The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-11-14 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
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NUMBER 56.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14, 1806.
[VOLUME 3.]
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold without reserve, by the subscribers, on Wednesday the 19th inst. ABOUT twelve thousand dollars worth of DRY GOODS, consisting of...
Sales at Auction.
WILL BE SOLD at Public Auction, for ready money, on the Premises, on Wednesday, the 25th of this Month, Nov. BY Virtue of a Deed of Trust...
20 DOLLARS REWARD. STOLEN from the Subscriber 18th last month, a Bay HORSE, 4 feet 9 or 10 inches high, with a blaze face...
FOR SALE. A TRACT OF LAND, lying in the county of Cumberland, on Big Guinea, containing 800 acres. This Land is well adapted to the culture of corn, wheat and tobacco...
NOTICE. THE purchasers of property, at the sales in Charlotte and Albemarle, conducted by Wilson Clarke Nicholas, Esq. are requested to take notice...
IN CHANCERY. Prince Edward, July Court, 1806. Wilcher Binns against Peter Rowlett and Margaret Rowlett. THE defendant Peter Rowlett, not having entered his appearance...
IN CHANCERY. Louisa County, August Court, 1806. George and Christopher Lindenberger, against John Davidson, Thomas Davidson, Elizabeth Watkins, James Barbour and Garrett Minor. THE defendant, John Davidson, not having entered his appearance...
VIRGINIA.
At a Superior Court of Chancery, held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, October 3, 1806. Between William Settle, Francis Settle, and Richard Harvey and Nancy his wife...
October 14. VIRGINIA. At a Superior Court of Chancery, held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, the tenth day of September, 1806. Between John M'Rae, executor of the testament and last will of John M'Rae, deceased...
October 17. VIRGINIA, to wit: At a Chancery District Court, held in the city of Williamsburg, the 23rd day of April, 1806. Sarah Robins, widow and relict of Joshua Robins deceased...
October 17. ANTHONY ROBINSON, c. c. against JOHN POINDEXTER, c. c. STORE OF IRONMONGERY, HARDWARE, &c.
October 24. At a meeting of the Directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, held at Edward Hallam's tavern in the city of Richmond, on Tuesday the 29th of July, 1806. RESOLVED, That five dollars be paid on each share held by the Stock-holders in the said company to Nathaniel Sheppard their treasurer...
September 9. N. SHEPPARD, Clerk. N.B. I have been directed by the president and directors, to request the persons making propositions for undertaking the aforesaid turnpike road...
EDUCATION.
DURING the ensuing year, R. L. Bohannan will continue and pursue the professional instruction of youth in the town of Port-Royal. His course of instruction comprehends Latin Grammar, English Prody, the art of reading, Arithmetic, Geography with the use of the globes and maps...
IN CHANCERY. Louisa County, October Court, 1806. Joseph Beckley against Robert Bell, Benjamin Henson, James Bell and Warner Broadhead. THE defendant Robert Bell, not having entered his appearance...
FROM THE AURORA. BOUNDARIES AND EXTENT OF LOUISIANA. Extracted from MSS. sketches of Louisiana, written by a military gentleman, who has been stationed on the Mississippi ever since the spring of 1803.
The discovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand de Soto in 1541, was never considered by Spain as authorizing a claim to that part of the country. The subsequent discoveries and settlements of the French were ultimately acquired in by that power. Among civilized nations, the right derived from discovery is as conclusive as that derived from purchase. The French, as early as 1673, discovered the Mississippi...
LOUISIANA.
year 1683 give our orders to undertake a discovery of the countries and lands, which are situated in the northern part of America between New-France and New-Mexico. And the Sieur de la Salle, to whom we committed that enterprise, having had success enough to confirm the belief, that a communication might be settled from New-France (Canada) to the Gulf of Mexico on the west.
It will be found on examination, that the claims of France to the country on the opposite side of the Mississippi, along the Gulf of Mexico, to the Rio Bravo (sometimes called the Rio del Norte) and westward to the Mexican mountains, are as little susceptible of objection.
The French were also the first to ascend Red river to its source, and to fix establishments on it. They explored the country to the south and south east, between that river and the Rio Bravo, and formed a settlement at the Attakapas, about 150 miles in a south westerly direction from Natchitoches.

younger days—and he declared to his employer, that he was then engaged in running the boundary line between the French and Spaniards. On passing the mouth of a small branch from the west, he said that there was a curiosity at the head of it, where the line crossed. This curiosity was a large tree on which the officers and surveyors made some marks, and to which they nailed a large plate of lead, or some other metal, with inscriptions on it.
These incidents, however trifling in appearance, deserve investigation, as they may lead to important discoveries. It seems indeed strange, that they are not historically known. Two circumstances may be adduced to prove the truth of these statements.—The first is, that subsequent to the year 1754, about which time these boundaries are supposed to have been settled—no disturbances occurred on the western borders of Louisiana; and the most rational way to account for this long calm of near thirty years, is to suppose, that some pacific measures had been agreed on by the two nations. The second is, that most of the transactions between France and Spain, particularly near the peace of 1763, were enveloped in profound mystery.
Considerable light may be thrown on this subject, by a recurrence to the latest Spanish and French maps. In the year 1799 the gulf of Mexico was surveyed and a map made of it, under the authority of the king of Spain, by Don Juan Langara, secretary of state, and of universal dispatches. It embraces the whole of the sea coast between N. Lat. 18 degrees and the river St. Mary's in Georgia, and also the gulf with all the islands and soundings, between the 80th and 92d degrees of west longitude from Cadiz. This map is applicable to our present purpose only in one particular: it seems to consider the Sabine river, the mouth of which is laid down in N. Long. 29 degrees 58 min. as the boundary between Louisiana and the interior provinces.
Du Pratz resided in Louisiana from 1718 to 1734, during which time he sustained the office of overseer of the plantations.—He travelled much over that country—penetrated most of its rivers, and became acquainted with the civil and natural history of it. In 1758, after his return to France, he published an history of Louisiana in several volumes—an epitome of which in one small volume has appeared in English—and he accompanied it with a map, descriptive of the boundaries claimed by his sovereign. In this map is included that part of Florida which lies between the Mississippi, and a line drawn south from the extremity of the Appalachian mountains, to the gulf of Mexico, a considerable distance to the eastward of Pensylvania; and yet he acknowledges in his history, that the Rio Perdido is the boundary line! From the mouth of the Mississippi, this line stretches along the gulf to the mouth of Rio Bravo, laid down by the Spaniards in N. Lat. 25 degrees 53 min. thence on the easterly bank of that river to about N. Long. 29 degrees 25 min. where there is a considerable bend in it; it then diverges from the river and extends nearly parallel to it, and about 40 miles from it, and terminates in N. Lat. 46 degrees.
This author has laid down a ridge of hills, commencing in about N. Lat. 31 degrees, at no great distance from Red river, and extending west till it intersects the Mexican mountains—which commence at some distance from the gulf, and extend along nearly parallel to the Rio Bravo. This ridge is in some places one and an half, and in others three degrees of latitude from the gulf. In this space no less than eleven considerable rivers are laid down; and five of them, one of which is the Sabine, appear to have their sources at the foot of this ridge. Du Pratz has been so particular as to delineate all the Indian villages and nations, and other remarkable objects, included in the territory bounded by the Mississippi on the east—the gulf on the south—the Mexican mountains on the west, & the 46th deg. of lat. on the north. In defining the boundaries about the gulf, and between Red river and the Rio Bravo, his authority is of great weight.
When Du Pratz resided in Louisiana, the French had only ascended the Mississippi to the mouth of the St. Francis, sixty miles above the falls of St. Anthony, in N. Lat. 46 degrees, and only 900 miles up the Missouri; and this is probably the reason, which induced him to bound Louisiana to the north on that degree. But between that period and the year 1763 the French penetrated the Mississippi to its source, and the Missouri to N. Lat. 48 degrees, or about 1650 miles, and carried on an indirect trade with the Indians about the shining mountains.—The Spaniards never visited these regions, and they remain ignorant of them to this day. They have penetrated from Santa Fe to the heads of the Kansas and Platte rivers—and to these their discoveries are limited in this quarter.
Hence the boundaries in question are not so problematical as some seem to suppose.—Louisiana bounds south on the gulf of Mexico—south-west, partly on the Rio Bravo, and partly on the Mexican mountains—north-west on the shining mountains—north on part of Canada—east on the upper part of the Missouri, as also on the Mississippi as low down as N. Lat. 31 degrees, where the line extends nearly at right angles with the river, and embraces all that part of Florida to the westward of the Rio Perdido.
The shape or figure of Louisiana is triangular. It is somewhat narrower to the south, but it gradually increases in breadth as it recedes from the gulf. If we can find the length and central breadth, the quantity of territory may be easily estimated. We know that the Mandanes on the Missouri are situated in N. Lat. 47 degrees 21 min. 47 sec. and from their accounts of that river beyond them, we have good reason to conclude, that its source in the shining mountains is in about N. Lat. 57 degrees 30 min. Hence Louisiana between these mountains and the gulf embraces 28 degrees of latitude, to which we must add about 14 degrees of longitude; so that its length may be computed at about 2281 miles. If the latitudes and longitudes of St. Louis on the Mississippi, and of Santa Fe, the capital of North Mexico, be accurately laid down, they are divided by a space of 692 miles. But as Santa Fe is situated about 40 miles to the westward of the Mexican mountains, or the source of the Arkansas, the breadth of Louisiana at St. Louis, (which will answer for the average breadth) is about 652 miles.—The Abbe Raynal calculates it at 600 miles. If these data be correct, Louisiana contains 1,489,168 square miles; or 953,067,520 acres. Perhaps this estimate may flagger the belief of some—especially as the territory on the west side of the shining mountains is not included in it; but if they will take the trouble to examine the great extent of the rivers, and consult the testimonies of various travellers, they will entertain different sentiments. Should Spain ever be able to deprive us of the territory to the westward of Red river, the deduction would not be very sensibly perceived. It would inflict a greater wound on our character, than on our purse.
It is here proper to remark, that the Mexican mountains, and the shining mountains generally confounded, are totally distinct. The former commence near the gulf of Mexico, and
stretch (to the eastward of Santa Fe) along to the north west. Where they terminate is not ascertained. The latter are a spur or prolongation of the Cordillera de los Andes, which extend from the straits of Magellan, along the Pacific Ocean, to about N. Lat. 58 degrees, where they terminate. The distance from Santa Fe to these mountains, is not correctly known:—but the Caravans, loaded with the precious metals, are usually 30 days in passing from one to the other.
Europe.
HAGUE, Aug. 19, 1806.
“Louis Napoleon, by the Grace of God, &c. We have determined, and do determine by these.”
“1. The daily paper, called The Amsterdam Evening Journal, shall be suppressed. The conductor shall not obtain permission to be employed again in any periodical work, having falsely pretended to be the writer of a paper under our authority; and having spoken in his publication of July 24, in a light and unjustifiable manner of governments with whom we are at peace.”
