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[rnOM T*E PARIS ARCUS. 3
LEGISLATIVE BODY.
Presidency of the Count <tf the Empire, Font ones.
Sequel qf the sitting of the 12f A December.
The following is the statement of the situation of
the Empire, at the first of December, 1809,
such as it was read in the Legislative Body by his
Excellency the Minister the Interior.
Count Montalivtt-*Gentlemen, every time that
the situation of the empire has been laid before
you, the French nation had numbered fresh tri
umphs.
Shining victories, generous peaces, the results
of the most profound political combinations, great
works undertaken, the internal order maintained
—such is the picture which all my predecessors
have had to draw ; it is again what forms the his
tory of the year, which hss j'tst elapsed.
The return of this enumeration of prosperity,
acquires every day a mere glorious character ;—
the memorable facts af a year may belong to for
tune, to what is called hazard, the force or eon*
stancy, the weakness or versatility of which are
hitherto unknown: but those which are every
day renewed the same, are necessarily the work
of a genius and of a hand, equally powerful.—
The former may transitorily belong to all times,
the latter fix those eras which divide the course
of centuries, and which subordinate a long series
of years, to every epoch which changes the face
of the world.
In the course of your last session, you co-ope
rated in giving a new criminal code to France,
by adopting the project prepared in the council
of state, and before the eyes of his majesty him
self, the necessary source of all laws; and at that
rery time the Emperor, at h • had announced to
you, was re placing lus august brother upon the
throne of Madrid ; he was forciog the English
to fly to their Bhips and ceased to pursue them,
only in order to approach the centre of his stales,
for the purpose of being better able to study ami
stop the projects of Austria.
i nuiic ivorrs.
The stay which his majesty than made at Pa.
ris, was marked by the care which he took tore
g'il :t • all the parts of the vast administration of
h’.s Empire. His orders gave a fresh activity to
tire .rnmense works winch at no period of peace
Were undertaken in such great numbers, or car
ried on with so much ardor. Prisoners of war
of different nations, sent by victory, have finished
the canal of St. Quentin. Two leagues of an
awful subterranean cut open the communication
between the great rivers and the seas of the
north of the empire, the great rivers and the seas
o; the centre And the south.
Seven thousand laborers have never ceased
v-orking at the canal of the North, and nearly
ei«-ht leagues of this new way, opened to the
lliiine and the Meuse, in order to bring their u
nitrd waters to Antwerp, withont ever quitting
•lie territory of present France, are executed.—
This canal so important for trade, will not be a
less benefit to agriculture. Heaths, equal in ex
tent to several departments, will be peopled and
fertilised : A peaceable conquest of industry,
they wilt coon augment both our riches and our
prosperity.
Two millions have been usefully expended in
3809 in the canal of Napoleon, which will unite
the Rhone to the Rhine ; Marseilles, Col gne 8t
Antwerp will appear to be watered by the same
rivers.
This canal will communicate with the Seine,
by that of Bin gundy, the works of which, aban
doned by tho former government, have just re
ceived the greatest impulsion : It is already na
▼igable from Dole to Dijon ; the works are now
carrying on between D ,:on and the bridge of Pa
ny, between the Yonne and St. Florcntin.
Several important sluices upon the Seine, the
Aube, and the Somme, have been finished in
1809; the pr^jerts which tend to improve the
former navigations, to prolong them, or to create
new ones, have been every where undertaken or
carried on with activity.
The maritime works have made a great pro
gress ; those of Cherburg already exhibit to the
astonished eye, an Immense port cut ill the solid
rock. Its depth has been carried this year to
thirty eight feel below the level of the high tides.
It is secured fr^m their invasion by a dam, the ex
ecution of which has been as perfect as the idea
of it was bold ; granite linings give to the ports
and to its external quays the most awful appear
ance of grandeur and duration ; the port of Cher
burg will be dug sixteen feet lower ; so that there
•will remain in it twenty-six feet of water at the
lowest tidrs.
The sluice of Havre is nearly completed ; it
will secure, by the middle of next summer, the
constant entrance of ships into the channel.
At Dunkirk, an octagonal sluice which is in
tended to drain some precious lands, and to se
cure un «ary navigation, has been finished this
ye?r.
