The recorder (Richmond, Va.), 1803-04-02 00:00:00

THE RECORDER;
PRINTED BY HENRY PACE, & JAMES T. CALLENDER, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA; PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. SUBSCRIPTION FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1803.
REVISED CODE.
THE SUBSCRIBERS to the REVISED CODE are respectfully informed that the Book will be ready for delivery on the first of April next. February 16th 1803.
STALLED BEEVES,
Mutton, and 15000 weight of choice Bacon, FOR SALE.
FOR cash, or respectable merchants notes at sixty days. I can furnish a purchaser with seventy as fat bullocks as any in the state, perhaps not quite so large boned as the cattle from the South Branch of the Potomack, but equally fat. In preference I would sell them on the spot were they are stalled, but will drive them to Norfolk, Richmond, or Petersburg, if previously engaged by a butcher, or any other person inclined to buy, and as it may not be convenient, to take, or pay for the whole at one time, a purchaser may have any part not less than ten if taken here, but if driven by my own people, they must all go at one time. I have also a number of exceeding fat muttons, and 15000 weight of choice bacon, the hams salt-petted with particular care, and the whole made out of large fat hogs, and intended for the use of private families. Letters, post-paid, directed to me by mail to MARSHALLSVILLE, MECKLENBURG county shall be duly noticed.
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, for Sir PEYTON SKIPWITH, Baronet.
THE SUBSCRIBERS
To the Washington Federalist are respectfully informed, that I am empowered by Mr. William Rind, to receive payment of the balances due to him in this city, and neighbourhood. THOMAS TAYLOR. Vendue Master. Richmond, Feb. 28th. 1803.
At a meeting of the Common Hall, for the city of Richmond, called by the Mayor, and held at the house of William Rife, in the said city, on Monday the 28th day of February, 1803. Resolved, that the Mayor give notice in the newspapers, that the Hall have adopted a plan for a POOR HOUSE, and will receive proposals from undertakers for building the same, at any time before the third Monday in next month. The plan is lodged in the hands of Mr. Robert B. James. The proposals must be made in writing.
A copy Teste ADAM CRAIG, c. c. h. c. r.
VIRGINIA.
At a court continued and held for Halifax County, on Wednesday the 24th day of November 1802. Isaac Coles, senr. Plaintiff. AGAINST Stephen Biggs and James Snead, Defendants. In Chancery
THE defendant Biggs, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country. On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the fourth Monday in March next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the court house of this county. A copy—Teste BERRYMAN GREEN, D. C. H. C.
TO THE PUBLIC.
MANY gentlemen residing in states north of this have addressed letters to us, to send them the Recorder; and requested we would name any person in Philadelphia, or New York, where they could send their subscription money. We take this opportunity of informing the public, that Mr. Lewis, paper-maker, at Philadelphia, will receive any subscriptions sent for the Recorder, and Mr. Coleman, printer of the New York Herald, at New York.
NEGROES.
ANY person wishing to dispose of likely Negroes are requested to enquire at William Davidson's store, near the market. Wanted, also, a light WAGGON, with, or without gears. Richmond, March 23d. 1803. (Ad.)
BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber takes this mode of returning his thanks to his former patrons, and informing the public in general, that he has (by desire of his friends) re-commenced the MANUFACTURING of BURR MILL-STONES, and having furnished himself with a supply of the best materials, and having had sixteen years experience in the business in Baltimore, Petersburg, and Richmond, hopes to be able to give satisfaction to his employers. The stones he will warrant to be as good as any in the United States.
Any orders left with Capt. WILLIAM PENNOCK, Norfolk; Capt. WILLIAM CHAMBERS, Staunton; Mr. WILLIAM HAY, Wythe County; or Mr. ROBERT MOORE, Petersburg, shall be duly attended to, and country produce received in payment at the customary prices.
TWO APPRENTICES will be taken to the above business, and short time required. WILLIAM DAVIDSON. Richmond, Jan. 10th 1803. (Ad.) N. B. For sale, PLAISTER of PARIS, in stone or ground, for the improvement of land, with directions for the use thereof.
FRESH FLOUR.
THE Subscribers hereby give notice, that they are now ready to make Sales of FLOUR of their own manufacture, and are also desirous to purchase Wheat, Corn, Flour-Barrels, and Staves. Such as may want a supply of Meal, Hominy, Ship-Staff, and Bran, are informed that they can be furnished at certain prices during the year, and that for the present quarter, ending the last of March, the prices will be for 50 lbs. Meal, 3s. and 6d. and for 50 lbs. Hominy, 3s. 3d. They hereby solicit all those indebted to them, to make payment as fast as possible, as their situation does not enable them to grant such indulgence as heretofore. They have still on hand a large assortment of IRISH LINENS, which they are anxious to dispose of. THOMAS RUTHERFOORD, & Co. Feb. 16th. 1803.
CITY OF RICHMOND.
In Common Hall, Jan. 17th 1803. WHEREAS the present funds of the corporation are not adequate to the expense of erecting a WORKHOUSE for the city, which would combine within itself all the conveniencies which a well regulated institution of this kind would require; having a regard to the future population of this city, yet it is wise and expedient that the funds now destined for this useful institution should be laid out in such a manner as to answer the present purposes of the corporation, and to admit such future additions as the increasing population may require. Your Committee, therefore, beg leave to recommend it to the consideration of the Common Hall, to call in the aid of those who have experience of such institutions, and to offer a premium for the best plan of a Workhouse, which will be so contrived as to admit of being erected in parts, as the funds of the corporation will from time to time afford. Resolved, therefore, that the committee appointed to prepare a plan of a Workhouse be discharged from further proceeding therein. And that the Mayor be requested to give notice in the newspapers, or otherwise, that the sum of thirty dollars will be given by the corporation, as a premium to the person who shall produce to the Hall, on the third Monday in February next, the best plan of a Workhouse, constructed as above mentioned, and to be approved of by the Hall, estimating the cost at four thousand dollars. Copy Teste ADAM CRAIG, c. c. h.
FOR SALE.
A few likely young NEGROES. For particulars enquire of the Printer. Richmond, March, 7th 1803.
BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber returns sincere thanks to his friends and the public generally, for the very great encouragement he received in his line of business since his commencement in Richmond. He has lately received a large supply of excellent Burr-Stones at his manufactory, and does not hesitate to say, that he will sell Burr Mill-Stones as cheap as they were ever sold in the United States; he will warrant them to be of the best quality, and give ample security (if required) for their performance. Country produce will be taken in payment, or a short credit given; he has almost every fixed Mill-Stone ready for delivery; also PLAISTER of PARIS ground and in the stone. CARSON HOLIDAY. Richmond, Jan. 25th, 1803. (Ad.)
TO BE RENTED,
THAT large and convenient BRICK TENEMENT in this city, lately occupied by Mr. Robert Turner, as a Tavern and Boarding-House, situate on the corner of the Main-Street; and that leading to Col. Mayo's Bridge. The central situation thereof cannot fail (if rented by a gentleman qualified for the purpose) to ensure a considerable number of respectable boarders; or, it is an eligible residence for a genteel private family. The premises may be entered, on the first day of March next, or immediately, as circumstances may suit; for terms apply to
ROBERT GAMBLE
Who has for sale a handsome assortment of CARPETS and CARPETING, and genuine PORTWINE, in pipes and quarter casks.
RICHMOND MILLS.
THE subscriber hereby informs the public, that at length, after much trouble and expense, he has nearly completed one of his Mills on the James River Canal, in which there are two pair of Burr stones for manufacturing WHEAT, and two pair of Cologne stones now ready to grind CORN.
That the inconveniences which might arise from delay and difference of measures may be avoided, CORN will be received only by weight, at fifty pounds to the bushel, and a supply of MEAL and HOMINY will always be kept ready to give in exchange, at the rate of eighty-five pounds of Meal, or ninety-two pounds of Hominy, for one hundred pounds of Corn.
After the loss of weight by cleaning, and evaporation in grinding is deducted, the toll on Meal will be only about one tenth, and on Hominy one twentieth; it will, therefore, be much to the interest of those who keep horses, to have all their Corn ground.
As the subscriber is now providing a Fan and Screen for the purpose of cleaning the Corn effectually before it is ground, and as the Meal will be made from the best Corn only, and none but such as is merchantable will be received; he hopes that general satisfaction will be given. THOMAS RUTHERFOORD. N. B. The deduction for Storeage and Shrinkage on Corn, deposited to be exchanged for Meal and Hominy, will be made as moderate as possible. January 1, 1803.
TO THE PUBLIC.
ON the 12th of March, 1803, commenced the Saturday's Recorder, the price being two dollars per annum, paid in advance. We shall often be unavoidably compelled to continue long articles from one paper to the other, so that the subscribers to the Wednesday's Recorder will find it extremely convenient to take the Saturday's likewise, in order that they may have articles always in their full and complete form. We shall now be able to take notice of a wide variety of foreign and domestic news, which we formerly were obliged to leave out for want of room. In doing this, we shall be particularly careful to select such articles as wear a serious appearance of authenticity, and are really worth reading. More cannot be demanded, and we shall endeavour not to do less. The three first numbers of the Saturday's paper were sent round to all our subscribers. After that, they will be sent only to those who, in the mean time, have remitted money to pay for their new subscription. From those who do not chuse to take the Saturday's papers, these three numbers will be deducted in reckoning up their year.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Gentlemen, who wish to subscribe to the Saturday's Recorder, are requested to send in their subscriptions, within a very few days. But this they need not do, unless they send, at the same time, two dollars in advance. The next Saturday's paper, to wit, that of the 26th, current, is the last that can be issued to any person either in town or country, unless to those that have paid for it, one year in advance.
In pleading before the court of Henrico against the King of Clubs, Mr. William Marshall observed that "The Recorder had "the most extensive circulation of any newspaper in Virginia; and that there was never, perhaps, an instance of such an extensive patronage acquired by any other newspaper, in so short a time." This patronage has been acquired by exposing, with an impartial hand, the faults of all parties.
There never was more occasion for political vigilance than at present. As the bible says, there is DEATH in the pot. There exists an atrocious conspiracy against the liberty of the press, and, of course, against the liberty of the people. This can be doubted by nobody that has heard of Cromwell's trial, on which we have enlarged at so much length.
Again, the right of selecting their own magistrates has in effect, been torn from a majority of the citizens of Richmond, by a phalanx of democratical usurpers.
Take notice, also, of what follows. In last session of assembly, Mr. Venable proposed a declaratory resolution that the truth shall be given in evidence in cases of libel. This resolution was, for that time, defeated by Peter Carr, the correspondent, such as he was, of general Washington, and the confidential agent and nephew of Thomas Jefferson. There can be no doubt that Peter, like his apostolical namesake, was inspired from above.
Richmond, March 23. 1803.
FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
PERHAPS a more daring outrage upon decency has rarely been committed than that of the two decisions, by the legislature of Virginia, in the cases of Mr. Hoomes and Mr. Moody, mentioned in the Courier of Thursday last. To the same question, point to point, it is stated was put to the legislature in the cases of two men, one a federalist, the other an antifederalist, and decisions were given directly in the teeth of each other. In the case of Mr. Hoomes, the question was put, "whether his having a contract for carrying the mail disqualified him from holding his seat as a member of that house;" and it was decided that it did not disqualify him. Mark well! He is a democrat. The very same question was put in the case of Mr. Moody, who (Mark well, again) is a federal republican, and it was then decided, by a majority of 113 to 92, that his, Mr. Moody's having the contract for carrying the mails did disqualify him from holding his seat, and he was accordingly thrust out.
