Daily National Intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])
March 8, 1813

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VOL. I. WASHINGTON CITY, PUBLISHED BY GALES AND SEATON, Daily, at Ten Dollars per annum PAID IN ADVANCE. J^o subscription will be taken for less than twelve months. Jill letters to the Editors must be post paid. BANK OF COLUMBIA, March 1, 1813. NOTICE is hereby given that in conformity with the Charter are Election wilbeheidai the Banking House on Saturday the 20th ins', at 11 o’clock, for Twelve Directors, lor the institution. By order, WILLIAM WHANN Cashier. March 2— A MULATTO HOT whose inaster is willing to dispose of for ten years, when he is to be free, to a good master, which must be to the eastward of Maryland; he is healthy and active, has been brought up in a private family fmm an in'am, where he has been taught every thing necesa ry to make him a valuable house or gentleman’s servant; he is extremely handy with horsts, either in or out of harness. Enquire at this office March 2— .RICHARD PARROTT CO. Offer for sale at their WafeMure on Water street, for cash, or approved paper. 31 hogsheads West India and Orleans Sugar 14 do. Molasses 6 pipes 4th proof French Brandy A few puncheons best West India Rum Madeira _ London particular renerille I WINES Sherry, Port, Malaga and Sicily Madeira J 41 bags Green and White Coflee 22 chests Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hy son Skin and Souchong TEAS. 10 bales Pimento 30 barrels Tanners Oil 50 boxes Pickled Herrings 18 0 ib. Pepper A few cases Sweet Oil Spermacetia, Mould and Dipt’d Candles 2JO Ploughshare Moulds 10 tons flat and square Bar Iron 1200 wt. Seine Twine 20 quintals Seine Corks 40 dozen Plough Lines and Cordage of every description 2000 bushels Lisbon Salt 8 boxes Russia Steel. Georgetown. February 19—4 w FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. RANAWAY from the subscriber of Fairfield district. South Carolina, near Winnsborough, a Negro Man named TARLETON, about 5 feet 6 or 8 inches high, rather of a slender make, somewhat of a tawny complexion, c lean, well made, broad shoulders and of a pleasant coun tenance, 22 or 23 years of age. Shortly after he ran away, he called himself Wallace. He was by a Mr. Fowler raised in Chesterfield county, near Manchester state of Virginia; he was again the property of a Mr. Rubeau, a Frenchman; again the property of a Mr. Wm. Fulcher, of the city of Richmond, of whom he was purchased and brought to South Carolina. The above slave left the subscriber the 26th of June 1811 It is probable he is harbored in the vicinity of Richmond or on the river, as he followed boating some part of his time be fore he left that state. The above reward will be given to any person who may lodge the said Negro in any jail, so that the owner ob tains him. JOHN LOWRY. September 29—ts FOR SALE OR LEASE, LOTS in every section of the city. Also, for sale, Lands in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky, and some first rate lands on the Mississippi, near Baton Rouge —For terms en quire of JOSEPH FORREST. November 7 ti. WASHINGTON HOTEL. The Subscriber informs his friends ana the public that he has This dai opened the Washington Hotel, on the Pennsylvania Avenue near the Trea sury Office. THIS establishment has been considerably enlarged, altered and improved, and furnished with an ent.re new set of Beds and Furniture, a general, and choice assortment of W nes and Liquors has been laid in the table will always be supplied with the best Viands that can be procured, and from a studious desire to please he hopes to merit a share of public custom. JOHN MACLEOD. N. B. A few Gentlemen can be accommo dated with Boarding, by the month or year. August 27 LOUDON LAND FOR SALE. The Subscriber is authorised to sell, and now offers for sale, two tracts of Land in Lou don county, Virginia, belong ng to Wrn. D Bigges, Esq- the one containing about 200 G acres, lying on and adjoining the Short Hills, and known by the name of the Short Hill Trail, wi dan a short distance of the River Po tomac and Harper’s Ferry, on which there arc several very valuable mill seats the other, known by the name of the Valley Tract, with in five or six miles of the Town of Leesburg, and containing about. 1100 acres. Both these Tracts of Land are very fertile, are situated in thickly populated neighborhoods, and are as well calculated lor farming as any land in the county of Loudon each Tract will either be sold altogether, or wdl be divided in such manner as may best accommodate purchasers. The Subscriber will attend in person at the bouse cl Mr. Jennings, on the Short Hili Tract, and at the house of Mr. Greenlease, on the Valley Tract, about the 15th March Inst, lor the purpose of showing the premises and of giving such information as may be de sirable to persons inclined to purchase. Jj not sold at private saleby the 12 h of April next, the said Lands will be offered at Public Sale, to the highest bidder, on that day, at Piers's Tavern, in the town op Leesburg; the sale to continue from day to day until the whole of the Land shall be sold. The Terms of payment will be one third part of the purchase money in hand on the day of the sale—‘he balance to be paid in one, two, three, equal annual instalments. Persons who may wish to forward Letters to the Subscriber, will please to direct to him, Stafford Court House, Virginia. E. MASON, Attorney infati. Stafford Co- Va. March 4— 000115 Daily National Intelligencer. VALUABLE SEATS FOR MILLS, Or Manufactories that require a force of Water. THE Upper Appomattox Company have from their Canal, in and near Petersburg, Vir ginia, upwards of one hundred feet fall of wa ter, divided into 12, 14 and 20 feet falls. The\ have also the necessary Land for the scite of Mills and manufacturing houses, which thev wish to let or dispose of. The subscribers, who are managers for the Company, propos to meet at Petersburg on the second Monday in April next, for the purpose of disposing the water It is expected that on the day fr lowing, at 12 o’clock, the managers will mi at the Bason, and let some situations to th' highest bidder The terms on which the ma gers would wish to dispose of the scites, ma be more par icularly known after the first March nex by application to Daniel E vllo clerk for the Company, residing at Petersburg the subscribers are disposed to give evei y en couragement in their power to manufactories of cotton and wool, particularly the carding and spinning of wool and the ful'ing of wool len cloth. There is already erected at the locks a Saw Mill and a small Grist M'li, which we propose to lease for one or more years, and which will be yery convenient to those who may be about to erect buildings at the locks, or on the cunal. To those who are una> quainted with the situation, the subscribers believe they ma; say, there is none more eligable in the country situate at the head of tide water, at the market for an extensive back country, as well on the river Appomattox, as to the south and west o Petersburg and affording to this country a market 20 miles nearer than Richmond, the only rival The subscribers further state, that for the want of a sufficient number of mills at Peters burg, a large quantity of wheat is carried from the south side of Appomattox to Richmond although the roads are much worse and the distance further 'han to Petersburg And as to the convenience in making shipments of flour, it is believed that Petersburg has every advantage which is possessed by Richmond. JOHN GRAMMER, EDWARD MUMFORD, RIC HD N VENABLE, EDWARD DILLON. THOMAS A. MORTON. February 17 DIHIRICT Ob' COLUMBIA, to wt: Upon the petition of Sarah Crookshank and Charles Glover, administrators of the es tate of John Crookshank, deceased, to the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, sit ting for the county of Washington as a court of Chancery on the eleventh day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, stating among other things that the said John Grookshank died intestate in the yea.- 1803, leaving the petitioner, Sarah Crookshank, his widow, and Ann, Charles, John and Richard Crookshank, his surviving children, who are infants under the age of 21 years; that in Fe bruary 1795, the said deceased purchased of a certain Thomas Afllick, all that part .f Lot No. 40, in Georgetown, beginn ng for said part at the end of 99 feet on the first line of said lot, then running easterly parallel to Fall’s street 93 feet 2 inches to the third line o' said lot, then by and with said third line no ther ly, 33 feet, then westerly to the beginning, for the sum of sixteen hundred dollars; that the said Afllick gave his bond F conveyance and took from the said deceased his bond the amount of the pur hase money that the said Afllick died in the year 1797, leav ng no heir or legal represen a ve authorised by law to convey a good and uffic;ent title to t; premises aforesaid. That the said Crookshank paid to the ^aid Afflick, in his life time, th North Carolina during their last session, a law granting to him the exclusive right to na vigate the waters in said state with Steam beats to the manifest prejudice of Robert Fu’ton, Esquire, the inventor, and of Robt. R. Living ston, Esq. his associate in the patent granted to him by the United States for sa d new and useful invention; in which patent and in all things connected therewith the said Messrs. Livingston and Fulton are partnerr. And whereas the said John Stevens lias by an instrument in writing under his proper signa ture and seal acknowledged formally, ful ly and unequivocally “that the said Robt. Ful ton is the inventor of new and useful Steam boats, and the first that has shewn the supe riority of water wheels over all other modes of propelling Steam beats, and demonstrated the relative proportions of the several parts.” And whereas the said Jno. Stevens had nei her right, title, claim or authority from or under the said Livingston and Fulton, the true and ac tual patentees, for using and vending to others to be used within the United States, and the territories thereof, the right to navi- gate with boats propelled by fire and steam and wheels but did, unwarrantably 8c unjust tifiably, apply for, and surreptitiously and by misrepresentation or otherwise obtain said law in order to wrest under cover thereof from the aforesaid patentees ihe well earned 8c just reward of their ingenuity, enterprize, labor Sc perseverance, and thus made the state sub servient (though unknowingly) to injustice which may possibly involve the patentees in te dious, troublesome and expensive suits in de fending their rights from invasion by said Stevens or any ignorant or unprincipled per sons who may be seduced to join with or up hold him in so flagitious an invasion of their rights. And whereas the sa.d law passed as aforesaid by the state of North Carolina is not only voidable, but absolutely void and nugatory, in as much as it is in direct hostility to the law of the United States under which the patent has been granted to the said Robert Ful-on and Robert K Livingston, the legislating upon and granting of which is by the constitution exclusively assigned to th United S ates t I do hereby give notice, That I w il, for and in the name of the said patentees, prosecute all, each and every per son, severally and individually who shall com' bine or conspire with said John Stevens to in vade the exclusive privilege and property of said patentees or injure or subvert their inte rests in any unla-wjul manner at or in any pia. or stale from the City of Baltimore to the bio nda line. JOHN D. DE LACY, Attorney pro patentees. Feb. 22 NOTICE. WHEREAS by an act of Congress passed on the eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the President of the United States is authorised to norrow, on the credit of the United States, a sum not ex ceeding sixteen millions of dollars, so howe ver, that no engagement or contract shall be entered into, which shall preclude the United States from reimbursing any sum or sums thus borrowed, at any time after the expiration of twelve years from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. And whirbas by the said set, so much of the funds constituting the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars, for the payment of the principal and interest of the public debt of the United States, as may be wanted for that purpose, after satisfying the sums neces sary for the payment of the interest and such part of-the principal of said debt as the Unit ed States are now pledged annually to pavand reimburse, is pieaged and appropr ated tor the payment of the interest, and for the reim bursement of the principal of the stock now to be created, and the faith of the United States is pledged to establish sufficient revenues for making up any deficiency that may hereafter take place in the funds now appropriated for paying the interest and principal as aforesaid. And whereas the President of the United Staves did, by an act or commission under his hand, dated the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, au thorise and empower the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow, on behalf the United States, a sum not exceeding in the whole six teen millions of dollars, and to make the ne cessary contracts for the same, pursuant to the ac. of Congress above recited Now therefore, the undersigned. Secre tary of the Treasury, in pursuance of the act of Congress, and the authority from the Pre sident of the United States above mentioned, doth hereby, on behalf of the United States, contract and engage in manner following, to wit 1. Books for receiving subscriptions to a loan of sixteen millions of dollars, for the use of the United States, shall be opened, on the twelfth day of March next, At Portsmmouth JW H. —At the New Hamp shire Union Bank. At Salem, Mats.