Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1806-05-15 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
Vol. VI.]
THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1806.
[No. 1601.]
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 kind of goods which are on limitation and the prices of which are established, can at any time be viewed and purchased at the lowest li- mitation and prices.
Philip G. Marteller, v. m.
A constant Trader.
For LIVERPOOL , direct,
The substantial, fast sailing
SHIP
William & John ,
Thomas Woodhouse, Master.
To sail about the 20th instant.— For freight of a few hundred bar- rels or passage, (having good accommodation) apply to the Master on board, John Janney, or the subscriber.
JAMES PATTON.
May 9.
120h
GERMAN GOODS.
A few bales and cases of Bagging, brown Rolls, H-ffians, Oznaburghs, Platillas and Dowlas, for Sale, at moderate prices.
ALSO,
The Schooner
HENRIETTA ,
In complete order for sea, burthen five hundred and fifty barrels.
RICKETTS, NEWTON & Co.
May 6.
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WANTED,
A vessel of about five hundred bar- rels burthen, to take a freight to Boston.
Laurafon & Fowle.
April 22.
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THE SUBSCRIBER
Wants to Charter,
A vessel of about 1500 barrels burthen, for CORK and a MARKET ; to which immediate dispatch will be given—the cargo being al- ready to go on board.
James Patton.
WHO HAS FOR SALE,
At his Warehouse, Conway's wharf, New-York prime Beef and Pork. Also, Southern Pork, of good quality—with a few pipes of old Cognac Brandy.
February 12.
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FOR SALE,
PORK in barrels New-York prime and cargo BEEF Hyson Skin and } TEAS Suchong Ruffa DUK , and A few kegs ESSENCE OF SPRUCE , by DAN'L. MURCATROYD.
May 6
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TO RENT,
And possession will be given the 20th May, A TWO STORY FRAME HOUSE , situ- ate on Fairfax Street, lately occupied by Mr. Davis, brewer. The stand is good, and having been occupied for a length of time by a person eminent in his business, renders it an eli- gible situation for a person of that business. For terms apply to
Thomas Irwin, or John Adam.
May 3.
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Twenty Dollars Reward.
Absconded, on Saturday last, from the subseri- ber's house near town,
A Negro Man , named Reuben ,
Formerly a STAGE DRIVER , and well known a- bout town.
FIVE DOLLARS reward will be given if taken in or about town, where he is sup- posed to be lurking, (an old habit) and TWEN- TY DOLLARS if 50 miles from town, and proportionally for a less distance.
William Hodson.
May 3.
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Wanted Immediately, A WET NURSE.
Apply to the Printer.
May 9.
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CHARLES BENNETT,
Has imported per the Ship William and John , Captain Woodhouse, arrived here, and William Murdoch , via Baltimore, and offers for Sale, on the usual terms,
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF SPRING GOODS,
VIZ.
SUPERFINE Cloths and Kerfeymeres Waistcoating, Dimoties, India jeans Cotton Kerfeymeres, Grandilles & Nankens Silk, Cottons, and thread Hosiery—among which are a few dozen of extra size Black, white, and lead Pic Nic Silk Gloves White and colored Cambrics, Sarfnet do. Silk and Cotton Chambrays, plain, figured and embossed Printed, Cotton, and Linen Handkerchiefs— amongst the latter a few dozen Superfine White
Common and Superfine Shirting Cottons Silk Cords, Cambric Buttons, Artificial Wreaths and Flowers White and black Lace Veils, Leno do. 5. 4. and 6. 4 Shawls Leno and Cambric Worked Muffins Sewing Twine and Shoe Thread Best English Hats, Common do. Nails, Hoes, Spades Crailing and Graft Scythes, &c. &c.
May 9.
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Colston and Turner,
Have received from New York, and are now opening at their Linen Store , on Royal Street, opposite Mr. James Ruffell's,
AN ASSORTMENT OF
Irish Linens, Diaper Table Cloths, brown Holland, Platillas, and Ticklenburgs. And daily expect, Diapers, Checks, Hempens, Dow- las, Sheetings, Threads, &c. Also for Sale,
A few chests of Imperial and Hyson Teas, of the latest importations—and 50 bales of Liverpool Salt.
May 9.
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BOTTLED BEER.
To-Morrow morning, at 7 o'clock, and, if encou- raged, each succeeding morning, A dray with BOTTLED BEER will go about town:
When the citizens may supply themselves with that wholesome beverage at 1x pence per bottle, to be paid for on delivery.
Orders from the country and shipping or- ders will be executed on the shortest notice.— Apply to
T. CRUSE.
May 8.
NOTICE.
By virtue of a deed of trust from Michael Steiber to John D. Westcott and the sub- scriber, to secure the payment of a sum of money, & due from the said Michael Steiber to Jacob Geiger , will be exposed to sale, at public auction, for ready money, upon the premises, on THURSDAY , the 29th day of May instant, A LOT OF GROUND, situate on the east side of Royal Street, between King and Prince Streets, in the town of Alexandria, fronting on Royal- Street 25 feet and extending backwards 103 feet 5 inches; upon which are erected two good Frame Houses and Back Buildings. This Lot is subject to a ground rent of ninety dollars per annum.
JOHN LONGDEN.
May 6.
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Second Dividend,
IN the case of James Smith , has been declared, of seven cents in the dollar, on all claims le- gally proven, payable by the subscriber in Dam- tries, thirty days from the 14th instant.
Timothy Brundige,
Assignee.
Dumfries, April 19.
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FOR SALE,
Two elegant Riding Chairs, with tops and harness complete;
On the most reasonable terms for cash or hort credit—Apply to the PRINTER, or, THOMAS WHITE, jun. Blacksmith.
April 8.
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A few copies of the American Gardener may be had at the Book- Store of Robert Gray.
TUNIS CRAVEN,
Has just received by the latest arrivals a hand- some assortment of
SPRING GOODS,
—AMONG WHICH ARE—
Colonade Mull Muffins Ladies' extra long silk and ditto laced and pequet kid gloves ditto Habit do. Cut gauze, japanned and York canned do. honey-comb do. Pic nic mits Plain and figured leno Mens' gloves Pequet crepe Adelphi cotton in boxes Plain cambric, jaconet and Wood's superfine cloths & mull muffs cashmeres Plain & colored hair-cord- Marterilles waistcoating ed cambric Nankens India & British book muf- 4-4 and 7-8 Irish linen lin Shirting cotton Do. do. handkerchiefs Long towels Leno veils Linen Cambricks Lace cambric and tam- Umbrellas bored mull shawls Bandanna handkerchiefs Honey-comb and imperial Dowlas fatinet do. Creas Undressed ginghams, chintz Ticklenburg and calicoes Osnaburghs and rolls Silk and cotton chambrays Bofas Italian Mantuas Garrahs and Ribands Selampores. Italian sewing silk Silk and cotton hosiery
ALSO,
FRESH TEAS,
Of a superior quality, in small Leaden canisters and by the pound.
May 6.
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PUBLIC SALE.
By virtue of a deed of trust from Daniel McCarty to the subscribers, to secure the pay- ment of a sum of money due from the said Daniel McCarty to Jonathan and Mahlon Schofield, will be sold at public auction, on the premises, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the 31st day of this present month, part of that Tract of land called Mount Air, whereon the said McCarty now lives, lying upon Ac- quincque Creek, in the county of Fairfax, adjoining Gardner's Mill Land, distant about 11 or 12 miles from Alexandria. The sale to commence at 12 o'clock.
