The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-11-17 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 6.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1809.
[No. 55.]
ATIMELY REQUEST. SUBSCRIBERS to the ENQUIRER, in this State, and those who are indebted to this office, for printing, &c. are informed, that the Editor expects to receive his respective demands by the hands of their Delegates to the ensuing Legislature—who are requested to oblige him in this respect. November 7. w3w
ROBERT GREENHOW, MERCHANT, in Williamsburg, will dispose of the valuable and most eligible situated TENEMENT , on which he now resides, in this city, at a credit of one, two, three & four years; bonds with approved security, to be given by the purchaser, bearing interest from their dates, until paid: Or he will receive in exchange improved or unimproved LOTS , in and about the city of Richmond, at an agreed on price. All the advantages attached to this property, cannot well be described in an advertisement:—They are left to be judged of by those inclined to treat with him—suffice it, however, to say, that the dwelling-house is roomy and spacious, that it has every convenient out house, necessary for those moving in the genteelset sphere; with a newly erected store, for mercantile purposes; that it is situated on the south side of the main-street, in the centre of the city; distant from the court-house, market and church, 4 or 500 yards, that its front is open on the right and left, to two spacious public squares, at once adding to the prospect, and giving free circulation to the air: That the whole tenement is in a complete and perfect state of repair; and that the buildings stand insured against fire, by the Mutual Insurance Company, in Richmond: The premiums, quotas, &c. all duly settled up to the 1st of April last. To add to the convenience of such as may be inclined to possess this property, an acre of ground laid down in Clover, about 200 yards from his house, also, on the main-street, and a tract of Land, containing between 90 and 100 acres, covered with oak, hickory and pine, 3 1/2 miles from the town, yielding an inexhaustible supply of fuel, will be attached. If he is successful in the disposition by sale, or exchange of this property, he will sell eight other Tenements, on the same terms; all of which are most eligibly situated, in different parts of the city, on the main-street; and except one, which has just undergone a thorough repair, all tenanted out to respectable tenants, punctual in their stipulated payment of rents; and which (he will convince those, inclined to purchase,) do annually yield a revenue, on the price he has affixed on them, of fully 8 per cent. free from all deductions, for the repair of natural decay. These tenements are all in good order; & what operates greatly in their favor, they are scarcely ever untenanted. Three of them are also insured, and all demandable premiums and quotas fully paid. My brother, Mr. George Greenhow, residing in Richmond, will, it is applied to, give a more accurate description of the above-mentioned property, and negotiate with such as may feel disposed to treat for their purchase. Williamsburg, November 3. 4w
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. ON the 27th inst. will be sold, at Public Auction, at Shirley, in the county of Charles City, all the Household and Kitchen FURNITURE , belonging to the estate of the late Chas. Carter; consisting of a variety of articles. The terms of sale will be, cash for all sums under fifty dollars, and bonds with approved security, payable in twelve months, for that sum or upwards, to bear interest from the date if not punctually paid. WILLIAMS CARTER, Execr. of ROBERT CARTER, Deceased. November 17. tds
FASHIONABLE BOOT & SHOE-MAKERS. THE Subscribers next door above Messrs. Prosser and Moncure's Vendue-Office, just from Philadelphia—have commenced the manufacture of Boots and Shoes , of the most fashionable shapes , ready and faithfully made out of the best materials , selected with much care and attention in Philadelphia—Those who may favor them with their custom may rely upon being neatly fitted , and promptly attended to. Orders from the Country shall be duly executed and are respectfully solicited. And they trust that by their assiduity and attention they will merit a share of patronage in the line of their profession. CAMPBELL & PAUL. Two Apprentices from 12 to 15 years of age, wanted. November 14. 2m
