Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1809-05-09 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVIIth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1652.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS,) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
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WILLIAM FARR.
Richmond, 22d Jan. 1809. w12m
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the second day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the Commonwealth, the thirty-th.
AN ACT giving further time to the proprietors of certain lands, forfeited for the non-payment of taxes, to redeem the same.
[Passed February 1st, 1806.]
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the proprietors of lands forfeited to, and vested in the Commonwealth, by the non-payment of taxes, agreeably to the act, entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this Commonwealth," may redeem the same by paying into the treasury of this Commonwealth, on or before the first day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and seven, all arrears of taxes due thereon.
This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof.
A Copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the first day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and six, and of the Commonwealth, the thirty-first.
AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this Commonwealth."
[Passed 20th January, 1807.]
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That when the taxes on any tract or parcel of land shall have heretofore remained, or shall hereafter remain unpaid for the space of two years, such tract or parcel of land shall be forfeited to the Commonwealth, and shall not be subject to redemption. Provided nevertheless, That the tract or parcel of land so as aforesaid forfeited, shall be subject to the redemption of the former right and proper owner at any time within three years after such forfeiture shall have accrued, upon payment of the taxes due thereon, according to the following rules, to wit: That if the said taxes shall be paid in the first year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid an interest of twenty-five per centum per annum on the amount of the said taxes from the time they became due, till paid. If the said taxes shall be paid in the second year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid an interest of fifty per centum per annum on the amount of taxes due as aforesaid. If the said taxes shall be paid in the third year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid an interest of one hundred per centum per annum, as aforesaid: Provided also, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the rights of infants, femes covert, or persons of unsound mind, until one year after the disabilities shall have ceased, on their paying all taxes due, with an interest thereon at the rate of ten per centum per annum on the amount due as aforesaid.
All acts and parts of acts coming within the purview of this act, are hereby repealed.
This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day of March next.
A Copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the Commonwealth, the thirty-third.
AN ACT providing for the redemption of certain lands forfeited by the non-payment of the taxes thereon.
[Passed February 6th, 1809.]
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That all lands heretofore forfeited or hereafter to be forfeited to the Commonwealth for the non-payment of taxes, by virtue of the laws now in force, shall be redeemable at any time within three years from the time when such forfeiture shall have accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, and until the first day of March next succeeding the expiration of the said term of three years, on payment of the taxes due thereon, with an interest of ten per centum per annum on each year's tax, from the time when the same became or shall become due, until the time of such redemption. Provided, nevertheless, That all lands heretofore forfeited, shall be redeemable in like manner, and on payment of the like interest, on or before the first day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten.
Be it further enacted, That the auditor of public accounts, shall on or before the first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and eleven, and on or before the first day of March in every year thereafter, deliver to the collector of the taxes of each county, a list of all such forfeited lands therein, as on the first day of March preceding, had become irredeemable, which list shall be forthwith posted or hung up in the most public place in the courthouse of the county.
Be it further enacted, That on the first Monday in August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and on the first Monday of August in every year thereafter, the collector shall proceed, by public auction, at the door of the courthouse of each county, to sell to the highest bidder, each tract of land contained within the list of such forfeited lands, as were irredeemable on the first day of March in the preceding year, for ready money.
Be it further enacted, That if at any such sale, the former owner or owners of any forfeited tract of land so about to be sold, or any person for him, her or them, or in his, her or their behalf, with or without any authority or direction for that purpose, shall appear and pay the taxes due thereon, with interest as aforesaid, until the time of such sale, such tract shall not be sold, but an entry of such payment shall be made by the collector on the list aforesaid, and a receipt for such payment given to the person making the same in the name of the former owner or owners, and thereupon such land shall be taken to be redeemed, and the forfeiture accrued thereon, shall be, and the same is hereby fully waived and remitted.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioner or commissioners of the revenue, annually, on the first Monday in August, to attend at the courthouse of their respective counties, and to take and make out a list of all the sales so to be made by the collector, specifying the name or names of the former owner or owners, the sums paid and to whom sold; which list the commissioner or commissioners shall forthwith transmit to the auditor of public accounts, who shall charge the collector with the amount of sales appearing thereon.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every collector to pay annually into the public treasury, all such sum or sums of money as he shall receive by virtue of this act, deducting a commission of five per centum thereon, which payment shall annually be made on the same day on which the taxes collected in the same year shall be payable.
Be it further enacted, That the lists of sale so certified and taken by the commissioners, or either of them, shall be sufficient to charge the collector or his security or securities, his, her or their heirs, executors or administrators therewith, on any motion to be made to recover the same by the auditor of public accounts. And if any collector shall make default in the payment of any monies by him received, by virtue of this act, at the time hereby required, such collector, and his security or securities, his, her or their heirs, executors or administrators, shall be liable to all such fines, interest, damages and costs, and be recovered in the same manner as in case of a default in the payment of the commonwealth's revenue.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every collector making a sale by virtue of this act, to make and execute to the purchaser a deed in fee simple for the lands purchased, reciting the cause of sale, and in every action or suit at law or in equity, in which a former owner or owners of any tract of land so sold and conveyed, his, her or their heirs, devisee, or other person or persons claiming under him, her or them, shall contest the validity of the sale so made, the onus probandi shall lie on the party so contesting.
Be it further enacted, That the commissioner or commissioners for discharging the duties required of them by this act, shall be entitled to receive from the public treasury a commission of one and a half per centum on the amount of sales, on a warrant from the auditor of public accounts.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the auditor of public accounts, at the public expense, to cause a copy of this act, and of an act passed the first day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, entitled, "An act giving further time to the proprietors of certain lands forfeited for the non-payment of taxes, to redeem the same, and also of an act passed on the twentieth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled, "An act to amend an act entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this Commonwealth," to be published for six months, successively in the present year, and for three months successively preceding the first Monday in August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, to be published in some newspaper of general circulation, edited in each of the United States, if any such there be.
And be it further enacted, That the duties enjoined by this act to be performed by the collectors, shall, where the sheriff is collector, be performed by the high sheriff in person, and every purchase made, wholly or in part, by the sheriff or his deputy, or by any other person being a collector, or by any other person, wholly or in part, for the use of such sheriff, deputy sheriff or other person being collector, shall be void; and every sheriff, deputy sheriff or other person being a collector, making any purchase, either wholly or in part, for himself, or procuring any other person to make such purchase, wholly or in part, for the use aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of $500, to the use of the public, to be recovered by bill, plaint or information, in any court of record having jurisdiction thereof.
This act shall be in force from the passing thereof.
A Copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
Just received from Philadelphia, and for Sale at this Office, a few copies of the celebrated Pamphlet, entitled,
A VIEW OF THE Rights and Wrongs, Power and Policy OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
BY CHARLES JARED INGERSOLL
Virginia :
At a Superior Court of Chancery holden at the Capitol in the City of Richmond, the eighteenth day of February, 1809.
Robert H. Rose, Plaintiff, AGAINST Joel Bennett and Tandy Bowcock, assignees of Richard Barbour, late a bankrupt, now deceased, Thomas Barbour father and heir of the said Richard, John Thomas, Robert King, Charles Croughton and William Davidson, Executors of James Short.
THE defendant Robert King not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this country, on motion of the plaintiff by counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper 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, PETER TINSLEY, c. c.
Virginia :
At a Superior Court of Chancery holden at the Capitol in the City of Richmond, the eighteenth day of February, 1809.
Robert H. Rose, Plaintiff, AGAINST Joel Bennett and Tandy Bowcock, assignees of Richard Barbour, late a bankrupt, now deceased, Thomas Barbour father and heir of the said Richard, John Thomas, Robert King, Charles Croughton and William Davidson, Executors of James Short.
THE defendant Robert King not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country, on motion of the plaintiff by counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper 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, PETER TINSLEY, c. c.
Virginia :
At a Superior Court of Chancery holden at the Capitol in Richmond, February 27th, 1809.
John M. Walker, Administrator with the will annexed of John Christian deceased, James Patterson, the same John M. Walker, Administrator of Joyce Christian deceased, and the said John M. Walker and Susanna, his wife, sole heiress of the said Joyce Christian and George Smith, and the said John M. Walker, Executors of Lucy Duiguid, deceased, and George Christian and Joyce P. his wife, George E. Duiguid and Elizabeth his wife, and Lydia Duiguid, heirs of the said Lucy Duiguid, deceased, Plaintiffs.
AGAINST Elizabeth Patterson, Executrix, and George Christian, Executrix or Peter Patterson, deceased, and Martha Patterson, Elizabeth M'Reynolds, Charles Patterson, Peggy Patterson, Polly Patterson, Peter Patterson, Jenny Patterson, Henry Patterson, Fanny Patterson, and Patterson and Charles Bacon, son and heir of Nancy Bacon, late Nancy Patterson, children and heirs at law of Chares Patterson, deceased, and devisees of the said Peter Patterson, deceased, Mary Ann Patterson, widow of John Patterson, deceased, Charles Phelps and Molly, his wife, Lewis Dawson, and Lucy his wife, Samuel P. Christian, and Nancy his wife, Samuel Patterson and John Patterson, infants, by the said Samuel P. Christian, specially assigned their guardian, heirs of the said John Patterson, deceased, Defendants.
ON motion of the Plaintiffs, by counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendants Elizabeth Patterson, Executrix, and Martha Patterson, Elizabeth M'Reynolds, Charles Patterson, Peggy Patterson, Polly Patterson, Peter Patterson, Jenny Patterson, Henry Patterson, Fanny Patterson, Patterson, and Charles Bacon, heirs of Charles Patterson, deceased, and devisees of Peter Patterson, deceased, are not inhabitants of this country, it is ordered that the said defendants appear before this court on the first day of the next term, and show cause, if any they can, why the suit lately depending between William Duiguid, and Lucy, his wife, John M. Walker, Administrator with the will annexed, of John Christian, deceased, Joyce Christian, widow of the said John Christian and James Patterson, plaintiffs, and Charles Patterson, Defendant, which hath abated as well by the deaths of the said William Duiguid, and Lucy, his wife, and Charles Christian, as by the death of the said Charles Patterson, & the proceedings therein had, should not stand and be revived against them in the names of the present plaintiffs, and be in all things in the same plight and condition as it was in at the time of the abatement, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper 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, PETER TINSLEY, c. c.
