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MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER, 17. *81.0
VOL. VII.
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^3" This Paper is PirsLisau'i) thiskr times
A WEEK, PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS SIX DOT.LARS
JKK ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE—SINGLE,
PAPER TWELVE AND ONE HALF CENTS — ADVER
,4
TISEMENTS ARE INSERT RU AT THE RATE OF
»1»TT CENTS FOR THE FIRST, AND TWENTY
PIVE CENTS PER SqUAREF'OR EACH SUCCEEDING
INSERTION.; THOSE K.XCF.ED1NG ONE S.QUAUE
TO-BE.CHARGED AS TWO.
I ^'<>r Freight, ar Charter,*
JxnP&k&l 'I he fxsl sailing mppej-cri.
Ship WOODROP SIMS,
Captain Hajpes, can be ready to receive a cargo in
one week. A
For Haig cm board *aid Shift, her CJjRG C ef
Lisbon Salt, and 30 Merino Sheep.
For tero»s apply to the Captain, or
Shanks & Bin ford.
. U~ho have for Sale,
Flour, Tobacco, Pork, Tin Plates, Sheet Iron, 5tc.
• Seutember 14. " tf
or Charter,
For
Freight
Thu stunrh n-w
fv\
Ship ROBtNSONOVA,
Jahn Adorns, master, in every respect a superior
ship, wilt carry about 380 hogsheads tobacco, and
now ready for the reception of a cargo. For terms
apply, to
pfennings & Roddcy.
1 Who ‘Hart fW*Sale on Board ttaid Shift,
1000 bbis. first qual. dipt Turpentine.
September 10. tf
For Charter,
The Ship UN ION,
M’Kuwn, burthen ‘2ft) hhds
She can he ready fcr the reception of a Cargo iu ten
day s> ^ -
■•/■§&■•> Warren Ashley.
For Sale on board the xatr! Shift,
100 gross of Empty Bottles,
50 ton Scotch Coal, and a few pieces of twilled
Sacking and Cotton Bagging.
September 5.tf
For Freight or Charter,
The good Brig MAC,
*Capt. teniuhi, burthen about 200 bhds.
Tobacco, now ready to receive a cargo. For terms
apply to
Robert Gibson.
August 31._tf
For Sale or Charter,
Jp$^>The fine new Ship Calliope
?«d\obti t Henderson, master, 240 tons.
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Apply to I
MOSES MYERS A SON.
'300 barrels new FLOUR.
•f superior quality, from Mayo Mill, Richmond.
August 28. ; tf
For Charter,
The excellent SHIP
MARY ANN,
Capt. Russell, carried last spring from this port 3G3
hogsheads tobacco, will be ready to take on board a
cargo in a fair days.
'*■¥ She Aa« on board,
- * 4000 bushels Cadiz SALT,
Which wilt bn sokl eery lour if taken from along
aide.
Richard Blow.
August 27. _ tf
For Liverpool,
The new and fast sailing SHIP
FINGAL,
Samuel Davis, master, copper fastened, and in eve
ry respect a superior ship, will sail with all possible
dispatch—For freight of 100 hogsheads tobacco, or
passage'haring good accommodations, apply to
- ... William Dickson,
.August 32, , , tf
ror Charter,
>The fine Ship Thomyris,
_T a,240 tons hurileo, -iiJ will curry about
3©0hhds. tobacco. For terms apply to
- 4 Bowden Sc Milhado.
■ ''Who has for Sale on board said S/iifi,
5,006 bushels Lisbon Salt.,
Avgust 29. _ If
For London, ,
The fast siting Ship
m .. A N4C REG N, *
. Henry Dickson, master, burthen about 400 l»o:cs
fcesds of tobacco, to sail with all possible despatch,
three fourths of her cargo being already engaged.—
For freight of Jfyt remainder or passage, apply to
v V . Wilibitn Dickson.
AogBtf t>. ■■ • ■' tf
FOR FREIGHT GR CHARTER,
>The stanch good Ship Fame
- George Fiiz/iugbi master,
Burthen about 430 hogsheads, and now ready for the
yeceptkti of a cargo. lw terms Apply to
Irish LinensJ
JV;;c
The Sabterifen have just opened d fSt ’Boxes of
' $r4£7-g, and 4-F Irish Linen, p
Which they offer for Sale-by the piece, at very low
price*. . J is..W-~
»RichankSc John jay lor.
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Landing this day,
Choice Butter, put up in small kegs
for family use—50 boxes Soap.