ON the first inst. I put into the Office of the Enquirer an advertisement requesting the author of an anonymous letter directed to Mr. Archd. McCall, which particularly concerned me, to make himself known to Mr. McCall; as the said publication has displeased Mr. McCall, in consequence of my using his name, which I thought there would be no impropriety in doing, & wishing to do away any imputation that might rest on him in consequence thereof, I demand the author to come forward and make himself known to me, or suffer himself to be considered in that contemptuous light that such a william merits. THOMAS P. VIAL. November 14. 2m
MRS. WIATT, has taken the house lately occupied by Mr. Enoch Sullivan, nearly opposite the Eagle-Tavern, where she intends keeping a BOARDING-HOUSE . Her price for Board is 50 1/2 per annum. Families travelling will be gladly received, and every attention paid them, at the usual tavern rates. November 14. 2m
NOTICE. —The subscriber being extremely desirous of settling his affairs, in this place, particularly, as relates to paying his creditors—Offers for sale, until the 24th December next, privately, or if not so sold, before that day, will then sell, at public auction, on the premises, all his HOUSES and LOTS , on Carey Street. Or he will barter said Property, for Lands in the Western country, by a small proportion of the value of said property being paid in cash. And on said day and place, will sell all his Household and Kitchen FURNITURE , &c. Should any person incline to treat for said property before the said day of sale, by application to the subscriber, they will be shown the premises. JAMES HURTT. November 14. tds
THE SUBSCRIBER, Having taken the whole of the large brick Building, belonging to the estate of the late Mr. Wm. Price, on the street leading from the Capitol, will be prepared to accommodate from fifteen to twenty of the Members of the next Assembly. JUDITH NELSON. October 1. tds
NEW STORE. THE Subscriber is now opening opposite the Globe-Tavern, a general assortment of Piece and Fancy Goods, amongst which are Superfine and Common Broad Cloths, Do. do. Casemeres, Do. do. Coatings, Flannels, Fancy Vesting, Red and Black Bombazets, Worsted, Cotton and Silk Hosiery, Ginghams, Cotton Shirting, Irish Linen and Dowlass, Fine and Common Printed Calicoes, Velvets Cords, Umbrellas, Threads, Sewing Silks, Extra long White and Colored Kid Gloves, White and Colored Habit, do. Cambric Muslins, Plain and Leaded Mull do. Spider Nett, & Fancy Craps, do. Knotted & Sprig Leno do. Diagonal and Veined do. do. Elegant Worked Dresses, Ditto Silk Shawls and Handkerchiefs, Black plain and plain Colored Lustre, Plain Silk and Fancy Cut Velvets, White Satin and Crapes. JOHN WOOD. November 14. tf
NOTICE. —A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly of Virginia, praying the sale of a Lot and Houses, on Shockoe-Hill, in the city of Richmond, late the property of Wm. Giles, dec'd. November 10. tf
FOUND! A sum of money—The owner may have it by giving satisfactory evidence of his right, and paying the cost of advertising. Apply at this Office. November 7. tf
A CARD. —DOCTOR LEWIS, lately from the West-Indies, has opened his Office, at Manchester, in the house of Mr. L. Bishop, for the practice of Physic, Surgery, and Midwifery . He hopes from his success and experience, to merit the patronage of a liberal public. N. B. Private Families may be supplied with Medicines, with suitable directions. Advice for the poor, gratis. September 26. tf
WILL be sold, on a credit of six months for all sums above $10, (that sum and under cash,) the purchaser giving bond with approved security—a very large stock of Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs, and plantation Utensils of every description, belonging to the estate of Philip L. Gwynes, dec'd. The above property will be sold in the following order, viz. On Friday the 10th of Nov. next will be sold at the plantation in Middlesex called the Old House , all the Stock and Utensils belonging to that place, Deer-Chase and the Mill Quarter. On Monday the 13th of said Month will be sold at the plantation in Gloucester called the Dragon Quarter , all the Stock and Utensils belonging to that place. On Wednesday the 15th of said Month will be sold at the plantation in Middlesex called Pine Top , all the Stock and Utensils belonging to that place, and On Friday the 17th of said Month will be sold at the Mansion House of said Gwynes called Brandon , all the Stock and Utensils belonging to that place, where the sale will continue from day to day till all are sold. All persons having claims against said Estate, are requested to make them known, and those indebted to make payment, as the situation of the Estate will not admit of indulgence. All legal creditors are requested to purchase at the Sale, the amount of any part of their respective claims. If any of the above sale-days should prove rainy, the sale will take place the next fair day. The Sale of the Negroes belonging to the said Estate, (it is expected) will take place early in January next, of which the Public will be informed in due time. ROBERT WEST, Administrator, &c. of PHILIP L. GWYNES, Dec'd. Woodville, Gloucester County, November 3, 1809. tf