“Since no subject is permitted to speak in the name of his Sovereign; and as it is unlawful for any private person to censure the acts of different governments otherwise than in speech, and this entirely within his own domestic circle, every conductor of any printed work, who shall act in opposition to this law, shall be punished as an open disturber of the public tranquility, and a transgressor of his duties to his sovereign.”
“C. S. VAN BRAKEL. “Given at Mentz, Aug. 6, 1806.”
PRUSSIAN PREPARATIONS.
SCHIEDAM, September 7.
Intelligence received from Berlin, mentions the following particulars:—At length peace with Sweden is restored. Our troops in Pomerania have another destination. It is said, that the king of Sweden has even made an offer of his army, on which lieutenant-colonel Krusemark was dispatched to him. Every thing here has assumed the face of war. Our whole army is in motion. A large number of horses for the artillery has been put in requisition, and they have arrived here from the country. We have four grand armies, viz. two in Silesia, one near Sagau and one near Bauau; two others are near Laudberg on the war, and near Halle; the latter of which is 7,000 men strong. The citadel of Magdeburg is putting in the best possible state of defence. The debate-battalions are completing. Recruits are daily arriving. As to the sentiments of Russia, various reports are in circulation. The reigning duke of Brunswick is here; and Prince Hohenlohe Ingelheim, general of the infantry, is expected here momentarily, to receive his instructions. All the grenadier battalions are to hold themselves in marching readiness; and, if found necessary, there will be a levy en masse . The garrisons of this city and Potsdam are ordered to hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment's warning.
CHARLESTON, November 1.
Major-General Sir JOHN STUART, who commanded the British troops in their gallant action with the French, under general REGNIER, in Calabria, is a native of this city. He was severely wounded at the battle of the Eutaw Springs, during our Revolutionary war, from the effects of which he still suffers very considerable inconvenience. It is somewhat remarkable that this very handsome military achievement was performed by a native American, upon the 4th of July, the day of American splendour.
Courier.
Gen. Stuart, who gained the late victory at St. Euphemia, in Italy, has been appointed by his king, one of the Knights Companions of the most Hon. Order of Bath.
Excerpt from a late Paris Review of Politics, by M. Barrere.
“The United States, by a policy foreign to the old world, purchase countries which they might conquer, preserve a sentiment of gratitude for the French nation, and feebly revenge the fresh outrages of England. Yet their territory increases, their population advances, their revenues are more prosperous, and their growing navy dictates laws upon the coast of Barbary. England alone, dreads the prosperity of America, and seems to feel that greater glory awaits the Americans upon the banks of the river St. Lawrence.”
Domestic.
DEATH OF GEN. KNOX.
To the editor of the Boston Gazette. Warren, (Maine,) Oct. 16.
DEAR SIR, “It is with the deepest regret, I have now to inform you, that the great and good Gen. Knox, departed this life yesterday morning. He was confined about 6 days. It is supposed, that the cause of his death was his swallowing a sharp chicken bone which perforated his bowels, and produced a mortification.—The event was very sudden, and unexpected by his Physicians, till a very short time before his death. It has covered us all with the deepest gloom. The funeral will be to-morrow, when every testimony of respect will be paid, by all classes of people.”
NEW-YORK, Nov. 3.
Our old Friends.—The following affidavit is submitted to the reader without a comment. (N. Y. Citizen.)
City of New-York, ss. David Brown, being duly sworn deposes and says that he was born in New-York, and was in the American service as a seaman, in the ship Mary Ann, of this port, commanded by captain Seton.—This deponent says he was preferred on board said ship in the East-Indies, and remained on board of British war ships for six years, and was two years and six months on board the Victory, a British war ship commanded by Lord Nelson; and it happened that on the 4th of July, 1802, laying at Spithead, that this deponent and several pressed Americans were drinking and singing songs; and when they came to reflect on its being the day of their National Independence, Isaac Van Dyckman said he would give a toast, and drank that the Liberty Tree might be planted down the main hatchway, and its branches spread through the British Navy. Shortly after the said Van Dyckman was put in irons for the saying, and was tried for it on the 8th and found guilty, and executed on the 11th of the same month,
on board the aforesaid Victory, for nothing but drinking the toast as above. The deponent says Van Dyckman's release was on board of said ship for eleven months before this took place, and further this deponent saith not.
DAVID BROWN. Sworn to before me this 23d day of September, 1806. JAS. DRAKE, Alderman.
November 7.
When captain Doane failed from Laguira, Gen. Miranda was at Aruba. The Governor of Curacao, it was said, had offered to assist the Governor of Curacao with a frigate, for the purpose of driving Miranda out of Aruba. By captain D. the old story is reiterated, that Miranda's captured officers were beheaded, and the soldiers sent to the mine.
Merc. Adv.
The late fire at St. Thomas, by which on fourth of the town was destroyed, is estimated to have done damage to the amount of upwards of eight millions of dollars.
ib.
November 8.
A letter from a respectable commercial house in St. Thomas to another in this city, dated 12th October, says that on the 10th of that month the British frigate Jason, and a brig of war, captured off the mouth of the harbour at anchor, an armed ship with a crew of 90 men, having three schooners under her convoy, all belonging to Philadelphia, laden with coffee, bound to St. Thomas from Hispaniola, and sent them into Tortola, where they had arrived.
Merc. Adv.
The officers of the British frigate Cambrian informed the passengers in the Enterprise and Polly of New-York (recently taken and sent into Halifax) that they had orders to capture all American vessels from French, Spanish or Dutch ports or colonies. The captain of the Bellona, of 74 guns, the day before had examined the ship Polly, of New-York, and let her pass; but being afterwards informed of these new orders by the captain of the Cambrian, he returned to the pursuit, took her and sent her to Halifax; as also the Enterprise, from Bordeaux to New-York; the Messenger, from Gaudaloupe to New-York; and the Schooner Aispafia, from Cayenne to Boston.
The Cambrian on the 28th ult. (as noticed in our maritime news under the Norfolk head) impressed 5 men from the ship Charles Carter, and liberated them the next day, and put them on board the fchr. Eliza-Ann, from Cadiz—a Spanish port. We presume, from the circumstance of this vessel being permitted to proceed, as well as from the improbability of the report itself, that no such orders as those mentioned in the preceding paragraph have been issued by the British Government.
ib.
Captain Doan informs, that Miranda was at Aruba 25 days since—and that the Governor General of Caraccas had offered the Spaniards a frigate to go and destroy Miranda's Squadron. Capt. D. further says, that he saw the heads of two of Miranda's Officers exposed at Laguira upon pikes; and that when the Spaniards passed they pointed at them with scorn, and uttered the bitterest oaths against the Americans.
N. Y. paper.
In a well written essay, on the subject of Peace or War, published in the London Morning Post of the 15th of August, we find the following observations on the importance of the trade to South America, and on the expedition of Miranda.
Merc. Adv.
“Miranda now holding, directly or indirectly, most of the keys of the European markets, British Ministers, endowed with due foresight and judgment, should have seen the imperious necessity of opening new Markets to our staple manufactures in the three remaining quarters of the globe. South America, from the Mexican Gulph to Cape Horn, is the rich Continent they should have emancipated and rendered independent; at least the Spanish and principal part, together with the contiguous French and Dutch Colonies. If this be not done before the signature of any treaty with France, the glorious opportunity will, perhaps, be for ever lost to us. I have had good opportunity to know that Mr. Pitt, a few years before his death, saw and acknowledged the necessity of striking this blow, and was solicitous to obtain authentic information respecting the best mode of executing it.”
“A free intercourse with South America would furnish a copious stream of fresh supplies for prosecuting the war; it would subist the navy and army; and to assist its emancipation; it would open a new and lucrative market both for exports and imports to our staple manufactures, to cottons, mullins, shallons, linens, hardware, and to many of our East India productions, which they now receive through Manila, across the Pacific Ocean; it would repay us with many millions annually of the precious metals, gold and silver, with indigo, cochineal, Peruvian bark, tallow, hides, hemp, and a multitude of other articles. From the Southern part of it, on the Atlantic, our West India Islands might have an inexhaustible supply of provisions; it would greatly augment our naval force; it would cut off a principal stream of the resources of Bonaparte, and his vassal Spain, in carrying on the war against us.”
“At the threatened rupture with Spain on the Nootka Sound business, and the commencement of the French Revolution, I know that General Miranda, a native of the kingdom of Grenada, in South America, gave Mr. Pitt several Memorials on this subject, besides much parole information, through his Secretary, Mr. S——. Ten thousand land forces were then in readiness to undertake this expedition according to Miranda's plan, when the breach was adjusted. England then despairing of accomplishing thro' England his favourite schemes, set off for France, and presented it to the Rulers of the French Convention, by whom it was favourably listened to, and in the mean time he was nominated second in command to their principal army under Gen. Dumourier. Having narrowly escaped the loss of his head under Robespierre, he returned to London, and for several years persevered in importuning our Ministers to lop off this bank of Bonaparte and Spain. He is now, alas! departed on a forlorn hope, to make the attempt without adequate means.”
“The chart shews that the broad base of South America, bounded on the N. by the Mexican gulph, and on the S. by the great river Amazon, is watered by two other immense rivers, the Oronoko and the Magdalena. The Island of Trinidad lies near the mouth of the former, and to the S. of this lies the province of Guyana, including Surinam and Cayenne. The expedition was to have been conducted to the river Magdalena, and to have defended into the fertile province of Santa Fe, and the heart of Grenada. This province, though not far remote from the equator, is very healthy, and contains every requisite for the supply of an auxiliary force. By this position, assisted by the natives, the rich gold mines of Grenada,
and the treasures of Peru carried usually across the Isthmus of Panama, would be intercepted.”
“Miranda, however, was not sufficiently informed of the remote power we possessed to forward the emancipation of South America, by means of land forces transported from India across the Pacific Ocean. I speak from correct information on this subject, when I say that two, or, at the utmost, three months would have been sufficient for that purpose. The troops could be carried either a N. or a S. route, and refreshed in their passage at the Sandwich Islands, or at Botany Bay. In an octavo Military Treatise, which has gone through six editions, of which I am the author, but have thought proper to conceal my name, I threw out a hint of a joint expedition from Europe & from India, against the fourth part of S. America, that is against Buenos Ayres, and the opposite part of Baldavia, in Chili.—The breadth of South America is there contracted to about 500 miles; and there are two good post roads across it from sea to sea. On both sides the climate is healthy, and abounds with provisions. The Jesuits of Paraguay, and their native pupils, are spread over that vast plain to the right of the river Plata; and the inhabitants of Chili are incessant in hostility against the Spanish yoke.”
