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(XT’ Published by Thomas Ritchie, nearly op
fiosite the Globe Tavern, Richmond, Virginia.
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RICHMOND PRICES CURRENT.
D. C.
TOBACCO, 5 to 8
neVR—SUPERFINE} 9 50
VO. FINE, 9 50
VORN, PER BARREL, 4 00
WHEAT, 1 66J
BACON, PER IB. 0 9
WHISKEY, PER GALLON, 0 67
BAR IRON, PER TON, 110 00
HEMP, PER TON, 284 00
WILL be offered fop sale, on the \5th day of
August next, on the premises, to the highest
bidder, that valuable Estate, called
SUMMER HILL,
Lately the property of Dr. yohn Htveningham,
deceased, situate in Chesterfield county, adjoining
ytimes Hiver, about four miles below the t >wn of
Manchester, containing by a late survey, 795 acres;
vne half of which is woodland, mostly well tim
bered, and 83 acres of low ground, including about
30 acres of valuable mradow—improvements of
various kinds choice Fruit Trees ; houses usually a
dap ted to a Plantation—a Dwelling Houst with 4
roims, each a fire place, passage and closets, ana
excellent springs of water, convenient to the dwel
ling house. This situation commands a pleasing
view of the river, the adjacent seats, and great pin
of the city of Richmond. The terms of sale will
be §3500 in cash, and the balance of the purchase
money payable by two annual instalments with a
deed of trust on the land to secure the pa ments —
Fet mission to sow wheat at the usu il time, and
possession will be given on the first day of yaiiharv,
1811 Those inclined to purchase will be shewn the
Land by applying to Mi R. Fnchard, or to Mr
IVm Shot r who live adjoining.
Those who have claims upon theeiiate of the de
ceased y H are requested to hand them to Mr
J3- ander of Manchester for adjustment, and those
Indebted are requested to make tin, ment to him
THE TRUSTEES
July 13. _ tds
MADEIRA WINE, believed to be of the ve
ry best quality—for sale by the Pipe or
Hogshead. ,
GIBSON & yEFFERSON.
jtme 19. tf
WILL BE SO l.l), at Hanover court house,
on the fourth Wednesday in August next,
being court day, Joseph Thompson’s undivided
interest in the lands lying in Hanover and Louisa,
to which the children of Joseph Thompson are
entitled, under the will of their grand father,
John Thompson, deceased, which will is of re
cord in the court of this county i The said Jo
seph having conveyed the same to me to secure
the payment ot money due by him. to Anthony
Street, as appears by a deed of trust, bearing
date the 2d day of April, 1808, which is also of
record in the said court.
SAMUEL GRAHTLANTi.
. . inlv 317iT!
r | 'WtNTl DULLAHS REWARD Elop
J. ed from Mr. James Smitri, about the mid
«l>r ol M ,y lust, a slave, named SAM, who had
been employed for several years past in that gen
lie-man’s Bake-House
SA d is about twenty four or five years of age,
low of stature, am! not very bulky; of youthful
Jippvarance, a dark complexion, a countenance
Xvitli an incessant smile, approaching to a grin,
smd thereby discovers a tine set of teeth, which
he is not a little fond of shewing. He is slow of
Speech, and when sp- ken to suddenly or quick
ly stammers ami hesitates exceedingly.—His
•lollies not recollected.
Softie time in August last, a note wa9 given
h-m by tlie Subscriber, (who then wished to dis
pose of him,) to look-out for a purchaser——h
■nr-rely purported the terms ** to any person re
siding in Richmond, or it’s neighbourhood:”—
And as he has tin note still in possession, he
-will pr *b»biy, under pretence of seeking a mas
ter endeavor thereby io effect lit* escape out of
the State.
AH masters of vessels and others are, there
fore, forbid, at their peril, harboring or carrying
him off.
The above reward will be given, and all rea
sonable charges allowed, if brought back in saft
•ty to
JOHN KING.
