The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-10-10 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE.....AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.....(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 46]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1806.
[VOLUME 3.]
Sales at Auction.
To be sold at public Auction on Saturday the 1st of November next. THAT valuable HOUSE and LOT whereon Moses Davis now resides opposite to Mr. John Taylor's. The Lot is 66 feet in front and an hundred and fifty back. The House has an elegant floor room, counting-room, and cellar, and is well calculated for a store. There is also on the lot a good kitchen, tobacco factory, lumber-house, stable, carriage house, a good spring, and a garden well enclosed. Terms will be made known on day of sale. PROSSER and MONCURE v. MRS. September 16. ept10N.
FITZWHYLSOON & POTTER, Book-Binders and Stationers, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. Keep constantly on hand, Warranted of the best Materials and Workmanship, A GREAT VARIETY OF
DAY-Books, Journals, Receipt & Music books; Mals, & Ledgers, of Copy & Cyphering ditto, different sizes; Memorandum & Pocket Record & Sheriff's books; do. Which, with every other article in the Blank Book line, they offer for sale on liberal terms. They have also an extensive assortment of Writing & Letter Paper, Desk & Pocket Inkstands, Music & Drawing do., Blank & Playing Cards, Dutch & English Quills, Excellent Pen Knives, Ink-Powder, Japan, copying, Sportsmens & Pocket do., and durable Ink, Spectacles of various sorts, Sealing Wax & Wafers, Slates and Pencils, Large Office Wafers, Reeve's Water Colors, SCHOOL BOOKS, BIBLES, TESTAMENTS, HYMN BOOKS, &c. &c. BOOKS RULED AND BOUND TO ANY GIVEN PATTERN. Orders from the Country punctually attended to. September 19. (oaw 3w.)
30,000 !!! 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 HALF, SOLOMON SOUTHWICK, JOHN H. SICKLES, and JOHN L. BROOME. N. JUDAH, Bookfeller, No. 84, Maiden-Lane, New-York. HAS For Sale, at his Lucky Lottery-Office (where a large proportion of Capital Prizes in former Lotteries were paid), TICKETS in the present Lottery, in Whole, Half, Quarter, and Eighth parts.—Cash, or undrawn Tickets, given for Prizes as soon as drawn.
S C H E M E. Prize of Dolls. Prize of Dolls. 1 30,000 1 30,000 1 20,000 1 20,000 1 10,000 1 10,000 1 5,000 2 5,000 2 2,000 5 1,000 5 1,000 10 500 10 500 20 200 20 200 50 100 50 100 100 50 100 50 200 20 200 20 400 10 400 10 7,100 8 7,100 8 11,751 Blank. 11,751 Blank. 9,924 Blank. Blank. Dolls. 210,000
35,000 Tickets.—Less than two Blank 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. 14 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.
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE. ON Monday the 15th of December next, if fair, otherwise the next fair day, I shall offer for sale at Walkerton, to the highest bidder, that valuable tract of land called Whitehall, belonging to the estate of John Garlick, deceased, lying on Mattaponny river in King and Queen County, about one mile above Walkerton, and nine miles below Dunkirk. This tract contains between eight and nine hundred acres, is very fertile, and well adapted to the culture of wheat and corn. It has on it a large two-story Brick House and other convenient out-houses. This is as handsome a situation as any on Mattaponny, remarkable healthy, and very convenient for navigation. I have not been very particular in describing the Land, as it is preferable, any person inclined to purchase, will first view it. The terms of sale will be five hundred pounds down, and the balance in three annual payments, the purchaser giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid, and a mortgage on the land to secure the payments. On the day subsequent to the sale of the land, will be sold on the premises, all the stock of every description, household and kitchen furniture, and plantation utensils; also, the crop of corn, brandy and cotton. Twelve months credit will be given on all sums exceeding five dollars—the purchaser giving bond with good security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually complied with. EDWARD GARLICK, Administrator of John Garlick, deceased. September 19. oaw 3w.
FOR SALE. ABOUT ninety acres of LAND, six miles from Richmond, with a good frame house, and good orchard. It adjoins the lands of Mr. Sneed and Mr. Brown. MOSES DAVIS. oaw 3w.
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 Petersburg. 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 coals, 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 instalments. Cumberland, August 12. JOHN KELSO.
The sale of the above property is unavoidably postponed until Monday 1st December, when there will be 100 acres sowed 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, Crops, 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. N. B. Any of the above property, will be disposed of privately, and a considerable discount allowed for cash. September 26. eo2m.
IN CHANCERY.
Louisa County, July Court, 1806. Robert Donald the elder and Andrew Donald, surviving Executor of James and Robert Donald, & Co. Plffs. against William Hodges and Frederick Harris, Defs. THE Defendant, William Hodges, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this State; therefore, on the motion of the plaintiffs by their attorney—It is ordered and decreed by the court, that the said Defendant do appear here on the second Monday in October next, and answer the plaintiffs bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some of the public news papers printed in the City of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of the Court-house of this County on some Court day. A Copy. JOHN POINDEXTER, C. L. e. September 5. eo2m.
IN CHANCERY.
Prince Edward, July Court, 1806. Wilcher Binns against Peter Rowlett and Margaret Rowlett. Dfts. THE defendant Peter Rowlett, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of the general Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this State; on the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney it is ordered that the said defendant Peter Rowlett do appear here on the 11th day of November next, and answer the plaintiffs bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some of the public newspapers printed in the City of Richmond, for two months successively, and also posted at the front door of the Court House of this county. A Copy. Teste, BENJAMIN WATKINS, D. C. September 16. eo2m.
IN CHANCERY.
Louisa County, August Court, 1806. George and Christopher Lindenbergs, Plffs. against John Davidson, Thomas Davidson, Elias Watkins, James Barbour and Garrett Minor, Defs. THE defendant, John Davidson, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this State; therefore on the motion of the plaintiffs by their attorney—It is ordered and decreed by the court, that the said defendant, John Davidson do appear here on the second Monday in November next, and answer the plaintiffs bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some of the public newspapers, printed in the City of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of the court-house of this county on some Court day. A Copy. Teste, JOHN POINDEXTER, C. L. e. September 19. oaw 3w.
LAND AND MILL FOR SALE.
In pursuance of a deed of trust executed to me by Thomas Williams, late of the County of Richmond, bearing date, the 10th day of August, 1801, for certain purposes therein mentioned: WILL be exposed to sale, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the 24th day of October next, on the premises, if not fair, the next fair day. A water Grist MILL, with seventy-five and one quarter acres of LAND thereto adjoining, lying and being in the parish of North Farnham and county of Richmond aforesaid. A description of the property is deemed unnecessary as it is presumed any person inclined to purchase would first view the premises. GEORGE MISKELL, Trustee. October 3. oaw 3w.
NOTICE.
A PETITION will be presented by William Fitchett to the next General Assembly of Virginia, praying that a law may pass to establish a ferry across Piankatank river from my land in Matthews County, to the land of the late Thomas E. Churchill, dec'd. of Middlesex county. WILLIAM FITCHETT. eo2m.
WILLIAM FITCHETT.
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 country; 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 2. eo2m.
SAMUEL BARRET,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. INFORMS his friends and the public in general, that he has taken the store, next door below the Eagle Tavern; where he will execute any work, in his line of business, either gentlemen or ladies shoes at the shortest notice. August 1. (eo2m)
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 those indebted must make immediate payment to JOHN HOOMES, and JOHN G. WOOLFOLK, Executors of John Hoomes, dec'd. Jan. 28. eo2m.
A BARGAIN
MAY be had in a Chariot, Harness, and pair of excellent horses—Enquire of the Editor. August 5. eo2m.
NOTICE.
APPREHENSIONS for the health of his family having disabled the subscriber from abiding permanently at Norfolk, he has removed to the city of Richmond, and fixed his office in the house near the Capitol, lately occupied by the Commissioner of Loans. He proposes to practise law in the Federal Court, Court of Appeals, and Court of Chancery, in Richmond; and will continue also to practise in the Chancery District Court of Williamsburg, and District Court of Suffolk. August 5. WM. WIRT.
FOR SALE,
TWO likely young MALE SERVANTS well acquainted with house business.—For terms, Enquire of the Printer. Sept. 12. (f.)
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
ANAWAY from the subscriber, living in Lynchburg, on the 22nd of August last a negro man by the name of JOHN, he is about 22 years of age, upwards of six feet high, of a yellow complexion, remarkable strong and active, a scar on his jaw occasioned by the tooth ache, very large feet; he had on when he went away, a pair of velvet pantaloons, a white linen shirt, a pair of strong shoes, a blue vest, and a pair of red morocco suspenders. This fellow was formerly the property of Carter Littlepage, and sold by him to Mr. Elkin Perkins, of Bedford County, where he was raised near King William Court-House, where I expect he will endeavour to go, but I think it very probable he is in Williamsburg as his father belongs to a Mr. Benjamin Waller of that place. This fellow, JOHN, was accompanied away by a white man, of a dark complexion, about thirty years old, he has a down look, a native of England, about five feet high, calls his name John Gooie, which I am informed is imprinted in his arms with ink, in letters fully together, with some other marks; they were seen together at Buckingham Court-house. It is expected that this man will endeavour to convey this fellow off, if he can, give him a pair. The above reward will be paid with all expenses for the delivery of said fellow. All masters of vessels, and others, are forewarned from purchasing the said fellow from the said John Gooie, harbouring him, or carrying him out of this state. BENJAMIN PERKINS. Lynchburg, September 23. sw.
WILLIAMSBURG RACES.
ON Tuesday, the twenty-eighth of October next, will be run for over the Williamsburg Course, a sweep stake purse, for three year old colts, two mile heats, entrance 50 dollars; closed. Wednesday—the Jockey Club purse of four hundred dollars, four mile heats. Thursday—the proprietor's purse of two hundred dollars, two mile heats, entrance twenty dollars. Friday—a sweepstake for mules; mile heats, the best three in five, entrance ten dollars. Saturday—an elegant saddle, bridle, whip and spurs; mile heats, entrance ten dollars. By order of the Club. ROBERT ANDERSON, Sec'y & Treasurer. August 29. (ept18th)
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and
PLASTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. [spff.]
GERMAN LINENS.
The Subscribers have just received from Bremen, a supply of GERMAN LINENS, which they offer to sell on the most reasonable terms JOHN & HUBNER. August 15. gm
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
ANAWAY, or conveyed by some person from the subscriber, living in the county of Granville, state of North-Carolina; a young negro fellow, named OBA; he is between twenty and five and twenty years of age, has a thin visage, dark complexion and is tolerably well spoken, has a lump on the back part of his neck, a small knot above his wrist on his right hand and the middle finger of his left hand crooked. The said negro had on when he went off a pair of cotton trowers, round short coat napped with black wool and cotton, wove-plain; took with him two pair of buff cambric breeches, two waist coats one of white, the other of grey cloth, a pair of ribbed woolen stockings and a double breasted grey broad cloth coat. All persons, particularly masters of vessels, are forewarned from harbouring the said negro. Any person giving intelligence or will secure the negro so that I get him, or will bring him to me, shall receive the above reward of ten dollars with all necessary charges. RICHARD WOOD. September 12. lm.