— At the Merchant’s Bank. At Boston, Mass. —At the State Bank. At Providence, Ji. I.— -At the Roger Williams’ Bank. Ai the city of J\ew-York —At the Manhattan Company and the Mechanics’ Bank. At Albany—At the New York State Bank, and the Mechanic’s and Farmer^ Bank. Ai Philadelphia —At the Bank of Pennsylvania, the Farmer’s and Mechanic’s Bank, and the Phil; delph a Bank At Baltimore —At the Bank of Baltimore, th- Commercial and Farmer’s Bank and the Union Bank of Mar land At the City of Washington —At the Bank o Washington, and the Office o the Bank of Columbia. .Il Richmond, Va —At the Bank of Virginia. At Charleston, S. C— At the State Bank, atu the Planter’s Mechanic’s Ban! And at any other incorporated bank in any he above named cities or towns, which sha open books tor receiving subscriptions as aforesaid, and give public notice thereof. Which books shall continue open for rece y ng subscriptions during the ordinary hour of transacting business at the said banks, o> Friday the twelfth and Saturday the hirteenib day of March next If more than sixteen ml lions of dollars m the whole, shall be su scribed, the surplus shall be deducted in pry. portion to the sums subscribed in each pla. respectively, by a reduction of the subscri tions exceeding four thousand dollars Bu n reduciion shall be made, of the subset ptio" made by k any persons vs bodies corporate. holders (at the time of subscribing) of stock issued under the act o‘March 14, 1812; call ed six per cent slock of 18(2 J” unless the aggregate of their subscriptions should exceed sixteen millions of dollars; in which case the surplus shall be deducted by a reduction of the proportionally highest subscriptions If aiy simscHption shill be thus reduced, (he amount Of such reduction shall be forthwith returned to he suoscriuer from whom su^ reduction shall have been made. 2 No subscriptions will be received far a :am less than one hundred dollars, nor far a fractional part of a bundled dollars. 3. For every hundred dollars which may be subscribed, there shall be paid at the time of subscribing, twelve dollars and fifty cents, and a like sum of twelve dollars and fifty cents oh the first day of each of the ensuing months bf April, May, June, July, August, September nd October, otic thousand eight hundred ami thirteen, respectively. Each subscriber, at the time of paying any of the above inslal ments, after -he first, may pay all or any num* ber of the subsequent instalments, and will be entitled to receive interest at the rate of six per centum per annum on the amount thus paid, from the time ofactuil payment. 4. On the failure of payment of any instal ment of the sums subscribed, according t the tenor of the third article, the next preceding" instalment of twelve dollars and fifty cents, which shall l ave been paid for every hundred dollars subscribed, shall be forfeited to tho Unded States. 5. Each subsequent insta’ment must be paid at the same bank at which the original subscrip, tion was made, and where the first instalment was paid. 6 The cashiers of the respective banks where subscriptions are received, shall, within twenty days alter the time of subscribing, give certificates slating the sums subscribed and payment made, and on whi.ch the payments of the subsequent instalments, when made, shall be respectively endorsed; which certificates shell be assignable by endorsement and delive ry of the parties in whose favor ihey may be issued, until the completion of the payments required by the tenor of the third article 7 After the completion of the payments aforesaid, the proprietors of the certificates of the cashiers, on which such payments have been completed, on surrendering the same at the loan office or the state in which the sub scription and payments shall have been n>ade, shad be entitled to rece.ve from the commis sioner ofloana, certificates of funded «afz ■al siock for the amount thus subscribed and paid, tearing an interest of six pec centum per annum from the time when the said instal ments shall have been paid respectively, and payable quarter yearly at the several Loan of fices or at. the treasury of the U Staves, where t' e same may stand credited And sh il, more over, receive trom the commissioner of loans, a certificate entitling such proprietor to an am* muity oi annual sum, payable quarter-yearly* for thirteen years, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and. thirteen, o one collar on every bundie dol lars thus subset ibed and paid which ce> tifi c ates of annuity shai.' constitute a separate and distinct stock, and may be sold, assigned aud transferred to and fr*m the books of the trea sury, or of the Sewra* loan offices, separa ely and d stinctly from the aforesa d funded capi al six per cent- stock. And the said funded capi t I stock, and the said annuities shall be trans ferable by their respective propr.etors in person, or by their attornies duly constituted, in the same manner as the present funded debt of the United States, and in pursuance of the rules which have been, or which may be estab lished relative to the transfer of «hesa d debt. 8. After thv payment of the fifth instalment, such of the proprietors of the certificates of the c shiers, of two hundred dolla. s and up wards, as may then be desirous of funding the same, may, on presenting them at the oan office of the state in which the subscription and payments shall have been made, receive from vhe commissioner of loans, certificates of funded capital six per cent stock, for the amount of the four first instalments, or one moiety of the sum expressed in the certificates of the cashiers; and also certificates for one moiety of the thirteen years’ annuity of one dollar on the hundred dollars subscribed. But no certificate of funded capital six per cent, stock including a fractional part of a hundred dollars, or certificate of annuity including a fractional part of a dollar, will be issued. 9. After the last day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and after reansonable notice to the credi tors, which shall be given by an advertisemen in some public newspaper, printed at the seat of the government of the United Slates, the said capital six per cent, stock shall be redeem able at the pleasure of the United States, by the reimbursement oftha whole sum which may at that time stand credited to any proprie tor on the books of the treasury or of the loan offices respectively. And the payments of the said annuities for thirteen years, shall cease and determine on the first day of J nuary, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, when the certificates of the same shall be surren dered up and cancelled. 10. So much of the funds constituting the annual appropriation of eight millions of dol lars for the payment of the principal and inter, est of the public debt of the United States, as may be necessary for the regular payment of the interest and for the reimbursement of the principal of the stock, and for the regular payment of the annuities to be created under this contract, together with the faith of the United States for its due fulfilment,are hereby pledged tn pursuance of, and according to the terms and conditions of the act of Congress herein before recited. Given under my hand and the seal of the Treasury of the United States, at Wtsh l s.) ington, th s twentieth day of February, one thonsand eight hundred and thir-* teen. ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury. February 24 —en ’9t AGRIC LL TURA.L. JUS I PUBLISHED, ARAIOR; Jeing a series of Agricukuial Essays; practi ca and Political, ii sixty-one numbers, By a Citizen of Virginia. For tale in the district of Columbia as follows s In George town-set J Milligan’s bookstore, H gh-s<reet, at the Bosk s ore and Lottery offi e, Bridge street, and at the office of the in at of ’76 In Washing.on —at the book-stores of R. C. We g ma-., W Co. p -r, D Rapine and A. St. G Way. In Alexandria —a the bookstores of Robert^ Gray and James Kennedy. March 2— NO. 57

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WASHINGTON CITY. MONDAY, MARCH 8. We had not room in our last for a lew remarks with which we proposed to have accompanied the Documents communicated to Congress, in relation to our affairs with France. A prominent feature in this corres pondence is the courtly insincerity ma- Ufested by the French government in relation to the documentary repeal of the French decrees. In conse quence of the earnest request of Mr. Barlow, a document was produced in May, 1812; which, though dated in April, 181 hand stated to have been ex hibited to our minister at the time, and to have been transmitted to Mr. Scrru rier here, had never before seen the light of day I The bare statement of this affair places its evasive nature in a striking-light. It appears to us to have been an act ©f\bplom*cy, call it dupli city if you will, of a most extraordinary character. The most interesting trait, howe ver, of the correspondence, is the invi tation of Mr. Barlow to Wilna, and the circumstances attending it, which have not been given to the public before, we presume, on account of the pendency of the negociation in France, and the prospect of its early t nd satisfactory ter mination. The decease of our minis ter has removed the objections which previously existed to its publication. Wc find that all the details of a treaty of commerce, and of a convention of indemnities, had been arranged between Mr. Barlow and the Duke of Dalberg, before our minister was summoned to Wilna. He appears to have thought this hazardous and laborious journey to head-quarters unnecessary but thinking no sacrifice too great for the good of his country, he cheerfully un dertook a journey which he believed would promote it. His life paid the forfeit of his patriotic zeal. He died on his return, of a complaint generated in the inclemency of the season; and we have yet to learn what was the re sult of his interview with the French authorities, whom he set out to meet. Whatever may have taken place, Joel Barlow has, we doubt not, ably vindi cated the rights and proudly maintain ed the unspotted character of his coun try. He never would so misrepresent his government as to listen to a project for a degrading alliance with France, as h s been bruited through the coun try. The following extract from his last letter proves him to have been on his guard, and amply refutes the absurd rumor of a projected treaty of alli ance: “There may indeed,” wrote Mr. Barlow to our government, be an in tention of coupling it (a negociation «f a treaty of commerce) with other -views not yet brought forward. If so, and they should extend to objects beyond the simplicity of our commercial inter ests and the indemniiiet jhich we claim. I SHALL HOT BE At A LOSS HOW to an- swer them.’