Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1805-05-10 00:00:00

Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
[No. 51 of Volume VI.]
FRIDAY, May 10, 1805.
[WHOLE No. 311]
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
AS an Apprentice to the Printing Business, a lad from twelve to fifteen years of age, of industrious habits, of moral conduct, and whose connections are respectable. One from the country would be preferred.
J: ALBURTIS.
Intelligencer Office, } March 8, 1805.
FOR SALE,
A PLANTATION, containing about 180 acres, about 100 of which are cleared; there is a convenient Dwelling House and Kitchen and a good Barn on the premises; near the House is a Well thirty feet deep, which never goes dry when kept clean; on one part of the Plantation there is a large and excellent Spring. The Land is of a superior quality; it lies on the road leading from Martinsburg to Boyd's Ferry, and is about six miles from the former place. For terms apply on the premises, or to the subscriber in Martinsburg.
IGNATIUS PRICE.
January 25, 1805.
Doctor I. Price,
RESPECTFULLY informs the citizens of Martinsburg and the public generally, that he has commenced the practice of PHYSIC, SURGERY, &c. in this town. Having acquired a pretty general knowledge of the theory and practice of the above arts, he will thereby be enabled to do justice to his profession, and with great care and assiduous attention to business he will endeavour to render satisfaction to all those who may please to place confidence in him. Martinsburg, April 26, 1805.
Doctor Wilcox
HAVING recovered from a low lingering state of health, in which he declined the practice of Physic and Surgery, now informs whoever stands in need of his assistance, that he has resumed the said practice—and as all old Doctors generally as they decline practice put off the most disagreeable part, that is Surgery, (if they practice it) he has also done the same, and set several young Doctors to use the instruments of Surgery under his directions, which he then thought would be a public benefit, by leading the young Doctor into an experimental knowledge of operations, but now finds it has turned out a public injury, by inconsiderate people supposing the one that used the instruments of surgery, was the principal Doctor, altho' he performed only by particular directions, whereupon more dependence has been placed in the young and inexperienced, than was for the general good of those labouring under difficult cases—Therefore he now informs, that he will hereafter perform all operations himself, in cases where he advises the operation, or any other that he is required to do, but may be attended by as many Doctors as the patient chases.
He will do any kind or form of Writing, such as Wills, Deeds, Indentures, Articles of Agreement, Powers of Attorney, &c.
Martinsburg, April 26, 1805.
Will be exposed to public vendue, on Friday the 17th of May next, at the dwelling house of the subscriber living in Shepherd's-Town, a quantity of
GOODS and Merchandise; also, a number of articles of Household Furniture, too tedious to enumerate.—Nine months credit will be given the purchasers [for all sums above three dollars] by entering into bond with approved security. The sale to commence at ten o'clock, when due attendance will be given by
BENJAMIN BOYDSTON.
April 25, 1805.
N. B. ALL persons indebted to the subscriber, either by note or book account, are requested to make immediate payment.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber respectfully wishes to inform his customers and the public, that he has lately removed his Store to that eligible and commodious stand adjoining the Court House, fronting on Queen street and the public square, lately occupied by James Anderson, Esq. where he intends carrying on the Mercantile business.
He has just received a large additional supply of
Dry Goods and Groceries.
The ladies and gentlemen of this town and its vicinity, will please to accept my thanks for all former favours conferred, and I hope to merit a continuation of their custom.
He has BLANK BOOKS for sale.
JEREMIAH EVANS.
Martinsburg, March 8, 1805.
Berkeley County, ss.
February Court, 1805.
George Riley vs Joseph Gale.
In CHANCERY.
THIS day came the complainant by his counsel, and it appearing to the court that the defendant is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth, it is ordered that the defendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in May next, to answer the complainant's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer and continued for two months successively, and also be posted up for two months successively at the door of the court house of this county.
A Copy. Attest,
DAVID HUNTER, C. B. C.
FOR SALE,
Pursuant to the last will and testament of Robert Creighton, dec'd, a valuable
Tract of Land,
Lyings in the County of Berkeley and State of Virginia, three miles from the town of Martinsburg, on the road leading to Williamsport, eighty-five miles from the City of Baltimore, seventy-five from the City of Washington, and eighty miles from the town of Alexandria—containing six-hundred acres, one half cleared and under good fence, the balance well clothed with timber: There are on said land a number of never failing springs, and a sufficient quantity of Meadow: This Tract would suit well to be divided, as there are two Dwelling Houses, two Double Barns, and two Orchards of choice Fruit. It lies five miles from the river Potomak, the navigation of said river is now completed, produce may be conveyed down the river to the City of Washington and to the town of Alexandria at a small expense. For terms apply to William Riddle, of the town of Martinsburg. A good title will be made the purchaser by
WILLIAM RIDDLE, } Exr's. and WM. CREIGHTON, } Martinsburg, February 1, 1805.
Berkeley County, ss.
February Court, 1805.
George Riley vs Daniel Sturgess.
In CHANCERY.
THIS day came the complainant by his counsel, and it appearing to the court that the defendant is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth, it is ordered that the defendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in May next, to answer the complainant's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer and continued for two months successively, and also be posted up for two months successively at the door of the court house of this county.
A Copy. Attest,
DAVID HUNTER, C. B. C.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE subscriber having declined the Mercantile business, now offers his property in Garrard's-Town (alias Middle-Town) Berkeley County, for rent; there are four half-acre lots, three of which corners on the main street and a 20 feet alley; on one is a good Dwelling House and stone Kitchen, with a good Spring of limestone water in the cellar, also a Wash and Smoke House, Barn, Stables, Corn House, &c. all in good repair; on one other Lot opposite is a large Garden and a convenient Granary on the corner; on the opposite side of the street is a Lot, on which is erected a large Store-House, Counting House and Ware-House, under one roof, with a large dry cellar, and every convenience necessary for a Merchant, which has been occupied as a Store for 18 years, and is equal to any stand in the district for doing an extensive business in the retail way, and is well worth the notice of any industrious man in that line. Possession will be given on the 20th of May next, or perhaps sooner if required. For terms apply to the subscriber at his residence adjoining said town. WILLIAM WILSON. Prospect-Hill, April 26, 1805.
