Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1808-04-14 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1808.
[No. 2142.]
VOL. VIII.
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 prices. P. G. Marsteller, v. M.
FOR SALE, On board the ship Commerce , laying at colonel Rumsay's wharf, About two thousand bushels Isle of May SALT. Excellent for striking and packing fish, which will be sold in small quantities from on board. April 5. dtf
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.
BRYAN HAMPSON HAS FOR SALE. 10 pipes old port 5 do. Madeira 30 quarter casks Lisbon 12 do. particular Teneriffe 15 do. Malaga 15 pipes old cognac brandy 5 do. 4th proof Holland Gin 5 hds. 3d proof Antigua rum 1 do. first quality molasses 6 do. green copperas 2 do. alum 20 do. brown sugar 20 bags pimento 15 do. pepper 10 chests young hyson 10 do. hyson skin 5 do. imperial 100 bags green coffee 150 kegs madder 50 do. ground ginger 30 do. raisins 1200 lbs. bacon, well cured 5 kegs salt petre A quantity of fine and ground alum salt. At all times, he has the first quality flour for house on hand—with a number of other articles—all of which he will sell low on his former terms. JAMES SANDERSON, Offers for sale very low, 25 hogsheads Muscovado Sugar, 70 bags green Coffee 15 hogsheads well flavored Rum pipes Cognac Brandy 12 quarter casks Sherry Wine 12 bales Tennessee Cotton And as usual A general assortment of the best Wines, Spiritous Liquors, Teas and Groceries. Fifty Dollars Reward. LOPED from the service of the subscriber on Thursday night last, A NEGRO MAN, named ANTHONY, (commonly called TONEY)—He is a man 38 years of age, 6 feet high, a likely well looking fellow, formerly a stevedore in Alexandria, his cloaths not known.—Who- ever secures him in any jail in Virginia, or the district of Columbia, shall receive a re- ward of Thirty Dollars, if out of the state of Virginia, or the district of Columbia—FIF- TY DOLLARS and all reasonable expenses if brought home. William H. Tebbs. March 12.
As I do not hold the same under lease or rent from any person; but claim it as my own right: I wish and request those who have any counter claims to come forward and establish them according to law. Josiah Browning. March 22. alm
Whereas Stephen Cooke, of Northampton county, Virginia, did, on the 6th day of January, 1807, execute a lease for a piece called "Jones's Point," binding on Po- tomac river and Great Hunting Creek, to a certain A. G. Hammond for the term of se- ven years; which lease was afterwards assign- ed to a certain Benjamin Morris, who after- wards delivered me peaceable possession of the premises. As I do not hold the same under lease or rent from any person; but claim it as my own right: I wish and request those who have any counter claims to come forward and establish them according to law. Josiah Browning. March 22. alm
FOR BOSTON, The Schooner CHARLES, ISAAC LINCOLN, Master; Will sail in four days, & will take 200 barrels on freight if im- mediate application is made to the master on board at Harper's wharf, or Lawrafon & Fowle. April 12. 3t
NOTICE. THE Co-partnership of Catlett and Fisk, is this day dissolved by mutual con- sent. Chs. I. Catlett, Martin Fisk. The business in future will be trans- acted by CHS. I. CATLETT April 1. d
Salt and Barrels. I have for sale at my store near the fishing landing, a quantity of coarse and fine SALT, a parcel of empty Barrels, and about 50 Casks in complete order for striking fish. John G. Ladd. March 26. 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. dtf
A Brick House for Sale. THE Brick House occupied by Mrs. Mc- Challs, on the north side of Prince- street, between Fairfax and Water-streets, is offered for sale on a liberal credit. For parti- culars apply to John C. Vowell. January 12. 6m
JOHN G. LADD, HAS FOR SALE, 30 bales German Linens, consist- ing of brown and white Rolls, flaxen Osna- burghs, hempen Ticklenburghs, Burlaps, and Checks and Stripes. 1000 pieces Nankeen Russia Sheetings and Duck 1 bale Writing Paper 50 bags of black Pepper of the best qua- lity, and will be sold very low Sugars and Coffee 40 hds Molasses 1 pipe port Wine 10 do. Holland Gin 5 do. French Brandy 7 do. Jamaica Spirits. A quantity of seal Leather, Shoes, Sper- maciti and Tallow Candles, Cheese, &c. &c. April 7. d
FOR SALE, BY LEWIS DEBLOIS At his Store, near Col. Ramsay's wharf, French Brandy, in pipes Catalonia Wine, in half pipes and quarter casks New-England Rum, in hogsheads and bar- rels Molasses, in hogsheads Cod-Fish, in boxes Cider, Potatoes, Beets, and Winter Pears, in barrels Cheese Cider Vinegar, in hogsheads and pipes March 9.
Twenty Dollars Reward. RAN AWAY from the Subscriber in the month of January, a Negro Man, called ABRAHAM.
OF a very slender form about five feet 8 or 9 inches high, thin visage, a stoop in his walk, a down look when spoken to and rather fond of drink. He was seen lurking in the neighborhood of the Great and Little Falls of Potomac for some time; 'tis believed he crossed at the Great Falls, and is now at work on the great road leading from Baltimore to Fredericktown or that he is in Baltimore. He acknowledged that he did belong to me but is now entitled to his freedom. The above reward will be given to any person who will apprehend said negro & all reasonable expen- ces paid. Peter Wise. April 1. d
Fifteen Bales Of beautiful retailing Cotton, Received to day. IN STORE—Bacon, Candles, Cranber- ries, Porter, Soap, Shoes, Trunks, Wine. E. GILMAN. April 11. (12) d3t lawtf
REMOVAL. THOMAS SHIELDS has removed to his old stand nearly opposite the market-house, where he intends carrying on Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hair Cutting and Dressing in the most approved manner. April 12. 3t
For Sale, On board Schooner Jane , lying at Mr. Irvin's wharf, 2,000 weight best Green Coffee 2,000 do. Cod Fish 25 barrels Oil 12 do. Blubber 19 boxes Raisins 140 pounds Almonds A Seine suitable for the present fishery Two and half dozen Wool Hats Three dozen Hingham Pails One box Marble Soap Twenty-five bushels Potatoes About 30 tons Stones suitable for street paving. For further particulars apply on board as above. April 12. 3t
Hogsheads for Sale. Twenty hogsheads suitable for the striking of fish, now standing on Merchants' wharf— which the subscriber offers for sale on reason- able terms. Those who wish to purchase will please to call on board the Schooner Ma- ry, now laying at the said wharf. Jacob Miller. April 12. 2t
Salt Afloat. Crates of Ware, Window Glass, &c. imported in the brig Fox , capt. DRUMMOND, from Li- verpool, viz. 2000 bushels Ground Allum Salt 90 crates assorted ware, consisting of plain, colored and enamelled of various de- scriptions and quality. 10 casks of elegant fancy articles, China tea sets burnished gold, Do. enamelled Paris sprig, China glaze, blue and gilt, pearl, lustre, cottage, burnished and landscape Jugs. Garden Pots and stands, &c. &c. &c. 92 boxes Window Glass, 7 by 9, 8 by 10 and 10 by 14. And a small invoice of cotton and thread hosiery. The above goods were purchased from the manufacturers for ready money, and will be sold on reasonable terms. Apply to John & Thomas Vowell. April 12. d
SALT AFLOAT. 2000 bushels GROUND ALLUM SALT suitable for the fishery, will be sold on mode- rate terms—Apply to captain JOHN STACEY, on board the brig FAVORITE , or to John G. Ladd. April 11.
