Daily National Intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])
April 27, 1813
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VOL I. WASHINGTON CITY, PUBLISHED BY GAI.ES AND SEATON, Daily, at Ten Dollars per annum PAID IN ADVANCE. No subscription will be taken for less than twelve months. All letters to the Editors must be post paid. 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 entire new set of Beds and Furniture, a general and choice assortment oi Wines 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 Marchi SOLD AT THS GENUINE DRUGG AND MEDICINE STORE OF DA VID OTT CO. i APPROVED GENUINE FAMILY MEDICINES, Which are celebrated for the cure of most dis eases to which the human body is liable, PREPARED Only by the sole Proprietor, T. W. DYOTT, M. 1). grandson of the late celebrated Dr. Robertson, of Edinburg. Sold wholesale and retail, in Philadelphia only, at his Family Mediglne Warehouse, N. E. corner of Race andN. 2d.streets. Dr. ROBERTSON’S CELEBRATED STOM achig elixir of health, (Price §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, tne summer bowel complaint in children, See. Dr POBERTSON’s VEGETABLE NERVOUS CORDIAL; Or, Nature’s Grand Restorative, (Price §1 and 50 cents) Is confidently recommended as the most ef ficacious medicine fur the speedy relief and cure of all nervous complaints, attended with inward weakness, depression of the spirits, head-ache, tremor, faintness, hysteric 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; f Price two Dollarsfi A safe and effectual cure for the gout, rheu matism, lumbago, stone and gravel, swelling and weakness of the joints, sprains, bruises, and all 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, CPrice one Dollar fi Which are celebrated for strengthening weak stomachs, increasing the appetite, and a certain preventative and. cure for the fever and ague, &.c. 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 in efficacy t* Dr. Robertson’s Worm-Destroy ing Lo’zenges—they are mild in their opera 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 certaintv, 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. (Price §2. fi THE VEGETABLE BALM OF LIFE. Price §I.J THE BALM OF IBERIA Extracted from an Iberiau plant, for curing defects of the skin, and improving the com plexion, &c. Price §2. 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 and salutary effects, many of whom from the lowest stage of their disorders. (Xj” Take notice, that each and all the above genuine Medicines are signed on the outside covers with the signature of the sole proprie tor. T. W. DYOTT, M. D. CU 5 Persons desirous of consulting Dr. Dy ©tt, may, by applying as above, obtain his ad vice gratis. A. iresh supply of the above Medicines just received, and for sale, by DAVID GTT CO. Washington—and Dr. NINIAN MAGRUDER, Georgetown. Where pamphlets containing certificates of cures, &.c. may be had gratis, February 11. Daily National Intelligencer. LETTERS Written by the Late Right Honorable PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, Earl of Chesterfield, TO HIS SON. In Two Volumes.—Price $1 75 cts. boards. GEN. GEORGE WASHINGTON, His fame bounded by no country, -will be confined Just received and for sale by JOSEPH MIL LIGAN, Bookseller, High-street, and at the Book Store and Lottery Office, Bridge-street, Georgetown. March 6— BOBERTSOS’s WORKS. HISTORY OF AMERICA, 2 vols CHARLES V. 3 vols. SCOTLAND, 2 vols. INDIA, 1 vol. Price Sixteen Dollars in boards fi Just received and for sale, by JOSEPH MILLIGAN, Bookseller, Georgetown, Col.fi March 17; PROSPECTUS Of a New Periodical Work, to be published semi annually at Raleigh, by J. Gales, ENTITLED The Carolina Law Repository. The primary design of this work, is to con vey to every part of the state early intelligence of the esses adjudged in the Supreme Court, and abstracts of the Public Laws passed at each session of the Legislature. One number will therefore be published on the first of March, and another on the first of September in each year, just before the commencement of the circuits; so that the Profession, and the citizens in general, may be apprized of the progressive change and exposition of the law, soon after they respectively occur, and at a time when such information is most desi rable. But the plan will also comprehend a variety of subjects connected with Legal and general Political Science, which, it is hoped, will render the work instructive and entertain ing, not merely to the practising Lawyer and the Student, but also to the Legislator and in telligent Citizen, who desires to contemplate, in their origin, spirit and effect, those princi ples ©f Legal Polity and Civil Freedom which form the basis of our own admirable institu tions. Hence, each number will contain select Biography es eminent Judges and Lawyers—Extracts from scarce and valuable publications—Opinions of foreign Jurists upon cases sent from Virginia and North Carolina before the Revolution, never