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FRIDAY, January q.

N'DA1, J""doAy e
Mr. Eayard prefented petition Of
Thomas Bottom, which was referred to a
committee Of three members.
Mr.. Harper propofed feveraI refolutions
to be referred to the committee on that
iubjeet, providing for the eftabliihment of
Courts Of JuAice, ard for the appointment
ola Martial and Clerk for tie divifion
of the d;friet into three townfhips, viz.
Alexandria, George Town and the City
eAabliihing Corporation in the City of
Warrington clothed with power to make
bye laws: and providing that the laws Of
Virginia and Maryland fhall continue in
force until Congrefs fhall otherwife pro-
vide. They were referred.
MIR. Harper laid before the houfe a re-
Proclamation from Winthrop Sergeant, Ef-
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The death Of THOMAS HARTLEY, late
Member Of Congreis from the fate o
Pennsylvania, being announced, it wa
rctolved that the members wear Grape or
the location.
Motion was then made to adjourn, il
order, agreeable to ufual cufom, to wal
on the PRECEDENT Of the United States te
compliment him on the return Of the fea-
ion. The Houfe adjourned.
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Public SAX.
On TUESDAY neyt.

On TUESDAY next,
Will be fold at the Vcnelue Store.
4 bales Of Writing Paper
70 pipes and half pipes Win.
8 half pipes port Wine
Rum in hhds.
French Brandy in pipes
Hyion Tea in chefs
Loaf Sugar in caiks
Brown sugar in barrels
Whifkey in caiks
Hardware in boxes
RaiGns in CATS
Chewing Tobacco in calks, &c.
l7naimmeasafey after, general cl5vt-
meut If
D R Y G Q CD S,
conhiting Of
Silk Fiorentines
Coloured Sattins
Luteftrings
Sprigged Mullins
Linens
Calicoes
Checks
box white Threads
Cloths, Kerieymeres
Kesicys
Hats In lots
Playing Cards, &c. &c.
P. G. MARSTELI.ER,
H0tiionjer.
January :.
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Patrick Murphy. A: kander Mo-.
49, niA'c, H. 1eorg Minor, N1icba,
W.. William Moody, 1heoaa a
nliaoieton, Benachutus Mor!e, Mich,
~. M.Aee' 1 homas Magruder, M;tcEa,
lhornhily, Ronold NlsDonald.on l',S
Mcuntjoy. 'pn"
Farmer Melton, Francis Newman, yohn
Cornelius O'Lous hin. Bezin Ofse1a
Henry Oliver. 'S"'
Thomas Parker, William p. p,t.rf,,
William Pickering, Thomas purkins. ca,r
tienry Plercy, John Prowler, colonel VII
liam Payne, capt. Job Palmer.
Richard Ratclia;, Daniel .Rine, William,
Rhodes, John Raymond.
S.
Caroline M. Steptoe, James Sheehv
James Spencer, Francis .Shinard. yohn
.oteckney, Samuel Slakum, Samuel Si!!ye,..
ter, Werhers Smith, jun. Frederick, Sleeve.
Robert ,Smock, lfaac Solomon, Thomas
Shaw, Jofeph Stevens.
T..
Capt. Solomon Tyler, John Tatscng,
Thomas Townfon.
V.
Joieph Warden, James Vance.
w.
James Williams, Su(annah We!Aa, capt.
Weeks, John Wormley, Heurick Wey-
denere, Richard Weacoate, JeGe Wheney,
Henry Welt, Mr.. Witty, Patrick White.
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HOUSE CT REPRssENTATIvEs.
/ Taken foy the -Alexandyia Adveysiley.
Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-01-21
Public Sale.

On FRIDAY next,
At 10 O'Clock, will be Sold at the Ven
due Store,
BROWN SUGAR
In hhds. tierces and barrels-ox a Credit
and far Ca@.
TenerlN Wine IN pipes and
caiks,
Catalonia do. in pipes,
French Brandy do.
