in answering questions; had on when he went off a blue roundabout jacket, patched in different parts, with pantalettes of country cloth, and a blue great coat. Any person who will secure said negro, so that his owner may get him again, shall be adequately rewarded by making application to the subscriber, manager on the above mentioned farm.
John Allison.
February 25.

From the London Star, of Nov. 13.
COCKPIT WHITEHALL, November 12. Before the most noble and right honorable the lords commissioners of appeals in prize causes.
Manhattan, Lasher, master. (An appeal from the vice admiralty court at Bermuda) — This ship, under American colors, sailed from New York, laden with flour and specie, in June, 1804, for Batavia, where the same was landed & a valuable cargo of Batavian produce was taken on board, consisting of sugar, coffee, pepper, nutmegs, cloves, mace, and various other articles, with which she was returning to New York, when she was captured by his majesty's sloop Busy, W. H. Byam, esq. commander, and carried to the island of Bermuda, in this case, an appeal was interposed on behalf of the captors, who contended by their counsel, that the transaction was extremely suspicious; the hands insufficient for carrying into execution; and the proofs of property defective. Their lordships, after hearing the claimant's counsel, affirmed the sentence of the court below by restoring the ship and cargo.
The Amsterdam Packet, Smith, master. (An appeal from the vice admiralty court of Nova Scotia) — This American ship, laden with a valuable cargo of sugar, coffee, pepper, spices, and other merchandise, and bound therewith from Batavia to Philadelphia, was, in the prosecution of such voyage, seized on the 14th of July, 1805, by his majesty's sloop of war Driver, Robert Simpson, esq. commander, and carried to Halifax in Nova Scotia, where the usual proceedings were instituted, and the ship, cargo, and private adventures, were finally condemned. On behalf of the captors, it was strenuously contended, that this was a colorable and fraudulent transaction, and the parties being effected with that fraud, they had forfeited the indulgence of any further proof. On the part of the claimants, it was submitted, that the property was sufficiently proved by the necessary documents and ship's papers, and trusted, that their lordships would be of opinion, that the ship and cargo were fit for immediate restoration. The court below, as far as it went to condemn the ship and cargo, but restored the private adventures.
ADMIRALTY COURT DOCTORS' COMMONS.
Wednesday, Nov. 11.
This day, the right honorable sir Wm. Scott proceeded in the adjudication of the following cases.
Truth, Waldo, master — This was an American vessel, with a cargo of wine. Further proof was required in this case.
Ann, Bradford, master — This ship was sailing under American colors with a cargo of various merchandise, on a voyage from Leghorn, destined to London. Ship and cargo restored, on the payment of the captor's expenses.
The Peggy — This was also an American vessel, and it was contended that she was liable to confiscation on the ground of carrying contraband articles, and breach of blockade. Further proof was required of the nature and quantity of contraband articles.
From the (N. Y.) Commercial Advertiser.
BONAPARTE'S THREAT. — The following cunningly framed denial of the assertion, that Bonaparte had declared "there should be no neutrals," is found in a jacobin paper (the True American) published at Trenton. The editor, no doubt, expected, by this "trick," to convince every mind that his worthy REPUBLICAN friend Napoleon, is incapable of making so infamous a declaration.
"As soon as it was known that the British government had declared there "should be no neutrals" — which declaration she began to give effect at Copenhagen — her tools here put a similar threat in the mouth of Bonaparte by way of set-off — but the trick won't take — nobody believes it."
The following from a late Moniteur, the French official journal at Paris, is an excellent commentary on the above.
"The English are strangers to the sovereignty of nations if they flatter themselves that the Americans are so pusillanimous, so impolitic, so ready to sacrifice their independence, as to abandon to Great Britain the colonial trade. If the Americans descend to such conduct, if they will renounce the sovereignty of their flag, and suspend their commercial intercourse with France, thus trampling upon their own declaration of independence, and again becoming mere English colonies, they must, without doubt, be considered as having declared war with France and with all the continental powers."
