Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political (Alexandria [Va.]), 1809-07-04 00:00:00

Sales at Vendue.
every Tuesday and Friday, WILL BE SOLD the Vendue Store, corner of Prince and Water streets. Variety of Dry Goods, Groceries, &c. Particulars of which will be expressed in bills of the day—All kinds of goods which are on limitation and the prices of which are established, can at any time be sold and purchased at the lowest limitation prices.
P. G. Marsteller, v. M.
COTTON.
30 bales PRIME UPLAND COTTON, for sale by the subscriber, at a very moderate price and on a liberal credit.
Joseph H. Mandeville.
Just Published, BY COTTON AND STEWART, And for sale at their Store, (Price One Dollar) The Exile of Erin. A NOVEL.
By Mrs. Plunkett—late Miss Gunning. January 6.
Cotton and Stewart
Have just published their ALMANAC for 1809. Containing a great deal of useful and entering matter. For sale by the thousand, or single one.
Plastic Three-slit Metallic Pens.
Price One Dollar— Just received by ROBERT GRAY.
ALSO, A general assortment of Lee's Patent Family Medicines, AND Rogers' Vegetable Pulmonic Detergent. March 17.
Just Received
FOR SALE BY R. GRAY, A few copies of the works of FISHER AMES, Compiled by a number of his friends—to which are prefixed notices of his life and character. Price $3 50 in boards. May 17.
FRESH FRUIT.
The subscriber has just received and offers for sale, Malaga Raisins in kegs, Muscatel and Bloom Raisins boxes. ALSO, 36 bags and 12 barrels Coffee. James Patton. April 19.
ROBERT GRAY,
HAS JUST RECEIVED The following new Songs SET TO MUSIC:
The Lay of Love, written by J. L. Lewis, Esq. The music composed by Dr. J. Clarke. Price 25 cents. The Home of my Heart, a Ballad, sung by Mr. Ingleton, and composed by Mr. E. D. Price 25 cents. Twice Forward, a favorite Cotillion, adapted to the new song of No, no, no, it can't be so. Price 25 cents. The Days that are gone, a Ballad, with an accompaniment for the piano forte, composed by Dr. Clarke. Price 37 1-2 cents. On a beautiful Butterfly, burnt in a ballad. Price 12 1-2 cents. June 6.
Joseph Mandeville,
CORNER OF KING AND FAIRFAX STREETS, Has Received, 100 half boxes Rousett's CIGARS, warranted of the very first quality full contents. Real Maccouba Snuff, Rappée do. Coarse and Fine, 100 boxes fresh MUSTARD, Philadelphia CHOCOLATE, 1st quality.
—HE HAS ALSO, General Assortment as usual, good WINES, LIQUORS, and GROCE, for sale. December 21.
New-England Rum.
Thirty barrels, for sale by Joseph Mandeville, Corner of King and Fairfax streets June 21.
For Sale
BY THE SUBSCRIBER, Best Bristol Porter Bottles, In hampers containing one groce each. Wm. Dunlap. June 27.
JAMES BACON
Begs leave to inform his former customers and friends, that he has Recommended the Grocery Business, At his Store on King near Washington-street.
WHERE HE OFFERS FOR SALE, A well chosen assortment of goods, in that line,
Warranted genuine, particularly his TEAS, WINES & LIQUORS, Which are of a superior quality—He will dispose of each and every article on the most moderate terms. May 7.
ICE.
A quantity of clean ICE for sale at seventy five cents per bushel. APPLY TO J. Hodgkin, or Joshua Lowing. June 27.
Fire Engine for Sale.
WARRANTED in complete order:—made in Philadelphia—the property of the Friendship Fire Company—who have purchased a larger one, and will sell this, a great bargain, for a very inconsiderable sum. The owners of mills, or a small town, by a union, may have the means of saving much valuable property from the flames. The Engine may be seen and the terms known by application to either of the subscribers, who are duly authorised to dispose of the same. Nicholas Hingston, John Horner, John Rea. June 27.
Forty Dollars Reward.
Left my service on Thursday last, NEGRO LEWIS, about 18 years old, not very black, supposed to be between 5 feet 6 and 5 feet 8 inches high, straight and rather slender made, two of his upper front teeth gone, which leaves a considerable gap—his dress not recollected, except when he went off he had on a coarse drab colored roundabout jacket and blue mixed kersey pantaloons much worn & had been patched with striped home-made cloth—he may change his cloaths, as his acquaintance in the county and Alexandria and neighborhood is extensive—he is slovenly in his apparel, pert, talkative and assuming among his equals.
ALSO, ON NEXT MORNING, NEGRO EMANUEL, 30 years of age, 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, stout made across the shoulders, large feet, very much knock-kneed, which occasions an appearance of a rocking motion in walking, of a lighter shade than Lewis; his cloaths not known, as he has sundry and frequently changes them; he is a good sawyer and waggoner, and at any work of a farm none superior. I did suppose Lewis only absconded for fear of correction, he having been very impertinent to his overseer; but Emanuel, who has a wife in the neighborhood from whom he has removed his cloaths, having also absconded, I suppose it is intended by them to endeavor to get entirely off. If taken in the counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, or Alexandria. I will give 20 dollars for both, or 10 dollars for either, and if out of those counties or the state the above reward for both or one half for either, if brought home or so secured that I get them, and all reasonable charges for one or both. Edward Dulin.
Clover Hill, Fairfax county, June 24th—26. N. B. All captains or masters of vessels and all others are forewarned harboring or assisting the escape of said negroes, at their peril. E. D.
MOLASSES.
20 hogsheads RETAILING MOLASSES, for sale by Joseph Mandeville, Corner of King and Fairfax streets. June 10.
New Publications,
FOR SALE At COTTON & STEWART's Bookstore. CRANCH's Reports, 4 volumes. Heuing and Mumford's Reports. Sugden's Law of Vendors and Purchasers of Estates. East's Reports, volume 9. Law's on Pleading. American Pleader's Assistant. Harrison's Chancery Reports. Roberts on Frauds. Woodward on Executive. Hungarian Brothers, a novel, by Miss Porter. Thaddeus of Warsaw, do. by Miss Porter. Patriotic Sketches of Ireland, by Miss Owenson. Georgics and Bees, by R. Southey. Elizabeth, or Exiles of Siberia, by Mrs. Cottin. Griffith Abbey, by Mrs. Mathews. June 26.
MILITARY LANDS.
FOR SALE, Or will be exchanged for Property in Alexandria or its vicinity, A Warrant for 696 acres of Land, Granted by the state of Virginia for Military services during the revolutionary war. This land lies in the state of Ohio, and is said to be amongst the best in the state. It will be sold a great bargain. Apply to John Longden. May 13.
A GREAT BARGAIN.