Rees's Cyclopedia.
The 19th No. or Vol. 10, part 1, is just received and ready for delivery at this office.
LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.
By Authority. AN ACT,
Making appropriations for the support of the military establishment, and of the navy of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That for defraying the expense of the military establishment of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armouries, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say: For the pay of the army of the United States, eight hundred and sixty-eight thousand two hundred and forty dollars;
For forage, sixty-four thousand six hundred and twenty four dollars;
For subsistence, six hundred and forty-one thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty five cents;
For clothing, two hundred and ninety-three thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars;
For bounties and premiums, fifteen thousand dollars;
For the medical and hospital departments, forty five thousand dollars;
For camp equipage, fuel, tools and transportation, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars;
For ordnance, seventy-five thousand dollars;
For purchasing horses, saddles and bridles for the light dragoons, and for the light artillery, fifty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars;
For forage for the horses for the regiment of light artillery, ten thousand eight hundred dollars;
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armouries, two hundred and nineteen thousand and thirty-four dollars and seventy five cents;
For purchasing maps, plans, books and instruments, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For contingencies fifty thousand dollars;
For the salary of clerks employed in the military agent's offices, and in the office of inspector of the army, three thousand five hundred dollars;
For the Indian department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred dollars;
For the purpose of paying James Powel, late collector of Savannah, the amount of monies advanced by him to Solomon Ellis, contractor for supplying rations to the troops of the United States, in the state of Georgia, including a commission of two per centum to the collector, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and twenty one dollars and eight cents;
For the purpose of paying Ferdinand Phinizy, late contractor for supplying the troops in Georgia, a balance due to him as admitted by the comptroller of the treasury, on the twenty-fourth of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-nine cents;
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, the following sums, including therein the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, already appropriated by an act, entitled "An act authorizing the employment of an additional naval force," the following sums be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated, that is to say;
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, one million three hundred & twenty-three thousand and seventy dollars;
For provisions, five hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars;
For medicines, instruments and hospital stores, thirty-five thousand dollars;
For repair of vessels, four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars;
For freight, store rent, commissions to agents, and other contingent expenses, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for those on shore, and forage for the staff, one hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars, and seventy cents;
For clothing for the same, thirty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-three dollars and eight cents;
For military stores for the same, one thousand three hundred and fifty-four dollars;
For medicines, medical services, hospital stores, and all other expenses on account of the sick belonging to the marine corps, two thousand dollars;
For quarter master's and barrack master's stores, for officer's travelling expenses, armorer's and carpenter's bills, fuel, premiums for enlisting, musical instruments, bounty to music, and other contingent expenses of the marine corps, fourteen thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars;
For the expenses of navy yard, comprising dock and other improvements, pay of superintendants, storekeepers, clerks and laborers, sixty thousand dollars;
For ordnance and small arms, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several sums specifically appropriated by this act, shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
J. B. VARNUM,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
J. N. MILLEDGE,
President of the Senate pro-tempore.
March 3, 1809.
Approved,
TH: JEFFERSON.
NEW-YORK, May 1.
Last evening a Rhode Island Packet arrived at this port, and the Captain furnished the editor of the Mercantile Advertiser, with the Boston Repertory, from which the following Intelligence is copied—it is five days later than our former advices from London.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND VIA HALIFAX.
We were yesterday favored with a Halifax paper of the 18th inst. containing articles of intelligence from the London Gazette to the 14th, and from Greenock papers to the 17th of March. The news is of considerable importance.
The die, at last is cast in Germany.—The whole Empire exhibits one scene of military movements.
FRENCH MOVEMENTS.
The French army of the Rhine under Davoust is on its march to the Danube. General Oudinot, whose head quarters are at Augsburg, command nearly 30,000 men. Several Dutch Regiments have passed the Mayn on their way to Franco-nia, putting all the carriages and horses in their passage in requisition.
A French army is to be formed in Saxony, with which the forces of the Confederation of the Rhine are to act.
The French have an army of above 40,000 men in Italy, near the Austrian frontiers. Massena is to have the command.
On the 12th of Feb. dispatches arrived at Vienna, with the final decision of Bonaparte on the subject of his differences with the emperor Francis. Messengers were immediately dispatched to Petersburg, Berlin and Copenhagen, and to the several Austrian governments.
Marshal Duroc passed through Frankfort, Feb. 2d on an important mission from Bonaparte to the Russian cabinet.
Jerome Bonaparte by imperial command has issued a decree, ordering out an army for service of 5000, and an army of reserve of 500 men.
GERMAN MOVEMENTS.
A Cordon of troops has been formed along the whole extent of the Austrian frontier. Great exertions are making to fortify Ems in upper Austria.
The British Government had received intelligence from the head quarters of the Spanish army at Carolina, (an advantageous post in the Sierra Morena) dated Feb. 11th. The Spanish patriots still retained a respectable force, and a confidence of eventual success. General Urbin had been appointed to the command of the central army and that of Carolina in place of the Duke d'Infantado under arrest.—The French army had retired upon Toledo and Madrid, for the purpose of entering Estremadura with an army of 25,000 men.
Among the Spanish forces now embodied we observe the following mentioned. Gen. Cuesta at Truxillo with 14,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry. A division of British and Portuguese at Alcanara, of 14,000. The army of Carolina 22,000 in-

Infantry and 1,700 cavalry.—The advanced guard at La Mancha 8,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry.—making 62,700.
The Halifax paper contains a splendid account of the arrival of Sir George Prevost, at that place with his gallant troops whose bravery in the speedy reduction of Martinique prepared them a cordial and grateful welcome.
The cabinet of Vienna have ordered further augmentations of their armies. The militia too are disciplined two evenings every week and provided for actual service.
The Archduke Charles is appointed Generalissimo with unlimited powers, so that his operations will no longer be shackled by the interference of the Aulick council.
SPIRIT OF HOLLAND.
“Louis Bonaparte was at Utrecht, taking measures to relieve the country suffering under the inundations, when he received orders from Napoleon on the immediate March of 15,000 Dutch troops into Bavaria, to act under Davoust, and another division of like force to be ready by the Middle of March. Louis sent off couriers to Amsterdam, &c. calling his ministers and council of state to Utrecht, where after much deliberation, his council declared to him the incompetency of the nation to bear the burthens of a new war, and solemnly protested against his employment of so large a force, in a service so unconnected with the interests of the country. A few regiments were however sent off: (the same mentioned above, on their way to Franconia.)”
The Ottoman Porte, it is said in letters from Holland, will immediately join Austria in a war against France. It is said to be one of the secret articles of peace between Turkey and Great Britain.
An Antigua paper of the 4th of April, mentions the arrival of an express brig from England to the Admiral off that station, with the important intelligence, that War had been declared against France by Austria, Prussia, and Russia, who had confederated; and that a minister from each of these three powers had been sent to England to enter into an alliance.
From the Antigua Journal of April 4.
The Swaggerer has been sent hither by the admiral with an order for provisions to be forwarded to him off the Sables, where he now is with his squadron, blocking there French line of Battle ships and four frigates, lately arrived in these seas.
We learn by the same vessel that admiral Duckworth had not arrived with his fleet at Barbadoes, as was reported on Sunday from St. Kitts. Nothing is yet known of him, or of the French ships he was pursuing.
Council of Prizes, Paris, Jan. 25.
The American vessel Susan has been adjudged good prize to the officers and crews of the Italian and Syrene frigates. The same court has declared good and lawful prize the merchandise taken out of the American ship Augusta, by the French privateer L'Eve, and confiscated the same for the benefit of the Marine Invalid Case.
On Friday came on at Philadelphia, before Judges Washington and Peters, the trial of General Michael Bright and others, for opposing the Marshal of the United States, in the execution of his office, on a bill found against them by the grand Jury of the Federal District court, for the said offence. The trial began about 12 o'clock. The afternoon and evening being spent in the pleadings of the Lawyers, the Jury had not retired at a late hour on Friday night.
Continuation of Foreign Intelligence, by an arrival at Boston.
THIRTY THIRD BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN. [From the Paris Monitor of March 2, 1809]
The Duke of Dalmatia arrived at Tarragona the 10th Feb. The whole province is quiet. He was gathering all the means necessary to cross the Minho on the next. The river is wide there. He was to be at Oporto from the 5th to the 20th, and at Lisbon from the 20th to the 28th.
The British were embarking at Lisbon to abandon Portugal; the indignation of the Portuguese was at its height. There were daily some severe and bloody engagements between the British and Portuguese.
In Galicia, the Duke of Elchingen perfected the organization of the Province. Admiral Massieu had arrived at Ferrol and activity was beginning to revive in that important arsenal. Tranquility is restored in all the provinces under the orders of the Duke of Istria, and situated between the Pyrenees, the sea, Portugal and the ridge of mountains that cover Madrid. Security succeeds to disorders & alarms.
Numerous deputations daily arrive in Madrid to tender their Homage to the King. The re-organization and public spirit make rapid progress under the new government.
The Duke of Belluno is marching towards Badajoz; he disarms and pacifies all Lower Estremadura.
Sarragossa has capitulated. The calamities which have befallen this wretched
city are a terrible example for nations. Order is re-established in Sarragossa and extends to the whole provinces of Arragon. The 2 corps d'Armee which invested that city are now indispensable. Sarragossa was the real focus of the insurrection in Spain. It was in that city that the party who wished to call a Prince of the House of Austria to reign on the Tagus had assembled. The men of that party had inherited this opinion from their ancestors, who were of that sentiment at the time of the succession war, and which has just been crushed for ever.
