Virginia Argus — Richmond, Va., 1810-07-06 00:00:00, page 3

KolH’fl examination at the Public Of
fice, qn the 8th of April.
Q. What are your name, surname,
age, place of nativity, profession and
domicile ?
A. Charles Leopold, Barron de
Kolli, aged 33 years, bom in Ireland,
Minister from his Majesty King
George III. to the Prince of the Aus*
tunas, Ferdinand VII.
Q. To whom did you apply at Lon
don to propose, and to procure the ac.
ceptance of the project which has bro’t
‘you to France ?
A. To his Royal Highness the
Duke of Kent, who mentioned it to
his father the King. The affiir was
afterwards conducted by the Marquis
of Wellesley.
Q. What were the Imeans put at
your disposul for executing this enter
prize ?
A. There were delivered to me, 1
A letter of credence to remove all
doubts as to my person and my missi
on, to Prince Ferdinand. 2. Two let
ters from the King of England to the
Prince, which have been found a
mong my papers. 3. I'orged pass
ports, route*, orders from the Minis
ter of Marine and War s«amps, seals,
signatures of «he Officers in the De
partment of the Secretary of State, all
of them seized at the time I was ar
rested, and which I carried with me,
to convince the Prince of the means I
bad. 4. As to the funds p-quisite lor
the undertaking, I had abou 200,000
francs, and eventually an unit nit d
credit on a house in London. Finally
rptcAla ihot wr t T-i r*ro a o*-i • ««ir*
the Incomparable, of 74 £uns,the I)e
daigneuse, of 50 guns, the P.qu^nte
galliot, and a biig This squa.ron,
which is victualled for fiw months,
waits for my return on the coast of
Qutbcron. Thus provided, after ta
king leave of the King and his Minis
ter on the 24th of January, I left Lon
don on the 26th for Plymouth, with
Commodore Cockburn, to whom the
command of the squadrom was confi
ded.
' Q. What precautions did you adopt
on your landing to conceal the docu
ments explaining the object ct your
journey ?
A. I put the letter of credence 1
mentioned in mv cane* The two let*
ters of his majesty the king of Lr.
glanrl were concealed in t e lining of
my coat; part of the diamonds wtre
sew- d up in the collar of my surtout,
anrl the waistband of my small clothes.
. de St. tionncl, who accompanied
me, had the remainder, wnich he se
creted in the same way t and in his cra
vat.
Q. Where did you goafter you Ian
dec! i
A. To Paris, where I was employ
ed in ftlMng diamonds which the Mar
quis of Wellesley gave me.
Q. If w did vou gain admittance in
to the C sile of Valaacay ?
A. Under pretence of having some
curious articles io sell. I was in hopes
to have been able by these mean-' to
deliver to the Prince the letters with
which I was entrusted, to put him in
possession of my plan, and oh ain his
consent. I cou’d only communicate
with the Prince Don A :t;n to and the
iqtendant* Printe Ferdinand refused
either jo hear or see me. Indeed I
have reason to believe from the strange
manner in which my proposal* were
receiv'd, that re sent information to
the Governor of the castle, in conse
quence of which 1 w ’S arrested.
Q. What means had sou prepared
to convey Piinc* Ferdinand to the
const in rase he consented to accom
pany you ?
A. The object of my first jnurnev
toValaicay, was to impart mv pLn
to the Prince, and in case he agreed to
it, to fix with him a time wh n I
should return to take him up. After
ward* I would have proceeded to the
coast, to apprize the Commander ol
my squadron of the d y appointed, I
would then have returned to Paris t<
procure the men and horses necessary
for the relays cn the road. On the
ev-ning of the day appoint.d the
Prince would have left hi» apartment
and by help of the relays we would
have proceeded to a gieat distance
from Vnlancay before he was missed,
<l. What was your reason for form
ing vuch a design ?
A. It appeared to me an honorable
on*.
Do yon know this parcel ?
A. Ido. It contains the documents,
Stamps, seals, and other things l have
mentioned, which were found upoii
tne when I w »* taken up.
(Signed)
KOLLI.
May 14*.