THE subscriber wishing to remove to the western country, will sell the FARM on which he resides, 9 from George Town ferry, and about the same from the Potomac bridge crossing to the city of Washington—in a healthy, agreeable neighborhood, containing about 470 acres, on which is a convenient dwelling house, large enough for a genteel family, together with all the outhouses suitable, all new or nearly so; an orchard of apple trees of selected fruit, together with different other fruit trees, a proportion of improved meadow for the scythe, and a large portion more may easily be made. Any person inclined to purchase may know the terms by application to Mr. JOHN DULIN, adjoining the said farm, or the subscriber on the premises. E. Dulin. June 9.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
To be sold, at public auction, at Northumberland court house, in the county of Northumberland, and state of Virginia, on TUESDAY, the fifth day of September next, at eleven o'clock, in the forenoon, Five contiguous Plantations, Amounting together to about 2700 Acres, SITUATE on the river Potomac, and within about three miles of the courthouse. These estates formerly belonged to Presley Thornton, Esq. and are the same on which he lived. They have never been seen by either of the subscribers; but it is understood, that about 1700 acres of them are as valuable low grounds as any on the river, and a considerable part thereof heavily timbered. The uplands consist of about 1000 acres, and the whole is well calculated for the production of corn, wheat, tobacco, timothy, and small grain of all kinds, in great abundance. The waters are said to abound with excellent fish, oysters, and wild fowl. The water carriage is easy and convenient to Norfolk, Baltimore, Alexandria, and the city of Washington; and as these estates possess several good mill seats, with an abundance of water, and a plentiful supply of timber, they must be very valuable.
The premises will be shown to persons inclining to purchase, by Col. James Moore, who lives on them, or by Samuel Blackwell, Esq. who lives near to them; and the terms of payment may be known a sufficient time before the sale, by applying to either of them, or to the subscriber in the city of Philadelphia. WM. LEWIS. June —(8)
NOTICE.
THE office of the Marine Insurance Association is kept in the house of William Wilson, on Prince street, where orders for insurance will be received and duly attended to. Office hours from 12 to 3 o'clock. July 30.
MRS. LANPHIER
HAS JUST RECEIVED, A case of large fashionable Split Straw Hats and Bonnets, A few Damask Straw ditto, And some handsome white Satin & Crapé. July 1.
Black River Lottery, No 2.
Table with 2 columns: Prizes in the wheel at the close of the 44th days drawing. 1 of 20,000 dolls. 1 500. 9 200. 24 100. 25 50. 75 20. 2091 10. Only 6,600 tickets to draw. On the 6th July, which will be the 45th day of drawing, the first drawn number will be entitled to 20,000 dollars. Present price of tickets 15 dollars. A few warranted undrawn, for sale by ROBERT GRAY. July 1.
PUBLIC SALE
PURSUANT to a decree of the honorable the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the County of Alexandria, will be sold at public auction on Saturday the 22d day of July next, A LOT or half acre of ground, the property of the representatives of Bartholemew Dandridge deceased, situate on Cameron and Pitt streets in the town of Alexandria, and fronting the square of ground on which Mr. Caton's city commode house, framed dwelling house and large carpenter's shop, of good oak materials, the ground is laid off into seven building lots, 4 on Cameron street, from 31 to 30 feet front, and running back 100 feet to a 15 feet alley, and three lots on Pitt street, 21 feet front, running back 108 feet to a 15 feet alley. The terms of sale will be—One fourth cash, & the residue payable in 3, 6 & 9 months. Negotiable notes with approved endorsers will be required. The sale to commence at the coffee house in Alexandria, at 4 o'clock, in the afternoon. A plat of the lots may be seen on application at the clerk's office. Thomas Swann, George Deneale, Commissioners. June 23.
The Commonwealth of Virginia To the Sheriff of County, GREETING: YOU are hereby commanded to summon Elisha Janney, Jacob Janney, Philip Care, Bernard Hooe, jun. Philip Slaughter, and Fleming Bates, to appear at the capitol, in the city of Richmond, on the 17th day of the next term, before the judge of the superior court of chancery, directed by law to be holden in the said city, to answer a bill exhibited against them in the said court, by John P. Smith. And this they shall in no wise omit, under the penalty of one hundred pounds each. And have then there this writ. Witness, Peter Tinsley, clerk of our said court at Richmond, this 24th day of May, 1809, and in the thirty-third year of the commonwealth. Peter Tinsley, c. c.
To restrain in the hands of the defendants Jacob Janney, Philip Care, Bernard Hooe, jun. Philip Slaughter, and Fleming Bates, any monies, debts, or effects in their hands belonging, or due to Elisha Janney, an absent defendant, until the further order of court. William Wirt, P. Q. Teste, P. TINSLEY, c. c. May 30.
FOR SALE, Mrs. Law's FARM, near this town. Terms, which will be very accommodating, made known by Walter Jones Esq. in Washington. May 30.

Alexandria Daily Gazette, COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL.
PAINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL SNOWDEN, Royal-street, Alexandria.
Daily Gazette, 6 Dollars per annum. Country Gazette, 5 Dollars.
The following highly appropriate ODE were sung by the Company of CADETS in Providence (R. I.) at their entertain- ment in honor of the 10th of June.
NEPTUNE'S BIRD LIBERATED.
Written by PAUL ALLEN, Esq.
TUNE—"Anacreon in Heaven."
THE mariner who has escap'd the dread wave Still paces the shore: and thro' the mild billo, Of late so tempestuous, has now ceas'd to rave, And for the green sea-weed scarce prof- fers a pillow, He remembers with dread The time that has fled, When ocean's loud thunder broke over his head: 'Tis thus that fair freedom rejoices and hails. The white wing of commerce unfurl'd to the gales.
She once who in triumph pursu'd in her flight The Car of old Neptune all o'er his domi- nion; Oppress'd, and a captive, retir'd from the light, Sought shelter in shade while loose hung her pinion; In tyranny's chain Compell'd to remain, She ey'd the blue billow and mourned but in vain; No longer with transport the ocean she hails, But waits and still flutters her wings to the gales.
No longer we see where the dark billows beat, Th' horizon encumber'd with riches re- turning; The bird who once brought such a prize to our feet, Is left to repine and in sorrow sojourning; Unlike days of yore In vain we deplore, The messenger now can- soar, The green olive waits us, it beckons and hails, But the Bird is deni'd us to journey the gales.
My children, O where is thy beautiful plume That o'er the ocean presided in splendor? (Thy genius, COLUMBIA, exclaim'd in a gloom) What tale shall my lips to posterity ren- der? The ocean—absurd! No longer is heard Resounding the note of your favorite Bird; Awake from your slumbers your voice still prevails. And once more relinquish the wing to the gales.
