Kentucky gazette and general advertiser (Lexington [Ky.]), 1803-02-22 00:00:00

KENTUCKY GAZETTE
AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[VOL. XVI.—N o . 858.]
BY DANIEL BRADFORD, LEXINGTON.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1803.
TERMS OF THE GAZETTE.
This paper is published weekly, at two DOLLARS per annum, paid in advance.
Those who write to the Editor, must pay the postage of their letters.
NOTICE.
THOSE indebted to Dr. SAMUEL BROWN, for medical services, will please to call on me, in Lexington, and either pay off their accounts, or give due-bills. Dr. Brown being determined to have a final settlement of all his accounts, hopes that those who do not find it convenient at present to make payment, will not hesitate to give their obligations.
THOS. C. DAVIS.
Dec. 7th, 1802.
THE SUBSCRIBER
INTENDS going to Philadelphia early in the spring, requests all those who are indebted to him, either by bond, note or book account, to pay by the first of February next—that who fail to comply with the above request will not be entitled to a credit hereafter, and will have their accounts put into the hands of proper officers for collection.
He has on hand a handsome assortment of MERCHANDISE, which he will sell low for Cash, Tobacco, Country Linen, Bees-wax, Goose Feathers, &c.
Has just received a Handsome Assortment of QUEENS' WARE, COTTON CARDS.
And daily expects a large assortment of Hard Ware, Cutlery, &c. and a handsome collection of Books. GEORGE ANEDRSON. Lexington, Jan. 5, 1803.
N. B. A FARM about three miles from Lexington on the Tate's creek road either to sell or rent. Apply as above.
WALKER BAYLOR & SON. Have just received on consignment, a quantity of WINE, RUM, AND FISH OIL, Which they will sell on a moderate advance for CASH only.
They have also on hand SPANISH ACID, by the quart or cask. And expect by the first arrivals to receive
SUPERFINE CLOTHS, BLANKETS & other woollens, SPANISH and FRENCH INDIGO. Lexington, Dec. 17th, 1802.
THE Co-partnership of JOHN JORDAN Jun. & Co. having this day expired—all those indebted to him either by bond, note or book account, are requested to make immediate payment to John Jordan Jun. or Andrew F. Price, or steps will be taken to compel the same.
JOHN JORDAN Jun. & Co. N. B. The business in future will be done by JOHN JORDAN Jun. who has a Large and General Assortment of MERCHANDISE, which he is determined to dispose of on the most reasonable terms for Cash, Hemp, Country Linen, or approved produce.—No Credit. Lexington, K. Nov. 20th, 1802.
NOTICE.
ON Saturday the ninth day of April next, I shall attend at the house of Robert Vojrs, with commissioners appointed by the court of Mason county, to take depositions, and to do such other things as the law directs, to establish the special calls of an entry made in the name of James and John Suggitt, for three thousand four hundred acres of land lying on the first run emptying into the Ohio above the mouth of Syca-more, which run is now known by the name of Quick's run, and continue from day to day until the business is completed.
GEO. GRAHAM. Feb. 2d 1803. 3t
BLANK BOOKS
Of any description may be had at this Office.—Also, old books re-bound, on the shortest notice.
NEW AND CHEAP GOODS.
TROTTER & SCOTT, Have just received, and are now opening,
A Large & Compleat assortment of FALL & WINTER GOODS, Of the latest importations from Europe.
Consisting of
Dry Goods, Hard Ware, Groceries, Queens' China & Glass Ware, & Window Glass; Together with a number of articles too tedious to enumerate.
All of which being purchased lower than any imported into this state, will be sold accordingly, for CASH IN HAND.
Lexington, November 17, 1802.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN from the subscriber (out of his stable) A SADDLE, almost new, has been used about three months; the maker's name is Seth Greigh, which will be found under the skirt of the saddle. Any person who will give such information as will enable me to prosecute the thief, shall have the above reward, or FIVE DOLLARS for the Saddle only.
JOHN A. SEITZ.
Lexington, 21st Dec. 1803.
In all probability the Saddle will be offered for sale in this neighborhood.
NEW & CHEAP GOODS.
WILLIAM WEST,
Has just received in addition to his former assortment, the following
MERCHANDISE,
Viz.
Fine Cloths and Cassimers, Coarse do. and Coatings, Elastic do. and Flannels, Scarlet Cardinals, Filled Stockings and Gloves, Worsted and Cotton Stockings, Silk Shawls and Handkerchiefs, Fancy Swansdown, Velvets, Thickets and Corduroys, Irish Linens and Callicoos, Umbrellas, Blistered Steel, Pennsylvania made Axes and Castings, Madder and Indigo, Coperas and Allum, Mace and Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Green and Bohea Tea, Pewter and Tin ware, Ladies' Elegant Muffs and Tippets, White and Coloured furr Trimings, Lace and Edgings, Spelling Books, Slates, Paper and Ink Powder.
Which he will sell at the most reduced prices for Cash, or approved Country Produce.
LEXINGTON LIBRARY.
AT a meeting of the Directors, Friday, February 5th, 1803, RESOLVED, That the Treasurer be directed to bring suits against all persons indebted to the corporation, who refuse to settle their accounts, and that he make report of the same to the April meeting, together with a particular statement of the funds.
Attest JOHN TILFORD, Sec'y. Mr. B. STOUT, Treasurer.
FROM the above resolve, the gentlemen interested in the Library will see the necessity of immediate payment—and I flatter myself, that those whose philanthropy has induced them to embark in so noble an institution, will not suffer that em-barkation to be disgraced by suits. To avoid which, the accounts will be put into the hands of the Librarian for settlement on the 11th, and continue there till the 26th instant, and suits will be immediately instituted on all that remain unsettled on that day.
BENJ. STOUT, Tr. L. L. 6th February 1803. 3P
ROUND TEXT COPIES,
Maybe had at this Office, Price 2/3.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
700 acres Military Land, lying on Brush creek, N. W. T. where the road crosses from Limestone to Chillicothe; this tract contains about three hundred acres of rich bottom, the remainder is well timbered; has on it a good mill seat, and is an excellent stand for a public house.
500 acres ditto ditto, lying on Clover Lick creek, a branch of the East fork of the Little Miami, N. W. T. in a good neighborhood, about three miles from Dunhams-Town, seven from Williamsburg, and eleven to twelve from the Ohio river.
1000 acres ditto ditto, lying on Brush creek, a few miles from New Market, N. W. T.
5000 acres, lying on Bank Lick creek, Kentucky, part of two tracts, containing 6000 acres, surveyed and patented for William Jones.
4000 acres, Clarke county, Kentucky, part of a tract of eight thousand acres, surveyed and patented for Richard Chinworth.
3332 2-3 acres, Mason county, Kentucky, part of 5000 acres, surveyed and patented for George Underwood.
1200 acres, Mason county, Kentucky, surveyed and patented for Moody and McMillin.
1000 acres Military land, on the waters of Russell's creek, Green river.
325 acres, Jefferson county, Kentucky, about four miles from Louisville, 40 acres of this tract is cleared.
116 1-2 acres, Franklin county, Kentucky, on the North fork of Elkhorn, about six miles from Frankfort; on this tract are considerable improvements.
A House and well improved Lot in the town of Paris, on Main street, and adjoining Mr. Hughes's tavern.
An Inn and Out Lot in said town. Also a House and well improved Lot in this place.
The above described property will be sold for CASH, HEMP and TOBACCO, or on giving bond with good security, a considerable credit may be had.—For further particulars enquire of the subscribers.
JOHN JORDAN Jun. JOHN A. SEITZ. Lexington, Kentucky. } January 14th, 1803 }
IN THE PRESS, And will shortly be published, A
REPORT OF THE CAUSES, DETERMINED BY THE LATE SUPREME COURT, FOR THE DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY; AND BY THE COURT OF APPEALS, IN WHICH THE TITLES TO LAND WERE IN DISPUTE. By JAMES HUGHES.
Proposals for publishing this work by subscription, were circulated nearly two years ago, under the signature of Thon is Todd and James Hughes, it having been the intention of Colonel Todd, to join in the work.
In order to enable Mr. Bradford, to know who to deliver books to as subscribers, it will be necessary for those Gentlemen who have subscription papers to forward them to him.
This volume contains the Causes decided from the establishment of the District Court on the Western waters, to the end of the March Term of the Court of Appeals, in the year 1801.
The Author is preparing materials for a second volume, which will probably be published in the beginning of the next year.
Lexington, January 12, 1803.
