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S&ic&cooirti price Current.
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CASH.
D. C.
Tobacco, : * s * * : S 00
WHEAT £NEw} ft ; 1 30
flour QsupKarrwK.] t • t 8 jOO,
FLOUR [fine] t * ; ,7 50
COH It... 3 75
■ EWP, TER'TOW, , : 270 00’
IB on, * . *v, . /• . , 710 001
BACON, •■<(. / I. ,(i • 00 00j
WAil'SKV , • . . . 4 '00"B7
Sales at Aa:li >n.
T> Y virtue of a deed of trim bearing date the
• Ushj. Frb. 1804, eserotrd to the subscriber,
hy Messer^. PklteUj .P.dard apd lohnston. and
Mr It chard Young, to tecu e the payment o1'
19 hundred poundv'lite to Mr- Gilley Lcvrii and
Mrs. Susanna IArwis j
; will bt Sold
At 'Rrckvtta, cn. he 10 h day of July next, some
very valuble 1.Q T 3 convey* i n said trust,
or so much (hereof as will be aufficiea? to raise
the sum cl £1*8 6 8 with interest treieon from
the 11th F«o. la.it, be in. thu balance ides by
Richard Y oung on accoun- of his purchase.
John Fro«s :r
John Jiatchtii C Trustees.
Atfy. for John Foster. )
Richmond, June 19,n, 1810. tds
iiu nuyiriVi'-i w j «»n ^ nunany tuc
* 5th of July, ofF.*r at Public S tie, the
House and Let
In which his ftmdy now resided, a very
healthy and pleasant situation on Rockett’B
kill— ;
Also——Lot Ho. 9,
in 'Nicholson*! Rope Walk Tenement, on
which is two Frame Building!. The said
^ Dot is on the main street and convenient toj
Navigation, The Sale will commence at]
3 o’clock Jn the evening and the terms:
made known.
WILLIAM GOODWIN*
, ■» • C3 PQ
RAN AWAY from the Subsc/iber, on
Saturday 2Sil June,
Ambrose Jackson,
an apprentice lad to the Blacksmith’s trade,
about sixteen years old. II- iw remark*-!
ble ler his pleasing countenance, and ap„l
parenfgi/od humour. All persona a*'e tor* '
warned from employing him in any occu
pdtioi), a« 1 iitni desirous of. getting him
again, and a reward of two dollars, will be
given to any person who will deliver said
lad to me. JAMES GURRY.
King & Queen, June 23 1, 1810.
W E want about 20 thousand seasoned
Barrel Slaves.
Gallego, Richard, & Co.
Richmond, 86ih,Jtre, 18 O 3w.
ao uayici Chishoi u, r.x’r. oi
Walter Chisholm, dec’d.
Be pleased to take notice, that as
you have removed from the Commenwealih ot
Virginia^ ant} have left no agot or attorney
here that tvs know of, that on ue ogtj, ^*7 «t
Junenextj between the hours of nine o'clock Jr.
the morning aad seven o’clock in the evenings
at the office of George Grcenhuw, Esq. not*>y
pub ic. in the city of Richmo d, -ve nbail proceeJ
to tike the. deposition of J hn F Price, Esq, of
the said cityj to be rendm evidence in the. sui
wh iihisdei>end rg in the superior c<tart in Chan
4 eery directed by law to be holden at the Capi
tol in the City ot Richmond, wherein Sarah
Price, Mar ha Buckner, Thomas King. Eliza
b»lh King. Dorothy King, Infant children of
Ma-iha King , dtcM, by Elisha Price their next
friend, arc Plain.iffs, and you David Chisholm,
Fxerutrr of the Testament and last Will of
Waller Chisholm, is Defendant,
SARAH PRICE,
Widow 01 Peter Price,
MARTHA BUCKNER,
Widow of Elliot Buckner.
TH ).VIAS KING.
WILLIAM DuV.VL,
AilmV of William Pric-% d?c’d,
wbu is interested in the said
suit, and Attorney for Fl.fo.
