The recorder (Richmond, Va.), 1803-04-27 00:00:00

THE RECORDER;
PRINTED BY HENRY PACE, & JAMES T. CALLENDER, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA; PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. SUBSCRIPTION FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1803.
THE MANCHESTER MILLS.
ARE now offered on LEASE, for 3, 5, or 7 years. The superior advantages which they possess over any other mills in the neighbourhood of Richmond are too evident to require comment. For terms, apply to Mr. Samuel Jones, or to
JOHN MAYO.
Richmond, April 19, 1803.
6t. '1.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN AWAY from the subscriber on Sunday the 17th inst. two apprentice boys, shoe-makers by trade, the one named Timothy M'Mara, about eighteen years old, dark short hair, fair complexion, about five feet five inches high; had on when he went off, a long brown coat, white waistcoat, brown pantaloon and half boots.
The name of the other is William Jordan, about eighteen years old, dark hair, dark complexion, and about five feet seven inches high; had on when he went off a grey round jacket, white waistcoat, dark striped pantaloon and half boots. Whoever takes up said lads and lodge them in any jail, or bring them to me, shall have the above reward, and all reasonable expences paid them, by
DAVID LOGAN, Shoe-Maker.
Richmond, 18th April, 1803.
N. B. All masters of vessels and other persons are warned from harboring them, at their peril. 3t. '1.
STEPHEN BROWN,
GUN SMITH, FROM LONDON,
GRATEFUL for the patronage he has received from his friends and the public, begs leave to return his acknowledgements, and assures them, that nothing shall be wanting, on his part, to secure to himself a continuation of their favors. He has by him a great number of guns and pistols left with him to repair, which have been long finished. As he has suffered many inconveniences from the want of the different firms due him on this account, he feels himself constrained to request the proprietors respectively to pay charges and take them away. Those who fail to comply with this request are informed that all articles of this description which may remain on hand after July 20, 1803, will be sold at public sale, to defray the expences of their repairs.
Richmond, April 19, 1803.
N. B. One or two apprentices wanted to the above business.
S. Brown, has on hand, for sale, a variety of guns and pistols. 3t. '1.
STALLD BEEVES,
Muttons, and 15000 weight of choice Bacon,
FOR SALE.
FOR cash, or respectable merchants notes at sixty days. I can furnish a purchaser with seventy as fat bullocks as any in the state, perhaps not quite so large boned as the cattle from the South Branch of the Potomac, but equally fat. In preference I would sell them on the spot where they are stalled, but will drive them to Norfolk, Richmond, or Petersburg, if previously engaged by a butcher, or any other person inclined to buy, and as it may not be convenient, to take, or pay for the whole at one time, a purchaser may have any part not less than ten if taken here, but if driven by my own people, they must all go at one time. I have also a number of exceeding fat muttons, and 15000 weight of choice bacon, the hams salt-petred with particular care, and the whole made out of large fat hogs, and intended for the use of private families. Letters, post-paid, directed to me by mail to MARSHALLSVILLE, MECKLENBURG county shall be duly noticed.
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM,
for Sir PEYTON SKIPWITH, Baronet.
At a meeting of the Common Hall, for the city of Richmond, called by the Mayor, and held at the house of William Rose, in the said city, on Monday the 28th day of February, 1803. Resolved, that the Mayor give notice in the newspapers, that the Hall have adopted a plan for a POOR HOUSE, and will receive proposals from undertakers for building the same, at any time before the third Monday in next month. The plan is lodged in the hands of Mr. Robert B. James. The proposals must be made in writing.
A copy Teste ADAM CRAIG, C. C. H. C. R.
TO THE PUBLIC.
MANY gentlemen residing in states north of this have addressed letters to us, to send them the Recorder; and requested we would name any person in Philadelphia, or New York, where they could send their subscription money. We take this opportunity of informing the public, that Mr. Lewis, paper-maker, at Philadelphia, will receive any subscriptions sent for the Recorder, and Mr. Coleman, printer of the New York Herald, at New York.
BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber takes this mode of returning his thanks to his former patrons, and informing the public in general, that he has (by desire of his friends) re-commenced the MANUFACTURING OF BURR MILL-STONES, and having furnished himself with a supply of the best materials, and having had sixteen years experience in the business in Baltimore, Petersburg, and Richmond, hopes to be able to give satisfaction to his employers. The stones he will warrant to be as good as any in the United States.
Any orders left with Capt. WILLIAM PENNOCK, Norfolk; Capt. WILLIAM CHAMBERS, Staunton; Mr. WILLIAM HAY, Wythe County; or Mr. ROBERT MOORE, Petersburg, shall be duly attended to, and country produce received in payment at the customary prices.
TWO APPRENTICES will be taken to the above business, and short time required. WILLIAM DAVIDSON. Richmond, Jan. 10th 1803. (tf.)
N. B. For sale, PLAISTER of PARIS, in stone or ground, for the improvement of land, with directions for the use thereof.
RICHMOND MILLS.
THE public are hereby respectfully informed, that we shall continue to furnish Meal and Hominy for next quarter at the same prices as the last, viz. for Meal per bushel of 50 lbs. 3s 6d. Hominy per bushel of 50 lbs. 3s 3d. And they are requested to take notice, that these articles will only be delivered hereafter to tickets which may be had at our counting-house.
T. RUTHERFOORD & Co.
March 31st. 1803.
TO BE RENTED,
THAT large and convenient BRICK TENEMENT in this city, lately occupied by Mr. Robert Turner, as a Tavern and Boarding-House, situate on the corner of the Main-Street; and that leading to Col. Mayo's Bridge. The central situation thereof cannot fail (if rented by a gentleman qualified for the purpose) to ensure a considerable number of respectable boarders; or, it is an eligible residence for a genteel private family. The premises may be entered, on the first day of March next, or immediately, as circumstance may suit; for terms apply to
ROBERT GAMBLE
WHO has for sale a handsome assortment of CARPETS and CARPETING, and genuine PORTWINE, in pipes and quarter casks.
