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.% \ l '_ *7 ■ - ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE, COMMERCIAL & POLITICAL. PUBLISHED BT S. SNOWDEN & J. D. SIMMS, ROYAL STRUT, ALEXANDRIA. Daily Gazette, 7 Dollar«. Country Gazette, 5 Dollars. TUESDAY, MARCH 9. Public Sale. On WEDNESDAY, the 17th instant, at eleven o’clock, will be sold, on the premises, A Lot of Ground, on the west side of Fairfax and south side of Gibbon-street, 100 feet front on Fair, fnx and 436 feet 3 inches in depth to the center of the square joined by Roy al *nd PiU-atrcet—on a credit of 12 months. Ap. G. Marsteller. March 8- 8th J5th k 17th Mh Pursuant to a Decree of the honorable the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, in the case of Colin Auld, assignee of William Wilson, against James Cavan and others, will be exposed to Public Sale on the premise*, on Tuesday the 9th day of March next, at 12 o’clock, noon. That half acre Lot, in the town of Leesburg, described in the plan of said town by il Lot No. 6 bounded by Loudoun 8c Royal streets, on which are erected a -large stone House and other buildings. Terms oi sale, ready money. *• The Commissioners. February 13 tds IC7* The printer of the Leesburg Washingtonian will insert this adver tisement tor three weeks. v Valuable Lands for Sale. THE subscriber will sell a Tract of Land, containing 593 and a haif acres, within two miles of Fauqu»er CwurtHouse ; about 300 acres ot which are Ln wood, well timbered. The open land is undergoing its first course of clover and plaisicr. There are on the premises a comfortable new Dwelling House, not finished, a good new Bam and other convenient out houses. /Pos session of tbo houses and part of the land can be given immediately, and of the residde after harvest. This is perhaps one ol the most de sirable tracts of land in the neighbor hood of Fauqifter Court House, on acr count of its vicinity to that place, where fire woo l sells at from three to fe ur dollars per cord during the winter sea son. John A. \V. Smith, Esq. or Sami Low, Jr. Esq. will shew the land, and make known the terms ot sale. Also, one other Tract, containing 200 acres, lying in the county of Culpep per, on the main road leading Irom Chester’s .Gap to Fredericksburg.-^ This land is well adapted to the use of nhiiater. and is not more than two miies from Mr. Moses Gibson's Merchant Mill. It will be shewn by Mr. Curtis Corby, near the premises, an ’, the terms made known on . application to the sub scriber, living the upper end of Fau quier county, on the road leading from tUc Court Hou»e to Chester's Gap. Wm. Clarkson. March 4. • - __ 8w_ SIXTY DOLLARS WILL be given for apprehending and securing in goal, so that I get hiift again, a Negro Man named DU8, late the property of William Downman, deceased ; be is about thirty years of *ge, fi'e fe' t nine nr ten inches high, stunt made, of a dark brown com plexion, very full eyes, a large mouth, with tteth very wide apart, a surly loak and manner of speaking. \s he has been hired out for several years, his ch>®thing is unknown* He is a cooper by trade, and works entirely with his left hand, the thumb of which fu>s lately been very sore, tl»e mark oi which may be plainly seen. 1 will give Fifty Dollars to Tuve him secured in any goal in this state, or the above re ward, if secured in goal out of this state. James Nisbett, Ex’r. Fairfax County, near ) March 3. •>*. Occoquan, Feb- 25 y •_ J Notice is hereby fciven, TO the Stockholders of the Me chanics' Bank of Alexandria-^ That an Election will be held at *fee Court-House in this town, on tbc aacoad Monday of March next (8th) *>r*ht pur pose of choosing Fifteen Electors for th« ensuing year. By order of the President k Directors, Wm. Pfcton, in.. . stfsLit. February 5 Ou* JUlathThi trrttf FkXHc*. To the House of Representative* of the . United'State*. I transmit to the Heuse of Represen tatives a Report of the Secretary of State complying with their Resolution ot the first instant , . JAMES MADISON. March, 3, 1813. The Secretary of State to whom was referred the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the first instant, has the honor to submit to the President the enclosed papers marked A. ami B All which i» respectfully submitted. JAMES MONROE. ‘ Department of State, March 3, 1813. (A.) Extract of a litter from Joel Barlov>} Esq. to the Secretary of State^ dated Paris, May 2, 1812. « I have the honor to enclose here with the copy of my note ol yesterday to the duke of Bassano, The importance of the objects and the urgency of the oc casion I hope will justify the solicitude with which I have pressed the proposi tions. The result, as far as it may be known within a few days, shall he transmitted by the Wasp. The Hornet sailed from Cherbourg the 26th April, with orcfcrs to land a messenger -in England with my despatches for Mr. Russell, but net to wait a return from London.” Enclosed in Mr. Barlow’s letter of May 2, 1812, to the Secretary of State. Extract of a letter from Joel Barlov>} Esq. to the Duke of Bostono, dated Paris, 1st May 1812. In the note I had the honor to address your excellency on the 10th November last, the spirit of the English govern ment was so far noticed as to anticipate the fact now proved by experience, that orrt.