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Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-04-07

FOR SALE,
For ready money, or note negoslao'e {. :" =
the Bank of Alexandra, payable AZ
thor, dare,
4 young, strong Negro num-
For terms apply 10 the Piih'e'. o,
March IS. 49, r-
Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-11-17

Has received, per the hip Uoised States, from
Liverpool, an elegant aaor,ment OF
4erps9r,, Plated Ware, 7ab0nned and
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A board Of directors early in October,
fixed upon the first Monday in November,
to determinethe direction of the road from
the top of the Trough Hill to the Ford !;
the Subscribers III Alexandria and thevi-
cinity were alarmed, experimenting from a
Board, whose term of service was nearly
expired, resolving todetermine 50 import
ant question arose from ala opinion
that If the decision was deferred until q
new election Of officers, that the decision
then made might be contrary to the views
Of the present Beard, and if SO, and that
those views were contrary to the wishes OF
a great majority Of the subscribers. I'm
der this impression a number OF the sub
scribers presented Il request 10 the Board,
that the direction of the road from the.
Trough Hill should not, at this.time, be act-.
ed upon, but referredto the next setof l]i-
rectors. TWAS then made a question 10
the Board, whether the Board sIloaid now
proceed to determine the direction Of the
road, which was resolved in the ahrlna-
tive, froHwhich awe dissented torthe follow
ing reasons:
First. That there did not appear to us
any positive necessity to determine the
question at this time, as the rout OF the road
was already laid out to greater distance
than could possibly be improved before the
next election of officers.
Secondly. Because the present Drec-
tors have already served some weeks over
year, a period generally prescribed in
this country for the officers in public insti-
tutions to continue in Office; from which
circumstance. we think delicacy requires us
to refrain from all acts but in the common
routine Of business, and TO leave the decisi-
on Of important questions arising to those
who, at the next election, may be chosen to
Ell our places.
Thirdly. Because we think that attenti-
en- ought to be paid to a request rendered
respectable as well from the number OF
subscribers as from their stations in Sc
ciety.
(Signed)
Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-11-17
ADAM LYNN

Has received, per the hip Uoised States, from
Liverpool, an elegant aaor,ment OF
4srpsgry, Plated Ware, 7ab0nned and
lYardware,
which he offers FOR iale OH low terms, at his Jew.
elry and Hardware Store, King fSset. conhGins
ossfhe following articles:
GOLD Breaches rings, bracelets,
watch chains, feals aud keys Plated tea fsts,
Gators, fairs, caadleRicks fnuers and trays, &c.
IAPPANED Tea and coffee usns, tea trays, CAT
tors, cake, fpice and fugar boxes, bread, kspifc
and inuffer trays. plate warmers and chesse wag !
CONS and iporifmans' halves, razors, fcii
lors,- gTccsa ard white ivory and other table and
defas, knives and ks, green wire tenders, cham
Der bellows, ihoyel ana tongs, brafs candletlcks,
I Reel inuf-rs, fatsin wood and mahogany knife
cafes and tea caddies, leather ekganmon boards,
paiIage lamps with fixtures complete; powder
Aaiks, lhos belts,
PATENT SHOT:
Gold and iiives watches, epauIets, lace, cosd,
thread and {pangles; iiiver dsfart knives and
forks, butter and chesfa knives, ink itands ard
ladiesmeafares, with numSes or other articles.
ALSO,
"A very large aiiortment Of SILVER
pLATs, csaliitiog 81 coffee and tea pots, fugar
hslons aud lgssea ewefs, ipoons, &c. And con-
ignnsnt IF one cafe of Jewciry whiSh will be fold
very low.
HE'S IN daily expectation Of an aGafsment Of
Guns aa9 PSstol,
and CONTINUES 10 manufacture every article in the
Gogd s SiIUersmsth' Business,
in the mott approved ityle.
OF z6. go
Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-11-17
(signed)
JAMES KEITH,
GEORGE GILPIN.
For the Alexandria Daily Advertiser.

