Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political (Alexandria [Va.]), 1808-07-14 00:00:00

Sales at Vendue.
On every Tuesday and Friday, WILL BE SOLD At the Vendue Store, corner of Prince and Water streets. A Variety of Dry Goods, Groceries, &c. Particulars of which will be expressed in the bills of the day—All kinds of goods which are on limitation and the prices of which are established, can at any time be viewed and purchased at the lowest limitation prices.
P. G. Marsteller, v. M.
NOTICE.
THE Co-partnership of Catlett and Fisk, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
Chas. I. Catlett, Martin Fisk.
The business in future will be transacted by
CHAS. I. CATLETT
April 1.
JUST RECEIVED.
And for sale by ROBERT GRAY, A few copies Brown's Dictionary of the BIBLE, 2 vols. octavo, ornamented with Plates. Price 7 dollars, bound and lettered. July 27.
Forty Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber on Sunday last, a Negro Boy named GABRIEL about 21 years of age, 5 feet 3 inches high thick set, bow-legged and heavy countenance, he walks stiff, which proceeds from having the rheumatism in his ancles—had on & took with him a pair of light mixed woollen velvets, and one pair nankeen pantaloon, shirts and handkerchiefs. THIRTY DOLLARS will be given if taken in Alexandria, and FORTY if taken out, and reasonable expenses if brought home.
Tunis Craven.
Washington City, June 29. All persons are forewarned from harboring him at their peril.
CLARET, &c.
10 Cases Fine Old Medoc Claret, London Particular Madeira, Marsala or Sicily do. A few Bags Best Soft Shelled Almonds, Spanish Segars, 1st and 2d quality, FOR SALE BY Joseph Mandeville, Corner of King and Fairfax Streets. June 27.
Irish Linens.
A small invoice of yard wide and 7-8 Irish Linens, just received and for sale by John G. Ladd. May 31.
Wanted Immediately,
A quantity of good clean FLAXSEED, for cash, by Daniel Macleod, Painter, Bottom of King-street. June 15.
A Brick House for Sale or Rent,
THE Brick House occupied by Mrs. Micholls, on the north side of Prince-street, between Fairfax and Water-streets, is offered for sale on a liberal credit. For particulars apply to
John C. Vowell.
January 12. 6m
JUST RECEIVED
FOR SALE BY R. GRAY, Esparelles' Letters from England Little's and Moore's Poems Lady's Cabinet Salmagundi, 2 vols. bound Military and Political Hints And the following New Plays: Adrian and Orilla Town and Country The Trust He Would if He Could Time's a Telltale.
WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A PAMPHLET AT THIS OFFICE IN A SHORT TIME, AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE U. STATES, ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ENCOURAGING AGRICULTURE & DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES:
Tending to shew that by a due encouragement of these essential interests, the nation will be rendered more respectable abroad and more prosperous at home.
TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF The Improvements in Sheep at Arlington,
The native Sheep of Smith's Island, and the plans proposed of extending this valuable race of animals, for the benefit of the country at large:
By GEORGE W. P. CUSTIS Esq. Of Arlington House, in the District of Columbia.
AT a time when the energies of the nation seem awakened to the state of our foreign and domestic concerns, we conceive that the important interests of Agriculture and Manufactures should meet with a considerable share of the public discussion. Certain it is, that at no period of our political history could these national subjects excite more interest or be more properly urged to the notice of the public mind. The unsettled and impending appearance of our foreign affairs, and the present disturbed state of the European world, renders it doubly necessary for the citizens of America to cherish and promote their domestic policy, whereby they may derive those resources which are now obtained from abroad and create wealth and industry within themselves. Too long have these important and patriotic interests been neglected. The nation now feels their want, and we trust will duly provide for their support. Government, hitherto engaged in other concerns, will now cherish those domestic institutions, which will preserve the nation's dignity and promote the people's welfare.
Of the merits of the little work we are about to issue to the public, it is not our province to decide, but of the advantages to be derived from its sale we would beg leave to say every thing which a disinterested exertion in the cause of Domestic Manufacture justly demands—And as the profits of this work, after the expenses of publication are paid, will be solely devoted to the purposes of the Arlington Institution, we may hope and confidently expect a liberal patronage from a discerning and patriotic community.
EDITOR.
Printers in the U. States will please to give this advertisement an insertion in their respective papers, and such as demand it will be paid at this office. Booksellers supplied on liberal terms, and all orders will be punctually attended to.
Alex. 18th June, 1808.
MACKARELL.
20 bbls. Spring Mackarell in nice order, and a few casks choice old Port Wine, just received, and for sale by
John G. Ladd.
July 12.
There is no new thing under the Sun.
ALEXANDRIA, July 11, 1808.
GRAY and HAMILTON, Tailors, Royal-street; beg leave to inform the public, that by mutual consent they have dissolved partnership, and have exchanged receipts from all claims on each other after the aforesaid date.
N. B. The aforesaid GRAY will continue to carry on his business in all its various branches on Royal-street; the greatest attention will be paid to the orders of Ladies and Gentlemen who may honour him with their patronage.
Those Ladies and Gentlemen who were disappointed during my absence, may depend that every article specified in the former advertisement, will be made in the compleatest London Fashion, and truly ornamented with wisdom, strength and beauty. July 12.
LENT OR LOST,
The first volume of Chesterfield's Letters; WHOEVER has borrowed or found it will please to return it, or call and pay for the cost.
ROBERT GRAY.
PROPOSALS
FOR 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 homonyms. 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, Canneau, Wailly, Tocquot, Nugent, Chambaud, Boyer, Johnson, Walker, &c.
By N. G. DUFIEF,
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. May 28.
JOHN G. LADD,
HAS FOR SALE,
30 bales German Linens, consisting of brown and white Rolls, Saxen Osna-burghs, hempen Ticklenburghs, Burlaps, and Checks and Stripes.
1000 pieces Nankien Russia Sheeting and Duck 1 bale Writing Paper 50 bags of black Pepper of the best quality, and will be sold very low Sugars and Coffees 40 hlds Molasses 1 pipe port Wine 10 do. Holland Gin 5 do. French Brandy 7 do. Jamaica Spirits.
A quantity of seal Leather, Shoes, Specaciti and Tallow Candles, Cheese, &c. &c. April 7.
