Norfolk gazette and publick ledger — Norfolk [Va.], 1810-09-05 00:00:00, page 1

WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1810.
VOL. VII.
|c2J» Tat? Park* »» p.ytt isviKn t«»Ik times
A WEE*, PJtlCK TO SUBSCRIBERS SIX DOU ABS
FKH ANNUM, PATABLE IM ADVAKCK—SINGLE
SHAPER TWELVE ABB ON K HALF CENTS—ADVER
TISEMENTS ARE INSERTED AT TUIT HATE OF
JIFjjft CENTS FOR THE FIRST, AND TWKN I'V
FIVE CENTS PER SQUARE FOR EACH SUCOKEDlSG
'INSERTION; THOSE EXCEEDING ONE SQUARE
TO BE CHARGED AS TWO.
ijia. _;»;■?-mjgTTLasi
For Freight or Charter,
The good Brig M 'C,
VW■jcsKJfeA('apt. Irrnold, burthen about 200 bhds.
Tobacco, now ready to receive a cargo. For terms
apply to
Robert Gibson.
August 31. tf
+s For Sale or Charter,
jThe line new Ship Calliope,
Robert Henderson, master, 210 tons.
Apply to
‘k\ . ■/* . MOSF.S MYF.RS & SON.
• / 300 barrels new FLOUR,
of superior quality, from Mayo Mill, Richmond.
tf
August 29.-$ _
m For Charter,
•'* The excellent SHIP
M A R Y A NN, *
Cspt. Russell, carried last spring from this port 363
hogsheads tobacco, will be ready to take on board a
cargo in a few days.
She han on board,
4000 bushels Cadiz SALT, *
Which will be sold very low if taken.^rom along
side.
Richard Blow.
August 27. vtf
For Liverpool,
The new and fast sailing SHIP
FINGAL,
Samut i Davis, master, copper fastened, and in eve
ry t* s>pict ,s “op'-rior ship, will sail with all possible
dispatch-—For freigh* cf 100 hogsheads tobacco, or
passage, having good accommodations, apply to
William Dickson.
•./•August 22. tf
‘ ' For * barter,
. . #>Thc fine bhip Thomyris,
F?^3Ki-210 tors ’-itrthfn, r-.n.A will carry about
SOObhds. tobacco. For terms apply to
Bowden & Milhado.
Who has f r Sale on board said Shift,
5,000 bushels Lisbon Salt.
August 20. , tf
For London, ^
The fast smli/tg Ship
ANACREON,
Henry Dickson, rooster, burthen about 400 hogs
heads of tobacco, to sail with all possible despatch,
three fourths of lier cargo bring already engaged.—
k or freight of the remainder or pnssrtge, apply to
William Dickson.
August 15. tf
For Freight or Charter,
Til?, brio
RELIEF,
John Pray, master, burthen about 1300 barrels—
Apply to .
S. Marks, Jun.
August 10.
tf
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER,
The stanch good ShipFame
George FUzhugh, master,
Burthen about 430 hogsheads, and now ready for the
reception of a cargo. For terms apply to
Jennings & Roddey.
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August 6;
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Shoes and Dry Goods.
Just received by the Subscriber,
45trunks of SHOES, comprising a
J > large and general assortment of pR kinds ami
colours of best Morocco and Kid, with and with
" out heels,' „ - •.
A few pieces good Irish Linens, cheap,
Black Bnmbazene, White Sarcenetts
Plain trod figured Leno Muslin, black Cambrick,
Black Handkerchiefs, Men’s St Ladies Beaver Gloves
A few groce beat twilled Tapes, kc.
4. Likewise, r
A. large assortment of Hair Trunks
' Also, on Consignment,
,.l box English Flint Tumblers, Decanters & Wines,
9 boxes elegant China, of fashionable shape,
10 do. Playing Cards.
' "* For Saks by. '. L4 <
. ..iD, M. Curtis.,,i
m
r-Angttst 17.
