The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-11-04 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM...(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 53.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1806.
[VOLUME 3.]
VIRGINIA BANK STOCK...at par.
Richmond Prices Current.
   Dolls. Cts.     Tobacco, 5 75   Wheat, New, 1   Flour—superfine, New, 6   Rye, 5 50   Corn Meal—per bushel, 1   Bacon—per lb. 12   Bar Iron—per ton, 120   Whiskey—per gallon, 58  
FALL GOODS.
THE Subscribers respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they are receiving from London, Liverpool, and different ports of Holland & France, an extensive and very general assortment of MERCHANDIZE, adapted to the approaching season, which they will sell by the bale, package or piece on the lowest terms for cash, country produce or approved notes.
Those goods being carefully selected by one of the partners who went to Europe for the purpose, they have been chosen with a view to general satisfaction; and that country merchants and others will find it their interest to get their supply from them.
They have for rent, three BRICK HOUSES covered with slate, lying on the street leading to Mayo's Bridge, opposite Messrs. Brown, Rives, & Co. Those Houses will be fitted up, at the shortest notice, for stores, if required.
JOHN & ROBERT GAMBLE, Jr.
Robert Gamble, senior, continues to do business in the line of a commission merchant. September 16. oaw2m.
United States Court, fifth circuit, and Virginia District May term 1806.
Patrick Corran, Plaintiff. Samuel Perkins executor of the last will of Martha Corran deceased. John Shore and James S. Gilliam, and Edwin Daingerfield, Bartholomew Daingerfield, Theodoric Bland Daingerfield, Henry Daingerfield, Samuel Mosely & Hannah B. Mosely, Edwin Starke, Daingerfield Starke, Bolling Starke, Robert Starke, Nancy Starke, William Newium and Mary his wife, William Allen, John Edloe and Nancy his wife, Miles Selden jr. and Mary his wife, William Allen Harrison and Carter Harrison jr. infant children of Carter Harrison and his late wife Polly, heirs at law of Martha Corran deceased, and Peter Robinson. Defendants.
IT appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that Bartholomew Daingerfield & Henry Daingerfield are not inhabitants of this District, on the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney—it is ordered, that the defendants do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the plaintiff's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers published in the City of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Capitol in the said City.
A Copy. Teste. WILLIAM MARSHALL, C. L. C. September 9. eo2m.
IN CHANCERY.
Louisa County, August Court, 1806. Richard Johnson administrator of Richard Johnson (M. S.) dec'd. John Cocks and John Michie, Defendants.
THE defendant John Cocks, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this State; therefore on the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney—it is ordered and decreed by the court, that the said defendant Cocks do appear here on the second Monday in November next, and answer the plaintiff's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the public newspapers printed in the City of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of the Court-House of this County, on some Court day.
A Copy. Teste. JOHN POINDEXTER, C. L. C. September 9. eo2m.
DOCTOR WILSON
HAS just received at his shop, opposite the stores of Messrs. John and Robert Gamble, and Mr. Neil McCoull; a general assortment of MEDICINES. He offers them for sale, on lower terms than they can be procured at any other house in Richmond. He has on hand, a variety of Paints, Varnishes and Oils. Also, Spirits of Turpentine, and Turpentine Varnish by the barrel, at unusually low prices. Sept. 12. (entf.)
NOTICE.
THAT a Petition will be presented to the Legislature of Virginia at the ensuing Session, to incorporate a company for improving the navigation of James River, from Williams to tide water, on the Cuckoofield shore. October 11. oaw4w.
TAKEN up and committed to Jail on the 10th of May 1806, a negro man by the name of HARVEY, the property of John Royster, Esq. of Richmond; the owner is hereby requested to come forward and pay charges, or he will be sold to satisfy his jail fees, agreeably to an act of Assembly. Given under my hand this 20th day July 1806. TRIPLETT T. ESTES, jailor. Sept. 16. 3m. Augusta County.
TO BE RENTED.
THE large THREE STORY HOUSE on the Main-Street east of the Market, formerly occupied by Cohen and Isaac, and lately by Capt. John S. Pleasants; it is a good stand for business and suitable for the accommodation of a large family. Also, the HOUSE (formerly known by the sign of the Old Market) at the corner of the street leading to church hill; to both of these tenements gardens are attached. The terms will be moderate, and made known on application to James Whitelaw, sergeant of the City, or to JACOB I. COHEN. (law tf)
February 25. 5,000 wt. SALT PETER'D BACON, 1,200 wt. first quality N. ENGLAND CHEESE, 10 gross BOTTLED CYDER, A few bushels CLOVER SEED, 150 pieces PAPER HANGINGS. For Sale by EDWARD MALLAM.
Constantly for Hire—An Excellent Carriage and Horse—apply as above. May 27. eof
WALKERTON, September 24. tf.
EDUCATION.
THE Subscriber, making his sincere acknowledgements to those gentlemen who have manifested their confidence in him as a teacher of youth, proposes to continue his School, at the same place, the ensuing year.
In this Seminary, youth will be instructed in Reading, Writing and Arithmetic; the English Grammar and the principles of Language; Geography and the use of the Globes; Practical Mathematics, and the Elements of Natural Philosophy.
That the business of the School may progress with more ease to himself, and advantage to his pupils, the subscriber will not admit more than 16, should he teach alone; or 22, if he should have an assistant.
The price of board and tuition, (each boarder furnishing his own bed) will be £28 for boys under fifteen years of age; and £30 for those who exceed that age; thirty Dollars of the price to be paid in advance, and the balance at the expiration of the term, which will commence about the 20th of January, and end about the 10th of December following.
ANDREW BROADHURST. Caroline, Oct. 28. oaw4m.
JUST RECEIVED.
A FRESH Assortment of Claret Wines, Champagne, Moufoux by the box, Burgundy, Sautern, Vin de Graves, Lafitte, Muscat of Frontignac, Wine Bitters—and also, a fresh supply of Olives, Capers, Anchovies, Cayenne Pepper, Mustard, Prunes, Raisins by the box, Almonds and Filberts. All kind of West-India Sweetmeats; all kind of Confectionery—and different articles of Perfumery—For Sale by ALEXANDER PLAINVILLE. Richmond, Oct. 17. (2aw6m)
MARSHAL'S SALES.
TO BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, under a decree of the Court of the United States for the Fifth Circuit in the Virginia District, between Phineas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plaintiff, and David Rofs and others, defendants, in order to raise the sum of twelve thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars thirty-three cents, due and payable on the first day of July last, and funding charges and expenses of sale—That valuable and well known estate in the county of Botetourt, called FORT LEWIS, dated by the said Rofs to contain 2608 acres.
The sale will take place on the premises on the 14th day of November next.
Also, under the same decree and on the same terms, will be sold at the Oxford Iron Works, in the county of Campbell, on the 18th of the same month, a number of VALUABLE SLAVES.
BENJAMIN MOSBY, D. M. for JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. Oct. 7, 1806. tds
At the request of Mr. Rofs, the sale of the Land above-mentioned, called Fort Lewis, is postponed until the 29th day of next month, when it will take place at the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond; and the sale of the Negroes, is postponed until the 6th day of December next, on which day it will take place at the Eagle Tavern aforesaid. BENJAMIN MOSBY, D. M. for JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. Oct. 16. tds
NOTICE.
THE partnership of FISHER & LESUEUR was dissolved on the first instant; all those having claims against said firm, will call on James Fisher for payment, and all those indebted, will please to make immediate payment to the same, he alone being authorized to grant discharges. JAMES FISHER. JOHN L. LESUEUR.
N. B. The business will be continued at the same place by JAMES FISHER, for his own account; he is receiving from New-York and Philadelphia, the following goods: which he will sell on the lowest terms to his old customers, or on the usual credit. Brown sugar of a superior quality, do. do. second do. Green coffee in bags and barrels, Salt loose and in sacks, Molasses and Treacle, Pickled & smoked Salmon, Scotch and Pearl Barley, Madeira, Port, Sherry & Malaga Wines, Fresh Muscateil Raisins, and Currants, Copras, Allum, Brimstone and Madder in small kegs, Salt Petre, English Gunpowder, Patent Shot, Hibert's Porter & Brown Stout, Segars in small boxes, of a superior quality, Bar Iron, Bistered and Craley Steel, A constant supply of Loaf Sugar by the Hoghead or Barrel at the Philadelphia prices. October 3. eptm.
 Soft shell Almonds,  Holland Gin in pipes,  Pepper, Pimento, Race Ginger, nutmegs, mace, Cloves and Cinnamon,  Fresh London Mustard in small boxes,  Bea Botant Indigo and fig Blue of a superior quality in small boxes of twenty pounds each,  Fresh Capers & Olives,  A few small Boxes of Old Hyson of a superior quality,  Fresh Gunpowder Tea in canisters, do. by the lb.  Small Boxes of Imperial & Young Hyson do.  Complete Sets of Tea and Table China, China Cups and Saucers by the set,  New-York Soap & Candles,  Bullock's Cheese, 
A constant supply of Loaf Sugar by the Hoghead or Barrel at the Philadelphia prices. October 3. eptm.
DANCING SCHOOL.
MR. LA TASTE informs the public, that his Dancing School is now opened, in Mr. Harris's Brick House, nearly opposite the Post-Office. He will teach every Wednesday and Saturday from the hours of 9 to 12 in the forenoon; also from 6 until 9 in the evening, for the accommodation of those gentlemen engaged in the day. His terms may be known by applying at his dwelling-house on the Hill, or at the Office of the Enquirer. Oct. 24. 4m
JAMES STRATTEN,
Taylor and Habit Maker, from PHILADELPHIA. BESSE leave to inform the gentlemen and ladies of Richmond and the country, that he intends carrying on the above business in all its various branches; being well acquainted with the newest fashions, he hopes from punctuality and assiduity to business, to deserve a little of their patronage, as nothing shall be wanting on his part to render satisfaction to customers; and for his neat workmanship, he pledges himself to have it done in the neatest manner. JAMES STRATTEN, N. B. His residence is on the Main-Street Richmond, next door to David Logans. Oct. 17. 2awtf.
