Daily National Intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])
October 6, 1813
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VOL. I. WASHINGTON CITY, PUBLISHED BY GALES AND SEATON, Daily, at Ten Dollars per annum PAI D IN ADVANCE. No subscription will be taken for less than twelve months. All letters to the Editors must be post paid. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNER- SHIP. rj" HF co-partnership heretofore existing un i der the firm of M’KENNEY SI OS BORNE, is dissolved by the mutual consent of the parties. It is earnestly desired, that ail persons indebted to the said concern make im mediate payment to Thomas L. M’Kenney. THOS. L M’KENNEY, SAM. G. OSBORNE. THOS. 1.. M’KENNEY, Respectfully informs the public, and espe cially that portion of it who have heretofore been served by the late firm, that he will shortly ove to the premises in the occupa tion of Col. John Cox, the 2d door below the Union Bank; and having purchased part cl his stock goods, and retained all that oi the late concern, the junction of the two stocks will constitute a first rate assortment—which, from his intention to sell at small profits, he hopes to make subservient to the interest of customers. Georgetown, June 12 —ts. ELEGANT LOOKING GLASSES Just received at the Book Store and Lottery Office, Bridge street, four doors west of the Union Bank, an assortment of elegant Locking Glasses, with rich pillar and moulding frames, of the latest fashions. Sattin and mahogany framed Toilette Glass* es, with boxes. Swing Toilette Glasses, and mahogany tra ined Looking Gh.sses. Georgetown, Sept. 10 BRIGADE UiDERS. The egimental musters, of the First Caluntian Brigade, are appointed for Saturdty the 16th October next. The Ist regiment will rendezvous on that day, at 10 o’clock, on its usual parade ground, north of the Pr h they will sell on reasonable terms for cash. 'I hey solicit a share of the patronage of their friends and the public generally. N. B. M Morgan and Co. have an assort ment of Cotton Yarn for weaving on hand. Georgetown, Sep*. 24—eo3w. NOTICE. The Subscribers having entered into Co-part nership in the ROPE and TWINE Manufacto ry, m this city, respectfully inform the Public that they have commenced business and intend to keep a general assortment of every article m their line, which they will warrant to be e quai m quality to any made in the United ates, they flatter themselves, by paying unremitted -ttention to the selection of mate ials and workmen and to neatness and dis patch of busiuos, to merit a share of public patronage. Orders are respectfully solicited. DANIEL RENNER, _ NATH H HEATH. N. B. The market price will always be given ffir good clean country hemp at the Rope ar d Twine Factory of Renner and Heath on Green leaf’s Point. Sept. 76— f POUT TOBACCO JOCKEY- CLUB RACES. The Jockey Club Perse, Three Hundred Dollars, will be rurt for over the Port Tobac co Course, on Tuesday, the 2d day of Novem ber next—heats four miles each. On Wednesday, the 3d, a purse of one hun >ied and fifty dollars^ will be run for—heats wo miles each. Aug; 30—wtd WASHINGTON JOCKEY CLUB RACES WILL commence on Tuesday ihe 26 h day of October next, being the fourth Tuesday in that month, The first day’s piirse, Seven hundred dollars four m les and repeat The serond day’s purse Three hundred fifty dollars, three miles and repeal Ihe third day’s or Coit’s purse, Three hundred and fifty dollars, two miles and repeat, free for colts and fillies only. Each day s race to be run an- conducted a greeable to the rules of the Club It is not known whether the purses respectively wdl correspond precisely with the sums above ctat ed. 1 hey may be more or less according to the anoint received from the rents of the booths and the tolls at the gate Per sons wRi be appointed and clothed ’^ith authority, to keep order on the ground -ff Booths to b« taken at toe bar of the Union Tavern. Persons first applying and paying the money, wdl have a preference in choice. Ihe members of the club are respectfully requested to meet at the Union Tavern on Monday evening the 25:h of October, the dav p- eceedingthat of the first day’s race, for the purpose oi transacting the business of the club, and of making other nece^sary arrauo-o T E STEWARDS.’ Sept- 3—2awtß IHE GENTLEMAN’S MEW POCKET CO MP AXIOM, comprising a general description of the noble and useful animal, the horse,together with the quick est and simplest mode of fattening necessary treatment while undergoing excessive fatigue or on a journey; the construction and manage ment of stable^; different marks for ascertain ing the age of a horse f om three to nine years old; with a concise account of the diseases to which the horse is most subject, with such re medies as experience has proven to be ef fectual—By Richard Mason, of Surrv Co Va Price 81 25. Just received and for sale at the Bookstore and Lottery-office, Bridge street, Georgetown, four doors west of the Union Bank. September 27. THE SUBSCRIBER Considering that his improvements in warm ing apartments, can be applied with advantage to school rooms, tenders the use of the same, as a free d nation, to ail societies or trustees 'of shools, of whatever denom.nation, in the U. States of America, who have for their object the education of youth, gratis. Thu utdby of these improvements has been already sufficiently testified, by the trustees of the Lancastran school in Georgetown. Gentlemen who are desirous of obtaining this advantage, will please to direct a letter to Mr. Harvey Bestor (a clerk in the General Post Office) who will cause a drawing and de scription to be sent to the trustees applying therefor The letter must be post paid, and contain six dollars—it being the expense in curred for the drawing and description, to enable a workman to set up the stove in its proper manner No s-huol will be entitled to this privilege, unless a drawing and description shah first be obtained from the subscriber, or from Mr. Bestor. Gentlemen will please to send the size of the apartment to be warmed also, a sketch or ground plan of the same; with the size and situation of the fire-place and chimney, if there be any. DANIEL PETTIBONE, Patentee. P S.—Those printers in the different states, who are desirous of promoting this useful sub ject, will please to.give it a few insertions m their respective papers. Washington City, Sept. 10. WOODFALL 9 8 JUNIUS. Just received and for sale by Joseph Milligan, High-street, George town, JUNIUS, Including letters by the same writer, Under o ther signatures (now first collected) to which is added his Confidential Correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his private letters to Mr. H. S. WOODFALL; with a preliminary essay, notes, sac-similes, &c. Two vol. 8 vo—price 5g Also—Volume sth, BURKE’S WORKS. 8 vo.—price 82 75 CHRISTIAN MORALS, By Hannah More—l2mo. price 81 July 24 N 238
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EOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. AS IT SHOULD BE, OR The Reduction of the Canadas consist ent fljith MORAL JUSTICE The earth is a great theatre, furnished by the Almighty with perfect wisdom and good vess, for the entertainment and employment of all mankind. Here every man has aright to accommodate himself as a spectator and to perform his part as an actor, but without hurt to others. He who does so, is a just man. ft is true, that when men become members of a political society, they subject their proper* ty, as well as themselves, to the laws—and justice requires, that a member of a state should submit to the laws of the state, -when, they require nothing Unjust or imperious.” M Rei to. ,f Men who give up essential liberty, to pur chase a little temporary safety, deserve nei ther liberty nor safety Ffumis. (continued) I haVe already remarked that tvery conclusion drawn from the principles which I have shown to be irrelevant to the subject they Were designed to sup port, ynust share a similar fate, with all others di’aWn frotn the same principles, with a view to the same subject. This remark is, I confess, unnecessary to the intelligent and candid mind—but so strong and Unyielding is the bias which sways the judgment of too many men, that drey are wont to catch at every new shaped conclusion, regardless of its likeness to others, which they cannot but condemn and hence it becomes necessary that every view taken by the opposers of the w?r be as openly met, and candidly explained, as tho’ each ©ne stood alone, and had no connexion with others that ape confessedly inap plicable and fallacious. This then is my apology for so tediously pursuing every objection in the order in which 1 find it. The U. States, in the prosecution of this war ag; inst their enemy, have pro ceeded to lessen his power, where it was to be gotten at, with the most con venience: and the Canadas therefore displayed themselves as a repository, wherein this power existed. Todts troy it then, became a first duty of our government. You. however, choosing to believe those subjects of the king, resident there, to be as perfectly free from any responsibility for the acts ol their Sovereign and Parliament, (not withstanding their laws are enforced by them) “as a man’s innocent brothers and sisters would be for his crimes”— determine, that your government is criminally unjust in its attack upon those territories!