The battle of Tudela had been won on the 23d November, and on the 27th the French army was encamped within a short distance from Sarragossa. The populace of the city were armed. The inhabitants of the neighbouring country had joined these, and Sarragossa contained 50,000 men formed into regiments of 1,000, composed of 10 companies of 100 men. All the grade of generals commissioned and non commissioned officers, were filled by monks. A body of 10,000 men who had escaped from the battle of Tudela had retired to that city, the subsistence of which was secured by immense magazines, and defended by 200 pieces of cannon. The image of Our Lady of the Pillar was daily operating miracles according to the directions of the monks who animated the courage of that numerous population or supported their confidence. In the field, these 50,000 men would not have stood against three regiments; but in the city, & spurred on by all the leaders, how could they avoid the evils which ignorance and fanaticism attached to them! Every thing has been undertaken that it was possible to do, to bring them back to reason. Immediately after the battle of Tudela it was thought that the opinion entertained at Sarragossa, that Madrid would make a bold stand, and that the armies of Somosierra, Guadarama, Es tremadura, Leon, and Catalonia would eventually beat the French, would be used by the leaders of the insurgents to keep alive the fanaticism of the inhabitants. It was therefore resolved not to invest the city, & to leave open its communications with all Spain, in order that they might learn the discomfiture of the Spanish armies, and the accounts of the French army in Madrid. But this news reached only the ring-leaders, who took care that the inhabitants should not know it. Truth not only was concealed from them, but they were encouraged by lies. To day, the French had lost 40,000 men at Madrid; yesterday, Romana had entered France. In fine, the British army were rapidly advancing, and the French eagles must fly before the terrible Leopard!
All this time sacrificed to political views and to the hopes of being able to calm those heads heated by fanaticism and error, was not lost for the French army. The general of engineers, Lacoste, aid-de-camp to the Emperor, and an officer of the most distinguished abilities, gathered at Alayon all the tools, equipages of mines, and materials necessary for the subterraneous war which H M had ordered.
The general of division Dedon, commanding the artillery assembled a great quantity of mortars, bombs, howitzers, and heavy ordnance. All which were drawn from Pamplona, seven days march from Sarragossa. Meanwhile it was perceived that the enemy were availing themselves of this stagnation to fortify the Monte-Torrero and other important positions. On the 21st December the divisions of Suchet drove them from the heights of St Lambert, and two other works out of the reach of the city. The division of General Gazan overthrew the enemy from the heights of St Gregorie, and the 21st of light infantry, and 100th regiment of the line, carried the redoubts in the suburbs, which defended the roads of Sueva and Bartolona. He also ordered the storming of a large building near Gall ego where 500 Swiss had entrenched themselves. On the same day the Duke of Cornegliano also carried the works and positions of Monte Torrero, took all the cannon and a great number of prisoners, and did great execution among the enemy.
The Duke of Cornegliano being taken sick, the Duke of Abrantes took, in the beginning of January, the command of the third corps. He signaled his arrival by the taking of the convent of San Josef, and pursued his successes on the 19th of January by the carrying of the tete de pont of Huerba, where his troops made good their stand. The chief of battalion Stah, of the 14th of the line, distinguished himself at the attack on the convent of San Josef, and lieutenant Victor de Buffon was one of the first to scale the works.
The investing of Sarragossa was not yet complete. They persisted in leaving open the communications, in order that the insurgents might be informed of the overthrow of the English, and their shameful flight out of Spain. It was on the 16th of January that the English were driven into the sea at Corunna, and it was on the 26th that the operations began to take a serious aspect before Sarragossa.
The Duke of Montebello had reached it on the 20th, to take the chief command of the siege. As soon as he was convinced that the news sent to the city was productive of no good effect, and that the monks who directed the minds of the people had succeeded in preventing that news from reaching the people, or in altering it so as to perpetuate the delirium of the besieged, he took the resolution no longer to spare them.
Fifteen thousand peasants had assembled at Perdiguera, on the left bank of the Ebro. The Duke of Treviso attacked with three regiments, and notwithstanding the fine position they occupied the 64th regiment entirely overthrew and routed them. The 10th hussars were in the plain to receive them, and a great number remained on the field of battle. Nine pieces of cannon and several stands of colours were the trophies of this rencounter.
The Duke of Montebello had sent the adjutant commandant, Gasquet of Zuera, to disperse a party of rebels. With only three battalions, this officer attacked 4000 of them, overthrew them, and took four pieces of cannon with their horses and appurtenances. Gen. Vattier had at the same time been ordered with 800 foot & 200 horse to scour the road to Valencia. He met 9000 of the rebels at Alcauiz, forced them
in the very city to throw down their arms in their flight, killed 600 men, and took magazines, provisions, ammunition and arms; among these latter were 1000 English muskets. The adjutant commandant Carrion de Nizas at the head of a column of infantry, Colonel Barthe of 4th hussars, and the chief of battalion Camus, of the 28th light infantry have particularly distinguished themselves.
These operations took place between the 20th and 26th January. On the 25th, the city was severely attacked, and the batteries were unmasked—On the 27th at noon, the breach was practicable on several points. The troops lodged themselves in the convent of San in Gratia. The division of Grand jean occupied about thirty houses in the city. Colonel Chlopiseik, & the soldiers of the Vistula, distinguished themselves. At the same time, the general of division, Morlot, in an attack on the left, possessed himself of the whole front of defence of the enemy.
Captain Guetteman a. the head of the pioneers, and of 36 grenadiers, mounted the breach with a rare intrepidity. Mr. Boiesky, an officer in the Vistula Rangers, a young man of only 17 years of age, and having already received seven wounds, was the first who entered the breach. The chief of battalion Lejeune, aid-de-camp to the prince of Neufchatel, and Haxo, behaved well, and were both slightly wounded.
On the 30th the convents of St. Monique, and the great Augustines were carried, as were 60 houses taken by pioneers. The Sappers of the 4th regiment of the line, distinguished themselves.
On the 1st February, General Lacoste was struck with a musket ball, and died on the field of battle. He was a very brave and distinguished officer. His loss has been much felt by all the army, but more particularly by the Emperor. Colonel Rogat Succeeded him in the command of the engineers, and the direction of the siege.
The enemy defended, very house—three attacks by mines were carried in front, & every day three or four mines blew up several houses, and opened the way to our troops.
In this way we reached the Corso (the main street in Sarragossa) lodged ourselves on the quays, and took possession of the university and colleges. The enemy attempted to oppose their miners to ours, but little acquainted with this kind of warfare, their miners were quickly discovered and stifled.
This manner of conducting the siege rendered its progress slow but sure, and less dangerous for the army. Whilst three companies of miners, and eight companies of pioneers, are occupied with this subterraneous war, whose results are so terrible, the city is continually kept on fire by the mortars throwing shells and fireballs.
The attack had been made but ten days before the reduction of the city was considered as not far distant. More than one third of the houses were in our possession. The church of our Lady of the Pillar, who by so many miracles was to save the city, was destroyed by bombs and no longer te-able.
The Duke of Montebello, then thought it was time to take possession of the suburbs on the left bank, in order to occupy the diameter of the city, and cross his fire. The gen. of division Gazan, carried in a brilliant manner the Swiss barracks. On the 17th, a battery of fifty pieces opened early in the morning. At 8 P.M. a battalion of the 28th, attacked a large convent, whose brick walls were 4 or 5 feet thick & carried it. Seven thousand of the enemy defended the suburbs. General Gazan advanced rapidly to the bridge, by which the rebels could effect their retreat into the city. He killed a great number and took 4000 prisoners among whom were 2 Generals, 12 Colonels, 19 Lieutenant Colonels, and 290 officers. He also took 6 ammunition waggons and 30 pieces of cannon. Almost all the troops of the line in the city, occupied this important post, which had been threatened since the tenth.
At the same moment the Duke D'Abrantes crossed the Corso and blew up the colleges.
After these events, the Junta in order to gain time, and to give the people time to get over the horror and surprize with which they were struck, demanded a parley; but their fruitlessness was known, and deception was useless. Thirty more houses were carried by mines or pioneers.
At last, on the 21st, all the city was occupied by our troops—15,000 infantry & 200 horse have laid down their arms at the gate of Portillo, and have surrendered 40 stands of colors and 150 pieces of cannon. The rebels lost 20,000 men during the siege, 13,000 were found in the hospitals, and of these five hundred died daily.
The duke of Montebello would not grant a capitulation to the city of Sarragossa; he only issued the following orders.
“The garrison shall, on the 21st, at noon, lay down their arms at the gate of Portillo, after which they shall be prisoners of war. The soldiers of the line who will take the oath of allegiance to King Joseph and enter into his service, will be admitted into it. In case their admission should not be granted by the minister at war of the King of Spain, they shall be prisoners of war and sent into France. Religion shall be respected. On the 21st at noon, the French troops shall occupy the Castle. All the artillery and ammunition of every kind shall be delivered to them. All the arms be deposited at the door of every house and collected by the Ward Alcaldes.”
The magazines of wheat, rice and vegetables found in the place are immense. The Duke of Montebello has appointed General Laval Governor of Sarragossa. A deputation of the clergy and principal inhabitants have set out for Madrid.
Palafax is dangerously sick. This man was despised by the whole of the enemy's army, who accused him of vanity and cowardice. He has never been in any post where there was danger.
The Count of Fuentes, a grandee of Spain, whom the rebels had arrested on his estates seven months ago, was found in a dungeon eight feet square, and liberated. The sufferings he has undergone are almost incredible.
PORTSMOUTH, (N. H) April 23.