THE SUBSCRIBERS
TO the Washington Federalist are respectfully informed, that I am empowered by Mr. William Rind, to receive payment of the balances due to him in this city, and neighbourhood.
THOMAS TAYLOR.
Vendue Master.
Richmond, Feb. 26th. 1803.
TO RENT,
AND possession given the first of next month the upper part of the house occupied by the subscribers, in which there are five convenient rooms, together with a good kitchen and stable for three horses. There is a well of water in the yard.
Apply to THOMAS AND AMOS LADD.
Richmond, April, 2d. 1803
tf.
CITY OF RICHMOND,
In Common Hall, Jan. 17th 1803 WHEREAS the present funds of the corporation are not adequate to the expence of erecting a WORKHOUSE for the city, which would combine within itself all the conveniencies which a well regulated institution of this kind would require; having a regard to the future population of this city, yet it is wise and expedient that the funds now destined for this useful institution should be laid out in such a manner as to answer the present purposes of the corporation, and to admit such future additions as the encreasing population may require. Your Committee, therefore, beg leave to recommend it to the consideration of the Common Hall, to call in the aid of those who have experience of such institutions, and to offer a premium for the best plan of a Workhouse, which will be so contrived as to admit of being erected in parts, as the funds of the corporation will from time to time afford.
Resolved, therefore, that the committee appointed to prepare a plan of a Workhouse be discharged from further proceeding therein. And that the Mayor be requested to give notice in the newspapers, or otherwise, that the sum of thirty dollars will be given by the corporation, as a premium to the person who shall produce to the Hall, on the third Monday in February next, the best plan of a Workhouse, constructed as above mentioned, and to be approved of by the Hall, estimating the cost at four thousand dollars.
Copy Teste ADAM CRAIG, C. C. H.
NOTICE.
THE co-partnership of Adams and Fisher, was, on the 12th of last month dissolved by mutual consent. All those having claims against that concern, will apply to James Fisher for settlement, and those indebted will make immediate payment as no further indulgence can be given.
RICHARD ADAMS. JAMES FISHER.
N. B. James Fisher having purchased the stock of goods belonging to Adams and Fisher, intends carrying the business on for his own account. The assortment of goods is equal to any in that line.
Richmond, April 6th, 1803. (tf.)
RICHMOND MILLS.
THE subscriber hereby informs the public, that at length, after much trouble and expence, he has nearly completed one of his Mills on the James River Canal, in which there are two pair of Burr stones for manufacturing WHEAT, and two pair of Cologne stones now ready to grind CORN.
That the inconveniences which might arise from delay and difference of measures may be avoided, CORN will be received only by weight, at fifty pounds to the bushel, and a supply of MEAL and HOMINY will always be kept ready to give in exchange, at the rate of eighty-five pounds of Meal, or ninety-two pounds of Hominy, for one hundred pounds of Corn.
After the loss of weight by cleaning, and evaporation in grinding is deducted, the toll on Meal will be only about one tenth, and on Hominy one twentieth; it will, therefore, be much to the interest of those who keep horses, to have all their Corn ground.
As the subscriber is now providing a Fan and Screen for the purpose of cleaning the Corn effectually before it is ground, and as the Meal will be made from the best Corn only, and none but such as is merchantable will be received, he hopes that general satisfaction will be given.
THOMAS RUTHERFOORD.
N. B. The deduction for Storage and Shrinkage on Corn, deposited to be exchanged for Meal and Hominy, will be made as moderate as possible. January 1, 1803.
BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber returns sincere thanks to his friends and the public generally, for the very great encouragement he received in his line of business since his commencement in Richmond. He has lately received a large supply of excellent Burr-Stones at his manufactory, and does not hesitate to say, that he will sell Burr Mill-Stones as cheap as they were ever sold in the United States; he will warrant them to be of the best quality, and give ample security (if required) for their performance. Country produce will be taken in payment, or a short credit given; he has almost every sized Mill-Stone ready for delivery; also PLAISTER of PARIS ground and in the stone.
CARSON HOLIDAY.
Richmond, Jan. 25th, 1803. (tf.)
A QUANTITY OF STONE LIME
In Tierses, for sale by
WILLIAM DAVIDSON,
Who has just received a large quantity of excellent IRISH POTATOES which he will sell cheap for cash.
Richmond, April 2d. 1803.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Gentlemen, who wish to subscribe to the Saturday's Recorder, are requested to send in their subscriptions, within a very few days. But this they need not do, unless they send, at the same time, two dollars in advance. The next Saturday's paper, to wit that of the 26th. current, is the last that can be issued to any person either in town or country, unless to those that have paid for it, one year in advance.
In pleading before the court of Henrico against the King of Clubs, Mr. William Marshall observed that "The Recorder had "the most extensive circulation of any news- "paper in Virginia; and that there was ne- "ver, perhaps, an instance of such an exten- "sive patronage acquired by any other news- "paper, in so short a time."—This pa- "tronage has been acquired by exposing, with an impartial hand, the faults of all parties.
There never was more occasion for political vigilance than at present. As the bible says, there is DEATH in the pot. There exists an atrocious conspiracy against the liberty of the press, and, of course, against the liberty of the people. This can be doubted by nobody that has heard of Cromwell's trial, on which we have enlarged at so much length.
Again, the right of selecting their own magistrates has in effect, been torn from a majority of the citizens of Richmond, by a phalanx of democratical usurpers.
Take notice, also, of what follows. In last session of assembly, Mr. Venable proposed a declaratory resolution that the truth shall be given in evidence in cases of libel. This resolution was, for that time, defeated by Peter Carr, the correspondent, such as he was, of general Washington, and the confidential agent and nephew of Thomas Jefferson. There can be no doubt that Peter, like his apostolical namesake, was inspired from ABOVE.
Richmond,
March 23, 1803.
JUST PUBLISHED
AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE
PRICE TWO SHILLINGS AND THREE-PENCE
THE CONDUCT
OF MERIWETHER JONES,
IN A SERIES OF LETTERS,
ADDRESSED
TO THE PUBLIC, By JAMES T. CALLENDER.
