Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1808-06-22 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
VOL. VIII.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1808.
[No. 2205.]
Sales at Vendue.
On every Tuesday and Friday, WILL BE SOLD At the Vendue Store, corner of Prince and Water streets. A Variety of Dry Goods, Groceries, &c. Particulars of which will be expressed in the bills of the day—All kinds of goods which are on limitation and the prices of which are established, can at any time be viewed and purchased at the lowest limitation and prices.
P. G. Marsteller, v. M.
HORWELL'S
Celebrated Patent Suspender.
FOR ease, elegance, strength, &c. far exceeds any in use. To be had wholesale or retail, at the manufactory, lower end of Prince-street, Alexandria. Wholesale purchasers may be supplied on advantageous terms.
Richard Horwell.
March 25 d6m
NOTICE.
THE Co-partnership of Catlett and Fisk, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
Chs. I. Catlett, Martin Fisk.
The business in future will be transacted by
CHS. I. CATLETT
April 1. d
JAMES SANDERSON,
Offers, or 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, Spirituous Liquors, Teas and Groceries.
PUBLIC SALE.
PURSUANT to a deed of trust bearing date the 7th day of February, 1807, and duly recorded, from Samuel Craig, late of the town of Alexandria, deceased, to the subscribers, for the purpose of satisfying certain debts due from the said Craig to the banks of Alexandria and Washington, will be sold on the premises to the highest bidder, at public auction, at 12 o'clock, on the 30th day of June next:
That handsome three story Brick dwelling House and Lot, In fee simple, situated in the town of Alexandria, west of Pitt street, on the north side of King-street, and fronting thereon 23 feet, 9 inches, and running back 119 feet, in depth.
ALSO, A neat, well finished, two story Brick dwelling house and lot, in fee simple, west of Water-street, on the south side of King-street, and binding thereon 27 feet, 10 inches, and running back 91 feet 6 inches to a ten foot alley.
The conditions of sale are one fifth the amount in cash, at the execution of the deed, and the remainder in equal payments at 6, 12, 18, and 24 months, on approved, indorsed notes negotiable in the bank of Alexandria, secured also by a lien on the premises.
John C. Vowell, } Trustees. William Ladd, }
May 20 d
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June 14
SHOES
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May 28.
Public Sale.
BY order of the Orphan's Court of Charles county, will be offered at public sale, on FRIDAY, the 24th day of June next, if fair; if not, the next fair day, at the residence of the subscriber—Part of the Personal Estate of Robert Alexander, late of Fairfax county, state of Virginia, deceased—consisting of NEGROES.
All persons having claims against said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, on or before the first day of December next; they may otherwise be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 21st day of May, 1808.
Benjamin I. Fendall.
Maryland, Charles County, Pomonky. d3w*
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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 barrels, Molasses, in hogsheads, Cod-Fish, in boxes, Cider, Potatoes, Beets, and Winter Pears, in barrels, Cheese, Cider Vinegar, in hogsheads and pipes.
For BOSTON, The fast sailing Schooner HAZARD , A. Newcomb, Master; Having excellent accommodations, will sail in three days. For passage apply to the Master on board at Lawrason's wharf. June 21. St*
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A. WILLIS.
Who has fitted up, at FORT WARBURTON, a handsome place for the accommodation of parties, adjoining an excellent spring, and his PACKET will attend every morning at Ricketts and Newton's wharf to convey such as feel a disposition to enjoy a little recreation at one of the handsomest places in this vicinity.—Private parties giving him notice the evening before, can be accommodated with every thing the season affords, and will spare no pains to give general satisfaction. June 21. St*
Public Sale.
BY virtue of a deed of trust from Alexander Smith to the subscribers, to secure the payment of a sum of money to the Bank of Alexandria, will be exposed to sale, on the premises, on WEDNESDAY, the 13th day of July next, a PIECE OF GROUND lying on the south side of Duke-street and west side of Water-street, being at the intersection of the streets, extending on Duke-street forty feet, on Water-street ninety-one feet six inches and 13 months, the purchase money, and also for the several payments negotiable at the Bank of Alexandria, with an approved indorser, and a deed of trust upon the property to secure the payment of the notes. James Keith, sen. James Keith, jun. June 21. dts
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on the evening of the 7th inst. a Bright Mulatto Man named BOB,
Who calls himself ROBERT THOMAS; About 5 feet 10 inches high, 24 or 25 years of age, has large black eye brows, large full eyes, not very dark, and is a stout well made handsome fellow. His hair is thick, but not quite straight, and he wears it nicely trimmed, combed and ridged on the top. His beard appears very black if suffered to grow for a day or two, but he usually shaves it very closely. He has recently received an injury on the fore finger of the left hand, and has it bound up, and may probably lose the first joint of it. He speaks deliberately, and is more correct in conversation than persons of his color usually are. He walks slowly, is a very good waiter, & delights particularly in attending to horses. He has a variety of cloaths, and took with him one dark green broadcloth coat and pantaloons with yellow buttons, one cloth coat and pantaloons nearly of the same color, but the cloth of inferior quality, with white metal buttons, one blue cloth coat much worn, one old brown surtout coat with covered buttons, a good hat, and a pair of black top boots. The rest of his apparel I am not able particularly to describe. He is fond of wearing boots, and pays great attention to his dress.
As he can read and write very well, he may probably produce a forged authority for him to pass, or procure the certificate of some one of the negroes, who, a few years ago, petitioned by the name of Thomas and obtained their freedom in Maryland. If taken out of the state of Maryland and district of Columbia, and secured in any jail, so that I get him again, the above reward will be given, or sixty dollars if taken and secured within the said state or district; all reasonable expenses will also be paid if he should be delivered to me in the city of Washington, or to Dr. Richard Duckett, in Prince George's county, Maryland. He is well acquainted in Annapolis, Baltimore, Geo. Town, and the city of Washington. Allen B. Duckett. Washington City, May 12-14. dtt

COMMODORE BARRON'S DEFENCE. [CONTINUED.]