By letters from Malta it appears
thv. an insurrection h*d taken pla e ii
Minorca; o~.es ionic! by some indis
ere t r strict ions oo commerce, which
led to a disposition in the mal-conteab
to supercede the Authority of Spain,
land place the Island under the protec
tion of Great Britain.—After the de
struction of the Custom.house, and of
some private property of its Superin.
tendant, order was re-established.
The Gleaner, Lieut. Green, has ar
rived at Plymouth, in 6 days from Lis
bon. Lord Wellington had advanced
to the frontiers, aiul a rumour prevail
ed that his intention was to endeavor
to posh on to Salamanca, where great
part of the Fiench army, destined for
the attack on Portugal, was stationed.
The British a>my is in the highest
state of discipline. The Portuguese
force consists of about 40,000 men,
well appointed, and principally com.
manrled by English officers.
The papers by the Gottenburg Mail
are, as usual barren of important
news.
Gottenburgh, Mav 7. ■» An En
glish squadron of the line of battle
ships has been reported from the tele
graph to have passed this port under a
press of sail to the Northward, suppo
sed for the Baltic.”
German papers to the 6th, mention,
that great discontent prevails in Swe*
d n—that the party attached to the
gallant GustavUs acquires strength
daily—that the intended successor to
the Throne, the Prince of Augusten
burgh, is extremely unpopular—and
that a strong dasire is entertained in
favour of raising the son of Gustavos
to the Throne, upon the demise of the
present king.
The intelligence of a British flee
brinp destined tr* *Vw» Ril 11r* hoc Qlr.i/df 1
terror into the Danes, s
Paris papers to the 7th, which we
received this morning, contain the fol
lowing Sen.itus Consultum
Art. 1. A 1 the countries si mated on
the left Bank of the Rhine, from the
limits of the Departments of the Roer
and Lower IVIeu-e, following the
Thai a eg of the Rhine to the Sea, are
united to the French Empire, and
I from an ntegr 1 part.
I ST The countries si'uated between
the course of the Waal, the river
iJonge, at the frontiers oi the Depact
| mem of the Ne;tes, the L nver Mru* ,
1 and the R,er, shall form a Depart
ment, under the name of the D part
inrnt of the Mouths of the Rhine.
Bois de Due shall be the chief citv.
3. The Countries situated at West
of the Donge, with the Isle of Sc ho
wen, Tholen, North and South Beev
land, and Walcheren, shall be united
j to the Department of the Two Nottea.
j 4. The Department of the Mouths
j of the Rhine shall have two Deputies
i to the Legislative B >dy.
The Department of the Two Nettes,
which has th ee, shall have nve,
(Signed)
NAPOLEON.
CAMBACLRES.
Ntw-York, June 20.
Letters by the packettro u England
state, that a frigate wa^ soon to he sent
: out to Air erica, to bring home Mr.
i Jackson, the British mmiStrr.
, Mr. Morier, the new British secre
tarv of L-gadon the United States
, will probably co ae ia the frigate.
At the last Norfolk county sessions,
j held at Norwich—Edwatd Stubbing,
•of Wymondham, was tndicied f>r ut
fH’ tnrr .Bril inua .......la /.. _ __Li:
house in VVynrv ndh m, in the compa,
: r,y of several persons, some of them
1 mTtir..:nen, autl ethers, inhabitants . f
j VVy rhon .ham. The words wer.-, that
“ he wishe ! Bon tparte would come,
he (Stubbing, would be the 6r.»t man
to join him t that Bonaparte was a
better man to his country than King
rge is to t. is.” 1 he woj d3 .were
clearly t roved by two serp ama in th.
west Norfolk militia, anti to defence
v. as ,e«. up in ex; Is :.i ’on of he words
used. Mr Storks rgeef every popular
| topic wi.h gre t energv : nd feeling on
: 'he side of tire prosecution, but, o the
t surprise of the “'hole court, the jury
returned a verdict “ notgu.it .”—Out
j re iders may gather from the above
| case, a new proof of the spi * it of the
. es. | i, .n Jon Paper.
! FltOM THE NATIONAL IHTKLUCtMCtR .
Gextlf.mejc,
In yrur p^per of the 2jrh Instant, T have
r?atl, w »h no small degree of surprise
the tpeech nftbe honorable Mr. Randolph
upun the quet mu of reducing the n-.v^l et.
tablahment of the United States. This
speech has surprised me, because I fiud
! "*t full of gross mistatementt as to matteri
j of (nr*. | should be unwilling to ascribe
j unworthy motives to any gentle in in on any
j occasion I will not tnerefore, on this oc.
