Virginia Argus — Richmond, Va., 1810-10-16 00:00:00, page 3

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^ Baltimore, &ct. 10.
^ RUMOR.
N
* 11 .Rumor is a pipe
Hlown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures j
And of so easy and so plain a stop,
That the blast monster wills uncounted
‘heads,
Can play upon it,
Shakespsars.
The reader may make what he pleases
^ of the following—may ruminate on
it, laugh at it, spurn it, or believe
it.
To the right about wheel!
Bonaparte, who has often evinced
sufficient pliancy to bend to circumstan*
dices when he could net force circumstan
Vmcs to bend to him,—has prepared, it
#% whispered, to display another stroke
of policy :
Ferdinand VII. is to be king of Spain
and Portugal.
France may thus appease the resent
ments of the Spanish people, whom she
could not conquer without great sacri
fices—and the Spanish colonics in S.
America and else-there be kept from
revolt. Remaining attached to Spain,
under the rumored arrangement, the
colonies will be drawn from English
connexions; and Ferdinand, being the
devoted creature of Bonaparte, to
whom he will be indebted for his
throne, will doubtless operate in every
measure with France against England.
This proposed change may account for
-“-abe inactivity in Spain, &c. Other
Ayjpis and results can be formed, or
■fcjectured by the political speculator
—ps the agency of Austria,—the inllu.
ence;of the emprtss,—the disappoint
ment of Joseph Napoleon, ar.d his fu
ture destiny,—the stipulated overthrow
of the Courts of Inquisition (said to be
one of the conditions)—the eject on
The commerce and relations of Eng
land—and our interest (if any) in the
reported dispositions*
Whig.
% A NINE HOUR S WONDER.
M0 Little Brown, the roguish, runaway
■Collector from New-Orleans has made
his appearance wc understand at the
City of Washington ; and it* is daily
expected he will be followed by Col.
Burr. This arrival causes great won
der in the metropolis, we hear ;—but
wherefore we are really at a loss to
“tell * for we can see nothing either
new or surprising in this Visit. Did
"Dot Ned Livingston violate a greater
trust, deprive the public of between 50
and 100 thousand dollars, and seek re
fuge at New Orleans—the unfortunate
place of resort to all off scowerings of
, our country—And did not this man
\ return to Washington ? Yes, good
people of the United States, he did
I Return to Washington—where he was
"Caressed, and figured m the beau
roonde, from the drawing room to the
second grade tea parties. And what
is more, he made a powerful interest
in congress who exerted every
nerve, with John Randolph at their
head, to give him the public property
at New Orleans called the Batture,
which is worth a million of dollars.
And why should not little ilrown be
received, ami entertained and provi
ded for.—His crime is uot as great as
Livingston’s and his temptations were
much stronger. The only distinction
between the two we can discern • is
—that Brown has lost his money, that
■^Oirown is poor and friendless* and
K Livingston is backed by power
s^d wealth. Yet we remember a time
when the generous breast pref rred the
cause of the helplcs.s
MANY.
ib.
Washingtc?$ City, Oct. 12.
The following is an extract of a let
ter Iroin a respectable commercial
character in Bristol,»[£ng.) dated Au
gust 17, 1810.
“ The prospect of our wheat harvest
hat by no means improved, the wea
ther having be^n very wet and win
V’ \
WES t /<• IS) RID A.
'the following'article is from the
Avgusta Chronicle of September 22.
We are inclined not V give credit io
it ; though we have tdways deemed it
probable that the Cover ing Junta of
Sji:do would attempt to transfer this
territory to Great lintaiuy as some son
of indemnification for JPe expenc.es m
cuyed in luraishio^fhcm with trrups
jwo1 supplies, if mh prove to be rhe
t*«t, the prcsrmjf of a llritish frigate
might ensure tne submission of the
town of PensacrJa, which is situated
^in tlie midst ot a wilderness, being
fitifiy a hundred miles distant Jiom
r-njgkthcr settlement, and itself ton*
» of but tWv) nr thre« hundred*}.!.
* iv. a, without at ad effecting there.
rutWler of the urtiion.
“Yrhe liritish fl *g is flying on the
CtiSlBPf Pcn-aco!.t. Olir iid^nnxtion
*1^1
u derived from a gentleman 17 days
from that quarter. This is uo mere
the reader will recollect, than we cal
| calated upon in a former paper, and is
i probably the last act of delegated au-1
thority of the Spanish Junta, in favor I]
of their good friend and ally King'
George. N ow we may consolfc our
selves with having the British bo&4n
our front and reah. They have now
the master key to the West India
trade, and can easily controal that ot
the Mississippi. This might have
been easily prevented, in our opinion,
; i^w*iust, but too forbearing govern
ments ffkd seized, vi et urmis, on that
jpart\pf West-Fiorida which they
claim.”
