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cl flictil?y „i.d **\pcn i col’rcting *uch ci< b s
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punctually wii.T ■li< a v o\v t:justly, o the prti* r
we have, after due comitleratinn, com'* t< Mii-
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AV” irr comp- led, h* J *o t, <o ad<* , anew
pUn In conw-qunce of b.l de ernitnation.
cur terms shall i • future tv,for he paper thre
dollars per annum, it pi'l in advance—font
dollars, if paid wi hin < x m * hs—and ti'e
dollars if paid only a’ ’lie end •><’ hr \eaP
For advertisrmen's, hey are <<> be pant mad
van,y- sherdTaalcs excepted which are ob u
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•tr'.oMv observed, and no <*ne need apply who
is not ready to comoly with them
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for the first “< atid 6Z 1-2 cents ip.
each continue >*♦
Washington faveri
THE SUBSCRIBE R
¥ \S lately k n the I < u*e t’or-
I I merly occupied bj M-s. *or
belt, fronting the main road leadi* g
fAthens* through this place,i.
Ary, ianb siina*ed oph ilw
Public Sqiia r. Ihe house is filled
up i ,r . neat order -r the reception of
company, f1 in lone? experience in
tavern keeping. In* deem , will he r.
sn fir *ie*v aioeanre to those win
inav ‘- ill hint, that the best th*
©on it‘v iTivds wi 1 ite served u
for th>* in x eilrnt order. Tilt’
bn* w ! l he plentifully supplied with
eh 1 >ee > qipir ; a*d his stables well
filled, ad under th direction of an
experienced ostles*.
Samuel B. Head.
Washingl . ‘ Ike*. • , 1
January 23d. 1824*. J
Washington Jockey Club
R ICE v
’’ ILL commence on <he first
Wednesday in March next,
** - for any horse, mare O” gelding
subject so the regula ion of the \u
gu ra Turf, as to weights and ages
Ist dav *8 running, 3 miles heat* for
a nurse w ?r h S3OO
2d day 2 miles 200
3d day I mi e. b°st S in 5
or entrance and ga*e money
N B ff .n riice in on v *st day
8 20; 2d Gy . 5 . SddayglO
Morvy suspended.
By the order of s he board,
\ H. n> el, Scc’y,
January t, 8
she uguvta Chronicle will imert
th above w and forward he ac
Count to th. -dfi *
lie uh-e b r
A VTMG locate himself in
ington, Wt’ke* county • w lling
so dph.ire hi time to some active and
employment will undertake the
in ’ructi-n ot youns gentlemen in the
G r eek and Latin language in Log
ic. Rhetoric and ‘ M ora! Philosophy.
A dav in each week will be devoted to
declamation . nd exercises in ancient
ana modern hi rosy The nunsberof
pupil c wi be limited to *n. and none
under he age of ten will be received.
The Fiench anguage wi be taught
by a gentleman highlv competent to
the task Terms of tuition per quar
ter, S 15, payable in advance.
John B. Egan.
N B The school will open as
goon a? fen are entered.
February 9, 1 1 - > 7it
Meigs & J. M. Hand,
r .*tvi. g formed n connection J’.y the
purple of Irons ctii g a
\\ a rehouse
And Commission Business,
JX E PECTFULLT so icit the
patronage of their friends and
the pubic heir Ware Hou e i*
situated opposite that of Messrs R.
Malone & Co*s. upper end of Broad
street, and is new. spacious and con
venient. and from it tiruation, af
for s great security from fire Ihe
sub:cribers w. I also attend to rece v
ing and forwarding any produce or
fucrchandi-e. confided co their care.
- Daniel Akt*igs.
Jonathan M. Hand.
Augus'.a, Uieca-.bcr it..
The Wash ington News.
iSHINGTO\, . . S .jrURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1824.
.nst,
|l> ETWEF.N Wwhingmn’ Mr
- * shall Martin** on Br ad River
on day last a ted mo, occ r * pock
et book containing tome v-duahle pa-
Ders and between 50 and 60 Tdlart
in Bank note;, among which there
were iwo ten dollar bills of the bank
of South Carolina Among the pa
pers there were one note dated lf,th
Auga t Is 2 for §2775 drawn by
James Rossigno’ in favour of th? sub
scriber. one third oavab.e on the i t
dav of
the i t day of February 18 and
one third on the i-t dav of February
* s a, with interest from the I t day o
February, 18‘Z2; and another * oteda
ted t February, <822, for S 335 10
cen s drawn by ‘he ame per on in
favour of the sub criber, and payable
in the *ame way as the above note
There was a so a mortgage given by
the said Rossignol on lands for the
payment of the t w • notes.
