Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1804-11-23 00:00:00

By W. T. ... a N.Y. ...
Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
[No. 27 of VOLUME VI.]
FRIDAY, November 23, 1804.
[WHOLE No. 286.]
The subscribers once more solicit leave to return thanks to a liberal and generous Public for the extensive encouragement experienced since commencement in the Mercantile business.
They have just received, and are now opening a very extensive and general assortment of
FALL and WINTER
GOODS, all of the latest importations, well selected and purchased at the City of Philadelphia by the acting partner of the firm.
As the present existing firm will shortly be dissolved by agreement, and as no accounts can be opened in future, the whole of the above mentioned assortment will be disposed of on the most reasonable terms for Cash, either by retail, piece, or package.—It is most probable, as the goods wares and merchandise have been purchased with ready money, and at the best markets, the public will be interested (particularly at this time) to contribute a generous share of custom.
THOMAS SMITH, & Co. Martinsburg, October 26, 1804.
THAT well-known House and Lot, situate on the corner of Queen and Burke streets, and which is at present in the occupancy of Thomas Smith, & Co. will be sold on the most reasonable terms, and possession given on the first day of March next. It is thought unnecessary to describe the conveniences and the late improvements made on the said property—its situation and present improved state will be a sufficient recommendation.—A Stand so eligible for public business, and not excelled, if equalled, by any in this town, will be the greatest inducement to procure a purchaser or purchasers. An indisputable right will be made in fee-simple. For terms apply to Thomas Smith.
THOMAS SMITH, & Co.
Fresh Fall Goods.
The subscriber respectfully acquaints his friends and the public that he has just received and is now opening a very general assortment of
FALL and WINTER
GOODS,
which he will dispose of on reasonable terms.
JEREMIAH EVANS.
Martinsburg, November 9, 1804.
Being extremely anxious to settle his accounts, he earnestly requests all those who stand indebted to him, to come forward immediately and discharge their respective dues. J. EVANS.
To hire for the ensuing year, two
Negro Men,
who have been brought up to neat farming. For terms apply to the subscriber near Martinsburg.
JOHN DUGAN.
November 16, 1804.
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 Lime-stone 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, Pulling 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 Potomac, 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, 1804.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE subscriber some time since purchased a Cow, from John Miller, of Back Creek Berkeley County, and gave his note for 16 dollars payable in 9 months after date—and it since appearing that the said Miller had no right to said cow, she having been taken in execution by the Constable previous to his getting possession of her, in consequence of which she has been taken from me.
This is therefore to caution the public from taking an assignment on said note, as I am determined not to pay it unless compelled by law.
MARTIN SMURR.
Martinsburg, October 26, 1804.
A GREAT BARGAIN.
THE subscriber will sell low the HOUSE in which he now lives at the East end of the Court-House, fronting on the Public-Square and Queen-Street, and but a few poles from the Market-House; the building is almost new, made of frame weather-boarded, and painted white, a capacious and convenient Store-room laid off on the public corner, there are two other rooms on the lower floor, and three on the second, with convenient back buildings; the stand for a store is equal, and perhaps more pleasantly situated, than any other in this place.
JAMES ANDERSON.
Martinsburg, October 26, 1804.
NOTICE.
THOSE who purchased at the sale of Mr. John Mark in November last, will recollect that their notes became due the 18th day of August.—They are lodged in my hands for collection, and I am directed to give notice that unless they are discharged in a short time, suits will be indiscriminately brought for their recovery.
All others who are indebted to Mr. Mark, either by bond, note, or otherwise, are also informed that I am authorised to collect the same, and that very little longer indulgence can be given.
JOHN BAKER.
Shepherd's-Town, October 26, 1804.
FOR SALE.
A TRACT of 207 acres of good lime-stone Land, lying 6 miles from Shepherd Town, on the main road leading from thence to Charles Town, Jefferson County 150 acres of which are cleared, and a proportionable quantity of Meadow Land, well enclosed and in good farming condition. There are 4 good springs on the land a good bearing Apple Orchard—and some other fruit Trees. Two convenient dwelling houses, barn and other out buildings. For terms apply to the subscriber living on the premises.
MASON BENNET.
October 26th, 1804.
A GREAT BARGAIN.
THE subscriber residing in the State of Ohio, at present in this county, and having a determination to sell his plantation situate at the Bridge on Opeckun Creek, Berkeley County, will give a great bargain of the said Land to any person inclining to purchase. This tract contains, 375 acres, more than 200 acres of which are cleared, about 70 acres of good bottom land, all of which can easily be converted into meadow. The above land can be so divided as to form two good farms, the whole clear of incumbrance, and possession can be had immediately. As it is presumed no person will purchase without first viewing the property, it is not tho' necessary to descend to further particulars. The seller will remain on or near the premises until the 20 November next, and will contract with any person wishing to purchase.
DANIEL VAN METRE.
October 26th 1804.
President's Message.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 1804.
THIS DAY at 12 o'clock, the President of the United States delivered the follow Message to both houses of Congress, by Mr. Burwell, his Secretary.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.
TO a people, fellow citizens who sincerely desire the happiness and prosperity of other nations, to those who justly calculate that their own well being is advanced by that of the nations with which they have intercourse, it will be a satisfaction to observe that the war which was lighted up in Europe, a little before our last meeting, has not yet extended its flames to other nations, nor been marked by the calamities which sometimes stain the footsteps of war. The irregularities too on the ocean which generally harass the commerce of neutral nations, have, in distant parts disturbed ours less than on former occasions. But in the American seas, they have been greater from peculiar causes; and even within our harbours and jurisdiction infringements on the authority of the laws have been committed which have called for serious attention. The friendly conduct of the governments from whose officers and subjects these acts have proceeded, in other respects, and in places more under their observation and control, gives us confidence that our representations on this subject will have been properly regarded.
