The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-08-22 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
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NUMBER 31.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1806.
[VOLUME 3.]
VALUABLE PROPERTY--FOR SALE.
BEING desirous of removing to the Western country, I will sell the land whereon I now live, in Buckingham county, at the mouth of Slate river, on James river, fifty miles above Richmond; containing above One Thousand Acres, one hundred and twenty of which, at least, are Excellent Low Grounds. On this farm are all necessary and convenient improvements for any fixed family, viz. a spacious and handsome Dwelling House, quite new; Kitchen, Meat-house, Stables, Carriage-house, Barn, Ice-house, a Garden well paled in with the best materials--also, nearly all new--There are on this farm tolerable Orchards of different kinds; and two Shad-fisheries, surpassed by none on the river above the falls. One fourth of the purchase money will be required in hand; and the remainder in three equal annual payments, with a lien on the premises to secure the payment of those three last sums.
GEORGE NICHOLAS.
With the above valuable farm, and immediately adjoining, may be had also, the SLATE QUARRIES, heretofore advertised; supposed by good judges, who have visited them, to be equal if not superior to any now known, in point of quantity, quality and situation. For the reasons formerly given, they may be had for any species of property more convenient to, or requiring less attention from the subscriber. If they are not from disposed of, it is proposed to recommence the working of them the ensuing autumn: when, it is confidently believed from the experiments already made, that covering of that kind may be expected on much more reasonable terms in Virginia, than that lately and heavy article can possibly be had from any more distant quarters.
JOHN NICHOLAS. (strew.)
SAMUEL BARRET, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER; INFORMS his friends and the public in general, that he has taken the store, next door below the Eagle Tavern; where he will execute any work, in his line of business, either gentlemen or ladies shoes, on the shortest notice. August 1. (entf.)
SCHEME. RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY. 4000 tickets at 10 dols. 40,000 1 prize of 10,000 dols. 10,000 10 do. of 500 5,000 50 do. of 100 5,000 40 do. of 50 2,000 1900 do. of 15 18,000 1901 prizes. 40,000 2699 blanks. 4,000 The following prizes are stationary, to wit: The first ticket after 1000 are drawn. 500 dols. do. after 1500 500 do. after 2000 500 do. after 2500 500 do. after 3000 500 do. after 3500 10,000 Tickets may be had of the members of the committee, at the Treasury Office, the Bank, Samuel Pleasants's Book Store, and at the Office of the Enquirer.
GEO. HAY, GEO. TUCKER, WM. MOSELEY, ROBT. MITCHELL, & WM. DU VAL, COMMITTEE. The drawing will take place in December in this city, and the prizes paid 60 days after its completion. Richmond, August 1. oaw2m.
JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBER: An Extensive Assortment of GROCERIES--among which are the following articles: Muscovado sugar assorted } Tar West-India Coffee } Thos. Leiper's Snuff Antigua & Jamaica Rum } Macouba do. Country do. } Havana Segars Cogniac & Peach Brandy } Salt Petre Holland Gin } Brimstone, Madder, and W. India and Sugar-house } Ground Ginger in small Molasses } kegs L. P. Madeira Wine } Log-wood Port, Sherry and Malaga } Turkey Cotton Wine } New-York Candles and Hibberts Brown Stout } Soap Martinique and Bordeaux } Spermaceti Candles Cordials } Oil Baskett Salt } Patent Lamps Doz. in sacks and loose } Dutch Cakes with plain Bullock's Cheese } and gift Bottles Caldwell, Frazier & Co's } Callings assorted Superfine Chocolate } Earthen and Stone Ware Rice } Writing & Wrapping paper Nutmegs, Pepper, Ginger, } Heavy VIII. and Merry and Pimento } Andrew Cards Mace and Cloves } China Plates do. Bowls Oil, Olives, and Caper } of different sizes Gun-powder, Young Hy- } Do. Tea and Coffee Cups son and Souchong Tea } and Saucers and 3lb. Gun-powder } Do. Chimney ornaments Tea } Plain and cut glass and Pickled Salmon } half pint Decanters Cut Herrings and Shad } Pint, half-pint & Gill Tum- Patent shot assorted } blers P and FF Gun-powder } A few sets Table China. A regular supply of Lead Sugar by the bhd. and barrel, at Philadelphia price. FISLER & LESUEUR. May 27. cawf.
JOHN ALCOCK, INFORMS the Citizens of Richmond, and the public, he has just received at his Cabinet Manufactory near the Fire Insurance Office a large assortment of Windsor Chairs and Settees, made in the newest fashion and by the best workmen in the state; any gentleman wishing to buy, will please send their orders or call at his Cabinet Manufactory, where they may get good warranted work, and on low terms, either in the Cabinet line or Windsor Chairs. June 6. tf.
JUST RECEIVED, And for sale at the Enquirer Book-store, "A MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE FOR THE USE OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES" BY THOMAS JEFFERSON.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE COURT AND CABINET OF ST. CLOUD.
PRINTED AT THE ENQUIRER PRESS THIS DAY PUBLISHED. A CORRECT Edition of "THE RUDIMENTS of the LATIN TONGUE; or, A Plain and Easy Introduction to LATIN GRAMMAR; wherein the principles of the language are methodically digested, both in English and Latin--With useful Notes and Observations, explaining the Terms of Grammar, and farther improving its Rules." BY THOMAS RUDDIMAN, M. A. August 2, 1802.
NOTICE.
THE Co-partnership of GILLIAT & KIRBY , by its limitation, would expire on the first day of next month; but the members of that firm have mutually agreed to extend it to the first day of May next--All persons indebted thereto are earnestly requested to come forward without delay and pay off what they respectively owe, as longer indulgence ought not to be expected. Those who have unsettled accounts and cannot make immediate payment, it is hoped will execute bonds for their respective balances. GILLIAT & KIRBY have already received a part of their FALL GOODS , and by the first arrivals from London, Liverpool, &c. the residue is expected, which they will sell low for cash--Country produce or approved notes. August 19. ep 2m.
GILLIAT & KIRBY.
WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE.
AUGUST, 1806. IT is hereby made known to the public, that there will be established in College a plain, but decent table, upon the lowest terms, which will secure the institution against loss. The board will commence on the 3rd Monday in October, the period fixed for opening the lectures in the philosophical and mathematical schools. It is also notified, that all junior students will be compelled to lodge in College, to board at the public table, to devote certain stated hours to study, to appear at the calling of a roll at 8 o'clock in the evening, during the winter term, and at 9, during that of the summer; to continue in their rooms, after they have retired from the roll, till the next morning; and to observe other regulations, which cannot fail to be highly beneficial to youth. The object of these arrangements is, not only to diminish the expense of a student at this College, but, to guard, as effectually as can be done, against dissipation and idleness. For this latter purpose, a system, more restrictive than that hitherto adopted, will be decidedly pursued. Parents and Guardians who wish their increased tendency to those evils, against which the College holds itself bound to oppose every barrier within its power, will not hesitate to approve of these means, which may be deemed necessary for its salutary purpose. But, a silent approbation is not sufficient. Their cooperation also is essential. They are, therefore, earnestly requested to take care, that their sons, or wards, shall be compelled to observe a prudent and wise economy. It is a maxim, not to be forgotten, that the improvement of youth will generally be inversely as their expense; nor is it less true, that their expenditures will be in proportion to the temptations, which a misapplied liberality must excite. Let them no money be furnished beyond a moderate sum; and, let no credit be allowed, except for specified articles, and to a specified amount. This advice to Parents and Guardians, will, it is hoped, be duly appreciated, and departed from in no instance. It is impossible, that the wisest system of education can give to youth those inestimable benefits, which might otherwise be derived, if Parents and Guardians do not liberally, and zealously, compel obedience to that economy, which is here to earnestly recommend; and, that every one may know what may be considered as the necessary expenditure of a student, at this College, it is stated, that The board, for the course, will not exceed dols. 100 Fees to two professors, 50 Candles, fuel and washing, 35 Pocket money, not to exceed 40 205 By the Society, J. MADISON, PR. (AttyGenl.) August 19.
VALUABLE LANDS--FOR SALE.
ON the 20th Sept. next, will be offered for sale, on the premises, to the highest bidder, on the following terms: that well known tract of land, containing 1300 acres, to which are attached the invaluable Chalybeate Springs, commonly known by the name of the Amelia Springs; in point of fertility, the soil is equal to any in the neighbourhood; the buildings new and capacious, the situation agreeable, and uncommonly healthy. It being presumed, that those intending to purchase, will view the premises, which at any time before the sale, will be shewed them by Mr. H. Anderson, residing on the land; a further description is deemed unnecessary. The terms of sale will be 1/4 paid in hand, and the other two thirds in two annual payments. Complete and satisfactory security will be required of the purchaser. For the accommodation of the purchaser, liberty will be given to sow wheat in September, and full possession given the 1st January, 1807. EXECUTORS. (1208. p.) August 19.
FOR SALE--A likely NEGRO BOY.
Enquire of the Printer. August 12. (f.)
NOTICE.
APPREHENSIONS for the health of his family having disabled the subscriber from abiding permanently at Norfolk, he has removed to the city of Richmond, and fixed his office in the house near the Capitol, lately occupied by the Commissioner of Loans. He proposes to practise law in the Federal Court, Court of Appeals, and Court of Chancery, in Richmond; and will continue also to practise in the Chancery District Court of Williamsburg, and District Court of Suffolk. WM. WIRT. August 5.
TO SPORTSMEN.
Will be sold publicly at the Bowling Green, on the 10th day of October next (if not privately disposed of before that time) the following Stock: BUZARD--DARE DEVL--ARCHDUKE, ESCAPE, by Precipitate out of a litter of Buzard's-- STORM, by Czarowitz out of a Darlington mare. After which about thirty thorough bred brood Mares, Colts and Fillies. The terms of sale will be made known in a few weeks by JOHN G. WOOLFOLK and JOHN HOOMES, Executors of John Hoomes, dec'd. August 1.
ALEXANDER STUART, Esquire, of Richmond, and Col. William Daniel, of Cumberland county, are co-obligors as to undertake my law business.
The former will give his attention to it in the federal court and in the court of appeals. The latter in the superior court of chancery for the Richmond district. July 19. CREED TAYLOR. (tf.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT some time in the month of October 1806, I enclosed a parcel of papers in a letter directed to Mr. John A. Robertson of Amelia county, near Genito Bridge, which letter with its contents was never received by Mr. Robertson. The subject of the letter related to a certain suit, brought by me, against Pleasant Roberts, of Amelia, giving Mr. Robertson, whom I employed as my attorney, such directions as the case required. The papers were principally wheat receipts, some signed by the said Pleasant Roberts, & others by Chastain and Willie Roberts for Pleasant Roberts, together with other vouchers. Any person who will be good enough to convey or cause them to be conveyed to me in this place, shall receive TWENTY DOLLARS reward. BENJAMIN DENNIS. Manchester, August 8. Gtp.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
AN Active Young Man to act as a BAR-KEEPER, to whom liberal wages will be given. Enquire at the Eagle Tavern. July 22. (tf.)
A BARGAIN
May be had in a Chariot, Harness, and pair of excellent horses--Enquire of the Editor. August 5. tf.
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, as usual, &c.
WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. [entf.]
3,000 wt. SALT PETER'D BACON, 1,000 wt. BUTTER, 1,000 wt. ENGLAND CHEESE, 10 gws. POTATO CYDER, A few bushels CLOVER SEED, 150 pieces PAPER HANGINGS.
For Sale by EDWARD HALLAM. Constantly for Hire--An Excellent Carriage and Horses--apply as above. May 27. cotsf.
FOR SALE,
A Molasses Female SERVANT, who has been accustomed to plain cooking, washing and ironing--Apply to the Printer. August 12. 4t.
FOR SALE,
At public auction, on the premises, on Wednesday, 10th September next, (if not previously disposed of by private contract), FIVE hundred and fifty acres LAND, situated in the upper end of Cumberland county, eighteen miles from the Court House, three from Farmville, and one from a good manufacturing mill on Appomattox, now navigable almost to Petersburg. This LAND lies handsomely, is in good order and inferior in quality to none east of the mountains; there is 10 or 12 acres meadow, handsomely situated with timber, and about 20 acres more prepared for sowing next spring; in addition there is an extensive bed of Coal which to a person of capital would be highly valuable; one third the purchase money will be required in hand and the balance in two annual instalments. JOHN NELSON. August 12, 1806. tf.
Foreign Intelligence.
BRITISH IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
House of Commons, June 20. SLAVE TRADE. (Concluded.)