FROM THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
THE sentiments expressed in the American Citizen of New-York, on the imprisonment of Callender and the invasion of the liberty of the press, are infinitely more disgusting than those in the Aurora. To do Duane justice, he confessed that the liberty of the press would be endangered by Callender's imprisonment, and he lamented that Mr. Hay had adopted the means which he did, of protecting his character; but the editor of the American Citizen, whose name is too loathsome to mention, appears to glory in the circumstance and to rejoice that Mr. Callender has been thrown into jail and the press invaded. Such is the conduct of the pretended supporters of republicanism, at an event which wore the most gloomy aspect, and which threatened the extinction of liberty! How would these men have triumphed had Callender's imprisonment been adjudged, and the freedom of the press trampled to the earth.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
THE president in his message, said "the ratio of increase (of duties) has been also greater than usual!" To enable the public to judge how far the president is correct in point of fact, we shall oppose to it the authority of his own secretary of the treasury. In Mr. Gallatin's last report, we find a statement (B) "exhibiting the amount of revenue accrued on account of duties on importation for each quarter, from the first of October 1800, to the 30th of Sept. 1802, and from this statement we shall now give the following extract:
   Quarters ending Gross revenue accruing during each quarter.     31st. December, 1800, 2,946,740   31st. March, 1801, 1,257,779   30th. June, 4,373,944   30th. September, 4,954,563   31st. December, 2,565,303   31st. March, 1802, 1,376,063   30th. June, 3,759,828   30th. September, 2,611,067   1,508,761  
From this official document of Mr. Gallatin's, it appears not only that the president is materially incorrect as to what he has said about the "ratio of increase," but that a defalcation of revenue has already taken place, which is quite alarming. During the last quarter, that is from June to Sept. when the effects of peace have hardly begun to manifest themselves, there has been a diminution from the preceding quarter, of no less than one million ninety eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars, and the next quarter must present a still more discouraging aspect. Yet the president tells the people, with much apparent exultation, that "the ratio of increase in the receipts of external duties, has been greater for the last twelve months than usual;" and that "it is an encouragement of the highest order to proceed as they have begun in substituting economy for taxation."
Extract from the Journals of the House of Delegates of Virginia.
Thursday, December 7th. 1802.
A motion was made that the house should proceed to the appointment of a chaplain, when the previous question whether a chaplain should be appointed at all, was called for, which passed in the affirmative.
On the motion of Mr. Ba'bour, seconded by Mr. Booker, Ordered, That the ayes and noes on the foregoing question be inserted in the journal.
The names of those who voted in the affirmative are—Messrs. Finnie, Cabell, Camm, Andrew Anderson, Doake, J. Brown, Leftwich, James Stephenson, M c Ferran, Young, W. Brown, Jones, Clarke, Warren, Hatcher, Roberts, Booker, Holmes, Cavendish, Mathews, Dupree, Mason, Blair, Dickey, Terry, Trueheart, Prunty, Storr, J. Johnson, Eley, Crane, Manning, Lightfoot, L. Smith, M c Kee, Aylett, Gregory, Rozier, Niblett, Neil, Taylor, R. E. Daniel, Muse, John Craig, Woodward, L. Riddick, Christian, Dunton, Edwards, Morgan, Mills, Moseley, Mosby, Venable, Coke, Tebbs, Wilson, Haddon, Alexander, M c Clelland, Blow, Gee, Mercer, Seabell, Allen, Peete, M c Intosh, Garnet, Meek, Ward, Henderson, Pefoud, Moody, Adams—75.
And the names who voted in the negative are—Messrs. Garland, Carr, Wiley, Carper, Fletcher, Walker, (Buckingham) Moorman, Burke, Woodford, Wyatt, Price, (Charlotte) Walker, (Charles City) Cheatham, Eppes, Hawes, Goodwyn, Watkins, Banks, Brokenborough, West, Chilton, Haden, Napier, Saxon, Greer, Cocke, M. Anderson, Carter, Payne, Sprigg, Jenkins, Davison, Fisher, Simon, Jones, Ruffner, Hansford, Sherman, G. Anderson, P. M. Daniel, Martin, Shackelford, Early, Rucker, Evans, B. Smith, Gray, A. Lee, Crawley, Barbour, Ellis, Woodings, Tunstall, J. Foster, Newsum, Penn, C. Foster, Branham, Nichols, Grymes, Stannard, Fox, M c Farlane, Dickenson, Witten, D. Lee, Strickler, E. Stephenson, Fulkerston, Sheffey, Crockett—71.
The house then proceeded to ballot for a chaplain, and the members having prepared tickets with the name of the person to be ballotted for, and deposited the same in the ballot boxes, Messrs. J. W. Eppes, Barbour, Adams, Tate, and Holmes, were appointed a committee to examine the ballots and report to the house on whom a majority should fall.
Resolved, therefore, That the Rev. John Courtney be appointed Chaplain to this house, and that he attend to read prayers every morning at the hour appointed by the standing order of the house.
Ordered, That the clerk acquaint the senate therewith.
A CAUTION
To all those who endeavour to circulate false reports.
BEING informed, that a report is in circulation, that I, a few days ago took laudanum, with an intention of killing myself, this is to forward any person, or persons from circulating such a report, as it is false for being
with a merry set of young men, on the 24th. of this month, I drank rather more than was customary for me to do. I returned to my lodging, with an intention to sleep it off, but found my attempts in vain, for my inclinations were too much inclined to ramble. I therefore thought proper to take a small quantity of laudanum, but being too far spent with intoxication, drank too large a portion, which endangered my life. I therefore hope that no person, or persons, whatever, will be so presumptuous to suppose that I did it to injure myself in any respect. Any person, or persons, fabricating such a report, may depend upon the rigour of the law, by
GEORGE RICHARDSON TODD. March 28th. 1803.
DOCUMENTS
RESPECTING THE INSURRECTION OF THE SLAVES.
August 30, 1800. JAMES MONROE, Esq. SIR,
I have just been informed that the negroes were to rise (as they termed it) in the neighborhood of Thomas H. Proffer's, and to kill the neighbors to wit: Major William Mosby, Thomas H. Proffer, and Mr. Johnston, from thence they were to proceed to town, where they would be joined by the negroes of this place (Richmond) after which they were to take possession of the arms and ammunition, and then take possession of the town. Here they stopped, appearing much agitated; I then asked them two questions, viz. When was it to take place? Answer: To night. Question: Who is the principal man? A. Proffer's Gabriel. I have given you the substance of what I have heard, and there is no doubt in my mind but what my information is true, and I have given this information, in order, that the intended massacre may be prevented if possible.
I am with due respect, MOSBY SHEPPARD.
N. B. I will here recite to you the manner in which I got the information. I was sitting in the counting room with the door shut, and no one near except myself; they knocked at the door, and I let them in; they shut the door themselves, and then began to tell what I have before recited. M. S.
Henrico, Nov. 10, 1800. James Monroe, Esq.
