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SKETCH OF BRITISH POWER IN ASIA.
(Continued.)
That the A vatic powers are destined one day
in beC4ime independent of European government,
is an event so certain and inevitable, that the En
Iflish Fast-India company assume it as a sound
maxim ot policy to pursue such measures as are
adapted to procrastinate or defer the event as long
as possible. This policy’ has gradually in'rodu
«od a ttatt aysttm, as a substitute lor tl.cir for-'
nier open ayttsin—cruelty »f punishment has dis
appeared, and the apparent humanity which has I
fc"»n adopted in its place, is hut a cloak under j
whirh the most arbitrary tyranny that has existed j
in all time Is exercised on its Victims.
The system of arbitrary imprisonment, anti
transpotUtion to Cayenne, which was adopted
'during certain periods of the French revolution, j
was founded on exactly the same causes. Cru- !
elty had Ceased U> be exemplary, and threatened ;
tha retaliation ol despair, and the retribution of
vengeance with Aggravated cruelty and crime —
The removal of an object from the scene ot his
power or influence, Ly imprisonment, w as not
found cILctun), because the generous passions
which are always most exerted and most active,
under the pressure or the approach of cal amity,
ever found me'ftna of access, and carried the m«
Bcrict ofthe-suilerer home, to the bosoms of soci
ety, where every one felt that the case of one
lUKti incarcerated without accusation, and punish
x*d without trial, might, under the vicissitudes
e-r human affairs, be the case of any or every
man.
Men have been seized and detained in the pri
sons of Hisdustan, upon the hare fiat of Hastings
and ot each of hia successors. • Some of those
Victims have remained and peiished, and when
appeal* have been made to the laws, the suppli
cant at the. bar «l justice has found his petition
answered by a body of troops surrounding his
dwelling, conveying him in close custody on board
a amp, and-transporting him moneyless and with*
out the intercourse of friendship, to Europe.
It is necessary to aiafk this curly encroachment
of despotism, and the manner of its growth in
the civil branches of the social polity of Asia,
because the resources of military institution pro
vided more summary and less public means of
pnnition ; but when the military force of the Bri
tish in Hindustan came to possess different inte
rests-in opinion, and discordant feelings towards
tacit other, both in social life and in many of the
ct sential points ol institution ; the supreme pow
er, fearful of a conllict between both, and alike
fearful of either, was driven first to temporize
with aunh as made claims upon them, to concede
io the claims of either occasionally, and at length
from these very concessions, to lay the foundati
on fur new claims.
' 1 he government of Asia, tinder Cornwallis,
*va« very signally maifced by the events which a
rose under it. No man could be better adapted
to the dark business of despotism, or to the per
petration of any measure whicli promised to es
tablish arbitrary power, so long as there was a
prospect of personal safety.
In contemplating the military power of Bri
tain in Asia, it is worthy of curiosity to note the
beginnings and nature of it* formation.-The
Frinch were the first who embodied the natives
of Hisdustan in regular regiments. The English
with ns much gravity ct* if they had no ambitious
schemes of their own, or if they had the exclu- j
sive right, say that “ France aimed to become
an Indian power on the coast of Coromandel, &
hnd set the example of embodying regiments of
natives, to be commanded by European officers,
that then only the (English) company of
forming either military or naval establishments e
to tho defence of their settlements.”
Lcrd Clive says, *• formerly the company’s!
troops consisted of the ^chise of the gaols, com
manded by an officer seldom above the rank of a
1 eutenant, and but in or.e or two instances with
that of major, with >ut order, discipline or milita
ry ardor; but now (lord Clive’s time) the com
pany’s armies are equal to those of any Europe
an monarch.”
[ At the close of the peace of 1783, the following
is nn outline of the military force of the East-In- 1
din company, at their three presidencies of Ben- !
Cal, Madias and Bombay
Europeans Natives. Total. :
Officers. Privates. Privates.
Sengal S38 4,416 49,350 54,774!
Madras 496 C,494 37,0*5 41,175 !
Bombay 243 2,040 14,396 16,679!
1,777 9,050 100,871 112,628
At the same period, there were ten royal regi
ments, and two of Hanoverians, amounting to
MZ.QQO men, including officers.
