Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1809-11-28 00:00:00

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MISCELLANY.
A SONG, By THOMAS MOORE, Esq.
[From a selection of Irish melodies]
O! think not my spirits are always so light, And free from a pang as they seem to you now; Nor expect that the heart-beaming swell of to-night, Will return with to-morrow to brighten my brow.  No, life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns!  But send round the bowl and be happy a while: May we ne'er meet worse in our pilgrimage here, Than the tear that enjoyment can gild with a smile, And the smile that compassion can turn to a tear.  The thread of our life would be dark, Heaven knows, If it were not with friendship and love intertwined; And I care not how soon I may sink to repose, When these blessings shall cease to be dear to my mind!  But they, who have lovd the fondest, the purest, Too often have wept o'er the dream they believ'd; And the heart that has slumbered in friendship securest, Is happy indeed if 'twas never deceiv'd.  But send round the bowl, while a relic of truth, Is in man, or in woman, this prayer shall be mine, That the sunshine of life may illumine our youth, And the moonlight of friendship console our decline.
CURIOUS ANECDOTES
OF AN EMINENT PERFORMER; From Ryley's Itinerant; or Memoirs of an Actor.
Cooke is so well known as an actor, that my opinion can neither add to, nor diminish his fame; were either in my power, panegyric would run through a dozen pages, and yet fall short of his merits. In some characters he is as much superior to any actor of the present day, as Garrick was to those of his time; where these can be dispensed with, he has no competitor. As a man in private life, he is the gentleman, the scholar, the friend, the life of every party, an enemy to scandal and detraction and benevolent even to imprudence.  Such is Cooke in his sober moments; but when stimulated by the Juice of the grape, he acts in diametrical opposition to all this. No two men, however different they may be, can be more at variance than Cooke sober, & Cooke in a state of inebriety. At these times his interesting snail of manners changes to brutal invective, & the feelings of his nearest & dearest friends are sacrificed. Such are the unfortunate propensities of this singular man; unfortunate I say, because he seems incapable of avoiding them. Although they have a tendency to ruin his health, injure his property, and destroy his social connections. No one can more regret these failings than he does, in his hours of sanity, or make more handsome apologies; and if at night he creates enemies, his conciliatory manners in the morning are sure to raise double the number of friends.  Of this great actor, many ludicrous anecdotes are related. I shall point out a few which came under my observation.  One evening in Manchester, we were in a public bar amongst a promiscuous company, where Cooke was, as usual, the life of the party. Mirth and good humour prevailed till about ten o'clock, when I perceived a something lurking in his eye, which foretold a storm. Anxious to get home before it burst forth I pressed our departure under the plea of another engagement, but instead of having the desired effect, it only precipitated what I had foreseen. With a haughty, supercilious look, he said,
"I see what you are about, you hypocritical scoundrel! You caning, methodistical thief! an I, Cooke, to be controlled by such a would be puritan as you; I'll teach you to dictate to a tragedian. Then pulling off his coat, and holding his fist in a menacing attitude, "Come out," continued he, "thou prince of deceivers?—though thou hast faith to remove mountains, thou shalt not remove me—Come out, I say." With much difficulty he was pacified, and resumed his coat. There was a large fire in the bar, before which stood with his coat skirts under his arm, a pitiful imitation of success, very deficient in cleanliness and costume. His face was grimy, and his neckcloth of the same tint, which nevertheless, was rolled in various folds about his throat; his hair was matted, & turned up under a round, greasy hat, with a narrow brim, conceitedly placed on one side of his head, which nodded under it, like a shaking mandarin. Thus equipped, the filthy foray-stalled before the fire, which he completely monopolized. At length, he caught the eye of our tragedian, who, in silent amazement for the space of half a minute examined him from top to toe; then turning to me, he burst into a loud laugh, and roared out "bread nassy by—". Perhaps intimidated by Cooke's former blustering, this insensible puppy took little notice; but I knew he would not stop here, and indeed I thought the stranger fair game. Cooke now rose from his seat, and taking up the skirts of his coat, in imitation of the other, turned his back to the fire. "Well, n work in the back settlements, Sir," said he; then approaching still nearer, as if he had some secret to communicate, whispered, though loud enough for every person to hear—
"Pray sir, how is soap?" "Soap?" "Yes, sir, soap? I understand it is coming down." "I am glad of it, Sir." Indeed Sir, you have cause, if any one may judge from your appearance." Here was a general laugh, which the stranger seemed not to regard; but nodding his head and biting his boots with a little rattan, rang the bell with an air of importance, and enquired "if he could have a weal kiltet or a mutton chip?" "What do you think," said Cooke, "of a roasted puppy; because," taking the poker, "I'll spit and roast you in a minute." This had a visible effect on the dirty beau—he retreated towards the door, Cooke following. "Avant and quit my sight, thy face is dirty, and thy hands unwash'd: Avant! avant! I say." Then replacing the poker, and returning to his seat, he continued, "Being gone, I am myself again."
It happened, that Perrins, the noted pugilist, made one of the company this evening; he was a remarkable strong man, and possessed of great modesty and good nature. The last scene took such an effect on his imagination, that he laughed immoderately. Cooke's attention was attracted, and turning towards him with his most bitter look...
"What do you laugh at Mr. Swabson? hey? Why you great lubber-headed thief, Johnson would have beat two of you! laugh at me! at Cooke! Come out you scoundrel!"
The coat was again pulled off, and putting himself in an attitude, "this is the arm that shall sacrifice you." Perrins was of a mild disposition, and knowing Cooke's character, made every allowance, and answered him only by a smile; till aggravated by language and actions the most gross, he very calmly took him in his arms, as though he was a child; set him down in the street, and bolted the door. The evening was wet, and our hero, without coat or hat, unprepared to cope without; but entreaty for admission was vain, and his application at the window unattended to. At length grown desperate, he broke several panes, and inserting his head through the fracture, bore down all opposition, by the following witticism—
"Gentlemen, I have taken some pains to gain admission; pray let me in, for I see through my error."
The door was opened; dry clothes procured; and about one o'clock in the morning we sent him home in a coach.
FROM THE MARIE TTA COMMEN-
TATOR.
NEW INVENTION.
Gentlemen of this town have lately been very much gratified with the exhibition of the ingenuity of one of our citizens. A machine has lately been invented by M. B. Belknap, esq. for the purpose of making hammered nails. It is allowed by all who have seen it, gentlemen from Europe as well as Americans, to be an entirely new and different combination of mechanical powers from any thing heretofore invented. Its operation is quick and powerful and well timed for the purpose as any thing that can be conceived or
wished. It will form nails or spikes off any description, from ship spikes to saddlers' tack. Nails may also be formed with great expedition, by detaching that part of the machine which heads the nail. It goes through the operation of forming, cutting, and heading a nail in two seconds. Two nails may be introduced at once, and two nails of different sizes formed at the same time, without impeding the operation of the machine.
It has been so far carried into operation on a small scale as to exhibit convincing proof of the correctness of the principle, and will undoubtedly become of the greatest public utility of any thing hitherto invented in that branch of business. We understand that Mr. Belknap has sent to Washington to secure a patent right.
SELECTED FOR THE AMERICAN DAILY ADVERTISER.
Valuable Recipes for Family use.
Instead of cutting off the whole head of a cauliflower, leave a part on, of the size of a gooseberry, and all the leaves:—second, and even third heads will be formed, and thus they may be eaten for two or three months; when, at present, by cutting the head completely off, the bed of the cauliflowers are gone in two or three weeks. They should be planted in good moist ground, and treated in the same manner as celery.
Laying straw under strawberry plants keeps the roots moist and the berries clean; and they grow larger with less watering, Sir Joseph Banks.
To give malt spirit the flavour of good brandy:—into two quarts of malt spirit put three ounces and a half of powdered charcoal, and four ounces of rice; shake it every day for fifteen days, then filter it through paper.
The cause of the dry rot in wood is moisture; and to prevent well dried timber decaying above or under ground, is by charring it well. See Dr. Perry's ingenious essay in the Bath Society's Papers.
To cause new bark to grow on old trees. Mr. Forsyth, instead of paring away the bark as heretofore, &c. now merely scrapes off the loose bark, and applies a mixture of cow-dung and urine, the consistence of thick paint, with a painter's brush, covering the stem carefully over. This softens the old scabious bark, which peels off the following winter and spring, and is succeeded by a fine smooth, new bark. Re-pertory, vol. IV. p. 75.
Lord Romney proved parsnips caused cows to produce abundance of milk, and they eat them as free as they do oil cakes. Land, & 7 an acre, in Guernsey is sown with parsnips to feed cattle, and the milk is like cream. Sheep, when lambing, produce much milk.
Game covered with charcoal kept six weeks, in a hot season, without undergoing the smallest change. Repertory, vol. IV. p. 66.
To clean wood, &c. painted with oil:—A brush dipped in fresh urine is used with success; after the operation wash with clean water, to take off the smell.
Common salt and sifted wood ashes, equal parts, made into a paste with water, make a good cement for iron flues, &c. better than most other compositions, and may be applied when the flue is hot or cold. Iron filings and vinegar will do as well.
The most effectual way of keeping butter, and preventing it becoming rancid, is to beat half an ounce of the following powder into each pound, after it is brought from the market; then put it into a stone pot, cover it with strong brine, and keep it in a cool place. The powder:—Take common salt, two ounces; nitre and loaf sugar, of each one ounce; rubbed into a fine powder.—This not only keeps butter sweet, but gives it a fine flavor.
Slices of sweet oranges are far preferable to slices of apple or any other fruit, put into fritters.
To destroy worms in gravel walks, &c. pour into the holes, a ley made of wood ashes and lime: this will also destroy insects, if trees are sprinkled with it. Salt and water as well.
A cheap refrigerator or condenser:—A short, somewhat flat, vessel, two yards in length, nine square feet surface, with the same quantity of cold water, has a greater cooling power than a worm of five spiral turns and six yards length.
Wounds in trees are best cured by covering them with a coat of common lead paint without turpentine, for turpentine is poison to vegetation, in the sun, on a fine dry day.
