The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-08-27 00:00:00

Richmond Prices Current.
Table with 4 columns: Item, Price per unit, Price per bag, Price per cask. Items include Tobacco, Flour, Wheat, Indian Corn, Whiskey, Bacon, Hemp, Bar Iron.
FOR SALE ON PRIVATE CONTRACT.
GREEN-WAY; the seat on which I now reside, including Mons-Sion, and the Court-House Tenements...
MON-STON contains five hundred acres more or less, on which is a neat small dwelling...
THE PLANTATION whereon Major Thomas Collins now resides...
THE subscriber, begs leave to acquaint his friends in Richmond...
GEORGE WILY, BROKER & COMMISSION MERCHANT.
Buys and sells kinds of Produce—Alfalfa, Lands, Lots, and houses, Bank Stock, &c.
FOR LONDON.
THE fast sailing Ship Spry, now at Norfolk, and ready to receive a cargo...
TO BE SOLD.
ALL that tract of LAND, late Pretty's, situated in Northumberland county, Virginia...
PICKLING VINEGAR.
CROCCERS, Tavern-keepers and Private Families may be supplied with VINEGAR...
LAND—FOR SALE.
IN the county of Lunenburg, lying within one mile of the Court-house...
TO BE SOLD, FOR CASH.
Am requested by David Paterson, Junr. to expose for sale, as trustee...
TO BE SOLD, FOR CASH.
Am requested by David Paterson, Junr. to expose for sale, as trustee...
TO BE SOLD, FOR CASH.
Am requested by David Paterson, Junr. to expose for sale, as trustee...
TO BE SOLD, FOR CASH.
Am requested by David Paterson, Junr. to expose for sale, as trustee...
TO BE SOLD, FOR CASH.
Am requested by David Paterson, Junr. to expose for sale, as trustee...
TO BE SOLD, FOR CASH.
Am requested by David Paterson, Junr. to expose for sale, as trustee...
TO BE SOLD, FOR CASH.
Am requested by David Paterson, Junr. to expose for sale, as trustee...
TO BE SOLD, FOR CASH.
Am requested by David Paterson, Junr. to expose for sale, as trustee...
TO BE SOLD, FOR CASH.
Am requested by David Paterson, Junr. to expose for sale, as trustee...
TO BE SOLD, FOR CASH.
Am requested by David Paterson, Junr. to expose for sale, as trustee...
FOR RENT.
THE HOUSE and OUT-HOUSES in the Town of Manchester, late in the occupancy of Richard Baugh...
MOUNT SION FOR SALE.
THE subscriber offers for sale, the Plantation in Northumberland county, known by the name of MOUNT SION.
European Intelligence.
From Late London Papers.
ENGLISH HOUSE OF LORDS.
Tuesday, June 25.
Lord Holland wished for information whether any orders had been sent to Jamaica...
The Duke of Montrose observed, that the fate of the law on the subject in question...
Lord Holland, in reply, said, all he had heard convinced him, that the restriction had been improperly enforced...
The Marquis of Buckingham, said the Lieut. Gov. of Jamaica had underfoot his hands to be tied up...
Lord Hawkesbury & Lord Camden applauded the conduct of the Lieut. Governor...
LONDON, July 4. His majesty's oculist, Mr. Phipps, has communicated both to the King and Queen...
His majesty received the information with a fortitude the most exemplary.
The Madrid Gazette of May 24th, states, that Spain had then 82 ships of the line...
Lord Sidmouth, (late Mr. Addington) President of the Council, and Mr. Vanittart, have resigned.
La Vaillant, French frigate, of 30 guns, 18 pounders, and 213 men, has been captured by La Loire...
Admiral Cornwallis has resumed the command of the Channel fleet.
This morning, Mr. Hamilton Rowan appearing in the Court of King's Bench...
The above Wines are such as can be particularly recommended.
PICKETT, POLLARD & JOHNSTON.
A BRICK LUMBER HOUSE on the Basin, German Osnaburg, by the piece or bale.
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
THE subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will take the same time and place after for sale...
After examining the will, an error in point of fact was acknowledged, and the outlay was rendered.
When last I had the honour of appearing before this Tribunal [several years ago] I told your Lordships...
To this address the Chief Justice replied—
Mr. Rowan, from the sentiments you have expressed, I have not a doubt that you will prove by your future conduct...
Mr. Rowan then bowed to the Court and withdrew.
From the Glasgow Journal, June 21.
The intelligence received last week, from the Continent has been more considerable...
RUSSIA.
From St. Petersburg, we learn that the inland navigation of the Russian empire has been opened from the west...
SWEDEN.
Our intelligence from Stockholm states little more than that their Majesty's and the crown Prince were going on an excursion to Schonen...
DENMARK.
From Copenhagen we are informed, that several books have been recently introduced in the King's library...
PRUSSIA.
The troops encamped between Corbelitz and Pietzschl performed their field exercises before his Prussian Majesty on the 27th, 28th & 29th May.
AUSTRIAN EMPIRE.
Our letters from Vienna have informed us, that the Emperor and his ministers view Bonaparte's movements in Italy with extreme jealousy.
HOLLAND.
M. Schimmelpenning is now, Bonaparte's Viceroy in Holland. His first grand acts are said to have been, to surrender the Cape of Good Hope...
FRANCE.
It is the confession of the French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
The French themselves at this moment, that their trade is utterly ruined. They have nothing to lose at sea.
are not brought into an English port.
Some of them actually consider Bonaparte as the restorer of the Empire of Charlemagne...
They are the most formidable to England, if England shall not by prudent contempt of them, be thrown off her guard.
The boat in which the combined fleets have hitherto eluded our attacks, are the most ludicrously barked...
Our late intelligence from Spain has come almost entirely through a French medium.
The Prince of Peace does what he can to rouse the people to arms.
A squadron fitted out at Carthagena has made two fruitless attempts to join that at Cadiz.
British Navy.
The great and rapid increase of men of war of all descriptions, from 120 guns, to a cutter of 10 guns...
There are now in commission, ready for sea, NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE sail of vessels...
And from A to Z, to know each other at sea, & to be known at the telegraphic and signal posts...
Return of the total effective strength of the British Army, at home and abroad on 1st of May, 1805.
Table with 4 columns: Service, Cavalry, Infantry, Militia. Rows include General Total, On Foreign Stations, In G. Britain & Ireland, In the West Indies, In the East Indies, In the West Indies, In the East Indies, In the West Indies, In the East Indies.
When the fleet cleared for action to attack the enemy coming out of Brest a few weeks since...
Mr. Pitt must think the Coalition for the resolution, Mr. Whitbread moved yesterday in the House of Commons.
That the Chancellor of the Exchequer being impressed with the necessity of supporting the house off the said Messrs. Boyd, Balfour & Co.
That the advance of the said 40,000, as above stated, was contrary to law, and unless the fit notice were taken, might establish a dangerous precedent.
That in consequence of a memorial from the right hon. Henry Dundas, the then treasurer of the navy...
That a writ of Privy Seal was prepared, executed on the 21st May, and appearing to be registered on the 24th May...
Mr. Laforest, who has as well as Mr. Whitbread, been a member of the select committee...
After Mr. Fox had spoken, the house became extremely impatient...
The previous question upon Mr. Whitbread's Resolutions, was carried by a division...

les. But it was determined that a bill of indemnity should be brought in; a measure which will place upon record the appropriation of Parliament, of the monies upon which Mr. Pitt acted in the advance of the 40,000' to the house of Boyd and Benfield.
West Indies.
NORFOLK, August 19.
The French Consul at this place, has, we understand, received a letter from the French minister at Washington, informing, that a letter had been received by him from general Ferrand which states, that the fhr. Iris, Capt. Pearson, captured on her voyage from Porto Rico to St. Domingo, (the City) where she had been tried and acquitted , and the captors condemned to pay damages. We record this act of justice with pleasure, and shall be happy to credit the same account with a similar article in every day's Ledger, until the large balance yet remaining is liquidated.
August 21.
The following is a translation of the sentence pronounced in the case of the Schooner Iris, mentioned in our last. We publish this sentence with pleasure, as honourable to the judges, who pronounced it, and as affording a hope, that the following commerce of our country will experience some amelioration. The justice and impartiality of the tribunal, deserves more consideration, as the vessel that captured the Iris, was a national vessel.
The Committee of administration has declared, and declares, that, without having respect to the pretext alleged in the verbal process of capture, the prize made of the American Schooner Iris of Norfolk, S. capt. Pearson, by the fhr. Despatch Le Muquitto, Captain Brouard, is void and of none effect ; and, in consequence, it ordains that the product of the provision sale which may have been made of the said Schooner, her rigging, apparel, utensils, & cargo, at the instance of the said Sieur Brouard, in virtue of a decree of the committee of justice, in date the 5th Floreal last, shall be delivered to the said Captain Samuel Pearson, or to his agent duly authorized—and considering the disability of the said Captain, and the impossibility of conveying it to him, that a copy of the present decision be, by the colonial inspector, addressed to the Minister, to Monseigneur the Minister Plenipotentiary of France at the United States, to be transmitted to the Commissary of Commercial relations of France at Norfolk, with a request to make the same known either to the said Captain, or to Messieurs James Dyke and Co. the freighters of the said Schooner.
“Ordains further, That, in consequence of the natural and legal recourse which the Captain, freighters, or assured of the said fhr. have against the government for damage resulting from the capture, illegally made of the said Schooner by a national vessel; the amount of the liquidations, & reparations to be made in favor of the Captain, officers, and crew of the said Despatch Le Muquitto, from the prizes condemned in their favour, up to this day, shall be placed, under the title of deposits, in the chest of the invalids of the marine, until after the definitive judgment of the Council of Prizes, on the merit of the reclamations and on the indemnities to be accorded to the said capt. & freighters of the fhr. Iris.
Referring to Monseigneur the Colonial inspector, the ample authority and exercise of his prerogatives, in law and fact, to make complaint, & prosecute on the information relative to the violations of forms, and of the rights of men and usages of war, by the ill-treatment of the mate and sailors of the Schooner Iris. For the said information availing himself of the result of the examinations of the captured sailors, closed & addressed to his excellency, Monseigneur the Minister of the Marine and Colonies, to be by the Council of Prizes determined, according to the 9th article of the law of the 2nd Prairial, year eleven.
Done and judged at St. Domingo, the day, month and year above written. Signed, Wives, Minuty, Huet, Lafaille, and Le Roy. A true Copy, Signed, LE ROY.
NEW-YORK, August 14.