A GREAT Bargain offered in 735 acres of
LAND, lying in King & Queen county, one or two half miles from York River, and bounded by Poquoson Creek, the Lands of captain William Shackelford and Zachariah Shackelford. This land is level, fertile and well timbered, with tolerable good buildings and excellent water. The abundance of fish and oysters at the very spot, may also be mentioned as a great inducement to any person wishing to purchase. This Land may be had low for cash, or good bonds at short payment. For further particulars apply to John H. Smith, or to the subscriber. JOHN TEMPLE. WALKERTON, September 24. tf.
FOR SALE.
IN virtue of a deed in trust, to me executed, by Captain Foulke G. Tibb, for purposes therein mentioned; the whole of the property specified in said trust deed, consisting of a very valuable tract of LAND, several valuable Slaves, Household & Kitchen furniture, and Stock of various kinds.
The Land lies in Essex county on Rappahannock river, ten miles below Tappahannock; very convenient to the best of oysters, oysters and crabs, contains 233 3/4 acres, level and well adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn and small grain. There is on it a dwelling house in good repair, as also other convenient houses for a small family, valuable young orchards of peach and apple of choice fruits, belonging to the above tract; there is as much marsh as will afford hay in the greatest abundance, for one hundred and fifty head of cattle; the land is well watered and remarkably healthy. The sale will take place on the premises, on the 24th day of October next, and the terms fully made known on that day; a part of the purchase money for each article will be required in hand, by CHARLES BROWNE, Trustee. Essex, August 8. tf.
TO RENT.
THE TENEMENT, which Mrs. Phebe lately occupied on the street leading by the Government's, consisting of a large cellar, a room used as a kitchen, a very well fixed store, a sleeping room, a drawing and bed room, and three sleeping and a lumber room in the garret; immediate possession may be had. Enquire of William F. Ad. August 29. (H)
ROBERT JOHNSTON,
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has removed his Store from the house he lately occupied opposite the Eagle Tavern, to one of Mr. Thomas Mitchell's new houses nearly opposite to Messrs. Taylor and Brown's Vendue Office, where he is now opening a general assortment of DRY GOODS & IRONMONGERY, which he will dispose of at a moderate profit. N. B. He will Rent or Sell his Brick Tenement on Shockoe Hill, adjoining to Mr. Robert Gordon's. October 7. tf.
FOR SALE.
TWO likely young MALE SERVANTS, well acquainted with house business.—For terms, &c. enquire of the Printer. Sept. 12. (tf.)
TO BE RENTED.
THE HOUSE at present occupied by Doctor James McCrurg; possession will be given on the 2nd day of October next. And The house lately occupied by Mr. Moses Bates; possession to be given immediately. Each of these houses, are convenient to the capitol, and will suit a genteel family. For terms apply to Samuel Greenhow. WM. LANGBORN, Executor of Wm. Dandridge, dec'd. (eptf.)
FOR RENT.
THE HOUSE and LOT belonging to the estate of William Elliott, dec'd. on the Hill near the Swan-Tavern. The House is very convenient for a genteel family, a good garden, smoke-house, &c. For terms apply to Robert Hyde or Wm. M'Kim. ROBERT HYDE, acting Exec'r of William Elliott, dec'd. October 14. tf.
PICKLING VINEGAR.
OF superior quality, made from two years old cider.—For sale by WILLIAM HART, Opposite the State House.
ALSO—
 SALT, loose and in sacks,  50 Barrels old HERRINGS,  Brown SUGAR in barrels and by retail,  COFFEE, TEA and other Groceries,  Philadelphia bottled PORTER,  Do. Draft BEER. 
September 19. eptf.
REMOVAL.
THE Subscribers have removed their COMPTING HOUSE, from the Main-Street to one of David Bullock's Brick Buildings, at the lower end of the Basin, between the Tenements occupied by C. and T. Saunders, and Norvell, Watt and Bullock—where they continue their purchases of wheat as usual.—They also keep for sale a regular supply of Flour, Corn Meal, Hominy and Bran. THOMAS & AMOS LADD. 10 Mo. 24, 1806. eptf.
A BARGAIN
MAY be had in a Chariot, Harness, and pair of excellent horses—Enquire of the Editor. August 5. tf.
UNION TAVERN.
THE Subscriber is prepared to furnish genteel accommodations for twenty members of Assembly. October 28. PETER MOSELEY. tf.
WANTED
TO hire immediately, a Negro Girl or Woman, for the purpose principally to take care of a child; an old Woman would be preferred. For one who can come well recommended, for fidelity, liberal wages will be paid per month or year. Enquire at this Office. October 28. tf.
NOTICE.
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly, for leave to erect a TOWN and Inspection of Tobacco at, or adjoining Goodland Court-house, particularly on the land of Samuel Woodson, thereunto adjoining. October 3. tf.
TO BE RENTED—The Tenement where
I now reside, and possession given in time. J. PENN April 11. tf.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
BLANKS, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
Europe.
POLITICAL RETROSPECT.
From a Liverpool paper of the 3d. September.
We are still without any intelligence respecting the state of the conferences at Paris. Up to a late hour on Saturday night, no messenger had arrived, nor could we learn that dispatches from the earl of Lauderdale had been transmitted thro' any other channel.
If Prussia, as is confidently believed, be a bar to the conclusion of peace, on the ground of refusing her assent to the restoration of Hanover, a measure, in which it is not at all improbable that Bonaparte has acquiesced, the prospect of the speedy termination of the treaty would be greatly strengthened. Notwithstanding the immense preparations for war carried on by his Prussian majesty, we cannot reconcile ourselves to the opinion, that he will hazard his crown, by one of one battle would be the immediate forerunner of his ruin; and the conqueror would, by a second victory, erase Prussia from the map of Europe. Neither by her internal force and resources, nor by her local situation, is she formed to sustain the vicissitudes of a long war. She is undoubtedly a great military power; but as in the times of Frederick the Great, she must have at her head, a superior military genius. If the conflict once commences, Bonaparte will not suffer her to breathe, and his arts and frauds will be tried in every direction, and allies and to corrupt her dependents. His Prussian majesty may have made up his mind for the result. Deprived of Bareuth and Anspach, required to cede East-Friesland and Embden, and imperiously called upon to restore Hanover, he may feel that unless he makes a stand now, the endless encroachments and demands of Bonaparte will terminate in his complete vassalage on France, or in his extinction as a powerful monarch. We shall indeed be surprised if he displays a courage, a resolution and perseverance, of which he has not hitherto afforded the slightest proof. But, on the contrary, should he yield to the dictates of Napoleon, we apprehend that other important points, besides the restoration of Hanover, will remain to be adjusted. We should not be surprised, were the discussions suspended by common consent until the arrival of the expected dispatches from Peterburg.
Letters were received on Saturday from Hamburg, which mention, that hostilities had actually commenced between Prussia and France. General Bucher, a very old general in the Prussian service, is said to have been killed. It is added, that the French had crossed over to Embden, where the engagement is said to have taken place.
Text"> Considerable progress is supposed to have been already made in the formation of the new Northern confederation. This union is to be under the protection of Russia; and is likely to prove, in some degree at least, a counterpoise to the federation under the protection of France. It is doubtful, however, whether Bonaparte will allow this part of his own plan to be carried into effect without deranging it by some new ambitious enterprise. He is believed to have made a demand on the court of Berlin, for some further cessions in favor of the king of Holland. The greatest activity prevails in the military department in all the Prussian states; and the movements that are made, and the positions that are taken, indicate a determination of resistance, from which better hopes might have been entertained, if it had been displayed at that more auspicious and more essential period when all Europe looked to Prussia for its deliverance—but looked in vain.
The French have seized on the Austrian towns of Goritz and Gradiska, on the Lisonzo, in Friuli, and sworn the public functionaries to pay allegiance to the French government. No motive has been assigned for this seizure. Some conceive that it was designed to hasten the consent of Austria to some matters under negotiation with France. Others suppose it was intended to check some military proceedings of Austria which had excited the jealousy of Bonaparte. To remove all jealousy on this head, the archduke Charles has determined that not even the usual camps of exercise shall be formed this year. It is evident from all these circumstances, that all the continent enjoys but a very precarious peace, dependant on the will and pleasure of Bonaparte. Austria in particular, is in a state of continued terror; subject every moment to have its patience tried by new insults and invasions, and not secured from alarm by the most immediate submission to every command, and the most prompt compliance with every requisition. It is stated that Bonaparte has proposed to the court of Vienna to cede the maritime part of Carniola to the kingdom of Italy, for an equivalent. The seizure of Goritz and Gradiska is probably meant to expedite this cession. It seems as if Bonaparte wished to force this humbled and reduced power, by a continuance of intolerable outrages, into a new war, for the purpose of totally extinguishing it. What effect these proceedings may have on our negotiations, we cannot say; but we have no hesitation in declaring, that unless the French government resolves unequivocally to desist from this conduct, there can be no peace with it. The present peace of the continent is worse than no peace.
Continuation of late European advices from papers received at the office of the Publick Ledger, from London.
LONDON, Sept. 2.
On Monday Lords Holland and Auckland held their first meeting with Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney, the American Ambassadors at the Treasury Chambers.
The report that Bonaparte had demanded of Prussia the cession of East Friesland and Embden will prove, we believe, to have been well founded. The court of Berlin has taken every necessary precaution to guard against the consequences of a sudden eruption of the enemy in that quarter. By a vessel which left Embden on the 22d ult. we have received intelligence that the bank had been removed from that city to a place of greater safety. It passed thro' Bremen on the 20th of last month, on the way to Berlin.
We learn by the same opportunity that several neutral vessels, bound to and from England were detained at Greetley by the Dutch gun boats.
STATE PAPERS.
PROCLAMATION.
Sir John Stuart, Knight of the grand imperial order of the Great Crescent, general and commander in chief of the troops of his Britannic majesty landed in Calabria.
CALABRIANS—I have landed among you a numerous corps of British troops; other debarkations will likewise be made on your coast.
We come to aid your loyalty, and to deliver you from the oppression of the French, under which you groan.
The standard of Ferdinand IV. is again unfurled on your shores. Hasten to unite yourselves with us, and to gather around it. Hasten to re-establish the rights of your beneficent and legitimate sovereign. A usurper has dared to stain his throne of Naples, and has had the presumption to call you his subjects.
Reflect on the wrongs and the injuries for which the tears of your suffering country flow. Recollect the insults and outrages to which your venerable parents, your wives and your daughters are exposed.—It now depends upon your own courage whether you shall obtain redress.
