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JDtctjcoottO t&rice €amnt« |
[corrkctsd Weekly.]
CASH*
D. C.
TOBACCO, * ! t t S 5 00
WHEAT [NEW] Si i • 1 40
FLOUR [*UJPERFINE] t | J 8 75
FLOUR [FINK] S S i % 8 25
CORN,.. .
HKHP, PER TON, . • • 280 00
IRON, • . • • • • 115 00
BACON, . • • • . 00 12
WHISKEY, . . • • . 00 62
To the Public.
Council Cqam^er,j&pt 25,1810*
On Wednesday the IkL^lay of October
next, the Executive 4D1 proceed Kftapv
point an addit onal for the safe of
articles nianufacturedTHt Penitentiary
at some -conveniens placed on Shockoe.
Hill.
Daniel L. Hylton, Clk C.
Richmond, Stp*. 28, 1810. (2)
AS my wife Mary robbed me at differ
ent times early last spring of about
900 dollars in Bank Notes and Silver, and
the best of my house furniture and wearing:
cloathes, 8nd has eloped, leaving 7 young
children, and one <suna|l sicklv at the
breast, .her past arikpr^t-nt cy<#Wr,t sa
tisfies me she is now ifl^ne arms oyvolup
tuousness-.-.and to glq^pver hew£hame.
ful conduct has falsly depowed I had threat
ened to treat her ill^L.no word, hint or a.
-*17 thing ol the kind ever dropt from me...
ns 1 never had any such thought or inten
tion j*.and at this time cannot recollect I
ever spoke a harsh word to her but when
provoked by her furious temper or dissi
pated conduct;..therefore I will pay no
thing on her account during her absence on
no pretext whatever.
Yancey Holmam.
September 25th, 1810. 2
N Fr day the 2(5 h of Oc'.qber, at 4
o'clock in the af.err.oon, will be sold
on the premises, for cash, agreeable to a
deed of trust from John Lockhenrt and
Sally his wife, to William Davidmm, for
the brnyfit of John Andrews,‘A LWT OF
GROUND or TENEMENT, si«4»* on
the Basin of he Canal, and known "tu the
plan of the ci,y of Richmond by num.
oer 503, or so much thereof as will be
sufficient io rarisfy and pay the sunt of
350 Dollars bearing interest from the 1st
day of March 1809, (ill the day of sale,
. .together wi h all the costs of executing
said tiust, and of the sale.
MARY DAVIDSON,
Adm’rx of
* William David on, dec’d.
AVINO qualified as Executor of
Thomas Gdliat, deceased, I am (ea
rly to receive what is due to said estate
and to adjust any just claims against it—
1 sm duly authoiited also to ?e« tixi whai
ever is due to the late firm of^jjlia. &
Krby. And being desirous of closing
these matters as expeditiously as possible
thu»e indebted either to the estate or the
*2id la e firm, will please lake notice that
Si- less payment i3 made or satisfactory ar
rangements afe entered into without de
lay, I shall put all claims into the hands
•f altcrnies for collection,
i JOSEPH GALLEGO, Exe’r
of Thomas Gilliat, dec'd.
Richmond, Sept. 27, 1810. tf
Uancing School
JOHN LATa^TE, respectfully inpainrrihe
public, rhat hi* SCHOOL, will ^onaued on
Thnrrday the 4th of\Wviber. In the rani for.
rr.tfly occupied by iMW^Jirardin for Till Aca..
d my. The days oflrtaitNtfi are Thur^gy, Fri.
day and Saiurday^Trom 9yp the morning to 1,
und from .} :o 5 iff the afternoon. He wilt keep
*:*o, a NIGHT SCHOOL for young Gentle
men, from 6 to 9 o'clock on the tame days, in
said room.
Young Ladies wishing to be insiruAed in
Aho various dancei niw in fashion^ will be at.
tended pnvatcly._ 3t
WANTS employment im mediately,- a
Young Man who can come wefl<?e_
commended ns a R r Keeper or in theX^o.
trry retailing business.
JOSF.PH RF.CKLEY.
Richmond, 21st Sept. 1810.
