The enquirer — Richmond, Va., 1810-11-27 00:00:00, page 1

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Posite the Globe Tinern, Richmond, Virginia.
'Tj* CONDITIONS c—Five dollar* a year, f<
br paid annually in advance. Thofc who wish tc
be considered as annual subscribers, must hereaftet
designate it at t be time of subscribing, othemist
their paper* will be discontinued at the expiration
mf the first year.
RICHMOND PRICKS CLfRKEN l7~
D cT
touacco, 4 to 8
YLOUR—SUPERFINE, 9 00
■°* riNE, g 50
OOEN, PER DARREL, 4 QQ
wheat, j 50
Bacon, per lb. 15 to 20
WHISKEY, Per CALLOW, 0 67
bar iron, per tow, 100 00
HEMP, PER TON, 250 300
Merino sheep !! !_The publicaale
of ONE HUNDRED
MERINO SHEEP,
Which was advertised to tike place at Fairfield,
•n the 3d instant, is POSTPONED to a future
day, nf which due notice will bp jjiven.
Interim, those who arc disposed to purchase at
PRIVATE SALE, will please apply to
M. Cr B MYERS,
O R TO
„ , SAMUEL MYERS,
October 2. tf
SALES AT AUCTION.
WILL BE SOLD, without reserve, at the
Auction Room of the subscribers, This
Day, at ten o’clock, for the benefit of the under
writers, one bale of BLANKETS, raa<ked T. M
R 139, damaged m> hoard the brig Cora, Capt,
Hatch, from Liverpool
J\loncure, Robinson iSf Pleasant«,
Auctioneers.
wovembf-r 23 H
KIRBY, DRAKE & TAYLOR, have recei
ved by the late arrivals from I.ondon and
Liverpool, a large Assortm. nt of Fall Goods,
which they are disposed to sell low for cash or
Acceptances in Town
UN CONSIGNMENT :
100 Tons best Swedish Iron assorted, end 300
Casks London Porter.
October 30 tf
T%J luE.—A PETITION will be presented
~ _ to-the next Assembly of Virginia, by Ben
jamin Edmunds ot_ Brunswick county, praying a
divorce from Mart:.a tiis wife.
O-tobcr 30
j MSHER, TAYLOR & Co. three doors a
bove the Bell Tavern, Iiave just received
t L*'i" London and Liverpool, by the Ship Averick
and Pr.g Mm, a 1 rge assortment of well select
ed 6002) .S’, suited to the present & ensuing sea
I , which they offer for sale, on the most rea
sonable. terms, by the piece or package.
_October 30. 4<v
THE GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA,
"\X7’iLL meet, in the Mason’s H,il, in the city
▼ cf Richmond, at 6o’clock in th*? evening
ct tlte second Monday, in December next.
November t3. tf
"TV ? D l I UK.— All persons wno iiave claims a
-t t pdnstthe Estate of P^tr« Tinsi.ey,
O’ . are requested to send'ui thei'r accounts
imtne-’.stely to the subscriber, and all those in
d • t- d to said estate are mtreated to make
spet ay payment to
JAMES BROWN, Jr. AJm'r
October 9
r f HOdE p^r.'ms wishing supplies of COAL
\ -'r*i tfi«- i)»' p Run Pits, will be pleased le
leave men ord-rs at my Counting Room, where
a ui utriskept for theconve .i- n.-e of sucli ns
v .-n to bat r. Licit coal measured f »>m i]>e wgg.
£v,s“ M IV H IN COCK
October 16 jp
f S A AC kl.VIMY, son of IV liter Hammy, wi n
1 lived in Petersburg. Virginia, at the begin
niiy of '-lie II- voluionary War, is very desirous
t>l l.-'ing informed whether any descendant of
the f'lni.jy is yet alive IT- r-sides near to Ge
neva, in the siate <#t New York, to which place
n letter may be convey, d by mail.
November 20. 2m
TV OTIC®- A PE TITION will he presented
-L^ loth General .Assembly, at their next
session, praying for an amendment to the Man
chester Turnpike Law.