“Bonaparte has many political and commercial reasons for endeavouring to inveigle our ministers into a premature treaty at the present moment; the restitution of twenty thousand sailors, the perilous situation of his brother Jerome, and his squadron in the West-Indies; the consolidation of his European conquests, and the freedom from interruption in his future projects of rapine. He cannot fail to know, from his numerous spies, that part of the expedition now ready to sail from England, though not in season, is destined to support Miranda. A truce only for a month would enable him and Spain to detach such a reinforcement to South America as would exclude the British nation from any share of that lucrative commerce, and even from reaping the profits of petty smugglers. By a strong force in Surinam and Cayenne he could bridle both Spain and Portugal, and when it was convenient to throw off the mask, could dispossess both of them of Grenada and the Brazils. The consequences of such a manoeuvre to our East and West-India trade are obvious.”
“This essay was written before the arrival of Jerome Bonaparte in France could be known.”
At a meeting of the Federal-Republicans, and other citizens of the First Ward, who are friendly to an adequate Defence of the Port, convened at Ross's Hotel, Broad-street, on Thursday evening, the 6th inst. the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting is deeply impressed with a sense of the exposed and defenceless condition of the city and port of New-York, and the necessity of employing the most efficient means for their protection and defence.
Resolved, That the duties of submission and obedience on the part of the people, and of protection on the part of the government, are reciprocal and that, in the opinion of this meeting, while the citizens of New-York contribute so largely to the public revenue, they are entitled to a competent portion of that revenue to be applied to their security and defence.
Resolved, That this meeting consider the events which have already happened in the vicinity of this city as solemn warnings to its inhabitants of their perilous situation, and that the daily and menacing occurrences abroad loudly demand of the government immediate and effectual measures for their security.
Resolved, That this meeting see with deep regret that the applications formerly made by their fellow-citizens to the government of the United States on this important subject have failed of success, and that nothing has been done, or attempted, which can afford the least hope or prospect of security.
Resolved, That it is expedient for the citizens of New-York to renew their earnest applications on this occasion, that the same may be submitted to the Congress of the United States at the commencement of their session to be held in the first Monday of December next.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting the construction of gun-boats, and the limited repairs contemplated of the works on Governor's Island, are wholly inadequate to the defence of this port and are calculated to wound the feelings of our citizens, rather than satisfy their anxious expectations on this interesting subject.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, on this as on all other subjects, the means should be proportioned to the end, and that strong and permanent fortifications at the different stations fit for that purpose round our port, an extensive and well supplied public arsenal, and the equipment of ships of force are the only adequate and proper means of defence for the city and port of New-York.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, the Citizens of New-York are entitled to expect and demand of the government, that the amount of one year's revenue of their port, at least, be immediately applied to these important objects.
Resolved, That this meeting view with horror and detestation certain publications which have appeared in one of the newspapers of this city, expressing sentiments opposed to an adequate defence of this city, and encouraging the base and treacherous idea of introducing a foreign force to annoy its citizens.
Resolved, That this meeting rely for the safety and independence of their country solely on the virtue and patriotism of their fellow-citizens; that they have full confidence in the spirit and honor of the American character; that they regard with contempt and disdain, every idea of submission or tribute to any foreign power; and that they will join their countrymen in defending their rights and privileges with their lives and fortunes.
Resolved, That this meeting highly approve of the sentiments expressed in the publications which have appeared, addressed to the inhabitants of this city, inviting (among other things) the citizens of the different wards to meet and appoint committees to prepare a memorial to be presented to congress at the commencement of their next session, on the subject of providing for the defence of this port; and that this meeting do for that purpose, appoint the following persons to compose the committee from this ward, viz.—Jacob Radcliffe, J. O. Hoffman, Wm. W. Woolsey, Nathaniel Pendleton, Peter Meisler, John Sidel, Wm. Codman, John B. Murray, Levi Cooit, Jacob Crocheron, Nathaniel Prince, Robert Morris, Peter Duane, George Brinkerhoff, Oliver Wolcott, John B. Cales, Richard Platt, Philip Hone, Jacob Sherrard, Henry J. Wyckoff, and Isaac Sebring.—Instructing their said Committee to represent in strong but respectful terms, the lively sentiments entertained by this meeting, on this interesting subject, and to take all proper means in their power to promote the object of their appointment.
Resolved, That it be recommended to the inhabitants of each of the wards of this city, who have not already declared their sense on this
subject, to unite in the said memorial, and join their efforts to obtain those means of defence, on which alone, under Providence, must depend the safety of their lives and property.
By order of the meeting.
ISAAC SEBRING, Chairman. PHILIP HONE, Secretary.
November 8.
The Legislature of Vermont have re-elected the Honorable Stephen R. Bradley to represent that state in the Congress of the United States, for the term of six years, to commence on the fourth of March next.
Captain A. Stoddart, of the United States army a few days since, marched from Philadelphia, with 90 men—at Carlisle he will receive 100 more—and from thence proceed to Fort Adams on the Mississippi, or to Red River.
Aurora.
We are informed, that Gabriel Wood, esq. late his Britannic majesty's consular resident at this place, has been appointed comptroller-general of the West-Indies.
Bal. Tel.
Appointment by the Governor and Council of Maryland.—JOHN JOHNSON, Esquire, Attorney General, in the place of T. Mason, Esquire, who was elected to the Senate of Maryland.
WASHINGTON, November 10.
The death of Mr. Fox is an event, whose magnitude it is scarcely possible correctly to estimate. England, since he has been placed at the helm, has looked to him as her deliverer, and Europe as her pacificator. It is now but too probable that the form of war will renew its destructive rage, and sweep before it all the established landmarks of kingdoms, and what is still more important, spread insatiable misery among the lower and middling orders of society.
Never was man raised to a more awful and even dangerous eminence. Many of his best friends considered him as exposing to disrepute that character which he had so laboriously acquired by a life of unimpeached public services. But he had a spirit that dared to attempt anything which promised to promote the happiness of his fellow-men. However dazzled by the talents of this illustrious statesman, it is his virtue that most commands our homage. No man more loved power than he; but he loved integrity still more; and office was only desirable to him as the means of doing good. In the trying scene in which he was placed, he seems to have formed the heroic resolution to abandon the crooked and contracted policy of his predecessors, and to take the plain path of honesty; to treat with foreign nations on the ground of reciprocity, & to require no more than he gave. He correctly viewed the energies of his country as boundless, when disengaged from the chains imposed upon them, by monopolies and restrictions. It is to be feared that we have lost, by his death, a powerful friend, and that no successor can be found who will so eminently combine the ability with the disposition to reconcile our differences on terms of mutual benefit. We believe it may be stated as a fact that this great man has been in every vicissitude, the steady, invariable friend of the United States; contemplating with admiration their struggle for liberty, rejoicing in its successful termination, and approving the wise policy, which, since our independence, has marked our political career. We should be destitute of gratitude, could we as a nation ever forget the support we received from him in the worst of times. Supporting, and supported by a Chatham, he had the boldness to declare that he rejoiced in our successes, thereby inspiring us with confidence in the justice of our cause, and with the hope of ultimate triumph. It was his eloquence that conquered the obstinate repugnance of the king to acknowledge our independence, and that produced a treaty of peace between the two nations. Such services must be indelibly engraved on the hearts of freemen. Let us hope that what they feel, they will not hesitate to adopt some marked mode of manifesting to the world. Charles Fox was not merely an Englishman, but a citizen of the world, a philanthropist. As such it becomes us to express our regret; and we flatter ourselves that the national legislature will seize this occasion to manifest the distinguished estimation in which he is held by their constituents. Franklin extorted this token of respect from the representatives of France, and why should not the memory of Fox receive the same distinction from the representatives of the United States?
Nat. Intel.
FROM THE MONONGALIA GAZETTE.
RESOLUTIONS
Of a number of the inhabitants of Wood county. Firmly attached to the Constitution of the U. S. and the constituted authorities, and viewing with a jealous eye, the apparently hostile motions and nefarious designs of certain characters, it was resolved at a meeting of sundry citizens of Wood county, Virginia, held on the 6th day of Oct. 1806, for the purpose of taking into consideration the measures necessary to be adopted, in this alarming crisis, to counteract if possible, what is supposed to be the ambitious and disorganizing views of AARON BURR and his partisans in this Western country.
That it is expedient that the citizens of Wood county should without delay form themselves into a volunteer corps, or body of men, train themselves to arms and military discipline for the purpose of defending themselves and their property from any threatened attack, and by repelling any aggression that may be attempted by insurgents inimical to the interest of the U. S. until some more effective steps shall be adopted by the President of the U. S. To effect this laudable purpose it is ordered, that six subscription papers be immediately drafted and handed round the country in order to procure subscribers to the same enrolling themselves in said body. That it is proper that a meeting should be held of the persons enlisting themselves as aforesaid, at the court house of Wood county on the 11th day of this present month for the purpose of choosing by ballot proper officers to command said corps and adopt proper rules and regulations for their future conduct.
Alexander Henderson, Peter Anderson, Robert Kincheloe, Thomas Tavener, James Compton, and James G. Laidley are appointed to hand round said subscription papers. Ordered that the commandant of the 11th regiment of Virginia militia, be requested to use the most effective measures in his power to collect the public arms of said regiment and have them forthcoming at the court house of Wood county on the said 11th day of this present month. And also that the persons appointed to hand round the aforesaid subscription papers should request the subscribers to their respective

papers to bring forward any private arms they may be in possession of at the same time.  2. Resolved, that a permanent committee of five persons be appointed to regulate the proceedings necessary to be pursued, and the measures necessary to be adopted during the existence of danger—and Hugh Phelps, Jacob Beeson, Robert Kincheloe, Alexander Henderson, and George Creel, jun. are appointed to compose said committee, and James Wilson is appointed secretary to said committee, with power of summoning said committee whenever an emergency may seem to require it—and empowering said committee when met to summon meetings of the citizens of Wood county.  3. Resolved, that an address be drawn up expressive of the sentiments of the citizens of Wood county upon this occasion, and forwarded to the President of the U. S.  4. Resolved, that a copy of the foregoing proceedings be forwarded to the Printers of the Ohio and Monongalia Gazettes to be printed in their respective newspapers, and that a printed copy of the same be forwarded with as much expedition as possible to the President of the United States, and another to the Governor of Virginia.  JAMES WILSON, Sec'y. October 18, 1806.
Mr. BURR. Extra of a letter from Gallipolis, (a few miles below Marietta) dated Sept. 10.  "Mr. BURR's intended expedition, is much talked of here. He has many profelytes; and reports are in circulation, that a large number of Boats are building at Marietta, to answer his purpose: say 14, or 15, though I cannot vouch for the exact number, not having been there for some weeks. It is certain, that there are boats building there to descend the Ohio, and it is as certain that Mr. Burr made himself very busy while residing there."
Extra of a letter from a gentleman at Pinckneyville, to his Friend in this city, dated Sept. 28.  "A detachment of militia march in a few days from this territory to join our army near Natchitoches, where a considerable Spanish force has been insulting our flag for some time. It is a fact a rencontre will take place unless the Spaniards should immediately retire beyond the Sabine river."