Cas on, pre.uvne that these mistatemmu
were made for 'he purpose of deceiving
the ll'itse of Represent.rives and the nc
tion ; but it is riu** to the public to ex.
pose them. 1 shaM now do so ; and bfort
J dismiss the tU'ijec’j I snail, I ru*t, tat.
p I is'.ictordy account for ibe solecis ns in our
, political ar fhni'-tic,'* of winch Mr. R m<
dolph c^mpUiis, and make hit “manifest
WConmtt nciet” tpp .rent.
Pasa-ng 6v< r hit incongruous preli nma.
k Jrjr outer vationt wituout remark, becaim
they merit none, J proceed immediat-ly to
the grounds he lies assumed inju3tifia.
tioo of his vote on the qucttiou of reduction
—and here I find him blundering at the
[threshold, in the ** discharge of an impe>
rious public duty.” Anxious to be “ clear,
ly understood,” he observes «« that in the
year 1800, in which our expences amoun.
ted to 3.448,000, we had three 44 gun
frigates, six frigates from 44 to 32. two of
32, of a large size i four of 33 smaller ;
eight from 32 to 20 ; three sloops of war
and four brigs, from 18 »o 16, and five
briys and schooners, from 14 to 12 guns,
employing a total of 7,296 seamen,” which
number he immediately after augments to
8000. He goes on to observe—** This ad.
min.stration [Mr. Adams’s] too, it should
be recollected, not only built every frigate,
"«ry Ivessei of respectable force, which
the United States now have, but many o.
thers, which have been since sold, and the
proceeds of which havegone into the Trea
sury.
From these observations it would be in.
ferred that iu the year 1300, we employ,
eel 8000 seamen at an expence of 3,448,000
*s*aud that no vessel of respectable torCe
was built under tne administration of Mr, j
Jefferson. How stand the facts ? Why
thus ; In the year 1800 we emp’oyed
includ ng marines, 7,416 men in our navy,
[see printed report p. 93.] of this num
ber 1093 were marines, [see same report]
which number deducted from the w : le
number above stated, viz. 7,446, leaves
6, 333, or 1 647 less than the number sta*
ted by the honorable member ; and under
toe administration of Mr. Jefferson the
following vessels of war were built, viz.
Tne ship Washington carrying 18
uos.
Ftt brig Hornet carrying 18 guas.
T'ie brig Argus carrying 18 guns.
The brig Sy en carrying 13.
The V i suvius 12.
The Kina 12.
i he One da 16, and 170 gun.boats.
Mr. Randolph may attempt to shelter
h nit*It tn.m tne effects of tnese mistite.
ihzuis. uy ooservmg that he did not know
the difference betw -en seamen and mi.
rioes ; that he thought them one and the
same thing, and that as to the vessels of
war and gun boats built under the last
administration he does not consider them
“ ot respectable force but as a suti s*
man and legislator, it was his duty to in.
ft rm himselt as to the obvious distinction
be* ween seamen and mar-.es, and he
knew that whether he considered the ves_
sets of war and gun. boats built uuder the
last ftdinmistrat.on as of respectable
force” or not, they cost not much short of
two millions ot dollars, and therefore ought
fairly to be taken into the comparative
estimate which he so reluctantly undertook
to make.
Upon the incorrect statements thus
made, Mr. Randolph proceeds to remark,
that in thu year 1800, caqh seaman cost
about 472 dollars annually ; and then con.
trasting the expences of that year with
the year 1809, be observes that, in the
year 1809, there were 2,723 seamen em.
ployed, “ winch cost the nation 2,427,000
d -liars—for each man employed within a
trifle »f 900 doll ,r* and .tneiine inters
that giosly extravagant as the adminis*
tratiou of Mr. Adams was, if tried by the
criterion of the succeeding one, it was “ a
pattern of retrenchment and economy.” I
cannot find ou, whence Mr. Randolph de„
rivtd his knowledge of the facts assumed
oy him as to there b mg 2,723 seamen
employed in the year 1809, which cost
2,427 U00— but, on relerring to the esti.
mate of the S-«retiry of the Navy, dated
lOt i February, 1809, [ he estimate upon
wh ch the appropriation law was passed]
I find that the number of navy otficers and
seamen estimated or th.it year was 7,451
exclusively oF marines. I shall here, I
hope, be permitted to indulge in a ** lit*
! tie. comparative political anatomy,” and 1
| will lair1/ contrast the estimate of the
| years K 00 *nd 1809.