November 20 5{
XJOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FUll
XI *1 I'URK— FOR SALE, AT AUCTION
r.— £HIS 1) AY, l ILL HE SOLD, at the
dwelling Upuse, »,f Mr. Simpson Moms, oppo
* » ’he K i d T vern. all his elegant HOUSE
H'JLT) bUHNITURE, lately made in this city :
A or wimrii Hrc—
16 Elegant MAHOG ANTCHAIRS, with hair
flea s, and n $Ob'A to correspond.
1 e,’K1s Sde— Ml sums over g 50, 120 days
crec-.t-nnder g 50 cash.
M. R. O Pie ae ante.
November 16. Id,
*•* T-ie Subscrinet in cods, in a few days, to
leave this city ior Charleston, until next spring.
SI WPS OX MOP PIS.
November 16.
GRAND BALL, AND SUPPER.
y. D ARPAC,
Respectfully informs the Ladies «nd
Gentlemen, that his Grind Ball will tak
pi tee on do. 29'h inst at the Free Hixsons’ Hall
ri he members ol it and those wishing to becom
flf’« .vill please t« observe the following Rules,
not u, ti ans;;rrsa them to render the entertain
nteoi of tlie evening .-.grecable to every person s
No gentleman will be admitted except on pre
senting « ticket.
No person will be permitted to smoke in the
U-!It Ro<dh
t, ntlumen not allowed to dance with boots on
tickets shall be given to gentlemen wishing to
dunce engage their partners, with the direcii
on nl lhc.tr place on it.
T he dances to be pi ,yed shall be called by the
mani-ger.
Thu sapper shall he served at half after 10 o’
clock ; alter supper the dance* shall begin as be
t»re. "
A 11 tr shall !>c kept wi«h proper refreshments
i » 'a‘\u;h uM
• irfectf •(> he h id at Messrs. Jones and Adams'
k . a, f-itd o. Mr n*rt :«c( orei the store
Wc j..s Ijs wkeis &. Alden.
% n SU
f P'jhlie are respectfully informed, tfi >
T**h GENTLE MAH S NEW POCK
jf r co 11 PINION, on the suM-ct of Horses
?y • KMttenan of Surry county, Virgin!*, whici
has been so liberally subscribed to, . will go t<
press so soon as the engravings are executed
November 13 lni
^TOTICE—fW be sold, to the highvst bidder,
LV on a credit of one, two «nd three years,
pursuance of the last will and testament of the
y/jEf * Hoyall, dec’d that valuable Tract
of LAND, in Cumberland county, situated o
Appomattox river, near James Town, about 6<J
mdes from Petersburg, containing upwards ol
700 acres—the purchaser giving bond with un
doubted security, and a deed of trust gn the pre
‘y y r 1 h'.8 P'*Wtation is little inferior to any in
of qUh‘,tyult conr,ains tw° or three hundred
acres of rich tobacco Land, well timbered, toge
ther with all useful improvements, several g*od
springs, and the situation considered to be heal
thy. Any person disposed to view the premises
before t ie day of of sale, can be .ccommS
on appltcahon to Mr. Samuel Willhms, who
lives thereon, or to Mr. Teschamer Woodson, a
near neighbor The sale will be made on the
premises, on the last Monday in December next
0fU“ ifWr. utlierwiM; thl
And at the same time and place, *>Ul be sold
to the highest bidder, on a credit of ohe and two
years, veral likely Negro Men, Women, Boys
and Girra, for bonds with good security.
WILLIAM ROYA L L,
r-> t Roy all, dec'd.
