Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1809-10-20 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVIII YEAR]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1698.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS,) BY SAUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum—Paid in Advance.]
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1809.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
The Thorough Bred English Horse,
WONDER. WILL STAND the ensuing season at my stable, at Painesville, (formerly Chinquapin Church) in Amelia county, and will be let to mares at five guineas the season, payable the twenty fifth day of December following; ten dollars the single leap to be paid down, and forty dollars to ensure a mare being in foal; the money for the insurance will be exacted if the property is changed; and in either case one dollar to the groom. Good and extensive pasture gratis, but I will not be responsible for accidents or escapes; mares fed upon reasonable terms, provided the money is sent with them. The season will commence the 1st of March and end the first of August follow- ing.
JOHN JETER.
As Wonder is a cripple and cannot conveniently travel, the following statement is added for the information of those who have not seen him, or any of his colts. We the subscribers are of opinion that the English horse Wonder, is one of the best foal getters in this part of the country; indeed we believe that his foals in general are of a superior size and form.
Richard Pryor, J. H. Claiborne, John North, John Smith, B. Boisseau, Jr. Wm: Cutler, Thomas Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Edward Watkins, R. Claiborne, Braddock Goodwyn, David Boisseau, Peter Manson, J. J. Thweatt, Manson Harwell, T. Thweatt, Armstead Burwell,
In 1796, Wonder then two years old, won the sweepstakes at York, of fifty guineas each, for two years old, colts eight stone, fillies seven stone twelve pounds, six subscribers, beating Lord A. Hamilton's brother to Ratoon, and Mr. Louther's B. C. by Diomed, out of Tulip, twenty to one against the winner. In 1797, when 3 years old, carrying 8 stone 7 lbs. at Doncaster he beat Mr. Sitwell's Commodore, eight stone the last half mile for 100 guineas. The same day he received forfeit from Mr. Barker's G & C Haphazard 8 stone each, 200 guineas each 2 miles. In 1798, he won the great produce subscription at York, of 200 guineas each, five subscribers, four miles. In 1799 he won the sweepstakes at Stamford of ten guineas each, for all ages, beating Mr. Heathcote's Water, eight subscribers, two miles. The same year he won second in a sweepstakes at York, for twenty guineas each, seven subscribers, two miles, beating Lord A. Hamilton's colt by Walnut out of Nun, Sir T. Gascoigne's Maid of the Mill, and Abraham Newland, now called the Cock Fighter. In 1800, for the York Outlands of 60 guineas each, he won second to Cock Fighter, allowing him 7 pounds, beating Mr. Coodon's Sir Harry, eleven subscribers, two miles. The same year at Doncaster, he beat Sir John Armitage's Tartar, 100 guineas. The same year he challenged Mr. Johnson's Sir Solomon, offering 5 pounds, 500 guineas two miles.
WONDER was lame in training in 1801, and has never since started. He was bred by Lord Fitzwilliam, is 15 hands 3 inches high, full of bone, very handsome, and free from all natural blemishes. He is a dark chestnut sorrel, and is unquestionably as fine a horse as was ever imported into this country, and of as good a stock; and as a runner he is certainly exhibited well, having beaten Water, Cock Fighter, and Sir Harry, three distinguished races on the English turf. It will be observed that his dam was got by Diomed, and he is perhaps as nearly like his Granddam as it is possible for one horse to be like another. Wonder covered two seasons in England, the first at two, and the last at five guineas, which strongly indicates his growing reputation as a foal getter. His superior size, his excellent form, his high pedigree and good performances as a racer, certainly entitle him to a rank among the best horses in this country.
Wonder was got by Phenomenon; his dam (who was also the dam of Lord Fitz William's Brown Fanny) by Diomed; granddam by Marske; Young Hag—Saundersham's dam by Skim; Old Hag; Hydria's dam by Crab; Ebony by Childers; out of Old Ebony by Basto. Phenomenon was got by King Herod; his dam Phrenzy by Eclipse; her dam by Engineer; granddam by Blank—Lass of the Mill by Traveller—Miss Markelless by Greyhound—Partner—Woodcock—Croft's bay Barb—Markelless Brimmer—Dicky Pierson, son of Dods worth—Burton's Barb mare. Taken from the General Stud Book.
Twenty dollars will be received, for the season, if paid when the mare is covered. August 2d 1809.
J. J.
STOLEN from the subscriber, near Prince Edward court house, in the night of the 22d September, a four year old WELDING, about four feet eight inches high, well formed, in full plight, and handsomely spotted; his mane and tail in their natural state.
It is believed his handsome spotted body must attract the notice of those who may see him; I have therefore to request among my friends, the aid of the owners of ferries, to enquire for information; and if any can be obtained from their boatmen, to be so good as to advise me by post. FRANCIS WATKINS.
Oct. 13.
MATRESSES
OF ALL SIZES AND KINDS, MADE and repaired, agreeably to order, in the large wooden house opposite the Old Church, two squares below the market ridge, Richmond.
J. S. Pleasants.
May 31, 1809
LOUISA COUNTY,
August Court, 1809.
William Ragland, Pleasant Hackett and Lucy his wife, late Lucy Ragland, Thomas Poindexter and Sarah his wife, late Sarah Ragland, Thomas B. Watkins and Ann his wife, late Ann Ragland, John Graves and Mary his wife, late Mary Ragland, James Michie and Henrietta his wife, late Henrietta Ragland, and Nicholas J. Poindexter and Rebecca his wife, late Rebecca Ragland.
Plaintiffs,
AGAINST Samuel Overton, jr. adm'r. with the will annexed of Samuel Ragland, dec'd. William Cooke, James Nelson, James Michie, Wm. G. Poindexter, ex'r. of Warner H. Broadus, dec'd. Overton Harris, Edward Ragland, Elizabeth Lawrence, adm'x of William Lawrence, dec'd. Thomas Holladay, Thornton Gibson, Nicholas Meriwether and Barnett Moore and James Michie, adm'r. de bonis non of Samuel Ragland dec'd.
Defendants.
THE defendants Samuel Overton jr. adm'r. with the will annexed of Samuel Ragland, dec'd. Edward Ragland, Nicholas Meriwether and Barnett Moore, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this state; On the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendants, Samuel Overton, jr. adm'r. Edward Ragland and Barnett Moore, do appear here on the second Monday in November next and answer the plaintiffs' bill; and a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers printed in the City of Richmond for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of the court house of this county on some court day.
A Copy,
JN: POINDEXTER, C. L. C.
NOTICE. —A petition will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying that a law may pass for selling the lands of Samuel Dixon, deceased, lying in the county of Hanover. The object of the said intended sale is to make a more beneficial division of the subject among the subscribers. Mary Richard, Henry St. John Dixon, George Dixon, jr., Rosanna Dixon and George Dixon, jr. (who are the only heirs at law of the said Samuel Dixon) than it is believed can otherwise be effected, as the said Samuel Dixon died intestate, and some of the said subscribers are infants, and the said lands not susceptible of an advantageous division.
Mary Richard.
Henry St. John Dixon.
George Dixon.
George Dixon, Junr. By their nearest friend,
Rosanna Dixon, John Richard
October 6th, 1809. wtf
JOHN HOLLINS, Has stated to the Editor of the Baltimore Federal Gazette, that the Suit in Chancery, was forced upon him, in order to close finally his concerns of all descriptions with J. Barney; a discussion, therefore, in the papers he declines, being before the proper tribunal. He in the mean time, requests that the public opinion may be suspended as respects to the publication of Saturday, until a legal settlement is had, and to which no unnecessary delay has ever been given by him.
Should any of the papers publish J. Barney's piece, they are requested to add the above, and forward their bills to the Editor of the Baltimore Federal Gazette. Baltimore, Oct. 12. tf
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY.
AT a meeting of the directors of the said company, on Friday the 13th of October, 1809.
Resolved, That the shares of all delinquent share-holders in the said company be sold at the Washington Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on Saturday the 21st day of next month, at 12 o'clock of that day.
Resolved, That a call of five dollars on each share be paid by the share-holders in the company to the treasurer, on or before the first day of December next.
A Copy,
N. SHEPPARD, CLK.
NOTE. —The subscriber having administered upon the Estate of the late Mr. JOHN HUGHES, senr. of Gumber and now Powha county, it is earnestly requested if there be any demands against that Estate, that they may be brought forward on or before the first day of January next, properly authenticated, and receive payment, as I intend to make a division of the residue of that Estate immediately after the said first day of January next, after which this advertisement will be plead in bar against any claim whatsoever.
JOHN CUNLIFFE, Adm'r.
with the will annexed.
Coalpit, Chesterfield county, 16th Oct. 1809. (11)
Dampfle,
CARDS,
HAND-BILLS,
LAWYERS,
CLERKS & STATIONERS BLANKS, &c.
ARE NEATLY
AND EXPEDITIOUSLY PRINTED AT THE
ARGUS OFFICE.
Foreign.
LONDON, August 26.
The King has been pleased to grant the dignities of Baron and Viscount of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, unto the Right Hon. Sir Arthur Wellesley, Knight of the most Honorable Order of Bath, and Lt. Gen. of his Majesty's forces, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, styles and titles of Baron Douro of Wellesley, in the county of Somerset, and Viscount Wellington of Talavera, and Wellington, in the said county.
August 28.
By the new Swedish Constitution, which has lately been made public at Stockholm, in five sheets quarto, the king is to be assisted by a Council of State, consisting of nine members, by whose advice he makes peace or war, and transacts all important affairs. All public offices must be filled by natives. The King has the supreme command of the land and naval forces. The royal age of majority takes place at twenty. Should the male branch of the Royal Family become extinct, the Council governs until the States are convoked. No Prince Royal can marry without the consent of the States.
August 29.
The People of England are at length beginning to awake from the delusive dream by which they have been amused for the last month. The Expedition, as we predicted, and as every person of common understanding might have foreseen, is about to return, without having accomplished the avowed object for which it was prepared, whether a difference of opinion among the superior Officers does or does not exist—whether Col. Congreve did or did not come home for orders, with respect to the ulterior objects of our armament, we will not undertake to say; but this we know, that our force has lingered before secondary objects, until the grand primary object of the expedition is believed to be now unattainable. Thus ends the conquest of Holland and expulsion of King Louis. Even Flushing, almost the first fruits of our efforts, is already at the end, and compelled to stand on the defensive! When we look back even but a few weeks, and reflect on the opprobrious calumnies with which every one presuming to doubt the full success of the Expedition, was loaded, we surely may be excused for exclaiming—what infatuation!
The accomplishment of the ulterior objects of the Expedition seems to be completely given up, and the belief is now very generally prevalent that the operations of the Expedition in Holland are at an end. The almost universal question now is, where does the expedition go next—some say to Sicily—some to Cadiz—others to Lisbon? Perhaps it will puzzle our vigorous Ministers to know where to send it. We now relinquish all hope of the power of England being usefully directed by me who have so repeatedly exhibited proofs of utter incapacity in that respect.
In what part of the Peninsula the late Sir A. Wellesley will receive the nomination of his exaltation to the rank of Viscount, is uncertain—for brilliant as he is, he is not a British army and commander by their gallant defence at Talavera—they have retreated—re-treating—and must retreat, before a disciplined and experienced force, of acknowledged numerical superiority.
