Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1804-06-15 00:00:00

Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
[No. 12 OF VOLUME VI.]
FRIDAY, June 15, 1804.
[WHOLE No. 272.]
NEW BOOKS.
J. ALBURTIS, Has just received from the City of Philadelphia, and has now for sale, an assortment of BOOKS and STATIONARY, warranted at the Philadelphia and Baltimore retail prices;
Consisting in part of: A Brief Retrospect of the eighteenth century, in two elegant octavo volumes, containing a sketch of the Revolutions and improvements in Science, Arts, and Literature, during that period. Public Characters containing memoirs of Charles J. Fox, William Pitt, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, Henry Dundas, Dr. John Wolcott, William Herschel, Marquis Cornwallis, Joseph Priestly, Mr. D'Israeli, Lord Nelson, Gilbert Wakefield, Earl St. Vincent, Robert Southey, Wm. Godwin, William Cowper, Warren Hastings, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, Dr. James Gregory, Dr. William Mavor, Lord Grenville, Duke of Bridge Water, Thomas Jefferson, Bushrod Washington, Edmund Randolph, Dr. Hugh Blair, Sir Joseph Banks, Henry Addington, John Horn Tooke, General Bowles, Count Rumford, Dr. James Beattie, Dr. Samuel L. Mitchell, Dr. Jenner, General Ira Allen, Earl Stanhope, Mr. Curran, &c.
Temple of Nature, a new Poetical work by Dr. Darwin, with superb plates.
Letters of Junius, Massillon's Sermons.
Literary Magazine, Nos. 123 and 4. Sturm's Reflections for every day in the year.
Antient and Modern Europe. Wilson's Egypt.
Domestic Encyclopedia, in 5 volumes, Select British Classics, in 38 volumes, with 76 elegant engravings.
Debates on the Louisiana Treaty. D'Israeli's Poems.
Ten Volumes of "Select Novels."
Spectator, Don Quixote, Abbess, Nocturnal Visit, Jane Talbot, Emmeline, Don Raphael, Maid of Bristol, Chains of the heart, Review, House to be sold, and Mrs. Wiggins.
Bibles, Testaments, Baltimore collection of Hymns, for the use of the Methodist Church, Dilworth's and Webster's Spelling Books, Gunter's Scales, Cases of Mathematical Instruments—Large and Small hand Copies for the use of Schools, Workman's Arithmetic, adapted to the commerce of the United States, Young Man's Companion.
A great variety of CHAP BOOKS.
Common Writing, thick Post, and Letter Paper,
Wafers and Sealing Wax,
Red and Black Ink-Powder.
Ink-Sand, Quills, &c. &c. &c.
May 11, 1804.
New Goods.
THE subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public generally, that he has again commenced business at his old stand, where he has just opened and has ready for sale a large and general assortment of
Spring & Summer Goods,
GROCERIES, QUEENS & GLASS WARE;
Also—a large assortment of STATIONARY;
all of which has been purchased this spring, and will be sold on the lowest terms possible for Cash.
Cash or Goods given for clean
Flax-Seed.
He has also for sale, Tickets in the Baltimore Cathedral Church Lottery.
JAMES FAULKNER.
Martinsburg, May 11, 1804.
PRINTING.
In all its variety, executed at this Office with correctness and expedition.
Spring Goods.
THE subscriber returns thanks to his customers generally for their encouragement heretofore. He likewise informs them that he has just opened a very handsome & well-chosen assortment of
Dry Goods and Groceries,
Suitable for the present and approaching season, with which he flatters himself he will be able to accommodate his customers, and the public generally, on as good terms as any. He remains their most obedient and humble servant,
JEREMIAH EVANS. Martinsburg, May 18, 1804.
THE Subscriber returns his most grateful acknowledgments to his friends and the public for the encouragement he has experienced, respectfully informs them, that he has just received, and will constantly keep for sale at his Blacksmith's Shop, in the main street Martinsburg, opposite to the Indian Chief Tavern, a very large and complete assortment of
BAR-IRON,
of the best quality, selected with care by himself from the Iron-Works, and which he will dispose of on the most reduced terms. He continues as usual to carry on the Blacksmith's business in all its various branches, and flatters himself, that if good materials, manufactured in the most serviceable manner, together with the strictest attention to business, can secure the public favor, he shall not go unrewarded.
JOSEPH CHAMBERS. Martinsburg, April 13, 1804.
HOTSPUR,
WILL stand at my stable the ensuing Season to cover mares at four dollars the season, the money to be paid on the 15th of October next; seven dollars to insure a colt, the money to be paid when the mare is known to be with foal, and one dollar and an half the single cover, the money paid down. Good clover pasture will be furnished for mares that come from distant places, at 25 cents per week, but I will not be responsible for accidents or escapes.
Hotspur is a fine bay, with a black stripe from his mane to his tail, sixteen and an half hands high, with bone in proportion, four years old the 19th day of this month. He was got by the Esopus ball, purchased for, between five and six hundred dollars, in Maryland, by Mr. James Foreman—his dam was purchased by me, for two hundred dollars of James Moore, who told me, she was got by Hotspur, imported by Col. Clarke in Pennsylvania, and was a mixture of the Hunter and Dray breeds. No horses are more useful to the inhabitants of this valley, than those who combine strength and activity together.
W. PENDLETON.
April 6, 1804. [t.f.] N. B. The season has commenced, and will continue till the last of June.
