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ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE,
COMMERCIAL O POLITICAL.
i PUBLISHED BY
A 8NOYVDKN # J. D. SIMMS,
H«y/: <n»EF-T. AlEXA-HPBU.
OuUtf •rCZt-Ui 7 Loilar*
Cc~ itrv fi ’~rtte$5 L)r.iic.'s
FRIDAY. JLLY So
J,,s: •• ecc.vcd for sale
H V U.N* RH'/UES,
3 b a > ai Domestic (ioocts, con
tataiog if'dticang, aa mbrays, 'jing
taro*, P'dds and Stripe*, Shawls
Cotton 'fhieads, a few pieces of fine
quality S-tinctts m:xed colors, binck
§•<4 clrabco;oteti superfine Cloth, cot
ton Shirting.
IN STORE.
Cotton, Twist whit'* ami colored
Mens* and Women's tine and coarse
Shoes
Mens'fine and course Huts
9a Idles asd Crunks
20 kegs of fir-t 'Miniity Chewing To
bacco, hr f ■ ’ ist
30 ke^x of Pear:-Ash
40 pieces blue In.Ka Cotton
Cot’ oti, Candies -nd Groceries os
r«tnl Jvt* J
Joseph S d devillc,
Ctrr.:~ & Fairfax-strccta^
OFFERS FOR SALE,
MX WHOLESALE AND RF*W1L,
") Teas—gunpowder, im*
MTOqr. chests l penal, hyson,hyson skin,
3-> boxes J young hyson & souchong
2«.,ooo lbs. green and white CnlTce
2o,ooo lbs. loaf and lurr.p Sugars
105 hhds J New Orleans & Muscovado
3o bbls > Sugars i
f,ooo lbs Pepper
To hhds retailing Molasses
5 pipes, S half pipes and 6 qr casks^L P
Madeira
5 pipes Sicilr Madeira
15 qr casks old Sherry
6 do genuine old Port
«4 pipes Red Catalonia
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mi v«i9V9 vi'vrvv v*
3 butts, 12 half pipes Malaga
5 pipes, 6 half pipes and 2o qr. casks
Teneiifife
It pipe* real Cognac Brandy
* 5 pipes Gin
So puncheons West-India Rum
15 puncheons and 4o bbls New England
Rum
10 bnls Pea^h Brandy
Ys d«> Whisky
500 ga-lvO® Old do.
3 i»Ms C^*vry Bounce
50 dozun iiibbcus Old London Brown
Sfout
20 bales Cot'on
600 lb Bangui 1 .digo
800 lb Bright Madder
6000 lb Goshen Sc Rhode IslandCheese
500 busb. ground allum Salt
Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Cassia, Pi
mento, race and ground Ginger,Caycnne.
Pepper, Almonds, Chocolate, Rice,Peas,
Barley,Mustard,Oil in botdes and flasks.
Wine and Cvder Vinegar, Glauber
Salta, Bi*rk, Scented White and Brown
Soap, Spermaciti mould and dipped Can
dles, maccaQba, rsppee and scotchSnufTs,
chewing tobacco, Starch, Fig Blue, Salt
Petre, Amotte, Alum, Copperas, Brim
stone. Gunpowder, patent Shot, Flints,
Hairpowder, Sifters, Cigars, Demijohns,
Wrapping Paper and Twine, Corks,
Bed Cord*, Leading Lines, Traces, See.
fcc.
A. B. 5o buthela freth warranted
qLOVER SEEDt
March 6.
PUBLIC SALE.
«ir*n i_ _ i -.. I
?> IIA 01 A ULTIVV. 4 ■ UV. UVM W«4
Saluidrty the 7th of August nex% at 11
, o'clock on ths Premises, that eieg.nt
and commodious three story Brick
House and Lot on t.ie South s»:e of
JLmg street, adj ,;r»i. c the pnst*OfFix.
Turins of Sate— Endorsed Notes ut
A, 1? and 18 monhs with tr,t<*re*t from
the date, the pa> nrkeru ol whi. h will he
secured by a ueed of trust on tha pro
perty
July 8
Negroes for Sale,
A Negro Man, about 30 year* of age,
fg>.cjc Ostler, and honest
Aho, a Negro Woman, about 23 years
•f a*e, with three children The wo
man is a good house servant, and baa an
excellent character.
The above Negroes will be sold low .
for Cash, if immediate application is J
made to r he Printer at this office.