Chillicothe, October 20. Extra of a letter from one of the commissioners appointed to fix the most eligible route for a road from Cumberland, in the state of Maryland, to the Ohio river, to the editor, dated Wheeling, (Va.) Oct. 25th, 1806.  "The commissioners are progressing in their view of the country between the Potomac and Ohio, and will, in all probability, be able to determine the points on each of the rivers, and the intermediate points, against the first of December, and then begin to locate. I think it doubtful whether they will be able to complete the location this fall or winter: however, that will depend on the weather, if they have their health."  "There are many conjectures here respecting Mr. Burr's late visit through this and that country. Both provision and boats are wanting here, by people supposed to be in that party; but nothing has transpired to discover their intention."
We are informed, that the company of Dragoons, commanded by Captain James Ferguson, have made a tender of their services to the President, should our misunderstanding with Spain render a recourse to arms necessary.—Too high a compliment cannot be paid to their patriotism, and must be doubly acceptable to the President at the present period, when designing and ambitious individuals would endeavor to foment the public mind, in order to effect a separation of the Eastern and Western states. From the persons concerned, however, we have nothing to apprehend—and we hope the laudable example set by the company of Horse, will be followed by the uniform companies throughout the State.  Western Spy.
FOR SALE. An Elegant Coach well finished, with Plated Harness and a pair of well matched HORSES. These horses can be recommended as being well broke, and free from any bad habits; they are six & seven years old last spring.—Also, a strong healthy Negro WOMAN with a female child about five years old. A great bargain may be had in this property for cash, or a negotiable note at sixty days.  Enquire at this Office. November 14. tf.
THE SUBSCRIBER respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has just received a good assortment of Saddlery and Harness Mountings in his line of business—Likewise, good Skirting, Hoz, Skins, Bag and Upper Leather. Coach Glafs of the best kind, 24 by 20, 22 by 20, and 20 by 18.  JOHN MCENERY. November 14. tm.
THE SUBSCRIBER , besides a complete assortment of Groceries, has now on hand, and is selling at very low prices for cash or country produce.  GERMAN Ozanburgs, White yellow and red Flannels, Rose and Duffield Blankets.  Also on consignment: 20 Barrels Brown Sugar, 5 Pipes Ash Proof Cogniac Brandy, A few Kegs P. F. Gunpowder  EDWARD JOHNSTON. Manchester, Nov. 14. 4t.
COOK SHOP, AND OYSTER HOUSE. GEORGE WATSON, has removed from the House adjoining the Union-Tavern, to the first Cross-Street above the Eagle-Tavern, leading to the Basin, where he has opened a COOK SHOP and OYSTER HOUSE for the refreshment of his friends and customers, at all hours of the day, and till 10 o'clock at night. Having procured a good French Cook, he will furnish good Soup, Beef Steak, Mutton Chops, &c. &c. &c. and the best OYSTERS that can be procured in Richmond.  Nov. 14. oawtf.
THE Subscriber thinks proper to give notice, he has resumed the practice of the law, and purpose to appear in the Court of Appeals, the Federal Court, and the High Court of Chancery, held in the city of Richmond, (to which place he is now preparing to remove his residence.) Due attention will be paid to such business as may be committed to his care.  WILLIAM COWAN. Lynchburg, Nov. 14. epf.
IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE ENQUIRER.
The Enquirer. RICHMOND, 14th NOVEMBER.
The Western Country. —We have some time since given it as our decided opinion, that Mr. Burr has never intended a military expedition, for the dismemberment of the Union, and in our last paper we suggested in the form of a query, that these preparations were intended for the more pacific purpose of settling a district of country near Natchitoches, formerly granted to Baron Bastrop by the court of Madrid. It is unnecessary for ourselves to engage in any extensive development of this suspicion; as the author of the following ingenious COMMUNICATION has said every thing, that we could have possibly furnished on the subject. We shall therefore be contented merely adopting the explanations of the author as our own; and will request our readers to observe how completely the design ascribed to Col. Burr, accounts for all the rumours which have been circulated on this subject, and how completely they all concur in giving plausibility to this leading idea.
This same explanation seems to us to point out the source of another report, which has been circulated in Alexandria and Washington; that our Cabinet had been four days engaged in secret deliberations on this subject. If such secret deliberations have really existed, the suggestion that we have made will merely change their object. It will not be, as has been said, whether measures should be taken to prevent an insurrection in the West, or to arrest Col. Burr; but whether the Executive has not the power, and whether that power should not be exerted, to put a stop to any species of preparation, whose object is to make a forcible or illegal settlement on the land of the U. S. in Louisiana. It is believed that the settlement, which Col. Burr is supposed to have in contemplation, is really illegal in its object. For what other title has Col. Burr to the land which he means to settle, than what Baron Bastrop can confer? But it is believed, that Baron B. himself has never complied with the contract, under which he claims it.
If then Col. Burr has formed this illegal design, which he may have been pleased to denominate "an honourable and laudable undertaking," and if the executive have the proper power to prevent its completion; this is the precise moment for exerting it. Offa principis , is not less the maxim of all provident governments, than of every free people. Should the present illegal settlement be passed over with impunity, then the greater part of Louisiana will be devoured by squatters who have not the smallest pretensions to a title, or by those numberless speculators, who claim almost without the shadow of a title under the Spanish government. Perhaps there never existed such a variety of claims to land without the necessary titles, or so many titles obtained under more irregular and fraudulent means. It was the method which the Spanish government adopted for making titles to land, that has produced many of those fraudulent claims. These ways are described in the following extracts from Mr. Jefferson's Louisiana documents, presented to Congress during the session of 1802:
"The lands are held in some instances by grants from the crown, but mostly from the colonial government. Perhaps not one quarter part of the lands granted in Louisiana are held by complete titles; and of the remainder a considerable part depends upon a written permission of a commandant. Not a small proportion is held by occupancy with a single verbal permission of the officer last mentioned. This practice has always been countenanced by the Spanish government, in order that poor men, when they found themselves a little at ease, might at their own convenience apply for and obtain complete titles. In the mean time such imperfect rights were suffered by the government to descend by inheritance, and even to be transferred by private contract. When requisites, they have been seized by judicial authority, and sold for the payment of debts."  "Until within a few years, the governor of Upper Louisiana was authorised to make surveys of any extent. In the exercise of this discretionary power, some abuses were committed; a few small monopolies were created. About three years ago, he was restricted in this branch of his duty; since which he has been only authorised to make surveys to emigrants in the following manner: Two hundred acres for each man and wife, fifty acres for each child, and twenty acres for each slave. Hence the quantity of land allowed to settlers depended on the number in each family; and for this quantity of land they paid no more than the expense of survey. These surveys were necessary to entitle the settlers to grants; and the governor, and after him the intendant at New Orleans, was alone authorised to execute grants on the receipt of the surveys from the settlers."
To these irregular modes of conferring land, are owing many of the imperfect and fraudulent titles, which existed before the acquisition of Louisiana. But that very act produced a new class of fraudulent claims. The colonial government of Spain, even after the expiration of its power, assumed the right of giving titles. Patents were signed, because they were antedated; patents were given to the favorites of the Intendant; & through the influence of corruption, patents were granted for the most extensive tracts, at a most inadequate price.
If, therefore, the United States would crush this host of vampires, who are now ready to swarm over the soil of Louisiana, it is necessary to oppose the very first encroachments which are attempted to be made. But this reason becomes infinitely stronger, as a mere question of policy, when it applies to such an interloper as Col. Burr. That man is possessed of military talents of too exalted a cast; of an intriguing disposition too difficult to be detected; of a spirit of ambition too fiery and inextinguishable; for him to be permitted to establish a kind of independent colony in the wilds of Louisiana. Let us recollect too the very critical situation of the territory which our suspicions have fixed on as the object of his preparations. Let us recollect that it is on the very borders of the territory, which forms the existing boundary between ourselves and Spain; one of those positions, at which a junction may be easily effected between the new settlers and the Spanish troops; and from which as from a centre, Col. Burr may extend his influence over the Indian tribes.
The following description of this settlement is extracted from the Journals of Mr. Dunbar and Dr. Hunter, who in the month of October, 1804, descended the Mississippi to the north of the Red river, and thence ascended the Red river, the Black river and the Washita river, as high as the Hot Springs in the neighborhood of this last-mentioned river. They state the distance between the mouth of the Red river, and the post on the Washita, called Fort Miro, not far from Bastrop's grant, to be  From the mouth of Red, to that of Black, five } 10 leagues.
To the mouth of Catahoula, Washita, & Tenza, which form Black river. } 22 To Fort Miro. } 59 91
Bastrop's grant is therefore 91 leagues to the Mississippi.
"At the post of the Washita, they procured a boat of less draught of water than the one in which they ascended the river thus far; at noon, on the 11th of November, they proceeded on the voyage, and in the evening encamped at the plantation of Baron Bastrop.  This small settlement on the Washita, and some of the creeks of the creeks falling into it, contains not more than five hundred persons, of all ages and sexes. It is reported, however, that there is a great quantity of excellent land upon these creeks, and that the settlement is capable of great extension, and may be expected, with an accession of population, to become very flourishing. There are three merchants settled at the post, who supply at very exorbitant prices, the inhabitants with their necessaries; they, with the garrison, two small planters, and a tradesman or two, constitute the present village. A great proportion of the inhabitants continue the old practice of hunting, during the winter season, and they exchange their peltry for necessaries, with the merchants, at a low rate. During the summer these summer these people content themselves with raising corn, barely sufficient for bread during the year. In this manner they always remain extremely poor: some few who have conquered that habit of indolence, which is always the consequence of the Indian mode of life, and attend to agriculture, live more comfortably, and taste a little the sweets of civilized life.
The lands along the river above the posts, are not very inviting, being a thin poor soil, and covered with pine wood. To the right, the settlements on the Bayou Barthelemi and St. Landry, are said to be rich land.  On the morning of the thirteenth, they passed an island and a strong rapid, and arrived at a little settlement below a chain of rocks, which cuts the channel between an island & the main land, called Rogue River. The Spaniard and his family, settled here, appear, from their indolence, to live miserably. The river acquires here a more spacious appearance, being about 150 yards wide. In the afternoon they passed the Bayou Barthelemi on the right, above the last settlements, and about twelve computed leagues from the post. Here commences Baron Bastrop's great grant of land from the Spanish government, being a square of twelve leagues on each side, a little exceeding a million of French acres. The banks of the river continue about thirty feet high, of which eighteen feet from the water are a clayed loam of a pale ash colour, upon which the water has deposited twelve feet of light sandy soil, apparently fertile, and of a dark brown colour. This description of land is of small breadth, not exceeding half a mile on each side the river, and may be called the valley of the Washita, beyond which there is high land covered with pines."
COMMUNICATION.
COLONEL AARON BURR.
