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RICHMOND OCTOBER 36 18lo
Dream not or justice J !
Reader ! do not deceive yourself. The
British ministry do not mean to respect our
l ights. What do*»s the Marquis Wellesley tell
you l What wiultl he huve aaul if they
had anv idea of relinquishing their nefari
ous Orders and the system on which they
are built ?
He would have told our Minister:
'‘Sir—1 have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt ».t your letter. 1 am proud to
see, that France is about to abando* her
Invasions Upon neutral rights, ami that 1'rOin
the 1st of November, her Berlin •and ML
lau decrees will expire. His Majefety is
happy, that it is now in his power to mani
fest his respect for neutrals by rfcifiti'diifg £ll
those restrictions, which he has adopted, on
his part, with such profound regret * Let
neutrals enjoy the blessings which flovr from
their situation. Let the rage of war be con
fined to those only who have plunged into
it. For our own part, we shall,..cheerfully
pursue the pathwhich justice and the laws
of nations inarK. out to us. Since France
respects our rights, we too will reaped them.
Since neutral rights on the high seas are se_
Cure from the violation of our enemy, they
shall be equally secure against-our own re
taliatory measures, Since France revokes"
the paper blockade of our Empiie. we will
revoke tile blockade of heri. „ As the Berlin
and Milan decrees will cease • on the 1st of
November, I have the satisfaction* to iiL
form you, that our own orders of May 1806,
of January and Nov. 18or,.And April 1809,
and all others. an analagous description,
will expire on the same day—yet if’ France
does not execute her promise, this pledge on
our part is to be considered as null-and
we shall stilt exert all the lawful means
in our own power to wreak our resentment
and our injuries upon the head of our ene
nr. ” • • , • W: ' ■ *
Such would have been the language of a
minister who was disposed to do us justice
—— shis would be all plain and above board
‘—but certainly such is not the style cf‘* the
most noble the marquis Wellesley.”—The
terms in which he expresses, himself, are
In an eminent degree general, indefinite, and
vague.
In the hi st place, he do. s not sav, that the
Orders in Council are repealed,nr that they
•will be. even on a certain day—Tar from it;
for they are to be repealed *« fu,"uro, and he
reserves to himself too tli« right to say here„
after, at what time this futurity will ar
1 ive. His present letter is therefore ‘ to all
intents and purposes null and void——it
has not the least virtue in it—i-Scme new
cfiiuial note will be necessary to do a parti
cular thing, which is here described in such
vague and conditional terms or some order
in Council, which is to respeal the old and
obnoxious orders, against which we have
yrotes'ed. . ...• • »
Next, how vague are those conditions on
which he is to act—they are twofold——one
of them is specific, capable of being reduc
ed to particular dates and facts—~ and the
ether general, audlauching irtto a sea of dis..
putes, uot only ns to/«c.s, but as to the laws
and rights of nations — Had the British min
ister paused upon the first clause only—had
?»e merely said, that our Orders will here
pealed •* whenever the repeal ofthe French
Decrees shall have actually taken effect”—
1 is caution might have been commended, but
Mi terms would have bean intelligible to all.
Of, had he even gone on to say ; "So long
sis the French Decrees are defunct, our Or’
ders-will be So—but whenever they revive,
our own system will arise again, and this
pledge be no longer binding upon us”—there
would have been no scope for ambiguity and
doubts. , ‘ ..
But whe- the British Minister " oversteps
this modesty”-when he tacks a general
and sweeping clause to this specific one. by
faying" anrf'.hc commerce of neutrals shall
have been restored to the condition in which
it stood previously' to the promulgation of
those Decrees”—there-is no.longer any room
but for ambiguities add suspicions.-IIow
general are these phrases!‘bat as far as
they are capable of definition, with wha. a
firming import do they point out the same
grounds, on which his Majesty’? “system”
was originally built !
" The commerce of neutral rations
What neutrals ? Does he mean, to confine
himself to a few of them, or to embrace all ?
Neutrals t And whom does he thus consider?