I come among you only as your friend and deliverer. I ask merely quarters from you. I require no contributions; the provisions furnished shall be punctually paid for. I shall provide you with arms and ammunition to be employed in your own defence, and whatever wants may arise among you, they shall be immediately supplied.
Your laws, and your customs shall be maintained; your holy religion and its ceremonies shall be honoured and respected.
From what has been experienced by your brethren in Sicily, you may judge of the rectitude of our conduct, and of our discipline.
Your faithful countrymen, whom oppression had driven from among you, have returned with me, to give you liberty.
Repress your private animosities, be united.
PROCLAMATION.
Sir John Stuart, Knight of the grand imperial order of the Great Crescent, general and commander in chief of the troops of his Britannic majesty landed in Calabria.
CALABRIANS—I have landed among you a numerous corps of British troops; other debarkations will likewise be made on your coast.
We come to aid your loyalty, and to deliver you from the oppression of the French, under which you groan.
The standard of Ferdinand IV. is again unfurled on your shores. Hasten to unite yourselves with us, and to gather around it. Hasten to re-establish the rights of your beneficent and legitimate sovereign. A usurper has dared to stain his throne of Naples, and has had the presumption to call you his subjects.
Reflect on the wrongs and the injuries for which the tears of your suffering country flow. Recollect the insults and outrages to which your venerable parents, your wives and your daughters are exposed.—It now depends upon your own courage whether you shall obtain redress.
I come among you only as your friend and deliverer. I ask merely quarters from you. I require no contributions; the provisions furnished shall be punctually paid for. I shall provide you with arms and ammunition to be employed in your own defence, and whatever wants may arise among you, they shall be immediately supplied.
Your laws, and your customs shall be maintained; your holy religion and its ceremonies shall be honoured and respected.
From what has been experienced by your brethren in Sicily, you may judge of the rectitude of our conduct, and of our discipline.
Your faithful countrymen, whom oppression had driven from among you, have returned with me, to give you liberty.
Repress your private animosities, be united.

among yourselves, and renounce all party spirit.
I am not come to punish you for delusions which are past, but to guard you from them in future. None shall suffer except those who persist in error, and who show a disposition to oppose us. All others shall be recompensed in proportion to their fidelity and the aid they afford.
Those who have been misled shall, upon laying down their arms, receive pardon and protection.
Head-quarters at St. Euphemia, July 1, 1806.
PROCLAMATION.
Sir John Stuart, knight of the grand imperial Order of the Great Crescent, general and commander in chief of the troops of his Britannic majesty landed in Calabria.
The British army under my command having a great signal victory over the French army, commanded by general Regnier, and having compelled the remains of the enemy's army to fly with terror and opprobrium before the victorious English troops, and to leave to us the entire possession of this province of Thither Calabria.
I inform you, O Calabrians, by the present proclamation, this happy success, and desire you to join with me in pursuing the common enemy, and in establishing among you the authority of your august and legitimate sovereign, Ferdinand IV. whose royal standard is once more happily planted with joy and glory among you.
I have already informed you, in my former Proclamation, that I wish for no contribution; all the provisions, forage and other supplies which shall be furnished by you to the British army, shall be paid for immediately.
As a proof of your fidelity and attachment to your sovereign, I require you to give us all your assistance; and for that purpose arms and ammunition shall be furnished you. These, however, will not be given you to use for your private vengeance, but to be employed against the common enemy.
The British army has not come among you to afford you an opportunity for indulging in your private animosities, but to protect and deliver you from French tyranny. Good order must be maintained. Those who shall undermine themselves with us, and obey our orders, shall, notwithstanding any former connection with the enemy, be pardoned and protected. On the contrary, all those who, under any pretext whatsoever, shall refuse to give us their assistance, shall be punished with rigor.
While I congratulate you on the fortunate success of our arms, I am anxious that humanity should accompany their progress. Above all, I charge you to treat the prisoners that may fall into your power well. I further command to send out constantly parties of patrols, to collect the stragglers and wounded in your mountains and forests.
For every prisoner you conduct in safety to the British army you shall be rewarded. I promise to give you six ducats for each private, and twenty ducats for each officer.
J. STUART.
Head-Quarters at Meida, July 7, 1806.
ROYAL DECREE.
Beloved and Faithful People of Calabria...
The Divine Providence has liberated you from the severe oppression of the French invaders, and again placed you under my legitimate dominion, by the aid of my most potent Ally the king of Great-Britain, seconded by mine and your assistance.
The gallant British general, Chevalier Stuart, who worthy commands the forces in those provinces, in his execution has completely fulfilled the orders of his sovereign, and has answered faithfully to the confidence which I reposed in him, and to the full authority and power conferred on him for the purpose of obtaining your liberation--this power, which I am about to manifest by the present royal decree, and to confirm in his person, extending it at the same time to all the other provinces of my kingdom of Naples, in which the British troops may arrive, under his command. The recent battle which he fought in Campo di Maida, before your eyes, against the French army, and the total defeat of the latter, will be an event forever memorable in the history of the times, and an eternal monument of the valour of the illustrious general Stuart, and his brave troops. He, in my royal name, will continue to attend to your defence and security, and to direct the operations which are to take place for the restoration of good order, and of my royal authority, and also for your advantage. Through him will be announced to you my royal determinations, tending to accomplish the abovementioned objects. You, therefore, beloved people of Calabria, and of the other provinces of my kingdom of Naples, in which general Stuart shall arrive with his victorious army--you, who have at all times given constant proofs of your fidelity and attachment to my royal person, execute with good will whatever you may be ordered to do by this gallant general in my royal name. Hasten to support him with all your forces and means. Aid in every way his operations, which are directed to your relief and security, and be persuaded that I shall leave no means untried to prevent your peace from being again disturbed, and to secure to you and your families the enjoyment of days more joyful and less hazardous. Given at Palermo, July 10, 1806.
(Signed) FERDINAND.
PROCLAMATION
Of Sir J. Stuart, Knight of the Grand Imperial Order of the Great Crescent, and Commander in Chief of the troops of his Britannic Majesty landed in Calabria.
I have been informed, that since the battle of the 4th inst. some of the persons attached to the French cause, and supported by some detachment of their troops have been guilty of the most atrocious enormities, in plundering the villages and assassinating the inhabitants, under the pretext of punishing them for their demonstrations of attachment to the cause of their legitimate sovereign.
I have also learned that the enemy, under the same pretext, has subjected the district of Cosenza to military chastisement; and that at the French head-quarters the same intention has been declared with respect to the whole of the country which they have occupied in their flight.
Wherever the British army has advanced, so mission has always been recompensed by protection--I have forbidden any animadversion to be cast upon past opinions. I have prohibited all past animosities, and to encourage the peasants to behave with humanity towards the French soldiers (who since their late defeat have been dispersed in the woods and mountains) I offered a liberal reward for every prisoner who should be brought unhurt to the British Camp, and by these means I have preserved the lives of many hundred men.
In return for this, plunder and devastation have marked the retreat of the enemy; and it was a crime in the peasants to have witnessed the discomfiture and dishonor of their arms.
On this subject it therefore becomes necessary for me to appeal to the recollection of the French commanders, and to state, not only that many of their declared and known partisans are in my power, but that the signal success of the army under my command placed in my hands above three thousand prisoners. If, therefore, such violences are not put an end to in future, I shall not only deem myself justifiable, but even compelled by duty, to have recourse to the severe, but indispensable Law of Reprisals.
Head-Quarters at Bagnaro. (Signed) J. STUART. July 18, 1806.
INTERCEPTED LETTERS.
General Berthier, Chief of the Staff, to Gen. Regnier. Naples, July 8, 1806.
GENERAL, His majesty received by M. Jamin, the details of the landing of the enemy, and of the dispositions which you had made. His majesty is extremely vexed, and still more surprised at the conduct of the troops, which have rendered your well-judged dispositions unavailing. The 1st regiment of light infantry ought to have remembered that it had before shown itself afraid of the English, and since that epoch they may have learned to make it fly; but the other corps had given proofs that they formerly knew how to march forward, accompanied always by victory. His majesty does not know to what at this moment of shameful panic ought to be ascribed; but he flatters himself by the time you receive this letter the troops will be recovered from their delusion, or rather that they will have recollected that they are Frenchmen. His majesty desires that it may be made known to the troops, that he wishes the emperor to remain ignorant of the extent of the neglect of duty, and he looks forward to fresh details, which he hopes will prove that those you have under your command are Frenchmen.
His majesty sends 1200 men to reinforce gen. Verdier, with instructions, a copy of which is transmitted to you. He orders the troops to assemble above Cassano, which is a central spot, and in the possession of which, they will be able to direct their march wherever their presence may be necessary. His majesty expected a landing of the English, at the moment when the attack was to be made on Gaeta, in order to make a diversion for raising the siege, and to cut off all Calabria by the event, which has happened to you. His majesty now desires you to abandon all Higher Calabria, and consequently requires you to take a position before Catanzaro, if the enemy be not already masters of it, or of any other position you may judge more suitable for arresting his progress, preserving always a retreat by Cassano, that, under all possible events, you may be able to join our forces, in order to assume the offensive; for his majesty rather wishes that the enemy should disembark on that coast, than in the neighbourhood of Naples, where the moral effect of their presence might be still more dangerous. His majesty desires that you will send him accounts of your observations on the situation of the enemy, as often as possible. He has given orders for issuing pay and subsistence money to the troops.
I have the honour to salute you, Monsieur General, with the most marked consideration. (Signed) C. BERTHIER. Gen. of Division and Chief of the Staff.
Gen. Verdier to General Regnier. Matera, July 15, 1806.
GENERAL, I have withheld, as well as I was able, the whole rebel population of the province, which has attacked me near Cosenza, from the 1st to the 6th current. I have received information by his majesty's aid-de-camp Jamin, of your engagement, and your retreat upon Cosenza. In consequence of my ammunition being wanted, and 260 of my troops killed or wounded, joined to the unpleasant accounts of your situation, I determined to proceed to Cassano, and with as much as to avoid fighting at Cassano, Villaro, & Moran, which I knew to be in a state of insurrection, as to cover your retreat upon that point, in case you should have continued your movement in that direction. When I arrived before Cassano, I found the people in insurrection, and I had to open a passage through them, and to take the town by main force; in doing which I lost many men, and exhausted all the cartridges I still had remaining. While the place was taking, I had to sustain an attack, sword in hand, from noon to four o'clock P.M. We at last succeeded, without fire arms, in repulsing the vast multitude of daring peasants. I took advantage of the obscurity of the night to remove to this quarter; the only place where I can hope to procure succours in men and ammunition, and to avoid the massacre of my troops, who are without the means of defending themselves.
