Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1804-08-24 00:00:00

Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
[No. 22 OF VOLUME VI.]
FRIDAY, August 24, 1804.
[WHOLE No. 282.]
Uncommonly Cheap Goods.
THE subscribers have just received from the Cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore, and are now opening, a large assortment of uncommonly cheap GOODS, consisting in part of:
TWO Boxes 7-8 and 4-4 Irish Linens, 2 bales best stout Tickling-burges.
4 Trunks of fashionable Printed Calicoes and Chintzes.
4 ditto Fashionable Muslins assorted, viz. Plain Cambric Muslin, Sattin Striped, Check and Figured ditto, Figured and Plain Coloured ditto, Book and Jacquet ditto, Lappett ditto—an elegant variety of superb Lace ditto, Tamboar'd, Collonade, Japanned, Extra Super-Super India Book, and Plain Mull Mull Muslins.
3 Trunks Handkerchiefs and Shawls assorted, viz. 7-8, 4-4, 5-4, and 6-4 Fashionable Fancy Silk Shawls, Flush'd Jacquet Muslin ditto, Sattin-bordered and Checked-Cambric ditto, Lappett ditto, White and Coloured Cambric Netted ditto, Printed Cotton ditto, Book and Jacquet Muslin Handkerchiefs, Linen and Cotton Pocket ditto, Bandanae and Fancy Silk ditto.
1 Bale 7-8 Fashionable Superfine London Broad Cloths.
1 ditto Kerseymeres.
1 Case Dimities, (Fashionable patterns) also a few pieces Cambric Dimities.
1 Case Fashionable Leghorn Bonnets.
2 Cases, Men's, Women's, Boys and Girl's Fashionable Furr Hats.
4 Bales India Muslins of different kinds.
200 Pieces fine Yellow India Nankeen.
20 Pieces Russia Apron Check.
1 Case SILVER WATCHES.
7 Bales Spinning Cotton.
An elegant variety of FANCY ARTICLES , consisting, in part, of ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS, WREATHS, PLUMES, SILVER and GOLD LACE, SILVER and GOLD ORNAMENTS, &c. &c.
A Complete assortment of Laces and Edgings, Pic Nic Mitts, Men's Thread Cotton and Silk Hoes, Women's Silk and Cotton ditto.
They have also received a complete assortment of BAR-IRON and CASTINGS, CROWLEY and BLISTERED STEEL.
150 Excellent Home-made Twilled BAGS.
500lb. Good FLAX.
A Few barrels first quality Old RYE WHISKY , (distilled in Maryland) suitable for private families. MEDICINE and PAINTS , together with almost every other article, which this neighbourhood and country requires in their line of business. They never had at any period a more extensive and complete assortment of Goods than at the present, and are happy to inform their friends, and the public generally, that all those who may favor them with a call, shall certainly be supplied with uncommonly CHEAP GOODS.
JAMES & JOHN LANE. Shepherd's Town, July 20, 1804.
FOR SALE,
On a credit of six months, by giving bond with approved security. One Thousand Dollars worth of Prime
Soal Leather,
Chiefly Spanish Hides.
JOHN O'FERRALL.
N. B. A constant supply of all kinds of LEATHER ready for sale.
Those indebted to me, are, for the last time, requested to pay up their accounts.
J. O'FERRALL. Martinsburg, August 3, 1804.
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.
FOR SALE,
TWO HOUSES and LOTS, SITUATE in Darkesville, Berkeley County, one of them the house in which Robert Daniels formerly kept Tavern, this house is built of logs, has six rooms, is very convenient, and an excellent stand for any kind of public business, the garden is good and has a number of fruit trees in it.—On the other lot is erected a good Waggonmaker's Shop.—This Property is very convenient to water. It will be sold on very reasonable terms.
JOHN SHULL.
August 3, 1804.
NOTICE!
WHEREAS sundry persons have heretofore made a practice of throwing down my fences, going through my plantation, and destroying my fruit and other property, by which practice I have sustained a considerable injury—All persons guilty of similar practices in future, may expect to be prosecuted for the same, without discrimination—All persons are also cautioned against dealing in any manner with any of my negroes without a written memorandum from me, having heretofore suffered considerably by such conduct—Any person or persons guilty of this practice in future, in any manner, may expect to be prosecuted for the same, as the law directs.
ANDREW WAGGENER.
Mill-Creek, July 27, 1804.
The subscriber has just opened a very extensive assortment of
Medicine, Drugs and Paints,
which he will sell at very reduced prices for Cash.
THOMAS PATTERSON.
Martinsburg, June 8, 1804.
N. B. Those whose accounts have been due one year and upwards, will please to call and discharge them before the first day of September next, otherwise suits will be commenced for their recovery—It is hoped this will not be considered hard, as necessity compels it. T. P.
From the Boston Centinel.
REVIEW OF JEFFERSON'S ADMINISTRATION. NO. VI.
From Mr. JEFFERSON's reply to the remonstrance of the merchants of New-Haven in July 1801, we proceed to consider more minute transactions, some of which have an earlier date. If the classification of them be observed in any degree, the exact order of time cannot be followed. To attempt it would oblige us to relinquish our design; for it would lead into an endless field by requiring a number for every particular act. Indeed the minuteness of some things, we may notice, would prevent an observation, were they not the actions of a chief magistrate, the effect of which may not injure simply himself, but the nation. They will also fill the chasms between important periods. We shall therefore examine the case of Mr. GREEN, some of the President's appointments to office, and his arresting justice in favour of offenders against the laws of the country.
