Aug. 4

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i
J room—flic at firfl refused, but on his tel- has firfYbeen spread t then take the cloth
ling Imr that he had a piece 'of writing containing the charcoal'by the folir corFrom the BOSTON DKMOCRAT.
there which he wanted her to read, and ners,--and lay it upon the spot. Lift it
which was .of a private nature, (he con- up and (iut it down again on the spot ten
SONG
sented to go.. As soon as they were in * or twelve times successively, pressing
Of .spunky J O N A T H A N , who from
of Lexington ruad fired <nvay all his .the room, he locked the door and put the lightly upon it, and the spot will entirely price in Cash, for tin te
key in his p o c k e t ; the windows were disappear. When, the apbt is Considera- made Blankets, if ck..,., u
ammunition, and then thr:ew.\tcne.s.
already fattened—he bade her sit down. ble, it sometimes goes through the i\\.ifi\ ftore in Charles town," an'v^tj
,-,. . <f.
A plague on those snivelling coxcombs
She sat dow n on the foot of the bed. He and the grease or nil is imbibed by the «;,,,,,. .... .u:. . n i
s:vy I,
t h e n took her knees between his, and napkin. But whether this is the caseW
Who would sell for a sixpence then drawing a razor which he had concealed, twt, when vou lav the charcoal on the
GEO. & J . HUMPHREYS.
J
freedom ;
Charles
town Jefferson County 1
attempted by :« sudden and violent ftroke spot, ,a thick
vapor rises froih it, which
. About poverty, ruin and hardfliip they to cut her throat—believing he had ac- 'has the smell of the subftance that caused
Virginia, June 1ft, 1808.
j
cry,
complimed his purpose, he inftantly cut it. HenCt; it is to be presumed, that the,
And t h i n k that the people will heed his own throat from ear to ear, as he sat heat diffused by the burning charcoal .vo'em.
on her knees. liy her cringing howCHOICE APPLE HRANDY
If they say we regard our own pockets _ei'er, fh.e had received the weight of the latilizes the water of thi; cloth in which
they
are
wrapped,
and
thus
decomposes
two vears old-y:
alone,
flroke upon her chin, ami although the the grease and oil, which it reduces to
'Tis quite on wrong ground that the) !'. Hi mi tlu: one side of that was laid open
. w
vapors. So much, however, is certain,
es, to be the hellspjru that c J
argue,
to the brnc, and round her neck on the that no spot of the above-mentioned na- be any where
had at the price.
We reckon the/w£//'o ad vantage nurow'n. other side her,windpipe and veins were
ture
has
ever
resifti-d
the-process.
1
- F; F A I R p A Y "
Not si;lfilhly curse tin Embargo*
l a i d b.uv, he h;u! scarcely given himself
'Shannon-hill,
30th
May, 1808.
'4
the f.ital g.ilh \vht-n he pjerceiyetl that her Process for-rttsforinsr its 'Original luster
To paint our starvation the knaves seize wound-was -probably not mortal. WitH
. to IVood pointed with oil.
the pen,
/ W SMART^OYT^
belliIh perseverance in his murderous
_.To
clean
wood
work,
or
any
other
obAixd paper d. file by th.e acre, "-••
Of the age oM 5 or 16 years, will be
purpose, he repeated his ftrokes with the.
aken as an . apprentice to the
They'll whin-.", fill their purpose is' an- razor tu;icr—'mt as Ihe retained her ject puint'.'d with oil colors, a brufli dipbusiness.
,m'rr'<//.-and thenf l f e n g t h and his began to fail, (lie parried ped in frclh urine is used with -success.
We may llarve1 and be hang'd for what the r.iz.v from htr throat and received By this method the disagreeable smell of
JOHN LEMON.
r, ' ' "
Uhark-ftnwn, May 20, 1808.'
th.'V ran. :
tjie wounds on her chin, and at .length a.new coat of paint- is a'voidvd. After
To save ?/.s- from ftarving, and hanging wre-fted the razor.from.him and threw it the o.p-.-ration,, walh with,clear w^ter, to
to boot,
on.the floor. Still bent on her- death -he take away the smell of the urine.
I'm mifhtki n if they would so far go ; pressed his hand upon her mouth to smoHE subscriber' having at various
Number one as I guess, is the principal ther her and continued in that- position
Manner ofclarifiiing Writing §^ulls._
times lent out books, some nf
,:i i(lie
i j . fell
i ii back
i » upon"
~~'-' the
.1 bed
i 7~^and• ...his
-•
FOOt—
—:
-^—
until
both in. whole sets, and in odd
The'•** bird
which
affords
the
create ft
r
• •
- i i '•
i
Of this clamor about the^mbargo.
volumes
(in some inftanceS of Very valoss of blood loosened-his hand. Her quantity oi writing quills is the goose;
- .
.
• \
luable
books),
have never been returned
screams now alarmed the neighbours
a single one may yield them o f t e n differJi When hungry I've fought,.and when the door was broken open—-and'the hor- ent'qualities': but there always remains to h i m ; respectfully requefts thos,- to
naked I've toil'd
rid spectacle presented itself to view! upon their surfaci- a Catty matter, from whom h.e has lent any to return them
1'pr Freedom, the greatefl of trea- Both weltering in blood on the bed he which they mutt be f.-eed, in order to without delay: requeuing his friends
sures {
in the la ft agonies of death—and (he co- render the.m pure, transparent, fliining, generally to give him-information of any, No hardfhips could move me when li- vered with gore and ga.fhes ! He expired and clean ; inji word, to give them the book they may have met with, having
•Jberty smil'd,
almo'ft inftantly-—but surgical aid being quali Jes \-Isi'-li they, ought to possess, written in it the name^of
,t I laugh'd at effeminate pleasures.
speedily procured, and her wound's im- 'rhis preparation is principally performF. FAIRFAX.
Shall I, who sio often, 'mid'ft danger mediately closed and dressed, hopes'of ed by the Dutch. Hence the expression
April 22, 1808.
and want,
her recovery arc entertained.-^Read in French, hollander- les plumes, to de-r
.„•„; Havej^nu', lar,as any man dare go,
Five Collars Reward.
had borneV respectable character—and note the operation- whjch the quills are
"Beneath lighter bm-dXns now grumble Hatrrtotes and checks to .the amount of iriade to undergo.. I availed myselt ot tlie
'TRAYED^/row •jrfag er^s _„.., „„
T
on.
and pant,"
more than one thousand dollars in his I circum'ftance of the war, when several
the 27th ultimo, a small Roan Horse,
And Iliriuk i'rqm the. ills of Embargo ? pocket at the time he committed the apothecaries, inftructed in the arts arid about 14 hands high., fox^d and nkPdt _
dreadful deed. Further particulars we sciences, »were employed in Holland,..to. paces, trots andcanter* ; aboutjive years
When no pay I could get,~to be sure I have not learnt, and possibly some of solicitthem to collect some information old. The above retvnrd and reasonable-.
did flare,
th.-'sa'niay not be perfectly correc\, but respecting this .process, hitherto u'n- expences will be paid to tiny person deli*
'Twas hard-^but we were indepen- we believe they are subftantially so.
known^ -I'he following is what they verihg said hort,e to SamUel Hughes, esq,
dent—
have communicated to me. I wifb...that- of Hdge,r^s-Town, to Mr. Thomas Flagg,
All s»fF<;r'd—rso~7cheerfully. I bore my
by-repeating., them., a satisfactory result at Charlcxtown, or to the subscriber near
fhjjre—
may be obtained.
'
BcrrifvilU.
y. HOLKER.
'Twas'w.f// !o.>;t—and so there was an From P-otfl.von's Anit-rictm Dully AdverMay
6,
1808.
The process consifts in plunging the
end on't.
tiser, and iniendedfor all the.—other quill, as drawn from the w i n g n f t b e fowl,
In those times', when lories appeal'd to
into water nearly boiling, letting it soften
Ner-jx papers in the- United St
_.-___our warns-,-;th^re
.suilici -nth--, compressing it, turnD I R E C T I O N S FOR L E T T E R - W R I T I N G .
•„ We soon did for/fathers and tar go ;
ing it on its axis with the back of the blade
- 1. Always-mention the ftate in which of a knife. This k i n d " of friction, as
.l!m-the old-so'ldi'e'r Itill, whom no sufftrA valuable negro 'woman y
the
town or county is situated, from well as.the immersion's in the water, hav- about twenty two ijeurs^vfage-, and her'
ing"daunts,
\Vhence youf'letter is dated—-This is lie- ing been repeated till theicylinder of the .:.<ion aboitt three, tyears old. Any per.ton
Not even the pinching Embargo.
cessary iu-all countries, but more espe- ••quill is. perfectly transparent, and the waiiting-such a servant would do well to
I Ijold, that when florms that we can- cially in the United-States, in* which so membrane as well us the kind of greasy purchase this woman ; -she is honest,
..many tovvjis and coujnties^ar-e-called by mutter which^cover it ontirely"reTn%vlFrl ; -fatl-hful-andliZTilthi^r tinder stands home
—not control.
the same names, it will be ft ill more ne-. it is iirimersed for the la 11 time, in order ^vork, and is an excellent hand in the
Sweep wj th tjir r i bl e. f u ry the oce.an ;
'Tis be'tter iat port to make" sure of the. cressary when a letter is-dated frolrru gen- to render it perfectly cylindrical^ which Jield. She is not sold for any fault j an .
tleman's country-seat. ,
whole,
,
is effected by means—of the fore finger imperious demand for money coinpells the
2. Subscribe your firft and second and thumb. It is then put to dry in a measure. For the cabh a bargain can be
Though we lose,, for a while, a pro.-'
-portion.
names in a plain legible f l i l e , w i t h o u t a n y moderate temper'ature; Parmentier.
had. -Application* may be-nwde to George
I like, when my country is thriving, the flou.rilh above or> brlow i t — M a n y letters
and -Joiin Humphreys, in Charles Town,
cufh,
..have 'rem:iined- 'unansw<ire,d, in conse- New Process for obtaining Sugar from y^'er.^on county, Virginia, or-to the sub- .
. For -money ('tis said) makes the marc quence of the numrs of the writers of
~scfiber res/ dint* near said place.
the Bt-Kt Root. . go; '
them being illegible.---Names thus writ—SAMUEL WASHINGTON. '
But, in base competition w<jith freedom, - ten are-moll easily counterfeited, a fact ^ M. Achard'si.-process, for extracting
'May
17, 1808.
which.is not generally known. [ Affecta- sugar from the beet-root was so e'xpen'tis traftir—
So, huzza for the prudent Embargo-! tion therefore in subscribing them, sive that no advantage could be expedted
fromtit for ordinary uses. M. Hermbfliould
i n be.i avoided
— . upun this account as ftadt, « celebrated chemift Q£ Berlin,
^ANECDOTE.
3. ._Take care to leave a vacant space fias discovered a method more easily
A lady lately married (says a London
papjjr) on coming "to thatpart of the mar- in that part of your letter in which the executed, and by means of which it 'is
riage-service, *.' To obey until death do seal or wafer is to be fixed — By neglect- expected that sugar will be produced at
us part," -hesitated to repeat the words, ing this caution, very_ltr pjjjrkant words a rate considerably cheaper than that of
the Weft-Indies. It is as follows : AfLots, and Houses.
- a n d would have passed them over, but in a letter have ofterTbe en effaced.
ter
pounding the jbeet-roots in a mortar,
4; In direclitig a letter, mention the
on being.urged to it by thie mlnifter, ,nV
HE subscriber would dispose of his
atlength w"ft'h[-reluctance complied. At ftate in which the person resides to whom subject" them "to The press, to extricate
-leaae.3;fcjr,,t,wo separate tenements,
ii
, excep-t
'
, lives
,
,
Llhe^iauxe^-w-hich
dinrier_th£_miniftcr said to the young it is addressed,
he
in a larpirt
i - t - r i • Lis\-then put
1-1 into
u vessels,
c\
in Charleftown, lately occupied by him.
b
,„
„„:„
.,.'