Will he give that appellation to Sweden and
Denmark, and the Hanse Towns, fis well as
to the U. States t Doe* he still ’style the
lormcr to be neutrals, in the same'manner us
the Auihor of War in Disguise does in it the
ensuing Extracts. If lie assumes the same
ground, does he mean to demand that these
territories shall be releaxed from the Influ
ence of France, and that their Commerce
y shall be restored to the condition in which
it stood previously to the promulgation cf
those Decress”—that they shall be as free to
admit British Commerce,ships and manufac
tures Within their ports, as ever they were,
previous to the French ascendancy in 'those
places f Then, must the U. S wait for G. B.
to do us j ustice, until the French shall respect
me neutrality rtf Hamburgh and Bremen/
But gi ant that the expression is used more
particularly in reference to the United States
—grant that if should be confined to them
•only, still the phrase is an ambiguous one.-JL
The “ commerce of neutral nations “ my !
either denote the course of trade ftsetf or
the r>ghi* of trade--the privileges of
neutral nations.—It it Ue aken in the former
dense, that sense yields us very little conso
lation. For il the orders are to remain in
force, until the United States shall have the
same commerce which they possessed " pre
viou*/y to the promulgation ofihose decrees;*’
tintill ail the governing powers on jhe con - j
tinent of Europe shall please to admit our |
ve**el* laden with British property or Brl.i
tish -goods, or sailing from British ports,
the era of their revocation is certainly not
very near at hand.
But grant, that it denotes only, the privi
lege* f.f neutral commerce, as belonging to
the U. S. only, what a wide field for dispu
tution is immediately opened. At least
what a field for dispute, when avarice and
encroachment take the field on the side of G
Britain. Her Ministers have said and will
no doubt repeat it, that Fiance has no right
to block out from the ports of the Worth,
the Atm rican vessels freighted with British
produce or bound from Butisli ports; that
the privilege* of neutral American com
rnerce Ho ex'rnd tn the transportation of this
British Commerce into the North ; and that J
if these privileges are not now restored to
bs, their *.vv.err wdl not now hs relinquished
—*-that If we Continue to submit to French
usurpations, their retaliatory measures will
rptnain——that If France blocks them* out
bij land, they will block ua uut by sea-not
bv, ships, but by placards. —Our views on
the>e subjects are essentially different; We
claim no sort of right 10 conduct British
;Commerce'into ports, from wiiicirit is ex
cluded by the municipal laws of those ports
We contend, if France has ac quii-M any ju
risdiction or influence in Ilauiburg, that we
have no-right to protest against the internal
law?*’of that territory-and that if British j
Coffee or Cloth be excluded from those j
ports of.** other nations, as either in alli-i
auce with France, or subject to her domina- j
tiun, have by measure- of active offence, or
bv- the exclusion of British ships, taken a
part in the firesent w«rf* — .that our pri
vilege's of (neutrality are not invaded, and
that G. Britain has no right to insist upon ;
the restoration of this intercourse, as the ■
condition of her repeals. It is equally ap j
parent, that by the laws of ua ions, she has
no sort of right to plead the conduct of
France as a precedent for her own-the
French blockade in those ports bring of a
very different nature from her own paper
blockade If France chooses i* block out
British commerce, she ha* a right to do it
-but if the British ministers resort to the
i system of blockade, they must doit in the
I only way recognized by the law of nations
! 1 ■ ■ -or if the trade to' Hamburg be “not
| interdicted as such by the law of nations, it
[can no otherwise be made illegd, than by
I a legal blockade of Hamburg. &c.”—but it
must be an actual blockade——ships must
I be posted before the ports themselves.—.
i It ydll not be sufficient to say, as her minis
ferial paper has just said, that as the French
do not post soldiers in the ports, so the Bri
tish need not station ships-for the French,
as we have seen, may forbid the trade with
out a corps of troops, hut ihe British cannot
without an actual force*
• Such are, however, the grounds which vjill
be assumed by the ministry-Look back
to the history of the past—See the argu„
meats which her writers employed in 1S05,
when her first orders of May were on the
tapis—See them in the lollowing extracts
from a pamphlet, then published by the
author of War in Disguise, in the form of
“ Observations on the speech of the Hon.
John Randolph,” on Mr. Gregg’s Resolution.
1 lie notes' which follow, are the answers
which we gave at the time—they will show,
at least, that we are consistent in the ground
which we have taken :
EXTKACT3. ' '
After defending his ideas of the Rule of
35, the. writer gues on :
“ And here let me notice, with such brief g
rerality as the urgent necessity of dispatch,under
the sense oi which I now w rite, pi escribeo to me
a new founds.-,on ot right which ai.ses from the
recent conduct of the enemy.