FATAL DUEL. —We have received information, in such a way as to obtain belief, that on Tuesday of last week, a Duel was fought in the bounds of Canada, by two young men from Boston, who left that place for the purpose of KILLING OR BEING KILLED. The particulars of this unhappy affair as related to us are, that the men were partners in trade, under the firm of Blake and Dix; that Blake was a married man, and suspected a criminal intercourse between Dix and his wife, which he afterwards found to be true. The injured husband irritated beyond measure, immediately informed Dix that there was but one course to be pursued—to repair to Canada, & abide the event of a duel, or be exposed to death, by assassination wherever found. Dix preferred the former. They immediately left Boston, and arrived at St. Albans by different routes; whence they proceeded across the line where the business was honorably settled. Dix was instantly killed, & Blake returned to Boston. On Thursday following the remains of Dix were carried to Swanton, and interred.
BOSTON, April 29.
An extract of a letter from a respectable friend in New Bedford, to his federal correspondent in Boston.
“I most sincerely congratulate thee on the settlement of our difficulties with the government of England. I believe that gentlemen, who have not seen the necessity of embargo and non-intercourse laws, must now be convinced of their utility, and acknowledge with gratitude the firmness and wisdom of our greatly enlightened administration. Jefferson's fame will adorn the brightest page of history; the man whose narrow mind is led by envy to disrespect him, is sowing the seeds of mortification in the bosom of his child, who must blush in riper years, that his father was his foe.”
THE NORTHERN CONFEDERACY, BROKEN TO ATOMS; OR, The Leading Federalists at odds with their Old Friends and themselves.
The high and uniform accusation against the administration has been, partiality to France. “The leading men of the federal party,” opposed the non-intercourse, as a substitute for the Embargo—and declared that the last state of our political relations with England was worse than the first; and that the sovereign of the seas would consider the non-intercourse as an act of hostility. His majesty, however, declares by his minister, that we now stand on impartial ground, and offers amity for precisely the same reasons that his friends in the garrison threatened war. This apparent disagreement of those who have always been real friends, and acted in concert, must be chiefly attributed to the mischievous making Napoleon, who by his meddlesome and hasty interference in Spain, has broken up that charming system of the law of necessity, adopted by England, and promulgated at Copenhagen—and all by such a rapid progression of unexpected disasters, as to destroy the effect of concerted, friendly, trans-atlantic correspondence, and compel those on one side the ocean to return unexpectedly to justice, even while their allies on the other were making rapid advances to treachery.—Patriot.
BALTIMORE, May 3.
Extract of a letter to a gentleman in this city, dated
“Knoxville, (Tenn.) April 17.
“George Washington Campbell has declined a re-election to congress. The legislature, now in session, on the 11th instant, elected two senators in the congress of the United States; Joseph Anderson's term of service having expired, and Gen. Smith, who had two years to serve, resigned. The votes were for a Senator from East Tennessee,
Anderson, 23 Anderson re-elected. Gov. Sevier, 16
West Tennessee—
Jenkin Whiteside, 22 J. Whiteside Gen. J. Winchester, 16
Gen. Winchester, being perfectly indifferent on the subject, made no interest personally.”
WASHINGTON-CITY, May 3. (COPY.)
PARIS, 23d February, 1809.
SIR, His Majesty has been pleased to raise the Embargo on American vessels within the ports of France and her dependencies and (the better to assure their direct return to the U. S.) to place them altogether at my disposition. You will therefore be good enough to apprise the captains, supercargoes and owners, within your consular district, of this arrangement, to the end that they may sail as soon as possible for some port or place in the United States. The only rule which, in my view of the subject is necessary to accomplish the direct return of these vessels, (which is at once the object of our government and of this) is hereto subjoined. You will be pleased to consider it in every case indispensable, and should objections be made to it by captains or others, you will lose no time in stating to me their nature and extent, so that means may be taken to obviate them.
I am with much regard, Your obedient servant, (Signed) JOHN ARMSTRONG. Wm. Lee, Esq. Consul of the U. S. Bordeaux.
RULE —“The owners, consignees or captains of the American ships in the ports of France, or of her dependencies, must previously to their clearing out, give the consul or vice consul of their nation, in his public capacity (and which shall become matter of record in the office of the said consul or vice consul,) sufficient security by written obligation, that their return to the U. States will be prosecuted directly and bona fide and that they will not voluntarily touch at any port or place on their homeward passage, by doing which they will subject themselves to future capture and detention by either belligerent.
The frigate United States left the Navy Yard at this place, and proceeded down the river yesterday.
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
(Compiled for the Monitor.)
FOREIGN.
Information received at Charleston (S. C.) from the Havana states, that orders had been issued for all the French to leave Cuba in 40 days from the 1st ult. eight of those Frenchmen have arrived at Charleston; eighty sail of American vessels from different ports of the United States arrived at Havana in one week, with produce. Much confusion is said to reign in the Portuguese Brazilian court; the prince and princess are not on the best possible terms of amity, and lord Strangford, the British ambassador, and Sir Sidney Smith, the English commodore, have taken different sides in the squabble; the prince seems to have a great regard for sir Sidney, having given him a handsome property in the Brazils. It is said the grand duke Constantine has been shot at in the streets of St. Petersburg, and that one of his aid-de-camps was killed by his side, being dressed in the same manner as the grand duke: the Russian emperor has offered a large reward for the discovery and arrest of the assassin; but Constantine's enemies have stuck up a placard, offering a compensation much larger to any one who will murder him. The British frigate Proserpine, of 32 guns, captain Otter, has been captured by the French frigates Penelope and Paulina near Toulon.—News from Havana says, all French goods have been prohibited in the island of Cuba, while English manufactures will have a decided preference.
DOMESTIC.
The ship Centurion, from New York for Amelia, loaded with naval stores and cotton, was cast away on the north breakers of the bar of Amelia Inlet, on the nineteenth ultimo;—part of the cargo it is supposed will be saved; the ship bilged. The report that both buoys had been taken up from the bar of St. Mary's is not true; there still remains one for the pilotage of vessels in Amelia island.—A murder was recently committed at Raleigh (N. C.) on the body of Patrick Conaway, a merchant of that place; the perpetrator of the deed fractured the skull of the deceased and mangled his head in a shocking manner; the object of the villain was money, not much of which he got, it seems, as there was not much in the drawer at the time, it being deposited in a different place; suspicion has fallen upon John Owen, a cabinet maker.—The circuit court of the United States was to commence its session in Windsor (Vermont) on Monday the first day of May (instant)—A blacksmith's shop, with tools of value, and two barns with hay and farming utensils, were recently consumed by fire at Windsor, (Vt.)—The bridge over Connecticut river in Orford, was carried away a few days since.—James Lyon, (son, it is believed, to the hon. M. Lyon,) has offered himself to the electors of the congressional district, composed of the districts of Winchester, Mero and Robertson, in West Tennessee; he has issued a long address to the people in the “Impartial Review,” a gazette published at Nashville, and part of which address we have seen; it breathes a variety of curious opinions, calculated, perhaps, to catch gulls.—The French Letter of Marque L'Esperance, which recently arrived at Boston, from Bordeaux, is charged with dispatches; she was bound to Philadelphia, but was directed to make the first port.—The British ship Benjamin and Elizabeth, of 400 tons, from Liverpool, for Philadelphia, stranded on Squam Beach; the principal part of her cargo will be saved.—A large bed of ore has been discovered in Overton county, in the state of Tennessee, and not more than fifty-five miles from that town, which appears rich with silver; and it is stated that several dollars have been made there.—The collectors of the port of Edenton has announced that the light-house at Cape Hatteras, which is under his direction, is again in operation.—Two handsome pieces of plate have been just executed by an artist of Philadelphia, under the direction of Doctor Thompson, of Virginia, with suitable devices and inscriptions, to be presented to the ladies of col. John Thornton, and Doctor Aylett Hawes, of Culpepper county, Virginia, as a reward for the industry, ingenuity and taste displayed by them, in their specimens of linen, cotton and woolen manufacture, exhibited before the Culpepper Society for the promotion of agriculture and domestic manufactures in December last, to whom these prizes were then awarded.—Capt. Peter's, Irvin's, Cutlers, McDonald's and Findlay's companies of the United States' troops arrived at New Orleans on the 29th March.—Counterfeit five dollar notes of the Mechanick's bank of Baltimore are in circulation in Philadelphia; the engraving well executed; but the number and signature are clumsily executed; particularly the cashier's name; date 14th June; we have understood, also, that one dollar notes of the Farmer's Bank of Maryland, are altered, and in circulation there for ten dollars.—The theatre opened at Norfolk on Wednesday, the 26th ult. with the Curfew and Weathercock: a Mr. Young is spoken of in the Norfolk Herald, as having played the character of Fitzharden with superior excellence; the

dramatic corps in general is said to be very good. The Louisville (Ken.) Gazette, of the 12th instant says, "This morning Mr. Benjamin Wilkinson, with a party of men, hunters and trappers, all well armed and equipped, for a 3 years expedition, left this place for St. Louis, there to join the St. Louis Missouri Company, who intend to push their trade to the river Columbia, and probably in a few years, that route to the East Indies."
The Boston Palladium says, "The ship William, captain Andrew Tucker, belonging to Mr. Moses Brown of Newburyport, was condemned last January, at Charante in France, and the captain sent as prisoner, to Arras, in the interior." Our readers will be surprised to learn the industry and enterprize which prevail at St. Louis, Upper Louisiana, under the fostering inspection of governor Lewis; the Missouri Gazette of the 1st of March, 1809, says: "At Herculaneum a shot manufactory is now erecting by an active and enterprizing citizen of our territory: the situation is peculiarly adapted for the purpose, having a natural tower, or rather a stupendous rock, forming a precipice of about 180 feet: having the lead mines in the neighborhood, and one of the finest harbors for vessels, we presume the proprietor will be enabled to supply the Atlantic states on such terms as will defeat competition;" the same paper observes, that "The culture of hemp has occupied the attention of the farmers, and a rope walk will shortly be erected in St. Louis;" and further says, "The Missouri Far Company lately formed here, has every prospect of becoming a source of inestimable advantage, not only to the individuals engaged in the enterprise, but the community at large; their extensive preparations, and the respectable force they intend to ascend the Missouri with, may bid defiance to any hostile band they may meet with; the streams which descend from the Rocky Mountain, afford the finest hunting, and there we learn they intend to build their fort; they have engaged to convey Shehekah, the Mandan chief, to his nation."
