The enquirer — Richmond, Va., 1810-09-28 00:00:00, page 4

TREATMENT OF THE IRISH !!
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Bobbett** Register for May presents the
following Narrative—At the time Sir F.
Bnrilett was seised by the Serjeant at Arms,
Sir- O’Connor was then in his House.
M»\ O’C. is an elder brother, of the celebra..
ted Arthur O’Connor, who emigrated to the
continent, agreeably to a treaty with the
British Ministry, anti was a conductor of the
Argus, printed at Paris in the English
tongue— ■ which paper was however to ex
pire on the last of July ; most probably in con
sequence of the late French decree, regulat
ing the Press. . .
Amidst the other means, which were con
jured up to screen the attack upon Sir F B
& raise a popular prejudice against him, was
the pre-eitce of Mr. O’Connor in his house. |
The former charges against his brother were
ripped up anew—and every thing ihat was
calculated to raise an outcry against the
name of O’C. was pressed into the service.
Cobbett thought himself thus colled upon to
bring the case of R. O’C. fully before the
public-——he begged him therefore to furnish
turn with “ a narrative of what passed in
respect to accusations against hint by the
government ” The following article is the
lruit of this request-and surely never was
•there a simpler or more striking picture of
the capricious tyranny and the “cruel mer
cies” ot G. Britain towards unhappy Ire
land. The English readei is truly ar.ked by
Cobbett, how he would like to be treated as
O Connor had been? How he would 1>ke to
see his house, his gardens and his fields laid
waste, as the Irishrhan’s had been ? hurri
ed from prison to prison, from dungt on to
dungeon—Sc refused a trial, on his demand ?
Andare there to be no feelings for O’C be
Cause he was an Irishthin ? Is this the way
produce a real union with Ireland ? j
MR. O’CONNOk* NARRATIVE.
From a desire to mhkt llie people of England
acquainted with Ireland of which thry know
worse than nothing, receiving as ih> y do all
their accounts through the medium of a d.-hrrip
toon of persons, in their constant habit of calum
aiatiug that people; and from a wish to give
the people of England the means of forming a j
judgment between the government o» Ireland
(during the residence there of lords C mden &. |
Cornwallis) and me, it cannot, esp»--ially ai this
moment, be thought obtrusive in me to ! y be
mre a just, but prejudiced public, a faithful nar
ntive of those facts, which took pla^e in iny par 1
tocular, commencing on the 27th of December, !
<1796, and ending the 8th of May, 180^ ; a space
•f nearly seven yearn, during the whole of which
tome, a continued fire of persecution was kept up
mt me. Connor Ville, the former place of my re-!
eidence, is situated about 15 miles from Bantry
Say, where a French fleet made its appearance i
on the 38d oT December, 1796 To oppose a j
landing of the troops on board mis fleet, about >
J000 of the Irish militia had advanced and oc- '
•upied the villages about me—For the manner 1
in which my tenants, my friends, and myself
tocated these men, I refer to the panegyrics in
the houses of parliament in England and Ire
land at the time. We cheered them in their
distress ; we administered to their wants,' of
■which they had no ordinary share. On the 27th
ot December, about 9 o’clock at night, such a
aL,<le0U* ni£ht 88 my remen>brance cannot paral
■ *,slr I was informed that my porter’s lodges were
full of soldiers in quest of quarters. 1 went to
them They were in sad plight. I found them to |
be two companies of the Wexford militia, with 7 j
or 8 officers. Day or night, rough or smooth,
my countrymen were welcome to me I had
then a large house, well stored. I was in the
midst of plenty ; full of happiness. 1 brought
*11 the men to my house. My mind has no Re
gister of the time they remained with me, nor
what I did for them My tenants were very
good to those with them My friends (that was
the whole country far and wide) opened their
doors to this native army ; let them want for no
thing ; and even when the terror of invasion had
subsiued, my tenants and myself presented the
■poor fellows with the billet money, to which we
were entitled, to buy them shoes and stockings.
I did ro> utmost tomxke the situation of the offi
cers as comfortable as possible ; and this I will
F*y, that I received from all, more thanks than
"were due, and experienced their gratitude far
exceeding the oblig-ition. I learned afterwards,
that these officers (strangers heretofore to me)
liad bean directed by some hgitators, to my
house, in the expectation of my not admitting
them, which was the opinion also of a<l theuffi
oers in that army. I dare say, such of thepi as
live at this day, will acknowledge that they re
ceived a more hearty welcome at Connor V,lle,
chan at the house of the most “ loyal” man in Ire-!
