Alexandria daily advertiser (Alexandria [Va.]), 1806-03-24 00:00:00

Alexandria Daily Advertiser.
Vol. VI.]
MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1806.
[No. 1556.]
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 kind of goods which are on limitation and the prices of which are established, can at any time be viewed and purchased at the lowest limitation and prices.
Philip G. Marsteller, v. M.
THE SUBSCRIBER
Wants to Charter,
A vessel of about 1500 barrels burthen, for CORK and a MARKET ; to which immediate dispatch will be given—the cargo being all ready to go on board.
James Patton.
WHO HAS FOR SALE,
At his Warehouse, Conway's wharf , New-York prime Beef and Pork. Also, southern Pork, of good quality—with a few pipes of old Cognac Brandy.
February 12. d
SALT,
Suitable for the Fisheries.
JUST RECEIVED,
1200 bushels St. Ubes Salt; per Schooner Martha and Mary ; and for sale, at Merchants wharf.
William Hodgson.
March 21. d
JOHN G. LADD,
Has just received
150 bolts first quality Russian heavy CANVASS, 1,500 pieces long and short India NANKEENS, For Sale on moderate terms.
March 21. d
Plaster Paris—afloat.
50 tons Plaster Paris, 1500 feet Oars, At Lawrafon's wharf ; On board the Schooner Dove , Capt. Lawrafon from Portland, for sale by
Lawrafon & Fowle, on said wharf.
March 20. d
NOTICE.
The subscriber intending to remove to the house next door to Mott's tavern, will rent the HOUSE AND STORE he at present occupies, between Royal and Fairfax streets.
Thos Craven. d
March 21. d
TO RENT,
A THREE STORY BRICK WARE HOUSE , situated on Union Street, opposite Col. Gilpin's Store, now occupied by Mr. Philip Care . Possession will be given immediately, application to be made to
Philip Triplett. d
March 21. d
NOTICE.
The commissioners named and authorized by a commission of bankruptcy awarded and issued and now in prosecution against Thos. Moore of Alexandria, intend to meet on the 25th day of this month at four o'clock in the afternoon at John Gadsby's city tavern in the town of Alexandria in order to make a dividend of the estate and effects of the said bankrupt, and to choose a new assignee. When and where the creditors, who have not already proved their debts under the said commission, are hereby required to come prepared to prove the same or they will be excluded the benefit of the said dividend.
Wm Oxley, Assignee. d
March 5. d
LOST,
On Wednesday evening last, in or near the town. The outer Case of a WATCH . It is of Gold, plain and of modern fashion. Five Dollars reward will be given, to any person who will deliver it to the
PRINTER. d
February 22. d
PUBLIC SALE.
By virtue of a deed of trust to the subscriber, will be exposed to sale, on Wednesday, the second day of April next, for ready money, upon the premises, several very valuable LOTS OF GROUND , lying upon Queen , Fairfax , Water and Union streets, in the town of Alexandria—And immediately after the sale of the Lots, will be exposed to sale, at the Coffee House, for ready money also, (in case by the sale of the Lots the sum required should not be raised) one undivided sixteenth part of a Tract of Land, lying in Spotsylvania county, containing about eighteen thousand acres, known by the name of the Mine Tract .
James Keith, Trustee.
March 12. d
A Journeyman Baker:
I WANT TO EMPLOY
ONE qualified to conduct a bakery in New York, as a Foreman . A single man would be preferred. Application to be made to
Mordecai Miller.
March 13. d
HENRY K. MAY
Has received, per Bug Equator , Moore , from New-Castle, and offers for Sale, if immediately applied for; 80 casks Red Lead, 38 casks Patent Shot, 18 casks Ingot Lead and 36 sheets Milled do.
December 18. d
I have received from Madras,
(Via New York)
9 Bales of Piece Goods,
CONSISTING OF
Long Cloths, Manilla Ginghams, Nicomas and Madras Handkerchiefs. The above goods were selected in Madras by Andrew Smith for Hewes and Miller, are entitled to drawback, and will be sold low by the bale.
Mordecai Miller,
Who has in Store,
1200 Spanish Hides, 750 pair of Morocco Shoes, 20 tons Plaster, and 20 trais of Figs.
March 5. d
JAMES BACON,
A his GROCERY STORE , on King Street, has, in addition to his former stock, added
A fresh Supply of Genuine Articles in the Grocery Line; Which makes his assortment complete. He now offers for sale, on his usual low terms, Muscovado Sugars , of various qualities,
Loaf and Lump ditto,
Gunpowder,
Imperial,
Hyson,
Young Hyson,
Hyson Skin, and
Souchong
Best Green Coffee,
Chocolate, of a superior quality.
Madeira,
Port,
Sherry,
Lisbon,
Teneriffe,
Malaga, and
Genuine Old Port
Cognac and Bourdeaux Brandy,
Old Jamaica Spirit, for family use,
Antigua, St. Croix, St. Vincente, and New-
England Rum,
Holland Gin,
Irish and country Whiskey,
Molasses, Wine, and Cider Vinegar,
Stoughton's Bitters.
Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Cassia, Pimento
Cayenne and Black Pepper. Race and Ground
Ginger, Basket Salt for table use, Pearl Barley,
Rice, Starch, Fig-blue, Soap, Mould, Dye and
Spermaceti Candles, Refined Salt-Petre, Flotant
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, De
mijohn's, &c. &c., with generally every article in his line—the whole of which have been selected with care and will be disposed of on the very lowest terms.
December 16, d
TO RENT,
A TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE , situated on St. Asaph Street, between King and Prince streets, four doors beyond Mr. Faw's office, now occupied by Mr. Amos Alexander . Possession will be given on the 15th March.—Application to be made to
George Youngs.
February 26.
JOSEPH RIDDLE
Has Received by the Ceres and other ships lately arrived at Baltimore , a considerable part of his
FALL GOODS;
Which are now opening at his store in Fairfax street, and daily expects an additional supply in the United States from Liverpool .
September 28. d
Dissolution of Copartnership.
THE Copartnership hitherto subsisting under the firm of Joseph Riddle & Co. of Alexandria, was dissolved the first instant, by mutual consent. All persons that are indebted to, or that have claims on the same, are requested to come forward and settle, as it is desirable to close the concern as soon as possible. Those who have accounts are of long standing are particularly requested to attend to this notice, and make payments to either of the subscribers.
JOSEPH RIDDLE,
Of Alexandria.
JAMES DALL,
Of Baltimore.
September 18. d
TUNIS CRAVEN,
Has received by the late arrivals an elegant assortment of
GOODS,
—AMONG WHICH ARE—
London superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, Bennett's patent Cords, Do. Waistcoatings, Silks, Molekins, Florentines, Imperial, clouded and white Marcellines, Toillennets, Swandowns, Flannels, rose Blankets, Coatings, Plaine, Kerseys, Halithucks, Lamb's Wool, Worsted, Cotton and Silk Hosiery, Irish & Flanders Sheetings, 4 4 1/2 Irish Linens, Shirting Cotton, Long Lawns, Linen Cambricks, Dimities, Cambricks &c. Corded Cambricks, Lace do. Rich Colonade and figured India Muslins India and British Book do. Lace Caps & Handkerchiefs, Extra Silk Gloves, Pic Nic Mitts. Silk Cord and Buttons, Cambricks Buttons, Artificial Flowers and Wreaths, Ostrich Feathers, Italian Mantuas, Fine India Perfumery, Baftas, Memoodies, Dowlass, Ticklenburg, Osnaburgs, Brown rolls &c. &c.