OLMSTEAD'S CASE.
Philadelphia, May 1.
The pleadings of counsel in the case of the United States against General Bright and others, for resisting the Marshal of this district, were finished about four o'clock on Saturday afternoon last, when Judge Washington delivered a very able and luminous charge to the jury; which occupied about an hour. The jury retired and the court adjourned until eight o'clock, when they again met; but the jury not having agreed, they adjourned until ten o'clock; at that hour the court was again opened, and the jury appeared, but not having agreed, they were sent back to their room, where they have been and will be confined until ten o'clock this morning, to which time the court stands adjourned.
May 2.
The jury in the case of the United States, against Michael Bright, bro't in a special verdict yesterday afternoon. The verdict states the defendants to be guilty of knowingly and wilfully obstructing, resisting and opposing the Marshal, in his attempt to serve and execute the judicial writ of arrest, mentioned in the indictment, but that the defendants acted under the orders of the constituted authorities of Pennsylvania, in so obstructing and resisting the Marshal. The jury then leave to the court to say, whether upon the whole matter, thus found, the law is in favor of the U. States or the defendants, and if the court are of opinion that the law is with the U. States, then the jury find the defendants, and every of them Guilty , but if the court are of opinion that the law is with the defendants, then they find them and every of them not Guilty .
The following is the sentence pronounced by Judge Washington on Gen. Bright and others, found guilty of resisting the Marshal of the United States.
Gen. Michael Bright, 3 months' imprisonment, 200 dollars fine. James Atkinson, Charles Westfall, Abrm. Ogden, Charles Hong, William Cole, Samuel Wilkins, Daniel Phyte, John Knibb.—One month's imprisonment, 50 dollars fine each.
A further account of the final proceedings in our next.
Philadelphia, May 2.
Arrived this morning, the British ship Recovery, capt. Th: Jefferson, 40 days from Liverpool. By this arrival we have received London papers to the 17th March, and Liverpool to the 20th—their contents, however, are unusually destitute of interest.—They are entirely devoted to the discussions in the case of the Duke of York. A debate of great length is given in the Star, of the 16th March, which was terminated by the final votes on the subject, as follows:
For the motion to acquit, Ayes 1364 Against it, 123 Majority in favor of the— Duke, 124
It will be observed by a short article in this day's Gazette, that although his royal highness has escaped the stigma of corruption in his office of commander in chief, the scrutiny
which has been had into his conduct, has developed many instances of gross misconduct and indiscretion—and that although he has eluded public punishment, the enquiry has produced the salutary effect of drawing him back to a sense of his public and private duties.
A commercial arrangement had been made between Great Britain and Sweden. It was strongly rumored that Russia and Prussia were about to unite their strength with Austria, in a grand struggle to check the overwhelming and unquenchable ambition of France.
The English papers to the 17th contain no additional advices from Spain.
New-York May, 2.
In consequence of the late negotiation at Washington with Great Britain, the gun boats in this port, are to be laid up in ordinary; and their crews to be transferred to the Constitution frigate.
To the subscribers to the History of Virginia.
WHEN I issued my prospectus in August last, I was under the impression that Mr. Burk had prepared materials for composing the fourth volume of his work. My surprise then, will readily be imagined to have been great, and my embarrassment extreme, on finding that this very difficult task unavoidably devolved upon me, and that Mr. Burk had not left behind him, either in manuscript or in print, one single document, relative to Virginian History of a later date than the attack on Norfolk in 1775.
I had received information that only materials had been collected for composing the History of Virginia, but that even a part of the fourth volume was actually written; from this information, erroneously given me, proceeded this part of the phraseology in my prospectus, viz: that "I had undertaken to complete the fourth volume, left unfinished by the death of Burk." What I then supposed I had to perform, was, to complete an unfinished volume, a part of which was actually written, and materials collected for composing the whole. On the contrary my undertaking has turned out, to be, the labour of collecting materials, for an entire work commencing with the Revolutionary War. But I have the satisfaction of assuring the subscribers, that I have nearly overcome the difficulties which unexpectedly obstructed my progress, and that the delay in the publication, which I foresee must take place, will be more than compensated by the increased value and authenticity of the materials from which the Fourth Volume of the History of Virginia will be composed.
I have thought proper to make this communication, as well to account for unexpected delay, as to show that had the situation of things been, as I was led to believe they were, I made no assertion in my prospectus, which I could not have verified—no promise with which I could not have complied.
SKELTON JONES.
Richmond, May 9th, 1809.
Dr. JOHN HAYES,
OFFERS his professional services to the inhabitants of Richmond and its vicinity. May 9th, 1809
Upper Appomattox Company.
AN election of Trustees will be held at Painville, Amelia, on Saturday the 10th day of June next. The shareholders are requested to be punctual in their attendance, either in person or by proxy.
Jos. Eggleston, R. N. Venable, Edward Mumford, Edmund Harrison, John Wilv.
Superintendents.
May 5th, 1809.
Im
Jacob Fackler, HAS removed from Richmond to Staunton, where he intends permanently to reside. He has placed in the hands of Mr. Stevenson, his a forney, a list of debts due him, from persons residing in Richmond and the adjacent counties with positive instructions, to bring suits indiscriminately against all those, who may be in arrear after the first day of June next. Payments made to Mr. S. will in all cases be good.
Richmond. May 5. 1809. 4t
Just received from Philadelphia, and for Sale at this Office, a few copies of the celebrated Pamphlet, entitled,
A VIEW OF THE Rights and Wrongs, Power and Policy OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? BY CHARLES JARED INGERSOLL.
Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND.
TUESDAY, May 9, 1809.
EXTRACT FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE PRESIDENT AND PROFESSORS OF WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE, APRIL 24th, 1809.
RESOLVED, That JOHN S. BARBOUR be, and hereby is, forever expelled from this college, for giving a challenge to fight a duel, and other conduct contrary to the rules for the maintenance of good order.
Signed, J. MADISON, President.
Richmond, May 5th, 1809.
SIR, I have great pleasure in forwarding to you the enclosed communication from the Secretary of war, and have to request that the w shes of the President of the United States, therein contained, may be fully complied with. To that end I send you a copy of the said communication, for each of the Commandants of Regiments within your Brigade.
Accept my hearty congratulations on the late happy change of prospect with respect to our foreign relations; permit me to hope that on all occasions similar to the one which produced the late call for a portion of our citizen soldiers to be held in readiness to take the field, the militia of Virginia will, as they always have done, promptly step forward in vindication of her national rights and honor; Effectually to do so, it is necessary that no relaxation of effort to obtain military knowledge should be permitted to take place in consequence of present pacific appearances. I have therefore (and I trust it will not be deemed unreasonable) to exhort my Fellow Citizens of the militia, zealously to employ themselves in the acquisition of a knowledge of that art which may be their greatest security in the day of battle.
I am, with great respect, Sir, your obed't Servant, JOHN TYLER.
Brigadier General
(CIRCULAR.)
His Excellency the Governor of Virginia, War Department, 29th April, 1809.
SIR, I am directed by the President of the United States to inform your Excellency that the detachment of 10,198 militia, made in pursuance of a communication to your excellency from this department, bearing date the 29th day of October, 1808, is no longer required to be held in readiness for actual service.
In the orders which your excellency will give for discharging the troops from that service, it is requested by the President that his thanks may be presented to those corps whose patriotism has induced them to volunteer their services to the United States.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obed't Serv't WILLIAM EUSTIS, Secretary for the Department of War.
WE cannot conceive why so much delicacy should be felt in expressing opinions about the prospect of an adjustment with Great Britain. There are many persons who act in this style, merely from the fear of increasing the obstruction, which has so long existed between the two countries. If it were a matter of courtesy we expected, or a favor we wished, it would then be the part of policy to withhold any remark which had a tendency to excite and to irritate. But there are few Americans we hope, who are under the influence of feelings and sentiments of this character. We acknowledge that it is, our warm and unfeigned desire, that a happy settlement of our differences should speedily take place, and therefore it is far from our wish to excite hostility to a higher pitch, or to exaggerate difficulties already too great. At the same time, however, we shall not forbear to advocate our rights, to insist upon adequate redress for injuries received, or to speak of Great Britain as she deserves. The rights which we claim, are of too important a nature to be advanced in a weak and ambiguous tone. The redress which is due to us, is too evident to admit of the least contrariety of opinion. And the character of our enemy is too deeply stained with crime and hostility to expect the soft language of persuasion. After years of injury, treachery and insult, she comes forward under circumstances of a peculiar nature, to offer an acknowledgment of our rights and atonement for her injustice. Upon an occasion of this sort it is enjoined upon us by every tie of prudence and experience to act with becoming caution. And that if a treaty is made, that it should comprehend every provision essential to our happiness. Let us avail ourselves of the present pacific temper of Britain, and if it is sincere, secure our rights upon the most unequivocal and permanent basis, that is, as far as they can be, by writing and parchment. As far as this temper is exhibited in the recent propositions laid before our government, we entertain the most sanguine hopes, but our fears are equally great when we recollect the subject of impressment, and the unavailing efforts which have been so constantly made, to induce her to abandon a practice so copious of mischief and so unauthorised by any principle of national law. Upon this point of primary importance, Great Britain is perfectly silent—Not a hint has as yet been suggested from which we can form the smallest conjecture, as to her intentions.
Security from impressment has been hitherto the sine qua non of adjustment and so it must continue, as in the language of the President, when communicating the sentiments of his predecessor as secretary, that "he cannot reconcile it with his duty to our sea-faring citizens or with the sensibility or sovereignty of the nation, to recognize even constructively a principle
that would expose on the high seas, their liberty, their lives, every thing in a word that is dearest to the human heart, to the capricious or interested sentences which may be pronounced against their allegiance by officers of a foreign government, whom neither the law of nations, nor even the laws of that government will allow, to decide on the ownership or character of the minutest article of property found in a like situation." If the protection of our sea rights & our property is a subject of great magnitude, how much infinitely more so is the liberty of our fellow citizens. And we therefore trust, that the very first article of the treaty may be a provision against impressments.