The Bird ye delight in was born on the wave His home is the ocean—how vain the en- deavor: Confine him to earth, and he pines like a slave, And loses his splendor of plumage forever, With sorrow I weep While in fetters ye keep A Bird of such plumage restrain'd from the deep: O shame on my children! let freedom pre- vail, And once more relinquish the wing to the gale.
In the name of old Neptune, I claim'd his discharge The God so insulted, exclaim'd with emo- tion, My subjects, ye tyrants, shall wander at large, 'Tis I that alone rule by right over ocean; If thou findest (said he) The bird of the sea, Break the bands that confine him, and send him to me: Then rouse my dear children! let freedom prevail, And one more relinquish the wing to the gale.
Obedient I wander'd the captive to seek, And found him at last—but ah me how de- jected: How ruffled his plumage: his pinion how weak: O how is the Bird of old Neptune neglect- ed!
Confinement so sore, Had made him deplore, A century scarce can his vigor restore; Then rouse my children, let freedom pre- vail, And once more relinquish the wing to the gale.
O shame on these knots, how they gall and enslave, My heart at the spectacle feels such de- jection; That long when the Bird shall exult on the wave, My cheek will turn red at the bare reco- lection. Confinement abhorrd! From Neptune thy lord, She said, and then straining it, burst the strong cord; Arouse my dear children! let transport prevail, Lo the white wing of commerce is free to the gale.
WRITTEN BY MR. JOSEPH TILLINGHAST. TUNE—"Rule Britannia."
BY freedom rous'd from death's cold sleep, Again see Commerce cheer the deep: Peace to her shining vesture clings, And treasures load her spreading wings. Hail, returning Commerce, hail! Ride the billow, rule the gale: COLUMBIA's flag again unfurl'd, Shall wave her honors through the world; Once more her Eagle's flaming eye, Shall pierce the clouds of Europe's sky. Hail, returning Commerce, hail! Ride the billow, rule the gale.
These are the boons we Yankees boast, And neither singly shall be lost; Freedom and Commerce shall be ours, While life supplies resisting powers. Hail, returning Commerce, hail! Ride the billow, rule the gale.
The following lines were written by a Lad, in the eleventh year of his age.
ÆTNA.
Lo, Ætna burns; the lightnings vivid glare, Shoots thro' the flames, that o'er the crater stare; Lo, heaps on heaps, the rolling smoke de- scends, While raging fire, her inmost cavern rends. Now boils the lava, and the mountain's face, O'erwhelms, and then invades its craggy base. It seeks the ocean, and attacks the waves; Attack'd by fire, the mad'ning ocean raves. It first recoils, then rushes in a storm, Brave the loud tempest, lift their heads on high, And all the rearing winds, and Neptune's rage defy.
Mean time, the rocking lands, confess the power, Of him whose trident, awes the sea beat shore, Trees, houses, cities, towers and vineyards crown'd, With purple stores lie level with the ground.
The poor inhabitant beholds his train, Of oxen, sheep & goats, his shepherd swain, And wife & child lie breathless on the plain. Slain by that power, who bids the tempest rise, And rolls his thunder thro' the trembling skies
See the white waves, with Ætna's fires unite, With fainting nature, to renew the fight; Charybdis here, there Scylla beats the shore, And all Trinacria trembles at the roar.
R. H. C.
From the Portland Gazette.
"And they said, These be thy Gods, O Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt."
The chapter which contains this passage clearly proves, by a plain, unadorned re- lation, that in the midst of prosperity, men are most exposed to temptation, and com- munities in the greatest need of firm, up- right, able directors. It proves further, that the purest system of religion, and the best constitutions of government, will not pre- vent men from falling from the true faith, following false prophets, and embracing the most dangerous and delusive theories.
It seems that Moses, the man of God, labored incessantly for the good of the peo- ple of his charge, regardless of their good or ill opinion, while he felt secure of the approbation of his maker. He knew that the children of Israel, though the chosen people of the most high, were but men; nor purer, but (if history is to be credited) ra- ther more fickle, volatile, and prone to no- velties, than their neighbors. Though the time in which Moses was absent in the mount, communing face to face with his maker, for the good of Israel, and receiv-
ing the law and the commandments, was only forty days and forty nights, yet the people, in that short period, forgot the strong hand & the stretched out arm, which had thus far protected them, and even be- gan to vent their contumelious reproaches on the memory of their political father.— They gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and besought him to make them a God; "for as for Moses," said they, "the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him." The simple fact is Moses was a stern, in- flexible patriot. He knew none of the "twistings and turnings" of the "supple courtier," or if he knew, yet he disdained to use them.
Aaron, however, though to him and his seed, God had ordained the priesthood, does not seem so exempt as Moses, from those weaknesses which are the common lot of men. He certainly could not suppose that the Almighty had taken Moses to him- self and abandoned his chosen people. Tho' at this distance of time, we cannot with ac- curacy determine the particular motives of his conduct, yet the conduct of men, in our own times, will authorize the conclusion, that he envied the authority and influence of Moses; and that by flattering and cajol- ing the people, indulging and pampering their worst appetites, and weakening their common bond of union, he hoped to sup- plant Moses in their affections, and possess himself of those honors which he saw he could not otherwise obtain. This conclu- sion is also strengthened by the context; for we there see that Aaron had secured to himself the first place in this new-fangled order of things. We read that "Aaron built an altar before the image—and Aaron made proclamation," &c. It is certain that he was weak enough to yield to the fashion of the day. He assisted in making a golden calf. "And they said, These be thy Gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt."
But the children of Israel, foolish and blind as they were, did no more than thou- sands have done in all ages before and after them.
When God had left man in a state of bliss in Eden, with no other token of his own so- vereignty than an interdiction of the fruit of the tree of knowledge; the man, intox- icated with the felicity of his condition, fell a sacrifice to the crafty insinuations and flat- teries of the arch tempter.
Without doubt the tower of Babel was built at the instigation, and under the direc- tion of some wily and ambitious demagogue who pretended to make the people stark mad with his new schemes, and, while their eyes were dazzled, fix his yoke upon them fore- ver.
Men of this description exist in every community on earth. And though the ten- or of some great name may, for a time, awe them into apparent neutrality and sub- mission, yet "their worm dieth not." None but the "grisly monarch" puts a final stop to their dark machinations.
In the lifetime of Gideon, the servant of God, we hear of no civil commotions. His name was great, his government effective, his life pure. Good men followed his ex- ample from principle; even bad men were loud in his praise, while living, and, proba- bly, shed crocodile tears over his grave, be- cause it was fashionable, and would insure them popularity. But after this venerable patriot was dead, "the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Bas- lim, and made Baal-berith their God." They were corrupted by the three score and ten pieces of silver of Abimelech, and the soft words, kind squeezes by the hand, and flat- teries of his vain followers. They made him king over them. But as the text ele- gantly expresses it, "fire came out of the bramble, and consumed the cedars of Le- banon."