Popular Fanaticism. —We have often expressed a confidence, that the present delusion which infatuates our countrymen cannot possibly last long; that a day must soon arrive when the people will spurn and turn from their deceivers with abhorrence; and that the nation must at no distant period once more learn to distinguish between honest friends and insidious flatterers, between tried patriots and treacherous pretenders, between the followers of Washington whom Washington "approved of" and the followers of Jefferson, of Jefferson by whom Washington has been slandered and belied, hypocritically mourned over, dreaded, envied and hated. We have often expressed such confidence, we have fondly cherished it ourselves, we have endeavoured to inspire it in others, and we have contributed our mite towards the
object of this confidence as a change "most devoutly to be wished for" by every lover of America. We begin to fear, that we have calculated too much on the good sense and the virtue of the land we live in, the land of our birth, dear to us as such, and we fear perhaps therefore overrated with the partiality of filial reverence. We begin to suspect that her foster sons, that the foreign outcasts she has received to her bosom, understand the disposition of our country much better than we do. We begin to fear, that the Duane's and Cheetham's, the Paine's and Tony Pasquin's, pestilent dregs of another clime, vomited on our shores, have not so greatly mistaken the public temper of these states or the means of gratifying and guiding it for years yet to come. We begin to fear they find something in that temper itself which fits a numerous mass not only to be dupes, but which renders them willing dupes, of whose vices there is as much advantage to be taken by the demagogue as their ignorance. Every day's observation forces a reluctant belief, that the source of our present disorders, the root of our political evils, does not lie altogether in a momentary deceit, in a mere mistake or series of mistakes to which the frailty of man and the best of men has been at all times liable, but that it is fixed deep in a cause just as much more difficult to remove as it is easier to rectify the errors of weakness than to cure those of wilful & propense depravity. There is reason more and more to apprehend that the moral principle of society is relaxed and tainted to the core; and that it is in the growing corruption of our National Character that democracy, labouring to increase that corruption, now feels her strength and hopes to preserve it. Or rather we might say she hopes and feels this not only in the corruption of national character, but in its loss and total oblivion. Once, in the struggles of our revolution, at the era of the congress of independence, of the convention of Philadelphia, and of the constitution they framed at first put in trial those hands who were immediately as if it were by the voice of one general assent called to administer it, in those times we had a national character: It was a character of wisdom and integrity, for sober discernment, for constancy, for gratitude, for public spirit, for the glow and vigilance of national liberty and stubbornness and tenacity of right, for decent and temperate and legal and solemn restraints, if not for the seriousness of hallowed piety and religious devotion. Such was, or such was deemed to be our national character, displayed, proved and confirmed in the ordeal of twenty years of doubt, difficulty and distress. Our republic appeared abroad to be once more realizing on earth the fables and dreams of history, or exemplifying its truths in an emulation and rivalry of Grecian and Roman worth. The continent seemed animated with one genius, pure and honorable as we have described, flowing as its vital blood through the whole body of the community in every vein and member of its very extremities. Scarcely a limb or a joint, the lowest or most remote, but what looked sound, as if contagion could have no foothold to work with. In the various emergencies of that period, on the momentous questions which were from time to time submitted to the decision of all ranks and classes, when once informed right there was a surety they would decide right; and for the most part they decided with the promptness of intuition, of intuition whose judgement, never to be warped by passion, passion itself generally concurred with. Of every individual the interest, essentially valued, has never yet run counter to their duty: But with our people as they then were, interest, duty and pleasure altogether did not only never run counter, they not even run in different, but always in one, and the same channel. It was a proud day for America, in whose most adverse hour the world in admiring her could even forget she was not prosperous because in so singular a degree she stood virtuous. Virtue indeed might be called her national character, and justly so called by every rule according to which national character is determined. But all earthly virtue, like every other earthly possession, may decay or be impaired, it may cease entirely
or be transformed to its very opposite, while retaining nothing but the name the substance has all left us, till presently the name itself we are indifferent to retain or not, and yet a little longer even the name we renounce and make our vice our boast. Is our country destined for this sad reverse? Or does she not already exhibit the worst part of it? What has become of the national character of America?—Gone, we fear, to the tomb "of all the Capulets." Sunk, withered and polluted. Dashed in the mire of low and sordid views;—enervated with selfishness; infected with a poisonous sophistry; and debased with the importation of a putrid refuse, and accumulating a gang of "unhappy fugitives" who, happy enough to cheat the gallows and the gibbet in Europe, are received in this "asylum" with open arms and turning patriots of '76 are hailed, caressed and exalted by the powers that be.—Those powers themselves, who in turns support and are supported by every alien crew, are a proof, and a proof which promises to endure, that a revolution too must have happened in our national character, or else that revolution on which fixed the powers that be, could not have happened to the union, or if happened, could not endure. Had our people been what they were in '76, Jefferson would not have been President in 1801. Were they now what they were in '89, he could not be President in 1805. The people are changed, and the qualities for their trust are changed with them. When we speak of the people, we intend the bulk of number; for under a government where numbers, or a majority of numbers, must controul, numbers are sovereign, and sovereign is the people. There is an intelligent and undefined portion of the whole, who form an exception and as yet a respectable exception not included in the present remarks; but they are not more than an exception, for they are a minority. We repeat then that the people are changed, and changed materially for the worse. In point of understanding, if experience adds to understanding, however it may be perverted, it cannot be supposed less now than it was formerly. If knowledge is neither retrograde nor stationary, it must progress with the progression of years; nor in these days which are emphatically termed enlightened will it be allowed that there is more of darkness over the public mind than the days which are past. Yet in those days with not more but, as they will have it, with less information, the people thought and acted right. If then they are wrong now, it cannot be for want of sense enough to know, for with not a greater share of sense they did know, what is right, but it must be for want of principle enough to prefer right to what is wrong. This truth may be unpalatable, and it is a truth not commonly told; but it is time it should begin to be told, and we choose to be among those who begin. The fever of democracy rages and spreads far and wide, because the corruption of manners, of morals, and of sentiments, spreading also far and wide, serves both to communicate the disease and predispose the victims. In every region where there is profligacy, there is jacobinism, or materials for jacobinism, and where folly is, jacobinism will have subjects to act on, and tools to act with. Generally speaking, throughout the different divisions of this empire, the quantity of jacobinism, or of democracy refined and sublimated, of any part is already ascertained to be in the proportion of the profligacy and folly of that part. In our southern states, negro slavery may be a necessary evil, but it is still an evil, among the worst effects of which is the baleful effect on the passions and habits of the whites. Now, it is known that the watch word of jacobinism for licentiousness is liberty: And thus "we hear the loudest yelps for liberty from the drivers of negroes." In Virginia, where churches are out of fashion, democracy is most in fashion. In Connecticut, where they have yet more room for their meeting houses and schools, and less for whisky shops and brothels, there is less of democracy and more of federalism. The position might be further verified by a trait of examples if of such examples there could be any end. Enough has been said to shew that it is cowardly and foolish to ascribe to popular simplicity alone gulled and deceived, what is equal-
Mr. N. N. Van

ly attributable to popular wickedness, greedy and designing—If the multitude were to be brought back from their errors, merely by being convinced of them, it is impossible they should continue to uphold a man, whose errors, private and public, deep, flagrant and mischievous, glare on them in every print. It is in vain to urge that they need not, because they believe not the warnings that are given them. Of the facts, which will sometimes arrest their attention in spite of themselves, the most dull and headstrong do believe enough to set them straight, if it was not their resolved whim to be crooked. But with many, to expose the turpitude and knavery of their leaders, is only to enhance their favour, because turpitude and knavery are to their taste, and are the things which they prize. To prove their chief favourite wanting even in common fidelity to his friend or common honesty to his benefactor, is only to prove him like themselves, or as they would have been, if situated towards Walker and Jones, as Jefferson was situated.—To prove him the employer of venal calumny against Washington, is to no purpose; because they think not of Washington at all, or think of him but with the invidious dislike with which meanness, whatever it may affect, does always in its heart revolt against transcendent excellence. To prove their President and Congress violators of the Constitution, is nothing to those who care not, who will scarcely trouble themselves to enquire, whether we have any Constitution. To prove that justice is nodding to its fall, and the independence of courts sacrificed on the altars of party, is to them no matter of concern, who have no relish for justice, or Courts the instruments of justice, by which injuries are redressed and guilt condemned. To detect their vaunted economies in squandering, imparting and embezzling the public treasures, is of no account with a tribe who have no anxiety for the public but that themselves, as a part of the public, may for ever elude the public's tax gatherer. The promises of the inaugural address, with the wanton and continued breaches of those promises, they mind not, because of their own promises they "take no cognizance." The cruel and rapacious work of persecution which still proceeds, disturbs them not an instant, for they are of the faction which persecutes and profits by persecution, and as individuals not less malignant than the faction they belong to. To talk to them of desertion of duty, or the flight to Carter's mountain, only brings them to consider how they would have deserted and fled themselves. To dwell on the invitation to Paine, on the irreligion and the profanity of his host at the Prezzidolad , must now be too late for the bounden duties of a master, who has long been avowedly content, while ever his own leg is not broken and his pocket not picked, that there may be either twenty Gods or one or no God.