Mr. Bentley has a patent for seasoning new casks and purifying old musty casks, with steam!
Dr. Baine says, three ounces of pulverized quicklime being added to one pound of gun-powder, its force is augmented one-third; shake the whole together till the white colour of the lime disappears. Re-
pertory, new series, vol. III. p. 519. It has been tried by the French engineers and found not to answer;—why not tried by English engineers?
Sowing radishes with turnip seed will prevent the fly; because the fly likes radishes better than turnips.
Soda put into sea water renders it turbid; the lime and magnesia fall to the bottom. To make sea water fit for washing linen at sea, as much soda must be put in as no only to effect a complete precipitation of these earths, but to render the sea-water sufficiently lixivial or alkaline. Soda should always be taken to sea for this purpose.
To destroy moss on trees, remove it with a hard scrubbing brush in February and March, and wash the trees with cow-dung, brine, and soap suds. Forsyth.
Take 24 pounds of parsnips, bruise them in a stone mortar and wooden pestle with a little water, express the juice, wash the remains in more water, and press out the juice, let it stand for a few days in a cold place, till it comes clear—evaporate the clear liquor over a slow fire till reduced to about five pounds, of agreeable syrup. Reper. ory. p. 443.
To cure the canker in trees, cut them off to the quick, and apply a piece of sound bark from any other tree, and bind it on with a flannel roller. Cut off the canker, and a new shoot will grow strong, but in a year or two you will find it cankered.
Ants are destroyed by opening the nest and putting in quick lime, and throwing water on it. Domestic Encyclopaedia, p. 393.
It is reported, a person is going to take out a patent for making a small hand mill for every family to make their own sweet oil. This may easily be done, by grinding or beating the seeds of white poppies into a paste, then boil it in water, and skim off the oil as it rises; one bushel of seed weighs 50 pounds, and produces two gallons of oil. Of the sweet olive oil sold, half of it is oil of poppies. The poppies will grow in any garden; it is the large head white poppy, sold by apothecaries. Large fields are sown with poppies in France and Flanders, for the purpose of expressing oil from their seed for food. Vide 10 and 11th vols. of Bath society papers, where a premium of twelve guineas is offered for the greatest number of acres sown in 1808 & 1809. When the seed is taken out, the poppy-head when dried is boiled to an extract (see New Dispensary) which is sold at 2s. per ounce, and is to be preferred to opium, which now sells a six guineas per pound. Large fortunes may be acquired by the cultivation of poppies. Some acres of it are now sown near Cambridge.
The great price of mustard seed, it is hoped, will induce many to cultivate it more in England, now we cannot be supplied from Holland.
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
This is a subject which we wish to keep constantly in view. The encouragement of domestic manufactures is the only sure road to the prosperity and the substantial independence of a nation. Our materials have hitherto been transported & disposed of to European manufacturers. After undergoing the mechanical operations of foreigners, the very same articles have been received in exchange, highly increased in value and in price. This is merely transporting our articles abroad at an infinite risk, and employing a distant people, at an exorbitant price, to complete the work which we can and ought to perform ourselves. For the truth of these observations, disgraceful as they appear, let any person examine a table of the exports and imports of the U. States for a series of years, to and from the island of G. Britain only. By such an examination he will perceive that the United States not only supply her manufactures with materials and with employment, but that G. Britain is almost entirely dependent upon the American commerce for articles of the first importance—articles of absolute necessity to her existence as a nation.
England is aware that if we retain our own resources, and manufacture our own materials, the increasing prosperity of the union will soon enable us to bid defiance to British injustice. Hence are the ways of her hired incendiaries marked by the conflagration of our most important factories. But we will not rest our positions upon bare assertions or even circumstantial proof. The following article is an addition to the accumulated volumes of incontrovertible evidence of the inveterate jealousy with which Britain views the progress of our manufactures:
"LONDON, Aug. 29 1809. "Last week William Constable and Richard Cookroft, two MANUFACTURERS were apprehended at Hull, for preparing to leave this kingdom for America."
That England will exert every effort however detestable, to impede our progress in internal prosperity, is as obvious as a ray of light. Domestic manufactures
is an essential source of national wealth, and a permanent support to national independence. A close adherence to this principle is our best, if not our only policy. Am. Watchman.
The most wretched state of man.—In a conference held between some Greek and Indian philosophers, in the presence of Choefroes, King of Persia, the following question was proposed for solution:
"What is the most wretched state in which a man can find himself in this world?"
A Greek philosopher said it was to pass a feeble old age in the midst of extreme poverty. An Indian asserted that it was to suffer sickness, the body accompanied by pain of the mind. As for me, said the vizir Buzurgemir, I think that the greatest of miseries a man can experience in this world, is to see himself near the close of life without having practised virtue.
This opinion received the general approbation of this assembly of sages, and Choefroes ordered that it should be engraved on a marble table, and fixed up in the principal square of Isahan, to offer to the people a subject of meditation, and to remain an eternal lesson of wisdom.
Time, which devours all things, has destroyed this tablet; and in Persia, as with us, it is forgotten that the greatest of miseries in this world, is to approach the close of life without having practised virtue.
By virtue of the last will and testament of BEATRICE MOTEY, deceased, will be sold, to the highest bidder, on the premises, on Tuesday the 7th day of December next, if fair, if not the next fair day, a TRACT OF LAND, called BOOTH'S, situated in Gloucester county on Portpatrick creek and within one mile of York river, containing between six and seven hundred acres. Also, on Tuesday the 12th of Dec. if fair if not, the next fair day, will be sold, to the highest bidder, on the premises, a TRACT OF LAND, situated in the lower end of Spottsylvania county, near Thornton's Springs, containing 200 acres. A credit of one year will be given for one half the purchase money [in each case] and two years for the last payment. Bonds with approved security will be required of the purchasers and to be divided to suit the payment of legacies devised in the will of said deceased. The above tracts of land were to have been sold, one on the 15th, and the other on the 23d of Nov. agreeable to an advertisement lately inserted in the Enquirer, but in consequence of its not being stated where the sales were to take place, it is postponed as above.
ELIZABETH MOTEY, Admx. King & Queen County, 18th Nov. 1809.
WILL BE SOLD, at Buckingham courthouse, for ready money, on the 8th day of January next (it being court day) by virtue of a deed of trust executed by Charles Talley to Henry Rawlins and David Bell, as trustees, for the purpose of securing a debt therein mentioned due to the executor of John Adcock, dec. a TRACT OF LAND, containing 140 acres, lying and being in the said county, between the two Buffalo creeks, branches of Willis's river, and in the neighborhood of Cairo.
HENRY RAWLINS, Surviving Trustee.
Nov 9th, 1809.
WILL BE SOLD,—To the highest bidder, at Haley Cole's tavern, in the county of Chesterfield, on the 9th of December next, one fourth part of a valuable Coal Mine, on Falling creek, in said county, containing 34 1-2 acres, more or less, and commonly known by the name of "Union Pits." The pits have only been worked to an extent to ascertain that the mines are of sufficient thickness to be rated among the best seams or beds of coal now known.—Also will be sold at the same time and place, one twentieth part of the pits commonly called Ellison and Woolridge's pits, containing 103 acres, more or less, and immediately joining the other. An indisputable title will be made to purchasers, and the terms made on the day of sale.
JAMES CHEATHAM, Nov. 22, 1809.
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TIMELY REMEMBRANCER.
The tory federalists have not yet got up the full scene of Jackson's circular bulletin; and before they take a complete and decisive stand against the administration on that head, it will be well for them to recollect distinctly,
1. That when Mr. Erskine's arrangement took place (and that was no longer ago than last April) they said that Great Britain was always ready to come to reasonable terms, meaning such reasonable terms as were made with Mr. Erskine.
2. That they applauded Mr. Madison for the willingness and promptitude with which he met Mr. Erskine's offers.
We mention these things, not because we have the least apprehension that the Tories will deny them, but for fear they should forget them. And we must claim the attention of the said tory federalists to two conclusions which naturally flow from these premises, that is to say—
1. If it was a mark of a good disposition in Great Britain to make that arrangement, it was a proof of a bad disposition towards America to violate it.
2. If Mr. Madison was deserving of federal support for promptly agreeing to the reasonable terms of Mr. Erskine's arrangement, he is still entitled to their support, because he is willing to renew it.
The Boston Patriot speaks a very correct language at the present juncture. It is full time to quit talking and to act.
The Baltimore tory recruiting sergeants say the republican papers are full of war; and we say that's a compliment; for it shows there is yet some spirit in the nation. The federal tory prints are full of treason; and that's no compliment; for it implies a want of virtue and of true courage.
We understand that the president's message to congress will be accompanied by the entire correspondence between the secretary of state and Mr. Jackson.
Answer of the President of the U. States, to the address of a numerous meeting of the citizens of the county of Washington, in the state of New York.
I have received, fellow citizens, your address of the 14th September, with a just sense of the favorable manner in which it reviews the course pursued by the administration—first in relation to the arrangement made in April with the minister plenipotentiary of his Britannic majesty, and next in consequence of the disavowal of that arrangement.
Whatever may be the sequel of this abortive result to a transaction so reasonable in its terms, & so auspicious in its tendencies, it is a consoling reflection that the United States will have given the most incontestible evidence of that conciliatory disposition by which they have been constantly guided; and that it may the more confidently be expected that all true friends to their country, sacrificing the spirit of party to its honor and its welfare, will unite on whatever measures the maintenance of these may call for.
I thank you for the friendly regards which you have been pleased to manifest towards me; and I sincerely join in extending to my illustrious predecessor, in his retirement, the veneration and grateful remembrance due to his exalted endowments, and his arduous service.
JAMES MADISON.
Washington, October 9, 1809.
On the first anniversary of the Federal Republican for Jackson's official insolence towards our government and his consequent dismissal, the Editor of the National Intelligencer makes the following remarks.
We shall pass by the declaration that this paper is devoted to French views and the inveterate enemy of England, with contempt, as totally unworthy of notice.
An awkward effort is first made to paralyze the public feeling by suggesting the unfairness of waving all positive judgment until the whole correspondence is submitted to congress. This is manifestly founded on the hope that the American People have lost all confidence, not merely in the measures, but also in the veracity of their government; otherwise it would be worse than peurile to entertain the hope that in an affair so interesting to their honour they should neither feel sensibility to insult or express it.