While noticing the irregularities committed on the ocean by others, those on our part should not be admitted or left unprovided for. Complaints have been received that persons residing within the United States, have taken on themselves to arm merchant vessels and to force a commerce into certain ports and countries, in defiance of the laws of those countries.—That individuals should undertake to wage private war, independently of the authority of their country, cannot be permitted in a well ordered society. Its tendency to produce aggression on the laws and rights of other nations, and to endanger the peace of our own is so obvious, that I doubt not you will adopt measures for the restraining it effectually in future.
Soon after the passage of the act of the last session, authorising the establishment of a district and port of entry on the waters of the Mobile, we learnt that its object was misunderstood on the part of Spain. Candid explanations were immediately given, and assurances, that reserving our claims in that quarter as a subject of discussion, and arrangement with Spain, no act was meditated in the mean time inconsistent with the peace and friendship existing between the two nations; and that conformably to these intentions would be the execution of the law. That government however had thought proper to suspend the ratification of the convention of 1802. But the explanations which would reach them soon after, and still more the confirmation of them by the tenor of the instrument establishing the port and district may reasonably be expected to replace them in the dispositions and views of the whole subject which originally dictated the convention.
I have the satisfaction to inform you, that the objections which had been urged by that government against the validity of our title to the country of Louisiana have been withdrawn, its exact limits however remaining still to be settled between us.—And to this is to be added that having prepared and delivered the stock created in execution of the convention of Paris of April 30th, 1803 in consideration of the session of that country, we have received from the government of France an acknowledgment in due form of the fulfilment of that stipulation.
With the nations of Europe in General our friendship and intercourse are undisturbed; and from the governments
of the belligerent powers especially, we continue to receive those friendly manifestations which are justly due to an honest neutrality and to such good offices consistent with that, as we have opportunities of rendering.
The activity and success of the small force employed in the Mediterranean, in the early part of the present year, the reinforcements sent into that sea, and the energy of the officers having command in the several vessels will I trust by the sufferings of war, reduce the barbarians of Tripoli to the desire of peace on proper terms.—Great injury however ensues to ourselves as well as to those interested, from the distance to which prizes must be bro't for adjudication, and from the impracticability of bringing hither such as are not sea-worthy.
The Bey of Tunis having made requisitions unauthorised by our treaty, their rejection has produced from him some expressions of discontent. But to those who expect us to calculate whether a compliance with unjust demands will not cost us less than a war, we must leave as a question of calculation for them also whether to retire from unjust demands will not cost them less than a war. We can do to each other very sensible injuries by war. But the mutual advantages of peace make that the best interest of both.
Peace and intercourse with other powers on the same coast continue on the footing on which they are established by treaty.
In pursuance of the act providing for the temporary government of Louisiana, the necessary officers for the territory of Orleans were appointed in due time to commence the exercise of their functions on the 1st day of October.—The distance however of some of them, and indispensable previous arrangements may have retarded its commencements in some of its parts. The form of government thus provided (having been considered but as temporary, and open to such future improvements as further information of the circumstances of our brethren there might suggest, it will of course be subject to your consideration.
In the district of Louisiana it has been thought best to adopt the division into subordinate districts which had been established under its former government. These being five in number, a commanding officer has been appointed to each, according to the provisions of the law, and so soon as they can be at their stations, that district will also be in its due state of organization. In the mean time, their places are supplied by the officers before commanding there, and the functions of the governor and judges of Indiana having commenced, the government, we presume, is proceeding in its new form. The lead mines in that district offer so rich a supply of that metal, as to merit attention. The report now communicated will inform you of their state, and of the necessity of immediate enquiry into their occupation and titles.
With the Indian tribes established within our newly acquired limits, I have deemed it necessary to open conferences for the purpose of establishing a good understanding and neighbourly relations between us. So far as we have yet learned, we have reason to believe that their dispositions are generally favourable and friendly. And, with these dispositions on their part, we have in our hands means which cannot fail us, for preserving their peace and friendship. By pursuing an uniform course of justice towards them, by aiding them in all the improvements which may better their condition, and especially by establishing a commerce on terms which shall be advantageous to them, and only not loosing to us, and so regulated as that no incendiaries, of our own, or any other nation, may be permitted to disturb the natural effects of our just and friendly offices, we may render ourselves so necessary to their comfort and prosperity, that the protection of our citizens from their disorderly members will become their interest and their voluntary care. Instead, therefore, of an augmentation of military force proportioned to our extension of frontier, I propose a moderate enlargement of the capital employed in that commerce as a more effectual,

economical and humane instrument for preserving peace and good neighbourhood with them.
On this side the Mississippi an important relinquishment of native title has been received from the Delawares. That tribe, desiring to extinguish in their people the spirit of hunting, and to convert superfluous lands into the means of improving what they retain, has ceded to us all the country between the Wabash and Ohio, south of, and including the road from the rapids towards Vincennes; for which they are to receive annuities in animals and implements for agriculture, and in other necessaries. This acquisition is important, not only for its extent and fertility, but as fronting three hundred miles on the Ohio, and near half that on the Wabash, the produce of the settled country descending those rivers will no longer pass in review of the Indian frontier, but in a small portion; and, with the cession heretofore made by the Kaskaskias, nearly consolidates our possessions north of the Ohio, in a very respectable breadth from Lake Erie to the Mississippi. The Piankashaws having some claim to the country ceded by the Delawares, it has been thought best to quiet that by fair purchase also. So soon as the treaties on this subject shall have received their constitutional sanctions, they shall be laid before both houses.
The act of Congress of February 28, 1803, for building and employing a number of gun-boats, is now in a course of execution to the extent there provided for. The obstacle to naval enterprise which vessels of this construction offer for our sea-port towns, their utility towards supporting within our waters the authority of the laws, the promptness with which they will be manned by the seamen and militia of the place in the moment they are wanting, the facility of their assembling from different parts of the coast to any point where they are required in greater force than ordinary, the economy of their maintenance and preservation from decay when not in actual service, and the competence of our finances to this defensive provision without any new burthen, are considerations which will have due weight with Congress in deciding on the expediency of adding to their number from year to year, as experience shall test their utility, until all our important harbours, by these and auxiliary means, shall be secured against insult and opposition to the laws.