* will further sell, at the same time and
place, above mentioned, for cash and upon 12
months credit, sundry other valuable negroes I
mong them valuable Sawyers, 8ic
. .. , Wtn ROYAL L.
jAmelia, November 23. 5W
BY virtue of a deed of trust, executed to the
subscriber, by John McBride ; Will be sold,
on tne premises, on Monday the 3d day of next
month, for cash, the Brick HOUSES O’ LOTS
the ?"e at PrtScn! occup ed by the
said McBride, and the other by Mr. Coas. Biav
rove, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to
ro«tlhf amTnt.°^tl,esevcra; ',ebls* 'ntewit and
costs, for which the same is h-iUud
, 00 Wm. n WREN, Trustee
November 33. (Jg
T S ,G ChaPter of Virginia, will assem
* ■ ble in the Masons’ H ill, in the city ol Rich
mond, the second Monday in December next, at
5 o clock, P M wlieie the deputations from tne
several subordinate chapters, are requested to
give their attendance.
November 23. 2w
J SHALL leave this city on Sund .y, for the
north—and remain absent about 6 weeks
MOSES DAVIS.
November 13. 2t^
Europe.
(From, Cobbett's Political Register.J
" That provisions and labor shall become dear by
the increase of trade and money, is in many res
pec ts an inconvenience j but an hiconveniei.c
that ,s un void-hlmdtl.e effect of thui pub
he wealth And prosperity which are the end <f
all .'ur wishes Ii is comp, nsa ed by the ad
vantajr s wl-i h we re.,p from the nntop - o nn * f I
those PRECIOUS METALS, anil YbJ w'g
which they give to the nation in all foreign wars
and negociat ions but there appears no .e .so,
for incre s,ng that inconvenience by a counter
feit money, which foreigners will not accept of
in any payment, nnd >hioh :,nv great ditordei
in the state will reduce to nothing "
Hums
PAPER AGAINST GOLD:
BKINp AN EXAMINATION OF THE' RE
POUT OF THE BULLION COMMITTEE :
IN A SERIES OE LETTERS TO THE
TRADESMEN AND FARMERS IN AND
NEAR SALISBURY
LETTER VIIJ.
Further observations respecting :he tallaci
ous notion that paper money is the cons,
quence of an inctease of Trade and nati
onnl prosperity ; Sir John Sinclair’s idea
about roads and canals; exemplification
in the instances of France and the Ame.
rican States; Destruction of the paper
money in both those countries, the dawn
of national prosperity ; Our own history
shows the influence of a national deb' in
producing bank notes ; Our Bank was the
offspring of the debt ; The boldness of
Mr. Jackson and Sir John Sinclair in as
serting that paper money is necessary to
tiadc, and is a mine of na*ional prosperi
»y :-What would Hume have said if
he had been told that Scotland would pro
. duce a man to assert what Sir John Sin
clair has asser ed ! The “ lo here”
and the •• lo there ’’’—The real cause
of the increase id the bank notes ; That
increase shewn to have kept pace with
the increase of the debt; conclusion of this
part of our subject.
Gentlemen,
In the foregoing letter we o.
pened the way toward# the history of the
stoppage of gold and silver, or real money
fiaymentn, at the Bank of England, in the
year 1797, by showing the divers ways in
which bank notes get out in circulation, or,
in other words, the divers motives for ina.
kmg those notes; and by clearly showing
■ iso in (reasoning upon general principles,
that it is debt and not wealth, that general s
promissory notes, of whatever sort they may
be, or by whomsoever issued. So long how
ever, have we been, upon this subject, and
such great pains for so long a time, have
been taken to make ns believe, that the in
cte.-'se of the paper currency proceeds from
an increase of Made, or ot something favor ^
°b fe to uv, that I should not he perfectly sa
tisfied with myself, were I to hasten fori
wafil, without first submitting 10 you ail the
obsei rations that have occurred to me upon
this part of oui subject.
When those* who from whatever motive,
have written in favor of the paper system,
have had to account for the vast increase
m the quantity of the bank notes, they have
always uad recourse to our “ incieasing
trade, and " wealth,” and *• prosperity,”
and “ improvements ;” and they have, like
Mir John Sinclair, hid ns loot at the in.
crease of turnpike mwds and canals nni
harbors, and hew enclosures Now this re
jlerence luroads, canals, Uarbois and enclo.
