The enquirer — Richmond, Va., 1806-04-25 00:00:00, page 4

To the Freeholders of Caroline, Essex
y Kino and Queen, ana Kino William,
rm.Loir citissKs,
As the ft (lion of Congrefs has nearly terminated,
1 believe it to be my duty, as it certainly is my in
clination, to give you fome account of our proceed
ings. This account Ihall be as full Ha the limits of a
letter will admit. And it becomes the more necefla
ry on this occalion ; becaufe upon fc-vcrtl very im
portant quell ions I have Iren one of a very fmaJl mi
nority*, whole motives, have been grofsly mifrepre
fa.ted in feveral newfpapersof extenfive circulation_
wbilft in others cxcufes unafleed, and fuch a* I think
mjfelf bound to dnavow, hav** been given for our
votes Upon one of thefe ocrafions, when a bill was
pilled, reflri«aing our intercourfe with Great Bri
tain, I was in a minority of eight republicans, A
propofitloD to prohibit the importation of every fpe
cies of Britifli manur:i6ure, offered before the mea
i fure alfove mentioned, was debated ft r a week or
ten days—then po&poned, and finally, after the paf
fage of the relinking bill, withdrawn. Again fi both
thele mtafures I voted in all their ftagts. Thecau
les, which it uas laid, jufiified and required them,
were the capture and condemnation of many of our
v?.»cfs, and the imprtlTtnent of mr fsinun. .The
opponents of thefe meafures contended, that no enm
h,ereial reftritf!jon» Ihould be attempted, but fvich
as we cou'd perfevere in maintainin'-, and that none
could fitfely be adopted untij we had previoufiy pro
Vided by an embargo, for tbv* fecurity of a multitude
cf veffefa which we had abroad : That fuch a meafure
as either of thofe offen d to trie Houfe, would be to
tally iottffi-sei jus. and cou'd never anf'wer the end
propoftd : Becaufe. it would either be ufed by the
(U«0 minifttr, Mr. Pitt. *hofe implacable hottility
to 'hisvountrv noons could doubt, as a pretext for
le.zmtr-very v< »,-i ol ..ur» wliicli he could catch—or
if it failed to produce a war with England, would
have the c«-r; tin fcfltdh of enhancing enormotifly in
our markets th i price of all her mannf.i&ure.*, wali
out excluding them, at the fame time that it would
greatly diminifli, as the mure expe&atiwn of its a
dnpt'on had already done, the value of thofe colu
mn Hr* w ith which alone we could purchafe them.
The known fuptiririoty both in q-jility & cheapnefs
of Bti:ilh tTufnu. i^urti, and the h >!>it which we had
Ion/ horn in ol prehrrinjr and nfing them, would
force them into our market* under fo ne othar aim,
2nd by Coins more circuitous route—but one not left!
certain . And it would be nothing more than a flight
tax upon the ingenuity of finuggltrs to evade this
b ■•/, in filth a w ay as to bring very near as many ar
ticle* of Britifli manufacture into oar country a* ev.-r,
without the p aflibditv of d«•• dlion. Itie IrrtTiflihle
ennelufion in our miuds, from this rexfoning was—1
that Great Britain would he little inti.red by any
fuch mcafure ; -at *'.e famrtiin* that the injury done
to us, and particularly to the agricultural port of the
community, which conflitued a large majority of the
whole penpl- of tf e United S-at#*, vbuld be incal
culable. But it was Taid* fuppnfc fuch a me a fare did
produce war ; would you not rather go to war, than
facrifice your right* by fullering your commerce to be
reft rained and your fe imen impreiljd ? To this it
vsat snfwrrrd that no' going to war, particularly
Vvbilfl v/e had a tiogocistion depending bet ween our
•unifier and the court of London on thefe very fub
Jcifs, could not h» thought to imply a rrlinqnifhmerit
of our rights. The right of going to w»i, wliich no
body difputrd. was <tre thing i The phyfical power
and tits expediency of doing it, was another thing.
That Oreat Britain had eight hundred fhip* of war,
America a few frigate* *nd gun boat*. That Mr!
i l’itf* ?* we had everv rt-.nfnn to believe, would rejoice
nt b.ch a pretex', either for continuin'/ the feizure of
[ o ir vefle)*, or for an adlual declaration of w^r: That
' the confeqtitnco to America v on Id be the immediate
k inf* of her commerce, upon which depended her re
r "-M *, an entire ftoppxge h the payment of the pub
[ be debt, the creation t f h< avy taxes, * the moment
tan, when ntir capacity.M» fay them was much dl
rjimflied, if not an*!; sly deftro; ed by the drpreffio*
Vlfiws IN CONGRESS.
Tlie two mod important meafures, which were adopted
by the hft Congrefs,iu relation to England and to
Spain, have excited a coufiderabl* eppofui >u.
•‘The following letter it perhaps the bed cn/m/tJ view
which hat been pub'.ifhed or thefe different objec
tions: particularly efthofe which were advanced in
the Secret Debate on Spanilh affairs. We know
the author to be a man of conhderahle ingenuity;
a republican of unlhaken principle*. He itbefidea a
wartn fupporter of that fyftem of ineafures of which
Mr. John Randolph has Hood forth the mod diftin
guilhed1 advocate.—It is fcarccly too much tp fay,
that his letter embraces the flntngeft objections,
which have bran or could be offered in oppolition to
thefe mrafures.