The basin of Antwerp is dug throughout the
whole of :*s fore part, and the sen sluice is raised
above its foundation.
The port of Cette 1ms been deepened ; it has
afforded n assylumto first rate ships.
The port of Marseilles affords anchorage ea
sier than it has ever been.
The roads of Mount C nis, of the Simplan,
those which cross, in every direction, the Alps,
the Apennines, and the Pyrennees, have received
n further degree of forwardness or of improve
ment. Hoads, as fine as commodious, lead from
Alexandria to Savona, from tbs borders of the
Tanoro and the to, to tiic nearest shores of the
M rditerranean.
The great drainings of Bourgoin, those of the
^otentin and of Rocliefort, have already changed
into fertile lands, barren m indies, 5t their results
cause the government to be blessed by theiuha
hitams, astonished at not having experienced a
ny even of itifj transitory ev.lc which they were
mane tc dread.
Works of Paris.
Paris bccom-s every day more worthy, by its
monuments, of being the metropolis ot one of
those empires around which crowds, in the his
tory of time, every thing tijat was cotemporary.
At its skirts, the bridges ofHezo.is, of Choisy,
and of Sevres, have just been begun : that of
Ciiareotnti hai» l»c«ii fi-CiJabliihS'J ; of St.
Cl loud is re-building. In its interior, the fine
bridge of Jena has been forwarded to the rising
of its arches ; that of St. Michael has been die
e nharraHsed of the hoiiars by which it was ob
structed ; the quay Napoleon and the quay of the
l,ouvre, hav.- been terminated ; that of Jena ex
l.sf;.U beyond the espla lade of the invalides, the
poit ot the Rupee is executing upon a grand
scale.
Granaries of plenty are founded.
Ail the dispos'd ions for the construction of tn
immense slaughterhouse are made mar the
)>Hrri'*r if Rnchecn uiard ; tiie ground is leve lied,
the foundation dug.
A provisional, h it proper establishment, has
received the exclu’igr, until the moment when
the magnificent edifice destined for it, will be fi.
rushed, and which is already raided above the
.ground. .
The temple of glory occupies a great number
of workmen ; it will be worthy of its noble desti
nation.
Four piles of »nai<,r.ary—-works lined with a
stone c-.qtial, in ha* does.s and grain, tn the finest
v .* KW-, arc waiting at the harrier ofNeuilly for
k me of ‘on lust lays which are tn receive the
♦ *«df of the triumphal arch of the Ktoi/e.
The column of Aosteilitz is covered up
to the Indent its height, with bronzes which
TCilieteuiiT. tbe feats of arms ©four warriors, j
I'lie arch of tho Garotixal now terminated, n a j
onion of taste and magnificence.
The front of the momnaent in which you are
seated it finished: the Louvre unfolds fresti
beauties, in the rapid course of its restoration :
the gallery which is to complete its union with the
Ttiuilleries, astonishes, by its progress, even the
inhabitants of this city.
The capital already enjoys a part of the waters
which the canal of the Oureq arc to bring to it;
the basin of the Villette and the fountain of the
Innocents, afford to the city creations as fine as
they are useful.
In this long enumeration, I have been unable
to point out any more than the least part of the
works finished er continued litis year ; but each
of you have witnessed their developement, since
there is no part of France to which they do not
extend.
Among these grand constructions, there are
some more particularly consecrated to public or
der and beneficence.
Ettablithmcnu of benijtcencc.
The emperor has ordered hitherto the creation
of forty two depots of mendicity j he has secured
*he funds necessary for their support. Thus
will be healed by degrees one of the most hide
ous sores of polished states ; thus public morals
and industry will profit by a labor which will
snatch from misfortune and depravity so many
beings condemned in appearance to be unable to
escape them. Several of these establishments
have been put in activity.
His majesty has shed immense henefits upon
those of his subjects to whom great calamities
had befallen. The borders of the Rhine had
been laid waste by inundations ; the inhabitants
have received nearly a million, either as indem
nities, or to be employed in repairs and works of
security. The countries which have sulfered by
the bail, and those which have experienced con
flagrations, have obtained relief.— An affecting
and paternal care has allotted to a great number
of cities, supplics'of Jesuit'* bark, which they
have exactly received.