We learn by captain Lockwood that the port of Leguira was opened on the 29th of May to neutrals for the introduction of flour, oil, and butter. It was shut on the 14th of June, and on the 18th was re-opened during twenty days for the admission of the above articles. On the 6th of July it was again closed, and it was said it would remain so during the war. The vessels in port on the 14th June were permitted to unload and dispose of their cargoes, of whatever articles they might consist. Those which entered on the 16th, or between that and the 6th July, were confined strictly to the disposal of the articles above mentioned. Many of these vessels have been waiting for three or four weeks in expectation of obtaining permission to discharge generally, but without success. It is probable they will eventually be obliged to seek another market, their cargoes consisting principally of dry goods.
Flour at Leguira was 14 dolls. The product of the produce very scarce and dear.
August 21.
Capt. Denison, of the fhr. William, informs us that when he left the city of Santo Domingo all was tranquil there. General Ferrand was under no apprehensions of any further trouble from the negroes. In the William came passenger capt. Liddle, formerly master of the big Volunteer, which was lost on the 20th May on her voyage from New York to Porto Rico. Mer. Adv.
Domestic Intelligence.
FROM SPAIN.
We have been letters from Cadiz, to the 27th June, 1805, received by the Adriana arrived at New York. Mr. Bowdoin our Minister to Spain, had arrived at Corunna; Mr. Monroe had left Spain; & Mr. Pinckney resided at Madrid as a private citizen. A singular affair the latter adds, lately occurred in the Straights of Gibraltar: an American gun-boat, in her passage into the Mediterranean, was mistaken for an English, attacked by the Spanish gun-boats, taken and carried into Algiers. The error being discovered she was immediately given up. Our boat having no guns mounted, was unable to resist the assailants, and immediately struck. No lives were lost. Post. Gaz.
PHILADELPHIA, August 19.
In the REGISTER of Friday last, we stated, on authority which we then deemed correct, that the matters in dispute between the United States and the Government of Spain were amicably adjusted.” This information we now find to be incorrect. A letter from Cadiz, dated the 25th of June, to a respectable merchant
in this city, says, that the “negotiations are in a state of suspension, and that the Minister has terminated in very ill humour.” Jack's Reg.
Capt. Alden, at New Bedford, from Cadiz, who failed June 25 informs, that it was reported that the Spanish cruisers detained all American vessels bound up the Mediterranean, under pretence that they were not furnished with proper Spanish Consular Certificates! What right have they to exact certificates when a vessel is not bound to a Spanish port—and when she is, it is for the Custom-house officers to determine whether she is furnished with the proper papers; privateersmen have no concern with her. The British squadron off Cadiz, June 25, consisted of 5 sail of the line.
WASHINGTON CITY, August 14.
We learn that a part of the collection of the curiosities collected by Capt. Lewis on the Missouri, has reached Baltimore. Among these are a living animal, called the wild dog of the Prairie, and one magpie. Four magpies were sent, but one of them destroyed the other three. Nat. Int.
Mr. Bowdoin, our minister to the court of Madrid, had arrived at St. Andero previous to the 20th June. Ib.
A letter has been received from Cadiz, dated June 18, which is altogether silent as to the rumored condemnation of one of our gun-boats, the Adriana, which brings this report, having arrived at New-York after a passage of 40 days, renders the report very doubtful. This Letter is from our Consul at Cadiz, and as it does not even mention the capture, as it is probable that her immediate restitution made that circumstance, in his opinion, the less important to be stated. Ib.
PHILADELPHIA, August 18.
We are concerned to state, that a serious misunderstanding prevails among the members of our board of health. This we are told, does not proceed from any hostility on political or medical grounds; but is the effect of a spirit of intolerance and tyranny in one of the members. The difference proceeded to high on Friday as to produce blows; the consequence of which was, four of the members waited on the governor, begging the removal of their obnoxious colleague. The governor we understand, has declined interfering for the present, but assured the gentlemen, that subject should receive consideration, and that every measure to promote the public interest should be adopted. A proper sense of delicacy restrains us from saying more at present. Phil. Gaz.
August 19.
We understand, that the Governor of this state has suspended the functions of Doct. James Reynolds, as one of the members of the Board of Health. Ib.
HEALTH-OFFICE,
August 20, 1805.
Resolved, That the following notice be published for the information of our fellow citizens:—
Since the removal of the two persons to the Lazaretto, mentioned in our former communication, ten others have been taken sick in the same neighbourhood, with similar symptoms, all of whom, as well as the families in which they resided, have been removed, some to the city hospital, and the rest to the country.
With only one exception there is not a case of malignant or contagious fever, existing in any part of the city or liberties, and arrangements are made for that one, with the whole of the family to go into the country, and as the most effectual precaution any measures have been, and are now taking, to prevent the renewal of the disease, we have the most confident hopes, thro' divine favour, of being able to prevent its re-appearance. If, however, we should be disappointed in our expectations, and defeated in our endeavours to arrest its progress, we pledge ourselves to make it publicly known, without delay or reserve.
By order of the Board, EBENEZER FERGUSON, Pres't. WM. BINDER, Sec'y. pro-tem.
NEW-YORK, August 17.
The brig Success, Captain Brum, of this port, failed from Kingston, Jamaica, for New-York, on the 6th of July. On the 19th she was captured two leagues from Cape St. Antony by a Spanish galley (belonging to Havana) without deck, with two masts and two square sails, and called Labonne Union. The Galley was commanded by Capt. Cesar, and manned with thirty or forty Spaniards, and Frenchmen, with one Irishman, who served as an interpreter. Three days after they were taken, Captain Brum, the passengers (eight in number) & the hands were all ordered below, and the hatchets shut upon them. In this situation they were kept through the night. In the morning the pirates prepared their knives, cutlasses and clubs, opened the fore castle, and called for the Captain. One of the seamen, (Peter Duchemin) with the view of preserving the Captain's life, stepped forward and ascended to the deck. The ruffians, with their instruments of slaughter, having arranged themselves in two ranks, compelled the seaman to run the gantlet, while each gave him a blow, a gun or a stab as he passed. Captain Brum and his passengers and crew were all in succession taken from the hold and treated with the same horrid cruelty, excepting five French passengers. An English gentleman, by the name of Smith, who was one of the passengers, was beaten with such severity, that he sprang into the long boat and broke his ankle in two places. The mate of the brig, two English passengers and two seamen, were put in irons on board the galley, and three days afterwards were sent ashore at Congabouba, about 180 miles from Havana: and the brig with the Captain and remainder of the crew were sent to Campeachy.
These facts we have received from Peter Duchemin, in one of the seamen who were sent on shore in irons. He made his escape from Congabouba, proceeded to Mariel, put himself on board the ship Cato and arrived at this port on Monday last.
The object of these barbarous wretches was money. They offered to release the Captain & ship on receiving 6,000 dollars. Commercial Adv.
Illegal impressions.—The honorable Captain Fleming, of the Egyptian-British frigate, was lately cast in a Court of King's bench, in an action of damages for illegally impressing an exempt whaleman, in the sum of 300 pound sterling.
A late letter from Cadiz, says, “A Spanish vessel took an American brig, capt. Bayley, a valuable cargo from New-York for Nantz; under pretext that she had no Spanish Consul's certificate. She is now under trial.” Merc. Adv.
On Tuesday night the 6th inst. 5 persons confined in the State Prison near Trenton, made their escape by cutting a hole through the floor of their room, and forcing the door of the adjoining apartment. The whole, however, were soon have been re-taken and re-conducted to prison. Ib.
Letters received yesterday from the Havana, state an important occurrence, in the modern spirit of revolutionary measures—the almost entire suppression of the Monastic and religious order in that island, and which of course will not be confined to that colony. A Royal order has lately been received there for the sale of all property belonging to those religious establishments: consisting of houses and lands, sugar & coffee, estates, and negroes, as well as mortgages, debts, &c. due to them. The monies arising therefrom are to be paid into the treasury of the king, who will provide for the persons disposed of, by paying them a certain allowance per diem for their support. The revenue arising therefrom must, doubtless, be immense; and the purposes to which it is to be applied, & the source to which this serious innovation may be traced, do not require the gift of divination to ascertain. It may, perhaps, be considered as only a preliminary step to more serious changes in the Spanish government and nation.
The Commissioners nominated to enforce the aforesaid decree in the Havana, and the island, are—the Governor, the Bishop, the Intendant General, the Collector of the Customs, and Don J. B. Munoz. N. Y. Gaz.
Extract of a letter to a gentleman in this city dated Montreal, August 3.
“This moment the Quebec post is in with an account of the Capture of the Newfoundland Convoy.”
Yesterday anchored in Hampton Roads, the United States Frigate ADAMS, Capt. MURRAY. Norfolk Her.
BALTIMORE, August 10.
The criminal Court which has been sitting about six weeks, broke up to-day, after passing sentence on a great number of culprits. The notorious offender, OBEDIAH WILLIAMS, alias G. W. Randolph, alias John W. Thompson, was sentenced to death; Elias Nowland, alias Johnson to seven years hard labour on the roads—and Michael Welch to six months imprisonment and to stand fifteen minutes in the pillory, between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock to-morrow. Fed. Gaz.
SALEM, August 15.
Captain Bullock, whose arrival from Jamaica was mentioned in our last, was lately master of the ship Hazard, of this port, and had the misfortune to be taken by a British frigate, sent to Jamaica, and there condemned, ship and cargo. The Hazard failed from hence in April last, with a cargo, for Leguira: on arriving there, being refused an entry, Capt. B. steered for Curacao, but with a determination not to enter that or any other port till he could ascertain that it was perfectly free from blockade. At the time he made the island, he also desired two ships standing off and on; and in order to gain information respecting a blockade, he ran down towards them, and hove to, when a boat from one of them (the Fortune) was sent with an officer to board the Hazard, who took Capt. B. with his papers, on board the other ship, which proved to be the frigate Franchise, Commodore Murray. Another boat was then dispatched to the Hazard, with orders to bring away the whole of the officers and crew; and the Commodore informed Capt. B. that he intended to send the ship to Jamaica, and would allow only himself and one of his people to go in her. Accordingly Capt. B. and Mr. Palfrey, his Clerk, were permitted to return on board; and a prize-master and 8 men, conducted the ship to Jamaica, where they arrived the 16th of May, and on the 6th of June her condemnation was pronounced, to the astonishment of all who were acquainted with the circumstances, upon the ground that the property belonged to enemies of Great-Britain; an allegation, for which there was not the least shadow of pretence, and which it is hardly possible the judge himself could believe. Capt. B. entered an appeal from this sentence, the injustice of which is so flagrant, there is no doubt it will be reversed in England.—The ship and cargo, when she failed from this port, were valued at 50,000 dollars.