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Arciieidus ilii^lies*
CJUMltblJS MRRCHAJJr,
O i 'lit b >in, s i HKliS and oELl.S even
kii.t! of Hll'JjJUCti i>ii ths u>u<tl Cum us *
SlUN.
He /his for Sii/c,
hO ifU-i. Cut ilcrr»ii)j<»,
10,000 Wt. i ic ol W .,,n Bacon.
2HU S *lt Pe er d rta«n->.
W.>Jttf»«nd,/one liu, laid (wl2<n)
iricca'ca Cyci )p*Jld,
t Ho. 2J
Ifajuit Reccivau 4. tu.* O.fi c,
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DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE,
In Congress, July 4, 1776.
A Declaration bv the Representative* oj
-the United States of America in Con
gress assembled, 4th j ucv, 1776.
When, in the course of human e
vents. it becomes necessary for one
peonde to dissolve the political bands
which have co-'hected ^hem with ano
ther, and to assume among <he pow
ers of the eanh. the separate and equal
$*a iou to which thi laws of1 nature
and of nature’s CJod entitle them, a de
cent respect tot'^eojfh ions of n r k nd
requires that they should declare the
cause* which impel them to the sepa
ration.
We hold these truths to he self-evi
dent—that all men are created equal;
that they ate endowed by their Crea
tor with certain un^lienabl* rights ;
that among these, are life, liberty, 8c the
pursuit of happiness. That o secure
these rights, governments are institu
ted among men,deriving their just pow
ers from the consent of the gov erned *
that whenever any form of government
becomes destructive of these ends, it
is the right of the people to alter or
abolish it, and to institute a new go
vcrnmcni. laying us iounaauon on sucn
principles, and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem
most likely to effect their safety anti
happiness. Prudence, indeed, will
dictate, that governments long esta
blished should not be changed for light
und transient causes; and accordingly
all expe'ience hath shewn, that man
kind are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are sufferable, than to right them
selves by abolishing the forms to which
tt:ev are accustomed. B it when a long
t-ain of abuses and usurpation?, pur&u
i g invariably the same object, evinces
a design to reduce them under abao
luce despotism, it is their right, it is
their duty, to throw off such govern
ment, and to provide new guards for
thf-ir future security. Such ha
been th<. patient sufferance of these
colonies; and suGh is now ‘he necessi
ty which constrains them to alter {hen
former systems of gov ra.ucnt- The
history of the prescut king of Great!
Britain is a history of repeated inju
ties and usurpations, all having in di
rect object the estr.biisment of an ab
solute tyranny over these states. To
prove this, let facts be submitted to a
candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws
the most wholerome and necessary for
the public good. .
He has forbidden his g vernors to
pass laws of immediate and pressing
imponanc , unless suspended in their*
operation, till his as3<*m sr.ould be oL
taioed ; aud, when so suspended, he
ins uuerlv ■euler.teil to attt-rwl to
them.
He has refused to piss other laws,
for ihe accommoJ.iti m of l.tfgr dis
tricts of people, unless thos ,,eopl
would relinquish ihe right of repress n
(ation in the Legislature-a rig'it in.
estimable to the ^ and formidable to
tv rants only.
tit has called Jogether legislative bo
dies, at places onasua , uncomtot table,
Mini distant from the depository id
their public recor §, For the sole pur
pose ol fatigung ihe in into compliance
wuh his rnea3u is.
He has dissolved Kepresen ative
houses repeatedly for opposing, with
manly firmness, his invasions on the
right ol the people.
fie has ret used lor a long time al"
ter such dissolutions, to cause othe s
to he elected * whereby the legist i ive
powers, incapable of annihilnfi >n, have
etu ned to the people at larg , i r
t< cir exercise * the Sta e remaining in
he mean time, exposed to all the da •
g» r cl nvision Irom without, and
vonvuUions within.
