Kentucky gazette and general advertiser (Lexington [Ky.]), 1803-03-29 00:00:00

KENTUCKY GAZETTE AND GENERAL ADVERTISER.
[VOL. XVI.—N o . 863.]
BY DANIEL BRADFORD, LEXINGTON.
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1803.
TERMS OF THE GAZETTE.
This paper is published weekly, at two DOLLARS per annum, paid in advance.
Those who write to the Editor, must pay the postage of their letters.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN from the subscriber (out of his stable) A SADDLE, almost new, has been used about three months; the maker's name is Seth Creigh, which will be found under the skirt of the saddle. Any person who will give such information as will enable me to prosecute the thief, shall have the above reward, or FIVE DOLLARS for the Saddle only.
JOHN A. SEITZ.
Lexington, 21st Dec. 1803.
In all probability the Saddle will be offered for sale in this neighborhood.
NEW & CHEAP GOODS.
WILLIAM WEST.
Has just received in addition to his former assortment, the following MERCHANDISE, Viz.
Fine Cloths and Cassimers, Coarse do. and Coatings, Elastic do. and Flannels, Scarlet Cardinals, Fulled Stockings and Gloves, Worsted and Cotton Stockings, Silk Shawls and Handkerchiefs, Fancy Swansdown, Velvets, Thicklets and Corduroys, Irish Linens and Calicoes, Umbrellas, Blistered Steel, Pennsylvania made Axes and Castings, Madder and Indigo, Copras and Allum, Mace and Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Green and Bohea Tea, Pewter and Tin ware, Ladies' Elegant Muffs and Tippets, White and Coloured furr Trimings, Lace and Edgings, Spelling Books, Slates, Paper and Ink Powder.
Which he will sell at the most reduced prices for Cash, or approved Country Produce.
NOTICE.
THOSE indebted to Dr. SAMUEL BROWN, for medical services, will please to call on me, in Lexington, and either pay off their accounts, or give due-bills. Dr. Brown being determined to have a final settlement of all his accounts, hopes that those who do not find it convenient at present to make payment, will not hesitate to give their obligations.
THOS. C. DAVIS.
Dec. 7th, 1802.
THE SUBSCRIBER
INTENDS going to Philadelphia early in the spring, requests all those who are indebted to him, either by bond, note or book account, to pay by the first of February next—those who fail to comply with the above request will not be entitled to a credit hereafter, and will have their accounts put into the hands of proper officers for collection.
He has on hand a handsome assortment of MERCHANDISE, which he will sell low for Cash, Tobacco, Country Linen, Bees-wax, Goose Feathers, &c.
Has just received a Handsome Assortment of QUEENS' WARE, COTTON CARDS,
And daily expects a large assortment of Hard Ware, Cutlery, &c. and a handsome collection of Books. GEORGE ANEDRSON. Lexington, Jan. 5, 1803.
N. B. A FARM about three miles from Lexington on the Tate's creek road either to sell or rent. Apply to the subscriber.
JUST PUBLISHED
And for sale at this Office, the second edition of WILSON'S GRAMMAR, Revised and Corrected.
THE Co-partnership of JOHN JORDAN Jun. & Co. having this day expired—All those indebted to said firm either by note or book account, are requested to make immediate payment to John Jordan Jun. or Andrew F. Price, or it will be taken to compel the fame.
JOHN JORDAN Jun. & Co. N. B. The business in future will be done by JOHN JORDAN Jun. who has a
Large and General Assortment of MERCHANDIZE, which he is determined to dispose of on the most reasonable terms for Cash, Hemp, Country Linen, or approved produce.—No Credit. Lexington, K. Nov. 20th, 1802.
To Lease, A VALUABLE FARM, LYING in Mercer county on Salt river, about one mile and half above Maj. Buchanan's mill, on the road leading from Frankfort to Harrodsburg with about 100 acres of Cleared Land, a good Dwelling House and other Convenient Buildings, a large apple and Peach Orchard, Meadow and Pasture; the whole in good repair. James Macconn. Lexington, March 14, 1803.
FOR SALE,
The following Tracts of LAND,
CONVEYED by John Fowler esq. to Cuth. Banks and T. Bodley, by deed of trust, dated the 16th day of December 1800, to wit. 2800 acres in Montgomery county, Flat creek, between Small-Mountain creek and the upper Salt Spring, entered in the name of Crump and Patterson—also, 1700 acres in Campbell county, part of a survey in the name of Jacob Rubhammon, including Fowler's lick—also, 1000 acres in said county, on Bank-lick, being part of a tract of 4000 acres in the name of William Jones. Which said tracts of land, or either, or part of them, will be sold at private sale, for the purpose of satisfying and discharging the trusts mentioned in said deed. The terms may be known by applying to the subscribers in Lexington.
Cuth. Banks, Thos. Bodley. March 14th, 1803.
THE Subscriber intending to quit the Salt Making business on the first day of May next, requests all persons to whom he is indebted, payable in salt, or otherwise, to come forward before that time for payment.—And those indebted to him are requested to come forward and make a settlement of their accounts, on or before said time, by doing of which they will oblige their friend and servant.
CHS. BEIFER. Mann's Lick, Beech Springs, March 6th, 1803.
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT on the second Monday in April, 1803, I shall attend with the commissioners, appointed by the county court of Knox county, at my own dwelling house in said county, on Stinking creek, to go from thence to the beginning corner of an entry in the name of George Thompson, of 6,600 acres of land, on Todd's creek, fork of Stinking creek, to take depositions to establish the special calls in said entry; and do such other lawful acts as I may find necessary; and continue from day to day 'till the business is finished.
JOSEPH BAKER. 15th Jan. 1803.
THE SUBSCRIBERS, HAVING issued Proposals for publication in Lexington, a Newspaper to be entitled the INDEPENDENT GAZETTEER, & WEEKLY ADVERTISER, request those gentlemen who hold Subscription Papers, for the purpose of procuring subscribers, to return them by the 10th inst. in order that arrangements may be made for its publication. JOSEPH CHARLESS, FRANCIS PENISTON. Lexington, March 1, 1803.
THE SHARE-HOLDERS IN the Kentucky Insurance Company, are hereby notified to meet at the Company's office, in Lexington, on the 1st day of April next, at 12 o'clock, in order to elect a President and Directors, to continue in office for one year from that date, agreeably to the 6th section of the Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Kentucky Insurance Company."
By order of the board of Directors. W. MORTON, President. February 21, 1803
Take Notice, That I shall attend the commissioners appointed by the county court of Montgomery county, in pursuance of an act of Assembly in that case made and provided, at Berry's mill, on Lulubugrun, in Montgomery county, on the 18th day of April next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, and continue from day to day, until the business hereafter mentioned, may be completed; to take the depositions of such witnesses as I may deem necessary to perpetuate the testimony of, for the establishment of the calls, the beginning and corners of a claim of land in the county aforesaid, being 316 acres, entered in the name of James M c Millan, and to do such other acts as may be necessary and agreeable to law.
JAMES M c MILLAN. Feb. 10th, 1803.
Dec. 14th, 1802. TAKEN up by James Anderson, living on Sugar creek, Garrard county, a Brown Mare, nineteen years old, her left ear cropped, a small white in her face, no brands perceivable; appraised to 12 dollars.