From Germany, we are without intelligence, amongst the next that is received may be anticipated peace between France and Austria; and long before Christmas, we apprehend, that neither on the Great Peninsula, nor on the Continent of Europe, with the exception of Gibraltar, will there be one British regiment.
From a Gotenburg Mail, which arrived this day, we extract the following intelligence:
"STOCKHOLM, Aug. 10.
We have not yet received accounts from our army and navy, nor has anything transpired of the present state of the negotiations for Peace between this country, Russia and Denmark."
Lieut. May, the bearer of Sir R. Strachan's despatches of the surrender of Flushing, is promoted to the rank of Commander.
Dr. Anderson, of the Botanical Gardens, at St. Vincents, has transmitted to this country specimens of the bark of five different kinds of trees, which he conceives may become substitutes for oak barks in tanning. They are all common on this island, and if found to possess the astringent or tanning quality, may be procured at a very low price.
The magazines found in Flushing are very considerable; in one store alone there were found 12,000 sacks of flour, all public property.
The Schooner John arrived at Plymouth from Oporto, which place she left on the
12th instant, bringing intelligence that the Friends transport arrived there from England a few days previous to her sailing, with about 5000 stand of arms on board, and another transport laden with shoes, for the use of the Portuguese army—the whole of which, together with the arms, were landed the day they arrived; and the next day 5000 Portuguese troops marched from Oporto for Vigo, who were chiefly commanded by British officers. Several detachments of Portuguese regiments, amounting together to about 8000 men, were left to garrison Oporto, the greater part of which were not armed. Immediately on intelligence being received at Oporto of the victory obtained by our troops at Talavera, a general illumination took place for three nights. About 1100 Portuguese troops who left Oporto to join the British army, a few days before the action took place, fell in with a division of the French army, who massacred the whole of them.
The city of Antwerp which is supposed to be the ultimate object of the expedition, forms no part of the former territories of Holland; it is situated about 40 miles S. E. of Flushing, on the east side of the Scheldt, which is here of sufficient depth and width to admit vessels of great burden close to the quay. The commerce of this city, rather more than two centuries ago, was superior to any other state in Europe, 2500 merchant vessels arriving in its port in one year. In 1850 the value of the merchandise imported that year amounted to 133 millions. But when the United provinces threw off the Spanish yoke, having got possession of the entrance of the Scheldt, they sunk obstructions in the Channel to prevent a free navigation. The town is surrounded by a wall and regular fortifications. The navigation of the river was declared free in August, 1794.
Last week, William Constable and Richard Cockerell two manufacturers, were apprehended at Hull, for preparing to leave this kingdom for America.
The dominions of Hanover, to the amount of two millions of livres yearly, have been distributed by Bonaparte among his Generals and Ministers. The following have the largest grants:
Berthier, Bernadotte, Mortier, Duroc, Ney, Augereau, Massena, Caulaincourt, Davoust, Soult, Lefebvre, Lebrun, Bessieres, Junot, Victor, Fouché, Champagny Decres, and Cretet.
The following is given as the present price of provisions at Flushing:—Fowls 6d each; butter, 4d per lb; cheese, 2d per lb; Hams, 2s. 6d. per gallon; a pig weighing 250 lbs. 1l. 1s. English; a fat sheep, 8s.
The annual conference of the Methodists held this year at Manchester, terminated on Thursday, 259 preachers attended. Actual increase of Members during the past year, 14,200—6,200 in England and Ireland, and 8000 in America. The number of preachers received at conference, after the four probationary years, exclusive of those in the districts, was 20; and the number of new chapels opened since last conference is stated to be considerable.
August 30.
Letters have been received from Petersburg to the 31st ult. and from Riga to the 11th instant.—By these we learn that the report of a general embargo in the harbours of Russia, and the Baltic is erroneous. It is true, that an embargo has been imposed, but, instead of being general, it is confined to native ships only, and its sole object is to prevent their falling into the hands of the powerful British force cruising in that sea. With a license from this country it is understood that any Russian ships would be permitted to take their departure. All the difficulties respecting the American vessels in the port of Riga, have been removed by the good understanding which subsists between the consignees and the official agents of the Russian Government.
Orders have been received at Woolwich to prepare artillery for another Expedition.
MIDDLESEX, Aug. 23.
On the 21st instant the following Proclamations were published:
PROCLAMATION.
"His excellency Lord Chatham, commanding the troops of his Britannic Majesty, being informed that many deserters and persons belonging to the French troops, and some of them armed, are on the Island, orders, that the before mentioned armed or unarmed deserters, or other persons, be arrested, and delivered over to the nearest English detachment, and that no one resume to harbour such deserters, or any of being sentenced, on conviction, to a penalty of 100 florins (one half of which shall be given to the informer whose name shall be kept secret) and be otherwise severely punished according to military law. Military deserters, and other persons, belonging to the French army, not surrendering within three days, shall be punished as spies."
PROCLAMATION.
"His Excellency Lord Chatham, &c. &c. being informed that many persons pass from one island to another, without being furnished with the necessary passports, orders, that no one presume to repair from the island of which he is an inhabitant, to another island without having obtained a passport from the Magistrate, which must be signed by the General or Commanding Officer, on pain of being arrested."
"All Ferymen and Mariners are commanded to take no one over unfurnished with a pass. The transgressor of this command shall not only suffer the loss of the boat, or vessel but shall, according to circumstances, be punished according to military law."
The Marquis Yujo (formerly Spanish Minister to the U. States,) has proceeded to Brazil, as the minister of the Spanish Junta to the court of the house of Braganza.
ESTIMATE
OF THE AUSTRIAN TERRITORIES IN THE POSSESSION OF THE FRENCH.
[From a German paper.]
The parts of the Austrian Monarchy possessed by French troops are:
   German miles. Inhabitants     Lower Austria 573 4,700,000   Styria 398 812,000   Carinthia 190 280,000   Carinola, with the county of Goritz and the territory of Montalcone 251 422,000   Friese 30,000   Salzburg & Berchtesgaden 179 193,000   Flume 6,600   Of Moravia, about 180 500,000   Of Galicia 200 500,000   Of Hungary  
The total number of inhabitants in the above countries is about 8,475,600. The territory independent of the Hungarian Gaspaunchats, the superficial extent of which is not accurately ascertained, contains 3,775 German square miles. Before the commencement of the war, the whole Austrian Monarchy contained, according to Lichtenstein, only 10,936 square miles, and 24,900,400 inhabitants. It appears therefore that the French possess more than one third of the Austrian states.
The most important towns in these provinces are:—
   Inhabitants.     Vienna 220,000   Linz 18,700   Graz 30,000   Clagenfurth 10,000   Lbach 11,000   Trieste 14,600   Salzburg 9,200   Brunn 21,000   Lemberg 38,400   Craow 25,000   Praeburg 26,900   Edinburgh 12,000   Raab 10,700  
With respect to Hungary, it ought to be observed, that the part of that kingdom in possession of the French, is that which is the most productive in corn, wine, and cattle.
LONDON, Aug. 31.
We have at length arrived precisely at that point of failure and disaster which has long been foreseen by such as chose to exercise their understanding. Our expedition to the Scheldt returns to England unsuccessful. Our gallant army in the Peninsula indignantly retires before superior numbers; and Ischia and Procida, in the Bay of Naples, are evacuated by Sir John Stuart.
Thus have failed all our Expeditions; and the efforts (we blush to use the term) of England have had no more influence on the content in Germany, than the Protest and excommunication of the candid Pope now reduced to this pastoral and pristine simplicity of character a mere Bishop! Of those who weakly avert their eyes from that on which they dread to look, who prefer the fabrications, the fallacies, the deception, the contradictions, the absurdities of the Nubob's Morning Post, The Times, the Courier, and the whole tribe of hirelings, we implore their attention to the real state to which England is at last reduced. Observations, applicable to the affairs of common life, are not less so to those of nations, and we all know, that when an individual refuses to examine his real situation, destruction invariably follows. England, in extent of surface, and in population inferior, but in point of actual power, possessing as she does, the ocean, certainly superior to even the colossal power of France,—after having goaded that kingdom to war, having absolutely failed in every effort to restrain her power, and it is no longer possible to doubt that Napoleon now reigns paramount over the entire Continent of Europe.—Peace with Austria can no longer be doubtful. In the

prospect of this event we certainly feel satisfaction from our firm conviction that the renewal of hostilities would have led, and the most speedily, to the extinction of the Austrian Monarchy. Whatever may be the delusive expectations of the impossibility of restraining commerce the crisis is approaching with accelerated velocity in which the Continent of Europe, as to our commerce, will be hermetically sealed. Then, and not till then, will the people of England be taught, that a too widely extended commerce cannot confer permanent power on any nation. The contest in which England is now struggling, is specifically a war for commerce. Do we approach the subject for which we draw the sword? Is that object in the belief of any man of ordinary understanding, not attainable by the further efforts of England? We have preserved until Napoleon has surrendered himself, as M. Sherman most truly observed, with thrones. He has Monarchs for his clients; and Louis on the Scheldt, Joachim in Naples, and Joseph in Spain, will in spite of all our efforts, reign where Napoleon has placed them. England must at last return to that peace which she wantonly broke—and there can be no possible consequences resulting from peace which may not be anticipated by a continuance of war.
Napoleon will acquire ships, commerce and colonies; and suppose he does not the world wide enough for us all? Is it possible that an Island in the Western part of Europe shall be able to permanently maintain its monopoly, against which not only France but also all Europe is contending? Vain hope! Because we have spent some hundred millions in war, nothing will do but that those whom we cannot subdue, shall contribute to pay their shares of our expenditure. That in fact is the true state of the case. "Where 700 millions; how can we pay the interest without trade, and how can we have trade if we make Peace?" To this we would simply ask, What trade will you have in twelve months if the war is not terminated? Where are we to fight next? Suppose the Isles of France and Bourbon in the East—and Guadeloupe in the West Indies, to be in our possession—that even all intercourse between Asia, America, and Africa shall be interdicted to the Continent of Europe. Will that interdiction diminish the power of Napoleon and his tributary Emperors and Kings? The hope is vain. England has always been formidable—and is now more capable of defending herself against any effort that may be made by Napoleon than she was in the reign of Elizabeth. The power and military reputation of Spain at that period bore a strong resemblance to that of France at this moment. No thing so certainly tends to consolidate invigorate and extend the power of France as war, and nothing would so certainly dispose her people to a permanent peace, as ships, colonies and commerce.
The intelligence received from Lord Wellington, contains no information of which we were not before possessed: He was at Deletera on the 8th. It is the opinion of well informed persons, that if he has the good fortune to conduct the British army to a point of embarkation, his talents will be made more conspicuously displayed than in any former action of his life. The Spaniards are reportedly averse to the presence of a British army in Spain. This is an important fact, of which we have not the smallest doubt. The Spaniards are jealous of our presence in Spain—and the appointment of Lord Wellington, as Generalissimo, has finally ruined the cause; the Spaniards are no longer unanimous; they are adivided people.
It is at length discovered that the Expedition undertaken on erroneous information—So far from the Dutch receiving us with open arms, as the City Nephant, who furnishes Ministers with that false intelligence led them to believe, the Dutch have us with the spirit of an envious rival; our commerce has risen in the ruins of that of Holland, once pre-eminent. We have destroyed their navy, captured their colonies, ruined their trade—and expected to be received with open arms!!! We boasted of what could be effected by commerce. France saw it; all Europe saw it; and the Continent of Europe determined to have manufactures and commerce. There is room enough for all. We have capital, experience, ingenuity and industry, and may have happiness and comfort by peace—inevitable, certain misery by war.
