The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-05-02 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 5.
RICHMOND, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1809.
[No. 112.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE GLOBE TAVERN, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
RICHMOND PRICES CURRENT.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. Items include Tobacco, Flour, Corn, Bacon, Whiskey, Bar Iron, Hemp, Wool.
SALES AT AUCTION.
ON Monday the 15th day of May next, will be sold on the premises, the Tenement at present occupied by Mr. Edward Carter Standard.
THOMAS TAYLOR, Auctioneer.
SALES AT AUCTION.
ON Tuesday the ninth day of May next, will be sold on the premises, one half-acre of ground on Shockoe Hill, opposite the dwelling-house of Mr. Robert Pollard.
THO. TAYLOR, Auctioneer.
FOR SALE - By virtue of a deed of trust, executed by Pleasant Youngusband, in his life time, and recorded in the General Court - Will be sold, on the twenty-second day of next month (May) at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond.
DAVID BULLOCK, THOS. NORVELL, Trustees.
STOP THE THIEF! - Broken open and stolen out of the subscribers' Stable, in Petersburg, on Saturday night, the twenty-second inst.
A ROAN HORSE.
Eight years old, five feet one or two inches high, with a bobtail nicked, strong and well formed, and in good condition, moves well, and paces remarkably fast.
ALSO, stolen at the same time, a SADDLE & BRIDLE.
The Horse was seen last Sunday, about Chesterfield court-house, and 'tis supposed the rider is making up the country.
Wm. & Chs. CORLING.
S. J. JACOBS, are just receiving a hand-some assortment of Spring GOODS, Amongst which are, 6-4 Cotton Cambrics, 4-4 Do. do., 6-4 Figured Leno, 4-4 Do. do., 1 trunk supr. Plates, 1 do. Curtain Calico, Silk Shawls, Black Lustre, Plaid do., Florentine Waistcot, Marselles do.
An elegant assortment Floor Carpeting. With a number of other articles too numerous to enumerate. All of which will be sold at reduced prices for cash.
WANTED TO HIRE - A young Woman, who is well acquainted with house-work, particularly sewing, industrious, honest and sober. Also, an elderly Woman, for a Nurse, who is well acquainted with the treatment of young children.
RACING - The Tappahannock JOCKEY CLUB RACES, will commence on Thursday the 25th May next. 1st DAY - The Jockey Club Purse of $320 - four mile heats. 2nd DAY - The Jockey Club Purse of $240 - three mile heats. 3rd DAY - The Proprietor's Purse of $100 - entrance 10 dollars, two mile heats, (five horses or no race).
WEIGHTS AS FOLLOWS: An aged horse, lb. 130 4 Years old, lb. 100 6 years old 120 3 Do. 86 5 Do. 110 And under that age a feather.
The course, &c. will be in good order, we therefore may expect fine sport; stables and litter provided gratis, upon timely application to the proprietor of the course. A. S. BROCKENBROUGH, Secretary and Treasurer.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of Elisha Price deceased, are hereby respectfully notified to bring them in, properly authenticated, to the subscriber, for adjustment; and those indebted to the estate are also respectfully notified to make immediate payment.
NEW BOOK-STORE - JOHN R. JONES, N.W. corner of the main-street, and that leading to the head of the basin, nearly opposite to the Eagle Tavern, has just received the following valuable Works:
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REGISTER OF ARTS, Or a comprehensive view of some of the most useful modern discoveries and inventions, compiled by T. G. Fessenden, with remarks by the compiler, 8vo. price $3.
WANDERER OF SWITZERLAND, And other Poems by James Montgomery, with an elegant frontispiece, price $1. Poems by the Rev. George Crabbe, handsomely bound, price $1. The following extract of a letter from Dr. Johnson to Sir Joshua Reynolds, renders any thing that might be further said in favor of Mr. Crabbe's poems, superfluous.
GEOGRAPHICAL COMPILATIONS, For the use of Schools, being a description of all the empires, kingdoms, republics and states in the known world. Arranged in a catechetical form by D. L. Cottineau, 2 vols. bound and lettered, price $2.50. An Address to the Congress of the United States on the utility and justice of restrictions upon foreign commerce, with reflections on foreign trade in general, and the future prospects of America, price 50 cents. A View of the Rights and Wrongs, Power and Policy of the United States of America.
COLUMBIAD, A Poem by Joel Barlow, superb edition on superior seven royal paper, and hot pressed, with elegant engravings, 4 to. price $20. Same book, handsomely printed on a fine wove paper, 2 vols. 12vo. price in boards $2 - Same book handsomely bound and lettered, price $2.50 - Same book elegantly bound in calf and gilt, price $3.
WILLIAM ROSE, Manufacturer of Chipp, Straw and Willow Bonnets, begs leave to inform the Public, that he has taken the Store formerly occupied by Mr. Davidson, a few doors above the Eagle Tavern, where he intends keeping a large and general assortment of all kinds of fashionable Millinery and Fancy Goods, and now offers for sale the following articles:
Ladies most fashionable Split Straw Bonnets, various shapes, Do. do. do. Luster or Satin, do. do. do. Do. do. do. Willow do. do. do. Do. all kinds of Silk Velvet and Plush do. do. Also - An assortment of FANCY GOODS, amongst which are: Ladies fashionable colored Cambric Robes, Do. do. white worked do. Do. Silks, Lute strings, Artificial Flowers, Feathers, Sprays, &c. &c. Ladies Fancy Dress, making in the first style. Wanted two or three Apprentices to the Millinery and Mantua-Making business. Enquire at the Store.
NEW HAT STORE - Just opened, and for sale, a large and general assortment of gentlemen's HATS of the newest fashion, consisting of the following kinds: Gentlemen's fine white Beavers, best quality, Do. do. black do. Do. do. different colored Willow Hats for Summer, Men's low priced fur Hats, Youth's do. do. Children's assorted colors, Men's and Boys wool hats, Servants Glazed Livery Hats and Bands, All of which will be sold at the most reasonable prices, by Wm. ROSE.
REMOVAL - The Subscribers (in consequence of the late Fire) have removed to a brick tenement belonging to Messrs. J. & R. Gamble, on the street leading to Mayo's Bridge, opposite Messrs. Brown and Rives's Accompting House, where they have for sale, a general assortment of GERMAN GOODS, CONSISTING OF Osnaburgs & Ticklen-burgs, Dantzic Rolls, Brown Rolls, Sheetings, Dowlas, Plaitings, Also, Fresh RED CLOVER SEED.
MESSRS. Stephen G. Hatcher, and Stephen Arnold - As neither of you are residents in the state of Virginia, nor have any known agent or attorney within the same, to whom this notice can be given; I hereby give you notice, that at Goodland court-house, on the 20th day of May, 1809, between the hours of six in the morning and seven in the afternoon, I shall proceed to take the deposition of George Underwood, a single and material witness for me to a particular fact in the suit, which you have brought against me, in the circuit court of the United States, in the district of Virginia, in pursuance of a commission for that purpose obtained. SAMUEL WOODSON.
JOHNSON & REAT, JEWELLERS, have (in consequence of the late conflagration) removed their Store opposite to Mrs. Davidson, Milliner, where orders from their customers will be attended to with their usual punctuality.
PURSUANT to a Deed of Trust executed to the subscribers, by Samuel Parsons & Sarah his wife, for the benefit of Wm. Cooke and Thomas and Amos Ladd, and other Creditors of the said Samuel Parsons, will be exposed to Sale at Public Auction, on the respective Premises, on Wednesday the 2d of next month the following PROPERTY, lying in the City of Richmond, viz. nearly three-fourths of the LOT described in the plan of the said City by No. 436, on the S.W. side of the Basin, and between Thomas Ladd's and the Hay-Market Square, bounded on the North-East by the street running between the Hay-Market Square and the public Warehouse.
All that part of LOT, No. 443, on the N East side of the Basin, which is bounded by the street running by the Bank and Robert McKim's to Cary street, thence by the last mentioned street to the tenement occupied by Mr. Smith as a bakery, & back to the alley which divides said Lot from R. McKim's.
One Moiety of the Tenement on the Main street, now occupied by David Logan, containing 24 feet front, and extending back to an alley leading to Byrd's Warehouse, on which are a two story brick store house, lumber house, kitchen, stables, &c.
Also, ten SHARES in the Richmond Turnpike and a COACHEE and Horses, together with sundry Household-Furniture, &c. The sale will commence at the Tenement occupied by David Logan for the Moiety thereof, the Turnpike Shares and the Personal Articles; and will thence adjourn in course to the other LOTS mentioned.
Terms of sale will be, cash for the Personal property, the Turnpike shares, and the Moiety of the Tenement in the occupancy of D. Logan; and twelve months credit for the other property, on notes negotiable and payable at the Bank of Virginia, satisfactorily endorsed, and titles to be withheld as further security, until full payment of the respective notes - or, at the option of the purchaser, one fourth to be paid down and the other three-fourths to be secured by deed of trust on the property purchased, and bond of the purchaser. The Lots will be sold as they stand, or be divided as may appear reasonable.
E. CARRINGTON, RICHARD ADAMS, } Trustees. GEO: GREENHOW, } Richmond, April 7. The above SALE is postponed to Saturday the 27th inst. when it will certainly commence at 12 o'clock. May 2d. 1809.
PURSUANT to a decretal order of the chancery District court of Williamsburg, will be offered for sale, at Westmoreland court-house on the 4th Monday in May next, being court day, that very valuable FARM, situated on Nomony river, in the county of Westmoreland, the property of John Matthews, late of said county, containing 643 acres. A credit of 12 months will be given, the purchaser executing bond with approved security to the commissioners acting under the aforesaid order and a deed of trust on the land to secure the payment of the purchase money, according to the terms of the decree. April 11. 10d.
NEAL NELSON, Richmond, BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURER - Respectfully informs his customers and the public at large (that in consequence of the late fire, where he was a sufferer) he has removed three doors above the Eagle Tavern, to the house lately occupied by Gibson & Jefferson - where he manufactures boots and shoes equal in point of workmanship and materials to any in general use. April 7. eplm
HATS, SHOES, PORTER, &c. D. J. RURR, offers for sale, at the same house in which is kept the Penitentiary Store, second door above the Eagle-Tavern, A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF HATS. Including Gentlemen's Black, drab and patent Silk BEAVERS, CASTORS, RORUMS, &c. Chip and Leghorn Hats, Mens' and Boys' Wool do. Servants' Glazed Leather do. Hatters' Trimmings and Materials. SHOES, Ladies' Morocco and Kid Slips and Ties, Gentlemen's superior press Shoes and Pumps. Constantly on hand a large stock of bottled Porter, Ale and Cider, Philadelphia Beer, &c. &c. April 18. tf
NOTICE - The subscriber has, for the present, removed his VENDUE OFFICE, to the front room of the house occupied by Mr. Carter B. Page, opposite to Messrs. Hovey and Sizer where he transacts business as usual. He has on hand a quantity of West India and other GOODS, and is prepared with convenient store-houses to receive any further consignments that may be made to him. JAMES BROWN, Jr. Auctioneer. April 11. tf
IRISH LINEN AND WINDOW GLASS, &c. - We offer for sale on reasonable terms, an Assortment of Irish Linen from 14d a 5d sterling per yard, English Window Glass 10-12 7-9 and 9-11 - 5 ton Patent shot assorted sizes. TOMPKINS & MURRAY. April 21. 2w
ANY person who may possess a file of Virginia Papers for 1778, will render a service to the literature of the state, by forwarding it to this office; after it has served the purpose of utility for which it is intended, it will be thankfully returned in the same state of preservation in which it was received. In general, all authentic documents, either printed or manuscript, relative to the Revolutionary War, will be thankfully received, used and returned as before mentioned. Communications, by letter too, upon this subject, by those now living, who were engaged in the revolutionary struggle, or were eye-witnesses of important events, will be thankfully received. March 31.
COMMITTED to the jail of King William county, a Negro Man named TOM, a runaway, who says he belongs to a Mr. Christie, living in the state of Tennessee, and escaped from the said Christie in Bedford county, in the state of Virginia, some time in the month of August last, and says he was added to the said Christie by a Mr. Bradley of Pittsylvania: The said fellow is about five feet eight or nine inches high, and of a yellow complexion; the owner is desired to come forward, prove his property, pay charges and take him away. J. C. LITTLEPAGE, D. Sheriff. For Wm. GREGORY, Sheriff. April 18. w3wp
POLITICAL.
WASHINGTON, April 25.