•: sure9, is singularly unhappy ; for the Em.
I P*ror Napoleon. in his annual speecnes to
’.his corps Legulatif, or Parliament, ells
,ithem of new roadsand canals compared to
which ours are not worth naming, while we
know pretty woll that he has during this
war even, made a humor, aud an arsenal,
I and a fleet too, where there was before no
, semblance of maritime means, to get at
j wh'ch or rather to attempt to get at
[it, has cost us all the lives and all the mil
i lions of taxes expended in the YValche
retl expedition ; and. w.nle we sec that as
.to agricultural imp. ove-nenis. France is a
hie to let us have bread Therefore, as this
is the case in Franee, and as these same
writers assure us. iha- • lie pebpie of France
a*"r *n a state of ex'iefir- misery meihinks
that new canals and riM.is. and harbors,
and agiicultural improve.items rhould not,
by these writers, at an', rate oe :i'"d as
proofs of national pro per ry.
But, what have ’hr, • ex ri» .ns o> genius
and industry ; these iff • s if the bociiiy or
mental faculties of a pv 4ne ; wimi have
these :o d.. with fiafier mnury ? There is
no fiafier money in France — Yet the French
make roads, and canals, and harbors, and
agiicultural improvements. There is no
fiafier money, by which we always mean,
paper not convertible into gold or silver bv
the will of the holder ; chore is no paper
of this kind in the American States;
-—yet it is pretty notorious, that there are
improvements going on in those States, some
ot which are truly astonishing, and one in
stance in particular, I can’t help giving you,
just as I found it published in the London
newspapers of the 11th of last month.*_
Having seen and admired this wonderful,
and, perhaps unparalleled, instance of pros
perity and happiness, proceeding from the
united exertions of genius and industry .
and, being at the same time, aware, that
something approaching towards it must ne
cessarily be going on in other parts of the
country, you have only to know, hat there
is no such a thing as fiafier money in any
part of that country ; for, th..-n your conclu
sion must be, that a paper money is not ne
cesaary to create, or to aid the operations
of, genius and industry; and history, at once
to inform and console you, affords >ou these
fui ther facts, that both in France and Ame
rich, there has been a paper money ; that
in both countries, that money has met with
its total destruction ; and that, since such
destruction, bo n countries have fl .urished
much more than they did while that money
was m existence.
vviidi nave tne partizans of the Paper
system 10 offer in answer to this ? —Will any
oue of them venture to look ihese fac s in he
face . I do not believe they will. They will
1 should suppose, rather choose to confine
themselves to a dull re-assertion of their tor
mer assertion, intei spewed it may be, with a
seasoning of abuse upon those, by whom 'heir
Ignorance, or insincerity, is detected and ex
posed. But, without resorting to the tnstan
ce> furnished in foreign countries, have we
not. Hi the history of..Ur own finances qui'e
a sufficient proof, that paper money, or. in
deed bank no:es of any sort. are not the
rpnrpQnn ativ/ic ..n«. i__ » » . «•
*...— u,»; wui tieui • in
every country, of which we have any know
ledge, a government debt has been'accom
panied wth bank notes, or flaymen's in fia
fier, of some sort or other, no matter under
w t.u name, 1 lie deb' in England, did, as
we have seeu [Letter I! ] begin in the year
lhyj ; the re appealed, a firs', no intension
to pay the usual goid and stiver coin of the
coumry.