FOR SALE, BY LEWIS DEBLOIS
At his Store, near Col. Ramsay's wharf, French Brandy, in pipes Catalonia Wine, in half pipes and quarter casks New-England Rum, in hogsheads and barrels Molasses, in hogsheads Cod-Fish, in boxes Cider, Potatoes, Beets, and Winter Pears, in barrels Cheese Cider Vinegar, in hogsheads and pipes
Scheme of a Lottery,
For the purpose of raising a sum of money to aid the funds of the Charitable Marine Society of Baltimore.
Table with 3 columns: Prize, Dollars, Number. It lists various prize amounts (e.g., 5000, 2500, 1500) and the number of tickets for each.
6153 Prizes amounting to Dolls. 75,000 11832 Blanks—Sum raised } 15,000 including expence.
From the above Scheme, it appears that there are less than two blanks to a prize, and that the prizes are to be paid without deduction.
The drawing will positively commence on the 24th of next month, and will be completed in ten weeks. TICKETS at $5 50 cents, for sale at R. GRAY'S BOOK STORE, where the drawing of all tickets sold by him will be examined free of expence. Prizes in the last New York Lottery taken in payment for tickets in this.
Orders for tickets from the country, enclosing the cash (post-paid) will be punctually attended to, and early information given of their fate. July 13.
WHEREAS GEORGE HILL hath, by his petition in writing, applied to the honorable Nicholas Fitzhugh, one of the assistant judges of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, to be admitted to the benefit of the act of Congress, for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district aforesaid, and has stated therein that he is in actual confinement in the jail of Alexandria county, at the suit of George Slacum—and being unable to discharge the said claim, with others against him, has offered to deliver up to the use of his creditors, all his property, real, personal and mixed—Notice is therefore given, to the creditors of the said George Hill, that on Saturday, 16th instant, between the hours of 7 and 11 o'clock of the same day, at the court house in Alexandria, the oath of an insolvent debtor will be administered to the said GEORGE HILL and a trustee appointed agreeably to the said act of congress, unless cause be then & there shewn to the contrary.
By order of the honorable Nicholas Fitzhugh one of the assistant judges of the circuit court of the District of Columbia, this 12th day of July, 1808. G. Deneale, C. C. July 13.
DISSOLUTION.
THE partnership heretofore subsisting between BUTLER & SIMMONS, Tailors, was dissolved this day by mutual consent. Samuel Simmons, John Butler.
JOHN BUTLER will continue the business as usual, in the house lately occupied by Mr. Thomas Potts. July 13. 3t
FOR SALE.
I WILL SELL the HOUSE wherein I live on the corner of Washington and King streets, on a credit of 12, 15, 18, 21, and 24 months.
Robert Young. d
July 13.
BANK OF ALEXANDRIA, July 4th, 1808.
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 7th inst.
By order of the President and Directors. GURDEN CHAPIN, Cashier. 3w
Printing in its various branches neatly executed at this office.

FROM THE ALBANY GAZETTE.
The following publication is taken from the Albany Register. Though we are not in the habit of republishing articles from such paper this appears to be written with so much truth and good sense as to merit particular attention.
The writer is evidently a high toned democrat—The editor of the Register, in a prefatory article, professes to "know him well," and to "respect the purity of his motives;" and, in attempting to invalidate his severe truths and solid arguments, by idle and unfounded declamation, he only renders them more forcible and conclusive. The editor of the Register appears to dread the idea that "his columns should be made subservient to the views of a faction, whose conduct in relation to the embargo alone, has inspired him with a stronger detestation of their principles of political morality than he ever entertained before." Here the editor no doubt intended to pass one of his usual censures on federal principles, not recollecting that no federalist has gone further in condemning the ruinous measure of the embargo than his great leader and patron, the vice president, and many other conspicuous characters of the democratic party. The charge of French influence in effecting that degrading restriction on American commerce, was first founded and circulated by partisans of democracy, and is openly and unequivocally declared in the following publication by "A Citizen of New York," who is well known to that editor, and the purity of whose motives he respects.
FROM THE ALBANY REGISTER.
WITHOUT being initiated in the secrets of cabinets, it is still in the power of men who are used to political or diplomatic calculations, to raise a corner of the veil of the temple of Mercury, and try to discover by what magics his ministers try to impose on public credulity. With no other assistance but private combinations and hypothesis, I am now going to undertake to investigate the subject of the EMBARGO. That measure of our federal administration seems to have had three objects, the first ostensible, the second diplomatic, the third mystical. The ostensible or public and avowed object, was, during the dangers to which our property on the high seas was exposed, by the exterminating system of France and England, to retain our vessels, our seamen, and our property within our harbors, until those dangers could be removed.
The diplomatic or political and secret object, was on one side to compel, by the compulsion of their own wants, the English and the French to be more equitable towards us, and on the other side to comply apparently with the great views of Napoleon, for the annihilation of the British trade, in order to obtain from that conqueror some new acquisition of territory, highly gratifying for the southern states, by alluring him once more, as the Fox did the Crow, to drop the stolen cheese which he held in his claw.
The mystical or mysterious object, the most influential perhaps of all, was to make a grand experiment of the favorite plan of the economical school, to introduce among us a system of national industry, buttressed on agriculture and domestic manufactures exclusively, and to check commerce and navigation, considered by them as sycophantic suckers, which absorb all the juices intended by nature for the fruitful branches.
I shall classify my remarks under these three heads.
On the ostensible object of the Embargo.
I confess honestly, that I have joined in the chorus of applause claimed for the embargo, considering it as a conservatory and dilatory measure, calculated for temporary purposes, and particularly to give time to our merchants to secure their property, and to our administration to put the country into a respectable state of defence. But I declare, with the same candor, that my mind was always perplexed with doubt on the efficacy of that experiment, if it was to be of some duration, and on the application to peace of an arbitrary act, which the powers of Europe have never pretended to justify but by an immediate state of war; because it suspends the effect of existing treaties or of a friendly correspondence; distrains, by the want of shipping, foreign as well as national property, and raises in the cabinets of the belligerent powers suspicions of the intentions of those who have recourse to that customary preliminary of hostilities. I was apprehensive also, that our private property and national income would not be much better secured by it than our peace, because the United States, being constantly in debt to Great Britain, and deriving a profitable
balance from their trade with the continental powers alone, that debt would have to be paid with their own cash, and because their national revenue, taking its source from foreign trade, must fail if that source was dried up; the natural consequence of which would be a total banishment of money, and the perilous establishment of a direct tax on the people, to meet our engagements and support our expenses.
