Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1805-02-18 00:00:00

FOR CHARLESTON, (S. C.)
The fast sailing Packet Ship
FLORA,
Captain Chase,
Will sail in a few days. For passage only,
(having excellent accommodations) apply to the Master on
board, at Newton's Wharf, or
MARTIN FISK.
Who has for Sale, on board said vessel,
SIX TONS LIGNUMVITAE.
Which will be sold low if applied for soon.
February 15. tf 419
FOR LONDON,
The new fast sailing ship
MEDFORD,
Josiah Barnard, Master:—
Will sail by the 21st instant. For passage
only (having good accommodations) apply to the Master on
board, or to
MOSES MYERS.
WHO OFFERS FOR SALE,
1000 Barrels Superior FLOUR.
100 do. Fine do.
February 13. tf 421
LANDING
On Town Point, out of the Schooner Sarah, from Guadalupe,
78 Casks GREEN COFFEE.
40 Hogsheads Clayed and Muscovado SUGAR.
For sale by
ROBERTSON & BROWN.
ON HAND, OR OTHER IMPORTATION.
Jamaica and St. Vincent Rum.
Cognac BRANDY.
Madira WINE, old and fit for immediate use.
8000 Bushels Coarse SALT, a float.—Which will be
sold low, taken from a coast-side
A FREIGHT
For a fine Coppered Ship, of 200
tons, is wanted for a port in France.
Apply as above.
February 15. tf 426
WANTED TO CHARTER,
(For the Island of St. Thomas.)
A vessel of about 700 or 800 Barrels burthen.
Apply to
WILLIAM ROBERTSON,
At Mr. Patterson's, Main-Street.
February 15. tf 427
FOR SALE, FREIGHT, OR CHARTER,
The fine fast sailing Brig
EDWARD & CHARLES,
Edward Pettigill, Jun. Master:—
Burthen 150 tons or 1300 barrels—about two
years old; will be ready in two days to receive a cargo.—For
terms apply to the Master on board, or to
PHINEHAS DANA & CO.
WHO HAVE RECEIVED
Per said vessel from St. Thomas, and offer for sale,
2500 lbs. Prime GREEN COFFEE.
10 Tons FUSTICK.
2 do. LOGWOOD.
February 15. tf 428
I WANT TO PURCHASE,
6000 Bushels of White Indian Corn.
AND I WANT TO CHARTER,
A good light vessel of the above bur-
then, for a port to the Southward.
JOHN C. NIEMEYER.
February 13. tf 417
FOR CHARTER,
THE AMERICAN SCHOONER
THOMAS,
Burthen 800 Barrels. In complete order to
receive a cargo.
C. & F. WHITTLE.
February 13. tf 410
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER,
The Schooner
VICTORY,
Ebenezer Leavitt, Master:—
Burthen 120 tons, a staunch strong vessel.—
For terms apply to the Master on board, or to
PHINEHAS DANA & CO.
WHO OFFER FOR SALE,
RECEIVED PER SAID VESSEL FROM SALEM,
18 Hogsheads, } M. E. RUM.
4 Barrels, }
10 Tons PLAISTER PARIS,
120 Small Kegs SOUNDS & TONGUES.
February 13. tf 416
FOR SALE OR FREIGHT,
(to CHARLESTON, S. C.)
The fine new fast sailing Pilot Boat built
Schooner
CHANCE,
Captain John Asbott.
70 tons burthen or 400 barrels, completely fitted for sea, and
now ready for the reception of a cargo. For terms apply to
JOHN STRATTON.
February 11. tf 407
FOR SAVANNAH,
The Schooner
RISING SUN,
Captain Taylor.
Will sail in four or five days. For freight
or passage, apply to
MARTIN FISK.
Who is this day landing from said Schooner,
100 Tierces fresh RICE.
15 Half Tierces do.
February 4. tf 392
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER,
The Schooner
HERO,
John Sweet, Master:—
Burthen about seven hundred barrels—now
ready to receive a cargo. For terms apply to the master on
board, or to
C. FRY.
January 23. tf 384
The Merchants at Petersburg, and Richmond, who have or-
ders to ship Tobacco in the British Brig
UNION,
Captain Hningbottom, for Guernsey, are
respectfully informed, that the brig has been
ready to receive her cargo ever since the 24th
ult.—The Captain not knowing the names of the respective
shippers, has induced the consignees to give this publick no-
tice.
Norfolk, January 14. tf 337
FOR SALE,
The fast sailing Schooner
FRIENDS ADVENTURE,
Elegantly fitted for a Packet, and burthen 55
tons, she is in complete order, and the terms
will be made easy.
ROBERT GIBSON.
December 14. tf 387
NOW LANDING
Fromon board the Ships Juno and Courtney, from Jamaica,
250 Hogsheads RUM.
For sale by
WILLIAM PENNOCK.
WHO OFFERS FOR CHARTER,
THE SHIPS
JANE, of 417 Tons.
JUNO, of 260 do.
COURTNEY, of 200 do.
All ready to receive cargoes.
January 21. tf 358
FOR SALE OR CHARTER,
The good Ship PATSEY,
DAVID G. BOWLES, Master,
Burthen 370 tons, will carry 600 hogsheads
Tobacco. For terms apply to the Master on
board, or to
Moses Myers.
Who has for Sale, on board said ship,
About 5000 bushels Isle of May SALT.
November 12. tf 227
FOR SALE,
A very superior
PILOT BOAT,
Just launched, of the following dimensions,
38 Feet 6 inches Bright Rabbet.
15 do. 6 do. Beam.
6 do. Hold.
Now lying at Newton's Wharf. For terms apply to
Wilson, Cunningham & Co.
WHO HAVE IN STORE,
25,000 lb. COFFEE.
20 Tierces Dutch LINSEED OIL.
November 15. tf 253
FOR SALE,
(if applied for in three days)
The fast sailing Schooner
PHOENIX,
Now lying at Newton's wharf, burthen 100
tons, and only one year old. Apply to the
master on board, or
William Pennock.
WHO OFFERS FOR SALE,
50 Tons PLAISTER OF PARIS,
on board said Schooner.
December 5. tf 269
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER,
The remarkably fast sailing copper bottomed
Ship
THOMAS WILSON,
CHRISTOPHER TOPKINS, Master:—
Burthen 308 tons or 450 Hhds. to acco. Will be ready for
the reception of a cargo in a few days. Apply to
Wilson, Cunningham & Co.
FOR SALE,
A PEW in Christ Church.
Apply at the office of the Publick Ledger.
Jan. 21. tf 357
THE Commissioners in a Commission of Bankruptcy re-
warded and issued against JOHN COWPER & Co. do
hereby give notice, that James Howard, Francis S. Tay-
lo and John Davidson, late Assignees of the Estate and effects
of said Bankrupts, have been discharged (at their own request
and desire) from being Assignees, and that James Tucker, is
appointed Assignee in their stead, and that the said Bank-
rupt's Debtors, are not to pay their Debts to the Assignees
removed.
February 13. tf 414
NOTICE.
ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of JOHN COWPER
& Co. are called on for an immediate settlement.—
Suits will be issued against all Debtors to the Estate, (who
refuse to comply with this request) in ten days from this
date.
February 12. tf 413
J. TUCKER.
FOR SALE—A-FLOAT.
250 Barrels FLOUR—Gallego's Brand.
JAMES HERRON.
February 13. tf 418
FOR SALE,
BY WILLIAM B. LAMB,
30 Puncheons St. Vincents RUM.
15 Hogsheads and 28 Tierces SUGAR.
10 Pipes French BRANDY.
5 do. GIN.
15 do. Madeira WINE.
10 Quarter Casks SHERRY.
10 Casks CLARET.
10 Hogsheads do.
12 Bags GINGER.
1 Cass Black SATTINS.
3 do. Irish LINEN.
7 Bales India COTTONS.
3 Trunks CALICOES, &c.
February 13. tf 415
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of CORNELIUS CAL-
VERT, Esq. deceased, are requested to make immediate
payment; and if any persons should have any claims,
they are requested to bring them forward, properly attested,
and they shall be paid by
JAMES TUCKER, Executor.
WHO WILL RENT
Some Warehouses on Calvert's Wharf, or will receive
Goods on Storage, on the most moderate terms.
February 13. tf 411
LOST,
On Friday the first instant, between Mrs. Pagaud's
School and Catharine-street bridge,
A GOLD LOCKET.
Device, A Tomb shadowed by a Weeping Willow—A fe-
male in the act of wreathing flowers round two Urns, placed
upon the tomb:—motto
"Deep is the Sorrow, genuine the Tear".
Whoever has found, and will return the above to the Office
of the Ledger, shall be generously rewarded.
Feb. 4. tf 391
BUTTER
FOR SALE BY
PHINEHAS DANA & CO.
February 11. tf 403
BEING desirous to close my LUMBER BUSINESS, I will
sell the remaining Stock I have on hand, on very mo-
derate terms:—Consisting chiefly of a general assortment of
Scantling. Also, an excellent large new Lighter. Those
that are indebted to me for Lumber, or otherwise, are re-
quested to make immediate payment, as no indulgence can
be given.
JOHN STRATTON.
February 11. tf 405
FOR SALE,
1350 Barrels Superfine and Fine FLOUR,
Most of it a-float, and all from Richmond.
ALSO, JUST RECEIVED, SOME CHOICE
FAMILY FLOUR.
EDWARD JOHNSTON,
Gibson's Wharf.
February 15. tf 429
AN APPRENTICE WANTED TO ATTEND
A Wholesale & Retail Dry Good Store,
A Lad of about 16 years of age, honest, and industrious, of a
good education, and genteel connections.—None need apply
without solid recommendation.—Inquire of the Printers.
N. B. One from the Country would be preferred.
February 15. tf 420
A CHOICE PARCEL OF FINE
IRISH LINEN,
Imported from Dublin, per ship Medford. For sale by
MOSES MYERS.
February 15. tf 422
NOW LANDING
On Newton's Wharf, from board the Schooner Plough-Boy,
Captain Davis, from Martinique,
62 Hogsheads, } Muscovado Sugar.
4 Tierces, }
65 Barrels, }
9 do. }
COFFEE.
