Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1808-01-18 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
VOL. VIII.
MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1808.
[No. 2070.]
Sales at Vendue.
On every Tuesday and Friday, WILL BE SOLD
At the Vendue Store corner of Prince and Water streets.
A Variety of Dry Goods, Groceries, &c.
Particulars of which will be expressed in the bills of the day—All kinds of goods which are on limitation and the prices of which are established, can at any time be viewed and purchased at the lowest limitation and prices.
P. G. Marsteller, v. m.
PROFILES,
CUT AND FRAMED;
AND
PROFILE LIKENESS'S
DONE IN GOLD LEAF ON GLASS;
NEXT door to Mr. I. ROBIN'S Store on King-Street, nearly opposite the Indian Queen Tavern
January 13. dif.
FOR SALE,
A Negro Woman, a complete House Servant.
Apply to
The Printer.
December 2. d
TEN PIPES
 Choice Cognac Brandy,  3 hds. West-India Rum,  10 qr. casks L. P. Teneriffe Wine,  16 casks Rice,  25 Shams Marine Insurance Stock,  For Sale by
Catlett and Fisk.
November 19. d
WANTED
A middle aged woman, capable of managing a house. To one of good character liberal wages will be given. Enquire of the Printer.
Sept. 9. d
TO RENT,
and possession given on the 14th of November next,
The three story Brick House
on the corner of King and Columbia-streets, now occupied by Mr. John Roberts.—For terms apply to Col. GEORGE DENEALE, living next door, or to the subscriber.
Nicholas Voss,
City of Washington, Oct. 20. dif
JAMES SANDERSON
Offers, for sale very low,
 25 hogsheads Muscovado Sugar,  70 bags green Coffee  15 hogsheads well flavored Rum  5 pipes Cognac Brandy  12 quarter casks Sherry Wine  1 bales Tennessee Cotton  And as usual
A general assortment of the best Wines, choice Liquors, Teas and Groceries.
BRYAN HAMPSON
HAS FOR SALE.
 10 pipes old port  3 do. Madeira  30 quarter casks Lisbon  12 do. particular Teneriffe  15 do. Malaga  15 pipes old cognac brandy  15 do. 4th proof Holland Gin  5 hds. 3d proof Antigua Rum  12 do. first quality molasses  6 do. green copperas  2 do. alum  30 do. brown sugar  20 bags pimento  15 do. pepper  10 chests young hyson  10 do hyson skin  5 do. imperial  100 bags green coffee  150 kegs madder  70 do. ground ginger  30 do. raisins  200 lbs. bacon, well cured  5 kegs salt petre 
A quantity of fine and ground alum salt. At all times he has the first quality flour for family use on hand—with a number of other articles—all of which he will sell low on his former terms.
Aug. 31
TO RENT,
A convenient two story Dwelling House and lot, situated on the corner of King and Pitt-streets, lately occupied by Mr. John Ramsay. Apply to
Eliza Wilson, or Robert I. Taylor.
January 13. eo
WANTED,
A steady, sober young Man is a Bar-keeper.
APPLY TO THE
PRINTER.
January 12. 6t.
Broker's Office.
THE subscriber again tenders his service to the public, and will at all times be ready to make advances on deposits—or to procure cash for good paper.—The strictest delicacy and secrecy may be relied on.
A. LINDO, Broker.
Dec 22 d
WANTED,
A vessel of five or six hundred barrels, to take freight to Boston.
APPLY TO
Lawrason and Fowle.
December 14. d
HEMP FOR SALE.
I HAVE on hand, ten tons of the first quality CLEAN COUNTRY HEMP, I wish to sell for cash, or on a time.
Bryan Hampson.
December 30. d
NOTICE.
I WISH to hire for the ensuing year, twenty able bodied NEGRO MEN, to be employed on the Little River Turnpike Road.—Good usage, liberal wages, and punctual payment may be relied on.
R. Ratcliffe,
Agent for L. R. T. Company.
December 30. d
Ten Thousand Dollars-worth
OF GOODS FOR SALE.
Will be sold, to the highest bidder, on MONDAY, the first day of next February, in the town of DUMFRIES, at the store-house formerly occupied by Mr. JAMES MOSCATT, deceased:
About 10,000 dollars worth of GOODS tolerably well assorted. The said goods will be laid off and sold in parcels of from forty to one hundred dollars amount in each parcel.
A credit of nine months will be given on one half of the purchase and fifteen months on the balance, the purchaser to give bond (to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid) and approved security before the goods are removed.
The sale of said goods will continue from day to day until the whole are sold.
ALL PERSONS indebted to the firms of JOHN M. MUSCHETT and Co. JAMES MUSCHETT, senior, and Co. and JOHN and CHARLES MUSCHETT and Co. are hereby notified and requested to come forward without delay and settle their respective accounts and pay off the same to the subscriber, who is fully authorised and empowered by JOHN M. MUSCHETT, the surviving partner in the aforesaid firms, to settle and receive all such debts; otherwise I shall be under the necessity of bringing suits against every person owing anything to said firms immediately, who fails to comply with the foregoing request.
All those who have claims against said firms will please to forward them to me as soon as convenient.
John Linton,
Attorney in fact for JOHN M. MUSCHETT.
Bumfries, Dec. 9, [11]
Twenty Dollars Reward.
ELOPED from the town of Alexandria, on Christmas day,
A Negro Man named Ben,
Belonging to Mrs. Fendall;
AGED about 31 years, tall, straight and spare in his form, with hollow eyes, short nose, head long and projecting behind, full high forehead, a small scar on one of his legs, supposed the left leg; he is, somewhat timid, answers quickly when spoken to but sometimes stammers a little, by trade a gardener, but he has been lately employed in Mr. Moore's sugar refinery in Alexandria, and it is probable he can read and write. Had on and took with him a variety of clothing, which as well as his name, he will probably change. It is supposed he has taken the road to Baltimore. Ten Dollars will be given, if he is taken up in this neighborhood, or the above reward, if more than twenty miles from Alexandria.
Edmund I. Lee.
January 4. d
Public Sale.
On THURSDAY, the 31st instant, at eleven o'clock, will be sold, on the premises, Several valuable Lots Ground, situated on the corner of Fairfax and Duke-streets.—Terms will be made known at the place of sale.
P. G. Marsteller.
January 13. dts
TO RENT,
The three story Dwelling-House, Bake-House, Flour-Shed and Out-Houses, belonging to Thomas Crandell, deceased situated on Union-street, between King & Prince-streets—Also, a House, Stable and Out-House, together with the Lot adjoining, situated at the West End, For further particulars enquire of Anthony Rhodes.