No circumstance has arisen since your last session which calls for any augmentation of our regular military force. Should any improvement occur in the militia system, that will always be seasonable.
Accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the last year, with estimates for the ensuing one, will, as usual, be laid before you.
The state of our finances continues to fulfil our expectations. Eleven millions and an half of dollars, received in the course of the year ending on the 30th of September last, have enabled us, after meeting all the ordinary expenses of the year, to pay upwards of three millions six hundred thousand dollars of the public debt, exclusive of interest. This payment, with those of the two preceding years has extinguished upwards of twelve millions of principal, and a greater sum of interest, within that period; and, by a proportionate diminution of interest renders always sensible the effect of the growing sum yearly applicable to the discharge of the principal.
It is also ascertained that the revenue accrued during the last year, exceeds that of the preceding: and the probable receipts of the ensuing year, may safely be relied on as sufficient, with the sum already in the Treasury, to meet all the current demands of the year, to discharge upwards of three millions and an half of the engagements incurred under the British and French conventions, and to advance in the further redemption of the funded debt as rapidly as had been contemplated.
These, fellow citizens are the principal matters which I have thought it necessary at this time to communicate for your consideration and attention. Some others will be laid before you in the course of the Session. But in the discharge of the great duties confided to you by our country, you will take a broader view of the field of legislation. Whether the great interests of agriculture, manufactures, commerce or navigation, can, within the pale of your constitutional powers, be aided in any of their relations? Whether laws are provided in all cases where they are wanting? Whether those provided are exactly what they should be? Whe-
ther any abuses take place in their administration or in that of the public revenues? Whether the organization of the public agents, or of the public force is perfect in all its parts? In fine, whether any thing can be done to advance the general good?—are questions within the limits of your functions, which will necessarily occupy your attention. In these and all other matters, which you in your wisdom may propose for the good of our country, you may count with assurances on my hearty co-operation and faithful execution.
THS: JEFFERSON.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
November 5,
Being the day appointed by law for the meeting of Congress, a quorum was formed; the members present were 84. Three of whom were new members, viz.
Christopher Clark of Virginia, in the room of John Trigg, deceased.
Samuel Riker, of the state of New-York, in the room of John Smith appointed a senator of the United States, and Simon Larned of the state of Massachusetts, in the room of Thompson J. Skinner, resigned.
These were severally sworn to support the constitution of the United States, and thereupon took their seats.
On motion of Mr. J. Randolph it was ordered that the clerk (Mr. John Beckley) notify the Senate that a quorum of the House was formed and ready to proceed to business.
Mr. Beckley mentioned to the Speaker that the members of the Senate had adjourned half an hour ago, but had not formed a quorum.
Letters from the Governors of Virginia and Massachusetts were received by the Speaker and laid on the table without being read, as was also another in the German language.
Pursuant to the standing rules and orders of the house, the following committees were appointed, viz.
A committee of Elections, consisting of Messrs. Findley, Varnum, Livingston, Kennedy, Eppes, Clagett and Elmer.
A committee of Ways and Means consisting of Messrs. J. Randolph, Joseph Clay, G. Griswold, Boyle, Davenport, N. R. Moore and Meriwether.
One of Commerce and Manufactures, consisting of Messrs. S. L. Mitchell, Crowningshield, M'Creery, Leib, Newton, Early and Chittenden.
Another of Claims, consisting of Messrs. J. C. Smith, Holmes, Chamberlain, Stanford, Plater and Bedinger.
And also one of revisal and unfinished business, consisting of Messrs. Tenny, Dickson and Earle.
The Clerk was then directed to supply the members with the usual number of such newspapers as they might severally direct—After which it was
Resolved, That the daily hour to which the House shall stand adjourned during the present session, be eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
Adjourned.
November 6.
Mr. J. Randolph requested information from the Chair as to the situation in which the articles of impeachment against Samuel Chase, one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the United States, were left at the last session. The house would recollect that they were then merely reported and ordered to be printed. If that business was to be prosecuted, he conceived it of importance that the party should have all the time to prepare for his defence that their political existence would allow him. Was it the opinion of the speaker that this subject was before the committee of revisal and unfinished business, or should it be referred to a special committee to prepare articles de novo .
The Speaker judged that it was before the committee of revisal and unfinished business as a matter of course.
On motion of Mr. J. Randolph, a select committee, to consist of five members, was ordered to report on the articles of impeachment against S. Chase, one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the United States.
November 7.
A message from the senate, informing that they had concurred in the resolution of the house that two Chaplains of different denominations be appointed, on their part they have appointed the rev. Mr. M'Cormick.
Mr. Thomas of New-York, moved to proceed by ballot, to appoint a Chaplain on the part of the house.
Upon examining the ballot the votes were found to be, for
 Mr. Bentley, 61  Mr. Lawrie, 21  Mr. Parkinson, 15  Mr. Gantt, 2 
The first named gentleman having a majority of the whole number of votes, was consequently appointed, and Mr. Beckley was desired to acquaint the senate therewith.
November 8.
Mr. J. Clay offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to present in the name of Congress to Captain Stephen Decatur, a sword of the value of 1000 dollars, and to each of the officers and crew of the U. States' Ketch Intrepid, 12 months pay, as a testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the gallantry, good conduct and services of capt. Decatur, the officers and crew of the said Ketch, in attacking and destroying a Tripolitan frigate of 44 guns, late the United States' frigate Philadelphia.
The resolution was referred to a committee of the whole on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed.
November 9.
The petition of John Steele, presented last session, and the petition of George Little, late of the Boston frigate, now first presented for indemnity against a judgment in the Supreme court for 10,182 dollars 89 cents damages, for the illegal detention of a foreign vessel taken in the West-Indies, in the year 1799, were referred to the committee of claims.
Dr. Mitchell moved the order of the day on the President's message, but on Mr. J. Randolph's request for a little more time for members to digest and arrange the various important points contained in that communication, Dr. Mitchell withdrew his motion.
Mr. J. Clay's motion relative to Capt. Decatur, the officers and crew of the Intrepid ketch, was taken up in committee of the whole.
