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_V1RG1 N I A A RGU S.
X\ IIIth year.] a free p. ess maintains the sovereignty or the people. [No. laiii
__ hJCHMOND t Prirted (on Tuesdays and Fridays,) by SAMUEL PLEASANTS, Junior, Printer to the Commonwealth. .
[Four Dollars Per Annum—Paid in Advance.) T U E S DAT,, OCTOBER 16, 1810. * f!a *-* L
23icf)ttont> ice Current*
[touicTto Weekly.}
* CASH**
D. C.
TOBACCO, : : S « S 5 00
WHEAT [NEW} t * t : 1 50
FLOUR [SUPERFINE} s * I 8 50
FLOUR [FINK} t S 5 » 8 GO
CORN, • • • * * *4 00
HKXF, PER TON, * . . 300 00
IRON,.215 00
BACON, • • • • • 00 12
Whiskey,.00 69
IH I III I TI 1 -r 111" !!■ II I
JUST arrived per the Brig Diligence,
c*pt. Tracey, from' Liverpool, a very
general assortment of
GOODS,
•contained in 313 packages, and will be
sold by the piece or package—viz=
Superfine Cloths, single and Dble. Milled
Cashmeres, Swansriowns, Dble. Milled
Drabr., Coatings, Duffil*, Plains, Kerseys,
Kendal Cottons, Rose and Duffil Blankets,
Pellicie Cloths, Plain and Spotted Flan,
nels, Imperial and Fancy Cords, Velvets,
Velveteen, Velverets, and Tabby Velvets,
Ladies, Gentlemen and Youths' Worsted
and Cotton Hosiery, Negroes do. Irish
Lumens, Brown Holland*, Shirting Cot.
tons, White and Color'd. Cotton Cam.
brics, Ccllicoes, Dimities, Jeans, a great
variety of Muslins, 6 .4 Seeded Mull Robes,
Jubilee Corded G >uze, Cut ar.d Diagonal
Spider Siripca, Jubilee Corded Jaconet,
Bird^ye, and C Diapers, Towellings, and
Table Damask, Cotton and Thread Edg.
Sngs and Laces, Fancy Embroidered Mus.
Iin Trimmings, Ladies BotderedHM Prin
ted Pocket h milks. Fancy Romany Mad,
rass ahd I'ullicat, do. Fancy flm^&nd
Cotton Ginghams, Men’s Silk H*ts„ Men'*
and Boy's Wool do. Servants’ Glazed do.
Suspenders, fleWhig Cotton and Thread
assorted., Coach Lace, Galloons, &c. Sec.
Together with a great variety of HARD
WARE AND CUTLERY, and a few Ca.
*es patticuiarly suitable tor Country Stores^
rut i. s o uuic i i tcB, u».
smith's Tools. Slates.
ALSO—ELEGANT TABLE CHINA
$El5>, well assorted, Gratis and Castors.
The balance o( the Fall supply is expec.
ted by the first arrivals from Europe.
ON HAND,
Powder and Shot assorted. Cotton and
Wool Cards assorted, Swedish and Coun.
try Iron, Jamaica and Antigua Hum, im.
ported in 186j, New do. Pennsylvania
Whiskey, Grten Coffee, S-.lt, Rice, Col.;
toiij Flax, indigo. Copper as, Salt Petre,
Cut and Wrought Nails assorted, Bar
Lead, Soap, Cut Herrings, Tar, Lumber,
Stc. &c.
I would, also sell, 7,000 P.bls. Tarj Tur
pentine and Uosid, 15,000 While and R*u
Oak riegshoad Slaves, deliverable in Nor.
folk, or at City Point. £7" Ca-U given lor
Couatry Produce.
CHAHLES WHITLOCK.
^icbaiv.nU, Oct. 18, 1810. Qe p t fj
I^OR SALE—Two TRACI'S of LAND,
• tfrs ©or whereen the subscriber resides,
one tnile above the Court House on the
road lending to Coles* and Bookers’*Ferries
the other on the watrrs of Twittie’s Creek
adjoining the Lands of los. Friend, Hund
ley Petters, &c. &c. The above Lands
if not piivmrly sold before first
Wednesday in January next, will, sold
on that day at public Auction, at t a
House ol the subscriber with other F
ble property. Also—Corn, Fodder, H y
&c. Kitchen and Household 1* urniture,
The terms of sale will be made known on
the day above mentioned,
Edmund Jameson.
