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PROPOSALS for furnishing materials, and
4 building PONDER MAG lZINE--tn
pursuance OF AZ, $dvice of the Councl OF State,
Proposals win he received BY me, until the first
day of July next, for furnishing materials and
hiiding Powder Magazine.
The plan and dimensions will be made known
by application TO
ABM DOUGLASS.
June 90. At
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G o o d S,
Selected from tue late importations, and which
are now opening for sale, at his Cheap Cash
Store.
May 10. If
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a REWARD Of twenty dollars will be given
4 for the delivery, to us, ola TRUNK, which
was put in charge OF negro waterman, on the
1lth nit. TO be carried to Silton. 1t was hair
trunk OF about or feet cubic Contents, label
led ON card on the top T. 1. No. IS, and contai-
ned principally writing paper of various quail
ties, but also some other articles of stationary,
pocket telescope with a brass case,a Dynamome-
ter in steel and brass, or instrument for neasnr-
ing the exertions of dr;night animals, collection
OF vocabulares of the Indian languages, & some
other articles not particularly noted in the memo
randuin taken.
GIBSON s. SrEFFERS0N.
May 60. If
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FROM THE Mowir OR.


Mr. Co1vIN -, s..
The fo,loy,;no ste,ch oe IN. ob,!
racter of Mr. Cannipp is extracted from, :, work
lately published entitled /" Le,ters on the sub-
iect of the Catholics. tn nv brotber Ahrob.m.
who lives in Tn. co,,n,rv Nv peter pivmlry .
This production Is said TO be from the men of Mr..
Sheridan Every person ,vhn pa oIlact. the neta
from Mr. Canning to Mr. pinIfnev, must ner.
ceiye the striking similarity bet ween iii. ont.
line, and some parts of that note The whole OF
these letters are well worthy of pSerusaJ a. they
contain great number of sound political
observations, and many neat touches f humorous
satire:
LETTER viz
Dean AanAHAM,
"Int the correspopdence
which has been passing between us yo,, are per-
petually abiding to the foreign secretary and.
in answer to the dangers of Ireland which am
pressing upon your notice. You have nothing 70;
urge but the confidence YOU repose in the i;scre.
ton and sound sense of this gentleman. can
only say, that have listened to him long and of.
ten, with the greatest attention I have used e.
very exertion i'm my power to take fair mea.
sure of him, and it appears to me impossible to
hear him upon any arduous topic, without per
ceivng, that he is einently deficient in those So
lid and serious qualities upon which. and mon
which alone the confidence of a great country
can properly repose-He sweats and labors and
works for sense, and Mr. Ellis seems always to
think it coming, but it does not come: the ma
chine can't draw up what is not to be found in
the spring Providence has made him a light
jesting paragraph writing man, and that he will
remain to his dying day When he is ocular.
he is strong when he is serious he is ike Sarnp.
son In wig; any ordinary personis match for
a song, an arohicai letter. buriesque odes
M upon NiI,iocts eye a smart speech OF
10y napu.es iuli OF gross misrepresentation
n"u W.ns, eAcsnent languages spirited
All ~, 'uoNy Iu1ee.tioi, success In provoking
AZ M =. so'e nan Hior ma'ion picked up IN PaH
as',.a ~ WIG n.ot'h'e !hese are your iriendIs
,ss.a MeapDns an lhese Things ne can DO,
any nun 10 ee truly great nay, VIII
Jus,s anu 80 sun Iafther' II ne would conhne
mn III W u,ese .n,nss, ana CONSIDER the tacete
Ia ,,,o,,IlJ o., -.
regarded TO be aPerson OF very good under
STAINING can nm Legislator, areasener, and
!ie conductor OF the affairs OF great nation, and
II seems TO me as absurd as ifa butterfly were to
teach bees to make honey he is an extraor-
unh1ry writer OF snaii poetry, and diner out of
.lie ngnest Iustfe' do must readily admit. At
Ter george seiwyn' and perhaps Tickell, there
mas neen no such man for TINS half century. The
As wen as an ngy agreeable man IN private life;
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NEW GOoDS.-ToHNKING has just re-
~ ceivad an additional supply of Spring and
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The attack Upon virtue and morals ia The de.
bate upon Coeenha8ea, is brought foysDa,d with
great cstentation bp This genfienlans tiiehqs. BIZ
is harlequin less ha, ieQuin becaKse he acts 7veH
zoas Present; he ieapea about, touched facts zsi.h
his aoand, turned yes into no, and no into ycs ii zvas
apanton1ne well playef, but panton,ii,re .hayie-
gun deserves higher qrdges than he did tvv0 yeays
ago IS he therefore fit for seyions barts
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inere wasindecd. one point, upon which
was particularly anxious 10 receive Precise
inJorm,atioa. and upon which. from your can