Mr. Varnum in the chair.
On motion of Mr. Clay the resolution was altered by striking out after the word "sword" the words "of the value of 1000 dollars," and filling up the other blank with the word "two," and thereby giving the officers and crew 2 months pay.
Mr. J. Clay, with a view of shewing the propriety of the measure, read extracts of letters from commodore Preble and lieut. Decatur, which had been obtained from the secretary of the navy: they contained an account of the circumstances attending this honorable exploit, which have heretofore been printed in the public newspapers.
The committee rose and reported the resolution as amended.
Mr. Griswold presumed the object of this step was to pay a tribute of respect to those brave men who had so gallantly achieved this glorious and dangerous enterprise. He wished to do this in a manner the most honourable and notorious, and perhaps the best course would be to obtain from the head of the navy department a list of the names of the officers and the number of the crew, together with a detail of the circumstances attending the event. With this view he moved to postpone the consideration of the resolution reported by the committee of the whole till to-morrow, in order to introduce a resolution to this effect: That the secretary of the navy be directed to communicate to this house the names of the officers and the number of the men employed in destruction of the frigate in the harbour of Tripoli, together with a statement of the circumstances attending that event.
The postponement was agreed to without opposition, and the resolution of Mr. Griswold was adopted with a small variation suggested by Mr. J. Randolph, and acquiesced in by the mover, viz. "That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before this house, &c."
Mr. J. Clay and Mr. T. M. Randolph were appointed a committee to wait on the President and communicate the request of the house.
On Motion of Mr. Holmes, it was agreed that when the house adjourns, it adjourn to Monday next.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12.
By capt. Gilder from Cape Francois, we have the following melancholy account:—The humanity of captain Gibson, of the Pilgrim, having induced him to take on board some French
whites, who wished to escape the dreadful cruelty of the Blacks: they were missed: a general search took place when the blacks discovered the above passengers on board the Pilgrim, on which they took the captain. Robert Tate, first mate, and 13 passengers on shore; immediately after their landing they hung Mr. Tate and two of the French passengers on the public Wharf. capt. Gibson was ordered to be shot, but the corporal who was ordered to shoot him, making some delay by refusing to do it without the order of his commander, gave time for the intercession of some Americans and the Captain's life was saved.
Several French regiments, that had formerly served under MOREAU, in Germany, have under a pretence of a mutinous disposition, been disbanded, and the men in them sent to the colonial depots, or incorporated with regiments that had been in Egypt.—This despotic act caused a great deal of murmuring; and when BUONAPARTE, the night after, went to the Theatre at Boulogne, he experienced proofs of the public opinion, such as he little expected, and which caused the theatre to be shut up—the drama of Peter the Great was represented; when this Emperor was announced by his heralds, the pit cried out, "No Emperor! No Emperor!" To this BONAPARTE paid little attention; nor when, in another part, at the arrival of the Prince of the Blood , the pit cried, "Vive De' Enghien"; but when, in the second act, Peter the Great threatens his faithful and brave General Le Fort , with Siberia, "Vive Moreau!" resounded from every part; the Corsican left the Theatre in a rage, and ordered the Public Commissary to surround the house with soldiers and find out who the emissaries of PIT were, that disturbed the audience, and insulted him by their disloyal behaviour, and seditious acclamations. Every person was of course, obliged to shew his pass, or give an account of himself.
Extract of a letter from an officer of rank at New Orleans, to his correspondent in Boston, dated September 13.
"The summer has been uncommonly warm, this season one of the most sickly that has been for many years. This arises from the great number of strangers who have come to this country. It is worthy of remark, and there has been but one or two instances of the fever having attacked persons who have resided in the city one year.
"I have lost some valuable soldiers, but not so many as probably is reported—The whole number of deaths among the troops since my arrival, (the first of June last) does not exceed fifty. This, considering the great number who have been sick, and when compared with the mortality among strangers of a different description cannot be thought a very great loss. Great it is, however to us, to whom the lives of our men are precious."
MARTINSBURG, November 28.
The Legislature of Delaware, on Monday last, made choice of the following gentlemen for electors of President and Vice-President,
Maxwell Bines, of New-Castle, George Kennard, of Kent, and Thomas Fisher, of Sussex county—All Federal Republicans.
The following day, the Hon. James A. Bayard, was elected a senator of the United States for the state of Delaware, to serve until the 4th of March next, in the room of the Hon. William H. Wells, resigned.
In January next, the Legislature will have to elect a Senator of the United States for the term of six years from the 4th of March next, when we hope Mr. Bayard will be chosen—At the present juncture, when the small states are almost swallowed up by the large ones, and an overpowering majority transact business by a species of dum legislation, the influence of Mr. Bayard in the House of Representatives cannot be as great as in the Senate; there, the large and small states are upon an equality; there, some respect is paid to reason and eloquence; and there, he will be more immediately in the cabinet of the Executive. By electing Mr. Bayard to this station, the legislature will add to the confidence reposed in his talents and integrity, and convince those who have endeavoured to drive him from public life, that he is still rich in the esteem of the people of Delaware. [Phil. Pap.]
By the account of the Election in Boston it will be seen that the people have

granted leave of absence from congress to another of the champions of democracy. Dr. Eustis and Mr. Rodney may now congratulate each other upon the increasing discernment and integrity of the people, so much boasted of by the democrats. Federalism must have gained a great accession of strength in Boston since the last election, as it appears by comparing the votes for the electoral ticket with those for member of congress that more than 350 federalists refused to vote against Eustis, and every democratic vote was given for him, still he lost his election by a large majority.
Four thousand two hundred and twenty-two SLAVES, have been imported into the city of Charleston, from the 1st of January last to the 22d of October.
The French Frigates that have been several months back—at N. York, have made their escape through the Sound, and the English have left the Hook in pursuit.
