The enquirer — Richmond, Va., 1810-02-01 00:00:00, page 3

this. T1 c former vessel, on her outward bound
passage to ibe Braids, fell in with mii Mrmed
l uikish vessel,cruising olf the Cape de Verdi.
She haled the Thomas Wilson—and while capt
C *rtlner was preparing his boat to go on board,
li.cd a whole broadside into tin; Tlmmas Wil
son. The Tuik continued liiing for several
hours, until ' hu ship got out of hi- reach by su
perior sailing, capt. tb. w-s so near him at one
ton-, licit l.e perceived men women and chil
dren, with i!> ':»• Turkish dress on. The pirate]
appealed to be pierced for 16 or 20 guns, and
lull of into. I advise you to can ton our ship
masters and owners, as this Turkish vessel is
cruising ill the li a. k oi our out ward hound i£asi
India amps.
‘‘ V es .‘‘s arriving here labour under conside
rable difficulty in procuring cargoes—after ma
ny petition :, lading licenses are generally given
Tne best informed people here,however,cu’.cu
late tliat this p.»;t will be open to all trade short
ly No news fiom the interior.
You will find below the price current of cli
the articles which Americans purchase, jnk
beefexcepted I can give you ii-i certain infor
mation respecting Anieiicsn produce, ;.js we are
here in b dlast ) only that it is in great demand,
and if it can be smuggled on shore, fitches a
price.
“ Spaniek l*roduce—Copper, per hundred, 16
dols. 25 cents ; tallow, 10 ; ox hides, 7 50; horse
hides, each, bj cents ; jesuds bulk, p^r lb. 1
So.**
Boston, January 16.
Sch’r Oriental, captain Rattan, arrived
, at Marblehead on Saturday last from Lis
ten.—Sailed IJtc. 3—Reports, that a Spa
nish army had been defeated, losing 5006
killed and wounded, and 11,000 taken pri
soners; and fears of a French visit had re
vived at Lisbon.-Spoke a brig from Cas
tine for the-West Indies.
Accounts from Liverpool, to Nov. 27,
mention, that British manufactures were in
quick, demand for exportation to the conti
nent. Upland cotton 21 to22d; N. Orleans
22d to 23d ; Hour 58s per Lbl; pot ashes 55s
per c; pearls C2s.
Providence, January 13.
SOU l II AMERICA.—A letter from a
geutieman on board ship George, and Mary,
capt Bucklin, of this port, to the editor, da
ted Buenos Ayres, Oct. 9, says, “ We arri
ved here on the 25th uit. after a passage ot
eight days from Rio Janeiio, all well. This
poit, which has been heretofore shut, will,
we understand, be opened to-morrow. A
number of American vessels are waiting the
result. On tne 4th inst. a sud accident hap
pencil here; during a violent pumpuro
( qual!) the sail boat of an English ship, i:»
coming off front the shore, having on board
the captain and seven others, was upset, and
all on board unfortunutely perished. One
of the bodies hao since floated on shore.”
From the Boston lit pertory.
REPORT OF THE TRIAL.
Commonweal/h v. Treasurer Skisseh.
The supreme court, now holden in the
town by Judge Parker, was occupied several
days last week in the trial of the causes of
the commonwealth vs. the bondsmen of the
late treasurer Skinner. These causes were
conducted by the Solicitor General for the
commonwealth ; and by Mr. Morton, Mr.
Dexter, Mr. Blake and Mr. Story for the
sureties.—In the case against the estate of
the late treasurer, a motion .vas made for
a continuance, by Mr. Dana, ttne ot the ad
ministrators, upon the ground, that there is
a large demand against the estates, made
by the United States for Ulr. Skinner's de
faults in his late office of marshal of this
district; and that the United Ututes have
u/irior claim upon the property which t,as
been attached in this suit for the security
of the commonwealth. It will doubtless be
a great addition to the “ pride and plea
sure” of those gentlemen (particularly his
sureties,) who tn.ust an honest man out of
office, and put a swindler in his place, that
at the time they delivered the krys of the
treasury to this swindler, he had actually
defrauded the United States to the amount
ot between seven ami eight thousand del
lars!