The German papers contain no positive information of peace—but that event is put beyond all doubt. The French troops invade, and will now ultimately subjugate Spain. Turkey is doomed to fall, and a conjoint effort of France and Russia is certainly meditating against India. That the destruction of our monopoly in Asia is the interest of all Europe, we think no one will be found sufficiently hardy to deny. To the list of European Monarchs is to be added Alexander Berthier, who, from Prince of Neufchatel, it appears, is destined by Napoleon to reign over the countrymen of William Tell! & the once free Republics of Holland & of Switzerland, may now exclaim—
Tempora mutant et nos mutamur in illis. England herself now stands upon a precipice more imminently dangerous than any to the brink of which she has ever yet been driven by her Minister, or by her passions—and nothing but the voice of the people loudly, irresistibly expressed, can save her!
In thus avoiding our settlement on the real state of England, we have abstained from naming Ministers.—The change of Ministers we deem utterly unimportant. The present are, perhaps, as good as those who might succeed them under the present system—for it is by a total change of system and public sentiment that England can alone be saved.
It was reported in the city yesterday, that Government had acceded to a proposition from France and Austria, to send an ambassador to Congress, to be held for the purpose of negotiating a general peace. Lord St. Helens was said to be actually nominated for this purpose. The report excited a considerable sensation in the city, and perhaps had its origin in some stock-jobbing speculation.
A most important source is current on the Continent that the Archduke Charles was to be engaged on a mission to Alexander, to apprise that potentate of the danger of his situation, from his subservience to Bonaparte, and of the necessity of his joining in the common cause of Germany to resist the encroachments of Napoleon, who was endeavouring to extend his empire from the White Sea to the Eastern Shores of the Mediterranean.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Cons. 63 1/8—3 per Cent Red. 63 3/4—Owm 3 3/4 prem.
LONDON, Aug. 31. FRENCH NAVY.—Some years ago we presented a list of the French Navy to our readers. Some of our naval correspondents enabled us to supply some deficiencies, and to make it so correct as to become a table of reference to the politician. We now present a new catalogue of the ships and frigates of our arch enemy, and we trust we shall be favoured with hints for correction from our naval correspondents. A. at Antwerp, B. at Brest, C. at Cadiz, G. at Genoa, O. at Lorient, R. at Rochefort, T. at Toulon, Bl. blockaded up or on shore in B. square Roads.
Ships of 120 guns. Austerlitz, T. Majestueux, R. Commerce de Paris, Ocean, Bl. Invincible, B. [T.] Ville de Paris, R.
Ships of 80 guns. Feudroyant, Bl Neptune, C. Ajax, R. Gemappe, Bl. Albanois, A. Genois, G. Alcide, O. Heros, C. Algésiras, C. Illustre, A. Alliance, B. Jean Bart, B. Annibal, T. Josephine, A. Anversais, A. Lion, R. Argonaute, C. Magnanime, R. Atlas, T. Menandre, B. Audacieux, A. Palmier, O. Batave, B. Patriot, Bl. Bellona, T. Phaeton, T. Boree, T. Pluton, C. Breslau, G. Pallas, A. Brouss, B. Regulus, Bl. Castor, B. Revolution, B. Chremagne, A. Robuste, T. Caesar, B. [ons, A] Souverain, C. Commerce, de Ly. Saffrein, R. Conquerant, B. Superb, T. Constitution, B. Tourville, Bl. Cosart, Bl. Thesee, A. Courageux, O. Ulysse, B. Dalmatie, A. Union, B. Dantzic, A. Vanqueur, C. Dessaix, A. Valeureux, B. Duguesclin, A. Veteran, B. Ecole, B. Ville de Berlin, A. Friedland, A. Wattigny, B. Gaulois, B.
Frigates. Argus, 32 guns Manche, 32. Artémise, 36 Méganèse, 32. Brave, 44 Milanese, 32. Calypso, 40 Naïade, 40. Cannuniere, 44 Necessite, 32. Carabine, 44 Palimure, 44. Circe, 36 Pallas, 40. Comete, 44 Penelope, 40. Corneille, 40 Poursuivante, 40. Gybele, 44 Revanche, 48. Diligence, 36 Semillant, 36. Dryade, 40 Sybille, 40. Elbe, 36 Sirene, 44. Experiment, 50 Themis, 36. Felicite, 48 Thetis, 36. Furieuse, 36 Torche, 32. Hermone, 40 Unique, 40. Horatense, 36 Valenciennes, 44. Incomparable, 32 Valeureuse, 44. Incorruptible, 36 Victorieuse, 44. Italienne, 44 Venus, 44. Josephine, 44 Zephire, 32. Julieanne, 44.
The Elbe, the Horatense, and the Pallas, are said to be on shore in Basque Roads—but we have received no authentic account of their destruction.
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 5, 1809. FREDERICK VI KING, &c.
Make known that circumstances have determined us to order and command the following respecting privateering.
1. No armed private ship or vessel furnished with a licence, or commission to capture vessels according to our order of 10th Sept. 1807, shall be permitted to sail from any of our ports from this date, until we shall order to the contrary. 2. All our authorities, bailiffs, &c. are commanded to watch over the execution of this Decree. Should any Commander of an armed vessel wish to sail from a port of less security to a more secure one, he shall be permitted to do so by our bailiffs, &c.; but on condition that the Commander obliges himself, immediately, and without cruising, to make direct for the port he has requested to be permitted to go. 3. The owners of privateers are ordered to recall them as soon as possible; and if they should not be laid up within four weeks from the publication of this, they are ordered to account to the authorities how far, and in what manner they have endeavoured to recall them; and the Authorities are charged to look to the fulfilment of it. 4. Such Commanders of privateers as intend to go on a cruise from the western parts of our Dukedom of Holstein, also Flensbourg, Husum and Fredericksstadt, to
Cruise to and round Heligoland, shall be permitted to do so, provided they enter into an obligation not to cruise beyond the waters of Heligoland, nor beyond the height of Toning. If privateers of our other dominions are desirous to go through the Schleswig, Holstein Canal, or along the West Coast and Jutland, the harbours of Holstein and Schleswig, with a view to cruise under the Heligoland, they are permitted to do so provided they go direct as ordered in section two.
5. The delivery of licences and commissions for privateers is postponed until our further Royal Commands.
All who are concerned are commanded to act accordingly. Given under our hand and seal, in our residence, Copenhagen, the 2d Aug. 1809. FREDERICK R.
Mosting, Eggers, Janssen, Rothe.]
Translated for the Freeman's Journal. His excellency and Most Illustrious Vice-roy and Archbishop of the kingdom of Mexico, Don Francisco Le Zama de Beaumont, has ordered the following proclamation to be published the 25th of July, 1809.
INHABITANTS OF NEW SPAIN! I have been promoted without having wished for it, to the supreme government of these vast and precious dominions, by the Providence of God and by the grace of Ferdinand VII. our king, represented by the Supreme Central Junta now governing Spain and the Indies. I find myself now united to you by bonds more sacred and inseparable, at least more public and universal than those which united me before as your metropolitan archbishop. My sons and my flock, belonging to my venerable self, I am.
Till now, your eternal happiness has been the principal object of my love, my prayers, and my tears. Henceforward, your temporal felicity will be my particular attention, and will be the object of my thoughts and my cares. You were before, all my Sons in Jesus Christ; I shall now also be your Father in the name of the King. Yes, this name, among the many which corresponds with the dignity and office of Viceroy, is the one which I will adopt among you all, while I manage the reins of government which I have taken in my trembling hands. I say trembling hands: because, having in meekness and humility borne the Shepherd's pastoral crook, it would be an intolerable presumption in me to grasp the sword of Viceroyalty with too much arrogance and confidence. Nevertheless, I have accepted it as a good Bishop and a good Spaniard, in obedience to the Supreme Authority which has confided it to me. I have obeyed; not only for the purpose of giving you all an example of docility and obedience, but also to show that I have not degenerated, by a scandalous resistance, from your native character, which is docile and obedient.
INHABITANTS OF SPANISH AMERICA! A follower of the Apostles and a Viceroy of the Spanish monarch, does not know nor ought to know, any sort of adulation, I am a witness of your heroic fidelity, and will be the praiser of your truly patriotic Spanish virtues. And if with the enormous weight with which my weak shoulders are loaded, my soul is not dismayed, it is because I confide in the succours of Heaven so abundantly showered on the Spanish nation, and which I hope to obtain by your religious deportment. I rely also, on the advice of those respectable ministers of the king, of whose knowledge, integrity and zeal, I have the most indubitable testimony; together with the prudent counsel of my dear and venerable brothers the suffragans of this metropolis; and on the prayers of all the regular and secular clergy of this kingdom! I rely, likewise, on the honour and experience of the military chiefs, and on the valour and loyalty of the numerous and brilliant army of this kingdom of New Spain; as well as in the zeal, integrity and experience of the directors and officers of the royal treasury, in all their vast and important branches. I entirely confide in the docility, obedience and peaceableness of you all, beloved sons and subjects of Ferdinand VII. Did I not thus confide in you, what else could be expected from me, a weak man, inferior, and borne down with the weight of the mitre, than an immediate and determined renunciation of the reins of government. But I will not do it, while my king and my country demand my few services. To them I willingly sacrifice my repose, and even if it was demanded, my life.
Spanish Americans!
Justice, mercy and peace, will be my companions, that by them you may enjoy all happiness. Endeavour to cultivate the arts and sciences in your houses and in your provinces, and carefully attend to whatever will promote the interests of agriculture & the commerce of the mines. And if, through rashness, the barbarous and impious Frenchmen should dare to invade our country, I will, immediately grasp the sword, I will put myself at the head of your soldiers, I will defend your houses and possessions, and I will drive away the cruel and perfidious enemies that would presume to disturb your repose, in the same manner as the archbishops of Toledo, Rodriguez, Mendozas and Cisneros, have done before, and as has been done latterly by the venerable bishop of St. Andros.
INHABITANTS OF THIS KINGDOM!
The Glory of God and of his holy religion, the interests of Ferdinand VII. and the nation, and your individual happiness and tranquility, will be the sole objects of my attention, and the only ends to which my decrees will be directed. Be not afraid that intrigue and influence will have any share in my government. I have most willingly delivered up, for the exigencies of the crown, all that I possessed over and above my Episcopal income. I will likewise, with pleasure, do the same with the salary appertaining to me as Viceroy. Yes, generous patriots, our common mother is in want of our succours to finish, with glory, the great work she has in hand; and thanks to Heaven, it has much advanced, and she hopes to attain it by our love and gratitude. Continue then, your donations in abundance, remain united in the
sweet bonds of union and peace, and assist your mother Spain to wipe away before the face of the world and for all ages, that black and horrible calumny—which the intruder and false king Joseph published last March in Madrid to deceive all the provinces of Spain and all Europe—that this kingdom was burning with intestine divisions. Oh WICKED! Know that the Spanish blood never degenerates by having crossed the Atlantic ocean, nor does it lose its spirit and energy in America. Here are worthy sons and grandsons of the Conquerors of Baylen, and of the Heroes of Saragossa, Valencia, Catalonia, Asturias, Galicia and Estremadura, and of all the provinces of Spain. We have in America brothers and descendants of those who there confounded you with their arms, with their loyalty, and even with their last breath. Tremble now at the name of the Spanish Americans, who, if they have not an opportunity of carrying on the war against you sword in hand, do it with their FIDELITY and their MONEY, which they have sent in abundance to their brothers for your destruction.