MANY gentlemen, when subscribing to this paper, have enquired for complete sets of the Recorder. These are not to be had. But this little publication will, in some measure, supply the want of them. Besides the seven letters to Jones, the last of which has run through every state, and every second newspaper in the union, the collection contains many other articles. Among these are, Defence of Aaron Burr—Rev. Samuel Coleman No. 1—Defence of Timothy Pickering—A little more about republican economy—with a variety of small pieces.
FOR SALE,
A few likely young NEGROES,
For particulars enquire of the Printer. Richmond, March, 7th 1803.

(The Letter from Newbern, (N.C.)
(Continued from our last.)
THE stratagem succeeded. For this we have the testimony of the great philosopher himself; who tells us, that he laboured the whole of the year 1801, and part of the winter of 1802, to complete a manuscript copy for Mons. De Marbois; who, in the mean time, by means of the information he had occasionally received from our mild, our serene, our benevolent and unsuspecting author, as an answer to a query was finished, had well nigh convinced the French ministry, that he was un homme des grandes affaires , qualified for the appointment of intendant of America; and as a proof of the effect, when, through the inflexible patriotism and unmanagable integrity of two of our commissioners, a peace was concluded with Great Britain, and a different destination seemed to be ordained for America, from that which the French government had laboured to appoint, Mons. De Marbois received the office of intendant of St. Domingo.
One of the strongest characteristics of the manners and habits of savage life is, that in war, the chief occupation of a savage never attacks his enemy openly, but waits patiently until he can discover where he is most weak, or until he can take him by stratagem, or by surprise: another characteristic is, that among savages, or men in a state of nature, the strong seize and appropriate the labours of the weak, without any signs of justice or conscience. Each of these characteristic marks of savage manners, strongly concur in the conduct of the foreigner of distinction towards the author of the Notes. He first finds out the author's great weakness, makes his assault by stratagem and surprise; conquers him; and appropriates his labour, which completely divests the conduct of the foreigner of every vestige of the morality which the change from the savage state supposes: and consequently admonishes me to seek else where for the cause of the resemblance between your queries and his.
Thus have I fatigued my philosophy, and worried your patience, in an unsuccessful attempt to explore the cause of the resemblance between your queries and the distinguished foreigner; supposing it might be found, to correspond with the causes which produced the resemblance between the institutions of the renowned lawgivers quoted above. But I must now take another course, which at present appears to be flattering.
The life of every man, however insignificant, or however renowned, has its important incidents, which have contributed to give it a particular destiny. Of this every civilized being will be sensible, if he turns his thoughts back on his past life and conduct. In this operation of the mind, he will trace each turn and change in his fortune, to some event in his life, which will appear to him to have originated in accident: but without the happening of which, he could not have been in his present situation. With very few and rare exceptions, men are heroes, great statesmen, philosophers, poets and historians, apparently by accident. To illustrate this position it is needless to multiply instances from history, when so many may be found in the occurrences of our own times. One or two may suffice. Cowley became a poet, by accidentally taking up Spencer's Fairy Queen, which lay in his mother's parlour window, when he was but a child. And in the Life of Cowley, doctor Johnson says, "The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction." The greatest and most eminent philosopher of our own country, when he turns the eyes of his subtle and discriminating mind, back up-
on the past events of his life, he has the sagacity to discern, and the candour to acknowledge, that if rumour had not accidentally bestowed on him the reputation of being the author of the declaration of independence, his papers could not have made it appear, that he is this day the greatest statesman in America. That if by accident he had not become writer of the Notes on Virginia, his parasites and daubers, could never have proclaimed him to the world with any degree of plausibility, as being the most accomplished scholar, the most sublime and enlightened philosopher, in it. That if by mere accident he had not written an epistle to a printer in Philadelphia, and lent it with the first part of Tom Paine's Rights of Man; and if the epistle, by a kind of fatality, not to be calculated upon, or foreseen, had not been published by the printer; and if the contents of the said epistle, contrary to all foresight and expectation, for nothing was meant by what was said, more than to avoid the baldness of a note, had not raised the warwhoop of democracy against Mr. Adams, and his book written in defence of the American constitutions; the sycophants and panders of his appetite for popular applause, could not have persuaded the people to believe for a moment, that he is the most profound and sagacious politician, and most virtuous patriot on earth: and that he might at this moment, have been in the peaceful enjoyment of uninterrupted repose at Monticello, pursuing his philosophical inquiries, and Mr. Adams would have retained his place as president of the United States: and that, if by the same kind of single and unmissed accident, which produced the last mentioned wayward occurrence and epistle; he had not paid James Thompson Callender, one hundred dollars for writing the Prospect Before Us, and for the last twelve years of his life practised on the canting, hypocritical and degrading pretence of a tender regard and indulgence for the poor, the worthless, the beggarly and the lazy, they would never have placed him, in pure republican lustre, and shining democratic accomplishments, above all other illustrious democrats and republicans, which have appeared within that time, either in France or America. Nor would they have chosen him president of the United States. For with all these adventitious aids, it was uphill work to get him elected; and without them what a deplorable figure would the numerous writers of his life and character have made! They would have been, like the young gentleman mentioned by Mr. Lock, who could dance without the assistance of an old trunk, placed in one corner of his room.
Mr. John Adams, in looking back on the past events of his life, is conscious, that if it had not been his lot to write a book in defence of the American constitutions, and his fate to address an indistinct letter to Tench Cox, that he would still have been president of the United States. And Tench Cox is convinced, that if he had not, by a fawning parasitical attention, wriggled himself into the confidence of Mr. Adams, he certainly would not have written such a letter to him: and if Cox had not had the baseness to publish it, Mr. Jefferson would never have appointed him supervisor of the revenue of Pennsylvania.
(To be continued.)
FROM THE FREDERICK TOWN HERALD.
MANAGING THEIR OWN AFFAIRS IN THEIR OWN WAY.