SPINTEXT.
From the Federal Republican.
FRENCH INFLUENCE.
His blindness indeed must be incurable, who, having attended to the proceedings of the late extra-session of Congress, is not en- tirely satisfied of the existence of a powerful French influence over the principal demo- crats in our country. When the non-inter- course law was passed in February, its chief advocates declared in the house, that if ei- ther belligerent power should revoke its il- legal decrees, they would support an imme- diate declaration of war against the other. And does any one doubt, that, if the Berlin and Milan decrees had been withdrawn by Bonaparte and England had not immediate- ly imitated his example, we should now be in a state of open war with the latter power? But as Great Britain, instead of France, has made the accommodation, our demo- crats in Congress, who are as liege subjects of Napoleon as are the inhabitants of Paris,
conceive themselves at liberty to violate their engagement. They have not decla- red war. They have not even made prepa- rations for such a state. On the contrary they have suspended those military preparations which had been commenced. Does not this conclusively prove that all their preparations were intended solely for Great Britain? Does it not prove that when they talked much about war with both nations, they really intended war only with Great Britain? Is not this, connected with their refusal to pass a vote approving of Mr. Madison's conduct in the negotiation and many other circumstances, sufficient to satisfy the peo- ple, that the great object of the late pres- ident and his partisans was to plunge the country into a war with Great Britain, and that they are secretly vexed at the late am- cable arrangement. Their schemes have been defeated by the moderation of the Bri- tish ministry and of Mr. Madison. Instead of declaring war against France, they have merely renewed the least offensive provi- sions of the non-intercourse law. When an injury was done by Great Britain, her ships of war were excluded from our ports with- out hesitation. The exclusion was not ex- tended to France, although we had at that period great cause of complaint against her. But now that the French decrees are still in force and the emperor has confiscated every dollar of American property upon which he could lay his hands, and that we have no longer any cause of complaint against G. Britain, French ships of war are admitted, because, says Mr. Jackson, "we must be impartial." This is indeed a pretty story. What! shall we treat in the same manner a friend and an enemy? It is painful to dwell upon this subject. The national faith is pledged to Great Britain that we should continue all the provisions of the non-inter- course law against France. And that faith has been violated! The only remedy is with the people. Let them discard the corrupt partisans of France. Let this be done be- fore we are finally sold.
NASSAU, (N. P.) May 20.
During a thunder storm on the afternoon of Wednesday last, the brig Princess Char- lotte, laying in the harbor, was struck by lightning, which carried away the top- mast, shivered the mainmast, the mizzen sail, one of the pumps, knocked in the bot- tom, and went through the vessel two or three times; fortunately assistance was rendered soon after the accident, and the vessel prevented from sinking as the water was rushing forcibly in through the ap- erture which the lightning made. A number of people were on board at the time, we are however, happy in stating that none receiv- ed any injury.
Arrived his majesty's brig Variable, Lieut. Yates, and the French schooner La Sa- nelle, her prize. Off the Little Caicos on the 15th ult. the Variable descried a large armed schooner, supposed to be an enemy, Lt. Yates immediately made all sail in chase, and continued it for 6 hours, when she came up with her, she instantly struck, proved to be the imperial schooner La Sa- nelle, of three 6 pounders, & an 18 pounder on a swivel, with 65 men, belonging to the city of St. Domingo. She had been 26 days, during which time she made prize of a Spanish brig from Old Spain to the vanna, valuably laden with silks, laces, & & a schooner and a sloop from St. Thomas for St. Domingo. The cargoes from these vessels were all taken on board La Sa- nelle and they were burnt. The prize arrived here on Saturday.
NEW-YORK, June 28.
Vessels left at Funchall, Madeira, by ship Jane, the 29th May—Ship York Allison, for Liverpool, in 4 days; Sack- Earl, for Cape de Verds, in 4; Thomas Dangerfield, for Cadiz, uncertain; George Walker, destination uncertain;—Benjamin Warnock, for Philadelphia, in 4 days; Thomas Hope, Stillman, for Cape de Verds, in 3; ship Amity, Sampson, uncertain, in 3; Rhoda and Betsey, Bailey, under quar- antine, with the small pox on board; Mer- nic, Ray, for Liverpool, next day; Union, Stevenson, for London; do. do. zon, Phillips, for Trieste; do. ship Lou- iana, Phillips, for Liverpool, soon; Grace Ann Green, Singleton, for Phila- delphia, in 2 days; ship Superior, Bur- for Liverpool, just sailed; brig Eliza, Ke- nedy, Trieste; ship Arabella, Little, Liverpool, in 2 days; Orion, Casson, Liverpool, sailed; ship South Carolina, Page, ditto, ditto; Jane, Davis, ditto, to; Favorite, Williams, do. do.; brig niel, Jones, do. do. and a number of no- ern vessels, the names not recollected. Brig Gen. Eaton, Graves, sailed for 3 days before; ship Robert, Ferguson, do. do. brig James Murdock, Mark, for Philadelphia 2 days. In lat. 30.

spoke sch'r Hillman, Tice, 3 days out from Philadelphia, bound to Jamaica. June 30. Arrived, the beautiful coppered letter of marque, British ship Amelia Wilson, Todd, 2 days from St. Vincents. Left a number of American vessels, but their names not known. Admiral Cochrane is made temporary governor of Martinique, to be succeeded by some one from England. Flour was from 18 to 20 dolls. lumber 30, pork 22. A French letter of marque ship had captured the armed schooner Morgan Ratler, from Bristol, England, but was retaken by a British cruiser, and sent into St. Vincents. The Amelia Wilson was captured from the French about three months since.
NORFOLK, June 25. The sch'r Fredericksburg, Pope, in 11 days from St. Bartholomews, bound to Fredericksburg, went up the bay on Sunday last. Captain O'Meara, landed here from the above vessel, informs, that the brig Mount Aina, from Boston, bound to Rio Janeiro, arrived there on the 4th of June, in great distress, having six feet water in her hold, both masts gone by the board, and the crew much injured. Flour at $10—Corn $1 per bushel.
Alexandria Daily Gazette. TUESDAY, JULY 4.
This day being the Anniversary of American Independence, this paper will not appear again till Thursday morning.
The Newton-Gazette states, that a Hoop Snake, or as some call it a Horn Snake, had been recently killed near that place—a reptile which is said to coil itself up like a hoop and roll with such swiftness as to strike its prey a considerable distance even into a tree, which it is so poisonous as immediate to kill!