Phineas Janney, Andrew Schofield.
May 7.
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PUBLIC SALE.
PURSUANT to a decree of the superior court at chancery, held at Richmond, will be ex- posed to sale, TWO TRACTS OF LAND, in the county of Loudoun, the property of Tho- mas Atwood Diggs, Esq. One called the Valley Tract, containing about 1697 acres, lying about three miles from Leesburg—the other called the Green Hill Tract, lying on the Potomac river, near the Blue Ridge, and supposed to contain about 1940 acres. These lands are to be sold for the purpose of raising the sum of about six thousand dollars, due from the said Thomas A. Diggs to certain creditors in the decree mention- ed. The sale will be made to the highest bid- der for ready money, and will commence on the 13th day of June next, in the town of Leesburg, and county of Loudoun.
Thomas Swan, } Commissioners. W. C. Seiden, }
April 22.
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THE Subscriber and possessor of the above advertised Lands thinks it proper to warn any person who may incline to purchase under the above decree (which was obtained in the most secret manner and totally unknown to him) that he will now give, or aid in any manner the procuring a title to be set such sale, the attempt to which is a vague and ill-tempered effort.
Thomas A. Diggs.
April 24.
The public are notified, and all persons are cautioned, against purchasing certain lands in Loudoun county, Virginia, decreed by the su- perior court of Chancery, to be sold as the property of Thomas Atwood Digges, and advertised by the com- missioners, Swan and Seiden, to be sold at Leesburg on the 13th day of June next; the fee of said estate being clearly vested in and belonging to William Dudley Digges, of Maryland, an infant under age.
ROBERT BRENT, Attorney in fact for the estate of William Dudley Digges.
City of Washington, April 28.
[May 7]
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24 hogheads retailing Molasses 24 do. Sugar, of good quality 26 barrels Beef, Salem inspection 1 pipe London Particular Madeira Wine 5 boxes Cotton Cards 2 sacks Sago 2 do. Licorice Root Barrels of Clover and herds Grass Seed A quantity of red Seal Leather, and 100 Shares Marine Insurance Stock, For Sale, by
Benjamin Shreve, jun.
April 26.
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Cash, and the highest price given for clean Linen and Cotton Rags, by the Printer of this paper.
PUBLIC SALE.
Will be added to FRIDAY's Sales. Chintzes & calicoes, cotton stripes, dimities, naukeens, flockings, silk and cotton handkerchiefs, cambric and jaconet muffs, &c. Philip G. Marteller.
May 14.
JUST IMPORTED,
Per ship WILLIAM MURDOCH , from London,
A PARCEL OF
SPRING GOODS,
Among which are
Printed Calicoes and Cambrics, Narrow com. tape stripe, and cambric dimities, Cotton chambray, and chambray muffs, Plain and figured Italian fashions, Plain jaconet and cambric muffs, A great variety of fashionable fancy muffs, shawls, veils, and handkerchiefs, Hosiery, silk gloves, &c. &c.
FOR SALE BY
Richard Veitch & Co.
May 13.
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N. B. Many of the above GOODS are in variable packages for the West India market, and entitled to Drawback.
JAMES PATTON,
Has for sale on board the William and John , lay- ing at Conway's wharf,
503 bales blown salt, 2500 bushels ground alum do. 1200 pieces stone ware, 2 crates assorted queens ware.
May 10.
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JOHN WATTS, ALEXANDRIA,
Has just received, per the William Murdoch , (via Baltimore) from London, a complete as- sortment of
SPRING GOODS,
Which he will sell low for cash, or to punctual customers, viz.
Gentlemens' Silk and Cotton Hosiery do. Silk and Leather Gloves Ladies' Silk and Cotton Hosiery do. Silk and Leather Gloves Silk and Cotton Chambray Muffs 5 8, 7 8, and 9 8 undressed Ginghams Figured and plain Jaconet Cambrics Plain and figured Jaconet Mullin India Book Mullin White and colored Cambrics Plain and figured Leno Mullin Leno Shawls and Veils Italian Grapes and Lucrings London Chintzes and Calicoes White and colored Jean Cambric Dimities First chop Long Naukeens Marseilles Jean and Mullinet Waistcoating Brown and Scarlet Bandannos Real Madrass Hankerchiefs 3 4, 4 4, and 8 4 Damask Shawls Diaper Table Cloths Ruffa Sheetings White and brown Sheetings superfine Cloths and Cashmeres 2 pieces Salisbury Cloth 3 bales India Goods 7-8 and 4-4 Irish Linens White and brown Platillas Umbrellas and Parasols German Ticklenburgs White and brown Rolls Bed Tickling Apron and Shirting Checks Waldron's Graft and Crailing Scythes Wedding Hoses assorted in casks Gentlemens' best London Hats, &c. &c.
May 6.
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REMOVAL.
T. CRAVEN has removed his Store, next door to Matt's Tavern ; where he offers for Sale a general assortment of
DRY GOODS,
And daily expects a further Supply.
April 3.
THREE CENTS REWARD.
AN AWAY from the subscribers, on the night of the 11th instant, James Moore Kearwell , an apprentice to the boot and shoe- making business. He is about 16 years of age, lundy complexion, dark hair. Whoever returns said apprentice shall be entitled to the above re- ward.
M. & J. Janney.
5th month, 14th.
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N. B. Masters of vessels and others are fore- warned harboring or carrying off said apprentice, at their peril. M. & J. J.

NUMBER I.
THE political sky has seldom remained long unclouded. But it may be doubted whether it was ever charged with a b lacker tempest than that we have lately seen burst upon Europe. France has accomplished, in twelve years, as much as Rome did, in five hundred. The Samnites, who occupied a little province that is now a part of the kingdom of Naples, resisted the Roman arms for half a century, and it was not till after four and twenty Roman triumphs and twice that number of pitched battles, that they were subdued.
King Pyrrhus landed in Italy too late, after the Samnites had lost their spirit no less than their force. He proved an enemy worthy of Roman discipline and courage, yet he was unsuccessful.
The Romans after five hundred years of incessant war with the petty nations around them, who were their equals in valour, inferior only in discipline, at length aspired to extend their dominion beyond the bounds of Italy. First Sicily and then Spain were disputed, in arms, with the Carthaginians. Fifty years were passed in battles and alarms before this great controversy was decided in favor of Rome.
When Carthage had fallen, Greece, the mistress of Rome in arts, her rival in arms and renown, fell an almost unresisting prey to Roman ambition. She fell with all her confederated republics, as ours will certainly fall, if France should continue to wield our factions, and our factions dispose of our government. For factions in a democracy are sincere only in their hatred and fear of each other. Whether the Jeffersons and Madisons stand, or the Randolphs and Murrays should rise in their stead, our rulers can have no patriotism. Their emulation is too fierce, and their objects of ambition too fugitive and too personal to allow them to take the views, still less to cherish the sentiments of statesmen. Old Rome had patriots, but who would expect to find them in the amphitheatre among the gladiators. Those who love power will seek it in the contest of party. The lovers of their country will be found, nursing their griefs and their despair, among the discarded disciples of Washington. To return from this seeming digression, Rome availed herself of the divisions of the Grecian republics to subjugate them all. Affecting a zeal for their liberty, she offered her alliance, and the allies of Rome, like those of France, were her SLAVES. The Greeks joyfully aided Rome to conquer Macedonia, and Philip, the Macedonian king, was employed against Antiochus called the Great, the Syrian monarch. Egypt was too base to make any resistance, but submitted to tribute, as quietly as we do.