A democratic Congress have voted two millions and two thousand five hundred dollars, of which the president is to make the best use he pleases. Congress knew they were doing right, and therefore, when they were about to pass this vote they shut their door slap dash in the face of the people! But, as the thing is now done, why are the democrats so silent about it? Do they mean to assent to the conjectures already made as the bribing objects of this secret appropriation? Or will they leave their great friends exposed to suspicions still worse? As yet they have offered no ex-
planation to clear this wilderness of mystery. As yet
"The wide, tho' unbounded prospect lies before us,
"But shadows, clouds and darkness rest upon it."
Again, what have they to say of Mons. Gallatin's report, that ridiculous "Comedy of errors," in which large sums of public money are unaccounted for, and thousands and millions besides are only accounted for upon guess or estimate, in which there is nothing but blunders, slovenness and contradictions from the beginning to the end? Quere. has not Gallatin found by this time, that it was much easier to oppose, than it is to conduct a government?
FROM THE NEW-YORK GAZETTE.
Sedition Law.--Mr. Callender having escaped the bludgeon of counsellor Hay, has been lately threatened, by the Jeffersonians, with fire, and a large stone has been thrown at the men in his office. [See Recorder, March 30th.] Muskets were brought, and the ruffians fled. When Mr. Callender formerly transgressed the law, the federalists did not punish him without trial; but it must be confessed that the mode of the democrats is more expeditious and economical; and there is this further difference, that the partisans of Mr. Jefferson seek to slay him for telling the truth.
A London paper of the 28th Jan. gives the following outlines of a Pamphlet, which recently appeared at Paris:--
"A voyage to Louisiana has just been published at Paris, where, as our readers know, the wisdom of government does not permit private individuals to hazard their unauthorized speculation; and where, consequently, whatever issues from the press, is of far more importance than in those countries of anarchy, where every man may write and publish his opinions. The author of the voyage tells us, that the natural limits of Louisiana extend to the sources of the Mississippi and Missouri, "known and unknown," i. e. a space of two thousand miles! Not content with this specimen of modest geography, he distinctly tell us, that within these natural limits is, "all the country between the Mississippi and the Apalachian Mountains, or, in other words, the states of Kentucky and Tennessee (not to mention the Western Territory,) two of the most prosperous and rapidly progressive members of the American confederacy, and which may indeed, be considered as the region of the earth which is making the greatest strides in improvement."
"The post of the Natchez has it seems, been ceded to the United States by Spain. But this post, says our traveler, must now be ceded by America to France, for three reasons, which in the stile of French diplomacy, are perfectly conclusive--First, Because it is very convenient to France. Secondly, Because it is within the NATURAL LIMITS of Louisiana; and thirdly, Because France has only to demand it, and America will not abuse to risk a quarrel! But this is not all. The author is pleased to allow that the United States ought to have a fair price for this settlement. But France is not to pay that price. She is to compel Spain to pay it on the principle that she ought to cede Louisiana, whole and entire, i. e. to the utmost extent of her natural limits, comprehending more than one half of the territory of the United States of America."
The Louisiana of this writer is a country four times the size even of Modern France. He complains of a projected line of demarkation, which is to exclude Lake Erie, and Lake Superior from the French province! Our friends at Philadelphia may smile at the visions. But we must tell them, that we have seen dreams of ambition apparently almost as extravagant realized in Europe."
CHALLENGE.
From general Napper Tandy, to Mr. Elliot member of the British house of commons.
SIR,
I addressed you the 12th of December last, by post, and not having heard from you in reply, am induced to adopt
this mode to come at you, through the Argus, which, if not a favorite paper of yours, is avowedly read by you. But first, you shall have a fair copy of the letter I alluded to.
(COPY.)
SIR,
The illiberal attack, which you have made upon me, in your speech of the 24th. of November last, in the British house of commons, is the cause of my troubling you with this. "My ignorance and insignificance," which you have painted in such glowing colours, ought, with a man of sense, to have been my protection: but you have proved yourself deficient in this, as in point of good manners and politeness, which are the true criterion of a gentleman.
You cannot, sir, but know, (for you pretend to be a man of information) that I hold a high rank in the army of this great and generous nation, which places me upon a footing with the proudest peer of your island. You know, also, that the honor of a soldier is dearer to him than life; yet, with these facts before you, you have dared to traduce my character, and have attempted to affix a stigma to my name, which nothing can now wipe out, but the blood of one of us. A French officer must not be insulted with impunity, and you, as well as the country which gave me birth, and that which has adopted me, shall find, that I will preserve the honor of my station. I therefore demand of you to name some town on the continent, where you will be found accompanied with your friend and pistols; giving me sufficient time to leave this, and arrive at the place appointed.
NAPPER TANDY.
General of division.
Bordeaux, 12th. Dec. 1802.
P. S. A sufficient space will be permitted to elapse, for an answer, previous to my addressing you through the medium of a newspaper.
Elliott, esq. M. P. London.
[Gen. Napper Tandy receiving no answer to the above letter, has addressed the following communication to the Argus.]
To--Elliott, esq. M. P. London.
SIR,
Eight weeks having elapsed, since I wrote to you, and my invitation not being accepted, or acknowledged, have I not a right to appeal to the public, in vindication of myself from the wanton and unmanly attack which you made upon me? If the state of my unhappy native country had been the subject of discussion, some allusions might be drawn some reasons assigned for the introduction of my name. But this was not the case. The debate was for laying a tax on Great-Britain, in which I, as a French citizen, could not possibly be implicated, and, therefore, it is evident, that I was wantonly dragged in for the sole purpose of calumny and abuse. That such conduct was unmanly must be admitted on all hands, as no brave man would ever attack a defenceless person, much less an absent one. In my letter I scrupulously refrained from resorting upon you, or using any harsh or ungentleman-like expression, though perfectly justifiable from the treatment I had received, I contented myself with that appeal which a man is entitled to, when his character is injured, and his honor impeached. But as you skulk from this, and shelter yourself under undefined privileges, or that more than monstrous idea, that a British senator can traduce mankind with impunity. I am necessitated to say [after having thus exposed your rascality to the world] that Mr. Elliott is a Calumniator! a Liar! a Poltroon! and a Scoundrel!
NAPPER TANDY.
Bordeaux, Feb. 1803.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, of April, 19, 1803.
The following important letter has been this day sent by express to New-Orleans.