L. HUTCHERSON, J. P. A Copy. Teste BENJ. LETCHER, C. C. C. A GREAT BARGAIN.
For Sale, TWO HUNDRED AND SIX ACRES OF LAND, on the North fork of Licking, five miles from Washington, Mason county; on which is a Mill, with three pair of Stones, and a Running Geer; a Dwelling House, 50 feet long; a fine Sill House, which will make 250 gallons of whiskey per week; a Cooper's shop and all other convenient houses, and twenty acres of Meadow.—One third Cash will be required. For particulars, apply to Messrs. Trotter & Scott, Lexington, or to the subscriber in Washington, Mason county. ROBERT B. MORTON. March 14, 1803.
NOTICE, THAT commissioners appointed by the county court of Clarke county, will meet at the house of the subscriber, on Strode's creek, near the mouth of Hancock, on the first Tuesday in May next, in order to take the depositions of sundry witnesses to perpetuate testimony respecting the calls of an entry, on settlement right, made in the name of Nathaniel Bullock, and to do such other acts as shall be judged necessary and agreeably to law. ROBERT PEEBLES. March 10th, 1803.
Clarke County, October Term, 1802. Robert Clark, sen. compl't.
AGAINST David Bullock, Josias Bullock and Andrew M c Calla & Co. defend'ts. UPON AN INJUNCTION, IN CHANCERY. THE defendant Josias Bullock not having entered his appearance herein agreeably to law and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth, on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that unless the said defendant do appear here on the second day of the next March term and answer the complainant's bill the same will be taken pro confesso—that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Kentucky Gazette for two months successively, that another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of this county, and that another copy be published at the door of the Stone meeting-house on Howard's creek some Sunday innumediately after divine service. A copy, Teste D. BULLOCK, c. c. q. s.
BILLS OF LADING & MANIFESTS, Printed with an elegant Script Type, may be had at this office.
SPREAD EAGLE, WILL cover this season in Lexington, at Thirty Dollars Cash, each mare, and One Dollar to the groom; or approved notes from such persons as can be strictly relied on, payable on or before the first of September following. The season to commence the twentieth of March, and continue to the first of September 1803. Spread Eagle and Sterling are brothers from fire, and out of sitters—he is of superior size—bone, blood, and beauty inferior to none—He is a beautiful bay, nearly sixteen hands high; well proved as a race horse—running four mile heats with twelve alone on his back, as appears from the Racing Calendar, New Market, London, from the years 1795, to 1798—after which he is there noted, sent to America to Colonel John Hoomes, in Virginia, at the Bowling Green; where he the last season that he made there, covered two hundred and thirty four mares in preference to any imported horse in that state. I will furnish good pasture gratis for mares that come a distance, and every attention will be paid them, but will not be responsible in case of accidents or escapes. The mares may be furnished with grain and Red Clover, &c. if required by the proprietor, and at his expense.—Mares warranted to be in foal at Fifty Dollars the season. Wm. T. BANTON.
SPREAD EAGLE. HE was bred by Sir Frank Standish, Bart. was got by Volunteer, his dam by Highflyer, grand dam by Engineer, out of the dam of Bay Malton and Treasurer—she was got by Cade, out of the Lass of the Mill, by Old Traveller—Young Grenound—Partner—Woodcock—Croft's Bay Barb—Makeless Brimmer—Son of Dodsforth—Burrton Barb Mare.
Spread Eagle, in New Market Craven Meeting, 1795, being the first time he ever started, won a Sweepstakes of 100 guineas each, hundred feet across the Flat, (7 subscribers) beating Mr. Dawson's Diamond, and two others. In the following meeting he won the second class of the Prince's stakes of 100 guineas each, beating Lord Egremont's brother to Calomel, & three others. At Epsom Spring Meeting, same year, he won the Derby Stakes of 50 guineas each, hundred feet, (45 subscribers) beating with the greatest ease, Caustic, Pelter, Diamond, Viret, &c. after which he was taken very ill with the distemper, and never recovered his form of racing, which, 'till then, was allowed to be most capital.
In 1796, he won a Sweepstakes of 100 guineas each, at York, (8 subscribers) and was second for the great subscription there, beating Sober Robin.
In 1798, at New Market, he came second for the Craven Stakes, when twelve started, beating Druid, Gas, Bennington, &c. and won the King's plate of 100 guineas, carrying 12st. the Round Course, beating Bennington, and Lord G. H. Cavendish's Bay Horse by Jupiter. March 1, 1803.
ROZINANTE, A FINE large Jack Ass, (from Mexico) thirteen hands high, strong and well made, four years old this spring, will be let to mares the ensuing season, on the subscriber's farm, adjoining the town of Lexington, at Ten Dollars the season, to be paid in Cash, or Hemp at the market price. Robert Barr.
March 13, 1802.
TAKEN up by Abraham Bosley, in Lincoln county, near Worthington's station, a dark bay MARE, four years old last spring, about 14 hands and a half high, with a bob tail, & some faddle spots; no brands perceivable—appraised to £. 12—Also, a dark bay COLT, about two or three years old, about 12 1-2 hands high, neither docked nor branded, part of the near hind foot white—appraised to £. 6. JAMES HICKMAN. 21st January, 1803.
BLANK BOOKS Of any description may be had at this Office.—Also, old books re-bound, on the shortest notice.
[CIRCULAR.]
Hon. JNO. FOWLER, to his Constituents.
WASHINGTON, February 23, 1803.
The constitutional term for which I have been elected your suffrages to the seventh congress, expires in a few days. I believe it to be my duty to communicate such matters of a political nature, in which the general welfare of the union, and of my constituents in particular, are concerned. My usual mode has been, to communicate concisely what appears to me of the first importance, and to refer for the details on the subordinate transactions to the common vehicles of information, the public papers.
If my memory is correct, in my letter addressed to you at the close of the last session, I noticed the very flourishing state of the public revenue, the measures recommended by the president, and adopted by congress, to release the people from the severe oppression of taxes with which they had been loaded, during the few years of error and madness, in which our government was entrusted to men either incompetent or unworthy of confidence. Great alarm was attempted to be raised by the fallen party—ruin to our finances, and distress to our country, were pretended to be foretold. The event has proved these to be false prophecies. I will give you a few facts, and you can draw your own conclusions. The present administration will have been in office two years on the 4th of March. In the year beginning with October 1800, and ending with September, 1800, the last year of John Adams's administration, the expenditures of government, exclusive of public debt, interest, & reimbursements, amounted to 7,180,000 dollars. In the year beginning and ending in the same months of 1801 and 1802, being the second year of Thomas Jefferson, the expenditure was 4,045,000, leaving a saving in public expense of 3,035,000 a year. In the last two years of the former administration, the expenses of government amounted to the enormous sum of 22,954,930 dollars! Taking the average of the two years of the present, to be double the expense of the first year, it would amount only to little more than 8,000,000, which presents a difference very characteristic of the two parties, say 15,000,000 dollars saved to the public, from waste and corruption—indeed from employment to the public danger and ruin. The estimate of the secretary, of the treasury of the public expenses for the ensuing year, is under 8 millions.
The management of the finances in every other respect, is equally prosperous and wisely regulated. During the late administration, it was customary to leave in the hands of public officers in the customs, loan officers, surveyors, contractors, navy agents, and paymasters, vast sums of the public money, which were employed in private speculation. This was done to procure adherents, and to reward those who deserted the old principles of 1776, or went to the most violent lengths in hostility to republican government. Vast sums lay in this way, when the public were imposed upon to borrow money at 8 per cent. It has not been brought completely home to the individuals, but there is strong ground to believe, that a great part of the public's own money, which was thus suffered to be in the hands of public officers, was lent to the public at this enormous interest. A complete stop has been put to this traffic and corruption, & a system laid down, by which every individual officer is obliged to account, at short periods, for the money in his hands, and to repay it to the treasury, where there are not disbursements on the public accounts to be made from it.