CLARKSVILLE.
PURSUANT to a Resolution of the Board of Trustees, of the Town of Clarksville, will be sold at public auction, in the town of Jeffersonville, all the unfull inn and out LOTS of the said town of Clarksville. The sale will commence on Monday the twenty-first day of March next, at 10 o'clock. A credit of twelve months will be given—bond and approved security will be required.
By order of the Board. WILLIAM CLARKE, S. T. C. Clarksville, } Dec. 22d, 1802. } 2m
FOR THE KENTUCKY GAZETTE.
A DISSERTATION
On the Political Character and Writings of THOMAS PAINE.
Author of Common Sense, Rights of Man &c. &c. &c.
(No. III.)
"AMERICAN CRISIS."
THE historian of common erudition, must know the situation of America, at the commencement of the revolution. He must be unacquainted with that part of the history of modern nations, which brings into view the discovery of a new world, its settlement under the rigors of religious fanaticism, and the progress of society in arts, government and civilization. Britain, whose lawless oppressions have, from age to age, extorted groans from the east and west, had arisen to a grade of usurpation, in the American colonies, that led on from the gentlest forms of complaint to resentment, and from resentment to open rebellion.
There are situations, in the affairs of nations, as well as of individuals, when the mind ceases to deliberate on the final result of certain measures that are compelled by imperial necessity. This situation and temper, were felt in America, at a period when the country resolved upon a declaration of independence. To calculate on success in an enterprise, where the most imminent dangers combined to render it abortive, would have been deemed folly even by those who excelled in moral and political speculation. But calamity in one shape is the same evil to be dreaded as in another. The art of avoiding it is taught in the school of nature. It is ingrafted upon the laws of self-defence, and is the great ruling principle that equally gives life, order and preservation to the physical and intelligent worlds. If she calmly submitted to oppression, the prospect of national degradation, was before her; if she failed in a struggle for freedom, the horror of the prospect was not diminished, and the attempt might end in a successful attainment of peace, independence and safety. As a nation, she knew not her own character; because this can only undergo a moral investigation by the mind that is free to act. There was no criterion formed how the force of the country might be ascertained. The disciples of Pemberton, under the sanctity of passive obedience and non-resistance, were attached to monarchy from principle. A second class were connected with Britain by commercial interest which would necessarily fall a sacrifice to the ravages of war, or a suspended operation. A third class yielded to the cowardice of doubt as to the success of the enterprise; and this was the origin of toyism. Equally ignorant of her resources in the arts of defence, so far as they related to military supplies and a knowledge of tactics, and the real temper of those who were hearty in the cause, she appears to have embarked upon the ocean of chance, surrounded by clouds and with little probability of outliving the tempest.
To rebel against a nation, whose conquests had ravaged every clime in the universe, and whose military character still wore the complexion of its gothic origin, could only wear the aspect of insanity in the estimation of those, whose moral speculations had never taught them the great effects to be produced by the union of national force with a deliberate fortitude of temper.
It is almost needless to say, however, that these embarrassing circumstances had their advantage. Like misfortune they led the mind to thinking. Resources were found where before none had been discovered. The tranquility of slavery had made her indolent, and indolence is the parent of ignorance. Calamity brought her into action. The innocence of her cause gave elevation to the public hope and a recurrence to natural right enabled her to think with magnanimity and to act with courage.
About this eventful period the "American Crisis" made its appearance. The fleets and armies of Britain had arrived in safety on our shores. The claims of despotism, in opposition to the claims of natural right, had brought the conflicting principles into action; and produced a subject for investigation more singular in its character, than had ever before occurred in the world. The author engaged in it with a degree of holy zeal that does honor to the name of patriotism.
The statesman whose mind is of that calculating genius, which combines cause with effect, & can trace the secret windings of human destiny, from the minute incident, as the beginning, to the great revolution, as the termination of the chain, will rank the "American Crisis" among the most useful productions that
ever appeared on any subject. It developed principles that time will waft around the world. Irresistible in argument, well timed and of that fearless character which bids defiance to opposition, it exposed the folly of a besotted cabinet and contributed, in conjunction with the designs of nature, to give political immortality to the states of North America. Whilst attempting to protect a nation from the ravages of war by inculcating a union of sentiment as the true mean of success, he ranges through the moral departments of human nature and makes man acquainted with himself. He perceives the character he holds in the universe; casts from him the withering gew-gaws of slavery, and breeches himself in the garb of manly defiance.
There is a moral chastity of character that belongs to the Crisis, which will give it dignity among the most finished literary compositions, when the event that produced it shall only live upon the durable page of history. Men are never more disposed to be truly virtuous, than when engaged in an interesting scene, which calls forth the finer affections of our nature into action. The afflictions of America were like the sufferings of a fair mourner, under the chastisements of cruel destiny. The ruder passions would have been blushed to have tampered with her situation; and he who honestly engaged in her defence, felt all the noble blandishments of ancient chivalry crowding about his heart. Each chain of investigation, linked to the heart, leads us on to meditate upon the folly of national ambition, which can enjoy the pleasures of a criminal triumph, at the expence of every moral sentiment. The war of Britain upon America, was a war upon infancy and innocence. The cowardice of the assailant when opposed to the magnanimity with which she bore her sufferings, exhibits a contrast that would create a sentiment of veneration, even in the mind of a savage. It is the aspect of suffering virtue, which makes the appeal; and operates with such irresistible force, because so nearly allied with that sublime sensation we experience, at the prospect of grandeur, in the works of nature.
The Crisis is a very different work, from most of those which have made their appearance in the revolution of states. It does not consist of visionary paradoxes, which merely excite popular admiration, by their novelty, without giving light or improvement to the mind. It speaks to the understanding; and had the singular effect of producing all the advantages of promptitude in motion, upon a regular digested plan of principle. It hazarded nothing by giving a wrong impulse to the passions of the Americans, which they could not eventually reduce to practice and become wiser by, from experience.
Works of this temperature flow from a presiding genius, that calculates the progress of time and nature, the problems of chance, the temper of the people, their resources for war, moral character and political inclinations. By this means a sober people, uncorrupted by European vices and whose natural feelings had not become hardened by the crimes of despotism, could not avoid being sensibly affected by a moral, well regulated liberty. No other system could have been the object of voluntary adoption; because an honest people will always think and act with a sacred regard to moral principle, until the mind has lost its tension and the passions have received a bias towards corruption.
They are then fit for slavery: and it is this melancholy cause which has covered the earth with sorrow.
I have always been of opinion, and still entertain the same sentiment, that many of the most distinguished works that grew out of the ardour of the French revolution, were more injurious to the cause of liberty, than favorable to it. They tampered too much with the passions of a volatile people, ignorant of their real political situation on the continent of Europe and of their civil condition, as an aggregate mass of men. They conveyed none of that real knowledge to the mind, which was necessary to give it the advantage of some well settled domestic principles that might elude the destiny of chance, when the first shock of the revolution had passed away. Many of her sages were very little better in the school of the rights of man, than the disputants of the Lyceum at Athens, or the disciples of Plato and Sir Thomas More, in the academy of Utopian politics. The study of the ancient philosophers had given them much learning, but little wisdom; and destroyed that practical originality of conception that looks beyond the academy into society, ascertains the bearings of the passions

and pursues its subject with equal effect, through the tempest of a revolution or the calm of peace. They derived their realizations from the jargons of metaphysics, which never yet composed a science, and from a false geometry, which can never demonstrate the real interests of man in a state of society. This mode of arguing from cause to effect, will always fail; because the subject is viewed in the abstract. These philosophers hold man up as the most immaculate being; and to make him so, they entirely strip him of his passions. In the mean time they lose sight of those effects that are produced upon his temper and inclinations by being the continual subject of conflicting interests and imaginary delusion. The true philosophy of a statesman consists in taking all situations and all tempers into view. It is the frequent impossibility of doing this, that renders the art of government so uncertain in its wisest provisions and so difficult in its administration. In great revolutionary scenes, however, when the plan is about to receive an establishment, a prudent silence is sometimes preferable to a declaratory declaration on the subject; because it leaves the mind to reason in the calm of deliberation and to gather wisdom by the progress of its own enquiries. What has become of the different compacts that grew out of the fire and blood of the revolution? Where is the constitution of the British commonwealth, during the time of Oliver Cromwell? The statesmen who produced them, studied things, whereas they should have studied men.