REMOVAL.
THE Subscribers have removed their COMPTING HOUSE, from the Main-Street to one of David Bullock's Brick Buildings, at the lower end of the Ballon, between the Tenements occupied by C. and F. Saunders, and Norvell, Watt and Bullock—where they continue their purchases of wheat as usual.—They also keep for sale a regular supply of Flour, Corn Meal, Hominy and Bran. THOMAS & AMOS LADD. 10 Mo. 3d. 1806. eo2m.
THOMAS & AMOS LADD.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to me by Samuel Pearce, to secure the payment of a debt due by him to John L. Williams, I SHALL, on Wednesday the 15th of October next, at the house of the said Samuel Pearce, in the lower end of Buckingham, proceed to sell in much of that Valuable FARM, containing eight hundred and one fourth acres of Land, on which he now lives, as will pay the sum of about three hundred and fifty pounds, with interest from the first day of May last, until paid. ARAD WELTON, Trustee. October 3. eo2m.
FROM THE "WESTERN WORLD."
The Kentucky Spanish Association, Blount's Conspiracy, and General Miranda's expedition. NO. XI.
In the preceding numbers, a variety of incidents have been adduced, to substantiate the existence of an Association formed in the state of Kentucky to the interest of the Spanish government. Before we proceed farther in this important investigation, several concurring causes render it necessary, that we briefly sketch the outlines of the plan at present in agitation to effect the separation of the Union. But to render this scheme more intelligent, it is proper that we relate the various changes and modifications which have happened in the views of the conspirators, from the year 1788, when the conferences between Wilkinson and Gouvez, and J. Brown with Don Gardeoque, took place until the present day.
The U. S. have, and always will be, so long as European intrigue exists, and Gold influences the mind of man, in some degree affected by the views and talents of the different foreign ministers who reside among us. Previous to the French revolution, these diplomatic spies composed a triumvirate, not indeed acting in concert, but pulling the government of the union towards their respective courts, with the various energy of their several powers. Since however, the remarkable era of 1789, the diplomatic orders of the Don were no longer to issue from the secret council of his Catholic Majesty, but from the corrupted hearts of Robert Pierre and Talleyrand, to aid the tricks of citizens Ternant, Genet, Fauchet, Adet, and Monheur Pichon and Terreaux, opposed to the intrigues of Sir William Temple, Hammond, Linton, Thornton, and the weak and feeble Merry.
A short review, therefore, of the doings of these foreign actors, and their leading associates in America, will enable us, with much more facility to lay before our readers the principal changes which have occurred to the views of the Kentucky Spanish Association. The formation of the Federal Constitution, happening at the same period as the French Revolution, gave the first mortal stab to the negotiation of Wilkinson and Brown. Soon after this, citizen Ternant commenced his system of financial intrigue; but being conceived too great a friend to monarchy, he was supplanted by the notorious Genet. The operations of this gentleman on his arrival in the U. S. are so notorious as to require no repetition here. Another precipitating revolution had however landed in America some years before the French revolution, viz. Albert Gallatin, the present secretary of the Treasury. Tossed about from his infancy in the cradle of political commotion, at Geneva, he at length sought the woods of America in company with Mr. Savary of Kentucky, to acquire that wealth and fame which the small territories of his native state denied to him. Having for some time after his arrival taught as an assistant in some of the northern colleges, he removed to Virginia, and at Richmond became acquainted with Henry Banks, esq. a gentleman of literary talents, and then engaged in a considerable land purchase. Mr. Banks employed him as a surveyor in the back parts of Virginia, and in this capacity he acquired landed property to a great extent. He afterwards retired to the back counties of Pennsylvania, where he disseminated those principles which there originated the idea of a separation of the states. This scheme was fostered and encouraged by Genet, transmitted to Kentucky, and adopted by many of the members of the Kentucky Association in lieu of the alliance with Spain—Wilkinson and three or four of his friends excepted. Genet at New-York, contad an intimacy with Col. Burr, which soon however, was broken off by the connection that he formed with the Clinton family, who were always uniformly opposed to Burr; and it is even suspected that the recall of Genet was in some measure, occasioned by the communications made by Burr to some of his correspondents in Paris. The plan of Genet was to revolutionize Louisiana and the Floridas, and to unite them with Kentucky and the western territories, as one republic, to be in alliance with France. The great opposition to the project of Genet came however from the late gen. Hamilton, who united himself with the leading federal characters in the New-England states, not only to frustrate the intentions of Genet, but even to destroy the interest of the western country, and force back those settlers that had emigrated, to the Atlantic states. To these endeavors of the federal party, Fauchet the successor of Genet, alludes in his dispatch to the commissioner of foreign relations in France, dated the 31st of Oct. 1794.
"In touching this last point, we attain the principal complaint of the western people, and the ostensible motives of their movements. Recluse and situation, they could not but accede with enthusiasm, to the criminations which we have sketched. But the excise above all affects them. Their lands are fertile, watered with the finest rivers in the world; but the abundant fruits of their labour, run the risk of perishing for the means of exchanging them, as those more happy cultivators do for objects which desire indicates to all men who have known only the enjoyments which all Europe procures them. They therefore convert the excesses of their produce into liquors, imperfectly fabricated, which badly supply the place of those they might procure by exchange. The excise is created, and strikes at the co-folding transformation; their complaints are answered by the only pretext that they are otherwise inaccessible to every species of impost. But why, in contempt of treaties, are they left to bear the yoke of the feeble Spanish, as to the Mississippi, for upwards of twelve years? Since when an agricultural people submitted to the unjust capricious law of a people explorers of the precious metals? Might we not suppose that Madrid and Philadelphia assisted in prolonging the slavery of the river? That the proprietors of a barren coast are afraid lest the Mississippi once opened, and its numerous branches brought into activity, their fields might become deserts, and in a word, that commerce dreads having rivals in those interior parts as soon as their inhabitants shall cease to be subjects? This last supposition is but too well founded: an influential member of the senate, Mr. Izard, one day in conversation, until usefully announced to me."
Foreign Intelligence.
NEN-YORK, Oct. 3.
By the ship Eliza from Liverpool, and the Science capt. Howard, from London, we have completed our files of London papers and Lloyd's Lists to the 16th of Aug. 11.
The prospect of Peace, it will be perceived, is not so flattering as the reports we had for some time past been in the habit of receiving would have inclined us to suppose. On this subject, interesting not only to the belligerent parties, but to the whole civilized world, and especially to our own country, we have been favoured with the following extracts from letters, of a date subsequent to any printed accounts:—
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 17.
"A messenger has arrived from our ambassador at Paris. The intelligence by him is under-rend to be such, that the prospects of Peace are materially lessened. Probably the French government, having concluded a separate peace with Russia, have risen in their demands. The funds have in consequence experienced a considerable decline."
"We were yesterday upon the point of dispatching the annexed Prices Current, when we received advice through the public prints and private letters that Lord Landerdale was upon his return from Paris without effecting the object of his mission. The accounts this morning neither absolutely contradict nor confirm this statement; the whole rests upon the depreciation of the public funds, which in Omnium is a reduction of full 4 per cent."
LONDON, Aug. 11.
Though nothing has yet transpired with respect to the terms of the peace between Russia and France; yet they are reported to be nearly as follows:—
The Russians to evacuate Cattaro, and separate themselves from the Montenegrins.

French to evacuate Ragusa, which shall again be placed under the protection of the Porte.
The Porte guaranteed in the integrity of its dominions.
France promises, within a certain time after the evacuation of Cattaro, to withdraw her troops from Germany.
Russia to use her good offices to restore peace between England and France, and to accommodate the differences between Prussia and Sweden.
Nothing is said with respect to the King of Naples, who, if the above sketch be correct, is high to his fat!
The new act of Confederation was received by the Arch Chancellor on the 24th, and was immediately to be laid before the Diet. In the mean time French troops are taking positions for the purpose of preventing all opposition to the execution of the Act of Confederacy. A great Camp is to be formed near Ratisbon, and Germany will not be evacuated till the work of reorganisation, by which so many Members of the empire are to throw off all allegiance to the head of the empire, has been consummated.
It has been agreed between the Austrian Government and the French ambassador, that nothing further shall be done with respect to Cattaro till the arrival of a declaration from Paris. Cattaro is in the hands of the Montenegrins, who are represented as encroaching in force, and laying waste the whole country with fire and sword. The French are represented as being shut up in Ragusa, but the accounts received by the Paris papers, which arrived on Friday, are of a later date than those brought by the Mails.
A letter from an officer of rank in the Channel Fleet, dated on the 4th inst. contains the following extraordinary paragraph:—“The Hibernia is completed for a long voyage, to take the Prince Regent of Portugal to the Brazils, and establish him there as king.”
Our Consul for Egypt arrived last night at the Foreign office. He thence proceeded to Mr. Fox's, and not finding access there, he said to have gone to the house of Mr. Fox's Private Secretary, to communicate to him the cause of his journey.
August 12.
The intelligence of peace having been signed with Russia, was received with the greatest surprise in every part of Germany, for the movements which the troops had begun to make seemed rather to announce preparations for war—we can hardly believe that the sketch of the terms of the treaty brought by the mails yesterday, was correct:—some of the principal stipulations seem to have been omitted.—It is obvious, however, that Germany has been abandoned to her fate, and that Bonaparte is to parcel it out, and new-cast and model it according to his pleasure.
August 13.
The descent upon the Coast of Calabria is mentioned in a letter from Naples of the 11th inst. Instead of 10,000 British troops having landed, there were only a few troops with 600 galley slaves. They landed on the 4th, but returned soon to their ships, compelled, as the letter says, by Gen. Verdier to embark.—It is probable that they meant merely to make a diversion, in which they succeeded. The French, it is obvious, had no victory to boast of.
August 14.
Earl St. Vincent has left the Channel fleet, and failed to the Southward in the Hibernia , with the Defiance and some smaller ships.—He will first proceed to Lisbon, but we can hardly believe for the purpose mentioned a day or two ago, of taking on board the Prince of Brazil. He would not desert his kingdom till the last extremity. But the Lisbon Mail which arrived this morning, justifies us in entertaining a suspicion that some expedition is intended against Portugal. This is understood to be one of the menaces which Bonaparte holds out against this country in order to induce us to subscribe to certain terms.
The anxiously expected Messenger is at length arrived. At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Vestal frigate came into Deal, and landed Mr. Basilico with dispatches from the Earl of Lauderdale, who immediately set off for town, where he arrived at Mr. Fox's office about two o'clock this morning.