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY. THE Annual Meeting of Stockholders, will be held at Brooks's Tavern, in Manchester, on the first Monday in December next. Such members as cannot attend in person, will, it is expected, appoint their proxies. The undersigned requires to be furnished, so soon as possible, with the necessary evidence of shares sold and purchased, since the last meeting, in order that transfers may be made on the company books and shares duly represented. JAMES BRANDER, C.P. November 7. tm
LOUDOUN LAND FOR SALE. FOR SALE, on Thursday, the 21st of Dec. next, on the premises, the TRACT OF LAND , on which the late Judge Jones resided, in Loudoun county, with about 25 SLAVES, and the stock of Horses, Cattle and Hogs, on the estate. The tract contains nearly two thousand acres, & possesses many advantages which entitle it to the attention of those who may wish to reside in that highly improved part of our country. Two merchant mills are in the neighborhood, one on the adjoining estate, and the other within two miles. It is 35 miles from Alexandria, and forty from George-Town. The new Turnpike from Alexandria, crosses a corner of the land, and terminates at the nearest merchant mill. The tract is remarkably well watered, Little river passing through the middle of it, and many small streams on each side, emptying into that river. About 50 or 60 acres are already well set with timber, & at least 300 are capable of being made excellent meadow. It will be divided into tracts of different dimensions, to suit the convenience of purchasers. A credit of one, two and three years will be allowed; bonds with approved security and a deed of trust on the land, will be required. The Negroes are supposed to be very valuable, some of them being good house servants, and the others principally young men and women. For them the same term of credit will be allowed. JAMES MONROE, Executor of the late JOSEPH JONES, the Elder. Albemarle, Oct. 27. 15m
COLUMBIAN MILLS. —The subscribers having purchased the Columbian Mills, beg leave to inform the public they are giving cash for Wheat and Corn. P. MAXHALL & Co. September 5. tf
HAVE REMOVED TO RICHMOND. BENJ. BOTTS. October 31. tf
WANTED to purchase or hire, a good house SERVANT—Apply at the Enquirer Office. October 31. tf
DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, TO WIT: BE it remembered, that on the third day of October in the thirty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, John Robinson of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "A collection of the most useful and approved forms of process, judgements and orders used in the County Courts and late District Courts of law in Virginia, also of bonds usually taken in the said Courts, and executions on judgements thereof, records on appeals, and writs of supersedeas, of proceedings on the arraignment of criminals, and of the entries used on the trials thereof. To which are added various forms of Indictments, &c. in criminal cases. Declarations; & some of the most useful sorts of conveyances; and an index to the whole. By John Robinson, clerk of the Superior Court of Law for Henrico County, and late clerk of the District Court of law, formerly held in the City of Richmond." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and also to an act entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned. And extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." WILLIAM MARSHALL, Clerk of the District of Virginia. The above mentioned Book may be had on application to the Subscriber, at his Office in the Capitol in Richmond. J. ROBINSON. October 27. tf
CHARLES FREMON Respectfully informs the public, that he has opened a Night School, for the French Language, at Mr. Daronx's next door below the Globe Tavern, where he will attend three nights every week, Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday, from 6 in the evening to 9. He will also attend, those families, who wish to have their Children privately instructed in that branch of education, in their respective houses. His terms will be made known by applying at his lodgings, at Mr. Daronx's. October 24. tm