Whikey in bis.
Coffee in bags,
Hyfon and Bohea Tea in chehs,
Raiiins in kegs, =
Soap and Candles in boxes,
Tobacco,
Nails, Hardware, &c.
Hyo, a gxaxtityI
S,
Coylfixg If
Cloths, Coatings, WEIGH Planes, Elan
nels, lriih Linens and Sheeting, Ozna-
burgs, Silks and Sattins, Calicoes, book
and ~jaconet mullins, tamboured and plain,
Threads, Hats, Paper, &c.
P. G. MARSTELLER,
January II. Auaouley.
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FURTHER EXTRACTS
London Papers, .yeceived BY h@
Duke Of Clarence Packer, arrived at
Nc7o-T ork--3s days fran Falmouth.
FIRST REPORT

FIRST REPORT
OF H COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO CON.
SIDE OF THE PRESENT HIGH PRICE
OF PROVISIONS.
The committee appointed to confder
of the p%refent high price of ~provilons and
to whom 70 much of his majeRy's mott
gracious fpeech from the throne to both
houfes of parliament, as relates thereto:
and ALTO the feveral petitions prefented to
the houie, complaining of the high price
OF p%roviions, were referred =
Have, in proceeding to the confdcra-
ton OF the important and extenivc lubieet
referred to them, thought it their duty to
direct their attention, III the hre infance,
to 1uch meafores as might be propofed,
for alternating, as fpeedily as poiGble, the
Prefent p%reiure, without entering, at this
moment, into a detailed enquiry refpeaing
the various caufes which may have con.
Cured In producing it. Your committee
conceive that by 70 doing, they hall bee
execute the intentions Of the houfe, which
has already hewn, by its proceedings, that
it confiders the deficiency of the 1tock Of
grain at the commencement of the late
harvef, and the high price which now
prevails, as 1ufscient inducements for a.
doping without lois of time, the mott OBJ
vious remedies. With this view, laws
have already been bro't forward for encou-
raging the importation of grain, for en-
towering his majeay to prohibit the ex-
Portation of every article of provlion;
for permitting the importation thereof free
from duty !; for prohibiting all utilization
from grain, and the ufe Of wheat in Aarch;
for permitting the barley which was dam
aged by wet, TO be made into malt, with
out being iteeped during the time now re-
CURED by law; for allowing fugar to be
ufed inftcad of malt in the brewery; and
for lowering the duty upon the importa-
ton of hops.
Your committee were confirmed in their
opinion Of the propriety of this order of
proceeding, by confdering that nc minute
enquiry into the fate of the crop, or the
flock now on hand, could be made without
great delay !; even fuppofng that
mode had been fuggeled for conducting
fuch an enquiry, which afforded a r~eafona-
bic profpeet of fufhcient accuracy in the
refult, and which would be attended
with great, if not i~nfurmountable obicc-
tions in the execution. Your committee
ALTO fee no ground for believing that any
refult, attainable by the mott detailed en-
quiry, could lead to any practical conclu-
fion, applicable to the prefent emergency.
At the fame time, having many documents
before them, which could not be examined
without much delay, and which, check
ed by the very e~xtenfive information of
members from different parts of the coun
try, appeared likely to enable then to
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oy all the accounts, there is reafon to th;nk
that the quality of every defcription of
gram Is upon the whole greatly fuper;or -
that OF the laft year; and that therefore the
,ncreated quantity and hyperion quality Of
flour to De derived from a given quant;tv
OF gram, may be expected to compeniste.
IN Tome degree tor the deficiency Of the
produce below the average, eaimated bv
the acre. The accounts of the GocL {,
hand turnifhed by thefe returns, are necef.
iarily more uncertain; they are in f3rn-
degree various but they do not upop tbe
whole iurnih any ground for doubtine
the prevailing opinion, confirmed by the
general information Of the Members who
have attended your committee, that fhe
flock of Britilh Corn at the haryeit wa.
reduced far below its ufual amount. and
was in mott places nearly, in many abio-
lutte exhauited.