The progress of their military establishments,
marks the tnciease of their expences and their!
territorial aggrandizement. The following is the
amount of the force of the three presidencies, at
tha beginning of the French revolution, in 1789 :
Europeans. Natives.
Office is. Soldiers.
ftfnga! 725 5.09G ?3 503
Madras 602 3.474 21 660
Bombay 243 1,698 7,680
Tot:.! 3 presi-? 1,370 10,^68 C SWZ,
deludes, 5 £ Total Nat.
And King’s 7
•veep.-, )’ 11,557
2,013 21,8257 Total Eu
2,0133 ropeans.
53,833 75.686,
Total militia force.
Their auxiliary Torre amounted to an equal
number— or 150,WO men.
Tlie approaching convulsion In Prance was
seep, and taken advantage ot to destroy every ri*
valahip, r-itive and European, in Hindustan. It
is not to die present purpose to shew the means
by which the Briusli picked a quarrel through
tic sides of the Rajah of Ti avancore, with the
Sultan of Mysore; the ntitish government con
tinued the design of taking the liast Indian pow
er and patronage out of the hands of the compa
ny and vesting it in the crown. Cornwallis was
’he agent selected for tma uaz irdous but momen
tous stroke of policy. The royal military force
Sn Ann v/as augmented. The artillery of the
company in Hindustan, particularly that on the
Bengal eilablishment, was eqmd to any jn the
world ; tiiis corps Ud been picked from the ar
my, and a gicst majority r (itg officer* wer*; com
posed of yom - men <\ go'W . duration, who had
passed as adefi.ttii -pm t.. Hindustan j to whom
the sciences were fmrdiar, and their application
to military sci- tier «o »n became a lpbit ; the ar
si nil at fort William, under ool. 1'earce, a man
ci (cienc>;and thef.ier.il of genius, had outstript
fhatol IVoolwish; chemistry was cultivated
with more ardor, ’’Hd all tlu/se invcntioi s which
In-vc placed • lie age, as it were two ages in a,|
Vance, v. a t gxr.rc'led by tin’ protection given to
genius. The ii fiu«o r*'o/ climate on tlie intellect
and (’>£ p* ‘Sion of • nyl'ilion which Sprung lip in
"•"Co were thus productive of the muvi faro
rablc retulti*.
B vrs dclcnrin-vl (be company shot Id not
pr>w?,= *r; r,i» now i’ exclusively, always »i
m !#- nrtr in • • - <e» wars than in other coun
1* r:'• ( ’ ■ '■l‘ '• ■ ,J; >'' >:<! rtil.'ery was %< *t te
HnoiUfta* bom f,»:k nil ; •. p* s ttjfl® regiment
ft r •. (■ oavsb-v w .a u’gnr -»■•-?» . rod »wue-m
rsoiesaod-.lt. n.-t.iie rrtydrr#,, . , a of in
.r' T * ‘ ‘' ,v ,f> the V/nsa.aiy’s see
- war? si ifis* m&i.
V ■ * -. . ' .
company, or f>e transferred to the crown !
The English newspapers sr?excusably igno~
rant of the affair* ol India : they are not so ex
cusable in their ^corrigible ignorance of geogra
phy. One of them in * late paper undertakes to
ci.rrect another, and falls himself into a most
egregmus error. Ssringapatam, is not on the
M il a bar coast, nor wiitijn 100 miles of it ; it is
situated on the river C<utv<rj, on the summ't of
tlie table land of Mysore ; about 22') miles due
west oi Madras, to which presidency the troops
that garrison tire territory of Mysore, at and
south of Seringapatam, belong. Mapulipatam,
is north of Madras in the territory of Ksjamun
*l‘/» </,;e ®j the iKM ihem circars; it is a few
miles eas* oi ihc celebrated river K.istnx, one of
the sacred rivers oi the Hindus, which falls into
the bay of Bengal.
I he East India company, with all their errors
arc much more competent to the preservation
uiJ government of the Asiatic provinces than
i«ic cfficirs ol the cro wn ; their policy to the na
tives, compared w ith that of the royal officers,
"\hibils an extreme as great as between any two
species ol govern met '.that lias at any time exist
e l. The royal authority will however persevere,
snd il they triumph over the company, it will he
but the prelude to the fall of the British power in
Asia—an event which wc cannot fail to bear o'
in our own day.