July 23 6t j
WANTED TO PURCHASE, j
300 Hogsheads Maryland i
Tobacco. Apply to ]
Charles I. Catlett, or «
Thomas Irvin.
JtmeSO, |E
DISTRIB UTION OR ARMS:
I HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE UNITED STATES.
A REPORT.
The Committee of Military Affair,
to whom waa referred a resolution el
the House of the 15th of June* instruct
ing them to enquire whether any* and ii
any, what alterations ar« necessary to be
made in the act, entitled “ An act making,
provision for arming and equipping ttu
whole bodv of the militia of the United
S-ates ; and particularly whether any.
and if any, what alterations are necessa
ry as'to the tirre when the arms procur
ed by virtue of the said :.ct, shall be dis
tributed to each state and territory,
REPORT,
That the funds appropriated by the
«ct t*f the 23d of April for arming the
whole body of the militia, amounted, oi
the 23d day of A;^nl last, to one million
uf dollais ; that of t :ia sum 94 792 Jol
lars have been actually expended, and
that the whole number of arms procur
eu up to this day amount to 34 477
stands, all derived under contracts ol
supply ; that ol these the following dis
position has been nude, via :
Before the ?Mh December, 1812.
New-Hampshirc 1,600
Vermont 2,000
- Rhode Island 1,000
New Jersey 1,000
Delaware 500
N^rth-Carolina - 2,130
South Carolina 2,000
Georgia ■ 1,000
, Ohio 1.500
Kentucky 1,500
Tennessee 1,500%
Illinois Territory 216
Indiana territory —
Louisiana 250
Since the 24th of December, 1812.
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Connecticut 2 000
New York 2,000
Maryland 1,000
Louisiana 1,500
Ohio, 1,500
District of Columbia 2,200
Making an aggregate of 26,000 stands
delivered, and leaving a balance oi 8 477
stands subject to future distribution
That the aforesaid disposition has brer
made in virtue of the authority confc;
red by the third section of the act ol A
pril, 1808, which is a*follow* : “ Tha*
ail the arms procured in virtue of ibis
act, shall be transmitted to the several
states composing this union and tern to
ries thereof.; to eacn s ate and territory
respectively, in proportion to the num
ber of effective mi lira in each state and
territory, and by each at»:e and tenitory
to be distributed to the militia in such
stale and territory undir such rule*, a^t!
regulations as sh?U Os by la* prescrib
ed by the legislature.of each state and
territory.”
Tit^ loicrmir^ r»f this (ftrtinn is dear.
- — n —o
and admit* uf but one construction. The
proportion to which each state is enti
tled is secured by it; each state having
contributed its just proportion of money
to the purchase, each state is entitled to
rec^/e its just proportion of arms:
“ shall be transmitted to each state and
territory respectively, in proportion to
the number of effective militia in earn
state and territory.” “ Transmitted”
when ? At such time as the executive
may deem proper. This is the only
construction, in the opinion of your com
mittee, of which the language of the
section Is susceptible. If the intention
ot the legislate:* had been to bird the
executive to a simultaneous or /uriod cal
transmission, the language of the sec
lion would have been different : “ shall
be transmitted at the same time,” or
“ shall be transmitted am.uvllui or bien
nially, or trienniully,” woulc have been,
the language «.f the legislature. Tire
time of transmission not being specified,
therefore, but left, as your committee
conclude, to a sound executive discre
tion, the question is, w hether any altera
tion in the au of Ap.il, 1SC8, be in this
iespcct expedient.
In legislation it is extremely difficult
and frequently impossible to foresee all
the exigencies wh'ch may arise upder a
particulat act; and, consequently, ex
tremely difficult, and frequently impos
sible to n.aac adequate provision for
them. In some cases even the legisla
te e foreseeing a possible exigency, it
would jc unwise to anticipate and pro
vide for it by tbc express letter of the
Lw. Would it become the legislate!e
of the Union, for instance, to anticipate
the rebellion of a state against the autho
rity of the United States, and to enact
that “ no state in octual rebellion against
[he United Statea, should be entitled to
receive its proportion of arms” ? Your
committee presume not: a legislation of
mis cnjrauci, wuuiut iu say uuuuug ui
the violence it would offer to ihe en*
lightened sensibility of the national legi
slature, be the means when frequently
ndulged of bringing about that very
irate of things which cannot be thought
>f without horror, and which ought not
o be spoken of at all. In every act of
egislaiioo, therefore, something n.ust
>e left to implication ; something mus*
k be left to disci etion. But there sre
»ther considerations, which; in the opi
lion of your committee, justify the dis
r etion as to tbe'fjmr oj itgnimitsion.