He daily expects an additional assortment of FALL GOODS.
Oct. 23. d
ROBERT GRAY,
Bookseller, King-Street;
Has just received from Philadelphia, the following
VALUABLE BOOKS:
A Geographical Dictionary of the United States of North America, by Joseph Scott, author of the United States Gazetteer, &c. &c. Medical Inquiries and Observations, by Benjamin Rush, M. D. The second edition revised and enlarged by the author. Medical and Physical Journal, part 1st of vol. 2d. by Benjamin Smith Barton, M. D. Quincy's Lexicon. Physico-Medical improved.
Cavelier's Complete Treatise on Electricity, in theory and practice, with original Experiments, the 4th edition. Gordon's History of the American Revolution. Plutarch's Lives. Davis's Modern Geography. Hutchinson's Xenophon, from the "Classic Press."
Wilson's Reports. Dallas's Reports. McNalley's Evidence, &c. &c. ALSO, A large supply of School Books and Writing Paper.
March 11. d
ALSO,
This day is Published,
By COTTON & STEWART,
[Price twelve and a half Cents]
AN ORATION,
Delivered in the Episcopal Church, on the 22d February, 1806.
By Charles F. Mercer:
A member of the Washington Society.
March 6. d
Printing, in its various branches, handsomely executed at this office.
NOTICE.
The Co partnership hitherto subsisting under the firm of Macleod & Lumsdon , Painters, of Alexandria, was dissolved the 20th instant, by mutual consent. All persons that are indebted to, or that have claims on the same, are requested to come forward and settle as soon as possible, as it is desirable to close the concern, to either of the subscribers.
Daniel Macleod,
John Lumsdon.
March 21. co
DANIEL MACLEOD,
PAINTER,
Continues in the same house where Macleod and Lumsdon formerly occupied, next door to Messrs. Mandeville and Jimison , King Street; where he carries on the sign, Transparent , and Ornamental Painting; Gilding and Enameling, Framing and Cleaning Pictures; Masonic Aprons, Colors for Regiments, Marbling and all kinds of Wood imitated.
Also has for Sale,
Oils, Turpentine, Putty & Paints of all kinds, dry and ground in oil; Windows and Picture Glass, of various sizes; which he will sell reasonable for cash.
March 21. co
REMOVAL.
JOHN LUMSDON,
Has removed to the lower end of King Street, nearly opposite Mr. Robert Young's Store, where he intends carrying on the House Painting and Glazing business as usual, and will keep for sale, a regular assortment of Paints and Oil, together with Window and Picture Glass, of various sizes.
March 21. co
JUST RECEIVED,
From Philadelphia,
50 boxes fresh Moscato Raisins 8 boxes fresh Olives , in bottles } of superior 8 do Anchovies } quality.
ALSO,
A very handsome assortment of Fancy Oranges , peel Boxes , Fancy Paper do. containing Looking Glasses , Perfumes , &c. Pineapples , with Glasses . Also, some handsome Pocket Books , and a few pots of first quality Rouge —for sale, by
Matthew Eakin.
Who has for Sale,
Lisbon Lemons , in boxes—and fresh Oranges .
March 13. d
NOTICE.
THE subscriber having obtained letters of administration in the county of Alexandria and district of Columbia , on the estate of the said Elizabeth Washington , requests all persons indebted to said estate to make payment to the subscriber, and all those who may have claims against the estate by bond, note, or open account, (properly authenticated) to exhibit the same to Mr. John Luke , or to
G. CHAPMAN, jun. Adm'r.
February 26. co
PUBLIC SALE.
By virtue of a deed of trust from THOMAS RICHARDS , to the subscriber, made for the purpose of paying a debt due from the said Richards to Robert T. Hose & Co. will be exposed to Public Sale on the premises, on the 27th day of March next, on a credit of two, four and six months, with approved security, A TRACT OF LAND , whereon the said Thomas Richards now lives, situated in the county of Fairfax on the drains of Great Hunting Creek , containing 80 acres; also five and a half acres adjoining the above TRACT . And on the 28th day of March next, will be sold on the same credit with approved security, at the Coffee House in the town of Alexandria —A PIECE OF GROUND situated in the town of Alexandria , on the west side of Pitt Street and to the northward of King Street in the said town, this piece of ground has a front of 34 feet on Pitt Street, running 44 feet back.
THOMAS SWANN, Trustee.
February 19. d
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber has taken letters of administration on the estate of John Fowler , esq. late of Fairfax county, deceased. All persons indebted to the said estate are requested to make payment as soon as possible, and those who have claims against the estate are desired to make them known to the subscriber, in order that he may be enabled to close his administration.
William Deneale.
Fairfax County, March 8. d

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Wednesday, March 5. BRITISH AFFAIRS. DEBATE.
In committee of the whole on the state of the union—Mr. J. C. Smith in the chair—on the resolution offered by Mr. Gregg.
[Mr. J. Randolph's speech concluded.]
Gentlemen say that Great Britain will count upon our divisions. How! What does she know of them? Can they ever expect greater unanimity than prevailed at the last presidential election.—No sir, 'tis the gentleman's own conscience that squeaks. But if she cannot calculate upon our divisions, at least she may reckon upon our pusillanimity. She may well despise the resentment that cannot be excited to honorable battle on its own ground; the mere effusion of mercantile cupidity. Gentlemen talk of repealing the British treaty. The gentleman from Pennsylvania should have thought of that, before he voted to carry it into effect? And what is all this for? A point which Great Britain will not abandon to Russia, you expect her to yield to you. Russia indisputably the second power of continental Europe; with half a million of hardy troops; with sixty sail of the sail; thirty millions of subjects; a territory more extensive even than our own. Russia, sir, the store house of the British navy; whom it is not more the policy and the interest, than the sentiment of that government, to soothe and to conciliate; her sole hope of a diversion on the continent, her only efficient ally. What this formidable power cannot obtain with fleets and armies you will command by writ—with pot hooks and hangers. I am for no such policy. True honor is always the same. Before you enter into a contest public or private, be sure you have fortitude enough to go through with it. If you mean war, say so, and prepare for it; look on the other side; behold the respect in which France holds neutral rights on land; observe her conduct in regard to the Franco-German estates of the king of Prussia: I say nothing of the petty powers—of the elector of Baden or of the Swiss: I speak of a first rate monarchy of Europe, and at a moment too when its neutrality was the object of all others nearest to the heart of the French emperor. If you make him monarch of the ocean you may bid adieu to it forever. You may take your leave of navigation, even of the Mississippi. What is the situation of New Orleans if attacked tomorrow? Filled with a discontented and repining people; whose language manners and religion all incline them to the invader; a dissatisfied people who despise the miserable governor you have set over them; whose honest prejudices and basest passions alike take part against you. I draw my information from no dubious source; from a native American, an enlightened member of that odious and imbecile government. You have official information that the town and its dependencies are utterly defenceless and untenable—a firm belief that (apprised of this) government would do something to put the place in a state of security, alone has kept the American portion of that community quiet. You have held that post, you now hold it by the tenure of the naval predominance of England, and yet you are for a British naval war.