A Cabinet council was held upon the dispatches this morning, and it is said that a messenger is to be dispatched to Paris this evening. Of the nature of the dispatches we cannot be supposed to be informed. It is natural however to believe that they are of the highest importance. It is reported that Lord Lauderdale reached Paris on Tuesday morning, having remained some hours at Amiens to take a little rest. Upon his arrival at Paris, he immediately announced his arrival to M. Talleyrand, and had a long conference with the Earl of Yarmouth.—We believe he proceeded as soon as he reached Paris to the Hotel where Lord Yarmouth resides, which is said to be Hotel des Etrangere , upon the Boulevards :
The following is said to be the cause of his Lordship having delayed dispatching Basilico for so many days after his arrival. As we have already mentioned, Lord Lauderdale, immediately upon reaching Paris, announced his arrival to Talleyrand, who is reported to have returned for answer “that business which could not be deferred, would occupy his whole time for two or three days, during which he could not have the pleasure of seeing his Lordship.” It is reported how truly we know not, that he had no interview with Talleyrand before Saturday or Sunday.
The arrival of the Messenger has produced a rise in the Funds. Omnia has risen about 1-4 per Cent. a rise not sufficiently great to warrant an inference that the dispatches are decidedly favourable. As there had been a report that Lord Lauderdale was on his return, the rise may be attributed principally, if not wholly, to the knowledge that that rumour is untrue, and that his Lordship remains at Paris.
August 15.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA. The Lord Mayor gave yesterday a splendid Entertainment to the Lord Chancellor and others of the Cabinet Ministers, in honour of his Excellency the Hon. David Erskine, the Minister proceeding from England to America. There were present on this occasion—
The Lord Chancellor, Earl Spencer, Lord Ellenborough, Mr. Windham, Srs. S. Coterill, W. Currie, and Charles Price; Mr. Barclay, Mr. Combe, Mr. Monroe, Pinckney, Gen. Lyman, the Hon. H. Erskine, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Wilson, the Lord Chancellor's solicitor. After dinner the following toasts were drunk:
 “The King, and God bless him.”  “The Queen, and Royal Family.”  “The Prince and his Royal Brothers, and thanks to them for the honour they have done the City in the present Mayoralty by their presence.”  “The American Ministers present, Mr. Monroe, Mr. Pinckney, and General Lyman; and may there be perpetual harmony between the two countries.” 
Mr. Monroe begged leave to return thanks for the honor which had been done him, which he did not estimate so much personally, as with regard to his country. There existed a thou-
and reasons, he said, which made it desirable for him to promote a becoming feeling of good will between G. B. and America; but he must be considered a true and faithful servant of his republic, yet no personal exertions on his part should be wanting to preserve that cordiality which was so essential to the interests of the two countries; and he begged leave to drink all their good health.
Mr. Pinckney observed, that he accorded perfectly in the sentiments that had been expressed by his colleague, and that no endeavors on his part should be wanting to promote the good understanding which ought ever to subsist between G. B. and America.
The next toast was: “The Lord Chancellor of England, and may the name of Erskine and the trial by jury ever be united.”
The Lord Chancellor returned thanks. He said, he felt it to be the highest honour that he could enjoy, to have his health drank and introduced in the manner it had been at the Head Quarters of the city of London, a City where he has many opportunities of using the talents which he possessed in support of that law which was the admiration of the world and which was so admirably executed by his Noble and learned Friend present, whose health he would take the liberty of proposing.
The Health of Lord Ellenborough having been drank— His Lordship thanked the Company for the honour they had done him so much beyond his deserts.
The 2d, or Queen's Dragoons have been suddenly ordered to embark for foreign service. They arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday by forced marches, &c. to embark. It is said disembarked, on board the Malta 84, and some large coppered transports hourly expected from the Eastern ports.
Orders are also arrived for a company of the Royal Artillery from Dock Barracks, to embark on board the Malta , now in Crawland Bay. The accounts in circulation of the destination of these troops are various and contradictory; by some it is asserted they are destined for Lisbon, others for the Cape or Sicily.
At the Council held yesterday at the Queen's House, Parliament was further prorogued from the 28th instant to the 9th October. But this Parliament will, it is reported, never meet again. A dissolution is said to be intended in September.
August 16.
Basilico arrived at Deal at ten o'clock yesterday morning, and immediately embarked on board the Speculator lugger, which landed him on the French coast about 3 o'clock. He will in all probability reach Paris this evening. It has been reported that another communication has been made to our government by Lord Lauderdale since Basilico left Paris. But we have not heard of the arrival of any other messenger.
The funds declined still further yesterday, and omnium left off at 5-1-2, and the three per cents. at 61-5-8.—This morning they opened a little better—the former being at 6-1-4, and the latter at 62-1-8.—It is idle to pretend that so great and rapid a fall has been occasioned by any other cause than the unfavorable aspect of the negotiation. It is positively asserted, that M. Talleyrand delayed seeing Lord Lauderdale for three or four days after he arrived at Paris, upon the pretence of being occupied upon other objects which would not admit of a moment's delay.—This mode of treatment cannot be considered in any other point of view than as an intentional slight. It seems as if Bonaparte wished to exhibit to the world the spectacle of an English ambassador waiting his minister's leisure.—“I am not in the vein to-day—thou troublest me.”
Courier.
We are happy to add that no fears are entertained for the safety of the homeward bound Jamaica fleet, which was seen in the Gulph on the 14th ult. by an American ship, which is arrived at Liverpool.—It consisted of 150 sail, and was expected to get through the Gulph on the 15th.
The feelings of our readers in perusing the letter from St. Thomas in yesterday's Courier , corresponded, we have no doubt with our own.—A respectable paper of this morning states, that many harsh reflections were in consequence cast upon Admiral Cochrane.—But it is not Admiral Cochrane upon whom harsh reflections should be cast—a brave, active, and gallant officer, the whole of his conduct affords us a sufficient guarantee that not the slightest blame is imputable to him. If the letter from St. Thomas be true, we are sure that he will justify himself for declining an engagement under the disparity of force of his own squadron to that of the enemy. But why was his force inferior! Why were the hearts of our gallant sailors to be suffered to be almost broken, by being forced to decline an engagement with the enemy? The harsh reflections should not be cast upon Admiral Cochrane, but upon the administration. Why did they delay so long sending a fleet to the West-Indies? Sir John Warren did not leave Spithead till the 4th of June. Six weeks are no long passage for a fleet, and thus Sir John would not reach the West-Indies till the 18th July. For any thing the administration knew, Admiral Cochrane, instead of having four ships of the line, might have been left with only two; for one of his ships, the Veteran , had been sent out, not to reinforce him but the convoy—the convoy might not have arrived till after the arrival of the French squadron at Martinique; the homeward bound Leeward Island fleet, too, might have failed before the arrival of the enemy, and would of course have failed under the convoy of one of the admiral's little squadron. Fortunately, however, neither of those events took place; but that they did not take place was not the effect of any measures adopted by the administration. We press these points the more upon our readers, because of the lofty claims of the present ministers to confidence; because of their presumptuous pretensions to the concentration of “all the talents, weight, character and consequence in the country;” because of their repeated attacks upon the naval administration of Lord Barham, which Lord Howick in particular, so pointedly condemned. But this subject we should pursue further, were it not that an instance is on record of a newspaper having been prosecuted by Lord St. Vincent, whose pupil Lord Howick is, and convicted of a libel before Lord Ellenborough, for saying Lord St. Vincent as first lord of the admiralty had neglected his duty.
But it is only of the conduct of the ministry in the West-Indies that we have to complain? What force have they sent to the Mediterranean? How many ships has Sir Sidney Smith with him, and what measures have been taken to blockade Carthagena and Toulon? Ibid.
Mr. Fox continues to gain strength daily. He yesterday transacted some official business, and had a conference with Lord L. Gower respecting his lordship's late embassy to Petersburg. Mr. Fox, it is believed, will soon quit London
for a country retirement, in order that his health may be more speedily re-established.
As every circumstance connected with the gallant defence of Gaeta is of importance, it will gratify curiosity to learn the particulars of the accident which compelled the prince of Hesse to retire from that garrison. He was wounded by a cannon shot in the very act of examining the breach which had been effected by the fire of the enemy. No fatal consequences were apprehended from the accident, but it was however so serious, as to compel him to give the command to another. This event hastened the fall of the place; for after it occurred, the vigour of the besieged drooped apace.
From the French papers.
PARIS, July 26.
The Russian Counsellor of State, D'Ou-tril, departed for St. Petersburg a few hours after the signing of the peace between France and Russia. It is said that he will travel night and day, in the hope of being no more than a fortnight on his journey; in which case, the ratification of the Emperor of Russia may be expected within a month. Before he set off, he hired an hotel for the new Russian ambassador.
July 20.
The hopes of peace with England becomes every day more general: it is the only subject of conversation. Many persons suppose that peace may be proclaimed about the 15th of August, and that the festival, so dear to the French, people will be celebrated at the same time, with the admiration and gratitude of all Europe.
August 6.
The English ambassador, Lord Lauderdale, accompanied by two secretaries, and Basilico, the Messenger, arrived on the 3d inst. at Calais, and yesterday in this capital.
An imperial decree, dated the third of this month, ordains a levy of 50,000 conscripts, taken from the 80,000 authorised to be placed in a state of activity by the decree of the 2d Vendemaire, year 14. They will be divided among the different corps of the army. The 50,000 Conscribers remaining from the 80,000, will form the reserve of the year 1806.
The Official Journal, on the occasion of this measure, contains the following note:
“The Senatus Consultum of the 2d Vendemaire, year 14, placed at the disposal of Government the conscription of 1806. The third Coalition appeared under such an aspect, that the levy of 80,000 men seemed then necessary to support the glory of the throne, and to defend the dearest interests of the country. But before the end of the month Vendemaire, the success at Ulm had given such an advantage to our arms, that the emperor considered the calling out of the Senatus Consultum as unnecessary, and confined himself to calling out the reserve.”
At present, of the 80,000 men of Conscription of 1806, the emperor has judged that the calling out of 50,000 is necessary. If, as every thing leads to hope, the affairs of the Continent are about to be settled, these 50,000 men will serve to replace the soldiers who shall receive their discharge, and return to their families. If, on the contrary, which there is no reason to think, the period of the repose of the Continent is not yet arrived, these 50,000 men, by completing the different corps on the war footing, will carry the French army to its highest degree of strength.
“In any event, then, this levy is necessary; even if we had enjoyed profound peace, we should always have called out, if not 50,000, at least 40,000 men. Since the last review, 20,000 men have been discharged; and by the result of the reviews of this year, it is probable that an equal number will again return to their homes.”
“Nothing, therefore, ought to be inferred favourable either to war or to peace, from this operation, which is almost annual. It is done at the ordinary period; sufficiently late for the harvest being finished, sufficiently soon to enable the young men to join their corps before the unfavourable season commences, and to perfect themselves in discipline during the winter.”
RATISBON, August 1.
This day M. Bacher, Charge D'Affaires of France, remitted to the Diet the following note:
“The undersigned Charge D'Affaires of his majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy, at the general Diet of the Germanic empire, has received orders from his majesty to make the following declarations:
“Their majesties the kings of Bavaria and Württemberg, the sovereign princes of Ratisbon, of Baden, of Hesse Darmstadt, of Nassau, and the other principal princes of the South and West of Germany, have taken the resolution to form among themselves a Confederation, which places them in safety from all the uncertainties of the future, and they have ceased to be Rates of the empire:
“The situation in which the treaty of Presburg placed directly the courts allied to France, and indirectly the princes whom they surround, and who are their neighbours, being incompatible with the condition of a state of the empire, it became necessary for those courts, and for the princes, to arrange on a new plan the system of their relations, and to cause to disappear an inconsistency which would have been a permanent source of agitation, of inquietude, and of danger.”