We understand that Mr. Brown, the
late collector at New Orleans, whose
presence iu this city we announced in
our last, came here voluntarily and
expressly for the purpose of surrend
ering himselfco government.
From the 4th to 10th Augus*, 1810,
out of 59 vessels arriving in the port
of Liverpool, thirty-three were from
America. This fact is one among u
thousand which might be adduced to
prove the great importance to Great
Britain of an unrestrained intercourse,
with us at this moment.
Norfolk, Oct. 12.
The United States brig Nautilu*,
Captain Sinclair, arrived here on Wed
nesday, from a cruize to the South-.
A^ch’r from Richmond bound to
\be xforthward, loaded with coals,
foundered on the Horse-shoe near Cape
Henry, on Tuesday last.
Notice.
T WISH to dispose of my TRACT OF
LAND lying iu New Kent county, cal-|
1 eTi
WARE CREEK,
and containing about two thousand Acres.
| Ob this plantation are Buildings sufficient
for a small family, and a Mill on a never
tailing stream of water, which may be
made navigable to York River for Boats
with a liule expence. Only about^SOO a.
cres of this Land are cleared, v/iJfch are
divided into three shifts, well adapted to
the culture oi Corn ar.d Wheat, Jhe bal*
ance very level and welt tirabe«d. Ex.
pedtingnthose inclined to purchase will first
view Ufcfc land I forbear to enumerate nil I
the qfrrnBtagee. if this Land is not sold
btforPthe <ih of December next, it will
then be set up, on the premises to the
highest bidder, on a credit of one'and two
years, bonds and approved security With
a deed of trout on the Land, will be re.
quired to cany interest from the date.
At the same time ana place will be so.u
all the Corn, Fodder and stock cf every
kind, on the said {hautation. Twelve mouths
credit w 11 be allowed purchasers, on their
giving bond and good security to carry in.
terest tiorn the-date if not punctually paid.
Ar mislead Russel
[e p t 6 u}
VIRGINIA, to voit:
At a Court of monthly session, held for
Campbell county at the Court liocse there,
of on Monday the tenth day of September,
aaio. j
On an Attachment»
Hart and Nemo, Plus. ■'» .
against ! r. ^ .
Mary Mason and Peter Ma* r
son, De'ts. 1
f\N hearing the bill of the Complainants, I
^ •* Ordered, That the D^epdant
PelcrMas n, be restrained fron^ayn>y a.
way any debts by him owing^T or^ecret*]
ting any goods or chattels Jfh.ch We hath]
in hi» hands belonging *to tie odu:/ defen.
dant Mary Mason, until thl funlufr order
of this Court -and it is furrier ortreted anjf]
decreed, that the other tl\eiidant Mytfy
Mason,do appear here on th^jcuniLMoii
day in December next, and .inSwPThe nil I ]
of the »«id complainants, and that u copy
»»1 ih.s order be forthwith inserted in some
one of the v irgmia Gazelles, for two mon hs ]
successively and posted up at the front door
ot the said corn t-houso on two several j
ccurt day a, and that process be awardrd
the complainants against the defendant* to
this suit,
A Cnpy_VeBte,
i v % J°^n Alexander, d. c. c. c.
Oft. 17, 1810. (w8tp)
THo subscriber hereby gives notice, that
* he intends tofftetiticn the next Gener
al Ass^tbly of Virginia, lor lehef against
an ordinance of the Common Hail^t the
city ot Richmond, passed on the Itim June
last, whereby, tinder a general re.'JIauoH
concerning Ine licensing of Csrrlujes, he
and his family are prevent'd iro*n fvtng a
hirtd Carnage ot any description, for the
conveyance of persons,
Christopher McPherson.
• Richmond, 16 Oct. 1810, £t fj
MURPHY 8c CRUMP,
Ii) addition to their usual supply of
GROCER lfcfj, M
Have jvtt received a general asvutnwnt of
(Jluai^Cturui, Lorthcrn tf Stone B are,
Whir. A,, y propose to sell tow for Cl n, or
Coi'nWy produce,
. OctAlO; 1810. £1
A PETITION will be pr, • rnied to the
l ext G he.fal A* by t*TTtVi,.sj
Lintt for Icav.* to erect a M.ll
part of Dan Hirer nenr vrfvfi
I '“.mg a Mill, ami t«.i opening fvt
, It om in, ;\.,il it at t, its juncm
IGvrr.
