Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1806-05-22 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
Vol. VI.
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1806.
[No. 1607.]
SALES AT VENDUE.
On every Tuesday and Friday , WILL BE SOLD, At the Vendue-Store, Corner of Prince and Water streets. A Variety of DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, &c. Particulars of which will be expressed in the bills of the day.]
All kind of goods which are on limitation and the prices of which are established, can at any time be viewed and purchased at the lowest li- mitation and prices.
Philip G. Marsteller, v. M.
O. P. FINLEY,
FAIRFAX STREET; Has imported in the William and John , Captain Woodhouse, A large and general assortment of Hardware, Cutlery, Saddlery, &c.
Which he will dispose of by wholesale and re- tail, on the accustomed terms to punctual cus- tomers. May 15. d3w
WILL BE LANDED,
THIS DAY, At Hewes and Miller's wharf , The Cargo of the Sloop President , From Guadaloupe —consisting of Prime Green Coffee & Sugar: Which will be sold low if immediate applica- tion is made to Mordecai Miller. May 17. d
The Sloop President,
Will be sold low, if immediate application is made to M.M
JUST IMPORTED,
Per ship WILLIAM MURDOCH , from London , A PARCEL OF SPRING GOODS, Amongst which are Printed Calicoes and Cambrics, Narrow cord, tape stripe, and cambric dimities, Cotton chambre, and chambrey mullins, Plain and figured Italian saracens, Plain jacquet and cambric mullins, A great variety of fashionable fancy mullins, shawls, veils, and handkerchiefs, Hosiery, silk gloves, &c. &c.
FOR SALE BY
Richard Veitch & Co. d1m
May 13. N. B. Many of the above GOODS are in suitable packages for the West India market, and billed to drawback.
JUST LANDED,
From the Sloop Nancy , Captain Paine , from Charleston , 30 bales COTTON , of superior kind, With a quantity of
RICE AND INDIGO.
For Sale, by E. GILMAN. May 10. eo
BOTTLED BEER.
To Morrow morning, at 7 o'clock, and, if encou- raged, each succeeding morning.
A dray with BOTTLED BEER will go about town:
When the citizen may supply themselves with that wholesome beverage at six pence per bottle, to be paid for on delivery.
Orders from the country and shipping or- ders will be executed on the shortest notice.— Apply to T. CRUSE. May 8.
Three Cents Reward.
Ran away from the subscriber, on the night of the 19th instant, William Goods , an apprentice to the hat-making business. He is a- bout 17 years of age, has a down look, particu- larly when he speaks to any person. Whoever takes up the said apprentice shall receive the a- bove reward.
Thomas Sanford. May 20. 31
N. B. Masters of vessels and others are fore- warned harboring or carrying off said apprentice, at their peril. T. S.
Printing, in its various branches, handsomely executed at this office.
PUBLIC SALE.
BY virtue of a decree of the hon. the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the County of Alexandria, made between Richard Prince, comp. and the heirs and representative of Robert M'Crea, deceased, defendants, was sold, at Public Sale, on Saturday the 14 day of June, at the Coffee House, in Alexandria, a credit of six months: One moiety of an an- nual ground rent, of 114 dollars upon a lot Union street, leased to Thomas Crandle, on which there is erected a three story brick house; No. 1, one moiety of an annual ground rent of 10 dollars, on a lot leased to Michael Thorn, in Sales Alley, now the property of Samuel Ni- chols, on which there are improvements; also a credit of six and twelve months, one moiety of a lot of ground on Pitt street, fronting 46 feet, and running back 123 feet 5 inches, security will be required on the above property for the pay- ment of the purchase money.
G. Deneale, Commissioner. May 20. d14Je
JOHN WATTS,
ALEXANDRIA;
Has just received, per the William Murdoch , (via Baltimore ) from London , a complete as- sortment of
SPRING GOODS,
Which he will sell low for cash, or to punctual customers, viz.
Gentlemens' Silk and Cotton Hose do. Silk and Leather Gloves Ladies' Silk and Cotton Hose do. Silk and Leather Gloves Silk and Cotton Chambrey Mullins 3 8, 7 8 and 9 8 undressed Ginghams Figured and plain Jacquet Cambricks Plain and figured Jacquet Mullin India Book Mullin White and colored Cambricks Plain and figured Leno Mullin Leno Shawls and Veils Italian Grapes and Lute strings London Chintzes and Calicoes White and colored Jean Cambric Dimities First shop Long Nankeens Marseilles Jean and Muslin Waistcoating Brown and Scarlet Bandanas Real Madras Hankerchiefs 3 4, 4 4, and 8 4 Damask Shawls Diaper Table Cloths Ruffs, Sheetings White and brown Sheetings Superfine Cloths and Cassimerees 2 pieces Sawbury Cloth 3 bales India Goods 7-8 and 4 4 Irish Linens White and brown Platiillas Umbrellas and Parasols German Ticklenburgs White and brown Rolls Bed Ticking Apron and Shirting Checks Waldron's Glaze and Cradling Scythes Weeding Hoes assorted in cases Gentlemens' best London Hats, &c. &c.
CHARLES BENNETT,
Has imported per the ship William and John , Captain Woodhouse , arrived here, and Willi- am Murdoch , via Baltimore , and offers for sale, on the usual terms,
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
SPRING GOODS,
SUPERFINE Cloths and Keseymeres Waistcoating, Dimities, India Jeans Cotton Keseymeres, Grandilles & Napkeens Silk, Cotton, and thread Hosiery—among which are a few dozen of extra size Black, white, and lead Pic Nic Silk Gloves White and colored Cambricks, Saracens do. Silk and Cotton Chambrey, plain, figured and embossed Printed, Cotton, and Linen Handkerchiefs— amongst the latter a few dozen Superfine White Common and Superfine Shirting Cottons Silk Cords, Cambric Buttons, Artificial Wreaths and Flowers White and black Lace Veils, Leno do. 5.4, and 6.4 Shawls Leno and Cambric Worked Mullins Sewing Twine and Shoe Thread Best English Hats, Common do. Nails, Hoes, Spades Cradling and Grass Scythes, &c. &c.
Wanted to Purchase,
A FEMALE HOUSE SERVANT, who can come well recommended—from 20 to 25 years of age.
Apply to the Printer. April 3. d1w4t
MATHEW EAKIN,
Respectfully informs his friends, and the public in general, that
HE HAS COMMENCED MAKING
ICE CREAMS,
For the season—he has also A few bushels of VCE for Sale.
ON HAND,
Twenty frails soft shelled Almonds, 50 do. Figs, of a superior quality, fresh Oranges Lemons and English Walnuts, Anchovies and Olives, by the bottle and box, fresh Muscadel Raisins, in boxes, a quantity of fresh Citrons, and Sweet Meats, in boxes, Salad Oil and Lisbon Esters, 300 bottles Martinique Cordials, and a general assortment of CONFECTIONARY, as usual.
May 6. ro3w
PUBLIC SALE.
By virtue of a deed of trust from Daniel M'Carty to the subscribers, to secure the pay- ment of a sum of money due from the said Daniel M'Carty to Jonathan and Nathan Scholfield, will be sold at public auction, on the 24th day of the present month, part of that tract of land called Mount whereon the said M'Carty now lives, lying upon Ac- quintique Creek, in the county of Fairfax, adjoining Gardner's Mill Land, distant about 11 or 12 miles from Alexandria. The sale to commence at 12 o'clock.
Phineas Janney, Andrew Scholfield. May 7. def
PUBLIC SALE.