A splendid Biography of Lord Nelson
was published o London, Jan. 1, in two large
imperial qua rtf volumes, ornamented with
engravings. T itc facts taken from his Lord
ship’s manuscripts, hy the Kev. Jamas Stain
re Clarke,.F. R. S. Librarian to (he I’rincc,
Ike and Jn. M’Arthur, j'sL. L. 1J. laic
► *cr«tary to Ld, Ykcovu irtfoL
Cornwallis hful scarcely warmed in *!is vice-re*
gal chair, when he determined to reduce the
European regiments in the company’s service.
The blind impolicy of this measure 1n a military
view, may be seen at once in the fact, that all the
successes of the British in their wars have been
owiuf'tothe examples of discipline, and the c
mutation constantly kept up between the differ
ent denominations of troops. The European re
giments always determined to excel the native
troops ; the native troops, composed of half Hin
dus and half Mahomcdains, each emulated the
other, and both sought to surpass the Europe
ans. This single spring of action, which indica
ted so much Sagacity in the contriver, or such
singular good fortune in their coincidence, Corn,
■wallis attempted to destroy, with no other view
than to L'ing the patronage of Hindustan into the
hands of the crown. This was one *f the-can
Be.-; of disaffection to which we referred in the
former part of this sketch.
It was the excess of infatuation to touch a fa
bric which had been so competent to the policy,
and which had acquired under Clive and Coole,
so much renown. The organization was so cheap
to the company, that it is still more extraordinary
they should disturb it { for instead of the usual
ranks, the native troops were so brigaded as that
only one regiment in every brigade of six, was
commanded by a major, who for his major’s pay
executed all the functions and duties of major,
colonel, and brigadier general ! The other live
regiments of each brigade, were each command
ed by the senior captain, and promotiop went on
through the line by seniority.
While Cornwallis was in Mysore, he tam
pered villi the troops in the tid'd, where disci
pline Icing more rigorous, resistance was not
likely to be so formidable or open. No resistance
was made in the field, but the corps spread over
the provinces dependant upon Bengal, were
soon apprized of what was meditated ; they ob
tained the circular letters of Cornwallis, and
they had them printed with equal secrecy, and
| placed them in the hands of every officer in the
j company’s service. They determined to make a
i common cause in the defence of their rights,"
and to resist their meditated subjection to the
royal service.. The effect of this attempt to a
bridge their rights produced an enquiry, and
they discovered that they had been, even in their
previous state, parsimoniously and injuriously
dealt by; that it required ten to fourteen years
residence to arrive at a lieutenancy ; twenty’
.wars to become a captain, and twenty five to
thirty to gain the command of a battalion, which,
■with the rank of captain, war the ultimate bound
of their ambition! They discovered that the rank
of colonel might be obtained in Europe, with lit
tle more than five or six years service, and that a
captain who had obtained a commission in the
loyai service, anil spent only six months in In
uia, might.command a captain of twenty years
standing in India. They found too .that earl
Cornwallis had in Ids Mysore conqueatc constant
ly denied or concealed the service of the compa
ny s troops,while he extoll’d or exaggerated those
fcl the royal troops ; upon them the command of
conquered fortresses were bestowed, to the ex
clusion of the most distinguished merit, of merit
without which, in fact, Cornwallis could not hays
advanced fifty miles within the frontier of My
sore, and to which he owed his salvation from
the subtle stratagems of Tippoo.
One instance particularly strikes the writer’s
memory—major Gowdie, of the Madras estab
lishment, had charge of the advance, when
Cornwallis proceeded towards Bangalore.—
Tippoo had prepared to. draw the British
into a difficult pass, as lie had entrapped general
Medows the preceding year, at Saitiinungulum.
Gowdie, a gallant Scots officer, in the company’s
service, as soon as he h*d entered a defile, dis
covered his situation, and that he must either
risk'himself and the gallant corps, or risk the
sacrifice of the whole army. He determined
upon the former, and contrived, while he was
array mg his force.to guard against a flank attack,
to dispatch two successive messengers to Corn
! wall is in his rear, apprising him of the position
j in which he discovered the enemy, and suggest
| ing a different mode of movement, promising
with his corps to keep the enemy at b.iy.