He has * n leavored to prevent the
populat.on of th.*se St uts j for that
purpo e ohs rtlctmg tn^ laws l< r vatu
diZ.ii n of inre.gnersj refitting to
ass o h. fa, to entourage thv ir mig a
tion Imher, and r ism; the condi.io'
ji new appropri lions ui lands.
ll has obstructed the adminivt at’.
»*•! ot j .»*icv, by ref idng his .«ssen
t»» laws, lor tttab.isliing Judiciary pow
ers,
ft- has made Judges dependent o
his.will tor th* te.-ure cl then
- ■ I .
offices, and the amount and payment
of their salaries.
He has erected .a multitude of new
>fficesand sent hither Swarms of offi
cers, to harrass our people, aud eit out
their substance. „
He has kept among ns, in times of
peace, standing arnties withiut the
consent of our Legislature*.
ffe has affected to render the mili
tary independent of, ancf superior to
the civil power.
Hie has combined jvifh others* to
subject us to a jnmdicndn, foreign to
our Constitution and unacknowledged
by our laws j giving, bis assent to tfapir
acts of pretended legislation.
For quartering large bodies of arm
ed troops among us -«.
For protecting them, by ti mock tri
af, from punishm >nt for anv murders
which they should commit os the in.
habitants of these 3; tea:—
For cutting off our trade with all
parts of the world
For imposing taxes on us wi.hout
our consent : —
For depriving us in mamv cases, of
the b: refits ol trial by jury : —
For transporting us t*e\oml seas,
to be tried for pretended ©'Fence-*:—j
For abolishing the free system of;
English laws in a neighboring pro
v.uce, establishing therein an arbitrary
government, and enl urging its bound4
vies so as to render it at once :in ex
ample and fit instrument, for intro
ducing the same absolute rele into
these colonies :—
For taking away our charters abo
lishing our meat valuable laws, and al- !
oring fundamentally the forms of our
governments .
For suspendingour own legislatures,
and declaring themselves invested
with power, to legislate for us in all
cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here,
by declaring uc out of bis protection
and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged
lour coasts, burnt our towns, and de
stroyed the lives of osar people.
He is at this time transporting large
armies of foreign mercenaries to com
plete the works of death, desolation,
and tyranny, already b«*gun, with cir
cumstances of cruelty and perfidy,
scarcely parralled in the most barba*
rous ages, and totally unworthy the
head of a civilized nation.
lie has constrained our fellow cici*
Zens, taken captive on the high seas, to
ro bear arms against their country, be
come the executioners of their friends
and brethren, or to fall themselves by
the5r hands.
He has excited domestic insurrecti
ons amo gst us, and has endeavored
to bring on »he inhabitants of our fron
tiers, the merciless Indian savages,
vhose known rule of warfare is an un
distin i i hed destruction of all ages,
iexes, and conditions. „
In every stage of these oppre ;sions.
we have petitioned for redress. in the
most, humble terms; our repeated pe
t>tion* have been answered only-by
repeat d inj‘ ry.—-A piince whose cha
racter is thus mark'd by every act
which may define a tynnt, is unfit to
be the ruler of a Free People.
Nor have wv been wan ing in at
tention to our British brethren. We
have warned them from ti ne to time,
of attempts ma le by their legislature
o ex end an unwarra taole jumdicti
hi over us. VVe have reminded them
>f the citcuins ances ol our emigration
ind settlement he c. We have ap
,)♦ aled to their native justice and mag
n.ini nity, and we have conjured them,
by the ties of our common kindred, to
di avow these usurpations, which
vouid inevitably interrupt our con
tections and corresp'ndcnce. They
too have beeu cl af to tiie voice of J us
tice an l c .nsanguinny. We must,
therefore, acq .irsce in the necessity
•a hich Jenounc * our separation, and
old them as we hold the rest of man
<.n 1—enem.es m war—in peace,
1'r.ends. ,
We therefore, the Representatives
of the (J.iited States cf America in
Congress assembled, appealing to the
ijprcine Judg: t»l the worn! ior the
ectitudc of our intentions, l>o, in the
■ rue and by the aatnority of the good
'* ople of these Colon e», «ule>uii|y
leclare, that these U.ited Colouiea
<>e, and, of i igh- ought to be Free ami
independent estatesthat they ate
absolved from ad allcgtauce to me
IJriush Crown, and that all political
connection, between them and the S:a*e
ot Great britain is., and ought to be
totally dissolved ; and that as Free and
! Independent States, they have full
t power to levy war, conclude peace,
contract alliances, establish commerce J
and to <lo all other acts and things
which Independent States mav of right
do. And for the support of this de
claration with a firm reliance on the
protection <9f Divine Providence, we
mutually pledge toe ch other,our lives,
| our fortune* and our sacred honor.