OUR attention has been of late much excited by the publications which have appeared in the paper called the Western World: Plots and conspiracies of various kinds, have been announced in terms of such seriousness connected with details, which wear the appearance of probability. Among others who have been denounced, we have lately noticed the name of AARON BURR, ESQUIRE, LATE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
It has been long the custom of many American writers, and publishers, to treat the name, character and conduct of Col. Burr with suspicion, accusation and contempt. He has been accused and denounced, as a foe to his country, to its government, and to the civil liberties of mankind; and so long and so frequently have such things been published, that no reader can be surprised to find some new accusation or charge against the distinguished character.  Under such circumstances, the name of Col. Burr has been announced as a conspirator, for the purpose of effecting a revolution, in the Western settlements & states of the union; The object of which would be to establish a separate government or empire beyond the Allegany Mountains—and to far have these accusations been carried, that many collateral facts, of seeming importance, have been referred to and relied upon. One of these facts related to the employment of many young men of talents and distinction, who have engaged in some secret project, which they either will not, or can not, explain. Another relates to the building, or contracting for, a number of boats, such as seemed useful only in a military project. A third relates to the great resources in money which Colonel Burr has lately obtained, either by drafts upon merchants in Kentucky, or by his own drafts upon merchants of New-York and Philadelphia.
To all those who were weak enough to imagine, that Colonel Burr could be so great a fool, as to attempt such a revolution, as that which has been alluded to, these and some other matters of smaller import appeared to be strong proofs of a conspiracy. And as it had long been the fashion to accuse, and to terminate him according to the fears, hatred or malignity of each writer; So it happened, from these causes, that Col. Burr has been treated with as little respect, as if he had been a public outlaw.
In one of the western papers, it is said that Col. Burr has lately been at the house of Col. Charles Lynch, in Kentucky, where he remained several days; That Lynch, some time ago had purchased an interest in the claim of Baron Bastrop to thirty miles square of lands in Louisiana, which the Spanish government had granted to him; that Bastrop was bound to settle a considerable number of families thereon, as one of the conditions of the grant.
Here then the whole mystery is unfolded. Bastrop, being unable to fulfil his contract, has sold or confederated with Lynch; Lynch has either sold or confederated with Burr; Burr has sold or confederated with other persons, who have sufficient cash capitals to make the necessary settlements.
Having made these arrangements, it was natural for Colonel Burr to engage young men of talents and enterprise, not only to become letters but also to promote the general purposes of the plan. Young men of this description have been employed, and because the wife-sons could not discern wherefore, they have thought fit to say, that the purposes were treasonable, and that Colonel Burr was not only the author but the great machine, upon which all the minor parts of this supposed treachery and conspiracy, would or did depend.
After having mentioned this part of the project, the next thing necessary was, to provide suitable boats, not merely such as would do to go down the Ohio and Mississippi; but such as would be useful in other purposes, and at the same time to afford the means of annoyance, if interrupted by Indians, or plunderers.—Boats of this description have also been provided.  Men and boats being thus engaged, there then would want nothing but money, or those articles of necessity which money would produce. According to the accounts which are published, it seems that Col. Burr has provided funds equal to 200,000 dollars. Now if all these things be true, what are the results? Plainly and simply this:  Col. Aaron Burr, a man of great talents and enterprise, who has had many causes to be dissatisfied with the eastern parts of the United States, has determined to withdraw and to settle in Louisiana. He has purchased or otherwise obtained the control over large tracts of valuable unsettled lands, and has employed persons to superintend the settlement of farmers in those lands. These farmers have been or will be obtained from the Eastern States, and of course will pass down the Ohio by water, to go to the lands in question. He has provided proper boats to remove these settlers and their families, and has also provided sufficient resources in money and other articles to promote and execute the intended settlements.
All these things being connected with the name of Burr, have induced some persons to publish, and many more to believe that the whole was neither more nor less than an organized conspiracy for the purpose of separating the Western from the Eastern States; that Col. Burr was the organ and author of that great project; and that he had been urged to this act of superlative weakness or rather madness by motives of ambition or revenge.
These observations are not altogether predicated upon conjecture. There are some facts known to the writer, which induce him seriously to submit these reflections to public notice. As a very little time will explain the whole mystery, if there be a mystery, or if there be any thing more intended than has been herein suggested, so therefore it will not be proper or availing, at this time, to add other conjectures.
It will afford to the writer much satisfaction, to find not only, that so great a calamity as the dismemberment of the United States is not contemplated by any one, but very particularly indeed, will it gratify him, to find that one of such rare talents as that of Col. Aaron Burr has passed into the lustre which is due to his name & to such exalted endowments, by designs which could not fail, to embitter the latter days of his life, and to consign his name and his fame to execration and infamy.  A Friend of the Union and of Truth.
COMMUNICATION.
To the Editor of the Enquirer.
From a persuasion of your liberal disposition to communicate to the public whatever may be discovered to be of public utility, it is confidently expected you will give the following a place in your Gazette, for the consideration of the Legislature that is soon to convene on the approaching session.
The present mode of selling tobacco in Richmond, that comes hither by water or by wagons, from the numerous inspections, established by law, from Carter'sville on both sides of the river to the Blue Ridge, your correspondent observes calls loudly for an amendment in the inspection law. The amendment contended for is, that it should be made the duty of the inspectors to preserve samples of all the tobacco they pass, and that they class the same as in quality into three or four different classes. The samples would justify the inspector's classifications, and reconcile the same to the purchaser, who the purchaser, who by seeing the sample could readily determine which answered his purpose the best, whether for exportation to any particular market or port in Europe, or the West-Indies, or for manufacturing either in this or any other of the United States that are in the habit of manufacturing this article. It is discovered that little or no respect for some years past is paid to the opinions of the inspectors appointed by law to receive and inspect this important article, notwithstanding that the inspectors are by law appointed by the courts, whose duty it is to choose men the fittest qualified for this important office, and who, before they can act, are obliged to give bond and security for the faithful discharge of their duty, and who are forever upon oath to discharge this duty without favor, affection or partiality; to either planter, merchant or manufacturer; and notwithstanding that the object and design of the inspection is acknowledged to be, that the judgment, certificate or note of the inspectors shall be and is established a standard for buyer and seller, or in other words, for both planter and merchant.
The inspection law now referred to, it must be acknowledged was intended by the legislature to reconcile the parties, planters and merchants, to the good quality and condition of the tobacco for exportation, but the intention of the legislature herein, by the present mode of re-inspecting, is evidently defeated and contemptuously set at nought, & for remedy whereof this amendment referred to the wisdom of the legislature. Your correspondent anticipates that objections and difficulties will be thrown in the way of the amendment now recommended, but contends that the justice due to the planter, who in obedience and respect to the inspection law cheerfully submits his tobacco to the judgment of the inspectors, to be by them condemned, if found of bad quality, or not in order to be preferred, when prized, &c. and who of course has a claim that the buyer shall also confide in the judgment of the inspectors appointed for the mutual convenience of both by the institution and regulations of the inspection law.
To obviate objections that probably may be made to the amendment here recommended, that the tobacco has or may receive damage by wet or pilferage on the passage from the upper inspections to Richmond, it may be made a law that the boat-men shall not be permitted to transport tobacco till they obtain licence, shall give bond and security, that they are provided with a sufficient boat and the necessary covering to shelter their loads from injury by rain, &c. and that they will deliver their cargo in as good order and condition as when the same was shipped; that in the event of the cargo being injured (the same to be ascertained by the receivers of tobacco at the public warehouse,) the same shall be sustained by the boat man or owner thereof. It has long been contemplated that the clashing of tobacco as to quality by the inspectors would answer a beneficial end to the planter, by inviting him, for the best price to afford and cull his tobacco and make as much of it as possible of the first quality, and it is earnestly to be wished that the legislature would give the system a fair trial; if then it should be discovered that it is not beneficial the law may be altered or repealed.
WAR IN EUROPE.
Some politicians contend, that there will be no war between France and Prussia, because there can be no other Coalition; and that there cannot be a new coalition, because the battle of Austerlitz, so completely overthrew the last. But this is saying no more, than that there will be no war, because Prussia is afraid of France, and therefore Prussia will not war with her. But the question of war or no war is not exactly dependent upon her own pleasure. Though she may not wish to fight France, still France may be determined to fight her. She may wish to evade it; but it is at any moment within the power of France to force her into it.
"But will Prussia furnish her with any reason for going into a war?" With respect to reason, it seems to be pretty much out of vogue in the modern European wars. But with respect to a cause of war, unfortunately for her nothing is more easy. Should France claim Friesland for the use of Holland or reclaim Hanover for England; Prussia may refuse or fight. Should Prussia aspire to form a northern confederacy of the German states, similar to the league of the Rhine, she may provoke the jealousy & vengeance of France. Should France aim at the same object, and Prussia throw any difficulties in the way, the same catastrophe may await her. Had Bonaparte been at war with any other continental power, he might have waved such pretensions or submitted more patiently to the disappointment; but now his hands are free, they will be more ready to obey the dictates of his heart.
Should, then, Prussia and France meet in arms, on the Plains of Westphalia, the catastrophe may be read before it is written. Prussia has been too long at peace; her generals have too little discipline, and too little confidence in their own powers, to resist the trained bands of France. Prussia will therefore be obliterated from the map of Europe, or if the policy or generosity of the victor spare her independence, she will live to be drat or her fairest possessions, to enrich the empire of Prince Murat. Then a new confederation will be seen to start into existence in the north, similar to the Rhenish confederation which will acknowledge Bonaparte as its protector; nearly the same in condition and similar in its views. The league of the Rhine has ruined the German Empire; the league of the North will embrace the ruins of Prussia. The one is a check upon the surviving force of Austria, the other, upon that of the House of Brandenburgh. Both of them will extend the military resources of France; and both will cut down two of her great continental rivals, to the rank of second-rate powers.
Last Evening's News.
NORFOLK, November 10. The arrival of the Ship William Penn, Capt. Watson, in 42 days from Nantes, has furnished us with Paris papers from the 18 to the 20th September. Lord Lauderdale had not quitted Paris, though we do not perceive his name in one of the papers; verbal accounts state that his baggage was packed up, and that he was to set out for England in two days.
We have from Capt. Watson who informs us, that on the 19th of Sept. the Emperor, after the review of his guards, which consist of 12,000 men, instead of dismissing, as usual, marched them straight out of the city, and proceeded on to join, (as is supposed) one of his armies, no one knows which, or whither he is gone, or what are his designs—the public may rely on the truth and good judgment of Capt. W. for the correctness of this fact—All Prussia is in arms, and the Parisians amuse themselves with the various manoeuvres, marches and countermarches, of these troops; without knowing anything of their designs or daring even to conjecture whether Bonaparte is to act with or against them.
AUSTRIA seems most wistfully determined to preserve her neutrality. The Russian minister count Rumowsky is said to have invited her to co-operate and form new connections with his master, which his Austrian majesty is said to have formally declined "declaring that he has adopted a system of politics since the treaty of Presburg, from which he will not depart, and which does not permit him to enter into new engagements of a treaty."
The Elector of HESSE is said to have prayed his Prussian majesty not to take it amiss, if he being in the advanced post, should continue entirely neutral.
The Elector of SAXONY is said to have entered into arrangements with Prussia respecting the Northern Confederacy.
PARIS, September 14. A great number of wagons loaded with ammunition of war are daily passing through Brussels to Maestricht.