ONE CENT REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber living in Garrard's-Town, some time ago, an apprentice boy named James Thomas, for who's apprehension I will give the above reward.
EDWARD JENNINGS.
April 26, 1805.
TO BE SOLD,
PURSUANT to a Deed of Trust executed to the subscriber by Van Rutherford, to secure the payment of a certain sum of money, in the said deed acknowledged to be due from him to Joseph Chambers, a certain Lot of Land in the town of Shepherd's-Town and County of Jefferson, known in the plan of said town by No. 129, on which there is a good Dwelling House, Kitchen, &c.—Also one Lot of Land in the town of Charles-Town and County aforesaid, known in the plan of said town by No. 16, on which there is a good Dwelling House and some out Houses.—Also one half of Lot No. 5, and one half of Lot No. 6, in said town of Charles-Town. The abovementioned Lot in Shepherd's-Town, with its appurtenances, will be set up for sale, on the premises, to the highest bidder for ready money, on Friday the 17th day of May next, those in Charles-Town on the day following, to wit, the 18th May next, the sale to commence at 12 o'clock each day.
MATTHEW RANSONE,
Trustee.
April 12, 1805.
LANDS FOR SALE.
THE subscriber wishes to sell the Plantation whereon he now lives, situate on Back Creek, Berkeley County, 7 miles from Martinsburg and 15 from Bath, containing 333 acres of good strong Limestone Land, well watered, with at least 7 springs—150 acres are cleared and well enclosed, 8 acres of Meadow are made, and more Meadow land; the remainder of the tract is well covered with fine timber.—On the premises are a convenient Dwelling House, newly finished, Kitchen, a large Barn, Distillery, Fulling Mill, and some out houses, with a number of Fruit trees.—There is a good mill-seat, with a sufficiency of water, on this tract.
He will also sell one other tract of Land, situate on the river Potomak, near Richardson's Ferry, containing 102 acres, 40 of which are cleared, the greater part river bottom, the remainder of the Land is well timbered, and has a large sugar-camp on it—a small House is now built, and logs ready for raising a larger one. For terms apply to the subscriber.
WILLIAM SNODGRASS.
Back Creek, June 22, 1806.
From the Vermont Journal.
Mr. ELLIOT to his CONSTITUENTS.
LETTER II.
THE first important subject, which came before Congress, on which it became necessary for me to abandon either my principles or my party, was the first bill for the temporary government of Louisiana. By this bill, all the military, civil and judicial powers, exercised by the officers of the existing government of that territory, were to be vested in such person or persons, and exercised in such a manner as the President of the United States should direct. Surely a government of this description must be a perfect despotism; and this indeed, was admitted by its advocates, who justified the measure on the ground of necessity alone. This necessity I could not discover. By the law of nations, the institutions of the ceded country would remain in force until changed by the legislative power of the U. States; and it could be the work of a few days only to devise some system of a general nature, which should be competent to the temporary government of the territory, and at the same time consonant to the republican principles of the Constitution. The union of legislative, executive, judicial, and military powers, in an individual, was utterly irreconcilable with the spirit of that instrument; and the delegation of a power to the President to appoint a supreme governor of the territory, was repugnant to its letter; the Constitution having authorised Congress to vest the appointment of inferior officers only in the President alone. By the institutions of ancient Rome, when the Senate received information of the conquest or cession of a country, they consulted what laws they thought proper should be prescribed, and sent commonly ten ambassadors, with whose concurrence the general of the troops in the conquered or ceded country might settle its concerns. The two first laws which Congress passed relative to the government of Louisiana, displayed a very singular improvement upon the too republican system of the ancient Romans. It is a subject of pleasure and of pride that I opposed them; and I am clearly of opinion that the adoption of similar measures, by the federalists, while they held the reins of power would have been considered by the republicans as unquestionable evidence of a disposition to create a monarchical system of government.
The celebrated alteration of the Constitution, providing for a distinct designation of the electoral votes for President and Vice-President, comes next in order in the present review. The following letter which I addressed to the Council and House of Representatives of this State, unfolds the motives and views which governed my conduct in relation to that subject. The council, although they had forwarded to me an instruction in the form of a request to vote in favour of the amendment, forbade their Secretary to read to them my reasons for disobeying their instructions. This conduct may have been truly republican, but it will be proper, previously to the admission of that point, to examine the constitutional power of the State Legislatures to instruct Representatives or even Senators in Congress, with respect to amendments to the Constitution. The Constitution has declared that "Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to the constitution, or on the application of two thirds of the legislatures of the several States, shall call a convention, &c." Congress are vested with a perfect discretion in case they may propose amendments when they deem it necessary, Congress and the State Legislatures are, constitutionally, distinct initiative bodies, as it respects amendments, each independent of the other. To justify the State Legislatures in instructing even Senators to propose amendments, the Constitution should be amended so as to read thus—Congress, whenever the State Legislatures shall instruct them to deem it necessary, shall propose amendments, &c. I shall at this time only add that I have, upon mature reflection, altered the opinion

nion avowed in the following letter, that the amendment is not materially injurious to the small states; and I shall devote my next letter to an exhibition of the reason which produced in my mind that alteration.
Washington, Dec. 10, 1803.
