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■ ■■ , FRIDAY, JULY 13, m [12 l-Si Cents Single,}
I Cavalry Orders.
THE RICHMOND TROOP will
Muster on their usual groOtol in
Flannel Coats, without halter orXelL
\• ,ces on Wednesday evening th^*l8th
°’cIock
^‘‘^fCOBERT GAMBLE, Capt.
Richmond, July 7th, 1810.
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I A COURT of Enquiry for the 1st
jt\. Batalion, will be held at the Bell
Tavern, on Thursday the 19th inst, and
for the 2d Battalion, at the Washing
ton Tavern, on Friday the 20th inst.
and for the Regiment at the Bell Ta
vern, on Saturday the 21st ms?, for the
purpose of assessing the fines against
delinquents in the 19th Regiment.
Each Court will commeuce at 9 o'clock,
A. IYL ^
Ry order of the Lieut. Col.'yom*
mandant of the 19th Rt^yaent
of militia.
tCT* All persons against whom fines
are now iu the hands of the collector,
and who from absence from this city,
cr other cause, have been prevented
from attending any Battalion or Regi
mental court heretofore, to shew c use
against being fined, are invited to at
tend the said Regimental court of En
quiry to be held on the 21st inst. and
make known to said court the objec
tions they may h .ve against the pay
ment of such fines, which objections,
if deemed sufficient, wi 1 be so certified
bv said court, to facilitate relief io those
who may think proper to^pply therefor
to the next General Atstmbly.
ta/ILL be soldatCaira, in the County of
* ' Cumberland, the first day of August
next, for cash,
400 Acres of Land,
lying In the Counties of Cumberland and
Buckingham, also five Negroes, Jenny,
Annaj Ester, Livinia and Watt—five Hors,
es, and twenty head of C&ctie, the proper*
ty ot Guhelntus Coleman, conveyed to the
subscribers by Deed, bearing datejuie first
day of January, 1808, in trust, wysecure
the payment of nundiy deb.s menjmined in
said deed, wh ch ia recorded in TTumber,
land county court—or so much of said pro.
■*v petty as may be ifcCVas.iry tor the payment
uf the Lallance ot said debts then remain,
irig due , and especially so much as may be
necessary to pay the debt in the said deed
mentioned to be due to George Perkins ot
one hundred and twenty seven pounds two
shillings, with interest—which said debt
has sines been assigned to Yancey Hoi-man
W.i.. M. Thornton, / Trus
VVm. Guthrey. 5 tees.
June 25th, 1810* 3w p
S'l RaYED ok bi’OLKN
Ij'ROM Prince Edward Court House, on
the 16th day of April last,
A Red Sorrel Mare,
four years old last Spring, about four feet
ten or eleven inches high^ Roach’d and 1
Nick’d, with her forerop left h'liea No‘
Brand or Mark as 1 recollect, hnraiVed
when she w. nt of!’; she had a Brtdu^nd
Saddle mi t tiie Saddle had anew j/wrwith
u patch on the pummel ; the Bridle with
a stiff b:t—she moves well iu a trot or gal
lop, but did uct puce. Whosoever will
give such information respecting tnu said
Mare, so that I get her again, shall receive
twenty d*.liais reward.
SHERWOOD fowler.
Cumberland 23 June, 1810.
(3t.)
;]/* NATrlANIEL SHEPPARD^ At.
torney at l.aw^ has removed his OUKe to
the Room over the arch (typosittjBthe
Ol <he Tavern, wh?re the Shei tff’rOlSce
(A iier.nco was formerly kept.
July 6, 1810. lm.
Kces’s Cyclopedia,
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AN ACT
In addition to act, entitled, “ Afc act
concerning the Library lor the use
of both Houses of Congress.
BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Congress
assembled, That the President of the
Senate and Speaker of the House of
Representatives for the time being,
be, and they are hereby authorised to
grant the use of the books in the Li
brary of Congress to the agent of the
joint committee of Congress appoint
ed in relation to the Library* on the
same terms, conditions and restricti
on? as members of Congress are al
lowed to use said books, any thing
contained in any former law to the
contrary notwithstanding.
J. B. VARNUM,
Speaker of the House of Repre*
sen'auves.
JOHN GAILLARD,
President of the Senate, pTo-tempore.
May 1, 1810.
Approved,
JAMES MADISON.
AN ACT
To extend the time for making pay*
incut for the public lands of the
United States iu certain
cases.