WILLIAM PENNOCK.
February 15. tf 423
WILL BE LANDED,
From Brig Triton, from Copenhagen,
40 Tons Petersburg Clean HEMP.
20 do. Best quality SWEDISH IRON.
500 Bolls RUSSIA CANNAS.
100 do. RAVENS DUCK.
For sale by
WILSON, CUNNINGHAM & CO.
February 15. tf 424
DESERTION.
DESERTED from this Garrison, on the night of the 13th
instant, CHARLES SHINK, a Private in my Company
of Artillerists—he is a German by birth, twenty years old,
five feet four inches high, light sandy hair, light blue eyes,
fresh complexion, by occupation a Baker. Ten Dollars will
be given as a reward, on his delivery at this Garrison.
J. SAUNDERS,
Capt. U. S. Art. Commanding.
Fort Nelson, February 15. tf 425
TO RENT.
THAT excellent DWELLING-HOUSE and GARDEN,
lately the residence of Cornelius Calvert, Esq. deceas-
ed, with or without the WHARF, and immediate possession
given. For terms apply to
J. TUCKER.
January 30. tf 377
FOR SALE,
1800 Bushels Black-Eyed PEAS—a-float.
40 Bolls. Alexandria Pilot and Navy BREAD.
BALLS & DANJOUE.
February 6. tf 396
WE HAVE FOR SALE,
650 Barrels Fine, } FLOUR—Haxall's Brand.
350 do. Superfine, }
ALSO,
100 Barrels SHIP STUFF, and a quantity
FRESH MEAL, in Bags and Barrels.
J. & W. SOUTHGATE.
February 11. tf 402
NOTICE.
THE PARTNERSHIP OF
STRATTON & COLE,
Will dissolve by mutual consent, on Thursday the 14th of
March next.
ALL those who are indebted to them, are requested to
make immediate payment, as no indulgence can be
given:—And those who have claims, will bring them in for
adjustment, and payment as quick as their business can be
settled.
On the same day, will be Sold, at Publick Auction, if not pre-
viously disposed of at private Sale,
ALL THEIR STOCK OF GOODS, CONSISTING OF A GENERAL
ASSESSMENT OF
GROCERIES AND SHOP UTENSILS.
ALSO—THE TWO HOUSES,
Now occupied by them on Campbell's Wharf, which is an
excellent stand for business.
JOHN STRATTON,
JOSIAH COLE.
February 8. tf 400
FOR SALE,
The Cargo of the Brig Fame, from St. Domingo,
consisting of
140,000 wt. Choice Green COFFEE.
10,000 wt. LOGWOOD.
JAMES YOUNG.
January 25. tf 367
The Subscribers have for Sale,
100 Hogsheads Old TOBACCO.
106 Puncheons high proof Jamaica RUM.
30 Hogsheads CLARET.
200 Barrels Superfine FLOUR.
300 do. Prime PORK.
C. & F. WHITTLE.
February 6. tf 397
NORFOLK DRAW-BRIDGE COMPANY,
JANUARY, 14th, 1805.
THE Directors have this day declared a Dividend of five
per cent, on the Capital Stock, for the half year, which
will be payable to the Stockholders, or their legal represen-
tatives, after the 14th February next.
350 WILLIAM CAMMACK, Treasurer.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
A WET NURSE,
To whom liberal wages will be given.—Apply at the Office of
the Publick Ledger.
January 4. tf 326
FRESH RAISINS.
A FEW FRAILS OF FRESH
RAISINS AND FIGS.
For Sale by
MARTIN FISK.
January 11. tf 336
Valuable Lands and Property,
IN NORTH-CAROLINA, KENTUCKY, AND VIRGINIA.
ON the first Monday of April next, at seven o'clock in
the evening, (if not previously disposed of at private
sale) at the Merchants' Coffee-house, in the city of Philadel-
phia, by order of the Assignee of McCalmont & Boys, will
be sold, to the highest bidder, all the right, title, and interest,
which they had and assigned for the benefit of their creditors
in the Mortgages, Land, and Property, following:—
A Mortgage dated 8th November, 1799, by John Shaw to
John Hamilton, of one fourth part of a Tract of Land and
Swamp, in Camden County, North-Carolina, called "The
New Lebanon Estate," containing 24,000 acres, more or less.
A Mortgage dated 8th November, 1799, by John Shaw
and Matthias E. Sawyer, to John Hamilton, of one half of a
Tract of Land, called "The Old Lebanon Estate," situate at
the head of the County of Camden, in North-Carolina.
These two mortgages were given to secure the payment of
a Bond dated 6th Sept. 1797, in which John Shaw and others
are bound in the penal sum of 15,000 dollars, for the payment
of 8,000 dollars, with interest, to John Hamilton, on or before
the 24th of September, 1799, and were assigned by him
(that part of the "Old Lebanon Estate" which he claims
under Mr. M. E. Sawyer only excepted) to Samuel Boys on the
18th April, 1803, upon his paying to the mortgagee 3600 dollars,
due on the mortgages. This assignment was made in pursu-
ance of a decree of the Court of Equity in the district of Eden-
ton, and the consideration money advanced by the Assignee
of M. & B. for the benefit of their creditors, and by their
request.
A mortgage dated April 4th, 1800, by John Shaw to
McCalmont and Boys, of one undivided fourth part of "The
New Lebanon Estate," above described, and one undivided
sixth part of "The Old Lebanon Estate," containing 7,000
acres, more or less.
This Mortgage is conditioned for the payment of a Bond in
which John and William Shaw are bound for the payment
of 5542. 10s. Pennsylvania currency, to George McCalmont,
on or before the 20th June, 1800, with interest.
These three Mortgages (excepting that part of the Old Le-
banon estate which J. Hamilton claims under M. E. Sawyer)
with the debts secured thereby, will be sold together. The
immense value of the Estates mortgaged, affording an exhaust-
ible supply of all kinds of Lumber, and in the neighbourhood
of and partly bounded by the Lebanon Canal, gives the most
ample security for the mortgage money; and its amount will
probably put it in the power of the purchaser to become en-
tire owner of the shares of the estates mortgaged.
A mortgage dated 5th Sept. 1799, by Robert Camp to G.
McCalmont, of a Tract of Land in Prince William county,
Virginia, on the main run of Occoquan, for securing the pay-
ment of 850 dollars, with interest. This Mortgage is duly re-
corded, &c.
Also, all the right and title of Samuel Boys, and by him as-
signed for the benefit of his creditors, in the following valua-
ble Tracts of Lands in Kentucky:
22,000 in Jefferson county, Floyd's Fork.
6,947 1-2 in Elk county, on the waters of Elkhorn, about
ten miles from Frankfort.
2,000 corner of Elkhorn creek, waters of Ohio, adjoining
land of Lowry Griffin Peart.
250 in Bourbon county, Licking creek.
400 do. do.
1,000 in Bourbon county, north fork of Licking, adjoining
a survey of Joseph Russel, of 306 acres, to the north.
4,455 in Clark county on Miller's creek.
1,494 } in Floyd's Fork.
173 }
1,000 }
10,000 on Rock Castle.
50,000 on Green river.
6,850 on North Elkhorn.
4,000 on Miller's creek.
6,000 Licking creek.
2,000 on Harden's creek, military lands.
1,000 on North Fork of Beargrass, an old military claim.
300 on Salt river, Harden's creek, Floyd's Fork.
15,000 surveyed for the estate of F. Lewis, deceased.
1,000 do. Fishpool.
1,000 on Floyd's Fork.
6,000 on Harden's creek, opposite the mouth of Eagle creek.
1,000 on Rolling creek.
A liberal credit will be given and the conditions of sale made
known at the time appointed, or previously upon application
to the subscriber, who will give information as to title, qual-
ity of lands, &c. and is authorised to treat with persons in-
clined to purchase by private contract.
WILLIAM MEREDITH,
Attorney for the assignee of McCalmont and Boys.
Philadelphia, January 22. 2aw11A. 430
THE SUBSCRIBER,
HAS FOR SALE, AT HIS BAKE-HOUSE,
No. 1, Commerce-Street.
400 Barrels Navy, } BREAD.
200 do. Ship, }
200 do. Pilot, }
CRACKERS,
Of the first quality, in Barrels, Half Barrels, Quarter
Barrels, and Kegs.
STEPHEN HARRIS.
February 1. tf 382
WE HAVE FOR SALE,
1,000 Barrels TURPENTINE.
1,000 do. TAR.
100,000 Red and White-Oak Hhd. STAVES—and
8 Pipes of BRANDY.
Gilliat & Mackinder.
November 5. tf 222
NOW LANDING
From on board the Brig Maria, Robert Hutton, master, from Born
deux,
30 Pipes Old COGNAC BRANDY, fit for immediate
use.
211 Hhds. CLARET, fit for the West India Market.
100 Casks, do. do.
50 do. Vin de Grave.
500 DEMIJOHNS.
2 Trunks of Silk Stockings, Silk and Kid Gloves and Fans.
For sale by
William Pennock.
Sept. 1. tf 115
LOST IN THE MAIL.
ON the 26th of December last, was put into the Post-
Office, near New-Kent Court-House, a letter, address-
ed to Captain Warren Ashley, at Norfolk, containing 170
Dollars in Bank Notes, which has never been received at that
office; although we are satisfied, both by the books of Mr.
Glenn, then Post-Master, and by the circumstances attend-
ing its delivery, that it was put into the Mail, and forwarded
on the same day.
NOTES.
Bank of U. S. Baltimore, D. No. 1270 50
do. do. F. 1685 20
do. Charleston, G. 286 20
do. Norfolk, B. 1632 20
do. do. B. 216 20
Virginia, A. 36 20
do. N. 1110 20
Dollars 175
HALYBURTON & CO.
New-Kent Court-House, Jan. 30. 1aw3 394

REFLECTIONS
OCCASIONED BY THE LATE TREATY AND CONVENTIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE.
(CONCLUDED.)