INHABITANTS OF THIS KINGDOM! I have given to you the thoughts and the ideas, with which the Archbishop of Mexico commences his government as Viceroy. But I cannot depart from the character of being the successor of the disciples of Jesus Christ, who is the Supreme King of Kings, and I therefore salute you with the last words which they heard from the blessed mouth of their Divine Master—"Peace be with you; I am he, be not afraid." THE ARCHBISHOP, VICEROY. Royal Palace of Mexico, July 26, 1809. MANUEL MERINO, Secretary.
NEW-YORK, Oct. 14. LATEST FROM SPAIN.
The brig Rebeca, from Cadiz, although she left that port on the 24th of August, four days later than the Spanish frigate, brings nothing new, printed or verbal. The Captain had not heard of the battle which was said in the Salem papers to have been fought about the 10th of August, near Madrid, between the Anglo-Spanish army and the French in which the former were said to be defeated with great slaughter. Letters of the 24th of August represent the affairs of the Patriots as in a favourable state, and that the present form of Government was about to be changed to a Regency.
FROM CADIZ.
Yesterday arrived here the brig Rebeca, Capt. Higgins. She sailed from Cadiz the 24th of August—four days after the Spanish frigate Cornelia. This vessel brings no verbal news; but we have letters from Cadiz of the 14th of August, which state, "that things go on better, and that there would be a change in the government in a few days; and a Regency appointed." Much dissatisfaction, and even revolt had taken place amongst the Spanish chiefs; but since the arrival of Marquis Wellesley, it had, in a great measure subsided. We hear of no new battles. The positions of the Anglo-Spanish, and French armies, are not mentioned in the letters. N. Y. Gazette.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 16.
Capt. Dows of the brig Sea Nymph, arrived at Philadelphia from Havana, reports that "A vessel in a short passage from Spain, arrived at Havana a few days previous to sailing—reported, that Gen. Cuesta gained a complete victory over the French army in Castile.—Saw a brig going in as we came out. Had very bad weather during the passage. Lost a man overboard, named Antonio Mundera, a native of Rio Janeiro."
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5.
Yesterday arrived at this port, the sch'r Glee, capt. Stetson, from Jamaica, which he left the 16th of Sept. and has brought out with him the French general Beauquier (who commanded the City of St. Domingo, in the late siege and was there captured) and his establishment, consisting of 22 officers, with their Ladies and servants, to the amount of 65 persons all of whom go to France by the speediest conveyance; Three briggs (one of whom the Alexander, is arrived) and a sloop with those captured at same place sailed before the Glee for this port. Capt. Stetson also informs, that on the first day after the account of our non-intercourse arrived at Kingston, flour rose 25 per cent. and lumber 33 1/3.
Domestic.
TO JAMES MADISON, President of the United States.
ESTEEMED AND RESPECTED SIR,
Your Republic in fellow citizens of the City and County of New-York, at a general meeting, directed us to address you to express the high confidence which they repose in your talents and integrity, and their full determination to support the rights and government of our country.
Your election, Sir, to the chief magistracy of the union, was an event which afforded us the greatest satisfaction. Your ancient and uninterrupted friendship with Mr. Jefferson, the experience which you have obtained in a long course of public life, together with the integrity, ability and usefulness with which you have filled many of the most important stations in society, are valuable pledges to your country of the patriotism, discernment and firmness, with which the government will be administered.
We rejoice the more in your well merited elevation, because in manifesting the attachment of the people to republican principles, and to those practical rules of election which are so essential to the preservation of order, we have acquired an additional valuable proof of the practicability of the representative system.
The dispensations of Divine Providence, and the voice of your country, have chosen you to preside in a most interesting situation of affairs. To your wisdom and to that of Congress, we cheerfully submit the nature and character of the measures
to be adopted. Conscious that these only properly belong to the regularly constituted authorities, we are happy to add, that, in the present instance, the dictates of duty are united with the voice of affection.
We cannot but entertain a proper sense of the aggravated and long continued injuries which our country has sustained from the principal belligerent nations of Europe. Attached to peace, while peace can be maintained with honor; but still more ardently devoted to the essential rights of the United States; while we should deplore the necessity of resorting to more vigorous measures, we should become console by the reflection that patriotism and justice produced them.
In stating the full confidence which our Republican fellow citizens repose in you, & in the majority of our national representatives. We are also happy to express a full determination to support the freedom and interests of our country and the measures of its government, in war & in peace, with our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
That your administration may be pleasing and satisfactory to yourself, as well as prosperous to the American people, & that your name may descend to posterity united with those of Washington and Jefferson, are among the first and most fervent of our wishes.
We are Sir, With affection and esteem, Your republican fellow-citizens, ABM. BLOODGOOD, Chairman, JUDAH HAMMOND, Secretary.
MONTPELLIER, Sept. 24, 1809.
Gentlemen, Your letter of the 16th ult. covering an address by the General Republican Committee of New York, having been duly received, I now inclose an answer, with a tender to you of my respects and good wishes.
JAMES MADISON, Abraham Bloodgood, Chairman, Judah Hammond, Secretary. General Republican Committee of New York.
To the General Republican Committee of the City and County of New York.
I have received fellow citizens, your address bearing date the 15th inst. with a due sense of the kind sentiments it expresses, and of the favorable light in which it views my advancement to the Executive Trust, and the several considerations which led to it.
In proportion as the present situation of our Country is interesting, it is consoling to find the conviction becoming universal; that the difficulties rendering it so, have resulted from the accumulated wrongs committed by the principal belligerent Nations, in spite of the Justice and forbearance of the U. States, which ought to have averted them, and that the only remedy is to be found in a firm and patriotic support of the measures, devised and pursued by the Constituted Authorities.
The pledge and example of this duty, presented in your address, is entitled to the highest praise. Devoutly praying that a sympathy and emulation every where, may, under the divine blessing, have the happy effect of preserving to our country the advantages of peace, without relinquishing its rights or its honor, I tender to you and to those whose sentiments you have conveyed, my cordial respects, and my best wishes.
JAMES MADISON. September 24, 1809.
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, Late President of the United States.
RESPECTED AND ESTEEMED SIR,
The Republican citizens of the city and county of New York, by their resolution, unanimously passed, at a general meeting, determined to signify to you the high sense which they entertain of your virtues, talents, and valuable services to our beloved country, together with their full approbation of the measures pursued during your administration. By the same resolution they have rendered us the organ to communicate their sentiments to you.
In complying with this pleasing request we also think it our duty to state, that we speak our own opinions and feelings, as well as those of our fellow republicans at large. You sir, live in our affections, and in retirement attract the same, and if possible even superior emotions of gratitude, to those which were cherished while you presided over the affairs of the union.
Your early and eminent exertions in support of American independence and your unvarying attachment to the civil liberties of your fellow citizens, entitle you to their affections and esteem. And though we cannot but deplore that the errors and the prejudices, of party have too frequently excited unmerited attacks, we are sensible that a consciousness of rectitude, together with the approbation and support of Republicans must have afforded an estimable consolation.
We reluctantly parted with you as president. In the difficult situation of our country it was honestly wished to continue the aid of your wisdom, experience, and tried integrity. We felt towards you the affection of a child to a parent, and the moment of political separation was painful in the extreme. Your reasons nevertheless convinced us, of the propriety of your retirement, and the election of your friend as a successor produces at this moment our greatest consolation. In the infancy of our government, we perceive it to have been proper that worthy and disinterested examples should be presented, and that to prevent hereditary establishments, our best men should avoid a perpetuity of power.
The more we reflect upon the measures of your administration, especially those which have been adopted towards the principal belligerent powers, the more fully we discover and understand the purity of motives and sound policy which produced them, and we principally regret, that any necessary opposition should have been made to the just regulations of a lawful government not only intended, but judiciously adapted

to preserve a state of peace, and to maintain the most inestimable rights of our nation.
Divine Providence has destined our existence to an extraordinary and interesting state of human affairs. The most superficial observer must perceive himself surrounded by vast and astonishing spectacles. Ambition is no longer sated with the conquest of a kingdom or a province, but regardless of the means it aspires to the domination of universal empire. In such a situation it was not to be expected that we should entirely escape those agitations which convulsed the nations with whom we had established continual habits of intercourse. Our relations towards the great belligerents were too important to each to be beheld by the others without an eye of jealousy. To this consideration we must in a great measure attribute those repeated acts of aggression, which have been perpetrated with different degrees of violence but without an ermission. To keep aloof from these prodigious contests, to cultivate our own resources, and to enable our country to profit by its favored situation until its natural & progressive growth, should render it invulnerable to foreign attack, appears to have been the great design of your wise and salutary administration. Many of our countrymen, who have opposed the measures of government, or withheld from them a firm support, may live to regret that infatuation, which prompted them to violate our laws, and by presenting an appearance of our domestic weakness, encourage a continuance of those injuries which might otherwise have been restrained.
We believe sir, that the embargo and non intercourse acts, were impartial in their character, devised from the purest of intentions, and wise in their operation. They furnished an opportunity to collect our floating property from abroad. They prevented inconsiderate men, from placing their merchandise within the reach of inevitable capture. They recalled our mariners, from scenes of insult and imprisonment to the bosom of their native country. They evinced to the warring world that the U. States, however pacific in disposition, were incapable of submitting to every extremity of injustice. They afforded our own government time to consult the opinions & wishes of the nation, before it consented to engage in more rigorous and decisive measures. They were calculated to withhold, and had they not been evaded, would have effectually withheld, from foreign aggressors, those supplies which were necessary to the perpetuation of their own power, appealing to their own interests, to restore the free exercise of those rights which their pride and passions and injustice had violated.
With deference to the better judgment of those whose experience and superior means of information have enabled them to form a more correct opinion, we believe that the truly independent situation of the United States and the power which we possess to withhold from hostile foreigners, supplies of many articles of the first necessity is a valuable weapon in our hands. And although a suspension of intercourse must produce its inconveniences, they are incomparably less than those which result from incessant insult and outrage. Patriotism should endure these temporary privations with fortitude, and we have abundant reason to be thankful to beneficent Providence, for having placed our lot in an extensive and fertile territory, so abundant in the production of every essential comfort as to preclude the possibility of real distress. We exceedingly regret that untoward circumstances, and an improvident opposition have prevented the effects of this rational and obvious system from being fully ascertained.
The desolating calamities inseparable from war, its innumerable distresses, its pernicious effects upon the manners and morals of society, and the dangers with which it assails the duration of free governments are powerful dissuasives against the entering into such a state, without the utmost provocation and most direful necessity. With regard to ourselves, a warlike disposition would entail upon us the most permanently injurious consequences, we should be enlisted in all the intricacies of European connections and alliances; we should be alternately menaced and threatened, coerced and courted, driven or seduced, to destroy our general safety and forfeit our national character of justice, and become habitually enlisted as a standing party in the distant contest of the old world. And we farther, sir, believe, that when the injurious system of warfare is once adopted, that it is beyond the limits of human sagacity to foresee its ultimate consequences.