before published —Arguments and Opinions of Judges and Counsel in important cases—and such Essays as have a tendency to enlighten the progress of Public Sentiment on certain projected alte rations of the Law, particularly that deeply interesting topic, the reformation of the Cri minal Code. Speeches of merit on subjects of permanent interest, discussed in the Legisla ture, will occasionally be inserted. Conditions —Each number will contain from 140 to 160 octavo pages, printed on fine medium paper, and with an elegant new type, cast in Philadelphia for the work. The price will be one dollar and fifty cents per number, four of which will form volume. Each num ber to be paid for on delivery. The first number is in the press, and will be published on the first of March. Subscriptions received by the Publisher and other Booksellers, and by Gentlemen of the Bar in whose hands the Prospectus has been placed. Jan. 14. (LZ The first number of the above work is published, and may be had at the book store of R. C Weightman. April 13. On Wednesday next, 18th instant, (If fair, if not the next fair day,) Will positively be sold on the premises, the handsome, highly improvsd, and well known COUNTRY SEAT, of the late John Richter, esq. on the Mount Vernon Road, about a mile and a half from Alexandria, containing about 19 acres. Also, all hia Household Furniture and other Personal Estate, containing a handsome and valuable collection of Prints and a variety of other articles. And immediately after will be sold hi# FARM adjoining the lands of Aug J. Smith, esq. about 3 miles from Alexandria, contain ing about 90 acres, a great proportion of which is heavily timbered. The sale will begin at 10 o’clock A. M.— Terms maae known at the time. A. C. CAZENOVE, Ex’r. of T. Richter. Alexandria, April 22 —3t VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE. On the 28th inst. at 12 o’clock, on the premises, will be soM at public sale, if not disposed or prior to that time by private sale) sundry handsome and well situated LOTS of GROUND on the new turnpike, leading from Washing ton to the state of Virginia. The proximity of those Lots to the several towns in the district, of which, they command a delightful view, renders them very eligible scites for country seats. G. D ALEXANDER, AUGUSTIN ALEXANDER. The above property will be laid off in LOTS to suit purchasers, and disposed of for cash under the authority of a deed of trust from the proprietors, for the purpose of satisfying sundry ciaims against the said Geo. D. and Au gustin Alexander GEORGE CHAPMAN, jun; CHS ALEXANDER, Trustees. April 22—3 t MONEY LOST. LOST between this and the city of Baltimore, on the 19th inst. a Red Morrocco Pocket Book, containing about §4OO in money and consi derable amount of Papers, Notes, Act’s, &c. suppose it to have dropped |rom my pocket while riding in the Mail Stage or at some place where the stage stopped. The finder shall be entitled to a reward of §SO by leaving it at this office. Five §SO dollar Notes were cut in Iwo There wa. a letter from Samuel Miers Fishers of Philadelphia to Exum Newby of Perquimines county, N. Carolina, containing a receipted draft drawn by said Fishers on said Newby, with sundry other letters directed to said Newby, and copies of letters from Newby and others. EXUM NEWBY. Washington city, April 21—St THE LIFE OF BT JOHN KINGSTON. to no age. Price 87 1-2 cts. boards. To be edited by a Law Character. SALE AT AUCTION. TUESDAY. APRIL 27 ißi 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 oi Capital Prizes are great, and offer to adventurers of a trifling sum, a greater chance for a fortune than any other Lottery. Preparations are making for the drawing as s oon as possible, the tickets being nearly all sold. The scheme contains the following Capital Prizes. 1 prize of 50,000 dollars. 1 do.' 20,000 do. 3 do. 10,000 do. 10 do. 5,000 do. 6 more of §5,000 in 500 tickets etch. Also 12 of §IOOO, and a great many of 5&0, 200, dollars, etc. etc. Tickets §lO 50. THE BALTIMORE HOSPITAL LOTTERY 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. 10,000 do. &c. &c. Tickets ^0 50. TRINITY CHURCH LOTTERY. Is commenced drawing in Baltimore. The Capital prizes are 1 prize of 30,000 dollars. 2 do. 20,000 do. 1 do. 10,000 do. 2 do. 5,000 do. &e. Price of Tickets Eight Dollars. UNION COLLEGE LOTTERY, No. IV. (second part.) Commences drawing in New York, first of October next. The Capital prizes are 1 prize of 25,000 dollars. 1 do. 20,000 do. 1 do. 10,000 do. 1 do. 5,000 do. &c. Price of Tickets §7 50 Tickets and Shares in the above Lotteries are for sale at G. R. WAITES’# truely for tiinate Lottery-Offices, No. 64 and 38, Maiden Lane, New York No 75, Chesnut street, Phi ladelphia. Corner of St. Paul’s lane and Mar ketstreet, Baltimore; and No. 28, State street, Albany. Note—The public will please to take no tice that G. and R Waite will guarantee the payment of all prizes sold at either of their Offices, or by any of their Agents, but no others, and Adventurers can distinguish their tickets from others by 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 Capital Prizes in the New-York nnd Baltimore Lotteries, among them are the following, drawn within one year No. 4892 drawn, a prize of §60,000 in the Susquehanna Canal Lottery, 2nd class, J\o 4124 §6,000 in the same Lottery. No 535 §20,000T f h 3268 10,000 8 c.ass oi tne 14027 5,000 j Bme Lotter y- No. 19780 10,000 in the 4th Union College Lottery. N 4-2 ^9O S\ ln the third Union 4:.