Condorcet, M'Intosh and Brissot, knew no more of human nature, as it displays itself upon the theatre of social life, than midwives. Viewed in the abstract, and made the continual subject of paradox, their writings, stamped with the character of a benevolent impotency, catch the passions to inflame, and delude to destroy.
The above remarks may appear something like digression; but in all elucidations of this kind, a well digested contrast, serves to give a feature to the subject in view.
The true foundation of every good cause is the innocence it. The governments of antiquity, appear to have been founded on the despotic claims of usurpation. The reverse is precisely the case, as to America, who built her independence upon a recurrence to natural right. The real merit of the Crisis, consisted in holding this great principle up to the view of the conflicting parties. The madness of Britain in endeavoring to conquer what she had no right to possess and the wisdom of the Americans in opposing the iniquitous claim, gave a weight in the balance of union and opposition, that ultimately led to victory. It became the instrument of terror to the oppressor and of hope to the oppressed. Operating with equal effect in the army, the cabinet and among the great mass of the people, it gave a regular and active determination to every popular motion. A ragged and disconsolate militia, flying before a formidable enemy, turned away from contemplating the scene of their forlorn rows, to victory, and from the picture of their suffering, to the delightful anticipation of peace, liberty and independence.
Nothing could have been more fortunate for America, than to possess a genius on her side, of that presiding character, which could equally feel the full weight of her afflictions, with becoming composure, and yield consolation, by a moral and political arrangement of her affairs. The cabinet of Britain, deceived in its calculations, acted with a degree of cruel ferocity, that could only argue a defect of real ability. Her councils appeared to be as deficient in wisdom, as her military character in the blandishments of a polished humanity. A defeat or a triumph, on the part of America, produced an equal advantage; whilst in the cabinet, the guardian genius who defended her cause, did more by his pen, than Britain by her parliament. Regular in method, prolific in energy, and deliberate amidst misfortune, he gave a proof of that profound wisdom, whose operations, when drawn into action, invariably lead to success. Every minute object that related to the grand principle of contention, was caught by an intuitive glance. A defeat, so far from becoming a cause of regret, only expanded the horizon of our real situation. It afforded new materials for investigating with additional accuracy, the real state of the cause; and what we lost by a diminution of numbers we made up by an accumulation of wisdom. Britain, on the other hand lost by every defeat, and gained nothing by every victory. She pursued with a blind stupidity, the ludicrous plan of "advancing backward."
Investigations of this kind, held steadily to the public eye, exhibiting the balance of misfortune continually on the side of the offending power, composed the chief excellence of the "American Crisis." It gave a constant tension to the mind, and banished despair from the heart, by a superior counterpoise of hope. The king, the army and the ministry, were held up to view, as equally the objects of ridicule and the devoted victims of an impotent and detestable policy. The crimes of the British nation, were placed in the balance against the innocent character of a people, whom it is sought to destroy. The claims of usur-
pation were opposed to the claims of natural right; the horrors of slavery depicted in the most frightful colours, to rouse the mind to opposition; and the dismal effects of failure, in the prospect of a ravaged country, depopulated cities, confiscations, massacres, and conflagrations, closed the scenery of the interesting picture.
A nation must have been lost to every sentiment of honor, who would have suffered these things, without opposing them, with more than Spartan fortitude. A view of the prospect had its effect. Paine, in the cabinet, roused the Americans to union and opposition, and Washington conducted them to victory in the field. In due season, the minions of an unfeeling despotism, fought an apology, under a fit of the maladie de pays , to return to England, whither they were pursued by the curses of all America.
They exercised the wisdom of cowards, and their country applauded them for it. They received the gratuities of a king, whom no corporation of Americans would elect for a co-stable; of a ministry who were too besotted to know the extent of the loss the country had sustained by their folly, and of a nation who had forever forfeited the friendship of their descendents, by becoming the dupe of a wicked administration.
Taking the foregoing portrait as composing the general character of the Crisis, let us more minutely sketch the effects that were produced, by the publication of it, after the contest was over. These may be divided into three classes: The development of the principles of the revolution. The promotion of political knowledge in America; and A union among the Americans, as to the principles of civil government.
STILPO.
From the National Intelligencer.
Boston Nov. 30th, 1802,
Sir, I have frequently with pleasure reflected on your services to my native, and your adopted country. Your Common Sense, and your Crisis unquestionably awakened the public mind, and led the people loudly to call for a declaration of our national independence. I therefore esteemed you as a warm friend to the liberty, and lasting welfare of the human race. But when I heard, that you had turned your mind to a defence of infidelity, I felt myself much astonished, and more grieved, that you had attempted a measure so injurious to the feelings, and so repugnant to the true interest of so great a part of the citizens of the United States. The people of New England, if you will allow me to use a scripture phrase, are fast returning to their first love. Will you excite among them the spirit of angry contro- versy, at a time, when they are hastening to unity and peace? I am told that some of our newspapers have announced your intention to publish an additional Pamphlet upon the principles of your Age of Reason. Do you think, that your pen, or the pen of any other man can unchristianize the mass of our citizens, or have you hopes of converting a few of them to assist you in so bad a cause? We ought to think ourselves happy in the enjoyment of opinion without the danger of persecution by civil or ecclesiastical law.
Our friend, the present president of the United States, has been calumniated for his liberal sentiments by men who have attributed that liberality to a latent design to promote the cause of infidelity. This, and all other slanders have been made without a shadow of proof. Neither religion, nor liberty can long subsist in the tumult of altercation, and amidst the noise and violence of facti-
Felix qui cautus. Adieu. SAMUEL ADAMS. Mr. Thomas Paine. TO SAMUEL ADAMS.
My dear and venerable friend, I receive with great pleasure your friendly and affectionate letter of Nov. 30th, and I thank you also for the frankness of it. Between men in pursuit of truth, and whose object is the happiness of man both here and hereafter, there ought to be no reserve. Even error has a claim to indulgence, if not to respect, when it is believed to be truth. I am obliged to you for your affectionate remembrance of what you stile my services in awakening the public mind to a declaration of independence, and supporting it after it was declared. I also, like you, have often looked back on those times and have thought, that if independence had not been declared at the time it was the public mind could not have been brought up to it afterwards. It will immediately occur to you, who were so intimately acquainted with the situation of things at that time, that I allude to the black times of seven- six; for though I know, and you my friend also know, they were no other than the natural consequences of the military blunders of that campaign, the country might have viewed them as proceeding from a natural inability to support its cause against the enemy, and have sunk under the despondency of that misconceived idea. This was the im-
pression against which it was necessary the country should be strongly animated.
I now come to the second part of your letter, on which I shall be as frank with you as you are with me. "But (say you) when I heard you had turned your mind to a defence of infidelity, I felt myself much astonished, &c." What, my good friend, do you call believing in God infidelity? For that is the great point maintained in the Age of Reason against all divided beliefs and allegorical divinities. The bishop of Llandaff, (Dr. Watson) not only acknowledges this, but pays me some compliments upon it in his answer to the second part of that work. "There is (says he) a philosophical sublimity in some of your ideas when speaking of the Creator of the Universe."
What then (my much esteemed friend for I do not respect you the less because we differ, and that perhaps not much in religious sentiments) what, I ask, is this thing called infidelity? If we go back to your ancestors and mine, three or four hundred years ago, for we must have had fathers and grandfathers or we should not be here, we shall find them praying to saints and virgins, and believing in purgatory and transubstantiation, and therefore all of us are infidels according to our forefathers belief. If we go back to times more antient we shall again be infidels according to the belief of some other forefathers.
The case, my friend, is, that the world has been overrun with fable and creeds of human invention, with sectaries of whole nations, against other nations, and sectaries of those sectaries in each of them against each other. Every sectary, except the quakers, has been a persecutor. Those who fled from persecution persecuted in their turn, and it is this confusion of creeds that has filled the world with persecution and deluged it with blood. Even the deprecation on your commerce by the Barbary powers, sprang from the cruelties of the church against those powers. It was a war of creed against creed, each boasting of God for its author, and reviling each other with the name of infidel. If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, & that is all that it proves.
There is however one point of union wherein all religions meet, and that is in the first article of every man's creed, & of every nation's creed; that has any creed at all. I believe in God. Those who rest here, and there are millions who do, cannot be wrong, as far as their creed goes. Those who chase to go further may be wrong, for it is impossible that all can be right since there is so much contradiction among them. The first, therefore, are in my opinion on the safest side.
