The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-01-25 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE).
NUMBER 81]
RICHMOND, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1806.
[VOLUME 2.]
Sales at Auction.
On Saturday the 25th inst. at 12 o'Clock, on the premises, will be sold on a credit of 6, 12 and 18 months, for notes with approved security, negotiable in the Bank of Virginia:
THE TENEMENT lately occupied by Mr. Yearman Smith, at Hay-Market, together with another tenement attached thereto.
PROSSER & MONCURE, V. M's.
January 16. ep tdf.
MARSHAL'S SALES.
TO be sold, for ready money, under a decree of the court of the U. States, for the fifth circuit in the Virginia district, between Princess Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, deft. and David Ross and others, defts. in order to raise the sum of 967 dols. 89 cts. due and payable on the first day of July, 1805, and the further sum of 1166 dols. 68 cts. due and payable on the 1st day of January, 1806, that valuable and well known estate, in the county of Louisa, called FORT LEWIS, situated by said river to contain 3508 acres.
The Sale will take place on the premises, on the 27th day of February next.
Also on the 4th day of March next, under the aforesaid decree, will be sold at the Oxford Iron Works, in the county of Campbell, a number of valuable S.L.AVE'S.
BENJ. MOSBY, D. M. for
JOS. SCOTT, M. V. D.
January 16. tdf.
JOHN AMSDEN.
From New-York, a few days since the Court-House Richmond,
RESPECTFULLY informs the public, that he has taken the house lately occupied by S. Osgood, as a Locksmith's shop, where he is carrying on the above business in all its various branches. He makes Edge tools, files, Horses and repairs "Galt" screws, Bellows and Shop Rolling made to any pattern; He also works in general executed with dispatch. He flatters himself that by the attention he will pay to his business, and from the experience he has had in the first class in the U. States, that he will give general satisfaction to those who are good enough to favor him with their custom.
January 16. T. & H. Stp.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
INTENDS in addition to the courts of Richmond and King William, in which he now practices, to attend the county court of New-Kent.
WILLIAM FITZHUGH BRAXTON.
January 16. Tdw.
WILL BE SOLD,
On Saturday the first day of February next, at Zachariah Brooks's Tavern in this place.
ALL the HOUSEHOLD & KITCHEN FURNITURE, one excellent milk Cow, and sundry other articles, belonging to the estate of Wm. Jackson, dec'd.—Also, at same time and place will be hired for the remainder of the year, a valuable negro man, a likely negro boy, woman and girl, belonging to said deceased. Terms will be made known on the day of sale.
All those who have claims against said deceased, are requested to bring them forward properly authenticated, and those who are indebted are requested to make immediate payment.
THOMAS TREDWAY,
Administrator, with the will annexed.
Manchester, January 23. Stp.
NOTICE.
By virtue of a deed of trust, executed to me by John Kelso, to secure the payment of a debt due by him to John and Wm. Bell, I shall, on the 25th of February next, at the house of the said John Kelso, in the upper end of the county of Cumberland, proceed to sell so much of that valuable FARM, containing 550 acres of Land, on which he now lives, (subject to two prior deeds of trust) as will pay the sum due to the said John and Wm. Bell, of about six hundred and fifty pounds, with some interest thereon, for the benefit of John Kelso.
CREED TAYLOR, Trustee.
P. S. On the above land, is one of the best farms in the surrounding country, in fine order, with an excellent crop of wheat sown on it, and it is within 2 miles of a manufacturing mill on Appomattox, from whence there is a good navigation to the Potomac canal. I will dispose of it at private sale and give a reasonable credit for the balance after receiving 2000 dols in cash.
JOHN KELSO.
LAND FOR SALE.
THE Subscriber will sell a great bargain, in the TRACT OF LAND, whereon he now lives, being on the waters of Hardware river, in North Garden, in Albemarle county, containing about 500 acres. It is a rich loft soil, producing excellent Tobacco, Corn and wheat, with a stream running thro' it, supposed sufficient to turn a grist mill. It is supposed no one would purchase without viewing it, therefore it is unnecessary to be more particular in the description. Any one willing to see the land or enquire of terms, will apply to the subscriber on the premises.
MATTHEW BROWN.
January 21. Tdg.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to the Subscriber by Andrew Cusler, to secure to Archibald Hughes the payment of a sum of money, as expressed therein, will be sold, on Friday the 24th inst. for ready money, a LOT, with a brick house thereon, known in Duval's plan of lots by the No. 40. The sale will take place on the premises, between the hours of twelve & two o'Clock, P. M.
THOMAS UNDERWOOD, Jr. Trustee.
January 2.
TO BE RENTED,
A BRICK HOUSE, near that of Mr. Robert Gordon, on the Hill, calculated to accommodate a small family comfortably; attached to it is a half acre of ground well inclosed.
JAS. GREENHOW.
December 7. tf.
THE subscriber wishes to sell two WAGGONS & TEAMS, one of six horses, wagon and gears, and the necessary appendages; the other six mules, wagon, gear, &c. Both have been used in hauling coal, and judging by the quantity hauled last year, are capable of doing as much as any others so employed. On receiving a part of the money a credit will be allowed for the balance. A purchaser can be accommodated with an extra mule, or horse to each team, and may have in his power to employ both drivers at a moderate hire, for a part, or for the remainder of the year, as may be agreed on.
I would also sell a mare, and a valuable mule, both well suited to the purpose of a plantation; the mule is perhaps as large as any in the state.
JAMES BRANTNER.
Manchester, January 21. (t&th 2w)
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold at public auction, on Tuesday the 28th inst. at the late dwelling house of Andrew M'Kim, dec'd.
ALL his household and kitchen furniture, and one valuable cow. Terms of sale, cash for all sums under ten dollars, and for all over that sum a credit will be allowed of 9 months on giving approved endorsed notes.
ROBERT M'KIM, & } Administrators.
ALEXANDER M'KIM, }
N. B. The house to be rented, and immediate possession given.
Jan. 21. t&th tdf.
WILL BE PUBLISHED,
AT the Office of the Enquirer a SKETCH of the proceedings of the present General Assembly. It will contain the TITLES of all the acts passed; the CONTENTS of such as are of a general nature; a statement of TAXES & APPROPRIATIONS, for the current year; the state of the ARMOURY, PENITENTIARY, &c. with such other matters of a miscellaneous nature, as may be condensed within the allotted space.
This Sketch will be printed in the pamphlet form, at two dollars per hundred. Such of the members of the Assembly as may wish to procure a certain number of copies, are requested to leave their names at the Office of the Enquirer.
January 23.
GENERAL OFFICE OF INSURANCE,
JANUARY 8th, 1806.
THE general meeting of the Mutual Insurance Company against Fire on Goods and Furniture, in the state of Virginia, which took place this day agreeably to notice previously given, in the public papers, was too thin to authorise any proceedings, as to the general concerns of the company. The meeting was therefore adjourned until 10 o'clock in the morning of Tuesday the fourth day of next month.
As the affairs of the company are in such a state as to require immediate attention, and as most of the members are now liable to incur all the disadvantages of the institution, without a possibility of being, in any degree, benefited by it, should any accident occur to them, it is earnestly hoped, as a matter of the first consequence to their individual interests, that they will be pointed in attending the said meeting, either personally or by proxy.
WM. H. FITZWHILSONN, P. A.
Richmond, January 24th. tmd.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
At the front door of the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on the eighteenth day of March next, following.
THAT most valuable estate, situated in the county of Wythe, and commonwealth of Virginia, and heretofore well known by the name of Chiswell's Lead Mines; but which, for sometime past hath been considered, as the property of Stephen Austin and company, of the city of Philadelphia, by virtue of a purchase thereof by them, made under a decree of the high court of chancery of the said commonwealth, with the terms whereof they have not complied.
That purchase was made on the 20th day of February 1793, for the sum of £6,505, and since that period, they have made sundry great and valuable improvements on the said estate.
The well known value of the property, and the certainty which the subscribers feel, that those who mean to become purchasers will satisfy themselves thereof, on view, render any further description of the property to be held unnecessary.
The sale will be made in conformity to two several decrees of the superior court of chancery, which is directed by law to be held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond aforesaid, the one pronounced on the 8th day of June, and the other on the 7th day of October, in the year 1802.
Credit will be given to the purchaser or purchasers, for a term of nine months for one, and eighteen months for the other moiety of the purchase money, each moiety being secured not only by a bond with good security made payable to the subscribers, or the survivors of them, their executors, administrators or assigns, for the uses in the said decree specified, and bearing interest from the date; but also, by the retention of the legal estate, until the whole purchase money, with such interest, shall be fully paid; on which payment a conveyance or conveyances will be executed to the purchaser or purchasers in virtue of the said decree.
JOHN WICKHAM, } Commissioners
JOHN WARDEN, } of the
WILLIAM HAY, } court.
Jan. 21. sw.
WARM SPRINGS,
IN THE COUNTY OF BATH, VIRGINIA.
HAVING taken a lease on the WARM SPRINGS for 10 years, from the 1st April, 1805; we wish to acquaint the public, that at a great expense and much labour, we have improved it, to accommodate gentlemen, 150 persons, having erected 15 new houses, among them is a range of framed shafts 240 feet long, together with other stables roomy enough to hold about 100 horses, also to new houses 21 by 17 feet, built convenient to the Bath, with stone chimneys, and finished off neatly; a large and commodious sitting room for the ladies, furnished with different kinds of instruments of music, and kept for that purpose only. A new Bath will be made distinct from the present one, intended for such persons as may not choose to mix with the strong and healthy.
We have also taken a lease on the Sweet Springs in the county of Monroe, distant 50 miles from the Warm, for 9 years, and are making the necessary preparations for the accommodation of the visitors. The best of attention will be paid to give satisfaction, as we have from many years experience, that without it but few customers can be expected.
It is with much satisfaction that we have it in our power to assure the public that the different houses of entertainment on the roads leading to the Springs have of late been much attended to by the proprietors, most of which (above the ridge) the subscribers have visited, and have found that appearances run to indicate that in future travellers will be well accommodated. We wish to purchase a Blacksmith, for one that comes well recommended, a generous price will be given.