There are now but two great commercial nations—Great Britain is one—We are the other. When you consider the many points of contact between our interests you may be surprised that there has been so little collision. Sir to the other belligerent nations of Europe your navigation is a convenience, I might say a necessity. If you do not carry for them they must starve at least for the luxuries of life, which custom has rendered almost indispensable.—And if you cannot act with some degree of spirit towards those who are dependent upon you as carriers, do you reckon to brow-beat a jealous rival; who the moment she lifts up the dogs of war, sweeps you at a blow from the ocean—And cui bono ? for whose benefit? The planter? Nothing like it: The fair, honest, real American merchant? No, sir.—For renegades? to day Americans; to-morrow Danes. Go to war when you will, the property now covered by the American, will then pass under the Danish or some other neutral flag. Gentlemen say that 1 English ship is worth 3 of ours: we shall
therefore have the advantage in privateering—Did they ever know a nation get rich by privateering. This is stuff for the nursery. Remember that your products are bulky, as has been stated,—that they require a vast tonnage to transport them abroad, and that but two nations possess that tonnage. Take these carriages out of the market: What is the result? The manufactures of England which, to use a finishing touch of the gentleman's rhetoric, have received the finishing stroke of art, lie in a small comparative compass. The neutral trade can carry them. Your produce rots in the ware-house. You go to Statia or St. Thomas's and get a striped blanket for a joe if you can raise one—Double freight, charges and commission. Who receives the profit? The carrier.—Who pays it? The consumer. All your produce that finds its way to England must bear the same accumulated charges, with this difference: that there the burden falls on the home price. I appeal to the experience of the last war, which has been so often cited. What then was the price of produce, and of broad cloth.
But you are told England will not make war—she has her hands full—Holland calculated in the same way in 1781: how did it turn out? You stand now in the place of Holland, then—without her navy, unaided by the preponderating fleets of France and Spain—to say nothing of the Baltic powers. Do you want to take up the cudgels where these great maritime states have been forced to drop them? to meet Great Britain on the ocean and drive her off its face. If you are so far gone as this, every capital measure of your policy has hitherto been wrong. You should have nurtured the old, and devised new systems of taxation—have cherished your navy—Begin this business when you may, land taxes, stamp acts, window taxes, hearth money, excise, in all its modifications of vexation and oppression, must precede, or follow after. But, sir, as French is the fashion of the day, I may be asked for my project. I can readily tell gentlemen what I will not do. I will not propitiate any foreign nation with money. I will not launch into a naval war with Great Britain, altho' I am ready to meet her at the Cowpens or on Bunker's Hill. And for this plain reason: We are a great land animal, and our business is on shore. I will send her no money, sir, on any pretext whatsoever, much less on pretence of buying Labrador or Botany Bay, when my real object was to secure limits, which she formally acknowledged at the peace of 1763. I go further—I would (if any thing) have laid an embargo. This would have got our own property home, and our adversary's into our own power. If there is any wisdom left among us the first step towards hostility will always be an embargo. In six months all your mercantile megims would vanish. As to us, altho' it would cut deep, we can stand it. Without such a precaution, go to war when you will, you go to the wall. As to debts—strike the balance to-morrow, and England is I believe in our debt.
I hope, sir, to be excused for proceeding in this desultory course. I flatter myself I shall not have occasion again to trouble you: I know not that I shall be able; certainly not willing, unless provoked in self defence. I ask your attention to the character of the inhabitants of that southern country, on whom gentlemen rely for support of their measure. Who and what are they? A simple, agricultural people, accustomed to travel, in peace, to market, with the produce of their labor. Who takes it from us? Another people devoted to manufactures; our sole source of supply. I have seen some stuff in the newspapers about manufactures in Saxony and about a man who is no longer the chief of a dominant faction. The greatest man whom I ever knew, the immortal author of the letters of Cincinnatus, has remarked the proneness of cunning people to wrap up and disguise in well selected phrases doctrines too deformed and detestable to bear exposure in naked words; by a judicious choice of epithets to draw the attention from the lurking principle beneath, and perpetuate delusion. But a little while ago, and any man might be proud to be considered as the head of the republican party. Now, it seems, 'tis reproachful to be deemed the chief of a dominant faction. Mark the magic of words! Head, chief. Republican party, dominant faction. But as to these Saxon manufactures. What became of their Dresden China? Why the Prussian bayonets have broken all the pots, and you are content with Worcester or Staffordshire ware. There are some other fine manufactures on the continent, but no supply, except perhaps of linen, the article we can best dispense with. A few in-
dividuals, sir, may have a coat of Louviere cloth, or a service of Seve China; but there is too little, and that little too dear, to furnish the nation. You must depend on the fur trade in earnest, and wear buffalo hides and bear skins.
Can any man, who understands Europe, pretend to say, that a particular foreign policy is now right, because it would have been expedient twenty, or even ten years ago, without abandoning all regard for common sense? Sir, it is the statesman's province to be guided by circumstances, to anticipate, to foresee them, to give them a course and a direction, to mould them to his purpose. It is the business of a compting house clerk, to peer into the day book & ledger, to see no farther than the spectacles on his nose, to feel not beyond the pen behind his ear; to chatter in coffee houses and be the oracle of clubs. From 1783 to 1793 and even later (I don't stickie for dates.) France had a formidable marine; so had Holland; so had Spain. The two first possessed of thriving manufactures and a flourishing commerce. Great Britain trembling alive to her manufacturing interests and carrying trade, would have felt to the heart any measure calculated to favor her rivals in these pursuits. She would have yielded then to her fears and her jealousy alone. What is the case now. She lays an export duty on her manufactures, and there ends the question. If Georgia shall (from whatever cause) so completely monopolised the culture of cotton as to be able to lay an export duty of three per cent. upon it, besides taxing its cultivators, in every other shape, that human or infernal ingenuity can devise, is Pennsylvania likely to rival her and take away the trade?
But, sir, it seems that we, who are opposed to this resolution, are men of no nerve, who trembled in the days of the British treaty; cowards (I presume) in the reign of terror? Is this true? Hunt up the journals; let our actions tell. We pursue our old unshaken course. We care not for nations of Europe, but make foreign relations bend to our political principles and subserve our country's interest. We have no wish to see another Actium, or Pharsalia, or the lieutenants of a modern Alexander playing at piquet, or all fours, for the empire of the world. 'Tis poor comfort to us, to be told that France has too decided a taste for luxurious things to meddle with us; that Egypt is her object, or the coast of Barbary, and at the worst we shall be the last devoured. We are enamoured with neither nation; we would play their own game upon them, use them for our interest and convenience. But with all my abhorrence of the British government, I should not hesitate between Westminster Hall and a Middlesex jury. On the one hand and the wood of Vincennes and a file of Grenadiers on the other. That jury trial which walked with Horne Tooke and Hardy through the flames of ministerial persecution is I confess, more to my taste, than the trial of the duke d'Enghein.