“On her side, France, so essentially interested in maintaining the peace of the South of Germany, and who could not doubt, that the moment when she should have caused her troops to repass the Rhine, discord, an inevitable consequence of relations contradictory or uncertain, ill defined and ill understood, would have exposed to new danger the repose of nations, and again, perhaps, lighted up a war upon the Continent: bound, besides, to promote the welfare of her Allies, and to enable them to enjoy all the advantages which the treaty of Presburg secured to them, and which she had guaranteed, France could only see in the Confederation, which they have formed a natural consequence and necessary completion of the Treaty.”
“For a long time, successive changes, which have gone on augmenting from age to age, had reduced the Germanic Constitution to be only a shadow of itself. Time had changed all the relations of grandeur and of strength which originally existed among the members of the Confederation, and between each of them, and the whole of which they made a part. The diet had ceased to have a will that belonged to itself. The sentences of the supreme tribunals could not be put in execution. Every thing attested an enfeeblement to great, that the federation no longer presented any guarantee, and among the powerful was only a cause of dissention and discord. The events of the three coalitions carried this enfeeblement to its utmost length. One Electorate has been suppressed by the union of Hanover with Prussia; a Northern Power has incorporated with his other States one of the provinces of the empire; the treaty of Presburg has assigned to the kings of Bavaria and Württemberg, and the elector of Baden, the plenitude of sovereignty; a prerogative which the other electorates would claim, and be entitled to claim, but which could accord neither with the spirit nor the letter of the Constitution of the empire.”
“His majesty the emperor and king is therefore obliged to declare, that he acknowledges no longer the existence of the Germanic Constitution; at the same time, nevertheless, recognizing the entire and absolute sovereignty of every one of the princes of whose state Germany at this day consists, and preserving with them the same relations as with the other independent powers of Europe.”
“His majesty the emperor and king has accepted the title of protector of the Confederation of the Rhine. He has done so only from pacific views, and that his mediation, constantly interposed between the weak and the strong, may prevent every kind of dissention & discord.”
“Having thus done enough for the dearest interests of his people and of his neighbours—having provided as much as lay in his power for the future tranquility of Germany, which has been constantly the theatre of war—in putting a period to the contradiction which placed the nations and the princes under apparent protection of a system really contrary to their political interests and their treaties, his majesty, the emperor and king, hopes that the nations of Europe will at length lead a deaf ear to the insinuations of those who wish to cherish eternal war upon the continent; that the French armies which have passed the Rhine, shall have passed it for the last time; and that the people of Germany will see no longer, in the history of the past, any thing but the horrible picture of disorders of every kind, of devastations, and of massacres, which war always brings in its train.”
“His majesty has declared, that he would never extend the boundaries of France beyond the Rhine: he has been faithful to his promise. At present, his only desire is to be able to employ the means which providence has entrusted to him, for the purpose of asserting the liberty of the sea, of restoring to commerce its liberty, and securing the repose and happiness of the world.”
(Signed)
“BACHER”
The kings of Bavaria and of Württemberg, the electors Arch-Chancellor & of Baden, the Landgrave of Hesse, the Prince of Hohenzollern, the prince Salm Kyrburg, and the prince of Ysemburg, have this day sent a declaration to the Diet, in which they renounce the Germanic union, and announce their resolution to form among themselves a new confederation, under the guarantee of the emperor of the French.
NORFOLK, October 7.
On Sunday arrived the ship Sheffield , Capt. Davis, in 48 days from London.
It is with great pleasure, and we say it with confidence, that the very best understanding exists between our ministers in London, and the British government. Mr. Monroe and Mr. Pinckney are both much respected, and confided in; the appointment of the latter was very satisfactory in England, and afforded a pleasing evidence of the friendly disposition of our government, notwithstanding our prohibitory law, which it was expected would be repealed in some way or other.
Dispatches from our ministers in London, as late as the middle of August, received by the Sheffield , were sent on to Washington by the mail on Sunday. The grand expedition, supposed for the Mediterranean, came down Channel the 18th of August.
Ledger.
The ship John and Abie , failed from London about the 6th of August, having on board the baggage of Mr. Erskine, the British minister.
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A letter which we have seen from an American captain of much intelligence, from Barcelona, as late as the last of July, states, that the Tunisians and Tripolitans, have a very considerable force at sea, and that the Americans in the Mediterranean are under considerable alarm.
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PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1.
Capt. Bruton, of the Little Cherub , informs that the Dutch ships of the line and transports laying in the Texel, which had been ordered to be laid up, were again getting in a state of readiness for service.—We are disposed to conclude from this that these vessels are probably destined to convey French troops to St. Domingo, in the event of a Peace in Europe.
Gaz.
Domestic Intelligence.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THOUGHTS on the subject of Naval Power in the U. S. of America; and on certain means of encouraging and protecting their Commerce and manufactures.
No. IV.
Besides the complete justification of our measures for the peaceful defence and protection of our suffering trade and seamen, and of our endangered agriculture & manufactures, which rises from this cursory review of the British conduct, another important impression will be made on our minds. The friends of public economy and peace, and the enemies of expense, disorder and war, will clearly perceive that the mere possession of a great navy has enabled G. Britain to be extremely unjust, and to depart from that political morality, which she owes to herself, to the neutrals, and to the world. We have no reason to suppose that men on the western will be better than their brethren on the eastern coasts of the Atlantic, and we have therefore reason to apprehend, that, with an equal navy, we might have returned war upon England, or placed ourselves perhaps upon the list of the oppressors of our innocent rivals, or less potent neighbors. The possession of eight hundred fighting ships is to be under eight hundred influences to foreign war and neutral oppression.
Permanent navies, quite as much as standing armies, lead a government to beguile their citizens into immense and fatal credits to the public. By the new year the creditors of Great Britain will have, in Europe and the colonies, claims upon that government to an amount little short of three thousand millions of American dollars, at their proper valuation. It is said familiarly there, that this debt can never be paid, and a political writer, who was much approved and employed by members of their late expensive ministry, has openly advocated the use of the sponge, and excited against their public creditors, without discrimination, the extremes of resentment and odium.—Regardless of the many persons of all conditions, taxes, and ages, foreign and British, whom the immoral spunging of three thousand millions would reduce to dependence, wretchedness and beggary, and totally insensible to the rights of property, that dreadful catastrophe to their war system is openly proposed, in a leading newspaper of the city of London. America, it is hoped, will not hastily consent to exchange the political morality of her civil course for such a compound of human blood, fatal expense, and stupendous fraud.
It would not be fair to avoid the objection to our recent course with England that it applied too particularly to her. It may be observed, in cursory reply, that since we are much greater customers to that country than to any, and indeed to every other, we had a right to receive kindness and justice, or like private customers, we were free to go to other shops, and to make goods for ourselves. The manufacturers of the continent had done us little injury. It was Great-Britain alone, who, of the maritime powers, violated the rights of the neutrals in 1792 and 1793, during a time of peace. She, the neutral powers violated the neutral rights before the war of February, 1793, with France. She alone induced, in London, in March, 1793, a neutral state (Russia) to form a convention for destroying the whole neutral commerce, direct and indirect, with the dominions of France.—She alone issued secret executive orders, in November, 1793, to stop even the trade of neutrals, accustomed in peace, with the colonies of France. She alone made known her intentions to dismember our country at the Ohio. England alone established a press at the seat of our government, to subvert our constitutions, and to destroy, by libels, the friends of their principles, approving, in her ministry and legislature, of the service of foreign Europe, even after his conviction. England alone seizes our vessels in the new or war trade to the colonies of her enemies, while she makes treaties with us establishing a similar war trade in both her Indies, and regularly reciprocates a like trade between her own colonies and those of enemies. She alone impresses our seamen, and forces them to raise their neutral hands, in illegitimate war, against her enemies, with whom we are at peace. She alone violates the obligations of our written and ordained contracts with foreign seamen and foreign passengers, leaving our ships, unmanned, to the mercy of the elements. Uniformly and openly the leading party to the first aggressions on neutrals by Russia, Prussia, Austria, Sweden and Spain, in peace and in war, in 1792, and 1793, it is to her fatal influence, and undeniable example, that we owe the injurious precedents of those vast wrongs, which have broken the hearts and fortunes of our neutral merchants. It is England alone, which on paper, has blockaded empires, nay, a quarter of the globe, unblocked in fact, and incapable of blockade of blockade, destroying the markets for neutral produce, manufactures, and property, in enemies' and neutral countries. It is England which, to draw us into a war with her enemies, carried seduction into our national senate, and attempted to commit this nation in the partition of an enemy's noblest colony.—More might be truly said, but suffice it to observe, that a course of such circumstances, commencing in 1792, and continued to the last season of our public business, may well account for the measures we took to support a few of our own manufactures, by the exclusion of some of those of a nation so perversely unfriendly, and to extend our injuries, in spirit and in deed. The conduct of Great-Britain herself, in previously discriminating against us, may be forgotten by our government, but they will admit the facts on a statement of some, which occur.
The important principle, that free ships make free goods, was conceded by Great-Britain to France, though her privy council, recognizing that fact, decided that we should not be equally favored. This important and intentional discrimination against us is worth much more than all the discriminations we have made against England, and all we yet contemplate.
In making a treaty with France and other states, G. Britain established a much shorter, simpler, and more favorable list of contraband of war than was extended to us.
The British government and navy, it is believed, have not been in the practice of perverting the right of search to the impressment of sailors on the high seas out of any vessels, but those of the U. States.
The admission of other foreign ships with their own foreign produce into the British colonial free ports, and the exclusion of the ships of the U. States with our produce from the same ports, is another very serious discrimination against our agriculture and trade.
The exclusion of our ships from the carrying trade, between the ports of which their East-India company have possessed themselves and China and other eastern countries, is a restriction not believed to be imposed on some other foreign vessels.
The pickled beef and pork of the United States are prohibited in Great-Britain, but those of some other countries are received there. The manufactures of the United States have been prohibited in Great-Britain, while many of those of Russia, Turkey, Germany and the independent states of India have been admitted.
But let us make a pause. Let us discontinue the further prosecution of this examination, lest the numerous evidences of rigor and injury from England may produce a resentment we do not desire, or be mistaken for a design to censure and offend her. Far different motives indeed have really excited to this publication; the peaceful maintenance of the rights and interest of the U. States, and the exemption of human nature from the evils of discord and the crimes and miseries of war. The weeping voice of bleeding Europe seemed to cry to the distant Americans, preserve your peace . Under circumstances so affecting, it appeared wise and lawful, and right worthy to appeal to the friends of humanity and truth in the two nations, on such matters as concern both, and respectfully to offer to our own country the weighty considerations, which seem to distaste from the hasty establishment of a powerful navy.
* This is acknowledged in the late Gen. Hamilton's pacifics.