, 20,000 bushels coarse SALT,
’’ For Sale ty .
N. Heron.
■ • • >‘-s. .-,v . #' ■ r
August 90/
tf
• .tlWl
, A FLO4T, .
JOO hbls.Superfine FLQIII$, ground
from new wheat,. ,.
, - iiO’doi’ inSwre fit for family’s use, v’V■’»
. * *" ‘1 j . '■ * ■ Also,
i t ' 10 tierce* Coffee, and 20 barrels Loaf Sugar,
> Nbncs Si ^owiandf’^' %
, - - srj&n .,*£ -!:GoBtjbeiirotoStr«ei Wharf:
August 17. - K • ■ . , • , ■
r^4 - ?J5*£ -\l'ivi vVvi >'V *-j{*.
V-•>*.; *
—A? .. .... .
FOR SALE,
On board the Schooner Mary /fnne,
2500 bushels Turk’s Island SALT.
Apply to
James Herron.
August 31. 3 , <
FOR SALE,
17 full blooded Merino Sheep,
(Rams and^wes) just imported from Lisbon, they
will be warranted to be of the genuine breed.
James & John Dunlop.
Petersburg, August 31. 3ur
Trt NOTICE.
11E term of the Copartnership of NIEMEYER
^AND VON KAPFF, terminates this day by its own
limitation ; all those indebted to the said firm are
requested to make pa) ment, and all those having
claims against the same will please present them for
payment to the Subscriber, who is duly authorised
to settle all the concerns of the said firm.
John C. Niemcyerl
tCjT“ Who, from and after this date, will as for
merly, transact business on his own account*
August 31. tf
Two or Three LADS,
Of respectable connections, will be taken Appren
tices to the Printing Business at the Ledger Office.
August 31.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
DESERTED from this garrison on the night of
the 26th inst. JOHN TF.TEK1NGTON, pri
vate in Capt. Massia’s company rifle regiment,aged
25 years, 5 feet 8 inches high, dark hair, grey eyes,
ruddy complexion, born in Eupland, by occupation
a hatter,—J A Vi ES J. FOWLER, of the same com
pany, aged 26 years, 5 feet 10 3-4 inches high, black
hair, black eyes, dark complexion, born in the
state of New-York, also by occupation a hatter._
Whoever will deliver the said deserters to me in this'
garrison, or to the commanding oflirer of any post
»r garrison in the United States, shall receive the
above reward, or Ten Dollars for either, and all
reasonable expenses.
Edward Dillard,
Captain 5th Infantry Commanding.
Fort Norfo’k, August 29, 1310. 3w
Virginia, to wit.
At a Chancery District Cuurt, held at the City qf
IViUiunuburg, the 14,7i day of July, 1810,
Jusiah Cole, I'laiuttff,
» Against
Richard Bowden, Richard Drummond, and Moses
Myers, partners, acting under the firm of Richard
Bowden and company, and John Abbott,
Defendants,
ON the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, the
court doth order, that the defendants Richard
Bowden and company, do render an account of their
transactions relative to the schooner Dorchester,
stated in the bill to have been in partnership between
them and the defendant Abbott and the plaintiff, be
fore Master Commissioner Cnwper, who is directed
to examine, state, and settle the same, and to make
report thereof to the court, with any matters speci
ally stated thought pertinent by himself or required
by the parties. In taking which account the said
defendants Richard Bowden and company, are direc
ted to exhibit on oath to the said commissioner the
books and papers containing all the transactions re
lative to the said schooner ; and the defendant John
Abbott, not having entered his appearance, and giv
en security according to the acts of assembly and the
rules of this court, and it Appearing to the satis
faction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of
this country, on the motion of the plaintiff by his
counsel it is ordered, that the said defendant do ap
pear here on the first day of the next term, and an
swer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this
order be forthwith inserted in one of the Norfolk
Newspapers for two months successively, and post
ed at the front door of the former Capitol in this city.
A Copy,
aug.39 Anthony Robinson, C. C.
