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NOTICE.
BY virtue of a deed of trust, execute! to the
subscriber bv Thomas Wooldridge^ Jun.
bearing date the 19th day of December,' 1804,
and duty recorJed in the Hustings Court for
the city of Richmond, to answer certain Qjlpoa
se« therein expressed, I shal1 expos* to gpblic
axle for ready m.mcy, to the highest biHdJtf-in
front of the Bell Tavern in the city of Rich,
mond, on the 19ih ilav of the present month
(November) a NEGRO GIRL named Y aimer
. or Yamcr, about 11 years <>f age.
Isaac White, Trustee.
Novrrdwr 6, 1810- (td s.)
NOT!CE=sLrlt at the Store of the subscrib
er, at the head of Jinks’ wharf a package
ol GOODS nictkcd \V. D.—-IVsriemoM
JEfrtCSj um*.
Richmond, Nov. 21, 1S10. 3».
™NOTICE.
THAT on the 12th day of November
next, at Buckingham Court House,
(being Court day) will be exposed to sale
ibr cash, a valuable
Tract of Land,
< on which Ur. Its. T. Hubard now resides,
lying In the county of Buckingham, con_
tainmg betwrtn one thousand eleven htinj
drtd acic* and bounded by M-ssrs. L.
Bolling, Juo. Eppes, David Stinson and o
thers. T he quality oi the Land is consi
dered good ibr the culture of Tobacco,
Wheat, Corn, 8tc. has very good improve
tnents, and a very good Grist Mill., on an
excellent Stream, in a very populous neigh
bourhood.— The Land will be sold for the
purpose of raising a sum of money due
front James T Hubard to Samuel A1 en,
which tract of Laud has been conveyed by
the said Jas. T. Hubard to the Subscri.
bers in trust, for tue payment of certain
sums due to the said Sautuel Allen as men
tioned in deed of trust.
Wm. Daniel, jr. 1 T
Archd. Austin. f ArU5tees
Oct. 9. 1810.
SALES AT AUCTION.
T> Y virtu* of a Heel of trust bearing date the
llth^ Feb. 1804^ cxrcutcd to the subscribers
„ by Messrs* Pickett, Pollard d Johnston, anl
Mr Hichard Your e llie pay mem of
1J hundred pounds cf r. Gilley Lewis t>
A/rs Susanna Lewis- ® a *,
Will //'
At Rocketts, on th No* next,
some very valuable ^ O T S^onveyed in saiu
trusty or so much thereof as wiraie sutl.cienr to
raise the sum of £ 158 6.8 withTk^citst thereon
from the lbh Feb. last, being tlieSsalanc* due
by Richard Young on account of hia purchase.
John Prosser, 1 r»,
i . „ n . Iruatecs.
John r oster. J
Richmond, Oct 13ih^ IfllO. itl-p
Notice.
| WISH to dispose of my TRACT OF
* LAND lying in New Kent county, cal
led
WARE CREEK,
and containing about two thousand Acre*.
Oa this plantation are Buildings sufficient
for a small family, and a Mill on a never
failing stream of water, vrliich mny he!
made navigable to York River for Boats
with a lit!!e expence. Only al»out,5G0 a_ 1
cres of this Land are cleared, are
divided into three shifts, well aeu&med to'
the culture ot Corn and Wheat, ftfe bal*!
ar.ee very level and well timbered, l-.x.
petting those inclined to purchase will first
viiw the land 1 forbear to enumerate all
the advantages. 11 this Land is not sold
before the 6th of December next, it will
the.r. be act up, on the premises^ to the
highest bidder, on a credit of onc^and two
years. Bonds and approved security with
a deed of trust on the Land, will be re_
qnired to carry interest from the date.
At the same time and place will be 3old,
Ml the Corn, Fodder and stock <f every
kind, on (lie said plantation. Twelve month*
cicdit will be allowed purchasers,on their
giving bond and good security to carry in.
tcrest from the date if not punctually paid.
Armislead Russel.