OFFICIAL.
SIR,
I have the pleasure to impart to you, without a moment's delay, that by dispatches which I have just received from

my government, brought by a brig of war of the king my master, dispatched for this purpose alone, I see confirmed all the assurances which I gave you on various preceding occasions, when I received information of the difficulties, which the citizens of the United States experienced in consequence of being deprived of the place of deposit on the Spanish Banks of the Mississippi, by decree of the intendant of New-Orleans. His catholic majesty, as just in his resolutions as desirous of living in the greatest harmony with the U. States, has provided that the deposit should continue at New-Orleans until the two governments shall come to an agreement about another equivalent place; and to the end, that this royal provision may be promptly and punctually carried into effect, the necessary orders are communicated to the intendant and to the captain general of Louisiana, of which I transmit you the originals, in order that you may be pleased to forward them to New-Orleans.
I hasten to acquaint you of it with much satisfaction, in order that you may communicate it to the president of the United States, as soon as possible; and I pray God to preserve your life many years. Washington, April, 19, 1803. I kiss your hand. Your most obedient, and faithful servant, THE MARQUIS OF CASSA YRUJO. James Madison, esquire.
Although the hostile attitude of Great Britain may not have been known in Paris or Madrid when the dispatches left Coruna for the Spanish minister here, yet the nature and contents of those dispatches, render highly probable a renewal of hostilities between France and her allies and Great Britain. There is no reason to suppose that the measures of this government could have had the least influence upon Spain, for the orders of his catholic majesty, restoring the right of deposit at New-Orleans, left that country before Mr. Monroe left this. The true cause, in all probability, of this measure, may be traced to Paris, the approach of a new war, and the incapacity of France in that event, to take possession, or to keep either Louisiana or the Floridas.
The marquis would have given more satisfaction in his letter extra, had he informed our citizens whether the "occlusion" of New-Orleans was by the authority of his king or the intendant only, and whether compensation may be expected for the damages sustained by this infraction of the treaty.
Fed. Gaz.
A letter from Liverpool, of the 10th of March, received in Philadelphia, alluding to Mr. Gascoigne's letter, observes: "But this is not all the evidence we have of this circumstance; A host of information has reached us from London, all of which indicates an inevitable and immediate war."
Anti-Democrat.
The express from Spain, which passed through this town on Monday evening arrived at Washington at 12 o'clock. Our informant adds, that the heads of departments were immediately summoned, and that, when the stage passed the war-office, about two o'clock, there were lights in the windows; and it was supposed that the express brought intelligence of much importance.
Ibid
FROM THE FEDERAL GAZETTE.
The rapid increase of the territory and population of Prussia, during the last half century, is truly astonishing. At the accession of Frederick the Great, Prussia consisted only of 2190 square leagues, about 409 cities and towns, 44 burghs, near 18,000 villages, and 2,200,000 inhabitants, including the military. At his death, in 1786, the Prussian monarchy, with the newly acquired provinces of Silesia, East Friesland, and West-Prussia, contained 3,512 square leagues, 574 towns, 53 burghs, 24,000 villages, and near 6,000,000 inhabitants. At present Prussia contains 5,600 square leagues, upwards of 1,000 towns, about 100 burghs, more than 40,000 villages, and upwards of 9,500,000 inhabitants!
WILLIAMSPORT, (Pen.) Aprl, 7.
WE learn that one of the gentlemen who was in pursuit of the villain who committed the horrid act near Pine
Creek, has returned, convinced from the information he received at several places on the road, that he has been taken at Shippensburg, and is now confined in Carlisle jail. This, together with the former account received by the way of Huntingdon and Bellefont which so nearly agree may, we think, be entitled to credit. It must give pleasure sure to every mind possessing the least spark of humanity to hear of the detection of the ungrateful wretch who has committed an action which even the savages would shrink from.
Com. Ad.
* The robbery of Miss M'Dowell.
Extract from the translation of Crell's Chemical Journal, published in 1791.
"AMONGST other singular properties of char coal, it has lately been discovered at Petersburg, that all sorts of glass, vessels and other utensils, may be purified from long-retained smells and taints of every kind, in the easiest and most perfect manner, by rinsing them out well with charcoal reduced to a fine powder, after their grosser impurities have been scoured off, with sand and pot-ashes. That persons whose breath smells strong from a scorbutic disposition of the gums, may at any time get perfectly rid of this bad smell, by rubbing them out and washing out the mouth thoroughly with finely powdered charcoal. This, at the same time renders the teeth beautifully white."
FROM A BALTIMORE PAPER OF APRIL 16.
Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, (back of the New Goal) JOHN M'DANIEL was executed pursuant to his sentence, for breaking open and robbing the house of Mr. Josias Stevenson, of this city. Immediately before his being launched into eternity, he declared himself guilty of many crimes which deserved exemplary punishment, but utterly denied the crime for which he was doomed to suffer, as well as three others, for which he was tried and sentenced to hard labour. He appeared perfectly reconciled, behaved with fortitude, forgave his enemies at the last moment, and yielded up his mortal part in a sure and certain hope of a future resurrection to immortal glory.
POETRY.
FROM THE BOSTON GAZETTE.
BLACK AND WHITE,
IN THE MODERN STYLE, WITH NOTES; OR, A PARODY ON THE PARODY OF PARODIES.
* A statesman so great, and a damsel so neat, Convers'd about things where they were; They eg'd and chatted, and made it quite late, Tall Tom was the name of the statesman so great, And Sally the name of the fair. And now says, Tall Tom, since to-morrow I part, With a message for Washington city, I cannot help saying before I depart, I fear that I Tom Paine, with his air and his art, Has made, or will make, an attack on your heart And enter it even to pity.
Do you mean to affront me, the fair Sally said, I ne'er heard the like in my life. For if you be living, or if you be dead, I swear I will never love one in your stead; I'll be constant and true as a wife. And if for another my heart should decide, Forgetting my Thomas so civil, God grant, that to punish my falsehood and pride, Your ghost, with a message from hell cut and dried, Do you mean to affront me, the fair Sally said.
NOTES.