i • VV suPPOsed i»..r all the arguments
which have been hitherto offered by my own, Sc
Ur abler pens, in defence of the rule of the war
of 1756 are utterly inconclusive ; St that though
.mans ivered (exu pt by the gr j'sest misrepre
* .illations of notorious facts) they are callable of
being clearly refuted ; still we have anew case,
»» which it seems impossible that two different
•pinions should beheld
What! is Bonaparte to exclude British sugar
and coffee, from the continent, and is America
enable him to do so, by supplying it wit '
Fretu S and Spanis’ snigar and coffee, ;n the;r
siei.d? Are nrutral markets even, to be shut
by noleuce against our planters,that our enemies
may establish there a monopoly r.guinst them 1
are the merchants of neutral state s, to be laid
unde* an interdict .as to the carnage of British
manufactures or merchandize to tnendly ports •
-md while submitting ai; they <1. to that interdict
can they assert nevertheless against.ic, a right to
. arry. the manufactures of our enemies, to the
colonies ot France ant! hpain ? Are neutrals, in
h word, to give effect to a system avowedfy h
dopterl for the destruction of English commerce,
yet found on their amity with England, a
i ig.n to prevent or frustrate a retaliation on our
p..ri against the commerce of our enemies ?_
^ ct this ir, in truth, but apart of the ertor
ir.ous case. By wb.»t means has Frxiice arqui
red the power of enforcing her prolubiiinn ? i3y
the same foul means which liave enabled her to
overthrow Austria, to breijt up the foundation
<>♦ the G- rmamc empire, and add all Italy <o he
usurpations ; tiy the most audacious violations
of n uti il rights, that ever disgraced tin
page ot history, or subverted the security of
nations.
" But are other nations responsible for th'
outrages?” not d-rec'tly ito, I admit Wueth >r
i ’*»• ii.4 i duty ot neutral powers to unite in con
trol n - them, .and protecting those sacred prin
ciplrs by which the community of nations is
bound together, from furtner violation, is .a ques
non not hard to decide-But all I contend for
nere, is the very mode1 ate'position that neu
tr d nations ought not activeIy(l)to assistir. giving
• fleet to a system, whi-h u planted, sustain*
oil and expanded by the invasions of neutra’
rights
“ Ir they will tamely permit Bonaparte to ex
elude ships when laden with our merchandize
f om Hamburgh,and such other maritime place-,
yet permitted to he called neutral, as the terror
ot Ins arms has already shut against us; and to
extend as he now threatens, the same system to
Forlugd and Denmark ; it nr r.ot neutr ,1, it is
not equal, to deny i* Idee latitude tons; £* they
would have no right to complain, if we should
apply the same interdiction as generally, to the
merchandize of our f-ntmics, wherever mtr pow
er extends ; lout is, to every maritime part of the
globe (2)
‘ Colonial produce and supplies alone, are the
subject now in dispute with eline ica ; but here
ii .1 principle,'on which we might fairly inter
diet the Carnage id French, Spanish •uni Dutch
good*fa grucr.d, whether coluifta) or Fftfopcan j
and nql m particular voyagfe* alone, hut in any
pail ol the ocean (3) If noi, then the right? and
dude* < f nemr.il iy are all on one si<)e,(a’id Ko
naparte hits airtaily obtained s .me of'the legal
effect* of that sovereignty, to whirl* he now o
peniy aspire* over the kings and k ^gdoms of th*
earth. He has impen d prerogatives in the courts
of nations, in winch a IjritiMi monarch has no
nght tc p,.-ii(jip ite, ;■ «
“ With* rto it is a prnc nl» cf natural r-ason,
»o wnieli ny wntcro.i the i.i*- uf nations lias no
cteef, and w hich m*>*t of them Iuv6 cxprMaly
attirmeilj *bat impartiality ir one of the duties ni
neutral dates ? a net a branch of lid* duly is, that
what they perr.il to one belligerent, they must
be resuy to p. am* to iffe other. Fvun the king
ot Pruss^ acknowledged this cS« g.dicn,- when
lie gave p •* cigv ’-oilie fiusun army, on hearing
the violate n of An ,p«cn ; nor has'fhe French
despot him ell, had the assurance openly to line*
fault with the act.
“ But Ann nca, i* may he said pefhspr. has
•• not yet been prevente | by France, trmn carry
“ ,nf? J,,.v K wli ttever t.» the putt* of tin*
“ country, or ; .i.- c.loni~* ”
fiance, 1 *‘.r»iit, h»9 not ex'ended lier com
mercial interdict, wn< r-j she h id not power to
extend it. She Ins n:> n%v .1 arms, and therefore
an bolt the door again* commerce on the in&idc
* In our lagt, rue xaid “ block them out'*
— meaning not .only their *hi/it, but their
commerce curried on in our own.
t j\Iri £"*ki'ir to Mr. A{adi*ont Aforeh
• 1 UQ7.
i
only, not lock it from without; nor can she pre
vent importations into countries; into which her
battallions cannot advance
But if she has not prevented importation by
neutr-l vessels, into England, she has dnae more,
mucli more tor th~ purp i*-of my argument, by
excluding them from neutral ports.