When Capt. B. left Curacao, Commodore Murray promised upon his honour that he would send his men to Jamaica by the first opportunity; but though many opportunities had passed, he still detained them in his service, where it is supposed they are at this time, with about 60 more, impressed with protections in their hands. Capt. B. informs, that many impressed Americans remained at Jamaica, the high want of an agent of the Government in the absence of their Captains.
Capt. Bullock has favoured us with a list of condemnations of American vessels and property, at Jamaica, as prizes or recaptures, since the beginning of February, 1804. As it may be of utility to the commercial interest, we shall publish it in our next. Most of those, of which there was a total condemnation, were taken off Curacao. Gaz.
Letters from Demerara, dated early in July, mention the continuance of the embargo, but state it was probable it would be taken off about the middle of the month. Ib.
CHARLESTON, August 16.
The British Schooner Wanton, capt. Steele, arrived last evening, failed from Tortola, on the 31st July, in company with three hundred sail of British homeward bound merchantmen, under convoy of three seventy-four's, five frigates, and two sloops of war.
Letters were received at Tortola, mentioning the arrival of the British packet at Barbadoes. It was said the British accounts of the British fleet having put to sea, and fallen in with the British blockading squadron—the result of the action was, the capture of six or seven French ships of the line, and the burning & fluking of five more. Times.
Messrs. Campbell and Rhea are elected to Congress for West Tennessee, without opposition.—Dr. Dickson, who have been informed, was not opposed in East Tennessee.
KENTUCKEY.
LEXINGTON.
On Tuesday the 6th inst. Christopher Irvin, who stood charged with passing counterfeit notes of the Bank of the United States, was dis-
charged by the district court of the United States, now sitting in this town.
About twelve months ago, William Alcorn and him were both arrested in Lexington for the above offence, and brought before the honorable Judge Jones, who appointed a special term in September last for their trial. Irvin gave bail for his appearance, and Alcorn was committed for the want of bail. The court in a pro-secution against Alcorn, some time ago for a similar offence, judged that the testimony of persons conversant with bank notes, was incompetent to prove the forgery, but that the clerk of the bank was the proper witness; the attorney for the district sent forward and procured the attendance of a clerk from Philadelphia at the special term. Irvin failed to appear. Alcorn was tried, and upon objection by his counsel to the testimony of the clerk, the court adjudged that he was incompetent to prove the forgery in the present and either's signature, but might prove the forgery in any other part of the bill. This was done, and Alcorn was found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary.
Irvin's bail pursued him to Georgia, and brought him up to the November term; he gave sickness as excuse to the court for his non-appearance at September, and was bailed to March term; but again failed to appear, and being again pursued by his bail, was brought up to the first day of the present July term, and expressed great anxiety for his trial.—The Federal attorney was not ready for want of the clerk from the bank; but to remove that impediment the counsel for Irvin, entered on the record the following agreement:
“It is agreed and admitted, by the said Irvin, that the attorney for the United States may on the said Irvin's trial produce any witness whom he may select, to prove the notes in the indictment mentioned, to be false, forged and counterfeit notes; and the said attorney shall not upon the trial be required to produce any officers of the bank in the indictment mentioned, to give evidence of the forgery alleged; and that Thursday the 10th day of the present term be fixed for the trial of the said Irvin.”
On Thursday the 10th inst. the trial commenced. The Federal Attorney proved the passing of the notes in the indictment charged to three several persons. He then produced several officers of the Lexington Bank, and several of the most eminent merchants, who all deposed that they had been, and were in the habit of receiving such notes, and that these were forged—and being required to give their reasons for such assertions went on to point them out in the cop-plate, as well as the manuscript part of the notes. They were all very positive as to the notes being forged. One merchant had seen the president and cashier actually sign in August last, and avowed these signatures in the question to be forged. The attorney then went on to prove Irvin's having in possession other forged notes, and having offered forged notes to others before he passed those in question; upon the third day of the examination, the counsel for the prisoner, moved to reject the latter description of testimony, because it referred to other notes than those mentioned in the indictment—the judge took time till Monday, and then adjudged that the testimony should go to the jury to prove felonious intention.—When the examination of testimony on both sides was gone through, the prisoners counsel moved the court to reject all the testimony given to prove the notes counterfeit, it not being the best, but that the prosecutor should have sent forward a man with the notes to the bank, to compare the notes with the register, which would prove whether any such notes had issued from the bank or not; that the agreement only dispensed with one kind of testimony, but that the next best should still be had. The attorney urged the argument which vested him with power to select the witnesses, and considering the time when it was made, and the circumstances of the parties, it would be absurd to suppose any other meaning given to it than that under which he had acted, and any other would make it a mere deception, as such a messenger could not have been sent to the bank, and if he could, such a difficulty would be greater than bringing a clerk here: neither would such testimony be legal when brought. The court decided that the testimony which had been adduced should be rejected.—That although the argument left it to the prosecutor to select witnesses, yet they must be legal when brought, and that the argument only dispensed with one kind of evidence, but the next best should be adduced, which was that of a man who had compared the notes with the register of the bank.—The attorney, therefore, offered the certificate of the cashier of the Bank, that the Bills had been compared with the Register, and that none of such dates and numbers were issued from the bank; and offered to give testimony that he had marked the bills before they were sent, and could not identify them, and that they and the above certificate were included under cover by the president of the bank to Irvin, whose signature to the letter was proved. The court thought the testimony inadmissible.
The attorney then said he would go on upon the testimony of the witness who had seen the present and cashier write, and proved their signatures were correspondent to those they had used for years past. The court said that the evidence of that witness could not be a limited, as he had not seen those officers write until since the crime charged against the prisoner. The attorney then desired to know if he might proceed to convince the jury from the testimony of the prisoner's conduct, that the bills were forged, as well as that he knew them to be so: The court observed that the opinion was to exclude the officers of the bank of Lexington, and the merchants who had testified to the forgery as a matter of opinion arising from comparison, and an inspection of notes, and not from a knowledge of the secret checks in the bank. Whereupon the attorney moved the court to enter a nolle prosequi , which was granted and the jury discharged. The prisoner was then again prayed into custody to be indicted a new. His counsel moved for him to be discharged, because he had been once in jeopardy, and because the nolle prosequi was a bar. The court decided in favour of the prisoner, that a nolle prosequi was a bar, and ordered him to be discharged. Palladium.
Miscellaneous.
PHILADELPHIA, August 15.
Mr. Samuel P. Bradford, bookseller, of this City, is preparing, with his usual spirit and industry, for the speedy execution of The New Cyclopaedia, by Dr. Rees, assisted by men of the greatest scientific celebrity in Great-Britain. This highly useful, copious and accurate work, to which the epithet of magnificent has been applied with perfect propriety, has been so liberally encouraged by the subscriptions of our countrymen, that the enterprising publisher has an additional stimulus to exert himself to render this valuable Dictionary of the arts and sciences every way worthy of the public favour. He has engaged many ingenious and philosophical characters to furnish new articles, pertinent to the circumstances and changes of this country, and from our knowledge of his arrangements, and his talents, we are warranted in our belief of the value and interest of these original materials. P. Folio.
A machine has lately been put into the Secretary of State's office, by a Mr. John M. Bride of South Carolina, but later from Tennessee, and a patent taken out for securing the profits therefrom which is called the Columbian Spinner , is so contrived as to spin, card and spin at the same time: it is operated on by one person, who is perfectly adequate to the whole direction of it. This model spins 12 threads, and machines may be so enlarged as to spin any greater number. The machine requires no other attendance than the person who feeds it with the raw cotton, who also turns the wheel by which the operations are carried on. It might be advantageously worked by water: the owner of the present model finished one of 15 threads (which he left in Tennessee) that by great exertions extended each thread 7 yards a minute. Many ladies and gentlemen of Washington and George-town have seen this model, and expressed the highest satisfaction at it.
We with our ingenious countrymen's success in his invention, and we sincerely hope he may be rewarded in the sale of his machines. No doubt a discerning public will see their utility and avail themselves of the use of so valuable an article. Wash. Fed.
The regulations lately adopted by government for the reception and delivery of the salt made at the Great Saline, near the mouth of the Wabash, have answered the most sanguine expectations. Salt is now made in greater quantities than the ordinary supplies of the country require; a large quantity has been on hand for some time past. From the quantity and quality of the water, the extent of the works, and the regulations that have been made for carrying them on, we have most flattering prospects, that the greater part of the western country will hereafter obtain a constant supply of salt at these licks. Ind. Gaz.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in St. Mary's County, to his friend in this city, dated July 25, 1805.
On the 19th of this infant there was a negro woman delivered near this old dead child. Its head, neck and years resembled those of a squirrel, that by a piece of loose skin on its forehead, which by pulling it asunder the teeth appeared resembling those of a squirrel; its body appeared like that of a flying squirrel, with membranes reaching from the fore to the hind legs, the body was covered with hair. Its tail resembled the tail of our common wild rabbits. This singular and disgusting production was viewed by a number of respectable persons of both sexes.
YELLOW FEVER.
The king of Prussia has offered a premium of 200 ducats to the author of the best essay, and one of a hundred ducats to the author of the next best essay in answer to the following queries: 1st. Is it ascertained that the virus of the yellow fever attaches itself to inanimate substances; and does it attach itself without any diminution of the contagious power, so as to be able of communication at a distance by mere contact with the infected substances? Admitting the possibility of this communication, it is required to state a series of facts in proof of it. 2nd. Is it true that the virus of the yellow fever is produced by that Miasmata alone, and that it is contained in one or more animal excretions? 3rd. Have chemical processes been employed to ascertain the essential character of the miasmata? And are there any chemical processes which can act as preservatives against its effects? 4th. For what space of time does this miasmata retain its contagious energy; and how long are cloths impregnated with it, capable of communicating it? 5th. Are the maladies which, under the name Yellow Fever, have prevailed in North-America, the south of Spain, and at Leghorn, of the same nature, and have they the same symptoms, the same effects, and the same origin? 6th. Is the yellow fever an endemic disease, and confined to the sea coast.
MASONRY IN FRANCE.
Extract of a letter from Paris, June 14.
You have doubtless heard that free-masonry is again in vogue in all parts of France. It is true that not only the emperors brothers, but likewise the Marshals, Senators, and Liberati of the first distinction attend the lodges. I enclose you the complete printed lists. You will find that the following are the most celebrated names belonging to the principal lodge:—
Grand Master; Prince Joseph. Affluent Grand Master; Prince Louis. Chief Administrator; Marechal Massena. Grand Conservator; Senator de Choiseul Praslin. First Grand Superintendant; Princeess Murat. Second grand Superintendant; De la Cepede. Grand Chancellor of the Legion of honor. Grand Orator; De Lalande, member of the national institute. Chief Secretary; De Jancourt, Senator. Grand Treasurer; Magonde Medine, Rear-Admiral. First Grand expert; Bournonville Ambassador. Second Grand Expert; General Macdonald. Grand Keeper of the Seal; General Sebastiani. Chief Keeper of the Archives; Marechal Kellermann. Grand Architect; Senator De Luynes. First master of the Ceremonies; Duranteau, Member of the Legislative body. Second Master of the Ceremonies; Girardin, member of the Tribune. Grand Hospitalier; Marechal Angelean. Grand Almoner; Marechal Le Fevre.