* Paula majore canamus. de Dong Tom et Sally. † "message" Talibus ex adyto dictis Cumae Sibylla Horrendas cantit ambages antroque remigat Ob curis vera involvens. ‡ Quo non prestanior alter. clere viros.
Should come at the moment, stand close by my side, And carry me off the devil. 'Twas economy time, and away went poor Tom, Sally's face with her apron she hid; But scarce had a jesson claps'd, when behold, Tom Paine, with his nose all scarlet and gold, Pretending, he thought, that Miss Sally took cold, Call'd in, just to know how she did.
His uncommon sense, his reason, his fame, Soon furnish'd her honour with wings!!! For he argued so sharp, saying, Sally, you know, That her name is Thomas, and mine is so too, And therefore you can't be to Thomas untrue, In the nature and fitness of things.
And now, had Tom been there an hour and more, Nor thought he of going away, Had not his horse Button, still tie'd to the gate, Much wondering an al-houls kept open so late, Set up a most terrible neigh'd
Then first with amazement the fair Sally found, A stranger somehow had crept in, His hair seem'd on fire! he utter'd no sound, He spoke not, he mov'd not, he look'd not around, But star'd on them both with a grin.
His hat was full-cock'd, and of beaver the best, He had on one boot and one shoe, A little pedometer hung from his neck, A large pair of compasses went from his back, O'er a coat that seem'd not very new.
This terrible figure threw both in a fright, For he look'd like the devil himself; But thinking 'twas best to be very polite, She ran to the tinder-box, struck up a light, Then putting it back on the shelf, All trembling and pale she came where he stood, At a loss what to say, or to think; And holding the candle as far as she could, She ask'd him respectfully, "what there he would, "If the news from the city was evil or good, "And what she should fetch him to drink!" At the sound of the city, and view of the light, His silver book'd cloak he unclos'd; But what artist can paint her dismay and surprise, When a large roll of brimstone stoned full in her eyes, And the ghost of Tall Tom stood expos'd.
The servants whom Paine had collected in throngs, Now shouted with him in a rage; And some arm'd with shovels and some arm'd with tongs, All set on by Paine, who spoke loud of their wrongs, Began with the ghost to engage.
A fray so temp'tuous was ne'er before seen, For a ghost you all know can't be hit, So they brandish'd their shovels, and vented their spleen, While the ghost stood all patient, unalter'd his mien, And when they had done--spoke to wit.
Behold me, false Bishop, behold me he cried, Learn the cause and effect of this evil, "God grants, that, to punish your falsehood and pride, "My ghost, with a message from hell cut and dried, "Should come at this moment, stand close by your side, "Then carry you off to the devil."
Thus saying, his arms round poor Sally he grip'd, Tho' the screech'd to the people around, Her throat from one ear to the other he rip'd, He pull'd out her tongue, through the floor then he slipp'd, And never since that has been found.
* Tom Paine mounted Button, and rode off full speed, And since that no white men presume, To make free with the blacks, for by order sub-lime, There Sally the false suffers pain for her crime, And sends forth an African tune.
Twelve times in the year when the moon is at full, And mortals are snoring in bed, Her sprite haunts that place all cover'd with wool, And patiently waits for her Thomas to pull, The tongue by its roots from her head.
Two hundred new slaves with a leap and a stride, All dance round a high blazing fire,
NOTES.
¶ Quisquis ex armatus qui nostram flumina tendis Fare age quid venias § Continuo audite voces vagitus et ingens infantumque Conticere omnes intentique ora tenebant inde Long Tom
And when to the end of the circle they come, They drink out of warming pans full of hot rum; And this is their toast, "here's success to Yell Tom, "And the devil take Sat for a liar!"
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Richmond, April 27th. 1803.
PHILIP LARUS, DENTIST,
GRATEFUL for past favors, informs his friends and the public, that he intends again to practice in the line of his profession, and hopes by his assiduity to merit a continuance of their favors. Orders addressed to him, opposite the post-office, will be strictly attended to. April 13, 1803.
DR. LOZARUS,
OF THE CITY OF RICHMOND, TAKES this opportunity of returning his great acknowledgments to the public, for the flattering encouragement he has met with during a residence of upwards of two years in this city. The number of persons in Richmond who have been relieved by his Antiphlogistic Patent Stomach Cordial, can well attest the utility of this invaluable medicine.
For the benefit of the Public the price is reduced from Two dollars to Seven shillings and sixpence per bottle.
CORDIAL.
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The doctor may be spoken with, at his dispensary, near the Market Bridge.

Foreign Intelligence.
PHILADELPHIA, April 12.
TRANSLATIONS,
From the French papers received per the Tace, from Bourdeaux.
FRANCE.
LEGISLATIVE BODY.
PRESIDENCY OF DELATTRE.
SITTING OF FEB. 25.
The president read a letter from the secretary of state, announcing the arrival of four orators of government, charged with laying before the legislative body, seven projects of different laws.
The counsellors of state, Regnault, St. Jean Agelly, Petier, and Treilhard, were accordingly introduced.
All these projects related to the regulation of matters of social interest, and Regnault presented them to the members, Treilhard succeeded, and in the name of the civil code, relative to the enjoyment and the privation of civil rights.
The following are the principal arrangements which it contains:
“The exercise of civil rights is independent of the character of citizen, which is acquired and is preserved only by conformity to the constitutional law of the country. Every Frenchman is to enjoy civil rights. Every individual born in France of foreign parents, shall have it in his power, within a year after the period of his majority, to claim the rights of a French citizen. Every infant born in a foreign country, of a French father, shall have the means of recovering that character.
“Every Foreigner shall enjoy in France the same civil rights which are granted to Frenchmen, agreeable to the treaties of peace existing with the nation to which he belongs. Every female foreigner shall adopt the condition of her husband. When a foreigner has been permitted by the government to form his domicile in France, he shall be entitled to the enjoyment of all civil rights. Every foreigner though not at that moment residing in France, may be cited before the French tribunals for the fulfilment of the obligations which he has contracted with a Frenchman. A Frenchman may be cited before a tribunal in France, for obligations contracted by him in a foreign country, though this obligation has been formed with foreigners. In every other case but in matters relative to commerce, a foreigner, who is the claimant, shall be compelled to give security for the payment of the expenses, and the individual loss resulting from the proceeds, in case he does not possess fixed property in France to an amount sufficient for that purpose.