When the imperfections of the judicial system had caused an amendment, Mr. GREEN was appointed to the office of district judge for Rhode-Island.—By a clerical mistake the term CIRCUIT , instead of DISTRICT , was inserted in his commission. Soon after Mr. JEFFERSON's promotion, Mr. GREEN sent his commission for alteration. Instead of altering and returning, the President suppressed it. These are the facts. They originate the question, whence Mr. JEFFERSON derived the power of removing a judge, who holds his office during good behaviour; for the suppression of a commission can be nothing less, than removal. The defence of this act by the
friends of the President is, that Mr. GREEN was appointed, before his predecessor resigned, and therefore that the appointment was illegal. Whether the predecessor of Mr. GREEN had notified the executive of his resignation of the office of district, and his acceptance of that of circuit judge, till an appointment to the former had been made, can be of no consequence. For the actual reception of a commission as circuit was vacating the office of district judge with reference to the time of appointment unless there was a refusal. As there was no refusal a vacancy existed. To fill this vacancy a nomination was sanctioned by the senate, a commission issued, and the whole transaction was a record of State. By what right then was Mr. GREEN deprived of the office? Was the record of the transaction, which was a record of State, falsified; or does Mr. GREEN still stand recorded, as district judge for Rhode-Island? The authority of the office was conferred by his nomination, sanctioned by the senate, not by the commission, which was only evidence to himself of his appointment. Had his commission never been sent for alteration, no person could have resisted the justice he was authorized to dispense.—After all this however, a single executive act numbered among private citizens this officer, removable only by impeachment and conviction. If the exercise of such power be deemed right, the constitution may be annihilated in a moment. Liberty will be dependent on the caprice of the President. If he smile, it may live; but if he frown, it is dead.
The community has heard from the party in authority many declarations of the violation of the constitution, by subjecting the slanderer to punishment, and expelling the foreign assassins of our peace from the bosom of our country. Yet the same party soon violated it, in its most essential part.—Indeed example would have taught the nation, that their language was deceptive. But it seems to be a law of nature, that States shall not derive instruction by the experience of those before them. It has ever been the fate of free governments to be cursed with demagogues, the loudest declaimers against the exercise of power; yet in possession of it, the greatest tyrants.
Is it not an unpleasing circumstance to the friend of virtue, that vicious men attempt to assume its mask? While it may be the cause of deception, shows the respect for moral rectitude, which nature has made requisite to the happiness of mankind. If in the transaction of human affairs the undeserving obtain favour by appearing virtuous, those who bestow it ought not to be thought the patrons of vice. Though Mr. JEFFERSON might he cannot still plead the excuse of deception in his appointments to office, for time has decyphered characters.—Some of them claim a momentary attention. The minister to France was perhaps thought a suitable representative of the majesty of the nation. When however it is known, that his conduct has excited the contempt of the chief consul, it would retrieve our national character, to supply his place with a person who would enforce respect. The continuance in office of the post-master and attorney-general will not discredit the belief of the President's want of principle. The former has proscribed many faithful agents, because appointed by a preceding administration, while the latter stands convicted before the public of falsehood and has made the United States incur a large expense because attending at Washington was incompatible with his electioneering projects. He has uttered sentiments, displaying vindictive feelings, which perhaps appeared in that master of the guillotine ROBESPIERRE, or in the Emperor CALIGULA, who exclaimed, "would to heaven, the Roman people had but one head, that it might be struck off at one blow."
The secretary of war is so far acquainted with the details of his office, that he can make estimates for necessary appropriations with the addition of "more or less."—But the character of Mr. MONROE sent ambassador extraordinary to the court of France was not unknown to Mr. JEFFERSON. WASHINGTON had before recalled him for betraying the interest of the country. The promotion of GALLATIN to the office of Secretary of
the treasury shows the President to be entirely divested of principle. In 1792 he was clerk to an association or mob, which entered into a resolution to deny all the offices of life, and stamp with the name of traitors those, who should endeavour to execute the law of the United States, approved by the best of men. To quell this mob, which by 1794, through his aid had become an organized insurgency, required the assistance of the militia of the neighbouring states. Almost as soon however as Mr. JEFFERSON was declared chief magistrate, this inflammatory foreigner, this rebel against WASHINGTON, has the control of one of the most important offices under government.—When such an appointment distinguishes an executive, the interest of the community is a little consideration in his choice. Indeed such a President with such confidential officers is ill qualified to promote the prosperity, elevate the character, or improve the morals and virtue of the nation.
These acts are of minor consequence, when compared with the discoloring of the fountain of justice by the interposition of the President, to arrest the operation of law against atrocious offenders. Under this administration there are cases, where mercy has been extended to criminals, whose iniquity was unattended with any circumstances, which demanded the exercise of this heavenly attribute. The first is the case of LEVI JONES, who was indicted in 1799 for a murder, committed on board the brig David Stewart. He fled from the country to avoid a just punishment. An application was made by his friends to Mr. ADAMS, while President, to stop the prosecution by a nolle prosequi. But the rectitude of his mind would not permit him to pervert justice by an ill-judged clemency. It was proper for Mr. JEFFERSON to suffer Jones to return without fear of personal injury. He ordered the prosecution to cease. A murderer returned to the country, probably a partisan of him, who seems disposed to make proselytes, by every practice, within human invention. The death of a poor and friendless individual was unregarded and unpitied; while his destroyer might again imbrue his hands in the blood of a fellow being.
Another instance of sleeping justice is the case of the United States against DUANE. This foreign renegado had published a false and scandalous libel on the senate, for which a grand jury found a bill against him in October 1800. In July succeeding, Mr. JEFFERSON ordered a nolle prosequi to be entered on the record of the court. The services of this self-styled organ of the public will toward the President claimed no less reward than a release from merited punishment. Actions, tending to destroy the peace of the nation, and to bring its sovereignty into contempt, by imputing the most iniquitous designs to characters, entrusted with public authority for public happiness, were in his estimation of less consequence, than those ties of friendship and affection, which united such kindred souls.
Other cases might be noticed, but these are sufficiently mortifying to every man, who reveres virtue, and possesses rectitude of mind. What a scene of human degeneracy is beheld, when the chief magistrate of a great people seems desirous to loosen the foundation of society, by corrupting morals, and weakening the impressions of virtue? Yet, when actions, like those we have described are seen, the candid mind can scarcely refrain from imputing to the President such an inclination. It is evidence that there are no reasons for such conduct, since none have been given to the nation. Had they existed, and the cases required the mild influence of mercy, how amiable would Mr. JEFFERSON have appeared in the exercise of an attribute, the most splendid and heavenly of any in his official character? But dark and gloomy is the prospect when mercy becomes lenity to daring offenders. The mind need not look far into futurity, to perceive national ruin, when vice is encouraged by the example of a chief magistrate. Those, who regard morals and virtue, as the basis of our happiness and prosperity, must soon awake, to save our wise institutions from destruction.