The bonds both for the first and second
year of Mr. Skinner’s appointment as trea
surer, were putin s it by order of the late
Govern >r and council — In the actions ..pon
the bond for the first yea.*, the sureties plead
ed a performance ot all the conditions of
the bond—To this plea the Solicitor Genera!
replied, that during that year, Mr. Skinner
rtceived upwards of sixty eight thousand
, dulluis in tile bank bills oi the Boston and
, Union bank, which he had wasted and un
lawfully disposed of to hi* own use. To this
replication ihi-re was a rejoinder, that he
did iu>i waste the notes or convert them to
Ins own use.—Upon this issue one of the cau
ses was submitted to the jury, and upon the
testimony of the officers of the banks and of
the treasury, the facts both of receiving and
in wasting this property were fully proved;
and the jury utter a short conference agreed
upon a verdict in favor of the common
wealth.
id me actions upon the bond, for tiie se.
c<md year of Mr. Skinner’s treasuryship,
^ the sureties also pleaded a performance of
all the conditions of the bond—Towhicli the
Solicitor General replied, that at tiie time
Mr. Skinner went out of office, there was a
balance ri.ie the g vernment, from him as
treasurer, of 71 VoOdollars, which lie had
never paid, over to bis successor—Upon
this fact, (which was proved by the gentle
men who adjusted the balance in Mr. Skiu
ner’s presence,) issue was joined Ami as
there was no pretence that this balance had
been paid, the jury gave a verdict in favor
of the commonwealth, without leaving rl eir
seats.— 1 he forfeiture of budi bonds is ci.her
found by the jury, or confessed by the sure
s ties io all the actions against the sureties —
and they will be heard in chancery, for tl e
purpose of liquidating the sums to he reco
vcred by the government upon both bonds ;
and also upon unother question interesting
only to the sureties, viz: how much shall
be recovered up m the first, and how much
upon the second bond ■ - • -The sureties upon
tin- second bond w i: 1 contend, that as the
chief of the money was embezzeled during
the first year. Hie sureties upon tiie bond lot
that year ought to bear the loss.
In the trial upon the first bond, it was
proved that from J ily 1805, to May 18or,
Air. Si.inner had drawn checks m favor oI
hi* son 1'ohimmi >S. Skinner, jr. in round
sums from one t" live thousand dollars, upon
i.u Boston and Union if.inks to the amount
aj £/ "J.0uO ! I liac Iliu m decks were paid
to young Skinner, in tin- bills of the Boston
» nd I nion hanks-th.it not a dollar of thi>
immense su.n was ever received into, tit
paid out of the treasury ~a~.eh.it all the do
nihiids up. n the lit.i*iiiy during that year
p>; i e j/uiu in country bank bills, excepting
a tew sums n •’ cxr.et dog y*,o0, tii.it no ac
count eiliicr o' the checks nr of llie momj)
ibbViVwu .-ua .~c.*i appeared eith.r ui Mr
Skinner’s official check hook, or in his day
book or journal-'bat there was money e~
nougti in the treasury in the hills of the
country banks, to pay the current demands
upon tiie government, and that no H *s»m»
money was paid out of the treasury for that
year excepting for interest upon the state
debt, and the salaries of public officers, m
which cases the checks were drawn in the
n imes of, and paid to, the individuals to
whom the money belonged.
Extract of a letter dated onboard the Pcnvnue Cut
'rr, (id G'een. St. Alary'* Jlroir, J’-att bloti
•la, lib ffun. imt. received at thii office.
“Sin-e our arrival here, in 5 days from ;he Del
aware, on one of which we were UcatmeJ, we
have seized one ship, one brig, and one sloop,
for a breach of the lion intercourse law. This is
a complete rendezvous lor ail vnug.'l-rs, runs
wavs, Sec. &c. We expect a brig und sclioom r
out from Amelia harbor, which we shall st.iz
f.r putting cargoes on board British vessels, of
which there are nearly 87 sail lying in Amelia
harbor.”—Dclavturc Watchman
T tt 0 M T H K AURORA.
THE NATIONAL STANDARD.
TO THE /‘EOTEE.