Notice is hereby Given, THAT the subscriber of Alexandria coun- ty in the district of Columbia, has ob- tained from the Orphans' court of said coun- ty, letters of administration with the will an- nexed, upon the estate of Mt. Samuel Craig late of the county aforesaid, merchant, dec'd— All persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit them with the vouchers thereof to the subscriber on or before the 9th day of September next or they may by law be excluded from all benefit to said estate, and those indebted there are required to make immediate payment. Given under my hand this 9th day of March 1808.
John G. Ladd. Administrator with the will annexed of Sam. Craig , deceased. March 10. oogv
ALMANACS for 1808, Just published and for sale, by Cotton and Stewart.
CHARLES BENNETT, Offers for sale, for cash, or approved notes, at 60 days, One bale superfine London Cloths and Kerseymere. Irish Linens. A few elegant Muslin Robes. Calicoes and Ginghams. Seine and Sail Twine. Fine and coarse Hats. Clover Seed of the first quality. 12 casks Rye Whiskey, one year distilled, &c. &c. April 6. d1w eo2w
SALT, &c. TURK'S Island, St. Ubes, Ground Allum, } SALT. & Liverpool fine, SUGAR in hds. and barrels. COFFEE, by tierce or bag. Imperial and } TEA. Young Hyson } N. E. RUM, in barrels. WHISKEY, in do. FISH in barrels, &c. &c. &c. For Sale by A. LINDQ. N. B. Family FLOUR as usual. March 12. 2awtf.
ENGLISH GOODS. By the John Adams & St. John from Liverpool, APPLETON AND CO. 16, Calvert street, Baltimore, HAVE received their regular supply of goods, calculated for the present and approaching season: Cambric and Common Calicoes Plain and Striped Dimities Printed Marseilles Vesting White Jeans Furniture Chintz Do. Dimities London Superfine Broad Cloths Do. do. Cassimeres Yorkshire Fine Cloths and Cassimeres Patent Nankeens Grandurells Cotton Cassimeres 6-4 and 4-4 Cambric Muslins Japan, Haricord and Check do. Plain and Figured Mull do. Leno, Victory, Riddle, &c. do. Colored do. do. do. 4-4 Plain Book do. Gingham Silk do. Sattins, Persians and Sarsenets Bennet Silks Silk Gloves Silk Handkerchiefs Fancy Shawls Cotton Umbrellas Do. Braces Do. Laces and Footings Do. Quiltings English Kid Gloves Cotton Hosiery Handkerchiefs Fringe and Red Lace Cotton and Linen Checks Buttons Birmingham Ware, &c. IN STORE, A few dozen gentlemen's best Beaver Hats from Marseilles. These goods will be sold low for cash or undoubted paper at 60 days. April 5. d10t
This is to give Notice, That the subscriber, of Alexandria coun- ty, in the district of Columbia, hath obtained from the Orphans' Court of said county let- ters testamentary on the estate of Joseph Ma- rie Perrin , late of the county aforesaid de- ceased; all persons having claims against the said deceased are hereby warned to exhibit them, with the vouchers thereof, to the sub- scriber, on or before the 25th day of Septem- ber next, or they may by law be excluded from all benefit to said estate; and those in- debted thereto are required to make immedia- te payment.—Given under my hand this 25th day of March, 1808. Mathurin Perrin, Ex'r. March 25. 3taw6w
The American Artillerists Companion, OR ELEMENTS OF ARTILLERY, BY LOUIS De TOUSARD, Late Lieut. col. commandant of the 2d reg. and inspector of artillery of the U. S. No 1st and 2d of the above work FOR SALE BY R. GRAY,

LETTERS
Part 3, accompanying the message of the President of the United States, received on the 23d of March, 1808.
MR. MADISON to MR. MOORE.
[CONTINUED.]
On article 7. This article is due, if not to all neutrals, at least to the U. S. who are distinguished by the distance of their situation. Decisions of the British court of admiralty, have so far respected this peculiarity as to admit a want of information as a plea for going to a blockaded port, where such a plea would be refused to less remote countries. But more than this may fairly be claimed. A vessel, knowing that a particular blockade existed two months before, may well conjecture that before her arrival at the port which will require two months more, the blockade will have ceased; and may accordingly clear and steer for such a port with an honest intention, in case of finding on her approach, the fact otherwise, not to attempt an unlawful entrance. To condemn vessels under such circumstances would be manifestly unjust; and to restrain them from a distant voyage to a port once in a state of blockade, until information of a change shall have travelled a like distance, must produce a delay and uncertainty little short of an absolute prohibition of the commerce. To require them even to go out of their course, to seek at other ports, information on the subject, would be an unreasonable imposition. The British government can have little objection to this article, after defining blockades as is agreed with Russia, and is as here proposed; since our distance is of itself a security against any concert with the blockaded, for surreptitious entries, which might be attempted by nearer adventurers; and since in the case of blockades by a force actually present, a preliminary notice may be required without impairing their efficacy, as might be the case with blockades, such as the preceding article guards against.
The only difference between the articles as standing in the different editions, consists in the preamble to that which is to be admitted, if the proposition of the other should not succeed. The article is preferable without the recital of any reason particular to the U. S. because as a naked stipulation, it strengthens instead of weakening a general principle friendly to neutral and pacific nations.
On articles 8, 9 & 10. These are articles which are known to have been long wished and contemplated on the part of Great Britain, and together with the justice, and in many views the expediency of Great Britain herself of the articles desired on our part, may induce her to accede to the whole. The articles are in substance the same with a project offered to the American administration in the year 1800, by Mr. Liston, who appears to have borrowed it from corresponding stipulations in the convention between the U. S. and France in the year 1795.