To the 5th specification I shall only answer that it is opposed to the testimony of captain Gordon, who has certainly no disposition to speak more favorably of me than he thinks I merit; and to the representation of my conduct by numbers who saw me during the attack.
Wounded by many circumstances growing out of this affair, I acknowledge that none has been more mortifying and humiliating than the imputation conveyed by the next specification. It indirectly charges me with a desertion of my post, during the action; and by a refinement in malice, insinuates a motive for that desertion, which neither the evidence or opinion of the court of enquiry would permit to be directly charged: I mean a want of personal resolution. To this imputation, though sanctioned by official dignity, my honor and pride forbid me silently to submit. It presupposes that my duty ought to have made me stationary in some particular part of the ship during the attack. What is that station? There is none. My duty required me to be in such positions as would best enable me to observe the manoeuvres of my antagonist, and direct those of my own ship. Wounded by the first broadside, during the whole attack I never quitted the quarter deck. The witnesses concur in saying, that I was in the most exposed situations. The gangway (which persons unacquainted with naval affairs would infer from the charge to be a place of security and safety) is the only part of the vessel entirely unsheltered even from musket balls; and merits the emphatic appellation of "the slaughter house," given to it by one of the witnesses—How insatiable and cruel is that spirit of persecution, which deduced from the utmost exposure of my person, and a total contempt of individual danger, the disgraceful imputation of cowardice conveyed by this charge.
This question has been proposed in the words of the charge to many of the witnesses. It has been negatived by all of them. That I hailed the Leopard twice soon after her firing commenced, and said I would send my boat on board, is true. That mind is incapable of either generous or intelligent views, which will not distinguish between a ruse de guerre and an act of cowardice. My antagonists have done me more justice. They perceived my true motives. They discovered, and they acknowledged in this act, the only expedient for gaining time, to complete my preparations for battle. In the accounts of this transaction which they have published, they ascribe my hailing, not to a cowardly disposition to terminate the conflict, but to a wish to gain time to prepare my ship to maintain it with greater obstinacy. The beat of drum, in violation of my orders, had notified the British commander of my preparations to meet him. He instantly commenced the attack—My own crew I perceived were confused, and unprepared. A few moments were all important to my preparations. Was it criminal or cowardly, by an artifice of this sort, to attempt to amuse my enemy, till I was in a situation to repel him?
I deny that I ordered lieut. Smith to go into the boat, or that I gave him any message to be carried to the Leopard, during the attack. I will not detain you by an analysis of the testimony on this point. To those who will take the trouble to examine the details of the evidence given at this trial, and that before the court of enquiry, it will be a matter of curious speculation to enquire by what means such various & contradictory accounts should exist, in the representations of a transaction, so short in duration. There is scarcely any one circumstance, of which different representations are not made. It would defy even the powers of sir Isaac Newton to reduce them into chronological order—Take the trouble to analyse the statements on this head and you will perceive, the only order given to lieut. B. Smith to go into the boat, was given after the surrender.
The two remaining specifications may be comprised in one answer. It is not pretended that any expression calculated to disparit the crew was used by me, except those stated in the last specification, in which it is alledged that "I ordered the men to keep down; that they would all be cut to pieces."
The only witness who states (for I will not so misapply the word as to say proves ) these expressions, is Mr. Babet, a young midshipman, the only person who gave evidence on this head before the court of enquiry. He is positive even to a word, of the very terms which I used; and has stated them with all certainty as to time, place, manner and object. He however generously disclaims all imputation of fear to me, either when these expressions were used, or at any other time during the action; and kindly condescends to acknowledge, that he himself would have given the order, though he would not have used the terms which he imputes to me.—Without going into details, does not one circumstance appear singular? He is eminently intelligent and acute as you have witnessed. By what means has it happened that this gen-
tleman in every representation he has made, till his cross-examination before the court, should have made an impression on others, which he himself now disclaims? By what rule of honor and propriety can it be explained, that he has always permitted his auditors to suppose, from his manner of representing this circumstance, that I was under the influence of so disgraceful a passion, when he himself did not believe it? Can that mind be properly constituted, which would not feel it a duty of essential justice, to correct those injurious impressions, when he perceived they were made by his misrepresentations? This gentleman, considering his real shrewdness and intelligence, has indeed a wonderful faculty of communicating to others, an incorrect impression of his own opinions; and that too, when his auditors are not deficient in intelligence. To Mr. Elliot, Mr. Drayton, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Crump, and all of his brother midshipmen, he has contrived, in repeated conversations, to convey an opinion, in terms too, not very ambiguous, that one of the lieutenants had discovered a want of spirit during the attack, and had even sheltered himself behind the mast, but he, good soul, entertained no such opinion himself; and never meant that others should so understand him. When informed too, that constructions injurious to Mr. Smith's had been put upon his remarks; instead of nobly and honorably correcting the erroneous inferences which they had drawn, he permits these erroneous impressions to remain; and in the unfeeling language of a calculating heart, recommends only the concealment of these opinions, for their own interest. It is not merely as to opinion, that he is misunderstood, but as to fact; for three witnesses have positively proved his statement of a fact, which he has denied on a former examination.
This singular fact of being always misunderstood, is not to be imputed either to his own want of perspicuity; or the want of intelligence in his auditors—It may be more easily traced to that temper of mind [of all others the most detestable in an unhacknied youth] which dictated his admonitions to Mr. Elliot and Mr. Crump. Great God, is the honor of an officer to be blasted by such evidence!—Acquitted as I am by himself of all the guilt, which this specification derives from it, I will not take the trouble to analyze his statement, to expose its singularity, its incongruities, and its contradictions, to the unquestionable representations of the other witnesses.