On the same subject, the "Virginia Argus," a democratic paper of Richmond, thus remarks:
The present situation of the United States, is truly critical and interesting. It appears to be pretty well ascertained that the emperor of the French has determined that no nation which carries on any trade, or has any friendly communication with Great Britain, shall continue at peace with himself. On the other hand, the several British orders of council lately published are of such a nature as almost entirely to destroy the commerce of all neutral powers.
It would seem therefore that we shall shortly have only the choice of joining in the war on the side of France or England, or of relinquishing our trade with both.
If, indeed, the report is true that "Bonaparte has demanded peremptorily of our ambassador at Paris that the American government shall break with England or with France" it would seem that we have no choice left, but that of sides in the contest.
If Great Britain could but learn her own interest; if her rulers had but sense enough to know the difference in point of importance between the loss of a few seamen who may desert from her navy and find a shelter in our's under the pretence of American citizenship; if, for the sake of saving her and themselves from destruction, they would do us justice, it might perhaps be more to our advantage at present to be on friendly terms with her than with France, notwithstanding the threats of Bonaparte. It must be admitted, in the present perilous crisis, when all the nations of Europe appear to be swallowed up by the devouring ambition of that terrible man, that the British navy may be a necessary check to his progress — perhaps the only obstacle to prevent his attaining the universal empire. In these circumstances, however great our resentment is for the injuries and insults which the peaceable and inoffensive citizens of America have sustained from those tyrants of the ocean, we confess that we should not wish to see them entirely subdued by the equally unjust rapacious tyrant of the land. It would, therefore, be desirable that the differences between Great Britain & this country should yet be accommodated, if possible, on honorable terms; but these must be no other than the admission on her part of the principles for which our government contend; that our vessels shall be free from arbitrary search, and our seamen from impressment. This would heal up the wound.
have sent him, are really partially disposed towards the United States, we doubt not that our excellent statesmen and patriots Jefferson and Madison, though firmly resolved not to relinquish any of the rights of their country, are nevertheless disposed to consent to any arrangement, by which justice may on all occasions be readily obtained by the of the British navy, claiming deserters. Hopes may therefore yet be entertained of a compromise of the dispute between the two nations. But if this cannot be accomplished, we shall then be driven to the necessity of choosing between the three measures above mentioned, viz. war with England, war with France, or no connection with either. It becomes important then to consider which of these lines of policy ought in that event to be pursued by the United States. The subject is of great moment, and requires a variety of reflections, the result of which, whatever the decision may be, will be all important to America. It shall therefore receive the most mature consideration and candid discussion from the editor of the Argus, who solicits his various patriotic correspondents to communicate their ideas upon it for the benefit of their country.
NEWPORT, February 13.
Late from Spain.
By the arrival of the schooner Venetia, Tripp, 28 days from Ferrol, we received a Madrid Gazette of the first of Jan. 1808, (the only paper brought) — An obliging friend has favored us with the following translations: being the only articles of any consequence contained in it:
RUSSIA.
RIGA, Nov. 13.
This morning was put in execution the order which had come from Petersburg, for arresting all English navigation and merchandise. There were but 2 ships of that nation in the harbor, for the rest had luckily availed themselves of a favorable wind, and made sail. But it is very probable that many of them will fall into the hands of the Danes in passing the Sound.
PETERSBURGH, Nov. 18.
Lord Gower, the English ambassador, departed the day before yesterday from this capital, for Sweden. — The secretary of legation remains here sick.
Foreign goods have risen very much, in consequence of the declaration against England. The day before its publication, 20 English ships left the port of Cronstadt.
News, very interesting to Naturalists, has been received here from Irkutsk, in Siberia. Mr. Adams, who went out as a companion to the Russian ambassador to China, has seen and examined the carcass of an enormous animal, near the mouth of the Lena, whose marks all manifested it to be a Mammoth. — The carcass was, as yet, covered with its hide; which retained the whole of its hair, and it had lost but little of its flesh.