And in Store,
00 barrel* Beef, No. 1 and 2, Boston Inspection, t ;
3 bales India Cottons . —Fcr Sale by
Ham & Shannon,
<" No. 44, Wide Water-Slreet.
September 14. 3
RACES.
Norfolk and Portsmouth Jockey- Club
Races,
Will commence on Wednesday the Seventh day of
November next.
First Day.
The Jockey Club Purse Of 400 dollars, four mile
beats.
Second Day.
A Ladies Purse of 100 dollars, one mile hents, the
beat three in five—entrance 20 dollars, with catch
Third Dny.
The Proprietor's I’urse of 200 dollars, two mile
bents, weights agreeable to the rules of the course.
N. B. The ground is in fine order ; good stables,
straw, &c. found near the race ground gratis, ami
those gentlemen owners of race hmsas with their atr
tendants, will pass the bridges free of toll.
The Treasurer.
September 14. tdr
& NOTICE.
A Petition will be presented to the
next General Assemble to widen Concord-Street
twenty feet to Granby-Stroet, with the least possible
injury to individuals and expense to the corporation.
September ui. tnm
150 Gross BOTTLER
100 Tons GOALS,
For Sale on beard the Ship Columbia.
Robert Maitland.
September 12. ' tf
Merino Sheep.
Tmfiorted in the Shift Woec/ro/i Sims, ThomtZs
h.'ayitct, matter, Jr uni l.izbon.
1.0 Merino RAMS and 51 EWES,
warranted of the true Merino breed, of the Cabana
called PauUrs, equal^tf not superior to any other
Merino Sheep in bpain, being part of the Socks of
the Prince of Peace, Don Manuel De Godov ; the
breed of which was purchased by him of tire Carthu
sian Friars in the year 1796, and remained in his
possession upwards of fourteen years without any
admixture of blood ; certificates of pedigree nt<v he
seen on application.—If not sold previous to WED
NliSD.W the 2d of October next, they will on that
day be exposed to publick sale on a credit of 2 and 4
months for approved endorsed paper.
Moses Myers & Son.
September 7. tf
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iVoit! landing on Murray’s IChaf front the Schooner
Caroline, from the City of St. lhminfto.
Prime Green Coffee in bags and bbls.
do. Spanish Tobacco,
Large si*e Mahogany Logs, Lignuravits, and
Hog Skins. For Sale by
Peter Desnoe,
No. 13, Campbell’s Wharf.
Sept. 12. tf
190 bbls. Columbian Mills FLOUR,
of very superior quality,
400 barrels Corn,
250 do. New-York prime Pork,
50 do. Mess lieef,
50 bales Up'and Cotton, superior quality,
170 ton Swedish Bar Iron, assorted,
100 barrel* Tar, 10,000 wt. Green Coffee,
James River Tobacco, &c. See.
For Sale by
C. & F. Whittle.
September 12. 4w
'*> XO'CICB.
Owners and Occupiers of Houses and
Lots on Main-street, from old Bank-street to Mr.
YV. Herron** western boundary on the said street,
wiii please take notice that in ten days from this date,
they will be called on for an advance of one dollar
per foot for every foot of ground they hold on said
street for paving the same.
Sam 1 Moseley, Col.
Sept. 6. 5
• ,No :FOtK BohOUGH, ' ‘ . ”,
■dt a Quarterly Section Court» held the 27th day yf
August, 1810.
Hezekiah Ketchnm, , CoropTt Y
> Jn Chancery.
AgairtHt
Charles Grice and Warren Ashley, (
t Defendants..
)TT'HB Defendant Charles Grice not having enter
X ccJ his appearance, and given security accord
ing to the act of assembly and the rqley of this court;
andjt appearing to the satisfaction of the court that
he fs not an inhabitant of this commonwealth : on
the motion of the complainant ay his counsel, it is
ordered thqt the said defonduQt Charles Grice do.
appear here on the fourth Monday in November
next, and iuanyir the bill of the complainant,and
that a copy of this order he forthwith inserted in one
of the ne. w spape rs, printed in this Borough iotf eight
weeks lUceessivrfy, and posted at the front door of
the Court-House of this Boronghsand it is further
ordered, th*t the defendant VVayrfen Ashley Who
hath effects of the said Charles Grice in hi* hands,
do not pay , cofrvey away, or secret such effect*} bttf
retain them tfU the further order of this court.