SIR,
I duly received a communication from his excellency the Governor, covering a resolution of the Council and General Assembly, instructing the Senators and requesting the Representatives of the people of the state, in Congress, to use their exertions to obtain an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, providing for a distinct designation of the votes for President and Vice President. Previously to the arrival of this communication, a resolution providing for that object had passed the House of Representatives by a large constitutional majority, and was sent to the Senate for their consideration: for that resolution my vote was given. The Senate did not act upon the resolution but originated a new one, contemplating another material alteration in the constitution, connected with the principle of designation. The alteration to which I allude is a provision that in case the House of Representatives shall not make a choice of President, when the right of making such choice devolves upon them, before the fourth day of March, the Vice President elect shall be President for the next four years. To the resolution from the Senate, myself and six other members of my own political sentiments, four from Massachusetts, one from Pennsylvania, and one from Virginia, after making fruitless attempts to amend it, were compelled by the dictates of conscience to give our decided dissent: And it becomes me, in the peculiar situation in which I stand, respectfully to offer to the Legislature of the State which I have the honour to represent, the reasons for my conduct.
We were all attached to the great principle of designation, but we thought the additional provision of the Senate calculated to re-produce the same evil which that principle was intended to remove, by creating new probabilities of the introduction of a man to the Presidency, who was never contemplated as a suitable candidate for that office, either by the people or the electors. We urged that the day would probably soon arrive, when new political interests would arise in our country, and numerous candidates would be presented for the Presidency. That upon the establishment of the principle of discrimination, the office of Vice President would become of minor consideration, and the public attention would be turned upon all the most prominent characters in the Union, merely as candidates for that of President. The two large states, each involving several small states within the circle of its influence, might present two candidates, equal and pre-eminently qualified for the office of President, and equal, or nearly equal in the number of electoral suffrages, to the House of Representatives: That each of these great states might be obstinate in its pretensions and that several small states might, as happened at the last election, be divided and give no vote; that it would be in the power of two or three individuals to prevent an election; that the Vice President, already chosen, either by the electors or the Senate, would be enabled to promise those individuals the first offices in the power of the executive to bestow, although they might be as totally unqualified for them as himself for the Presidency, and that he might make this promise with a perfect certainty of being able to perform it, if they should protract the election until the fourth day of March. We urged that this could not be considered as an extreme case, because it could not be considered as improbable that the American people, although now virtuous, would be at no remote time in some degree corrupted, and would always possess ambitious and unprincipled individuals of talents and influence. That the proposed addition to the constitution contained language inconsistent with that commanding voice of the original constitution by which the House of Representatives is directed to make an election of President at all events; and that, although the imperative stile could not be considered as intended to coerce moral volition, it was improper, after commanding the House to make a choice, immediately to tell them they may do it or not as they please. That this provision seemed to invite to corruption, and to open a broader avenue thro' which intrigue and ambition might advance to the very vitals of our republican system, than any free people had
ever established as a radical principle of their constitution. That it was dangerous to alter the constitution with precipitation, and to insist upon blending with a principle which the public sentiment unequivocally demanded, a novel principle which the people had never contemplated. That it was irrational to conclude that the discriminating principle would be lost by a rejection of the present resolution; a conference with the Senate might follow, and an accommodation immediately be made, or the Senate might proceed to consider the resolution sent from the House, and the probable result would be its adoption.
Although almost every member in the majority allowed our objections to possess great weight, we were not favoured with many answers to our arguments. We were told that the evils we feared might never be experienced, and that if we did not adopt the resolution in the form in which it passed the Senate we should in all probability lose its principle altogether.
The members who generally constitute the minority in the House upon political questions supported our objections, but relied principally upon a point which I consider as untenable, viz. that a principle of discrimination between the votes for President and Vice President, impairs the privileges and relative weight of the small states in the Union. They supported this position with much sincerity and ingenuity, but I could not discover great force in their arguments.
I possessed the sentiments of the legislature and people of Vermont with respect to the question of designation, but could not anticipate their opinion upon extraneous subjects, and therefore felt myself at liberty to vote against the resolution, which was carried by the casting vote of the Speaker. It was matter of great consolation to me in this painful situation to find so many members, of the same political sentiments with myself, and of much greater political experience, uniting with me in opinion; a circumstance which will preserve me from the imputation of having adopted a solitary and eccentric opinion, from prepossessions adverse to cool reflection.
JAMES ELLIOT.
From late London Papers. NEW OVERTURES FOR PEACE.
It has been confidently reported during the week that Buonaparte has not remitted his efforts to fix upon the British cabinet the stigma of rejecting all overtures to pacification, and persisting to continue the war in spite of the willingness of France to open a negotiation for concluding it. These intrigues for pacification are very masterly political stratagems, and have something in them of artifice and cunning, beyond even the usual stretch of St. Cloud.
The Emperor of the French perceives the industry with which England is beating up for allies in all parts of the continent; and is desirous to forestall in the market, not by converting the powers to whom he applies into neutrals, or war-like auxiliaries for herself, but by infusing into them a prejudice against the cause of England, and representing that there is nothing which Great Britain and her allies can hope to conquer by arms, which he is not willing to bestow upon them by friendly negotiation.
Whilst we are therefore hunting abroad for assistance to prosecute the war, the Emperor very cunningly attacks us with confederates to recommend and awe us into peace; for upon whatever motives he may desire it, we are persuaded his sincerest wish is peace. Not indeed that we would insinuate any miraculous conversion of his mind, or that it is not occupied as usual, with plans for the subjugation of this country; that its destruction does not as usual, supply the visions of his morning dreams, and compose him to his evening sleep; but that he finds it convenient to change his plans of attack, and revert to the more secure and retired means of pacification.
Buonaparte has ever found peace the most favourable time of conquest, he then continues his destructive progress unchecked and unobserved, and whilst the rest of Europe is lulled in the slumber of inaction and lays down its head in confidence upon the faith of treaties and guarantees, he spreads the net of a relentless despotism around her, and destroys her freedom and independence in the moment of imagined security.
Who but recollects the fearful interval between the peace of Amiens and the breaking out of the present war? In that interval Buonaparte obtained more than by his success at Marengo, or that of his rival Moreau, at Hohenlinden. Dur-
ring that fatal period, he established himself in the sovereignty of France, he established himself First Consul for life, with the right of naming his successor; he extinguished the hopes of the Royalists by the form which he gave to the new constitution; he possessed himself of Italy and Switzerland; he riveted the chains of Holland and Spain; and was preparing to give a very formidable character to his maritime and colonial exertions.