I presume you are so far acquainted with ecclesiastical history as to know, and the bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the books which compose the New Testament were voted by Yeas & Nays to be the word of God as you now vote a law, by the popish councils of Nice and Lacedaemon, about 1450 years ago. With respect to the fact there is no dispute, neither do I mention it for the sake of controversy. This vote may appear authority enough to some, and not authority enough to others. It is proper however, that every body should know the fact.
With respect to the Age of Reason, which you so much condemn, and that I believe without having read it, for you say only that you heard of it, I will inform you of a circumstance because you cannot know it by other means.
I have said in the first page of the first part of that work, that it had long been my intention to publish my thoughts upon religion, but that I had reserved it to a later time of life. I have now to inform you why I wrote it and published it at the time I did.
In the first place, I saw my life in continual danger. My friends were falling as fast as the Guillotine could cut their heads off, and as I every day expected the same fate, I resolved to begin my work. I appeared to myself to be on my death bed, for death was on every side of me, and I had no time to lose. This accounts for my writing at the time I did, and so nicely did the time and the intention meet, that I had not finished the first part of that work more than six hours before I was arrested and taken to prison. Joel Barlow has with me, and knows the fact.
In the second place, the people of France were running headlong into Atheism, and I had the work translated and published in their own language to stop them in that career, and fix them to the first article (as I have before said) of every man's creed, who has any creed at all, I believe in God. I endangered my own life, in the first place, by opposing in the convention the execution of the king, and laboring to shew they were trying the monarchy, and not the man, and that the crimes imputed to him were the crimes of the monarchial system; and I endangered it a second time by opposing Atheism, and yet some of your priests, for I do not believe that all are perverse, cried out, in the war whoop of monarchial priest-craft, what an infidel! What a wicked man is Thomas Paine! They might as well add, for he believes in God, and is against shedding blood.
But all this war whoop of the pulpit has some concealed object. Religion is
not the cause, but is the stalking horse. They put it forward to conceal themselves behind it. It is not a secret that there has been a party composed of the leaders of the federalists, for I do not include all federalists with their leaders, who have been working by various means for several years past, to overturn the federal constitution established on the representative system, and place government in the new world on the corrupt system of the old. To accomplish this, a large standing army was necessary, and as a pretence for such an army, the danger of a foreign invasion must be bellowed forth, from the pulpit, from the press, and by their public orators.
I am not of a disposition inclined to suspicion. It is in its nature a mean & cowardly passion, and upon the whole, even admitting error into the case, it is better, I am sure it is more generous, to be wrong on the side of confidence, than on the side of suspicion. But I know as a fact, that the English government distributes annually fifteen hundred pounds sterling among the Presbyterian ministers in England, and one thousand among those of Ireland, and when I hear of the strange discourses of some of your ministers and professors of colleges, I cannot, as the quakers say, find freedom in my mind to acquit them. Their anti-revolutionary doctrines invite suspicion even against one's will, and in spite of one's charity to believe well of them.
As you have given me one scripture phrase, I will give you another for those ministers. It is said in Exodus, chapter 22, verse 28, "Thou shalt not revile the Gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people." But those ministers, such I mean as Dr. Emmons, curse ruler and people both, for the majority are, politically, the people, and it is those who have chosen the ruler whom they curse. As to the first part of the verse, that of not reviling the Gods, it makes no part of my scripture. I have but one God.
Since I began this letter, for I write it by piece meals, as I have leisure I have seen the four letters that passed between you and John Adams. In your first letter you say, "let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity, and universal philanthropy." Why, my dear friend, this is exactly my religion, and is the whole of it. That you may have an idea that the Age of Reason (for I believe you have not read it) inculcates this reverential fear and love of the Deity, I will give you a paragraph from it.
"Do we want to contemplate his power?—We see it in the immensity of the creation. Do we want to contemplate his wisdom?—We see it in the unchangeable order by which the incomprehensible whole is governed. Do we want to contemplate his munificence?—We see it in the abundance with which he fills the earth. Do we want to contemplate his mercy?—We see it in his not withholding that abundance even from the unthankful."
As I am fully with you in your first part, that respecting the Deity, so am I in your second, that of universal philanthropy; by which I do not mean merely the sentimental benevolence of wishing well, but the practical benevolence of doing good. We cannot serve the Deity in the manner we serve those who cannot do without that service. He needs no service from us. We can add nothing to eternity. But it is in our power to render a service acceptable to him, and that is not by praying, but by endeavoring to make his creatures happy. A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve, and as to hiring or paying men to pray, as if the Deity needed instruction, it is in my opinion an abomination. One good School Master is of more use and of more value than a load of such persons as Dr. Emmons and some others.
You my dear and much respected friend, are now far in the vale of years; I have yet I believe, some years in store—for I have a good, state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both, by nourishing the first with temperance and the last with abundance. This I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life. You will see by my third letter to the citizens of the U. S. that I have been exposed to and preferred through many dangers, but instead of buffeting the Deity with prayers as if I distrusted him, or must dictate to him, I reposed myself on his protection; and you, my friend, will find even in your last moments, more consolation in the silence of resignation than in the murmuring will of prayer.
In every thing which you say in your second letter to John Adams respecting our rights as men and citizens in this world, I am perfectly with you. On other points we have to answer to our creator and not to each other. The key of Heaven is not in the keeping of any sect, nor ought the road to it be obstructed by any. Our relation to each other in this world is as men, and the man who is a friend to man and to his rights, let his religious opinions be what they may, is a good citizen, to whom I can give, as I ought to do, and as every other ought, the right hand of fellowship, and to none with more hearty good will, my dear friend, than to you.
THOMAS PAINE.
Federal City, Jan. 18, 1803.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, January 24.
Mr. Bacon laid the following motions on the table.
Resolved, That it is expedient for congress to re-cede to the state of Virginia, the jurisdiction of that part of the territory of Columbia, which was ceded to the United States by the said state of Virginia; by an act passed the 3d day of December, in the year 1789, intitled "An act for the cession of ten miles square," or any lesser quantity of "territory within this state; to the United States, in congress assembled," for the permanent seat of the general government.
Provided the said state of Virginia shall consent and agree thereto.
Resolved, That it is expedient for congress to re-cede to the state of Maryland the jurisdiction of that part of the territory of Columbia, which was ceded to the U. S. by the said state of Maryland, by an act passed the 19th day of Dec., in the year 1791, entitled "An act concerning the territory of Columbia and the city of Washington."
Provided the said state of Maryland shall consent and agree thereto.
Mr. Griswold presented a memorial from eleven of the late circuit judges of the U. States, representing that they have been divested by the laws of their judicial duties, and requesting congress to define the duties to be performed by them, and to assign some judicial tribunal competent to a decision of their claim for salary.
Mr. Griswold moved a reference of the memorial to a select committee.
Mr. Gregg moved a reference to the committee of claims.
Mr. Randolph moved a reference to a committee of the whole house.
This last motion, after debate, prevailed—Ayes 53.
Mr. Randolph moved that it be made the order of the day for that day.
Mr. Griswold moved that it be made the order for to-morrow.
Mr. Randolph's motion prevailed.
When the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole—Mr. Dawson in the chair.
Mr. Griswold then submitted two resolutions.
The first to provide by law for defining the duties of the circuit judges.
The second to provide by law for submitting to judicial decision the right of the judges of the circuit court to compensation.
After debate, the committee divided on the first resolution—Ayes 34—Nones 56—lost.
And on the second resolution, Ayes 25—Nones 57—lost.
Mr. Varnum then submitted a resolution—that the prayer of the petition ought not to be granted, and that the petitioners have leave to withdraw their petition—which was carried without a division.
The committee rose and reported this resolution, which was agreed to; the Yeas and Nays being called—Yeas 51—Nones 37.
Friday, January 28.
Mr. Davis offered a resolution, for instructing the committee of ways and means to enquire into the expediency of suspending for a limited time the collection of all d. bts or duties due the U. States from the citizens of Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, and the Indiana and Mississippi territories.
Mr. Davis said as the government had lately passed a law, suspending the payment of duties due by the citizens of Portsmouth in consequence of a fire at that place, he thought the citizens of the western country, from the peculiar situation in which they were placed, had as strong a claim on the indulgence of congress. The produce on hand was the means with which they had expected to pay debts due the United States. Many citizens in that country were indebted to the United States. If they were pushed by the government, while the port of New Orleans remained shut, and executed for debts which they were unable to pay from an inability to sell their produce, great embarrassment and uneasiness would be produced. On the other hand if an indulgence should be extended, until their ports were opened, the existing debts could be secured by counter securities, under the direction of the supervisor, or such other officer as congress might authorize, by which the ultimate payment will not be effected. He concluded by saying he was persuaded the United States could better afford to lay out of these monies, than the citizens of that country could afford, under their present circumstances, to pay them.