*46 20,000 n H 31712 10,000 j College Lottery, Besides others, of §30,000 §25,000 §20,000 and §lO 000 in the former New-York and Bal timore Lotteries, many of which they paid as soon as drawn. WANTED TO PURCHASE, A YOUNG WOMAJi, OR GjRL about 16, who has been brought up as a house servant, and accustomed to the care of children. Enquire at this office. Ma-cb 29— PATENT LEVER WATCHES. A good opportunity now presents itself to such gentlemen as wish to supply themselves with this uaiuable des.'.ription of WaTCHES. A large assortment is just rece-ved, and will be sold at reduced prices, and warranted to perform well, by JACOB LEONARD. Georgetown, April 17 —ts SUBSCRIPTIONS For Stock in the Steam Boats to navigate the waters of North Carolina, under the patent of Messrs. Livingston Fulton, will be receiv ed in the State Bank in Raleigh, on the 18th inst.—And, SUBSCRIPTIONS For a Steam Boat to carry freight on the Rappahannock, will be received at the Bank in Fredericksburg, on the 11th inst. By JOHN D. De LACY, For the Patentees. March 9—— FOR SALE. THREE VALUABLE SERVANTS, One man, one woman and a boy the man a Laborer, strong and healthy—the woman a good house servant, strong and stout—the boy likely and promising, 10 or 11 years old. Be sides several others for hire or. moderate terms, by the year or month, if immediate application s made. ANN LEE- N. B Ai.l persons are forwarded from hir ing any of my servants without a Line from the subscriber. A. L. April 20—3 t ——PUBLIC sale. ON the 17th day of April next at 11 o’clock, a. m. at Tomlinson’s Hotel, in the city of Washington, will be exposed at public sale, Two LOTS or portions of Ground in square No. 742 in the said city fronting New Jersey avenue. On one of the said Lot# ts erected a well finished Three Story Brick House, with convenient Out-Houses, &c. The above property to be sold under the authority of a decree of the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia for the county of Washington, as a court of Chancery, in the case of James D. Barry, against Patrick Barry and the heirs and representatives of Garret Burry, deceased. Terms of sale, a credit of sixty days, the purchaser to give a note with an approved endorseJ. JAMES DAVIDSON,? Trusteea CHARLES GLOVER, S irußiees March 24—ts ______ SALE POSTPONED. ICT 3 The above property will be sold at the premises on Saturday the first day of May at 11 ©’clock, without re serve. April 30—. [NOW DRAWING.] BALTIMORE HOSPITAL LOTTERY, SECOND CLASS, SCHEME 1 prize of 30,000 is §30,000 2 20,000 40,000 6 10,000 60,000 3 5,000 15,000 10 1,000 10,000 10 100 tickets each 11,500 20 500 10,000 30 200 6,000 50 100 5,000 100 50 5,000 750 20 15,000 1,500 15 22,500 10,000 12 120,000 12,482 prizes. 22,518 blanks—not near 2to a prize. 35,000 tickets, at 10 dollars, is §350,000 Five Hundred Tickets to be drawn each day of drawing. Stationary prizes as follow First drawn number entitled to §5,000 First 7,500 blanks do. 12 each Next 1,000 do. do- 15 each Next 500 do. do. 20 each First drawn number on the 21st day, 10,000 do. 23d 10,000 do. 25tb 10,000 do. 27th 10,000 do. 29th 10,000 do. 31st 10,000 do. 33d day (the tic- kets reserved for prizes excepted) entitled to 100 tickets, viz. from No. 9,001 to 9,100. First drawn number on 34th day, 100 tickets, viz. from No. 10,001 to 10,100 (prize tickets Do. 35th 11,001 to 11,100 do. Do. 36th 12,001 to 12,100 do. Do. 37th 13,001 to 13,100 do. Do. 38th 14,001 to 14,100 do. Do. 39th 15,001 to 15,100 do. Do. 40th 16,001 to 16,100 do. Do. 41st 17,001 to 17,100 do. Do. 42d 18,001 to 18,100 do; Do. 45th 20,000 Do. 48th 5,000 Do. 55th 30,000 All Cash Prizes subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent. TICKETS FOR SALE BY Joseph Milligan, Georgetown, and by W. Cooper, Washington. Correct Check Books are kept for the exa mination of all Tickets, gratis—Prize Tickets will be received in payment' dj"Orders from distant adventurers, with the cash enclosed (post paidfi will be promptly exe cuted. March 20— RICHARD PARROTT Co. Offer Jar sale at their warehouse on Water street. 