* Upon the whole, this correspondence, whilst it fills us with sensations of re newed regret for the loss of our de ceased Patriot, gives room to hope for at least as honorable and satisfactory a termination oi our differences with France, as we have any reason to ex pect from her previous conduct. All that we know on this head is, as far as it goes, propitious to our wishes. It is understood that circular in structions are given by the Secretary of the Treasury to interrogate all the im porters upon oath, in order to a fair view of the whole ground,” before cancelling bonds. Judge Fisher of the Delaware state, has issued his, so much to the point, that great alarm is said to prevail, amongst the concerned. Some enquire “if they must give evidence against themselves,” while in fact they are only called upon for the whole truth. This favored class of citizens should be prompt to uncloak property of the enemy. TO THE EDITORS. GENTLEMEN, Under circumstances of peculiar pressure and interest respecting foreign relations con tacting on the U. States, and co-acting with objects of domestic and equally important bearing, which together strongly and conspi cuously point out to the intelligent and patri otic citizens of these states the national im portance of laying a firm and strong hold on their own internal resources, I have taken the liberty to request your attention and agency in notifying the community of a fact, perhaps not wholly unworthy of their attention. Having devoted a considerable attention, up wards of twenty years ago, to the economy and structure of stationary steam engines, with a view to simplifying, extending and familiaris ing their use, and to adapting them more par- ticularly t» the circumstances of this country— and having on that occasion caused models to be constructed of very interesting simplicity, permanence and energy, the further attention to which was at that time suspended by objects of other bearing—it has again become conve nient and desirable to take hold of that sub ject, the result of which it may not be quite unimportant to the community to have some notice of. A model has been constructed of very singular simplicity, and which operates very satisfactorily. It is composed chiefy of wood (including the boiler in this description) with a communication by a single member of ■wood —and which exhibits a beautiful and inte resting degree of mobility, freedom and tight ness. An engine of considerable, say 12 horse power, on this simplified plan, is now in con siderable forwardness of execution, by the progress of which it is reduced to a certainty that an intelligent carpenter and a good black smith will find no difficulty in erecting a com petent and valuably economical engine, ade quate to any purpose of manufacture for which the power of water-falls or of wind, is in this country employed—and the facts here already performed and" done, are a decided, unequivo cal, and demonstrative proof, that a given ope rating and effective potver for mills and other labor-saving machines can be obtained in this wat more economically than has heretofore been experienced by perhaps any adequate agent. As it is not intended, expected, dr wished— in reality it would not be acquiesced in or per mitted, that the community or any other indi vidual should be influenced to risk, or in any way share, concern, or interest in the subject here notified to the public, by this notice, or by any other motives or inducements, save merely the unequivocal matter of fact in actual and valuable operation, it will be superfluous to be more explicit than thus merely to announce the fact, and to refer those who may at any time wish for any information respecting it, to Wm. W. Rodman, of Washington, N. C. who is the proprietor of this simple and economical enginery. T. TO THE EDITORS. GENTLEMEN, I enclose for publication, the procla mation of William Plumer, Governor of New-Hampshire, for a day of pub lic fasting and prayer. The spirit which it breathes, and the principles which it inculcates, are worthy of the Christian and Patriot. To those actuated by the same honorable and divine motives, it will be a heart cheering feast, and eve ry chord of feeling will vibrate in sweet harmony. But to the disciples of Os good and Parish, and the eulogists of of Quincy, and to such as have no sen sibility for the suffering of their fellow citizens, the honor or interest of their country, it will be as a faithful mirror, honestly reflecting the hideous defor mity of that mind which was once the image of him whose principles have departed from them. A. B. STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. BY THE GOVERNOR, A PROCLAMATION, .For a day of public fasting and prayer. It being the duty of states, as well as of indi viduals, to acknowledge the universal govern ment and Providence of God, in whose hands are the destinies of ail, and with sincerity of heart to confess our transgressions, supplicate his pardon and implore his protection and blessing. I do therefore, by and with the unanimous advice and consent of the Council, appoint Thursday the twenty-fifth day of Ma^ch next, to be observed as a day of public humiliation, fast ing, and prayer throughout this state. And I request my fellow-citizens of all denominations ana persuasions, to assemble in their respective places of religious worship on that day, and with contrite spirits and united hearts confess and forsake our manifold sins and transgres sions against Gon, and humbly implore his par don. That he would afford us his gracious aid to keep such a fast as he shall approve that we mav in fact loose the bonds of -wickedness— undo heavy burthens—let the oppressed go free break every yoke—deal our bread to the hungry— our clothing to the destitute, and turn every one from his evil -ways and from his v olenee that is in his hands; and to beseech him to lead his Ame rican Israel in a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.”— That as he in his all-wise providence, for the punishment of our transgressions against him and not against our enemies, has permitted the injustice of G. Britain to involve the U. States in the calamity of war; that he would at this critical period, direct the councils of our Ge neral Government to adopt and firmly pursue such measures as are best calculated to preserve and perpetuate the rights of His American peo ple. That he would have the President of the U. States, the Congress and the officers appoint ed by them in his holy keeping, and impart to them all that wisdom that is requisite to a right discharge of the duties of their respective and important trusts. That our armies and navy may be under the protection and direction of his unerring Providence—that he would grant wisdom, skill and firmness to our officers, cour age and fortitude to our soldiers and seamen.— that he would be their hope, their shield, their never failing defence in the hour of danger, and so teach the r hands to the -war and theirfingers to the fight as will conduct them to victory glory. That he would repress the injustice and wrongs pf our enemies and influence them to peace, that its blessings may be restored to our afflicted country on just and equal terms. That he would infuse into the minds of all our citizens the genuine spirit of love of country, subordina tion and obedience to the laws. That he would preserve the union of the U. States inviolate, and frustrate the evil desires of all those who seek its dissolution. That he would be pleased to have the people of this state in his holy keeping, and direct and prosper the administration of its government so as effectually to promote the best interest of the people. That he would prosper and extend the means of useful and religious in struction, that the youth of this state may be replenished with those correct principles of vir tue, piety and patriotism that shall unite them in defending, preserving and transmitting unim paired to their posterity the rich inheritance purchased by the blood and toil of their an cestors. That his blessing may rest and con tinue on all the public interests of the nation and state, and succeed and prosper all the pri vate lawful enterprizes of our citizens. That he would imbue the minds of his ministers with the spirit and temper of his religion—ani mate them in defence of the correctness of its principles, and to enforce, by example as well as argument, the purity of its precepts—and that whilst they are zealous in exhorting and persuading men to become subjects of a king dom that is not of this world, they may also urge the necessity of obedience for conscience sake to the civil laws of their country— -for the pow ers that be are ordained of God. That he would preserve to us the blessing of health, and cause the earth to yield her increase. And that the American people may practice that righteous ness -which exalteth a nation, and hasten the long expected era when peace shall universally pervade the world, and all nations become more solicitous to aid than destroy each other. And the people of this state are respectfully requested to abstain from such labor and re creation as are incompatible with the solemn duties of the day. Given at the Council Chamber in Concord, on the fifth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and of the Independence of the United States the thirty-seventh. WILLIAM PLUMER. By his Excellency’s command with advice of Council. William Pickering, Deputy Sec. From the Pittsburg Mercury of Fe- bruary 25 GEN. WINCHESTER’S ARMY. Since the publication of the last Mer cury a number of the brave fellows who were made prisoners at the battle of Frenchtown,on the 22d ult. under gen. Winchester, have passed through this placed on their way to Kentucky. They were paroled at Fort George, not to serve during the war against his Britan nic majesty, or his allies, unless regu larly exchanged. They came down the Canadian side from Malden to Fort George, crossed over the Niagara and proceeded direct to Pittsburg. Tney have since gone on by water to Ken tucky. The best wishes of their country go along with them. These men are generally of the first respectability and intelligence, the flow er of Kentucky,Sc they reflect the high est honor on the state from which they came, and on their country. The easy gracefulness of manners, the manly in dependence of sentiment, Sc the ardent love of country which they have dis played, under all the reverses of for tune, entitle them to the first place in the hearts of their countrymen.— Notwithstanding the unparalclled fati gues they have undergone in a dreary wilderness; the dangers to which they have been exposed and the numerous privations they have suffered, still are their noble spirits unbroken— not a murmur has escaped their lifts —no im becile apprehensions are entertained by them for the safety of their brethren in arms—but their honest hearts spring forward with elastic hope, that their wrongs will be avenged, and the day oi retribution is at hand. rhe editor has had the pleasure of conversing with a number of these gen men. He therefore offers this honest tribute to their merit. From this source he lays the following facts before his readers; The advance of gen. Winchester to the river Raisin, or rather French-town, arose from the ardent solicitation of the inhabitants of that place, and was under- Uken with the pprebation an .at th desire of the whole army. The inhaoi tants of the town, being citizens of the United States, solicited the protection of gen. Winchester from the violence and outrage of the hordes of savages with which they were surrounded, and to whose brutalities they were daily ex posed. The Wednesday succeeding the march of general Winchester for Frencn-town, had been fixed on by these merciless allies of Britain, for the burning of the town and the butchery of its inhabitants. Gen. Winchester, yield ing to the calls of humanity and desir ous of protecting the American citizens from savage violence, advanced to then relief The expedition under colonel Lewis was as is known completely suc cessful, and put our troops in possession ot the town. On the 20th, gen. Win chester concentrated his troops, amount ing to 750 men, at French-town, 600 of which were posted in the pickets. The following rough diagram will give some idea of the manner'in which they were stationed. British Artillery. 2 a

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Left wing picketed. 600 men.