70 AbeStockhoL4er2 IN The Little Eetve,- 7tt,7r-
pike Company.
FOR many years ii has been considered
extremely interesting to the growth and
prosperity of Alexandria, that there should
be made an artificialroa Of gravel or stone,
upon which the produce Of the fertile coun-
try westward of Little River and Goose
Creek, might be brought to market by the
shortest distance. For this purpose the
Assembly Of Virginia, in the year 1875,
passed al act authorising company to be
formed of voluntary subscribers, who, up
on a subscription Of admitted number of
shares, were constituted body polite and
corporate, with the power Of levYing rea-
sonable tolls, after the road should be finish
ed in the manner and IN the route directed
by law. But this act having been limited
to atime, within which the road was to be
completed, was suffered to expire, without
being carried into effect. Indeed there was
not sufficient number of subscribers fol-
commencing the work, and these subscrib-
ers principally resided in Alexandria
The Iandholders westward Of Goose Greek
hattered themselves with the expectation
that the navigation Of the rivers, Shenando-.
ali and Potomac, might be improved 50 as.
to answer all wishes, and others whose
lands were nearer town were dissatisfied,
when they found their particular farms
would not be benefited by the road passing
through them for these and other reasons.
there were very few country subscribers.
In the year 1902, the Legislature Of
Virginia passed another act of the like I'M
port with the former, entitled & IN Act to
Incorporate a Company far establishing a
Turnpike Road jromthe mt ,rsection Of Duke
street, in the tom Of Alexauaria, nth the
south 7pest line of the District Of Columbia,
to the fordof Little Riuer 7vhere the Turn
pike Road nozv crosses it, which is now in
course of execution. A difference Of OPT
Mon having existed at the Board of Com
miss,oners concerning the most eligible
route ola part of the road, difference of
opinion upon the same matter, unfortu-
nately exists among the Stockholders to an
alarming degree, threatening embarrass-
ment, if not disappointment to the under
taking. The matter in dispute is, whether
the road shall be made in that route or.
tract, which combines Sd0rtlesa of distance
nth the mast coapenient and pfGct;cQbIc
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aleraabrta DAILY sboert!ssr.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER II.

The subscribers acknowledge with graft
tude, the receipt Of Twenty FIVE Dollars
from a Citizen Of this place, lately returns
ess., as.a donation for the necessltous poor
Andrerv G1amiesen,
A5eaandef Smith,
fohn l0aadsvi7le,
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.AMoNe waICH am,

lSuper6ne and common cloths, ker-
lmcres, coasings, torrslt cloth, kerieys and half
sthieks, Ariped and roie blankets, aannels, fahi-
enable marieiIles, tolIinsr and l~auEaown tor vea
ihapes. Iriih and German Linens, long lawn, In
dia cossons, bsodanna handkerchlets, ladies' iahi-
onable mag velvet, bonaets. do. 10. fraw, do.
white crape, feathers and artificial wreaths, aoa-
cd Fix gloves pick nick aod lace gloves, fix and
csxsoas cords, and tsiieIss Nelioa ball trimming,
t.ss al lace, do edging, chintzes, prints, white
AID suioused esmbrick muffin, do. figured, &c.
gke abous goods .rssll be sold leo for
CASH
Nay. r.. CIV cow
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BELL and WRAY
Have received in adasion TO sheir former, neat
aAartmenrof

SuperfiRe and iecond cloths, Keriey
neres. fwsnfiownss king, queen, contribution aud
Melton CORDS coatings, A,nnes, blankets, plans,
kerfsys, luiisry, chinszes calicees, erncosad,.
black, drab, glazed cambrick, ard tamboursd.
mullins, Irh I.nrass scl.lenbergs, oznabnrgs Pa
tllas, ,ufiells, oslimancoes hrnpszers utef}ring,
kid and Morocco fhoes and'lippeFs, with a yarie.
ny Of zsiieirsetoo tedious 70 ennmtfaSe, wkfch IS
offered Fossfle AZ rllessa.na low prices fer cath
or country sradueeA~tryi oftrr theif Snnse:gned,
Acknowledgements 10 a generous public for pat
savours and hope, from thsif very reduced prices,
80 m.sira coptinuauces
NJ 8. Thy daiL fr5eg a further Ja9tJ ef
ne abo.De articles, and save ea hard par eft a
Sslt eNegrs Cations qshssb xii Re rtade en- odjs3
esxvfry exssb yfys.
tsst.,her %. ee4w
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publls aags.
I0tace

THOSE citizens who have 10: paid their cor
porsslon taxes are earnelly reqaefed 70 make IN
mediate psy Gssnt to the collected, who viii attend
every afternoon hra days excePted) ar his fore
q rhr corner 81 Prince and Fairfax Streets, TO re-
eeiys The fame.
GEORGE D2INKs2, Csl2s<Fov.
~ dizzy
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BEN TANlIN COOKE,