In he esi mate tor the year 1800, [see
printed report, p 93,] it was aimed t*.at
mere was required
For pay and subsistence
ot uihcers and pay of sea*
men.' 1,280,658 40
The nnmber of officers
ind m*.n their required md
estimated tor, was 6 353.
In the estimate for the
year 1809, [see report,
10 h Feb. 1809J it was sta
ted tbattheie was rcquir*
ed
For pay and subsistence
of oihcers and pay oi sea*
uit-n, i,323,077
riie number of officers
ami men then requ red 6c
is’.mated for, was 7,451.
In this l can discover no inconsis
tency which cannot he immediately re
conciled. At first view it does in
leed appear that ihe sum stated as re
quired lor the support of 7,451 n.Ti
is contrasted with the sum stated as
necessary for the support of 6,353 men,
insufficient; for according to arithme
tical rule, if 6,353 give 1,280,658 dol
lars, 7,451 ought to give 1,501,936,
which is 8 178,919 more than the sum
required in the estimate. Hence a
difference in favor of the year 1809;
a material difference indeed, which,
wi h an additional expense of 8 42,419,
< nabled the government to employ one
thousand and ninety-eight men more
than they could have done in the year
1800 for the same sum. I wish with
Mr J< mdolph to be “cleaily under
mood.” Let me then repeat that in
the year 1800 6,353 men cost the
sum of 8 1,281,658 for their pay and
subsistence, and in the year 1809,
7,4>| men cost 8 1,32 3,077; and it
I.e.ics appears, thit in the ycir 1.309,
>,353 mea c >uhl be employed lot
1,128,101 dollars, wnicb is ?> 152,554
less tb in *he time number of men cost
.n the yeat 1300 ; an I'that if we ad j
to the expense of employing, in the
year 1830, 6,353 men the sum of
£42,419, we could in the year 1809,
employ 1,098 men ( vhich is less than
£ 40 a man annually) pY »re than could
be employed in the year 1830, for the
giveuautn of 5 1,230,659.
(l'o be continued.)
The London papers speak of an iusur.
reCl'on in the Island of Minorca, occa.
sioned by soma commercial restrictions,
which led *o an atten'pt of 'he English,
to grasp its sovereigny from the Span,
lards. The customhouse was said to have
i*een destroyed and order restored. Whe.
ther this happened at Port Mahno or
Cnuddla, thty say not.
Balt. American*
The rage for the Merino sheep is not
confined to this country a lone.-* A ram
w »*sold near Bristol in England,, lor 107
guineas, trom the Spanish fljck'of a Mr
Brooks. jb.
^Discontents are spok' n of in Sweden,
whe e it is said a strong party, attached
o .he late kmg exist*, who manifest, a
de ir« jo raise his son to the thione at
he. demise *f the present king, to the
prejudice nf the duke of Augustenburgh,
the inteided successor. ib.
kentuckyIvTanufac
TURES.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman
in Lexington, (Ken.) to his friend
in Charleston, S. C.) dated May 1,
■ 1310.
44 “joP is becoming the grand sta
ple ol Kentucky.- In this town there
wuut y rope wanes; eacn
consumes annually one hundred tons
of hemp ; lour cotton (lagging factories,
consumption fifty ion? of he no each ;
one factory oi sail cloth ; in the whole
about twelve hundred tons of hemp,
prime cost one hundred and fifty thou
sand doll »rs, employing four hundred
hands, principally men a d boys, and
i producing to the manufacturers great
profits. • The sail cloth fac ory is now
j under an engagement to drlivur 500
i pieces to the government,
j “ hour factories for carding and
■ spinning cotton, the oldest established
here 200 spindles ; the next, one mule,
of 1G0 spindles ; another one, a thros
tle, with 42 spin lles; and ihe last is
now commenced to spin and is esta
blished on the principle of the New
England factor is, the proprietor cal
culating upon puttiug in motion 1*000
spiuUles, and has now at work a thros
tle with 108 spindles ; in the course cf
next mon h starts a mule of 204 spin
dles • the establishment has already
i cost upw ifds of20,000 dollars, in lots,
buildings, machinery, 8cc. and intends
progressing gradually, a* the machin
ery can be made to start 1,000 spin
dies. The machinery are all made
here; the cot'on ) arm are sold to the
country, except whar is manufactured
j in town in o brdtickings, cords, jeans,
' chambra>s, and p am goods.