land ; that is, the man that bus the largest pen
sion, or most lucrative sinecure, or post in the i
kingdom. Whilst this division of the army was
an their cantonments, in my neighborhood, when j
the men lost their muskets, bayonets and am
munition, which frequently happened, they came
tome; I had .the things restored to them. The
soldiers became attached to me Long, indeed
always, before these events, I had been an ob
ject of great jealousy and hatred ; I had ever
keen in the habit of committing a crying sin in
Ireland. I had horns* imucnlf c/a tn nil I la a
pie, that they were greatly attached to me—I
had appointed arbitrators in every parish, thro*
an immense district, who decided all controver
sies ; the situation ot the petty-togging lawyer
was nearly gone ; 1 curbed the rise «r drunken
nt sb ; I prevented riots ; I did all the good I
could. It will hoI, therefore, surprise any per
son, in the least conversant with the character
or complexion of the ruling factions in Ireland,
that I was an abomination to them ; arid when to
these vices, in their eyes, the thanks of the poor
soldiers were superadded, my crimes were not
to be endured, and 1 became an object of suspi
cioo andd-sirust. In this state of thing* (the
French torce having long left the coast) a young
man from my neighborhood had gone in the be
ginning of March to see some friend of his at
Bantry, where he was arrested for administer
ing the oath of union. On being questioned, lie
Acknowledged, that lie had received it from thy
•tevtant, a lad not more than 18 years of age, wlio
•Iso was arrested •, and both were conveyed to
the prison of Cork, where every means were
Used to extort confessions from them to impli
cate me. They declared, however, that I was
the last person to whom they would disclose
any thing of the kind—Tlielr honesty and per
•ihtsncein truth were called treason to tlieir
country, and attachment to me •, and a council
was called together in Dubl.n, at which it was
determined, thut J nat ttery dangerous, and a
Warrant was issued to arrest me on uufurion,
the act of Habeas Corpus being, at the lime,
Suspended
Tlit- secret, however, wus not well kept.-1
discovered the plot. 1 lay down in rriy own
house the night on wh ch 1 knew that an attempt
was to be made lo SaiSe on me by a large de
tachment of horsi (attended by lords, e-.quires,
ami generals and their scull,) and befoie they
lisU marched lialfa mile from their quarters, 1
w- [at a distance of twelve miles} app redo,
. then having Bet out.. They made tlieii search
<»,i me, «u<l a considerable depot of arms, which
they were informed Were secreted hi the lofts
and i.-riU. s ol iny home : neither were time, It
they mar I. d back- The next day t wrote to
the j'ldjj', w' o wa* then holding the assizes at
C u k, dial "ifdie would give me attu
turn.- oj a J,ttr trial then, for any thing that
c '.>o n og J - gainst me, I would go toljim,
olbui wise that I would (Hfreutti.r,
As be *M not authorised to give me the asau
rmnce 1 demanded, and as I pi Hern d the liberty
oftl.e common air, and the use ;>f my own litnb.i,
to unlimited imprisonment I sto id out, till the
Idler end ot April-, when finding my liealtl
somewhat hurt from tin manner of my living,
particularly from damp, 1 left home and came to
England, on the 27u» of April, where 1 remain -
*d till the middle of June, when 1 received ail -
vice from home, lliat several of my tenants, and
oiliers, of tlie poor people to the amount of
51, tiad been slung into prison, and that two un
happy men had been induced t«> swear against
them The same packet contained alo> a pro-,
lamation that had been issued by lord Camden on
the 17th of May before, inviting every person to
come in and surrender, and give security tbr the
peace, on mn atturance of heir.% no Jwther quettion•
ed -Very happy at the opportunity this procla
mation afforded me, to devclopc the conspiracy
against the people in prison, and to aid ihern in
thor defence, l returned to Ireland, surrendered
myself at Mallo w to lord Kinsale and Sir J ames
Cotton, on t(ie faith of the proclamation ; perfor
med the terms required of me, which was to
give bail to be of the peace for seven years, of all,
which 1 apprized Lord Camden & Ins secretary,
and Mr. Pt-lnain, now lord Chichester, the 13'ti
o! June.- From Mallow I went home on the 5ili
of July; and on the 14'li was arrested by bnga
dier general Eyre Conic, St his camp, t»Aither he
hud invited me. Belore lie detained me, ne look
ed for greater ceriuimy, into his orderly hook, St j
there found, as he said, an order dated the 1st'
of July, to arrest me. Ou his having done so, tie j
w.»s at a loss what to do with me, and at*, nded |
me to Bawdon, where I was to remain till he
should hear trom Dublin. On the 3 1 day of my j
suy in Bawdon, 1 received a letter trom Mr- j
Pelham, dated m Dublin the same d..y [ whs nr-;
rested at tne camp near Bawdon, L80 miles from !
lowii, saying that lord Cuiuitn wished much to ]
see me m Dublin, and that if I would comply, I j
might depend upon my person being perfectly
sate trom arrest ; and that 1 .should be permitted
to return home immediately This letter I com
municated to Mr. Coote, who said, that as go
vernment did not know of my arrest, at the tune
Mr. Pi.lli «m wrote, he could not let me go till he
received an answei horn Dublin to his letter, ap
prizing the- government of my being in custody.
