Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1808-11-08 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVII YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1599.]
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1808.
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Richmond Price Current.
   (CORRECTED WEEKLY.)     Tobacco, $ 4 50 CASH   Wheat, new, 1 00 do.   Flour, superfine, new, 5 50 do.   Flour, fine, 5 00 do.   Corn, 2 50 do.   Hay, clean, (per ton) 250 00 do.   Iron, 110 00 do.   Bacon, 11 00 do.   Whiskey, 42 do.  
Virginia, to wit:
A Chancery District Court held in the City of Williamsburg the 5th day of July, 1808.
Thomas Wilkinson, surviving husband and administrator of Alice, his late wife, a daughter of William Barrett, deceased, Thomas Hare, surviving husband and administrator of his late wife, Mary, another daughter of the said William Barrett, Peter Wilkinson and Purvis, his wife, another daughter of the said William Barrett, Martha B. Barrett, Nancy or Ann Barrett, and William Barrett, three other children of the said William Barrett, & William Hawkins, administrator of John Graves, PLS.
AGAINST Philip Watkins, Frederick Watkins, Samuel Watkins, Reuben Vaughan & Alice his wife, and John E. Bailey. Defendants. Having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this country on the motion of the PLS. by their counsel, It is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on or before the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the PLS.; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Richmond newspapers for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former capitol in this city.
A copy, Anthony Robinson C. C. Buckingham County Oct. Court, 1808.
Daniel and William Guerrant, for the benefit of James Rea and others, their trustees, Plaintiffs.
AGAINST Ezekiel Hudnall and Peter Guerrant, Defendants.
ON the motion of the plaintiffs by their attorney, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendant, Hudnall, is not an inhabitant of this state. It is ordered and decreed, that unless the said Hudnall shall appear here on or before January court next and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed, as to him, and decree the matter thereof accordingly; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and another copy be posted up at the front door of the courthouse of this county.
A copy—Test, R. Eldridge, jr. D. C.
Buckingham County, September Court, 1808.
Henry Bagby and Peter Guerrant exutors of Elizabeth Fearn deceased, Plaintiffs.
AGAINST Theodrick Scruggs and William Palmer, Defendants.
ON the motion of the plaintiffs by counsel and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant, Scruggs, is not an inhabitant of this state. It is ordered and decreed, that unless he shall appear here on or before December court next and answer the plaintiffs' bill, the same will then be taken for confessed, as to him, and the matter thereof decreed accordingly; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and another copy be posted up at the front door of the courthouse of this county.
A copy, R. Eldridge, jr. D. C.
Louisa County Court, October 10th, 1808.
Susanna Davis, Plaintiff. AGAINST John Tisdale, James Trevillian and Samuel Henson, Defendants.
THE defendant, John Tisdale, 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 state, on the motion of the plaintiff by her counsel, It is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the second Monday in January next and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers printed in the city of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse in this county on some court day.
A copy—Test, Jn. Poindexter, C. L. C.
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The Virginia Almanack,
FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1809:
Being the first after Bissextil or Leap Year, and thirty-third of American Independence. Adapted to the latitude and meridian of Richmond.
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In good repair, whereon Dr. Christie at present resides, for which twelve months credit will be allowed, on the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date, if not punctually paid. Possession may be had on the first day of January, 1809.—Bond creditors may find it to their interest to attend those sales.
Mattew Toler, Administrator with the will annexed of Benjamin Toler, dec. Hanover, October 31 1808. tds
RUN AWAY from the subscriber, the 1st August last, a Negro Fellow EDMUND, who has a pretty general acquaintance, and well known inclined to be of a yellowish complexion, has a slight scar on one of his cheeks, 28 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, a tolerable stout, active, hony fellow, slop shouldered, his mouth and lips are large and prominent; he is accustomed to the management of young horses and is a carriage driver. He was purchased out of Page's estate, near Hanover Town, 10 or 11 years ago—previous to that period, he had been hired by Paul Thilman, dec. and used to train horses. It is conjectured he is gone to that part of the country—He is well acquainted in Richmond and Manchester. I will give Twenty Dollars for his delivery, or Ten for lodging him in any jail, besides what the law allows. ED: DILLON. Prince Edward, 24th Oct. 1808. 2m
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NEW-YORK, Oct. 24.
BONAPARTE'S EXPOSE,
In respect to Spain, &c.
PARIS, Sept. 8.
MESSAGE.
Message of the Emperor and King Napoleon, to the Senate.
SENATORS—My Minister for foreign affairs, will lay before you the different treaties relative to Spain, and the constitutions agreed to by the Spanish Junta. My War Minister will acquaint you with the wants and the situation of my armies in the different parts of the world.
I am determined to carry on the war with Spain with the utmost activity, and destroy the armies which England has disembarked in that country. The future security of my subjects, the prosperity of commerce, and maritime peace, must alike depend on these important operations.
My alliance with the Emperor of Russia extinguishes every hope which England can entertain from her projects. I have no doubt respecting the peace of the Continent, but I neither will nor ought to rely upon the false calculations and the errors of other Courts, and since my neighbors increase their armies, it is a duty incumbent on me to increase mine.
The Empire of Constantinople is struggling with the most violent convulsions; Sultan Selim, the best Emperor the Ottomans have had for a length of time, has just fallen by the hands of his own nephews. This catastrophe has deeply affected me. I impose fresh sacrifices on my people, confident of their support; they are necessary in order to secure them from heavier sacrifices, and to lead them to the grand result of a general peace, which ought also to be considered as the moment of repose.
Frenchmen, my projects have but one object in view, your happiness and the permanent well-being of your children; and, if I know you right, you will hasten to comply with this new call, rendered necessary by the interests of the country. You have so often assured me of your affection, I will behold the sincerity of your sentiments in the alacrity with which you will second projects that are so intimately connected with your dearest interest, with the honor of the empire, and with my glory.
Given at the Imperial Palace of St. Cloud. (Signed) NAPOLEON. September 4th 1808.
SIRE—I have the honor of laying before you the state and situation of your majesty's armies in Poland, in Russia, and in Silesia, in Denmark, in Dalmatia, in Albania, in Italy, Naples, and in Spain. I annex to it that of your majesty's armies of reserve, at Boulogne, on the coast, on the Rhine, and in the interior. Your majesty will perceive that France never before possessed more numerous or better appointed armies, and that they were never better kept up, or better provisioned.
Notwithstanding, however, the different events which have taken place in Spain, have occasioned a pretty considerable loss, in consequence of an operation as inconceivable as it is painful, of the division under Gen. Dupont; your majesty has notified the resolution you have taken, of assembling more than two hundred thousand men beyond the Pyrenees, without, however, weakening either the armies in Germany, or that of Dalmatia. For the attainment of this end, a levy of eighty thousand men appears to be indispensable. Your majesty can only take these eighty thousand from the four classes of the conscription of the years 1806, 1807, 1808, and 1809.
It is ascertained by the registers kept in my office, that independently of the men who have married within these four years, the conscription for these years might furnish six hundred thousand. In taking from that number a levy of eighty thousand men, your majesty will have called out only one conscript out of seven, and the vacancies in the armies will be filled up with soldiers of 21, 22, and 23 years of age; that is, with men fit and prepared to undergo the fatigues of war.
Nor has it escaped your majesty's foresight, that such an augmentation of force would necessarily involve an increase of expense of several millions in the War Department. It is not your majesty's wish that I should detain your attention with that object in this report; your Finance Minister has taken upon him to make good that charge, without, in any wise, increasing the taxes established by the last law.
It is true, Sire, that the custom observed of late years, might to a certain degree, induce a part of your subjects to consider themselves as released from the duty of the conscription, from the moment that, upon the total mass, they had furnished the contingent required for the year; and under this point of view, what I propose to your majesty might appear to require from your subjects a sacrifice; but, Sire, there is no one but knows, that, by the words of the law, your majesty would be authorised to call to your standard the whole of the conscription, not only of the last four years, but even of the antecedent years; and even were there questions of a real sacrifice, what sacrifice is it that your majesty has not a right to expect from the love of your subjects? Who among us is ignorant that your majesty wholly sacrifices yourself for the happiness of France, and that upon the speedy accomplishment of your high designs depend the repose of the world, the future safety, and the re-establishment of a maritime peace, without which France can never enjoy calm and tranquility!
In proposing to your majesty to declare that henceforth no retrospective call shall take on an antecedent conscription, I only participate, Sire, your paternal wishes.
I think it expedient, at the same time, to propose to your majesty to order out the conscription of the year 1810, and to determine the amount of it, from the present instant, at eighty thousand men, to furnish the means, as occasion may require, of forming camps of reserve, and of protecting the coast in the spring time. This conscription would be raised only under the apprehension of a war with other powers, nor would it be called out before the month of January next.
Sire, it is a misfortune inseparable from the present state of Europe, that when one power exceeds the amount of the forces proportioned to its population, the other powers cannot dispense with increasing theirs in the same proportion.
England, independent of the immense number of her seamen, has on foot an army of more than two hundred thousand men; nor is she occupied in every Session of her Parliament, with any thing so much as with the increase of her land forces. The armies of Austria have been considerably increased. France, although she has armies more numerous than all the other powers, has, notwithstanding, fewer men under arms than any of them, compared with her population.
Your minister for foreign affairs assures me, that a strict alliance subsisted between your majesty and Russia. The armaments of Austria have often excited my solicitude. The same minister assured me, that the best understanding was kept up with Austria, and that her levies should duly be considered, either as precautions, or as the effect of apprehensions, which are forcibly impressed on every court, by the numerous Agents which England continues in pay on the Continent.
But if it does not belong to the business of my department to dive into the views and interests of states, and explore the tortuous labyrinth of politics, it is at least my duty to neglect nothing to make your majesty's armies maintain, at all points, that just superiority which they ought to possess. The armies of Albania and Dalmatia, of Denmark, and of the Elbe, will not allow of any diminution, under the circumstances of the moment.
What I have to propose to your majesty, will give the army of Spain two hundred thousand men, without weakening the other armies; so that, notwithstanding the augmentation of our force beyond the Pyrenees, when the conscription of 1810, shall be called out, your majesty will have increased your armies of Germany, of the North, and of Italy, by more than eighty thousand men.
And when, in order to escape the crisis into which she has been drawn by a false as well as an angry policy, the English government, exerting every where its activity, does not hesitate to combine, with the resources it draws from its inexhaustible finances and its formidable fleets, the arts of intrigue, of corruption, and imposture, would it be at all extraordinary, that the immense population of France should hold out the spectacle of a million of armed men, ready to punish England and all those whom she may seduce; and present every where the same huge mass of forces, to protect with the same shield, the honor and security of France?