1 Signed by order and ia behalf ol the
(Congress.
JOHN HANCOCK, President.
Attest,
CHARLES THOMSON, SecVv.
Patriotic Songs.
The following limpid, but strongly dis„
seriptive bOMvi, composed by an olu
revolutionary officer, [ uppnseil ' .» b«*
0*n. Tercer] in memory of the cap'ure
01 the ’-Ttss ans at Trenton, vill oe highly
acceptable, it is believed, particularly at
tmser sii,tnrhe genuine tTiends of Ameri
can rights ana liberty.
OV C iristma# dav in 76 ;
O.ir r.ijgeH troops with b yoneta fix’d,
F r T relit on maich’d away.
T»e Delaware see, tne boats below,
the light obscur’d by hail anil snow,
^ UI UOilid V •
v)ar object whs the Hessian band,
That dnr’d to invade fair freedom’s land,
And quarter in thst place a
'Great Washington ltd ur on.
With ensigns area uing with renown,
j Which ne’er nad known disgrace.
In silent march wc pass’d the night,
finch soldier panting for the tight,
i no* quiie benumb’d with trost—.
Gita tun. on the left at six began,
Tne rignt was with brave Sullivan,
Who in battle no time lost.
Their Pickets storm’d, the alarm was
spread,
That nl/. -is’n from the dead,
Were marching into town—
Some scampered here^ some scamper,
ed tnere.
And some for action did prepare,
But soon their arms lain down.
Twelve hundred servile miscreants,
With all their colors, guns and touts,
Were trophies of the day—
The frolic o’er, tne bright canteen,
In centre, front and rear Was been.
Driving fatigue away.
Now brothers of the band*,
Let’s sing our safe del v’rance from a king,
Who strove to rule the sway_
And as life you know is but a span.
Let’s touch the tancard while we cau,
In MKMoar or thu day.
The following most excellent SONG, com.
posed, it is supposed, by Gen. Warren,
who fell at the battle of Hur.ket’s iinl,
in the year 1775, was published in the
Argus several years ago : Hut believing
it may not be unacceptable to our rea.
ders at the pr sent time, we have thought'
proper to repuol sh it.
TuNE^BrITISU Grekadur.
THAT scat of science Athens,
And earth’s proud mistrees Home ;
W he re now are all their glories,
We scarce can find a tomb i
Toen guard your rights Americans,
Nor Stoop to lawless sway ;
Oppose, oppose, oppose, Oppose,
for aorth America.
We led fair freedom hither,
And lo i the iltsart smii’d j
A paradise of p casure.
Was opened in the wild !
Your harvest, bold Americans,
No power snail snaten away,
Hujrza, huzza, huzza, huzza,
for free America.
Torn from a world ef tyrants,
Beneath this western sky ;
We torined a new dominion,
A land ol I herty /
I’he world shall own we are masters
here,
Then hasten on the day.
Huzza, huzza, huzza, huzza,
for tree America. •
Proud Albion bow’d to Caesar,
And numerous lords befoie i
To ficts, to Hanes, to Normans,
And many m .sters mor- ;
But we can boast Americans,
We've never ial ’n a prey.
12a/.Zi, liuazi, huzza, uuzza,
For iree America.
Col bless this maiden climate,
And inriNigu its va» d -main ;
May iin.is ut heroes caster,
Woo seorn to we n .« cnatn ;
And mast toe venal sycophant,
1 nut dares our r.gnt* betray »
liuzz i, buzzu, iiazza, Muzza,
kor Inc A'ucticz.