“The character of French citizen is lost—1st, By naturalization acquired in a foreign country. 2dly, The acceptance of unauthorised public functions conferred by a foreign government. 3dly, By connexion with any foreign corporation which acknowledges the distinction of birth. 4thly, By every establishment formed in a foreign country without a view of returning to France. Commercial establishments shall never be considered as having been made without the prospect of return. Every Frenchman who shall have forfeited his character of citizen may recover it by returning to France with the permission of the government, and by declaring that he had resolved to fix his residence there, and that he renounces every distinction contrary to the French laws.
“Frenchmen who shall, without the permission of government, accept of any military command in the service of a foreign power, shall forfeit his quality of a French citizen, besides subjecting himself to the punishments attached by the criminal law to those who or shall carry arms against their country.
“Judicial condemnation capitally, places the individual who is the object of it, in a state of civil death. Other
judicial punishments shall not involve civil death unless this is particularly specified. By civil death the person condemned loses all property in his effects, and the succession is open to his heir as if he were naturally dead intestate.
“He is rendered incapable of contracting a marriage entitling him to any civil privileges. His wife and his heirs may respectively exercise the rights which his natural death would sanction.
“Sentences against persons guilty of contumacy shall not involve civil death till after an interval of five years after execution of the sentence in effigy. During this interval, the goods of the person so condemned shall be managed in the same way as the property of persons absent. If the individual condemned for contumacy shall make a voluntary surrender, or shall be apprehended within the five years, the judgment shall be abrogated, and the accused shall be put in full possession till the result of a new trial is known.
“If the person so condemned shall die in the interval, represented, or without being seized, he shall be considered as having died in the full possession of his rights, and the sentence shall be rescinded. The property acquired by the person condemned, from the time of his civil death, and of which he is in possession at the time of his natural death, shall belong to the nation. Government shall make for his family such arrangements as humanity may suggest.” After reading this project, the Orator dilated on the motives which suggested the different articles which it contained, illustrating and enforcing their propriety, in an eloquent and interesting manner.
Three speakers of the government, Portalis, Lacue and Miot were introduced. Miot read the preliminary title of the civil code. It runs thus.
Art 1. Laws can be in force over all the French territory, by the promulgation made of them by the First Consul. They shall be put into execution as soon as their promulgation is known.
The promulgation made by the First Consul shall be deemed known in the department where the seat of government is, one day after the promulgation. And in each of the departments, after the same delay, lengthened by as many days as there are ten myriamitres (about 20 leagues) between the town in which the promulgation will have taken place, and the seat of the department.
2. The law is obligatory only for time to come—it has no retrospective effect.
3. Laws of police and safety bind over all the inhabitants of the territory.
Real estates, even those that are owned by strangers are under French law.
Laws concerning the estates or wealth or persons, bind over even the French residing in foreign countries.
4. A judge refusing, under pretence of silence, to judge of the obscurity or insufficiency of a law, can be prosecuted as refusing to administer justice.
5. Judges are forbidden to pronounce, in a general manner, on causes that are submitted to them.
6. Laws that concern public order and good manners, cannot be infringed by private agreements.
The legislative body order the printing of this project as well as of the motives by which it is supported by Portalis.
February 26.
Emery, Thibauden, and Regnaud de Saint Jean d'Angely, counsellors of state, were introduced.
Emery presented the two following projects.
1st. Project. Art. 1. A citizen of 25 years of age, may be eligible as judge or substitute in a tribunal of first instance, commissary of the government in a tribunal of first instance, and register either of a tribunal of first instance, or of appeal, or of a justice of peace.
2. A citizen of five and twenty years of age can be a substitute of the commissary of government at a tribunal of ap-
peal; and at twenty-two years substitute of the commissary of government at an arrondissement.
3. The 4th article of the law of Ventose 27, year 2, is void in whatever it contains contrary to the present law.
2d. Project—Art. 1. The number of judges of the tribunal of first instance, in the department of Seine, shall be 32. The eight new judges shall be employed in the four first sections of the tribunal.
2. The number of judges of the tribunal of Rouen, department of Lower Seine, shall be ten, and that of the candidates six.
The tribunal shall be divided into three sections.
3. There shall be appointed a new substitute of the commissary of government at the tribunal of first instance of Rouen.
THE NEW EDITION OF THE REVISED CODE OF THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA,
BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, Jun. and HENRY PAGE, Richmond, Virginia. Is now ready for Sale, at this Office.
THAT the public may be so far enabled to determine upon the merit of the work, it is thought most advisable to publish the
PREFACE.
BY an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, dated December 28th, 1792, it was ordained, that a collection should be made of all such acts of the Assembly, of a public and permanent nature, as were then in force. For this purpose, several lawyers were solicited to superintend the compilation. Mr. Davis, then printer to the commonwealth, did not get the work completed till the close of the year, 1794. It, therefore, embraced all such laws, of a public and permanent nature, as were passed during the session, which commenced November 11th, 1794.
It was unavoidably to happen that this collection would almost immediately become defective; and that its defects were to increase annually, and without intermission. The new laws of the more important class were, for the most part, occupied in altering, or in repealing some of their predecessors. Hence, it was evident, that if a man of business was not regularly supplied with the additional laws, the Revised Code would be quite as likely to lead him into mistakes, as to give him proper information. The consequence was, that every practitioner of the law found it necessary to purchase, annually, the large folio pamphlets, containing the laws of each succeeding assembly. In the course of a man's life, these publications would have swelled into a library; and, what was extremely inconvenient, by far the greater part of them were laws of a local and private nature, which were totally useless, and a mere incumbrance to the practitioner in a court.