SUCH seems to be the tendency of the system commenced in the late negotiation and treaty with France, such, it is feared, will be the consequences of this system, if it shall be persevered in. And that it has been long contemplated, and will be pursued, while those at present entrusted with the management of our affairs are continued in power, who, alas! that has attended to the mass of evidence which has been continually accumulating for years past, can doubt? Without tracing that evidence by a minute detail, let us briefly recapitulate some of its more prominent points.
CITIZEN GENET, in his letter of September 18, 1793, addressed to Mr. Jefferson, plainly charged him with having secretly countenanced and encouraged the measures which Citizen Genet had pursued, with a view to involve this country in a war on the side of France; which measures Mr. Jefferson detailed in his letter to Mr. Morris of August 16, 1793, as a ground authorizing the American Government to demand the recall of the French Minister. (r)
CITIZEN FAUCHET, in his celebrated intercepted letter, has given fair grounds to infer his entire confidence in the disposition of Mr. Jefferson to favour the views and designs of France. (s)
The instructions to CITIZEN ADET, as communicated by him to the department of State, disclose the singular fact, that Mr. Jefferson had proposed to the Government of France the respective and reciprocal naturalization of French and American citizens (t); a measure pregnant with danger to the liberty, peace, and happiness of our country. The provision in the late treaty for the immediate annexation of Louisiana, and the admission of its Gallick inhabitants into the union, may be referred to the principles of this proposition: it is a relict of the same policy.
MR. JEFFERSON, in his letter to MAZZEI, denounces the system of Washington (in the support and vindication of which Mr. Jefferson had himself officially co-operated), as a system of injustice and ingratitude towards France (u). What ought we to think of the system which he then contemplated to adopt, in case he should be advanced to his present station and power? Perhaps this system may be illustrated by Mr. Monroe, who was selected as the Envoy Extraordinary to manage the late extraordinary negotiation.
MR. MONROE was, in the year 1794, deputed by General Washington as Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States to the French Republic. His instructions on that occasion informed him, among other things, that our country had assumed a neutral station; that from this station the Ministers of France had not presumed to ask us to depart; that we had pursued neutrality with good faith, and meant not to deviate from the same line of conduct for the future; consequently that, in conformity with this state of things, we could not give to France aids of men or money. (v)
Shortly after Mr. Monroe had entered upon the duties of his mission, he was informed by the Diplomatic members of the Committee of Publick Safety, that it was their intention to press the war against England in particular, but that they were distressed for funds; and an inquiry was made whether any aid could be obtained from the United States (w). Instead of returning the answer obviously prescribed by his instructions, he countenanced the application, and encouraged their hopes that the aid solicited could be obtained. As a concomitant measure he suggested the expediency of France taking in charge certain affairs of the United States with Spain and England, relative to the western posts, and the navigation of the Mississippi (x). It was well known to Mr. Monroe that our affairs with England were then in a train of negotiation and probable adjustment. He knew, moreover, that the aid solicited could not be granted by our government, consistently with a state of peace (y). Yet Mr. Monroe became the zealous advocate of France; assigning as a reason to induce our government to grant this demand, that "so vast are their armies, and extensive their operations, they must be distressed for money, and forced to gain it from whencesoever they can". He expressed his sincere wishes that we might assist them, if possible: and declared it to be his firm persuasion "that the people would cheerfully bear a tax, the product of which was to be applied to the"
(r) See those letters in the official correspondence of Mr. Jefferson while secretary of state, communicated to Congress by General Washington, December 5, 1793.
(s) Randolph's Vindication, particularly pages 45 and 46. (t) See an Extract from the Instructions given by the French government to Citizen ADET, No. 116 of the Appendix of Mr. Pickering's Letter to General Pinckney, communicated to Congress by General Washington, January 19, 1797.
(u) The letter to Mazzei is so generally known, that it is unnecessary to refer to any particular source for information concerning it. It commences with charging the existence of an Anglo-Monarchical-Aristocratic party, in our country, at the head of which it places General Washington. The concluding period is in these words: "it suffices that we arrest the progress of that system of ingratitude and injustice towards France, from which they would alienate us to bring us under British influence."
(v) Appendix to Monroe's View, Page 1 to 7.
(w) Ibid. page 72.
(x) Ibid. page 73-82.
(y) Ibid. page 98. "But as soon as I understood that Mr. Jay had adjusted the points in controversy with that nation (England), the object on my part was at an end. I was aware that if the adjustment was approved, we could render no such service (as the pretended loan of 5,000,000 dollars). Indeed I doubted whether in peace the government possessed the power to render it."
"aid of the French Republic (z)" The relation in which we were to stand to France, had the wishes of Mr. Monroe prevailed, cannot perhaps be more correctly explained than by the terms which he himself uses, when attempting to appreciate the services he had rendered in putting France into a good humour with us, by the assurance that the people of the United States would cheerfully submit to be taxed for the benefit of the French Republic.
"For at that time [says he] I had reason to believe that it [the French Republic] contemplated "to take us under its care, and to provide for our protection against Algiers, for the expulsion of the British from the western posts, and the establishment of our right with Spain to the navigation of the Mississippi; to be executed in the mode we should prefer, and upon terms perfectly easy to us: terms, in short, which sought only the aid of our credit to obtain a loan from our own banks, for an inconsiderable sum [five millions of dollars] to be laid out in the purchase of provisions within our own country, and to be reimbursed, if possible, by themselves (*)."
Thus we were to have been taken under the care and protection of a foreign nation, and in return for that care and protection we were, as is customary, to submit to a tribute, under the name of a loan indeed, but of a loan the repayment of which is plainly admitted to be uncertain. Without this acknowledgement of the uncertainty of reimbursement, what expectations could be reasonably formed of the conduct of a nation whose armies were so vast that they could not be compelled to an observance of justice, and whose disposition is admitted to be to gain money from whencesoever they can? Once degraded by dependency and tribute, by the care and protection of France, and a submission to be taxed for her benefit, it would be in the nature of things impossible that we should retain the attributes most essential to the sovereignty of an independent nation. The right to adjust occasional differences, or to regulate our commercial relations, with other governments, upon the principles of the laws of nations, is one of those attributes. This right was, by Mr. Monroe, in a subsequent part of his correspondence, specifically proposed to be so restricted in its exercise as in fact to amount to a surrender of it to France. After the decision of the Senate of the United States in relation to the treaty negotiated by Mr. Jay had been made known to Mr. Monroe, he came forward with a proposition for "a timely and suitable attempt to engage the aid of the government of France in support of our claims upon England"; which claims he knew had been already adjusted by that treaty. This attempt he represented as capable of being accomplished upon fair and honourable terms: yet it necessarily presupposed the rejection and annulment of whatsoever had been done by our government through the agency of Mr. Jay. "But under existing circumstances [says Mr. Monroe] peculiar and extraordinary care becomes necessary in the arrangement to be adopted." The treaty with Great-Britain being annulled, a fresh attempt at a negotiation with England was to be made as a part of this arrangement, the manner of conducting which, as proposed by Mr. Monroe, completely amounts to the surrender before alleged.
In the first place, the person to whom this trust was to be committed, was to possess the confidence of the Government of France. The confidence of our own government, as administered by Washington, seems to have been a matter of inferior, or rather of no consideration; since it formed no part of the proposed arrangement. In the second place, the negotiation, to be managed by this person possessing the confidence of France, was not to be carried on in England, the country with which our claims were to be adjusted, but at such place, and presumably at such time, as a French negotiation should be carried on with the same power—to wit Paris or Brest: so that it might be immediately subject to the superintendence and controul of the French government, or its confidential agents. Extraordinary as this mode of conducting a negotiation on the part of the United States, must seem in the eyes of those who yet cherish the idea of national spirit and independence, it is not more extraordinary than the reasons assigned for it by Mr. Monroe.
"On the contrary [says he], suppose any person was sent directly to England on this business, what would be its effect here [at Paris]? It is admitted that such a person might be sent as would create no alarm here of injuries to this Republick from the consequence of such negotiation; but the manner would be deemed inharmonious, and would, of course, be considered as declining all claim upon this government FOR ITS SUPPORT (†)."
Such sentiments require no comment. Perhaps it may be supposed that they were the hasty effusions of an inconsiderate moment, and, therefore, that too much stress ought not to be laid upon them. But this supposition not only the context of the above passage, but the whole tenour of his correspondence, forbids us to indulge. "What can be the objections (he asks in the same page) to such an arrangement? I can see none"! . . . . "Would it excite disgust in England? On the contrary it would command her respect"! . . . . "when she sees that our harmony with France is complete, and beyond her power to disturb it"!!!
After placing our country under the care and protection of France,—after submitting to a state of tribute, to be disguised under the semblance of loans never to be reimbursed,—after giving assurances of a cheerful disposition to be taxed, provided the product of those taxes might be applied to the benefit of the French Republick,—after surrendering one of the most essential attributes of national sovereignty and independence, by limiting our right of negotiation according to the arrangement above proposed,—after all these things should have been done, it might be
(z) Ibid. page 91.
(*) Ibid. page 124.
(†) Ibid. page 209-210.
reasonably hoped that our harmony would have been complete, and that France would have been convinced that we did not intend to use our own means for our own defence, but exclusively to restore her for support. Yet, after all these submissions and degradations, a doubt, it seems, remained upon Mr. Monroe's mind, whether we should be able to avail ourselves of the fortunes of France , to extort from England what we were entitled to, without some further effort to be made on our part . Of the nature of such effort, in case it should be necessary, our minister was pleased to give us the following detailed ideas.
"But to secure success [says he, still in the same page], by embarking this government with full zeal in our behalf, and striking terror into England, it will be necessary to lay hold of her property within the United States, take the posts, and even invade Canada. This would not only secure to us, completely, our claims upon Britain, and especially if we likewise cut up her trade with pri-
vateers; but by making a decisive and powerful diversion in favour of France, promote, and very essentially, a general peace." In this extract we have the clearest evidence of the anxiety of Mr. Monroe not only to cement that union between our country and France, which in a preceding letter he had declared to have been long the object of his efforts (‡), but also to involve us in a war on the side of France, contrary to that system of neutrality which our government had adopted, and which, as his instructions informed him, it was our determination to maintain with good faith. Numerous as are the evidences, to be found in the correspondence of Mr. Monroe, of a disposition to involve our country in a war, it has not been without surprise that we have seen it unblushingly asserted, by some of the political party to which Mr. Monroe belongs, and to whom his sentiments could not have been unknown, that they had no knowledge of such a disposition in any of their party.
