Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political (Alexandria [Va.]), 1809-01-14 00:00:00

Sales at Vendue.
On every Tuesday and Friday, WILL BE SOLD at the Vendue Store, corner of Prince and Water streets. 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 renewed and purchased at the lowest limitation prices.
P. G. Marsteller, v. M.
Cotton and Stewart
Have just published their ALMANAC for 1809. Containing a great deal of useful and entertaining matter. For sale by the thousand, gross, or single one. October 6.
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.
Just Published,
For sale at the Subscribers Book Store, THE LAWYER; OR, Man as he ought not to be. Neatly bound in boards, and lettered—price one dollar.
ALMANAC's
For the year 1809, by the gross, dozen, or single one.
Just Received,
A large supply of PLAYING CARDS & WRAPPING PAPER. Dr. Ree's Cyclopaedia, No. 16, is received, and No. 17, is expected in a few days. Subscribers are earnestly requested to send for their copies, especially those who have received but a few numbers: 'tis much easier to pay for one or two numbers at a time, than to pay for ten or fifteen.
ROBERT GRAY.
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber proposes to practice Physick and Surgery, for which purpose he has opened a Shop on the north side of King between Washington and St. Asaph streets.—He should at any time not be at this Shop, he will be found at his Father's, on Prince-street, who will in his absence attend those who may please to call on him.
Archibald B. Dick.
December 8. dtf
FOR SALE,
NEGRO HARRY; Tall, and young, about 22 years old—He is sold for being impertinent—He can take care of horses, drive a dray, plow or wait. B. DULANY. Dec. 24. dtf
City Tavern and Hotel, ALEXANDRIA: AT THE SIGN OF THE GRAPES.
WILLIAM CATON,
From the City of Annapolis, (Maryland) RESPECTFULLY informs his FRIENDS and the PUBLIC in general, that he has taken that justly celebrated INN, in this city, called THE CITY TAVERN and HOTEL, lately in the possession of Mr. John Gadsby. He hopes, by assiduity and attention, to give the greatest satisfaction to every person, and no exertions on his part shall be wanted to keep up the high character which this Tavern has, as being one of the best in the United States: and assures them that he will always have an assortment of the best liquors and good waiters. Travellers and others will meet with good accommodations at the above house, on reasonable terms. Boarders are taken by the day, week, month or year. The papers from all the sea-ports on the continent are regularly taken and filed at the Coffee-House, adjoining the tavern, and are for the use of strangers. Suppers can be had from six to twelve o'clock in the evening, at a short notice, from one to twenty. November 15.
NOTICE.
The subscriber informs the public, that he manufactures and has for sale, at his manufactory corner of Prince and Fairfax streets. STEELS of all sizes, commonly used for distilling grain or fruit. A general assortment of TIN WARE. SHEET-IRON STOVES and STOVE PIPE's made at the shortest notice. Every kind of PLUMBING WORK either for Ships or Buildings, done in the best manner. The BRASS FOUNDRY BUSINESS in all its branches is carried on under the direction of Mr. WILLIAM FLETCHER, who has had many years experience, and as a workman is exceeded by few.—As the Brass-founder business is a partnership, application must be made to William Fletcher, who will undertake to make GRATES handsomely ornamented with Brass, agreeable to any pattern or price, and will execute the work in the very best and neatest manner and on the most reasonable terms. The highest price given for Old Copper, Brass, Pewter, Lead and Iron. George M'Munn. October 13.
JUST RECEIVED
For Sale at R. GRAY's Book-Store, King Street; THE POWER OF RELIGION, On the mind, in retirement, affliction and at the approach of death. Exemplified in the testimonies and experience of persons, distinguished by their greatness, learning or virtue. " 'Tis Immortality—'tis that alone Amidst life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The Soul can comfort, elevate and fill." YOUNG. By LINDLEY MURRAY.
From the thirteenth English edition, enlarged and improved by the Author. Price handsomely bound and lettered, 1 dollar.
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE ABOVE WORK.
"We have had frequent occasion to speak of the diligence, good sense, and good intentions, of Mr. Murray; and we congratulate him sincerely on the success of this particular work. We announce this edition, because the alterations and additions are so considerable, that it is rendered almost a new work." British Critic, July 1801. "The examples which Mr. Murray has here selected, and the judicious reflections which accompany them, are such as can scarcely fail to make the best impressions, and to produce the best effects, on all who read them with attention. The present edition of this excellent publication, which has been long known and commended, is enlarged by the addition of twenty-two new characters, filling nearly one hundred pages." Anti-Jacobin Review, Jan. 1804.
"We have received the tenth and last edition of this valuable work. The improvements made in it, will appear from the author's advertisement. We can only add to this account of the present useful volume, our hope that it will be extensively circulated among our countrymen." The American Review & Literary Journal, for July, August & September, 1801.
"On reviewing this book, in its improved form, we find the facts unquestionable and highly interesting—the style correct and neat—and the general tendency of the work such as induces us strongly to recommend it, especially to young readers, who love entertainment mingled with instruction." Evangelical Magazine, Oct 1801.
"The rapid sale of this small but valuable collection, has anticipated the commendation we are desirous to bestow. In an exemplification of more than seventy remarkable characters, many striking examples are exhibited which, in the quiet hour of reflection, may contribute to arrest the careless and wandering; to animate the sincere and virtuous; and to convince or discountenance those who have been unhappily led to oppose the highest truths." Gentleman's Magazine, Nov. 1803.
Goldsmith's Grammar of Geography. Pike's Arithmetics, large and small. Hymns and Spiritual Songs. School Bibles and Testaments, Spelling-Book, Primers, Bonnet-Boards Writing-Paper. Also, The 17th number Dr. Ree's new Cyclopaedia. October 20.
MUSCOVADO SUGARS.
55 hogheads 1st and 2d quality—FOR SALE BY R. Veitch & Co. January 12. d3w
John Gardner Ladd, Has for sale, at his Warehouse, Prince-street 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-shuan, 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 Dips 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 Soal Leather, Mens', Womens' and Childrens' Shoes of various descriptions, a few packages of White Rolls and German Checks. Russia Sheeting 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 Plaister Paris, and 20 tons Russian Hemp, &c. &c. January 12. d
NOTICE.