..
.
rr.
,
;:
,
I
and
clarified
with
lime,
like
that
of the
v
lady's father, '• Sir, your daughter was town, or in the capital of a-ftate. tFrom
They are ingood repair, and maj bt: had
very unwilling to promise obedience to a neglect of this caution many letters sugar-cane. This operation being com- by any respectable person or persons,
her husband." " Indeed, sir, .said the have been delayed or perifhed in a. poll pleted, evaporate it to the consilience of who are sufficiently responsible for the
syrup ; leave the liquor to become cold, annual rents, which are quite reasonable''.
lady, " I was loth to tell you a lie in oihce.
church."
5. Never fail to pay the- poftage of when you obtain raw sugar of a-dark coOne of these houses would suit any
your letters, ' w h e n you write upon your lour, and the syrup^ which is left at the person of .considerable business; and
A horrid transaction took place-at Mid- own business. -Be assured your busi£ bottom of the vessel, may be "applied'to has been formerly used as a tavern ; the
•dletown Academy (Moiunouth count}') ness willbe done the'better for attend- various purposes of domeftic economy. other would suit a tradesman : atfd they
New Jersey, on the 4lh inflant, the fol- ing.to this diredion.' The contrary From lOOlbs. .of raw sugar youqbtain by are equal to any tenements in that town,
lowing particulars of which have been practice is presuming, indelicate and the firft refining SOlbs. of a well-chryllal- for. pleasantness of situation, extent of
ized sugar,'inferior, neither in quality ground, and convenient accommodarelated-.to us. '1 he teacher in:the Aca- unjuft.
_n.ox.whiteness
lo that.of the W. Indies.- tion. •
demy., a Mr. Ready had -for-some'timc•'
Two
days
are
sufficient for accomplifhpail paid bis addresses to a Mrs, ConoMethod of removing spots_of Grease.
F.FAIRFAX.
ing
the
whole
operation.
ve.r, <•( 'Jut place, a widow of about forty
Shannon
Hill,
April
22," 1803. -"
M. Lenormand has discovered a new
.yeari of age, and of a respectable_char_. and easy method of inlhmtly removing
ra:U-r. His suit had not been success-, spots of oil, grease an d tallow, from any
A Stray Hog.
£uu On the day above mentioned, he kind at ftuff whatever, without changing
'"pAKEN
1/p a 'stray hog, marked in
requc-fled a womari who lived in one part its color. Take five'or six pieces of
•*• both tars ivilh a crop and slope.. —
of he building, to invite Mrs.' Goriover lighted charcoal, about the size .of a walAppraised $ three dollars and "siventyto see her that afternoon. This {he did. nut ; wrap thrm in a pir-ce of white and
Jive cents. The owner nciy have it on
M s. Conover, not knowing at whose very clean linen, which has b<- en Wviing property and paying charge*.
su ;g< Uion the invitation was giv«n, pusly dipped In water, and jjqiuu-ied in
'
cu ne. - Mr. Rea'd-took occasion of the the hund to press out the supu.ilmndmit
May 10, 1808.
absence of the landlady, to ask Mrs. Co- water. E x t e n d ' t h e f t u f r t l K H is .spotted
110. c;- to go up iLiijp uhh him to his on a jiible,- on which a very clean uwpLJu
J u u e 10,
For sale at this Office.
Encouragement for Do.
mestic Manufacturers.
ers
VOL. i.
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To be harvested on
shares, the whole or part
of a large field of wheat,
in the neighborhood of
CharJestowiv Inquire of
the printers.
For -Sale,
FRIDAY, JULY «, iy08.
"NE 1IAL-K IN A D V A N C E .
For sale, by the Barrel
I
No. 1,5.
T W O D O L L A R S PER A N N U M .
FOR RENT
WILL 'BE PUBLISHED
In a pamphlet, at the. office of the AlexanAnd irritn eiiiate possession-given.
HE noted corner House and lot, the dria ^Daily.Advertiser, in a short time,
AN A D D R E S S
A property of Captain Blackford, on'
TO T H E .
the main- (Areet, Shepherds-Town, and
PEOPLE
OF
THE U. STATES,
hulv
rs. Bayor.
' in
' the
theoccupancy oof Mrs.
Baylor
• '...'..n -..!„..1.,*...i P-._ . ..i.:_.
On
the
importance
of encouraging
This hoiise is well calculated for any kind
A
G
R
I
C
U
L
T
U
R
E
&
DOMESTIC
of public business and a privat
private family ;
M
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A
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T
U
R E S : '&
there are sundry necessary buildings,
b u i , a
Tending
to
Ihew
that
by
a
due "encourgood garden • and a well of excellent
agement
of
these
essential
r-nterefts-,
water-on the premises. For terms apply
the
nation
willbe
rendered
more
to Mr. JIUTVCS Brown, who will lliow the
respectable
abroad
&
more
property, or to the subscriber,
prosperous at home.
DANIEL MORGAN.
Tog-ether
-with an account of
J'ulyl, 1808. _
_ |
T
THE I M P R O V E M E N T S IN S H E E P AT AR-
THE MONITOR
LINGTON,
from the MONITOR.
A MODEST
WhercMis it appears, uy various gazettespubl,lh,d indifferent quarters bf
the United States,,that the good people of this country have no.t sufficient
virtue to maintain a frt^e government,
as is clearly manifelled by, the refllessness some of thcmjiave exhibited at the
few privations they have had to'b.ear under the present embargo ; and as'money
appears to b'ejjrlth them the grand object
« t life, a n d liberty, happiness,'and m>
dependence of no value ; it is hereby
proposed, for the alleviation of their infirmity, a.nd the.gratification of-their desires, ''"----L
economy, inasmuch as there'will be inn u m e r a b l e living models (particularly of
diftress) citlK-r single or in groupes, for
the chisel of the i i r t i f t ; and the induftribus labors.of thi! real economift w i l l ' b e
frefhly- excited, . in order to discover
some mode by which the widows and
orphans may live without eating." However, if any difficulty Ihould occur on
this head, the fhorteft and heft way will
be to kill them up aod-dispose of them
as alreay recommended.
Fifthly : As the people muft sell them'selves by this plan, to some of the Euv ropean powers, they will have the immenst; satisfaction of being concerned in
4uTthe wars of that rjortiorrnfTK"^ world ;
IS a newspaper now publifhed at the The native Sheep of Smith's. Island, and
the pjajjs_iirjliio^erLo-flcxt^nding-tW*^
c ity'-of~~Walliington, every Tuesday,
~7'lnirsday,
^y
.
„
.
•
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
,
.
....
_ - - _ . . . w . i w i t ut. U l 5 i > U l V ( J U ,
' valuable race of animals, for the benereflect how very simple it is to
and Saturday. It is devo'
and that the nation be set up to sale .in
fit of the country at latge :
aking
on, while in Europe the
ted to News, Politics, Arts, Manufacone ^aiul lot,
be 1UUCIC
ftruck ott
off toto lh the suh ectsof
1 to DC
Br GEO. W. P. CUSTIS., Es<*.
•h£hVr'ir ' T
<= i
J
Different governments are
tures, and Agriculture. During the
highe ft bulder; the ftwney arising there- j spilling one another's blSod, and break!
•ession of Congress, it will furnilh the Of Arlington House, in the District of from to be divided,, among the citizens
zens i ing each other's bbrjes
Columbia.
public \vith a correct, and (when necesin
due
proportions,
according
to
their
in due proportions, according to their i Sixthlv
the m«
in,
--.f. .: The
- ..^ peopl'e
i^^.yjvtt will
win have
nave t,ne
sary) a copious account of t.he proceedAT. a time when the energies of the cravings.
l,j:._u t _ n ' - i
expressible
delight
ofhelonging-all
to
one
ings and debates of the National Legis- nation seem awakened to the ftate of oiif
As, however, there may be afezv perlative body. At all times, .it will com- foreign and domeftic concerns, we con- sons in the U n i t e d States, who would church : the ridiculous cant about liberty
municate to its readers the earliest and ceive that the important interiefts of A- be.opposcd to such a glorious and patri- of conscience would cease : we^fhould
moat authentic intelligence, on all sub- j gricultureand Manufiich«rfsfhould meet otic plan, it is suggcllcd that they might have fine, fat plump priefts to direct our
ji'dls of which it professes to be the vchi- i ...with a considerable (hare o.f the public be killed up for 'use, salted, packed pro- souls to Heaven in the beft manner ima«
cle. The: patronage of the public is res discussion. Certain it is, that at no pe- perly inljarrels, and be sent to the Weft ginablc. The expence would be trifling,
considering it at only one tenth of what
11 kn4t<.4-if'Uj»fi-t-n-j-w.l r+t ;i- ..n..i.i-ju. riod-crf-auT-rmttdeal~hiilory could these Indies",
,
^where
provisions
are
in
very
~AVe~make7'on
pjjr....larms^-&-e.-7-And7-inincut.
national subjects ex^Lte.more intereft or great demand : they will, if the requisite addition, we fhoukl gain the reputation
:TERMS.
be more properly brged to the notice of care be. taken in the curing, no doubt
The price o'f subscription will be five the public mitjd. The unsettled and im- bringa handsomeprice ; the profits of the J of having pur minifters better fed, and
dollars per annum, payable in advance. I pending appearance of our foreign affair s, sales to be duly accounted for & as already more pordy in the,jr carriage; for it
.muft be confessed that the parsons in this
The paper will-be transmitted always | and the present difturbed flate of the Eu1
7
agreeably to direction by mail, or left by ! ropcan world, renders it doubly neces- mentioned, divided among the people. cbuniK at present are a poor set, as well
As it is "uncertain .whether pofterity in fle'fh as in spirit, eating little and
a carrier according to orders.
sary for the citizens of America to cht> would approve of the proceeding, it will ftuclying too much. Archbifhops, hi•••*.. AdverTisements will-be received and rifh and promote their do'mi-ftic:.policy,
be well to k i l l all the little boys and girls fhops, &c. ,&c. . we fliould'have, oCinserted at.the usual prices;
wliercbythey may derive those resources under a certain age, and offer them for course, to honor us by doing nothing.
Essays dectntly and concisely written, which ars now obtained from abroad and
sale in our markets, in order that there . ««wHiiny
: The
i ne people will have a
on subjects i n t e r f i l i n g to the general
Seventhly
create wealth and iriduflrv w i t h i n them- may be, no rufteritv to complain about court
lurt and
anfl kin
Itinw
»»l-»!««l-« to
*— say nothing
welfare, will be cheerfully inserted with
g • • which,
selves. Too_ long have thtse important the matter.
o u t a n v charge-.
ot
their
Utility,
would
be
a
great
novelty;/
an
j , ,. ^-.%. u^ n yi
cMinovcity
^.pa.tXi.P-tlc inttrrtfts been neglertecl.'
anfl 1f Jc
It being a general observation, that and it is"'*""•
' of any sort is
clear^"*
that """
jio'vflty
J. B,_COLVIN.
The nation now feels t h e i r w.ant, anxd we little
minds do not readily enter into very entertaining, as maybe learntfrQjv
Washington City, Hfcy 30,J 808.
truft wiirduly provide for'their -support. great undertakings, and this "being one
1
Government, hitherto engaged in other undoubtedly for the; public benefit;., it the"old song , which says that " Variety
is charming!"
_ui^i_
II1 ;1 _v_n
*-~*"
;LL person* arte hsrrby fornvarned concerns, will now cherilli those domes- ma
v notr\tJ**»-n-•»»
be am i'•^s
to e xpla' i n i TV a sum ma ry
Eighthly
:
^The
people will have a
tic inftitutions, which will preserve the • w a y ' t h e advantaged niofl likely to-accrue
k
from jishing, fowling, passing
gri-at
-navyj
a
t
h
i
n
g
which some have..
natjons's dignity and. promote the p"eo^. .fronr.it.