Also wanted to employ a different elderly woman to undertake the management of the place of bath-keeper, either at the Warm or Sweet Springs, one inclined to be industrious, and qualified to discharge such duties, will meet with liberal encouragement, on application to us.
ROBERT & GEORGE TURNER.
January 21. ep taw.
GEORGE WILY,
BROKER & COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Near the Basin,
BUYS and sells all kinds of Produce—Also, and Lots, and houses, Bank Stock, &c.
BT. H. has for Sale, LOTS No. 11, 2, 3, and 4, which make one entire square in Du-Val's addition. There is a good Spring attached to them. These lots are worth the attention of any gentleman wishing to build a summer retreat for his family.
July 22.—2t.
ANDREW STEVENSON, in addition to the courts of King William and Hanover; practices law in the county court of New-Kent.
January 16. th & s. 4t.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
TWO HOUSES and LOTS on Shockoe Hill, in a most desirable part of the city, and possessing every accommodation for a family. A long credit will be allowed, or Virginia Bank Stock at a very liberal price taken in exchange.
I have 8000 acres of Virginia land warrants which I will sell low for cash.
THOMAS NORVELL.
Jan. 11. tf.
THE SUPERINTENDANT OF THE VIRGINIA MANUFACTORY OF ARMS, TO THE GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
Sir,
I beg leave to present you a statement of the operations of the manufactory of arms, in the year commencing with the 1st December, 1804, and terminating with the 30th November, 1805. In forming this statement, I deem it proper to present a more comprehensive and explanatory view of the institution and the principles upon which it is conducted, than my annual reports upon this subject have heretofore exhibited; I must therefore detail many circumstances not enumerated in them, which are not uninteresting to this subject.—They are as follows, viz.
This manufactory is seated on the declivity of an hill in a healthy situation; inaccessible to the highest freshest of the river, and receives an unfailling supply of water for operating the labor-saving machinery of the works, from the James River Canal; which at this place affords a fall so extensive that the same water may be operated three several times in its descent from the canal to the river. The first and second operations of the water, are applied to the machinery for making small arms; the third is intended for the boring and turning of cannon and other ordnance; & while it is secured from all attacks by a naval force, it possesses the benefits of a navigation extending upwards of two hundred miles above the works, and to the ocean below; by which navigation all the materials proper for the making of every species of arms (which our country affords in the greatest abundance and of the best qualities) may be easily and cheaply conveyed to this manufactory. And being established in the vicinity of inexhaustible coal mines; and quarries which afford the best Grind Stones; those articles so important to an institution like this, are brought to the door of the works by water carriage, and at the cheapest rates. The materials for the fabrication of arms are purchased in large quantities, and consequently on the lowest terms. The artificers who execute the work are (with very few exceptions) industrious and well-behaved mechanics, who find their own provisions, and are paid a given price for each article they manufacture, and are not employed by the day, month or year. The articles to be manufactured are delivered out to each artificer in each several branch of the work, at the commencement of each month, and the artificers so receiving them, are charged therewith, and return them manufactured at the end of each month; and whenever any article given out, is not returned at the end of the month by the artificer to whom it was delivered, its value is deducted from the payment due him: so that all the various articles in the hands of the artificers, are at their own risk. At the end of every month a final settlement is made with each artificer belonging to the establishment, and a statement thereof, or payroll is presented to the executive; which after an examination thereof, is deposited in the office of the auditor of public acc's. where, the quantity and kind of work done in each month of the year, by each artificer; as well as the price paid for its execution, may be readily ascertained by a reference to those documents; independently of the books of the manufactory. With a view to the faithful execution of the work, and to expedite its completion, the making of arms is divided into a great variety of branches: This division of labour makes it indispensably necessary that a large supply of all the component parts of arms, in every stage of completion, should always be kept on hand: otherwise in the event of a failure of execution in any of the forward branches, some of those artificers who work in the latter, would be without employment; To illustrate my meaning more fully, and without detailing all the operations required in the manufacture or making of a musket, which in our works amount to upwards of forty, let us take the barrel only, and we shall find, that it requires thirteen distinct operations, for its completion, viz: Forging a scalp for the barrel, welding barrel, annealing, rough-boring, smooth-boring, grinding, forging a breech, breeching, making a touch-hole, proving, looping, lighting and polishing.
Hence it is easy to perceive the dependence of any one branch upon all the others which precede it. I state this circumstance to shew the necessity of keeping on hand a large supply of all the component parts of arms, so that the idleness, absence or demand of extraordinary wages by the artificers in any branch, shall not affect the general order of the operations of the institution; and that for these reasons I have caused most of the force of the establishment to be applied to the manufacture of the several component parts of arms, rather than to those branches in which those parts are put together and completed: This fact will fully appear by a reference to the following statement, which accords with the monthly payrolls above alluded to, viz:
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like Barrels repaired, Locks repaired, Repairs of trip-hammers, Rifes cleaned, Sowing rifle flocks, Extra services to foundry artificers, cleaning emery &c. &c.
CONTINGENT:
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like Total cost of all the materials including officers salary, and water from canal, Cost of the execution of the work as per payrolls, Total cost of the articles.
This statement exhibits the number and kinds of articles and the operations that each class have successfully undergone in their progress to completion, also the cost of the materials of which they are made, including officers' salaries and water from the canal; the cost of the execution of the work (as per payrolls) and the total cost of the articles, embracing every expence. It also shews that the component parts of arms manufactured in the year, and not put together, amount to a very considerable sum. By this statement it is easy to ascertain the cost of any article manufactured, and consequently the cost of all the component parts when put together in the form of a musket, pistol, sword, rifle, &c. To ascertain the cost of any component part in any stage of completion, it is only necessary to divide the sum of their cost in the column on the right hand margin, by the number of such articles on the left hand margin, & the cost of any one article, is ascertained. To find the cost of a musket, begin with the article first required for its manufacture, viz. the scalp of which the barrel is made. The statement above, shews that the cost of forging 6396 musket scalps is 1115 dols. 12 cts. which sum being divided by 6396, shews that the cost of forging one scalp for a musket barrel, is 17 cents and 4 mills. In the same manner may be ascertained, the cost of welding the barrel, and of every other article and operation required, in the making of muskets, pistols, swords, rifles, &c. which will be found as follows:
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like Cost of a Musket, For forging scalp for barrel, by tilt hammer, Welding barrel including all expences, Forging breech, Boring, grinding & breeching barrel, Looping and lighting barrel, Forging lock, Filing lock, Stamping lock, Hardening and polishing lock, Forging set musket mounting.
Large table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like 2049 Mufket barrels looped & lighted, 4138 Mufket rods forged and tempered, 2279 Mufket rods ground, 1367 Bayonets forged, 1541 Bayonets ground, 458 Bayonets bored, 154 Breech pins forged, 31500 Screws forged, 21516 Screws filed and cut, 2014 Mufkets flocked, 2135 Mufkets finished, PISTOLS, SWORDS, RIFLES, CONTINGENT.
Cost of a pistol for cavalry:
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like For a barrel, welded, cut, &c. including the scalp, Boring and grinding, Barrel breeched, (forging breech pin included), Forging set of mounting, Filing set of mounting, Filing lock, Stamping lock, Hardening and polishing lock, Forging ramrod, Stocking pistol, Finishing pistol, Forging, filing and cutting 5 screws.
Cost of a sword for cavalry:
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like For a sword blade forged and tempered, Grinding and polishing sword blade, Forging mounting, Sword hilt, Finishing a sword.
Cost of an iron scabbard:
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like For a scabbard, turned and brazed, Grinding and polishing a scabbard, Forging and filing a scabbard, Grinding, polishing and setting scabbard.
Cost of a leather scabbard with tips, &c.
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like For turning and brazing tips, Filing tips, Grinding and polishing tips, Forging scabbard and filing, Grinding, polishing & setting scabbard, The leather and work thereon.
Cost of an iron scabbard
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like Cost of a leather do.
Difference in cost
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like Cost of a rifle:
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like For a rifle barrel welded, &c., Boring and Grinding barrel, Rifling barrel, Iron for breech pin, Breeching, looping, and lighting barrel, Forging a rifle lock, Filing a lock with rollers, &c., Hardening and polishing, Forging a set rifle mounting, Filing 11 screws for rifle, Filing and cutting 11 screws, One set box covers and fide pieces, Forging one set triggers & plate, &c., Forging and filing 1 set box springs & triggers.
Cost of a rifle
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like One set pipes and nose pieces, Stocking a rifle, Engraving rifle box, One screw wiper, One pair bullet moulds, Ramrod, Finishing a rifle.
Cost of a Mufket:
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like For forging scalp for barrel, by tilt hammer, Welding barrel including all expences, Forging breech, Boring, grinding & breeching barrel, Looping and lighting barrel, Forging lock, Filing lock, Stamping lock, Hardening and polishing lock, Forging set musket mounting.
The foregoing observations and statements are meant to explain the principles upon which the works are conducted, and to furnish the data by which the cost of the arms made in this manufactory is ascertained.
The statements which follow, exhibit the amount of the component parts of arms, and un wrought materials, that were on hand at the commencement of the year above-mentioned, to which is added the whole expense of the operations of the year. And as a balance against that sum, the cost of the arms finished, in the said year, at the prices above stated; and the amount of the component parts and raw materials on hand at the end of said year, being added thereto, balances the account, as will fully appear by the statements below.
Stock of component parts of arms on hand, December first, 1804, as stated in my last annual report upon this subject, dated December 25th, 1804, viz.
Table with 4 columns: Article, Quantity, Price, Total. Includes items like 664 mufket barrels welded, 453 do. do. do. bored and ground, 128 do. do. do. bored, ground & breeched, 2339 do. locks forged, 367 do. do. filed with springs, 119 do. do. do. without springs, 527 do. do. do. case hardened and polished, 1662 do. bayonets, forged and tempered, 687 mufket bayonets, forged, tempered and ground, 738 fies mufket mounting, forged, 700 do. do. do. do. ground and filed, 628 ramrods for mufkets, forged and tempered, 188 do. do. do. do. and ground, 1817 breech pins forged, 500 trigger pins do. & screws cut, 500 sets of fide pins do. do., 6 sets of wood screws do. do., 4000 wood screws do., 83 rifle barrels, bored, ground, rifled and breeched, 3 do. do. do. do. (not rifled) do., 47 do. locks with rollers, case hardened and polished, 50 sets of rifle mounting filed, 100 powder horns for rifles, 41 wipers for do., 41 bullet moulds for do., 469 pistol barrels, forged and bored, 650 do. locks do. do., 22 do. do. do. filed, 26 sword blades, forged and tempered, 147 hilts.