Mr. Chairman. I am sensible of having detained the committee longer than, I ought; certainly much longer than I intended. I am equally sensible of their politeness, and not less so, sir, of your patient attention. It is your own indulgence, sir, badly requited indeed, to which you owe this persecution. I might offer another apology for these undigested, defolatory remarks: my never having seen the treasury documents. Until I came into the house this morning, I have been stretched on a sick bed. But when I behold the affairs of this nation instead of being where I hoped, and the people believed they were, in the hands of responsible men, committed to Tom, Dick and Harry; to the refuse of the retail trade of politics, I do feel, I cannot help feeling the most deep and serious concern. If the executive government would step forward and say, "such is our plan; such is our opinion, and such are our reasons in support of it." I would meet it fairly, would openly oppose or pledge myself to support it. But without compass, or polar star, I will not launch into an ocean of unexplored measures, which stand condemned by all the information to which I have access. The constitution of the United States declares it to be the province and the duty of the President "to give to Congress, from time to time, information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge expedient and necessary." Has he done it? I know, sir, that we may say and do say, that we are independent; (would it were true) as free to give a direction to the executive as to receive it from him. But do what you will, foreign relations; every measure short of war, and even the course of hostilities, depend upon him. He stands at the helm, and must guide the vessel of state. You give him money to buy Florida, and he purchases Louisiana. You may furnish means, the application of those means rest with him. Let not the master and mate go below when the ship is in distress, and throw the responsibility upon the cook and the cabin boy. I said so when your doors were shut: I scorn to say less now
that they are open. Gentlemen may say what they please. They may put an insignificant individual to the ban of the Republic. I shall not alter my course. I blush with indignation at the misrepresentations which have gone forth in the public prints of our proceedings, public and private. Are the people of the United States, the real sovereigns of the country, unworthy of knowing what, there is too much reason to believe, has been communicated to the privileged spies of foreign governments? I think our citizens just as well entitled to know what has passed as the marquis Yrujo, who has boarded your President to his face, intimated your government within its own peculiar jurisdiction, & encouraged all decency. Do you mistake this dignified puppet for an automaton? he has orders for all he does. Take his instructions from his pocket to-morrow, they are signed "Charles Maurice Talleyrand." Let the nation know what they have to depend upon. Be true to them, and (trust me) they will prove true to themselves and to you. The people are honest; now at home at their ploughs, not dreaming of what you are about. But the spirit of enquiry, that has too long slept, will be, must be awakened. Let them begin to think; not to say such things are proper because they have been done—but what has been done; and wherefore?—and all will be right.
(Debate to be continued.)
NEW YORK, March 20.
Very late, and very Important.
It is so long since we received intelligence direct from England, that many of our citizens began to entertain serious apprehensions of an embargo. The arrival at this port last night of the fast sailing and regular trading ship Oliver Ellsworth, captain Bennett, in 40 days from Liverpool, has dissipated these fears, and put us in possession of London papers to the evening of the 31st of January and Lloyd's Lists to the 28th, more than 40 days later than any previous advices from the European continent.
We are enabled, from these papers, to inform the readers of the Mercantile Advertiser that a peace was concluded between France and Austria on the 26th of December, and on the succeeding day, was ratified by the emperor Napoleon. We shall give a copy of it in our next.
The British Imperial Parliament was opened on the 21st of December, and Mr. Pitt, the celebrated premier died on the day following. In consequence of his death, and the disastrous situation of affairs on the continent, a new administration was forming, to comprize men of the highest political talents, (including Mr. Fox and the most eminent of his party) and this measure was regarded as the sheet anchor on which depends the salvation of the country.
A great mass of intelligence is before us. We can now notice only the leading articles. Tomorrow we shall proceed with some degree of regularity, and continue our extracts, until the stock on hand shall be exhausted.
Captain Bennet is the bearer of dispatches from Mr. Monroe, our ambassador at the court of London, to the secretary of state.
LONDON, January 25.
It is with unfeigned concern we state, that the Right Hon. William Pitt breathed his last at half past four o'clock on Thursday morning, at his house at Putney. His loss, at this particular period, will be severely felt by the nation, and we believe is sincerely lamented by all parties. His most determined political opponents at all times, bore testimony to his distinguished talents, and unblemished integrity; and were no less willing to admit that the errors of his long administration were more to be ascribed to the unprecedented difficulties of the times he had to encounter, and which he seemed determined to surmount, without having recourse to the necessary aid of contemporary talent, than to his want of foresight in anticipating the magnitude of the undertaking, or readiness of comprehension in planning means to meet those difficulties; but the task of execution, which might have been rendered more easy by an union of energies, was too much for those of an individual, and he sunk under it, the paralysed victim of too much confidence in his own strength.
The illness of Mr. Pitt originated in excessive anxiety, and unwearied attention to business. His whole nervous system was so deranged, that, for weeks together, he was unable to sleep, and this privation of rest led to a general breaking up of his constitution. An hereditary gout completed the whole, producing according to its ordinary effect on a debilitated system, water in the chest, and such a weakness of stomach, that he could neither admit nor retain any sustenance.

Previous to his dissolution, Mr. Pitt had taken the slightest sustenance for eight and forty hours. January 27. We have received letters from Gibraltar which have brought us some interesting details. Lord Collingwood, it appears, was in sight of a large French fleet on the 15th of last month. We may, therefore, soon expect important intelligence from his lordship. January 29. The emperor Napoleon had not reached Paris on the 16th instant. He remains at Munich to be present at the marriage of his prince Eugene, with the princess Augusta of Bavaria. The treaty of Presburg consists of 24 articles. It was signed on the 26th of December, and ratified the next day. January 30. George Abercrombie Robison, esq. secretary to the Marquis Cornwallis, arrived at the India house yesterday afternoon, with dispatches from Sir George Barlow, dated October 23, announcing the deeply regretted death of the marquis Cornwallis, at Gazepoor, in the province of Benares, on the 5th of October. Upon this melancholy subject a Gazette extraordinary was published at Calcutta. These dispatches were brought home in the Medusa frigate captain John Gore, which arrived at Weymouth from Bengal in eighty four days.
Holkar we were informed, on the last arrival from India, was completely ruined and had fled in disguise, was wandering as a fugitive and a beggar. Now we are told his troops are again in motion! And as a matter of great consolation, that a peace has been concluded? No, but that there was every prospect that this would be the case with Dowlat Row Scindia!! The fact is a new war has broken out in India. We are unwilling to state the rumours that have reached us, because they are erroneous; but at a crisis like the present the country ought to know its situation without any disguise whatever, and we doubt not that a remedy will now be applied to this abuse.
The intended grants to the family of the late lord Nelson, which have been mistated in some of the papers, are as stated by Lord Castlereagh on Tuesday, as follows; an annuity of 2000 pounds per annum, to be settled on the Dowager, Lady Nelson, for life, and the sum of two hundred thousand pounds to be appropriated to the purchase of an estate, which is to be annexed to the title of Earl Nelson. We understand that private letters from St. Petersburg mention the death of M. Woronzoff, the minister of the emperor.