From these appearances, it is very probable that the race of Mammoth, which was believed to be extinct, still exists.
SWEDEN.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 13.
The king has ordered, that the prayers which had been put up in all our churches for the prosperity of our arms, should be suspended. If his majesty abandons, as all appearances indicate, the cause of the English, and prohibits their entrance into his ports, the scarcity of money, which had already made its appearance in Sweden, will, without doubt, be augmented, because the greater part of our products, as iron, copper, ship timber, &c. went to England. At the same time we have on the ocean a great number of merchant ships, which may fall into the hands of the English. Notwithstanding this, such is the situation of the continent, that no choice is left us to doubt about the matter; it is necessary to resolve to lose something, that we may not lose all; with respect to which, if our friendship with England should continue, it is very probable that the armies of Russia will attack us on one side, and the combined forces of France and Denmark on the other.
AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, Dec. 17.
It is asserted that our court will shortly publish a declaration similar to that of Russia, by virtue of which all communication with England cease and the ports of Austria be shut.
It is already some time since a number of batteries have been raised at Trieste, to protect that port and immediately a grand train of artillery from the capital and other parts of Austria is going on destined to the same object. All the sea coast will be equally protected with batteries to repel any attack to which the measures adopted by our court, for setting bounds to British despotism, may give occasion.
PRUSSIA.
They write from Konigsberg, under date of the 22d ult. that the king of Prussia has sent an order to his minister in London to leave that city.
It passes for certain, that the French will maintain themselves in Prussia till the next spring.
[DUPLICATE.]
Consulate United States, San Lucar, JANUARY 1, 1808.
BEING informed that an American vessel had been lost on this coast in the gale of the 2d of last month I requested the vice consul at Ayamonte to make enquiry into the subject, and transmit to me such information as he might obtain. He in person went to the beach, where a part of the vessel and cargo had drifted ashore about 2 leagues west of Tavira in Portugal. When he reached the wreck it had been broken into small pieces, it had been a copper-bottomed ship the copper much worn and thin; the small boat had drifted to the beach entire — it was painted black with a yellow streak.
That part of the cargo which had been collected, consisted of indigo, bread, pimento, cocoa, six hogsheads coffee, and some bags pepper; but the marks were not to be ascertained; and the only paper yet discovered, appears to be a part of a letter written to some person on board, from his grandmother, dated at Boston, 15th September last. It is but too certain, that all on board perished, as the ship struck a little after mid-day on the outer bar, and immediately separated, while a number of persons witnessed the disaster without the power to render assistance. A few days after the captain of a British brig sent a flag to Tavira, informing that the above vessel was bound to a port in Spain, was a prize of his, and had a lieutenant and 17 men on board. Intending to go to the neighborhood where this melancholy event happened, in a few days, I will in person make every necessary enquiry, and transmit to you the result by the first conveyance.
I have the honor to be, with sentiments of much respect and esteem, sir, your most obedient servant,
RICHARD S. HACKLEY.
LEXINGTON, (Ky.) Feb. 2.
Mr. MARSHALL, has introduced into the house of representatives of this state, resolutions declaring that an enquiry ought to be made into the conduct of judge Louis, relative to Lachaise, the baron de Corcandel, and Thomas Power.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2.
LEWIS KERR, esq. has brought a suit in
the superior court of this territory, against captain E. Bradish, commander of the Orleans troop of horse, for assault and false imprisonment; damage 20,000 dollars. It will be recollected that Mr. Kerr was arrested and imprisoned last winter, by order of general Wilkinson, and that captain Bradish executed the order.
Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25.
C. Thompson, Portrait Painter.
requests the ladies and gentlemen who would honor him with their visits, to call on Saturday's, which he will wholly devote for their better accommodation.