The Judge Advocate, to support his credit, introduced two seamen (to use his own terms) as "corroborative witnesses." Now, I cannot perceive, how the testimony of one man, can be corroborated by that of others, unless there is a correspondence in the material parts of their statements. A diversity of statements in all the material parts, may produce the effect of making the testimony of each questionable, but can never corroborate the statements of either. Between these "corroborative witnesses" and Mr. Babet, there is, however, no one point of coincidence or contact; save only in their acquitting me of all unworthy conduct during the attack. The expressions they impute to me differ from his; and each differs from the other. The time and place in which they represent them to have been used, are not those mentioned by him; nor do they themselves agree in those particulars. The circumstances which led to the observations, and the object of the remark have no point of resemblance with those stated by Mr. Babet, or with each other. Canonical men, by any system of sophistry be persuaded, that a man whose statement is questionable, on his own credit; ought to be implicitly relied on, because two other men have sworn that different words, were used, at a different time and place, under different circumstances, and for a different object, from those the first had represented?
I will take occasion here to remark, that if I was capable of enjoying an unmanly pleasure at the expense of the feelings of others, I have abundant cause. Five persons who preferred the charge against me, have testified before you. One, the master, is convicted by his own testimony, of having neglected during the attack, that duty, which peculiarly belonged to him; while it is in proof that I, during the fire, gave orders to repair the damage, which he ought to have redressed—Another, Lieut. Smith, the only one of the many persons who saw me, during the attack, who has even insinuated any thing against my personal spirit (and on what slender circumstances he has done it, you have seen) has himself been the object of reproach and censure on that very point. Ought not his consciousness, if he is conscious, of the injustice done to his honor and spirit, by the inference derived from his position and conduct, to have restrained him from attempting to fix such a stigma on me, from the equivocal and trivial circumstance, which he has stated? A stigma, which he ought to have been less ready to attach to me, because it was opposed to his own representation of every other part of my conduct during the engagement.
The last offence with which I am charged is—"For not doing my utmost to take or destroy the Leopard, which it was my duty to encounter." Under this head there are many specifications.
1st. "In that the said ship Leopard did fire upon the said frigate Chesapeake, and that the said James Barron did fail suitably to repel said attack."
2d. "In that the said frigate Chesapeake was by order of the said James Barron surrendered to the said ship Leopard, at a time when the injuries sustained either on the frigate or her crew did not make such surrender then necessary."
3d. "In that the flag of the said frigate Chesapeake was by order of the said James Barron struck to the said ship Leopard, when the guns of the said frigate Chesapeake were loaded."
4th. "In that the flag of the said frigate Chesapeake was by order of the said James Barron struck to the said ship Leopard, at a time when the main deck battery of the said frigate Chesapeake was in a situation which would have enabled the return of a broadside in a very short time."
5th. "In that the flag of the said frigate Chesapeake was by order of the said James Barron struck to the said ship Leopard, without the said James Barron's having consulted any of his officers, as to whether the flag ought to be struck or not."
6th. "In that the flag of the said frigate Chesapeake was by order of the said James Barron struck to the said ship Leopard, before a single gun of any kind was fired from the said frigate Chesapeake."
The facts stated in these specifications are so articulated and subdivided, that it is impossible to reply to them separately; without diminishing the force of my defence, or subjecting you to the fatigue of repetitions—they may all be reduced to three heads:
1st. That more might have been done, to take, or destroy the Leopard after her attack, and before the surrender.
2d. That the surrender was not necessary, at the time when it was made.
3d. That the manner of surrender was improper.
I will not detain you, sirs, to defend myself on the first head. If more could have been done than was done, to take or destroy the Leopard, after her attack and before the surrender, the censure cannot fall on me. All the witnesses state that, prior to the surrender, not one gun could have been fired, either from the main or quarter-deck batteries, for want of supplies from the magazine. If this representation be true (and there is no reason to question it) I stand acquitted on the first head. If false, it belongs to those who had the means of annoying the Leopard, but who failed to use them, to account for the omission. For the surrender itself I alone am responsible, if either in the time, or manner of making it, there is cause for reprehension.
In judging of the necessity of this measure, you must ascertain the relative situations of the two ships, at the moment it was adopted. If our situation was such as to furnish no hope of success, or escape; if it precluded the expectation of even annoying my antagonist; if it presented no prospect, but the wanton and certain destruction of the crew, (a destruction embittered by the denial of the means of retaliation) there is not on earth one man of sound judgment, and correct heart, who will not declare that the surrender was proper—I address myself not to that man who speculating in safety on imaginary situations, spurns the dictates of reason and virtue; wickedly sports with the lives of his fellow beings; and in the arrogance of imaginary heroism, proclaims that, in every case surrender is dishonor. I speak to him of true spirit, and pure intelligence, who discriminates between noble and impracticable suggestions of false pride, and the manly and deliberate conclusions of genuine honor. The wisest and bravest men have yielded without dishonor. My conduct will, I hope, be tested by the honorable rules of real life; and not by the visionary standard of speculative quixotism.
It is admitted, that the Leopard was a two-decked ship of 60 guns, of very superior weight to those of the Chesapeake—the Chesapeake, a single-decked ship, mounting forty guns—the naval annals of the world furnish no instance of a capture, made by the smaller ship, in such a conflict. I mention this disparity not to justify the surrender; for such disparity of force can never, to a gallant officer, be a reason of yielding without a conflict. I mention it for the purpose of shewing, that in the highest state of discipline success could not reasonably have been expected. How much this disparity would be increased, by a want of order and discipline in the crew, every man of judgment will at once perceive. My crew was destitute of all order, discipline, and skill. Captain Gordon who had been in command
from February; whose duty I have proved it to have been, to accustom the men to the quarters, and the use of the guns; omitted even to assign their stations, in a few days before we sailed, and had once taught them to exercise the guns. Thus circumstanced, although my own honor and that of my country determined me to oppose to the last extremity a less demand; all impartial men will perceive that a surrender was finally inevitable. I am guilty, however, if it was premature.
