of Col. Hawkins to the secretary of 276 281 283 302 303 308 of Th. Jefferson to Presdt. Carr on of Mayhew Folger to the British ad- of T. Staines on the same subject of Gen. Cass to the commander of of R. Easton, describing the Missouri Medical Companion, Dr. Ewell's reviewed 236|| Military claims, official notice for of J. Adams, written 5th of July, 1776 289 about French illiberality, degrada- of Th. Jefferson to the Peace Society 307 353 233 274 128 Mexican revolutionists 400 231 387 Mina, arrival at Baltimore 336 Mississippi territory memorial 78 river navigation 144 Missouri described Mitchell's, Dr. S. L. account of the origin of 168 278|| Monarchy 191 Monument and epitaph of Lawrence 143 Moons, mock 320 Morillo and his army 204 Muller the engraver, death of 350 Mutineers of the bounty 235 Naples city present to the Duchess of Berri 240 152 Institute in France abolished 414 McDonald, Marshal, implicated in conspiracy 335 || Population of Great Britain and Ireland NO. 1. VOL. 1.] [WHOLE NO. 1. WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1816. ORIGINAL PROSPECTUS. PROPOSALS For Publishing in the City of Washington, a Making two large volumes in the year, and forming a Complete Annual Register of all Public Documents and State Papers, relating to our own government, and to such foreign nations as are of general interest, together with the most important intelligence concerning the state of Politics, Science, Trade, Commerce, Literature, and the progress of the fine and the useful Arts. The National Register, besides the American public documents, shall contain a compendium of European state papers, and congressional and parliamentary reports, illustrating the history, statistics, and commerce of the two countries. Abstracts of such acts of congress as are of general application." Debates in the senate and house of respeeches on both sides. presentatives, with the most eloquent the American Navy, together with a seA regular Chronicle of the exploits of ries of the standing rules of the commissioners of the navy. No more "the sea is Britain's wide domain," Columbia's flag "without permission sails.”* Memoirs of important national events, which tend to illustrate the principles, policy, and habits of a government, or the Published under the direction of seve-temper and habits of the people; such as ral Literary Gentlemen of distinguished talents and experience. the usurpation of the Spanish crown, the attack on Copenhagen, the proceedings of the allied sovereigns, &c. The intemperance exhibited in many of Reports on the improvements and disthe Daily and Periodical Journals, giving coveries in Agriculture and Manufactures, rise to the distortion of some facts, and with descriptions of various machines and the suppression of others, to suit the pe-processes which may appear worthy of atculiar purposes and bias of party, has sug- tention. Views of the Fine Arts. gested to the subscriber the plan of a new Biographical sketches of eminent and work, to be conducted on the most impar-remarkable persons. Topographical detial principles. It is confidently believ-scriptions and Natural History.. ed that a Journal thus managed, and carefully avoiding the turmoils of passion, or mingling in the collisions of faction, while at the same time it offers a faithful mirror of the diversified pursuits and transactions in which man is concerned, will be found not unworthy of public regard. Reports of Curious and Important Law Cases, with the Speeches of Eminent Advocates. Commercial, Financial, and Statistical Tables, &c. In short, no labour or expense shall be im-spared to make this work an universal epitome of the earliest intelligence, concerning the state of Politics, Literature, and Science, in all parts of the globe. To effect this object a gentleman has been engaged as principal Editor, who has contributed largely to many of our most valuable literary, political, and scientific journals; he will be aided by several others, whose talents and experience afford the most ample pledge for the production of a work which shall deserve the public pa It is proposed to select with rigid partiality the best written essays upon political economy; and the most temperate remarks on public events and political measures, which may appear in the leading papers on each side. To pretend to utter indifference in the struggle in which the great political parties of our country are engaged, would be affectation; but as it is not intended that this Journal shall be, in any sense of the term, a party paper, it shall be our studious endeavour to make such a selection, as may give the dispas-tronage. sionate reader an extensive view of the whole ground, and present to the future historian, a vivid picture of our political horizon. VOL. I. A The subscriber forbears to enter into an The motto of the British Naval Chronicle, slightly altered to suit present circumstances. ed