STEPHEN C. USTIC is appointed Post Master of Burlington, in the place of THOMPSON NEALE, esq. turned out. The persecuting spirit of the Post master General is so often manifested in his removals from office, that it now ceases to excite surprise, tho' exercised in the most unwarrantable and unjustifiable manner. The removal of Mr. NEALE is an instance, we believe, of special abuse of power, and therefore highly resented by the talkers about republicanism and liberty. Our democratic rulers construe the liberty of Americans to mean the liberty of being punished for a conscientious exercise of their rights and privileges. Their placemen and pensioners, stand ready to applaud every measure brought forward on these tyrannical principles—for it is the price of their bread. [ Tren. Fed. ]
Case of Col. Burr.—A grand jury of the state of New Jersey having presented a bill of indictment for murder, against this gentleman, it has become an interesting question whether the crime of which he has been guilty is really murder in legal signification. By the common law, if the stroke of which one dies be given in one county and he die in another, it is not murder in either. The case being much stronger between different states, it is supposed that as General Hamilton died in New-York and not in New Jersey, Col. Burr cannot be guilty of murder. But the fact is otherwise; for by a particular statute of the state of New Jersey, if the stroke be given in New Jersey, and the death ensues in another state, it is murder. No doubt therefore remains of the nature of the crime, and the grand jury have been correct.
Gaz. United States.
A person from Barracoa, informs, that the French picaroons, have lately had such bad success in taking Americans, who, they now find, are determined to defend their property; and that in attempting to capture, some of them they got hard knocks most of them have given up privateering as a bad business; even Matthews, in the Saucy Jack, begins to think honesty is the best policy, and says, he believe he can make more by drouging than privateering.—Good cannon carry sound arguments!
Phil. True American.
Emperor Napoleon!—We feel an almost irresistible propensity to laugh, every time the wonderful idea of the metamorphosis of Napoleon Bonaparte into a French republican Emperor, presents itself to our minds' eye. And we should certainly be guilty of that most unpardonable act of indecorum, were we not admonished, restored to serenity, or forced into seriousness, by the miserable canting, or lugubrious whinings, of our democratic brethren.
Well they may lament his apostasy. He was once the object of their idolatrous worship. He has deceived them. And they know not how to apologize for the mistaken confidence they reposed in him. With some he is an object of compassion; they contemplate him, as Milton did Satan, in his faded glory
—“faded but not extinct”—they discover that His form has not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appears Less than Arch Angel ruin'd.”
By others he is now as unmercifully loaded with execration, as, but a short time ago he was bedaubed with praises,
less deserved. He was then the great, the wise, the good, the friend of man, the pacificator of the world, the patron and protector of liberty; is now in his best features a tyrannical hypocrite.—He who, in the month of October 1803, was the just equitable chief of the “enlightened government of France;” in October 1804, is a gloomy, selfish Despot, who to gratify his own inordinate lust of power, would rivet the chains of slavery on the universe!!!
With the majority of the Federalists he is just what he ever was, and what they have ever represented him to be: a grasping, ambitious, insatiable, and blood thirsty tyrant. In the square of Toulon, in the streets of Paris, in Italy, in Egypt, and on the Imperial throne he is and must continue to be, Bonaparte. His character is traced in the blood of the innocent; it will never be effaced.
In the Richmond Enquirer, of the 8th Sept. there is one of the numbers of a paper called the Rainbow, (written, as we are informed, by an association of some of “the choice and master spirits of the age,”) in which will be found the sentence that follows.
“Bonaparte might have ranked with the Scipios or the Catos of antiquity; he is now associated with the despots of Europe. His venerated name would have gone down the stream of time, 'till time should be no more, and unfading laurels have encircled his immortal brow;—it will descend with accelerating disgrace to the latest posterity; and infamy, eternal, everlasting, will be inseparably connected with his name.”
The venerated name of Bonaparte!! Was it the butchery of the Toulonese that excited the veneration of this writer?—Would the massacre of Paris confer immortality? When, in Italy, he put whole Municipalities to the sword, was he there to collect his unfading laurels? Did his assumption of the name of Brutus rank him with the Scipios and the Catos of antiquity? The cool and deliberate destruction of Jaffa, the inhuman murder of his fellow soldiers, find nothing in ancient history with which they can be compared. Yet all these, and numberless other atrocities, were performed in his days of glory and virtue; when he was earning these unfading laurels; when his name was pronounced with veneration; when his brow merited, the wreath of immortality.—No; his name will never die: it stands, by almost every act of his life, “Damn'd to everlasting fame.”
“It will descend with accelerating disgrace to the latest posterity; and infamy, eternal infamy will be inseparably connected with it.” But it had well deserved, and had become indissolubly yoked with this companion, long before his assumption of imperial rank. That act may serve to render him ridiculous, but it adds little to the catalogue of his crimes, and is scarcely observed to augment the immeasurable monument of infamy, which he has raised to perpetuate the memory of his deeds.
And yet it would appear as if, not only the writer of this number of the Rainbow, but every other of his party, view this as the only reprehensible, the only disgraceful act of Bonaparte. This was to be expected. The name, and not the thing, we have long since known to be the object of their attention. They had no objections to all power being possessed by Bonaparte, under the denomination of Consul for life; but the same powers become criminal the moment they are exercised under the title of King or Emperor.