People lent their guineas and crown pie
ces, and there was not the smallest notion of
their being repaid in any thing but gui-.e o
andcrown pieces. But, it was so found, that
to pay the interest of its debti the g vern
menr needed something other than gold and
sitvei : which, indeed, any one miglv have
ortseen, because the debt itself necessarily
arose from the 7vant of gold andsilxtcr with
in the reach ot the government. It was,
tneiefore, supreme tolly to suppose that the
government, who had borrowed people’s gui
neas from want, would long nave guineas e
nnugli to carry on wars and to pay those peo
p e too. Accordingly, in only two years af„
lC/r.l^u |)e5an. the Hank was establish
eel , the Bank made notes ; these notes, as
far as they went, supplied he place of real
money ; and, very sobo, by giving all possi
ble countenance and support to the Bank.
um government got great part of the inter,
est of its debt paid in bank notes.—Thus
werethe bank notes, from the very outset,
as .indeed, all promissory notes must be, the
representatives of debt, and no? nf wealth,
ot prosperity, oro\ trade ; and, if th.s was
the case at a time when these notes were
convertible into gold or silver, shall we how
look upon them in a better light ?
In spite, however, of the voice' of history
and of reason, and even in spite of common
•'•nsc, there are (as in ?he instances of Mr
Handle Jackson and Sir Jon n Sinclair)
m m lobe found, so ignorant, or so hardy, as
to hold bank notes, and promissory notes,
too, not convertible into real money ; there
are men 10 be f und to hold up thin paper
money, which, as we have clearly shown, is
always issued in consequence of a want of
rcul money, and which paper money is as
Hurkk (See the Motto to l,ctter VII ) well
desci iben it, " not the measure of the trade of
toe nation, but of the necessities of its vov
er'un.<7u ; 'here are men to be found,
who like Mr. Jackson, insist 'hat an in
crease of paper money is called for by an
increase of ir.de —-tnd, who. like the hot
der Haronkt, scruple not to assert, that
•• me abundance of circulation” [speaking
of bank notes not convertible into gold and
silver] «• is the great somce of opulence and
strength, and a mink of national prosper!
ty ; and, who have the boldness to call pro
missory notes, which are issued only because
the issuers are not able to pay in money, a
mink "1 national prosperity ; and, wi. » are
h.nity enough to mnko this assertion at the
very moment when they themselves are de
claring it would be ruinous lo attempt to
hnee the issuers of such notes to pay 'hem
in money when presented,
Humk. as will be seen from that passage
ot his I'.ssay on Money, fr„m which I have
taken my motto, observes that there is an in
convenience in the increase of real money
’1 winch, as wn» shown m ti»e la#t letter, jj
naturally produced by an increase of trade
and he calls bank no'es (though, observe
convertible into gold and silver, as they wen
in his time.)counterfeit irfwHey. What, then
would he have said of our present bank notes
what w mid he have srpd of bank notes noi
convertible into gold and silvei ; and wbai
would he have said, if he had been told
that Scotland would produce a man, wiir
would tell the people ot G. B. and in print
too, that surAbank notes area mine otNa
tional Prosperity ?
We have now, I think, said quite enough to
convince any man, whose faculties enable
him to distinguish falsehood from truth, that
the notion ot an increase of trade demand
ing an increase of paper money, is on of
the most gross delusions that either ig'to
ranee or an intention to deceive ever at
tempted to practise upon mankind. We
have, in short, clearly shown, that the in
crease of bank notes, and promissory notes
ol every description, are produced by Debt,
*re the offspring and representatives of
Debt, and that real money, and real money
only, is the representative of property or
wealth, or things of real value, and of course,
thar an increase of trade which is only ano.
ther term for increase of money’s-worth
things, demands, and if there be no un
natural cause to prevent it, will, of itself,
bring into circulation, an increase of real
money.