BOSTON, Sept. 27.
The Bomb-Ketches Aetna , Lt. Jones; and Vesuvius , Lt. Leonard; with Gun-boats No. 11, Lt. Bainbridge, and No. 12, Lt. Dexter, now lying in this harbor, will, we are told, sail on Monday next, for New-Orleans.
Sept. 30.
On the receipt, at Halifax, of news that Jerome's fleet had been dispersed and damaged in the August gale, the Cambrian frigate was immediately dispatched to endeavour to capture some of the disabled vessels.
The Tunisian minister lies wind-bound at Marblehead. He visited Salem on Wednesday, and had a public dinner given him at Marblehead the same day.
The Marquis de Cusa Calvo, and suite, have taken passage in the Mindwell , for Malaga, and failed on Saturday last.
CONNECTICUT ELECTION.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.—Hon. Benjamin Talmadge, Samuel W. Dana, John Davenport, Timothy Pitkin, jun. Jonathan O. Moseley, Lewis B. Sturges, and Epaphroditus Champion. All Federalists.
Hon. Theodore Dwight is elected to serve the present year in the place of the Hon. J. C. Smith resigned.

The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 10th OCTOBER.
The Circuit Court of the U.S. held in this city, adjourned yesterday, after a session of 9 days. His honour Judge Edwards presided in the room of Judge Patterson, deceased.
A bill was found against the Editors of the Connecticut Courant for a libel upon the government in publishing a piece respecting the two millions of dollars said to be sent to France, which piece was originally published in the U.S. Patriot [in April last] and since published in almost all the papers in the United States.
A bill was also found against the Rev. Azel Backus, of Bethlehem, charging him with sedition practices in speaking disrespectfully of Mr. Jefferson.
During the session a motion was made by Mr. Attorney for a warrant against Judge Reeve, against whom a bill was found at the last term.
NEW-YORK, Oct. 2. Capt. Liddle, who was sent by Miranda to Jamaica to solicit assistance from the Governor of that island, failed from Port-Royal, on the 24th August in the Ferret brig, having been unsuccessful in his application.
Letters are received in town which mention, that Miranda was still at Aruba, exercising his men and issuing proclamations.
Miranda.—By the brig Sally, capt. Pratt, who arrived this morning from Montego Bay, we have received a file of Jamaica papers to the 7th of Sept. The Stock of 18 guns, the Schooner Flying Fish of 12 guns, and the Pique of 5 guns, are said to have failed for Coco, to aid Miranda.
PHILADELPHIA, October 2. Yesterday afternoon came up from Marcus Hook, where she has lain some time, the French frigate Valereux of 32 guns.
Capt. Luce of the frigate Packet, late from Boston, informs, that on Saturday, 10 leagues E. from Cape May, at 8. A. M. saw two large ships apparently frigates, from all appearance had been engaged, one of which had lost the head of her main-mast and her sails, which were then set, were in a shattered condition, supposed to be from shot—though, in that crippled state one was pursuing the other, which was making off.
WASHINGTON, October 4. The Secretary of the Treasury arrived at the Seat of government yesterday. And this day, in good health, the President of the United States returned to Washington.
NORFOLK, Oct. 4. On Thursday came into Hampton Roads H. B. M's. frigate Squirrel, of 28 guns.
Yesterday anchored in Hampton Roads, H. B. M's. Ship Leopard of 50 guns. This is Admiral Berkeley's flag ship, but we have not learned that the Admiral is on board, but as no flag was flying, it is presumed that he is not.
Lots of the Schooner Charming Mary.—Capt. Seaman informs us, that on Sunday last, in 6 fathoms water, about 4 leagues to the northward of Chincoategue saw the Schooner Charming Mary, of this port, about 10 feet of her lower masts above the water, topmast standing, and her fore-top sail yard across. The land was in sight, we have not heard the fate of the crew, but it is hoped and presumed that they have been saved in the boat.
Capt. Town, of the Sloop Adventure, from Philadelphia, also saw the wreck on the 25th ult, at which time there were a number of empty beer barks floating about her.
Capt. Bolan, at 5 P. M. on Saturday last, 10 leagues W. by S. of Cape Henry, passed 7 sail of British men of war.
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PEACE OR WAR IN EUROPE?
Contrary to all rational expectation, the London papers to the 16th of August, do not decide this momentous question.
The new federative arrangements of Germany are at length officially announced in a Note of M. Bacher French Charge D'Affairs, to the Diet of Ratisbon.
To announce the conditions of the pacification of Europe; to declare to England that he would not consent to enter into a peace, unless it secured the freedom of the seas and of commerce.
The declaration of his Prussian majesty to the Hanoverian deputies on the 24th June is another argument unfavourable to the prospects of peace.
We shall pass over the seeming inuendo of Lord Lauderdale's reception in Paris.
One remarkable feature in the present politics of France, is the Decree of the 15th August, for calling out 50,000 men of the conscription of the present year.
The design of rehearsing the invasion of England seems totally out of the question, for it is not even hinted at in the soothing explanations of the Monitor.
is meant than meets the ear." It admits that the repose of the continent may be again disturbed.
One incontrovertible fact seems clear from the existing relations of France: that the meditated confederation of the neighboring states is the most mortal foe to her own liberties.
The Philadelphia Register contains the following additional facts on two very interesting subjects;
"Russia and France have agreed to divide the Turkish dominions. This has determined Great Britain to continue the war at all hazards."
"The Portuguese government is to be removed to Brazil; Lord St. Vincent was ordered to carry it into effect by repairing in his flag ship to Lisbon, to take on board the prince regent."
COMMUNICATION.
Amongst the various means adopted by party spirit and malice, for the condemnation of Mr. J. Randolph, and those republican members, who thought and acted with him, during the last session of Congress;
The following narrative is a true statement of the whole transaction; and in order that it may be presented in its proper point of view, it must be recollected that in the course of the last session, many remonstrances were sent to Congress from almost all the large commercial cities, against the conduct of the British government, in permitting and encouraging their cruellers and prize courts, in the capture and condemnation of American vessels, and recommending various expedients for obtaining redress for these aggressions.
About this time too, a resolution passed the Senate commencing a topic of general conversation at Washington, that a minister extraordinary was to be sent to London.
This is all that ever was done, and this done, without Mr. R's approbation or knowledge.
This affair never having assumed any shape but mere conversation, was supposed, incapable of being misrepresented, or the cause of serious accusation;
Philadelphia.—An election for inspectors of the approaching general election, was held in that district on Friday last.
The inspectors elected are 9 republicans, 15 federalists and 4 quids:—The officers, 6 republicans, 6 federalists and 2 quids.
In the Northern Liberties and Southwark, the Republicans carried their ticket, without opposition.
STORM TO THE WEST.
It appears by the following letter from the Aurora, by the last evening's mail, that the period of hostilities in the Western Country, is not so close at hand, as was expected:
EXTRACT—Natchitoches, 26th August, 1806. "Mr. Freeman returned to this place on Saturday last, after having ascended 430 miles above this place, where the Spaniards had been waiting for him for five days.
"Mr. Freeman describes the land adjacent to this river as almost wholly composed of prairies and thick cane brakes;
"Yesterday gov. Claiborne arrived to concert measures with col. Cushing respecting our situation, and to organize the militia.
"This morning capt. Bowyer and his company arrived from Opelousas, and we expect three companies from Fort Adams, boats having been sent for them 12 or 14 days ago;
SPORTS OF THE TURF.
The Broad Rock Jockey Club Fall Races commenced on Thursday the 30th of September.
First Day.—4 mile heats, for 400 dolls. Major Ball's horse Monticello, by Diomed, 1 1. Mr. Mobly's horse Ratt, by Clifton, 2 2.
On Tuesday last, the Fairfield Races commenced. The first day's race for the Richmond Jockey Club Purse, of 500 dolls. was won by Mr. Taylor's horse Top Gallant—barred by Mr. Wormley.
B. H. Top Gallant, 1 1. Mr. Mobly's s. n. Monticello, 2 2. Mr. Hoome's s. n. Young Peacemaker, 3 dist. Mr. J. Randolph's s. n. Hyperion, 4 dist. Mr. Hollins's s. n. Ciren, 5 drawn.
MARRIED.
On 25th last month, Mr. John Brown, jr. to Miss Maria Copland, both of this city.
DIED.
On the 1st inst. Mrs. Sarah Smith, the amiable and much lamented wife of Geo. Wm. Smith, Esq. of this city.
COMMUNICATION.
On Monday morning last it pleased Heaven to take from this troublousome world, JOHN LEWIS PRICE, in the 18th year of his age, and only child of Major William Price of this city.
"The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, Blessed be the name of the Lord!"
DENTISTRY.
MR. LE TELLIER, DENTIST, has returned to Richmond, and again offers his services to its citizens in the various branches of his profession, as contained in his former address to the public.
THE SUBSCRIBERS, UNDER THE FIRM OF LESUEUR & SAUNDERS,
Inform their friends and the public, that they will continue the COMMISSION business, lately done by C. & T. Saunders.
BROWN SUGAR of superior quality, Dito ditto second ditto, Best Green Coffee, Salt in Sacks, Molasses and Treacle, Pickled Salmon, Scotch Barley, Madeira, Port, Sherry & Malaga Wine, Fresh Muscated Raisins & Currants, Soft Shelled Almonds, Coppears, Saltpeare, English FF Gunpowder, Patent Shot, well assorted, Hibberd's Brown Stout and Porter, Bell Spanish Segars, Caldwell, Frazer & Co's Superfine Chocolate, New-York Candles and Soap, Spermacetti Candles, Bar Iron, German, Crawley's & Bifford Steel, Antigua & Jamaica Rum, Very Old Antigua Rum, Holland Gin, Cognac Brandy, of very superior quality, Race Ginger, Pepper, Pimento, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves & Cassinon, Fresh London Mustard, in small boxes, Bell Flotant Indigo and Fig Blue, of superior quality, in boxes of 20 lbs. each, Fresh Coppers, Oil, &c. Fresh Gunpowder, Tea in Camblers, Dito by the barrel, Young Hyson do. of the first quality, N. England & Bullock's Cheese.
JOHN L. LESUEUR, C. H. SAUNDERS. October 10.
HENRY HOVEY, HAS FOR SALE, 12 Bales INDIA GOODS, viz.
ALIABAD Emeries, Mammoodys, Mow Saunas, Gurralis, Jamah Saunas, Gillis Hdkfs. & Checks. —ALSO—
10 Pipes Hollands Gin, 20 qr. cases S. Wine, 40 Boxes 8 by 10, 20 do. 20 boxes Chocolate, 10 by 12 Window Glass, 4 pipes Old Cognac, 8 Hds. Molasses, Brandy, 50 lbs. Netmegs, 20 crates Stone Ware, 50 gro. Playing Cards, 50 cases Lime, 50 boxes Cotton & Wool Cards, 10 cases Whale Oil, 50 boxes Shot Pipes, 40 bags Pepper, 500 lbs. refined Salt Pa. 50 Hds. 7 Northern tre. and 50 Hds. 3 Rem, 15 Hds. Antigua Rum, 50 Hds. Brown Sugar, A fresh assortment of Shoes.