On Monday the 5th instant, the federal District court commenced its session in the town of Wilmington, North Carolina, before the honorable Henry Potter. The case which excited the most interest was the United States, vs. John Clarke, jun. He was prosecuted and his ship libelled, for a violation of a section in the embargo enforcing act, which makes the putting of goods on board, with an intention to violate the embargo act, penal. The following facts appeared in evidence; that before the passing of the law, under which the suit was brought the defendant intending to violate the embargo act, had put on board his ship a large part of the cargo, and that about three hundred dollars worth more of the cargo had been put on board within two or three days after the enactment of the enforcing act. The defence was upon the grounds that the law was unconstitutional, and that this case did not come under the operation of the law, inasmuch as the greater part of the cargo was put on board when there was no punishing the mere intention of violating the embargo act, that intention never having been put in execution, and as the passing of the enforcing act, which makes the intention penal, having taken place but two or three days before the latter part of the cargo had been put on board, it was impossible that the defendant could have known it. The judge in his charge was candid, clear and decided; and the jury, without leaving the box, pronounced a verdict of acquittal.
GENERAL WILKINSON. From the New-Orleans paper it would appear that General Wilkinson does not conciliate the feelings of the citizens. Great liberties are taken in this respect by the writers and printers there. The following is
From the Orleans Gazette, of May 27. The editor of the Orleans Gazette will owe a friend by publishing the 5th and 6th articles of the Rules and Articles of War, by the government of the armies of the United States, passed 10th April, 1807, with a short comment:—
Art. 5. Any officer or soldier who shall use contemptuous or disrespectful words against the President of the United States, against the Vice-President thereof, against the Congress of the United States, against the chief magistrate or legislators of any of the United States in which he may be quartered, if a commissioned officer shall be cashiered, or otherwise punished as a court martial shall direct; if a non-commissioned officer or soldier, he shall suffer such punishment as shall be inflicted on him by sentence of a court martial.
Art. 6. Any officer or soldier who shall behave himself with contempt or disrespect towards his commanding officer, shall be punished according to the nature of
his offence, by the judgment of a court-martial."
It is obvious that the commander in chief (if the law of the U. States recognize such an officer) is not designated in the fifth article—the president, vice-president, members of congress, and the governor and legislature of a state, only, are shielded by this article against "contemptuous or disrespectful words."
The sixth article is clear and comprehensive "any officer or soldier who shall behave himself with contempt and disrespect towards his commanding officer, shall, &c." This article surely does not mean words, or it would have been coupled with the fifth article—it means by the fairest construction, contemptuous, supercilious and disrespectful actions, aggravated perhaps by words if expressed in the presence of the non-commissioned officer, musicians and privates of the army—but never was intended to operate against an officer for giving his opinion independently as related to his senior officer—admit it in as full force as it has been construed in a late case in the army, and you make your officers slaves.
It is much to be lamented that the senior officer now in commission in the American army, should have so frequently to resort to arrests and court martial, to prop up his sinking reputation. Would it not be better for him to resign, than to keep the army in the continual dread of his power? A Friend to the Army.
REPORT Of the Committee on foreign Relations.
Mr. Leib reported from the committee to whom was referred the resolution of the senate, "to inquire into the expediency of providing by law, for the exclusion of foreign armed vessels from the ports and harbors of the United States."
That in the opinion of the committee, such an interdiction is within the just and neutral rights of the United States, and, under other circumstances, would be highly expedient and proper. So long as a neutral nation shall confine itself to strict measures of impartiality, allowing no benefit to one belligerent, not stipulated by treaty, which it shall refuse to another, no cause whatever is afforded for exception or complaint. The right to admit an armed force into a neutral territory belongs exclusively to the neutral; and when not guaranteed by treaty as is often the case, such admission compromises the neutrality of the nation, which permits to one belligerent alone such an indulgence.
As a measure of safety as well as of peace, it is incumbent upon the United States to carry into effect such a provision. So long as we are without a competent force to protect our jurisdiction from violation, and our citizens from outrage, and our flag from insult, so long ought no asylum to be given, but in distress, to the armed vessels of any nation. The committee will not bring into view the many injuries and insults which the United States have sustained from the hospitable grant of their ports and harbors, to belligerents; nor the facility which has thereby been afforded to them to lay our commerce under contribution. It is sufficient to remark, that great injuries have been sustained, and that imperious duty requires arrangements at our hands, to guard our country in future, from similar aggressions.
The United States are, at this moment, under no obligation to withhold the restraints within their power, upon the admission of foreign armed vessels in their ports; but the committee are strongly impressed with the propriety of avoiding any legislative interference, at this time, which by a possibility, might be construed into a desire to throw difficulties in the way of promised and pending negotiations. They are desirous that a fair experiment be made to adjust our differences with the two belligerent nations, and that no provisions be interwoven in our laws, which shall furnish a pretext for delay or a refusal to yield to our just and honorable demands.
Calculating that the overtures which have been made by Great Britain will be executed in good faith, the committee are willing to believe, that the stipulated arrangements will be of such a character as to guard our flag from insult, our jurisdiction from aggression, our citizens from violation, and our mercantile property from spoliation. Under these impressions, which the committee have stated as briefly as possible, they beg leave to submit to the consideration of the senate, the following resolution, viz.
Resolved, That the further consideration of the subject, be postponed until the next session of congress.
A CURIOUS PHENOMENON. Falls Township, Bucks County, State of Pennsylvania, 3d mo. 10th 1807. "About the year 1774, I discovered a
very surprising and unaccountable Phenomenon, in a lime stone quarry of mine at White Marsh, in the county of Montgomery, of this state. I was employed in splitting a solid rock of limestone; which was about three feet long, two broad, and two deep, and without any visible fissure. It was taken about four feet below the top of the quarry; and the top was about three feet below the surface of the earth. In splitting it, I discovered a red toad near the centre of the stone, alive and plump! and perhaps had lived there from the creation or the deluge; for the stone around the cavity, (forming a small prison just big enough to contain it) was of the same red color of the little animal itself. How and when it came there; and how it subsisted there without meat, drink or air, is the inquiry, and one I cannot very satisfactorily resolve.
T—I—. Several instances of this nature have been recorded to the astonishment of the philosopher; and I have seen no attempt to account for such occurrences. To account for it, it seems necessary to observe 1st. That toads, frogs, &c. are animals that are torpid during a certain degree of cold. Suspended animation from cold in man, has been resuscitated, it is said on are after the sixth day; and John Hunter supposes that if it were possible for the body to be frozen suddenly by an instantaneous abstraction of heat, life might be suspended for years, and reanimated at pleasure. 2dly. That naturalists have observed many facts which confirm the authenticity of Moses' account of the deluge. And it appears that the bed of the ocean with its shells have by some dreadful convulsion of nature, become the highest parts of our lands. So dreadfully "were the fountains of the great deep broken up"—and our continent depressed into the waters of the great deep, on which the Psalmist declares them to be founded till the highest hills were no more visible. That the lands were so depressed appears evident from the weight of the atmosphere equalling 30 inches only of mercury, or 32 feet of water. So that if our whole atmosphere was converted into water, it could not probably raise the ocean more than 32 feet, which would be far short of overflowing the summits of the Andes, or even our lowest hills. The tree trunks standing upright in the Chowan river of North Carolina, and the stump of a tree cut with an axe above twenty feet under the surface of the earth, & the axe nearly eaten up with the rust, near the same river, show that this level extensive country is between 20 and 36 feet higher now than it was formerly. 3dly. Chalk is said to be a calcareous deposition of the ocean, which by duration is converted into the carbonites of lime of great solidity. It is also probable from the various kinds of pebbles, shells and small flints found in rocks, that the earth is converted with its pebbles into solid rocks by some natural process.
