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, :ee. leeti ;«
rn-aftirc as thhl ftrikt hack upon its au
, and produces change in the tide of
If the Sun of FederaliSm bs let,
wo-dd it not be unkind in us-, th
day after it, to fittTr th
injure themfelvea by Ftu h an :
I hvv, continued Mr. Otis, that th
tun of federalifm is dot Set. IS it
b,- Set, i hope that the Satellite Whicl
gentleman inhabits will not Soon
the want of its animatiu,
protecting influence. I believe it
let, and ardently hope that that quarter
of the union, as well as all the reft, will
long contin.. ' its eivilying i
It might be proper to repeal the obnox
ious laws, without branding with co
motives thofe who enaited them. Mr.j
Otis concluded with declaring that in the;
■accomplishment of ties pnrpofe, if exami-j
nation and enquiry warranted it, as well
as in every proper Step to gratify the ci-l
of the Miuiilippi territory, he would
heartily concur.
(To be continued.)
■ Tuesday, Dec. 2:1, 1300.
c bill for the erection of a Maufo
leutn to Geougf. Washington was again
before the Houfe ; when lifter a debate,
protracted beyond theuSual hourof adjourn
ment, tiie cpieftion was taken by yeas and
i. lys on the engrossment of the bill for a
third reading, and carried Yeas 4-3—Nays
40.
The bill doe* not decide the dimenfioiu
or the poiition of the Maufoleum ; but ap
propriates 200,000 Dollars for its erection.
The debate was, in fome parts of it, de
fultory, tedious, and uninterei'ting ; and
in others, forcible, and Spirited, in parti
cular the eloquence of Mr. Harper and
Mr. Randolph was lofty and impreflive ;
in the collilion of opinion, the ordinary
rules of decorum were prottrated ; ai
gbage, indignant and fartaftic, Impeaching
perSonal motive, was reciprocated with keen
Severity.
(Debate in Mir next.J
oufe then adjourned to
week.
IVASHING TON CI TV.
WEDNESDAY, December ?4.
Accounts from Tsksssee state thai the
v:>tes of the Electors are a:; follow :
For Thomas Jefferfon 3
Aaron Burr 3
By the proclamation of the governor oi
South Carolina, it appears tint Thomas
Lowndes, John Rutlcdge, Benjamin Hu
ger, Thorn is Sumter, William Butler and
Thomas Moore, are deeded members of the
Houfe oS Representatives for that Hate in
the eafuing CongreSs.
RETURN OF VOTiiS,
For Prefident and Vice-Prefvdent of the ■
United States.
A.
N.-w- IdampShire 6
MaSfachul'etts 16
Rhode- Illand 4
Gonneclicut 9
Vermont 4
New-York '
New-Jerley 7
Pennsylvania 7
Delaware 3
Maryland o
Virginia
Kentucky
Term
North Carolina 4
Sout!i Carolina
G j-orgia
l.a Fayette h Spoken of in the Hamburg
• from the French Rcpub-
An emba hied likely to be of
but Ihortdnration, has been laid on all the
It fin Bordeaux.
ounts from Gibraltar, SS late as Nov.
4, ftate that the French had taken yattef
>6*tl ti \ "i the 16th of October;
0, it is Said, wer« deftined to Egypt,
and 8,000 to Lifbou.
" Conful at Cotves has
oii i ia/ notice, That American vef
"g to hop, at any
Port ill the BritiSh Channel, mud make
either s that port, or
they will be expo'ed to Seizure.
Extra tter from an officer on
board the George Washington frigate,
- tin Qainbrid je, dated at Algiers, Oc
" ' i■: Forry to inform ybu, that we
an to let fail from hence to-morrow, for
Gondantinople, which will ofcourfe detain
|US From our country at lead nine months.
j—We are going to carry prefents from
the Dee of Algiers to the Grand Seignior.
We are to take with us 20 gentlemen,
tWO negro Turks, GO Turkifn women, 2
lions, 2 tygerS, 4 horfes, 200 Sheep, he
fides jewels and money. The l>ey iv-
Sided on our going ; and we had only
to chooFe between compliance and Slave
ry. They have hoifted the red flag at our
maintop gallant-mad head."
It is Said that our ConSul had to enter
into a Security on the part of the United
States of 800,000 dollars, for the Safe : e
livery at Constantinople, of the cargo of
the George Washington.
Late from Algiers and Gibraltar.