  2914 wt. of iron drawn under tilt hammer for making arms 210 17 195 1-2 dozen files 732 54   122 wt. of steel do. do. do. 16 49 10 dozen wood rasps 53 68   3470 bushels mineral coal 700 15   10 bushels charcoal 88   40 bushels scrap leather for cafe hardening parts of arms 5 35   8580 musket blocks roughly formed 1974 88   946 pistol blocks 93 67   137 wt. old brass 36 66   5890 wt. old files to be cut anew or wrought into parts of arms 335 30   85 ton scrap iron 2310   4600 wt. scrap steel 295 47   2 5-8 hogheads gun flints 300 75   1500 sheet iron for sword scabbards 213 60   1070 wt. rolled do. for do. 86 43   8,499 76   The following account is digested from the above statements—   MANUFACTORY OF ARMS, Dr.   To component parts of arms on hand 1st December 1804 as per statement above, amounting to 12,114 19   To unwrought materials for making arms on hand 1st December 1804 as above amounting to 3,898 93   To amount of the expenses of the works, in the year ending with the 30th November 1805 as above amounting to 47,895 33   Total, 63,908 49   By arms finished in the year ending with the 30th November 1805, as per statement above, amounting to 29,887 46   By stock of component parts of arms on hand November 30th 1805 as per statement above amounting to 25,521 27   By stock of unwrought materials for making arms on hand 30th November 1805 as above amounting to 8,499 76   Total, 63,908 49 
by daily experience, have become the best judges. That by trusting to the precarious medium of obtaining arms on contracts with individuals, by whose death, bankruptcy, or various other casualties, the supplies were subjected to interruption and failure, and the commonwealth disappointed, having made herself dependent upon individuals for arms for her militia. In such a dilemma a new contractor was to be sought for;—but when found, there was no more certainty of the fulfilment of his contract than in the former case, for that forams, even of the worst quality, and at an exorbitant price, we could not calculate with any degree of certainty upon a supply. Thus has the government, for years, been thwarted in the great object of arming, until at length wearied with impositions and disappointments, and recollecting her own vast resources, possessing within herself inexhaustible stores, of all the materials proper for the purpose; the commonwealth has established a manufactory of arms at the metropolis of the state, on a site which in point of great natural advantages, is perhaps without a parallel in any country, and being of permanent construction, this edifice may last for ages, and be handed down as a valuable boon to posterity. Here even now in the infancy of the establishment, we are manufacturing arms of a quality greatly superior, to any we have purchased; as an examination and comparison of them will evince, and at a cheaper rate, as the documents in your possession will prove.—Here the transactions of the institutions are carried on, and all the disbursements made under the eye of the Executive. Here the representatives of the people, at least once a year, have an opportunity of inspecting the operations of the manufactory, and of obtaining personally, all the information they may deem necessary; and here, I trust, the youth of our country, will be permitted to learn the important art of making the weapons, upon which we must rely, for the protection of our rights.  With considerations of high respect, I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, JOHN CLARKE. Virginia Manufactory of Arms, Jan. 18, 1805.
ERRATUM —In the first page, 5th column, 5th line from the top, should read—forging and cutting 4 frezes at 2 c. 1 m. each, and 2 frezes at 1 c. 8 3/4 m. each—12 c. 1 m.
European Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, Jan. 13. Continuation of News by the Cato. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, Nov. 16. Admiralty-Office, Nov. 16.
Copy of a letter from the Right Hon. Lord Collingwood, Vice-Admiral of the Red, &c. &c. to William Marston, Esq. dated on board the Euryalus, off Cadiz, October, 28, 1805. Sir,—Since my letter to you of the 24th, stating the proceedings of his Majesty's squadron, our situation has been the most critical, and our employment the most arduous that ever a fleet was engaged in.—On the 24th and 25th it blew a most violent gale of wind, which completely dispersed the ships, and drove the captured hulls in all directions. I have been employed in collecting and destroying them, where they are at anchor upon the coast between Cadiz and six leagues westward of San Lucas, without the prospect of saving one to bring into port. I mentioned in my former letter the joining of the Donegal and Melampus, after the action; I cannot sufficiently praise the activity of their commanders, in giving assistance to the squadron in destroying the enemy's ships. The Defence, after having struck to the Aigle as long as it was possible, in hope of saving her from wreck, which separated her for some time from the squadron, was obliged to abandon her fate, and fire went on board. Captain Durham's exertions have been very great.
I hope I shall get them all destroyed by tomorrow, if the weather keeps moderate. In the gale, the Royal Sovereign and Mars lost their foremasts, and are now rigging anew, where the body of the squadron is at anchor to the N. W. of San Lucas. I find that on the return of Gravina to Cadiz, he was immediately ordered to sea again, and came out, which made it necessary for me to form a line, to cover the disabled hulls—that night it blew hard, and his ships, the Prince of Asturias, was dismasted, and returned into port; the Royo was also dismasted, and fell into our hands: Don Enrique McDonel, had his broad pendant in the Royo, and from him I find the Santa Anna was driven near Cadiz, and towed in by a frigate. I am, &c. &c. &c. (Signed) C. COLLINGWOOD.
P. S. I enclose a list of the killed & wounded, as far as I have been able to collect it.— ABSTRACT Of the names and qualities of the Officers and Petty-officers killed and wounded on board the British ships, in the action with the Combined Fleets of France and Spain, October 21, 1805.
KILLED — Royal Sovereign —Brice Gilliland, lieutenant; William Chalmers, master; Robert Greene, 2d lieutenant of royal marines; John Ackland and Thomas Braund, midshipmen. Dreadnought —none. Mars —George Duff, captain; Alexander Duff, master's mate; Edward Corby, and Henry Morgan, midshipmen. Minotaur —none. Revenge —Mr. Grier and Mr. Brooks, midshipmen. Leviathan —none. Ajax —none. Defiance —none. Defiance —Thomas Sirens, lieutenant; William Forster, boatswain; James Williamson, midshipman. WOUNDED — Royal Sovereign —James Rastford and John Cravell, lieutenants; Jas. Lavelle, 2d lieutenant of royal marines; William Watson, master's mate; Gilbert Kennicott, Grenville Thompson, John Farrant, and John Cambell, midshipmen; Isaac Wilkinson, boatswain. Dreadnought —James L. Lloyd, lieutenant; Andrew McCulloch and James Sabbin, midshipmen. Mars —Edward Wm. Garret and James Black, lieutenants; Thomas Cook, master; Thomas Norman (2d), captain of royal marines; John Yonge, George Guire, William J. Cooke, John Jenkins, and Alfred Duckett, midshipmen. Minotaur —James Robinson, boatswain; John Samuel Smith, midshipman. Revenge —Rob. Morrison, capt. (slightly); John Berry, lieutenant; Luke Brokenshaw, master; Peter Lily, captain of royal marines. Leviathan —T. W. Watson, midshipman (slightly). Ajax —none. Defiance —none.
Defiance —P. C. Durham, capt. (slightly); J. Spiatt and Robert Brown, master's mates; John Hodge and Edmund Andrew Chapman, midshipman.
C. COLLINGWOOD. A return of the killed and wounded on board the respective ships composing the British squadron under the command of the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Nelson, K. B. Vice-Admiral of the White, &c. &c. in the action with the Combined Fleets of France and Spain, 21st of October, 1805. Victory —not received. Royal Sovereign —3 officers, 2 petty officers, and 42 seamen and marines killed; 3 officers, 5 petty officers, and 56 seamen and marines wounded—Total 141. Britannia —not received. Temeraire —not received. Prince —not received. Neptune —not received. Dreadnought —7 seamen and marines killed; 1 officer, 2 petty officers and 20 seamen and marines wounded—total 33. Mars —1 officer, 3 petty officers and 25 seamen and marines killed; 4 officers, 5 petty officers and 60 seamen and marines wounded—total 28. Bellerophon —2 officers, 1 petty officer, and 24 seamen and marines killed; 2 officers, 4 petty officers and 117 seamen and marines wounded—total 150. Minotaur —3 seamen and marines killed; 1 officer, 1 petty officer and 20 seamen and marines wounded—total 25. Revenge —2 petty officers and 26 seamen and marines killed; 4 officers and 47 seamen and marines wounded—total 79. Leviathan —4 seamen and marines killed; 1 petty officer and 21 seamen and marines wounded—total 26. Ajax —2 seamen and marines killed; 9 seamen and marines wounded—total 11. Agamemnon —not received. Spartiate —not received. Africa —not received. Belleisle —not received. Colossus —not received. Achille —not received. Polypheus —not received. Swiftsure —not received. Defence —7 seamen and marines killed; 29 seamen and marines wounded—total 36. Defiance —2 officers, 1 petty officer and 14 seamen and marines killed; 1 officer, 4 petty officers, and 48 seamen and marines wounded—total 70. (Signed) C. COLLINGWOOD.
[The Gazette also contains accounts of the following captures:—La Vengeance French privateer, by the Cruiser; La Constance, by the Ceres; La Hazard and La Ravanche, by the Dominica; the Teazer privateer, by the Oprey. Likewise of an attack made by the Aigle on some Spanish gun-boats, one of which she captured.]