AAAAAAAAAUAAA 150 men. French town. fright wing. road on river livver Raisin. 2 line of retreat. i ■sumpui -sumpni •sumpuj 'snmpuj The picket was formed in a half circle. The attack commenced on the right wing on the morning of the 22d at beating of the reveillie. Our troops were immediately ready for the recep tion of the enemy. Sc.rcely a minute had elapsed from the firing of the alarm till the first discharge. The right wing sustained the shock for about twenty minutes, when overpowered by num bers they retreated across the river, and fe’l in with a large body of Indians sta tioned in the rear and were either cut off or taken prisoners. Two companies of 50 men each from the pickets sallied out and.unfortunately joined the retreat ing party. The fate of the whole is un certain, but our principal loss was in this quarter. The left wing, with Spartan valor, maintained their ground within the pickets. The enemy’s regulars made three different charges uponthem. The shocks were received with distingui sh ed coolness and intrep;dity, and the ene my were always repulsed. Out of 400 regulars of the enemy 150 were shin. We had five killed within the pickets and about 40 wounded. Gen. Winches ter and col. Lewis had been taken priso ners early in the action, in attempting to rally the retreating party. About eleven o’clock, gen. W. sent a flag in forming that he had capitulated for the troops. The firing had in a great mea sure ceased at this time and when the flag came in, so confident were the men of their success that they merely ex pected it was a proffer for a cessation of arms. Thus this brave little band main tained this tremendous action, which lasted from day break till 11 o’clock, with their honor untarnished. It ought not, however, to be understood as at taching any blame to gen; Winchester for entering into the capitulation. Op posed by the ovenvhelming force of the enemy, these brave fellows must otherwise have fallen a sacrifice. The British force consisted of about 2000, including Indians. In the rear were stationed a large body of Indians with a design to cut off a retreat, should it be attempted, but the left wing brave ly kept their ground, and thus obtained that security which their valor deserv •'d We come now to relate a part of the tragical story, at which every honorable and feeling heart must recoil, and which demands the prompt attention of govern ment. After the capitulation, the Ameri can commanding officer remonstrated with the British officer on the necessi ty of protecting the wounded prisoners from the fury of the savages. The officer pledged himself to attend to it, and that they should be removed on the follow ing day. But they were left without the promised protection; and on the morning of the 23d, the savage allies of a chistian king strifified and murdered all of them who were unable to march If the vengeance of our country cun sleep after such an act as this, then indeed may we weep over the ruins of the re public The fate of capt. Hart, one of the wounded, is peculiarly distressing. This gentleman had received a flesh wound in the knee and had greatly signalized himself by his undaunted bravery. After the capitulation a Bri tish officer, a capt. Elliott, who had been a class-mate with him at Princeton col lege, waited on capt. Hart, and, un solicited, promised him his protection, declaring that the next morning he would have him taken to his own house at Malden, where he should remain un til his recovery. But Elliott broke his promise, and left him to his fate On the next day a band of savages came in to the house where he lay, and ruth’ess iy tore him from his bed. A brother officer caught him in his arms and caiv ried him to another apartment. Here he was again assailed by the monsters. At length he bargained with one of them, and gave him a considerable sum of money to have himself taken to Mal den. They set off, and after travelling about four or five miles, were met by a fresh band of these hell hounds who shot the captain on his horse and toma hawked and scalped him 1 Such are the allies of his Britannic majesty—and such the righteousness of his cause The prisoners were generally sripped of their cloathing, rifled of their cash, and the swords of the officers given to the savages, notwithstanding a promise that the swords should be returned to them again at Malden and, as if all honorable warfare must cease, men, whose education, talents, and general respectability ought to have entitled them to respect, were treated by the enemy with all that haughty supercili ousness which characterises ignoble minds. Gen. Winchester and the field offi cers are, it is supposed, ordered on to Quebec. Several interesting incidents, serving to display the bravery and good conduct of the troops deserve to be noticed. On their march from fort Defiance to the Rapids, the horses were worn down and nearly famished for want of forage. The men themselves were destitute of many articles of the first necessity. Yet these circumstances did not in the least degree damp the ardor and the spirit of the troops. When the horses were no longer able to draw, these gallant fel lows hitched themselves to the sleds, and, in this manner, with the greatest cheerfulness and alacrity, conveyed their baggage a distance, of upwards of sixty miles, through frost and snow— thus manifesting great intrepidity of character. In the battle of the 18th, on the first onset, the savages raised their accus tomed and horrid yell. But the noise was drowned in the returning shouts of the brave assailants. They advanced boldly to the charge and drove the ene my in all directions. On the first fire, sixteen of the savages were distinctly seen to fall. In the battle of the 22d, the British advanced in platoons to charge the pick ets keeping up a street fire. The men within the pickets, with the most de termined bravery and presence of mind, reserved their fire until the enemy ad vanced within point blank shot. They then opened a cross fire upon the ene my their pieces well levelled; and thus they mowed down his ranks in such a manner, as rendered all his ef forts vain, and compelled him to retire. Well may the enemy acknowlege that he had a dear-bozight victory. We have said that the Brii’ub officers treated their prisoners with haughty su perciliousness.—We might Lave .gone farther, perhaps, and said with provok ing insolence. When an American of ficer urged the necessity of having the wounded put under the care of suitable surgeons, he was tauntingly answered, the Indians are excellent doctors I"-— Yes,” replied the American with spi rit, you have proven it on the morn ing of the 23d,” alluding to the massacre of the wounded. Although our brave men were made captives and disarmed, their spirits were unbroken. When offered the parole, for their signatures, they demanded to know who were his Majesty's allies." —Even British effrontery was staggered at the pertinency of the enquiry. The compunctious visitings of nature” de terred them fiom acknowledging the savages, and they eluded a direct reply, by answering his majesty's allies are known —Yes 1 truly are they known. They are recorded in letters of blood Why are these disclosures made To show the people of the United States the merciless enemy they have to contend with. To awaken the dormant spirit of the nation. To steel their hearts and nerve their arms, for an awful display of that retribution which the cruelties of our unrelenting enemy justly entitle him to. We close this article with the follow ing statement furnished us by a gentle man in the st; ff department, who was an eye witness to the massacre of the wounded. On the morning of the 22d of January, at revellie beating, the detach ment under gen. Winchester, at the river Raisin,were attacked by a party of British and Indians. The officers and men were ready at their posts to receive them, inasmuch as they were informed the preceding evening an attack weald be made. The detachment consisted of about 750 men, of whom about 500 were protected by a temporary breast-work, composed of rails and garden pailing. The remainder, who had joined us the day preceding the action, were encamp ed on the right, soar what detached, and unprotected by any kind of shelter. The attack was made with great violence on the troops, without the shelter, who maintained their ground about 15 mi-, nutes, when an order was given to re treat within the picqueting. In the confusion, that order Wus mistaken for a general retreat. On their retreat they were attacked by a large body of Indians, who had been stationed on our rear in an adjacent wood, previous to the at tack. The retreating party were thrown to considerable confusion. Gen Win chester, cols. Lewis, and Allen, pursued and endeavored to rally them, which proved ineffectual. The party, finding a retreat was in vain, resolved to sell their lives at the dearest rate, and fired until the last. Few of them arrived safe at camp. Gen. Winchester and aid, and his son and col. Lewis, were taken pri soners. The party who remained in the breast-work, kept up a constant and warm fire, until eleven o’clock, when a flag was brought in by gen. Winches ter’s aid, informing us, he had surren dered us prisoners of war, and requested our compliance. A surrender took place, and the men immediately march ed off'. About 450 capitulated. The wounded, amounting to 64, were left on the ground, under the care of Drs. Todd and Bowers, the two surviving surgeons, with a promise of firotectian from the commanding officer col. Proc ter, and that the wounded should be carried on the next morning in sleds to Malden. On the morning of the 23d, about sunrise, a large body of Indians came, plundering the wounded of their cloathing,and every thing of value, and tomahawked and scalped all that were unable to march; among whom were some valuable officers, particularly capt. Hickman. The remainder were taken prisoners, as they termed it, and many are either killed or are still in their pos session. Our loss is estimated at about 200* killed. Kentucky has lost some of her choicest sons,particularly col. Allen. Among the officers killed, we recollect capt. Simpson, (a member of Congress) captains Mead, Edwards, Price, and M’Cracken, and many very valuable subalterns. The loss of officers was considerable. The loss of the en my could not be ascertained. They ac knowledge the victory a dear one. Their loss of regulars of the 41st regiment, was estimated at 150, in making three unsuccessful charges. The force of the enemy -were estimated by many of the British officers at 2000, and several assured me, their loss exceeded ours. During the whole of the action a heavy cannonade was kept up by six pieces of artillery. Great preparations are making at Malden for Harrison’s reception. Every male from 16 to 60 is drafted, and many were on their march to Mal den. Indians are collecting from every quarter.—lt is supposed a force cannot be collected at Malden to exceed 4000. The Queen Charlotte, Lady Mary, and one other vessel, is in the harbor, and they are preparing to build several other vessels on lake Erie, the ensuing spring. Many ship carpenters arrived at Mal den, and more were expected.” We have since heard of the arrival of a number of- the left wing at Fort Winchester^ (Defiance) and at gen. Harrison’s head quar ters. The actual ioss in killed and MUR DERED does not perhaps exceed one hundred.