FOR BOSTON,
The Schooner MARY ANN, H. Luce, Master, will sail in six days. For freight or passage apply as above. October 10.
BENJAMIN P. HOOMES, No. 221 Baltimore Street,
Has just received and is now opening an extensive and well selected assortment of fashionable goods, consisting of the following articles:
SUPERFINE and second Cloths, do. Kersey-Cord and Velveteens, Constitution Cord, Thick-Cord and Velvets, Rose and Duple Blankets, Plains, Half-Thicks, Kerseys, Kenial Cortons, Plushings, Flannel, Baft, Carpets and Carpeting, 4-3 and 5-4 Cambric Mullin, Dito Lace and Mull do. ditto plain and figured British and India Book do. plain and figured Leno and Jacquet do. Marcellus, Black Florentine, India and Italian Luteffierings, plain and figured Satins, Silk Velvets, Damask silk Shawls, figured Silk Handkerchiefs, Black Crap, Moie, Saracenet, Silk and Cotton Chambray Mullin, Dimmities, Long Lawn, 4-3 and 7-8 Irish Linnen, Linnen Cambricks, Diaper Table Cloths, Callicoes and Chintz, Bombazette, Bombazone, Callimanco and Durants, Silk and Cotton Suspenders, Silk, Cotton and Worsted Hosiery, Ladies Extra Silk and Kid Gloves, Lace Sleeves, Pic Nic Mitts and Gloves, Men's Wood-Rock and Beaver Gloves, do. White and Black Kid do. Riffa Sheetings, Duck Drilling, Brown and White Ticklenburg, Burlap's Brown and White Plaillias, Bittanias, Dowlas, Checks, Hefians, Bed Tickings and Diaper, Gurralis, Guzzanahs, Coffas, Mammoody's, Bultas, Salempoors and Sannahs, fine Humhums and Shirting, Bandanna Hdkfs. and Gillis and Sooy Romalls.
Also, a variety of Fashionable Articles, which he offers for sale at the most reduced prices, for cash or approved acceptances in town. N.B. Orders from the country will be strictly attended to, and every endeavour exercised to render satisfaction. Baltimore, October 1, 1806.
SALE, IN MANCHESTER.
WISH to sell the greater part of my Household and Kitchen Furniture, some Gardening and plantation utensils, and a chest of Carpenters tools; a Gig Harnets; a well finished Carriage and two stout Horses that are accustomed both to the saddle and carriage; two Milk Cows with several young cattle and some hogs; a small collection of Valuable Books, a Microscope of considerable powers, Dr. Nooth's Glass Apparatus for impregnating water with fixed air, &c. &c. I am also desirous of leasing the tenement I now occupy, on the hill in Manchester, on which are a comfortable Dwelling House, Kitchen, Dairy, Smoke-House, Ice House, Stable and Carriage house, a garden well stocked with vegetables, and in the yard a well of excellent water, exclusive of two and a half acres of ground well included, with about half of it laid down in lucerne. Possession may be had any time after the middle of November. If the above property is not disposed of privately in the course of the present month, it will soon afterwards be offered at public auction, of which due notice will be given. JAMES HENDERSON. Manchester, Oct. 10, 1806.
FOR SALE,
ON Wednesday the 15th of October next, at the Plantation of the late Edward P. Chamberlayne, in the county of King William, the flock of every kind, belonging to his estate, consisting of Horses, Horned Cattle, Hogs, Sheep; together with the Household and Kitchen Furniture, plantation Utensils, and Crops of every kind now growing on the plantation. Among the horses, is the Covering HORSE, advertised to stand the last season in the county of King William, and several first rate blooded Mares, Colts, and Fillies—Also, 195 Barrels of old CORN, and the Schooner WASHINGTON, having only made one trip since newly rigged, and not one since repaired. A credit of twelve months from the day of sale, will be given on all sums above twenty dollars, (except for the old Corn, which will be sold for cash) on the purchasers giving bond and approved security, to bear interest from the date, unless punctually paid. W. B. CHAMBERLAYNE, Adm. October 10.
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, &c.
FOR SALE, at Samuel Barrett's Shoe Store, first door below the Eagle—A General Assortment of Ladies Shoes, Gentlemen's Boots, Hats, &c. By SAMUEL CANTERBURY. Oct. 10.

Miscellaneous.
SATIRE UNDISGUISED.
A most ingenious Satire, upon that contemptible and ridiculous race of people called people of fashion, has lately appeared in London, under the title of "The Fashionable World Displayed," by John Owen; dedicated to B. Porteus, Lord Bishop of London. It is undoubtedly true, that the Satire is more peculiarly adapted to the meridian of London; but there is a set of people even in the U. States, who ape the manners of the "fashionable world."
The following, the first chapter in this little treatise, explains the situation, boundaries, climate, and seasons of this inflated world: The 2nd. chap. describes its government and laws; the 3rd. its religion and morality; the 4th. its education; the 5th. its manners and language; the 6th. its dress and amusements; the 7th. estimates the happiness of the people; and the 8th. explains the defects of the system, and proposes plans of reform.
Situation—Boundaries—Climate and Seasons.
Though I do not undertake to write a geographical account of the Fashionable World, yet I should think myself highly culpable were I to pass over this interesting part of the subject wholly in silence. My readers must be at the same time cautioned, not to form their expectations of the geography of Fashion from that of other countries. The fact is, that the whole community which sustains this appellation, extensive as it is, can scarcely be treated as having any peculiar or exclusive locality. The individuals who compose it are not, it is true, absolute wanderers, like the tribes of Arabia, nor yet are they regular settlers, like the convicts at Botany Bay; but moveable and migratory to a certain degree, and to a certain degree stationary and permanent, they live among the inhabitants of the parent country; neither absolutely mixing with them, nor yet actually separated from them.
This paradoxical state of the people renders it not a little difficult to reduce their territory within the rules of geographical description. They have it is true, their degrees and their circles ; but these terms are used by people of fashion in a sense so different from that which geographers have assigned them, that they afford no locus of assistance to the topographical inquirer. It is, I presume, on this account, that in all the improvements which have been made upon the globe, nothing has been done towards settling the meridian of Fashion; and though the Laplanders, the Hottentots, and the Esquimaux, have places assigned them, no more notice is taken of the people of Fashion than if they either did not exist, or were not worthy of being mentioned.
The only expedient, therefore, to which a writer can resort, in this dearth of geographical materials, is that of designating the territory of Fashion by the ordinary names of those places through which it passes. And this is, in fact, strictly conformable to that usage which prevails in the language and communication of the people themselves; for London, Tunbridge, Bath, Weymouth, &c. are, in their mouths, names for little else than the lands and societies of Fashion which they respectively contain.
Now, the portion of each place to which Fashion lays claim, is neither definite as to its dimensions, nor fixed as to its locality. In London a small portion of the whole is Fashionable; in Bath, the proportion is greater; and in some watering-places of the latest creation, Fashion puts in her demand for nearly the whole. The locality of its domains is also contingent and mutable. Various circumstances concur in determining when a portion of ground shall become Fashionable, and when it shall cease to be such. The only rule of any steadiness with which I am acquainted, and which chiefly relates to the metropolis, is that which prefers a negative latitude : if this be excepted (which indeed admits of no relaxation) events of very little moment decide all the rest. If, for example, a Duchess, or the wife of some baronet-gentilhomme, who has purchased the privileges of the order, should open a suite of rooms for elegant society in any new quarter, the soil is considered to receive a sort of consecration by such a circumstance; and an indefinite portion of the vicinity is added to the territory of Fashion. If, on the other hand, a shop be opened, a sign hung out, or any symptom of business be shown, in a quarter that has hitherto been a stranger to every sound but the rattling of carriages, the thunder of knockers, and the vociferation of coachmen and footmen, it is ten to one but the privileges of Fashion are withdrawn from that place; and the whole range of buildings is gradually given up to those who are either neccity enough to keep shops, or vulgar enough to endure them. Now, it happens as a consequence from this adoption of new soil and disendowment of old, that the territory of Fashion is extremely irregular and interrupted. A traveller, determined to pursue its windings, would soon be involved in a most mysterious labyrinth; his track would be crossed by portions of country which throw him repeatedly out of his beat; inasmuch as his progress would resemble that of a naturalist, who, in tracing the course of a mineral through the bowels of the earth, encounters various breaks and intermissions, and often finds the corresponding parts of the same stratum unaccountably separated from each other.
It would only be fatiguing the reader to say more upon the topographical part of my subject. It is obvious, from what has been stated, that the regions of Fashion, considered as a whole, are rather numerous than compact; and indeed, if each difference of opinion subsists among the people themselves upon the territories which are entitled to that name, that no correct judgment can be pronounced upon a question of so much controversy. Thus much, however, may be affirmed, that there is scarcely a market town in the kingdom in which some portion of land is not invested with Fashionable privileges, and designated by such terms as mark the wish of the inhabitants to have it considered as forming part and parcel of the domains of Fashion.
The climate of Fashion is almost entirely artificial; and consequently differs in many material respects from the natural temperature of those respective places over which its jurisdiction extends. Though changes from heat to cold, and vice versa, are very common among these people, yet heat may be said to be the prevailing character of the climate. They appear to me to have but two seasons in the year; these they call, in conformity to common language rather than to just calculation, Winter and Summer. Of summer little is known; for it seems to be a rule among these people to disband and disperse at the approach of it, and not to rally or re-unite till the winter has fairly commenced. Though, therefore, they exist somehow or somewhere during the summer months, they will not be found that they do not exist under their Fashionable character. They waste themselves in the sea, drink laxative waters, lose a little money at billiards, or catch a few colds at public rooms; but all these things they do as individuals, and wholly out of their corporate capacity as members of the community of Fashion. So that in the mode of disposing of the summer, they invert the standing rule of most other animals; they choose the fair season for their torpid state, and show no signs of life but during the winter. It is not easy to say exactly when the winter begins in the Fashionable World; an inhabitant of Bath would have one mode of reckoning, and an inhabitant of London another. To do justice to the subject, the commencement of winter ought to be regulated by the former of these places, and the close of it by the latter. Supposing, therefore, that it begins some time in November, there can be no difficulty in fixing its duration; for the 14th of June is by a tacit, yet binding ordinance, considered as a limit over which a fashionable winter can never pass.
There are many circumstances in which the climate of Fashion stands peculiarly distinguished from every other. It has already been intimated that heat is its prevailing character; it is, moreover, not a
little remarkable, that this heat is at its highest point in the winter season; and that the inhabitants often perspire more freely when the snow is upon the ground than they do in the dog-days. The truth is, that, as was before said, the climate is wholly created by artificial circumstances, and the natural temperature of the air is completely done away. The force of communication which these people keep up with each other, is considered to require a species of apparatus which fills their atmosphere with an immediate degree of phlogiston. Besides this, they are notoriously fond of assembling in infatuated crowds; and travellers have assured us, that they have often witnessed from ten to twelve hundred persons suffocating each other within a space which would scarcely have afforded convenient accommodation for a dozen families. And this may enable us in some measure to account for the little benefit which modish invalids are said to derive from their frequent removals to the healthiest spots in the universe. The original object of such a prescription was doubtless to change the air; and certainly no expedient could be better imagined for bracing a constitution relaxed by too intense application to the business of a Fashionable life. But the usage of the order renders a change of air to any fatiguing purpose, utterly impracticable; for the weakly members of the community consider themselves bound to kindle a flame wherever they go; and thus they breathe the same phlogisticated air all over the world.