General TARLETON said, that this measure had been almost invariably introduced before the House annually for eighteen years without success, if least in the other House of Parliament, though the question had been sometimes carried in the Commons. There was not, on this occasion, any positive ground laid for the present motion, arising, as formerly, in the real or supposed cruelty experienced by the slaves in the Colonies; there was not a petition presented for the abolition, or any new argument advanced to show the necessity of abandoning the slave trade. He begged leave to warn ministers of the injury which it would accomplish if carried into effect. When Liverpool began the slave trade in the last century, it was only a fishing hamlet, but in proportion as it extended this commerce, its prosperity increased, till at last it was able to contribute nearly three millions annually to the taxes of the country. If, however, this question were to be carried, he knew that bankruptcies, distress, and emigration of artisans to America would be the consequence. He should conclude with stating, that if the abolition of the slave trade were to be ratified by the Legislature, his constituents intended to apply to Parliament for compensation for their losses. Mr. FRANCIS observed, that the Honourable General's contents might petition Parliament for compensation, but he trusted that they could not be successful. For his own part, he had no hesitation to declare, that he would not accede to any compensation for losses sustained in a traffic revolting to humanity, justice, and policy. As to the subject itself, he might be allowed to say, that he had uniformly supported the abolition, without regard to the quarter from which it proceeded. This being the ground on which he had resolved to act, he must therefore express his doubts respecting the mode recommended to the House for its adoption. He had expected that the resolution of this night would be similar to the one passed in May, 1792, which expressly stated, that from such a day, in such a year, there should not be any further importation of negroes or slaves into the West-India Colonies. This resolution was determinate and positive, but that now before the House was quite open and inconclusive. Lord CASTLEREAGH concurred with the Honourable gentleman (Mr. Francis) that the Right Honourable secretary (Fox) would have acted much more confidently, considering his arguments both on that and every other occasion when the subject was introduced, if he had introduced some substantive measure, instead of an unintelligible proposition--The noble Lord then took a view of the general question, and
argued at considerable length against the policy and justice of the abolition of the slave trade.
The Solicitor General gave his cordial support to the motion of his Right honourable Friend (the secretary of state), though he confessed he would feel more satisfaction in supporting a motion for leave to bring in a Bill to abolish the slave trade. Though the resolution did not go as far as he wished, yet he was ready to support it because the House would stand pledged to take the measure into consideration. If gentlemen thought the resolution too narrow in its object, it was competent to them to submit a more enlarged motion. He did not see any necessity for debating the question at any considerable length, because nothing could be urged in support of the slave trade but arguments already refuted, and assertions without the shadow of foundation. He considered the country to stand, with respect to this measure in a most disgraceful condition. It would be remembered, that the House had resolved, in 1792, to inquire into the oppressions and cruelties said to have been then practiced in the colonies. Accordingly a committee had been appointed to consider the subject, which reported that the system pursued in the West-India plantations, as well as on the Coast of Africa, was a scene of rapine, cruelty, and murder. After all this had been ascertained, yet the country had since suffered the importation of 3,000,000 slaves from Africa. In order to get rid of the accumulated guilt and barbarous cruelty which hung over the country, in consequence of this abominable traffic, he would endeavour to acquit himself from any share of it, by giving the measure of abolition his most cordial vote and support.
General GASCOYNE declared, that notwithstanding the attention which he had paid to the speech of the Right honourable secretary (Fox), he still entertained his former opinion on the subject. Of all other means for effecting such a measure, this was the most improper, when taxes and the other expenses of war were so much wanted. The House should well consider this subject, which must considerably diminish the public resources, and injure not only the individuals concerned in this trade, but the whole empire. The Right honourable gentleman (the solicitor general) had represented the slave trade as a system of rapine and murder. (a loud cry of bear! bear!) but was it just to make such comments on a measure which had received the sanction of the Legislature from the time of Elizabeth, and the approbation of our ancestors? (Laughing in many parts of the house.) The honourable general then proceeded to vindicate the slave trade from scoundrelism, and quoted for that purpose the 25th chapter of Leviticus, verses 35 and 46, in which the sale of bondmen and bondwomen was set forth, and deemed consistent with all law human and divine. The honourable general concluded with expressing his disapprobation of the Resolution proposed to the House for its concurrence. Mr. Wilberforce adverted to the speech of the Honourable General (Gascoyne) which he considered in some parts of it as an infringement upon the strict orders of the House. It was, he contended, the glory of that religion, which the Hon. General had not treated in the most serious point of view, to forbid the practice, by telling us, that we ought to add upon the principles of love and kindness to each other, and of good will to all men. The Honourable Gentleman then noticed the Address to his Majesty, moved in 1797, for the purpose of inviting the Colonies to agree in the Abolition. So far as that address from producing the desired effect, that the Assemblies of the different islands refused to accede to the invitation, declaring that they considered the trade as their birth right. His Noble Friend was not justified, therefore, in taking of the willingness in the Colonies to co-operate in the Abolition. With respect to the assertion that the fame inherent impracticability was found to exist from 1792 to the present moment, it was true, that interest would ever be a cool, ready, and lasting principle, which must get the better of feelings of humanity and compassion. The right hon. secretary (Mr. Fox) was entitled to the thanks of his country for having brought the subject forward. He believed his wishes upon it were in union with his own, but he should have rather preferred a bill than the mode which was proposed, as the delay in arriving at the desired point would not be attended with so many inconveniences. If Gentlemen were on the spot where the evils complained of exist, they would not suffer the continuance of the trade. All that could in reality be urged against the Abolition was, that it appeared to be carried on too tardily. It never was designed by Providence that the question of policy should be connected with a traffic so infamous. As to the population, and the means of increasing it, if Nature was left to herself, she would take care that population should be promoted. Let the negroes be well fed, and their moral improvement attended to, and they would increase and multiply without the necessity of resorting to duties other than moral ones. It was only by the Abolition of the Trade the system of breeding would be attended with success. The Chancellor of the Exchequer wished shortly to state his opinion on this subject, as he had not before had an opportunity of doing so--A Bill for the Abolition would have given him more satisfaction, but as that could not be expected, he perfectly concurred in the resolution of his Right Honourable Friend, which was, that after it had been decided in 1792, that the traffic should be given up in 1796, we should now in 1806, pass a vote pledging the House to proceed in the business as soon as possible. It could not be indecorous to send such a Resolution to the other House, as we do not affirm that their opinion was contrary to our own, as far as this Resolution went. As to his own opinion of the traffic, he was perfectly satisfied that it was contrary to every principle of justice, of humanity, and sound policy. It began in robbery, in rapine and murder, and the cruelties of the middle passage were perpetrated in a distant scene. About one half of the slaves were sometimes lost on the passage, and the trade was of all others, the most destructive to the British seamen, for often one sixth of the whole crew perished in it. It rendered the very persons by whom it was carried on most deplorably vicious. This was the cause that population was not kept up. Population would always keep close to the means of subsistence, except obscured by vice and misery. The vices of the West-Indies, by putting an end to all the domestic charities, and all idea of domestic virtue, of course obstructed the population. There were no hopes of concurrence on the part of
the colonists.
With regard to the propositions to Foreign powers, he was less disposed to ratify with vulgar security at the cost of the French government, than many others, but he would not bind so far to his opinion as to refrain from making what he thought a proper proposal, merely because Bonaparte might happen to think it ridiculous. Mr. Rose objected to the time at which this resolution was proposed. He was against an immediate abolition, but would have concurred in any reasonable and gradual project. He had proposed that of duties, till they amounted to a prohibition; but that had not been listened to. He had differed from his late right honourable Friend on this point, and also on Parliamentary Reform. It was not to be expected that he would now concur in the resolution merely from respect to his memory. He had even promised to quit his seat in this house, before his friend's sincerity should be questioned, but he had not been allowed it. It would be a great question to decide, whether it is better to have an immediate abolition, and the noble lord seemed to have that temptation.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in explanation, said, that he never had such a wild idea as that immediate emancipation should take place, but that the slaves should be gradually having gone through the same functions as they have here, he certainly had an contemplation when he supported the abolition, which he considered as the first step to a desirable and perfect object.
Mr. Windham assured the house, that at present he wished nothing more than the abolition of the Slave Trade; when a proper period should arrive, and that the government of other powers should be obtained, he would not hesitate to say, that slavery itself ought not to be suffered to remain among the institutions of any civilized state. Mr. Fox explained some points, which the hon. general (Mr. Tarleton) opposed to his motion. In this session, he might be allowed to add, he would endeavour to obtain the assent to the L. to the proposition which he had reserved. The pure dictates of humanity, which had already contributed more than any other cause towards the abolition, might afterwards lead to a grand and prudent emancipation. The trade at least was such as every principle of right would induce us to abolish, whatever might be the inconvenience to which it would subject us. The concurrence of America was certainly not immediate, and no other power was immediately calculated for the carrying on of this nefarious traffic, if even they were inclined to take it up after we had abolished it.
The question was then put, and the numbers were--For the motion 114--against it 15--majority 99.
On re-entering the gallery, after it had been cleared, as usual, for the division, we found Mr. Fox moving, that a conference be desired with the Lords on a subject that is particularly connected with the honour and humanity of the nation. Carried nem con. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was, on the motion of Mr. Fox, ordered to meet their lordships for that purpose. Mr. Wilberforce, after a few preparatory observations, moved, that an humble address be presented to his majesty, beseeching him that he may be graciously pleased to adopt such measures as to him may seem meet, to induce America, and the powers of Europe, to unite with this country in a resolution to abolish the Trade in Slaves. This was also carried unanimously.
NORFOLK, August 15.
From Papers received at the Office of the Publick Ledger, by the ship Hercules, Captain Bradfords, in 48 days from Liverpool.
LONDON, June 13.
The rumour of a negotiation between this country and France, continues still to prevail. The appointment of Mr. Adige to the court of Vienna, and the arrival of D'Oubril in that city, are supposed to have relation to this object. It is considered as probable that, after some conferences with the Austrian cabinet, they may proceed together to Paris. We understand our government to have always professed a readiness to treat in conjunction with Russia, though it peremptorily rejected an overture for a separate negotiation. A conjoint negotiation would undoubtedly encircle the difficulties which stand in the way of peace; but then, should it terminate happily, it would give a permanence and solidity to it, which we should vainly look for in any separate and particular arrangement. The next Homburgh mail will probably decide whether there be any good grounds for the sanguine expectations which have been entertained for the last three or four days. As to the report of Lord Yarmouth having been sent to Paris with dispatches, we do not consider it as deserving of credit. He might have returned there for his wife and family, but persons of his rank are not usually employed as couriers, and it is not, in our opinion, very likely that the conduct of a negotiation for peace, or even any arrangement respecting the overture or preliminaries, would be entrusted to his Lordship. That Bonaparte may be anxious for peace, we can well believe, but we are persuaded he will never make an important sacrifice to obtain it. He will never relinquish what he has, nor allow us, if possible, to retain what we have wrested from his allies, his dependents we should rather say. He would have no great difficulty in restoring Hanover to the elector, but he would most probably require the Cape of Good Hope as an equivalent. Is the country prepared to give its consent to an arrangement of this nature? June 19. The Hamburg mail due on Sunday arrived this morning. It brings no intelligence of moment. The arrangements which have been made with respect to Cataro, do not appear to have transpired at Vienna. We should have expected that some notice would have been taken in the Court Gazette of a fact so confidentially announced in the French official paper. The only intelligence which we receive from the Austrian capital is, that much diplomatic activity prevails there, and that great exertions are making to fill the immense void created in the arsenal by French rapacity. The emperor of Austria has been compelled to shut the ports of Trieste and Piume against the Russians and English. This restriction upon the freedom of these ports is stated to be only a temporary and conditional measure, depending, for its continuance, upon the evacuation of the mouths of the

Catago. We are not surprised that Austria, finding herself unable to resist the influence of Russia, has been forced to agree to a new arrangement. The conclusion of this treaty, which has been so long and so anxiously expected, will, it is believed, put an end to the war. The unfortunate treaty of Presburgh, should be endeavoured to escape from them at the expense of any sacrifice, however great.
The dispute between Prussia and Sweden has not been productive of any further hostile operations. The blockade of the ports of the latter in the Baltic. His Prussian Majesty is anxious to compromise the quarrel in some way. The interference of Russia has been solicited, and if it be but cordially employed, must certainly be successful. His Majesty either appears to be very confident in his means of resistance, or to be little apprehensive of attack, for he has disbanded the levy en masse which he called out in his dominions in Pomerania.
A rumour prevailed in the North of Germany that the Prussian troops were about to evacuate Hanover; certain it is, that they have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to march. Nothing is more likely than that his Prussian Majesty would be willing to retire, for a time, from that electorate, to obtain the suspension of those energetic measures adopted by our government against his commerce. But would the independence of Hanover, or its restoration to its legitimate sovereign, follow this temporary evacuation? So far from it, that the moment the Prussians retire, or make any disposition for that purpose, we are persuaded the whole of that unhappy country will be again inundated by French troops. Now as the former are, we believe, less rigorous task-masters than the latter, we wish to see them continue in possession of the electorate until a definitive peace shall restore it to its lawful sovereign.
The following is the substance of our private correspondence:
HAMBURGH, June 10. The French troops still in Germany are preparing for their return. Marshal Augereau's corps on the Rhine has orders to hold itself in readiness to march at a moment's notice. The number of French troops in Bavaria still exceeds 72,000 men. The city of Frankfort has made another application for a remission of the contribution imposed on it: 700,000 marks of the sum originally demanded have already been paid.
The last letters from Vienna, of the 31st ult. state, that a messenger has been sent from thence with very important dispatches to London. His name is B-er, and he passed thro' this city the day before yesterday.
The Prussian troops in Hanover have orders to hold themselves in readiness to march at the shortest notice; and should that army really evacuate that country, a French re-invasion on the part of Augereau and Lefevre is considered as certain.
It is reported that prince Joachim Murat will cede his new dominions to the new king of Holland, and be crowned king of Switzerland.
Baron Reden, the Hanoverian minister to the Diet of Ratisbon, has left that city. Previous to his departure he addressed to such of the diplomatic corps as are not hostile to his sovereign, a pamphlet, entitled "A more particular elucidation of the conduct of the King of Prussia, towards his Majesty the King of G. Britain, as Elector of Brunswick." It is the production of his own pen.