In addition to what has been GATED.
reiPetting the produce Of the crop and the
ftock In hand, it is to be obferved. with =
view to the fate Of the markets in tbe
time which has elapfed Gnce the haryeG.
that the farmers during that period have
had a double demand to fupply out Of the.
new crop, for confumption, and this at :
ieaion when mott of their hands were en-
ployed in the ordinary labors of the field.
The quantity of grain uied for Seed Corn
IS generally eaimated at about 6 weeks
confumptlon ; and the ~increafe of this
quantity IN the prefent year, from much
more land being TOWN with Wheat than
(uiual, during a feafon particularly favorable
though it gives an encouraging project
OF future plenty mutt have added, for the
time, to the difficulty of furnifhing fuRici-
ent iupplies for the market, and thereby
have contributed to ~increafe the temporary
dlitreis. This mutual demand for Wheat.
and other circumstances alto peculiar to
the ieafon, have contributed in MANY
places to delay the thsefhing out Barley
and Oats and may have had a Gmilar
temporary effect on the price of thefe arti-
cles.
1t appears to your committee, that thefe
circumstances might be expected to have
produced a very high price at this feafon,
even 1.-THE late harveG had been abundant:
that the degree in which it has been def
cient, mutt naturally have added TO fuch
price, whether with or without the con-
currence OF any other c~aufes, the exit
ence and effects of which your committee
propofe to invefigate in a further Hage
OF their proceedings. Your committee
therefore think it may reafonably be ex-
peeted, that the price, produced in fome
degree by temporary circumstances, will,
when thofe circumstances have ceaEed TO
operate, experience a reduction !; e~fpecial-
y when it is generally known, that on
the reiult Of all the information that has
been coHsdedfrom every part ofthe king
dom; there is no ground to fuppofe that
the deficiency in the crop below the ufual
average, Is greater than what your COM
I'll fEF
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-, E"N"Sie AlSHI 10 avail
themieives OF thoie materials for that pur-
pofe.
Thefe documents confia of very hume.
rous returns to thole enquiries, which diff
ferent departments of Government have
directed to be made by the receivers of
the land tax; by the various officers m
ployed under the boards OF taxes, ftamps
and excite, and by thofe amongit the cler-
gy, to whom circular letters for that pur-
pofe had been addrencd by the .biihops in
each diocefe. Though the returns are not
complete from every county, yet the O.
millions upon the whole are neither hume
rous nor important.
Your committee are fenhble that upon
the accuracy Of accounts of this nature, ia
ken feparately, no p~oiitive reliance can be
placed; or at lcaf, that the weight to be
given to them mutt vary in each i~ntarce,
according to the opinion entertained ofthe
diligence and inforrnations of the perfons
by whom they were made. Your COM
mlttee obferve, however, that the general
reiult of returns made by each defcripti-
ons OF peraons is nearly the fame: that
rebuilt is ttrongly confirmed upon the whole
by the information of members from almoft
every part of England, founded upon their
local enquiries, obfervation and corre{pon-
dence. Whether the average is truck
from the ifatements Of the crop in the feve-
raj counties, without regard to their fze,
population or produetivenefs, or by throw
ing them into different clanes, with view
to thofe important points, fill the general
concluiion is not materially affected. Your
committee have not had the fame means of
enquiry, Rejecting the produce Of Scot
land but their information as far as it
reaches, is by no means lefs favorable.
Your committee, therefore, think them
lelves jufihed in taking this general re-
fult as a efficient ground for thofe opini-
ons and meafures which they propofe to
fubmit, without delay, to the Judgment Of
the houle.