They prefer to adopt the ordinary divisions of time; and talk like other people of Day and Night; but their mode of computing each is so vague and unnatural, that inhabitants of the same meridian with themselves scarcely understand what they mean by the terms. A great part of this difficulty may possibly arise from the very small portion of solar light with which they are visited. For certain it is, that no people upon earth have less benefit from the light of the sun than the people of Fashion; so that if it were not for torches, candles, and Argand lamps, they would scarcely ever see each other's faces.
With regard to the constitutions of these people, I have been inclined to think them naturally robust, from observing the astonishing heat and fatigue which they endure. And in this respect the women have appeared to evince an uncommon degree of hardness; for, besides that they wear on every occasion a flight of species of clothing that the men, I have been confidently told that many among them will appear, in the severest part of the season, with dresses of such severe and scanty materials, as convince every beholder that they who wear them are utter strangers to the weakness of the sex. There is, however, some room for doubting whether the air which these people breathe, and the usage which prevail among them, are favourable to the constitution. Their patience of fatigue has been thought to be wholly the result of habit, and their hardness has been conjectured to be little more than an air of extravagance and bravado. The frequent transitions which they make from heat to cold, and back again from cold to heat (perhaps half a dozen times in as many hours) must very materially diminish the physical strength of their bodies. Certain it is that their natural countenance do not betray the usual symptoms of health; and it is, I believe, admitted, that instances of extraordinary longevity are not very common among them.
For the geographical selectum of "a western latitude," the author has only to plead that the people of whom he treats acknowledge no points of the compass but those of east and west, and that the term longitude has scarcely any place in their language.
CURRAN ON THE BENCH OF JUSTICE.
The Irish Bar presented the following address to the sublime orator CURRAN, on his appointment to the office of master of the Rolls:—
"To John Philip Curran, Esquire, Master of the Rolls. "Sir,—In your recent appointment to an high and dignified situation, the first pride of the Irish Bar feels itself gratified, that independent spirit, eminent talents, and inflexible integrity, have recommended their possessor to the Royal Favour, and procured his advancement to the Bench of Justice. "Yes, Sir, we trust that the lucre which shone upon your distinguished progress as an Advocate, will beam with a milder, but more useful influence from the Bench, and that the unbiased impartial, and upright Judge, will be found in the person who exalted the character of the Irish Bar by his eloquence, and uniformly supported the rights and privileges of an honourable profession."
To which the master of the Rolls was pleased to return the following Answer:— "Gentlemen,—I thank you from my heart for this proof of your confidence and affection; the approving opinion of so enlightened and independent a body as the Irish Bar, would be a most valuable reward of merit, much superior to mine, which I am conscious has gone little beyond a disposition, but, I trust, an honest and ardent disposition; so to act in my public and professional character, as not to be altogether unworthy of the name of an Irishman of that disposition; I receive your kind commendation with pride; I feel that probity of intention is all that we can be responsible for."
"I am peculiarly gratified by the flattering attestation you are pleased to bestow on my endeavours to support the privileges of our profession; they are vitally and inseparably connected with the enjoyment of constitutional liberty, and the effectual administration of justice; the more active part which I may have taken in the defence of those privileges; I now bequeath to you; but be assured that I bring with me to the situation where it has been the pleasure of his majesty to place me, the most perfect conviction, that in continuing to maintain them, I shall co-operate with you in the discharge of one of the most important duties that can bind us to our country."
TO BONAPARTE'S GENERAL AUGEREAU.
A letter has been received by me, signed "Augereau, Field Marshal of the French Empire, Commander in Chief of a division of the Grand Army of the Emperor of the French, in Germany; Grand Officer and Grand Cordouan of the Legion of Honour, &c. &c." I have heard with sorrow of the lamentable existence of a Revolutionary French Empire, as well as of a still more deplorable existence of a Revolutionary Emperor of France; but, as hitherto, thank God! my country has not degraded herself by acknowledging either; rebels, deriving rank and power from such an impure source, instead of intimidating me with the enumeration of their impertinent titles, inspire me with no other sentiments but those of pity or contempt. I answer, therefore, thus publicly, the secret threats of your letter. This is the only becoming manner in which a dutiful subject can correspond with traitors, without in some measure, incurring the infamy of participation.
You accuse me of having calumniated you in my publication, called "The Secret History of the Court and Cabinet of St. Cloud," in stating, "That you have been flogged several times for idleness." Little trouble would procure me, from Austria, Prussia or Naples, extracts of the minutes of the Court-Martial, which justly condemned you to such an ignominious punishment; but most of the particulars of that glorious period of your first military career, have already appeared in works, printed in France, Italy, and Germany. Among these, "Le Recueil d'Anecdotes," "Le Voyage en Suisse," & "Les Heros du Dix Huit Brumaire," are very explicit on this tender subject. Being extracted from these, my assertion stands perfectly justified, as their authenticity has not been refuted.
I might remain satisfied with referring you to those authorities; I will however, appeal to more striking evidence—to your own back. Strip at the head of your Revolutionary Army, or if your modesty declines such a delicate exposure, undress only in the presence of your Revolutionary Staff, and it will soon be decided, whether I am a calumniator, or you a criminal. As you persevere in silence my reproofs (as you
call them) of robberies, rapes, murders, and other enormities, it is unnecessary for me to prove, what you do not think proper or prudent to deny—Your challenge, you must be aware, I cannot accept of in Europe. The laws of this country forbid duelling, and where, upon the European Continent, can I be secure against your worthy master's braves, spies, gaolers, & tormentors?—But though I am well acquainted with the true character of Revolutionary Generals, & that most of them prefer secret stabbing to fair and open fighting, I will condescend, and run the risk of meeting you in any place you fix upon in the American Republic.
Whether I shall have the gratification of chastising a vile French slave of the vile Corsican Usurper, or perish in the attempt, I am well convinced that a virtuous patriotism will, with myself, consider you and your accomplices, though ever so prosperous or elevated, in the same light, and affix your and their accursed memory on the historical gibbet of fortunate but detested culprits.
LONDON, July 1806. "THE AUTHOR of "The Secret History of the Court and Cabinet of St. Cloud."
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
In the Enquirer of the 19th ult. an account of an extraordinary Phenomenon appearing in the county of Rutlandshire N. C. copied from the Raleigh Register. It is not my intention to enter into any philosophical examination, nor shall I attempt to explain the cause of this singular Phenomenon, upon any principle, but certain it is, that there can be nothing supernatural in it. However unusual a light like this may appear in the western hemisphere, it is certainly not uncommon in many parts of the Eastern, particularly on the coast of Sicily, near Messina. Here, the inhabitants have frequently observed a Phenomenon of great similitude to the one seen in N. Carolina, and to familiar has it become to the Sicilians, that they speak of it as the most beautiful light in nature. Many of their authors have written treatises upon this singular subject, but whether they have ever succeeded in discovering its natural cause, I do not pretend to know. Leoni, (who I believe wrote best upon the subject) went to Messina on purpose to see it, and in his account of it he says "the heavens appeared crowded with a variety of objects, besides the figures of human beings, from the greatest to the smallest, and other animals, he mentions palaces, woods, gardens, &c. all appearing in motion at the same time. This view must certainly be awfully sublime. It is worthy of remark that this singular Phenomenon always appears about high mountains, which being placed immediately behind the bright images, render them conspicuous to the eye. This circumstance seems to fandon an opinion that this Phenomenon is generated by the moisture or exhalations which sometimes flow from the sides of particular mountains, or from some aquatic quality in the air, which becomes brilliant when the sun acts upon it, and falling below the summit of a mountain, immediately discovers itself to the eye which ranges with the meteors and the mountain. About Messina it is remarked by the inhabitants that whenever this Phenomenon is seen, it has been immediately after the fruits have been much agitated by high winds, and the violent concussions of the waves, renders the whole atmosphere obviously damp. The facts stated in the preceding Communication, may, perhaps, account for the phenomenon, which is said to have happened in N. C. For a more particular description of these optical illusions, we refer our readers to the first vol. of Goldsmith's "Animated Nature."
INTERESTING NARRATIVE.
[We have been favored with the following interesting narrative, communicated by a respectable house at Archangel, to their Correspondent in London:—]
Archangel, June 1, 1806. Information was received here some time ago, that a ship, which, from the description, we supposed to be the Argo, captain Kidson, had been seen by some Laplanders, on the rocks, in the White Sea, covered with ice, and that attracted by a light so unusual at that season, they approached the vessel, and with difficulty got into the cabin, but found no soul on board. The cargo consisted of wheat in bags. These natives, on their arrival at Kola, made a report of what they had seen, and proper persons were sent from thence to learn some further particulars. We have now received a letter from a person (written on the spot) giving a detailed account of this melancholy affair.
The vessel, which from part of a journal found on board, proves to be the Argo, Thomas Kidson, late master, is lying on the Argo, a place called the Three Islands, the keel and sternpost are gone, and the wheat is going out through the bottom, being entirely spoiled and good for nothing, and the wreck only in a state to be burned for what iron may be saved from it.
Some of the inhabitants from the nearest settlement being employed in getting anchors, ropes, and any other stores they could find on shore, observed at a little distance, a pole standing in the snow, which they removed, and the following day a dog came out of the hole, which on seeing strangers immediately returned; curiosity induced them to clear away the snow, and the depth of two fathoms and a half, they discovered a dog, and the remains of four human bodies. The animal had eaten most of the flesh of three of them for its subsistence during the winter; one was entire.
It appears that the unfortunate crew having quitted the ship, and got safe on land, were unable to find any habitation, and thus perished from the inclemency of the season.
Coffee is a native of Arabia, supposed by some to have been the chief ingredient of the old Lacedemonian broth. The use of this berry was not known in England till the year 1657, in which time Mr. Daniel Edwards, a Turkey merchant, on his return from Smyrna to London, brought with him one Pasque Rosee, a Greek of Ragusa, who was used to prepare this liquor for his master every morning, who, by the way never wanted company. The merchant, in order to get rid of a coffee-house, which he did in St. Michael's Alley, in Cornhill, which was the first Coffee-house erected in London.
In the little Island of Faroe, if a Clergyman should die, his Successor in the Parish is obliged to marry his Widow, who is considered as a kind of Ecclesiastical fixture.
The Dutch say, that the English have caught them only by the Cape, but that Bonaparte has rifled their pockets.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 30.