Charicttc county, Oct, 12, 1810.
_[g P C t p]
i uDiic oaic oi
MERINO SHEEP.
ON Friday the 19th day of Oct. next,
being the third (Jay of New Market
Races, at eight o'clock in the morning*
Will he Exposed to Public Sale,
Twenty-seven fuH blooded *4
Merino Sheep, /
VIZ ; SIX RAMS AND TWriN lw.
ONE PAVES. §
THF.Y were lately Imported in the snip
Psfclntnn, Captain Poythrest, from L a.
hnn, and will be warranted to he of th*
genuine breed. The sale will take ph.ee
at the Vendue Office of Messrs. W. nnd H
H AX ALL, and the Siitep can be iwii at
Roslln, by intending purchasers, at any
time previrus to the thy *f sale*
Tci iriifxApproved endorsed paper at
four and tlx months—The Kwcs are all
heheved to he with Lamb by a full blooded
Mtrino Ram.
Jas, & John Dunlop.
Petersburg, Hrp». 91.1810. ids.
V/c nr- au:hr-ri«rd to sr.y, that the Mr.
tir.o Shetn advertised for sale at heters
t'tttfcofl *re 19th Inst, are in remarkably
l.nt health, and although they have hern
^ in>pcr*rd nearly two months, not cne death
has taken place iim rg ’.hem. • .
. A ynsH supi*lt of the cer.x
exatj n
Gout & llheumatic Dropsy
Just irciived and for sale at this office)
! V\
Sales by Auction*
dY virtue of a deed nf trust from Cole
Digges and Mary R his wife, to secure
the payment of a debt due to Alexander
S uart, will be sold for ready mdaey, be*
fore the door of the Eagle Tavern, in the
City of Richmond, on Thursday the 8uh No,
vember next the following property, [or
so much thereof as shall be necessary to
satisfy the instalments and interest now
duel to wit t the slaves Duker, JacJ^Har*
ty, Peter, Roger, Isaac, Abrahaj^^Vssex,
Prissey, Sail, Frances, Sarah, Urae end
Venus, with the increase of the^fa^gg
since the 13th Sept. 180$aealso a
Tract of Lt^idf
Lying and being ip the county of War*
wick, and which is supposed to contain
two thousand acresssand slso the
7 ENEME NT
with tbe appurtenances, in the City of
Richmond, now in the occupancy ot the
■aid Coie Digges.
William Wirt, 7
Samuel Greenhotr,) 1 rustec»*
Richmond, Oct. 8, 1810.
-— a ' .
Notice,
THAT 00 12th day ofNovembcr
* • "']?* at Buckingham Court House,
(being Coart day) will be exposed to sale
tor cash, a valuable
Tract of Land,
on which Dr. Jas. T. Hubard now^wsides
lying tn the county of BuckipghfSf con*
tnining between one thousand eidilw him"
area acres -and bounded by JVIrsjfe, L.
Bolling, Jno. Eppes, David Stiai^nd 0.
thers. The quality of the L*nd is consi
dered good lor the culture of Tobacco
Wheat, Corn, See. has very £ood improve*
ments, and a very good Grist Mill, on an
excellent Stream, in a very populous neigh
bourhood.—The Land will be sold for the
purpete of raising a sum of money due
trom James T HubaKl to Samuel Allen,
which tract of Land has been conv-yed by
the said Jas. T. Hubard to the Subscri.
hers in trust, lor the payment of certain
su.i.s due to the said Samuel Allen as men
tioned indeed of trust.
Wm, Daniel, jr. *1
Archd. Austio. C Truatcea.
Oct. 9.1810.
BC^I wiah to HIRE about TWEN
TY NEGRO ME'’ by the aUtihpt or
for the balance of this year j^tere
fore, titose who have hands tod^i out
will find liberal prices given bv me,
SAMUEL WOODDY.
Chesterfield Oct. 9. 6w.
