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H wards Cadttj and that tbe inhabitants of
V that place were in high spirit*, '8c undeF
r no apprehensions of being obliged to sur*
render to the French. / f'\ * •]
We further learn, that the Seveh Ca
nary Islands were immediately to be pla.
ced under the Vice Royalty ol the Duke
del Parque, who with a number of troops,
were hourly expe&ed at Santa Crus.
It is further added by our informant, that
*o much were the inhabitants incensed
against the French at Port Oratavia, Be the
• upper town, that they had embodied and
threatened to Massacre all they could'
find; and that two respectable French in.
, habitants of the place had been put to
death by the populace. About IOO of the
regular troops came over From St. Crus
and quelled the rioters:
Extract--of a letter from a commercial
House of the first respectability, dated
Liverpool, May 25, 1810. ’
“ We are informed that Mr Pinkney is
at* length in possession of the Flinch De
. f cren. by which all American property is
sequestrated, as likewise the imperative or.
der for all citizens of the United States to
quit the French territories will tout delay^
under pain of imprisonment, v This decree j
was passed as far back as the 23d of March
hut not published. untit the 8th of May.
It is transmitted to all the Northern Pow.
ers for their adoption.” .v. J
An article* under the Portsmouth head
of May 19, statue, “ That a cartel has just
arrived in three days from Morlaix, ad.
vising, that Bonaparte was enraged at the
Americans, that he bad ordered them all
out of the country, on pain of confiscation
and imprisonment.”
--
A letter received in Boston from Liver,
pocl* of date of May 21, repeats the a.
bove rumour, with this addition_That the
report wad-stated to be grounded no a De
cree, published by Bonaparte, in which A
Sicric&DS were ordered to quit thecouhiry
immediately, on pain of imprisonment and
the confiscation of their property.
New-York, July 11.
FROM TENERIFFE.
By the schooner Weymouth, from
Teneriffe, we learn, that two Spanish
and one British 74, and a transport,
had arrived at St. Cruz, with 800
French prisoners of war from Cadiz.
Several other French prisoners were
in the upper town of Oratavo j and the
lower order of the inhabitants in the
port of Oratavo collected in a large
body for the purpose of going to the
upper town to murder them, but were
prevented by the magistracy and the
higher cla$3 of citizens. Two old in
habitants were killed before the insur
rection could be quelled. About 100
of the regular troops came over from
Sc. Cruz.
New Yob*, Iu!y 1$.
Ticket No. 1549, drawn on the fifty-se
venth day of drawing, this capital price
of g 10,000, was sold by G. k R. Waite,
at their truly fortunate Lottery Office in
Maiden*lane, to a gentleman in Hart
ford, (Con.) as were also sold, in the pre
sent lottery, at G. k R. Waite's Office,
No's. 6107, a price of £ 5000, and 15269,
a prize °f 8 2000, to a gentleman in this
city—-being- two of the highest prises t!*it
remained in the city in the present lotte
ry.
ruiLADELPnl A, JUly 12.
Yesterday arrived brig Saunders Quail,
from Cadi* which he left the 39ih May,
and informs that the French are tre£\ing
batteries and advancing their woika at
Matagorda/ but had not opened them
when he sailed, neither had there been
any rencounter or sailie on either side
for some tjme previous to hi} sailing.—
On the I7lh and 25th of May'tvto of the
prison ships /an ashore in gales of wind
by which 6 or 700 French prisoners were
released, the boats of the British Men oi
war attempted to board them, ffrhile drif
ting and lake out the prisoners, but the
French men having got arms in tfui. hand*
kept them oft and killed 16 or 17 ol the
» English ; from which it is supposed that the
one on the 35th having 4 or 500 prison.
er4 taking the advantage of the gale, had
rose on their guards, seized their armsj
cut the cables and let her drift on shore*
the Frenchmen defended her till they were
all landed, when the British sat her or
fiie.