We are next told the affair is a mere disagreement as to matters of fact, which is represented as totally unimportant as to the substance of the pending negotiations, as if it were possible for a government grossly insulted by the reiterated insinuation of a doubt of its veracity to proceed in a negotiation with a minister so forgetful of the respect due to himself and to those with whom he was treating. It were worse than idle to say any thing by way of refutation of remarks so preposterous.
As to the cases referred to, there is no analogy between them and the present. In the first case referred to, the variance between Mr. Pinkney & Mr. Canning, altogether related to the nature of several conversations between them, in their relation of which both depended on their own memories, and which conversations, moreover, directly implicated themselves. In the case of Mr. Jackson, the reference was altogether to the conduct pursued by Mr. Erskine, of which Mr. Jackson could not have personal knowledge which our government had. For the insinuation made by him, his only authority could be that of Mr. Erskine, in whom the confidence of a minister
sent to supersede him for an alleged violation of instructions, one would imagine, would not have been implicit. But there is the strongest reason to believe that Mr. Erskine never said that he had communicated to our government the despatch of the 23d January. Further, a recurrence to the letters of Mr. Pinkney and Mr. Canning will show that there was not on either side any impeachment of veracity.
As to the case of Yrujo, so far was our government from submitting to his indignities, that they actually refused to treat with him, and further, forbid him the territory of Columbia, proceeding a step further than in the present case. These essential facts are studiously omitted by the Federal Republican.
The hasty publication of the rupture, is next inveighed against, and "the door to adjustment" is said to have been "intentionally closed." To this a plain fact will be the best answer. Mr. Jackson, on the Saturday preceding the publication alluded to, applied to the office of state for his passports.
Foreign.
LONDON, Oct. 2.
SWEDEN.
The following official document has been received by a running ship from Sweden:
(CIRCULAR.)
HELSINBURGH, Sept. 12.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs has the honour in obedience to his Majesty's most gracious command, to communicate the following intelligence:
The Imperial French Brigadier General Landras, Governor of Stralsund, has declared to the Ambassadors of his Royal Majesty, destined for the French Court, on their arrival at Stralsund, that through the French General Libbert in Stettin, he has received orders from the Prince of Neuchatel, in which he informs him that the commercial intercourse between Pomerania and Sweden is to be at an end, and that the communication between the two countries is to be regulated in the following manner.
That the passage of the packets between Stralsund and Vistad, for couriers and letters, shall alone remain open; and that the French Consuls in the ports of the Baltic, have, according to the statement of General Landras, received similar orders.
His Royal Majesty's Charge d'Affaires in Hamburg has reported, under the date of the 26th last month, that in consequence of the intercession of the Senator Bourienne, Imperial French Minister in the Circle of Lower Saxony, had taken upon himself to make with regard to the point, "how far the Swedish convoy which arrived off Wismar under the orders of Major Wabistedt, would be allowed to take cargoes on board at that place, and to clear out for Swedish ports." M. Bourienne had not received any answer from his Imperial Majesty but expected it on the 27th or 28th of last month, if his Majesty's orders could be immediately despatched.
October 5.
The French Journals preserve, on the subject of peace, a profound silence. A periodical work, however, the political part of which is supposed to be under the direction of one of Bonaparte's Senators, contains the following article, which, under the present circumstances, will not be read without interest:—
With respect to Vienna, which one of our best Journals calls the former capital of Austria, it has received from the emperor Napoleon, who has just quitted it to review his army, every mark of his good will and entire confidence. It is said, that on his birth day he walked through it incognito . Several measures of police have guaranteed the inhabitants from the manoeuvres of jobbers and forestallers. Provisions are in great abundance. Bread more plentiful than ever. The working classes have more employ than ever. Schoenbrunn has attracted numerous visitors, the most distinguished females are the most frequent, and are treated, by order of the emperor, with the most delicate attention. Vienna is become almost French.
The news from Altenburgh is confined to this—M. de Champagny has given a brilliant fete. The emperor Francis has bought a great quantity of jewels, and this is considered as a happy presage. The emperor Napoleon has been to Moravia, to review the duke of Rivoli's corps. It is said that he will also go to Hungary to review the Viceroy's army. No one at Vienna is astonished at these demonstrations of active superintendence on the part of his majesty; it is his daily habit to preside in his cabinet, over the organization of his army and to inspect, in person, the minutest details. To see him engaged in reviews, under these circumstances, has nothing alarming in it.
In returning from his review of the troops, the emperor has drawn the corps nearer to each other from all parts of the line of the armistice. The troops of Austria have also received orders to encamp. But the negotiations continue, and no positive indication justifies us in presuming that they will not reach their maturity.
Mercure d' France.
The Paris Monitor of September 14, furnished a lengthy account of the military operations on the Scheldt; the following extract embraces the most interesting part.
When losing with the hope of an easy victory, the wish of attacking one army, the enemy, if we give credit to the rumors circulated in Zealand, attempted to devise means of sending fire ships and infernal ma-
chines against the booms and the fleet, and closing the Scheldt by sinking into its deepest channels, vessels filled with stones, or whole blocks of stone work. We might have entrusted to the rapid current of the river with the care of opening new channels for our ships, by removing or destroying the number of its fire ships, in order to fight the enemy with his own weapons and with offensive means which the number and collection of his vessels would have rendered more destructive."
"Convinced, at last, that their miserable attempts, after the pompous display of their expedition, would only draw shame and ridicule upon their arms, the English seemed to intend to carry their land and naval force to other parts less well prepared to oppose them; They threatened at once Holland, the countries of Hult and Axel, the island of Cadzand, and the coast of Flanders. But, on the side of Holland they would have met general Gratien's division on its return from the north of Germany, and the Dutch population in arms to defend their king, their country and their allies. In the countries of Hult, Axel, and Cadzand, an army created whilst the enemy menaced Antwerp, awaited him, under the orders of the marshal duke of Corneghiano; and on the same line of that army, the first inspector of engineers had put all the towns of Dutch Flanders, and on the coast from Hult to Nieuport, beyond the reach of danger. Whatever be the point of attack, the prince of Ponte Corvo, placed at Antwerp, in the centre of the line, could follow and defeat them with his army. Every thing shewed them that France and Holland were capable of repelling their attacks."
"The prospect of so many obstacles increased by the sickness prevalent in his army, caused the enemy to prefer the disgrace of a retreat to that of a defeat. His last demonstrations had no other object than to conceal the evacuation of his sick and artillery. The island of Beveland and the fort of Batz were abandoned. As early as the 26th of August 150 sail, several men of war, frigates and cutters, had come down to Flushing; a few days later the rest descended the Scheldt. On the first of September no sail was seen before Batz, our gun boats took possession of that fort, and in a few hours restored it to the Dutch troops belonging to the corps of Gen. Dumonceau."
"Such is the result of this grand expedition! In order to diminish the disgrace with which it has been attended, the English will, undoubtedly, exaggerate the importance of an easy conquest (Flushing)—But Europe will see, by their own acknowledgments that they have missed the principal end of their expedition. Their allies will reproach them with having sacrificed the advantages of the common cause to their commercial avidity. The wish of adding to their naval force by the capture or destruction of a few ships—the vain hope of shutting a river that rivals the Thames, have outweighed, in their consideration, and in the midst of the great event, that took place in Austria and Spain, the interests of their allies. Were not, besides, the national guards, which, twenty years ago, conquered them under the walls of Denmark, equal to the task of defeating their designs? Should Spain be the sooner tranquillised—Should Austria hasten the signature of peace, Europe will, this time, owe these blessings to England. To her, France is indebted for the present opportunity for displaying her power against an unexpected attack, and proving that a single call of the emperor to twenty of his departments, is sufficient to raise, in less than a month, one hundred thousand warriors, against his enemies, without detaching a man from his armies which were fighting at a distance of seven hundred miles from the point of attack."
Domestic.
BOSTON, Nov. 18.
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.
A union of sentiment, always desirable in great national questions, and of all our resources, so far as practicable, are objects of primary consequence in the existing state of our foreign relations. Most men of every party are dissatisfied with our forbearing, passive policy. The nation is in the situation of a youth of a vigorous constitution, that has been too long confined from the fears of dangers abroad, & has tampered with the physician and the apothecary, instead of taking air, exercise and substantial food, till he is half persuaded, in spite of nature and sense, that he is sick. If the nation has been sick, it is now convalescent, and demands that exercise by which alone its every faculty can be restored to their wonted vigor. We have talked enough of our rights & our wrongs. We have spread the plaints of our injured honor and sovereignty, sufficient, I presume, to cover every inch of American soil—and no man wishes to see his country covered with the glory of a double coating of this kind of protection. This war of words, if continued, will soon bespeak to the world our ship of state becalmed or stranded.
At present, the nation exhibits a remarkable union of sentiment, which will become at best the union of apathy, unless called to action—to well directed action, by our rulers.
I have not yet discussed, as proposed, the merits of the measure of a war with both the belligerents; nor shall I except by way of objection.
After bearing and forbearing so much and so long as we have from England and France, a declaration of war against both, would exhibit such a contrast, not to say inconsistency of character, that it might be difficult to
make them believe we were in earnest—and I see no reason in their present surly mood, why we should contribute to their amusement at our own expense. It is believed, however, if we begin with a declaration of war in the existing state of our foreign relations, that it ought decidedly to be against both the great and unrelenting aggressors upon our rights. It does not appear to be our duty, unless called upon as arbitrators, to decide upon the relative quantum, or the priority of their aggressions. The dey of Tripoli is not to be our friend, because less a pirate than the dey of Algiers; and we never can admit the principle, that because we have suffered, from one, the other has a right to repay the injury. There are other objections of a more delicate nature to commencing a war with either nation separately, without a previous and full recognition of our rights by the other. Partialities strengthened by our disgraceful party animosities have grown up among us, & blinded the eyes of a large portion of the nation to the perception of facts, and blunted their feelings to a sense of injuries. Though such follies may be despised by the philosopher, they must be considered by our rulers as causes which will have their effect in political science.