WANTED
To Hire immediately, either by the Month or Tear,
A PERSON who can Cooki Wash,
and Iron, for a small family—she must be recom
menced for her honesty and sobriety ; very liberal
wages will be given—a person from the country
would be preferred. Apply at the Ledger Office
for information.
August 27. tf
|C7" NOTICE.. f ■
A Petition will be presented to the
next General Assembly, to open Granby-street to
Main-street.
August 27. tma
LANDING ~~~
On Conmeree-Street Wharf, received by the Sch'r
Sutannah, from Havanna, .. v
A choice parcel Muscovado and Box
V- SUGARS,
> For Sale. •' • '•
■ *•' . Moses ‘Myers. Sc Son. ;
August 24. ' tf ' r r
CCf* All persons having claims a>
gainst the Subscriber, are requested to make appli
cation to his brother Max. Herbert, who is autbe
rited to adjust end pay tbo same.
■ '' James Herbert,,f
July 11. < ^ «w ■
i*' 4.ii
: ■ > Antigua HtnA.
Landing Thl - flay the Schooner Rising Son’s CAR
OUi fr«Ci Antgoa. For Suit by , - "1 .
■ Jennings kRodicy.
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From the New-Fork Evening Post.
Torpedoet.—-A correspondent Isas favoured us
: with some documents relative to those' potent in
struments railed Torpedoes, which are, at some con
venient time, to demolish the British navy. Our
; wise men at Washington, last winter, when they
, had done every thing that men rouid do, to defend
the nation, and to rescue their constituents from
danger and disgrace ; spent a little tints on torpe
does. And that they might pot be thought want
mg in giving encouragement to the useful arts, pas
sed a law, granting a sum of money to Hr. Fulton
! to enable him to bring his torpedo system to perfec
| lion. '•*'
| We ought to have stated, that the reason
of our taking up this suMime subject, was the ap
pearance of the following remarks in the Politick
Advertiser of the 1 Uh inst.—This induced our cor
respondent to send us the documents, which we
shall introduce directly, aud this has induced us to
make these remarks and observations ; which we
hope will he of great use to all those who will take
the trouble to read them.
from the Publkk Advertiser.
“ In some of the federal prints#, the following as
set tion has been made, and we presume-propagatcd
ior the purpose of injuring the rhararter of Mr.
button, whose known attachment to Republican prin
ciples, and sincerr love of his country, has no doubt
dictated the malicious and groundless insinuations of
the federalists. They say that the British govern
ment granted the sum ol 10,000/. for the discovery
of the torpedoes, and afterwards 15,000/. together
; 111,111 dollars tor supplying the British shipping
with the means of counteracting their destructive
eflects. These facts they pretend to gather from
the assertion of lord Stanhope in the Britisvjiarlia
inent, of the 6th of June last. LordS. (says the
the English Reporter) moved for a teturn of “ all
the ships of the line and other ships of war which
have been supplied with means of counteracting
destruction by sub-marine bombs, clock work ma
chines, or triger torpedoes.” He said in experi
ments in England on the subject, 10,000/. bad been ■
supplied Mr. Fullon, and 15,000/. were granted as
a reward. His preferatory remarks appeared to be
ironical. The mutton was negatived." After;
reading this, it would certainly appear to every one
hut a fool or knave, that as lord Stanhope spoke
the above in an ironical manner, he had particular
allusion to bis confidence of their efficacy, and by *
his departure from the strict rule of faithful relation
in what be said he intended in bis irony, to con
demn the British ministry in promoting the means
of destroying their power on the ocean. The mem
bers of parliament, it appears, felt the force of his
s.uraslical remarks, and the mover having gained
bis point so far, appeared peliectly satisfied with
the derision of the members. It will also be re
membered that lord Stanhope is accounted one of
the most witty men in Englaud, and iu teal wit su
penour to Canning.”