On arriving at Policoro, I found an officer of the staff, was charged with the annexed dispatches for you, by which I learn that some reinforcements are to be sent to us. The messenger not being able to continue his route to you, I have sent him back to Naples, and forward the dispatches to you by the only communication which remains open to us, which is the sea.
I expect that when his majesty learns our real situation, he will take measures to relieve us from the embarrassing circumstances in which we are placed.
The relation of all that has occurred to me being too voluminous to be conveyed to you at this moment, I have merely sent it to the Staff, intending to transmit you a copy at a more favourable opportunity.
T. V. VERDIER.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY Of September 5, 1806.
SUNDAY, Sept. 7.
Downing Street, Sep. 6.
A dispatch, of which the following is an extract, was this day received by the right hon. C. J. Fox. His majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, from H. Elliot, esq. late his minister's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at the court of his Sicilian majesty.
Extract of a dispatch from Hugh Elliot, esq. to the right hon. C. J. Fox, dated Palermo, Aug. 5, 1806.
SIR, I enclose herewith the copy of a letter of the 3d of Aug. which I have received this day from Sir John Stuart. By the surrender of Cotronone, and the retreat of both gen. Verdier and gen. Regnier, from Upper and Lower Calabria, those provinces are now restored to their legal sovereign. The battle of Maida, upon the 4th of July, will long be recorded, in this part of Europe, as a memorable proof of the superiority of British courage and discipline. Of the 9000 men which gen. Regnier commanded in the province of Calabria Ulterior, not more than 8000 are left to attempt their retreat towards Puglia; the remainder are either killed, wounded, or made prisoners. Every fort along the coast, all the depots of stores, ammu-
nition, and artillery prepared for the attack of Sicily, are become the prey of the victors; and, what perhaps may be considered as even of still more consequence than these advantages, an indelible impression is established of the superior bravery and discipline of the British troops. There is not perhaps to be found, in the annals of military transactions, an enterprise prepared with more deliberate reflection, or executed with greater decision, promptitude, and success, than the late invasion of Calabria by Sir John Stuart.
Extract of a dispatch from Major-General Sir John Stuart, to Hugh Elliot, Esq. dated Melfi, 3d August, 1806.
Having occasion to send an express to my aid-de-camp, Capt. Bulkeley, at Palermo, I avail myself of the opportunity to acquaint you with another fortunate result of our auspicious day at Maida. Cotronone, with all its stores, magazines, &c. and 600 troops (now prisoners), capitulated on Wednesday evening last to the land and naval forces of his Britannic Majesty, under lieut. col. M c Leod, of the 78th regiment, and capt. Hoske, of his majesty's frigate Amphion, who were assisted in their operations against that place, and upon the adjacent coasts, by the gun-boats of his Sicilian majesty. Three hundred prisoners, who prove to be survivors of the wounded after the action of the 4th ult. are already arrived in this port. General Regnier, who had endeavoured to hold his position, under much embarrassment for some time past, between Cotronone and Cotanzaro, has retreated precipitately towards Tarento; and it was reported, when the transport left Cotronone, that he had been attacked by the mass, and had lost 6 or 7 hundred of his flying people. I am now to congratulate you on the total evacuation of Calabria Ultra, in which single province, previous to the action of the 4th, we have every certainty that the enemy had a distributed force of at least 9000 men; of these, when general Regnier quitted his position near Cotronone, certainly not 3000 remained. The losses of the French in Upper Calabria have also borne a proportion. A great deal of heavy ordnance, lately transported by the French to Cotronone, besides what was found mounted on the cattle, amounting in the whole to about 40 pieces, have fallen into our hands.
September 8. A Supplement to the Gazette extraordinary, announcing the brilliant victory of our troops in Calabria, was yesterday published. In this we have a letter from Colonel Macleod, stating the capture of Cotronone, and the total flight of the French from the two Calabrias. This brings the events in that part of Italy down to the end of July, and it is worthy of remark, that though we have the French accounts from Naples down to the 16th of August, there is not an intimation that they have presumed to re-enter the strong post from which they were driven. Nothing in the military annals of the revolution is superior to the skill, gallantry, and success with which our brave army conducted itself in this expedition.
Farther defeats of the French, and their expulsion from Upper and Lower Calabria.
The Supplement of the Gazette Extraordinary brings down the detail of further success of our arms in Calabria to the 3d of last month. The important consequences of the victory gained on the 4th of July are stated with energetic conciseness by HUGH ELLIOTT, Esq. our late Envoy extraordinary at the court of his SICILIAN MAJESTY. "The battle of Maida," says he, "will long be recorded in this part of Europe as a memorable proof of the superiority of British courage and discipline. Of the 9000 men which General REGNIER has commanded in the province of Calabria Ulterior, not more than 8000 are left to attempt their retreat towards Puglia; the remainder are either killed, wounded, or made prisoners. Every fort along the coast; all the depots of stores, ammunition and artillery, prepared for the attack of Sicily, are become the prey of the victors; and what perhaps may be considered as even of still more consequence than those advantages, an indelible impression is established of the superior bravery and discipline of the British troops."
The compliment paid by Mr. ELLIOTT to our gallant commander is equally just and beautiful. "There is not perhaps to be found, in the Annals of Military Transactions, an enterprise prepared with more deliberate reflection, or executed with greater decision, promptitude, and success, than the late invasion of Calabria by Sir JOHN STUART."
A letter from General Fox, inclosing the Capitulation of Cotronone, does the like justice to the judicious exertion of Lieut.-Col. M c LEOD of the 78th Regiment, and of Captain HOSKE of his majesty's ship Amphion, in dispersing the French army on its retreat to Cotronone; giving effectual support to the armed peasantry on the adjacent coast; and making themselves masters of that town and garrison.
CONSTANTINOPLE July 26.
A body of 26,000 men disciplined after the European manner, have been stopped on its march by the resolution which the Janissaries, in concert with the inhabitants of Adrianople, have taken to refuse them entrance into that city. But this is not all. After having lent away the commissaries of the Porte, who had come hither to prepare quarters, the janissaries have taken up arms, placed artillery on the ramparts, and made every disposition for a vigorous resistance. The whole country, from Adrianople to the Danube, is in open insurrection; it is not known what steps will be taken by the commandant of the disciplined troops. He waits the orders of the Divan.
STOCKHOLM, August 15.
The Hanoverian charge d'affaires Moller, and the English colonel Becker, have arrived here from Peterburgh. A party of the body-guards are expected; and several other regiments, from Pomerania. All our differences with Prussia appear to be at an end.
The publication of the Ukase, which orders the extraordinary levies in the Russian empire, in order to carry the army to 600,000 men, has given rise to several calculations on the military forces of the four great military powers of the European Continent, such as they were considered before the treaty of Presburg. A justly esteemed writer has given the following statement of them--
   Infantry. Cavalry. Total.     France 5 6,000 85,000 604,000   Russia 540,000 62,000 402,000   Prussia 232,000 44,000 276,000   Austria 170,000 40,000 210,000  
The author observes that with regard to France, he has only valued the troops purely French; for that in comprehending those of the Federative States, the forces of that Empire will amount to upwards of 820,000 men. With regard to Austria, her army, far from being recruited since the war, has even been diminished by dismissions. Before the campaign of 1805, it was estimated at 335,000 fighting men.
The ninety-six Jewish deputies assembled at Paris, are very coadjutant in their fittings. They dress in black and deliberate, with their heads uncovered. A guard of honor of fifty men attends at the door, and turns out with preselected
arms on the arrival and departure of the deputies. Such as have no equipages of their own are conveyed thither and back in the emperor's carriages. A deputation of the entire number has been presented to the emperor by the H. H. Minister, Champagne, one of whom, Rabi Sagar, of Turin, had a private audience with him, which lasted two hours. Mer. Adv.
Letters, we understand, have been received from certain Jew Bankers at Bayonne, which throw some light on the views of the Emperor of the French, with respect to their nation. He proposes to re-establish the Jewish Church, at Jerusalem, in its ancient splendour, at the expense of the French Government, to take possession of the Holy Land, and sell it to the rich Jews of France, who are to force the itinerant Jews and pedlars to retire there, on an allotment of land being given them. To appoint a Vice-Roy from among their nation, and the ancient Jew titles, of Prince, &c. &c. are to be revived among these rich Bankers. He reserves also the power of sending them, all such Jews as are offenders on the score of Usury, &c. &c.
This is the substance of what is to take place very soon; it has met with the approbation of a great many of the Jewish Assembly, now sitting at Paris, who are flattering themselves with the high titles they are to possess, and indulging themselves with the pleasant prospect of having their temples restored; while others of the Assembly have protested against it, as impracticable and delusive.
NEW-YORK, October 26.
FOUR DAYS LATER.
Our London Advises now reach the evening of the 20th of September--the latest brought the ship Protection, capt. Terry, who arrived here yesterday from Liverpool.
By the following Extracts, it will be perceived, that the state of Mr. Fox's health was such that there was but little prospect of his recovery.
C. J. Fox was born on the 13th of Jan. 1749, and came into Parliament in 1768.
Nothing decisive was publicly known in London respecting the negotiations--the public mind was, as much as ever, perplexed with the uncertain state of this all-important subject.
Stocks at London Sept. 10--One o'clock, 3 per cent consols 63 1-2 5-8--5 per cent 96 1-3; Omnium 8 1-4.
At Falmouth, wind bound the 7th Sept. Lord Hobart Packet, Hamilton, for New-York.
LONDON, Sept. 10.