January 31. Price of Stocks this day at 1 o'clock. Consols for money, 61 1-8; for Feb. 61 1-4 38. Price of flour 60 to 65 shillings. None of the Hamburg mails have yet arrived, but the Hamburg Correspondent to the 18th instant have reached town. The French troops conformably to the treaty of Presburg are retiring from the Austrian territories; but their march instead of indicating a speedy return to France, seems to foretell farther projects for the aggrandizement of Napoleon, or at any rate for an increase of his influence. The French troops are spreading themselves in considerable divisions in the Upper Palatinate and the territory of Hesse Darmstadt: and the whole of Ney's division is proceeding in the Venetian provinces, where Massena, with a formidable army is already.
It is stated, under the usual convenient form of a rumor from the banks of the Danube, that sixty thousand French, under the command of general Marmont, were to join the Austrians, and take possession of Bosnia and Servia for the emperor Francis. This is extremely probable. It was promised that, for the cession made by Austria, under the dictation of the French emperor, the former should receive an indemnity in the East. Should this scheme be attempted, it will shew in strong colors what dependence ought to be placed, for any power whatever, on the cajolery of the French cabinet. In every memorial, or other official communication, made by the Divan, the good faith of France, "the only natural ally of the Porte," has been trumpeted forth with a degree of effrontery, which it could not have exceeded, had it never before invaded its territories.
Bosnia and Servia, it is probable, will be seized on with as little compunction as Egypt was before, and a foundation will be laid for the complete subversion of the Turkish Empire; for the emperor of Russia will conceive himself, as is in fact the intention of Napoleon, attacked by the
measure, and the Turkish provinces will become the prey of the strongest. It is true, that in the commencement of the contest the Turks and Russians may act as allies against France and Austria, but Alexander, whose army was brought to the brink of annihilation by the weakness of the Austrian government, must secure some sway in the actual direction of the Turkish resources, before he can act with vigour, and it is not difficult to see what this must ultimately lead to.
The period for the commencement of these important movements is probably not very distant. Czernai, who has been so long in rebellion against the Porte, is at the head of 100,000 insurgent Servians. A strong French corps, Ney's most likely, is on the way to occupy Venetian Dalmatia, from whence they can effect a junction with that powerful rebel in a few days. Let what will be the issue, Napoleon will calculate on being a gainer by embroiling Austria, Russia, and Turkey.
Count Haugwitz, was to proceed to Paris about the middle of the month, there to complete the negotiations which he had begun at Vienna.
Most of the principal inhabitants of Naples are quitting that city and territory, and retiring to Sicily. The royal family have not yet repaired to that island, the only possession, we fear which will shortly remain to them.
A general and sweeping change of the Austrian ministry, as complete to the full as that which is about to take place in this country, was effected the day before the treaty of peace was signed; it probably might have been the sine qua non of that famous convention.
All the allied forces were to have withdrawn from Hanover before the end of this month. A number of transports were collected for the conveyance of the British troops, and the Swedes were falling back upon Pomerania.
The death of count Woronzoff, the Russian minister, is confirmed, by intelligence from St. Petersburg of the 28th ult. general Andreossi is to be the French ambassador to the court of Vienna, into which city the emperor was to make a humiliating entry about the middle of January.
The archduke Charles was expected to enter that capital, at the head of part his army, the day after it should be evacuated by the French, which would be either on the 10th or 11th instant.
The new kings of Bavaria and Württemberg though not at open war, have, thro' their subjects, already come to blows. Some little squabbles have taken place about demarcations, in which the troops of his majesty of Württemberg were obliged to give way. The Bavarian army was to be increased to eighty thousand men, a force, if properly disciplined, sufficient to prove a most effectual barrier to any sudden movement hereafter on the part of Austria.
Alexandria Daily Advertiser. MONDAY, MARCH 24. The ship William & John, Woodhouse, and Hero, Cole, of and for this port were left at Liverpool the 24th January.
After the greatest lapse of time that we have experienced for 15 years, we have at last obtained a glance at the situation of affairs in the British empire by an arrival at New York; for the most material details of which the reader is referred to the mail head. A peace has succeeded the short but unexampled campaign on the continent, at least between France and Austria, though it appears from the king's speech to parliament on the 21st of January, several days after the treaty had been received in England, that Russia, was not included; so far from it indeed, according to less authentic accounts, her emperor released from his dangerous situation by the armistice the day after the battle of Austerlitz, was making greater military preparations than had ever been witnessed before. The moderation of Bonaparte towards Austria carries conviction to our minds that whilst he is fortifying himself against Russia, his sleeping and waking thoughts are still undeviatingly bent on the downfall of England. If the turn of events on the continent could have satisfied his ambition and diverted him from an object which might seem to be putting too much to risk, the unfortunate death of Pitt, would now excite him to new exertions for the consummation of his darling wish. Accordingly we now see him making use of Austria as an engine, in the same way that he did of Bavaria; and as he aggrandized the latter out of the former, so he
will the former out of the territories of Turkey, which he has invaded in conjunction with Austria; and after putting Turkey in the same tributary condition which he has Austria, he will make use of her and the Persians against the British empire of the east, promising them a rich remuneration for all they have lost in the west. In the mean time complete lawgiver as he is to Europe from the Kattegat to the Dardanelles, his plan will be, so to work his men on chess board where he has no competitor, that while she blocks in the Russian within their own lakes and forests in the north, he will endeavor to stop the supply of naval stores to Britain, and the introduction of British wares into every part of Europe, Asia or Africa, depending upon the Atlantic, the Levant, or the Baltic; and while he thus cuts at the roots he will strive to upset the trunk of the British empire by shaking it with alarms of invasion and the movements of his flotilla. These views to common minds may appear gigantic; but they are not too great for the ambition, the talents and the power of Bonaparte, if his life and genius are preserved to him for only ten years to come; but before these things be, we hope in charity to mankind, that he will have opened to his fruition the glories of a better world. [Baltimore Federal Gazette.]
For the following interesting extract we are indebted to the politeness of a respectable gentleman in this city: [Phil. paper] Extra of a letter from the town of Washington (M'Kee's territory), dated 18th February.
"Lieut. Burke, pay-master to our regular troops in this country, recently returned from Natchitoches, and arrived here last evening from Fort Adams. He informs us, that the Spanish commandant at Natchitoches came on to Natchitoches with the Marquis de Casa Calvo, when capt. Porter, ordered them both out of the territory ceded to the United States, which the commandant refused to comply with. Whereupon captain Porter proceeded with a strong party against the Spanish posts, drove the Spaniards from them, and pushed them over the Sabine river.
That after this news arrived, a second person brought intelligence, that a party of 500 Spanish horse, had arrived to re-inforce the P. it: that a severe engagement had taken place between them and captain Porter, and that the Spaniards had been routed. "This news is true, as Captain Porter was determined to force the Spaniards over the Sabine river.