YVe know not what “ federal print” it is that has
stated that the British government hud granted the
sain of 10,000/. to Mr. Fullon ; we know we have
stated no such thing.—But as the editor of the
Public Advertiser is an experienced gentleman, who
cannot propogate a falsehood, we have no doubt
but some •* federal print has so asserted. YVe are
therefore constrained to say that said “ federal
print” laboured under a mistake. The following is
the sum actually received by Mr. Fulton. * -
Extract from La Livre Rouge by P. F. M'Cul
him, esq. printed in London 1810.
Papers laid before the House Commons.—Robert
Fulton in full satisfaction of all claims. Sign
mauual 9th Sept. lSOfii, £\653 18 8.
Cutter and Co. for clock work furnished Mr. Fulton.
Sign otanuel 9th September 1806. 1533 13 7
<3187 12 3
. -. t or 11,167 deHart.
Tliw it will appear that the federal print quoted
by the profound editor of the Public Advertiser,
was wrong ; led into an error, we presume, by the
e.rtrabr dinary wit of lord Stanhope. But it appeals j
that the British government paid Mr. Fulton and
his workmen more money than was granted to him
from our very liberal congress. What can he the
reason of this? Aie we not aa liberal aa the British?
Oh tbe ingratitude of Republican governments! But,
perhaps the British government ought to pay more
than our go\ernment, as they were to have the ex
clusive ri^ht to the discovery; which we do nnl find
promised to our wise men. And perhaps Mr. t-ul*
ton was willing to sell (or less to an American se- j
nat», on account of hit “ pure republican princt*
pies and sincere love of the country."
We shall now introduce the papers sent ns by oar
correspondent. - . -.V. . : • •_ '•
From the KactU Ckrmicle, (Enghtk Paper.) ;
Dovsu, Dec. 13, 1803.
Mr. Editor, \ v„ ;* H
You have doubtless, like the rest of the publick,
heard of a certain naval invention or improvement
which was vulgarly and erroneously nicknamed,
cattamarant: hut the following information may
not perhaps have .reached you, end you may also'
deem it worthy of a place in yonr useful and inte
resting miscellany ; particularly as my object it
to rnvrd the detection of foreign quackery, prae>.
Used at the exprnca of John Bull. .About three
year* ago, a man of grave and myiterion* ent>;
rUge of body, made hia eppeaiaOce In * certain
class of fashtnnubl* society' to London, under
the name of Fntncta. It era* ahortly wtqperv*.
about that ho was'a Yaxkry American, of sum*'
consequence, whose teal name w%» fwttcm, expatri
ated tor reasons of state. Hews* doubtless to nM
teHtgeqt aad ingfoioas man, which racoameoded
#:■
him to the notice ol' severs! scientific persons in t
metropolis, under whose patronage he wtsencoui™
ged to lay certain projects before ..this govern,
nieut; amongst the rest was a snbmaymt bomb
which he palmed apnn bis official patrons as ms
original invention of his own, to hetransferred ex
clusively to the use and behoof of the English na*
tion. Trials were ordered to be made, AtnlSr tb#
dirertion of admiral (then commodore) Sir Sidney'
Smith for the destruction of a stout brig anchored^
in the Downs off Watmer Castle, neat SiirSidneyM
ship the Antelope; and of captain sir John Php*
ham, for the demolition of Fort Rouge at the en»
trance of Calais harbour. Tbe&nrmer ejtpemiienf
was most successfully performed by lieut. Wi|k#n|
Robinson of the royal marine artillery, the Wii
most punctually vanishing from the eyes of the
astonished beholders,, amongst whom was the fate
Mr. Pitt himself. The latter was conducted by
Mr. Bartholomew, master’s mate of sir Hom«S
Popham’s slip; hot owing to some nab ticaT ob
stacles, did not afford the same satisfactory demph^
stration as the Waimer experiment. But now
rdmes the result. Mr. Fa.tscis, alias F tit-row.
received a very liberal gratuity and toft himself
off. (His name appears in toms of the paper# of
the public expenditure printed by the boose of comt*
mons last session.) . lie wot hardly gone, tthen S$ \
via» discovered he had been a hawking hit secret.