His Britannic Majesty's birth-day has been kept with the usual felicity by all the clubs in Hanover.
On the 24th ult. the Russian life-guards received orders to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's notice. They are to be commanded by the grand duke Constantine.
The funds sustained themselves yesterday at the prices of the preceding day, and the rumour of a negotiation received an additional confirmation from the certainty of Lord Yarmouth's having returned to France. His Lordship, we understand, failed from Ramsgate on Monday, in a cutter belonging to Lord Keith's squadron, and was landed the same evening at Calais. A messenger in a flag of truce for Boulogne, it is said, preceded him, with dispatches, on Sunday. It is possible that overtures for pacification might have been renewed by the French government, and that the dispatches transmitted by the messenger might have related to that subject; but it is not very likely that Lord Yarmouth is the bearer of any proposition of that nature. His Lordship is qualified neither by habits nor experience for conducting even the preliminary arrangements connected with so important an object, it is not very likely that he would be employed as a common courier. A negotiation between the two governments may be going on; but we have reason to believe that its object is rather the establishment of a cartel of exchange for prisoners of war, than any discussion of terms of peace. No pacific proposition can be safely entertained, except in conjunction with Russia; and we do not find that either M. D'Oubril has arrived at Paris, or that there is any British negotiator in that capital, either qualified or authorised to co-operate with him.
American papers to the 24th ult. arrived yesterday. Great pains seem to be taken to keep up that political ferment in which the United States were thrown by the recent occurrence off the harbour of New-York. The visit and search of another American vessel at the mouth of the Delaware, by the Cleopatra English frigate, have furnished the press of that country with an opportunity of pouring fresh poison into the public mind. Fortunately, however, in this instance the violation of American jurisdiction is not quite so clear as we fear it was in the former instance, for the vessel is admitted to have been above two leagues from land. These papers contain rumours respecting Miranda's expedition, but they are in general inconsistent with each other, and some of them, we are persuaded, are wholly unfounded. We do not believe that he has been joined by British force.
Honiton Election. —The poll finally closed on Tuesday, and the numbers were, for Mr. Bradshaw, 230, and for Lord Cochrane, 134. Lord Cochrane assured the electors of his determination to offer himself again on the vacancy.
The report of a negotiation becomes more confirmed every day. A Cabinet council was held yesterday, at which most of the members of administration were present, at the conclusion of which two messengers were sent off with dispatches for the courts of St. Petersburg and Vienna. The messenger for Russia, we understand, is dispatched rather for the purpose of recalling Lord Gower, and to announce the speedy arrival of his successor, the marquis of Douglas, than carrying any communication of importance to that court. We are convinced that no progress can have been made in negotiation as yet, and that the intercourse between our government and that of France, if it do not relate to an exchange of prisoners, can have nothing more for its immediate object than the establishment of some general principal of negotiation.
If Bonaparte shall have consented to a conjunct negotiation, he will have removed one of the greatest difficulties in the way of an amicable arrangement. A few days will determine whether there be any solid foundation for the extravagant rise in the stocks, and the very sanguine expectations of peace which are entertained by many.
The promulgation of the new constitution has created the deepest disgust throughout all Holland.—At the Hague, we understand, almost the only spectators of the ceremonial of the proclamation of the king were the military and the persons connected with the government, who, by the duties of their respective offices, were obliged to attend. The people, as if by common consent and previous agreement, confined themselves to their houses on that day, so that the town appeared as if quite deserted. Notwithstanding this rooted antipathy on the part of the Batavians to the government which has been imposed upon them, the French journals will no doubt furnish a most splendid narrative of the sincerity and enthusiasm with which the new sovereign has been received when he shall make his triumphal entry into the seat of his future dignity.
The funds have experienced a further rise this morning. At one o'clock Omnium was as high as 63-3/4, being an increase of one per cent. since yesterday.
Lord Cochrane is preparing a petition against the return of Mr. Bradshaw for Honiton. The ship-owners of the port of London have resolved unanimously to thank the fifty-six members who voted against the American intercourse bill, (introduced by the new ministers) which they consider as in the highest degree objectionable and detrimental to the shipping interest of the kingdom. They have also passed several resolutions, in one of which they pay a warm compliment to Mr. Pitt.
A large party of the officers of the navy and royal marines, at Plymouth dock, as a testimony of respect to Lord Viscount Melville, on his acquittal, met at the Prince William Henry Hotel in that town on Tuesday, where a very elegant dinner was provided. After dinner a number of loyal and patriotic toasts were drank.—The marine band attended, and the evening was concluded with conviviality.
June 22. We are credibly informed that a dissolution of Parliament is to take place on the termination of the present session.
Yesterday the funds were subject to various fluctuations, and closed something under prices at which they had opened. The late advance has doubtless been induced by a very prevalent opinion, that our government very favourably entertains some recent pacific overtures from France. Mr. Fox has repeatedly declared, that he would cheerfully make even a tolerable peace; it is the obvious policy of Bonaparte to obtain peace on almost any terms; and under these circumstances the rumour of negotiation is at least probable.
Although the late changes in Holland may not have materially effected its political relations with this country, they must necessarily influence our negotiations; Naples still more so; while Hanover appears to furnish a decided obstacle to pacification.—The reports in the German papers, however, of French troops being about to supersede the Prussian authorities in that electorate, are, if true, calculated to remove much difficulty on that account, as it should thence seem that Bonaparte has deprived Prussia of its usurpation, in order to restore Hanover to this country, as an equivalent for the recent aggrandisement of his house.
Observer. We are relieved from much solicitude on the subject of the pending differences with America, by an assurance from very respectable authority, that our ministers, while they are inclined to do ample justice to the legitimate claims of the U. States, are determined not to concede a little of our rights to the bragged clamours of their government. Should the bill for the non-importation of British manufactures be persisted in, it will be encountered on our part by measures of equal hostility. Should the right of search (which can be denied only for the purpose of giving facility to the commerce of the enemy) be resisted, it is to be enforced; the forces in our Northern provinces are to be strengthened, although we incline to think they are at present fully competent to their defence, and arrangements are making with a view to obviate as far as possible any inconvenience which might otherwise result to our islands from the suspension of their accustomed supplies from America.
Mr. Pinckney, the American ambassador, who is charged with important negotiations with our government, arrived with his family at Liverpool, on Thursday, in the Diana, Hoolbroke, from Baltimore.—By this conveyance, we yesterday received a letter from that port, which declares, that the inhabitants of that town generally disapproved the measures of the executive; and that in Maryland and in Virginia, meetings were convened for the purpose of expressing that intemperate weakness which, by provoking the hostility of Britain, could not fail to throw their bankrupt country under the domination of France.
Ibid. The influence of Count Haugwitz has again triumphed over the prudent and liberal policy of the anti-gallican party. The King wrote to Count Hardenberg, then in Hanover, requesting his presence at Berlin; but when that nobleman had arrived within two leagues of the capital, he was met by a courier, with orders that he should not appear at court.—The court, in consequence, retired to its estates in Pomerania.
June 23. Paris and Dutch papers to the 20th, and the Hamburg Correspondent of the 18th instant, have reached us. The French have seized upon the little republic of Ragusa, in Dalmatia. General Lauriston occupied it with 6000 men, under the same pretence that the different governments which have prevailed in France since the revolution, have introduced a French force into most of the countries which have eventually fallen under the yoke of that restless and insidious power. The pretence in this instance was to protect it against the Montenegrins, by whom we have never heard the security or independence of this little state were in any way menaced. The date of this new illustration of the French political system is not mentioned, nor is it alluded to in the intelligence from Vienna. The evacuation of Catago appears to have no better foundation as yet than rumour. Letters, said to have been received at Vienna from Trieste, mention, that general Bellegarde, and the Commandant of the Austrian marine, had failed from the latter port to receive the place from the Russians. The 6000 who have occupied Ragusa are most probably intended to form the garrison of Catago. The French show no disposition to retire from the menacing positions which they have taken on the Austrian frontier. Brannau is still in their possession, their armies retain their usual cantonments in Suabia and Bavaria, and the Austrian prisoners continue in the different towns on the right side of the Rhine, where the orders for halting them were first received. It is evident,
from these precautions, that Bonaparte has little faith in the assurances of Austria. We even doubt whether, after his troops shall be put in possession of Catago, he will not frame some fresh pretext for retaining the posts he occupies on the Inn.
TRAVELLER. On Saturday evening Mr. Wilbraham arrived in town from France. He landed at Dover that morning from one of the boats of the Vesta frigate, who had taken him out of a French boat which came out of Boulogne at four o'clock. He was said to be the bearer of dispatches to Mr. Fox from Talleyrand. Mr. Wilbraham, we understand, is one of those who were detained previous to the commencement of hostilities, and it is inferred from thence that the communication entrusted to him relates to an exchange of prisoners. The arrival of this new Courier did not produce the effect upon the funds that might have been expected. The fever of speculation has considerably subsided at the Stock Exchange, where the expectations of peace were not quite so sanguine this morning as they were towards the end of the week. We have received the Paris papers to a very late date, (Friday 14th) and we cannot discover from them that either M. D'Oubril, Mr. Aqar, or any other Russian or British negotiator, has arrived in that capital. If the sanguine of the French funds be a fair test of the public opinion in that country, hopes of peace seem to be less confidently entertained there than they are among us. Their five per cents. have not advanced a house one and a half per cent. since it was announced in the Moniteur that the difference respecting Catago was adjusted, and that the grand army would soon return with assurances that there is little danger that the tranquillity of the Continent will be disturbed; but they do not contain the least hint of the probability of peace with England.
Earl St. Vincent arrived at Portsmouth yesterday evening, in the Hibernia, from off Brest. The command of the Channel fleet, during his lordship's absence, devolves on Sir Charles Cotton.
We have received Hamburg papers, which enables us to anticipate the first of the two Hamburg mails due yesterday. We have also received French and Dutch papers to the 20th, the substance of which is given in our preceding columns. The various reports of the actual evacuation of Catago, repeatedly vouched with so much confidence, appear to have been all premature. It was reported at Vienna on the 21st ult. that 2000 Austrians had entered the place, and delivered it to the French, but a subsequent letter of the 24th of June, from Vienna, inserted in the Moniteur of the 19th, merely states, that the Austrian general Bellegarde, and M. Lepines, the commander of the marine, had failed from Trieste to receive the place from the Russians, preparatory to its surrender to the French.—The official paper of the same date states, that general Lauriston, with 6000 men, has taken possession of Ragusa, for the purpose of protecting it against the Montenegrins. This, however, is a mere pretence. Ragusa is a tolerable sea-port, with some trade to the Levant, and of course an object likely to excite the cupidity of Napoleon.
The Moniteur of the 12th contains the official account of the depredations committed by the Rochefort squadron, upon the coast of Africa. The extent of the mischief, and the particulars of the losses, have been known with greater accuracy in this country, some months ago, than they are to be collected from the report of M. L'Hermite to the French minister of marine. The French commodore boasts, that he has put an end to the slave trade upon that coast for the present year; and he thinks that he has done much to obstruct it for the ensuing season.
King Louis arrived at Breda on the 17th, on his way to the Hague, to assume the sovereignty of the country, as King of Holland.—It was supposed that he would remain a few days at Delft, to allow time for the good citizens of the Hague to make necessary preparations to receive him with all the éclat of state effect, and to wind up their flûtes spirits to a delirium of joy. As a proof, however, of the little confidence which he places in his new and faithful subjects, the whole of his attendants, the whole of the garrison at the Hague, and the whole of the officers who are invested with authority there, are French.
The intelligence from Berlin states, that his Prussian Majesty has at length formed his ultimate resolution, and that it is to be immediately transmitted to London. Respecting the nature of this "ultimate resolution," nothing is suggested; but we should suppose, from the concluding part of the article, that it was of a very decisive character, as it says, "that it will be decided upon our court whether his majesty's intentions shall be carried into execution, or whether Baron Jacobi will immediately quit London."
According to the rumours prevailing at Paris, the period of the military fetes is not quite so near as it was intimated in one of the late official papers. It is now supposed, that the troops will not assemble in the capital until the middle of August, when they may celebrate their victories, and the anniversary of the emperor at the same time.