To acknowledge this truth would, howe_
ver, have been so manifestly injurious to the
Paper Money System, (which is but ano_
ther name for those who have profited from
it) should have taken uncommon pains to
avoid the acknowledgement, and even to
maintain, with their utmost ability, any opi
nion of contrary tendency. Hence all .he
absurdities, that we find in the various
speeches and pamphlets, uitertd and writ
ten upon the subject, and in which the in
crease ot tile bank notes, and now of the pa
per money, have been at different times, at
tributed to almost every cause but the real
one. At one time it was the enterprize in
commerce ; at anfother, the enterprize in
roads and canals, at another, the “ fires
sure of the war,” which was, as a distant
cause, true ; at another it was a “ tempo
rary alarm at another, it was speculation
abroad , at an ther it was ihe “ influx of
Wraith ;” at another, it was Jacobinism }
and now there are three causes, an increase
of tiado, ihe embarrassment to trade occa
sioned by Napoleon’s commercial warfare
against us. md tne exportation of gold ;
These !ast mentioned causes, which anyone
may hear from, ptrliaps. the three first per
sons whom he meets in Thteadneedle stieet,
do, lobe sure most aunurably accord with
each ether. But. it is the lot of falsehood to i
contradict itseif
In tiie meanwhile, however, very great is
tlie mischief, which arises from this mis
guiding of the public mind-l he people,
wnd’ amused with this “ Lo here l and Lb
there l" see not that which iney ought to
see ; they see not the real Du e of he in
crease ol the paper money the re I cau.-.eot
the gold and silver having gone out ol cir
culation ; and, ot course, they use no endca
v.„s liicy express no wish to see adoprd
any measures, calculated to remove that
cause, and to relieve their country from this
the most formidable of all the dangers with
which it is threatened
1 nat this real Cause is no other, than the
increase ot the Debt contracted by the gov.
ein nem. cannot. 1 hmk. he doubted by any
one, who his gone p.tien'ly through the
toreg iog Lcntei«, and who must have seen,
tna . as U. b- increased, the bank notes
became ot g. «iter amount in lhe whole, and
Ol sums sn..iller and smaller till, at last,
t >ey came down io a single fwund_At
firs and for half a century, there were ro
Hank notes for a sum less than twenty
fiounds. Woen the debt got to ahou 70
millions, ti.e: e were fif e-n fiound notes
made ; belore it reached 150 millions, there
were ten fiound notes made ; b. fore i.
reached 200 millions, there were Jive fiountl
notes made; and before it hud reached 5uo
millions, 'here were two fiound notes and
one fiound notes made Since it reached
J00 millions, :here have been, in some p-r *
ol the country, notes made to represent si! _
ver coins, and the silver tokens, issued
from the Hank of England, the intrinsic va
lue of which is lets than the nominal, have
been circulated over the country, while the
gold coin, of every value, has almost wholly
disappeared, is notoriously exported, and
while guineas, not one of which is seen by
hardly any man in England, in the course of
a month, make a part of the common cur
rent coin on the Continent of Europe, in the
American Slates, and mote especially in
France; aye. in that very country, which
Pitt and T.is associates told ns, over and
over again, was in •• the very gulfih of bank
rufitcy,” and which we were, year alter
year, induced to believe would be totally
ruined by the fall of that paper money, the
plitce of which has been, in a great part
supplied »y our guineas I
• i hus, then, we have seen, both from rea„
son and experience, that it is Debt which
produces Bank notes, and paper promises of
every sort; and, having seen the manner in
which these paper promises get out amongst
tis, and how they increase and keep pa’« e
with the increase of our Debt, we shall, in
the next Letter, proceed to trace this in
crease to that grand and memorable effect,
the Stoppage of G ild and Silver payments
at the Bank of England in 1797,
1 am, Gentlemen,
Your sincere friend,
_ „ , VVm. cobbett.
State Prison, Newgate, 7
Thursday, Sep. 27. 3
Mere i9 copied the account of ibp ** Hsrmony
S.cicty” established in Hutlrr C iqnty, P'eun
published in this paper sometime since.
From a Lisbon Print.
Lis*on, October 6. In a dispatch from his
e*:<:cll« ii v lord Wellington to his excellency Don
Miguel Pereira Foijs, <in,eil at Leifa on the 3 I
insl. is enclosed »n original despatch from gon
eral Massens, d rented to Bcrtl.ier, which whs
intercepted} we publish it, not bccuttsr it is ne
ce«sary to-.t.ewio the public 'he s~. < il-loi » ca
lumny w! icb it contains/pretending ibr.t the in
habitants desert their bouses in eqn* rjucnce o'
tlic threats, or inf tine ptfpgfeUttflt winch they
* ' ~ i - — T 'ljp
: I ;3V^ra^Sh,al, ' wou,', cause to be in',
; .Hon, d n*'Kbl «'« their habit*,'
. t on# , for tl.e inhabitants abandon their dwell,*
. •««». because the cruelties and .utr.ges com,1
; Ke ,am * tlum- m fee?
sesaci ifire# of then- own a cart 1 — flv thd
::±d:vT"oi much t;.*
in . * u . r» Mnd ,,ie inconvenience# which!