dor and irankness, l WAS fortunate enough
TO obtain it. The connecting together in
your proposed overture, the suspension of
the embargo. aud the repeal OF tlic orders i'm
counCil-as we'll as those of November as he
succeeding one of the TIN OF January, might
sppear TO imply that the Embargn had been
the irshncdI1te consequence of those Orders.
and ] was, therefore DESTROYS to ascertain
whether. in fact the orders IN Council of Nov
had been known to the government Of the
United States previous to The message OF the
President PROPOSING TIE en6arg7-so as to be
a moving consideration to tina message. I
had the satisfaction to learn from you, that
such Tcas Hot u Jact-tha runpowrs, indeed
might have reached america OF some n,ea-
sure OF fmrther retaliation. being in the con-
tcnihtdtion OF the british Government, that.
perhaps, Gas understood you,) some more
severe anG sweeping measures might have
oeen e~xl'ectcd-but that the orders in coun.
Gil of the 11th Of November, as havina deer
iss"cd, there was no knowledge of in .Isueyi-
Cat least none in possession OF the Ameri-
can Government at the time of pronosinr the
i-uioarSo.-oucn Sir, is, (lccUrding TO the
pest OF ny recoiicction.) c>rrectly, the sub
stance ct what has passed between us. at our
several interviews, previous to the, present
alton OF your official letter; and sucI, l have
represented to have been the substance of
what mas passed ON those several ncclsiUns in
the reports OF our conferences which il has
been my duty to make to the king.
II IN this resapitulation, there is any thing
mistaken, or any thing omitted. YOU will 90
f!le the Justice to believe the error ,ii,intei,ti-
ona. and you may rely on my readiness to set
it right.
Iilave the honor to be &c,
GEORGE CANNING.
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Pcsoi'ed. That the comfktee osthe dis
tfsct OF Cotumbia To- ins,rJtei to enquire
whether any, and ii ANY. wLt amendments
are necessary in the act cnfernin3 the dis
trict of Columbia. Agrecdso.
WEpNEtDAY, Ian. II.
Mr. RAea offered a resolt Ion for resein-
ding the resolution offe,edp few days ago.
and agreed to by the Houst for the calling
upon the Department of Site for a state
ment OF our naturalized ~Seasen; which, MIR
Dana not being present, VS. ordered ~ lie
on HE Table.
EXTRA SESSDN.
Mr.. SnfiAe, from the Committee appointed
to consider the propriety Of ~cohvening Con-
gress at an earlier period ttan usual, repor-
ted a bill To- alter the time 1t the next meet
ing of Congress- THE ALI MONDAY in May
is the day fixed on in the bil.l Twice read
and referred.
.Oa motion of Mr.. Ddsson, a resolution
directing the committee of Commerce and
Manufactures to enquire ino the e~xpedien-
cy OF removing a port of eu-ry from Tappa.
hammock to fredericksburg, was taken up
and agreed 10.
Mr.. Nelson reported a bill supplementary
TO tie act for establishing and organizing a
marine corps-[Mlking the term of ser. sce
OF marines five years.l Twice read and re-
ferred.
VOLUNTEER TROOPS.
Mr.. Nelson also .eporteda bill, to provide
an additional military ~fo,ce-(the so. eco
tvolunteers ordered bv a resolution of the
Housc) Twice read and referfad TO a COM
mittee of The whole
! NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.
The House resumed tbs copsidcra ion OF
the unfinished business # yesterday on the
remaining amendments - the Ssaate To ti2
bill for employing an additional number OF
seanien and marines.
Mr.. u. X. Hi1iaHs mortd that the bill.
with the amendments, be Committed to Il
committee of the wtoie. Iit was supposed,
had this motion carried, that the amendment
from the Senate yesterday az eed TO, might
have been rescinded in the Housed Alter
a long debate, the motion was loSt-Yeas SO
Mays 5S, and the House immediately ad-
%journtl at half past four o'clock.
THURSDAY, Jan. 10.
MIR. Barker LAID upon die table a memo
rial from sundry inhabitants OF the State OF
Massachusetts on the sub eot Of the late e.
lection of Electors in the State of Massachu-
sets, stating it to have been illegally con-
dacted.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.
The House resumed the consideration of
the unfinished busin, So OF yesterday,
After considerable debate,
Mr. j. Montgomery moved n reference Of
the Oil to a committee q the whole, stating
ms object to be O give a discretionary pow
er to the Executive instead of a pcremptory
power to fit out and empioy the naval force
as it now stood. This motion was under
stood, if carried. to place again the amend
nent of the Senate TO which the House had
agreed, undertheir powerl At half past4.
the motion to comm tae Dill was carried,
90 to 55-majority 10. And the house i'm
mediateiy adjourned.
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Restricting Me accounts Of tie AhaniSh
Oe{eak Via Ot1rtO.