41 chests Gunpowder, Imperial, Young Hyson, TEAS. H’,son and Souchong J 400 reams Wrapping Paper 18 bags Pepper 8 Pimento White and Green Coffee A tew hogsheads West India Sugar 5 pipes genuine Cogniac Brandy West India Rum A few boxes fresh Mustard Do. Chocolate Several thousand bushels Lisbon, Liverpool Blown, and Ground Alum Salt. Loaf and Lump Sugar 28 barrels T anners Oil adeira, Sicily do. London P. Teneriffe, xrrTXTr. Port, WINE. Malaga and Catalonia J Spermaceti. Mould and Dip’d Candles 30 barrels Pork 10 ton square and flat Bar Iron Ploughshare Moulds. Georgetown, April 6—4 w RUS SIA N VIC TO RIE S. Georgetown, April 17, 1813. At a respectable meeting of citizens of Georgetown, assembled at the Union Hotel, this day, to determine on the Celebration of the RUSSIAN VICTORIES—The Mayor being called to the chair, and John Lee, esq. appoint ed secretary, it was unanimously resolved, that Saturday the slh of June next be the day of ce lebration. It was further proposed, that a committee of arrangements to superintend the celebration be appointed, and the following gentlemen were accordingly named John Peter, (Mayor.) Robert Beverly, William Marbury, Thomas Peter, Francis Dodge, John S. Stull, Washington Bowie, and John Lee. Resolved, That this committee confer with the gentlemen in the towns and counties adjoin ing, who may be disposed to unite in the iesti val. Resolved, that these proceedings be publish ed in the different papers of this district. JOHN PETER,^Chairman. Johm Lee, Secretary, April 20—3 t NOTICE. The Stockholders of the Mechanics Bank of Alexandria are hereby notified that a fifth instalment of one dollar per share is called for payable at the Bank on Wednesday the sth May next. By order of the President and Directors Wm. PATON, Jr. Cashier. April s—3tw4w JUST PUBLISHED, ALLEN’S MAP OF CANADA, ACCOMPANIED Br A PAMPHLET, Describing that Country. For sale by Joseph Milligan, Bookseller, Georgetown, (Columbia,) Price Three Dollars. This Map is allowed to be one of the best de lineations of the British Possessions in this country, which has been yet offered to the public. They may also be had by application at the Book store and Lottery Office, Bridge street. February 8— THE YOUNG MOTHER. OR ALBINIA: A Novel— Price one Dollar. ALSO, REJECTED ADDRESSES, OR THE NEW THE AIB UM POET ARUM Price 62 1-2 cents, Just received and for sale by Joseph Milligan Bookseller, Georgetown. March 19. NEW SPRING GOODb. JOHN WEiqjITMAN HAS just received from BaluHicre, Philadel phia and New York, an assortment of Spring Goods, which consist of the following articles, VIZ. An elegant assortment White and colored of Canton Crapes Thread Elegant 4-4 Ginghams Chenille cord 3-4 Undressed ditto An extensive assort- Catlicoes and chintzes ment oS Gentlemen’s 4-4 and 6-4 Cambric and Ladies gloves Muslin Cotton and silk hosiery Leno Muslins Cahmancoe A lew handsome Mus- Wildbore and Durant 1 n dresses Batt as Seeded Muslin S-Ik and cotton umbreL Jaconet Muslin l as for ladieß and Jaconet Mushn hsf^. gentieinen Plain and Furniture Di- Checks, Hank Ribbon Sattin and lutestring Black, white, crimson Ribbon and yellow Crape Plain and figured silk Cross barred Silks for s’eeves dresses Shirting Muslin Black 1 aeta Canton hdkls Wash silk Madras ditto Sarcenetts Fine Linen do. Black and colored cam- Domestic cotton br,ck s Dowlass figured ditto Linen Cambrics 2 nett White, Black and Co- lioienune loured Sattin Irish Linens Long Shawls O.hSLV Ve n White and y £llow N an- Quilted Marseilles keen n Jie(l Ucken Cotton Cassimeres Long Lawn Snk Shawls Russia Sheeting CoUon Lac veils Common do. an(l j lCtkfs r bk Webb’s patent Suspen- Cotton Lace j erg 1 Furnitu e CallicObs Nett do Bombazeen Common do Fans Pin3 bobbin Bme Cotton Buttons J elve \rfoh°n Weaving Cotton Elegant Thule Sprig Nett pdimterpftne# Domestic and imported Lutianies Colton Ladies Morocco indis- Oil cloth, &c &c. pensables CO’ A handsome assortment of Domestic imported Cloths and Cassimeres. April 20— 6t SUPERFINE YELLOW BARK Sold by J. Milligan Bookseller Georgetown, Columbia. Dr. SANFORD’S Improved Powder of the Bark having been used and highly approved by many physicians V ^st’.ng^shed character, in different parts of he Ended States, the proprietor is encourag. d to oiler it to the Faculty in general, under ie persuasion that no practitioner oi taste, in he choice o.lus means, cannot fail to be rra e in the use or this elegant preparation. In strength, finenes and certainty of onera >on, it greatly surpasses the Bark in common U*®' ALSO, THE ESSENI L I, SALT OF BARK, prepared by the same. The above articles are put vp in parcels cf different sizes, to accommodate the Usual wants of not only Physicians, bat of Retail luggists, Country Merchants and Private •amdes; and is sold in Charleston by Me. srs. r t ori Hilhngton Co accompanied wi h thePrcpretor’s Essay, on all the diflerent inds of Peruvian Bark now used m the Un ted states. Extract from the Medical U Philosophical Ite gister, No. 4, Vol. 2, published by Dr. Ho sack, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic in the University ofNew York. In our present number, may be found a very interesting communication on the medical virtues of the Peruvian and other Barks. It is With great satisfaction we state, that the author of that paper. Dr. Sandford, after me re than twenty five years observation on the