The fate of our vessels alarmed me also, on the very principle upon which the utility of dry docks have been recommended by the president—immersed in our ports, in stagnant water, populated with destructive animalcules, of all kinds, and saturated with their hulks and their unattended rigging must perish rapidly, while the capital they represent is sinking to ruin.
As to our seamen my anxiety was great: those hardy sons of Neptune, used to an active life and to a severe discipline, abandoned in our most relaxed cities to indolence and debauchery, having no other support provided for them but private and municipal employment, uncongenial with their habits, must soon become as burdensome to society as to themselves, and as the sea is their element look for it in foreign service from which it will be difficult to recall them: the emigration of many of those useful men has already taken place and grows to an alarming degree.
The purposes which the public object of the embargo seemed calculated to answer, appeared to me accordingly problematical, though I considered it a duty not to publish my thoughts until my doubts were converted into realities, and until a sad experience had clearly demonstrated that the continuation of such a remedy like those nostrums which the most tender, the most affectionate parents frequently administer with the best intentions to their dearest children, would do more hurt than the evil itself, and generate fatal accidents which nature left alone would have prevented.
On the diplomatic object of the Embargo.
The stubborn steadiness of Great Britain in support of her maritime laws, which the imperious pretensions of France to force her to repeal, renders inseparable from her dignity, and the irrevocable decrees of the French emperor, compared to which those of Jupiter, sworn to by the Styx, were but jokes and bagatelles, baffle all expectation of a satisfactory accommodation with either of them on the right of neutrals, until G. Britain, from her floating wooden walls, sinks down—France and her allies by a more astonishing miracle becomes generous and equitable—or until Napoleon I. has accomplished his great views, which now embrace not only the subversion of the British government, but the conquest of their eastern empire, agreed upon at Tilsit, and then remember the neutrals. What, in the meantime will become of us poor American farmers and merchants with our embargo? Is it probable that by persevering in it, as it is said, with virtue, making speeches upon speeches, addresses upon addresses, to the people on its utility and omnipotence, encouraging our militia, and the officers of our unrecruited army to brandish their swords in the air, and crowding gun-boats next to gun-boats in our rivers, we shall compel those fierce tyrants of the world, drunker with blood and bent upon one another's destruction to listen to the calm voice of reason and to lessen the danger to which our vessels are exposed by their excesses? Vain and illusory idea. The embargo has been and will be considered as an additional act of weakness by them, and what does not excite fear will never, among powers ruled solely by their passions, excite respect. But it is alleged that their interest is to trade with us, to sell us their goods, and to buy our produce, and that if we keep it up we shall finally succeed. Vain illusion again. The French having all the markets of Europe at their disposal, can do without us for provisions, and their colonies will learn, and have learnt already, how to get their supplies from the spontaneous productions of the earth, from the Spanish main, or from the metropolis, as they did when the U.S. were English colonies, or by an interlope trade with the British themselves, who are always ready to make money even with their enemies. With respect to Great Britain, our market for the sale of her manufactures is certainly a much greater object than the extraction of our produce or the supplies of her colonies, for which she can provide by her excellent agriculture, her own East and West India produce, and the local situation of her North American colonies, and she has proved as much as her national haughtiness permitted, and more than I expected, that she was disposed not only to grant a satisfactory reparation for the insults offered to our national flag by their wanton tars, but also to palliate some of our grievance; if it could be done without a premature, indirect submission to the dictates of France. But
if the failure of that negotiation brings on a more aggravated suspension of her trade with us, smuggling will relieve her from that difficulty, and unless all our gun-boats, all our minute men, all our regular troops, with their flying artillery, are constantly patrolling on the immensity of our coasts and frontiers, to prevent the introduction of foreign goods and the exportation of our cash and produce, it will inevitably take place, and it has already begun. Another conclusive consideration, which invalidates the idea of compelling by the embargo, the powers of Europe to repeal their laws adverse to our neutrality is, that our navigation and the competition of our produce has become for them long ago an object of very serious jealousy, and that if we give up ourselves our mercantile correspondence with them and our navigation, to become romantic agricultures, they will not be in a hurry to oppose that virtuous deed .
I cannot imagine that those considerations have escaped the sagacity of our enlightened administration, and I do not believe that the embargo was any more calculated to prevent the usual loss of some of our property at sea, than to oblige the king of England and the emperor of France to come to our terms: THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE UNDER THE ROSE. Let us try to find it out. It cannot be denied that Mr. Jefferson made in France his entry on the diplomatic stage: he studied, at the court of Louis, the art of Machiavel, and from a courtier of the king being become a courtier of the people, when the fire of the revolution first broke out, the most profuse doses of adulation and flattery were lavished upon him by the leading characters at that period: these marks of respect and confidence have been continued since, and the French ambassador brought to him and Mr. Madison in 1793, decrees of the national convention, naturalizing them both French citizens; the written answer of Mr. Madison, expressive of his gratitude, his admiration, and his devotion, was transmitted to France by the same minister, and the bloody Robespierre, who opened that memorable letter, was very much pleased at his civism. Mr. Jefferson, an older fox, took care himself of his answer. Some of the principal actors of the national assembly, who escaped murder by a timely emigration, occupying now high stations under the imperial government, have had a chance to renew their correspondence with those Gallo American citizens, for whose elevation they have felt some interest, and it is not altogether beyond the bounds of probability that when the French emperor blockaded England, and annulled her trade with his decrees, the embargo, which effectually does not hurt France a great deal, was dexterously contrived to comply, as much as possible, with his imperious wishes, without incurring the local dangers of a manifest partiality. It appears, however, by some expressions which have leaked out in the published part of that letter written by the French minister of foreign affairs, Champagny, to our minister, that a little more than the embargo is wanted to give up to the United States the Floridas, lately kidnapped from Spain. But here is the rub. Our cabinet, it is conjectured, is willing to increase as much as possible the importance of the southern states, but they don't want our northern states to be strengthened by the acquisition of Canada, Nova Scotia and the fisheries which would of course take place if war was declared between America and England. Indeed it is more than probable that if we were drove and pushed into that dreadful calamity by our half measures, and our defenceless situation, in vain would our brave Yorkers, our spirited Greenmountain boys, and our bold Yankees repair by their valor the aberrations of our cabinet, and strip Great Britain of her remaining continental possessions in North America; the actual administration would restore them at the peace under specious pretext, but in reality for fear that those valuable acquisitions should throw too much in the balance on our side of the union, and diminish our subserviency to the politics of Virginia. That jealousy is not a new thing, it existed already when the brave son of Erin, Montgomery, fell a useless victim under the walls of Quebec, and when his gallant companions, unsupplied, and unsupported, had to retire from a place ready to surrender. It existed, when La Fayette solicited, without success, to revenge those heroes, and join Canada to the American constellation; but when the French agents in 1793, attempted to annex New Orleans to the United States they were encouraged, though officially disavowed and persecuted, and the same perfidy has perhaps entangled Burr in the wild schemes which have bro't on his ruin. Our aggrandizement to the southward is unquestionably the darling object, the Notes on Virginia witness it, and when the penury of France has offered an opportunity to favor it, the money of the
states, who are more hurt than benefitted it, has not been spared. It appears from these remarks, that there are in all states, fair pretexes brought forward to deceive vulgar and secret motives which are diametricated. The next article will bring an elucidation on the subject.