' October 16, 1810,
SiSKa Wc0u5T \
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RICHMOND,
October 16, 1810.
ref the Virginia Argus.
was with some surprise
that I pOruscd in a recent Argus bn
sulogmm upon the conduct of Louis
Bonaparte, the late Icing of llollaud.
If it is intended as irony, I crave the
wllrer^s pardon ; but, ’really, the patirl
amiable picture given hy
~ a ragst consummate hy
uch more t'aan I can bear
any complacency 6f mus
Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of the
French, king, &c. is what the world
calls an Usurper. His title to imperi
•■*1 power is, doubtless, as legitimate as
that of most other sovereigns who have
reigned over nations or who do now
reign ;—but, nevertheless, he is an
Usurper. Louis, in virtue of this usur.
pation, accepted the crown of^folland
frotn his brother; xnd, of course, he
apcfpteV , it uV>n the principled which
ah usui^RtionVf power implies. 1 his
adcep^picb was an s\h&Mton the part.
oFLnuis to thefljropriejyofcNapoleon’s
conduct. ^ Ijjfrmg thus abated, hr
became a co-cperatf r in hia'brother’s
policy. 1 But then {say the aHgairen,
of the late behavior or Louis) he would
not fellow Napoleon in all his counsels s
and he abdicated the throne? Let us!
examine the validity of tins argument.
We must recollect, that however low
a nation may be sunk, there is still
something to be feared from suddenly
driving it in a mass to a state of entire
desperation. The Hollanders undti
lormer oppressions, as hi-tory bears
testimony, had evinced atormueie and
a cour.-.gc not to be trifled with. This
historical fact indicated to Napoleon
tue mode to be adopted m order cer
taiulv to effect their entire subjugati
on. Had he at once declared Holland
a province of the French empire, the
Dutmnen, shaking off the influence of
iheHp Constitutional phlegm, might
have rtfclttd, taken up arms, and, in
a state of general insurgency, set an j
example fatal to the new-born power of
the French emperor. They were, there -
fore, to be treated in a different manoei.
Louis was made their king : He af
fected, all at once, to be smitten with
the Dutch : His heart (poor soul!) w. s
deeply sensible of the wrongs they
suffered. He pretended to remou*
strate with his brother Napwdeon a„
gainst the total deprivation of com
merce which was endured by the Hol
landers. 1 say pretended to remon
strate ; for is it not certain that, not.
withstanding all the sham negociations
which Louis carried on with his bro
ther, that the decrees of St. Cloud
were as promptly and vigorously rxc.
cuk^i in Holland as in any pert of the
empire ? Relaxations, indeed,
wkreWiow and then permitted, when
*h\ Dutch appeared uncommonly res
tivV and when Napoleon was engaged j
in \pore important concerns. 1'ne
minds of the Hollanders were thus, by
degrees, subdued into a servile spirit;
French trot ps were gradually intro
duced into the country, under onepi'e- !
tei'Ce or anoth-r; and the farce of aj
misunderstanding between Louis and |
Napoleon was kept up, until it appa
rently ripened into a quarrel, and Lou
is (the precious lover of Dutchmen)
signed a treaty by which a Fiench ar
my was admitted into the heart of
Holland, the strong posts were occu
pied. and Opposition 0:1 the i-art r>f
unarmed inhabitants would have been !
phrenzy. When things had arrivcil
at this point resistance on the part ol
the Dutch in any formidable shape was
>not to be apprehended. Accordingly,
as soon as the French troops were well
fixed, Louis sneaked out of his king
dom. Whativer protestations Louis
may have uttered in behalf ot the
Dutch, vou may recollect that he al
ways ^e|T(%sented Napoleon's power j
as irretristible, and recommended the
Hoihimfers*to submit in order to a-!
void greatef calamities.
If 1 -#oui» were an honest man, lie I
would, in the first place never have ac
cepted the crown of Holland on the
terms which he did accept. And if in
truth, he had been truly devoted to the
libert es of his subjects, when he found
he could not ameliorate their conditi
on, why did he not at the commence-;
rnent abdicate the drown and give the
people an opportunily to co*ib:«t for
their independence; why diu he loiter
on the throne till by a series of politi
cal anti military manoeuvres, it was,
indeed, iufpossible to r‘*si-<t Napoleon !
