Norfolk gazette and publick ledger — Norfolk [Va.], 1810-02-05 00:00:00, page 2

ter Hirtr*, that Mii
Htedlb* limits of
read m ike 8nM(>
* ,>K»**Yq** papmwl Monday the 2<)th ultimo,
Ii*»'e'been,tec*ive<i by Captain {{lock, w ho arrived
tbu nwt|«iai<.—Cjpt. B. left Out place on Friday
ifrlta,' but brmi^ji no paper* later than Monday ; b«
the British Packet bod not arrived.
JUtlraa of a letter fr m Ucurt. Shy heck and Sona,
• dated Uamhtrgk, Xoiember \7.
a Bificaftta publication <>f the dccrer, very rfiVud
ta\ t® this pltre, and to ail business in general, it
iainipoafi' l* U» quote any and Whatever pi u*«. All
and sale* remain ttopt »h..rt, and absolute,
^'ly at • stand. Produce ha* no kind ot fixed prue,
•®d no estimation of tbvi.i maybe made; for no
perso® will l.uya pmmd weight of coffee, sugar 01
fiber produce, nntil we may see other effects «n.i
5 funic qriences of the decree, or some way s and meant
.Ajgtrnming rmmd with it,
lwWTifne Only will apprise os whether Hie Utter
wit!he the ease. Until then it is to no effert that
fcpMere of coffee and shgars »itfer coffee at 15 ,t Al
*P^ **w* w^t* Ii*vann« sugars ai 20, utTonniu
nr Maryland tobacco at 6 at Altona.
•; ** ^No person wtfl buy a pound weight ol any pra
fae# at tins lime, and that it cun he of no interest
tosend a price current which eould not l« given
with the faintest degree of rerta.niy ; the moment
Communicated for tie Argue,
HORRID MURDER ! J
On Thursday the iatl» J n. l-#t, a most horrid
Murder *tai rodiWU'ii in Knit* & Q«-»n r*..imy
■»£ "Of nub ol the- i onrr nnu»v-, by John R-* .|)r,
Jr. *t his own house, hy < Httin|; ti • 'throat m hm
ntfl<»rni *t|«, Mf*. Agora It. Itouar, in ibe moat
•H*ug in-*fiiitr. I n* i.ht-i,- ■» unending this
•trr.rM.HH act, Iron lb*- dht inl«rn»*uoii that t.,n
b* hrid jrv thmrj lli# mAfninp *.ff!.*< same day thul
(•he murder ««• MinmnW, Jt*r,oR.>.ii<. nppe ,r d to
b* umiaiultv land *>1 tn» *,t , ( i. *i *,o» ,»^bL „„t
•iwp-i'i t bHv.) odd rtMn t*r Hkfcat rort- to uJ8 court
iJhhim* *nd ukeri Mi. itiwtiin, «n »uuiro.'y rt law ti
A tiwipliiM, I# pMiti- hi* * ill. Mr. Hoornm
asked him why he thought oi muktiig u will, that
b* t»4» ** y«unn niwi aii y*t, *nd healthy withal) ;
mad Uirn’ijut u » .» tun- enough to think of that.
However Mr. Hoorn#* gratified iiiai urn I o ade inn
will, lie (flurried home about two o'clock aid
then lniru-.flutely rxecuted his horrid intention.—
There was uo other white person at the house; the
•efyant* were ah.rmed **ixt ran to the overseer's
jtotjse, which was some distance from the dwtlimp
boose, aud begged the overseer to go to iht house
•U,soon oa possis.le, for tbeir master hud killed their
mistress. The oeerseer was afraid to go, but i,n
©wdinteijr sent to ike court house for the gentlemen
of that plies to eofoe over to Roune’s as quhk a
fl'r h* *“* killed his wjie. Wliep they nr
ft^ed there, Mrs. 'Roane lay in a gore of blood with
bet .throat cut, andh* the said Roane, lay within a
wpr feet of her apparently dead also: but they soon
discovered lilsia lHoi and found he bud made too
,-the ardent uftrr committing the art, and
^Mlly, drank. He was taken care of that
_ or fear tin might destroy himself; and do
ridff.tht ttijtht ho frequently would nsk (or his dear
Agtie*. .One ol the gentlemen told him she whs in
•hothsr room quite composed—He answered she
was dead -and that he did it.