-rs in council violating the rights of neutrals, would not be revoked. The declaration of the Prince Regent of the 21st of April, has placed that fact beyond all question. In doiag this he has re* pea ted the assertion so often advanced by his ministers and judges that the de crees of France of a similar character arc likewise unrevoked. You wiil notice that he finds a new argument for this conclusion in your excellency’s late report to the Empe ror concerning neutral rights, in which you avoid taking notice of any repeal or modification of these decree^, or of their non-application to the U. States. Wo know indeed that they do not apply to the United States, because we do not suffer our flag to be denationalized in the manner evidently contemplated by the Emperor in the rule he meant to establish. But it would have been well if your excellency had noticed their non application to the U. States* since his majesty has uniformly doue it in his de cisions of prize causes since November 181°. •. b . It is much to be desired that the .French government would now make and publish an authentic act, declaring the Berlin and Milan decrees, as rela tive to ihe United States, to have ceas ed in November 1810* declaring that they have not been applied in any in stance, since tlrat time, and that they shall not ba so applied in future 44 The case is so simple, the demand so just, and the necessity so urgent, that I cannot withhold my confidence in the prompt and complete success of my proposition.” Extract of a letter from Mr. Barlow to Mr Monroty dated Pakis, 12th May, 1312. 44 After the date of my letter, ofwhich I have the honor to enclose you a copy, I tounu irorn a preuy snarp cuiivi:i na tion with the duke of Bassano, that there was a singular reluctance to answering my note of the 1st of May. Some traces of that reluctance you will perceive in the answer which finally came, of which a copy is here enclosed. This though dated the 10th, did not ome to me till last evening. I consider the communi cation to be so important in the present crisis ef our affairs with England that I despatch the Wasp immediately, to carry it to Mr. Russel, with orders to return with his answer as soon as possi ble. I am confident that the President will approve the motive of rny solicitude in this affair, and the earnest manner in which I pressed the minister with it as soon as my knowledge of the declaration of the Prince Regent enabled me to use the argument that belonged to the sub ject. When in the conversation above alluded to, the Duke first produced to me the decree of the 88th of April 1811, I made no comment on the strange man ner in which it had been so long con cealed from me, and probably from you, l only asked him if that decree had been published. He said, no, but declared it had been communicated to my predeces sor here, and likewise sent to Mr. Se rurter, with orders to communicate it to you. I assured him it was not among the archives of this legation ; that I ne ver before had heard of it; and since he had consented to answer my note, I de sired him to send to me in that official s manner a copy of that decree, and of a ny other documents that might prove to the incredulous of my country (not to me) that the decees of Berlin and Milan were in good faith and unconditionally repealed with regard to the United States, fit then pronused me he would ■ ’“j kSS. w s'.— and published.” , ■ •■ , The Duke of Batsano to Mr, y ar ow, translation. Pahi»; 10th May, lSISv Sin—In conversing wl'h ,y°,“ the note which you d‘‘l n^. j couid address to me on the lstot - ) » not conceal from you my *®*P. *n the doubt which you had exP oft that note, respecting the rey^at _ the decrees of Berlin and MU • v revocation was proven by miJny • , acts, by all my correspondence with your predecessors and with you, . decisions in favor of American vessel*. You have done me the honor’to ask copy of the letters »^ thc G! n Judgo and the minister of the Finances wrote on the 25th Dec. 1810, to seen i the first effects of that measure, and you have said, sir, that the decree the 2® “ • of April, 1611, which proves defiimvc / the revocation of the decrees of if and Milan in regard to the Americans, was not known to you. I have the honor to send f5U as you have desired a copy of these three acts, you will consider them without doubt, sir, as the plainest answer, which I could give to this part of your note.. As to the two other questions to which that note relates, I will take care to lay them before the emperor. You know already, sir, the sentiments which his majesty has expressed in favor of Ame rican commerce, and the good disposi tions which have induced him to appoint a plenipotentiary to treat with you on that important interest. Accept, sir, &c. (Signed) The Duke of Bassano. Translation.