He who might lawfully, and in perfect consistency with the principles of liberty, do every arbitrary act under one title, attempting the same under another is guilty of treason against the liberties of his country. Consistent and profound Statesmen! Will ye pretend to say that the new constitution of France, confers on Bonaparte the exercise of any power, essentially connected with liberty, which he did not before possess? [ Repertory. ]
MANKIND are never deceived by artful and designing individuals, but under the specious appearance of virtue, and the sound of fair promises. In the moral world, the hypocrite, the wretch who has passions so furious and strong as to extinguish all sense of justice, humanity, and common honesty in his bosom, and yet powerful enough to suppress those passions at his will, and to disguise them even from the keen eye of suspicion; he, I say, is the person who carries imposition undetected, till he establishes a reputation which gives authority, strong as proof of holy writ, to his words, and makes him, till he is detected,
the arbiter of his fellow creatures, opinion in the circle, whether wide or narrow, in which he moves. Like Blifil, in the Novel, and Joseph Surface, in the Play, he is all virtue, piety and morality without; but all vice, selfishness, malice, and deformity within.—He becomes in the general eye, a kind of sacred character which it is sinful to suspect or examine, till some accident, some failure in a wicked plot, some detection in an atrocious crime—the discovery of a letter or the falling of a screen, discovers the villain, and develops, all at once, his crimes. In like manner, the political impostor affects more than common purity of intention; he is all nun's flesh: he has scarcely the common appetites of his nature; and as for passions, he dispises them. He wonders how any one can care for his own advantage, and convenience, or for the advantage and consequence of his children and relatives.—He is quite hurt that a great being, like man, should be so base and unpatriotic as to put the paltry concerns of filial or parental duties and affections, which he calls prejudices, in competition with the love of civicism; and again, how he can be so prejudiced as to be attached to any country in particular, when his heart should be above stooping to less than the all comprehensive embrace of the universe. He insists that the duties of man are, to be first a cosmopolite, next a patriot, and last, if at all, a good father or a good son; with special care not to loose an atom of his natural rights and liberties, by submitting to the controul of a parent. Then adverting to patriotism, he flashes in the face of the multitude a whole train of political fire-works; serpent boxes full of liberty; whirlwheels of natural rights; crackers of combustible promises; and squibs of false stories and calumnies. Liberty and natural rights being at the tail of every thing, as the Latin word finis brings up the rear of every book, whether written in Latin, English, French or Spanish; or Physics, Laws, Politics or Divinity.
When the designs of this kind of person begins to develop itself, and to assume a little shape—when the future Toad advances from the loathsome Spawn to the more loathsome Tadpole, the first thing the discerning eye perceives is an ultimate view to destroy those very rights of which my political impostor speaks so much and so loudly, by destroying governments, and those conventions of civil society, from which alone rights are acquired, and to which alone true liberty owes at once its birth, its protection, and its only possible security. In vain the true friends of men (the wise) point out the danger; the stupid, headstrong multitude, rush on like Moths upon the flame of a candle, and will not allow themselves to be dissuaded, or find their error, till their wings are singed to the body, and the poor mealy fools find themselves sprawling and helpless in hot tallow, or at the bottom of the candlestick.
That rights arise along with governments from the conventions of civil society and are not derived from nature, are truths which the people do not commonly know, because political impostors find it conducive to the progress of their wicked designs to keep them out of sight, and men are more willing to believe whatever tends to flatter them at the time than to serve them eventually; and in general prefer the quick fire of pleasure to the lasting permanent glow of comfort, tranquility, and true equable moderate content.
Those impostures therefore artfully array those fictitious natural rights, against the true substantial rights of convention, and by their cunning misrepresentations, enlist a majority of the people on the side of the former, which of course gain the victory, so that when the battle is over the people find their real rights dead on the field, and nothing remaining but their impostor—their demagogue who having now nothing but fictitious rights (natural rights) to resist him, makes what use of them he pleases, bends them to his will, and with them in his pocket tramples upon the people whom he took so much pains to flatter.
This has been exactly the case in France, enfreized by political impostors they set up the rights of man against the established legal conventional rights of society. Every landmark for centuries placed round those true rights of the people, was obliterated, and when piece by piece the whole was frittered away, comes the Grand Master Impostor of the whole, and with the words Rights and Liberties of the people in his mouth, even in the very act of his enthronement; in the midst of his murders, spoliations, treasons and imprisonings: in the thunder of his cannon, the roar of his mus-
quetry, and the clattering of his bayonets, tramples upon them all, and leaves rights, liberties France and Frenchmen weltering in blood at his feet.—Take heed Americans! You are in the dire et French road of the rights of man. Take heed that seeking for wool you do not come home shorn. That looking for false liberty, you do not get your necks into veritable chains.
[ Charleston Courier. ]
Public Sale.
FOR sale on Wednesday the 28th instant, at Traveller's Rest , Jefferson County; one strong WAGGON, a number of CATTLE and HORSES, also a quantity of CORN and PORK.—The terms will be made known on the day of sale.
JOHN BAKER. Traveller's Rest , Nov. 23, 1804.
Dr. J. P. Harris
Has just received, in addition to a very large and extensive assortment of
Drugs, Medicine, & Paints,
a considerable quantity of West-India Fruit, such as ORANGES, LEMONS and RAISONS, and Confection of almost every kind.
He has also on hand a quantity of the best PERUVIAN BARK.
He earnestly requests all who are indebted to him, to come forward and discharge their accounts. Those who fail to do so, by the 1st of January next, need expect no further indulgence.
An Overseer.
THE subscriber wishes to engage an Overseer, a sober, active industrious man, who has been accustomed to the business, and can come properly recommended.—He has a Tenement to let of about 150 acres of the first quality of lime-stone land.
RAWLEIGH COLSTON. November 23, 1804.
INFORMATION WANTED.
IF a certain Robert Gordon, son to Thomas Gordon of Carnstroan, county of Antrim, Ireland, who some time ago immigrated to this country, or his legal representatives, will call on the subscriber in this town, he or they will be informed of an estate in Ireland, of one thousand pounds sterling per annum, to which he or his heirs are entitled on the death of a Mr. John Gordon, who is lately deceased.
HUGH KENNEDY. Hager's-town, Maryland, Nov. 23.
The subscriber has just received, and is now opening, another supply of SUMMER and FALL
GOODS.
Which in addition to his former stock, makes his assortment very complete, and well worthy the attention of those who may need such articles as he has for sale, both for cheapness and quality: Among which are, assorted
Bolting Cloths,
Nos. 7, 6, 5, 4, and 3,
Those are of the first rate, and warranted good: the subscriber has formed a connection with an Importing House in Baltimore, who are always to keep his assortment complete; those who live at a distance and may want good Bolting Cloths will never be disappointed in coming here for them; the price is as low as in any inland town on this continent.
N. B. The subscriber also takes leave to inform the public, that his mill is now in complete order for the reception of Grain: He solicits the custom of those who can from convenience send him their grinding.
