Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political (Alexandria [Va.]), 1808-08-16 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Gazette, COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL.
The President has removed from office Mr. Pope, collector of the district of New Bedford—his crime FEDERALISM . As a proof of Mr. Pope's integrity and faithful discharge of the duties of his office, the following address from the principal inhabitants of the town has been presented to him.
TO EDWARD POPE, Esq. Late Collector of the District of New Bedford.
A number of your friends, consisting of merchants, ship masters, and other citizens of the United States, residing at the port of New Bedford, being now convened together to express their sentiments and mingle their feelings, request leave to address you on your retirement from public office.
As individuals, and as citizens of our common country, we have received with regret, the assurance that the office of Collector of the District of New Bedford, is taken from you and bestowed upon another. It is not our object, at this time, to censure the policy which dictated this measure; but to express to you the grateful impressions which your official conduct has made on our minds.
We live in a world of instability and in an age of revolutions. Amidst the continual fluctuations which agitate society, we ought not to be surprised, though we may regret, that events do not coincide with our wishes. While our duty, as citizens compels us to submit with patience to every constitutional exercise of power, it can be no violation of the rules of propriety to pay the tribute of our respect to one, who after a long series of public services which have entitled him to our approbation and confidence, is now removed from public employment. This is your present situation; and, on this occasion, we would, collectively and individually, offer you, not the insense of flattery, which we despise, but the assurance of undiminished esteem;—not sympathy, but the simple and spontaneous effusions which "flow from the heart and speak its feelings." If the wishes of your friends, if unremitted attention and strict integrity, if capability and attachment to the constitution of our country could secure a continuance in office, we believe this removal would not have been made. But the disappointment of our hopes does not cool the fervor of our friendship. Our ardent wishes for your happiness will accompany you in your retirement from the cares and perplexities of office to private station. The recollection of your official conduct will ever retain a conspicuous place in our minds, and must, doubtless be, to your own bosom, a source of unfeigned satisfaction; a satisfaction of which no adverse occurrence can deprive the virtuous mind, and which the vicious can never attain.
That you may long live to enjoy the dignity and ease, the friendship and confidence which are the merited rewards of faithful service, is the supplication of your assembled
Signed, Per order, SETH SPOONER, Chairman. Attest, JOSEPH RICKETSON, Clerk. New Bedford, July 30. To the address Mr. Pope made a suitable reply.
Latest from Europe.
A gentleman of this city, to whom we are indebted for many favors, has sent us an extra Gazette, printed at the Havanna, from which we have made the following interesting translations.
TRANSLATED For the New-York Evening Post.
AURORA EXTRA.
HAVANNA, 22d July, 1808.
[REMARKS OF THE EDITOR.]
The tyrannical usurpation of the rights of our lawful sovereign Ferdinand VII. by the most unheard of perfidy, perfidy more atrocious than any recorded in the history of the crimes of mankind, opens a vast field for the most painful reflections of every good Spaniard, who loves his religion, his country, and his king—A nation glorious in the annals of the world, oppressed by a monster of ambition, who on a sudden throwing off the mask, has discovered in the face of the whole universe his true character, presents a astonishing spectacle, which leaves the most rational man as it were in a state of stupefaction. With respect to ourselves, we ingenuously confess, that with a perspicuous grief we are unable to give a perspicuous relation of the most important events of so unfortunate a time; and were it not for the glimpse which appears in the horizon of prosperity, peninsula, we should throw our pen down and quit the melancholy employment of announcing calamities, for ploughshare possessed of the smallest portion of sensibility, that would not shrink from the task? Our country, it is true, is
oppressed; but Spanish courage is not subjugated nor depressed. The nation in a mass is awakened from the lethargy into which respect for the government had plunged her, and rises to resist the insupportable yoke which it is intended to place upon her neck. We shall see heroic achievements, glorious actions, tyranny repelled, Spain triumphant, altho' at the expence of great and painful sacrifices, and the Spaniards happy under the just and mild sway of their rightful monarch.
Never had we more important or more interesting intelligence to announce to the public; and the quantity of it will oblige us to publish extra numbers of this paper: we begin to-day with the establishment of the Supreme Council (Junta) of government constituted at Seville, which has given an impulse to the other provinces of the kingdom.
(Here follows an edict which has heretofore been published. The Havanna paper then proceeds:)
CADIZ, 3d June.
The Supreme Council (Junta) of government has communicated to the council of this city, the following Proclamation:
SPANIARDS!
Seville could not resist the impulses of its heroic loyalty, of which it has given an example in all ages. The king to whom it had sworn allegiance and whom it had received with unprecedented joy, has been carried off. The fundamental laws of the monarchy have been trampled upon, the wealth, the customs, the females, and every thing dear to the nation are threatened, our holy religion, our only hope, is about to perish, or be reduced to a vain formality, and is without support and protection, and all this is the work of a foreign power, not effected by the force of arms, but by deceit, by perfidy, making instruments of ourselves, and perpetrating these atrocities by the means of those very persons who are called heads of our government, and who have not scrupled, either from depravity, from vile fear, or perhaps from other causes which time and justice will discover, to sacrifice their country. It was then become indispensably necessary to break those strong ties which impeded the Spaniards from arising and displaying that generous ardour with which in all ages they have covered themselves with glory and defended the honor of the nation, their laws, their monarchs and their religion.