Depots of vaccine have just been established ;
they secure to families the certain means oi'nev
er being without that inestimable preservative,
winch useful and real friends of humanity have
made known throughout every class of our nume
rous population.
Among the wants of the French which have
fixed the attention of the sovereign, the cultivati
on of the moral qualities, that of the mind and
that of the arts of imagination, have continued to
obtain one of the first ranks.
Public Instruction.
The Imperial University has entered upon its
functions; it has collected information concern
ing all the schools in tne empire. The acade
mies are forming, the faculties are establishing ;
the I.yccuma continue to furnish numerous scho
lars to the Politecnic school and to that of St.
Cyr. The former is still a nursery of young men
distinguished by their knowledge and their con
duct ; at St. Cyr, are continuity renewing those
youths as strong and as well exercised as they
are courageous and devoted, who shew them
selves, upon arriving under their colors to be
. worthy of marching with the ancient brave fel
lows.
Sciences, Letters and Arts.
Every kind of encouragement is given to the
sciences, letters and arts ; iionors, rewards, use
ful labours confined to artists who distinguish
thems rives, -io-lung is neglected. But the first ol
those memorable epochs calculated to exalt the
most noble ambition, has arrived -. the decennial
prizes are going to be given by tlie band of him
who is the source of aft true glory ; they would
iiowbe distributed if the jury had beeii able to
dejiver in their report sooner. His majesty was
desirous that no sort of merit, whether literary,
or belonging to the sciences or arts, should re
main unrewarded. The decree of the 24th ol
Fructidor, year l'J, was looked upon by the em
peror only as the expression of a general thought
1 h&t thought lias just received all its dcvelope
ment by a late decree which augments the num
ber of prizes. Fresh examens, fresh judgments
-ire become necessary. The emperor wishes to
be sure that they will be the expression of the
enlightened public opinion, and in order to ac
quire that certainty, he has ordered that the
works honored by these judgments should un
dergo a solemn discussion ; a distinction very
flattering tor those authors whose labors shall be
wurujy ui such an illustration.
The Museum of Natural History has been en
larged ; that of the arts has received fresh riches
by the acquisition of the masterpieces of the Bor
ghese gallery.
. Agriculture.
The arts more intimately connected with the
prosperity of nations naturally commanded a still
more particular attention. Agriculture is the
first of all. The propagation of sheep with im
proved wool, has made a further progress, which
is due in a great measure to the importations of
Spanish and German flocks.
Twenty thousand select mares have been pre
sented to the twelve hundred stallions which are
already collected in our studs and in our depots.
Premiums have been granted to the proprietors of
the finest breeds.
_ The cultivation ofcotton in our southern pro
vinces ha* as yet given only hopes ; they have
not becn^ilestroyed l*y the two extraordinary sea
sons of 1 oOS and 1809 ; and this is havjng obtained
a great deal.
Trials have been made to naturalize indigo.
But these arc not the chief, the most essential
of our agricultural productions ; other nations
arc in want of objects of the first necessity and
procure them in exchange for the produce of
their industry ; fiance is too rich; she reaps
in com fc wines far beyond her consumption ; as
to wines of the first quality, this was a tiling long
since acknowledged ; but it was almost always
looked upon as a certain fact, that we were de
pendent upon foreign countries for com. How
precious, therefore, must be for us the experi
ence which we now have !
Some parts of the country suffer, it Is true,
from the impossibility of selling their corn ; this
is a momentary evd ; but what a source of securi
ty for the future ! Scarcities were for the most
part due only to opinion ; it was necessary only
to enlighten opinion., and France, henceforth sure
that she produces in corn beyond what she is
able to consume, cen no longer fear want.
The emperor has nevertheless fixed all his so
licitude upon the present circumstances ; the ex
portation of corn is permitted by a great number
of points of our land and sea frontiers, provided,
however, the prices do not exceed in the neigh
boring markets determinate rales; the proprie
tors ofBordeaux wines receive loans ; special
authorisations facilitate maritime exportations.
Manufacture* av.d Industry.