1 (m7n«M?i*,"Ce “ th*ir operations in conse
. T',M,Ur,‘ 'vMch l> * excellency the
'■ ®I •’♦■commended in hi. pmclama
Uon of the 4lli ot August VVe regret the in*
rr^-r8 U h'rh tl,c‘ inb»bitunts of the coun
try suffer, by quilting ihcir habitations, but they
£ 'lrv TT that those inconveniences are in.
ml. • f 1°'" “ l'*te of war* M,,tI ‘hat the Por
•?!? much 0t;Uer have submitted to the
whirl ’ ' .'e^ cann°t support those privations
which are temporary onlt. which deliver them
from ,l,e ofltle ^“3
dors 1,12 L,Kl,tt8ldt'Sreti injurious to the inya
Despatch of Matsena, to Benhier
16th .tftT, T"f aPmy lcfl Almeida on the
n 'T* 'lR i th,p ,u,n ,r t" inform vouc
Highness—the three divisions of tlie irmy M-riv
ed on the 19.1, at Viseu. after having SvrnS
not rible roads ; tl.e enemy retreated n every di
rection on our approach, and have formed a iunct
t.on near Coimbra. I caused the 2d and 6th corps
to be posted on the bridge of C»oz
The Engi.sU who occupied that bridge were
dislodged j the 8th corps is yet at Viseu The
grand pai k of artillery, and the heavy baggage
row '* The h ‘ a0d WiU cn,v arr've to mor
row. The bagg..ge WiiS al, ar.k -d by 2000 Por
gP—. whom 200 men sufficed to repel with
It is impossible to find worse roads ; they are
covered with rocks ; our artillery and btipLgtj
have suffered considerably, and now 1 amov
ed to wait for them-^-1 must let them rctnam
two days at Viseu after their arrival, to here.
l‘.hre . nJ * '*, c ,nti"ue "larch to Coimbra,
where I am told that I ahull find the English
and Portuguese united. My Lord, we arem . ch
mg over deserts ; not a single person to wex
meet; ev.ny phce ,9 abandoned ;• the English*
have the barbarity to o-dcr the unfortunate per
•o.is who remain in their houses to be shot ; wo.
men, children, the aged, all flee . in short no
where can a guide be found.
Uur soldiers found potatoes and some vegeta
bles ; they are contented, and long to encounter
tm enemy.
The march had caused us a few s.ck.
I am &c.
(Signed)
MASSENA.
Fr' k ▲ I.ondov Print
London, O.,tober 8 I he Allowing address
to t he r.t.zens of Home, w s issued lY. Lucien
ioiiaparte, and privately distribute ! two d vya
afurhe Siiled, but wasimmediately supp.es-.ed
oy orwci.il oicler :
IO 1 HB CIT1Z.BN8 O T ROMS.