!ff.?7j, or trespassing in any 'manner plr's
,
been,
long
crying
for.—By
this means
welfare.
i be .. °"r } ^<™, bothers, ^ and children
n i h e - f i r f t . place,, the people will
on'mi/farm, or that of Thomas Fairfax,
-.Of the merits of the little work we are
t-f.r«/i ,.«'..n
,.._..ui . and.-•-'-care of the - would b^ seized and carried off without
of all trouble
us I..am determined to prosecute all about to issue to the public, it is not our deprived
vj'ende'rs.
concerns of the country, and not eveii be our knowledge, 4ind we fhould have the
province to decide, but o.f the advanta- called upon, for t h d r .opinion in 'an/
JOHN DOWNET.
ges
to be derived ffdm its sale we 'would case whatever ; for which great benefit supreme felicity of crying after -them ;
Bloomtry, May 16, 1808.
beg leave to-sa'y every thing which a dis- they will be -merely required to pay about which,, considering the few occasions
intL-refted exertion in the cause pf Do- one half their income to persons of dis- we have at present for fheddingi tears,
,-..
would he a great imJulgen.ce, and a pre^
meftic Manufacture juftly demands—'
WHEREAS my wife Ann haselopt-d and as the profits of this work, after tinction, as compensation for the trouble cious cVuisblatioh'.
of looking.affj.j-'t!)cir affairs.
from my bed and board without any
Ninthly : The payment of taxei
the
e*pences
of
publication
are
paid,
-jtift cause^-this is to" give notice that I
See«ndJ>-r They wiliiie reSvived from would be—another advantage^
n
therer* being
hfinnmm*
~f great
• icrti•- mnuence
'-Tnflfuence'an'd"
will not pay any Debts of her contracting, will be solely devoted'to the purposes of the IVcedorii of speech.; which, consider- therers
---ii,
.-.«w.
and
mea
of
v
e
the Arlington Inftitution, we may hop<
after this date.
ing what an idle practice- it is to be talk- authority, wouldlje
very beneficial in
d oe ve;
and confidently expe'ct' a liberal patron
in about overnment as ii it> we
any t ^ i r v r s u s t o - o u r families, keeping our
, E D W A R D BREEN. _ age from a discerning and patriot icj-om.
« t . c ^.uy
'June 14th, 1808.,
—,—,—
o-ov-cr-nment—-Cn i in i:ui.m^w-<5-y-ai>^-tf-trrey-flToi'
munity,—
--n.
TTDTTOH.'
,,....-.
.
u
W lbea
ilef l uabicibl sin
v.
!!
";
,
.''
^ g- ; '.-P^ to leave us a .little bare of mon.
Alexandria,-June 18, 1808.
1
i n i r d l y : I iTe liberty of the presr -«" much the'bftter y we fhould have
Vwnich every body cojnplainsfof) will be live « link- more savingly ; too much
Irel
yeinovccl,.nsomuch that nothing. . ing and drinking, the'dolors say,
C TOLEN or flrayed from the subscri- ^|
will
it-mam
o< that detcllable priviltgr, i not
•>'
not good.
•^ ber living in Martinsburg, Berkeley 'n hii vor of which
a small rrainber oflbols
There are a great many other reasorts,
just received a .very-handsome as- county, Virginia, on \Vednesduynip-rit a »d knaves have so'-long" prated. This equally subftantialj which I could- offer
laft, adark brown Mare, t^fmnilji high, when duly considered, "will |, f
. ' sortment:of well bought
Omu i J.'J
injRupport of my project; but, as the
seven years old, with.the top off her Idt g | - fateft 'bencrir-fmagin^ble: e for
what forcgcjjng muft be jntirely satisfactory,
;
ear. Whoever takes up the said mare
wn be more absurd t h a n that tlvetpeonle •I'dt'irline int.rocluciivg'them-here.^ h i c h h e n o w offers to his friends and and thief, and secures them so that the <houm be pt-flered w i i l f essays about
I.''th is propcsnl i,s acceded to (and I
tB« public, at reduced prices for CASH • owner gets his mare, and the thief be
they do not understand ?. By rc. -nirtkf it w i t h great modefty) I would bebrought
to
jufticc,
lhall
receive
the
above
2s
I' °"?t» those persons who have a wifti
moving this .grievance, another evil gin b-y burning the declaration of indereward, and all reasonable charges if
„,, tain Sr.eat bargains to give him a the mare be brought home.
pendence, hanging Gen. Wafhington'i
will n? VS c o n v i n "dthat his goods
likrness
in chains, and sending couriers
JOHN M'INTIRE.
Ji 1 please both as to price,and quality;
to
.all
the
"nations nf F.n<•«'«-. ~cc--"Martinsburg,. June 1, 1808.
^ whob of his purchases having been
JgSi so as to enable him to sell them as
ta
P as a,,y goo;ds can, or willbe sold
V virtue of a Deed of Truft from
•'enu-nough, I fhould bc for selling, ourl
jurthly : All the" fine ftout 3'Oting , selve^
.. any person-in this part of the country.
to the Grand Turk, as there 'are
Andrew
Parks
to
the
subscriber,
y
\V'-s in the;country, w i l l have the- plea- •wtaln advantage, in being his subj a
Koodt'1 r0m
'^^iPhil018dea rurther supply
of
for
the
purpose
of
securing
a
debt-due
e s
of becoming soldiers w i t h o u t their | ^ t t o > c obtumcd from any other por t
, 1 f 'P''ia, whicli P4en from the said Parks to Wm. A. U'lifhDts' or their own inclin:ifi*oiis bciig
cb2S WIiim*k* h l s assortment very ingljon, w.ilLbe exposed to sale, for rea'tfd ; wiiich is a molt delu-ious
He has on hand, as usual, a dy money, on the premises, on Mon_ to t h i n k upon, particularly f o r
mce Bar and Strap Iron, day the llth day of July next, (if fair,
-ther flie_vr,,! Lecomea'purchi'scTT
marriagcablcigirls, who will t h u s ' h i v e
S|ecl, Cabonift Tobacco, Spin- otherwise on the next fair day,) a trnct <nv
once already• had us
i» n i d'••"••'- •— —*
fnt-i
T'x>«.
r-.nr
•..'
•Having
•
*••* under
uituCt suboLllj—
sweathearts in P K-nty, dressed in
lection nn/l tV.ii.-..I ..-.-_
i
—. '
u.
I
ject.on
and
_
found
'-^^?.
us
y*""»y,
unruly,
ana
and
now
of
land
in
the
county
of
Jefferson,
ftate
:;
u
Freuch aild
t i l u l u n . i o r m s . To which we in;,
seeing us cH.ingc buck again, flic might
of Virginia, containing eighty-eight; Ui heiglHMi the advantage, that u ,!d
Alsoalarge
acfes. Also anothertmcl, adjoining.!he and orphans will be mure rife— . rv be induced to think that we w.ould not
u v
^-' d i r i »'^ in
be satisfied under an)- government.—
aboyementioncd, containing two h u n - graying con%ftierat-ib.n to all.'humVe
l c h he offcn for C1>111
However, as G n a t Britain seems to
dred'iiiid
twenty-twoacres,
three
rood.s
M,
'
persons, w l . o l r c l a pt-tulinr and inter- have plenty of money, and that appears
^
leasing to the
and thirty-fqtir perches.
-ft.ng scnsatjoo- in gaziijg upon ferule
H E N R Y S. TURNER.'" ;tnd i n f a n t i n e m i s r r i . s . - , A'. £. T h i » v i l l to be what our unquiet citizens want
, May 20, 1«08.
it 'is possible, if" (he were well
June I, 180«.
tend to i m p j o v e the ^iu of Uatujiry
IK
•
might buy us ; particularly
A
'-qAm^QN.
ring Goods.
Three Dollars Reward.
W. W. LANE,
Spring & Summer Goods,
B
Deed of Trust.
;
.'*".
'
'
It has been fiatcd by the, General that
to hear part in the .expedition ag.iinfi.
if in nil our churches anil meeting houses ation which a d m i t s no other coursr of Mexico ; that he. had come-for the ex- after his damaged tobacco had laid SOITIU
a formal anathema \yere pronounced up- defence. In ordinary cases, it is held press purpose! of proposing the plan to years in do re at Ne,w.Orleans, his-agent
on the rebels of the revolution, and a lli'it-every man - f l n l i be considered in- him, and of carrying him back to New there received for it and remitted to him
few of their hones taken up and Hrcwetl nocent until he is convicted of guilt ; but Orleans; that he ( M u r r a y ) ' m u d rec'on- the Several'sums, credited in the cnpv of
with respect to me the rule has been Y e - '
about the touritry.
versed,
and I am declared to.be guilty, noitre B;uon Ro'uge as he went down an account current presented by hi'h'i and
I have no doubt we.fhould get a round
-—, 1Uid under the
the river, as it would be assigned to him mm keel No.
'sum ; for there'need be. no higgling on -rtntil I can prove my innocence. I will to take that pl'.icc, and observed " as impression that the letters accompanying
. that score, as 'the money would all re- isk you, gentlemen, is it possible to your pavticular friend Mr. Clark is con- the said account were, written by his said
turn to our new sovereign by the niedi- <uibd:intbtc by positive U-Himony, that ;< cerned, of course you cannot hesitate." agent Philip Nolan, the. court thin-k it
li fa' of taxes. Tliis, however, would ui.m h.is not c o m m i t t e d this or that act ? Murray proceeded to New Orleans with highly probable that the datement i» cor.
make no difference ; for as -all our pode- The more spotless the accused, the more Taylor, and was invited to dine with reel. They.howeverdo not consider the
rity would be put to death, we Ihould on- < l i f f k u l t i s it for him-to bring witnesses Judge Wor,km*an ; where they laid open verity of it of the lead importance in the
ly want the money d u r i n g our own to exculpate himself from a particular their plan to him of seizing upon the case, since if he did receive the money
crime alledgrd againd him ; for the nonlives.
bank at New Orleans, impressing the as Hated, the transaction was fully julli'.
• After all, if it fnouul be thought bed exidence of the faut baflles the applica- (hipping, taking Baton Rouge, and join- fiable, and if lie did not so- receive it
to r e m a i n as we are, and hear the in-, tion of te.dimony.
" I n-pel the infamous charge, of hav- ing Miranda by way of Mexico ; after there is no proof of his having received
ievrt^T^eHiVR'Tvcs^cxpTrii-nrij, with maging
received base bribes from the Spa- which he (Murray) declared 1he would it at all<
hanirtv.tN , I am not so.dubborn as to perjIt is therefore'the opinion of this court
not disgrace his commission and the
sill-in my scheme; for as I propose it niih g o v e r n m e n t for corrupt purposes. country that gave him birth, by having .that there is no eviden.ce of Brigadier
;purel>i for the good nf the people, I fluill I>y the holied a Sections of the soul, and, any thing to do wjth it—but afterioards, General James Wilkinson's having-.at
t h e mod n 1.1 hi e feelings of the heart,. 1
submit to their decision.
proted it is the fabrication of ferocious • related to hiti fr'raicl Mr. Clark all that any rime received a pension from the
GULLIVER.
r«v.enf>i- I .and being false, my only ave-' had passed at fiMgf Workmates, and told Spanifh government, or of his having
nuc tojudice is to (hew, that those who him he (Murray) -was calculated on to received money from the government of
prefer it are governed by impure mo- attack Baton • Rouge, -which he (Mr. Spain or-any of its officers or agents for
' From the MONITOR.
tives, and fire unworthy of credit. If Clark) advised him bij all means to do, corrupt purposes : and the court has no
they" are deserving of faith, I mud be and nrired as an inducement, that he hesitation-in -saying, that as far as his
GEN. WILKINSON.
culpable; .but if I prove that they are (Mr. Clark) was.coming on to GoilgfasJi, conduct has been developed by this enThe General concluded his vindica- not, I demondrate my own innocence. and would do all he could in his •(Mur. quiry, he appears to have discharged \U ft
tion on Saturday about one o1 clock."—• At once prosecutor and witness, they t'ay'tij favor / that he would represent to duties of his llution with honor to him-*
We have not been enabled to obtain a; urge, thrt trial, and furnifli the tedimo- (he government, that it ruould require a self and fidelity to his country.'