prxt djty an infant wet held over the (feed
body. nind'it *«« judged that he John Re.we, was
JT. «*• •w<«'d«i»gly c«« ied u. jail. 11
* na* be*n> x ne c ted hy ItoarwYfrn mte ter several yr„rs,
«‘»<r,d)r himself, Item hi» conduct end
>**# rxpicatmns he mwi*. to that effect. but he bad
*»* *h* rntohitbn, and it 4a thought that be retort
•d to tbit Mirage act, that he might be compelled
lj,J»»!»***»lridn. ** he knew the cons quen
&t»l, *JV tmfnilun tie Mri. Agnes
^***Hht> r of William Fr.<a>r. deccae
VtNieiTn<hmnt}, and grand daughiet ni
"jj^> Pjy^y**** **l ***4 yminty, whose p.tlrio
■^pHitf^iCMHhnt he reacted in the American
«MT a* aw-nik-er, are »ell recolkrted. She was a]
J^C^Wf^tUrphter of co|. Franc, West
1|>fligi »Jao tendered many services ns
b*. lire. She was e
' 5:* h*1 dispositioh and pru
J aftreealdc, good humourtd and Idas
in that she posses
toat can render the 'female a
MHPW' bkfHed. only two,,months and
• Mike day «h» wa* murdered, and Las left
VjmHjs*rgi sister ami a numerous train
erqusiutaiifes to regret her lost,
•as^ hroujihi before an examining
»oi) an enquiv
,jdle«%ed against him., A\
■"*! to jail he hadde
••»*" hie blaodv clothes
bd»t» threoort with hit ackjmwiedg
* ■#» « i
k* thf awnioghts wif. was
■ZZZ^±^£rJ%a3J''J*Jy*4}*** ^ «r«®»
MMm Out ttrODg klaiwt hvn ; before the
chltri had gotten hel/ ibrmigh txsmming all the
fe»ilw«»ea, healrt«m^ib,tlts»is needle,. t« pro.
re thatrwyrt, and a Hrgr
evdi wswMgad’hitoaeW .ail
w*tmdi.U.GW>
»tb ttmpm.
«M »t 0* paper. Sww&.Miy nffnsr renders
i H * *p»rM*«^rndiir|W»n/ Mill it may not he
uinttrmtiflf m «tprulatii* «)mmi American af
Letter f rom General Champagnp to kh excellency/ tie
* Count of ——, on repeal tog I ho act oj Embargo
ip the Connects *f the United Stale*.
Your excellency ask* my opinion on the milhtg
of the embargo, that has existed more than a year
past in the United Stair*. I answer, and do not
hesitate to lay, that this measure is a master piece ;
it is one of tbe mast dexterous combinations that
ever came out of the Hi itish cabiuet. It wifi be ea
sy lor me to demonstrate to your excellency. Tbe
shutting of the Sound and of Trieste, becoming eve
ry day more inevitable, the English merchants
were about to find themselves deprived of all rom
numeration with the continent, tuto diluent orht
Britaimn*. 1 he vast prohibitory system, so wise
ly conceived by the genius that governs Frame,
was about to receive its entire execution. Over
stocked With the merchandize ol the two Indies,
without any possible vent, their manufactures dr*,
rarded from the immense continent (of America,) as
well as ours, England was really going to receive
the price of her insatiable avarice, and to sink ufi
der the weight of her usurped liches. What was
necessary to save her from this crisis, to aid her le
transport to every point of the globe, where her
own Hag could not go, the enormous quantities of
merchandise of every kind heaped upon the banks
of the I limnes ? 1 he succour of a people essentially
adventurers, active, ambitious, possessing an iin
mense mercantile marine, navigating at a smell
expense, knowing ho>.» to penetrate any where, not
; ■bunking from any danger to satisfy aw equal thirst
of gold. This succour she has just obtained, by tiie
raising of the Ameiican embargo. The last letters
from America assert, that ibis measure wascariied
almost by open force by the federal parly, that is to
say the Englu/i paitp. It is well known that two
thirds at hast of tha American commerce is carri
ed on with Engl sh capital and for English ac
count ; hence ii results, that the vast extent which
this self-called Amerirau commerce is going to
take, usual definitely turn to the advantage of the
English commerce, which was on the brink of des
tl n l;on. Who thm can be the dupe of that impar
tiality congress afiects to observe in ih.suct } The
sm llest shop hoy of L-iiidon would nut suffer him
St i' to he ihus imposed upon.