A suggestion, to be derived from the above extract, is also worthy of attention. From the manner of expression used by Mr. Monroe it might be inferred, that the obstacles to a general peace were to be found, not on the side of France, but on the side of England; and that, therefore, we were to involve our country in a war, and by a powerful diversion in favour of France, to promote, and very essentially too, this general peace. If such insinuation was intended, nothing could be more inconsistent with facts disclosed by Mr. Monroe himself.
In his letter of January 13, 1795, addressed to the secretary of state, he took occasion to mention the circumstances of the United Netherlands wishing to withdraw from the coalition in which they had been engaged, to negotiate a separate peace with France, and to remain henceforth in a state of neutrality between the belligerent powers. Britain, it seems, had given her assent to this design; but upon the offer being made to France, she rejected it on any other condition than that of their waiting in the war against England. "In rejecting this offer [says Mr. M.] France opens a trait in her views that will add much weight to the Ministerial argument for the continuation of the war. No argument is so strong as that of necessity; and if France will not make peace, it will be impossible for England to do it. In my judgment it is the determination of this republick to pursue the war until the maritime strength of England is broken; and when the actual state of things is regarded, with that of the comparative population, force, and enterprise, of the two nations, I do not see how it can be prevented." (§)
This Minister again, in his letters of May 17, and June 26, 1795, addressed to the secretary of state, and in his letter of May 20, 1795, addressed to Mr. Short at Madrid, explicitly states, that England had attempted, through the agency of Sir Frederick Eden, to open a negotiation for peace with France, but that the overtures had been peremptorily rejected by France. (||)
It was then in the pride and ambition of France, and not in the obstinacy and injustice of England, that the obstacles to a general peace were found. This being the case, with what propriety did Mr. Monroe insinuate the contrary? or why did he endeavour to impel our government to involve our country in war, for the sake of making a decisive and powerful diversion in favour of France, when he declared that it was impossible for England to make peace, so long as France peremptorily refused even to listen to overtures leading to that object? Nay, when he tells us that France was determined to pursue the war until the maritime strength of England should be broken?—Our country was then to be plunged into a war, not for the purpose of promoting, and that very essentially, a general peace, but to subserve the ambitious designs of France, in effecting the destruction of the maritime power of England!—Thus we find ourselves conducted precisely to the same point by the sentiments and views heretofore entertained by Mr. Monroe, and by those which have been lately disclosed in the elaborate memorial of Mr. Livingston!
The policy of Washington, in our exterior transactions, was doubtless the reverse of that contemplated by Mr. Jefferson, when he denounced the former as a system of ingratitude and injustice towards France. The system thus denounced, was stated by General Washington, in his address to congress November 19, 1794, to embrace the following objects—"to cultivate peace with all the world,—to observe treaties with pure & absolute faith,—to check every deviation from the line of impartiality,—to explain what may have been misapprehended,—to correct what may have been injurious to any nation,—and having thus acquired the right, to lose no time in acquiring the ability, to insist upon justice being done to ourselves".
(‡) Ibid. page 35. "To cement that union, in other situations, has long been the object of my efforts: for I have been well satisfied that the closer and more intimate it was, the happier it would be for both countries."
(§) Ibid. page 102.
(||) Ibid. page 163-180-404.
To these principles, as is well known, the government of the United States rigidly adhered, so long as it was administered by Washington and his immediate successor. To a government acting on such maxims of policy, the knowledge that one of its diplomatic representatives entertained such sentiments and views as were disclosed by Mr. Monroe, in his official correspondence with the department of state, was fully sufficient to justify his recall, had no additional cause existed. But to an administration acting on principles directly the reverse of those of Washington, the same knowledge would be equally good reason to induce a re-deputation of the same diplomatic agent. The sentiments of Mr. Monroe concerning the relations which he wished to see established between this country and France, could not be unknown to Mr. Jefferson: hence we are authorised to view them as the cause of his appointment as envoy extraordinary to conduct the late negotiation, in preference to any other person in the confidence of administration. That appointment must fully evince to the people of the United States, the perfect concurrence of Mr. Jefferson in the well known sentiments of Mr. Monroe: at the same time that it furnishes a pledge to France, that the principles for which that gentleman formerly contended, though then rejected by the honest patriotism of Washington, are now about to be adopted and pursued in good earnest.
Our position, then, that the late negotiation and treaty with France, are the commencement, in practice, of a system that has been long existing, in design, seems to be well supported. The tendency of this system, upon which we have remarked, and the probability of its being persevered in, which we have ventured to predict, seem also to be but too well sustained by the proofs which we have adduced, and to which a mass of corroborative evidence could be added were it in any wise necessary.
These proofs (we speak it with regret) appear to us irrefutable in their nature, being drawn from sources authentick, and such as do not admit of being questioned: yet the inferences, which are the obvious and natural result, are so disreputable to the American Character, that, on this account, we apprehend no small obstacle lies in the way of our endeavours to call the requisite attention of the people of these states to a question of deep concern, touching our foreign relations; in which too probably is involved the fate of our country, as an independent nation, and of our liberties, peace, and happiness, as individuals.
How, it may be demanded, can it be conceived that men, certainly not destitute of talents and information, placed in eminent stations of authority under such a government as ours, can condescend to act a part justifying the humiliating idea that we are the mere creatures of foreign influence, regardless of our national character, honour, and interest?—How can it be conceived, more especially, that a President of the United States should be devoted to the interests of France?—Yet, extraordinary as these ideas may seem, it is unfortunately but too true that France herself has, heretofore, (upon what grounds is best known to France) entertained them: nay, that they were specifically proclaimed by Du Pont de Nemours, in the Council of Ancients—(¶).
The sources of this Frenchman's information are to us unknown: it, therefore, only belongs to us to scan with care those testimonies which have been presented to our own view. Would to Heaven they were such as to fully authorise us in spurning at the unjust imputation thus cast upon our character! Would to Heaven they were such as would fully vindicate us in postponing, to some more distant period, an attention to the solemn admonitions of our Illustrious Washington, warning us against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, and against those principles in human nature which too readily combine with those wiles; "giving to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded, citizens, who devote themselves to a foreign nation, facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for publick opinion, or a laudable zeal for publick good, the base or foolish compliances of AMBITION, CORRUPTION, or INFATUATION"!!!
If Citizen Fauchet acquitted certain characters now occupying exalted stations in the government of the United States, of corruption, let it be remembered, that an acquittal of corrupt motives is not an acquittal of those of ambition or infatuation. If there be one character governed by a dangerous ambition, if there be others under the influence of infatuation, whether it be in their attachment to the former character, or to mischievous revolutionary principles, or whether it be an infatuation of antipathy to a particular nation and attachment to another, if it render them the deluded instruments of the former, the mischiefs which may befall our country from the ambition of the one, will not be diminished by the infatuation of the other. That this ambition does exist in the breast of those most exalted by their country, that
(¶) General Pinckney's first Despatches, page 17.
From what grounds the sentiment entertained by France, relative to those of our countrymen who were viewed as the dupes and creatures of her influence, sprang up, we shall not undertake to decide: the archives of France could, we have no doubt, fully explain, if we were permitted access to them. But of the source from whence has proceeded the imputation of undue devotion to the views and interests of Great-Britain, cast upon those who have opposed others supposed by France herself to be the partisans of other designs, we are under less difficulty in judging. We know that those who have been thus opposed have constantly made the imputation. If it be true that they were really attached to the interests of France, we may readily conceive that they would attribute the opposition they met to motives resembling their own, rather than to a patriotic disposition to support the independence of their country. The feelings of France, as well as her knowledge of her own party, would naturally incline her to give credit to the unworthy calumny. Yet let it not be forgotten, that, interesting as to part of the administration of Washington or of Adams, was there a pretence sought for, or accepted, for placing Fifteen Millions of D. L. of the treasure of the United States, at the disposal of the government of Great-Britain, to aid in promoting British designs, either against the liberties of their own nation, or the independence of others; in return for nominal, or less than nominal, advantages.—Facts are very powerful arguments in support of a just cause!

This infatuation of attachment for one nation and antipathy to another is also cherished by them, and these principles enter into all their political views, and delude or corrupt the intentions and judgments of their followers; are truths conscientiously imprinted on our minds, as well by a candid examination of their former sentiments and propensities, as by a strict attention to their present actions; between which the most purlind observer may discover the closest analogy.
Of the perverting power of ambition upon characters placed in the most eminent stations, the political history of the world furnishes us with innumerable instances. Without looking farther, the case of the Prince of Bavaria, raised to the Imperial throne of Germany after the death of Charles the sixth, by the interference and intrigues of France, will suffice for present illustration. That prince, though thus elevated, was to be compelled, by certain circumstances, to submit himself to the dictates of the Court of Versailles, and, though styled Emperour of Germany , was to demean himself as a Lieutenant of France .
Let the people of America look at this example, the result of French connexions. Let them resurvey the transaction which has afforded matter for our reflections. Let them attend with candour to the evidences which have been adduced, as illustrative of that transaction, of the principles and consequences involved in it. Let them then say, whether it be not too probable that the example above cited is about to be re-exemplified in our country. Let them then say, whether those under whose auspices this transaction has been brought about, are so highly entitled to the publick esteem and confidence as their sycophants have arrogantly pretended.
We have received from Washington, and shall in our next commence the publication of, the able and learned answer of THE HONOURABLE SAMUEL CHASE, to the articles of impeachment, exhibited against him by the House of Representatives, in the name of the people of the United States.
Congressional Register.
SECOND SESSION OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Commenced at Washington, November 5, 1804.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TUESDAY, January 8.
Debate on receding the District of Columbia
(Continued from our paper of the 13th inst.)