NEW YORK, March 20. Last evening Capt. MAIN, of the ship ARETUS, came up from the Hook in a pilot boat, where he left his ship wind bound. He has had a very short passage of 26 days from Bordeaux, and has favoured the editors of the New York Gazette with Paris papers to the 16th February. They contain London news several days later than before received, which enables the editors to give a list of the new administration of England, and many other articles of importance. The return of Bonaparte to Paris has occasioned the liveliest joy in France. The papers are filled with addresses, &c. on this occasion, and nothing seems to be spoken of but his conquests, his bravery, &c. In succeeding papers we shall give all that is worthy of notice.
LONDON, Feb. 5. List of the Ministry such as it was definitively settled yesterday between the King and Lord Grenville.
Mr. Ekins, Lord Chancellor; Lord Grenville, First Lord of the Treasury; Lord Henry Petty, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Mr. Fox, Secretary of State for Foreign Department; Earl Spencer, Secretary of State for Home Department; Mr. Windham Secretary of War; Mr. Grey, First Lord of the Admiralty; Earl of Moira, Grand Master of the Ordnance; Earl Fitzwilliam, President of the Council; Lord Ellenborough, to have a vote without functions.
The further arrangements are not yet definitively agreed upon; however we think we may safely publish the following as about to take place. The Duke of York Commander in Chief with a Council; Mr. Sheridan, Treasury of the Navy; General Fitz Patrick, under Secretary at War; Lord Minto President of the board of Control; Lord Temple and Mr. H. Addington, Pay Masters General; Lord St. John and Lord Spencer, Post Masters General; Earl of Derby, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; The Duke of Bedford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Mr. Adam, Chancellor to the Prince of Wales; Mr. Pigot, Attorney General; Mr. Romilly, Solicitor General; Mr. Vansittart and Mr. —, Secretaries of the Treasury; Lord Hamilton and Mr. Elliot, Lords of the Treasury; Mr. Bond, Judge Advocate; Doctor Lawrence, Solicitor to the King; Sir Francis Vincent, under Secretary of State to Mr. Fox; Mr. Creevey, under Secretary of State to Mr. Windham.
No change has taken place in the king's household. There will be a Privy Council to day, at which the members of the new cabinet will take the oath. We sincerely congratulate our country on the imposing and respectable attitude which the Administration is about to give to it. Lord Harrowby and Mr. Hammond are arrived at Berlin.
New Arrangements concerning the Administration. Mr. M c Creevy, one of the Lords of the Admiralty; Mr. Elliot, Principal Secretary of Ireland; Lord Minto, Governor General of Bengal; Lord Spencer, Inspector General of Woods and Forests; Lord Carysford and Lord Fortescue, Directors of the Mint. All the new appointments will appear in Sunday's Gazette. Price of Stocks, 3 per cent. Cons. 61 3 4—3 per cent. Rec. 61 1, 2.
PUBLIC SALE. On WEDNESDAY the second day of April, will be sold, on the premises, Two Lots, or half acres of Ground, No. 7 and 139, in the neighborhood of Mr. Andrew Jamieson's dwelling house: Terms will be made known at the place of sale. Philip G. Marshall.
Negroes Wanted. Cash will be given for a few likely young Negroes. Apply at John Hodgkin's tavern. March 24. dgt.
TO LET. A LARGE, commodious STORE ROOM and CELLAR, situate on the south side of King street, opposite the printing office of Samuel Snowden. The stand, for business, is equal to any in this town, and will be rented very low on application to the Printer here.
REMOVAL. The Subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that he has removed from the Store, he lately occupied in Union Street, two doors further South on the same side of the street, to that large and commodious Store, the property of captain William Harper, at the sign of the Orange Tree, where he has the following articles for sale, on the very lowest terms for CASH. Jamaica Spirits, First quality fresh Salad Oil, French Brandy, Writing, letter and wrapping Paper, Holland Gin, West India Rum, New England ditto, First quality Cavendish Tobacco, Cherry Blossom, Peach Brandy, Whisky, Spinning Cotton, Flax, Wines of different kinds, Mens' and Womens' Shoes, Loaf and Lump Sugar, First quality table Codfish, Brown ditto, Sounds and Tongues, Coffee, Spice Salmon in kegs, Hylon Shulong, Also, a general assortment of Fruits and Nuts as follows: Young Hylon, Souchong, and Bohea Mould and dipt Candles, Lisbon Lemons in boxes, Muskatell and Bloom Raisins in boxes of superior quality, Soap, Chocolate of different qualities, Prunes, Oranges, Figs and Tamarinds, Best Philadelphia Mustard, Goshen Cheese of the first quality, Almonds and Cocoa Nuts, English Walnuts, Shellbark, Rhode Island ditto, A general assortment of Queens Ware, Best Spanish Segars, Excellent Cider Vinegar. Ditto do, Glass do. With a number of other articles together with 500 bushels of salt suitable for the fishery, 500 ditto new Rhode Island potatoes, 30 barrels excellent cyder, 20 ditto new rye whiskey, And a parcel of Nice Smithfield hams, middlings, and shoulders. A. WILLIS.
JAMES SANDERSON HAS RECEIVED, A few casks of excellent CLOVER-SEED, Which is warranted fresh. 3000 lbs. best green Martinique Coffee 20 barrels New England Rum A few bales upland Georgia Cotton 3 cases Irish Linens 1 bale brown ditto. Also on Hand, British Sail Canvas; German Osnaburgs; and as usual, a general assortment of the best Wines, Spirituous Liquors, Teas and Groceries. March 24. d
Twenty Dollars Reward. RAN AWAY, from the subscriber, living in the city of Baltimore, on Friday night last, two apprentice boys to the hatting business, viz. CHARLES WHITE, between 20 and 21 years of age; very small, and has remarkable short curled hair which is very white—had on a short blue coarse and olive colored velvet pantaloons—ISAAC WEBB, about 16 years old, uncommonly large for his age: had on a short corduroy jacket and pantaloons, his hair dark and straight. Whoever takes up said Boys and lodges them in any jail, and gives information so that I get them again, shall receive the above reward and reasonable expenses, or TEN DOLLARS for either. All masters of vessels and others are cautioned against harboring them or carrying them off. William Branfon, Hatter, Baltimore. March 24. d

JAMES KENNEDY, SEN.
KING-STREET,
RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he has received, from LEE & Co's Patent and Family Medicine Store, New-York, a fresh assortment of the following
Valuable Medicines,
Which are in high esteem and general use throughout the United States, many of them being sold cheaper than the drugs of which they are compounded could be purchased at a retail store.
TAKE NOTICE
That J. Kennedy, Sen., is appointed the only agent for ALEXANDRIA.
DR. HAMILTON'S ELIXIR,
A sovereign remedy for Colds, Obsolete Coughs, Asthma, Catarrhs, Sore Throats, and approaching Consumption.
To Parents who may have children afflicted with the HOOPING COUGH,
This discovery is of the first magnitude, as it is an immediate relief, checks the progress, and in a short time entirely removes the most cruel disorder to which children are liable. The Elixir is so perfectly agreeable and the dose so small that no difficulty arises in taking it.
From LUTHER MARTIN, Esq. Attorney-General of the state of Maryland.