DEAR SIR,
On Saturday the 30th of August, about ten or eleven o'clock, I received information from Mr. Mosby Sheppard in Richmond, that the negroes that night intended to rise, kill and destroy the white people, and that their place of rendezvous was on the Brook, near Mr. Thomas H. Proffer's, and that Mr. Proffer, Mr. Johnston and myself were the first that were to fall a sacrifice, that they were then to move on to Richmond. I asked him how he came by his information; he answered that he had received it from a negro immediately from the country, who had come down that morning for the express purpose; that he was agitated in such a manner when telling him, that he was induced to believe it was true. I confess that I was very much alarmed, and communicated the news to captain Austin, who promised to go on the Brook that night with his troop of horse, in order to meet Mr. Dabney Williamson and myself with what men he could raise; but there came on the greatest rain perhaps ever known, which prevented our junction. However capt. Gregory, myself and some others, who had met at Mr. Priddy's tavern for the purpose of patrol (went) as far as Mr. Proffer's tavern, and from there to the Brook, but made no discovery. We then returned to the tavern again, where I staid perhaps till eight or nine o'clock next morning. I then went home, and being very much fatigued soon laid down. I had not been in bed but a very little while before a negro woman of my own came to me, and the first word she spoke was, you must not tell; she then asked me if I had heard the negroes were to rise? I told her I had: I then asked her where they were to meet, she
said some where about Mr. Proffer's; and as they did not meet last night, they would meet to night: I asked her how many she understood were to meet; she answered three or four hundred, some from town and some from the country, and that a number of them were to be mounted on horseback, who were to go at a distance and destroy all they met: to take them I understood her, in their beds; and that the main body was to move on to Richmond.
This is, the information I received at the beginning of the alarm, delivered as near as can be recollected, in the words in which I received it.
I am dear Sir,
Your most obedient
humble servant,
WILLIAM MOSBY.
Communications made to the subscribers by Solomon, the property of Thomas H. Proffer of Henrico, now under sentence of death, for plotting an insurrection.
My brother Gabriel was the person who influenced me to join him and others in order that (as he said) we might conquer the white people and possess ourselves of their property. I enquired how we were to effect it? He said by falling upon them (the whites) in the dead of night, at which time they would be unguarded, and unsuspecting. I then enquired who was at the head of the plan? He said Jack. I then enquired who he was going to employ? He said a man from North Carolina who was at the siege of York town, and who was to meet him (Gabriel) at the Brook, and to proceed on to Richmond; take, and then fortify it. This man from North Carolina was to be commander and manager the first day, and then after exercising the soldiers, the command was to be resigned to Gabriel.
If Richmond was taken without the loss of many men, they were to continue there some time, but if they sustained any considerable loss, they were to bend their course for Hanover town or York; they were not decided to which, and continue at that place as long as they found they were able to defend it; but in the event of defeat or loss at those places, they were to endeavor to form a junction with some negroes which they understood from Mr. Gregory's overseer, were in rebellion in some quarter of the country. The information they had gotten from the overseer, made Gabriel anxious; upon which he applied to me to make scythe swords, which I did, to the number of twelve. Every Sunday he came to Richmond to provide ammunition, and to find where the military stores were deposited.
Gabriel informed me, in case of success, that he intended to subdue the whole of the country where slavery was permitted, but no further.
The first places Gabriel intended to attack were the capitol, the magazine, the penitentiary, the governor's house and his person. The inhabitants were to be massacred, save those who begged for quarters and agreed to serve as soldiers with them. The reason why the insurrection was to be made at this particular time was the discharge of the number of soldiers one or two months ago, which induced Gabriel to believe the plan would be more easily executed. Given under our hands this 15th day of September. 1800.
GERVAS STORRS.
JOSEPH SELDEN.
(To be continued.)
The RECORDER.
RICHMOND.
APRIL 24. 1803.
WE understand that our numerous friends and admirers in this city, and Manchester, are very much dissatisfied with the brevity of one of the articles in last Wednesday's Recorder. These gentlemen expected or desired a more full account of that judicious and formidable attack, which was made, or menaced upon this office, last Monday evening. We wished to say as little as possible about such a paltry affair. The heroes of the tale are individually too contemptible to deserve print and paper. But as they only repeated the
lesson which they had been taught by their seniors, as our silence might embolden them to pay us a second visit, and as nobody can tell where nonsense or mischief once begun is to have an end, it seems proper in this place, to hold up these patriots to the notice of mankind. And whatever disgrace such excesses of brutality may reflect upon the republican party at large, they must not thank us for it but themselves. They must be contented to reap the harvest they have sown. If they had not been in the habit of cursing Callender, and the Recorder, their callow pupils would not have been anxious to burn the printing office about his ears.
The perfect of the detachment was John Baker, a cripple, that hobbles about the street upon crutches. Another was William Lindlay, residing in Norfolk. He delivered a harangue, on Monday last, at the Capitol. It was said to be a very poor thing. He is the worthless son of a very respectable father, who had not the mortification of surviving to be the witness of his follies. A third is John Harvey another of the colonel's little hump backed creature, that has lost half his teeth, and is as wicked as his constitution will permit him to be. Some people pressed us to take out a peace warrant against these beings. The ridicule of pretending to be afraid of such antipodes as Baker and Harvey could never have been compensated by any conceivable addition to our personal safety.
Wyndham Grymes and Peyton Randolph were likewise of the party. Another was Carey, nephew to Peter Carr, and grand nephew to the president. Why does not George Hay keep his banditti in better order? We are really concerned at mentioning any of the names. But burning of houses is so serious a matter, that the parents and friends of these persons have no reason to blame us for this publication.
The last that we shall name is the son of Mr. John Pendleton, late a member of the executive council. Most certainly it was not his father, who sent him on such an errand. Indeed nothing but a sense of duty to the public would induce us to give the gentleman a moment's pain by this disreputable exhibition of his son. The youth is remarkable for the steadiness of his understanding, and his legs. Some years ago, he fought a kind of duel; and it was the amazement of all Richmond by what fatality a pistol ball found out his sparrow thanks. "The foreman," as Fullstair says, "might as well have taken aim at the edge of a penknife."