PURSUANT to a decree of the superior court of chancery, held at Richmond, will be ex- posed to sale, TWO TRACTS OF LAND, in the county of Loudoun, the property of Tho- mas Atwood Diggs, Esq. One called the Valley Tract, containing about 1697 acres, lying about three miles from Leesburg—the other called the Green Hill Tract, lying on the Potomac river, near the Blue Ridge, and supposed to contain about 1940 acres. These lands are to be sold for the purpose of raising the sum of about six thousand dollars, due from the said Thomas A. Diggs to certain creditors in the decree mention- ed. The sale will be made to the highest bid- der for ready money, and will commence on the 13th day of June next, in the town of Leesburg, and county of Loudoun.
Thomas Swan, } Commissioners. W. C. Selden, } April 22. def
THE Subscriber and possessor of the above advertised Lands thinks it proper to warn any person who may incline to purchase under the above decree (which was obtained in the most secret manner and totally unknown to him) that he will not give, or aid in any manner the procuring a title to perfect such sale; the attempt to which is a vague and ill-tempered effort.
Thomas A. Diggs. April 24.
The public are notified, and all persons are cautioned, against purchasing certain lands in Loudoun county, Virginia, decreed by the su- perior court of chancery, to be sold as the property of Thomas Atwood Digges, and advertised by the com- missioners, Swan and Selden, to be sold at Leesburg on the 13th day of June next; the fee of said estate being clearly vested in and belonging to William Dudley Digges, of Maryland, an infant under age.
ROBERT BENT, Attorney in fact for the estate of William Dudley Digges. City of Washington, April 28. [May 7] def
24 hogsheads retailing Molasses 24 do. Sugar, of good quality 26 barrels Beef, Salem inspection 1 pipe London Particular Madeira Wine 5 boxes Cotton Cords 3 sacks Sago 2 do. Licorice Root Barrels of Clover and herds Grass Seed A quantity of red Seal Leather, and 100 Shares Marine Insurance Stock,
For Sale, by Benjamin Shreve, jun. April 26. d
Just Received,
And for sale by the subscriber, 25 bales Cotton, 25 tierces Rice, 10 hlds. Jamaica Rum, 3000 wt. nice Bacon 100 casks Stone Lime, 20 dozen nice Caster Oil, in pint bottles, 1000 bushels Salt, suitable for the fisheries. 500 Spanish Hides, and Groceries as usual.
Mordecai Miller. April 22. d
A few copies of the American Gardener may be had at the Book- Store of Robert Gray.
FOR SALE
The Schooner HENRIETTA,
Burthen about 500 barrels; she is a fine staunch vessel, almost new and ready for sea.
For terms, apply to Guthbert Powell. d1w & oawt
May 21.
For Charter or Freight,
The Ship ENTERPRIZE,
Captain Colcord ,
Daily expected. A charter or freight will be granted to Liverpool, and advances will be made on 10 signatures to Messrs. Logan, Lenox & Cor- ther.
WM. HODGSON. May 21. d
Wine, Fruits, &c.
ON SATURDAY, The 24th instant, at 11 o'clock, A. M. will be sold, at Public Auction, from on board the ship Hunter , at Hewes's wharf ,
The CARGO of that ship, just arrived from Lisbon ;
CONSISTING OF 4,500 bushels Salt, a few quarter- casks Lisbon and Bucellos Wine, 30 boxes Le- mons, 15 boxes Oranges, 30 kegs of Nuts, 20 bales of Almonds, 50 bales of Figs, 100 baskets of different sizes, 15 boxes Sweetmeats, and a variety of Summer Carpeting.
Approved negotiable notes, payable at sixty and 90 days, will be required in payment.
P. G. Marsteller. May 21. aul
Plaiter Paris & Lime—afloat.
100 tons Plaiter Paris, 70 casks Lime, On board Brig Nancy , Captain Hall , AND FOR SALE BY Lawrafon & Powle, Who have also received by said Brig, Schooner Dove , and Packet , from Baltimore , 30 boxes Cod Fish 70 do. Mould and Dipe Candies 120 do. Half Boxes Brown Soap 1 Bale Betaboon Gurrals Imperial, } TEAS, Young Hylon } of the latest importations. 20 barrels N. E. Rum 75 casks Bilona Gunpowder 10 casks Fig Blue
In Store, Prime Beck and Pork Russia and Ravens Duck Young Hylon and Hylon Skin Teas Muscovado Sugar Casks Claret and Madeira Wine 200 Boxes Mould and Dipe Candies 50 do. Chocolate, &c. &c.
For Freight,
The Brig NANCY,
R. B. HALL, Master;
Burthen about 1200 barrels. She is in good order and will be ready to receive a cargo in three days.
Apply as above. May 21. d
TUNIS CRAVEN,
Has just received by the latest arrivals a hand- some assortment of
SPRING GOODS,
AMONG WHICH ARE— Colorado Mull Mullins Diagonal laced and pequet ditto Cur gauze, japanned and honey-comb do. Plain and figured lawn Piquet craps Plain cambric, distinct and mull mullins Plain & colored hair-cord-ed cambric India & British book mullin Do. do. handkerchiefs Leno veils Lace cambric and cam- bored mull shawls Honey-comb and imperial ditto Undressed gingham, chintz and calicoes Silk and cotton chambrey Italian Mantuas Ribands Italian Sewing silk Silk and cotton hosiery Ladies extra long silk and kid gloves Habit do. York tanned do. Pic nic nits Mens' gloves, Arnelphi cotton in boxes Wood's superfine cloths & cassimerees Marseilles waistcoating Nankeens 4-4 and 7-8 Irish linen Shirting cotton Long twine Linen Cambricks Umbrellas Bandana handkerchiefs Platiillas Dowlas Creas Ticklenburgh Osnaburgs and rolls Batts Gurrals and Scampooes.
FRESH TEAS,
Of a superior quality, in small Leaden canisters and by the pound. May 21.

The French victories have happened in such a series we cannot rationally suppose them to happen by chance. They are the inevitable results of superior numbers and of the French military advantages we have mentioned. They would happen again, if their defeated, beaten adversaries could rise again to resistance.
From these positions this melancholy inference is to be drawn; the continental enemies of France are totally incapable of resisting her in the field. She has taken a permanent ascendant over them. Austria, humbled and beaten, is in no condition to learn the conquering art of her masters. Prussia, without risking the combat, has fallen prostrate with her useless arms in her hands. Russia, like the ancient Parthia, is invincible but insignificant to the system of enslaved Europe.
If the French armies could pass the channel, there seems to be no sort of reason to hope that Great Britain could resist them. The regular army is spread over all the empire, and if it were all collected it would be a handful against the French hosts, and surely no military man would place the smallest dependence in the volunteers of England.
It is one of the inveterate, perhaps incurable evils of Mr. Pitt's administration, and the greatest blemish in the fame of that truly illustrious statesman, that instead of forming an efficient army of two hundred thousand men, who could be sent wherever they might be wanted, he was either the schemer or the dupe of the useless, expensive, and, if the French should land in England, fatal project of volunteers. By equipping volunteers he not only had no army but it was out of the power of England to have one. The men were all engaged in acting the comedy of an army, and the finances were exhausted in getting up the decorations of the piece.