A morning paper of yesterday announced, that before its sheets went out to the world, Mr. Fox would perhaps be no more. The writer having declared that this statement was extorted from him by a sense of duty, it was of course interpreted in the most unfavourable sense, and those who read and believed the paragraph, considered Mr. Fox actually dead at the moment. This was an exaggerated account, and we took no notice of it, but stated the simple fact of his being in a very low and exhausted state. The statement, however, alluded to, soon got abroad, and the town was agitated during the whole day with reports of his actual demise, differing only in degrees of confidence. It was one of these that probably induced an evening print to make a second edition, at four o'clock, stating the arrival of a messenger from Chiswick, announcing that Mr. Fox departed this life in the morning. It required little reflection to perceive that this was not very probable. An express from Chiswick, would reach town in half an hour. The following account will, we believe, be found tolerably correct:--
Mr. Fox's disorder took an unfavourable turn on Sunday evening, and the most serious apprehensions were entertained by his friends. Among these are the family of the Duke of Devonshire, by one of whom a note, of which the following is a copy, was received at ten o'clock yesterday:--
"Chiswick, nine o'clock, morning."
"Dr. _____ has the honour to inform lady----- that Mr. Fox was extremely ill yesterday, from a sudden and great degree of weakness which came on in the forenoon, and continued the whole of the day. In the night he was something better, and had some tolerable good rest. He took nourishment freely in the night, and is now tranquil, with his pulse improved. This great degree of weakness has been expected, whenever the support of the vessels should be taken away, by his being entirely emptied of the water."
We know that many accounts, equally authentic, were received in town yesterday, any one of which ought to have silenced the false reports of Mr. Fox's dissolution yesterday morning. At 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon we had further information that he was still alive. A messenger arrived at that hour at his house in Stable Yard, with orders for some articles wanted for his use. An account was, at the same time received, stating that he was very low, but composed. Still, however, the reports of his death were repeated with increased confidence, by the ignorant, the credulous, and the designing. In the fact of his death, they were indeed, all agreed; they only differed in the time. Some said it took place at five in the morning, others at ten. At eight o'clock, however, a bulletin, dated Chiswick, 7 o'clock in the evening, of which the following is a copy, was received by one of his particular friends in town:--
"Mr. Fox is still very ill, but his pulse is rather stronger than yesterday. "D. CLINE."
Notwithstanding these repeated assurances of his being still alive, the rumour of his death had not ceased the whole of yesterday and last night. Lord Robert Spencer left town at seven o'clock, last evening, for Chiswick; Lord Holland and Viscount Howie were also there, and proposed to remain during the night. Mr. Sheridan came to town in the morning, and was unremitted in his enquiries during the day. At 11 o'clock last night he went to Devonshire House, and from thence to Chiswick, from which place he returned at five o'clock this morning. These proofs of the attachment of Mr. Fox's friends, show the imminent danger in which they considered him. During the early part of yesterday, Sir Francis Vincent, Mr. Fox's Secretary, had several interviews with Viscount Howie. They probably related to Mr. Basilico, and the dispatches with which he is charged for the Earl of Lauderdale, at Paris. His departure was only delayed by Mr. Fox's precarious state. He was at Chiswick yesterday, from which he did not return till eleven o'clock last night. Should Mr. Fox survive this day, Mr. Basilico will set off this night. Should the melancholy event take place sooner, he will set out immediately after.
Ever since Mr. Fox became alarmingly ill, an express we understand has been daily sent, with an account of his situation, to His Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales, on his tour. The ordinary express was sent off yesterday morning, and another was despatched, last night, at 12 o'clock. The alarming state of Mr. Fox, it is thought, will induce His Royal Highness to discontinue his tour, and return to town immediately. We do not find that any bulletins, or written medical reports of Mr. Fox's state, were received in town this morning from Chiswick. Our verbal accounts up to twelve o'clock state, that he had a very bad night, but was still alive.
It was Mr. Smith, the Messenger, and not Mr. Basilico, as may be seen in this account, who was despatched to Lord Lauderdale, after the Council broke up, which sat upon the last dispatches received from France.
We received, last night, some Dutch Papers to Monday last, from which we have given several extracts. They show that France has taken alarm at the warlike preparations of Prussia, and demanded an explanation. The Cabinet of Berlin has answered, that they were for defensive purposes, by which an article under the head of Frankfort, affects to understand, that they are exclusively connected with the plan of the Northern Confederacy, and do not relate to France.
We received also this morning The Leyden Gazette of the 2d inst. It has copied from The Moniteur of the 26th Aug. the orders for the march of the Austrian prisoners to Gerona, and the return of the French troops to France, before the last of Sept. but letters from Saxony and Bavaria of a more recent date in the other Dutch Papers, are silent upon the subject. The Leyden Gazette of the 2d. contains a Protest of the King of Wirttemberg against the cession of Tuttlingen to Baden, according to the 14th Article in the Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine, and offering an equivalent; and also a Proclamation of the Magistrates of Frankfort, recommending to the people acquiescence in its new change.
NORFOLK, Oct. 28.
Capt. Russell, arrived yesterday morning from Antwerp, left Flushing the 10th September, at which time Lord Lauderdale was still at Paris. Ledger.
Domestic.
NORFOLK, Oct. 28.
MIRANDA.--Arrived here yesterday the Schooner Elizabeth, capt. Robins, in 26 days from Laguira, by whom we are informed, that it was daily expected that a general embargo would be ordered by the capt. general of Caraccas. As capt. R. came out, about 6 leagues from Laguira, saw a ship which he took to be a frigate, with a smaller vessel in company. About 150 French troops had arrived at Laguira from Guadalupe, to assist against Miranda, which were brought by a brig, that on her passage she fell in with and captured an English Schooner, attached to Miranda's expedition--Part of the prisoners were sent to Laguira, where they would be treated as prisoners of war. The rest were taken to Guadalupe.
It was reported by the Spaniards that Miranda on landing at Coro, had lost 20 men, among them captain Johnston.--Miranda was at Aruba the 25th Sept. where it is said, his troops have suffered a great mortality from a dysentery. Ledger.
Schr. Madox, from Philadelphia, for Laguira and Schooner Gen. Eaton, from Hayti for St. Thomas, are sent into Togo.--The British cruisers on the Tortola station, will send in all vessels bound to and from Hayti.
GEORGIA. Augusta, Sept. 27.
We are informed by a gentleman direct from Louisville, that Dr. Dennis Smelt, has been elected a member of Congress, in the room of Joseph Bryan, resigned; Doctor Smelt had a majority of two votes more than Col. Troup. We also learn, that Governor Milledge has resigned his office, and that Gen. Irwin, President of the Senate, succeeds him for the time being.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.
The latest information from the westward is contained in letters from governor Claiborne dated the 15th of Sept. At that time Gov. Claiborne was about seventy miles from Natchitoches, occupied in organizing the militia, on whose part there appeared to be a general readiness to turn out, even among the French inhabitants. No change had taken place in the situation of the troops on either side. Gov. Errara was still dangerously ill; his forces had been considerably diminished by disease, and the greater part of their horses had been sent beyond the Sabine for forage. Gov. Claiborne had held an interesting talk with the chief of the Caddoux tribe of Indians, and had ascertained their disposition to remain neutral. Nat. Int.
FRANKFORT, (K.) October 9.
From the "Palladium."
St. Louis, 23d Sept. 1806.
DEAR BROTHER,
We arrived at this place at 12 o'clock to-day, from the Pacific Ocean, where we remained during the last winter, near the entrance of the Columbia river. This station we left on the 27th of March last, and should have reached St. Louis early in August, had we not been detained by the snow which barred our passage across the Rocky Mountains, until the 24th of June. In returning through those mountains we divided ourselves into several parties, dispersing from the route, by which we went out, in order the more effectually to explore the country, and discover the most practicable route which does exist across the continent by the way of the Missouri and Columbia rivers: In this we were completely successful, and have therefore no hesitation in declaring, that such as nature has permitted, we have discovered the best route which does exist across the continent of North America in that direction. Such is that by way of the Missouri to the foot of the rapids below the great falls of that river, a distance of 2575 miles, thence by land passing by the Rocky Mountains, to a navigable part of the Kookookee 340; and with the Kookookee 75 miles, Lewis's river 154 miles, and the Columbia 415 miles to the Pacific Ocean, making the total distance from the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi, to the discharge of the Columbia into the Pacific ocean, 5555 miles. The navigation of the Missouri may be deemed good--its difficulties arise from its falling banks, timber embedded in the mud of its channel, its sand-bars and steady rapidity of its current, all which may be overcome with a great degree of certainty, by using the necessary precautions. The passage by land of 340 miles from the falls of the Missouri to the Kookookee, is the most

bridable part of the tract proposed across the continent. Of this distance, 200 miles is along a good road, and 140 miles over tremendous mountains, which for 60 miles are covered with eternal snows. A passage over these mountains is, however, practicable from the latter part of June to the last of September; and the cheap rate at which horses are to be obtained from the Indians of the Rocky mountains, and west of them, reduce the expenses of transportation over this passage to a mere trifle. The navigation of the Kootenai, Lewis's river, and the Columbia, is safe and good, from the first of April to the middle of August, by making three portages on the latter river. The first of which, in descending is 1200 paces at the falls of Columbia 261 miles up that river; the second of two miles at the long narrows 6 miles below the falls; and a third, also of 2 miles at the great rapids 65 miles still lower down. The tide flows up the Columbia 188 miles, and within 7 miles of the great rapids. Large sloops may with safety ascend as high as tide water, and vessels of 300 tons burthen, reach the entrance of the Multnomah river, a large Southern branch of the Columbia, which takes its rise on the confines of New-Mexico, with the Callerado and Apollon's rivers, discharging itself into the Columbia 125 miles from its entrance into the Pacific ocean. I consider this tract across the continent of immense advantage to the fur trade, as all the furs collected in nine-tenths of the most valuable fur country in America, may be conveyed to the mouth of the Columbia, and shipped from thence to the East-Indies, by the first August in each year; and will of course reach Canton earlier than the furs which are annually exported from Montreal arrive in Great-Britain.