September 12. The day before yesterday, in the morning, a great number of squadrons of chasseurs, and horse grenadiers, with a detachment of flying artillery of the imperial guard, defiled from the boulevards, and took, it is said, the route for Belgium. These troops were remarkable for their fine appearance, and the military ardour which they exhibited. Recklessness and impatience for war, were painted in the countenances of the officers and soldiers.
Hague, Sept. 9. The garrison in this place, and his majesty's guards, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness for marching at a moment's warning; their provisional destination is the camp of Zeitz, near Utrecht, which will be the rendezvous of 14000 infantry and 2000 cavalry, including the French troops, a part of which is to leave Utrecht this day, for the same rendezvous.
That camp will be augmented, as circumstances may require; it is said, it will be under the immediate command of his majesty, and under him General Michaud. The divisions of our army will be commanded by the generals Dumonceau, Dandels and Bockap. Colonel Pavarini, will command the artillery. The troops are in the highest spirits.
The 2d. No. of DECIUS will appear in our next PAPER.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. FOR apprehending a negro man named WILLIAM STUART or STUART. He left my house three weeks ago, is 6 feet three inches high, long measure face, red eyes, speaks rapidly and with great confidence, aged about 50 years. He may attempt to pass for a free man as formerly. The above reward will be paid on delivering him here—or ten dollars for securing him in a country goal.  WM. LONG. Nov. 14. tf.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE. THE LAND and MILL advertised for sale, by the subscriber in the Enquirer, to have been sold on the fifteenth of September last. If not previously sold, before Monday the 24th of this present month, that being Middlesex court day, to be held in the town of Urbanna: It will positively be sold on that day if fair, otherwise the first fair day (in the said town of Urbanna), to the highest bidder, on a credit till the first day of September next; the purchaser giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date, if not punctually paid, with a lien on the property to secure the payment. The sale to commence between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, at Mr. Christopher Owen's Tavern in the above mentioned place.  ROBERT BIRD. Hanover, Nov. 14. 3t.
JOHN TOMPKINS, HAS received an assortment of GOODS Consisting of FLANNELS, Coatings, Blankets, Rose and Duffield Drabs, Frize, Kerseys, Feamouth, Cloths, Carpets and Carpeting, Bombazetts, Swansdown, Patent Cord, Powder and Shot, Dowlas, Sheeting, Kerseys, Seymours, Calicoes and Muslins, &c. &c. which he will dispose of on very liberal terms, by the piece or package.  Nov. 14. tf.  BY Virtue of a Deed of Trust executed to me by Philip Boos, to secure the punctilious payment of seven hundred dollars due B. H. Judah.  WILL. be sold to the highest bidder on the 24th instant, at Z. Brooks's Tavern, in the town of Manchester, one Waggon and six mules, and one LOT, N o . 62, or so much of said property as may satisfy the balance now due, with interest and expenses attending the execution of said deed of trust.  D. LAMBERT, Trustee. Nov. 14. 3t.

Miscellaneous
From Letters and Papers of the Bath and West of England Society of 1806.
The potato has, though deservedly, occupied so much of the attention of different writers, that it may seem almost necessary to bring forward some new and important discoveries concerning it, if we attempt to say more on its qualities. It is not, however, a singular opinion, that so important a vegetable, and so applicable to economical uses, as human food; that it will remain for posterity fully to appreciate its positive and comparative value. But as no new and promising experiment, however imperfectly conducted, should be suffered to escape general notice, it will be acceptable to our readers to receive a general statement of certain trials made by a very respectable British merchant, with a view to ascertain the value of the potato for sea provision and other uses. His difference about having done justice to the subject, which he doubts of finding leisure to prosecute, prevents his allowing his name to appear as to a finished essay of his own; but certain statements are deemed too important to be lost, as they may lead to further discoveries and facts. The statements then are in substance as follows:
"The ease with which this root is prepared by boiling and for immediate consumption, either in its separate form, or mixed in bread; the little trouble there is in preserving it through the winter months; and the short period between the time of planting and the return of the crop; have most probably been the causes why less pains have been taken to find out cheap methods of preserving potatoes, as a store for future subsistence, than would otherwise have been the case."
"The large quantity of potatoes produced in the last season, and the reputed scarcity of bread-corn, induced me a few weeks since to make some small experiments on the means of drying potatoes, either in substance or in flour; either for future consumption at home, or for the supply of our seamen on long voyages."
"The ease with which I found this might be done, and the probable benefit which I think may be derived to the public from a farther pursuit of the subject, induces me to submit to the inspection of the Society a small quantity of the flour of potatoe sent herewith."
"The potatoes were boiled with their skin on, dried on a kiln, and the whole ground in a steel corn-mill: none of the skin has been separated by dressing."
"By experiments that have been made before made on fine dried flour of potatoes, it is known, that it will keep longer than the flour of wheat without spoiling; that it is used as a substitute for eggs, and makes good biscuits without admixture. And I have every reason to believe it will mix and make good bread, in a much larger proportion with wheat-flour, than has hitherto been employed of the boiled root, in the common mode of using it."
"Of the expense of preparing the flour from the root in large quantities I am not prepared to speak. The chief labour is washing the potatoes from the mould, which adheres to the eyes, particularly in those sorts, the eyes of which are much depressed. Drying them will be considerably expensive; but I think may be reduced much below what at first it will be estimated at. Grinding will not cost more than corn."
"From what I believe were accurate experiments, I find that one hundred pounds of washed potatoes will produce full twenty five pounds of flour (such as the sample.) The difference in weight will be very little, whether the potatoes are boiled, or only ground in an apple-mill, and the juice suffered slowly to drain from them before they are dried. It might seem therefore at first view, that the boiling might be omitted; my trials however have shown me, that the colour of the flour is much fairer when boiled, and the taste more pleasant; and that the expense of boiling in steam is very little. With the greatest care even some of the starch (the most nutritive part of the root) will separate with the juice; above three pounds of the fine starch (weighed after it was dried) passed off with the water from 100 lbs. of potatoe."
"Other persons will, I trust, ascertain such facts with more accuracy; I myself hope soon to ascertain more satisfactory particulars. In the mean time permit me to make an estimate of the probable produce of an acre of potatoes in quantity, when reduced to the state of flour."
"The average produce of an acre, managed with care, is estimated at about eighty sacks of 240 lbs. each."
"According to my experiments (as before), 100 lbs. of washed potatoes will produce 25 lbs. of dry flour; or each sack 60 lbs.; or one acre, two tons and upwards."
"I am not qualified at present to carry these calculations farther—if quantity alone be the question, I need not."
"Note. The potatoes used in the foregoing trials were the red apple potatoe."
"The red apple has not ground this flour so fine as I believe a stone mill would have done. Some of these had their skins stripped off after boiling. Should an expeditions method be found of stripping off the skins, it will perhaps be less troublesome than washing so carefully as must otherwise be practised."
"After giving a numerical account of the samples of flour of potatoe prepared for exhibition; this gentleman gives also samples of bread and biscuit made from different sorts of potatoe-flour, mixed, with different proportions of wheat-flour of different degrees of fineness; but these would be unintelligible in this place, in the absence of such samples."
"The potatoe-flour used in the bread and biscuit is made of the whole of the potatoe, washed, steamed, bruised slightly after steaming, dried on a mill-kiln, and ground in a common corn-mill, no alteration whatever having been made in the set of the stones, from what they were as used for grinding wheat; it may reasonably be supposed however, that a miller, accustomed to grind this article, would make better work and finer flour."
"Nothing was taken from the flour except some large pieces that were not ground, and a little large bran in the proportion of the sample sent herewith."
"The potatoes of which this flour was made, were certainly over-dried; and having lain in an heap after steaming upwards of two days before they were put upon the kiln, some degree of fermentation had begun to take place, but which was thought so little to have been perfectly corrected by the drying. In bread, however, it is certainly distinguishable. The baker considers that it is from this cause that the bread is not so light as it otherwise would have been. It rose well in the oven, but fell when the door was opened. He thinks, that when mixed with the flour of dry wheat the potatoe-flour will have exactly the same effect as the mixture of a certain portion of corn-wheat flour, and what it will answer as well in about the same proportion. He has no doubt but that even with this flour he shall succeed better in the second attempt. With potatoe-flour, well-made, he believes that bread of the best quality may be produced."
"The chief precautions necessary in making potatoe-flour seem to be, to prevent any fermentation taking place in the boiled potatoes previously to their being dried, and to avoid giving them too great a heat in drying. With this view it seems advisable to construct the apparatus for preparing it, so as that the steaming-tubs and kiln should be heated by the same fire, without loss of time or labour; the potatoes may then be immediately removed from the steam to the kiln; and means should be used to regulate the heat of the kiln, so that it should not much exceed 90°."
"For the common purpose of bread, it seems evident, from the samples, that taking off the rind or skin is by no means necessary; to wash the potatoes carefully before boiling seems, therefore, the only precaution required."
"From experiments as before stated, the produce of dry meal from the raw potatoe, as 26 or 27 to 100, but let it be estimated at 25, or one-quarter of the whole."
The greatest quantity of raw potatoes said to be used as a mixture with wheat-flour in bread is one-third; not much above the same quantity of boiled potatoe has usually been employed. The proportion of flour in boiled potatoe exceeds that in raw potatoe by about one quarter. As a rough ground for calculation, we may therefore call 33 per cent. as the proportion of flour in any given quantity of boiled potatoe."
"The proportion therefore which the potatoe-meal makes of the whole mixture in this bread, above that in which one-third raw potatoe has been used, is four times; that is, the actual quantity of potatoe-flour in this bread is as great as 24 lbs. of raw potatoe had been mixed with 12 lbs. of wheat-flour; and compared with boiled potatoes, it is as great as if 16 lbs. of potatoes had been mixed with 12 lbs. of wheat flour."
"From the foregoing statements, it is not presumed that much farther information is imparted than may have been gathered from some former accounts of bread-making from a mixture of such flours, except as to the mode of preparing the potatoe-flour. Neither is it at present supposed that for common use, when corn is not dear, the potatoe will supersede the use of neat wheat flour for family bread. But in very dear times, when it may be used in some places to great advantage, the most economical mode of doing it is important; and the process of cleaning, kiln-drying, grinding, and dressing, seems excellent. If equal quantities of wheat and potatoe-flour are found to make very good bread, and the potatoe to have the effect of corn-flour in the mixture; this may be set down as a sufficient regulation, and a valuable fact."
"But what is of great consequence to be known, and fully noticed, is, that the flour of the potatoes so prepared, if barrelled up, and kept in any common dry place, will retain its virtue longer, either on land or at sea, than the other sorts of flour made from grain: in short, from frequent appearances, and well-attested facts, the flour of this vegetable, prepared as above, seems to possess the singular quality of being almost imperishable. In addition to that quality, the power of preserving potatoes in barrels, after being kiln-dried, either when whole or cut into parts, for the use of the table in long voyages, is very important! and it is found that, after being so preserved, they are capable of being again boiled soft, and served up as a vegetable at table, retaining much of their original flavour, consistency, and other qualities."