ef fects of Bark as. a medicine, and no less than ten years attention to the different methods of preparing it, has at length formed an esta blishment, at Greenwich, (Con.) with the view of furnishing the profession with the' several species of genuine Peruvian Baik, in the states of an Essential Salt, Powder, &c. On a circumstance of so great importance, we cannot but congratulate the community at large, upon whbse confidence and support Dr. Sandford is justly entitled to the strongest March 22— NOTICE, ALL persons having claims against the late firm of Ringgold Heath, are reques ed to bring in their accounts without delay, as the parties are anxious to bring the concern to a final close immediately. TENCH RINGGOLD, NATHI. H HEATH. April 21, 1813—3 t AO TICE. WILL be exposed at Public Sale, at Tomlin son’s Hotel on the 30th inst. for cash, a Negro Man called David, taken as the property of John A Burford, to satisfy taxes due the Cor poration of Washington. Z. WALKER, Col. 3d Ward. April 21—3 t FIFTEEN d ollars re ward. STRAYED away from the subscriber on the the 15th inst. a dark bay HORSE, be tween 17 and 18 hands high, 6 years old this spring, remarkable for very forge hoofs. He has been lately bled, and on the side he was bled there was a swelling on his shoulder occasioned by the collar. He was raised in Washington county Pennsylvania, and has no doubt taken the Frederic or Leesburg road. Whoever will decline said Horse to the sub scriber or his manager, Mr. Francis Clements living near Bladensburg, shall be entitled to the -.bove reward. WILjILIM' DUDLEY DIG GES. April 32—& IS L 100
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FOB THE NATION AL INTEtIJGKNCE?*. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Ah 1 what is that which blasts my sight? Sue a horrid form appear! ’Tis the grisly spectre Fear, In robes of death and woe bedight: Tis Cowardice and Folly’s child, With trembling steps and aspect wild. Who indistinctly tells his tale. Hear, oh! hear, his dismal wail 1 Let ns sit on new made graves, Blood and murder be our themes Whilst from subterranean caves, Supernat’ral lightning gleams Now the dreadful fiat’s past, War and Famine speed their flight, Through the darkest realms of night, Riling on the stormy blast, “All, all is lost, nor can we hope, With Britain’s wooden walls to cope Horror every name appals, Now my fated country falls, Ruin, ruin must o’erwhelm, For Madness guides the ruling Helm Hence, croaking spectre, hence —avaunt! Cease thy wild incongruous rant, *Ti Disaffection bids thee speak, ’Tis Envy pales thy coward cheek Americans despise thy name, E’en thoughts of thee would blast their Fame. Sp ctre, begone!—quick disappear! We hold no int 6P. M Lave Rapid every Friday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Natchez on Sunday by 6 P. M. 2 From St. Francisville, by St. Helena, to Madisonville once in two weeks. Leave St. Francisville every other- Thursday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Madisonville on Friday by 6 P. M.; leave Madisonville on Saturday at 6A. M and arrive at St Francisville oa Suuday by 6 P. iM. The carriage of the mail is to commence on the Ist of Ju’y next continue for six months, and the usual penalties for failures and delays will be deducted from the contractor’s pay. General Post Gflce, March 27, 1813. March 30—w5t. FOR SALE. A remarkably likely bay horse, five years old, 15 hands 3 inches (high, perfectly sound, and one of the best gig horses in Maryland. Sold solely for want of employ. Inquire at this office. April 18—3 t THE EIGHT OX RAF AHANNOCK. CAPTAIN STAFFORD’S JOURNAL. Extract of Capt. W. J. Stafford’s Journal, on board the privateer schooner Dolphin, bound on a cruise. Sailed from Baltimore March 18, 1813, in the privateer schr. Dolphin, mount ingJ2 guns and 100 men, bound on a cruise. 19th, anchored in the Patux ent. 21st, got under way, and anchor ed in St. Mary’s river, in company with schrs. Revenge, West;. Wasp, Hall; Chasseur, Durkee Bordeaux Packet, Furlong;JJecatur,..L.ane and U. S. cutter Scorpion, Lieut. Kennedy, em ployed filling water, See. 25th, in ex ercising big guns, John Wooden got his right hand blown off, and Peter Matthews 3 fingers shot off on his left hand put them on board the Revenue cutter, captain I ravers, for Baltimore --same day got under way in company with the above schooners, and proceed ed down the Bay—at 7P. M. near New Point, light breezes from the E. stood up the Bay again. 