We made war with him and what has he done since? He has been crowned Emperor! but this has added nothing to his real power; for so long as he exercised dominion over the faculties of the country, it was of little consequence what title he should give himself.
It is thus evident, that he hopes to do more by peace than by war, and if we had suffered him to give his own interpretation of the word peace, he would have kept terms with us as long as we liked. This is precisely the state of things which he desires—He wants us to recall our fleets into harbour, to remit mercantile obstructions of the sea, and raise the siege of the coast; for it cannot be disguised that the severest mortification he has hitherto experienced has been the extensive blockade we have undertaken of the whole line of coast from Hamburg to the Bay of Naples.
At present, if we are to believe the members of the Tribunate, and one representation of Talleyrand, the war with England is only thought effective as waged against her finances. It has been so efficiently proved how unlikely it is that any defeat or disturbance in our finances will co-operate with the views of Buonaparte. This hope he must give up and revert to his old stratagems of pacification, which, if he can ensure by any means, his success, though tardy, will be secure.
It is reported that our secretary of foreign affairs has received a very important communication from the Prussian minister; it is likewise reported that the King of Prussia has evinced a desire to second the negotiation made by Buonaparte for peace, and has recommended to our cabinet a reception of the overtures.
That the king of Prussia should endeavour to enforce these proposals is not at all incredible, because it is the object of Buonaparte to pursue all the Continental powers that he desires peace with England, and Prussians are well known to be immediately within the reach of his influence.
The king of Prussia has, doubtless, been consulted by the English cabinet, on the means of retrieving affairs on the Continent, and it is generally believed that his language held out no hopes of his co-operation. Indeed when we talk of restoring the balance of power, we make a proposal to the Continental States which they are not likely to relish, and in which they cannot join; for a restoration of the destroyed balance would not fall heavily upon France alone. Who has destroyed the balance of Europe more than the king of Prussia, by the partition of Poland? Who more than the Emperor of Russia, by the present possession of the Republic of the Seven Isles, and abridgment of the Ottoman consequence which was so necessary for a balance in the scale? Who again has destroyed it more than Austria, by annihilating the republic of Venice, and thus, instead of leaving Italy to balance itself by the opposition of its own little republic and kingdom, converted it into a kind of commonage, to be shared amongst every kingdom who could get possession.
When we talk, therefore, of restoring the balance of Europe, we hold a language equally unpleasing to friends and foes and amuse ourselves with an impracticable theory.
All we can attempt are specific and defined purposes, such as the restoration of the independence of Holland and Switzerland, and the reconquest of the Netherlands; but these are plans in which Prussia has no interest; or, if she has any, can only have one opposed to the claims of Austria.
It is very probable, therefore, that Prussia should recommend peace, because in fact, she has almost detached interest from the quarrel. Prussia is, new power; the balance of power was never made with any reference to her, at the period when that system was established. Prussia was never begot a dream of; we may even venture to say that she owes her present eminence to its perpetual intractions; she has cribbed from one and conquered from another, and lived upon the common boot of all.
If Prussia, therefore, has joined to
recommend the overtures of Buonaparte, we can only say that it is so for unpleasing, as it makes us utterly despond of all assistance from her, and at the same time involves us in the disagreeable dilemma of sacrificing the essential interests of the kingdom, or rejecting her proposal.
Our ministers, therefore, have now a call upon them for diplomatic dexterity, and Lord Mulgrave will have as fair a field for his genius as he could wish.
PLYMOUTH, March 7.
Came in the Spanish ship Sacra Familia , from Vera Cruz for Cadiz laden with sugar, logwood, other goods, and 149,000 dollars and one box of gold; she was taken on the 16th ult. off the Western Islands, by the Pallas , of 32 guns, Captain Cochrane. The Pallas has also captured, and is coming home with the Spanish ship Foruna , from Vera Cruz to Cadiz, laden with species of all kinds, Mahogany, logwood, &c. 432,000 dollars and two cases of gold images; captured off the Western Islands, on the 15th ult.
NEW-YORK, April 22.
British Minister. —The strength of the British ministerial party in the opposition, was tried in both houses of parliament on the 11th February, when an address in favor of ministry was moved in relation to the rupture with Spain, after the production of the important papers relating to the negotiation between the two countries.—The address was carried in the house of peers by 114 against 56; ministerial majority 58 . A similar address being on the same day moved in the house of commons, by Mr. Pitt, an animated discussion took place, which lasted till 2 o'clock, Tuesday morning; the debate was then adjourned till afternoon, when it was resumed and continued till a quarter past six o'clock, Wednesday morning, when the house divided—for the address 213, against 100; ministerial majority 113 . April 23.
Yesterday morning the frigate John Adams dropped down to the watering place, with 40 men on board, where we understood, she hourly expects orders prepared for the Mediterranean. The gun-boats lately built here and some others are probably to accompany her. With this reinforcement our squadron will be enabled, we hope, to make a vigorous attack on the Tripolitan power, and before the ensuing summer passes away, reduce the haughty foe to terms honourable to a gallant navy, and a free people.
BOSTON, April 29.
By the arrival at this port of the ship Palmyra , capt. Remington, and Sally , capt. Webber, from Liverpool, we have received London papers to the 18th March, twelve days later than our previous dates from that quarter.
The advices, contained in these papers, present nothing new, in the aspect of European politics. Communications and propositions, both for peace and war, are continually presenting themselves to the different Cabinets of Europe; but so entangled are the relations, which subsist between the several governments, and so strong the jealousy entertained of each other, that it is found difficult, either to agree on the preliminaries of a pacific system of measures, or to combine the force necessary for a vigorous prosecution of the war against France. During this political interregnum nothing is left to gratify public curiosity, but what is founded on mere rumour and conjecture.
It is observed by one of the most intelligent London prints, that, "the most interesting events seem now in their progress, and the war, at the present moment, has a chance of becoming active, and important."