The inhabitants of Seville then assembled on the 27th May, and with the assistance of all the magistrates and persons in authority convened, and of the most respectable persons of all classes, created this supreme council (Junta) of government, invested it with all their powers, and ordered it to defend religion, the nation, the laws and the king. We accept so sacred a trust, we swear to perform it, and we rely upon the efforts of the whole nation. We began by again proclaiming and swearing allegiance to our king don Fernando VII. and vowing to die in his defence, and this was the shout of joy and of union, and will be so throughout Spain.
A council of government scarcely formed when it violated the most sacred laws of the monarchy: a president appointed without authority, and who if he once had a right, hastened to lose it, besides his foreign birth, which according to the laws was an obstacle to his being president, a conduct always Versailles, and which tended to destroy the monarchs themselves from whom he received his authority, and the laws which alone could give him power, could not nor ought oblige us to repress our loyalty, still less to break the sacred obligation which we have contracted as Spaniards, as subjects, as Christians, as men free and independent of all foreign authority.
Still less could the authority of the first tribunal of the nation, the council of Castille, detained us. Its weakness has been made apparent by the uncertain and inconsistent measures which it has taken at this juncture, the most important to the nation that has ever occurred, and in which it ought to have shown the heroic firmness to which a thousand motives and honor itself invited it. Its weakness, and perhaps its infamy was exhibited in ordering the act of renunciation of the monarchy in favor of a foreign prince to be circulated and obeyed; an act most evidently illegal and void for want of power in him who made it, since the monarchy was not his, nor is Spain composed of creatures subject to the arbitrary will of him who governed us, and had come to his throne by the right of blood as he himself acknowledges, and by fundamental laws of the monarchy which prescribe invariably hereditary succession, and over which the council has no power, but it is under a sacred obligation to demand their observance.—Void because of the state of violence and oppression in which it was made, greater & more evident than that to which he attributes his abdication.
Void because the renunciations which have been published of the king Ferdinand the VIIIth, and of his uncle and brother supposing them to be genuine, are made in the same state of violence, and were extorted, as the renunciations themselves expressly declare. Void because many of the royal family who have a claim to the monarchy, have renounced it, and to preserve it entire—added to all the horrible perfidy which has been made use of, and with which the Spanish nation has been mocked. To our alliance and sacrifices that nation owes all its vaunted triumphs: it has obtained our valliant troops, conducted them to the most distant countries, causes them to fight for her interests, without necessity as is well known, and for the purpose of weakening us and depriving us of those forces. Her armies then enter Spain always protesting their object to be our happiness under the pretext of undertakings against the enemy, of which they no longer speak. The people with a generous spirit, oppose the departure of their king with which that nation ought to have been pleased, and far from this preserves a haughty silence respecting that departure and still more, makes it a reason to oppress us. She opposes divisions in the nation, and there is, nor has there ever been any so united in loving and defending their king. She entices the latter by deceitful language to her territory: with a generosity of which perhaps there is no example, the king believes them, throws himself into their arms, and with a perfidy of which no nation has any vestige in its annals, she makes him a prisoner, treats him disrespectfully, and compels him to commit errors which all Europe has seen with consternation, and every Spaniard has seen with the greatest grief; by the same treachery she occasions his royal parents to enter his dominions, and obliges them to perform actions illegal, unjust, and which dishonor their august names, both at present and to the latest posterity. She makes prisoners of the other royal persons, even of those whose tender age would have been an inviolable protection even among the most barbarous nations.
[To be continued.]
(VIA NEW-YORK.)
AMSTERDAM, June 8.
The Royal Courant of this date contains a copy of a decree, signed by his majesty on the 13th, prohibiting the opening of public subscriptions for loans for the use of foreign powers, or private individuals, whether natives or foreigners, without his majesty's consent. The proposed condition of the loan must be specifically stated in the petition for such consent; and no alteration can be made with respect to the interests, nor the terms of redemption, without a similar proceeding. A stamp duty of not less than 1 1-2 per cent will be laid on the debentures granted by foreign powers in case of a loan.
HAGUE, June 3.
On Monday last, prince Dolgorucko delivered his letters of credence to his majesty at Loo, as minister plenipotentiary and ambassador extraordinary from the emperor of Russia. The ambassador at the same time delivered to his majesty a letter in the hand writing of the emperor, and presented to him the insignia of the Russian orders of St. Andrew, St. Alexander, and St. Ann. The ambassador's suite consists of no less than 81 persons.
His serene highness Frederick George Augustus, Landgrave of Hesse, died at Grosgerau on the 19th ult. in the 49th year of his age.
On the 27th ultimo, the minister of finance published a royal ordinance, signed the preceding day, permitting the free exportation of butter, cheese and geneva, to the ports of allied and neutral powers. The vessels employed in exportation of these are, however, prohibited from carrying letters and passengers from or into the ports of this country, under the penalty of confiscation, and the perpetual disqualification of the freighters or owners from exporting these products in future. On receiving licenses for this traffic, they are also to give security that no commodities shall be imported in their vessels.
PARIS, May 29.
By an imperial decree of the 21st inst. the exportation of cotton and cotton yarn is prohibited until further orders. An imperial decree of the 18th contains various regulations respecting agency offices, about to be established in different parts of the empire by the bank of France. No office of this description can be set up without the approbation of his majesty in his council of state. The bank is to possess the exclusive privilege of issuing notes at its own establishment, and by the medium of these agencies, but no issue can take place, except upon a resolution of the general directors,
taken after consulting the chamber of commerce.