But the arguments whicli.it contains are much more
Ingenious than foiid. Its principal errors ar«,
1ft. That it confident this reftridlive . bijl as a warr
mtafnrt: when the very definition of fuch a mea
iure is, that it either attach the perfona and proper
ty of the aggrieved nation, or violates the neutrali
ty that is due to one nation for the furbft of fa
vouring another: s
4d. That thismeafure it defigned to prote& our com
tutrcc alone; when it is well known that the impreff
inent of our Teamen is no inconGderable item in
the 'catalogue of our grievances :
•d. That even tilt is a commerce advantageous to
our merchants alone • when it is a fa& that a con
ftderable part of the colonial produce re-exported
from thi* country, is received in exchange for our
own agricultural produ&ions :
4th. That this nteafure could have very little impref
fion upon the^ politics of t.ic Kiiiiflr cabinet; as if
the Britilh cabinet would fee with indifference, hun
dreds of its manufaiUirers cut offfrom bread, & ma
ny of the richeft branches ol its commerce drying
up, though aided xnd frpplie* by the ingenuity of
fmugglcr*.
With rcfpcdl to thi appropriation cf money for
the purchafe or thx Florida*, the ohjeiftions urged
are equally fallacious:
lft. Becaufe it is impoflible for tos to know, and it
would be ridiculous to enquire whether Spain
would retain the purchafe money for her own bene
fit, or whether (he would make it over to France.
It was our duty to fcive the moftey to Spain and
not to France, but it was the right of Spain to
make whatever ufc cf it (he pkafed.
Sdly. Becaufe, though exifting circumftances made it
probable that this money would pafs into the coffers
of France, yet fuch a deftination coUld reflet no
oifgrace on us whogavo, but on Spam who transfer
red it. Were wfe o> dtiu Curfelve* the knight-errants
of Spain ; & to become the guardians of that trea
fure, which (lie wanted fpirit to defend againft
French, tapaci/y ? Or mud we wait, with all our
differences tmi'ettled, with war continually hang
ing over ouf tranquility, until the king of Spain
(hall rife from his Cumber*, and (hake off the Ihac
kIt« of F.at;cc? ot .CnuI France, having re-efta
hlilhed tlte tranquility of Europe, (half have all
her navy and her troops to affift in the negotiation ?
With arguments fo llrong in favor of purchafirg
the Flogidat, how can the world or even France her
fr If attribute that nttafure to a puftllanlmcut policy ?
Mr. Garnett’s.ingenuity has drawn a can.rati between
the policy which we afc: panning towards G. B. &
towards Spain ; h it this difT rei.ee of our policy
ftands completely iuftifivd i y the difference of the
two cafe* :
id. Wc give nroary to Spain and not to Great Bri
tain, becaufe though we would pur,chafe territo
ry from the one, we will not fcanfo.u our (hips & fca
nien from the orheC.
5nd Wc would lay rc/iminU upon the commerce of
Great-Britair and nor of Spain ; becaafe the inju
red interefts of the f.rft would then compel her
to grant us rerirefe, and becaufe Spain ha* fcarce
ly an) commerce with tkh country, wkich we
coulJ contrcjtl. .
Toaard each nation, we have adopted that conrf,- of
folifr, tvh rh (veins befl calculated to do \\%juflier.._
\\ ith ncitlcr nation do we wifh to engage in -war.
Y7> a th'ng fo much deprccatrd at all time* by the
republicans; and theeftablilhnient perhapsnfa (land
ing army. Thr(e things wml 14 ntceflarily be accom
panied by a fcafible cliange for the worle in the ad
•niniftration, whufe patronage and power would un
avoidably be enormo'.ifly increafed, by all thofe. dun
gcsand.arraiigeinciitHiiicideiit.il to war. And, for
what Arnold we hazard fuch a Ciu ifice | For the pro
tection uf that commerce, which, a, loon 9s it is ex
tended beyond fupplying us.witji fuch article* of fo
reign manufaflur* as our own ip-ceflaties and coai
lorts require, in exchange for our iurplus produce,
mult inevitably become delitcrtnus and dedru<3ive
to the manners, the morals, and the government of
the nation. But the commerce eflential to the belt
interefl and profperity of our country was not in rea
lity that for which this protection was defired. It
was the carrying and ihe covering trade alone which
had been aflailsd by Great Britain : a trade, benefi
cial chiefly to a few individuals, many of whom were
foreigners, flatiohed amongft us only for a (hort time,
or at any rate to a minority only of that clafs of citi
zens called merchants: a trade too, which would in
a groat meafure cetfe with the war between France
and England. If it ever fhonld be confident with
found policy to attempt affording this branch of our
commerce any protection beyond tb^t which it re
ceives at this time ; it was in the prefent fituation of
our country aphyfical impofiibiHty. To engage in a
ny contcft to which the rcfource* of our country were
fo incompetent, would be an evidence rather of mad
nefs, than courage. It was no difgrace to our coun
try to be at this time incapable of waging a commer
cial war with 6reat Britain, nor was there a fhadow
either of judice or reafon, in charging us, for aflerting
this incapacity, with any partiality for England, unlefs
the opinion which we had been hardy enough to pro
nounce, that fix American frigates were not a match
for eight hundred Britifh (hips of war, coeld be con
(trued as a proof of fuch partiality. That love of
country, which prompts the glorious facrifice both of
life and fortune, would prove a curfe inllcad of a
blefling, unlefs accompanied hy the judgement at all
times to perceive our true imereds, and to edimate
properly our capacity to alTert and maintain them.