1 ”« is madp of I*ranee and Eng
l.iiMi, that out- and the other frspert their flag, ami
It.^V t.iranten to shut toeir ports to either that
Should violate their neutrality, amt even Inch el ire
war; above.til, n» I'r rue i» about to lose the
htM of her possessions in the West-Indies, the A
ilini. an people well know that there was nothing to
tear from ier, an.I that, in keeping at a distant-?
f. *"ti our roasts in Europe, we cannot touch their
\ess l», whereas Kn„knd, mistress of the neigii
hourug srisi'f tin United States, ran strike a sen
sible blow when she pleases. It was then necessa
ry to appear neutral, to find menus of satisfying
Kngl irid, without appearing to submit to her tyran
nical pretensions ; and here is what has been tho’t
of, and already pot in practice, according to
the most auih- ntii k information just received.—
On the sailing of the packet-boat, the Mentor,
ui N< w \ ork, mote than 100 vessels were loading,
or had sit,led, for Holland, where they well knew
they would u it be received, and where they hid no
tirirn ioM of going ; already several have arrived in
England, in defiance ol the law of congress, ano
notwithstanding the bond and security given, not
to approach the Eo^l.sh roast. I'hey get themselves
taken by the first English vessehhey meet with, prove
afterwards that the property is Engljsb, are rcleas
id, and, with a good process verbal of the captain,
they avoid the penally incurred. They pay in Eng
land the duty li ved hy the orders in council, and go
where the) please. But this particular simulation
does not suffice for all the combinations of com
merce in general, they have found other means ot
1 giving it the greats? poswnle latitude. The Ame
rican vessels go, .aid there are many on their way to
| Madeira, which is to he considered as neutral, am;
which will become a vast depot ; there they land
their produce, the English will bring them theirs,
and they will barter with each other the merchan
dize of the two worlds. It will he the same at St.
ttarllioloinew s, and in nil the islands which call
themselves neuter. The English manufactures will
he accompanied with Swedish or German certifi
cates of origin, and will enter, without difficulty,
on the continent of America. From these different
places of deposit ihe Americans will inundate Worth
and Sooth America with English productions; they
will come and fill all tiie ports of Europe, where
tli y aie allowed to enter, and there will be a com
plete English monopoly re-estanlished with the pro
ple, by whi< h they will ba enabled tn fare the ex
penses during a century to come of a war which she
alone maintains, and which she baa an much inte
rest to prolong, without the raising the embargo.—
liuw M>uld England have made tn subsist, for any
time all b»r cofomes and conquests? How rotild the
Spanish colonies prolong tbeir disobedience to the
laws of their sovereign? H«w could the nnfortu
nate island of St. Domingo maintain itself against
the fury of parties which tears it to pieces ? How
in fiar without the numberless succours, of every
kind, which are going to be carried to them, could
the revolting provinces in the South of Spain resist
so long the forces employed to} reduce them ? Thus
t'r. on whatever aide you view the question of rais
ing ihe embargo, it is one of the greatest victories
that Eng?*nifever gained for her commerce, one of
the most fatal measures to the system adopted by
U e moderator of tha Continent of Europe, which
was no the point »C,receiving the fruits of so many
privations ami sacrifices, and which perhaps is go
ing tn be lost forever. -A*
To console ue for this destructive resolution, the
Uaittd States are good enough to permit the impor
tatmu of some wines and brandies- \4fbnt a com
pensation ! Now, it will toko tweuty cargoes yS
those articles to pay-for uoyofcolonial produce, and
■II the gold of Krone# will toon ran away ^ tor
rents, as it did «u< long since, wfen tbs Americans
eatdetntu.w ports by hundreds * Besides who
:’4&r***
m&Ljifeigtih* brandies of
IWIE egriruhure, wtiirfe. is msk
(rtf* us from*
„ . ? Colour itoj luifs».