“ Three wool carding machines and
one for spinning. YVe supply a part
ot I ennessee, Ohio, and upper Loui
9*:'n*, with hat , boots, and shoes, and
mauulactur *d cotton and linen ; we
have excelltnt whi e ant) black-sm.th,
babinet«m ikers (.mr cherry tree furni
' ture far surp.is cs in beauty the mahog
i anv») fincy and Windsor chairmakers.
; (tnncv, chairs as nigh as seven dollars
each) three carriage maker’s thops,
with numerous others of *ihe different
employments. Our buildings are of
good coloured brick, |{>ut up in good
style ; plenty of the most beautiful
white and varit gated marble ; foot
ways neatly paved w th brick, and the
middle of the street with solid stone,
firmly bedded. ,
“ Our exports are hemp, hale ropes,
hempen yarns, twine, hshing lines,
seine twine, cables, tarred ropes, white
work generally, cotton bagging, sail
cloth, manufactured tobacco, salt-petre
gun-powder, crop tobacco, about 3,000
hogsheads yea.lv out of the Kentucky
)iver} beef, pork, 1 trd, tallow, can
dles, whishey, 200,000 gallons sent
down the river yearly } Hour, beans,
| potatoes, horses, bacon hams, 8tc.
We have two small banks, that do a
considerable business ; the insurance
office, capital lOO 000 dolls, solely em
ployed in discounting and dealing in
exchange to the eastward, divides ten
per cent, per annum for the last five
years } the other a branch of the Ken
tucky bank,capital 70,000 dolls, make
ten per cent, per annum.”
Wilmington (Od.; June 27.
FOR THM WATCH MAW.
Mr. Wilson—I received a letter ;
f-;w days since, from a gentleman o
high respecUbititv in l*e«ns) Irani»
g:ving the most favorable stateni- n
• »t the relerence system in that state
He informs me, that although ttie lav
is notytt comple e in all its t<*t.ns, ye
the p-jople arc b.*c ».uing daily more
pleas- d Wth i,s w .ole, ^me come
qu-noes. One mo t-fivorabie accouo
is, there is scarcely a single appea
I rum. the mode of tcciiioa. The uw
j yeT7 >n that 8‘rt‘e, are much disappoint*
^d in their expectations o’ its success.
1 hey no v look forward to th>: time as
oat tar distant, when tnoy roust nin
gle in the co nmon cl <*s. vVhat an
urfortnnate circumstance for wie state
uf Delaware, she has not taken more
seriously under her const lerati’iu, this
essential and important change ; tor
certain it is, ihrre is no law could tend
ra »re to the furtherance of her happi
ness and general di'.Fusion of know
ledge* than a law of this description.
’ Hs sincerely hoped, the citizens of
Delaware will reflect maturely upon
a change so much tq their advantige.
It is certainly an encouragement, to
see ho respectable a state sis the one
mentioned, commence with success an
innovat on so important, especially
when opposed by so formidable a ph*
laux.
WASHINGTON.
Curious Ca cu? tinn ••'Thcmi'ein Gor
don 502 places of worship; o .e c itlietlrsU
one abory, 114 churches, 130 chapelt Sc
chapels or ea-e, 207 meetings and chipels
of dm nters, 43 chap Is fir foreigners,
and 6 ynagogties ; ab->ut 4050 public and
pr vaie schools, including inns ■ f cou t»
colleges, &«:. { about eignt s"C e ies for
morals. 10 ocieiics for learning a id an ;
122 assy luma lor sick and lain ■ ; 13 d si
pensanes, and .704 fdendly societ>es ;
charities distributed, 750,00'Jl. per an,
num.