Thus every independent republic and powerful prince fell a prey to Rome. Beyond the Euphrates, the Parthians at length formed a mighty empire, which the distance and the deserts rendered like the modern Russia, inaccessible to the Roman arms. It was remarkable that Rome seldom had more than one enemy to fight at a time. They fell in succession, and their servitude was concealed, though it was embittered, by the title of allies.
France has achieved her purpose; the struggles of liberty are over, and the continental nations of Europe are now sleeping in their chains.
If France possessed the British navy, those chains would be adamant, which no human force could break. French tyranny, like the great dragon, would have wings, and the remotest regions of the civilized world would be near enough to catch pestilence from his breath.
Yet we are infatuated enough to think America a hiding place for liberty, where her assassins will not seek her life, or an impregnable fortress that would protect it.
On what reasonable foundation do these presumptuous expectations rest? When France is master of both land and sea, will distance preserve us? With eight hundred ships in the department of the Thames, distance would be nothing to Bonaparte. He could transport an army of sixty thousand men to occupy New York, which could not make one hour's resistance. He could transport them with more expedition and ease than Mr. Jefferson could assemble our STANDING ARMY of two regiments from the frontiers to oppose them. Yet this standing army, so potent to command the types, the exclamations and the silly fears of democrats, though it assisted as a bug bear to make Mr. Jefferson president would no better protect his house, at Monticello, from a French squadron of horse,
than the army of Virginia formerly defended its assembly from col. Tarleton.
But our myriads of militia might defy the world in arms. Excellent hopes these! When Austria in vain opposes two hundred thousand veterans to the progress of Bonaparte, when Russia is repelled in the pitched battle of Austerlitz, when Prussia with its armies, complete in numbers and discipline, stands still, not daring to stir, and waiting to acknowledge Bonaparte conqueror; or to come more plainly to the point, when we see half a million of English volunteers, as formidable and as stiff in buckram as it is in the power of tailors to make uniforms, parading the coasts of Sussex, Essex and Kent, and yet trusting only to the vigilance of the British navy to hinder the French from crossing the channel—surely, when we see these things, we must be unwilling to reflect, or utterly incapable of reflection, if we can suppose that the army of the militia in the secretary's office would transplant fear from Mr. Jefferson's bosom into Bonaparte's.
To say nothing of the improbability of the militia obeying the call for actual service, or, if they should appear promptly and in sufficient numbers, of the impossibility of detaining them in service long enough to make their arms of the least imaginable use, direful experience has at length instructed nations, that when they are in danger, they are to be preserved from it by their real soldiers. These are made, not in a tailor's shop, by facing blue cloth with red or yellow, but by learning in the field, that subordination of mind that will make men do and ensure their doing all that men possibly can do.
Old Rome did not number her enemies. Two legions each, of less than six thousand men, and as many of the Latin or other Italian allies made a complete consular army. Such an army routed the numberless forces of Mithridates and Antiochus. It cost the Romans more exertions to subdue Perseus, king of Macedon than to conquer all the east. His phalanx, of sixteen thousand men, was harder to break than all the million militia of the other successors of Alexander. Rome, by the perfection of her discipline, became mistress of the world.
Would Bonaparte calculate on the vigor of our government, as an insuperable obstacle to his military attempt on the United States? Would the congress majority, like a Roman senate, create means and employ them, with a spirit that would prefer death to servitude or tribute? The French Hannibal surely, with our 17 millions of tribute money already in his treasury, would have no discouraging fear of this sort. When he reads our treaty with Tripoli, by which it appears that we chose tribute when victory was within our reach when he sees that the bey of Tunis presumes to say by his minister at Washington, pay or fight, what can Bonaparte conclude but that no honor is a name, and in America an empty one, and that our national spirit can never be roused to a higher pitch, than to make a calculation. With us honor is a coin, whose very baseness confines it at home for a currency. Such a people, he will say, are degraded before they are subdued. They are too abject to be classed or employed among my martial slaves. Let them toil to feed their masters and to replenish my treasury with tribute.
Is there a spirit in our people that would supply the want of it in our rulers? Our total unpreparedness both by land and sea, to make even a shew of resistance against an attack, is certainly not from the want of military means in the U. States, but from the dread of a loss of popularity if they should call them forth.
Why is it unpopular? Because the progress of French domination is not seen at all, or is seen with a fatal complacency; because we love our money better than our country; because we enjoy our ease almost as much as we love our money, and because by shutting our eyes to our public dangers, we escape the insupportable terror of their approach, and the toils of an efficient preparation to resist them.
It is a thing incomprehensible, that even the childish babble of democracy is not dumb. Admitting the stupidity, admitting the baseness of the Democrats, yet without admitting that they are both stupid and base in a miraculous degree, it is unaccountable that they should not see, in the victories of Bonaparte, the stride and almost feel the gripe of a master. If a storm should sink, or a fire ship burn the British navy, we should feel that gripe in a month. Gen. Turreau would quietly exercise all the authorities at Washington. Considering how tamely we give up our millions, no less than seventeen in two years, while that navy still renders America inaccessible to France, is any man alive so absurd, as to suppose that our subjugation
on to French despotism would cost the great nation a single flask of powder.
Take away the British navy, or give it to France, and we, free Americans, so valiant of tongue, tie up in our stalls as tamely as oxen. The pen of Talleyrand would be found a sharper weapon than general Varnum's sword. It is preposterous to suppose that a military resistance to France would be attempted. Her faction in this country would revive, the clubs and the maxims of 1794, and Genet would again summon the enemies of British influence, to rally under his banner. We should be called the allies of France and our loyal address would accompany our tribute to conciliate the friendship of the great nation, and to claim a share in his glories. The men who could be nothing without France would be invested with the titles and powers of magistracy, and property would be made to shift hands till it rested with those who would be really interested to support France, that France might support them in keeping it. Thus she would avoid the odium of a violent revolution and yet would reap all the advantage of it, to rivet our dependance upon her power. The distance of the Roman provinces at length favored their emancipation from her yoke. But with the sole possession of a navy, the transatlantic provinces of France would not be distant.
With these irrefragable proofs of the fatal certainty with which the power of France would reach us, and of the uneffacing tameness with which we should endure it, if France should ruin the British naval power, what comments shall we make on the sense or spirit of the non-importation project of Congress, which though ineffectual for its purpose, is intended to impair the force and resources of that navy? How deep and considerate will be our scorn and execration of the Armstrongs and Livingston's and Murrays, who, to make their flattery welcome to a tyrant's ear, have blended it with American invectives against that navy. We seem to be emulous of the spirit of slavery before we descend to its condition; as if we were resolved to merit their contempt, by an earlier claim and even by a juster title than their yoke. For as long as the British navy may triumph that yoke is not inevitable.