Alt ough we have 40 doub. that the re-
suit OF any regular action, must b. SUCH as
Is above STAGED, should the opauiarus nave
the blindness to engage i'll that waJ ye, we
Cannot give credit to ;hss .Ur Two Ieasons /:
f1St, bsCause We suppose ,he 5yaniards
have some judg'nsr,G aGa would not
therefore hazard ali lii d genera, action.
Sec>ndly, because MC do hcttuLA the French
al aiIeS mad All arrived, and formed 81 cary
as between the 10th and 10th OF November:
&any aCtion, sucn as above stated, must have
taken place between tno-e da,es, 10 nav c
been heard o. IN Opcrto ef.er he last as-
wees, and ten days Oeiole iAe 9th OF Nov
ember.
The march into spain could not be like
the march co Vim in 1895 80 even men
%bonapute WAS Two weeks at he .!saa Of
the army before any thing more than an
action of the out posts look p,tce he left
Paris on the z6d oeptea,Oer, $40 tie first
action was at Wertingen OH the eth u Octo-
her.
Neither can the movements that preceded
the battle ofJena, III the year 1906 be tdken
as a precedent, for the movements of the
SIC icgion8 had been made six weeks before
he lefI Paris that is in the middle OF Au-
gust he crossed the Rhine on October L, &
Inc battle of Jena WAS on, the 14th Of Octo-
ber, six days after the first movements in
the field, which was on the 8tn after a pro-
ciamatioiI.
Now Bonaparte was at Bordeaux on the
Sd OF Nov and although an action within
ten days after would be perfectly congeniAi
with his tactics (; the provision of the army
in Spain, the transportation of provision
from France, aud the disposition of the
troops for active operations, could not
have been accomplished witlin eighteea
days, by any thing less than a miraculous
power.
This rdmor, however, may have its use,
u is only probably intended TO take of from
the force OF what may be expected to arrive,
and to prevent any shock or disnay, at an
event already an,icipated-so far SO good -
HnroTa.
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SENATE OFTHE UNITED Sites
THURSDAY, Ian. IL.

Mr.. Bradley asked and obtained leave 20
bring i'll a bill making further provision FOR
the corps of engineers, which vas ordered
70 a third reading This bin authorizes the
removal ofthe Military Academy frori West
Point to the city OF Washington.
A bill reported by General Smith Of Nd,
for the establishment OF d marine uniiiua vas
passed.
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Janrarv I,

Last night a fre was discovercd in the
middle Of Messrs. Ellicott's upper mills, ON
the Frederick F0wr road, about ten miles
from Baltimore. This very valuable pro-
perty ADD quantity Of stock were consumed,
Tnere appears no reason 20 attribute the
unfortunate occurrence to any other cause
than accident.
The property was not insured tho a de-
termination had recently been made 20 cover
it by insurance, which was on the point Of
being executed.-M American.
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rer'y TO Mr. canning's request for the infor-
apation) states unreservediy, that when the
rresp:ent Recommended the embargo, he had
no information of the passage of The British
Orders ia Council now Complained OF.
GA these highly important facts, the pub
lie can easily decide how far our government
have been DISPOSED to settle tneir differ
lences with knsland.".Lans's Royal Gaz.
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YoRK, Jan 10.