The predicted period has at length arrived for a dispassionate estimate of the measures, recently taken by the administration, in regard to our foreign relations. Inasmuch as the great mass of a community are not gifted with the facility of accurately associating causes with their effects, and as they are too generally played upon by a set of men actuated by personal, and often sinister motives, it ought not to surprise us, that a temporary delusion is frequently excited, productive of impatience at, if not hostility to, the measures best fitted to promote their interests. It is, perhaps, inseparable from a free government, to have a body of men constantly in opposition, who, not contented with a virtuous resistance of encroachment and oppression, generally endeavor to effect their purposes by misrepresenting the motives, traducing the character, and distorting the measures of those who hold the reins of power. A mournful experience proves that these men, in the zealous pursuit of their objects, will totally lose sight of the duties which they owe to their country, and even espouse with ardor the most unjust conduct of foreign governments. By these means the public judgement is obscured, and a considerable portion of the community are led to ascribe all the evils they endure to those whom they have constituted the guardians of their right, instead of imputing them to the unjust conduct of a foreign power, which, but for the measures they condemn, would have oppressed them with a ten fold violence. This has been strikingly the case with respect to the embargo. Those who imposed it, have been represented as abandoned to French influence, as unfriendly to commerce, as hostile to liberty. Great and respectable sections of the union have swallowed the poison, and have been almost enlamed into a paroxysm of passion, ready to seek its criminal gratification in raising its arm against its own government. But the bright day of judgement and retribution has at length arrived, when a virtuous nation will not withhold the tribute of its warmest thanks from an administration, whose sole ambition has ever been to advance the happiness of its constituents, even at the sacrifice of its present popularity. Thanks to the sage, who now so gloriously reposes in the shades of Monticello, and to those who shared his confidence.
In pronouncing this judgement, every suggestion of magnanimity recommends a forbearance from opening a new the wounds which have so grievously irritated our friendship with Great Britain. Generosity requires, that we should drop a veil over them. Justice, however, does not less forcibly call upon us, to estimate a right the causes which have led to the existing state of things, as opening to us a copious volume of experience, that may serve in future to irradiate our way.
In the first place, then, it may be boldly alleged, that the revocation of the British orders is attributable to the embargo. The Non-Intercourse act, connected with the partial repeal of the embargo, had not taken place when Mr. Oakley left England, nor was it expected to take place. On the contrary, there was every manifestation, on the part of our government, in all its departments, to adhere to the embargo, or to take the alternative of war. Votes to this effect had passed the two Houses of Congress by great majorities. Mr. Canning had, moreover, a short time before, virtually put the veto of his government on the proposition of ours to raise the embargo as to England, and retain it as to France, provided England rescinded her orders. As this is the precise proposition submitted by the non-intercourse act, it proves that there must have been some other cause for this veto, at the time it was pronounced by Mr. Canning. Mr. Canning, in fact, assigns a cause, by declaring that his government would not rescind her orders till France had withdrawn her decrees. And yet France has not withdrawn her decrees to this day. As the effect, then, is produced without the cause then assigned, it is evident that it must have flowed from some other cause. That cause is the embargo. No other cause can be assigned. That it was quickened into activity, by the disasters attending the British arms in Spain, may be true. But this proves nothing more than that the embargo was an instrument, calculated to influence the conduct of foreign governments to us through the medium of contingent events. If I withheld my friendship from any one, it is not the particular act that injures him, but the effects flowing from it. So, in the case of the embargo, it was the almost inevitable effects expected from it, that recommended it as a measure, the best fitted, in all human probability, to vindicate our rights by a solemn appeal to the interests of those who violated them. In this and in this way only, was its efficacy contended for. It was said, that, while it secured our property by drawing it into our own bosom, it would for a time avert war, during which time it would probably teach those who aggressed upon our rights, that their own interests dictated a removal of their aggressions.
Let us go back to the period, when the embargo was laid. At that time England stood alone, (for Sweden is too trifling to form an exception) among the nations of Europe. As far as a consolidation of power, unknown since the days of Charlemagne, could effect it, the trade of the continent was sent to her. In this posture of affairs, she issued her Orders in Council, interdicting to us all continental trade. The embargo was the consequence.
In imposing the embargo, it was said that England would principally feel it - In the diminution of her manufactures. In the diminution of her trade. In the diminution of her taxes arising from imports. In the want of naval supplies. In its effects on her colonies.
We all recollect the immediate sensation produced by it in England. The table of the House of Commons was filled with remonstrances against the Orders in Council, and the Gazettes overflowed with manifestations of the national sensibility. At this moment,
when but a few months had elapsed, which had however afforded the best ground for the hope that the Orders would soon be rescinded, the memorable Spanish revolution blazed out, and the British ministry seized it, without delay, as the glad harbinger of brighter days. The popular flame was kindled on the side of the patriots, unprecedented exertions were made in their behalf, an immense army was raised, the navy increased, and the rich American as well as European possessions of Spain thrown open to England. Her languishing manufactures received new life blood, her commerce expanded on a bolder wing, and she laughed at our folly in giving her a monopoly of the trade of the world. For a time things go on swimmingly - Success inspires confidence, and we are sternly told, that the British Orders will not be revoked till the French decrees are rescinded. While the tide of good fortune flowed thus impetuously, the impaired effects of the Embargo, although far from inconsiderable, are either lightly felt, or are submitted to in the hope of our soon abandoning it. It is resolved to see who can stand out the longest.
But this prosperous tide turns, with a revulsion equal to its original impetus; and now it is, that the florid complexion of hope is sickled o'er with the pale hue of melancholy. Reflexion is substituted for action, and it is foreseen, perhaps, that the people of England, however able to support the animated exertions of courage, will sink under the required patience of fortitude. Fortunately, at this crisis, the intelligence reaches them, that the government of the United States strong in the affections of the nation are determined not to relax; that a new magistrate had been elected by a vast majority, whose unbending course would pursue the same line with his predecessor; that the embargo would be continued, unless exchanged for war. Under these circumstances the British government wisely determines for peace with us. She feels the appeal carried to her interests; spontaneously renders reparation for the attack on the Chesapeake; and offers to rescind her Orders on our resuming a free commercial intercourse with her.
However, then, the appeal of the Embargo to her interests was delayed, it was not frustrated by the Spanish revolution. Had it been entirely frustrated by it, its wisdom could not have been impeached, as that revolution was an event not then to have been calculated upon. But the moment its abortion replaced things on the footing that preceded it, we find the appeal operating with a decisive, an irresistible force, conclusively demonstrating its wisdom. We repeat it then, the revocation of the British Orders is strictly attributable to the Embargo. Nat. Int.
COMPLETE & CORRECT REGISTER OF THE ARMY OF THE U. STATES.
GENERAL STAFF.
James Wilkinson, brigadier general. Wade Hampton, brigadier general. Peter Gansevoort, junr. brigadier general. Abimael Y. Nicoll, adjutant and inspector of the army. Robert Brent, pay-master of the army.
CORPS OF ENGINEERS.
Colonel. Jonathan Williams. Lt. Colonel. Jared Mansfield. Majors. Alexander Macomb, Joseph G. Swift. Captains. Walker K. Armistead, Geo. Bomford, William M'Ree, Charles Gratton. First Lieutenants. Alden Partridge, Eleazer D. Wood, Wm. Partridge, Prentis Willard. Second Lieutenants. Joseph G. Totten, Samuel Babcock, Daniel A. A. Buck, Sylvanus Thayer.
REGIMENT OF ARTILLERISTS.
Colonel. Henry Burbeck. Lt. Colonel. Constant Freeman. Majors. Moses Porter, William M'Ree, Abimael Y. Nicoll, Amos Stoddart. Captains. James Read, Nehemiah Freeman, Lloyd Beall, Richard Whitley, Samuel T. Dyson, James B. Many, Nathaniel Leonard, Charles Woolstoncraft, Jas. House, John B. Walbach, Addison B. Armistead, George Armistead, Lewis Howard, William Cocks, Moses Sweet, Clarence Mulford, William Wilson, William A. Murray, Joseph Cross, Enoch Humphrey. First Lieutenants. Francis Newman, James S. Swearingen, Hannibal M. Allen, Joseph Kimball, Robert Roberts, Jas. Hanham, Michael Walsh, James Reed, Peter Hanks, Thomas Murry, Jonathan Eastman, William Gates, Julius F. Heileman, John Gansevoort, Alexander Leneville, Esaias Preble, Hopely Yeaton, Thomas N. Vaughan, Samuel MacKay. Second Lieutenants. Joseph Provenax, Thomas Bennett, Ethen A. Allen, Robert Lucas, Jno. D. Wyndham, Archibald Darragh, Mann P. Lomax, Justus Post, Satterlee Clark, Samuel Champlaine, John Anderson, Samuel B. Rathbun, Heman A. Fay, Milo Mason, Ch. Van de Venter, Jno. Fitzgerald, John Irving, Jr. Sol. G. Conkling, August W. Magee, Abraham L. Sands.
REGIMENT OF LIGHT ARTILLERY.
Major. John Saunders. Captains. George Peter, Windfield Scott, Abraham Eustis, William N. Irvine, Joseph Chandler, Josiah Telfair, Daniel Gano, Sol. D. Townsend, Nathan Esterbrook, John R. Spann. First Lieutenants. Thomas Pitts, Alexander S. Brooks, Samuel Watson, Jno. H. T. Estes, Jas. S. M'Kelvey, James Gibson, William Campbell, Robt. H. M'Pherson, John N. McIntosh, Samuel Price. Second Lieutenants. Killian N. Van Rensselaer, And. McDowell, Saml. H. Holley, Saml. Newman, Alpheus Roberts, Luther Leonard, Henry Lenud, Benjamin Branch, George W. Melvin. Surgeon. Dennis Claude. Surgeon's Mate. Peter Turner.
REGIMENT OF LIGHT DRAGOONS.
Colonel. Lt. Colonel. Leo. Covington. Major. Eleazar D. Wood.

CAPTAINS. Alexander F. Rose, Clement Biddle, Jacint Lavall, David Beatty, Noah Lester, James Thomas, Isaac A. Coles, Nelson Luckett. FIRST LIEUTENANTS. Alexander S. Lyle, Bille Williams, Thomas A. Helms, James J. Bowie, Arthur P. Hayne, Asa Morgan, John M. Barclay, Seleck Osborn. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. Silas Halsey, Samuel M. Lee, Alexander Cummings, George Nichols, Wm. Littlejohn, Jonas Munroe, Ferdinand Ludlow, George Haig. CORONETS. Levi Bickell, Elijah Bearman, John Hollingshead, Joseph Kean, Henry Whiting, Robert P. M'Kelvey, George Birch, Milton Haxton. SURGEON. Lewis Dunham.
FIRST REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. COLONEL. Jacob Kingsbury. LT. COLONEL. Daniel Bissell. MAJOR. Zebulon Pike. CAPTAINS. John Whistler, Elijah Strong, Nathan Heald, Eli B. Climson, James Rhea, William Swan, Ninian Pinkney, William Carson, Horatio Stark, Simon Owens. FIRST LIEUTENANTS. Daniel Hughes, Daniel Baker, Amb. Whittick, William Whistler, John C. Symmes, Simeon Knight, Alpha Kingsley, Hezekiah Johnson, Benj. Marshall. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. John Brownson, Thos. Hamilton, James R. Peyton, Jacob W. Albright, John Read, Louis Loramier, Philip Ostrander, Nathaniel Pryor, Seth Thompson, Michael Immell. ENSIGNS. Samuel Perkins, Linia Helm, William Lithgow, James W. Bryson, Robert C. Page, John Campbell, Dixon Stansbury, Parker Greenough, Lewis Bissell.
SECOND REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. COLONEL. Thos. H. Cushing. LT. COLONEL. Richard Sparks. MAJOR. John Bower. CAPTAINS. Hugh M'Call, Francis Johnson, William R. Root, John Campbell, Peter P. Schuyler, Matthew Arbuckle, John Braham, Edm. P. Gaines, Bar. D. Armistead, James Wilkinson. FIRST LIEUTENANTS. William Piat, Wm. Lawrence, Henry B. Prevoort, John Miller, Reub. Chamberlain, Jno. R. N. Luskett, Robert Peyton, Benj. S. Smoot, John V. Dufour, John Hackett. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. John Hackett, William C. Mead, John Pemberton, William F. Ware, John C. Carter, John Davis, John Wetzel, Alexander Brownlow, Jesse White, Samuel Noah. ENSIGNS. Robert G. Seely, John Stanard, John Mathers, Benedict Stewart, Robert Cherry, John T. Wirt, John H. Robinson, Evert Bogardus, Hezekiah Bradley, Barony Vasquez.
THIRD REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. COLONEL. Edward Pasteur. LT. COLONEL. John Smith. MAJOR. Homer V. Milton. CAPTAINS. John Darrington, Mossman Houston, Abner Pasteur, Ross Bird, John Nicks, Henry Atkinson, Jacob I. Faust, Prentis Law, John M'Clelland, James Woodruff. FIRST LIEUTENANTS. William Butler, Cadwallader Jones, Robert M'Dougal, Robert B. Moore, Duncan L. Clinch, James E. Denkin, A. G. White, Wm. S. Hamilton, James Moore, Wm. R. Davis. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. Samuel W. Butler, Henry Cholard, William Johnson, Timothy Span, Benj. D. Herriott, Benj. M. Jackson, Ch. C. M'Kensie, Holloway James, Edward Mason. ENSIGNS. Stephen Rose, Samuel C. Mahon, Robert Watson, John Burnett, Joel Lyon, Sterling Anderson, William Laval, Benj. Harvey jr.
FOURTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. COLONEL. John P. Boyd. LT. COLONEL. John Whiting. MAJOR. James Miller. CAPTAINS. William C. Baen, Paul Wentworth, David Byers, Stephen Ranney, Joel Cook, Isaiah Doane, Geo. W. Prescott, John Binney. FIRST LIEUTENANTS. Ad. G. Cushman, Josiah Snelling, Robert C. Barton, William Welch, Nicoll Fosdic, Oliver G. Burton, Samuel Haines, Nath. F. Adams, Samuel Page, Charles Fuller. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. Charles Larabee, Ebenezer Way, Minor Huntingdon, Jackson Durant, Lewis Harrington, Samuel Borden, John L. Eastman, Benjamin Hill. ENSIGNS. Timothy Gerrish, Fred. Conklin, Abr. Hawkins, George P. Peters, Jonathan Simonds, John Smith, Lewis Peckham, George Gooding, Anson Hall, Josiah Bacon, jr. SURGEON. Josiah D. Foster.
FIFTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. COLONEL. Alexander Parker. LT. COLONEL. William B. Beall. MAJOR. Tully Robinson. CAPTAINS. Nimrod Long, George Gibson, Richard C. Dale, Edward D. Lard, Benj. Wallace, James Bankhead, Colin Buckner, Wm. E. Williams, John Johnson, Fayette Roane. FIRST LIEUTENANTS. George M. Brooke, Rich. Whartenby, Townsend Stith, Roger A. Jones, James Fonerdon, Mordecai Griffith, Henry Saunders, Alex. M'Ilhany, Talbot Chambers, James Dorman. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. William Henshaw, Le Roy Opie, Richard H. Bell, Jacob Hindman, Washington Lee, William King, Geo. Washington, Elias Edmonds. ENSIGNS. Robert Carson, John Jamison, James Saunders, Daniel Ward, Jeremiah Yancey, Joseph Owens, John Suter, Edward L. Lomax. SURGEON. William Upshaw.
SIXTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. COLONEL. Jonas Simonds. LT. COLONEL. Joseph Constant. MAJOR. Zebulon M. Pike. CAPTAINS. Wm. P. Bennet, Ebenezer Cross, Samuel Cherry, John T. Bentley, Thomas Davis, Jonathan Brooks, William Cock, William Pennell. FIRST LIEUTENANTS. Ebenezer Beebe, John Christie, James Chambers, John Macheney, George Nelson, J. T. Arrowsmith, Gad Humphreys, John Walworth, Peter Muhlenburg, John Stewart. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. Clement Sadler, Wm. Nichols, Abel Morse, Robert Slerry, J. E. A. Masters, Chann. Pettibone, Henry Phillips, John J. Plume, James J. Voorhis, John Gilland. ENSIGNS. Neil Shaw, Wm. Gamble, Edward Webb, Charles K. Gardner, Henry Shell, Jacob Sinn, Jacob Heet, A. J. Grimes, John Reigart.
SURGEON. Isaac Davis. SURGEON'S MATE. Wm. E. Lee. SEVENTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. COLONEL. William Russel. LT. COLONEL. Robert Purdy. MAJOR. Elijah Strong. CAPTAINS. Gilbert C. Russel, Rt. C. Nichols, Geo. R. C. Ford, Thos. J. Vandike, Thornton Posey, Edward Ford, Arthur Morgan, James Desha, Thomas Beall. FIRST LIEUTENANTS. Chas. Blue, Martin Duralde, Richard Oldham, James Doherity, Enos Cutler, Zach. Taylor, Walt. H. Overton, Carey Nichols, Wm. M'Clelland, Alex. Calvit. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. Alex. White, Th. S. Jessup, Elisha Edwards, Narcissus Brontin, Jesse Jennings, Arch. Greer, Joffry Robertson, Duff Green, Alexander Smith, Isaac Dunbar. ENSIGNS. John Hughes, Wm. S. Allen, Jas. S. Wade, Samuel Val. Sam. M'Comick, Lewis P. Ducors, Geo. C. Allen, Elijah Montgomery, Joseph Phillips, David M'Clelland. SURGEON. Alfred Thurston.
REGIMENT OF RIFLEMEN. COLONEL. Alex. Smyth. LT. COLONEL. Wm. Duane. MAJOR. John Fuller. CAPTAINS. Th. A. Smith, George W. Sevier, Jas. M'Donald, John Ragan, Moses Whitney, David Findley, Alex. S. Walker, Benj. Forsythe. FIRST LIEUTENANTS. Abra. A. Massie, Chas. Spencer, Fielder Ridgeway, Ch. Porterfield, Michael Hays, Dill Armour, Benj. Champney, George Morrison, David Moss. SECOND LIEUTENANTS. Elzey J. James, Lod. Morgan, Mat. Cannon, Daniel Appling, Joshua Hamilton, Jno. S. White, Lewis Wein, Tho. A. Patterson, Tho. Ramsey, William Smith. ENSIGNS. Jos. S. Pepper, Elias Stallings, Ar. W. Thornton, Francis Stribling, Augu. Langham, John Logan, Wm. D. Jones, Edmund Foster, James Johnson. SURGEON. Smith Cutler. SURGEON'S MATE. Enos Lewis. SURGEONS AND SURGEON'S MATES. Peace Establishment. SURGEONS. Oliver H. Spencer, Fra. Le Barron. SURGEONS' MATES. Samuel M'Kee, Joseph West, Wm. C. Smith, John F. Heileman, Geo. W. Maupin, Jos. Goodhue, John Watson, Abra. Edwards, Ant. Saugrain, Reu. Everitt, Abra. Stewart, James H. Sargent, Alex. M'Cauley, James V. Stewart, Robert Houston, Charles Slocum, Henry Skinner, Wm. H. Emery, Sylvester Day, John Biglow, Lem. B. Clark, Alex. H. Morrison, Robt. Simpson, John L. Murray, Wm. T. Davison, John Cooper, W. A. Dandridge, Thos. H. Holland.
EUROPE. LATEST FROM ENGLAND. BALTIMORE, April 25. By the British barque Esther, arrived at Philadelphia in 32 days from Liverpool, the Editor of the Federal Gazette has received his files of London papers to the evening of the eighth and Liverpool to ninth March, inclusive. The London Courier is chiefly devoted to the affairs of the Duke of York. It appears from these papers, that a new war was about commencing; not, perhaps, between France and Austria alone, as we observe some uneasiness on the part of Denmark, Danish vessels in the ports of France having received secret instructions to slip off at all hazards. The London papers count greatly on the influence of the Queen of Prussia in detaching the Emperor of Russia from France. General Sherbrooke has sailed with his division from Cork; but was forced back by strong head winds. Dispatches from Admiral Stopford, and letters from officers in his fleet, speak confidently of the destruction or capture of most of the Brest fleet, now at Rochefort. Three frigates have been much shattered and drove aground. In addition to the list of vessels expected from England, there are twenty ships and brigs loading at Liverpool for British America. Those taking freight to the United States, engage to "land the goods in Canada or Nova Scotia, if our ports shall have been shut against British manufactures." Very great quantities of merchandise may be expected.... Fed. Gaz.
LATE FOREIGN NEWS. From papers received at the Office of the FEDERAL GAZETTE. LIVERPOOL, March 2. Corn Exchange, Tuesday, March 7. An exceedingly dull market for every description of grain; the sales so few that prices were without variation. LIVERPOOL, March 9. Copy of a Petition presented to the House of Commons from this town. To the hon. the Commons of the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, The humble Petition of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Merchants, and other inhabitants of the town of Liverpool, Sheweth, That the bill now before parliament, by which (if passed into a law) the Irish distilleries will be permitted to resume the distillation from Grain, is a measure that in the present situation of the country may excite great alarm in this populous county. The act passed, last year prohibiting the distillation from corn, generally throughout the United Kingdom, has been found productive of great benefit, and given general satisfaction here to all classes of the community. That the last crop of wheat, in particular proved remarkably deficient throughout the United Kingdom, and it is ascertained, that the stocks of grain now remaining in the farmer's hands, as well as in the granaries in this town and neighborhood, are unusually and alarmingly small. That the supplies of corn received at this port from Ireland since the last harvest, are not considerable; that the prices there, as well as here, particularly of oats, have already advanced very materially, in consequence of the agitation of this measure, and that in Ireland the prices are now very high, much more so than they were at this period of the last year, or at the time when the said act passed. That oatmeal is a material part of the food of the lower classes of the people in this country, that the prices are at this time much higher than they can afford to pay, and that if the present measure be adopted, the sup-
plies from Ireland are likely to be greatly reduced, from which much distress is to be feared, will arise, particularly at the present time, when so large a number of laboring manufacturers and others are totally without employment. That in corroboration of the facts before mentioned, your petitioners humbly state, that it has already been found necessary to raise very considerable sums of money, by subscription, in this town, in Manchester, and in other parts of the country, for the express purpose of procuring and distributing food to numerous distressed families, who absolutely required such relief. Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray, that the said bill may not pass into a law.
OXFORD, March 6. On Friday night last about 12 o'clock, a fire broke out in the great quadrangle of this noble College. It was first perceived in the rooms of Mr. Brown. It communicated most rapidly to the adjoining house of the Rev. Doct. White, Regius professor of Hebrew, which was entirely consumed, & the whole of its valuable collection of Oriental Books destroyed. The rooms on the South side of the quadrangle viz. those of Mr. James, Mr. Mackie, Mr. Buxton, and Mr. Paris, were involved in the flame; and as they join the western extremity of the Hall, it was thought that nothing could have saved that venerable edifice.
PLYMOUTH, March 6. Came in the Surriam, 18, from off Cadiz, what news she brings has not yet transpired. The four French frigates now on shore at Sable d'Olonne, it is supposed, will be destroyed. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 19. Reis Effendi, Ghali Effendi, and Aifl Effendi, who have hitherto concluded the negotiation with the English minister Adair, at the Dardanelles, will set out to-morrow, or after to-morrow, under a strong escort, on account of the roads not being yet quite safe, by Sophia to Bucharest, on a diplomatic mission of importance.... Stockholm Gaz. of Feb. 23. HANAU, Feb. 10. Last night at the head quarters of gen. Oudinot, an order was received that the corps belonging to that general should instantly march to Augsburg. To-morrow morning, that corps is to proceed by regiments on their new destination.
FRANKFORT, Feb. 14. The articles which have from time to time appeared in the French and German papers concerning a rupture of peace on the continent, added to the numerous couriers who, within a few weeks, have passed daily between Paris and Vienna, have had a very disadvantageous influence upon the Austrian paper money, which suddenly fell considerably, and continues to fall. But here we are far from considering war as certain, or even probable. It is believed that there do exist some differences, between the courts of Paris and Vienna; but it is hoped that they will be removed by negotiation. Nevertheless, there prevails much activity in the war departments of the states of the Rhenish league; so that in Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Baden and Darmstadt, orders have been issued, and even executed, that troops may be ready to march on the first notice. The soldiers who had received leave of absence, have been recalled; and in Westphalia a body of (King Jerome's) troops has marched towards Saxony, in order to be put previously into cantonments.
LISBON, Feb. 20. Within these few days, things have taken a different turn; we have now received information from Trieste, that the Austrians have declared war against France. The truth of this intelligence is said to be confirmed by letters received here from the Swedish consul at Seville; and it is so generally believed, that more than a dozen of the passengers who had engaged to go by the Walsingham have declined going. Indeed, it seems probable that something has happened to interfere with the plans of the French, by their not following up the advantages they gained in the neighborhood of Corunna and Vigo; on the contrary, they are said to have retreated towards the frontiers of France; at any rate, they remain quiet with respect to offensive operations. February 17. We are authorised by supreme orders to communicate to the public the following extract of a letter from Seville, of the 8th of February: "The French who were in La Mancha retreated precipitately for Madrid, leaving behind them baggage and a quantity of arms which General the Marquis de Palacio has ordered to be collected. A German gentleman has also arrived here, with dispatches for the Supreme Junta; he states, that when he left Germany, the Archduke John had already entered the Tyrol, and that it is probable, that at present the Archduke Charles has entered Bavaria. He assures us also, that in the port of Trieste there were 130 sail of ships for the transport of troops, which were to be conveyed by the English. This intelligence has animated all, on account of its impeding the fresh reinforcements which the French wished to bring into Spain. The enlistment of troops in these provinces is incessant, as the manufacture of all kinds of arms, for the purpose of organizing afresh a new army, and arming the masse."—Lisbon Gazette.