I am now to prove that no favor.ibie change
m our foreign relations can be expected, o
ther than such as our own energy may pro
dure. 1 he necessity of supporting this po
sition will not be set n by those who regard
the present stateof things with complacence
al least, if not with content—the modern So
lomonv, whose Ophir lies in the nortli, hut
who wi ,i their cargoes from Tomiingen,
have not nr< light the wisdom that was asso
ciaied with the ancient trade—the smallest
amount of that precious article in their in
' ° ces would have taught them the vanity
ol this feeble resource-it is in vain that
we turn our eves from the immense extent
of country, which we are forbidden to ap
proach, and fix them with delight on the few
frozen spots where our fugitive fl *g is per
mitted for a moment to fly. While I am
writing, we are deprived even of this wretch •
ed con . > bit ion-the powers of the north
ate. one after the other, joining the general
confederacy--their ports are successively
closing on our commerce, and it is not im
probable, that the same paper which prints
this add -ess, may announce ;i general block
ade of Europe, We may then skulk among
the Moors of the Mediterr /.can in search
of a market-nr after making the circuit
of Europe, from Constantinople to St. I’e
tersburgh, looking in vain for upon, where
the English orders or the French decrees
are not in f. rce--our ships may. if they
escape capture, be permitted to enter the
port of Liverpool, to sell their cargoes to the
English at their own price-and furnish
by impressment their quota of men, to the
navy that “ fights the battles of the world.”
Fherc are some I believe, who are not suf
ficient adepts in political optimism to think
this the best of ail possible situations, and
they will pursue with some anxiety the
enquiry into the probability of its continu
ance.
If we judge of the future from the past,
the conduct of the belligerents must con
\ince us, that anv alteration which may be
expected, is not for the better. Their mea
sures with respect to neutrals, present a
series of unprincipled acts of violence ami
h ands-interrupted it is true on the side
of France, by some intervals, during which a
sense of justice seems to have predominated
-but on the part of Britain, followed up
by progressive restrictions, evincing a close
long labored system of hostility, which they
have scarcely attempted to conceal.
The manufacturing and the shipping in
terests in England divide* the attention of
the government—to the cnc we are an ex
cellent customer, to the other a formidable
rival. And as they have alternately prevail
ed in the cabinet, some slight fluctuations
have been p.-rceived in their conduct to
wardens. But from the time of the liussian
convention. (1793) to the present day, Eng
land has never ceased to declare i.er right
of malting neutral commerce subservient’to
her political views or mercantile speculati
ons-and continual acts of violence, have
been the practical commentary on the theo
ry of her text Sometimes indeed the fear of
losing our market, or the pressure of misfor
tune, have induced a shortj- suspension, or
a slight variety in de? form of their decrees
——we have been indulged with the change ;
of a proclamation for an order in council, and
gratified by the substitution of u general
blockade, for “additional instrur.tio is all
the variations have been played on these
several instruments fur our amusement—but
the burthen of tile song is ever the same, it
was first chauntr.'i to the unoffending repub
lie o. Genoa by Drake, ami has sinew been
sung con stre/iilu, by his worthy compeer
at Copenhagen, with mi accompaniment of
British cannon, and Congreve rockets, of
dying groans and the shrieks or female ties
pair—-and in the peaceable streets, on the
lofty spires of a friendly city, it was writlt ii
in characters of fire and of blood, that “ xo
NEUTRALS WILL DE SUE FEltEP BY Kh’O
LA N D.”±
I confess too, however, illiberal it may
!sec*m, that I perceive no evidence of a fa
j vorahie change in the character of the minis
j ter who has been employed.—When they
rcHect that an assassin was chosen to pro
j nounce this sentence to the Genoese, what
have the Americans to augur from theselcc
i tion of an-$ to he the messenger of
peace to them. “ But England will not
!treat us as she has done the Danes_with
* lhe landed interest may with firo/irie
\ ly be omitted ; it is only considered when
burthens are to be laid for the su/ifiorc of
\thc other two. See the statement* made at
one of the Westminster meetings, a farm in
bringing 16Ol.fiay.i luxes to the amount of
jl 58/.// '
| f j1 memorable instance in the history of
Jay's treuty—by that instrument the orders
injurious to our trade were *u/i/iosed to be
a ' rogatrd—by the time it was stt/i/iosed in
ling/und to have retained in . Jnirncn, the
provision order oj May, 1T9J,was issued !