The most successful way to prevent our servitude is faithfully to expose our dangers. So far as our fate may depend on our wisdom or our choice, it is proper to call the attention of our citizens to the fact that Bonaparte, though he has done much, he has done it in vain, unless he can do one thing more. Give him the British navy, and he will govern the United States as absolutely, and certainly with as little mercy, as if our territory were a French department, and actually lay between the Seine and the Loire. Let our scribblers then extol the long forecasting wisdom of the Jeffersonian administration. Let them boast of their devotedness to the cause of the people. The man whose chief merit is grounded on his having penned the Declaration of Independence has done more than any other man living to undo it. He has made conventions to pour the fullness of our treasury into the coffers of Bonaparte, he has dictated laws in aid, and to carry into effect, French authority in St. Domingo, & now his minions in Congress have begun a warfare against the British trade, and without our own five co-operation to cripple the maritime resources of England, Bonaparte might meet with too great obstructions and delay in subverting the independence and liberty of our country.
If we love our country as we ought, we cannot but wish that the conquered nations of Europe break their chains. We cannot but wish that Great Britain may courageously and triumphantly maintain her independence against France. But on this point what are we to expect? A military opposition on the continent of Europe has proved unavailing. Will France, now mistress of the land become mistress of the sea also, and establish her iron domination over the civilized world? This is a question of life or death to American independence and the awful decision is near.
FOR SALE,
THE HOUSE and LOT I live in, in the town of Alexandria, situated on Patrick street, between King and Prince streets, adjoining Mr. James Ruffel. The lot is 33 feet front and 100 feet deep. On this lot is erected a well finished two story frame house, 24 feet front and 31 feet deep; the back buildings are all of brick, and the lot well enclosed. Under the house is an excellent dry cellar; the house is well finished from the roof to the cellar. This property will be sold clear of all incumbrance.
ALSO,
One House and Lot, on Prince street, on the paved part, in the same neighborhood; on which there is a well finished two story frame house with every necessary back building; the lot is well enclosed and is 25 feet front and 100 feet deep. This lot pays a small ground rent. I will exchange the above mentioned property for lands in the western country, or dry goods for the greater part of the payment of this property. For further particulars apply to the subscriber living on the premises.
Robert Abercrombie.
May 2.
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CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. MONDAY, APRIL 7. SPANISH AFFAIRS.
DEBATE.
On the motion of Mr. J. Randolph to amend the secret journal, by inserting in it the message of the President of the 6th Decem-ber.
CONTINUED.
MR. KELLY. I did not expect to offer any arguments either in favor of or in opposition to the decision lately made, from which there has been an appeal; but as that appeal has been made, I rise not for the purpose of going into any wide argument, or of accusing any set of men, but for the purpose of justifying myself and the vote which I shall now give, as well as that which I have given. It has been said on this floor with open doors that the reason of giving money was to prevent the necessity of raising a standing army; and that it was better to strengthen the arm of the executive with money than by a standing army. From this it might be inferred that the reasoning on the part of the minority went to raising a standing army. As I voted with the minority on this occasion, I will briefly state some of the reasons which influenced my vote. It is not in order to say any thing relative to the confidential message, but it is perfectly in order to speak of the message delivered at the opening of the session; and I believe it is perfectly fair to say that there was no occurrence between the 3d of December, when the public message was delivered, and the 6th when the confidential message was received, to change the circumstances in which we were previously placed. I shall vote in favor of the publication of this message as being the ground work of the proceedings we have adopted in secret. I wish it published that the public may judge whether those proceedings were consonant to this message or not. I should wish the public to see whether the part taken by the minority, or the measures of the majority are the most consonant with it. To enable the public accurately to judge, I think it essential that it should be published; as the executive branch of the government is presumed to be the best acquainted with our foreign relations. The message of the president at the opening of the session specially mentioned and designated Spain. It informed us that, "inroads have been recently made into the territory of Orleans and the Mississippi, our citizens have been seized and their property plundered in the very parts of the former which had been actually delivered up by Spain, and this by the regular officers and soldiers of that government." The message also advised us that something was necessary to be done. It said that some of these aggressions might perhaps admit of a peaceable remedy, but that others could be met by force alone. That message, it will be allowed on all hands, called loudly for some efficient measures on the part of the government for taking against Spain, if not a hostile, at least a defensive posture; and I will undertake to say that nothing which has occurred in secret tended to inculcate the propriety of a different course; nor could there be any thing, for the one message so quickly followed the other, as not to allow time for any intervening circumstances. What followed? A report of a committee stating the aggressions of this power to be of a most atrocious nature; not recommending a war to check the rising growth and prosperity of the country, but recommending that a certain number of troops should be raised at the discretion of the president of the United States, to repel the insults that might be offered, and to chastise those who offered them. This measure appeared to be proper in itself, and it appeared likewise to be recommended by the tenor of the message. It appeared to be the more necessary, as we had information of the collecting of a considerable force in the provinces of Spain and at Pensylvania. For these reasons it appeared to me desirable that such a force should be raised as the president might deem necessary. This was not creating a standing army—the number of troops to be raised was to be left entirely to his direction. The resolution proposed is as follows: Resolved, That such number of troops not exceeding president of the United States shall be sufficient to protect the south-ern frontier.

of the United States from Spanish inroad and insult, and to chastise the same, be immediately raised.
It has been alleged that the militia would have been competent to defend the frontier. But this could not prevail on me to abandon the measure, as I could not think it proper that the militia, even if competent, should be forced out into so unhealthy a service. The resolution embraced no other idea but that the standing force in that quarter should be strengthened. I considered this safe and proper, to make provision for cases which might arise. I could not believe that the militia would be competent to defend the country. They are too remotely situated, and the country too sickly; and the only just calculation was that they would have found their graves there. It was not contended that a large army was necessary; but that it would be requisite in case Spanish troops should be superior to ours, to raise a few recruits.
These are the reasons that induced me to vote for the resolution. I had others. We were informed of the necessity of having additional land batteries, of putting our ports and harbors in a state of defence, and of building an additional number of gun boats. If these measures were carried into effect, I thought, as militia would not be competent to these objects, it would be requisite to have an addition made to our troops. Under all these circumstances I was in favor of empowering the president to raise a small number of troops. But while I was in favor of this measure, I was as strongly opposed, as any man on this floor, to any thing like a large standing army. I will never consent to such a measure without an urgent necessity for it.
I was opposed to the measure adopted by the house on many grounds. It appeared by the report of the secretary of the treasury that there was not in the treasury more than a surplus million of dollars. I considered it improper, when we were threatened from every quarter, to lay a magic hand on the two millions appropriated, to anticipate the receipts of revenue by a million of dollars, and thus drain the treasury when money might soon be wanted for the most urgent purposes.