Saturday morning, Mr. Wilbraham, one of the English gentlemen so long detained in France, arrived at Dover, with dispatches from the French government. At four o'clock in the morning he was put on board a French boat at Boulogne, and carried to the Vesta frigate, laying in Boulogne Roads. It being a calm, the Vesta manned a boat, and sent Mr. Wilbraham in her to Dover, as the most expeditious mode of conveyance. About nine o'clock the boat reached Dover beach, and Mr. W. immediately proceeded to the London Hotel, from which he set off in a chaise and four for London about ten o'clock in the evening. We believe the dispatches were delivered to Mr. Fox; but no council has been held upon them. Mr. Fox was at home during the whole of Saturday and yesterday. Lord Grenville left town on Saturday morning, and had not returned last night. Earl Spencer also left town on Saturday, for Wimbledon, where he had a party to dinner yesterday. We had, in the course of last week, good reason to believe, that the basis of preliminaries has been agreed to by our government, and that a messenger was expected to bring arrangements and passports for the purpose of formally signing and settling the preliminaries. In the present state of his power, some may consider Bonaparte as having accomplished all the objects of his ambition. With a king of Holland, and a king of Naples, in the persons of his two brothers; and sets and principalities to reward his favourite generals and ministers, of whom some have already entered into possession; it may be conceived that he has performed his task, and has no farther occasion for war. Others may think, that this is only the first, or second stage of his progress to universal dominion, and aware of the insatiable spirit of his ambition, conclude, that he meditates nothing short of the conquest of the world. In either case, peace must be desirable. In the former, he has nothing to achieve by war; and in the
latter, a peace is necessary to the accomplishment of his plan, because a fleet is essential to its execution, and a fleet he can only acquire by a peace. He may send out squadrons, and lay down new ones upon the stocks of Genoa, Toulon and Brest; but as long as the war continues, he can only be considered as a ship-builder to England, supplying spirit and strength to the British navy. It may be farther observed, that if the revolution of ministers was as rapid and great as that of the French rulers which preceded the government of Bonaparte, a man of more pacific character than Mr. Fox could not be expected to appear at the helm. Looking, then, at the state and interest of Bonaparte, the character of the British minister, and connecting them with the activity of the correspondence between the two governments, of which the dispatches arrived on Saturday furnish a new and incontrovertible proof, we think we should be justified, even though we had no private information upon the subject, in attributing the great rise in the funds to an expectation of peace.—Stock-jobbing frauds always act by surprise, and the bubble soon bursts. Those who consider the progressive rise in the funds the effect of such a cause, pay a poor compliment to the sagacity of the public.—What mighty spell or charm the gentlemen of the stock exchange possess, by which they can seal up men's faculties at pleasure, we have never learned; but this wondrous secret, it is evident, can only be the lot of a few; for one half of those gentlemen must be as interested in lowering the funds, as the other half in raising them. Thus, to give an air of probability to this solution of the mystery, it is necessary that the one half of these supernatural agents of the stock exchange, who cannot discover the artifice by which they are abused, should be as dull of sense as the public. Others have assigned a third cause for the rise in the funds, and attributed to the recent change in the government of Holland, which they assert, has induced the principal Dutch capitalists to remove their property to this country.—"Riches," we are told, "make unto themselves wings, and fly;" but we believe there is no proof of any such extraordinary flight in the present case.—It is curious enough to observe, that the very persons who maintain this argument, not long since assured us, that every gilder which could be frightened out of Holland, had long since arrived here; and left the land the prey of penury and want. It would, however, require no small influx of money to produce the great change which the funds have experienced. But in laying facts before our readers, and deducing fair inferences from them, we do not mean to pledge ourselves that peace will certainly be the result of the present communications between the governments of England and France. The probability of peace is sufficient for the purpose. In how very few instances of life have men certainly to conduct them? They act almost entirely upon probability.
PHILADELPHIA, August 18. Yesterday arrived ship Betsy , Captain Logan, from Liverpool, by whom we have received London papers to the 24th, and Liverpool to the 26th of June, from which we have the following:
ROME, May 18. An English squadron, of four ships of the line, which lies in the road of Naples, was a witness of the rejoicings which took place at Naples on the entry of King Joseph; the English on the same day made an attack on the island of Capri.
VIENNA, June 2. We now know for certain, that 2000 of our troops have entered Catago, which had been previously evacuated by the Russians.—The place was afterwards surrendered to the French, agreeable to the treaty of Presburgh. Every thing that has been said in the Foreign Journals of newpapers of new engagements forming by Austria, is entirely destitute of foundation. All the measures and dispositions of our court tend to peace. The only difficulty which remained, is now removed by the evacuation of Catago.
FROM THE MAIN, JUNE 10. —According to letters from the Coast of Italy, the French are extremely active at Toulon and Genoa in fitting out a flotilla for the purpose of covering the army in its passage from Naples to Sicily. Most of the English in this island are encamped in the neighbourhood of Messina; and an English squadron, consisting of several frigates and gun-boats, continues cruising off the coast of Naples. Since Marshal Massena has been before Gaeta in person the besieging army has been considerably increased.
AUGSBURGH, June 5. If we may judge from the exchange of Couriers, some Negotiations of importance are carrying on between Austria and France.
BERLIN, June 7. Meanwhile the communications between Prussia and England continue to exist. M. De Jacobi is still at London. Prussia does not wish war; and England makes it: a situation extraordinary enough. The Baltic still remains free. Prussia has not shut her ports against the English, and the latter commit no hostilities in that sea.— Moniteur, June 19.
HAMBURGH, June 13. The Prussian Court continues its Negotiations with Sweden and England; but without affording either more or less hope of the restoration of Peace between any of the Powers at War. The last news we received from Bavaria leaves us still in uncertainty with respect to the evacuation of Germany by the French Troops.
DOVER, June 13. Sailed this day the following vessels: ship Two Generals, Capt. Cunningham, of and from Norfolk, with flour, bound to Hamburg; brig Truxton, Captain May, of and from Baltimore, with tobacco, also for Hamburg; and the Swedish hoy Hoffnung , Capt. Kuse, from Malaga, bound to Tomingen, with wine and fruit.
PENZANCE, June 18. Arrived from a cruise, La Constance sloop of war, and the Sarah private ship of war, of Liverpool, the latter bringing with her the Hamburg ship the Margaretta Cornell, L. Nicholson from Bordeaux, with wine, &c. for Hamburg, supposed to be French property, and the American brig Mount Vernon , J. Owen, from Virginia, with tobacco to Falmouth for orders, in consequence of not being provided with a register.
PLYMOUTH, June 19. Came in, the Atlas cartel, Lieut. Hawkins, from the Cape of Good Hope, with one hundred and seventy-five French prisoners; American ship Aurora , Captain Hill, from Malaga, laden with wine, &c. put in for orders.
DEAL, June 21. Arrived the Clyde Frigate, and the Meteor Bomb, from a Cruise; and the American East-
Indian Montezuma , from China, last from 3-20p, bound to Rotterdam, and remain in the Downs with the Ships as per list.
LONDON, June 17-21. A mail from Hamburg arrived on Thursday. It is evident that the emperor of Russia is exerting all his influence to effect a reconciliation between the courts of Stockholm and Berlin; and there is every probability that his great influence will not be ineffectually interposed. If the rise in the price of the funds afforded any sure criterion by which we might judge of the proceedings of government, we should suppose that some progress has already been made in a negotiation for peace. Among the buyers at the Stock Exchange, were some of the known or reputed agents for the French houses. From this it may be inferred that they at least are persuaded, some overtures have been made by the French government for pacification. The thing is not impossible; for Napoleon has obtained the complete sovereignty of the continent, and before he can execute any of his foreign projects, the interdiction imposed upon him by our navy must be removed by some treaty which may lull this country into a state of false security. Whether overtures have actually been made to our government, we cannot take upon us to state, but we have every reason to hope they will not be listened to, if of such a nature as to involve the honor or the safety of the country.
We understand that, during Lord Yarmouth's short stay in town, he had frequent interviews with Mr. Fox, at his Office, in Downing-street, a circumstance which, in the opinion of many, gives some countenance to the reports in circulation.
In the city the opinion gains ground that a pacification is at no great distance. The Funds still keep improving. At one o'clock the prices were as follows: Consols for opening 63 1-4 a 3/8; Reduced 62 1/8 a 1/4; Omnium , for money prices 6 1/4, and for July 5 1/4 a 1/2; Exchequer Bills par a 2 discount.
June 22. By accounts from Paris received through a respectable channel, we learn, that the Government of France has caused an idea generally to prevail in that country, that England has refused to negotiate on any terms, unless an order for the immediate evacuation of Hanover by the Prussian troops, and a guarantee of the possession of Malta by the English, and of the Sovereignty of the Seven Islands by Russia, were made the preliminaries.
The rumours of Peace begin to wear a more decisive aspect, and though we shall not pretend to have much information on the subject, and never shall sport with the feelings and expectations of the public, we confess we are strongly inclined to look forward to such an event with more confidence than we have hitherto entertained. We lay no stress upon the reports grounded upon the return of Lord Yarmouth; but the late unexpected arrival of another English Nobleman, who has been in a diplomatic situation, and whose abilities, as well as experience, render him a proper medium for negotiation, leads us to think that the French government are more anxious on the subject than we supposed. If this be the case, it is probable that France may be disposed to make greater concessions than might be expected after her late extraordinary successes. It must be remembered that Prussia, although she in the first instance took possession of Hanover, and proclaimed her right to it unconditionally, has since publicly announced that her occupation of that electorate was only provisional. It will also be recollected, that the late accounts from Germany state that Augereau's division of the French army had received orders to march towards Hanover, for the purpose of re-occupying that electorate. Our opinion on this important subject is in some degree strengthened by the arrival of the above-mentioned gentleman. He reached Dover, we understand, within eight and forty hours from his departure from Paris, and such expedition can hardly be supposed to relate merely to an exchange of prisoners.
We yesterday received Paris and Dutch papers to the 20th ult. and we are also enabled to anticipate the first of the Hamburg Mails now due. The intelligence in the French and Dutch papers is not very interesting. The new King of Holland was expected at the Hague about the middle of last week. His Majesty, we have no doubt, has the most implicit reliance upon the affection of his subjects, but he seems to have thought it a measure of prudent precaution that the garrison of the Hague should consist entirely of French troops. Letters from Berlin state, that his Prussian Majesty has at length formed a determination of bringing his differences with this country to a decisive point, for which purpose, it is added, that he means to transmit his ultimatum to London. It is probable that his Prussian Majesty has been urged by Bonaparte to come to some final resolution upon this subject, for the Moniteur contains an article commenting upon the extraordinary situation in which England & Prussia stand, the former being actually at War, and the latter anxious to avoid it.
June 24. We last night received Dutch papers to the 22d ult. and this morning the Hamburg Mail due on Wednesday arrived. The former are filled with accounts of the arrival of their Majesties the new King and Queen of Holland at the Hague. They arrived there on the evening of the 17th, and took up their residence at the house in the Wood ; they were attended by a large body of Cavalry, and the road through which they passed was lined with troops, all French.
General Lauriston, on taking possession of Ragusa, has published a Proclamation, in which he states, that the enemies of France had too much influence in the Ragusan Republic, and that Bonaparte, feeling his dignity thereby hurt, had ordered him to take possession of it; and adds, that he will keep possession of it until the Russians shall have evacuated not only Catago, but Corfu, and the whole republic of the Seven Islands, and until the Russian squadron shall have entirely quitted the Adriatic. The intelligence brought by the Mail is more than usually uninteresting. No part of the French troops have yet evacuated Germany, nor do they show any disposition to give up Brannau to the Austrians. A letter has been circulated on the Continent, said to have been written by Bonaparte to the King of Bavaria, requesting him to abdicate his Throne in favour of his son. We are, of course, unable to vouch for the authenticity of this letter; but if it be not genuine, the style of Bonaparte is very well imitated.
MILAN, June 7. —The following proclamation, published at Ragusa, by General Lauriston, explains the causes and conditions of his military operations:
"Napoleon I. Emperor of the French and King of Italy, &c. "The many concessions made to the enemies of France had placed the Republic of Ragusa in a state of hostility, so much the more dangerous as it was carried on under the appearance of friendship and neutrality. The entrance of the French troops into Dalmatia, far from preventing such conduct, gave further occasion to

our enemies to exercise their influence in the state of Ragusa; and whatever were the motives of the condescension of the magistrates of this state, the Emperor was acquainted with the circumstance. His dignity became concerned in putting an end to practices so contrary to the laws of neutrality.
"In consequence, in the name, and by the order, of the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, I take possession of the city and territory of Ragusa."
"Notwithstanding I declare, that it is the intention of his majesty the Emperor and King to acknowledge the independence and neutrality of this State, as soon as the Russians shall have evacuated Albania, the Island of Corfu, and the other Venetian Islands, and that the Russian Squadron shall have quitted the coast of Dalmatia."
"I promise assistance and protection to all Ragusans; I shall cause the laws, existing usages, and property, to be respected. In short, according to the line of conduct which shall be observed by the inhabitants, I will take care that they shall have no reason to complain of the presence of the French Army."
"The present Government shall continue; it shall exercise the same functions, and retain the same titles. Its relations, as well with neutral states as with those in alliance with France, shall remain as they were before."
"The Commissary for Commercial Affairs to the Senate shall exercise the functions of Imperial Commissary."
(Signed) "LAURISTON." Given at Ragusa, May 27, 1806."
Price of Flour at London, June 23. Fine Flour, 63s. a 70s.—Seconds, 60s. a 63s.—equal to about 47s. 6d. per American barrel, Superfine.
The prices of Sugar and Coffee had considerably declined in London, at the date of our latest papers.
Summary of the principal Manufactures of Great Britain.
From "Reinhard's concise history of the present state of the commerce of Great Britain."
Annual Value. Persons employed. Woolen £. 15,500,000 425,042 Leather 10,500,000 241,818 Cotton 9,500,000 322,140 Silk 2,700,000 60,000 Linen and Flax 2,000,000 60,000 Hemp 1,500,000 35,000 Paper 900,000 30,000 Glass 1,500,000 36,000 Pottery 2,000,000 45,000 Iron, Tin, & Lead 10,000,000 200,000 Copper and Brass 3,500,000 60,000 Steel, Plating, &c. 4,000,000 70,000 £. 68,600,000* 1,585,000
* Upwards of Three Hundred Millions of Dollars!
From the London Courier of the 23d June, 3 o'clock in the evening.