Another objection to the propofed meafure was.,
that it could nut, Ht one and the fame time be con
fide red, as fume called it, “ taking drong ground, &
fuch as would tend to coerce Great Britain," and as
others faid, “ taking fuch a pacific dep as could give
her no offence.” It mud be either the one or the o
ther. If the fird, its ruinous tendency, we thought,
had been fudiciently demonftrated. , If the lad, its
inefficacy to cure the evils complained of,mufl berna
nifed. It was affertecl that Great Britain could be
coerced otily hy lining meafures ; and all we aiked
was, that thofe who propofed them, would prove to
us the policy and the power of ufing t!*.em at this time,
and the capacity of the country to perfevere in them.
We conceived it a diffident anfvver to all the argu
ments, ufed on thefe points, to remind gentlemen
of the difference between fix frigates, or twenty if
they pleafvd, and eight hundred (hips of war ; and
of the magnitude of the facrifice, which we were
called upon to hazard, co npared with the obtt-A fnr
which it was to be maJe. To the arguments, urged
in favor of doing fomething at this time, we anfwer
ed that our minider at Lorilnn, was at this very time
engaged in difeufling our difter'nces with that court,
and that he had given us reafun to hope he fbould a
micahly adjud them ; that if any reliance could be
placed in this atfurance, it would be premature to do
any tiling whild this negotiation was pending. If
England was difpofed to go to war, this meafure, be
fore it could be brought to operate upon her, might
enable her to do us incalculable mifehief, hy the cap
ture of our vefTels, and perhaps the plunder of fome
of our feaport towns. On the contrary, if fhe was
incl ned to peace, any evidence of hoftility on our
part, might retard, but eosli not poflibly accelerate
it Unlcfs indeed we could prefume that flie feared
us, which, aff-T our conduit toward* Spain, it was
utterly impoflible that file could do. Whatever
impreflion we might have made upon her at the firft
of the feflion, by the propofed meafure, fhe could not
now be made to believe that we would perfevere in
this, or any other meafure adopted odenfibly to ce
erce her, after knowing that a power, which had in
jured nnd intuited us lull as much iu proportion to
her ability to do it, as Great Britain had done, had
been treated in the manner in which we had treated
Spain. After aiding, apparently at lead, fo pufilla
□imoufly towards that nation, nothing lefs than an ac
tuil declaration of war, could make Great Britain be
lieve us in earned, in any attempt to force her into a
compliance with our wifiies. We had deprived cur
felvesof credibility on this point, and we mud take
the conferences. If we had aded confidently—if
the outrages of Spain had been met with the fame fpt
rit of jnd indignation as thofe of Britain, there might,
perhaps, have been fome probability of accelerating
the attainment of otirobjtd with thishft power, by
the propofed meafure, even admitting that this was
the foie motive of its adoption. But when Great
Britain knew (as (he certainly would do from her
minifler here, w ho had our fccret almod as foon as
we had it ourfelves) that we had adeJ, to all appear
ances at lead, a daflardly part toward* Spain, or ra
ther France, fhe would not, fhe could not believe us
capable of any other condud toward* her.
The veil, which has heretofore concealed this part
of our proceedings from the public eye, i« at length
removed, and 1 Haften to exhibit a concife datement
of tbit tranfadion, before that tribunal, whpfip right
finally to decide all queftions of national import, I
hope will never be infringed. At the commencement
of the prefent feflion, the Prefide.it fent us two mef- ;
fages, the one public, the othrr confidential ; the firft !
breathing a fpirit of juft indignation at our wrongs,1
and a determination to purftie all proper means to re- i
drefsthem; the other certainly not enntradidory to
the firft.: the public meflage recommending dtcTive
nieafures, particularly towards Spain, with whom
our negociation had failed, and who had injured us
as much to the extent of her power, as Great Britain ;
the private meflage, upon which the majority of the
Houfe has determined, much to my regret, to con
tinue the injundion of fecrecy, containing no fenti
nients in oppofirion to the public one. A committee,
appointed on this meflage, brought in a rep rr, ex
preflive of fentiinenis consentaneous to thofe in the
firft. and consequently not hoftile to thofe in the laft
mefTige. This report reconwnrn ’ed it to Congref*, »o
amhorife the Preddentto raife certain troops, the
number of which was intended to be four thoufand,
for ti t nurpofe of repelling and pnmdiing any ag
greflio v. on our frontier* ; which had been violated,
! and which were threatened with invafion for feveral
months previous totlie battle of Trafalgar, the iffue
! °f which compelled Spain to turn her attention to a
nother quarter. Another objid for which this farce
was deligned, was the defence and proteaion of our
lately acquired territory, which was, and ftill is, en
tirely deftitute of defence, and fevtral hundred miles
diflant from the nearrfl weflern fiate. Nw offen
(ive expedition agninft the Floridas, as fume have
f.ilfely a!f. rted, was either wiflied or intended by a
ny of the friends of this report, as far as 1 heard or
imdrrflood their fentiments. NotluiTg was more re
mote from our willies than war, either with Spain or
England. A large majority of the Houfe rejedled
this report. In this inftance, I was in the minority.