Industry augments by workmanship, the value
of raw materials, and often in proportions which
may be said to be infinite. It lias constantly oc
cupied the thoughts of the government ; but here
the actiou of authority cannot be direct ; to give
cncotirsge-nents,to study modifications in the’ ta
riffs of custom-houses, whether national or fo
reign, is what it c?ji do, and what it lias done—
It has moveovsr watched with redoubled care
over the school of arts, end trades at Chalons,
the good effects of which continue to be sensibly
felt
Mr. Richard, Messrs. Tcmcsux, Mr. Ober
karnpl, Mr. tie Neuffi '.e, and so many others have
preserved to their precious establishments a de
gree of activity, and organization, and means of
improvement which render them worthy of be
ing mentined : they do honor to the nation and
contribute to its prosperity.
Minn,
Mines conceal riche* which would remain bu
ried were it not for industry. A .legislation of
the mines, positive and clear, will be completed
in the eeurae <<l your session ; means of reaping
the inoat immediate fruits of them are prepared.
J ranee possesses a great number of precious co-!
mirrs, which secure tia from all apprehension, of
crer l .U.g in want of fuel.
Copper, lead and silver mines are working j
others are. the objects of researches and experi
ments.
Commerce.
Commerce applies itself in general to availing
itself ar much as possible of the prodnee of ag
riculture and industry ; ours sutlers no doubt by
the extraordinary stale, which, making a* it were
two masses, the one of the continent of Europe,
the other of the seas and the countries from
which it separates us, leaves them without any
possible communication. Nevertheless the in
ternal consumption, in which a much greater
numiier of individuals participate, since ease is
known by classes ofthe jwtople who were here
tofore ignorant of it, and our relations with our
neighbors, keep up a irvcat activity in tint exchan
ges. Our relations with the United State* are
impended ; but being formed bv mutual want*,
they will toon resume their count- Lyons sees
renewing the prosperity of her manufactories,
which receive the orders of Germany, of Russia,
and ofthe interior. Naples supplies us with cot
ton, which its soil produces every day in greater
abundance ; and which diminishes the quantity
of foreign importations.
finances.
The connection of trade with public credit will
naturally call your attention to a phenomenon
which strikes us less at present, because e.very
year re-produces it : the punctuality of all the
payments without any fresh contributions, with
out any loans, without any anticipations, and in
the midst of a war for which, at any other time,
the most extraordinary efforts would have ap
peared below what such enterprises required ;
an admirable effect of the simplicity ofthe springs
and movements, of a rigorous order and of the
exactness of tli« calculations ; into the details of
which his majesty himself docs not disdain to en
ter.
The terrier is carrying on ; the fruits of it are
reaped in a great number of cantons and com
munes ; we shall soon be indebted to it for the
general improvement ofd;e system ofthe land-tax,
and the just proportion ofthe contributions with
the product*.
Internal Administration and fustier.
The internal administration has followed the
same course in 1809 as in the preceding years ;
order and tranquility have been maintain
ed { justice has been speedily and equitably ad
ministered ; the name oT the Emperor has been
bl -ssed in all families, joyful at the internal
Tliw departments of Tuscany have received
the benefit of the general organization!
Divine Wortkip.
In its respect for the consciences, the govern
ment has nut deviated from the line which it had
traced out to itself. ItB principles upon religion
have had their application this year, as the pre
ceding years.
It does not cor.fine itself «.o tolerating all forms
of worship, it honors, it encourage.# them.
The Christian religions, founded i\pon the mo
rality of the Gospel, are all useful to society.
The Lutherans of me Faubourjr St. Antt)oine,
the number of whom amounts to upwards of
6,000, had no temple, and from time immemori*
al, it was in the chapel of Sweden, that they ex
ercised their worship—Their church has been
acknowledged, their ministers have been ap
pointed by the emperor, and are supported at the
expence of the stale.
A school of Calvinistical theology has beer, es
tablished at Montaubai).
With regard to the religion which is that of
the Empemr.of the imperial family, and of the
immense majority ofthe French, it has been cn
the part of government, the objeot of their most
assiduous cures. New seminaries havelbeen
formed; injall of them, foundations have been
made for the young men who devote them selves
to the ecclesiastical profession ; the edifices of
divine worship have been repaired—the number
of the chapels of ease lias bean augmented. The
public treasury, by taking charge of the salaries
of the curates, has honorably withdrawn them
from the dependence of the communes. Succours
have bean secured with liberality.to the curates
oc. otiier servant* ot the church to whom age
and infirmities rendered them necessary. in
fine, his majesty lias called several Archbishops
and Bishops to seats in the Senates, and in tlie
Council ot the University.— He proposes to call
others to his council of State.