NOTICE. ’ j
oY virtue of a deed of trust executed to
° the Subscribers by Thomas Woold
ridge, jr. and Folly his wife, for the pur
pose of securing the payment of #£ertain
sum of money therein mentionedJwill be
exposed to sale for ready moncA A AVin.
terfield, in the county of Chfs#f#el0, on
Friday the 2nd day of Novrmbei nex^
ONE EIGHTH PART of those feluabie
COAL MINES call’d and known by the
name of WOOLDRIDGE’S PITTS, ly
ing in the said county of Chesterfield a-,
bout 12 miles from Manchester, and im
mediately on the Buckingham Road. Al
so one Negro Boy by name Daniel, and a
Girl by name Yamer, and two feather
beds and iurnitsre.
EDWARD MOSELY,
BEV. C. STAN’AUD,
EI)MD. LOCKETT.
Oct. 5, 1S1Q.
LAND FOR SALE.—Tty virtue or a
decree of the Superior Court of Ch^O'
eery for the Richmond District,—wiil he
offered for sale at Cumberland Court
House on Monday the 23d inst. being
Court day, that valuable
Tract of Land,
belonging to the estate of Petrrfieid Trent,
dte’d. containing by estimation, 783 acres,
lying in the county of CumbeiAtid, on
! Willis’s river, and er!jo*ning lli^tfvn of
(Caira,for the purpose of raiMtupaJhum ot
money therein mentioned, .ng
fto the estnte of Alexander ^mH^oec'd.
The contiguity of this land la that own ol
Caira, where there is a Merchant Mdi,
which wiil no ddubl, in a short time hi
incomplete repair, and consequently will
require a large quantity of wheat, 8ee. as
veil as a tobacco inspectlones-anri being at
the head of the navigable waters of Wil
I's’s river, render it one of the most
desirable tracts of land in that part of the
country. Addrd to these, the lord Is ol
excellent quality, and well adapted to the
culture ot tobacco, wheat, corn, lc*c.
Previous to the day of sale, this land
will be laid off in lots, and t:,ld to stm pur
chasers—and the terms of sale, liberal,
inly one third will nr required vrhen the
deed is made, and one, two and three
years for thv balance—Hoods end sectui.
iy will be demanded, secured by a deed of
oust if required by the
COMMISSIONERS.
1 Oct. 5. £ttl».)
Letter from W Lam
bert, lisq of Wash.
»r gton city, on the
great and annular
eclipse of the sun,
which will take
place on the 17th
Sept 1811—parties,
larly as seep at
Richmond and its
vicinity.
An ingenious essay on
the substance of the
Sun - - —Ditto on
the Moon, ficc.
from the Critical
Review.
The common Lot=?a
Form.
Account of a new in.
vent ion for Distil,
ling, by P- Arring.
ton of Isorth Caro
lina.
An account of a new.
ly invented Domes,
tic Spinner with
six spindles, which
will do a9 much
work in a day as $
or 6 persons in the
common way, made
in Alexandria, price
from 20 to 30 dolls'
and may be matia.
ged by a child of 10
years old
A remarkable Pro.
phecy, by the late
Rev John Wesley.
Simple cures for the
following disease?
([the greater pa* t
origin:. I recipes]
viz. The Croup,
Corns, Tet ers, U!„
errs. Chilblains.
Tooth ache, Ague
and Fever, Khen.
T O l< E N ly
TliK Upper Apartment# adjoining my
Bool .Stop-. They consist of four
\ rooms, with a fire place in eAch,fcmd large
wiry patsnges-r-Alan^ nt*nrln il iaVr" pre.
mlses, are a Kitchen noil Ccllar/trand
within a few feet of the door, is a fountain
of good Spring Water froin the Bloody
I Kun, Sic.
Strmticl Pleasants, jr.
Oct. 8. Ll 0
Lottery Notice.
On fhe 20* l» InaP rflrirli.rl will imuitivc ,
t l will finish Drawing In twelve weelet.
### A few Tickets r main unsold
[at this Office.——Present price 6 1-2
I Dollars, but will be raised shortly.
_j__ i,.
Priktino in ail its variety neatly ex
ecuted at this office.
matiam, Dropsy,*
Bowel complaint,
Pain in the Back,
Pile*, Sore Mouth.
To prevent store
fruit from fal'ing
before it is ripe.
To dye a beantifrl
& durable black.