Seven months after the present administration came into office, the amount in the treasury was only 2,943,718 dollars. I notice seven months, because about that period, the measures of the former administration had about ceased to operate, and the present had begun to go into action. In one year after that date, that is, on the first of October, 1802, there was in the treasury 4,539,675 dollars; beside which the government has paid upwards of nine millions of the public debt, including interest. And what is highly flattering to the public feeling, & credit to our country and government, I have good ground to believe that steps have been effectually taken to discharge by anticipation, all claims upon us for the foreign debt, up to the month of June, 1803. No nation on earth ever exhibited in so short a space, so many evidences of a happy government, wisely and successfully administered.

There is one other subject of very considerable importance, particularly to the state which I have the honor to represent, that has occupied much of the attention of the executive and both houses of congress in the present session; it is already familiar to you by the general attention which it has excited. The conduct of the Spanish intendant at New-Orleans. Much clamor has been employed, but more pains have been bestowed to misrepresent and mislead, than to inform the public correctly on this subject. I shall endeavor to communicate what is the true state of the case, without regard to prejudices of any kind.
By our treaty of 1795, with Spain, we obtained through the friendly disposition of the Spanish government, a privilege of storing our produce intended for sale, in such ware houses as could be procured at New-Orleans. This privilege was limited to three years; but under this provision, that if the Spanish government should find it not convenient to let our produce be deposited at New-Orleans, after that period, that some other fit place should be provided in lieu of it.
While the war existed, the necessities of the Spanish colonies compelled a relaxation of their very rigid colonial laws--for they do not admit any nation whatever, to trade with their colonies in peace. The period expired to which our privilege of deposit was limited, about the time at which the present administration came into office, and the usual system of colonial law was generally revived. In the Spanish colonies a system of government prevails different from all the rest of the world. Their governors have no controul over matters of trade, their functions are wholly of a political, juridical, or legislative character. But all the authority for regulating and controlling trade is vested in an officer wholly independent of the governor. This officer is called the intendant.
The Spanish intendant at New-Orleans, construing the general proclamation concerning trade, as excluding us, like all other nations, from commercial intercourse, and finding the period of our privilege of deposit expired, and that his court, which had alone the power of fixing another place, had not done so--took upon him to execute, in the most rigid manner, the general restrictive principle, and to deprive us of that place, without another being provided, for the deposit of our produce.
This is the fair state of the business, as it respects the Spaniards; as it respects us, the injury is a very serious one, but our executive had information of the transaction, and had taken the most active and decisive measures to procure redress and right, before the subject had been taken up by those who always make a noise without regard to the merit of the case. Negotiations on the subject of the Mississippi had long before commenced; additional instructions and dispatches were sent to our ambassador at Madrid--and to the court of Spain by the Spanish ambassador. Mr. Monroe is also sent ambassador to Paris, with a view to arrangements with the French government of great importance, in every view, to the western country.
Mr. Monroe is already well known, and no man is better qualified, by actual knowledge of the western country, to be entrusted with this important negotiation. When he was ambassador in France before, he very pointedly intimated to our government the negotiations which were then carrying on between France and Spain, for the re-cession of Louisiana to the former; and I am informed, from very good private authority, that had his advice been taken at that period, we might have had not only New-Orleans, but the whole of the Mississippi, on both sides, in our possession.
At present it appears more than probable, that the French will obtain Louisiana, and perhaps settle a large colony there. This has been made a subject of great alarm, & attempts have been made by combining this project with the conduct of the Spanish intendant, to produce a war; with whom the proposers neither know nor care; it was not right they wished to obtain, nor wrong to redress, but a war, by which the country might be involved in trouble, and they might expect to obtain jobs, or scramble into office. The advocates of war, however have shown how little they knew of the western people, for they asserted that we were ready to violate our duty to the federal government; that we were dissatisfied; and that the French, when they should settle in Louisiana, would find in the western states numerous persons ready to join them, and to separate from the union.
Such aspersions were not suffered to pass unresisted, and the authors of these calumnies were told what every western man knows to be true, that the character of a free American citizen, who chooses his own legislators, and lives uncontrolled but by the laws which they make, is too precious to be changed for that of a subject to any power on earth.
Whatever may be the issue of the negotiations, I do not see the least reason to apprehend danger or injury from the colonization of Louisiana; our population is too far advanced ever to admit of their being dangerous neighbors; and as a friendly, sociable and intelligent people, I see rather great advantages to our side of the river. The only evil that we can apprehend, is from the jealousy which will be sought to be kept alive by the enemies of our government within ourselves, particularly in the sea ports of the Atlantic states.
It is not necessary for me to inform you, that Ohio has been added to our Union, as the seventeenth state.
A circumstance took place here during the last session, in the supreme court; it was the issuing a writ of mandamus to the secretary of state for the delivery of certain commissions of justices of the peace, signed by John Adams, "in the last moments of his administration." The court has decided a few days since, that it has not jurisdiction in the case.
I am, with respect, Your faithful servant, JOHN FOWLER.
LITERARY.
From the Wilmington Mirror.
No political writings ever made more noise in the world, or were more celebrated than the letters signed JUNIUS, and published in London some more than thirty years ago. And as the author conveyed those letters to the press in such a secret manner as to conceal himself entirely from the knowledge of the public, and every other person; the public curiosity has been excited from that time to this, to know who he was: frequent and various have been the conjectures respecting him; but all have accorded in attributing those letters to one person or another of the most eminent abilities. This without doubt does the author great honor. I have observed in some of your late papers, that they were attributed to the celebrated Mr. Dunning by one writer, and to the late earl of Chatham by another. But to satisfy the curiosity of the world, and to preclude all future and uncertain conjectures, I can assure the public, that our celebrated Major General CHARLES LEE of the American army, was the real author of those letters. And although he had declared that the secret rested solely with himself, and that he meant to carry it to the grave with him, yet I affirm and answer the public that he revealed it to me, and perhaps to no other person in the world.
In the fall of 1773, not long after Gen. Lee had arrived in America, I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon in his company, when there was no other person present; our conversation chiefly turned on politics, and was mutually free and open; among other things the Letters of Junius were mentioned, and Gen. Lee asked me, who was conjectured to be the author of those letters. I replied those conjectures here generally followed those started in England, but for myself I concluded from the spirit, style, patriotism, and political information which they displayed, that Lord Chatham was the author; and yet that there were some sentiments in them that indicated his not being the author. Gen. Lee immediately replied with considerable animation, affirming that to his certain knowledge Lord Chatham was not the author; neither did he know who the author was any more than I did; that there was not a man in the world, no, not even Woodfall the publisher, that knew who the author was; that the secret rested solely with himself, and forever would remain with him.
Feeling in some degree surprised at this unexpected declaration, after pausing a little I replied, No, Gen. Lee, if you certainly know what you have affirmed, it can no longer remain solely with him, for certainly no one could know what you have affirmed but the author himself? Recollecting himself he replied, I have unguardedly committed myself, and it would be but folly to deny to you that I am the Author, but I must request that you will not reveal it during my life; for it never was, and never will be revealed by me to any other. He then proceeded to mention several circumstances to verify his being the author, and among them his going over to the continent, and absenting himself from England, most of the time in which those letters were first published in London, &c. &c. This he thought necessary, lest by some accident the author should become known, or at least suspected, which might have caused his ruin had he been in the power of the court of London, &c.
Whoever will compare the letters of Gen. Lee, written to several of the British officers at the commencement of our revolutionary war, with those of Junius, will probably be convinced that they were dictated by the same mind and written by the same hand; but however that may be, I affirm, that what I have herein communicated to the public relative to Gen. Lee's communication to me, respecting the author of Junius' Letters, is, in substance, strictly true, and no doubt remains with me but that he was the real author.