HI; rscstuss aNd Is nv oS<a'ng Tn the houfe
lasr!y occupied by Aasiirs. Nm II. and E.
Nj. IyLgs, IN Fairfax Street, a 5audsome
xgsuueuf of GOOLgs
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DIV cow
(lELKGE N. LYLES

r fpe6tfDlIy informs his friends and the public
in general, that has received general fpply OF
Fall aud USqSte1 Goods,
which he offers for fIe athis fore in Fairfax reet,
On The uiaR rsafonablc terms. Alfo,
A quantity Of Seine Irvine.
.kTny. TO. d4W
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pOCUMENTS1

.A4,aseyed to the communication b't5hsisd IN.
our last, SIGNED Numbers
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Sec. /. Be it euaaedb BY The Gentr0l dgSm0y'
That William EIastshorne and John Thomas
Ricketts, in thu county Of Fairfax, Israel Lazy
and Burr Powell in the county Of Loudon, DaVlu
Hunter ID and William RildIe in the couDJ
of Berkeley, Thomas Hammond and Mafln'"
Frame in the county of Jefferson, Bushrod 10y
lor and William Davidson in the county OF lie'
derrick, Samuel Crouison and William SFeenD'',
gen in the county of Shenandoah, BE- and ''sg
are hereby appointed commissioners, 10 opI'
books for the purpose OF receiving suoscti'''
oBs, ..
Sec. 6. Aaf5s If 3art6sr raoae1, That w ~
said president and directors shall! have power
ran the sad road il any course they shall supg
most eligible, taxing into view sho5rnes' O u
lance, tlle nature OF TIC ground and otos'
cumst2nces taeif supsrnseodants, sn's@} -,
engineers ard cham bearers 70 sn:et INTO a'' :
Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-09-16

Newconb, $ days from St. Kits and s
from St. Eustatia. Two American vessels
were driven on shore at St. Kits; one
belonging to North Carolina, got off
the other a northern sloop. was lost.
Aug. %, was taken by an Englisi. priva-
reer, and carried into Sandy Point, St.
Kits, and detained So hours, with abu-
sive treatment.
Arrived brig Two Friends, capt. Will
lian's, 80 days from Trinidad and 81
from ST. Thcmas's; schrs. Roby, Mar
tin, s days from Charleston; Mary, capt.
Porter, IS days from St. Lucie, the cart.
left there; brigs Juno, Griffin, Of and for
Newbern, in s days; Essequibo Packet,
Dollive, Of and for Edenton, next day !;
schr. Edward and Edmond, Weacook, Of
and for Philadelphia; sloop Susan, Hodge,
of and for Newburyport: Saw a schr.
without main boom and after yards,
standing for Viewpoints Comfort, day be-
fore yesterday.
Arrived, schr. Flag, capt. Reeves, 3
days from St. Thomas. Left there, schrs.
Chance, Smith, Of Baltimore Susannah,
lays, of do. bound to Martinique;
Johns, of do. to sail it 2 days;
briggs Ruby, Jenny, Of do. Alexandria,
Dye, Alexandria.
The scbr. Pomona, Watts, of Balti
more, from Guadalupe for N. Carolina,
was spoken off the Capes, dislnasted in
tended TO go to Norfolk.
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THE MORALIST.

