_ENOS BRIGGS._ SALEM, Nov. 23, 1798. * * * * * CASH GIVEN FOR ONE ton COPPER, in pigs, or old COPPER--10 tons best old Sable or Swedes IRON. Apply to the Subscriber. ALSO--_WANTED_, A _Blacksmith_, to contract for doing all the IRON WORK of the _SALEM FRIGATE_. *** Proposals therefor, will be received from any Smith, sealed and directed to JOHN JENKS. _Salem, Nov. 21._ * * * * * In the "Gazette" of Oct. 1, 1799, appears the following brief account of the launching of the "Essex;" also a communication in reference to the frigate. Salem, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1799. Yesterday the FRIGATE ESSEX, of 32 guns, was launched from the stocks, in this town. She went into the water with the most easy and graceful motion, amidst the acclamations of thousands of spectators, and a federal salute from her guns on the hill, returned by an armed ship in the harbour, commanded by Capt. Thomas Williams. The Committee acting for the subscribers, Col. Hacket, the superintendant, and Mr. Briggs, the master builder, have thus the satisfaction of producing to their country as fine a ship, of her size, as graces the American Navy. It is not yet known who will command her; but it is on all hands agreed that she is well calculated to do essential service to her country. * * * * * _COMMUNICATION._ _And_ ADAMS _said_, "LET THERE BE A NAVY!" _and there was a Navy._ To build a Navy was the advice of our venerable sage. How far it has been adhered to, is demonstrated by almost every town in the United States, that is capable of floating a _galley_ or a _gun boat_. Salem has not been backward in this laudable design. Impressed with a due sense of the importance of a Navy, the patriotic citizens of this town put out a subscription, and thereby obtained an equivalent for building a vessel of force. Among the foremost in this _good work_ were Messrs. DERBY and GRAY, who set the example by subscribing TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS each. But alas! the former is no more--we trust his _good deeds follow him_.