Baker and Lindlay were foremost in the matter. There was a prodigious battering at the street door, before the noise was noticed, as our young men were all in the printing office at some distance off in the yard. When questioned what they wanted they gave the answers already mentioned, with many threats of burning the house. When fire arms were called for, they ran away. They had been at the democratic festival. From thence, they went home with George Hay. From his house they came here. When they went back to the hill, they committed some outrages. For instance they obliged a woman to strip to the buff, and then burnt her shift! Whether all of them were present at this genteel scene or a part of them only, we are not informed. On the same joyous evening, Skelton Jones quarrelled with a mulatto woman. He beat her with a sword cane, till he broke the cane to pieces. He then made a lunge at her with the sword. A bystander averted the blow, which would very likely have been fatal. The sword ran through one of the girl's hands, and split open the bones which connect the third and little fingers. This we had from the gentleman who dressed the wound. For all this mischief we are not to blame the individuals, but the wretched non-execution of the law, which promotes every sort of riot and outrage. Pray, what has become of the attorney general's prosecution of the young men, who wanted in summer, 1799, to demolish the Examiner's office and drive Callender out of Richmond? We apprehend that he is much more culpable than they ever were.
SIX CENTS REWARD.
ANY person who will transmit to this office a copy of Jack Randolph's circular letter to his constituents, if he wrote one, shall receive, upon demand, the above reward, and full payment of all charges.
Richmond, April 2d 1803.
FROM THE GAZETTE OF THE U. STATES.
The Clonmel sage, in his late sober and temperate remarks respecting the unfortunate connection with one Cheetham, in the profitable and reputable business of purloining letters, evinces a portion of the mortification and shame with which such an engagement would overwhelm any man not quite hardened in wickedness. But notwithstanding his readiness at first to enjoy his part of the honour and profit of the business, as was evinced by the early hour in which the Aurora announced the important acquisition, the bitterness of his feelings induces him, at this time, to wish to dispense with all the gain derived from the connection.
The poor wretch now denies, "that the

"editor of the Aurora either stole, or broke open any letter whatever, save those letters directed to himself." Without commenting upon Paddy's reading his own letters, we suggest that it might be well for him, whenever he begins to write or speak of his exploits in this business, to keep in mind the fable of the two thieves, one of whom stole the meat, and the other hid it under his cloak. The fable has pungency and force, and its application to the case under consideration has been frequently and properly made. The Aurora editor, however confesses that he copied the letter after it had been published in the American Citizen. But it will be observed, that not a word is said in this defence concerning the notice which appeared in the Aurora on the morning after the letter should have been received by the person to whom it was addressed, in which the editor proclaimed the joyful news that he had obtained it, and published the substance of every thing which it contained, and also a part of the letter itself.
[ADDITIONAL EXTRACTS FROM THE LOUISIANA PAMPHLET.] (Continued)
"THAT it has hitherto been unpeopled, is that circumstance on which humanity must reflect with most delight, since all the miseries and all the vengeance of an oppressed or defrauded race will thus be avoided. The necessity of gin to disable, of fraud to betray, arms to destroy, and fortifications to repel ferocious savages, will be saved. Expence, and calamity inflicted and endured, the stain of injustice and of cruelty; the evils of which the Spaniards and the English have had their full share; will be escaped by the nation that shall colonize NEW-HOLLAND. "And this is no petty island, no dreary rock, no barren shore. It is a world, little inferior in its extent to the regions of the western hemisphere, and no whit inferior in fertility and value. Ambition can aspire to nothing more magnificent than this scene. There is space for the posterity of Frenchmen to grow up into numbers, ten times those of their European ancestors. "The true friend of mankind will hardly stop to mention, that, in the narrow and mercenary views of mere traders the acquisition of provinces in this continent may produce great and immediate benefits. These are parcel of that region from which have come, in every age, the spices and aromatics, the gold and gems, the drugs and perfumes, which have given opulence successively to Egypt, Venice, Portugal, Holland and England, and which supplied the western world with the chief of its antidotes, its rarities, and its luxuries.
"And since the forms of nature are indefinite, since every new region is found to contain peculiar treasures, there is nothing visionary in the hope that our researches may light on vegetable and mineral products, hitherto unknown, the properties of which may give a new form to human existence.—America has given us our quinquina, our cochineal, our cantharides, our mahogany, our mercury, our silver, our gold, our chocolate. Are not new additions to our stock equally or more precious, unavoidable consequences of the acquisition of this new world in the east? He that blames these hopes as romantic, has meditated history and surveyed nature to no purpose.
"But here let me pause. I said the country had no pre-occupant. Let us consider whether the recent settlement of the English may be termed an occupation. By some fatality these hated rivals must always anticipate us. A few years ago this country was equally unknown to both nations, and France, instead of sending out discoverers of her own, must content herself with giving passports to the navigators of England. Thus was the right that accrues from first setting foot upon the shore, secured to them. But this right extends to little distance. No possession that merits the name has yet been taken. All the interior of the country, the northern, western, and southern coasts are unexplored. The maxims of the maritime nations, stretched to their full extent, and enforced by jealousy, can create no obstacle to our approach to that part of this new world, which probably possesses a better soil and enjoys a benigmer climate than the English settlements.
"No animosity or jarrings can at present be feared. They will, indeed, inevitably come. As they came in North-America, they will come in New Holland, but if they terminate not in a very different manner, at whose door will lie the fault? The English have not gone far in the race. They may be easily outstripped. Their settlement, in its present feeble and infantine condition, may easily be swallowed up, or bought, or even forcibly overthrown. What has been a source of unexpected expence—what has been adopted chiefly with a view to the reformation of criminals, and has failed of answering the end—what, by reason of the plan adopted, can only prove the hotbed of anarchy, the nursery of rebellion will not surely be defended with much solicitude, or valued at an exorbitant price.
"The English have repeated all their mistakes in this new colony. They wanted a prison for their vagabonds and pickpockets, and their wisdom pitched upon a spacious continent, ten thousand miles distant, whether the wretched victims of their laws were to be carried with an expensive apparatus of ships, chains, and guards; where they were to be deterred from escaping to the neighbouring regions; from robbing the cupboards, and cutting the throats of each other, by military violence; where stripes and the halter are held up as the incitements to labor. What could be the fruits of such a scheme, but expence and disappointments, and how inevitably would settlements like this be swallowed up by colonies, founded on reason & equity; where emigrants, virtuous, frugal, and laborious, are invited by the prospect of bettering their condition, of escaping from the pressure of taxes, the tyranny of landlords, and the hardships of poverty, and of obtaining landed property, where they can be provided for, and conveyed without danger, toll or inconvenient expense. An hundredth part of the thought, labour and expense, of the Egyptian expedition, will plant a colony, and raise it to a flourishing condition. For this end, all incompatible schemes should be relinquished, but no scheme is incompatible with this. No darling project need to be abandoned for the sake of this. So little arduous, expensive or intricate is it, that all the domestic schemes of greatness, may proceed at the same time without delay or confusion.