On the mystical object of the Embargo.
I now approach the profound mystery of the concealed laboratories, the great open of political economy. That modern science invented by the French philosophers and so carefully applied by them to the happiness of their country, teaches us to consider agriculture as the paramount source of wealth of nations, and to view commerce and navigation as mere subaltern agencies, which may as well be conducted by foreigners, as by the natives; because the hand which they employ, can be turned to better advantage on the land to raise produce or improve domestic manufactures. It also teaches that the land paying definitively a private and public expenses, the best mode of taxation is what they call un unic impot on the neat produce, or in plain English direct tax on the clear income of property. Our beloved president has studied these learned dogmas in Paris, their quintessence is contained in his charming letter to the Tammany Society of N. York and others, and as every one has read them, it would be useless to report them here to prove that they are adopted and in operation. The French, impatient to enjoy the blessing of that natural order of things, have cut off the heads of their richest merchants, taken their property, destroyed several of their seaports, burnt the opulent city of Lyons and all their manufactures of luxuries, & planted potatoes in the elegant garden of the Thilleries. But as those energetic measures would not do here, don't it seem to be likely enough that we proceed to the same end by a different course? And that an embargo so cunningly introduced that it is not perhaps now in the power of Congress to repeal, will compel much sooner our merchants to turn to the plough, and their wives to the care of a dairy and the labor of the loom, than England to acknowledge the modern principles of neutrality, and France to respect them? What a glory it will be to have accomplished such a useful and moral revolution without scaffolds, without bloodshed, and with the help alone of a few messages and letters. The maritime states humbled and impoverished. Virginia, rising on the arm of slavery, ruling the union in peace, Philosophy triumphant, and the sage of Monticello having modestly thrown his mantle on his devoted servant, proclaimed by his disciples far superior to Confucius the legislator of China!
I hear the voice of our warmest embargoed Madisonians, and a few of our good natured republicans cry, it is easy to censure, but it is not easy to offer better plans than those which have been adopted by our wise administration, nor better measures to save the country from war, ruin, insult, &c. Stop gentle folks, I give you a few days to meditate on my observations, and I beg as many to prepare my answer.
A CITIZEN OF NEW YORK.
*The Great Fucius of the dynasty of the cons left to the Chinese a code of Laws of moral and religious principles, which they observe with rigidity, he recommended, above all other things, a perpetual embargo and no intercourse with foreign nations.
PHILADELPHIA, July 12.
Below, brig Junius, 11 days from St. Croix; by her we learn, that 11 or 12,000 barrels of Flour, had arrived at that island and St. Thomas, and that at St. Croix Flour was selling at 16 dollars per barrel.
BALTIMORE, July 12.
A large ship from Liverpool for Philadelphia, with a valuable cargo (and said to have dispatches for government) went ashore on East-Hampton bar, on Tuesday night, 28th inst. Ship and cargo said to be lost. Supposed the Cornplanter, arrived
WASHINGTON, July 13.
The Secretary of the Navy has left this city for Baltimore, and the Secretary of War for Portland.
Mr. Erskine, the British minister, arrived in this city on Monday.
TO RENT,
A three story Brick House and Lot, well calculated for business and the accommodation of a family, situate at the corner of Prince and Washington-streets, in an airy & healthy part of the town.—Possession given on the first day of August next.—Apply to Philip Triplett.
Edmund Denney.
July 11.

Mr. SNOWDEN,
The following memoranda, if you judge of any use, or amusement, is at your service. July 13.
By information from Washington, the thermometer has been as high as 96°. I have heard that it has been as high in Alexandria, but mine has not exceeded 95 this year hitherto.
By a note which I have preserved, of the heat in 1803, (the year of our epidemic) it rose to 99°, the 13, 14, and 15th of July, and on the 16th, to 101°.
 June 18. Ther. Faren. 80.  19. 67.  26. at 7 P. M. 80.  6 7 8 and 9 P. M. 85.  27. 7 A. M. 80.  1 3 P. M. 90.  5 P. M. 91.  4 P. M. 92.  28. 7 A. M. 80.  9 P. M. 91.  29. 9 A. M. 87.  11 A. M. 89.  12 A. M. 91.  5 6 and 7 P. M. 92 1/2 to 93.  30. 11 A. M. 84.  2 P. M. 93.  4 P. M. 94.  4 P. M. 95.  6 P. M. 93.  July 1. 7 A. M. 83.  9 A. M. 82.  10 1/2 A. M. 90.  11 1/2 A. M. 92.  1 P. M. 94.  3 1/2 P. M. 95. 
From the 19th to the 26th June, rainy and misty every day.
On the 30th June the Thermometer 98° at the President's house. Four men killed at or about the new bridge road from Washington.
Major Swann having resigned his appointment as pay-master of the army of the U. States, Robert Brent, his successor, entered upon the duties of that office on the 1st inst. to whom communications for the department may hereafter be addressed.
Archibald Mac Neil, esq. appointed consul of his Britannic majesty for the Orleans territory, has been recognized in that character, by the president of the U. States, and an exequatur has been granted to him accordingly.