Every appearance indicates an eventful summer.
LANCASTER, May 3.
From almost every part of the state, except Mifflin , Somerset , Washington , Norumberland , and Certificate Lists of Northern Liberties we have very flattering accounts that the present constitution will be generally supported—That the ark of our political safety will be preserved entire against all the blast of faction. From York , Adams , Ch ester , Delaware , Berks , Northampton , Montgomery , Bucks , and even Alleghany , Westmoreland and Fayette we have favourable intelligence. In some of those counties the vote will be nearly unanimous for constitutionalists. In Lan-

earlier county the Jacobins and revolutionists will form a truly contemptible minority.
CHAMBERSBURG, April 30.
Departed this life, on Thursday evening, the 23d inst. at his dwelling on Loudon Forge, Major General JAMES CHAMBERS, one of the Associate Judges of Franklin county. General Chambers had been many years subject to violent bilious affections, and had suffered considerably by the late epidemic; but his death was sudden, and unexpected till within a few hours of his last.
WASHINGTON CITY, May 5.
By Intelligence from the West-Indies of the 8th of April, we learn that the British fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Cockerane had arrived. The fleet consists of 6 sail of the line and 3 frigates.
Of Gibraltar.
The Paris Moniteur of the 6th Feb. says, that the troops in camp at St. Roche had received reinforcements and more were expected. The captain general had hemmed in the line of English posts as much as possible; and almost all the garrison of that fortress was encamped without the walls for fear of the contagious fever which still continued its ravages.
PITT AND COBBETT.
We occasionally entertain ourselves by running over Cobbett's Weekly Register. In all his recent attacks on Mr. Pitt, we have met with nothing more singularly forcible than the following passage:
"On the subject of the Volunteer System, for instance, I think myself a much better judge than Mr. Pitt. I know more of the training of soldiers; more of their feelings and motives in all their various situations; more of the organization, the economy and discipline of a battalion; not only more of all this than Mr. Pitt now knows, but more than he ever can know as long as he lives, if he lives for forty years longer, and continues with his corps all the time. Yet, because he has chosen to clothe himself in secret, to gird his waist with a sash, to hang a sword upon his thigh, to put a cockade in his hat, and to call himself a Colonel, I am to hold my tongue, or, at least, am to wag it only in approbation of his military schemes, though exactly contrary to the evidence of my senses, lest, by speaking my mind, I should 'weaken his power,' and thereby possibly hasten the loss of his place. If, during the administration of Mr. Pitt, I should show that the nation has declined; that the liberties of the people have been greatly abridged; that the poor rates have been more than doubled; that confidence has been destroyed between landlord and tenant; that the only effectual check upon the Bank has been removed; that the country has been inundated with paper, while gold and silver have disappeared; that paper notes down to the amount of a few shillings in England, are as low as sixpence in Ireland, are in circulation; that the country has been degraded in the eyes of the world; that she has abandoned her allies; that she has abandoned even her own honors won by our fathers; that her enemy has been exalted above her; and that she is now teetering on the verge of destruction; if I say this, I am, according to this new doctrine, guilty of a heinous offence, but, if I prove it, there are not in the world means sufficient to inflict on me torment adequate to my deserts."
SP. DOMINGO.
The fate of St. Domingo, says the Newburyport Herald, appears suspended on a thread. That city is surrounded by the victorious and ferocious army of blacks, which has carried destruction in every quarter marked by its footsteps. Within the walls are about four thousand Spanish and French troops; who have no alternative but to conquer or die . They are commanded by General Ferrand, whose integrity falls but little short of that of Dessalines or Christophe. He has exercised the most cruel deaths on the blacks who have fallen into his hands—and they know it.
Accounts from New Orleans of the 4th of April, state that the Louisiana Bank went into operation on that day. The Cashier of the Branch Bank of the United States, had arrived and purchased a house for the institution. An Insurance Company, with a capital of 200,000 dollars, is now open for subscriptions in that city.
MARTINSBURG, May 10.
Married, Mr. Ellis Ellis to Mrs. Mary Edelen.—Also Mr. William Lowry to Miss Mary Miller—all of this County.
Died, very suddenly, yesterday afternoon, at his farm near this place, Capt. JOHN KEARNET.
The court of appeals, says the Richmond Enquirer, lately decided, that no inhabitant of the British dominions, who was born before the American revolution can inherit real property in this country, accruing since the revolution.
Jerome Bonaparte—A gentleman just arrived from France, informs that by an imperial decree the Minister of Justice had been ordered to declare the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte with Miss Patterson of Baltimore, null and void; as having been contracted and consummated in contradiction to the laws of France, and the will of Madame Bonaparte, the mother of monsieur Jerome.
[N. Y. Morn. Chronicle.]
Important discovery.
A number of men digging up the earth, in the town of Dover, N. H. for the purpose of making an aqueduct through Mr. David Waldron's land, discovered a vein of dark brown sand running from East to West, much impregnated with quick-silver, of the best quality. Upon close inspection globules of this metal were found dispersed through this vein from the size of the smallest grain of sand to that of a buck shot, which leaves no room to doubt, but upon further attention, larger quantities may be discovered.
From the POLITICAL REGISTER.
While the events of the French Revolution are fresh in our remembrance—while its atrocities are still regarded with horror by every nation of the civilized world—and when its termination, in the absolute despotism of a military leader, ought to operate as an awful warning against Revolutionary innovation—the free, the tranquil, the prosperous, and happy commonwealth of Pennsylvania is threatened with the enactment of similar scenes of misery and desolation.
A spirit of discontent is endeavoured to be excited against that form of government, for which we encountered the toils and dangers of a long and bloody war. Objections are raised to that constitution which it was the dearest wish of our most approved patriots to establish, and which the experience of an uninterrupted prosperity has confirmed as being fully adapted to the preservation of our civil and religious liberty, and the promotion of our individual and social happiness. The most unfounded surmises are offered as reasons for unsettling our government, by the call of a Convention, to reform abuses which do not exist—and the most detestible vices are practised to impose on the weak and the unwary.