LAND FOR SALE. —The subscriber offers for sale that valuable estate on which he formerly resided, lying on James River, near the Town of Warminster, in the County of Nelson, lately Amherst. This tract contains nearly two thousand acres—The low grounds are of the most valuable kind, and the highlands immediately adjacent thereto are very fertile and uncommonly level—It might be divided into two plantations to advantage, or continued in one, as might suit the owner. The houses are new and amply sufficient for the comfortable accommodation of a family—A more minute description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed the purchaser will view and judge for himself. The subscriber will only observe that the place is very healthy, lies in a fine neighborhood, and commands, perhaps, as many advantages as any other situation that is offered for sale in the state. One fourth of the purchase money will be required on the first of January, when possession will be given; and the balance will be divided into nine equal annual installments, without any charge of interest if the principal be punctually paid—A large crop of small grain will be sown in good order, and the purchaser may be accommodated with corn &c. sufficient for a year's supply. Letters directed to Buckingham Court-House, or to Warminster, would be soon received and attended to. In my absence, my brother Mr. Joseph C. Cabell will show the land to any person desirous to purchase. WM. H. CABELL. September 1. tf
THE Subscriber being licensed to practice the Law, will attend the Superior and Inferior Courts for Henrico, and the Hustings Court of Richmond—Persons trusting business to his management may rely on his best efforts for their interest. His Office is in the upper story of the Market House in Richmond. N. SHEPPARD. October 24. tm
THE subscribers offer for sale, a very general assortment of GROCERIES , which they will dispose of on moderate terms, for cash, country produce, or approved paper. Also, 62 Kegs F and FF Brandy Wine Gun-Powder. WHITE & SHELTON. October 10. tf
IN COUNCIL , October 24th, 1809. PROPOSALS will be received, by the Executive, until the 14th day of next month, for furnishing the following TIMBER , viz: 140 pieces of White Oak Plank, 8 feet long, 14 inches wide, 3 inches thick. 420 do. do. 20 inches long, 12 by 3. 140 do. do. 3 feet long, 4 by 2. 140 do. do. 8 feet long, 9 by 3. 70 do. do. 4 do. 9 by 5. 140 Axle Trees, 7 feet long, 7 by 6 of Hickory. 3360 White Oak Spokes, 2 feet 6 inches long, 4 by 3. 1680 Willow Oak Felloes, 2 feet 4 inches long, 4 by 3. 280 Black-Gum Naves, 14 inches long, 12 by 12. 140 Pieces of Hickory, 6 feet long, 4 by 3. 210 Pieces of Ash, 7 feet long, 2 by 3. Seasoned timber will be preferred. DANIEL L. HYLTON, Clerk of the Council. October 31. 6
ON the 21st day of December next, if fair, if not the next fair day, will be sold, at the dwelling-house of the late George Garner, in the county of Westmoreland, about sixteen likely NEGROES, and the present year's crop of corn, &c. which property will be sold pursuant to a deed of trust, made by George Garner for the purpose of securing the payment of his debts. The sale will be on a credit of twelve months, the purchasers giving bond with approved security. If the negroes and crops do not sell for a sufficient sum to pay the debts of the said Garner, the subscribers will, on the day after the sale of the negroes and crops, sell all or so much of the land conveyed in trust for the above purpose, as will make a sum sufficient for the payment of the debts of the said George Garner. All such creditors as may exhibit their claims to the subscribers before the said 21st of December next, property authenticated, and which the subscribers may consider legal and just, may purchase at the said sale, and shall be allowed a discount of their claims, against their purchase. THOS. STOWERS, } Trustees JAMES COX, } Westmoreland County, October 24. tf
THE only material subject of uneasiness remaining, is then the silence of Mr. Binder, which is so much the more painful, as, even supposing that your excellency thought proper to see me, the accounts with regard to the road to be taken, vary as much as the news respecting the pretended great battle. Therefore beg your excellency to write to me, or to cause a few words to be written to me in order to inform me in the first place of your intentions, and in case of these being to see me at Wolkersdorf, to point out to me (at least in general) the road which I must choose in order to get there. I shall wait for the answer to this letter with an impatience which your excellency may easily conceive; for I am completely lost and isolated, and I am a prey to all that ignorance and stupidity can devise for torturing my mind. I hope from your excellency's goodness, I request as a particular favor, that you will send your answer by an estafette, in order that this isolated interval may not last above two days. I remain with every sentiment of the attachment and respect of which your excellency knows me capable, Monsieur le Compte, Your most obedient and most faithful servant, (Signed) GENTZ. (Journal de l'Empire.)