“ Aim rica is prevented from importing Bri
tisli goods into Hamburgh, for iiistaii-'e, not be
cause it is tbe will of the Senate ot H onburgh,
but it is because the mandate ofFr tnccjit America
will submit to this prohibition, as a .e has done
to oilier injuries of the same spe ies, from the
same unprincipled power.—.. On what const*
tent pietcnce then could sue complain, if we
should forbid her carrying French guocia, whe
ther colonial or Euro|»ean, to Copenhagen or
Lisbon 1 —How otherwise are we to obtain equa
lity, in respect of Acutral commerce ?
‘‘ We may blockade, it is true, th*- ports from
which our good* are excluded j but'this is often
an ineffectual resort, as well as always an expen
sive one, and a diversion of our naval force from
more active service. .Neither can it be expected,
that we can Spread our blockades over every har
bor or xcre-.Kibie coast, to which Bonaparte can
extend ip* exclusive system by land , *.
“ Besides it would be aosurd to maintain tlut
vye may lawfully blockade neutral ports as a
rightful defence against tills unprecedented sys
tem of war, and yet have no right to retaliate on
the trade nf the enemies ports, lest neutral inte
rests shout 1 suffer i, . ;.
TUe blockades too, however completely en
forced, would be obviously ineffectual, to pie
vent the meditated injury to our colonies and our
commerce. Our sugars are shut out from U.un
burgli, and we exclude French and Spanish *u
gars in return by our blockade. \Yh«l then ! —
It vye allow the latter to be carried to Embden,
to Antwerp, or any other uiihlockuded poit, the
same continental markets are effectually suppli
ed, by means of. interior .navigation, with the!
Fienoh orJfptnish article', which, FLmbuigh
before supplied v/itli, the British.
rt, by a just and necessary r-taliatior, we
should prevent the supply generally in neutral
bottoms, the growing dearth of the article, would
soon frustrate the hostile prohibition; or oblige
the.enemy to recall it: but while French and
apaiusli produce, can be plentifully obtained
Iror.r neighbouring ports, tl.it* natural remedy
cannot operate ; and our blockade rather tends
in a commercial view to increase, than diminish
the evil.
This partiality therefore in the acquiescence
& die non-resistance of neutral stales,-mounts not
merely t» passive injustice, but to an active and
pernicious co-operation with the enemy in his
efforts to destroy our commerce ; yet though he
tiamples for tiiat end on the most in-lispu’able
rights ff neutrals, their extreme, abstract, and
most d .ubtfnl rights, are strangely, set up a
gainst us, to OTtectuatc I113 injurious purpose
1 iic mam though preposterous defence of the
frustration of our Hostilities against the enemy’s
colonial trade, is his right to open his own ports :
but has he a right to shut Up neutral ports, „s
well as to open Ins own ? Here at least the land
l ight, will not bear out the acfl Wrong.
Behold then a new prodigy of this extraor
dmaiy age. The utmost maritime strength is
impotent to protect commercial navigation ; ami
a power that is driven from die ocean can de
strov the trade ot his enemy ?
“ But the paradox is of easy solution_The
plain, key to it, is. the nrw and compendious
principle that the rights of neutrality,arc nothing
on the snore, hut every thing at sea.
norss. ■ .
“ 0) is f. t retire ??sist?rre
given Do ave j'urniah any reinforce ^
mem a to France ; money, s/ufa, or men i—
Or do arc merely carry on a commerce for
our own bent fi auhich ia not contrurv to
the laaoa of tuitions or the right a of hng „
land ! It may be, that tfie Iran fortatitm
oj colonial fir oduce does assist France, by
increasing her resources. Hut what branch
of commerce ia there, between tins country
and France, tha> lioa not the satn; effect ?
If the argument therefore be correct. Fug
and might interdict our whole trade ain'th
France by declaring all her forts in a state
of blockade.