Cornwallis judiciously pursued Gowdic’s plan,
anil detached a body of Sepoys through the
woods to attack the enemy on the fiar.lc and
rear. Gowdie, instead of halting, made a rapid
j mai'ch for a position with which he was ac
J quainted, by which the enemy was deceived in
to an opinion that Gowdie had not discovered
h:s position and was at his mercy ; but as soon
as Cornwallis had advanced to the point at
which Tippoo determined to attack ; Tippoo
was placed between three fires, Cornwallis in
front, the Bengal Sepoys under Walsh in his
rear and left flank, and Gowdie, who had wheel
ed round on his right flank and changed his
front, attacked Tippoo on his right flank. The
action was desperate, and Gowdie with his
corps, had to sustain the brunt of the battle, as
the enemy could retreat, only through the de
files which Gowdie had occupied with an infilade
battvry and a cross fire, under cover of which he
fought, and to which lie decoyed Tippeo.
Gowdie, this gallant man, distinguished alike
by his valor and his domestic virtues, was pass
ed over, lo &owdie, his duly and his honor
repaid each other, but a man with art amiable
wife and IS children, all (laughters, cculd not
be indifferent to the emoluments and as well a9
honors ot a command ; which could hardly have
been so veil bestowed cn a royal Captain of the
nainw of Monson, whose great merit was his
lordly connexions and being a royal officer. This
single ci.se we have cited out of hundreds, with
whom the writer of this article had intimate
knowledge.
1 hr design of this sketch, being to exhibit by
lacts, the causes of the discontents among the
royal -and company’s troops in Asia ; it will be
seen, that they have nothing to do with the in
terests or concerns of the natives ofthe country ;
that like the struggle for taxation on tea with
America, the whole of the quarrel is about the
royal patronage, whether it shall remain in the
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X and second quality brown Sugar, in Jrthds.
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T.oaf Sugar in barrels.
Prime green Coffee in hogsheads, barrels k bags,
10 Hogsheads Antigua Hum,
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5 Quarter casks Madeira Wine,
5 Do. do. L. P. Teneriffe Wine,
10 Do. do. Sherry Wine,
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JO Hogsheads prime Molasses,
20 Barrels rectified Whiskey,
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proved paper.
WIIITK & SHELTON.
March 20. tf
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RAN-AWAY, from the Subscriber, in the city
of Richmond, on the 20th of October last, a
Negro Man named BILLY, supposed to be abcut
fve feet nine or ten inches high ; stout, well made,
a little bow-leged, has a full face ; about twenty
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ter ; he is called by the negroes of that plnce, wait
ingman Billy ; he is well acquainted at Shirley, on
James River, where it is likely he ts lurking at this
time.
1 will give the above reward if secured in jail
in the City of Richmond, or sixty dollars if secu
red iu any jail in the state of Virginia, and infor
mation given to Joseph Carter, of Richmond, or
John Winn, of Charlottesville.
THOS. WINN, Jr.
Cetober 27-. notion
VIRGINIA.—At a Superior Court ot' Chan
eery, holdenat the Capiiol, in the city of
Richmond, the first day of February, 1810.
Joseph Field, administrator of Betsy Field, de
ceased, bis late wife, why was Formerly the re
lict of John Knox, deceased, Plaintiff.
Against
William Dent, administrator of George Dent,
and John Shumate, junior, and Joseph Simulate,
Defendants.
THE Defendant, William Dent, not having
entered his appearance and given security accor
ding to the act of assembly, and the rules of this
court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the
court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country,
on motion of the plaintiffby counsel, It is order
ed, That the said defendant do appear here, on
the first day of the next term, and answer the
bill of the plaintiir; and that a copy of this or
der be forthwith insarted in some news paper
published in the city of Richmond, for two months
successively, and posted at the front door of the
Capitol, in the said city.
A Copy. Teste,
PETER TINSLEY, • c.
ms* ch 30. w8w
VIRGINIA.—At a Superior Court of Chan
cery, holden at the Capitol, in the city of
Richmond, the first day of February, 1810.