II per ons are for warned from
rrading for the said notes and Mr
Rossignol irom paying to any other
bur he subs .riber
liV finder will give information to
Mr ingHe and, Post Ma ter,
or Mr Wm Grant in a hington,
and if requi ed a reward will be giv
en of 5 ny in ormation respect
ing the above pocket book bank bills
and promi ory no e will be thank
fully received by *he subscriber or
the above two named gentlemen.
I iiOiiias Anderson,
Bickley’ Store, bbevtileSo. Ca.
February f 182-i-
Ad n) inst ra t o r’s s ale.
> N the first Tuesday in April
next, wi l be soid at the Court
hou e of Oglethorpe county,
Two Negroes
Jemim* nnd Dariu , belonging to the
e a-vot matinew Phiihcb, deceased,
of said county for the benefit of the
heirs and ciedhors. * erms made
known on the day oHale
Joun Harpt r, adm’r.
Feb. i7, 182* 8 —St
T he President's Message.
rntdm
From late English p ipers received at
hor lest on bp the holla Rookh.
htc. 27.
1 he Spee h ot ihe President of
ihe U"filed Stair is, in ail its bear
. gs,a doeumeni of more than usual
importi.ncr. I'helaitei pail, which
arrived sj litie yesterday thaf we
we e forced f© omit it in a small
part i.fotir impression, will be iouyd
io our last day ; and waiving
very other tepie in the Speech, we
direct our whole attention to that
part the most important of all to ev
ery European Power.
f'ne question of the Independence
and recognition of the S-mth Aine
rican States, may now’ lie consider
ed as at rest Great Britain lias,
as we have repeatedly shewn, ac
knowledged heir lndepende .ee de
facto : and * lie United States, their
:earrsl neighbors, have not only ac
knowledged it. but have given a bold
and manly notice, to the Cootiuental
Powers, that they shall treat “any
interposition wi h the view of op
pressing or controlling them in any
manner, as a manifestation of an
unfriendly disposition towards them
selves—a and as danger us to their
peace and safety,**—in other words,
they shall view it n*.affording them
a Just ground for war.
After so dear and explicit a
warning, there is no one of the Con
tinental Powers, we suppose, that
will risk a war with the United
Slates—a war in which not only
they could not expect to have either
the aid or good wishes of Great Bri
tain—hut a war in which the good
wishes of Great Britain, (if she did
n:t choose to give moce effideut
succour,) would he all oo tlie side of
ihe United States,—Thus, then, we
repeat, that the question mav be
considered to he set at rest; we
shall bear <> more of a Congress to
settle *hc fate of the South Ameri
can Sides. Protected by the two
nations hat possess the iusfi uiions,
and speak the iunguago of freedom,
bv tireaf Bcjtaln on one side, and
hy the T T tiled Stale* on the other,
*h“ir hid n pe'>d< , n> e is pkt*#d beyond
’he danger ; and tiie Uo -
hienfHl p‘wc>‘-, un hie to harm
- ?liem, wi s? l< wII to estahUsli that
5 ; Vjrnd ! v 4 .:d ■•"••‘iinertq ii iolercoui te
i *vifh tltemi wh< h never < oild
; have done had they remained under
ilie yoke of Old Spastd
t liiere i* one mory point in tke
President’s Spee.-h. vvhi *U we shall
t*iu*h um>Q shortly. Il relates to
part of the onrihwest coast °f Ame
rica. whi-h was tirat explored, we
fiefiev©, bv Captain C ok. Russia
nad set up *ome territorial claims
w*i< h neither Great Br itain nor the
United St ites onull submit to. They
<r*e now the subject of an amicable
oegoriation betw fn the tiirte Pow
ers. But Ameri aha* pro
per to lay down m limine the prin
ciple “that the American continents,
by the free and independent condi
tion which they have assumed and
maintain, are henceforth not to be
considered as subjects for future co
lonization hy any European Pow
ers.” What effect this notice to the
Emperor ot Russia, that he must
abandon his favorite project of ma
kinga settlement upon tie American
coast, will produ e, we are yet to
learn. Bit we trust thus a similar
notice with respeit to any project
of making settlements elsewhere
will no? be necessary,— Courier.
Tl.e President’s Message to the
Congress of the United statfcs JL oa*
the 2d instant, has reached this,
country, ii is impossible to avoid
remarking the essential difference
between this periodical communica
tion from the Executive Govern
ment of the fi)S Republic in the
world to iis Legislature, and those
documents which are termed King’s
Speeches, addressed ir like manner,
but in substance far unlike, to Lords
and Commons, to Peers.
lies, in kingdoms nearer home.