January 12. d
JOSEPH RIDDLE,
Has received by the ship William and John, from Liverpool,
FALL GOODS.
October 24. d
A Brick House for Sale.
THE Brick House occupied by Mrs. McCholks, on the north side of Prince-street, between Fairfax and Water-streets, is offered for sale on a liberal credit. For particulars apply to
John C. Vowell.
ALSO, TO RENT,
The House lately occupied by Mrs. Fitzgerald, situated on Water-street, having every convenience to accommodate a genteel family. Immediate possession may be had.—Apply as above.
January 12. 6m
AUGUSTINE NEWTON,
King-Street, nearly opposite to Morris Tavern,
HAS ON HAND,
 Old Cognac BRANDY,  Madeira and London Particular Teneriffe  WINES,  Holland GIN,  Rye WHISKEY and  Barbadoes MOLASSES. 
TOGETHER WITH
Brown, lump and loaf Sugars, by the barrel or smaller quantity; Young Hyson, Hyson and Imperial Teas; Coffee; Chocolate; Soap and Candles.
With a general assortment of
German, English and East-India GOODS.
All of which will be sold wholesale and retail, at very moderate prices for prompt pay.
A constant supply of FLOUR for family use, and an elegant REGISTER STOVE for sale.
January 11. d
Landing, this Day,
From Schooner Freighter, Captain Thomas, from Portland, and for sale by
Lawrason and Fowle,
 10 tons St. Peterburgh clean hemp  100 bolts Russia duck  50 do. Raven's do.  105 barrels New-England rum  30 do. tanner's oil  30 boxes mould candles  80 tons Plaister Paris  400 sides seal leather. 
IN STORE,
 15 pipes Holland Gin  3 do. Bordeaux brandy  10 boxes mould candles  10 do. spermaceti do.  300 do. brown soap  70 do. chocolate  20 casks cheese  1000 sides seal leather  5 hds. and 20 bts. Mus. sugar. 
January 13. d
Just Received,
Per the Schooner Jane, Captain Crocker, from Boston, and for sale by the subscriber,
 8 puncheons Jamaica Spirits  6 barrels first quality Cheese  10 do. mens stout shoes  100 sides Seal Leather of extra nice quality 
30 boxes dry Cod-Fish.
Said Schooner Jane returns to Boston. For freight or passage apply to
John G. Ladd.
December 31. d
ALMANACS for 1808,
Just published and for sale, by Cotton and Stewart.
Lost or Mislaid,
A NOTE Negotiable at the bank of Alexandria, dated Dec. 21st, at sixty days for five hundred and seventy five dollars, drawn by Mr. James Russell in favor of Joseph M. Mandeville.
Payment is stopped and all persons are cautioned against receiving it.
January 16. 3t
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to John Horner and Son and Horners and Piles, are desired to pay all accounts due to the above firms, to Abel Janney as their agent, and his receipt shall be good against us; and he is hereby authorised to bring suits against all persons indebted to the above firms where necessary, and to collect the debts due us.
John Horner, sen.
John Horner, jun.
Lewis Piles.
January 7.
JOSEPH MANDEVILLE,
CORNER OF KING AND FAIRFAX-STREETS;
HAS RECEIVED,
 6000 lb. Goshen Cheese 1st quality  1 1/2 ton assorted Patent Shot,  50 half chests & boxes Imperial,  Young Hyson, & } TEAS,  Hyson-skin,  3 pipes choice Cognac Brandy,  40 bts. Rye Whiskey,  15 cases old Medoc Claret superior quality,  70 lb. Nutmegs,  50 dozen London Mustard,  5 casks London refined Salt-petre,  15 casks chewing Tobacco small twist,  30 boxes Soap,  25 do. mould and dipp'd Candles,  45 kegs yellow ground Ginger,  30 boxes Havana Segars,  3 cwt. Zante Currants,  Raisins in boxes and casks,  Pearl and hulled Barley,  A small quantity basker salt. 
Which with a very general assortment of Wines, Liquors, and Groceries, he will sell low for cash, produce, or the usual credit.
Nov 16
JAMES BACON,
At his GROCERY STORE, on King-street, has in addition to his former stock, added
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,
 Leaf and Lump ditto,  Gunpowder, Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson-Skin, and Boichong } TEAS, particularly selected for family use. 
 Best green Coffee,  Chocolate, of a superior quality, Madeira, Busellos, Sherry, Lisbon, Teneriffe, Malaga, and Genuine old Port } WINES. 
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, pearl barley, rice, starch, fig blue, soap, mould, dipt and spermaceti candles, refined salt-petre, floatant indigo, alum, copperas, madder, brimstone, spinning cotton, patent shot all sizes, best english and country made gunpowder, segars 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 demijohn's, &c. &c. with generally every article in his line—the whole of which have been selected with care, and will be disposed of on the very lowest terms
Printing in all its various branches handsomely executed at this office.