\ Drake's letter to the (Icnoesr.
§ I had inserted an e/iithet in this blank
which might have been deemed harsh_
: " Mr. ./. only obeyed his instructions." I
i have no doubt of it—* But when the action
i ! detestable, is the voluntary agent more ex
| disable than the Jirinci/iai one ? has also in
I j st rue lions for his la'e indeesrous behavior,
i but will taut su/i/irt as the /mblic sentiment ?
> officers of Charles the IX had •• in
structions”for the massacre of bit Barthol
omews, yet the noble Crillon is not the It s*
, admired for having dared to disobey them.
i f fxt! indulgence to the actual /ie:/ie tutors
of fiublic crimes would'at least embarrass
the contrivers tf than in the choice f their
• instrument.*
them she had no connection, witnus sheItas
the Closest ofall ties, a comiiiumtv of mail-'
ners, of language, of laws, a common inter
est, and :t mast uncommon maternal tender
ness.” \ es, no d>'Uht the last of ttlese cir
Constances will induce her to look back
with pleasure.to the period of our revoluti
on—the remembrance of her generals de
feated, her armies captured, her arms dis
graced, must enduai us greatly to her gov
ernment—rsue must view with veret pride
our increase in population and wealth, and
it is quite natural that she should foster the
commerce and promote the prospersty of so
promisingachild Ridiculous as these con
siderations are, they yet have weight with
some men of full age. when repeated by the
half Hedged fustian ambassadors from Man
chester, or the brazen envoys fi om Binning
hum.
But if lier uniform course of conduct fails
to persuade, at least let us believe the ex
plicit declarations of Britain, as to the treat
merit we have to expect, it will cert inly be
not more favorable than she promises. If
.\lr. Jackson could have induced our cabinet
to s’gti the certificate of their own infamy,
by acknowledging that they hau fraudulently
induced Mr. Icrskine to make an unan
tnorised stipulation— 'l he could have made
us surrender all our neutral rights, and ac
cept the odious eoi ditions in regard to the
atom ineutfor the attack on the Chesapeake
—tlieie is little reason to doubt that a treaty
•night have been formed on this basis—But
when he discovert d that the indecorous Ian
£u:»:j~ ue had used, and in which he was
no doubt instructed to persevere, must break
ofl the negociutiun—lie then began to recede
from the ground which lie had formerly
maintained ; to abandon conditions on which
ne. had beiore insisted, and to equivocate on
the verbal communications he v.ad before
made—'ne did this with the obvious view of
persuading the American people, that punc
tilio, not substance, hud niuae the breach
between the two nations—he wished to hide
as many of the offensive features of his pro
posuls us was possible, and by an affected
earnestness to renew the negneirftion, and a
display ol moderation in his terms, to fur
■•i»h the apologists of Britain with weapons
ug «iust their own government.
Yet with this object manifestly in view,
which must have induced him to display the
most acceptable terms in his power to offer,
let us hear his language, and from it judge
what we have to expect. The points of dis
cussion were—the aggressions on our neutral
rights—the affair (as it is mildly ca.tcd) of
the Chesapeake—and ilie impressment of our
seamen—with the two first wtre necessarily
involved the disavowal of Mr. Erskine’sar
rangement: utter a sullen silenr.e on this
important point, we have at length a reluc
tant ungracious statement of the reason, for
that faithless act. They were first stated
to be simply “because the instructions were
not complied with.”
\\ Hat were these instructions f That the
orders in council were not only to be revo
Led on our formal agreement to relinquish
the coiuni »1 trade, and to permit the British
navy to enforce our laws—being advised
that the nation would not submit to these
degrading terms, he was induced, as I have
said, to put the failure of his negotiation on
another point—for this purpose lie auk
wardly shifts his ground, and confesses Unit
h s majesty disavowed the at rangement of
Air. Hr.sk ine, because it did not contain three
conditions, of which one had been complied
with,and the other two were us he him
self says, perfectly immaterial-for fear,
however, that our government in their de
sire to preserve peace, might be induced
to take advantage ot the admission, close
with him on this ground, and forget his in
suit-ne takes care to repeat it in this let
ter, and at the same time to tell us_“ It
is unquestionably true, that before the or
ders in council can be revoked, their object
must be obtained in si.ine oilier way.”_
What was their object ? In terms, the in.