HUME.

LETTERS BETWEEN MADAME BONAPARTE AND MADAME MOREAU.
The letters we now lay before the public are known to all Paris, and have been admired even by some female citizens, who have not been active in our revolution. The one is written by a lady near 50, sharing a throne; the other by a young beauty of 23, who has been refused to share a dungeon with her husband. We guarantee their authenticity. They want no comments. They speak for themselves. [Balt. Fed. Gaz.]
TO MADAME MOREAU. Paris, 22d Ventose, year XII. March 13, 1804.
MADAME,
Though the crimes of your husband are great, the clemency of the first consul is greater; and my friendship for you, and my compassion for a person so dear to you, surpass both. Apprehend, therefore, nothing for general Moreau's life. By the very constitution which he intended to overturn, the chief magistrate possesses the power to pardon; and I promise you that it shall be employed in this affair. Do not, however, by any ill-advised indiscretion of yourself and of your friends, aggravate the enormity of your husband's guilt. They alone can shut the door of mercy forever, and bring general Moreau to the scaffold.
I salute you cordially.
JOSEPHINE BONAPARTE.
Madame Moreau to Madame Bonaparte. Gresbois, March 14, 1804.
MADAME,
I cannot be called indiscreet in saying, that your assertion, that declares my husband guilty, is rash, ungenerous and cruel. I do not wish to enter into a discussion unbecoming myself and my husband, who is the criminal; he who, disinterested and without stain, has served his country, or he who served France, only to become the tyrant over Frenchmen: He whose victories pacified Europe; or the foreigner who made those victories subservient to organise his oppressions over France and all nations: He, who in the most corrupted country dared to be honest, and had the courageous modesty to confound himself in the crowd after he had resigned the supreme command; or he, who owes every advancement toward authority to some new crime, and has therefore no other choice left but between power and death—a throne or a scaffold. But let gen. Moreau appear before impartial judges, and not before pensioned assassins! Let him be tried by men whose lives are as pure as his own, and not by persons, accomplices in the atrocities of general Bonaparte, and whose past crimes answer for their present obedience; and I promise you, that justice, in pronouncing his honorable acquittal, will dispatch an order for the arrest (un mandat d'arret) of the really culpable of high treason against France—against the world.
Cease, madam, to mock humanity, and to insult my feelings, by talking of your husband's clemency and mercy! Gracious God! how canst thou suffer, without inflicting chastisement, the profanation of these words! The clemency, the mercy of that cruel man, who even in his youth, had the ferocity to inundate the streets and squares of Toulon and Paris, with the blood of innocent men, women and children! who ordered those soldiers, who, in Italy, with their blood earned his laurels, to be drowned or buried alive! who, in Syria, in the same city poisoned his wounded companions in arms, and butchered his disarmed prisoners! who hired an assassin to stab one rival, general Kleber, in Egypt, and who invents plots, and bribes tribunals to dishonor or murder in France, another rival general, whom he could find no banditti audacious enough to pierce!
General Bonaparte's reign of crime and of terror may be prosperous, but it cannot be long. Success attended Robespierre, but in a short time the guillotine punished his barbarity! Providence is always just; the same in 1804 as in 1794. My husband and myself are as resigned to the will of the Almighty, as we are firm in the belief of an hereafter—terrible for assassins, poisoners, atheists, and tyrants, but consoling to suffering innocence upon death.
I salute you,
JULIA MOREAU."
GENERAL MOREAU'S SPEECH, Before the Court of Criminal Justice.
GENTLEMEN,—In presenting myself before you, I ask to be heard for a moment. My confidence in the counsel I
have chosen is entire: I have resigned to them without reserve the care of defending my innocence: it is only in compliance with their desire that I wish to speak before the court, but I feel the need of speaking myself, both to you and the nation.
Unhappy circumstances produced by chance or prepared by hatred, may obscure some periods of the life of the most upright man. With much address a criminal may remove from him both the suspicions and the proofs of his crimes: a whole life is always the surest testimony against, or in favor of the accused. It is then my whole life which I oppose to the accusers who pursue me. It has been sufficiently public to be known. I will recall some epochs of it, and the witnesses that I shall invoke are the French people, and the people whom France has conquered.
At the commencement of that revolution which was to found the liberty of the French people, I was devoted to the study of law. It changed the destination of my life: I devoted it to arms: I did not place myself among the soldiers of liberty from ambition—I embraced the military life from respect for the laws of the nation: I became a warrior, because I was a citizen.
I supported this character under the colors—I have always preserved it. The more I loved liberty, the more I submitted to discipline.
I advanced very rapidly, but always from grade to grade, without overleaping any—always serving my country, never flattering the committees. Arrived at the chief command when victory caused us to advance into the middle of hostile nations, I did not less apply myself to make the character of the French people respected, than to make their armies dreaded. The war under my orders was a scourge only in the fields of battle. Even from the midst of their ravaged plains, more than once have nations and hostile powers rendered me this testimony. This conduct I believed as proper as our victories, to make conquests to France.
At the time when even contrary maxims appeared to prevail in the committees of government, this conduct did not excite against me either calumny or persecution. No cloud ever arose to tarnish the military glory which I had acquired, till that too famous day—the 18th Fructidor; those who, with too much rapidity extolled that day, reproached me with being too slow to denounce a man, in whom I could see only a brother in arms, even at the moment when the evidence of facts and of proofs convinced me that he was accused by truth, and not by unjust suspicions. The Directory, who alone knew the circumstances of my conduct sufficiently to judge of it correctly, and who, every one knows, could not be disposed to judge me with indulgence, boldly declared that they found me irreproachable; they employed me in their service: the post was not brilliant but it soon became so.
I dare to believe that the nation has not forgotten how much I shewed myself worthy of it; it has not forgotten with what facile devotedness I fought in Italy in subordinate stations; it has not forgotten how I was restored to the chief command by the reverses of our armies, and renamed general, in some measure, by our misfortune; it remembers how I twice recomposed the army of the wrecks of those that had been dispersed; and how, after having twice sent it back in a condition to oppose the Russians and Austria, I twice resigned the command of it to enter on one of much higher confidence.