Richmond, July 10 tf
LAND AND MILLS—Ttie aunscriber l*;
mg authorised by Mr. Spots wood I,'ps
c1' nbe, offers for sale, Three hundred andfoity
five acrrt of LAND, lying in Henrico county
about six miles from Richmond, on W^stham
Creek, between the three choped and river roads
—the improvements consist of a small Dwelling
of tour room?, Kitchen, Dairy, Meat house, a
fr-trden and yard wi II inclosed ; a Sam ami Oritt
Mdl, all recently built —About thirty five .tores
of this Land is in cultivation, the residue a
bounds with excellent building, and other tim
ber j twenty five acres of pi ime •,endow might
be had at a small expencc of reclaiming it.
The premises will he shewn to any person in
clined to purchase, by Mr Edmiuid West, (man
Agerj on the Laud, and the temis made known
by
THOMAS TAYLOR.
August 7._t!5:hS.
HR DON H. HACCIIUS informs hTs
friends, his acquaintances and the public,
that he has opened his office, as an Attorney at
A,AW, in Col. Mavo't buildings, over the store
of Mr yohn Wood, and nearly op|K>site to the
Hell Tavern He intends tfl visit constantly, the
Superior and Inferior Courts of the adjacent
Counties of Goochland, Hanover and New Kent,
■ml to attend ulxi Hit Henrico ami Hustings
Courts, held in this city
Those wbo teel inclined to patronize him, may
depend on Ins most utmost exertions to give them
Satisfaction.
_ Augmt 7■ _2iw1wlsw2w
m i OAL LAND FO/f SALK — By virtue of
a deed of trust, executed to the subscriber,
k) Wdl;»m kllysou, alias Moody, in order to
•retire the p'i) rm nt of a sum of money due to
Mir.nhon and Me* h# *.* ill he sold to the highest
ladder. for r# ad> money, at Z ichariah Brooks’s
Tavern, in the town of Manchester. on Monday
1b» 10th of September next, one fifth part of a
tr et t f COAL LAND, lying in the county of
Ch« ate: field, on Falling Creek, eommonlv known
•nd designated by the name of Wooldridge and
Aity»un’> pits.
Wm. JO Cl A FAX, Trurin. J
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TO BE SOLD, for ready money, pursuant to
a decree of the Superior Court of Chance
ry for the district of Richmond, made on the 8th
day of September, 1809, in a suit between Tbo
mas Southcomb, John Jackson & Abraham Hen
ry Chambers, plaintiffs, and Lewis Burwell and
Thomas R. Rootes, defendants :
All that TRACT OF LAND, in the county of
Gloucester, and Parish of Abingdon, that for
merly belonged to the above named Lewis Bur
well, and was conveyed by him to John Hughes,
by deed of Mortgage, on the fifth day of June,
1797, and recorded in the county court of Glou
cester, known by the name of James’s, adjoining
the tract called White Marsh, whereon the said
Burwell then lived, the boundaries whereof are
set forth in the said deed, or so much thereof as
may appear necessary to raise the sum of 500 £
current money, with lawful interest from the 1st
January, 1800, till payment, the costs of suit and
the charges and expenses of sale.
The sale will take place at Gloucester court
house on the third day of September next.
julv 31. tds
FOR SALE—a valuable MERCHANT and
SAW-MILL ; situated in the county of
Loudon on Goose creek j of a mile from where
it empties in the Potomac 4 miles from Leesburg,
35 from Alexandria and about the same distance
from George Town ; in the midst of the finest
wheat country of Virginia. The main road from
Leesburg to Alexandria, passes within on<» mile
ef the mill, and the,boats that navigate the Poto
mac come Up to the Mill^ which affords grear
opportunity of procuring wheat, by means ut llie
river, at alt seasons, dnd a great facility of sending
flour to market by water to George Town and
Alexandria j The rilill-House is built of stone 50
feet by 34, two stories and four floors, and works
two pair of stones. The machinery, which is of
the most approved construction, is in good repair.