Gentlemen,
I comply with your request in stating my opinion of Hamilton's Elixir. It has been used in my family for two or three years past, with uniform success, whenever colds, coughs, or similar complaints have rendered medicine necessary. I have myself found it an excellent and agreeable remedy for a very painful and troublesome affection of the breast, accompanied with soreness and with obstructed and difficult breathing.
On these accounts I do not hesitate to recommend Hamilton's Elixir, as a valuable medicine, and deserving public attention.
LUTHER MARTIN.
Mr. Abijah Henry, Bridge-street, Baltimore, was cured by one bottle of Hamilton's Elixir of a very complicated disorder, occasioned by a severe cold caught several months ago. He breathed with the greatest difficulty, and was often thrown into weakening sweats when he attempted to walk any distance, and his voice would frequently fail in such a degree that he could only attempt to whisper: he has been upwards of six weeks without a return of his complaints and desires to give this public testimony in favor of his invaluable medicine.
Dr. Hamilton's GRAND RESTORATIVE,
Is 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 other destructive intemperance—the unskillful or excessive use of mercury—the diseases peculiar to females at a certain period of life—bad lyings in, &c. &c.
And is proved by long and extensive experience to be absolutely unparalleled in the cure of
  Nervous Disorders,  Violent cramps in the stomach and back,    Consumptions,  Indigestion,    Looseness of spirits,  Melancholy,    Loss of appetite,  Gout in the stomach,    Impurity of the blood,  Pains in the limbs,    Hysterical affections,  Relaxations,    Inward weaknesses,  Involuntary emissions,    Seminal weaknesses,  Obstinate gleet,    Fluoribus (or whites)  Impotency, &c. &c.    Barrenness,   
In cases of extremity, where the long prevalence and obstinacy of disease has brought on a general impoverishment of the system, excessive debility of the whole frame, and a wasting of the flesh, which no nourishment or cordial could repair, a perseverance in the use of this medicine has performed the most astonishing cures.
HAMILTON'S ESSENCE AND EXTRACT OF MUSTARD,
A safe and effectual remedy for gout, rheumatism, palsy, sprains, bruises, pains in the face and neck, &c. And has performed more cures in the above complaint than all the other medicines ever before made public.
From Dr. Weatherburn,
Wythe county, Virginia.
GENTLEMEN,
I purchased at your shop the preparations you call Hamilton's Essence, or Extract of Mustard, which I believe, has perfectly removed a chronic rheumatism (of that kind named sciatica, or of the hip joint) under which I had labored for a long time, and which had baffled every article in the Materia Medica, and every mode of treatment received into practice for the cure of this obstinate disease. If you think this letter useful you are at liberty to make it public.
Yours, &c.
W. WEATHERBURN.
John Hoover, rope maker, South Second street, below Mary and Christian streets, Philadelphia, voluntarily by maketh oath as follows, namely,
That his wife, Mary Hoover, was so severely afflicted with a violent rheumatism, very dangerously situated the consequence of a severe cold after lying in, as to be confined to her bed for several weeks, and was at length reduced to the melancholy apprehension of remaining a cripple for life, notwithstanding the most respectable medical advice was followed, and every probable remedy attempted: when seeing several cases of cures performed by Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mustard, they were procured from Mr. Birch, No. 17, South Second street. The first application enabled her to walk across the room, and the use of one bottle restored her to her usual state of health and strength.
JOHN HOOVER.
Sworn and subscribed before EBENEZER FERGUSON, Esq. One of the justices of the peace for Philadelphia county.
HAMILTON'S WORM DESTROYING LOZENGES,
Which have within four years past cured upwards of one hundred and twenty thousand persons of both sexes, of every age, and in every situation, of various dangerous complaints arising from worms, and from obstinacy or foulness in the stomach and bowels.
This medicine bears no analogy whatever of similar title, to commonly complained of as operating with violence, on the contrary a particular excellence of this it contains nothing but what is perfectly innocent, and so mild in its operation that it cannot injure the most delicate pregnant lady, or the tenderest infant of a week old. It expels worms out of the body, but will, without pain or gripping, cleanse the stomach and bowels of whatever is foul or offensive, and thereby prevent the production of worms and many fatal disorders. They are particularly efficacious in carrying off all gross humors and corruptions; feverish and bilious complaints, and the safest and mildest purgative that can be used on the occasion.
Description of Worms, and the symptoms by which they are known.
Worms which infest the human body, are chiefly of four kinds, viz. the Tæres or large round worm, the Ascarides, or small maw worm, the Cucurbitina, or short flat, white worm, and lastly, the Tænia or tape worm so called from its resemblance to tape; this is often many yards long, and is full of joints—It is most hurtful and most difficult to cure.
Among the symptoms attending worms, are disagreeable breath, especially in the morning—Bad and corrupted gums—itching in the nose and about the feet—Convulsions and epileptic fits, and sometimes privation of speech—Starting and grinding of the teeth in sleep—Irregular appetite, sometimes loathing food, and sometimes voracious—Purgings, with slimy and foetid stools—Vomiting—Large and hard belly—Pains and sickness at the stomach—Pains in the head and thighs, with lowness of spirits—Slow fever, with small and irregular pulse—A dry cough—Excessive thirst—Sometimes pale and unhealthy countenance, and sometimes the face bloated and flushed.
Persons afflicted with any of the above symptoms should have immediate recourse to Hamilton's worm destroying lozenges, which have been constantly attended with success in all complaints similar to those above described.
A dose of this medicine given occasionally during the warm season will effectually prevent the vomiting and purging of children, a dreadful disorder which annually destroys thousands of the infant part of our cities. It is likewise the mildest and most certain remedy known and has restored to health and strength a great number when in advanced stages of this fatal complaint. Particular and plain instructions are given for every part of the necessary treatment in such cases.
Children generally take this medicine with eagerness, having a pleasing appearance, and an agreeable taste.
CASES OF CURES—
By Hamilton's WORM DESTROYING LOZENGES, (Selected from thousands) the authenticity of which any person may ascertain either by letter or personal application.
TAPE WORM.
Mr. SAMUEL FULLER, Inn keeper, on the Hartford road, ten miles from Baltimore, began about twenty months ago to be grievously afflicted with a tape worm, which increased fast in size and strength, so as to excite the most horrid sensations by his writhing motions and intolerable pains, resembling the gnawing and tearing of his bowels, which deprived him of his necessary sleep, and caused such dreadful apprehensions as cannot be conceived but by one in a similar situation—his appetite wasted rapidly, and with that his strength, so that he was unable to attend to any business—when he heard of some excellent cures performed by Hamilton's worm lozenges, he took a large dose, which brought away a bout FOUR YARDS of the worm (now in the possession of Lee, & Co.) but a renewal of his pains soon convinced him that this monstrous reptile had recovered its first vigor—Application was made to Lee & Co. for more of their medicine, with their advice, from which resulted the total expulsion of his formidable enemy, in several pieces, which he supposed to be SIX or EIGHT YARDS more. A few months have since elapsed, and Mr. Fuller is now in perfect health. The above facts are well known to a numerous circle of his neighbors, and himself will gratify any who may wish to make further inquiries on the subject. Although Hamilton's worm lozenges produce such powerful effects, when necessary, yet they are perfectly innocent and mild in their operation on the human body, even taken in large doses, as Mr. Fuller will testify—their particular mildness is abundantly evident in innumerable cures of infants.