terdiotion of all kinds of commerce between
us and the enemies of Britain, iliat is tosay,
all the rest of Europe—:-in firactice, flic'
monopoly of that t rade to those very en emies
by Britain herself
On the second point he is equally explicit;
in the same letter we m e mkl that the t ea
son why Mr. Erskine was disavowed on
this subject, was because he hail deviated
110111 his instructions in “ not lecording in
the official document signed here, the revo
cation of the President’s proclamation, us
Me* / as the two reserves specified in his
(Mr. Jackson’s) latter of the 27th.” These
reserves were—
1st. That his majesty after restoring the
men taken from the Cher -peake, should
have a right to claim the discharge of sucii
ut them as should be proved to be either uu
turnl born subjects of his majesty, or deser
ters from his service.
2d. 1 iiat the families of no person of the
above description, who were slain, should be
end led to any provision.
Here then you are placed, my fellow citi
iii ns. in a situation toanswer my first enqui
i v—What probability there is of a fuvora
u.c change in our foreign relations ?
One of the belligerents here tells us ex
plicitly the manner in which she is determi
ned to treat us.-It is um/uestionably
true, she says, that you shall traac with no
oilier nation but with me, and with me only
under such restrictions, and on the payment
ot such duties, as 1 shall chuse to impose._
I will carry to my enemies those very sup
plies in which I forbid you todeal, that I
may shew to the world that I cannot •• Con
descend to barter objects of national policy
(and dignity for permission to trade with an
| other country,” and “ to convince Europe
1 «mil America that from whatever countries
manly resistance is banished, it is slid to be
I found in the sovereign of the British empire
and the hearts of his subjects.”_Wlial
can be expected Irorn a nation that applies
such language to such conduct— that meanly
monopolises a sneaking, peddling, smuggling
-l ade with her own tuemics, and calls it the
support of “ national dignity” and “ honor
fiblc manly resistance i" To suppose lh.it
our cabinet or our country could be imposed
on by this rhodomontade, is an additional
insult to our understandings; die languai'r
it speaks to our interests, let thejnerchami
1 d. But if those gentlemen should be hap
1 ;»/ envugh to find matter for consolation ii
[ die lair prospects here, offered to our trail*
j —let us see how the account stands on tin
I other items.
A trigaie of ihe United States is ordered
• i a distant and important service_unsus
I' ‘ >°tis of attack, and consequently uupre
pared fwr defence, site sails to.perform it
'n in the sai ciuary of the same pot t she ii
accompanied by a Hiitish vr* «.:l of stiperim
>otcc—after an insulting demand, a murder
ms. a cowardly attack, is made—number
■ ‘V.Juckson'* /tiler 1 th November
i l.ay.
>'
* .!*’•»* I . \ _ t ,
ot our unresisting countrymen are massacred,
others are carried off, ot whom one has
suffered an ignominious death, and the sur
vivors are still detaiiud and forced iacotnc
service of the aggressors. The vcsstl by
which this exploit was performed quietly
returns to her station in our haroois, audit
proclamation prohibiting this abuse of our
hospitality u insolently disregatdi.fi—this is
i wn.it in the courtly l anguage of diplomacy,
j is c;.lied the affair of the Chesapeake—r.t
I the time, it was known by its true name,
and the foul mukdkk, the cowakdly
auukkssion, excited an indignation that
was with difficulty suppressed. Your mi
nister was instructed that this “enormity
was not a subject of discus .ion”- nil “ a
formal disavowal of the deed anil restoration
ot the seamen, wcie things of course and in
dit-punsible”—that “all negocimiononother
points should be suspended until satisfaction I
should be pledged fur this”-and tliAt“ if
satisfaction should he refused, he should
t;.Le measures to hasten home all American
vessels,” to provide against the event of a
war. which was in that ease considered as
unavoidable, the nation was electrified by
the stroke, anil pronounced iim-'qui vocally
its determination to wash cut the insult in the
blood of the aggressors.