The saw-mill, is of the odinary size Sc works 1 saw
—With the Mill, if suitable to the purchaser, may
be had 10 or 20 acres of Land, on the side of the
creek on which the mill stands, and on the oppo
site a tract of Land, containing about 280 or 300
acres, of good quality and well timbered The
excellence of the stream of Goose creek, at this
place ; the abundance of wheat grown in the vi
c nity t the facilities of water navigation ; and the
general and rapid improvements of this pan of
the state hold out great inducements to a person
of activity and spirit, inclined to vest his money
in property of this description. For further par
ticuUrs apply to WM. BRENT, Jr.
Near Aquia fost Office, Virginia.
July 31. _ ep2tmfc.afuf
A TEACHER wanted, in a private family,
fort lie ensuing year—a man well qualified
to teach the Latin, Greek and English Langua
ges, will meet with liberal wages. Apply at this
Office
yriy 31 !2«&w4wfl
VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND FOR
SALE.—Will be sold on the premises, tint
17th day of September next, the LAND where
on the late Colonel William Nelson resided, ly
ing in the upper end of King William Counlv,
and contains by survey 1500 acres 5 this Land ia
well adapted to the culture of Corn, Wheat and
Tobacco, it will be laid off before the day of sale
in convenient lots, so as to suit those who may
wish to purchase. The terihs of sale will be
one hs#fof the purchase money paid in 12 months
from the day of sale, the other half in two years,
the purchaser giving bond wrth approved securi
ty, and a deed of trust upon the Land. A good
title will be made by
CHARLES C. PAGE, ,
Adm’r xoith the xuill annexed.
August 10.
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_^otmgttc*
from the National Intelligencer.
7o the Cultivators, the Capitalists and the
Manufacturers of the U.
No. 3.
Every movefnent of the belligerents 19
calculated to force the U. States into the
manufacture of their own supplies. The
blockade of Elsincur and of Sweden by the
British government., obliges us 10 find sub
sti< utes for the cordage, linens, steel and iron,
which we have heretofore drawn from Swe_
den, Denmark 8c R'issia. We have imported
in a single year. 6 500 tons of hemp and 210
tons of cordage and rabies, besides vast quan
tities of hempen drilling, sheetings, duck
and other linens. The mere unmanufact i
red hemp for these goods at the present
price of 400 dollars per Con, is worth in our
markets two millions eight hundred thou
sand dollars. Our planters must supply the
place, by American hemp, flax and cotton,
of the sheetings, shirtings, drillings, ravens,
duck, table cloths, and towels, which we
got from the Biltic; All those goods can be
made also of Aix ; and they as well as
twine, cables and cordage, can be well made
of hemp. It will be our interest to cultivate
more flax and hemp and less tobacco._
small quantity of this l itter plant is consu
med by our army and navy, bu. flax & hemp
are necessary lor the public supply, milita
ry and naval. 1 he modification of our agri
culture, so as to suit ourown manufacturing
purchasers, is necessary to the profit of our
cultivators and to the Certainty and sufficien
cy of the public supplies on sea and land.
- I he rich swamps in the eastern counties
of North Carolina and Virginia, and great
quantities of the better lands in the western
states, are well adapted to the production
of hemp; and it is plain that the linen
manufacturers of middle and western
Pennsylvania, could readily execute, by close
imitations, linens like the best we receive
from Russia. I wine, hempen yarns, white
rope and tarred cordage and cables, are
extensively m »de on the Ohio and Missis
sippi. All these sustain the expences of
transportation better than the less valuable
raw materials of which they are made.—
The rival foreign articles bear the trans
portation of the raw material bv a long in
land navigation to St Petersburg in Russia;
and hemp and flax as well as linens, twine,
yarns and cordage, sostain a heavy freight
and insurance from that port to those of our
country.
Steam engines can be employed where
mill seats are wanting M ichinery to obvi
ate the deficiency of hands, can l>e obtain
ed. Capital has become abundant. Persons
acquainted with every kind of manufacture
are to be found in our country. Employment
in foreign trade is so iHuch reduced, that
men of the best business, habits and talents
are at leisure to engage in manufactures —
The more bulky is the raw material, and
the nearer to the place of its growth is the
manufacturer, the more sure and considera
ble is the profit.