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WILLIAM COWAN,
WA 'l CI1 MAKER,
HAS Ju'-.t received an assortment ot ar„
tides in his l>ne( which with his h>r.
mor mo« k, consists of [WarrantedJ Gold
and Silver Watches, Clocks and Time
Pieces, a general assortment of ^Silver
Ware, pearl ti t, a: .’ plain Jcyeiry, ptVr:
Castors, Wine strutters, Ch^
ct, p •tlcnt, and lar^c C .n, I
» >.t patterns) S in.]', r«, and
flwlt* Uc. rocket B»ok%
t v s lipaiilcts, and r^wol
cd Cast-, Scissars and Ca*
Pen K (live ft, S. anti SmiflFl
lr s, t,a-'y\ a Gi-niii 'iHr. .s'Ujuidi,,
».id M k ( ...eair-s, Iveys, Beals, arid , vane,
ty of other articles. All of which he offtis
si the most reasonable prices,
N. li, Watdies and Clucks of every
deftcriplif n c.ireAitljr repaired. Ordet* in
the above line will be strictly an ended to.
Richmot d, Oct. 2d, 1810. w tf
NOTICE
*r H A T a petition will be
* the next Gtneral Ai-semi
ria. bv the members ot li e
p F.-male Hiimave Assoc
in '■porate thetr Society.^
Oct. I9ih. jwitn.
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FOR THE ARCUS.
T H £ DOVE.
no. i.
HaH bird of Heaven / Angelic Dove !
Dispense thy min-.trel lay ;
And whilst my Muse feasts on thy Iov<^
' Moan in her pensive way.
Mosn, gently moan, my Muse’s mate.
In accents sad and slow j j
Let the big gr.efs of direful fatej
In admonition Row.
Whilst thy twee', soft, condoling strain^
Inspires a joyful calm,
Dt ign to emit in mom’ning vein,
\V‘>r.t tears my Muse eniba'm.
Me * >ks I see thy purple dye*
(I tee it thro’ a tea* !)
Mchinks I hear -hy accents cry,
And etho to my fear.
Whilst thy mild, peaceful nature greets,
In harmony ^Ivine,
And philanthropy 's wailings meet?,
In unison to join t
Whilst thou on trem’lous pinions fitest*
% Thro’ the domain: of air,
Whilst to the full blown greve thou hiert
To coo thy ir. edom there ;
Myriads by na ure. ftce as thou.
Endu’d with reason’s pow’r,
Their native pride, must all forego,
And t fell thrald >m cow’r.
White th iu ’riversest field and grove, ,
Qni'e unconstrain'd and free ;
Joying th - f nd ea»m ui’J love.
With soul enliv’ning gl e.
They whOj by nature riobly born,
Hcrsacted bi tbright c a;m >
By-slavery’s galling chains air worn,
To poveity and shame.
Son-e from good friends and children torn,
Fr«m wife and dear abode ;
In heart.feli anguish tveep and mourn,
And pray reltef from G d.
Some in dj-ead Bast He horrers read.
Recorded on the wall,
Ann mingle with th* ghastly deadj
Whose shades infest ihe hall.
Seme roast in Inq-fisiinn’s fire.
Some was’e in dungeon g!o;~s ;
Myriad* in prison.ships expire.
And Ocean brast* her tombs !
Th -galley.* avc, the Afric ihiall,
Minions and pageants too;
In turn beneath oppression fall,
, Hule, serve and sink in woe ! 1
Vicissitude, and awfui part.
Flays with portentous hand ;
Tin; seif-same scene that lifts the heart.
Will break it at command.
Amtn'icr. arch, severe and keen,
With violence holds the scale,
’Till death’s grim visage shuts tfte scene,
In an eternal j.alc.
Sweet Messenger of peace ! still fly.
And moan in accents loud ;
’Till thuu canst hail a liberty
Sweet, fiee umramell’clj proud.
Go, bear ihy Olive branch alar,
And coo thy Liberty ;
Go, moan to Rove.I ke peace, dread war,
And tell mankind—BE FRiCE.
fleuilius.
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the divinity of cubist.
From the Lectures of Pericus, late Bishop of
London.
N.uv when the centurion, and they
fhac v.tic with hi o wntch.ng Jesus,
3-uv the earthquake, and those things
ihat w redone ; they feared greatly say
i«2;, “ 1 ruly this man was the son of
God.”