There appears, upon the whole Of this
information, reafon to believe, that the
general deficiency in the crop Of wheat in
England and Wales, below an average
crop, docs not amount TO quite 70 much as
one fourth; and that the crops of barley
and oats Though by no means uniformly
good have been very productive in many
OF thoie counties from which the principal
fupply is ordinarily furnifhed and there
fore that the produce of the kingdom in
thofe articles cannot, upon the whole, be
confdered as materially inferior to An ave-
rage crop. 1t is alto probable, that in
forming an average under fuch circum
ftances as the prefent, where the harveR
has been 70 uncommonly various in differ
ent difrists, and even in different parts
Of the fame diarid, greater weight may
have been given to i~nfances d defciency
!, than to thofe of abundance, and that the
produce is more likely to be fated below
f. than above the truth.
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- -
The author gives an explanatory def
cripsion OF the common law, and off
ufe in the fates.
An account of the civil intitutions o.
the natives, when the country was difco-
vered, in regard to lands.
The hiitory of the diicovery of the coun-
try.
The tenure and principles Of the char
tiers, granted to the hrft fettlers.
The laws which governed real property
in the old colonies of M~aflachufetts, New
Plymouth, the Province OF Maine, and
the territory of Acarnia, before the char
ter Of 169a.
The confolidation of ttoEe feveral colo
MES by that charter, and the contef ref.
petting il and the fettlement OF its boun-
daries, sc. &c.
The book contains 400 pages, and il
Handsomely printed and bound. The price
is three dollars.
The ne, proceeds are for the ufe of the
HiRoricsi Society, to be expended for pub
lie objects.
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LITERATURE.

!, mere mas been jua publihed in Bottom.
- american production, entitled " rbe
H. %aIy OF Land Titles, in Manacbufetts.
~ Z James Suillyan," Attorney General Of
= US oook has its origin in the proviGoo
~ VIC contribution" that all laws adopr.
- ~ and praetifed upon before the reyoln,;
the General Court" '''efed oy
ne osjets is to fhew wba, l,w. b,u.
law. aaOp'sd and prsesiied upon /. Wis,
: e been MADE here, and whst are
60 1p.Ss2ard toa n ea.,.s
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FOR THE ALEXANDRIA ADVERTISER.
TO CYNTHIA A.
HAIL, Cynthia, hail! chaitc emprefs of the

TO Y N T H / "A.
HAIL, Cynthia, hail! chafc empress of the
night!
Thy pallid ray to the dejeeey mind
Is lar more grateful than that glorious
Orbs. who opei,s wide the golden gates
OF morn. and keeps the night at due diRance
Still. An yes! thy penive beam Of borrow'd
Light, that family MAJ ks yon leaty bower,
And Play the fhadoMy trees among,
Whole foliage droops, With radiant drops
BeiP' cot, from VelPers' dewy locks; a calm
D,fiufes DER my mind, long lott to ev'ry
Cheerful thought ref mblance Of that folitary
Bird. who fits lupine tie day, at night
Awakes! to make his melancholy moan,
That rights the traveller ON his lonely
Way. A paliing cloud obfcures thy face, unlike
10 that which hovers DER my foul 1t now
has dilappeared while my fad aching eye,
Puriues thee, thro' thy orbits beaten track
Invariably the fame, thou changing fill:
A hlvered creicent fate OH Heavens
Low border hung full orbed now amid
The Ky in iplendor bright, that hides the hof
VI glitt ring ifars from view. All! would my
An emblem were of thee; that haply
1t a change might prove the fyren Hope
approach once more, and light me from the pit,
Inc darkiome pit, o er which Delpair has fpread
Her fable wings, and long oblcured the light
OF day. But, CyEthia, go! the with is vain
No change awaits no relpite will my heart
Fer prove from woe extreme FOR even Hope,
The wretch's lat ~reloarce, delufive Hope has
flown.
ALEXIS.
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there opprefion in that tool And if Mr.