On TneSclay arrived at this pert, the
Ship Brutus, William Brown, commander
in 33 days From Gibraltar, and 40 from
Algiers. Captain Brown informs, that
the United States frigate'Oeorge Wafh
ti, captain Bainbridge, failed forCoh
flant.nople on the. I-9 th of October; Inn
ing on board the Algerine General of
Marine and. Suite, with preFents, £xc. foi
the Grand Seignior. The Dey of Al
giers, by force, compelled captain Bain
bridgc to perform this Service, and threa
tened, in caSe. OS refuFal, War to the U
nited States, and ilavery to the Officers
and Crew oS the George V/ashii
idle l)y all'o infilled," Uv.it the (hip
Brutus, captain Brown, Should unlade,
and go to the li •'!■-:. for a tar
go of Turk-.—no ight to fee
allowed—but tin iidered
as a favour granted bj States.
Through the influence of the •> mi
Cohl'ul, Mr. O'Brien, and the Shi]
ing private property,
hie cargo bn hoard, : eu'.'e I From
this Service. Captain
this Favourable moini Further
requisition and quitted Algiers, on the 25th
of October. Captain Brown brought dif
patches to the Secretary of State contain
ing the particulars i dinary
affair Mr. O'Brien, the ConF 1, and
Captain Ba'mbridge, had remonStrattd, but
were obliged to comply, to prevent a more
ierious iliiliculvy. Two days out from
Algiers, Captain Brown was brought to
by the. BritiSh brig Garnielia ; the lieuten
ant of which informed—that (he. was bound
for Egypt, with difpatches from \e<v;':
Keith; and that his LordShip, with the
fleet and transports und< r the command,
was deStined Sor Egypt. On arrivi
Gibraltar, no one was permitted to land
from the Brutus, becaufe (he was from the
Barbary coaft—but an American, a refi
deu', there, came along Side, and inform
ed—that the French marched into I t■ -
horn on the 10th oF October, agr ?eably
to a Stipulation in the Treaty with the
Emperor—that the inhabitants were much
exaSperated at the mea Cure, and that it had
excited conSidera'oie commotion, in that
unfortunate city*—The day the
Brutus arrived at Gibraltar, an A
merican (hip owned by Murray and
Mumford, of New-York, failed, and was
captured by foroe SpaniSh Gun boats, in a
hour:—She had previously been boar
ded by the lhme Boats, and cautioned a
gamSr. entering Gibraltar, it being declared
in a State of blot hade by his Gathoii
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j'.fly——(he* however did enter and fell her
cargo of Flour—liw was carried to At-]
srcziras, and would probably be condemned.
The dentlemati alio informed, that the
Plagve at Cadi* continued i:s ravages^
and that it had Spread into the interior of
Spain, that it war. at Malaga; and that
in conSequence the Englifh nt Gibraltar
were v< rv Uriel in th regu
lations—The. next day Cap« B. took ad
vantage oS the Convi y of two frigates,
which had under their protection 32 tranf
oorts, moft of them full of troops, hound
tor Lifbon—before they got thro\tgu the.
SALEM, December 11.
Gilt, ■.. ...I -..;" J v. , WmU i,
obliged the whi o the
Bay of Tuteau, on the Ihuhart {;..,„);.**_
Sound there, Seven fail.of I !ld !.'
tranfports with more troops. Next day
was joined by Lord Keith, with four mor<
fail of the Line, and a number of Frigates*
The fleet all that day and night veer;
bufily employed in watering, hot being
able to procure a Supply at Gibraltar, ou-
ing to the dry feafolt. Next day Sailed
with part of the fleet for Li Short, hav
ing Lord Keith with the refidue, and al
moSt all the troop?, at Tutean Bay— from
whence it war, conjectured he was to Sail
for Egypt. Capt. Brown left the fleet
that night.
NAIIONAD INTEL. I. IGENCER,
The appearance of the NA PONAL INTEL
LIGENCRR hits been protracted to this day, by
the unavoidable, though unanticipatedembarraff
merits attending the removal of a Printing Of
fice, the vefhl, which contained the greater
part of the materials, failed from Philadelphia on
the aoth of September ; but did not arrive in
this City till the ajth inft. owing to her having
been driven on (bore by the violence of the late
Scot in. This information is given to remove any
cenfure that may have been thrown upon the £
ditor for his unex. edted delay.
The Editor, at the commencement of his rlu
tics, confiders it as not improper to flate the na
ture of the plan, which he intends to purfue, and
concifcly to notice the principles by which he pro
poles to regulate his own conduct, as well a«
thofe by which it is expected that Correfpondenu
will regulate theirs.