The house immediately took up the resolution and agreed to it—Ayes 53.
SENATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Wednesday, January 26.
The senate resumed the consideration of the articles of accusation and impeachment against Alexander Addison. Mr. Rodman called for the reading of the articles of accusation and impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives against Alexander Addison, and the same was read. It was moved by Mr. Barton, sec-

onded by Mr. Jones, that a question be taken on the articles separately.
The question on the motion being put, it was determined in the negative.
The Senate decided that the question should be taken on the articles jointly.
The speaker then stated the question as follows.
"Is Alexander Addison guilty or not guilty of the charges contained in the articles of accusation and impeachment exhibited against him by the house of representatives, just read."
The question being taken, the speaker declared that twenty members had said guilty, and four members had said not guilty, and
That Alexander Addison is accordingly duly convicted of the charges contained in the articles of accusation & impeachment exhibited against him by the house of representatives.
A letter from Alexander Addison was read, accompanied by the certificates of his character and conduct as referred to in the letter.
The letter was read as follows, to wit, and laid upon the table.
LANCASTER, January 26, 1803.
Sir, I beg leave to submit to the Senate whether any judgment can be given on the first article of the impeachment against me, seeing it alleges no unlawful act.
During the trial I did not think it fair to argue from the degree of punishment. Now when the question of guilt is ascertained, it is fair to state the opinion which I have ever entertained, and which to me appears self-evident.
Removal and disqualification is the extremity of punishment which the Senate can inflict on any impeachment. The punishment may be as much less as they judge proper. It may be removal and disqualification to hold any certain office. It may be removal only. It may be suspension for a moment. It may be only reprimand. The Senate will no doubt proportion the punishment to their ideas of guilt, for if they proceed to the extremity in cases that may be mere mistakes, what means would they have to mark their detestation of gross corruption and the worst kind of misdemeanor in office.
If I be removed from this office, I have no desire for another, for I know not how I could behave better in any other, than I think I have done in this. But if to removal be added disqualification, I know not but such construction may be put on it, though I think unreasonably, as would put it out of my power to pursue a profession necessary for competent provision for my family, and amount to an ex post facto law from the state. If disqualification shall be thought of, let it be only a disqualification for any office to which no annual salary is annexed, or any other limited disqualification which the Senate may approve.
I have only time to suggest whether the time number of members be not necessary to fix the punishment as to ascertain the guilt.
I offer for the inspection of the Senate, certificates of my character and conduct.
I am With the respect, Your most obedient servant, ALEX. ADDISON.
Hon. Samuel M'Clay, esq. Speaker of the Senate.
Mr. Barton called for the reading of the certificates which accompanied the letter from Alexander Addison.
The question being put, "shall the certificates presented by Alexander Addison be read?" was determined in the negative.
Thereupon, Ordered, That the said certificates be returned to Alexander Addison by the clerk.
Moved by Mr. Rodman, seconded by Mr. Mewhorter.
Resolved, That the sentence to be pronounced on Alexander Addison be as follows, to wit—
"Removal from the office he now holds, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit under the commonwealth."
On motion of Mr. Pearson, seconded by Mr. Kean, and
Agreed, That the further consideration of the preceding resolution be postponed in order to introduce a substitute which Mr. Pearson read in his place.
The question on the motion being put, was determined in the affirmative.
Mr. Pearson presented the substitute to the chair, and the same was read as follows, to wit—
Resolved, That the sentence on Alexander Addison be removed from office, and disqualification to hold any office in future within this commonwealth which is created by a commission from the governor, and
That the speaker of the Senate shall pronounce the said sentence at three o'clock this afternoon in the chamber of the representatives.
On motion of Mr. Findlay, seconded by Mr. Mewhorter, and
Agreed, That the resolution be amended, by adding next after the word office where it last occurs, the words "in the judiciary."
On motion of Mr. Whitehill, seconded by Mr. Barton,
Agreed, That the further consideration of the resolution be postponed for the present.
On Thursday last the house of representatives being in committee of the whole for that purpose, and the members of the Senate being introduced, the speaker of that body pronounced sentence against Judge Addison, as follows.
That Alexander Addison, president of the several courts of common pleas in the fifth district of this state, shall be and he hereby is removed from his office of president aforesaid, and also is disqualified to hold and exercise the office of judge in any court of law within the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."
PORTLAND, January 28. RUMORS OF WAR.
The supercargo of a vessel from this port at Barbadoes, writes his owners that on the 23th Nov. the commandant of the port informed him, that the next mail would bring certain intelligence of the recommencement of hostilities between the French and English.
NEW-LONDON, January 26.
A letter from an officer of the frigate Constitution, mentions, that on the night of the 14th of October, as the boat of the Schooner Enterprize was returning from the ship Chesapeake, with eight men in her, she upset in a gale. Four were picked up by a boat from the Constellation. Mr. Ennis midshipman, was one of the drowned. This happened off Leghorn.
The day after the above, a duel was fought at Leghorn, between Captain M'Knight and Lieutenant Lawton, of the frigate Chesapeake, in which the former was killed the first shot.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 31.
A report is in circulation that our newly elected governor Mr. J. Page, of Roanoke, is no more! We hope the report is without foundation—Vig. Pap.
YORK, January 19. CHIMNEY REGULATORT.
Invented by the ingenious Mr. Robert Walton, of York town, in the state of Pennsylvania, the 17th of January 1803. The invention consists in fixing a plate of iron or brass, in the lower part of the chimney, cut out, so that it consists of alternate bars and openings, of an inch in breadth, less or more, each—another plate sliding thereon with correspondent bars and openings, so that the bars of the upper or sliding plate, can be made to shut up the openings of the under plate altogether, or to leave any required proportion of them open, as the state of the room or fire may demand. This apparatus is not to extend in any of its movements beyond the walls of the chimney into the room, by means of which the chimney may be opened entirely when the fire is first put on, and gradually shut, as the necessity for vent diminishes. When the wood is burnt down into coal, the chimney may be shut altogether, and by a very small attention, may be made to save a very great proportion of the heat to warm the room which otherwise ascends the chimney.
Mr. Wilson will immediately apply for a patent for the above invention; in the mean time, those who wish to satisfy themselves, may see it in operation, at the inventor's dwelling house, where its advantages, may be estimated by the most convincing of all tests—actual experiment.
It may be safely added, that by running in the sliding plate, at the time a chimney catches fire, the air will be effectually stopped below, & will stop the same from rising in the chimney.
TO BE LET,
THE Building of a FRAME MEETING HOUSE, at the place known by the name of the Barracks, in the county of Fayette. The House to be sixty feet long by thirty two wide. Proposals will be received by the commissioners until Thursday the 4th March, and if not let before that day will be let to the lowest bidder on the ground. A plan of the House will be shown by application to the commissioners.
Commissioners: RICH. ALLEN, P. CURD, EDM. BRYAN, WM. GIST, E. FOLLEY, R. HIGGINS.
19th Feb. 1802.
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT whereas I did, on the 21th day of April 1798, purchase of Nathaniel Foster of Fleming county, a certain tract or parcel of land, lying on the waters of Fleming creek, for which land I passed my bond to the said Foster, for one hundred and four pounds, payable the first day of January 1803, and as the said Foster has not nor cannot make me a deed for the said land, this is therefore to forewarn every person or persons, from taking an assignment on the said bond, as I am determined not to pay any part thereof until legally compelled.
WILLIAM WHEATLY, sen.
BILLS OF LADING & MANIFESTS.
Printed with an elegant Script Type, may be had at this office.
LEXINGTON, FEBRUARY 22.
Under the Washington City head of January 31, will be found a report of the death of governor Page. We received by the Southern mail, Richmond papers to the 2d February, which do not mention any such event.
IMPORTANT. Extract of a letter from Washington, dated January 19, 1803.
As the affair of New Orleans has been the theme of interest and conversation—the Spanish minister here has forwarded a dispatch to the intendant at New Orleans, requesting the restoration of the place of deposit, and assuring him that he will be answerable to his government for this measure. Thus there can be no doubt that all disfigurement will be done away, at least for the present, and that the commerce on the Mississippi will proceed as usual. Aurora.
In the House of Representatives of the United States, January 27.