What other result, Sire, is there to be expected from armies so numerous, and a position so formidable, but the speedy re-establishment of the tranquility of Spain, that of a maritime peace, and of that general tranquility, the object of your majesty's incessant wishes? Much blood will have been spilt, because a great number of men will have been ready to shed it. A durable happiness, prepared by the combination of your powerful genius, will be the effect, Sire, of the new proof of affection and attachment which your people will afford you, and of the noble aspect of that nation, which your majesty has pointed out to posterity, under the name of the great nation.
War minister, and under this denomination the organ of the French soldiers, allow me, Sire, to be the interpreter of their sentiments for you. Your majesty shall always see us ready to sacrifice our lives for your glory, which is inseparable from national glory, to which you have so powerfully added, and for the important interests of the country.
I am, with respect, &c. [This paper also contains the Act of Renunciation negotiated between the Prince of Peace and Duroc, by which Charles the VI. and the Prince of Asturias, abdicated their right to the crown of Spain to Napoleon.]
FRENCH ACCOUNTS OF SPAIN.
PARIS, Sept. 6.
Of enlightened men, and enlarged ideas, anxious to see their country governed by a constitution calculated to secure the rights of the nation, there are a great number in Spain. That kingdom also boasts many men, whose wishes were attached to the success of many a scene in the revolution of France.
One third part of the territorial property is in the possession of the secular clergy. The monks, for the most part, illiterate and bigotted in the extreme, exercise considerable influence over the minds of the lower orders, who are more ignorant than the people of any other country, and have consequently for the last century,
only made progress in superstition and indolence.
The events at the Escurial and Aranjuez, which have made a deep impression on the respect due to the throne, the convocation of a junta at Bayonne for the purpose of forming the grounds of a constitution, the unforeseen and extraordinary events of the 2d of May at Madrid, all those things have set the passions aflame, and have wound up both hope and fear to the highest pitch.
The English faction could not overlook the opportunity to derive every advantage from this state of things: it has all along been very active and powerful in the port, and its influence has been felt even in Madrid. It has by the situation of the continent acquired strength, and more particularly so by the sacrifices imposed on the Spanish trade by the cogency of circumstances. Thus seconded, their arts were not unsuccessful in establishing the notion of giving up the alliance with France, to form an union with England, and this secret wish had a considerable influence on the events of Aranjuez and those that followed.
The majority of the good and enlightened individuals of the nation, composing the nobility and dignitaries of the church, was animated with a commendable spirit, but by the party of the inquisition and of the monks, instigated by numerous agents stipendiary by England in Spain, availed themselves of the blindness and stupidity of the lower orders of the people, misled them by a false remorse, put arms into the hands of the needy class, and at the end of May the insurrection broke out, at the very time that all the arrangements respecting Spain had been perfected, and that the junta at Bayonne was meeting, and its operations commencing.
At Valladolid, Saragossa, Valencia, Seville, &c. miracles were solemnly proclaimed: these juggling tricks, which with every other nation on the continent would only have met with derision, have made upon the minds of the Spaniards their fullest impression. On the coasts, a numerous party, known by its antipathy to France, and which was excited to make common cause with England, in order to recover liberty of trade, spurred the people on, and feigned to give credence to the superstitious announcements. Moral disorders arose from such dispositions, which communicated at the same time to the provinces of Navarre, Aragon, Estremadura, Castile, Leon, Asturia, and Galicia.
They began on the 17th of May in the southern provinces. The counsellor of state, don Miguel de Saavedra, was captain general of the kingdom of Valencia, and attempted to oppose the views of the insurgents, his life was threatened and he fled to Requena; but the insurgents informed of his abode, crowded thither, seized his person, conducted him to Valencia, and there murdered him near the hotel of count Cervallon, who seemed to hate their confidence, but whose efforts, nevertheless, to rescue the unhappy man proved fruitless. The head of don Miguel de Saavedra was impaled, carried through all the streets, and placed at the top of a pyramid, whilst the Marquis of Arriaga, on whom a similar fate was impending, narrowly escaped it.
On the first burst of the insurrection, the insurgents demanded that all the goods belonging to the French, residing in the kingdom, should be declared forfeited, and their persons secured in the citadel. A few days after they dragged the crew of a French ship, which had been pursued by an English frigate, and sought refuge on the Spanish coast, into prison. On the 14th of June, they in a fresh paroxysm of fury, massacred these captives; however, on the 17th June, the members of the Junta, who had been constrained, on forfeiture of life, to take part in the committee, arranged by a solemn act the author of these atrocities, giving him up to constitutional authority, and naming as such, Baltazar Calbo, a minister of the altar, and member of the chapter of St. Isidore, at Madrid.
At Cuenca, the corregidor and the intendat were thrown into chains, and carried off by the riotous boors, who, before they departed, pillaged the houses of these two respectable magistrates, and abused their families. At Cartagena the people murdered the governor, who had for a long time enjoyed the public esteem.
At Granada, on the 30th of May arrived general Taxisillo, governor of Malaga; he was murdered by the people; his body dragged through the streets, cut in pieces, and afterwards burnt. At Algeciras, the 2nd of June, the French consul was cast into prison, and the rioters demanded his head; but the resolution of the well-disposed prevented the commission of this new excess. At St. Lucar de Barrameda, they massacred the governor of that place, a man equally distinguished by his rank and merits. At Jaen, the peasants forced the citizens to quit their houses and property, murdered the corregidor, and plundered the town.

Seville having raised the standard of revolt, formed a factious junta, and part of the soldiery from the camp of St. Roch and from Cadiz, invited by the high encouragements held out to them by the insurgents, joined the party, and the first evidence that they gave of their force was the murder of count Aquila, one of the most respectable characters of Seville, whilst a captain of smugglers was nominated chief of the insurgents, consisting of monks, deserters, and smugglers, drew out in arms to beset the passage through Cordova.
At Cadiz the people rose on the 26th of May, against the lieutenant general Solano, marquis del Socorro, the captain general of the province, and governor of the city, a man hitherto universally revered. The insurgents then drew arms from the barracks, and a cannon from the bulwarks, fell upon the hotel of the governor, seized his person, and murdered him in the most atrocious manner. At Carolina, they decapitated the governor, who had presumed to oppose the disorders. No less horrible were the excesses committed in Navarre, Arragon, and Catalonia. At Saragossa, the peasants shot the colonel of the king's regiment of dragoons; and thirty-three officers of the same party, against whom they revolted, were massacred in the most inhuman manner.
The same hatred to all authority, and to all men vested with office produced similar scenes in Estremadura and the Castiles. At Badajoz, the insurrection broke out on May 30, and was in an instant matured. The hotel of the governor, count de la Torre del Fresno, was assaulted. These insurgents demanded arms, and to be enrolled, when the governor with the bishops appeared at the balcony exhorting the multitude to retire, but in vain; the infuriated would listen to no reason, they overpowered the guard of the palace, rushed into the chamber of the governor, seized him, and dragged him, as far as the palm gate, where with knives and sticks they murdered him, exhibiting the naked and bleeding corpse to his wife, while they rifled the palace. At Valladolid general Don Miguel Cevallos commandant of engineers, was on the 5th of June, in consequence of an order of general Cuesta, cast into the prison Carbonero, but the insurgents drew him out and cut him in pieces in the presence of his wife and children, carried his head around on a pike, divided among themselves the limbs, which were dragged about the streets in token of trophy. At Talavera, on the 5th of June, the governor was disposed to punish the rioters, hereupon they cried out for his head, and he owes his preservation merely to a narrow escape facilitated to him by a few brave men.
The provinces of Leon and Asturias were at the same time scenes of the most tragic events. At Corunna, general Filangieri endeavored to mitigate, by persuasion, the fury of the peasantry; he would have been shot, had not an artillery officer stepped before him and saved his life; the insurgents, nevertheless, on the day following penetrated into and seized his palace, which they demolished, he having sought an asylum in the Convent of St. Domingo. At Ferrol, on the 22d of June, they plundered the house of the lieutenant general of marine, Obregon, and having discovered him in the manufactory of Isquiendo, they incarcerated him at St. Antonio.
In the kingdom of Leon, the peasants drew up in different towns, burghs, and villages, having cut off the heads of many respectable citizens; and it was announced that the governor of Corunna, the corregidor of Leon, and count Castro Fuente, colonel of the militia of Valto, being placed in the hands of general Cuesta should be delivered over to the executioner.
In every direction the men who by their worth, virtue and fortune, had excited universal respect, paid with their lives the gallant resistance, and the love for their country, which they opposed to dissolution and riot; whilst committees of insurrection made themselves masters of the public funds, organized themselves, and inspired all the good and honest with terror.
The ministers, the members of the junta of Madrid, and of the commission of government, used every exertion to pacify, but in vain; the multitude could not be reduced to obedience, ignorant deluded men wanting to grasp at power and plunder.
This exasperation was the inevitable consequence of the state of insecurity, the suffering and misfortune into which their government had precipitated the Spanish nation. She was prepared and awakened by the artifices of England, and by the disorder of public nationalities, sprung from those of parties and of the times. It became necessary to recur to arms to bridle
the insane and to deter the malevolent.
Marshal Besieres directed, on the outset, different detachments upon Logrono, Saragossa, Segovia, Valladolid, and St. Andero, which columns, though not numerous, had respectively all success, without suffering any material injury.
The town of Logrono had raised the standard of insurrection, and chosen for its chief a mason, one of the unworthiest fellows in the district. General Verdier was ordered to march with two battalions, surrounded the city, and drove, on the 6th of June, the insurgents to flight, taking from them six cannon, brought the most riotous to punishment, replaced in the government of the town the principal citizens, who had been cast into prison, retaining subsequently to Vittoria.
General Freire had marched also to Segovia, where commotions had also taken place, and on the 7th of June, being arrived within a quarter of a mile of the city, he sent a parley to the magistracy, in order to bring the insurgents to a sense of their duty; these, 5000 men strong, with 30 cannon, would not permit the parley to approach, but fired on him with cannon, which induced the general to make the assault without delay, and the place was taken by force, a great number of the insurgents having been crippled, many taken prisoners, and all their cannon taken from them. The city having been freed of the insurgents, and left to itself, submitted.
General Lasalle drew from Burgos to Toquemada, where 6000 insurgents had waited, which on the 7th he caused to be attacked by 600 chasleurs; they were dispersed, leaving twelve hundred dead on the spot; the village of Toquemada was reduced to ashes. General Lasalle marched on the 8th to Palencia, which as he was approaching, a deputation, with the bishop at their head, met him, bringing him the submission of the town, which immediately returned to its duty accordingly. The 9th and the 10th days were consumed in disarming the town and province of Palencia.