Dissolution of Partnership.
nriTF. firm erf SHAPARD and LHjCKE was
din Ivrd this day by mutual cooubut. T|,e
seu'ement of the concern has dev-lvJdftm Gtrs.
Ta vus LucKr.» on whom all those viiafcave any
* eLwoson srdd firm will call for actitalreai, an.I
so whom these Indebted to the same, will make
payment.
WILLIAM SHAPARD.
GU-TlVUS LOCKE.
*>p**’r'ier I7ib, 1810. 4«r
William Shapard
HAS comm'net I business on his own account
at the late hou*e of Shapard and Iwicke.—
1'f hat for sale a varietr of articles \w ifce
Grocery Line,
and is in daily cjqvrtition of a farther supply
, »*l of which articles he will sell low for cash
[ •» CO'-trrv prnduc" or approved raper
N. D, Cath giren for Saak Suck Cr Fleur,
Public Sale of
MERINO SHEEP.
ON Friday the 19th day of Oct. next,
Being the third day of New Market
Races, at eight o'clock In the mornidg,
Will be Exposed to Public Safe,
Twenty-seven full blooded^
Merino Sheep^
VIZ; SIX RAMS AND TWENTY.
ONE EWES;
THEY were lately imported in the ship
Powhatan, Captain Poythress, from Lis.
bon, and will be warranted to be of the
genuine breed. The sale will, take place
at the Vendue Office of Messrs. W. and H.
HAXALL, and the Sheep can be seen at
Roslin, by intending purchasers, at any
time previous to the day of sale.
Termss^Approved endorsed paper at
four and six months—-The Ewes are ail
believed to be with Lamb by a full blooded
Merino Ram.
Jas, &. John Dunlop.
Petersburg, Sept. 21.1810 t d ».
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed by Wil
liam McCay to the subscriber, WILL BE
SOLD, for cash^ on the 2nd day of November
uex*^ bifore the door of the Bell Tavern in the
city of Richmond, all 'hat
I.OT or parcel of GROUNDS
Ivfng within the boundary of Richmond, afjdrsi.
:uate in Duva-** Villacr, No, 232, or so much
thrte f as will be sufficient to raiae the sum of '
£ 173, with 6 per cent interest from the 1st of
May, 1808, to the day of sale, wi-h all costs
attending the execution of the trust.
WILLIAM COOK.
September 22d, 1810. tds.
N B. The Io» contains two acres, on which
jtheie is an .excellent two story h’uscj on« story
brick and the tlier wood.
_^Juai.Salc. /
Bl' h decree of the sunerior
Viancery, wherein I^rathew
)&hoA Dabv'n, administrators
r, dec’d. who wap the sur„
f of Dobson, Daltrea and
r complainants^ and Lei per
it defendants, will be sold,
'o the highest v^Jder, tor/cash^ before the
Courthouse of Bronco yeounty on Satur.
day the. 20tn OctGHVrAext, the fofl&ring
Tracts pf Land,*#
[belonging tothe estateo'iNPeterfield Trent,
dec’d. viz—one ^act contah^i.g 400 acres,
in Henrico ccrfinty, on the1 Turn Pike
Rm*<^ and dissent from the city\ of Rich
mond abom sfven miles—the other» con*
turning lOO^cres in the county or Ches.
terfit ld, ajftl adjoining the town of Man.
Chester, yffr so much thereof as will be
suflicier/ to raise the su n of £2666 : lljsj
4d. w/li interest thereon from January 1U,
lT89^and all costs attending the saidNmit
anty^carryiug the above decree into effect.
/ t he Commissioners.
Sept. 25, 1810. t cl s.
CTKAYED or STOLEN from .he plants.
non ol John Marshall, esquiie^ on Chicka.
hominy,
Tivo Work Horses,
of a bright bay colour ; one is a tall stoqAhuilt
horse, with a long tail, and a head of tdki'.uai
length. He has a smail hole in his ng^rdde
the effect of a wound received some time ago.—
The other is likewise a tall but a slender built
horse, with a short tail, and the light hmd foot
nearly without hair, in consequence of the
j scratches. Whoever will deliver the said horses
to the overseer at the plantation aforesaid, orto
the stibscnoer residing in Richmond, or girc
such iniorrnation as will enable the subscriber
| to recover than, shall be handsomely rewarded.