His majesty has had differences with the sove
reign of Rome, as a temporal sovereign. Con
stant in his resolutions, the emperor defended his
rights of his crown and of his people ; he did
what was required by the grand political system
which is regenerating the West j but without
touching the spiritual principles.
Nobody is ignorant of the evils which the tern
poral sovereignty of the Popes has caused to re
ligion !—Had it not been for that sovereignly, the
half of Europe would not novy be separated from
the Catholic church.
There was only one single means of withdraw
ing it forever from such great dangers, and of re
conciling the interests of the state with those of
religion. It was necessiry that the successor of
St. Peter should be a pastor l.ke St. Peter ; that
solely occupied with the salvation of souls, and
with spiritual interests, he should cease to be a
gitated by worldly ideas, by pretensions of sove
reignty, by discussions oflimits of territories and
of provinces.
It is, therefore, a benefit to have separated re
ligion from what was foreign to it, and to have re
placed it in its slate of evangelical purity.
The Concordate, which re-ciilublished religion
in France, has been faithfully executed. The em
peror has even done more than his engagements
required of him. The Pope ought on his side to
observe its conditions.
Whenever there wa? no personal reproach to
be made on the Archbishops and Bishop* appoin
ted by the emperor, he ought directly to give
them the canonical institution. If that condition
was not fulfilled, the Concordate would become
null, and we should find ourselves replaced un
der the same regime as before the Concordate of
Francis I and Leo X ; that regime was one of
the Pragmatic Sanction of St Lewis, so nroc.lt
regretted by our churches, by the School of Pa
ris and by the Parliaments.
Incendiary writings and bulls inspired byigno.
raiice and the most criminal neglect of the prin
ciples of religion, were hawked about in differ
ent part9 of tl»e empire. Every where did these
proclamations meet with the contempt they de
served—Facts spoke too Ipud—thirty millions of
Frenchmen, eighteen millions of Italians, and so
many nations on the hanks of the Vistula, of the
Elbe, and of the Rhine, attest the care which the
French government has taken to protect the reli
gion of our forefathers.
The foresight and wisdom of our ancestor*
sheltered us from the attempts a( a Gregory V'il
and of all those who entertained such fatal opini
ons. Neither the Sorbonne, the School of Paris,
or the Galilean Church has ever acknowledged
such monstrous principles.
The kings have to give an account only to God
—and the Pope, according to the principles of
Jesus Christ, must, as well as others, give to Cat
sar what belongs to Cxsar. The temporal crown
and the sceptre of the affairs of the world, were
not given to him by him who desired to be called
the “ servant of the servants of God,” and who
constantly recommends to him charily and humi
lity.
Ignorance favors fanatacisrn—His ma jesty has
therefore ordered tint the prineiplee of the school
of Paris and the declaration of the clergy of 1682,
be professed in the seminaries—he wishes to op
pose the influence of a sound doctrine to that ten
dency of human weakness which turns the most
sacred things to support the lowest interests.
Hi? majesty has done • great deal for religion
—he intends yet to do a gveat deal more, and
in proportion as the thirty millions of eoclcsiavti.
cal pensions Ivecome extinct, he means to employ
the einount in the in»pnjven>ent of the church^—
/
©M obligation alone, relative to temporal thing*, \
is imposed by divine right, \\-htch is, that the ;
priests live by the altar, and receive the conside
ration necessary for their sacred ministry.
War.