The highest price, as usual, given for wheat, Rye and Corn delivered at his mill.
PHILIP NADENBOUSCH. Marienburg, July 6, 1804.

THE PRIDE OF THE NAVY—OF GUN BOAT NO. 1.
(Parodied, and to the tune of "Go patter to lubbers, &c.")
YOU may laugh ye land lubbers, and joke d'ye see,
'Bout BOAT number one of the Navy;
A "whirligig gun" in a shallop give me, To blow British ships to Old Davy.
Should John Bull's seventy-fours dare hazard a fight,
By my soul we will shew them what's civil,
Hoist boom—fire away—then scud right and tight,
And frighten them all to the d—l.
What then! avast sniv'ling! my lads never fear,
Our Adm'ral will keep us from harm, On the banks of Potomack, high and dry,
free and clear.
Is a DRY-DOCK—a birth snug & warm. I heard our brave Adm'ral, pulaver one day,
'Bout "Bloody Arenas" and such, But he might full as well have had nothing to say,
"For 'twas just as one as High Dutch;"
Yet he said how a gun boat might scud d'ye see
should a big man of war heave in sight, And many such things, that prov'd clearly to me,
He'd much rather patter than fight;
What cheer then my lads, you have nothing to fear,
Our Adm'ral to danger's a foe;
On the banks of Potomack, high and dry, free and clear,
Is a DRY-DOCK—he'll take us in tow. I said to the Feds—for you see they look'd queer,
When we first put our gun boat to sea, What argues tossing your heads with a sneer,
Why what swabs and land-lubbers you be;
Don't you see in shoal water, we safely can ride?
'Tis as good as a CAVE on the shore; And if we should happen to get a broadside,
Why, you never will hear of us more. What then, all's a hazard—gi' us none of your fun,
Our Adm'ral's the lad yet for me, We'll scud off the Don, with his whirligig gun,
Then to DRY-DOCK—as snug as a flea. A gun boat, d'ye mind me, all danger can shun;
'Tis the trim of it's "trimming" protector;
Not a skiff on th' ocean, d'ye see, can outrun,
This skiff of our NAVAL DIRECTOR. Come then my brave tars, let us man right and tight,
We have no naval tactics to learn:
Should we meet an arm'd ship, 'twould be folly to fight,
Veer about then, and leave her a-stern. Huzza! who's afraid! where there's nothing to fear,
Keep well from the churches of Davy!
To the banks of Potomack, for a DRY DOCK, quick steer;
Your own BOAT—the pride of the Navy!
Will be Sold,
At public Vendue, on the last day of the present month,
At the subscriber's plantation near the Cross-roads, on the road leading to Shepherds Town, a number of excellent draft horses, some riding horses and brood mares, a waggon and geers, 5 or 600 bushels of Corn, a number of Sheep, with a variety of Farming utensils and household furniture. A reasonable credit will be given, the purchaser to give bond with approved security—terms will be made known on the day of sale. The sale to begin at 9 o'clock. SAMUEL VEAL Nov. 9th 1804.
NOTICE,
By virtue of a Deed of trust, to us executed by Matthew Whiting, we shall proceed to sell at public Auction at the mansion house of the late William Henshaw, deceased, on Saturday the 15th day of January next, for cash, one Negro boy named Prince, the property of said Whiting. Due attendance will be given by Adam S. Henshaw. Washington Henshaw. Berkeley County, Nov. 9th 1804.
Meminger & Cooper
Have received from Philadelphia
their supply of
Fall Goods,
which added to those they had on hand, makes a handsome assortment.—They
keep LIQUORS of the first quality—
 Port, } Jamaica Spirits,  Sherry, } French Brandy,  Lisbon & } Peach Brandy,  Malaga } Common Rum &  Wines } Rye Whiskey. 
Pine-Grove Ten plate STOVES—AND IRONS—KETTLES—POTS, OVENS—GRIDDLES, TEA KETTLES—SKILLETS and WAGGON BOXES. —The known superiority of these Castings, must induce those wishing to purchase, to give them a preference.— SHEET-IRON for Stove-pipes and doors.
Also, an assortment of best TEAS —Hyson, Young-Hyson, Hyson-Skin, Imperial and Bohea,
all of which they offer for sale for Cash, or Grain of any description.—Cash paid for Wheat or Rye delivered at Flagg's, Beeson's, Christy's or Hess's Mills.
Martinsburg, November 16, 1804.
The subscriber has just received in addition to his former stock of Fresh
Goods, a large and extensive assortment of
FALL and WINTER GOODS.
All of which will be sold on the lowest terms possible for Cash; or on a liberal credit, to such of his customers, who have, or will, pay off their former accounts.
JAMES FAULKNER. Martinsburg, November 16, 1804.
TO BE SOLD, THREE Negro Women,
one sixteen and one twenty years old, the age of the other not particularly recollected; they have all been accustomed to house and out work, and can now tolerably well.—They will be sold low for cash.
JOHN B. CRAGHILL. Berkeley County, November 16, 1804.
MARTINSBURG RACES.
Gentlemen Sportsmen Take Notice,
THAT on the 29th instant will be run for over a handsome course on the commons of Martinsburg, a Purse of FORTY DOLLARS, free for any horse, mare or gelding, that never won a purse exceeding forty dollars, carrying each rider, three miles to the heat and repeat.
On the day following will be run for over the same course a handsome Sweepstake, free as above, the winning horse the preceding day excepted, four rounds to a heat and repeat. Four horses to start each day, or no race. Horses to be entered the day before each race with the subscriber, or to pay double at the post. Entrance one shilling in the pound. Proper persons will be appointed as judges to determine every dispute that may arise. No booth will be allowed to be erected on or near the ground without paying three dollars to the subscriber for the use of the purse.
WILLIAM MACKEY, jun. November 16, 1804.