*u a icw u»)> ne icccivku Ins orders ; which
we. e to send a military officer to attend me, and
Capt. J\oc/ie and 1 set out for Dublin. The capt.
hau a swout, aiiH be had on his sash and gorget,
fuere is a high hill oetween Bawdon and Cork ;
we uligiited from our carriage ; it is a place of
rendezvous } some 20 or 30 carriers were assem
bled litre ; tuey had not seen me since my return
hum Bug land. Captain Roche first saw his dan
ger, lus sword could nut defend him, his sash &
got get could not protect him. I perceived the
workings of his mind, a look of kindness from
me to him would save his life ; 1 superadded a
word of esteem. Captain Roche was not mo
lested. We arrived at Coik that evening, where
we halted for the night.
A man of the ciiy got access to me. Cork is the
place of my nativity, 1 have friends there ; would
that every man could say the same Where he is
best known ! 1 discovered that it was intended lo
otter violence to capt. Roche, I prevented it. I
toot him in safety to Dublin. On our way we cal
led at the camp at Ardtinnan, where the Wex
f> rd Militia lay ■ - All Uie officers reipiested of
capt. Roche to tell lord Camden tne services 1
rendered them, and the thanks they owed me.—
We arrived in Dublin, and saw lord Chichester,
who liberated file from arrest, and wrote to Mr.
Cootc that 1 was not to be molested again. 1 re
turned home, and ifi the beginningolSeptember,
I went to the assizes of Cork for the purpose of
defending my tenants against the conspiracy be
fore mentioned. 1 sent them alt to their homes,
and prosecuted the witnesses *oho isere both trarm
pot ted jor pet jury, to Botany Bay. 1 now hoped
to enjoy With tuy family, that peace, winch inno
cence has always a right to expect.—1 was cruel-1
ly deceived An unsigned, ui-sworneil to paper,1
was sent up to the grand jury, on tne 17th day of j
the assizes, when two of the judges had lef t the.,
county, and a hill of indictment was found against
me, for high treason. On tins paper 1 was ai res
ted, and flung into prison, where in a dungeon 9
feet square, filthy beyond description, 1 lay rotting
for seven months, never having felt the influence
of the sun, nor breathed on by the air, during the ;
whole time : at the end of which, I was convey- •
ed from the dungeon to the court to go through :
'a trial’ upon charges of every species of l'rea' \
•on and Rebellion. Two witnesses were Brought1
up, under a strong military guard. Thety were
sworn What did they depose ? That they
inev nothing of me t that one ot these papers
were written without the knowledge of the wit
nesses ; that when it was read to him, lie decla
red it to be false, and refused to sf/ear to it; thati
he was ottered 300/ a year to swear to it, and ,
threatened to be instantly shot, if lie persisted in i
ms refusal, and he did persist. The other wit- i
ness swore, that What was culled his informaUon, j
was all written down without consulting In in ; j
that when lie refused to sign it, he was threaten- J
eU to be hanged ; and that, at length, he was pre |
vailed onto put his name to it,on Ins receiving an !
assurance, that it never w-»s to appear, and that
it was only a matter of Ibrm. Ivins acquitted in
stantly. Ail the people, all the military express
ed their joy ; the judge trembled 5 he was seen
stretching out bis imploring ai ms from the bench
to me, in thcdock, amongst robbers and murder
ers ; he was beard to cry to me for mercy to pro
tect him ; and 1 did protect ium 1 not a hair of
ms ucau wto i*>ucnea. un ray ueing reieaseti, i
did not return even to my house. I did not even
take one day’s repose. No : my beloved brother
was a prisoner at Maidstone j he is one year
younger than 1 am ; we were reared and educa
ted together ; never one day or night apart for 18 .
years. The thought of him banished every other
idea from my mind ; I set off to him that very
night; arrived in London in four days, as quick
ly as 1 could travel; 1 wrote to the duke of Port
land for permission to be admitted to my brother
— I received his answer, at five o’clock nextmor
'nP* by Jour king's messenger* with a warrant to
arrest me ; arid from my bed was 1 taken to the
bouse of Mr. Sylvester j and that evening was 1
taken off for Ireland.-We landed about ten
mile* from Dublin, at night; I saved Mr Sylves
ter, & the Hond street constable, r«y companion,
from a watery grave, and conducted them safe to
Dublin, where we arrived at three o’clock in the
morning.
1 now, for the fiist time since I left London,
lay down, and had not been in my bed more than
three hours, when Mr. Sylvesisr awaked me, to
tell me, that another king’s messenger bad, that
monfent arrived from the Duke of Portland to take
me back instantly to London This was shout se
ven o’clock in the morning ; about twelve, Mr.