*—l say, choosing to believe this, you proceed to mark out lor the U. States a course of duty, thus: All we have to do is to use every precaution, and when th y (the British) attempt to search us, or manifest such a design, we will defend ourselves b) killingas many of those unjust invaders as we can.”—Then we are to kill them first in their attempt to search us;” and secondly when they manifest such a design!” I accept of this admission, as a lull justification of the war For what greater manif station of such a design, cun we r quire, than to know that a law actually exists, and a law too, under which these very C-nadians vo luntarily act, the express provisions of which go to justify this act of search,— ai.v f ence it becomes a rule to be com plied with at the option of every m. n who acts under the authority of the British laws. The continuance of this law, then, is as complete a manifesta tion of such a design, as can be furn ished. But your meaning is different. The Americans are to use every fire caution, nor by any manner of means to apt against the King or his subjects, only in case of actual assault or just previously to it—so that their design shall be manifest” that they intend an attack, or a search. According to this doctrine, then, a man may steal my bro ther, or kill my child, under the author ity of his sovereign’s laws; and if he be not taken in the act, he is innocent— a little intervening space has absolved him the dew of the night has furnish ed an absolution all that is to be done, is to use every precaution,” and in the next attempt I am to kill him—if I can But you will aomit, perhaps, that this identical man is always liable and that your meaning is yet different: and hence you saj—“Never tell a person who understands the first principles of morality that men on the Atlantic ocean have done wrong, therefore other men on the American continent deserve to die lor it.” It would, I confess, be very absurd to tell you so—and especially if you had given evidence of any differ ence in the laws that govern each, in their purposes and designs. But sup pose a law to exist, which in its opera tion is destructive of your rights—say it involves the personal liberty of youi children and suppose, also, a certain family in your neighborhooe shall con sent to receive this law, and enforce it, and that one of its members has taken into captivity some of your children under pretence of searching for stolen goods, what course would Justice bine you to pursue in relation to this family? You say, in the course you have marked out lor the United States government, you would remonstrate. Then you would remonstrate with the power un der whose laws this family is acting? "What next ,r Prepare for immediate defence,” —and what next? Why you would plainly tell the British govern ment, (and of course the power under whose laws this family is acting) we will net submit to your tyranny but will repel all your unjusf attacks upon the rights and liberty of our citizens— and, lastly, you would actually enter in to a defensive war. All very good Then you would make this war operate only against the power under whose au thority this family had violated the lib erty of your children, whilst the family is to be let alone as innocent and unof fending—as not accountable for that which is not in its power. When at the same time the family had the pow er, and Moral Justice demanded that it should be exercised in a refusal to obey the laws which violated your rights In this precise relation does the govern ment in Canada stand to the United States and their King—and every sub ject, whether resident in his dominions, or elsewhere, who sanctions and sup ports his unjust laws, acts precisely the same part towards America as do the members of this family towards you. What, if in a case of this sort, in which the rights of your family are supposed to be thus violated, you were to apply to MERCY for directions—and you should beseech this Heavenly Goddess to teach you how you should best defend JUS TICE—I say suppose you were to pe tition thus, would you receive for an swer—“ Punish your innocent children; abridge them of their rights, which Heaven gave them, and which they have never forfeited. But dare not at your peril do away the cause, or any pai t of the cause of their suffering, only as you shall happen to succeed in bat tle, when, as you pass by your neigh bors dwelling, he and his family shall sally «ut and attack you—ls you adopt any other course, ©r lessen the power of your enemy, by preventing this tami iy from acting towards you as his law directs or if you shall compel any one member ol it to abandon those laws, ex cept n oe that idtnticaC one that de prived your children of their liberty, notwithstanding they are all engager to execute the Suinc law—then are you an offender against Justice !—For they have a right to defend themselves the law under which they act, was not created by diem, they only act under it. and support and cnlorce it, therefore they are not accountable for that which is not in their power.” Would not the very Heavens be shocked, think you, at such absurdities? at such a violation of every just princi ple. with which man is acquainted at such a tame and ignominious surrender of virtue and justice Portentous indeed will that period of the world be, if it ever arrive, which God forbid when it shall be deemed unjust in innocent and just m< n, to de prive a vindictive and murderous foe of his means of destruction and death —Strong holds of iniquity and despo tism will then be safe and the unof fending and guiltless, and those whose rights are violated by the facilities which such strong holds afford, will have no just title to fixed and established rights. None but what they may chance to fight shemselves irio, from among the effects and consequences which grow out of those repositories of injustice Then will it conic to puss, but not till then, that if my neighbor have less strength than 1 have on End, and more on the water and whin to prevent or lessen the operations of his unjust pur poses which violate my rights on the water, I go into his yard, or over his fence, and deprive his servants of their agency in hi behalf, by which he de rived additional abilities to afflict me, I incur the imputation of injustice whin in this very act I defend and establish it! —You make this sacred principle, Justice, which from its very nature ex tends equal rights to all, cut a very lu dicrous and partial figure, truly And 1 defy you to give to it a more consist ent character, in relation to our war with England, through her colonies, until you prove the King and the Par liament, or the unjust laws which they have made, to receive no support from the government and the subjects in Ca nada. Nothing but proof that they are unconnected, and totally separate and that what the King and Parliament uo in relation to America, is not done also by the government of Canada; I say nothing short of this, will convict Ameri ca of injustice in reducing the Canadas. And are you ready to prove this Have you evidence of the neutral condition, or independent state of those Canada? If not, is it reconcilable with candor to inveigh against the only free govern ment on earth, whose dernier resort has been war, for the defence of its liberty, upon the bare supposition of such case when the very supposition itself is op posed by the common sense of every man. And yet your whole charge rests on the declaration, that the laws which govern Englishmen, in relation to A merica, on the Atlantic *ocean and over it,” are one thing, and the laws which govern Englishmen “on 'the Northern part of the American contin ent,” are another thing—as being total ly distinct and separate in their opera tions and influence That you do ac tually make such assertions is capable of proof by adverting to any page of your letter. Whether I turn to your first, where you lay d©wn this principle Ao man is accountable for that which is not in his power” —(forgetting I suppose, that the Canadians have the power” in obedience to the dictates of Moral Justice, to refuse a compliance with unjust laws) or to where you akk Now, if England is unjust in im pressing our seamen, because those seamen have done nothing to forfeit their liberty, are we perfectly just and righteous in killing the people of Cana- Tia, who have been equally inoffensive as those seamen; and have done no thing to forfeit their lives.”