If you are to judge, whether the surrender was necessary from the state of the ship at that moment; no man can condemn me. Whatever differences exist in the statements of the witnesses on other points, they all concur in declaring, that at the moment, they were not only unable to continue, but even to commence a fire. At that instant, there were neither matches, burnt logger-heads, powder-horns, cartridges and wads, in any of the divisions; and some, the guns themselves were not even virely prepared. The only gun which was fired, is represented to have been discharged, after the orders were given to strike the flag, and then by a coat of fire in the fingers of an officer. At that time too the hull and spars of the ship had suffered materially; twenty-three of the crew had been killed or wounded; and the residue were dispirited, and disheartened, not only by our known inferiority at the commencement of the attack, but by their sense of our entire inability to repel it. I say not this, sirs, in disparagement of the valor of the crew. In the situation of the batteries, it is no imputation on their bravery, that they should have felt the full force of these considerations, which forced from them the declaration, that "they would not s and without any thing to do, like sheep, to be shot at."
It is proved by Mr. Elliott and Mr. Norton, that in lieutenants Crane and Creighton's division, men not destitute of resolution, perceiving that for want of supplies from the magazine there were no means of firing on the Leopard, had some of them actually quitted their quarters, while others were lamenting the useless exposure of their lives. Our antagonist, meanwhile, greatly our superior at the commencement of the attack, was still uninjured, and flushed with the advantage she had acquired by our surprise. It has been insinuated, however, that though the actual state of the ship at the time of the surrender justified the measure; yet I cannot urge it, because it was not known to me. So a perversion of reason and justice! Shall I not be permitted to justify the act, by urging the reasons which are admitted to have made it necessary, unless I open to you the sources of my information? Be it so, however. And why is it insinuated that I did not know it? Because it is proved that reports were made to me? Weak and perverse insinuation! And were there no other modes, but reports from officers, by which I could ascertain the state of the ship? There were others, not less convincing and conclusive: others which led me to that opinion of her situation which the evidence has now established to be correct.
The Leopard, a two-decked ship, of greatly superior force; within fifty or sixty yards, and on a smooth sea; had been for fifteen or twenty minutes maintaining an incessant fire. Her object was not concealed by any surrounding smoke from our guns; nor her aim distracted by any returning fire. Could an officer doubt the effect of such a fire, even if his eyes and ears had not given testimony! In the effect of the first discharge, my aid and I had personally participated. One ball struck me just below my feet—Nothing could have produced a more absolute stupidity could have destroyed the destructive effect of such a fire on the crew. Of the injury in the spars and rigging, my eyes bare witnesses. These were the means of information which led me to the conclusion which the testimony has proved to be correct. I had still better means of knowing that the state of the divisions was not such as to enable them to commence the action. Various statements have been given of the time and continuance of the attack. It will be found on examination and comparison of these statements, that it continued at least fifteen minutes. This delay itself informed me. My accusers themselves will acknowledge the justification of a conclusion; the only one which could explain the omission of fire, consistently with their honor. If the means of commencing a fire existed, the officers of divisions would have been unmindful of what was due to themselves and their country; if they did not use these means. Let them decide if their not firing did not justify the conclusion,

that their divisions were not prepared to do so. Of the want of powder, matches, loggerheads, cartridges and every means of discharging a gun on the quarter deck! I had ocular evidence. These deficiencies, I not only observed, but as has been proved by Mr. Smith and Mr. Brooke, vainly endeavored to supply, I could not doubt, that the same causes which left the quarter deck unprovided with every means of firing a gun, occasioned the delay on the gun deck.
[To be continued.]
BY THIS DAY'S MAIL.
BALTIMORE June 21.
In a sudden squall on Saturday last, the 18th instant at 6 o'clock in the morning, Gun Boat No. 5, was upset off Holland's Island and sunk immediately. The purser's steward and two marines were drowned. The commandant, midshipman and remainder of the crew were taken up by captain Schneeman, of the schooner Victory which vessel was in sight when the accident happened, and in which they arrived at this port yesterday. This must be the same squall which upset the Norfolk Packet, captain Ferguson, as both accidents happened on the same day and at the same hour in the morning.
Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22.
Brig Nymph, Tyler, 30 days from Surinam has arrived at Newburyport. Left St. Eliza, Nov 20, to sail in two days, the only American there; captain N. had lost 6 of his people. Flour was 40 dollars per barrel and beef 90
ERIE, June 2.
We are informed by captain Dobbins, immediately from Buffalo, that information had been received there by letter, from Mr. Lee, collector of the American port at Fort Niagara, of his seizure of six boat loads of British goods, in consequence of an attempt to pass the fort without laying to or making report agreeable to law. The merchandise, says our informant, belonged to the North West trading company and is stored in the American warehouse at Niagara, to wait the issue of legal process.
Passed through this place, on Sunday last, 13 of the Wyandot and Seneca tribes of Indians, from Sandusky river, on their way to the head waters of Allegany river, with a friendly answer to a message which they are said to have received from the Seneca nation there. These wandering and almost exterminated tribes, manifest a pacific disposition, with a desire to cultivate friendship with the Americans.
DUEL.—On Thursday, the 25th ultimo, a duel took place between Mr. Joseph Haselbrough, junior, of Culpepper, and Mr. William Webb, of Orange, two students of Stephensburg Academy, Virginia. The former received the ball from his adversary's pistol in his left thigh, from which however it is hoped no serious danger will result, as the ball has been happily extracted. For this offence, committed in open violation of the laws of the academy, the young gentlemen have both been expelled. The secrecy with which this preposterous affair was conducted, deprived both the professors and trustees of the power of preventing it by a timely interference.
(Vir. Her.)
From the Philadelphia Register.
AMID the scenes of misery and distress, with which the desolating policy of an imbecile and prejudiced administration has overspread this once happy land, some consolation is derived from the reflection that those Philosophical Wills o' the Wisp , which have so long led us among the mires and bogs of French infatuation, are fast disappearing, and, with the next general election, must be extinguished forever.