While the emperor was thus preparing all the
improvements which every year uf his roign se
cures to .France—while the annual execution of
the law* ol the conscription maintained complete
without difficulty, without a shock to the sche
dules of one legions, our enemies, who sre also
theirs, were preparing for gigantic efforts—but
we have already stated to you s a few days al'tei
the opening of your cession of 1803, the emperor
had beaten the Spanish armies, entered Madrid,
and placed h;s brother on the throne ; by a sud
den and skilful marcht had drawn the English
army to his point, and was pursuing It without
giving it time to breathe, had arri\ed upon the
frontiers of Gallicin, after having taken a great
number of prisoners, was taking its hospitals,
and ammunition. He then received in
formation of the treaty in virtue of which the
court of Vienna was to furnish 100,COO muskets
to the insurgent juntas. He learned at the same
time that Austria was flying to arms, and that her
armaments had already spread terror in the Con
federation. He immediately suspended his tri
umphant march, left his armies in Spain, 8t tho’t
that his presence would suffice to destroy his en
emies.
His majesty certainly never gave to Europe a
grater proof of the strength of his mind ami pow
er of Ins genius. Eighty regiments ofhi* veteran
troops which h: d conquered at U!m, at Auster
litz, at Jena and at Freidland, remained in Spain,
and he came and placed himself at the head of his
allies and new levies.
You remember, gentlemen, the uneasiness
which we then experienced, and which was car
ried so far, that for a moment Europe supposed
that that nation so often vanquished, and which
was indebted for her existence to the generosity
of our sovereign, was about to conquer our allies
8t invade our territory-.—The emperor of Austria
with a force ot 5QO.OOO men, which wan a prodi
gious efTort, even a miracle effected by paper mo
ney, tho’t he could march to certain victory.—
Bavaria and Italy were invaded without any
declaration of war ; men were slain without know
ing that enemies existed; that conduct wiil be
qualified with just severity byhiitorv,
C'i'o be concluded in our next-J
him ii <•
[BY AUTHORITY]
LJW OE THE UNITED- STATES.
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the support of the Mil
itary establishment of the U. S.Jor the year one
thousand eight hundred and ten.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of lie
present at iocs of the United States of Jtr.e
ri(a in Congress assembled, That for defraying of
the expences of the military establishment cl the
United States, for the year one thousand eight
hundred and ten, for the Indian department, and
tor the expence ol fortifications, arsenals, maga
zines and armories, the following sums be, aim
the same hereby are respectively appropriated,
that is to say :
For the pay of the army of the U. S. eight hun
ured and sixty nine thousand, nine hundred and
sixty-^igiu dollars :
For forage, sixty-four thousand six hundred £c
twenty-four dollars :
l*or subsistence, six hundred and eighty-five
thousand, five hundred and thirty two dollars and
five cents :
lor cloathing, two hundred and pinety-three
thousand, eight hundred and tour dollars :
For bounties aad premiums, thirty thousand
dollars :
For the medical and hospital departments, fif
ty thousand dollars :
For camp equipage, fuel, tools ahd transpor
tation, two hundred and seventy thousand dol
tarn :
For ordnance, two hundred thousand dollars :
. For fortifications, arsenals, magazines U armo
ries, including two thousand dollars for such a
number of additional military store-keepers as
may be required, two hundred and eighty-three
thousand five hundred and severity-four dollars &.
seventy-five cents :
For purchasing maps, plans, books and instru
ments, two thousand five hundred dollars :
For contingencies, fifty thousand dollars :
For the salary of clerks emploved in the mil
itary agents’ offices, and in the office of inspec
tor of the army, three thousand five hundred dol
lars :
For the Indian department, one hundred and
forty six thousand fix hundred dollars .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sev
eral sums specifically appropriated by this act,
shad be paid out of any monies in ll.e treasury
not otherwise appropriated.
J B. VARNUM,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN GAILLARD,
President oj the Senate, pro tcm.
March 2, 1810.
Afpuoved,
JAMES MADISON.
LAM'D FOR SALE.—That valuable Tract of
LAND laying in Amnerst count}-, common
ly known by the name of Gordon’s Quarter, situ
ated near the Tobacco row mountain, containing
eleven hundred acres, is now offered for salt- on
liberal terms. The quality of this land is said to
be equal to any tract in that county.
The terms will b<* known by making applica
tion to either of the subscribers in Petersburg,
or to Mr. Samuel Irvin of Lynchburgh, who will
shew the premises or give such description of
hem as will satisfy any person desirou, of pur
chasing.
JOHN WILDER,
yoiIN BELL.