MR. FINDLEY observed that after what his colleague (Mr. Smilie) and others had said in favour of the resolutions for a recession of the territory, exclusive of the city, he had not expected to hear any objection to the resolutions on arguments derived from the constitution; the resolution for receding the territory to the states who had made the original cession might, he thought, have been fairly combated on the ground of expediency, on this ground only did the resolutions before the committee rest. He gave credit however to the gentlemen opposed to the resolutions for their ingenuity in taking the most tenable ground, though not directly involved in the question, but he acknowledged it was indirectly connected with it. If we had not a right to recede, the Representatives of the United States undoubtedly might decline to exercise jurisdiction, for whatever the rights of the people were, the legislature must be free to act or not to act. If this is not the case it could not be a sovereign legislature, Congress itself in this case would act by compulsion.
As the constitutionalality of the question had been discussed by every member that had spoken on the subject, he would endeavour to be very concise in his observations on that ground. The power vested in Congress by the constitution to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over a territory not exceeding ten miles square, was evidently one of these powers left to the discretion of Congress, such as the power to regulate weights and measures, to make a bankrupt law, &c. Congress had enacted a bankrupt law and had repealed it again. They had attempted to regulate weights and measures and had dropped the subject after trial. Congress had accepted of the ten miles square, had found the exercise of the jurisdiction inconvenient and were now proposing to make a recession thereof to the States by which it had been ceded. Mr. F. said he knew of no well founded argument that would apply on constitutional ground against doing so, but that would with equal force have applied against repealing the bankrupt or the excise law, or any other law enacted under constitutional authority.
He said that though a member of the ratifying convention of Pennsylvania, and of the legislature of that state, and of Congress since that time, he did not remember ever to have suggested that Congress was not vested with the same discretion in this case as in others expressed in similar terms. He had indeed of late heard several members say that Congress was obliged to establish a permanent seat &c. but in taking a review of the constitution he found no such expressions. The word permanent was not in that instrument, nor any other expression that made it the duty of congress to establish a permanent seat, more than to establish a permanent excise, direct tax, or bankrupt law. The word permanent however he found in an act of Congress, but certainly not authorised by the constitution; and this present Congress had equal power to make a recession as that Congress had to accept. He said it was not necessary to prove to the members of this committee that laws in their nature were not permanent but changeable with circumstances, and that one Congress had by the constitution equal powers with any other Congress. That from the express words of the constitution investing this power in Congress and from its analogy to the investiture of other powers, no argument could be drawn against the resolutions; that every argument of that kind he had heard was not taken from the words of the constitution, but from constructions given to it, which he conceived the words would not bear, and which would have a ruinous effect applied to other powers expressed in similar words. That he did not consider himself bound by what other gentlemen fancied the constitution meant or intended but by what it said.
Mr. F. said the argument had taken a different turn from what he had expected. The resolutions did not propose to remove the seat of government: far from it; none of those who have advocated the resolutions proposed to remove the seat of government, they all agreed in declaring they had no such intention; he also declared that whatever its inconveniences were he had no such intention, nor did he know a member who had. But he wished to be candid; he was of the opinion that Congress had authority to remove when and where they pleased. The constitution did prescribe restrictions on the exercise of several legislative powers, but it prescribed no re-
strictions on the power of exercising exclusive jurisdiction over a territory not exceeding ten miles square, or over forts, arsenals, &c. Of several of these he had no doubt Congress would make a recession. He had no doubt but a recession would be made of whatever of that kind Congress had received from the state of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, Meadville, Presque-Isle, &c. when they ceased to be useful to Congress and became inconvenient to that state. These subjects are by the explicit language of the constitution, a language which cannot by fair exposition be perverted, vested without restriction in the legislative discretion of Congress in the same unqualified terms as the power in question. Mr. F. said twelve amendments had already been made to the constitution, and if it was found that Congress was imprisoned in a situation they did not approve, or where they could not act freely, or safely, and that they were constrained by the constitution to do so, another amendment could and would as easily be made; therefore even admitting, though not granting, the constitutional obligation, the place of the residence of Congress is not permanent. Its continuance must depend on the will of the people of the United States. Other considerations are a greater security. In the city many have laid out large sums of money on their confidence in government, and the government has laid out very large sums of money to provide accommodations, and must lay out more for that purpose. And notwithstanding some present inconveniences, he said he believed it was nearly as central and capable of being made as convenient a situation for the seat of government as could be found. From this it was evident that justice to the city, and policy with respect to the United States combined in preventing a removal of the seat of government. Justice and policy, he said, he thought were a better security for the citizens, than even the word permanent, if it had been in the constitution, which all who would be at the pains to read, would find it did not contain.
Mr. F. said, that he had detained the committee longer in discussing the constitutionality of the resolutions than he had intended, and would endeavour to be short on the question of expediency, though he thought it was on this ground only it ought to have been contested. He said he had heard the members who were in favour of the resolutions called on to prove the injury or inconvenience arising from legislating for a territory of such extent. This was done as an evasion of the question; on the other side, it was required to state the advantages of rejecting the recession. Waving the inquiry on which side of the question the burthen of the proof lay, Mr. F. said he would state some of the disadvantages. Every session of congress since it came here, he found, had spent a large proportion of their time in making laws for different portions of this territory, and from his own experience, he knew that for one important part thereof (Alexandria) they had made a law last session; that they were told this session that they had been imposed on, they had repealed the law of last session and made another, and that it was asserted to him, they had been imposed on again. He said he could enumerate more instances, but he would only state that congress now sat at the expence of above 1000 dollars a day. He said, if members would recollect how many days had been spent every session legislating for this territory without giving satisfaction, and consider how many more probably may be spent, they would not enquire for the inconveniences arising from governing the territory, but would be prepared to state the advantages—of these he said he knew nothing and had heard nothing.
Mr. F. said, it had been frequently asked, what more difficulty there was in legislating for ten miles square, than for the city alone. In answer to this, he asked these members to recollect how many applications had been made, how many laws have been passed, how many days have been occupied in legislating for other parts of the district than the city. He would ask what the people would lose by being receded to the states to which they formerly belonged, and what they gain by the members of congress, who have no common interest with them, nor even acquaintance with them or their peculiar circumstances, and liable to be imposed on by every one with whom they converse, legislating for a term. He said that it had not been made to appear that the people would suffer any loss by agreeing to the resolutions, and that it was indubitably evident that the publick would gain advantage, he hoped they would be agreed to. He had early observed that there were nearly as many interfering interests in this ten miles square, as in the whole United States; the members of the committee would recollect, that several of the most tedious debates, accompanied with the greatest irritation that had taken place this session arose from such subjects.
He said the gentleman from Maryland alleged, that if congress had a power to agree to the resolutions, on the table, they had a power to transfer it to the emperor of Hayti; he conceived this observation required very little reply, the question was about a recession, a restoration of what we had, not about making an original transfer. Mr. F. said he was delighted with the gentleman's (Mr. Dennis) anticipation of the prosperity of this place, that all the parts would become one city, and have but one interest, that consequently the subjects of legislation would be fewer and less difficult. He asked in such a case what would be the consequence? In anticipating the pleasing progress of population and wealth, he supposed that at some period not far distant, the population would be equal to that of Philadelphia, which with a small district around it at present had three members on this floor, and supposed at a more distant period it would have a population equal to London or Paris, which if they could be represented, would be entitled to from 20 to 30 members. Are we to presume that in such a case the people would be contented to have no voice in their own government, The people of all the states have constitutions for their own internal governments, and are represented in the government of the union; these they consider as privileges highly advantageous. He would not say what rights the people of the district in question did enjoy, but he was confident in saying, that they did not possess the invaluable rights he had just mentioned. He knew of no good reason why these people are not equally capable of governing themselves as the people of the several states, and he was surprised to observe several members who were but a few days since zealous advocates for extending the rights of suffrage to the people of Alexandria, even when the majority of the people of that district were petitioning against that extension. If the population increased agreeably to the expectations of the member from Maryland, a recession, or something to that amount, must take place; it is inconsistent with all our ideas and all principles of government, to have such a mass of people in the centre of the union without any constitutional rights, without any voice in their own government, and without having a common interest in supporting the general government or in protecting the United States in the possession of those privileges of which themselves enjoy no share. Without this, they could never be represented in either house of congress, or vote for a president, let their number be ever so great, they will have no independent legislature to enact laws for the election of members of congress or appoint senators, no executive to issue writs for supplying vacancies.
Mr. F. added, that those who contemplate so great an increase of population and wealth ought to prepare early for such an event by making an early recession. He did not, however, for himself believe the population of this district would increase with the
rapidity suggested. It probably with the name of a city may be but a respectable village, like the Hague, the seat of government in Holland, a country where large commercial cities are numerous. The Hague, though seated near the sea, has never become a commercial city, that this might be the fate of the city wherein we sit he thought probable, not only because commerce had already taken its seat in other situations equally convenient, where every political privilege is enjoyed, but because he could not believe that any great number of citizens of the United States set so little value on the rights of freemen as to exchange those rights for the pecuniary advantages arising from the seat of government, and in such asset so little value on those privileges he had not great confidence. The United States had given a sufficient pledge for the continuance of the seat of government in this place, they had laid out large sums of money, and were continuing to do so, and had thereby encouraged others to do so, and another situation was thought of, or could easily be agreed to; therefore the inhabitants would have equal advantages after the recession as they had at present, with the addition of enjoying the privileges of a republican government, and the rank of free citizens; therefore being fully convinced that congress was not restrained by the constitution, he thought every argument derived from expediency was in favour of the measure.
(To be Continued.)
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.
TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
According to the desire expressed in your resolution of the 28th inst. I now communicate a report of the secretary of state, with documents relative to complaints against arming the merchant ships and vessels of the United States, and the conduct of the captains and crews of such as have been armed.
TH: JEFFERSON.
Jan. 31st. 1805.
The secretary of state, to whom the president of the United States has been pleased to refer a resolution of the senate, of the 28th instant, requesting that there may be laid before the Senate such documents and papers, or other information, as the president should judge proper, relative to complaints against arming the merchant ships or vessels of the United States, or the conduct of the captains and crews of such as have been armed—has the honour to annex thereto;
1st. A copy of a letter, addressed to the secretary of state, by the envoy of Great Britain, dated on the 31st of August last.