From the premises we infer that to rely as a last preventative on any community of American feelings is to rely on a phantom; for there cannot be any community of American feelings, to a majority which, composed of a medley of all nations, have not in fact the common feelings of any one nation. The greater part and far the greater part of that majority may be natives, but they are natives associated with and every day more and more led by foreigners, and foreigners too of the worst cast. If they have not yet altogether surrendered, they will soon surrender, all feelings but the feelings of party, of party rampant and vindictive and triumphant. To depend on the national character to check and relieve the reigning disorder, is to depend for a remedy on a source which is the seat of the disorder. If we have any national character left, it is a character for augmenting corruption, and our political complaint is nothing more than corruption, or the consequence of corruption growing with our growth and strengthening with our strength. Let us throw away therefore the "flattering unction" of self pride and of self deceit. Let us be men, and learn the extent of our evils, that we may not mistake the means to ward off the last extremity. While there is life there is hope—But if we suffer life to doze in the sleep of indolence, the time is at hand when we shall awaken in death. There is yet a body of principles among us, which, though surviving in the lesser part, may save both lesser and greater from that yawn of destructions, which will not separate our fates, but if it swallows one must draw the other after it. The innocent and the guilty, whatever the guilty or the innocent may think, must, if they perish, perish in one grave, the grave which anarchy is digging for our commonwealth and has
dug for many commonwealths before us. But the labours of anarchy, though not immediately to be stopped, may yet be retarded by our exertions. Every day thus gained, is a respite in which fortune may do more for us than we can do for ourselves. Every pause of suspense is important, when a single pause may prove our salvation. Was there at this moment any thing in the nature of the predominant numbers for a pledge to us against a tragic catastrophe to our drama, it would still be important to put off the concluding act late as we can, to give time for their fury to retire from the stage, and their virtues to step on. But if some more powerful corrective than we have yet discovered must be applied to their vices, before we can account any thing on their virtue, if their immoralities must first be extirpated ere we can look for any help in their morals, there is still incalculable use in delay, because in delay there is chance. And there is no use in supinely submitting, and by supineness hastening instead of averting our doom, by the use of slumber—Inactivity but weakens our weakness, without abating a particle of the rage with which they trample on that weakness.—Could we even be more passive than we have been, they would not be a jot less violent than they are. In time perhaps, if we will but strive for time, accident may change or divert the mad course of the multitude; the multitude may themselves change; if not from their reason, they may change from their love of right, they may change from their love of novelty; if not because they believe their idols to be bad, possibly because they believe them not to be bad enough; if at least as they have changed once, so they may change back again, without troubling themselves for the why or the wherefore. But even time will be denied us, unless the remains of the faithful can be kept together steadfast, zealous, and alert. The law of physical gravity is not more certain, than our constant inclination for repose, negligent of the future; nor is any force more centrifugal than the guile which is ever tempting us from the centre of our duties. Every nerve must be strained with the patience of Sisyphus to keep back the falling, if we cannot lift up the fallen. This task, now principally consigned to our brotherhood of editors, whom it certainly behoves to be among the foremost, is yet the province of all, who are well affected and undaunted.—The Press in skillful and vigorous hands is an engine which in a good cause, and at a good season should undoubtedly do much. But the most it can now be expected to do, is to instruct its friends and flash indignity on the foe, to prevent the vigilant from becoming lukewarm, and animate the lukewarm to become vigilant, to rouse the dreamer and incite the sluggard, while it sets to all an example in its own effort to harass and impede the Jacobinism yet too strong to be disabled, and occasionally "like a rattling peal of thunder" to astound the monster in his march.
[Frederick-Town Herald.]
NEW-YORK, June 7.
The arrival yesterday of the ship Adventure , from Calcutta, has furnished us with papers from that quarter to the 22d January. The war in India is progressing with considerable success on the part of the British. Speaking on this subject the late Calcutta paper says, in language perhaps too highly coloured, "the brilliancy of the present campaign in every quarter in which our armies have appeared, far outstrips any hitherto recorded in the annals we believe of any nation in the world; and we are at a loss which most to admire, the wisdom with which the various plans have been formed, or the promptitude and effect with which they have been carried into execution."
BALTIMORE, June 7.
A remarkable Occurrence.
At a country seat in the vicinity of this city, a cow last evening brought forth three living calves! They were all well formed and in due proportion; but one of them was, unluckily for the curious, lain upon and pressed to death by its mother. The others are now living, and very promising.
Extract of a letter from an officer to his friend in Philadelphia, dated,
"TRIPOLI, Jan. 6, 1804.