Men, who bore no part in the struggle for independence, are the authors of this project—and men, who are careless of consequences are its abettors.—Whether the citizens of Pennsylvania, who, from property, kindred, and real republican principles, are interested in the continuance of her prosperity, and the preservation of her peace and freedom, will yield their fair inheritance a prey to desperate and designing demagogues, remains to be seen.
Without impeaching the good sense and the patriotism of its members, we cannot, for a moment, believe that the legislature will countenance this audacious attempt to plunge the country into irretrievable ruin.—and we must conclude, that this pernicious project will receive a firm and decisive rejection.
"BEWARE OF MEN."
Let the public beware of men who pretend to be violently in love with the people. Such men are commonly political cheats: their object is power: and when they succeed in the attainment of this object, they become oppressors and tyrants. The histories of ancient and modern republics abound with instances in proof of this point; as a sample I will mention the instance of Robespierre. He was an adorer of the people in profession, he loved them with all his heart and soul. No lover in a romance was ever more smitten with the charms of his dulcinea, than Robespierre seemingly
was with the charms of the people. Hear his own language in the national convention of France, on the 20th of April, 1794:
"O my country!" (exclaimed Robespierre) "had destiny made me the inhabitant of a foreign and distant land, I should have addressed continual prayers to heaven for thy prosperity. I should have shed the tears of commiseration at the recital of thy combats and thy victories; my attentive soul would have followed with an anxious ardour, every motion of thy glorious revolution. I should have envied the glory of thy representatives. I am a Frenchman, I am one of thy representatives. O sublime nation! receive the sacrifice of my being; happy is the citizen who is born—happier he who can die for thy welfare."
Now mark the sequel. Five months after Robespierre had palavered the people with these expressions of melting tenderness towards them, Dubois Grance reported to the convention, the following article:—"Almost all our considerable farmers are thrown into prison; the consequence is that their capital is eaten up, their stock gone to ruin, and our lands have lost the almost incalculable effects of their industry."—About the same time, it was calculated that the prisons of Paris alone, and its environs, contained 27,000 people, meanwhile the guillotine was in daily operation. In all those horrid scenes of cruelty and carnage, Robespierre, the pretended lover of the people, was the principal actor.
Reader, whenever you observe a man so deeply in love with the people that he improves every occasion for giving utterance to his patriotic passion, carefully inquire whether his benevolence is remarkable as a husband, as a father, as a neighbour, and as a member of the particular community where he belongs. If you find that in these social relations, he is in no wise distinguished for benevolent conduct, you may rest assured that he is hypocritically and knavishly courting power; which if he should chance to obtain according to his wishes, there is a well grounded presumption that he would use it in the manner of a tyrant.
Especially beware of men who are zealous patriots in profession, but are licentious in their principles and morals. Men of loose principles and profligate lives, often have an insatiable thirst for power; and their object generally is to set themselves above the restraints of law, and to gratify with impunity, their pride, their revenge, and the various evil passions and propensities of their hearts. Possessing no sensibility of conscience, and bound by no moral ties, they scruple not to use any base means that may be likely to accomplish their ends. They soothe and fawn and make fair pretences and flattering speeches; but as soon as they have accomplished their ends, they drop the mask and display the true features of their characters.
Among the sons of David, Absalom was the most vicious, and he was also the most greedy of power.—This same Absalom was a crafty fellow, and knew full well how to spread his snares.—Corrupt and cruel in his dispositions, and prepared to reach the last extremity of human wickedness; he yet was plausible and insinuating in his manners. The ambitious wish that he ejaculated, "Oh that I were made judge of the land," was veiled with the alluring pretence of patriotism. He coveted the highest office in the state, as he pretended, for mere regard to the public welfare, or that he might do justice to every man that had any cause or suit; and what by kissing some, and shaking hands with others, he stole the hearts of the people.
Poor fools! they reflected not that the man who had murdered his brother, and who was plotting to undermine and destroy his father, could not have the yearnings of affection which he pretended, toward them. No.—Though they knew him to be a villain in private life, a fratricide, a parricide in purpose, a debauchee who scrupled not to proclaim his shame on the house top, yet they believed him to be a patriot.
There is no man of common sense who attentively reads the passage of sacred history, and considers the gross immorality and horrible cruelty of Absalom's character, but must conceive it beyond all doubt that he would have proved a most bloody tyrant if he had succeeded to the throne. No person can avoid perceiving that the people acted most stupidly in being led away by that wicked man, and that they deserved the galling yoke, which he doubtless intended to bind upon their necks.
People sometimes fall into inexcusable errors; but when in opposition to the voice of history, experience and common sense, they entrust the management
of their public concerns to men in whose integrity and general morals they have no confidence, their error admits of no excuse, and they deserve no pity. Such silly flies deserve to be entangled and to perish in the web the crafty spider spins for them. It is a solemn truth, that no people can long be free, or even ought to be free, who are so infatuated and self blinded as not to make a bad reputation in private life, a bar to advancement in public stations.
[Connecticut Courant.]
Cheap Goods.
THE subscriber has just received from the City of Philadelphia, and is now opening a large supply of remarkably Cheap Goods, consisting in part of 4-4 and 7-8 Irish Linens, 100 pieces elegant Chintzes and Calicoes of the newest patterns, 1 trunk Fashionable Muslins of different kinds, a handsome assortment of Dimities and Leghorn Bonnets, 4 bales India Muslins, Nankeens, Apron Checks, a handsome assortment of best Brussels Laces and Edgings, extra Long Silk Gloves, and a variety of other articles.
He has also received a large supply of BAR-IRON, of excellent quality and handsomely drawn; English Blister'd and Crowley STEEL;
Also—A parcel of good old WHISKY, distilled in Maryland.
The above Goods having been chiefly purchased for Cash, on the lowest terms, I am happy to inform my friends and the public generally, that I am now enabled to supply them, with such Merchandise as they may want, on good terms.