The sole protection of Great Britain then is in her navy. The writer has been bro't very late, and loth to believe, that the military resistance of the continental nations of Europe would be ineffectual. Events have at last convinced him that the French actually possess a greater and more decisive military superiority over those nations than the old Romans did over the forces of Antiochus, Mithridates & Jugurtha; and especially over the Carthaginians, Greeks and Macedonians. Nothing is wanting to the solid establishment of a new universal empire by France, that should spread as far, last as long, and press as heavily on the necks of the abject nations, as that of Rome, but the possession of the British navy. France whenever she can get access to her enemy is already irresistible. If Mr. Gregg would give her that navy, he would impart a kind of ubiquity to her power. The soft winds that wake the spring in the remotest regions of the globe, would waft there the ministers of French rapacity to blast it. France would enjoy every thing that Rome wanted to make the plundered world her province.
Are these ideas chimerical, or are the inferences drawn beyond the admitted truth of the premises? Is India more capable of resisting France than an English merchant company its present sovereign? Spain and Italy are provinces already. Greece, Egypt, the Turkish empire, and all the shores of the Mediterranean were once the patrimony of the Cesars, and for many hundred years slept soundly in their chains, till they were rudely waked by the Goths, the Heruli, the Huns & the Arabs. Africa is a quarter of the globe that could be governed by factories, and America is another that would yield not merely with tameness, but alacrity to imperial receipts. If by miracle force should be needed, France could employ Spain or Dessalines, or slaves still more abject than they, to use it with infallible success. We should be ready, not merely to take, but to buy our chains, and to pay our last dollar as a fine for the temerity of our resistance. We should patiently sow our fields, and see our kindly seasons ripen the harvests for French reapers. Our posterity, born in servitude, would inherit our baseness, and bear the yoke from the infancy to the old age of their dishonored lives, without sorrow or repining.
Suppose the whip of the oppressor should at length tear off the callous skin from the slaves' backs, and rage should be kindled by pain, and courage engendered by despair; yet our resistance would only avail to exasperate our tyrans, and to embitter the sense and aggravate the pressure of our calamities. France would not fail to array
an army of base Americans, and to place them in the strongest positions of our country—and if these should be insufficient to crush the first movements of rebellion, her ships would transport reinforcements from Europe with greater celerity, than the American insurgents could collect and train forces to resist them. Our independence then must be renounced, or we must betake ourselves to the fastnesses of the wilderness to enjoy it, like the revolted negroes of St. Domingo, in peril, want and barbarism.
The preservation of even this condition would then appear to exact and merit the display of all our energies. Comfortless and desperate as that savage independence may seem, it would nevertheless be preferable to the horrid silliness of our servitude under the power of French tyrans, exercised by their deputies, the Jeffersons and Nicholsons, the present artificers of our ruin.
It is very seldom that the events of war turn out according to the predictions of speculators on their probabilities. Futurity is no doubt wisely and mercifully hidden from our view. Yet the issue of the contest between France and G. Britain is so momentous to America, it is impossible to restrain our curiosity from examining the position and relative strength of the combatants.
Supposing Great Britain to possess adequate means to cope with France, it is an interesting previous question to decide, or rather to conjecture whether there is a spirit in the government and people to persevere in the employment of them.
The death of Mr. Pitt has made a complete change in the ministry. He discerned, and it is strange that Mr. Fox, his supposed equal in talents, should not have discerned, the necessity of opposing France in arms, and the fatal consequences of a delusive peace; and any peace that should leave France a giant among pigmies, would be delusive. But as Mr. Fox has been the opposer of the war ever since 1793, and as he, and a large number of his most strenuous adherents are admitted to power, it may be expected that he will insist on proposing a negotiation. Proud as Bonaparte is, he would joyfully accept the proposal. He may be as liberal as Englishmen can ask in his terms, for any peace will make him their master. Nothing could make it safe, but that France should reduce her power. That is a condition Mr. Fox will not prescribe, nor Bonaparte concede.
We will not undertake to say that Mr. Fox is bound in point of consistency, now to propose peace. He may say with plausibility, perhaps with strict truth, that the circumstances of the two countries are changed, that he was a friend to peace while Europe stood independent and powerful in arms to secure the observance of it by the French emperor; but that now, peace would lessen none of the burdens of the nation, while it would put its commercial and naval resources, inaccessible in war, within reach of the power and intrigues of Bonaparte.
What is Mr. Fox's present opinion or disposition, we know not. We have no hesitation in saying, that as a faithful member of his majesty's counsels, it is his duty to prosecute the war till England can be safe in peace, and she cannot be safe unless she is great in comparison with France.
Are there not probable grounds of conjecture that Mr. Fox came into the ministry on the terms of supporting the war measures of the government. Before the peace of Amiens, the fruitless negotiation at Lisle, had opened the eyes of the English nation, to the immeasurable ambition and profligacy of the French rulers. Mr. Fox then presided in condemning the war. After the peace of Amiens, he paid a visit to Bonaparte in Paris, and received and permitted such attention from the French chief, as raised the wonder and disgust of all men and the suspicions of many. His motives for making that visit have never yet been explained.
This is certain, his parliamentary influence had surprisingly dwindled, and perhaps he owes it as much to his frank, open disposition, so unused to, and incapable of duplicity, as to his splendid talents, that the nation, with its characteristic generosity, has been willing to forget and to forgive his strange visit and strange conduct in Paris.
There is reason to believe that when Mr. Pitt last came into office, the English king had neither forgiven nor forgotten it. He considered Mr. Fox as a jacobin, and resolved to deny the importunities of both parties to admit Mr. Fox to his counsels. Lord Grenville thought himself bound in consequence to stand with Mr. Fox, and to decline office.
When the death of Mr. Pitt, and the
desertion of the allies in Germany, seemed to force Mr. Fox upon the king, for all men agreed it was necessary to drop party divisions and to unite against the common danger, we are told, Lord Grenville was closeted with his majesty, and finally arranged the ministry to mutual satisfaction. As Lord Grenville is an honest man, and as able as he is honest, we cannot believe such a man would recommend a jacobin to the king, or that he could prevail over his majesty's aversion to Mr. Fox, without being personally responsible for his conduct and principles.
When it is considered too, that those two eminent men formerly acted in opposition to each other, and that for three years past they have come to a mutual good understanding, the grounds of division in the present ministry must have been fully explored, and such engagements mutually required and given, as will prevent their collision. Those who had always acted together before they came into the ministry we think more likely to fall out afterwards.
The union of the present ministry is the more probable too, when we advert to the known sincerity and amiable temper of Mr. Fox. The attachment of no man's friends has been stronger than Mr. Fox's have ever manifested towards him; and those who remember his famous coalition with Lord North, will believe that too much stubbornness to maintain the appearance of consistency is not one of that gentleman's faults.
Mr. Fox is the only member of the new administration who can be the champion of peace measures. Lord Grenville and Mr. Wyndham love their country too well, and its dangers are too imminent to permit us to believe that they are disposed to adopt the fatal counsels of the old opposition.
On these grounds, therefore we presume to conjecture that the English ministry will be united in favour of a prosecution of the war.
We have not yet enquired whether there is sense and magnanimity enough in the nation to support the ministry in such a resolution. The nation no doubt is weary of the war, and staggers under the weight of its burthens. But peace can scarcely cheat the blind multitude with the delusive hope of a respite from those burthens. A vigorous and able opposition to the war in parliament might afford almost to popular discontent. But the men who used to lead that opposition are now in the ministry. They may say they did not choose, and have not made the war; their predecessors, whom they were accustomed to oppose, left it a sad necessity on their hands.
Besides, peace has once been tried and proved not only delusive, but also oft in a. Bonaparte gained more territory in peace than in war, and England voluntarily gave up her conquests, except Malta, Trinidad and Ceylon. Such another peace would ruin her.