The project was at that time dropped, owing perhaps in part to the change in the head of the department of state, between whom and Mr. Liston it had been discussed, and principally, to the difficulty of combining with it, proper stipulations against British impressments on the high seas. Without such an equivalent, the project had little to recommend it to the U. S. Considered by itself, it was too the less admissible, as one of its articles, under some obscurity of expression, was thought to favor the British pretension to impress British seamen from American vessels on the high seas.
A copy of this document is inclosed, as it may be not without use, in shewing the ideas of the British government at that time, so far at least as its minister here was an organ of them.
The terms in which these articles are to be proposed, differ but slightly from those in which they may be admitted. In the former, the delivery of deserters is confined to soldiers and seamen, without requiring a delivery of officers, whose desertion will be from the service of their country, but on account of offences for which it might sometimes be more agreeable to the U. States to be unbound to give them up for trial and punishment. At the same time this consideration ought not to be a bar to an arrangement, which, in its general character, will be so important to the interests of the U. S.
On article 11. This is a stipulation which is not to be yielded; but in the event of its being made an indispensable condition it cannot be essential for the object of it,
whilst the British government is left free to take the precautions allowable within its own jurisdiction for preventing the clandestine departure of its seamen or its soldiers in neutral vessels. And it is very ineligible to the U. S. inasmuch as it will be difficult to enforce the prohibition, whether we regard the embarkation of such persons in British ports, or their landing on the American shores; and inasmuch as the inefficacy of regulations for such purposes, though made with due sincerity & care, may become a source of secret jealousy and dissatisfaction, if not of controversy and reproach.
The article is copied from that in the arrangement (of which you have a copy) discussed and brought near to a conclusion between Mr. King and the British ministry, and you are authorised to accede to it, on the supposition that it may again be insisted on. It is to be recollected, however, that the article was then understood to be the only price given for relinquishing the impressment of American seamen. The other offers now substituted will justify you in pressing the omission of the original one.
On Article 12. The law of nations does not exact of neutral powers the prohibition specified in this article. On the other hand, it does not restrain them from prohibiting a trade which appears on the face of the official papers proceeding from the custom-house to be intended to violate the law of nations, and from which legitimate considerations of prudence may also dissuade a government. All that can be reasonably expected by belligerent from neutral powers is that their regulations on this subject be impartial, and that their stipulations relative to it, when made in time of war at least, should not preclude an impartiality.
It is not certain what degree of value Great Britain may put on this article, connected, as it essentially is, with the article which limits the list of contraband. It will at least mitigate her objection to such a limitation. With the range given to contraband by her construction of the law of nations, even as acquiesced in by the U. States, a stipulation of this sort would be utterly inadmissible.
The last article, in making this city the place for exchanging the ratifications, consuls expedition in putting the treaty into operation, since the British ratification can be forwarded at the same time with the instrument itself. And it is otherwise reasonable, that as the negotiation and formation of the treaty will have taken place at the seat of the British government, the concluding formality should be at that of the government of the U. S.
In addition to these articles which, with the observations thereon, I am charged by the president to communicate to you as his instructions, he leaves you at liberty to insert any others which may do no more than place British armed vessels, with their prizes, on an equality within our ports and jurisdiction with those of France. This would only stipulate what would probably be done by gratuitous regulations here, and as it would no doubt be acceptable to Great Britain, it may not only aid in reconciling her to the principal objects desired by the United States, but may induce her to concur in the further insertion of articles, corresponding with those in the convention of 1800 with France, which regulate more precisely and more effectually, the treatment of vessels of the neutral party on the high seas.
The occasion will be proper also, for calling the attention of the British government to the reasonableness of permitting American consuls to reside in every part of her dominions, where, and so long as she permits our citizens to trade. It is not denied that she has a natural right to refuse such a residence, and that she is free by her treaty with us, to refuse it in other than her European dominions. But the exception authorised with respect to the residence of consuls elsewhere, having reference to the refusal of our trade elsewhere, the refusal of the one ought manifestly to cease with the refusal of the other. When our vessels and citizens are allowed to trade to ports in the West-Indies, there is the same reason for a cotemporary admission of consuls to take care of it, as there is for their admission in ports where the trade is permanently allowed. There is the juster expectation of your success on this point, as some official patronage is due to the rights of our citizens in the prize courts established in the West-India islands. Should the British government be unwilling to enter into a stipulated provision, you may perhaps obtain an order to the governors for the purpose. Or if consuls be objected to altogether, it is desirable that agents may be admitted, at no where else, at least in the islands where the vice-admiralty courts are established.
It has been intimated that the articles as standing in the different columns, are to be considered, the one as the offer to be made, the other as the ultimatum to be required. This is, however, not to be taken too strictly; it being impossible to foresee the turns and the combinations which may present themselves in the course of the negotiation. The essential objects for the United States are the suppression of impressments, and the defini-
tion of blockades. Next to these in importance, are the reduction of the list of contraband, and the enlargement of our neutral trade with hostile colonies. Whilst you keep in view, therefore, those objects, the two last as highly important, and the two first as absolutely indispensable, your discretion, in which the president places great confidence, must guide you in all that relates to the inferior ones.
With sentiments of great respect and esteem, I remain, sir, your most obedient servant,
(Signed)
JAMES MADISON.
From the United States' Gazette.
THREE days have now been spent almost wholly on the army bill. It proposes to raise 6579 men, which, with our present peace establishment, will increase the regular force of the U. S. to ten thousand men, exclusive of the navy and the marines. The discussion has been very extensive and taken a wide range, involving the absolute and relative situation of the country, and the state and views of the two great belligerent powers of Europe. The advocates of the army contend that in the present strange and convulsed situation of the world, some additional military force is requisite, as a measure of precaution; that our long line of sea coast, and our extensive frontier want protection; and our fortifications and military posts to be garrisoned; that the British may invade us from the north; the French and Spanish from the south; and the Indians from the west. A Rochefort squadron may steal out and attack our cities, or land a force in Florida or Louisiana. The British may attack us, as they did the Danes at Copenhagen and the Turks at Constantinople.