2d. An extract of a letter to the same, from the late Charge des Affaires of France, dated 6th May last, which was preceded and followed by other letters and conversations of the same gentleman, urging the subject upon the attention of the government. It has been also urged, by the present minister of France, in his interviews with the secretary of state.
Of the enclosures alluded to in the aforesaid letter and extract, the only authenticated statement relative to the conduct of the American private armed vessels, which has been received at this department, is contained in the annexed letter, from Mr. George Barnwell of New-York, and the documents accompanying it.
All which is respectfully submitted.
JAMES MADISON.
Department of state, Jan. 21st. 1805.
[No. I.]
Mr. Merry, to the secretary of state.
Philadelphia, August 31st. 1804.
SIR—I have received information respecting several vessels which have of late been armed in, and have sailed from, the different ports of the United States, some loaded with articles contraband of war, (gun-powder is said to be the general articles) others with cargoes of innocent goods, and others again in ballast. After the diligent inquiry which it has been my duty to make on so important a subject, I think I can have the honour of stating to you with certainty, that several vessels of the above description, which are mentioned to be schooner rigged, have sailed lately from the port of Baltimore, whilst others, of a larger size, even ships of considerable burthen, and completely equipped for war, have sailed from the port of Philadelphia, bound to the possessions of his majesty's enemies in the East and West Indies. It is said, that the object of some of these equipments is to force a trade with the blacks, in the island of St. Domingo, in which attempt, the publick prints have stated, so circumstantially as to leave no doubt on the subject, that two American vessels have been captured by French cruisers, after making resistance: but I have strong reason to believe, that the destination of others, particularly from the port of Philadelphia, has been with cargoes of contraband articles to the enemies' possessions in the East and West Indies.
Let their destination, however, be what they may, it cannot, I conceive, but be justly considered, that such arment, on the part of the citizens of a neutral state, must be attended with consequences prejudicial to a belligerent power, and may therefore be deemed rightly as offensive, for which reason the law of nations has stated one of the first obligations of neutrality to be that of abstaining from all participation in warlike expeditions. The armed vessel alluded to, may become the property of the king's enemies, either by capture at sea, or by purchase in the ports to which they are destined, and are thus in readiness to be converted immediately into instruments of hostility against his majesty, whilst in another point of view, they are calculated to protect the vessels, when they are loaded with contraband articles, against the lawful search and detentions of a lawfully commissioned cruiser, when the latter shall happen to be of inferior force. Indeed, I conceive that it may not be giving too great an extent to the principle of the law of nations, without attending to the nature of the charge, to consider the very arms, ammunition, and other implements of war, with which such vessels are furnished, as contraband articles, when the vessels have been thus equipped without the authority of the nation to which they belong.
I understand, sir, that the armaments in question have, in fact, taken place under no commission or authority whatever from the government of the United States. I have, therefore, thought it my duty to have the honour of making you acquainted with the information that has reached me on this subject, and, if the observations which I have taken the liberty to make upon it should happily be conformable to the sentiments of the American government, I can safely trust to their justice, as well as to their jealousy of observing the most strict neutrality in the present war, to take such measures as shall appear to them the most proper for suppressing the illegal proceedings complained of on the part of those individuals, citizens of the United States, who shall appear to be concerned in them.
I have the honour to be, with high respect and consideration, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) ANT. MERRY.
The Hon. James Madison, Secretary of State.
[No. II.]
Extract of a letter from the Charge des Affaires of France dated 7th May, 1804, and addressed to the Secretary of State.
[Translation.]
The undersigned is informed, in a manner which leaves him no room to doubt it, that the American merchants, who pursue this commerce [meaning the commerce with St. Domingo] publicly arm in the ports of the United States, vessels which are intended to support by force a traffick contrary to the law
of nations, and to repeal the efforts which the cruisers of the French republick are authorised to make in order to prevent it. These armaments have also for their object to cover the conveyance of munitions to the revolted of that colony. The government of the United States cannot be ignorant of these facts which are publick: the consequences thereof have already been manifested in the West-Indies, where the publick papers advise that there have been actions between the French cruisers and American vessels carrying on this commerce.
In considering the matter merely under the view of the law of nations, it is manifest that American citizens, under the very eyes of their government, carry on a private and piratical war against a power with which the United States are at peace. The undersigned would be wanting in his duty if he did not vindicate, under such circumstances, the rights and dignity of his government which are openly injured, and if he did not call the attention of Mr. Madison to the disagreeable reflection which the French government must have a right to make if the silence of the local authorities, respecting acts of this nature, should be imputed by the government of the United States.
The French government certainly could not see without a profound regret, that after having given to the United States the most marked proofs of the desire to place the good understanding of the two nations upon the most immovable foundations, by abandoning national interests, which might have eventually produced collisions, individual interest should not be permitted to compromise this good understanding. Its regret would be still much greater, if, when the dignity and safety of France are openly injured in the United States, by their citizens, the American government should preserve, respecting these violations, a silence, which would appear to offer an excuse, and even a sort of encouragement, to all the excesses which cupidity may attempt. Beside that the two nations cannot but be seriously compromised by the proceedings of the individuals, and by the reprisals to which they must necessarily lead, this state of things would infallibly tend to diminish the amicable disposition, which the two governments wish to cultivate.
[No. III.]
New-York, Sept. 6th 1804.
SIR—The sufferings of innocent individuals, induce me to the liberty I now take of submitting the following statement to your consideration.
In the month of June last, I despatched the ship Hopewell, Preserved Sloop, master, and the brig Rockland, Akins, master, with suitable cargoes destined for Aux-Cayes, in the island of Hispaniola; the former armed for defence, with twelve six-pound cannon, and two twelve pounders, with small arms, &c. &c. a crew of thirty five in number, besides passengers: the latter with eight six pounders, small arms, &c. and a crew of twenty in number, besides passengers. Both these vessels were regularly cleared at the custom-house of this district, and sailed on their intended voyage on the 17th of June. In the prosecution of which they were met with and captured by a privateer belonging to individuals of the island of Guadalupe, whither they were carried, and their crews put in close confinement. I beg leave to refer you to the documents enclosed, for the particulars of the situation in which those unfortunate men are placed. And have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) GEO. BARNEWALL.
James Madison, Esq.
Then follows a letter from Captain Sisson, Mr. Bennet, and Mr. Ross, written at Guadalupe, giving a particular account of the capture of the Ship and Brig alluded to, by a French privateer—and an notarial attestation that it is a true copy—as this account is already before the publick, we deem it unnecessary to repeat it in this place.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED,
British schr. Driver, Webb, 14 days from Bermuda, Buiast, Robertson & Brown.—The schr. Maryland Mary, Newell, from St. Bartholomews, for this port put in there the 25th January in distress; had lost his mate and one hand overboard; was repairing; cargo not damaged. A ship belonging to Baltimore in distress. A schr. 50 days from Amsterdam for this port, half full of water, was run on shore to preserve the lives of those on board. A Philadelphia schooner loaded with flour for Charleston had put in in distress.—Saw a British sloop of war on the east end of the island.
Schooner Emily, Foster, 20 days from Martinique, Sugar, Moses Myers. Sailed in company with ship Little William, Baldry, and schr. Hannah, Shanks, of Fredericksburg, for this port, and a schooner for Alexandria.—Parted with the Little William off St. Eustatia.
Schooner Weymouth, W. W. Weymouth, 3 days from New-York.
Schooner Columbia, Jordan, 48 days from St. Thomas, Molasses & Sugar, bound to Pasquotank, in distress for provisions.—Jan. 16, lat. 33, 20, in 25 fathoms water, spoke an English brig from Jamaica for Charleston, had carried away his foremast and maintopmast in a gale, a few days before.
Sale at Auction.
On Saturday next, the 23d instant, at 12 o'clock, THE GOOD SHIP RECOVERY, Built at Dublin in the year 1800, about 210 tons burthen—an excellent, staunch, well built vessel, well found, and may be sent to sea at a small expence.—Terms of sale, 2, 4, and 6 months notes, with approved indorsers.
Gosport, February 18. JOHN COX, V. M. tds 431
Auction.
On Wednesday the 20th instant, at 12 o'clock, on Commerce-Street Wharf,
WILL BE SOLD, TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, The Schooner CORROTOMAN, Burthen about 500 Barrels.—Terms, Notes at 90 days with approved indorsers. JOHN GRANBERY, Auctioneer. February 18. 432
A vessel of about 150 to 200 tons burthen is wanted on Charter, for Jamaica. JOHN GRANBERY. February 18. 434
FOR FREIGHT, (To Lisbon, or Oporto,) THE SNOW MARY, O. Rich, Master:— Burthen 160 tons, a staunch good vessel. Apply to the Master on board at Newton's Wharf, or to WILLIAM PENNOCK. February 18. 436
INTENDING to place my property in the hands of Trustees, for the purpose of securing to my Creditors the most equal distribution of it, and being desirous of giving my Trustees as little trouble as possible, I request all persons having accounts with me, to be prepared for an adjustment of them, on or before the tenth of March next. FRANCIS S. TAYLOR. February 18. 438
I WILL SELL ROSETTA; AND I HAVE TO HIRE TWO NEGRO WOMEN. ROBERT BROUGH. February 18. 439

FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. ON Thursday night, January 31, the Store of the Subscribers was broken open, and the following quality of Boots and Shoes stolen, the number of each cannot be ascertained exactly, but the value is estimated at about 300 to 400 dollars. Back-strapped English Boots, fair tops—Swarthmore do. English and American—Men's fine Shoes, and grained do.—Women's Leather Slippers, and Chinel Pumps. The above reward will be given to any person who shall detect the thieves, and recover the property, or a just proportion for any part thereof.