26th, kept the Bay, the others returned to St. Mary’s. 27th, A M. anchored on the Tangiers—at meridian, fine breezes from N. N. E. and thick weather, with rain and snow —got under way, with every favorable prospect of getting to sea at 6 P. M. the pilot supposed himself to be as far down as the head of the Middle—at half past 6 hauled to S. S. E. to get soundings on the middle—at 7, shoaled the water, when I found the pilot much embarrassed to know where he was; immediately after seeing lights thro’ the fog on the Eastern shore side of us. I told him we were in Cape Charles Channel, which he contradicted, con tinued to run for some minutes S. by E. when I found we certainly were in Cape Charles channel, and would soon be a shore told the pilot we had better haul to the W. when we would soon know on which side we were, which he con stantly refused to do; continued for some time to steer his own course un til we shoaled the water quarter less 3, when he found out his mistake, and without any further ceremony, jumped overboard and drowned himself, every exertion of ours to save him proving fruitless. I immediately hauled my ves sel by the wind to N. W. in order, if possible, to clear the Middle; but find ing the water got more shoal, tacked to the E. and continued beating about un til 10 P. M. when I found 4 fathoms wa ter, and anchored very fortunately, it became quite moderate, or we must have lost the vessel, and probably all hands—heard a great many guns dur ing the night towards Lynhaven Bay. At day light, Sunday 28th, was very much surprized to find myself between Cape Charles and Smith’s Island, and several men of war in sight; being nearly calm, got under way, and got the sweeps out. At 6 A. M. light breezes from S W. with a flood tide—. at 11, up with New Point, three sail in sight coming out of Mob Jack Bay supposed them to be British—made all sail to the best advantage up the bay, the strange vessels under a press of sail steering up the Bay—at 3 P. M. lost sight of two of them the other, appa rently a large schooner, holding her own with us took in sail for her to come up; she likewise to. k in sail, and appeared to be afraid of us; made and took in sail, shewed colors, hoisted signals, and made use of every strata g-m to speak her, until 5, Smith’s Point bearing N. W. came to anchor in 7 fathoms water—at 6, the above schr came within hail, and proved to be the Patapsco, Mortimer, from Bordeaux. 29th, fr-sh breezes from the W. At 10 A. M. got tinder way—at 2 P. M. off the Wolf Trap, and very moderate, hauled by the wind to beat up the Bay again—at 4, dicovered a brig and schr. coming out from New Point in chase of us—at 6, calm, with a strong ebb tide, came to anchor—at 8, young flood and still calm, got under way, and swept up off Piankatank, and came to again for the night, well prepared for an at tack. 30th, at 7 A. M. three sail in sight to the N. standing down the bay got underway; at 8, discovered them to be two schooners and a brig; at 9, spoke the schooners, who proved to be the Arab, capt Fitch and Lynx, capt. laylor; did not board the brig, but was informed by captain Fitch she was Spanish, from Baltimore winds being light, concluded with captains Fitch and Taylor to go into Rappahannock, and accordingly at 2 P. M. anchored in the river, a schooner then in sight, standing down the bay, supposed to be the Racer. 31 st, light breezes from the S. at M. the Racer, captain West, came to anchor inside the Dolphin, and informed me of his having been chased by a British brig and schooner. Em ployed occasionally in filling water, un til April 2d, when, at 4 p. m. a fleet of 7 sail made their appearance off the river finding we could not get out and escape up he bay, (wind light from the West} thought it most prudent to get as far up the river as possible having no pilot aboard, was under the necessi ty of keeping close to the others in turning to windward during the night; at midnight ail of us anchored off Car ter’s creek. 3d, at 7a. m. discovered a schooner off Musquctoe point. Schrs. Racer and Dolphin got under way and swept down towards her; when we discovered the whole fleet- coming up the river with a fine breeze, and 13 barges pulling for us fired 2 or 3 shot from our long guns at the schooner, which Capt. Barriere, prize master of the Dolphin, knew to be the Highflyer —she immediately came to anchor and waited lor the barges; put about and swept up the river—at 9, off Cnroto man creek, 19 barges in sight, coming up with us very fast; capts. Fitch and laylor requested I would not leave them, as I could sweep much faster than they could that they meant to de fend their vessels to the last moment; I told them it was my intention to do the same, promised not to leave them, and proposed forming a line across the ri ver, so that the attack might be general, still keeping our vessels under way with the sweeps—at 10, to my great surprize, captain Fitch, after firing 2 or 3 guns at long shot, waved his hat to me, run his vessel ashore, and deserted her in his boats, without making any fur ther resistance than above stated when I immediately discovered a general murmuring and confusion among my crew, in consequence of the above cowardly conduct of captain Fitch and in order to be acquainted with the in tention of my crew I commanded si lence, told them I was determined to defend my vessel to the last, asked them one and all if they would stand by me their reply was, that the man whom they put the most dependence