T)E it enacted by the Senate and
p Aiuuac ui ui me
United State* of America, in Congress
assembled, That every person, who,
p ior to the first day of Januarv, one
thousand eight hundred and six ha '
purchased any tract or tracts of land of
the United States, not exceeding in the
whole six hundred and forty acres, at
any of the land offices established for
the disposal of said lands, whether pur
chase was made at public or private
sale, (sales by virtue of a pre-emption
right only excepted) and whose lands
have not already been acctually sold
or reverted to the United States for
non-payment of part of the purchase
money, and who shall for the term of
«t least one year previous to the expi
ration ot five years from the date oi
the purchase of the land, have actual
ly inhabited and cultivated -ty one
tract oi lai'.d thus purchased, and the
time for making the last payment on
account of such purchase according to
former law3, mav have expired or shall
exp re on or before the first day of Ja
nuary next, shall be allowed a further
term of two years, for the payment ol
the residue of the principal due on a. *
count of such purchase ; wh ch iar
ther term ot two years shall be calcu
lated to commence from the expi
ration of one year from and after the
day on which ihe last payment on ac
count of such purchase should, ac
cording to fofmer laws, have become
due, & shall be allowed only on the fol
lowing conditions, that i3 to say: First,
That all the arrears of interest on the
iuuu purcnaseu to tne end ot one year,
from& after the clay on which-tise last
payment on account of such purchase
should according to former laws, have
become due, shall have been paid at
I or before the end of such year : Se
cond, That the residue of the sum due
on account of the principal of such pur
chase shall be paid with interest there
on, in two equal annual payments, viz :
One half of the said residue with the
interest, which may then be due there
on, within one year ; ar.d the other
hail of the said residue, with the inte
rest which may then be due thereon,
within two years alter the expiration
of one year, from and after the day
on which the last payment on account
of such purchase should, according u
former laws, have become due. Anti
in case of failure in paying either the
arrears of interest, or each of the
two instalments of principal with tht
accruing interest, at the time aoc
tin.es above mentioned.the tract ol lan<
shall he forthwith advertised and of
fered for safe in the manner and cn th<
terms & conditions now prescribed fo
the sarte of lands, purchased from th»
United States, and not paid for wiihi'
the limited time ; and shall revert n
like manner to the United States, i
tne sum due with interest, be not a
such sale bidden and paid.
And in cases where any tract or i
tracts of land;, not in the whole exceed- j
ing six hundred and forty acres, which
nave since the first day of January last i
reverted to the United States, for de- |
fitult of pajnicnt, the original purcha
ser may again enter the same tract or
tracts. And all monies which such o
riginal purchaser may have paid, shall
be replaced to his credit, by t:ie re
ceiver of public monies of the respec
tive land offices, and such re-purcha
sasrs shall be allowed the same benefits
of the extension of the time of pay.
meat, created by this act, as though
no such reversion had occurred :
Provided, Such original purchaser
shall make to the proper land officer
such Application for such re-entry of
lands, on or before the first day ol Ja
nuary next, and the land so reverted j
shall not have then been previously re- !
j. B. VARNUJVt,
Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives.
JOHN GAILLARD,
President of the Seance, pro-tempore.
April 30, 1810.
Approved,
JAMES MADISON.
RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Con
stitution of the Unitod States.
Resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America, in Congress assembled.
i wo-tnirdsotboth Houses concurring, I
That the following section be submit
ted to the legislatures of the several
states, which when ratified by the le
gislatures of three-fourths of the
states, shall be valid and binding, as
a part of the constitution of the Uni
ted States.
If any citizen of the United States
shall accept, claim, receive or retain
any title of nobility, or honor, or shall
without the consent of Congress ac
cept and retain any present, pension,
office or emolument of any kind what
ever, iroia any emperor, king, prince,
or foreign power, such person shall
cease to be a citizen of the United
States, and shall be icccpahlc of hold
ing any office of trust or profit under
them, or either of them.
J. B. VARNUM,
Speaker of the House of Repre
, sentatives.
JOHH GAILLARD,
President of the Senate, pro-terv.
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TO THE EDITORS OF THE NATIONAL
INTELLIGENCER.
Washington, July 3.
Gentlemen,
In the communication first address
ed to you, I did, Jf trust, clearly de"
monstrate the fact^that Mr. Randolph
did, in his speech upon the reduction
of tne navy, make numerous mistate
ments as to matters of fact. Should
any person be disposed to doubt upon
this subject, I invite a reference to the
authorities therein quoted—prole und
ly revering the xruth, I abhor false
hood ; and with these sentiments 1 in
vite the most rigid investigation into
the statements made by me. 1 chal
lenge contradiction!—Towards Mr.