On the 12th, he advanced to Duennas, where he formed a junction with general Merle, and from whence he continued his march to Valladolid. Here the mass had been strongly developed, and general Cuesta, captain general, had put himself at the head of the malcontents, and taken post at Cabazon, with 7000 insurgents, and six pieces of artillery. After having reconnoitered the position of the insurgents, general Cuesta was ordered to force them in, whilst gen. Merle was directed to cut his retreat to Valladolid. The firing lasted but one half hour and the insurgents were completely beaten, scattered in every direction on the field of battle, leaving their artillery, 4000 muskets and about 1000 killed behind.
The bishops of Valladolid, with the principal clergy of the city, came to meet gen. La Salle, supplicating forgiveness for the city and its inhabitants. The French division drew into the city, amidst a multitude, that had merited severe chastisement, and with admiration beheld the goodness and forbearance of the French. The city and province were disarmed, whilst ten members of the council of Palencia, Segovia, and Valladolid, were deputed to go to his catholic majesty at Bayonne, there to supplicate his clemency, in the act of tendering the fealty of their fellow citizens.
The bishop of St. Andero having instigated his diocesans to revolt, and abandoned himself to all manner of frantic excesses, general Merle proceeded to the mountains of St. Andero, where general Ducos had repaired. On the morning of the 21st he fell upon the insurgents, drove them from all their positions, and took two 13 pounders from them which they had barely been enabled to fire twice, with grape, without wounding any body; on their part, the loss was considerable.
(To be Continued)
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Paris, dated 5th of September. "It is a fact that Mr. Skwith (the consul general) returns to America by the vessel which carries this letter, being recalled by the president on the demand of this government. Mr. Warden, the secretary of Gen. Armstrong, fills up the place."
Extract of letter from a respectable house in France, dated
"BORDEAUX, Sept. 5. Reports on political subjects which cannot be here related, caused the price of colonial produce to fall 40 per cent. Within a few days, however, pressing demands have caused a great rise. West India coffee 4 40 a 5 per lb. Tobacco, Carolina and Vir. 300 a 390, stemmed 400 a 440. As neutrals are no longer tolerated, great voyages may be made by swift vessels and French colors. Great exactness must be observed in ship's papers, and she must not enter Spain."
"A number of American vessels and cargoes have been lately condemned here, and will be sold in the course of the month."
November 2. Extract of a letter from Captain Robert Colfax, jun. of the ship Octavia, from Charleston, bound to London, to his father in the state of New Jersey, dated London, July 26th, 1808.
"We were captured the 27th of January last off Dover, at 11 o'clock at night, and at two o'clock next morning, were landed in Calais Prison, where we remained a number of days before we were released; the
ship and cargo are detained under the imperial decrees; we were kept five months in prisoners allowance, and not a cent to help ourselves with, having been robbed by the privateer's men of all our money, clothes, and in fact every article they could lay their rapacious hands on. I made every possible exertion for relief for myself and people, but all in vain. Myself, however, and a number more ship-masters with difficulty made a journey to Paris, where we represented our situation to our minister, Mr. Armstrong; he informed me it was a government affair, therefore he could not interfere at present, as all such cases would come under a government claim. I took that for a definitive answer and returned to Calais with the rest of my unfortunate companions, where we remained confined to small quarters for five months, at the end of which we were marched through France and Flanders into Holland, many without shoes to their feet, and otherwise in a very distressed situation. Unfortunately for me I had not a shoe to my feet for more than two months until we arrived at a place called Ghent, in the interior of Flanders, there we were supplied with French soldiers shoes; this was a comfortable thing to us, having marched many miles bare footed. We arrived, after an intolerably tedious journey, at Amsterdam, where we remained until we were put on board American vessels permitted to sail by the Dutch government. In one of them I obtained a passage to the Downs, from whence I took up my line of march on foot to London, in the greatest distress, with a small "handkerchief" which contained all the treasure I had, and not a penny in my pocket, which I never knew the want of before. On my arrival I found friends and money—since which I am very comfortable. On a review of the subject I think my fortune rather hard; when I left home I took with me upwards of four thousand dollars in cash and produce, of which I have been literally robbed, kept five months confined on prisoners' allowance, marched several hundred miles bare footed through an unfriendly country, and seemingly to augment our sufferings by the orders of a government who pretend to be our friends."
November 3. The gun boats stationed on Lake Barataria have been very successful in capturing vessels engaged in violating the embargo laws. A letter from a gentleman on board No. 19, dated at New Orleans, Aug. 26, states, "that the amount of prize money to each man belonging to her will be upwards of 2,000 dollars." He further states "we are erecting telegraph houses along the river, and shall sail in a few days for our old station, where we confidently expect to meet with a repetition of our former good fortune."
TRENTON, Oct. 31.
Yesterday se'nnight the Legislature of New Jersey convened in the city of Trenton. A quorum of both Houses appeared. The Council made choice of Ebenezer Seely, Esq. for Vice-President, and the Assembly, of Lewis Condict, Esq. Speaker, without opposition. The parties in the Legislature stand as stated in our last—a democratic majority of 6 in the Assembly and 1 in Council. All the members returned for the different counties appeared and took their seats except Mr. Willets of Cape May.
On the fifth day of the sitting, a committee was appointed by the House of Assembly, consisting of Messrs. Parker, Kerr and Garrison, to inquire into the validity of the law passed at the last session of the Legislature for the choice of Electors of President and Vice-President of the U. States and Members of Congress. This committee, we are informed, agreed to report a bill to suspend the Election for a few days, in order that the appointment of Electors might come within the time prescribed by the act of Congress regulating the election of Electors; but on the following morning, the democratic members of the committee refused to report the bill agreed upon, and nothing was brought before the House upon that subject till the afternoon, when Mr. Parker moved that the committee might be discharged. This motion was opposed by the majority and negatived. A motion was then made by one of the Sussex delegation to add three more members to the committee. A debate ensued, and after some discussion, this motion was superceded by another to add four members, which was carried.
This committee, which may justly be styled, as it was undoubtedly intended, the Committee of Oblivion, has made no report, and on Friday, on motion of Mr. Kennedy, the House adjourned till Monday, so that all chance of taking any measure relative to the Election was thereby done away.
The same day (Wednesday) Mr. Frelinghuysen moved for leave in Council, to present a bill to amend the law passed at the last session for the choice of electors, the object of which was, to direct the judges of election in the respective Election districts in the State, to continue the polls open three days instead of two, so that the time of choosing Electors might be brought within that specified by the act of Congress. This was refused by the democratic majority in council, and the bill not allowed to be read. He then reduced his motion to writing, explanatory of his views, and the entry of this motion on the Journals was opposed. The chair, however, decided, as a point of order, that the motion must be entered on the Journals. —Trenton Federalist.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 1.
Our correspondents have kindly furnished some interesting articles for our marine list this evening.
It will be seen, under the ship news head, that the French continue most industriously to "burn, sink and destroy" such of our vessels as come within their reach. Besides several American ships burnt by the armed vessels lately arrived in the West Indies, we find that this plundering squadron, on its return passage, has scuttled the brig Juliana, of New York. They afterwards fell in with the brig Jane, of Portsmouth, who they robbed; and then put on board the captain and crew, eighteen in number, of the Juliana, leaving them forty pounds of meat and twenty of bread, to subsist upon.
Fed. Gaz.
WASHINGTON CITY, Nov. 1.
THE FRENCH WAR.
I have been favored with an interview with Capt. Woodward, of the Hope, who reached this city on Saturday last, bringing with him the dispatches of Gen. Armstrong, our minister at Paris. Capt. Woodward, who is a gentleman of intelligence and candor, has put me in possession of the circumstances which gave rise to the rumor of a declaration of war by France against this country. It occurred in the following way: An American captain, who had been engaged in smuggling grain or flour into France, had just made a trip, and on his return it was necessary to the better concealment of his illegal traffic to invent a plausible story by which he might offer a colorable excuse for the circumstance of his arriving from the French territories into those of England. He therefore gave out that France had declared war against the United States, that Bonaparte had imprisoned all the Americans in France, and that he with some others had made his escape in an open boat. The story soon spread, found its way into the English papers, and was speedily trumpeted across the Atlantic to our shores. This fact may be relied on, as capt. Woodward had it from the best authority.
Capt. W. says that there is very little said in France about Spanish affairs; that immense numbers of the old veterans of Bonaparte are on their march for Spain, and that they did not appear to view the affair as one which was of the greatest importance. Capt. W. was at Paris when Massena's eyes were hurt by an accident in a hunting party by Bonaparte's gun. One of Massena's eyes is entirely destroyed, and the other very much injured. Massena was to have commanded the armies of France in Spain.—Monitor.
STAUNTON, Nov. 2.
Departed this life in Abingdon, on Wednesday the 12th ult. William King, Esq. Merchant.—It is not for the writer of this article to write his eulogium, that task will be left to those who knew his worth and were acquainted with his many qualifications. Mr. King was a native of Ireland, had been not a great many years in America, but during that period had accumulated immense wealth. Mr. King's Salt Works, his Iron Works, his Stores through Virginia and Tennessee, his Waggons incessantly upon the roads, shewed the great extent of his business. Mr. King was remarkably easy in his manners, strictly upright in all his transactions, and appeared ever to derive a particular pleasure in affording relief to the poor and distressed—in a word, he was a valuable member to society.—He has left an amiable wife to bemoan his death.
FROM THE FARMER'S CABINET.
(A federal paper.)
POLITICS FOR FARMERS.
FARMERS!
THE proscription of neutral commerce is the grand cause of all your sufferings. In 1806, May 16, King George in Council declared all the rivers and ports from the river Elbe, in Germany, to the port of Brest, in France, almost a thousand miles, in a state of Blockade.
In 1806, Nov. 21st, Napoleon accused Britain of want of respect for the laws of nations and rights of neutrality, and at the same time issued his Berlin decree, declaring all the British Isles in a state of blockade.
Instantly on the publication of this decree, Armstrong, our Ambassador in France, enquired of the French Government whether it was to affect the American Commerce; and he was answered, "that the Imperial decree lately passed was not to affect our commerce," which would still be governed by the rules of the treaty between the two countries.
On the 11th Nov. 1807, before any American vessels had been seized under the French decree of Nov. 21st, 1806, the King of England issued his Orders in Council, declaring good prizes all neutral vessels, bound from their own country to France, or to the ports of nations in alliance with France.
And on the 25th of the same month the King issued another order, laying a tax on all goods entered and landed by neutrals in England, which tax is estimated to average a third of the value of the goods.
On the 17th of December following Napoleon enforced his decree of November 21st, 1806, and declared that every ship, to whatever nation it may belong, that shall have submitted to be searched by an English vessel, or on any voyage to England, or that shall have paid any tax to the English government, to be denationalized, and to have forfeited the protection of its government, &c.