Thomas Marshal),
C __ __I_Oi.L « OiA
/"\N We>Juc!,da> die 10th day of next month,
will be exposed at public sa!e at the tag e
Tavcn in the city of Richmond, a LOT in
Caty street in the said city, «*n which there is a
substantial BRICK WAREHOUSE in good
repai*, being the same which was lately owned
by Mr. William A/ackenzie, and convcyc^jo us
by him, ^
The premises may be viewed any davjrcvi
^tts to the sale, on application to .\1cssrs4ironip
kiniir Murray, or Af>ssrs. I’rosscr & Afon-Uie.
Terms, approved endorsed notes at 4, 0 and
8 months. - ,
G. K. Taylor,
John Dunlop,
Attormes for Dinwiddie
CrawfotJ, Sc Ct,
September 24, 181?. ids
JUST 1U13LIS HED,
And For Sale at S. Pleasants, jr’s.
Printing-Office ani Book Store, a
lew doors below the BclL
Tavern, Richmond,
Henwg*s Virginia Justice,
The second edition revised, correct•
eJ, greatly enlarged, and brought down
to the present time (1C10) by the Ah
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Patent Medicines'
For Sale at the Arotjs Offtcf.
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Printing iff all its variety neatly ex
touted at this office*
From the National Intelligencer of last
Wednesday.
We refer* otir readers to the follow
ing articles for interesting Intelligence
on the subject of our relations with
i France.
Taking into consideration the man
ner in which former communications
to our Minister in France have been
made public through the medium of
the newspapers soon after their *rans
j mission to him, the letter of the Mi
jnister of Foreign Relations to Mr.
Armstrong m%y be considered as ge
nuine.
The following is the section of the
act of the 1st of Mtv, referred to by
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, which
we insert to enable opr readers to form
a judgment of the motive and effect of
the new attitude taken by France:
41 And be it further enacted, That in
|case either Gre:»£ Britain or France
t shall before the tirtitd day of M: rch
next, so revoke or modify her edicts
as that they shall erase to violate the
neutr .I commerce of the United States,
which fact the President of the Uniied
States shall declare by proclamation,
and if the other nat’on shall not within
three months thereafter bo revoke or
modify her edicts in like manner, then
’he third, fourth, fifth, sixth, 7th, 8'h.
ninth, tenth and eighteenth sections of
the 4 act to interdict the commercial
intercourse between the TJ. S. and G.
Britain mid France and their depen
dencies, and for other purposes,” shall
from and afrer the eeniraf inn nf three
months from the date of the proclama
tion afore°ftid, be revived and have full
force and effect, so far as relates to the
dominions, colonies and dependencies,
and to the articles the growth, producr
or manufacture of the dominions, colo
nies & dependencies of the nation thus
refusing or neglecting to revoke or mo
di'y her edicts in the meaner aforesaid
And the restrictions imposed by this
act shall, from the date of such procla
mation, cease and be discontinued in
relation to ihe nation revoking or mo*
dicing her decrees in the manner a
foresaid.**
A* much in relation to this subject
will depend upon the decision of the
I Executive under the act of Congress,
I it will be gratifying to our readers to
learn that the President is expected at
the seat of government in a very few
days, where also all the Heads of De
partment are daily expected.
The Secretary of State arrived last
evening.
LATE AND IMPORTANT NEWS.
New-York, Sept. 23.
Last evening arrived at this port, the
i ship Magdalen, Capt Sketchly, in the
'remarkably short passage of 28 days
i from Liverpool.
I Capt. S. has furnished the Editors
of the Mercantile Advertiser wi»h
London papers and Lloyd’s List to the
20th of August inclusive, Si Liverpool
(papers to the 23d, from which we
'have copied the following important;
arucics.
Capt. S. informs us, that it was re
ported a new Minister was speedily to
he sent to this country from the Court
of St. James.
London, August 18.