FOR THE RECORDER. AN ADVICE TO MILLSTONE BUILDERS.
IT is to be regretted that so useful a business as that of millstone building should be attended with such injurious consequences, as it commonly is to those who follow that business. It is well known to all who follow millstone building, that there is a dust which arises from the stones, and is conveyed to the lungs by the suction in breathing, which together with the dust from the plaster of paris, settles on the lungs, and never fails to bring on a consumption in the course of three or four years. In order to prevent this I will offer the following remedy, to those who work at that business. First, let them get a mask, or false face made close, so as not to admit any air except by a glass tube, which might be extended from each side of the mouth four or five inches above the head, with a pair of good glass eyes to suit the person. This would effectually prevent the dust from getting into the mouth, and by wearing a pair of buckskin gloves, it would prevent the hands from being hurt by the small pieces of stone and steel that fly off the pick, and render the work more agreeable to those who follow the business. The above might serve for those who attend to killing of plaster, but I shall here offer a more effectual and easier method. This is to have the kettle, or boiler, enclosed all round with a door to put in and out the plaster, and to be shut while boiling. The plaster might be stirred up from the bottom of the kettle by an upright shaft, wrought into the boiler, and that turned by a tumbling shaft with a crank on the outend of the shaft, and might be turned by one or two men as might be required. This method would expedite the boiling of the plaster by keeping in the heat, and prevent it from flying, as it commonly does. All this could be done at a small
expence, and to preserve the health of those who follow that employment, who would otherwise have to linger out their days under the hands of doctors. I shall not be particular in describing the plan, as I intend to make out a complete pattern of the whole, nothing doubting but it will answer every purpose intended, and will supercede the making of all, for those who wish to adopt the plan.
N. B A line addressed to H. S. and left at the office of the Recorder will be duly attended to.
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JUST PUBLISHED AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE PRICE TWO SHILLINGS AND THREE-PENCE THE CONDUCT OF MERIWETHER JONES, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, ADDRESSED TO THE PUBLIC, BY JAMES T. CALLENDER. MANY gentlemen, when subscribing to this paper, have enquired for complete sets of the Recorder. These are not to be had. But this little publication will, in some measure, supply the want of them. Besides the seven letters to Jones, the last of which has run through every state, and every second newspaper in the union, the collection contains many other articles. Among these are, Defence of Aaron Burr—Mr. Samuel Coleman, No. 1.—Defence of Timothy Pickering—A little more about republican economy—with a variety of small pieces.
ANOTHER OF DUANE'S FORGERIES.
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman in Paris, to his friend in New-York, dated December 24th, 1802.
"The British ambassador and his lady after being here near a month, have been introduced at court; I was present on the occasion—no particular attention, however, was paid to them. Tho' the English papers are full of the MARKED politeness of madame Bonaparte, I assure you that the whole is false; I expected as peace was a desirable object, that every civility and attention would be paid to them on their introduction, but to my great astonishment the reverse was the case. The English here are very much mortified. The etiquette at Paris is extremely troublesome; no person appears at any of the French ministers but in full dress; and the luxury and magnificence of the entertainments are beyond every thing perhaps in the world. Talleyrand lives in the most splendid style; from sixty to seventy persons sit down to his public dinners, which consist of every delicacy, and a band of music plays during the repast.
Our minister stands extremely well with the consul, and every attention, and politeness is paid him that is usually paid foreign ministers.
[To every candid and intelligent man, the name of William Duane has long been synonymous with that of Barrington, or Jack Sheppard. We shall say nothing at present about the Calcutta pole, because we are in daily expectation of his producing those documents from Calcutta, which he so readily promised, six months ago; and of which he hath still been pleased to make such a secret. We shall say nothing about his
breaking into the treasury office. The exploit has been handsomely rewarded by Mr. Jefferson. Duane is made part of a printer to congress, and his associate, Campbell, has been rewarded with a commission in the standing army. Mr. Wolcott should have had them both arrested, and sent to Java marble. It was both in his power, and it was his duty to have done so. But the federalists, at that time, seemed as if they were bewitched. Their folly was as prominent then, as that of some democrats is now.
We confine ourselves, at present, to this precious extract of a letter. It bears every mark of its author. That an English ambassador should have been in Paris for a month, before he was introduced at court, and that no particular attention was paid him, are tales quite void of probability. We know that Cornwallis was received at Paris, with the most studied respect, and the most superb magnificence; nor is there the smallest ground to believe that his successor met with a less-polite reception. The pride of Bonaparte, his sense of propriety, as a gentleman, the honour, the vanity of the French nation, were all interested in giving a becoming reception to the English ambassador. There have, indeed, been various reports that Bonaparte was very unwilling to waste time in letting idle people stare at him; and some English gapers after novelty have met, it is said, with a reception, that was rather formal. The wonder is that he gave himself the trouble of admitting them into his presence at all. What right had such idlers to intrude upon the time of a man of business, who despises parade, and who is far above the vulgar gratification of being stared at? The English newspapers are crowded with all sorts of absurd fables and calumnies about the first consul, intermixed, no doubt with some scattered truths. All this invaluable budget is imported here, and transplanted into the American newspapers. It is read and believed as gospel. A long essay on his character has lately appeared, which had come from the Greenock Advertiser, a Scots newspaper. The piece is, upon the whole, a very highly wrought panegyric, while the writer discovers at the same time, the strongest disposition to censure him. This motley portrait reminds us of Clarendon's account of John Hampden. After a thousand encomiums upon the talents, and not a few upon the private character of that astonishing man, his lordship observes, that "his death was indeed considered as a very great deliverance to the nation." In the piece above referred to we are told that, "his religion and his country he abjured without hesitation. When his prisoners became so numerous as to clog the operations of his army, when some of his soldiers were infected with the plague; he adopted the summary expedient of Frederick the Great, to prevent their infection from spreading. When he had no artillery to play on the walls of Acra, he endeavoured to raise a mound of the bodies of his soldiers level with the ramparts, as he had formerly made a bridge of them at the passage of Lodi."