As hemp and flax are universal produc
tions of the United States, it cannot but
happen, that the manufacture of them must
be general, increasing, and, before long, very
great. Ireland has lost, from various cau
ses, much of her linen manufacture, and
has not given us. fora longtime, very ia ge
quantities of those kinds of linens, of which
we are deprived by the blockade of the
Baltic Sound. There is, therefore, the
greatest necessity for us to make our own
linen supplies, and especially those demand
ed by the army and navy
I he linens of Germany, (especially for I
coarse shirts, frocks . rnw*ers, 8cc.) with
some from the Dutch and Flenrnh inanu
factories, have constituted our p’incipal
supplies for several years, particularly since
the agitations of Ireland, during'he modern
revolutions of France. All these German,
Dutch atul Flemish linens, are liable to in
terruption in their exportation, by the
French exclusion of our vessels from tlie
continent of Europe, and the British cap
tures of our vessels in going and coin
ing These things must give a spring to the
production offtax and hemp; aad they must
occasion American substitutes from those
two raw materials and ofcotton, to be made
in our families and manufactories.—The
universal instruction of females in tin. art of
weaving, as a domestic employment, wou.d
contribute greatly to such manufactures, and
to the comfort and happiness of the sex —
It should be a condition of all female’s in
dentures, that the girls should be taugut to
weave during heir time of service. It can
be easily efFcted in a few diys, or i" the
evenings of a very few weeks. In manv of
the counties of England the women weave,
as lat ge numbers do in our Eastern. N rth
em and Southern states. By this i xceilenr
practice, the men are left for the uurtea ol
the farm, and other employments, requiring
exposure and strength It b) water, n r.sc
and steam, wt earn and spin and females
weave, our manufactures will support tin
agriculture of the men. It may be safely as
sumed, that, if the women of our country,
now unemployed in weaving, were to woik
at it during.one half of six days in the week,
they would make eniaign of woollen, linen
and cotton cloths, and hosiery, to lurnish out
houses and clothe the inhabi ant'-, including
a war establishment of »he army and navy.
In this way may our American matrons and
their daughters, contribute to correct the
authors of the indignities and injuries, which
we suffer from foreign violence and impro.
“•ty* They would lurnish the hammocks
of the honest tars, who are to bear our thun
ders over the mam. and the beds of the sol.
diers, who are l defend our altars and our
homes It is in possible lor us to foresee
how soon our supplies may be cut of]; how
soon our means of paying for them in our
own produce, may be tei mina’ed ; nor how
soon a commitment in the outrageous con
test of the old world, may require of us,
that all our men and women to» should do
their duty. Let us then turn our agncul.
ture, our business, our capitals and «Ur
minds, in timely anticipation, to the bene
ficial and necessary increase of manufac
tures requisite to comfort and defence.
In considering the subject of hemp and
flax and their manufactures, cut off from our,
markets by foreign violence and improbity,
we are not to forget that, if they amount to
seven or eight thousand tons, our aur/ilus
cotton exported in one year, has been sixty
four millions of pounds, which e xceeds 23 500
tons. Since the invention of he American
cotton gin, by which the powers of agricul
ture in the southern states have been set
loose, there is no limit to our capacity to
bring cotton to market, but the deihand for
manufacture or exportation ; Every year
does and will add to our list of goods made
from cotton. In no branch will these goods
be more frequent, more easy, or more useful
than in that which furnishes substitutes for
goods of foreign hemp and flax. It is con
ceived, for example, that one fiftieth part of
our ordinary cotton crop would make as
much American twilled cotton drilling (in
lieu of the hempen drilling, ravens duck &
sheetings of Russia) as would furnish two
summer suits for each maifi of an army of one
hundred and fifty’ thousand men. Consider
ing the redundance and steady indrease of
our cotton, and the numerous substitutes for
foreign goods, which may be made of it, too
frequent occasion cannot h'1 taken to notice
its applicability to old and new uses. When
we remember that cotton is much more easy
and less costly to raise or procure than flax,
hemp, wool, silk or leather, vfe cannot doubt
that it will fall in price, till the cheapest
cotton shall be as lo*$ as the cheapest of those
materials, fo increase onr cotton manu
factures, and either to duty or to banish those
of the countries beyond the Cape of Good
Hope, which arc never made of our Motion,
would obviously be to encourage and support
the American Agriculture. Upon the whole
subject of this paper, as it relates to public
supplies and those for private use, it. behoves
us ingenuously and deliberately to consider
the most easy, prompt, effectual and profit a
ble modes of procuring, through the means
cf our various raw materials, substitutes for
the hemp and flax, and the hempen and
flaxen goods, of which foreign cupidity and
usurpation are likely todeprive us by orders
and decrees or captures and seizures. The
belligerent powers have really placed our
manufactures in a hot bed.