FRENCH PAPERS,
j Paris, Aug. 7. ■ .His majesty is
sued on the 5th of August, at the Pa
lace of Trianon, the following decree :
Art. 1. The duties upon the impor
tation of the undermentioned goods
and merchandize are seized as fol
lows :
By the metrical quintal, the cottons
of Hrazil, Cayenne, Surinam, Dema
rara and Georgia, long staple, 300
fratves { Levant cottons, imported hy
se3f GOO franrs; the same hy land,
through the offices at Cologne, Cob..
Icn-z, Mayence and Strasborgh, 300
fr. cottons from all other places, thote
from Naples exceptrd, 600 fr.; those
from Naples, the old do ies. Raw su
gar, 300 fr. } cl ?yed or loaf sugar, 400
fr.; hyson teas, 900 fr. j green teas,
600 fr. ; all other teas, 150 fr; indigo,
900 fr. ; cocoa, 1000 fr. ; cochineal,
| 2000 fr.; white pepper, 600 fr.; black
i do. 400 fr. ; common cinnamon, 1400
| fr ; m>e do. 2000 fr ; cloves, 600 fr.;
nutmegs, 2000 lr ; mahogany, 50 fr. ;
Pernambuco wood, 120 fr ; Campea
chy do. 80 fr.,- dye wood* Mound,
j 100, fr.
■■ I MATJ-V r->'1 ■ .— ■ ■ M
Art, 2, When the custom house
[officers suspect that the declarations
concerning ih$ specks or qualities are
false they shall send specimens to the
Director-general of our customs, who
is to cause them to Ifc examined
by Commissaries who have n know
l .dge of these branches attached to
the ministry of the interior ; ai d who,
in every such examination, shall be as
sisted by two* manufacturers o)r mer
chants chosen by the minister of the
interior,
“ If it shall appear that the declara
tions are raise, all the merchandize
shall be seized and confiscated,7*
Paris, August 9.
Copy of a letter from the Minister of
Foreign Relations to Mr Armstrong.
Paris, Au5, 1810.
‘SIR,
“ I have laid before his majesty
the Emperor and king the act of Con
gress of the 1st of May, extracted
from the paper of the United S ates,
which you had transmitted to me.
liis majesty could have wished that
this act, and all other acts of the U
niu-d States that may concern France,
had been always officially notified to
him.
“ The Emperor applauded the ge
neral embargo laid by the U. States
on all their vessels, because that mea
sure, if it has been prejudicial to
Frauce, contained at least, nothing of
fensive to her honor. It has caused
her to lose h.r colonies of Guadalo pe,
Martinique, and Cayenne. The em
peror did not complain of it. He
_1 a.1. • n % ...
ima SdUHiUC IKJ IOC prlllCipU'
which determined the Americans to
impose the embargo, and which in
spired them with the noble resolution
of imerdicting themselves ihe use of
the sea, rather than submit to the laws
of those who wish to become its ty
rants.
“The act of the first of March re
moved the embargo, and substituted
lor it a measure which must have been
particularly injurious to the interests
of France. That act, with which
the Emperor was not acquainted for
a considerable time after, interdicted
to American vessels the c immerce of
France, whilst it authorised a trade
with Spain, Naples and Holland, that
is to say, with countries under French
influence, & denounced confiscation a*
gainst all French vessels that should en
ter the ports of America. Reprisal was
a matter of right and commanded by
the dignity of France, a circumstance
upon which it was impossible to make
any compromise. The seqaestration
of all the American vessels in France
was the necessary result of the mea^
sure taken by Congress.
“At present the Congress treads
hack its steps. It revokes the act of
the 1st of March.—The por s of Ame
rica are open to French commerce,
and France is no longer interdicted to
iliw i A III vl I M * ■ UIIWI If liiu V/ Uli
gress engages to oppose such of the
belligerent powers as shall reluse to
recognise the rights of neutrals.
“ In this new state of things, I am
authorised to declare to you, sir, that
the decree of Berlin and Aiilan are re
voked, and that from the 1st cf No
vember they will cease to be in force,
it being understood that in consequence
of this declaraton the English shall
revoke their orders in council, and
renounce the new principles ol block*
ade which they have attempt d to
establish ,- or that the United States,
conformably to the act which you
have just communicated, shall cause
their rights to be respected by the En.
glish,
“ It is with the most particular sa
tisfaction that I inform you ot this re.
solution of the Emperor. His Majes*
ty loves the Americans.—Their pros
perity, and their commerce enter into
the views of his policy. The inde
pendence of America is one of the
principal titles of the glory of France.