I was not, at this era of my life, more republican than in all others: I appeared more so. I saw fixed upon me, in a more peculiar manner, the regards and the confidence of those whose province it was to impress new movements, and new directions on the republic. They proposed, it is well known, to place me at the head of _____, little similar to that of the 18th Brumaire. My ambition, if I had much of it, could easily conceal itself from all appearances, or even do honour to itself by every sentiment of the love of country.
The proposition was made to me by men celebrated in the revolution by their patriotism, and in our assemblies by their talents; I refused; I believed myself made to command armies, and did not wish to command the republic.
This was enough to prove, in my opinion, that if I had an ambition, it was not that of authority, or of power: very soon after, I proved this still farther.
The 18th Brumaire arrived, and I was at Paris. That revolution, provoked by others as by me, could not alarm my conscience. Directed by a man environed
with a blaze of glory, it made me to hope for happy results. I began to second it when other parties pressed me to put myself at their head to combat it. I received in Paris the orders of General Bonaparte. In executing them I concurred to elevate him to that high degree of power which circumstances rendered necessary.
When, sometime after, he offered me the chief command of the army of the Rhine, I accepted it from him with as much devotion as from the hand of the republic itself. My military successes were never more rapid, more numerous, more decisive, than at that epoch when their splendor overspread the government which accused me.
Upon the event of so many successes, of which the greatest of all was to have ascertained, in an efficacious manner, the peace of the continent, the soldier heard the lofty shouts of national gratitude.
What a moment to conspire if such a design had ever been able to enter my soul! Every one knows the devotedness of armies to chiefs whom they love, and whom they have just led from victory to victory: an ambitious man, a conspirator, would he have suffered the occasion to escape when, at the head of an army of a hundred thousand men so often triumphant, he returned to the midst of a nation still agitated, and always restless with regard to its principles and their duration.
I only thought of disbanding the army, and returned to the repose of a civil life.
In this repose, which was not without glory, I enjoyed without doubt my honors—those honors which human power can never wrest from me, the remembrance of my actions, the testimony of my conscience, the esteem of my compatriots and strangers, and, if it may be said, the flattering and sweet presentiments of posterity.
I enjoyed a fortune which was not great, because my desires were not immense, and which caused no reproach of conscience. I enjoyed the entertainment of my retreat. Surely I was content with my lot—I who never envied the lot of any. My family and my friends, so much the more precious as not having any thing to hope from my credit or my fortune, they could remain attached but to myself alone.
All these blessings, which alone I highly appreciate, filled my soul entirely, and could permit no undue desire or ambitious wish to enter; would it then be opened to criminal projects?
This condition of my soul was so well known, it was so well guaranteed by the distance at which I kept from all the paths of ambition, that since the victory of Hohenlinden till my arrestation, my enemies have never been able either to find or to seek me by another crime than the freedom of my discourses: my discourses—they have often been favourable to the operations of government; and if at any time they have not been so, could I therefore think that that was a crime among a people who had so often decreed that of thought, that of word, that of the press, and who had enjoyed much of it even under Kings.
I confess that, born with an openness of disposition, I have not lost this attribute of the country (of France) where I received life, neither in the camp where every thing gives a new impetus, nor in the revolution which has always proclaimed it as a virtue of the man, and as a duty of the citizen. But do those who plot blame so openly what they disapprove? If I had wished to form and pursue plans of conspiracy, I would have dissembled my sentiments, and solicited all the situations which could have replaced me in the midst of the forces of the nation.
In order to trace this plan, in default of political genius, which I never possessed, I had examples known to all the world, and rendered imposing by their success. I knew well that Monck did not withdraw from the armies when he wished to conspire, and that Cassius and Brutus approached the heart of Cæsar to pierce it.
Magistrates I have nothing more to say to you. Such has been my character, such has been my whole life. I protest in the face of heaven and of men, the innocence and integrity of my conduct: You know your duties, France listens to you, Europe contemplates you, and posterity awaits.
The piece republished from the Aurora of Friday the 3d inst. headed "The Secret French Police" is well worth the perusal of every American citizen, and ought to be published in every newspaper in the United States, that we might be led to guard against a nation whose only system is to deceive and conquer—Whoever will take the pains of reading the
publication with attention, and will pause for a few moments, will be convinced of the truth of the assertion, that they have their French spies and agents in "in the congress of the Americans."—Any thing that the Frenchman Lucas or the French Genevieve Gallatin can say to the contrary notwithstanding.
[Lancaster Journal.]
THE SECRET FRENCH POLICE.
The present secret French police, is founded upon the same plan as the German tribunal, during the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries with this only exception, that it secretly inspects, or removes obnoxious or suspected persons, whilst the tribunal secretly condemned, and secretly executed every person, incurring their displeasure.—In the present French system, all forms are laid aside; in the other the forms were more terrible than death itself. In the present system persons disappear from the society, to be shut up in dungeons, to be transported, or to be shot, without often knowing the cause, equally unknown by their jailor, and by their executioners. It is and remains, the secret of government. Formerly the accused were summoned, tried, acquitted, or condemned; had time to prepare themselves for defence, or by flight to escape, if possible, their persecutors. Under the present system, all flight is impossible, escape avails nothing, because the agents of our police are every where in England, as in Russia, in America, as in Africa, in Turkey as in the East-Indies; they all possess the description ( signalement ) of the person persecuted; they are informed of his habits, place and resort, and have a facsimile of his hand writing. Unknown to each other, these agents act in unison by their reports as by their actions; the Duke of Enghien, Moreau, Pichegru, Georges, and others were watched by hundreds of agents, for years, of whom not two know each other. Louis XVIII. at Warsaw, and the Bourbons at London are yet surrounded, by numerous agents unknown, and invisible to them, as to each other. The transaction of the cabinet of St. Petersburg, of Vienna, and of Berlin, are as well known to our government, as those of Madrid, Florence, Naples, St. Cloud, the Hague, or of Berne. These agents sit in the Divan of Constantinople, as in the Congress of the Americans; and although their sentiments are often opposite, their services meet in the same central point. Not a sovereign, not a minister, not a statesman, not a counsellor, not a warrior, not a banker, not a merchant, not an author of any reputation, who is not narrowly watched by the invisible agents of our secret police who employ the talents of preachers, as well as those of actors to serve them; they take the advantage of the popularity of an orator in the senate, as well as the fashionable imbecility of a ballad singer in the street; as well as the toasts of a faction at a public tavern. Their activity is seen in the budget of finances for the state, as well as a subscription for a pigeon or a charitable institution. They indirectly decide the marriage of princes, as well as the divorces of subjects. The political, as well as amorous intriguer, wear often their livery.—The law promulgated, the air sung, the bargain concluded, the treaty signed, the war declared, the peace proclaimed are more than often their doings. They employ at the same time and for the same purpose, the devotion of the Christian and the infidelity of the deist; the bigotry of the superstitious, and the blasphemy of the atheist; the intolerance of the fanatic, and the indifference of a philosopher. They penetrate and plot equally in the Pagods of the Hindoos, in the Temples of the Chinese, in the Mosques at Constantinople, in the Church of St. Peter at Rome, and in the Grand Synagogue at Amsterdam. The royal exchange in London, and the fish market at Paris; the diamond mines at Brazil, and the marble quarries in Laconia; the galleons at Cadiz, and the flower hall at Naples, are equally visited and inspected by them. It is more difficult to say where they are not than where they are; what transactions escape their notice than those they influence.