T. RODNEY. Dover, Feb. 1, 1803.
Without giving a decided opinion upon the question which this letter gives rise to, whether Gen. Charles Lee was or was not the author of the letters of Junius, we may mention some circumstances, which, if not conclusive evidence that the authorship is justly attributable to him, will form at least a sufficient foundation for instituting an enquiry into the question.
Charles Lee was an Englishman by
birth. To the gifts with which Nature had liberally endowed him, he added whatever could be derived, by early and unremitting study of the best authors in every language and department, and from the society of enlightened and experienced men. He was acquainted with most of the dead and living languages, and took a wide range in the fields of science. His thirst for knowledge was ardent, and his application to its acquirement intense. So that he can neither be supposed to have been incapable of writing the letters of Junius, excellent as they are, from any natural deficiency, or from defect in improvement. He was fully equal to the task.
His love of liberty was warm and chaste. From his earliest youth he expressed that love in the most animated and distinguished language. In the writings which the compiler of the Memoirs of Gen. Lee has thrown together, some of which are under his proper signature; and others known as his, he has freely declared his abhorrence of Tyranny, his devotion to Liberty, and his partiality for a Republican form of Government, as best calculated to secure the latter by guarding against the former. The same hatred of Tyranny breathes, and the same love of Liberty burns, in the letters of Junius.
The attachment of Gen. Lee to America, was early and uniform. He was fighting her battles during what is usually called the French war in this country, at which time he was quite young. On his return to Europe after its conclusion, he lost the favor of the British Minister, by the zeal and talents he displayed in advocating the American cause, both by writing and verbally. He exerted his influence with the members of Parliament with whom he was acquainted, against the infamous stamp-act: and pleaded the cause of the colonies with the foreign courts, who were at that time hesitating how to act with respect to the disagreements between the colonies and the Mother Country. This prepossession for America, and this interest in her concerns, was apparently alike felt by Gen. Lee and by the Author of the letters of Junius.
Lee was in Europe, tho' it is not precisely known whether in England or on the Continent, during the time in which the letters of Junius were first given to the world. The last letters of Junius were dated in 1772; and in 1773 Gen. Lee is known to have embarked for America. Here he assisted in fanning the flame that was but then kindling, and which finally melted the fetters which Britain was unnaturally and unjustly fixing on her infant colonies. He wrote addresses to the people of America, to the Provincial Congress of Virginia, &c. in which the spirit of Junius is perceptible, and where also a similarity of style to that of Junius may be discovered. Indeed, in most of Lee's writings, in those at least which were meant for the public eye and were not produced by the spur of some momentous occasion, there is a striking resemblance of style to the letters of Junius. The same metaphors, with a little variation, may be not unfrequently found in both. Lee deals much in interrogatories. Junius is expressly accused by Sir William Draper, of resorting to this unfair mode of argument. A number of passages might be pointed out in the known writings of Lee, that bear strong analogy to parts of the letters of Junius. The partialities & dislikes of the most conspicuous characters on the political stage, are almost common to Junius and Lee.
We have not leisure at present to pursue this subject further. We hope to see it handled by some person of more extensive reading, and discriminating judgment. Our observations, as we have before observed, are meant only to show, that the letter of Mr. Rodney, taken into view, with a number of concurrent circumstances, forms a sufficient foundation upon which to institute an enquiry into the question, "Was Gen. Lee the author of the letters of Junius?"
True American.
AN ACT
Directing a detachment from the militia of the United States, and for erecting certain arsenals.
Sec. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized, whenever he shall judge it expedient, to require of the executives of such of the states as he may deem expedient and from their local situation shall be most convenient, to take effectual measures to organize, arm and equip, according to law, and hold in readiness to march at a moment's warning a detachment of militia not exceeding 80,000, officers included.
Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the President may, if he judges it expedient, authorize the executives of the several states, to accept, as part of the detachment aforesaid, any corps of volunteers; who shall engage to continue in service for such time, not exceeding twelve months, and perform such services as shall be prescribed by law.
Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That the detachments of militia and volunteer corps as aforesaid, shall be officered by such of the present militia officers, or friends and relatives, exhorting them in the option and discretion of her dying moments, to upright lives, and the constitutional authority in each state respectively, the President of the United States.
States appointing general officers among the respective states, as he may deem proper.
Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That one million five hundred thousand dollars be appropriated for paying and subsisting such part of the troops aforesaid, whose actual service may be wanted, for the purchase of ordnance and other military stores, and for defraying such other expenses as, during the recess of Congress, the President may deem necessary for the security of the territory of the United States; to be applied under the direction of the President, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted, That twenty-five thousand dollars be appropriated for erecting at such place or places on the western waters, as the President may judge most proper, one or more arsenals; and that the President cause the same to be furnished with such arms, ammunition, and military stores as he may deem necessary.
GREENOCK, January 31.
The Porte has received the melancholy news, that the Turkish army in Egypt, which was under the command of the Pacha of Cairo, has been entirely defeated by the Bey's. The account which the English ambassador, Lord Elgin, has received from Egypt, came down as late as the 2d November, and contains the following intelligence.
The Bey's were already surrounded by the Turkish army. The former made several sallies, but were every time repulsed by the Turks. Meanwhile, in the beginning of October, Omer Bey had sufficient art and address to escape from this situation, by marching his troops through the Turkish lines privately, and unknown to the Pacha; who had no intimation of his movements. Omer Bey then added considerable reinforcements to his troops; he approached the camp, and the other bey's who were acquainted with all his movements, made a sudden & furious attack on the Turks. At this moment Omer Bey fell upon the rear of the Pacha's troops and the Turkish army being thus placed between two fires, was beaten and destroyed. The Bey's took advantage of this success, for several days they pursued and killed the Turks in their flight; and would have totally extirpated them had not the commanders of the English and Turkish troops at Alexandria, sent out the military of the garrison to collect the fugitives, and stop the further progress of the Bey's.
The Pacha of Cairo is now endeavouring to get his scattered troops into fortified places. But the Bey's have by far the advantage of him; and are now masters of the flat country.
FRANKFORT, March 23.
MAD DOGS--AGAIN.
In January last a Mad Dog came to this place, and bit most of the cattle, &c. in the town. An order of the board of Trustees was immediately passed, directing all dogs in the town to be confined for forty days--this ordinance was enforced until the time expired, after which until last week, we were without alarm, when a mad dog again paid us a visit. Thursday evening a negro man, of Mr. Sneed's was bitten--fortunately, having on a thick dress, the skin was not broken--Sunday we were again alarmed by mad dogs, and several citizens were in great danger--Monday morning the eldest daughter of major Love had her clothes torn by a dog, and in the course of the day several others were caught by the clothes by those dangerous animals. A number of the hogs, and it is feared some of the cattle have been bitten. It would be well for the citizens to examine their cattle, and be constantly on the lookout, as we conceive there is yet great danger to be apprehended most of the cattle that were bitten in January last, having gone mad.
With sorrow we learn, that in Garrard county, six or seven persons in one family, have been bitten, and that with one of them symptoms of HYDROPHOBIA have appeared. These circumstances are truly alarming, and we think it the duty of every good citizen, either to confine his dogs for a limited time, or kill them.
DIED--on Thursday evening last, the Reverend John Brown, at a very advanced age, after a long and painful illness, which he bore with truly Christian fortitude. During his illness, he frequently declared his belief, that he should never recover--and expressed his resignation to the will of Providence, & his confidence of eternal felicity through the mediation of a blessed Savior. His many christian virtues endeared him to all his acquaintances, and he died universally regretted.