Arming our merchants in defence of their just and declared rights, and putting ourselves vigorously on the defensive at home, are measures so evidently within the compass of our means and our duty, that it is difficult to imagine any serious objection to them, either from our partialities, our economy, or our timidity.
Such a course could not, on any just pretence, be called hostile. It would in fact be putting ourselves on the ground of an armed neutrality. At home, we should be prepared with many hands and with one heart to repel the aggressor. On the high seas, merchants would be allowed to furnish themselves with the means of repelling and avenging injuries offered. Such a course of policy would be free from the counteraction of commercial interests; it would have the efficient aid of those spirited merchants and brave tars who were willing to be at some expense and expose themselves to a few hard knocks, rather than submit to loss and to insult; and would not be liable to the popular and embarrassing objection of taxing the landed interest. This objection, it is believed, will, for a long time, be an insurmountable one to anything like an effectual national protection to our commerce—much must therefore be left to individual calculation, courage, and enterprize; to stimulate and direct, instead of restraining those useful qualities, is believed to be sound national policy.
[Bos. Pat.
BOSTON, Nov. 18.
Our indirect intercourse, called by misnomer, a Non-Intercourse, has been considered as a come-back-chance—the puny child of federal folly and republican fear. It is something to the honor of both parties that neither are willing to own it as their offspring.—As a temporary measure it may have answered many valuable purposes—as a permanent one, it is considered liable to the following obvious and weighty objections.
1st. Its demoralizing effects—as it will prove in fact a bounty to the dishonest, and starvation to the honest, merchant.
2d. As a pacific measure it is absurd, as a hostile one, weak and ridiculous.
3d. While we profess to be at peace with England and France it is calculated to excite the resentment if not the scorn of both.
Patriot.
Individuals under a permanent invigorating commercial system of defence, (and offence if necessary,) might find their account in building and equipping armed ships for the purpose of convoying merchantmen, if authorised to do it, and receive the convoy money.—ib.
It is said in yesterday's Palladium: "Nobody denies that the British have done wrong."
Nobody denies that the French have done wrong. A comparison of these wrongs is useless; their justification, perfidious. Judge Anderson in his speech in the Senate (Dec. last,) has the following genuine American sentiments.
"I think it totally unimportant to enquire whether France or England has done us the most injury, or which was the first aggressor upon our neutral rights. It is admitted by all, that both have given us ample cause of war, and that each has done us much more injury than we are ever likely to receive reparation for. It is our business therefore to pursue that course, that we conceive will produce the best effect upon both those nations, without evidencing the least partiality for either the one or the other. If they should both see that we united against them, every measure we adopt would have its proper effect; but if either of those nations should discover that they have any apologists among us and more particularly in the councils of our nation, every measure we adopt against such nation, must lose full half of its effect."—ib.
From the New York Columbian.
British perfidy is at length unmasked, by the insolence of Jackson, the minister at Washington, (of Copenhagen memory.) With an intention, most evidently to take no step in accordance with the character of a messenger of peace, but to amuse and deceive our executive as long as possible, until the great events in Europe should have decided the attitude to be assumed by Great Britain towards us, this fit tool of a treacherous and abandoned Government has at length closed his diplomatic career in this country. (He has no fleet
with him to substitute a more efficient correspondence.)
Although from the unprecedented disavowal of Mr. Erskine's treaty by the British ministry we might be justified in expecting nothing manly, just or honorable from that court, yet we had indulged a belief, that necessity (the great and only co-ercer of kings) would have compelled them to resort again to the usual mode of intercourse between Governments with an apparent candor and promised good faith. But in this we are for the present disappointed. [Is another European campaign necessary to bring her to her senses?] Great Britain, by the unparalleded effrontery of her minister, refuses to treat with us, refuses to atone for past injuries or to engage for future amity and justice. Our Government is abused to its face—insult is added to injury—and the nation is left to seek redress in its own resources, or to wait for a third minister from his most gracious majesty.
It is true, the British ministry, who disavowed the treaty of Erskine, and sent Jackson, have proved their abandoned corruption to the world, have quarrelled among themselves, and quit their offices amid the execrations of the British people—and a new administration is to do us justice. But how long are we to wait for new ministers and new administrations, the latter annulling the acts of the former and by its own conduct producing a rupture with our executive, and leaving its business to a third or fourth negotiator? And besides, what security have we for the faith of a third, after we have been deceived or insulted by the first and second?
We are happy to learn the spirit and promptitude of our Government on this important occasion. They will be applauded and supported by every friend to the dignity and interest of this country. We have always expected that the ratification of Erskine's treaty would be made a preliminary, a sine qua non by our Government with the British, and we are now confirmed in the opinion. That treaty was considered by all parties as honorable and equitable on both sides—and all parties must therefore join in maintaining its fulfilment. And let us hear no more from Mr. Coleman & Mr. Cheetham, of the disposition of the British to do us justice, or their having offered us the same terms negotiated by Erskine twelve months before, and of the honor and good faith— punica fides —of that Government.
NEW YORK, Nov. 22.
We have been informed from the best authority, that the British Packet now undergoing repairs here, is ordered to sail as soon as possible to carry out Mr. Oakley, who is bearer of important despatches from Mr. Jackson. It is supposed the Packet cannot be got ready for sea before Thursday or Friday next.
Mr. Jackson intends to spend the winter in this city, but will not, it is said, leave Washington till after the meeting of Congress.
New York Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22.
THE APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE.
We shall now have an opportunity to test the professions of those who are in opposition to the American government. The British minister, after insulting the government, and exposing himself to disgrace, has appealed from the decision of the government to the people. And so he is welcome to do. The freedom of our happy institutions, and the dignity and justice of the American people, have thus extorted a compliment from an enemy, which, if it be no excuse for the irregularity, may be fairly admitted upon principles of toleration and fairness.
But let us now see what will they say, who declaimed against Genet, the ambassador of a republic.
Will they now applaud that act in the minister of a monarch, which they reprobated in the minister of a popular government?
Or will they now say that Genet was right, in order to find a vindication for Jackson?
But it will be called by a different name from an appeal to the people; it will be said it is only an address to the diplomatic corps! Who are the diplomatic corps? There is only one ambassador we believe now in the United States, the minister of France, and the charge des affaires of Russia and Denmark; and it is to M. Turreau that Mr. Jackson has addressed his apology? this would be humiliation indeed; we cannot suppose that he would expose himself to the extreme ridicule of the warrior of the Alps; such a procedure would keep the French legation on the broad grin for a fortnight.
Was it to M. Dashkoff, the consul general of Russia? this would be almost as silly, since the relations between the two nations no longer exist; and the duties of the Russian charge des affaires are of a limited kind.
But there is Mr. Pedersen, the charge des affaires of Denmark, it is to the agent of Denmark that Mr. Jackson has sent his apology! We can conceive the Danish agent, with the well known picture of Copenhagen in flames before him and the insolent and contumelious address of Jackson to the crown prince of Denmark open before him on his bureau when the apology of this minister of iniquity was presented to him; and we can very well anticipate, that modest, amiable, and moderate as Mr. Pedersen is, that his

first emotion would be to thrust the audacious message in the messenger's face, or foot him into the contiguous kennel.
The procedure therefore, is a mere mask for an appeal to the people; and for that reason it is, that we think it to be now full time that the people should take up the Appeal and act upon it, and say at once whether this nation is to be eternally made the butt of every desperate & flagitious emissary, which Great Britain may chuse to send here, to add contumely to her outrages, and to beard our government instead of redressing and repairing the loud crying wrongs which this nation has suffered from her. Aurora.
FROM THE BALTIMORE WHIG.
FALSEHOOD REFUTED.
A long train of misstatements and insinuations having appeared in the Federal Republican, charging our government with closing the door of adjustment (with Jackson) by a hasty publication of the rupture: the editor of the Intelligencer has detected the false colourings of the British agent.
Extract—from the N. Intelligencer of Monday.
"The hasty publication of the rupture" is next inveighed against, and the "door of adjustment is said to have been intentionally closed." To this a plain fact will be the best answer. Mr. Jackson on the Saturday preceding the publication alluded to applied to the office of state for his passports."
DIVORCES. —A general law on this subject is contemplated by the Maryland legislature; much of whose time is often occupied by petitions for divorces. It is meant we believe to empower courts and juries to determine the case, in future—under what precise provision we do not know. As the law is not yet passed, perhaps the legislature may derive some light from the following:
The legislature of Tennessee is now in session. Upwards of fifty petitions for divorces have been passed!! The legislature in order to check the progress of this growing evil, are about to transfer the duty of investigating the pretensions of petitioners for divorces, to the courts, who shall empanel a jury as in other cases, whose duty it shall be to hear the evidence on both sides, and upon a verdict in favor of a divorce, the clerk to certify the same to the next general assembly, who will pass a law for the purpose, &c.
LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS.
Among many other important bills and resolutions before the House of Delegates, are the following:—
[Introduced by Mr. Bland.] Resolved, That the Chancellor and the Judges of the Court of Appeals be [and are hereby] requested to inquire and report to the legislature, at the next session, all such English statutes as existed at the time of the first emigration of the people of this state into the same, and which, by experience, have been found applicable to their local and other circumstances, and of such others as have been since made in England or G. Britain, and have been introduced, used and practised, by the courts of law or equity; and also all such parts of the same as may be proper to be introduced and incorporated into the body of the statute law of this state.
[Introduced on motion of Mr. Bland.] An ACT to prevent insurance by foreigners.
Be it enacted by the general assembly of Maryland, That all kinds of insurance against fire, insurance on a life or lives, and insurance on inland transportation of goods, wares, merchandise or country produce, which shall be made by any body politic or corporate of any foreign state, kingdom or country, or by any foreigner, or by any company or co-partnership of foreigners, or by any person or persons not authorised to make such insurances by a law of this state, or by any body, partnership or association of persons, not incorporated and invested with power to make such insurance by a law of this state, or some one of the United States, or the territories thereof, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be, utterly null and void, and of no avail, in any court of law or equity of this state.
II. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall presume to make or renew any kind of insurance against fire, any insurance on a life or lives, or any insurance on inland transportation of goods, wares, merchandise or country produce, on his or her own account, not being authorised so to do by law, or as agent for, or in behalf of, any body politic or corporate of any foreign state, kingdom or country, or as agent for, or in behalf of, any foreigner, or any company or co-partnership of foreigners or as agent for, or in behalf of, any body, partnership or association of persons, not incorporated and invested with power to make such insurances by a law of this state, or of some one of the United States, or the territories thereof, every such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of dollars for every such offence, one half to any person who will sue for the same, and the other half to the use of the state, and the same may be sued for and recovered, by action of debt, in any court of record of this state.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.
The following extraordinary article is extracted from the Independent American of yesterday:
"The National Intelligencer of yesterday has published Mr. Jackson's circular to the British consuls with the following introduction:
"The following letter, said to be addressed to the British consuls, is taken from the Independent American. We are authorised to say that its contents, so far as they contradict the article published in this paper on the 13th inst. relative to the course of the negotiation between our government and Mr. Jackson, are unfounded."
"It might be well for Mr. Editor Smith, to inform the public by what authority he makes
this declaration. His "we are informed—we are authorised, &c." are intended to impress an idea on the public mind that he has his intelligence from the office of the Secretary of State. But WE are authorised to say, that Mr. Secretary Smith never authorised Mr. Editor Smith to make the declaration contained in the above quoted paragraph."
Solely to guard against misconception, we deem it proper to say, that the declaration made in this paper on the 22d inst. as quoted above, is strictly correct. Nat. Intel.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
The paper denominated a "Circular," which Mr. Jackson, the British minister, has just uttered, is an appeal to the people of the United States from the decision of their government. The fact is established by the complexion of the production, the statement of particulars in which was altogether unnecessary, if his object had merely been to notify the sub-agents of England resident in this country to address their communications to him at New York.
It is contrary to the law of nations and repugnant to the very nature of the diplomatic function, for a foreign envoy to plead, in his official character, the merits of his cause before the citizens of the country wherein he resides. There can be no dispute as to the impropriety of addressing them in a direct or indirect form, in person or by "Circular," because he is prohibited by the attributes of his mission from accusing them as a minister in any form. Mr. Jackson is the representative of the government of Great Britain to the government of the U. States; and that is all he is. If he speaks to the American people in any other manner than through the Executive, which is the constitutional organ, he sets himself up as the rival of the Executive and is justly censurable. The transition from addressing the public to intriguing with the people against the government by which he is accredited, is easy; and the manifest tendency of his conduct in either case is to subvert the constituted authorities of the republic.
If Mr. Jackson were a private man, he would have no right to controvert and denounce the acts of the President, because he is an alien, and therefore not even a solitary unit of the constituent part of the nation; much less is he justifiable, being a minister, in assuming that freedom, which belongs only to the citizen.
Would Mr. Jackson himself be willing to abide the consequences of an appeal thus made, admitting the worst that could, but which certainly will not happen? Supposing the community to be indignant at his behavior and excited to anger against him, would he be willing to meet the terrible judgment of that people whom he had made the arbiter of his actions! Would he be willing to encounter that spirit of vengeance which he had invited, and which, when roused is awful as the thunder of Heaven and overwhelming as the tumultuous waves of the ocean? Would he not require from that Executive magistrate whom he insults, protection; and would he not demand security and safe-conduct in the name of those very laws of nations which he has outraged?
Mr. Jackson claims consideration as an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary: In that aspect he is entitled to various important exemptions from restraint, which are denied to private men. In return, he is himself subject to certain restrictions from which individuals are free; and if he breaks through them, he is as guilty in relation to the government as the government would be in relation to him, were it to infringe any of his privileges; for the rights of governments and those of ministers are mutual. The dissemination of Mr. Jackson's "circular" is a gross infraction of the obligations imposed upon him by the nature of his office.
The circulation of the paper in question by Mr. Jackson, even in manuscript, was a publication of it. Its appearance in print is only an aggravation of the original offence. The opposition gazette in which it came forth affords strong evidence in favor of the opinion that it went to the press immediately from himself, or mediately through some of his agents. In either case the misdemeanor is the same; for, let the channels of communication to the public or to the printer have been what they may the "circular" is the production of the honorable Francis James Jackson.
This act of Mr. Jackson is more conspicuously obnoxious, because it proceeds from the ambassador of a nation whose parliamentary history furnishes an exalted example of just resentment against a similar appeal, from the sovereign to the subjects of the British monarchy. It was Monsieur De Palm, the imperial resident at London who affords an odious parallel to Mr. Jackson. Palm had caused a memorial, which he had previously presented to the British king, to be printed and circulated among the people of England; and this being considered by the parliament an unlawful interference on the part of a foreign envoy, the house of Commons and
of Lords passed several resolutions respecting the conduct of Palm in very severe terms, "declaring their utmost abhorrence of this audacious manner of appealing to the people;" and voted an address to George the first, assuring him that the parliament would stand by and support him against the disturbers of the public tranquility, as well as against those who flattered themselves with hopes "that an obstinate perseverance in their destructive measures could stagger the firmness of the British nation in the defence of their rights and privileges." The circumstances of this case will be found recorded in the Journals of the proceedings of the House of Commons for the year 1726, a period at which the English parliament was a more legitimate organ of the feelings and sentiments of their fellow subjects than at present. The Lords and Commons both viewed the case in its true light, the insult thus offered to the executive branch of the government, was, in reality, an insult to the whole empire, and every person who respected the constitution of the country was bound to repel it. The doctrine of ministerial appeals to the people has never been popular in the U. States, Genet tried the experiment, and met with nothing but indignant contempt from the citizens of America. HUME.
FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
As the following letter, from our correspondent in Baltimore, contains very interesting and useful information to our fellow-citizens of this and the neighbouring states, we deem it our duty to lay it before our readers. Further information on the subject may be obtained from the Editors.
Baltimore, 29th Oct. 1809.
GENTLEMEN. —From the information of an intelligent traveller, who, at different times, has visited several parts of your state, I have reason to believe it may be gratifying to you to hear the opportunity is now afforded you, or any of your friends, whose interest they may think likely to be promoted by it, to purchase five distinct patent rights, most, if not all, of which, seem peculiarly adapted to promote the commercial interests of your state. The first is a Shingle and Nail Cutting Machine, which, with the labour of two men, and the blocks ready sawed, is expected to deliver from 10 to 15,000 shingles per day—it can be also applied to splitting barrel and hoghead staves. This machine, by a slight variation of its parts, and the addition of a furnace to heat the iron, may, with equal success, be applied to cutting nails. The second is a Planing Mill, which, with the labour of two men & a boy, joined to a four ox power, is expected to plain up from 10 to 15,000 square feet of pine plank per day. The construction of this mill is solid, simple, and by no means complicated or difficult to be carried into execution. Its cost, including the buildings that cover it, may, I think, amount to $1000; perhaps less, according to situation and circumstances. It strikes me, that this mill, carried into operation in your state, may be very advantageous to your state, in planing up boards for the West-India Islands, and the home market. The third is a Machine for disentangling the small grain from the ear without injuring the straw, and completely screening and preparing it for market, by one operation. It may, I think, be very advantageously applied to getting out and cleaning Rice. The fourth is a simple and easy method of making up provisions, either in their natural or a cooked state, by which these substances, whether animal or vegetable, can be preserved sound and unalterable for years, without danger of diminution or waste, and in this situation will be found capable of bearing the transitions of every climate without the usual admixture of salt. The fifth is an improved mode of conducting distilling operations, by which the whole operation from first to last, will be conducted in the still itself, so that when the fermentation has arrived at its highest point of maturity, from two to seven stills can be started by one fire, without danger of wasting or dispersing the alcohol (as is now done in the common way by slopping and pumping from one vessel to another) and thus obtain the greatest possible quantity of pure, strong spirit from a given quantity of low wines. The form of these stills will be different from those in common use, forming the section of a cylinder much more broad and high, so as to admit the steam being raised in the greatest possible quantity. These stills will be made of cast iron instead of copper, by which it is computed that four-fifths of the first cost will be saved. Each still can have a double bottom, made to screw on, and be taken off, as wished for, according to the quality of the low wines to be operated on, whether from the extract of the grain or malt, or from the extract and substance together, in which latter case the double bottom would be absolutely necessary to prevent empyreuma or burning, the more as it is intended the fire should strike and surround these bottoms. It is proposed to enamel these stills on their inside so as to prevent injurious contact between the spirit and the iron. There are to be no worms or worm tubes, but straight pipes, passing through large cisterns of brick or stone—one cistern affording a sufficiency of the cooling medium to twelve or fourteen stills, it is proposed to surmount them with wooden instead of copper capitols.
I had some notion of selling State Rights of these different Patents, but stating the business to a gentleman who has travelled much in your state, his advice to me was to sell only single rights, which I mean to do at the following rates:—Shingle Machine $100; Planing Mill $100; Distilling Operations $100; Provision Patent $100; Threshing and Screening Mill 50 dollars.
LYNCHBURG, Nov. 18.
QUERE. —Is it not extraordinary that it never entered the heads of the Virginia Bank Directory to establish a Branch in Lynchburg? The Coun-
try and the institution would in a little time be essentially benefited. Intermediate between the Atlantic Cities and the western States, the specie of the latter would be here deposited and the Bank paper pushed to those cities and to the North, in payment for Merchandise.—Can there be doubt but that the Directors of the United States Bank would on proper application, seeing that this place is overlooked by the State, establish a Branch in Lynchburg? The subject merits attention by those who feel interested for the growth and prosperity of the Town and Country.— Star.
Nov. 18.