Immersed in the studies or the tumult of a military life it is not likely that the first consul has ever had much time, or curiosity, to think about religion. All his original habits and ideas had a reference to the bayonet. His conduct in Egypt had no tendency to renounce France, or popery. As to prisoners, and sick or wounded soldiers, there is no foundation for thinking that his conduct was improper. It is true, indeed, that, within these two years, the Virginia Gazette, and several other papers, contained a most shameful falsehood on the subject of prisoners. It was copied from a book published by one Sir Robert Wilton, who was at the siege of Jaffa. He gave a formal description of a very large body of prisoners, whom Bonaparte caused to be publicly shot. If this had been true, all Europe would have rung with it, whereas the
NOTE. * While writing these remarks, we have met with a long extract from Wilton's book in the Pittsburg Gazette. It does not seem to contain a word of truth.

Story was never heard of in any other place, but this book. We lately went over those volumes of the New Annual Register, which embrace the whole history of Bonaparte. They contain much new matter, but not one word of this. We were surprised at the time, that the Virginia Gazette, or any other paper, could admit of a fable so exceedingly absurd, of such a downright burlesque upon the reason of their readers. As for his sick soldiers, his bad usage of them is another discovery, which had hitherto been kept incog. It was reported of Frederick the great that, when his soldiers were irrecoverably hurt in battle, he directed the physicians of his hospitals to give them arsenic. If this had been true, the practice would have been discovered; and his fortune must instantly have foundered amidst the universal detestation of mankind. This gross calumny we never met with, but in a single publication, the Royal Register. That work is now in the Richmond library, or at least in the catalogue. But the writer gives no authority for his tale, and there is hardly a conceivable degree of authority, which could make the story credible.
That, at the siege of Acre, Bonaparte made a mound out of the bodies of his soldiers is another vile slander. Nothing occurred at the bridge of Lodi, but what had often happened before and will often happen again, without an imputation upon the conduct of the general.
We go back to the Calcutta poleman, and his extract of a letter . All the federal papers affirm that our ambassador, Mr. Livingston, was very coolly received by the first consul. The design of the present forgery was, very likely, to counteract this report. The probabilities of falsehood are equally strong upon the federal, and anti-federal sides of the question. It is most likely that, like Candidus, in the palace of Pococurante, the ambassador met with great politeness, but little heartiness. He will be received like most of his neighbours; and this is all that can be expected. It is evident, however, that Mr. Jefferson is suspicious of some deficiency about him. The mission of Mr. Monroe proves that. But if Livingston had been found unfit for the duties of his office, he should have been recalled, as soon as Mr. Monroe got his credentials.
As we are at present upon the chapter of Bonaparte, it may not be amiss to take some notice of a frightful toast, which, on March 4th, was publicly drank at Petersburg. A party of citizens had assembled to celebrate (as what republican would not?) the election of Mr. Jefferson. It could not be from a dearth of better company that McRae, and Hay were invited to the festival. The inference to be drawn from such an invitation is, that the Republicans of Petersburg approve of club law , that they think it quite proper to knock a man down behind his back; and that the action is very defensible in point of law. They must also be of opinion that it is proper to bind over the press , and make it give security that it shall be infallible. If they do not hold these opinions, we cannot imagine upon what principle Hay and his associate were invited by the directors of the entertainment, or for what reason, the rest of the republicans permitted these persons to sit in their company.
Remarks of this kind must not be considered in any other light than that in which they were intended. No general reflection is meant against the principles or opinions of the republicans of Petersburg. We only say that they committed a very great impropriety, by suffering McRae and Hay to dine in the same house with them. In Richmond, and in many places of the country, from which we have received information, there exists a particular and marked solicitude to separate the name of Hay from that of the republican cause. Those people are, if possible, more loud than our friends, the aristos, in their fulminations against him. Without suspecting what they were about, the good folk of Petersburg have broke the ranks.
The toast referred to, as drank by the republicans, was in these words: "Bonaparte; the man whom the laws cannot reach, the dagger must."
It is apprehended that most of the republicans will, upon reflection, be very sorry that they countenanced such a sentiment. The first consul was elected by so vast a majority, that the minority was only large enough to shew that people durst vote on what side they pleased. Before the Corsican returned from Egypt, the French were worsted upon all sides. After the most heroic and desperate exertions, Moreau and Macdonald were driven out of Italy. Massena and Suchet were cooped up in a corner of it. The weakness, profligacy and corruption of the directory had excited universal hatred, and surpassed all description. Without taking a single life, without firing an ounce of powder, Bonaparte overturned this odious tyranny, and gave the country, what it very much wanted, a strong, and at the same time, a wise and temperate government. He did not crowd the prisons with his opposers. He shed not one drop of blood on the scaffold. He put the finances in order. He restored public credit. He burst, like a thunderbolt, upon Italy, and by a single battle reconquered that garden of Europe. He offered the emperor peace. It was refused. Moreau drove the Austrians before him into the heart of Germany; and terms of peace, which had formerly been rejected, were subscribed within three days march of Vienna. No addition was made to them; Yet, humanly speaking, there was nothing to have prevented the conqueror from entering Vienna. England was compelled to accept of peace, and upon terms highly favorable to France. Nor is it the smallest part of his praise, that Bonaparte restored the Roman catholic religion. The experience of all ages proves that, without some system of religion to repose upon, the human mind cannot be at rest. Bonaparte has, therefore, very wisely restored the old system in France; but it is now divested of much of its deformity. The situation of the farmers and peasants is also immensely improved; and the whole nation is restored to the blessings of peace. Is not this much better than to have a new constitution, or, at least, a new revolution, once in every eighteen months? Did not Moreau assist in person at the expulsion of the directory? And is he not almost as much interested as Dr. Shore himself, in the happiness of France? The present generation of Frenchmen has had a full surfeit of that wild scatter brain system of liberty which let fall without either ballast, helm, or compass, and which menaced the world with a whole century of massacres and reformations.
What conceivable advantage of any sort would accrue to mankind from the murder of Bonaparte? If the patriots of Petersburg were asked, they could not tell. If the present system were overset, which heaven forbid! the whole country would relapse into disorders, and the newspapers would once more resemble the history of a butcher's shambles. But then the usurper has deprived France of her freedom. Granted. But he has given her dignity, prosperity, and happiness; and without them, freedom is but a poor bargain. It is not pretended that the people are oppressed, or the courts of justice corrupted. But an immense military force has been found necessary to preserve the domestic peace of the country, to prevent fools from forming an eternal series of crazy constitutions, and collecting mobs to put them in practice.