No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they; alike, in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God.
COMMUNICATED.
DIED--on the 11th inst. after a lingering illness of nine weeks, Miss Nancy Cox, daughter of Mr. Benjamin S. Cox, of this county, in the 20th year of her age. She was perfectly resigned to death, and took a formal leave of her friends and relatives, exhorting them in the option and discretion of her dying moments, to upright lives, and the constitutional authority in each state respectively, the President of the United States.
NATCHEZ, February 19. THE post from New-Orleans, which arrived yesterday, brings us the pleasing intelligence of the opening of that Port. We have also the pleasure to inform our fellow citizens, that the infamous MASON and his four sons--who have for long been a terror to travellers passing through the wilderness; and descending the Mississippi, passed this eight days ago well ironed and guarded by a party of his Catholic Majesty's troops for New-Orleans.
PRICES CURRENT.
NATCHEZ. Apples per bbl. 4 dollars--dull. Bacon, 15 cents per lb.--brisk. Bar Iron per cwt. 12 1-2 to 15 dollars. Castings, per lb. 10 cents. Cider, per bbl. 8 dollars. Cheese, (Kentucky) per lb. 25 cents,--brisk. Cotton, (in seed) 3 dollars--dull. (ginned) 14 dollars, do. Cordage, per cwt. 12 1-2 to 15 dollars. Flour, Fresh, 5 to 6 dollars--brisk. Old, 3 to 4--do. Lime, per bushel 35 to 40 cents. Potatoes, per bushel 1 dollar,--very brisk. Whiskey, per gallon, 1 dollar. Salt Pork, per bbl. 12 dollars,--brisk. Salted provisions, butter, candles, &c. will generally command a good market.
NEW-ORLEANS. Cotton, per cwt. (French) 16 dolls.--very dull. Cordage, per do. 20 dollars. Flour per barrel, 9 dollars--brisk.
LEWIS SANDERS & Co. Have just received in addition to their assortment, a variety of Fancy & Fashionable GOODS, Kid, Morocco and } Shoes. Stuff } Handsome Prints, Extra Long Silk Gloves, India Nankeens, Platillas, Dimity, &c. Also on hand some Elegant and Fashionable Ladies Fans & Beads. Best Pennsylvania made Scythes and Sickles.
Expect in a few days Coffee, Tea, Loaf Sugar, &c. Which makes their assortment very complete, and will be disposed of for a very low advance for Cash.
FERRY & TAVERN.
JAMES CHAMBERS, WISHES to inform the public, that he now occupies the house and ferry formerly occupied by Benjamin Sutton, at Limestone, Kentucky--and having repaired the house, and made other necessary arrangements for the accomodation of travellers, he hopes by a constant attention to their ease and convenience, and to the ferry particularly, (it being the most convenient of any in the place; for travellers from Kentucky to the Eastward to cross at) to merit the patronage of such as may think proper to favor him with a call. He has a large and convenient stable, to which the strictest attention will be paid. And for the convenience of travellers, he has prepared a list of the different stages from Limestone to Wheeling, which may be had on application. March 24, 1803.
TAKEN up by James Muir in Clarke county, on the waters of Upper Howard's creek, one CHESNUT SORREL MARE, Six years old next spring, about fourteen and a half hands high, with a large star in the forehead, no other marks or brands perceivable; appraised to 20l.
JOSEPH COMBS. December 18, 1803.
Notice is hereby given, THAT we purpose petitioning the county court of Cumberland, to establish a town on our lands in said county, patented in the name of Henry Banks and William Roberts, on the bank of Cumberland river, in the rock house bottom.
JOSEPH BLEDSOE, } Jun. THOS. J. CHILTON. March 16th, 1803.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
IN pursuance of a resolution of the Board of Trustees of the town of Lexington, the out lots in said town of the following numbers, viz. No. 35, 61, 81 and 89, will be sold or leased for a term of years, to the highest bidder, at the court-house in said town, on the first Monday in May next, at 12 o'clock. The terms will be made known on that day. JOHN BRADFORD, } Comrs. JOSEPH HUDSON, } JOHN M. BOGGS, } March 7th, 1803. 2m

LEXINGTON, MARCH 29.
On Monday the 21st inst. being the day appointed by law for that purpose, the share-holders in the Vineyard company, met at the house of Capt. John Pollethwait, in the town of Lexington, in order to elect twelve directors for the ensuing year, when the following gentlemen were elected, viz. John Bradford, William Macbean, James McCann, Benj. Stout, Samuel Brown, George Anderson, John A. Seitz, Thomas Hart jun. Henry Marshall, Robert Patterson, Walker Baylor and Andrew M'Calla.
Nothing could exceed the satisfaction expressed by the share-holders at this meeting. Many individuals had subscribed to the institution with little expectation of its ultimate success. All doubts however on this point are now completely removed; for Mr. Dufour at this meeting, presented the company with two species of Wine, one made from the Madeira grape, the other from that of the Cape of Good Hope. Several foreigners who tasted it, gave it as their opinion that these wines were equal to any of the same age in Europe; they were produced from cuttings brought from New-York and Philadelphia, in the year 1798.
The production of an article in our own state, the general use of which cannot fail of effecting important changes in our manners and morals, as it will tend to banish the destructive use of ardent spirits, was considered by the company as an event worthy of a festival; accordingly the company met at the same place the succeeding day, and after dinner drank the following TOASTS in Kentucky Wine:
 1st. The first Vineyard in Kentucky—May the public spirited example of its patrons, animate the inhabitants of the western country to similar exertions.  2d. Success to all associations for cultivating the Vine in our sister states.  3d. The wide spreading branches of the Kentucky Vine—A quiet resting place for the virtuous and oppressed sons of William Tell.  4th. The Agriculture and Manufacture of the western country.  5th. The free navigation of the Mississippi.  6th. May those who seek war or a separation from the union, never taste the juice of the grape.  7th. May the sons of Columbia have the wisdom to admire and honor the benefactors and not the destroyers of the human race.  8th. The most pleasing union—The Myrtle of Venus with the Vine of Bacchus. 
IMPORTANT.
KENTUCKY IN ARMS.
We have conversed with a gentleman of intelligence and integrity from Washington, from whom we have received the following very interesting intelligence—
That on Sunday last about eleven o'clock, an express arrived at the city of Washington, charged with a memorial from Kentucky, addressed to Mr. Davis, as their favorite representative.
The memorials stated, that they waited with the greatest patience and anxiety for the interference of government in their behalf; that events pressed every day harder, and harder upon them, and had almost exhausted their forbearance, but that they were yet willing and desirous of making another appeal to the general government for protection, and that expecting to receive this promptly, they had prepared to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's warning; and that for this purpose, they raised by subscription five hundred thousand dollars, for the purpose of arms and ammunition, and had embodied, organized and equipped; fifteen thousand men, who had already been three days in camp. Mr. Davis, it is said expressed extreme regret, that the messenger had not arrived nine hours sooner, that is, before Breckenridge's resolutions had passed.
Of this sum to present governor subscribed 2000, and the last governor 1500 dollars.
N. Y. Herald.
The preceding article first appeared in a New-York paper edited by Callender's friend and correspondent, and has been copied into nearly all the papers in the Eastern States. I think it a duty to declare that the post is entirely without foundation—the citizens of Kentucky have the full confidence in the justice and attentions of the General Government, and rest satisfied that every thing will be done to support the honor and interest of every part of the Union.