Great Britain has hitherto pertinaciously adhered to this right. She has in fact, admitted the injustice of the principle, but her pride or self-interest forbids her to renounce the practice. It is possible that her present situation may force her to do it, "her plumes are flat and shrunk into a trivial toy." Hence we may derive a hope that our accommodation will be happy and complete. But there is little doubt, in the language of Lord Petty, but that the Federal, otherwise the English interest , will be violently opposed to it. The same anxiety which they have lately displayed to parry off the charge of humiliation from Britain, will lead them to advocate the right of impressment, as necessary to her maritime prosperity, which is the pretended barrier to save us from French domination. The opponents to the administration, or more properly the aspirants after power, have exhibited the most painful contortions of late, to extricate themselves from the destructive confusion into which they have been thrown by their English friends.
It would not do for the minority to admit that G. Britain offers more now, than she did before. Because it would then seem to be the result of the wisdom of the last administration, which has been, and is still the object of their deepest imprecations. How then do they avoid this dilemma? Why, by boldly asserting that the same propositions were offered before. To whom? Not to Mr. Monroe, because the treaty in which he was engaged, was concluded long before the existence of the orders of council. The one was signed on the 21st Dec. 1806, and the others were issued on the 11th of November following. Were they offered to Mr. Pinkney? No, because in August last, we proposed ourselves to repeal the embargo, if they would take off their orders, which they decidedly refused. Is it pretended, that sufficient reparation accompanied the illusory mission of Mr. Rose who brought the insulting demand that our Proclamation should be recalled, which was so necessarily imposed in consequence of the attack upon the Chesapeake before he could even make any suggestion as to the nature or tendency of his propositions? The proclamation was justifiable upon every principle of justice, security & precaution, & was hailed with universal approbation. It was evidently then the part of G. Britain, to offer some cure for the enormous wound she had inflicted, and to promise security against a repetition of similar injuries. But our government, despising the mockery and silly parade of which he seemed merely to be the representative, and feeling an impatient desire to adjust our differences, agreed to revoke the proclamation on the day of the date of the act or treaty by which reparation should be made for the violence.
This was certainly fair, ingenuous and friendly, and perhaps, considering the complicated tissue of wrongs and insults which were involved in the attack upon the Chesapeake, was relaxing rather too much. In consequence of not surrendering our national honor to British insolence and arrogance at that time, we are now told we lost the proper opportunity of adjustment. And that without the smallest necessity whatsoever, we have crippled our commerce and destroyed an infinite deal of property. But how do these gentlemen know that such propositions were in the port folio of Mr. Rose? Is it merely the suggestion of ingenuity, or is it a fact within the power of their establishment? Or was there any person introduced to these secrets Sub Rosa ?
It is perfectly immaterial, however, whether he brought such instructions or not; it was perfectly right not to yield to the overweening arrogance of St. James. He came with limited powers to treat upon the subject of the Chesapeake, but not even then unless we first bent the knee of courtesy to beg pardon for passing an act to save our lives, property and honor. Yet this was the propitious moment for an honorable accommodation! Suppose that some accommodation had taken place in regard to the Chesapeake, to which subject Mr. Rose was exclusively confined by his instructions—this would not have removed the orders of council, which were unconnected with the affair, and which they say were produced by the French edicts. How then can it be said with the smallest regard to truth that the propositions now in the cabinet were ever presented before; and how could the embargo have been avoided without sacrificing our shipping, property and fellow citizens to the rapacity of Britain? This effort to injure the character of the administration, in point of boldness and indifference to fact, is perhaps equal to any to be found in the annals of party contention. It must appear evident to every impartial mind, that no other course could have been pursued, and that no such propositions as those we are now about to accept, were ever offered to us before. Thus the minority have caught hold of a straw, and they must unavoidably sink in the dilemma before them. But what say the federalists? Inexhaustible in assurance, if not in ingenuity, they give themselves the credit of producing the present state of things. They unblushingly announce in their prints that it is the effect of Federal perseverance and triumph ! Of all the possible causes, this would never have entered into our imagination. But yet they say so, and now contend that the non-intercourse bill was a favorable relaxation towards Great Britain, notwithstanding a little while since, when it was upon the tapis of discussion, they accused it with vehemence, and declared that it would sting and fret Great Britain into a war . This was not only the language of the federalists in Congress, but those out of
doors, who declared it to be more hostile and injurious than the embargo. But now it seems, they look upon it as a Favorable relaxation produced by Federal perseverance and Triumph —and that therefore, they have been the cause of the present state of things.
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Compiled for the Argus.
The accounts received about the declaration of War on the part of Austria against France are too vague and contradictory to be relied upon. The last accounts however from Liverpool state that the prevailing expectation at Hamburg was that Russia would join the emperor of Germany should he be compelled to defend himself against the tyrannical demands of Bonaparte. It is also stated to be untrue that the King of Prussia had in compliance with a mandate of Bonaparte delivered up his minister the Baron De Stein as a victim to the resentment of Bonaparte. A Boat with two foreigners arrived at Dover on March 15, bringing over two British officers who had made their escape—one was Mr Mansell, son to the Bishop of Bristol, who was taken with captain Vinzengo. They brought an account of war being on the point of taking place between Austria and France, in which it was expected that Russia, Prussia and Turkey would join. They embarked at Middleburgh in Holland and had been at sea two nights and two days. Private letters from Holland report that according to a secret article of the recent treaty between Great Britain and Turkey, the porte is to join with Austria in the war against France, and Great Britain is to furnish the Turkish government with arms & ammunition at Malta or the Morea. This information it is said came from Malta. A private letter from Paris states that the emperor of China, & his family are converted to the Catholic Religion, and that his principal Mandarins are on their passage to France in an American vessel to compliment Napoleon and to offer homage in the name of their Prince to the sovereign Puffi. The same letter states that the seizure of the Pope's territory and temporal power and the expulsion of the Bourbons from Spain (a kingdom to the sovereignty of which the House of Austria has eminent pretensions) are said to constitute the chief complaints of the cabinet of Vienna. (Mark the trick)—The same letter observes that among reports here, is the very absurd one of a war with Prussia as well as Austria—Russia is said to have determined to remain neutral in the continental war, and is now negotiating a peace with Sweden, in which Denmark is to be included.
The minority in congress have saved the country—So says the Tories. This reminds one of the apt saying of the fly upon a coach-wheel. "Zounds," says he, "what a dust I kick up."
••• We owe an apology to the author of the essay signed A VIRGINIAN , for not having inserted it in this days paper. It was accidentally mislaid. It shall certainly appear in our next.
FOR SALE, A Tract of Land,
LYING in the upper end of Nottoway county, on the waters of Sailor Creek, containing by survey 112 acres, with improvements sufficient for a small family. This land is well watered and lies well. For terms apply to the subscriber, living in Henrico county.
John Woodfin.
May 2d, 1809.
NOTICE.
HAVING been informed that Bernhardt Florence Hantelmann intends to dispose of the property which I possessed previous to my marriage with him, I have thought proper to give notice to the public, and do hereby inform all persons whom it may concern, that Bernhardt F. Hantelmann entered into a contract prior to his marriage, which divests him from any right to dispose of the property.
Mary Hantelmann.
May 5th, 1809.
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NOTICE.
I HEREBY forewarn all persons from crediting my wife Ann Clopton Lightfoot, on my account, as I am determined not to pay any debts of her contracting—she having left my bed and board without any provocation. I also forewarn all persons from harboring her, as I shall prosecute such to the utmost rigor of the law.
Wm. Lightfoot.
Charles City May 6, 1809.
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Richmond Turnpike Company.
THE subscribers are hereby notified, that their annual general meeting will be held at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on the first Monday in next month, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon, that being the day appointed by the Charter for such general meeting.
N. Sheppard, Clk.
May 6, 1809.
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To the Public.
AS there is a report in circulation that I am about to quit Richmond. I beg leave to inform the citizens that it is without foundation; my intention is to remain here and TEACH MUSIC as usual; having met with the approbation of all in whose families I have taught. I tender them my thanks for their good opinion on my abilities.
JOHN J. ABERCROMBY, at Mr J. P. Shelds's near the Bank.
May 8, 1809.
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One Thousand Pounds WANTED, FOR the interest of which, a plantation of 500 acres of valuable land will be given, until the money is refunded. Nearly 100 acres are rich low grounds, now in cultivation, lying on navigable water, the improvements new and very good, in a healthy and desirable country. Enquire of the Printer. September 3, 1808. tf
IN COUNCIL, January 20, 1809. PROPOSALS will be received by the Executive for manufacturing three hundred and ninety Rifles during the present year, being the number directed by law to be provided annually, including the deficiency of last year. Extract from the minutes. DANL. L. HYLTON, Clerk of the Council.
MATTRESSES OF ALL SIZES AND KINDS, MADE and repaired, agreeably to order, in the large wooden house opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the market bridge, Richmond. J. S. Pleasants. May 31, 1808. tf
NOTICE. By virtue of the last will and testament of Pleasant Younghusband, dec. WILL BE SOLD, To the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 13th of June next, at the courthouse of Botetourt county, being court day, One Tract of Land, Containing 254 acres, more or less, it being the same tract of land deeded to Pleasant Younghusband by Thomas M'George and Judith his wife, as by indenture bearing date the 2d day of July, 1800, on the following terms, to wit: one third cash, one third in twelve months, and the remaining third in two years. Bonds with security, to carry interest from the date if not paid in three months after they become due, and a deed of trust on the land to secure the two last payments, will be required. ELIZA T. YOUNGHUSBAND, Administratrix. SAMUEL P. PARSONS, Adm'r. With the will annexed. 2d mo. 17th, 1809. N. B. The above sale is postponed to Botetourt August Court. E. T. YOUNGHUSBAND, Adm'r. S. P. PARSONS, Adm'r. 5th mo 6th, 1809.