Phe latter dassof discourses,having
for their apparent object to dude i :
quiry and to disarm animadversion,
may be looked upon as a complimen
tary form between parties who are
thrown together by overruling ne
cessity, and who meet under feelings
of reciprocal susphdon aod distrust
As sources of intelligence—as indi
cations of policy—as keys to nation
al history, they have of late dwin
dled to nothing, realizing with ac
curacy Talleyrand’s definition of
the use of language—“au instrument
for concealing aie.Ts thoughts.”
l iie genius of a popular Govern
ment rejects iliese mysterious devi
ces, whi< h we are sorry toseepra(3-
tised amongst anv people alive to
the natural and almost indissoluble
intimacy between frank ess of
speech and red rude of action.—
l'he President’s Message of the
United Slates ii a paper breathing
business in every line. It is at on* e
a picture of the period elapsed since
the labors of Congress were last in
terrupted, a prospectus for the forth
coming year, the derailed report of
a commissioner, and the formal ac
count of a trustee. Oo scarcely
any occasion do we a mes
suge from this high officer of the
U. States, delivered during a lime of
peace, which might no bo consulted
as a safe and pregnant authority for
the events and polities of the crisis
at which it was made public, vvbe
tber with regard to the concerns f
the Union, or ia those of surround
ing nations. In the present instance,
we have read this State Paper with
an interest more profound than any
of its precursors had excited. The
foreign relations of the United
States are at this moment so deeply
involved with those of Europe, of
South America, a;d of England,
that we turned impatiently to that
division of the Mestage, and it well
repaid us. Times.
Liverp olm Jan. 2.
The message of the President of
* the United States of America, which
arrived here on Saturday last, is a
i document af unusual, and, we mm?
! add, of in calculable importance in a
political, coinmercal, and moral
p int of view. £t it equally honor
► able io the free andiir os porous peo
, pip with whom it irigioated, and
} gratifying to our iountrymen, to
whom if presents, at the same time,
the most cheering commercial pros
pects, and a most useful political les
son, whi*h sooner or later must have
tho most salutary efieet.
‘This manly, aide, and rational
state paper, will ad like a two
edged sword for the protection of the
infant liberties of Colombia. It will
encourage the British Cabinet to as
sume a decisive attitude ; whilst the
Bourbons will, in the same degree,
and fr tn the same cause, become
dispirited, arid in all probability,
ab&rtdou their criminal design to rc
f iJahlish despotism and bigotry on
the other side >f the Atlantic. So
important, in nir view, is the mes
sage of Mr. Monroe, that, if this
country remain at peace with tbe
continental powers (which in all
probability she will now do) we are
of opinion that so fortunate a cir
cumstance will be mainly owing to
the firm a>d unreserved expression
of the determination oi* the United
States with respect to tbe southern
cub rues. Mercury.
\ % \ * * *
From cm English publication.
i 1 ——,
LIST OF TAXES.
A fax on ail schemers, which,
from the inventive genius of idle
ness. w uld produce annually, at
least. 900,000!.
A tax on all attornies, who are
pot able to prove, that, in the course
of a year’s practice, one eighth ot
‘their income was got honestly,
which from my knowledge af the
fact, would produce half a million.
A tax on liars, which, on an aver
age of only one in a hundred bsi g
a man of truth, would produce a
sum, not less than sufficient to pay
the national debt in two years,
A lax on every person that went
to an Italian opera, who did not un
derstand the la igiiage ; on every
person who attended r, concert, wi!fa
out a knowledge o § music ; ami on
a!L persons sleeping tit Church;
might produce in one year 500,000}
A fax on ail gentlemen who boast
ed of female favours that they never
received. This on an average,
might be computed a tax on 9999
men out of ten thousaud wlm had
attained the age of twenty-one years;
and would produce, at a moderate
interest, per capitum, an annual rev
enue of ? 00,0001. v
A tax on white necks, red cheeks,
ami lily hands, with a draw back on
proving where the pencil of nature
was the only artist, to be oilected
at the play-houses, Ranelagh, Vaux
hall- Kensington and other places of
public diversion, exclusive of demi
reps who paint in tbe way of trade,
would produce, in the female world,
fifty out of every sixty, and among
the men, four out of every twenty,
liable to import. I reckon this at
*09,000.
A tax on all slander and back-bi
ting ; one methodise to he consider
ed four citutvhincn, would pro
duce at a penny per bead, ninety
nine person* out of every hundred in
the kingdom as subject to the duty.
A tax on all gentlemen aoaubmen,
which, considering ibe immense in
crease of great coats, with eigh
canes, would produce, at least 500,
0001- per annum.