^ Palace St. Cloud, Jfirit 28th, 1811. Napoleon, Emperor of the French, &c &c. On the report of tur Minister of Foreign Relations. Seeing by a law passed on the 2d March 1811, the Congress of the Unit ed States has ordered the execution ot the provisions of the act of non-inter course, which prohibits the vessels and merchandise of Gicat Britain, her colo nies and dependencies front entering into the ports of the United States.. Considering that the said law is an act of resistance to the arbitrary preten sions, consecrated by tho British Orders in Council, and a formal refusal to ad here to a system invading the indepen dence of neutral powers, and of their flag, we have decreed, ana do decree as iollows : The decrees of Berlin and Milan are definitively, and u> date from the 1st day of November last, cousid* red as not having existed, (non avenus) in regard to American vessels. . (Signed) * NAPOLEON. By the Emperar, The Minister, Secretary of State, . (Signed) The COUNT DARU. (IS) MR. BAItLOW TO TH2 SECRETARY OF , STATE. Pans, Oct. 15th, 1812. SIR—By the letters from the Duke of Bassano and my answer, copies ot which are herewith enclosed, you will itarn that I am invited to go to Wilna, and that 1 have accepted the invitation. Though the proposal was totally unex pected, and on many accounts disagree able, it was impossible to refuse it with out giving offence, or at least risking a r, f nnrviCV I lr»n \l/l\lrh T have reason to believe is now in a fair way to a speedy and advantageous close. From the circumstances which have preceded and which accompany this proposition, I am induced to believe/ that it is made with a view of expedit ing the business. There may indeed be an intention of coupling it with other views not yet brought forward. If so. and they should extend to objects be yond the simplicity of our commercial interests and the indemnities which we claim, I shall not be at a loss how to an swer them. I shall have the honor to write you, as soon as possible, from Wilna, and shall return to Paris without any unne cessary delay. I remain, Sec. (Signed) J. BARLOW. £ Translation 1 THE DUKE OF BA8SANO TO MR. BARLOW. JVilr.a, 1 \th Oct. 1812.' SIR—I have had the honor to make known to you how much I regretted, in the negociafion commenced between the United States and France, the de lays which inevitably attended a corres pondence carried on at so great a dis tance. Your government has desheil to see the epoch of this arrangement draw Rear. His majesty is animated by the same dispositions, and willing to as sure to the negotiation n result the most prompt, he has thought that it would be expedient to suppress the in termediaries and to transfer the confer ence to Wilna. His majesty has in con-, sequence authorized n»e, sir, to treat directly with you. If you will come to this town, I, dare hope that with the de sire which animates us both to conciiL ate such important interests, we will immediately be enabled to remove all the difficulties which until now have ap peared to impede. the progress of the aegociation, , . . • ' r* I hhve apprized the duke of Dalbetg that hi* mi*9i«n wa» thu* terminated, and I have laid before bis majesty the actual 'stata of the negotiation, to the end that when you arrive at Win* the different questions being already illus trated ('tlairci"), «*her bf J0" Judi' cious observations, or by the instruc tions I shall have received, we may, sir, conclude without delay an arrangement sa desirable and so conformable to the mutually amicable views of our two go vernments. Accept, sir, 8cc. (Signed) The Duke of Bassako. MU. BAKLOW TO THE DUKE OF BASSANO. f Extract.] Paris, Oct. 25, 1812. »* SIR—In consequence of the letter you did me the honor to write me on the 11 tli of this month, I accept your invitation, and leave Paris to-morrow for Wilna, where I hope to arrive i» 15 or 18 days from this date* My sCC,f* tary of legation and one servant will compose all my suite. I mention this to answer to your extreme goodness in asking the question, and your kind oflei t>f finding' me a convenient lodging hope the trouble you will give yoursclt in this will be as little as possible. The negotiation on which you have done me the honor to invite me at Wi - na, is so completely prepared in all it# parts between the duke ot Dalbcrg ant. myself, and, as I understand, sent on to you for your approbation about the 18t of the present month, that I am persuad ed, if.it could ha#e arrived before the date of your letter, the necessity of this meeting would not hive existed, as am confident that his majesty would have found the project reasonable and acceptable in all its parts, and would have ordered that