Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1817-10-06
|, A NEW DAILY AND THRICE A
WEEK PAPER
AZ the Seat of Government.

THE CITY or WASHINGTON GAZETTE
Price, Daily, Ten Dollars PEI annum: aud
Thrice Week. (viz. Monday. We'd
ncsday and Friday Five Dollars
per annum: To be published eve
nv afternoon at TWO O'Clock.
Important public documents and state
| paper will be printed at full length; q
competent reporter will be employed ts
furnish the proceedings Of Congress for
;he Gazette AMI all interesting articles
Of intelligence will be carefully selected
aud published.
PROSPECTUS.
The Editor Of the WASHINGTON Cry
WEEKLY GAZETTE, from The latronag
he has already received, and the encou'
ragement he is promised, intends, in Dc
tober next, to publish daily paper, and
one three times a week. To the proseCu-
ton OF this undertaking he has also bee;
urged by other causes. perhaps equally
powerful. When the extraordinary en-
crease # population in the United States,
and, Of course, the augmented demand
for Information from the seat Of govern
ment, are taken into consideration, an
the fact. that, in the eastern section ut
the District Of Columbia. embracing Pc
pulation Of near twenty thousand inhabi-
tants. there is but one daily paper. tire
necessity and Importance OF All addition
al ono must at once be obvious. Nha,-
ever may be the estimation in which
Washing ssn is held, as to mercantile
transactlons and information, by those at
a distance, it must be allowed, by al
who know it, to be the greatest focus OF
political intelligence in the U. States ;
and the first point fran which must ema
nate all the information Of the country in
relation to our po itical TRANSACTIONS
Much transpires that is lost for the ant
OF 4 proper vehicle of communication,
that would preserve its independence in
reviewing the operations OF The govern.
ment and many measures ofrrpOrtance
are permitted TO slumber amid the ;ub-
Dish OF legislative business, because they
are ns, duly considered or p operly dr.
played. In the hurry OF. and perhaps,
we might also say, the inattention some
times paid to legislative affairs Of the
country, it often happens that measures
Of dangerous political tendency, or. at
! least, o lnjurious consequences to the
nation, are adapted with bu' little oppo-
sition. because those consequences have
NOT beeH fully developed oy The presses
a. 'he sea, of government, and ihis can
not be done b. journal issuing seldom
er than once day Or three tunes week.
The one already in existence az this
place, however we'll conducted, is not
sufficient for his purpose, because the
press of Political matter during the ses.
sion is so great that one daily journaI
caunnt can ace tae whole, and much
must therefore be lost.
l. addition TO this, il may be remark.
ed, that, the coluinbs of t e National In,
tellisencer are deYo'ed, almost excu
sivoly to the proceedings and debates OF
the popular branch of the national legis-
llture. whilst those of the senate are ne
elected. or forgotten. THIS exclusion Of
ne transactions of 80 disnifed and i'm
portant a branch of our government, from
Il the public eye, has long been subject
If regret and complaint 10 the peop.e II
this country, aud, indeed, to the Senate
Itself. Some efforts have been made to
gratify the nation, by full display "t the
proceedings OF thus branch Of the segisla-
;ure, bat th0se efforts havs uniformly
tiled; and have failed, no: from tie
want OF projer encouragement and pa
enagp, but bon causes II is not neces-
saw here to develope. From TIE Ha'u c
Of thiass, ore press, aloue, cannot give
ruli detail of the debates and proceed
iuss OF both houses OF Congress. To one,
therefore, aa.exciusiye attention has, hi
the 10 been Mid, TO the almost entire Ne
slect Of the other. The Editor will how.
evel, labor TO obyiate this inconvenience
,rd remedy this evil, ard endeavor Il
give the nation an accurate dali repm'
If the proceedings OF the national legisls'
ture, avoiding all Partially and pre'e
renee Of one branch to the other.
| The political path he has hi'herto pur-
,ued will evince his independence, an :,
he trusts, satisfy his patrons that 10 81
lcri6ce of truth Or political integrity shat
ever be made at the shrine OF party fee
no. lie will endeavor to re; der hi,
journal as tree from party bicker,ng and
, lau,mosity as possible, While, at the sa'a'
,ume, the principle, ii inculcates shall be
, decidedly republican aud patriotic
Il As the humble guardian OF the pubic
~ al, he will OCCASIONALLY use the privi'
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