A refutation, which had been previoufly laid ^ipon
our table, (after being rcjedled by tlie committee
w ho brought in the report) was then offered to the
Houfe by one of the majority. This refolurion pro
poCed to appropriate two millions of dollars, oftmG
Iny fur the vsgue purpofe of defraying any extraor
dinary expenfes which might he incurred in ourin
terenurfe with foreign nations, bur. averted to |>e ip
reality for thepilrchafe of the Florida*. It alfo au
thorifed the l*rcfidenf to bortow f*,s money at fix p t
cent, without fixing any time or fund for the re
demption of rhedebt j and pmpofrd to continue the
additional duty of two and a half per cent, on import*,
commonly railed the Mediterranean fund, which
fund, the law creating it, declared (hotiM ceafr with
the Tripolitap war. We propofed to fpecify the ob
j«r<Jl, and to lin.it the fum. The fpecification was a
; greed to, fifty eight voting again!} it; and the debt to
he incurred, made redeemable at will; but thejimi
j tacion was rejefled, a*d even the fpecification itf*l:
gunk-nts, urged to jnftify the menfurr finally adopt
ed, it wavfaid that thefe were the ferret wifties of
the, Prefident. To thit,we*nfweyedj that although
we w.ere.difpofed to treat with rel’pett the opinions
*>fthe Prefident, when officially communicated, yet
eveu.thyn we die} ii"t conceive ourfelves under any ob
ligation to adopt them, We confidered ourieives the
rcprefetitatives of a free and independent people, who
fenc us here to he governed, not by men, hut by
principles; and to yield obedience to nothing but the
convtSions of our own deliberate judgment. That
if the Prefident had any opinion on this fubjeS, o
thcr than thofe which he had communicated, they
ought to form the fubjiS of another confidential
menage. And that if this feheme for appropriating
two millions toward* an objcift not fptcified, was
his, it was in dire.fi contradiction to a principle,
which he himfrif had recommended and enforced in
one of his former meflagw. In hia me Cage to the fe •
veoth Cougrcfs, lie lays—“In our cate too, of the
“ public contributions ertrufted to our direction, it
“ would be prudent to multiply barriers againft their
“ diffipation, by appropriating fpecific funis, to every
“ fpec.fic purpofe fql'ceptible of definition : by difal
“ lowing a'l application of money, varying Irons the
“ appropriation in object, or tranfeending it in a
“ mount ; by reducing the undefined field of con tin
“ gencies, and thereby circumfcribitig difcretionary
* powers over money ; by bringing hack to a fmgie
“departmental! accountabilities, where'the exami
“ nation may be prompt, efficacious, and uniform.” ,
How far ih s bill, apprnpr a-ing two millions of do! ]
lars towards an object not fpectfb ', an. giving at the
fame time a difcretionary power to exceed that ap
propriation, conforms to the excellent and truly re
publican doctrine contained in the above extra.*. I
(hall leave the public to judge.
Amongft other arguments in favor of fpeeification,
I muft not unit the following- that if this bufinef*
svas to be kept fecret, (and a ftrong effort was made
to the very Uft to conceal it,) fpecifying the ohjec* of
the appropriation, could do no poflihle injury—whilft
it Would fix the refpci.flfcility on the Prefident, where
it ought to be i That although we had no dlfpofition
to doubt for a moment, the difpofition of that officer,
to apply the money in the way intended—yet that
law, ai d not confidence, \va«, and ought, forever to
be the rnte in all practicable cafes, under which we
(hould act towards him. The right to make appro
priation* of money in fecret, was alfodenied, as a prac
tiee calculated to cicltroy one of the mod efficient
checks, which the people had o\er their representa
tive*.— But the objedion which appeared to us mod
important, and indeed infuperabie, wasjthe apparent
difgrace of the propofed nieafure. For whatever
might be faid, refpedirg the policy of acquiring the
Florida* ; the advantage of which ve did not deny_
yet the appropriation of money to buy them, under
exifling circumflances, mu A,-and would be considered
as in the higbeft degree puGIlanimous and difgracefuh
T be true nio'ives of thofe gentlemen who were in fa
vor of purchafing the Florida*, however pure they
might be, could not be known abroad, but would be
inferred from the known fads. Thefe fads mull in
evitably produce an unfavorable inference, whether
it was true or not, and the confequence to our - ountry,
would be a* fatal from this coticlufion, although it
might happen to be falf-, as if it wa* fairly dcducihle
from the true motives of thofe who fupported this
nieafure. For it had frequently been declarej on the
floor of Congrefs, and none bad denied it_that
France had threatened ns with war, if we came to a
rupture with Spain—that Spain w a* not averfe to an
accommodation of our differences, hut that France
would rot fuffer her to make it, unltsfs money wa* u
fed as the means of propitiation : That Fiance had
intimated her willingnefs to interfere upon this condi
tion, and had given affurances, that Spain fliou’d do
what we wiflied on thefe terpis Under tbele cir
cuinftanree we contended, that whether gentlemen
were governed hv fear of France ; or really preferred
purcfnflng the Florida*, to an exchange of territory,
(which was the only thing we could confent to Spain.)