Sylvester informed me, tint Mr. Cooke desired
to see me at the castle. Maik the instability of
fortune. Heboid O’Conner, brought by a con
stable lo have the liberty of being admitted to
the presence of Mr. Jh.dm ml Cooke ! 1 did see
him : the interview was not of long duration j the
conversation was hoi of many words: but it is
important. I asked the meaning of these proceed
mgs j wn.it post haste treason 1 had committed
in the few days that 1 travelled Iroin Cork to
London, about 400 miles. Hear his answer,
” Wt do not pretend to have any charge against
you : but we know your power, and suspect
your inclnaiiun i bad my advice been taken, you
mould not bare hern brought to trial mCork My
opinion was, that you should liwe been kept in
confinement under the suspension of the habeas
corpus act, and it now appear* I was l ight
Well, that afternoon, about two o’clock, 1 was o'
blig. d to set off back 'gam towards London,
where we arrived on the fiurth morning, having
been forced to perform j urine* of neu-ly I'JOO
miles and cross the Irish sea thret times, in 13
d*y* and nights, dun. g toe whole of whdi timp
1 never was permuted lo take ofi my clothes, nor
to lay down for more than seven hours f I wit
kept in custody at the house of Mr. Sylvester till
my brother’s acquittal at Maidstone, when we
were both taken to Dublin, where we were lod
5e<l in the same prison room, on the second
ay >f J«’ “, 1793
In July a sped*' commission was opened in
Dublin, for the trial of all those against whom
any charges had bTen exhibited, amongst whom
neither my brother nor I were. Three had been
executed —Mr Byrne, a relation of the Marchio
ness of Buckingham, was condemned, and was
to be executed on the f-kh of July. On Sunil ay,
the 22d, some negotiation was *»t on foot, in a
way never yet ascertained, between tin* govern
ment and some of the state prii‘-ners in Dublin,
of whiclt it appear* that neither my brother nor 1
had any intimation till Tuesday, when Mr Dobbs
and the sherilF of Dublin entered our apartment,
and shewed us a paper pu-porting to be an an
quiescence, on the pvt of seventy three of the
prisoners, »o give inforniation of any arms, am
munition and plans of warfare ; and t»» emigrate,
on condition of a general amnesty, and of pardon
for Mr. Byrith, who wa* to die th it day, anil for
Mr. Oliver Bond, who w: s. at that moment, on
bis trial, if he should je condemned. My brother
and I declined entering into s,hv agreement Mr.
Byrne was ordered for.ins' ant Veculion, which
instantly took place , M- Bond .v-as to die on
the Fritlay. We heard no more of the piper
till Thursday evening late ; when the same Mr.
D<>bos, accompanied by Mr. S<* nu*l Nelson, one
of the prisoners from another of tlsc prisons, came
to that where my. broth »r and 1 lay Ad the
prisoners were called together; Mr Dobbs
produced adetter he had just received From Mr.
Cooke, stating “ that if my brother and l would
enter into a treaty with the government, by
which we should engage to £%e every inform*
tion in our power of nil matters relating tp the re
btdlibn. and particularly our relations with Fc
reign SVn/e«,lherc should *e a geno:-a’_ amnesty—
Mr. Rond^hould l>e pardoned, and vve should be
permitted to emigrate to any- country not at war
with England; but that, if w<> -persisted intour
refusal, military commissions should be issued
in the north f >r the trial of .be prisoners there,
Ihe courts should proceed in Du'din, and tlicyeo
manry should remain ett active duty VVe*boih
refused. We said, if there are any charges a
gainst us, proceed upon them.-. Wky proceed a*
gainst others, because we will not nicr into *
nynegociations? We went to our own room,
whither Mr. Dobbs presently came. Ho.repre
sented to us the dreadful scenes ot si uightec and
devastation that would fellow close upon ot:r de
claration. It appears, that my hr >ther was in
fluenced by these considerations, to save an u«t
armed people, he consented to sacrifice himself;
but I heard such proposals and threats with a ve
ry different ear My answer was that I set at
defiance all their machinations t that l w-s ready
to meet any charge that could be brought agonist
me ; but that I never would ■nter mt-i any igree.
ment with the castle of Dublin during my life.—
Nothing now was left unaitempted to induce me
by very fair promises, or to intimidate <ne by the
most alarming threats, to sign tins agreement
Alt mers unavailing At length Mr M irsden
came as if secretly and us a friend, to let me kn w
what, by chance he had heard jt the C t-tl.