Under these circumstances it may be expected, that even the populace will see that the continuance of the war is the hard but inevitable condition of English liberty and independence.
If we are not deceived in these speculations, the British ministry and nation will concur in pursuing the war.
With what hope of ultimate success they will pursue it is a more difficult problem.
THE APPEAL
Of the people of Tombigbee to the people of the United States.
A people inconsiderable in number and in wealth, detached from every other portion of the American population, known only by the rumors of our wrongs, in the council of the nation; we cannot command your attention by the weight of political influence, but we are entitled to it, on the broad basis of justice and the general good. When duties on American produce were demanded by Spain on the Mississippi, the whole continent was in a flame; not merely on account of the injury done to the people of the western country, but because it inflicted a mortal wound on the dignity and honor of the nation. That wound is as great when inflicted on us, as when inflicted on our fellow citizens on the Ohio. Though not equal in number and political importance, we are in proportion to our population, infinitely more injured by it. Situated on the tide waters, nature has taught us, as she has taught our brethren in Kentucky, to cultivate habits of independence of other countries. Our existence depends upon commerce. Our products are valuable; but they are of no use at home: we must exchange them for other articles which are absolutely necessary for our subsistence. If we continue to be deprived of this advantage, we must abandon our country. The measure will be afflictive to us; to many of us it may be ruinous; but its consequences will not be confined to ourselves: they will have a wide spreading influence on the west of the American republic. A country which under better auspices may become flourishing and populous, will be converted into a wide waste, and from the frontiers of Georgia to the waters of the Mississippi
no check will be left to the influence of foreign powers on the numerous tribes of Indians that inhabit that extensive territory. We have sworn allegiance to the American government and we expect protection. We ask the free navigation of the Mobile river not as a favor, but as a right. We appeal to the law of nations, to a law, which, at all times independent of the arbitrary encroachments of the powerful, and the mean submissions of the weak, stand firm and unshaken on the immutable basis of justice. The common sense of men revolts at the idea, that when nature created rivers watering extensive territories, she meant to confine the benefits of them to those who should possess the country where they discharge themselves into the ocean. They were intended for the common good; and those who possess their mouths can have no more right to bar the use of them, than those who possess their sources can have a right to divert their currents into other channels. If this doctrine be abandoned, no other can be substituted in its place which is founded on the principles of justice. Power may trample on this, as it has done on all other rights, and weakness may sink under the usurpation; but no successful exercise of lawless power can contravene the unalterable rules of rectitude. The waters of the Mobile pass through the territory of the United States from north to south for a space of at least 400 miles. Shall Spain, who holds not 40 miles on its banks, say that this river was created for her alone?
Were we, through a diffident distrust of our own conceptions of natural justice, solicitous to fortify our cause with the opinions of others, we could easily quote in our favor the decisions of a writer on the law of nations, whose opinions have always been treated with respect in similar controversies.* But we feel satisfied in resting our cause on an appeal to that law of rectitude which is written on the heart of every man by the finger of his maker. Nor let it be said, that oppressions similar to those which were exercised on us were formally practised on our western fellow citizens, that a formal treaty with the king of Spain was necessary to confer on the people of the United States a right to navigate the Mississippi, and that they acquired by an act of grace from his catholic majesty a privilege to which nature had given them no title. The idea is false: the doctrine is alike groundless and disgraceful in the United States. There is no clause in the treaty alluded to which admits the rights of the king of Spain to monopolize the use of the Mississippi river. The spirit of the treaty presumes a collateral right on the part of the United States; and the only express provisions contained on the subject are, that a similar right shall not be assumed by other nations, and that it shall be rendered practically useful to the United States, by their having a place of deposit within the dominions of the king of Spain. The mere right of navigation on the Mobile and Mississippi remained the same, therefore, under the treaty. The United States did not deign to accept in either case from the favor of the king of Spain, but presuming that they possessed it under the law of nations, procured the establishment of regulations which though needless on the Mobile, were on the Mississippi absolutely necessary for rendering the right of navigation productive of its full advantage to the people of America.
It is a circumstance not a little surprising that the different Spanish agents in this country, disavow the charge of having been originally the cause of our being barthened with duties at Mobile. When in October last governor Claiborne, with a patriotic zeal for our interests, applied to the intendant Morales for a suspension of the order; Morales, as we have been informed replied, that he was entirely without information in the case referred to, that his order concerning the Mississippi, was entirely unconnected with the navigation of the river Tombigbee, and could not have been the basis of the proceedings at the Mobile. That the arrangements must have been made by governor Folch; but when remonstrated in the exercise of his office, he would as far as should be compatible with his duties, comply with the desires of governor Claiborne.
On the other hand when governor Folch was applied to about the same time; he as we have reason to believe, assured the governor of Orleans, that the duty of 12 per cent, was established when he took possession of the government; that the order for this purpose had been issued by Morales and had been approved of by the king.
Nor is there any foundation for the pretence that the exaction was sanctioned by principles of reciprocity, on the ground that similar duties were demanded of Spain.
* See Vattel—B. I. c. 9.

Objects passing up and down the Mississippi. No such fact exists. No Spanish vessel ever has been stopped on its passage between Baton Rouge and the ocean, or is the collector of the port of New Orleans authorised to demand duties on goods aboard Spanish vessels really bona fide destined for that settlement. When governor Folsom in November last, assured governor Claiborne, that the order for the collection of duties at Mobile should be suspended provided that Spanish vessels were subject to no detention or payment of duties at New Orleans, when going to or returning from Baton Rouge, he was assured by governor Claiborne; an assurance he has not deigned to notice; that no hindrance was offered to the passage of Spanish vessels up the Mississippi, and that the existing regulations at the custom-house did not subject a vessel to detention or the payment of duties in passing New Orleans whether going to or returning from Baton Rouge, or other port or place on the river possessed by Spain; the cargo being destined for such port and not for New Orleans.
This is precisely the situation in which we claim the right of being placed. We ask no more from the Spanish government than our own government grants to subjects of Spain. Is there any other section of the union where American citizens, after paying all the duties on imports demanded by their government are obliged to pay 12 per centum in the coffers of a foreign treasury. Is it thus that the freemen of America are to be oppressed by the agents of a foreign monarchy? Is it possible that such conduct can be viewed with apathy and cold neglect by any man who values the principle of independence, or who has really at heart the interest, the honor, and the character of his country.
But injuries do not end here. Heretofore we were burthened with duties. We are now prohibited from navigating our own rivers. The United States have established a port of entry and delivery at Fort Stoddert; but the Spanish commandant declared that no American vessel shall sail to Fort Stoddert. From the declaration of Morales, when not exercising his office of intendant, we had hoped that upon being recognized as such, he would certainly do us that justice, of which he had given sole an assurance to governor Claiborne. Judge then our surprize and indignation upon being informed that Mr. Morales when personally applied to for this purpose by Mr. Graham in December last, though he still denied having authorised the collection of duties, added that the only order he had ever given which could be considered as bearing upon the subject, so far from directing the collection of duties on the cargoes of American vessels passing the Mobile, would, if it had been executed, altogether have prohibited the passage of such vessels or the entrance into the port, and that from the instructions of his court he concluded that he could not permit them to enjoy the navigation of the Mobile.