LEIPSIC, May 21.
Our Gazette mentions, on the authority of letters from Petersburg and Riga, that the surrender of Sweaborg is expected to be followed by a general armistice between the Swedes and Russians, during which a negotiation for a definitive peace will take place. A note is added to this, in which the editor remarks, that the latest intelligence from the North makes no mention of any truce.
BASLE, May 26.
We learn that the little council at Argau has issued an arrest, forbidding, under the severest penalties, any commerce in English commodities, at the ensuing fair at Zurzach. The grand council of the canton of Berne is convoked for the 31st.
FLORENCE, May 17.
The general government of Tuscany has given notice that the existing necessities of the state, as well as the measures some time since resolved upon, require, that the number of religious houses, now far too great, should be diminished.
COPENHAGEN, May 20.
According to private letters, the English have taken possession of the little island of Lyoe, in the vicinity of Alset, which has been deserted by the inhabitants.
HAMBURG.
The Correspondenten states, on the authority of letters from Constantinople, that the truce between the Turks and Russians had been prolonged for two months under the mediation of the French Ambassador, Sebastiani. It adds, that the Divan was occupied during two days in discussing the demand of France for a passage for her armies through the Turkish territories to Persia, before it agreed to it. The Nuremberg Gazette states, that letters from officers in Marshal Davoust's army, mention, that that corps had received orders to hold itself in readiness to break up for Southern Russia. The army will collect at Astracan, and march through Persia to the East Indies.
NISMES, May 20.
On the 14th, in the morning, a courier passed through this city, with orders for troops who are advancing from Italy, to accelerate their passage in Spain by forced marches. On this account the 56th regiment of the line made a march of twelve hours, to be able to arrive here by the evening.
FLORENCE, May 10.
British colonial produce, formerly sequestered at Leghorn, and afterwards repurchased, is now admitted all over the kingdom of Italy, on producing proper certificates.
LONDON, June 15.
It is reported that the Spanish insurgents in consequence of Charles IV. and all the members of his family, now in France, having resigned their rights to the crown in favor of a foreign tyrant, intend to declare Ferdinand IV. king of the Two Sicilies, and the faithful ally of Great Britain, their sovereign. This prince being brother to Charles IV. is considered as having the best claim to the succession.
Sir William Scott, yesterday, in the prize court, directed the whole of the Portuguese property which had been seized and brought into British ports to be transferred to the Portuguese ambassador, under whose order and direction it is to be distributed to the various claimants.
Parliament has lately increased the annual allowance made to Louis the 18th, who, is at present at Gosfield, but is shortly expected at Wanstead, on a visit to the prince of Conde. The duke D'Angouleme is gone to Mittau, in Courland, in order to conduct the wife of Louis the 18th, and madame Royale, his own wife, from thence to this country. Those distinguished and unfortunate princesses are to arrive here, if no accidents intervene to prevent it, in August.
Died at Clanyon, near Aberystwith, Jeremiah Davis, the Welsh Dwarf, aged 58, measuring only 46 inches in height; his person was the perfection of symmetry, which is rarely found in a dwarf. Great part of his time was spent in London, where he was well known, and to which place he intended to have walked the ensuing week.
June 16.
Mr. Wellesley Pole suddenly left the House of Commons last night: and, after eleven o'clock, dispatched three Messengers one to the King, another to Yarmouth, and the third to Deal. From the bustle on the occasion the subject is conjectured to be of importance.

Mr. Sheridan, last night, in the House of Commons, brought forward his motion respecting Spain. The gentlemen with whom he is in the habit of acting in Parliament, and of whose party he has been long a distinguished ornament, appear to have suspected that Ministers were at heart friendly to the motion, hoping by it to entrap the sanction of the Opposition to the measures which they mean to pursue. If they practiced this manoeuvre, and there are strong grounds to suspect such insidious intent, they have been completely disappointed; for, in making his motion, obtained all the gratification which he must feel in the avowal of those patriotic sentiments that have marked his political life. So far Mr. Sheridan's triumph was complete, although he was induced at the request of his friends, to withdraw his motion. We wish, however, that he had escaped the praises of Lord Castlereagh. It was not to be expected that the discussion would disclose the particular grounds of their expectation of an efficient resistance to Bonaparte, on the part of the Spanish people. From the general tenor of the language used by Mr. Canning, and Lord Castlereagh, it appears that they entertain hopes of success, and mean to exert themselves to obtain it. Globe.
The following is Mr. Sheridan's motion: "That an humble address be presented to his majesty, praying that copies of all proclamations, whether published by the Spanish Government, the French commander, or those acting now for the independent provinces of Spain, since the arrival of the French troops at Madrid, be laid before the house."
Sir Arthur Wellesley, accompanied by his Aid-de-Camp, the Hon. Fitzroy Stanhope, sets off, we hear, in the course of this day for Ireland, in order to take the command of the Expedition, now ready to sail from Cork. Sir Arthur and his force are, we understand, in the first instance, to proceed to Cadiz; and unless it should appear expedient to employ his force in Spain, Sir Arthur is to go on to South America, which is now generally known to have been the original object of the expedition. The destination of Sir A. Wellesley may be inferred from his appointments. Mr. Williams, who is a gentleman of considerable intelligence, has been, from his particular acquaintance with the language and habits of Spain, selected to accompany that Officer as his Civil Secretary.