FRENCH SOLDIERS.
As to the pay of the army, the common soldier is obliged to be contented with 5 sous per day, from which the subaltern officer makes some deduction, for the general expenses of the kitchen; on the other hand ten thousand men, namely, the Consular Guard, daily receive 25, and the Mamelukes 50 sous; the infantry of the gen d'armerie d'elite each three francs, and the horse gen d'armerie even five francs per diem.
THEATRES.
This is by no means a favourable time for the Theatres. The houses are mostly empty. A new company of buffoons is expected; they are to come from Madrid, from Venice, some from Peterburg, and some from Lisbon. Picard has collected them from all parts of the world to draw the Parisian beau monde to his Theatre.
Paris has not for a long time been so empty or so dull as at present. A great deal of building is, however, going forward; and the emperor, at his return, will find Paris greatly improved. Boss Palladium.
THE HIGHEST PRICE (IN CASH) WILL BE GIVEN AT THIS OFFICE FOR CLEAN LINEN & COTTON RAGS.

VINDICATION OF MR. JEFFERSON.
No. II.
First approach of the enemy to Richmond.
"Col. Wm. Tatham, says: Being at Richmond in the time of Arnold's invasion 1780-1, and hearing that an express had arrived at the governor's with intelligence of the approach of an invading enemy, I immediately rode to his house, and met governor Jefferson walking out. He had received such an express, but as other intelligence led him to suppose, they were nothing more than a foraging party. Unless he had further information to justify the measure, he should not disturb the country by calling out the militia; he would thank me nevertheless, if I would go down to the Maj. Gen. Baron Steuben who was at Wilton, (six miles below Richmond) and receive his orders if needful. The Baron dispatched me to General Nelson at Williamsburg, where I found the town in confusion, expecting an immediate attack; the enemy being at anchor, and having a boat taking the soundings towards the shore, at King's Mill (4 miles below Williamsburg.)"
They proceeded, however, up the river, and I remained in the suite of General Nelson several days, when I was desired by him to be the bearer of some dispatches to the governor, of such importance, that I must avoid all risk of being taken. Knowing the country well, I ventured among the plantations, until I got to that of Dr. Truett, near the Meadow Bridges, on Chickahominy; I learnt that the enemy's picket was just called in, and retired from the Bridges towards the main body at Richmond. I followed the picket carefully, entered Mr. Duval's house, at Mount Comfort, where the floors were wet with liquors spilt by the British soldiers, and pulled into Richmond, from whence the army had first retreated. Here one of our well affected citizens (I think old Richard Crouch) referred me to Motes Treadway, in Manchester, who conducted me to Mr. Jefferson, at a house then occupied by Doctor Evans, and here I delivered my dispatch, and spent part of the evening. I understood the enemy encamped that night at Four Mile Creek, about 10 or 12 miles off, and were then on their retreat."
In 1796, Mr. D. Hylton, before Doctor Wm. Touche, (a person qualified to administer an oath) made the following deposition: Henrico County
"That in 1781 when Arnold invaded this place, I was living near the Foundry at Weymouth; that I was going out to join the Militia to oppose Arnold, when I was stopped by Mr. Jefferson then governor of the State, and requested by him to attend to the removal of the powder, ammunition, arms and other property belonging to the public, then in the magazine near Weymouth; that his orders were to have everything removed with all possible expedition across the river; that on the night preceding Arnold's arrival at the Foundry, Mr. Jefferson was at the fort right-hand side, as late as eleven or twelve o'clock at night, attending and giving directions about the public property; that he then said he would go up the river about 8 miles to his family, cross the next morning and come down to Britton's, opposite Weymouth, and that carriages, &c. should be provided to take off the property; that this was done; that a very considerable quantity (I suppose about fifteen tons) of Gunpowder and ammunition, with a number of arms, flutes, &c. were transported as directed and thereby saved to the public; that the enemy were so close to us, that I was obliged to have about three hundred stand of arms thrown into the river, the greater part of which were afterwards recovered; that in the night preceding the day of invasion, the Waggoners (driven by White men) employed to bring records, &c. from Richmond, by mistake attempted to get to the Magazine, instead of the landing on the river, and near the Magazine, over-set and broke some arms, &c. That in consequence of this accident, the packages which I afterwards found contained records, were lodged at the Magazine and carriages could not be procured in time for the removal, and as the alarm was so great and sudden, that almost every person in the neighbourhood, was endeavouring to put his property in a state of safety by removing it; that it then and ever has appeared to the subscriber, that the said Mr. Jefferson did every thing which the nature of the case and his situation would admit for the public interest."
(Signed) D. HYLTION.
Such are the affeverations of a man, who no individual acquainted with his character will dare to deny. James Currie, of Richmond, well known for his integrity as a Physician, and his uniform candor as a man; thus expresses himself. "On application made to me, I recollected anything in regard to the loss of the public records and other valuable papers in the year 1781, during the invasion of the British army when Mr. Jefferson was governor, I well remember that he appeared extremely anxious, and very active in having them removed from Richmond, and deposited in a place of safety, and if possible, entirely out of the reach of the enemy; and for that and other duties of his office as Chief Magistrate, did remain in town fully as long, as was either proper or prudent for him to do so, without manifest danger of becoming the prisoner of the invading army, who were fast approaching the seat of government, without any efficient force that could at that time be brought against them to stop their march; and that his conduct was then perfectly proper, and that of a real patriot and friend of his country, will be very fully evinced, by the concurrent voice of the gentlemen who then acted with him in council as well as the unanimous approving voice of the Virginia Legislature at the subsequent meeting of assembly of the state."
A similar request being made of Mr. A. B. Iane Clerk of the Council, gentleman of the fair character, he made the following statement: "I well remember that Mr. Jefferson was extremely active in removing all public records from Richmond, and I have reason to believe the chief loss was occasioned by a mistake of the waggoners conveying them to the Foundry of Weymouth where they were to have been thrown over the river, if pursued by the enemy; Mr. Jefferson desired me as Clerk of the Council to continue with him and to take with me the public seal, and such papers as might be immediately wanted. I accordingly procured a servant, and horse, to carry a small trunk containing the papers, and on the afternoon preceding Arnold's taking possession of Richmond, Mr. Jefferson desired me to proceed to Tuckahoe, where he could come to me. I sat out at Sunday, and left Mr. Jefferson busy in getting off the records."
(Signed) A. BLAIR.
October 12, 1796.
Mr. John Beckley who was then clerk to the Virginia Legislature and at this time clerk to congress, has authorized me in his name to make the following statement:
"In four days from the arrival of Arnold's fleet, he proceeded 150 miles up the river and landed his troops in 24 miles of Richmond: The night before his march to that place, all the militia of the state which could be armed, being then out under the command of Gen. Nelson in the neighbourhood of Williamsburg, and no defence at hand for the security of Richmond but about 200 half armed militia under the command of Baron Steuben, who could do nothing more than cover the removal of the records and military stores across James River from Richmond to Manchester, and secure the boats and batteries on the Manchester side, to prevent the enemy's passing. He remained in Richmond with the left detachment of militia that passed the river with records and stores, and until the enemy the next morning were entering the lower part of the town, and began to flank its southern light horse. He saw Mr. Jefferson the night before issuing his orders and using every exertion to remove the records and stores; he afterwards saw him at Weymouth, five miles above Rich-
mond when Arnold pushed a detachment to destroy the stores, at that place, and which through Mr. J's exertions were almost entirely saved. After the British evacuated Richmond, on his return the first man he met with was Mr. Jefferson."
In addition to the testimony already cited, we may consider the following letter to Mr. Huntington, President of congress dated Richmond January 20th, 1781, as an authentic source of intelligence, because it was written at a time when the circumstances were fresh in the recollection of every observer, & because it was addressed to nobody intimately informed on the subject by innumerable means, & who would not have failed to have exposed the flight of an attempt made to deceive them at a crisis so important and by a man of such elevated standing.
"Sir, It may seem odd, considering the important events which have taken place in this date within the course of ten days past; that I should not have transmitted an account of them to your excellency sooner. But such has been their extraordinary rapidity, and such the un-uttered attention they have required from all concerned in the government, that I do not recollect the portion of time which I could have taken to commit them to paper. On the 31st of December a letter from a private gentleman to Gen. Nelson, came to my hands, notifying that in the morning of the preceding day 27 sail of vessels entered the Capes and from the tenor of the letter, we had reason to expect, within a few hours, further intelligence, whether they were friends or foes, their force and other circumstances. We immediately dispatched General Nelson to the lower country, with powers to call on the militia in that quarter, or as otherwise as exigencies should require; but wanted further intelligence before we would call for militia from the middle or upper country. No further intelligence came until the 2nd of (January) instant when the former was confirmed. It was ascertained they had advanced up James River to Warwicksquay Bay. All arrangements were immediately taken for calling in a sufficient body of militia for opposition; in the night of the 3rd, we received advice, they were at anchor opposite James town. We then supposed Williamsburg to be their object. The wind, however, which had hitherto been unfavourable, shifted fair and the tide being also in their favour they ascended the river to Kennebec that evening, and with the next tide came up to Weymouth; having on their way taken possession of some works we had at Hood's, by which two or three of their vessels received some damage; but which were of necessity abandoned by the small garrison of 50 men placed there on the enemy's landing to invest the works. Intelligence from which we supposed they meant to land for Williamsburg, and that they had got the next morning at five o'clock and was the indication of their meaning to penetrate towards this place or Petersburg. As the orders for drawing the militia here had been given but two days, no opposition was in readiness. Every effort was therefore necessary to withdraw the arms and other military stores, records &c. from this place. Every effort was accordingly made to convey them to the Foundry six miles above this, till about sun set of that day, when we learnt the enemy had come to an anchor at Weymouth that morning. We then knew this and not Petersburg was their object, and we began to carry across the river, many things remaining here, and to remove what had been transported to the Foundry and Laboratory, to Weymouth the nearest crossing seven miles above this place; which operation continued till they had approached very near. They marched from Weymouth at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th, and entered Richmond the day following. A regiment of infantry, and about 30 horse continued, without halting to the Foundry; they burnt there, the Boring Mill, Magazine, and two other houses, and proceeded to Weymouth, but nothing being in their power, there, they retired to Richmond; the next morning they burnt some buildings of public, and some of private property, with what stores remained in them; destroyed a great quantity of private stores and about 12 o'clock retired towards Weymouth, when they encamped within the neck the next day. The loss is not very accurately known. As far as I have been able to discover, it consisted, in this place of about 300 muskets, some soldier's clothing to a small amount, some quarter master's stores, of which 150 beds of leather was the principal article, part of the artillery's tools, and three wagons; besides which, five brass 4 lb. howitzers which were in the river were discovered to them, raised and carried off. Within 48 hours from the time of their landing, and 19 from our knowing their destination, they had penetrated 33 miles, done the whole injury and retired. Their numbers from the best intelligence I have had, are about 1500 Infantry, and as to their cavalry, accounts vary from 50 to 120, the whole commanded by the partisan Arnold; our Militia, dispersed over a large tract of country, can be called in but slowly. On the day the enemy advanced to this place, two hundred only were embodied; they were of this town and its neighbourhood, and were too few, to do any thing. At this time, they are assembled in pretty considerable bodies, on the South side of James River, but not yet brought to a point. On the North side, are two or three small bodies amounting in the whole to about nine hundred men. The enemy were at 4 o'clock yesterday evening still remaining in their encampment, at Weymouth, and Berkeley Neck. In the mean time, Baron Steuben a zealous friend, has descended from the dignity of his proper command, to direct our smallest movements. His vigilance has in a great measure supplied the want of force in preventing the enemy from crossing the river, which might have been very fatal. He has been assiduously employed in preparing equipments for the Militia as they assemble, pointing them to a proper object, and other offices of a good commander. Should they loiter a little longer, and it is found practicable to collect an adequate force, I expect myself they will not escape without impurity. To what place they will point their next exertions, we cannot even conjecture. The whole country on tide waters, and adjacent to them, is equally open to similar insults."