THOMAS C. SMITH.
Martinsburg, May 10, 1805.
The subscriber has for sale, Cut and Hammered NAILS, of all sizes. JEREMIAH EVANS. Martinsburg, May 10, 1805.
DANCING.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Martinsburg and its vicinity, that he will open a Dancing School in this place, for the instruction of both sexes, on Wednesday the 15th instant, at the house of Mr. Edmund Graham. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who may please to favour him, may rest assured that the most unremitted attention will be paid to pupils entrusted to his tuition and care.
A subscription paper is left at Mr. Graham's. JAMES ROBARDET. Martinsburg, May 10, 1805.
ATTENTION!
THE Troop of Cavalry commanded by Capt. Magnus Tate, are ordered to attend parade at Buckles-Town, on the 25th inst.—A punctual attendance will be necessary, as some appointments are to be made on that day.
JOHN MCLEARY, 1st Serjt. May 10, 1805.
HOUSE & LOT FOR SALE.
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed by Harman M'Knight to me for the purpose of satisfying a sum of money due from said Harman M'Knight to Benjamin Stephenson, will be sold at public vendue, for ready money, on Saturday the first day of June next, at John Smith's tavern in the town of Smithfield, a House and Lot situate in Smithfield aforesaid, on the east side of the main street, and known and distinguished in the plan of said town by Lot No. 3, the property of the said Harman M'Knight. The sale will begin at 12 o'clock, when due attendance will be given by
ANDREW WAGGONER, Jnn. Trustee. May 10, 1805.
The following BLANKS, printed with NEW and ELEGANT TYPE, are always kept for sale at this Office: DEEDS, Common BONDS, Apprentices INDENTURES, Promissory NOTES, &c. &c. &c.

The following Parody, from the North-Carolina Journal, deserves the serious attention of all cigar smokers. It has some poetical spirit and much truth.
PARODY ON HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY. To smoke or not to smoke! that is the question: Whether 'tis better to abjure the habit, And trust the warnings of a scribbling Doctor, Or buy at once a box of best Havana, And ten a day, consume them? To smoke—to puff— Nay more, to waste the tender fabric of the lungs And risk consumption and the thousand ills The practice leads to, 'tis a consummation Directly to be shunn'd. To smoke—to puff— To puff—perhaps to doze! ay there's the rub, For in that dozing state, we thirsty grow: And having burnt the tube up to the stump, We must have drink—and that's one cause We modern youth are destined to short life, For who can bear to feel his mouth parch'd up, His throat like whalebone and his chest exhausted, His head turn giddy and his nerves unstrung, When he himself might dreuch those ills away With wine or brandy—who would lie in smoke, And pine and sicken with a secret poison, But that the dread of breaking o'er a rule Prescribed by fashion (whose controlling will None disobey) puzzles ambitious youth, And makes us rather bear those ills we feel And others that the Doctor warns us of— Thus custom does make spectres of us all. And thus the native hue of our complexion Is sickly'd o'er with pale consumptive cast, The appetite (a loss of greater moment) Pall'd by the weed; and the digestive powers Lose all their actions.
Will be sold at public vendue, on Wednesday the 15th instant, at the late dwelling plantation of Capt. Jonathan Garraway, dec'd, near Mill Creek, Berkeley County, the following Property, viz:
A NEGRO WENCH and her four Children, the oldest a Boy about thirteen years of age, two other Boys and a Girl, Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, and Geese, a Waggon with Geers, Farming Utensils, Household and Kitchen Furniture, among which are a number of Feather Beds, with other articles too numerous to particularize. Nine months credit will be allowed, on giving bond with approved security. The sale will commence about nine o'clock.
JAMES STEPHENSON, Adm'r. May 3, 1805.
WHEREAS the subscriber, in the month of March last, gave his note to a certain William Noland (in consideration for the purchase of a cow) for six dollars and eighty cents, payable the 29th of October, 1805, and the said cow having been bit by a mad dog previous to my purchasing her, in consequence of which she has died, I am therefore determined not to pay the said note unless compelled by law, and do hereby caution all persons from taking an assignment on it.
WILLIAM BENTLEY. Berkeley County, May 3, 1805.
Weaver's Reeds.
ALL kinds of Weaver's Reeds (made by that noted workman Christopher M'Alister) may be had at the following Stores, viz: at Philip Nadenbousch's in Martinsburg, at James & John Lane's, Selby & Crow's, and at Thomas Toole's in Shepherd's-Town, and at James Holland's in Winchester; they may also be had of the subscriber, near Flagg's mill, by the small or large quantity.
CHRISTOPHER M'ALISTER. Berkeley County, May 3, 1805.
WITH a view of promoting the general interests of Learning and Virtue in our country, at the same time that he is necessarily employed in superintending the education of his sons, the subscriber has just opened a Grammar School in Shepherd's-Town, where besides the Latin and Greek Languages, and some of the most useful Sciences, the elements of English Grammar will be carefully taught, and particular pains taken to enable the pupil to speak and write his native tongue with propriety and elegance. The price of tuition for the Learned Languages and science will be $20 per annum; for the English Grammar $16; one half of each session to be paid in advance.
MOSES HOGE. Shepherd's-Town, May 3, 1805.
Spring and Summer Goods.
THE subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has removed his Store to the corner house lately occupied by Messrs. T. Smith & Co. where he has now opened and ready for sale, in addition to his former stock,
A Large and General Assortment of SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, Which will be sold unusually low for Cash or Country Produce. JAMES FAULKNER. Martinsburg, April 15, 1805.
Fresh Spring Goods.
The subscribers have just received from the City of Philadelphia, and are now opening an extensive assortment of
Fresh Fancy Goods, Consisting of Calicos, Chintzes, Dimities, Laced and Plain Cambric Muslins, Leghorn, Willow and Chip Bonnets, Willow Flats, fashionable Craps Bonnets, fancy Ribbons, Lutestrings, Wreaths and artificial Flowers, and a quantity of elegant Damask Silk Shawls, &c. &c.—They have also on hand Bar-Iron, Castings and Steel; which they are selling uncommonly cheap for cash. SELBY & CROW. Shepherd's-Town, April 19, 1805.