' c o m p l e t e ; copy ; but offer" the following ny ; but if you . a t t e m p t to cross-examine -Jlll'S''for£e to rel(l^e it" And he further
City of Washington,'June;/8, 1808.
as' a correct dutement aS far as it goes. tlvm, and «-xpose their manrenvres, they observed that at anyrcttiTTf'~tlr(r~gQVcrn~~
.(Signed)
H.
-qxicdLlangiDlirjiiltJbarity^ and Ihrink-frorn_ ^ment should be disposed t& trouble htm
(Murray) before they c~buld xend~~ajjf*7i
Hud I consulted'my personal feel- fair enquiry.
T. H. CUSIUNG,
ing?., in the circumdances which occa" It is imnosed on me, in defence of sufficient force, he (Murray) would InJ O N A WILLIAMS,
sion my appearance before you, Fihquld ray aspersed honor, to unveil the actions ill— LLsituation to take care of himself."
Members. .
have 'preserved an inviolable silence with of my. enemies, that I may expose the Or (added General Wilkinson) in other
July 2, 1808.
regard to the contrivances of a combina- foul intereds by which they are moved : words, that Burr would be in possession
APPKOVKD,
tion of men, who--would inevitably sink the office is a painful .one, and the anti- of1 the country.
(Signed)
TH : JEFFERSON.
Among
the^HUM
great variety^.cf_jd_ocu±
into contempt,'were they deprived of cipation wounds my sensibility.
~
*'
u
particular notice. They had sonrtething
Hallowed forever be the feelings of .ments, submitted 5y the general, was a
to gain in a conteft wVth the commander honorable minds I respected the obliga- letter from Thomas Power ; which,
Foreign Intelligence.
in chief of the American a r m y / but to tions of social correspondence ! If, in from its peculiar call, made so great an
defeat their machinations, and gain a the course of this vindication, I draw impression, .that we venture to give the
LONDON, MayG.
victory over them, would add nothing to I j-,__._. attention to the-eontents • of private following as a correct copy :
" Having been laid up these four days
the reputation'of Gen. Wilkinson.
, * 'letters in corroboration of my reasoning,
HOUSE OF LORDS, M A Y 5.
u
~Fhe office-which I have-the honor to I truft the necessity oi the case, and the with a catarrh,' ^ore throat and- fever, I
Orders in Council.
hold under the government, extorts proceedings of my adversaries, may had not an opportunity of seeing BradLord Grenville said, there was a subford's scurrilous, lying, contemptable
from me n vindication of my motives anjL, speak-.my apology."
ject
of importance, of which he had givattack.
on
me
until
this
morning.
I
Avifl»
actions, which all the: artifices fif my
The General then proceeded to invesen
a
general notice previous to the remod malignant , enemies could never tigate the charges adduced againft him, to know if any thing that- may come
cess,
he meant an adclress to his majefty
have impelled me to offer to .the world: the subdance of which we.Jhnll from time ftcun_the vejxal.pen of such a trifling felto
suspend
tHeoperatiom of the Orders
I owe it to my countrymen in general, to time give to the public, as correctly low,, will be any obstacle to my seeing you ;
in
Council.
Rumours, however founded
and .to my familyy-my friends, and my a*'notes, founded upon recollection, will and if not, at what hour convenient to
he
knew
not,
had gone abroad, that it
profession in'particular, to demonftrate enable us ; unless we fhbuld succeed in yourself I may call on you to morrow'?".
was
the
intention
of his majcdy's gothat the commission I wear is not tar- our endeavors to procure a complete coThe reader is requcfled, to observe vernment-to recall.them, in consequence
in
niflied by my character; and in 49 g py of the proceedings.
that this letter preceded the certificate of the. pleasing hope that_our relation*
•so, I conform to that sacred principle of
The deposition of Mr. Clark was the of Mr. Power given on the IGth of May, with the U. States of America would he
the conltitution which inculcates a res- main subject of the Genernl's consider- 18O7, which went to exculpate tire gene- redored to their iormerjimicable interpect for the good opinion of our fellow ation : And here he went into n minute ral from the very charges to which Pow- course. If such was the fact, he congrascrutiny of all its parts, adducing scye- er alludes, as having been publifhed in tulated the country, and was much-more
men.
. _ • ' :.'•
"The crime with which I-am charged, ral depositions which go to invalidate its Bradford's paper and which have been arrxious that the t-evocatipn of the-Or-,
is the dark.i-41 in the gloomy catalogue of mod material allegations, and produced since repeau-d by Mr. Clark.
ders in Council ihould proceed from the.
h u m a n villainies; and, to'*a soldier of a great number of letters from Colonel
The conclusion- of the General's, re- .voluntary act of the King's government
sentiment and of honor, is more fright- Clark, the uncle and patron of the pre- view of the teftimoiiy was manly and af- than by any motion' of his. Howei'tr,
ful than plague or, peftilence ; more af- sent Daniel Clark, together with many fecting : He contralted in -giowing co- if no such intention fhould bemanilefled.
lli£ling than the loss of life and liberty. from the latter, (all ofrrdate subsequent lors his own conduct with that of his ene- by the conclusion of the present month,
To subltantiatt^an offence of such •mag- to the peritd of the General's alleged mies, and emphatically appealed to the he pledged himseli to" submit to""their
nitude, it .was certainly to be expected 'connection wit^the Spaniards,) which jultice and-patriotibin ot his country.
lordlhips the propriety of addressing his
tlv.it my accusers "would IvaVe pdinted to .vindicate the~General from the charge
Neither. the judges nor the spectators majedy for their repeal.
some overt act, exhibited some respect- of a Spanith connection, speak oi him
Lord Hawksbury rose for the purpose
could,
without ftrong emotions, behold
able living ..witness, or .produced som.e in terms of ardent affection, respect, veof guardjmg ; agamtt any inference which
memovi.il m my own hand w r i t i n g : but neration and gratitude, as a man firmly the tear of sensibility bedew the chei--k of his silence might encourage, with-TesthsyTiiwe appealed only to "the evidence ,attached to/ttre-interefts of the United the. patriot soldier and saviour of his pect to the rumour of repeal, to which
of unauthenticated docu-ments, to 'the States,^ and always prepared to assert country-from the machinations 'of trea- the noble baron alluded): at the same
VVe fliall
pfeQions ot black-hearted-calum- thejr rights, in some of the lt;tters-of son.
vile
sTcetch
of the concluding part in the time that he felt it his duty not to make
an<i to the mouldering tenants of the Mr. Clark, the writer represents him•a single observation on the. date of our
grave to'• suspicion I have been called self in a curious character ; as a person course of the week.
relations with America.^* Adjourned.
on to oppose' If gal tellimony—to simple who can play any part to attain his ob_jfc^r_a6)t_of'a l« tter from Dublin, of
COURT O F E NQUIRY.
-assertions, (lie solemnity of mthsr—antl- ~je.6t ; capable of c'anting,.whining, &c.
the-4th inft.—•" Proceedings of—a siAfter a full invcfligation of such evi- milar natureto what took place lately in
it -has bt<iu vm-p^-CHml-y-pt^oclaimed that to dive into the views of men: And in
I am.guilty aud undone, unless I r can other 'letters, there is an equivocal dence_andjtircumftances ,as have come Galway, have been acting in BeUsft.
M| ,ve a negative, before the affirmative^ jjquinting at Burr's project^ n'glance at to the knowledge of the court in the The mob rose and dismantled a vessel
h.irf been .even plausibly verified. ~FTOTIT ~wb«t he calls the " Land of Promise" course of its proceedings, a cprrcct bounH to Derry, laden with .oat meal;
the malicious-absurdity of such logic, I .which combined with the particulars of ftatement of which ishereunto^annexed, they burnt the sails and rigging, promight securely fheltrr my fame under various ^depositions submitted to the and after mature dtliberatibn upoh-the ceeded afterwards to the market, where
the jjQjixijns.iif-law.and the connmon sense court by General Wilkinson, conclusive- same, the—following opinion pn the a- they took charge of the sales' of corn and
of m a n k i n d ; but a" military man, when ly go to ttftahliih Mr. Clark's connivance mount of tlVe teiriniony is respectfully potatoes without any oposition j.'the-parhe enters on the protoftion of his honor, with Col. Burr. U .would .be impossi- submitted.
ticulars have been, laid before the lord
scorns to avail himself of any rules, howj ble to dojuuice torthis part of the vindiIt has been proved to the satisfaction lieutenant. Tb£ price of oats at Lishnra
ever wise; o f ' a n y sentiment howeveV, cation in a sketch like .the present; suf- of this court, that Brigadier General is 16s. per cwt. and of otrt meal S2s.
jull,_which might furnffli the wicked a fice it to say that the General placed Mr. James Wilkinson ha^fbeen engaged in a
specious pretext to arraign his motives. Clark's politics and morals in the moft tobacco trade with- Governor Miro of
We copy the .following 'diftress'mg
In battle for his country, he employU'the odious point of view imaginable, and New-Orleans, before he entered the paragraph from the .Glasgow. Courier of
arts and irnplements : of war \ but in de- fixed upon him the seal of infamy,-by American army in 1791 ; that he receiv- Tuesday laft :—'< We noticed nearthrce
fence of his reputation, he presents-no alleging his perjury, and supporting his ed large sums of money fortobacco deli- months ago the didresses -of the ^inhabiweapon but pure reason ; he uses np art alleg-uion by what appeared to be the vered in New-Orleans, in the year one tants in the nothern parts of .this bng-.
but guileltiss truth.
mol\ irrefragable tellimony, in the case thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, dbm, from the almod total failure of the
*• If magnanimous meiv had s\)oken ot pf the thip.Grand Sachem.
and that a large quantity of tobacco, be- lad year's crop. We have now to ado,
me with disdain, I (liould indeed have
From the many vouchers produced by longing to him, was condemned and from letters that have been fhewn us,
felt myself mortrfied and humbled ; but 'the General to subllantiate Mr. Clark'js ftored in New-Orleans in thnt year ; but that, in some 'parifhes the inhabitant
surely it can' excite-~littl«-surpriz.c that I hoftility to the government of the United it-had not been proved, and aft<r the had not among them more than ten da}5
Ihould remain calm amidft ungenerous States aml'"CTfncurrence in Burr's plans,
fulled invelligation and comparison of provisions—and in others, not more
practices, although intended to deftroy the foUowi^g ib -HbU^l^l-«4T-4tccoi.mt of
"tetlTmony m ppsTessrcui of the court-it- tharrto supply tbemrfotra month, from
; me, when-tlwir~»«4.hors are known, and its force and clearness. The reader \vill does not appear, that he has received any the dates of the letters/ (4th,' 9th, anu
•when you reflect that there always exill remember that at the very time Mr. C.
:
l l t h ind.) from the miniOers o i^
in the political world, men who feed anti wits a delegate in Congress. It is from hione) from the Spamih government or different parUhes in the north-well h.ig"any
of
its
officers,
since^the
year
one
fatten upon calumnies, as the itoi'k does lieutenant Murray's deposition I quote;
thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, lands."
.
upon serpents.
and the reader may rely upon it's correct- or that he has ever received money from
^ My acousers affect to wonder that I ness :
tate oflreland.—The hoi);
that government or its officers for any
(Viould adopt a mode of vindicaripn,
'•Lieut. Taylor (lieut. Murray de- other purpose but inpayment for tobacco, ,„„.„, Dav, in a late charge to the; p**
•which involvt-R the inttgrity of their own clares) arrived at Fort Adams where In
uVv of Tipperarv, made ..hr M "*"
characters ; but you will p>n,tive, gen- was ftationed in March, 18O6, arid in- j^nd other produce, sold and delivered
iciiwrk.—" If the calender be the <
by
him
or
his
agents.
tlemen, they have placed me in a situ- formed him he was ca!cuUl«l on as one
'...<,-35, ..«,»>
tj
.-'
4
•
/
• '
thf b a i l i w i c k ; if t h ^
/?
nf'the i'riil br no unl.-lithful rpitmie.