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 3. It is reported that orders has been given to the American ships to quit our ports and that in future no more will be admitted into them. Those who are still in the Texel are the Enterprise, captain Tripp, of New York; the Suffolk, captain A. Thompson, of New York; the Hannah, captain Buckwell, of Peters-
burg in Virginia, and the Elizabeth, captain Russel, of Nantucket. (Journal de l'Empire.)
Europe.
CONTINUATION OF FOREIGN ADVICES, FROM LONDON PAPERS.
Sept. 17. Lord Collingwood, w- learn by letters from his fleet, is coming home soon. We regret to add, he is at present in an ill state of health. He has been out more than five years, without once setting foot on shore. His lordship has accumulated an immense fortune—we believe upwards of £ 200,000 in prize money. Sir J. T. Duckworth is named as his successor.
PARIS, Aug. 1. An imperial decision orders the immediate revocation of the measures of retaliation lately adopted against the Algerines, the day of that regency having given every satisfaction with regard to Mr. Dubois Thainville and the French who are in his states. In consequence the sequestration put on the vessels and property of the dey is taken off. (Gazette de France.) Notice is hereby given, that the U. States having been pleased to appoint D. B. Warden, Esq. their consul, and agent for prize causes, at Paris, it is only through this agent, that the intervention of the said states with the French authorities can be extended to said causes.
Aug. 19. Different letters received from Constantinople by the way of Dalmatia, and of the date of the 27th May last, mention that the news of the battle of Ratisbon and of the capture of Vienna, had spread with the greatest rapidity throughout Turkey, and had produced a great deal of sensation. The Divan, who before that event, appeared disposed to grant permission to the English to pass the Dardanelles, in order to facilitate to them the means of setting on fire the Russian ports in the Black Sea, have refused them this permission, and they now appear to be drawing towards the charge of affairs of France. From every circumstance we are led to believe, that the latter power has again acquired its former influence.
VIENNA, July 15. The following letter from Gentz to count Stadion, minister for foreign affairs, which was intercepted, has just been published: TYRNAU, July 7, 1809. (BY AN ESTAFETTE.) MONSIEUR LE COMTE.
When I delivered to Mr. Binder the letter by which I announced to your excellency the project of repairing hither, I begged of him, and he positively and solemnly promised me that I should find at Tyrnavu information which would guide me in my future steps. I also believe that Mr. de Binder must have written to me; but God knows what malignant spirit has prevented his letter reaching me. In place of authentic information, I have heard here only a great many vague accounts, every one more alarming than the other, so much so, that if I had believed the people of Tyrnavu, I must have immediately returned back. I have not done this; but although deprived of every kind of guide (for nobody here has even the shadow of any idea of what is going forward,) upon simply comparing the different false versions, I have arrived at the persuasion that things had not essentially changed, and that this movement of the Archduke John, to which the most afflicting motives are assigned here, must have a relation to future projects, and not to events which are passed.