PARIS, Feb. 10. Marshal Davoust, duke of Auerstadt, commander in chief of the army of Germany, has just arrived at Paris. The expulsion of the English from Spain has been announced by 30 discharges of cannon from all our sea-ports; so that the English cruisers would soon be informed of it. The following circular note has been addressed to the princes of the second class of the confederation of the Rhine, by his serene highness the prince of Nassau Usingen: "His Imperial & royal majesty of France, has, by a writing under his hand, invited his serene highness to make known to the princes of the confederation of the Rhine, the sentiments which animate him in favor of the tranquillity and repose of this nation, of which his imperial and royal majesty is the powerful protector. "The Spanish armies are dispersed; the English troops are re-embarked after having lost the half of their forces, their horses, baggage, ammunition, and a great part of their treasure. The Rhenish confederacy has nothing to fear; its august protector will defend its limits with more than sufficient force. "The imperial court of Austria will probably return to a system on which depends the general tranquillity. Nevertheless, it is indispensably necessary, in the present state of affairs, and his imperial and royal majesty desires, that the princes of the confederacy of the Rhine, form their contingents, and hold them ready to march."
"Having the honor to communicate to you by the present, the cheering disposition of your august protector, and the demands which are joined to it, I seize this occasion of giving you the assurances of my high and perfect consideration."
NEW-YORK, April 24. Yesterday arrived at this port the British Packet Carteret, Patterson, from Falmouth, which place she left the 12th of March, with London papers to the evening of the 9th of March, from which the following articles are copied:— LONDON, March 9. The accounts from Spain are of a very gratifying nature. The Spanish Ambassador received dispatches from Seville yesterday, dated the 18th of last month. The supreme Junta had received dispatches from the heroic Palafox, stating that Sargasso not only held out with unabated firmness, but had obtained great advantages over the French. The women of that place, it seems, had by an ingenious device, been chiefly instrumental in obtaining these advantages. They appeared before the walls, as if desperate with distress and inviting the enemy to put an end to their suffering by a decisive attack on the town. A large body of the French, on the 17th January, were induced, by this stratagem, to pour into the town, where the Patriots were ready to receive them, and destroyed a great number. Many of those intrepid females fell in the conflict. It is said Cuesta and the Duke Del Infantado had united their forces, and were marching for Toledo with 60,000 men.
Extract of a Letter from Malaga, January 30, 1809. "The news we have this day received is of a favorable nature—Cuesta has cut off 4000 men near Estremadura, and Palafox 10,000 before Saragossa. It would appear that the swelling of the Ebro had carried away their bridge, and that those 10,000 men were prevented from joining the rest of the army." "Palafox marched out with 20,000, and drove into the river those he could not destroy—it is said not a man has escaped."
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 6. AMERICA. Mr. Whitbread rose for the purpose of making his intended motion with regard to America. He commenced by observing, that he would call the attention of the House to that series of disastrous events which so fatally characterized the former American war, and which may now prevent the information with which we were hurrying into another. It had pleased Heaven, that all our efforts to crush that country were vain and futile. She grew into gigantic strength, and forced us to acknowledge her independence. Of her it may be said that she was "Non sine diis animosus in arcem."
The strength which she acquired, she used for the interest of Great Britain. She possessed within her powers equal to rendering us a match for the rest of the world, and those, at a moment when, exclusive of her, we have the whole world to cope with. The opportunity was too interesting to escape the notice of the statesman. He could wish that it were improved upon, and that the proffered co-operation which America held out to us, had not been set aside for the indulgence of a false point of honor. He would say, that this far exceeded all present cases of reputed importance. It had not only included a line of retrospect, but of prospective measures also. He trusted, that the House (though unaided and unsupported by Ministers) would have the resolution to perform what the opposite gentleman had not the prudence to think of. He was aware of the great abilities which would be brought into action against him; and he confessed, the apprehensions which he felt from the talents of the Rt. Hon. Gentleman who had just made his appearance. The force on his side was unfortunately weak. Now, more than ever, did he feel the loss of that great civilian (the late Dr. Lawrence) whose presence on this occasion would be cheering and invigorating. He hoped, that gentlemen on the opposite benches, however inclined they were to jest on him while living, would concur with him in paying the deserved tribute to his memory, now that he was no more. (Hear! Hear!) He was an accomplished model of integrity and science. He could wish that he had even left his mantle with his party. As to himself, weak and unlearned as he was, he would confide in a scrip and sling against the Goliath of the opposite side. He would, however, previous to entering the lists, in conformity with the etiquette of chivalrous tournaments, advance a few preliminaries. He begged leave to observe, that he should not be the last man to vindicate his own honor. It had been said, that his defence of America was a defence of the enemies of his country. He was an advocate for his country, and it would appear so in that defence; inasmuch as that he ventured to point out, where his country was an enemy to herself. He deprecated the idea of being influenced by a party administration. It was against the Orders of the 7th January and 11th November, he would in the present instance contend. He said, they were a monument of Ministerial arrogance and incapacity.
An Honorable Member on a former debate, had represented the Irish linen manufacturers to be in a truly lamentable condition. Where was the predicted increase of exports and imports? He would not now grovel in custom-house searches, but he would confidently state, that there was a diminution of eleven millions in the export and imports of wool, &c. which it was so confidently predicted would take place, he begged to inform the House, that half an hour previous to his entrance, he received reports which stated the deficit to be enormous. Formerly, the importation of those articles amounted to 32,000,000; whereas, now from the boasted resources of Asia and the Brazils, they amount to little more than five millions. In the year during which the Berlin Decree was in full operation, a decree which excited such general concern and dismay, the exports and imports were much greater than in any other hitherto. It would be material, he conceived, to observe, how they were reduced by the operation of these Orders in Council. Another of these predictions had proved as ill founded as was current; and that was, the insurrection—the rising in mass of the French people, in consequence of being debased the advantages of colonial trade by the adoption of those measures. But, he would ask, has Bonaparte found his men less willing to march forward at his command, because they were furnished with a less supply of coffee and sugar for their breakfasts (A LAUSE)? Did he in consequence of such
measures being adopted, rescue the French? Out of thirty-two Coton in Marseilles, only are now represented to be at half-work. It would not, he conceived, be exactly correct, to depend on the latter for a supply of Bux seed, as the Right Honorable Gentleman, opposite, had mentioned. He was himself too old (the Right Honorable Gentleman was older) to depend upon improvements from process of time. Unappalled by accumulated horrors, and elated by a little success, which they have not viewed as prudent men would, instead of generously seizing such moments to extend the hand of friendship, his majesty's ministers, in proportion to their success, increased in rancour & enmity. The Hon. member observed, that from the similarity of language, and other circumstances, more occasions of dissatisfaction, on the part of America, had arisen than on which he now had the honor to address the House. The impression of her sailors and the violation of her neutrality, by burning on her coast, within the precincts of her protection, a French vessel which took refuge there, were recorded instances. And lastly, the cause of her complaints was heightened by the affair of the Leopard and Chesapeake. He was extremely sorry to perceive, that the Honorable Gentleman (Mr. Rose) he meant Mr. Rose the ambassador, had left the House. He would allow that Gentleman the credit of having disavowed that affair to be at the suggestion of his majesty's ministers. But here he must say, the propriety began and here it also ended. Mr. Rose informed Mr. Madison, that he could not come to any éclaircissement on the subject, unless the American Proclamation with regard to it was revoked. It was impossible America should act thus, as the aggression was on the part of this country. The Honorable member begged, that the House would turn to the correspondence between Mr. Madison and Mr. Rose, lying on the table, and they will find that Mr. Madison only required of Mr. Rose, to unfold the terms of accommodation, and the matter would be brought to a determination. He would ask, could any offer be more fair, and particularly so on the part of the injured and insulted party.
The Right Hon. Gentleman opposite was mistaken, when he supposed, that all obstacles were removed by these measures, or in even supposing, that the arguments were broken up. The snake was scotched, not killed; and it would come on again with accumulated vigor in its attack and accumulated venom in its sting. He apprehended, that America would add to the many false predictions which the mighty Prophets opposite pronounced on the affairs of Spain at the commencement. Ministers had been as rampant in their prophecies regarding one as the other, and the event in both has been uniformly false and fatal. What, he would ask, had been the benefit which was so frequently boasted of, that results to our manufactures from the adoption of measures proposed by the Orders in Council?
The pre-eminence which we have claimed put him in mind of the conduct of Lewis XIVth, to the Doge of Venice, who insisted on absolute humiliation. When the Speaker of the commons, and the Lord Chancellor went to present an address to his majesty, they amicably measured their paces together, and disputed, not on precedence (at length) On the case of America he did not perceive any reason why the same amicable equality should not exist. He remembered hearing of a dispute on the continent, where four ambassadors entered into a contention on the precedence of entry into the audience chamber; it was happily terminated by the separate entrance of each to the chamber through four doors. Mr. Rose acted in a contrary manner, he would enter at neither, (a laugh) In an affair of such extreme delicacy, he could not see that it was a trifling matter for ministers to cover Admiral Berkeley, the agent in the matter, with the shield of their sanction—That the case was so evident, (said the Honorable Gentleman) in the immediate command which was given him in another quarter—the West Indies. After a wish was expressed that the affair of the Chesapeake should be considered in a distinct light, he could not suppress his amazement at the Right Hon. Gentleman finding fault with Mr. Pinkney for not having mentioned it. He ridiculed the idea of the chancellor of the Exchequer going forth to combat France, like the poisonous Upas with his Bark Bill. He would now proceed to the more immediate subject of the present debate. The preamble of the order in Council of the 11th of November assumed, that America had acquiesced in the decrees of France; an assumption which subsequent events had proved to be false—As false was the assertion, that the orders in council were in no degree known in America before the laying on of the embargo. Their substance was known, although it certainly was a great insult to the American government, that our Ambassador, who sailed for America on the 12th of November was not instructed to take with him a copy of the order in council of the preceding day, for the information of the American government. The conduct of America had been most impartial with respect to France and England. Had we been wise, we should have rescinded our orders in council, and the consequence would have been, that America would have continued the embargo towards France, but not towards England; and that ultimately she would probably have become the ally of England against France. Instead of having taken that step, we demanded of America, that which it was impossible for her to do; namely, to compel Bonaparte to abandon the Berlin Decree. He considered the decrees of France as so many RUSES DE GUERRE, to entrap us to our destruction, an attempt which seemed but too likely to succeed. Adverting to the correspondence that had passed on the subject between the Right Honorable the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Pinkney, he reproached the style in which the notes of the former were couched. They reminded him of what they had heard called that Right Honorable Gentleman's storms of eloquence in that House. Sternly they certainly were. His speeches exhibited great coruscations of genius, and abounded with brilliant and vivid lights; but they also possessed other ingredients of the storm—clouds and vapors and wind—Impetuous as was in general the tone of that Right Honorable Gentleman, he had complained of the tone of Mr. Madison's letters like Sir Anthony Absolute, in the play, he exclaimed "Why do you put yourself in a passion?—Why do you not as cool as I am?" and this in a manner that indicated at least as much warmth as his adversary.
The style of the honorable gentleman's diplomacy was most unjustly sarcastic, and most unbecoming a dignified Statesman. When compared with that of Mr. Madison, the inferiority was most evident. Much had been said of the retaliation which the orders

of council would effect. That the result had fallen on ourselves, we need only look at the state of our own manufactures and colonies, to be convinced. He had hoped that the motion which he should submit to the House would have been rendered unnecessary. He had heard reports that some coadjutory propositions had been very recently made by the British government to America. If this were so, he would make a bonfire of his papers, and rejoice. All that he wished was, that this country should make those concessions alone to America, which were consistent with our true dignity.  If the British Government obstinately refused to concede that which he contended they ought to concede, the ultimate result, in all probability would be war between Great Britain and America. This was an event which some might perhaps contemplate with satisfaction. The American character was not popular in this country. He asked what would be the security of our islands, as well as of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, should a war with America take place? We should probably lose the whole of our continental and insular possessions. He ridiculed the attempt made to take Martinique, which turned out to be only a reconnaissance, and compared it to the enforcement expedition to Egypt. At a time when it was probable France would have so many naval countries at her disposal, it was most imprudent to add America to the list of our enemies. The greatness of England was in a considerable degree fictitious. It resulted from our commerce; and if that commerce were destroyed, the country would go with it; at least it could not continue to be a very great power. He instanced Gen. Washington and Dr. Franklin to prove, that the American character was very much undervalued in England, and quoted a valedictory address of the former in which he exhorted his countrymen to the strict observance of justice and good faith—after having dwelt for a considerable time on this and similar subjects, the Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving an humble Address to his Majesty, recapitulating the various topics of his speech, praying his Majesty to adopt without delay such conciliatory measures as would renew the amicable relations between Great Britain and America, and at the same time assuring his Majesty, that the House would firmly support his Majesty in the maintenance of the essential rights of the country.  (To be continued.)