at .Paris ; and he was hardly arrived in America
before he publicly invited Citizen Jefferson and Civ
to make use of his invention and his arm against
this country; affixing his name to inflammatory
paragraphs to that effect. ■
Meanwhile the wTiter nf this article (who alwavi
gave the gentlemen credit fora tolerable share X
impudence mixed with Ids ingenuity, hut had no
conceptions of so barefaced an imposture) .tyjtg
accidently stumbled Upon an old American workirj^ 1
printed in London, which rontains the history of
this intention, and proves It to be at leatt ten years
old, and attributes if to a Mr. BushneTl. So ihqt/
unless Mr. F. can make oat a right to that uame by
an additional alias, he is liable to the imputation of
^having obtained oar money upon false pretences.
,,, Yoors, dtc.v, Vote a*. *. -
EXTRACT.
Historical, &c. Vine of American
by IV. IVintcrbotham. 4" volt
8vo. Lon
r, dm, 1795. ■ .</ ..
“ INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENT*. { 1
ij “ Ear!) in the war Mr. David Bushnell. of Sijr«,
brook, invented a machine for submarine navigaU
on, altogether different from any thing hitherto de«
vised by the art of man; this machine wat con*
strutted, as that it rould be rowed horizontally at '
any given depth under water, and coufd be raised or *>
depressed at pleasure. To this machine ^ailed%it
American Turtle, Was attached a magazine of mw» -
der, which was intended to be fastened under thr '
bottom of a ship, with a driving screw, in such m’<'
way, as that the same stroke which disengaged fl«
from the machine, should put their internal clock*
work in motion; this being done, the ordinary ope»
ration of a gunlock at the distance of half *n knur;:
or any determinate time, would cause the powder t«* V
explode, and leave the effects to the common law of
nature. The simplicity, yet combination,discover* ,,
cd in the mechanism of this wonderful marhio% t*
have been acknowledged by1 those skilled,in physic#-*. *
and particularly hydraulics, to be not less ingery*
ous than novel. Mr. Bushnetl invented several
ther curious machines for the annoyance of the BtK
| tish shipping, but from accident, not militating **
gainst the philosophical principles, on which their
Sureess depended, they hot par tially succeeded ; hr*
destroyed a vessel in (he charge of commodore Symi ‘
monds ; one of his “ kegs" also demolished a Vessel
on the Long Island shore ; about Christmas, )7#t, , ■
he committed to the Delaware river a - ’ number- ’tf’
kegs, destined to fall among the British fleet at Phi
ladelphia ; hut this.squadron of begs had been - tfcMr '
parated and retarded by the ice, demolished but*:
single boat. This catastrophe, however prodgewd
an alarm, unprecedented in its nature and degree, ;
which has been happily described by the late Fran* *
cis Hopkinson, in a song, entitled,« The Eatth W
the Ktgs.”
5;* "V'- -'sale, ■ v x&si
At the Buke-Htmtee of the SAmnkv% Wi. W .<
50,000 weight Navy BREA0;^>Mf
1 *W»q do#:-Superfine P*k* do. , t% ;-i
. «* kegs Crackerw • '
. .. n AUoti fgk '
Superfine Pilot Bread, from new Fknif^
%'i
STEPHEN HARRIS. ,>
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August J.
igua Rum, Molassct* &c. *
25 punch, choice Antigua
10 hogshead, Molasses,' '
j, **>4'80barrel*Moscetaft
- 50 bag. Coffee, •
5000 bnsbeU SMAm art MO bwh.Urerpaol Salt/
SO barrels Southfield Pork, ' K i f'il-Ti
, Tar, Pitch, and Rosin. ‘ .
And, daihf exfiected,
1000 barrels superfine FLOUR, f
-VuyWhiAVf.'Por Sale by
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A COTTON.
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100 casks ftoh KICErf
£' fs ife. is
jeeRtofrl
; , M bate. pffandCOTTQM. “
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