"Since my last, we have been closely confined, which makes our time disagreeable. A few days past, at the instigation of our carpenter, three of the crew were put into the screws, and received one hundred and fifty bastinadoes each. He has not yet turned Turk, but I expect
he will in a few days, as he has left the prison, and lives with our guard. Four of our crew have turned already."
"For this week past, the Bashaw's child, by a favorite wife, has been very ill with the croup (as the doctors call it.) He called on our doctor four days after the child's illness, when he pronounced it dangerously ill. The Bashaw immediately offered him his liberty provided he cured the child. It recovered and is at present well; but not a word more said about the doctor's liberty."
"During the two last days, we have lost ten of our crew."
Extract of a letter from Commodore Preble , dated on board the Constitution at Syracuse, March 19, 1804.
"I have this moment received intelligence from a gentleman just arrived from Tunis, that the Bey of that regency is equipping his whole naval force with the utmost expedition; and it is whispered that his object is, the American commerce—from various circumstances, I believe there is much truth in the conjecture. Three of their frigates from 24 to 32 guns are fitting out at Malta; one frigate of 32 guns, and a number of smaller vessels are getting ready at Tunis."
[Commodore Preble observes, that he intends to collect all the forces off Tripoli, and proceed off Tunis to learn the cause.]
ALEXANDRIA, June 11.
Massacre of all the whites at St. Domingo.
By the Pilot Boat Grey-hound , captain Stanford at New-York, we have a confirmation of the Massacre and pillage at that and other places of the island by general Dessalines's troops which commenced on the 19th of April, and continued, without intermission till the 14th of May. All the French inhabitants, including men, women and children, to the number, of between 2000 and 2500 were put to the sword or bayonet at the cape during the above period. On the 14th instant after the work of destruction was completed, Dessalines left the Cape on his way to his head quarters by the way of Porte de Paix and Gonaives . On the 22d of April fort Dauphin was pillaged and all the whites to the number of about ninety men, women and children, were massacred, and a part of the town destroyed. A few days after the French inhabitants of St. Jago and other parts of the interior, were escorted to the Cape and there destroyed in the most wanton manner.
On the 12th of May, Dessalines issued a proclamation calling upon the Spanish inhabitants of the City of Santo Domingo , to declare themselves for or against him, allowing them 15 days to determine. This proclamation was made in consequence, it was said of his having received dispatches from Port-au-Prince , informing him of the arrival of a reinforcement of French troops at Santo Domingo .
To enter into a full detail of the particulars of the massacre and plunder of the Cape would be a painful task, and afford no pleasure to our readers; but we are assured that from the beginning to the end of the hellish work, the most unparallelled cruelties were inflicted upon whites in a manner too shocking to relate.
Men, women and children were hacked down with swords and plunged with bayonets. Women, with children in their arms, were seen flying through the streets to avoid their pursuers; and being overtaken by them, one thrust of a bayonet has pierced both mother and child!!
After this dreadful massacre, the dead lay in the streets for three days, when the inhabitants were ordered to remove those within a certain distance of each dwelling—which were afterwards dragged off and thrown into a ditch at the foot of a mountain.
Previous to the massacre, certain of the blacks in order to obtain the property of the whites, which was secreted, called on them individually, and promised to spare their lives if they would give it up; which having obtained, not one of them was exempted from the general massacre! The property thus perfidiously obtained, (consisting of gold, jewels and plate) was said to be immense. Gold was brought to the town in hatsfuls by the blacks, and offered in exchange for silver for less than half its value.
We are informed that Dessalines has decreed, that any Frenchman henceforward who shall arrive in St. Domingo shall be put to death.
To shew farther the vindictive cruelty
of the blacks and their inveteracy against the whites, we shall mention the following fact: Just before the massacre took place, a Danish schooner belonging to St. Thomas , having on board a number of French passengers, after sailing was pursued by armed boats, overtaken and brought back, and the Danish Captain, crew and passengers were all put to death.
The few Americans that were at the Cape, remained unhurt. With the exception of the printer and a few white mechanics at the Cape, whose services were too useful to be spared, not one Frenchman survived the general wreck.
At the date of our advices, Dessalines was erecting strong fortifications in the mountains. His force is said to consist of 60,000 men.
MARTINSBURG, June 15.
A letter from an American officer belonging to the frigate Philadelphia , dated at Tripoli, February 22d, mentions that the prisoners had not met with any ill treatment, in consequence of the destruction of that vessel, except the partial parole allowed them being taken off, and they confined to their quarters.
Extract from a letter of Earl Strafford to his son, dated 1641.
"Lose not the time of your youth, but gather those seeds of virtue and knowledge which may be of use to yourself, and comfort to your friend, for the rest of your life. And that this may be the better effected, attend thereunto with patience, and be sure to correct and refrain yourself from anger. Suffer not sorrow to cast you down, but with cheerfulness and good courage go on the race you have to run in all sobriety and truth. Be sure, with an hallowed care, to have respect to all the commandments of God, and give not yourself to neglect him in the least things, lest by degrees you come to forget them in the greatest; for the heart of man is deceitful above all things. And in all your duties and devotions towards God, rather perform them joyfully than pensively; for God loves a cheerful giver. For your religion let it be directed according to that which shall be taught by those which are in God's church the proper teachers thereof, rather than that you ever either fancy one to yourself, or be led by men that are singular in their own opinions, and delight to go ways of their own finding out; for you will certainly find soberness and truth in the one, and much unsteadiness and vanity in the other."
The Man of Pleasure.
The man of pleasure, in the vortex his opulence has created, finds no home in the everchanging scene; discovers no friend in the ever smiling countenance; feels the inanity of his costly gratifications, and meets ennui and spleen, on the very goal his ambition had reached: for happiness is the daughter of content, and content springs only from peace of mind, which never dwells with the ambitious, and turns from the slave of opinion.
Pleasure is to be had by him who wills it. Opinion alone renders every thing difficult, and deprives us of happiness. It is a hundred times easier to be happy, than to appear so. The man of taste, the truly voluptuous man, require not riches; he wishes only to be free from his own master. Whoever enjoys health, the necessaries of life, with a heart free from the desire of imaginary gratifications, is rich enough—he possesses the aurea mediocritas of Horace . Accumulators of wealth! seek, then, some other employment for your opulence; it has no value in the purchase of real happiness.
From the New-York Evening Post.