Scale of dcpreciati
on of paper cur
rency, established
by the General
Assembly of Vir.
ginia, Nov. 1782.
Frcijiy Cellars
Anecdote of an 1
rish boldier in the
American revolu
tionary war,
English Monarch*.
Acting a Pun.
Meteorological jour
nal of a wife’s
temper.
Maxim* &c. Wc.
List of civil officers
In Virgmia^Gov.
ernor, .i^tfrCTTT
lors, Judge ot
the Ceurt of Ap.
pealg.High courts
ot Chancery, Gen
efal Court, 8cc.
Delegates to Gene
ral Assembly.
Delegates to Con
gress.
Superior aod Coun
ty Court days in
Virginia.
Ditloin N.Carolina.
* This remedy has
been used by a re
spectable gentleman
of Richmond in 7 or
8 instances, and al
ways with success.
■fr«4 IT, ...LLlllJiflA ■L» ■■ ■ -
ROBERT EMMETT.
«« When my country takes her place
'•tironjr the nations ef the earth, then, and
not till then, let ony epitaph be written.”
Anacreon Moore has seized on this last
expiring wish of the brave and eloquent
Robert Emmett, ahd with “ a heart af
fectionately r.live to the virtues, talents,
and principles” of his fellow student, in
troduced to the celebrated Irish tune, ,
* The Bmwn Maid,”
The following elegant lines as a teati- 1
tnonlal of the ardor with which he chetj 1
Ishes the memory of Emmett: j
Oh • breathe hot his imme, let it sleep In t
the shade,
W here cold and unhonored his relics are
laid,
Sartj Silent, and dr rk be the tears that are >1
shed,
As the night dew that falls on the grass I
o’er his head \ « 1
1
But the night dew that falls, though in si> <
lence it weep9, ,
Shall brighten with verdure, the grave !
where he sleeps —
And the tear that we shed, though in se. '
cret it tolls, i
Shall long keep his memory green in our l
soofs. I
——»♦ —
ON INORDINATE DESIRES.
The moth, allured by the brigh'ness
of the candl-, playsrour.d thefl. me, un
il at last it is consumed with heat: j
a fit i mblem of those unwary cm s who (
play round the- v rge of evil, until at t
length they precipitate themselves to t
infamy and ruin. ^
The fly and many Other winged in- ]
sects have the same propensity of ht>
verirtr round ar.v luminous bodv. and :
frequently die by the heat which is in* ^
s -parr.ble from that brighrness they sc
much d-sire ; but none of them all, so
frequenrlv find their iate in the blaze
as the moth, which is almost assure to
perish by the candle as to perceive it.«
light. I he moth feed chiefly upon ;
cloth and wollen stuffs, and is an ani
mal of so delicate atexurethat atlighi ]
touch crushes it to pieces ; it is there
fore the last creature in the world to ,
sustain the attacks ».f ao terrible an en* '
emy'as fire ; yet this enemy in the re
semblance of a friend,courts it to draw
nc a; and afterwards woiks its inevita
ble destruction.
What an unhappy' state is theirs wh *
will not take warning by the end of o
ther«, nor svoid the misrhitfs which
have proved fatal to many !
What numbers have experienced the .
same fate with the insect we have been j
describing! And yet what number* ,
are daily running on in the same man
ner, to their ruin, sporting with vice ,
and folly, and, as it were making dan
ger the;f play-fellow !—All these can
not, or will not see, ** that the end of
all things is death.” They will goon
it* m one step to another until at last
it is too late to recede ; then they must
sink in the gulf of misery, and only
leave fresh examples behind them of
what was already enough known, but i
always too little regarded.
Shun therefore all temptation if ycu ;
are wise ; and be not deceived by ap-1
pearsnee*. Vice, folly, and danger j
efet n lurk under the mest inviting |
forms—but try the tree—net by its ap-!
pearance, but by its fruit you shall
know it.
* o racetest weaves the rcse adorn,
Yet beneath than lurks the thorn ;
Fair endf.era cry is the brake,
Yet it hides the speckled snake*
Con*idtr and btware, lor h»* tba*
I would avoid tyrrow must be weary in
this steps, and he, who would shun
j misfortune must be cartful - to tak«
• wisdom for his companion.
ON DRUNKENNESS.