•mh the Levant furmshus with eu.mg\ and take m
nrlimgc ti
■firb prochM'fiunt of our mssuftrlsm?
Sugars and i
W* 5 where ran they get it for them
Sri res, if not from the possessions of Esgland or of
her conquests t Will they have the efiruntery to
Bring us the produce of our nw n rolonies, now be
come they prey ofowr enemies? This would be too
much !—What cure we lor rhose costly suprrlwties,
the consumption ol which is of soinuih injury tu
our owo soil ? If our epicures CHnnot do without,
our privateers will not let them WHOt.
Many inote reflections, sir, might have been ad
ded to what I l av» just said, hut let us confine our
selves to this. The Americans, lotaatrd by tl at
Hrmlrali, will do us still greater injury,-with regard
to the expodation of our grain.—They can carry
theirs inut h cheper to all the people that consume
ours : and being at equal price, and even higher,
Will always be prefer led by the English. They will
bring it to Spain and Portugal, and deprive us of
the last vent that still remained to our southern de
partments.—All that has been said until nuw, re
lates not only to France, but to the countries sub
ject to her influence or under her dominion, and
Irmn which may be drawn this exact and melan
choly consequence ; that ail maritime commerce or
colonial, admitted *>r tolerated on the comment of
Europe, will always turn tu the advantage of the
English people, and will furnish them with ti e
means of prolonging tbe war : that the Americans
about to brrniue tile most powerful auxiliaries to
fkit commerce, and that the veil ondrt whuh they
pretent tu disguise it, will give a n> w energy : That
it is the greatest interest of France ant! uf htr attitt,
to defeat, BY ALL POSSIBLE MEANS, that odious
connivance between the p-ople wno call themselves
our friends, and the eternal enemies ol our repose
and ol our prosperity. D r’
1 was oo the point of forwarding my Mter wh?n
I learned from a good source, that all is now finally
arranged between England and the Umied States,
and according to news ..ftbeSjfth April, to reel pro
ral satisfaction. This op-n ..n<J frank step of m
Umtrd States is at least more oeccnt than that at
first adopted. Tlie.V have agieed olb the English
not to rome to Franrr, Holland or Italy ; and to
take from the fault (admire the precaution),’ A new
order of council, o( the 29th April last, de< U»es
those roaulriesina rigorous state of blockade! All
the ports of th^ United Slates open, as formerly, to
the English commerce.—This is excellent L II re
mains to he known whether these happy combina
tions anil not he rendered useless by him who so
well knows how to have Iris orders executed. Will
he sutler all the countries about France to he inun
dated with English goods, which could fradulenlly
he introduced into his empire ! Whether the frw>
lursol Germany or Switzerland will not be as ri
gnrously shut as those of Holland—whether any of
our allies will not join in the total exclusion of a flag
which has become to suspicious—whether preraL
tions will not he doubled, and carried to the great*
est pitch of severity—whether we must not learn,
drtinilively to do without some fartinnus engage
ments, and thereby prevent one or two miliums
more men from perishing as victims to English mo
nopoly and American cupidity i
UMAKK9.
I give the above letter as it came, end fer myself
believe it genome ; that is, I believeit to be writteu
by a Frenchman of rank in Buon .parte’s court. It
seems to he the third in the senes of which I pub
'isht.-d the two hr$f, last summer ; translated here
from the origin,il French, pot into my hands, in a
w.iy, and coming irum a source, that convinced nte
tl was no forgery. There it a man of tome eminence
in I At state of AVw York, who knout, 1 believe, that
thej/ are nojorgeriet. Mote I cannot s .y at pre
**,u* Ed. E. Post.
AN ACT
TO SUPPlltiSS DUELLING.
[Passed by the Legislature or Virginia, January
26'th, 18 JO.]