The next advices from Spain will doubtless enable our government to determine the extent of the military aid necessary to be afforded the brave patriots of that country. In the mean time arms and accoutrements are to be sent off without loss of time; and the liberation of the Spanish prisoners, which was at first restricted to the natives of Asturias and Galicia, is understood to be extended to the whole of the prisoners of that nation in England, who are immediately to be sent to the first convenient port in possession of the patriots. Orders have been received at Plymouth and Chatham to this effect, and a number of revenue cutters have been placed under the command of the port admirals to be employed in this service.
Lieutenant colonel Johnson, of the 28th regiment, who is just arrived in town from Sweden, brings accounts that the expedition under Sir John Moore is still at anchor in Flemish roads, off Gottenburgh; they had not moved on the 7th inst. The troops were in general health, and to prevent any inconvenience arising from their confinement on board ship, a battalion is landed daily, for the purpose of exercise. Colonel Murray had not arrived when the packet left Gottenburgh on the 7th.
Letters from Holland have been received to the 18th instant.
It was reported in Holland, that a body of French troops, amounting to 3000 at least, had contrived to pass the Bets and reach Zealand. A camp, consisting of from 8 to 10,000 Dutch troops, was formed at Rendsburgh, in the vicinity of Holland. It was confidently stated last night, in the vicinity of the house of commons, that the ensuing recess will be a very short one, and that parliament will be convened again in the course of two or three months. Our squadron off Ferrol, is said to have received a communication from the inhabitants, stating, that a French frigate was in that port, having on board 39,000 stand of arms. It is said that preparations were making for her capture.
DOVER, June 17. Three transports marked IB. IU. and W. are come into the harbor to take in troops. Several more are expected, some of which are now in the Roads, waiting for the flowing of the tide. It is said that Admiral Russel is coming to take the command of the fleet assembling in the Downs, and that another expedition is going against Flushing. Admiral Sir Thomas Duckworth was yesterday presented with the sword voted him by the city of London.
Price of stocks this day, at one o'clock.— Reduced 6s. 3-4 7-8. Omnium 3 1-2. India bonds, par.
From Liverpool, June 17. Since our last advices of the 28th ultimo, nothing of a public nature of sufficient authenticity has occurred for communication. During this interval, trade in general has been without animation, but though we are not able to notice any favorable alteration in the prices of American produce, neither has any actual depression been experienced.
At the beginning of the month, in consequence of an advance in the London market of 5s. per quarter, a few sales of American wheat were effected here at 13s. 6d. and 14s. per 70lbs. but the London prices having since declined, it has now become difficult to effect sales here even at 13s. and 13s. 3d.
During the last three weeks the cotton has been very limited, and the inactivity which at present so generally pervades every branch of our manufactures, has been more particularly felt in this, in consequence of the tumultuous proceedings of the laboring manufacturers in this country, who refused to work without an advance of wages. The prices, however, remain without alteration, and their future occurrence will in a great measure depend on the occurrence of political events.
The stocks in this place and in London, have been lately ascertained, and measures are now taking for that purpose in Glasgow. These are the chief depots of cotton in this country, and the stocks of the two former having been found much more considerable than had been previously supposed; it is probable that as the customers became acquainted with this circumstance, they may be still further induced to make their purchases only from week to week, until something decisive is known respecting the termination of our differences with your government.
Wood articles are without alterations— pot and pearl ashes very dull.
NEW-YORK, August 13. We understand that intelligence was received by the steam-boat from Albany, that a party of men, lying in ambush in the neighborhood of Oswego, had fired upon some of the troops who were called out to enforce the embargo, and had killed a lieutenant and three privates. It is added that five of the party had been apprehended.
Arrived ship Brunswick, Coffin, from Point Petre, Guadalupe, and 20 days from Antigua. Left the schooner Betsey, Davis, of Baltimore, seized by the collector; schr. Fame, Gibbs, with lumber, blown off the coast; and the British schooner Betsey, from the northward, laden with flour. Passengers, William Lanwagen and lady, Mr. Chandler and lady, T. Hindman, esq. and H. Coates, esq. Capt. C. informs, that the Cork fleet arrived there, and that provisions were plenty. Flour 20 dollars, pork 25, and beef 23. [Two-thirds of the Brunswick's cargo was taken out and condemned at Antigua.]
Alexandria Daily Gazette.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 16.
QUERIES:
ADDRESSED TO MR. MADISON. Whether you are a friend to commerce? Do you think an embargo will have the effect intended of bringing the belligerent powers to a liberal sense of treating America with friendship?
Have you thought, or do you believe that the French are more liberal to American Independence than the British?
Do you believe that the countries that Bonaparte has subdued, have been meliorated by conquest?
Do you think it necessary to provide for war, and to furnish a sufficient army to oppose the invading enemy—and in case of war what is your opinion as to the number of troops necessary to repel them? To whom would you give the command of the army?
Do not you think that a navy, very different from gun-boats, are necessary to oppose the enemy and to protect our commerce?