But attached as we are to the continuance of peace, and adverse to any European connection, a pacific disposition, or an apprehension of danger, would neither occasion timidity, or produce the most distant consent to abandon, the natural and national rights of our beloved country. The spirit of the revolution is unextinguished, we shall emulate the virtue and vigour of our forefathers and maintain at every hazard, the Liberties, Union, and Constitution of the U. S. together with the government, of their general choice.
That you, sir, in your chosen retirement in the bosom of your family connections, & in the midst of affectionate friends may enjoy many years of happiness, and that the sweets of domestic tranquility, may be united to the pleasure of beholding the prosperity of your country, and the triumph of those principles of civil liberty, in the defence of which your active days have been so beneficially employed, are the sincere and fervent wishes, of your friends and fellow citizens.
By the general committee of the City and County of New York. ABRAHAM BLOODGOOD, Chairman. JUDAH HAMMOND, Sec'y.
MONTICELLO, Sept. 30, 1809. Gentlemen—
The very friendly sentiments which my republican fellow citizens of the city and county of New York have been pleased to express, through yourselves as their organ, are highly grateful to me, and command my sincere thanks, and their approbation of the measures pursued, while I was entrusted with the administration of their affairs strengthens my hope that they were
favorable to the public prosperity. For any errors which may have been committed, the indulgent will find some apology in the difficulties resulting from the extraordinary state of human affairs, and the astonishing spectacles these have presented. A world in arms, and trampling on all those moral principles which have heretofore been deemed sacred in the intercourse between nations, could not suffer us to remain insensible of all agitation. During such a course of lawless violence, it was certainly wise to withdraw ourselves from all intercourse with the belligerent nations, to avoid the desolating calamities inseparable from war, its pernicious effects on manners and morals, and the dangers it threatens to free governments—and to cultivate our own resources until our natural and progressive growth should leave us nothing to fear from foreign enterprise. That the benefits derived from these measures were lessened by an opposition of the most obnoxious character, and that the continuance of injury was encouraged by the appearance of domestic weakness, which that presented, will doubtless be a subject of deep and durable regret to such of our well-intentioned citizens as participated in it, under mistaken confidence in men who had other views than the good of their own country. Should foreign nations however, deceived by this appearance of division and weakness render it necessary to vindicate by arms the injuries to our country, I believe with you that the spirit of the revolution is unextinguished, and that the cultivators of peace will again, as on that occasion, be transformed at once into a nation of warriors, who will leave us nothing to fear for the natural and national rights of our country.
Your approbation of the reasons which induced me to retire from the honorable station in which my fellow citizens placed me, is a proof of your devotion to the true principles of our constitution. These are wisely opposed to all perpetuations of power, and to every practice which may lead to hereditary establishments—and certain I am that any services which I could have rendered will be more than supplied by the wisdom and virtues of my successor.
I am very thankful for the kind wishes you express for my personal happiness. It will always be intimately connected with the prosperity of our country, of which I sincerely pray that my fellow citizens of the city and county of New York may have their full participation.
TH: JEFFERSON. Messrs. Bloodgood & Hammond.
The following is an answer from the President of the U States, to an address of the Legislature of Tennessee at their late session.
"To the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Tennessee.
"I have received, fellow citizens, your address, bearing date the 22d of April.
"The circumstances of the period which led to this expression of your sentiments were calculated to produce anxiety in the minds of citizens cherishing an ardent love of peace, though ready to maintain the rights of their country, even at the expense of that blessing. Of any culpable share in bringing on so extraordinary a state of things you very justly acquit the government and people of the U. States who have given the most ample proofs of their desire to preserve the relations of amity with all nations, without requiring more in return than an undisturbed enjoyment of the fruits of their honest industry. In this expectation, reasonable as it was, we were disappointed. No appeals, either, to the justice or sound interests of the great contending nations, arrested the multiplied wrongs which assailed our honor or our rights.
"One of those powers [England] at length, yielding to better counsels, has stepped forward in a spirit of conciliation which according with the it always catered on our side, has issued in a reassertion of the weight, which more immediately pressed on our situation. And should the same spirit be extended, as is promised, to the remaining points of difference, it may lead to that permanent harmony and confidence which a mutual interest prescribes to both. Nor will we suppress the hope, that correspondent inducements, seconded by such an example, may produce a like change in the policy of other belligerents; and thus lay a foundation for the general tranquility and unobstructed prosperity of our country.
"In the mean time, prudence forbids an unlimited reliance on a favourable course of events; whilst patriotism enjoins a union of all citizens in a readiness to maintain the national rights and honor, and a discountenance of attempts to weaken, by dividing them.
"I tender my sincere thanks for the kind manner in which you express the interest you take in the successful discharge of the arduous trust committed to me; whatever inadequacy, I can pledge myself for an undiminished attachment to the independence, the union, and the constitution of our country, and for those zealous endeavours to advance its happiness in which I am promised the valuable support and co-operation of the citizens of Tennessee.
"JAMES MADISON."
Washington, May 30, 1809.
Boston, Oct. 10.
INSURRECTION IN MAINE.
"HALLOWELL, Oct. 4, 1809.
"We are in a most unhappy situation in this part of the country, for we are in a state of actual rebellion. You have no doubt heard of a murder committed some weeks back near this town by some squatters, and that 8 men who did the act are in gaol. For some time we were told they would be rescued; but the report was treated with contempt, until Friday night, 29th September, between the hours of 12 and 1, when we were roused by the cries of murder and fire! Before I could get out of bed, a military notification was read to me to appear armed and equipped in 3 minutes at the gun-house. When I got into the street, every thing was in confusion. I found that the artillery had gone on to Augusta; and part of our company mounted on horse-back also proceeded. We remained on our arms until daylight, Saturday, a strong guard turned out, and we were pretty quiet. On Sunday night the alarm commenced at 10 o'clock, and positive information was received of a considerable body of the enemy, within a few miles of Augusta; so we remained during the night. Monday I was drafted, and marched at 7 in the evening. Sood on guard six hours, on one of the roads about a mile from the settlement. Tuesday night we hoped that the force was so great we should have some rest, but it was the worst of all. About midnight the Augusta bell began to ring (the signal for their being actually attacked) we could distinctly hear the guns. The small part of our company that had been left behind, were immediately ordered to march—the alarm guns were fired to bring up the troops from Gardner. On our arrival, we found the guards had been driven in, except four—who were captured within a few rods of Augusta bridge. They resisted until overpowered by a party of 30 or 60. In the fray, some were wounded—unfortunately, the main body at the gaol were not strong enough to reinforce the party attacked—they were left to struggle for themselves. Major Weeks who had rendered himself very conspicuous for his exertions in rousing the well affected part of the country to support the government and the laws, mounted his horse and rode to the bridge. He was seized, and dragged into the woods, and threatened to be hanged—but fortunately made his escape. A regular force of about 400 troops is kept at Augusta, and I am obliged to hire a man to be there, and at the same time to patrol the streets here—for we are in great danger of being set on fire, in order to confine the insurgents in a case of alarm. It is supposed that the insurgents are from 1,000 to 1,500 strong, and the disaffection is rapidly spreading. Gen. Sewall has sent on to the governor for orders."
day night the alarm commenced at 10 o'clock, and positive information was received of a considerable body of the enemy, within a few miles of Augusta; so we remained during the night. Monday I was drafted, and marched at 7 in the evening. Sood on guard six hours, on one of the roads about a mile from the settlement. Tuesday night we hoped that the force was so great we should have some rest, but it was the worst of all. About midnight the Augusta bell began to ring (the signal for their being actually attacked) we could distinctly hear the guns. The small part of our company that had been left behind, were immediately ordered to march—the alarm guns were fired to bring up the troops from Gardner. On our arrival, we found the guards had been driven in, except four—who were captured within a few rods of Augusta bridge. They resisted until overpowered by a party of 30 or 60. In the fray, some were wounded—unfortunately, the main body at the gaol were not strong enough to reinforce the party attacked—they were left to struggle for themselves. Major Weeks who had rendered himself very conspicuous for his exertions in rousing the well affected part of the country to support the government and the laws, mounted his horse and rode to the bridge. He was seized, and dragged into the woods, and threatened to be hanged—but fortunately made his escape. A regular force of about 400 troops is kept at Augusta, and I am obliged to hire a man to be there, and at the same time to patrol the streets here—for we are in great danger of being set on fire, in order to confine the insurgents in a case of alarm. It is supposed that the insurgents are from 1,000 to 1,500 strong, and the disaffection is rapidly spreading. Gen. Sewall has sent on to the governor for orders."
AUGUSTA, Oct. 6 The inhabitants of this town for about a week past, have been kept in a continual state of requisition and alarm by bodies of armed men, skulking in the neighboring woods, disguised as Indians, and threatening to liberate the prisoners confined in gaol. Guards have been furnished for several nights past by the voluntary service of the citizens and militia of this town and Hallowell. And yesterday, we understood, a regular application was made to the major general of the division by the sheriff and civil magistrates, for a detachment of 300 men to guard the prisoners—they are already in motion, to rendezvous in this town, until the pleasure of the commander in chief shall be known.
BOSTON, Oct. 11.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Hallowell to his friend in Portland, dated Oct. 5, 1809.
"There is a body of between 5 and 600 men in Indian guise, called squatters, embodied in a piece of wood within a few miles of Augusta bridge, who are determined to rescue the 8 murderers confined in Augusta jail, or perish in the attempt. The night before last they advanced so near as to seize upon our guard of 4 men, set there to give the alarm on their approach; two of them escaped unhurt, one was badly wounded and the other after being driven before them to the woods, losing his hat & having part of his clothes torn off, was sent back to Augusta with this message, "that the eight prisoners must be liberated within three hours or the town would be set on fire." I heard him deliver it to the Brigadier General, J. Candler—the prisoner was Maj. Weeks, a man of high standing and respectability in this place. The alarm was immediately given by the ringing of bells—the Hallowell Artillery Company to which I belong was immediately called out, and our field pieces being charged with canister shot I sincerely believe alone prevented their approach. They had notice of our approach by hearing our bell ring, and though best to keep back. The Maj. Gen has called out about 300 Militia, who with our Company which is divided and are posted round the prison walls night and day. I am almost sick having been marched in Augusta every other night since last Friday, and must there stand without the prison walls all night in open air, rain or shine, after working in my shop all the day preceding. I know not where this will end.
BOSTON, Oct. 11. The account from Hallowell, (published in yesterday's Repository) is distressing in the extreme to those who regard the peace and honor of the State. We have not room for particulars in this day's paper. The substance is:
Eight men were confined in gaol, charged with the murder of Paul Cudwick, (as published in the Patriot of the 4th inst.) From Sept. 29, to Oct. 4, the Insurgents were collecting, for the purpose of rescuing the prisoners, and at the latter date were stated to amount to from 1000 to 1500. The militia had been called out, and about 400 stationed at Augusta—the discussion was said to be rapidly spreading.
We cannot but deprecate the recent impolitic and unprincipled conduct of those who have some how or other become the immediate Guardians of the State—from whose pernicious example we have anticipated the most disastrous consequences. We trust however, that on this occasion, and every other, where faction shall rear its impious standard against the laws and the peace of the community, that every good citizen will stand firm at the post of honor, and be ready to discharge his duty.