BOWMAN & WALKER. February 1. tf 358
NORFOLK HOTEL. THE Subscriber informs his friends and the publick, that he has opened an HOTEL in that convenient house formerly the NAVY TAVERN No. 128 Main-Street, where he hopes by his attention, to give satisfaction to those who may favour him with their company. He will always keep the best liquors: and Private Parties will be furnished with Dinners, Suppers, or Relishes, at the shortest notice. BOARDERS accommodated by the week, month, or year.  Henry Benbridge. October 9. tf 170
FALL AND WINTER GOODS. THE SUBSCRIBER Has received by the Brig COMMERCE, from London, and Ship Brutus, from Liverpool, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF  FALL AND WINTER GOODS, which he offers for sale, by Wholesale or Retail, on moderate terms.  Richard Taylor. ALSO—A FEW BALES BEST  TWILLED SACKING. Sept. 22. tf 150
NOW LANDING. From on board the Schooner LYONS, Capt. Livingstone, from Antigua 116 Puncheons RUM. For sale by  William Pennock. WHO WANTS TO PURCHASE, RED AND WHITE OAK STAVES—and 22 INCH SHINGLES. November 5. tf 122
FOR RENT, A N excellent strong fire proof WAREHOUSE, on Commerce Street—Also, a small DWELLING HOUSE, very pleasantly situated on the lot of the subscriber, on Boush Street. GOODS RECEIVED ON STORAGE By the Subscriber, on the usual low rates, in his convenient fire proof Warehouse, on Commerce Street.  JOHN GRANBURY. January 30. tf 376
WINDOW GLASS. I have just received for sale, from the Baltimore Manufactory, 34 BOXES WINDOW GLASS. 8 by 10—9 by 11—9 by 12—10 by 12—and 12 by 14.—And shortly expect a large supply of all sizes, commonly used here. The quality of this glass is good, and the prices will be found low. Apply to  JOHN C. NIEMEYER. December 28. tf 213
ROBERT MAITLAND & CO. Have moved to their new Fire Proof Warehouse, on Commerce Street, where they have for sale, Old Lon. Par. Madeira WINE, in Pipes Hogsheads and Quarter Casks. Holland and Country GIN, in Pipes. French BRANDY, do. Loaf SUGAR, per Hoghead. New-York Prime PORK, &c. &c. January 30. tf 579
LANDING. At Commerce-Street Wharf, from on board the Schooner Catharine Shepherd, from Guadalupe, 90 Hogsheads of Brown Clayed SUGARS. Apply to  J. GALWEY, Or, WARREN ASHLEY. February 1. tf 383
LAND FOR SALE. A TRACT in the County of Isle of Wight, containing 414 acres, near Nansamond line, and within about four or five miles of Scott's Landing, or Nansamond River. About one hundred acres is cleared, on which is a House, and an Orchard which produces about six or eight barrels of Apple Brandy, per annum, and a large Young Orchard coming on. The residue of the Land is covered with heavy Oak, and Pine Trees, and a large portion of it furnishes excellent pasture.—Any person desirous to purchase, will meet with liberal terms, on application to Mr. Thomas Bennett, Merchant, Petersburg; to Richard Yarborough, Suffolk; or to  JOHN EARLER. Isle of Wight, February 1. tf 355
COW-POX. THOSE persons who wish to avoid catching the Small-Pox which now exists in this Borough, are informed that the subscriber has again succeeded in introducing the Vaccine Infection, and that he now has several arms it to inoculate from. * He has returned to his old shop at the lower end of the new market.  George Balfour. An APPRENTICE wanted. Nov. 16. tf 336
LIVERPOOL SALT. QUEEN'S WARE, in Crates well assorted. DUFFEL BLANKETS, in small Bales. 10 and 204. Flat Pointed NAILS, in Casks—and LIVERPOOL COAL. Taken from along side the ship Jane, Capt. Colley, will be sold low. Apply to  William Pennock. WHO OFFERS FOR SALE, 114 Puncheons Jamaica RUM. Imported in the Sarah, Capt. Herbert. October 23. tf 187
FOR SALE—A BARGAIN. THE SUBSCRIBER, WISHING TO DECLINE THE RETAIL BUSINESS, OFFERS FOR SALE, HIS WHOLE STOCK IN TRADE, AMOUNTING TO ABOUT $20,000. CONSISTING OF DRY GOODS, CUTLERY, Hardware, Castings, Nails of all sizes, and a number of other articles.—The whole will be sold on very low terms, and a liberal credit will be allowed, on bond with approved security.—Also, the balance of the lease of his Store, equal to any hand in Norfolk, if required. Property in the Borough of Norfolk, or Lands in the neighbouring counties, Publick Securities, &c. will be taken in exchange. For further particulars, apply to  James Tucker. WHO HAS FOR SALE, ON VERY LOW TERMS, A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, on the South Branch of the Potomack. Aug 23 tf 23
FOR SALE, SUPERFINE AND FINE FLOUR, and CROSS-MIDLINGS, by  Thomas Ritson. Church-Street, October 27. tf 194
NOTICE.  THE CO-PARTNERSHIP OF  FISK & STEARNS, Ceases this day, in consequence of the death of Mr. STEARNS. All those that have claims against the said firm, are requested to present them to the subscriber, the surviving partner, and receive their money. And all those indebted to the said company are requested to come forward for the immediate adjustment of the same, as no indulgence can be given.  MARTIN FISK. Who informs his friends and customers, that he has returned to his former stand, where he offers
FOR SALE, 50 Barrels new Beef, Boston Inspection. 50 Hogsheads First Quality Sugar. 20 do. Second do. do. Loaf Sugar, in hds. and bbls. 12 Pipes Bourdeaux Brandy. Madeira, Port, and Malaga, Wines, in pipes and quarter casks. 20 Cases London Porter, 6 doz. each. 20 Chests Hyson, Young-Hyson, and Hyson-Skin Teas—Fresh. 60 Boxes Fresh Chocolate, No. 1 and 2. 50 do. Mould Candles. 50 do. Dipt do. 20 do. Spermaceti do. 150 do. Brown Soap. 50 do. Cheese, first quality, for family use. 50 Casks do. in good shipping order. 50 Boxes Dixon's best Mustard, 3 dozen each. 6 do. Glass Tumblers. 50 Kegs Butter, for family use. 200 Reams Wrapping Paper. 100 do. Writing do. 150 do. Printing do. 150 Casks Wrought Nails, 4d. 6d. 8d. 10d. 12d. 20d. and 24d. 50 do. Cut do. 4d. 6d. 8d. 10d. and 20d. 6 do. Flooring Boards. Tacks of different sizes. 30 Bags of Pimento. 15 do. White Ginger in the Root. 30 lbs. Nutmegs. 10 do. Mace. 40 do. Cinnamon. 50 do. Cloves. 100 do. Spanish Float-Indigo. 10 Casks Refined Salt-Petre. Cotton & Wool Cards in Boxes. 3000 lbs. Copperas. 1000 do. Alum. 500 Bags Patent Shot. 50 Kegs F & FF London Glazed Powder. 15 M. Gun Flints. 100 Boxes 8 by 10 London Crown Glass, 50 feet each. 50 Bolts Gzaburgs. Seine Twine. 50 Kegs London White Lead, ground in Oil. 30 Boxes Tobacco Pipes. Paint and Sweeping Brushes, of all kinds. 100 Sides Seal Leather. 20 dozen Calf Skins, Grain and Waxed. 10 do. Boot Legs, of the best quality. Morocco-Skins of all kinds. 1 Trunk of Gentlemen's London made Boots. 1 do. do. do. Shoes. 2 do. Ladies Fancy and White Kid Slips. 20 do. Mens and Womens Leather and Morocco Shoes. 150 Italian Straw Carpets. 100 Small Nova-Scotia Grindstones. ALSO, A few gross Hot Pressed Playing Cards, of a superior quality. Nov. 12. tf 250
The Norfolk Draw-Bridge Company, (For completing the Bridge across the Southern Branch) Will further contract for the following pieces of Timber, to wit, 24 Piles 38 feet long, 12 by 12 48 do. 46 do. do. 40 do. 56 do. do. 42 Cap Pieces, 34 do. 12 by 14 200 Braces, 11 do. 6 by 14 180 Joists or String Pieces, 27 do. 8 by 9 300 do. 27 do. 4 by 14 118 do. 53 do. 4 by 14 1600 Running feet of Railing, 27 ft. lengths, 4 by 6 17500 Superficial feet of 3 3/4 inch plank, in 30 do. The whole of the above Timber must be of the best heart pine, and deliverable between the first of February, and last of March next. They likewise wish to hire by the month, three or four pair of good Sawyers, for which liberal wages will be allowed—or they will contract by the hundred feet for Sawing up into Plank and Scantling, the Timber now in their yard, to the extent of, perhaps, 20 to 25,000 feet of line. The Stockholders in this Company, are respectfully reminded, that the second Monday in January annually, is appointed by their Charter, for the Election of Directors.—The meeting for this purpose, the year first ensuing, will be held at the Norfolk Hotel, at 11 o'clock on that day. December 31. tf 315
JUST RECEIVED, By the ship Roba & Betsey, Capt. Richardson, from London, and for sale by the Subscriber, A LARGE SUPPLY OF  DRUGS AND MEDICINES, of all kinds. Patent Medicines, Perfumery, &c. &c. Also received by the ship Alnira, Capt. Stover, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF  SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, Consisting of Amputating, Trepanning, Cupping, midwifery. Tooth of different sorts, Crown and Common Lancets, and Surgical Pocket Instruments &c. &c.
HARDHAM'S SNUFF, No. 9. Also, by the ship Olive Branch, Capt. Le Breton from Bristol, A LARGE & EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF  GLASS & FURNITURE, For Apothecary's and Practitioner's Shops. Those who favour us with their orders will be supplied on the most reasonable terms, and the articles of the best and freshest quality, as our importations are regularly twice a year, and laid in with cash, from the most respectable Druggists in London. MEDICINE CHESTS made up as usual. Also, a few elegant Mahogany Chests of the newest construction, with furniture complete,  PERRY'S ANTI-BILLIOUS PILLS. Frederick Heermann & Son. July 17. tf 2aw 12m. 1
WILL BE LANDED TO-MORROW, From on board Schooner Mohawk, 175,000 lb. PRIME COFFEE, FOR SALE, BY  WILSON, CUNNINGHAM & CO Jan. 21. tf 353
ARISTOTLE. Magna anima contentio adhibenda est in explicando Aristotele. CICERO, FRAG. PHIL. Frequentabunt ejus domum optimi juvenes et veram viam, velut ex oraculo petent. Hos ille formabit, ut verus gubernator, litora et portus, et quid secundis flatibus quid adversis ratibus possit, docebit, et communis ductus officio et amore quodam operis. QUINCTIL. To proceed orderly in this (i. e. the study of politics) the foundation should be laid in enquiring into the ground and nature of civil society; how it is formed into different modes of government; and what are the several species of it. Aristotle is allowed (to be) a master in this science; and few enter upon the consideration of government without reading his politics. LOCKE. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics afford not only a most perfect system of Scientific Morality, but exhibit also the powers of the most compact and best constructed system which the human intellect ever produced up on any subject. DR. RUSSELL.