I was opposed to it on other ground. It did not appear for what purpose it was to be applied. It is true, I heard one gentleman say it was in correspondence with the secret wishes of the President, but I could pay no regard to that declaration. We had before us no communication either public or private, which declared that it was either with Spain or France that the negotiation was to be carried on. Nor had we any reason for entertaining the idea that the two millions, whether they are gone or not, would make one farthing difference. It was necessary for me, voting on this occasion, to see the necessity and propriety of the measure. We had been told in the message of the President that the negotiation with Spain had come to an issue, & that issue was not favourable. But we had received no information that Spain was disposed to adjust her differences with us respecting boundaries. We had, on the contrary, different intimation. Neither had we any intimation that the contemplated negotiation would be agreeable to Spain, or to the President of the United States. Was it then proper for the House or myself to vote for appropriating two millions of dollars for the Lord knows what, when it neither appeared from any communication from the President or from any other official source, to be desirable. If we had had such an intimation from the President what security was there that the negotiation would have been made; and I am inclined to believe that I should have been opposed to its having been entered upon. What gave rise to the first purchase? The right of deposit stipulated by treaty to us had been refused. It is well known that a considerable number of vessels came down the Mississippi, which from their peculiar construction could not reach the ocean; and thence resulted the necessity of a place of deposit. The refusal of that right first gave rise to the idea of a purchase. We got possession of New Orleans and of the river, and found ourselves also possessed of a strip of land on the other side of it, after having thought we had purchased West Florida; and when I find instead of this, we have been swindled out of our money, I am unwilling to negotiate again, and give away the public treasure.
Even after this shall have been done, it will be extremely easy for France or some other government to raise a difficulty, and claim an additional sum for its adjustment. Was it not believed on the part of our government, that we had made a fair purchase, not only to the Rea Bravo in one direction, but to the Perdido in the other? I had another reason against this measure. I thought this an improper time to accomplish it. Having already got the navigation of the Mississippi and the Island of New Orleans, I thought it most advisable to delay the negotiation till a general peace, when we might make an engagement with Spain as an independent nation, and have some assurance that the nation which sold would be able to guarantee the country. On these grounds I voted in favour of the resolution reported by the select committee, and against the measure adopted by the House. I have thought
proper to assign these reasons, that all may understand the grounds on which I voted. And this consideration will justify me voting to give publicity to the message, that the public may see what is the ground work of the measure, we have taken. I wish the nation to see whether that message recommended taking the ground which we have assumed, or that which we refused to take. (To be continued.)
BY THIS DAY'S MAIL.
NEW YORK, May 12.
Foreign Intelligence.
Since our last we have received our regular files of London papers down to the evening of the 26th of March, inclusive, and Lloyd's lists of the 25th, from which we make a few selections for the COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER of this evening. The London Sun of the 25th, observes; "Lord Holland, it is said, is about to depart to Berlin upon a mission of great importance. An order has, it seems, been given for a frigate to be in readiness to convey his Lordship and his suite to Cuxhaven."
London, March 25.
The Dutch papers contain long details from Naples, from which it appears that the Prince Royal and prince Leopold occupy in Calabria, with 17000 picked troops & a numerous levy en masse , a formidable position near Lago Negro, where they are determined to make a stand. The galley slaves attempted to pillage Naples before the entrance of the French, but were subdued after a sharp action by the Police and armed Citizens.
Some of the ships in the Bay, which were not out of reach of the batteries when the French entered Naples, were forced to strike their flags and return into port. It is added that almost the whole convoy, on board of which was embarked the royal property, has been forced back to Naples by a gale of wind.
March 26.
Whilst Murat is to be created a prince of the German Empire, and perhaps an Elector, Prince Louis Bonaparte is mentioned as the future sovereign of Holland. Some letters are said to have been received from the Hague, stating, that he was expected there on Monday last—that Schimmelpennick was to be immediately displaced of the office of Grand Pensionary, and that the new form of government, which had been arranged for some time, will be declared without loss of time. These intended changes have, it is added, produced universal consternation and dissatisfaction throughout Holland. The funds have fallen from ten to twelve per cent.
Bonaparte, though he is evacuating Germany is pouring his troops into Italy; they are to be concentrated in and near Venice. From the Haifa Nefi, as it has been called, built on the waves of the Adriatic, and rocked into deeper and deeper repose by the tempests which for more than twelve centuries devastated Europe, but wrecked at last in the storm of the French revolution; from that little spot, the asylum of freedom, when she fled from the destroying Alitca, Bonaparte meditates what in France will be called the deliverance of Greece, and in England the subjugation of Turkey.
Liverpool, March 27.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
London, Tuesday night, 6 o'clock. Mr. Whithread and others, brought up a paper from the house of commons, the contents of which were, that the commons had taken into consideration the answer of Henry lord viscount Melville, and that he is GUILTY of the charges laid against him, and that the commons are ready to prove the same. Upon the chancellor reading it from the woolsack, lord Fitzwilliam rose to make a motion that Henry lord viscount Melville be heard at the bar of this house, which being agreed to, he further moved that the 29th of April, at 11 o'clock in the afternoon, be the time for the trial of Henry lord viscount Melville at the bar of this house.
Lord Grenville moved the thanks of the house to admiral Duckworth, the officers, seamen and marines, for their gallant behavior on the 16th of February, in taking and destroying five sail of the line, being the whole of the French fleet in the West Indies, which was carried, nem. dis.
In the house of commons, Mr. Grey made a similar motion, which was agreed to in like manner.
The gentlemen who intended to bid for the loan waited on the chancellor of the exchequer this morning, to ascertain the amount of the loan and the terms upon which the biddings are to take place on Friday. We understand that the amount of the loan is to be twenty-two millions; 18 for Great Britain and 4 for Ireland. Of the latter, 2,000,000 are to be raised in England, and 2 in Ireland. The contractors are to receive 100% consols, and the biddings to be in the reduced. The first instalment is to be paid on the 15th of April.
Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
THURSDAY, MAY 15.
CONGRATULATION.
We do, with great pleasure, congratulate the public of Massachusetts, and all the friends of virtue and patriotism , in the U. States, on the certainty of the re-election, by a majority of the people of this commonwealth, of his excellency Caleb Strong, as their governor.
[Boston paper.]
The London Morning Chronicle of the 3d of March has the following interesting article; it is said to be the substance of the remonstrance presented by Mr. Munroe.
"The remonstrance presented by Mr. Munroe to this government states, that he had flattered himself that he should have had an early answer to his former remonstrance. But the subject, he says, has become the more important, by the continuance of the same policy, and the frequent seizures which are still made of American vessels, places him in a state of great responsibility. He adds, that the more he reflects on the subject the more he is convinced it is contrary to the understood law of nations, and equally repugnant to the agreement between the two governments, in respect to the commerce in question."
By the law of nations, as settled by the most approved authors, no other restraint is acknowledged on the trade of neutral nations, with those at war, than that it shall be impartial between the latter; that it shall not extend to articles deemed contraband of war; nor to the transportation of persons in military service; nor to places actually blockaded or besieged. Every other commerce of a neutral with a belligerent is lawful, and every other restraint by a belligerent on a neutral unlawful.
The list of contraband is well defined as are also the circumstances which constitute a blockade. The best authorities have united in confining the first to such articles as are used in war and are applicable to military purposes; and require to constitute the latter the disposition of such a force, consisting of stationary ships, so near the port, as to make it dangerous for the ships of a neutral power to enter it.
The vessels condemned were engaged in a commerce between the United States and some port in Europe, or between those states and the West India Islands, belonging to the enemies of Great Britain. In the European voyage, the cargo consisted of the production of the colonies. In the voyage to the West Indies it consisted of the goods of the power to which the colony belonged, and to which the ship was destined. The ship and cargo, in every case, were the property of American citizens; and the cargo had been landed, and the duty on it paid, in the United States. It was decided, that these voyages were continuous, and the cargoes were condemned on the principle, that the commerce was illegal.