A large fresh water pond well stocked with eels on the south side of Staten Island on Mr. Lake's farm, and which has not been brim full of water for the last twenty three years past, overflowed in the late heavy rains. The torrent broke its way through fields of corn and grass, pursuing a course of more than two miles in length till it reached the bay. When the water had ceased to flow, and not before, the people in the neighborhood were astounded to see the deviation the track marked by the late stream all the way to the bay. This spontaneous emigration consisted only of full grown fish. Many were knocked on the head; but the number lost were very small if compared with the vast multitude that succeeded in its object.
TO BE RENTED—The Tenement where I now reside; and possession given in time. J. PENN. April 11.
NOTICE.
WHEREAS, in consequence of the death of Robt. Burton, the partnership of Brown, Rives & Co. and of the different branches of that House, at Norfolk, Cairo, Bent Creek, Lynchburg, New-Market, Warminger and Milton, will terminate, agreeable to the several articles of copartnership, at various periods, between the first day of August last, and the first day of January next. This is to give notice to all persons interested, that the business of each establishment will be closed immediately after the time limited for its expiration.
JAMES BROWN, ROBERT RIVES. Surviving partners of Brown, Rives & Co.
The business carried on by Brown, Rives & Co. will be continued by the subscribers, under the firm of Brown and Rives, and the Store at Cairo, &c. furnished with their usual supplies.
JAMES BROWN, ROBERT RIVES. Richmond, October 7.
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, 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.
NOTICE.
THE partnership of FISHER & LESUEUR was dissolved on the first instant; all those having claims against said firm, will call on James Fisher for payment, and all those indebted, will please to make immediate payment to the same, he alone being authorized to grant discharges.
JAMES FISHER, JOHN L. LESUEUR.
N. B. The business will be continued at the same place by JAMES FISHER, for his own account; he is receiving from New-York and Philadelphia, the following goods: which he will sell on the lowest terms to his old customers, and on the usual credit.
Brown sugar of a superior quality, do. do. second do. Green coffee in bags and barrels, Salt loose and in sacks, Molasses and Treacle, Pickled & Smoked Salmon, Scotch and Pearl Barley, Madeira, Port, Sherry & Malaga Wines, Fresh Muscateat Raisins, and Currants, Copperas, Allum, Brimstone and Madder in small kegs, Salt Petre, English Gunpowder, Patent Shot, Hibern's Porter & Brown Stout, Segars in small boxes, of a superior quality, Bar Iron, Blistered and Craley Steel, Soft shell Almonds, Holland Gin in pipes, Pepper, Pimento, Race Ginger, nutmegs, mace, Cloves and Cinnamon, Fresh London Mustard in small boxes, Best Stant Indigo and fig Blue of a superior quality in small boxes of twenty pounds each, Fresh Camers & Quercus, A few small Boxes of Old Hyson of a superior quality, Fresh Gunpowder Tea in canisters, do. by the lb. Small boxes of Imperial & Young Hyson do. Complete Sets of Tea and Table China, China Cups and Saucers by the set, New-York Soap & Candles, Bullock's Cheese, A constant supply of Loaf Sugar by the Hoghead or Barrel at the Philadelphia prices. October 3. eplm.
MARSHAL'S SALES.
TO BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, under a decree of the Court of the U. States for the Fifth Circuit in the Virginia District, between Phineas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plaintiff, and David Ross and others, defendants, in order to raise the sum of twelve thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars thirty-three cents, due and payable on the first day of July last, and fundy charges and expenses of sale—That valuable and well known estate in the county of Botetourt, called FORT LEWIS, situated by the said Ross to contain 2608 acres. The sale will take place on the premises on the 14th day of November next.
Also, under the same decree and on the same terms, will be sold at the Oxford Iron Works, in the county of Campbell, on the 18th of the same month, a number of VALUABLE SLAVES. BENJAMIN MOSBY, D. M. for JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. Ocr. 7, 1806. tds
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of Samuel Scherer dec'd. are requested to bring them forward, properly authenticated before the 1st of November, at which time the administration of the subscriber will be closed, and if application shall not be made by the time above specified, this notice will be considered as a release from the payment of such claims.
Those indebted must see the necessity of making immediate payment, as no further indulgence can be given. GEORGE SCHERER, Adm'r. October 7. (4w.)
MUS'IC.
As I mean to recover and preserve my health, I have relinquished my Day-School altogether, intending to turn my attention entirely to MUS'IC, and purposing, as soon as ten pupils shall offer for each School, to teach Vocal Mus'ic, at my room, two mornings, from nine till twelve, and one evening, from six till nine, in every week. I say two mornings, because the lectures then to be given are intended chiefly for children, and one in a week can hardly be expected to produce the progress which is necessary to support & immitate young minds in an arduous undertaking. I likewise purpuse to tune Pianos, &c. both in town and country, either by the year or single time; also to copy and arrange mus'ic, and all on the most moderate terms.
CHARLES SOUTHGATE.
Sept. 30. 4copp.
FOR SALE.
THE LOT AND HOUSES whereon John Hamilton, Esq. the British Consul, resides: on it are a three story Dwelling-House, an Office and Kitchen, and other necessary Houses for family use; a Well of good Water, newly fitted, and a Garden lately paid in, a Ware-House and Cellar under it; the remains of a Wharf, which will make a good foundation to build on; with all the privileges of lot situated on the river, of extending a wharf.
Also—271 1/2 Acres of well timbered LAND, with a good Fishery on Willoughby's Bay, taking in the mouth and part of Mason's Creek, where the best of Oysters and Fish can be conveniently taken.
Also—A LOT in Smithfield, between Mrs. Purdie's and Captain Todd's lots.—For terms apply to THOMAS NEWTON. August 22. (4w.)
MR. ZACHARIAS TALIAFERRO,
SIR, PLEASE to take notice, that I shall, on the 10th day of November next, at the Tavern of Archibald Branch, at Buckingham Court-House; and on the 25th day of November next, at the Tavern of David Tryal, in the Town of Warminger, Amherst County, Virginia—proceed to take the depositions of sundry persons, to be used as evidence in a suit now depending and undetermined in the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond district, wherein you are plaintiff, and myself and others, are defendants. WILLIS WILLIS. September 19. 4w.
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, Rose Blankets from 6-4 to 12-4, Duffel Blankets, Flannels, Coatings, and Cottons, London best Superfine Cloths, Spanish wool, Kaspelmans single and double milled, Gentlemen's beaver and patent felt Hats, Ladies Fashionable Beaver, Keffi, trimmed, Molins and Silk Quiltings, Molins, Swoansdown, and Toilets, for Figs, Chambery Silks and Muslins, new patterns, Ladies cotton, silk and wool Hosiery, Gentlemen's cotton, silk and Angola do. fine wool frocks and drawers, Ladies Spanish Morocco Boots and Lift Shoes, elegant Muffs and Tippets, Fox Brush and Oblongary Tippets, Brussels and Kidderminster Carpets, Great Coats, Umbrellas, Gloves, Demisies & Muffins, Calfskin and Cambricks, Salt in Sacks, &c. &c. The Balance of their Goods, per the Laura, are expected daily, and which will be sold on very moderate terms. Sept. 23. 15th N.
NOTICE.
THE Co-partnership of GILLIAT & KIRBY by its limitation, would expire on the first day of next month; but the members of that firm have mutually agreed to extend it to the first day of May next.—All persons indebted thereto are earnestly requested to come forward without delay and pay off what they respectively owe, as longer indulgence ought not to be expected. Those who have unsettled accounts and cannot make immediate payment, it is hoped will execute bonds for their respective balances. GILLIAT & KIRBY have already received a part of their FALL GOODS, and by the first arrivals from London, Liverpool, &c. the residue is expected, which they will sell low for cash—Country produce on approved notes. August 19. eplm.
GILLIAT & KIRBY.
A GREAT Bargain offered in 785 acres of LAND, lying in King & Queen county, one & an half miles from York River, and bounded by Popotank Creek, the Lands of captain William Shackelford and Zachariah Shackelford. This land is level, fertile and well timbered, with tolerable good buildings and excellent Water—The abundance of fish and oysters at the very spot, may also be mentioned as a great inducement to any person wishing to purchase. This Land may be had low for cash, or on good bonds at floor payment. For further particulars apply to John H. Smith, or to the subscriber JOHN TEMPLE. Walkerton, September 26. tf.
FIRST CONSUL OF PHILADELPHIA.
NOW in training for the last time, will run any Horse, Mare or Gelding in the United States for Five Hundred Guineas a side p. over the Washington City course, the week preceding the Jockey Club Races this fall, four miles and repeat, carrying 9 stone each. Application to be made to either the editor of the Philadelphia Gazette, or Baltimore Telegraph, within 15 days from the date. The Norfolk Ledger, Richmond Enquirer, and Washington Federalist will please insert the above five times, and send their bills for the same, to the Office of this Gazette. Sept. 18. St.
PICKLING VINEGAR.
OF superior quality, made from two years old cider—For sale by WILLIAM HART, Opposite the State House.
ALSO.
SALT, loose and in sacks, 50 Barrels cut HERRINGS, Brown SUGAR in barrels and by retail, COFFEE, TEA and other Groceries, Philadelphia bottled PORTER, Do. Draft BEER. September 19. eplf.
HANOVER JOCKEY CLUB.
THE Hanover Jockey Club having been organized, the races will commence at this place, on the 2nd. Wednesday in October next. 1st. Day—5 mile heats, free for any horse, mare, or gelding. 2nd. Day—2 mile heats, confined to untried colts, not exceeding 4 years of age. The regulations with respect to weights, &c. are adopted from those of the Fairfield Jockey Club. A general meeting of the Club, is requested on the day preceding the first day's race. SKELTON JONES, Secretary to the Club. Hanover C.H. August 12. (940.)
N. B. The day fixed upon as the commencement of the Races at Hanover Court-House, interfering with the Fairfield Races, those at the Court-House, will not take place until the 2nd Wednesday in October next. A General meeting of the Club is requested at next Hanover Court, instead of the day above advertised.
CHARLOTTEVILLE RACES.
ON Monday the 13th day of OCTOBER next, will be run for over the Charlotteville course, a Sweepstakes purse for colts two mile heats, eleven colts entered at one hundred dollars each. ALEX. GARRETT, Proprietor of the course, im. September 16.
TO BE RENTED.
THE HOUSE at present occupied by Doctor James McClurg; possession will be given on the 2nd day of October next. And The house lately occupied by Mr. Moses Bates, possession to be given immediately. Each of these houses, are convenient to the capitol, and will suit a genteel family. For terms, apply to Samuel Greenhow. WM. LANGBORN, Executor of Wm. Dandridge, dec'd. (eplf.) September 19.
FOR SALE—on the lowest terms:
2500 Sacks of LIVERPOOL SALT, and 90 crates of LIVERPOOL EARTHEN WARE of superior quality & well assorted, just arrived in the ship Merchant, Captain JOHNSON, from Liverpool, at Bermuda Hundred— May 23. OVERTON ANDERSON. tf.
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 on or before the first day of September next. Resolved, That proportions be received from any persons inclined to undertake the work on the Turnpike until the first day of October next, and that the same be filed in writing with the clerk of the Company by the persons making such propositions. An extract from the minutes. N. SHEPPARD Clerk.