THE partnership of J. Dawes and Samuel Shreve, was this day dissolved by mutual consent. December 17. [Jan. 12] 3t
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber on the third of this month a negro man named MOSES, about twenty five years old, five feet eight or nine inches high, rather slender, and very black, his eyes are rather large. Among other clothes he took with him a drab colored big coat rather ragged, a black jacket, a pair of white breeches made of planes, and a pair of old corduroy. I will give the above reward for him, if secured in some jail, and notice sent to me.
David Stuart.
Fairfax County, Va. 6th Jan. (11) d6t2aw
Notice is hereby given,
THAT the Directors of the Little River Turnpike Road Company, will meet at Fairfax Court House, on the third Monday in the present month, to receive proposals for forming and paving the road, from the end of the twenty miles already paved to the Gum Spring Road, a distance of about six miles—the road to be made in a convex form fifty six feet wide, no part of the road to be more than five degrees elevation, with sufficient ditches, and tunnels made of stone in all parts of the road where necessary, speedily to carry off the water. Twenty feet in width of the road, to be paved with stone nine inches in depth, on such parts of the road as pass over firm, solid ground, and not less than twelve inches in depth in such parts as pass over moist or made ground, the stone to be broken so small as to pass through a ring of not more than three inches diameter, and covered with gravel, sand or clay; the road to be completed in the course of the present year, the undertaker to be paid for each quarter of a mile when that distance shall be completed and received by the Directors.
The Directors will at the same time and place receive proposals for keeping the road already made in repair for twelve months.
The proposals to be made in writing specifying the distance and part of the road, proposed to be made or kept in repair, and the sum per mile for which it will be undertaken.
Bond and security will be required of the undertakers for the performance of their contracts.
Chs. Simms, Phineas Janney, Chs. F. Mercer, } Directors.
The meeting of the Directors is unavoidably postponed till Tuesday 17th inst. January 11
Bank of Alexandria,
JANUARY 2, 1809.
NOTICE is hereby given to the stockholders of the Bank of Alexandria, that a dividend of three and a half per cent. on the capital stock of said Bank for the half year ending this day, is declared, and will be ready to be paid to them on Thursday next the 5th inst. By order of the President and Directors. GURDEN CHAPIN, Cashier. January 3. 3w
EDUCATION.
THE REV. DR. O'BRIEN,
PROPOSES to open an ACADEMY in this place, for the purpose of teaching twenty young gentlemen (should so many offer) the Poetic Arts and Sciences: he will instruct them in the various Languages, to wit, Latin, Greek, French, Italian, &c. and in Hebrew if required. He will also teach Geography with the use of the Globe—the Mathematics—Logic—Rhetoric and Natural Philosophy. Application to be made at Mr. James Bacon's, King-street. January 3. d
WASHINGTON TAVERN, LEESBURG.
THE subscriber has returned to the Washington Tavern, LEESBURG, where he is prepared with every thing necessary for the accommodation of those gentlemen and ladies who may honor him with their custom.
Having laid in a good stock of liquors, hay and oats, and having enlarged his stables, and engaged a careful, attentive and honest hostler, he flatters himself that, by his unremitted attention, together with the diligence, care, and activity of his servants, he will be able to render his customers the most perfect satisfaction in his line.
A. B. The house is in much better condition than formerly, for the accommodation of travellers.
James Dawson.
Leesburg, Virginia, Jan. 1--3.
TO LET,
THAT eligible stand for business lately occupied by Mr. Charles Bennett, at the corner of King and Fairfax-streets. R. I. TAYLOR. Executor of John Watts. Jan 2.
THE Charitable Marine Society Lottery
Recommences drawing this afternoon, at three o'clock. The first drawn blank will be entitled to two hundred dollars. The capital prizes remaining in the wheel are—
 1 of 5000  1 of 3000  1 of 2500  1 of 2000  2 of 1500  1 of 1000  4 of 750 
Besides a great number of smaller prizes of 400, 300, 200, 150, 75, 30, 20, &c. Tickets and Shares at the rate of Six Dollars, for sale at R. Gray's Book-store, where a correct check of the drawings are kept, and all Tickets sold as above examined free of expence. Warranted undrawn Tickets given for Prizes as soon as drawn. N. B. Eight days have already been drawn, and the wheel has gained upwards of 8000 dollars. January 9.
Public Sale.
BY virtue of a deed of trust from George Coryell to the subscriber, to secure the payment of a certain sum of money to Doctor Charles Cartor, will be exposed to sale, on the 9th day of February next, on the premises, a PIECE OF GROUND, lying upon the north side of Duke-street and east side of Alfred-street, extending upon Duke-street 56 feet and upon Alfred street 88 feet to a 20 feet alley—Also a PIECE OF GROUND, lying upon the south side of Duke-street and to the westward of Water-street, extending upon Water-street 27 feet 10 inches, and running back 91 feet 10 inches to a 10 feet alley.
James Keith.
January 9—10.

A Christmas Piece for Grown Children.
The following Parody upon "The House that Jack Built," is at your disposal. By Jack I suppose to be meant Jack Tar, the honest American Sailor, who is now deprived of his dwelling.
The Commerce of the United States.
This is the House that Jack Built.
The Produce of our Country.
This is the Malt that lay in the House that Jack Built.
The Milan Decree.
This is the Rat, that eat the Malt. That lay in the House that Jack built.
The Orders in Council.
This is the Cat, That catch'd the Rat, that eat the Malt, That lay in the House that Jack built.
The Embargo.
This is the Dog, that bark'd at the Cat, That catch'd the Rat, that eat the Malt, That lay in the House that Jack built.
The British Fleet.
This is the Bull, with a crumpled Horn, That toss'd the Dog, that bark'd at the Cat, That catch'd the Rat, that eat the Malt, That lay in the House that Jack built.
The fleet of Gun-boats.
This is the maiden all forlorn, Who scared the Bull with a crumpled horn, That toss'd the Dog, that bark'd at the Cat, That catch'd the Rat, that eat the Malt, That lay in the House, that Jack built.
The new raised Army
This is the man all tattered and torn, Who kiss'd the Maiden all forlorn, Who scared the Bull with a crumpled horn, That toss'd the Dog, that bark'd at the Cat, That catch'd the Rat, that eat the Malt, That lay in the house that Jack built.
T***** J*****n.
This is the Priest, all shaven and shorn, Who fled to the mountains all cover'd with scorn, And studied philosophy evening and morn, And married the man all tatter'd and torn, Who kiss'd the maiden all forlorn, Who scared the Bull with a crumpled horn, That toss'd the Dog, that bark'd at the Cat, That catch'd the Rat, that eat the Malt, That lay in the House, that Jack Built.