The opponents of the bill could perceive no occasion for this military force. It was incredible that this country would be invaded; and if so, the militia were a competent defence. It was ridiculous to suppose that this force if distributed on our coast and frontiers would be of any real service. The quota assigned to each point would be too small for any use. They could not protect us against invasion or a naval attack on our cities. As our treasury was almost drained, and our commerce nearly destroyed, the expence of this force was much insisted upon. It was also contended that the embargo had been laid as a substitute for war, and that the war system and the embargo system were incompatible. Mr. Quincy and some others were in favor of the bill, because they considered some addition to our peace establishment necessary; and though they conceived the addition proposed somewhat too large, they chose to vote for it, in preference to having no increase of our regular force. The members who in '98 voted against an army, and who now have wheedled about and vote for what they then so loudly condemned, felt quite sore at the well founded charge of inconsistency which was reiterated in their ears by Mr. Sanford. This gentleman had very industriously collected a large cumber of documents, journals of the house, reports of debates, &c. showing the language of Gallatin, Jefferson, and other republican standards, as he called them, against standing armies. The members who formerly were vociferous against armies, and are now convinced of their error, are, among others, Messrs. Dawson, Macon, Blount, Clanton, Smilie and Nicholas. To refute the argument urged against the federal administration, as to the army of '98, we may refer to the present and late debates of congress, and the requisition of the president. Indeed, some of the good democrats go so far as to say they can perceive no difference in the two administrations. Armies, navies, patronage, the renunciation of specific appropriations, appear, say they, as much encouraged and patronized as ever.
It is difficult to tell when the question will be taken. While Mr. Southard was speaking to day I observed no less than eight members watching very anxiously to see him sit down, that they might have a chance to speak. Mr. Sloan being very active first gained the floor, remarking that he had three times before attempted to get a chance to speak. As he saw the house to be quite impatient, he should not say much. He believed there was not a quorum present, but it was not his duty to take care of that business; and he should not speak long for fear the few who remained would go away, and leave him and the speaker alone. Mr. Sloan opposed the bill and conceived that there was not so much pretence for an army, now as even in '97.
The usual distinctions of party are in some measure lost, so far as regards this
bill. The executive men, his backers and gentlemen, are of course in favor of the bill; for the president has called for it. Some federalists have spoken in favor of it, and it is said several will vote for it, though for reasons somewhat different from those assigned by the executive men. Some of the Randolphs also, will, it is said, vote for this bill, and Mr. Mason who usually concurs with Mr. Randolph has twice spoken in favor of the measure. There is reason to believe that the number of opponents to the bill has increased during the discussion; though it will probably pass by a large majority.
Though the discussion has been very long and taken a wide range, yet no executive man has condescended to inform the house and the public, whether they intend to go to war. They speak much of the dangers of the country and the necessity of preparation for war; but they say nothing particular and precise as to the course which the government intend to pursue. All is general and indefinite. They do claim much about the aggressions of Great Britain, and the destructive operation of her decrees on our commerce. But scarcely a complaint is murmured against France. If they were determined to submit to the mandate of Napoleon, as communicated in Champagne's note, their language could not be much different. It is to be hoped that the time will arrive when every American citizen will divest himself of partialities for one foreign nation and undue resentment against another and feel as he ought to feel towards all nations.
From the New York City.
Most Horrible!—The subjoined disjointed paragraphs, I copy from the Phil. Aurora of the 6th instant.
"For the present and on this letter of Champagne we now say that in relation to the U. S. it speaks the language of liberality and friendship."
Again in the same Aurora article "Champagny the French minister, calls upon the United States, to assert its independence to maintain its rights, to vindicate its independence."
I have nothing to do with the uncouth language of this paragraph. The editor of the Aurora has an indefeasible right to blunder. It is the opinion that concerns us.
Could it be imagined that after the tyrant had sequestered our ships and made war for us; that after he had criminally robbed us of our property with one hand, and most audaciously attempted to pillage us of our freedom and sovereignty with the other, a man should be found within the United States fed from its soil and nourished by its citizens openly and in the face of day to term this robbery and pillage "liberality and friendship."
The reader shall again see this "liberality and friendship" as expressed for us by Champagne himself.
"War then exists in fact says Mons. Champagne between England and the United States; and his majesty considered it as declared from the day on which England published her decrees. In that persuasion his majesty ready to consider the U. S. as associated with the cause of all the powers who have to defend themselves against England, has not taken any definitive measures towards the American vessels which may have been brought into our ports: He has ordered that they should REMAIN SEQUESTERED, until a decision may be had thereon according to the dispositions which shall have been expressed by the government of the U. States."
Can the AMERICAN reader perceive any thing like "friendship and liberality" in this.
We are wronged by England and we are wronged by France, and we must fight ourselves like a nation of freemen. But who can bear these foreign predilections? Where is the just, where the feeling man whose blood does not mount at beholding these shameless advocates of foreign attempts to degrade if not to enslave us.
CHARLESTON, April 2.
Arrived, ship Bath, Tufts, Liverpool; brig Eliz: Green Cross, N London 12; lugger Fair Trader, Williams, Havana 7; schooners Orono, Hutchins, Biddeford, (M) 12; Atalanta, Hathway, Newport, R 111; Fair Play, Grinnells, Alexandria 11; Friendship, Averill, Norfolk 6; sloop Frederick, Landon, New York 10.
Captain Williams left at Havana the ship Green, for New York in 10 days.
Captain Tufts, on Thursday last, Cape Romain distant 4 leagues, was brought to by the British frigate Latona, capt. Wood, from the West Indies on a cruise; they ordered captain Tufts on board the frigate with his papers; they afterwards took the mate and five men on board, three of which they impressed and detained on board the frigate, viz. Richmond Taggart a native of Rhode Island; William Cooper a native of New York; and John Beale of Weathersfield, (Conn.) They put on board

the Bath by way of exchange, one Frenchman and one Dane, neither of whom can speak a word of English. One of the men impressed (Richard Taggart) it appears had previously been on board a British ship of war and had deserted; the reason assigned for taking the other two was that they suspected them to be British subjects. When the Latona came up with the Bath, she laid up so close under her lee, as to carry away captain Tett's jib boom.
Captain Pettit, late master of the ship Mars, of New York, captured on her passage from Savannah for London, with a cargo of cotton and rice, arrived at this place yesterday, in the schooner Orono. Captain Pettit was taken on the 4th of February, in lat. 49, 50, long. 8, by the French lugger privateer Active 14 days out from St. Maloes, for which place they ordered the Mars, after having taken out all her officers and crew.