Thomas Crutcher Sc Sebert Crutcher, Charles
Foushee and Lucy his wife, Benjamin Ficklin h
Susanna his wife, Robert Crutcher, administra
tor of John Foushee, and Sarah Foushee, Eliza
beth Sneed, Coleman Crutcher, William Crutch
er, and Robert Crutcher, Henry Crutcher, Mar
garet Tureman, Achilles Sneed, administrator of
Mary Sneed, Sarah Crutcher and Sunsfiebl Pitts
and Elizabeth his wife, Plaintiffs.
Against
Thomas Crutcher, executor of Tlios. Cruteh
I er, dec’d. Christopher Blackburue and Reuben
Chapman, Defendants.
THE Defendant, Thomas Crutcher, not hav
ing entered his appearance and given security ac
cording to the act of assembly, and the rules of
this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of
the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this
country : On motion of th» plaintiffs, by counsel,
It is ordered, That the said defendant do appear
here, on the first day of the next term, and an
swer the bill of the plaintiffs ; and that a copy of
this order he forthwith inserted in some news
paper published in the city of Richmond, for
two months successively, ami posted at the front
door of the capiiol, in the said city.
A Copy. Teste,
PETER TINSLEY, c. c.
Marrh 30, \v8w
errata,
sn the Cate »f Kito!eon Qr Iltth vs ft attract, e t. a! I
(In the 2d opinion of the Chancelloj, for “ Ter
rel vs Dish,'* read Terrel vs Dick.
Sume opinion, 3d column, 1st and 2d lines, for
*' as the case of, Jkc.” read as in the rase of, ?<c..
Ik the .‘M opiniun, aav-ie column, line 72, l'or
“ grantors,” read grantees.
Line 96, for “ grantors'*read grantees.
Line 10#, for “ Bui’* read llul.
Line 11S, for “ this” read his.
3d column, line 76, for ** an amount,” read an
account.
Line 105, for “ Terrel vs Dish” read Terrel
vs Dick.
Cbakliitos, Marc 20
At Sandy IIill, on the 16th ultimo, terminated
the existence of General WILLIAM WASH
INGTON, and added the name- of that gallant
veteran, to the melancholy list of deceased Ame
rican worthies. His health had been bad for
some years, but during the last 6 months, he sus
tained a complication of disorders, become too
powerful for longer resistance—liis moral and re
ligious impressions, the one emanating from a
well turned mind, the other the result of reading
A reflection, disposed him tn view the approach
es of death with a composure and equanimity
truly characteristic. History has done justice
to his illustrious services and brilliant exploits,
during his military career, in faithfully recount
ing his particular alchievemenls, but without
the knowledge of certain personal circumstances,
conspicuously displayed on those occasions, and
which only could be known to his fellow-soldiers
in the field, under whose notice they immediately
fell : fur the general, naturally modest and reti
ring, in his common intercourse with society, n>a
nifested little or-nu indication of that prowess hy
which he was so eminently distinguished in the
da. of battle, when his whole soul was develop
ed with an energy and animation of the most
ardent cast, and that gave to bis transcendant
intrepidity its genuine heroic character.
In the performance of such civil dut'es ss
were assigned him, he was conscientiously
exact, ready to obey with alacrity every call of
his country, as long as a constitution impaired
and broken in her service permitted. In private
life and the circle of his particular friends, his
urbanity and domestic virtues, the recollection of
them can only cease with those on whom they
have made the most heartfelt impressions.
Char Li ton Gazette.
BY virtue of two decrees of the Superior
Court of Chancery, for the Richmond dis
tinct, in the cases of Jordan and Marshall a.nd
Taylor, Guardians of the orphans of William
Ltandridge, dec’d. against the heir* and admints*
trators of William Price, deceased s—Will be
sold, at public auction, on the premises, on Mon
day, the 9th day of April next, the following PRO.