in, after promising to stand by us, had run his vessel ashore; that the other two would do the same, and leave us to be cut to pieces I ordered my pistols, told the doctor officers to arm them selves with swords and pistols, and a gain told them I was determined to de fend my vessel as long as possible, and would not run her ashore, and request ed three cheers from all that would fight, as a confirmation of their deter mined resolution, which they did, I thought pretty generally both fore and aft; got all hands to quarters, except the manning of three sweeps on each side forward, in order to sweep her round either way to get the big guns to bear on the enemy; by this time the enemy had commenced a brisk fire from their 12 pound carronades in the barges, when it was communicated to me by my first officer that the people had misunderstood me, that they would not fight and were determined to run the vessePashore. I again commanded silence told them I would not run my vessel ashore, that I was determined to fight as long as I had a man to stand the deck, and requested those who would fight to hold up their hands, and about forty did so I then told them I would kill the first man who deserted his quarters put my vessel about, 8c braced up the foresail; com menced a brisk fire from the big guns —at this time the Lynx had surrender ed, after firing a few muskets and some big guns at long shot. I still kept up a very brisk fire from the big guns up on the barges, who were now with the Highflyer, directing their fire upon the Dolphin and Racer.—Poor West de fended his vessel gallantly, but was soon carried by superior numbers, and his colours hauled down when got posses sion of by the enemy her guns were turned upon the poor unfortunate Dol phin, with the Highflyer’s barges’fire; the showers of grape and musketry ex ceeded every thing i had ever seen. A few minutes previous tothis my boat was hoisted out and manned by as many as could get in her, and shoved off for the shore, which was about 150 yards distant When discovered by me, I hailed them and told them to come alongside again, but they would not—l immediately or dered the marines to fire into her, when there were several muskets and two pistols fired into the boat; they persever ed 8c got a shore the remainder of my crew deserted the deck except 15 or 16 who with myself kept up a brisk anti well directed fire of musketry for some time and kept the boats at bay, until I unfortunately received a wound on my left breast, from a 12 pound shot, I was conveyed below and from what I can since learn, the Dolphin was boarded and carried in 15 minutes afterwards. In the evening I was removed on board of the Maidstone, capt. Burdett with the rest of the prisoners, where I had every attention paid me by Doctor Scott, sur geon of the Maidstone, and was other wise treated, much better then I expect ed, except in not returning my sword, after pledging their honor to do it- The Dolphin had five wounded, none killed the enemy from their own account, had 19 killed and 40 wounded; but I am induced to believe the number was much greater. On the 7th inst. I was paroled as they said in consequence of my wound and a communication made by Capt. Brigham, in a public paper of this city was put aboard of the ship Atlas, of New York, capt. Coffin, and landed in Rappahanock, at Mr. Martin Shearman’s, where I received every at tention I could possibly wish for, from the inhabitants generally of Lancaster County, for which I return my most hearty and sincere thanks. Thus have the public a correct account of the most unfortanate occurrence during my third and last cruisze. WILLIAM J STAFFORD. From the Baltimore Patriot. Messrs Ebitors—You will oblige me by inserting the following, in your paper of this evening. Observing in the American of this morning, Capt. Stafford’s account of the capture of the privateer Dolphin, which I must say, is in some respects incorrect, Capt. Stafford says, that the boat left the vessel without his know ledge but that is false, and I will take my affidavit that Capt. Stafford ordered me to take the boat and go on. shore, and if Capt Stafford is a nun of honor, he will not take the advantage of a stranger, but will see that it goes thro’ a proper course of law, where every thing will come to light, and then, if we prove to be deserters, I hope we may be punished accordingly. WALTER ROGERS. BRITISH LICENCES. From the London Evening Star, Feb. 20 LAW INTELLIGENCE. Jidmiralty Prize Court, Doctors Commons, Feb. 19 THE HOPE AM OTHERS. This was the cast- of the Hope, and three other American vessels, captured in Dec. last, in the prosecution of a voyage to Spain and Portugal, with car goes of previsions A claim was given by the owners, or the ground of the ves- seis being exonerated from the charac ter of hostility, and protected from con demnation, by having on bo;,rd letters from Mr. Allen, the British consul at New-York, and admiral Sawyer, com mander on that