Petersburg, January 4. w3m
JHAVE appointed William H. Kuthn, Esq
niy agent for ttie Mississipp’ Territory——
vho is hereby authorised to receive, awl gT.ant
receipts for, any monies due to mej in that quar
ter.
THOMAS RITCHIE,
. Editor of the Enquirer.
Richmond, Virginia,")
I cb. 16, 1810. 3 law4t
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or to the late Firm, are solicited to come for
ward and settle, as a division of the Estate is a
bout to be made between the parties interested.
JAMES SIMPSON,
Attorney for f.li,za A• Holt, Adm'rx. of
JOHN HOLT, deed.
Surry County, March 6. w4w^|
WANTED, on hire fer the balance of the
year, 30 or 40 able bodied Negro Men,
for whom a lioeral price will be given—they will
he employed in the CoaJ Mines—Apply to the
Subscribers in Manchester, or to Harry Heth at
the Coal Pitts.
NICOLSON, HETH, k Co.
Msreh 2. • eplm
WANTED by a Gentleman from five to six
thousand DOLLARS—for which a mort
gage will be given on 600 acres of Excellent
LAND as security, and good interest payable
every first of January. This money is wasted for
the term of 8 or 10 years—Application to be made
to the Editor of the Enquirer.
March 2. 3w
’T'VWTION NOEL. *r. K»"nhr V' *f!, -
I *rdNoel, deceased. IV.e nm •. e ti<»' w?
shall upon the tvU uml lj:U days of
pril next at l.’ayds Tavern in tin* county . 1' £3
|sex, ami on the ninth day of the said nvmia \> vj
Howling Green Tincfn* in the county of <;:<»«>.
line, proceed to take the Deposition* cf sundry
witnesses to he read in evidence in tb«* Sait de
pending in the Superior Court of Chancery, for
the Richmond district, wherein you are plaintiffs*
and we and others are defendants.
TITO M AS S TM? 71 STILT,
A AT3RUSK B RO WN.
ELLIS ARMSTRONG
March 2. \v4w^T
BATTERSEA P A PER MILLS .-Those wtio
wish to encourage the manufactures of their
own state are informed, that they c.:»n he suppli
ed with Paper Manufactured in Petersburg, in
any quantities.
PRICES AS FOLLOWS:
Fine Letter Paper Vellum, g 4 75 1
Do. do. Laid, 4 50
Fools Cap No. 1. 4 37$ ^
Do. No. 2. 3 37$ -.
Do. No. 3. 3 12$ l'*»,
Folio Post Vellum, 9 50 | **’
Do. I.aid, 9 ;JJ
Fine Printing Medium* 5 50 a
Do. 4 50 r.
Excellent Wrapping Paper, 1 12$„
0C7* A liberal discount made to wholesale pur
chasers.
Orders for any of the above qualities, address
ed t® the subscribers, executed at the shortest
notice.
LAE IS TER & Co.
August 4. wtf
7\ DVERTISEMENT.—Agreeably to the last
Will and Testament of Col. James Calla
way, deceased, late of Bedford county, his Exe
cutors offer the following LANDS lor sale.
Several Lots and Houses in the town of Ncw
I.ondon—amongst which is a large and commo
dious house, completely finished and new, and
was erected for a Tavern, thruv which none can
be hcticr calculated. The 9land is good, the si
tuation elegant and commanding, with a good
garden, and large and fertile lots attached to it,
with 400 acres of good Land contiguous, which
will he either sold will, cr without the houses.
One thousand acres of Land on Sycamore creek
in the county of Pittsylvarja ; this Hnd is well
calculated for raising tobacco, wheat and corn,
the coiqmon produce of the country ; it has a
plantation with an overseer’s house, tobacco
houses, &c.
several tracts in we county or Montgomery, of
different sizes, all fine for grass and small grain,
surrounded with a range equal to any in the
State.
The Cnrron Iron Works in the county of Frank
lin, consisting of a Furnace and Forge, with se
veral thousand acres of Land. The advantages
of this establishment can be but ill described in
an advertisement, but is s'.tongly recommended
to such as wish to engage in the business. It is
indeed considered as unnecessary to say much
about the properly now ;oflered to the public at
tention,for however valuable it may be, no person
will wish to purchase without iirst viewing and
making himself acquainted with it.