A wsr unexpectedly breaks out; a
Articular section is exposed to the as
•tutu of the enemy; th*t soetioB desti;
.ute ofsrmt: »hsH *he enemy he suf
fered to advance, to Uy woate with nr<
and sword, because the president «
wound by the letter of the law so to ais
tribute the arms as that each state shall
*t the tame time, receive a proportios
exactly equal to the number of its effec
tive militia ? No, would be the excla
mation from one end of ihe union to the
other ; let the eajety of a part be con
sulted, though the whole suffer incon
vemence. Yet were such the letter oi
,ie Uw, the executive would, under any
cir unistances, be bound to respect it.
The act ol the 2ld of April, U08, was
passed in a season of profound peace j
contemplating futore wars, it looked tc
no particular war; it had just gtme hitc
wperaiion, had scarcely developed it,
S'st fruits, when ihe present war broke
out The war found ihe militia badly
armed ; it found particular portions ol
them worse armed aud mere exposed
than others. Would it have been wise
under these circumstances to distribute
30,000 stands of arms equally ameng
8 JO 000 militia, or would it have been
, wiser to consult the wants and exposure
of particular portions.
But suppose it were expedient in the
opinion of your corritnittett, to define,
With precision, the time of transmission,
what period ought to be selected ? If a
yearly or biennial, or triennial distribu
tion were adopted, it might happen by
casualty or accident that within the pc*
nod limited no-arms were received, or
ui few that the expense and trouble of
distribution would exceed toe expense
jf manufacure. and what would the dis
tribution of a dozen or an hundred s.ands
of arms avail trie militia of a great state
—they w‘>ulu p* lost in the transmission
or suffered by the states to lie neglected
and forgotten. In the distribution by
the states themselves among their own
militia, it i* more tluu prokabable they
would be governed by the same princi
ple as that by which the recent dispo
sition of the United States has seemed
to be regulated. Wouid a state, having
lOvX) companies of militia, so scrupu
l m*ly consult the principle of equality
n the di itribution of one thousand stands
of arms as to give one musket and bay
onet to each company ? It mar fairly be
presumed not. The wants*, ihe /rontirr
nositisn and actual exposure of particu
• .r pjrts of the state would be much
more likely to regulate the distribution.
Those of the militia, to be sure, from
Ahum, for the moment, they are with
held, might coinpi-in of a departure
from the principle of exact equality ;
but with what concern would the legis
rive body of suth state regard such com
plaint?
For these, and various other reasons
which might he adduced, but with
*hich your committee forbear to trou
ble tiic iiou->e, they are oi opinion that,
for the present at least, tnc act of April,
1808, re quire no alterations. They are
the more confirmed iu this opinion be
cause they have reason to believe that
there ha* been no misconstruction of
the law ; that the seeming irregularity
which has taken place has grown out of
the exigency of the times : that a dis
position exists to correct such irregu
Saritv as soon as circumstances will ad
mit; that the correcti- n is, in fact, at
tids moment proceeding ; that in due
time all the states must and will receive
their respective proportions of arms ;
and, in fine, that the immediate repre
sentatives of the people in congress, in
specting as they do with never ceasing
vigilance the execution of this as well as
every other law. stand ready to apply
the remedy whensoever right, or justice,
or expediency shall seem to them to de
mand it.
Copy of a letter to the Secretary of roar
respecting the distribution of arms.
Committee Room, June SO, 1813.
SIR,
I am directed by the commit
tee on military affairs, to whom has been
referred a resolution instructing them to
enquire what alterations me necessary
in the act of the 23d April, 1808, pro
viding for the at ming the whole body ol
the militia of the United States, to ask
information on the following points, viz:
1st. What r.omber of arms have been
received by ’he United States since the
24th day of December, 1812, under con
tacts or put chases for carrying in»o ef
fect the aforesaid act of 23d April, 1808?
2d. Whether, since the 24th day of
December, 1812,any further disposition
has been made of the arms acquired un
der the act of 23d April, 1808, and, if
any further disposition, to what amount;
to what states and territories, and the
number to each respectively ?