—l will just remark here, that all this is supposing, or rather averring, the pure and un blemished innocence of men who sup port and enforce the very laws that violate the rights of those seamen, who have done nothing to forfeit them!” And yet those men who thus sanction and support those iniquitous laws, are equally/n^offcnsive as those seamen,!” —But you ask if “we are perfectly just and righteous in killing the people of Canada?” I answer, to kill them is not the errand on which our armies are sent. They go to establish Justice, and to put down so much of the King’s' power as exists in his North American possessions; and, as evidence of their aversion to kill and butcher, they have proclaimed their desire to avoid it by inviting the inhabitants to respect us, and come over to the cause of Justice. This call has been only partially regard ed All therefore who have rejected it, who adhere to the King and his un righteous cause, are accountable for their own conduct, in this choice; and if they are killed, they die like the high wayman who refused the invitations of Bcnvohus to abandon his iniquitous course of conduct and adopt a more honest one and who nevertheless per sisted in his criminal violation of Jus tice until he died in defending his prac tice. But this invitation to the Canadians to respect Justice, has been converter into one of the blackest enormities thet (in the language of some men) blacken the character of our government. It has been denounced as a call to rebellion And the question has been very gravely sKeu suppose the armies ol a neigh boring power were to invite the citi zens to rebel against the American go vernment?—How would the invitation be received ?”—Here, as’in every other instance, (where it|has been thoughticon venient.) POLITICAL JUSTICE has been represented as entitled to higher claims than MORAL JUSTICE And here the subject has been tortured— when too short for the bed, it has been stretched and when too long its limbs have been lopped off!—and I am un able to think of it at all, without having my immagination worried with Pro crustes’ bed, with a tortured victim alternately suffering under the ope ration of a racking distention, or the no less afflicting sensations of amputa tion. But amidst all these expressions, that speak so strongly, of entirely separate and distinct principles ©faction in Erig land, and in the Canadas—yet, strange to tell, you admit a connexion The Canadas,” you say, have only a politi cal relation to Great Britain.” And you conclude, that if a person deserve to die for the fault of his political brother, he deserves to die, also,’for the fault of his natural brother.’^But what this “po litical relation” is, you have not stated. I should be glad, if in, the prosecution of your charge against my country, you had stopped a moment on the admis sion of this fact, and enquired into the nature of a political relation,” I have no hesitation in mentioning my assur ance that if you had made this enquiry the whole train of coucius.ons which you have drawn after your premises, would have been unknown to me. But what is a political relation I mean as it exists between Great Britain and the Canada’s. Is it not, as it has been all along hinted, a Union of Law of pur pose,—and of power Then if it be the Law of England to violate our rights, —-is it not also the Law of the Canadas to do the same thing Is it not the pur pose of England to violate our rights Then do not the King’s subjects in Canada purpose also to violate our rights Is not the ;•ower of England, so much of it at least as can be spared from her other engagements, applied to the violation of our rights Then is not the power of the Government of Cana da employed, or as much of it as it can •pare from the other demands of its Sovereign, to do the same thing And yet you ask if this is not the same re iation’ which constitutes them as incul pable, and as purely innocent in their relation to America, as a man would be to the crimes ot his natural brother In the one case every effort is made every assistance is voluntarily afforded to aid and abet, to uphold and to pros ecute a cause that violates Justice, and the rights of man and in the other a relation’ of consanguinity, where there can exist no necessary connexion of crime, but of blood only. [To be concluded in our next."] WANTED At the Hygeia Academy at Haymarket, in Prince William county, Virginia, a Professor of the Dead Languages; and also a Professor of Mathematics, Geography and English Gram mar. Applications to be made to the Trustees who will convene at Haymarket on the Ist Monday in December next to make the elections. By order, RDM. BROQKE, Sec’ry. Sept. 24 —Wtd. WASHINGTON CITY. Wednesday, October 6. Extract of a letter from an officer of the U, S. army to the Secretary of War, dated Chillicothe, Sept. 28, 1813. Altho’ much has been said on the subject of the barbarities of our enemy to our countrymen, that the fortune of war have placed in their power, and which had been supported by proofs un deniable still some, even those honor ed with the proud name of Americans, pretend to doubt the authenticity of their origin. I am, therefore, from a sense of duty to my country and my injured fel low brethren in arms, induced to make known to you a confirmation ih part from the lips of a British officer now on his parole in this town, of the enormities committed on our soldiery at Raisin, and Miami, opposite fort Meigs, by the Indians under the command of general Proctor. In conversation with him, he informed me that after the surrender of the Kentuckians under col. Dudley at the Rapids of the. Miami of the lakes, he was near general Proctor’s tent when one of our unfortunate officers came up and asked the general where they were to be quartered that Proctor im periously ordered him off—that the of ficer retired but a few yards, when he was met by a small party of Indians and inhumanly murdered under the eye of Proctor. Another instance he relates of a sol iier that was taken during the last siege of fort Meigs by a party of In dians and conducted to the British ge neral’s camp, painted black, (a mark they always affix to prisoners when sen tence of death is pronounced on them) that some one of the officers (he thinks lieutenant-colonel Short, lately killed at Sandusky) went to their general to in tercede fer the poor captive that he was ordered off, and severely repri manded for interesting himself for a damned Yankee and that shortly af ter, the prisoner was conducted and barbarously butchered in the face of the British army. This same officer also relates a con versation that took place between Proc tor and Tecumseh, in which the lattei observed, I conquer to sa/c, and you to murder.” COM. RODGERS. Every one knows that, ever since Com. Rodgers chastised the insolence of the Little Belt, he has become ex tremely obnoxious to all Britons and to all devoted friends of Britain. It is quite amusing to see the anxiety of the British government and its officers to catch this old offender. The following is one paragraph among many, in Lon don papers now lying before us, which go to shew the interest he excites in their bosoms. From the London Courier of July 20. Several small squadrons have been detached in search of Commodore Rod gers, and the ocher frigates which late ly escaped out of the American ports. Commodore Rodgers having watered at North Bergen, sails t thence on the 2d inst. Lord A. Beauclerk sailed from St. Helen’s on Thursday, with the Royal Oak and Seahorse the Hon. capt. Pdget is gone from Plymouth, with the Superb^ Menelaus, and Fltj and Adm. Young has detached several fri gates from his fleet, to go north about. Vincennes, Ind. Ter. Sept. 18. We' are informed general Howard marched on the 4th instant against the Indians with a force of from 2000 to 2,500 men—against what point his force will be directed weare not informed— the next mail from the westward will ho doubt furnish us with some particu lars. American Prisoners at the Havana. TheN. Y. Mercantile Advertiser of Thursday last contains several letters relative to a number of Americans, late ly belonging to the privateer Saratoga, wh» have been taken and are detained as prisoners at the Havana, and are ve ry badly treated by the Spaniards.