(Signed) THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Upon this subject we will only add, an extract from a letter, written by Gen. John Minor of Fredericksburg, to his friend: "That being in company with Gen. Stevens and others, when the charge brought against Mr. Jefferson by Charles Symmes the present collector of the port of Alexandria, was the subject of conversation, Gen. S. expressed the warmest indignation; said it was a falsehood to his certain knowledge; that he despised the idea of effecting any political purpose at the expence of truth; that it was true he and Mr. J. differed in their sentiments, but nevertheless he did not believe there was a man in the U. States, more attached to the interest of his country than Mr. J. He then stated particularly that he was at Richmond a member of the legislature, and was among the last who quitted Richmond, on the alarm being given that the enemy were coming into the city; that he saw Mr. J. there long after he thought it prudent, that he should be gone; that he told him so, and urged him to be gone; that to him what effects HIS capture might have upon the state; that as he had no troops he could do no possible good by staying; Mr. J. replied his reason for staying was to save as many of the public records as possible; that he would effect more by his presence than by absence; that he was well mounted, and was not apprehensive of being taken. I think he added that he believed Mr. J. did not leave the city until the enemy were entering the lower part of it. From thence he went to Weymouth, and there took measures to secure the public arms. He then spoke of the affair of Charlottesville, and I distinctly remember acquitted him of all blame."
That man must be blind indeed who after reading the testimony here adduced can for any thing indicative of timidity, unwarranted by any immediate movement of the enemy, and forbidden by a regard to those duties, which belong to the station he held. There is ample testimony so strong and so conclusive that every man is capable of deducing the proper inferences. Of this nature is the testimony which we have now advanced. We sincerely believe, that there is scarce a single individual whom this accumu-
lated evidence will not serve to convince that Mr. Jefferson so far from meriting the reproaches he is entitled to the gratitude of his country for his services during this period of the war; that to his activity and prudence we principally owe the preservation of most of our military stores, and some of our public records; and that during this arduous period, his presence of mind, his unflinching tranquility, the unhahked spirit of his soul were not less conspicuous than his activity or prudence.
That Mr. Turner should not have touched upon this part of Mr. Jefferson's history is true but it is painful. Was it because he was unable among his "old and respectable inhabitants of Richmond" to collect any facts which might seem derogatory to Mr. Jefferson's reputation? Was it, that like other casual historians, he was really ignorant of that portion of our history, which recards the first invasion of Arnold upon the capital? Or was it that he really confounded this event with the precipitate march from Petersburg and occupation of Manchester? Under any of these constructions, the vindication of Mr. Jefferson from the attacks of Mr. T. requires an additional force. If it was the first, Mr. Jefferson stands acquitted for his conduct during the first invasion, by the forced silence of an opponent, whose recourse had not yet exhausted its force, and whose industry would have eagerly seized upon the slightest means of accusation. If it was either the second or the last, the statement of Mr. Turner will be invalidated by his ignorance. For what credit will he then be due to the affections of an historian, when examining upon the details and minutiae of events, who proves himself ignorant of the difference and number of the most striking epochs?
ACQUISITION OF LOUISIANA.
The Federalists have once more set on the well of denunciation against this celebrated measure. "What! they cry, after having paid 15 millions of Dollars for this country, are we now to go to war for it? Would it not have been far better as we have uniformly declared never to have had any concern with the acquisition at all, or to have made it at once at the cost of our swords?" Whether or not we are really to be involved in a war with Spain, is a question which perhaps no man in the Universe can positively decide, and no man out of the cabinet can have any of the means of deciding. That it is an event which is not altogether dependent upon the negotiation about Louisiana, is a circumstance well known to the least intelligent politician. If common rumour is entitled to the least credit, the convention of 1802, is a source of not less considerable difficulty and embarrassment. To throw the whole burden of the controversy thereupon the controverted question of the boundaries of Louisiana and to use this as a pretext for reviving the antiquated censures upon the acquisition of this country, is neither the mark of a very discriminating nor of a very ingenious mind. That it was the soundest policy which we could pursue of acquiring this country by negotiation rather than by war, is an opinion which subsequent events have not helped to shake. It is no fault of our administration that Spain has been ridiculous enough to raise objections to our boundaries, which our administration could not possibly have foreseen at the time of making the contract, and which even if it could have foreseen, it would have been better to have trusted to the adjustment of some future negotiation, than by having recourse to arms, reflect a disgrace upon our national character, and involve us in a war beyond the possibility of an escape. The question indeed is not about the means, but about the object of attainment. It is simply whether the acquisition of Louisiana was a measure really to be wished for by this country. We shall not here repeat the many irrefragable arguments, which have been so often enforced by the friends of the measure; but we shall merely content ourselves with developing some of its advantages in the words of a writer, whose favour with the federalists was at one time scarce inferior to the strength of his mind, & whose strength of mind is scarcely less extraordinary than the incorrectness of his principles. Had Cobbet always written thus; had truth always thus presided over his lucubrations; he would have deserved much more than he has done, the approbation and gratitude of our country.
The following is copied from the W. P. Register, of March 6, 1802. They are the concluding remarks of an address to the people of America, on the interesting subject of France taking possession of Louisiana.
"IT is however, unfeigned talk of what might have been done. The regicide peace is made, and Louisiana is ceded to France, whose well fletched blood-hounds will be howling round the skirts of your naked plantations before you have time to collect the means of resistance. Think them not ignorant of any part, spot, property, or circumstance of the territory, which they are about to possess. There is not a river, creek, a cove, an inlet, not a hill nor a date, a rock nor a cave, of which they do not know the bearings and the dimensions as well as I know the width and the length of the paper on which I am now writing. They have calculated, to a pound of gun-powder, and to a drop of blood, the means of severing from your authority, the states of Kentucky and Tennessee; and remember, that I, whose voice you refused to listen to in 1796, now tell you, that, unless you give up to them a great portion of your commerce with England, those states will, in less than two years, be attached to the republic of France. You have no earthly means of defence. Not that you are destitute of money or of men; but who will you find to march five hundred miles across a wilderness, to meet, at the end of their route, the marauders of Alexandria and Acapulco, backed with the very settlers, whom you wish to prefer from their grasp?"
By your treaty with Spain, you obtained the free navigation of the Mississippi. This freedom you are now to obtain from France; and be you well assured, that she will not grant it without an equivalent. What this equivalent may be, it is impossible for me precisely to point out; but be it what it may, you must yield it, or yield your hopes to retain the dominions of Western states, which would be instantly ruined by the closing of the Mississippi, and which, to avoid that ruin, would transfer their allegiance to the power on whose pleasure their prosperity will solely depend.
One of the reasons, long ago given by French politicians, for obtaining possession of Louisiana, was to secure a certain and never failing supply of provisions and lumber for the West-India colonies; and, as they will find these articles in abundance in Kentucky and Tennessee, at a much cheaper rate than in the Atlantic states, it is more than probable, that they will prefer the taking possession of settlements already formed, to the forming of settlements for themselves, which requires that sort of industry and perseverance, for the practice of which they are disposed neither by nature nor their habits. If they should determine on this, the ground of your present complaint, of too widely extended territory, will in part be removed; but, wide as is the wilderness that divides you from Kentucky, you will soon find yourselves too near to your neighbours. You nave, it is true, neither pictures nor statues for them to steal, but the moment they are told, that there are ten thou-
land bags of dollars in the bank of Philadelphia, that moment must you resolve to kill them on the way, or quietly to yield your throats to their knives."
RELATIONS WITH SPAIN.
Our last report appears then to be completely incorrect. The same paper which first circulated the intelligence that our negotiation with Spain had arrived at an amicable conclusion, has now acknowledged its mistake. Once more then will hope be succeeded by fear; once more are we reduced to the necessity of collecting uncertain rumours, putting together the truths which they afford, and conjecturing the catastrophe of the present Drama.
Every day develops some new portion of the plot, and brings forward some new performer. It is not simply the Prince of Peace, and Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney at Madrid, nor the Marquis d'Yrujo, and Mr. Madison at Philadelphia, who appear on the boards of the theatre. But now we have before us the X, Y and Z of the Parisian plot; whom the Marquis d'Yrujo, like another subtle Talleyrand is playing off for the consummation of his schemes. We could laugh at the mysterious agents of the Parisian plot, because the secret they were harmless; because though uncovered with the habiliments of authority, they had the art to impose upon the senses of our venerable ministers. Happy indeed may th' learned agents of the Marquis d'Yrujo consider themselves to be, if a more solemn sentiment of indignation does not animate the bosoms of their countrymen!