These seizures are incompatible with the law of nations, as above stated; they involve no questions of contraband or blockade. On what principle then can these seizures be defended? On principles laid down in a series of orders issued by the British government in 1793, 1794, 1798. By the first of these orders, all commerce between neutrals and enemy's colonies is forbidden, though the other orders afterwards a little relax this rule. In support of those orders it has been urged, that as colonial trade is a system of monopoly in peace, neutral powers have no right to participate in it in time of war, and that belligerents may interdict it, although allowed by the parent country. But does it follow, because a parent country in time of peace monopolizes the whole trade of its colony, that in time of war it has no right to regulate at all; on the contrary, that that right passes to the belligerent. If this doctrine was sound, it would certainly establish a new and singular mode of losing and acquiring rights. But are not in every state the colonies a part of her domain and do they not continue so until they are severed by conquest? The right of regulating trade rests in the state over its whole territory, and no distinction can be taken in reason between different parts of the same state. But neutrals have a right to trade with colonies in as ample an extent as the mother country will allow it. The right depends not on the chance of war, nor on the will of the belligerent. If the orders of the British government alluded to contained the known law of nations, there would have been no occasion for any of them, nor could they have varied from
each other, in the manner in which they do so vary. I now, says he, proceed to shew that the decisions are contrary to the agreement between the two governments on this subject. By the order of November, 1793, some hundred American vessels were carried into port and condemned. Those seizures were submitted to commissioners, who condemned them and awarded compensations, which G. Britain has honorably paid. It is impossible not to consider what passed on that occasion, but as an adjustment of the present principle, and until the case of the Essex, not one American vessel engaged in this commerce had been condemned, although frequently met with by the British cruisers. In Robinson's Reports, page 368, it is clearly established by the learned judge of the admiralty, that an American has a right to import the produce of an enemy's colony into the United States, and to sell it afterwards for the general commerce of Europe; and that the landing of the goods in the U. States, and paying the duties, should preclude all further questions upon the voyage.
Lord Hawkesbury afterwards, in a communication of the 11th of April, expressly stated the same thing—that the produce of the colonies might legally be imported into the United States, and from thence into the mother country; and the produce of the colonies and the manufactures of the mother country might find their way to each other by this circuitous route. He complains, that after this understanding between the two countries that this opinion should be departed from in the case of the Essex, which served as a signal for the British cruisers, and that since that time above fifty American ships, engaged in this commerce, have been carried into British ports, and are detained. He complains, that Britain gave no intimation of an intention to change her conduct on these points. He adds, that he makes this communication in hopes of a friendly adjustment, not only on this subject, but also on the other, of impressing American seamen, which he admits is a matter of peculiar delicacy, by reason of the similarity of persons and manners, and particularly from the identity of language with the two nations."
ASSIZE OF BREAD, Made of Superfine Burr Flour.
 The 8 pound loaf to be sold for 36  The 4 pound loaf . . . . . 18  The 2 pound loaf . . . . . 9  The 1 pound loaf . . . . . 4 1/2 
JOHN LONGDEN, Clerk of the Market.
May 15.
PUBLIC SALE.
On FRIDAY next, at half past 10 o'clock, will be sold at the wendue store , for the benefit of the underwriters.
1 cask HARDWARE , containing White metal Cocks, Bed-Screws, Sand Paper, Coffee Mills, Locks, &c. damaged on board the ship William and John, capt. Woodhouse. Philip G. Marsteller.
May 14.
O. P. FINLEY,
FAIRFAX STREET;
Has imported in the William and John , Captain Woodhouse,
A large and general assortment of Hardware, Cutlery, Saddlery, &c.
Which he will dispense of by wholesale and retail, on the accustomed terms to punctual customers.
May 15.
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JUST LANDED,
From the ship Nancy , Captain Paine , from Charlestown ,
30 bales COTTON , of superior kind; With a quantity of RICE AND INDIGO.
For Sale, by
F. GILMAN.
May 10.
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MATHEW EAKIN,
Respectfully informs his friends, and the public in general, that
HE HAS COMMENCED MAKING
ICE CREAMS,
For the season—he has also
A few bushels of ICE for Sale.
ON HAND,
Twenty frails soft shelled Almonds, 50 do. Nuts, of a superior quality, fresh Oranges, Lemons and English Walnuts, Anchovies and Olives, by the bottle and box, fresh Muscadel Raisins, in boxes, a quantity of fresh Citrons, and Sweet Meats, in boxes. Salad Oil and Lisbon Biscuits, 300 bottles Martinique Cordials, and a general assortment of CONFECTIONARY , as usual.
May 6.
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JAMES KENNEDY, SEN.
KING-STREET,
RESPPECTFULLY informs the public that he has received from LEE & Co's Patent and Family Medicine Store, New-York, a fresh assortment of the following
Valuable Medicines,
Which are in high esteem and general use throughout the United States, many of them being sold cheaper than the drugs of which they are compounded could be purchased at a retail store.
TAKE NOTICE
That J. Kennedy, Sen. is appointed the only agent for ALEXANDRIA.
DR. HAMILTON'S ELIXIR,
A sovereign remedy for Colds, Obstinate Coughs, Asthma, Catarrhs, Sore Throats, and approaching Consumption.
To Parents who may have children afflicted with the HOOPING COUGH,
This discovery is of the first magnitude, as it is an immediate relief, checks the progress, and in a short time entirely removes the most cruel disorder to which children are liable—The Elixir is so perfectly agreeable and the dose so small that no difficulty arises in taking it.
From LUTHER MARTIN, Esq. Attorney-General of the state of Maryland.
Gentlemen, I comply with your request in stating my opinion of Hamilton's Elixir. It has been used in my family for two or three years past, with uniform success, whenever colds, coughs, or similar complaints have rendered medicine necessary. I have myself found it an excellent and agreeable remedy for a very painful and troublesome affection of the breast, accompanied with forensis and with obstructed and difficult breathing. On these accounts I do not hesitate to recommend Hamilton's Elixir, as a valuable medicine, and deserving public attention.
LUTHER MARTIN.
Mr. Abijah Henry, Bridge-Street, Baltimore, was cured by one bottle of Hamilton's Elixir of a very complicated disorder, occasioned by a severe cold caught several months ago. He breathed with the greatest difficulty, and was often thrown into weakening sweats when he attempted to walk any distance, and his voice would frequently fail in such a degree that he could only attempt to whisper: he has been upwards of six weeks without a return of his complaints and desires to give this public testimony in favor of his invaluable medicine.
Dr. Hamilton's GRAND RESTORATIVE,
Is recommended as an invaluable medicine, for the speedy relief and permanent cure of the various complaints which result from dissipated pleasures—juvenile indiscretions—residence in climates unfavorable to the constitution—the immode-rate use of tea, frequent intoxication, or any other destructive intemperance—the unskillful or excessive use of mercury—the diseases peculiar to females at a certain period of life—bad hygienics, &c. &c.
And is proved by long and extensive experience to be absolutely unparalleled in the cure of
  Nervous Disorders,  Violent cramps in the    Consumptions,  stomach and back,    Lowness of spirits,  Indigestion,    Loss of appetite,  Melancholy,    Impurity of the blood,  Gout in the stomach,    Hysterical affections,  Pains in the limbs,    Inward weakness,  Relaxations,    Sexual weakness,  Involuntary emissions,    Fluorbus (or whites)  Obstinate gleet,    Barrenness,  Impotency, &c. &c.  