— mm
Lift up your he. ds, ye herori.
And swear wit:; proud diertam,
The wretch that wouId ensnare v»«,
Shall lay his .snares »n vain ;
Should Europe empty a^I her force,
We'll meet her «ti
And fight and «hout, and shout and fight*
For North America.
Some future dav shall crown us,
The masters of the main,
Our fleet Shall -peak in thunder.
To England, France and Spain :
And the nn'tons o’er the ocean spread,
Shall \tem!)v and obey.
1 he sor. , the sotwt the sobs, the sons,
Of brave Am ricn.
A duel was fouf.ii*, a few days since its
Cornwall, whtn both the Combatants fell
at the first fir'-fewp catastrophe Imputed to
the extraordinary conduct of the Second
ffor their was hut.one) who a*s sted on the
occ smn It se^ms the par tie-—a' com
mercial Ambassador from London and a
Gem omnn of the nngUbn, hood—he tur,
flash’J w, h the Tuscan gr pe, a.,d »r
high ! loud, <pj rrilfrd ,• and in 'he tin.
pa icnce of their v.lor having no uth-r
• vms at hand, proceeded to the work of
death with a single musket. The toss of
a dc4l.tr, which gave thy hist fire te une,
fixed the other as his fatal mark. Th<
single Second charged the musket—and in
the act of delivering .1 with elevatedmu>:.
ste, purposely puT.d the trigger—wht<.
both combat nts feile-ic the sound l one o
ver a precipice=the other into the mud—
and the Gerrleman, to whom we owe our
account, sajs, he left the former in tM*
charge of a Nur^c—the latter of a Waslu
erwoman. [London Paper.]
OALTiMORS, Jt7XK 26.
Extract of a let’er from a grntleroan of
high respectability in N. York, date*
June 4th, 1310.
“ I have engaged in some expensive im*
provements in a large bo ty of lands. I
have in this state for raising sheep, and
have last week purchased in coujunctfqp
•vitha fnend six hill bl >odid merino cheep
♦or the price or 7 500 d liars. We have
been offered 500 dollars for the use of one
of the Hums for this season. I expect to
have 1000 sheep in three years, whose
wool, alone, besides the increase of the
ttock will yield from >hre« to four thousand
dollars per annum *’
Federalism against itself l' * '
We have had Irequent occasion to
remark, that malice was blind_fede
ral inconsistency conarms our opiai.
on .*
1 he federal fac’ton have declared,
that Mr jpcffcrsrii vas a 1 rench parti-,
sa i, guiucd by hia devotion to Fr*uc«,
and by iear ol Bonaparte :
Bat, when x\lir<*u ta\» diminutive
expediti on was undertaken, the same
faction asserted, that Mr Jefferson se
cretly ai led and coun enanced that
measure—Now, Miranda’s object was
to aevjr a Spanish provi u from Spaiu,
and eventually, from France. So Mr
J. according to the feJerai pr nts, was
both for Franc- and against it! “ Ab
uno disce omnes.”—Whig.
Federalism against Tru'h.
Mr J tiler son was the enemy of his
o,vn country—yet, Mr Jefferson drew
up (he Declaration ol that very coun
try’s Independence! and has ever since
continued to be its most able and laith*
ful supporter.
Mr Jefferson was an enemy to com
merce—-yet, he used all his exertion*
in behalf of our neutral and cQitiai«ry
cial rights.
But, he still continued ihe pliant in
strument of France f—Yet, he recom
mended an embargo, to preserve A
merican property from the jaws of En
glish and French rapacity.
The real cause of all the long series
of federal calumny against this best of
men, is to be found in Mr. Jefferson's
inflexible patrio- sm and unshaken ir>
tegiity—he wrote the Declaration of
Am. rican l.idependcnc ,—he repelled
the treachery and inrigue of Bzi aiti
—He remained the friend o< his coun
try, the advocate of the rights of man.
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