A1 «-r sending one minister to arrange
f/ifu affair, who came without powers, after’
disavowing the arrangement made by aim
tlier, a third is now sent, who has the har
dihood to think, that we can now patiently
hear the Conditions oil which atonement is to
*.e made. .
f* irst. V\ e are to apologize for having
flared to exclude Ids majesM’s ships from
these shores, tilt; had p< fluted with the
bloctl of our countrymen, and we must re
cord this mean dereliction of principle, in
the act of arrangement.
Secondly. 1 lie survivors of those whom
slaughter, the gibbet,or the scourge of their
tyrants has spared, shall be graciously res
tored to us -provided we’ll only promise
to re deliver them the next moment, when
they shall be demanded as natural burn snb
jects of iiis majesty’, or dcsertets from his
service. “ National born subjects!” Eve
ry American who fought for your indepen
deuce—every Englishman, who has settled
here since to enjoy it, come under this
description-and the atonement offered
f.;r the blood of your countrymen must be
bought, by surrendering men tp whom you
have plighted your faith for protection, anti
calling indoubt the allegiance even of jour
President ,himself. “ Deserters from his
service!” insolence unequalled, unparal
Ivied effrontery ! Inhuman, insulting irony !
The government which had the audacity to
propose tiiis condition to ours, had been of
iicially told, that these unfortunate men
were nati-vp Americana, that they had
been im/iresaid into the British service,
that they had escaped and taken refuge un
dcr the Rag ot their country'.—And they have
now, (I want a word to expsess their un
blushing audacity,) to propose—that we
shall call this escape a desertion, that we
shall meanly recover our fellow-citizens, and
after tantalizing them with a view of their
nativ e shore, and momentary freedom from
slavery, treacherously deliver them to the
vengeance of their oppressors; that we shall
mark our own front with the- brand of diS
honor, and purchase nominal reparation by
voluntary degradation anil eternal infamy.
i hese are the terms that are offered you,
. my countrymen! Are you prepared to ac
cept them f Do they present the prospect
| of a favorable change ? Ur do you blush
I at having heard, and feel degraded in think
ing, that even your enemy should have sup
posed you capable of receiving them f
| V INDEX.
f<EI)e inquirer.
RICHMOND, FEBRUARY 1,1810
TO THE EDITCK.
Sjjj,
For the examination, and if youplease,
admiration of yourself and all other En
quirers, 1 send a waistcoat pattern, a
sample from the domestic manufactory of
Airs, li ll. of Dumfries, Virginia.
E 'he fine taste & genius of this amiable if
truly accomplished Lady, added to the lauda
ble ambition to excel, has already effected the
respectable degree of advancement in the
i art, trade and mystery of spitting, dying c5*
weaving, of which this article is a sped•
I men.
'Fhc. skill thus acquired, is by Airs. G. not
i only imparted to all her domestics, but
taught to a number of young female appren
tices, who are by her educating ('tis hoped)
to much future usefulness.
Lend your pen to laud the praise of such,
and make (he press preach like merit into
1fashion : Thereby will yon deserve well of
your country, •* and interalsus,” receive
the plaudits of your ob'i servant,
J. P.
37' This handsome piece of work, in imi
tation of Swunsdomn, may be seen at this
Office—along with a specimen, made from
the wool of native sheep, and spun and too
ven by a Virginian.
Yesterday, the Assembly of Virginia pro
needed to the election of a Judge of the Cie
| neral Court, to supply the vacancy occasion
ed by the death of Judge I'reiitu—— Jama
Semple, Jisq. was elected.
• a*-■■-!* I. 'I — ■
'g^EN DOLLARS REWARD-Strayei
I from the Haughlie plmtation on Jume
River, near four mile creek, chi the lGth uit.
a SORREL MARE, 1G hands high, Dor ll
years old, bl../.:-d face, goca well in harness, am
x natural trotter. Also, a Chickasaw, dun co
loured horse, about the age and size of the mare
rather lighter Colour on the face, wont* w< ll
ami is a tolerable good saddle horse. The
were lately brought from Tuckomun, in Kii)
William, and may be found that way, or betwcei
tins and the extremity of Hanover.
Whoever returns them, or eitlivr of them, sha!
be proportional)!/ lewarded, as above, by lit.
subscriber.