Various political opinions divide the civilized
world. I hefe opinions in form- Ci>fes arc diffufed
by the prefs ; in others by the l'word.
Amidft, this collifion of hoftiie fentiments no
hirer fafeguard of human happinefs exiib, than
the libety of the Prcfs.
1 here is truth in the declaration the venerable
Congress of 1774, who in their addict's to the
Inhabitants of Quebec, fptaking of the freedom
of the prefs, fay " The importance of this con
lifts, befidts the advancement ol truth, lcicnce,
morality, and the arts in general, in it 9 diffufi
on of libera! mrtiments on the adminiftration
of government, its ready communication ol
thoughts between Subjects, and its confequenti
al PROMOTION OF ONION AMONG THEM,
whereby oppreffive officers are th.mied or in
timidated into more honorable and julf mode*
of conducting affairs."
But while the Editor cladles with our dearefl
rights the Liberty .of the Prefs, he is decidedly
inimical to its licentioufnrfs.
As, on the one hand, the conduct of public
■11.-1 and the tendency of public meafHrc will he
examined, fo, on the other, private cha
racter will remain inviolable, nor Hull indelicate
i exprtflions be admitted, hoWever difguii
cd by fatire or enlivened by wit.
No fentimeuls whatever, on the prevalence ol
which the genera] go< '. depends, will he exclud
ed from enquiry and diftufjioii, Guided by thi*
principle, the editor need not caution the public
;;g;.inil afcrihing to him, a belief in all the opi
nions which may occasionally be fupporred, or a
difbelief of thofe which may be oppofed. Pol
as he means not to Surrender his own Sentiments,
fo he does not expect that thofe who write foi
the National Intelligencer will Surrender theirs.
In the admiiTion of compiled as well as on
ginal articles, it will be his objeiil \o he im
parted, ami to exhibit, as they exift, the
varying opinions and actions of men Let it
however, be confide red, that impartiality doe*
not con Sift in the actual admission of as much
1 m etcr on one lide as the other ; but in
a readitiefs to infert articles of merit on cither
fide.
Aware of the equivocal character of pgOPBa-j
310ns, and convinced that the public judgmeni
will he formed, as it ought to he, from the mm
ncr in which the National Intelligencer fhall hi
conducted, the Editor will add only one remark.
fli» Paper will be purely American. It will
l.c hiscffoit to promote the true interell. of h>i
own Country, uninfluenced either by foreign at
tachments or enmities.
The following are the tkrmi on which
the National Intelligencer will be puhlifhed, fub
joined to which is the addrefs which accon
the Propofal Papers.
ift. The National In t cli.ioknc er fhall he
printed three times a week on good unu
paper, and with a new type
ad. 'I'ht; annual fuhlcriprion fhal! be Five Dol
lars paid confantly in advance 'y all fub
fcrihers not refiding in the City of Wafhington
and .Six Dollars' paid by thofe who refide. in
the City ; in which cafe the payment (hall hi
half yearly. It being underflood that fuh
fcribers, refiding at a diOanc? from the City
of Wafhington, are invariably to pay far a
year in advance, and in every fuch cafe the
tranfiniflion of the Paper will ceafe as foon a
the period (hall expire for which payment (hall
hive been made. No paper will be forward
ed in any inltafice until the money is actual \
paid.
3d. All Letters to be poft paid.
The Editor qf the National Inthi.i.igen
CfK, iinprefled with the great importance of th*
prefcnt crifis, and with the ftrong aeceffit)
of having conducted, at the feat of the General
Government, a newspaper, that may claim the
p-piit !*J»hi of being ufeful, by diffitfing anperver
ted facli, and correal political ideas, has deter
mined to enter uponthe arduous duties which facli
an object involves. He is well appriled of the
expence and exertion which fuch an efbihlifhniem
requires. But he c-itifidt s in the prompt and
energetic co-op«ration ol the friends of truth
and of their country in the d I »of t!v
Union. As « U his firm detertmnttLn, that
nothing /hall be Rdmkted into the Nitiow tt l**"
rciiLiotNCCK which fhaUwound national .or ca
lumniate private characilef, J u it is his unalterable
purpose freely to iufert, alio' carneftiv to iuvke,
whareVcr fliall promote the general welfare,
t his and this only, fhall be the motive by which
his profefltonal deportment fliall be euided.