"Omnium has fallen suddenly from 1 3/4 to 5. A report that Russia has made a separate Peace with France, is the alleged cause of the fall."
Domestic Intelligence.
The French squadron from Martinique was seen from a vessel arrived at Boston from Norfolk, to the southward of Long Island, steering a Northerly and Easterly course: but on meeting a heavy squall on Saturday 21 inst. it put away N. E. It is probably bound to Europe, and intentionally avoids the common track from the West-Indies, judging that an English squadron must be in pursuit. The ships did not any troops on board; it is not therefore probable they will make an attempt on any of the English settlements in Nova-Scotia or Newfoundland. (Salem Gaz.)
The French admiral Lefesgnes commander in chief in the late action off St. Domingo, we understand, has left that island in an American vessel bound to Baltimore.
Our readers were some time since informed that the ship Putnam, capt. John Carlson, of Salem, was cut off by the Malays, at the Island of Bentang, while the captain was ashore on business. Mr. William Brown, one of the hands, returned home on Monday last night, and has given some interesting details of this unfortunate affair; which, however, in compliance with a particular request, we forbear to publish, till the return of the captain, which is shortly expected. Suffice it to say, for the present, that Mr. Brown deserves the highest praise for the courage with which he defended the ship, alone, against 14 Malays, whom he completely defeated; but who afterwards returned, and finding the ship abandoned, carried her off. Mr. Brown, after the loss of the ship, obtained a passage to Calcutta in a Portuguese vessel, where he arrived weak and exhausted, from the wounds he had received in the contest. At Calcutta, he found a friend in every American captain there, by whom he was supported and nourished till he was able to undertake the voyage home; he mentions with particular gratitude the names of capt. Edwards, of the ship Pallasy, of Salem, and capt. Coleworthy, of the ship Adams, of Nantucket, with the latter of whom he returned to America. (Salem Gaz.)
NEW-YORK, August 13.
We learn from Capt. Forman of the ship Washington, in 24 days from New-Orleans, that on the 1st instant, off Havana, he was boarded by H. M. brig Port-Mahon: the lieutenant of which vessel informed him, that they had boarded a brig belonging to New-York, bound from Leghorn to New-Orleans, and received information from the commander, that Admiral Collingwood had recently captured, and carried into Gibraltar eight French ships of the line; which vessels he saw in the Roads of Gibraltar. The New-York brig had arrived at English Turn in a very short passage.
Counterfeit One Hundred Dollar Bill.
Yesterday morning a woman under suspicious circumstances, offered a counterfeit 100 dollar United States bank bill, of the branch at Baltimore, to Messrs. J. and N. Griffith in Maiden-lane. While they were gone to the bank to ascertain its genuineness, the woman made off.
GENERAL MIRANDA.
In a late English paper (Bell's Messenger) we find a long article on the character and views of Gen. Miranda. Our readers have been furnished with the more prominent parts of the character of this distinguished adventurer; but the following extracts, contain, we believe, a course of remark and observation, that will not be read with indifference:
"But what is the effect of the present system of government in Spain, which is decidedly arbitrary—a government, whose fundamental principle excludes all, but the privileged class, from the offices and honors of the State?—What we say, is the effect of this system upon the other orders of the people? Why simply, that having nothing to look to as a reward, they have no spur to any extraordinary exertion. There is no effort in the absence of emulation, and no excellence in the absence of effort. The whole mind of the state is paused: the great remain in indolence, because they can attain the ordinary objects of desire without exertion, and lower classes will not toil, where their toil will not raise them from their defined obscurity."
"Such is the condition of the Spanish Monarchy at this moment, with regard to the production of those eminent men, whose aid it so much requires in this season of need. Will it not appear almost a paradox to say that Spain can only be preserved by a Revolution? yet it is only by this event that her latent powers can be called forth—that the dormant and not extinguished spark of her former national character can be re-animated. The season of peril and high reward will call this spirit forth. The necessity of the time will shake off those who are inferior to its demands. Rank and place—the flaves of a court or a minister—the generals of a parade—and Admirals ex-officio, must then retire, and make room for men of more efficiency."
"The monopoly of Spain, and the regulation to which, in common with every other parent country, she has subjected her colonies, has long hung a heavy yoke upon the necks of the Colonists. The weight of this yoke has not been alleviated by the sense of the superiority of the mother country. The colonists have not the consolation that their servitude is the tribute for their protection—as incapable of protecting as governing them, the mother country hangs a dead burthen upon her colonies. Like Antaeus, in the fable, she is supported on the back of her children; but her children, unlike Antaeus, are not much pleased with the weight. In the language of the fable, travelled, 'they care not how soon they shuffle off the old Woman.'"
"Thus it is at present, and thus has it long been with Spain and her Colonies. Her claim to their monopoly must be urged upon her former services, and not upon her present protection. But it is the persuasion of the colonies that this debt of former protection has been paid off by former servitude, and that the service of protection having ceased, the colonial reditus, the monopoly and subjection, should cease with it. In a word, that they should no longer subject to a power, which can neither give them an intercourse of commerce to mutual advantage in peace, nor probable protection in war."
"The independence of North America gave birth to these principles—The French Revolution has confirmed them. South America is now restrained within her obedience by two bars only—a very weak military force, and a militia already corrupted, being in fact but the country itself."
"It was in this situation that Gen. Miranda conceived his design of effecting his favourite purpose."
"He promised Mr. Pitt that with ten thousand men he would conquer South America, and effect her independence. Mr. Pitt listened to him, but there were two impediments—the state of our armies, and the positive refusal of Gen. Miranda to have any thing to do with the expedition, if he were not at least second in command. There was indeed a third—a doubt as to the policy of throwing Spain into the already overwhelming monarchy of France. If France hesitated to incorporate Spain, it was in the apprehension that England would immediately seize her colonies. If the colonies were become independent, Spain would in the same instant become a province of France."
"General Miranda, however, received certain promises, which, had the late minister lived, would have been fulfilled. Mr. Pitt had a great mind. He was not to be daunted by considerable dangers. We are persuaded that his views were latterly directed to Spanish America—but we cannot say that he intended to act as subordinate to the designs of Miranda."
"What has been the subsequent course of Miranda?—He had a mind above servility; he accordingly adopted the singular purpose of attempting this grandiose enterprise, the conquest of half a world, upon his own single resources."
NORFOLK, August 18.
MIRANDA—Yesterday arrived here capt. Swain, of the brig Peace, from Trinidad, which place he left on the 25th of last month—captain Swain informs us, that on the 25th Miranda's fleet, consisting of the Leander, the Lilly loop of war, two brigs, two brigs, two Schooners, and several launches, left Trinidad for the Spanish Main; capt. S. could not inform us what military force Miranda had, his naval force is more respectable than any the Spaniards have in those seas, unless they have been recently reinforced. In a short time Miranda's fate will be determined and he will be hailed as a patriot, or stigmatized as a rebel. Ledger.
From the Jamaica Royal Gazette, July 12.
MIRANDA—We are credibly informed that on the first arrival of Gen. Miranda at Barbadoes Lord Scaforth, not having had any intelligence but from mere report of the nature of his expedition, purposed having him taken into custody, conceiving (as it did not appear G. B. had any knowledge of the transaction) that he might endeavour to revolutionize any country fitable to his purpose, as well as the Spanish colonies. A council was accordingly summoned on the business, who, after some deliberation, carried it against his lordship, and gave it as their opinion that assistance should be rendered him for the furtherance of his plans, upon which the Lilly loop of war and two gun-boats, with private armed vessels, and a considerable number of men who enlisted under his standard, sailed from that island along with him for Trinidad, from whence they were to proceed against Caraccas.
Arrived at Wickford (R. I.) in the Schooner Ocean, on the 31st ult. Dr. John Kean, Surgeon of the ship Leander, formerly commanded by capt. Lewis of New-York. He informs, that on the 20th of June he left the port of col. Smith, of N. York, on board the Leander, with General Miranda, at Barbadoes in health; and that the Leander was weighing anchor at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, bound for Trinidad, accompanied by two English loops of war, a 20 gun brig, and two Schooners.
We hear that his Excellency the Tunisian Ambassador will shortly embark at Boston in the ship Two Brothers, Capt. Chandler, for Tunis,
and that the U. S. brig Franklin will accompany her as a flag ship.
NEW-ORLEANS, July 12.
A letter from Havana, under date of June 30th, from a gentleman of respectability to his friend in this city, states, that the Marquis of Casa Calvo, and his son, had arrived there from Pensacola, and would sail from thence the next day in the ship Sally. Hills, bound for Boston. It is supposed the Marquis will proceed directly to Madrid, without visiting the city of Washington.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 22d AUGUST.
COMMUNICATION.
On the 9th day of the present month, at the Warm Springs, in Bath county, MERIWETHER JONES departed this life! His health had been declining for more than a year, and his body, naturally thin, was wasted away, almost to a shadow. The hand of death seemed to be upon him long before its pressure took him to the earth; but he retained to the last, that energy of mind, vivacity of spirit, and warmth of friendship, by which he was distinguished thro' life. He died in the 41st year of his age.
Few men among us, have been seen and experienced, in so short a period, more than Meriwether Jones. The excellence of his understanding, the cheerfulness of his disposition, the promptitude of his wit, the frankness of his manners, the ardor and intrepidity of his temper, brought him early into life, and made him, when he was but a young man, a favorite of the people. He had not completed his 22d year, when he represented in the assembly of Virginia, the county of Hanover: a county distinguished for its republican zeal from the era of our independence to the present day. In the year 1796, he was chosen a member of the council, and in 1799 became the Editor of the Examiner. He was soon after elected printer to the commonwealth, and continued in that office until he was appointed by the President of the United States, Commissioner of Louisiana. This office he held until his death. He has left a widow, and a son, his only child, to lament his loss.
Meriwether Jones had his failings, and he suffered for them. In his whole composition there was not one particle of hypocrisy. Such as he really was, he appeared to be. He used none of the petty or not dishonorable arts by which favor is conciliated, when it is not deserved, or by which censure justly merited, may be softened or suppressed. The best and the worst parts of his character, were alike open to inspection. His zeal, his intrepidity, his services in the cause of republicanism, at a time when it was "bound hand and foot and tongue tied," almost every where but in Virginia, made him many enemies. They knew where he was vulnerable, and pursued him for a long time with an asperity and fury of reproach, almost without example. During this period, his firmness never forsook him, and indeed he had occasion for all its aid. Such however was the generosity of his temper, that after the triumph of democracy was complete, Mr. Jones was as just and liberal to his political opponents, as if he had never experienced at their hands either insult or persecution.
Meriwether Jones had many excellencies. His understanding was prompt, his discernment clear, his knowledge of mankind extensive. Having the advantage of a good education, he had read much in the early part of his life; and what he had read he remembered: but his attention during his last 16 years was principally directed to the study of mankind, and their affairs. He was generous, even to the injury of his fortune; steady and sincere in friendship, and unalterably attached to the great republican principles, that he had so zealously defended. He was eminently good tempered. In point of courage, he had no superior. It was implanted in his heart, grew with his growth, strengthened with his strength, and upheld him until he died. He was not one of those, whose advances upon an adversary, are meanly regulated, by an estimate of his fears; who want a little reputation, and seek a quarrel with him from whom it may be obtained upon the cheapest terms. The writer of this feeble tribute to his memory, has witnessed the homage paid to his deliberate and exalted courage, in the humiliating retreat of an opponent, before whom it is said, many had retired, and more than one had fallen.
The republicans of this country ought not to forget the services of Meriwether Jones. He was most zealous, most active, and most enthusiastically daring and determined, precisely at the moment when their cause was in the greatest danger. There certainly was a time when the genius of American republicanism lay humbled in "dust and ashes." In Kentucky and Virginia alone, the reared her head; but she was encompassed with enemies on every side, and must have been the victim of their power and their vengeance, but for the talents, the efforts, the firmness of a few. Among those few it is no more than justice to place Meriwether Jones. The propriety of this remark will be admitted by all who are told that in the year 1799, Mr. Jones frequently superintended his posts with his pistols within his reach. But his troubles and his labours are at an end. He is now where the weary are at rest, where his frailties may hope for mercy, and his virtues will receive their reward.
COMMUNICATION.
THEATRICAL.
"The end of playing both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, form her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure." SHAKESPEARE.