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For the Mercury. At a meeting tit Erie, Pennsylvania, of several of the officers who survived the battle of Frenchtown, on the river Raisin, of which the following is a list of their names, Captains Uriel Sebree, Samuel L. Williams, Richard Bledsoe, Coleman Collier, and Henry James; Lieutenants Lyndon Combstock and Higgins;— Ensigns Thomas W Chinn and James L. Harron —Capt Williams being chosen chairman, and John Bickley, one of the volunteers, ap pointed secretary, the following resolu tions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, it is deemed necessary that our fellow citizens should be informed of the late perfidious and brutal acts of the British go vernment performed by their officers, at the battle of French Town— Resolved, That the following statement of the conduct of the British officers be exhibited to our countrymen: When Gen. Winchester was taken prisoner on the 22d Jan. 1813, being brought before Col. Proctor, the British commander, he direct ed the commanding officer of the Americans (major Madison) to surrender major Madison refused so to do, unless those who surrendered should be free from savage massacre: this was agreed to. The British officers pledged them selves to protect the wounded, and to convey them to Malden the next morning. The arms of the officers which were surrendered, were promised to be returned to them at Malden. Capt. Hart, inspector to the N. W. Army, was among the wounded; his friends offered to carry him with them, but they were prevent ed from doing so by the interference of captain Elliott, a British officer and an old acquaint ance of capt. Hart, who promised him special protection, to take him in his own sleigh to Malden, where he insisted he should remain in his own house until he should recover. These were the promises of the British—let our coun trymen see how they were fulfilled. At the break of day next morning, the sava ges were suffered to commit every depredation upon our wounded which they pleased. An in discriminate slaughter of the wounded unable to walk took place many were tomahawked, and many were burned alive in the houses. Among these unfortunates who were thus mur dered it is with regret and sorrow we have to name the gallant and brave officers, captains Hart and Hickman The arms of the officers were never return ed-—and every species of private property re maining in the tents belonging to both officers and soldiers was plundered by the savages. Resolved, That in consideration of the high respect we hold both officers and soldiers who were thus cruelly murdered by permission of the British commander col. Proctor, and his su balterns—and of those who gloriously fell in the field defending the only free government on earth —that each of us wear crape on our hat and left arm for ninety days. Resolved, That a similar proceeding, testi fying their respect for the memories of those who were murdered and slain, be recommend ed to our brother officers and soldiers who survived the action. S L. WILLIAMS, Chairman. JOHN BICKLEY, Secretary. February \%th, 1813. floating batteries t i MiMM iut t h s i^** iff .inniK'HttntinHWUMy I-v;, tZ^UMUUAIAMUKKMUII^-U^WMM >.|)MUU>iMZM9MU^MkUMMUH2 juu i ^Immym^UHUUUMlWauuM AtAmtAEKMMMr4AtfJHAAMkM3jkM mSi+Hw™' Harbor defence, tu be effectual, must be adapted to meet the assault in every mode, and the greatest possible force the assailant can bring atone time. The assault will always possess the choice ©f the Foret, Mode, Time, and Place. It is evident, therefore, that Stationary batte ries are not equal to the defence of New-York from ships of the line, their force being limited to one point, and not capable of combination whereas ships of the line can concentrate any force the nature of the harbor admits of against any point. The use of fire ships or obstructions in channels is still weaker, it being easy cither to evade or destroy them. The whole of this sys tem of defence springs from the suggestions of fear, and only tends to encourage a false idea of security, which will certainly prove fatal in case of serious attack. Suppose, for instance, Castle Williams were attacked by five vessels of war of 74 guns each, they would at the distance of half a mile fire five time^tee weight of metal the castle could in the same time, and would certainly dismount the guns of the fort by firing in at the embra su es. The battery of a 74 gun ship is capable, at that distance, of resisting very heavy shot. The following is a plan of a Floating Battery which possesses the advantages of Combining force, Choosing position. Firing with precision, Is ball and bomb proof, Cannot be burnt nor sunk from the fire of cannon. Has small draft of water, Is easily constructed, and Materials for which are in plenty and cheap. Take two sloops or schooners, ofabout 70 or 30 tons burthen, and remove their masts and rigging—put in their holds as many empty casks tightly bunged, as they will contain, and let them be fastened to the keel, timbers, &c. »o as to distribute the bouyant pow r equally over the vessel. Place the vessels alongside of each other, six feet a part, and put a floor of 60 feet square, made of pine logs, about 18 inches thick, crosswise- Let this platform be firmly fastened down by letting bolts pass from the vessels through the logs. On this platform lay another tier of logs of the same dimensions as the former, by placing the logs lengthwise with the vessels, and let it be firmly bound to the other by iron bolts. Make a breast-work all round the platform of pine logs, 18 inches thick, and nine feet long. About 18 inches at each end of the logs will be cut half way through, so that they will bind over the ends of the platform and the cover that forms the roof of the battery. At one foot distance from the tier of upright logs for the breast-wok, place another tier of upright logs of the same thickness; let their ends 9 inches into the platform, and the same depth into the logs that form the roof thereof. Fill the intermediate space between the two tiers of logs with cotton, saturated in a solution of pot-ash, anddried again, which will prevent it from taking fire. In forming the breast-work, openings will be made for 6 round port holes* of about 18 in ches diameter, on each side of the platform cor responding with the heads and sterns of the vessels also 20 openings for sweepsf on eac side of the platform corresponding with the sides of the vessels. Cover the whole with pins logs of the afore said dimensions, firmly bound together by bars and bolts of iron; and supported by stansions placed at an angle of 45 degrees, with their abutments meeting near the centre of the plat form. Leave gratings and hatches for letting in air and light, and for suffering the smoke to escape Let the roof or uppermost platform be firmly united to the breast-work or vertical logs by straps of iron, and bolts passing through the two rows of vertical logs, and also through the horizontal logs on the bottom and roof. On the sides where the oar# are, parallel with the sides of the vessels, embrasures may be made, so thatcarronades may be used to de stroy any boats attempting to destroy the oars. A furnace, with two ovens for heating balls, may be placed near the centre of the platform The battery may be steered by one rudder fore and another aft, in the centre between the two hulls, or any other way that is most conve nient. Place on each of the two batteries 6 forty two pounders,! and on the sides with the oars two heavy carronades. Put on board 200 men, with goood officers, good courage, good discipline, and plenty of ammunition. Comparative force with a seventy-four gun ship. A seventy-four gun ship carries 28 thirty two’s, 28 eighteen’s, 18 nine’s, 2 thirty-two’s and 6 eighteen carronades. The whole weight of metal, therefore, that could be fired from the side of the ship is 867 lbs. But as nothing less than thirty-two pounders could make any material impression on so strong a battery, as that already described, it is unnecessary to pay much attention to inferior metal. Each side of this battery will fire at every broad side 250 lbs. of metal Two of these bat teries, therefore, on one side of a *4, would fire 504 lbs. of destructive heated metal, and with mu«h more precision; whilst the 74 could on ly return 448 lbs. From the construction of these batteries they are capable of sustaining four times the batter ing a 74 gun ship could. They cannot be sunk by shot, because the bouyant power is in the hold of the sloops, sunk in water below the effect of ball. They could not be run under, on account of their great area and bouyant power. By means of the oars they can choose their position, and could with great facility change the face of the battery. In case of disaster, they could with ease row into shoal water to repair. Three of these batteries would be an over match for any 74 gun ship. Thirty of them would defend the harbor of New-York against any force that could possibly be brought against them. The vessels, and building a battery capable of mounting 12 forty-two pounders, manned bv 200 men, would not cost more than 12000 dol lars, exclusive of the cannon. They could be erected with great facility, as the materials are at hand and in plenty. Batteries of a Lrger size, and capable of mounting more guns, might be erected for the purpose of being anchored, so as to annoy ves sels of war as they enter. The weight of the battery, 200 men, 12 pieces of cannon, 13 tons of ammunition, &c. will not exceed 250 tons, which the botiyancy of the vessels and the first floor of logs resting on the water, is amply sufficient to bear. It is Well known, that 4 men can with ease move 50 tons on the water in a sloop, therefore, 80 men will find no difficulty in moving 250 tons with rapidity. Besides the decided superiority these float ing batteries have in close action, and heavy battering, Torpedoes, by their means, could be used with great effect.’ MANNER Cast cannon balls with a ring in each, take a chain 4 feet long, with a ring and swivel at one end, and fasten the other end to the rin? in the ball. Take a rope of about 150 yards long, and put a stopper on it, that will not pass through the ring, at about 40 feet from the end, reave the rope through the ring at the end of the chain and divide it into two equal coils.§ Prepare a Torpedo with aboutsoowt. of gun powder in it, gravitated to sink about twenty feet in the water, having a lever projecting from it, that communicates with a spring in the in side. Attach a small cord to the lever, about 80 yards long. Fire the ball with the rope reeved through the ring, so as to strike near the bows of the vessel. If it is found that the ball has taken effect in the right place, attach the Torpedo to the end ofthe rope on which is the stopper. Launch the Torpedo through a port-hole made large enough for the purpose. Haul in the other end of the rope till it strikes the stopper. Give time for the Torpedo to swing under the vessel, then pull the rope which is attach ed to the lever of the Torpedo, and it will’ in stantly explode. The destructive effects of sub-marine explo sion have been clearly demonstrated by the in geaious Mr. Fulton. Let our harbors be defended in the manner here described, and the most desperate inva der will either be intimidated or defeated. Covers for Embrasures may be made of cast iron raised in the midd'e, to glance and resist a ball, and may be hung by a strong hinge on theou’side, so that when the gun is run out, the cover will be raised by the muzzle, and when the gun recoils it will drop and close the embrasure. t A steam engine made ball and bomb proof, might be made to move it, if the power of the sweeps were found insufficient. f A direction rod 2 or 3 feet longer than the gun, fastened on the top of it, parallel with the centre of the bore, and having three sights, may be used with great advantage in pointing the gun. In the middle of the rope, where it forms a bite, by passing through the ring, a piece of chain about a yard long might be used, or the same length may be covered with leather, so as to prevent its being broken by the velocity of the ball. v FROM THE BOSTON PATRIOT. JOHN BULL IN A RAGE An American merchant, under date of Liverpool, 7th January, writes thus to his partner in this town— The news of the capture of the Ma cedonian has enraged John Bull with- out measure. You will see by the pa pers I send you, that they are filled with nothing else this week past. The sapient editors here discovered that all American frigates are ships of the line and although they cannot find out that they carry more than 54 guns, still they insist upon it they are seventy-fours. I hope to God, our little navy will always conduct in such a manner, that 54 guns may impress the enemy with as much respect as 74 of any other nation. The highest compliment yet paid them, is a remark in the Courier, that it should be considered no disgrace for the larg est British frigate to shun an engage ment with these dangerous non-des cripts (By Authority.) AN ACT For the relief of John Redfield, junior. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem bled, That John Redfield, junr. of the city of New-York, an insolvent debtor, now, and for a long time past, confin edinjail for debts due to the United States, which he is wholly unable to pay, be henceforth discharged from ar rest and imprisonment, for and on ac count of the said debts and all costs and charges touching the same Provided always, That all property, real, person al or mixed, which the said John Red field, junior, now has, or hereafter may have or acquire, shall be liable to be taken in execution for and on account of the said debts and the costs and nothing in this act shall be constrv. d to impair the right of the United States to any estate which the said Redfield has assigned or convey ed to any person or persons whatever, nor to prevent th'? recovering of said estate for the satisfaction of said debts and costs Provided also, That noth ing in this act shall operate to discharge any person or persons whatever, ex cept said Redfield, who may now be liable to the United States in any man ner or form either in whole or in part, for said debts and costs. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Wm.;H. CRAWFORD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. Ayr ROVED, February 24, AN ACT Giving further time for registering claims to land in the eastern and western districts of the territory of Orleans, now state of Lou isian a. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assem bled, That every person or persons claiming lands in the eastern or wes tern districts of the territory of Orleans, now state of Louisiana, who are actual settlers on the land which they claim, and whose claims have not been here tofore filed with the register of the land office for the district, wherein the lands lie, shall be allowed until the first day of January next, to deliver notices in writing, and the written evidences of their claims, in the said districts re spectively, to the register of the land office at New Orleans, and Opelousas and the notices and evidences so deli vered, within the time limited by this act, shall be recorded in the same man ner, and on p yment of the same fees as if the same had been delivered be fore the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight; but the rights of such persons as shall neglect so do ing within the time limited by this act, shall, so far as they are derived from, or founded on, any act of Congress, ever after be barred and become void, and the evidences of their claims ne ver after admitted as evidence in any court of the United States against any grant derived from the United States Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person or persons who had filed his or their notice of claims to lands lying within either of the said districts with the proper register of the land of fice, according to former laws, but have not exhibited any testimony or written evidence in support of the same, and whose claim has not been confirmed by the commissioners appointed to ascer tain and settle claims to lands in the said districts, shall be allowed until the first day of January next to deliver the written evidence or other testimony in support of his or their claim, the notice of which had been filed as aforesaid, to” the register of the land office at New" Orleans; for lands lying in the eastern district, and the register of the land of fice at Opelousas for lands lying in the western district; and every written evi dence of claim, the notice whereof had been filed as aforesaid, for lands lying in the said districts, delivered, within the time limited by this section, to the said registers, shall by them respective ly be recorded in the same manner as was directed, and on receiving the same fees allowed by former acts for record ing evidence of claim to lands in the same districts; and the right of any such persons neglecting to deliver the evi dence of their claims as above mention ed, shall become barred and void in so far as the same is derived from the United States, and the evidence thereof be incapable of being admitted in any court whatsoever against any grant de rived from the United States. See. 3. And be it further enictcd. That the register and receiver of pub- lie monies of the said respective land offices at New Orleans and Ope lousas, shall have the same powers and perform the same duties in every res pect in relation to the claims that may be filed according to the first section of this act, and the claims, notice of which had been given under former acts, and the evidence in support thereof shall have been delivered, according to the second section of this act, as the board of commissioners for ascertaining and adjusting claims to lands in the same districts would have had or should have performed, if such notice had been filed, and such evidence delivered beforp the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight, except that their decisions shall be subject to the revi sion of Congress. Sec. 4 And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the regis ter and receiver of each of the said land offices respectively to make to the com missioner of the general land office, a report of all the claims filed with the register as aforesaid, with the substance of the evidence in support thereof, and of the claims formally filed, in support of which evidence shall have been re ceived, with the substance of such evi dence, and also their opinion and such remarks respecting the claims as they may think proper to make which re port, together with a list of the claims, which in the opinion of the register and receiver ought to be confirmed, shall be laid, by the commissioner of the ge neral land office, before Congress, at their next session, for their determina tion thereon. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That the said register and receiver shall have power to appoint a clerk, whose duties shall be the same, in rela tion to the aforesaid claims as were re quired of the clerk to the board of com missioners for the same districts, and the said registers, receivers and clerks shall each be allowed fifty cents for each claim filed, on which a decision shall be made, in their respective districts, whether such decision be in favor or against the claims which allowance of fifty cents shall be in full compensation for their services under this act. And a further sum of fifty cents shall be al lowed on each claim decided as afore said, to defray the expense of making translations from the French and Span ish languages. H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of R presentatives. WM. R. CRAWFORD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. February 27, 1813. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. JAMES MADISON. To authorise and empower the President and managers of the Washington turnpike com pany of the a ate of Maryland, when organiied, t« extend and make their turnpike roadt> or from Georgetown in the District ofColumbia, through the said district to the line thereof. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Refiresentatives of the United States of America in Congr^s assem bled, That the law of the state of Mary land entitled An act to incorporate a company to make a turnkpike road from the line of the District of Colum bia where it crosses the post road lead ing from Georgetown to Fredericktown, through Montgomery and Frederick counties to Fredericktown,” passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, and the supplement thereto, be, and they are hereby declared to be in full force, within the District of Col umbia. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President and managers of said company when organized according to law, shall be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make said turnpike road from G orgetown in the District of Columbia through Tennally town to the line of said district, in the same manner and upon the same terms and conditions as by law they are au thorised to make the said turnpike, within the limits of the state of Mary land. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when and so soon as the said turn pike road shall be completed from Georgetown in the District of Colum bia to Montgomery court house in the state of Maryland, it shall 8c may be law ful for the said President and managers of said company to erect a toll gate on this side of, and near to Tennallytown, 8c there to demand and receive such tolls, and on such terrns and conditions as by the law of the state of Maryland they u are authorised to demand and receive at any toll gate erected on said road within the limits of the state of Mary land. Speaker of the House of Representatives Wm. H. CRAWFORD, President of the Senate pro-tempore. February 27, 1813—approved. JAMES MADISON. TO ALL MY CREDITORS. I hereby give notice that it is my intention to apply to the judges of the First Judicial Dis trict of the state of Maryland, at the session of Prince Georges county court, on the first day of next April term, for the full and entire benefit of the insolvent laws of this state, which may be extended to persons, although they have not the assent of two-thirds of their creditors in amount, under and by virtue of the sth section of an act of the General As sembly of Maryland, stiled A further addi tional supplement to the act entitled, ‘An act for the relief of sundry insolvent debtors,” passed at the November session of 1812. HENRY W. MAGRUDER-, February 18—2awlm aN ACT H. CLAY, LOTTERIES. The next Grand Lottery to be drawn in Philadelphia will be the PENNSYLVANIA INTERNAL NAVIGA- TION LOTTERY It has 12,511 prizes The number of Capital Prizes are great aid offer to adventurers of a trifling sum. a greater chance for 4 fortune than any other Lottery. Preparations are making for the drawing ns s oon as possible, the tickets being nearly all sold. The scheme contaids the following Capital Prizes. 1 prize of 50 000 dollars. 1 do. 20 000 do. 3 do. 10,000 do. 10 d-o. 5,000 do. 6 more of §5,000 in 500 tickets e«ch. Also 12 of §IOOO, and a great m ny ofsoo, 208, dollars, etc. etc. Tickets §lO 50. THS BALTIMORE HOSPITAL L OTTERY Is commenced drawing and continues for the present once a week. The capital prizes are, 1 prize of 30,000 dollars. 2 do 20,000 do. 6 do 16,000 do tic. Sic. Tckets 50. TRINITY CHURCH LOTTERY. Is commenced drawing in the country. The Capital prizes are 1 p: z of 39.000 dollars. 2 do. 20,000 do. 1 do. 10 000 do. 2 do. 5,000, do Sic. Price of Tickets Eight Dollars. UNION COLLEGE LOTTERY, No. IV. (second par r.) Commences drawing in N>w York, first o? October next. The Capt al prizes are 1 prize of 25 000 dollars. 1 do. 20,000 do. 1 do 10,000 do. 1 do. 5,000 do. Sic. Price of Tickets §7 50 i icxets and Shares in the above Lotteries are for sale at G. R. WAFFES’s true ly for tunate Lottery-Offices, No. 64 and 38, Maiden Cane, New York No 75, Chesnut street Phi adelphia. Corner of St. Paul’s lane and Mar ket street, Baltimore; and No. 28, Stae street Albany. Note—The public will please to take no* tlce that G and R Vvaite will guarantee the payment of all prizes sold at either ol th er Offices, cr by any of their Agents, but no others, and Adventurers can distinguished thier tickets from others observing their name on the back of each ticket sold by them At WAITE’s Offices have been sold, for many years past, most of the CapHai Pr z^s in he New York nnd Baltimore Ld --N f >I w MANDEVILLE CARLISLE AT TH SI B STOR t, Lower end of Bridge street—have just received and offer for sale, 25 hogsheads and 20 boxes of Brown Sugar, Ist and 2d quality, 20 bags prime Coffee 5 Pipes French Brandy 3 Do Holland Gin 3000 lb. Goshen and Rhode Island Cheese 16 chests i'EA, consisting of Gunpowder, Im perial, Hyson, Young Hyson and Hyson Skin 40 boxes mould and dipped Candles Antigua and N. E. Rum by the hhd. or bbl. Prime Pork and Shad in Barrels With a very general assortment of Wines, Liquors and Groceries, Which they will sell low for CASH or topunc tud customers on the usual credit. They daily expect lOhhds. Prune Molasses 5 do. Loaf Sugar And a few bales excellent upland cotton. Georgetown, March 8. 2aw3w NEGROES IN order to comply wr.h the provisions of a Deed of Trust to the subscriber, he will offer for sale at the town of Port T< banco, on Thurs day die 18th inst. some valuable Negroes. HENRY S. YATER. March 4 --w2t NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEE, To the Stockholders of the Washington and Baltimore 3 urnpske Road smpuny, that an Election for a President, six Managers, and a Trea urer for said Company will be held on Friday the 12th mst at Gadsby’s Hotei in the city of Bauimore, between the hours of 10 and 1 o’clock March 4—td. NOTICE. Those persons who haye claims against the 'ate Rebecca Nally, deceased, are hereby notified that on or before Saturday the 20th instant the same must be exhibited for payment at the office ot the Register of Wills ‘for Washington county, or they will be excluded as on that day the estate will be finally settled, and the balance paid over to the representatives of the deceased. G.ven under my hand this 4th March 1813' SAM. N. SMALLWOOD, Ex’r. March 4—w3t