On Tuesday last the inhabitants of Lynchburg enjoyed for a few moments, the satisfaction of seeing Mr. Jefferson among them. This visit, however, being exclusively on business, he stopped only at his merchants and in less than an hour returned to his Estate about ten miles from this place. During the short interval that he remained in town, a lively and pleasing Sensation was very discernable on the Countenances of every description of the people, and an agreeable bustle seemed to pervade the whole Street, every one appearing solicitous to get a glimpse of the estimable and distinguished individual whose arrival was announced. Several groups of Citizens were seen formed, all of whom were animated by a similar Sentiment of admiration and attachment, and by an eager desire to evince, in some appropriate way, their grateful respect for the character of a fellow Citizen, to whose virtues Republican America is so much indebted.—With unanimous Concurrence, it was determined that he should immediately be invited to partake of a public dinner on the following Saturday; by which time several gentlemen of the neighbourhood by being apprised of the Circumstance, might be gratified with an opportunity to attend; and some military arrangements might be concerted, to render the contemplated testimony of respect more impressive.—Two Gentlemen were accordingly deputed to wait on Mr. Jefferson, and know if it would be agreeable and convenient to him to accept the proposed offering of popular esteem and social regard. This was done;—but, to the infinite concern of the inhabitants, Mr. Jefferson, who received their application with much benevolence and affability, informed these gentlemen, that he was under a necessity of leaving the neighbourhood prior to the day suggested.—In a very few minutes after this interview he left town.
It seems a subject of general regret among the citizens of Lynchburg that they were not fortunate enough to obtain an opportunity of sharing on this occasion, the cordiality and unanimity with which they participated the patriotic and grateful sentiments that in a recent instance actuated their fellow citizens of Richmond under similar circumstances.—Besides their veneration for the individual who was the immediate object of their attention, and their wish to add one more to the many proofs, which the people of America have already exhibited, "that Republicans are not always ungrateful;" they were desirous, at a moment when they beheld their Country perseveringly assailed by foreign aggression, to make a public expression of attachment to the past and present administrations; of perfect approbation of the measures pursued by their Government to obtain redress; and of their steady determination to acquiesce in every privation, and strain every nerve, for the security of national Independence. Star.
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE. —The subscriber intending to remove to one of the Southern States, in the course of fifteen or eighteen months, offers for sale the tract of land on which he now dwells. It contains, by a late survey, about eleven hundred and eighty acres, of which six hundred and fourteen are yet in woods. The soil is peculiarly suited to the production of wheat, and is excellent for corn and tobacco. The situation is remarkably healthy, and is only one mile from the navigation of Appomattox. Those who wish to purchase, a GOOD TRACT OF LAND, AT A REASONABLE PRICE, are invited to view this property. It should not be sold by private contract before the sixth day of January next, it will then be put up to the highest bidder, at Farmville, on a credit of one and two years.
PETER JOHNSTON.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by Richard St. John, for the purpose of securing to Thomas Reeder several sums of money therein mentioned, I shall on the 22d December next, by public sale, to the highest bidder, at Rough Creek Church, sell a TRACT OF LAND, conveyed in said trust for that purpose of 143 acres, be the same more or less, lying on the waters of Turkey Cock Creek, adjoining the lands of William Taylor, Thomas Scott, John Sandifer's estate, Wood Lawrence, & Wood Jones's estate, which sale will be made in conformity to an act of assembly passed 31st January, 1809, entitled an act concerning executions and for other purposes. I shall convey such title only as is vested in me by said trust.
G. BARNSDALE.
November 20th, 1809. av3tp
THEATRE.
On Wednesday evening, November 29th, will be presented, Colman's much admired Comedy, of
JOHN BULL.
After the play will be performed by Children only, a Ballet called
Jack in Distress; OR THE Sailor's Landlady.
To which will be added the favorite musical entertainment of The Hunter of the Alps.
Doors to be opened at 5 o'clock—Commence to rise at 6 o'clock.
In order to complete the list of the requisitions of the decree of the honor the high court of chancery, for the Richmond Estate, dated the 20th June, 1809, and published in this paper from the 15th of August to the 19th September, inclusive, and an additional decree dated the 22d September, 1809, in the cases of William Marshall and Thomas Taylor, guardians of Eleanor and Lavinia Dandridge, orphans of William Dandridge, deceased, and others, Plffs.
ADMINISTRATOR. William D. Dval, administrator of William Price, deceased, Lucy Price, widow, and William D. Price, Alexander Price, John Havvie Price, and Anna Price, infant heirs of the said William Price, deceased, Defts.
And also in conformity with a further decree of the aforesaid court, dated the 22d September, 1809, in the case of Matthew Jordan, Paintiff, against
The same defendants as above. We or one of us will positively proceed to sell, on the premises at public auction, on Tuesday the 12th day of December next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. if fair, if not, the next fair day, at the said house, the Blue House and Lot on the street on Shockoe Hill, mentioned in the first decree, which the late register William Price, purchased of John Britain, subject to the claim of Mrs. John Britain, for a supposed right of Dower, she never having relinquished any claim which she might have in the event of her living longer than her said husband.—And immediately there, after two lots of ground near the Federal Spring, known by the numbers 11 and 12, in Dval's addition to the city of Richmond, and three lots near the late residence of William Price on Shockoe Hill, known by the numbers in Judge Washington's addition, 11, 12, and 18 on two years credit, from the day of sale, with interest from date. Bonds with approved security will be required, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy William Marshall and Thomas Taylor, Esqrs. guardians as aforesaid—the residue of the original sum decreed in their favor of 1400 dollars, with interest and costs of said suit, and Matthew Jordan, in the sum of 500 dollars, with interest from the first day of January, 1809 till paid, and the costs expended by him in said suit, and also to discharge the balance of the expenses of the previous and said sales yet unprovided for, as authorized by the aforesaid decree.
JOHN PROSSER, WM. MONCURE, Commissioners, Richmond, November 23d. 1809.
STRAYED away on Saturday evening, between the hours of six and seven o'clock, from before the door of Mr. Simpson's shop, opposite the Eagle Tavern, a BAY MARE, 9 years old, 4 feet 10 inches high, or thereabouts, her fore feet are shod, has a blaze on her forehead, has a very slim neck, a short switch tail, trots well, has weaned a colt about five weeks ago. Said mare had a saddle on when strayed. Any person who has taken up said mare, and will inform or deliver her to John Craddock, or to William Wilkinson, shall be generously rewarded.
November 27, 1809.
NEGROES FOR SALE. —On Friday the 29th day of next month, will be sold, at Mecklenburg courthouse, to the highest bidder, 20 Likely Negroes, on 12 months credit, the purchasers giving bonds with approved security, bearing interest from the date, but such interest to be remitted in case of punctual payment.
WM. MUNFORD.
Richmond, Nov. 25th, 1809.
BOOKS for Sale.
JUST received and for sale by S. PLEASANTS Richmond, a few copies of the following valuable works:—The American Annual Register, vol. 4th—Bordley's Husbandry—Woman, a new novel by Miss. Owen—Burdet's Village Sermons—Gurney's System of Short hand writing—Ferguson's Lectures, a new edition—Marshall's Life of Gen. Washington—Thomson's seasons, a cheap edition for the use of schools—Russell's ancient and modern Europe—Carey's general atlas, (the best collection of Maps yet made in this country)—Morse's Universal Geography—Goldsmith's natural History—a general assortment of quarto Family Bibles, with and without plates, concordance, psalms, &c. &c. from $2 50, to $12 each—Gibson's surveying—American Clerk's Magazine—Walker's pronouncing Dictionary—also, school Bibles, Texts, and Spelling Books.
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE A FEW HANDSOME COPIES OF GIBBON'S DECLINE & FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE;
To which is added, (in this edition only) THE VERY INTERESTING LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, written by HIMSELF. Eight Vols, Large Octavo, Price 24 Dollars.
JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale at Samuel Pleasants, Jr's Printing Office, between the Bell Tavern and the Market-bridge, Richmond; The Virginia Almanac, FOR THE YEAR 1810, Adopted to the Latitude and Meridian of Richmond; By BENJAMIN BATES;

REMOVAL. THE subscriber has removed near the Basin. Where he continues to keep a house of Private Entertainment. He has also for sale a general assortment of GROCERIES. Likewise sells all kinds of country produce on commission.  HAZERIAN PURYEAR. Richmond May 17th, 1809. tf N. B. The highest price given for wheat. H. P.
One Thousand Pounds WANTED. FOR immediate rent, 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 are new and very good. In a healthy and desirable country. Enquire of the Plaintiff. September 9, 1809. if
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. Stolen from me about the 12th of Nov. 1807 a negro man slave named Cogar the property of the deceased. He formerly belonged to Mr. Robert Alexander, of Campbell county, and was bought from him a small boy, in the year 1789. He is now about 6 feet high, one of his big toes is very remarkable, being split with an axe through the nail and nearly as high as the second joint, by that it is much broader and larger than the other. He was accustomed to run James River above the falls. I was informed that he went up James River in a batteau owned by one Greely to the other side of the mountains. On delivering him to me or securing him in some jail so that I get him again, shall be paid by me the reward of twenty Dollars. This is to forewarn any person or persons from harboring or concealing him, as they may depend on it that I will prosecute such violators of the law to its full extent.  ROBERT MITCHELL. City of Richmond, July 27th, 1809.
NEW MEDICINE STORE. THE Subscribers have recently taken a store, near the Market Bridge, opposite Messrs. White and Shelton's, where they offer for sale a very general assortment of DRUGS & MEDICINES , a few of which are enumerated, viz: Gum Aloes, Ammon, Asa Foetida, Arabic, Guttac, Gamboge, Myrrh, Opium, Copal, Shell Lac, Tragacanth, Aqua Fortis, Annatto, Arrow Root, Camphor, Cowhage, Red and Pale Bark, Cream Tartar, Chamomile Flowers, Magnesia, Jalap, Ipecac, Calomel, Tart Emet, Essence Bergamot, Lemon, Spruce, Cloves, Nutmegs, Mace, Cassia, &c. &c. &c. A general assortment of PAINTS & DYING DRUGS —all of which will be sold as low as at any other store in this city. Medical practitioners and gentlemen who are in the habit of selling medicines in the country, will do well to call.  VAIL & ROGERS. Richmond, 29th Aug. 1809.