FOR SALE
A TRACT of Land, situate in the County of Berkeley 3 miles from Martinsburg, near the main road leading from thence to Hagerstown, containing 113 acres, about 70 acres are cleared, the balance of the land well timbered, 7 Acres of excellent meadow are made. The improvements are a good barn, a convenient dwelling house and an Apple Orchard of the choicest fruit. There is a spring of excellent water near the House. This Land is fertile, and for healthiness of situation not surpassed by any in Berkeley County. Possession may be had in April next—an indisputable title will be made the purchaser, the terms, which will be advantageous, will be made known, by the subscriber living on the premises.
JOSEPH SHOUGH. October 26, 1804.
L A N D S
to be had SEVEN YEARS for improving them.
THE Subscriber proposes to put out an improvement, the following tracts of Land, viz.
(1st 435 acres.) Situate on a run leading into the north side of Crooked Creek, about 4 miles distance from the mouth of said Creek, to the Allegany River, and 3 miles to the county town of Kittanning, now Armstrong County. Adjoining lands of the following warrantees, Charles Grub, Robert S. Steel, Jacob Rudolph, Jacob Numenger, Jacob Lindig, John Smith. This tract will be put out 70 acres to each family. The distance from Pittsburgh to Kittanning Town 35 miles.
(2d 425 acres) Situate on Crooked Run leading into the Kishmenetas, about a mile from the mouth of said run, now Armstrong County, adjoining lands of the following warrantees, John Scotter, James Clark, Thomas Duncan, Rachel Smith.
Also two tracts in Hempfield and Rostrover Townships, Westmoreland County Pennsylvania, warranted in the name of Robert Smith.
The advantages of those waters opens a connection with the Lakes, and the salt works in the State of New York—as well as ship building at Pittsburgh, six large vessels nearly built, and a number more to be built, this is a healthy country as is in the U. S.
Conditions on which families may settle on said Lands:
They may have it for seven years, make such improvements as suit themselves excepting they are bound to plant Five fruit trees, for every acre they clear, and in default in not raising said fruit trees, or keeping up such as may be destroyed &c. to pay Five dollars for every such tree. Any person may settle on said Lands for seven years, provided they fulfil the said terms,—by enquiring of the clerk of the commissioners of the county of Westmoreland, at Greensburgh, or of the county surveyor Mr. Ross, at the Kittanning town, who will point out to them the said tracts of Land. The said lands will be sold in eight years according to Will.
ROBERT SMITH. Nov. 16th.
TUNSTALL'S PATENT THRESHING MACHINE.
WILLIAM TUNSTALL, Citizen of Virginia, has obtained, from the President of the United States, a Patent for an improvement which he has made in the construction of THRESHING MACHINES. Having devoted five years attention to this business, and experienced the utility of this Machine, he can say with confidence, that it will be found, upon trial, superior to any, the operations of which, he has had an opportunity of observing, in this, or any other country. Tunstall's Machine will thresh out TWO HUNDRED BUSHELS of WHEAT per diem. And it also threshes so much cleaner than any other Machine, that the money paid for one will be saved, even in the threshing of a very small quantity of grain. The saving in very large crops, will be readily seen to be proportionally great.—WILLIAM TUNSTALL therefore solicits the attention of Country Gentlemen, and Mill-Wrights. Mechanics of respectability or others desirous of purchasing Patent-Rights, or Licenses to make and vend the same, will meet with liberal terms. Good Workmen only are requested to apply, that no injury may be done to the credit of the improvement by unskillful workmanship. Letters post paid addressed to William Tunstall, Richmond, Virginia, will be punctually attended to.
N. B. Any person presuming to construct vend Tunstall's Patent Threshing Machine , will be dealt with according to law. October 26, 1804.
Any person wishing to contract for the right of using the above Machine, will please apply to ALEXANDER PORTERFIELD , near Martinsburg, who is duly authorised to dispose of Patent rights.
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.
GENERAL HAMILTON.
R. FOLWELL
INFORMS the friends and admirers of the late Alexander Hamilton, that he has made arrangements to publish an elegant engraving of that gentleman, from an approved likeness. That he has employed one of the best artists, who has already given to the public many specimens, acknowledged to be equal in execution to the works of the best English engravers, and more faithful to the original.
The price to those gentlemen who wish to subscribe will be four dollars per sheet, or eight dollars elegantly framed and glazed.
The first thirty plates will be considered as proof plates, and sold at six dollars in sheets or ten dollars framed
The size will be 16 by 12 inches clear of the frame.
The engravings will be given from the press in rotation according to the priority of subscription,
Subscriptions received at the Office of the Intelligencer.
TO BE SOLD,
At public sale, on the first day of November Court, on the Premises,
THE subscriber's stone house 30 feet by 43 1-2 also his frame house, joining the same, 30 feet by 14 feet together with the ground whereon they stand, with convenient stables an excellent stone milk house, and other necessary buildings. Each of these houses are calculated for two tenements, or they may both be occupied as one, if the stone-house, should be used as a tavern, for which it would answer exceedingly well. There is an excellent well of water on the lot, which supplies these houses, and about 40 or 50 families more for 2 dollars a year, each family paid in advance. The waste water from constant drawing supplies the milk-house, with an abundance of water for that purpose. The payments to be two hundred pounds in hand, and the same sum yearly until the whole purchase money is paid. Also will be sold the ground adjoining the said premises whereon the house stood, that was lately destroyed, by fire at the same time. The houses are insured and premiums paid, and policies ready to be assigned, with the fee simple to the purchaser. Indisputable title, will be given the purchaser on the first payment, on given Bond and approved security.
ROBERT WILCOX. Martinsburg, October 29th 1804.
Fusquerora FULLING MILL.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs his friends, and the public in general, that he still continues to carry on the Fulling and Dying business at Edward Beeson's Fulling Mill, within sight of Martinsburg. The mill is in complete order and is furnished with soap, dustuff and every thing necessary for carrying on the business, which he hopes will enable him to give general satisfaction.
JONATHAN WICKERSHAM.
Wanted, as an apprentice to the fulling business a boy of 14 to 16 years of age. Nov. 5.
CASH
Given for clean Linen and Cotton
RAGS,
At the Office of the INTELLIGENCER
MARTINSBURG, Berkeley County, Virginia; Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.
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