The terms ot sale will be reasonable and ac
commodating, and made known by applying to
either of the Executors, who will shew the pro
perty.
WM. CALLAWAY,
CHRISTn. CLARK, )
JAMES STEPTOE, >Extcutar*
JOHN CALLAWAY, |
George callawayJ
Bedford County, Feb. 27. wlSvvfl
JUST received and for sale at the NEW
CHEAF. SHOE-STORE, next door above
the Rising Sun Tavern on the cro9 street leading
to Mayo’s Bridge—aix boxes Shoes, four barrel*
dc*. containing 1800 pairs, well assorted, which
will be sold at whole sale on the most reasonable
terms, for cash or produce.—At retail, Ladies
Morocco Slippers—^Gentlemen’s Morocco and
Seal skin pumps, right and lefts—Wax Calf 8c
Seal skin fine Shoes yof a superior quality_A
good assortment of Cclvsg Shoes—Shoe-thread,
Irish potatoes, &c.
Wx. H. HUBBARD.
March 6. W4w
N. B- Afresh supply from New.York, of the
best materials for boots which are executed vyith
ne-itness and dispatch.
NOl'lCE.—All parsons indebted to the
Estate of the lateMnj. Tho’s. Armiatead,
dec’d. are desired to make immediate payment;
those that hold claims against the said dec’d. are
desired to make them known to Philip Gate
wood, (who resides iu the Countv of King 8c
Queen near Dunk:rk) who is fully authorised by
me to settle all the transactions of th* Estate, Sc
paymsnts made to any parson else will not be va»
lid.
JAIN AUlWISTEAD,
Administratrix, with will annexed.
King 8c Queen County, March 13. w4w
NO ITCE.—All persons who have any claims
against the late John Harris, dec’d. of tho.
Ci‘v of Richmond, are requested to bring th^m
forward imnie.l Jlely—and those indolted to sai^
estate, must n.akc immediate arrangements for
discharging their respective balances.
\v ij. WREN, Adm'r. of
JOHN HARRIS, Dec'd.
March 13. ep2m
I/MlESH GLOVER h GARDEN SEEDS_
Foh Sale by the subscribers, at their new
Medicine Store near the Market Bridge, a quan
tity of CLOVER SEED and ?. general assort
I me,it of GARDEN SEEDS, consisting in part
of early and late Pvss, do. Beart3, do. Cabbage,
(lo.Turnip; early Radith, Lettuce, Parsnip, Bed,
Carrot, Pcppergrass, Simblins, fXc. hr.
Also, Medicines, Drugs, Paints, Dyeing,
Drugs, he. &c.
VAIL h ROGERS.
February 10. 2awtf
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Dissolution of partnership.—
The partnership of Smrcb and Turner was
dissolved on the 26th of January last : All those
that arc indebted to the concern will make pay
ment to Esme Smock only, and those who have
accounts against the concern will call on Etma
Smock for payment.
ESME SMOCK.
JOHN E PRICE,
A%ent f or Robert Turner.
N. B—The Business i.i future will be conduct
ed by ESMK & PETER SMOCK.
March 2. tf
JN CHANCERY.—At a Court liel-l for Cum
berland County, the 32d day ol January, 1810.
Bernard Sims, PiatnttJ}— Against Jesse Johns,
Def. nil ant.
On hearing the bil( ar.d other exhibits in this
cause, it is ordered, that the plainlifi retain in his
hand and possession the negro slaves Critty and
tier child Malander, in the bill mentioned, 'until
the further order of this court, and that the plain
tiff b« served with a copy of this outer ; and it
appearing to the satisfaction of the court that, the
I defendant Jesse Johns is not an inhabitant of this
state, on motion of the plaintiff hy his counsel. It
it ordered, that the said dHrndant do eppes?
here on the first day of April Court next, and an
swer the hill of the plaintiff, or the same thaji
there be taken as confessed »n d the matters ♦ ) c:»
m decreed accordingly, and that a copy ®f this
order be forthwith inserted in some one of the
newspapers published in the city of fiichmo d
for two moths successively and posted at tlie
front door of the courthouse of this county,
A Copy. Teste,
CHRISTOPHER WOODSON, p. c «; c
January Jii. %»***,