In cases of extremity, where the long prevalence and obstinacy of disease has brought on a general impoverishment of the system, excessive debility of the whole frame, and a wasting of the flesh, which no nourishment or cordial could repair, a perseverance in the use of this medicine has performed the most astonishing cures.
HAMILTON'S ESSENCE AND EXTRACT OF MUSTARD,
A safe and effectual remedy for gout, rheumatism, palsy, sprains, bruises, pains in the face and neck, &c. And has performed more cures in the above complaint than all the other medicines ever before made public.
From Dr. Weatherburn, Wythe county, Virginia.
GENTLEMEN, I purchased at your shop the preparations you call Hamilton's Essence, or Extract of Mustard, which I believe has perfectly removed a chronic rheumatism (of that kind named sciatica, or of the hip joint) under which I had labored for a long time, and which had baffled every article in the Materia Medica, and every mode of treatment received into practice for the cure of this obstinate disease. If you think this letter useful you are at liberty to make it public.
Yours, &c. W. WEATHERBURN.
John Hoover, rope maker, South Second street, between Mary and Christian streets, Philadelphia, voluntarily maketh oath as follows, namely,
That his wife, Mary Hoover, was so severely afflicted with a violent rheumatism, very dangerously situated the consequence of a severe cold after lying in, as to be confined to her bed for several weeks, and was at length reduced to the melancholy apprehension of remaining a cripple for life, notwithstanding the most respectable medical advice was followed, and every probable remedy attempted: when seeing several cases of cures performed by Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mustard, they were procured from Mr. Birch, No. 17, South Second street. The first application enabled her to walk across the room, and the use of one bottle restored her to her usual state of health and strength.
JOHN HOOVER.
Sworn and subscribed before EBENEZER FERGUSON, Esq. One of the justices of the peace for Philadelphia county.
HAMILTON'S WORM DESTROYING LOZENGES,
Which have within four years past cured upwards of one hundred and twenty thousand persons of both sexes, of every age, and in every situation, of various dangerous complaints arising from worms, and from obstructions or foulness in the stomach and bowels.
This medicine bears no analogy whatever of similar style, so commonly complained of as operating with violence,
on the contrary a particular excellence of this it contains nothing but what is perfectly innocent, and so mild in its operation that it cannot injure the most delicate pregnant lady, or the tenderest infant of a week old should no worms exist in the body, but will, with out pain or griping, cleanse the stomach and bowels of whatever is foul or offensive, and thereby prevent the production of worms and many fatal disorders. They are particularly effectual in carrying off all gross humors and corruptions; feverish and bilious complaints, and the safest and mildest purgative that can be used on the occasion.
Description of Worms, and the symptoms by which they are known.
Worms which infest the human body, are chiefly of four kinds, viz. the Tænia or large round worm, the Ascarides, or small maw worm, the Cucurbitina, or short flat, white worm; and lastly, the Tænia or tape worm so called from its resemblance to tape; this is often many yards long, and is full of joints—it is most hurtful and most difficult to cure.
Among the symptoms attending worms, are disagreeable breath, especially in the morning—Bad and corrupted gums—itching in the nose and about the feet—Convulsions and epileptic fits, and sometimes privation of speech—Staring and grinding of the teeth in sleep—Irregular appetite, sometimes loathing food, and sometimes voracious—Purging, with slimy and foetid stools—Vomiting—Large and hard belly—Pains and sickness at the stomach—Pains in the head and thighs, with lowness of spirits—Slow fever, with small and irregular pulse—A dry cough—Excellent thirst—Sometimes pale and unhealthy countenance, and sometimes the face bloated and flushed.
Persons afflicted with any of the above symptoms should have immediate recourse to Hamilton's worm destroying lozenges, which have been constantly attended with success in all complaints similar to those above described.
A dose of this medicine given occasionally during the warm season will effectually prevent the vomiting and purging of children, a dreadful disorder which annually destroys thousands of the most part of our cities. It is likewise the mildest and most certain remedy known and has restored to health and strength a great number when in advanced stages of this fatal complaint. Particular and plain instructions are given for every part of the necessary treatment in such cases.
Children generally take this medicine with eagerness, having a pleasing appearance, and an agreeable taste.
CASES OF CURES—By Hamilton's WORM DESTROYING LOZENGES, (Selected from thousands) the authenticity of which any person may ascertain either by letter or personal application.
TAPE WORM.
Mr. SAMUEL FULLER, Inn keeper, on the Harford road, ten miles from Baltimore, began about twenty months ago to be grievously afflicted with a tape worm, which increased fast in size and strength, so as to excite the most horrid sensations by his writhing motions and intolerable pains, resembling the gnawing and tearing of his bowels, which deprived him of his necessary sleep, and caused such dreadful apprehensions as cannot be conceived but by one in a similar situation—his appetite wasted rapidly, and with that his strength, so that he was unable to attend to any business—when he heard of some excellent cures performed by Hamilton's worm lozenges, he took a large dose, which brought away about FOUR YARDS of the worm (now in the possession of Lee, & Co.) but a renewal of his pains soon convinced him that this monstrous reptile had recovered its first vigor—Application was made to Lee & Co. for more of their medicine, with their advice, from which resulted the total expulsion of his formidable enemy, in several pieces, which he supposed to be SIX or EIGHT YARDS more. A few months have since elapsed, and Mr. Fuller is now in perfect health. The above facts are well known to a numerous circle of his neighbors, and himself will gratify any who may wish to make further inquiries on the subject. Although Hamilton's worm lozenges produce such powerful effects, when necessary, yet they are perfectly innocent and mild in their operation on the human body, even taken in large doses, as Mr. Fuller will testify—their particular mildness is abundantly evident in innumerable cures of infants.
Communicated by Dr. John Spangler, York town, Pennsylvania.
Letter from the reverend Mr. JOHN MOLTHER minister of the Moravian church, in York town. York, January 4th, 1802.
DEAR SIR,
Dr. Hamilton's lozenges have been recommended to me as a very adequate means for the cure of children afflicted with worms, I procured a box for the use of my family, to try whether by means of this medicine I might be enabled to gain a point, which, to accomplish, different other means had proved abortive. My eldest boy had a very sickly appearance, was very rickets at night, grew leaner from time to time; in short, he seemed to be in a precarious state of health, which would yield to none of the medicines administered, until I gave him two doses of lozenges, agreeably to the directions, which carried off a substance to all appearance a mere mucus but upon close inspection quite repelled with very small living animals. Not one of that sort of worms which usually afflict children came from him. Since that period he grew remarkably better in health, and though lean, has got a fresh and lively complexion. Upon different occasions I have used this medicine as a purging substitute, and found it to answer exceedingly well, without bringing on belly ache, or any other disagreeable sensations, to often occasioned by purging medicines. Upon the which I judge this medicine to be, besides its main object, one of the most salutary means for restoring lost appetite, and promoting a proper state of digestion, by carrying off that bilious substance, which engenders so much indisposition both among children and adults.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, JOHN MOLTHER.
Dr. Hahn's true and genuine German Corn Plaster.
An infallible remedy for corns, speedily removing them root and branch, without giving pain.