LONDON, Nov. 20. The spirit of the Austrian Government and people, was never more firm and enthusiastic than it is at this moment. A formidable army is assembled between the French and Vienna, to which reinforcements are hourly arriving.—The Austro Russian army under the command of General Kutusoff, which had been joined by a division of the second Russian army, commanded by General Meerfeldt, has fallen back to Mock upon the Danube (about 50 miles from Vienna), to which place the Russian army, under General Nicholson, was fast advancing to form a junction. The junction of the whole was expected to be effected by the 11th of this month, at the place before named, which is a very strong position, and regarded as the rampart of the capital; and as soon as this should be effected, it was intended to bring the enemy to action. By the last accounts received by Government we understand that on the 2d inst the French were only 120 miles from Vienna, and at the rate at which they were marching, it was thought they might be before the place by the 9th, two days earlier than the time by which it was thought the combined forces would be ready for the attack. It cannot, however, be doubted that Bonaparte, the further he advances into the Austrian States, exposes himself to the greater danger in case of a reverse, and increases the chances of disaster. Nay, it is clear, that his army has already begun to experience inconvenience from the want of provisions, as the supply found at Brannau, though large, was admitted to have been very reasonable. From the rapidity with which the armies moved, and were brought into Germany, magazines could not have been sufficiently provided.—That inconvenience was foreseen, and before the army marched out of Bavaria, depots of every kind were forming at Augsburg. The plan of retreat followed by the Austrians and Russians, must add much to the embarrassment of the French. The confederates fall back, not only upon supplies and resources which their own country would furnish, but upon an army yet untouched, in addition to the 60,000 Russians who have not been in action. If, therefore, Bonaparte does not succeed in bringing Generals Kutusoff and Meerfeldt to a battle before the arrival of the second Russian army, he will be obliged to encounter a superior army, constantly increasing, while a loyal division from the Tyrol or Bohemia, not to say anything of Prussia would both cut off his supplies and embarrass his retreat. It is true, however, that Augereau's army, and the reinforcements by which it may have been joined, will probably be able to prevent any effectual co-operation between the troops in the Tyrol and Bohemia, as it will be intercepted between them, and it is impossible that the troops in the Tyrol can be sufficiently numerous at present to form any very considerable impression on an army, for their incursions hitherto have only been into an open defenceless country.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Liverpool, held in the Town-hall, on Friday last, it was resolved that a naval monument to the memory of Lord Nelson, be erected in the centre of the area of the New Exchange Buildings; and that the memorable words of Lord Nelson, in his last orders to his conquering countrymen, be inscribed on such monument, "England expects that every man will do his duty." A sum, amounting to upwards of £5000, has been already subscribed, and is every hour increasing.
November 21. The last dispatches received by Government from the Continent are said to have brought the most positive assurances, on the part of the Cabinet of Vienna, that his Imperial Majesty of Austria will on no conditions agree to a separate peace with Bonaparte. November 22. We are concerned to rate that serious fears are entertained that the Biter pen brig has been lost on the French coast, several articles with the name of that vessel on them having been picked up by our cruisers. It is hoped that the crew may have reached the French shore, and are now prisoners.
November 23. It is reported very currently that orders have been issued from the War Office, to prepare camp equipage for 40,000 infantry, and 10,000 cavalry, destined for service on the continent. This may, perhaps, be correct, but it is at the same time as confidently reported that a number of merchant vessels, hired for the transport service, have been, for the present, laid aside. No farther accounts have been received from the Continent. It is understood, however, that by the last arrival, government received intelligence of the Russians and Swedes having passed the Elbe on the 10th, 11th and 12th, and that they now cordially co-operate with the Prussians in Hanover. Accounts have, it is said, been also received of a large body of Russian troops having landed at Venice from Corfu, and having since joined the Archduke Charles on the Brenta. It is confidently reported that a Dutch paper of the 16th has been received in town by a private cha mel, which mentions a great battle having been fought on or about the 6th, the particulars of which had not been suffered to transpire. We have not been able to obtain a fight of the paper. A gentleman who came by the last packet from the Continent states, that the loss sustained by the French in the action, which preceded the capture of Ulm, amounted to upwards of thirty thousand men! What a difference between this and the number stated in the Moniteur, viz. fifteen hundred. A few such victories would ruin Bonaparte's army. The same gentleman states, that it was currently reported that Bonaparte had resolved to cede the Electorate of Bavaria into an independent kingdom, by adding thereto the territory taken from the Emperor of Germany in the present campaign, and thereby to limit the Austrian territories. Dispatches were yesterday received at the Admiralty from our fleet off Brest. The enemy had not for some time made any movement which called for increased activity on the part of Admiral Cornwallis. There were several letters from Rotterdam, of the 14th, from publicly on the Exchange, that such was the universal distress in Paris for money, that no fewer than twenty four Bankers had stopped payment and that the bank paper bore a discount of 12 per cent.
November 25. We are still without any farther accounts from the Continent. A week's French journals are now due, which may be hourly expected to arrive. They are anxiously looked for. The projected attack upon Boulogne has not been carried into effect, owing to an unexpected squall at the very moment when everything was ready for the attempt. The fleet has, in consequence, returned to the Downs.
FOURTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF ITALY. Head Quarters at Montebello, Nov. 2. In consequence of the battle of the 31st, the position of the army before Caldiero, and the orders given on the preceding day to the division of Seras, a column of the enemy, amounting to 5,000 men, was separated from the corps of gen. Rosenberg, and cut off in such a manner that it could neither retreat through the valley nor join the main army. The commander in chief, on being informed that, on the 1st inst. this column was marching to the heights of St. Leonards, sent one of his Aides de Camp to summon it to surrender. The general officer, Hillinger, who commanded it, not seeing any troops, declared his intention to defend himself. The 22d regiment of light infantry, under Col. Gouget, then received orders to advance from Veronetta; the enemy made a movement to approach him, and forced him to take a position under the walls of the Castle of San Felice. The commander in chief repaired immediately to the spot, and ordered four battalions of grenadiers to surround the enemy. Gen. Carpentier, the chief of the staff, was charged with these dispositions, which he executed with precision in concert with gen. Solignac. A new column was then sent to the enemy, who found himself under the necessity of laying down his arms. A capitulation, signed by the commander of the enemy's columns, and by gen. Solignac, and put into our hands 5,000 prisoners, with their arms and baggage, seventy officers, one brigadier, one major, one colonel, 80 horses, &c. Prince Charles, on his side, finding that a column of his army had been cut off, apprehensive of being turned in his position, proceeded to effect his retreat. We were informed that he made some movements in the night. At the break of day reconnoitering parties were sent out to all parts of his line. The division of chassens on horseback, under gen. Elagae, and the light division of gen. Gardanne, is in forward in pursuit of the Austrians, who were harassed through the day, and of whom we made 500 prisoners. We this day are at Montebello. To-morrow the army will proceed on its march.
BANKS OF THE RHINE, Nov. 4. We learn that the corps of gen. Marmont has also passed the Inn at Braunau. The Russians and Austrians have retired in a great hurry to Linz, their retreat to Salzburg having been cut off. The corps of Marshal Soult passed the Inn by the bridge of Welsburgh, and has formed a junction with that of Marshal Bernadotte. Prince Murat has taken the command of the army which is advancing straight towards Linz, while the Emperor is, it is said, went from the neighbourhood of Ebersbach to Salzburg. It is stated that Marshal Bernadotte, whose head quarters were in this last town, is pursuing his march towards Schwandorf and Lambach, from whence he will advance to Steyer. It is the intent of the Russians to retreat, and evacuate the right bank of the Danube, for the purpose of forming a junction with the second Russian army, commanded by gen. Nicholl, and estimated at about 36,000 men. In the middle of October, this army had not quitte West Gallicia, it was then concentrated in the neighbourhood of Random, where it was waiting for the horses and carriages, as well as the artillery, which were to be sent from Wilna. It was reported that the Russians were at Poffan, and that they had concentrated a part of their force there. The truth is, that they never entered it, and that the Bavarian garrison in the fort of Oberlans continued in possession of it, notwithstanding the repeated demands which they had received from the Austrian and Russian commanders to surrender it. A military hospital is just established at Poffan, for the reception of the wounded French and Bavarians.
HAGUE, Nov. 12. We learn that government have determined upon the building of four ships of the line, two frigates, and two brigs. VIENNA COURT GAZETTE, Nov. 2. The Emperor has returned from his visit to the Russian army. Nothing remarkable has taken place upon the Inn since our last, excepting the taking of Oberhaus, a Bavarian fortrets upon the Danube. The French army in Bavaria has not yet reached the Imperial confines; a part of this army seems as if it would direct

operations against the Tyrol; another division is in the Upper Palatine under Prince...
MEMMINGEN, Nov. 2. General Wolffkohl shews himself to be a dexterous partisan and warrior. After the disaster...
MEULDORF ON THE INN, Oct. 30. The Emperor Napoleon has been lodged here for the last twenty four hours in an inn.
LIMBURG, Oct. 18. A Russian column consisting of 13,000 men after passing a night in this town, proceeded by forced marches on their route.
Domestic Intelligence. A letter from Havana, of the 26th ult. (received at New-York) says: "The celebrated General Banderes died 3 days since in the Morro-Castle..."
From a London Paper of November 10: High Court of Admiralty.—On Friday the Right Hon Sir Wm Scott proceeded to the adjudication of the following ship.
Seat of Government. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. FRIDAY January 17.
As soon as the journal of the preceding day was read Mr. J. Randolph said he had a motion to make which required the galleries previously to be cleared.
Mr. Nicholson observed that a subject intimately connected with that of the message had been already referred to the committee of ways and means; and moved the reference of the message to that committee.
Mr. Nicholson varied his motion in the way suggested by Mr. Dana. The House concurred in his motion to refer so much of the message as relates to spoliations to the committee of ways and means.
Mr. G. W. Campbell presented a petition from a number of citizens of the Illinois country, in the counties of Randolph and St. Clair, stating certain grievances...
Mr. Gregg said that he had early in the session offered a resolution, which he thought had been at the time referred to a committee of the whole House.
EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. Wednesday, January 15. An engrossed bill, "To amend the act, for further continuing and amending the act, entitled, an act, for reducing into one the several acts concerning executions and for the relief of insolvent debtors," was read a third time...
Thursday, January 16. An engrossed bill, "For removing the district court from the Sweet Springs to the town of Lewisburg in the county of Greenbrier," was read a third time...
Friday, January 17. A communication from the Senate by their clerk. The Senate have passed the bill, "Forming a new county out of certain parts of Montgomery, Monroe and Tazewell counties."