Do you think, or believe, that Mr. Jefferson's conduct, taking it in toto has bettered the happiness of the people of the United States? This question I hope you will answer with the same candor and honor that I believe you capable of, that I may know and report to the people your opinion.
The following list was published in London, March 10, 1803, as a correct statement of the Spanish Navy.
  Ships of the Line, 42   Frigates, 30   Corvettes, 20   Xebecs, 4   Bombs, 15   Brigs, 50   Packet Boats, 4   Small Vessels, 63 
Extract of a letter from St. Pierres, Martinique, dated July 19.
"It is now nearly a month since the ba-
kers have been ordered to issue no bread, except to sick persons or nurses, on the certificate of the physicians. Some small quantities of flour have been introduced from Dominique, St. Lucea, &c. though of inferior quality it sold at 45 to 50 dollars per barrel. The effects of the embargo have been felt in this as well as in most of the other colonies. Its continuation will I fear be attended with much more serious evils."
FROM THE ISLE OF FRANCE, April 23.
"A vessel arrived yesterday from Batavia, in 22 days. She left there two American ships (the Orozimbo and Indiana, of Baltimore) waiting for cargoes, which were very difficult to obtain, as there was not any coffee in the magazines. The last of the Arthur's cargo went on board this morning and we shall probably sail for China in three or four days." [It appears that our embargo had not been heard of at the Isle of France on the 23d of April.]
NOTICE.
AN election for Overseers of the Poor for that part of the county of Alexandria not included within the limits of the corporation of the town of Alexandria, having been directed by order of the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, sitting for the county of Alexandria, to take place at the Centre Mills, in the said county, on the second Saturday in the present month—at which time and place the Deputy Marshal attended: but no persons being there, the said election was postponed until SATURDAY next, the 29th instant, at which time and place between the hours of 10 and 2 o'clock, the said election will be held for three fit persons to serve as Overseers of the Poor for that part of the said county which is not included within the limits of the corporation of the town of Alexandria. At which time and place those persons qualified by law to vote, are requested to attend.
Daniel Minor, D. M. For W. Boyd, Marshal. August 16. 3t
TICKETS in the Charitable Marine Society Lottery, which commences drawing the 24th of this month, for sale at the office of the Alexandria Daily Gazette, price FIVE DOLLARS and FIFTY CENTS. A regular list of the drawing will be received and information given gratis to those who purchase tickets.
August 9. LECTURES & EXHIBITIONS
ON ELECTRICITY.
THE undersigned will furnish an ENTERTAINMENT for the genius of a Franklin, the Philosopher and Physician, in LECTURES and EXHIBITIONS of the various powers, agency and effects, of this latent, occult, and mysterious element, called ELECTRICITY—in two evenings performance.
The first evening will be employed in taking a concise, but comprehensive view of the Physical System; in which it will be demonstrated, that the whole phenomenon of life, animation and motion, are altogether suspended on this all-pervading and only active principle, ELECTRICITY.
But, as the Author wishes to be useful, rather than amusing; the second evening will be employed in deducing, from certain and obvious effects, produced by the various operations of the elective body, the certain utility, necessity and importance of adopting it into the number of the most valuable means employed in the healing art.
First performance to be made This Monday Evening, 15th August, at half past 7 o'clock, P. M. at the Washington Tavern. Second do. at the same place, and to begin at the same hour, on the evening of the 17th instant.
Admittance, 50 Cents per evening. Tickets to be had at the bar of the Washington Tavern, and at the office of the Alexandria Daily Gazette.
The public's devoted servants, T. GALE & CO. August 15. 2t
DISCOURSE
On the Progress and Prospects of Society.
ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, at half after seven o'clock, J. Ogilvie proposes to deliver, in the Court House, a DISCOURSE, in which the principal causes, that have successively combined to improve the condition of society and the character of man, will be illustrated, and some speculations hazarded on the probable tendencies and consequences of the revolutions that are now agitating the nations of Europe.
P. S. After delivering this discourse, J. O. will recite three admired passages from Milton, Thompson and Pope. August 15,
ALEXANDRIA THEATRE.
No postponement on account of the weather.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF Mrs. SEYMOUR and Miss HUNT.
ON TUESDAY, August 16, 1803, Will be presented a celebrated COMEDY, in five acts, called,
The BELLE's STRATAGEM.
  Doricourt, Mr. McKenzie.   Saville, Mr. Jefferson.   Flutter,   Sir George Touchwood, Mr. Cone.   Hardy, Mr. Warren.   Villiers, Mr. Jacobs.   Courtall, Mr. Miller.   Mountebank, Mr. Bray.   Dick, Mr. Harris.   Gibson, Mr. Briers. 
  Lettitia Hardy, (with a song) Mrs. Wilmot.   Lady Touchwood, Mrs. Francis.   Mrs. Racket, Mrs. Jefferson.   Miss Ogle, Mrs. Seymour.   Kitty (Willis), Miss Hunt. 
Masqueraders, Messrs. Miller, Seymour, &c. IN ACT FOURTH, A Grand Masquerade.
A Hornpipe, by Miss HUNT.
END OF THE PLAY, A Comic Dance, (composed by Mr. Francis)
CALLED, The Sportsman Deceived;
OR, The Clown Triumphant.
  Cudden, (the Clown), Mr. Francis.   Ainwell, (the Sportsman), Mr. Harris. 
Cowslip, Miss Hunt. (NEVER PERFORMED HERE.)