JURI8COLA.
The life of Charlett fanun Fox, an excel
ent and instructive work has the following
sensible observations on America ; -
“Mr. Grenville first conceived the plan
of deriving a revenue from America. A
Stamp Act was the first modification, which
fa bad augury ') was rebutted, and repeal
led; and a new duty on certain articles ol
commerce exported from Great Br' lin sup
phed irs place.—Km the pr^ect was had ;
a spirit of deliberation obtained ; agents, t of
whom the respectable Franklin was one )
were sent to England to adjust for ronend )
the point *and in tharnitan titfm antipathy
ripened between the inhabitants and the of
fieri * of government. > he diefute now afi.
feared to resolve itself into the duty oj three
fence on the found of tea.• The inhabi
tants ot Boston, who had already abstained
from its use, determined on preventing its
importation, and therefore destroyed the
next cargo that arrived. At length the pre
parations for hostility on the part of the co
lonists, demanded manifest vigilance on that
of the governor, and the consequence was
open war; a war which continued tinder eve
ry disadvantage until 17&3. and ended where
it should have begun, in the acknowledge
ment of American Independence: Such are
the consequences of opposing on unequal
terms in the field, men who fight under the
banners of real or supposed liberty* The
Congress which had assembled from thedif
tersnt parts of the territory, now became per
manent ,• and a republic was established of
the thirteen states under a constitution as
similar as may be to the British Govern
| meiu, having a Senate and President trien
nially elected. It has thus long continued,
and is likely *o continue, inaveru flourish
tug condition, notwithstanding external dts,
fu rs. maritime and territorial ; and. inter ■
[ natty the mos' violent agitations of f arty,
under the denomination of Federalist and
Anti Federalist ; irregularities in those
a/ifointed to the most imfonant offices of
government, and a violence of remfier and
manner in ’he higher orders not easily re
conciled to i s character
[* Impressments, Order* of Council. Li,
cense8, ( o go where ive have a right to go,
by flaying for them J and paper Blot kades
—are now the substi'u es f or " the c.uty of
three pence a pound ,n tea” — the simple
cause of that dispu e which terminated
in wha t was om e our Independence of the
mother country. It would be a matter of
curious and perhaps Useful enquiry for
.some of our great floptical calculators, (for
[ instance Air. Gallatin,) to make an esti,
mate of our present grievances in quantity
land quali y, and of the resources of our
country —and compare the former wi'h what
■we suffered the latter with what we posses
' sed iit ’75 -and see how far, in our reiro_
\gade march of dependence on England we
[have fallen in the rear of ha’ memorable
‘period ~ The result might be that it would
bee me his duty to •• slop the wheels of
yg'vemmcn1" in the course it is running :]
i—— iioston Patriot.
The people’s will -By the treasona
ble conduct of the tttrish faction, and the
want of resolu ion in (. ongress, our foreign
relations are now reduced ip a ver> unplea,
sant situation. H:id not this unprincipled
Junto raised such an unheard of opposition
to the embargo, our commerce would long
before this have been fully restored. They
are the original and principal cause ofrur
diflfi ulties,and the root of all our political
evds t
We cannot but indulge both the hope and
expectation, that the next Congress will act
with firmness and decision; that they will
take such measures as will deteat the rebt-l
linus machinations of the British Junto and
secure our national rights. In the toasts gi
ven at the late celebration of our Indepen
dence in every part of 'he Union, the strong.