Will it Ik said thtt it would be unna
tural ttf promote insurrection agsim.t
his own fo-«»ther ? Tnis would be to
grant tix9vcry tiling for which l con
tend, namely, that Louis Was more de
moted to N ipuleon than to the Hollan
ders. Supposing Louis to be a J09/t
mmt be «very ba«te one j and un
til 1 see Inors proof of his virtue than
I have he Cohort met with, ( *nu*t be
lieve that the pen of faithful history
will pou Via/ Louis Bonaparte afc a hy
pocrite aud aVillain ; as a mau lending
hitn^til to the vilest purp sts; playing
laluXintriot king in the mask ol
and as an understrapper
lafrehs call policy, which is
a» ** monster, all eyes and
A MERIC ANUS.
John G. JacTtson Etq. of this State,
has declined a re-elevtion to Congress
oa account of ill health.
Died,—In this city, on Saturday
morning, the ISfh inst. tho Honorable
JOHN HEATH, a member of the
Privy Council-. At a v^ry early peri
od oflife, JYIr. Heath entered into the
military service of his country when
barely twenty one years ol age, he was'
a member ol the Legislature ofVirgi
nia t^—in the arduous etruggle betwee'
the federalist*, and republicans, which
comtpenced towards the latter part of
AVashington*s administration, he
wai(Acted\ member of the House of
^•Cir0fcil i 8 *n ^-'onPres*i for the,
^^^iL'ComWehcndtng the lower pare
^f t^W^forthprn Neck, by a large ma
jority^p£jj^the last seven years of his
lile, he has been a member of the
council of state ; and in every public
station which he ever filled, he proved
himselt to be a firm and undeviatiag
republican.
— On the 37’th Sryriiibf'r, at War
ren, in Albemarle county, Mr. JOHN M.
COBB, formerly of this pUce.
ey.i
As the Federal ticket in the city of Phi
ladelphia ar.d county of Delaware owe their
success to the discsntions among republic
cans alone, it is no proof of the acquisition
of ledrral strength in tha; quaruA^lmi ra
ther of federal cecity (0 feedJlhe fire of
discard*- This may levve at aiJther day to
inculcate the 1«ss<ti u\n on *m\ tiarmn...
AH
from
that penning a cer[
tain preventative to their being molest
ed by dogs or 7volves.
THE QUES1ION DROUGHT
TO A FOCUS.
The late events in E .rope in relati
on to this country, have brought our
national affairs to a crisis. France ha.
rescinded all her restrictions on neu
tral commerce, and requires '.hat Great
Britain should do the same: this G.
Britain has pledged herself to perform.
Hut, if she should continue her system
of perfidy, and fail to fulfil her promise,
the United States will take every mea
sure within their power to compel a
fulfilment, or meet the merited con
tempt and detestation of the whole
world. , i he business now stands fair
to thq comprehension ol every man. If
GrT'U|?',n laudable
France, our commerce will
a^aiilbt*af Irenas air, ami no occasi
on ww o^/ft foi measures of hostili
ty with her, orjfny oth- r nation ; but
no partial repeal will be equivalent :
she must abandon the absurd 8c tyran
nical principle of proclamation bloclc_
ade, or her doings will be insufficient.
She must, like France, rescind all her
rt strictions. If she refuse, it will be
clear, that as she was the first a^gres^
sor, and continues her in;positions al
ter France l as repealed hei's conse
quent upon them—it will be clear, we
, .U... __ • i
y «>• Will UUIIVUUi. 3 (UC •UliliJll*
table to her ; and i: will become cur
duty to treat her, as we should treat
the Algerines, ( ripoliiaus, or any ci
ther freebooters in the habit of pirati
cally attacking our navigation. If we
fail to do this, lion tpurie will unques*
ti on ably resort to his old system, and
we mds^id adieu to the idea of com
meref. V
Innh|s stato^ofthe business, if Great
BritAn MsduhJ not repeal the whole of
her ilfWgal r^/trictions, none but an ab
solute IJritf-h partizan, a trdtor to the
commercial interests and just rights of
the United States, wdl have the hardi„
hood to say a syllable in opposition to
those measures of tnergy which the U.
Stsies -naay adopt. Such men car* be
consicitAl in no other light, than as
the Abifnds a oil Hutch insous of mo
dern t\lW- '
Bust. Chron.