Thus our trade to all parts of the world, except Sweden, Canton and a small part of the shores of Asia and Africa is prohibited by English and French edicts. Would our merchants then, in the teeth of these edicts, send out their vessels, if our government had not forbid it? No—Our most enlightened, experienced and wealthy merchants say they would not.—William Gray, of Salem, says, that none of the vessels that sailed from that district after the publication of the foreign edicts, arrived in safety, and that in his opinion all our ships would have been captured, had they ventured out.
Col. Buchanan, an eminent merchant of Baltimore, says, that our floating capital was estimated at 125 millions of dollars, and that in a few months all this capital would have been turned into exports, and the amount been swallowed up in the vortex of Orders and Decrees; and that the Embargo had therefore saved to the United States one hundred millions of dollars. He appealed to any federal merchant to correct him, if he mistated a fact. Mr B.
said that the Embargo must be indefinite as to duration, or it would be absurd and ineffectual. He said, should we proclaim to England and France, that we could endure the Embargo one or two months, or until a given period and no longer? If we did so, it would be saying to them, "on such a day you may prepare to pounce upon our property, which we must by that time launch upon the ocean, to provoke your hungry jaws" Mr B. further said, let us suppose the Embargo this moment discontinued. He would maintain it, no prudent merchant trading on his own capital, would send out a ship; and declared that there was no part of the world to which he would venture his property.
Thus say most of the rich and intelligent merchants.
FARMERS! Who are they that clamor so much against the Embargo?
They are petty merchants and speculators, who trade "on others' capital and credit."
FARMERS! I now warn you against murmuring and complaining, if that odious thing, the Embargo, should be removed without the removal of the foreign edicts, and we should be plunged into war. You will then be convinced that Orders and Decrees, instead of the Embargo, were the real cause of your sufferings.
A FEDERALIST.
30,000 DOLLARS
FOR EIGHT HUNDRED CENTS.
NEW YORK STATE LOTTERY,
For opening and improving certain great Roads to the Black River. Positively to commence drawing on the 12th of April next, 600 tickets to be drawn each day until the whole is concluded. Prizes payable 30 days after the drawing, and the payment guaranteed by the State Legislature.
THE CAPITAL PRIZES ARE,
 50,000 Dollars,  20,000 Dollars,  10,000 Dollars,  5,000 Dollars,  2,000 Dollars, 
Besides several of 1,000, 500, 200, 100, &c. &c. Less than two blanks to a prize. The scheme of this lottery is universally acknowledged to be the best ever yet offered to the American public, and the price of tickets at present no higher than Eight Dollars each.
TICKETS,
Halves, Quarters and Eighths, ARE TO BE HAD AT
G. & R. WAITE'S
TRULY FORTUNATE LOTTERY-OFFICES
No. 64, MAIDEN-LANE, And No. 38, MAIDEN-LANE, NEW-YORK,
Where was sold in the LAST New-York Lottery, the three capital prizes of 25,000 Dollars, No. 20231 10,000 Dollars, No. 25403 5,000 Dollars, No. 20799 Also, No. 20310 a prize of 2 000 Dollars, besides several others of 2,000, 1,000, 500 dollars, &c. &c. And in former New York lotteries were sold at the above Offices,
 17199 25,000 Dollars 11736 2,000 Dollars  3929 20,000 Dollars 28373 2,000 Dollars  3639 10,000 Dollars 13904 2,000 Dollars  26135 5,000 Dollars 16617 2,000 Dollars  30356 5,000 Dollars 25596 2,000 Dollars  15298 3,000 Dollars 20885 2,000 Dollars 
And at their Lottery Office in Baltimore, corner of Charles and Market Streets, were sold nearly all the Capital Prizes in the late St. Mary's College Lottery, among them were the following, viz.
 6974 30,000 Dollars 1788 1,500 Dollars  1364 15,000 Dollars 1525 1,500 Dollars  7001 10,000 Dollars 7440 1,500 Dollars  6977 5,000 Dollars 14425 1,500 Dollars  12894 1,500 Dollars. 
Distant advertisers, by enclosing Bank Notes in letter, post paid, directed to WAITE'S Offices, in Baltimore, New York or Albany, may have tickets and shares returned by post to any part of the Union, with the utmost punctuality, and the earliest advice sent of their success. Schemes at large, gratis, and Cash advanced for prizes as soon as drawn. A weekly printed Prize List will be forwarded to the printer of this paper, and at the conclusion of the drawing, the Managers' Official List of Prizes as soon as printed, where any gentleman can examine his own number. Prizes in former lotteries taken in payment for tickets in this.
The Baltimore Trinity Church Lottery commenced drawing on the first of November, and will continue to draw 2,000 tickets per week till finished. Tickets and shares, warranted un-drawn, may be had at either of G. & R. Waite's Lottery Offices. New York, October 23, 1808. itf
By virtue of a deed of trust, executed to the subscriber, by Brett Randolph and David Batray, which is recorded in the district court of Richmond, will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at Powhatan court house, on Monday the 19th day of December next,
The following Slaves,
to wit; Solomon, Sukey and her child, Arthur and Scipio, or so many thereof as will be sufficient to raise the sum of £308, with interest thereon from the 2d day of April last, and the costs necessarily incurred by carrying the said trust to execution, which sum is due to Messrs. Lyle, Scott and Saunders.
Richard B. Goode. 5th Nov. 1808. wids
FOR SALE
AT THIS OFFICE,
 THE History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by E. Gibbon, 8 vols.  The Life of Gen. Geo. Washington, by Da. vid Ramsay, M. D.  The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic, by Adam Ferguson, 3 volumes.  The Domestic Encyclopedia, 5 vols.  The Travels of Anacharsis, 4 vols.  Hening's New Virginia Justice. 

At the close of the polls last evening, for Electors of President and Vice-President, the votes were:
Table with 2 columns: Ticket (Madison, Monroe), Votes (70, 29, 21). Includes counties like Henrico, Chesterfield, and Pinkney.
Of the above seventy votes for the Monroe Ticket in this city, there were only about ten republican—Comments are deemed unnecessary.
COMMUNICATION.
MR. PLEASANTS,
To guard against any erroneous impressions which may arise from the late requisition made by the President of the United States, on the state of Virginia, for her quota of one hundred thousand men, the following facts are submitted to the public.
The Secretary at War, in his letter of the 29th ult. calls on the state of Virginia, to furnish "within the shortest period that circumstances will permit," ten thousand one hundred and 98 men, being her quota "to be completely equipped with arms and accoutrements, fit for actual service, including blankets and knapsacks."
Volunteers are to be encouraged and accepted; and it is suggested to be of importance that such general and field officers should be selected as can, in all respects, be relied on, in case the detachment should be called into actual service.
When the detachments and organization shall have been completed, the respective corps will be exercised under the officers set over them; but will not remain embodied, or be considered in actual service, until by subsequent orders they shall be directed to take the field."
There is but little to distinguish this requisition from the former, except in the number of men required: In the former requisition, the state of Virginia was to furnish 11,563; but in the present, only 10,198 as her quota.
This difference may have arisen from the circumstance that, in the late law of Congress, the territorial governments are required to furnish their quotas, whereas the former requisition was confined to the states.
It ought not to be concealed from the people that the time at which this requisition has been made, would seem to imply that our negotiations with France and England had not terminated favorably. The act of Congress authorising the President to call out a detachment of the militia passed on the 30th of March last; but he has not deemed it necessary to exercise the power till the present moment. The fair inference is, that the cup of conciliation has been drained to the very dregs; and that the government has determined to be prepared for any event.
Whatever could be effected by justice, by moderation, by a strict and impartial neutrality, and by a sincere desire to maintain peace, has been done by our government. And should we be compelled reluctantly to appeal to the God of battles, we may confidently rely upon that success which a sense of the justice of our cause will naturally inspire.
The Governor on Friday evening last received a letter from the Secretary of War, dated Oct. 29th, requiring the proportion of 100,000 militia, (which the State of Virginia is to furnish in pursuance of an Act of Congress of March 30th, 1808,) to be prepared to be ready to march at a moment's warning.—This circumstance has occasioned considerable alarm in this city, the opinion being general that unfavorable advices from England, by the Hops, have occasioned the requisition at this time.—This is highly probable; yet the making this requisition, we conceive, ought not to be considered as additional evidence that War may shortly be expected. It had already been understood that the Hops had brought intelligence of a failure of the efforts of our government to obtain justice from that of Great Britain. The wisdom of Congress must therefore now determine what is to be done: but if that body is indeed guided by wisdom, they will not resort to a declaration of War, but rather to an UNIVERSAL NON IMPORTATION of British goods. A total prohibition of trade with Great Britain, after a future day to be appointed for that purpose, unless, before such day, the British government will rescind its orders in council, relinquish the pretended right of impressing our seamen, and accede to the principle that free ships make free goods, would be the most effectual measure to bring the tyrants of the ocean to their senses; and, in our judgment, that will most probably be the step taken by Congress.
We understand that the Law, in obedience to which, the former requisition was made, expired on the 16th of April last, and as the detachment mentioned in that law was never called into actual service, the
draft of part of the militia and voluntary offers of service by others, are no longer obligatory. A new call for volunteers must therefore, now take place, and a new law to supply the deficiency of soldiers of the description; if there should be any deficiency, which, for the honor of the brave and patriotic sons of Virginia, we flatter ourselves will not be the case; but that those, who have heretofore so nobly proved their public spirit, will again come forward without hesitation, and, when their beloved country calls, will flock to her standard.
Some of the federalists in this city who always rejoice at every circumstance that may be injurious to their country, or embarrassing to its government, seem to be highly pleased at being told that the Volunteers, who heretofore engaged, are now discharged from their obligations, and exult in the thought that they will not again offer their services. Those worthy gentlemen, we trust, will be disappointed.
THE EMBARGO.
This necessary measure of self-preservation has been assailed by every offensive weapon which the enemies of the administration could invent. Had it not been for British emissaries who have been fostered in our bosoms, for unprincipled renegades who have neither character nor country to lose, and for ambitious men among us who are thirsting for power, regardless of the means by which it may be acquired, we should ere this time have brought our enemies to our feet. Already has it had a sensible effect; and, if rigidly enforced, cannot fail to bring the powers of Europe to a sense of feeling, if not of justice. Consider the price of flour in the West Indies, from 50 to 50 dollars a barrel; of Cotton in the Liverpool market, from 2s. 6d to 3s. per pound, and the apparent scarcity of bread in England, which has already occasioned an enormous advance in the price of wheat in that country. These are facts, solemn facts, which are worth a thousand theories on the operation of the embargo laws.
But we are now told that the laws laying an embargo, are unconstitutional! Good God! that it should ever once enter into the mind of man to conceive that when a government was acting up to the very end of its institution—the preservation of the lives, liberty, and property of its members, it was doing an unconstitutional act. Shall we turn over the pages of Grotius , of Puffendorf , of Burleniqui , of Vattel , of Rutherforth , &c. &c. to satisfy us that it is not only the right, but the duty of every government to consult the safety and happiness of the people? Surely not. This is a first principle in the law of nature; is inherent in every social compact; and has been acted upon by every legitimate government from the creation of the world to the present day.