Mr. Davis, one of the members from the state of Kentucky, presented to the house, certain resolutions of the legislature of the said state, together with a memorial annexed thereto from the said legislature, addressed to the president of the United States, and the senate and house of representatives of congress, representing, that in consequence of a violation on the part of Spain, of an article of the treaty of friendship, limits and navigation between the United States and the king of Spain, the citizens of the said state are deprived of a place of deposit, in the Spanish territory, in conformity with the stipulations contained in the said treaty, by the proceedings of the intendant at the port of New Orleans, who has by a proclamation, dated the 18th day of October, forbidden American citizens to deposit their merchandise and effects in the said port of New Orleans, without having assigned to the United States, an equivalent establishment on another part of the banks of the Mississippi; that they rely on the wisdom and justice of the government of the United States to redress the grievance of which they complain, and pledge themselves to support, at the expense of their lives and fortunes, such measures as the honour and interest of the United States may require, in defence thereof.
The said resolutions and memorial were read, and ordered to be referred to the committee of the whole house, on the state of the union.
BALTIMORE, January 31.
A Charleston paper of the 19th instant says, "on Monday last the trial of William Weathers, and William Butner came on in the court of sessions, charged with an attempt to rob the South Carolina bank. As no person lived in the bank house, the attorney general could only indict them for a misdemeanor. The trial took upwards of eight hours; the jury remained out for a considerable time on Monday night, and yesterday morning returned a verdict William Weathers guilty: William Butner not guilty. We understand that an arrest of judgment will be moved, in favor of Weathers, on the ground that the verdict is contrary to law. Abner Robinson, who was apprehended on suspicion of being an accomplice, was discharged, nothing appeared against him on which an indictment could be founded."
Nothing has occurred for a long time past, that appears more to have interested the public attention, than the late attempt to rob the bank of South-Carolina. Curiosity is awakened, and every man stands on the tip-toe of expectation to learn some further particulars of this extraordinary undertaking. The consequence of which is that many idle tales are afloat—and to obtain correct information it is necessary to trace a thousand tales, most of which are indebted for their origin merely to the genius of invention.
In addition to the particulars already published we can at present only add, that Weathers states, that on the night of the 9th October, he entered the drain in Queen street, whence he proceeded as far as the grating in Broad street, where he was furnished by his accomplices with the necessary tools—who night-supplied him with provisions. It appears scarcely possible, and yet we are told no doubt remains of the fact, that this wretched being remained immured in the subterraneous passage he had formed, seven feet below the surface of the earth, for the space of three months, during which time he never saw the cheering light of day. It adds a strong confirmation to the many proofs already adduced of the powers of the human mind, when bent on the accomplishment of any fixed object—his perseverance is truly astonishing.
We hope to be able in some future number to detail the minute of the proceedings of this most extraordinary man. (Charleston paper)
AT a meeting of the President and Directors of the Kentucky Insurance Company, at their office in Lexington, on Monday the 21th day of February, 1803.
Resolved, that Thomas Hart, John Jordan and William Leavy be a committee to draw the plan of a house and vault for the use of the Kentucky Insurance company, and to make enquiry whether such building can be procured on rent, and at what rate, as well as what expense it will be to the company to purchase the ground and erect such house and vault; the situation of which house to be on Main street between Cross and Limestone streets, and report to the next meeting of the Board.
Test, WILLIAM MACBEAN, clk.
THE committee above mentioned have made out a plan of the house and vault aforesaid, and are ready to receive proposals, from such as think proper to make them.
THOMAS HART, JOHN JORDAN, WILLIAM LEAVY.
THE SHARE-HOLDERS IN the Kentucky Insurance Company, are hereby notified to meet at the Company's office, in Lexington, on the first day of April next, in order to elect a President and Directors, to continue in office for one year from that date, agreeably to the 6th section of the Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Kentucky Insurance Company."
By order of the board of Directors. W. MORTON, President. February 21, 1803.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
IS hereby given, that the sales of the balance of lands in the counties of Fayette and Jessamine, are postponed until the second Monday in March, where due attendance will be given by
GEORGE MANSELL. 19 Feb. 1803.
The above high bred, & elegant horse FLIMNAP,
NOW in high perfection; will stand the ensuing season at the subscriber's stable, in the county of Bourbon, on the road leading from Lexington, by General Russell's to Paris, in sight of Capt. Johnston's tavern, at the Cross Roads; and will be let to mares at the moderate price of Twelve Dollars the season, payable by the 20th of December next, in Hemp, Country Linen, Sugar or Salt, at their market price—which may be discharged by the payment of Ten Dollars Cash, or large Fat Hogs, delivered on foot, at my farm, by the 10th of October next, or Ten Dollars worth of Beef Cattle, to consist of Steers, between the ages of four and seven years, if delivered at my farm in the season, which will commence the first day of March, and end the first of August next. In either mode of payment, to insure a mare with foal will be double the price of the season; and Five Dollars Cash the single leap. Pasturage will be furnished gratis for mares coming from a distance, and every possible attention paid them, but I will not be liable for accidents or escapes—Servants may be boarded, and mares fed with grain if required, on the most moderate terms. If the above articles of trade are not paid punctually, I shall consider myself not bound to take them. It is expected that gentlemen sending mares from a distance, will send their notes with them.
FLIMNAP's form, activity, and high character as an excellent foal getter, together with his pedigree, (which is descended from the most approved horses in England and Virginia, renders a pompous recommendation of him unnecessary.
FLIMNAP was bred by Col. Anthony Thornton, of Virginia; is rising eight years old, black and handsomely marked; full fifteen hands three inches high, very lengthy and well formed. He was got by the celebrated running horse Whittle-Jacket, his dam by the old Aid-de-camp, his grand dam by Dandridge's Fearnought, a thoroughbred son of Baylor's old Fearnought, his great grand dam by old Janus, out of the dam of Col. Sim's old Wildair, the descended from old Jolly
Roger & Carter Braxon's Kitty Fisher—Domed, the sire of Whittle-Jacket, supposed to be the best running horse in America, was a thoroughbred son of Col. Fenwick's imported old Flimnap, which horse covered at 20 guineas a mare: Whittle-Jacket's dam Lucy Locket, was got by Belle-Air, (bred by Hon. Col. Tayloe,) a son of Moreton's Traveller and Selima, her dam Matchless, by Othello; her grand dam Young Cate, by Chinders; her great grand dam old Creeping Cate by the Dancing Master; her great, great grand dam was the Spanish mare imported by Col. Church—Aid-de-camp, the sire of Flimnap's mother, was got by Specimen, out of Gen. Nelson's imported mare Blossom; Specimen was got by Baylor's old Fearnought, out of old Jenny Dismal. Flimnap's Character as a fine foal getter, will perhaps be better evidenced by certificates, (in my possession) from gentlemen of the utmost respectability in Virginia, where he is better known.
MAURICE LANGHORNE. 16th February, 1803.
THE NOTED HORSE REPUBLICAN,
WILL stand the ensuing season, which will commence the first day of March, and end the first day of August, at the plantation of Leonard Fleming, in Woodford county, near Shannon's mill, and will be let to mares at Six Dollars the leap, paid at the stable door, Fifteen Dollars the season, to be discharged at any time before the first day of August next, by the payment of Twelve Dollars, or Ten Dollars when the mare is first put to the horse, and Twenty Dollars to insure a mare with foal, to be returned if such should not be the case, if the mare remains the property of the person who put her to the horse. Notes for the season and insurance, to be sent with the mares agreeable to advertisement, where the money is not paid.
REPUBLICAN is a beautiful bay, handsomely marked, about fifteen hands and a half high, eight years old last spring, and his form, muscular strength and activity is inferior to few horses on the continent—and from a number of certificates well authenticated, which can be seen at his stand, his colts are tho' equal to any.
PEDIGREE.
REPUBLICAN was raised by Mr. John Towns, of Amelia, and was got by Pegasus, Pegasus by Wildair, his dam by Traveller, grand dam by Mark Anthony, great grand dam by Aristotle, great great grand dam by Bonny Lass, out of the imported Bonny Lass, by old Jolly Roger; the dam of Republican was got by Apollo, Apollo by the imported Fearnought, his dam by Janus, great grand dam by Crawford, great great grand dam by Silver Eye.
A plenty of good and well inclosed pasturage will be found gratis, for those putting mares at a distance if required, and grain at a reasonable price, but will not be accountable for escapes or accidents.