by any remarks of his own, to decide on their respective merits. We have become so familiar to party questions, that many are prone to believe that a public elaborate address to the public on the labour and expense of his undertaking, nor will he dilate on the extent of information, the accuracy of statement, and the fidelity of selection which he hopes the talents en-Journal can afford nothing else interesting gaged will be able to exhibit. or attractive. Need we remind our fellowcitizens of the prospects of our countryimmense tracts of wild land are daily laid open by the hand of cultivation-vast and gigantic projects are now forming, to connect our inland seas with the ocean-civilized life is swarming in the wilderness Apology so frequently treads upon the very heels of promise, in undertakings of this nature, that he will content himself with soliciting a fair judgment upon the merits of his intended publication. It has long appeared to him that a work of this kind has been wanted at the seat of the na-agriculture is plying the spade, commerce tional government, and the many failures to establish periodical papers at Washington, has not been sufficient to shake the belief of the success of the one proposed. It is presumed that the first twenty numbers will afford such a specimen of the work as will enable its readers to form an opinion of its claims to patronage. Those, therefore, whose favour it may not have been so fortunate as to have won, may withdraw their names on the publication of that number, or sooner. unfurling the sail, and the hammer of honest industry is resounding from the anvil: in the midst of the turbulence of this animating scene, the eye is summoned to a sort of repose, in the contemplation of colleges and academies devoted to the loftier pursuits of literature. We behold also architecture and painting, and the arts that decorate and adorn human life, or which seem to repair the ravages of death, by extending the term of existence beyond the grave. JOEL K. MEAD. When we compare the strong principle CONDITIONS. Price, FIVE DOLLARS evidently at work with the known enterpr. ann. payable at the end of the 1st vol. prize of our countrymen, is it too much to and annually thereafter. Arrearages must say, that America is destined, at no very be paid before the paper can be discontinued. distant day, to a distinguished rank among The publication of the National Register the nations of the earth. It is on these has been procrastinated by a variety of cir-points that information is requested; it is wished to make the pages of the Register ment. So much preparatory arrangement the humble record of the rising glory of the is in such cases required, that delay be- country. On these points, and from all parcomes inevitable. The Proprietor, how-ties, we hope for specific information. cumstances incident to a new establish ever, from the large and liberal patronage with which he has been honoured, flatters himself that he shall not be compelled to crave the indulgence of the Subscribers again, for such involuntary offences. As it is his design strictly to make this paper what the title professes to be, a National Register, it was deemed proper to begin with the Message of the President to Congress, at their present session, with the accompanying papers and documents. The files of the Register would be otherwise rendered incomplete, but after these pa pers are disposed of, the publication will proceed in a regular course. COAL GAS. For the National Register. It seems that some person who burns coal gas in Philadelphia, has taken out a patent for his invention. Wherein the invention consists, would be as difficult to discover in this in stance, as it is in many of the numerous patents which swell the records of Dr. Thornton's office. The Repertory of Arts, published in England, is a most prolific parent of Ameri can patents: a position which may fairly be assumed, without any disparagement to the inventive faculties of our countrymen, which are now placed beyond dispute, In early times, light was obtained from the fuel employed for heat. So in Homer, oil does not appear to have been used for light, which was procured from burning fuel in a kind of chafing dish Auxos; though the Jews and Egyptians of that day appear to have employed the oil of the rape seed, or of the sesamum, (per It is the intention of the Proprietor, as announced in the prospectus, not to interfere in local politics; to make his page a cool and impartial record of facts from week to week, free from all intemperance of comment, On great and important national haps our Beni-nut of Carolina.) Plin. xv. ch. questions, he proposes to give occasionally 7, 8 Lev. 26. 25 Exod. 6, 31. 6, 18, 19 Odyss. a fair and candid synopsis of the arguments Indeed in the first stages of society, the light on both sides, leaving his readers unfetter-accompanying heat would suggest common |