Alexandria Price Current.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
   Articles. Per. Prices   Dolls. Cts. D. C.     Bread, Ship 100lb. 2 66   Navy 3   Pilot 5   Crackers 5 25   Beef cargo No. 1. bbk. 12 12 1/2 scarce   Bacon lb. 18 20   Butter for export 32 33   Coffee, West India 22 only   Cotton 22 25   Chocolate 20 21   Candles Mould 19 20   Dipt 50 53   Spermaceeti 12 1/2 14   Cheese, American none   English none   Duck, Best Russia bolts. 26   Fish, Salmon bbl. none   Herrings 4 5   Mackerel 4   Shad 7 50 80   Flax Seed 75 10   Flour Superfine 4 25   Fine 3 75   Middlings 2 75   Grain, Indian Corn bue. 50   Wheat 70   Rye 50   Barley 1   Oats 42   Hides, Spanish lb. 12 1/2   Hemp cwt. 9   Hogsiard lb. 15   Iron ton 125 130   Leather, Sole lb. 22   Lime bbl. 2 25   Limes 5   Lemons none   Lumber 100ft.   Oak timber and scantling 5 7   Pine scantling 2 3   Boards 4-4 1 70   5-4 2 10   White do. common 4-4 1 50   do. clean 4-4 2 20   S'ingles, Jmp. 24 in. M. 4 50   Common 3 50   Cypress 24 3   Do. 18 2   Staves hhd. 28   bbl. 20   bbl. Red Oak 10   hhd. do. 9   Meal bus. 62 1/2   Molasses gal. 40 43   Naukeens, piece 90   Pork prime bbl. 16 18   Cargo 15 16   Southern 2d qual. 15 16   Plaister Paris c. pr. ton 6 50   Do. retail 8   Pimento 27   Pepper 24 25   Porter, American doz. 2 25   London none   Rice 100lbs. 4 50   Soap, Amer. white lb. dwt. 10 11   Do. brown 9   Castillo 15 17   Salt-Petre, refined 31   Not refined 14   Spirits gall.   Brandy 4th proof 1 50   Rum Jam. 4th do 1 1 12 1/2   Antigua 2d 85 90   American 48 50   Whiskey 48 53   Sugar H. white 100lb 13   Do. brown 11   Candy white 13   Do. brown 11   Muscovado 1st qual. 11 50   Do. 2d do. 10 50 } plenty.   Do. 3d do. 10 } plenty.   Loaf lb. 19 22   Salt St. Ubes bus. 70   Lisbon 80   Cadiz 60 70 } plenty.   Liverpool blown 45   Do. coarse 100   Turk Island 95   Isle of May 70 75   Liverpool fine sack 8   Shot all sizes cwt. 15   Sheetings, Russia piece 22   Steel blistered cwt. 8 66   Crowley 17 18   TOBACCO, Alex. Inc. 6   Tobacco Md. 100lbs   Up. Patuxent 1st qual. 6 56   Do. 2d 5 50 6 52   Virginia 4 4 50   Lower do. 3 50 3 75   Rappahannock 4 50   Teas, Y. Hyson lb 90 100   Imperial 1 40 1 50   Tallow, Amer. 16 scarce   Wax Bees 37 1/2   Wines, Madeira pipe 260 300   Lisbon gal. 1 25 1 33   Sherry 1 50 1 75   Teneriffe 80 1 20   Claret doz. 8 12   Malaga gal. 95 1   Port 1 50 scarce.   Tin, in boxes 19 20  
PRICE OF STOCKS.
   Alexandria Bank, 100   Potomac do 93   Exchange London, par.  
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
SATURDAY, January 9.
[CONCLUDED.]
On motion of Mr. Bassett, the house went into a committee of the whole on the bill incorporating a church at Alexandria; and after some time, the committee rose and obtained leave to sit again.
On motion of Mr. G. W. Campbell, the House went into a committee of the whole on the report of the committee of ways & means on the petition of Edward Weld, and Samuel Beebee; after a short time spent, the committee rose and reported their agreement to the report in favor of the petition which was referred to the committee of ways and means to bring in a bill in pursuance thereof.
On motion of Mr. G. W. Campbell, the house went into a committee of the whole on the bill authorizing the payment of certain expenses attending the impeachment of Samuel Chase. The committee rose in a few minutes and reported their agreement to the bill which was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
Mr. Van Horn offered the following resolution which he conceived to embrace information connected with the resolution this day proposed by Mr. Dana:
Resolved, That the secretary of the treasury be requested to lay before this house a statement showing the amount of tonnage employed in the United States, in the exportation of articles of the produce or manufacture of the United States. Agreed to.
The report of the committee of claims unfavorable to the petition of Peter Landais was taken up and concurred with.
The house went into a committee of the whole on the bill to remit the duties payable on the monument imported by the naval officers of the United States, when Mr. Milner moved to add a new section to the bill to appropriate a sum of money for railing in and covering the monument. After some debate on this in which Messrs. Milner, Lyon and Witherell supported, and Messrs. Stanford, Macon, and Smith opposed it, the committee rose without deciding on it, and obtained leave to sit again.
Mr. [blank] laid before the house a resolution of the legislature of N. Carolina, requesting the representatives of that state to use their endeavors to procure the erection of a fortification or defence near Beaufort in that state, which was not contemplated in the report of the Secretary of War made to the house.
After some discussion as to the proper mode of disposing of it, the house agreed, 69 to 17, to transmit it to the president of the United States, in order that due provision might be made for the defence of that port.
From the National Intelligencer of Friday.
Mr. Clarke's Statement.
In obedience to the direction of the house of representatives expressed in their resolution of Friday last I submit the following statement.
I arrived from Europe at New Orleans in Decr. 1786, having been invited to the country by an uncle of considerable wealth and influence who had been long resident in that city. Shortly after my arrival, I was employed in the office of the secretary of the government. This office was the depository of all state papers.
In 1787 Gen Wilkinson made his first visit to New Orleans and was introduced by my uncle to the governor and other officers of the Spanish government.
In the succeeding year 1788 much sensation was excited by the report of his having entered into some arrangements with the governor of Louisiana to separate the western country from the U. States, & this report acquired great credit upon his second visit to N. Orleans in 1789.
About this time I saw a letter from the gen to a person in New Orleans giving an account of col. Connellys mission to him from the British government in Canada & of proposals made to him on the part of that government, and mentioning his determination of adhering to his connection with the Spaniards.
My intimacy with the officers of the Spanish government and my access to official information disclosed to me shortly afterwards some of the plans the general had proposed to the government for effecting the contemplated separation. The general project was the severance of the western country from the U. S. and the establishment of a separate government in the alliance and under the protection of Spain.
In effecting this Spain was to furnish money & arms & the minds of the western people were to be seduced and brought over to the project by liberal advantages resulting from it, to be held out by Spain.
The trade of the Mississippi was to be rendered free, the port of New Orleans to be opened to them, and a free commerce allowed in the productions of the new government with Spain and her West India islands.
I remember about the same time to have seen a list of names of citizens of the western country which was in the hard writing of the general, who were recommended for pensions, and the sums were stated proper to be paid to each, and I then distinctly understood that he and others were actually pensioners of the Spanish government.
I had no personal knowledge of money being paid to gen W. or to any agent for him on account of his pension previously to 1793 or 1794. In one of these years and in which I cannot be certain until I can consult my books, a Mr. La Cassagne, who I understood was post master at the falls of Ohio, came to New Orleans, and as one of the association with general Wilkinson in the project of dismemberment, received a sum of money four thousand dollars of which or thereabout, were embarked by a special permission free of duty on board a vessel which had been consigned to me, and which sailed for Philadelphia, in which vessel Mr. La Cassagne went passenger. At and prior to this period I had various opportunities of seeing the projects submitted to the Spanish government, and of learning many details from the agents employed to carry them into execution.
In 1794 two gentlemen of the names of Owens and Collins friends and agents of gen Wilkinson, came to N. Orleans. To the first was entrusted as I was particularly informed by the officers of the Spanish government the sum of 6000 dols. to be delivered to gen W on account of his own pension & that of others. On his way in returning to Kentucky Owens was murdered by his boat's crew, and the money it was understood was made away with by them: This occurrence occasioned a considerable noise in Kentucky, and contributed with Mr. Power's visits at a subsequent period, to awaken the suspicion of gen. Wayne, who took measures to intercept the correspondence of gen Wilkinson with the Spanish government which were not attended with success.