Capt. P. remained on board of the privateer from the 4th until the 26th February, during which time they chased a number of American vessels, but, as the lugger did not sail very fast, they were unable to come up with them; on the 26th, they captured the brig Summarl, Malcom, from Liverpool bound to Baltimore, with salt, which vessel being of small value, they again gave her up to the master, and put on board of her the crew of the Mars, together with a number of Swedish prisoners, without furnishing them with any provisions; and when capt. P. was taken out of the Summarl, by captain Hutchens, of the Orono, they had been several days on very short allowance. While on board the privateer, captain Pettit was informed, that on a previous cruise, the Active had captured 13 sail of American vessels, some of which were just from France, but having suffered themselves to be boarded by British cruisers on coming out, they were "bon prize." Among the crew of the Active were a number of Americans who, having been thrown out of employ by the condemnation of their vessels, were compelled to resort to this expedient for a subsistence. The captain of the Active informed captain Pettit that all American vessels in France, had been seized by the emperor, previous to his sailing. The American prisoners on board the privateer were used in the most disgraceful manner; captain Pettit was robbed of all his clothes, hat, &c. they even stripped him, and took from him a sum in gold, which he had suspended round his waist in a girdle. The privateer was keeping a sharp look-out for the ship Ceres, Webber, from Liverpool, (arrived at this port) of which, among other vessels, they had received information, and which, they expected, would have on board a valuable cargo.
Alexandria Daily Advertiser. THURSDAY, APRIL 14.
COMMUNICATION.
The celebrated Jurius in one of his letters remarks, that, "The ruin or prosperity of a state depends so much upon the administration of its government, that to be acquainted with the merit of a ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people. If we see them obedient to the laws, prosperous in their industry, united at home, and respected abroad, we may reasonably presume that their affairs are conducted by men of experience, abilities and virtue.—If on the contrary we see a universal spirit of distrust and dissatisfaction, a rapid decay of trade, a total loss of respect in the eyes of all foreign powers, we may pronounce without hesitation, that the government of that country is weak, distracted and corrupt."
Will those who administer the government of our country, be willing to be tried by these maxims.—I presume not, for their character is there emphatically pronounced.—How long the people of this country will be content to bear the burthens which have been heaped upon them, by the miserable policy of those to whom they have committed their affairs, remains to be decided: But it requires not the spirit of prophecy to predict, that however they may for a while be induced by the pride of opinion, and the force of prejudice, to continue their support to those whom they have elevated; yet will the strong feelings of interest finally prevail, and the cobweb theories of our present rulers, together with the insects that weave them, will be alike swept away by the rude hand of popular indignation, to rot and be forgotten.
MR. SNOWDEN. YOUR correspondent Juvenus, and his unknown opponent, have long been at "dagger's point." Juvenus says he has driven him off the field, and, like a true chevalier, boldly challenges his adversary to the renewal of fair and honorable combat. It must be acknowledged that Juvenus is va-
liant, as he throws the gauntlet in defiance to his compeer, while he admits that two old veterans "engineers" (Rollin & Barthelemi) are his associates in arms. I tremble for the issue; but indulge a hope that this direful conflict may be averted, lest the whole posse might be "blown to the moon," by some unskilfulness in their engineering. "Great events from little causes spring," says Pope; and the terrible square of Don Quixote was "tossed in a blanket." A. B. C.
Mr. Hillhouse yesterday laid before the Senate sundry propositions of amendment to the constitution of the United States, materially altering the organization of the Executive and legislative departments, by which the representatives are to be elected annually, the senators triennially, and the President to be every three years taken from the Senators by lot. The length of these propositions obliges us to defer them until our next.
By the arrival of the schooner Adaline from Point Petre, Guadalupe, we have been politely furnished by a friend with a copy of a decree issued by general Ernoul opening all the ports of Guadalupe and its dependencies to the entry of French and neutral vessels, laden with provisions, free from duty. We shall give a summary of its contents to-morrow. Balt. American.
CONGRESS.
Senate of the United States.
The following are the yeas and nays on the following resolution in the case of John Smith.
Resolved, That John Smith, a senator from the state of Ohio, by his participation in the conspiracy of Aaron Burr, against the peace, union & liberties of the people of the U. S. has been guilty of conduct incompatible with his duty and station as a senator of the U. S. and that he be therefor, and hereby is expelled from the senate of the U. S.
YEAS—Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Coodit, Crawford, Franklin, Gaillard, Gilman, Gregg, Kitchel, Maclay, Mathewson, Milledge, Moore, Robinson, Smith of M. Smith of T. Sumter, Tiffin, Turner. 19.
NAYS—Messrs. Giles, Goodrich, Hillhouse, Howland, Pickering, Pope, Reed, Smith of New York, Thruston, White. 10.
This is to give Notice,
That the subscriber of Alexandria county, in the district of Columbia, hath obtained from the Orphans' Court of said county, letters of administration on the personal estate of Thomas Simms, late of the county aforesaid, grocer, deceased: all persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit them with the vouchers thereof to the subscriber, on or before the 14th day of October next, or they may by law be excluded from all benefit to said estate; and those indebted thereto are required to make immediate payment. Given under my hand this 14th day of April, 1808.
Margaret Simms, Administratrix of T. Simms.
April 14. co4w
The Officers of the second Legion,
are requested to attend Training at the usual place, on Thursday, 14th instant, at half past four o'clock in the afternoon. They will please to appear armed. April 12. 3t
NOTICE.
THE COMMISSIONERS,
APPOINTED by the act of Congress, "entitled an act authorising the erection of a BRIDGE over the river Potomac, within the District of Columbia," hereby give notice, that a meeting of the Stockholders of the Washington Bridge Company, agreeably to the directions of the said act, will be held at Stelles Hotel in the city of Washington, on Monday the 2d of May between 10 o'clock A. M. and 3 P. M. for the purpose of electing five Directors, a Clerk and a Treasurer, and such other officers, agents and servants, as the said Company may think fit to appoint, and for transacting any other business, in pursuance of the said act, and appertaining to the nature and objects of the institution of said Company.
By order of the Commissioners, ROBERT BRENT. Chairman.
Form of a Proxy.
I hereby empower _____ to give as many votes in my name for the officers of the Washington Bridge Company, at the ensuing election as I hold shares, and to transact during the same such other business as may be necessary. Given under my hand this _____ day of _____
Witness, April 12. got2M.
R. GRAY
HAS RECEIVED a list of the drawings of all the tickets sold by him in the N. York Lottery, containing two days drawings: Nos. 22,367 23,205 } Are prizes of 10 dolls. 30,403 }
A few tickets and halves for sale at eight dollars, but will advance in a few days. April 14
Wants a Situation
As Assistant to an Academy, or Tutor in a private Family,
A single man of steady habits, would have no objection to take charge of a few respectable pupils in a country place.
Enquire of the Printer. April 14. law3t*
NOTICE
To the Stockholders of the Washington Bridge Company.