!
' . ' : i . J C n i i a U i o n o f t l i . - « : o u n U - y . a l l a i R " ';
( n' i s tl-i.- d a t e of c i v i l society 'in- ymir
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fif'ploYnblc in the cxln-nuV T
,,iv li-v,.'l 'i l > : > f > c r , _ which for iir,
" \- of m.ittor, rOactliblefi
a ci/untrv than a call 11inr
un
the
|nn.rCll.«"
H
in
(jnwivright
cieaiurrs,
,
t In
•,' a
mciirunder
truth,
gross
r.lan>>u;i<;t:. to say
u ,ul»t«cl
May 1 1.
We have infinite cciiicern i n " H a t i n g
-U the indication of turbulence and d,scounties arc increasing,
Tr* name of Lucirn Bf»tl«pnft«hqs))*en
cra^etMrom'the lid of the'Imperial family.
R O M E , IVTanh fl'O.
'On the 27th pr?nrr::l Miollis publilhcd
the f'lllowing order of the day-—
" I J t 3 majrllv the E.m.peror and king
NapoleoYi t t - d i f i r s his sati.sfartion with'
the conduct of the hitherto Papal troops.
-Thrse soldiers lhall not in'future receive
orders cither from Prie.ds or-women.—
Soldiers Ihould only be commanded by
.soldiers. 1 hey may also be assured
that they fliall no mure return under the
Command of Prieds. The emperor and
k i n g will give: them generals >to conduct
them,_jwho lhall be worthy.of their braverv."
.'•-,C HA RLES TO WN, fitly 8.
the co-operation ol /every nooyal man, to suppress them efIn the count'u s of G;dway
,,d Waterford'some acts of glaring miscondua and irregularity haVe taken
place.
l i t
' On Monday week, mdigated by the
very high price of provisions, a number
o f p e d p l e assemble! nt B e l f a d , In somewhat a disorderly man,ner, and seemed
c/
^disposed io-^x^Mc-Ue those r aci S _ : oJo
X We
-4<$st>.?a>*-/
are pro'u'd
to acknowledge
i
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or that
Ohio will support, James Marlison : and
fortunately for Our country, there is Jittie doubt .of his election. His .pre-eminent virtues—his motlcd merrt—his unrivalled talents entitle him to the h i g h e d .
dation in the gift of a free people.
Frcdonian.
Thf fa Housing" paragraph is from a
and violence whidv -tha mcousulerate
Charleston paper of i/te 27th of June :
-unreflecting-too-frequently suppose
—'^AflirtieT^frTTm^TvaTTmTh, to a gen- vill remedy the'didress com|;laiuetl of, tleman in Charledon, dated the 12th inbut which infallibly add to the evil and flant, dates, that the French privateers
its consequences. The interposition of
..a Jeune Eltelle, boardthe chief magillrate, aided by other res- ed, off A m e l i a island, a brig from Balpectable gentlemen of the tovvn, succeedti more^-captJiroivnio-W-e, Tiiid loolc from
ed in persuading th> people to peaceable
.her 203 barrels of flour, and a.quantity
conduct after a liui*>iirwe ; and, although
of other provisions,' upon which they
ji ftrong body of the military were ready fixed their own prices, and > ive the capto act, if called upon r 'itis a gratifying
circurnilance to know that good order 'tain an order f»n a person iu Charleston',
. was eftablilhed by the -milder remedy of for the amount."
.There is but too rhuch reason to bepersuasion, and that no hailh measures
lieve that this is another case of violation
were necessary.
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ing been taken by connivance ol the captain of the brig. Indeed a Charlefton
paper dates that'it is known that the captain had declared, previous-to leaving
rpojit, that he would selLhb wJisle_cargo
to the ppvateersincn, if he^could get a
good price forjt. These .indanceS cf
'"plunder" and u barbarity," have not
been rare of late.
has disclosed his views nnd intentions—God knows how lar theAe infntuatctl
wretches may go—Tin: next letter you
receive may contain accounts of their
horrid murders and barbarous aesaasinatiohs."
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Spain, the following datement of'Stims
placed by the Prince of Peace, as well in
England as in Spain and other countries,
has been found among his papers :•—In
England forty millions of piaders.—In
France, in the hands of private persons,
;
1en(ntillions—At Genoa, thirty millions.
^A^Cpruiina-and Ferrol, ten millions
"(ifcAined for England. In the hands of
the inquisitor general, one million and a'
half—In the hands of Madame Tucloy
Haifa million. In the hands of Espinosa, eight .hundred' thousand, making a
total_of 93,400,000 piadefs. To the
above sums mull be added.a great quantity of gold and silver in buil'u)n, a great
number of diamonds, and other valuables.
H A M B U R G , April 22.
Lucien Bonaparte lives in all the sctlusion of a private .man at Home, and all
(lie offers of his brother Napoleon to
m.lke'hTrrTa prince or a sovereign, has
been rejected by h i m . He refuses to acknowledge the latter by his title of Emperor and king, and assigns for reason,
'lint he had power- chough, as fird consul
of France, as a Kep.ublic, and Ihould
have remained t r u e to the causu of republican reprt-seutan in, for w h i c h he
formerly fought by order of Napoleon.
ers from the Britiih had been demanded
found, andgivem-trpr
Palladium.
HAGKRS.-.TOWN, July 1.
The public are much interested in thef'Aloiving extract of a letter to. a gentle^ • man in this place, from a friend residing'near Newport,_in Charles county,
in the Jorver part of this state.
Charles county,, Faucluse,
j.unc 27, 1808.." The only event which engrosses
conversation and engages attention is /m
alarming, hodile, and rebellious.spirit,'
discovered and manifeded by the blacks
in tliis and St. Manx's c o u n t y ; it excites
great alarm here, as much blood and
great mischief may be the issue. We
are resolved to take a bold Hand againd
them—as yet they have not actually revolted, but their conduct is lawless and
their behaviour insubordinate. , They
have thei.r__jiliic.vs of rendezvous in the
deep recesses of woods and swamps, and
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have
gone so
far as to. m u nd e r in
battalion
urulcr chieftains. They carry on their
machinations with profound secrecy, and
we have not been able to edablilh the
guilt of any one. Newport is the grand
,
0
rendezvous-Here they have ass.mM,d ;
m great numbers, and here, 'their chief .
A
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With the: deeped regret we have this
day to announce the demiee of the hon.
Nchrmiah Knight, one of the Representatives from this date in the Congress of
the United States, who died at his seat
in Crandon, on Monday morning.laft,
in the 63d year of his ?ge.
Thr Mancheder petition for peace
was sent up by the cotiritry 'members
New York, June ZS.
yeilerday week, and presented by Col.
Spanish News—Mr. Peter Lander, Stanley on-Friday to the Hquse of Comof Salem, who came passenger in the
mons,' - It was signed by forty ai-ven
schooner ..Hannah, which sa.iled f r o m . thousand three hundred peraoqs !
Ciibraltar the 10th of May, and arrived
The ;Bingley. petitiofi for peace was
at Marblehead on Sunday lad, furnilhes sent.up yederday fveck. From the ret h e following minute, which he received turns it appears, that out of a population
from Captain Joseph Youug^ of the fhip of 2,58O competent petitioners, 2,542 of
Native, which had arrived at Gibraltar them., signed the petition, being a pro*
from MiiUiga :—m '
portion of upwards of sixty to one J
" The grand Duke of Be.rg was to be
Liverpool paper.
appointed Regent of Spain, in the absence of the royal family at Bayonne,
when a grand council was to be held on
the subject of the Confederation of the
Rhine. Six or seven hundred Frenchmen had b e e n ' k i l l e d in the suburbs of
M'adrid.
About lpO,000 Spaniards
_wjej^^ijLdejr_arjrjQ.s_ih JVLal e n c i a—th e-s'am ein Catalonia—-armed at their own expence : and there was a spirit'of universal revolt from the French domination,
livery subject of Spain appears resolutely determined to oppose the French with
their lives and fortunes."
A'person who had. resided for some
time on the coad of Africa, was askeji
if he thought it were possible to civilize
the natives—„" As a proof of the possibility of it," Ihave.kn.ojvn some negroes
that thought as little of a lie or an oath as
any-E-trrope an,''
A List of Letters
Remaining in the Post Office at this place,
on thefir at day of July, which, if not
' taken 'up on or before ihejimi day of
October next, -will be sent to the Gene*
. ral Post Office as dead letters,
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JOHN ABELL, Daniel Alldodt,
GerFard Alexander, John Anderson,
Mahloa Anderson, John Allen-.
Rutland, June 18.
The Governor has lately received orders to discharge 'all the militia lately
detached and sent to the northward,-but
seventy-five. We underdand troops of
B.
Two field pieces arc going from Spring-
field-toJthat^uaYter.
A London paper'of May 9, says-—
A skirirulh is said to have taken place
,
An exj>edilion, we underdand, desat
^^'indmill point, in consequence of
tined for South America, is in a state of
tne
taking, of a raft' of about two
""forwardness. General Beresford, now
acres
souare, by captain-_,Pratt, and
at Madeira, has been ordered home in
re-takcii?%by the insurgents, some time
consequvnce.of his nomination to the seafterwards
in the night.
' We i are
"happy
cond in command. The Commander in
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to
learn,
noweyer,
that
no
blood
was
Chief has not as yet been determined on,
spilt on the pare of government.; The
but it is thought Sir A. Wellesly is to . _SJ<".
receive this tqipointment. In the pre- ^American -flour in consequence of insurgents ifiB said amounted to about
1OO, modly armed with muskets. It is
sent date'of Spain, the mod fovorable the Embargo, s.Ud at Port-au-Prince,
a
Iliort
time
since
at
fifty
dollars
per
barnot.known
whether they suffered from
event may"be expcc'ted from t h i s expedithe
fire
of
the
guards or.not. In conse.tel.
King-ston
paper.
tion ; and the r e m o v a l of the gov'ernquence
of
this
affair, we hardly.think
n\ei.)t_of Portugal to tile Brazils also afany
part-.of
the
militia
will be discharged,
We continue to receive variotis ref<>rd.s .additional i n v i t a t i o n s to .go-vernmeiufor.tlie u i i a e r t a k i n g it. Our troops, ! p:>rts f r o m Passanviquoddyr-—We men- npr-do we t h i n k it prudent to discharge
we undei Uaiul, are to act in c o n j u n c t i o n - 'ti-onl-d in.our'liijl, ^ha^_Britjjh_boat was thenvuntil other troops arrive.
with those, of the Pi ince R( geii-t ; and ~fi"reTj"iipon. It T? said the boat was pro.
I N D I A N HOSTILITY.
wrtt.'th> i the suhjiigatLoii of Sout!i_Ame- c e e d i n g f r o m one island to another in
.
B
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h
-waters,
had
nothing
on
board,
rica to. the K n g l i i h or -PorUigi.u s.e goNATCHEZ, May 2.6.
vTTninifht or ivln-iln-r a politii^af change and tliaJUflre ball went through on-e side Extract of a letter from Mr Thomas O'w' merely is to be effected there, is a mat- of the boat and lodged iii the other——
~ens to colonel Hugh Davis, dated
ter we conceive of .pi licCt indifference ; The > s e n t i n e l said IT. fired, because he
-Piaq.uetiiiiie,
May 16. '
any alteration in tru: g o v e r n m e n t of that hailL d_'.hrt;e t i m e s and received no an'-"•I have, since I left you, experienc(eStensive'cbUfftry woald open its trade swer. An A m e r i c a n captain, 'whose
~t(Mis, and would be of thcjtery fird im- vessrl was near the American fort, did ed very great bodily sufferings, besides
Another the loss of all the property I took with
portance,, particularly at the present p£- not ht-ar the sentinel hail.