MR. COLEMAN, It is hoped that the cause which the following lines are intended to serve, will induce you to excuse the faults. And if the strife and tumult of politics have afforded you leisure, for a year past, to look into the fashionable world, you must acknowledge that they are not guilty of any misrepresentation.
Ye gentle Fair, our ornament & pride, Who in the stream of fashion thoughtless glide; No modish lay, no melting strain of love Is here pour'd forth, your tender hearts to move— Yet, think not envious age inspires the song, Rejecting all our earth-born joys as wrong;

Suspect no matron stern, who would re- press Each modern grace, each harmless change of dress; But one whose heart exults to join the band Where joy and innocence go hand in hand, One who, while modesty maintains her place, That sacred charm which heightens ev'ry grace, Complacent views your robes excel the snow, Or borrow colours from the painted bow; But dreads the threaten'd hour of Vir- tue's flight, More than the pestilence which walks by night. Say, in those half-rob'd bosoms are there hid No thoughts which shame and purity forbid? Why do these fine-wrought veils around you play, Like mists, which scarce beam the orb of day? What mean those careless limbs, that conscious air, At which the modest blush, the vulgar stare? Can spotless minds endure the guilty leer, The sober matron's frown, the widling's sneer? Are these the charms which, in this age refin'd, Insure applause, and captivate the mind? Are these your boasted powers? are these the arts Which kindle love, and chain inconstant hearts? Alas! some angry pow'r, some envious skill Has wrought this strange perversity of will: For sure some foe to innocence beguiles, When harmless doves attempt the ser- pent's wiles. True, Fashion's laws her ready vot'ries screen, And ogling beaux exclaim, Oh, god- dess! queen! But, low the praise and adulation sought By arts degrading to each noble thought, A base-born love those notes of praise inspires— That insense rises from unhallowed fires. If deaf, while shame and purity com- plain; If reason's gentle voice be heard in vain; Learn from the flowers which deck those bosoms white, What charms alone can give unmix'd de- light— The flaunting tulip you reject with scorn, Though ting'd with ev'ry hue which can adorn; And careful, search for humble flowers which bloom Beneath the grass, yet scatter sweet per- fume, The buds which only half their sweets disclose. You fondly seize, but leave the full blown rose, Humble the praise, and trifling the regard, Which ev'n wait upon the moral bard: But, there remains a hateful truth un- sung, Which burns the cheek, and faulters on the tongue; And which, if modesty be more than sound, With shame each virgin bosom must con- found. These modes becoming, say your flatter- ing beaux, From ancient times, and tastes refin'd a- rose. Disgrace not thus the names of Greece and Rome, Their birth place must be sought for near- er home, Shame! shame! heart-rending thought! disgraceful stain! That Britain's and Columbia's Fair should deign, Should ev'ry art employ, to dress, to dance, Though virtue blush, like prostitutes of France! Oh! Modesty and Innocence! sweet pair Of dove-like sisters! still attend our Fair, Teach them how vain, without your in- fluence, Are all the carms of beauty, or of sense. Invest them with your radiance mild, yet bright; And give their sparkling eyes a softer light.
* Dr. Barrow, in his treatise on edu- cation, vol 2, p. 304 says, "Our young women are probably little aware that the fashionable nakedness of the present day, was first adopted in this country in imi- tation of the revolutionary prostitute of France."
Enchanting dimples on their cheeks be- stow; And teach them with a purer red to glow. Let winning smiles too, from those dim- ples gleam, Like moon-beams sporting on the ruffled stream. And if resentment should the Muse at- tend, Who thus presumes to shew herself your friend; Tell them how cruel and unjust their ire; How pure the feelings which this strain inspire; How pants her heart, those graces to se- cure Which constant love, and endless praise insure.
FLORIO.
THE LAY PREACHER.
"And Ittai answered the King, and said, as the Lord liveth, and as my Lord the King liveth, surely in what place my Lord the King shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be."
THE book of Samuel is crowded with interesting narratives. The story of the artifice and defection of Absalom is full of incidents and exhibits a forcible mor- al. The clergy have ever found, in this revolt and its consequences, a copious theme for grave remarks and pious medi- tation. Sterne, whose pen was a pencil, has grouped king David and his atten- dants in consternation and sorrow, flying over the brook of Cedron toward the way of the wilderness. The Lay Preach- er, humbly gleaning after such labour- ers, has picked up one incident pictur- esque, pathetic, honorable to humanity. A portrait, that has such features, mer- its an exhibition. From the cabinet of the Bible then let it be produced; and if placed in a good light, the rude man as well as the connoisseur, will stile it enchanting.
As a cover for fraud or violence, reli- gious, perhaps, more frequent than po- litical pretexes, have been employed by the hypocrites of every age. Absalom was too cunning an impostor not to know that a shew of piety would be highly op- erative with his father David. Anxious to set up the standard of rebellion in He- bron, a city of malcontents, the royal re- volter prays that he might be permitted to go thither to pay his vows. The cre- dulous king consents. Absalom is at- tended with the usual crowd, studious of change and confusion. Some of those counsellors, in whose loyalty the king probably reposed entire confidence, aban- don their duty and their sovereign, and follow the fortunes of the usurper. The dark plot thickens. The conspirators increase. The mournful tidings of a son's criminality reach at length the af- flicted sire. The baleful cry of treason rung in the palace. The perturbed king urges the necessity of flight. He and his house-hold accordingly cecede from the city. Interesting fugitives!— You were not the victims of common fear, you were not a disordered rout on the retreat from a chasing conqueror, you were kind companions and fellow mourn- ers, and, as you ascended together the steep of Mount Olivet, let fall "kindly drops, which pity had engendered."
Though it might be expected that those, immediately about the person of David, whose affections he could easily engage, or whose obedience he could sternly require, would be the partners of his flight, yet in such a dubious hour, the strangers at Jerusalem, the wealthy, the politic, the timid would keep aloof, till more tranquil times should come round again.
But Ittai, the Gittite, had such a warm heart, that he never balanced in his cau- tious head the pros and cons of this self- ish philosophy.
This man did not linger a moment on the bank of the brook to consider the ha- zard he ran, or the probability that he should lose his head, if Absalom's ban- ners proved victorious. The time serv- ing Shimei made many a syllogism in this prudent logic; Ittai's process of reason- ing was more summary; for 'he passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.'