The Aurora has denied the truth of New-York account, but the succeeding paper admits that it is possible, "the inflammatory harangues of the federalists may so far beguile the people of Kentucky, as to make them disregard their obligations as citizens of the Union." In the same paper is the following article:—
"Insurrection.—We find federalists are using every means to excite the people of Kentucky to act hostility and insurrection—letters received from men of information & standing
in that state inform, that certain characters well known have lately been very active in this mischief—they have convoked meetings and addressed harangues to the people from sinners of trees, inciting them to march against New-Orleans."
The above account is equally untrue with that from New-York. No such meetings have been convoked, nor have any harangues been addressed to the people, except from candidates for congress, who know too well the ground on which they stand, to deliver sentiments hostile to the present administration.
The time has been when the people of the Western Country were almost ripe for redressing their own grievances, because the then existing administration entirely neglected them. They then spoke in the language of injured men, and their representations were attended to. The cause for this conduct has been removed, and they are now as loyal citizens as any in the Union.
When the information was first received of the shutting of the port of Orleans, many of our citizens expressed a wish, that any negotiation might be at the mouth of the cannon.—When we were informed of the appointment of Mr. Munroe, some disapproved the measure, without knowing the object of his mission; but when we were told that his powers extended so far as to place our commercial rights in a situation not liable to similar invasions, every tongue was silent except one—by a reference to our paper of the 15th instant, it will be found what opinion was entertained of his sentiments.
In contradicting these accounts, we are actuated by a regard to truth and the reputation of our countrymen. It might be proper to call on Mr. Coleman for intelligence and integrity," with whom he had conversed, and on Mr. Dufour for his "men of information and standing," that they might be held up to the contempt of all honest men.—But those gentlemen will doubtless give that information, least they should be branded as the fabricators of falsehoods.
For a considerable time it has been the province of some editors, jealous of our growing consequence, to heap calumnies of the foulest kind on the Kentuckians. Intuitions and direct charges, have hitherto been alike treated with the same contempt, and their authors cordially despised. The effect those publications had in deterring emigrations may be seen by examining the last census, and comparing it with the former.
It has been repeatedly remarked, the truth of which has in some degree come within the observation of the editor) that more peace and harmony prevails among the citizens of Kentucky, than with those of any other state in the union. We are all of one opinion—"We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists."
A DISSERTATION
On the Political Character and Writings of THOMAS PAINE, Author of Common Sense, Rights of Man &c. &c. &c.
(No. V)
"RIGHTS OF MAN."
THE progress of civil and political knowledge to maturity, has been uncommonly slow, and subject to many fluctuations, in each age and nation of the world. The melancholy wandering tenant of the forest is no sooner translated into the bosom of society and safety, but he assumes the garb of the rustic chieftain, and aspires to dominion, on the wing of the passions. He sits in the chair of state, and directed each savage council, led his countrymen to war, determined individual disputes and united in his own person, the civil and religious prerogatives of the nation. This is an epitome and the origin of monarchy. All the first governments of the world were upon a similar standing. Cupidity, and the love of power, which like eternity, have no limitations, kept pace with the increase of society. They acquired strength and durability in proportion to the influence which art obtained over weakness, and flourished upon the obedience which ignorance yielded to the crimes of ambition.
In the mean time, the plastic powers of a moral imagination, are introduced by the detestable agency of priests and magicians, to support the claims of despotism. Whatever was found wonderful or mysterious in nature, in the records of antiquity or the communications of tradition, were brought forward to sanction the decrees of tyranny and to remove mankind to a greater distance from the enjoyment of natural liberty.
The laws of the pentateuch, which, from one end to the other inculcated the principles of monarchy, served to maintain, for many ages, the claims of the tyrant over the dependency of the subject. The Scandinavian institutions, the Koran & the Shaster, are of the same nature and tendency. They wore the stamp of celestial origin; and when mingled with the mysterious dogmas of Astrology, which has been more or less cultivated in all the early nations of antiquity, it is not wonderful that the divine right of kings, should have acquired strength and prevalence among mankind, and even meet with advocates in one of the most enlightened nations of Europe.
Such was the state of political science, from the first ages of the world, down to the fourth & fifth centuries before the christian era. About this period, the institutions of Solon and Minos united with the writings of Aristotle and Plato gave some degree of improvement to legislation. The true elements of civil liberty, however, were very imperfectly known. Philosophy, meditating on the nature of God and of man, in the universe, conducted the human mind, thro' all the variety of visionary speculation, without ascertaining any fixed principles of ethics. Hence in the institutions of Lycurgus, we discover the most savage violations of nature in every part of jurisprudence, and the national character of the Lacedemonians shockingly debased, by a total contempt of the moral virtues and of those finer feelings of the heart, which gives worth and dignity to our nature. The political compacts also of Solon and Minos, appear to have resulted more from local situation and the peculiar genius of the Greeks, than from a clear well digested knowledge of natural liberty. They were calculated to preserve the political existence of the state, as it stood related with the rest of the world; but the civil rights of the citizen were equally unknown and unprotected upon liberal and enlightened plans of policy. The idea, however, of a simple democracy, where the power flowed from the people, easily suggested the representative plan, when applied to large and populous communities. So far the world is indebted to the Athenian institutions for the hint it has received on this subject. It suggested the Utopia of Sir Thomas Moore and the writings of Harrington; and the "Idea of a perfect commonwealth," by Marchmont Needham, bears evident marks of having been derived from a mind, which like that of Plato, had drawn all its materials from a false philosophy; that had viewed the subject in the abstract, without establishing a becoming fitness between the principles of legislation and the nature of society.
Most of the political writers from the time of Aristotle to Locke, were upon the same standing, in point of merit. Like the revolutions in natural philosophy, one hypothesis gave rise to another, which was exploded by a third. There was nothing that looked like first principle, in a single development. If Machiavel had understood the rights of man, he never would have felt a difficulty in separating the claims of a prince from the claims of a republic. Throughout the whole, however, of that writer's political works, there is not only a continued eulogium upon the monarchical branch of government, but his ideas appear to be so extremely limited by the small extent of an Italian republic, that it would seem they were incapable of embracing a populous state of society, spread over a large continent, whose affairs were complicated and whose situation required the energies of internal regulation to keep it together.
The science of natural right, when properly understood, opens a field for the most accurate investigation. The subject assumes dignity from the divine origin, which man claims in the universe; and when his natural equality becomes established, monopolies of power, in the hands of an individual, such as a king, ware the stamp of usurpation, not of right. This mode of reasoning, however, from cause to effect, from the original theory of a claim to the practice thereof, seems not to have been understood in all its parts. It is owing to this circumstance, that political science has made such slow advances among mankind.
This great subject has been very far from receiving a settled investigation, so as to give certitude to its various doctrines, by the writers on natural law. Grotius, Puffendorf and Vattel, which are nothing more than different parts of the same edifice of moral science, all differ in their opinions, with respect to the natural, civil and political rights of man and of nations. Wolf has indulged himself in the visions of Libnitz; and Hobbes differs so far from any writer on the subject; that he places mankind in a continual state of war with each other; from whence he derives a system of first principles, that has a tendency to generate the most unnatural disorders in society. Among the numerous writers on political science, there is none who has done more justice to the subject, than the immortal Locke. Continually in the habit of deriving all his reasonings from first principles in metaphysics, his mind appears to have been eminently fitted to trace the origin of government to its genuine source. His analysis of the executive, legislative and judiciary departments of government, is a finished model of correct deduction. But Mr. Locke was an elementary writer; and whilst he exploded the theological reasonings of Sir Robert Filmer, by tracing the origin of government to its natural source, he says nothing either with respect to the abuses of monarchy or the dangers that attend the operation of all royal institutions.