WANTED TO PURCHASE, 10 or 15 Young Negroes. Enquire of the Printer. November 30, 1808. tf
A Bank Note OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, taken from a black boy, who called himself James Smith, and says he found it in the street—not thinking it proper to let the boy keep it, I detained it for the proper owner, who may have it, on giving satisfactory evidence of his right to it and paying the expense of this advertisement. JOHN McDONALD. Richmond, March 10th, 1809. tf
For sale at S. Pleasants's printing office, HENNING'S New Virginia Justice, CONTAINING The Duties of a Justice of Peace, &c. together with a variety of useful precedents, adapted to the laws now in force. Also, forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, lease and re-lease, mortgage, trust, &c. LATELY PUBLISHED, And for sale by Samuel Pleasants, jr.
VIRGINIAN ORATOR, BEING A VARIETY OF ORIGINAL AND SELECTED POEMS, ORATIONS AND DRAMATIC SCENES; To improve the American Youth in the ornamental and useful art of Eloquence and Gesture. BY THOMAS E. BIRCH.
A Handsome GIGG FOR SALE. APPLY next door to Mr. Pleasants' Book Store, where may be had all kinds of FAMILY FURNITURE, Japanned and Gilt. J. W. COOK. Richmond, April 26th, 1809. tf
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by the trustee of the estate of Elizabeth Mary Ann M. Brooking to secure the payment of the sum of £270 with interest thereon from the 20th of November, 1808, being the first installment due from the said estate to William Cheatham; will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at Zachariah Brooks's tavern, in the town of Manchester, on Friday the 12th day of May next, four hundred and eighty nine acres of LAND or so much thereof as will be sufficient to pay the aforesaid sum of £270 and the interest thereon. The abovementioned land lies in the county of Chesterfield, about eight miles from the town of Manchester, and a part thereof was of former years of the Ampthill tract of land. The deed of trust is of record in the County Court of Chesterfield, and the subscribers will convey to the purchaser the title only which they have received by that deed. DANIEL GORDON, JOHN BRANCH, Surviving Trustees. April 13th, 1809. tds.
A Stock of Dry Goods, OF from 3 to 4000 dollars worth, are offered for sale on advantageous terms, for cash, produce, or on credit. Apply at this office. Richmond, March 16th, 1809. (1f)
FOR RENT, In a central part of this city, a few GENTEEL ROOMS, With a kitchen, stable, smoke house, &c and an elegant pump of water. Enquire of the printer. tf
REMOVAL. THE subscribers (in consequence of the late fire) have removed to a brick tenement belonging to Messrs. J. & R. Gamble, on the cross street leading to Mayo's bridge, opposite Messrs. Brown & Rives's compting house, where they have for Sale a general assortment of German Goods, Consisting of Osnaburgs & Tick- | Pine Shirting Linen, lenburgs, | Bed Tyke, Dantzic Rolls, | Damask Table Cloths, Brown Rolls, | Looking Glasses, Sheeting, | Liquor Cases, Dowlas, | Quart, Pint and Half Platillas, | Pint Decanters, ALSO Fresh Red Clover Seed. BOHN & HUBNER. April 3d, 1809. Gw
Select Speeches. Just received by S. Pleasants, jr. RICHMOND, SELECT SPEECHES, FORENSICK AND PARLIAMENTARY, With Prefatory Remarks. By N. CHAPMAN, M. D.
In this selection will be found the most celebrated speeches of Lord Chatham, Edmund Burke, Lord Mansfield, William Pitt, the elder and younger, Sir Robt. Walpole, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Fox, Mr. Curran, Mr. Thomas Erskine, Mr. Wilberforce, H. Gratton, &c. &c. The work is adorned with handsomely engraved portraits of Burke, Curran, Sheridan, Fox, and Pitt. tf
Richmond Turnpike Company. At a meeting of the Directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, on Friday evening, the 21st of April, 1809 Resolved, That a call of five dollars on each share of the holders of shares in the said company be made; and that the same be paid to the Treasurer on or before the 21st day of next month. To obviate many inconveniences which have arisen and which may hereafter arise, the board agree to the following: Resolved, that when the shares of delinquent holders are advertised for sale, the name of each holder, with the sums thereto annexed, as due, shall be published. (A copy) N. Sheppard, Clerk. (121st May.)
HOSTLER WANTED. A liberal price will be given FOR A Good Hostler, At the Bell Tavern, either by the month or year. Richmond, 27th April, 1809. tf
To Rent or Lease, The Mills in the county of Goochland, commonly called by the name of the Dover Mills; Situated on James river, about twenty miles above this city. These Mills are in good repair, furnished with two pair of BURR and one pair of COLOGNE stones, and all necessary apparatus. For terms, enquire of Mr. MAYO C. WATKINS, living in the county of Goochland, near the Mills, or of the subscriber, living in the city of Richmond. [w6t] Thomas Rutherford. Just Received at this Office, Part 1st of vol. 10th—or No. 19, of Dr. Rees' New Cyclopaedia. * * * Subscribers to the above work are requested to apply for their books. Subscription still open.
The noted and much admired English Horse, JACK ANDREWS, IMPORTED by Wm. Lightfoot, Esq. of Charles City county, and now his property, full fifteen hands and a half high, a blood bay, finely formed, in high health, vigor and spirit, the most active and best bottomed horse ever imported to this country, now rising 15 years old. Will stand the ensuing season, at Temple Hill, on Mechanic's river, in Albemarle county, ten miles above Charlottesville, within one mile of German's mill, and two miles of the Brick Tavern, and will be let to mare at Twenty Dollars the season, which may be discharged by the payment of Fifteen Dollars, if paid by the tenth day of August. Gentlemen's notes will be required with the mare, for Twenty Dollars, discharged as above. Ten Dollars the leap and Thirty Dollars to ensure a mare to be with foal, and One Dollar with each mare to the groom; the leap and groom money to be paid when the mare is covered—Provided the mare is changed the owner shall be liable.—The season will commence the first day of March, and end the first day of August.—Extensive low and high ground pasturage, well enclosed in three separate fields, gratis.—Servants will be boarded at two dollars per week, and grain will be furnished at the market price and given in manner and quantity agreeable to direction, and all possible care taken to prevent accidents and escapes, but will not be liable for any that may happen. JAMES KINSOLVING, For William Lightfoot.
This celebrated horse's performances in England, have not been inferior to any horse there except his brother Dick Andrews, who is considered now the best horse in that country, giving seven pounds—Jack Andrews won twice in 1797, then Mr. Lord's property—see Racing Calendar for that year. At Worcester, July 5th, a maiden plate of £50, for 3 years old, 6 stone, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews at 3 heats, beating Mr. Darlington's ch f Miss Edwin, 4 years old; Mr. Atkinson's ch m Priscilla, aged; Sir W. W. Wynns b h Sweet Botherem, 5 years old; Mr. Hardin's b c Eglantine, 4 years old; at Stafford, Oct. 7th. The town purse of £50, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, three years old, at three heats, beating Mr. Betteson's Little Pickle, four years old; Mr. Barlow's Roderick, 4 years old; Mr. Denham's Honest Tom, 6 years old; Sir W. W. Wynns b h True Blue, 5 years old. In 1798, at Nantwich, Thursday, July 8th—£50, for 3 and 4 years old, he won, beating Mr. Boyer's ch c Cannon, 4 years old; Stamford's b f Scotella, 3 years old. Denby, August 15th—He won £50, free for any horse, beating Lilly of the Valley, Falconer and True Blue. In 1799 he won twice to wit—at Ludlow, on Friday the 4th of July, 4 mile heats, free for all ages, beating Lord Oxford's ch c Dart, at three heats. At Worcester, August 8th—He won the city and county subscription of £50, 4 mile heats, at 3 heats, beating Mr. Arley's Billy Dutchess, 4 years old; Mr. Coventon's b h Integrity, late Partner; Mr. Snell's ch g Hock, 5 years old—after the first heat, four to one on her; after the second heat, four to one on Jack Andrews. In 1800, he won six times, to wit: At Lewes, then the property of Major Rooke, August 12th, he beat Lord Sackville's b h Laborie, 4 mile heats, for 50 guineas—At Oxford, the town plate of £50, in August, was won by Jack Andrews at 4 heats, beating Sir F. Pooe's ch m Duchess of Limbs 5 years old, Lord Donegall's b h Wrangle, distanced the 4th heat—September, at Warwick, he won the town plate of £50, 4 mile heats, beating Mr. Tharm's b h Marquis, Mr. Brooke's b h Sussex, Mr. Edward's b m Duchess. At Abingdon, Tuesday, September 16th, the members purse of £50, for all ages, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, at 3 heats, beating Sir F. Pooe's b m Miscreant, 5 years old, Mr. Whelley's ch h Expectation, Mr. Frangley's b h Cupid—six to four on Miscreant. In 1801, Jack Andrews, at New Market, April 20th received forfeit from Mr. Heacock's Symmetry, 8 stone, 5 lb. 200 guineas, half forfeit. Bebury, June 16th—The Bebury Stakes, a handicap of 100 guineas each, half forfeit, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, aged, beating Lord Sackville's b h Expectation, 5 years old, Sir Henry T. Vane's Cock Fighter, 5 years old, Mr. R. Heathcoat's Hippone, aged, his royal highness the Prince of Wales's Dick Andrews, Mr. Heathcoat's Pofajay, and Cox's Edwin. June 17th, a sweepstakes of 5 guineas each, twenty subscribers, was won by Jack Andrews, beating colonel Grovenor's Lady Catherine, Mr. Howorth's Snuff Box. Bedford, September 10th—The Woburn stakes of 20 guineas each, 5 miles, 5 subscribers, was won by his royal highness the Prince of Wales's b h Jack Andrews, aged, beating Mr. Watson's b h Triumph, Mr. Galding's b c Skyrocket. Endfield, Sept. 33—£50, for all ages, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, aged, at 3 heats, beating Mr. Froogley's gr g Pionghony, velvet horse Little Thought Of, Hephestion and Contester—see Racing Calendar for these years. It would swell an advertisement to go great a length to mention all the races he has won. Sweepstakes of 20 guineas each, 2 miles, 5 subscribers, Mr. Rooke's Jack Andrews, aged, 11 st. 7 lb. walked over, (see racing calendar for 1802, pa. 385.) At Lambourne, in Sept. Wednesday, 10th, he won the £50 gift of Lord Craven, 4 mile heats, at 4 heats, beating Mr. Coventry's ch h Sacripant, Mr. Zacon's b m Snap. Wm. LIGHTFOOT.