-— Measures have been taken for their re lief by an application to government. BRITISH POLICY DEVELOPED. Perhaps we are wrong in introducing under this head the following rhapsodi cal and silly extract from a leading ministerial print of the enemy. We hope we are wrong, and yet it is thus that the vtews^of the government are fre quently announced. If the temper of the government keep pace with that of it writers, we shall yet have to wage a long and bloody war with this tyrant of the ocean, unless we lay our sovereign ty at her feet. She claims and exercis es, and always has claimed and exer cised, the right of naturalization; and yet, America must be treated as AN OUTLAW, if she enforces her equal righty and defends her citizens, or re taliates the cruelties of the u enemy to those Americans who fall into his pow er The tenor of this article is in per fect consonance with the efforts now making in England, and contempora neously by the friends of Great Britain in this country, to place the war on other than its true grounds. It is in re sistance to the stealing of American ci tizens from our vessels at sea and else where—it is against this and other op pressions and maritime tyranny, that we make war. Britain cannot defend, and therefore she would disguise, the cause for wl)ich she fights. It is not true—it is notoriously false, that we fight to protect foreigners. So far from it, we have passed a law that no foreign ers shall be employed in our naval ser vice; that none but Aniorican citizens shall enter it. And if American citi zens are murdered in England for hav ing fought our battles, he is a base re creant who would refuse to punish the murderers as they ought to be who would stand an idle spectator of so cold-blood ed an.outrage on his fellow-citizens. And we pledge ourselves that if the British, government dare proceed to such an ex tremity, the most prompt and vigorous retaliation will ensue, the insolent threat of outlawry by Bruain, and even the ex ecution of such a threat, to the^contrary notwithstanding. But, reader, be not alarmed. The government of Britain dare not—no, it dare not, unprincipled as it is, execute any such sanguinary and brutal purpose, as is avowed in the following article. It is ail bravado; but it serves to shew the feelings which actuate some at least who have a share in the administration of the affairs of that depraved government. From a late London Courier. A Bristol paper states, that the late Capt. Lawrence of the Chesapeake, was a native ot that city, and that he and his brother served some time in the British Navy. If this be true, we are sorry that he was (in total ignorance of this without doubt) interred with mili tary honors at Halifax zk brave enemy merits respect, and, if he fall m battle, let the honors of the brave grace his corpse, but the rewards of loyalty are not to be given to a traitor. If Lawrence was an Englishman, there is little doubt but that others of the Chesapeake's crew are Englishmen also, and we therefore trust that a strict scrutiny will be instituted among the prisoners taken in every American vessel of war which may fall into our hands. As every man taken in arms against his country de serves capital punishment, and as pub lic law adjudges him to it, he ought to suffer it. We proceed to this extremi ty lately in the case of the men taken at Bourbon, ki the service of France, 8c im punity to British subjects in the Ame rican service would be unjust to them. Mr. Madison has endeavoured t© protect them by threatening retaliation but who is Mr. Madison, and what is America, that the public law of Eu rope should be changed at their fiat, and for their convenience? By the chi canery of American naturalization, the United States have endeavoured to de stroy at once that principle of natural law which has been recognized and act ed upon in every other state, and more especially have they laboured to effect this since the commencement of the war, in the hope of weaicening the Bri tish navy by encouraging desertion, and then protecting the deserters from the just vengeance of the laws of their country. By the legerdemain of na turalization, many weak persons have been pe‘rsuaded, that on becoming A merican citizens they were no longer subjects of G. Britain; but it-is time to dissipate this delusion from their minds, and to teach the American legislators that their laws cannot repeal our’s. It is a princple of universal law,’’ J says Blackstone, that the naturaf born subject of one Prince cannot, by any act of his own, no, not by swearing allegi ance to another, put off or discharge his, natural allegiance to the former for this allegiance was intrinsic, and prim itive, and antecedent to the other and cannet be divested without the concur rent act of that prince to whom, it was first due.”— An Englishman who removes to France,or to China, owes the same al-
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legiance to the King of England there as at home, and twenty years hence as well as now.” Buonaparte has pro claimed the same principle of universal law in France, though an usurper, by executing a person born in France, but brought up in Spain, found in arms a gainst him in one of the Spanish Gue rillas. The principle is right, though it may be doubted whether Buona parte had a right to consider himself as the natural Prince of a person thus executed but in the case of British subjevs there can be no doubt, and we are sure, that Ministers will not shrink from their duty. If Mr. Madison dare to retaliate by taking away the life of one English prisoner, in revenge for a Brit ish subject, fully proved to be such, be ing taken in the act of voluntarily bear ing arms against his country, America puts herself out of the protection of the law of nations, and MUST BE TREATED AS AN OUTLAW. An army and navy acting against her will, then be ABSOLVED FROM ALL OBLIGATION TO RESPECT THE USAGES AND LAWS OF WAR Hostilities may be carried on against her IN ANY MODE, until she is brought to a proper sense of her con duct, and by returning to the observe apce of the laws of nations puts herself again within their protection. This is no time for half measures, and the ques tion is not whether we ahali revenge the excesses of sudden passion upon our e nemy—it is whether we shall support public law against a systematic attempt to steal away our countrymen, and to arm them against us. LATEST FROM MEXICO. FROM THE RED RIVER HERALD. EXTRA. Extract of a letter from a gen'Leman of the first respectability, dated Nate hi- todies, Sept. 4th. I am sorry to inform you, the Re publican army of Texas were, on the 18th ultimo, entirely defeated, 20 milts beyond Si. Antonio, by the arrny of Arradondo. General Toledo attacked them in their camp, a well chosen posi tion, with a force of about oiie to three. The Royalists (mostly regular troops from the interior) were at first beaten end driven some distance with the loss cfthree pieces of cannon and many kill ed. Gen. Toledo, suspecting an am buscade, ordered his troops to halt and iorm on a better ground, but the Arne ricans with an indescribable enthusiasm and impetuosity, in despite of every ex ertion of their officers, rushed into the ambuscade, where many pieces of the cannon of the enemy were opened on them, by which they were mostly des troyed—such as were not retreated in confusion, leaving every thing behind them. Gen. Toledo, Cols. Kemper and Perry, with about 60 others, have arrived at Nacogdoches, and report says as.many more at Trinity. W. B Wilkinson, who was in the battle acting as' aid to Gen. Toledo, arrived here yesterday, and returned this morning withamunition to enable such as were at Nacogdoches to make a stand, and as far as possible cover the retreating rem nant of the army, who were hourly coming in. Three hundred families' had left St. Antonio and La Bahia for this place, 200 of them women on foot, escaping from the bloody vengeance of Airadon db, who at Atlimea and Saltillco distin guished himself by putting women and children to death. It is probable 300 Americans are lost, and the whole country between Rio Grande and the Sabine will be desolat ed. We can yet form nothing like a list of the whole number killed. From persons who are hourly arriv ing here, we are led to believe we shall in a few days have several hundred of the most wretched of human beings fleeing from their country and their homes to save their lives. Doctor Forsythe is safe at Nacogdo ches. Wm. Slocum, the two Gormleys and Caston, of the Mississippi Territo ry are missing. How safe we are here is doubtful a short time will shew us. “Free Bottoms make free Men and free Goods." A treaty of peace was concluded be Aween Portugal and Algiers, and ratifi ed on the 14th day of July, in which his Britannic Majesty interposed as mediator, end for that purpose Mr. Wil liam A’Couit, envoy extraordinary from the Court of London, presented himself with the necessary powers.” In this treaty thus sanctioned by the British envoy, the sanctity of free ships is established in the most distinct and emphatical manner, in the following ar ticle, viz. VI. Foreigners of any nation, and mer chandize of foreign ownership, found on board any Portuguese vessel, even though belonging to a nation hostile to the regency of Algiers, shall net be seized under any pretext whatev er. The same rule shall be observed by the Portuguese, in regard to property found by them on board any Algerine vessels.” What a pity it is that the British go vernment should be so far behind even their barbarous allies, in assenting to the principles of international justice and liberality! The above contracting powers agree to give six months notice of the commencement of war between them hereafter. FOR THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. CONSIDERATIONS ON AN HONORABLE PEACE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM OF G. BRITAIN ANii IRELAND. Et nomen pacis dulce est, et ipsa res saluta ris; sed inter pacem et servitutem plurimum interest. Pax est tranquilla libertas servitus postremum malorum omnium, non modo BEL LO, sed MORTE etiam, repellendum. Cicero in ^lorc. Ant. No. I. The war of the American revolution, so injurious