A Copy. « Teste, .;C:[
tii S g*o. w. Quup, a e c/
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LAIV INTELLIGENCE,
Court or King’* Bench.—July 20.
The Kins vs. Join Gale June*,
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As the opening counsel was about to state the case,
Mr Garrmv said, that Mr. Jones, as he understood,
had no counsel. Upon this a gentleman lately called
to the bar, a Mr. Jones, rose, am! signified that he
was the counsel tor the defendant.
Mr. Abbott having stated the pleadings,
The Attorney-General rose. This w«s an action
on an indictment for certain libellous publications,‘
tending to defame the right hon. lord Viscount Cas
tltre.tgh, l.ituly one of hi* majesty’s principal secre
t .ries of stale. Jt would be the province of the ju
i ry to consider, first, whether the defendant was the
author; and secondly, whether the publications were
libellous. Mr. Jones was the manager of a debating
club, called the British Forum ; of that club he (the
attorney general) would at present say nothing far
ther than might be immediately connected with the
present subject. Previously to the scvetal nights of
debate, papers containing the topics to be discussed
there, were posted up in the different public places;
and it was against the statements and expressions of
those papers that a ver dict was now sought from the
jury. The first to whirli he would direct their at
tention was one headed with the words :
“ British Forum, 33, Fed ford-street, Coxiet\t
“ Garjden, Monday, Jun. *9, 1810.
11 Mr- Pinneri-y and Lord Gustlcrragh,
“ Question—Whether is lord Castlereagh'* or
dyr, for the seizure of Mr. Finnerty, on the expedi
tion to Walcheren, to be considered as the result of
a wise md salutary caution, tor the discipline and or
der of his majesty’s forces, or a flagrant violation of
the privileges of a British subject, and a cowardly
attack on the character of an innocent individu
al ?”
This referred to a preceding libel in the Morning
Chronicle, of the 23d January J810.- written by Mr.
Finnerty. That person was prosecuted for the libel,
rind had withdrawn his plea and confessed judgment
in the cause. It happened that when the expedition
was going to Walcheren, information was received
by government that Mr. Finnerty was about going
with it. This was thought inexpedient, and orders
were sent down to stop him. The orders arrived
too late, for Mr. Finnerty had sailed and reached
Walcheren. On lord Castlereagh’s going to Deal,
he heard of the order for the first time, and then
sent a repetition of the order to lord Chatham, to
have Mr.Finnerty sent home. He wa3 however suf
fered to remain for a considerable time in the island.
In the publication in the Morning Chronicle, he im
puted his arrest to lord Castlereagh,as the sole work
of that noble person, on the two motives, of hiding
the details of the expedition from the public, and
wishiug to disgrace and stain an innocent individual.
He was, to use his own words, ronvinced tlmt lord
Castlereagh hated him, and he was thankful for it.
because nothing but a most extraordinary vank of
virtue could be a balance against the good opinion of
such a man as lord Castlereagh. He father imput
ed this hatred to the injuries which his lordthip was
conscious of having done to him, as printer of the
paper called The 1'ress in Ireland. And to w hat
was this hatred originally owing ? To the exposure
Mr. Fiunerty had made of the conduct of the gov
ernment in Ireland in the matter of Orr, who was
recommended to mercy by the jury and the judge,
lord Yelverton, and yet put to death, or in other
words, murdered, by the councils of lord Castlereagh
and the other members of the government. The
fact was, that Orr was executed fur attempting to
seduce, or actually seducing, two soldiers from their
allegiance, and administering the United Irishman'*
oath to them. ... ,,»■
ror this vindication ot innocence, Mr. r innerty al
ledged that he was thrown into prison, saddled with
bail to the amount of 2U001. before he could get out
again ; and all this done by his ancient enemy,, lord
Castlereagh. Yet it would surprize the jury to hear
that the condemnation of Orr took place when his
lordship did not hold the office of secretary of state
in Ireland ; lord Pelham was secretary at the time,
and the case of Orr was not determined on till after
the most serious and solemn deliberations in the pri*
vy council. Let then the jury see the power which
Mr. Gale Jones and his mock tribunal assume : they
actually put lord Castlereagh upon his trial, to an
swer every vague and wanton charge that may be
brought up from any period, and peremptorily order
him him to appear before them. [Here the attorney
general read some extracts from the placard of the
z9th January, calling on the gencte Lord Castlereagh
to attend, if he da re, to face independent Englishmen,
plead his < a use, or submit to infamy.} Gentlemen,
said the attorney-general,the indictment for his trial
is found In the pages of the Morning Chronicle. The
trial is held at Nisi Prius at the. British Forum, and
with Mr. Gale Jones on the bench, and a jury com
posed of every man who is satisfied to give a shilling
for his seat, lord Castlereagh is summoned by the
bill-sticker, to take his trial for high crimes and mis
demeanours.