In our outward bound voyage, we ascended to the foot of the rapids below the great falls of the Missouri, where we arrived on the 14th of June, 1805. Not having met with any of the natives of the Rocky mountains, we were of course, ignorant of the passes by land which existed, through those mountains to the Columbia river; and had we even known the route, we were destitute of horses, which would have been indispensably necessary to enable us to transport the requisite quantity of ammunition and other stores to ensure the remaining part of our voyage down the Columbia; we therefore, determined to navigate the Missouri, as far as it was practicable, or unless we met with some of the natives from whom we could obtain horses and information of the country. Accordingly we undertook a most laborious portage at the falls of the Missouri, of 18 miles, which we effected with our canoes and baggage by the 5th of July. From hence ascending the Missouri, we penetrated the Rocky mountain at the distance of 71 miles above the upper part of the portage, and penetrated as far as the S forks of that river, a distance of 180 miles further: Here the Missouri divides into three nearly equal branches at the same point. The two largest branches are so nearly of the same dignity, that we did not conceive that either of them, could with propriety retain the name of the Missouri; and therefore called these streams Jefferson's, Madison's and Gallatin's rivers. The confluence of those rivers, is 248 miles from the mouth of the Missouri, by the meanders of that river. We arrived at the three forks of the Missouri the 27th of July. Not having yet been so fortunate as to meet with the natives, although I had previously made several exertions for that purpose, we were compelled still to continue our route by water.
The most northerly of the three forks, that to which we had given the name of Jefferson's river, was deemed the most proper for our purpose, and we accordingly ascended it 238 miles, to the upper forks, and its extreme navigable point; making the total distance to which we had navigated the waters of the Missouri 3096 miles, of which 429 lay within the Rocky mountains. On the morning of the 17th of August, 1805, I arrived at the forks of Jefferson's river, where I met captain Lewis, who had previously penetrated with a party of three men, to the waters of the Columbia, discovered a band of the Shoshone nation, and had found means to induce 35 of their chiefs and warriors to accompany him to that place. From these people we learned that the river on which they resided was not navigable, and that a pass through the mountains in that direction was impracticable; being unwilling to confide in this unfavourable account of the natives, it was concerted between captain Lewis and myself, that one of us should go forward immediately with a small party, and explore the river; while the other in the interim would lay up the canoes at that place, and engage the natives with their horses to assist in transporting our stores and baggage to their camp. Accordingly I set out the next day, passed the dividing mountains between the waters of the Missouri and Columbia, and descended the river which I since call the East fork of Lewis's river, about 70 miles. —Finding that the Indians' account of the country in the direction of this river was correct, I returned and joined captain Lewis on the 29th of August at the Shoshone camp, exceedingly fatigued as you may suppose; having passed mountains almost inaccessible, and compelled to subsist on berries during the greater part of my route. We now purchased 27 horses of these Indians, and hired a guide, who assured us that he could in fifteen days take us to a large river in an open country well of these mountains, by a route some distance to the north of the river on which they lived, and that by which the natives west of the mountains, visit the plains of the Missouri, for the purpose of hunting the buffalo. Every preparation being made we set forward with our guide on the 31st of August, through those tremendous mountains, in which we continued until the 22nd of September, before we reached the lower country beyond them; on our way we met with the Ochilottah a band of the Tchapahs, from whom we obtained an accession of seven horses and exchanged eight or ten others; this proved of infinite service to us, as we were compelled to subsist on horse beef about eight days before we reached the Kootenai.
During our passage over those mountains we suffered every thing which hunger, cold and fatigue could impose; nor did our difficulties with respect to provision, cease on our arrival at the Kootenai, for although the Pallotapalans a numerous nation inhabiting that country, were extremely hospitable, and form a few trifling articles furnished us with an abundance of roots and dried salmon, the food to which they were accustomed; we found that we could not subsist on these articles, and almost all of us grew sick on eating them; we were obliged therefore to have recourse to the flesh of horses and dogs as food to supply the deficiency of our guns, which produced but little meat, as game was scarce in the vicinity of our camp on the Kootenai, where we were compelled to remain in order to construct our perogues to descend the river. At this season the salmon are meagre and form but indifferent food. While we remained here I was myself sick for several days, and my friend captain Lewis suffered a severe indigestion. Having completed four perogues and a small canoe, we gave our horses in charge to the Pallotapalans until we returned, and on the 10th of October re-embarked for the Pacific ocean.
We descended by the route I have already mentioned. —The water of the river being low at this season, we experienced much difficulty in descending, we found it obstructed by a great number of difficult and dangerous rapids in passing of which our perogues several times filled, and the men escaped narrowly with their lives. However this difficulty does not exist in high water, which happens within the period which I have previously mentioned. We found the natives extremely numerous, and generally friendly, though we have on several occasions owed our lives and the fate of the expedition to our number, which consisted of 31 men. On the 17th of November we reached the ocean, where various considerations induced us to spend the winter; we therefore searched for an eligible situation for that purpose, and selected a spot on the south side of a little river, called by the natives Natal , which discharges itself at a small bar on the south side of the Columbia, and 14 miles within Point Adams. Here we constructed some log houses, and defended them with a common stockade work; this place we called Fort Clatsop, after a nation of that name who were our nearest neighbours. In this country we found an abundance of elk, on which we subsisted principally during the last winter; we left Fort Clatsop on the 27th of March. On our homeward bound voyage, being much better acquainted with the country we were enabled to take such precautions as in a great measure secured us from the want of provision at any time, and greatly lessened our fatigues, when compared with those to which we were compelled to submit in our outward bound journey. We have not lost a man since we left the Mandanians, a circumstance which I assure you is a pleasing consideration to me. As I shall shortly be with you, & the post is now waiting, I deem it unnecessary here to attempt minutely to detail the occurrences of the last eighteen months.
I am, &c. Your affectionate brother, Wm. CLARK.
NEW-ORLEANS, Sept. 22.
Arrived at this port on Saturday morning last, the revenue cutter LOUISIANA, commanded by capt. Joseph Newcombe, from a cruise.
The gun boats received no damage in the late storm; No. 13, is afloat, and No. 14 aground. Ib.
September 25.
Extract of a letter dated Alexandria, (Rapides), Sept. 7, to a gentleman in this city.
"There is no manner of danger from the Spaniards. There are between six and seven hundred regulars at Natchitoches; 200 volunteers from this county, and I hope an equal number from the neighboring counties, so that the Dons will surely be captured unless they retreat beyond the Sabine, on the approach of our troops. The French, with a few exceptions, turned out surprisingly. Chevalier Poirret, and Cyprian La Cour, are among the volunteer companies. We are well affected here, and unanimously. Volentin is making exertions among the Indians on the side of the United States, they are all perfectly friendly, and the Caddeco highly resented the cutting down the American flag, by the Spaniards in their town. We feel ourselves as secure here as if at Lancaster."
Louisiana Gaz.
By a letter dated 23d inst. at Pinckneyville, it appears that Capt. Hook, of the 1st. U. S. Regt. of Infantry, had arrived from Natchitoches, a few days before the date of the letter, who states that the Spaniards had evacuated the disputed ground, and that it is supposed that every thing will be quiet in that quarter.
We understand that His Excellency Governor CLAIBORNE, was at Rapid on the 13th inst. where he intended to remain a short time for the purpose of meeting with Gen. WILKINSON who is on his way from Fort-Adams to Natchitoches.
NASHVILLE, Oct. 11.
Col. Burr, left this place on Monday last for Kentucky.
The Enquirer. RICHMOND, 4th NOVEMBER.
The unexampled freedom, which we enjoy can only be endangered by four memorable evils: by war; by luxury; by an exacerbation of party spirit; by a separation of the states.
War may confer the means of oppression on some designing chieftain, or some ambitious president, whose constitutional powers are already too exorbitant.
Luxury may unnerve the zeal that would watch over the public welfare, should it unfortunately increase in a degree superior to the means of intellectual improvement.
Party spirit may exacerbate into such schemes of political intolerance, of violent persecution and civil massacre, as may compel us to seek for refuge in the repose of despotism; in the same manner as the unfortunate French have done.
A separation of the states by involving them in continual hostilities with each other, may subject them to the necessity of giving additional strength to the arm of the Executive department.
Each of these evils is of sufficient potency to excite all our apprehensions and vigilance. Every laudable expedient should be employed to prevent their operation. Peace should be our policy, wherever it was compatible with the liberal honour of the nation. Schools, presses, libraries and learned societies should be established to enlighten the public mind, and to stem the rising tide of luxury; for mind is the only antidote to sensuality. —Party spirit should be conducted on the principles of liberal reason: general rules should be laid down, to provide for every important exigency that can be expected to arise, and such political evils, as result from the properly organized department of the government, should be redressed as soon as possible, but patiently borne until the proper corrective can be properly applied.
As to the union of these states, it must be guarded by the love of the people; by a never failing sense of the benefits which it diffuses; by the most vigilant effort of every individual to expose, and of the public functionaries to punish the conspirator, who should dare to labour its dissolution.
The good sense of the people of the United States will instruct them to prize and to protect their confederation. They must see that it is the only expedient which has ever been contrived, for securing a perfect administration of their local concerns, and a perfect security against foreign enemies and domestic disturbance. The state governments produce the first: it is left to the general government to secure the other. The first are sufficiently small, to administer every local affair; the last renders them sufficiently large to oppose an enemy, without subjecting themselves to the mischiefs of quarrelling with each other.
So long therefore as the sober good sense of the people is brought into operation, the pillars of these states will be as firm as the pillars of the world. That good sense must convince them, that let the partial inconveniences they may sustain from the union be ever so great, these may be stated still greater inconveniences to result from their dissolution. So long therefore as the people are actuated by cool and reasonable considerations; so long as they will listen to their interests, and not to the momentary follies of their feelings; it is impossible but the union of these states must be immortal.
But it is a memorable fact in the history of political revolutions, that they are not always achieved by the sober sense of the great mass of the people, but too often by the ambition of interested individuals. If this ambition has instruments already prepared to its hands, in the mischievous form of a standing army; why; —the business is at once accomplished. Let the good sense of the people be ever so well opposed to their machinations; the discipline of the bayonet puts the gag upon their exertions. But should this instrument be wanting; should it become necessary to dragon the opinion of the people; to enlist their minds into the service, and not to compel them by an armed force; to make themselves the faithless instruments of their own ruin; why—the good sense of the people is not an infallible security against danger. It is then that ambition labours not to enlighten their understandings, but to excite their feelings. It embraces some specious pretext; some particular object of general concernment in which the public are really or only apparently interested; and out of this, they strive to create some subject of complaint; some means of exciting the public feelings. If they wish to separate one part of a country from another, and thus to carve out districts, where they themselves may reign ascendancy; they raise the cry of tyranny, of oppression, of abused interest. The hue once raised, is propagated through the nerves of the people; and like the cry of mad dog through the welkin, it terminates in the destruction of its victim. The union is dissolved; and the poor deluded people are left to blend their lamentations over the consequences of their own credulity, with their curses over the duplicity of the conspirator who produced their delusion.