3d. By what authority eight thousand
one hukdred stand of arms have been,
a« «nn*»n hv k renort from vour denari
—-1 |- 4 W 4 m
ment made to the bouse at representa
tives the 24th December, 1813, loaned
to several states and territories, Sc whe
ther tie arms so loaned were arms ac
quired under the authority of the afore
said act cf the 23d of April, 1808 ; or
ai.y other information in possession of
tour department, touching the distribu
tion < f arms acquired under the act of
1808, and which wiQ enable the com
rt.it tee to comply with the instruction of
be house. •
War Df/utrtment, 6th July, 1812.
SIR,
Iq reply to the note you did me
. the horror to write to me on thr 30th tl
. timo, I beg leave to state, that two thou
i sand eight hundred and thirty-se**1
i stands of arms have been received int<
. the public stores since December, 1812
under contracts made pursuant to law
' and that deliveries of arms since tha
. period, to the amount of seven thooaant
stands, have been itfadt as follows, viz.
2,ooo to the stste of Connecticut,
2,ooo to the state of New York,
»,5oo to the state of Maryland, and
r l,joo to the state of Louisiana,
The arms staled in the report of De
cember last, to have boen loaned, were
in part acquired under the act of the
28th of April, 18o8, viz:
l,5or» delivered to major gen. Wads*
worth of Ohio, and
2,2co to the district of Columbia, and
are considered aa furnished under that
law. In the former of these case*, the
exigence growing out of the surrender
of general Hull did not leave to this de
paument time for the employment of
the customary Lrm of getting the re
ceipt of the governor. The balance o!
loaned arms (29oo) was not acquired
1 under the aforesaid act.
Accept, sir, the assurances of mv ve
ry high respect. „ ,
JOHN ARMSTRONG
lion. Mr. 7 'rou/i.
Public Humiliation and Prayer.
It being a duty peculiarly incumbent
in a time of pub ic calamity and war,
humbly asd devoutly to acknowledge
our dependence upon Almighty God,
and to implore his aid and protection :
therefoie,
Resolved by the Sena'e and House of
Refiresenlativcs of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That a
joint committee of bo'h Houses wait on j
the Piesident of the United States, and
request that he recommend a day ot
Public Humiliation and Prayer, to be
observed by the people of the United
States with religious solemnity, aad the
offering of fervent supplications to Al
mighty God for the safety and welfare
of these states, his blessing on their
arms, and the speedy restoration of
peace.
H CLAY,
Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives
E GERRY,
Vice President of the U States,
and President of the beniue.
Waihinglen, July 16, 1813.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas the Congress of the U.
Stales, by a joint resolution of the
two Houses, have signified a request
that a day may be recommended, to
be observed by the people of the U.
States with religious solemnity, as a
dav of Public Humiliation and
Praver ; and whereas in times of
public calamity, such as that of the
war, brought on the U. States by
the injustice of a foreign government,
it is especially becoming, that the
hearts of all should be touched with
the same, and (he eyes of all be
turned to that Almighty Power in
whose hand are the welfare and the
desliny of nations : I do therefore,
issue this my Proclamation recom
mending to all who shall be piously
disposed to unite their hearts and
voices in addressing, at one and the
samer time, their vows and adora
tions, to the great Parent and So-.
vereigu of the Universe, that they
assemble oh the second Thursday of
September next, in their respective
religious congregations, to render
him thanks for the many blessings
he has bestowed on the people of the
U. States ; that he has blessed them
with a land capable of yielding all
the necessaries and requisites of
human life, with amplo means for
convenient exchanges with foreign
countries 5 that he has blessed the
labours employed in its cultivation
and improvement; that he is now
blessing the exertioos to extend and
establish the arts and manufactures,
which wiii.seeure within ourselves
supplies too important to remain de
pendent on the preearious policy, or
the peaceable dispositions of other
nations, and particularly that he
has blessed the United States with a
political constitution founded on the
will and authority of the whole peo
ple, and guaranteeing to each indivi
dual security, ndt only of bis person
and his property, but ef those sa
ered rights of eonscienee, so essen
tial to his future hopes : that with
those expressions of devout thank
fulness, be joined supplications to
the same Almighty Power, that,
he would look down with compas
sion on our infirmities, that he would
pardon our manifold transgressions,
and awaken and strengthen in all the
wholesome purposes of repentance
and amendment \ that in this season
of trial and calamity, tie would pre
side, in a particular manner, over
our public councils, and inspire all
citizens with a love of their** coun
try, and with those fraternal af
fections, and that mutual confi
dence, • which have so happy a ten
• deucy to make ns snfe r,t
• and respected abroad; \ th;,i a. .*
1 wa* graciously pleased. hcrc^
> to smile od our struggles a^stin8t |fc*
1 attempts of tlic government 0f
’ empire of which these stales tb
f made a part, to wrest from the*
the rights and privileges to whiefc
they were entitled in common uitb
efrery other part, and to mi*? them
to the station of an independent 5^4
sovereign people $ so lie woo’d «,tw
he pleased, in like manner, to
tow hi9 blessing on our arms in re.