Lee thinks differently from the Levy
Court as to the fun neceGary for the iup-
port OF the poor ; is it an intaliible deduc-
ton, that the Levy Court is wrong
The refuit Of thefe obletyations. r
think, is, that the tax is neither ILLEGAL.
unneceRary, arbitrary nor opprefive, and
that the people are bound to pay it-Apd
when they reflect, that by a refuial thew
will not only involve themfelves in al. the
trouble and expence Of legal profecurion :
but will impede the operations OF the over
ieers OF the poor, in their laudabie and hu-
name purfnits ; l truft there will pe found
bat few amongft us 70 unwiie and uncha-
ritable as to oPfofe its collection for al
lt,ough contention may contribute to the
advantage OF a few, and the Charity Of
Tome may bear no proportion to their pro-
perty; yet a~iiuredly will The general good
and the intereit OF humanity be belt pro-
noted by harmony an.g acquieicencc.
PHILANTHROPOS.
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DANCING

The wfvibers, as ueN as Mole
who waM to hbleribe to the ALEX
ANDRIA ASSEMBLIES are regueRed
to meet at GadGy's, at Ess o'clock
on Saturday eyenlng next, IN order
to appoint managers, and eRabllM
rules for the Ea/om.
NoU. IL.
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/ eles between The confederates ard Lewis the
24th, in which Lugene, Marlborough and VII
lars, hgnalized themfelves 70 eminen;ly; in
which Blerhem and Families felt 70 deeply
The tempeR of war, and by which France, the
low countries, and all the mon favored portions
of Europe, we're 70 milerably exhauRei. Even
then the French armies penetrated to the gates
of Vienna, and threatened diholution to the i'm
perial dominion. In the courie of this century
we have been wi;nels TO the greateA revolutions.
France has dirmiGsd her King and Royal IA
mily, ano let out half the blood Of The nobility
by the Guflloine, and after endleis fcenes OF
daughter. conEfcation, treachery and cOnquelt'
ihe has funk into a momentary repoie under a
Government 10 which It is difficult to afix any
name in the ufe Of political writers, but which
perhaps may, without much qu.intnefs oflan-
guage, be called MonArchico, Aritocratico,
Republican Conlulate Holland, Flanders,
Switzerland ond Italy have undergone ma erial
revolutionary changes. The Triple Crown
has become gradually the mere tawdry frag
ment oflink;ng years, and irecoverabie bank,
ruptcy. The Claiming of the Ottoman arms,
which fpread terror through hofs Of warriors
are cow as little regarded as the rattles Of chill
dren. RuGia has emerged from her barbarity,
and become formidable on the theatre Of Eu-
ropo. England, Scotland and Ireland have
become confolidated9into one powerful empire
The United States, the glory Of the weltern
continent, and perhaps eventually its arbiter
have rifen to independence aud unexamPled
PROPERTY. The temple Of Janus is not lhut
IS the century comes TO a rlofe. 1t began in
war, it has Prcgreded in war, and it ends in
war. For The CongreCs az LuneviIle is PrOba
bly, but the fhort nap Of wearied aimies.
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The Cabinet,
70 THE PUBLIC.
Or, LITERARY REPOSITORY,

TO THE PCBLIC.
THE acknowledged want of a MAC
4 AzINe, or fome fniar periodical publication in
NEw-EscLANp has induced the Su0ctiber u haza d
hs property and reputation on the fame PerLcu ocean
on which numbers have already foundertd Y he
atters hmfe with fucceis where others have expert.