From the observations of the intendant it clearly appears that the recent order concerning the navigation of the Mobile had no connexion with the order for the removal of Spanish officers from the territory of Orleans. It is in fact nothing more than a confirmation of an order issued by the intendant soon after the cession of Louisiana, and which upon his being reinstated in his office he appears to have embraced the first opportunity of enforcing. And let it be remembered that the declarations of the intendant, which afforded us strong reasons to anticipate the entire suspension of American commerce on the waters of the Mobile were made previous to the order of governor Claiborne of January 30th, requesting that all persons holding commissions or remaining in the service of his catholic majesty should quit the territory of Orleans—a measure resorted to as a precaution rendered more expedient by the rejection at the court of Spain of proposals for an amicable adjustment of differences, by reinforcements then lately landed at Pensacola, and by similar movements and recent aggressions on the western frontier. And yet certain Spanish agents have had the effrontery to propagate the tale, that we are robbed of our rights because the marquis of Casa Calvo's presence was no longer acceptable at New Orleans, though it is a fact notorious that the intendant had made the declaration above alluded to, before any thing had been said about the retirement of Spanish officers. At one blow, therefore, and without provocation, has this officer utterly paralyzed our country. Our products are valuable. No part of the Mississippi country produces better cotton. The produce of last year's crop, and a portion of that of the preceding year was still on hand, just ready for the market. It was destined to purchase our clothing, our flour, our sugar, our coffee, our liquors, our iron, and our salt. We are deprived of the means of becoming purchasers—and if we had them, we should be prohibited from the only practicable means of having them brought to our places of residence. We are doomed to suffer; we will do it with the fortitude of men; we cease not to have confidence
in our government; our President knows our situation and is anxious to relieve us; let our citizens emulate the patriotism of their chief, and they shall ever have at their devotion our gratitude, our fortunes, and our valour.
PHILADELPHIA, May 20. Yesterday arrived the ship Speedwell, captain Wills, from Laguira, which he left the 28th ult. and informs that at that time, there were no accounts of the arrival of Miranda, on any part of the Spanish Main, though by the accounts received there they were in daily expectation of his arrival, and the Spanish government was on the alert, having prepared all the troops, about 2000 regulars and 30,000 militia, which could be raised to oppose him. That the various accounts of insurrections in that country was, as he believes, erroneous, as he (captain W.) heard nothing of any such insurrections. That on the 3d instant, in the Mona passage, being then in company with the ship Pamela, Taylor, bound for Charleston, they fell in with and was boarded by the British frigate Mermaid, captain Hollis, who informed captain W. that he had that day fallen in with the ship Margaret, Gardner, from La Guira for Philadelphia, very leaky; they also informed captain W. that general Miranda had sailed from Mole St. Nicholas, where he was joined by 6 British frigates, in addition to his two armed ships and two schooners, with an English general and 6000 troops, composed of mulattoes and negroes, and that his destination was for Caracas, where another reinforcement was to follow him.
WASHINGTON CITY, May 21. We perceive in the London Morning Chronicle of the 31st of March the following article under the Hague head of March 25. "Mr. Armstrong, the minister from the United States of America, to the emperor Napoleon, arrived here to-day from Paris, with his suite; he proceeds to Amsterdam, in order to embark with his suite for America." We apprehend the writer of this article must have committed a mistake, probably by blending inference with fact. That Mr. Armstrong had arrived at the Hague is probable; but that he arrived there, on his way to Amsterdam, thence to embark for the United States, is extremely improbable. We should presume that his visit to the Hague was with a view to transact some special business; and that having accomplished this object, he would again return to Paris.
NORFOLK, May 17. Arrived, brig Flora, Bentham, 47 days from Lisbon. May 7, spoke the Schooner Concord, James Webb, from New York for Jamaica, in lat. 27, 30, long. 63, 30, out 13 days. May 15, picked up the wreck of a floop's main boom, with the rigging and part of the sail. Sch'r Eliza, Record, 21 days from Trinidad. Left there, sch'r Paragon, Haynes, of and for Alexandria, in 10 days; Jafon, Hinton, of Fredericksburg, for New York in 6 days. Barque Two Brothers, Swain, 15 days from Salem. Ship Nancy, Hobbs, out 14 days from Savannah, bound to Liverpool, in ballast. April 29, and 30, experienced a heavy gale of wind, lost two pentaths of the rudder, and sprung the rudder head. May 1, in lat. 33, long. 74, the gale still continuing, sprung a leak, bore away for Savannah or Charleston; the wind heading bore away for this port. Sch'r Patriot, Dwan, 5 days from New York, bound to Alexandria. In Hampton Roads, ship Fame, Long, 54 days from Liverpool, bound to Baltimore. The ship Two Brothers, Harthorne, sailed 8 days before for this port. Ship Commerce, Colburn, bound to Tappahannock; not being able to procure a pilot, and blowing hard, came into the Roads; left Liverpool the 27th March; Spoke April 2, in lat. 51, 52, long. 15, ship James, Tinkman of New York, from Charleston for Liverpool, out 25 days; 9th, in lat. 44, 30, long. 37, 00, ship Columbia, Tind, from Liverpool, for Richmond, out 18 days; lat. 43, 30, long. 37, 20, ship Intrepid, of Plymouth from Liverpool, bound to Norfolk, out 15 days; 15th, in lat. 45, long. 39, ship Iris, Goff, from Amsterdam to Baltimore, out 24 days; 19th, lat. 44, long. 47, brig Venus, from Baltimore, out 35 days; Amsterdam, 14 days out; 24th, lat. 33, 30, long. 55, sch'r Trio, from Philadelphia for Fayal; 27th, lat. 38, 20, long. 62, ship Fame, from Liverpool for Baltimore, out 35 days; 29th, in lat. 37, 58, long. 60, ship Rebecca, Low, out 54 days from Antwerp, bound to Philadelphia; same day, ship Mary of Newburyport; from Charleston, bound, to Amsterdam. Sch'r Caroline, Hayes, 22 days from Jamaica, bound to Baltimore, May 2, off Cape Antonio, was boarded by the British frigate Arachula, having a French brig and schooner in company, her prizes. Ship Intrepid, Smith, 48 days from Liverpool.
Alexandria Daily Advertiser. THURSDAY, MAY 22.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman residing at Vincennes, Indiana territory, to the editor of the Western American, dated April 15th, 1806. "The governor has just been officially informed that the Delaware Indians have burnt several individuals of their nation, and condemned several others to undergo the same fate. A prophet, it seems, appeared among them, who told them that he had seen the Great Spirit, who commanded him to tell the Indians that it was his will they should destroy all those who drink spirituous liquors, or kept bad medicines about them. In consequence of these orders from above, they began by burning the great chief of the nation himself, and are continuing the pious work with as much devotion as the council of conscience felt when they condemned to the flames John Huss and Jerome of Prague. The governor is about sending a special message to try and pacify them." By the arrival at Boston of the snow Alba, from Guadalupe, we learn, that the British cruisers are very vigilant off that place, they board almost every vessel bound in, and have been very successful in re-capturing English prizes; they have also captured almost the whole of the privateers lately out of that island; not more than five or six privateers are now fitted out. We learn that with a view to prevent the landing of persons from the parts of St. Domingo in the possession of the blacks, the captain general of Martinique has framed regulations, which make it necessary, that the place of birth of every person of color arriving there should be fully proved, and that, if natives of the United States and not speaking French, they will be considered in the ordinary class of seamen; if they, though such natives, speak French, they must be kept on board the vessel under the responsibility of the captain. Should they prove to be French, they will be committed to prison, but returned on the sailing of the vessel, if there be found no room to suspect that they came to Martinique with dangerous intentions.