LONDON, March 7. If as it has been stated, the river Inn has been passed by the Austrians, at Brennero, which constitutes the boundary between the Bavarian and Austrian dominions, the campaign in Germany may be considered as having commenced. The most distinguished French Generals in Spain are on their way to Germany. Marshals Lefebvre and Bessieres have arrived at Paris.
CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA. Yesterday in the house of Commons, Mr. Whitbread made his promised motion in the following form—  That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty to represent to his Majesty, that in consequence of certain Decrees made by his Majesty's enemies contrary to the usages of war and the rights of Neutral Nations, and in consequence of the alleged acquiescence of Neutral Nations in the said decrees, his Majesty was advised to issue certain Orders in Council respecting the trade of neutrals, to and from the ports and countries of his Majesty's enemies; and that the said Orders were further enforced by certain acts passed in the last session of Parliament.  But that both in the said Orders, and in the acts passed therefor, a power was reserved to his Majesty of annulling the same whenever such revocation should appear expedient.  That the Congress of the United States of America, alarmed at the dangers to which neutral commerce was exposed by the system then known to be in contemplation of his Majesty's Government, and actually carried into effect by the said orders, passed laws for laying an embargo on all American ships and exports; and that by the operation of such laws, all trade of export from the said States into this kingdom or its dependencies has been prohibited, and the commercial intercourse of his Majesty's subjects with the said States, has been in other respects essentially impeded.  That in the month of August last, the minister of the U. States, resident at this Court, made to his Majesty's Government an authorised and explicit offer of re-establishing the said intercourse; proposing, that if his Majesty's orders in council should be repealed as far regards the United States, the embargo imposed in the said States, should be removed as far regards his Majesty's dominions; and adding, that if his Majesty's enemies should not rescind their decrees, the said embargo should be continued as with respect to them.  That this offer on the part of the U. States appears to be just in principle, and in its tendency highly advantageous to the best interests of this country; just, in as much as it removed all pretence of the acquiescence of the United States in the French decrees; which acquiescence was the only ground on which any right could accrue to his Majesty to interrupt the innocent commerce of a neutral power; and advantageous to Great Britain, inasmuch as, though it should not have produced the repeal of the French decrees (the avowed purpose of his Majesty's orders) it would have secured to this country the exclusive commerce of America, & her alliance against a Power which would thus have been the common enemy of both.  That we believe and hope, that it is still open to his Majesty's Government to renew, on the basis of this proposal, the commercial intercourse between this country and the United States; every interruption of which we consider as manifestly injurious to the interest of both countries, and calculated to assist the designs of our enemies, and to weaken our own resources.  That we therefore most humbly pray his Majesty to adopt, without delay, such measures as may best tend to the immediate re-establishment of the commercial intercourse between his Majesty's dominions and the United States of America; and to bring, by temperate and conciliatory negotiation, all other points to a just and amicable conclusion, assuring his Majesty of our firm and inviolable support in maintaining against every unjust aggression, and every novel claim, the ancient and essential maritime rights of his Majesty's crown.  After a warm discussion the motion was negatived—yeas 83, nays 143—majority 62.
Extract of a letter from Havana, dated, April 10. "A week ago, the brig Bianchy, from Baltimore arrived here. The result of her voyage is yet doubtful. The ultimate intention of this government is unknown; but a duty of about seven dollars a barrel on Flour will be imposed, and 50 per cent. on all other American articles, which can or have been supplied from Vera Cruz or Campeachy. They will grant a drawback, however, on all such articles, including flour, which may be re-shipped in any bottoms within sixty days—after sixty days, the drawback will still be allowed when re-shipped in Spanish vessels.  "We know not what to ask for flour; will not take less than 20 dollars. Produce has not risen much—while sugar 4 50 to 5 dollars per brown 2 50 to 3. Duty on wine and all dry goods, except cotton, 22 per cent (formerly 24 to 38.)" There are about 9 or 10,000 barrels flour in the market."
much—while sugar 4 50 to 5 dollars per brown 2 50 to 3. Duty on wine and all dry goods, except cotton, 22 per cent (formerly 24 to 38.)" There are about 9 or 10,000 barrels flour in the market."
DOMESTIC. IMPORTANT. Thomas Fitzsimons, President of the Chamber of Commerce at Philadelphia, to the Secretary of State. PHILADELPHIA, April 22d, 1809.
SIR, The proclamation of the President of the United States, published here yesterday has necessarily engaged the attention of the merchants of this city, and I am particularly requested by a respectable number of them to ask from you an explanation on a point in it considered as very important.—That is, whether the 10th of June refers to the departure of vessels from the United States, or to their arrival in G. Britain or its dependencies.  Without presuming to hazard an opinion upon that point, it may not be improper to remark, that if the latter shall be declared to be its true intent and meaning, the advantage to the United States will be incalculable. As respects expeditions to India, it may be observed, that if vessels do not sail before the 10th of June, they must encounter all the delays and dangers of the adverse monsoons, and as it respects the export of articles, the growth or produce of the United States, the advantages are too obvious to require enumeration.  Under a firm persuasion that it is the desire of the President to give all proper facility to the commerce of the United States, the merchants of this city, wish this question to be submitted to the president as soon as your convenience will permit, and that you will be pleased to favor me with his determination thereon.  I am, with great respect, (Signed) THS. FITZSIMONS, President of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, April 26, 1809. SIR, Your letter of the 22d instant, I have received, and I have the honor of stating to you, that in pursuance of the statute, commonly called the non-intercourse act, the President having by his proclamation merely declared the revocation on the tenth of June, of the British orders, has left the fact subject to the operation of the law thereon.  In answer however to the question particularly propounded by you, it, with propriety, may be added, that the day stated in the proclamation, viz. the tenth of June, refers to the arrival of vessels in Great Britain and its dependencies and in the U. States, leaving the time and manner of their clearances to the direction of the owners, as far as law and usage may justify.  I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) R. SMITH. Thomas Fitzsimons, Esq. President of the Chamber of Commerce—Philadelphia.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Comptroller's Office, April 18, 1809. The Secretary of the Treasury has referred to me your letter to him of the 7th inst. I am of opinion, that a vessel being at a licensed port may, after the proclamation of the President of the U. States, contemplated by the 11th section of the act of the 1st March last, proceed to any port which shall be permitted under the proclamation pursuant to that section, without a forfeiture of the bond previously executed pursuant to the provisions of the last recited act.  Yours, &c. G. DUVAL. Question to the Comptroller of the Treasury.
Is the 6th section of the enforcing act past the 9th January 1809, repealed by the Non-Intercourse Act of March 1, 1809? ANSWER. After a full consideration of the question, I am decidedly of opinion that the provision of that section are not repealed, and that the granting a new register or licence or in the case of the sale of a vessel, neither registered nor licenced, the bond required by that section is to be given.
NEW-YORK, April 26. The British Packet will sail this morning for Falmouth. Mr. Nathaniel G. Ingraham, junr. who is a passenger in her, is the bearer of dispatches from the government of the U. States to the American minister at the court of Great Britain.  CHARLESTON, April 22. Mr. H. Mayberry, a passenger on board the sloop Rayo, left Havana two days previous to sailing from Matanzas. He informs that orders had been issued for all the French to leave Cuba in 40 days from the 1st inst. Eight French passengers arrived in the Rayo. Eighty sail of American vessels from different ports of the U. S. arrived at Havana in one week, with produce, &c.  The Spanish sloop Rayo, in 7 days from Matanzas—Sugar.
PHILADELPHIA, April 28. On Wednesday last Gideon Olmstead received the sum of 14,378 dollars and 75 cents, the amount of the principal and interest awarded to him by the District Court of the United States.  Capt. Cobb arrived at Boston last Sunday, in 18 days from St. Croix, reports, that several days before he sailed, accounts had been received there, that 9 sail of French ships of war, and said to be the BREST FLEET had arrived and retaken Marigante, where they were left at the last accounts.
We learn from the Stockholm, Hall, in 20 days from Cape Nicholas Mole (arrived at New-York,) that Christophe's army was on the heights bombarding the town, and his feet off the harbor. Provisions scarce and dear—beef and pork 35 to 40—Relf.  The Dwelling-House and Mills of Mr. Janney, at Occoquan, were, on Thursday night, destroyed by fire—the loss is supposed to be at least 20,000 dollars.  NORFOLK, April 27. Yesterday morning sailed for England, the British sloop of war Rosamond, capt. Walker, with dispatches—This vessel has been lying in Hampton Roads since the arrival of Mr. Oakey, the British Envoy, now at Washington—Merits.
As soon as we published on Sunday evening the pleasing tidings of our differences with Great Britain being adjusted, capricious Neutrals and Puffards's Artillery company paraded. A hired de-jure , which was answered by the British ship Jamaica, capt. Richardson, now laying in the stream—76.
THE ENQUIRER. RICHMOND, MAY 2, 1809. OPPOSITE VIEWS!! The following Resolutions display the different views, which are taken by the two parties in New York, of the late adjustment with Great Britain. These proceedings were adopted in the city of New York on the eve of the very important general election of members for both branches of the state Legislature.  The question, which these resolutions embrace, and which the prints of both parties are so eagerly agitating; may be reduced to a very short compass. Let the policy , of both parties as to Great Britain, be the test.  What were the Oppositionists for doing?  NOTHING —emphatically nothing to resist her aggression. They were the advocates of submission . What effect would this have had upon Great Britain? None, except to encourage her to persevere in her injustice. She would have had no inducement to rescind her Orders. Submission on our side was the very thing which she wished for. There would have been no such thing as a quid pro quo —She would have gained nothing by a repeal of her Orders. The federalists would have bid her no price whatever—as the condition for inducing her to withdraw them.  What were the Republicans for doing? They wished to shun submission . They resisted British aggression by Embargoes, Non-Intercourse—by those restrictions on the trade of Great Britain, the removal of which she might wish to attain by the repeal of her obnoxious Orders. These restrictions have produced their effect. The British Orders have vanished. Their disasters in Spain have removed the only obstacle which impeded the effect of the Embargo—being shut out from Spain, they must now seek in the United States new vents and markets for their trade.—This only proves, that if the Spanish revolution had not broken out at all, the Embargo would have had its effect last year—a conclusion, which exactly agrees with the information furnished us by Mr. Nourse, that before this event, the British bayonets were obliged to be called in to suppress the insurrections of the manufacturers, but that the next day after its arrival, these manufacturers were set to work & new hopes began to brighten the crest of the Cabinet.  But we saved you from a War. say these federalists; "the opposition of Massachusetts prevented its declaration." It is false. The Republicans of Congress were not for declaring war against Great Britain. Their policy was to retain the embargo until June—to avail themselves of these very disasters in Spain, which have quickened the late negotiation. "But you abandoned the Embargo and adopted Non-Intercourse." True; and what merit have the Federalists for that? Every man of them except three , voted against it—against all sorts of restriction and resistance against G. Britain. In truth it was not the Non-Intercourse but the embargo, which brought Britain to her senses. The former was not known there, when Mr. Oakley left it.
At a meeting of Several Thousands of Federal Republican Electors in the City of New York, convened by public notice at the Circus, in Anthony Street, April 24, 1809; CORNELIUS RAY, esq. in the chair, ROBERT BOGARDUS, Secretary, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:  Resolved, That we congratulate our fellow citizens on the prospect at last afforded of success in their efforts against the ruinous policy of the administration of the general government, and on the hope which may now be entertained of a speedy return of our national prosperity.  Resolved, That we owe this prospect to the distinguished exertions of the minority in Congress, and to the manly and independent conduct of the people of the Northern and Eastern States, whose spirit and energy have at length controlled the partial and temporising policy of the cabinet at Washington.  Resolved, That since our administration have consented to accept of terms, which were equally in their power previous to the commencement of those fatal projects of which we have so long been the victims, we hold them responsible to the people of these States and to posterity, for the injuries and distresses they have wantonly inflicted upon the country.  Resolved, That as the present change in the conduct of our administration has been accomplished by a decided expression of the public opinion against a baneful system of foreign partiality, and as the successful adjustment of our differences with Great Britain may be frustrated by the same artifices which have been heretofore practised, so the only solid hope of such an adjustment must be founded upon the perseverance and unrelenting exertions of the people to complete the changes so happily begun in the choice of their rulers.  Resolved, That if any commercial treaty shall be formed with G. Britain the Northern and Commercial States ought to watch its provisions with the most jealous care, since from the known hostility of our government to Commerce, and the rival competition of Great Britain with the U. States, we have greatly to apprehend that its provisions may be calculated to embarrass or destroy the commercial and navigating interests of the nation.  And whereas, many citizens have been threatened with the loss of employment and with other persecution, in order to restrain the free exercise of the right of suffrage; a right invaluable to freemen, therefore,  Resolved, As the sense of this meeting, that all Electors who shall be deprived of employment, or otherwise persecuted, in consequence of the free exercise of the right of suffrage, are entitled to the protection of the Federal Republicans of this city, and we hereby pledge ourselves to them and the public, that to the utmost of our power, we will countenance, encourage and protect all citizens who may be thus persecuted.  Resolved, That the present critical state of our public affairs, demands the efforts of every citizen to place men in office whose virtues & talents the people may confide; and we therefore earnestly recommend to our fellow citizens, that from this time to the close of the election, they devote their time and best exertions to promote, by every honorable
means, the election of the Federal Republican Ticket.  Published by order of the meeting, CORNELIUS RAY, Chairman. ROBERT BOGARDUS, Sec'y.