“ In the bosom of retirement, occupied wills
no other carrs than those of contributing to the
happiness of my family und my neighbors, and
tasung Oh Rome’s classic territory all that pur*
ichned bliss which a mind imbued with a love;
, 1 , !“1ls 'faR enJ°y.1 w»* ^sailed by the ruth
less hand or despotism, rendered still more hea
vy by us being that of a brother { still more
gallmg, as he owes his life and his honors to my'
intrepidity. *
..:.I,“rnfcrn"l maRd lt{| was, that I should
. .... . „ . ■>areri wife, amt d» sert tb'\se
cli Wren ..horn mime deni firs with m\ x s
e"1 e » !l •! 1 shou.il tscend a Uirom err .ted oy
n.ost horrible perfidy, and unite, mv . fib is to
oftlie glo2eS.UbjUg:‘let,,eyet uncoR(luer';d part •
“ Citiz ns, I had no choice between tmeondi
tonal sit .mission and immediate flight. 1 did
n t hesitate. The Tiber, on whose bank*. 1 bad
vainly hoped to pass my allotted term of life re
ceived mem her bov.m and she will waft me
l u Ust, in safety , to tit se sho-v whi li, dread
ful w.ten sought .n hostility, oecame a suiepl .ee
°f.Vrv“5e tu ,he fle4lit«'‘e und the oppressed.
Citizens, farew T1 ! my gratitude is all 1 can
leave behind. ay your chains sit light upon
you ; r i si her. may you soon
by the intervention if that O .up..., ranee
wlurh sooner or I.itefr punishes usurpation, ty.
fanny and op, . - r ’ 1
“ LUCIEN BONAI’AR TE.”
“ Liverta6l% Oc ober Id—The weig of our
' ‘ *’• '* , *v 1 •? »?•<>»"» . f pecuniary
c unde nee pecuh .uy seem ».«» combine at pre
st...t to oepiess the cotton m iket, und to dis
j u«JiVny ,1^p0SYion 1 ’ P'i'-cliase. A serious
d < l,ne has taKt n place, and it is encreasmgly
d iheuft to effect sales, which during the Ls?
w'Tkr w*11 scarcely average 25U0 bags of
all Descriptions to consomeis j here h is been'
a considerable import „f Russia ashes into Lon
d m ; our stocks o» American are accumulating s
vci) little doing, ana puces look up down -- -
r.r and ’urpentin are very dull ° Very’ htlle
.loing m wlit at ani flour. The stocks of old and
n.ler.or qualities of n« are heivy, and such are
very difficult of sale aWeducod prices ; the de
mand even ior the fior qualities is limited.
CROPPER BENSON & CO
“ Cotton U land 11 1 2 to 1,2d- N Orleans
Is 2d to Is oil— Sea Island Is 10*1 to 2s 3d_
iV'*9.’ Pr.1 N‘!W Y"rk 42 "* 44 - VVii A 14s to
14s 31—Flour 55to 58s —Ri -:- 19 lo 21s—Tur
pentine 14 to l7s—Tai 26 t., 28s 3J ”
Bos-rov, November 15.
FROM RUSSIA.
Letters from Archangel, state, that the prin
cipal part of the good- imported therein for the
l ist year, had been seized by order of the go
vernment. on a suspicion of their b» ing lingliHh
or the produce of fc-oglisl. islands boa thataf!
t'-r several weak* detention, many of t>.e ves
sell and cargoes were rvle .*ed j accompanied*
however, wut, an order, n«,t t„ self or dispose of
| any thing until further rtotice Our corresoon
dent gives it us his opinion, that the same mea
sures will be pursued in Russia, ugainst neutral
commerce. »* have been practised in Sweden
and iJeumark
Nt.w York, Nov. IT.
LATEST FRO.vl < ,\DfZ
The brig Georgia fouled from Cadiz on
(the 12th of Ocitber ; a. which time 4|| was
jTmr* lf»rn verbally, diut a very
ve»e gale of wind w ^ experienced, at Ca~
■dn on the 9th ot (),•• ,er< „.d , d
till the li b ; during which lime m*nv »e9.
Ni ls parted tiicir Cgbhs ; but none went on
shore. 1 he achooner S ,IL in,| Fnscilla,
I "f Provide.**, parted both her cab.. >
aod in driving ihroogh the cum d a
way her mam.hoom. *pf;v,n
’he was clear of th^ -hipping, nimlr « d ig
lheai her back ag<vn ; but not being able tqf
I make h.s mainsail st\ to the Wind, he l( n
| dropping, to leeward. Hud in passing J
french fott ffiti? firt* y ?