Saturday, January 18. An engrossed bill, "Concerning the navigation of James river," was read a third time; Resolved, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act, "Concerning the navigation of James river."
Monday, January 20. A motion was made that the house do now, according to the order of the day, resolve itself into a committee of the whole house to take into consideration a petition from the counties of Henry and Patrick, "Requesting the legislature to adopt means for calling a Convention to revise and amend the State Constitution."
The names of those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Finney, J. Yancey, Nelson, Randolph, R. Harrison, Kinney, A. Anderson, Hancock, P. C. Pendleton, J. Harrison, Machin, R. F. Lee, Pittman, Clarke, Coleman (Caroline), Woodford, Walker, Eamson, Price, Wyatt, Cheatham, Hatcher, Roberts, Goodwyn, Wood, Mallory, Wood, Patten, Bernard, Singleton, Pounds, Byrd, Fleming, J. Ander-
son, Richardson, Colar, Dabney, Bovee, Jones, Sirion, Fisher, Stotts, J. Selden, Lightfoot, Purdie, T. G. Smith, Aylett, Gregory, Shearman, W. L. Ball, Sharpe, Powell, Noland, Winn, Chappell, Haden, Muse, Blakey, Bagley, Lewis, Riddick, Dashiell, Taylor, Upshaw, Harrison, J. Miller, Jr., Crabb, J. Jones, Lamkin, N. Pendleton, Miller (Pocahontas), Carter, Mosely, Cornick, Keene, G. Alexander, C. B. Harrison, Kittle, Yerby, Strickler, Edmunds, Mercer, Minor, Brooke, Moncure, Schrell, Allen, M. Selden, Jarrett, Neal, John Jones, Burnham, Campbell, A. Smyth, Southall, Peabody, Harvie and Semple.
And the names of those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Garland, Taliaferro, Brown, Green, Leftwich, Ruffin, Beale, Congleton, Elington, Perrow, Stanard, Hawes, Robertson, Hunter, Love, Moss, Summers, Burwell, M'Kenzie, Morrow, F. Hill, Snyder, Prunty, Copin, Waller, East, D. Morgan, Hoos, Daniel, Madison, R. Hill, Peyton, Field, D. Evans, J. Gray, Woodward, King, Lindsay, J. Morgan, Moore, White, Penn, Coleman (Pittsylvania), Woodring, Woodson, B. Harrison, S. Ball, Griffith, A. Alexander, Gambill, D. Smith, M'Farlane, Estill, J. C. Gray, Thompson, Dixon, Liddle and Graham.
Ordered, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act, "To amend the act, for further continuing and amending the act, entitled, an act, for reducing into one the several acts concerning executions and for the relief of insolvent debtors."
Ordered, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act, "To amend the act, for further continuing and amending the act, entitled, an act, for reducing into one the several acts concerning executions and for the relief of insolvent debtors."
Ordered, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act, "To amend the act, for further continuing and amending the act, entitled, an act, for reducing into one the several acts concerning executions and for the relief of insolvent debtors."
Ordered, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act, "To amend the act, for further continuing and amending the act, entitled, an act, for reducing into one the several acts concerning executions and for the relief of insolvent debtors."
Ordered, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act, "To amend the act, for further continuing and amending the act, entitled, an act, for reducing into one the several acts concerning executions and for the relief of insolvent debtors."
Ordered, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act, "To amend the act, for further continuing and amending the act, entitled, an act, for reducing into one the several acts concerning executions and for the relief of insolvent debtors."
Ordered, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act, "To amend the act, for further continuing and amending the act, entitled, an act, for reducing into one the several acts concerning executions and for the relief of insolvent debtors."
act, reducing into one all acts and parts of acts concerning suits brought for sterling money, and for ascertaining the rate of exchange and damages on protested bills of exchange."
Ordered, That the clerk carry the said bills to the Senate and desire their concurrence. A bill, "To amend the act, entitled, an act, to amend and explain the act concerning public roads," was read a second time and amended at the clerk's table; and the question being put upon engrossing the bill as amended and reading it a third time; it passed in the negative; Resolved, That the said bill be rejected.
Where there is evil, let us apply innovation; but let innovation in every important case be preceded by the fullest and most mature deliberation. On Thursday, Mr. Nelson (of Albemarle) had the following motion before the House of Delegates:
Whereas great inconveniences have arisen to the community from the immense accumulation of business in the courts of chancery and the court of appeals in this commonwealth, and whereas these evils result from the defective organization and arrangement of the superior courts, which mischiefs can only be remedied by an effectual and radical reformation of our judiciary system:
Be it therefore resolved; that he be appointed commissioners to prepare and draft such plan for the reformation and amendment of the present judiciary system of this commonwealth, as to them shall seem most likely to remedy the existing evils in the same, and that such plan when prepared shall be published by the Executive for the consideration of the people of this commonwealth; and be it further enacted, that the executive are hereby required to call upon the said commissioners and to request them to prepare a plan in pursuance of the foregoing resolution; and to furnish the same to the executive, so soon as the said commissioners shall have prepared it; and the executive are hereby required to publish the same, so soon as they shall be furnished with it by the said commissioners.
Ordered to be laid on the table. The following extract of a letter from a member of Congress, to some of the members of the General Assembly still holds out the most consolatory prospects:
"A bill suspending for a limited time, the intercourse between the United States and the Island of St. Domingo is at present before the senate. It will, I think pass into a law. No circumstance has arisen to change the opinion formerly expressed to you, that the blessings of PEACE will be preserved to our country, without a SACRIFICE of national HONOUR or INTEREST."
FROM THE VIRGINIA ARGUS. Extract of a letter from a member of Congress to the Editor of the Argus, dated January 24, received by Thursday's mail. "I enclose a bill brought by Mr. Wright of the Senate. It will serve to shew the temper of some of the members of Congress."
"I have good reason to believe, that the government of Great Britain is determined to use every means in its power, to embarrass, and if possible, to crush the Commerce of the United States." IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. JANUARY 20, 1805. Agreeably to notice given on the 16th inst. Mr. Wright asked and obtained leave to bring in the following bill, which was read and passed to a second reading. A Bill for the protection and indemnification of American Seamen. Whereas, by the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, made between his Britannic Majesty and the United States at London, on the 11th day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, by the first article of said treaty, it is agreed, "that there shall be a firm, inviolable and universal peace, and a true and sincere friendship between his Britannic majesty, his heirs and successors, and the United States of America; and between their respective countries, territories, cities, towns and people of every degree, without exception of persons or places. And whereas, in direct violation of said treaty his Britannic majesty has caused to be impressed out of the ships of the United States, sailing on the high seas, divers citizens of said United States; and has compelled them to serve on board the ships of war of his said Britannic majesty, in violation of their liberty, and at the hazard of their lives; and in despite of the renunciations of the government of said United States, continues said unjust practice; and the seamen of the United States be impressed, by force, retains in his service. And whereas the United States are solemnly bound to protect all those who are bound in allegiance to said United States. Therefore, Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress Assembled, That from and after the day of next, any person or persons who shall impress any seamen on board any vessel bearing the flag of the United States, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay under the pretext or color of a commission from any foreign power, shall for every such offence be adjudged a pirate and felon; and on conviction shall suffer death. And the trial in any such case may be had where the offender is apprehended or may be first brought. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any American seamen, falling under the flag of the United States, on any person or persons attempting to impress him by force from on board any vessel of the United States, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, to repel such force by shooting, or otherwise killing and destroying the person or persons so attempting to impress him, and shall, as an encouragement to resist, be entitled to a bounty of two hundred dollars, to be paid to him or his order, or legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That on information being given to the President of the United States, proving satisfactorily to him, that any citizen of the United States, who shall have been impressed or forced by violence or threats, to enter on board any foreign vessel, shall suffer death, or any other corporal punishment by the authority of such foreign power; it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, to cause the most rigorous and exact retaliation on any subjects of that government, whom he is hereby authorized to seize and take for that purpose. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That every American seamen, heretofore or hereafter impressed and compelled to serve on board any foreign ship or vessel, shall be entitled to receive as an indemnification for his slavery and hardships on board the ship in which he has been, or shall be compelled to serve, from the day of his impressment, the sum of fifty dollars per month, for every month he has, or shall serve, on board said ship or ships; and that the said seamen, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, shall be entitled to recover the same in the district court of the state in which the party lies, from which the vessel cleared, for the voyage in which he was taken, by attachment to any private debt, due from any citizen of the United States, to any subject of that govern-
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 25th JANUARY.
that any sum of money so attached out of the hand of any debtor, shall be a payment of so much of said debt, and may be pleaded in payment or discount, to the amount of the said sum so attached, and all the costs of said attachment, which shall be allowed as a payment of that amount in any suit for said debt.
And that in much of the treaty of London, of nineteenth of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, as secures the inviolability of such debts, as will be infringed by the attachments or recoveries, hereby authorized, shall not (so far as is necessary in the execution of this act only) be regarded as legal or obligatory on the government or citizens of the U. States.
We have ten thousand apologies to make to Mrs. Tabitha Love-loo. For having ascribed her left prostration to the pen of a gentleman. It was far from our wish to mix this lady, and much less to deny her excellence. We recollected how many instances we had seen, where men were anxious to put on the attributes and appearance of the female sex; and we supposed that this was one of the usual deceptions practiced upon the world. Right happy are we, however, to acknowledge our mistake, and restore Mrs. Love-loo to her natural character!
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER. What a world do we live in, where truth is despised, and scandal and false the only things prized! Where falsehood, (as naked as truth in old times!) stalks abroad without blushing, and boasts of her crimes!
Not fearing detection:—For woeful to tell! She has found that dame TRUTH has been drowned in her well. How can innocence hope a protector to find, When the press, like a leech, proves false and unkind!
By the advocate, fought to defend her, berr'd! And defend'd by the champion the call'd on for aid! Such, alas! is her fate, who late flew to the press, 'Gainst a wicked hostiles to sue for redress!
That press, where, too forcibly, the slander began, Which an innocent victim hath harshly undane. What wonder foul foul hath been fill'd with vexation, To find you've condemn'd me to annihilation! Reduced to a shadow, or flesh or to moul, And treated by all, as a mere talking moul!