What then? —Let us recollect, that the union of these states, the sheet anchor of their safety, rests upon the good sense of the people; upon this basis, it may be confidently reposed for a long period to come; but that there is still one danger, which affails its safety. That danger results from the ambition of able, cunning and indefatigable individuals. Let us know our danger, for an overweening confidence in our strength may cause our ruin. It is no wonder therefore, that every rumour which relate to this important subject, should seize our attention. Such is the one, which is at present before us:
The rumour which has circulated through this city, is of a nature calculated to arrest our attention without impetuous us with any serious apprehensions. It is reported, that a cabinet Council has been setting in Washington for three days; that Col. Burr and Gen. Wilkinson were about to organize a new government, with the avowed intention of separating the western from the Atlantic country, and erecting an independent government, to the west of the Alleghany mountains.—It is added that orders had been dispatched to Kentucky, to arrest Col. Burr.
Such is the rumour, which circulates among us; and which we deem entitled to no serious credit:
Because, if ever there existed a time, when such suspicions ought to be expected, or if ever there were men, upon whom they should be fastened, this is the time and Col. Burr and Gen. Wilkinson are the men. It is universally known that the whole western country is now agitated by the rumours of a former conspiracy. Would it then be a subject of astonishment, that new suspicions should be excited, where there seemed to exist the slightest materials for a new conspiracy; & that those suspicions should light upon those very men, who had been once suspected of similar designs?
Because, almost at the very moment when Col. Burr last bent his steps towards the western country, a rumour of this very design was set on foot by the papers of the North; and a similar rumour was suggested by the "Western World," the moment he entered Frankfort. Would it then be surprising if the rumours now afloat, are but the mere echoes of those, which were originally propagated by these papers? And were not these rumours bottomed upon vague suspicions, or at best, upon contemporary circumstances of a most dubious complexion?
Because, to suspect it possible for such men to form such a design, would be to presuppose an ignorance of the sentiments of our western brethren, from which these gentlemen ought certainly to be exempted; or it would be to presuppose a disposition to sedition & to treason, in the western states, which all our knowledge of that country forbids us to ascribe to them. One of these things must exist, before we can seriously admit the existence of such a conspiracy; but neither of these events can possibly be admitted.
Would Col. Burr or General Wilkinson have formed such a perilous plan, without having founded the sentiments of the west? Far from it. They would not have suffered a single doubt to rest on the subject; they would have probed the disposition not only of the leading men of the west, but of the great mass of the people. They would have ascertained that that disposition was or would be completely in their favour, before they would have hazarded their all upon such a hazardous game. But from every circumstance which we have collected, about the western people; from the very nature of their existing situation; it would be impossible to suspect their attachment to our government.
They have just obtained from our administration, not merely a right of deposit on the banks of the Mississippi, but the free, uncontrolled, and uncontrollable navigation of it. At this very moment, not contented with the boon which has thus been given them, our administration is assiduously labouring to extend the obligation by obtaining an equally free navigation of the Mobile for their more southern brethren; the inhabitants of Tennessee and the Mississippi territories. It would be a degree of ingratitude; it would be an insatiable blindness to their own interests; which cannot be supposed to exist; were such men at such a time disposed to separate themselves from their Atlantic brethren.
But this ingratitude and insatiable, do not exist. We have seen intelligent gentlemen from Kentucky, who contradict such a supposition. Not two days ago, we saw a letter from a gentleman of Frankfort, which declares the western people to be indissolubly attached to the union. Even admitting then that Col.
Burr and Gen. Wilkinson were ripe for this infamous insurrection, where could they have obtained sufficient materials for the accomplishment of their designs; or where could they have found them among the enlightened people of the West?
Most certain it is, that such suspicions are propagated through the western country; and if the information of their public prints, be admitted as true, it is most certain that there are materials enough for the strongest suspicion. The following curious suggestions, for instance, are extracted from the file of western papers, which we received by yesterday's mail. We present them to our readers, because the importance of the subject gives a value to every trifle: but we have never more distinctly felt the necessity of the most scrupulous scepticism.
"We can with confidence assert, that Col. Burr since his arrival in Kentucky has drawn for upwards of two hundred thousand dollars from houses in Lexington, Bardstown and Louisville."
So says the Western World of October 4th; and aye, it "asserts it with confidence," too. But substance this enormous sum, perhaps greater than the whole circulating medium of Kentucky? For aught that we have heard, Col. Burr is not yet gifted with the magic purfe of Fortunatus; nor is Gen. Wilkinson, nor is any one, that is likely to be a participator of their schemes. No man, but of the most desperate fortunes, is cut out for such a desperate design. Office and wealth would have quietly reposed upon their cushions, and left the dangers and the profits to such, as had neither the wealth nor the office to lose.—But what casts a still more ridiculous air over this wonderful tale of 200,000 dollars, is the strange and ridiculous attempt of the editors of the Western World to interweave it with the history of their own important adventures. Magna pars fui. "How many of these dollars (quoth these gentlemen) will it require to pack a grand jury to answer the purposes of the conspirators?" It was therefore the interest of these gentlemen to represent Col. Burr's resources as great as possible, since these resources might be directed against themselves.—But had they indeed existed, in the enormous extent represented by the Western World, they would certainly have been calculated to give a colouring to the suspicions, which have been circulated about him.
The Kentucky Gazette published at Lexington has the following curious article:
We give the following extract, without vouching for its correctness, or believing it ourselves.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Nicholas county, dated 28th September.
"Col. Burr has engaged every ship-wright at Marietta, at double tides, and high wages, to build 15 gun-boats, to row 32 oars—and a schooner of 120 tons, to draw only five and a half feet water, for an expedition to — where, is the question."
(Kentucky Gazette.)
No: the true question is, can any confidence be reposed in the fact itself? Had Col. B. conceived any such design as has been ascribed to him, would he have proceeded to its execution in so marked and public a manner as was calculated to give it celat ? Would he not have adopted any other expedient, than thus to have drawn upon him the sleepless eye of the administration? If Col. Burr be really the conspirator which some have imagined, may all other conspirators resemble him in being equally undigested and equally imprudent!
The next thread which we introduce into this tissue of suspicion, is the following extract from a New-Orleans paper:
GEN. JAMES WILKINSON, it has already been stated, has arrived at Fort-Adams, on his way to Natchitoches. It is asserted that the General does not intend to resume his functions as Governor of Upper Louisiana.—But has recommended Dr. BROWN, the present secretary of the Territory, (a brother-in-law of Col. Burr,) as his successor—and it is said a petition is in circulation among the friends of the General, to recommend Dr. B. to the President for that office. We give these reports as we find them in letters from St. Louis, published in Kentucky and Pennsylvania papers. Orleans Gaz.
Whether Gen. Wilkinson resumes his functions as governor of upper Louisiana, is uncertain upon the very face of this report. We dare however to confide in its correctness. We trust that no union of such opposite offices will ever flourish in our country, as that of a high military with a high civil appointment; as commander of the army with the governor of a territory.—Equally uncertain is it, whether Gen. Wilkinson has recommended D. Brown, the brother-in-law of Col. Burr, as his successor. If it were true, it certainly affords a slight shade of colouring to the supposition of his association with Col. Burr; but why not account for this recommendation on more charitable grounds? Is it a matter of such astonishment, that the present governor of Louisiana should recommend the present secretary of the Territory, as his successor? It must be astonishing ingenuity indeed that could extract "treason and stratagem" from such materials as these."
By far the most suspicious of all the publications, which we have seen in allusion to this subject, is an enquiry instituted and even kept up in the Ohio Gazette, printed at Marietta, respecting Col. Burr's designs in the western country. Speaking of Col. B. the querist observes: "It should be known, however, to the intelligent of the western country, that the National Intelligencer will never dare to take part in the inculcation of one man, whose views a desperate paragrapher in Frankfort has foolishly attempted to fathom. A Wilkinson or a Brown may gaze for a moment on the ignis fatuus that has danced upon the swamps of Frankfort; but a spark from the genius of a Burr would dissipate the vapour."
On the 11th ultimo, after some very virulent remarks upon the present administration of the general government, the writer enquires into the remedy for these alleged evils; "Shall we compose our alarms in the hope of reviving federalists and federalism? But that party, if it could be rallied, never will assist, never did co-operate in unity of sentiment or individuality of interest." The author seeks his remedy, as may naturally be conjectured, in the diffusion of the Western from the Atlantic states. "A great previous question involving our dearest rights and independence, viz. "how long these anti-Alleghany countries will continue, as at present, members of the Federal union," first demands our earliest investigation; and among the causes that have retarded or hitherto prevented the information of the people on both sides of the Alleghany on this subject; there seems no hesitation to enumerate the following; 1st. An impolitic jealousy of the growing wealth and consequence of the western country, cherished under various forms, by all parties in power, since the revolution; 2dly, Commercial prejudices in the Atlantic states; 3dly, The general poverty of a large majority of the emigrants to these western countries, and the greater facility they experience here of settling themselves in ordinary circumstances above that they possess to the eastward."
Our London advices are now brought down to the 10th of September. They state neither the death of Mr. Fox nor the return of Lord Lauderdale from Paris. But verbal accounts, and even letters from Liverpool are said to have been received as late as the 17th, which positively assert that Mr. Fox is dead, and that Lord L. had actually arrived in London. The first report is probably too true: of the latter there still exists considerable doubt. The Schooner Superior left Marseilles on the 17th Sept. on which day (says the Baltimore Fed. Gaz.) "an American gentleman there informed capt. Forbes, that accounts from Paris of the 10th Sept. bore a greater appearance of war, than since the negotiation commenced, though Lord Lauderdale had not then taken his departure."
In the death of Mr. Fox, England has lost the greatest statesman, of whom she could ever have boasted, and the only man who could have saved her from many of the storms, which now assail her prosperity.
Mr. Fox was the only man in England, who could bind together its discordant parties. He may have been properly denominated the Key Stone of their political arch.