The next plarard announced a continuation of the
debale, and among other insolent statements, assert
ed to the public that the conduct; hich lord Castle
reagh was proved to have used n the case of Orr,
was only deserving of universal abhorrence; thus
marking him as the destroyer of an innocent man—
u murderer! f t '
A third placard was then published, proclaiming
detention of Mr. Pinnertv, and animadverting on the
nuligaant efforts of those who tore, down th« pla
cards, and disturbed their meetings at thh Forum.
Those papers were punted up wherever they might
meet the public eye t the Pawn and character oflsird
Ca-tk reagh were defused, and it rested with Urn
jury to pronounce whether the defendant was not
guilty of the libel, as it rested with the court to pri).
nounee the punishment to which that guilt ought
■object him. The defendant had intimated' to the
solicitor for the prseeeutkm an intention of calling
iprd Castlereagh j he (the attorney-general) could
not conceive fop what pm
wspthst was intended,
-but his lordship was in »•'
t? **«««*»
thegll.
C defendant submitted
Jones, co
that nothing,feu* the letter, of Mf. Einnwfy
to ought to have beta set forth in tlir imlktwven^j ,fj
Lord EHetiborougli »4d, this objection w.as:, ,
mature. It could not be urgedat -A**? friui. ' lififc'
tv.'.* an nljjectrofi „t aft,- it w„* on the record. >'
Mr. Leonard, from the privy council, proved that
on the 26th of January, 1809, »M pre virtue thhr&ig'
lord Castlereagh had been opr of the principal see{*?f
tanes of state. ;■« • ;■'
John Dean, printer, stated, thtt he }rkV hem
ployed in the line of his business by Mr. (male fone-sr’
for neaHv twelve months. Mr. Jones sept to the
uess the copy, from which he was,fc> print, Tjhp.thviih
band-bills in question'bcir.g shewn to him, and aim?
the manuscripts from whence thev were printed, tief
stated that they were printed by the yHtitiSi for the *
defendant, that the manuscript of each waS #
defendant’s hand writing, stl, except'tfr#
“ British Pomm,” and the date, witch were ?ltow£<f*
to stand from the former advertisements street wf
the necessary alterations. There were printed of tins
first and lust of these placard?, 40Q, a,cd of the inters
mediate one five hundred. J :
The publication o£; Mr. Finnerty's letter itt. Thi
Chr.mii )e of the 23d «*f January last, was proved, ^
John Jones, a bill-sucier, proved that he hAdlv.'%
stuck up, ami otherwise distributed the placard .W-o
the British Forum, ..nil th-i he was fetid for his la
four by the present defend ,nt* ,
i bb nuorm-y-general havipg closed Wacifttov«&
Mr. Jones addressed the jury on the nurt of
if j '— r"r ■•*** rw,*i wpjh pr (ini
./I
pfrnrlnn't. That th. 1.. l-' V
defendant. 1tot the jure might not entertain amr
. .. J"'/ '"'KOt not ent
idea thut he frit n ”
idea that he felt a particular affection V was othdr- J’
wise interested in any uncommon degree for the$eLf
fendaut, he thought it but proper tostate, that life
net stand to warm tile defendant in the reiaHdwSfit^
brother or of any other near connection. The;g& v
fendaut belonged to Middleae-x, he (the learned coed.*
sc! was a native of Carmarthenshire, in Wales.—
Hie defendant, however, he knew to be a n»«» nf>’!
virtue, and every roan of that description he should ,
always be pi-.u<1 to reckon as fin brother. It wi
only last night that the defendant had come td fc
and requested him to undertake his defence to 1
He felt extremely embarrasied bow to procfeelm
1 he defenditnt he knew to be a man of extiaordinltr
ry abilities in the public line in which he acted, and t
he knew him also to be adorned with every donee* .
tic and private virtue, though not posseetodeffoSil *
tude enough to withstand the attacks of the design.