When seated last night with a party at loo, Tom Slough remark'd, that "the j'st were too few," I laid we were j'st; he began then to flue, Like M'Nab when he saw Bannocks' ghost in his chair, Mrs. Winton turn'd pale—Mrs. Clutch dropt her hand, And Mrs. Panticke no longer cou'd stand; While Fribble at once fell to quaking with fright, Like William when call'd on by Margaret at night; A dead silence ensued:—the cards lay undealt, Until I with vexation was ready to melt; My patience exhausted, I rose from the table, While the company scamper as fast as they're able—So homeward I hied me, and straight went to bed, But alas! all my visions, to pleasing, are fled; In my dreams, like poor Dido, I wander'd alone, Where cards, loo and piquet, have never been known, Thus brought by your tricks to be thought a mere phantom, I could tear out my eyes—since no more I can write 'em. For, a victim to scandal, and falsehood I fell, Unfriended, unpitied, unaided by all. TABITHA LOVE-LOO. Richmond, P. S. As I was obliged to make use of an amanuensis on a former occasion, I write this with my own hand, that you may have no reason to suppose it comes from any other hand. TABITHA LOVE-LOO. Richmond, January 23d, 1805. WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE. A TABLE is established in college, to receive boarders at the low rate of thirty dollars per quarter; it is intended that the table shall be plentifully furnished in a plain but decent style. Those who with it, may be accommodated with Beds, Fuel and Candles at a moderate charge. January 25. s & ra 12r. ROBERT GORDON & Co. HAVE just received, and offer for sale, an additional supply of the best Madeira WINE in pipes, hds and gr. cks. The two best vintages in Madeira, having yielded wine of a better quality than for several preceding years, they are enabled to fly the quality is excellent—it is imported from two houses, from which very different flavored wine is sent. They have heard of the arrival, and will have at hand in a few days, a parcel of London Particular Dry Lisbon Wine, directed to be put up in the same way as some they had two years since, which gave great satisfaction to all who had of it; also, a parcel of Corks, Almonds and a quantity of Oranges in boxes. ON HAND: Port Wine, in pipes, hds, and quarter casks; A few Demijohns Old Malmsey at 8 dollars per gall. A quantity of Duct Copper and Tin Plates. A general and extensive assortment of Dry Goods, consisting of Woolens of all kinds; printed goods, Manchester stuffs, Irish and Scotch Linens, Gloves and Hosiery, Hardware, Cutlery and Ironmongery. Plain Cambric, Laced Cambric, Book, Chambray and Colomade Mullins, &c. January 25. 24x5w & 14w 3w. FOR SALE, BY AUCTION. Valuable property on the Brick Row, in the city of Richmond. IN conformity to a decree of the honorable court of the United States, for the fifth circuit and Virginia District, (made between Joshua Waddington plaintiff, and James Brown, Henry Banks and Daniel Cal defendants, and between the same plaintiff, and Henry Banks, James Taylor executor of James Horton, dec'd and James Herren, John Herren, William Herren, and Sarah Herren, infants, under the age of twenty one years, by the said James Taylor, then guardian, James Brown and Daniel Cal defendants.) Will be sold, upon the premises, to the highest bidder, at public auction, on the 20th day of February next ensuing, the Houses, Lands and tenements situated on the Brick Row, in the city of Richmond, at present occupied by Samuel Clark, Samuel Burner & Co and Barach H. Judah. The tenements will be set up separately, and there will be attached to each tenement the land now occupied therewith, and one third of a brick lumberhouse 60 by 30 feet. The sales will be made by the subscribers as commissioners under the said decree, and the terms thereof will be one fourth of the purchase money paid down, one fourth in four months, one fourth in eight months, and the remaining fourth in twelve months from the day of sale—the purchasers to give bond for the three last installments, to carry interest from the date, if not punctually paid—on payment whereof and not before (as the property will be held liable for the purchase money, and subject to be sold to raise the said installments, or any of them if not punctually paid) a conveyance or conveyances, will be executed by us as commissioners afore said to the purchaser or purchasers, in virtue of the said decree. GEO. PITT, CHAS. J. MACMURDO, JAMES BROWN, Commissioners. January 25. LOST. AT the Tavern of Bowling Green, on the road to this place, a paper containing 3 or 4 BANK BILLS, of the Savannah branch bank, consisting of one hundred dollar bill, two fifty dollar bills, the balance unable to describe—the paper in which they are bound, has the name of the holder on it, with the figures 100—50—50 on it—delivering the same at the office of the Enquirer, shall receive twenty dollars for him and thanks. January 25. 2r.

SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
January 13, 1806.
MESSAGE
From the President of the United States, respecting the APPLICATION OF HAMET CARAMALLI, Ex-Bulbaw of Tripoli.
(Continued.)
Extract of a letter from the secretary of state to Mr. Cabanet, dated 22d August, 1805.
According to information given by Mr. Eaton, he has prevailed on the brother of the bawshaw of Tripoli to repair to Malta, with a view to be with our squadron before Tripoli, and to be made use of against the bawshaw.
To all who shall see these presents—GREETING. Know ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the zeal, fidelity, and abilities of William Eaton, I do hereby appoint him agent of the navy department of the U. States of America, for the several Barbary regencies.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the navy department of the United States of America, at the city of Washington, this 26th day of May, 1804.
(Signed) R. SMITH, Secretary of the Navy. Registered, CH. W. GOLDSBOROUGH, Chief Clerk of the Navy Department.
Copy of a letter from the secretary of the navy to William Eaton, Esquire, dated May 30th, 1804.
SIR, Herewith you will receive an appointment as navy agent for the several Barbary regencies. You will receive instructions from, and obey the orders of commodore Barron; and will render to our squadron in the Mediterranean every assistance in your power.
As a compensation for your services, you will be allowed at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum, and the rations of a licut. in the navy of the U. States. I am respectfully, &c. (Signed) R. SMITH.
Extract of a letter from the secretary of the navy to commodore Samuel Barron, dated June 6th, 1804.
With respect to the ex-bawshaw of Tripoli, we have no objection to your availing yourself of his co-operation with you against Tripoli, if you shall, upon a full view of the subject, after your arrival upon the station, consider his co-operation expedient. The subject is committed entirely to your discretion. In such an event you will, it is believed, find Mr. Eaton extremely useful to you.
Colonel Tobias Lear, our consul general at Algiers, is invested by the president with full power and authority to negotiate a treaty of peace with the bawshaw of Tripoli, and also to adjust such terms of conciliation as may be found necessary with any of the other Barbary powers. He is, therefore, to be conveyed by you to any of these regencies, as he may request of you, and you will cordially co-operate with him in all such measures as may be deemed the best calculated to effectuate a termination of the war with Tripoli, and to insure a continuance of the friendship and respect of the other Barbary powers.
Commadore Barron to captain Hall. September 13th, 1804.
SIR, The state and condition of the Argus, under your command, requiring that she should go into port, for the purpose of refitting, &c. I request you to proceed with all practicable expedition to Malta, or Syracuse, and there refit your vessel, which being completed, you will take on board 2 months provisions and water, and proceed for the port of Alexandria, and if at that port or Smyrna, you find any American vessels, you will give them convoy as far as Malta, and immediately after join the squadron off this place.
You will take under your care the ship St. Michael, intercepted by the squadron, in the attempt to enter the blockaded port of Tripoli. You will find commodore Preble at Malta or Syracuse, with two other ships, captured in making the same attempt. You will receive his orders with respect to the disposition of the St. Michael, cause all her papers to be delivered to him, and furnish him with all the information you may be able to gain from her crew, &c. on your passage. You will inform the commanders of vessels you may find at Syracuse, that I shall be off Tripoli.
Verbal orders of commadore Barron to captain Hall, of the United States brig Argus, in presence of the undersigned, on board the President. September, 15th, 1804.
SIR, The written orders I here hand you, to proceed to the port of Alexandria or Smyrna, for convoying to Malta any vessels you may find there, are intended to disguise the real object of your expedition, which is to proceed with Mr. Eaton to Alexandria, in search of Hamet Basha, the rival brother and legitimate sovereign of the reigning bawshaw of Tripoli; and to convey him and his suite to Derne, or such other place on the coast as may be determined the most proper for co-operating with the naval force under my command, against the common enemy; or, if more agreeable to him, to bring him to me before Tripoli.
Should Hamet Basha not be found at Alexandria, you have the discretion to proceed to another place for him, where the safety of your ship can be, in your opinion, relied upon.
The bawshaw may be assured of the support of my squadron at Bengazi or Derne, where you are at liberty to put in, if required, and if it can be done without too great risk. And you may assure him also, that I will take the most effectual measures with the forces under my command, for co-operating with him against the usurper, his brother, and for re-establishing him in the regency of Tripoli. Arrangements to this effect are confided to the discretion with which Mr. Eaton is vested by the government."
Attest, ISAAC HULL, WILLIAM EATON.
EXTRACTS.
Mr. Eaton to Captain Hall.
GRAND CAIRO, JANUARY 8, 1805—3 P. M.
Scarcely had my letter of this morning gone off by your courier express, when a letter from Hamet Basha came to hand, of which the following is a copy, by translation: "Thanks be to him to whom gratitude is due. To our friend and the very good friend of our highnesses, the American agent, Mr. Eaton. "We have received your letter, and after having understood the contents, we give thanks to God, for having preferred your health. Know that I am ever the same as you knew me at Tunis; my friendship is constant and uniform; but you have been tardy. We must, however, make this delay subserve a good purpose."
"From the date of the present I shall leave this for Behera, and shall take quarters at the house of the Arab chief Abdelgaber el be Kourchi, where I propose to you to meet me. I have written to my subjects and to my minister Mahmoud Kogea, and also the governor of police, Muhammed, son of Abdu'lrahman, that they may treat with you; and whatever you conclude with them, will be ratified by me. Your operations should be carried on by sea; mine by land; and may God assist us to re-establish peace and harmony. The 28 Namadan, 1219. (Signed) "HAMET BASHAW, Son of Ali Basha Caramanli."