[Nat. Int.] A late London paper says:—"It is not yet known what measures will be resorted to by the British ministry against the Dey of Algiers, but it is supposed that they will not have recourse to a bombardment. Upon that subject a pleasant story is told of a former Dey, who, upon a naval force being sent to bombard Algiers, asked how much the expedition cost? Upon being informed, he burst into a violent fit of laughter, and exclaimed, "Oh! you ridiculous christians, if you had given me but half the sum, I would have saved you the trouble, and battered down my capital for you."
From the Washington Federalist. COMMUNICATION. On Wednesday last an express passed through town on his way to the President at Monticello. Conjecture was busied in surmises, and rumor with mouth open wide industriously retailed her idle fabrications. A cock-and-a-bull story was told about dispatches received of a battle between the Spaniards and Americans in which a few of our gallant countrymen defeated 500 Spanish horse; some said that war was begun between Tunis and the United States, and unless immediate assistance were granted our merchants must suffer greatly in the Mediterranean. All this went off pretty well; only some said it was a federal lie, to have congress called that an army and fleet might be ordered; some said there was an insurrection in one of the southern states of a most alarming nature; while others supposed that the Leander had returned to New York, and that captain Whitby had refused to deliver himself up, notwithstanding the President's proclamation required him so to do; and that an express had been sent to the president for further instructions, and another and more powerful proclamation that would compel his immediate acquiescence. Some were sure the gun boats would be ordered to bring the Leander in if she did not resist, while others contended she would never surrender. Thus was rumor employed in alarming the peaceful inhabitants of our happy country. In this uncertainty and anxiety, I thought it my duty to enquire, when lo! I was most agreeably relieved at discovering the dreadful business to be neither more nor less, than the requiring the signature of the President to the instructions for Mr. Pinkney, who is to leave Baltimore immediately for England; and the announcing to the President the very pleasing news that
peace would be uninterrupted between Tunis and the United States, maugre the threats of the Tunisian ambassador.
We hear that in consequence of pleasing intelligence from the Mediterranean of peace and harmony prevailing between the Barbary powers and the United States, the Chesapeake will not be sent out. She will probably be ordered to protect our commerce from the insulting depredations of piratical cruisers, and proud oppressors. (Ibid.)
SHIP NEWS. Port of Alexandria. ARRIVED,
Ship Enterprise, cap. Colcord, 58 days from Liverpool—Salt—Wm. Hodgson. March 28, spoke in St. George's Channel, brig Wheeler, of Norfolk from Plymouth, bound to Liverpool, all well. 28th, ship George, captain Town of and for Boston. April 14th, ship William, of N. York, from Liverpool, bound to Savannah, 21 days out, in lat. 43, long. 34. 19th, a barque, capt. Sears, from Salem, bound to Copenhagen, 10 days out in lat. 43, 40, long. 42. 29th ship, Navigator, captain Waterman, from New York bound to Amsterdam 11 days out, lat. 38 1/2, long. 54, 30. May 2d, ship Two Brothers, of and for Norfolk, captain Harrisborne, had lost his main-topmast, sprung his Mizzenmast, lost his boat overboard, lat. 40, 37, long. 58.
JUST RECEIVED, And for Sale by ROBERT GRAY, THE SECOND VOLUME OF CHASE'S TRIAL. Price to subscribers Two Dollars Fifty Cents for the second volume—To non-subscribers Five Dollars the set. May 22.
Twenty Dollars Reward. STOLEN, from John Timberlake, jun. at the City Tavern, in Alexandria, on the night of the 15th instant, One (London) Silver Watch, TOLERABLE large, having a case on hard, number not recollected; it had a steel chain, a white glass seal, and a part of the seal broken off—it was cleaned about six months past by — Bigger, of Baltimore, states very strong. Also—Stolen at the same Time, A pair of Olive Thicket Cord Pantaloon, with a Cotton pair of Daws, and a pair of Striped Silk Suspenders buttoned to said Pantaloon. In the pocket of said Pantaloon there was a Cotton Purse, with about Six or Seven Dollars in silver and some few Cents taken with herewith. J. Timberlake, jun. May 22.
Fifty Dollars Reward. Also supposed to have been Stolen, on the night of the 18th instant, A double cased Gold Watch, MAKER'S name Hodgson, London; with two gold seals, the one twisted chain, the impression of heads on the seals, and an indent circle on the back of the Watch. The above reward will be paid for detecting the thief, if stolen, and recovering the property, or TEN DOLLARS for the Watch only, on delivery to Mr. Gadsby's bat. May 22. Watch makers and others are requested to stop said Watches at £4.
STRAYED or STOLEN, From the commons of Alexandria, on Monday, the 19th instant, A HANDSOME bright bay HORSE, with a Twitch tail, one of his hind legs a little white, 6 years old last spring, 15 hands high, newly shod before, his hind shoes much the worse for wear. The above horse was purchased last fall by the subscriber from a M c Sweeney, and is well known in town. A reward of Ten Dollars will be given on having him returned to me, and if stolen, a further reward of FIFTY DOLLARS, on conviction of the thief. William James Hall. May 22.
300 bbls. wanted on freight to Norfolk, and 400 ditto on freight to Richmond or Petersburg.—Terms will be very moderate. Apply to A. LINDO, Broker. April 24.

The Subscriber, At his manufactory, Water Street, offers FOR SALE, A quantity of Mould and Dipt Candles. Upwards of ten thousand weight White and Brown SOAP. And will be ready for delivery a larger parcel. He continues the BOITLING business as usual, and has on hand a large stock of Old bottled Porter and pale Ale. Part of it nearly twelve months in bottles, received in hogheads from the brewery of Messrs. Abbott and She- ward, Philadelphia (late Mr. Isaac W. Morris) the whole of which on trial will be found not inferior in quality to any ever imported from London. WM. DUNLAP. May 19
FOR SALE, By the subscribers, Mould Candles, of a very superior quality, by the box Window Glass, of different sizes Bucellos Wine, in quarter casks Lisbon Salt, and Willow Carpets German Linens, of different descriptions. ALSO, 100 hds. Maryland and Virginia Tobacco, part of which is well suited to the West India market. R. T. HOOP & Co. May 12
COLESON and TURNER, Have received from New York, and are now opening at their Linens Store , on Royal Street, opposite Mr. James Ruffell's. AN ASSORTMENT OF Irish Linens, Diaper Table Cloths, brown Holland, Paulois, and Ticklenoughs. A daily expect, Diapers, Checks, Hempens, Dow- las, Sheerings, Threads, &c. Also for Sale, A few chests of Imperial and Hyson Tea, of the latest importations—and 50 sacks of Liverpool Salt. May 9.
REMOVAL. T. CRAVEN has removed his Store, next door to Mott's tavern ; where he offers for Sale a general assortment of DRY GOODS, And daily expects a further Supply. April 3.
WM. HODGSON Has for Sale, 2 boxes 7-8 Colraine Linens 13 hogheads Claret, suitable for the West- India market, and entitled to drawback 14 cases first and second quality Claret, 12 bottles each Marble Mortars of different sizes 7 cases best Luca Oil 10 marble Chimney pieces 2000 bushels Liverpool fine and St. Ubes Salt. April 30.
FRESH TEAS. Now landing from on board the brig Harmony from New York. 12 chests Young Hyson, } Of the latest 5 do. Hyson, } Importation. 10 do. Hyson Skin, } Which will be sold on very mode- rate terms by James Sanderson. April 21.