to the power, so fatal to the pride of Great-Britain, it was scarcely to have been expected would be so soon succeeded by the desperate and sangui nary conflict in which those two nations are at present involved. The indiscretion which prompted the British administration to push to such an extremity their original dissentions with the people of America remains no longer a question or a problem. It has become a matter of history and there exists not within the British dominions an intelligent and candid mind which does not feel and confess it. It would answer no very useful pur poses to investigate, at this time, the causes which have produced the pre sent unhappy contest. The sword is drawn and a spirit of magnanimity, operating on both parties, will forbid its being sheathed, until the respective ho nor, rights and interests of the two na tions are secured, or believed to be so. While, therefore, an indulgence of retrospective considerations may not only be of doubtful utility, but may be even pernicious, as tending to exacer bate, and inflame, and protract the pe riod of an ultimate good understanding, the mind disposed to pacification, and anxious to arrest the further effusion of dear and precious blood, will advert with more delight to views which are prospective, and which open the cheer ing hope of returning cordiality and friendship A review of what each party claims,’ of what claims impartial justice will re quire each party to yield, may possibiy dispose candid and enquiring minds on both sides to an earlier accommodation and it is to be hoped that the assertion cannot be made that minds of this de scription are not numerous and abun dant on each side nor ought it to be less expected, as both governments are in certain sense popular, that the in fluence of such minds will have an eventual, though necessarily gradual, operation on the administration of each country. On the American people, to whom these remarks are more immediately addressed, and by one connected with whom by the ties of birth and citizen ship they are made, the effect may*im deed be greater. The virtuous and enquiring citizen may, perhaps, gain light upon the most important moral question which can, at this momentous sera, agitate his bosom whether he ought to support his own government in the contest, or whether he ought, by his constitutional powers, and in the exercise of his right of suf frage, to perform that melancholy and painful, but sometimes very necessary duty, of opposing, counteracting, con trolling ana impeding the administra tion to whose hands his country has for a time committed her affairs, her rights, her interests and her destiny. The questions at issue between th« two governments may, perhaps correct ly, be reduced into the following classes: I. The rights claimed over persons. 11. 7 'he rights claimed over commerce. 111. 'lhe questions of territorial ju risdiction which may have existed ante rior to the war; or. which may have arisen, or may yet arise, during the war. As a preliminary position to assist in the investigation, it may be laid down as the fundamental principle and very basis of all the law of nations, and as a principle also obvious to the plainest reason, and rigorously demanded by the simplest justice, that nations, whatever their relative power, whatever their rela tive rank, whatever their form of govern ment, are to be considered, with respect to their rights, as on a footing of per fect equality. There being no control ling power, no common arbiter, they are regarded as resembling individuals in a state of nature. Whenever therefore a nation, or a party in any dispute, is found to claim that which in reciprocal circumstances it refuses to grant, it may readily be in ferred that that nation or party is in the wrong; and the candid and just mind will abandon its cause. The sublime maxim of Christian morality, the duty of acting towards others in the manner we are desirous they should act towards us, is equally as obligatory on Christian na tions as on Christian individuals and that individual and that nation has a fra gile title to religion or morality, which claims to do that which it will not suffer. Reciprocity, then, is the very basis of a pacification according to the princi ples of this investigation and it will be taken for granted that a right given to the one nation is, under similar circum stances, given to the other. The subjects of discussion under the first head, the rights claimed over per- sons, arc, perhaps, comprehended in the following enumeration. A perfect cer tainty is not entertained that this enu meration is complete.; but it is believed t© contain the principal matters. 1. The impressment of subjects ®f the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland within the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or within its dominions. 2. The impressment of native born citizens of the United States of Ame rica. 3. The impressment of citizens of the United States who have become such by naturalization. 4. The impressment of men, or the apprehension of deserters, within the territorial limits of the other nation. 5. The impressment of men, or the apprehension of deserters, on board of the public ships of war of either nation. 6. The impressment of men, or the apprehension of deserters on board of the merchant vessels of either party. 7. The surrender of alien enemies out of ships of war. 8. The surrender of alien enemies out of merchant vessels. 9. The restoration of military and na val deserters. v 10. The surrender of fugitives from justice. 1 1 It might at first be supposed that with respect to the subject of impressment, no reciprocity can ever subsist. The impressment of a citizen is not allowed— God for bid that it ever should be allowed .'—in the United States of America. But the option of adopting the prac tice or not, is not precluded by the odium attached to it, however great or however correct that odium may be and that odium entertained by us by no means constitutes a sufficient reason for not recognizing the exercise of im pressment by G. Britain, or by any other nation, where in dny case a just right exists and caw be shewn. G. Britain has a title, and she has an unquestionable title, to rank as the sc cond nation in the world, after the United States of America, in maritime bravery and naval skill; and whatever she is disposed to consider as essential to her naval prosperity ought to be at tended to with respect. CINCINNATUS. Georgetown, Sept. 27, 1813. MARYLAND ELECTION. RETURNS, AS FAR AS RECEIVED. Baltimore county. Wm. B. Barney 2355 J. L. Donaldson 1939 Chris. Hughes, Jun. 1373 Two first elected—-All Republicans. In Frederick county,* we learn, the Federal ticket has succeeded. REMARKABLE FACT. In the afternoon ofthe 10th ult. se veral gentlemen who reside in the vi cinity of Erie,Pa. came in and stated that they had heard the report of cannon in the direction of Maiden. Many per sons in town thought they had'^heard distant thunder in the same direction yet. as there had been no clouds in sight, they could not account for the noise which they had heard. In the e vening, there were several arrivals from different parts *of the country —some from the (N. York) state line—all a greed in stating that they had heard a heavy cannonading in the direction of Malden, which commenced after 11 o’clock, a. m. and continued more than 3 hours. On Saturday and Sunday, travellers who came from the west informed, that on their way from Clevcfand, they had heard a cannonading, and generally a greed, with others, in the direction, commencement and continuation of the same. By adverting to the account of the engagement between the two fleets on the lake, it will readily occur that it was the tremendous roar of their murderous cannon, which was heard at such immense distance. On measur ing the Map, it is found that the dis tance from N. York state line, to that part of Lake Erie where this sanguina ry fight took place, is more than 160 miles! ^North. Cent. FACES ALL ALIKtL A writer in ah Eastern paper says, that on the receipt of the news of Com modore Perry’s victory, it was easy to distinguish parties—One had long faces, with down-cast heads—the other, had short faces, and erect heads.