Hitherto, in thi manugement of the UNIVER
SAL GAZETTE, the Editor has confined him
fclf, agreeably to tire original plan, to recording
e«ents as they occurred, with but little aniaiad
verficn on their caul..-* or erf'tcts ; and as far as
opinions Wcie involved, ro relr.ting thofe of
others rather than his own. '1 he Univerfal
Gazette will flill be continued on the fame plan ;
the only change that takes p ace, will arife from*
its hein< printed at the feat of government at
W'afhington, inlle.id of Philadelphia ; whereby
it* value will be appreciated rather than impair
ed.
With refpert to the National Intelligencer,
another plan will be purfued. Over a faithful and
comprehenfivs detail of fuels will prefide a (pint
of invefligation, a defire to enlighten, not only by
fact, but by reafon. 'the tendency of public
meafHtcs, and the conduct of public men, will be
examined with candour snd truth.
In addition to the nu=fs of information, formed
by domeilic snd foreign events, and especially by
a detailed ft a cement of the debates and proceed
ings of Congrefs, as much oiiginal matter will
be furuifhed asthe exertions of the Editor fhall
be able to comnuinc!. And if he be not deceived,
he cah proniiie the readers of the National Intel
ligencer, an organ, which fhall communicate tbe"
language of truth with accuracy, with dignity,
md with fpirit.
October 3ill, 1000.
The RATIONAL INTKLI.IGIC.YCF.R is
thi; day prelented to the Public. It is the
first Paper printed in v/ashincto.m ; and
from the vicinity of the Editor to the
!, the Seat of the public bodies, he
experts to he enabled to furniih the ear
licit and moft r.oirecA notice* of their de
liberations. The crilis of national affairs
i; deeply interfiling, whether contempla
ted in relation to our internal or external
Situation. Fully iuiprePAd with the Sacred
duties oS the prefs in fuch times, and Sen
lible how much good or mifchief may be
ciiect.-d by the virtuous or vicious apoli
cation o( the power with winch public
Opinion has invefied it, truth an.d truth
only, fhall be the guide oS the Editor*
in many inftances he will doubtlefs be de
ceived. Bnt in all initancrs a conscious
ueis of error will be followed by a candid
enunciation of it.
The defign of the National l.ut. ,':
ceri.s to dijfase coned information through
'be wi . the union. From
C' lL' who! . Mere, of the union,
it muft derive the patronage that fhall
Sustain it; and every friend to its plan
is invited to promote it, by making
known, its nature and character to his
fellow citizens in his neighbourhood.
For this Sole purpofe, not in the un
worthy Spirit of Solicitation, it is intended
to forward a few of the e a riy numbers
to citizens of rcfpectability in the Seve
ral fhtes, who aie requcftrd to ufe tbtir
rood offices, if th. y ceimdvr the Paper
worthy encouragement.
Oct. 31 St. 1800.
THE SUBSCRIBER
" £ \r.r,
THE FOLLO VALUABLE
PRO
In George Town cjj1 th
A BRICK HOUSE • I 01' near the Un
ix on tavern ; th. terms 0 ymcnt a? follow,
one half c;eh, the balance in 6 and 9 monrhs,
the purchafer giving nou, n ith ; pprowed indor
se is.
—ALSO—
A number of Loi s unimproved ; <
adjoining the above, 47 feet frc-Ht, 1,20 back ; em
lot on the caufeway, near Mr. lofeph l'eck's
building, %6 feet front hy 125 back ; »>:ie fourth
of the Iquare in I honxas Deal!'* addition to George
fawn, on an elegant eminence, it being part of
that hjuare improved by Mr. William Smith;
alio, a lot in faid addition, i; being at the diago
nal corner from the place of rejldence of Tofrph
Nourfe, Kfq one lot in the City of Wafhing
ton, Iquare 164, fronting North X, ftreet 66 feet
4 inches by £0 feet 10 inches on Connecticut
Uenue, containing if 29? fquare feet, with n.
fpring of excellent water running through faid
lot.
All the above property will b; dffpofed of on
-he mod reafonable terr.lx, and indifpuwblc title;,
will be given on the purchafe money being pod
JONATHAN JACK
November 12, ißco
C ' RA YtiD or STOLEN A BLACK MARE
Owith a white Streak down her face, with a
bunchy Mane aud tail. No other particuW
■ narks that I knew. Abotlt thirteen hands high,
about twelve ye.irs old, made andin
good order, FOUR DOLLARS reward and ail
reafonaltle charges" paid if left either with the
-übtcriher, or at JjiMat 7jmm«n« Liberty
Itrtet liultimore,
By JAMF.S USHER,
GrrenJcuffi
V> ra«hington City, N >v. rr, rßcs.