if money was thus appropriated, it would, and mull
he underflood, not only by France, but by the world
as the i-fledl of intimidation—and that the neceffury
confequence of luch a belief abroad, n uft be the en
tire proflration of our national charadUr. The day
after thitbill puffed, which was on the ifcth January,
j difjwtches from our minifter at London were lent to
■ us, which had been received before Chriflmas. Thefe
j difpatchesfevera! members declared w*uid have ch .n
; £* d their vote, if they had fern tliem in time— whilft
j other* affirmed that they fersed to toiifirm them in
i the propriety of their’s.
From the above flatement, it mnfl be evident, what
■ connexion our conclave tranfadions (which were ali
known to two at leaf! of the foreign minillers here,
notwithftanding the injunction of fecrccy,) rad with
our proceedings towards Great-Britam. The itilult*,
and the injuries of Spain were to be me: wi-h money_
apparently—if not in reality, given to France to pur
chafe her mediation. The infults, and the inh.-ries
of Great-Britain, by commercial ri llriflioni, c.ilcu
lated, as we thought ourfelves iuflified in bi lowing,
(if Mr. Pitt had lived,) to produce it le*ft an aggra
vation of thofe infults, anJ ii juries—if not wjr : Ur
ftri&ions too, which in their operations at home,
would amount, as we believed, aimotl to a total (*
crifice of the agricultural, to the commercial imerefts
of our country. Uniformity and confi teucy of con
duct toward* both nations, were n**c< ffary in order t >
produce any effetfl upon either If the coercion of
Great Britain was to be attempted, our enndud to
ward* Spain fhould have been firm and decifive. But
admitting that we had a3*d towards Spain as was
right, which I can never he induced to think, conGf
tency required, a: lea f a fufpenGuu of our proceidings
towards Oreat-Britain, until we could hear the rtfuir
«f our miniflers negociafion withh<r. The foie ob
jedl of which negooiation was, the redrefs of thofe
very grievances, of which we at prefent comDlaiued.
1 have endeavored as cnncifcly as poffible, togive
you an intelligible account of tranfadlions, with which,
I am fure it is both your inclination, and your intereft
to be acquainted. They are fuch, ns have defer vedly
excited'the public attention, more than any other pro
ceeriings which have occurred in Congrsfs for fome
time. And F thought it a duty, which I owed, both
to you and tnyfelf, to juftify my conduct upon thefe
occafiww, as one of a minority, svhofe opinions, and
whofe motives had been moft grofsly mifreprefented.
The courfe purfued towards Spain, I coufidcred, from
the circumOancts already flated, as one which would
ftanip indelible difgrace upon my country, whe
ther the motives of thofe who advifed it were good
or bad. 1 viewed it alfo as a precedent, for viola
ting Upon any pretext of expediency—that excellent
republican JoArine of“ appropriating fpecific Aims
for every fptcific purpofe.” 'Hie meafure adopted in
relation to Great-Britain, was one which I contempla
ted, as particularly injurious to the agricultural inte
refts of our country—at the fame time, that it did
not appear to me calculated to produce the effect
which its friends cxpeifted. Although I was willing
to admit, that these was an intimate conned!ton
between agriculture and commerce, yet I never con
fidered that connexion of fuch a nature, but that
cafes might, and would occur, in which their intereft,
would conOidl with each otlief. This I viewed as
one of thofe cafes, and I had the alternative of clnt
fing, to which of thefe interefts I would adhere_to
that of the agricultural part of the community, which
conftituted a very large majority, not only of my
own date, hut of the United States—or to that of the
commercial part, w hich thought it entirely premature,
to do any thing. In this fituation, I had no hefitation
in determining how my duty preferibed that I (hould
adl. But the minor intereft in the community has
prevailed, and I htlievs it is the firft, as I hope it
will he the laft inftanct In the annals of our country.
Memorials from commercial towns have been confi
dered as expri Ifing the public fentiment, when it is
H notorious f *tft, that the great body of the people, the
yeomanry of the country, have btefi entirely filent.
It remains now, for you to determine how far your
Reprefent tfive has a<fte,j upon thefe important ocra
Mons with fidelity to your intereft-w-and in confor
mity to thofe principles np~n which he was ele^ed.
lam, your fellow citizen,
JAMES M. GAR?JtTT.
IV.i/bif’fh’t, April I .#/■, I ton.
IMPROVED PROPERTY IN THE TOWN
OF MANCHESTER, FOR SALE.