WM : PROSSER.
Haughlie, Feb. 1. %*\
I'-liN DOU.AKS UKW Alt I) —Strayed <>
«■ stolen near tlie mark* t house in Kiel;
mond, on the night of the 2yth in«t. (January,
» I kely dark bay waggon horse, eight year
old, about five feet high, is in good order, am
the hair a little rubbed off with the traces,
will give a reward often dollars to any psrsoi
that will deliver aaul horie to Mr. Samuel vVhit
>f Itichmond, or to me in the County of Cum
•ci IhikI. Whoaot v r will deliver me the thic!
v,if stolen.) for punialmumt, ahall receive a re
ward fjf JO dollars.
N. 1). t Ip s blind in the right eye, and a notei
car on tins left tump.
• MATHt. LANCA.STEU.
! Feb. 1. «4;f
MARSHAL’S SALKS.
1 "O Y virtue of a decree of the com t of llie*!/- j
-t-e nitrd States for the hfji circuit the Vir
l?'*ti» District, pronounced ori the 'Jrth d v of
November, one thousand eight hundred and nme,
in tire name ot the United States., plaintiia, «.
gainst Thomas Muse and Elliott Muse. heirs j»u»l
devisees of Hudson Muse, deceased, defendants,
in Chancery : \v:!l be sold fur itady inonr y, oil
the premises, on tf*e 2dth iluy of February next,
if Dir. it not, the next fair day, the several tracts
of JLAA'J) lying in die county of Middlesex, viz.
Eight hundred and fifty acres of Land tailed
llamstead or-ll»nin-u.ul Tract; another tract
containing twamtndred and fifty two & three 4tha
ot an acre,caticd Bachelor’s, a small tract called
Bali’s, containing twenty five acres, and' a Mill
Seat called. 11 a instead Mill 8cut, of which LmuD
the Saul Hudson Muse died seized, to raise cer
•*"» sums of money in said deerte mentioned. 1
The sale will commence at the mill s- at first, and
be continued until the sale is complied.
WILLIAM ' I ANN, D. M.
r o .
JOSEPH SCO FT, M. V. I). /.
January Z7. (Feb. 1), 1810. 2:tw3w /
F INTEND to remove nut of the state in the
j! course of a few vtetUa. |
B. PAKKER.
Cumberland Countv, F»-l» 1. w3i<|i
f ,'or sale— the cottage — The «ub- ,
jt scribvr oilers tor .sale that In auutiil SEAT,
romantically situated in Richmond at Rockctl’a
landing—there is on the lot a new Dwelling
House well finished, and every necessary out
hrnisu', also new j the Lot is well enclosed aiul
handsomely improved ; the situation is high and
any, having a view of the greater part of the
city of Richmond, tit* falls and bridge, the '.own
of Manchester, ar.d every vessel that comes into
the harbor Few places can he found possessing
so deiightlul a prospect—tbs terms can be known
by applying to Mr John L. West, Rocketts, (the
title is unquestionable) or applying Iq
STEPHEN A. HOPKINS.
Cobham, Surry County, Feb. 1. opjf
r S AKfc'.N up hy Daniel Trabue uf Chester
A field county, on hi* mill plantation on
Falling creek, near the coal pitts. « smaii bl inded
[STEER, about two years old, m:uke<! with a
smooth crop in the right ear, and a half crop and
underkeel in the left ear, and appraised to seven
dollars : N&vemlx-r l*t, 1809.
A Copv. Teste,
PARKE POINDEXTER, d; c.
February 1. wSvvfl
VALUAI1LE PROPERTY FOR SAL*.—
In pursuance of a decree of the Circuit
Court of the United States, in the Virginia Dis
trict, pronoun*, ed at the last session of that court,
in the suits I here depending betwen Wm. Kunkall
ot Co. plaintiffs, against Thomas M. DeS.ne and
others, defendants, and between Scriba Scrophal
and Starinnn, plaintiffs, and the same defendants :
Will he exnoscd to sale, at auction, at Caira, in
the county of Cumberland, on Thursday the 15th j
of February next, that valuable MERCHANT
MILL usually called t'oe Ctiira '>hlls—Tobacco
Warehouse, Tavern, and other Lots of Ground
at that place—Also, ail the Lands at or near Ca
ira, (consisting of 2000 acres and upwards)
which belonged to Janies Deane, Thomas M.