“ Hormparte succeeds by th force or the
terror of his arms tn teguiatiug the troth of Ham
burgh, the fault it net in us, but in the inhabi
rants of that oppressed city. It is against thtm '
that England must hurl her vengeance They a• j
tone are the neiit.als, taA» ■ tamely per me liona
pane to exclude ships when laden with English
merchandise from Ham bit gh -wter Ham
burgh has become thus dependent upon France, she
is in fact to be regarded rn the light of a conquered
Country ll-e trade ts as completely under the go~
verumer.t of Runup irte as the trade of any port in
France O'/ course he acquires the right of regula
ting its who - trade, of admitting some vessels and
e.,rg'j,tor of excluding otr.rrs. Neutrals ennnot com.
plain oj tins author ity, provided site rrspeite the
taws of nations or the obligations of tr caries. ’1'ne
whole ts the iff eel of that general principle which
evfff sovereign possesses oj regulating the internal
iff airs oj his country.——
(3) Even the principle of the author himself
does not justify this extended, inference Because
neutral nations permit Bonaparte to exclud* Bn
ttsh manufactures from a fait ports, England ...s
•s i ignt to exclude .»U French, Spanish lx. Dutch
goods from every port in the ocean —The-only
real right, pei hnps, that accrues t<> Engluid, is,
t .treat these interdicted ports as t..e ports of a
conquered country. She-muy perhaps subject
them to an effectual fdrjckade She ms* thus
exclude ev. rv neutral fl .g, and every species of I
c..igo which they cover. Bui let her not there
lore extend her pretended retaliation to neutral
states Noi let ev»n that retaliation extend he- !
jondthc original injury, that is said to be infl.c
ted.
The grounds of the present ministry win,
in all likelihood, resemble those which were
taken in 1S06—Their ministerial punt, the
Lotirirr, on the 90‘.n August came out in
their defence —and said “they had exercised
no right ot blockade which tnev Were at all
inclined to abandon Th#se are the prin
ciples, to which Wellesley’s letter alludes.
Let us not then dream of justice._—If
France refuses us permission to carry hn
tlr.h goods to the continent, fi. B. will not
penvt tistogo thither—It the Orders of 1*07
find ’09 should be repealed, those of JKOfi may
remain— and in other new ones, their spirit
may be expected to appear.
Ertract of a letter to the Editor, from
Jv. Orleans, dated He fit, 20.
. " Von have probably seen in tiic Orleans
va/citc, an account of ti,e French priva
teers (or rather the pirates sailing under
the French flag.) and their prizes which
have been in tins port : It is short, but its
correctness may be relied on. The felucca
ehy, which was spoken of there, as hav
ingbt-.n cruizing m the Gulph under an
O.hrr name, w ts there called the Caroline;
arm commanded by Michael Bionard
the very same min who was the owner and
out.fitter of the Ouc de Morttibello. A great
out-crv b is been made here, as to the seve.
rity of our courts against the subjects of
France. ,1-3 correctness may be judged of
hy the t rcumsta.nce I have mentioned, for
no sooner was the Montilrello, which hnd
been luted out at Savannah, condemned
than he owner had prof.nred ano'her \e<
sei ri this p„ri, in which he has been coin
mitti.ig fresh depredations against our own
commerce in the Gulplt, sails under the
flag of Franee, and doubtless has a French
commission, i'he truth is, all the cruizers
on our coast under that flag, are imfioscors,
and pirates in reality, who procure old com.
missions and alter the dates, &c. to suit
their vessels, or who obtain commissions
[ in blank., and fill them up as occasion re
quires. Every one of the French privateers
which has been here, would have suffered
death in a French court for violations of
the ordinances of France which inflict this
penalty on all who sail 'without legal com.
niis>ioii3. or Without complying with the re
quisites to obtain them, or with commissi,
ons obtained by fraud or altered or defaced,
or who burn or sink the vessels even of the
worst enemies. I expect these pirates will
how double their depredations, tor they are
permitted' by Chrisluphe to land their pri.
zes and sdll them at his newly named city
ot Cape Henry,' (Cape Francois,) aiid al
though it is impossible that there should be
any thing like even the forms of condemna
tion ,to make an ostensible transfer of the
property, pet the- American merchants are
base enough to purchase their prizes and
send them to the U States, A cargo was
entered at the Custom house on Saturday
last, consisting of prize goods, purchased in
this manner at Cape Henry, and valued at
8 30.0l>0. It was tiiken as probably from
Americ an, as from British or Spanish ves
sels, a. 1 here is no British consul here—itj
is t pity tjiat claims are not entered, on |
the part of that and the Sp anish govern. I
mem. tor the purpose of stopping this vil. I
l&iurus trade.