The clashing claims between those who have the legal title to lands in various parts of Maine, and those who hold them by possession, involve questions of intrinsic difficulty.—But it is believed the state has done every thing which it can do, by way of accommodation to the possessors. Certainly nothing can justify this treasonable appeal to force, which every well-wisher to the commonwealth must disapprove and feel it his duty to suppress.
Patriot.
Extract of a late letter from Doctor L. Kollock of Savannah, to Doctor Barton, of Philadelphia.
"We are becoming more and more familiar with lead in Haeorrhages—Dysenteries, &c. and with our family its reputation increases. Medical gentlemen owe you much for the reputation which you have given to this valuable remedy. A case of Haeorrhage from the bowels, of a most formidable state, under the management of my associate, Doctor Parker, was
entirely cured by the exhibition of five grain doses every three hours, for about 35 or 40 hours."
An universal preservative against infection
By an eminent German Physician.
"Whosoever converses with patients affected with any disease whatever, if he would preserve himself from infection, must be sure so long as he abides within the sphere of the steams, never to swallow his spittle; for I reasonably conceive that to be the part which first and most easily imbibes infection, and by that, swallowed, the infection is carried, as by a proper vehicle, into the stomach where it works those dismal and fatal effects.
This sentence of his he grounds upon both his own experience long tried for his own preservation, and on divers reasons set down by way of aphorisms from this hypothesis, viz.
That most diseases, especially pestilential fevers, are infectious; that this proceeds from a seminal ferment which is emitted by the patient by way of steams into the encompassing air, and so infects all things within a certain sphere or distance: this drawn into the mouth by the breath, is apt to infect the saliva or spittle, which, being swallowed, infects the stomach, and so the rest of the body—but being spit out, frees the body from infection. And therefore he conceives, that strong smelling and strong tasting substances kept in the mouth and chewed to promote spitting, are of very good and necessary use for physicians, chirurgeons, and apothecaries, &c. that are necessitated to visit sick and infected persons.
Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1809.
FOR THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
THE ensuing winter will be an interesting period for the United States of America; for Congress will in all probability have to determine on a system of policy, in relation either to peace or war, by which this country must be governed for many years to come. The evils of a mistake in politics at this epoch will be fruitful of subsequent disasters.
We confidently assert there never was a point of time since the commencement of the French revolution, which required more fortitude, vigilance, foresight, and decision, in the councils of our nation, than the present. Whether the valor of the people will or will not be called into extensive action it is impossible to say; but that there is a wide field for the exercise of the genius and judgment of our wisest patriots, will not be for a moment disputed.
The opportunity thus afforded for the exercise of intellectual sagacity, arises—
1st. From the probable duration of the war in Europe:
2ndly. From the advantages which the United States may derive from that war; and,
3rdly. The necessity for determining on the best course for our country to pursue during the prevalence of the war.
It is likely that the war in Europe will continue, in one shape or other, for a considerable time; because the French and the English, like two powerful parties nearly balanced, will never cease to annoy one another until France or England gains the ascendancy over her opponent. At what period of time this is to happen is very doubtful; for they are both exceedingly vigorous in their way.
Can the United States derive any benefit from the contest? Shall we lay by till the nations of the old world worry themselves, down and husband our means for more fortunate days? These are questions for the solution of our greatest statesmen.
The session of Congress is not far distant, and we may then expect to be furnished with data from an official source, which will enable us to discern more clearly the events of the future by the present posture of political circumstances. Whatever may be our actual situation, we must express a warm hope that the deliberations of the national legislature will not again be the scene of distraction and indecision as was the case when the embargo was the stalking-horse of a licentious opposition.
FOR THE ARGUS.
The following Article, copied from the Petersburg Intelligencer, is recommended to the attention and imitation of the Corporation of this town by A CITIZEN.
Suppression of Vice!
The vigilance which has, of late, characterized the Magistrates of Petersburg, in the discharge of their duties, as Conservators of the peace, and Guardians of the rights and tranquility of the town, is highly commendable, and must be productive of the best effects.
Within the last 3 or 4 months, several Gaming-houses have been suppressed, the Black Legs dispersed, and the tools of their iniquity committed to the devouring flames. Society has almost ceased to be
polluted, by the influence of this class of the community.
During the past week, it had been discovered, that improper and disorderly meetings of Negroes were held at the houses of some free Blacks, in town; in which gaming, and other like amusements were introduced. The magistrates, so soon as they received the information, repaired to a house notorious for the infamy of its Occupants, where were assembled a number of Blacks, indulging in the pleasures of the Glass and the Loo table. The slaves underwent a wholesome correction; and the free Blacks were tied to the tail of a cart, and drummed through town, as public spectacles of mirth and derision. The Magistrates are determined to put a stop to such meetings in future.
There are yet some branches of our police, which require great alteration and amendment. At present, it is a well known fact, that the ordinances of the Common Hall, although as correct and wholesome in their tendency, as those which exist in any other Corporate Town, are scarcely, if ever, carried into effect. They remain on the archives of the town, as perfect dead letters. We need only adduce the ordinances on the subject of Drays & other Carriages, to prove the correctness of our assertion. By this ordinance, the drivers of Drays and Carriages are enjoined against passing through the streets, out of a walk; and other persons commanded not to ride or drive, in a way which might endanger the lives of persons passing to and fro. Yet, how often do we perceive horses rode and driven through the streets, at full speed, and the law violated with the most perfect impunity?
Perhaps the contemplated appointment, of a Police Master, may effect some important changes in the government of the town, calculated to insure a more strict observance of the Acts of the Corporation, and to place matters generally in a more regular and systematic train. We hope, if the appointment of this Officer does take place, that his duties will be clearly and specifically defined, and their fulfilment discharge guaranteed by weighty Penalties.
THEATRE.
THE public are respectfully informed that during the season no play will be repeated, nor will there be any postponement on account of weather.
Monday Evening next, October 23d, will be performed a favorite Comedy, called,
The Soldier's Daughter.
End of the play a Ballet dance to be performed by Children, Called
Jack in Distress.
To which will be added for the first time here, a Farce, called,
Plot and Counter-plot.
Box one dollar—Gallery 75 cents—Children half price.—Tickets to be had at the Theatre, and from Mr. Davis at his printing office.—Doors to be opened at 6 o'clock—Curtain to rise at 7 o'clock precisely.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.—Abandoned about ten days ago, my negro man, NED; he was formerly the property of Col. Robert Goode of Waitsby, and was brought by me of Mr. Archibald Freeland, of Manchester; he is about 21 years of age, five feet 6 or 7 inches high, stout made, very black, with large black eyes, & broad flat nose. He had on when he went away a corduroy jacket, coloured waist coat, blue pantaloon, glazed hat, brown cotton stockings and shoes. It is probable that he is lurking somewhere in Manchester or its neighborhood where he has many connections. The above reward will be paid for securing him in any gaol in Virginia, and reasonable charges for bringing him home.
JOHN DUNLOP.
Petersburg, Oct. 9, 1809.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.—Strayed or stolen from the subscriber, in the City of Richmond, near Harris's Manufactory, on the night of the 18th, Two Mares: one a Roan, about 5 feet high, one blind foot white, and a small white spot on her forehead; the other a Chickasaw, of a whitish colour and about 4 feet 9 inches high. Whoever will deliver the said Mares to me on Birch Creek, in the lower end of Pittsylvania, shall receive the above reward.
JOSEPH CHANEY.
October 19th, 1809.
NOTICE.—I shall petition the next General Assembly for a law to pass divorcing me from my wife Tabitha, of which all persons are hereby notified.
JOHN DUNKLEY.
Halifax, October 3d, 1809.
FOR SALE.—By Virtue of a Deed of trust, executed on the 14th day of March, 1808, by the late William Nice, in order to secure the payment of a certain sum of money then mentioned unto Mr. William Cook, I shall in consequence of the power vested in me as Trustee, on the 17th day of November next, on the premises, proceed to sell to the highest bidder, that valuable and highly improved Tenement on which the said Nice resided—the said sale will be made under the late law, passed on the 31st January, 1809—entitled "An Act concerning executions and for other purposes."
EDWARD W. TRENT, Trustee.
October 17th, 1809.
For sale at this office, HENING'S
New Virginia Justice,
CONTAINING
The Duties of a Justice of Peace, &c. together with a variety of useful precedents adapted to the laws now in force. Also, forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, lease and re-lease, mortgage, trust, &c.

REMOVAL. The subscriber has removed near the Basin, where he continues to keep a house of Private Entertainment. He has also for sale, a general assortment of GROCERIES. Likewise sells all kinds of country produce on commission. HEZEKIAH PURYEAR, Richmond, May 17th, 1809. N. B. The highest price given for wheat. H. P.
One Thousand Pounds WANTED, FOR the interest of which, a plantation of 500 acres of valuable land will be given, until the money is refunded. Nearly 100 acres are rich low grounds, now in cultivation, lying on navigable water. The improvements new and very good, in a healthy and desirable country. Enquire of the Printer. September 8, 1809. tf
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. Stolen from me about the 12th of Nov. 1807, a negro man named Cesar the property of the subscriber. He formerly belonged to Mr. Robert Alexander, of Campbell county, and was bought from him a small boy, in the year 1789. He is now about 6 feet high, one of his big toes is very remarkable, being split with an axe through the nail and nearly as high as the second joint, by that it is much broader and larger than the other. He was accustomed to run James river above the falls. I was informed that he went up James River in a bateaux owned by one Crews , to the other side of the mountains. On delivering him to me or securing him in some jail so that I get him again, shall be paid by me the reward of twenty Dollars. This is to forewarn any person or persons from harboring or concealing him, as they may depend on it that I will prosecute such violators of the law to its full extent. ROBERT MITCHELL. City of Richmond, July 27th, 1809.
NEW MEDICINE STORE. THE Subscribers have recently taken a store, near the Market Bridge, opposite Messrs. White and Shelton's, where they offer for sale a very general assortment of DRUGS & MEDICINES , a few of which are enumerated, viz: Gum Aloes, Ammonia, Asa Foetida, Arabic, Guaiac, Gamboge, Myrrh, Opium, Opiam, Shell Lac, Tragacanth, Aqua Fortis, Assafoetida, Arrow Root, Camphor, Cowhage, Red and Pale Bark, Green Tartar, Chamomile Flowers, Magalasia, Jalap, Ipecac, Calomel, Tart Emet, Essence Vargamot, Lemon, Spruce, Cloves, Nutmegs, Mace, Gasia, &c. &c. &c. ALSO A general assortment of PAINTS & DYING DRUGS —all of which will be sold as low as at any other store in this city. Medical practitioners and gentlemen who are in the habit of selling medicine in the country, will do well to call. VAIL & ROGERS. Richmond, 29th Aug. 1809.