Our fathers in Virginia, who were the first to rear the revolutionary standard, and to propose a declaration of independence, understood the law of nature and of nations as well as we do. They were as little disposed to violate the constitution of their own state, or the confederation formed by the several states. Yet, we find, that although the constitution of Virginia is perfectly silent on the subject of embargoes, and the power of regulating commerce was not vested in congress by the old confederation, the legislature of Virginia, from time to time, conferred much greater powers on the Governor and Council, in relation to embargoes than have been given to the president by the late laws.
As a specimen, take the following act, passed at the october session 1778.
An Act to empower the Governor and Council to lay an Embargo for a limited time.
Whereas divers persons for their own private lucre, transport out of this state into parts beyond the seas, wheat, Indian corn, and other provisions, when the same may be greatly wanted for the relief of the inhabitants of this state and support of our army and navy and those of our allies.
And whereas no person or persons hath or have been hitherto invested by the legislature of this commonwealth, by whom alone it can be done, with power to lay an embargo on provisions, except wheat, Indian corn, and other grain, when necessary and expedient for the good of the same, BE it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, that it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the Council of State, from time to time to issue his proclamation, thereby prohibiting the exportation of beef, pork, bacon, wheat, Indian corn, peas, or other grain or flour, and meal made of the same, any or either of them, or any other provisions, for and during such time as he, with the advice aforesaid, shall judge most fit and necessary; so as such prohibition shall not extend to any vessel laden or to be laden by proper officers with all or any of the enumerated provisions for the use of the armies or navies of the United States or their allies.
And be it further enacted, that all beef, pork, bacon, wheat, Indian corn, peas, or other grain, and all flour and meal, or other provisions, which at any time during the continuance of such embargo shall be laden or put on board any vessel for exportation, except as before excepted, shall, together with the vessel, tackle, furniture, and cargo, be forfeited, and may be seized by any magistrate, naval officer, officer commanding
forth, or officer commanding any armed vessel in the service of this state, who are hereby empowered and required at any time during the continuance of the said embargo, to search any vessel on which it shall be suspected any prohibited articles are laden for exportation; one half of which forfeiture shall be to the use of the commonwealth, and the other to any of the persons above mentioned who shall seize, or any other person who shall inform and prosecute for the same; and the forfeitures shall and may be recovered by bill in the Court of Admiralty.
And be it further enacted, that none of the prohibited articles, or other provisions, during the continuance of such prohibition, shall be transported or exported out of this state by land or in boats or vessels over any of the rivers in this state, except such as shall be transported for the use of the armies or navies of the United States or their allies, under penalty of the forfeiture of the carriage and team or boats or vessels employed in such transportation, together with the prohibited articles contained therein, unless the person or persons transporting or exporting the same, produce a certificate from the commissary or quarter master general of this district, or his or their agent or agents, that such prohibited articles are ordered on by them for the service of the navies or armies of the United States or their allies; and the same may be seized by warrant of any justice of the peace upon information to him made; the forfeitures to be appropriated as aforesaid, and recovered in any court or record within this commonwealth, by bill, plaint, or information.
And be it further enacted, that during the continuance of such embargo, every master of any ship or vessel shall, before he be allowed to clear out the same, enter into bond with one or more sufficient security or securities in the penalty of five thousand pounds, payable to the governor for the time being for the use of the commonwealth, with condition that he will not carry out or cause to be carried out in his said ship or vessel any of the articles prohibited by the embargo, which said bond the naval officer of the district is hereby required and empowered to take; and also every master of any such ship or vessel shall, with the two persons next in command in the said ship or vessel, take the following oath (or being a Quaker or Menonist, solemn affirmation,) viz: I A. B. do solemnly swear, or affirm, that there are not on board my ship or vessel any of the following articles, to wit, beef, pork, bacon, wheat, Indian corn, peas, or other grain, or flour or meal made of the same, any or either of them, or any other provisions prohibited to be exported, except such only as are necessary for the victualling such ship or vessel for her voyage. So help me God. Which oath the naval officer for the district where the said ship or vessel is laden, shall be, and he is hereby required and empowered to administer.
Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to restrain the taking on board any ship or vessel any of the above enumerated articles, or other provisions that may be necessary for the victualling such ship or vessel for her voyage.
Provided also, that none of the articles prohibited, laden on board any ship or vessel for exportation before notice of such embargo, shall be liable to seizure or forfeiture, if the owner or owners shall, in convenient time after proclamation of such embargo issued, reload or cause the same to be re-laden and disposed of in this state.
Provided nevertheless, that where the inhabitants of any of the United States shall be in real distress for want of provisions, upon application of the executive power of such state to the executive power of this, it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the council, to suffer provisions to be exported to such state; the naval officer taking bond with sufficient security in at least double the value of the cargo to be exported, and executing an oath from the exporter for the faithful exportation thereof.
This act shall be in force from and after the passing thereof, unto the end of the next session of assembly, and no longer. And all other acts so far as they relate to any matter or thing herein contained, or within the purview of this act, are hereby repealed.
At the May session 1779, the above act was continued till the end of the next session of the General Assembly. And at each succeeding session of October 1779, May 1780, October 1780, March 1781, and May 1781, it was regularly continued, till November session 1781, when it was repealed.
Extract from an act of the General Assembly of Virginia entitled "An act to amend and reduce into one act the several acts of Assembly for the appointment of naval officers and ascertaining their fees." passed at the May session, 1783, chap. 21. sect. 2. "And to prevent the dangerous consequences that may arise from the breach and contempt of embargoes, Be it further enacted, that every master of a ship or vessel, when he makes his entry, shall give bond with security, in the penalty of one thousand pounds, that he will not depart this commonwealth when an embargo is laid, during the continuance thereof; and every naval officer upon the receipt of the order for such embargo, shall forthwith give notice thereof to the masters of vessels within his district; and no bond given, respecting such embargo, shall be adjudged, deemed, or taken to be forfeited, unless notice be given as aforesaid."
DAVID S. GARLAND, Esq. has qualified to his appointment as Register of the Land Office.
Gen. JOHN PRESTON has also entered on the duties of his office, as Treasurer of the State.
When the absolute necessity of having those offices filled, is duly considered, it
must afford real pleasure to every friend of his country to discover that two such distinguished characters have been prevailed on to accept executive appointments so shortly before the meeting of the legislature. In these trying times, threatened as we are by enemies from without, and opposed by the most unnatural combinations within, the presence of two gentlemen, at the seat of government, of such weight of character and undeviating republicanism, must be regarded as a solid acquisition.
The citizens of Salem [Mass.] have lately held a meeting which lasted the whole day. An animated discussion took place on the expediency of raising or continuing the embargo. The question was finally put and carried in favor of continuing the embargo under existing circumstances by a majority of eighty. The votes in favor of its continuance were 570—for its removal, 490—whole number of votes, 1060—Salem is computed to contain 10,000 inhabitants. Mr Gray spoke on this occasion with his usual perspicuity.
GENERAL WILKINSON AND CAPTAIN HARPER.
When Prince Henry attempted to reason Falstaff into courage he said—"Why thou owest Heaven a death," [and you may as well meet it nobly like a soldier.]
That would not do for Falstaff, who wittily replied, "it is not due yet."—And discreetly argued the case throughout—"honour pricks me on. Yea; but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set a leg?—No. Or take away the grief of a wound?—No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then?—No."
We presume that Mr. Harper argued thus when Gen. Wilkinson sought to chastise him for treacherously instigating the general's persecutors in Congress last session. He challenged Harper [the notorious Robert Goodloe Harper] to meet him. But Goodloe replied—"Gen. Wilkinson must excuse me from accepting his invitation." It was not an invitation to dinner; or I dare say it would have been accepted. It was refused;—and Harper has thus perhaps lost forever the opportunity of evincing to the world that he had ONE VIRTUE. He has lost the chance of an honorable death, which might have veiled or gilded the atrocities of an infamous life.—Whig
BRICK MAKERS.
New Invention.—Asa Frost, of Cazenovia, has obtained letters patent under the seal of the United States, for a machine called a brick machine. The advantages to brick makers to be derived from the use of this machine are numerous. The operation of preparing the mortar is simple and expeditious—which is performed by draft with horses or oxen. The brick-yard which has heretofore been exposed, and the newly stricken brick liable to be demolished by sudden rain storms are now perfectly secure by means of a covering which stands a d moves on trundels, and can be thrown over or taken off a yard fifty feet square in the space of two minutes. The importance of this invention is acknowledged by the most eminent brick-workmen, and by all others who have seen its operation.
The grand Theatre of Covent Garden, London, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 20th of September; the loss is estimated at 150,000 pounds sterling.
FROM THE BENNINGTON WORLD.
VERMONT ELECTION.
Vermont has a federal head again: Isaac Tichenor, governor—Paul Brigham lieutenant governor—Benjamin Swain, esq. treasurer.
Elias Keyes, Chauncey Langdon, Daniel Chipman, Solomon Miller, Zerah Willoby, Reuben Hates, Asa Lyon, Samuel Fletcher, J. P. Buckingham, Daniel Dana, John Ellsworth, Noah Chittenden, esqrs. councillors.
William Page, jr. is governor's secretary.
In the Vermont assembly there is an undeviating republican majority of 17—in joint meeting 10 as firm as our mountains. They have chosen Dudley Chase, speaker, Martin Post, clerk, O. C. Merrill, engrossing clerk, Thomas Leverett, secretary of state.
Jonathan Robinson, esq. is chosen senator in congress for six years after the 3d of March next.—Messrs. Tyler, Herren and Galusha, the judges of the supreme court are re-elected. Vermont will give six votes for Madison and Clinton.
Samuel Shaw, (whig) is elected to represent the South West district in congress two years from the 3d of March next.—Martin Chittenden, (tory) representative for the N. W. district—There is no choice in the two eastern districts; in the N. E. the federalists gave a majority of 30 votes against Mr. Fisk; in the S. E. the republicans divided on two candidates, and gave nearly 400 majority, which leaves no doubt of gaining their candidate if they unite; writs of election were to be immediately issued; Vermont will send two republican members—and to say three, is not a hazardous prediction.
Now let us see the mighty cause of all the federal rejoicing last week: votes for governor stand thus.
Table with 2 columns: Candidate, Votes. Tichenor (Tory) 13,634; Smith (Whig) 12,775; Four towns illegal, in which Smith had a majority of 192; Scattering 432-624; Tichenor gets a majority of 235.
By all the federal clamor about the embargo. The power of this governor or is merely to appoint his own secretary—and lay the Champaign insurrection which his friend's had to get him elected. In joint meeting republicans carry every election—and federalists (after the most arduous struggle they ever made in Vermont) have lost all their objects.