1 he centurion here mentioned, was
the Roman captain, who, with a guard
of soldiers, was ordered to attend the
cruciGxion of Jesus, and see the sen
tence executed. He placed himself, as
St. Mark informs us, over against Je
sus. from that station he kept his
eve constantly fixed upon him, and ob
served with attention every thing he
said or did. And v, hen he saw the
meekness, the patience, the resignati
on, the firmness, with which our Lord
endured the most excrutiating tor
j ments ; when he heard him at one time
jkrvendy praying lor his murderers, Si
■ft aiiumer disposing witn rttgmty & au
thority of a place in paridise to one of
his fellow sufferers ; and at length, with
that confidence, which nothing but con
scious Virtue and conscious dignity
could at m Ji a time inspire, rrcom
nending his sr»irit into the hands of
h?s heavenly Father, he could not but
conclude him to be a mou extraordi
nary person and something more than
human. But when moreovet, he oh
servtd the astonishing events that took
f lace when Jesus expired ; the agita
tion into which the w hole frame of na
ture seem’d to be thrown j the super
nat ir d darkness, the earthquake, the
fnuiingof rocks, the opening ol graves ;
he then bursts out involuntarily into
that striking exclamation, l* Truly this
man was the Son of God.’*
tlrre then, we have a testimony to
the divine character of our Lord,
which mu it be considered as in the
highest degree impartial and incor
rupt; the honest unsolicited testimo
ny of a plain man, a soldier, and a
heathen ; the testimony not of one
.vho wus prejudiced in favour of
(Christ and his religion, but of onr,
who by habit and education, was pto
bably strongly prejudiced against
them.
And it is not a little remarkable,
that the contemplation of the very same
scene, which so forcibly struck the Ko- j
man centurion, has extorted a similar I
confession from one of the most elo-1
qutnt of modern sceptics, who has |
never been accused of too much cre
dulity, anil who, though he could
bring himself to resist the evidence
both of prophecy and of miracles, and
was therefore certaiuly no liig,t to
Christianity, yet was overwhelmed
with the evidence arising from the
character, the sufferings, And the death
of Jesus. I allude to the celebrated
comparison between the death of So
crates and the death of Jesus, drawn
by the masterly pen of Rosseau. The
passage is probably well known to a
large part of ibis audience ; but it af
ford s so forcible and so unprejudiced a
testimony to the divinity of Christ, and
bears so striking a resemblance to that
of the centurion, that 1 shall be par
doned, ( trua% let bringing it once
more to your recollection, and intro
ducing it here as the conclusion ol this
lecture.
“ Where, (says lie) is the man,
where is the philosopher, who can act,
suffer, and die, without weakness and
without ostentation ? When Piato de
scribes his imaginary just man, cov
ered with all the oppiobtum of guilt,
yet at the same time meriting the sub
limest rewards of virtue, he paints
piccisciy every icaiuretn me cnatacter
of Jesus Christ. The resemblance is
co stt iking, that all the fathers have
observed it, and it is iir.po sible to be
deceived in it. What prejudice, t hat
blindness must poss< ss the mind ol
that man, who dares to con pare the
son ot Sopruniscus with the S, n of Ma
ry ! # What a distance is there fcetu ten
the one and the other ! The d .aih ol
Socrates, philosophizing calmly with
his ft tends, h the most gentle that can
be wished; that of Jesus, expiring in
torments, insulted, derided, and revi
led by all the people, the most horrid
hie that can he imagined* Socrates
taking the poisoned cup, blesses the
man who prtsents it to him ; and who,
in the very act of presenting; melt*,
into tears. J. sus, in the midst of the
; most agonizing tortures, prays for his
I enraged persecutors. Yes, if the lift
and death ol Socrates are those of a
Sage, the life and death of Jesus are
ihoae ol a GOD.”
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Atiectloie of George VV hiifieldj the founder of
Mehedism.
An intimate friend of the celebrated
H-uir.e, asked him what he thought of
Mr. WhitfieM’s preaching ; for he had
listened to the latter part of one of his
sermons at Edinburgh ;—“ He is sir,”
said Mr. Hume, “ the most ingenious
preacher 1 ever heard; it is worth
while to go twenty miles to hear him.”
He then repeated a passage towards
the close of his discourse which he had
heard—“ After a solemn pause, h«
thus addressed his numerous audi
ence ; I he attendant angel is just a*
bout to leave the threshold, and asetnd
t« heaven. Ai d shall he ascend, and
not bear with him the news of one sin
ner, among all this multitude reciai
m* d from the error of his ways ?—
“ To pive the prea’er effre.r to his vv
clamation, he stamped v jth his foot,
lilted up his hands and eyes to Heav
en, and with gushing tears, cried a
loud”—'* Stop Gabriel! stop, Gabri-I !
stop, ere you enter the sacn d portals,
anti yet carry with you the news of one
sinner converttd unto God”—*• He
then, in the most simple, hut energet
ic largu.ige, described whit he railed
a Saviour’s dying love to sinful mart ;
so thr*t almost the whole assembly
melted into* tears. This addrits was
accompanied with such animated, yet
n tural action, th.-t it surpass^ d any
thing I ever sawr or heard in any other
; preacher.”