Of at! vice a which stain . h :• charac
ter of the preset,t age, there is not't
more me>iR, and at the same time n ore
commonly practised, than drunken
ness j consequently none more deser
ving of censure.—T • sec a man a»
(once rob himself ot all the engaging
qualities of the mind, and make him
self worse than a beast, is 9 sight that
’ every virtuous man will turn from
j with pity end ron empf. Is it not sur
; prising thstmen who w! en sober, are
agreeable companions end useful mein
hers of society, will by the inordinate
I use of strong drink, make themselves
[! contemptible, and thet! families mtse.
, rsbh-? l>o we not too olten see an
; agr rable wife and daoght< r rendered
j unhappy by the intemperance ofahus
. b »nd? Have we not seen too many a
1 ged parents “brought with sorrow to
their graves,” bv the intemperance of
their children ? These arc questions,
that, for the honour of my couutn, I
wish could be answered in the nega
tive.
Young men, drink not to exress,
lest you become drunkards, and lose
vour good names, and with them your
all. Make wine the life and not the
bane of soci -ty ; for you will find, too
late, with Cnssio in the play, “ that e
very inordinate cup is unblest, and aa
ingredient for the devil.”
1MPIETY. nd’diSAFFECTION.
The New-EnglanJ clergymen have
1; ng been remarkable for “ poaching ia
politics : but it will astonish the pious
reader, to find a rev?rerfd divine so
lost to all sense of dignity and propri
ety, to say nothing of religion, as the
author of the following blasphemous
and tory effusion, which has been mis
called a prayer. The man who could
so deliberately insult irom the pulpit,
the Grea* Object of Adoration, should
have been huiled irom it headlong.
Whig*
From the Essex Register,
TEXT.
“ We thank thee, O Fa her Lord of
Heaven and earth, that thou h.^st pour
ed contempt upon the v rath of m.*n,
up n the open hostility of France, and
the secret grudge and malice of the A
merican government, so ov- r ruling the
French decrees and American embar
goes, devised on purpose for the ruin
of Britain, as to render them subser
vient to the increase of her tevenue,
and the extension of her commerce.”
CDr. Osgood's Fast Sermon,
COMMENT.
Is there a real American, one who
is a true friend to his country, that
does rot blush at the thought, that the
temples reared on the soil which our
wot thy ancestors fled from the hand o£
tyranny to cultivate, should be thus
disgraced.”
“ Is there a nation in the wilds of A
fr:ca%
“ Amidst those barren rods and burn
ing sands f
who would not tremble at the thought
of nourishing among them, a citizen
of their own country, who has come
forward in the face of Almiphty Gvd,
and denounced measures enforced for
the safety of th* ir country ; attne same
time th.inkiog him that they had en
riched that power they were intended
to injure !—Blush ye hoary head at ihe
(oily and madness of the assertion
well may you shrink from the sight of
every American. “Theh« ary head
is a crown of glory, if it be found in
the way of righf-cusnesa.” But uths
violent man euticeth his neighbour, 8c
leadeth him into the way that is not
good.” A question is asked in the dis
course, from which the above text is
taken. “rio whom can the farmer,
ithe mechanic, or the tradesman apply
lor information, with so much confi
dence as to his minis cr 1” Let us
rv ply, if opposition to our government
be recommend d, men had better rely
on their own judgment, than follow
the dictates of “ kulls that cannot
teach, aud will not 1 am.”
Baltimore, October 6.
AMOUNT OF INSPECTIONS
In the city of Baltimore, during tht
lust quarter ending 30*5 Sept. 1810#
80,187 barrel, wheat Hour
5,989 half elo. do,
609 bbls rye flour
11 half do do
718 casks Indian do,
1,091 bblr. pork
1 half do do
114 bbls. bee I
1,358 bl»h. marker'll
63 h. do do
535 bbls. shad
2 h. do do
28 bbls. sulmou
4 h <1© do
2 bbl. haddock
544 kegs butter
16 do. lard
2,163 casks do nestle liq*v,r/t
505 do. foreign d >.
S07 do ullages
274 do. oil
4.26)8,941 leet plank and scantling
1,500,697 shingles
1,143,800 laths.
i JOHN HAHOROVE, Reg’#.