('apt. Quail informs that on the 20th
of May the Spanish mountaineers arinet
only with knives, daggers and cutlasset
poured dnvtn on the town of Chirua, (aboul
16 miles from the isle of Leon) garrison,
ed by a body of the French whom thej
routed and cut to pieces, hardly leaving *
man to tcII their nmtoriunes.
C'apt- Q. heard nothing of the battle it
Portugal or the evacuations of Madrid a<
reported yesterday via Charleston.
french Rambouillet Decree,The fol„
lowing Isa copy ot the French Decree no.
licert m the l.oodon Papers.
The last number of the Bulletin des Lois
contains an imperial decree,dated at Ham.
bouillet, the 23d March 1810, which
{taking Into consideration that the govern
mint of the United States has, by an ac
cf the 1st of March, 1809, ordeYed, 1
Thai from the 20th M«»y next, ensuing
vessels arriving in the United States, uni
der the Fret.eh flag, shall be seized ant
.confiscated, together with cargoes. S
That from the same period, no inerchan
disc, nor production ot' the soil, or nsanu
faetures ot France, or her colo.net, can b
0 imported into the ports of U. S from any fo
reign port whattover, under [ aVi ot seizurt
eorfiscatinn and penalty of Cnree time
the vsiue of the gaods. 3. That H vital
k
Of At
S 'TWrY
hot be law fid for Amerlcah VeKelt to pro,
ceed Mr any pore in her colonies,
or dependencies)—Decrees as follow—
"All vessels sailing under the Ameri
can Bag, and owned in who.e or in part,,
by any citizen or subject of that power,
that reckoning from the 20th May 1800,
may have already eatered, or ^bat shall
subsequently enter the «ports of France,
her colonies, or the territories occupied by
the Freoch armies, shall be seized and
; sold, and the produce of the sale Shall be
deposited in the Caiese D'Amoriubtioif.
From this provision are alone ekcepied
; such vessels as may Jhe charged with dis
patches, or fcsibmialico from the govern
ment of the U, States, and have no lading
or merchandize, on board.'
From the iT/v.-colum biaw.
FORENSIG ELOQUENCE.
The following speech of Counsellor
Sampson is recommended to the readers
as a high finished specimen of bar elo.
quence. ,
On the prosecution of James Cheethnm,
for a Libel on Madam Bonneville publish,
ed in his Life of Paine, the counsel for
the Libeller took two grounds of deteace t
1st* Thpt the fafcls charged were true.
*d.Th&'the defendant'was an historian,
and as such had a right to publish what
he had beard and believed, though it re.
fiefcl«i oh on innocent person. ; - * *
Tpe first position was. after a contertip1.
ible effort to support it,, abandoned even
by the Libeller's counsel. They were a.
shamed of it themselves* Several ladies
of the first distinction, whose daugh.ers
had been entrusted to the care otmadame
Bonneville to learn the French language,
appeared in court, and testified to the un.
blemished charafclcr of this much injured
female. ,
The counsellor for the libeller then had
recourse to their last ground, and strenu .
ousiy maintained i»e principle they had
laid down. They perhaps felt confidence
in the cdurlj as it hid -in an early stage
of the trial imitnateil an opinion favorable
to the new and extravagant pretension set|
up toy a libeller under the name of an big. |
torian. Nor was this confidence mispla
ced. -Mr Recorder Hoffman directed the
jury, that if they should be of opinion that
Mr Cheetham had been informed of What
he wrote, and believed it, he was justified,
and that tho* madame Bonneville was an
innocent woman, thry were authorised to
acquit Mr Cheetham. He also read the
letter of a man by the name of Carver,
as a justification of the libeller, though his
counsel had not mentioned it. .
This monstrous dottrine, which leads
to the total prostration of private reputa
tion, if not to the dissolution of civil suct
ety, was promptly rejected by the jury,
(although composed of men of different,
political seoiimenta) who returned in a
few minutes a verdict of guilty.