The game which the Spanish minister has played, was a deep, and we think the good sense of the people will go along with us when we declare, it was a disgraceful one. Not contented with the justice of his cause, if that cause can be called just, which the Court of Madrid now maintains; not contented with the support which it might receive from the ablest courtiers and statesmen of Spain; he must condescend to invoke the advice and the aid of some of our own citizens. Can the reason of this mysterious deportment escape any one? It was that when our ministers might lay open at Madrid the grievances of their country and demand the ratification of the convention of 1802; the Spanish minister might unfaithfully conceal the papers; & might say "accuse us not of interested views. Think not that we are prevented by our own interests from perceiving the duties which are owing to you. For behold even your own people, animated as they are by a love of their country, and most highly learned in the lore of the law, have decided against you." We would speak as mildly of this affair, as the delicacy of the times would demand. We would wish to treat the minister of Spain at all times with respect and moderation, and surely at the present time we have no desire to intermeddle with his character, when the relations between the two countries are so wavering and precarious. But there is a subtlety in this transaction which deserves not to be palliated nor concealed; there is such a diplomatic trick, a recourse to such illiberal expedients, that we hope the indignation of our country will fall upon it.
Shall his subordinate agents in this plot escape our notice? Shall these convenient lawyers, who can disguise their understandings by the delivery of such preposterous opinions, and disgrace their principles by the receipt of such handsome ducats, shall these gentlemen too escape the public indignation? We think not. They must have known, when the abstract question was put to them by the Spanish minister, that their opinions would be made use of to the prejudice of their country. The Convention was ratified by the Senate in August 1802, and it was in November of the same year, that their opinions were consulted. They might have known that had their opinions been favourable to the Spanish cause, the Court of Madrid would probably refuse to ratify the convention. And what then? The claims of our injured merchants would pass off without compensation. In spite however of these inevitable suggestions, these gentlemen of the long robe, pretending to decide a great political question by precedents of law, thrust themselves hotly in the way of their own government, embarrass its operations, mar its honest exertions, and perhaps drive it into a war. This certainly is not treason, but there is a seeming about it which strikes every patriot with indignation. If no more experienced hand will undertake it, we shall perhaps attempt to analyse the preposterous opinion which they have thought proper to advance.
COMBINED FLEET--LATEST.
The Sally, Wells, from Liverpool, arrived at Newburyport, fell in with the French and Spanish fleets from the West-Indies, on the 6th July, in lat. 43, 30, long. 22, 30, then within 700 miles of Ferrol. They put on board the Sally, the Lady of the Governor of Montserrat, and two supercargoes belonging to the Antigua fleet, destroyed the 17th June. Boston Gaz.
THE SUBSCRIBERS
BEG leave to inform their friends and the public generally, that they have removed their SHOP a few doors below the Eagle Tavern, where they intend carrying on the SHOE & BOOT MAKING BUSINESS more extensively than heretofore. They intend keeping constantly on hand, a good Stock of Leather, Boots and Shoes of every description, by wholesale or retail. Orders from the Country will be gratefully received and strictly attended to By the Public's Obedt Servants, SAMUEL BARRET & Co. (opt)
On Thursday the 5th September, at 11 o'clock, will be sold at the house of the late Wm. Wiffham, by order of the administrators:
THE property belonging to the estate, consisting of one Negro Man Servant, one Negro Man Cook, one Horse and Chair, one Cow, and all the Household and Kitchen Furniture. Terms of sale, 6 months credit for all sums above 50 dollars, for approved indorced negotiable notes in the Bank of Virginia; and all sums under 50 dollars, cash. PROSSER & MONCURE, V. M. (eps)
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
Ran away from the subscriber, on Thursday the 15th inst. MY Apprentice Boy, by the name of CHARLES MASON BARLOW, he is remarkably flour made, fair complexion, light hair, and blue eyes, between nineteen and twenty years of age, clothes not remembered; his relations principally reside in Hanover and Caroline, for which places I suppose he will make. He has also, I believe, some connections in Orange county, possibly he may have directed his course that way. Whoever will deliver the said apprentice boy to me, or secure him in some jail, so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward. And I moreover forewarn all persons from harbouring or employing the said apprentice boy, as I am determined to punish all such, to the utmost rigour of the law. DAVID HOLLOWAY. August 27. (t 29)
DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, ss. It is remembered, That on the twenty-fifth day of August, in the thirtieth year of the independence of the United States of America, Daniel C. of the said District, here deposited in this office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author in the words following, to wit: "Reports of Cases, argued and adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Virginia by Daniel Call--volume the 1st. In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act entitled, "An act supplementary to an act entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." WILLIAM MARSHALL, Clerk of the District of Virginia. (opt)
August 27.
VALUABLE LANDS--FOR SALE.
INTENDING to remove to the county of Amelia, I offer for sale the following TRACTS OF LAND, lying in the county of Dinwiddie, to wit: MAYFIELD, HARDWICK, MAYEY'S, and the LOVO ORDINARY, the whole containing, by a late survey made by the surveyor of the county, upwards of 1103 acres, and will be divided into small tracts to suit the views of purchasers.
MAYFIELD is an elevated and handsome situation, about three miles distant from the town of Petersburg, well watered, and remarkably healthy. The building-house are not only convenient, but very good: The dwelling-house is of brick, containing eight commodious rooms, an airy passage, and every apartment well finished, a fine yard, and an excellent garden very lately enclosed and enlarged; the kitchen is also of brick, with two rooms below and two above; a dairy and smoke-house, lately built; a large negro quarter, underpinned with brick, and a brick chimney in the middle; a large granary and stable, and in fact every other building which the convenience and accommodation of a family could possibly require. There is also a meadow of about seven acres, well enclosed, and highly improved; from which a great deal, hay has been obtained.
MAYEY adjoins this tract, and the two would make a farm of rather upwards of 400 acres. The ice-house, well watered, and springs, are excelled by none in this part of Virginia. The land is well adapted to the culture of corn and oats, but too light for wheat.
HARDWICK lies on Appomattox river, three miles from the town of Petersburg. There are between seven and eight hundred acres, the half of which is wood land. The house is very indolent, but there is a very handsome situation to build on, commanding a beautiful prospect, and contiguous to one and perhaps two good firings. This land is well adapted to the culture of corn, wheat and oats, and is well enclosed.
The LOVO ORDINARY is a tavern, within three miles of Petersburg, situate between the Mayfield and Hardwick tracts, rents for 100 dollars per annum, and is on one of the most public roads which leads to town. With it I will sell one or two hundred acres of land, with timber sufficient for the support of the place.
Also, from eight or twelve hundred acres, about 200 miles from Petersburg, and two from Mr. Jordan Reece's store. Part of this tract is well adapted to the culture of tobacco, and the rest excellent corn & wheat land. The whole well timbered, and lies unusually well.
A more particular description is conceived to be unnecessary. Those disposed to purchase, are requested to view the property--Ready money will be required for one third of the purchase, and such credit will be given for the balance, as can be arranged. TH: T. BOLLING. (cp4c)
Mayfield, August 27.
NOTICE.
THAT by Virtue of a Deed in Trust, executed to the subscribers, by Jeremiah Burton, and Major John Price, for the purpose of raising the several sums of money therein, and also the costs and charges attendant upon the execution of the same. We shall on Wednesday the 11th day of September next, at the Vendue office of Messrs. Prosser and Moncure, in this city, expose to sale, by public auction to the highest bidder for ready money, a tract of land lying in the county of Henrico upon the three Chopped Road, about ten or twelve miles from this place, said to contain one hundred acres, the same more or less: being the same tract which was conveyed by Merrill Jones to the said Jeremiah Burton by deed bearing date the 14th day of August 1801, and duly admitted to record in the office of Henrico court, and was devised by the testator and left will of William Jones, dec'd to the aforesaid Merrill Jones. SAMUEL MCCRAW, } Trustees. GEO: W. SMITH, } (tds)
August 27.
NOTICE.
A Petition will be presented to the General Assembly of Virginia, at the next session, praying that an act may pass to incorporate a company for the purpose of cutting a Canal on the south side of the Falls of James River, or otherwise improving the navigation of the river for the passage of Barreaux; and also for the establishment of a Bank in the town of Manchester. August 13. (epmL)
MILITARY CERTIFICATES.
FOR SALE, Certificates of this State, bearing interest of 6 per cent. and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrearages of taxes, prior to the year 1798. WILLIAM PRICE, Callr. Genl. M. A. S. May 10. (t)
ROBERT GORDON, & Co.
HAVE imported by the Jason, just arrived from Madeira, and now landing at Rockets, a quantity of Wine from Murdoch Matherson, & Co the house from which they have heretofore had their supplies of this article--also, a parcel from Scott, & Co. They have every reason to hope that both these parcels will prove--very fine, being assured by the shippers, that better never has been sent to the United States. They are likewise just receiving a few pipes, hds and qr. casks of Red Port, of the first quality; and have on hand a parcel of dry Lisbon Wine, both imported by themselves--direct from Oporto and Lisbon. Their general assortment of goods is very complete, amongst which they have 12000 lbs. of Copper, in batture and Sheets of all dimensions, and weights suitable for bills; a fresh supply of Bolting Cloths, from No. 2 to 7; a quantity of Superfine Blue and Black Broad Cloth of first rate, at 8 dollar per yard; & Lisle Linens, from 5/ per ling/cost, to low priced. August 13. (ep2w law 4w.)
ELLIS & ALLAN,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED, FOR THE SHIP MARY, FROM LIVERPOOL: FOUR hundred Sacks of SALT, Liverpool filled--Also, a few dozen BALLS SHOVEL and SPADES; which, with a number of articles in hardware line, renders their assortment pretty gene August 2. (law 4w.)
Drumming,
IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE of the ENQUIRER.

THE YAZOO SPECULATION.
No. VI.
The failure of the speculation of 1789 which we described in our last number, instead of deterring from further attempts, appears only to have invigorated the spirits and determined the pursuit of other means, more desperate and audacious. A new project appears to have been devised during the session of the legislature of Georgia in 1793, and put in motion in different parts of the United States in the summer of the year 1794.
In Philadelphia, where Congress then sit, steps were taken to provide a future interest. Members of the senate and of the house of representatives were made interested in the Yazoo, and it is very generally believed that the late Mr. Hamilton and his rival Mr. Burr were both deeply interested in it.
Office of Clerk of the house of representatives, GEORGIA, LOUISVILLE,
25th August, 1801.
I do certify that the annexed 8 sheets, contain a true extract from the journal of the house of representatives of this state, at a session of the general assembly in January, 1795.
GEO. R. CLAYTON, for HINES HOLT, Clk. H. P.
From the eight sheets here referred to we take only a part, just so much as will enable the reader to comprehend the means, the extent, and the nature of the corruption—we have also given the names of the persons who were then most prominent, and particularly the names of the members of the legislature who had been bribed and were participators in the fraud upon the public.
EXTRACTS.