Having premised these things—it is not improbable that frogs and toads in their torpid state, have laid under cover since the deluge; in chalk till it was converted into lime stone, and in dirt or mud, till it become a solid rock; where the temperature of their place of confinement was too low to resuscitate them. The instant they are exposed to the stimuli of the air, so vivifying to newborn infants, they wake as from a last autumnal nap, and rejoice in the light of day and the warmth of the atmosphere.
SHIP NEWS. Port of Alexandria.
ARRIVED. Schooner Polly and Sally, Stelly, Baltimore—dry goods—to different merchants. Schooner Minerva, Tarkenton, Edenton—lumber—master. CLEARED. Ship Allegany, Morris, Liverpool—by James Patton. Schooner Hannah, Mitchell, Norfolk—same. Sloop Lively, Smith, Providence—the master. Schooner Amelia, Stanwood, Newburyport—W. S. Rand. Schooner Ceres, Weeks, New-York—master.
Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria.
THE Stockholders in this institution are hereby informed, that the President and Directors have declared a dividend of five per cent on that part of the capital stock now paid—which will be ready to be paid the stockholders or their legal representatives, in ten days from this date.
J. B. Nickolls, Sec'ry. July 3.—[4.]
ORPHAN'S COURT, Alexandria County, July Term, 1809.
ORDERED, That the administratrix of JOHN SELLERS deceased, do insert the following advertisement three times a week for two weeks in the Alexandria Daily Gazette. Test. ALEXANDER MOORE, Reg.
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 JOHN SELLERS late of the county aforesaid, deceased, all persons having claims against the said deceased, are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to the subscriber, on or before the 3d day of January 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 3d day of July, 1809. SUSAN SELLERS, administratrix of John Sellers. July 4. 3aw2w.
RUNAWAYS.
Runaway from the plantation of Mr. William Hay, near the Stone Bridge in Frederick County,
Two likely Mulatto Boys.
BILLY, the eldest, is between 15 and 16 years of age, a bright mulatto, well grown for his years, his hair black and lately cut in the fashion, slender made, but sprightly and active. CAMBDEN is a dark mulatto, his hair rather inclined to curl, and lately cut also in the same manner as Billy's; well set, and when walking has his eyes turned towards the ground, as if looking for something: about 14 years of age. A liberal reward will be paid for apprehending the said boys and securing them in any jail within this commonwealth, and giving information of the same to Mr. William Hay of Richmond, or the subscriber, living near the Stone Bridge, Frederick county.
John Hay. July 4.
Once more and the last.
THIS EVENING, JULY 4, At the request of a number of respectable inhabitants,
THE INFANT ROSCIUS
Will deliver a great variety of speeches at McKnight's Room, and sing a number of Songs, suited to the day.
He will be assisted by his FATHER, who will recite several pieces also. Music as usual. To commence at half past 7 o'clock. Admission, 50 cents, only.
No exertions shall be wanting to make the entertainment amusing and instructive.
Washington Society.
THE Members of the Washington Society of Alexandria, are hereby requested to attend a regular stated meeting of the said Society, at Mr. C. ton's hotel, on TUESDAY the fourth day of July next, at 11 o'clock, in the forenoon. They will be attended by the Children of the Washington Free School, for the purpose of exhibition and examination, and particularly the scholars who have been placed in the Latin school at the expense of the Society.
By order of the standing committee, G. Deneale, Sec'y. June 24.
RECOMMENDATION.
THE Superintendent of Police recommends to the citizens of Alexandria, during the warm season, a frequent use of LIME in their Prities and other parts of their premises where filth accumulates—and the greatest attention is required to the keeping clean and dry their cellars, so that no stagnant water be left in them.
He particularly requests the proprietors of unoccupied houses and cellars to cause them frequently to be opened and aired—housekeepers are required to cause all the rubbish accumulated in their back yards to be thrown into the streets that the scavengers carts may take it away.
John Longden, Superintendent of Police. June 27.
NOTICE.
ELISHA JANNEY having by his indenture duly executed and dated the 29th day of last month, conveyed to the subscriber the whole of his estate real personal & mixed, in trust for the purpose of disposing of the same and applying the proceeds thereof to the payment of his debts—all those indebted to the said Elisha Janney, by bond, bill, note, or book account, are hereby requested to settle the same with Mr. Michael Cleary, and those who have claims against the said Janney, will be pleased to render them within 90 days from this date. To the said Cleary who may be found at the said Janney's counting-room on his wharf, and is duly authorised for that purpose.
Richard M. Scott, Trustee, 2ay. June 9.

O B S E R V E.
The following M E D I C I N E S are sold by ROBERT GRAY , Bookseller in King-street—and by N. HINGSTON , Fairfax-street, Alexandria.
LEE'S ELIXIR!
A sovereign remedy for colds, obstinate coughs, catarrhs, asthma, sore throats, and approaching consumptions. A single trial of this medicine will prove its efficacious quality in restoring a perspiration common to healthy people; it dislodges and expels the tough viscid phlegm or mucus, strengthening the weakened vessels of the lungs, thus striking at the root of the disorder, the symptoms of course are effectually and permanently conquered. The great number of cures performed in 1808 by this elegant and useful preparation, is sufficient to astonish and convince those that labor under colds, coughs, consumptions, &c. of being immediately relieved, without saying any thing of the many thousands benefited in former years; however for the information of those persons, if any there be, that have not heard of the balsamic qualities of Lee's Elixir, we give the names of the following persons who are well known to our citizens in general as persons of known integrity and strict veracity. From the following certificates it will plainly appear, that a three year's consumption, a common cold or cough, are all with ease removed by Lee's Elixir.
Messrs. R. Lee and Son,
The superior qualities of your medicine, called Lee's Elixir , induces me to give you this certificate for publication, to point to my suffering fellow mortals the road to health, the most valuable of all earthly possessions. For upwards of three years I have been afflicted with a severe cough, tightness of the breast, lowness of spirits, and a gradual wasting of the flesh; having tried different medicines recommended for such cases, without receiving any real benefit; fortunately one of your advertisements was given to me—I immediately applied to Mr. Vance , 178, Market street, for some of your Elixir, which has contrary to the expectations of my friends restored me to my former good state of health. Any other information will be given by me.