That it was determined to seize my estate ,i 1
did not comply My answer wu>, that 1 was n^e
pared against every tiling ; that 1 was resolved
never to comply. In consequence of which or
ders were dispatched to the offi.er commanding
at Bawdon, to send detachments of horse and
foot to take possession of my in use, winch they
did, to the amount of between tw'> and three nun
dren men, they expelled four of my infant children
and my servants ; the officers br.ke open iny
cellars, drank all my wine ; they ordered the
men to kill my sheep and oxen, on which the
whole party subsisted ; they converted my iron
gates into shoes for their horses ; they made fir
ing of windows, doors and frames of the house
anil offices ; burned all my farming utensils : des
troyed n»y gardens, and the wall trees, the hot
house, green house and all the plants : turned
all their horses out into young plantations, which
were all ruined , stole every thing moveable ;
and committed every species of devastation far 8
or 9 weeks that they remained there ; for which
1 never received one penny as remuneration,
from that day to this. After this visitation, it
was again demanded of. me to sign the paper.
My answer waI always the same. Still was I
kept a prisoner ; and when those who bad enter-!
red into the agreement were lent to Scotland— !
I was forced by Justice Atkinson and a com pa- !
ny ot Buckinghamshire militia, at the very point1
of the bayonet, into a co.ich, conveyed on board
a tender, and -onducted to I ort George, in which
military garrison I w a? kept for a year arul ten '
months, where By the lenient treatment 1 receiv-1
ed, I lost the use of my limos ami was reduced
to the very verge of life; at the end of which
time I was brought to London, and let go on the
24th January 1801, upon a dreadful recognisance
to some immense amount, not to return to Ireland,
and to reside in such part ot England as the ;
king of England should, from time to time, ap
point (and Middlesex was named) during the then ;
•mar I took a house at Southgate in Middlesex, j
where I resided for half a year : but having no I
•aim mere, t iookcu out ior a piaro with land,
to occupy my time. 1 found one tq suit me at
Elsbree. As I was a stranger and as ilu* rent
amounted to 5001. a year, 1 applied to my oUl
friend sir Francis Burdett, who immediately be
came my securiiy, there 1 lived tor one year,
when the treaty of Amiens taking place, I was
desirous of returning to my own country, and ap
plied to Sir it. Ford, the magistrate, before
whom i acknowledged the rec ognisance, to get
it up. In vain Alter rtuny fruitless efforts, he,
at length informed me, that it was <1 -terminal]
never to give it up, as long as I retained the ptrui'
er of living in the South of 1 eland I judged it
better to part with Conner VitU than be shut out
from my ciflmtry. I got a licence to go to Le
land, and on the 1st of May, 180J. 1 let a lease
forever of the place of my earliest days. Where
upon 1 got up my recognisance immediately —
I purchased, for forty thousand pound ^/rom
Lord IVellesley, the castle and estate of Dune m,
within a few miles of Dublin, wiiere I have reai
ded with my family ever since, coming overoc
casionally to visit sir Francis Burdett ami a few
other friends in England, where t/iI h ;de rs
fates, 1 have never been known, directly nor in
directly, to interfere in any concerns of the coun
try. I never attended a public meeting or a
public dinner , tho’ I have many friends, 1 sc I
dom associate with any owe but sir Francis Bur
dett and Ins family.—My fortune is ample j and
neither I nor any one of my family, ever oat one
morsel that vt is not produced from our o-wn es
tales. We never received any of the people’s
money,in the shape of pensions & places, nor was
any man’s m-ator comforts ever diminished by
one of us. Surely, then, i must bo a most disloyal
traitor / lu line, many, vrry many, of the people of
Ireland love me ; the m litia was attached to me.
I surrendered on the solemn faith of a prod mia- I
tion, winch faitli towards me, was broken ; I pro
tecled capt. Roche; I defended the Judge ; I
saved M.. Sylvester and the Bow street consta
ble.— There is no kind of place that lias not been
my prison ; my own house, camps, guardhou
ses, taverns and hotels ; Castles, wherries, pac
ket boats, messenger’s houses, court houses,
bridewells, stata prisons (as they are called)
tenders, g.m ia..u», palaces ; and, as a prisoner,
have 1 been travelled about from my own home
in the south to Carrick Furgus in the north ol Ire
land j from the western extremity of Wales, to
M udstone, nearly the eastern extremity of Eng- j
land ; from Dublin to Port George in Scotland *
within fuity mile9';i John O’Orot’s house to Lon
don. in inad Coaches, hackney coaches, post
carriages, and carts ; on foot and on horseback,
and ali because (for 1 know of no other cause)
that, ten years before the French Hevolutmn, I
saw tbe absoluta necessity of a Reform in the
Coiftm.fit* sf IrelanM. which Wat acknowledged
al\«-rwards by ilu? factions of England and Ire
land ; and because I would not consent to a le
gislative union, which I regarded as equally rui
nous to both parts of the kingdom. ®u the
wunle, then, let the people of England, mov> that \
j tuey tine in possession «,/ their sober senses, decide
i between my accusers and me ; whether the laws
i were infringed by mo who have goue through e
very ordeal, who have ol ways courted investiga
tion and enquiry ; who for years never ceased to
demand trial ; or **y them, who sought the pro
; tection >U a bit! of Inimnity, passed by an assem
bly ol which they themselves made u part.”