Collins, the co agent with Owens, first attempted to fit out a small vessel in the port of New Orleans, in order to proceed to some port in the Atlantic states; but she was destroyed by the hurricane in the month of August of 1794. He then fitted out a small vessel in the Bayou St. John, and shipped to her at least eleven thousand dollars which he took round to Charleston.
This shipment was made under such peculiar circumstances, that it became known to many, and the destination of it was afterwards fully disclosed to me by the officers of the Spanish government, by Collins, and by general Wilkinson himself, who complained that Collins instead of sending him the money on his arrival had employed it in some wild speculations to the West Indies, by which he had lost a considerable sum, and that in consequence of the mismanagement of his agents he had derived but little advantage from the money paid on his account by the Spanish government.
Mr. Power was a Spanish subject, resident in Louisiana, and the object of his visits to the western country became known to me in 1796, when he embarked on board the brig Gayoso at New Orleans for Philadelphia in company with judge Sebastian, in which vessel as he had been consigned to myself, I saw embarked under a special permission four thousand dollars or thereabout, which I was informed, were for Sebastian's own account, as one of those concerned in the scheme of dismemberment of the western country.
Mr. Power, as he afterwards informed me, on his tour through the western country, saw general Wilkinson at Greenville and was the bearer of a letter to him for the secretary of the government of Louisiana, dated the 7th or 8th March, 1796, advising that a sum of money had been sent to don Thomas Portell, commandant of New Madrid, to be delivered to his order. This money Mr. Power delivered to Mr. Nolan, by Wilkinson's directions. What concerned Mr. Nolan's agency in this business I learned from himself, when he afterwards visited New Orleans.
In 1797, Power was entrusted with another mission to Kentucky, and had directions to propose certain plans to effect the separation of the western country from the United States. These plans were proposed and rejected, as he often solemnly assured me, through the means of a Mr. George Nicholas, to whom among others they were communicated, who spurned the idea of receiving foreign money. Power then proceeded to Detroit to see general Wil-
kinson, and was sent back by him under guard to New Madrid from whence he returned to New Orleans. Power's secret instructions were known to me afterwards, and I am enabled to state that the plan then contemplated entirely failed.
At the periods spoken of, and for some time afterwards I was a resident in the Spanish territory, subject to the Spanish laws, and without an expectation of becoming a citizen of the United States. My obligations were then conceal and not to communicate to the government of the United States, the projects and enterprises which I have mentioned of general Wilkinson and the Spanish government.
In the month of October of 1798, I visited general Wilkinson by his particular request at his camp at Lofus's heights, where he had shortly before arrived. The general had heard of remarks made by me on the subject of his pension, which had rendered him uneasy, and he was desirous of making some arrangements with me on the subject. I passed three days and nights in the general's tent. The chief subjects of conversation were the views and enterprises of the Spanish government in relation to the United States, and speculations as to the result of political affairs. In the course of our conversation he stated that there was still a balance of ten thousand dollars due him by the Spanish government, for which he would gladly take in exchange governor Gayoso's plantation near the Natchez, who might reimburse himself from the treasury at New Orleans. I asked the general whether this sum was due on the old business of the pension--he replied that it was and indicated a wish that I should propose to governor Gayoso a transfer of his plantation for the money due him from the Spanish treasury. The whole affair had always been odious to me, and I declined any agency in it. I acknowledged to him that I had often spoken freely and publicly of his Spanish pension, but told him I had communicated nothing to his government on the subject. I advised him to drop his Spanish connexion. He justified it heretofore from the peculiar situation of Kentucky, the disadvantages that country labored under at the period when he formed his connexion with the Spaniards, the doubtful and distracted state of the union at that time which he represented as bound together by nothing better than a rope of sand, and he assured me solemnly that he had terminated his connections with the Spanish government, and that they never should be renewed. I gave the general to understand that as the affair stood I should not in future say any thing about it. From that period until the present I have heard one report only of the former connexion being renewed, and that was in 1804, shortly after the general's departure from New Orleans. I had been absent for two or three months and returned to the city not long after general Wilkinson sailed from it. I was informed by the late mayor that reports had reached the ears of the governor of a sum of ten thousand dollars having been received by the general, of the Spanish government while he was one of the commissioners for taking possession of Louisiana. He wished me to enquire into the truth of them which I agreed to do in consideration that I might be permitted to communicate the suspicion to the general, if the fact alleged against him could not be better verified. This was assented to. I made the enquiry and satisfied myself by the inspection of the treasury book for 1804, that the 10,000 dollars had not been paid, then communicated the circumstance to a friend of the general Mr. Iwan Jones, with a request that he would inform him of it. This report was revived at the last session of congress by a letter from col. Ferdinand Claiborne of Natchez, to the delegate to the Mississippi territory. A member of the house informed me that the money in question was acknowledged by gen Smith to have been received at the time mentioned but that it was in payment for tobacco delivered, and waited on general Smith for information as to the receipt of the money, which he disavowed all knowledge of, and I had the opportunity of assuring him as I was among others as mentioned the subject, that I believed it to be false and gave them the reasons for that opinion.
This summary necessarily omits many details tending to corroborate and illustrate the fact and opinions I have stated. No allusion has been had to the public explanations or transactions referred to, made by gen Wilkinson and his friends. So far as they are involved in commercial enterprises and calculations, I had the best opportunity of becoming acquainted with them as I was during the time referred to, the agent of the house who were consigned to the general at New Orleans, and who had an interest in his

and whose books are in my possession. Washington City, 11th January, 1808. DANIEL CLARK. District of Columbia, to wit: January 11, 1808. Personally appeared before me William Cranch, chief judge of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, Daniel Clark, esq. who being solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangel- ists of Almighty God, doth depose and say, that the foregoing statement made by him un- der the order of the House of Representatives so far as regards matters of his own know- ledge is true, and so far as regards the mat- ter whereof he was informed by others he believes to be true. Sworn before me W. CRANCH.
FROM THE SAME.