1 here are about 2,5CO persons commit*
ted for tiial in one year. I he Atjnoddr*
predations amount to abo t 3, 500 OOOi }
t nild nr» ill#* rwMttiAn • • rt. iv
tion of the dock*, 461,0001 Hi;re a e
13 prisons, and 5,204 ale.houses within
the bids of mo-tab y. Thearaou.io! cua
counterfeited is 200.0001. per ano'nm. .
j Abuui 9000 icctMV'.rs of stolen goods .*
j About 10,000 servants at all ‘t .es oa. of
j place ; 20 000 persons r,se rvrry in.'n.
mg without knovv.ng how to subsist dj*
ring he d »y.
Lond r. consumes annunUy 110 000 bul
locks. 776 000 sheep and lambs, 210 000
calves 200,000 hogs, 60 000 nicking pig?j
6.9.10,000 gallon* of milk, I he p oduce of
I 35,000 co’vs, 10 000 ac es of ground cui
j tiv ed for vegetable*, 4000 acr s fir fruit,
, 702,000 quarters of w >e.n, 600 000 dial
; drnns ol oals, 1,113 500 ba rein (8 4 gall.;.)
j of ale and purer, 1 1„146,782 ga'.l >ns of
1 spiritu iu* liquors and compounds,32 500
I t ns of wine, 16,600 000 pounds of b.i t r
21,108 000 pounds of cLecse, and 14.000
boat loads of cod.
I habiian s of Eng'and, Scotland, Ireland
and Wales, May 1, 1802;
Males, 3,987 955
Females, 4,548,409
Army, 198 33*
12o,2'.'9
Seamen in registered ships, 144 5,5
Convic s c® 14 0
Foialin England, 8 301,223
Scotland, 1 7-0,0 00
Ireland, 4,003,000
"Wales* 54 1 ',*5
Total, 15*H8,S69
17* NATHANIEL SHEFFAKD, At
tomcat Law., has remove 1 his.Office to
the iloom over the arch opi' -s tc n o
G obe Tavernt wh re the S ■euff’s Office
of Henrico was formerly kept.
July 6, 1810
JUST RECEIVED,
Anti for Sale bv ihe ‘'uh c i'.< s.
30 Hhda Prime Antigua Run,
20 qr. casks Malaga Wine,
20 bis. Prime Green Coffee.
Also in Store>
50)Tierce* p ime Upland Whiskey
30 bbU Old double Distilled do.
Together with their uau .1 supply of
H A R D W A R E.
BRYSON & PAUKHILL.
Richmond, July 3d, 1810. w)
N 0 7 I a E.
In Council, June lOth, 1810.
THE Executive o*-e desirous of selling
Rpven Negro VI n .Slaves now in rhe
Penitentiary, lnte!v convicted of cruxes Sc
under sentence of d**ath, but rrpr ev-d fop
sale ard trunsportHtion, beyond the li nit*
nf the United States, as directed by 1*w.
Proposal* will be attended to, fa w 1
Afte»t,
SAMUEL COLEMAN a. c c
BY Virtue of a Deed of Trust b a mq date
the 9 li dfty of Apdl 18 4 t^rcut’-d by
1 Nsthanttfl Karri* to me, for t«r purpose of»s
curmg a sum of mony iheirin mem oned, to the
!a,<’ fi m of Hnthkoan, Donlup fit flu. I -jvi||
proceed on Monday me U )i day of Au^ .t
nest, at 10 o’clock, on the’pemise* to p|i *t
IVaiic Auction, on a credit of <me, (wo and
hree years, [equal insialir.cn s"| a
i
i Tract of Lancia
’ I ON rail’* Creek, in the county of Put»v’v*nH,
I containing hy e rinatnn JcfU a-rc* more o*
. j r«», bei.g the same which Uie -»u< Harris in*
; I (’fri ed fr m >i*d cea ed failrrr and on wnieh,
tl **rr‘* *rt a r»1 UwcJ.ln^ House Store (louse
Uitti krt, » d many othe i>vj>r overrents.
ilooJs wvh *p,ir->vc.i iecu ,cy^ t<> bear inter*
. Mt from tn-note, wi<i j><: tt q iredj but the in*
j tersst will be remitted if -lie principal is pa.i^*
taa ly paid.
JOHN DUNLOP
■ Peterabur^, July 1st, 1819. ^d*]