—ln Balti more, fortunately, we are not thus dis tinguished—Here, the Federalists re joiced, because (said they) our party gained the battle”—The Republicans rejoiced, because the battle was won. And so we all appeared with snug, short, pleasant faces and upright heads For our parts, we sincerely pray, that we may aiways have such gallant Fede ralists to gain such glorious victories. American. NOTCIE. Previously to my departure from Washing ton, 1 have endeavored to settle and pay all claims upon me. Should I have omitted to do so in any instances, letters addressed to me at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, will be promptly at tended to. B. H. LATROBE. Sept. 29—-l\v TREMENDOUS BATTLE ON LAKE ONTARIO. Extract of a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, dated Head-quarters, Fort George, Sept. 29, 1813. I enclose you a letter from commo dore Chauncey, which he put into my hands the day before yesterday, and beg leave to add the following brief but in teresting detail. f‘ The commodore entered this port on the 24th inSt. with his squadron. On the 26thwe received satisfactoryiinformation direct from York, that on the day of the cpm.nodore’s arrival here (Friday the 24th) the British squadron was on the opposite coast,. This communication be ing made to the Com. he pramptly ascertained the fact to his satisfaction, and on the 27th in the evening left port in quest of his antagonist. Yesterday morning, his squadron was descried near mid channel, between this place and York, standing for the latter pla^e, and about noon we discovered by the smoke in which his vessels were occasionally enveloped, that he was closely engaged and had the wind of the enemy, who were scarcely discernable. We could, however, with the aid of our glasses, distinctly perceive that the British squadron was forced to leeward towards the head of the lake and the action continued without intermission until we lost sight of the sternmost of our ves seis about 3 o’clock P. M. The issue must therefore have been decisive, be cause the breeze freshened, without any change in its direction, and the narrow ness of the lake made it impossible for the vanquished party to escape by any manceuvre. I have no doubt the victory is ours, but am apprehensive it has cost us dear since the batteries of the enemy were superior to those of our squadron, and the British commander is an officer not only of desperate resolution z but of great naval skill. If commodore Chauncey has sur vived, which I implore Heaven may be the case, we shall behold him mantled with glory; as his ship was yesterday be held wrapt in the flame and smoke of her batteries.” A Postscript to the above letter dated late in the evening, says A flag was sent to the British camp on the Lake last evening; the receiving officer ac knowledged we had the wind and ob served that a vessel had been dismasted; this was observed from the heights of Lewistown also, and it is believed it was the Royal George, by the Pike.—A ves sel supposed to be the Wolf, bore up to the relief of the crippled ship, and engaged the Pike, and they went out of sight, covered with smoke, and appa rently, about to board.” “Sept. 29th, 8 o’clock, P. M. We have not, as yet heard from Chauncey; the utmost does not exceed 50 miles to the end of the Bay—but the wind is still adverse—l begin to fear his victory may have cost too much—l have sent out several small craft to look for him but the sea which is running has forced them back. It was visible the Pike bore the brunt of the engagement.” Copy a letter from Commodore Chaun cey to the Seretary of the Navy, dated U. S. Ship General Pike, Niagara River, 25th September, 1813. Sir—After I had the honor of ad dressing you on the 13th, I continued to blockade the enemy until the 17th, when the wind blowing heavy from the westward, the enemy having run into Kingsten, and knowing that he couki not move from that place before a change of wind, I took the opportunity of running into Sackett’s Harbor. I remained but a few hours at the Harbor and left it at daylight on the morning of the 18fh, but did not arrive here until yesterday, owing to continu al head winds, not having laid our course during the passage. On the 19th I saw the enemy’s fleet near the False Ducks, but took no notice of him as I wished him to follow me up the Lake. There is a report here, and generally believed, that Capt. Perry has captured the whole of the enemy’s fleet on Lake Erie. If this should prove true in all its details (and God grant that it may) he has immortalised himself and not disappointed the high expectations formed of his talents and braverv. I have learnt from a source which can be depended upon, that we did the enfcmy much more injury in our ren counter on the 11th than I had expect ed—l find that we'killed Captain Mul caster of the Royal George and a num ber of his men and did considerable in jury to that ship, as well as several of the other vessels. It was truly unfortu nate that we could not have brought the enemy to a general action on that d.f, as I am confident that the victory would have been as complete as that Upon Lake Erie. I however have the conso lation to know that every exertion was used t® bring^him to close action. If we did not succeed it was not our fault. I have the honor to be, &c. ISAAC CHAUNCEY. The Honorable William Jones, Sec’ry of the Navy, Washington. [The above, received at th s office at a late hour last evening, comprise all the particulars w ith have reached the City of this truly momentous n u s.) NAVY DEPARTMENT October 4, 1813. Proposals will be received at this de partm-nt, for supplying by contract the Navy of the United States with beef and pork, for the year 1814, one fourth part thereof to be delivered tn each of the months of January, February, March and April, 1814, and paid for as deliver ed, viz. Barrels of Beef. Barrels of Pork. Place of Delivery. Proposals will be received'. 400 350 Portsmouth N. H. ’Tiil 31st of the present months 1050 950 Boston ditto. 900 1600 New York 20th ditto; 550 450 Albany 25th ditto. 550 450 Phil delphia 20th ditto. 550 450 Baltimore 20th ditto. 5 50 450 Washington 2 >th ditto. 750 Norfolk 20th ditto. Of the beef, all the legs, shins, necks, shoulders, clods and legrounds must be excluded, and the rest of the animal cut into pieces of ten pounds each, so that twenty pieces wdl make a barrel. Of the pork, all the legs, heads and hands must be excluded, and the rest of the a fimal cut into pieces of eight pounds each, so that twenty-five pieces will make a barrel. Both beef and pork to be of the best quality, to have a suf ficient quantity, of salt and saltpetre— the barrels to be make of well seasoned heart of white oak, full hooped, and the whole to be inspected and branded ac cording to law. W. JONES. October 6, 1813.. N. B. The Editors of news papers, who published the former proposal from this department, will publish the above and continue it weekly till the first of November next and present their accounts therefor to the respec tive Navy Agents for settlement. TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. RAN-AWAY from the subscriber in Prines William county, near Dumfries Virginia, two Negro Men, JOHN AND HARRY, Both of black compelction. John absconded about the 25th of May last; he is about 5 feet 6 inches high, short and thick set, of bad coun tenance and has an uncommon look out of his eyes, one of which is defective in the sight; he is between 45 and 50 years ofage; a carpenter by trade he had on a long drab colored coarse cloth coat, a pair do. green trowsers, one blue ditto waistcoat, bint as fie has other clothes, it is probable he will change them. He was hired from the representatives of the estate of the latejMr. Thomas Mason of Woodbridge, on the Ist J; nuary by my overseer for the present year for me. HARRY absconded |.bout the 15 August; he is about 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high ft years of age, though very small of his age and has very much the appearance of a lad has several marks of the small pox in his face, and o:i one of his hxms lias a considerable sear occasioned, by a scald he is a cooper by trade bad on a pair of yellow and blue mixed trowsers, a striped blue and yellow twilled waistcoat, a wool and cotton dark mixed twilled short coat, all of domestic manufac'.ure; but as he is a fellow of considerable smartness he may change his clothing. I wdl pay the above reward to any person who will deliver them to me or se cure them in Jial so that I get tbem B gain, or ten dollars for either of them. THO 3. HARREON. N. B. it is probable Marty is m Richmond as he has connections living with Mr Jarats Smith of th;.t place, who formerly lived in Dum fries- T. H. Chappawamsie, Oct, 6—3tw2w.