A BANK NOTE of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS. was taken from a black boy who called himself James Smith , & says he found it in the street—Not thinking it proper to let the boy keep it, I detained it for the proper owner, who may have it, on giving satisfactory evidence of his or their right to it and paying the expense of this advertisement. JOHN McDONALD. Richmond, March 10th, 1809. tf
20 Dollars Reward, IS offered for apprehending ANDREW , a negro slave, who about the beginning of this month RUN AWAY from the subscriber residing in the neighborhood of Amelia Court House. Andrew is about thirty years old, an intelligent active small man, a good house and stable servant, drives a Carriage well, understands a little of Shoemaking, and readily performs any kind of plantation labor. Some years ago he was in the service of Mr. Turner at the Bell Tavern in Richmond, where I believe he generally acted as hostler, and afterwards till last Christmas, was employed by Mr. Henry L. Biscoe of Manchester, in his tobacco manufactory. He has a wife living at the Manchester county yard, a free mulatto woman named Suskey Hollinger , by whom I have reason to believe he is secreted. I will pay the above reward to any person who will deliver to me the above mentioned slave, or secure him in jail, so that I get him again. James Henderson. 20th June, 1809. tf
IN COUNCIL, Sept. 19th, 1809. It is advised, that from and after the 1st day of January next, the Auditor be instructed in every case where any claim by virtue of an order or certificate of court is presented to him by a person whose name is not mentioned therein, to require such person to produce also an order or power of Attorney from the individual in whose favor such order or Certificate of court was made, together with an affidavit of one witness at least, certified by a Magistrate or Notary Public, that such individual actually signed and acknowledged the same. And to give general information of this rule, it is advised, that a copy hereof be published in the Virginia Argus , Enquirer, Petersburg Intelligencer, Norfolk Herald, Lynchburg Star, Staunton Eagle, and Winchester Gazette, once a week, until the first day of January next. Extract from the journal, (viii) DANIEL L. HYLTON, C. C.
A FEW COPIES OF Burk's History of Virginia IN THREE VOLUMES Are for sale at this office.
FOR SALE. —A handsome, second-hand, London built CARRIAGE , which has been but little used and is in a good state of preservation. Apply to the printer, or to Mr. HUGHES , coach maker, opposite the Old City Tavern, where the carriage may be seen. tf
NOTICE. —All persons concerned are required to take notice, that we have sold the debts due to the late concerns of Robert Pollok & Co. of Richmond, and of Dunlop Pollok & Co. of Manchester, to Messrs. Tompkins and Murray , of Richmond and that payments hereafter are to be made to them alone or to those whom they may empower to collect. James & John Dunlop. Petersburg, Sept. 1st. 1809.
THOSE indebted to the late concerns of Dunlop, Pollok & Co. of Manchester, and Robert Pollok & Co. of Richmond, are now requested to come forward and settle their respective balances, as longer indulgence cannot be granted. Lawyers and agents having the collection or settlement of debts due either of the above concerns, will be pleased to forward us statements of the business in their hands. Tompkins & Murray. Richmond, 1st September, 1809. 2m
FITZWHYLSONN & POTTER, Book Sellers and Stationers, have just received a very large supply of Fools Cap, Pot and Letter Papers; Latin, French & English school books; Pocket, school and family Bibles; Paper-hangings and bordering; Quills of the first and inferior qualities; Metallic pens; Playing, blank and visiting cards; Ladies and Gentlemen's pocket books; Backgammon tables and Chessboards; Pearl counters; Toothbrushes and Dentifrice; Gold leaf, black lead pencils and water colors; Vocal and instrumental music; Durable Ink, &c. &c. A few new publications, among which are some novels. A great variety of Day Books, Journals and Ledgers, Record and Sheriff's books on hand. Tickets in the Rhode-Island Coal Lottery for sale, at 50 cts. each. The price will be shortly raised. The scheme of this Lottery holds out peculiar advantages to the adventurers, as will appear on an examination of it. The drawing will commence shortly. September 15. (5w)
COLUMBIAN MILLS. The subscribers having purchased the Columbian Mills , beg leave to inform the public, they are giving CASH for WHEAT and CORN. P. HAXALL & Co. Richmond, August 30th, 1809. tf
BLACKSMITH FOR SALE. FOR sale, a most valuable Blacksmith about 30 years of age. He is a stout well disposed negro, and probably inferior to no smith in the State. Enquire of the printer. September, 11th 1809. (3m)
VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE. The Subscribers wish to dispose of that valuable tract of LAND called FORT LEWIS , lying in the Counties of Botetourt and Montgomery, and containing about 2,600 acres. They also wish to sell 5,180 acres of Land lying in the County of Fluvanna , on the south side of the Rivanna river , extending from Col. Cary's line down the river, to within about a mile of Columbia . This last mentioned Land, being in five distinct tracts, will be sold separately or together, as may best suit any person desirous of purchasing. One fourth of the amount being paid in hand, any reasonable credit will be given for the balance. GIBSON & JEFFERSON Richmond, July 28. tf
THE partnership of BREAM & FOLLET is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to and from the firm, will be settled by James Bream . (Co.) James Bream. Francis Follet. Richmond, 18th Sept 1809.
JAMES BREAM respectfully informs his friends and the public, that the partnership of Bream & Follet being dissolved, the business will be continued by him—He expects shortly to receive a fresh supply of articles in the IRON-MONGERY and HARDWARE LINE , which, with his present stock on hand, he will sell low for cash, approved paper, or country produce. Richmond, Sept. 19th, 1809. tf
DISSOLUTION. —The partnership of THOMAS MCKINNEY and THOMAS WILLIAM BALDWIN is this day dissolved by mutual consent; all persons having claims against either of the firms will apply to William McKinney for payment; those indebted are required to come forward and settle their accounts with him, who alone is authorized to receive payment and grant discharges. JOHN THOMAS. WILLIAM MCKINNEY. WILLIAM BALDWIN. Greenhill, Charlotte. Sept. 1st. 1809. 2m
THE Subscriber wishes to employ TWO good Workmen in the Wheelwright business , to whom good wages will be given: the workmen may be at liberty to work by the piece.—Also two Apprentices . A. Quarrier. Richmond 8th Oct. 1809. [f]
NOTICE. —A petition will be presented to the next General Assembly of Virginia, praying that the money which has been wrongfully paid by Wm. Murray , deceased, and by James and Samuel Murray , since his death, for land tax, may be refunded to the subscribers. James & Samuel Murray. Caroline, Sept. 10th, 1809. 4w
For sale at this office, A FEW COPIES OF BISHOP MADISON'S MAP OF VIRGINIA.
In Richmond Hustings Court, June 12th 1809 Elizabeth T. Youngusband and Samuel P. Parsons, administrators with the will annexed of Pleasant Youngusband, deceased—Ralston and Pleasants—Pickett, Pollard, and Johnston—Thomas Taylor and James Brown, late merchants & partners, under the firm of Taylor and Brown—James Brown, jun. and William Norvell, surviving partners of the late commercial house of Norvell, Wyatt and Bullock, Pits. AGAINST Moses Davis, Prosser and Moncure and George Wm. Smith, Defts. THIS cause this day came on to be heard on the bill, answer, sundry exhibits filed, and was argued by counsel, on consideration whereof, the court being of opinion that the land conveyed by the said Moses Davis and wife to the defendant George William Smith , was intended to secure the payment of the notes in the possession of the plaintiffs, Pickett, Pollard and Johnston , and Ralston and Pleasants , on which suits have not been brought—And also of the judgments obtained on the notes which came to the possession of the other plaintiffs, namely, Taylor and Brown, James Brown, Jun. and the surviving partner of the house of Norvell, Wyatt and Bullock , as well as those taken up by Pleasant Youngusband , deceased, in his lifetime, do decree and order that Geo. W. S. with do proceed to make sale of the lot of land in the bill mentioned, to the highest bidder, upon a credit until the repeal or expiration of the act concerning executions and other purposes, passed 31st January, 1809, taking bond with two good securities for the payment of the purchase money, and return the bonds by him taken to court to abide its future order, he giving two weeks notice in some one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmond, of the time and place of sale, and returning a report how he has executed this order. (A Copy) TH: C. HOWARD, Clk.
PURSUANT to the above decree, the land therein mentioned, which is situated in the county of Henrico, contiguous to the city of Richmond, being the same lot or parcel of land which was conveyed by Richard Adams and Elizabeth his wife , to Messrs Davis , by deed dated the 3rd day of March, 1807, and bounded as follows, to wit, beginning and running on the road or street leading from the market house in the said city to Du Val's village , N. 41 1/2 W. 4 chains and 32 links to a street 40 feet wide dividing said lot and parcel of land and the land formerly William Cannon's , now John Doyle's , and binding on said street N. 89, E. 4 chains and 94 links to the street—thence on the back street S 41 1/2 W. 4 chains 32 links to a corner street 40 feet wide next towards said city, and binding on said street S. 39, W. 4 chains 30 links to the said road to the beginning—with the buildings and improvements thereon consisting of a large framed house...will be sold, on the premises, at 4 o'clock, P. M. on Saturday the 21st inst. (October.) The whole land will be divided into lots according to a plot which will be exhibited on the day of sale, and these lots will be sold separately. The sale will commence at 4 o'clock in the evening. GEO. W. SMITH. Oct. 2.
BY virtue of a deed of trust from Andrew Lewis , of the county of Montgomery, will be sold, by the subscribers, to the highest bidder, at the Eagle Tavern , in the city of Richmond, upon the 25th day of September next, the following TRACTS OF LAND , with their appurtenances, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay certain debts in the said deed of trust mentioned, that is to say—one tract situate in the county of Montgomery containing 800 acres, being that tract on which the said Andrew Lewis now lives—one other tract adjoining the last mentioned, on the north, containing ten thousand acres—one other tract adjoining the first mentioned, being an inclusive survey, containing seven thousand seven hundred acres—one other tract adjoining the last mentioned at the west end, containing four hundred and fourteen acres—one other tract called the Chestnut Neck , containing three hundred and sixty-six acres—one other tract called Seyenax tract , on Botetourt Creek , adjoining the first mentioned tract of eight hundred acres, and containing one hundred and fifty acres—one other tract also adjoining the first mentioned tract, called Prothonous Garden , containing one hundred and twenty eight acres—one other tract adjoining the last mentioned, containing one hundred and thirty acres—one other tract adjoining the inclusive survey of seven thousand seven hundred acres above mentioned, containing eighty acres—one other tract adjoining the same inclusive survey and containing one hundred acres—one other tract lying on both sides of Little River , containing one hundred and fifty acres, on which is situate Hopewell Forge —one other tract adjoining thereon, containing one hundred and forty acres—one other tract adjoining the same, called the Saw mill tract , containing four hundred and thirty-eight acres—and one other tract adjoining the last mentioned tract, containing one hundred acres—which said several tracts of land are situate in the county of Montgomery . The said sales will be made agreeably to the directions in such cases, of the act of Assembly, passed the 31st day of January, 1809, entitled "an act concerning executions, and for other purposes." EDWARD JOHNSTON, } Trustees. JOHN PROSSER, } N. B. The above mentioned property is situate on and about what is generally called the Bent Mountain , and considered a very valuable estate, particularly for grazing. Any one wishing for more particular information, may apply to Charles Johnston , residing in Campbell county, near Lynchburg, or to Robert Pollard , Geo. Pickett , or Gallego, Richard & Co. in the city of Richmond, Richmond, July 11th, 1809. tds
The sale of the above mentioned property is postponed until the 23d day of November next, when it will take place at the Eagle Tavern , in the city of Richmond, agreeably to the conditions in the above advertisement. EDWARD JOHNSTON, } Trustees. JOHN PROSSER, } Richmond, 28th September, 1809.
JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale at Samuel Pleasants, Jr's Printing Office, between the Bell Tavern and the Market-bridge , Richmond; The Virginia Almanac. FOR THE YEAR 1810, Adapted to the Latitude and Meridian of Richmond; By BENJAMIN BATES; Containing, besides the usual astronomical calculations, &c.
Remedy for the gout Artificial magnet a cure for the tooth and ear ache On Time—a poem Elegant moral sentiment Agricultural Harrowing proved an easy & valuable kind of hoesing, in the broadest husbandry Method of destroying garlic, by a proper succession of crops of grain and grass To destroy worms on apple trees Weevils may be destroyed by tobacco Management of sheep Preservation of cabbage plants, &c. To dairy women Virginia directions for gardening An account of a newly invented spinning machine by a gentleman in S. Carolina, called "The Columbian Spintender" Scale of depreciation of paper currency, estab- lished by the general assembly of Virginia, November 1782 Aphorisms Lines worked on a hearth rug List of civil officers in Virginia. Governor, Councillors, Judges of the court of appeals, high courts of chancery, general court, &c. &c. &c. Delegates to congress New circuit court days—showing the arrangement of the several circuits, with the judges allotted to each Superior, county and quarterly court days Rates of postage on letters, newspapers, &c. ROADS. From Richmond to Charleston (S. C.) From Richmond to Norfolk From Richmond to Portsmouth (N. H.) From Richmond to Danville (Ken.) From Richmond to the Sweet Springs. * Five dollars a gross—50 cents a dozen—6 cents single.
NOTICE. —A petition will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying the passage of a law to vest the commonwealth's right to a certain lot of ground, lying and being in the city of Richmond, known by the No. 554, to the representatives of P. Youngusband , for reasons then and there to be made known. 4w
BALTIMORE COLLEGE GRAND LOTTERY. TICKETS in the BALTIMORE COLLEGE LOTTERY , at $1.00 each, may be had at this office; and prizes in the New York Black River Lottery , taken in payment. The capital prizes in the above lottery are, 2 Prizes of 20,000 dollars 3 10,000 3 5,000 3 2,500 10 1,000, &c. &c. &c. The above lottery will positively commence drawing in Baltimore, on the first Monday in November next, and will continue drawing, after the rate of FIFTEEN HUNDRED TICKETS per week, until the whole is completed, and will not be liable to the shortest postponement, under any pretence whatever. tf WAITE'S PRIZE LIST. will be regularly received at this office during the drawing, where adventurers may immediately know the fate of their tickets. September 14.
GUN SMITHS. Wanted in Raleigh, GUN SMITHS, TWO MEN who understand the above business, will meet with encouragement in this place. I want one who understands stocking smooth bore, and Rifle guns, and one who understands lock filing, and repairing guns. To two such men, I will give constant employment and liberal wages. Men without families would be preferred. Letters addressed to the subscriber will be attended to. D. PECK. N. B. RALEIGH is the seat of Government in this State, is a high, healthy, and pleasant situation, and affords very agreeable society.
THE Subscribers wish to purchase immediately, BLACK WALNUT TIMBER sufficient for the making of two thousand gun stocks.—Any person wishing to contract for furnishing the said timber, will apply to us, at our shop opposite the Government house. Stewart, Quarrier & Kearns. Richmond 8th Oct. 1809.
THE above subscribers wish to employ SIX GOOD WORKMEN at the GUN SMITH'S business, to whom liberal wages will be given. Also five or six BOYS will be taken as apprentices.
NOTICE. —Will be sold, at next Cumberland Court , to the highest bidder, 238 ACRES of LAND , lying in Buckingham County , on Buffalo Creek . This land joins E. Bolling and John Dunn . Terms of sale; one moiety the first day of January next, and the other on the first day of Jan. 1811, with interest from the date if not punctually paid, with a deed of trust to secure the payment. Mr. E. W. Trent will conduct the sale. C. H. Saunders. Richmond, Oct. 6, 1809. wtds
NOTICE. —Once more, it is hereby requested that those who are indebted to the trustees of the Richmond Academy , do make payment to the subscriber, as the work is now begun, and it is expected that there will be laid from one hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand bricks in the walls of the Academy this fall. He has undertaken the collection by agreement with John Brockenbrough and William W. Henning , the other members of the committee, appointed by a board of trustees: Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that the collector may have as little trouble as possible in the collection, in order to have money in hand, to carry on so laudable an undertaking. ROBT. MITCHELL. City of Richmond, Sept. 7th, 1809. wtf
THE Subscriber being anxious to discharge his debts, offers for sale, that valuable Plantation , lying in Amelia county , on Flat Creek , containing upwards of 900 acres, a considerable quantity of which is very valuable meadow land. For terms apply to WILLIAM MURRAY. Grove Brook, Oct. 12th, 1809. wtf
JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale at Samuel Pleasants, Jr's Printing Office, between the Bell Tavern and the Market-bridge , Richmond; The Virginia Almanac. FOR THE YEAR 1810, Adapted to the Latitude and Meridian of Richmond; By BENJAMIN BATES; Containing, besides the usual astronomical calculations, &c.
Remedy for the gout Artificial magnet a cure for the tooth and ear ache On Time—a poem Elegant moral sentiment Agricultural Harrowing proved an easy & valuable kind of hoesing, in the broadest husbandry Method of destroying garlic, by a proper succession of crops of grain and grass To destroy worms on apple trees Weevils may be destroyed by tobacco Management of sheep Preservation of cabbage plants, &c. To dairy women Virginia directions for gardening An account of a newly invented spinning machine by a gentleman in S. Carolina, called "The Columbian Spintender" Scale of depreciation of paper currency, estab- lished by the general assembly of Virginia, November 1782 Aphorisms Lines worked on a hearth rug List of civil officers in Virginia. Governor, Councillors, Judges of the court of appeals, high courts of chancery, general court, &c. &c. &c. Delegates to congress New circuit court days—showing the arrangement of the several circuits, with the judges allotted to each Superior, county and quarterly court days Rates of postage on letters, newspapers, &c. ROADS. From Richmond to Charleston (S. C.) From Richmond to Norfolk From Richmond to Portsmouth (N. H.) From Richmond to Danville (Ken.) From Richmond to the Sweet Springs. * Five dollars a gross—50 cents a dozen—6 cents single.
NOTICE. —A petition will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying the passage of a law to vest the commonwealth's right to a certain lot of ground, lying and being in the city of Richmond, known by the No. 554, to the representatives of P. Youngusband , for reasons then and there to be made known. 4w
DR. TISSOTT'S CELEBRATED Gout & Rheumatic Drops. A CERTAIN cure for Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, weakness of the joints, and all kinds of Sprains; for gleet, be they of ever so long standing, and for the stone and gravel; it is perhaps the most adive, penetrating, and effectual remedy in the world; in the cramp and all kinds of pains in the head, face and body, it is without an equal. This medicine [which justly claims a pre-eminence over all others, as being decidedly adapted for the speedy removal of those complaints above mentioned] owes its discovery to the celebrated Tissot , a physician of most exalted eminence in his profession, and is chiefly the extract of an herb, peculiar to Europe, to whose powerful, healing, restorative and balsamic qualities, this great man, by the administering, owed much of his fame. It is peculiarly excellent for most disorders attending warm climates, and keeps for any length of time. Bottles, at two dollars each, with copious directions. CAUTION. No Gout and Rheumatic Drops being known excepting those invented by Dr. Tissot :—The public are requested to notice that none are genuine unless the names of Dr. Tissot , and the proprietor Henry Ward , are cut in the glass of the bottle, and the outside cover of each bottle signed by the said proprietor himself. wtf
ALSO, Dr. TABB'S Nature's Restorative Balsamic Cordial. The certificates attached to the bills which inclose each bottle of the above medicine, are from characters of respectability, on whose testimony the fullest confidence may be placed by those who labor under complaints of the Gout, Rheumatism, &c. also those of consumptive habits, general debility of the nerves and various other complaints incident to the human body. Sold by H. WARD , sole proprietor, Philadelphia, and at the Book-Store of S. PLEASANTS, jr. Richmond.
Penitentiary Store. THE subscriber, Agent for the Penitentiary, offers for sale the following articles, the manufacture of that institution, at very low prices at wholesale and retail. CUT NAILS. Wholesale prices. Retail prices. 3dy 13 1-2 cents. 14 1-2 cents per lb 4 13 14 6 12 13 8 11 12 10 10 1-2 11 1-2 12 10 1-2 11 1-2 20 10 1-2 11 1-2
CUT BRADS. 8dy 10 1-2 11 1-2 10 10 11 12 Do. Do. 20 Do. Do. SPRIGS. 3dy 39 cts. p. lb. 50 per m 4 22 1-3 67 6 17 84 WROUGHT NAILS. 6dy 14 15 per lb. 8 13 1-2 14 1-2 10 13 14 12 12 1-2 13 1-2 20 12 13 30 12 13 Broad and narrow Axes, Hatchets, Hoes, Plough Shares and Coulters, Hinges, Wedges, Hammers, Penders, Traces, Stretchers, and Ox Chains;—Bridles, Collars, Halters, Braces, Surcingles, Back Bands, Belly Bands, Breeching, Fire Buckets, &c. &c.
Boots and Shoes. Fair tops, back straps, $9 Ditto plain 8 Suawarrows, 7 Half Boots, 5 Mens skel skin shoes lined & bound 10 6 12 1/2 Do. side leather, 7 6 4 9 3/4 Negro shoes (strong russet) 7 6 4 8 3/4 Women's leather shoes, thick soles, 7 6 Do. do. thin, do. 6 9 Do. do. slippers, 7 6 Do. do. ties, 7 6 Girls leather shoes, 4 6 6 3/4 Boys do. 4 6 7 1/2 Any of the above articles made to order left at the Penitentiary Store, second door above the Eagle Tavern. D. J. BURR. Richmond March 22, 1809. 6th July, 1809.—The price of Wrought Nails is raised half a cent per pound, by order of the Executive. D. J. B.
BY the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it is represented to the Executive, that a certain Free Mulatto Man , who calls himself Lindsey Johns , charged by a warrant of commitment and on information, with breaking and entering the dwelling house of George Bevil , of the county of Amelia , and a eating hereout sundry wearing apparel; and by an examining court held for the said county of Amelia , on the 25th of May, 1809, remanded to the jail of the said county for further trial, hath escaped from the said jail, I have, therefore, thought fit, with the advice of the Council of State, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of fifty dollars, to any person or persons, who shall apprehend and convey to the said jail of the county of Amelia , the said Lindsey Johns —And I do moreover enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of the commonwealth, to use their best endeavors to apprehend and convey to the jail of Amelia county aforesaid, the said Lindsey Johns , that he may be dealt with as the law directs. Given under my hand with the seal of the L. S. commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 25th day of September, 1809. Signed, JOHN TYLER.
The said Lindsey Johns hath in his possession a free pass certified by the clerk of Goochland . He is a bright mulatto fellow, about six feet high, stout made, and about 28 or 30 years of age.
NOTICE. —I intend to petition the legislature at their next session for leave to convert one of my mills on Bear Garden Creek , near New Canton , into a manufacturing mill, which shall be exempt from the necessity of grinding corn, while the other is kept for that purpose. RANDOLPH HARRISON October 3d, 1809. wtf