The Essay. which may be attempted,
under this head, in the Alexandra Adyer-
tiser, we have endeavored to ADAPT to the
taste of such Of our readers as have already
requested little gravity, by way of relief
to political subjects. We are further led
to this subject from wish, for while, to
thus employ the room generally filled with
lighter articles-this reason will to Others,
Of our readers, appear obvious. We hope
for assistance and in order TO anticipate
che garbling of the critic we acknowledge
and trust that the subjea will warrant our
Borrowing little, occasionally, from
writer's on morality and natural philoso-
ply.
!. Be 1irtaexs ends pxrsafd BY Viyta0as
meaas,
I" N,r Rink H. intention sasaifed the
deed."
NOBLE deeds always spring from anoble
spirit. Dignity Of, mind aim at dignity
in acion-the greatest of both is to IN
tend good, and 20 do good--to love VI
ture and to practise it. These are truly
noble attributes.
Men worship God because they conceive
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he is good-'tis goodness then that mer
ADORE, and, therefore, goodness to men i
Holiness; the beginning of it is tosin.ene
and endeavour TO do we'll, and if good
ends be proposed, good effects will be pro-
duced. If we cannot make all mankind
honest and virtuons, let US make as many
as We can, and begin with ourselves
This is setsing out with our face towards
peace and happiness. BY contemplating
the nature Of morality, which includes all
virtue IN heart and life, we shall better
Know aud esteem it.
He. who desires no virtue in bis ccmpa-
mon, has no virtue in himself. Hence,
when the wealthy and the dissolute con-
meet themselves with INDECENT compani-
ons, for their powers OF entertainment,
their friendship amounts to little more
than paying the reckoning for them.-
They only desire to drink ard laugh !;
their fondness is without benevolence, and
their familiarity without friendship.
He that would govern his actions by
the laws of virtue, must regulate his
thoughts by the laws of reason he must
keep guilt from the recesses of his heart,
and remember that the pleasures of fancy
and the emotion of desire, are more dan.
gerous as they are more hidden, since they
escape the awe OF observation, and ope-
rate equally in every situation, withoutthe
concurrence of external opportunities.
He that tries to recommend and defend
virtue, can never enter into better cause.
Let the motives to hate vice and love viz.
tue, be the consideration of such effects as
are necessarily connected with Their ma
ture, such as they produce internally on
our minds, and externally in our worldly
affairs.
Morality has its root IN tie heart, and
its fruit in aeiols It includes The science
of goodpolicy-the art of governing natl
ons, societies, families, and each individual
governments of himself
This subject is, therefore, Of the most
extensive and important nature. Itleads
us to contemplate and understand the ma
turc Of man--ro learn and practise lie
of reetltude-to be devout in all Christian
exercises.
IT. /. r,wf;v~1R
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(Ta be eortixaex.)

Dr.. Akin in his historical account Of
the invasion of Egypt gives Us the follow
ing paragraph respecting the commence.
ment ofthat invasion. In Egypt "'Th-
Beys were but ind ,ferent subjects, and
the actual possession of Egypt by the
Porte little more than nominal: on this
foundation it is SAID to have been propos
ed o negotiate for an admission, more OF
less unqualified, of the power Of France
into that country, where, in military and
civil authority, it should take the place
of the 3eys; while, like these out more
faithfully, it should render the sti-
palated tribute, and acknowledge the So.
premacy of the Muftl, and the sovereign
ty of the Sultan. In this broad proposlti
on several notifications might be lntroduc-
ed, and perhaps were intended to exist
from the first; but something more plausl
bel, more really consonant with the inter-
ests of the Porte must surely have been
designed or the expectation Of acqules
cence must have been grounded upon an
idea of its moral, OF at least physical i'm
becil;fy: it could never be thought that
the Sultin could rely upon the Continuance
OF tribute fronl.a P wer supirior to himself,
or that he could think France better
neighbour than the Beys; and arguments
might easily have been brought forward
more respet.frs to his understanding. A
further confederation of these Arguments
is irnpra secable within the limits of the
present sketch; bus of whatever nature
they were, it has brenrumoured that they
were agreeable TO party in the divan,
which, rather than the sultan. governs
the Ottoman Empire, and the conduct OF
that governmental the actual event OF the
invasion, accorded, it VIII be found, with
this supposition. In Egypt it was IN
tended to represent the arrival ct the
French army as transaction equally ia
vorable to the interests of the Sultan ahd
its inhabitants. and hostile only to the
Beys: the Beys, rebellious TO the one ana
oppressive to the. other.
g The command was given to Genera
Bonspartc. In Bonaparte the republic hsa.
! citizen whole charatter the folder form
ed out an ingredient. He was hitherto pub
l,cly known for little beGdes Inili'asy ca
pac,ty. or perhaps good fortune. His enc.
mics proud Of fighting with plgmies 'pose
f him with contempt. He was howevs.
lover of the arts, ichoiar and itatei
nan. PoGeaed Of afcendency over thoi
whom he wa, concerned, he had az hi
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| difpofal The arrangements Of this eyredi-
ton: and he went out from France sathsr
fovcreign thana general. Abe colour
Of his mind was rejected in the VINO e
armament. Leaning ard fcieoce were
agued with urms. He regarded that Of
The bayonet as the WORT and Ieaa OF corr
queas. Itwasonly by fpresding civili-
zatioo, and eliminating manners, tiis' he
hoped to retain Egypt; and, preparing.
10 put in practice all that theory could 'tg
gef' for this purpofc, he invited men Ct
knowledge and genius 10 every Puriait to
be his companions. Scnhbie, a'io OF
the valuable difcoycries TO be rlade il
Egypt, be prepared in like manner 10
bring back tholc to Europe.
I" The military force, when the ievs-
raj attachments were united, coniaed
of nearly forty ,hou!apd iaen, and the
liaof srtits, men Of letters, and thoic Of
fcisnce, contains che following pumAers
and departments /: in geometry s, afro
nomy general mechanics "a iawstch-
making 2, in chesniilry Sin niin-raiogy
5. in oosany s., in zoology s, in furs9fy
s, inph.smaoi ), il antiquities 2, 10 arch:-
Teftufe 4 in drawing s, in engineering
I9, in geography l8, in printing IS. III
conformity with the various o5je{is ate
tending in this afemblage OF petfoas,
he implimtnts of war were accompanied
with tholc oflcience.
Though noririrg couIdbe mote pub
lie than the collecting this arminent, 10
'dcaination was kept profound fecret."
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Il singular ;iastauee Of saluJyiky It climate.