j Deane fc F -uicis U Deane or to either of them,
on the 20th day of March, 1801.—Terms o€
'sale—Ten per cent on the amount of the pur
| chases to be paid in casli ; a credit of one, two
and three years for the residue of the purchase
! money, to hear interest from the d-y of sale,
I the purchaser or purchasers giving hoods with
! security, to be approved by the undersigned com
| missioners, or the one that may act, and also ex
ecuting a deed of trust upon the property so
purchased, for securing the payment thereof at
, the periods aforesaid.
Previous to the d iy of sale the I.and will be
di < ided into convenient lots to suit purchasers. I
C. COPLAND, ) Comwiiti
\V. C. WILLIAMS, S oner*.
j December 30.
N. B. The sale above mentioned is postponed
till the 27th of August, at which time it will take
plane.
I February 1. wtds
- N CHANCERY.— In Cites*nriicld County
Jl Court, November 13th, lrijy.
Thomas Smith, Plaint if, vs. Stephen E'.um
anti Judith Bass, Defendants.
This day came the plaintiff by James Robert
son, jr. esquire, his attorney, audit appearing to -
the satisfaction of the couit, that the defendant
Elam is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth,
j ll is oidered, that the said Elam do enter bis ,ip
i pearance in this suit on or before the second
1 Monday in January next and give security for
performing such decree as the court may here
after make in the premises : Kit further order
I etl, that the defendant Bass, out of the effects in
her hands belonging to the defendant Elam, do
retain sufficient to satisfy to the plaintiff’the sum
of £ 9 d; cjd with * ix per c*/nt interest thereon
. from the 8th day of January 1807, until paid, umL
j $5 9 B8cts. costs, and also the costs of this suit,
i arid that a copy of this order lie published in some
newspaper in the city of Richmond for two months
1 successively, and at the front door of the court'
bouse of this county.
.1 A Copy. Tes«e,
P. POINDEXTER, o. c.
December 16. wSw
! I N CHANCERY.— At a Court held for Cum
• t bcrland County, the 2~th day of November
1609.
William Moore Sc Mary his wife, Plaintiffs—
Against John Hudson, Henry Mot sc Hudson,
Thomas Hudson, Francis Hudson, William Hud
son, Samuel Hudson, Win. Tavlor and Rebecca
his wi i", and John Hallow and Elizabeth his wife,
legal representativ a of Will,am Hudson, de
ceased
This day came the plaintiffs l»y their attorney,
and it appearing to the satisfaction of the cotuC
that two of the defendants, Henry Mooic lfud*
, son and Francis Hudson, are not inhabitants of
this state, on the motion of the plaintiffs fiy their
counsel, It is ordered, that tho said defendants do
* appear here on the first day of February term
> next and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, or tlu
> same shall then be taken a* confessed, and the
l matter thereof decreed accordingly and that a
■ copy of tliis order he forthwith inserted in some
p one of the newspapers pnbfdicil in the city of
Richmond, arid posted at the front door of thef
court-house of this county.
’ A Copy, Attest,
' MIL A/. R WOO DSOX, jr. I). C. C. C.
; December 9. w2m
VIKGINi V —June General Court, 1H08.
'Flic Commonwealth, against Josiah M'«
Clenegen, Def’t—upon an adjourned Case from
the District Court, li^hl at Margin Town.
'I he Court arn unanimously of opinion that
r wh^re an indictment or pre#< ntment is found hy
. a Grand Jury against any person far a misdemea
J nor, to which the law has r.fiixed an infamous or
i corporal punishment, that the court before whom
I such presentment or indictment is found, may
I in its disciction award a Capi ta in the first in
stance, and that upon indictments and present
e ments of an inferior nature, such Court ougnt,
after two Venire Facias’s have been returned
, not round, to award a Capias.
It is therefore ordered, that it hr certified to
the Morgan Town District Court, that a Capita
1 ought to he awarded m this cue.
l’ublislicil by order of court, Nov. 1809.
' ICY TUN DitfiW, C G C.
| January 10.