IN pursuance of an act of Congress, you are called on by the late commissioners to attend in person or by proxy, at Washington, the May next, to elect five Directors, a Treasurer and Clerk. I take the liberty thro' this medium to offer myself a candidate as your Clerk. The advantage to the Alexandrians of the clerk residing in Alexandria, as the office is to be kept in Washington, is obvious, and no injury can possibly arise from this arrangement to the Stockholders in the City. It will render unnecessary in case of transfers, that the persons conveying or receiving the conveyance should repair to the clerk's office in the City to have the needful done. True it is, that it may be done by power of attorney; but the trouble and expense attendant thereon is an inconvenience, independent of the necessity of an agent to effect the transfer; whereas the clerk residing in Alexandria might be the means of saving that expense and trouble by keeping a transfer book there.
The lively interest I have taken in the promotion of the Bridge, in which I at present own in my own name and those of others, 146 shares, I flatter myself will entitle me to a preference over any that has no interest therein. I shall be content to receive whatever emolument the service may be deemed worthy of, or as low as any competitor that may be presented for your suffrage. A. LINDO.
April 14. d
District Court of the U. States,
In and for the District of Columbia.
United States of America, against Forty boxes of white clay- ed Sugar, ten boxes of brown Sugar and ten boxes of Logwood. } CASE OF Seizure & Libel.
It is Ordered, By the honorable WILLIAM CRANCH, chief judge of the district of Columbia, holding the district court of the United States, in and for the district of aforesaid, that Friday the 29th day of April, 1808, be and the same is hereby appointed, for the trial of the said merchandise, at the Court-house in the town of Alexandria, in the district aforesaid, before a special session of the said court, there and then to be holden; and that the substance of the said libel filed against the said merchandise, together with this order, be published, fourteen days before the day hereby appointed for the trial of the same, in the newspaper published in the said town of Alexandria, and be also posted up in the most public manner, for the space of fourteen days before the said day of trial, at the court house in the town of Alexandria, and also at the coffee house in said town.
G. DENEALE, Clerk. Dist. Court, Dist. Columbia.
The libel in the above case charges, in substance:
That 40 boxes of clayed sugar, 10 boxes of brown sugar and 10 boxes of logwood, were imported from Havana, into the port of Vienna, district of Maryland, in the schooner Seaflower, of Baltimore, Frederic Trevers, master, on or about the 20th day of March last; that the said schooner was at the time of importing the said merchandise and for a long time before, a vessel licensed for carrying on the coasting trade; that being so licensed, the said schooner, some time in the month of Dec. last, cleared out from Baltimore for N. Orleans, and proceeded either from Baltimore or from some other port or place within the U. S. on a foreign voyage to Havanna, without having first given up her license to the collector of the district comprehending the port of Baltimore, nor to the collector of any district comprehending the port from which she was about to proceed on such foreign voyage, and without being duly registered by any such collector: That on such foreign voyage, the said merchandise was imported from the said schooner from Havanna into the said port of Vienna, and there transported into the port and town of Alexandria, where the same was seized by Charles Simms, esq. collector of the customs as forfeited to the U. S.
G. DENEALE, C. C. dt29.
District Court of the U. States,
In and for the District of Columbia.
United States of America, against Four cases of merchandise, containing two piano fortes, two barrel organs, and four music books, } CASE OF Seizure & Libel.
It is Ordered, By the honorable WILLIAM CRANCH, chief judge of the district of Columbia, holding the district court of the United States in and for the district aforesaid, That Friday the 29th day of April, 1808, be, and the same is hereby appointed, for the trial of the said four cases of merchandise, at the court house in the town of Alexandria, in the district aforesaid, before a special session of the said court, then and there to be holden; and that the substance of the libel filed against the said four cases of merchandise together with this order, be published fourteen days before the day hereby appointed for the trial of the same, in the newspaper published in the said town of Alexandria, and be also posted up in the most public manner, for the space of fourteen days before the said day of trial, at the court house, in the town of Alexandria, and also at the coffee house in the said town.
G. DENEALE, Clerk. Dist. Court Dist. Columbia.
The libel in the above case, charges in substance:
That 4 cases of merchandise, containing 2 piano fortes, 2 barrel organs, and 4 music books, were imported in the ship William & John, Thomas Woodhouse, master, from Liverpool, into the port of Alexandria, and consigned by one Cornelius Ward of Liverpool, to one Joseph Riddle of Alexandria, merchant: That the said 4 cases of merchandise were, on or about the 19th day of Oct. 1807, entered at the said port of Alexandria; that the same were not invoiced according to the actual cost thereof, of exportation, but that the said Cornelius Ward, the exporter, with design to evade a part of the duties thereupon, did make or cause to be made out a false & fraudulent invoice of the said merchandise, in which the same was not invoiced according to the actual cost thereof, at the place of exportation, but far below such actual cost; which false invoice was transmitted by the said exporter, to the consignee with the directions to produce it at the custom in Alexandria, as the invoice by which the said 4 cases of merchandise were to be entered; that the said 4 cases of merchandise, for the causes aforesaid, were seized by Charles Simms, esq. collector, as forfeited to the United States.
G. DENEALE, C. C. dt29.
The subscriber will Rent,
FOR ONE OR MORE YEARS,
THE DWELLING HOUSE
On Fairfax, near Duke street, lately occupied by Mr. Wadsworth. The lot fronts sixty-five feet on Fairfax street, and extends back one hundred and eighteen feet to a ten feet alley.
He will Sell, on a credit of 6, 12 and 8 months, either of the HOUSES occupied by Messrs. Gray, and Shreve, on King street; or of the HOUSES on the same street occupied by Messrs. Sloan, and Nelson; several vacant LOTS on Washington, near King street; any part of his vacant GROUND on the Mall, the Potomac, or Hunting creek; and several valuable ANNUAL GROUND RENTS.
He will also dispose of a valuable GRIST MILL on Goose-Creek, near the turnpike road from Leesburgh to Alexandria, with about 500 acres of land adjoining, great part of which is well covered with timber.—Apply to JOHN TUCKER, Alexandria, or to the subscriber, near Leesburgh, Loudoun county.
S. COOKE, April 14. law
Wednesday, April 13th, 1808.
THIS DAY is the third day of drawing of the NEW-YORK STATE LOTTERY.—Present price of tickets Eight Dollars, but will shortly ADVANCE.
Tickets, warranted undrawn, may be had at J. March's Book-Store, in George-Town, where a regular Check-Book of the drawing both blanks and prizes is kept.