Randolph personally, l have no hos
tile feelings ; but as a politician I can
not admire him. True, he glitters
sometimes, but never have I been per
mitted by my own judgement to as
cribe to him that consistency, that
profound wisdom, that political saga
city, without which no man can he a
great statesman. But it is not my
' purpose here to comment upon the
character of this gentleman—my sole
object at present is to correct somo few
more of his multitude of mistate
ments—-I therefore resume the subject
where my first communication iclt
it.
Mr. Randolph says that, “ in the
year 1800, when we had nearly 40
ships of war in commission, with ncar
y 8000 seamen, the expeuce of the
uartne corps amounted to £> 162,OOO:
•nd in 180J, when we have 15 vessels
>f all sorts, manned with 2,3000 »ca.
■ >en,thc expense of the marine corps
• moulds to kS 211,000.”
From beginmug to end of this sen
. nee, there is such manifost incorrect
jess and disingenuousnesj, that I nave
ally felt pain in reading it.
1 st. He says that in the year 1300,
. e had nearly 40 ships of v/ar in con-.
mission; now the actual naval force in
commission then was_
3 large 4+ gun frigates,
6 of 56 to 44
2 • 22
S 22
8 20
3 18
4 16
5 brigs St schr. 12 & 7 galleyS:
35
^ ould Mr. Randolph call ^ 12 gunj
schooner, or a 16 or an 18 or a 20 gun I
vessel, a ship of war ? He surely
would not allow that any such vessel
was of “ respectable force/’ when he
has already Raid, that there was no ves
sel of u respectable force/* built in
Mr. Jefferson’*, administration, and
said this in the face of the fact, which
he knew, that the ship Wasp, the brig
Hornet, and several others, were then
built. To bring the number of ves
sels in commission in the year 1800,
to this test, there were but 15 of re
spectable force; the rest « are not
worth bringing into account.”
2nd. As to the number of seamen
employed in the year 1800, he states
the number to be 8000. Now I have
already shewn, by reference to the
highest authorities, that the number
was 6,373 only, or 1,627 loss than
Mr. Randolph states it to have been.
. 3rd. Mr. Randolph states that the
marine rnrns in the v.'.r 10nr\ »n..
S 162,000. In the minute investiga
tion which this gentleman affects to
have made, is it not rather unaccount
able that the following words sh>uid
have escaped him : “ N. B. No ra
tions are estimated for the non-com
missioned officers and privates of the
j marine corps) as they are provided fur
i in the estimate of ship’s provisions!”
, (See estimate for the year 1800, pa.
! 84.) Now, gentlemen, the S 162,000
i stated by Mr. Randolph as being the
i whole expence of the marine corps
1 for the year 1800, does not include ra
tions for any non-com missioned office r
| or private in the marine corps^their
| number then was (see estimate, p. jp.)
; 1,052; and each man drawing one ra
j tion per day, 1,052 would draw 383.980
I rations in the course of a year, which
j at 20 cents each, ainouut to 76,796
dollars. Thus then the expenc^ of
the marine corps in the year 1800,
was 238,796 dollars.
And yet Mr. Raddolph has stated,
that the whole expense was 162,000
dollars. Here is a manifest inisia’e
ment to the amount of 76,796 dollars.
4th. Mr. Randolph says that in the
year 1809, we had iu commission bijfc
15 vessels of all sorts. What man iu
the pat ion can have been so inatten
tive to public concerns as not to know
that, including the gun-boats, we had
upwards of one hundred vessels of all
sorts in commission for one third of
the year, and that throughout the
whole year v/e had^
Six frigates. £•*
Nine iloups of war, brigs Sc schuoc
! ere.
Two bomba, and
Twenty gun-Loats.
Thus we see that Mr. Randolph’s
15 vessels ol all sorts, were in* reality
j lor one third of the year more than
J one hundred,and for the balance ol the
year thirty-seven! Is it possible
that the penetrating anatomizing Mr.
Randolph could be ignorant of these
facts ?
5th. Mr. Randolph says that the
nnmber of men employed in 18QU
was 2,300; in another part of his
speech he .made out the number to be
2,700. Can any person imagine the
possibility of manning 15 vessels of
war and 100 gun boats, with 2,700
men? lo manifest the gross absur
dity of the idea, I will ooly state that a
gun-boat cannot be efficiently manned
with less than 36 men : of course that
the gun-boats alone (considering th •
i 15 vessels ol war as “ not worth brinsr
jing into account”) required 3?GOG
men ; and yet, gentlemen, Mr. Kan*
; dolph’s own words are, “ wc had Iasi
, year in employ 2,723 men, which cost
ihi nation 2,427,000 dollars ; for each
man employed within a trifle of ‘j(X
doltar*.”