To which will be added a new Musical Entertainment, in two acts, called,
WE FLY BY NIGHT,
OR, LONG STORIES.
  General Bastion, Mr. Warren.   Winlove, Mr. Cone.   Skiptown, Mr. Miller.   Count Grenouille, Mr. Blissett.   Ferret, Mr. Jefferson.   Caby Ginn, Mr. Bray.   Humphrey, Mr. Francis.   Stubby, Mr. Briers. 
  Lady Lynx, Mrs. Francis.   Emma, Mrs. Wilmot.   Mrs. Stubby, Mrs. Seymour.   Countess Grenouille Miss Hunt. 
On Thursday—Mr. & Mrs. JEFFERSON'S BENEFIT.
The THEATRE will close on Saturday, 3d of September.
Doors to be open at 6, and performance to begin precisely at a quarter past 7 o'clock. *** Admittance—box one dollar, pit seventy five cents, gallery fifty cents.
†† Box Tickets to be had at the bar of Mr. Gadsby's hotel, and at the office of the Daily Gazette.
IN COMMON COUNCIL, 4th August, 1803. ORDERED
That Council will sit as a court of appeals on the 22d, 23d and 24th days of the present month, from 9 o'clock A. M. to 2 o'clock P. M. of each day.
The assessors books may be examined until that time at Mr. Richard Lewis's house on King-street.
JAMES M McREA, c. c. August 8. dt22d
WANTED, A quantity of good clean Wheat, BY Wm. Bartleman. August 16. eotf
TO RENT.
THE subscriber offers to rent for one or more years, adjoining the place where on he now lives, a Blacksmith's shop, with a complete set of Tools, a Dwelling House in comfortable condition, calculated for a family, together with between three and four acres of very rich land.—From several years experience, I can with truth declare, that there can be no better stand for a blacksmith than the one now offered to let.
Thomas B. Moreland. Maryland, Broad-Creek, } lawtf December 9—(15.) N B. If I dont rent the fine stand will give good wages to a young man, with a family.

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CERTIFICATE.
Of Mr. William Julion, carpenter and builder, No. 60, south Fifth street, Philadelphia. Sir—My wishes to promote the interest of superior merit, and to afford consolation to the afflicted induces me to request you will lay my case before the public, as an incontestible proof of the astonishing efficacy of Dr. Robertson's Invaluable Stomachic Elixir of Health.
I do hereby certify that I was seized most violently with the dysentery, or bloody flux, which reduced me so much that I was confined to my bed, and became so weak that I could not move without assistance. My situation at that time became so seriously alarming, as no relief could be obtained, I was given over, and even death would have been desirable to me, had not a friend of mine, who by chance called to see me, who had just recovered from a similar complaint, though not so severe as mine. He informed me that he was cured by taking Dr. Robertson's Stomachic Elixir of Health, and advised me to send to you for a bottle. I immediately did so, and by following your instructions given with the bottle, I found myself much relieved, and my disorder greatly abated, and by continuing to take it, in one week I was able to walk out, and in less than a fortnight was able to attend to my business.
I therefore recommend every family to be provided with this invaluable medicine, particularly those who live at a distance in the country where assistance cannot be immediately obtained. As I am convinced that Dr. Robertson's Stomachic Elixir of Health, is the most effectual remedy in the world, I have since recommended it to several of my friends in similar complaints, who have always been relieved immediately after taking it. Should any person wish to be more fully convinced of my case, I will with pleasure explain it to them by applying to me.
I am, with a due sense of the benefit I have received, through the efficacy of your medicine,
Sir, your humble servant, WM. JULION.
MR. DYOTT. Philadelphia, July 15th, 1807.
CERTIFICATE.
Of Mr. John T. Solomon, Sixth near Race street, Philadelphia.
Sir—For the good of the public and benefit of the afflicted, I think proper to inform you, than having labored for upwards of six months, under a very bad cough, attended with difficulty of breathing, pains in my breast and side, and a sickness at my stomach; having lost all appetite, I became so very much reduced in my strength as to be unable to walk. I was considered in a consumption, and given up for a lost man. In his hopeless situation I had recourse to Dr. Robertson's Stomachic Elixir of Health, and to my great astonishment before I had taken one bottle, found myself very much relieved. I expectorated a great quantity of phlegm, which has eased me of one of the most violent coughs that ever a man had; I have taken it regularly ever since, and now find myself completely recovered, and shall certainly, for the benefit received, recommend it as far as I can, believing it to be a most efficacious medicine in the above complaint.
I am, sir, With real respect, Your obliged humble servant, JOHN T. SOLOMON.
MR. T. DYOTT. August 22.
CERTIFICATE.
Of Mr. Peter Denham, No. 273, south Second street, Philadelphia.
DEAR SIR, It is with the utmost satisfaction I inform you of the cure effected by your truly invaluable Stomachic Elixir of Health, as the whole of my family, including myself, being six in number, were violently affected with the influenza, attended with very bad coughs, pains in the limbs, and difficulty of breathing, which continued to increase. I applied to a physician, but his medicines had no effect. Just at that time, having heard of the cures made by Dr. Robertson's Stomachic Elixir of Health I determined to try a bottle of it; I did, and its effects exceeded my expectations. The first two or three doses caused me to expectorate a vast quantity of tough viscid phlegm, and so speedily removed every symptom of the cold, that by the time we had taken three
bottles we were all perfectly cured, except a weakness that remained, for which I have administered Dr. Robertson's Patent Wine Bitters, and I have found them wonderfully efficacious in strengthening the system, and destroying of worms, the two of my children have voided a vast quantity by taking them, and are now growing strong and healthy. I have since recommended the above medicine to a number of my friends, who have been immediately relieved by taking them.