1 esr determination has been manifested tode
' fend our national immunities. Let govern
I ment take such steps as will secure this ob
1 jt-ct, whatevt r the exigencies of the times
I may lender necessary and they may dk_
, PEND UPON THE SUPPORT OE THE PKO
| ple. The glow of patriotism which prompt
led the hemes of ’76 to stand forth in dt fence
l of Liberty and Indt pendence. still exists in
;the besoms of their descendants with undi.
minished ardor. The mig ity machine for
the pro.ectibn of our coun’ry (the People's
determination) is already organized, and
only wants the animating touch of govern
ment, to produce the most salutary effects.
1 If traitors interfere, they should be treated
j as traitors.—Boston t hroniclk.
Who are not proper to Govern ?
That the enemies to Thos. J'flerson’s system
are not proper to take the guidance of their owe
concerns, either in a national or individual con
sideration, is now undeniably evident.
The merchants bawled for the dismissal of
Mr. Jefferson —He retired
They bawled for the removal of the embargo
and non intercourse bills. The “ se^tad of dig
nificd moderation” threw their votes into the
stink pot of toryism—those acts were cancell*
ed.
They bawled for a coalition with Britain, and
Mr. Armstrong was instructed to inform the
Frencty government that the United States were
not bound to contest the maritime tyranny of
Eng’and.—Here they bad their heart’s desire.
They bawled “ fha,. the United S'ates .should
unfurl the rt-pubfican banner against the Imperi
-d standard,” and the ** confidential,” “ private”
conversations nf ” influential” members «*f tlie
administration wi(h Mr Erskine, announced that
the government would fight that nation which
removed her orders or decrees Fiaa r But that
those “ influential member s" wish Bn to tiout
FranCs — They were gratified, and Mr. Ers
kine signed his treaty
They bawled for free trade—They had their
heart’s desire.
And now after all this bawling and bother,
they are not satisfied—they complain that their
property f British property, tor not one part in
ten is American properly) is confiscated by
France
They have been years past declaring that
Frenchmen are all robbers, and Bonaparte *he
worst villain of all of them
If so, fiow came it that those bawlers entrus
ted their property within his reach ?
For sixteen months past, (and for proof of nnr
assertions, we only refer to tlie merchant's pa
pers.) they arr in full possession of every politi
cal desire—and vet they grumble
Are these men proper to rule the U. S ?— Cer
tainly not.
They have induced " men of moilerution” to
pander and abandon the former avowed princi
pics nf their existence, |.» for m a coalition with
Britain, and now they »fe in full ,.<>*ae**ion of
every jot which they have been abusing JefFer
son f’»r depriving them of, they—grumble
Suppose,for instance, former congresses by the
recommendation of the “ private confidential
conversations” of Mr. Jefferson afrfl Gov Gore
and F.rskine, had united with Britain
why, the effect would have been exactly just
whcr*it i»'now—annihilation of Ur to the fin
ropean continent and confiscation of all Ameri
can CBritishJ property.
But Jefferson, Christian like, loved his enemies
-■■he held the leading strings of men who
knew not how to walk, to guide, or to govern
themselves f
Since his dignified retirement, the blind have
led those who chose to be blinded, and both have
tumbled into the ditch. The merchants have
taken the reins into their own hands, and !*•. acton
lik*-, they are driving head long and have scorch•
ed themselves.—We say, let them guide the chaw
riot of state—let them have/rre trade.
Lexington Reporter.
I •' »
Extract of a letter from Mr. Jartua, the
Americun Consul at Lisbon, dated June.
17, 1810.