W11EREAS experience has evinced, that the ex
isting remedy for the suppression of the barbarous
custom of duelling is inadequate to the purpose, and
[ toe progress and consequences of that evil have be
come so destructive as to require an effort on the
part ol the Legislature to arrest u vice the result of
ignorance and barbarism, justified neither by the
precepts of inoiality nor by the dictates of tcason
—lor remedy whereof,
uc u enact ea by the General Assembly, That nny
person who (hull hereafter wilfully anu maliciously,
or by previous agieement 6ghl a duel or single con
bat with any engine, instrument or weapon, the
probable consequence of which might be the death
of either party, and in so doing shall kill his anta
gonist, or any other person or persons, or inflict
such wound as that the person injured shall'die
thereof withiu three months theieaiter, such offen
der, his aiders, abettors and counsellors being there
of duly convicted, shall be guilty of murder and
suffer death by being hanged by the neck ; any law,
custom or usage of this common wealth to the con
trary notwithstanding.
And bt it further enacted, That if any person
whatsoever, shall challenge another to fight a duel
with any weapon or in any manner whatsoever, the
probable issue of which may or might result in
the death of the challenger or challenged, or if any
person shall accept a challenge or fight a duel with
any weapon, or in any way whatsoever, the proba
ble issue of which may or might terminate 10 the
death of the challenger challenged, such person
shall be incapable of holding or being elected toauv
post of profit, trust or emolument, civil or military
under tha government of this commonwealth.
And be it f urther enacted, That from and after
the passing of this act, every person who shall be
appointed to any olfice or place, clvi^ or military,
under tbs commonwealth, shall in addition to ths
>wtli now prescribed by law, take tbe following
ogth : ) do solemnly swear, or affirm, (as ths case
tduy be,) thatl have not been engaged in a duel, by
sending or accepting a challenge to fight a duel, or
in any other manner, ip violation of tbs act, entitled
an get to suppress duelling, Mature the passage
that act,) nor will i .be so concerned directly of J
dirtily, w duriogwy continuance «r<
“ .TUiiaaux
imMmmmmSr..
'sragaBS^&s,
to suppress dy.lltog—«|,o to charge j:f,v. tu
prcwBV .11 person* concerned *
or nr citing. rW^j*! if mtiy
I t presented in sofh courts, the said court* slmil, if
tl«y have juriedietwp b£*did offsoees, prorted
trim! of, the same la tbs wdiosry way, md if ootjfr
tb»t the presentment shall be eithercartified by or*
der of ibeetiun, to such court a* has jurisdiction,
or shall be considered in law a sufficient authority
f»r a magistrate to issue his warrant against the ac
I'llftoH. ivhnr* un a«a.niaL.
I used, where «n rx-uiuning court is ngAgiury.
Amd br it fmrther^ rnacted, That wl?fifi any judge
or magistrate of this commonwealth, has good
cause to suspect any person ar persons a$ about to
he enagsged in a duel, be may issue bis warrant**
hung the parties before bith; and if he shall think
proper to lake of them a recognisance to keep tha
peace, he shall insert in the condition, that thd
party or parties shall not during the time for which
they were buund, directly or indirectly be eunri
ern
ed in a dud, either with the person suspAd
or
any other person, within the time limited^* ibo
rrropnizaiire.
And bt it further enacted, That if any person or
sons Shall, lor the purpose of eluding the operation
ot thf provisions of this law, leave the state, tha
person or persons so offending, shall be deemed as
guilty, and be subject to the like penalties as if tha
offence had I een committed within this common
wealth. If any person shall leave this state WRb
the intention of gjving or receiving a challenge to
tight a duel, or of aiding or abetting,* in giving or
reviving su< h challenge, i.nd a duel shall actually
b,- i.'Uihi, Where! y the death of any person shaft
I happen, and the person so leaving the state, shall
I remnn thereout, so as to prevent "his apprehension
. f .r the purpose of a trml ; „r if „ny ,)er$„0 4hiU
figot a due! in this s.ate, or aid or abet tlicrein.
whereby any person shall le killed, «nd then tie* in,
to -n ther state to avoid bis irtal, in either case it
shall he the duty of the ex rutive, sod they aru
hereby directed to adopt and pursue all legal steps
to cause any such offender to be apprehended and
' r'Ught to trial, in the county where the offence
was committed, when the dut'l shall have been
fought within the state—and when it shall have
t.e-n fought without the state, then in that county
where, in the opinion of the executive, the evidetire
•iga nst the offender fun be best obtained and pro*
■lured upon his trial.