Britiih boat had been fired upon. There
me. We were attickl:ll"lJnTruTTotrt7raT
riod, wh^irwe are ffiuTf^^^^
the mouth of the Cartatiblue, by five
the entire of Europe."
TTadbetn desertions from the American
Indians (Allbamas.,) who fired, on us
garrison, and a lieutenant with soldiers
had
been
over
the
lines
in
without
the lend'provocation—Mr. M
PARJs,_ April 21.
discovered them.- * ,YU uesert- "Clelland and my negro man were
_
According to rc|Jorts-circula.tjL_d_ n
u
A Frcruh artillery officer of rank hp»
htclv«/ written a letter from Dalmalia to «
brother ofiiccr in the north of Germany,
in which he ussui es the hitter thtit the
expedition agiihiP the Britiih territories
in the.End Indies, will certainly tyo for- \
ward both on the part of the' French ;:nd
Russians, whose combined armies are
to co-cut-rate. M/frhont is to hr.ve the
ict" cri-'.ninand—-The French army,
reinforced by troops from D a l m n t i a to
A Urn can, where it will he joinrd..hv the
Russians.
London Pep.
on the spot—After receiving several
fires, Mr. Gerald and jnysclf threw ourselves into the water, and swam to the
opposite fliore .from the Indians, who
krpt up a condant fire upon us, & wounded Geralcl in the left (houMer, while in
the water. We travelled about forty
miles through a molt miserable country,
\yithout any thing to subsid oh, wading
through- bityous, and swamps infeded
with alligators ; and tearing ourselves
with the bullies and underwood. We
arrived at Opaulauses in about two davs
and an half,- where I left Gerald^ and
proceeded on to judge King's, who \mR mediately.raised a party of 24 men, and
set out in pursuit of the murderers. In
the mean time we have taken into-cuftody, a chief and two fellows of the same
nation. I refer you to Mr. Cormier for
further information."
Statement of-the British Navy. By the navy returns, to May 11, there
appear to be at sea 93. sail of'the line, 9
fifties, 133 frigates, and 329 smaller ves".
sels. The total number in commission
amounts to. 157 sail of the line, 23 fifties
178 frigates, 214 sloops, and 266 gun
brigs, &c. There are also in ordinary,
and repairing for service 47 sail ot the
line, and Si building; making ,„ all 25*
sail of the line. " ^ Jr^h faj ,,...
Bazil D. Beall, 2 letters, Richard
Baylor, Thomas Button, George Btuv
nett, John Baree, Jaco"b"Bargar, Bcn-jamin'Boley, Samuel Blackwell, Iliraia
BaWwin, John Brown.—
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Robert Carter, Collin Cordell, N. P.
Craghill,
Harrison
James_
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» o i » i a u i i Cleveland,
Clare. N. Cra&hill
letters, Joseph,
Day\ey.
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Ann Drew, Thomas Dame, Michael
Dutro, James Duke, Larghorne Dade.
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ThomasTlagg, Henry Fowler, Mra.
Martha FramcT~
G.
Absalom Games, 2 letters, Margaret
Griffith, James Gardner, James Glenn,
Miss Emily C. Griffith, Bazil Games,
Thomas Glison, Henry .Gurnha'rt, Travis Glasscock.
^
H.
iVTrs. Susan Ho well, Ellen Hunter,
John Haynes, James Hite, James Howard, John Henderbon, Samuel Hite.
J.
.Mrst Ann Jameson, --Gideon-Jones,.
JLj*
;
Richard Llewell n, Theo. Lee, 2 letters, Jacob Lanc< sques.
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John Moor, Jessee Moore, 3 letters,
Wm. M'Phi-rson, Isaac Merchant, 2
letters, Benjamin Matthews.
P.
Mrs. Eliza Patton, David Palmer.
R.
Sffrriuel Russell,'Eliza Ryley, Ann
Rocheltcr, ^Mrs. Mary Ridgw^ay.
S. .
Doctor A. Straith, John Spangler,
John Saunders, Cyrus Saunders, Sarnuel Swain, Miss Fanny Sweeny, Miss
Mary Sappington, Philip Strider, North
and Smallwooti, Jacob Shrader.
T.
Mordica Throclcmorton,' Tho.ma*;
Tinker, Bennct Taylor. •
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William Veftal. F
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Isaac Woods, Beverly Whiting', John
Wimrair, Aquilla Willet, Jane Woods,
James Wallingford, Catharine Wimmer.
George Young.-
Y.
J O H N HUMPHREYS, p. M.
•Charledown, July 1, 1808.
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RAGS.
C A S H will be given' for ck:«n linen
and cotton iMgs ut this oHice.
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upon, under an idea that th-e Legislature will direct that the manner of
appointing the electors, fhall be by the SeFour or five boys, about 13 or 14
nate and Mouse of Hepresentntives, and of age, are wimt<;<4 as apprentices 'to the
not by th^People ; because there will above mentioned busini-ss, at the Paper
not be time between the day you propose Mill, on, Mil, Creek, about nine miC
to be adjourned to, and the firft Wednes- from Charleftown.
day in December, for provision to be
JunejW, 1808.
made by law for it, and for the. people
to choose, in either dillricts, or by a ge•Five Dollars Reward.
neral ticket. This mode of appointment hns no other authority, but these C T R A Y E D fr0m Hager^Tovin,,on
words in the Conftitution, " each Hate O thcWth ultimo, a *,„„//Roan Horse
fliall appoint, in such manner as the Le- about 14 hands high,.f0^d andnick'd
gislature thereof lhall direct, a number paces, trots and canter.,; about five yearl
of electors.'"
old. The above reward and reasonable
The Legislature of Massachusetts, in tfpmm
wtU be paid'to any person deli
.-.1-788,'hv
resolve
in
usual
form,
ordered
venntr
satd
horse to S«muel Ih^hes, „<,
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the appointment to be by the people in of Ilager\<i-Town,to Mr^-'F/totnasFin??'
diflricti). In 1795, the appointment was at Charleftown, or to the subscriber neat
in the same manner. And the same
c
May 6, 1808.
manner was adopted at a formal resolve
in 1796. At the'giving in the votes, the
Selectmen of the towns, and Assessors
of• plantations, presided, and counted
and recorded the votes in open town CHOICE APPLE BRANDY, near
meetings. In 1800, a resolve was pass- V two jears old, which, from jt,
ed by the Senate arid House of Repre- flrcngth and flavour, is pronounced bv
sentatives, and approved-ami signed by good judges, to be the be ft spirit that caa
the Governor, that the "'Geneial Court, be any where had at .the price.
f. FAIRFAX.
on the 13th 'November (then) nrxt, beShannon-hill,
30th
May, 1808. 4
ing then in session, wjll by joint ballot
SUMACK.
The season is advancing for collect- of the Senate and House of Represen'Hold Lriithless phantom—Hold, I cry'd,
ing
Su mack.-—Large quantities "of this-"j tatives, elect and choose sixteen persons
Jl'th<m_ca.nft mock the'dreams oC-p'ride,
Elcctor-«-of—P-u^id^U-awl^V-t^e ,Proa i:t i c. 1 K ao4mpQr4attt-in—t he—niawrfa&u I'
sident
of the United States.". The elecof
Morocco
leather,
have
hitherto
been
bVyond thy reach, fhall bloom,
tion
or
appointment of electors, in the
imported from Europe, at double the
When other charms sink to the tomb,
year
1804,
was b> the votes of the peoprke for which it may be collected in
""Sne'scbrns thy envious power,
ple,
in
a
general
ticket throughout the
this country, where it is native, growf
flate;
in
which
the
Selectmen and Asing spontaneously in eyejy part of the
On frofty wings the demon fled,
U. States. The .annual supplies of sessors were to warn the meetings, and
HoWling, as o'er the walls he sped, ,
Sumack
collected 'in this country have preside as before. ' This was done4jy-a^irOTbscrftjeT1 would dispose of his
" Another year has gone!"leases for two separate tenements,
never equalled the consumption, -re-' formul resolve, taking force in five days,
The ruin'd.spire—the crumbling tower,
as
the
Governor
neglected
it.
Should
I
course
has
consequently
beren
always
in
Charleftown,
lately occupied by him.
Nodding, obey'd his awful power,
1
now
accede
to
the
adjournment
you
proThey
are
in
good
repair, and may be had
had
to
Europe.
Yet
no
species
of
labor
As TIME flew swiftly on".
has afforded the farmers more profit, nor pose, withc-ut making any suggeftitin of by any respectable person .or persons,
any thing more easily collected and pre- difficulties that may'arise,. from the man- who are sufficiently responsible for the .
Since beauty then, toJTiME mu(H>o«rt
pared;, this article now sells current at ncr in which you may find yourselves. -anT»ual-rcnt5rwhich-are quite reasonable;
And age deform thf
One of these~1Touses would suit any
sixty dollars per ton,. of whichNvWo boys obl5g.cd to appoint eltfctbrs ; it might be
Let brighter charms be yours.;
considere.d7"that
I
ought
then
to
be
foreperson
of considerable business; and
from
10
to
15
years
of
age
may
collect
a
The female mind embalm'd in'truth,
7
closed,
because
a
consent.to
the
adjournhas
been
formerly used as a tavern ;~th»
<ton
per.day.
where
it
grows
plentiful'
Shall bloom in everlafting youth," "
ment
would,
by
fair
implication,
be
other
would
suit a tradesman : and they
The
method
of
collecting
and
preparWhile TIME; himself, endures.
roof of my having previouTly cmTs'ent- are equal to any tenements : in that fawn,
ing Sunvack is simple, and may be ac
complifhecLby—any farmer;—it—eonsifts ed_to_-tKe_tn'ode. But (hould you con- for pleasantness of situation, extent of
^merely of flripping the bufli of all the tinue youj requeft to be so adjourned, °groUnd,' and s convenient accommodaIt is the cuftdm .ofmonar-chies not only branches;containing leaves only, these without havjng previously provided for tion.
toconferthe nioft exorbitant salaries up* are spread out aTTcl made like Hay, and the appointment of electors, the way will
F. FAIRFAX, i
pn^kings'and minifters ; in other words when sufficiently dry so as not to heat, it be fairly open iohany objection -which I
Shannon Hill, April 22, lads.
upon those who may be presumed to i* put into a bam ooJlacks, after which lhall then feel mysefcobliged to make.
haverendered some services to the'ftate ; it is put into the tanner's b;irk mill and
I~do not attempt tojhitt: any objection
'Journeyman Weaver.
but upon every branch and sprTg~of the ground fine andsifted from.the ftems, in to the appointment of electors by the
royal fztmily. "But it is the vital principle this ftate it is put into bags or casks and two Houses, or even to say th<it I fhall TT7ANTED immediately, a sober, inofTepublics, as it is ftated in the conilimake any; but having bet n ahvrtys_nn_ . . dullrious journeyman to the COUNthe manufacturer or merchant.
tu ti o n -Q f V i r gi n i a ; " that no man, or set
enthusiaft
in the principles of an tleijHve TERPANE weaving, or a good plain" weav-.
Sumack is abufh or plant growing alrepublic^
I
have regTiiTfexhwith -plc-rtsure- ,er T a person efcthe latter description
'Mvhere,on .bai'renjjor unculli"
rate emoluments or privileges from the v a t e d l a n d s ; it bears a large bunch of the buiricrs placed round the-election of would be 5nftructtfd"in the Counterpane
community, but in.consideration of pub- red berries, which however are not suf- our national Chief MagiHrate by the weaving, and receive liberal wages.. ,
lic-seTvices ;" the same principle too, re- fered to mix with ttye leaves._ The time cpnflitLition and the law. The conftituWILLIAM MORROW.
squiring that these emoluments and privi- -of collecting .Sumack commences from tion provides "that the electors, lhall
leges fhould be confined within the moft the 15th June and continues till froft, the give in their votes on the sanie day
A boy about 13 years of age, is also
moderate limits. . Nottoispeak of the ci- beft however is collected early and bears throughout the United States." • \he wanted asan_sppr.eniic.e_tdLthe. Coverlet,
vil lift of the Englifh king ; not to speak a better price._ .Care muft be taken that law provides that the day fliall be the Counterpane & Blue Dying businesses.
of the prince of Wales, his enormous it does not get wet, a circumftance firft Wednesday in December, and withW:' MORROW..
debts discharged from the public treasury which materi illy injures the quality.
in thirty-four days after the electors are
C h a r l e f t o w , April 29, 1808.