T^Y Virtue of a Heed of tiurt, executed by Alexan
* derand Peter Field T rent, to toe funferiber, in
order to fecure the payment of a fum of money, there
to Ipecified ; will be offer, d to the highert bidder,
for cajh, or country prndur.-, on the p.-JJ, Mey ,„.M .
tl.ree unproved TENEMENTS, 0:1 the Main Street
in the town of Mat chefter, viz : A two ftory yellow
houfe, fortm rly occupied by Afher Marx, containing
two rooms below, and two above flairs, and a large £
convenient Lumber Houfe. By expending a Lull
furn in repairing the houfes attached to this lot it.
would be rendered the tnoft eligible fituatinn in that
town for hufiuefs. The houfe and hot at prefent, in
the occupancy of Mrs. Turner, containing three
rooms, viz. a (lore, lumber and counting-room, to
a pet Ton who is anxious to invert his funds in the
grocery line, the elegibility of this tenement, as a
fund, invites his tnoft ferious attention ; and the
houles and lot adjoining Mrs. Turner, and at i>re
i.-iit unoccupied; this tenement is in good ren.ur,
and calculated to accommodate a final! family hav
ing a kuchen, liable, &c. Should any perfon wi(h
to fee rhe above property &c before the day of fait
enquire of Edward W. Trent, Richmond.
JOHN ARCHER, Tru/l.r.
Amelia, April 22. (tdf.)
TO Mr. THOMAS BJtADSllAw’
SIR,
\ S you ar« not an inhabitant of this rtate, and
i have not any agent therein, known to me, to j
whom a nnt.ee can he given, he pl-afid to take notice,
that on the laft Saturday in June next, I (hall, at the
dwell mg houfe of Nicholas Vaughan, in the county
of Nottoway,between the hour, of eight in the mor
ning and feven in the evening of the above mentioned
day, take the depofitionsof the faid Nicholas Vaughan
of Jacob Seay, Nathan Fowlkes and Peter Knight’
to be read as evidence in a Am depending in the coun
ty court of Prince-Ed ward, wherein you, and others
are plaintiff s, and 1 am defendant
BENJAMIN BORUM.
I rmce.Edward county. Apnl 22. ep2m.«J
FOR SALE,
C « Hundred acr. s of LAND, lying in the county
' o'Henry, on Mayo river, & on it about 2 hun
a,crt * c^arLand well inclofed and in good
order for cropping, and good fuflicient houfes for the
reception of a family, at the price of four dollars per
at re, and that to be paid at three annual payments
.I’i'i .oar hundred and lifty odd acres with no improve
ment on it at the fame credit, at two dollars per acre
N B. rhe above Land lies 200 miles from R,ch-i
mond ; <10 from Danville and loo from Lynchburg
„ ballenger wade.
__
Ii 11. hihrii im uiu i nmnmpifipmiiii
»n Virginia, are defired to take netce, that the
firft Tuefdsy in May u the time appointed for I ohL
ipg a Convention in the City of Richmond ; and,
that matters highly intereftmg to the Church, oarri
cularly the Election of an altiant Bilhop, will come
beforejthe Convention.
The Clergy are alfo refuelled to re<-oUe<S, that,
hy a refolgtion patted at the laft Co-venrion, it iror
i dajned, that, “ every mtoifter (hall attend Convrnri
linS unleUin cafe of firknefa, or other fufficient rea
J Ion, of which each fucceeding Convention (hall be no
l tided and judge."
W ith tue advice of the Handing Committee,
JAMES MADISON,
RtJLtb tf tit Pr. Rb. CL. iu'J’irfiuia.
April IS._ r 2t.
WILLIAM IIART,
• < •. Opb'fift tt<e Scott Uoufi,
KEEPS cooftai.tly on hand a large quantity of
BOH LED PORTER and Al.E, which he
can recommend a* of the firft qu.ilirv. having purtha
fodMa. Bili.imgion** (lock, artd feeing every bot
i tie filed himfelf. Eacrilieifupphed with Draft BEER
by the barrel or retail.
Al(.» for cafh or country produce only, a geneml
attonmerit of Groceries, among which are—
Fine flavor'd tranfparenr Rum Sliruh.
Boliea Tea hy the cheft or lb A qu,ti titr of Newr
F.ngland Cheefe and a few buflieli of Irilh Potatoes
very cheap.
April 22. ^ et4w flcoawtf.
I notice.
piIF pa-merfh.p of John Butler If Co. at Carter.
* v> e, .s this day diflblved by mutual content. I
The rollechon of all debts due to that concern, j, com.
m.tted eMt.rr'yto IViHUm Ml Kcnaie the adhngp,tr
uer of 'V.lham M'Ktnzie If Co. and to him alone
or to any one he may appoint i* payment to be made
JOHN BUTLMl,
Win. M‘KENZ!E &Co.
Allprrfon* indebted to the late concern of Jo’n
Cutler If Co are r. quelled to make payment to Mr.
Robert Athnfon. a* hr alone I have authorifed to gram
d .charges for the lame.
. .. _ Wm. M'KENZIE.
_April IO. .j.
WANTS A SITUATION^
\ YOU VG Man, who is well verfed in ac
' Cou.it* of every kind ; he would w.fh to be em
ployed n her by a merchant as a Book-keeper, or by a
r.v gentleman havmg a family to educate, as a private
, **r: In capacity, he would only under
take to teach Reading, Writing, the Englilh Lan
guage Grammatically, Arithmetic, ft Book-keeping.