A BANK NOTE OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS was taken from a black boy who called himself James Smith, & 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 or their right to it and paying the expense of this advertisement.  JOHN McDONALD. Richmond, March 10th, 1809. if
20 Dollars Reward, is offered for apprehending ANDREW , a negro slave, who about the beginning of this month RUN AWAY from the subscriber residing in the neighborhood of Amelia Court House. Andrew is about thirty years old, an intelligent, active, small man, a good house and stable servant, drives a Carriage well, understands a little of Shoemaking, and readily performs any kind of plantation labor. Some years ago he was in the service of Mr. Turner at the Bell Tavern in Richmond, where I believe he generally acted as hostler and afterwards till last Christmas, was employed by Mr. Henry L. Blasco of Manchester in his tobacco stemmery. He has a wife living at the Manchester coal yard, a free mulatto woman named Sukey Hollinger, by whom I have reason to believe he is secreted. I will pay the above reward to any person who will deliver to me the above mentioned slave, or secure him in jail, so that I get him again.  James Henderson. 50th June, 1809. if
IN COUNCIL, Sept. 19th, 1809. It is advised, that from and after the 1st day of January next, the Auditor be instructed in every case where any claim by virtue of an order or certificate of court is presented to him by a person whose name is not mentioned therein, to require such person to produce also an order or power of Attorney from the individual in whose favor such order or Certificate of court was made, together with an affidavit of one witness or witnesses, certified by a Magistrate or Notary Public, that such individual actually signed and acknowledged the same. And to give general information of this rule, it is advised, that a 20 per cent. fee be published in the Virginia Argus, Enquirer, Petersburg Intelligencer, Norfolk Herald, Lynchburg Star, Staunton Eagle, and Winchester Gazette, once a week, until the first day of January next. Extract from the journal, (viii).  DANIEL L. HYLTON, C. C.
For sale at this office, A FEW COPIES OF BISHOP MADISON'S MAP OF VIRGINIA.
FOR SALE. —A handsome, second hand, London built CHARIOT , which has been but little used and is in a good state of preservation. Apply to the printer, or to Mr. HUGHES , coach maker, opposite the Old City Tavern, where the carriage may be seen.
BLACKSMITH FOR SALE. FOR sale, a most valuable Blacksmith of about 32 years of age. He is a stout well disposed negro; and probably inferior to no smith in the State. Enquire of the Plaintiff. September, 11th 1809. (3m)
THE Subscriber wishes to employ TWO good Workmen in the Wheelwright business, to whom good wages will be given: he will furnish may be at liberty to work by the piece.—Also two Apprentices are wanted to the Wheelwright business.  A. Quarrier. Richmond 8th Oct. 1809. if
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly to leave to dispense with the Lock required to be built at my Mill Dam until some efficient measures shall be adopted for improving the navigation of Banister River.  JOHN WIMBISH. Oct. 12th, 1809.
THE subscriber having taken the whole of the large Brick Building belonging to the estate of the late Mr. William Price, on the street leading from the Capitol, will be prepared to accommodate from fifteen to twenty of the Members of the next assembly.  JUDITH NELSON. Richmond, 23d October, 1809. id
NOTICE. —The subscriber having administered upon the Estate of the late Mr. JOHN HUGHES , senr. of Cumberland, and now Powhatan county, it is earnestly requested if there be any demands against that Estate, that they may be brought forward on or before the first day of January next, properly authenticated, and receive payment, as I intend to make a division of the residue of that Estate immediately after the said first day of January next, after which this advertisement will be plead in bar against any claim whatsoever.  JOHN CUNLIFFE, Adm'r. Coalpit, Chesterfield county, 15th Oct. 1809. (1J.)
CASH will be given for a good male house servant and female cook.  JOSEPH TRENT. Oct. 27th, 1809. if
NEW STORE. THE SUBSCRIBER, is now opening, opposite the GLOBE TAVERN, a General Assortment of Piece and Fancy GOODS; AMONGST WHICH ARE, Superfine and Com. White and colour, mon Broad Cloths ed Habit do. Do. d. Cassimere. Cambric Muslins, Do. do. Coatings. Plain and Seeded Flannels. Mull. do. Fancy Vesting, Spider Nett and Red & Black Bom. Fancy Craps do Bazzets. Knotted and Sprig'd Leno, do. Worsted, Cotton & Silk Hosiery. Diagonal and Veined do. do. Ginghams, Elegant Worked Cotton Shirting, Dresses. Irish Linen and Ditto Silk Shawls & Handkerchiefs. Dowlas, Black Plaid and Plain Printed Calicoes, Coloured Lustings, Velvets, Plain, Silk and Fancy Cut Velvets, Cords, White Satin and Umbrellas, Crapes, &c. &c. &c. Threads, Sewing Silks, Extra long white and coloured Kid Gloves,  JOHN WOOD: Richmond, Nov. 10, 1809. t.f.
AT a meeting of the directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company on Wednesday evening, the 15th of November, 1809. Resolved, That all shares of delinquent holders of shares in the said company be sold at the Washington Tavern in the city of Richmond on the 19th day of next month at 12 o'clock. Resolved, That a call of five dollars on each share be paid by the share-holders in the company to the treasurer, on or before the first day of December next. A Copy,  N. SHEPARD, Clk.
FOR SALE. 150 Boxes English Crown Glass 12 14 10 12 8 10. 50 Boxes Batimore ditto, 10 12 8 10 300 Kegs English White Lead 100 do. Spanish Brown. 100 lb. Putty. 1500 lb Seine twine An extensive assortment of American and Swedish Iron, amongst which are 12 ton anchors for Hoos and Axes. 2 ton American and German Steel. 12 Bales Cotton of a Superior quality, with our usual assortment of Groceries.  RUSSELL & WALLACE. Richmond, Nov. 20, 1809. 2m.
THE GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA will meet in the Mason's Hall, in the city of Richmond, at 6 o'clock in the evening of the second Monday in December next, being the 11th day of the month. November 19th, 1809. tdm
FOR SALE. 30 bds bro. Sugar 50 boxes fresh raisins 100 bds do. do. 50 boxes soap 20 bds loaf do. 10 casks sherry wine 15 100 bds greec. Coffee 10 do. malaga do. 200 yds. twill'd sack 30 bags pepper 10 ton hoop Iron 25 bags rice zingar 60 lb. sewing Silk 100 reams writing pa 6 bds Rye Whisky per 10 gross Eagles playing 15 boxes chocolate 8 boxes reined salt pe. Blistered steel, shoe, tree, shoes, gauging rods, 15 bds Tanners oil wince strained oil, &c. &c. Apply to HOVEY & SIZER. Richmond, Nov. 20, 1809. 3w
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY. THE annual meeting of Stock holders will be held at Brooks's Tavern in Manchester, on the first Monday in December next: Such members as cannot attend in person will, it is expected, appoint their proxies. The undersigned requires to be furnished, so soon as possible, with the necessary evidence of shares sold and purchased, since the last meeting; in order that transfers may be made on the Company's books, and shares duly represented.  JAMES BRANDEA, Clk. Manchester, N. v. 3d 1809.
FOR SALE. A TRACT OF LAND, in the county of Cumberland, within a mile of Farmville, containing four hundred acres, not quite half of which is cleared. The remainder is for the most part prime tobacco land, uncommonly well timbered and watered. The cleared land is generally in excellent heart. There are on the tract a commodious framed granary shedded all around and two tobacco houses. The situation is esteemed uncommonly healthy. If not previously sold, it will be offered at public sale, on Friday the first day of December next, in the town of Farmville—where also, the subscriber has for sale an excellent well built small dwelling house with a commodious store house and lumber house adjoining, with good cellars, &c. Mr. EDWARD RAPFORD , who lives adjoining the land, will show it to any one disposed to purchase.  JOHN RANDOLPH. November 1st, 1809. 6w
SURRY COURT HOUSE FOR SALE. BY CONSENT of parties and under a deed of trust executed to me by Richard Mason and Wife, for the benefit of John H. Cocke, will certainly be exposed to sale, to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 5th day of December ensuing, upon the premises, the following very valuable property. The large and elegant Tavern, containing sixteen rooms. Kitchen, Smoke House, and Dairy suited to such an establishment; Granery, Carriage House, and Stables for sixty Horses; two hundred acres of Land, more or less; two small Orchards, a large Ice House with a pond contiguous, abounding in Fish, and an elegant Race Course, together with the following Tenements A dwelling House containing five Rooms, Kitchen, Dairy, Smoke House, Stable & Granary attached, with ten acres of Land, occupied by Mr. Reuben Butler. A convenient Store House and Counting Room & Lumber House, occupied by Messrs. Cole & Henderson. A commodious Dwelling House containing four Rooms, Kitchen, Dairy, Smoke House, Granery and Stable, with two acres of Land attached, occupied by Mr. Sledge. The three last Tenements are under a lease for a term of years. A handsome Dwelling House containing three Rooms, calculated for a Store, Kitchen & Smoke House, with one and a half acres of Land attached thereto. A small Dwelling House occupied by Mr. Mahone, together with a Kitchen and Blacksmith's Shop. And a convenient House at present occupied as a Post-Office. The terms of sale will be Four Thousand dollars with Interest on two Thousand Dollars for two years to be paid down, and twelve months credit from the time of giving possession will be allowed for the balance of the purchase money; the purchaser giving bond with approved security to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. At the time of Sale a Deed will be made to the purchaser, he giving a Deed of Trust upon the property to secure the payment. Possession will be given on the first day of January. To any person disposed to engage in the business of a publican the above property will be truly desirable, and as a stand for mercantile business few if any are superior in the lower country.  CHARLES H. GRAVES, Trustee. Surry County, 4th Nov. 1809. (t.d.s.)
FOR SALE, between 4 and 500 acres of GLOUCESTER LOW GROUNDS. That valuable plantation called SHIP YARD belonging to the estate of the late Benjamin Dabney, situated on Ware River. It is well timbered and convenient for fish and oysters. Terms may be made known by application to  TH: G. SMITH, Ex'r. and SARAH DABNEY, Ex'rx. November 4, 1809. 2mp
WANTS EMPLOYMENT, in a Counting House in Richmond or Manchester, a young man who was bred to the mercantile business—is a good clerk, and can show satisfactory recommendations. It will suit him to commence any time before the 15th Jany. next. A line addressed to L. E. C. and lodged in the Lynchburg post office, will be attended to. November 10th, 1809. 4p
FOR RENT. —The House & Lot at present occupied by Mr. George Watt, situated on the east side of Shockoe creek. For particulars apply to Mr. Watt or to JOSEPH GALLEGO.