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SOUTH AMERICA.
Tit to-day’s paper will be found some
news frrm this now interesting part of the
world. It is uuiorionate th t he jeal< us\
of Spain has eonee.d d from ns the n.oj-t
I interesting geographical tacts relative to
chose place* in winch the sp m of i--v'*1u.
lion and reformation prevails. Of Nnv
Grenada v.-e know little mure tlinn hi
name and intuition on the map of Air.eii*
«.a — with its population and resources we
are entirety unacquainted ; but compar
ing its Lxtcot with utiur neighbor!.t
countries ot which we have some infor
mation, it is probable the whole populati.
on docs not amount to more than 5 or 600,
0C0 »nuls, of which n* least one hall, if
not two.thirds, are negroes, people of col*
or, or Indians. It hounds, to the east- 1
ward, on tha provinces of the Caracces
which h«*ve declared themselves inde. i
peiult'ht, and a common cause will doubt. I
less he made in the struggle for liberty 1
It is likely we shall soon hear of the U
mted States of South America, combined:
vO resist the domination of Europe, as well i
is to repel attempts on them freedom by!
the tory r atrs of the new world In which I
Mexico seems disposed to take the lead.
Mexico, it is s:'id, contains more native
Spaniards than all the rest ot South A -
mrrica. and has also the highest popula*
lion of any of the provinces, being suppo
sed to have 3,000,000 Spaniards and their
descendants, and about 4,000,000 Indians.
Sec. Peru, in these respects, stands next
in rank — Emigrations from Spain having
chiefly been made [for many years pastj
to th se two vice.royal ties, probably on
account of their abounding with the pre
cious metals ; while the most fertile and
really valuable parts ot the continent, have
been greatly neglected by the mother
country, Darien, a province of Mexico
bounds on New Grenada to the west—-and
Qu to, the most northerly province of Pe.
ru, touches it on the south, so that it is
between two fires,” ai»d may become the
great seat oi war. Peru is supposed to
have a population of between 3 and 4 mil
lions, of whom more than one million are
nat ve Spaniards, or descendants of them.
Santa bee, said to be a very populous city
is the capital oF New Grenada, and was
the residence of the vice.roy. The pro.
virice is washed by the Atlantic and Pa
cific Oceans—Carthagena is its chitf
port cn the first, and Panama, a place ot
much trade, on the latter. It is reported
io nave many mines of silver and some
ot gold and emeralds—and it is happily
Miu-unom us sou, ciim.ucj productions
and situation to become one of the great
est commeicial places in the world^-hav
ing tree accc&s to ilie east and Western
hemispheres—the distance from Cartha
Keua, on the Atlamic, to Panama, on the:
l acific, is not more than forty iruics.
W e shall endeavor sp< eddy to obtain
tome lurther information as to these pro
vinces, tor the purpose ot laying it betoro
^>uf readei ssain the mean time let us say
01 the people of Grenada, and ail others
who seek independence, “God speed.” '
kalt, fc.v. Post.
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t7** From a series of Essays in the Nati
onal Intelligencer, under the signature
of “ Cornucopia,” we select the folirnv
ing, which completely elucidates the doc
trine of Blockades. The puhlic will, no
(lcui)t, be gratified to be thus made ac
quainted with the precise rules of the
Law of nations on that subject: —
[Argus.
From the National Intelligencer.
CORNUCOPIA.
In case the British should repeal
that series of restrictive anti-neutral
regulations, which are known by the
name of Orders in Council, it is still to
be doubted whether they will relin
quish the practice of paper blockades.
1 he latter are quite as grievous to
neutrals as the former; and, in truth,
the distinction between them is scarce
ly nominal, for a paper blockade is an
order in council. The mode of act
ing in each cus*- is the same ; the king
of i-.nglund, after advising with hi:,
pi ivy counsellors and obtaining their
consent, proclaims that such a port or
coast of the enemy is in a stale cl
blockade, cr that a n- utral ves-el, be
fore going to the enemy’s country,
shall call at a British port and pay a
tax; and this is what is called an Or
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UVI III tuuuuii %
It there 13 a naval force stationed
before a place thus blockaded, then the
order in council of blockade is lawful,
for in that case it is dc*nge;ous lor neu
tral vessels to enter: but tie force
must be stationary, and it must be
strong enough to hi -ck up the passage
to the port, or it will be unlawful.