station, purporting to license them for a voyage, and intended as a safeguard and protection to them throughout it. A variety of objections were urged at length by the captors’ counsel to the nature and extent of the protection, deducible from these docu ments and the cases stood for the de cision of the court this day, upon the va lidity of of those objections. Sir William Scott observed, it was difficult to give any precise designation to the letters which, it was contended, furnished the protection in these cases a great part of the previous correspon dence being left out of sight, the court was left to guess at the contents it was therefore only fair to infer, that it con tained a proposition to admiral Sawyer, that the business should take the course it since had. It was perfectly clear, that there must have been such a pro position, from the evidence of the sub sequent facts. The papers could not, abstractedly, be considered as affording any protection those who gave them not being invested with competent au thority to give them that effect. Ex emptions from the consequences of hos tility are amongst the highest acts of power; they are the acts of the sove reign alone, and-must flow directly from him, or those in official situations under him. It was not to be contended, that Mr. Allen, the vice consul, was clothed with this authority in the present case and an admiral, though he may have a considerable power with respect to the forces under him, cannot grant an ex emption of this nature beyond the limits of his'own command. The ©nly ques tion, therefore, was, whether there has not since been an act of the state, ratify ing those acts which the law calls spu rious; whether, in fact, the gov ernment has not given them an authori ty they did not before possess It ap pears, that Mr. Foster had been in the habit of granting licences of this sort ever since tlie order of the British government of October 13, 1812^ and that he had been authorised, or re cognized, in so doing, by that order. Thus the policy of the measure, and the mode of adopting it, had both been sanctioned by tlie Britta govc rumen' when Mr- Foster retired from the country, and the transaction then as sumed the present snape, certainly an awkward one, and not entirely trusted to by the Americans themselves. The direct course, however, cannot always be adopted-—difficulties will occur to prevent it; and the court s. t w no reason to presume, that under the difficulties which existed in the present cases, the course adopted by Mr. Alien and Ad miral Sawyer might not be the best. It had been said, that Admiral Sawyer might have granted them, personally, and sent them to America by way of Halifax but there may not, perhaps,, have been any safe and direct commu nication. Mr. Allen appears to have acted with every degree of fairness, in the four instances which gave rise to the present question and as the mea sure is, in substance, precisely the same as that resorted to by Mr. Foster, varying only in its form, that informa lity could'not be a fatal objection to the principle of the measure itself, as re cognised by the order of the 26th of Oct 1812. Taking the whole of the cases therefore together, he was of opinion that they clearly came within, the meaning of the Orders in Council. He would ask, it the documents produ ced were not of the nature of certificates and passports, what were they mere nullities and the order would be in operative. He had therefore no hesi tation in decreeing restitution of the shipsand cargoes, but ,as the captors, were justified in their detention undei* all the circumstances, it must be sub ject to the payment of their expences. THE BRITISH MONARCHY. New-York, Aftril 21; The publication of the following let ter has excited strong sensations in the. minds of the people of England, and has given rise to much controversy in the papers of Ministry and Opposition. Cofiy of a letter from her Royal High- ness the Princess of Wales, to hi& Royal Highness the Prince Regent Sir—lt is with great reluctance I presume to obtrude myself upon your Royal Highness, and to solicit your at tention to matters which may, at first, appear rather of a personal than a pub lic nature. If I could think them so— if they related merely to myself—l should abstain from a proceeding which might give uneasiness, or interrupt the more weighty occupations of your Roy al Highness’s time. I should continue m silence and retirement, to lead the life which has been prescribed to me, and console myself for the loss of that society and those domestic comforts to which I have been so long a stranger, by the reflection that it has been deem ed proper I should be afflicted without any fault of my own—and that your Roy al Highness knows it. “But, sir, there are considerations of a higher nature than any regard to my own happiness, which render this address a duty both to myself and my daughter. May X venture to say—-a
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