Arrived at Newport, schr. Maria, capt. Peterkin, in 42 days from Montevideo, (river Plate) with a valuable cargo of bark, copper, &c. The Maria sailed from Baltimore the day before the embargo law took effect, and has made a safe and profitable voyage. Capt. P. informs that business at Montevideo was totally at a stand. Left there, May 14, ship Superb, Tracy, of and for Boston, to sail in 14 days, and ship Stevens, of Plymouth, (Mass.) just arrived from Curacoa—the only American vessel at Montevideo. No American vessels at Buenos Ayres.
We are told, and there seems no reason to doubt its correctness, that William Duane, the editor of the Aurora, is appointed a lieutenant colonel in the army of the U. States.
This is a piece of intelligence which we are fully aware, must fill the whole people of this country with astonishment and indignation. What could induce such an appointment, and how will the secretary of war account to the people of Pennsylvania for so great an indignity offered to them. What had become of all the revolutionary patriots and heroes of that state, to which it appears an officer of this rank was assigned? Are they all dead, or are they all federalists, that this imported incendiary—this calumniator of Washington should alone be found worthy of that appointment? Did Mr. Duane apply for it? If so, government, perhaps, are not so much to blame as might be imagined. They are in his power, and their reputation depended on complying with his demand. Had he asked the chief command, it must have been given him. If he has solicited this rank we ought to thank him for his moderation.
But may it not be a stroke of policy—a kind of purchase on the part of the secretary of war? We know that Mr. Duane has supported Mr. Madison for the next presidency. We also know that the learned, sagacious and polite secretary is friendly to the election of Mr. Clinton. Duane's paper has great influence on the minds of the Democrats. If it could be brought over to the Clinton interest, it might do wonders, and what way more likely to affect this most desirable purpose than by garnishing colonel Duane's shoulders with a pair of epauletts,
and clapping him astride of his hobby-horse. Only let him mount his hobby, and he cares but little what course he steers.
[Wash. Fed.]
The French government paper in this city says: "There is no instance in the war, in which the French invaded or conquered any territory to which they were not provoked by military aggression actually committed, or conspiracies cherished to procure or promote the aggressions against France—there is not an instance in the whole war—all the invasions have been acts of retaliation, or rendered essential to the preservation of France."
We place this upon record merely to show what the French government alleges in its own defence. We will simply remark upon it at this time, that we are over and over again told, upon the same authority, that we have long had and still have in this country a powerful and numerous British faction who are plotting and executing just such conspiracies as are here spoken of, to procure and promote aggressions against France. So that we have already furnished precisely the provocation which, in the opinion of the Aurora, has justified the conquest of all continental Europe, and will, in the same manner, justify the conquest of the United States, whenever a French force can get at us. It will be merely an "act of retaliation rendered essential to the preservation of France. Our fears upon this head, however, are not very great; for the people of America are now becoming sensible of their real situation, and another election will drive from the places of public trust those men whose weak or corrupt measures have brought the country into its present degraded condition.
(U. S. Gaz.)
Bonaparte's Aurora continues to assert, that "the detention of the Osage was by our minister, and a necessary measure on his part." Necessary indeed! The same kind of necessity as induced the king of Spain to abdicate his throne. In like manner the churches of Portugal and Spain have given their treasures to the arch plunderer—"It was a necessary measure on their part. It is too true that our government deems it necessary to permit their instructions in regard to a foreign embassy to be reviewed and reversed at the court of St. Cloud; but it is rather humiliating that we should be reminded of this necessity in a paper printed in our own language, and published in the metropolis of the U. S.
[Ibid.]
The Aurora says that England is "the sole aggressor of America, the sole disturber of the world." So then there is no aggression in the open and wanton violation of treaty, by an order that all commerce between the United States and the enemies of France shall cease. It is no aggression on the part of the French emperor to assume to himself the power which our constitution has vested in the congress of the U. States to declare war, by pronouncing for us that war with England is declared, and "actually exists." It is no aggression to seize and sequester all American property within the empire, for the avowed purpose of holding it as a pledge that we shall ratify the declaration of war which the emperor has been graciously pleased to make in our behalf. All this is pure "friendship and liberality." All this is nothing more than a lawful and proper exercise of a right which Bonaparte possesses as conqueror of Europe. Such, at least are the sentiments of a foreign emissary who publishes a paper for him in this city. We believe, however, that there are few if any Americans, of any political party, who are prepared to surrender to France the sovereignty of their country without an effort to maintain it.
[Ibid.]
DEMOCRATS. —Some of these writers, though most venomous and constant in abusing federalists, will yet stop to tell us that all the democracy of the country is united in defence of present state of things, and in their praise of the men and measures that produced this sweet millennium of rest. They add, "the great body of federalists are with us; they approve the embargo." Now hear a democrat, of the first water; a ministerialist, with strong lungs. The "Whig," contending that the embargo ought to be raised, says,
"Shall we become a sect of political flagellants, and scourge ourselves for the sins of our enemies? No. The people speak another language. That language is" [WAR WITH ENGLAND.]
Again: In another place, after severely censuring the government for not immediately declaring war when Rose left this country, a correspondent in the "Whig" says,
"I feel for the reputation of my country. Insulted as she has been, we are esteemed as a nation of Jew brokers overwhelmed with avarice, and dead to all the noble feelings of a virtuous people. Talk as you will of the propriety and constitutionality of the embargo—and it was both proper and constitutional—yet the time is past when it could be useful. All the property that ever we expected to save by it, is long since in port. What, then, do we wait for? To dispatch more ships with ridiculous messages to France and England? Oh! How we are DEGRADED! Let congress be convened to rid us of this cringing policy."
Such is the unanimity of the party; and such the undisguised opinion and wish of a paper declaring itself the PARTIZAN OF FRANCE.
[Fed. Gaz.]
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY.
The admirers of Mr. Jefferson are continually prating of his economy. Economy is certainly a most essential virtue in the administration of any government, particularly of a republic; but there is a wide distinction between economy and parsimony . That disposition, which prefers to have the country exposed and defenceless, rather than expend the necessary sums upon fortifications and to support a respectable military and naval force, proceeds from a contracted and illiberal mind, and ill deserves the appellation of economy. We refer our readers to an eloquent and an enlightened statesman for an account of the discriminating qualities of these two things, so completely opposite, that one may be ranked high in the list of virtues, the other in that of pernicious vices.