The. court, however, when the libclle;
came up the next day to receive bis aen
tcncc, highly commended the book which
, contained the libellous publication, declar.
ed that it tended to serve the cause of
religion, and impose no o.her punishment
on the libeller, than the payment of 150
dollars, with a direction that the costa bt
taken out of ill
Mr Recorder Hoffman does not belcfng
to what is called the Republican party id
America*
Mr Sampson rose, with a full knowledge
of the peculiar opinion of the eourtj and
addressed an independent jury, in the
speech which follows.
Mb. SAMPSON’S REPLY.
vjhntlemek of the Just,
The counsel who
closed the defence finished by cau< toning
you against the eloquent declamation oi
his adversaries, with what justice you c«n
judge, it scarcely became him to do so;
after he and hit colleague had added to
every pra&ical resource that skill 8c deep
finesse Could offer, a torrent of declaim*
tion, and a display of talent worthy a bet
ter cause. Far different is the track I shall
pursue t and little do they know me, who
suppose that I could in any thing imitate
m example so worthy to be shunned. It
wou d little profit the people in whose be*
half 1 now appear, or that injured lady in
1 <iefence of whose unsullied honor I stand
forward, to mix her claim w.ih any subject
foreign to her cause. The tattling lan.
guage of saucy eloquence, the loud autla
cious rant of boisterous words, would ill
i accord with the sad accents of woman’s
i tender sorrows) with those insiiuotions
she has given, which are commands to
me. If 1 could lay before you the silent
anguish of her grief worn soul, her woun
ded spirit, and her broken heart, I shuoln
be eloquent, and eloquent enough.
But who is be that can describe the
wounds that show net outwardly, but bleed
within, which art can never cicatrize not
time asiuage! Who can reJa e the tor
ments ol that moment when first she lelt
the stroke of sudden desolation, and found
the barbed arrow in her heart! She who
’ stood spotless before God and man. whr
never had m word or deed offended —
Who sought a refuge from further evil*
on your hospitable shores. Who had ir
. j this obeyed the counsel of htr lawful bus
, i band, and brought with herj as to a lane
' where law and justice reigned, one hail
of those dear infants whose love bound
them together by a common and irtutua
. *i*» a°d grappled their affections to a wea*
, life.
. Was it not enough to satiate this cru.
, el libeller, that lie had scattered far anc
i wide his venomed shalts through ail thn
1 ternticcl community f that he had carritc
discard, pain, ihd sorrow t6 every heart,
poisoned the C*f» of friendship, troubled
the social board and rioted in mischief i
that ha had spared no principle no party,
ao virtue nor no* friend*? but mutt a
wreched female, whose merit and mis*
fortune would command respifi from any
but a savage, whose modcsf life-and laud,
able endeavors to be u .eful were crown,
ed With approbation by those whose con
fidence Was to her and to the world a
stamp of sterling worth ; was she too to
be dragged from modest privacy, to make
a part of bis obscene and blasphemous his
tories ? to be coupled with the celebrity
of Thomis Paine, and in whatever coua.
try of the earth,, whatever distant ’ pe
riod of time yet to come, the searching
aye of curiosity, or the keener scent of
scandal fehould ha upon this work, which
he calls history, and I call villainy, cm.
blazoned as the guilty h'eromo of the odi
ous tale, the strumpet of one therein des
cribed to bo the foulest ahd the filthiest ot
men?
But what is alrauge to me, who am
not versed in secret history, who meddle
little with the hidden springs ofdfhers* it
lions, or the unseen motives that bring
mysterious things to light, is this, that
thlv man should find to justify this crime,
the eloquebt longues which so*very lately
bad depicted him as the most scurrilous J
and monstrous libeller that ever suffered 1
from offended justice. That any man '
could countenance such efts* I must la. j
ment; that honest men should do it with j
such zeal, I am pained to sfee. But what!
these honorable gentlemen have done,
is but perhaps a course which their pro.
fessioti warrants. Perhaps within them,
selves they are contea ed becau t they thuik
that white they'make a proud display of
talent, it is-impossible ‘cruel" success ot’
unjust vuSlorycan follow. So they .may
- vuu^vi^utpf^uui i mean
them well enough to think that in their
hearts thojr Would despise the Veidi&s
that Crowned their efforts,. .. .