It is my desire that you publish this case of my family for the benefit of the public, and those who may be afflicted. Any person desirous of further information, may have every satisfaction, by applying either by letter or personally to me.
I am, sir, Your obliged humble servant, PETER DENHAM.
The above medicine is sold wholesale and retail only by the sole proprietor, T. W. DYOTT, No. 11, North Second Street, Philadelphia, and by his appointment at JAMES KENNEDY'S Book-Store, Alexandria; where also may be had
DR. ROBERTSON'S PATENT STOMACHIC WINE BITTERS
Celebrated, and well known for their superior qualities in restoring weak constitutions, destroying worms, cleansing and strengthening, giving a proper tone to the stomach and increasing the appetite. A frequent use of them is a certain preventative against those complaints so common in the spring and fall, such as intermitting fevers, agues, autumnal fevers, dysenteries, &c.
T. W. Dyott.
N. B. The above medicine is particularly serviceable to those who make long sea voyages and are exposed to unhealthy climates, as a powerful preventative against contagious disorders.
August 10. law6m
PRO BONO PUBLICO.
Patent Water Proof Brunswick BLACKING,
PREPARED WITH OIL, Which softens, preserves, and beautifies the leather.
WORDS cannot set forth its just praise nor can its transcendent qualities be truly known, but by experience; it is especially calculated for, and particularly recommended to sportsmen, and gentlemen who are much exposed to the wet, as it will effectually prevent the water from penetrating, preserve the leather from cracking, and render it supple and pleasant to the very last, giving it also a beautiful jet black gloss.
The above BLACKING is sold wholesale and retail, only by T. W. DYOTT, and Co. Druggists, Philadelphia; and by their appointment, at JAMES KENNEDY'S Book and Stationary Store, Alexandria—
Where also may be had,
The Imperial Wash and new invented Liquid,
For taking out stains and preserving the quality and colors of saddles and tops of boots. &c. &c.
T. W. Dyott, & Co.
August 10 law6m
FOR SALE.
BY VIRTUE of a decree of the high court of chancery of the state of Maryland, will be exposed to public sale, in the town of Port Tobacco, Charles county, at the court house, at three o'clock in the afternoon of the second day of the next August term of Charles county court, which commences on the 4th Monday of August next—a parcel of LAND, late the property of John D. Scott, deceased, being part of a tract of land called Foynton Manor, lying upon a branch of Nanjemoy Creek, on the post road leading to Nanjemoy from Port Tobacco, near the Hill Top, and about seven miles from Port Tobacco.
This land consists of about 300 acres, of which between 50 and 100 acres are well timbered, about 30 acres are in marsh, and the remainder arable and very productive.
The terms of sale are, that the purchaser shall give bond with sufficient security to pay the purchase money in twelve months from the sale. It will be sold entire or in parcels as may best suit the persons inclined to purchase.
Francis Key, Trustee.
July 1. eot
NOTICE.
IN consequence of the retirement of James H. Hooe from the concern of Robert T. Hooe and Co. which has hitherto been carried on by the subscribers; the same business will be prosecuted under the same firm, by Robert T. Hooe and John Muncaster, with whom the settlement of the old concern remains.
Robert T. Hooe, James H. Hooe, John Muncaster.
July 18—12. eot
Printing in its various branches executed with accuracy and dispatch.
Notice is hereby Given,
THAT the subscriber of Alexandria county in the district of Columbia, has obtained from the Orphans' court of said county, letters of administration with the will annexed, upon the estate of Mr. SAMUEL CRAIG, late of the county aforesaid, merchant, dec'd: All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit them with the vouchers thereof to the subscriber on or before the 9th day of September next, or they may by law be excluded from all benefit to said estate, and those indebted thereto are required to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this ninth day of March, 1808.
John G. Ladd,
Administrator, with the will annexed, of Samuel Craig, deceased.
August 8 eot
New constructed Bed Cords.
THE subscriber has for sale, at his Rope Store next door to the Indian Queen tavern, a few new constructed BED CORDS, which are rendered superior to any other kind by their infallibility in destroying and preventing those insects called Chinches , which harbor in the holes of the bedstead—they are also superior to any other kind, from their long wear He believes they will last fifteen or twenty years and retain the same virtue.—Any person wishing to purchase, may have them until the first of January, 1808, in order to prove their excellence; and should they not find them to answer the above purpose he will return the money upon their delivering him the Bed Cords; provided they are not damaged more than the necessary wear.
HE HAS ALSO,
A quantity of HAIR CLOTHES LINES which are far preferable to any other kind.
Thomas Grimshaw.
July 27. d3t 2aw
TO RENT,
(And immediate possession given)
NEAR THE EXTREMITY OF THE PAVEMENT On Prince Street.