At a late comuiencetpent at the ancient Uni I
versity ol OxfotJ, in Kay land, several Poeti
cal Exeiciv'. were rewarded witli prize me
dals. The billowing w-s one of the producti
ons :
7'he statue of the uvtvo oladiatou.
BV VVJI. CHINN BUY.
Will then no pitying sword its succour lend
1'ne Gladiator’s mortal throes to end,
| To free th’ uiicuuquer’d mind, whose generous!
pow’r
I riumphs o’er nature in her saddest hour ?
Bow’d low, and full ol death, his head declines, '
Yet o’er his brow indignant v dour shines ; j
Still glar.-s Ins closing eye with angry light,
Now gl .res, now darkens with approaching
"fc«. P h\
Think not with terror heaves that sinewy breast,
i is vengeance visible, and pain supprcat;
Calm in despair, in agony sedate,
ilia proud soul wrestles with o’ermast*rinpr
late ;
I hat pang the-conflict ends-he f .lls not yet,
Seems every n-.rv,- for one 1 .st ellort set,
! At unco by dea li, death’s ling’riiig pow’r to
’• brave— ■
He ‘will not sink, but plunge into the grave,
Exbaust'liis mighty heart in one la>-t sigh;
And rally life’s whole energy 10 die !
Unfear’d* is now that cord which oft- ensnar’d
T'.ic b a fill d rival whom his falchion spar’d ;
Those clarions inute, wiiich oil lue murd’rous
■ • • !; ->
nous (i nnn to deeds of rjore than nvirtial rage ;
f Once puls'd by peerless might, ones dear to fame,
i The sii-eld which could not guard, supports his
I ■' frame. '
Hislixed eye dwells upon the faithless blade,
As It lit silent agony he prayed,
Oil might I yet, by one avenging blow,
“ Not shun my fate, but share it v. tth rtiy fee !”
Vuin hope '.—the streams ot life-blood last des
cr;ftf, i
* nal giant arm’s upbearing strength must
bend ;
Yot shall he srern; precumbcnt, to betray
One dastard sign of anguish or dismay.
With one weak plaint to shame his parting
breath.
In pangs sublime, magnificent in death !
But his were deeds unchronicled ; his tomb
No patriot wreathes adorn ; to. chter his doom,
No soothing thoughts arise of duties done,
O' ti opined conquests for his country won ;
And lie, whose sculptur’d form gave deathless
fame
To Clesilas-he dies without a name. »
II >ply to grace some Cxsar's pageant pride
Toe hero slave or hireling rhuiipioii died, ’ -
W.ien Home, degenerate Home, for barbarous
snows,
Bartered her virtue, glory, and repose ;
Sold all ihat Freemen prize as great and good,
For pomp of death, and theatres of blood !
From the National Intelligencer.
JEU D’ESPRIT
Occasioned by hearing a Lady express her adtnira'’
tiun of Master Payne's elo/uence.
TO conquer Pain f iir Celia tried,
And its attacks had learn’d to spurn ;
But Pleasure now with Payne allied,
Alas ! — H is conquer’d her in turn !
For when Pay.me plays a Hero’s part
And gives his wond'rous powr’s the rein,
His magic accents pierce her heart
And Celia almost dies with Pain;
But when his varied skill he tries
In Dry den’s* animated measure,
Her bosom heave s applauding sighs
And Celia almost dies with pleasure /
Washington City, Aug. 29,1810.
• “ Alexander's Feast ”
BY virtue of a deed of trust, executed to tne
subscribers, by Wm Mayo, deceased, lite (
ol Lie ciunty ol Powhatan, mdofrecorl int-'C
court of tile said county : Will he offered for sate,
for casii, on the 17th day ol October next, at the
court house of said county—d.ne certain tract or
parcel ot LAND, situate, lying and being in the
county aforesaid, and containing by survey, 200
acres, it being that part of the tract containing
the improvements, on which the said Mayo for
rnerly resided For the purpose of indemnifying
Brett Randolph and Seth Ligon, who were se- '
curities for the said Wm. Mayo and his son Da
niel Mayo, against the payment of a certain sum
of money, recovered against them in the aforesaid
court, for the benefit of tiie distributees of I’hos.
T. Swann, dec’d.
The title vested in us as trustees only will be
conveyed to the purclnser.