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The above reward will be given to any person who may bring the above articles to the subscriber, and information that may lead to the con action of the person or persons, who may have committed this daring robbery, or Ten Dollars will be paid for the articles alone, and no questions asked. FRANCIS NEALE, Pastor of the Trinity Church. N. B. All Silversmiths or others, to whom they may be offered for sale, are requested to stop them and give information as above. Georgetown, September 22 —d6t. TO BE RENTED. THE subscriber offers to rent for a term of years, the FISHING LANDINGS at Gisbo rough. Proposals will be received by him; and in his absence by Mr. Philip Webster, residing there. J. T. SHAAFF. September 11—eodlm. New and Improved G UN--P OWDER. Thb Subscriber has, in less than ninety days altho’ delayed by the militia interruptions, erected on the 8 Potomac Canal, about three miles from Georgetown, a New and Improved Gun-Powder Manufactory, equal to making as much Powder daily as any in the country. Giving to the subject his entire attention, hav ing considerable experience in the ordinary modes of manufacture; and having made an es sential improvment in incorporating the ingre dients by combining the singular method prac tised in the East Indies, with that of France; and using English proporions, he now war rants the powder to be of the most Extraordinary Excellence. His arrangements are such that he can sell to merchants about one fourth of what he makes, and it shall be forwarded to their or ders on the must accommodating terms, of all sizes. He will take back and pay the ex peaces incurrechin the delivety of all that shall not prove of superior quality. His casks are marked Improved Powder of the Potomac Mills,” and will be ready for delivery after next Monday. THS. EWELL. The highest prices will be paid for Salt- Petre. Georgetown, Sept. 16—7 t DANCING. MR. DU PORT respectfully informs his Friends and Patrons, and the Guardians of Children, of Washington City and Georgetown, that he will open his DANCING SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES, if sufficient encouragement be offered. He has opened a subscription at his snufl store, Bridge street, Georgetown, where particulars will be made known to such as wish to subset ibe. MR. DUPORT informs the Young Gentle men of W ashington and Georgetown, that he will open an EVENING SCHOOL: Such as wish to receive instruction, will please to favor him with a call. September Bth. SUPERFINE YELLOW BARK. For sale by Joseph Milligan Co Book sellers, Georgetown, (Columbia,) Dr. SANFORD’S Improved powder and essential salts of the bark; accompanied with the proprietor’s essay on the different kinds of Peruvian bark^now in use. The above are put up in parcels of different sizes, to accommodate .he usual wants o Physicians, Retail Druggists and Private Fa milies. Extract from the Medical and Philosophical Register, No. 4, vol. 2. “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. Sanford, after more 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 bark, 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 whose confidence and support Dr. Sanford is justly entitled to the strongest claims.” March 22. Extract from No. 1, vol. 3, of ths same work— In those cases in which the bark was pre scribed we have had the most satisfactory e viden.ee of the superior quality of that which is selected and prepared by Dr. Sanford, and which we earnestly recommend to the atten tion of Physicians.” Georgetown, Sept. 16. INTERESTING PUBLICATION. Just received and for sale by J. MILLIGAN Co. Georgetown, (in 1 vol. 8 vo. price §150.) THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF GRIEVANCES AND COURTS OF JUSTICE Of the House of Delegates of Maryland, On the subject of the recent mobs 8c riots in the City of Baltimore, together with the Depositions taken before the committee. This report is published by Mr. George Shaw, Bookseller, of Annapolis, Maryland, to whom booksellers at a distance will be pleased to direct their orders. August 2— FOR SALE, By Thomas L. McKenney, at his Store on Bridge S’ reet the second door below the Union Bank an assortment of the BEST WELSH FLANNELS. ALSO, Rose and Point Blankets, and English In grain Carpetting of a superior quality and figure, together with a geneiai assortment of seasonable goods. Georgetown. Sept. 18— ATTEN i lON 1 Deserted from this garrison on Wednesday the Bth inst. URIAH RAY a private in the 2d Artillery He is 28 years of age, five feet six and a half inches high, rather ruddy com plexion, blue eyes, dark hair, and by profes sion a seaman. He was born in Nantucket, state »f Maisachusett, and has relations resid ing in Baltimore, for which place he will proba bly make had on when he went oil a short blue jacket and trowsers and an indifferent small round hat. He plays tolerably on the violin. Any person apprehending the said deserter shall be liberally rewarded on his delivery to any officer in the service, or to JOHN RITCHIE, Capt. 2d Art’y Com. Ft. Washington. Sept. 16—2 awl THE SUB SCRIBER, Intending to decline business in this place W'U offer his valuable stock of DRY GOODS for ra e at auction on Friday, the 24th instant Th s stock, purchased early last fall, consists principally of Coarse, fine and supeifine Cloths and Cassi meres Rose, point and striped Blankets Blue and white Kerseys Kendal Cottons Cambric Muslins and Shirting Cambrics Shirting Longcloths and Colerain Shirtings India Muslins Cotton, silk and worsted Hosiery A fi w pieces cheap thread Laces, and Lace Veils and Hdkfs. &c. Those goods having been purchased last fall, at prices so much lower than they can now be had or, merchants will find it their interest to attend the »ale, which will commence at 9 o’clock A. M at which time the terms will be made known. WM. G. RIDGELY. Sep'ember 21—-4 t FOR SALE, A valuable Negro MAN, who has been ac customed to all kind of work on a farm. ALSO, A valuable Woman, who understands cooking, washing, &c. Enquire at this office. 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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. (Tj* The first number of the above work is published, and may be had at the book store of R. G. Weightman. April 13. ANALECTIC MAGAZINE. J. Miligav F Co. Booksellers, George- town. Have constantly on hand comp ete sets of the Select Reviews and Spirit of Foreign Maga zines (now published by M Thomas of Phila delphia,) under the title of the ANALECTIC MAGAZINE. Edited by Washington Irving, Esq. of New-Fork. This work consists principally of a selection from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, of such articles as may be deemed most valuable in substance or meritorious in composition, and most likely to interest the American reader. Conditions. The work is published in monthly numbers, containing 88 pages each—it will make two handsome volumes a year, each of which will be embellished with an elegantly engraved vignette title page. Other engravings will be given occasionally. Price five dollars per annum, payable on the delivery of the number, or first volume, in each year. No subscription taken for less than a year, and to begin and end with the same year. Eight numbers of this work are now pub lished four of them are embellished with highly finished portraits, accompanied with Biographical Sketches of distinguished naval officers—Hull, Jones, Decatur and the late gallant Lawrence, all engraven from origi nal paintings (that of Gapt. Lawrence executed a short time previous to his cruise in the Hornet) —Commodore Bainbridge’s Portait will be given in a future number. Price es the portraits separate from the work one dollar each. Aug. 30— NEW PRINTING OFFICE, NEW JERSEY AVENUE NEAR THE CAPITOL. RAPINE ELLIOT beg leave to' inform their friends and the public, that they have commenced business with a complete assort ment of printing materials, on New Jersey Avenue, between D. Rapine’s bookstore and the Bank of Washington, where they are enabled to execute every description of letter press printing in the neatest manner, and on the ihost reasonable terms. Orders will be received at D. Rapine’s book store. September 16, 1813—2aw6t, PUBLIC SALE. On Friday Ist of October, if fair, if not the first fair day thereafter, will be sold at public auction at Mr. Mudd’s new house, corner of Frederick and Second streets, all the house hold and kitchen furniture belonging to a fa mily removing away. The furniture was pur chased last Spring perfectly new and has been well taken care of; it consists of feather beds, bedding and bedsteads, hair mattrasses, ma hogany bureaus, secretary, sideboard, breakfast dining and tea-tables handsome card and claw ditto—sofa, settee, fancy and Windsor chairs— three, looking glasses, one of which is supurb; Carpets and carpeting, china and glass-ware. Some elegantly framed and glazed engravings by the best artists —Useful kitchen utensils &.c. Sale to commence at 9 a. m.