Though a kingdom and a child's af- fections were fast fading away before the sight of David, and we might easily sup- pose him absorbed in his calamities, he was not so sunk in the trance of woe, not to remark the prompt fidelity of Ittai. But such zeal, at such a season, and from such a quarter, appeared enigmatis- cal—"Wherefore goest thou also with us? For thou art a stranger and also an exile. Whereas thou camest but yes- terday. Should I this day make thee go up and down with us? Seeing I go
whither I may. Return thou and take back thy brethren. Mercy and truth be with thee."
Dr. Campbell censures the paraphras- tical style, and the Lay Preacher is averse to verbosity. The above address of the King is so tersely expressed that a little expansion, though diminishing the force, may add to the perspicuity of the pas- sage.
Is it possible, Ittai, that you are one of my unfortunate associates? How can you leave the delights of a city for the way of the wilderness, and prefer dangers with me to future honors with Absalom? You are a stranger, how carest thou then for Jerusalem? You have been an exile, whence then thy nationality? Re- turn, good, but deluded man; why should- est thou wander with David and tempt perdition? I am here desolate and des- pised; soon perhaps to perish by the steel, or still sharper the ingratitude of a child. I desperately fly, I know not where. But let not thy rash loyalty trace my perplexed pathes. For thy zeal receive my heart. But leave me and make thy peace with the usurper.— May mercy plead with him for thy for- giveness. May truth attest thy virtue.
To so noble a friend and faithful a fol- lower such a remonstrance would add constancy. Tell Ittai of danger and he half unsheathes his sword. He prefers hazardous allegiance to criminal submis- sion, and would rather with bare, and bleeding feet, go up the ascent of Olivet, than be captain of the host at seditious Hebron.
Survey my readers this grand histo- rical picture, designed by a great master; a prophet. It is more glowing than the canvass of Rubens, more sublime than the cartoons of Raphael. It is the por- trait of a friend in adversity.
In the forest of Mount Gredestye, in the county of Hunyade, in Transylvania, some remains of an extensive ancient ci- ty have been discovered; but nothing that shews its name. In the neighbour- hood a number of gold coins have been discovered in weight each equal to 2 1-2 ducats. On one side, three male figures, the first and last carrying hatchets, with the inscription, in characters Kœzen .— On the reverse an Eagle at rest, holding a crown in his right claw.
The learned suppose that the pieces of money was coined at Hetruman city Coos, and that three male figures repre- sent a Consul preceded and followed by a Lictor. The coins are supposed to be 2000 years old, by antiquarians. The Austrian government has ordered further researches.
More Fresh Goods.
The subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public generally, that he has just received from the Cities of Phi- ladelphia and Baltimore, and is now opening a very handsome Assortment of Fresh Fancy Goods;
All of which have been purchased on the lowest terms, for Cash, he is now ena- bled to give bargains to those who may be pleased to call on him; he also lately received Waldron's Cradling and Grass Scythes, German Scythes and Cutting- Knives, Crowly and Blistered Steel, Cast- ings, home made linen and twilled Bags, and about fifty dozen excellent SICKLES, made by those noted workmen Hugh & John Long, of Pennsylvania.
WALTER B. SELBY. Shepherd's-Town, June 15, 1804.
FOR SALE,
TWO hundred and eighty-five acres of LAND, two miles from Bath, Berkeley County, lying in a healthy situa- tion between that town and Sleepy Creek; about 60 acres are cleared, well fenced and in good farming order; there are 6 acres of excellent Meadow, and 8 more at least may be made with very little trou- ble, an excellent Orchard of 200 Apple, and upwards of 200 Peach Trees, all of which now bear; the balance of the land is well covered with a great variety of good Timber; the whole tract is well watered, and for fertility, is scarcely e- qualled by any land in this part of the country; there are a tolerable conven- ient Dwelling House, an excellent Barn, Stable, &c. The subscriber being anx- ious to remove to the Western Country, will dispose of the above land at three Dollars per acre, which is less than half its value. An indisputable title will be made the purchaser. The land may be seen by applying to the subscriber living thereon. CHRISTIAN MILLER.
June 15, 1804.
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away on Monday night the 11th instant, from the subscriber, living in Darkesville, Berkeley County, Vir- ginia, a Negro Man named HARRY, raised by John Baker, sen. late of Jeffer- son County, dec'd, he is about 5 feet 10 inches high, upwards of 30 years old, square made, long face, has a down look when spoken to, he will look up and im- mediately cast his eyes down again, he is a cunning artful fellow, & can tell a very smoothe straight story to any person talk- ing to him; he took with him a bottle- green coat about half worn, with a great many plated buttons on it, three on each sleeve, a buff coloured waiscoat, one pair blue overalls, one pair nankeen do- a high crowned wool hat partly new, with some other old clothes. Whoever takes up said runaway, if 30 miles from home shall receive five dollars, if 50 miles ten dollars, if 100 miles twenty dollars, if further the above reward and reasonable charges for bringing him home, or secur- ing him in any jail so that I get him again.
JOHN SNIVELY.
June 15, 1804.
THE subscriber is authorised to dis- pose of the patent right to purify Whisky and Cyder, and also imitate Foreign Distilled Spirits, within the County of Berkeley; all persons who may wish to purchase this right, may have permits by paying, or securing to be paid, to the subscriber, the purchase money, at the following rates: Distillers $ 20, Merchants $ 20, Farmers and others $ 10 each. Any person using the means employed by the Patentee, for purifying, &c. without first obtaining a permit, may expect to be prosecuted for the same, as the laws of the United States direct.
DAVID HUNTER.
June 15, 1804.
A PROPOSAL,
By William T. Birch & Abraham Small
Of the City of Philadelphia;
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, That Celebrated Work, GIBBON'S HISTORY
OF The DECLINE and FALL of the ROMAN EMPIRE: TOGETHER WITH Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Author.
No Book could be offered, which stands in less need of encomium and re- commendation.—It has been read in al- most every European language.—The history of the long and interesting period from the reign of Augustus to the taking of Constantinople, and the death of Ma- homet the II. is no where else to be found in the shape of regular and well arranged history.—The Publishers presume to hope, that they do a service to their country in giving an Edition of it from the American press.—They will briefly speak of their intentions, and the superi- ority of this Edition.
1. It will be the most complete Edition of GIBBON extant.—Because it will be enriched with the Memoirs of his Life and Writings, written by himself.— This will be an addition to the London copy of nearly 200 pages.