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AN ACCOUNT OF LEE's PATENT AND FAMILY MEDICINES, CELEBRATED FOR THE cure of must diseases to winct THE HUMAN BODY IS LIABLE, PARTICULARLY WORMS, COUGHS COLDS, Asthma, Consumption, Gout, Rheuma tism, Sfirains, Palsy, HEAD ACHE, TOOTH ACHE, CORNS, Itch, Diseases of the Hyes, Ring 1 Worms, Tetters, &c. Inward Weakness Nervous Disorders, Female Com plaints, Hooping Coughs. I J A J A sovereign remedy for Colds, obstinate Coughs, Asthmas Sore Throats, and approach ing Consumptions, and most disorders of the breast and lungs. A single trial wi’l prove, that it restores the determination of the fluids to the surface of the body, and brings on the com mon healthful perspiration; that it dislodges and evacuates the tough viscid phlegm or mu cus, strengthens the weakened vessels of the lungs, sheathes the acrimonious humor which irritates them, and totally discharges it. Thus striking at the root of the disorder, the symp toms are of course effectually and permanent ly conquered, the reverse of common medicines winch weaken the constitution, and vigoa strength to the disorder, for the sake of mo derating for the present some of its painful ettects To Parents who have Children afflicted with the WHOOPING COUGH. This discovery is of the first magnitude, as it affords immediate relief, checks the pro gress, and in a short time entirely removes the mos’ cruel disorder to which children are liable The Elixir is so perfectly agreeable, and the dose so small, that no difficulty arises in taking it. 1 TOOTH-ACHE DROPS. The only remedy yet d:scoveied which gives immed ate and lasting relief in the most severe inst ances Hahn’s anti bilious pills, For the prevention and cure of Bilious and Ma lignant Fevers. The operation of these pHls is perfectly mild, so as to be used by persons in every situation and of every age. They are excellently adapted to carry off su perfixous bile, and prevent its morbid secre tions; ya restore and amend the appetite; to produce a free perspirslion, and thereby pre vent colds which are often of fa al conse quences. A dose never fails to remove a cold, if taken on its first appearance. They are cele brated for removing habitual coktiveness, sick ness at th 3 stomach and severe head aches, and ought tn be taken by all persons on a change of ctimate. HAMILTON’S WORM-DESTROYING LOZ- ENGES This medicine bears no analogy whatever to others oi similar title so commonly com. plained of as operating with violence on the contrary, a p rticular excellence of this re medy is its being suited to every age and con stitution It conla.ns nothing hut what is per fectly innocent, and is so mild in its operation, that it cannot injure the most delicate preg nant lady, or the tenderest infant of a week old, should no worms exist in the body; but ■will, without pain or griping, cleanse the sto mach and bowels of whatever is foui or of fensive, and thereby prevent the production of worms, and many fatal disorders HAbHL TU-’s GRAND RESTORATIVE, It recommended as an invaluable medicine for the speedy relief and permanent cure of .Nervous disorders, Consumptions, Lowness of Spirits Loss of -ppetite, -Impurity of the Blood, Hysterical Affections, Inward Weaknesses, Violent Cramps in the Stomach and Back, Indigestion, Melancholy, Gou. in the Stomach, Pains in the LimSs, Jiela.cations, &c. The principal operation of this remedy is in the stomach, restoring the digestive pow ers, and sending forth from that organ new health and vigor into every part of the sys tern it enriches and purifies the blood With out inflaming it; braces, without stimulating too violently, the nervous system; strength ens the secretory vessels, and the general habit; brings back the muscular fibres to their natural and healthy tone; and restores that nutrition which immoderate ev euaiions had destroyed, and whose loss had thrown the whole frame into languor and debility. HAMILTON’S GENUINE ESSENCE EX TRACTS OF MUSTARD, A safe and effectual remedy for acute and chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Rheumatic Gout, Talsy, Lumbago, Numbness, White Swellings, Chilblains, Bruises, Sprains, Pain in the Face tan 4 Neck, &.c. This valuable remedy is prepared both in a fluid state and in pills, and thus excellently adopted for external and internal use. ITCH CURED BY ONCE USING LEE’s SOVEREIGN OINTxMENT The proprietor informs those persons and families who are suffering under this disease (against the intectien of which no person is safe) that if thia ointment is used at night on going to bed, it never fails to perform a cure by the following morning, as thousands who have used it during the last ten years can tes tify. The peculiar excellencies of this infal lible remedy for the itch, over every other, -ore the certainty of a cure by a single ap plication the ingredients being so innocent as to be applied with perfect safety to the tenderest infant, and its being not only free from any offensive smell, but equally agree able with the pleasant pomatum. THE RESTORATIVE POWDER FOR THE TEETH AND GUMS. This excellent preparation comforts and strengthens the Gums, preserves the Enamel from decay, and cleanses and whitens the teeth, by absorbing all the acrimonious slime and foulness, which, suffered to accumulate, never fails to injure and finally ruin them. HAHN’s GENUINE EYE WATER, A sovereign remedy for all diseases bf the eyes, whether the effect of natural weakness or f accident. HaHN’s genuine german corn PLAISTER, A certain remedy ior Corns, speedily remov ng them, root and branch, without giving pain. Sold, wholesale and retail, at Lee’s Patent and family Medicine Store, No. 56, Maiden Lane, New-York. Aud by appointment, sold by W. GOOPEIi, Washington. January 7. NATION IL PRINT. PROPOSALS BY JAMES WEBSTER, of Philadelphia, and JAMES WARRELL, of Richmond, For Publishing by Subscription, A PBLYT, Representing Peter Francisco’s gal lant action with nine of Tarleton’s Cavalry, in sight of the whole Troop of 400 men. FROM AN ORIGINAL PICTURE, By JAMES WARRELL, Associate of the Society of Artists of the United States.—From the details given by FRANCISCO HIMSELF. The scene represented took place in Amelia county, Virginia, in 1781. Francisco had been reconnoitering, and whilst stopping at a Mr Ward’s, there came up nine of Tarleton’s caval ry and two or three negroes being told he was a prisoner, and seeing himself overpower ed by numbers, he consented to it, and suppos ing him very peaceable, they all went to the house, leaving the pay-master and Francisco together—He demanded his watch, &c. which having received, he, in order to secure his plunder, put his sword under his arm, with the hilt behind him. While in the act of putting away a silver buckle, finding he had so favora ble an opportunity,. Francisco stepped one pace in his rear, drew the sword with force from under the pay-master’s arm with success, and gave him instantly a blow across the scull. “My enemy,” observes Francisco, was brave, and, though severely wounded, drew a pistol, and at the same moment he pulled the trigger, 1 cut his haxd nearly off The bul let grazed my side. Ben. Ward (the man of the House) very ungenerously brought out a a musket, and gave it to one of the British Ik told him to make use of that. He mounted the only horse they could get and presented it at my breast—lt missed fire—l rushed on the muzzle of the gun— a short struggle ensued— the painter has copied this moment J—l disarm "d and wounded him— Tarletons troop of 400 men were in sight. All was hurry and confusion, which I increased by repeatedly hodowing, as loud I could, Come on, my brave boys now's your time we will soon dispatch these few, and then attack the mam body:" The wounded man flew to the troop, the seven were panic struck and fled. 1 seized Ward and would have dispatched him, but the poor wretch begged for his life--he was not only an ob ject of my contempt but pity. The eight horj ses that were left behind, I gave him to con ceal for me. Discovering that Tarleton had dispatched ten more in pursuit of me, I made off. I evaded their vigilance. They stopped to refresh themselves. I, like an old fox, dou bled and fell on their rear. I went the next day to Ward for my horses he demand ed two for his trouble and generous intentions. Finding my situation dangerous, and surround ed by enemies where I ought to have found triends, I went off with my six horses. I in tended to have avenged myself of Ward at a future day, but Providence ordain ed I should not be his executioner for he broke his neck ty a fall from one of the very horses.” CONDITIONS The proposed Print shah be engraved in the best style, by one of the first Artists in the United States. The Plate shall by twenty-eight by twenty- two inches. Price to subscribers wll be 10 dollars. To non-subscribes 12 dollars. The Publishers respectfully assure the pub lic, that they will spare no expence to make the work worthy of their attention. Most pro bably the Print will he ready for delivery ear ly in the ensuing fall. Richmond, Feb. 15,1813. (If Subscriptions received by R. C. Weight man, Washington, and Joseph Milligan, Geo. Town. J. WEBSTER will shortly issue Proposals for publishing by subscription a Print repre senting’he engagement between the frigates CONSTITUTION JAVA, Of a size to match the Naval Prints already published by J. W Feb. 26— TRINITY CHURCH LOTTERY. Positively to commence drawing on the first Monday in march next, and to progress regularly every week until completed-. SCHEME 1 prize of g 30,000 is 830,000 2 20,000 40,000 1 10,000 10,000 3 5,000 15,000 10 1,000 10,000 20 500 10,00'0 50 100 5,000 100 50 5,000 500 20 10,000 11000 10 HO.OOt 11,687 prizes. 8245,000 23,313 blanks—not 2 blanks to a prize. 35,000 tickets, at 7 dollars each $5245,000 Stationary prizes as follow First drawn 10,000 blanks entitled each to $lO Ist drawn tickets Ist and 20th day each SSOOO Do. do. 3d, 8, 13, 18, 23, 28, 33, I 38 43, 48 and 53d days 5 Do. do. 2,7, 12, 22, 32, 42, 52,7 inn and 62 J lUO Do. do. 25th day 20,000 Do. do. 35tn 10,000 Do. do- 55 th 20,000 In submitting theabove Scheme, the Mana gers do not deem it necessary ;o enter into any discussion or explanation of their views The object to be attained by the Lottery must appear fully worthy the confidence and sup port of the public. The scheme on examina lion will be found to contain inducements equal, if not superior, to any other which can be presented to adventurers Bonds have been given to the State, which secures the punctua payment of all prizes. MANAGERS. .Alexander M'Ktm, Witham M* Medan, William Price, John Snyder, Joseph AUender, Hezekiah Price. Tickets may be bad of the Managers, and of the different Lottery Brokers. Baltimore, Nov. 13— TICKETS May be had al J Miu igab’j Bookstore Georgetnw NOTICE. THE subscriber having been appointed trustee in the case of James A. Porter, an insolvent debtor, requests a.i those having claims against said Porter, to exhibit them, and all indebted to him to make immediate payment to JOSEPH FORREST. February 17 —eop2w SOLD AT THE GENUINE DRUGG AND MEDICINE STORE OF DAVID OTT CO. APPROVED GENUINE FAMILY MEDICINES, Which are celebrated for the cure of most dis eases to wh.ch the human body is liable, PREPARED Only by ike sole Proprietor, T. TV. DYOTT, M. D. grandson of the late celebrated Dr. liobertson, of Edinburg. Sold wholesale and retail, in Philadelphia only, at his Family Medicine Warbhouii, N. E. corner of Race and N. 2d streets. Dr. ROBERTSON’S CELEBRATED STOM ACHIC ELIXIR OF HEALTH, CPrice §1 and 50 cents J One of the most efficacious Medicines ever offered to the public, for the speedy relief and cure of obstinate coughs, colds, consumptions, the whooping cough, asthmss, pains and wind in the stomach, removing habitual costiveness, sickness at the stomach, dysenteries, cholera morbus, severe gripings, the summer bowel complaint in children, &c. Dr. ROBERTSON’S VEGETABLE NERVOUS CORDIAL; Or, Nature's Grand Restorative, (Price £1 and 50 cents) Is confidently recommended as the most ef ficacious medicine for the speedy relief and cure of all nervous complaints, attended with inward weakness, depression of the spirits, head-ache, tremor, faintness, hvsteric fits, de bility, seminal weakness, gleets, and various complaints resulting from secret impropriety of youth and dissipated habits, residence in warm climates, the immoderate use of tea, the unskilful or excessive use of mercury, so often destructive to the human frame, diseases pecu liar to females at