ROBERT FLOURNOY, esq. being duly sworn, saith, that at the last session of the legislature, before the last, he made an acquaintance with judge Pendleton, that the said judge Pendleton contemplated and made proposals to the legislature to purchase a part of the vacant territory; that he then offered the deponent a share provided the business succeeded; that not being the case, the deponent attended at the last session, when that subject came on the carpet again.
(Signed) R. FLOURNOY.
State of Georgia, Burke County.
Before Thomas Lewis, esquire, one of the justices of the peace for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Clement Lanier, esq. one of the representatives of the legislature of this state, who being sworn, deposes and says that he is the true and lawful representative of the county of Burke in the legislature of the state of Georgia.
factor of it were lawfully provided for—and that if the deponent thought proper to be in person at the sale, he should have been there, and that the said Deponent said he was a purchaser of such of the member's parts, as had a bond to sell, but understood that some of the members pretended to ask eight or ten negroes for a share or their share, but he could not give so much, but the deponent might depend he would purchase the deponent further said, that previous to any of the before recited circumstances, Mr. William Longstreet, one of the members of the said legislature, frequently called on the deponent and asked him why he was not in favor of selling the western lands, who answered, he did not think it right to sell to companies of speculators; the deponent at this time willing to make further discovery of the conduct of the members on that sale, and therefore affected to be inclined to come into the measure, and by that means kept up a conversation about it occasionally, that on the day the bill received its first reading, before the house was convened, the said Longstreet, spoke to the deponent to get his approbation to the sale, the deponent asked him to show what security the members had of the purchasers, when the said Longstreet presented a certificate entitling the bearer to two shares of twenty-five thousand acres each, signed by Nathaniel Pendleton, chairman; he, the deponent, then told the said Longstreet, that that was not what he had formerly told him was a member's share, for that the said Longstreet had before said a member's share was seventy-five thousand acres, that the said Longstreet then told the deponent, if he would wait a few minutes or an hour, he would bring him another certificate from Gunn's company for the same number of acres; that the deponent in order to disengage himself from the conversation, then told the security was not sufficient to entitle him to the land, that the said Longstreet then told the deponent, if he was not satisfied with the certificate, he would give him one thousand dollars for it or for them, the deponent then presented the certificate to the said Longstreet, and went into the house, which was the last interview he had on the subject.
(Signed) CLEM. LANIER.
From those two affidavits we have several facts. 1. We find that the land was actually parcelled out in lots of several thousand shares, before the law passed. 2. That the "companies of speculators," had their chairmen, who made their contract "for the bear before it was caught." 3. That the little principalities of 75,000 acres were to be given as the price of each vote. 4. That in case of the members not chusing to keep the price of their vote—there were agents who were ready to give money or goods for the certificates of the speculators.
JAMES TERRELL, esq. being duly sworn, saith, Thomas Rabun, esq. one of the members of the last legislature, said in presence of this deponent, some small time after the rising of the general assembly, that he, the said Rabun, had purchased a part of the western lands, during that session, and whilst he was a member of the house of representatives, and that he had sold it again. (Signed) JAS. TERRELL.
JOHN SHEPPERD, esq. a member of the last legislature at Augusta, being duly sworn, saith, that just before the bill, for the disposal of the western lands, came before the house at the last session, he had frequent conversations with Wm. Longstreet, esq. another member of the legislature, who recommended to the deponent strongly to be in favor selling the lands, and if he would, he should come in for shares to the amount of one hundred thousand acres. The deponent said he did not think it right to sell the lands, but the said Longstreet told him if he would, he might make a fortune for himself and family forever, or words to that effect. The deponent said it would be injurious to the community, and it would be displeasing to our constituents to dispose of their rights. The said Longstreet, then said it was no matter, that the deponent nor himself, need not care provided they could get the land whether they ever came there again, or words to that effect. That the deponent had a conversation with Philip Clayton, at the state house, about the 20th of December, 1794, concerning the lands when the said Clayton urged him, the deponent to go home; that the same evening, the said Clayton called the deponent into his office, and told the deponent, that provided, that he would give him, the said Clayton, an order on the speaker for his warrant, which he said by his calculation was 28 pounds, and go home immediately and return no more, that he would give the deponent 70 pounds. The deponent answered, that he had business up town, and returned to him no more that night; a few evenings afterwards the said Clayton told the deponent he need not be angry with him, for that it was at the request of gen. Gunn, and he would pay the expense. (Signed) JOHN SHEPPERD.
This last affidavit exhibits a feature in the intrigues which are sometimes practiced in the legislative bodies, by which a member supposes he may escape censure by flying from his duty. There was a flying squad of this kind in Congress formerly when Congress sat in this city; when a question came before the house, which they had been privately entreated not to vote against, but which their constituents expected them to oppose—this flying squad had always some business to transact when the vote was about to be taken, such as the finding of a truant, as was exhibited by Mr. Findlay in the British treaty question; or taking physic as in Davenport's case, when he veered about from the ground of the requisition of British property, and became a violent anti-gallican—we might enumerate many other instances, of this kind of treachery, which always betrays the interests of such characters for future temporizing or infidelity to their trust. The following affidavit also exhibits another trait of the operations practiced by flying squadrons:
DAVID GLEN, sworn, saith, that he went down to Augusta during the last session of the legislature, whilst the act for the sale of the western lands was under the deliberation of the general assembly, that he put up with Mr. Wilkinson, and Mr. Shepperd two members of the general assembly, at Mr. M'Veagh's, in Augusta; that he frequently talked with Mr. Wilkinson on that subject, and advised him not to agree to sell it, for it would hurt his popularity; that the said Wilkinson said it would not fear that he thought it was best. That after the deponent found the land would be sold, he was desirous to get part of it, and applied to Mr. Cox, one of the trustees in one company, to know if he could get part; that Mr. Cox told the deponent he could not, for that all the shares were taken up; that he then applied to the said Reuben Wilkinson to know if he could get him a part, who said he would and did let the deponent have a share, which was in the name of the said Reuben Wilkinson, and was for about twenty five thousand acres or thereabouts, subject to a deduction. The deponent further said, that he frequently heard Reuben Wilkinson say, after the legislature rose that he should make a great deal of money by that means; that during the sitting of the legislature, Mr. Longstreet frequently urged the deponent to try to prevail on Mr. Shepperd, another member, to go home, the deponent said he could not influence Mr. Shepperd; Longstreet wished to get Mr. Shepperd to go home to prevent him voting against the sale of the lands; that he likewise had a conversation with Mr. Wilkinson, who also asked the deponent if he would not go home. The deponent answered he did not know. When Wilkinson replied, by God, I wish he would. The deponent further said, that before the assembly rose and before the governor signed the bill, he the said Wilkinson showed the deponent two written certificates, for four
each, or for a certain number of acres, the deponent does not precisely recollect, which said certificates did not mention that any sum was to be paid for them. They were signed by Nathaniel Pendleton, chairman. He believes, that afterwards the said Wilkinson showed the deponent two printed certificates from the Tennessee company, one from the Georgia company, for fifty five thousand acres, signed by James Gunn, Matthew M'Allister and George Walker, he believes, and two printed certificates from the Georgia Mississippi company; that the said Wilkinson informed the deponent the first two written certificates had been given up, and that he had received the last two printed ones in lieu thereof. (Signed) DAVID GLEN.
JAMES SIMMS, esq. one of the representatives from the county of Columbia, being duly sworn, saith that he had frequent conversations with Roberts Thomas, esq. a member of the senate of this state, at the last session of the legislature at Augusta; that the deponent did frequently, during that session, and whilst the act for the disposal of the western territory was in agitation, advise the said Roberts Thomas not to vote for the sale of the lands, that the said Thomas said there was an opportunity of making something very clever, and if he did vote for it, he would—the deponent told the said Roberts Thomas, that the purchasers would deceive him and after he had voted in favor of it he would get nothing; to which the said Thomas replied, he would take care to make himself secure before he gave his vote.
The deponent further saith, that during the last session of the legislature, whilst the said bill for the disposal of the western lands was on the carpet, general Gunn called on the deponent and told him that he was fearful the bill would be lost—Luke Mann, esq. a member of the senate, as the deponent understood that day, voted against the bill; Gunn then said, Simms I suppose from what I have heard you are a poor man, and you now have an opportunity of making something handsome for yourself and family, if you will prevail on Mann to vote for the bill, I will give you 5000 acres of land. The deponent further saith, that the said Gunn told the deponent he would give the same if he would get Mr. Wood a senator, to vote for it, or any other member of the senate; that he was in company with Mr. John King, and Mr. Samuel Wright, two members of the same senate, at their quarters in Augusta—that a conversation arose about the sale of the western lands; the deponent expressing himself opposed to that measure, the said John King and Samuel Wright told the deponent he ought not to oppose it, for he might make something clever if he would come into the measure, or words of that nature. (Signed) JAMES SIMMS.
HENRY G. CALDWELL, esq. being duly sworn, saith that during the sitting of the last convention at Louisville, the deponent had a conversation with general Gunn, when the said Gunn asked the deponent who was to be governor next year; the deponent said he heard judge Stith mentioned, the said Gunn shook his head and said it would not do, that Stith had been ungrateful to his poor relations, for that he had made a great deal of money by the speculation, and had not been generous to them—the deponent asked the said general Gunn, how much judge Stith had made by that business, gen. Gunn answered thirteen thousand dollars. The deponent then asked the said Gunn if the said Stith had a share in the lands, to which general Gunn gave no direct answer, but said he had engaged to give judge Stith thirteen thousand dollars for his influence in passing the law for the disposal of the lands; that if the law passed, Stith was to have the money—that the law had passed and that in consequence he had given him a draught for the money, and he either had received or would receive it. (Signed) HENRY G. CALDWELL.
Here we have beside Judge Pendleton another (Judge Smith) brought upon the tapis; men who are always in the "study of morals" could hardly be expected to be purchased for 13,000 dollars. "Man is man" said Uriah Tracy; "man is man" said general Gunn—they were intimate acquaintances; we shall presently see some who illustrate this sublime Connecticut truism—"man is man"—the translation of which in the Connecticut idiom is "mankind are all scoundrels," and that therefore, he who is the most flagitious villain, is the greatest man—the disciples of this school, are entitled to all the credit due to their system of ethics; and in that school Yazoo speculation must have been considered as a prodigious effort of genius and talents. We shall close the testimony with one affidavit more, though we might give a great many others, all of the same tenor:
JAMES M'NEILL, esq. a member of the representative branch of the last legislature and now a member of senate being duly sworn, saith that in a short space of time after the adjournment of the last legislature, he was in the town of Augusta, in company with Andrew Innis, who told him that he was one of the associates contemplated in an act passed by the aforesaid legislature, for disposing of a part of the western territory of this state, that the purchasers, and their associates were reduced to the necessity of passing a credit in favor of Roberts Thomas, then senator of Hancock county, as an account, for the full amount of eight clear shares of land without his paying one shilling for the same: whereby they did procure the vote and interest of him the said Thomas, in passing the aforesaid act. That after the legislature adjourned, the said Roberts was alarmed and did propose to sell or let his eight shares as aforesaid, revert to the grantees and their associates, for a sum not less than three nor more than four thousand dollars, which proposal was accepted by, and that he, as one of the associates, was called on for his proportionate part of the aforesaid sum, which he did pay; whereby the claim of the aforesaid Roberts was thereby extinguished for and in behalf of the grantees and their associates, or words to that effect. (Signed) JAS. M'NEILL.