PEDIGREE. Jack Andrews was got by Joe Andrews, his dam by Highflyer, his granddam Cardinal Puff, his great granddam by Tatler, his great great granddam by Snip, his great great great granddam by Lord Godolphin's Arabian, his great great great granddam by Siamy's Arabian, which mare was own sister to Frampton's White Neck, full sister to the Minbury Galloway, great great great great granddam by Sauce Box, a son of Gregg, sire of Croft's Old Partner. JAMES LORD, Seal. I do hereby certify that the above pedigree is a true copy from the original one sent me by James Lord. Given under my hand and seal, the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and four. Wm. LIGHTFOOT, Seal. Joe Andrews was got by Eclipse, his dam Amanda by Omnim, her dam Cloudy by Blank—Crab, Weddington mare by Partner—Genera Stud Book, page 6th, printed in 1803, by James Weatherby.
FOR SALE. A FEW COPIES OF Burk's History of Virginia IN THREE VOLUMES Are for sale at this office.
NEW BOOKS. Just received and for sale by Samuel Pleasants, jr. Richmond, Struggles Through Life, Exemplified in the various Travels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, OF LIEUT. JOHN HARRIOTT, Now Resident Magistrate of the Thames police, London, IN TWO VOLUMES. This work presents an engaging lesson, especially to such as are embarrassed with difficulty it is a persuasive stimulus to exertion and perseverance; and as Mr. Aikin in his Annual Review observes, contains anecdote and adventure enough to satisfy the keenest avidity. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry, by Frederick Accum, 2 vols. 8vo. The Exile of Exin, a New Novel. The Forty Thieves; a grand operational Romance. Conversations on Chemistry. The Domestic Cookery. Boyer's, Nugent's, and Chambaud's French Dictionaries. Petrarch. Thornton Abbey, in 2 vols. Studies of Nature, by St. Pierre. Romantic Tales. Bradby on Distresses. Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary—First American Edition. Greek Lexicons. wtt.
Buckingham County, January Court, 1809. Moncrieffe Hill, Adm'r of Robert Hill, dec. Plaintiff AGAINST, Richard Hudnall & Peter Guert, Defendants. ON the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant Hudnall is not an inhabitant of this state, It is ordered and decreed that unless the said Hudnall shall appear here on or before March term next and answer the plaintiff's bill, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to him, and decree the matter thereof accordingly, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and another copy be posted up at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A Copy—Teste, R. ELDRIDGE, jr. d. c.
LANDING From the Schooner Richmond, Isaac Seaman, Master. 50 Boxes Raisins, 10 Bales Soft Shelled Almonds, 3 Casks Green Coffee, 19 Barrels prime Pork, and 1 Pipe London Particular Madeira Wine. IN STORE, 17 Hhds. Brown Sugar, 25 Do Molasses, 5 Boxes Green Coffee, 75 Boxes Havanna Segars, 3 Bales Welch Plains, Famly Flour in Barrels and Half Barrels, Young Hyson, } TEAS, Hyson Skin, and Souchong. 10 Boxes Mould Candles, FOR SALE by Geo. Watt.
A. L. Philips, & Co. Opposite Jacob Johnson's Book Store, Main Street, Richmond, have just received an Extensive Assortment of DRY GOODS, Among which are Chintz and Calicoes. | Bumbazettes and Bum-bazettes. 4 4 6 4 9 8 Cambrics. | Calimancos & Duroys. 6 4 figured, do. | Fine Bafias and other 6 4 & 4 4 Laced, do. | India Cottons. 6 4 & 4 4 veined, do. | Cotton and Linnen 4 4 & 7 8 colored, do. | Checks. 6 4 & 4 4 Figured Le-no Muslin. | Superfine Cloths and Casimeres. 4 4 Plain, do. do. | Long, Square & Eagle 10 4 & 6 4 & 4 4 Le-no Shawls. | Top, Tortoise Combs 6 4 Muslin, do. | Long, Square Top and 4 4 & 6 4 Mull Mull Muslin. | Dressing Horn do. 4 4 & 6 4 Jacomet, do. | Thread and Cotton Laces, Ribbons, Cotton 4 4 & 6 4 Book Muslin and hks. | Balls in Boxes, Nun's Thread. Gingham, assorted colors. | 9 8 4 4 & 7 8 Cotton Black Lustrings. | Shirtings, Irish Linens, Brown Holland, Dowlas, Silk Umbrellas, Sewing Silks of all colors, Patent and other Sus-penders, Silver Watches and other Jew-elry, Silk & cotton Hosiery, Split Straw Bonnets, Knives and Forks, Fluted and Gilt Cast Buttons, do. do. Vest, do. Pins and Needles. Printed Dimities, Fancy Mersailles, Florentines. And a variety of other articles too tedious to mention, all of which we offer at wholesale or retail for cash or approved notes at a short credit. Country produce taken in payment, and will allow good prices for Tobacco. May 4th, 1809. tf
FOR SALE. In consequence of a power vested in me by a deed of trust executed on the 14th day of March, in the year 1808, by the late William Nice, of this city, in order to secure a sum of money therein mentioned, due unto Mr. William Cook, I shall on the premises, between the hours of 12 and 2 o'clock, on Wednesday the 31st inst. proceed to sell that highly improved TENEMENT, on which the said Nice resided. The sale will be made subject to the law passed the last Session of Assembly of Virginia, entitled "An Act concerning executions and for other purposes,"—and the deed from me a special one, as trustee only. E. W. TRENT, Trustee. May 4, 1809. tds.
The Subscribers, Take leave to inform their friends and the public in general, that the EAGLE TAVERN, IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND, WILL hereafter be conducted under the immediate management of GEORGE TURNER, they having formed an engagement for this purpose. They entertain the most sanguine hopes that their unremitting exertions will entitle them to patronage and favour. Every comfort which necessity may require, or which taste may suggest, will be procured with avidity and pleasure. They are determined, if possible, to render the EAGLE in every department of their business agreeable to their guests, and a pleasant abode to the stranger.—Their solicitude upon this score has induced them at considerable expense to make some important changes in the arrangement of the rooms. They feel a great share of confidence in assuring their friends that they will meet with every convenience and attention that a house of this character is calculated to afford. Their Bed rooms are furnished with an entire new set of beds and furniture, with a suit of curtains to each, and the floors covered with carpets. Their stables are large and commodious (which will always be furnished with a full supply of the best provender the country affords) stands within twenty steps of the house, with a pump of excellent water at the door, for the purpose of watering and washing the horses. They take leave further to state, that a COFFEE ROOM has lately been established in one of the rooms of the Eagle, in which the news papers from all the principal towns on the continent are to be seen.—With these advantages, and these determinations, in which they are resolved never to relax, they can but hope for the most flattering success. George Turner. James S. Smithers. N. B. The printers throughout the United States who now direct their papers to James S. Smithers, are requested to insert the above one week, and in future direct to TURNER and SMITHERS. G. T. J. S. S. (3w) May 1st, 1809
NOTICE. By virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by Peyton Saunders, to secure the payment of a debt due to Thomas Amonett, will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, agreeable to Law, the following property, v z. Half of a House and Lot, in the town of Cairo, in Cumberland County; also one Feather BED and its furniture, one Walnut TABLE and BUREAU. The sale will take place the 27th of May, 1809, on the premises. REUBEN AMONETT, Trustee, April 29, 1809. (2 S paid)
Wm. McCAY, Watch & Clock Maker, In consequence of the late fire, has removed To the next House above his former Dwelling, on the Main street; Where he continues to MAKE and REPAIR all kinds of WATCHES and CLOCKS, as heretofore. Grateful to his numerous friends for the great encouragement he has hitherto experienced, he will omit no exertions to merit their future support. He has on hand, an assortment of JEWELRY and SILVER WORK, for sale; & so constantly keeps good workmen employed, to execute in the newest style, and on the shortest notice any orders in the above branches, with which he may be favored. W. M. C. has also erected proper furnaces, with every necessary apparatus, for the purpose of CASTING BRASS to any given pattern; and has in employment, some of the most skillful founders, or casters of Brass to enable him to complete all orders in that line, in the very best manner. N. B. The highest price given for old Gold, Silver, Copper Brass and Pewer. May 4th, 1809. Gw
To Rent, And possession given immediately, THE TENEMENT AT present in the occupancy of Mr. Williamson, and directly back of the Hon. Creed Taylor's. Apply to EDWARD W. TRENT. May 4, 1809. tf
Just received and for sale at this office, A FEW ELEGANT PORTRAITS OF JAMES MADISON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Engraved by the celebrated EDWIN, from a painting by Mr. STEWART. WANTED TO PURCHASE, Two Good Milch Cows, Enquire of the Printer. tf
MALTHUS ON POPULATION. THE first American edition of this valuable work is just published, and may be had at this office. It is in two large octavo volumes, very handsomely executed by Mr. Weightman, of Washington City.—Subscribers will please call or send for their copies. Pamphlets, CARDS, HAND-BILLS, LAWYERS, CLERKS & SHERIFFS BLANKS, &c ARE NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY PRINTED AT THE ARGUS OFFICE.