A peep into futurity—the effects of astronomical labor.
Thomas Tolman, Esq., of Greenborough, in this state, has made a calculation of all the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon which will happen within one hundred years to come, ending with 1905; and has therein reduced the mean to the true times, by four Equations; and also reduced the Sun's mean distance from the Nodes to the true, for each time. In this period there will be four hundred and four Eclipses of the Sun and Moon. The notable Eclipse of June last, will return five times within this period, with some variations each time, as respects the earth generally, but more as relates to any particular place.
Rutland Herald.
THEATRICAL.
Boston, October 28.—In the thr. Neutrality, which arrived on Saturday from Bristol, came passengers, Mr. Bernard, (of the Boston Theatre,) and lady; Mr. Caulfield, from the theatre of Drury Lane; Mrs. Stanley, from the theatre Covent-Garden, Dublin; and Edinburgh; Mr. Vining, first finger from the theatre Richmond; and Signor Cipriani, ballet-master, from Sadler's Wells. These are valuable recruits for the dramatic corps of this town. Mr. Bernard, leaped immediately from the deck to the stage; he performed Nipperkin last evening, and received a hearty welcome from the audience. Mrs. Stanley, will make her first appearance in this country on Wednesday, and Mr. Caulfield on Friday evening.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
To all whom it may concern: WHEREAS Mr. Anthony Morales received from me, as Consul of the Batavian Republic to the United States, to reside at Charleston, in South-Carolina, an Exequatur bearing date the 3d day of May last, and it being no longer expedient that the said Anthony Morales should be permitted to continue in the exercise and enjoyment of the functions, powers and privileges authorized by the said Exequatur: These are to declare that I no longer recognize the said Anthony Morales as Consul as aforesaid, in any part of the United States, nor permit him to enjoy any of the said functions, powers or privileges; and that I hereby wholly revoke and annul the said Exequatur heretofore given, and declare the same absolutely null from this day forward.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, at the city of Washington, the first day of November, A. D. 1806, and of the Independence of the U. States the thirty first.
(Signed) TH: JEFFERSON. By the President, JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State.
Stratford-upon-Avon, Sept. 2.—Yesterday, about half past 2 o'clock, his royal highness the Prince of Wales and his royal brother the duke of Clarence, attended by colonel Lee and major Bloomfield, arrived at the White Lion Inn, in this Borough. They were received at the Inn, through the ranks of the Stratford-upon-Avon Loyal Volunteers, with the acclamations of the surrounding multitude. A few minutes after their arrival, they were congratulated by the members of the Corporation of this ancient borough, proceeded by the Mayor and Vice; and his royal highness the prince of Wales was presented with a box of the mulberry tree, planted by the hand of the immortal Shakespeare, which his royal highness accepted with the greatest condescension, and assured them it would always be preserved by him as an invaluable relic. After the Corporation had retired, captain Hunt, of the Stratford Loyal Volunteers, was introduced by major Bloomfield to their royal Highnesses, and received with their usual affability; and the Prince of Wales expressed his high approbation of the military and martial-like appearance of the Volunteers, which was afterwards communicated to the officers and whole corps.
The carving upon the box is descriptive of the birth place of the unrivalled bard; in the middle part of the lid are the coat of arms of the Poet; and annexed to it the arms of the Corporation, with a fanciful figurative device representing the "Genius of the sweet Swan of Avon." On the dexter side, in the background, is a representation of the Amphitheatre which was erected upon a mead adjoining the town, at the celebrated Jubilee, 1769: and on the sinister side is a distant view of the chancel of which the bones of the immortal bard are interred. On the front of the box upon a small plate of silver, are engraved a few words, expressive of its presentation to his royal highness the Prince of Wales by the corporation of Stratford; and on the inside of the lid are stamped in the wood the following elegant lines from some author, whose name I cannot recollect:— Sweet relic, sprung from Shakespeare's hallowed tree, Prove thou a font for immortality! Spirit divine! some sacred breath inspire With kindred passion, and congenial fire. The golden fruit, from some now scene raise, And on his Mulberry engrave the bays.
The mulberry wood is of such a texture, that it will not admit of the excellency of the carving; however, its originality will always render it inestimable.
FOR SALE. At public auction on the premises, on Wednesday 10th September next, (if not previously disposed of by private contract:) FIVE hundred and fifty acres of LAND, situated in the upper end of Cumberland County, eighteen miles from the court house, three from Farmville and one from a good manufacturing mill, on Appomattox river, now navigable almost to Peterburg. This land lies handsomely, is in good order and inferior in quality to none east of the mountains; there is 10 or 12 acres meadow, handsomely set with Timothy, and about 20 acres more prepared for sowing next Spring. In addition there is an extensive bed of coal, which to a person of capital would be highly valuable. One third the purchase money will be required in hand, and the balance in two annual installments.
JOHN KELSO. Cumberland, August 12. The sale of the above property is unavoidably postponed until Monday 1st December, when there will be 100 acres sown in wheat. At the same time, I will offer for sale, 12 or 15 likely NEGROES, part for cash and on a credit of 12 months, my Stock, Crop, Household furniture and farming utensils.
Also on Tuesday 9th December on the premises, the property in James-Town, occupied by Messrs. James Dick and Elias Brooks, consisting of two acres, with a Store House, Granary and Stable, a Dwelling-House, Kitchen & Smoke-House, all in good repair and almost new. The situation for a merchant is not inferior to any in the upper country, situated on Appomattox, and in as independent a neighborhood as any in Virginia. The payments will be made to suit the purchaser. JOHN KELSO. N. B. Any of the above property, will be disposed of privately, and a considerable discount allowed for cash. September 26. eo91bD.
50,000 !!! 20,000 !!! 10,000 !!! DOLLARS, HIGHEST PRIZES, In the Lottery No. 5, for the Encouragement of Literature in the state of New-York. MANAGERS.—THOMAS STORM, DANIEL HALE, SOLOMON SOUTHWICK, JOHN H. SICKELS, and JOHN L. BROOME. N. JUDAH, Bookfeller, No. 83, Maiden-Lane, New-York. IT AS For Sale, at his Lucky Lottery-Office (where a large proportion of Capital Prizes in former Lotteries were sold,) TICKETS in the present Lottery, in Whole, Half, Quarter, and Eighth parts.—Cash, or undrawn Tickets, given for Prizes as soon as drawn.
SCHEME table with 3 columns: Prize, Dollars, Tickets. Prize 1: 30,000 Dollars, 1 Ticket. Prize 2: 20,000 Dollars, 1 Ticket. Prize 3: 10,000 Dollars, 1 Ticket. Prize 4: 5,000 Dollars, 2 Tickets. Prize 5: 2,000 Dollars, 5 Tickets. Prize 6: 1,000 Dollars, 10 Tickets. Prize 7: 500 Dollars, 30 Tickets. Prize 8: 200 Dollars, 80 Tickets. Prize 9: 100 Dollars, 120 Tickets. Prize 10: 50 Dollars, 400 Tickets. Prize 11: 20 Dollars, 7,100 Tickets. Prize 12: 10 Dollars, 4,000 Tickets. 11,751 Prizes. 23,249 Blanks. 35,000 Tickets—Less than two Blanks to a Prize; subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. Prizes payable 30 days after the conclusion of the drawing. The first drawn 4,000 Blanks will be entitled to eight dollars each.
OF THE ABOVE PRIZES, First drawn number, 1st day of drawing, entitled to 1,000 Dollars, (and whatever else may be drawn against said number.) do. 10th do. 2,000 do. 15th do. 1,000 do. 20th do. 5,000 do. 25th do. 1,000 do. 30th do. 10,000 do. 35th do. 1,000 do. 40th do. 20,000 do. 45th do. 1,000 The Managers will commence drawing in the city of New-York, on the second Tuesday in December next, and will continue to draw 600 Tickets each day, until finished, except the last day, when there will remain 800 to be drawn. Distant adventurers, by forwarding Bank Notes of any description, Directed to N. Judah, New-York, post paid, will be supplied with Tickets from the above Office, with the utmost punctuality, with perfect safety, and the earliest advice of their success. Owing to the great demand for Tickets, they will soon rise from the present price, which is 7 dollars. September 26. eo2m.
FOR SALE, THE BRICK TENEMENT on Shockoe-hill, lately occupied by Doctor James McClure, and the WOODEN HOUSE and LOT, formerly occupied by Mr. Moses Bates. This property will be sold on the premises, on the eighth day of December next, at Public Auction, to the highest bidder. The terms of Sale—one third of the purchase money payable in two years—another third payable in three years, and the remainder in four years. Bonds with two personal securities to be approved by the subscriber, to be executed by the purchasers, which bond must carry interest from their dates respectively; the interest to be paid half yearly. SAMUEL GREENHOW, Attorney for Wm. Langhorn, executor of Wm. Dandridge, dec'd. November 11. eo8d.
NOTICE. A Petition will be presented to the next General Assembly for leave to erect a Toll Bridge across Mattaponny River at Dunkirk, from the land of John Temple in King and Queen, to the lands of Robert and John Bird in King William.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE. By Virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to myself and John Royal, dec'd. by Peter F. Archer, for the benefit of William Fitzgerald, and assigned to Richard K. Cralle. WILL be sold for cash, on the premises, in the county of Powhatan, on the 1st day of December next, that Valuable TRACT OF LAND, containing by estimation, about One Thousand Acres, two miles on the river, with a good DWELLING HOUSE—Also, convenient Out-Houses—Also, about Twenty LIKELY NEGROES, or so much of the said property as shall be sufficient to satisfy the purpose of the said deed of trust. JOHN ARCHER, Surviving Trustee. Amelia, November 7. eo4q.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF BLANKS, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
THE SUBSCRIBER, HAS just received a handsome assortment of CHINA, China Glazed and Crockery WARE, and very soon expects a handsome parcel of Glass to afford what he has now on hand; he has also received on consignment Antigua and New-England Rum by the puncheon, London particular Tenneriffe Wine by the pipe, Teas by the chest, and men's fine Hats by the box, which articles will be sold low for cash, or on the usual credit for negotiable paper. He has on hand a general assortment of Groceries, among which are Brown Sugar & Coffee by the bbl. and bbl. Salt by the sack, Shad, Clipped Herrings, & Tarr by the bbl. and northern Potatoes, loafs and in bbl. Vinegraves, Claret and Port Wine in boxes of one and two dozen bottles each, Cordials, Olives, Capers and Anchovies, also in boxes; and he keeps constantly a large supply of Philadelphia bottled and draught Porter and Ale, and Beer in barrels. He has lately rented the Brick Warehouse on the cross-street leading from the Brick-Row immediately to the Basin, which has been occupied for many years by Messrs. Pickett, Pollard and Johnson. He will be glad to receive on storage Flour and other country produce at the ordinary rates. DANIEL TRIPLETT. Oct. 28. 6w.