Having been engaged, on Wednesday, at the Court of Enquiry until some time af- ter the Senate took up the report in the case of Mr. Smith, we are only able to present a general view of their proceedings that day. The business, we under- stand, was opened by the vice-president and Mr. Smith that this was the day for hearing him by counsel, and assigned for some his counsel; on which he named Esq. S. Key and Lu- ther Martin. It was then moved that the leave of the Senate be obtained for per- mitting Mr. Smith to be heard by the counsel thus named distinctly. With regard to Mr. Key there was no objection or division; on Mr. Martin, the Senate divided, and seventeen members, a majority of those present, ris- ing in the negative, permission was conse- quently refused. Mr. Key thereupon ap- peared as counsel for Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith then stated that he had an ap- plication to make by his counsel; on which Mr. Key rose, and after a few prelimina- ry remarks read an affidavit of Mr. Smith, expressing his confidence in being able to validate the prominent allegations against him, as exhibited in the report before the Senate, and specifically stating the names of persons who could disprove the charges. Mr. Key on this affidavit, made an ap- plication for allowing Mr. Smith a reason- able time and the proper means for obtain- ing testimony. Some progress had been made in the discussion of this application before we en- tered the Senate chamber. The argument which subsequently ensued (as well as that we are informed which preceded) was of a desultory character, and by no means sufficiently interesting to give in much de- tail.
Those who advocated an allowance of the application contended that on a motion of expulsion the accused member ought to enjoy the privilege of vindicating him- self, by having extended to him the means of obtaining proper testimony; and that although a considerable delay might arise from the exercise of this privilege, yet he had a right to demand it, such delay be- ing a much lesser evil than that of con- demning a man of high standing unheard, to come to a decision without the allowance of this right was virtually to condemn him without a hearing; that the application in its present general shape, was the most correct that could be made, as, after agreeing to it, the senate would be at liberty to fix the time proper to be given, and determine the requisite means for obtaining testimony. They further contended that the senate possessed the power of forcing the attendance of wit- nesses, as incidental to several important powers vested in them by the constitution, without which authority those powers would be idle and altogether inoperative; that in the present instance, however, it might not, perhaps, be necessary to coerce the attendance of witnesses, as it might be agreed to take depositions.
On the other hand, it was said that the application was couched in terms which were too vague and general; it was not denied that a reasonable time and the pro- per means should be allowed to the accus- ed to make a defence, but it was contend- ed that it became the senate in the first in- stance to fix the time and means, instead of adopting an abstract proposition which might by future misconception be produc- tive of great and injurious delay. The right of an accused senator to all the forms and principles of a judicial trial was stre- nuously denied; and it was insisted that the senate did not, in such a case, either possess the power of coercing the attend- ance of witnesses, or of compensating them for their attendance; that in this case such an attempt would be in the highest degree injurious, if not impracticable, as a great number of public men in remote
parts of the union were named either as witnesses, or as implicated in the conspi- racy.
Of those who we heard speak, Messrs. Bayard and Hillhouse expressed the former and Messrs. Giles, Adams and Anderson the latter opinions. Neither of these gentle- men, however, took the whole ground as- cribed to them collectively.
About 3 o'clock a motion was made to postpone the further consideration of the application, and carried without opposi- tion.
It was then determined to print the af- fidavit of Mr. Smith, and the second re- port of the select committee, the sub- stance of which we have heretofore stat- ed.
Yesterday the senate were engaged until a late hour on the case of Mr. Smith.— After a wide debate on a variety of pro- positions, relative to the time proper to be allowed to Mr. Smith to make his defence, and the species of testimony proper to be admitted, and the means of producing it, the various resolutions, with the affidavit of Mr. Smith, were, without a division, referred to a select committee composed of Messrs. Anderson, Giles, Adams, Crawford and Bayard.
We shall in a future paper give a sketch of the arguments.
COURT OF INQUIRY IN THE CASE OF GEN. WILKINSON.
On Wednesday, a little before noon, the court was opened, when the Judge advocate said, that having a motion to make which required deliberation, he would move that the court should be cleared. The court was accordingly cleared and re- main ed cleared for near an hour. On the doors being opened, the Judge advocate read the following decision of the court:
Perceiving, the editor of a public news- paper in the act of taking notes, it was thought proper to consider whether the daily publication of the proceedings was, or was not, consistent with the rules which the impartial administration of jus- tice rendered indispensable.
The rule in all military courts respecting evidence is, that in order effectually to guard and preserve its purity, no person cited to appear as a witness shall be allo- wed to be present during the examination of any of the previous witnesses.
It would be a species of subornation and afford a valid objection to testimony, if a witness, by hearing all that had been pre- viously testified, should model his evidence by that of the witnesses before examined; [see Tyler p. 130] yet who can say that this previous testimony would not influence even well intentioned witnesses? And it would certainly give consistency and uni- formity to any combination that impure witnesses might make, either to persecute an accused person, or save a criminal.
By the constitution of the U. S. no man can be convicted of treason without two witnesses to each overt act; the probable intention of this was to prevent combina- tion, for by examining two witnesses to any one act separately and apart to each o- ther, a combination would be detected; but if a transcript of the previous testimony were put into the hands of a succeeding witness, this wise provision in the consti- tution would be rendered nugatory, and the injury done to the administration of justice would be the same, whether the effect would be in the nature of mercy or cruelty.
It might be said that in crowded courts of justice persons cited to be witnesses are generally present when previous witnesses are examined; but to say nothing of the nature of the case where owing to a nume- rous audience, the court cannot tell who are present, there is a wide difference be- tween what may be retained in the memory by hearing what is delivered, and having a fair copy which might be learned by heart; indeed the chance of inaccuracy in remem- bering oral testimony is so great, that the discovery of a combination is not merely probable but almost certain by the confu- sion such witnesses would be liable to.
Military courts generally sit in garrisons or camps, and naval ones always sit on board ships; under these circumstances persons cited to be witnesses are always kept out of court while previous witnesses are under examination; and where the ad- dience happens to be numerous or from an- y other cause there is a possibility of such evidences being accidentally present, the Judge Advocate expressly gives public warning for them to retire.
No witness is allowed to read his testi- mony, and so cautious are courts and so anxious to guard against subornation that preliminary questions whether the witness has been instructed what to say, are some
times put; all a witness can be allowed is to recur to notes in cases where detail as to dates and such like minutiae are necessa- ry to establish a fact with accuracy.
A court of enquiry is in its nature a preliminary court, and may be succeeded by a court of judgement. It therefore has no power to inflict punishment, nor even to give opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused, unless specially required so to do. If therefore the defendant now before this court were to be hereafter brought before a court martial, the publici- ty of the testimony would be a violation of the fundamental principles of justice, which (as far as human nature is capable) re- quires that the mind of the judges should be uninfluenced by any previous informa- tion on the subject;—The publication of matters within the jurisdiction and in pos- session of a court is esteemed a contempt, and attachment have issued on the pub- lishers who being brought before the court have been sentenced to imprisonment.