George Harwood, Market street, Baltimore
Messrs. R. Lee & Son,
You are at liberty to publish for the good of others, the benefit I have received from your excellent preparation called Lee's Elixir . Being afflicted with violent pains in the breast, loss of appetite, and a debility of the whole system, which rendered me unable to attend to business, being advised to try your Elixir, I procured two bottles of Messrs. Warner and Hanna , which has entirely removed the complaint, and restored me to a perfect state of health. From the good effect of your Elixir I was led to suppose your other medicines were equally efficacious, which induced me to give your Worm Lozenges to my children, and with pleasure I inform you they had the desired effect. Any other information I shall give on application to me at my house in Sly's-street , Baltimore.
John Keller.
Messrs. R. Lee & Son,
In December last I was attacked with a most violent cold, a severe cough and pains in the breast, which continued to grow worse, during which time my appetite failed, and my voice altered so much, that it was with the utmost exertion I could pronounce a single sentence louder than my breath. Some of my friends, having observed to me, that much good had been done by the use of Lee's Elixir , advised me to procure a bottle from Messrs. Warner and Hanna , which I accordingly did—and to those persons unacquainted with the merits of this medicine, it will appear astonishing that three doses should remove the pains in my breast, and the use of the one bottle restored me to PERFECT HEALTH .
J. A. Smith, Market street, Fell's Point.
Lee's Worm-destroying Lozenges.
This medicine is superior to any offered to the public, being innocent and mild certain and efficacious in its operations. Should no worms exist in the body, it will without pain or griping, cleanse the stomach and bowels of whatever is foul or offensive, and thereby prevent the production of worms and many fatal disorders.
Lee's Grand Restorative.
Proved by long extensive experience, to be absolutely unparalleled in the cure of nervous disorders, consumptions, lowness of spirits, loss of appetite, impurity of blood, hysterical affections, inward weaknesses, violent cramps in the stomach and bad indigestions, melancholy, gout in the stomach, pains in the limbs, relaxations, involuntary emissions, obstinate gleets, flour albus [or whites] jimpotency, barrenness, &c. &c.
Infallible Ague and Fever Drops.
For the cure of agues, remittent and intermitent fevers.
Lee's Genuine Essence & Extract of Mustard.
A safe and effectual remedy for acute and chronic rheumatism, gout, palsy, lumbago, numbness, white swellings, chilblains, sprains, bruises, pains in the face and neck, &c.
Lee's Sovereign Ointment for the Itch.
Which is warranted an infallible remedy at one application, and may be used with the most perfect safety by pregnant women, or on infants a week old, not containing a particle of mercury, or any dangerous ingredient whatever, and is not accompanied with that tormenting smart which attends the use of other remedies.
Persian Lotion,
Celebrated for the cure of ringworms, tinea, and all eruptions of the skin, rendering it soft and smooth.
Lee's Genuine Eye Water,
An effectual remedy for all diseases of the eyes:
Tooth Ache Drops,
Which give immediate relief.
Lee's Corn Plaster.
DAMASK LIP SALVE.
Restorative Powder for the Teeth and Gums.
Indian Vegetable Specific,
A certain and never failing cure for venereal complaints.
N. B. Each and every medicine above enumerated, have directions describing their mode of use in the most perfect manner.
April 3.
John Gardner Ladd,
Has for sale, at his Warehouse, Princestreet Wharf—
 Muscovado and Loaf Sugars in hogsheads and barrels.  Molasses, West-India, and New-England Rum in do.  Holland's Gin and French Brandy in pipes.  Port, Sherry, and Malaga Wines.  Coffee, Rice, and Cotton Wool.  Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson-shulan, and Hyson-skin Teas, in whole, half, and quarter chests.  1 case black Persians.  2 barrels Caroline Indigo.  20 crates Liverpool cream-colored & blue-edged Ware assorted.  Best Black Pepper in Bags.  Spermaceti Mould, and Mould and Dip Tallow Candles in boxes.  Brown Soap in boxes—Cod-fish in do.  Beef, Pork, Salmon, Shad and Herrings in barrels.  Tanners Oil, Spanish Hides, a quantity of Seal Leather, Mens', Womens' and Childrens' Shoes of various descriptions; a few packages of White Rolls and German Checks, Russia Sheetings and Diapers, Russia and Ravens Duck, India Cotton of different kinds, Nankeens, 150 pieces coarse Irish Linens, Writing and wrapping Paper, 500 bushels coarse Salt, Cordage, Flax, Glue, a quantity of Vinegar, 200 tons Plaster Paris, and 20 tons Russian Hemp, &c. &c.  January
SEINE ROPE.
THE subscriber manufactures and has for sale, at his house on Washington-street, opposite Jacob Hoffman's sugar refinery, Seine and Hauling Ropes, of all sizes; Seine & Sewing Twine; Shad & Herring Twine; Sacking and Bed Cords, Plough Lines & Traces. Also, Tared Rope and other Cords.
Joseph Harper.
Februar 2.
PROFILES,
Four for twenty-five Cents.
MR. CROMWELL presents his compliments to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Alexandria, and tenders his services as Portrait, Miniature and Profile Painter,
Those persons who wish correct likenesses accurately Painted, at a low price, will please to apply as soon as possible at his painting rooms, Fairfax-street, opposite Shutz's Circulating Library .
Any likeness thought incorrect will be taken again gratis.—Profile frames of various patterns.
BROAD SWORD EXERCISE, THE WHOLE SIX DIVISIONS.
Gentlemen wishing tuition in this art, can be instructed by applying as above on moderate terms, as practised in Europe. The art of broad sword offence and defence is the most essential of all military acquirements.
June 24. d3t 3uwt.
YARWOOD'S Patent Washing Machine.
THE subscriber continues to manufacture Yarwood's Patent Washing Machine , which by daily experience proves to answer the intended purpose, and for which the demand is great. He has already disposed of his right to the state of Maryland, and some counties in Virginia, and is willing to dispose of rights for counties in the different states to the southward of the Potomac river, and also for the territory of Louisiana. Masters of vessels will find it particularly useful.
Wm. C. Newton,
Assignee of Joseph Yarwood.
June 22.
A further proof of Yarwood's useful Washing Machine.
We the subscribers have found, on trial, Joseph Yarwood's Patent Washing Machine to answer fully the intended purpose of washing cloaths of every description, and do hereby recommend them to the public as a great saving of soap, labor and cloaths. Given under our hands this ____ day of June, 1809.