Deaths!
Departed this life on the 31st ult. after a short illness, at the house of J. S. Ah Leak, esq. in Goochland county, Doctor SAMUEL D. LEAKE, in the 25th year of his age. Doctor Leake had spent two or three of the last years of his life, completing his studies in Philadelphia, and was perhaps amongst the most learned Physicians of his age. He was a man of the most unblemished reputation; a sincere friend, a pious christian, and an attentive physician. The public, and particularly the people of the county where he lived, have sustained an irreparable loss in the death of this promising young man.
DIED—Last evening in the 73th year of his age, Lewis Hallam, the father of the American Theatre.—Phil. pap.
ON Monday the 28th inst. will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, at the late dwelling house of Mrs. Frances Evans, dec. in Chesterfield county at Osbornes, on a tract of twelve months, by the purchasers giving bond with approved security to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid to the day, a quantity of very valuable household and kitchen
Furniture,
the crop of Corn and Fodder, and a quantity of very good Hay, together with the stock of Horses, Cattle and Hogs; also six Negroes, viz A man and a woman four children. For all sums under ten dollars cash will be required. All those indebted to the said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and all those who have any claims against the said estate are requested to bring them forward by the day of sale, properly authenticated.
A BASS, Admr, with the will annexed, 3vp Nov 7, 1808
Richmond Theatre.
EXHIBITION OF ACTIVITY. Mr. Simon and his Company have just arrived in this town, and have the honor to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Richmond and the public in general, that they will exert their utmost endeavors to deserve and obtain their patronage. That this Evening's Performance (Tuesday, Nov 8) will be delayed in the hand bills.
Good Military Music will be provided. Performance will commence at 7 o'clock admittance half a dollar.
MANCHESTER Turnpike Company.
THE annual meeting of stockholders will be held at Mr. Brooks, Tavern in Manchester, on the first Monday in December next.—Special matters of business important to the interest of the company require a full meeting; hence it is expected, that such members as cannot attend in person will appoint deputies to act for them. JAMES BRANDER, CLK. Nov 7, 1808
BOARDING.
ACCOMMODATIONS, as usual, for fifteen or twenty Members of the General Assembly, by ALEX'R. QUARRIER. Richmond, Nov. 4. 1808.
WANTED, the proprietors of what is called Martin's Swamp, on James River, in the county of Chesterfield, hereby want all persons from hunting, fowling, fishing or entering the said Swamp, from and after the date of this notice, as we are determined to put the utmost rigor of the law in force against all such persons as shall hereafter offend, or enter the said Swamp, without being legally authorised by the proprietors, or some one of them, under hand and seal. Robert Watkins, Bowler Cocke, Thos. Stratton.
Proprietors of what is called Martin's Swamp, Chesterfield, Nov. 4. 1808.
WANTED, as a HOUSE KEEPER, in a large family, a discreet, industrious WOMAN. To one who can come well recommended as such, very liberal wages will be given. Enquire of the printer. November 1st, 1808.
FOR SALE at the ARGUS OFFICE, A FEW DOORS BELOW THE BELL TAVERN, [PRICE TWO DOLLARS] A SYSTEM OF
Military Tactics, CONTAINING THE PRINCIPLES OF Discipline & Movements, CHIEFLY ADAPTED TO INFANTRY; WITH THE RULES AND REGULATIONS, DESIGNED FOR THE FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES, TO WHICH IS ADDED THE VARIOUS FORMS OF REPORTS. ILLUSTRATED BY 16 COPPER-PLATES, SHEWING UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED MOVEMENTS.
By DANIEL FISHER. Just received at this office, Part 1st of vol. 9th—or No. 17 of
Dr. Rees' New Cyclopaedia. Subscribers to the above work are requested to apply for their books. Subscription still open. Also, Just received, THE TENTH NUMBER OF The Military Library.

TO RENT And possession given the first day of October next.  The Tenement, OCCUPIED by Alexander Plainville, next door below Samuel Pleasants' Book-Store. For particulars, apply to  WILLIAM COOK. Richmond, 1st July, 1808. (tf)
Boarding, Lodging & Entertainment. THE subscriber is now keeping a boarding house in the commodious & conveniently situated house lately occupied by Major James Gibson, on the main street, opposite to Harris's brick buildings, where she will accommodate ladies and gentlemen by the day, week, month, quarter or year, with genteel board, lodging and entertainment. No exertions shall be wanting on her part, to give satisfaction to those who will favor her with their company. Anna Byrd. Richmond, August 3, 1808. (tf)
Mount Comfort, FOR SALE. SITUATED on Rappahannock in the county of Essex, within fifteen miles of Tappahannock and about the same distance from Urbanna and King and Queen Courthouse and very convenient to the post office at Montague's Tavern—there are upwards of one hundred and fifty acres of land attached to this seat. A considerable part of which is wood land and heavily timbered—The improvements are a dwelling house, forty feet by eighteen, a Kitchen, Smoke-House, Stable, Ice House, &c. on the Hill—And on the river bank a store house, with a commodious Store and Counting Room and an excellent Grange—all of which—except the Stable—have been recently built. Mount Comfort commands as good, if not the best view of the river of any seat on the Rappahannock, and the best fish and oysters may be had at the door with very little trouble—It is well calculated for a merchant, being in a populous and wealthy neighborhood, where it is believed five or six thousand pounds worth of goods might be retailed annually—it would also be a convenient stand for a professional character—I would either sell on credit if the payments can be agreed on, or exchange for other lands without improvements. For farther particulars apply to Reuben M. Garrett, or to  Cartier Wood, Mount Comfort. (tf) June 1, 1808
Penitentiary Store. SHOES at the Manufacture of the Penitentiary have been lately REDUCED, considerably below their former prices.  D. J. BURR, Agent. 18th May, 1808. (tf)
MATTRESSES OF ALL SIZES AND KINDS, MADE and repaired, agreeably to order, in the large wooden house opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the market bridge, Richmond.  J. S. Pleasants. May 21, 1808. (tf)
I AM desirous to exchange the following property, or any part thereof, as may be agreed on, for a small tract of good Land, in a healthy situation, with a dwelling house and other improvements, a good spring of water, and an agreeable neighborhood, at a distance of 80 to 100 miles up the country—To say for Houses in this city—Lands in Henrico county, joining the academy lands, and near this city—2,000 acres on Richland creek, in Lincoln county, Kentucky—1,000 acres on the waters of the Ohio, in Mason county—and two tracts of Military Lands on the river Tennessee, each 856 2-3 acres. Robert Mitchell. Richmond, Feb. 6, 1808. (tf)
William Lownes, RETURNS his thanks to his friends and the public generally for their liberal encouragement, and hopes his assiduity to business and punctuality will entitle him to a continuance of their favors. He has removed to the corner immediately opposite the Bell, formerly occupied by S. Granland, where he intends carrying on the book-binding business in all its variety and in the most modern & fashionable style, with punctuality, neatness and dispatch. Printed books bound in the most elegant manner in Morocco and Calf skin, full gilt and lettered; also in sheep skin, gilt, lettered and plain. Blank Books of every description ruled to any pattern and bound with the latest improved spring or patent backs. Orders from the country will be thankfully received and punctually attended to. Old books rebound. N. B. An apprentice will be taken to the Book Binding business, if immediate application be made, with good recommendations. August 23. (tf)
FOR SALE, On private contract, the fine, high bred running horse  DOCTOR, Late the property of Doctor A. T. Dixon, out of Pill Box, by Pantaloon. Also, A FILLY, 3 years old, by Precipitate, out of the same mare, of the best and purest blood in Virginia. Doctor was by Play or Pay, is in high health and perfectly sound, six years old, a beautiful bay and 15 hands high. This horse has proved his bottom and speed in many trials, having from three years old been successful, except in two instances, which accident prevented. The filly is untried, but she would be highly valuable to a gentleman whose wish is to raise from a good stock. Apply to John Tyler. Green Way, Sept. 6, 1808. (tf)
THE FIRST VOL. OF ROBERTSON'S REPORT OF THE  TRIAL OF A. BURR, Is just received and ready for delivery to subscribers at this office.—A few copies for sale. Sept. 27. (tf)
Notice. A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying that the land whereof John M'Murry died seized, may be sold for the payment of his just debts. Wm. OVERTON, Adm'r. of John M'Murry Charlotte, Oct. 12, 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE  My Plantation, IN York County, known by the name of Graves's, in three miles of Williamsburg, containing by survey, Six Hundred and odd Acres. It has on it a comfortable dwelling-house, with six rooms, a passage and six fire-places; a brick dairy and smokehouse; a kitchen with two rooms; a family granary, barn and stable. The land is very rich excepting a very small part of it, which may be estimated with the lands in common. I believe it equal to any place on the continent for stock of all kinds. It lies in half a mile of the salt marshes, where the cattle go when it suits them. The only difficulty in hogs, is keeping them gentle. I raised a veal in the first of the spring, from a young cow, and never fed cow nor veal, and in six weeks was called the best in Williamsburg market. The man who leases this place of me has one year more in it. He works only two fellows, two women, and two very small boys. He told me he had made between three and four hundred barrels of corn, as many bushels of wheat, and as many oats, tending not more than about ninety acres. He leases but one half of the plantation. The other may be given possession to the purchaser directly, and the other Christmas twelve months. This land has a plenty of timber to pay for the land. The growth of timber is white oak, red oak, walnut, poplar, cedar, hickory, and chestnut. I look upon this land inferior to none in that part of the country; it has a large swamp, very easily reclaimed, filled with good ash. This place has been estimated to two thousand pounds, but I will take 1800 in good bonds, or 1500, half cash, and security on the land for the balance, or good bonds well secured. I would not sell upon any terms, but my family wishing to live at Mr. J. Pierce's place in James City, which is to be sold.  JOHN M. GREGORY. Charles City Courthouse, Oct. 3, 1808. (tf)
N. B. The water is very good, the place is healthy, and convenient to fish—crabs and oysters brought every day to the door, if requested, and enough may be caught in one day to last a week.  To Rent, THREE Houses on the main street, one between Messrs. Ellis and Allan, and Mr. Manuel Judah, one opposite the Eagle Tavern, now occupied by Mr. Simpson Morris, the other is occupied by Mr. Benjamin Duval, next door to Gallego, Richard & Co's. office; of the two first, possession may be given immediately, and of the other the first of January next. Also, a house situated in the alley, between the street going to Shockoe warehouse and that going to Mayo's Bridge; possession to be had immediately.  JOSEPH GALLEGO. Richmond, Oct. 6, 1808. (tf)
Fancy Furniture, JAPAN'D AND GILT, VIZ. CAIN seat, Rush, and Windsor chairs; Settees & Windsor Stools; Bedsteads, Bed and Window Cornice; Card, Pier and Tea Tables; Washstand and Workstands, and any articles in the Fancy line made to order. Pictures, Looking-Glasses, framed and re-gilt. Also, Coach, Sign and Ornamental Paintings; Freemasonry and Military Flags, done in the best manner and on the most reasonable terms, by  J. S. W. COOK. In the cross street, leading from the Bell Tavern, one door of the Main Street, Richmond, Oct. 6, 1808. (tf)
Notice. I INTEND to make application to the next General Assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia, in order to obtain a divorce. Ann Strick. Loudoun, 12th Oct. 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE,  A Small Tract of Land, Containing by a late survey, fifty nine acres, lying about six miles below the city of Richmond, and one from the road leading from said place to Four Mile Creek. This place will be shown to any person disposed to purchase, by John Turpin, living near it, and terms made known by the subscriber.  SARAH GUNN. 2nd Oct. 1808. (tf)
Notice. THE ensuing General Assembly will be petitioned to pass a law, authorising the county of Fluvanna to build a toll bridge across the Rivanna river, at the most convenient site, near the town of Columbia, and to alter the road so as to pass by said bridge. Fluvanna, Sept. 30, 1808. (tf)
Land For Sale. THE subscriber offers for SALE, the TRACT OF LAND, on which he now resides, lying on Ward's fork, about two miles from its junction with Rappahannock, from Charlottesville, and containing 300 acres, about 120 of which is cleared and inclosed with good fencing. The improvements are a good dwelling house, with 2 brick chimneys, a grist mill with 2 pair of stones, and a saw mill, on a stream which has never been known, in the driest summers, to fail furnishing water sufficient to supply the above mills. Also, a good granary, and all other necessary houses. The soil of the above land is adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn, wheat, &c. Should I not meet with a purchaser before the 6th day of Dec. next, I propose offering the above land for sale (on the next day, being the 7th day of December) to the highest bidder on a credit of 12 months. Also, all my household and kitchen FURNITURE, CORN, PORK, CATTLE, and several likely NEGROES. Twelve months credit will be given on all sums above 9 dollars, the purchasers giving bonds with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. John W. Williamson. Charlotte, 4th October, 1808. (tf)
One Thousand Pounds WANTED, FOR the interest of which, a plantation of 500 acres of valuable land will be given, until the money is refunded. Nearly 100 acres are rich low grounds, now in cultivation, lying on navigable water, the improvements new and very good, in a healthy and desirable country. Enquire of the Printer. September 8, 1808. (tf)
Fifa & Casa Executions, For sale at this office. For sale at this office.