~1Okk, Jan. ~.
The Letter from Mr.. Canning, tne British
Minister Of Foreign Affairs, 70 Mr.. Pinkney,
our minister ut the Court of st. James, will
interest every readcr-We never saw it till
yesterday, and we believe it did not acorn
pany the Documents ordered to be published
by Congress.
This letter establishes two IMPORTANT
yAcTs, Which ought never to b. forgotten.
The FIRST is, that the offer Of MI Jefferson
to raise tie embargo on the resembling the
Orders in Council, was only communicate
to Mr.. Canning by Mr.. PirSney IN his md
.NIDUhL capacity, in a VERBAL commu-
.nicdtion, and with All expression OF BELIEF
only, that his government would raise the
Embargo If the British governor It would
first remove their obnoxious orders in Coun-
Gil.
The second Fact is, that Mr.. Pinkney, Gin
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KENTUCKY.Lrx1xcror. Dec.

MEN OCh1 LEXINGTON, dec. d.
lnthe house OF representative OF this statcy
Mr.. Marshall offered sundry resolutions as
amendments to those presented by Mr.. Scrog-
gin, mentioned in our last) which went tO
give a new feature to them eBti telv--and or
taking the question. Mr.. Marshall stood a.
lone in support oethem. SJudry other reso-
lutions were offered by Mr.. CLAY, rs amend
%cnents, and passed Ivy a unanimous vote of
all the mcclbers except Mr.. MAJ hall. The
resolutions as amended wcresen; ,othe senate
and concUrred in, with a few ep,crr;ntcnts,
three only votlrg agtiusJ ,theaI. VtGfp,!ow-r
ing are the Resolutions as they l'.ss:t bon
houses -
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NAVIGATION LAWS.

Mr.. Dana after Observing that at present
there was a defect in the law for the enrol
ment OF Iiccnced vessels, offered the follow
ing resolution:
RcS0iUed, That the committee of Com
merce and Manufactures DC instructed to
enquire into the propriety OF amending the
law relative to bonds required fol. enrolled
OF liceHced vessels Of the u. States. Agreed
to
Mr.. Dana called up his resolution laid vi
the table yesterday, proposing an amend
ment OF our navigation laws.
On suggestion of Mr.. M'Ctecry the words
g. som Of the seamen, &c" in. the tesoiutiun
was exchanged for the words ga certain
proportion Of the seamen, &c" and the re-
solution as amended, was referred to a Sc
iect committee.
Mr.. Green presented a petition from the
merchants of the island of Nantucket, pray
Tag that Nantucket may be erected into a
port Of entry for vessels from beyond the
Cape of Good Hope. Referred
Mr.. PaH Horne, after stating certain diff.
hculties IN the present organization % thG
courts of tbesaistrict Of Columbia, moved the
following fssOlutioni
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pDtei ysarcc, Nave heen, or shall .e ar-
,c led aad Imprisoned by virta: Of any
g,e~5Gat or anshorisy from me Prca;dens Of
ne rs atts, or from III Grief e~recntiUe
a,gg7stcctc Of airy 'stafs or territorial go
ve~amens. orf%sm IN lerson ac'iag Under.
thrd sction or anthorf u Of The President IF
the Std-es, the privilege OF the writ Of Ha-
bcas Corpus shall be, and the same hereby
is suspended for and during the term Of
three months from and after the passage of
this dc and no lsager.
Ohceof the Secretary of the Senate,
January Cd, 1909.
Iccrtify tha, the foregoi.,s is a true copy
of a hi | tlat passed the Senate on the Esd
OF January, 1907.
SAMUEL A. OTIS, Sec'ry.
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II JVO E O| M a T &sO.
SATURDAY, Jan. z.
EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.
Ma. Smile offered tile following resoluti-
r en-:
+" Resolped, That a committee be APP
poined to enquire into the propriety OF pro
tiding by law for the meeting Of Congress
at an earlier period than tho lst Monday i'll
December next, with leave 10 report by bill
Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-08-22
GREAT BARGAIN,

y will sell from about fifty to sixty acres. of
1 Land lying in this county. and binding
upon the road now opening from Geo. Town
to Alexandra. This land is elegantly situat-
ed in point of building scites, and has the
further advantage of being furnished with de-
.Iightful water, and from its high elevated si-
tuation the benefit Of tie most saubrious air.
If necessary this property will be laid out in
lots so as to ssit those who may be inclined
to purchase. Applications to be made to
JOHN LUKE, Esq or to
Charles Alexander,
fs0a " PhAh /
Alexandra County, July 10. d
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PUBLIC AUCTION.


