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Law & Miscellaneous
BOOK STORE.
LEWIS ADAMS, Has just received
a fresh supply of BOOKS, among which are
Bacon's Ab.idgcment. Coke's ln>ti'utes, An
then's B ackstmie, new workj C> myn on Cm.
tracts, do. and Vot.3 Heniug Sc Muntord.—
Also the following new Novels^ via. Don Se
bastian, by Miss I'orter; Rosa, or Anv=.-ican g*..
niua and education ; Giencam, by the the awthot
■of the Lawyer, Also Seqm to the Antidote to
the Mise.ies of Human Life.
A general assortment of Law, Classical and
Miscellaneous Books as usual, wh ch will be sold
on liberal terms.
Circulating Library.
LEWIS ADAMS, Having com
menced a Circulating Library, which a* present
consist:* of about seven hundred volume* ot No*
vels and Romances, and one hundeed a fifty vul
limes c*f History, Voyages, T/aveis^ ar.d worlti
of polite litert’ure, some of which are a* follows :
viz Robertson's America, 4 vol. O^avo ; Flow.
oen's iictana, 5 voi. no. rireni'j rrtcna.z voi
do. Auiim's Letters, do. Littletan's, do. Ko.
bcrtson** Charles V. 3 vo’.s. do, Carr's Scotland
do Dcpon's V®vage to the Soan.sii Main,3 vo>
do. Harrow's Travels, do. Mrs. West's Letters
to a young lady, d^. Life of Sir Wm, Jones, do.
Bigland's Letters on the Study of History, dj.
Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, 4 voi. Lady Mary
VVortley Montague's works, 5 voi Ganganclh's
(Pope Clement XIV) Letters, 4 vol.
Wonderful Magazine 8 voi. Sydney on
I1
voi. do. Memoirs of Marmontel, 2 voi.
Trumbull’s History of Connecticut, do. An.
ecdotes of Frederick the Great, King ol
Prussia, do. History of Chili, 2 voi. doi
Ramsay's Life ot Washington, do* Young’s
Works, 3 voi. The Satires of JuvcraI trails,
lated into English verse by Wm. Gifford,
Esq. with notes anti illustrations, 2 voi.
royal octavo*
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and 2*0o. 8vo. may be taken at one
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ed lime—any bock injured while out; to he
pnid for by the person who took it. Hea
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12 mo. for five days, and 18 cenib«Dor._vol
Should the Library meet with that nat.
ronagc which hit flatter* himself it will re.
ceive, frequent additions wiii be made toil,
of new and valuable publications. The
greater the subscription the greater the
variety.
The following new works have just been
added to the assortment, viz, Romance of
the Pyrenees, 4 vo1. Glencarn—Rosa or
American genius and education—Ida of A.
thens— and Don Sebastian, or the House
of Hriganza, 4 vol. by the cclebated Miss
Porter, Aulhorers of '1 haildcus ol War*
t., w and the Hungarian Rrotheis.
fly- A consignment of FOUR CRATES
ofSTONE WARE ju3t received and lor
aale by
LEWIS ADAMS
RichmoBd, April 5. 1810* wtf
Afchclaus Hug
COMMISSION MKRCII
On the Basin, STORES Rod S1
kind of PRODUCE on tftie usui
SION. \
• Richmond. _(wl9m)
BV virtue of jydeed trust executed
to me by Isham ph fojStu-. purposes there*
in mentioned^ and rAordr^in Powhaj ,
Ty court, and bearing %at^he first t
gust 18 )7, will b« tolmrn Hugh
v i t,(in I’.iwhatan counjE on - • > ur;|v |fcc#lflh
Of May next^ highestwi .nfr A u
» > iy r'nnrv( t rrgrc£i turned 1
oned in said deed—*sale^rill be made agree,
ably to the provi^ff i of ss&dfed, and to thr
a# in *uch case fee
Rifnard Crutjfp, Tru’s.
April 18th, 1810. p
|y" A rnssn sufplt of
rissot’s
CRLRIRATRO
rCoutir Rheumatic Drops,
% I* |u«t rfirsitsl ftr Sale; at the Ar.
gwt Off X. U
/ y
NO TICE
From the Marshal of Virginia
Po hi* Assistants (appointed to take the
Third Census,
Anpointments have been made in eve
ry County, City, ?<c. throughout the state
to perform the above'mentioned duty. The
following are the names of the Counties,
Cities, &c. and of the persons appointed.