THE only material subject of uneasiness remaining, is then the silence of Mr. Binder, which is so much the more painful, as, even supposing that your excellency thought proper to see me, the accounts with regard to the road to be taken, vary as much as the news respecting the pretended great battle. Therefore beg your excellency to write to me, or to cause a few words to be written to me in order to inform me in the first place of your intentions, and in case of these being to see me at Wolkersdorf, to point out to me (at least in general) the road which I must choose in order to get there. I shall wait for the answer to this letter with an impatience which your excellency may easily conceive; for I am completely lost and isolated, and I am a prey to all that ignorance and stupidity can devise for torturing my mind. I hope from your excellency's goodness, I request as a particular favor, that you will send your answer by an estafette, in order that this isolated interval may not last above two days. I remain with every sentiment of the attachment and respect of which your excellency knows me capable, Monsieur le Compte, Your most obedient and most faithful servant, (Signed) GENTZ. (Journal de l'Empire.)
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 3. It is reported that orders has been given to the American ships to quit our ports and that in future no more will be admitted into them. Those who are still in the Texel are the Enterprise, captain Tripp, of New York; the Suffolk, captain A. Thompson, of New York; the Hannah, captain Buckwell, of Peters-
BRUSSELS, August 10. The prefect to the citizens under his administration: "Existing circumstances had hitherto allowed government to dispense with your performing the duty, common to all Frenchmen, of forming part of the national guards; at present that the neighboring territory is menaced, it would be a kind of shame to be without organization to repel the implacable enemy, who, in his mad presumption, dares venture to seek you. I am ignorant whether the courage of the inhabitants of the Dyle will receive permission to display itself; but I am the guarantee that you will be, if necessary, in zeal with the generous cohorts formed of the neighboring departments. They have all repaired with ardor to the field of victory. Why should they alone have this honor? Why should they alone attract the looks of the prince who dispenses glory? Shall we let slip this opportunity of meriting the esteem of the greatest of heroes, of the first of sovereigns? Hasten to form your battalions; be impatient to complete our first successes. You are Frenchmen; the object in view is glory, the aim before you is the English: let these two words awaken at once both your valor and your vengeance."
LA TOUR DU PIN. (Here follows an ordinance for the organization of the national guards.)
LONDON, September 16. —Deeply do we lament to find, that the report we noticed yesterday, of the arrival and reception of Mr. Jackson in America, is without foundation—not that we entertain much doubt of an accommodation being ultimately effected; for the restoration of commercial intercourse between the two countries, has become so essential to England, that perhaps even Mr. Canning himself, had he continued in office, might have seen the imperious necessity of renewing the commercial intercourse with America.—Statesman.
The intelligence from Persia, by the last India arrivals, is satisfactory. The French influence is said to have been broken by the address and perseverance of Sir Harford Jones. The English troops, which have been sent to the Persian gulf for the purpose of giving weight to the negotiations with the court of Ispahan, have been recalled.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
The chamber of commerce of Paris, has received from his excellency the minister of the interior ad interim , the flattering mission of announcing to the chamber of commerce, that the an ambassador of his majesty in Spain, has obtained the re-establishment of the transit, free of all duties, of cotton and other colonial produce sent from Portugal to France, and of cloths and other goods sent from France to Portugal. The duties which have been hitherto received at Vittoria will be returned. In virtue of official notes, this transit is regulated as follows: The transit of raw cotton and other colonial produce, sent from Portugal for France, shall come by the road of Badajoz, or by that of Tuy to Vittoria. The transit of cloths and other French goods, which may be sent to Portugal, shall take place by the way of Badajoz to Vittoria; that of Tuy is not included.
The merchants and the conductors of these goods, the transit of which is authorized, are bound to fulfil the formalities prescribed by the royal order of the 18th November, 1807, and which are conformable to the following: 1. The custom houses of Badajoz and of Tuy, remain alone authorized for the introduction, and that of Vittoria for the dispatching of the goods, submitting them, however, to a visit to be made, comparatively with the declaratory notes presented by the parties interested. 2. After the first verification, the goods shall be loaded in the cases or bales which contain them. 3. A manifest shall afterwards be delivered, specifying the contents, the number of the cases or bales, and the marks and weights. At the end of the manifest, shall be the precise obligation on the part of the conductors, to present within a reasonable time, thus pointed out, a counter note of the director of the custom-house of Vittoria, proving that the dispatching has been verified, and that the manifest has been found conformable to the goods, under the penalty for the owners, of being subjected to the duties due to the royal crown of Spain. 4. The owners are also bound to prove by a certificate from the Spanish consul residing in that part of France, for which the goods are intended, the place of their ultimate destination. 5. Moreover, this permission is only to continue during the war with England. A true copy: DUPONT (de Nemours,) vice-president, BARTHELEMY, secretary. Journal du Commerce.