Une xceptionable teflinionials of hit chandler can be
produced. Any ner.on defirous or engaging him may
receive further information by addrefling a fine t„ A
A. and leaving ,t with the Editor of the Enquirer.
April 18. 1
HOT TLED~ PORTFRT*
| 'HF. fubfer ilier bason hand, and intend, keep
'rr fuN,|y "f Philadelphia BOT
' 1 (?R 1 ER* ,}{ fh«- bell quality. Purchaters
may have it put up to he fit for ufe at any time re
ti,J,red- c D. J. BURR,
Second door above the EuAe-Tavern.
AF'lis-_ 6f.
1 fubfrriher, is particularly requefled by
JJWf?'*-.Al'hrV"a,,d Reward (fuccefiors to I
faac W. Mortis of Philadelphia in the Brewing bufi
|S u "V.V k”°'V" to f,,e citizen* of Richmond,
and the public generally, that they mean to keep him
li.ppl.ed from time to time with fufliciem quantities
of PORTER ft BEF.U from their Brewer}, to an!
1 wer the confumption of Richmond and the country
trading therewith. 1
'Hie fuhftriber can fay with confidence, that judg
ing from the fample heretofore received, that both
* »«** i- -MeVX.
w,l be fold as h.yv as it can be had in Philadelphia.
Orders from the country will he promptly attended to.
Daniel triplett.
April is. 0
— -___ *w.
" rHw-!.10ld7\0f PR,ZES in th* Krft Claf* of the
A William & Mary I.otiery, are informed, fhat
f”e^y e*ert,on >» making, to r,brain payment for the
rickets fold on credit; which thofe thus indebted, arc
again apprized, will become due on the I5rh prefent •
and are earneftly entreated to make immediate re
mittances to the fubfcnher. So foon as fund, fuffic.
ent to difcharge fncb claims, or the major part of them
are on hand notice will be duly given. In the mean
while, thofe inclined to recc.ve bon,Is, „r note* in
payment, may on application have their claims im
mediately faiisfied.
! het|1uCo p (,S fnr ^ 2nd clafs are preparing;
and will be fliortiy ready for delivery by
RO. ORJ5ENU0W,
. „ Agent and Tteafurer.
_ April 18, __ 4w
JTTST RECEIVED, —
A F,w PiP** COiiNtAC BRANDY ,/ tb, firf)
l \ quality , ,af„ htfl ME DOC Cf.ARBT it
mx> I FRUITS prefixed in handy ,
CAPERS and 01.1 FES. 3
Alfo— FLOUR far family ufe in barrel, and half
harreh~~far fate by
, , „ SAMVEL MYERg.
Afrtl 8-if
■ Ghafrtfs Sarrpfnn; d *c*d, are rcp eflid to bring
!i;o.» iii well authenticated Hire the Pt>h cf June
tieir—andthofe indebted are nqtitfttd t«* make im
mediate payment.
1-03. A RICHARD SAMrfjRNf^<A:V#.
_April 11. EJwp
\I.I. perfon* having chattiW agfthft the'efiate of
Stmuel Grefium, decM, ef King ard Qu cn
•comity, are rerpiefted fo exhibit them infnfWiatrV
I duly authenticated; in ordir that payment ir::T *.e
made. Thole indebted to the eftaie are deCred^o
niakc immediate payment to
JOHN & SAMUEL GRFSH.YM,
Kxeeytor, tf Samut! fjrrfan, cke.J.
^pntlf. f3tp
NRW-MAUKET "nSTATT-- VOR SAll\
^ / H H the content of the furviving truflee in a
» * deed executed by me for the benefit of the
•ate John M'Rae, and dated on the 11th dav of Orto
r’ ‘ *' 1 y will be offered for Lie, on the feconr] day
of the enfuing Spring Races,that heaurir,il and high:*
valuable feat, known by thenameofNEW MARKS T,
on a "edit or one, two and three Years from the dir
or tale. This property is f„ extenfively know,, as be
mg the moft profitable race cnnrf* in the (late. ar,l
for iu other nu nerous advantage,, that Jt is d
snnec.MTary to enumerate them.
lurtween fhi«and the day on which the above two
perty is advertif-d. I will treat with a priva-i pori ha
ler and give a more extenfive credit, it the price and
terms entourage me to do fo.
-- . . R. SATK.
March IS. 0, , .
fn Hanover Count\ Court, ‘v.'//r 30tb. JS02
IN CHANCERY.
nrntm. Rivet f_T* Cwpanj, pur.
tr-ninfi
Richard Rirbtvd/er, (5* Dudley Ri bird/tr, D-fts.
r I' HIS day came the plaintiffs by their c«tmrel -r4
L ihr defendant, Richard Richardfnn. n.tf having
entered his appearance, and given fecurd.-y according
to the art of Affemhly, and the rules of this corn,
and it appearing to the farisfartioi, of the court, thri
he U not an inhabitant of thi* country. On the mo
tion'of the pbintiffs, it is decreed, and ordered that
the defendant, Richard Richardfon, do appear here
«n the firll day of rhe next term, and anftrer the big
of the plaintiffs, and that a copy „f ,his order be
forth with nuhlifhed in fome public Newfpaper, puh
lifite.lt,, the city of Richmond, for two months fuc
cefh vely and that another copy he polled at the front
door of the Court Houfe of this county.