These affidavits explain the preliminary steps, they unfold the iniquity, and character of this amazing fraud.
We shall lay before our readers, another official document; it is a statement of monies deposited by the several companies of speculators—this is the document read before Congress on the 10th Feb. 1802—it is as follows:
DOCUMENT G.
Accompanying the report of the commissioners appointed to settle the accounts with the state of Georgia. There was deposited in the treasury of the state of Georgia, under the usurped act of the 7th of January, 1795, five hundred thousand dollars, as the pretended consideration money for the western territory of this state, by the pretended purchasers, who formed themselves into the following companies, to wit:
Table with 2 columns: Company Name, Amount. Rows include Georgia Company, Georgia Mississippi Company, Glascow, Thomas Cuming, Ambrase Gordon, and their associates, Tennessee Company, Zachariah Cox, Matthias Maher, and their associates, Upper Mississippi Company, consisting of John B. Scott, John C. Nightengale, and associates.
We shall close this number with a copy of the articles of agreement entered into by one of their associations previous to the passage of any act—for it is dated on the 5th day of January 1795—after the bribery described in the affidavits had been going on for some months; and before the act which they obtained by corruption had been
passed, as that all bears date two days after the date of these articles of iniquity.
State of Georgia.
Articles of agreement made and concluded, upon the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, 1795, between James Gunn, Matthew M'Allister, George Walker, Zachariah Cox, Jacob Waldburger, William Longstreet, James Gunn in trust for his friends, as well for his friends as for William Stick, jun. and Gideon Denison, all at present of the town of Augusta, gentlemen. Whereas the aforesaid persons did form themselves into a company, known and distinguished by the name of the Georgia company for the purpose of purchasing from the said state, a part of her unlocated western territory, and on the written application of the aforesaid James Gunn, Matthew M'Allister and George Walker, for themselves and their associates, the before named persons did propose to purchase from the legislature of the said state, all that tract or parcel of land including islands, future-lying and being within the following boundaries, that is to say, beginning on the Mobile bay where the latitude 31 degrees north of the equator intersects the same, running thence up the said bay to the mouth of the lake Pontchartrain, thence up the said lake Pontchartrain to the Alabama river, including Curre's and all other islands therein, thence up the said river Alabama to the junction of the Coosaw and Oakfuskee rivers, thence up the Coosaw river above the big shoals, to where it intersects the latitude of thirty four degrees north of the equator, thence a due west course to the Mississippi river, thence down the middle of said river to the latitude thirty two degrees forty minutes, thence a due east course to the Dan or Tom Bigby river, thence down the middle of said river to its junction with the Alabama river, thence down the middle of the said river to the Mobile bay, thence down the said Mobile bay to the place of beginning. And whereas it has been found expedient to dispose of a considerable quantity of said lands to divers persons, for the purpose of raising a fund to effect the purchase of the same: and the said parties have also found it necessary to distribute to a variety of citizens of this state certain sub-shares or quantities thereof, in order that the benefit of such purchase, if any there be should be as generally diffused as possible—now therefore, it is mutually agreed upon, and between the said James Gunn, Matthew M'Allister, George Walker, Zachariah Cox, Jacob Waldburger, Wm. Longstreet, James Gunn, in trust for his friends, as well for himself as for the said Wm Stick, the younger, and Gideon Denison, and their several and respective heirs, executors and administrators, for the better securing the remaining quantity of land, within the limits aforesaid, to the above named James Gunn, Matthew M'Allister, George Walker, Zachariah Cox, Jacob Waldburger, William Longstreet, James Gunn, in trust for his friends as well for himself as for the said William Stick the younger, and Gideon Denison, and the respective representatives as aforesaid, they mutually agree with each other for themselves and their respective representatives, in the following manner, that is to say: that the said several persons and their respective representatives as aforesaid, except the said William Stick the younger, and Gideon Denison who have transferred their respective shares to the said Wade Hampton, shall be, and they are hereby equally entitled to all the lands that may remain unappropriated and undisposed of, and also to any surplus which now is, or may hereafter appear to be, within the limits before described, share and share alike, as tenants in common, and not as joint tenants, and all expenses and disbursements which have taken place, or reasonable charges which may hereafter accrue in carrying the disposition of the company into effect, shall be borne by the said parties and their respective representatives equally, and the profits or produce of any sale, which shall be made at any time or times hereafter, by directions of a majority of said company, or their respective representatives as aforesaid, of any part or parcel, or the whole of said land, shall be divided between the company and their respective representatives, share and share alike as aforesaid; and further, it is the true intent and meaning of these presents and the parties hereunto subscribing that the said parties and their respective representatives shall be equally benefited by the purchase of the aforesaid territory and shall share in all respects the advantages or disadvantages. In witness whereof, the said parties have interchangeably set their hands and seals, the day and year above written. Sealed and delivered in presence of JAMES GUNN, for self and friend, MATTHEW M'ALLISTER, GEO. WALKER, ZACH. COX, JACOB WALDBURGER, WM. LONGSTREET, W. HAMPTON.
JOSEPH WARE, T. SUMTER, JR. The word "therein" interlined in the twenty-seventh line of the first fide, also the word "respective" interlined in the twenty-fourth line of the third fide.
We have been more diffuse in the publication of these documents than is generally compatible with newspaper publication, but we thought it requisite to make this, which is only a selection from a larger mass of materials, that the various points of the question: The original scheme of bribery, The progress and operation of that corruption in the legislature, The early confidence of the associated speculators, And the genuine character of the fraud, might be at once seen and understood by a simple perusal of official documents—the reader who feels an interest in the subject will do well to keep this paper at hand to be referred to in the course of the subsequent numbers.
WILLIAM McCABE, WATCH MAKER, RICHMOND. PRESENTS his sincere thanks to his numerous friends, and the public, who have generously favoured him with their custom; and informs them, that he has lately removed his shop, to a house opposite Messrs. Gamble's, Rose; where he eyes, from continuance of their patronage. The business hereafter will be carried on by McCabe and Walker. They hope, from a disposition to the line of general satisfaction. All commands in to, and most faithfully discharged. August 20.
T. BRUFF, DENTIST. INVENTOR and patenter of the perpendicular extracting instruments, from Washington City, having met with good encouragement, continues to offer his service a little longer, to the ladies and gentlemen of Richmond and its vicinity, as his only who will to supply themselves with his dentistry. Persons in the country are requested to make timely application as he sells from 3 to 4 boxes almost every day. As the public have been often imposed on by practitioners who did not understand their business, the certificate of doctors Currie and Foushee, which those gentlemen have favoured him with, will be presumed, faring those who may want information of his ability. He has a room at the Swan, where a list of his prices may be seen at the bar. August 16.
In Henrico County Court, July 11, 1805. IN CHANCERY. Fortunatus Sydnor, Compt. Against Jesse Smith, Robert Sydnor & c. Defendants. This day came the complainant by his counsel, and the defendants, Robert and William Garland Sydnor, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly, in such case made and provided and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the full satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth. On the motion of the complainant to his counsel aforesaid; it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the first Monday in October next, and answer the bill of the said complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and paged at the Court-house doors of this county. Teste, ADAM CRAIG, (I. P. F.) July 19. (at 2m.)
NOTICE. THE subscribers having purchased from Christopher Veltener the exclusive right of making, using and vending to others to be used, within the United States, his PATENT METALIC HONGING, do hereby forewarn all persons from making or vending the said Patent Hong, without authority from them. They also beg leave to inform the public that they carry on the business under the firm of JEFFREY COBBS & Co. in the town of Warren, Albemarle county, Virginia, where orders would be thankfully received and faithfully executed upon the shortest notice. JOHN STAPLES, JEFFREY COBBS, DAVID COBBS. (law8. 9) Warren, July 9.
TO BE LET. GENTLE apartments, between the Basin and Main-street, suitable for a commission merchant or professional gentleman—respectable colour or any other purpose, where a central situation and unobstructed light and air are requisite.—Enquire of Hart and Southgate, grocers, opposite the scale house. July 27. law4w.
BROKER'S OFFICE. THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Counting-house of Thomas and Amos Ladd. All business confided to him, will be transacted with strict fidelity. THOMAS NORFELL. HE HAS FOR SALE, VIRGINIA BANK STOCK, on a credit to suit purchasers. July 26. ff
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND.
MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal 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 they were on the spot. A—the length of the Boot—C—round the Calf—B—the pitch of ditto—D—round the heel and instep—E—round the instep—G—across the ball of the foot. Fix the heel against a perpendicular, and stick a knife at the end of the great toe—let down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. January 1. ept
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF BLANKS, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
FAIRFIELD RACES.
ON Monday the 30th of September, will be run for over the FAIRFIELD COURSE, the great PRODUCE SWEEPSTAKE. To this race there are twenty-three subscribers, at 900 dollars each; half forfeit if the Dam named produced a Foal. Distance, two mile heats.—Subscription closed. The day following, the JOCKEY CLUB PURSE of four hundred and fifty Dollars, four mile heats. On the third Day, the PURSE of the PROPRIETOR OF THE COURSE, of two hundred and fifty Dollars, three mile heats. On Thursday, the FARMER'S SWEEPSTAKE. There are, to this race, twenty subscribers at 62 dollars, and the subscription closed. The Secretary and Treasurer have taken the liberty to change the day for running this race: the day preceding the PRODUCE STAKE was fixed upon by the subscribers, but this day commences the week.
WEIGHTS AS FOLLOW:
Table with 2 columns: Age, Weight. Rows include Aged Horses, 6 years old, 5 do. do., 4 do. do., 3 do. do.
Mares and Geldings allowed 3 lbs. The money for each day's purse will be placed in the hands of the Judges; it is to be hoped that more punctuality will be observed by the subscribers in paying up the amount of their subscriptions before race. ESME SMOCK, Treasurer. The subscriber wishes to rent the Dining House and the Booths in the Field. Persons who have formerly rented them, will have the preference, if application is made in time. ESME SMOCK, Proprietor of the Course.