Names of Persons appointed by the
Marshal for taking the third
Census for the year
1810.
Names of counties. Names of assistants
Accomackj John Bool
Albemirle^ Capt. Bazaleel Brown.
Amelia, Waller Fond
Amherst, Peter P, Thornton
Augusta, Maj. James Allen
Bath, Sampson Matthews
Bedford, William Otey
Berkeley^ John M’Cieary
Botetourt, William P. Tebb*
Brooke, John M‘Comaak
Brunswick, David Stith
Buckingham, Ballard Forde
Campbell, James C. Moorman
Caroline, Edmund Pendletonj jr.
Charles City, fFurnea Southall
Charlotte, Francis Scott, jr. *
Chesterfield, Thomas Burfoot
Cumberland, William Allen
Culpeper, William Banks
Cabell, David M(Comas
Dinwiddle, Benjamin Hardaway
Elizabeth City, George Hope, jr
Essex, Ciecrge W. Lee
Fauquier, John Edmouds, jr,
Fairfax, Thompson Violett
l’ luvannaj Samuel Ferguson, jr.
Frederick, John \V. Bayless
f ranklin, S las Garreit
Gloucester, Francis W. Cooke
Goochland, Bollmg Gay
Grayson, Hugh Curtin
Green.rier, John Mays R.
Greensville, Win. S Jeffries
(Hies, Isaac M’Rruzie
Halifax, V Henry Teriy
Hampshire^ Robert N. While
Hanover, X FranciX Blunt
Hardy, X^ AbriUiam Sims
Harrison, X SanWlsl Prut
Henrico, XLugwell Boj
Henry, Xfrph Alej
Isle ot Wight, jfcert R.
James City, JIoRXm. Cfcegory
Jefferson, ^John^l. Hdfc
Kenawha, M John Reynold!
K..ng and Querh, Hugh Campbell
Iving George, Stephen Jett
l\.n*g William, John Lord \
Lancaster, Chcschesier Tapscott
Hee^ Holman Rice
Loudoun^ htepben C. Rozell
Louisuij Harry Laurence
Lunenburg, Francis Robertson
Madison, William Strother
Mathews, Thomas Hudg ns
Mecklenburg, Joseph Meridith
Middlesex, John Cnounmg, jr.
Monongalia, Benjamin F. R; eder
Monroe, John Hutcheson
Montgomery, William Currea
Mason, John Allen
Nansenv nd, Tnowas Bevin
New Kent, Anthony Davis
Norfo.k County^ Thomas Lee
Northumbei land, Warner Iludnall
Northampton, Leving Windor
Nottoway, Jourdan Jackson
Nelson, Ber.j imin Mosby
Ohio, John Morgan
Orange, ^Robert Taylor jrv
Patrick, John Hughes
( Pendleton, John Davis
Pittsylvania James C. Wooding
l'owuatan, David Meade
: Prince Ldward D. Carlos Green
Princess Am William B shop
Prince William, James Foster
! Prince George John H, Peterson
I Randolph, Daniel Hurt
I Richmond Co. Benjamin N. Garland
| Rockbridge Cornelius Dounan
Rockingham, George Huston
I Russell, James McFarlme
Shenandoah, William Carson
Southampton, George Gurley
Spot'sylvama, Joseph Waller
Stafford, John S, Allison
Surry David Sebrell
Sussex, William Harrison, jr,
Tazewell, Rees Thompson
Warwick, Wil iain Lee, Sen,
Washington, David Craig
Westmoreland, Robert B.tilcy
Wood, Jonas Beeson
Wythe, Josheph Crockett
Vork, Henry Howard,jr.
City of Richmond, Samuel Trice
Noifoik B trough^
Petersburg,
3y" All the Assistants who accept the i
appointments will give immediate notic*
thereof to the Marshal, and indicate th<
place to which their Commissions shall b«
(orwardrd by mail, A copy of the act ol
Congress on the subject of the census, anti
a letter of instructions prescribing the mode
in which the duty is to be performed, wil
accompany each Commission.—Unless lh«
Notice here required is Communicated 11
i reasonable time., the Marshal will pro.
ecd to appoint assistants in the room o
,diQte who tail to conform t> this requisili.