To be sold, at public auction, at Northum,
berland court house, IN the county of Nor
cumberland, end state of Virginia, on
TUESDAY, the fifth day of September
next, at eleven O'Clock, in the forenoon,
FIVE contiguous Plantations,
..dmounang tosesAer to about 27oo .Acres,
CIIUATE on the river Potomac, and
~ within about three miles of the COURT
house. These estates formerly belonged 10
Presley Thornton, Esq. and are the same on
which he lived. ahey have never been seen
by either Of the subscribers but it is under-
stood, that about sl7oo acres Of them are az
valuable low. grounds as any on the river, and
a considerable part thereof heavily timbered.
The uplands cpnsist OF about lOOC acres, and
the whole is well Calculated for the production
of corn, wheat, tobacco, timothy. and small
grain of ali kinds, in great abundance. The
waters are said to ABOUND with excellent
Esh, oysters, and wild fowl The watercarli
rage is easy and convenient to Norfolk, Ba-
more, Alexandra, and the city OF Wash
ington; and as these estates possess several
good mill seats, with an abundance of water,
nd IA plentiful supply of timber, they must
DC very valuable.
The premises will be shewp to persons In
Ginning to purchase, by Col. .Jcmes Moore,
who lives on them, or by Samnek blackwell,
Esq. who lives near to them and the terms
of payment may bcgknown sufficient time
before the sale. by applying to either Of them,
Or to the subscriber in the city OF Philade!1
phia, oa,s n
VIM. LEWIS.
June Ia as
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BY JOHN PINKERTON,
AUTHOR OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY, &cs
CONDITIONS.

CONDITIONS.
The work will be handsomely printed. IN
auarto, on fine paper and with nc" type !;
and will be put to press as soon as sanle1eA'
number of subscribers is obtained.
II is expected the WORK will be- completed
in ten or twelve volumes, each containing be-
tween eight and nine hundred. pages OF letter
press, besides several elegant engravings.
A quarter Of a volume, or one NUMBER Is 5
proposed to be published en- the hrst Gay OF
every month, at dollars, payable on de''s-
nv. To non-subscribers the price VIII Oe con-
siderably enhanced. -.
A list of the names of such as patronlse TINS
valuable work by subscription, viii be pub
,ishedin the last volume.
~ The English edition sells at 4 dollars
-. SUBSCRIPTIONS received By JAMES
KeNsEDr. senior, AIerana''sss.
Jnly.77.
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A recommendation Of the President, predl-
Gated upon the supposition that orders were
in force That under 1.-THE professions OF
last session against bath belligerents, all the
fustian and smoke, there was a deliberate
determination to go to war with one OF
them, but the President was not for war,
and God bless him for it, he would not be
drove,no led into it,and the leaders, the men
of wars men, were mortified and chagrined.
IF the non-intercourse act was the means Of
producing the late happy change, he was not
for allowing those who then at It's enaction
opposed il with so much vigor and asperlty
run away with the credit Of it n0uv, which
properly attained to those who opposed
their warlike measures, which would have
dragged the President, this house and the
nation into the vassalage Of French alliance /:
and while he claimed a share Of the merit
| of this opposition, he coded a large portion
| to the late President, who, if he had said
war there would have been war, for the
beam was poised with such equilibrium,
that had the executive given his sanction the
| nation would have plunged in all its horrors.
| For that motions and speeches, multiplied
! on each other, tending to this effect, cannot
be disproF ed which speeches have since
| been printed by subscription, and will
| venture to predict, that 50 years hence,
they will be eurlosities in literature.
A message from the senate announcing
that they had passed the bill allowing GER
tain vessels to take on board cargoes and
| proceed 70 foreign ports also, the resolu-
ton appointing a joint committee to enquire
what business is necessary to be done this
session, and nominated Nj. Meigs on their
! part.