Some of the agents of our secret police are paid, others are volunteers; but they all combat under the same banners; they all fight for the same cause, and they are all registered in the same office in the same register.—Though the volunteers are more numerous than the regulars, the expense of our government notwithstanding for this institution amounts yearly to eighty millions of livres; a large sum, if it was not remembered, at the same time, that the tributary kings and nations pay us yearly more than three times that sum; and that we owe more

to the agents of our secret police the power we have to command such an enormous external tribute.
Foreigners as well as Frenchmen have done Fouché the honor of considering him the parent of our secret police; but they are all mistaken. Its plan was proposed to our cabinet under the monarchy, but laid aside as impracticable. Talleyrand was the person who corrected and improved the plan, and our secret police may therefore be justly called his natural child , although the Grand Judge is a minister of Police. Talleyrand presides in the office of the secret police, directs all its operations, rewards, promotes, disgraces, or punishes its agents. In this place he is the Grand Consul ; Rœderer, Real, Fouché and Hanterive, are his councillors, and Desmarais is his secretary. Each of these councillors has his department in Europe as well as in Africa, in Asia as well as in America; he knows nothing more than what concerns his department. The whole ( le tout ensemble ) is known to Talleyrand alone; even the female agents of his secret police are under his sole and immediate control; and the report of Madame Stael and of Genlis directing their operations is without foundation. Passions, more than money are his means; he always employs and addresses the former; the latter is only used as an auxiliary to silence reason or conscience, if they murmur. [ Le Nouvelles et la Muin Germinal An. 12. No. III. ]
NEW-YORK, August 14.
Captain Ely of the ship Oliver , worth from Amsterdam, informs us that Admiral Verheul, with about sixty sail of gun boats, schooners and brigs, under his convoy, in the passage from Flushing to Ostend, fell in with a division of Sir Sidney Smith's fleet, and an engagement ensued, in which the latter was beaten off, and the flotilla arrived at the place of its destination without any other injury than the loss of two gun boats. Some of the English ships were considerably crippled in their sails and rigging, and one of their brigs is said to have sunk. In consequence of this success Admiral Verheul has been admitted a member of the French Legion of Honor; and had received the compliments of the Batavian government.
ALEXANDRIA, August 14.
Accounts from Paris to June 14, say, that the Emperor Napoleon and his brothers voted in the Council of State for pardoning all the lately convicted "conspirators," but that a majority of the members were for their execution; and that Bonaparte left the Council with tears in his eyes, at the ill success of his merciful efforts! The Emperor of the French was preparing to visit his ports on the coast. A conspiracy is stated to have been lately discovered and frustrated, which had for its object the murder of Louis XVIII.
MARTINSBURG, Friday Evening, August 24.
The indisposition of the Editor has been the cause of the publication of the Intelligence being protracted until this Evening.
Died on Tuesday last, Mr. SAMUEL CHRISTY, sen.
Extracts of a letter from a gentleman in Adams County, State of Ohio, to his friend now in Martinsburg, dated West-Union, 6th July, 1804.
"I have the pleasure to communicate to you, that I have just been informed by Moses Baird, Esq. (whose integrity I have heard called in question) that on Sunday the 24th of June last, some men were fishing in Ohio Salt Lick Creek, with what is called a drag, their drag got fast on what they supposed was a log, they thought it best to haul up the log, and not let the fish pass the drag, but to their astonishment they found it to be a Horn; Mr. Baird says he has given it a strict examination, and from the idea he has of horns, he supposes that about one half has rotted away, but what remains appears to be perfectly sound, and is in length 9 feet 7 inches, between 20 and 30 inches in circumference, and weighs 144 pound, the hollow part is all rotted away but about 15 inches. They have been offered 32 bushels of salt for the horn. Query, Is not this one of the Horns of the Mammoth?
"I forgot to mention that, notwithstanding this horn is so long, when measured round the bend, yet it is so crook-
ed that it is not quite 5 feet between the ends."
The Mississippi Gazette , printed at Natchez on the 10th ult. says, "We are informed by a gentleman of Bayou-Sarra, that Mr. Kemper with a party of men, crossed the Mississippi a few days since, when a skirmish took place between his party and some of the militia; one of Kemper's men is said to be slightly wounded; both parties retreated after one fire. We also learn that the house and gin of Mr. Pintado, the Spanish Commandant of the district, has been burnt down. The inhabitants are still kept under arms."
Of the Police of New-Orleans, a paper printed in that city speaks in the following terms:
WE regret the necessity of so frequently calling the attention of the constituted authorities, to the inexecution of the laws; there exists in this city a variety of abuses which endanger the lives of the citizens; under such circumstances to be silent would be criminal. To enumerate all the abuses which exist, would occupy a greater proportion of our paper than we can devote to that subject. For the present, we shall confine ourselves to the mention of those scenes of riot which take place on the levee every Sunday. Any person a spectator of those scenes would conclude that we were in a state of anarchy. Not less than twenty persons, were with clubs, sticks of wood, &c. laid prostrate on the ground, at one time on Sunday last, one of whom were accidentally passing the street. If there were no lives lost, it is not the police of the city we are to thank; should these disorders continue unchecked, we may expect to see the streets flow with the blood of the citizens. A parole of half a dozen men would be sufficient to prevent those evils. If some measures are not speedily taken, we must arm in our own defence, and owe our safety to our courage.