February 25.
[The following is handed by one of Paine's former friends, and is printed just as it was received.] (N. Y. Ev. Post.)
To THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. In order to elucidate Thomas Paine's Position to Congress, delivered February 4th.
When men either possessed of talents or having rendered personal service to their country as volunteers in that country's revolution, are brought before the public notice, they have a right to the thanks and assistance of the country, they have either protected or benefitted, (if wanting) as for instance one late glorious immortal WASHINGTON, who, according to Thomas Paine's writings in the 2d. part of Rights of Man, (Eng. copy) page 27, says, "He accepted no pay as commander in chief; he accepts none as president of the United States." Again, in same book, page 34, he says, "An extraordinary power ought not to be lodged in the hands of any individual, so ought there be no appropriation of public money to any person beyond what his services in a state may be worth." I state these from his own words, observing also, that he says in his petition, that he has not received any thing from Congress. — I must take the liberty of asking him, why he did not come forward when the request was made to him by Gen. Washington, in the year 1783 — When he says in his letter to Thomas Paine "your presence may remind congress of your past services to this country, and if it is in my power to impress them, command my best exertions with freedom, as it will be rendered cheerfully, by one who entertains a lively sense of the great importance of your works, and with much of Washington." — himself your sincerest friend G. Washington. — It must therefore be inferred by every man of sense, that Thomas Paine thought he was fully recompensed, in the appointment of him as secretary in the foreign department, and in the gifts made him of 5000. Penn. currency, by the state of Pennsylvania; and the farm at New-Rochelle, by the state of New-York, consisting, I believe, of three hundred acres; sixty one of which Thomas Paine sold soon after his arrival in America, for sixty dollars an acre; and the remaining two hundred and thirty nine acres, about a year and a half since, to Mr. Shuter, of New Rochelle, for $12,000, the total amount of which is $16,993 1-3. I think proper to give this statement to the public, to shew that Thomas Paine has not been unrequited for his services to this country; as I cannot bear to hear his mentioning his "generosity in giving away his services" — "this story will not tell well in history." — In writing this, I am not influenced by any personal prejudices against Thomas Paine, but in order to set the matter in a clear point of view, that the people and congress may judge for themselves; for as Thomas Paine says in the 2d part of his Rights of Man, page 27: "It is always the interest of a far greater number of people in a nation, to have things right, than to let them remain wrong, and when public matters are open to debate and the public judgment free, it will not decide wrong unless it decides too hastily." — I do not mean to enter into any literary controversy with Thomas Paine, I only wish he may at present employ his time in doing every service in his power, to remedy the present distressed state of this country, in which he would voluntarily be joined, by
A WING OF '76.
For the Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
THE writer of the essays signed Junius, tenders his grateful acknowledgments to his unknown censor, for the politeness and urbanity with which he has noticed his last production. He would not have obtruded his publications on the public, had he not been fully convinced, that if they produced no good effect, they could scarcely be productive of a bad one — that if unworthy of notice, the more mature age in the writer would not rescue them from neglect; and that, notwithstanding his youth, they would be viewed with impartiality by men of intelligent and liberal minds. Whether his last essay "savors more of old political caution, than of honorable sentiment," he leaves those who have read it to judge. His present object is the examination of an assertion, advanced in the sequel of the essay, whose author, like the great master Death, spares neither old age nor youth. And from this he is not deterred by the fear of presumption, and of "thinking himself."

wiser than his neighbors," a censure which he is not conscious of having deserved.
"Commerce," says the writer of the above mentioned essay, "is the subtle poison which has vitiated and produced the downfall of all republics." Let us briefly inquire, whether this assertion be founded on the testimony of history.