—Terms cash. JONCIIEREZ DAVIS. Auctic.teers. Georgetown 29th Sept. 1813. HORSES AND MULES FOR SALE, The subscriber will sell, at Public Sale, on Saturday the 9<h day of October next, at the town of Upper Malborough, in Prince George’s county a number of Horses, among them are several valuable saddle horses, a valuable stud horse, and several good draught horses. At the same time will be sold, a number of well broke mules of good size. A credit of fifteen months will begiven, upon the purchasers giving bond with two approved securities, to bear in terest from the date. No interest will be de manded if punctually paid when due. Wm. o. SPRIGG. Washington county, Sept. 29—ts. BOAR LUA G THE Subscriber is desirous of taking a few genteel Boarders; his accommodations are good and terms very moderate. Should gen tlemen who write in the Public Offices favor him with their company and anticipate an in convenience from the distance in unpleasant weather, he informs-them that a hack shall be at their disposal free from charge, in such wea ther as would render the walk disagreeable. PENDLETON lIERONIMUS, Beall street. Georgetown, Sept 25, 1813. FOR SALE, 8000 acres first rate Land, IN different Tracts, from 500 to 1000 acres each, lying on the Mississippi in the district of Baton Rouge, surveyed and patented in the years 1770 and 1772, and recorded in the name of the Subscriber. ALSO, 7000 acres in Randolph county, and 3000 acres in Harrison county, Virginia 300 acres in Kentucky For the above, property in this City will be taken m part payment; the residue in cash or good bonds. Particular information may ba obtained on application to the subscriber, by letter, the postage must be paid. OLIVER POLLOCK. Washington city, April 23—2awtf COMMERCIAL COMPANY OF WASH INGTON. THE Board of Directors having agreed to call a special meeting of the Stockholders, in order to submit to their consideration, certain proposed amendments of the articles of Asso ciation. The said stockholders are hereby no tified that a meeting for the aforesaid purpose will be held at Long’s Hotel, Capitol Hill, or. the first Monday of next month at 10 o’clock forenoon. JOHN McGOWAN, Pres’t. Sept. 16—3tawtd HOUSE STOLEN. STOLEN from the subscriber, Inn-keeper, Wilmington, (Del on the night of the 21st of August last, a chesnut sorrel HORSE, about 15 1-2 hands high, 13 or 14 years old, some few white hairs on his forehead, switch tail, which he carries pretty high; considerably marked by tiie collar, and is fearful of having his shoul der touched; windgalls on both his hindlegs; one white foot, somewhat lame, and is thick winded. Ten Dollars and reasonable charges will be g ven for the Horse, if brought or sent home and Fifty Dollars will be given for the thief, if brought to conviction in this state. The thief calls himsed THOMAS SCOTT said he was a preacher is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, sjender built, dark hair, black coat, black silk-velvet pantalets, has a small bundle in a black handkerch es. He sold the horse and a plated bit and bridoon bridle (black leather), and half-worn saddle, blue cloth, to Henry King, Inn-keeper, near York town, Pennsylvania; and afterwards seized the horse, which King gave up, as the thief threat ened to burn his barn, if he did not. ISAAC ANDERSON. Wilmington, (Del.) Sept. 14. Sept. 17 WASHDfGTOJT PUBLIC BATHS. On C Street, near Mr. Davis's Hotel, and op posite Mr. Latrobe's Iron Works. The water which supplies the Baths is from that excellent spring which supplies the foun tains on Pennsylvania Avenue. This establish ment has been erected since the 9th of April last, and is now ready for the reception of vi sitors, and not inferior to any in this country. Nine persons can be accommodated at one time. Three of the baths are for ladies who can bathe in the most private manner they please. The subscriber flatters himself, that having paid the desired attention to the baths m Alex andria, and being now acquainted with the proper order in which the baths should be kept, he hopes for a liberal share of patronage. Re pledges himself to pay every attention to satisfy those who may feel a disposition to make use of his baths. Baths can be had from sun-rise till nine o’clock at night. (rs Gentlemen will please to enter at the South of the building, and ladies at the north alley gate. F. SHUCK. Cordials of every description will be kept only for those who make use of the bath. June 29 eop3m. Sold at the genuine Drug and Med!cine Store A' D^vid and Co. MEDICINES. Michael Lee 13 Co's C'rieb rated Family Medicines, So highly approved of and ought after in all parts of the United States for upwards of ten years, continue to be faithfully prepared and sold by the proprietors. No. 98, Pitt Street, Baltimore. MICIIL LEE Co. Sold by appointment by DANIEL RAPINE, Bookseller, Capitol Hill, Washington. NINIAN MAGRUDER, Drugcist, Georgetown. David ott co. Pennsylvania Avenue. The few following respectable cases of cures are selected f, om hundreds of equal re spectability. Lee's AntLßillous Pills. The operation of these highly esteemed, pillsis perfectly mild, and the experience of thousands has proved, they may be used in every situation of life, without the least in convenience. Messrs. Michael Lee, Co. I have been very much afflicted for some days past with extreme pain and giddi ness in my head, so much so that when I have had occasion tosoop down in the store, on raising up again, it was with difficulty I could stand on my feet for some time, connected with a sick stomach. Having repeatedly re ceived gre 4 benefit from your Anti-Billious Pills, I had recourse to them again, and find myself again entirely relieved from those dis tressing sensations, and now enjoy perfect health You are at liberty, K and I wish you. so to do) to make this as public as you may see proper, as I sin confident those pills are the most efficacious medicine in similar cases and I do sincerely believe that a timely use thereof will in many cases prevent violent at tacks of bilious and other fevers.- Yours respectfully, GREENBURY r RIDGELY. T No. 9, Market Street. July 8, 1812. Lee's Elxiir, A sovereign remedy for coldi, obstinate coughs, catarrhs, asthmas, sore throats and approaching consumptions. Messrs. Michael Lee S 3 Co. You are at liberty to use my name in the recommendation of Lee’s Elixir, as from re peated trials I have found it an excellent re medy for colds, coughs, &c. RD; BARRY. Baltimore, June 20, 1812. Messrs Michael Lee, <3 Co. I was attacked with a most violent cold, a severe cough and pain in the breast, which continued to grow worse—during which my appetite failed, and my voice altered so much that it was with the utmost exertion I could pronounce a single sentence louder than my breath. Some of my friends haying observed to me that much good had been done by the use of Lee’s Elixir, advised me to procure a bottle from Messrs. Warner and Hanna, which I accordingly did—and to those persons, un. acquainted with the merits of this medicine, it will appear astonishing that three doses should remove the pains in my breast, and the use of one bottle only restored me to per lect health J. A. SMITH, Market Street, F. Point. Lee’s Logengetn The medicine, which is as innocent and mild as it is certain and efficacious in its opera tion, cannot in jure the youngest infant should no worms exist in the body. Messrs. Michael Lee 8c Co. Observing that my son, six years of age, was troubled with difficulty m breathing [something frequently rising in his throat] restlessness at night, loss of flesh, &c. from these symptoms I was confident he had. worms; and having procured a box of Lee’s Worm-destroying Logenges, the first dose ex pelled 23 large worms which afforded him im mediate reiiei. Me now enjoys a good state of healte, and I believe I can from experience say, that Lee’s Lozenges are the most efficacious remedy for worms now in use. THOMAS PETERS, Of the late firm of Peters and Johnson. Baltimore, July 1,1810. Lee’s infallible Fever and Ague Drafts. Thousands can testify of their being cured by these drops, after the bark and every other medicine had proved ineffectual; and not one in a hundred has had occasion to take more than one, and numbers not half a bottle. Messrs. Michael Lee Co. 1 think it a duty incumbent on me (for the benefit of my fellow beings) to make known to you the wonderful cure performed by your truly infallible Ague and Fever drops. My little son has been laboring under the ague and fever for several months—a great many remedies were tried without the least effect, and the child fast declining, having almost entirely lost his appetite. I was advi-ed to try Lee’s Infallible Ague and Fever Drops. I pro cured a bottle and gave it attentively as di reeled, and to my astonishment, the third day the ague and fever entirely left him, and he soon perfectly recovered his health; Ido therefore confidently recommend them to all persons laboring under that distressing disease to be a perfect cure HOMEWOOD MARRIOT, Albemarle Street. Baltimore, Sept. 15, 1811. Lee’s Anti-Bilious Pills, for the preventionjof Bilious Fevers, Uc. Lee’s Elixir, for violent colds, coughs, Lee’s infallible Ague and Fever Drops. Lee’s Worm-destroying Lozenges Lee’s Itch Ointment, warrented to cure by one application, (without mercury.) Lee’s Grand Restorative,for nervous disorders inward weaknesses, &c. Lee’s Indian Vegetable Specific, for the venereal. Lee’s Persian Lotion for tetters add eruptions. Lee’s Essence and Extract of Mustard for the rheumatism, iUc. Lee’s Eye Water. Lee’s Tooth-Ache Drops. Lee’s Damask Lip Salve. Lee’s Corn Piaister. Lee’s Anodyne Elixir, for the cure of head-aches. Lee’s Tooth Powder. To detect counterfeits, observe each article has on the outside-wrapper the signa ture of MICHAEL LEE, Co. At the places of sale, may be had gratis, pamphlets containing cases of ures whose length prevents their being herewith inserted. J une 27 WASHINGTON’S VALEDICTORY. JOSEPH MILLIGAN, Co. Have just received General Washington’s Valedictory Address in a small volume, with a Vignette and an engraved portrait of the Gen eral, price 75 cents. ALSO, THE AMERICAN LAW JOURNAL No. 2 By John E. Hall, Esq. 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