From the foregoing it is clear that no person not a member of the court, except the prosecutor and the defendant, can be allowed to take notes of the testimony; but it may be asked why not publish the proceeding daily under the restriction not to note the testimony.
In answer to this it may be asked how is such a restriction to be carried into effect? Once admit the writer and the power is in his own hands. But how could the best intentioned writer avoid running into the tes- timony, in detailing the proceedings, which are made of testimony, observations upon it, questions arising out of it & decisions which would convey no idea if unaccompanied by it? What then is the reporter to publish? The mere ordinary forms usual in all courts? This would not be considered by the pub- lic as worth the reading: it might indeed excite curiosity but could never satisfy it. Besides the foregoing reasons the court are uninformed of any precedent in this or any other country where the proceed- ings of a court of enquiry were published before they were concluded and submitted to the authority by which the court was constituted.
The court have therefore decided that no person, except he be either a prosecutor or defendant, can be permitted to take notes at any of its sittings.
The court then adjourned to Friday at 10 A. M.
We understand that Messrs. John Ran- dolph, Daniel Clarke, and John Rowan, have been notified to attend as witnesses.
NOTE.—This decision arose from the editor of the National Intelligencer having at- tended the sittings of the court, with the view of taking down their proceedings and publish- ing them.
Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
MONDAY, JANUARY 18.
WASHINGTON, Jan 14.
Mr. Morrow presented the following resolutions;
Resolved, That the president of the U. S. be authorised to loan to the state of Ohio for the term of seven years, 7000 stand of arms, for the purpose of arming the citi- zens of that state—under such regulations and restrictions, as he may think proper to prescribe.
Resolved, That the president of the U. S. be authorised to loan to the state of Ohio for the term of seven years, 20 pieces of field artillery for the use of the artillery companies of that state—under such regu- lations and restrictions, as to the safe keep- ing and redelivery as he may think pro- per to prescribe.
These resolutions were made the order of the day for Monday next.
The house went into a committee of the whole on the bill further to prolong the con- tinuance of the Mint at Philadelphia.
Some discussion took place on the pro- priety of removing the mint from Phila- delphia to this place. Mr. Lyon contend- ed, that it ought to be removed: he could not see why the Philadelphians had an ex- clusive right to the mint: he did not doubt but the people of Washington or Baltimore had as many Doctors as Philadelphia, who would be as willing to receive a salary for visiting the mint once a day, as Dr. Rush. But he understood that a motion would be soon brought forward to remove the seat of government to Philadelphia. He wish- ed to hear that famous motion to see how the hobby horse would dance about.
Mr. Sloan said, the member from Ken- tucky had somehow got that notion into his head, but he did not know from what source. However the gentleman had as good a right, to ride his hobby horses , or his hobby mules , or rather his hobby asses , as himself. He believed the good sense
of the nation would remove the seat of go- vernment from this place, and that before long.
Mr. Lyon begged the gentleman's par- don; but he had intended to say hobby mares .
Mr. Lewis moved that the committee rise, report progress, and ask leave to sit again, for the purpose of giving it further consideration.
Fruits of the Embargo.—A letter from a re- spectable house in Providence, received by this morning's mail, says—
"We are sorry for the situation of our country, and deplore the many failures that have, and must, take place in our sea-ports and commercial cities. We have this even- ing received private advices of more than 50 capital failures in the single town of Portland, in the Province of Maine."
We are told that C. A. Rodney, Esquire, Attorney-General of the United States, has addressed a letter to John Dickenson, Esq. of Delaware, requesting his opinion of the ground, which Great-Britain has taken re- garding her seamen—and that Mr. Dicken- son in his answer, has stated that the ground which she had taken, was proper.
[Jackson.]
DIED, on the 7th instant, of a lingering ill- ness, in the 53d year of his age, James Bar- ry, Esq. Consul General from the Prince Re- gent of Portugal to the Eastern States.
The Committee appoint- ed by the Common Council, for the relief of the Poor, during the inclement season, in- form their fellow-citizens, that there are at this time a number of families in town suffer- ing for every necessary of life.
Donations in money, wood, provisions, or cloathing, will be thankfully received by Mr. James Harris, Royal-street, or themselves, and distributed according to the best of their judgment,
J. Swift, Hugh Smith, Aaron Hewes, James Russell.
January 13. 3t
APPEALS.
In Common Council, 16th Jan. 1808.
ORDERED, THAT the Council will sit as a Court of Appeals, on Saturday, the 30th instant, at the Council-Chamber, from the hour of 10 to 12 o'clock, where all persons having appeals to make on their assessment will attend, or o- therwise be excluded from a hearing.
Test. JAMES M. M'REA, c. c. January 13. dt30thJan
IN COMMON COUNCIL, 16th January, 1808.
ORDERED, That the Street-Commissioners be autho- rised to contract with Mr. Joseph H. Mande- ville for any manure he may want, and which can now be furnished.
Ordered, That the Street-Commissioner for the northern district, cause the bridges in the northern district to be repaired in case they stand in absolute need of it at present.
Ordered, That the additional sum of fifteen dollars and seventy-five cents, be appropri- ated to complete the repairs of Wolfe, Wilkes and Franklin-streets.
Test. JAMES M. M'REA, c. c.
FIFTY HOGSHEADS Choice Jamaica Spirits, FOR SALE BY Catlett and Fisk.
January 11. d
The Proprietor of the Alexandria Daily Advertiser, will dispose of the Establishment on moderate terms—there are now nearly six hundred Subscribers and the List increasing,—To a Person of Industry and Talents for conducting a Newspaper, this would be a desirable Situa- tion. Circumstances beyond his Controul render it necessary to make Sale, it will therefore be sold a great Bargain if applicati- on be made soon.
RAILS WANTED.
The Subscriber wishes to pur- chase about two thousand Chesnut or Oak RAILS, to be delivered at his farm on Came- ron.
J. H. HOOE, Jan. 14. 3w3

THE SUBSCRIBERS Being desirous of bringing the affairs of the late firm of THOMPSON and VEITCH , to a final close, OFFER FOR SALE the following
REAL PROPERTY, viz. T HREE comfortable Dwelling Houses, with elegant stores, on the south side of King, between Fairfax and Royal-streets, lots extending back 175 feet; at present occupied by Joseph Janney, James Russel, and James R. Riddle and Co. The situation is considered to be amongst the best for business in Alexandria.
A dwelling house and lot on the north side of King-street, near the corner of King and Pitt-streets, occupied by Samuel Snowden.