Communicated by Dr. John Spangler, York town, Pennsylvania.
Letter from the reverend Mr. JOHN MOLTHER minister of the Moravian church, in York town. York, January 4th, 1802.
DEAR SIR,
Dr. Hamilton's lozenges have been recommended to me as a very adequate means for the cure of children afflicted with worms. I procured a box for the use of my family, to try whether by means of this medicine I might be enabled to gain a point, which, to accomplish, different other means had proved abortive. My eldest boy had a very sickly appearance, was very restless at night, grew leaner from time to time; in short, he seemed to be in a precarious state of health, which would yield to none of the medicines administered, until I gave him two doses of lozenges, agreeably to the directions, which carried off a substance to all appearance a mere mucus but upon close inspection quite repletes with very small living animals. Not one of that sort of worms which usually afflict children came from him. Since that period he grew remarkably better in health, and though lean, has got a fresh and lively complexion. Upon different occasions I have used this medicine as a purging substitute, and found it to answer exceedingly well, without bringing on belly ache, or any other disagreeable sensations, to often occasioned by purging medicines. Upon the which I judge this medicine to be, besides its main object, one of the most salutary means for restoring lost appetite, and promoting a proper state of digestion, by carrying off that bilious substance, which engenders so much indisposition both among children and adults.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
JOHN MOLTHER.
Dr. 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,
So celebrated among the fashionable throughout Europe, as an invaluable cosmetic perfectly innocent and safe, free from corrosive and repellent minerals (the basis of other lotions) and of unparalleled efficacy in preventing and removing blemishes in the face and skin of every kind, particularly freckles, pimples; inflammatory redness, scurfs, tetter, rings worms, yun burns, prickle heat, &c.
The Persian Lotion operates mildly, without impeding that natural, insensible perspiration, which is so essential to health. Yet its salutary effects are speedy and permanent, rendering the skin delicately soft and clear, improving the complexion, and restoring the bloom of youth. Never failing to render an ordinary countenance beautiful, and an handsome one more so.
The Restorative Powder for the Teeth and Gums.
This excellent preparation comforts & strengthens the gums, preserves the enamel from decay, and cleanses and whitens the teeth, by absorbing all that acrimonious slime and foulness, which suffered to accumulate, never fails to injure and finally ruin them.
Dr. Hahn's genuine Eye-Water.
A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eyes, whether the effect of natural weakness or of accident, defluxions of rheum, dullness, itching, and films on the eyes, never failing to cure those in a ladies which frequently succeed the small pox, measles and fevers, and wonderfully strengthening a weak sight. Hundreds have experienced its excellent virtues, when nearly deprived of sight.
Tooth Ache Drops.
The only remedy yet discovered which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe instances.
The sovereign Ointment for the Itch.
Which is warranted an infallible remedy at one application, and may be used with perfect safety on pregnant women or on infants a week old, containing not a particle of mercury, or any other dangerous ingredient whatever, and is not accompanied with that tormenting smell, which attends the application of other remedies.
The Anodyne Elixir.
For the cure of every kind of head ache.
Indian Vegetable Specific.
A safe and speedy remedy for the venereal disease. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
For the prevention and cure of bilious and malignant fevers,
IS RECOMMENDED
Dr. Hahn's Anti-Bilious Pills.
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: to procure a free perspiration, and thereby prevent colds, which are often attended with fatal consequence; as 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 severe head ache; and ought to be taken by all persons on a change of climate.
Sold likewise by S. Pleasants, Richmond; Ross and Douglass, Petersburg; T. Green, Frederickburgh; G. Purdie, Smithfield; M. Jones, Suffolk; Dr. Miller, Winchester; R. Greenhow, Williamburgh; and J. Shaw, Leesburg. September 4.
FOR SALE,
A Negro Woman, who is an excellent house servant, with her two Children; the one male, the other female. Jan. 16. Enquire of the Printer.
LOST or MISLAID, Certificates for 43 Shares of Potomac Bank Stock.
ANY person giving information so that they can be obtained, will confer a particular favor on the subscriber—
Who has a Cargo of St. Ubes SALT for Sale.
E. Janney. law6w
2d mo. 19th.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber will rent the house on Fairfax street, near Duke street, lately occupied by Mr. James H. Hooe. Apply to Mr. John Tucker.—As some person has reported that the house is liable for back rents, the following certificate, from Mr. Nathaniel C. Hunter, (the original proprietor of the lot) who leased the house and lot to me on an annual ground rent, proves, that there is no truth in the said report.
Stephen Cooke.
I hereby acknowledge, to have received the ground-rents due on a lot, in the town of Alexandria, on Fairfax street, leased of me by Dr. Stephen Cooke, up to the 3d day of February 1805.
NATHANIEL C. HUNTER.
October 1. 1805. (Dec. 10.) law
Cash, and the highest price given for clean Linen and Cotton Rags, by the Printer of this paper.
Postponement.
The sale of the Lot of Ground, advertised by the subscriber to take place this day, at the Coffee House, is postponed till TUESDAY next, at one o'clock, at the same place. John Dunlap, Trustee. March 18.
PUBLIC SALE.
On WEDNESDAY next, at 3 o'clock, will be Sold, at the house of Philip Care, upper end of King-street, a quantity of Household & Kitchen Furniture.
AMONG WHICH ARE,
 Mahogany Dining and Card Tables  Do. Chairs  Do. Bureaus, Desk and Book Case  An elegant eight-day Clock  Looking-Glasses, &c. and sundry other Articles. 
Philip G. Marsteller. March 22.
CHEESE, &c.
We have a large quantity of Rhode Island CHEESE, and a few barrels of HER RINGS for sale—
And daily expect
2,000 barrels Turk's Island Salt, which will be sold on moderate terms from board.
Douglas & Mandeville. March 22.
Clover Seed,
(Warranted of the best quality)
Landed this day from Philadelphia, and for sale, on very low terms.
Mandeville & Jamesson,
Who have just received,
66 barrels old Rye Whiskey
5000 lbs Green Coffee
20 boxes fine Salad Oil
20 boxes Chocolate
1000 lbs heavy Pepper
10 boxes fresh Mustard
A few bales Tennessee Cotton
100 reams Wrapping Paper. March 22.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, ALEXANDRIA, 24th February, 1806. The following MERCHANDIZE, having remained in store upwards of nine months, will be Sold, at Public Auction, at P. G. Marsteller's Vendue-Store, on the 25th day of March next; no claim having been made for the same.
   Date when received in Store. Name of Vessel. Matter's Name. From whence imported. Marks and Numbers. Description of Articles.     1804. October 1. Ship United States. Oliver P. Finley James M. Speake Liverpool. No. Marks. 1 and 12 Two bundles Saddle Tick and half doz. twelve Anels.   1805. May 21. ditto.  
CHARLES SIMMS, Collector.