Or the-ehormous annuity granted to his
In the city of Philadelphia, at leaft appointed." This is evidently intended
, support ; notjto speak of the other bran- one hundred tons are consumed annual- to prevent ,foreign influence, as well as
cbcs"-of the-royal family ; a sufficient il^combinations between the electors ~of
;>mj^ hun^ejdjij>f_^^
luftration of-our principle-is to -be foundwhen the embargo is raised, be -advan- different ftates, niTclThe p;irfu-s under ^ V S M ART TBdYrafiouF tKe~agc~dr
in a late appropriatlon~of the Britiih par- tageously exported to England, afford- whose influence they are.. There can •£"*• 14, of refpectahle connexions, will
liament. It is curious to cbntraft these
be no doubt in the mind of every one ac- be taken as an apprentice to the TayldrY
ing a good profit to' the exporter.
Arange appropriations'with the salary of
quaimed with th'ej3resent General Court, bufinefs. .Apply "to the fubfcriber in
our rcpublican-nfflce
but that the exercise of the power to ap- Charleftowh.
**.
In Great Britain,
AARQN CHAMBERS.;
In the U. States,
point: electors themselves, would be
the Duke of-Glou- our chief magis- The following Message, from the Gover- with great fairness and impartiality; but
April 8,"1_80§.
nor of the state-of Massachusetts rescefter receives more trate receives onpecting
the manner of appointing Elec- it is an~old and usefuTb'bservation, that
than 62,000 dollars. ly 25,000 dollars..
the doing of good by incorrect or wrong
tors of President and Vice Pr^ident
The Princess-Char~
was transmitted to the Legislature of means, has a more dangerous tendency
Of the age of _15 or 16 years, .will~b« lotte - of
Wales,
thali doing wrong. I can conceive that taken as an apprentice to the-W'eaving
that
state
on
the
\\tlt,
ultimo.
ipcr-ethan 31,000.
if we^fhould be continued under an elec- business.
Thirty one thousand dollars appropri- Gentlemen of the Senate, and
r
tive republic, —ftrong parties may proJOHN LEMON.
Gentlemen of the Hotw-^of Represen- duce a Senate and House of Representaated for supplying the infant daughter of
Charleftown,
May
20, 1808.
tatives,
&'
the prince of Wales with corals, gingertives, who in the month of June may
. bread and rattles ; a sum, greater, by
Ihavejuft received your message by know the-ftrength of eacftsTUe, and w~h~o
A Stray Hog.
6OOO dollars than the ft ipulated salary of your committee, informing me that you may then, under a resolution to. appojnt
the chief magiftrate of the union. Yet are hot now detained^by the public con- the electors- themselves, -ascertain the HPAKEN iip a stray hog, marked in
1 both cam with, a. crop and slope.'--"
there is no man of impartiality,, who will cerns of the Commonwealth, arid re- names of the electors, as accurately as
. not admit that we are at tea ft as well go- queft to be adjourned to the second they fhall be known-after their appoint-, Appraised to three dollars and seventy/ verned, as the people of (ireat Britain.,
mt-nt. In this way the benefits "intended Jive cents. The 'owner: may have it on
Thursday of November nexrt.
And by what title do these beings
I Uave not observed} ^mougft the acts by the conftitution and laws, for guard.- proving property and paying charges?
ZACHARTAHBUCK.MASTER,
claim such an exhorbitamrpTjrtiTsrrof the and resolves of this session, any order, ing the purity of the election of the firft
May 10, 1808.
nieansof life ? Do they earn it by the b/ill, or resolves of the Legislature, xli- National Magiftrate, will be subverted.
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sweat of the brow ? No. Do they de- recting the manner-of appointing" elecThereUre many towns and plantations'
Bfrve it by some ingenious discovery
tors ot President and Vice President of which could notchoose Representatives,
•No. fs-ft the proll>\of their, capital ?:— the .United Status.
and therefore are dep.dy_ed_of that priNo. Is it the rewarm of services renderThe Conftitulion of the United States vilege which they would have according
ed to their country 1^ No. For, what provides, that. "Congress may deter- —to-ih-e-nHi-Hfl^-of-appoihting-electors in. of 2.
.. services have they rcnckprcd, but to ex- mine the time of choosing electors of the four former, elections. -Nor is there,
tend the rage of luxury, 'dissipation and President and Vice President." The that I know of, any reason to believe,
vice? By what right then do they batten act of Congress passed on the 1ft day'"of that when the pro.ent Senate «nd House ChaiieStOWlT. • Inquire of
upon the labor and wealth of the nation ? Marcbj 1792, provides, "that the elec- .were elected, their conftituents had an
*
What ie the duke of Glouccl,lcr to the tors fliall meet on the firft Wednesday expectation, that the General Court
the
unfortunate manufacturer, who is taxed of December, and lhall have been ap- would appoint electors themselves.. .
June 10, 1(608.
to sijpport his extravagance ? " .yVhat is pointed within thirty-four days then next
J A M E S SULLIVAN.
Hecuba to
or he to Hecuba?" — preceding. >? The day you propose to
BI^ANK D E E D S
Council Chamber, 9//» June, 1608.
Suppose d u l y , that congress -fhould ap. be adjourned to, appear* to have been
r \ale at thtx OJice.
propriatc several thousand dollars to the
support of Mr. Jefferson's relatives,
ON TIME.
wlr.it indignation would it not excite i n '
By Sclleck Osbor.ne.
every .American bosom ! Yet such is almoltthe precise qu'eflion, w i t h respect,
Mov'd by a ftrange myfterious pow'r,
to
these " titularies." of Great Britain.'
Who haftes along the rapid hour,
'And
yet it is in this oppressed nation
I touch the deep ton'd firing ;
where
the idle sprig of royalty in thus
E'en now I see his withered face,
magnificently
supported, that the poor
Beneath the tower's mouldering base, ,'
laborer
is
groundvdown
to the bone by
Where mossy vtftmems cling. __i_
taxes ; and 'every;»ipor man with four
children is a piuvpi-r.
Dark roll'd his cheerless eye around,
This is the real spirit of monarchies.
Severe his grisly visage frown'd,
Their
rulers muft be dillingiiifhed from
No locks his head array'cl ;
other
men,
not by their talents, not by
He grasp'd a hero's antique buft,
their virtues, not even by their royal
The marble crumbled into duft,
blood,
but by the ]5omp and dazzle of
And sunk a mid ft the (hade !
riches. Deprive them of this magic of
oft^ntatioji, antl the delusion of monarMalignant triumph fill'd his eyes4
chies would soon be over. We recol"See, hapless mortals, see,",he cries,
lect
an anecdote in point, that is related
" How vain your idle schemes ;
of
some
celebrated wit, perhaps Dr.
" Beneath my grasp the faireftform,
Beattie—never
was there a more- inge*' Dissolves, and mingles with the worm ;
nious
or
ftriking
pun—never was any
" Thus vanifli mortal dreams.
play of words more diflinguifhed by. humor, or by the truth of the application.
"The works of God and manl spoil;
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Take from MAJESTY its externals said
".The npbleft proofs of human toil
the
wit (putting his fingers upon the
"I treat as chi'.difli toys ;
firfl
and latl letters of the word) and
" I crufh the noble and the brave;
what
is it but a jest £"„
JKic/i. Enq.
iLBeauty I mar ; and in the'grave
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I bury human joys."
For salej by the Barrel,
Lots and Houses.
An Apprentice wanted.
A SMART BOY™
To be harvested on
, the whole or part
.Tge-fidd of wheat,
the neighborhood or
eposi
riier s
Paper Making,
JL JL JL ^**s JL
: k^f
C I I A R L K S T O W N , / ^ ^ " " " J P R I N T E D B Y W I L L I A M S A N D BROWN.
VOL. I.
TWO D O L L A R S PKR A N N U M .
FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1808.
No. 16.
ONK H'ALF IN ADVANCE.
"Having taken the grbund of defence, I greatand important .objedls, these AL- written, to w i t : to sound the general as
will not descend to notice the siiggeftions MOST I M P K R I A I . 'doings, prevent \ou to a cmmu-.aion with col. Burr. Bufit
of the hoftile, nor the insinuations of the from attend.ng to Umd business—recol- is not upon these letters, nor yet upon
GENERAL WILKINSON.
treacherous, but fliall hold myself in lect that you great men, if you intend to the veritable tcftimony of lieut. Murray
to-day
enabled
to
continue
.readiness
to meet any specific attack, become king* and £/M/»grorj.*hnviR have already publilhcd, that. Mr, Clark was
are
of the general's vindication'. and will continue to defy iny.enemie'9'
Us littie. men lor vassals, and if we have implicated by the general. - The follow. our
of the charge of having tyran"•Butas Mr. Clark, it seems from his nothing to clothe ourselves- with, (for ; in ? i-xtracts from the deposition of Mr.
n.c.,Uv and indiscriminately denounced • friend Mr. Cox, has expressed his con- we can be clothrd with the produce of
G r a h a m (present chief clerk in the deinnocent persons to the government, he viction of my connection with Col. Burr, our lands only ; and if congress take the partment of. ftate) corroborate and conit is proper I fhould be ftp w. a few parti- lands for want of formalities, we fliall (irm the charge of connivance with Burr.
says—
" How cruel and unwarrantable hns cular observations on him, and his agen- then have qg» produce-)_we fliall m^ke a This deposition was submitted to thd
"been this imputation! How..dircftly op- cy in Burr's conspiracy.
very ihabby figure at your courts. Think Court of Enquiry :]
" nosite to my real conduct ; lor Heaven
" Although col. B u r r had after his ar- of this and practise those formalities that
" Mr.. Graham declares that Mr.
can bear me witness, I treated i n d i v i - rival at St. Louis from New-Orleans, are necessary, thfit I may have from the Clark sought an interview with him, and
dual chara&er with so much delicacy,. for the firft time spcken to me, q.f some produce of my Illinois lands, wherewith voluntarily furnilhed him ' sometime in
that I confined myself to facts merely, Grand Expedition contemplated by the .to' buy a decent COURT DRESS when pre- 4 the winter of 1805—6, eftimates of the
without the mention oi'Col. Burrs name government, it was from Mr. Clark I sented at your I.KVEE. I hope you will ' military force of the Mexican country,
even in my second letter to the president, received the earlieft intimation of Mr. not have K K N T U C K I A N S for your mailers
and militia,particularly
dated 12th November, 1806, in which I B u r r *s ~d esigns"" a ga frill M ex i c o,~caTitT^ of ceremonies.
observe 'nothing less than an overt a6t ously and^irtfully conveyed to me in his
' Cruz 8c Mexico, "and also of. the naval
JLjffilLiJLmy-jllflgernent warrant the offi- -l«tte-r-ofthe-7rlrSeptember l805f-wTiich
• Your hble. serv't and friend,
'.force of Vera Cruz, and gave him the
< c i a l commitment yf name!;, and none is before the court. At the time of the
' opinion, that the country might be in("Signed-}
D A N I E L CLARK
'such has as yet been committed within receipt of this letter, so unsuspicious
' vaded with every prospect of success.'