Pickering, Hillhouse, &c.
These are the Huntsmen, who sounded the horn, And will publish to ages, which yet are unborn, The deeds of the priest, all shaven and shorn, Who fled to the mountain, all cover'd with scorn, And studied philosophy, ev'ning and morn, And married the Man, all tatter'd and torn, Who kiss'd the Maiden all forlorn, Who scared the Bull, with a crumpled horn, That toss'd the dog, that bark'd at the cat, That catch'd the Rat, that eat the Malt, That lay in the house, that Jack built.
Federalism.
This is the Lark that sings clear in the morn, And all honest Patriots loudly shall warn, In aid of the Huntsmen who sounded the horn, And will publish to ages which yet are unborn, The deeds of the Priest all shaven and shorn, Who fled to the Mountain all cover'd with scorn, And studied philosophy evening and morn, And married the man all tatter'd and torn, Who kiss'd the Maiden all forlorn, Who scared the Bull with a crumpled horn, That toss'd the Dog, that bark'd at the Cat, That catch'd the Rat, that eat the Malt, That lay in the House that Jack built.
NOTICE.
I wish to rent my FISHING LANDING at the Mouth of Hunting-Creek.
James Craik.
January 2.
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CONGRESS.
Senate of the United States.
THURSDAY, November 30.
EMBARGO.
DEBATE on Mr. Hillhouse's motion for a repeal.
[CONTINUED.]
MR. PICKERING.—Mr. PRESIDENT, the ample discussion already given to the resolution on your table, leaves me nothing to detail on the effects produced by the embargo, in regard to France, to England, to ourselves. On the two great belligerents, practical men, who knew the characters and resources of those nations, foresaw & pronounced, that it would make no impression. This we all know now to be the fact—while we ourselves severely feel its pressure.—Why then not remove it? Because, as we are told, those two nations have violated our neutral maritime rights; and seeing, that to compel their respect for these, we imposed the embargo, and they treat the measure with contempt, to remove it would be submission. So we will endeavor to conceal our mortification; and because we cannot injure them, we will continue to punish ourselves. To renew our commerce, while their decrees and orders remain uncancelled, would, we are told, be "abject and degrading submission;" and that we have but this alternative, "to make war with both nations, or continue and enforce the present suspension of our commerce."
It has been justly remarked, by the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Hillhouse) that to run away and abandon our rights is abject and degrading.
To make war on both the belligerents is the most strange, Quixotick idea, that ever entered into the head of a statesman. I suppose, as we have a thousand and a thousand times declared, that we have maintained an impartial neutrality towards those nations so, to verify our declarations, we must now make war upon both, impartially! And as their injuries are said to be equal, or, we will not inquire which has done us "the most harm;" so we must measure out to each an equal quantity of resentment, and give to each of them an equal number of blows!
In respect to our violated rights, so far as G. Britain is concerned, those presented by the administration in the front of our claims, are
1st. An exemption from impressment of all seamen on board our merchant vessels. 2d. A free trade with the colonies of her enemies. 3d. An exemption from capture of our vessels destined for any port of her enemies not actually blockaded.
I am aware, sir, of the consequences of advancing any thing from which conclusions may be drawn, adverse to the opinions of our own administration, which by many are conceived to be indisputably just.—Merely to state these questions, and to mention such arguments as the British government may perhaps have urged in their support, on her side, is sufficient to subject a man to the popular charge of being under British influence, or to the vulgar slander of being a "British tory;" he will be fortunate to escape the accusation of touching British gold. But, sir, none of these things move me. The patrons of the miscreants who utter these slanders know better; but are nevertheless willing to benefit by the impression they may make on the minds of the people. From an early period of life, I was zealously engaged in every measure opposed to the attempts of G. Britain to encroach upon our rights, until the commencement of our revolutionary war; and during its whole continuance, I was uninterruptedly employed in important civil or military departments; contributing all my efforts to bring that war to a successful termination.
I, sir, am not the advocate of wrong-doers, to whatever country they belong; whether emperors or kings, or the administrators of a republic. Justice is my object, and truth my guide; and wherever she points the way, I shall not fear to go.
Great Britain has done us many wrongs. When we were colonies, she attempted to deprive us of some of our dearest birth rights—rights derived from our English ancestors—rights which we defended, and finally established, by the successful conclusion of the revolutionary war. But these wrongs, and all the wounds of war, were to be obliterated and healed by the treaty of peace, when all enmities should have ceased.
Great Britain wronged us in the capture and condemnation of our vessels under her orders of 1793: and she has made reparation for these wrongs; pursuant to a treaty negotiated on practical principles, by a statesman, who, with liberal views and real candor, sought adjustment and reparation.
At subsequent periods she has committed other wrongs, and if reparation had been demanded in the same spirit of candor and firmness, which were manifested in 1794, that distinguished precedent authorizes the opinion that a like equitable adjustment and reparation might have been obtained. But after a four years negotiation, in which volumes of letters and essays have been written it has, like the seven years negotiation with Spain, been brought (in the language of the President) "to an issue of some sort;" that is, every subject of dispute remains as far, probably farther, from adjustment, than when the negotiations were begun.
It is this disastrous issue which now enters into our deliberations. According to the statements of the administration, we are brought into a situation from which we cannot advance without war, nor retreat without dishonor. Their negotiations with France have likewise terminated in mortification and defeat.
On the two questions of the impressment of seamen on board our merchant vessels, and a trade with the enemies of Great Britain, prohibited in time of peace, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Smith) was pleased to read some parts of a letter written by me last winter to the governor of Massachusetts, to be laid before the legislature; and on the latter (neutral trade) he also read the journal of the senate, which exhibited a unanimous vote declaratory of our right to that trade; and then the names of the senators (mine being one) who voted to request the President to demand & insist on reparation for the injuries done us in violation of that right, & for this purpose to enter into amicable arrangements with the British government.
On these two questions I should add nothing to the observations made yesterday by the gentleman from Connecticut, but for the apparent intention of the gentleman from Maryland to exhibit an inconsistency between my votes in the senate, and the observations of my letter on the same subject.