miniiter to conclude and sign both the treaty of commerce and the convention of indemnities. NORFOLK, Mareh 3. Captain Thompson of the armed scnr. Inca, of Baltimore, arrived in town this morning from Beaufort, NorthCarolma. The Inca left Nantz 26th December— has met with severe gales in which she had to throw over all her guns but 2 ; on the 24th of January, suffered severe* ly from a stroke of lightning which split the foremast, snapt the fore yard asunder, broke the rudder hoad and kill ed three of the crew, viz : Charles Bra dy, carpenter, John Delmas and Janies Anderson, seamen. Captain Stone of this place, and lately commanding the ship Nancy, hence lor Laguira, arrived in town yesterday. The Nancy, as we reported some time since, was captured by the British sloop of war Goree and carried into Bermuda. She was condemned ; Sawyer’s licence to the contrary notwithstanding*. Captain Stone has obligingly favored us with a file of Bermuda papers to the 30th Jan. They are barren of news. The subse quent articles are all that we deemed woithy of selection. Bermuda, January 30. The following ships are ordered to join Sir John B. Warren. The Rumalics of 74 guns, Captain Sir T. M Ha-dy; Cumberland 74, captain Baker; Sybille 38, captain Upton ; E* clipse, captain Tocker; Indian, captain Jane ; Arab, captain Wilson, and four , smaller vessels. The Ramilies and the Horatio have sailed. Arrived brig Caroline, schrs. High flyer, (privateer) Polly Merrick, Lady Hamilton, American Eagle, Tropic, Sc Soloma, and sloop Lydia, prizes to dif ferent ships on the station Monday last sailed #is majesty s ship Tartarus, with several vessels under convoy, ior Halifax. Kingston, (Jamaica) Dec. 5. We are informed that in Annotto-Bay, where the ship Experiment lost henan chor end cable in the late dreadful Earth quake, and where there was previously only a depth of 60 lathoms of water, there is now a depth of 820—In ar/>ther part of the bay, where the depth of water was 100 fathoms, bottom cannot now be found. Too effect of the earthquake there was attended with another singular circum stance ; the pinnace belonging to the . ship Pelham, which was proceeding to the shore at the instant of that awful phenomenon, felt as if sinking, and after the undulations had ceased, her copper was scorching hot. At about half a mile distance there was a smoke from which there was a sulpurous smell. It would appear from the above that there must have been a volcanic eruption of the earth beneath. i Recent advices froni Carthagena re present that place to be a scene of disor der and confusion beyond description.-— It appears from the private communica tions from thence, that a parcel of dis contented revolutionary characters of different nations, and from different parts, aided by French spies and incen diaries, had obtained the ascendency, & in order to establish what is termed the Independent Government, had commit ted a number of excesses. Two hun ared French troops had already arrived there, and on the 2d ultimo a schooner sailed with a Dr. Miguel* Gutteres Mo reno, with 12,000 dollars in doubloons (for which government paper to the a mount of 39,000.dollars bad been given) for the purpose of obtaining a reinforce | I I ! I i CHARLES! DLOCKAbk { Arrived here, fishing smack Je captain J. H. B1 late of the brig j: on the 18th insui ing Georgetown, war Sophie, and Captain Dill am cut—Mr. Straw the brig remain* Jacob Gettingti with a cargo of: Captain Dill wi wards transferr jEolus, where they nesduy bst, when the the fishing smack, i These cruisers had: turca since they™ except two sloop i New York. Whiiei she gave chasa to; schr. Nonsuch, M« bound to Wilmingt* 8c it is the opinion of i&olus would have; less than two hoursi •on, under the covei sed. The Sophie by adm. Warren, ( w ith instructions to der on this coast informed captain C tention to keep up this port, and tlutlx days notify the skineii olVict r ol this port, rlM| He expected bliortij'-^H reinforcement of'r/cSB cl»Lion to the p.rc now on this coatriM Melville, Barnett,sii® Hinton, both f'«m it was understou! t»-^H off Cape Fe*r, ar>d '-*■ said to be in Bull i UvB last. Lo.dTowM«* intention to cut ol then® ern states to the ,ltr,*^Hj ami such yeast Is as ing in would bec!«S^^B ry anxious to get PC5lJj our pilot-boats, sc Is bound in—he which is rigged lit* which he intend*tot^B or 70 men, for ing vessels. Colusa younger* son, an American , H one of the crew o[v* m directed to t friend* W that some exertion** obtain hi* oRi’inwfl Order ed tfat-J Richter,^! Alexandria ne*Wg% to creditor* wJ ■ week for e'S1'* *'ei. I A Copy—f'1, jl THIS i* W tcriber, <* District of ^"JU 1^1 the Orphans’ ^ Jl ters testament-'; Richter, late of«* Jk ceased; All gainst the *»'d , uuired to exhibit'fjJ ticated, and P»s!tji A the subscriber, ' day excluded from"1 ,^1 and these irtWjA ed to make l,nn r^l Given under W I of January, lSl^cC*| ixrrv^'l January H I