LONDON, September 18. —A gunpowder exploded accidentally at Vienna, on the 4th ult. by which 60 persons lost their lives. Bonaparte's birth day was celebrated at Vienna, with the greatest pomp. The citizens were paraded in the morning and were entertained in the evening by fire works set off on the glacés. The whole city was illuminated, and the theatres exhibited gratuitously. All the civil and military authorities attended Te Deum at St. Stephen's and nearly 300 pieces of cannon were fired throughout the day.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 25. —Reports have been in circulation during the week, of a minister having been sent by the American government to France, with proposals for a treaty between the two countries. The French government, it was said, being unable to come to any agreement with Mr. Armstrong, had referred the points in dispute to their resident in America. The power-

sent to that minister having arrived at the moment when the American government was under the first irritation of disappointment in having just learned the non ratification of Mr. Erskine's arrangement, he had seized that favorable opportunity of pressing his proposals. The reports are believed, by many, to be well founded, but the ministerial papers think them destitute of probability. They say, that a notification was made to the American executive at the time Mr. Erskine's arrangement was rejected, that a minister would be immediately dispatched from this country who, it was hoped, would be able to adjust the differences between the two nations. It is not, therefore, at all probable, that the American government would refuse to await the arrival of our minister, and that it would so suddenly adopt a policy hostile to every idea of an accommodation with Great Britain.
From Bell's (London) Weekly Messenger.
There is every reason to believe, that peace has either actually been signed between Austria and France, or that all the articles have been so far proceeded upon, that nothing remains but to arrange some minor points, which are consequential upon the changes mediated. Nothing is, in fact, so absurd as the speculations of some of the daily papers upon the apparent delay of this definitive treaty, as if half or nearly three parts of the Austrian monarchy could be ceded, and what remains take a new form in a day or a week. The main points, we may rest assured, are agreed upon, or Bonaparte would not have hung off, when every thing is in his power; nor would the Austrians have executed the articles of the armistice, and have evacuated Gratz, if they were meditating the renewal of hostilities. So far, therefore, may be depended upon—that in the course of a very short time we shall receive the definitive treaty, and that its effect will be to render Austria one of the secondary powers of Europe. The Emperor may yet be allowed to wear the shadow of a crown; but if Bonaparte lives, Europe will be filled with his family of Kings. The war, under the auspices of England, assumed a character which Bonaparte will not easily forget or forgive; it was rendered personal to himself; the cause of legitimate kings, as they were called, against an usurper. The Emperor of Austria will now have reason to rue this folly; Bonaparte has hence adopted it as a maxim, that his best security is to have no Kings on the continent, but those of his own creation. Jerome, Joseph, the duke of this and the duke of that, are not made Kings merely upon their own account; they are part of the system of Bonaparte, according to which he is about to hedge and encircle France by feudalities of his own family. In this manner all Europe is cemented into one system, and every Prince has an interest to defend him, who in turn supports them all.
General Rewbell is the son of Rewbell, one of the five Directors. The father being hostile to Bonaparte's plans of ambition, the latter of course marked him out as an object of hatred, which was also extended to his son. The General was sent to the West Indies, in his military capacity, by Bonaparte probably in the hope that he would fall a sacrifice to the climate. While the General was in the West Indies, he formed an intimacy of a most confidential nature with Jerome Bonaparte; and when the latter was made King of Westphalia, he took General Rewbell into his service, and appointed him Governor of Cassel, very much to the displeasure of Bonaparte. General Rewbell received orders to intercept the Duke of Brunswick Oels, and he was informed in the order in distinct terms, that his head should be answerable for his success.