It is sufficient for me to remark, that in the passages recited by the gentleman from my letter, my object was to show, by exhibiting in a few words, to the view of my immediate constituents, and through them to the people of Massachusetts; some of the reasons which might have influenced G. Britain not to relinquish her ancient usage of impressing her own seamen; nor to consent that neutral vessels should carry on (as we and other neutrals were carrying on) the whole trade between the countries of her enemies in Europe and her colonies, to show I say that as much was to be said on both sides, those rights, as claimed by the United States, were not to be considered so clear and indisputable, as to justify a war with Great Britain; into which the proceedings of the executive, in a variety of ways, seemed calculated to plunge us.
Before I quit this subject I will make one more observation. It appears to be generally supposed that the rule respecting the colonial trade adopted by Great Britain, and usually called the rule of 1756, which it seems she has considered as 'the ancient and established principle of maritime law' was peculiar to Great Britain, and Mr. Madison says, "it is well known that G. Britain is the only nation that has acted upon, or otherwise given sanction to it." He also mentions this rule as having been in operation only a few years in the war; and not afterwards acted upon until 1793.† Let us examine the subject.
In Valin's celebrated work on maritime law, (a book in the secretary of states' office) is a regulation of Louis the fourteenth, in 1704, from which I will recite some passages.
The title of the regulation is remarkable: it is concerning prizes made at sea to secure the navigation of neutral states and allies during war; implying that this regulation was intended to abate the rigor of maritime law, before that time practised towards neutral commerce.
After observing that propositions had been made to him by the deputies of the council of commerce, the French king expresses his approbation of them, "seeing he finds in them the means which he has always sought of procuring equally the advantages of the subjects of neutral princes
* Mr. Madison's letter of March 25, 1808. to Mr. Erskine.
† Same letter.
‡ Idem.
and French cruisers." He adds, "The subjects of neutral princes will thus find the care which his majesty has thus taken to preserve for them the same extent and the same liberty of commerce which they have been accustomed to enjoy during peace."
I will now read such of the articles of this French regulation as relates to the question under examination.
"Article 1. His majesty forbids French privateers to stop or bring into the ports of his kingdom, vessels belonging to subjects of neutral princes, going from the ports of their dominion, and laden on account of the owners or other subjects of the said neutral princes with merchandise of the growth or manufacture of their own country, to carry the same directly unto any other states whatsoever, even those with which his majesty is at war; provided nevertheless, that there be not in the said vessels any contraband goods.
"Article 2. They are in like manner forbidden to stop vessels belonging to subjects of neutral princes, going from the ports of any state whatsoever, even of those with which his majesty is at war, and laden on account of the owners or other subjects of the said neutral princes, with merchandise which they shall have received in the same country or state whence they shall have departed, to return directly into the ports of the dominion of their sovereign.
"Article 3. He also forbids them to stop vessels belonging to the subjects of neutral princes, departing from the ports of one of the states neutral or allied to his majesty; provided they are not laden with merchandise of the growth or manufacture of his enemies: in which case the merchandise shall be good prize, and the vessels shall be released.
"Article 4. In like manner his majesty forbids privateers to stop vessels belonging to subjects of neutral princes departing from a state allied to his majesty or neutral, to go to a state the enemy of his majesty; provided there be not on board said vessel any merchandise contraband, nor of the growth or manufacture of the enemies of his majesty; in which cases the merchandise shall be good prize, and the vessels shall be released.
"Article 5. Vessels belonging to subjects of neutral states which shall depart from the ports of a state the enemy of his majesty, and there have taken their lading in whole or in part, to go to the states of any other prince than their own, whether allied to his majesty, neutral or enemy, may be stopped and brought into his kingdom, and shall be declared good prize with their lading, even although laden on account of the subjects of his majesty, or of an allied or neutral state."
This regulation of Louis XIV. in 1704 (he being then at war with England & Holland) was re-enacted by Louis XV. in 1744 (France being again at war with England) with some exceptions in regard to those neutral nations, with whom France had formed treaty stipulations incompatible with that regulation.
In these five articles we have, if I mistake not, the whole doctrine of the British rule of 1756. The direct trade to and from neutral ports and the enemy's ports being permitted; but not the trade to and from the ports of one allied or neutral state, to and from the ports of another allied or neutral state; if the lading of the neutral vessels consist of merchandise the productions of the enemy's country much less to carry the same from one port of the enemy, to another port of the enemy.
The PRINCIPLE of the British rule and of the French regulation appears to be, to prevent neutrals coming in to aid the enemy in the commerce of one part of his dominions with any other part thereof, or in procuring a market for the enemy's productions in any other country than that of the neutral actually transporting the same, and for its own use and consumption.
[Speech to be continued.]
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, December 30.
DEBATE
On the Resolution for raising Fifty Thousand Volunteers.
Mr. GARDENIER said he was surprised that this bill had passed through the committee of the whole without opposition. He had hoped that some other gentleman would have called for the reasons which induced the report of the committee. It was proposed by this resolution to raise a standing army in time of peace; a force which to his mind was unnecessary on the one hand, and frightful on the other. Was it the object of government to plunge us into a war? Was a declaration of war intended? If we were to be put into a state of actual ob-

fashioned war, he should wish for one, to have the fact in the first place ascertained. war was determined on, however unnecessary and unjust such a war may be, the interest of the country demanded that in such a case they should take care that the country did not suffer. He said he was not prepared to pledge himself, in the present state of the nation, that he would go to war; and at any rate before war was declared, he would not give his sanction to raising a force, the destination of which he did not understand, and could not calculate upon. Fifty thousand men at an expence (said he) I was told of $2,000,000! Why (said he) I was told that the embargo system, was to prevent war; that war was the most dreadful calamity which could befall a nation. I did not want to be told that in order to know it. But this dreadful evil of war was to be averted by laying an embargo that would bring the belligerents at our feet, that would perform a great cure for all the disorders of the state, or miseries of the country. But it appeared that the embargo system was to be abandoned, and war to be commenced in its place. Is it intended by this part of the embargo that the embargo has utterly failed of its purpose, as was predicted by those who were opposed to it? Is it to be extinguished because it is in its operation? I believe, because it has proved that those who recommended it, were not capable of calculating the effects to be produced by it? Whenever the embargo question is brought up in a direct proposition, it is smothered; and where attempted to be introduced in any amendment to any other question before the house, it is declared out of order; and yet a system is here to be introduced which, if it proves any thing, proves that the embargo system will do no longer? Let us go on regularly to repeal it then, that we and the nation may understand it. If the embargo be this grand preventative against war, which it is all along cried up to be, and which opinion has been the means of gaining it that languid and sickly support which it has received from some portions of the country; if it is to be continued as a coercive measure, then, sir, I do insist that raising a military force of 50,000 men is unnecessary. If the embargo be coercive, the raising fifty thousand men for coercion is unnecessary. The two different systems are incompatible. If we have embargo, let us have wholly embargo; if war, wholly war. If we are to have peace, the raising of troops is wholly unnecessary, especially with our present limited resources. I wish not to see those measures, which a declaration of war only would warrant, adopted before that attitude is taken. I have no idea of having these chains wound round me, round this house, round the nation; and I trust the nation will be of the same opinion. [Speech to be continued.]