On Monday last, the anxiety of Richmond, was gratified by the exhibition of the "GAMETER," in which Mrs. Barrett and Mr. Cooper, conducted the leading characters of Mrs. and Mr. Beverley. The performance of Mrs. B. was attended with frequent peals of applause, and was generally and highly admired. But I cannot acknowledge, that the moral beauties of the character, with which it is richly abounds, were so clearly displayed, or so fully impressed. The feelings were not seduced into that magic bondage, which causes the spectator to forget the illusive imagery before him, and which is the precious and desired moment of the dramatist, that he may steal upon the unguarded mind, and fix his moral purpose. There are few tragedies that teem with more interesting and distressing incidents than the "Gameter," but I could not discern one approving tear to bear evidence of the affecting scene, or the artist's skill. The dramatic talents of Mrs. B. may shine with more lustre in other characters, but in this there is a physical ineptitude that disqualifies her. Her gesture is not of a graceful and flexible style, but rather awkward and affected. Her voice is heavy and unhappy, which may arise from habit; but she expands her words with a solemn and lingering sound that tires the attention before the mind is acquainted with the thought. It is a just remark of Quintilian "that nothing can enter into the affections which stumbles at the threshold by offending the ear." But what I consider as the greatest defideratum is one of which she is altogether destitute; the possession of command over her countenance; not even in the most tragic moment, can she suppress an unlooked smile, which turns the pleasing deception into mockery. Her eye which should discourse with the audience, and impart its electric influence, is wandering and vacant; nor do I think that she has sufficiently studied the lesson of Hamlet "to suit the action to the word, and the word to the action." The author of the "Gameter" has acquired the most extravagant
encomium, in painting the living manners as they are. He has been styled the benefactor of mankind, for presenting this mirror to the world, in whose polished surface, vice beholds its haggard hue, and turns pale with reflected guilt. If then the author is entitled to such boundless applause, by what standard shall we fashion the eulogy, which is due to him whose dramatic genius can decoy the vicious mind from its wild fold, can thaw and dislodge its cold ungenial form, and render it pliable to the stamp of virtue. Such is the skill of Godwin's pupil—the celebrated Cooper, that now treads upon the Richmond stage. His performance, in the character of Beverley, excited the most unwearied admiration. He is happily blessed by nature, and endowed by art, with all the qualifications that can form the tragedian, and ensure him the highest honors of the drama. His person is elegant and active, and his countenance beams with intelligence that informs you, he is perfectly acquainted with the theory of his play, and the moral it is intended to impress. His deportment is natural and unaffected, and his voice, tho' not the most happy, has sufficient compass to be heard distinctly. His articulation is clear and impressive, but his profanity sometimes rather turgid and imperfect. He appears anxious to acquire merited fame, but never looses to employ those little arts and tricks, which are too commonly used to excite the loud and fleeting plaudits of the pit. There is one impropriety which prevails upon the stage, the contagion of which not even Cooper has escaped, it is that of interweaving upon the language of the author. There are some of the performers guilty of this violation to a disgusting degree; they barely remember the thought, one half of which, they repeat in the polished style of the writer, and the other in their own sudden and imperfect language, which is a most unpardonable license. It tends to create confusion on the mind of the auditor, & subtract from the merit of the writer, by conveying a false sentiment in the alternate language of refinement and vulgarity. "O, reform it altogether. And speak no more than is set down for you, for there are of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too."
The dramatic character of Cooper, although it may sometimes deserve the reproof of criticism, is surely of the most exalted order in this species of the drama. There are few who have been educated like him in the school of the tragic muse, he must therefore be frequently embarrassed by the want of confidence in his theatrical associates. In this disadvantage he may find an excuse for many imperfections, and it is one of so just, that no candid mind can be so harshly disposed in its criticism, as not to admit its full measure of extenuation.
SPECTATOR.
Another Critique signed "A LOOKER-ON," was received, but too late for this day's paper.
Last Evening's Mail.
LONDON CORN EXCHANGE,
MARK LANE, June 23.
Although there are not many fresh arrivals of Wheat to day, there are large quantities on hand, and this trade is very heavy of sales, at the reduction of 3s per quarter since Friday. Barley but a short supply, and that dearer. Malt rather so. White Peas but few here, and being in demand for government, they further advance. Beans of each sort are dearer. Oats likewise, with very few arrivals.—Flour is plenty, and hardly supports the general currency.
Private advices corroborate the public accounts that a negotiation between France and G. B. was depending, to which it is said the British government had been induced by the disposition of the Emperor of Russia, who is stated to have written a letter with his own hand to the Prince of Wales.—But the measures of the government were conducted with so much secrecy, that no conjecture could be formed of the progress or period of the negotiation, and it was much doubted whether it would result in peace.
It had been decided in parliament to change the British military system, and to substitute an increase of the regular troops under limited enlistments, for the volunteer corps, which were to be disbanded. Phil. Reg.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Ancon (Spain) to the Editor of the Norwich Courier, dated June 10.
"We received a circular from John Martin Baker, esq. consul at Palma, Island of Majorca, which states that on the 13th of May there anchored in that bay a Tunisian division of 5 square rigged vessels, the one a frigate of 38 guns, 4 of 24, and the rest 16, mounting 53 guns and of the others 36, the whole full of men. The report they made to the captain general was, that they sailed from Tunis on the 15th April in quest of Portuguese, and were in want of wood and water. The whole of the division failed on the night of the 26th May."
"Officially informed as to our actual situation with the Regency of Tunis, I have considered it prudent to communicate to you the above information; from every information, however, which can be obtained they have no hostile intentions against the American flag."
"In consequence of the death of the Princess of Austria, a National Mourning has taken place in Spain, to continue 6 months."
Among the many persons present at the Queen of Great-Britain's levee, on the King's birthday, on the 4th of June last, was the American minister, who presented Mr. Purvis, secretary of legation. Sir Kirk took leave previous to his departure on a diplomatic mission to America. London paper.
BERLIN, June 7.
The English have made descents upon our coasts. As may naturally be supposed, these are merely the excursion of a few patrols. The weakness of the English army allows them to do nothing more. They carried off some cattle, and burnt two or three farm houses—a most miserable kind of devastation, but which sufficiently shews the state of war in which the English and Prussians are engaged.
General Blucher has been so negligent as to suffer this damage to be committed, although he has a considerable force under his command. But he keeps it constantly in the neighbourhood of Cleves and Berg. He has received orders on the subject from his government, and it is probable that the English will make no more descents.
June 10. We are now assured that the answer brought from London, by the courier M. Bruggeman, has induced our Monarch to form his ultimate resolution, with which another courier has been dispatched to London. It now depends entirely on the British government, whether his majesty's intentions, which are adapted to existing circumstances, shall be carried into execution. The answer expected will also determine, whether baron Jacobi will quit London immediately, he having received orders for that purpose should events render that step inevitable. A Russian courier has also arrived here from St. Petersburg; he has proceeded in great haste for London. According to report, he is the bearer of a Letter to the Prince of Wales, written by the Emperor Alexander's own hand,
Col. Aaron Burr, late vice-president of the U. States, passed through Chamberburg on the 11th inst. on his way to the wellwards.
Nathaniel Macon, Esq. of North-Carolina, has been re-elected to congress by the unanimous vote of his district.
Several of the ancients have given fanciful definitions of Man. Plato defines him to be a reasoning animal; Diogenes the boarding animal; and Aristotle, an animal with two legs and no feathers, which last would have applied to a goose in the market. A London debating society has gone further. A question was sometime since started in one of them, what is man? One of the speakers brought forth a new definition. Man (says he) is a tax-paying animal. And he so well convinced his auditory, that he received a unanimous vote of thanks.
FOUND,
A PURSE, the owner whereof may have it, by proving property and paying the expense of this advertisement. (tf.)
TO BE RENTED,
TWO fire proof WAREHOUSES, near the Basin. They will be rented together or separate, and if wished by the tenants will be fitted up for stores. JOHN WICKHAM. (5w)
MONEY LOST.
THREE BANK NOTES.—One No. 1554, Baltimore bank, dated 27th Nov. 1805, of 100 dollars.—One No. 830, bank of Virginia, dated 8th May, 1805, of 5 dollars.—One No. 1965, bank of Virginia, dated 7th February 1805, 5 dollars.
Whereas by a letter from James Mufchett, for. merchant of Dumfries, Virginia, and a certificate from Timothy Brundige, Esq. Post-Master of the said town, directed to me, and describing the above notes; it appears that on the 28th day of July last, a letter directed to me by the said James Mufchett, for. covering one hundred dollars, as above specified (being the amount of my wife's rent, at that place) was put in the Post-Office at the said Dumfries, and directed to this place, The White Chimneys, Virginia. And whereas I have never received the said letter, I request all and any person having knowledge of the same, or any of the Post-Masters into whose Post-Offices it may have gone by mistake or misdelivery, to forward it to me; and I also request any person to whom the said notes may have passed to, since the 28th day of July last, to trace them to that date; the 100 dollar note I expect will be attended to, and a proper acknowledgment of notes will serve humanity, and perhaps relieve distress in corresponding by post on the subject; and should the said letter have been stolen, I offer Fifty Dollars Reward on the recovery of the money and the detection of the thief. The Bank of Baltimore is respectfully solicited to attend to the 100 Dollar Note. FRANCIS GALVAN. Post-Master, White Chimneys. August 22.
Caroline County, to wit:
Francis Galvan appeared before me, a justice of the peace, for the aforesaid county, and made oath that he has not received or heard of a letter written to him on the 28th of July last, by James Mufchett, for. of the town of Dumfries, merchant, containing one hundred and ten Dollars, in three bank notes, described by the said Mufchett, in a subsequent letter to the said Galvan, and received by him the 18th inst. Given under my hand this 19th day of August, 1806. A. C. WHITE.
ENOC SULLIVAN,
TAKES the liberty of informing the public, of his removal to a house nearly opposite the Eagle; where any orders in his profession, will be thankfully attended to.
He offers for sale, an assortment of FINE GOODS, partly consisting of a general assortment of FASHIONABLE JEWELLERY.
Silver, plated and Britannia; tea, defert and table Spoons; silver and plated Sugar Tongs, Ladies, &c. plated Paper and wood rimmed Coffers; plated Britannia Tea Pots; plated Tea Urns, Sugar Dishes & Cream Pots; plated and paper Decanter Siders; plated, brats and japanned Candle Sticks; table Knives and Forks; Tea Trays, Caddies and Bread Baskets; Ladies Dressing Boxes and Glasses; Hair Powder, Puffs, Bags and Pomatum; fine and coarse horn and tortoise shell plain and ornamented Combs; Glove Knots, Elastic Garters, Razors, Straps, Boxes, Brushes, and Windsor Soap; Suspenders, Pads, &c. Pocket Books, Lead Pencils, Ink-stands, &c. counting-house Knives, Seals, Paper Knives, &c. Silver, gilt and steel mounted Spectacles, Goggles, Optic Glasses; Chair Whips, Walking Canes and Umbrellas; an assortment of Brumes; Hall Lamps; Cuffs, men and boards, & Backgammon Tables; shuttle cocks and battle doors; German Flutes, Drums, Fifes, Guns, horse and pocket Pills, officers Swords, Epauliers and Plumes.—Also, a few Watch Materials, Watch Seals, Keys and Glasses. With a variety of other articles connected to the business. August 22. eotf
FOR SALE,
THE LOT AND HOUSES whereon John Hamilton, Esq. the British Consul, resides: on it are a three Story Dwelling-House, an Office and Kitchen, and other necessary Houses for family use; a Well of good Water, newly fitted, and a Garden lately pailed in, a Ware-House and Cellar under it; the remains of a Wharf, which will make a good foundation to build on; with all the privileges of lots situated on the river, of extending a wharf. Also—274 Acres of well timbered LAND, with a good Fishery on Willoughby's Bay, taking in the mouth and part of Mason's Creek, where the best of Oysters and Pish can be conveniently taken. Also—A LOT in Smithfield, between Mrs. Pardie's and Captain Todd's lots.—For terms apply to THOMAS NEWTON. August 22. (tf.)
20 DOLLARS REWARD
FOR the apprehension of Moses, who ran away on the 3rd inst. He is about 30 years old, six feet high, of a yellow complexion, with two of his front teeth of the upper jaw out. He had on at the time he left home, a sailors jacket of blue cloth, and a pair of ragged drab trowsers. As New-York has been his place of residence, for several years past, there is no doubt he will attempt to procure a passage thither. But I think it very probable, he is in Richmond, inasmuch as he has a wife there. The above reward, and all reasonable expenses paid, for the delivery of the said fellow. All masters of vessels and others, are forewarned from harbouring or carrying him out of this state. JOHN CRUMP. (ep3w.)
Powhatan, August 22.

Celebration of our National Birth-day at Bristol, R. I. The dawn was announced by a discharge of canon. Every countenance bespoke the feelings of the soul, feelings that live only in the breasts of freemen. At 12 o'clock a large number of Republicans assembled, formed a procession, and proceeded to the Meeting-house, escorted by two military corps, whose correct and soldierlike conduct during the day, exerted universal approbation. After a strain of elegant music, the Throne of Grace was addressed in a very appropriate and pertinent prayer, by the Rev. Henry White. An oration, animated and patriotic, was delivered on the occasion, to a very respectable assembly. The performance was modelled on the genuine principles of Republicanism, and executed with manly eloquence. The Declaration of Independence was read, selections of sacred and instrumental music, were introduced between the performances, with judgment and taste. At the conclusion of the ceremonies in the house, the procession formed again, and proceeded to Mr. Parker's elegant Hotel, where a most sumptuous entertainment was provided, and of which a large number of Patriots partook. The Hon. Judge Reynolds and Capt. Charles D'Wolf presided. It truly was the "feast of reason." The "tables groaned" under the weight of the "abundance of the soil," and festivity, good humor, decorum and conviviality were the guests. Each individual appeared sensible that this was the day of freedom's triumph. After dinner the following song, written by D. A. LEONARD, Esq. was sung as a substitute for the common mode of giving toasts. We shall make no comments upon the piece, its humor and point, together with the well known merit of the author, will give it a sufficient claim to the attention of our Republican friends.
SONG. Written by D. A. LEONARD, Esq. describing the staple commodity of each particular state. At the conclusion of each verse, one cannon.
THE FEAST OF THE STATES. Sung at Bristol, R. I. on the 4th of July, 1806. The States were invited, at JONATHAN's call, To attend, with their offerings, at Liberty-Hall; While round her bright altar to see them communing, E'en Dwight could but cry out—Pax vobis! Pax vobis!