Six months woful experience of EM BARGO POLICY has convinced the Farmer, the Merchant, the Mechanic, the Fisherman, the Sailor, and the Laborer, that their several interests have been sacrificed on the altar of cowardice, or at the shrine of corruption—and that even the honor and prosperity of their country, have been postponed to other considerations.
From the District of Maine to the territory of Orleans, and from the Lakes to the Atlantic (with the exception of place men and time-servers) there is but one opinion on the subject, and that opinion
is expressed in tones of the deepest indignation against the authors of this national and individual suffering. The depressed husbandman, trader, mechanic and laborer whose families have been plunged into unexpected and unmerited distress, have traced their ruin to its source, and they found it in the visionary theories of a moon-struck philosopher, whose experiments have lost to the United States, in suspended labor and wasted property (to say nothing of the prostration of national spirit,) a sum more than equal to the whole amount of the national debt! Whether the election of this man and his adherents, from the confidence of the American people, will form an adequate compensation for the wrongs that have been inflicted, remains to be seen.
We hope, with confidence, that the people, in their elective capacity, will do themselves the only justice that is left them—And that they will call to the administration of their affairs men, whose enlightened and honest minds, will perceive and pursue the best interests of their country, and whose brave hearts will with active valor (not by "restrictive energies" or self-destroying embargoes) boldly assert, and firmly maintain her rights against every aggressor.
GALVANISM.—Professor Robison has remarked, that drinking of porter out of a pewter pot, produces a more brisk sensation than when it is taken out of a glass vessel; and this he ascribes to a galvanic effect. In this instance, there is a combination of one metal and two dissimilar fluids. In the act of drinking, one side of the pewter pot is exposed to the saliva and the humidity of the mouth; while the other metallic side is left in contact with the porter. In completing the circuit in the act of drinking, a brisk and lively sensation arises, which imparts an agreeable relish to the porter. This gentleman has also carried the principle of galvanic influence so far, as to fancy, that snuff, taken out of a metallic snuff box, excites a more agreeable sensation, than when taken out of a box of tortoise shell, or papier maché .
The effect of the discoloration of a silver spoon, in the act of eating eggs, is likewise a curious galvanic operation. Carlisle has proved the existence of sulphur both in the yolk and in the albumen of an egg. A tea-spoon, left immersed into either of these substances, undergoes no discoloration; but the above remarkable phenomena takes place in the act of eating the egg; the extremity of the spoon which is most in the mouth, being always found to be the most discolored; hence, the galvanic combination in this instance, consists of the sulphurated solution, the silver tea spoon, and the saliva. Chemical philosophers assume it as a principle, that sulphurated hydrogen gas, is the substance that causes the discoloration; but in what manner does galvanism produce it? Greve has shewed, that in every galvanic operation water is decomposed; consequently, the presence of sulphur and the phenomena of the decomposition of water, readily solves the problem. The oxygen appears to combine with the metal, whilst the other principle, namely, the hydrogen of the water, unites with the sulphur of the egg, forms sulphurated hydrogen gas, the presence of which is necessary to produce the phenomena of discoloration. In fact, upon the principle of simple galvanic combinations, many curious phenomena are explicable.
Besides the above, another very important one is the following:
Formerly, in applying copper sheets to the bottom of ships, it being the custom to employ iron bolts, it was remarked that the copper soon become loosened in the part where the two metals were in contact, consequently, from the data assumed by galvanic philosophers, this arrangement constituted a simple galvanic combination of two dissimilar metals (iron and copper) the one a more oxidisable and the other a less oxidisable metal, and an interposed fluid was the sea water (the oxygenising fluid) being a solution (principally) of muriate of Soda, and the metallic substances which were noticed. In a similar arrangement, the iron, the most oxidisable metal, in becoming oxidized in the part more immediately in contact with the copper, is soon destroyed, and detached from the latter substance.
Galvani , in the commencement of the discovery of the important principle which we have cited, having one day suspended a frog on the iron pallisadoes contiguous to his house, for the convenience of dissection, and a silver probe which he employed, now and then casually touching the pallisadoes, was surprised to find, that, at every contact, the muscles were thrown into action; as he soon perceived that the same effects were not produced
when his scissors or forceps formed the medium between the frog and the iron railing, he was led to suspect that the convulsions were produced by the influence of two different metals; hence, we are informed, originated Galvanic electricity . (Aurora.)
A gentleman has invented a Thermometer, which will ascertain the heat of a woman's blood in a scolding fit! (Lond pap.)
MEMORY.—A FRAGMENT.
FAR from my native vale, and oppressed with the existing evils of life, my mind wandered into the garden of Memory to seek for consolation. She led me to the bank where in my infancy I had plucked the earliest flower to deck my garland of delight. We then entered a grove, where all the companions of my youth were assembled, and the song and the dance went round on the daisy enamelled green. We then retired to a sequestered spot, where the Muse seated herself by my side and taught my faltering tongue to breathe the effusions of my soul—here I beheld Fame , high seated in the clouds, who, I thought, beckoned to me, and held a wreath of laurel in her hand. I then visited many a path where the softer Passions attended on all my steps—and where Hope and Expectation joined us in our walk, and pointed out the distant regions of Happiness . Absorbed in this vision of past times, my mind, for a while forget its sorrows. The vision was too delicious not to be repeated—till charmed by each sweet remembrance, I resolved to revisit in person, the scenes which in the eyes of Memory appeared so replete with Enjoyment !