Lewis & Robert Willis,
Have just received and are now opening a variety of
SPRING and SUMMER GOODS, Selected from the newest and most fashionable importations, together with a general assortment of
Queen's Ware, Glass Ware, Hard Ware, Sadlery & Cutlery. They have also on hand, Imperial, French Brandy, Hyson, Sherry, Hyson Skin, Port & Wines, Souchong & Lisbon, Bohea, Holland Gin, Country twilled N. E. Rum, Bags, Rye Whiskey, & Spinning Cotton, Apple Brandy, Crowley and Blistered Steel, &c. &c.
All of which they are determined to sell unusually low for Cash, or approved of Country Produce. They are with much respect, the public's obliged and humble servants. Martinsburg, April 12, 1805.
The elegant full-bred Horse, CLYTO,
WILL stand this season at the stable of Mrs. Eckhart in Shepherd's-Town, Jefferson County, the three first days in each week; and the three last days in the week at the stable of James Anderson, in Martinsburg, at the low rate of 8 dollars the season, to be paid against the first of September next, but 6 dollars will be taken in lieu of the 8 if paid within the season, and 12 dollars for insurance, to be paid as soon as the mare is known to be with foal, disposing of the mare forfeits the money whether she is with foal or not. The season has commenced and will end the 1st of July. His colts meet with the approbation of the people generally, and are considered superior to any others in this county. MACKY M'CULLOH. May 3, 1805.
PROPOSALS BY J. D. DIETRICK, Bookseller, HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, For Publishing by Subscription, THE FOLLOWING WORK, FOR WHICH HE HAS OBTAINED A COPY RIGHT.
District of Maryland to wit: Be it remembered, That on the twelfth day of March, in the twenty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Jacob D. Dietrick, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor in the words following, to wit:
"THE NEW AMERICAN Clerk's Magazine," AND Complete Practical Conveyancer.
CONTAINING The most useful and necessary Precedents in Conveyancing, as settled and approved by the most eminent Conveyancers;
WITH Observations and References to the Laws, &c.
With a variety of other useful instruments of writing: The whole of which are adapted to the use of, the Citizens of the United States and more particularly to those of the State of Maryland; under the following heads, viz:
Acquittances, Acknowledgments, Affreightment, Affidavits, Agreements, Annuity, Apprentices, Arbitration, Assignments, Awards, Bargains of Sale, Bills of Sale, Bonds, Bottomry, Contracts, Conditions, Covenants, Composition, Carpenters, Deeds, Distresses, Exchanges, Feoffments, Gifts, Grants, Indentures, Leases, Letters of Attorney, Letters of Licence, Mortgages, Obligations, Oaths, Partitions, Petitions, Promissory Notes, Receipts, Releases, Revocations, Sales, Surrenders, Settlements, Wills, &c. &c.
With Necessary Instructions and forms of Precedents,
For the use of Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Coroners and Constables, and of matters which relate to the duties of Executors and administrators in the settlement of the Estates of deceased persons; also of Guardians, &c. The whole selected from the Laws, and Draughts of actual practice.
BY A GENTLEMAN OF THE BAR."
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors or proprietors of Such Copies, during the times therein mentioned." PHIL: MOORE, Clk. D. C. Maryland.
TO THE PUBLIC. No book could be offered, which stands in less need of encomium and recommendation—The want of such a book as "The New American Clerk's Magazine, and Complete Practical Conveyancer" has been long and generally complained of, and is in innumerable instances severely felt by the people of the state of Maryland in particular.
With a view of facilitating the communication of information, necessary to the interest and happiness of the people, the above work was undertaken, and it is believed, has been executed in a manner that must be extensively useful; it is in considerable forwardness, and will be published in the course of this summer.
CONDITIONS.
1. It shall be neatly and correctly printed in a handsome duodecimo volume, on excellent paper, and an elegant new type. 2. It will contain between three and four hundred pages. 3. It shall be elegantly bound and lettered. 4. The price to subscribers shall be one dollar and twenty-five cents, payable on delivery of the work. 5. Those who subscribe for, or obtain ten subscriptions, and account for the money, shall be entitled to one copy for their trouble.
Subscriptions received by the publisher, and the different gentleman who hold subscription papers.
Subscriptions received at this Office, and by Mr. William Sommerville.
CASH Given for clean Linen and Cotton RAGS, At the Office of the INTELLIGENCER.
REMOVAL.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has removed his store to the corner stone house near the Court-House, formerly occupied by E. Bresson & Sons, and lately by Mr. Jeremiah Evans, where he has on hand a large assortment of
Dry Goods, Groceries, Liquors, &c.
in addition to which he has just received, a very large and well-selected assortment of
Bar-Iron, Plow-Irons, &c.
Also—a quantity of Weaver's REEDS, of all sizes.
THOMAS C: SMITH. Martinsburg, April 5, 1805.
Fresh Spring Goods.
THE subscribers respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they are now opening an extensive and complete assortment of FRESH Spring GOODS, of every description, which they are selling cheap.
JAMES & JOHN LANE. Shepherd's-Town, April 5, 1805.
Will be sold at public vendue, at the tavern of Cyrus Saunders in Charles-Town, on the second day of Jefferson May Court, which will be the 15th day of the month, five strong Wagon HORSES, on a credit of nine months, on bond and approved security being given.
JOSIAH FLAGG. April 26, 1805.
HOTSPUR,
Will stand at my stable this 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, five years old the 19th day of this month. He was got by the Æscopus 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 19, 1805.
N. B. The season has commenced, and will continue till the last of June. W. P.
A LARGE QUANTITY OF FRESH Clover Seed
for sale, by JEREMIAH EVANS.
Martinsburg, March 29, 1805.
MARTINSBURG, Berkeley County, Virginia; Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.
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