I have deemed it necessary to lay down the foregoing preliminary remarks to exhibit the state of political science, prior to the appearance of the pamphlet, entitled "Rights of Man." This work possesses, in an eminent degree, every feature of its title. It is the bulwark of human liberty, the grand moral correct-
ive of the passions, the salvation of man and the zenith of philosophy. (To be continued.)
* See Sir Robert Filmer's treatise on the "Divine right of kings," written in England, during the reign of James the 1st.
WASHINGTON-CITY,
MARCH 14.
[OFFICIAL.]
Translation of a letter from the Marquis de Cusa Yrujo to the secretary of state.
Washington, March 10, 1803.
SIR, When you represented to me towards the end of November last, that the port of New-Orleans had been shut against the citizens of the United States, without the assignment of any equivalent place of deposit for their merchandise on the banks of the Mississippi, according to the stipulation in the 22d article of the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation between the king my master and the United States, I did not hesitate to declare to you that I considered this measure, as flowing solely from the mistaken zeal of the intendant of Louisiana, without the approbation and even without the knowledge of my court. I well knew the sincere desire of the king, my master, to live in peace and good harmony with the United States; as I also knew well the scrupulous good faith with which the Spanish government fulfills the engagements it forms, particularly when they are founded on the solemnity of a treaty.
I have now the satisfaction of informing you that my first opinion has been verified, and of declaring in the most positive terms, that the proclamation of the intendant is an act purely personal, without the sanction and even without the knowledge of his Catholic Majesty. In reality, if the said proclamation had appeared here in an entire state, no doubt could have taken place as to the source of this proceeding; but the operative part thereof alone has circulated thro' the United States, the preamble introducing it, having been, probably without design, omitted.
I have therefore the honour to communicate herewith an entire and correct copy of the aforesaid proclamation; and by the expressions which I have underlined, it will be clearly seen that the arrangement is absolutely personal, and has originated in the faculties which the intendant supposed to be incident to his station.
This assertion is not founded merely on the obvious inference from those expressions: The intendant himself declares it to me in the most direct terms, in a letter of January 15th, which I have just received from him; and the governor of the province confirms the same thing with the same solemnity in another letter of the same date. Neither the one, nor the other dispute the right of the citizens of the Western States a place of deposit on the Spanish banks of the Mississippi: but the intendant thinks, that the term of three years allowed for the purpose at New-Orleans, having expired, and much prejudice to the royal interests being experienced from its continuance in that city, it was incumbent on him to suspend the deposit there, without venturing to take on himself the assignment of another equivalent place; not because he doubted the right of the United States thereto; but because it appeared to him to be an act exceeding his authority, and which he ought to leave to the royal determination of our sovereign. The governor of Louisiana saw the subject under a point of view more correct in my judgement, and more favorable to the inhabitants of the United States.
From the whole it results that the suspension of the deposit not being an act of my court, and no person even disputing the right of the American citizens in the case, I shall now take upon myself to adopt measures which must ensure to the United States, the enjoyment of all the rights stipulated in the 22d article of the treaty, on the arrival at New-Orleans of the dispatches which will be forwarded under this date.
CHARLESTON, MARCH 1.
By the ship Boyne in 33 days from Liverpool, we have received London papers to the 23d January; a few of the most material articles they contain, will be found in this day's paper. The paper of the last date states, that the bankruptcy of the great mercantile house of Carric, Bezzard and Co: at Paris, will it is expected, occasion considerable delay in the expedition to Louisiana, as this house was to furnish the provisions for that armament.
Letters from Dublin of the 17th, state the situation of the interior of Ireland to be far from being tranquil; the military have generally been called from their country cantonments for the defence of the towns. The garrison of Dublin, as well as the police, was one entire night under arms.
Bills of indictment for high treason, were found on the 20th of January against colonel Despard and twelve others charged with a conspiracy, their trials were to take place on the 5th and 7th of February. Extracts follow—
LONDON, January 22.
For some days past no intelligence has been received from France, which we are at a loss to account for, as the weather has not been unusually tempestuous. We have seen a thousand speculations respecting French affairs, founded upon a slight foundation. The recent death of the confus's brother in-law must postpone the execution of those grand schemes which are said to be on the eve of being announced—(were they in agitation?) so that there is little reason to believe that the next arrivals from Paris will surprise us with the proclamation of the emperor of the Gauls, the title which general consent seems to have assigned to Bonaparte. Some letters represent many officers of the army as much discontented with some late measures of the First Consul; where so many are soldiers of fortune, it must be impossible in time of peace to gratify the ambition of all.
The following appeared in the Courier de Londres of last night:— "The line of conduct lately pursued by the First Consul respecting the organization of the army, has given rise to very general discontent among the old officers:—regiments are now reformed under the pretence that they are reduced to a very small number of men; and they are then incorporated in to those regiments where favour is to be shewn to the chief officers. It must be confessed that the officers who have been reformed, still retain the rank and pay of actual service; but they are well aware that this attention in their behalf is but a thing of the moment; and that its object is to silence the present murmurs, and to act only as a transition that may conduce to a perfect reform."
MACBEAN & POYZER,
Have just received and are now opening, an assortment of
MERCHANDIZE,
Among which are, Morotco and Farcy Kid Skins, Boot Legs, Morocco and Kid Slippers, Cotton and Wool Cards, &c. &c. A few Engrs. vings in elegant frames, of the President, Gen. Washington, &c.
Also, a quantity of Rorava and Fur Hats, assorted in cases, to sell for produce.
The above articles they will sell on the lowest terms for Cash, Ginseng, Hemp, Tobacco and Bees-Wax.
Lexington, 28th March, 1803.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
WISHES to sell a STILL & A COPPER BOILER, both holding between 130 and 140 gallons, for which he will take Hemp, Whiskey, Bacon, or Horses. He would also sell Four or Five Young NEGRO MEN, low for Cash—for further information, apply to him in Lexington.
THOS. HART Jun. 29th March, 1803.
Taken up by JAMES CALDWAY, living on Hulton, a gray Horse, five years old next spring, about 14 hands high, no brand, he has a black mane and tail, his tail is bobbed short; appraised to 15l.
Wm. Clarkson.
November 24, 1802.
NEW PAMPHLET.
For sale at this Office. A LITTLE POEM
ON
PEACE & WAR.
Second edition corrected.
To which is added,
TWO LESSER POEMS.
By J. R. TOULMIN.
Price 12 1-2 cents single, or 1 dollar for 1 dollar.
The profits arising from the sale of this publication, will be appropriated towards building the New MEETING HOUSE in the town of Frankfort.
Although Subscription papers have been given out these several months for the purpose of collecting money to erect this new Building, yet it is truly lamentable to behold how slow and indifferent many people are towards contributing to this laudable undertaking; which may tend to the diffusion of religious knowledge, and promote the glorious cause of the Son of God.

THE TOBACCO PIPE.
A NEW ODE.
DEAR piece of fascinating clay! 'Tis thine to smooth life's rugged way...
Whatever giddy foplings think, Thou giv'st the highest zest to drink...
'Tis not in city smoke alone, 'Midst fogs and glooms, thy charms are known...
The fisher board some little bark, When all around is drear and dark...
Mid hills of sand, mid ditches, dykes, Mid cannons, muskets, halberts, pikes...
And sure the solace thou can'st give Must make thy fame unrivall'd live...
DIVERSITY.
MUSICAL PIG.
THE Abbe de Baignes was a man fertile in invention, and chief of the Music of Louis XI...
FOR SALE.