Among the republics of ancient Greece, Athens and Lacedæmon were the most remarkable. The former was, strictly speaking, a commercial state; the institutions of the latter commanded the attention of its citizens to agriculture and war. What is the picture which the history of these illustrious republics presents to our view? In the glorious wars which first developed the exalted heroism of the Grecian character, we see them contending for nought but the post of danger, anxious only for the liberty of Greece, and nobly building their renown upon the destruction of the common enemy. But this age of heroism quickly passes away. The next presents a different scene. We see unjust and ruinous wars carried on to gratify the ambition of a favorite leader; power most shamefully abused; the rights of their allies trampled upon, and their best citizens punished with exile and imprisonment, for excelling their contemporaries in virtue and in genius. We see them, too, concluding disgraceful treaties with the despot, who had so often confessed their superiority in the embattled field. Thus far there is nothing to distinguish the commercial from the agricultural republic. But if we inquire which of them excelled in learning, in politeness, and in humanity, in all those arts which exalt civilized man so far above the untutored savage, we shall discover that Athens, the commercial republic, was in all these unrivalled. And it was to commerce, chiefly, that she owed this preeminence. It was commerce which taught them the absurdity of the barbarous maxim, that all strangers are enemies, and should be treated as such. It was commerce which raised them to that towering height, which has excited the wonder and admiration of succeeding ages. Nor can we fairly attribute to commerce the corruption, which occasioned the destruction of Athenian liberty. For if we examine into the causes of that corruption, we shall find that they were common to all the republics of Greece, agricultural and commercial. The Spartans had learnt, without the assistance of commerce, to turn their backs upon the foe, to surround their city with fortifications, which their hardy ancestors, trusting to valor alone, had disdained to use. That gallant spirit which had enabled their forefathers to triumph over the armed millions of Persia, was extinct in every Grecian breast; the agricultural and commercial republics crouched together, before the Macedonian phalanx, and yielded the last remnant of their liberty to the legions of Rome.
Those haughty republicans, and their Carthaginian rivals, next attract our notice; and here, too, the inquiry is, whether commerce was the subtle poison which vitiated them, and produced a downfall. Carthage was a commercial republic; war and agriculture wholly occupied the attention of the high-minded Romans. History declares that the Carthaginians, notwithstanding the vitiated effects of their commerce, preserved inviolate, their free and republican institutions, until the nation was exterminated by its all-conquering rival. In their arduous conflict which preceded their dissolution, they demonstrated that six hundred years of continual application to commerce had not unnerved their arms, had not extinguished in their breasts, that ardent love for liberty, which made the loss of it more dreadful than extermination itself. I shall not attempt to enumerate the causes which "vitiated, and produced the downfall" of the Roman republic; suffice it to say, that among the multitude cited by contemporary historians, commerce has never been mentioned.
Nor does the history of modern times exhibit a solitary fact, in support of the proposition that "Commerce is the subtle poison, which vitiates and produces the downfall of republics." Nothing but an extensive and flourishing commerce could have enabled the brave inhabitants of the seven United Provinces, to withstand the colossal power of the Spanish monarchy, thro' a war, whose duration is unparalleled in the history of the world. Commerce was to them not a subtle and destructive poison, but the genial instrument which preserved and invigorated the political body. It was this which enabled them in the seventeenth century, successfully to resist the united power of France and Great Britain; to expel from their territories the numerous armies of Lewis, and to set bounds to his ambition. And tho' the republic has at length experienced the fate of all human institutions, we cannot attribute its destruction to the vitiating effects of commerce. The same gigantic power which has deprived the United provinces of their liberty, has enslaved the agricultural republic of Switzerland, has broken the force of the greatest monarchies in Europe, and threatens to spread desolation and slavery over the face of the globe.
But, history and experience apart, is it reasonable to suppose that commerce is vitiating and destructive to republican constitutions? It has ever been remarkable for cherishing a bold and adventurous spirit, a spirit which
bids defiance to danger, and to death itself. It was this which prompted the enlightened Columbus to traverse in his slender barque, a boisterous and unknown sea; to persevere in despite of every obstacle, until he obtained in the discovery of a new continent, the glorious reward of his labors. Can such a spirit be dangerous to our republican institutions? Does it not rather promise to give them strength and permanency by defending them from the assaults of a foreign enemy?