FOR SALE, THE subscriber being desirous of paying off his debts, will offer for sale on the 15th day of November, a large stock of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep. Also, a number of valuable Plantation Utensils, on six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the dates if not punctually paid. Will also be offered for Sale, on that day, if not disposed of before.  THE TRACT OF LAND, Whereon I now live, containing between 1,800 and 2,000 acres, lying on Lickinghole Creek, within four miles of James River. There are two dwelling houses on the land, suitable for families. There is also a Mill, with a pair of Burr and a pair of Collogon stones, & machinery, worth from five to eight hundred bushels of toll a year. Also, a Distillery, with four stills, in good order—there is also an apple orchard of two or three thousand bearing trees, of the best kind of fruit. The plantation is in good order for cropping, sufficient to work 20 or 30 hands to advantage. The land will be sold on six annual payments, with a deed of trust thereon to secure the payments, as they become due. Young negroes, or lands, suitable in the western country, will be received in payment. The land will be laid off in lots so as to suit purchasers. WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON. Goochland, 7th Oct. 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber offers for SALE, the TRACT OF LAND, on which he now resides, lying on Ward's fork, about two miles from its junction with Rappahannock, from Charlottesville, and containing 300 acres, about 120 of which is cleared and inclosed with good fencing. The improvements are a good dwelling house, with 2 brick chimneys, a grist mill with 2 pair of stones, and a saw mill, on a stream which has never been known, in the driest summers, to fail furnishing water sufficient to supply the above mills. Also, a good granary, and all other necessary houses. The soil of the above land is adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn, wheat, &c. Should I not meet with a purchaser before the 6th day of Dec. next, I propose offering the above land for sale (on the next day, being the 7th day of December) to the highest bidder on a credit of 12 months. Also, all my household and kitchen FURNITURE, CORN, PORK, CATTLE, and several likely NEGROES. Twelve months credit will be given on all sums above 9 dollars, the purchasers giving bonds with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. John W. Williamson. Charlotte, 4th October, 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber offers for SALE, the TRACT OF LAND, on which he now resides, lying on Ward's fork, about two miles from its junction with Rappahannock, from Charlottesville, and containing 300 acres, about 120 of which is cleared and inclosed with good fencing. The improvements are a good dwelling house, with 2 brick chimneys, a grist mill with 2 pair of stones, and a saw mill, on a stream which has never been known, in the driest summers, to fail furnishing water sufficient to supply the above mills. Also, a good granary, and all other necessary houses. The soil of the above land is adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn, wheat, &c. Should I not meet with a purchaser before the 6th day of Dec. next, I propose offering the above land for sale (on the next day, being the 7th day of December) to the highest bidder on a credit of 12 months. Also, all my household and kitchen FURNITURE, CORN, PORK, CATTLE, and several likely NEGROES. Twelve months credit will be given on all sums above 9 dollars, the purchasers giving bonds with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. John W. Williamson. Charlotte, 4th October, 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber offers for SALE, the TRACT OF LAND, on which he now resides, lying on Ward's fork, about two miles from its junction with Rappahannock, from Charlottesville, and containing 300 acres, about 120 of which is cleared and inclosed with good fencing. The improvements are a good dwelling house, with 2 brick chimneys, a grist mill with 2 pair of stones, and a saw mill, on a stream which has never been known, in the driest summers, to fail furnishing water sufficient to supply the above mills. Also, a good granary, and all other necessary houses. The soil of the above land is adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn, wheat, &c. Should I not meet with a purchaser before the 6th day of Dec. next, I propose offering the above land for sale (on the next day, being the 7th day of December) to the highest bidder on a credit of 12 months. Also, all my household and kitchen FURNITURE, CORN, PORK, CATTLE, and several likely NEGROES. Twelve months credit will be given on all sums above 9 dollars, the purchasers giving bonds with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. John W. Williamson. Charlotte, 4th October, 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber offers for SALE, the TRACT OF LAND, on which he now resides, lying on Ward's fork, about two miles from its junction with Rappahannock, from Charlottesville, and containing 300 acres, about 120 of which is cleared and inclosed with good fencing. The improvements are a good dwelling house, with 2 brick chimneys, a grist mill with 2 pair of stones, and a saw mill, on a stream which has never been known, in the driest summers, to fail furnishing water sufficient to supply the above mills. Also, a good granary, and all other necessary houses. The soil of the above land is adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn, wheat, &c. Should I not meet with a purchaser before the 6th day of Dec. next, I propose offering the above land for sale (on the next day, being the 7th day of December) to the highest bidder on a credit of 12 months. Also, all my household and kitchen FURNITURE, CORN, PORK, CATTLE, and several likely NEGROES. Twelve months credit will be given on all sums above 9 dollars, the purchasers giving bonds with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. John W. Williamson. Charlotte, 4th October, 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber offers for SALE, the TRACT OF LAND, on which he now resides, lying on Ward's fork, about two miles from its junction with Rappahannock, from Charlottesville, and containing 300 acres, about 120 of which is cleared and inclosed with good fencing. The improvements are a good dwelling house, with 2 brick chimneys, a grist mill with 2 pair of stones, and a saw mill, on a stream which has never been known, in the driest summers, to fail furnishing water sufficient to supply the above mills. Also, a good granary, and all other necessary houses. The soil of the above land is adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn, wheat, &c. Should I not meet with a purchaser before the 6th day of Dec. next, I propose offering the above land for sale (on the next day, being the 7th day of December) to the highest bidder on a credit of 12 months. Also, all my household and kitchen FURNITURE, CORN, PORK, CATTLE, and several likely NEGROES. Twelve months credit will be given on all sums above 9 dollars, the purchasers giving bonds with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. John W. Williamson. Charlotte, 4th October, 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber offers for SALE, the TRACT OF LAND, on which he now resides, lying on Ward's fork, about two miles from its junction with Rappahannock, from Charlottesville, and containing 300 acres, about 120 of which is cleared and inclosed with good fencing. The improvements are a good dwelling house, with 2 brick chimneys, a grist mill with 2 pair of stones, and a saw mill, on a stream which has never been known, in the driest summers, to fail furnishing water sufficient to supply the above mills. Also, a good granary, and all other necessary houses. The soil of the above land is adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn, wheat, &c. Should I not meet with a purchaser before the 6th day of Dec. next, I propose offering the above land for sale (on the next day, being the 7th day of December) to the highest bidder on a credit of 12 months. Also, all my household and kitchen FURNITURE, CORN, PORK, CATTLE, and several likely NEGROES. Twelve months credit will be given on all sums above 9 dollars, the purchasers giving bonds with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. John W. Williamson. Charlotte, 4th October, 1808. (tf)
BY VIRTUE of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by Cornelius Thomas, to secure the payment of a debt due to James Murphy & Company, as therein expressed, WILL BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on Saturday the 19th day of November next, in the town of Warrenton.
A Tract of Land, Lying in the County of Nelson, (expressed in the deed lying in the county of Amherst, the deed being made before a division of Amherst county,) on the waters of the South Fork of Rockfish River, containing by estimation, Two Thousand Three Hundred and One Acres, more or less, adjoining the lands of William Johnson, Edward Harding, Norborne Thomas, Joseph C. Gabel and William Bowman. Also, a Tract of Land, lying in the county of Buckingham, containing Four Hundred Acres, adjoining the lands of Miles Gibson, and others. We will convey such title to the above mentioned tracts of land, as is vested in us by the said deed of trust. REUBEN B. PATTESON, } Trustees. WILLIAM F. CARTER, } Nelson County, 12th Oct. 1808. (tf)
Notice. A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying for the establishment of a town at Buckingham Courthouse. 4w Oct. 10, 1808.
Notice. NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition will be presented to the next Assembly, to alter the Scite fixed on by the commissioners for the public buildings in the county of Nelson. October 17th, 1808. tmA.