How can Mr. Randolph account foi
this egregious blunder? He pretend)
that Mr. ilassett admitted the fac
-—-but what are Mr. liasiett’s words
J 1'hey are-“ lie ahe President) ha
employed hut twent\-seven hundred
men, who have received bounties.” I*
this his authority ? He has employed
hut 2700 men who have receive l
bounties—now it is a well known lact
that bount* has nevur been given to a
ny but able seamen ; and it is as w^ll
known that in our navv aihie' se.->r.;en
constitute not more than one-third of
the crew of any vessel of war. Thus
a 44 gun frigate, whose whole, crew
consists of 4JO men, is allowed only
120 able seamen ; the rest o* the rreV
is nvide up of com mission,"'warrant
and petty officers, ordinary .Seamen,
hoys and marines—unci a gun-boat
whose whole crew consists of 36 is
allowed but eight sc-anicn. We here
fmd how the honorable gentleman
has made up the cost of each inau
employed in the navy—It is thus .•
he first charges the navy with the whol* *
amount expended, including the re
pairs of vessels, every contingency, the
pay, subsistence, provisions, medicine,
improvements of navv yards, purchase
of military stores, ordinance and the
whole expenses of the marine corps
and every other expense whatever,
and then divides that sum by the num
ber ot able seamen only—cautiously
keeping out of view the commission,
warrant and petty officers, the ordina
ry seamen, bftys and marines, which if
added to the divisor would make at
least three times the number stated—
and of course would reduce th f* anr.nc.1
cost of each man t**o thirds the sum
stated—or from 900 to 300 dollars pcs.
annum.
6. Mr. Randolph states that the ex
pense of the marine corps in the year
1809 was 2,11,000 dollars. Here,
I for a wdhder, he approach s within
10,000 dolls, ol tne truth ; but he has
do ie it nV st disingenuously—In this
jyear 1809, he has rr me inhered, what
in the year 1800 h • would not notice
—he has calculated the rations for the
marine corps, which were estimated
in the article “ provi iens for the na
vy” and added the amount to the ex
panse of his corps ; and I thus detail
his disingenuousness.
1 he estimate and the appropriation
lor the marine c rps for the year
1809 face estimate ofiOth Feb. 1809,
and 9 vol. laws p. 291 \ were
[ For pay and subsistence 135 647 70
For clo.hing 32,933 80
For military stores 1.354
For quartermaster’s de
partment, &c. 14,125 50
Making g 186,060 50
To this sum Mr. Ran
dolph has added the a
mount of rations esti
mated in the article of
“ ftrcn^jsions for the na
vy vifc. /see estimate
ot the |0th of February,
180^J 197/65 at 18 cts. 35,543 70
Making 221,000
Which by mistake he
h s called £211,000 ^
Thus we find that none of Mr. Ran
dolph statements ought to be depend
ed upon !
He asserts that “ in the year 1800
we had 40 ships of war in commis
sion with nearly 8000 seamen and
that in that year the expense of the
marine corps amounted to £ 162,000 ;
and in J809, when we hav 15 vessels
of ail sorts, manned u irh 2300 seamen,
the expense of the marine corps
mounts so 8211,000,” when it is in
proof that in the year *800 We had
only ships of war an I twenty
smallet vessels from 20 to 12 guns
and 7 galleys in comnriysiou, in cl Ltd ng
marines, maimed wia?7446 men, and
in that year the expense of the ma
rine corps was 238,796 dollars; an l’
jin the year 1809 we had for one third
| of the year upwards of one hundred
.vessels of all sorts in commission, and
lor the residue of the year we had
thirty*scven vessels in commission,
manned with from 8500 to 5600 men,
and in that year the expcnce ol the
m trine corps was 221,601 dolls._—
which is 10,000 dolls, it ore than Mr.
Randolph made it, and 27 >00 dollars
less than in the year ldo) although
I Vfr. Randolph made i* 50,000 d >'Jars
m tV And here it will be seen, is ;,A
' nothin gross tnistatemi nt to the a
t mout%of 67,000 dollars.
IJofore I dismiss tnis part of th*
: subject it may be proper h* re to u
II plain, whence it arise* that the amount