PROPOSALS, BY GEO. L. GRAY, OF NORFOLK, FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF  Aristotle's Ethicks and Politicks; COMPRISING HIS PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY. Translated from the Greek; and illustrated by introductions and notes, a Critical History of his Life, and a new Analysis of his Speculative Works. BY JOHN GILLIES, LL. D. &c. Historiographer to His Britannick Majesty for Scotland.
CONDITIONS. The work shall be comprised in two large octavo volumes, on a good paper, and a new type to be cast on purpose. The price to subscribers will be four dollars for each volume, in boards; payable on delivery of the work. With the last volume shall be given a list of the subscribers; and no greater number will be printed than may be subscribed for. * Persons who obtain ten subscribers, and render themselves accountable for the amount, shall be entitled to one copy gratis; and for any number above ten a commission of seven and one half per cent. The usual deduction will be made to Booksellers who subscribe for ten, or a greater number of copies. * The work will be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers to defray the expense shall have been obtained. N. B. The price of the English Edition, in two volumes, is Eighteen Dollars, the subscriber to the present edition saves ten dollars of that sum; and the Editor engages that it shall rival or surpass the imported publication in elegance.
Any remarks upon the character of the STAGIRITE as a Philosopher and a Politician, or any praise of his writings on Ethicks and Government, might, on the part of the Editor and in this place, be regarded as an unprofitable supererogation. He stands confessed and universally acknowledged, the greatest master of the Science of Politicks; and few modern writers on the subjects of which he treats, have passed him by without avowing their gratitude to him, and their admiration of his profound researches. By the citizens of the United States, a people possessing more civil liberty than has ever before been enjoyed by any nation on earth, it is hoped that an author who is of all others most capable of instructing them in the nature and blessings of such a government as they have instituted, whose remarks result from a close examination of the theories of upwards two hundred commonwealths, will be received as a most welcome guest. To a people who, by the nature of their civil institutions, are individually liable to be called upon to regulate the affairs of the community, he will prove an useful companion and monitor. Too high an opinion cannot reasonably be entertained of a work which LOCKE declares to be necessary to every man who would understand the nature of politics; of a Philosopher to whom the learned GROTIVS assigns the most exalted rank, "whether estimated by the perspicuity of his method, the acuteness of his distinctions, or the weight and solidity of his arguments." Of the translation little farther need be said, than that it is universally allowed to have been executed with fidelity, and certainly with much clearness and elegance. The learned author of the Pursuits of Literature, not otherwise much inclined to favour the Historian of Greece, says "I think we are much indebted to Doctor GILLIES for offering to the publick an English translation of the two most important treatises on MORALITY and POLITICKS which antiquity can boast. No man can read these works without being wiser and better." Reflecting upon the great utility of such a work to a people who make politics so much their study, the Editor deems it unnecessary to load these proposals with commendatory quotations, from the vast crowd of civilians and philosophers who voluntarily endeavoured to discharge the debt which every man to science owes to this universal teacher. It is under the hope of rendering a service to his fellow-citizens, independent of local motives, that he has undertaken the weighty task of republishing a work so important: and he hopes that his success will fully justify him for attempting, at this time, to give to the world a cheap, and he pledges himself that it shall be a correct, edition of these most useful of the labours of ARISTOTLE. NORFOLK, Virginia, Nov. 26, 1804.
FALL GOODS. WE are now landing from the brig Commerce, from London, an extensive assortment of FALL GOODS, among which, are assorted packages, calculated for the West India market, entitled to drawback; which will be sold at low advance, by  Gilliat & Mackinder. August 21. tf 92
LANDING THIS DAY, On Newton's Wharf, from Schooner ELIZA, 60 Puncheons fine flavoured Nevis RUM. For sale by  WILSON, CUNNINGHAM & CO. January 30. tf 374
CLAYED SUGARS. Received by the Schooner Five Sisters, from Martinique. 55 Hogsheads White and Brown Clayed SUGARS. For sale by  J. GALWEY. WHO HAS ALSO ON HAND, A few Pipes COGNAC BRANDY. Febr y 6. tf 398
NOTICE. HAVING given Mr. STEPHENS PARMAM, a concern in my Business, the Firm in future, will be PHINEHAS DANA & Co.  PHINEHAS DANA. January 2. tf 320
A FEW COPIES OF THE  ODES OF ANACREON, Translated from the Greek BY THOMAS MOORE, ESQ. With notes, critical and explanatory; and ornamented with an elegantly engraved portrait of the Translator: Have been received and for sale at this Office.
JOHN C. NIEMEYER, Has received in addition to his former assortment  GERMAN GOODS, 45 packages German Linens, &c. chiefly entitled to drawback, Consisting of Plaidies, brown Hollands, Branties, Sheeting, extra fine 1 1-8 yard wide, Dowlas and Creas of the best quality, Shirt linen, Diapers, Bed Tickling for Mattresses, Bed Bouts fine 1 1-4 to 2 yards wide, Ticklenburgs, Ozanburgs, Brown Hempens Hessian, Brown and White Rolls, Russia Sheeting and light Canvas. ALSO, Velvet Ribbons no. 2 to 150, Plush for Saddlers, black Satin for waistcoats. Brussels Lace 4 to 20 dols. per yard, cheap Edgings, German Nuns Thread, patent Needles, India sewing Silk, Made Shirts, Thread Stockings very fine, Razors, Spectacles, and Penknives, of the very best qualities, Che p Jewellery, fine Scissors, Muff and Tippits of Martin Skins, 15 boxes Tumblers, Decanters, Wine Glasses, and Basket Flasks, &c. 3 Boxes English Mustard, 3 Boxes Cloths, Blankets, Coatings, &c. Andoons, Waffleiron, Coffee mills, Bird cages, and Seeds of all kinds, Table mats, & Straw plates, Suspenfers of the best kind, Violins, Flutes, Clarinets and Fifes, Harp strings and Violin strings, elegant Bows and Instruction books Looking Glasses, a large assortment of Baskets, fine and common do. do. Toys cheap by the quantity. ALSO, 90 boxes first quality Havana Segars, 50 do. good quality St. Jago do. 140 do. Short Pipes, 200 lbs. Shoe Thread, 2000 Coffee bags good quality, 400 Gunny do. 250 M. coin cheap Needles, 60 M. Toy marbles, 1 case superior Quills, &c. I will sell the above Goods low for cash or approved bills, or in barter for Coffee, and will take in payment One Hundred Hogsheads good Tobacco STEMS.—Apply as above. December 5. tf 273
ANTIGUA RUM. THIS DAY, Will be Landed, on our Wharf, from on board the Schooner Genera Packey, Capta Dury, 86 Puncheons Antigua RUM. Which will be sold on moderate terms, for Cash or approved Notes.  C. C. F. Whittle. October 32. tf 189
LEVIN DORSEY; At the corner of Laselle and Wide Water-Streets, Town-Point DANA'S Patent Globes, 12 inches diameter, with compasses in the bottom, very complete. Quadrants, black and red ebony, with single and double observation. Ditto—with tangent screws, 12 inches. Aeronautic Telescopes, for night and day, on the latest and most improved construction, in a portable size, with sliding sun-shade. Telescopes, of the common kind, for night and day observations, or for day only, of every description. Circumferents, of the best qualities. Marine's Compasses, in brass and wood. Pocket Compasses, in brass, of different sizes. Time Glasses—hour, half hour, 23, and 14 seconds. Gunter's Scales; Brass Dividers; &c. &c. Subscribe the following Articles, FOR THE USE OF NAVIGATORS. Hamilton Moore's Edition and Affiant. General Charts of the Coast of America, from Boston to Philadelphia. Ditto—Continued, with directions. Ditto—West-Indies, and Demerary, with directions. Ditto—Windward Islands, with do. Ditto—Gulph of Florida, with do. Ditto—Windward Passage, with do. West-India Pilots, with directions. ALSO, A few tons of Baltimore Bar-Iron, afforded, by the ton or less quantity—Composition Bolts and Spikes—Bouches—Carriage-wheel boxes, of all sizes—all which he will warrant good. N. B. All kinds of MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS repaired, at the shortest notice. * Orders for every species of Brass-Castings received and immediately executed at his foundry, and the work delivered as above. August 7. tf 53
FOR SALE, 12 Puncheons ANTIGUA RUM. 15 do. GRENADA do. 5 Pipes HOLLAND GIN. 20 do. COUNTRY do. 12 do. FRENCH BRANDY. 2 do. ALICANT do. 22 G. Casks SHERRY WINE. 10 do. do. MALAGA do. FONT and CLARET WINE, in casks & bottles. 6 Barrels PORK—and about 1000 Dozen PORTER, of my last winters flock, equal to any imported.  Joseph Hayes. August 24. tf 96
NOW LANDING On Maxwell's Wharf, from on board the Schooner SEAMAN, Capt. Seaman, from New-York, A CHOICE PARCEL OF  OLD COGNAC BRANDY, and a few casks of  DUTCH LINSEED OIL. Which will be sold low, by applying to  John Brown, Rothery's Wharf. November 19. tf 237
OILS, PAINTS & WINDOW GLASS, Of all kinds, colours, and sizes. For sale by  N. Gregory, opposite the Market. An ASSISTANT wanted—also, an active YOUTH to be employed in the store.—Liberal wages will be given to TWO ABLE HANDS, to turn a Pain-Mill. July 8. tf 3
LISBON SALT, For sale, on board the Brig Superior, Captain Wallington, Apply to  WILLIAM PENNOCK. January 21. tf 359
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