a certain period of life, Fluor Albus, barrenness, &c. Dr. ROBERTSON’S CELEBRATED GOUT AND RHEUMATIC DROPS; (Price two Dollars J A safe and effectual cure for the gout, rheu mutism, lumbago, stone and gravel, swelling and weakness of the joints, sprains, bruises, and ail kinds of green wounds—the cramp, pains in the head, face and body, stiffness in the neck, chilblains* frozen limbs, &c. Dr. ROBERTSON’S PATENT STOMACHIC BITTERS, Price one Dollar J Which are celebrated for strengthening weak stomachs, increasing the appetite, and a certain preventative and cure for the fever and ague, Ac, Dr. ROBERTSON’S INFALLIBLE WORM DESTROYING LOZENGES; A medicine highly necessary to be kept in all families—price 50 cents. Though numberless medicines are extolled for expelling and killing worms, none are equal tn efficacy te Dr. Robertson’s Worm-Destroy ing Lozenges—they are mild in their op?ra tion, and may be given to the youngest infant with safety. Dr. DYOTT’s ANTI BILIOUS PILLS, For the prevention and cure of bilious and malignant fevers. Price 25 cents—large boxes 50 cents. These pills, if timely administered, will re move the causes which commonly produce the yellow fever, bilious fevers, ague and fever, cholic, pains, flatulencies, indigestions, costive ness, hypochondriac and hysteric complaints, stranguary, gravel, rheumatism and gout. Dr DYOTT’s PATENT ITCH OINTMENT, For pleasantness, safety, expedition, ease and certainty, is infinitely superior to any other medicine for the cure of that most disagreea ble and tormenting disorder, the Itch. Price 50 cents per box. Dr. DYOTT’s INFALLIBLE TOOTH-ACHE DROPS. (Price 50 Cents.J CIRCASSIAN EYE WATER, Celebrated for curing most disorders of the eyes. Price 50 cents. Dr. TISSOTT’s CELEBRATED GOUT AND RHEUMATIC DROPS. CPrice $2 J THE VEGETABLE BALM OF LIFE. (Price gI.J THE BALM OF IBERIA Extracted from an Iberian plant, for curing defects of the skin, and improving the com plexion, &c. Price THE RESTORATIVE DENTRIFICE, For cleaning, whitening and preserving the teeth and gums. Price 50 cents per box Since the above invaluable medicines were first discovered, upwards of seven hundred thousand persons have experienced their happy nd salutary effects, many of whom from the lowest stage of their disorders. iff Take notice, that each and all the above genuine Medicines are signed on the outside covers with the signature of she sole proprie tor. T. W DYOTT, M. D. dj 3 Persons desirous of consulting Dr. Dr ott, may, by applying «s above, obtain his ad vice gratis. A iresh supply of the above Medicines just received, and for sale, by DAVID OTT W CO. Washington—and Dr. NINIAN MAGRUDER, Georgetown. Where pamphlets containing certificates of cures, &c. may be had gratis. February 11. FOR SALE, THE LAND on which i reside, near Orange Court House, Virginia, containing seven hun dred acres of first rate Tobacco Land, lying nea ly level and within thirty three miles of Fredericksburg (by a late survey for a turn pike road to said town The crop of wheat, after Indian Corn, has been usually from ten iofifteen bushels and from a fallow front twen ty to twenty five bushels of wheat per acre, and without the smallest aid from manure, plaister of Paris or clover. The soil is supposed o be of that kind called a light loamy land, without a particle of sand, and from experi ment very favorable for clover and plaister There are five hundred acres cleared and un der excellent fences, and the improvements are a dwelling house of four rooms below and two above stair«, with all necessary out houses and a barn, seventy feet long by twenty-four wide, and three stones high. It possesses great command of water for making meadow t any extent desired, and there is lime stone at the door and sand convenient for building For terms apply to the subscriber on the pre mises. ROBERT H. ROSE, Oranye County, Viry. IOtA Feb. 1813. Februa y 27— REEVES’ COLORS. JOSEPH MILLIGAN Has just received a few boxes of Reeve's WATER colours, Crayons, Lead, Sabie, and Camel’s Hair Pencils Port Crayons and Drawing Paper. Georgetown, Jan. 14. LAW BOOKS, JUST RECEIVED BY EDW. J. COALE, No. 176, Market St. Baltimore. Chitty’s Pleadings, second American edition with corrections and additions. Johnson’s Reports, complete. Johnson’s Cases. Cranch’s Reports.' Select New York Cases. Ballantine on Limitations, with American Re- ferences. Tidd’s Practice, second edition, American re ferences Harris M’Henry’s Maryland Reports, vol. 1 and 2, vol. 2d separate. Vezey’s Reports—new series. Roberts on Wills. Taunton’s Reports. Mumford’s Virginia Reports, vol. 1. Sugden’s Letters on the sale, purchase, lease, settlements, and devise of estates. Sugden’s Vendors. Harrison’s Chancery. Backus’s Digest of Laws relating to the duties of sheriff', constable, &.c. Burlemaqui on natural and political Law. Cornyns on Contracts. Advice on the study of the Law. Kidd on bills of Exchange. Roberts on Frauds. Roberts on Fraudulent Conveyances; Powell on Mortgages—on Devises—on Con- tracts. Fonblanque’s Equity. East’s Crown Law. Robertson’s Admiralty Reports. Bacon’s Abridgment American Pleader’s Assistant. Douglas’s Reports. Robertson’s Virginia Debates.. Running ton on Ejectments. Hall’s Parish Officer. Robinson’s Prize Law. Chitty on Bills Abbott on Shipping. Binney’s Reports. Attorney’s Practice. Blackstone’s Reports. Blackstone’s Commentaries. Sullivan’s Lectures. Boranquet and Puller’s Reports. Cornyn’s Reports. Doctor’s Student. Gilbert’s Equity, Replevin and Law of Evi- dence. Day’s Espinasse. Grayson’s Justice. Harris’s Entries. Magistrate’s Guide. Hall’s Admiralty. Impey’s Practice. Kidd on Awards. Lawe’s Pleading. Reeves* Shipping. Laws of the United States, last vol. Henning’s Lawyer’s Guide. Espinasse’s N si Prius. Park on Insurance. Maxwell’s Law Dictionary. Selwyn’s Nisi Prius. Jacob’s Law Dictionary. Bacon’s Abridgment, new American edition Gentlemen of the Bar purchasing Libra ries, will be allowed a liberal discount. Orders for books, not to be had in Baltimore, execut ed with dispatch Edw. J Coale has just received WILLIAM’S LIFE OF SPEMCEK PERCIVAL, including a copious narrative of every event of importance from his entrance into public life to the present time, together with a deve lopement of THE DELICATE INVESTIGATION. Price 8L February 23— NOTICE. £Y virtue of an order of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, the subscriber wi|l offer at public sale on Tuesday the 23d day of March next at the hour of 12 o’clock, on the premises 28 feet of Ground, fronting cn High street, with a convenient Two story Frame House thereon erected, situated three doors above the store of Renner Buzzard, at present occupied as a grocery store by John B Goddard—also 30 feet of Ground, being the eastern half of Lot No 49, fronting on Beall street, in Beall’s Addition to Georgetown, with a small Frame House thereon erected, the property of Jeremiah Hazel, decased. The title to the aboAe property is indisputable. The terms of sale, are a credit of three equal payments or six, twelve, and eighteen months from the day of sale, the purchaser or purcha sers giving notes with an approved indorser or endorsers, negotiable in either of the Banks in Georgetown, with interest thereon from the day of sale. Upon the approbation and ratiii cation by the Court of the sale, and upon the payment of the purchase money with interest thereon and not before, the Commissioners wi 1 assign and convey by deed of bargain»nd sale, duly executed according to law, all the estate, right, title, claim and demand both in law and equity of the said Jeremiah Hazel in his life time, and of the widow and heirs in and to the premises THOS B. BEALL,Y DAN. KENNER, >Commissioners. TH. BEATTY, Jr. J N. B. Any person wishing to view the pro perty before :he day of sale, may do so by ap plying to Philip Buzzard, High street, George town. Georgetown, Feb. 26—wts NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, To the Stockholders of the Mechanics Bank of Alexandria, That an Election will be held at the Court House in this town, on the second Monday of March next (Bth) for the purpose of choosing Fifteen Directors ior the ensuing year By order of the President and Directors. Wm PATON, Jr. Cash. Alexandria February 5, 1813—Stawtd EARTHEN WARE. Philadelphia, February 21 MERCHANTS residing in Washington, who deal in Earthen Ware, are ini® med that the foilwing articles are manuiao ured, and now ready for delivery (from the Wash.ngton Pot tery) at the Warehouse in Market, near Schulkid 6th street, Philadelphia; viz. Coflee Pots, red, blue and yellow; Tea Pots, Sugars, Creams; Pitchers a great variety; Chambers, Peppers, Salts, Mustards, Salts, Mustards, Shapes, Basins. Ewers, Bowls. Cups and Saucers Jellies. Mugs, Toys, Egg Cups, Garden Pots, Butter Tubs, But ter Boats, Goblets, Tumblers, Jars, Wine Coolers, Baking Dishes, large Plates, Break fast Plates, Relish Plates, Oval D sties, Milk vans, Porter Mugs. Tureens, Candlesticks, Funnels, &c &c Orders amounting to SSO, two and a half per cent, deduction. u ders amounting to SIOO and upwards, five per cent, deduction. Order addressed to John jtiullownv, directed as above, will meet with due attention. March X—2m SALE OF CITY LOTS FOR SALE. WILL be exposed to Public Sale on Saturday 2d day April, at the Council JLj.Tiber, the following property, or such part thereof (not less than a IoQ as will be necessary to satisfy the Cor poration of Washington City for Taxes due thereon up to the year 1811 inclu sive, with costs and charges, unless pre viously paid to the subscriber, viz. Dolls. Cts. Alleson, Robert sq 63 lot 7 3 58 Avidths, J B 107 5 3 38 Carmack, Daniel 40 9 II 12 13 11 24 Clark Samuel 74 14 2 20 Campbell, Hugh 39 2 882 Crawford, James junior 231 26 28 2 34 Camp, John 88 I 5 95 Duer, James 54 10 16 47 Davidson, Elias 80 16 7 99 Flick, Andrew 80 j 1 38 Fcltwell, William 126 25 26 568 10 11 9 08 Gangaware, Michael 52 2 265 Goulding’s, Frederick hrs. 76 6 2 75 Goulding, Revd. Mr. 80 1 11 85 Goii, Henry 89 12 1 00 Goir, Christopher 105 I 1 90 Gilpin, Bernard 142 11 1 86 Geouges, Arnold 224 12 13 5 82 Haga, Jonathan 56 8 2 76 Hindmand William 43 2 60 1 83 3 120 6 665 9 21 OO Hackett, John 88 24 9 94 Holstien, George 81 16 17 20 40 Kirk, James 61 6 8 58 Klinger, Henry 80 6 19 75 Kesler, Daniel 81 11 2 40 Kruger, Lodowick 89 1 1 56 Link, Andrew 84 11 5 04 Matthias, John 60 4 6 32 M’Dade, John 81 9 10 82 Middart, John 84 14 1 38 Parry, Edwards 161 5 062 Recliraair, Aaron 61 2 2 04 Ragan, Daniel 88 16 4 97 Robinson, William 88 20 8 9V Robinson, Henry 184 i 7 i i 2 Reeder, George iOS 3 2 76 Reed, William 231 1 3 8 10 4 90 Ratcliff, Sarah 19 24 166 8 9 iO Shaw, captain John 40 lO i 22 23 143 i 9 20 19 08 Stoker, Michael 84 i 4 2 96 Smith, Amos ’BB 3 89 3 5 7S Swingle, George 88 7 89 7 9 97 Seybert, Philip 88 23 Bir Skinner, Edward i 22 i 2 i 2 55 Shippin, Thomas L 155 29 0 76 Stall, Henry i 44 7 8 07 Sutton, Robert 222 i 3 4 80 Tompton, Jacob 62 3 2 72 Tabbs, Barton i 26 27 076 Umhuits, Henry i2O 5 i 2 55 Watson, Eliza and Josias W iOS ii i iB Ward, James 49 i 2 2c 580 whole N. of 580 part 878 i 4 3 32 Waugh, W and E i 22 6 6 69 Walker, Henry i 43 9 1 12 78 Wayman’s, Charles heirs i 96 8 9 117 9 2i OS Youman, Elias iO4 3 9 47 Wilzall, Fredk. 79 2 9 89 Vanbibber, Abraham 2 2 >72 i 7 18 ii 52 Taylor’s, Joseph heirs 222 9 8 48 Sale to commence at ten o’cock, a. m» Terms Cash. JOSEPH BRUMLEY, Collector of First Ward. Oct. I—w6m CO* The Laws of the District of Columbia au house ALIENS to purchase and hold Land ed Property and every species of Heac Estate in the city and county of Washington in said district. FIFTE DOLLARS REWARD. i ANaWAY from the subscriber living in 1.1. Montgomery county, Maryland, near Conrad’s Ferry, a bright Mulatto Negro Man named DICK, supposed to be 5 feet 4or 5 inches high, his.nose is disfigured by a scar on -t, and he has a remarkable scar on one of his h nds, which has produced a contraction in some of his fingers. Ke is an arch fellow, and whenever apprehended will try to make his escape. As he carried off various clothing it is deemed unnecessary to give a description of what ke had on. The above reward will be given to any person who apprehends the said fellow and secures him so that the subscriber gets him again, and ail reasonable charges will be paid if brought home. JOSHUA CHILTON. March I—3tw A GOOD MILLER WANTED, And good wages wiil be given. Enquire of the Editors. February 15 —eodt THE POTOMAC SHENANDOAH NAVI GATION LOTTERY, Second Class, Will be drawn this day, for the fifth time. Georgetown, Feb. 23—•