Should ti.e block ding squadron go a*
w; y from b: fort the \ ort at any time,
• r not occupy » position in th * imme
diate vicinity ofi', the blockade would
cease for the wh le time the squadron
was absent. The mere issuing of an
order of blockade, or a proclamation
by an admiral or commodore that it
*x’>3's, is not a legal notification of it
to neutrals ; but tne neutral vessel
must I c actually warned of the block
ade by one ol the blockading squadron,
before she can he liable to capture. If,
after such actual warning, theneutta'
vessel attempts to tnttr ihe port, then
she is subject to capture s-mi condem
nation. And this is the law cd block
ades.
This law grows out of the very tra
j ture of neat; a’-h), whLh preset i e* au
* I •
exact impartial! v in thr nrunal nation
with respect to the belligerent powers.
When, therefore, or.e of these latter
stations a force belore a port belonging
to the enemy, with :.n intention to re
duce it by force or starvati n, and a
neutral vessel attempts to supply that
enemy with provisions, which would
enable him to hold out the longer, it
is an interference in the contest, the
vessel loses her neutral character, and
when taken is con idered as good
prize. Out whilst the neutral nation
observes a strict impartiality between
the powers at war, the law of ration*
guarantees to her the usual commerce
with each of the contending parties,
and this cannot be prevented without
an infraction of that law. The neutral
may fairly trade with either party at
any open port of their dominions
which has not a naval force stationed
before it; for it is the force and not
the declaration that constitutes the
blockade.
Formerly a blockade implied an in
vestment by land as well as by sea ;
and the difference between a siege and
a blockade shews the reason of it. A
siege is a continual and active endea
vor to get possession of a place ; a
blockade is an attempt to reduce it by
obstructing all supplies sent for its re
lief: in a siege, there is a positive tx-J-1
ertion of force upon those in the for- #
tress or town ; in a blockade, the f< ice
is chiefly employed in preventing the
approach and entrance of supplies fer
the garrison or inhabitants. T e
blockade, therefore, to be complete in
its effect, requires an entiie • invest
ment of the whole town or fortress
that is blockaded j for, how can a place
he compelled to submit through ia
mine, whilst there is any opening at
which to receive provisions and pre
vent starvation ? The modern prac
tice, however, intioduced by the pro
gress of commerce, does not enjoin a
complete investment ; but, simply, a
naval force so stationed before a place
as to make the entrance dangerous.
The law of nation* is clear upon tide
head. The two cases cited by Vattel
(hoik 3, ch. 7 $ 117,) include actual
force in a blockade j and not only fores
in general, but a particular force de
voted to the continued obstruction of
the entrance of the port blockaded.
That of king Di m rrius, (quote d from
Plutarch,) who “hungup the master
and pilot of a vessel carrying previous
to Athens,” expressly states that the
king had “almost reduced the city
by famine.” And when, “ in the long
and bloody war carried on by the Uni
ted Provinces against Spain, for the
recovery of their libertu s, they refu
sed the Englifh the liberty of carrying
goods to Dunkirk,” the Dutch fleet
lay before the place.
In the convention concluded be;,
tween Russia and Great Britain on the
21st of February, 1797, the following
provision was introduced ; “ That to
determine what characterises a block
aded port, this denomination shall be
given to such only as, when, by the
disposition ol the p aver who ait :;ks it,
with vessels at anchor or suflicieotly
near, there is a manifest dancer in tn
termg
On the 27th of October, 1803, the
g overnment ol the United States com*
plained to that of G, Ur it.' n »g;iinst a
paper-blockade of the islands of Mar
unique and Guadaloupc, anil the Hri
tish sovereign, considering the subject
of complaint as a “grievance,” com
manded orders to issue from the ad
miralty office, and they did issue, to
commodore Hood, “not to consider
any blockade of those islands as cxis
ing, unless in respect of particular
pons which may be actually invested,
and nen not to capture vessels bound
to si.cn ports unless they shad previ
ously have been warned not to enter
them,” and at the same time wore al
so sent “ the necessary dirre inns on
the subject to the judges of the vico
admiralty courts in the Wtj; Indies
and America.”
On the 12th of April, 1304, Mr.
Merrv announce <1 to Mr, Madison in
an official note, that the surge of Cur.
rnco.i had been convr wed into a block
ade ; .tnd then adds, “ I cannot doubt,
-dr, th it this blockade will be conduct
d conformably to the itiiirudiont
which, as I have had the honor to ac
quaint \ »>u in ..nothec letter of this date,
t..'Ve been recendy cut on this ftlibjiLC
t, tlu commander in chief ot h«s ran*