GENERAL REPUBLICAN MEETING. At a General Meeting of the Republican Citizens of New York, assembled in the Park, on the 24th April, 1809 at noon, consisting of many thousands; by far the most numerous ever witnessed by the oldest of our citizens, for the purpose of publicly testifying their approbation of the honorable adjustment of our differences with Great Britain, and the pleasing aspect of our national affairs, Col. Henry Rutgers was unanimously chosen chairman, and Garret N. Bleecker, Esq. Secretary.  When the following resolutions were read in different places, by the secretary and two other persons appointed for that purpose, and unanimously approved amongst the repeated acclamations and shouts of applause from the immense assemblage:  Whereas, it appears from certain official correspondence between the secretary of state and the British minister in this country, that the government of Great Britain has made satisfactory atonement for the Garrant outrage on the United States' frigate Chesapeake, and has declared that the orders of council, hostile to the commerce and rights of these United States, shall be repealed on the tenth day of June next—and has promised to send "an Envoy Extraordinary invested with full power to conclude a Treaty on the points of the relation between the two countries."  Whereas the wise and prudent acts of our national government, have in an eminent degree contributed to effect a result auspicious to our national prosperity and happiness by securing and promoting our interest in these United States, as well as in foreign countries: And the citizens now assembled, viewing with continued confidence, and the highest approbation, the conduct of our general government in the administration of our internal affairs, and also in the management of our exterior relations. Believing that the President of the U. S. has eminently contributed to the happy adjustment of some of the great national differences between our country, and that of G. B. thereby exhibiting an other pledge of his faithfulness and great talents as a statesman and a patriot.  And considering also, that at no period since the proud day of our national independence have we had so much reason to rejoice.  Do, therefore, unanimously resolve, That the accommodation which has taken place with Great Britain exhibits the patriotism and intelligence of our government in a light that must be gratifying to the feelings of every patriotic American, honorable to our national character, and deserving the respect of the world.  Resolved, That an administration which has conducted the affairs of our country to a result so auspicious, at a crisis the most momentous and unexampled—Among the collisions and sanguinary conflicts of the eastern hemisphere, in defiance of the great belligerent, deserves the decided, animated and undivided support of every American citizen.  Resolved, That we the republican citizens of New-York, convened on this ever memorable era, will evince to the world our attachment to the constitution and laws of our country, so congenial with the true liberty and national happiness, by all lawful means in our power. And more especially, that we will at the approaching election give our suffrages to those candidates for members of the Senate and Assembly of this city and district regularly nominated, known for their patriotism and attachment to the best interests of our common country and its government, (in opposition to others who have seized with avidity upon embarrassments growing out of the violation of neutral rights and the infringement of our national honor and independence) with a zeal and unanimity that shall frustrate the efforts, disappoint the hopes, and paralyze the exertions of an unprincipled faction!!  Resolved, That the proceedings of this assembly be published in the Public and Mercantile Advertisers.  HENRY RUTGERS, Chairman. G. N. BLEECKER, Secretary.
Mr. Smith's letter to Mr. Fitzsimons is important. If we understand aright the present state of things, the proclamation of the President rescinds the restrictions of the Non-Intercourse Act as to our trade with G. Britain, with the exception only, that though our vessels may now clear out for a British port, they shall not enter it till the 10th of June—but does not affect the restrictions of the British orders. They will be in full force and virtue till the 10th of June. The distinction is this: An American vessel may now clear out for Liverpool, yet she must not enter it before the 10th of June—but if she clears for Amsterdam and is found on the high seas, before that time, she is still liable to the Orders in council.  "Tricks of trade." —A report was in circulation on Saturday, that Bonaparte had opened the French ports for the exportation of grain to England. There is not a single scrap in our papers to sanction it. In vain. It had no effect here on the price of flour. The knowing ones were not thus to be taken in.
As flour suffers in the heat of our climate, it is a great benefit to be permitted to load our vessels with it at once—for British ports. Mr. Smith's letter has raised it at least a dollar per barrel—Fine Tobaccos have risen at least a dollar per hundred—Coarse in proportion.
TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA. Absence from home for sometime past, & the vast mass of letters and documents from which the necessary evidence is to be extracted, has suspended the prosecution of my defence much longer than I could have wished. It will be immediately resumed and closed without further interruption.  JOHN CLARKE.  Read Mr. Whitbread's Speech in the House of Commons.—Is it not melancholy to reflect, how much more impartially and justly a British subject contemplates the measures of our government, than so many native Americans?  Yesterday the Fairfield races opened.—Mr. Sciden's horse Wrangler, won the purse, in opposition to Mr. Johnson's Trueblood, Mr. Chamberlayne's Pallax and Mr. Ball's Minerva.
VIRGINIA ELECTIONS. CONGRESSIONAL. DISTRICT OF BERKELEY. Derkley county, 203. Stephenson, 330. Hamp. line, 233. 319. Mr. Stephenson is elected.
DISTRICT OF NORFOLK. Official result of the late election. T. Newton. R. B. T. /or.   Princess Ann, 137 194  Nansemond, 330 63  Norfolk County, 551 263  Borough, 224 174  1051 699  Majority for Newton 352.   Wm. A. Burwell is re-elected for the district of Campbell, &c.
MONONGAHIA DISTRICT. The aggregate of votes received in this district are, For John G. Jackson 1005 Noah Linsley, 743  The counties of Brooke and Randolph remain to be heard from, which in 1807, gave to Mr. Jackson 230 votes and to the federal candidate 137.  The (Staunton) Federal Censor states, that Major Stephenson is elected by a majority in every county in the district—that gen. Breckenridge is certainly elected by a large majority—that Daniel Shaeffer is elected by a majority of 500—and that Jacob Swovoe is elected by a majority of 183.  Complete return of the Augusta District. F. Swoope. D. Smith.   Fendleton, 183 130  Bath, 140 131  Hardy, 206 40  Rockingham, 127 610  Augusta, 652 292  1369 1184   Major for Swoope, 185  It should be added, that Mr. Swoope was a candidate for a long time before the election—Mr. Smith, only about three weeks—that the federalists have strained every nerve—the republicans were not as active as they might have been.—As to Mr. Breckenridge, he is a most honest & honorable man—his federal politics notwithstanding.
Complete return of the Matthews District. Bassett. Eyre.   Gloucester, 268 29  Matthews, 125 59  James City, 147 14  York, 117 31  Warwick, 116 2  Elizabeth City, 130 13  Middlesex, 135 26  Williamburg, 35 5  Norfolk, 6 152  Accomack, 94 491  1174 872   Major for Bassett, 302  The Norfolk Ledger gives a different result. But it is mistaken. We learn from an authentic source that the above is a correct return.
Complete list of Members of Congress from Virginia.   Dr. Walter Jones, Matthew Clay,  Joseph Lewis (F.) John Randolph, (Op.)  Thomas Newton, Wilson C. Nicholas,  Burwell Bassett, Daniel Shaeffer,  John Roane, J. Stephenson, (F.)  Edwin Gray, (Op.) Gen. Breckenridge, F.  John Dawson, Jacob Swoope, (F.)  John Clifton, Wm. A. Burwell,  John W. Eppes, Gen. John Smith,  Thomas Ghislin, Peterson Goodwin.   Present Congress. Last Congress.   13 Dem. 15 Dem.  4 Fed. 1 Fed.  2 Op. 3 Op.  1 Doubtful. 1 Doubtful.   New Members.
Senate of Virginia. Mr. David S. Garland is elected for the district of Amherst—Mr. John Campbell for that of Westmoreland—Mr. B. Hooe, for that of Fairfax.   Godwin. Murdaugh.  Princess Ann, 47 142  Nansemond, 326 66  Norfolk County, 213 281  Borough, 194 182  780 671   Majority for Godwin 109.
Members elected to serve in the next General Assembly of Virginia. A Representative to the Assembly for Norfolk Borough.   Archer, 260  Maxwell, 223  Majority for Archer, 33   Rockingham—A. Rutherford, W. Bryan. Monroe—John Gray, Wm. Graham. Hardy—Messrs. Simons and Claypole. Fauquier—Thornton Buckner, Wm. Clarkson. Orange—James Barbour, Robert Mallory. Amherst—Wm. Armistead, Reuben Norvell. Wythe—Joseph Crockett, Joseph Kent. Montgomery—John Engles, Thomas Goodwin. Russell—James McFarlane, Zachariah Eutage. Nelson—Joseph C. Cabell, John Harris.  New Members.
MARRIED. —On last Thursday night, by the Rev. Mr. Buchanan, Major JOHN ROBERTS of Culpeper to the interesting Miss LUCY ANNE POLLARD of this city.  DIED, suddenly on Friday the 21st ultimo, Mr. JOHN SOUTGATE, merchant (King and Queen Court House) in the 40th year of his age. In the death of this truly pious man, society has lost one of its greatest examples of piety & goodness to the poor, and no doubt but his name will be revered through all succeeding generations.  "Help! Lord for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men."
A TUTOR WANTED. —The Trustees of the town of York, are anxious to employ a gentleman of character, & literary acquirements, to conduct a SCHOOL in the said town. The branches of Science to be taught are, reading, writing, English grammar, arithmetic, geography, use of the globe, the Latin and Greek classics. The situation of York is pleasant and healthy: From twenty to forty pupils can be procured: A comfortable house will be furnished the Tutor free of expense. A person who shall produce testimonials of his sobriety, discretion and acquirements, which shall qualify him for the conduct of the school, will meet with encouragement on application.  GORDON GRIFFIN, } Committee TH. GRIFFIN, } of ROBT NELSON, jr. } Trustees.  May 2.  FOR SALE. GARDEN PALINGS AND SHINGLES of Cypress and of prime quality. EDWARD JOHNSTON. Rocketts, May 2.

MISCELLANEOUS.
INVENTIONS
ROBERT FULTON, ESQ.
The subsequent account of the discoveries and experiments of Mr. Fulton, is extracted from "Mitchell & Miller's Repository" for August, September & October 1808. It is a striking instance of the efficacy of talents, directed by industry & perseverance. It should incite American Genius to similar enterprises.
FIRST, a mill for sawing and polishing marble, for which the London Society for encouraging Useful Arts and Manufactures, gave him the silver medal in 1794.
Second, a system of canal navigation which he published in London, in 1796. His principle is to have small canals and boats of 8 tons, which are to mount or descend to the different levels of the canal, on inclined planes instead of locks; while the boats are drawn on the canal, 6 or 8 of them are chained together; when they arrive at an inclined plane, they are separated and pass singly. As this mode will very much diminish the expense of constructing canals, Mr. Fulton has given a flattering prospect of our having canals of this kind to pass through the interior and mountainous parts of these states. A variety of mechanical combinations are delineated in his book, for working the inclined planes, for passing valleys, and economizing water, which, on the old plan, would be expended in locks, but which by his method, may be used for irrigating the grounds in the neighborhood of the canal, giving verdure and abundance to thousands of acres, which would otherwise remain sun-burnt and unproductive. The work concludes with a tonnage table, or systematic plan of transport, which has in some degree been republished in Mr. Fulton's letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, on canal navigation. It there shews, that to carry a ton weight 300 miles on our usual roads, will cost 100 dollars. On good turnpike paving paying tolls, it will cost 42 dollars. If the government should make the roads out of the surplus revenue, and have no tolls, the cost will be 35 dollars. Were the government to make canals without tolls, except sufficient to repair them; the expense of carrying one ton 300 miles would be 3 dollars.
But striking as this comparison is, says Mr. F. I will still extend it; the merchandise which can bear the expense of carriage on our present roads to Pittsburg, Kentucky, Tennessee, or any other distance of 300 miles, and which for that distance, pays 100 dollars a ton, could be boated, that is carried on canals, ten thousand miles for that sum.