NOTICE. By virtue of a deed of trust from Michael Steiber to James D. Westcott & the sub- scriber, to secure the payment of a sum of money, &c. due from the said Michael Steiber to Jacob Geiger , will be exposed to sale, at public auction, for ready money, upon the premises, on THURSDAY the 29th day of May instant, a LOT OF GROUND , situate on the east side of Royal Street, between King and Prince Streets, in the town of Alexandria, fronting on Royal Street 36 feet and extending backwards 103 feet 5 inches; upon which are erected two good Frame Houses and Back Buildings. This Lot is subject to a ground rent of ninety dollars per annum. JOHN LONGDEN. May 6.
Four Cents Reward. Ran away from the subscriber on the 12th inst. THOMAS JACKSON , an ap- prentice to the Hat making business; he is flen- der made, about 5 feet 8 or 10 inches high, ve- ry hard of hearing, speaks low, has a down look when spoken to; had on and took with him one new second broad cloth blue coat, one new pair of dove coloured keseymere pantaloons, one new fine black hat, and several other articles not re- collected.—The above reward will be given to a- ny person that will secure him in any jail f. that I get him again. Aaron Hewes. The 20th of 5th mo. 31*
JAMES KENNEDY, SEN. KING-STREET, RESPPECTFULLY informs the public that he has received, from LEE & Co's Patent and Family Medicine Store, New-York, a fresh assortment of the following Valuable Medicines, Which are in high esteem and general use throughout the United States, many of them being sold cheaper than the drugs of which they are compounded could be purchased at a retail store.
TAKE NOTICE That J. Kennedy, Sen. is appointed the only agent for ALEXANDRIA. DR. HAMILTON'S ELIXIR, A sovereign remedy for Colds, Obstinate Coughs, Asth- mas, Catarrhs, Sore Throats, and approaching Con- sumptions. To Parents who may have children afflicted with the HOOPING COUGH. This discovery is of the first magnitude, as it is an immediate relief, checks the progress, and in a short time entirely removes the most cruel disorder to which children are liable.—The Elixir is so perfectly agreeable and the dose so small that no difficulty arises in tak- ing it.
From LUTHER MARTIN, Esq. Attorney-Ge- neral of the State of Maryland. Gentlemen, I comply with your request in stating my opinion of Hamilton's Elixir. It has been used in my family for two or three years past, with uniform success, whenever colds, coughs, or similar complaints have rendered medi- cine necessary. I have myself found it an excellent and agreeable remedy for a very painful and troublesome affection of the breast, accompanied with fevers and with obstructed and difficult breathing. On these accounts I do not hesitate to recommend Hamilton's Elixir, as a valuable medicine, and deserving public attention. LUTHER MARTIN.
Mr. Abijah Henry, Bridge-street, Baltimore, was cured by one bottle of Hamilton's Elixir of a very com- plicated disorder, occasioned by a severe cold caught several months ago. He breathed with the greatest difficulty, and was often thrown into weakening sweats when he attempted to walk any distance, and his voice would frequently fail in such a degree that he could only attempt to whisper. He has been upwards of six weeks without a return of his complaints and desires to give this public testimony in favor of his invaluable medicine.
Dr. Hamilton's GRAND RESTORATIVE, Is recommended as an invaluable medicine, for the speedy relief and permanent cure of the various com- plaints which result from dissipated pleasures—juvenile indiscretions—residence in climates unfavorable to the constitution—the immoderate use of tea, frequent in- toxication, or any other destructive intemperance—the unskillful or excessive use of mercury—the diseases pecu- liar to females at a certain period of life—bad lyings in, &c. &c. And is proved by long and extensive experience to be absolutely unparallelled in the cure of Nervous Disorders; Violent cramps in the Consumptions, stomach and back, Lowness of spirits, Indigestion, Loss of appetite, Melancholy, Impurity of the blood, Gout in the stomach, Hysterical affections, Pains in the limbs, Inward weaknesses, Relaxations, Seminal weaknesses, Involuntary emissions, Fluoribus (or whites) Obstinate gleet, Barrenness, Impotency, &c. &c. In cases of extremity, where the long prevalence and obstinacy of disease has brought on a general impover- ishment of the system, excessive debility of the whole frame, and a wasting of the flesh, which no nourish- ment or cordial could repair, a perseverance in the use of this medicine has performed the most astonishing cures.
HAMILTON'S ESSENCE AND EX- TRACT OF MUSTARD, A safe and effectual remedy for gout, rheumatism, palsy, sprains, bruises, pains in the face and neck, &c. And has performed more cures in the above complaint than all the other medicines ever before made public. From Dr. Weatherburn, Wythe county, Virginia.
GENTLEMEN, I purchased at your shop the prepa- rations you call Hamilton's Essence, or Extract of Mus- tard, which I believe has perfectly removed a chronic rheumatism (of that kind named scatica, or of the hip joint) under which I had labored for a long time, and which had baffled every article in the Materia Medica, and every mode of treatment received into practice for the cure of this obstinate disease. If you think this let- ter useful you are at liberty to make it public. Yours, &c. W. WEATHERBURN.
John Hoover, rope maker, South Second Street, be- tween Mary and Christian Streets, Philadelphia, voluntarily testifies as follows, namely, That his wife, Mary Hoover, was so severely afflicted with a violent rheumatism, very dangerously situated the consequence of a severe cold after lying in, as to be confined to her bed for several weeks, and was at length reduced to the melancholy apprehension of remaining a cripple for life, notwithstanding the most respectable me- dical advice was followed, and every probable remedy attempted: when seeing several cases of cures perform- ed by Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mustard, they were procured from Mr. Birch, No. 17, South Second Street. The first application enabled her to walk across the room, and the use of one bottle restored her to her usual state of health and strength. JOHN HOOVER.
Sworn and subscribed before EBENEZER FERGUSON, Esq. One of the justices of the peace for Phila- delphia county.
HAMILTON'S WORM DESTROYING LOZENGES, Which have within four years past cured upwards of one hundred and twenty thousand persons of both sexes, of every age, and in every situation, of various serious complaints arising from worms, and from obstructions or foulness in the stomach and bowels. This medicine bears no analogy whatever with simi- lar, so commonly complained of as operating with vio- lence, on the contrary a particular excellence of this is
contains nothing but what is perfectly innocent, and so mild in its operation that it cannot injure the most delicate pregnant lady, or the tenderest infant of a week old should no worms exist in the body, but will, with- out pain or griping, cleanse the stomach and bowels of whatever is foul or offensive, and thereby prevent the production of worms and many fatal disorders. They are particularly efficacious in carrying off all gross hu- mors and corruptions; feverish and bilious complaints, and the safest and mildest purgative that can be used on the occasion.
Description of Worms, and the symptoms by which they are known. Worms which infest the human body, are chiefly of four kinds, viz. the Tereis or large round worm, the Asca- rides, or small maw worm, the Cucurbitina, or short flat, white worm, and lastly, the Taenia or tape worm so called from its resemblance to tape; this is often ma- ny yards long, and is full of joints.—It is most hurtful and most difficult to cure.
Among the symptoms attending worms, are disagree- able breath, especially in the morning—Bad and corrupt- ed gums—itching in the nose and about the seat—Con- vulsions and epileptic fits, and sometimes privation of speech—Staring and grinding of the teeth in sleep— Irregular appetite, sometimes loathing food, and sometimes voracious—Purging, with slimy and foetid stools—Vo- miting—Large and hard belly—Pains and sickness at the stomach—Pains in the head and thighs, with lowness of spirits—Slow fever, with small and irregular pulse—A dry cough—Excess of thirst—Sometimes pale and unhealth- y countenance, and sometimes the face bloated and flushed.