A TWO-STORY BRICK HOUSE, with an elegant garden, and all necessary buildings thereto, complete. The premises occupy one half acre of ground, on one of the best situations and best constructions, equalled by few, (if any) exceeded by none in Alexandria of its size; it has also a pump of excellent water, approved of by the best judges, besides a well in the garden for its exclusive use, and is every way calculated to accommodate a genteel family, from such a moderate rent will be taken.
Now building and will be ready to RENT about the first of August, FOUR HOUSES, on Washington-street, the situations are good, and the buildings will be very convenient and neatly finished, for private families, or public business—and a House or two, near Messrs. Marsteller and Young's wharf.
For terms apply to, Robert Brockel.
June 1. 2aw
JUST RECEIVED, FOR SALE BY R. GRAY.
CORINNA; Or, Italy.
By Mad. De Staël Holstein.
FATAL REVENGE;
OR, The Family of Montorio. A Romance, by DENNIS JASPER MURPHY. Foundling of Belgrade.
A Translation from the French, by WM. JENNINGS. And the following PLATS.
Castle Spectre.
Fox Chase, Stranger, and Ella Rosenberg.
August 4.
Patent Shot, &c.
ons Patent Shot, assorted, B to no. 7. nogsheds brown Sugars. 225 lbs. green Coffee. Imperial Tea, of a very superior quality, in quarter chests, boxes and canisters. 50 barrels choice Whiskey. Jamaica Spirits, (for family use)—warranted seven years old. 40 boxes Muscatel Raisins. With a general assortment of Wines, Liqueurs, and Groceries as usual—
FOR SALE BY Joseph Mandeville, Corner of King and Fairfax streets.
June 15.
TO RENT,
A three story Brick House and Lot, well calculated for business and the accommodation of a family, situate at the corner of Prince and Washington-streets, in an airy & healthy part of the town.—Possession given on the first day of August next.—Apply to Philip Triplett.
Edmund Denney.
July 11. eod
JAMES BACON,
At the GROCERY STORE, on King street, received in addition to his former stock, A fresh Supply of Genuine Articles in the Grocery Line
Which makes his assortment complete. He now offers for sale, on his usual low terms, Muscovado Sugars, of various qualities,
Loaf and Lump ditto, Gumpowder, Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson-Skin, and Souchong
Best green Coffee, Chocolate, of a superior quality
Madeira, Buscellos, Sherry, Lisbon, Teneriffe, Malaga, and Genuine old Port
Cognac and Bourdeaux Brandy, Old Jamaica Spirit, for family use, Antigua, St. Croix, St. Vincents, and New England Rum,
Holland Gin, Irish and country Whisky, Molasses, Wine, and Cider Vinegar, Stoughton's Bitters,
Mace, nutmegs, cloves, cassia, pimento, Cayenne and black pepper, race and ground Ginger, basket salt for table use, dearl backer rice, starch, fig blue, soap, mould, dip and spermaceti candles, refined salt-petre, flota indigo, allum, copperas, madder, brimstone, spinning cotton, patent shot all sizes, best English and country made gunpowder, sezen and smoking tobacco, very best chewing tobacco.
Hamilton and Leiper's snuff, Hunter's pipes in boxes.
London mustard, warranted of a superior quality, Dixon's best ditto, wrapping paper, demijohns, &c. &c. with generally every article in his line—the whole of which have been collected with care, and will be disposed of at the very lowest terms
Joseph Mandeville
CORNER OF KING AND FAIRFAX STREETS, ALEXANDRIA:
HAS FOR SALE,
An assortment of WINES, LIQUORS, GROCERIES, &c.
Consisting of
MADEIRA Port Sherry Lisbon Malaga Teneriffe & Corsica
WINES.
Old St. Estephe Medoc laret, in cases of one dozen
A few dozen fine old frontinac Ditto do. best wine bitters Jamaica and West-India rum New-England do. Cogniac, Bourdeaux and Naples brandy Holland and country gin Schiedam gin in cases Irish whiskey, very old 70 barrels Pennsylvania rye Cider in barrels White wine and Cider vinegar Florence oil in flasks 2 hogheads Havana honey 15 do. choice retailing molasses
Gumpowder Imperial Hyson Young Hyson Hyson-Skin and Souchong
TEAS
Muscovado sugars, different qualities Bengal white do. Loaf and lump sugars, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Alexandria.
Leiper's, Garrett's, and Hamilton's snuff in bottles and bladders.
Macuba and rapee do.
Clover-seed, (Penn. warranted)
Mace; nutmegs; cloves; cassia; pimento; to; pepper; ginger, race and ground; Cayenne pepper; refined salt-petre.
Coffee; chocolate; rice; pearl barley; London and Philadelphia mustard; bakers salt; starch; fig blue; flota indigo; Geogia and Tennessee cotton; flax; wool; madder; copperas; allum; brimstone; chalk; pipes in boxes; wrapping paper and twine; traces; bed cords; leading lines; demijohns; gin cases; patent shot; brandywine gunpowder; Harvey's gunpowder; [the only real British battle powder] from F to treble scaled.
chewing tobacco; best Havana segars.
Muscadel and bloom raisins in boxes.
Sun raisins in casks.
Zante currants; prunes; soft shelled almonds.
A few boxes excellent pickles, each dozen bottles assorted; capers, olives and anchovies, for sale by the box.
A quantity of clean good allura salt suitable for the fishery, &c. &c.
PRINTED DAILY BY SAMUEL SNOWDEN, (For the Proprietor.)