JOHN LIGON, 7
JAMES POINDEXTER, 5 1,ustee*
July 17. w3m
HE Subscribeis 'fler lor sale, live hundred I
K-crcs ol LAND lying on Rappahannock ;
n.er, in the county of Middlesex, between Rose
g.l! and Brandon, called Black Walnut. The plan
tation is in a good state of cultivation, great part
being laid ill' in convenient lots, and highly ma
nured for tobacco. The situation is healthy, com
mands an extensive view of the river, and affords
lish, oyst- rs, wild fowl and venison, in their res
pective seasons-Die buildings consist of a
small dwellinghouse, i wo barns and several other
convenient houses l'ait of the plantation trten
3.’S, the stock of cattle and tbe crops, may be had
with the land if required An (Yidisput ;b!e title
w<ll be made, liberty ol a 'filing wheat the pr.e*
sent t <ll granted, end p sscssion given on the 1st
Jan next.
All just claims against the late Ralph Worme
ley, Esq will be received .s casii. For term? ap
ply to Mr John Chew, Fredericksburg, or to the
subscribers,
ELKANOR WORMKI.tr*
UAL 1 11 WO A ME 1. a 1 ’.
Posegill, ^ept. 14. _ w.; v
No ra —Claims ag.iins' myself will a'sn be ta
ken for part of llie above mentioned L «nd.
____H WORM ELAY.
Valuable la no—for sale.— rue
subscriber wishes to dispose of ms military
LANDS, in the state of iCentucky, containing a
bout 3dUU aefes, lying on Big Barren river, winch
affords a good navigation, and situated in tne
county of Barren ; there can lie no objection t->
the quality of the Lind, a considerable pr iporii
on of whic'u a-e Low Gr muds, and lying contigu
<>us to Nashville, l ennesse-, being only S'J in.les
<1 slant ; which affords a gowf trade. bargain
will be sold m t,he Land, or 1 w.ll bailer for lands .
in this stale, such as in >y suit For further par
ticularS, apply to the subscriber.
EDMUND BOOK HR
Jamestown, I'rinr.c Edward, Aug 31 w8.*1|
SAMPSON’S SPEECH,
(In i’jmflh'ctsJ for tale, at thit Office.
PUBLIC SALK.
WIIjL be offered at Hublij Sale on the pr©
in Williamsburg on fm-slay the''
2 l of OcUiVr next, the house *..d tot held hy
the Subscriber for many years past. '1 lie lot
contains more than an acre and a half of ground
—■the house is large and commodious and with a
little repair would be one of the best building*
in the city. The neighborhood is agreeable, &.
tile situation healthy, being in the upper part of
tlie city, on the main street, a few doors below
ttie. College Square—livery circumstance ren
ders it a desirable situation for a private family,
a boarding house or Tavern.
Will be told at the same time aquan tity oF
household and kitchen furniture, also a few Ne
groes For all aums above ten dollars, twelve
months credit will be Allowed: Purchasers gi
ving bonds with approved security, to carry in
terest from the date, if not punctually paid.—All
sums under ten dollars must be cash.
JAMES MOIR.
August 7._u 8»<I
IN C H A NCEIIY At a quarterly court,
continued and held for King fc Qjeen Coun
ty, at the C mrt douse, on Wednesday the 15ili
of August, 18IQ.
Thomas Gayle, Brooking Taylor, and Ann his
'vii.', Elizabeth Gayle and George Gayle, infants
under the age of twenty one years, by Philip
G tic wood their Guardian snd next friend, Wil
liam Gayle mid Josiah Gayle infants, und'_r
the age of twenty one years bv Philip Gate
wood their next friend, and Sarah /‘nn Stu
art and F.liz both Stuart infants, under the nge oP
twenty-one years, by Edward Wright their Guar
dian and next friend,
Plaintiff's.
Against
John G.iylc Ex’or of Matthew Gayle, dcc’tl.
Matthew Gayle, Robert D. Gayle and George
Buckner, Def'ts
i ne defendants, Matthew Gale 8c Robert D.
Gayle, not having entered their appearance and
given security according to the act of assembly
and the rules .if this Court, and it appearing to
the sstintaotion of the court, that they are nofe
inhabitants ot the cohhtvi:wealth : It is ordered,,
That the said defendants, Matthew G-jls &. ■ Ro
bert 1) Gayle, d > appear here on the Svcoinl
M md.ay in November next, and answer the bill
of tlve plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be
forthwith published in some ptibl-c news paper,
printed in the City of Richmond,for two mouths
siiocc ssiv- ly, and that another copy he posted
at the from Jour ol this court-house.
Teste,
RO POLLARD, c.a.
S?P 14._w8w
LUNA 1 1C HOiSfirAh, Williamsburg Sep.