Remarkable Tree.— On the land of
Abraham Miller, in the township of
S-al, and county of S<*iof<i, iu tlie state
of Ohio, is growing « forked Sycamore
try. which measures on the out-ide
2\ feet is diameter, and more than 60
lefet in Vf» cuirderence, tapering from
thl base upwind, *o that ..t the height
of l?vs*it odly measures AZ teef.; the. u
pening of the cavi'y at the bottom is
ten feet wide, and st.vm at the heiglt
of five feet, terminating at the height
of aim* wad a.half feel. The fork is a
bout eight feet from the ground, one
of the branches is dead,, ana broken off
about 20 feet high, the Other gre n aud
thrifty. The spacious cavity ultra. u*d
the attention ol the neighborhood, four
teen of whom assembled on the frith of
J^nc^808, on the spot and thirteen of
ttfli^uxWnced on horseback into tha
y o^^anc^rtt the same time sat there
pHpctBase ; the other being cm a
did UOt Vr‘ntulv? in» but
lor two more to be per
fectly secure from a falling shower of
raiu;
The public is indebted to the philo
sophic mind of Mr. William Heady,
of Frederick county, Virginia, for the
description'of this adventure, who was
one of the adventurers, and the re ex
amination of it by Maj. William Rey
nolds, of Zanesville on the 80th of
November after, who affords this com
munication.
Ohio paper.
Mungo parke.
A London paper of the 23d August c~n
tsiiu an extract of a letter dated Senegal,
■*w 6, 1810, which states that the intre..
P» travellertMungo Parke, is still in e*u«.
t4oe ik the ktertor of Africa
_ J New York, Oct. 9.
Ext*ifCojufletter from a Correspon
dent* anted Washington Ciiu. O.t. 3,
1810.
1 he president wil^ be here on Saturday
or Sunday. Mr. Morier will be heTe in a
few days. He is charge d’affairs for the
present, and secretary of legation for the
future. There is nothing to be expected
from this gentleman's movement, further
than a cerimonial interview. The heads
of departments now in the city do not ven
ture opinions on the late repealing decree
ol Napoleon. The president’s arrival may
perhaps, change this silence Into an active
p> sitive or negative sentiment. It is ad
mitted on all hands, by candid men, that
the maimer in which France has accented
our proposition is ungracious. The quest ^
°n*if1%eVV whether >s not better r
a 1 v!i^msVnces co,i81dered, to close with
the crflmtha) reject it. The discussion of
this quBBioJ as a glance will enable you
!Q nerr.H.v# invnlw. - m..l.f '
- — ——... vuuu t
suierations deeply interesting to the Uni
ted Siat«, as it respects our relations
with (x. Britain as well as France. It be.
longs to Mr. Madison and his Counsellors
'o decide the point—and we will hope fas
hoping for the best is in the fashion] they
w 11 decide for the benefit of the nation.
Columbian.
Port oj Richmond.
October 16a
ENTERED.
Brfg Levant, Fither, Liverpool.
Fidelity. Damis, Port .mouth.
Schr. Little Mary, Kelly, New.York.
Federalist, Pearson, Wi mington*
Eller, Uioodworth^ BahinW
Brig Penelope. Cobb Th.is. Towne
Sloop Portland Packet t, Pain, Norfolk.
Phebe, Hamilton do.
Schr. Liberty Fi her/ Phila 'e* phia.
Sloop Polly, Jenkins, Norfo.K.
CLEARED
Sloop Rosana, Fribee, New York.
Schr Eagle, Woodwaid, do.
Sloop Thom, Sneden, do.
j^rlg ^ia icy &. Mary, Fitch, Cork.
V jf "
will M)e a petition presented to _
th\next General Assembly of Virgi-f
Pr^?-r,?rthat the great Bridge over!
1 musky Creek, may be made and con-B
structed in'o a Toll Bridge, from the pcojV
pie of Richmond county.
Richmond county, Sept. 1810. [2 ip]
NOTICE.
T HE subscriber wishes to dispose of a
very likely young Negro Wotnanj who
is a good VVenver Knitter and Spinner, f
Any person wishing to purchase may know 1
. the terms by applying to me, living utJ
Mr»i Mary Meades’
WILLIAM SMITH.
Amelia, Oct. 1"^ 18l0. (4)
J^OTICE—That J'lh i a .<1 it li-rt Smith, ci
tizens of Charleston, S'*** h Carolina,
to petition the next General Assembly. I
Act to enable John Dixon, to sell the La
longing to the late Mrs. Isabella Thompin
whom the said John Dixon became admit
tor, and for other purposes mentioned in tl
tilion, ^
October lfi, 1810. (<*r fft)
iormMion of the citizens of this Com
monv/ralth and of all concerned. Giv
r o tin>r my hand as G< vernor ot the
Commonwealth, this 10th, day of Oc*
ioL>er, IGIO.
JOHN TYLER.