A LIKELY YOUNG NEGRO MAN, BETWEEN 25 and 30 years of age.
He is a good house servant, and understands farming—his only failing is, that he is too fond of strong drink.
THOMAS HART. Lexington, February 14.
TAKE NOTICE.
WE shall attend with the commissioners appointed by the court of Fleming, on Friday the eighth day of April next...
LEWIS CRAIG, JOHN WINE. March 19, 1803.
Taken up at the plantation of the subscriber, on the waters of Somerset, Nicholas county, a SORREL HORSE, about six years old...
JOHN BOYD.
WHISKEY.
A Quantity of the above article wanted, in casks containing about thirty gallons each...
SEITZ & JOHNSON. Lexington, 12th March, 1803.
JOHN JORDAN JUN. Has just received and is now opening, A large and well-chosen assortment of MERCHANDIZE...
Superfine, Fine & Common Cloths, Cassimers, Swan-downs, Striped and plain Coatings, Rose and striped Blankets...
ALL of which they are determined to sell at the most reduced prices for CASH, COUNTRY LINEN or HEMP.
N. B. Those indebted to JOHN JORDAN JUN. & Co. or JOHN JORDAN JUN. either by bond, note or book account, are requested to come and pay off the fame...
July 1st, 1802. Fayette county, February court 1803.
ORDERED, That it be advertised in the Kentucky Gazette and Herald, that in the month of April next...
A copy. Teste, LEVI TODD, C. F. C.
TAKE NOTICE.
That we shall attend the commissioners appointed by the County Court of Pendleton, agreeably to an act entitled, "An act to reduce into one the several acts, to ascertain the boundaries of, and for pro-cessioning lands," on Thursday the 7th day of April next...
SIMON KENTON, JOHN KENTON, WM. WOODS. March 18th, 1803.
FOR SALE.
A TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE, & LOT Of five acres, situate on Mulberry-street, Lexington.
JOHN LEIBY. 21st March, 1803.
LIFE OF GEN. WASHINGTON.
THE SUBSCRIBER, Having purchased of the honorable Bulhrod Washington, the Copy-Right of the HISTORY OF THE LATE GEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON...
PROPOSALS.
For publishing it by subscription. The work will be faithfully composed under the inspection of Judge Washington himself...
A compendious view, therefore, will be taken, by way of introduction to the Life of General Washington...
Various circumstances have delayed the execution of the work; but it is now in considerable forwardness...
CONDITIONS.
The work shall be handsomely printed, with a new type, on vellum paper, to be comprised in four or five octavo volumes...
The first volume will contain an elegant portrait of the deceased General, engraved by one of the best artists in this country...
The price to subscribers will be Three Dollars each volume, in boards; and the price of one volume to be paid at the time of subscribing...
A few copies will be hot-pressed, price three dollars and fifty cents per volume to subscribers...
An edition will be printed in three volumes quarto, hot-pressed, elegantly bound, gilt and lettered...
The work will be put to press as early as the requisite arrangements can be made.
Any gentleman who obtains and becomes accountable for fifteen subscribers, shall be entitled to one copy for his trouble.
The names of subscribers will be published, but no subscription will be received after the publication of the first volume.
Those who wish to be possessed of this invaluable history, will do well to transmit their names early...
C. P. WAYNE. Philadelphia, October, 1, 1802.
Subscriptions received at this Office.
Taken up by WHITSON GEORGE, in Clarke county, near Boonsborough, one BAY HORSE, Five years old...
William Busb. January 31st, 1803.
FOR SALE.
For Cash, or on Credit, 2000 Acres of LAND.
Situate, lying and being in the county of Bourbon, in the forks of Brush creek and Hinkston near Millerburg...
The subscriber will sell it at private sale, and if not disposed of sooner, it will be offered publicly at the Paris District court in March next...
H. TAYLOR, Attorney for Robt. & John Watts. 30th Oct. 1802.
PUBLIC NOTICE.
IN pursuance of a decree of the honorable the Paris District Court, pronounced on the last November term of the said court...
RICHARD HENDERSON, SAML. McMULLIN, GEORGE READING, JOHN WALL, & GUYAN MORRISON, } Commissioners.
WANTED.
A smart active lad as an APPRENTICE TO THE BOOK-BINDING BUSINESS.
Applicant at the Book-Store, Lexington, where the highest price will be given for OLD LIBRARIES, and PARCELS of BOOKS.
THE AUTHOR of the KENTUCKY ENGLISH GRAMMAR, presents his most grateful acknowledgements to his friends and the public in general...
Those who wish to procure copies of the new edition, may be supplied at this Office, at Mr. Leavy's, and Mr. Jordan's stores in Lexington.
MUSIC GAMUTS, For sale at this Office.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
700 acres Military Land, lying on Brush creek, N. W. T. where the road crosses from Limestone to Chillicothe...
500 acres ditto ditto, lying on Clover Lick creek, a branch of the East fork of the Little Miami, N. W. T. in a good neighborhood...
1000 acres ditto ditto, lying on Brush creek, a few miles from New Market, N. W. T.
5000 acres, lying on Bank Lick creek, Kentucky, part of two tracts, containing 6000 acres, surveyed and patented for William Jones.
4000 acres, Clarke county, Kentucky, part of a tract of eight thousand acres, surveyed and patented for Richard Chinnevert.
3332 2-3 acres, Mason county, Kentucky, part of 5000 acres, surveyed and patented for George Underwood.
1200 acres, Mason county, Kentucky, surveyed and patented for Moody and M'Millin.
1000 acres Military land, on the waters of Russell's creek, Green river.
325 acres, Jefferson county, Kentucky, about four miles from Louisville, 40 acres of this tract is cleared.
116 1-2 acres, Franklin county, Kentucky, on the North fork of Elkhorn, about six miles from Frankfort; on this tract are considerable improvements.
A House and well improved Lot in the town of Paris, on Main street, and adjoining Mr. Hughes's tavern.
An Inn and Out Lot in said town.
Also a House and well improved Lot in this place.
The above described property will be sold low for CASH, HEMP and TOBACCO, or on giving bond with good security...
JOHN JORDAN JUN. JOHN A. SEITZ. Lexington, Kentucky, January 14th, 1803.
IN THE PRESS.
And will shortly be published, A
REPORT OF THE CAUSES, DETERMINED BY THE LATE SUPREME COURT, FOR THE DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY; AND BY THE COURT OF APPEALS, IN WHICH THE TITLES TO LAND WERE IN DISPUTE.
By JAMES HUGHES. Proposals for publishing this work by subscription, were circulated nearly two years ago...
In order to enable Mr. Bradford, to know who to deliver books to as subscribers, it will be necessary for those Gentlemen who have subscription papers to forward them to him.
This volume contains the Causes decided from the establishment of the District Court on the Western waters, to the end of the March Term of the Court of Appeals, in the year 1801.
The Author is preparing materials for a second volume, which will probably be published in the beginning of the next year. Lexington, January 12, 1803.
NEW AND CHEAP GOODS.
TROTTER & SCOTT, Have just received and are now opening, A Large & Complete assortment of FALL & WINTER GOODS.
Of the latest imports from Europe. Consisting of Dry Goods, Hard Ware, Groceries, Queens' Chn & Glass Ware & Window Sash; Together with a number of articles too tedious to enumerate.
All of which being purchased lower than any imported into this state, will be sold accordingly, for CASH IN HAND. Lexington, November 17, 1802.
Whereas my wife Hethy, has this day eloped from my bed and board, without any just cause, this is therefore to forward all persons, whatsoever, from credit her on my account...
GEOGE TRACY, sen. p3w