The date of the Basha's letter corresponds with the 3d instant. The place of meeting about 8 hours march from Alexandria, so that he will probably arrive thither before we can with you.
COPY. Captain Bainbridge to George Davis, Esq. at Tunis. TRIPOLI, January 27th, 1805.
SIR, I have been anxiously expecting to hear from you, and to receive some information on the determination of our government. Not one word on that subject have I yet heard. I am anxiously expecting letters from commodore Barron. I believe the bawshaw is very desirous of peace, and has great apprehensions of the intended attack, and was a negotiation to be attempted, I think it very probable that it would succeed, for the apprehension of the attack might have as great an effect as the attack itself; and should the attack prove unsuccessful, he will no doubt continue in demanding a considerable sum. As I am quite ignorant of the force that will be brought against this place, I cannot give any opinion of the probable effect it may have. We offer our most fervent prayers that the greatest success may attend it. I cannot say what the bawshaw's demand will be, but I believe he would take at this moment much less than what he demanded of commodore Preble last August. Our funds are all exhausted, and bills on Tunis are at a great exchange against the drawer. Pray, have you heard of Eaton? In your next, which I anxiously expect soon, I shall receive a great deal of news I hope. I assure you, was it not for our friend, Mr. Niffen, we should suffer considerably for necessaries in our close confinement; but he is a friend in need, of course, a friend indeed.
P. S. By the Danish consul. "The Basha is now very attentive upon your transactions with his brother in Alexandria. A camp is going against Derne. Give me leave to tell you that I found your plan with the bawshaw's brother very vast, and that you sacrifice your prisoners' lives here in case of success." (To be continued.)
TO NON-RESIDENTS OF KENTUCKY.
THE SUBSCRIBER living in the neighborhood of Frankfort, Kentucky, having undertaken to pay the taxes of a number of gentlemen residing in Virginia and elsewhere, on their lands in this state, and finding that the remitting of money to him for that purpose is attended with great difficulties, risk and trouble, proposes it to those gentlemen and any others who may find it an accommodation to them, the following plan, to wit: That they shall deposit their money in either of the banks of Richmond, Alexandria, George Town or Baltimore, on or before the first day of May annually, and authorize some person at those several banks to advise him by post of the amount, and to whose credit it shall be applied, and empower him to draw for the same, payable on sight. The lands of non-residents are advertised about the first of July, which is an expense of twenty-five cents on each tract. The subscriber's draft will command the cash in this state, and as soon as his bills are honored at any of the above-mentioned banks, he will advance the money in Kentucky, deducting seven and a half per cent commission for his trouble, in attending to and executing the business. He will inclose duplicate receipts to those banks in which the money is deposited, or to the proprietors of the lands, keeping the original in his own possession, to correct any errors which may occur in the auditors office of Kentucky. To those gentlemen who may wish to pay their taxes in this way, and who have not a personal acquaintance with the subscriber, he begs leave to refer them to the Hon. John Breckenridge, the Hon. Matthew Walton, Esquires, now in congress at the city of Washington, or to Gen. John Preston of Montgomery county, and Col. James Breckenridge of Botetourt county, Virginia, to the confidence which may be reposed in him.
NATHANIEL HART. N. B. The postage on all letters directed to me on the above business must be paid. December 10. (efft May.)
DOCTOR UPSHAW. INTENDS practicing medicine and surgery in the city and neighborhood of Richmond; he promises punctilious attendance on those who give him employment. Jan. 11. S & T 4w.
TO BE RENTED,
MY HOUSE and LOT, upon Shockoe Hill, in an airy pleasant situation—For terms, apply to Mr. Samuel McGraw, who is fully authorized by me, to treat for the same, or to the subscriber. Possession may be immediately had. WILLIAM MANN. August 15. (F f.)
THE HIGHEST PRICE (IN CASH) WILL BE GIVEN AT THIS OFFICE FOR CLEAN LINEN & COTTON RAGS.
FOR SALE,
BY THE SUBSCRIBER:
WEST-INDIA & N. LIVERPOOL WARE BY THE CRATE, ENGLAND ROOM, French Brandy, 300 pair Men's thick Shoes, Holland Gin, Men's & Boys' fine Shoes, Molasses, Ladies' Kid, Morocco and Loaf and Brown Sugar, Leather Slippers, Coffee and Chocolate, A small invoice of Tabo, Imperial and Hyson Tea, Linen, Irish Sheetings & Carpets, Linseed and Lamp Oil, Carpeting, White Lead & Sp. Brown, Best Spanish Indigo, Yellow Ochre, Patent Green, Ground and raw Ginger, ground in Oil, 120 Jcks coarse Liverpool Salt, Verdigris, 7 by 9 & 10 by 14 by 18 Sliced Salmon and Her- Window Glass, rings, 24, 34, 44, 64, 84, 104, and 204 Nails, A small invoice of dry goods, viz. Bear Skin, Blue Snake Nails, Bar Iron, Mixed Plains and Iron Patts, Dutch Ovens, Thickets, Five Dags, Writing & Printing paper, Nova Scotia Grind Stones, Wrapping Paper & Pipe Board, Powder and Shot, Cotton & Wool Carls. One Nice Piano Forte, one Canvas Top Chaise, One Nice Tab Giggs, one Stick Giggs. The above will be sold cheap for cash or country produce. BENJAMIN STETSON. December 19. Thu tf
VALUABLE PROPERTY.
I AGAIN offer for sale, that valuable and well known Estate, in the Forks of Hanover, called BULLFIELD; containing by estimation and old surveys 1676 acres, be the same more or less. There are cleared of this tract about or above 850 acres, laid out into three fields, including 150 acres of Lots, most of which are well set with clover. On this plantation is sowed about 400 bushels of wheat and barley; of the former 360, upwards of 100 of which is on sown and manured land, and very well put in. The plantation is in pretty good order—has some valuable Meadow Land, which, at much labor and expense has been prepared and just getting into use—a tolerable dwelling house, and convenient houses for negroes, with barns, corn houses, stables, &c. &c. If this estate is not sold at private sale on or before Monday the 20th of January next, it will be offered at public auction, on that day, if fair or the next fair day, at which time and place will likewise be offered for sale, between 80 and 90 VALUABLE LABOURERS, consisting of men, women, boys, girls and children, to be sold in families, together with all the stock of every description of cattle, sheep and hogs, seven brood mares, a number of blooded colts, 1, 2, and 3 years old, 11 excellent well-broke mules, and some work horses, and all the plantation utensils, and the crops of corn, fodder and rye, now on the land, from 800 to 1000 barrels.—Should a sale of the land not take place, then only about 60 negroes will be for sale, and part only of the corn, and the stock, and plantation articles. The square of lots, with the appurtenances, at present in the occupancy of John A. Chevalier, Esq. but possession will not be given until the 1st of August next, unless it shall be sooner convenient. A life estate in the tenement at present in the possession of Mr. John Banks, on Church Hill. 3 pipes of Madeira Wine, which cost £ 44 sterling, imported by myself, nearly two years ago. I likewise will to sell, part of about 20,000 acres of Military Land, lying in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and in the Indiana Territory. 5000 acres of this land lie on the little Miami and on Road Run—6000 acres on Big Barren, or Peter's or Snell's Creek, and on Deer Creek, being some of the waters of Green River—upwards of 5000 acres on the North Fork of the Trade water—2000 acres on the east bank of Cumberland River—1000 acres on Russell's creek, lying within a mile of the town of Columbia, in the county of Adair—900 acres on Greely creek, in the same county, near the Cumberland River, and on the west side of it—and the balance in the Indiana Territory. On some of these lands I have recently been and know them to be extremely valuable, being in a thickly settled country, very rich, of deep black soil, well watered with springs and feasts for mills, and heavily timbered, and several settlements upon them, which are returned for the next year, and at one dollar per acre for the cleared land. Of the others that I did not see, I have received good information in general as to the quality and situation. Only 15,000 acres of these lands are for sale, but the whole is offered to full purchasers, being convinced myself, that all is valuable, and my object, which is a distant one, will be answered by the reservation of any part. I have also for sale, about 5000 acres of land, lying in the counties of Mercer and Nelson, but as these lands were surveyed on Treasury warrants, and of this description there are many disputes as to title, I will only convey the right I legally hold. The patents have long been in my possession and I have never known the title to be contested. Satisfactory titles to the foregoing property will be made according to the terms by which I hold it. The terms of sale generally are, one fourth in land, and the balance in two annual installments, to bear interest from the date, but a discount of 10 per cent for ready money, will be allowed on each installment. Bond, with such security as I shall approve, will be required for all sums above 100 dollars, all under that sum will be paid in cash. To facilitate settlements and payments, I will take in discharge of either installment, at the current or agreed value any stock of the United States or of the Bank of the United States, or any state or private Banks, or Insurance Companies within the same. It is my intention to remain here until the first of August next, for the purpose of winding up and adjusting every transaction of my life, and to prepare for that event which must sooner or later number me with those who have gone before me. JOHN HOPKINS. (thf.) Richmond, December 12.
THOSE GENTLEMEN who have been good enough to receive the subscriber's proposition relative to the Chinese Snake Stone, will be pleased to transmit the subscription papers to Laurence Mafe, Esq. of Tappahannock, so that they may arrive at that place previous to the 20th of next month, in order that it may be then ascertained, whether or not, the whole number of shares have been subscribed for. JAMES R. MICOU. January 2. TBS88w.
PETER LAPORTE, BEGS leave to inform the inhabitants of Richmond and its vicinity, that he has opened in this place, a Fencing School for the small sword, and he intends also to open a dancing school, where the newest and most elegant steps shall be taught. Terms of tuition may be known by applying to him at Mr. Rivallain's on Shockoe Hill, in one of Judge Wythe's new brick houses.
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND.
MAKES Boots & Shoes to equal pattern or fashion, in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use. Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. Gentlemen at a distance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as if they were on the Spot. A—the length of the Boot. C—round the Calf. B—the girth of the Heel. D—round the Heel and Calf. E—round the Instep. G—across the ball of the Foot. F—the heel against a perpendicular line, and a tick at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. January 1. eptf
VALUABLE PROPERTY.