Important Communication —We are authorised by the Collector of the Customs to state, that he has received a letter from the Hon. Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy, notifying him that the President of the United States has deemed it expedient to send to the coast of South-Carolina and Georgia, gun boat No. I. under the command of lieut. commandant John Powell. That another gun boat will in a few days be sent to our coast, and that arrangements have been made for building a gun boat at Charleston and another for Savannah.
The protection which will be thus given, as well to the revenue, as to all vessels whatever, whether neutral or American, against the aggressions of the armed vessels of any nation whatever, within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, cannot fail to be highly gratifying and satisfactory.
Pirates, whether found within or beyond our jurisdictional limits, will be taken and brought into port. The laws of the United States can and will be effectually executed. [ Charles. pap.
Yesterday the Grand Jury, now in session, much to their credit, after patiently hearing a mass of testimony for three days, unanimously brought in a bill of indictment against AARON BURN, Vice-President of the United States, for sending a Message or challenge, inviting Gen. Alexander Hamilton to be killed by him in a duel, and against WILLIAM P. VAN NESS, and NATHANIEL PENDLETON, for acting as seconds. By this indictment, if confirmed by the competent Tribunals (of which we have no doubt) Mr. Burr, Mr. Van Ness and Mr. Pendleton, are by the last law against duelling, passed by the Legislature of this state, completely disfranchised, and of course disqualified from holding any office of honor or profit, or of voting in this state, for the term of 20 years. The Murder of Gen. Hamilton , having been committed in the state of New-Jersey, the Grand Jury did not feel authorised to take cognizance of it; but we are informed from the first legal authority, that a prosecution will lie under the verdict of the Coroner's Jury. [ N. Y. Gaz.
Extract of a letter from Aux Cayes, to a gentleman in Baltimore, dated July 15.
"This will serve to inform you, that the English Admiral, who has communication with the Negroes of this island, has put it into the head of Gen. Dessalines, to cause himself to be proclaimed " EMPEROR OF HAYTI ,"—and he is to be crowned in a few days at Port au Prince."
A gentleman in London has informed his correspondent at New-York, "that he had just returned from the Admiralty, where he had seen a Declaration of War on the part of GREAT BRITAIN, against SPAIN."
Bonaparte's Civil List is to be augmented to 25 millions of livres. Each of the French Princes is to have three millions, and each of the six superior officers of state one million yearly. The Admiral who succeeds in making a landing in England, will be made Grand Admiral. [ London Paper.
A letter dated Tripoli, 4th April, mentions that the crew of the Philadelphia were in good health, and the Officers had received permission to ride occasionally in the country, accompanied by a Drogeman; but they were not allowed to visit the consuls. [ Alex. D. A.
M. Marshall, in his introductory volume to Washington's life, speaking of Mr. Pitt, the former Earl of Chatham, has these words:
"Too great in his spirit, too sublime in his views, to become the instrument of faction, when placed at the head of the nation, and overlooking the country, or the party which had given birth to merit, he searched for merit only, and employed it wherever it could be found. From the elevation of the house of Brunswick to the British throne, a very considerable portion of the people, under the denomination of Tories, had been degraded persecuted and oppressed. Superior to this narrow and short-sighted policy, Mr. Pitt sought to level these enfeebling and irritating distinctions, and to engage every British subject in the cause of his country."
How happy had those who now direct the affairs of the United States, followed the example of this honest and enlightened statesman!
THE SUM OF RELIGION. Written by JUDGE HALE, Lord Chief Justice of England, was found in the closet, amongst other papers after his decease.
HE that fears the LORD of Heaven and Earth, walks humbly before Him, thankfully lays hold of the message of redemption by Jesus Christ , and strives to express his thankfulness by the sincerity of his obedience. He is sorry with all his soul, when he comes short of his duty. He walks watchfully in the denial of himself, and holds no confederacy with any lust or known sin: if he fails in the least measure, he is restless to make his peace by true repentance. He is true to his promise, just in his dealings, charitable to the poor, sincere in his devotion. He will not deliberately dishonor God, although secure of impunity. He hath his hopes and his conversation in Heaven, and dares not do any thing unjustly, be it ever so much his advantage; and all this, because he sees Him that is invisible, and fears him because he loves him; fears him as well for his goodness as his greatness—such a man, whether he be an Episcopalian, or a Presbyterian, an Independent or an Anabaptist; whether he wears a surplice or wears none; whether he hears organs or hears none; whether he kneels at the communion, or for conscience sake stands or sits, he hath the Life of Religion in him; and that life acts in him, and will conform his soul to the image of his SAVIOUR, and go along with him to eternity, notwithstanding his practice or non-practice of things indifferent. On the other side, if a man fears not the eternal GOD, he can commit sin with presumption; drink excessively, swear vainly or falsely, commit adultery, lye, cozen, cheat, break his promise, live loosely, though at the same time he may be studious to practice every ceremony, even to a scrupulous exactness, or may perhaps as stubbornly oppose them—Though such a one should cry down bishops or presbytery; though he should be re-baptized every day, or declaim against it as heresy; and though he fast all the lent, or feast out of pretence of avoiding superstition; yet notwithstanding these, and a thousand external conformities, or zealous oppositions of them, he wants the Life of Religion .
BEAUTIFUL SIMILES.
[He who can read and relish the beauties of the following Similes may congratulate himself that he possesses both truth and elegance of taste.] So when the mother, bending o'er his charms, Clasps her fair nursing in delighted arms,
Throws the thin kerchief from her neck of snow, And half unveils the pearly orbs below; With sparkling eye the blameless plunderer owns Hersoft embraces, and endearing tones, Seeks the saubrious lount with opening lips, Spreads his enquiring hand, and smiles, and sips. Connubial fair! whom no fond transport warms To lull your infant in maternal arms; Who, bless'd in vain with tumid bosom, hear His tender wailing with unfeeling ear; The soothing kiss and milky rill deny, To the sweet pouting lip and glistening eye! Ah! what avails the cradle's damask roof, The eider bolster, and embroider'd woof!— Oft hears the gilded couch unpity'd pains, And many a tear the tassel'd cushion stains! No voice so sweet attunes his cares to rest, So soft no pillow as his mother's breast! —Thus charm'd to sweet repose when twilight hours Shed their soft influence on celestial bowers, The Cherub, Innocence, with smile divine Shuts his white wings, and sleeps on beauty's shrine.