A lot, fronting 56 feet on Pitt-street, extending back 119 feet, and bounded on the south by an alley, on which is a shed occupied by M. Dorsey, coach-maker.
A brick dwelling house on Prince-street, betwixt Fairfax and Royal-streets, occupied by William Lovering.
Also, the vacant lots adjoining, on each side of said house. Their situation for business equal to any unimproved property in town.
That large commodious and brick tavern, in George-Town, with all the buildings and improvements attached thereto, situated on the main street leading from the public ferry; occupied by Joseph Semmes.
Three handsome three story brick dwelling houses, with brick stables and carriage houses, being part of the six buildings, situated on Pennsylvania avenue, in the city of Washington.
A handsome, commodious, and well finished brick dwelling house, in Charlestown, Jefferson county, late the property of Van Rutherford, with a large garden and the corner storehouse on same lot, situate near the centre of the main street.
Also, a tan-yard with sundry improvements, a comfortable dwelling house and lot adjoining, very handsomely situated, &c. Late the property of George Hite.
Also, a two story house and lot on the main street, at present occupied by Charles Foulk.
And a vacant lot on the main street, in a central situation for business.
For particular information respecting the above property in Charlestown, application may be made to William Tate, Esq. of that place, or to Henry St. George Tucker, Esq. of Winchester.
A tract of land in Loudoun county, containing 400 acres, situate near the Gum Spring, late the property of J. Spencer. On this tract there are two settlements and about 60 acres in cultivation, the rest of the land well timbered; the new turnpike road will pass thro' a part of this tract. Captain Charles Lewis living near the Gum Spring, will shew this to any person desirous of viewing it.
One other tract of 196 acres, in Frederick county, about four miles from Winchester and near the lands belonging to Judge Holmes. For particulars apply to Henry St. George Tucker, Esq.
One other tract of 400 acres, in Hampshire county, on a branch of Fairley's Run, near the town of Frankfort, formerly owned by Daniel Jones.
One other tract of 500 acres, in Randolph county, being part of an old military survey, on the south side of Glady Creek, considered to be of excellent quality. This tract is situated in a thickly settled part of that country, and contiguous to the main road leading from Randolph to the horse-shoe-bottom, on Cheat river.
One other tract, named Fertility , of 263 acres, in Westmoreland county, state of Pennsylvania; situated on the Monongahela river, and binding thereon for 3-4 of a mile, about one quarter of a mile below Casner's ferry, and 4 miles above Purkinson's ferry. A large proportion is rich bottom land, with a valuable orchard of sugar trees and about 60 acres in cultivation. The main road from Union-Town to Pittsburg passes close by this land.
Any part of the above described property we are disposed to sell at reasonable rates, on the following terms, viz. One fifth in hand, and the residue in three or four equal annual payments, the purchaser giving bonds with security on the premises.
JONAH THOMPSON, RICHARD VEITCH.
ROBERT GRAY,
has just received and for Sale, The following BOOKS,
The American Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Science, for 1806-7. Vol. 1st. Price $3 25.
Memoirs of illustrious and celebrated Women, of all ages and countries. 3 vols. 8vo. $7 50.
The Father and Daughter, a Tale. By Mrs. Opie, author of Simple Tales. Price $7 and half cents.
Scutiferi Navis; the Modern Ship of Fools: a new satirical work. Price $1 25.
Geographical Compilation: 2 vol. Price $2 50.
Ladies' and gentlemen's Pocket Almanack, for the year 1808, in Morocco and Sheep Binding. Price $1 25 and 75 cents.
Cavalry Discipline. Price $3 and half cts.
Doctor Rees's New Cyclopaedia. Vol. 6th, part 1st. Vol. 6th, part 2d. is expected by the next arrival from Philadelphia.
HORWELL'S
Celebrated Patent Suspender
FOR Ease, Elegance, Strength, &c. far exceeds any in use. To be had wholesale and retail at the MANUFACTORY , lower end of Prince Street Alexandria.
N. B. The Subscriber has a complete assortment well adapted for the Winter Season, and can supply wholesale purchasers on advantageous terms.
Richard Horwell.
Sept. 25
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DIRECTIONS.
The buttons on the back parts of the waistband ought to be placed the same distance from each other, as the two center buttons on the Suspender, to prevent improper straining and thereby destroying the case designed in the construction of the article.
ISAAC M'PHERSON
HAS LATELY IMPORTED & NOW ON
PERS FOR SALE,
A GOOD ASSORTMENT OF
BOLTING CLOTHS,
Of the Manufacture of the Old Three Kings, that are warranted good, are purchased with cash, and sold at a small profit.
ALSO, ON HAND,
A large quantity of BURR BLOCK , of good quality and a sufficient number of hands to execute any order for MILL-STONES at a short notice, No. 32, Fayette-street, Baltimore.
17th Dec. 89.
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FOR SALE,
Or to be RENTED for one or more years
THE whole of the REAL ESTATE belonging to Pressley Carr Lane , lying in and adjacent to the town of Centreville, in Fairfax county.
This property consists of the well known TAVERN now occupied by Mr. Adam Mitchell .
The STORE HOUSE now in the occupancy of Mr. Daniel Harrington —and from eight hundred to a thousand acres of good FARMING LAND , at present in the possession of Mr. Carr W. Lane , and Mr. Walter Lockett , which will be disposed of in separate tracts or entire.
It is presumed that any person disposed to buy or rent any of the above property will first view the same and judge for themselves—a further description is therefore unnecessary.
Mr. Lane would take a small proportion in Negroes.
Harrison Fitzhugh.
Fairfax County Oct. 23.
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TO RENT.
THE subscriber offers to rent for one or more years, adjoining the place whereon 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, {
December 9—[15.]
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N. B. If I don't rent the fine stand, I will give good wages to a young man, or a man with a family.
T. B. M.
TO LEASE,
For one or more years,
The Store-Houses formerly
occupied by JAMES PARK at Broadfield , on the main road to Westmoreland county, Vir. and within two miles of Mattox Bridge : consisting of a store room, counting room with a fire place, and a small lodging room below stairs a large bale room above and a spacious bale, house near the store house, in good order—fire wood and stableage for one or two horses may be had in the bargain, and Mrs. Park will board one or two young men.—For terms apply to JOHN MUNCASTER , in Alexandria, or to
Townsend S. Dade,
At Broadfield.
December 17.
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A French and English Gazette.
To Amateurs of the French Language.
WE are authorised to announce to the Public, and more especially to American Ladies and Gentlemen, (for whom this new establishment is adapted) that L'Ora-cle , a French and English Gazette, printed three times a week, in Charleston, South-Carolina, will be published daily on the first of January, 1808, in the city of New York.