2. It will be about one-third cheaper than the London Copy.
3. It will be executed in the best stile. The Publishers, with confidence, re- commend to the public an inspection of the books, published by them within the last three years.—They are, Russell's Ancient and Modern Europe, 7 Vo- lumes.—The Domestic Encyclopedia, 5 Volumes, and Tucker's Blackstone, 5 Volumes.—They promise not to dege- nerate.
CONDITIONS.
I. It shall be printed from the last Lon- don edition, and be published in Eight Octavo Volumes, during the year 1804.
II. It shall be delivered to those Sub- scribers who take it in Volumes, at Two Dollars per Volume, in boards.
Those who wait for the completion of the Work, may have it either at Sixteen Dollars in boards; or in a good and handsome binding, at Twenty Dollars; payable on delivery.
It will be enriched with Two whole sheet Maps.—One of the Eastern, the other of the Western part of the Roman Empire.—A Map of the parts of Europe and Asia adjacent to Constantinople, and an elegantly engraved Head of the Au- thor.
Subscriptions for the above work will be received by J. ALBURTON, Martinsburg.

There is more of SENTIMENT and TRUE POETRY, and less of sing-song, in the following morsel, than we usually meet with in compositions of the kind.
THE WEDDING RING.
ANNETTE was milder than the dew, That spangles Arno's scented grove; And LUBIN, constant, fond, and true, As ever told the tale of love.
One eve, with chaste yet mantling smile, He bade her "guess what he could bring." Then from a bosom void of guile, He blush'd, and trembling, took a Ring.
The Maiden flutter'd, sidled, sigh'd— "Oh, Cupid! 'twas a charming scene;" And, with affected coyness cried, Dear! what can such a trinket mean?"
"Mean!" said the youth with glowing cheek, And hurried that she so mistook; "A ring-dove dropt it from his beak, I pick'd it up in yonder brook.
"And much we owe my lovely fair, To this kind token of the dove, Who dropt it for the purpose there, A faithful emblem of our love."
"It is of clearest gold, refin'd, "Affections chastest sign, be sure; "And polish'd like my ANNETTE's mind, "As simply elegant and pure."
"It's round too—what is that to prove? "To what can such an emblem tend? "What! but th' eternity of love, "A love, like mine, that knows no end.
"Annette, they say—nay, in this curve, "No sorcery lurks nor lawless art— "That in this finger there's a nerve "Which leads directly to the heart.
"Touch'd by this gold—for raptur'd there "Love's charming witcheries are such, "Fancy would fain to declare "The thrilling pleasure; shall I touch?"
It struck her finger—raptur'd quite, She cried, "You're foolish, get you gone; "Yet if the touch be such delight, "What happiness to put it on!"
He seiz'd the hint; the willing maid Scarce knew what she had said or done; But love's sweet influence obey'd, And kiss'd the ring that made them one.
And now, when rude or playful jest At happy wedlock has its fling, She clasps her LUBIN to her breast, And smiling shews her "WEDDING RING."
Men and Brethren hearken.
FOR reasons not necessary to mention, the address to the Members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, signed A Member, came out too late for the elections therein mentioned to be held at the time proposed. It is therefore necessary that a future day should be appointed. And as harvest will commence early in July, the Members of the Church are requested to meet at their respective places of worship (viz.) at Martinsburg, Hedges', and Morgan's Chapels, on the Saturday after June Court, which will be the last Saturday in this month, to complete the election mentioned in the said address; and that the persons who are elected by each congregation, meet at the house of Mr. Edmund Graham in Martinsburg, on the third Saturday in July, to consult on the state of the Church. That the meetings at the aforesaid places of worship, may be as full as possible, those of the Members who receive the INTELLIGENCER, are requested to inform their neighbours of the time and place of holding said election, and request their attendance.
A MEMBER.
June 4, 1804.
I DO hereby forewarn all persons from taking assignments on five Notes passed by me to John Rees for ten dollars each; one due upon demand, the others due at different dates; these notes were obtained in such a manner from me that I will not pay them, and if they are demanded, I will put them in public print.
MICHAEL FISER.
Shepherd's-Town, June 2, 1804.
J. ALBURTIS
HAS JUST RECEIVED, in addition to the BOOKS advertised in the first page of this paper,
AN account of Travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798, including observations on the Geology and Geography of the Southern part of that Continent; the natural history of such objects as occurred in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral kingdoms; and sketches on the Physical and Moral Characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. To which is annexed, a description of the present state, population and produce of that extensive colony; with a Map, constructed entirely from actual observations, made in the course of the Travels.—By John Barrow.
Wortman's Political Enquiry, and the Liberty of the Press.
The History of the British Empire, from the year 1765 to the end of 1783, containing an Impartial History of the Origin, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, in two large octavo volumes, with elegant likenesses of Washington and Franklin.
An Essay on the causes of the variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species.
Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion.
Art of Speaking.
American Preceptor.
Aesop's Fables, &c. &c.
Martinsburg, June 8, 1804.
The subscriber has just opened a very extensive assortment of
Medicine, Drugs and Paints,
which he will sell at very reduced prices for Cash.
THOMAS PATTERSON. Martinsburg, June 8, 1804.
N. B. Those whose accounts have been due one year and upwards, will please to call and discharge them before the first day of September next, otherwise suits will be commenced for their recovery.—It is hoped this will not be considered hard, as necessity compels it. T. P.
NOTICE.
ON the night of the 23d May last, Meb Locke and Negro Yarmouth turned out of the fields occupied by the subscriber and Thomas Locke, a dark bay HORSE, about sixteen hands high, eleven years old, marked with the gears, is blind in one eye and can see but little out of the other, shod before, trots and paces, has been used entirely as a draft horse, is high boned, and when warm his hair turns the wrong way—He has not been heard of since. I will give five dollars and reasonable charges for returning said horse.
ALEXANDER KENNEDY. Martinsburg, June 8, 1804.
Cheap Goods.
THE subscriber has just received at his store in Smithfield, a complete assortment of DRY GOODS and GROCERIES, which he has purchased uncommonly low, and is determined to sell them on like terms for Cash, or suitable country produce.—He flatters himself, that the cheapness and elegance of his Goods, will induce every person that views them, to become purchasers: He returns his unfeigned thanks to his customers for their generous encouragement since his commencement in the mercantile line of business, and hopes to merit their continuance: He invites those who live at a distance and who have not yet become customers, to call and view his goods, and he presumes they will purchase before they leave his store.
SEBASTIAN EATY. Smithfield, May 25, 1804.