LEONARD FLEMING. Woodford, February 15th, 1803.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN from the Market-house this morning, or perhaps left in some of the stores in this town, a pair of red leather SADDLE-BAGS, with a square iron lock, the strap has been cut and mended; containing about twenty-five dollars in cash, in two pocket handkerchiefs; a brace and set of bits, one pound of salt-petre, and a pair of iron chains, broken in several pieces. Whoever will deliver the said Saddle-Bags and their contents to Daniel Jacoby, in Lexington, shall have Five Dollars, and if stolen, and the thief prosecuted to conviction, the above reward.
DANIEL JACOBY. Lexington, Feb. 16, 1803.
Bourbon county. TAKEN up by John Robinson, living on the head waters of Townsend, a BAY MARE, three years old, about 14 1-2 hands high, a blaze face and four white feet; appraised to £4 10, before Tho. Jones.
Attest THO. ARNOLD, C. B. C.
TAKEN up by Edmund Hockaday, Clarke county, on the waters of Howard's creek,
A GRAY MARE, Three or four years old next spring, a mealy face, a snip on her nose, about fifteen and a half hands high, no perceivable brand, docked and shod before; appraised to 90 dollars.
GEORGE C. TAYLOR. 7th Feb. 1803.

POETRY. HENRY, OR THE HERMIT. Obscure, and lonely, in a wood A rev'rend hermit grew; Retir'd from all the cares of life, Mankind full well he knew. His hoary head, his lengthen'd beard, Bespoke a ripen'd age; Around him throng'd the eager crowd, To learn instruction fage.
He pitied, wept with each that came, And each full well he warn'd; The precepts which his lips dispers'd, His holy life adorn'd. Scarce had the sun the east bedeck'd, To give mankind his aid, When 'fore his hospitable door Appear'd a lovely maid. 'Hail, aged, venerable sire!' The blushing fair one said; 'Welcome, reply'd the rev'rend man, 'To Aem's peaceful shade.' Where meek ey'd innocence resides, With all her heav'n born train; Where sweet contentment ever dwells, Nor thirst of worldly gain.
Mistaken mortals vainly strive, To find in riches ease; Amid his heaps the miser's poor, Without content to please. Can they secure the joys of health, Or purchase future bliss; Or the sharp sting of conscience heal, For actions done amiss?
The all-corroding tooth of time The worldly's gold destroys; But virtue sits its own reward, And endless are its joys. When guilt the burden'd soul o'ercasts, Within the conscious breast The mind its own tribunal rears; And conscience is its test.
Pierc'd by reflection, soon it bleeds, And crimson stains the face; No other witness does it need, But pleads its own disgrace. Here ceas'd the sage--and here began The maid, with care opprest; Her eye the trickling tear affail'd, For sorrow heav'd her breast,
'My father lives full many a mile, A sordid man is he; But Henry was a gen'rous youth, Who paid his court to me. He could not boast of wealth or fame, Or ancestors renown'd; For greater virtues, better worth, Within his heart were found. My parent saw; with stern command, He spurn'd him from his door; E'er since, forlorn, alone I've roam'd, And now thy aid implore.'
'Behold, thy long lost Henry here,' The raptur'd hermit cry'd; The sudden joy o'ercame the fair-- She fainted, droop'd and died. DIVERSITY.
A parson thinking to banter an honest quaker, asked him where his religion was before George Fox's time? "Where thine was," says the quaker, "before Harry Tudor's time." "And now thou hast been so free with me," added the quaker, "pr'ythee let me ask thee a ques- tion.--Where was Jacob going, when he was turned of ten years of age? canst thou tell that?" "No, (said the parson) nor you neither, I be- lieve." "yes I can, (replied the qua- ker) he was going into his eleventh year; was he not?"
Clarke County, October Term, 1802. Robert Clark, sen. compl't. AGAINST David Bullock, Josias Bullock and Andrew McCalla & Co. defend's. UPON AN INJUNCTION, IN CHANCERY. THE defendant Josias Bullock not having entered his appearance herein agreeably to law and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this common- wealth, on the motion of the complain- ant by his counsel, it is ordered that unless the said defendant do appear here on the second day of the next March term and answer the com- plainant's bill the same will be taken pro confesso--that a copy of this or- der be forthwith inserted in the Kentucky Gazette for two months successively, that another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of this county, and that another copy be published at the door of the Stone meeting-house on Howard's creek some Sunday imme- diately after divine service. A copy, Teste, D. BULLOCK, c. c. q. s.
One Hundred Dollars Reward. RAN-AWAY last spring, a negro man, named 2 BARTLET, Supposed to be about twenty five years of age, five feet eight or ten inches high, uncommonly stout and broad across the shoulders, very dark complexion, his eyes sunk deep in his head, and when spoken to ge- nerally puts on a sullen, but at other times he has a thoughtful look, and possessing a great share of cunning acquiescence. He was formerly owned by col. William Montgomery of Lincoln county Kentucky, and brought from thence by Henry Hall of Shelby county, in the year 1801. I have been informed he was taken up on the Tennessee river by a de- tachment of troops under the com- mand of capt. Purdy, and was put in irons; that officer for reasons but known to himself, thought proper to release him and keep him as a wa- iter a considerable time, until he arrived in the neighbourhood of Nashville. The fellow then left him on being threatened with chast- isement. It is not known where he aims to go, but it is believed to Kentucky to his former place of re- sidence, or the North Western side of the Ohio. Any person who will apprehend and deliver the said Negro, to the subscriber shall receive the above reward of One Hundred Dollars.
ABNER GREEN. Natchez, 18th } January, 1803. } TAKEN up by George Speers , living in Green county, on Russell's creek, one chestnut sorrel Mare, about fourteen hands one inch high, about eleven years old, branded with 2 on the left shoulder and jaw, a natural pacer; appraised to £7. 10. Also, a bright sorrel horse, colt, one year old last spring, about twelve and a half hands high, a small star in his forehead, branded on the left shoulder with J B, a natural trot- ter; appraised to £7. 10. JAMES HARRIS, J. P. October 19th, 1802.
FOR SALE, A LIKELY YOUNG NEGRO MAN, BETWEEN 25 and 30 years of age. --He is a good house servant, and un- derstands farming--his only failing is, that he is too fond of strong drink . For terms &c. enquire of THOMAS HART. Lexington, February 14.
DALLAM'S FORT. THE subscriber has possessed himself of the valuable land in the Forks of Red river, and purposes to lay out near 1000 Acres in a Town. He has travelled through a great part of Kentucky and Tennessee. Observed with attention the soil, produce, situation & water courses, & he is confident there is not a spot in the whole that possesses advantages equal to this for a town. It is situ- ated on the only constant and pure streams for water works, in a fine healthy and fertile country. The day is not far distant when a new state must arise and be added to the union out of Kentucky and Ten- nessee--and the seat of government must be at or adjacent to this spot, because it is not far from the centre; is free from miasmas (the pest of man and beast,) and from the disor- ders incident to a nearer approach to the Cumberland river. From this spot is a navigation to the Ohio and Back, within a few miles of the eddy waters of Cum- berland and Ohio; the settlement around, and the improvements al- ready made are the best, and most extensive in the country. On and near to this spot, are three houses for public worship, a forge, two saw mills, two grist mills, and a fulling mill, and the only merchant mill on a constant stream in the county and seats for 100 more. The public roads are in every direction near to and from this spot--And the legisla- ture of the state has established an inspection of Tobacco, Flour and Hemp at this place--And there is now a school kept. The discerning inhabitants must see their interest in becoming prop- rietors of lots in this town; it will add immediately to their wealth, convenience and happiness; houses alone are wanted to populate it with industrious mechanics and mer- chants. A plat will soon be made out & the time of public sale of lots be made known. RICH'D. DALLAM. Logan county, Jan. 4th.
LIFE OF GEN. WASHINGTON. THE SUBSCRIBER, Having purchased of the honorable Bullfinch Washington, the Copy- Right of the HISTORY OF THE LATE GEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMIES OF NORTH AMERICA, During the War which effected THE INDEPENDENCE OF OUR COUNTRY, AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Has it now in his power to offer the Public the following PROPOSALS For publishing it by subscription. The work will be faithfully com- posed under the inspection of Judge Washington himself , principally from the original papers bequeathed to him by the deceased General. On its correctness the most entire con- fidence may be placed. The life of this illustrious Citi- zen necessarily comprises so large and interesting a portion of the hi- story of this country, that the work, it was conceived, would be render- ed much more complete, as well as much more gratifying to the reader, by connecting with it some general account of the origin and progress of the People, who were conducted under his auspices, from dependent colonies to self-government. A compendious view, therefore, will be taken, by way of introduc- tion to the Life of General Washing- ton , of the settlements of the Euro- peans in North America, and of the advance of the British colonies from their feeble and infantine condition, until they attained that state of man- hood, when, with aims in their hands, they asserted and established their Independence. Various circumstances have delay- ed the execution of the work; but it is now in considerable forwardness, and will soon be ready for the press --Bond with security has been given that it shall be published.