enced failure, let him be acoulcd Of vanity EMIL
it be known on what he POUNDS his cxpectaions The
repeated failure Of every attempt Of this kind il well
known, and the caule ObvOus-where many part
are to be filed periodically adequate
to the talk however fertile his genius and extenlve
his crudit on.-A miscellaneous work like Magazine
70 BE conducted WELL NUT be conducted Ivy MANY.
Every preceding ENitGr has conhded much ID his
own powers and if not deficient in ability hmieE has
yet neglected to fccure the literary aid Of others, 70
lndlpenabie in works Of this nature. Aware 0f this,
the Sublcrbcr has Gpared pains or expenfc 10 en-
gage Gentlemen Of the mo respectable literary talents,
10 fill the levera departments, and a sUPERtETEEDINC
EDITOR, of induHry and ability. He has alto received
aIuran Of aeancc from many literary GeRtemen Of
the firh repectaby Of whom tie following have DO
litey eoulented the publication Of Their names -:
Rev. DoGtor MORSE, Rev. joan S. ]. GARDNER, Rev
7. NJ HARRts' GEORGE BLAKE, Efq. JOsEPu DENNIE
Elq and DAVID EVERETT, liz
In addition to this aid, he has high
expectations from the Pm BETA KAPPA SocIErY, Of
Harvard Unworthy, who contemplate FULFILLING leec.
ions Of the literary productions OF its members, in
which cafe he sauthorized fay, the CABINET will be
the medium Of communication. From this fource,
which has oscafonaly delighted the connoineur, may
be expected monthly entertainment ofthe rehe fruits
which tate and genius cen furnifh.
From the above, and fuch other al
ance lac has reafon to anticipate from men Of let
ters he fatters hmfelf that the miscellaneous reader
will find in the CABINET that variety OF uieul inlruc-
ton and chalte amuiement, which IS expected from
periodical publication ofthe kind. American Biogra-
ply will have confpcuous place. Whatever is in
tereang 10 our natural civil Hitory, claims, and
will meet ention. lummary Of the political lae
Of Europe will be given quarterly and the political
Hory Of our Country in which will be comPriied
all important fta.e papers, &c. monthly The works
of genius and tae every fubje will be fought with
folicitude and chesrfulTy communicated to the public
1t 1uch encouragement is afforded as
will uafy him in commencing the work, the FirftNum
Der Will be for January, 1901 and will appear on the
fri Of February. JOHN WEST.
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Commonwealth of Mafachufetts.

YoRK, G-A a Court of General Se5Toas Of he
Peace, begun and betd at Biddgford, q0iftin and
for the county Of 11ork, on TIE lat Tasf2ay q
Oao5er, being tie a8b day q, /1id month, dino
Denim, 1900.
WHEREAS application has been made to this
w Court by fundry inhabitants Of this county,
for "hew Highway to be laid out from Portland
Road, to the Road leading from ParfonsGeld TO
Fryeburg through PorterieId. And alto for a.
mother g new Highway to be laid out from New
hamphre line, through part Of Porter6ed, and
part of Cutters grant, to Portland road "a Brown
field.''
Therefore ordered, That the fub.
Gance Of faid applications with this order thereon,
be inherited three weeks fucceffvey, in the Malta,
chufetts Mercury, printed at Bolton by 1onhg e
Minis, and alto, io the Portland Gazette, printed
by EleGer d. JeakJ the Taft publication thereof 70
be thirty days at leaf, prior to the next term of this
Cont, 10 be held at York, within and for faid
county of York, on the third Tuefday Of April next
to the end the Proprietors of fad Lands may
then aud there appear, and Grw caufe, if any they
have, why the faid new Highways ihould not be
laid out as aforeiaid.
Attef-DANIEL SEWALL, CLERK.
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CONDITIONS.

THE CABINET will be printed on
good paper, with the bea yPe. Zach Number will
contain from s6to o. pages, ornamented with hand
fome CopPcFpIate Engraving
II.
twill be publilhed on the frlt OF
each month.
III.
The price to Subscribers will be
Thirty Three Gents and Ors.TB each Number to be
paid quartefly and no Magazine will be delivered TO
any Subfcriber who is more thaa quarters ar
rears. This condition will be itriGly adhered to.
- Subfcrip tions will be received by
the propofedpubher, No ~ Cornhill, from any per-
fon reidng within miles # Bottom and By
E. A. jerks, Portland.
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1.-The poet DIsDEN is emarkab for his fuccel in GHHt
ing metaphors without bunting tJem dozOa. The fol-
lowing SONG is proof of hs fertlityl