"It may be new to his grace, but I beg leave to tell him, that mere parsimony is not economy. It is separable in theory from it; and in fact may, or may not, be a part of economy, according to circumstances. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy: If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is however another and an higher economy. Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists, not in saving, but in selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no judgment. Mere instinct, and that not of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy in perfection. The other economy has larger views. It demands a discriminating judgment and a firm, sagacious mind. It shuts one door to impudent importunity, only to open another, and a wider to unprejudiced merit."—Burke's letters to lord Fitzwilliam.
(Balt. Fed. Repub.)
A writer in a democratic paper printed in Vermont, complains that the number of the opposers of the present administration daily encreases. That none but foreigners are permitted to trade with the Indians, who, in consequence, are imbibing hatred towards our citizens and government; and that the fur trade, on which the British set so much value, is all running into their hands.
The following is extracted from an editorial article in the New York Oracle:
"Bonaparte has made neither a declaration of hostilities nor an absolute resolve to continue in peace with us. He has decreed that all American vessels which are found in European seas after the 28th of April, shall be liable to seizure. This measure is predicated upon the supposition that they must have escaped from the U. S. in contravention of the embargo law, or that they were carrying on illicit commerce under cover of their flag. The same decree contains another remarkable clause which amply displays the cunning policy of the French government. "That American vessels shall be subject to embargo in France as long as the embargo continues in the U. S." because they assert that we laid the embargo under the idea that the English, under the orders of council, would seize our vessels, and that it would, in such case, benefit us.
DEFINITION OF FACTION.
By a Faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, still every Athenian assembly would have been a mob.
The Dean of St. Patrick paints, as natural as life, those duteous knees crooking knaves of faction, who have been drilled and marshalled in the trainband of Democracy:—He hath neither opinions, nor thoughts, nor actions, nor talk, that he can call his own, but all is conveyed to him by his leader, as wind is through an organ; the nourishment he receives hath been not only chewed but digested before it comes to his mouth.
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?
WITHERS & SANGSTER, Inform their friends, that they have just received from New-York and Philadelphia,
A SUPPLY OF Fancy & Summer Goods, Which, with their former stock, renders their assortment complete.
They request those who have made memorandums, to call and settle them, as they are determined to sell for cash only. July 14.
ALEXANDRIA THEATRE.
No postponement on account of the weather.
On THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1808, Will be presented a celebrated Comedy, in five acts, called
A Cure for the Heart Ache.
Sir Hubert Stanley, Mr. Cross. Charles Stanley, Mr. Cone. Vortex, Mr. Francis. Xeug Rapid, Mr. Wood. Old Rapid, Mr. Warren. Frank Oatland, Mr. Jefferson. Farmer Oatland, Mr. Bray. Bronze, Mr. Bliss. Heartily, Mr. Miller. 1st Waiter, Mr. Briers. 2d Waiter, Mr. Harris. Servant to sir Hubert, Mr. Seymour.
Ellen, Miss Hunt. Miss Vortex, Mrs. Francis. Jessy Oatland, Mrs. Wood.
 1 12,000 500  1 14,000 1000  1 16,000 2000  1 Last drawn blank 2000 
6162 Prizes-amounting to Dolls. 75,000 11832 Blanks.—Sum raised } 15,000 including expence;
From the above Scheme, it appears that there are less than two blanks to a prize, and that the prizes are to be paid without deduction.
The drawing will positively commence on the 24th of next month, and will be completed in ten weeks. Tickets at $5 50 cents, for sale at R. GRAY'S BOOK STORE, where the drawing will be superintended by him.
On Saturday, an entire new Musical Opera, in two acts (never performed here) called Youth, Love & Folly—with the grand pantomimical melo drama, of Valentine & Green.
* * The doors to be opened at six, and the performance to commence precisely at a quarter past seven o'clock.
††† Admission—Box, One Dollar—Pit, Seventy-Five Cents—Gallery, Fifty Cents.
††† Box Tickets to be had at the Bar of Gadsby's Hotel, and at the Office of the Daily Advertiser.
Patent Shot, &c.
2 tons Patent Shot, assorted, B to no. 7. 15 hogsheads brown Sugars. 2000 lbs. green Coffee. Imperial Tea, of a very superior quality, in quarter chests, boxes and canisters. 50 barrels choice Whiskey. Jamaica Spirits, (for family use) warranted seven years old. 40 boxes Muscatel Raisins. With a general assortment of Wines, Liquors, and Groceries as usual—FOR SALE BY
Joseph Mandeville, Corner of King and Fairfax streets. June 15.
Young Hyson Tea, Manufactured Tobacco, &c. &c.
10 qr. chests young Hyson Tea, First quality, Chewing Tobacco, Common do. from the manufactory at Richmond, in whole and half kegs, warranted.
Mess Beef, in whole and half barrels—which will be sold low to close sales, 7 by 9, 8 by 10, 10 by 14 English Crown Glass, in half boxes, 50 hds. retailing Molasses, A few hds. well flavored Jamaica Spirits, New-England Rum, in hogsheads. 10 hds. good Sugars, &c. For sale, on moderate terms, by
John & Thomas Vowell, July 11.
A Third Dividend
IN THE CASE OF JAMES SMITH, HAS been declared of five per cent, on all claims legally proved, payable by the subscriber at Dumfries, in 30 days from the 30th of June last.
TIMOTHY BRUNDIDGE, Assignee. July 12.

FOR SALE.
My SEAT in King George county. It lies on the head of one of the branches of Machodock creek, between four and five miles below King George court house, and on the main road leading from Fredericksburg to Mattox Bridge. The situation is healthy, affords fine water, embraces the great advantages of proximity to the court house of the county, church, mills, tobacco inspections, navigations, fish, fowl, oysters, &c. enjoys respectable neighbors and genteel society; and from its central position between Potomac and Rappahannock, thereby commanding the benefit of both these rivers, is particularly well suited to the business of any gentleman of profession. Wherefore it will be sold either with as much land as will afford a competent support of wood and water, with the improvements alone, or with between four and five hundred acres, as shall be most convenient to the purchaser; and possession can be had on the first day of January next. This land lies level, generally; possesses an abundance of materials for fencing, some timber for building and occasional repairs, a plentiful stock of fire wood and is of the usual soil in this neighborhood that does not lie immediately on the margin of the broad water courses.