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The price to subscribers will be Three Dollars each volume, in boards; and the price of one vo- lume to be paid at the time of subscribing; this advance to be continued with each volume until the whole is completed. The price to non-subscribers will be three Dollars and fifty cents per volume, in boards. A few copies will be hot-pressed, price three dollars and fifty cents per volume to subscribers, pay- able in advance, and four dollars to non-subscribers. An edition will be printed in three volumes quarto, hot-pressed, el- egantly bound, gilt and lettered, price ten dollars per volume to subscribers, payable in advance, and twelve dollars to non-sub- scribers. The work will be put to press as ear- ly as the requisite arrangements can be made. Any gentleman who obtains and be- comes accountable for fifteen sub- scribers , shall be entitled to one copy for his trouble.
The names of subscribers will be published, but no subscrip- tion will be received after the publica- tion of the first volume. Those who wish to be possessed of this invaluable history, will do well to transmit their names early. In the country, and in small villages, an union can take place among all who mean to subscribe, and in one letter several names may be forwar- ded, specifying the number of co- pies, and enclosing the requisite ad- vance money. C. P. WAYNE. Philadelphia, October, 1, 1802. Subscriptions received at this Office.
JUST PUBLISHED And for sale at this Office, the second edi- tion of WILSON'S GRAMMAR, Revised and Corrected.
PAINE'S RIGHTS OF MAN, For sale at this Office.
JOHN JORDAN JUN. Has just received and is now opening, A large and well chosen assortment of MERCHANDIZE, Consisting of the following articles, viz. Superfine, Fine & Common Cloths, Callimeres, Swansdowns, Striped and plain Coatings, Rose and striped Blankets, Fancy and Constitution Cords, Velvets and Thicksets, Camblets, Wildbores, Moreens, Jones's and Durant's, Callimancoes, Bombazetts and Bombazetts, Checks and Cotton Stripes, Jeans and Fuliens, Boylepores, Plain, Clouded and Striped Nan- keens, Ginghams, Dimities, Merfelles Vesting, Mantuas, Lute strings, Taffeties, Senchews, Sattins and Felongs. Persians, Chintzes and Callicoes, Cambricks, Cambricks, Jacconet, Lappet and Book Mullins, Do. do. do. do. Tambored do. Jacconet and Book Mullin Handker- chiefs, Do. Bordered Shawls, Bandana, India, Pullicat, Romall & Barcelona Handkerchiefs, Silk Shawls, Cotton do. Cotton Romall Handkerchiefs Linen & Cotton Pocket Handker- chiefs, Coarse Mullins, Silk and Cotton Hose; Ribbands. Gloves, Laces and Edgings, Sewing Silk, Thread and Tapes, Turkey Red, Groceries, Stationary, Hardware, Cutlery and Saddlery, Queens and Glass wares, 6d. 8d. 10d. and 20d. Nails and Brads, Castings. ALL of which they are determin- ed to sell at the most reduced prices for CASH, COUNTRY LINEN or HEMP. N. B. Those indebted to JOHN JORDAN JUN. & Co. or JOHN JORDAN JUN. either by bond, note or book account, are request- ed to come and pay off the same, as tis not reasonable further indul- gence should be given. July 1st, 1802.
FOR SALE For Cash, or on Credit, 2000 Acres of LAND, Situate, lying and being in the county of Bourbon, in the forks of Bath creek and Hinkson near Mil- lersburg, entered on a military war- rant early in 1780, surveyed and pa- tented in the name of Joseph Chew, and by said Chew, conveyed in trust to Robert and John Watts, of the city of New-York. The good qua- lity and convenient situation of this tract of Land is so generally known, that a particular description would be unnecessary, as it is presumable those inclined to purchase will ex- amine it. It will be divided if requi- red. The subscriber will sell it at pri- vate sale, and if not disposed of soon- er, it will be offered publicly at the Paris District court in March next, where the title papers by application may be seen, and due attendance will be given by H. TAYLOR, Attorney for Robt. & John Watts. 30th Oct. 1802.
THE Author of the KENTU- CKY ENGLISH GRAMMAR, pre- sents his most grateful acknowledg- ements to his friends and the public in general, for the notice which they have been pleased to take of his humble at- tempt to facilitate the grammatical in- struction of youth, and hopes for a con- tinuance of their patronage to a second edition, which he has just published with considerable improvements, in conformi- ty to the original plan. Those who wish to procure co- pies of the new edition, may be supplied at this Office, at Mr. Leavy's, and Mr. Jordan's stores in Lexington.
Taken up by William Kenman , on Raven creek, Harrison county, a BRIGHT BAY HORSE. Four years old, fifteen hands high, his hind feet white, a small star in his forehead, shod before, no brand perceivable; appraised to 80 dollars. Nov. 6, 1802.
BLANK DEEDS, For Sale at this Office.
BRUSH MAKING. Eighteen Pence per pound, will be given for COMBED HOGS' BRISTLES. By the subscriber, who will in the course of a short time, have all kinds of BRUSHES For sale, on more reasonable terms, and will warrant them as good, if not superior to any brought or im- ported here. He hopes the people of this state, will pay some attention to saving them, or have it done by their domestics, in order to encou- rage manufactures in their own country, particularly as they are an article so easily saved. They will answer as well taken off after the hogs are scalded, as be- fore, and those of a hog one year old will do, that is, all that are bristles, short and long--I will take them uncombed, the price agreeable to the situation they are in. JAS. C. RAMSAY, Brush Maker. At Mr. Wm. Edwards's opposite Mr. Bradford's Printing Office, on Main street. Lexington, Oct. 4th 1802.
CLARKE COUNTY, October Term, 1802. Micajah Clarke, complainant, against Josias Bullock, William Bullock, George Cald- & Denfen- well, Samuel Smith, & Dan- & Patterton Bullock. IN CHANCERY. THE defendants Josias and Sa- muel, not having entered their ap- pearance herein agreeable to law and the rules of this court, and it ap- pearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth--On the mo- tion of the complainant by his coun- sel, it is ordered that unless the said defendants do appear here on the second day of the next March term, & answer the complainant's bill, the same will be taken for confessed-- that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Kentucky Gazette for two months successively, that an- other copy be posted at the front door of the court-house of this coun- ty, and that another copy be publish- ed at the door of the Stone meeting house on Howard's creek, some Sunday immediately after divine service. A copy, Teste, D. BULLOCK, c. c. q. s.
TAKE NOTICE. At a meeting of the Directors of the Vine-Yard Society, 26th January, 1803, RESOLVED, That Messrs. Hen- ry Clay, Martin Hardin, George Bibb and John Pope, be instructed to commence suits against all delin- quent Share-holders, in the respect- ive counties they practise in. This order of the board will be put in force, without any discrimina- tion at the next court in each coun- ty, unless payment is immediately made, to Alexander Parker, Treas- urer, in Lexington. 3 rd W. MACBEAN, Clk.
STRAYED or Stolen from Lex- on the evening of the 25 th inst. A BAY HORSE, Upwards of fifteen hands high, five years old last spring, a few white hairs in his forehead, paces and trots, pretty valuable, no brands at this time recollected. A handsome re- ward will be given to any person who will deliver the said horse to me near Lexington. JOHN MURPHY. Jan 31, 1803.
TAKEN up by Matthew Rice , in Lincoln county, near Horine's tavern, on Dick's river, one BAY HORSE, about eighteen or twenty old, fourteen and a half hands high, branded on the near buttock with two hearts; appraised to three pounds ten shillings, this twenty- fifth day of October, 1802. JAMES HICKMAN. A copy, Teste, THOMAS MONTGOMERY, D. C. L. C. C.
Wanted, AN APPRENTICE TO THE PRINTING BUSINESS. Apply to the Printer hereof. Taken up by G. W. Downs , in Garrard county, near the Mouth of Jeffamine, A SORREL HORSE, ten or eleven years old, a small star in his forehead, near fourteen hands high, branded on the near buttock IS and lately branded on the near shoul- der SL, shod all round; appraised to thirty dollars. December 11, 1802. (Copy.) CHARLES SPELLMAN, J. P.