“ We learn, by the last Fort Adams
mail, that the people ot Bayou Sarah, in
West Florida, inarched a few days ago in
toi ce to Baton Rouge, and af’er some resis
tance, and the loss of one man killed (the
son ot Governor Grandpre, of Baton Rouge,)
took possession of the Town and Fort, and
hoisted the American fi.ag
, *• Smuggling is carried on Ijere, on an ex
tensive scale, and the Custom .house officers
are such sleepy headed creatures, it is e
minently successful!. Ihttc are too, great
facilities afforded here, to frauds on the le
yetjue, by the. vast number of Bayous which
intersect die country *’
SCB.1PS OF A'EIVS. -> ■
Six hundred Merinops arrived at N. Y
on the evening of the 19 h inst
A Mr. Shield, of the House of Shield 8c Co.
a manufacturer of Htunhvfie Presses, and
Printer’s Smith in general, has arrived from
London, at N. York, at which place he
means to settle ; as a central point, from
whence he will supply the interior 8c sea
b< ard. with the produce of his skill.
Elections —The Legislature of Ver
mon is in session at Montpelier. Govern
or Galusha has a majority of 3543 ; last year
618 only ; he has majorities in 9 out of 12
counties. In th H of H. the republican
majority rises 70-they have elected. D
Chase, Speaker; VV D. Smith, Clerk, and
T Leverett Secretary of State.
In 27 out ol 37 Counties of Georgia, the
vo e- lor Congress are. Bibb 14557 Troup
13145. Cobb 9960 Hall 7510, Clarke 6601,
Forsyth 5665 Elliott 2070.
Bern:idotte has promised to improve the
Condition of Sweden by a rc purchase of the
evates or Pomerania,.which were given to
French Officers during »he late war; 8c a vo
luntarv loan ol 8 000 000 of franks, at an in j
tercst ot 4 per cent, which interest is to be
appropriated to national purposes, and the i
extension and security of Swedish commerce.
He is appointed by the Diet, Crown-_Prince,
or Successor to the Throne. It is thus, that
the French Emperor extends Ins influence
in t ie north——and prepares the means of
straitening the British commerce in the
Baltic.
. INTERESTING.
Bostcw. October 13.—Arrived, ship I,au
ra Davis, fiom Muntivideo. Since the
change of government in Buenos Ayres three
English ships, with valuable cargoes, have
been seized, for attempting to smuggle_
one ot them had been condemned. Srhoo
ner Julia, ot Philadelphia, with a China
Cit: go, from Rio. belonging to Mr. Reiley,
(Mr Miller supercargo) was seized, cm’
dettined, and sold, with her cargo, tor smug
gi ng 1 here tv.’re 16 English merchant
men a Buenos Ayres-some of them had
been there twelve, and two of them nvrn y
ni mths. August 25 lat 23 30 S. Ion. 29 30
VV wjj boarded by a boat trom lus Bri an
oic Majesty’s ship the Dromedary, one of a
fleet .4 seven then in sight The i cx» day
capt. D.ivis and myself wet e sent tor bv the
Commodore, with ship papers, log bo fc' &c.
he sent his boat at one o’clock, and we were
received oil board by Hie captain, and con.
ducted to the ctjmmnitlote’s cabin, who re.
ceived us with much civility-,e was dp*
sirous of obtaining some infoi ma.ion.of the
revolution in tue Rivej r,f Plate, for lie ob„
served the y k’tjw very little at Rio, of v/hat
was g ting on in the River Alter remain
ing "ii board about four hours, and answer,
ing his inquiries, (all which he took down
in writing) and partaking of a variety of rz
frtshmt;nt3, he gave us the following infor
mation : that his fl.g ship was the Hindus,
tan ot 50 guns, capt I’a>r,o ; that with the
Dromedary of 38, and the Porpoise, sldooof
war of 18 guns, he left aidnev, New South
VVaies, the Htb May last ; that ho was
Governor Bligli, and hat! been governor there
several years ; that the triops had mutini
ed against him. and that they were order
cd home for ttial ; that the whole-of,-the
I02d regiment was then in the fl-et for that
purpose ; that he left the colony &!| quiet
and well under governor Macqne*n ; the
number Jof troops left was about 2090 in.
eluding the Tod regiment ; that the colonv
increased rapidly, and were in want of no
thing, although many articles have a gieat
price. Left no American vessels there.—
I he ship l onqum of New York had been
there, and sailed with near 290 tuns wood
*o complete her loading with beach la mar,
for Chirm, and had a pio»pect of making an
immense voyage. Ship Hope, Chase, of
I Newport had been there, and sailed with
flattering prospects A ship had been there,
I whic!i sailed from New York with a srhoo
| ner, but had parted from her, and had not
sy n her for several months The commo
d >re had spoke nothing on his passage,
w nich was lo weeks to Rio Janeiro, from
which place he sailed the 11th August with
the four other snips in ro. under convoy for
England. After expressing his satisfaction
at H e information lord Strangford gave him
at Rio. of the favorable prospect of ar.com.
modatiun between his government and out*,
and of the pleasure it gave him to see the
American flag retain its neutrality ; he po
'defy offered ns any thing he hud that we
mijjht be in want of; on cur summing that
*
xve m'grh‘ be short of *re «rood, he HsistoA
on our taking a boat Inad which he had
brought from Botany Bay—he had declined
looking at our ship’s papers or log book—he
obsei ved, an Amei ican brig arrived at Uiu
the 10th Aug.