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 .
MARKET REGULATIONS, &c.
AT a late Meeting of a Board of the Trustees of the town of Martinsburg, it was resolv'd that Market shall commence about Sunrise, from the 1st of September to the 1st of June, and the usual time the remainder of the year.
And that every person buying, selling, promising, engaging, or securing in any manner, any article usually brought to market for sale, on the morning of market days, before market hours in the market house, or at any other place in the town of Martinsburg, shall be subject to a fine of one dollar for every such offence.
It has been a practice with many to wash foul clothes, and put other filth in the spring on the public lot adjoining Martin Housman and living on Water Street in the town of Martinsburg.
Any person guilty of such indecent practices after this time shall be dealt with as the law directs.
Martinsburg, August 24, 1804.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or stolen from the commons of Martinsburg, on Sunday the 12th inst. a Sorrel HORSE, about 15 hands high, 8 years old, his hind legs white nearly to the hams, trots and paces; also, a Bay MARE, about 15 hands high, 4 years old, has a blaze face, some white on one of her hind feet, and is a natural trotter. Twenty dollars reward and reasonable expenses will be given for the Horses and securing the thief in jail, or five dollars and reasonable expenses for the horses delivered to Benson Lacky in Martinsburg, to the subscriber living at the mouth of Back-Creek, or giving information where they may be found.
HUGH LACKY. Berkeley County, August 24, 1804.

NEW BOOKS.
J. ALBURTIS,
Has just received from the City of Philadelphia, an additional supply of
BOOKS and STATIONARY,
warranted at the Philadelphia and Baltimore retail prices; Consisting in part of:
War's French Revolution, Washington's Letters, Biographical Charts, Mayor's Universal History, Common Prayer Books, bound in Morocco and elegantly gilt, Gifford's Juvenal, Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy, Poems, Some New Novels, a number of New Plays, &c. &c.
A great variety of CHAP BOOKS. Common Writing, thick Post, and Letter Paper, Wafers and Sealing Wax, Red and Black Ink-Powder. Ink-Sand, Quills, &c. &c. &c.
The first Volume of Pinkerton's Geography, and all the remaining Volumes of the British Classics have come to hand—Persons who have subscribed for either of those works are requested to call and take them up.
He has also on hand, A Brief Retrospect of the eighteenth century, in two elegant octavo volumes, containing a sketch of the Revolutions and improvements in Science, Arts, and Literature, during that period.
Public Characters containing memoirs of Charles J. Fox, William Pitt, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, Henry Dundas, Dr. John Wolcot, William Herschel, Marquis Cornwallis, Joseph Priestly, Mr. D'Israeli, Lord Nelson, Gilbert Wakefield, Earl St. Vincent, Robert Southey, Wm. Godwin, William Cowper, Warren Hastings, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, Dr. James Gregory, Dr. William Mavor, Lord Grenville, Duke of Bridge Water, Thomas Jefferson, Bushrod Washington, Edmund Randolph, Dr. Hugh Blair, Sir Joseph Banks, Henry Addington, John Horn Tooke, General Bowles, Count Rumford, Dr. James Beattie, Dr. Samuel L. Mitchell, Dr. Jenner, General Ira Allen, Earl Stanhope, Mr. Curran, &c.
Temple of Nature, a new Poetical work by Dr. Darwin, with superb plates. Letters of Junius, Massillon's Sermons.
Literary Magazine, Nos. 1 2 3 and 4. Sturms Reflections for every day in the year.
Antient and Modern Europe. Tucker's Blackstone. Wilson's Egypt. Domestic Encyclopaedia, in 5 volumes. Select British Classics, in 38 volumes, with 76 elegant engravings.
AN account of Travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798, including observations on the Geology and Geography of the Southern part of that Continent; the natural history of such objects as occurred in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral kingdoms; and sketches on the Physical and Moral Characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. To which is annexed, a description of the present state, population and produce of that extensive colony; with a Map, constructed entirely from actual observations, made in the course of the Travels.—By John Barrow.
Wortman's Political Enquiry, and the Liberty of the Press.
The History of the British Empire, from the year 1765 to the end of 1783, containing an Impartial History of the Origin, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, in two large octavo volumes, with elegant likenesses of Washington and Franklin.
An Essay on the causes of the variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species.
Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion.
Debates on the Louisiana Treaty.
D'Israeli's Poems.
Ten Volumes of "Select Novels." Spectator, Don Quixote, Abbess, Nocturnal Visit, Jane Talbot, Emmeline, Don Raphael, Maid of Bristol, Chains of the heart, Review, House to be sold, and Mrs. Wiggins.
Bibles, Testaments, Baltimore collection of Hymns, for the use of the Methodist Church, Dilworth's and Webster's Spelling Books, Gunter's Scales,
Cases of Mathematical Instruments—Large and Small hand Copies for the use of Schools, Workman's Arithmetic, adapted to the commerce of the United States, Young Man's Companion, Art of Speaking, American Preceptor, Esop's Fables, Martinsburg, August 17, 1804.
On Tuesday, the 11th of September next, the subscriber will dispose of at public vendue,
THE PLANTATION whereon he now lives, situate in Berkeley County, five miles from Martinsburg and the same distance from Garreys-Town, containing about 60 acres of excellent Land, about one half of which is cleared and the remainder well timbered. There are two good springs on it and the whole of the land well watered; four acres of good timothy meadow is now made, and eight more ploughed up and in good condition for seeding; on the premises are two Dwelling Houses, and other improvements, with an Orchard of almost every sort of Fruit, of the choicest kinds, &c.
He will also dispose of A variety of Household and Kitchen Furniture, Farming Utensils, Horses and Cows, with all the last year's crop, consisting of Wheat, Oats and Hay, and the Corn that is now in the ground. A reasonable credit will be given. Particulars will be made known on the day of sale. Sale to begin at nine o'clock, M.