Third, a machine for making Ropes. This engine is to be put in motion by a water wheel. It can stand in a room about 40 feet square; the rope yarns are put into it on spools, and any sized cordage, from a cod line to a hawser, can be made on it by the attention of one man. It is finished on the machine ready coiled, and has only to be removed to the warehouse. A rope mill of this kind is now building at Baltimore, by Mr. Nathaniel Cutting, who has made many ingenious improvements on the spinning of rope yarn, by machinery.
Fourth Invention. A boat to navigate under water. In this machine, Mr. Fulton and 3 persons continued under water one hour at Havre de Grace in France. He rowed about, while under water, in every direction, and steered by means of a compass. It had a mainsail and gib, like a common sloop. When pursued, the mast and sails could be taken in, and the boat dive under water in one minute, continue under water three hours, and rise to renew the air three miles from the place she went down; the air could be renewed in one minute, when the boat diving, could continue under water again for 3 hours. While making his experiments on this vessel, Mr. F. made a voyage in her from Havre to La Hague a distance of 18 leagues in the boisterous weather of the autumnal equinox, and found her to act perfectly well in open sea. By late improvements on this vessel, and the manner of obtaining air, 5 men may continue under water for 6 hours, and rise 15 miles from the place they went down. The object of this invention, was to find a certain mode of fixing an engine, which Mr. F. calls a torpedo, to the bottom of a ship of war, for the purpose of blowing her up; but after much labor and expense, he has abandoned this plan for fixing his torpedo. He has, however, fortunately discovered a method, which is certain, and infinitely more simple.
The Torpedo which is his fifth invention, is a copper case, which will contain from 50 to 100 pounds of powder. To it is fixed a gun-lock in a brass box, which lock strikes fire by means of a piece of clock-work, which can be set to one or more minutes. The torpedo thus prepared is made fast to a rope from 60 to 80 feet long; at the other end of the rope is a gun harpoon; the harpoon being fired into the bow of an enemy's vessel, the torpedo is thrown over board, and the action of the vessel through the water, draws it under her bottom, where the clock-work running out its time, explosion takes place, and the vessel is either blown up or her bottom so shattered as to render it impossible for the pumps to save her. This being the principle of the Torpedo, it is designed to make the attack with good and well manned row boats, each boat to have its harpoon and torpedo complete: 30 such boats to make the attack on one ship of war, 10 to attack on her larboard, and 10 on her starboard bow: this will divide the enemy's fire, and out of the number of harpoons some will take effect, in which case the vessel must from necessity be destroyed. This invention and the practice of it is yet in its infancy. Men in general will have doubts about its practicability or political consequences, as is the case with all new discoveries, until ocular demonstration compels belief. Mr. Fulton has labored with much zeal to bring this invention to a useful state of perfection. He now confidently asserts, that his theory is right, and that practice only is wanting to establish a system of attack, which in its consequences must annihilate military marines, and give that liberty to the seas which is so much desired by every friend to humanity, and America; and who can say, that he is not right in this prediction? Did not the invention of gun-powder totally change the art of war? And may it not again be changed? Out of the invention of gun-powder, military marines, those floating and destructive fortifications, have grown, which now rob us of our neutral rights. By the right application of gun-powder, may they not be destroyed? The object is a grand one, and merits every exertion of mind to effect it; and we should hope that it will be effected. Indeed, the prospect of success is flattering; for do not inventions less plausible in their commencement, by perseverance become permanent and useful establishments? Thirty years have been spent by ingenious men in endeavors to make a useful Steam-Boat. All failed, and the project had lost every credit in the public mind; yet the steam-boat has succeeded to the admiration of every friend to the useful arts, and is now looked up to, as a work of immense public benefit.
May we not then, without presumption, hope
The object of this invention is to reduce the expense of transportation to the lowest possible rate, and give a facility to bring down the produce of our remote interior to the sea ports, taking back in exchange the various merchandise. Such a system of easy transport would open infinite new scenes of industry, greatly increase the national resources, riches and strength, and bind the States together in the strongest bonds of confederation, those of interest, and the habits of easy intercourse.
that the same industry and perseverance which have penetrated into the complicated principles of the steam-boat, and organized them into utility, may also persevere to the establishment of a principle, which, driving military marines from the ocean, will give us every freedom of commerce which can be desired, remove every cause of dispute between us and European nations, secure to us lasting peace, and direct all our resources and energies to humane and useful pursuits.
Sixth Invention. The steam-boat—This has been completed at New-York. A boat of 150 feet long and 16 broad, was constructed by Messrs. Brown. This is put in motion by one of Watt and Boulton's steam engines. The boat is propelled by the revolution of two wheels, corresponding with each other, and driving her through the water. This noble invention, though attempted in vain by so many others, has perfectly succeeded in Mr. F's hands; and no better proof can be given of the excellence of the vessel thus constructed, than that she outstrips the mail and all other carriages by land, and makes better voyages than any other packets or boats, which navigate the Hudson, between New-York and Albany.
Admitting that any invention can be effected, which will destroy military marines, & consequently give freedom to the seas; there is a fine field for eloquence in displaying the immense advantages which would result from such a revolution in the affairs of man, from military and barbarous labors to civil improvements.
CHANGE OF CLIMATE!!
It is often asked, whether the climate of the United States is not undergoing certain revolutions—whether our winters are becoming more or less intense. It is a well known fact, that under similar degrees of latitude, the climate of Europe is much warmer than that of the United States; but it is not so generally known, that the climate of Europe itself, is much warmer now, than it was several centuries past. This fact is clearly established by the following extract from the 1st vol. of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
If we may judge therefore by analogy, we may certainly pronounce that the climate of the United States has become considerably warmer, and that at some future day, when our woods shall have been more completely cut down and our morasses drained, its temperature will be immensely changed. These revolutions too, will evidently be brought about in a shorter period than those of Europe—because population here advances with a bolder step, and civilization has now assumed a firmer foothold. How far these conclusions from analogy ought to be modified by the physical peculiarities of our country—particularly the chains of elevated mountains extending from the north to the south, and the large volume of water in the lakes on our northern frontier,—it is for naturalists to determine!!
Some ingenious writers (a) have suspected that Europe was much colder formerly than at present; and the most ancient descriptions of the climate of Germany tend exceedingly to confirm their theory. The general complaints of intense frost, and eternal winter, are perhaps little to be regarded, since we have no method of reducing to the accurate standard of the thermometer, the feelings, or the expressions of an orator, born in the happier regions of Greece or Asia. But I shall select two remarkable circumstances of a less equivocal nature. 1. The great rivers which covered the Roman provinces, the Rhine and the Danube, were frequently frozen over, and capable of supporting the most enormous weights. The barbarians, who often chose that severe season for their inroads, transported without apprehension or danger, their numerous armies, their cavalry, and their heavy wagons, over a vast and solid bridge of ice. (b) Modern ages have not presented an instance of a like phenomenon. 2. The rein-deer, that useful animal, from whom the savage of the North derives the best comforts of his dreary life, is of a constitution that supports, and even requires, the most intense cold. He is found on the rock of Spitzberg, within ten degrees of the Pole; he seems to delight in the snows of Lapland and Siberia; but at present he cannot subsist, much less multiply, in any country to the south of the Baltic. (c) In the time of Cæsar, the rein-deer, as well as the elk, and the wild bull, was a native of the Hercynian forest, which then overshadowed a great part of Germany and Poland. (d) The modern improvements sufficiently explain the causes of the diminution of cold. These immense woods have been gradually cleared, which intercepted from the earth the rays of the sun. (e) The morasses have been drained, and in proportion as the soil has been cultivated, the air has become more temperate. Canada at this day, is an exact picture of ancient Germany. Although situated in the same parallel with the finest provinces of France and England, that country experiences the most rigorous cold. The rein-deer are very numerous, the ground is covered with deep and lasting snow, and the great river of St. Lawrence is regularly frozen, in a season when the waters of the Seine & the Thames are invariably free from ice. (f)
(a) In particular Mr. Hume, the Abbé du Bos, and Mr. Pelloutier, Hist. des Celtes tom. 1. (b) Diodorus Siculus, l. 5. p. 340. Edit. Wessel. Merodian, l. 6. p. 221. Jornandes, c. 55. On the banks of the Danube, the wine, when brought to table, was frequently frozen into great lumps, trusta vini. Ovid. Epist. ex Ponto, l. 4. 7. 10. Virgil Georg. l. 3. v. 355. The fact is confirmed by a soldier and a philosopher, who has experienced the intense cold of Thrace. See Xenophon, Anabasis, l. 5. p. 560. Edit. Hutchinson. (c) Buffon Histoire Naturelle, tom. 12. p. 79. 116. (d) Cæsar de Bell. Gallic. VI. 23. &c. The most inquisitive of the Germans were ignorant of its utmost limits, although some of them had travelled it more than 60 days journey. (e) Cluverius (Germania Antiqua, l. 3. c. 47.) investigates the small and scattered remains of the Hercynian wood. (f) Charlevoix Histoire du Canada.
From the (Penn) Luzerne Federalist.
BRONCHOTOMY.
September 29, 1807.—Eliah Farrar's little daughter of Clifford, Luzerne county, aged about two years, while eating a piece of a watermelon, was suddenly taken coughing, choking, strangling and almost suffocated, which continued with short intervals for three weeks, which originated the opinion that she had sucked something into her windpipe. The child continued to be constantly affected with difficulty of breathing, choking, strangling and gasping for breath, from one to five minutes every time she coughed, cried or laughed, and it was with difficulty that she obtained a regular respiration afterwards.—March 6, 1808, doctors Truman Allen, Asa Park, and myself, met for consultation at the house of Mr. Farrar—with candor and attention examined the child, and were unanimous in opinion that she had a hard extraneous substance in her windpipe, which would ultimately terminate in her death, and to appearance shortly, and that a surgical operation was the only probable means within our reach that could be made use of to effectually remove the obstruction.
March 7, doctor Allen and myself, doctor Park acting as an assistant, performed the operation by cutting through the skin and muscles on the anterior part of the windpipe, and then a longitudinal incision was cut into the pipe 3 1/2 of an inch in length, just below what is called the pomum adami, or swell of the windpipe. After the bleeding had ceased, which was inconsiderable, we discovered on examination that the obstructing substance lay below the incisure, and that it was impracticable to introduce an instrument to extract it on account of the pipe being small, and the child's neck very short and fleshy. I then closed the wound and secured the integuments with a stitch, and after dressing it, she was laid on the bed. She immediately fell asleep, and slept about four hours. When she awoke, she coughed considerably for a few minutes, and her breath passed through the orifice of the pipe and her respiration became regular. Next morning the obstruction and difficulty of breathing appeared to be completely removed, but what constituted the obstruction, still remained undiscovered. Until the evening of March 7, (the child being left under my care) after removing the dressing, I observed that the wound was unusually swelled, and appeared to be irritated by a hard substance. I immediately removed the stitch, and on examining the wound I discovered and extracted a water melon seed, from the incision in the windpipe of a middling size, completely round, in the presence of a number of respectable witnesses. After the extraction of the seed, the wound healed very fast, and the child was completely recovered in three weeks after the operation and has remained free from all complaints of the windpipe, except such as are incident to children on taking cold, ever since the seed was extracted; it being now rising of a year since the operation was performed.
The above is a true statement of facts, as they occurred, and its authenticity may be relied on by the public.