Senate of the United States. JANUARY 12. Mr. Bradley asked and obtained leave to bring in a bill making further provision for the corps of engineers, which was ordered to a third reading. This bill authorizes the removal of the Military Academy from West Point to the city of Washington. A bill reported by general Smith of Md. for the establishment of a marine militia was passed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U. S. TUESDAY, January 10. A bill from the Senate making an appropriation for the public buildings, &c. was read and referred to a committee of the whole. A bill from the Senate, authorizing the insurance company of Alexandria to alter their stile and firm, was twice read and referred to a committee of the whole. The bill for the relief of the infirm and disabled officers and soldiers of the late revolutionary army, with amendments reported by a select committee, was referred to a committee of the whole. Mr. Dana in pursuance of a resolution offered by Mr. Story, reported a bill authorizing the transmission by mail of certain documents free of postage; which was read three times and passed. [It was rejected on the first reading in the Senate afterwards.] NAVIGATION LAWS. Mr. Dana after observing that at present there was a defect in the law for the enrollment of licensed vessels, offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the committee of commerce and manufactures be instructed to enquire into the propriety of amending the same relative to bonds required for enrolled licensed vessels of the U. States. Agreed. Mr. Dana called up his resolution laid
on the table yesterday, proposing an amendment of our navigation laws. On the suggestion of Mr. McCreery the words "some of the seamen, &c." in the resolution was exchanged for the words "a certain proportion of the seamen, &c." and the resolution as amended, was referred to a select committee. Mr. Green presented a petition from the merchants of the island of Nantucket, praying that Nantucket may be erected into a port of entry for vessels from beyond the Cape of Good Hope. Referred. Mr. Van Horne, after stating certain difficulties in the present organization of the courts of the district of Columbia, moved the following resolution: Resolved, That the committee of the District of Columbia be instructed to enquire whether any, and if any, what amendments are necessary in the act concerning the district of Columbia. Agreed to.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 11. Mr. Rhea offered a resolution for rescinding the resolution offered a few days ago and agreed to by the house, for calling upon the Department of State for a statement of our naturalized seamen; which, Mr. Dana not being present, was ordered to lie on the table. EXTRA SESSION. Mr. Smith, from the committee appointed to consider the propriety of convening Congress at an earlier period than usual, reported a bill to alter the time of the next meeting of Congress. [The 4th Monday in May is the day fixed on in the bill.]—Twice read and referred. On motion of Mr. Dawson, a resolution directing the committee of Commerce and Manufactures to enquire into the expediency of removing a port of entry from Tappahannock to Fredericksburg, was taken up and agreed to. Mr. Nelson reported a bill supplementary to an act for establishing and organizing a marine corps—[Making the term of service of marines five years.] Twice read and referred. VOLUNTEER TROOPS. Mr. Nelson also reported a bill to provide an additional military force—(the 50,000 volunteers ordered by a resolution of the house.) Twice read and referred to a committee of the whole. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. The house resumed the consideration of the unfinished business of yesterday on the remaining amendments of the senate to the bill for employing an additional number of seamen and marines. Mr. D. R. Williams moved that the bill with the amendments, be committed to a committee of the whole. [It was supposed, had this motion carried, that the amendment from the senate yesterday agreed to, might have been rescinded or amended, though the vote could not be reconsidered in the house.] After a long debate, the motion was lost, yeas 58, nays 59, and the house immediately adjourned at half past 4 o'clock.
Thursday, Jan. 12. Mr. Barker laid upon the table a memorial from sundry inhabitants of the state of Massachusetts on the subject of the late election of electors in the state of Massachusetts, stating it to have been illegally conducted. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. The house resumed the consideration of the unfinished business of yesterday. After considerable debate, Mr. J. Montgomery moved a reference of the bill to a committee of the whole, stating his object to be to give a discretionary power to the Executive instead of a peremptory power to fit out and employ the naval force as it now stood. [This motion was understood, if carried, to place again the amendment of the senate to which the house had agreed under their power.] At half past 4, the motion to commit the bill was carried, 69 to 53—majority 16. And the house immediately adjourned.
Charitable Marine Society Lottery. Warranted undrawn. TICKETS in the above Lottery for sale at the Office of the Alexandria Daily Gazette.—Present price Six Dollars; but will raise on Monday to Six Dollars Twenty-five Cents. There has been ten days drawing, and the wheel has gained 10,750 Dollars, and no prize higher than 300 Dollars as yet drawn. JANUARY 13.