The improvements consist of a dwelling house of convenient size, perfectly new, built of the best materials, handsomely finished with a fine cellar to it, and a variety of other accommodations for a genteel family—a store house with a counting-room to it, and a fine cellar to the whole of that building also—a barn, comprising stable and granary—a good house with other accommodations for an overseer, and customary houses for other descriptions—to which are annexed a well laid off productive garden handsomely paled in, a good yard, some valuable wheat and grass lots, and orchards of a variety of selected fruits of the most approved kinds; and all well enclosed.
Also, another Tract of Land, in Culpepper
For sale with own accommodation, will be sold under a small reserve that will be required in money, or at short dates, at private bargain, either on easy payments in the purchaser's own paper, if satisfactorily secured for approved bonds well endorsed, property in Alexandria or its vicinity, or suitable merchandise.
The premises can be reviewed and terms to be known by application to G. CHAPIN Esqr. cashier of the Bank of Alexandria, or to the subscriber residing in King George county.
R. W. Ashton.
Virginia, King George county. } June, 24th (25) 1803. 2aw3m.
TO RENT,
(And immediate possession given) NEAR THE EXTREMITY OF THE PAVEMENT On Prince Street.
A TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE, with an elegant garden, and all necessary buildings thereto, complete. The premises occupy one half acre of ground, on one of the best situations and best constructions, equalled by few, (if any) exceeded by none in Alexandria of its size; it has also a pump of excellent water, approved of by the best judges besides a well in the garden for its exclusive use, and is every way calculated to accommodate a genteel family, from such a moderate rent will be taken.
Now building and will be ready to RENT about the first of August, FOUR HOUSES, on Washington-street, the situations are good, and the buildings will be very convenient and neatly finished, for private families, or public business—and a House or two, near Messrs. Marsteller and Young's wharf.
For terms apply to, Robert Brocket. June 1. 3aw
TO RENT,
A convenient two story Dwelling House and Store, situate on the corner of King and Pitt streets, lately occupied by Mr. John Ramsay, Apply to
Eliza Wilson, or Robert I. Taylor. January 12. 2aw
FOR SALE,
A likely young NEGRO MAN—he is accustomed to arming work and is a tolerable good coarse shoemaker. Apply to the Printer. June 23.
SHOES
BY the Harmony, Ellwood, from Philadelphia, and the Sally and Betsey, Hardy from Boston, is received
A fresh and elegant supply of SHOES.
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. ON HAND, Soap and Candles in boxes. Cotton in bales. Draught Porter in bbls. One pipe Madeira and Nice Bacon for family use.
E. GILMAN. May 6 dat 1aw6f
To whom it may Concern.
NOTICE is hereby given, That application will be made for Duplicate Certificates of seven shares in the capital stock of the Pennsylvania Copper Mine Company, the originals of which have been either lost or mislaid, viz. Numbers 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 19—in the manner prescribed by the resolutions of the said Company.
John Potts. July 2. law3w*
The American Artillerists Companion,
OR ELEMENTS OF ARTILLERY, BY LOUIS De TOUSSARD, Late Lieut. col. commandant of the 2d and Inspector of Artillery of the U. S. No 1st and 2d of the above work FOR SALE BY
R. GRAY
Just Published,
For sale at R. GRAY's Book-stores, The American Register; OR, General Repository of History, Politics and Science.
Volume II.—Price Three Dollars. The American Artillerists Companion. No. 3. Price Two Dollars. July 11.
For Sale,
A NEGRO GIRL, about 21 years of age, accustomed to all kinds of house work—she will be sold on a credit of 4 and 6 months. Apply to the Printer. June 14. 6t
FOR SALE,
A likely young NEGRO WOMAN, with her first child Terms cash. She will not be sold out of the neighborhood. Enquire of the Printer. July 7. tf
Lemons by the box,
Lisbon Wine in quarter casks, And about 4000 bushels coarse Salt, Moula Candles in small boxes, of superior quality, Window Glass in boxes,
For Sale, by Robert T. Hooe & Co. January 30. cont
NOTICE.
The partnership heretofore existing under the firm of George and Thomas Burroughs, expired this day: All persons having claims against said concern, will please present them to the subscriber, and those indebted thereto are desired to make payment to him.
George Burroughs. Aquia, 6th May. 2aw
TO RENT.
THE subscriber offers to rent for one or more years, adjoining the place where he now lives, a Blacksmith's shop, with a complete set of Tools, a Dwelling House in comfortable condition, calculated for a family, together with between three and four acres of very rich land.—From several years experience, I can with truth declare, that there can be no better stand for a blacksmith than the one now offered to let.
Thomas B. Moreland. Maryland, Broad-Creek. } December 9.—(15.) 1awtf
N.B. If I don't rent the fine stand I will give good wages to a young man with a family.
Just Received and For Sale BY R. GRAY, King-street, SECRET HISTORY;
OR, The Horrors of St. Domingo. In a series of letters written by a lady at Cape Francois to Colonel BURR, late Vice-President of the United States.—Price $1.
MODERN CHIVALRY,
Containing the adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan, his servant, by H.H. Brackcaridge, 2 vol. 12. mo.—Price $2 50 cents.
A New System of Domestic Cookery,
Formed upon principles of economy and adapted to the use of private families.—Price 87 1/2 cents.
Potomac Company.
THE Stockholders in the Potomac Company are hereby notified, that an annual meeting of the said Company will be held, according to law, at Gadsby's tavern, in Alexandria, on MONDAY, the first day of August next, when the proceedings of the Board of Directors, with a sketch of the Treasurer's receipts and disbursements since the last general meeting, will be submitted to their consideration.
By order of the Board, Joseph Carleton, TREASURER. George-Town, July 6. dt 1st Aug
For Sale,
An elegant COACHEE, with Patent Curtains. It will serve either as a summer or a winter carriage—Also, Plated Harness for two horses. The carriage was built in Philadelphia, is in excellent order and has been very little used.
Likewise, a pair of handsome HORSES—To be seen at the next stable to the Washington tavern, in Pitt-street. July 5.
Forty Dollars Reward.