Though Evil-Fame—(but that was long before) Had shown her dubious blast at CATHARINE'S door. A captain thither, rich from India came, And though a Cousin call'd, it touch'd her fame; And annual stipend rose from his behest, And all the long-joy'd Treasures she possess'd; If aught like joy a while appear'd to stay, In that stern face, and chace those frowns away; 'Twas when those Treasures she dispos'd away And heard the praises, to their splendour due: Silks beyond price, so rich they'd stand alone, And diamonds blazing on the buckled zone; Rows of large pearls, by curious workmen set, And bracelets fair, in box of glossy jet; Bright polish'd amber, precious from its size, Or forms, the fairest fancy could devise: Her drawers of cedar, shut with secret springs, And held the golden watch, the Ruby-rings; Letters, long proofs of love, and verses fine Round the pink'd rims of crisp'd Valentine. Her China Closet, cause of daily care, For woman's wonder, held her pencil'd ware; That pictur'd weath of China and Japan, Like its cold mistress, shunn'd the eye of Man. Her neat small room, adorn'd with maidens taste, A cippet French-puppy first of favorites grac'd. A parrot next, but dead, and stuff'd with art; (For Poll, when living, lost the Lady's heart, And then his life; for he was heard to speak, Such frightful words as ting'd the Lady's cheek.) Unhappy Bird! who had no power to prove, Save by such speech, his gratitude, and love. A grey old cat his whiskers held beside; A type of kindness in the house of pride in the house of pride. The polish'd surface of an India Chest, A glassy globe in frame of ivory prest; Where swam two funny creatures; one of gold, Of silver one; both beauteous to behold: All these were form'd, the guiding taste to suit; The Beasts well-manner'd, and the Fishes mute: A widow's Aunt was there, compelld by need, The Nymph to flatter, and her tribe to feed; Who, veiling well her scorn, endur'd the clog Mute as the fish, and fawning as the dog. As years increas'd, the treasures her delight, Arose in value, in their owner's sight: A miser knows, that view it as he will, A Guinea kept is but a Guinea still: And so he puts it to its proper use, That something more, this Guinea may produce: But silks and rings in the possessor's eyes, The other seen, the more in value rise, And thus are wisely hoarded, to bestow, On pride that governs, pleasure that will grow, But what avail'd their worth if worth had they, In the sad Summer of her slow decay; Then we beheld her turn an anxious look From Trunks and Chests, and fix it on her book; A rich cook of prayer, the Captain gave, (Some Princess had it, or was said to have.) And then once more, on all her stores, look round And draw a sigh so piteous and profound, That told "Alas! how hard from these to part, And then new hopes and habits form the heart! What shall I do, (she cried,) my peace of mind, To gain in dying, and to die reg'd!" 'Hear,' we return'd; these bawbles cast aside, Nor give thy God a rival in thy Pride, Thy closets shut, and ope thy kitchen's door; There own thy failings, here invite the Poor: A friend of Manum let thy bounty make, For widows, prayers, thy royalties forsake; And let the hungry, of thy pride, partake: Then shalt thy inward eye with joy survey, The angel Mercy tempering Death's delay! Alas! 'twas hard; the treasures still had charms, Hope still its flattery, Sickness its alarms; Still was the same unsettle'd, cloudy View, And the same plaintive cry, "What shall I do?" Nor change appear'd; for when her race was run, Doubtful we all exclaim'd, "What has been done?" A part she liv'd and still she lies alone; Yon earthly Heap awaits the flatt'ring stone; On which invention shall be long employ'd To show the various worth of CATHARINE LLOYD.
ELEAZAR PARKER. Willingboro, March 16, 1809.
Method of preserving the Cream and a great part of the Milk during the rearing of Calves. By M. Schnee.
From the Bibliotheque Physico Economique. It has hitherto been supposed, in most countries, that the best method of rearing calves, either for slaughter or for the flock, is to make them suck their mother. But it is now ascertained, that the following is to be preferred. Put some water on the fire, nearly the quantity the calf can drink. When it boils, throw into it one or two handfuls of oatmeal (query, corn-meal as good?) and suffer the whole to boil for a minute. It is then left to cool until it is no warmer than new milk. Then mix with it one or two quarts of milk that has stood twelve hours and has been skimmed; stir the whole, and give it to the calf to drink. At first it is necessary to make the calf drink by presenting the fingers to it, and it will soon learn to do without this help, and will grow incomparably faster than by the old method. This new method is not only a theoretical truth, but its success in confirmed by experience.
The economical advantages that result from it are as follows. According to the old method, a calf intended for slaughter is made to suck for three weeks, and those intended for agriculture from six to eight weeks; supposing the cow gives only a moderate quantity of milk, the value of it will amount in three weeks to nearly the value of a calf. If, on the contrary, we rear a calf according to this new method, we consume during the three weeks only three quarts of oat-meal, at most, and the skimmed milk.
M. Schnee adds, that he has practised this method himself, and that his calves have been always as healthy and strong as his neighbors, and not subject to disease. The only alteration he makes in it is, that he does not suffer calves to suck at all, but gives them the pure milk of the mother to drink for the first four days; because, he has observed, that the separation after four days is more painful to the mother than when the calf is taken from her soon after its birth. He makes no exception, only when the cow calves for the first time, because he thinks he has observed that in this case the lacteal vessels open more, and the cows are more easily milked, if the calf is allowed to suck for a few days.
THE MUSE!
The following description is from a volume of Poems lately published in England by the Rev. GEORGE CRABBE. He preface states, that about 25 years since, he published a poem called The Library—which was followed by The Village & The Newspaper. In these first productions, the author had the aid and advice of the celebrated Edmund Burke—by whom he was introduced to Sir Joshua Reynolds—who gave him the honor of an introduction to Doctor Johnson. The Village was submitted to the taste of this severe critic, who in a letter to Sir J. Reynolds, expresses the "great delight" with which he had perused it—and pronounces it to be "original, vigorous, and elegant." These poems met with a most favorable reception from the public. The Newspaper in particular is a fine specimen of humorous Satire directed by the hand of Truth. All these poems are here reprinted, with a few alterations and additions.
For twenty years the genius of the author seemed to have slept—when he came out with the larger poem of THE PARISH REGISTER and several other performances of inferior size and merit. This poem is appropriately divided into three books, according to the three great subjects which naturally occupy the pages of a Parish Register; Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. The M. S. of this production had the honor of being read & approved by Mr. Fox, in his last struggles with the "inveteracy of a fatal disease;" and of being the last composition of the kind, that of "engaged and amused the capacious, the candid, the benevolent mind of that great man." It consists of a series of sketches of lives and characters of persons, whose names are supposed to be successively inscribed during one year among the births, marriages, and deaths of the Parish. These sketches are generally striking and picturesque. The style of the composition seems to be of a compound character between the styles of Goldsmith and Cowper.
The following sketch of the Old Maid seems to be deficient in some of its lineaments—but in many others, it is descriptive and just:
Down by the Church-way-walk, and where the brook Winds round the chancel, like a shepherd's crook; In that small house, with those green pales before, Where jasmine trails on either side the door; Where those dark shrubs that now grow wild at will, Were cleft in form and tantaliz'd with skill; Where cockles blanch'd, and pebbles neatly spread, Form'd shining borders for the Larkspurs' bed; There liv'd a LADY, wise, austere, and nice, Who shew'd her virtue, by her scorn of vice; In the dear fashions of her youth she dress'd, A pea-green Joseph was her favorite vest; Erect she stood, she walk'd with stately mein, Tight was her length of Stays, and she was tall and lean. There long she liv'd in Maiden-state immured; From looks of love and treacherous man secur'd;
AN ACT To revive and continue for a further time, the authority of the commissioners of Kaskaskia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the powers heretofore vested in the register and receiver of public monies for the district of Kaskaskia, be and the same are hereby revived; and the said register and receiver shall be allowed until the 1st day of January next, to complete the investigation of claims, to land in said district; they shall have full power to revise any of their former decisions, and also the same power and authority in relation to claims to land in the village of Pioria; notices of which have heretofore been filed, as they have in relation to other claims in the said district; and the said register and receiver, and the clerk of the board, shall each be allowed an additional compensation of five hundred dollars in full for his services in relation to such claims.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives, J. N. MILLEDGE, President of the Senate, pro-tempore. Feb. 15, 1809. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON
LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT
IN CHANCERY.—Louisiana county, February Court, 1809. Joseph Woolfolk and Bentley Brown Plffs. against Samuel M. Smith, executor of John Brown deceased and Frederick Harris, Defs. THE defendant Samuel M. Smith not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of this court, that he is not an inhabitant of this state, therefore, on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel; It is ordered and decreed, by the court, That the said defendant Samuel M. Smith, do appear here on the second Monday in May next, and answer the plaintiffs bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the news-papers published in the city of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, & published at the front door of the court house of this county on some court day. A Copy. Teste, JOHN POINDEXTER, c. l. c. March 21. IN CHANCERY.—At a quarterly Court continued and held for King and Queen County, at the Courthouse on Tuesday the 14th of March, 1809. Joseph Temple, senr. Plff against John W. Semple and Edward Hill, Defs. The defendant John W. Semple not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that he is not an inhabitant of this state. On the motion of the plaintiff by his Counsel; It is ordered, that the said defendant John W. Semple do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the Bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order, be forthwith published in some public news-paper, printed in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of this Courthouse. A copy. Teste, RO: POLLARD, c. l. c. March 24.
FREIGHT & CHARTER. The fast sailing Ship, WOODKROP SIMS; Built of live oak and cedar, copper fastened, and coppered up to the binds; her upper works sails and rigging new and in complete order; Will load immediately, and sail as soon as possible, or may be stayed until the first 15 days after the next meeting of Congress. For terms apply to MR. CHAN. H. SAUNDERS, OR, SHANKS & INFORD. Norfolk, April 7
IN CHANCERY—Buckingham County, January Court, 1809.
John Scruggs Plaintiff, Vs. Wm. G. Bryant & James Martin Defendants.
ON the motion of the plaintiff, by counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendant Bryant, is not an inhabitant of this state; It is ordered and decreed, That unless the said Bryant shall appear here at May Court next, and answer the plaintiff's bill, the same will be taken for confessed as to him, and the matter thereof decreed accordingly, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public news-paper, of the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of this county.
A Copy. R. ELDRIDGE, jr. D. C. w8wp April 18.
IN CHANCERY—Buckingham County, March Term, 1809.
Elizabeth Talbot administratrix of Charles Talbot, deceased Plaintiff, against John Baskerville, jr. Defendant.
ON the motion of the plaintiff, by counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendant is not an inhabitant of this state; It is ordered and decreed, That unless the said defendant shall appear here on or before June Court next, and answer the plaintiff's bill, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed, and decree the matter thereof accordingly, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public news-paper of the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of this county.
A Copy. R. ELDRIDGE, jr. D. C. w8wp April 18.
IN CHANCERY—Buckingham County, March Term, 1809.
John Russell Plaintiff, against Wm. G. Bryant and James Martin Defendants.
ON the motion of the plaintiff, by counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendant Bryant is not an inhabitant of this state; It is ordered and decreed, That unless he shall appear here on or before June Court next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to him, and decree the matter thereof accordingly, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public news-paper of the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of this county.
A Copy. R. ELDRIDGE, jr. D. C. w8wp April 18.
TUITION.—A Person of respectable character, capable of teaching the Classics, and most of the important and useful branches of the English Language, wishes to engage with a respectable Family, as private Tutor for the remainder of this year; or to open a seminary in some pleasant Town or Village, where an assiduous and attentive Teacher might reasonably hope, in a short time, to establish a permanent School.—His Terms, for the remainder of this year, will be moderate, provided there is a favorable prospect of future advantage.—Satisfactory Testimonials and Recommendations can be produced for his Competency, Sobriety and Attention as a Teacher.—Letters (post paid) addressed to A. B. C. and left at the office of this paper will receive proper attention. w3w4f April 18.
FOR SALE—A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, lying on the banks of James River, nearly opposite to the Westover Estate; containing, between eight and nine hundred acres, bounded by the river upwards of a mile; by the lands of Mr. Harrison of Mayocks and the Road leading from Cooke's ferry to Petersburg; about one fourth part of the tract is cleared; it has some grass land and affords a good range for cattle, has a good Landing place, and a profitable fishing place might be made on it, at a small expense; it has no improvements except an old dwelling house. This land, with proper village, would make a good wheat farm. One fourth part of the price will be expected on giving possession, and for the residue a credit of two, four and six years will be given if required. Miles Seltzen, junr. will be good enough to show the land. Williamsburg, April 25. T. G. PEACHY. wtf
TO RENT OR LEASE, THE MILLS in the county of Goochland, commonly known by the name of the DOVER MILLS, situated on James River, about twenty miles above this city. These Mills are in good repair, furnished with two pair of BURR, and one pair COLOGNE STONES, and all necessary apparatus.—For terms enquire of Mr. Mayo C. Watkins living in the County of Goochland, near the Mills, or of the subscriber in the City of Richmond. THOMAS RUTHERFORD. w6w April 25.
LANDS, FOR SALE.—By virtue of a deed of trust executed by John Bibb, of the county of Charlotte, to the subscribers, to secure the payment of a debt due to Messrs. Buchanan and Pollock of the town of Petersburg: Will be sold, on Thursday, the 4th day of May next, at the house of the said John Bibb, to the highest bidder, for ready money, two tracts of LAND lying and being in the said county of Charlotte, one containing one hundred and sixty-five acres, it being the tract on which the said Bibb resides, and the other one hundred and fifty acres, it being the tract purchased by him of Benjamin Sublits, senr. lying on the waters of Cub creek. HENRY A. WATKINS, Wm. M. WATKINS, TH: B. MANLOVE. tds April 7.
LANDING from the Schooner RICHMOND, Isaac Seaman, Master:— 50 Boxes Raisins, 10 Bds Soft Shelled Almonds, 5 Casks Green Coffee, 19 Barrels Prime Pork, and 1 Pipe London Particular Madeira Wine. IN STORE. 17 Hogsheads Brown Sugar, 25 do. Molasses, 5 Tresses Green Coffee, 75 Boxes Hay-mah Segars, 3 Boxes Welch Planes, Family Flour in barrels and half barrels, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin and Souchong Tea, 10 Boxes Mould Candles, FOR SALE BY, GEORGE WATT. January 17.
Merchant's, Lawyer's, Sheriff's and Constable's BLANKS, For Sale at this Office.