21.1810. * *
Notwithstanding the notification in the En
quirer; the Norfolk Herald, and a paper publish-*
ed ii* Lynchburg, a man supposed to be a Inna
tic, has this day been brought' to the Hospital,
who, if insane, could not be received. It i»h-re-»
by again made known, 'that no male patient car*
he received until the public are informed ihac
there is » vacancy^ in tiie Cvl l$—appropriated lo*
the reception of ntbie patients.
By order of the Court of Directors
WILLIAM RUSSELL, c c o.
fieplemher 21 w4.w
Notice.—That a p.-iriTiuN w-u
seiitcd to l|icnext Virginia Assembly, for
the purpose of <|btainutg a road, leading from the
main r 'ad, from Go- irnbia, to Goochland court*
house; along the line betwixt Tliomas Richard
t:or and Daniel Couch to James River: as ulsta
the condemnation . f so much land on the banks
of the river, as shall be sufficient lor a public lau
ding.
Goochland, September 21. w3m
NOTICE —For sale or lease for a term of
years, a valuable manufacturing and giist
MILL in the county of Amelia situated within
a tew hundred y »rds of the River Appomattox,
front whence boats pass with convenience t.» Pe
tersburg— ther- are twenty.five -acres of land .it
tac.i^d to the Mill winch includes a convenient
store house, lumber house, and blacksmiths shop
— It .i s do shall take place, the purchaser can he'
accommodated with any additional quantity of
1-nd, adjoining the mill, (not exceeding 500 a
cres) that may he wanted -Tnc mill is not iu
good rep dr -it this time ; hut may be pul in com
plete order, bv expending a few hundred dollar* _
The subscri *er will treat with any gentlemen,
disposed to purchase or lease, until Christina*
next.
WILLIAM ROYALL.
Amelin, Sep. 21. eflf
NOVICE—Is hereby given that application
will be made to ttie C unity Court of Hen
rico at October Court nest, to discontinue the
old road commonly called, Bookers road, from
the upper corner of the plantation of William
Price (R ) dcc’d to the Rocky Branch.
Sept. 4 lav4w
V ~ "" ' ■" ' .. Kj
VJ'U I ICE —A PETI TION w i| he oflered
x s to tlie next Gs-ner.il assmhiv, to enlarge
the totvii of Scotts/ilie in the county of Powha
tan.
^fP-21._ w3w
T^Oti SALE.—On the plantation in Chester-1
nrli! County, the residence of the late Mr.
Francis Eppes dec’d. will he sold on the 10th day
ot October next, to th. highest bidd-rs, about
twenty valuable NEGKOliS consisting of m"n,
women & children, amorgthtm is a good carpen
ter, an J a good miller.—Also the stock of horses,
moles, cattle, sheep and hogs, a neat coachce &.
harness for four horses, a gig and harness, tho
plantation loots, some household and kitchen fur
niture— amongst the horses are two valuables
brood tn .res—Mary Gray the dam of Wonder
aad Palafox—a bay mare out of Mary Gray bv
Date Devil.
i he stock of cattle and sheep are equal, if not!
superior to any in Virginia. Cash will he re
quired for ail stuns of thirty dollars or lets—fop
h!1 purchases exceeding thirty dollars a credit of
twel.e months will be allowed, on the purcha
sers giving bonds with the most approved secu
rity-interest from the date of the bond* will
demanded, if they are not punctually paid
JOHN W EPPES, &
JERMAN BAKER,
September 18, 181U
At the same time and place may be purchased
of Uiereprenuntatives of the late Mr. Eppes that
valuable plantation c id led Eppington, lying on
Appomattox River about 24 miles above Pi trrs
hurg, containing one thousand acres : about »-uia
hundred of which nre in wood*. Mr Childers
manager on the plantation will shew it to thoso
disposed to purchase.
Sep- 18 t'-'s
Ij’OK SALE, on Thursday, the first of Nov.
next on the premises, in Loudoun county, th©
l FACT OF LAND, on which the late Judge
Junes resided ; consisting of about 2000 acres.
It lies on Little River, ten miles from Leesburg,
and.35 from Alexandria and Gcorge-Tuwn ; i»
remarkably well watered ; It is at h ast 60 acre*
well set with Timothy, and 300 adap-ed to its cul
•ure ; has 2 mi rctiant in.II* in its neighborhood.
He farthest not more than Two miles distant, and
the tui npike from Alexandria, passing through 4
roruer of it. ”
A* the Land was accurately described, in »
former advertisement it ia unnecessary to be morel
particular in tins. It will be (hyded into lota or
hfferent dimensions, to suit those who in.y he
inclined to purchase. A credit of one, two an<l
three yeais will he allowe-<l-the purchaser fcivif.g
>ond w.lti approved aec.ii ry, and a trust on th©
L.<nd, to secure the pay me m
i/JMF.S MONROE
Albernaile, August 31, Vus