5 Dollars Reward. RANAWAY from the subscriber, living in the lower part of Buckingham, on the 29th Sept. a mulatto man named BOB (Black Smith by trade.) He is a very light mulatto, wears his hair tied, has thick lips large and mouth, & is 5 feet 7 inches high; was well dressed, with black hat, large blue surcoat, lined with red flannel, osnaburgs shirt, check trousers, and shoes and stockings. It is supposed he has made his way to Richmond, as he has some relations living in that city. The above reward will be paid on any one securing him, so that the owner gets him. Moncrieffe Hill, Adm'r. to Robert Hill, dec. or Charles Oakley. New Canton, Oct. 1808. (tf)
Notice. IN pursuance to a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by Archibald C. Randolph, to secure the payment of a certain sum of money therein mentioned, due to Samuel Harris, will be exposed for sale, at Jefferson, on the 28th of December next, one MULATTO GIRL, named Priscilla, for cash, which after defraying the expenses of said trust, and the debt specified, the residue if any, to be returned as the law directs. ALBAN GILPIN, Trustee. Powhatan, Oct. 20th, 1808. (tf)
A Great Chance for Speculation.  The Falling Garden FOR SALE. THE subscriber intends opening a street through the middle of the Garden, in a line with the street on which the Mason's Hall is built, and calling it New Street; and one other crossing the Garden, and coming out by the Bell Tavern, and calling that Bath Street; and as there are no names given to streets in Richmond, I shall call the street at the head of the Garden, Locust Street, until better names can be given them; and on these streets so named, I shall lay out the land in building lots, and shall offer them for sale on the 24th day of next month if the weather proves suitable; if not, the next suitable day, the Vendue to begin at ten o'clock, and commence on the lots directly back of the Bell Tavern; they will be sold to the highest bidder without reserve; the terms are one fourth cash; one fourth in one year; one fourth in two years, and the other fourth in three years from the day of sale, the three last payments to be secured by a deed of trust on the property, with interest from the day of sale, if not paid in 60 days after the payments become due. In the mean time I will contract with any person or persons for the building of from two to six, two story Brick Houses. A deed with a general warranty will be given the purchasers. A plan of the whole may be seen at the Argus office; and the premises will be shown on application to the subscriber. JAMES LOWNES. 10th Month, 25th, 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber being desirous of paying off his debts, will offer for sale on the 15th day of November, a large stock of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep. Also, a number of valuable Plantation Utensils, on six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the dates if not punctually paid. Will also be offered for Sale, on that day, if not disposed of before.  THE TRACT OF LAND, Whereon I now live, containing between 1,800 and 2,000 acres, lying on Lickinghole Creek, within four miles of James River. There are two dwelling houses on the land, suitable for families. There is also a Mill, with a pair of Burr and a pair of Collogon stones, & machinery, worth from five to eight hundred bushels of toll a year. Also, a Distillery, with four stills, in good order—there is also an apple orchard of two or three thousand bearing trees, of the best kind of fruit. The plantation is in good order for cropping, sufficient to work 20 or 30 hands to advantage. The land will be sold on six annual payments, with a deed of trust thereon to secure the payments, as they become due. Young negroes, or lands, suitable in the western country, will be received in payment. The land will be laid off in lots so as to suit purchasers. WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON. Goochland, 7th Oct. 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber being desirous of paying off his debts, will offer for sale on the 15th day of November, a large stock of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep. Also, a number of valuable Plantation Utensils, on six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the dates if not punctually paid. Will also be offered for Sale, on that day, if not disposed of before.  THE TRACT OF LAND, Whereon I now live, containing between 1,800 and 2,000 acres, lying on Lickinghole Creek, within four miles of James River. There are two dwelling houses on the land, suitable for families. There is also a Mill, with a pair of Burr and a pair of Collogon stones, & machinery, worth from five to eight hundred bushels of toll a year. Also, a Distillery, with four stills, in good order—there is also an apple orchard of two or three thousand bearing trees, of the best kind of fruit. The plantation is in good order for cropping, sufficient to work 20 or 30 hands to advantage. The land will be sold on six annual payments, with a deed of trust thereon to secure the payments, as they become due. Young negroes, or lands, suitable in the western country, will be received in payment. The land will be laid off in lots so as to suit purchasers. WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON. Goochland, 7th Oct. 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber being desirous of paying off his debts, will offer for sale on the 15th day of November, a large stock of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep. Also, a number of valuable Plantation Utensils, on six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the dates if not punctually paid. Will also be offered for Sale, on that day, if not disposed of before.  THE TRACT OF LAND, Whereon I now live, containing between 1,800 and 2,000 acres, lying on Lickinghole Creek, within four miles of James River. There are two dwelling houses on the land, suitable for families. There is also a Mill, with a pair of Burr and a pair of Collogon stones, & machinery, worth from five to eight hundred bushels of toll a year. Also, a Distillery, with four stills, in good order—there is also an apple orchard of two or three thousand bearing trees, of the best kind of fruit. The plantation is in good order for cropping, sufficient to work 20 or 30 hands to advantage. The land will be sold on six annual payments, with a deed of trust thereon to secure the payments, as they become due. Young negroes, or lands, suitable in the western country, will be received in payment. The land will be laid off in lots so as to suit purchasers. WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON. Goochland, 7th Oct. 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber being desirous of paying off his debts, will offer for sale on the 15th day of November, a large stock of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep. Also, a number of valuable Plantation Utensils, on six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the dates if not punctually paid. Will also be offered for Sale, on that day, if not disposed of before.  THE TRACT OF LAND, Whereon I now live, containing between 1,800 and 2,000 acres, lying on Lickinghole Creek, within four miles of James River. There are two dwelling houses on the land, suitable for families. There is also a Mill, with a pair of Burr and a pair of Collogon stones, & machinery, worth from five to eight hundred bushels of toll a year. Also, a Distillery, with four stills, in good order—there is also an apple orchard of two or three thousand bearing trees, of the best kind of fruit. The plantation is in good order for cropping, sufficient to work 20 or 30 hands to advantage. The land will be sold on six annual payments, with a deed of trust thereon to secure the payments, as they become due. Young negroes, or lands, suitable in the western country, will be received in payment. The land will be laid off in lots so as to suit purchasers. WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON. Goochland, 7th Oct. 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber being desirous of paying off his debts, will offer for sale on the 15th day of November, a large stock of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep. Also, a number of valuable Plantation Utensils, on six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the dates if not punctually paid. Will also be offered for Sale, on that day, if not disposed of before.  THE TRACT OF LAND, Whereon I now live, containing between 1,800 and 2,000 acres, lying on Lickinghole Creek, within four miles of James River. There are two dwelling houses on the land, suitable for families. There is also a Mill, with a pair of Burr and a pair of Collogon stones, & machinery, worth from five to eight hundred bushels of toll a year. Also, a Distillery, with four stills, in good order—there is also an apple orchard of two or three thousand bearing trees, of the best kind of fruit. The plantation is in good order for cropping, sufficient to work 20 or 30 hands to advantage. The land will be sold on six annual payments, with a deed of trust thereon to secure the payments, as they become due. Young negroes, or lands, suitable in the western country, will be received in payment. The land will be laid off in lots so as to suit purchasers. WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON. Goochland, 7th Oct. 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber being desirous of paying off his debts, will offer for sale on the 15th day of November, a large stock of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep. Also, a number of valuable Plantation Utensils, on six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the dates if not punctually paid. Will also be offered for Sale, on that day, if not disposed of before.  THE TRACT OF LAND, Whereon I now live, containing between 1,800 and 2,000 acres, lying on Lickinghole Creek, within four miles of James River. There are two dwelling houses on the land, suitable for families. There is also a Mill, with a pair of Burr and a pair of Collogon stones, & machinery, worth from five to eight hundred bushels of toll a year. Also, a Distillery, with four stills, in good order—there is also an apple orchard of two or three thousand bearing trees, of the best kind of fruit. The plantation is in good order for cropping, sufficient to work 20 or 30 hands to advantage. The land will be sold on six annual payments, with a deed of trust thereon to secure the payments, as they become due. Young negroes, or lands, suitable in the western country, will be received in payment. The land will be laid off in lots so as to suit purchasers. WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON. Goochland, 7th Oct. 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber being desirous of paying off his debts, will offer for sale on the 15th day of November, a large stock of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep. Also, a number of valuable Plantation Utensils, on six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the dates if not punctually paid. Will also be offered for Sale, on that day, if not disposed of before.  THE TRACT OF LAND, Whereon I now live, containing between 1,800 and 2,000 acres, lying on Lickinghole Creek, within four miles of James River. There are two dwelling houses on the land, suitable for families. There is also a Mill, with a pair of Burr and a pair of Collogon stones, & machinery, worth from five to eight hundred bushels of toll a year. Also, a Distillery, with four stills, in good order—there is also an apple orchard of two or three thousand bearing trees, of the best kind of fruit. The plantation is in good order for cropping, sufficient to work 20 or 30 hands to advantage. The land will be sold on six annual payments, with a deed of trust thereon to secure the payments, as they become due. Young negroes, or lands, suitable in the western country, will be received in payment. The land will be laid off in lots so as to suit purchasers. WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON. Goochland, 7th Oct. 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber being desirous of paying off his debts, will offer for sale on the 15th day of November, a large stock of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep. Also, a number of valuable Plantation Utensils, on six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the dates if not punctually paid. Will also be offered for Sale, on that day, if not disposed of before.  THE TRACT OF LAND, Whereon I now live, containing between 1,800 and 2,000 acres, lying on Lickinghole Creek, within four miles of James River. There are two dwelling houses on the land, suitable for families. There is also a Mill, with a pair of Burr and a pair of Collogon stones, & machinery, worth from five to eight hundred bushels of toll a year. Also, a Distillery, with four stills, in good order—there is also an apple orchard of two or three thousand bearing trees, of the best kind of fruit. The plantation is in good order for cropping, sufficient to work 20 or 30 hands to advantage. The land will be sold on six annual payments, with a deed of trust thereon to secure the payments, as they become due. Young negroes, or lands, suitable in the western country, will be received in payment. The land will be laid off in lots so as to suit purchasers. WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON. Goochland, 7th Oct. 1808. (tf)
FOR SALE, THE subscriber being desirous of paying off his debts, will offer for sale on the 15th day of November, a large stock of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep. Also, a number of valuable Plantation Utensils, on six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the dates if not punctually paid. Will also be offered for Sale, on that day, if not disposed of before.  THE TRACT OF LAND, Whereon I now live, containing between 1,800 and 2,000 acres, lying on Lickinghole Creek, within four miles of James River. There are two dwelling houses on the land, suitable for families. There is also a Mill, with a pair of Burr and a pair of Collogon stones, & machinery, worth from five to eight hundred bushels of toll a year. Also, a Distillery, with four stills, in good order—there is also an apple orchard of two or three thousand bearing trees, of the best kind of fruit. The plantation is in good order for cropping, sufficient to work 20 or 30 hands to advantage. The land will be sold on six annual payments, with a deed of trust thereon to secure the payments, as they become due. Young negroes, or lands, suitable in the western country, will be received in payment. The land will be laid off in lots so as to suit purchasers. WILLIAM M