I arrive—I trace them all—but alas! what a change! The hills and vallies remained, but all beside were so much altered, that they no longer bore resemblance to what Memory had represented them! The pastoral streams had been converted into mill ponds & the groves once dedicated to Pleasure , which adorned its margin, were levelled with the ground! "These alterations, said I, may be profitable to a few sordid individuals, but they are death to a sentimental traveller who revisits his paternal fields after years of absence." Almost every habitation had undergone a transformation, and I knew not the people that possessed them! Of those that passed me in my walks, few were the faces which I could recognize! but innumerable were those whom I had never seen before; and I was a stranger in my native vale! I enquired after the lovely maids, and the youths who had once formed our circle of happiness, and I was conducted to many an urn raised o'er the relics of Juvenile beauty, and to many a stone that covered the remains of many an untimely departed friend! And all these things had happened in the short period of a few years!
My mind sickened at the view, and I found that Memory by preserving the scenes of past enjoyments, does but augment the force of existing evils. I returned pensively home, and invoked sleep to compose my agitated spirit—sleep which in the absence of positive pleasure, is the first blessing in life.
SHIP NEWS.
Port of Baltimore. ENTERED, Schooner Fame, captain B. Dangerfield, 14 days from St. Bartholemews—Sugar and Coffee—R. Veitch & Co. and N. Wattles & Co. This is one of the vessels that sailed from this port in ballast. Flour 20 dollars, corn 3 dollars per bushel. Flour was 22 dollars at Antigua. Brig Betsey, Nelson, Charleston—Rice and Cotton—to Phineas Janney. Schooner Eliza, Mullen, Kinsale. Polly and Sally, Scully, Baltimore. Louisa, Collen, Vienna. Sloop Friendship, Imley ditto. CLEARED, Sch. William & Mary, Butts, Norfolk. Union, Jones, Snowhill. Kind Providence, Jones, Kinsale.
Riflemen—Attention.
THE Members composing the Rifle Company, are requested to meet at Mr. John Lomax's tavern, on Wednesday Evening the 22d instant, at 7 o'clock. Punctual attendance is required, as matters of importance will be laid before them relative to their corps.
H. Field, Serjeant.
June 20.
NOTICE.
THE Constables give notice, that they have been directed to give their attention to the execution of the following section of the law for diminishing the number of DOGS in the town of Alexandria, and that they shall proceed to execute the same. June 22.
SEC. 4.—And be it further enacted, That all animals of the dog kind, kept within the town, shall wear a collar about their necks with the owner's name at length, at all times, on penalty of two dollars, to be paid by the owner or harborer of said animal; one half to the informer and the other half to the use of the corporation; to be recovered by warrant before any magistrate or the mayor for the time being; and said animal not having such collar, shall be forthwith killed or destroyed by the constables of the town.
FOR SALE, A SHARE in the Alexandria Library. Apply to the Printer, June 22.
FOR SALE, A likely young NEGRO MAN—he is accustomed to farming work and is a tolerable good coarse shoemaker. Apply to the Printer, June 22.
PROFILES.
FOUR FOR TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. JOHN MCCONNACHO, has taken a room next door to the old bank, where this truly ingenious machine is in operation.
John M c Connacho presumes to hope for the patronage of the ladies and gentlemen of Alexandria, as it has been his study, for these three years, in N. York, Baltimore, Norfolk, Richmond, Newbern, N. C. Charleston, S. C. and other small towns.
All Profiles will be stamped "John Connacho's patent." The style of cutting and penciling the hair can be seen at the room. Those ladies and gentlemen who would wish to have their Profiles retaken, can have them, or their money returned, provided they return the first set.
Profiles will be neatly framed at the room, June 22.
ORPHANS' COURT,
Alexandria County, June term, 1808. ORDERED, That Hugh Carolin, administrator of James Carolin, deceased, do insert the following advertisement twice in each week for 4 weeks, in the Alexandria Daily Advertiser. Teste,
ALEXANDER MOORE, Reg.
This is to give Notice.
That the subscriber, of Alexandria county, in the district of Columbia, hath obtained from the Orphan's Court of said county letters of administration on the personal estate of James Carolin, late of the county aforesaid 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 22d day of December 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 22d day of June, 1808.
Hugh Carolin, Adm r . of James Carolin. June 22.
NOTICE.
THE Members of the Alexandria Library Company are respectfully informed, that on account of the new arrangements now making in the Library, no Books can be delivered till Thursday morning at 11 o'clock; when CATALOGUES will be ready at 50 cents each, payable on delivery.
James Kennedy, senr.
LIBRARIAN. June 20.
Alexandria Theatre.
THE PUBLIC are respectfully informed that the above THEATRE will open on Tuesday Evening, June 28, and continue open every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, & SATURDAY, until further notice. Particulars of the first performance will be given in a future advertisement.
June 16.
We are authorised to state that the Occoquan Bridge is finished, and ready for the accommodation of passengers. May 20.

WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A PAMPHLET AT THIS OFFICE IN A SHORT TIME,  AN ADDRESS TO THE  PEOPLE OF THE U. STATES, ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ENCOURAGING  AGRICULTURE & DOMESTIC MANU-  FACTURES: Tending to show that by a due encourage- ment of these essential interests, the na- tion will be rendered more respec- table abroad and more prosper- ous at home. TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF  The Improvements in Sheep at Ar-  lington, The native Sheep of Smith's Island, and the plans proposed of extending this valuable race of animals, for the benefit of the country at large: By GEORGE W. P. CUSTIS Esq. Of Arlington House, in the District of Co- lumbia.
AT a time when the energies of the na- tion seem awakened to the state of our for- eign and domestic concerns, we conceive that the important interests of Agriculture and Manufactures should meet with a con- siderable share of the public discussion. Cer- tain it is, that at no period of our political history could these national subjects excite more interest or be more properly urged to the notice of the public mind. The unsettled and impending appearance of our foreign af- fairs, and the present disturbed state of the European world, renders it doubly necessary for the citizens of America to cherish and promote their domestic policy, whereby they may derive those resources which are now obtained from abroad and create wealth and industry within themselves. Too long have these important and patriotic interests been neglected. The nation now feels their want, and we trust will duly provide for their sup- port. Government, hitherto engaged in other concerns, will now cherish those domestic institutions, which will preserve the nation's dignity and promote the people's welfare. Of the merits of the little work we are about to issue to the public, it is not our pro- vince to decide, but of the advantages to be derived from its sale we would beg leave to say every thing which a disinterested exertion in the cause of Domestic Manufacture justly demands—And as the profits of this work, after the expenses of publication are paid, will be solely devoted to the purposes of the Arlington Institution, we may hope and con- fidently expect a liberal patronage from a discerning and patriotic community. EDITOR. Printers in the U. States will please to give this advertisement an insertion in their respective papers, and such as demand it will be paid at this office. Booksellers supplied on liberal terms, and all orders will be punctually attended to. Alex. 18th June, 1808.