I do not envy them th«jir cause, aL
though I feel hdw mltch it is more ea
sy and more light to spott with topics
when the heart is free, and where de
feat itself brings pleasure with it, than
to wield a cause in which to fail would
be to suIFer, not tho little mortification
of being vanquished in a game of skill,
but the deep and poignant dejection
that afflicts the honest mind, when
crime and insolence obtains a triumph
over humanity*
The confidence with which this
cause was opened to you, the bold eL
1 routery with which he who stands ac
; cused came forward in the sanctuary
pf the law to justify a now acknowledg
ed libel and a falsehood, by scandal
still more atrocious" and more bare
faced, with compurgatQis who, would
within but two ycars^past have spurn
ed him horn them, seemed to bespeak
what I shall never name.-The
thought is shocking to an honest mind ;
may heaven avert such shame from all
of us !
For me, I find all words so poor to
paint the sense I have of suph Injus
tice, that if I thought it possible that
this man’s confidence was grounded
in the favor of any of his judges, I
should resolve to sit me down, com,
mend the lady’s cause in silent prayer
to Heaven, and trust to him whose '
ways are merciful to compass her with
his benign protection. Indeed to him
alone she now must look for consola
tion, for man can give her little, and
reparation she can never have, nor
peac-e this side the grave. Already
has her sad celebrity flown to the fur
thest corner of the earth j already has
the wanton calumny reached those d;s„
tant triends whose kind remembrances
were all the balm fate had reserved
for her. She feels their anguish ad
ded to her own. She cannot name
the father of her children ; if she does
the thought is like lightning flashes on
her mind, that her once tender name
I is now reproachful. She cannot cast
I a look of mothers love upon her inno
tent infants, but the keen idea shoots
through her Soul, that they are stigma
tized in history with infamy and bas
tardy, blighted and blasted in their
dawn of life.
In every other grief than that which
this A is tor tan has inflicted on her, the
innocent find comfort; for innocence
in all other wrongs, against all other
Strokes of naan’s injustice or oppressi
on is an evenfold shield. Not so
where woman’s honor is assailed._
Suspicion there is worse than death it
self. It is that shame to which the
chaste l.ucretu, rather than seem con
senting, preferred to plunge a dagger
in her heart. It iS that for w hicb alone
the innocent wife of Caesar was iepu
diated. The man who dares attack
it, is of all other criminals the greatest.
If he be not a krai tor, it is for this a
lone, that he is worse. For many a
man has suffered as a traitor, whom
after ages have revered and honored.
But never was he who set his cloven
foot upon a woman’s honor worthy the
name of man.
[Here the defendant rose and claim
ed the protection of the court, not so
much wiih a desire to prevent the
I range of the ingenious counsel, as to
prevent the htterance of perSom!ittes,|
that it would not be thought piudfcot l
perhaps to repeat out of court.
Whilst the defendant was addrefcftnp
the court, the counsel calmly advanced
and taking a pinch of snuff, modestly
observed that what he was doing now
was in court* and what was to be done
out of court was not to be talked of
here;-Then pointing.to the defend
ant, ahd casting a significant look up
on hint, he proceeded.] ,. , ,
This unrighiheous man has by this
veky movement of his choler justified
all that I-can ever say. If he com
plains of personalities, he who is har
dened in every gross abuser he. who
lives reviling and reviled ; who might
construct himself a monument with no
materials but those records to which
he is a party and in Which he stands
enrolled as an offender. If he cannot
s it still to hear his accusation* hut calls
for the protection of the court against
a counsel totiose duty is to make his
crimes appear; how does she deserve
protection, whom he has driven.to .the
sad necessity of coming here to vin
dicate her honor fVom~those personal
ities which he has lavished on her ?
Did not his opening touQsel say be
fore you, that he could make the color
fade upon this lady’s cheek* and wish
that she might be in court to hear
him? regret that her own son was not
herd present to testify aga'idst her ?