VERMONT. Here's her real float well decked with a green-mountain (For her chief cook himself can be "puppy or pig") Her butter, all dripping around the glad thurible, Bastes Liberty's roast as the highest Bar-gyne.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE. To ask for no more of your life-cheering crops, Than to moisten our board with the nectar of hops; Choice blessings of which our wide realm is possessed; Though bitter to some, shall be sweet to our guests.
MASSACHUSETTS. Tho' carved by an artful "engaging cook chief, Thou add'st to our board a good loaf of fresh beef; While we hail there, rejecting with a jubilant song, That dish of poor Robbins quite tainted and strong.
RHODE-ISLAND. Her Prudence and Patience the cultures with ease, Which produces her rights and the best of old cheese; Though tardy at first—'tis a sumptuous repast, To despise a good cause, because served for us last!
CONNECTICUT. She comes with her wafer of Protestant dressing, Bestowed all o'er with an orthodox blessing; But we too "prophane" with her habits and priests, Still view her a fief in our Liberty-feasts!
NEW-YORK. Her precious fine flap though mingled with chaff, Gives freedom her flour-bread and us our livez puff; Quiddity's are viewed quite too coarse for her throng, And King's fallen fashion but—scratched's superfine.
NEW-JERSEY. The goddess will likely respect in her treat, New-Jersey's true whigs and her fragrant buck-wheat, Like pan-cakes—oblations to freedom of old, Were accepted when warm—but rejected when cold.
PENNSYLVANIA. Your pies of "goof" gildat, O bring us we crave ye, Though your chief-cook orbited round splash the gray. And too many "bunnet" cook-cousins, forsooth, May injure a bit and not polish the troth.
MICHIGAN. Then come minor-fister, and bring with you HULL, Though Detroit lies in ashes you here can't be dull; Let joy drown misfortune, nor pine at your lot, Make captive DEATH, will pay the whole lot.
DELAWARE. All Delaware whom fashion has chosen his zoar, Even Hester might miss you in noting his score; Though in mid of our feast you appear but a little, We'll greet you, small fister, but care not how, little.
MARYLAND. Lo, Maryland's maids (like her truth-guided battal) Falls sweet on the throne and each true Yankee-patrol; Who never will suffer be at a J. David an earh, Answer to eat white bread, when we can get but, pink waves!
VIRGINIA. From freedom's fete, comrades, we hustle afar, Your pig-tail and guld—but admire your cigar; Like brown Smi.
Your valuable flap alike clears the head, Of a wild Hottentot and a plethoric fed. With us, Those negro-head flories, So toothsome to tories, Are pickings.
OHIO. To crown our gay board much Ohio depends on, Who cheers our glad hearts with her virtues and veni-fons; Well tantivy! join while she Clashes the foe, With a "blast democratic" and dread tally O. Her Horn— Through the woodlands resounding, Sends the fly reynards bounding, T' their own "holes."
KENTUCKY. Kentuck' shall attend, since she bears us the vine, For there's nothing to freedom so sacred as wine;— And ye rigid fons to free-speaking and thinking, To deprive us of these, you must keep us from drink- ing.
TENNESSEE. Let Demos ne'er chide, should the bard in bee temp, Find a safe at our banquet, for Tennessee's temp, Since freedom (fyled "lawless") still boasts a nomi- mion. While she winds a whip—a poor tory will pinion. Ah then, Should fashion's sons muster, Or monarchists bluster, Who'd hang 'em!
NORTH-CAROLINA. Set down, gentle Buckfin, tho' artless and tawny, How sweet are the fancies the kind goddess throws on ye; Our guests are well served, yet it surely won't cross 'em, To offer a good ham, tho' fat as a—pollut, And fang— Sham patriots mistaken, Look out for your bacon, While smoking.
SOUTH-CAROLINA. O haste, since our heads nearly heavy with wine, On Carolina's lap may soon to recline; What place, gallant Yankees, so soft could be gotten, As our fister's flat bottom, well furnished with cotton. Boi tait E'er hate (as the trade is) Those old fashioned ladies, With hard hearts.
GEORGIA. Since Georgia appears, tho' we've got a good load in, She gives us her rice and we'll top off with puddings, Yet some say her flap, though taken with geuts, Must be fested again like the act of Tazoo, O where's The pleasure of eating, Without often fleeting, I wonder.
LOUISIANA. Here's our lovely Brunette, so ill-treated by Rosa, She proffers her sweets and provides us with fauce; Yet had we but listened to Morris's saucing, The fauce for our selish will still be wanting. O then Let your candy-tongued fuitor, Each T'amey salute her, Sweet fister.
The "PEOPLE" and THOMAS JEFFERSON. While our altar is loaded with viands and wine, Enjoy, noble proudest, the gifts of the shrine. Thank heav'n for our peace, independence and wealth, And rise from the feast with our President's health. O pledge With the last and best portion, And hearts of devotion, YOUR HIGH PRIEST.
A Volunteer Toast. The Governors and Major-Generals of the several states; may they all receive that respectful subordination from their inferiors, which they themselves show towards the President of the Union—their COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
Mr. M. L. Weems, now at Charleston (s. c.) has published in the Times two columns of commendatory matter upon the character of the late venerable & justly lamented GEORGE WYTHE, chancellor of Virginia. Among other instances of meritorious conduct in that Patriot, he adduces the following letter written by him to one of his clients. We heartily regret that like cases of integrity are not more common.
ROBERT ALEXANDER, Esq. "Sir,—The suit wherein you were pleased to do me the honor to engage my services, was last week brought to trial, and has fully satisfied me that you were entirely in the wrong. Knowing you to be a perfectly honest man, I conclude that you have some how or other been misled. At any rate, I find that I have been altogether misled in the affair, and there-fore insist on washing my hands of it immediately. In so doing I trust I shall not be charged with any failure of duty to you. As your lawyer it is true, I owe you every thing; every thing consistent with justice against her, nothing; nor ever can owe. For justice is appointed of God, the golden rule of all order throughout the universe; and therefore, as involving the greatest of all possible good to his creatures, it must be of all things the dearest to himself. He therefore, who knowingly acts against justice, is a premeditated murderer of mankind. Of this crime, (which worlds could not attempt me to commit) I should certainly be guilty, were I, under my present convictions, to go on with your suit. I hasten therefore to enclose you the fifty dollar note you gave me as a fee, and with it my advice to compromise the matter on the best terms you can."
I have just to add, that as conscience will not allow me to say any thing for you, honor forbids that I should say any thing against you. But by all means com- promise, and save the costs. Adieu—wishing you that inward sunshine which nothing outward can dar- ken. I remain, dear sir, Yours', GEO. WYTHE.
DEATH OF A TYRANT. PARIS, June 5. A small but interesting pamphlet has appeared with- in this fortnight past, entitled "A notice concerning the death of Paul the 1st, emperor of Russia." It contains a number of details hitherto unknown concerning the assassination of this unfortunate prince, the character of the principal conspirators and the active part which the cabinet of St. James's took in the event. The style of this work announces an experienced writer, and the facts are presented with clearness. We shall leave our readers to judge of them, by the rapid ana- lysis we are going to make.
Paul began his reign by a very impolitic but hono- rable act—he caused the relics of his father, Peter 3d, to be taken from the convent of Neufki, where they were buried, placed them in the church of the fortress, the Sepulchre of his ancestors, and compelled the assassins of Peter to be pall-bearers at this new kind of funeral. Having experienced continual mor- tifications at the court of Catherine during her life, he drove from him every thing that belonged or that was particularly attached to her—the military was the particular object of his cares, but he wanted ad- dress to effectuate the reforms he undertook—during the last years of Catherine, discipline had been much relaxed—Paul re-established it in all its severity—the officers of the guard lent in their refinements, and a- gainst their expectation, perhaps, saw them accept- ed as pretexts to the ill intention—and wife men whilst they applauded the just and correct views of a sovereign, blamed his want of management in the suppression of abuses. The great fault their privileges menaced, and where the tribulations could not reach
them, Paul endeavored to make them subject to laws that governed the common class of people—the nobi- lity impatient of the yoke, swore his destruction—the people loved and cherished him, but the barret of a handful of men, was made to pass as the sentiment of the public—at the head of the discontented, were, first the three Zouboffs, the general of cavalry, count Pahlen—general Beninon of English origin (the same who commanded at Auerlitz) gen. Ou- varoff, col. Taraninoff, col. Vesselowitz, and fully the English ambassador to Petersburg. The sentiments of Paul with regard to France altered daily. The campaigns of Italy and Egypt rendered him a pas- sionate admirer of the military talents of Bonaparte; he had his best placed in the palace of the hermitage, and was often pleased to call it the "great man."
The return of the Russian prisoners, without gain, was particularly agreeable, and completely ran- somed him over to France. The cabinet of St. James's took the alarm, and expressed its fears to Lord Whit- worth, whose able mind, knew well how to take ad- vantage of the discontent of a powerful party; to serve his own government—This ambassador was forced to quit Peter'sburgh, before the full execution of his plans, but he took refuge at St. Petersburg, and the aid of emigrants continued his work—every thing, every day confirmed to him, the perseverance of Paul, in his design of hostilities with England—in- deed a few days before his death, he had resolved to arm three frigates in the most eastern part of the em- pire, at port St. Peter and St. Paul, at the extremity of Kamchatka, and by cruising in the Indian Seas, en- deavour to get possession of the numerous English ves- sels in that quarter; but this was only an intimation on to a plan infinitely more vast, for the same time, 50,000 Russians were to traverse Persia, and by seiz- ing the English funds in India, ruin forever their trade there—English policy, attentive to all the steps of Paul, threw aside all scruples in the means employed to crush him. The expedition to the Sound, is one, among the many proofs of the participation of the English ministry, in the events that led to the death of Paul—the security with which the English entered the Baltic, sufficiently proves that they had expecta- tion of a catastrophe, that would change the face of affairs in their favor, and perhaps Nelson did not re- ceive orders to force the Sound, until the destruction of Paul was determined on at London—it was not, indeed, until the 2d of April (and during the combat) that they were informed at Copenhagen of the death of that prince.
The conspiracy framed against his person, was di- rected by a head coolly organized, and capable at the same time of the most persevering activity—it was Pahlen, military governor of Peter'sburgh—the weight of authority, pressed daily with renewed indifference on the mind of this man—subjected to a master whose will was absolute and whose mistrust was extreme, his favor depended upon a single doubt, and became in- credibly more precarious—in his wish to strengthen himself, he resolved to place Alexander on the throne; full of this idea, his first care was to banish from the court of Paul, all those whom he could not gain. Rasschapin, secretary of foreign affairs, gave him un- brage, and he had him dismissed. Before he ven- tured farther, Pahlen wished to be master of the means of justifying himself to Alexander if the latter failed in his designs, and to the emperor if he should fail; he endeavored, therefore, to prejudice Paul against the grand dukes Alexander and Constantine, and again against their father—but having nothing to hope from the submissive and respectful carriage of Alexander, he painted him to Paul as already too daring and capable of all attempt on his authority, & de- clared, formally to the emperor, that he could not answer for his personal safety unless he gave him di- rectly, an order for the arrest of Alexander—Paul, indignant at the conduct of his son, signed the order of arrest—Pahlen proceeds directly to the grand dukes, and represents the necessity of forcing Paul to an abdication, and opposed to the constant refusals of Alexander, the order he had to arrest him. Although Alexander was thunderstruck at the sight of this order, he yet could not resolve on such harsh measures. This circumstance was interpreted by Pahlen as authority for him to act; but as he was leaving the place of conference, Alexander exacted an oath from him, that no sort of violence should be offered to his father. About this time, either from a sense of duty in some, or from the indifference of others, reports of the con- spiracy transpired, and Paul, in a rage, sent for Pahlen, and told him they were aiming at his life, and bade him spare nothing to inform himself of the par- ticulars—Pahlen answered, "Sir, I know of it, and to make sure of the guilty, I belong to the conspiracy my- self."
These words appealed the emperor for the time; but shortly after, he received notice from the procu- rer general Obalianskoff, that attempts were making against him. This new discovery completed his mis- trust; and fearing that Pahlen had already taken part in the plot, he dispatched a courier to Arkhangelsk, the former governor of Peter'sburgh, and who then commanded a regiment in a barracks ten leagues from Peter'sburgh. He wrote this officer that in him he placed his whole confidence and hope, and if he deferred coming an instant, he was a lost man, for Pahlen was betraying him. Pahlen stopped this messenger, who, having he held dispatches from the emperor himself, refused to stop or give them up. The governor affected to doubt the truth of this story and had them taken by force. Pahlen now informed of every thing, saw the danger of delay, and fixed on the next day for the execution of the plot. One cannot sufficiently wonder at the fatality that pursued the unhappy Paul. On the morn- ing of the day agreed on, he was riding in the square of Souvaroff, accompanied by his favorite Koutaisoff, when he was addressed by one of the common peo- ple, who at the same time presented a letter; the emperor's horse happening to rear, he could not reach it himself, and the letter was received by Koutaisoff; it contained all the details of the conspiracy; but Koutaisoff having changed his clothes to dine with the emperor, forgot to read the letter.