WHEREAS JOHN CLOPPER hath, by his petition in writing, applied to the honorable Nicholas Fitzhugh, one of the assistant judges of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, to be admitted to the benefit of the act of Congress, for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district aforesaid, and has stated therein that he is in actual con- finement in the jail of Alexandria county at the suit of EVE BOYER and be- ing unable to discharge the said claim with others against him, has offered to deli- ver up to the use of his creditors, all his property, real, personal and mixed—Notice is therefore given, to the creditors of the said JOHN CLOPPER that on Monday, 27th inst. between the hours of 7 and 3 o'clock of the same day, at the court house in Alexandria, the oath of an insolvent debtor will be admin- istered to the said JOHN CLOPPER, and a trustee appointed agreeably to the said act of congress, unless cause be then & there shown to the contrary. By order of the honorable Nicholas Fitz- hugh one of the assistant judges of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, this 20th day of June, 1808. G. Deneale, C. C. June 20.
Patent Shot, &c. 2 tons Patent Shot, assorted, B to no. 7. 15 hogsheads brown Sugars. 2000 lbs. green Coffee. Imperial Tea, of a very superior quali- ty, in quarter chests, boxes and can- nisters. 50 barrels choice Whiskey, Jamaica Spirits, (for family use)—war- ranted seven years old. 40 boxes Muscatel Raisins. With a general assortment of Wines, Li- quors, and Groceries as usual— FOR SALE BY Joseph Mandeville, Corner of King and Fairfax streets. June 15.
New-York Lottery. First drawn number, this morning, being the 40th day of drawing, is entitled to  10,000 Dollars. THE CAPITAL PRIZE OF  25,000 Dollars is still in Wheel. Total gain of the wheel 20,630 Dollars, on the close of the 39th day's drawing. Present price of Tickets 15 Dollars, and but few on hand. R. GRAY. June 7.
LENT OR LOST, The first volume of Chesterfield's Letters; WHOEVER has borrowed or found it will please to return it, or call and pay for the sett. ROBERT GRAY. The American Artillerists Companion, or  ELEMENTS OF ARTILLERY, BY LOUIS DE TOUSARD, Late Lieut. col. commandant of the 3d and inspector of artillery of the U. S. No 1st and 2d of the above work FOR SALE BY R. GRAY.
Just Received and For Sale BY R. GRAY, King-street,  SECRET HISTORY; or,  The Horrors of St. Domingo. In a series of letters written by a lady at Cape Francois to Colonel BURR, late Vice- President of the United States.—Price $1.
MODERN CHIVALRY, Containing the adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan, his servant, by H. H. Brack- enridge, 2 vol. 12. mo.—Price $2 50 cents. A New System of Domestic Cookery, Formed upon principles of economy and a- dapted to the use of private families.—Price 87 1/2 cents. March
A Brick House for Sale. THE Brick House occupied by Mrs. M- cholls, on the north side of Prince- street, between Fairfax and Water-streets, is offered for sale on a liberal credit. For par- ticulars 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 Tickenburghs, Burlaps, and Checks and Stripes. 1000 pieces Nankin Russia Sheeting 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 hhd Molasses 1 pipe port Wine 10 do. Holland Gin 5 do. French Brandy 7 do. Jamaica Spirits. A quantity of soap Leather, Shoes, Sper- maciti and Tallow Candles, Cheese, &c &c. April 7. d
TO RENT, (And immediate possession given) NEAR THE EXTREMITY OF THE PAVEMENT On Prince-Street. A TWO-STORY BRICK HOUSE, with an elegant garden, and all necessary buildings thereto, complete. The premises occupy one half acre of ground, on one of the best situations and best constructions, equalled by few, (if any) exceeded by none in Alexan- dria of its size; it has also a pump of excel- lent water, approved of by the best judges, besides a well in the garden for its exclusive use, and is every way calculated to accommo- date a genteel family, from such a moderate rent will be taken. Now building and will be ready to RENT about the first of August, FOUR HOUSES, on Washington-street, the situ- ations are good, and the buildings will be very convenient and neatly finished, for private families, or public business—and a House or two, near Messrs. Marsteller and Young's wharf. For terms apply to, Robert Brocket. June 1. 2aw
AT a meeting of the Pre- sident and Directors of the Pennsylvania Cop- per Mine Company, on the 3d day of June, 1808, it was resolved to call a general meet- ing of the Stockholders to take into consid- eration the present state of their concerns. I do hereby notify them, that the said meeting will be held on the 24th day of June aforesaid, at 10 o'clock, in the forenoon, at GADSBY's hotel, in Alexandria; when and where they are requested to attend. JOHN POTTS, President June 11. 2aw
Wanted Immediately, A quantity of good clean FLAXSEED, for cash, by Daniel Macleod, Painter, Bottom of King-street. June 15.  Fifteen Dollars Reward. Ran away from the subscriber yesterday morning, a Mulatto Boy named JACK GIB- BY, a cooper by trade, 19 years of age, a slim fellow and speaks coarse—The above reward will be paid for apprehending and de- livering said fellow to his master. All persons are cautioned against harboring or employing him, as the law will be put in force against offenders. Levi Talbert. June 20. sit
Fort Warburton Packet. THE subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has equipped the above Pack- et in a very elegant manner, and will sail from Rickett's and Newton's wharf for Fort War- burton, every morning at 8 o'clock, and re- turn to Alexandria in the afternoon.— The Packet will be constantly supplied with a choice collection of stores for the entertain- ment of passengers, and every exertion used to render the utmost satisfaction. Abel Willis. WHO HAS FOR SALE AT HIS STORE, 1500 wt. excellent Rhode Island Cheese 200 bush. of seed potatoes. Lemons in boxes. Excellent Herrings in barrels. Groceries as usual. May 18. d3t* etf.