Alexandria Daily Gazette. SATURDAY, JANUARY 14. MR. SNOWDEN, BY the last Whaler that arrived from the Pacific ocean I received a file of newspapers published at Tongataboo, commencing in 1801, and continued to the time the vessel sailed. On examining the file I have found copies of all the speeches or Messages delivered by the sage and philosophic Poulaho, king of the friendly islands, to the chiefs of all the islands when assembled in grand council—also, his Valedictory Address to the inhabitants of said islands. On examining the former I found them to consist of such a jumble of nonsense and misrepresentation as not to be worth the trouble of translating; but the latter containing much candor (which, by the bye, is so very uncommon in a Great Man) and simplicity, with a plain statement of facts I thought worth a translation, and now take the liberty of annexing it hereto with a request that you will give it a place in your useful paper, and oblige Yours, &c. Q. U. My deluded sufferers,
As the time is fast approaching when I shall cease to be your lawgiver, and return to that private station or rank in life for which I was intended, i. e. to dwell in groves and caves and solitary places, where I can give full scope to my philosophic mind—I deem it my duty, notwithstanding the opposition I feel upon the subject, to give you, in as brief a manner as possible, a view of my eight years reign, in order that some faithful historian may hand it down to posterity, to be to them a lesson which will teach them never to trust the management of their affairs to a philosopher. My Dearly Beloved Fellow-Citizens, When I had first the honor of mounting the throne to govern these free and friendly Islands, I found a full flowing treasury—a respectable navy—that we were at peace with all the world and respected by all nations—but now—oh forgive me—the picture is horrid—I have sold and destroyed your navy and foolishly spent your money in making Canoes, buying a wilderness without bounds, and digging in the mountains thereof in search of Salt and Castile Soap. I have destroyed your once flourishing commerce and reduced many a worthy man to beggary, and I have done a thousand other things too tedious to mention for which no doubt you wish the d***l had me. I have now got you into a scrape (which you must get out of as well as you can) with Opoony, king of Bolabola, and Otoo, emperor of Otaheite, concerning our fishing business. Otoo issued a decree declaring that if we stopped at Bolabola to enquire for a market or even to mend our canoes, on a passage to Otaheite that the canoe and fish should be confiscated on her arrival at Otaheite; then, in order to counteract, the decrees of Otoo, Opoony issued orders that we should not take fish to Otaheite without stopping at Bolabola and presenting to the king thereof a dozen of the best fish for his own table. Instead of immediately declaring vengeance against Otoo for the insult offered our national honor by his decree (which would have prevented the orders being issued by Opoony), I waited till Opoony issued his orders, then, mean, and coward like, sent messenger after messenger, in a supplicating manner, begging Opoony and Otoo to rescind their orders & decrees; and finding even that would have no effect on their flinty hearts, I determined upon the magnanimous plan of retiring from the ocean (so as to let them catch the fish themselves—taking up the cross, denying ourselves the luxury of eating fish, and in lieu thereof live upon land terrapins, until Opoony and Otoo get tired of fishing for themselves. My dear people, wishing my successor may be able to get you out of the mire and dirt in which I have so greatly contributed to place you. I bid you an affectionate farewell. POULAHO.
Our paper of this day contains THE CHARTER OF AMERICAN SLAVERY, That sacred and invaluable instrument which the people of this devoted country were taught to revere as the bulwark of their liberties, has been prostrated at the feet of a proud and ambitious partisan, the constitution has been immolated upon the altar of democracy, but thank god we yet claim, and mean to exercise at the hazard of our lives, the liberty to think, to speak, to write and to act. Be it in the power of man to ponder upon the instrument which barter away his freedom, we earnestly beseech our fellow citizens to read study, and read again while he can keep
down his rage, the law to enforce the embargo which was approved by the President on the 9th inst. We repeat what we have before said, and what has been solemnly declared by the soundest patriots in the senate and house of representatives, that this law is unconstitutional, that it infringes the dearest rights of freemen, subverts the whole civil jurisprudence of the country and prostrates the liberties of the nation. It is a law fraught with the most terrible and alarming consequences, and we contemplate with horror the mischief it will carry in its train. None deprecate more than we do the effects of civil discord and disunion. We are alarmed and shudder at the idea of forcible resistance to government. The fear of such an event must fill every bosom with dismay, but when a combination of mad and enflamed demagogues goad on the people to a state of phrenzy and despair, what but the most disasterous consequences must ensue. The desperate adherents of rulers drunk with power have been solemnly warned, they have been implored not to pass a law, which freemen never would submit to, but their admonitions were derided, their entreaties spurned. They who when the last blow was aimed at the liberties of the nation dared to break its fall, they who at the awful moment when the deed of our subjugation was to be executed ventured to raise their voices in vindication of the insulted majority of the people, have been scoffed at, abused, their feelings outraged by the charge of toryism and treason to their country. It is for the enlightened freemen of the country to decide who have acted the part of traitors, who in the hour of trial have deserted their country and enlisted under the banners of a faction which is driving the nation on to ruin. Black must be the heart that plotted this fatal attack upon the honour, the happiness and liberty of a free people. "They who can sin to deeds like these, their deeds be on their head." [Fed. Repub.]
IMPORTANT. A letter has been published at New York, of the 23d of September last, from Mr. Canning to Mr. Pinkney, not included in the president's communications to Congress. Its object is to recapitulate the conversations, which passed between them, on the subject of removing the Embargo on condition of the British rescinding the orders in council. It is of great importance; but we regret we have not room for it to day. It relates principally to two points:— 1st. Mr. Pinkney did not in these conversations declare himself to be authorised to make the proposal of removing the Embargo—And 2d. He informed Mr. Canning, that at the time of the Embargo being imposed, our government did not know, that the British orders in council were issued. North American.
Extract of an Act of the Corporation of Alexandria, for the extinguishment of Fire. Section 7. If any person who shall be present at any fire shall neglect or refuse to obey the order or direction of any officer who shall be appointed by any fire company now established, or which may be hereafter established, knowing him to be an officer, such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars: Provided the name of such officer shall have been first published in one of the public papers. At an annual meeting of the Friendship Fire Company, held at John Hodgkin's tavern, January 9th, 1809, the following officers were elected. Aaron Hewes 1st John Longden 2d Charles McKnight 3d James McGuire, Joseph Thornton, John Cohagen, Matthew Robinson, John Hodgkin, James S. Scott, Nicholas Hingston, William Paton, John Horner, Richard Weightman. Extract from the minutes. TEST. MATHW. ROBINSON, Sec'y. January 14.
Six Cents Reward. RAN AWAY yesterday morning, an apprentice to the baking business, named SAMUEL VAN HORNE, near 21 years of age: had on a suit of blue cloth clothes—he is lame in the left arm. Whoever will take up said runaway and bring him home, shall receive the above reward. John Cranston. All persons are cautioned against crediting said Boy on my account. J. C. January 14.

LANDED TO-DAY, 21 bales nice Upland Cotton, AND FOR SALE BY
E. GILMAN.
December 20. d3t1aw4t
TUITION.
THE subscriber begs leave respectfully to inform his friends, and the public in general, that he has opened a SCHOOL , on King Street, nearly opposite the residence of col. Geo. E. Doneale, and next door to Mr. Alex. Perry's store. He professes to teach Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Mensuration, Book Keeping, Surveying and Navigation. From the certificates now in his possession, which were given by gentlemen whose names are hereto subscribed, he hopes to meet with a portion of public patronage.
Terms of Tuition for day scholars, $16 3/4 per annum, payable quarterly. Fuel for comfortable fires will be furnished. From 8 till 9 every evening, except Saturday, the School Room will be open for the reception of those who cannot attend during the day.
John H. Manley.
January 10. co5t
Zachariah Ward.
Hancock Lee.
Robert Boggess.
John Smith Stone.
John Simpson.
James Mitchell.
Peter Coulter.