At the hour agreed on, about 11 o'clock on the night of the 23d March, the conspirators to the number of twenty presented themselves at the side door of the palace of St. Michael next to the garden—on being refused admission, they laid the emperor had sent for them, as a great council of war was to be held in the morning; the canal deceived by the ap- pearance of so many general officers, by the ap- pearance of all mounted silently towards the apartment of Paul, and stopped at the guard chamber except Argonakoff, and 40 camp in service, who went alone and cried that the city was on fire, and he came to wake the emperor; the Cossack who guarded the anti-chamber, suffered him to pass; he then knocked at the door, and named himself; Paul knowing his voice, opened the door by a string that was fixed to the bed; he leaped back directly to introduce the other conspirators, who only waited the signal to pre- sent themselves; the Cossack perceiving them, but too late, that they aimed at the emperor's life, endeavoured to make resistance, but was immediately pierced; he gave notice, however, to his master as he fell by crying out "treason!"
The frightened emperor endeavored to escape by one of the two closets that adjoined the alcove: one led to the lower floor, the other, containing the clothes and arms of the officers detained in the fortress, had no passage through it; to this last his bad fortune or fright conducted him; he seized a sword, and was searching for the private stair case of the other closet when the conspirators entered; they went straight to the bed, and not finding him, all cried out "he has escaped." They already believed themselves betrayed, when Beninon perceived him bending behind a screen. Paul, without clothes, and in the highest state of surprise and alarm, preferred the lot that awaited him; but his natural energy did not abandon him. They spoke to him of abdication; he refused with fury, and recollecting those whom he had covered with honors and rewards he broke forth in such terri- ble and touching reproaches, as shook the ferocity of their intention. But at the moment when the con- spirators were at the emperor's, at that moment, when they calculated most certainly on the aid of Pahlen, he marched to the palace at the head of a regiment of guards. If the enterprise succeeded, he came to second it; if it failed, he came to defend his master. Meanwhile Platon Zouboff endeavored to read to the
emperor an act of abdication. Paul offered to ratouch it; and addressing himself particularly to Platon, re- tracted his excessive temerity and ingratitude: "you are no longer emperor, replied Zouboff, Alexander is our master"—Paul, enraged, leaped forward to strike him, and his courage arrested and suspended for a moment the will of the conspirators. Beninon perceiving this, reiterated them by crying out, "it is over with us; if we suffer him to escape, it is over with us; we are all dead." Nicholas Zouboff then made the first blow at his sovereign, & broke his right arm, and by his audacity drew on the irrepressible villainy of his accomplices.
The noise now added to this scene of horror, and the obscurity of the place rendered the actors im- accessible to all pity; they all fell upon him, despatched him along, and prolonged his sufferings by every spe- cies of barbarity their cruelty could invent. Slashing him repeatedly in the most sensible places, until quite exhausted with their own efforts and rage, one among them passed a scarf round his neck, and strang- led him to death; the emperor to the last moment still crying "Confession! Confession!" When Alex- ander heard of his father's death, he sunk in a fit of profound sorrow; it was in vain they endeavored to moderate his grief; he rejected all consolation, and loudly refuted the throne. This state of things, was followed by a convulsion and tumult that lasted sev- eral hours—All the officers of government crowded to the palace to salute their new sovereign: Pahlen in quality of governor, headed a deputation and was speaker; the assassin of his father was seen taking this oath of fidelity to the son—Alexander at last gave way to the reiterated desires and petitions of his dis- tracted family and of his best servants, who represented to him, that in such circumstances he owed himself wholly to the state. He appeared at the balcony, and was saluted emperor, amidst the acclamations of all his people.
At the time of the death of Paul there was a nu- merous party in favour of placing the empress Maria, mother of Alexander, on the throne. No step on her side, is known to the public, which could induce a belief in schemes of usurpation, and her conduct as a mother and as a consort would be of great weight towards destroying such an assertion. The prefer- ences granted in that country to the reign of women is well known, may it not therefore be reasonably sup- posed that this princess might have had numerous par- tisans without having solicited them? But under this hypothesis, was she to tolerate them?
"Be that as it may," Pahlen thought proper to watch her conduct. This princess caused a picture to be placed in the Foundling Hospital, representing Paul on his death bed. The people were greatly affected at the scene thus held before them. Pahlen feeling the danger of re- vealing recent recollections, made representations on the subject to Alexander. The latter perceived the justice of his observations, but objected that he could not with- out indisposing his mother, openly oppose what had done. Pahlen told him; "Sir, do ev- ery thing for her, but leave nothing for her to do." The people still continued crowding thither, when Pahlen dreading the consequences of such an exhibi- tion, ordered from his own authority, the picture to be removed.
Scarcely was this event known to the empress, when she threw herself at the emperor's feet, conjur- ing him to punish this act of temerity. Alexander attempted to calm her but she told him that if the gov- ernor was not dismissed, she would quit the court, and that he might choose between his mother and Pahlen. Alexander then sacrificed him.
FOR SALE, A likely young NEGRO MAN who has been accustomed to work in the crop—For terms ap- ply at the Enquirer Office. August 1. tf.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of John Hoomes, dec'd. of the Bowling Green, are requested to make them known, that provision may be made for a final settlement. And these indebted must make immediate pay- ment to JOHN HOOMES, and JOHN G. WOOLFOLK, Executors of John Hoomes, dec'd. Jan. 28. tf.
APPRENTICES WANTED. TWO Boys about the age of fourteen, wanted as apprentices to the gold and silversmith's bus- iness, by JOHNSON & REAT. August 5. tf.
HANOVER JOCKEY CLUB. THE Hanover Jockey Club having been organ- ized, the races will commence at this place, on the 2nd Wednesday in October next. 1st. Day—3 mile heats, free for any horse, mare, or gelding; 2nd. Day—3 mile heats, confined to untried colts, not exceeding 4 years of age. The regulations with respect to weights, &c. are adopted from those of the Fairfield Jockey Club. A general meeting of the Club, is requested on the day preceding the first day's race. SKELTON JONES, Secretary to the Club. Hanover C.H. August 12. (250.)
FOR SALE—on the following terms: 2500 FATS of LIVERPOOL SALT, and 90 crates of LIVERPOOL EARTHEN WARE of superior quality & well assorted, just arrived in the ship Mer- chant, Captain Jonnson, from Liverpool, at Ber- muda Hundred. OVERTON ANDERSON. May 23. tf.
FOR SALE. THE Subscriber would dispose of a valuable MILL, (formerly belonging to Col. George Bird, deceased) situate near the upper end of Mid- dlesex county, together with a tract of land contain- ing by a late survey, one hundred forty-six and a half acres, lying contiguous to, and immediately on the south bank of Rappahannock river, eighteen miles be- low Tappahannock, eight below Bowler's ferry, and ten only above Urbanna; if not sold previous to Monday the fifteenth day of September (that being the first day of the next district court, to be held at King & Queen court-house) if fair, otherwise the first fair day, it will be sold to the highest bidder (at the time and place before mentioned) and possession given the first of January next, on the following terms, to wit: One half of the purchase money to be paid on the day of sale, the balance in twelve months, secured by lien on the property, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. A description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed none would purchase without first viewing the farm. ROBERT BIRD. Hanover county, August 5. (19th Sept.)
THE subscriber has removed his Broker's Office to the middle tenement, in Doct. Peter Terman's new building, the first door above Messrs. Pickett, Pol- lard and Johnson, and the second below the Post Of- fice; where he will attend particularly to all bus- iness confided to him. THOMAS NORVELL. For sale, 10 SHARES in the JAMES RI- VER COMPANY. June 6. (tf.)
TO BE RENTED—The Tenement where I now reside, and possession given in time. J. PENN. April 11. tf.
WANTED to hire immediately, a young and ac- tive NEGRO MAN—Also, a NEGRO GIRL about 11 or 13 years old. Apply to the printer. August 15.
FOR RENT. THE Tavern & Lot at King & Queen court- house, with all the houses thereon, except the store house, occupied by myself, and the shop lately used by Dobb's Newhall and Pendleton. This place is in a very improved and neigbouring counties, to be a profitable business to a Tanner, that to say much is very unnecessary, as it would be unnecessary to bring the farm of a county and District Court, and lying on the main roads, leading from Gloucester and Mathe- w's counties, to the city of Richmond, give it a con- siderable advantage over the Taverns at court houses generally. The land attached to the Ta- vern, is capable of yielding annually from 175 to 200 barrels of corn; and from 300 to 400 bu- shels of wheat. I am of opinion that the field which is now in corn, is capable of producing 600 bushels of wheat, if put in the cropping fall in good time, which privilege will be allowed to those who rent the place. I have made 430 bu- shels of wheat from the same field, when not as large by 30 acres, and none of it in the high state of cultivation that it is at present. This place will be rented for two years, and in all proba- bilities, for two years more at the expiration of the first term—I will contract privately with any person willing to rent, and if not disposed of by the second Monday in September next, it will then be set up publicly at King & Queen court- house, (it being court day) if rented before that time, public notice will be given. Apply to Robert Pollard, and Thos. C. Hoames, Esquires, residing at King & Queen court house, or the sub- scriber. THOMAS GARNETT. August 1. (145.)
HOUSES & LOT FOR SALE. WE offer for sale the Houses and Lot at- tached to Mr. Rutherford's dwelling House and next to Mr. Isaac Webster's on Shockoe Hill, at present occupied by Benjamin Sheppard. This situation is scarcely exceeded by any in town for beauty, and by none as to pleasantness, being nearly in the centre of the city as any part of Richmond. The dwelling house is a genteel family that is not very large, there being 9 rooms and a fine large passage below, there being above stairs in the dwelling house, a good kitchen and smoke house all in good repair, and a yard and gar- den under a new inclosure of the best materials. Any person inclined to purchase, may be accommodated with credits which probably will be agreeable; or debts due or not due from persons residing in Rich- mond or Henrico, will be taken in payment, or a con- siderable deduction from a credit price will be made for cash. N. B. & I. SHEPPARD. July 15. (4) Adjoining the above mentioned lot is an un- improved lot belonging to me, which borders on the Main-street leading from Shockoe bridge, & which may be had with the improved lot, if the purchaser should with it. B. SHEPPARD.
FOR SALE. IN virtue of a deed in trust, to me executed, by captain Poulbee G. Tibb, for purposes therein mentioned; the whole of the property specified in said trust deed, consisting of very valuable tract of LAND, several valuable Slaves, Household & Kitchen furniture, and Stock of various kinds. The land lies in Essex county on Rappahannock river, ten miles below Tappahannock; very conven- ient to the belt of oysters, oysters and crabs contains 333. acres, level and well adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn and small grain. There is on it a dwelling house in good repair, as also other conven- ient houses for a small family, valuable young orchards of peach and apple of choice fruits, belonging to the above tract; there is as much marsh as will af- ford hay in the greatest abundance, for one hundred and fifty head of cattle; the land is well watered and remarkably healthy. The sale will take place on the premises, on the 24th day of October next, and the terms fully made known on that day; a part of the purchase money for each article, will be required in hand, by CHARLES BROWNE, Trustee. Essex, August 8. tf. The Subscribers have just received from Bremen, a supply of GERMAN LINENS, which they offer to sell on the most reasonable terms. BOHN & HUBNER. August 15. 2u
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to us on the fourteenth day of February 1801, to secure a debt due from Col. Robert Goode to William B. Giles, Esq. WILL. BE SOLD, to the highest bidder for ready money, on the first day of October next, at the front door of the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond: THAT well-known Tract of Land whereon Col. Goode now resides, lying on James River, in the county of Chesterfield, containing twelve hundred and sixty one acres more or less, and commonly called and known by the name of WHITBY. This valuable estate lies within three miles of the city of Rich- mond and two from the town of Manchester, and has on it a large and commodious dwelling house, with all convenient out-houses and other improvements, well suited to the accommodation of a genteel family. JOSEPH SCOTT, WM. MOSLEY, ROB. POLLARD, } Trustees. August 15, 1806. (4s)
To be sold, for cash, at Zachariah Brooks' Tavern, in the town of Manchester, on Monday the 25th of this present month, by virtue of a deed of trust to me executed by William Ellslyon alias Moody, for the purpose of securing a debt due to John McLeod, therein specified: NINETEEN acres of LAND, with coal mines thereon, lying on Falling Creek, about 12 miles from Manchester, under a lease at present to Messrs. Hech & Blunt. CORNELIUS BUCH, Trustee. Manchester, August 15. (4s)
NOTICE. THE partnership of Jesse Higgenbotham & Co. this day dissolved by mutual con- sent; all persons who have accounts with the concern, are requested to come forward and settle them with Jesse Higgenbotham. BROWN, RIVES & Co. JESSE HIGGENBOTHAM. Cairo, 1st August, 1806.
THE business will be continued by James Brown, of Richmond, Robert Rives, of Am- herst county, and Henry Rives of this place, under the firm of Henry Rives & Co. who will pay all claims against the late concern of Jesse Higgenbotham & Co. JAMES BROWN, ROBERT RIVES, HENRY RIVES, Cairo, 1st August, 1806. 5b3
In addition to the County Courts of Prince Ed- ward, Buckingham, Cumberland and Powha- tan, and the District Court of Prince Edward, in which said Courts I now practice LAW. I shall in future attend the High Court of Chancery in the Richmond District. The honorable Cread Taylor, having resigned his practice in the last named court, at his request, the business therein which was committed to his care and remain unfinished, will, with the exception of a few cases he attended to be by me, be taken by post ad- dressed to me (near Cumberland Court-house) will be duly attended to. WILLIAM DANIEL, Jr. Cumberland, August 15. tf.