He it jurthet enacted, That it shall h* the rfnty nt
the altorni-s of the commonwealth fur the county
courts to give information to the execute, whena
ver a case shall arise in their cmmtkt respectively,,
which will render the interposition,,* the executive
authority under this act, necessary. And the said
anomies, either at the first quarterly court of tbeir
respective counties after the commencement of this
act, or at the time of their arreplance of their offi-,
ces, where they shall hereafter be appointed, shall
t 'ke h- following oaths-1 ,j„ solemnly sw., r, or
aftir.n, (as the case may he) that I will to the best
of my judgment execute the duty imposed on mn
by the act lor suppressing duelling—So Lein m»
God. .
/Ini h it further enacted, That all words, which
from their usual construction and common accepts
tion, are considered as insults, and lead to rtolencn
ant breach of the peace, shall hereafter be *c-'
lionahle, and no plea, exception or demurrer
shall be sustained in any Court within this Com
monwealth, to preclude a jury from passing
thereon, who are hereby declared to be the sola
judges of the damages sustained. Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall he construed to de
prive the several courts of this commonwealth
irom granting new trials as heretofore.
This Act shall be in force fioni the first' day of
April next. * '
Trout the London Remitter, November ig.
Buonaparte still remains concealed within tb#
awful nimbus of majesty at Fonumhlau. This se
clusion has revived the reports of hit mental de^
tangement; and persons arriving • from the French -
roasts, are mentioned by daily prims, us corrobo
rating the account of his dange-ou* indisposition.—* ‘
Lven a regency is already spoken of, at lire head of
which Joseph Buonaparte is to he placed ; and thu
tyrint is become raving mad at last ! J. Surh are
I the sapient observations of the publi-lt prints; and
| such are the chimeras to which they give rirruNti
may ue u,aispo»e«J .11 very tnurh *.
hausted fr,,in the fatigues nl thclatecamp* gn, H is *
very natural to imagine; but bad he been n ih* tint*
Tie is represented ; and the circumstance should re
m«in unknown to ours, and the other governments
in K a rope, it would he one nl the moat Ougrant
proofs of the inrompetency and inutility of our fo
reign depanmeut, that could be produced. Buon
aparte, whose least movement strikes a terror in
his puny roinpetitors ; whose npd seems to regu
late tl.e u* slimes qf Europe, has been insane for
these three months ; and our government should
he totally ignorant of the existence of his disease!
Indifferent as our opinion is of the intellects, or ti
tflance, or activity of that body ; we do not enter
tain so very contemptible an opinion of them, at
to think them guilty of such grosa negligence.
For our part, we invariably discredited the report
of his madness ; and we certainly do not believe *
now. It is most astonishing, that count Budna,
or the prince of Lichtenstein, should uot have re*
marked some extraordinary pranks of tome alarm*
ing vagaries of his, during the conferences they ->
were admitted to »\ Schocnhruuu.—Or, is there
method in his madness i Oh! our sapient editors f
T hey want a little nl the brains they have deprived
him of. Is it at the same time, probable that *ha
king of Saxony should be invited to leave bis mpi,
tal, in order to visit the Cursicun at Font sin biruit
if there were any foundation for this absurd tale!
Or, should the other kings and princes of the c.m*
federucy receive a similar invitation t the story-is of •.
so miserable a texture, that it is not conceivable*
baw men, pretending to sense,should fora mutuant
believe it. •
. BwnfPwWr every tyrant and usurper, with*
dra ws bimselt mors anymore from pahlick isVn and
riinosrty. Majesty mast be sttrroondrd with a '
cloud, lest ths ini|kding eye of the vulgar. nfighf? ■'
discover a wreU h* helpless. .®!Crriortal-, liHe
thereat of men. We Hava reason to suspect tfitt- -
tamaccouoi, to .^hoeahrupu, *Ulrb roox^ ^
nattering proof pf |bf ac tion 0; Ur# P<>ri«u»i» bf -.
pmoa *r ■_ «?ptre. Qur reader main too* '