GEORGE WATT, HAS just received and offers for sale—Sicily Madeira and Sherry Wine, by the hhd. and cask; Green Coffee; Orleans Sugar by the hhd; German Platillas Simplex by the piece or case; half pint glass Tumblers, in cases of 1000 each; and New York Soap and Candles. ON HAND.—Madeira Wine—Orleans and Muscovado Sugar—Green Coffee—Molasses—Prime Pork—Liverpool and Stone-Ware—Souchong, Hyson Skin and Gunpowder Tea—Spanish Segars—Raisins—Almonds—Nutmegs—Window Glass—Men's and Women's Shoes—which he will dispose of by wholesale on reasonable terms. Richmond, 20th July 1809.
FOR SALE. —The House & Lot at present occupied by Mr. George Watt, situated on the east side of Shockoe creek. For particulars apply to Mr. Watt or to JOSEPH GALLEGO.
VIRGINIA: In Chancery—in Halifax County Court, 24th October, 1809.  RETWEEN Anne Morton, formerly Anne Cobb, Howell Riley and Milly her wife, formerly Milly Cobb, Nancy Cobb, Betsy Cobb, John Cobb, Isabella Cobb, James H. Cobb and Patsy Cobb , who are heirs & devisees of John Cobb, deceased, and which said Nancy, Betsy, John, Isabella, James and Patsy , being under age, appear by Anne Morton their natural guardian and next friend. Plts.
THE defendants Thomas, James, Thomas, John and Cynthia Cobb , which four last mentioned defendants, are the children of Jas. Cobb , the elder, deceased; and William M. Watkins and Benjamin Morton , Defts.  THE defendants Thomas, James, Thomas, John and Cynthia Cobb not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of this court that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth, on motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, it is ordered, that the said last named defendants, appear here on the fourth Monday in February next and answer the bill of this plaintiff—and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the news papers published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of the said county. A copy—Teste  SAMUEL WILLIAMS, D. C. C.
HALIFAX COUNTY, October 1st, 1809.  THE Subscriber wishing to remove to the Western country offers for sale in this county, 625 acres of land, whereon he at present resides. This land is equal in quality to most of the high land in the neighborhood, and superior to a considerable portion of it; is well adapted to the culture of grain of all kinds, tobacco and cotton; and is highly improved with houses, inclosures, &c. with excellent springs of water. The dwelling house is sixty four feet in length, composed of a centre part 24 by 22 feet, two stories high, & wings of 20 by 18 feet, covered with heart pine featheredge plank and shingles—the chimneys and under pinning of brick, with convenient fire places, windows, &c. in the several apartments; stair cases, &c. in suitable style. The kitchen is 28 by 16 feet, a meat house 12 by 10 feet, and a dairy 10 by 8 feet, are all framed h uses neatly built, covered with featheredge plank and pine shingles, the two last with heart shingles; the whole underpinned with brick; plank & brick floors as they severally require, with a large brick chimney in the kitchen suitable for cooking & a stair case with an upper room, and other fixings. These houses are all new & cost upwards of $2000. There are also a number of other convenient houses. About 100 acres are cleared and inclosed, and divided by good fences, into fields of from 10 to 20 acres, and in fine order for cropping—the residue, except a small part, is woodland finely timbered and of better quality than any heretofore cleared.—The whole lies well, is within two miles of Halifax Courthouse, upon the large trading road from the upper Country to Richmond and Petersburg, which renders it a most eligible stand for any person wishing to turn his attention to public business. The price required is only six dollars per acre, which is considerably below its value, in cash; but if time is wished it can be given as far as three or four years upon payment of legal interest. The sale will be made privately by the subscriber, and possession given when required. w2ra BERRYMAN GREEN.
NOTICE, to all whom it may concern, that a petition will be presented to the next general assembly, praying that a law may pass to annul and make void the powers vested in Thomas Pollard , of Kentucky, Edmund Pendleton , of Caroline, and William Pollard , of Kanawha county, appointed trustees by Thomas Underwood and Jane Dandridge , now Jane Underwood , at the time of their intermarriage. November 3d, 1809. w12m
NOTICE. —By virtue of a deed of trust executed by Joshua Smith of the county of Amelia, to Dabney Miller his security, and Benjamin Chapman , and Thomas Randolph trustees. I shall proceed to sell on the 14th December the following property, viz. A water Grist Mill, Cotton Machine, and Whiskey Distillery with 5 or 6 acres of Land attached to the same, and eleven Negroes consisting of Men, Women, Boys, and Girls, or so much of the said property as will raise the second and fourth instalments contained in the said trust, with interest on the same, and all other expenses in carrying the said trust in execution—the sale will certainly take place on the above date and at the said Mill in the upper end of Amelia near Ligantown on Appomattox river. The above property will be sold for cash, agreeable to the proviso of the sixth section of the act passed 31st January, 1809, for the indemnity of security.  BENJAMIN CHAPMAN, Trustee. Nov. 10, 1809. (w4p)
R A G S. THE SUBSCRIBER WILL PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR LINNEN or COTTON R A G S; (For the VIRGINIA MANUFACTURERS.) AND will contract with country Storekeepers for all they may be able to collect, which will be paid for in cash, on delivery at my store, near the Courthouse; where may be had a general assortment of GROCERIES, BOOTS, SHOES, & PATENT NAILS.  WILLIAM FARR. Richmond, 22d Jan. 1809. w12m A FEW COPIES OF Burk's History of Virginia IN THREE VOLUMES Are for sale at this office.
VIRGINIA: As a superior court of chancery held at the capitol in the city of Richmond, the 21st day of September, 1809.  John Lambart , representative and devisee of George Harmer , deceased, Pit.  AGAINST  Thomas Key, Henry Key, William Babb Key, Daniel John Key, Tandy K. & Joshua Key, Wm. Key, John White and Martha his wife, descendants and heirs or devisees of Martin Key , deceased, Defts.  THE defendants Thomas Key, Henry Key, William Babb Key, James Key and Daniel , not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of this court, that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth, on motion of the plaintiff by counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendants 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 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.
At a court held for King and Queen county, at the courthouse, on Monday, the 24th of October, 1809.  Joseph Morton , Pit.  AGAINST  John Lumpkin & James Lumpkin Chancery & Thomas Jeffries , Defts. Pit.  THE defendant James Lumpkin 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 the inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant James Lumpkin do appear here on the second Monday in January next and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper printed in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of this courthouse. A Copy—Teste,  RO: POLLARD, C. C.
SHAPARD & LUCKE have received a general assortment of GROCERIES consisting of, Sugar, Coffee, W. I. Rum, Country Gin, Whiskey, Sherry and Malaga Wine, Pepper, Pimento, Ginger, Imperial Tea, English Mustard, Salt in Sacks, ALSO, Earthen, Glass, China, and Stone Ware; German, Crowley and Blistered Steel; Bar Iron, Nail Rods, Sash Leather, Writing, Wrapping and Printing Paper, Spanish Segars, Cotton Cards, Shot, Powder, Window Glass, Indigo, Copparas, Alum, Logwood, Cut Herrings, &c. &c. which they offer low for cash, country produce, or approved paper. N. B. Cash given for flour as usual. Nov. 6, 1809. wtf
MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.  THE Annual General meeting of the mutual Assurance Society against fire on buildings of the State of Virginia, will be held by adjournment, at the capitol in the city of Richmond, on the second Monday in December next, being the eleventh day of December.  SAMUEL GREENHOW, P. Agent M. A. S. Richmond, 10th Nov. 1809.
As much inconvenience and unnecessary expense results from the present mode of collecting the contributions of the members; which annually diverts a considerable part of those contributions from the uses for which they were intended—burdens individuals with heavy costs and greatly delays the collections, to the injury of the credit of the society, the general meeting at their last annual session, applied to the legislature to authorise a more certain, expedious, and less expensive mode of collection—their application was rejected, under an impression that the members of the society might not approve of this act of their proxies. Having been informed that a similar proposition will be submitted to the consideration of the next general meeting, and believing some amendment in that respect necessary to the prosperity of the institution, I have thought it proper to give this public notice thereof.  S. GREENHOW, P. A. Other printers in this state, are requested to insert the above in their papers till the eleventh December next. S. G.
BOARDING FOR DELEGATES.  WILLIAM RALEIGH , has taken the house belonging to David Bullock , Esq. west from the capitol, and lately occupied by William Wirt , Esq. He can accommodate from 15 to 20, and shall make preparations for that purpose. He begs leave to inform his friends as well as those who may confide in him, that he will devote himself with the greatest attention to give satisfaction to them, as well as to obtain the approbation of his own mind.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed by John Dennis to the subscriber, bearing date the 25th day of July, 1807, of record in the county court of Richmond, for the purpose of securing a debt due to Ezekiel Levy ; will be sold, at Faraham Church , on the 6th day of December next, to the highest bidder, under the provisions of the act of assembly passed last session, entitled "an act concerning executions and for other purposes;" the following property conveyed by the said deed, to wit—Schoolner Henry, of Tappahannock, with all her apparel, and sundry negroes, whose names are Sarah, Sam, George, Hannah, and Joe ; three horses, ten head of cattle, and five feather beds and furniture, or so much of the said property as will raise the sum required. Provided the day of sale above mentioned should be bad weather, the sale will take place the first fair day after.  B. McCARTY, Trustee. Richmond County, 11th Nov. 1809. 3w
VINE COMPANY of PENNSYLVANIA.  THE Managers of the Vineyard, at Spring Mills, conceive it a duty that they owe to the lovers of the Vintage in the United States, to inform that they have a large number of fine plants and cuttings of various kinds, for sale at very reasonable prices for the Autumn & next Spring's planting. Orders addressed to Mr. Bernard McMahon , seedsman and florist, in Philadelphia, or to Peter Leagoux , at the Vineyard, post paid, will be carefully attended to.