Was rtot this monstrous personality?'
And when it is considerdd that be
fore this very cause drew near its
close, the other counsel of this same
defendant rose and told you, that they
admitted her character »$ was spotless,
and lor that reason that no reproach
was cast upon it, desire you to acquit
their innocent client, who is a mere
historian, who never could have 'ma
lice* wTio was more ready to rectify
■ his errors than others to observe
them.
But it is well, and I am glad that I
was interrupted ; for the very evil ge
nius that waits upon his life has here
for once worked to an honest end.
For whilst my voice was almost choak
with crowding tru.hs struggling for ut
terance, and whilst the swell ot honest
indignation rose even to suffocation,
he came forward and pointed my at
tention to that subject which first de
served rebuke.
I h'd said that in the catalogue of
crimes, none could be found more
base.than his. Not treason, for the
reasons I have given. Not murder—
lor he who murde:a li/e, murders all
sorrow with itj but he has doomed
this lady to days of sorrow and to lin
gering death. The pirate 'meets his
foe or seeks his prey when death or
danger stare him in the face; and
when he falls before the sword of jus*
ticc, some sympathy may mingle with
his shame, and men regret that one so
b>ave in manly enterprise should fall
so ignominiously. But here is an at*
tack upon a woman, far from her hus
band’s side, from friends and home,
whose infant sons areyg&too tender to
avenge their mothers wrongs. The
forger who counterfeits some instru.
ment to cheat you of your money, for
that crime spins out his wretched days
in hard captivity, in infamy and labor;
will you compare his crime with that
of one who by his fabricated histones,
pilfers from helpless woman the only
precious jewel which she prizes, her
...wic man me, ner all, her spotless ho.
nor? 1 hat which the robber or
the thief purloins, may be retrieved,
j or may be spared ; but not the worth
9* twenty thousand beings such as this
libeller, were he worth twenty thou
sand times as much as ever he will be,
reform how he may, would pay the
twenty thousandth part of that which
he has taken.
1 he libeller, who writes against
abuse o 1 unjust power, who vindi
cates the caase of liberty and right,
' when he exceeds through zeal for li
berty or through the warmth of oppo
sition, or even a stubborn spirit, is of
ten love*!, and sometimes, though
iounrl guilty, he still has friends that
honor and respect him. But thfe his*
torian who takes such pains to rake
up fiilth from every dirty and polluted
source, to make a history of which the
scandal may enhance the sale, is a
corrupt malicious slanderer, without
, one tircumtance that can excuse or
i paliate.
| I had almost forgot—it is set up as
his defence that he is an historian. It
j ** the first time that I ever heard a
rule of law so dangerous as that a ga
zetteer who strings a number of arti
cles togefher strewed up and down
in iormot communications, paragraph*,
and notes, that overrun his feeble text
) like brambles shooting across and up
| an<l down in some rank uncuitiva
j ted soil; that (bis man has any pri
vilege to libel name, snames fairer than
his own* Is it because his sheets me
stiched together in octavo form and
covered with some pasteboard, that
therefore he is privileged io sfftndcr ;
V
it would have been well, some davn n
got if his brother editors against whom
a- got damages for heing hi* historic
;nd calling him ti Briri'ih emissary,
had sold their works lujnrirds ; thJv
-might ihoat readily have faun I as mrt'
ny witnesses and lull as goed us'he h ,,
called to say, not that it was true, but
that they had inquired and were told
and verilv believed It. They might *
have said it first thcm*clvts, if t£ty "
had been can upt enough to do it
then^lrece)ved-it back again, and ;>ub
lished it as the • history, not of Tom
Paine, but ol thdt greater man who
rendered a wondrous benefit to suc
cumbing faith by putting him dhwu
alter the grave-digger had just put him
under ground*
(1To be Continued.)
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Booksellers tic Stationers, -
Adjoiningthe Market Bridge, Rich
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July 11th. 1910. lawlrn.