A book of subscription is opened at this Office and at Mr. Gadsby's Coffee-House .
Subscribers pay Nine Dollars per annum, and only Eight Dollars , if paid in advance.
The establishment will prove very beneficial both to Amateurs and Pupils of the French or English languages.
The Editor and Proprietor is Mr. Negrin , who is on his way from here to New-York, forming his correspondence.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber, of Charles county and state of Maryland, having obtained letters of administration on the personal estate of Thomas Andrew Dyson , late of the county aforesaid deceased, hereby gives notice to all persons having claims against the said deceased's estate, that they are hereby warned to exhibit them, with the vouchers, properly authenticated, to Thomas Price , living near the Hill-Top, in Charles county, Maryland, on or before the first day of July next; they may otherwise by law be exempted from all benefit of the said deceased's estate.—Given under my hand this 39th day of December, 1807.
Judith C. Dyson, Adm z .
of Thomas A. Dyson, deceased
January 1.
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Public Sale.
PURSUANT to an order of the Orphans' Court of Charles county, will be offered a public sale, on MONDAY , the 25th day of January next, if fair; if not, on the next fair day thereafter, at the residence of the subscriber living near Nanjemoy church, in Charles county—the residue of the Personal Estate of Thomas Andrew Dyson late of Charles county deceased.
Consisting of valuable negro men, women, and one likely boy, and some plantation utensils. A credit of six months will be given, the purchasers giving bonds or notes with approved security, bearing interest from the day of sale.
Judith C. Dyson, Adm z .
of Thomas Andrew Dyson, deceased
January 1.
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Valuable Property for Sale.
TO BE SOLD , in four distinct lots or together, four acres of LAND , containing from one and a quarter acre to two acres each, most eligibly situated without the territory of Columbia, extending in a right line from Gibbon-street to Great-Hunting-Creek, intersecting Jefferson, Franklin, and Green-street, and bounding east and west on Fayette and Payne-streets.
A plan of the ground and further particulars may be obtained by application to
James Patton.
June 23.
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PROSPECTUS
OF LEWIS AND CLARK'S TOUR
TO THE
PACIFIC OCEAN,
THROUGH
THE INTERIOR OF THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA,
Performed by order of the Government of the United States,
During the years 1804, 1805, and 1806.
This work will be prepared by Capt. Meriwether Lewis , and will be divided into two parts, the whole comprising in three volumes octavo, the first containing at least seven hundred pages, the second and third from four to five hundred each, printed on good paper, and fair pica type. The several volumes in succession will be put to press at as early periods as the avocations of the author will permit him to prepare them for publication.
This distribution of the work has been made with a view to the accommodation of every description of readers, and is here offered to the patronage of the public in such shape, that all persons wishing to become subscribers, may accommodate themselves with either of the parts, or the entire work, as it shall be most convenient to themselves.
Subscriptions received by ROBERT GRAY , Alexandria.
Detached from this work, there will be published
LEWIS AND CLARK'S MAP OF NORTH AMERICA.
From longitude 97 west, to the Pacific Ocean and between 36 and 52 north latitude with extensive Marginal Notes. Dimensions five feet eight inches by three feet ten inches.
Embracing all their late discoveries, and that part of the continent heretofore the least known. This map will be compiled from the best maps now extant, as well published as in manuscript, from the collective information of the best informed travellers through the various portions of that region, and corrected by a series of several hundred celestial observations, made by Captain Lewis during his late tour.
For the convenience of subscribers, those several works will be delivered at the most respectable commercial towns, and at the seats of government of the respective states and territories within the Union: no advance is required, nor will payment be demanded until such delivery is made.
The price of part the first, in two vols. will be ten dollars, and that of part the second, in one volume, eleven dollars, delivered in boards. Price of the Map, ten dollars.
Any persons who may have subscribed for these works, to lists which contained no stipulated prices for the same, and who may be dissatisfied with the terms now proposed, are at liberty to withdraw their names from such lists, at any time prior to the 1st day of December next.
M. I. P. WIS.
Philadelphia, June 2.
[Aug. 7]
GREAT BARGAINS.
INTENDING to remove to the state of Tennessee as soon as possible, I wish to dispose of the following valuable and increasing property upon low terms, which property I inherited from my ancestors, who have had a legal title to the same for upwards of one hundred years.
One tract well known by the name of ABINGDON , being on the Potomac river between Alexandria and George Town, and nearly opposite the city of Washington, beautifully situated, containing about Four Hundred acres, now leased to the Mr. Wises for three hundred and sixty dollars per annum with other stipulations contained in the said lease.
One other tract contiguous to the first, leased to William Fraser for forty dollars per annum, containing about sixty acres.
One other tract containing ten acres of bottom land, adjoining the Four Mile Mill tract.
One other tract contiguous to the Abingdon estate, and within two and a half miles of George-Town, containing 725 acres. The greatest part of this land is heavily covered with red and white Oak.
A. L. S. O.,
Three thousand acres on the Scioto River, in the state of Ohio.
This tract descended to me from my uncle George D. Alexander, being one moiety of the land he was entitled to for his military services during the revolutionary war. All the title papers with the wills under which I am entitled to the above property, are in the hands of BALDWIN DARE, Esq. to whom application will please to be made for terms &c. he being legally authorised to contract and dispose of all the above valuable property, for which good and satisfactory titles will be given.
Walter S. Alexander.
August 13.
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 Saret, in cask or dozen
A few dozen fine old frontinae 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 whiskey Cider in barrels White wine and Cider vinegar Florence oil in flasks 2 hogheads Havana honey 15 do. choice retailing molasses
TEAS Gunpowder Imperial Hyson Young Hyson Hyson-Skin and Souehong of good quality.
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 rapée do. Clover-seed, (Penn. warranted) Mace; nutmegs; cloves; cassia; pimento; to; pepper; ginger, race and ground; Ceyenne pepper; refined salt-petre.
Coffee; chocolate; rice; pearl barley; London and Philadelphia mustard; basket salt; starch; fig blue; floatant indigo; Georgia and Tennessee cotton; flax; wool; madder; copperas; alum; brimstone; chalk; pipes in boxes; wrapping paper and twine; traces; bed cords; leading lines; derajohns; gin cases; patent shot; brandy wine gunpowder; Harvey's gunpowder, [the only real British battle powder] from F to treble sea; chewing tobacco; best Havana segars; Muscatel 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 alum salt suitable for the fishery, &c. &c.
PRINTED DAILY BY SAMUEL SNOWDEN, (Near the Post-Office)