" Brigadier Gen. Wilkinson." '
« my knowledge j" and in my letter of the was I of any sinifter plan being, in agita' I enquired of him,' says Mr. Graham,
9th December, from New-Orleans, tion, that I gave "Mr. Clark's letter to the
To this letter combine, the following ' whether, if'the United States woulcl
when surrounded by traitors and rnenac- Secretary of the Territory over which . I from Mr. Clark, bearing date the
-^-«waVienr—h e—\vordd~
cd from various quarters, is the follow- presided, and desired him to transmit _a Apr.il, 4iK?6rTvirh^rs"peaKs of^^the Landbear a part -I Mr. Clark evidenced an
•it'ta. with inexpressi- •copy u'f it touJl. Burr, which was accorunwillingness, to have any thing to do
of Promise," of the suspicions and perils
.'ble mortification and regret, I discharged
done, iVnd it was received"by the he had encountered in going thither, and
with an expedition carried on by thtL.
' 'the painful duty of informing you, that
1. But subsequent events ' haye of the communications he had exchanged
government.^ but expressed himself iviU
' among our countrymen in this city, I convinced me, that Burr having niforhri- with the inhabitants ; and'the allusion to
ling tojoin in'suchan enterprize, under*
'have discovered characters hitherto e'd Clark, under ftrong injunctions of si- 'some expedition of magnitude and of a
taken and carriedonbif
inr/ififfim/ff^H^' diflinguifhed for probity and patriot- lence, that I was-concerned in his-prosaid
all
they
would
ask
would
be the
at else but
•ism,,.-men of high talents and entire,
'
permission,*
not
the
aid
of
the
govern;Te tact had an enterprize of the higheft moment and
truft, honored by your confidence, and written Ujis letter with a view to sound moft flattering promise, -could-have in- ' m e n t ; that they would cut off all con' diftinguifhed by marks ofyoirr regard; me. I beg leave to quote the letter in duced a man of fortune, with eyes open ' nectipn with the country they left, and
' who, if not con-nected with the ,flagiti- this place."
to the dangers, to have exposed himself ' cftablifh a new empire of their .own.
' ous plan by active co-operation, have
." Netv.Orleans, 7th September, 1805. to such hazards .of his person and his ' H e said hypothetically, addressing
' withheld-from government interefting
' himself to me—now^ suppose such
life?
" D E A R SIR,
' and1 -timely intelligence of its gradual
"New Orleans, 14th April,\SQ6, '-person as yourself was to join in -the'
" Many absurd and wild reports are
completion, or have dared openly to
' expedition, you might be made a Duke f
" D E A R SIR,
approve it j ! Shall I mention their circulated' here, and have reached the
"I" wrote to you in the,, month of ' to which I replied, that my .republican
names ? I forbear, until flrong suspici- ears of the^officers of the late Spanffh go'notions would not allow me to aspire
>S.ons be confirmed into._cfrtainty ; and vernment, respecting our Ex Vice Pre- Auguft of laft year, inclosing x plots and, . * to any such diftinction, and that I would
' let me not^abandon the hope, that their sident—you are spoken of as his right titles of sundry tracts of land rowri in ' have nothing to do with any expedition
•eves riiay be open to the foulness of the hand man, and even /am now supposed the Louisiana territory, and requefting
* attempt, and that they may-be 11 ill re- to be of consequence enough, to combine ypirwoul3T>e kind enough to have them *;not conducted by the government.—'trieved to their country. Over such I with the Generals; and Vice Presidents. regiftered and approved by the board of ' ' H e r e the conversation on that subject
'ended, and Clark [mark the art of Mr.
'fhall keep'a-il'ri'ct eye, and preventing At any other tinie but-the present, I commissioners. I have not since then
4
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Clark to acquire information, and yet
their co-operation in mischief I fliall fhould amOse myself vaftly at the folly ' heard from you, and .being uncertain
'
conceat-his
own knorultiige—J asked me
4
rejqjce fhould tliis conduct reclaim and fears of those who,areiaffected with whether the packet reached you,'feel ve'several
questions
about what Burr was
* their minds from error .and secure their these idle tales, but being on the point of ry uneasy on that account; be pjejais^d
'
doing.'
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utility to the cause of the conftitution.
setting off for Vcra Cruz, on a large mer- to dissipate my fears by giving me so.hie
" In the various facts ftated by lieut,
.. ' But.:.it_isl.mth-a-proud-.satisfaction cantile speculation, I fe~el~rcur3«lly hurt information on the subject. I fhall re1
which swells my breafl, that I contraft at the rumours, and might in conse" main here duringjhe Summer, and your Murray, Mr. Graham, Mr. Allfton,
* with this partial defection of our—own quence of Spanifll jealousy get into a 1 ..letters by poft will not fail to reach me;, lieut. Spence,.Mr. Latrobe, and even
'countrymen the general temper of the hobble I could not e"asily get out of.' I have been .twice since I laft wrote to Mr. Coxe, arid from his letters to me nf
* great mass of the people, who are. ar- Entre nous, I believe that Minor of you in the L A N D OF PROMISE, but what is ! the 7th September, 18O5, and the 14th
surprising I have got safe back April, 180G, the secret connetSlion, con'dentjn the defence of their,city, and Natchez has a great part in this business,
' will I djink-in this in.fta.nce,-"be found.. in order to make himself of importance ; from it, ai'i r having been represented, nivante,_and co-operation of'Mr. Clark
' true to their God, to thernselvt-s, their he-rs~~in the pay of Spain, and wifh.es to to the Vice Roy, as a person dangerous and Mr, Burr, are too apparent to be
'country asid its -conftitution.'—Such convince them he jsjnuch their friend. to;the'Spanifll government, and who had denied or resitted : and as it was wilkd
was the liberality, the charity ajid bene- This is however matter of suspicion on visited that country with no other vjew, by Heaven,'_that I fliould be the a u t h o r '
volende of my _concluct, ^ncl_jHLt."jTi5sre-- .my-part, but the channel throagh~which~ than- that vi~ac<juiring information of~it$~ of "thlTir SIsHprjO i hi ine nFan d" d i sgirut'T^lt
"plWehtations, gendered byth'e friends of the infol-'mation reached_me_rnakes me strength, and horn, and where it might vis natural that thvy fliould turn againft
JMr. Burr, and my^ personal enemies, suppose it. Power, whose head is al- be assailed with the great rut probability me with the bittereft .resentment.
I
and put in circulation from one extreme ways ftuffed with plots, projects, conspi- of success. J knew all this before'under- have checked the c: reer o't.'di^dUMi^B^rr
ofttie Union to the other, have increased, aci£s,_£iG, Swjr-&-e»-and-\\4jrj-s^es~o"btecTs taking the livtt—A^m^age^—but was- TOOT -brtronT-an-d^~have^trrft-ed~rfre~g77ldt-n pros• - -j—-—
ihejnimber of my adversaries, and exci- through a mill ftone, is going to Natchez
H A R D Y F.NOUCH to attempt it. I have pects of its votariis. :I" have exposed
ted the prejudices of hundreds to whom next week, to unravel the whole of the made some money, and acquired more myself to the assaults of a hoft of eneI have never given cause of offence*
extraordinary, business, and then God knowledge of the country, \isprocliictions mies, and make claim to the good opi" Gerltlemen, in this vindication-of a hnve"mercy on the culprits, for-Spanifh and resources, and made those of our nion of my fellow- citizens. The cause
Soldier's honour, -I have I.fear wofrfout ••••"
re ""'" indignation will be levelled/.at country better known to them thaTi they i in which I embarked was peculiarly .their
Thi're is,-jmju.know-,—no—I own, .nndrby— a—haz-ardous—interference—
your patieijce, yet I muft throw myself j them.. WhatJr? the name-of Hcavon
on' your j u ftice~and"beneyolence to hear j coukl give rise to these extravagancies ? harm in this interchange ^f~utnfnlinfor- preserved ' their honor, their peace^
me, vvhilft I take a (hort view of an im- W e r e ! sufficiently intimate with .»:r. motion, and at a future period I lhall and .perhaps the-r unity.
J - hav:e
putation, foreign it is true to the prima- Burr, and knew where to direct a line to comnumicaic to you, all I have picked flopped in .b'etwie.n treason and the
ry objects of this enquiry,-but not less him-, I fliould take the liberty of writing up during my ft ay there.' Give me some union, an'd have \entLired my life, and
ihterclling to my honor.
to him. Perhaps findingTVIinor, in his news of \vhtit is pas-sing in yourcoimtry, fortune to pri-servt- Louisiana : and fliall
" It has been urged againft me with way, was endeavouring to extract some- and how you are situated in it.
my fume be filched from me by .surmises
Yours, moft sincerely,
peculiar rancour, from the earlieft dawn i thing from him, he has amused himself
and .s'uspiup'ns ? _Si all the daring machi" D A N I E L CLARK.
of my o]y isition to Col. Burr, that I i .at the blockhead's expen'se, antl then Minations and matchless contrivances of
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James Wilkinson, Esqr."
riiffinns prevail agninft my inn'ocence^
was originally connected in his treason- ,j nor has retailed the news to his e'mpl
able designs; and indeed since. M
ers. Enquire of Mr. Burr about this
[Garbled extracts from the preceding Will the Anu-ric; n people—will my
c o u n t r y m e n ,view the unequal conflict
Clark came boldly out as his aux
> and let me know at my retijrn, which letters were lull winter publiflied in the
somAof the band hjuJi—not hesitated to will be in three or four months. The Philadelphia Gazetfe.
w
i i h indjfferenceJL_. Will t-ht-v—
torpidly
The e q u i v o c a l
»
i
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ascribe to me the origin of the enterprize. tale is a horrid on« if well told—Ken- parts were omitted. Why ISIr. Clark look on, behold m\ (Ihiggles againft the
On this subject I IK-C leave to offer the tucky, Tennessee, the ftate of C^Juo, the (for the copy muft have been furnifhcrd" bloodhounds of "C( nspii acy, and verity
'ollo\ving brief remark ; that if I had four territories on the Mississippi and by him) fliould, at that period, have re., the remark,-that K i publics are'uiigratcconcerned with Col. Burr in his Ohio, with part of Georgia and CarolLr- - .a or-ted-vv-itli-h i-s-own-pr-i v H te c o rre & po'ii cl - f u I ? • A m_l_ro-fall,—and tr-eatei >n t ri u m p h
'H'cit; projetts, it is not creditable that na, are to be bribed with the plundejr.jif_ ence to the press, can be explained on no. on my r u i n ? If so, I know how to meet
a
m;in of his penetration, art and know- the Spaqifh countries weft of us', to sepa- other ground, than that, coiTacidus"bT th'e my fate, and havii.g-sacrificed myself to
Jt f
' ige of men and affairs, fliould have rate from the Union. This isJu.ita part weak part of his character,"lie thought it my r o u n t r y , I w i l l en tier my claim .upon
neglected to commit me, and to preserve of the business—Heavens ! what, won- advisable t;o attempt to foreftall.public pou-rity, for that protection and that
l
ne evidence of my conviction ; and it is derful doings there^will be in these days. opinion, by-being tliejr/V,y< to broach t he- juftice w h i c h my cotemporarics deny
equally improbable did he possess the But how-the devil I have been lugged subject. The conccahiic'iit of pare of me : jmd o.h ! "mil}' my example fail to
proof, that it (hould have been so long into the conspiracy, or what assiflaute'I the contents of those letters argues d a m p tin- ardor v oi those .whosf duty, it
concealed, while I have been assailed can be of in it, is, to me incomprehensi- Rrongly againft him ; but it was>a nyccs-'
•*- •. (jraham ~u tin til this time nee refy the mightieft efforts of my' enemies, ble. Vpus ojJi SAVE? Toyr, can beft sary precautionv-for, h:.d'he giv.-u the
and an outrageous tempcft of obloquy explain the riddle. A'muse Mr. Burr whole of them, no pi:rs>.n C'ujlcl have tar.y ofche territory of Orleans, and hence
Irom all quarters.
with un account of it; but let not these miftook the purpose for which the)' were thti.necessilyjbr thisqua/ijicatiori.
prom the MONITOR.
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