Prize tickets in St. Mary's College Lottery taken in exchange for undrawn tickets in the New-York State Lottery.—All prizes sold at J. March's Book-Store, will be paid there if agreeable to the holder of the ticket. April 13. 3t
Lemons by the box,
Lisbon Wine in quarter casks, And about 4000 bushels coarse Salt, Mould Candles in small boxes, of superior quality, Window Glass in boxes,
For Sale, by Robert T. Hooe & Co.
January 30. eotf
Printing in all its various branches handsomely executed at this office.

LAND FOR SALE.
Agreeable to the last will and testament of captain Richard Conway deceased, will be sold at public auction, at the Coffee House, in the town of Alexandria, on Saturday the sixteenth day of April next, between the hours of twelve and one of o'clock— One hundred and eighty-five acres of Land,
LIVING on the west side of the old Leesburg road, and adjoining the tract called Stump Hill, in Fairfax county. For the convenience of purchasers, this land is laid off in lots of about twenty five acres each. It is mostly covered with a thick growth of young thriving timber and has several fine springs on it. The situation is high and healthy, affording a beautiful and extensive prospect, and is well calculated for country seats, several being already erected in the neighborhood of it. At the same time and place will be sold,
A few lots of the Stump Hill Tract.
A credit of six, twelve and eighteen months will be given to the purchasers, on giving their notes negotiable in the bank of Alexandria, with approved endorsers and a deed of trust on the premises for the payment of the several instalments. A plat of the whole tract with the several subdivisions of it, will be shewn on the day of sale.
Wm. Herbert, } Ex'rs. N. Fitzhugh, } E. I. Lee, }
March 22. dts
GREAT BARGAIN.
WILL be exposed to public sale on Saturday the sixteenth of April, the present month, for ready money, at twelve o'clock before the coffee house door of Alexandria that
Beautiful and Elegant Estate
Formerly the property of Mr. Walter S. Alexander, well known by the name of ABINGTON and now under lease to the Mr. Wises for a term of years at three hundred and sixty dollars per annum, with other useful stipulations. Reference to the said lease will fully shew this valuable estate is bounded by the river Potomac a considerable distance, about one mile from the contemplated bridge over the river to the city of Washington, and two and a half miles from Alexandria, the road as laid off from one to the other runs nearly through the centre of this estate containing about four hundred and twenty five acres; a good and indisputable title will be made by the subscriber who is legally authorised as may be seen by the title papers in the hands of Robert I. Taylor, esq. attorney at law, who will give every necessary information. Under the peculiar situation which occasions the sale of this valuable and increasing property men of money will find it greatly to their advantage to attend the sale.
At the same time and place will be sold,
A Tract of Land
Leased for a term of years to William Frazier, where he now lives, lying on the Georgetown road, and adjoining the Abington estate formerly a part thereof, containing about 50 acres: if not sold in Alexandria on the day specified, they will be exposed to sale on Tuesday the nineteenth day of April in the city of Washington before Stoll's Hotel precisely at five o'clock in the afternoon; any further information will be given by application to Robert I. Taylor, esq. or the subscriber in Alexandria.
B. Dade. eoff
April 5.
NOTICE.
THE creditors of Mr. Walter S. Alexander who have legal and just claims against him prior to the 20th April 1807, are requested to make them known to the subscriber as soon as possible, or at any rate before the 16th instant. He flatters himself there is but few now and them small, as he has already paid very many sums to different people in town to a large amount.
B. Dade. eo3t.
April 5.
NOTICE.
On SATURDAY the 23d of this month the subscriber will offer at Public Sale at the Coffee House,
A Lot of Ground,
On the west side of Alfred street, beginning at the distance of 156 feet 7 inches to the north of Cameron street, extending 20 feet in front on Alfred street, in depth 123 feet, 5 inches.
—A L S O,—
A Lot on the north side of Cameron street, beginning at the distance of 50 feet to the west of Alfred street, extending 20 feet in front on Cameron street, in depth 108 feet to a ten feet alley.
The above property will be sold under the authority of a deed of trust, from John W. Turner and Hannah his wife, to the subscriber dated the 6th day of August, 1807, to secure the payment of $258 6 cents, with interest from the 15th April, 1807.
Noblet Herbert, Trustee.
April 6. eots.
JUST PUBLISHED
And for Sale at the Book-Store of JAMES KENNEDY, SEN. King-street, Alex'a.
A NEW AND GREATLY IMPROVED FAMILY PHYSICIAN, ENTITLED The Planter's & Mariner's MEDICAL COMPANION.
By JAMES EWELL, Physician at Savannah.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
In testimony of the merits of this work, the following certificates presented by some of the most distinguished Medical characters of the United States, are inserted.
Philadelphia, Dec. 31, 1807.
SIR, I have read your book, entitled "The Planter's and Mariner's Medical Companion" with pleasure, and think it worthy the attention of the citizens of the United States.
W. SHIPPEN, M. D. Professor of Anatomy.
Philadelphia, Dec. 31, 1807.
DEAR SIR, I have carefully perused your work, just printed, entitled "The Planter's and Mariner's Medical Companion." I take much pleasure in expressing my entire approbation of the plan of the work, and of the utility with which you have conducted your enquiries. Your book cannot fail to be a very acceptable present to the public in general, and especially of our own countrymen. I really am of opinion, that you are entitled to much praise for the pains which you have taken in furnishing us with a work, such as the "Medical Companion," the want of which has long been experienced among us.
With sincere wishes for your health and happiness, and for the continuance of your usefulness,
I remain, my dear sir, Your friend, &c. B. S. BARTON, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica, Natural History and Botany.
Dr. James Ewell.
December 28th, 1807.
I have read "The Planter's and Mariner's Medical Companion," by Dr. James Ewell, of the state of Georgia, with pleasure and satisfaction. It is a book containing a variety of matter in a small compass. The practice which he recommends in diseases, is modern and judicious, and the work cannot fail of being useful, in all families in the United States.
JAMES WOODHOUSE, M. D. Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. James Ewell.
Philadelphia, Dec. 26th, 1807.
DEAR SIR, I have looked over "The Planter's and Mariner's Medical Companion" with great pleasure, and not a little instruction. I find it an excellent remembrancer of much that I have already learnt from other works, and from professional experience. Being better adapted to the general circumstances of the United States than any other production of the kind hitherto published, it cannot fail to prove an invaluable "Companion" to those remote from medical aid. That all your views in the publication of it may be more than realised, is the sincere wish of
Your friend and obedient servant, Charles Caldwell, M. D.
Dr. James Ewell.
Philadelphia, December 29, 1807.
DEAR SIR, The work entitled, "The Planter & Mariner's Medical Companion," which you were good enough to submit to my examination, I have read very attentively, and I consider it the most useful popular treatise on medicine, ever published.