The French are, at present, well governed. And therefore they should be quiet. A nation may be cursed with very worthless rulers; and yet, even in that case, they may find that a sudden restoration to perfect freedom is one of the greatest misfortunes which can befall them.
NOTE. * President of the Petersburg meeting.
Some years ago, the Irish revolted. They had received enormous injuries from England, injuries that admit of no pardon. There is not a country in the world that abounds with men of more honour and humanity than Ireland; but, in many parts of that Island, British rapacity and oppression have kept the natives in a state of comparative barbarism. When they revolted, a great part of the insurgents behaved hardly better than the negroes of St. Domingo. As one sample of their conduct they broke into a jail, and butchered an hundred prisoners of war. This, and much more of the same kind, is to be found in the New Annual Register, an impartial, authentic, and useful publication.* To all men of sense it is plain that such people were not fit for a separate and republican government, and that, of two enormous evils, British supremacy was less terrible than Irish anarchy.
It is true that the first consul is taking every step in his power to confirm his authority. But this he is compelled to do for the sake of self defence, as well as for the sake of the country. Within the last three years, he has done France more service than Henry the fourth and the duke of Suily ever did in six years, or than any other person ever did her in thirty. And for all this, the patriots of Petersburg with to get him murdered! For shame, gentlemen! You cannot be serious. The action itself would be as unjust and immoral, as the drinking of such a toast is indecent and scandalous. It might have suited John Watts, or Doublehead, at a war dance. But it was unworthy of any human being above their level.
To any person in the possession of his sober senses, it must be needless to expatiate upon the indecency, the immorality, and even impolicy of calumniating, of insulting and of provoking the first consul. As Bonaparte is about to become our neighbour, what was in itself originally imprudent and improper, becomes a thousand times more so. The Recorder is the only newspaper in America, that has objected to the vulgar practice of attacking his character and wishing for his assassination. This stile is the only point in which the writers of both parties agree. They assume it, for the sake of persuading the people that they are in love with liberty! What prodigious patriots! What profound policy! The federal printers do not reflect that all the public creditors, that all the most serious and substantial adherents of their party, hold the idea of such a crime in the most absolute execration. For whom do the national creditors of France, for whom does every man of wealth in that vast empire, offer up his first and last prayers? Assuredly, it is for the first consul, for that inestimable benefactor of the republic, who has ensured the execution of the laws, and the tenure of property; who has extracted light from darkness and regularity from confusion; who has restored safety to the idle, and business to the diligent; who gives credit to the compting house, protection to the church, and victory to the field of battle.
And this is the man, whose murder is so loudly demanded by Sandy McRae, by George Hay, by Dr. Shore, who was a reputed tory during the revolutionary war, and by housebreakers and letterstealers, by the sweepings of the jails of Manchester and Calcutta.
The siders at the Petersburg festival gave, as their toast, "the man, whom the laws cannot reach, the dagger must." This maxim might have been applied to John Adams. That vainest and meanest of mankind refused, upon Cooper's trial, to confess that he was the author of his own writings; and Chase and Peters refused to compel his appearance in a court of justice. The laws could not reach him. He was above the law. The federal constitution was, in this instance, a nullity; and the harvest of the revolution, the
NOTE. * Now for sale, at the office of the Virginia Argus.
liberty of America was, for a season, blasted. But does any Petersburg fiddler fancy that it would have been advisable to stab John Adams? Even if Hay had knocked him down with a bludgeon, or if McRae had bit off his nose, it would have been regarded as a harsh measure. If it were possible for the first consul to forget all sense of dignity, propriety and decorum, if it were possible that he could give as a toast the murder of Thomas Jefferson, Americans would consider it as a marked outrage upon the good understanding that ought to subsist between the two countries.
The laws of Virginia cannot reach a very numerous class of people. Every bankrupt, who chuses to carry pistols, is beyond them. He is authorised to shoot the sheriff or constable, that attempts to arrest him. This, to be sure, is one of the most disgraceful things ever heard of in a country pretending to the use of an alphabet; and till it is annulled, Virginia should say nothing about the sublimity of her morals. Indeed, we have several laws, that were evidently framed for the protection of fraudulent bankrupts. This is one reason why manufactures cannot flourish in Virginia. We have a notable law, likewise, for the protection of murderers. The governor can pardon them, before trial, which is a power not entrusted to the king of England. After all the racket that is made about republican principles, the statute book swarms with a multitude of the most iniquitous laws that were ever heard of. Does any person think that the finances of France would be better managed by our executive council than by Bonaparte? Is it likely that the first consul would employ, as his secretary, a scoundrel, who had just before been bound over to the peace? Or that he would suffer, as editor of the Moniteur , an advertised murderer, a fellow around whose neck the halter was still dangling?
At this meeting, McRae gave a toast—"The triumph of republicanism. May it be eternal," &c. If this consists in the dissipation of public money, and in breaches of the public peace, it is likely to last a long time! But the democrats had a much queerer toast than that: "The liberty of the press, and our republican printers." It is but a few months ago, since a printer of Petersburg wanted to assert the liberty of the press. He published an address to his readers, wherein he promised to be independent and impartial. The democrats knew that a fair hearing would be dangerous to their cause. They therefore surrounded and harried an honest and conscientious printer till he found it prudent to publish a recantation. Their liberty of the press is like George Hay's. It consists in printing whatever they think proper, and nothing else. In the adjacent county of Amelia, a man would be in danger of getting his bones broke, if he declared his hearty contempt for both parties. It is but four days since this office was menaced with a bonfire. Behold your republican liberty, your government of mobs and jobs!
The festival was introduced with perhaps the best oration of its kind that ever was delivered in America. It contains some information, and a considerable share of eloquence. It is neither a gloomy factious invective, nor a rancorous fulsome panegyric. It is correct without tame ness, and forcible without harshness. The speaker is ardent without indiscretion, and a partisan without losing his dignity. It was required that he should say something on the virtues of Jefferson. He has touched with lightness and delicacy on a topic so frivolous and repulsive. To say that his piece has imperfections, is only to say that it was the composition of a man. But, upon the whole, the oration does honor to the taste and genius of Mr. Burk.
Extract of a letter from Travilla, dated Feb 7. "A national Schooner has just arrived from the Cape, in a passage of five days. All goes on well there; 25000 men arrived, and 25,000 daily expected. A F. H."