The genuine Persian Lotion,
So celebrated among the fashionable throughout Europe, as an invaluable cosmetic perfectly innocent and safe, free from corrosive and repellant minerals (the basis of other lotions) and of unparalled efficacy in preventing and removing blemishes in the face and skin of every kind, particularly freckles, pimples, inflammatory redness, scurfs, tetteres, rings worms, ynn burns, prickle heat, &c.
The Persian Lotion operates mildly, without impeding that natural, insensible perspiration,
which is so essential to health. Yet its salutary effects are speedy and permanent, rendering the skin delicately soft and clear, improving the complexion, and restoring the bloom of youth. Never failing to render an ordinary countenance beautiful, and an handsome one more so.
The Restorative Powder for the Teeth and Gums.
This excellent preparation comforts & strengthens the gums, preserves the enamel from decay, and cleanses and whitens the teeth, by absorbing all that acrimonious slime and foulness, which suffered to accumulate, never fails to injure and finally ruin them.
Dr. Hahn's genuine Eye-Water.
A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eyes, whether the effect of natural weakness or of accident, defluxions of rheum, dullness, itching and films on the eyes, never failing to cure those maladies which frequently succeed the small pox, measles and fevers, and wonderfully strengthening a weak sight. Hundreds have experienced its excellent virtues, when nearly deprived of sight.
Tooth Ache Drops.
The only remedy yet discovered which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe instances.
The sovereign Ointment for the Itch.
Which is warranted an infallible remedy at one application, and may be used with perfect safety on pregnant women or on infants a week old, containing not a particle of mercury, or any other dangerous ingredient whatever, and is not accompanied with that tormenting smell, which attends the application of other remedies.
The Anodyne Elixir.
For the cure of every kind of head ache.
Indian Vegetable Specific.
A safe and speedy remedy for the venereal disease. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
For the prevention and cure of bilious and malignant fevers, IS RECOMMENDED
Dr. Hahn's Anti-Bilious Pills.
The operation of these pills is perfectly mild, so as to be used with safety by persons in every situation, and of every age.
They are excellently adapted to carry off bilious humors, prevent its morbid secretions; to restore and amend the appetite; to procure a free perspiration, and thereby prevent colds, which are often attended with fatal consequence; as dose never fails to remove a cold, if taken on its first appearance. They are celebrated for removing habitual costiveness; sickness at the stomach, and severe head ache; and ought to be taken by all persons on a change of climate.
Sold likewise by S. Pleasants, Richmond; Ross and Douglass, Petersburg; T. Green, Fredericksburgh; G. Purdie, Smithfield; M. Jones, Suffolk; Dr. Miller, Winchester; R. Greenhow, Williamsburgh; and J. Shaw, Leesburg. September 4.
Cotton & Stewart Have received a large supply of PAPER HANGINGS, Of various figures and of the newest fashions. April 29.
Dissolution of Copartnership.
THE Copartnership hitherto subsisting under the firm of Joseph Riddle & Co. of Alexandria, was dissolved the first instant, by mutual consent: All persons that are indebted to, or that have claims on the same, are requested to come forward and settle, as it is desirable to close the concern as soon as possible. Those whose accounts are of long standing are particularly requested to attend to this notice, and make payments to either of the subscribers. JOSEPH RIDDLE, Of Alexandria. JAMES DALL, Of Baltimore, September 18.
JOSEPH RIDDLE
Has Received by the Ceres and other ships lately arrived at Baltimore, a considerable part of his
FALL GOODS;
Which are now opening at his store in Fairfax street, and daily expects an additional supply in the United States from Liverpool. September 23.
LOST,
On Wednesday evening left, in or near the town, The outer Case of a WATCH. It is of GOLD, plain and of modern fashion. Five Dollars reward will be given, to any person who will deliver it to the
PRINTER.
February 22.
Printing, in its various branches, handsomely executed at this office.
BREWERY FOR SALE.
THE subscriber will sell all his interest in that extensive BREWERY in Alexandria, which he now occupies; of which there is eleven years of an unexpired lease to come from September next.
This Brewery is on an extensive plan, having two Copper Boilers of 1200 and 500 gallons, and every working utensil complete, with Mash House, Kiln and Mill.
To the capitalist this concern offers every inducement, who is skilled himself, or can procure a person skilled in brewing; as the business may be extended so as to become extremely valuable.
Proposals will be received to the first of July, Every necessary information may be had, and letters post paid attended to, by applying to Thomas Cruse. May 5. d
WM. HODGSON
Has for Sale,
 2 boxes 7-8 Coltraine Linens  13 hogheads Claret, suitable for the West India market, and entitled to drawback  14 cases first and second quality Claret, 12 bottles each  Marble Mortars of different sizes  7 cases best Lucca Oil  10 marble Chimney pieces  1000 bushels Liverpool fine and St. Ubes Salt, April 30. d 
FRESH TEAS.
Now landing from on board the brig Harmony from New York.
 12 chests Young Hyson,  5 do. Hyson,  10 do. Hyson Skin, 
Which will be sold on very moderate terms by James Sanderfon. April 21. d
Just Received,
And for sale by the subscriber,
 25 bales Cotton,  25 tierces Rice,  10 hhds. Jamaica Rum,  3000 wt. mce Bacon  100 casks Stone Lime,  20 doz. nice Caster Oil, in pint bottles,  1000 bushels Salt, suitable for the fisheries,  500 Spanish Hides, and Groceries as usual. Mordecai Miller. April 22. d 
JOHN G. LADD
Has just received
 100 boxes New-York hard SOAP of a superior quality. Also,  A few hog-heads Mucovado Sugars,  Do. West India Rum,  Tierces of Rice and bales of Cotton.  Wanted to purchase 100 hogheads bright Virginia Tobacco. April 30. d 
BROKER'S OFFICE,
And Commission Store.
A. LINDO,
Takes the liberty of informing the public, that HE HAS OPENED A Broker's Office and Commission Store, At the corner of Union and King streets,
Where he will be happy to render his services in those branches of business. Every species of public stock, merchandise, lands, houses, lots, vessels and negroes, will be bought and sold on commission. Reasonable advances will be made on consignments; and acceptances will be given when such consignments are accompanied with orders to sell to meet the payments. All kinds of produce and merchandise received on storage at the customary terms.
As a stranger in Alexandria he is induced to intrude on the public the following testimonial from Winchester, where he acted in the double capacity of auctioneer and commission merchant.
Winchester, March 4, 1806.
We do hereby certify, That Mr. A. Lindo, auctioneer and commission merchant in this borough, has conducted himself in such a manner as to have gained the confidence of the public in an eminent degree; and his fidelity, honor, secrecy and diligence in his business, justly entitle him to this our mark of approbation.
 H. Holmes,  Daniel Go'd,  Charles Brent, jun.  Richard Holliday.  Jos. Gamble.  H. W. & J. Baker.  John & Abm. Miller  John Bell.  Wm. Davison.  Geo. Reed.  Alf. H. Powell. 
He has, at present, for Sale, A first rate (gentleman's) Servant young, likely, active and healthy, and may be had on trial. To save trouble, his price is 400 dollars, cash, or approved endorsed notes, negotiable in bank, at 60 days, with interest added. Wanted to Hire, A Boy or Girl, about 12 years old. April 28. d
Wanted to Purchase, A FEMALE HOUSE SERVANT, who can come well recommended—from 20 to 30 years of age.
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April 3. d
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