STRAYED or stolen from the subscriber, a dark sorrel MARE, with a large ball face from the brow band to the nostrils, has curly hair, shod before with old shoes, and looks very wild. Six dollars reward and all reasonable charges will be paid for returning said Mare to the subscriber living at Opeckon bridge, one mile from Smithfield.
JOHN MOORE. May 25, 1804.
The subscribers are empowered to sell A VALUABLE PLANTATION, near Winchester, late the property of Joseph Glass, dec'd, containing 395 acres. This Plantation having been rented for nine years past, is now in bad repair; but from its situation, the quality of the soil, and excellence of the water, would deserve the finest improvements. There is on the premises a mill-seat with a fall of 29 feet, which will be sold with the Plantation, or reserved, as may suit the purchaser.—Persons disposed to purchase will apply to either of the subscribers.
JOSEPH GLASS, Middletown, Berkeley County. SOLOMON HOGG, Middletown, Frederick County. May 25, 1804.
FOR SALE, A TRACT OF LAND containing 245 acres, in the county of Berkeley, about 5 miles from Martinsburg, whereon Thomas Tuckerman now lives; about 145 acres are cleared and under good fences, and in excellent order for farming. This farm is strong limestone land, lies very level, and is very productive.—There are on the premises a snug Dwelling House, an excellent Kitchen built of hewed logs, with a good stone chimney; a stone milk house two stories high with a good joint shingle cover well painted, by the side of a Well of excellent water with a pump in it, a good Barn with a Granary, corn Cribs, Stables, &c. under the same roof; there is also an Orchard of excellent Peaches, Apples of choice winter and summer Fruit, Cherries, Plumbs and Damsons. The land will be shown by Mr. William Pendleton, adjoining the premises, and the terms known by applying at Bath to NICHOLAS ORRICK. April 6, 1804. [t.f.]
TAKEN up by the subscriber on the 14th of April last, an estray BARROW, of a white and black spotted colour, marked in the under side of the left ear with a slit, and a crop off the right ear, supposed to be more than a year old, and valued at two dollars. The owner is requested to prove property, pay charges, and take him away.
JOHN BURNS. Berkeley County, May 18, 1804.
Meminger & Cooper
Have opened and offer for sale, an assortment of GOODS,
suited to the present season, all of which have actually been selected from the Philadelphia importations this spring.
Martinsburg, May 25, 1804. Meminger & Cooper request those whose accounts are due, to call and discharge them. [2m.]
EARTHEN WARE MANUFACTORY, Near the head of Dry Run and four and an half miles from Martinsburg.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has now got his POTTERY in complete order, and has on hands a very good assortment of excellent ware, and means to keep a constant supply.—It will be much to the advantage of purchasers of this commodity to call on him, as he can sell ware at a cheaper rate than it can be bought at a distance. A considerable reduction will be made to those who purchase by the quantity to sell again.
This being the only establishment of the kind in Berkeley County, and the ware made at it, of as good, perhaps a better quality, and at a lower price, than that made at a distance, he hopes that the efforts he is making to accommodate the people of this County, will not go unrewarded.
CYRUS FARR. May 11, 1804.
TO BE LET, And possession given immediately, THE House and Lot lately occupied by J. Albutis, situate in the main street, Martinsburg; the House is well finished, has 4 rooms below and 3 above stairs, with a good Kitchen, a spacious Garrett, 2 dry Cellars, a convenient Stable, and an excellent Garden well enclosed, and is in every respect well calculated for any kind of public business. For terms apply to Robert Cockburn or J. Albutis.
April 6, 1804.
Look Here!
FRESH IRISH and GERMAN LINENS.
THE subscriber has just received and is now opening a very handsome assortment of SPRING and SUMMER
GOODS,
imported by the latest arrivals at Philadelphia, Baltimore and Alexandria, consisting in part of the following articles:
  Irish Linens, Rus- sia Sheetings, Dow- lasses and Creax Linens, white and brown Plaitillas, German Rolls, white and brown Ticklenburgs, Os- naburgs, fine Dimi- ties, Chintzes and Calicos, Apron Checks, Bed Tick- ings, Children's coloured beaver HATS.  Yellow, blue and white Nankeens, striped ditto, red Bandano Handker- chiefs, Book, Jaco- net, Humhums Gurrah, Baftas Sannabs and Champoo Cossacks Cambricks, Cotton Hosery, and Ging- hams.  Mouselin  
HARDWARE.
SPADES, Cutting-Knives, German-Scythes, Sheep-Shears, Sadd-Irons, 8d. and 10d. Cut NAILS, Cask do. Whet Stones, &c.
TOBACCO.
Fine Pigtail in large rolls, 1-4lb. 1-2lb. and 1lb. Pluggs, also first quality James River, Hamilton's and Leiper's best Scotch Snuff.
LIQUORS.
Spirits, Wine, Brandy, Whisky and Rum.
ALSO
Cotton and Wool Cards, warranted good, and a general assortment of GROCERIES.
These, with the rest of his assortment, are offered at prices that will be pleasing to the purchaser.
PHILIP NADENBOUSCH. Martinsburg, May 4, 1804.
Fronting the Court & Market Houses,
Are just received and now opening by the subscribers, an elegant assortment of
Spring Goods & Groceries,
  Superfine and Se- cond Broad Cloths, Coarse ditto, Su- perfine and Second Casimeres, Velvets, Corduroys, &c. Coarse Linnens, Irish ditto. Blue, olive and yel- low piece Nankeens, Silk and Cotton Ho- siery, Calimancoes Durants, &c.  An elegant vari- ety of Chintzes & Calicos, white and coloured Mus- lins, Gentlemen's fine Hats, Ladies Slippers assorted, Books and Stati- onary—Hard Ware, Cutlery, Sadlery, &c. A handsome assort- ment of Queens ware, Glass ware, &c.  
Also—a general assortment of GROCERIES, LIQUORS, TEAS, &c.
We flatter ourselves we do not arrogate too much, when we assert, that the whole of our Goods will be offered for sale on the lowest possible terms for ready pay in cash or country produce—and permit us to add, that as we purpose selling generally for ready pay, such of our friends as may open accounts with us, will expect to discharge them when required; determined, if possible, to accommodate generally, we are, with respect, the public's obliged humble servants,
LEWIS & ROBERT WILLIS. Martinsburg, May 11, 1804.
MARTINSBURG, Berkeley County, Virginia; Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.
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