PER’IT, to w it: a HOUSE and part of a LOT,
on the Main.Street, in the city of Richmond, on
Shocks.IIill, adjoining a brick house belonging
to Thomas White, called the Illue House, sub
ject to the eventual claim of dower, of the wifr
of John Britain, and four unimproved half acre
I.OTS, in the same city, late the property of the
»>aid William Price, dcc’d. on a credit of two
years, with interest from the date. The purcha
ser giving bonds wi;h approved security, payable
to the respective plantrrfs, and the title to be re
tained until the payments are made.
yo HN PROSSER, ? _
tPm. MONCURE, 3 rt
March r..L t,Jg
WILL BE SOLD, on the premises, to the
highest bidder, on Thursday, 19th April
next, that large and commodious
BRICK LUMBER HOUSE,
Situate on the Cross street, leading to the Basin
—Also, that unimproved LOT, joining, say from
40 to 50 feet front, extending back to the Eagle
yard, 85 fret. The whole V> be sold separate or
j jointly, on a credit of .», G .and 9 months-The
I purchaser giving bondi with approved security
Koa^xr i>A.vioso?i.
M.trch §0.
JUST RECEIVED, .v. n totl SAL£—First
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O d Port, Claret otid Madeira Wine*,
Guii-Powder, Imperial md Young llyson Teas,
50 Bids.and two hhds. Apple Brandy,
20 Bbls. Caruther’u double distilled and rectified
Whiskey,
12 Hilda, and 1C barrels New-Orleans Sugar,
20 Boxes New*\ oik Taliow Candles,
15 Do. Spermaceti Do.
10 Bbls. Linseed Oil,
7 Hhds. Treaklc,
1 Do. an 1 1 Crate B it ties,
25 Lbs. fresh Nutmegs,
50 Bushels trash Clover and Timothy Seed,
3 Hampers fresh Sallud Oil,
10 Dutch Cases white gilt bottles,
10 Boxes well assorted iilass,
And in daily expectation of receiving 30 crates
of Liverpool green and blue edged Wares, Pre
sage Lamps, Candle Shades, &r.. Ike.
EDWARD HALLAM.
March 16. cptf
NOTICE—All persons who have anv claims
against the late John Harris, dec’d. of the
City of Richmond, are requested to bring them
forward immediately—and those indebted to said
estate, must make immediate arrangements lor
discharging their respective balances1.
W. D. WREN, AJm'r. of
JOHN HARRIS, Dec’d.
March 13._ tp2m
FOR SALE, at the Vendue Cilice of the
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30 hhds. } , _
20 bbls. 5 Muscovado Sugars,
10 hhds Philadelphia Loaf Sugar,
20 lihd.s Antigua Rum,
4 pipc3 real Cogiuac Brandy,
20 bbls Apple Brandy,
Hare’s Beer in harreiu and half barrels,
COO sacks Liverpool ground Salt,
Green Coffee in bags, barrels and tierces,
A quantity of Seine Twine,
Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin,
and Souchong Teas,
20 boxes brown Soap,
Raisins in boxes and kegs, and many olhsr
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JAMES BROWN, Jr. Attc'r.
March 2- tf
PENITENTIARY STORE,
DOMESTIC WAREHOUSE
DJ. BURK, in addition to the articles m
• nutaetured at the Penitentiary, otl’er9 for
sale an assortment of GOODS of HOME MA
NUFACTURE, viz .
Fine and coarse H ATS of every description.
A regular supply of Cotton CLOTH, on con
signment from the Providence Manufactory, and
will be sold by the piece at the null prices, viz :
Bedticking, Stripes, Checks Sc Plain
Cloths, Spun Cotton, single and double,
home made Li nkn Sheeting.
RICHMOND GUN-POWDER by the keg,
warranted of superior quality.
PHILADELPHIA PORTER fit ALE in
casks and bottles, and BEER in barrels.
IL-imess Leather, Wax Calfskins, Boot Legs,
Coloured and Black Roans.
Wanted to Hire, by the year, a rood
COOPER.
February 13. tf
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.—
On Wednesday the 18th day of April en
suing—Will he sold at Public Auction, near the
premises, that beautiful and most desirable situ
ation belonging to Mr. Jcdcdiah Allen, near the
property of Mrs. Craig—It has on it a handsome
Irame Dwelling-House, with a good kitchen,
smoke-house, dairy and stable, a well of tbe beat
water in the city of Richmond.