• ii.—^It is expected that ail letters will b«
ant to the Marshal 44 post paid."
Joseph Scott, Marshal
of the Virginia District.
City of Richmond, April 30, J810.
Lands for Sale. 1
BY Virtue of a decree, rendered J
on the 6th day of Sept. ltft)9,
at a superior court cf chancei y holden in
the city of Richmond, in a cause whereto
Samuel Smith, James A. Buchannan and
James Calh »U0j late merchants and part,
ners, trading under the name and firm of
Smith, Calhoun, Sc co. were complainants,,
and Butdet Ashton, jun. and others, w-re
defendants s The subscribers named in
said decree for the purpose of carrying the
same into e(T.-6t, will sell at public auction
for cash, the following
Tracts of Land: i
♦ One Tract or parcel of Land lying
in the county cf Jefferson^ on Bullskin, in
possession of John Riley and John Uem*
met, containing 416 acres, and holin'*
ded as by survey thereof ma^e by Willi
am M’Pherson, in the year 1803—al5o one
o her tract or parcel of land, adjoining the
above mentioned tracts, containing a
cres, in possession of John Brian a >d Tho*
mas Giiggs, and bounded by .survey made
in 1803 by William M’Pherson—AtaVor.e
'other tract or parcel of Land, in <mT»>re
sad co'* ty of Jefferson, contaminuu£prf a
cresfWm. M’Pherson’s survey in the year
1803) in the possession and occupation ol
Gabriel Greer.fitkl.—The foregoing lauds
are the same lands which ihe executors ol
General George Washington, on the 21st
of August 1804, conveyed to Burde: Ash
ton, Jun. by deed of bargain and sale oi
record in the ottic • of the county court ol
Jefferson, which the said Bordet Ashton,
Jun. on the 12th of March, 1805, mortga,
ged to said executors, also of record
in said office. *
The sale of the above described
three tracts of land will commence at the
dwelling house of John Drmmet, on the
first mentioned tra61 on the I5ih day or
une next at 12 o’clock r.f the saW day.
The commissioners will make such deed
to the respefilive purchasers as the afore
said court of Char.ce y may direct.
Bennet Taylor, 1 .
Thomas Parker | j?
John Humphreys
and | |
William Tate, |
April 20.h, 1810. J J
JUS£ PUBLISHED^
And for sale at die Office of Man
son & Minor,
A SOLEMN WARNING
TO ALL TIfE
DWELLERS UPON EARTH,
Given forth in cbed cnee to the express
command of the
LORD GOD,
As communica’ed by him, in several ex
traordinary Visions and Mlri
Revelations, confirmed by
dry plain but wondcrj
signs unto
NIMROD HUGHES,
Of the county of Washington,
VIRGINIA,
Upon whom the awful duty of making this
publication has been laid and enforced,
by many admonitions and severe chastise.’
ments of the LORD, for the space cl
ten months and nine days of unjust ai d
close confinement in tlie prison of Abing.
d jn, wherein he was shewn that the cer
tai >
Destruction of one third of Mankind,
as foretold in tlie ScripturA, must take
place on the fourth clay of June, in
the year of our Lord 1812 3t.
Land for Sale.
BY virtue of a deed of trust bear
ing date the 25th day of March, eighteen
hundred and saven, executed by Carter
Wilkerson and Silly his wife, to the sub.
scribers as trustees, for the purpose of «»;_
curing a sum of money thsrein mentioned,
to be due to William Bradley, Wilt be arid.
at Cumberland court.house, on Monday,
the 58th day of M-iy next, being cour^kiyi
A Tract of Land-4
In the deed conveyed, containing
250 acres, lying in the said county of Cum.
berland, near the court.house, and adjoin,
ing Thoiuas Hobson’s tract of land, on
'/which the courthouse stands, according
; to the provisions of an act, entitled an act
I concerning executions and for otner pur.
poses—the subscribcrswiil conveythe title
to the purchaser or purchasers, as vested
in them as tniktrrs only.
John G. Daniel.