JOSEPH PLUMMER August 17, 1804.
Cheap Goods.
The subscriber has just received from the Cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore, and is now opening, a large supply of remarkably cheap Goods, consisting of:
4-4 and 7-8 Irish Linens. 100 Pieces elegant Chintzes and Callicoes of the newest patterns. 2 Trunks fashionable Muslins and Handkerchiefs.
20 Pieces Dimities. Leghorn Bonnets, Men's, Women's, Boy's and Girl's fashionable fine Hats, India Muslins, Nankeens, Apron Check, Cloths and Kerseymenes, and a great variety of Fancy Articles, consisting in part of, Artificial Flowers, Wreathes and Plumes, a handsome assortment of Laces and Edgings, Pic Nic Mitts, extra long Silk Gloves, &c. and have also received a large supply of
BAR-IRON.
Of excellent quality and handsomely drawn, English Blistered, Country do. and Crowly STEEL.
100 Pieces Home made Linens. 300 Excellent Twilled Bags. 1000lb. Good Flax, and a parcel of fine old Whisky, distil'd in Maryland, Patent Medicines, &c. &c.
All of the above Goods having been purchased on the lowest terms for cash, I am happy to inform my friends, and the public generally, that I am now enabled to supply them with Goods that are remarkably cheap.
WALTER B. SELBY. Shepherd's-Town, August 10, 1804.
FOR SALE, OR RENT,
A Tract of Land,
adjoining Robert Snodgrass', on Back Creek, Berkeley County, containing 500 acres, about 200 of which are cleared. It will be rented for five years, with the privilege of seeding the land now in corn. For further particulars apply to the subscriber living in Charles Town.
THOMAS HAMMOND. Jefferson County, June 29, 1804.
Spring Goods.
THE subscriber returns thanks to his customers generally for their encouragement heretofore. He likewise informs them that he has just opened a very handsome & well-chosen assortment of
Dry goods and groceries,
Suitable for the present and approaching season, with which he flatters himself he will be able to accommodate his customers, and the public generally, on as good terms as any. He remains their most obedient and humble servant.
JEREMIAH EVANS. Martinsburg, May 18, 1804.
Berkeley County, to wit: WILLIAM RIDDLE, one of the Commonwealth's Justices of the Peace for the said County, to all Sheriffs, Mayors, Bailiffs, Constables and headboroughs within the Commonwealth of Virginia: Whereas complaint is made to me this day, upon the oath of Robert Cockburn, keeper of the jail of the said County, that Charles McEtee, who was lately committed to the jail of the said County of Berkeley, on suspicion of felony, did, on the 31st day of July last past, forcibly escape from the said jail, and is now going at large: These are therefore in the name of the Commonwealth, to require you and every of you, in your respective Counties, Cities, Towns and precincts, to make diligent search, by way of hue and cry, for the said Charles McEtee, and him having found to seize and take and safely convey, or cause him to be safely conveyed to the jail of the said County of Berkeley, there to be kept until he shall be discharged by due course of law. Given under my hand and seal, this first day of August, 1804.
WILLIAM RIDDLE.
More Fresh Goods.
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.
With the greatest esteem, He begs leave to subscribe himself, The public's obt. & humbl. servt. PHILIP NADEBOUSCH. Martinsburg, July 6, 1804.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the subscriber either by Bond, Note, or Book-Account, are requested to make immediate payment, as a final close and reception of outstanding debts is indispensably necessary; merchantable Wheat and Rye will be received in payment. Those who will fail to comply with the above request on or before the first day of September next, may expect that legal measures will be taken against them.
EDWARD M'CORMICK. Charles-Town, July 20, 1804. [Ew]
LANDS FOR SALE.
I WILL dispose of a valuable FARM, upon Cape-Capean, within about two and a half miles of Bath, at present occupied by Capt. Geo. Eskridge, who has an unexpired lease thereon, of four years next October, at £80 per annum. I will give a considerable credit for the balance of the purchase money on receiving £500 Virginia currency ready cash. Capt. Eskridge will show the lines of the land, for further particulars and terms, be pleased to apply to the subscriber.
R. T. HOOE. Alexandria, July 11, 1804.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen in Martinsburg and its vicinity, that his DANCING SCHOOL will be held at the usual place on Monday next, and continue on every Monday, Praticing Balls, to be continued likewise on Tuesday; he will attend in Darkesville on Wednesday; in Charles-Town on Thursday; in Berryville on Friday, at the Yellow House; and Saturday at Winchester, and to continue successively every week.
DAVID HARTSHORNE. August 10, 1804.
BY virtue of a decree of the County Court of Jefferson, rendered at June term last, will be exposed to public sale on the premises for ready money, on the second Saturday in next month, a House and Lot of Ground, situate in the town of Smithfield, in said county, the property of Thomas Carpenter, to satisfy a debt due to Win Winship.
BENJAMIN BELL, HEZEKIAH BEALL, JOHN DAVENPORT, & } Com're. CARVER WILLIS, August 10, 1804.
A GREAT BARGAIN.
THE subscriber will sell a LOT of Land, in the main street, Martinsburg; the improvements thereon are a log Dwelling House, a stone Brew and Distillery House, with water sufficient on the premises; also will be sold with the same, a large brew Kettle and Tubs. Any person wishing to become a purchaser may apply to Philip Coons, John Shober, or David Coons, who will show the premises, and are empowered by me to enter into a contract for the same.
JACOB COONS.
June 29, 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, 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, 1804.
EARTHEN WARE MANUFACTORY,
Near the head of Dry Run and four and an half miles from Martinsburg.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has now got his POTTERY in complete order, and has on hands a very good assortment of excellent ware, and means to keep a constant supply.—It will be much to the advantage of purchasers of this commodity to call on him, as he can sell ware at a cheaper rate than it can be bought at a distance. A considerable reduction will be made to those who purchase by the quantity to sell again.
This being the only establishment of the kind in Berkeley County, and the ware made at it, of as good, perhaps a better quality, and at a lower price, than that made at a distance, he hopes that the efforts he is making to accommodate the people of this County, will not go unrewarded. CYRUS FARR. May 11, 1804.
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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