WILL be sold, to the highest bidder for ready money on the premises on Saturday the 15th day of February next, by virtue of a deed of trust executed by Richard Tate, to secure the payment of $333 dollars. 88 cents, with interest thereon from the date, due to Rambaut & Gerson and George Pegram junr. and the expenses of the sale. Two acres of land lying upon Appomattox river, within one mile of the town of Petersburg with the water gait and manufacturing mills, Bake house, Distillery house and other houses of improvements erected thereon.
PLEASANT AKIN, for Henry Gagnon and Pleasant Akin. Petersburg, January 7. tdf.
NOTICE.
THE Surveyors of the Stage Roads from Richmond to Charlottesville, are requested to take notice, that repeated complaints have been made to me, of the danger to which the passengers in the Stage have been, and still are subjected to, from the badness of the roads, resulting most materially from the inattention or negligence of those, who ought to see them regularly repaired—therefore if on any further complaint of the difficult passage of the Stage, or obstruction as above, I shall proceed as the law directs to enforce the most exemplary punishment on those who are in default. The general good of society, the dispatch necessary for the conveyance of the public Mail, and my own interest, are motives alone sufficient for such a determination. RICHARD TERRELL. December 17. (own3w.)
A NEW TAVERN.
REUBEN BURNLEY respectfully informs the public, that he has opened a House of Entertainment in that commodious new building west of the Court-house. Attached to the premises is a new stone stable inferior to none in the state; and that he is in every respect, well provided for the accommodation of genteel company. N. B. Very liberal wages will be given for a good Cook—a male would be preferred. Charlottesville, Nov. 22. ep2m
MILL IRONS.
Mill Irons of all kinds, as well as iron work for vessels and buildings, Horse shoeing, Edge Tools, Scythe Blades, and plantation work, of all kinds.
THE subscriber lately from New-England having hired up a shop on the Main-street of the city of Richmond, near the Virginia bank, intends to carry on the above business in all its variety; and flatters himself with the hope that by executing such work in the neatest and most faithful manner, to merit the public patronage, and that in future he will be able to furnish those materials upon moderate terms which were usually sent for to distant states. Having wrought a considerable time at the Virginia manufactory of arms, I beg leave to refer all who may think proper to apply to the superintendent of the said manufactory for my character and qualifications. SEWALL OSGOOD. N. B. A good workman at the above business will meet with encouragement. Also a young lad 14 or 15 years old, as an apprentice, who can read and write. Jan. 7. 2tp.
ADVERTISEMENT.
AS I intend next fall to remove to the western country, I will sell a bargain in the tract of LAND, whereon I now reside, in Amherst county, containing 476 acres, with good improvements for the reception of a genteel family; the plantation in good repair for cropping, and lies well for land in the upper country, and conveniently situated, being within one half mile of a manufacturing mill on Buffalo river, three miles from the town of New-Glasgow, and the neighbourhood in every respect desirable; this land lies within 16 miles of an inspection of tobacco on James river, and 20 miles from the town of Lynchburg. Any farther description is now deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed that any person disposed to purchase, would with first to view the premises. The payment will be made easy to suit the purchaser. JOSEPH BURRUS. January 11. S 6t p.
BURR MILL STONES, of all sizes; and D PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality. FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. Dec. 4. [eptf.]
TO SPORTSMEN.
THE executors of John Hosmes, deceased, late of the Bowling Green, are authorised to dispose of a part or the whole of his stock of horses, consisting of imported and Country Bred Stallions, Brood Mares, Colts, and Fillies, of the most approved Blood. Gentlemen, wishing to purchase may know the terms either by letter or personal application to the executors. Should the Stallions not be disposed of by the middle of February, they will then be farmed out, until the 1st of August. Bowling Green, January 11. tf.
HOUSTON'S newly invented PATENT METALLIC HONE, may be had at Mr. Geo. Greenhow's store, opposite the Eagle Tavern. The utility of this machine for setting Razors and other instruments which require a fine edge, renders it an object worthy the attention of every individual who may have occasion for its use. December 12. tf.
FASHIONABLE GOODS.
READY made white Sartin Petticoats; various dark colored Silk ditto; Florence Silk and Sartin Spencers; elegant Souffle Dresses; Rich Brocades and figured Sattins; Plain and figured Leanu and Piquet Muslins; A handsome variety of plain, checked and striped Sarisets; Ladies' Tamboured Neck Handkerchiefs; Shoulder Ornaments; Lace Sleeves and Gloves; which, with a general assortment of fashionable goods, are offered for sale, at moderate prices, by M. & B. MYERS. December 23. f & tf.
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY
9th REGISTRATION. THE shareholders of said company, are hereby required to pay into the hands of James Brander, treasurer, the additional sum of ten Dollars, on each share, on or before the 8th day of February next.
Delinquent shares on former requisitions. NOTICE is hereby given, that all shares upon which there shall appear to be due delinquencies of former requisitions, will be offered for sale at Mr. Brooke's tavern, in Manchester, on the 11th day of February next, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon. By order of the Directors. JAMES BRANDER, Clerk. December 27. f & tf.
I HAVE received direct from Bordeaux, 100 Boxes of PRUNES, which I shall sell very low; they are fine and very fresh. Those who feel an inclination to purchase a few boxes, will apply to the subscriber on Shockoe-Hill, in one of Judge Wythe's new brick houses. LEWIS M. RIVALLAIN. December 27. f & tf.
ENOCH SULLIVAN,
SILVER, GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER, RETURNS his grateful thanks to his friends and the public for the liberal encouragement afforded him in his line of business, and hopes by his punctilious attention to the business, to which he was bred, to insure a continuation of the favor of a liberal public. He offers now for sale at his shop adjoining the Jewellery of the most fashionable kind, consisting of silver Tea Pots, cream Urns, Tumblers, Spoons, and silver and fancy Ear-rings, Lockets, Finger Rings, Ear-rings, a general supply of Combs, plain and ornamental Pocket Books, thread Cases, Miniature and ring Cases, gold and gilt Seals, Keys and Chains. Highest price given for old gold or silver. December 3. tf.
A POINTER DOG,
Lost from this city, about the 20th of last month; HE is a small compact handsome Dog, thickly furred, with liver colour, particularly his legs, which are much darker than his body; the ends of both ears are flat and beavers to the name of NERO; he had on a brass collar with the owner's name, and probably bears marks on his throat occasioned by its friction. "Tis conjectured the dog has been in possession of different people, and has at length fallen into the hands of a gentleman—if so, any person who may be possessed of him, or any other individual whatsoever, who will bring him to the editor of this or any other newspaper in Richmond, shall receive Five Dollars reward, together with reasonable expenses, even if a man and horse are employed in bringing him, and no question will be asked. Should the dog have been stolen, any person who may be capable of giving such information and evidence, as will bring the thief to the penalty or shipping-pen (be the dog dead or alive) shall receive FIVE GUINEAS. The Editor offers himself answerable for the above rewards. "Tis hoped that every gentleman, particularly of those who are attached to hunting, will make this case his own, and use every means in his power, to detect and punish such thieves; and that they will be so obliging as to convey any information they may obtain to the editor of this paper by letter. January 18. eptf.
THE subscriber offers his services as a BROKER in the city of Richmond, and will transact any business in that line for a moderate commission. He will not inform the public that it is a business with which he is familiar, but assures every one who may think him worthy of their confidence, that no one will be more attentive to their interest. He will also undertake to purchase tobacco on commission. His office is kept on the cross street leading from the Capitol square towards Col. Carrington's. CARTER B. PAGE. December 31.
MCCABE & WALKER, WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS, At the corner house opposite Mr. G. Gamble's Store Richmond. OFFER their services to the public. From their attention to all commands, and their being in the execution of their work, they have full confidence to hope for a continuance of the favours they may receive. Great care will be taken in repairing all kinds of watches and clocks. December 3. tf.
NOTICE.
PROPOSITIONS will be received by the executive for the purchase of eight condemned negroes, reprieved for transportation under the act "to empower the governor to transport slaves condemned, when it shall be deemed expedient." Dec. 31.
NOTICE.
HAVING commenced the BURR MILL STONE MAKING, in September last, at my shop, near the Basin of the Canal, I have now finished for shipment of 4 feet 4 feet 6 and 5 feet diameters of best quality and workmanship. I have a large proportion of Close Hard Burrs, suitable for grinding corn, and will shortly receive additional supplies of good materials. Those who please to favour me with their commands, will be served faithfully on reasonable terms. I will choose helping Cloths for those who desire it, suitable to their purposes. I tender my thanks to the public for past favours, and hope for future encouragement. JOHN MOODY. December 24. T & S 6w.
Northumberland County Court, 12th Nov. 1805. IN CHANCERY. James V. Ball & Spencer Ball, Compts. against William B. Travers and Henry? Defs. Travers.
THE Defendant, William B. Travers, not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rule of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this state; on the motion of the complainants by their counsel, it is decreed and ordered that the said defendants appear here on the first day of March court next, and answer the bill of the Complainants, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some public newspaper published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and another copy posted at the front door of the Court house, of this county. And it is further ordered, that the defendant Henry, do not pay away, convey or secrete any money or property he may have belonging to the said William B. Travers, but that he retain the same in his hands, subject to the future order of the court. A Copy, FLEM. BATES, c. n. c. December 12. (th 2 m.)
Northumberland County Court, 12th Nov. 1805. IN CHANCERY. Levy One, Compts. against Richard Moore, John Davis, and William Pearson. Defs.
THE Defendant, Richard Moore, not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rule of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this state, on the motion of the complainant by his counsel: it is decreed and ordered, that the said defendant appear here on the first day of March court next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some public newspaper, published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and another copy posted at the front door of the Court house of this county. And it is further ordered, that the defendants, Davis and Pearson, do not pay away, convey or secrete any money or property they may have belonging to the said Richard Moore, but that they retain the same in their hands, subject to the future order of the court. A Copy, FLEM. BATES, c. n. c. December 12. (th 2 m.)
SLAVES FOR SALE.
ON Monday the 10th day of February next, at Hanover Town, will be exposed for sale, five or six likely SLAVES, to the highest bidder, for ready money. January 16. eptf.
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