•• There has not existed so great a scarci"
ty of grain and flour in Portugal at any peri„
od since I have been here, as at this mo
ment. Flour is now sixteen and a half dol
lars a barrel, equal at the txchange to se
I venty seven shillings sterling, the purchaser
receiving it from on board and paying the
duty ; and the approaching harvest will not
produce any sensible .. fleet on the market,
as the low land wheats have suffered ex.*
tremely from the uncommonly wet spring."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in
Richmond, Virginia, to hm friend in
Kentucky.
t think our country is, at present, very
badly supplied with materials for tuture le
gislation and government. I cast my eyes
over the continent in vain, inquest of suc
cessors to our present patriots:-There
I seems to me a most miserable and alarm
ing dearth of talents and acquirement a
mong the young men in the U. S. 1 have
sometimes sat down and endeavored to fdL
he various offices in the government, with
characters draw n from those who are made
known to us, either personally or by fame-—
but so far am I from finding among them a
man fit for a President, that I cannot even
?nd characters fit for the heads of depart
ments. Vt at has become of the talents of
the country * Are they utterly extinct f or
do they merely slumber ? and does it require
another great convulsion, like our revoluti
i onary war, to rouse their dormant energies f
| I. myself, think it proceeds in a very great
1 degree if not ahoge'her, from defective e
ducation. Our teachers themselves either
want learning, or they want the address
necessary to play the part of a revolution,
in exciting and spurring into vigorous acti
on the powers of the mind. Young men are
every where turned loose, in the various
professions, with tfiinds half awake, and
their surface merely a little disturbed with,
science—This is not the way great men
have been made either in Europe or Ame
rica—As long as this system is pursued,
we never shall have any thing but political
qu:»«ks.
1 have been pondering For some time ori
the means of introducing a change here : —
and have thought that one character of me
' rit might do great things in the way of re
formation——if, tor instance, a man of erucii
tionand genius would open a course of r*o_
'itical and legal lectures in this mctroj i.s,
| on a great and extensive scale, the effect
would soon he felt. I would pmp.se *ha
such an one should, in his legal cnume car
ry his students through the law of naurnc,
natural and conventional, making them in
timately acquainted with all the great wri
crs upon this subject, as G'otius, Pi flfcn_
dorf. &c. &c. as well as with the gent ral
principle® settled by nations in their treaties
—then, tnathe should in*roducc them to a
knowled5e of the civil or Roman law which.
Lord Mansfield has declared the most per
fect body of written reason that ever was
produced, and which is still resorted to in
every new case ■ - and then lie should carry
them through the municipal law, nr law of
the land—in his political course, I would
have him to unfold the different characters
of government, shewing the advaniag s:md
disadvantages of each, and combining with
this part of his course the study of ancient,
and modern history, so as to test his princi
ples by a strict experience ; 1 would have
him, then, to digest our own federal consti
tution, compelling his students, as they
went along, to study the debates of the va
rious conventions in which it had been agi
tated, making them debate and write them
selves on the tendencies of the instrument,
until they become most intimately acquaint
ted, not only with its provisions, but with
its essence and character, and capable of
applying the proper checks whenever it ver
ged too strongly towards monarchy or aris
tocracy. so as to qualify them for preserving
the republican genius of the g vemmem, of
wn.ch they ought to he mad< deeply and en
thusiastically tnarnnured—-1 would thert
have him to exhibit to his s udents the go
vernment as nrgai tied tinder this constituti
'on-p ,i it out its first movements critical
lv—-accompany the reading of every act
of Congress with the whole debate which
preceded it, so as to give a full view of the
|policy and design of each measure—make
them masters of every tr<*7tv which the go
Ivermiiem nnu ever lormeci ; matte went in
timately acquainted with all our foreign re„
latinos; pm them in full possession of the
resources and strength of the country, and
the interests of he several relations—agri
ICulture, commerce and manufactures; and
exhibit on a grand and comprehensive scale,
the g"m ml principles on which the govern.,
merit should he administered for the public
good. Such a Course wr u’d, indeed. keep »
young man out of the wo-Id until he waft
nve and-twen y, Itut so much the bet'er irx
every point of view-for he would come
forwaid better matured anti completely
armed If the young men of our country &
after Itiavinw their colleges, their classics,
mathematics anti philosophy, were put up_
on a course like this under an able man, wo
should have a school of statesmen and of
great men hat would contribute to perpe
tuate the republic as well as to invigorate
and adorn it. 1 confess this is a subject,
which I have very much at heart -• — 1 Cati
do no more than recommend the scheme t»
tUe public patronage ; mu< h I fear, howe
ver, it will be like preaching to strrirs.
*-Sandid Jievtil