•UirljmonD £hearre»
On Frtday Fv-ning, Uctoh r vnlt be prestrrtej,
t/ie celc '-ruti 1/ tly of
JOHN BULL.
'1q \skich xiill be added, the Musical Enter taitft
mi nt of
NO SONG NO SUPPER ;
THE LAIVER IX THE SACK
The pithhc ure resit lm i#iui<dth.. Mr
CeMns Cl A UK's BENEFIT, willtake pktwO
•11 SM'uiday Evening.
Doors to be op. Kea at half past Jive, and the per
Jor ,nance to commence at hutf past 6
• 7 rebels to be l ad at Air Davit's printing
OjJ.ce, ami at the Thea-rc
t Oc. ^6 H
IT US i HECEIVED, a Iresh uppi\ of F vl.L
*5 GuOl>S, per tlie ship Minerva, from Liver*
[ pool, UK follows, VlX :
I super tine Cloths i
I Second do
| Sup*, rltw kri'M yirprt*3 j
S < i nid do
Su eitinr French K- r- I
bt-\irte;es
An as urimcnt of Kib
bands
Bl 'k Crapes
, I- 9h l.men, a!! kinds,
I W a istc outings &. Todi
I rvetts
Velvet# and Vclveteens
Corduroy 3 and Cords
Pound & Package Pin#
Kaverin Du k mid P.u#
sir. SI.eeling
India Cottons
Uumbaztr.e. Btinba
zette and Wiltlbore
Cotton Shirting#
Sew ing Silks
Silk, Cotton and ViTcrs
lerl Storings
Bandaimo and Madrass
Handkerchiefs
Coarse and tine Shawl#
Pen knives and Pocket
Knives.
Knives and Forks
Uenoand India Muslin#
Seeded St jackonct do.
Peliol C lot !)S
Brown 11.>11.inly
Napt Cotton (for-nr
groe# cl or .11 ng)
Seeded & Muslin robes
Linen £V cotton Thread
all colours
Buttons mul Combs 1 i
i nese articles being particularly selected for
cash, will be disposed ot on the iovrett terms. for
cash or town acceptances.
„ . .. L JOSEPH.
October 25 '
I AZAHUS JOSEPH has Eoi bale, ny me*
pi- re or package, the f- l.wing articles V8V
ry low tor i.usii or town acceptances :
1 Bale Superfine Cloths
1 Bale Bed and P unt Blankets
1 Case Stockings
1 Small pa kage of Cotton Umbrella*
1 Trunk Chidie 4 4 wide
• I Small box Ltistr.r.gs (Black)
5 Boxc*. Ribbands, assorted.
Ociob r 26.
NO 1 ICE is hereby given, that I s.all, a* the*
deputy of John Holman, who was Sheriff?
nt Cumber Uiut>county, and committee udminrs«
ti.uor ot Wtn T Djveopoit, «lec’d. attend attic*
nts.t Cumt'ci land Nuvenibcr Court, for the pur «
poseot settling and adjusting tl,e claims ag«in4?
Uie estate of l lie .said deceuent; and all those*
j who may have claims again*! the said estate, arc*
| notified to bring their claims forward on or he*
fore the in zt Cumberland November court day„
legally and properly authenticated. A* 1 sh/lt
utter that day pay over to the persons entitled to
receive the balance which may remmn in my
hands, belonging to sad estate *
JESSE MICH AVIf,
Jjtfi^ty .for * ohn Ho.man, late Sheriff
Octo cr 25. __w4 .T«[ •
Five dollars reward_sti..\tji.