sistfng the hostile and persevering {
forts of the same power to degr*^
us on the ocean, the common ink*,
ritance of ail, from rights niid tfn.
mnnities, belonging und essentinl *0
the American peopltvas a co poUa|
member of the great eommunih
independent nations? and il.af* ifi.
spiring our enemies with moderation
with justice, aad with that spirit of
reasonable accommodation, whick
our ooUutry has continued to manifest 1
we may be enabled to beat our swunb
into plough* shares, and to enjoy in i
peace, every man, the fruits of his
honest industry, and the rewards uf
hi* lawful enterprize.
K the public homage qfa people
can ever be worthy the iarorable
regard of the Holy ami Omniscient
Being to whom it is addressed, it
must he that, in which those who
join in it are guided only by their'
free choice, by the impulse of tkir
hearts and the dictates of their coo
sciences : and such a spectacle mast i
be interesting to all Christian nations, j
as proviug that religion, that gift of
Heaven for the good of man, freed
from all coercive edicts, from that
unhallowed connection with the pow
ers of this world, which corrupts re.
ligioninto an instrument or an usur
per of the policy of the state, and
making oo appeal but to reason, to
the heart and to the conscience, can
spread its benign influence every
where, and can attraettothe Divine
Altar those free will offerings of
humble supplication, thanksgiving
and praise, which alone can be ac
ceptable to him whom no hypocrisy
can deceive, and no forced sacrifi
ces propitiate.
Upon these principles, and with
these views, the good people of till
United States are invited, in confor
mity with the resolution aforesaid(
to dedicate the day above named to
the religious solemnities therein ro*
commended. "%
Given at Washington, this twen- f
ty third day of July in the |
year of our Lord ooe thousand >v
eight hundred and thirteen. |
. JAMES MADISON. Jj
u ,J ■ ■I-... I,. II ’-g
Five Dollars Reward.
STRATED or STOLEN from the
commons of Alexandria, about the S5th
of June last, a BAY JJGRSK, with a
blaze face, under hit left side be has t
lump ?s if he bad been gored, about 5
years old, 14 hands high. Any persoa
who will take up said horse and give in
formation to me so that 1 gel him agaifl>
shall reeeive the above reward.
EDWARD DAILEY.
July 38. eotf
TO KEN 1,
And Possession given immediately f
A Two Story Framed HOUSE with
half an acre of ground, at the upper end
of King street. Also, a convenient
Dwelling-House with two acres o»
ground at the lower end of Water street
Apply^to
Robert Patton, jr.
January 20
. Bank Stock Wanted^
Wanted to purchase 6,000 Dollar
worth of Hank Stock, in any ot tbt
Banks in the District of ColumLi*
Apply to the Printers.
July 8 * •
I will sell a negro man
that is likely, healthy and young* *r
of une xceptionable quali? res on a t a170,
Bede Clements. ,
July 8
Land tor bale.
THE subscriber offers for sale, be
tween 140 and 180 a* resc.j* .
Land, on the right hand Mde oll. Vr
Road leading from the Town ol c
teryillc to Alexandria. ^ H
This land adjoin* ihc lands of ^‘ev. .
David Laoe, Bernard Bryan, ^rcV ^ BRW
Carr Lane, George Adam* a*1? :t. B§||
Hefining. Tht soil of this Ip*d is I •
ed to the culture of Wheat, kb , H
in hall'a mile of the Turnpike*
will be shewn 8c the terms nude *
by application to Messrs. Davi ^ ■§§1
ar Ge»ree Lane, jun. residing ^ HH
premises, or to the subscriber l*v hR
Stafford county. H
Geo: Lane, KB
Executor ofJ. H. ^uBe’ jfB jHS
January It * u