Thomas H. Walton.
Cumberland, April 23d, 1810.
tds.
Rees’s Cyclopedia,
?lo. 23
| Is juU Received at this OffiJL
%^4,tU/iority+
A XT A f'T
To allow the benefit of drawback or
merchandize transported by land
conveyance from Newport to Bos
ton, and from Boston to Newport,
in like manner as if the same were
transported coastwise.
BE it enacted bv the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni.
ted States of America, in Congress as
sembled, That all goods, wares and
merchandize duly imported into either
>f the ports of Boston and Newport,
which shall be transported by land
conveyance from the port of Newport
3y the way of Rhode Island bridge
*nd Taunton, to Boston, or from
Boston by the same route, to New.,
oort, and which being imported in
to Newport, shall be exported from
Boston .* or which being imported
into Boston, shall be exported from
Newport, shall be entitled to the be
nefit of drawback of the duties
upon exportation, to any foreign porr
nr place, under the same provisions,
regulations, restsictions and limitati
ons, as if the said goods, warts and
merchandize were transported coast
Wise UiJIll UUC IU (UIVU1ICI ui me said
districts ; and on the proviso that all
the provisions, regulations,limitations
and restrictions, existing in the case ol
goods, wares, and merchandize, trail •
ported by any of the routes mentioned
in the seventy-ninth section of the act,
entitled 41 An act to regulate the col
lection of duties on imports and tor
tonnage,” passed the second of March,
one thousand seven hundred and nine
ty nine : shall be duly observed.
J. B. VAKNUM,
Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives:
JOHN GAILLAUD,
President of the Senate pro-’tempore.
April 25, 1810.
Approved,
JAMES MADISON.
AN ACT
For the relief of Moses Young.
BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States of America, in Congress as
sembled, That the accounting officers
of the Treasury he, and they are here
by authorsed to settle the account of
Moses Young, as Secretary of Lega**
tion to Henry Laurens, Esquire, on
his mission to Holland, in the year
one thousand seven hundred and eigh
ty ; and that they allow him five hun
dred pounds sterling per annum, from
the eighteenth of October, one thou
sand seven hundred and seventy-nine,
the time of his appoint n ;nt, to the
ninth of October, one thousand sever
hundred and eighty-two, including the
usual allowance ok three months lor
returning to the United States: am
alter deducting the sum ot money re
ceived from Dr. Franklin by the peti
tioner, and by his agent Joseph Noursc
from the Treasury, that the balance
with interest thereon, be paid out of any
monies in the treasury, not otherwise
appropriated.
J. 13. VAltNUM,
speaker of the Ifouse of Representatives.
JOHN GAILLARD,
President of the Senate pro-te’mpore.
April 25, 1810.
Approved,
JAMES MADISON. 1
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Cvngre.00.
ItCUSE 01* HER RESEAT AT IfES.
April 28.
Mr. Milnor, from the committee
appointed on the subject, reported
resolution that tfuee dollars per day
should he paid out of the contingent
fund oj the House to each person at
tending on a summons from the c >rn
inittcc appointed to enquire into the
state of the army, or from the com
mittee appointed to enquire into the
conduct ol Gen. Wilkinson, and ai-c
.welvc cents and a half per mile Ir.i
•very mih-.’s travelling. The resolu
tion was agreed to.
The resolution fro n the S.'nate f«
imending the constitution, of the Uni
ted States in respect to tith s of m»hili
y, was twice read and referred to a
committee cf the whole.
The amendments of the Senate to
the bill providing for the sale of cer.
tain lands in the Indiana territory
were taken up and agteed to.
Mr. Montgomery was, on his re
quest, excused from further attendance
on the committee appointed to enquire
into the conduct of Brig. General f.
Wilkinson. [Mr. M. had been ap
pointed on this committee in the place
of Mr. Root.]
The bill from the Senate for tlie
admission cf the Territory of Orleans
into the union as a state was twice ie: d
and con*milted to a committee of tlie
whole.
REDUCTION OF TIIE NAVY.
The House resumed tlie considera
tion oi the bill for reducing the naval
establishment of the U. S.