Mr. Fox was the only man of considerable influence, who was opposed to continental connections. He was of course, the only statesman in the cabinet, or who is likely to be there, that could have preferred England from a new continent. Should such a scheme have been agitated, the loss to England would have been only estimated by the acquisitions of France.
Mr. Fox was the statesman upon whom the people reposed their greatest hopes: It was he, who gave energy to the national sentiment. He was the grand source of the resolution which they have lately displayed. By losing him, England has lost her principal bulwark against the power of France, or what was equally dangerous, the blind infatuation of her own ministers.
Mr. Fox would have given her peace, could it be made consistently with the national honour.
The death of Mr. Fox is therefore the greatest loss which his country could have sustained.
To our own country, it may be a source of deep regret. It is well known that there was no statesman in the cabinet, from whom we could have expected so favourable an adjustment of our differences. There was no man, better affected towards the rights of neutrals, because there was none, in whom the respect for great principles, or the desire of conciliating the solid affection of other nations, had so completely overcome selfish regards to interests of inferior importance. If Lords Auckland & Holland had so far progressed in their negotiation with our commissioners, that it is impossible for the English cabinet to retract from their terms, we may hope for a favourable adjustment. But if not, we may apprehend the worst. Mr. Fox has not left behind him his expanded spirit; and the disposition of the Grenville party whose ascendancy in the cabinet will now be complete, is too well known to promise much in favour of peace, of justice, or of the rights of the U. S.
COMMUNICATED.
A letter, dated St. Lewis, 25th September, states that captains Lewis and Clarke unexpectedly arrived at that place, the evening before, from their excursion to the Pacific ocean. The letter does not state under what latitude and longitude they reached its shores. They ascended the Missouri for upwards of 3000 miles. About 2000 up that river, they met with falls and rapids, and a passage of more than 18 miles became necessary.—In crossing the Stone mountains many days were employed by the party. In the month of June, some parts of those mountains were covered with snow 14 feet deep. Near the mouth of the river Columbia, they found about one hundred and seventy nations or tribes. Some among those they represent as possessed of a fierce intratrabant spirit, whilst others exhibit a gentle and hospitable disposition. None of the party was killed. Only captain Lewis was accidentally wounded by one of his own people. With them, our travellers have brought skins and horns of different animals. The gentleman who writes has been presented by them with a horn of an Ix , weighing about 30 lbs. In crossing mountains covered with snow, they were obliged to subsist on roots, specimens of which they flew our informant. In going and coming they have employed about 48 months. They are accompanied by a Mandane Indian and his wife. The Mandane nation, of which these are members, is numerous and powerful, and inhabits about 2000 miles up the Missouri.
It is stated in a northern print, (by way of rumour) that CAESAR A. RODNEY, Esqr. late of Delaware and now of Philadelphia, has been appointed an Associate Justice of the United States, vice WILLIAM PATTERSON, Esqr. deceased. Such an appointment must be peculiarly grateful, to every admirer of talents, and every friend of republican principles.
FOR PORT GLASGOW,
The British Ship PHOENIX, Captain EDINGTON, daily expected at Barnuda Hundred, burthen about 400 hds. Tobacco. She will take on Freight Tobacco, Cotton, &c. on moderate terms; apply to JAMES F. LEITCH & Co. Manchester, Nov. 4. etc.
THE Subscriber practices the law in the court of Appeals, the Superior courts of Chancery, and Common Law for the Richmond district, and in the Federal court. Wm. W. HENING. Nov. 4. oaw4w.
ON the second Wednesday in December next, I shall offer for sale to the highest bidder, at Penobscot Court-House:
ABOUT thirty NEGROES, consisting of men, women and children, on the following terms: one third cash and the balance in twelve months. Bonds with approved security will be required, carrying interest from the date, but if punctually paid, the interest will not be demanded. Wm. RANDOLPH. Milton, Nov. 4. etc.
BY VIRTUE of a Deed of Trust, executed to me by Armistead Russell, to secure the payment of one thousand two hundred and nineteen pounds and eight pence, due from said Russell to Bartholemew Dandridge, SHALL, on Monday the 24th of the present month, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, at New-Kent C. H. that valuable tract of LAND lying in N. Kent County, called Poindexter's, containing six hundred and thirty-six acres, together with twelve likely young NEGROES, or so much of the said property as will be sufficient to satisfy the said debt with interest from the 23rd of May, 1806, until paid, and the expenses attending the execution of the said deed of trust. Wm. ARMISTEAD, Trustee. Nov. 4. 124th.
THE subscriber has accommodations for Twenty Five Gentlemen of the Legislature. He has also Stabling for as many Horses. ALEXANDER QUARRIER. October 17.

Miscellaneous
From the National Intelligencer.
To the members of the North-Carolina Gold Mine Company
GENTLEMEN, I lately visited the land in North-Carolina belonging to the company...
This was one of the most unfavourable seasons I could have selected for an examination of the runs for gold.
I now propose to show, that, if any such addition had been necessary, it might have been made by his majesty and his royal consort...
W. THORNTON. City of Washington, October 20, 1806.
find the following curious directions from him to a hypochondriac patient.
I know not a more powerful remote cause of melancholy than Young's Night Thoughts.
The order of his management through the day may be the following:- For breakfast, toast and rich soup made on a flow fire.
From Poulton's Philadelphia Paper.
To the Merchants and other Citizens of the City of Philadelphia.
You are respectfully informed a plan of a voyage to an Island in a Southern Latitude...
N. B. A Silver Ore Bank of growing Silver, properly called Virgin Silver, is the object which the projector aims at...
ECONOMY OF MONARCHS.
Most wonderful to tell! William Cobbett has kept forward the fearless opponent of pensions, sinecures, and the prodigality of the English government.
This is, then, the sum which in the year 1803 (to say nothing about additions and arrears, nothing about palaces & lands and exemptions from taxes) was paid by the nation for the support of the king, the queen, and the maiden princesses.
sum appropriated by parliament for the civil list expenses of 1803 (that is to say, for the year ending with 5th of January, 1804, according to the clear mode of keeping and stating the public accounts)...
First class-The pensions and allowances to the royal family £ 202,500 0 9
Second class-Salaries to the lord chancellor, lord keeper, commissioners of the great seal, speaker of the house of commons & the judges £ 2,955 0 0
Third class-Salaries to ministers at foreign courts, being resident at the said courts. £ 106,936 6 8 1-4
Fourth class-Approved bills of all tradesmen, artificers, and laborers, for any article supplied, or work done for his majesty's service £ 226,710
Fifth class-The menial servants of his majesty's household £ 97,589 4 11
Sixth class-Pensions £ 113,096 7 4
Seventh class-This class has no title; and, indeed, it would puzzle any one to give it a title. It consists chiefly of a list of officers and of the salaries severally attached to them...
Eighth class-The salaries and pensions of the high treasurer, or commissioner of the treasury, and chancellor of the exchequer £ 18,822 0 0
Ninth class-Occasional payments £ 202,752 19 7 1-4
Total £ 1,148,851 2 1 1-4
But, from this must be deducted the following sums paid to branches of the royal family under the head of Fifth class:
To the prince of Wales £ 60,000 - Duke of York 12,000 - Duchess of Cumberland 4,000 - Duke of Clarence 2,500 - Princess Charlotte of Wales 6,000 - Duke of Cambridge 4,000
Another view of the subject will bring me at once to the point that I am at. The charges in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth classes, include every expense of whatever nature, made in support of his majesty, the queen, and those of their children who remain with their majesties.
their original principal and to the length of the time during which the accumulation may have been going on. But, for argument's sake, suppose that their majesties have freed none of this money; suppose that, notwithstanding the exemption provided for by law of his majesty's property in the public funds...
ELLIS & ALLAN INFORM their friends, that they have received a part of their FALL GOODS, per the ships Hercules from Liverpool, and Delphina from London.
THE SUBSCRIBERS, UNDER THE FIRM OF LESUEUR & SAUNDERS, Inform their friends and the public, that they will continue the COMMISSION business, lately done by C. & T. Saunders.
GERMAN GOODS, Just Received from Bremen- consisting of LINENS.
THE Subscribers, under the firm of Darmstadt, Foster and Satchell, have opened an AUCTION & COMMISSION STORE, at the foot of the Bridge, where they will sell publicly, on every Wednesday and Saturday morning.
TO BE SOLD FOR CASH, ON Saturday the 8th November, at the Store door of the subscriber: The residue of the estate of John Watkins, dec'd. consisting chiefly of household and kitchen Furniture, a negro Man and an Horse.
JOHN SOUTHGATE, AT the house lately occupied by Messrs. Thomas and Amos Ladd, and directly opposite the Union Tavern, offers for sale, a pretty general assortment of FALL GOODS.
THE SUBSCRIBER, HAS just received a large assortment of CHINA, China Glazed and Crockery WARE, and very soon expects a handsome parcel of Glass to arrive...
NOTICE, WHEREAS, in consequence of the death of Robt. Burton, the partnership of Brown, Rives & Co. and of the different branches of that House, at Norfolk, Cairo, Bent Creek, Lynchburg, New-Market, Warrenton and Milton, will terminate...
THE Subscriber, has taken the Store lately occupied by Granberry and Hancock, where he offers for sale at reduced prices, 3 Bales blue Cloths, 1 Bale assorted Flannels.
FOR SALE, TWO Half Acre LOTS, on the Main-street, immediately opposite Mr. John Graham's, being half of Alexander Quarrier's figure.
FOR SALE-ON the lowest terms: 2500 Sacks of LIVERPOOL SALT, and 90 Crates of LIVERPOOL EARTHEN WARE of superior quality & well assorted.
FOR SALE, A TRACT OF LAND, in Albemarle County, on the waters of Duck Island Creek, on the south side of the Rivanna River, containing by survey four hundred and seventy acres.
NOTICE, ALL persons having claims against the estate of Samuel Scherer dec'd. are requested to bring them forward, properly authenticated before the 1st of November...
FOR SALE, THE LOT AND HOUSES wherein John Mauldin, Esq. the British Consul, resides: on it was a three story Dwelling-House, an Office and Kitchen, and other necessary Houses for family use.
FOR SALE, A LOT of well timbered LAND, with a good Fishery on Willoughby's Bay, taking in the mouth and part of Malon's Creek, where the best of Oysters and Fish can be conveniently taken.