ELLIS & ALLAN INFORM their friends, that they have received a part of their FALL GOODS, for the ships Hercules from Liverpool, and Delphina from London—CONSISTING OF, Rife Blankets from 6 to 12-4, Duffel Blankets, Flannels, Coatings, and Coats, London best Superfine Cloths, Spanish wool, Kersymere single and double milled, Gentlemen's leather and patent silk Hats, Ladies fashionable Beaver Hats trimmed, Molskin and Silk Quiltings, Madelouns, Swan-downs and Talinets, for Vests, Chambery Silks and Muslins, new patterns, Ladies cotton, silk and wool Hats, Gentlemen's cotton, silk and Angola do. fine wool frocks and drawers, Ladies Spanish Morocco Boots and lift Shoes, elegant Muffs and Tippets, Fox Bruffs and Chicaneery Tippets, Brussel and Kidderminster Carpeting, Great Coats, Umbrellas, Gloves, Demities & Muslins, Gallies and Cambricks, Salt in sacks, &c. &c. The Balance of their Goods, for the Laura, are expected daily, and which will be sold on very moderate terms. Sept. 29. 15lbN.
ROBERT JOHNSTON, BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has removed his Store from the house he lately occupied opposite the Eagle Tavern, now to one of Mr. Thomas Mitchell's new houses nearly opposite to Messrs. Taylor and Brown's Vendue Office, where he is now opening a general assortment of DRY GOODS & IRONMONGERY, which he will dispose of at a moderate profit. N. B. He will Rent or Sell his Brick Tenement on Shockoe Hill, adjoining to Mr. Robert Gordon's. October 7. Wm. RANDOLPH. tdf.
ENOCH SULLIVAN, OFFERS FOR SALE, At his Jewellery Store, nearly opposite the Eagle, a COMPLETE assortment of Gold, Gil'd, Silver, Tea-Pots, Sugar Dishes, Milk Pots and Spoons, Rims and Casters and bottle Siders, Silver Watches, Seals, Keys and Chains, and Watch Materials, Sand Crucibles, Ladies and Gentlemen's Morocco Pocket Books, and Purse, Glove Ties, e. Garters, silk Purse, &c. Ivory and bone chessmen and boards, Backgammon Tables, Battle Doors and Shuttle Coeks, Latin wood Tea Caddies, Ladies & Gentlemen's dressing Cases, patent Supfenders, hat Covers, &c. Guns, horsemen's and pocket Pistols, Swords and Dicks, sword Knots, Belts, Sashes, Epaulettes, military Feathers, &c. Flutes, Fifes, Drums, Violin Strings, &c. Powder Flasks, shot Belts, bird Nets, gun Hammers and Hints, Whips, Canes with and without Swords, boot Jacks and Hooks, Spurs, Horse Phlemes, &c. Razors and razor Strops, shaving Boxes and Brushes, Violet and Windfor Soap, hair Powder, Bags, Puffs & Pomatum, tooth Powder, essences, Reaver's Colors, tambore Needle Cases, Pins and Needles, Scissors and Thimbles, hair Lead and Slate Pencils, Ivory Paper Folders, letter Racks, &c. Ivory, Tortoiseshell and Horn Combs, goggles, Spectacles and Cases, key and curtain Rings, Inkstands, Tobacco and Snuff Boxes, Candlesticks and Snuffers, bread Baskets, Water, Tea Trays, Knives and Forks, Britannia Metal Mugs, Tea Pots, tea and table Spoons, glass globe Lamps for Halls, tooth comb, Cloths, Hearth, Floor, scrubbing & shoe Brushes. With a variety of other articles connected with the above enumerated. Articles of Jewellery or Silver Ware, will be executed to patterns or description, with dispatch. Highest price will be given for old gold or silver. E. SULLIVAN. Nov. 7. tf.
TO RENT, THE TENEMENT, which Mrs. Pheobe lately occupied on the street leading by the Governor's, consisting of a large cellar, a room used as a kitchen, a very well fixed Store, a counting room, a drawing and bed room, and three sleeping and a lumber room in the garret; immediate possession may be had. Enquire of William F. All. August 29. (tf.)
FOR SALE, TWO likely young MALE SERVANTS, well acquainted with house business.—For terms, &c. enquire of the Printer. Sept. 19. (tf.)
THE FARMER'S VIRGINIA ALMANACK, for the Year 1807, printed by Thomas Ritchie, is now for sale, by the gross, dozen or single, at the ENQUIRER Book-Store. Also—A General Assortment of Lawyer's and Sheriff's BLANKS, just printed.
JOHN ALCOCK, INFORMS the Citizens of Richmond, and the public, he has just received at his Cabinet Manufactory near the Fire Insurance Office; a large assortment of Windsor Chairs and Settees, made in the newest fashion and by the best workmen in the state; any gentleman wishing to buy, will please send their orders or call at his Cabinet Manufactory, where they may get good warranted work, and on low terms, either in the Cabinet line or Windsor Chairs. June 6. tf.
A BARGAIN MAY be had in a Chariot, Harness, and pair of excellent horses—Enquire of the Editor. August 2. (tf.)
3,000 wt. SALT PETER'D BACON, 1,000 wt. first quality N. ENGLAND CHEESE, 10 gross BOTTLED CYDER, A few butts CLOVER SEED, 150 pieces PAPER HANGINGS. For Sale by EDWARD HALLAM. Constantly for Hire—An Excellent Carriage and Horse—apply as above. May 27. eo8.
LIKENESSES IN MINIATURE. DEANE will remain a few days at the Bell Tavern, in this City, where specimens of his Painting may be seen. Compensation will be required only for approved likenesses. Nov. 11. ptf.
FOR SALE, 50 Hds. Molasses, 10 Tun Swards Iron, 10 Hds. East Sugar, 3 Chefs Young Hyson Tea, 20 Boxes Soap. For terms apply to HENRY HOVEY. Nov. 11. eo8.
FOR SALE, THE HOUSE and LOT on Shockoe-Hill, at present occupied by Capt. Benjamin Sheppard, possessing every accommodation for a family, and one amongst the most airy & elegant situations in the city. Also—An unimproved LOT adjoining the above. A purchaser will be allowed great accommodation in the payment. THOS. NORVELL. Nov. 11. tf.
NOTICE. WILL BE SOLD to the highest bidder, on Saturday the 22d instant, at the Store door of the subscriber. The residue of the Estate of John Watkins, dec'd. consisting chiefly of Household and Kitchen FURNITURE, a Negro Woman and one Horse, Terms of sale, half cash and the other at six months credit. Bond with approved security will be required. All persons having claims against the Estate, are requested to bring them forward on or before the day of sale properly authenticated, and those indebted will please make immediate payment, as the subscriber intends closing his Administration as soon as he possibly can after the sale is made. J. P. ROBERTSON, Adm'r. Manchester, Nov. 11. tdf.
WILLIAMSBURG ACADEMY, For female education. MUSIC. For the instruction of the young Ladies in this elegant accomplishment, the Institution is fortunate in having obtained Mr. Vogel, one of the best teachers in the United States.
IN the literary SCHOOL, an entirely new system of instruction has been adopted, and each pupil will, in the first place, be taught to read and write her own language correctly. Extraordinary exertions will be made to accomplish in the most effectual manner, this essential object, and Murray's excellent course, which commences at the alphabet, and embraces in its progress every necessary exercise, will be strictly pursued. Nothing more need be said of this course, than that it includes the foundation and perfection of an English education. Elegant new Globes, Maps, and Charts, and a complete library, have been provided to facilitate the improvement of the pupils. Terms, £ 15 per quarter for board and tuition, N. B. £ 9 per quarter do. for pupils under 10 years of age. Nov. 11. St.
JOHN SOUTHGATE, AT the house lately occupied by Messrs. Thomas and Amos Ladd, and directly opposite the Union Tavern, offers for sale, a pretty general assortment of
FALL GOODS, Well worth the attention of country dealers.—Cash, country produce, or approved paper will be received in payment. ALSO FOR SALE, AS ABOVE, London Particular, Madeira Wine in pipes; and a few Boxes Maitineque Cordials. October 23. (tf.) ALL persons having claims against the estate of John Hoomes, dec'd. of the Bowling Green, are requested to make them known, that provision may be made for a final settlement.—And these indebted must make immediate payment to JOHN HOOMES, and JOHN G. WOOLFOLK, Executors of John Hoomes, dec'd. Jan. 22. tf.
JUST RECEIVED, A FRESH Assortment of Claret Wines, Champagne, Monfleur by the box, Burgundy, Sautern, Vins de Grave, Lafitte, Mufcat of Frontignac, Wine Bitters—and also, a fresh supply of Olives, Capers, Anchovies, Cayenne Pepper, Mustard, Prunes, Raisins by the box, Almonds and Filberts. All kind of West-India Sweetmeats; all kind of Confectionery—and different articles of Perfumery—For Sale by ALEXANDER PLAINVILLE. Richmond, Oct. 17. (2aw6m)
NOTICE. A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly, for leave to erect a TOWN and Inspection of Tobacco at, or adjoining Goochland Court-house, particularly on the land of Samuel Woodson, thereunto adjoining. October 3. tf.
THE SUBSCRIBER, John Williamson, Junior, being desirous of discharging as soon as possible, all of his just debts, unites with the other subscribers, in giving notice, that on Saturday the 22nd day of the present month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon, and 2 in the afternoon,
WILL be offered for ready money, at public sale, on some part of the premises, so much of the TRACT OF LAND, whereon the said John Williamson resides, in Henrico county, as lies between the road near his house and the Land of Daley Williamson, supposed to contain about one hundred acres—Also about fifty other acres of LAND adjoining the Land of Samuel Browning, and the Land last mentioned, and being a part of the aforesaid tract, belonging to the said John Williamson. The whole of which tract of Land was conveyed by the said John Williamson to the other subscribers in trust for the purpose of reimbursing John Robinson, certain sums of money paid by him, or which he may be liable to pay at the instance and on account of the said John Williamson. And the object and with of all of the subscribers, is, that the said trustees or one of them, out of the proceeds of the said sale, shall first satisfy the said Robinson, all such sums of money as he shall have paid, and to discharge such other sums as he may be bound to pay, on account of any under-taking made by him at the instance of the said Williamson, together with the lawful interest that may be due on the said sums of money and the expenses attending the said trust and the execution thereof, and that the surplus shall afterwards be applied by the said trustees or one of them to the discharge of executions now in the hands of the sheriff of Henrico county against the person or effects of the said Williamson. The boundaries of the Land offered for sale will be particularly shown on the aforesaid day of sale.
JOHN WILLIAMSON, Jr. N. SHEPPARD, J. SHEPPARD, BENNETT TAYLOR. Nov. 7. tdf.
THE Subscriber, has taken the Store lately occupied by Granberry and Hancock, where he offers for sale at reduced prices, 5 Bales blue Cloths, 1 Bale assorted Flannels, 1 Bale assorted India piece Goods. Also—A few bales of India piece Goods. JAMES SMITH. October 28. tf.