John M c Intosh.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber on Sunday night last, a black Negro slave , named ELIJAH, or LAIGE . He is about 33 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, pitted with the small pox, of a down surly look, stout made—he had on when he went away a blue jacket and trousers nearly new, and took with him from off a bed two pair of blankets, one bound on the ends with red tape. Laige went off some time back from capt. Rubin Johnson of this place, and lived some time in New York and Boston, and went by the name of Archibald Henderson: he is an artful cunning fellow—can play a little on the violin. Whoever will bring him to me, or commit him to jail, if taken in town, shall receive ten dollars, if taken out of town the above reward, with all reasonable expences.
Isaac Entwisle.
January 10. col2t
Notice is hereby given,
To the Stockholders of the Bank of Alexandria, THAT an election will be held at the court house in this town, on the third Monday in January next, for the purpose of choosing nine Directors for the ensuing year agreeably to charter.
By order of the President and Directors.
Gurden Chapin, Cashier.
December 19.
Mr. Green, Printer, Fredericksburg; Mr. Heiskell, Printer, Winchester; and Mr. Davis, Printer, Richmond, are requested to insert the above advertisement until the election.
TICKETS
FOR SALE AT R. GRAY'S BOOKSTORE, IN THE
Black River Lottery, No. 2,
The scheme of which contains
1 Prize of $ 30,000
1 of 20,000
2 of 10,000
Present price of Tickets, $8 50 c .
December 29.
Joseph Mandeville,
CORNER OF KING AND FAIRFAX STREETS, Has Received,
100 half boxes Roufett's CIGARS, warranted of the very first quality and full contents.
Real Macouba Snuff,
Rappe do Coarse and Fine,
20 boxes fresh MUSTARD,
20 Philadelphia CHOCOLATE, 1s and 2d quality.
--HE HAS ALSO,
A General Assortment as usual, of good WINES, LIQUORS, and GROCERIES, for sale.
December 21.
Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria.
INSURANCE-OFFICE, 19th Dec. 1803.
THE Stockholders in this institution are hereby notified, that an election of fifteen directors, will be held at the court house in Alexandria on Saturday the fourteenth day of January next, ensuing.
By order,
J. B. Nickolls, Sec'y.
2awt15thJan.
Mr. Green of Fredericksburg and Mr. Davis of Richmond, will insert the above advertisement in their respective papers, a week till the 14th January.
Valuable Family Medicines.
The following well known genuine Medicines, from Hannah Lee's patent Medicine store, New York, are constantly kept for sale by
James Kennedy, Jen.
BOOKSELLER, KING-STREET,
And no where else in Alexandria.
Prevention better than Cure.
FOR the prevention and cure of Bilious and Malignant Fevers , is recommended HAHN'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS , prepared (only) at Lee's Patent Medicine store , No. 56 Maiden lane.
This medicine has, for nine years past, been attended with a degree of success highly grateful to the inventor's feelings, in several parts of the West Indies, and the southern states, particularly in Baltimore, Petersburg, Richmond, Norfolk, Edenton, Wilmington, Charleston and Savannah. The testimony of a number of persons in each of the above places has been adduced, who have reason to believe that a timely use of this salutary remedy has, under Providence, preserved their lives when in the most alarming circumstances.
Facts of this conclusive nature, speak more in favor of a medicine than columns of pompous eulogy founded on mere assertion could do.
It is not indeed presumptuously proposed as an infallible cure, but the inventor has every possible reason that can result from extensive experience, for believing that a dose of these pills, taken once every two weeks, during the prevalence of our bilious fevers, will prove an infallible preventative—and further, that in the early stages of these diseases, their use will very generally succeed in restoring health, and frequently in cases esteemed desperate, and beyond the power of common remedies.
The operation of these pills is perfectly mild, so as to be used with safety by persons in every situation, and of every age.
They are excellently adapted to carry off superfluous bile, and prevent its morbid secretions—to restore and amend the appetite, produce a free perspiration, and thereby prevent colds, which are often of fatal consequences. A dose never fails to remove a cold, if taken on its first appearance. They are celebrated for removing habitual costiveness, sickness at the stomach and a severe head ache, and ought to be taken by all persons on a change of climate.
They have been found remarkably efficacious in preventing and curing disorders attendant on long voyages, and should be procured, and carefully preserved by every seaman.
From one to three or four of the pills are a dose which may be repeated as circumstances require.
In sickly times or places, a dose should be taken every fortnight, and if there is reason to apprehend personal danger, it may be taken once a week.
Certificate of Mr. Wm. Devenney.
During the last nine years, I have been in the habit of using Hahn's Antibilious Pills, prepared by the late Mr. Lee, whenever colds, headache, or costiveness have rendered medicine necessary; in these cases a single dose has uniformly removed my headache, and has generally been found sufficient to remove every symptom of a cold if taken on its first appearance. Induced by the benefit received, I have for years past recommended them to many of my friends, and I have the pleasure to inform you, they have invariably succeeded in removing the above complaints.
Yours, &c. WM. DEVENNEY, No. 145, Cherry street, New York.
Hamilton's Grand Restorative,
Recommended as an invaluable Medicine, for the speedy relief, and permanent cure of the various complaints which result from dissipated pleasures, juvenile indiscretions, residence in climates unfavorable to the constitution, the immoderate use of tea, frequent intoxication or any destructive intemperance, the unskilful or destructive use of mercury, the diseases peculiar to females, at a certain period of life, bad layings in, &c. &c.
And is proved by long and extensive experience to be absolutely unparalleled in the cure of nervous disorders, consumptions and lowness of spirits, loss of appetite, impurity of the blood, hysterical affections, inward weakness, violent cramps in the stomach and back, indigestion, melancholy, gout in the stomach, pains in the limbs, relaxations, involuntary emissions, seminal weakness, obstinate gleet, fluor albus, or whites, impotency, barrenness, &c. &c.
Hamilton's Worm Destroying Lozenges.
Which there is reason to believe, have, within eight years past cured upwards of two HUNDRED THOUSAND persons of both sexes, of every age, and in every situation of various dangerous complaints arising from WORMS and from obstructions or foulness in the stomach and bowels.
Hamilton's Elixir,
For Coughs, Colds, Asthmas, Sore Throat and approaching Consumption;
HAHN'S TRUE AND GENUINE GERMAN CORN PLAISTER, An infallible remedy for Corns, speedily removing them root and branch without giving pain.
The Genuine Persian Lotion.