The Lott contains one acre, having been ori
ginally two half acre Lotts, and has the advan
tage of being bounded on three sides by streets,
is highly improved—having a falling garden in
front and a very extensive and beautiful garden
at the back of the house—and for agreeableness
of situation and salubrity of air, may be estimated
among the best in the City.
Six, twelve and eighteen months credit will
be given, by giving notes with approved endor
sers, negotiable at the Bank of Virginia, and a
deed ol trust on the property to secure the pay
ment «f the notes.
STILL O’ BROOKE, Auc'rs.
Richmond, March 27- tds
Williamsburg, 19//i March, 1810.
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Propri
etors of the Dismal Swamp Company, will
be held at Suffolk, on the 8th day of May next,
being the second Tuesday. Audit is earnestly
requested that the members will be punctual in
their attendance, either personally or by their at
tornies.
WILLIAM NELSON, "'t
JOHN BRACKEN, l _r
CUR BIN GRIFFIN, f Managers.
JAMES HENDERSON, J
March 27.___
In Cout:<il, March Aid, 1810.
NOTICE—In pursuance of an act of the Ge
neral Assembly, passed at the last sessi
on : Notice is hereby given, that a sale of the
PUBLIC PROPERTY,
atthe Point ol fork, will take pjace, on Thurs
day the 25tli day of May next, dfi the premises,
on a credit of twelve months. Bond and security
to be approved by the Executive, will be requi
red. For information respecting the property,
enquire of Doctor John Wills of Fluvanna coun
ty.
SAMUEL COLEMAN, a.c.c.
MitcIi 27. 8w
In Council, March 19, 1810.
NOTICE—That the Executive will receive
proposals until the 15.h of April next, for
furnishing the Prisoners in the Penitentiary, with
rations for one year, commencing the 16th of the
said mcuth of April next.
Attest,
SAMUEL COLEMAN, a c c.
March 23. t!5A
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
A New Theory,
OF
The DIURNAL ROT AT ION OF TIIR
EARTH:
Demonstrated upon Mathematical Principle!,
from the properties of the Cycloid and the JiPi
Cycloid. ’
WITH
AM APPLICATION Of TKK THKOTtY,
To the explanation of the • arioti9 Phenomena of
the Winds, Tides and of those Stony aiul Me*
tallic cone; etiotM which have fallen flora Hea
ven upon the surface or the Earth.
7bj JOHN n oon,
Author of Element* of Prrgfltctive, firiti
led in London, in \799.
December 14.
FOR SALE AT THlTOf ncs£
a yev/ cop?si or
T9 1. * rls •»
i uiton s i oricji
Till? Subscribe? Tr-Tirm*:
Iiajbitaiilaor Mm.-'l,
that he haa just opened a Uetril Medical s*otv
immediately opposi’* Johnson’* wareh-m e, i i
the said town, where ll be hi.;>t a constant
plyofiresh Medccines, which will be sold low
for cash.
N. B The Copartnership of Watts k Arch
er wo* dissolved in Jons tat. The Subscriber
continues to practice Physic, Surgery and Mid
witery j those who nviy chose to employ hina
may rely- on the btvictc.it attention bei:v- paid to
their respective cases.
WAitlllK'GTQir TTATTS.
Manchester, March 23. 3w
Tames river lands fok salf..~\
J offer for sale, available Plantation,situate in
Bermuda Hundred, immediately in the conflu
ence of James and Appomattox rivers, containing
by an old survey 756 acres s it reaches up James
river to the port end ballast bank, including near
ly all the wharfage ground. About one half of
Jie tract is cleared and the other halfinwooda.
1 Ins plantation will always delight and reward
the • armor threo hundred acres, or (hereabouts,
of flat land in the f >rk, on account of a superior
Surdity, has been rated very high j it would ba
inicult to obtain land on James river above or
below th* fads better adapted to the culture of
corn, w.»e:«t and tobacco. The fields are under
substantial fences, mostly new. The huildinga
coiu'ist of a comfortable small dwelling house,
with four rooms, newly done up ; an excellent
overs.er’s house with a brick chimney and two
rooms plaistered, a large granary with a wheat
machine on an improved plan; a large tobacco
barn nearly ne w, duiry, smokehouse, negro hous
vs, Sic. This place pokscsics the advantages of
a thriving y«-ung apple orchard, many other ex
client fruit trees ; navigation to Petersburg, f.
levcn miles, to Richmond fiftv, distance by land
twenty three miles only, and a good fishery.