But commerce, says the advocates for its extinction, produces "ambition, luxury and love of riches," with their attendant vices. Ambition, I answer, is the growth of every soil. It is found in the extended forests of N. America, as well as in the populous cities of Europe. Republics, however, afford the widest fields for its operations, and in them, therefore does it most frequently discover itself. But history justifies the assertion that in the commercial republics of antiquity, ambition was less general, and less destructive, than in those which made war and agriculture their principal pursuits.
"Luxury and the love of riches," with the vices which accompany them, are no doubt promoted by commerce. But such is the lot of humanity that every good has its attendant evil. Were we to remove by the extinction of commerce, the partial ills which it produces a multitude springing up in their room would make us quickly regret the success of the experiment. Commerce is universally allowed to be a powerful stimulus to industry; and industry if not the mother of all the virtues, is certainly preventive of a number of vices. In a commercial state, civility, refinement, the arts, and the sciences, all advance together. In one that is without commerce, if not retrograde, they are at least stationary.
Commerce in short, trains up a numerous order of men, whose employment ensures them to perils and to toils; who are accustomed to look death in the face, and therefore regard it with indifference. An order of men, who by meeting on the ocean the enemies of their country, preserve their natal soil from the violation of hostile footsteps. An order, to which the only free people of Europe, owe the continuance of their freedom. For if G. Britain were "deprived of commerce," and consequently of her naval strength, instead of remaining "as independent and as powerful as at present," she would be quickly overwhelmed by the multitude of her foes. Remove the insurmountable barrier which her navy presents, and she would quickly be reduced to the same miserable situation with Holland, Switzerland, Italy and Portugal.
JUVENIS.
Mr. Calpeper is re-elected a member of the house of representatives of the United States for the state of North Carolina.
Some late accounts from Lisbon, state, that the French general commanding in that city, had seized all the flour in that port and was to pay the owners of it at the rate of 12 dollars per barrel.
A letter from Leghorn, dated Dec. 22, says, "the American cargoes seized here by the French, under pretence of their being English were returned under promise of a grant of a large sum of money in lieu thereof, we have paid 15 per cent on the amount of your cargo in our hands and expect shall be obliged to pay 30 per cent more," — If this is not robbery what is?
HIGHLY IMPORTANT.
The reader will recollect, that Mr. Wm. Pinckney, went to England as minister extraordinary to negotiate upon the subject of our differences, in conjunction with Mr. Monroe, the permanent minister. The latter gentleman having returned from London, has left a vacancy in the mission he held. We are informed from an authentic source at Washington that Mr. Wm. Pinckney was on Saturday last nominated to the Senate as permanent minister plenipotentiary to G. Britain vice Mr. Monroe.

TO RENT, A convenient two story Dwelling House and Store, situated on the corner of King and Pitt-streets, lately occupied by Mr. John Ramsay. Apply to Eliza Wilson, or Robert I. Taylor. January 12. 2aw
FOR SALE, Or to be RENTED for one or more years; THE whole of the REAL ESTATE belonging to Preasley Carr Lane lying in and adjacent to the town of Centreville, in Fairfax county. This property consists of the well known TAVERN now occupied by Mr. Adam Mitchell . The STORE HOUSE now in the occupancy of Mr. Daniel Harrington —and from eight hundred to a thousand acres of good FARMING LAND, at present in the possession of Mr. Carr W. Lane , and Mr. Walter Locker , which will be disposed of in separate tracts or entire. It is presumed that any person disposed to buy or rent any of the above property will first view the same and judge for themselves—a further description is therefore unnecessary.
Mr. Lane would take a small proportion in Negroes. Harrison Fitzhugh. Fairfax County Oct. 23. law
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