Mr. Sniilic’s amendment was n o
d»fied so as to fix me number of cfX
> err 10 be retained in service as
toitowa ; 13 captains, 9 masters coin
m ndanr, 72 lieutenant®, ——— mid
shipmen and — v. seamen, ordioajy
seamen ai d boys.
Mr. Mu in ford again moved to post
pone the further consider;* i n of th^
enf.i ill'll 1 . r ju .
.1 - -J -—WWW,
Nays 54.
Mr. iv mdolph moved to strike out
the numbers 13, 9 and 72 in he a
- end nieut, being desirous cf reducing
•he olheers, it any part « f the tctubli»u
ntenc. Motion lost, Ayes >43, Noes
4 G.
Mr. N. li. Moore called for a t!i.
visio ol the question on Mr, Smjlic’ft
amendment.
And the question was taken on that
part ot it which authorises the Presi
dent to keep in service . o man of thu
armed vessels as he may ih nk pr per,
and to lay up the rest in ordii a y in
convenient ports. This part of the
amendment was agreed to ua fellows:
Yeas—M< sirs. W. Alston, Bac n,
Blaisdell, 11, Brown, Butier, VV.
Chamberlin, Champion, Clay, Cab',
Cochran, Davenport, D $ha, Kly, JB.
mott, hind ley, l\&iiklin, Gardner,
Gholson, Goodwvn, Heisie*, lit hand,
flutty, Jenkins, Kennedy, Key, L,yod,
Kyle, Macon, Marion, Matthews, Al’.
bryde, M’Kce, Montgomery, N. H.
Moore, T. Moore, Morrow, Mose
ley, Pearson, Pick nan, Pi kin, Patter,
Randolph, Rea, of Pen. Richards Sea
ver, Scybert, Shaw, Sh ifey, Smilie,
G. Smith, S. Smith, Stan end, Stan
ley, S voope, T.dlinadge, r aylr,"-,
lroup, Upha.n, Weakley, Wheatjb,
V.: hiiehill—Gl.
Nays—Aics^rs Andercn, Bard,
Bassett, Boyd, J. krewn, B irw ,1*
Ca.houn, Campueli, C op on, Cc x,
Craw lord, Cutis, Dana, Gauuctf, Gar
und, JoueE, J.ewis, Dove, M'Kirn, -yK
Tiller, imor, Mumioid, Newton-if 'f
Nelson, J. Porter, Q, incy if.Tra oJT
leu. Roane, Sage, Sam m u., J.nel ,
ooumaru, n.iC), van noin, V.tu
lien.'seiner, WiLon, Winn, VVither
spoon—38.
1 lie second claur.e of Air. Smilie's
amendment bciug under ccnsmeia
lion—
Air. Smilie moved to fill the blank
for the number ot midrhip nm with *'
“one hundred and filty” ^thout half
the number at piesent in strv.cr) —
Agreed to, Ayes 51, JNo s 37
The question was akeu on filling
the blank for the n .mber of seamen io
be retain with “2723,’* hh moved by
Air. Basset. The following are tbo
Yeas and Nays on t.iis qie.t;on :
Yeas—Messrs. Andtirfion, Jlsu*d,
Bassett, Bi^ytJ, J. Brown, li.rvt I,
Calhoun, Campbell, Clo-p'on, Cook,
Cox, Crawl i.*,CuU-, L) ua, t a nett,
Gardner, Garland, Gliobo i, Gone ya,
Jones, Lewis, Love, Lyon. M’Kio,
Miller, Mdnor, N. ft. Moore, Vium
ford, i\ ch.on, Neat n,J IV rter, (Juia
icy, lihea ot Ten. Ko.ni-, i-j>am*
aons, Smelt, G. Smith, J. Smith, b ij«
thard, Thompson, Van il rn, Van
denssclaer, Wilson, v\ inn, \Vi lie -
.puon—4('».
Nays—ATessr*. Bacon, Bibb, Blji*
lell, li. liroA-n, Butler, W. Chaintur*
non, Cay, Co. b, C- thr.in, D-v n
iort, Drsha, Kij, Fmd.ey, F' • ddm,
ilriMif, liufty,.Kenneoy, Ktu,l.vle,
«lacou, Alarion, Ala't hewr, :vt
vl'Kce, Montgomery, 1. A-o r