A Copy. ’IYfie,
THOS. TOLLARD, d. c. h. c.
April 18- (f2m.)
TO BE SOU) BT AUCTION,
A: the front door of the Eagle Tavern, in rhe city of
Richmond, on the eighteenth day of March next,
tnfuing.
| HA I mod valuable eftate. fitmted in tb? coun
ty of Wythe, and commonwealth of Virginia,
and heretofore well known hy the name of Chifw ell’s
Lead Mines; but which, for fonietitre pad hath
been confidered, as the property of Stephen Audin
and company, of the cry of Philadelphia, by virtue
of a purchafe thereof by them, mads under a decree
of the high court of chancery of the faid common
wealth, with the terms whereol they have not com-,
plied.
That purchafe was made on the 20ih day of Febru
ary 1793, for the fum of •' 6,505, and lince that pe
riod, they have made fundry great and valuable im
provements on th- faid edate.
The well known value of the property, and the
certainty which the fubfcrifcers fed, that thole who
mean to become purchasers will fr.ti.sfy themhlvcs
thereof, on view, render any further defeription cf
the property to he fold unm-celTary.
T he fale will he made in conformity to two feveral
decrees of the fuperior court of chancery, which is
dircided bylaw to he held at the Capitoi in the city
of Richmond aforefaid, the one pronounced .on the
8th day of June, and the other on the 7th day of Oc
tober, in the year 1 J 0 ’.
Credit will he give i to the purchafer nr put-chaf
ers, for a term of nina months for one,and eighree i
months for the other moiety of the purchafe money,
each moiety being fecure! not only hy a bond with
good fecuritv made pavahle to the fuhfcrihf rs. or the
furvivnrs'bf them, their executors adn iniftrerors or
a.Tigns for the sfes in the faid decree fperified, ar„l
hearing intereft from the date ; hut alfo, by th re
tention orthe legal eftate, until the whole purchafe
money, with fuch interefc, fhall he fuhv paid ; on
which payment a conveyance or conveyance*. v ill be
executed to the purchafer or purchafers in virtue of
the faid deer* e hv
to t"j \\ tCTvTI \M, Commiflionirs
JOHN WARDEN, b of the
WILLIAM HAY, S court.
Jan. 21, 8iv.
't'liefi'eor th? above property is poflponed
to the 15th day of May next.
MARSH \L,b SALE.
JL* 0 BE SOLD, for ready money, ruder a d
8 eree of the Court of the United States. f >r
the 5th circuit in the Virginia Diflridl, between Phi
neas Bond s>ttorney for the creditors of Ezt kiel Ed
wards pltf. and Davi I Rt f* & others defendat itn, in *>r
dertoraifethe fum of 1 1*170 iHs 01 ctR.due U payable
the III day of January laft, that - valuable and weW
known eflate in the county of Botetourt called Fort
Lewis. The fale will be made on the premifes or. the
5th day of June next.
BENJ. MOSBY, D M. for,
JOS. SCOTT, M. V. D.
April 18. tdf.
NOTICE.
By virtue of a Deed of Truji, dated tie 1 \ih day of
rfu'y, 180V, and recorded in tie Genera! Court, made
by James Dc ne, Francis I). Deane amt Jane II.
Deane bis wife, to the fubfcribers, in tru/i, to ft cure
the payment of a debt due from James Deane, Thomas
Deane and Francis B. Deane, to GiUiat Kirby,
WILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION,
for ready money, by the Su/ftribers or fomrtnvo of tbtm,
attic ton tin of Cairn in the county of Cumberland, on
Tuefday the 29th of next month :
r I "’WO undivided third parts of the Water Grid
1 MILLS on Willis's River, at Caira aforefaiJ,
commonly called and known by the name of Deane’s
Mills—together with all their appurtenance* and no
ceflary privilege* of water—and two third part* of
the ground on which the Mill-Houfe Hands—and
two third parts of one acre of Ground furroundinz
the Mill-Houfe.
JOSEPH GA1.LF.G0*
M. B. POITlAUX,
RIVERS DRAKE,
CHARLES COPLAND.
Richmond, March VS, 1806. epd*
BOIIN & JIUBNER
Have received from Bremen, a General Affurtmcnt of
GERMAN LINENS—confiding of
07NABURGS, Ticklcnburgs,
HeHians, Rouans Sheeting,
Platillas, Brown Rolls, &c.—which
thev offer for file on the mod reafonahle terms.
Msrch V5. I
TO BE SOLD,
To the highcfl bidder, on the premifes, on the f.rjl
day of May next,
J O much of tie I. ANI), oobrreon John Kelfo
lives, in the county of Cumberland, late the
property of Prter Francifco, as will pay the la
lance claimed of him,' by Samuel G. Adams, of
£■ ISO, with its iulerr/t, by virtu- rf a deed of
truf!executed to me, by the fetid Peter Trancifco,
for that purpofe.
CRT ED TAYLOR, Tnffl-.
March IS. feptdt.J