Il sfnsHlar fa51aNee 81 sa700Ff.r y tz1Ma7Fs
The Parish of prestsign, In Ranorshlfe,
IN Wales, embraces circle of nineteen
miles. The burials on an average OF Sc
ven years, are Only twenty SIX persons
year and that of births for the same time
forty two. And of the burisls upwards
Of eig!,teen of the twenty six were of per-
sons from eighty to one hundred years old.
Ii would not BE- amiss if all Jacobins, De-
lists, and Atheists would 60 there. They
might gain time to nerd and repent, or
at least blk their old father CLovEM-
Root of so many years possession of
them. Carer.
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aIeranDrta Advertiser.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 70.
HEALTH-OFFCE,
SEPTEMBER 16.

SEPTEMBER 16.
The Board of Health report Z
new cases, and one death of the pre-
vailing fever, for the last "a hours
ending this morning at 10 O'Clock.
S. SNOWDEN, Sec'ry.
The Committee acknowledge with
satisfaction, the receipt of FIFTY
DOLLARS, from Nicholas Fitzhugh,
Esq. as donation for the use Of
the poor Of the town.
S. SNOWDEN, Sec'ry.
TIE foNozvmg seRiou from an al .eftbe
Corporation !" Fer tfadlsbmg, perp<-
taat.ug, and regulating The frerfs,"
&c. Sc. Unpublished tor The information
of The fifizens generally, qvsom, it is
hoped, avW give due attention to its pre-
1ision:
"SEcTIoN II. The persons living
on paved streets, shall clean the
footways and cutters of such parts
Of the said streets as shall be oppo-
site to the property they occupy, and
shall sweep halfway across such
streets at least three times week,
and shall moreover wash such foot
ways every Saturday from the first
day of May to the last day Of Sep
TENDER, unless prevented BY the
weather. Any inhabitant who shall
not perform the said duties, shall,
for every neglect, forfeit and pay so
Cents"
az The preparation making
70 enlarge the Advertller, necei-
e. e.Llirnc Lie 70 ~ C. 70 -
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APHoRisM.

He who writes with insolence, whes
anonymous and unknown, and speaks
with tinidity in the presence Of the good !;
seems to be closely allied to baseness.
(Lavate,-J
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ET The preparation making
70 enlarge the Advertller, necel-
fairly obliges us to mlis to-mor-
rows publication.
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BALTIMORE Sept. Is.
Arrived. schr. Edith and Polly, capt.
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all probability, have brrught on all the
consequences Of despair and madness.
They reached ST. Johns the 7h ]uly-
here they experienced the most hospltable
treatment from General Skerret, who not
only paid every attention 10 bis power to
Capt. Fellowes ard the passengers, but
gave quarters to the crew, and issued ra-
tons for their support
Mr.. Jenkins, the masters mate, and7l5
Of the crew, arrived here on Saturday G
yening, in IS days.
Most of the csew are still in feeble
situation several are frost bitsen, two Of.
them severely.
Capt. Felowes, Mrs. Fellowes, Col.
Cook, Of the Guards, Capt Thomas, Of the
Nancy, and Mr.. Bargus, master of tie
Lady Hobart, have taken passage at St.
Johns, in abrig bound for Oporto.