The writings of Tissot, Buchan, and Reese, on this subject, have deservedly acquired reputation, but their practice is adapted rather to the diseases of the countries in which they lived, than to those of our own.
A well digested work, in a style plain and familiar, which should inculcate a practice suited to the diseases of the United States has been long required. You have now supplied the want. I trust that your very valuable book may be widely circulated. It is certainly calculated to do much good. Every family should purchase and carefully read it.
N. Chapman, M. D.
Lecturer on midwifery, and the diseases of women and children.
Dr. James Ewell.
DEAR SIR, I have carefully perused your "Medical Companion," and have much pleasure in asserting that it abounds with excellent observations, well calculated to convey valuable instruction to all who are not possessed of regular information on the subjects of which it treats. It is easy of comprehension, and has an important advantage in being short, whilst it leaves little that is essential unnoticed. Heads of families will find it a useful guide on many interesting occasions. Were indeed, men in general to give more attention to the principles of diseases, and the means of remedying them, their ravages might be much more extensively mitigated. With my best wishes for your success in your endeavors to lessen the sum of human evils, I beg you to be assured, that I am, dear sir yours with sincere regard,
John Crawford, M. D.
Baltimore, 7th March, 1808. To Dr. James Ewell.
Baltimore, March 3d, 1808.
DEAR SIR, We have read over your publication entitled the "Planter's and Mariner's Medical Companion" with much satisfaction, and consider it as meriting esteem for the concise & accurate history which it gives of the various diseases of the human body, (few if any of which, we believe are omitted) and the method of cure, which, is both rational and agreeable to our experience. We are happy that you have made use of the new facts that have occurred in medicine, in that plain and easy manner which renders them easy to be comprehended and acted upon by persons of moderate knowledge in disease. We can recommend it, with propriety, to that class of citizens who have not an opportunity or means of procuring regular medical advice, and consider it as fully answering the intention of your benevolence to people of these states, in its compilation.
We are your well wishers, Littlejohn & Donaldson. Dr. James Ewell.
DEAR SIR, We have perused your book, entitled the "Planter's and Mariner's Medical Companion," with much satisfaction, and strongly recommend it to the attention of those families who cannot with convenience procure medical aid. We think it the best publication we have ever read, on the domestic treatment of diseases, more especially as it regards those of our climate.
We are, Very respectfully, Sir. Your most obedient servants, Brown & Mackenzie. Baltimore, 4th March, 1808. Dr. James Ewell.
SIR, I have read your work on Domestic Medicine, with pleasure. The practice recommended in it is, I think judicious, and I have no doubt that the solitary planter and the voyager, secluded from medical aid, will often be under great obligations to you. Your work is the first that has been written for family use in this country, and being from the pen of a native physician, has great advantage over the publications of Buchan and Tissot. If its dissemination shall prove equal to what it merits, you will soon have a call for another edition.
I am, with respect, John Shaw, A. M. Professor of Chemistry, in the College of Medicine of Maryland.
DEAR SIR, I have looked over your "Medical Companion" with pleasure and satisfaction, and approve of the design. The arrangement of the various parts is judicious, the language is plain and perspicuous, and the sentiments happily condensed—the modes of treatment grow out of the most improved state of our science, and may serve not only as a safe and useful guide to the "Planter and Mariner," but are well calculated from their intrinsic merit to suggest hints to the medical practitioner.
Every family, cut off from the regular services of able physicians, would in my opinion, with advantage, possess one of your volumes.
Accept the homage of my regard.
John B. Davidge, M. D. Professor of Anatomy, Surgery, &c. in the College of Medicine of Maryland.
Baltimore, Feb. 19, 1808.
George Town, Columbia, March 3d, 1808.
DEAR SIR, The ample testimonials of approbation prefixed to your work, entitled "The Medical Companion" will I hope, secure you the patronage of your countrymen.
It belongs exclusively to the real physician to be able to determine the merit of medical compositions; and your book has auspiciously conciliated the unequivocal commendations of medical names of common note.
Few physicians meet with the rewards of their well meant and laborious exertions in the cause of humanity: but that your laudable exertions may be liberally rewarded is the sincere wish of
Yours,
John Weems, M. D.
Dr. James Ewell. March 17. 218w4
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.
Wholesale purchasers may be supplied on advantageous terms.
Richard Horwell.
March 25. dom
Mount-Washington for Sale.
I will sell my FARM in Fairfax county, and give immediate possession. It is less than three miles from Alexandria, and six from the George-Town ferry—the distance from the projected bridge will be less—the house stands on an elevated hill, and over, looks the City, Alexandria, the river, with the shore, and hills of Maryland. The house which I erected, and is nearly finished, consists of a center house two stories high, and wings of one, joined to it, by circular corridors, the north wing contains 2 small rooms, the front of it, and the corridor adjoining, intended for a green house, this leads to a drawing room—a dining room separated from it by the passage and stair-case, is next to the south corridor which contains 3 closets, and leads to the kitchen—two small rooms in this wing with the kitchen—a pump of excellent water at the door. The second story of the center house contains 3 chambers and a dressing room, with fire places—a large closet adjoins the dining room—one of the same size opens on the stair case, both fitted up with shelves—a store room in the garret, and cupolo on the house top, from whence is seen a delightful, variegated landscape, completes the description of the mansion house. A neat cottage accommodates laborers, and there are stables, a carriage house, and ice house; the farm contains 103 acres, 70 enclosed and cultivated, the rest in wood; this place boasts the finest collection of fruit that I have seen, besides every other sort; the list given to me was 800 apples, 800 peaches, and 300 cherry trees: I have added several hundred of the best kinds.—The garden consists of 12 large squares, the soil enriched and borders filled with fruit trees, and bushes; it is surrounded by a live cedar hedge, which also extends on each side of the house: the former proprietor possessed much taste, and collected many ornamental trees and shrubs, which are judiciously disposed about the grounds. The soil is suitable for grass, and the portion of ground devoted to timothy and clover, yield an abundant crop; it produced good wheat and oats last year, and I think with small expense may be rendered productive. Those who wish a residence, where health will be preserved, and convenience of intercourse with Alexandria, George-Town, and the seat of government, will find all combined in Mount-Washington . I will shew the premises and impart the terms of sale, upon applications by letters directed to the Post-Office, Alexandria.
ELIZA P. LAW.
ALSO FOR SALE,
Farming implements, an ox cart, two bar-shear ploughs with harness, one shovel plough, one iron toothed harrow, two scythes and cradles, spades, picks, &c.
March 15. d
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