Persons afflicted with any of the above symptoms should have immediate recourse to Hamilton's worm destroying lozenges, which have been constantly attend- ed with success in all complaints similar to those above described. A dose of this medicine given occasionally during the warm season will effectually prevent the vomiting and purging of children, a dreadful disorder which annually destroys thousands of the infant part of our cities. It is likewise the mildest and most certain remedy known and has restored to health and strength a great number when in advanced stages of this fatal complaint. Particular and plain instructions are given for every part of the ne- cessary treatment in such cases. Children generally take this medicine with eagerness, having a pleasing appearance, and an agreeable taste.
CASES OF CURES— By Hamilton's WORM DESTROYING LOZENGES, (Selected from thousands) the authenticity of which any person may ascertain either by letter or personal application.
TAPE WORM. Mr. SAMUEL FULLER, Inn keeper, on the Har- ford road, ten miles from Baltimore, began about twenty months ago to be grievously afflicted with a tape worm, which increased fast in size and strength, so as to excite the most horrid sensations by his writhing motions and intolerable pains, resembling the gnawing and tearing of his bowels, which deprived him of his necessary sleep, and caused such dreadful apprehensions as cannot be con- ceived but by one in a similar situation—his appetite was lost rapidly, and with that his strength, so that he was unable to attend to any business—when he heard of some excellent cures performed by Hamilton's worm lozenges, he took a large dose, which brought away a- bout FOUR YARDS of the worm (now in the pos- session of Lee, & Co.) but a renewal of his pains soon convinced him that this monstrous reptile had recovered its first vigor—Application was made to Lee & Co. for more of their medicine, with their advice, from which resulted the total expulsion of his formidable enemy, in several pieces, which he supposed to be SIX or EIGHT YARDS more. A few months have since elapsed, and Mr. Fuller is now in perfect health. The above facts are well known to a numerous circle of his neighbors and himself will gratify any who may wish to make further inquiries on the subject. Although Hamilton's worm lozenges produce such powerful effects, when necessary, yet they are perfectly innocent and mild in their operation on the human body, even taken in large doses, as Mr. Fuller will testify—their particular mil- dness is abundantly evident in innumerable cures of in- fants.
Communicated by Dr. John Spangler, York town, Pennsylvania. Letter from the Reverend Mr. JOHN MOLTHER minister of the Moravian church, in York town. York, January 4th, 1802.
DEAR SIR, Dr. Hamilton's lozenges have been recommended to me as a very adequate means for the cure of children afflicted with worms. I procured a box for the use of my family, to try whether by means of this medicine I might be enabled to gain a point, which, to accom- plish, different other means had proved abortive. My eldest boy had a very sickly appearance, was very rest- less at night, grew leaner from time to time; in short, he seemed to be in a precarious state of health, which would yield to none of the medicines administered, until I gave him two doses of lozenges, agreeably to the directions, which carried off a substance to all appear- ance a mere mucus but upon close inspection quite re- sembled with very small living animals. Not one of that sort of worms which usually afflict children came from him. Since that period he grew remarkably better in health, and though lean, has got a fresh and lively com- plexion. Upon different occasions I have used this me- dicine as a purging substitute, and found it to answer exceedingly well, without bringing on belly ache, or any other disagreeable sensations, to often occasioned by purging medicines. Upon the which I judge this me- dicine to be, besides its main object, one of the most salutary means for restoring lost appetite, and promoting a proper state of digestion, by carrying off that bilious insubstance, which engenders so much indisposition both among children and adults. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant. JOHN MOLTHER.
Dr. Hahn's true and genuine German Corn Plaster. An infallible remedy for corns, speedily re- moving them root and branch, without giving pain.
The genuine Persian Lotion, So celebrated among the fashionable throughout Europe, as an invaluable cosmetic perfectly inno- cent and safe, free from corrosive and repellant mi- nerals (the basis of other lotions) and of unpar- alleled efficacy in preventing and removing ble- mishes in the face and skin of every kind, parti- cularly freckles, pimples, inflammatory redness, scuffs, tettere, rings worms, yam burns, prickle heat, &c. The Persian Lotion operates mildly, without impacting that natural, insensible perspiration, which is so essential to health. Yet its salutary
effects are speedy and permanent, rendering skin delicately soft and clear, improving the com- plexion, and restoring the bloom of youth. Never failing to render an ordinary countenance beau- tiful, and an handsome one more so.
The Restorative Powder for the Teeth and Gums. This excellent preparation comforts & strength- ens the gums, preserves the enamel from decay, and cleanses and whitens the teeth, by absorb- ing all that acrimonious flume and foulness, which suffered to accumulate, never fails to injure or finally ruin them.
Dr. Hahn's genuine Eye-Water. A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eye, whether the effect of natural weakness or of ex- dent, defluxions of rheum, dulness, itching and films on the eyes, never failing to cure those dis- eases which frequently succeed the small pox, measles and fevers, and wonderfully strength- ing a weak sight. Hundreds have experienced its excellent virtues, when nearly deprived of sight.
Tooth Ache Drops. The only remedy yet discovered which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe instances.
The sovereign Ointment for the Itch. Which is warranted an infallible remedy at one application, and may be used with perfect safety on pregnant women or on infants a week old, containing not a particle of mercury, or any other dangerous ingredient whatever, and is not ac- companied with that tormenting heat, which attends the application of other remedies.
The Anodyne Elixir. For the cure of every kind of head ache.
Indian Vegetable Specific. A safe and speedy remedy for the venereal disease. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
For the prevention and cure of bilious and maly- nant fevers, IS RECOMMENDED
Dr. Hahn's Anti-Bilious Pills. The operation of these pills is perfectly mild so as to be used with safety by persons in every situation, and of every age. They are excellently adapted to carry off the pernicious bile, and prevent its morbid secretion, to restore and amend the appetite; to procure a free perspiration, and thereby prevent colds, which are often attended with fatal consequence; a dose never fails to remove a cold, if taken on its first appearance. They are celebrated for re- moving habitual costiveness; sickness at the sto- mach, and severe head ache; and ought to be taken by all persons on a change of climate.
Sold likewise by S. Pleasants, Richmond; Ross and Douglass, Pe- tersburg; T. Green, Frederickburgh; G. Purdie, Smithfield; M. Jones, Suf- folk; Dr. Miller, Winchester; R. Greenhow, Williamsburgh; and J. Shaw, Leesburg. September 4.
TO RENT, And possession will be given the 20th May. A TWO STORY FRAME HOUSE, situ- ate on Fairfax Street, lately occupied by Mr. Davis, Shoemaker. The stand is good, and having been occupied for a length of time by a person eminent in his business, renders it an eli- gible situation for a person of that business. For terms apply to Thomas Irwin, or John Adam. May 3.
Dissolution of Copartnership. THE Copartnership hitherto subsisting under the firm of Joseph Riddle & Co. of Alexandria, was dissolved the first instant, by mutual con- sent: All persons that are indebted to, or that have claims on the same, are requested to come forward and settle, as it is desirable to close the concern as soon as possible. Those whose ac- counts are of long standing are particularly re- quested to attend to this notice, and make payments to either of the subscribers. JOSEPH RIDDLE, Of Alexandria JAMES DALL, Of Baltimore September 18.
JOSEPH RIDDLE Has Received by the Ceres and other ships lately arrived at Baltimore, a considerable part of his FALL GOODS; Which are now opening at his store in Fairfax Street, and daily expects an additional supply from the United States from Liverpool. September 28.
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