In8; Itut!U’,,h7ef'1Ve’ with extreme relucU^*'
thst with bis slender abilities, and still more sMiWp?
practice, he undertook the defenre of such HtnVn’ '
When the defendant ceiled on the learned counsel h£ .
informed him that he had been advised to withdibr *
his plea. The learned counsel asked the defeodirtit ^
if he hit conscious of guilt. He told him he did net.
and the learned counsel advised him, .that with suc&J*
a feeling it would be improper in him to plyad gqilii?!
ty. II there was any errotir in this, he hoped if
nmm V .""V* * 1^‘ly ougfit, to hi^f .qj
not to his client, t he British Forum was a place
where subjects were to be discussed, notone whferti
errour or improper conduct was attributed to tmr y
roan without a fair discussion, how far
attributed with justice. Lord CastlereaMlilB^S
fore, in having his conduct subjected u» examination
or discussion at the British Forum, was not morn *'
exjiosed to censure than he might have beta cn™tl3^ ,
to praise and approbation. It was not any thing iS'
*h„B “‘^^asUereagh, which, in the lanT,
guage oi the advertisement, was said to have occadL„ 2
0 . fa^on$unent and alarm it we( the state?*
mentof Mr. Hunerty, which was clearly meant to
«^KfeiUn«* *■"•*•** that #i» j
debate at the British Forum was something like a <
trial ot lord Castlrreagh. To this he confd not aT
free ; it was, indeed, a trial of skill in argument;* ,
and at such schools, he could shew, if ' hiwe'ssiJW -
th.,t some of the first men of the age had rece®
the rudiments of that etfelttlnn which had conduct. %
ed them to their future greatness. If there had
an attorney.general appointed to prosecute, and V?
person also n,med to conduct the defence. «ba#
^ 8aHJ *° he a trial, but here there wak tm^ ,
such thing. It was t,lno complained that the people’ t
were lo-re said to have been outraged and ■?
Lord Caatlercegh, it w*s to be observed, was not thw ,
Rios' h’rtanato man in the world ns to pa'; |c CDiui.0, '
h.l^'e‘c',:laht h^thren owisi<* s»r
his hotum at one shilling a piece, a practise whirff
the attorney general seemed not to think strictly hfe. -
norable, some report as to the selling of sent* of * i
different desertntinn. Karlunrnt.».,w .»A. ?
° . , mu to nuve ireir teehn
outraged and insulted, he presumed to think, coo
not be supposed carrying the matter too Atinv
time the defendants issued the placards m MtstiM
. -- . --"O "• * I'* '.writj W __
ivjurr wuhir the four
of lus small room io Newgate. CaetteAbm*
had resigned his seat na cabinet minister- and 'tki'S
unfortunate defendant had been obligedto’rwSplfii
unf< rtunate defendant had ,>kn_j . ’_;? .Tr
command as head ot the debate. atthe’ RritishFo?1
rum. Would-it not.- therefor*, i..
rum. would it not, therefore, in
oes, have been more tnagnanliru in in fowl
reagh to have overlooked the present nhackTS'
not to have offered the kick of an twinged ttTp :
gainst the bead of an expiring Jinn * The-1#0 &&A*
ues, Mr. Fmnerty and lord CasUerevgh,seemedt*
Have old quarrels to adjust. Why clid thdypot go u» i
their own country tauettle them/oiy w^dld Ihewi
nif S*» not enedi^BfclbUt ’as friend., In Watcher*
ert, where, like D«B®ui»oW and SapcV Panel®,'
Swcaild, instead Sf windmills, hiv.1..^^
ter plague, pestilence, and faminaiThn na*
tore of libels had bpea v*ry di&remly eopcehed *t
dinVrent times j and in many ioptar.ce. the darkness
of the libel, and thfe difficulty of discovering tha ana i:
Wri W*s esteemed to be the aggravated part at da ‘
offence. Here, however, there was frothing dark er
difficult to find out. As to the British ffhnrat, the at.
turner general had not treated it with tmbecoutfaW *
sey ritv, «fcd therefore he should say nothing'ahottf -
It. 1 admire dyMingdub*, gentlemen, for const*.
Bitbnsl knowledge. remember one day, when f
Was at Kiel,Jn U* nofth «f Owrtnaay, .tndyihgla
there* that i>liv*r.5u leek- iklotn hn
to ask me, what 1 thought it was that nude ”
to: fi ee* while all other —-15- - —*
Ware.11 aiiawered—the
* you-m wrong » k b fcr^at '&
• ps*te, yaur <bV^gJWeieHwe.a *- ~ ~ ,a
*h*t every o(i*e hf»^ mike J~
' Uwusrli Ament iir Mb own*
mm edtha Mttfoam akp1
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