ELOPED from the subscriber's farm near Alexandria, on the morning of the 4th inst a NEGRO MAN named
JOHN;
About 21 years of age, hired by me from William Hepburn—He was formerly employed by Hepburn and Dundas as their wagoner.—He is a stout well made fellow, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, with large, thick, pouting lips, a flat nose, large nostrils and is very black—He has a mark resembling a com on the side of each of his feet near the little toe and stutters when spoken to hastily or when taken by surprise—He had on when he eloped, an old osnaburgh shirt, new osnaburgh trowsers and an old wool hat, and also took with him two woollen jackets, one of them blue, the other brown, a pair of nankeen pantaloon and an old castor hat—It is probable he had other clothes which he may have taken off with him.
From the information I have received, I expect he has either crossed the bridge over the Potomac at the Little Falls, with an intention of going to Baltimore, or has passed the ferry at Alexandria, & made for Port Tobacco in Maryland. A person answering the above description has been seen, on both these roads. I will give the above reward for apprehending the said negro if he is taken above forty miles from Alexandria, and twenty dollars if taken within a less distance from Alexandria and without the district of Columbia and county of Fairfax; and 10 dollars if taken within either of the two last mentioned places upon his delivery to me in Alexandria or upon his being secured so that I can get him again.
JAS. H. DUNDAS. July 8. d
FOR SALE.
BY VIRTUE of a decree of the high court of chancery of the state of Maryland, will be exposed to public sale, in the town of Port Tobacco, Charles county, at the court house, at three o'clock in the afternoon of the second day of the next August term of Charles county court, which commences on the 4th Monday of August next—a parcel of LAND, late the property of John D. Scott, deceased, being part of a tract of land called Foynton Manor, lying upon a branch of Nanjemoy Creek on the post road leading to Nanjemoy from Port Tobacco, near the Hill Top, and about seven miles from Port Tobacco.
This land consists of about 800 acres, of which between 50 and 100 acres are well timbered, about 20 acres are in marsh, and the remainder arable and very productive.
The terms of sale are, that the purchaser shall give bond with sufficient security to pay the purchase money in twelve months from the sale. It will be sold entire or in parcels as may best suit the persons inclined to purchase.
Francis Key, Trustee. July 2. est
Public Sale.
BY virtue of a deed of trust from Andrew Parks to the subscriber, for the purpose of securing a debt due from the said Parks to William A. Washington, will be exposed to sale, for ready money, on the premises, on MONDAY, the 11th day of July next, if fair; otherwise on the next fair day; a tract of LAND, in the county of Jefferson, state of Virginia, containing 82 acres—Also another Tract adjoining the above mentioned, containing 222 acres, three rods and thirty-four perches.
Henry S. Turner. June 6. law5w
THE subscriber has on hand, 12,000 feet of Bay Wood, and 3,600 feet of St. Domingo Wood, which he will sell low for cash, or on a short credit.
John Muir, Cabinet-Maker, Royal-street. July 1. 3aw.1st.
JAMES BACON,
At his GROCERY STORE, on King street, has received in addition to his former stock, A fresh Supply of Genuine Articles in the Grocery Line
Which makes his assortment complete. He now offers for sale, on his usual low terms, Muscovado Sugars, of various qualities,
Loaf and Lump ditto, Gunpowder, Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson-Skin, and Souchong } TEAS, particularly selected for family use.
Best green Coffee, Chocolate, of a superior quality } WINE. Madeira, Busellos, Sherry, Lisbon, Teneriffe, Malaga, and Genuine old Port
Cognac and Bourdeaux Brandy, Old Jamaica Spirit, for family use, Antigua, St. Croix, St. Vincents, and New England Rum, Holland Gin, Irish and country Whisky, Molasses, Wine, and Cider Vinegar, Stoughton's Bitters, Mace, nutmegs, cloves, cassia, pimenta, Cayenne and black pepper, race and ground Ginger, basket salt for table use, dear barley rice, starch, fig blue, soap, mould, dipt and spermaceti candles, refined salt-petre, flax and indigo, allum, copperas, madder, brimstone, spinning cotton, patent shot all sizes, best English and country made gunpowder, segars and smoking tobacco, very best chewing tobacco.
Hamilton and Leiper's snuff, Hunter's pipes in boxes. London mustard, warranted of a superior quality, Dixon's best ditto, wrapping paper demijohns, &c. &c. with generally every article in his line—the whole of which have been collected with care, and will be disposed of on the very lowest terms
Joseph Mandeville
CORNER OF KING and FAIRFAX STREETS, ALEXANDRIA: HAS FOR SALE,
An assortment of WINES, LIQUORS, GROCERIES, &c. Consisting of
MADEIRA } Port, Sherry, Lisbon, Malaga, Teneriffe & Cersica } WINES.
Cid St. Estephe Medoc, Iaret, in cases of one dozen
A few dozen fine old frontinac Ditto do. best wine bitters Jamaica and West-India rum New-England do. Cognac, Bourdeaux and Naples brandy Holland and country gin Schiedam gin in cases Irish whiskey, very old 70 barrels Pennsylvania rye whiskey Cider in barrels White wine and Cider vinegar Florence oil in flasks 2 hogsheads Havana honey 15 do. choice retailing molasses
Gunpowder } Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson-Skin and Souchong } TEAS of good quality
Muscovado sugars, different qualities Bengal white do. Loaf and lump sugars, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Alexandria.
Leiper's, Garrett's, and Hamilton's snuff, in bottles and bladders. Macuba and rapée do. Clover-seed, (Penn. warranted) Mace; nutmegs; cloves; cassia; pimento; pepper; ginger, race and ground; Cayenne pepper; refined salt-petre.
Coffee; chocolate; rice; pearl barley; London and Philadelphia mustard; bay salt; starch; fig blue; flax and indigo; Georgia and Tennessee cotton; flax; wool; madder; copperas; allum; brimstone; chalk; pipes in boxes; wrapping paper and twine; traces; bed cords; leading lines; demijohns; gin cases; patent shot; brandy wine gunpowder; Harvey's gunpowder, [the only real British battle powder] from F to treble scaled. chewing tobacco; best Havana segars. Muscatel and bloom raisins in boxes. Sun raisins in casks. Zante currants; prunes; soft shelled almonds.
A few boxes excellent pickles, each one dozen bottles assorted; capers, olives and anchovies; for sale by the box.
A quantity of clean good allum salt suitable for the fishery, &c. &c.
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