(Signed)
 Dorothea Krouse, Cathinder Calder, Ann McCarren, Martha Abercrombie, Ruth Devon, Rebecca Hattersley, Valinda Brown, Elizabeth Black, Jane B. Swann, H. Dick, Susanna Rounsville, Elizabeth Wilson, Elizabeth Snyder, Nancy Kell, Sarah Kelsen-ger, Margaret B. Manley, Mary Fendall, Mary Steel, Sarah Fitzhugh, Mary Duffey. 
Any person who wishes to purchase ready-made Machines, can be supplied by calling on the subscriber or John Trout , who is now manufacturing them on Alfred street, Alexandria.
I wish to employ from 15 to 20 hands who can work at the Joiners' business—also I will sell out my Grocery Store at the Potomac bridge, if applied to soon; for which I will give a short credit on a part; or I will take plank in part pay. The purchaser can have the store house which is a good stand for business.
Wm. C. NEWTON.
Joseph Mandeville,
CORNER OF KING AND FAIRFAX STREETS, ALEXANDRIA:
Has received a considerable addition to his Stock, AND OFFERS FOR SALE,
 20 hogsheads, } 1st and 2d quality  20 barrels } Muscovado Sugars.  7000 lb. Green Coffee  3 1-2 tons British Patent Shot, assorted BB to No. 9.  10 bales Cotton.  40 casks first quality Goshen Cheese.  40 boxes Mould Candles.  15 bags clean heavy Pepper.  50 lb. Nutmegs.  casks London refined Saltpetre.  5 ditto Irish Glue. 
Gunpowder, Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin, and Padre Souchong Teas in quarter chests, boxes and canisters—most of which are equal in quality to any ever imported.
Madeira, Port, Marsala, Sherry, Lisbon, Tercerillo, and Malaga Wines.
A few cases Medoc Claret.
Jamaica, Windward-Island, and Northern Rum.
Cognac, Bordeaux and Pech Brandy.
Holland and Country Gin.
Irish and Country Whiskey.
Six hogsheads Cherry Bounce.
Retailing Molasses, Havana Honey.
Wine and Cider Vinegar.
Best Florence Oil in bottles and flasks.
 Loaf and Lump Sugars, Chocolate, Rice, Pearl & Common Barley, Basket Salt, Starch  Fig Blue, Indigo, Mace, Cloves, Cassia, Pimento, Race and Ground Ginger, Cayenne Pepper, Capers, Mustard, Raisins, Almonds, Currants, Madder, Alum, Copperas, Roll Brimstone, Chalk, British and Brandywine Gunpowder, Spanish Segars, Cavendish and Small Twist Chewing Tobacco, Leiper's Garrett's, and Hamilton's Snuff, Writing and Wrapping Paper, Playing Cards, Bed Cords, Leading Lines, &c. &c. 
October 18.
FOR RENT,
THE DWELLING HOUSE of the late Colonel Hooe, on Water-street.—It is spacious and convenient, and has all necessary outhouses, with a very excellent garden attached to it.
J. H. Hooe, John Muncaster, Executors.
Mar: 25. eott
Offered for Rent,
The HOUSE on the corner of Pirnce and St. Asaph streets, lately occupied by Mr. Benjamin Ricketts.
This property is in a good situation and the building very convenient, and has lately been put in excellent repair. Apply to W. Smith , Esquire, of Dumfries, or to
Robert Young.
June 29. collt
LANDING,
From the brig Betsey , and for sale by Lawrafon and Fowle , 25 hogsheads retailing MOLASSES . And in store, just landed, 45,000 wt. PRIME GREEN COFFEE June 28. Stav 3w.
TO RENT,
The Washington Tavern, in Alexandria.
I WISH TO RENT for a term of years, the above mentioned TAVERN , with the out-houses thereunto belonging. It is situated on King-street, the most central and public part of Alexandria. The buildings are commodious and good, and the stand excelled by none in the place. A further description of this property is deemed unnecessary, as it is very generally known, having been occupied as a public house for upwards of twelve years.
Possession may be had the 15th July next. John Dundas. d3t co
May 8
For Sale or Rent,
THE WAREHOUSE AND WHARF Attached thereto, now occupied by the subscriber.—It will be sold on a credit of one, two and three years. If it cannot be sold I will lease it on moderate terms for five years.
ALSO, FOR SALE—
1250 bushels CORN afloat. For further particulars apply to Mordecai Miller. June 29. 2av 4w
Just Published,
FOR SALE BY R. GRAY , A CELEBRATED ROMANCE ENTITLED ABAELLINO, THE BRAVO OF VENICE.
Translated from the German, by M. G. Lewis , the well known author of the Castle Spectre , Monk , Adelgitha &c. &c. Price handsomely bound, one dollar—the English edition sold at one dollar seventy five cents.
What black Mesician conjures up this fiend! What, do you tremble, are ye all afraid? Alas, I blame ye not, for ye are mortal, And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil—Avaunt, thou dreadful Minister of Hell. RICHARD H. L.
In justice to this excellent Romance, we need only remark, that the Grand Dramatic piece, which for several seasons past drew such full houses to our theatre, is founded on the same subject, as translated by Dunlop but the acknowledged superiority of Lewis' writings or translations in the Romance style being so far superior to any other of our modern authors, leaves encomium unnecessary with the publishers.
NOTE. Five editions of this Romance were sold in a very short time, after publication in London—it is dedicated to the Earl of Moira by Lewis . June 7—21
Joseph H. Mandeville, Corner of King and Union-streets, HAS FOR SALE,
 2000 bushels coarse and fine Salt, by bushel and in sacks.  50 barrels Whiskey.  1000 wt. Rhode Island Cheese.  Goshen do. in casks.  5000 wt. best green Coffee, in bags.  1000 do. white do.  French Brandy.  Jamaica, Antigua, Windward Island, New England Rum.  Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, and Hyson Skin Teas, of the latest importations.  Sugar, best Muscovado, in hogsheads barrels.  Do. inferior qualities, in do.  Molasses, in hogsheads.  Clover Seed, warranted fresh.  Cotton, in bales and by retail.  Candles, mould and dipped.  Loaf and Lump Sugar.  Spanish Cigars, Hamilton's and Gann Snuff, in bottles, Writing and Wrapping Paper, Pepper, Allspice, Chewing Tobacco, Madder, Copperas, Seal Leather, Bed Cords, Leading Lines, &c. &c. 
ALSO,
Best Superfine Flour, for private family a few barrels Corn, and some Seed Oats, Pjaiste of Paris, &c.
April 17.
Notice is hereby given,
That a petition will be presented to the general assembly of Virginia, praying leave to make a turnpike road from the Great Hunting Creek Bridge , leading to Henry-street , in the town of Alexandria to the town of Fredericksburgh , pursuing present stage rout as near as practicable to ground combined with shortness of distance will admit.
June 16.
Printing in its various branches executed with accuracy and dispatch.