1 here is a plenty of meadow land, also a marl
bank of excellent manure supposed to be inex
haustible.
i lie wharfage ground can be easily and expe
ditiouely unproved at a moderate expence, and if
properly improved would instantly become tho
resort of the Richmond shipping interest, and an
important place of deposit for that growing com
mercial city. Mr. Cullen Adams, my' manager
at the Hundred, will at any time shew the pre
mises. tor convenience, I shall leave my terme
witli his excellency John Tyler, and Daniel L.
Hylton, esq. ol Richmond—as these gentlemen
have been long acquainted » .-hthc Hundred, I
take the liberty of referring to them for further
information
I also oiler for sale a valuable little FARM of
500 acres, situate on Appomattox river, adjoining
the lands of Mr. Jerr.nn Baker, Mr. George
Skipwith and Mr. Edmund Eggleston in Cum
berland county ; for this tract I should require
one third of the purchase money to be paid down
and the balance in two annual payments. If no
private sale is previously made, I shall on this
Tract, expose it at public sale, to the highest
bidder, on the 23d day of June next, and on tho
payments already mentioned.
ARCHIBALD TIIWEATT.
Petersburg, 16th March, 1310. 8t
A MAR-KEEPER WANTED— Wanted, at
- the Eagle-Taiern, a young man capable of
acting as a bar keeper—Non-: need apply, unless
well recommended—Good wages will be given.
E O PE T.71R SMOCK.
March 30. tf
NOTICE.—The Subscriber once more re
quests all those indebted to the estate of
the late John Strobia, to come forward and make
immediate payments, as but little longer indul
ccuce can possibly be given.
JOHN H. STROBIA, Admr.
March 30.
NO 1 ICE—The Subssriber haying purchas
ed the entire Stocks of Mr. Alexander do
Plainville, begs leave to offer to the public a gene
ral assortment of Grocery, Confer-'.unary, Cake.
—Which will be disposed of to a moderate
price.
LEWIS COUVERT.
March 23. 4t
IfOR SALE—517 acres of LAND, in the
county of Nelson, on the head waters of
Tye River, first rate tobacco land. As to its si
tuation, enquire of Col. Joseph Shelton, of Nel
son county, who has a power to dispose of the
same or to T. U. PROSSER.
March 23. ep4w
WANTED immediately, one or two good
workmen at the Coach-nuking business :
to mister workman liberal wages will be given
by Messrs. Wren & Robinson, just below the
Swann tavern, on Shockx-Hill, Richmond.
February 3 2awtf
BY virtue of a trust deed, executed by the late
Archibald Campbell, Esq deceased, to the
subscribers : Will be sold, to the highest bid
der, fir cash, on the premises, on Saturday, tho
12th of May next, the Lot of
GROUND AND HOUSES,
In the town of Manchester, late the residence of
said Campbell, and at present occupied by Mr.
Robert O’Reilly. The sale will be made to sa
tisfy Corneliu'i ^JJuck, and others, interested in
said trust deed.
NICHOLAS MILLS,
JESSE MIX.
April 3. wtds
HALES AT AUCTION'.
WrILL positively be sold, without reserve,
on Friday next, the f> h instant, at the Ven
due Office of the subscribers, a handsome assort
ment of new and fashionable
MAHOGANY FURNITURE,
mrde in the city of Uiclinund—Consisting of the
following articles, viz :
D:ning T ;»ble9, TERMS—12 months ere
Card Do. 1 dit for r.ll sums of 50 dollars,
Side Boards, I and upwards—Sums under
Bedsteads, y50 dollars cash—for credit
Wash Stands, ( purchasers, Notes negocia
Liquor Cases, j b!e and payable at the Bank
Looking Glasses, I of Virginia, with approved
fce. &c. &c. J endorsers, will he required.
N. B. The sale will commence at 12 o’clock.
PROSSER Cr MONCURE, V. M.
April 3. 2t