This Revised Code, with all its augmenting imperfections, had become extremely scarce. The original price was eight dollars. But it was almost impossible to obtain the book at any price whatever. The constant demand for the Revised Code induced the proprietors of the present work to publish proposals for a second, and improved edition, which was to bring down the collection so late as to the end of the session of December, 1801. In the former edition, therefore, the latest act of Assembly bears date 26th of December, 1794. In the present edition, the latest statute passed upon February 2d, 1802. This makes a difference of more than seven years; and these seven years appear to have been distinguished beyond every former period of the history of the commonwealth, by the multitude and importance of the laws which in that time were passed. To give a complete idea of this fact, we have only to observe, that the edition of Mr. Davis, contained one hundred and eighty one statutes; and that the present contains THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN. Of these, one hundred and thirty two additional statutes, one hundred and twenty six were passed within those seven years. They compose, therefore, in point of number, more than two fifths of the whole collection. The other six laws, which make up the total additional number of one hundred and thirty two, had been passed long before the publication of the former edition of “The Revised Code.” Some of them are of very considerable length. They were selected, and inserted by the special advice and desire of Governor Monroe. He was one of the gentlemen who had been appointed to revise the former edition; and it was his opinion that these six acts of assembly had been improperly omitted.
Exclusive of the index, the title page and preface, the present volume contains four hundred and fifty-four pages. Of these, the additional laws fill an hundred and twenty-four pages, which is not much less than a third part of the whole text. It is not necessary to say how much more convenient this concise and perspicuous arrangement must be, than to have the trouble of wandering through seven folio pamphlets, in quest of a statute.
These details, without any comment of ours, abundantly prove, had, indeed, other evidence been wanting, the propriety and necessity for a second edition of this book. It is now, also, condensed into a much more manageable size than it formerly assumed. No gentleman's pocket can, at least, in the present age, contain a folio volume; and much less would it contain the enormous appendage of seven folio pamphlets. In riding ten, or fifteen miles to a county court-house, a gen-
tleman does not always think it worth while to take a portmanteau along with him; nor, indeed, is every portmanteau large enough to contain such masses of print and paper. Upon this account, the present edition has been reduced to an octavo size, and printed as closely as possible. Hence, a lawyer, when he sets out for the country court-house, will no longer be obliged to leave his eight folios behind him, and, amidst a crowd of competitors, to solicit the information clerk of the court to let him have a sight of the Revised Code. He can now put his hand into his pocket, and take out a geared, portable, octavo volume, which comprehends his former library, disencumbered of all its rubbish. The type on which the present edition is printed, is either the same, or almost exactly the same with that of the last, and most esteemed London edition of Coke upon Littleton. This circumstance is mentioned here, because a complaint had been made, in one of the Richmond newspapers, by some nameless writer, that the type was too small. You cannot, at the same time, enjoy the cool, bracing breeze of winter, and the verdant vegetation of summer. You cannot, in the same book, unite the advantages of a folio, and of an octavo. If this edition had been printed upon a type as large as that of Mr. Davis, it must have been one third part dearer than it is; for the volume, including the new index, and the bottom notes, positively contains one third part more of matter than the former edition. The price to subscribers, must have been raised to nine dollars; and to non-subscribers, to twelve dollars. Very few purchasers will regret that the publication can be had at a price so much more reasonable.
The former edition laboured under more than one material defect. It was often impossible to tell at what time a statute had originally passed. Put the case, that a deed was to be concurred, which bore date in 1760. It is clear that this transaction could not be affected by laws made posterior to its date. It became a question how long the law had existed, or, when a predecessor to it, or to some part of it, had been passed in; perhaps, a different form. For instance, of chapter CXXVII, a considerable part appears to have been enacted at different periods; one part in 1786, others in 1791. In the old edition of the Revised Code, the law is dated December 26th 1792.
The bottom notes of the new edition give notice, that various parts of it were in force before, although the whole had been covered by the subsequent statute of 1792. The same notes give intimation, that this law has been amended by another, of 1801. Again, chapter CXXVII bears date the 26th of December, 1792. But we learn that the first clause of the statute expires in 1794, that is to say, thirty years before. The second clause, which is far the longest in the act, had been taken from a former statute, dated October, 1771. From not knowing how far back the force of these laws extended, the court was often cast into intricate confusion. To discover how far back a statute extended, was often a work of great time and difficulty; and perhaps the requisite apparatus of old laws could not always be had. Gentlemen of the bar assure us, that the bottom notes, which are to be found at the foot of almost every page of this edition, are, themselves alone, fairly worth the whole price of the book. We have neither received, nor asked permission to publish the name of the supposed author of these notes. He is, however, a gentleman whose name has long been familiar to every lawyer in Virginia. He has long filed more than one interesting department in the system, and the science of jurisprudence. In point of legal knowledge and abilities, his reputation is inferior to none.
All the gentlemen of the law, with one voice, complained of the imperfection of the former index. A new one has been entirely wrote over again, and at a very considerable expence for the present edition. In the former, there were, under the letter A, only twenty five different heads. In this edition there are forty-nine. In the former, letter S contained only twenty five heads. This has forty seven. These particulars are mentioned to show the superior perspicuity and completeness of the present index; and how greatly it will facilitate an accurate examination of the contents of the volume. The index contains forty nine pages. The text of the laws, exclusive of the preface and title page, contains as above mentioned, four hundred and fifty-four; so that there is one page of index for about every six pages of text. A larger number of references would have been useful, and have served rather to embarrass, than assist the reader. This laborious part of the work was drawn up by Mr. James Rind, who had been employed as an assistant, by the supervisors of the former edition. We have every reason to think that his performance will give entire satisfaction.
This volume, the index excepted, was completely printed off several months ago. But it was impossible to deliver the book until this time, because the bad state of Mr. Rind's health did not permit him to finish the index sooner. This apology will, no doubt, be considered as sufficient for a long delay of publication, which it was impossible for the editors to prevent.
It would be the summit of frivolity to exatiate upon the importance of a work like this; because it is plain, that every family in the commonwealth, should, if possible, possess a copy of it. To judges, magistrates, and lawyers, it is indispensably necessary; and every private gentleman, who wishes to understand either his own rights, or those of his neighbors, ought to be conversant with its contents.
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