4 / n W /A A m _ ^ "
/\cres or JLand
FOR SALE,
On the waters of Seneca Creek, in the
county of Pendleton.
ON the 18lh ef neTtt month by virtue of
„ ,a deed ,n trust executed by Robert - .
Barclay, to secure the payment of tne su «
therein ment«o»»ed, to Hid,artl G tines, f
I shall brfore the door of the Eag;e Tavern
i "k th.C- Cu'y °L ^‘ch,nond> proceed to se.l to
!the highest bidder, for cash, all, or such
part of the said LAND as way be sufhei*
ent to discharge ihe said dee^i.
H. Gaines, Trustee.
July 4thl8ia. W3v p.
LAND for SALE.
: QN Monday Ike 27th cl.y of A..pi.t next.
Halit, x court.h>'u3e (bi iog court
day,) will be told to the highesr bidder for
ready money 224 1.4 acres of LAND, |v
• 'Qg within the said county on Hi >y ere; k
I a bi unch of Heio River, late the prwpertv or
| Eunmnd Ed iiindsdn, and conveyed by him
■ in trust, to tne subscriber, tor me purpose*
of satisfying a debt dhe to John B. Scott
I aad *-urviving partner* «,t*"
John Carter k Co. and the necessary costs -
I ohercJon;~yiie w,!l '*ke P,ace between
2 and 4 o’clock in the evening and upon
payment of the purchase money, a deed
conveying ail the title vested m the sub*
sender, will be executed to Uie purenaaer
* ' Berryman Green.
A List of Nine Hhils. Tabacco
which has been deposited in Shocks
os Warehouse over thrue years, viz.
Martins [M D] 456 155 1573
. ^ 738 150 1378or 1473
Lynches W C 2016 137 1235
Spring D K or R S 1531 125 1313
Hedersont AH 4 107 nos
731 J38- 1302
Hasleys I R 311 143 1411
UK. 119 164 1407
Swan Creek A H 489 121 1215
l he above Nine Hhds. loxtcco w»|1 be
sold to the highest bidder tor ready mo
ney on ihe first Monday in Nov. uext=»
(li not claimed before that time) before *
the Court House door cf Henrico,
Mo3by & Younjr.
Slmckoe Ware House, July 16. 3w.
JUST published,
And for sale at this Office,
A NEW AND PLAIN SYSTEM
ARITHMETIC..
BY RL IJAH H. HEAD RICK. .
or IUCMN9RAU COUNTY.
HEdOMMEN D ATIONS.
Demonstration I deem nrceuary in an
elementary treatise on any branch of the
Mathematics ; but, as the demonstrative
method is pursued in very few school*, I,
upon comparing Mr K. H. Hendrick** A,
rithmetical Treaties wiih other works on
the same subject, am Induced to ree<>ra.»
mend it'as one of the best systems of Ai
rithetic that have fallen with my observa*
rten, and lo dec.are my high opinion of it,
a* far as it respects mercantile purp.se*,
and other practical uses.
L. H. GIRADIN.
Academy, Richmond, Feb. 8, 1*10.
I have examined Me Elijah U. Ifen.
dnek’t “ New »n<l plain systdm wt Arit >«
metic,” and shall hereafter p«»ter h to a.
ny pract cal w.»rk of the a»nd extant, cn
account oi its judicious nrraugeusent with
respect to mercantile purpose, a«».i o lter
pVrtCtiCal Uits, DAVID DoYLE.
I Acaocn.y, Richmond, February 8, 181®,
j It may also be ntce.mry to state that
the' above voik has be*o hi. My ftewn.
mended by Doctor Samuel K Jennie**,
formerly of ;he New London Acndem f
Joshua Lv.’hj»u>», t'a<}. ot r’r'.nce Edward—*
I R. &. Woodsdn, E.a . ot Cumber! «ad, am*
' several other Htcraiy ch^ndtrn,
] Jut y 16;h, 1110.
, Country met chants atu! other: rrhoWuh
j to purchate, to sell ngiuo, wtt. Us tdh ved
1 a liberal discount.
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