The Restorative Powder for the Teeth and Gums.
Hahn's Genuine Eye Water.
A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eyes.
ITCH OINTMENT,
Warranted to cure by once using, and to be free from Mercury or any pernicious or offensive ingredient, &c. may with perfect safety be applied to the youngest infant.
Hannah Lee, Patent Medicine Store, New York, Sept. 10, 1808.
ALSO,
The following new and valuable Medicine, just received and for sale as above.
(Price, Two Dollars per bottle.)
Dr. Tissot's celebrated Gout and Rheumatic Drops.
NOTHING is of more importance than the preservation of health—this common sense remark however is TOO OFTEN FORGOTTEN, whilst we are active and strong—and prevention of pain, which is superior to its cure, is not sufficiently attended to by any description of persons. Among those disorders which require the most early and unremitting efforts to eradicate and overcome, none have a stronger claim upon our notice than the Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Weakness of the Joints, Sprains, Gleet, the Stone and Gravel, the Cramp and every species of Rheumatic Pains from whatever cause they may have originated—and hence every relief which can be administered is too valuable to be forgotten.—Those persons whose avocations peculiarly expose them to colds, &c. cannot be too anxious always to possess immediate aid. Sea-faring persons, travellers, &c. ought constantly to carry with them that medicine which will counteract the unpleasant effects of their perilous duties, and especially those pains to which their situation must expose them. To those who reside in or visit the West-Indies, and their warm climates, they will be found upon trial to convey the most lasting service and will gradually destroy all tendency to disease in the human frame, and preserve health and vigor. Although a great variety of prescriptions have been published to cure the disorders enumerated above, none has yet equalled the GOUT AND RHEUMATIC DROPS of DR. TISSOT , which are celebrated throughout the European continent, and whose unbounded benefits are fully authenticated by certificates already published of gentlemen so well known in America, being of the first consequence in the state of Maryland: General Charles Ridgely, of Hampton; John Gibson, Esq. one of the directors of the Farmers' Bank of Maryland; John Macubbin, Esq. Mrs. Macubbin, his wife; and Mrs. Ryan, of Calton.
Certificate of Mr. Thomas Kelso, butcher.
About three weeks since I was most violently attacked with Rheumatic pains throughout my whole frame, in so severe a manner as not to be able to turn in my bed without assistance proceeding as I suppose from a severe cold to being advised by a friend to apply Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatic Drops, I accordingly obtained from the agents Messrs. George Dobbin and Murphy, two bottles, the application of which, under God, have perfectly restored me to health. I am therefore induced with confidence to recommend this medicine as a certain cure for the above disorder.
THOMAS KELSO.
Baltimore, July 22d, 1806.
Certificate of Mr. Thomas Campbell, Harness maker.
It would be an act of injustice to withhold my testimony of the salutary effects of Doctor Tissot's Gout and Rheumatic Drops, as I have experienced a very unequivocal instance of their virtues and efficacy. I was afflicted with two severe attacks of what is usually called Dead Palsy, from which I partially recovered, but was obliged to use crutches to aid me in walking when I left home; to this were joined violent Rheumatic pains, the result of the affliction, and I had feared the disorder would accompany me through life; but providentially was recommended to apply at George Dobbin and Murphy's for Dr. Tissot's Drops, and after using only one bottle, found myself perfectly liberated from my disorder, and am now, thank God, as free from pain as if I never had been afflicted. Finding this medicine operate so powerfully on myself, I determined to apply it internally to my child, a boy only eleven months old, who was then reduced almost to a skeleton with the Bowel Complaint; after administering it four times to him, his complaint was entirely removed, and he is now recovering his strength with great rapidity.
TH. CAMPBELL.
Baltimore, July 28, 1806.
TO LET,
The HOUSE on Prince-street, lately occupied by John Watts, deceased.
FOR SALE,
1 Share Pennsylvania Copper Mine Stock.
R. I. Taylor Esq
September 24
Joseph Mandeville,
CORNER OF KING AND FAIRFAX STREETS, ALEXANDRIA:
Has received a considerable addition to his Stock,
AND OFFERS FOR SALE,
 20 hogheads, } 1st and 2d quality  20 barrels } Mucovado Sugar,  7000 lb. Green Coffee  3 1-2 tons British Patent Shot, assorted  BB to No. 9.  10 bales Cotton.  10 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 Tea, in quarter chests, boxes and canisters—most of which are equal in quality to any ever imported.
Madeira, Port, Marsala, Sherry, Lisbon, Tenerife, 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 hogheads 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,imento, 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.
PROPOSALS
OF PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A NEW WORK,
ENTITLED,
THE MANUAL
OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH STUDENT,
OR A
NEW AND COMPLETE DICTIONARY
OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES.
IN TWO PARTS:
1. French & English—2. English & French
CONTAINING,
 1. All the words in general use, occasionally illustrated by French and English sentences.  2. An extensive collection of new words in every art, science and trade.  3. The pronunciation of every word, according to the most polite usage in France and England.  4. A copious vocabulary of sea terms and phrases.  5. A dictionary of French synonyms.  6. A dictionary of French homonymes.  7. An alphabetical list of the most familiar proper and christian names, and of the most remarkable places in the world.  8. The difficulties of the French language alphabetically arranged.  9. A complete treatise on French poetry.  10. The chief English idioms.  11. A treatise on the English particles, &c. 
The whole carefully compiled from the best writers, and particularly from the Dictionaries of the French Academy, Boiste, Ferand, Cnean, Wailly, Tocquot, Nugent, Chambaud, Boyer, Johnson, Walker, &c.
By N. G. DUPIE,
Author of Nature Displayed in her mode of teaching language to man, applied to the French language, &c.
The first book of a nation is the dictionary of their own language.
VOLNEY.
I. It shall be printed on fine paper, in two handsome large 12mo volumes, upon a beautiful type, called nonpareil, cast for the purpose, by Messrs. Binney and Ronaldson. This type, although small, is, by its neatness and elegance, extremely grateful to the eyes. The work will issue from the press of T. and G. Palmer, who have already been so eminently distinguished by the greatest accuracy and taste in their profession, and a thorough knowledge of the French and English languages.
II. Price, to subscribers, for the two volumes in boards, neatly lettered, five dollars, to be paid on the delivery of the whole work. By gentlemen, however, wishing to have the first volume before the second, it may be received upon paying the full amount of the subscription for both volumes.
Subscriptions received by R. GRAY.