trom the I airfield Race Grom d, some tunes
since, a likely dark brown coloured MU EE, w.iU
a bob tail, and the hair worn off the right Hugh*
Whoever will deliver said Mule to Mr Will,an*
Randolph, at Wilton, Col. Mile* Selden, neap'
Richmond, or the subscriber, slu’d receive the
oove rewaid, and all reasonable ( barges fu»m
’ , JOHN J WEUTH,
has to dispose of
1000 Sear med one ir. h Alb-ny HLANK, and
2 Pan 2nd h nd BURR MILL oTuNES
October .26 - tf *1
A ''ALUAiiLE double gird MEHCHaNTo
‘‘ILi.—bOt< 6AL1i—Pursuant 10 a de
cree ot dir i.uumy co .ri 01 Hanover, wi 1 be sold,
to ih highest bidder, on one, two U three-ve.ri*
credit, on the pretu . », n die 23d day of Nov.
m xi, that valuable MERCHANT- MILL be
longing to the estate of l ini s Bowie. <ie ’d
l lus mill lies ill the lower end of Saul county"
upon a never f. sling Stream, within fifteen innea
•I Richmond, and-4 from Hanover Town, in a
ncii, healthy arid agreeable neighborhood The
said Mill niu.lt nab ulated for iriamifaciuring
*heal, it having * D..ir of excellent burr stones.
H set superior I Jolting cloths, with all necessa
ly machinery ; the sain null has . ,o a R„ ,cj p ,ip
ui cmn stones flit u< ghborhoed is very y .oil
lor cord *nd whaat custom. The mill house is a
uoift 34 I ft long, and 20 feet wide, und hreo sto
ties high, wiili a si< i 8.on . d - 4 ij g
reel; calculated tor •. fam y. There is 11 acres
of land oeaiueB what the pond dm a ns. 1 he pur
chaser nay he accommodated wiili from one to
three hundred acres of Land adjoining the said
mill ol good quality, and at a moderate price.
For the purchase of the Mill, bonds with un
doubted sccuuly, will fieriquired by
THE CO M MISS ION Hits.
H "over, O t 263 6 Ol Mif'
A* * vxCcllci m , , | i ,vlt Me
cli ni< 8, — 1 will Hi (it or I.c.ue, f >r "a
term of years, the following IEnEM. NT!j si
tuated at Aylell's Ware House, on M-ttaponw
river, vn : Une laigw and convenient boiwe, on
-i.ting ol 8 rooms, six of which n ,v>- fire pla-. s,
w in uu necessary out office*, a garden, lots, CrL
and at present occupied as a avern. Three stor»
h-Mkt-s which are well cal, ul ted for the rccepti.
on ol Merchandize, having a accomptmg .nd
lumber room in each ; Also, ti ree gfj.ia. es, si
tusted O ' v>i bank o' th - ritr w jC!i is sufflci
enily deep t a m ve* of c ns.d . ,i*ie bur .
then to r c iv.theulo.ds, w i his greatly fa
cilitated by mea..H <.fs(*»uts affixed t. each gra
n«iv. Al o, two condor.able Dwelling
without offi rs, lots, (sc and also a house tl a?
! will intwei fo: h receo^pn of a Mechanic, with
ft sufficiency of ground annexed for a gvxJen.'Cre.
j t ins place,M lo its loc I situation, |l:,s many ad
vantages, being ina wealthy and populous neigh
bn.hood, WiUi the convenience of navigation ho
urlrcb produce may be carried v/itii little ’e/~
pence, to Norflk and other sea port towns. Im
mediate possession may be bad in two itnro hou
st-8 and twngriinsr.es, and in Uie other tenement*
on he 1st day ol Jan next. Tbetenements u df
be pom.til out, and ihe terms made known be
application to the Subscriber, near th pi i m s *s
, ' T A1Lb.Tr
McutvJl'V K'Bj Wi3uuB; Ua. 3?. ?
Tortoise Shtll Cr Hons
Combs
Ivory miuI Barbers'do
B'a< k & coloured Lust*
ring
Writing sml Letter Pa
per
Bed and Pnim Blanket*
Cain brick Dmities
Corded do
Cotton UinbreiLs
Needles hy the 1000
Ga‘l<M>ns Bindings ,nd
Siik Hose all niloiir^.
Short and long Kid
Gloves
Undressed Linen Cam
bricks
Silk Umbrellas
Black C:.niblicks and
White
Long Lawns end whites
Plains
Yellow, white, red and
green Flannels
Silk and Cotton Ging
hams
Cat Gut and Worsted
Gloves
s i rlet Bombazette Sc
Cloth
Csinel Hair and othet?
Slia wls
W itch Seals and Keys
Epuiiletts
Booth Brushes & Dice
Ermine for Felices ‘
I able and Tea Spoon*!
C' intz and Call cor*
Tubby and Silk Velvet.