Since that epoch the Emperor has felt
a pleasure in aggrandizing the United
States; and in all circumstances, what
ever can contribute to the indepen
1 nr.e, the prosperity, and the liberty
of America, will be regarded by the
Emperor as comiormahlc to the inter
esls of his empire.”
August 20.
FROM THE LONtlOv COURIER.
A conspiracy against he life of Bo.
napartc is said to nave been oiscoVertt
at Breda, and two of the principal pv-r.
son* engaged in it arrested.
It is reported that a^flag of truce ar
rived on Saturday at Dover, with des
patches relative to a cartel. We doubt
the report. No Dover letter has b eu
received this morning mentioning such
an arrival.
It seems extraordinary that any per
son should deny that Bonaparte has
been the first to condemn his com
mercial restrictions, and to confess
that they have utterly failed in pro*
ducing the effect he intended. On
one and the same day he opens his
ports for the importation of these
commodities which he cannot procure
but from the power whose commerce
he had sworn to destroy, and with
whom he had interdicted every species
of intercourse : and he notifies to the
Atneric n minister, that because A
mcrica has repealed her non-inter
course act, and opened her ports to
French commerce, his Berlin and
Milan decrees are revoked: as if these
decrees had been the consequence of
the offensive measure adopted by A
mr-rica, which measure having been
w ithdrawn, the decrees are also with*
drawn.
II he revoke hi3 decrees, our or
ders consequent upon those decrees
will be revoked also.* but if he sup
pose that we shall abandon any part of
the old maritime law, he will find
him elf completely mistaken. He has
snid, that from and after the the 1st pi
Nov. his decrees are revoked* and
our government, taking notice that the
enemy has announced his decrees to be
no longer in force than from and
the 1st of Nov. may no'ify, that from
the 1st of Nov. our orders in^ouncil,
adopted in consequence of those de
crees, will cease.
Some misapprehension s*eh\s to
have taken place with respect to the
decree allowing the importation of
certain articles of colonial and East
India produce. It was supposed that
the second article of the decree, or
dering confi«caiicn, if the declarations
concerning the species or qualities of
goods were faLe, meant confiscation
oi it, should be found that the goods
were British. The decree, as we ob
served on Saturday, might in that case
as well not have been issued, for
the most of the goods allowed to be im
ported are British. But the meaning
of the second article of the decree is,
that goods are to be confiscated if false
declarations be given of their species
or qualities ; for instance, if Levant
cottons, which are to pay a higher
duty, be attempted to be imported as
Brazil co’ton ; or if hyson or green
teas, which are to pay a tax of n n; or
six hundred francs, be attempied to
be introduced under the name of com
mon teas, which are to pay only 150
runra
Fresh disturbances have broken out
in the Tyrol.
Saturday, a Cabinet Council w^s
held at the For< ign office. The sub
juct of deliberation was supposed :o
relate to Bonaparte’s late decree.
On the operation of the late French
commercial arrangements, we have a
frw particulars by two ships, w! i h ar
rived on Saturday from Ostend and
Dunkirk. The follow.ng is an extract
from on? of the letters:
“Paris, August 11.—We have a
hope of obtaining the release of a great
part if not of all the American pro
perty and ships seized in the ports of
Ftance.”
Another from Dunkirk notices the
practical application of the new indul
gences of Americans and announces,
in a postscript to the letter, that two
ships from the U. S. had been released
from sequestration.
The following Letter has been sent
to P. Sampson, e»q. Chairman to'tl e
committee of American Merchants:
Council-OJfice, Whitehall, August 8,
1810.
Sir,
The Lords of II. IVf. P. Council,
having issued an Order for entirely
suspending, until further order, the
provisions of Sect. 42 of the General
(Quarantine, vessels arriving from any
•i the ports of Europe without the
SireigVt of Gibraltar, or irom the.
Continent of America, or the islands
, adjacent thereto, or from the West
1 era islands, witfi any. of tn« articles