A tax on all young gentlemen,
who had gt an university cdu- a
tiou, and made the grand tour, but
who could not construe an ode of
Horace, or tell io what part of the
world tbe Alps lay. This on com
pulation might produce 200,0001.
yearly.
A tax ob ail gentlemen and la
dies, indiscriminately, who could not
tell, on being aked, in what part of
holy writ the Revelations and the
first chapter of Genesis are. This,
in the west end of London, would
produce something worth the col
lection.
A tax on every citizen of London
who eats more than two pounds of
solid meat in twenty four hours.
This tax as it would prevent apo
plexies, and add considerably to tbe
revenue, I thought a very salutary
one. But you observing that the al
dermen would make up the dcli
cico y, ia order to evade the tax, by
eating pics, puddings, turtle soups,
jellies, fc 3. I took that artiete back
to reconsider, and have totally for
got to look into it.
A tax on mock visits, pretended
ailments of the body, fictitious he id
aches, false alarms of pregnancy,
and other incidental mm-entilies in
women of fashion, might render six
in ten throughout the higher nod se
cond orders of the female world lia
ble to duty.
4 tax on healthy and sound con
stitutions among men of fashion. 1
pointed this duty particularly on the
first rank, because with them it is
considered a luxury- I dropped it,
however, as you may recollect, be
cause, on consideration, it would not
pay the fees of collecting.
A tax on ail barristers, wbi, In
each half hour’s pleading said, my
lud and your ludship more than fif
teen bundled times. You observed
this would injure the client, as my
lud and youi ludship were interjec
tions hi law to fill up the vacuity cf
an advocate’s imagination, when ho
was at a loss for words to convey tho
meaning of his argument. 1 there
fore dropped the idea as I thought
every client suffi. ietuly delayed, in
jured, oppressed a id taxed already*
A tax on alt footmen u -dcr the
age of fifty, and above the height, of
four feet eleven inches Tits E
did, that the army might be re ‘rott
ed wiib genteel good looking vaga
bonds, who, from a state of liveried
idleness, may be called into regi
mental activity.
A tax n all ’offee house beaux,
who call for the Amsterdam Ga
zette, and tbe Courier de l*i ur pe,
without being able to understand
the meaning of one line in cither.
This is a tax oo va ity, but i will
not bring in tmi< <.
A tax on real < *d English hospi
tality in the hou** < of great men, aa
the only means, by waking it expen
sive to make i< f sh*i•.•able. Phi*
will take some Turn before i will
conic io perfection ; the very idea of
domestic oiivivi;,M,y being now so
vulgar as to be turned out of almost
every gentleman’s bouse in G*eat
Britain. You -aided ** this idea,
shook your head, nd said, you
feared when the frii k . . found out,
he tax would cease. I vfaink s 1 100,
and thet ofore leave h fashion
able people to their new-adopied
l&xsry of smiling without a cause of
risibility, or ostentatious parade
without inward comfort, and of the
appearance of happiness without oud
particle of real felicity.
Shacaback Screechkinkerton .
Extract from the Memoirs of the
Wevncrian Natural History So
ciety, v)l. it.
The following narrative is taken
from the Calcutta Journal, Nov 1,
1821.—Case of William Kingston,
born without arms or hands. I went
to Ditebeat, and got him to break
fast with me at Mr. Goodfeliow’s*
He highly entertained us by putting
his naked foot upon the table as he
sat, and carrying his tea and mast
between his great and second toes
to his mouth, with at muoh fueili
ty< if his foot had hen a hnrid,
and his toes fingers. I put half a
Sheet of paper upon the floor, with
a pen and inkhorn. He threw off
his shoes as he sat, took the ink
horn in the toes of his left foot, and
held the pen in those of the right.
He then wrote three lines, as well
as mst ordinary writers, and as
swiftly. He write* all bis own bills
and other accounts. He then show
ed us bow be shaved biuisTf with
hi* razor in bis toes; and the cut
his own hair. He jad un
dress himself, except buttoning his
clothes. He feeds bimself, and aa
bring both bis meat ad broth t< his
month, by holding the frk or spooa
in his tes. He deans his own
ah es, and can clean the knives*
light the fire, and do almost any
pther domestic business, as well as
any other man. He can make hen
c ops. He is a farmer by occupa
tion. He can milk bis cows with
his toes; and tut his own hay, biods
it up in bundles, and tarries :t a
bout the field for bis %-atile, and last
week he had 8 heifer* constantly
to fodder. This last summer he
made all his own hay si? k*. He 4tt
do all hi* basi&ess et tiio hey Held
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