District of Columbia, to wit. NOVEMBER TERM, 1807. George Deneale, complainant. AGAINST Stephen Cooke, defendant. In Chancery THE said defendant, Stephen Cooke, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this district, on motion of the complainant, by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of July term next, and answer the complainants bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the public newspapers published in this coun- ty, for two months, successively, and that ano- ther copy be posted at the front door of the court house of the said county. A copy. Test, G. Deneale, C. C.
The subscriber will Sell. On a credit of 6 12 and 8 months, either of the HOUSES occu- pied by Messrs. Gray, and Shreve, on King street; or of the HOUSES on the same street occupied by Messrs. Sloan, and Nelson; sev- eral 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 the subscriber, near Leesburgh, Loudoun county. S. COOKE. April 14. law
Public Sale. BY virtue of a deed of trust from Andrew Parks to the subscriber, for the purpose of securing a debt due from the said Parks to William A. Washington, will be exposed to sale, for ready money, on the premises, on MONDAY, the 11th day of July next, if fair; otherwise on the next fair day; a tract of LAND, in the county of Jefferson, state of Virginia, containing 88 acres—Also ano- ther Tract adjoining the above mentioned, containing 222 acres, three rods and thirty- four perches. Henry S. Turner. June 6. law5w
TO RENT. THE subscriber offers to rent for one or more years, adjoining the place where- on he now lives, a Blacksmith's shop, with a complete set of Tools, a Dwelling House in comfortable condition, calculated for a fami- ly, together with between three and four acres of very rich land.—From several years expe- rience, I can with truth declare, that there can be no better stand for a blacksmith than the one now offered to let. Thomas B. Moreland. Maryland, Broad-Creek, } December 9—(15.) } lawtf N. B. If I dont rent the fine stand, I will give good wages to a young man, or a man with a family. T. B. M.
Irish Linens. A small invoice of yard wide and 7-8 Irish Linens, just received and for sale by John G. Ladd. May 31.
JAMES BACON, At his GROCERY STORE, on King-street, has in addition to his former stock, added A fresh Supply of Genuine Articles in the Grocery Line Which makes his assortment complete. He now offers for sale, on his usual low terms Muscovado Sugars, of various qua- lities, Loaf and Lump ditto, Gunpowder, Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson-Skin, and Souchong Best green Coffee, Chocolate, of a superior quality Madeira, Busellos, Sherry, Lisbon, Teneriffe, Malaga, and Genuine old Port Cognac and Bourdeaux Brandy, Old Jamaica Spirit, for family use, Antigua, St. Croix, St. Vincents, and New England Rum, Holland Gin, Irish and country Whisky, Molasses, Wine, and Cider Vinegar, Stoughton's Bitters, Mace, nutmegs, cloves, cassia, pimento, Cayenne and black pepper, race and ground Ginger, basket salt for table use, dear barley rice, starch, fig blue, soap, mould, dip and spermacceti candles, refined salt-petre, indigo, alum, copperas, madder, brimstone, spinning cotton, patent shot all sizes, best english and country made gunpowder, segars and smoking tobacco, very best chewing tobacco. Hamilton and Leiper's snuff, Hunter's pipes in boxes. London mustard, warranted of a superior quality, Dixon's best ditto, wrapping paper demijohn's, &c. &c. with generally every article in his line—the whole of which have been collected with care, and will be disposed of at the very lowest terms Joseph Mandeville CORNER OF KING AND FAIRFAX STREETS, ALEXANDRIA: HAS FOR SALE, An assortment of WINES, LI- QUORS, GROCERIES, &c. Consisting of MADEIRA Port Sherry Lisbon Malaga Teneriffe & Corsica Old St. Estephe Medoc Iaret, in cases of one dozen A few dozen fine old frontinac Ditto do. best wine bitters Jamaica and West-India rum New-England do. Cogniac, Bourdeaux and Naples brandy Holland and country gin Schiedam gin in cases Irish whiskey, very old 70 barrels Pennsylvania rye whiskey Cider in barrels White wine and Cider vinegar Florence oil in flasks 2 hogsheads Havanna honey 15 do. choice retailing molasses Gunpowder Imperial Hyson Young Hyson Hyson-Skin and Souchong TEAS of good quality Muscovado sugars, different qualities Bengal white do. Loaf and Lump sugars, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Alexandria. Leiper's, Garrett's, and Hamilton's snuff in bottles and bladders. Macuba and rapee do. Clover-seed, (Penn. warranted) Mace; nutmegs; cloves; cassia; pimento; pepper; ginger, race and ground; Cayenne pepper; refined salt-petre. Coffee; chocolate; rice; pearl barley; London and Philadelphia mustard; basket salt; starch; fig blue; floatant indigo; Georgia and Tennessee cotton; flax; wool; madder; copperas; alum; brimstone; chalk; pipes in boxes; wrapping paper and twine; traces; bed cords; leading lines; demijohns; gin cases; patent shot; brandy wine gunpowder; Harvey's gunpowder, [the only real Pat. fish battle powder] from F to treble sealed; chewing tobacco; best Havanna segars. Muscatel and bloom raisins in boxes. Sun raisins in casks. Zante currants; prunes; soft shelled almonds. A few boxes excellent pickles, each one dozen bottles assorted; capers, olives and an-choies, for sale by the box. A quantity of clean good allum salt suitable to the fishery, &c. &c.
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