The Duke, however, succeeded in effecting his escape, and Rewbell was too conscious of the danger of his own situation, to think of remaining any longer within the reach of Bonaparte's power; he accordingly set out from Cassel for Bremen. He traveled in his full uniform as General, and with his usual suite, having made out his own passports. The night after he left Cassel, some gens d'armes arrived there to arrest him. At Bremen, he embarked on board a neutral vessel, and arrived about three weeks ago at Gravesend, where he still remains, not having received, as has been stated, permission to come to London. His wife is at Helsingland and is daily expected in this country; and upon her arrival, it is supposed, that the General will set off for America. Madame Rewbell is a native of America, and the daughter of a man of considerable property there (Mr. Paco).
EAST INDIES.
We are sorry to learn by the following letter, brought by the vessel which has just arrived from Madras, that the disputes between the civil and military authorities at that presidency were not, on the 13th May, terminated by the removal of Gen. M'Dowall, and the suspension of Major Boles (which happened so long ago as the 31st of January) but that the dismissal of officers still continued.
"MADRAS, May 13, 1809.—The present dispatch occasioned by some serious discontent which, of late, has been manifested by the officers of the coast army, and which has led to the suspensions of five of high rank and respectability, and of various removals from commands and appointments. I dare not venture to express my apprehensions of the result of these important proceedings, which have excited the greatest agitation in this settlement." By the India government Gazette of May the 4th, it appears that the most violent disputes existed between the Council and the army. Several officers, some of them of considerable rank, are charged with preparing a seditious paper, "purporting to be a remonstrance in the name of the army against the acts of government under which it serves," and "calculated to destroy every foundation of discipline, obedience and fidelity." Other officers are accused of circulating inflammatory papers, censuring the suspension of Major Boles, the late Deputy Adjutant General; and all these proceedings are attributed to the examples set by the violent and intemperate acts of the late commander in chief. A considerable number of officers have been rebuked or suspended in consequence, and among others, Lieutenant Colonels Robert Bell and J. M. Chambers, have been removed from their commands; Lieutenant Colonel John Cuppage, and Captain J. M. Coombes, separated from the staff; and Lieutenant Colonel the Honorable Arthur St. Leger, Major John De Morgan, captain Josiah Marshall, and Capt.
James Grant, ordered to hold themselves in readiness to return to England. In short, from whatever cause these divisions may have arisen, whether from the commander in chief having claimed, like his predecessors, a seat in the government, whether from usurpation attempted on the part of the army, or refusal of right on the part of the council, they appear to be of a most extensive and serious nature. Distance alone renders the tenure of our East India possessions a precarious one, but at such a time as the present, when the genius of our enemy is lurking about them, ready to take advantage of every incidental weakness, we ought to render ourselves more invulnerable than Achilles himself, and not leave even a heel exposed. Yet, alas! the nation is at this minute distracted in the head and sick at heart, and the very heads which should be its safeguard are employed in madly smiting each other.
Another account states, that when the Virginia sloop, which brought these dispatches, left Madras, the dissatisfaction that had some time existed, caused by a circulation of a remonstrance against the act of government, in removing the late commander in chief, had subsided, that all was quiet, and that the officers, who had prepared and circulated this paper, were by a general order of the governor in Council, of the 6th May, to be sent home by the fleet which was hourly expected to sail for England. The names mentioned are those above stated, with the addition of Major Boles, namely, Col. St. L. ger, Majors Boles and De Morgan, and captains Grant and Marshall.
OLD BAILEY.
Yesterday James Hewitt, an old man nearly 60 years of age, was indicted for a misdemeanor in having, in the month of August last, contrary to an act passed in the reign of George II, seduced an artificer of this country to leave the kingdom. From the testimony of the witnesses examined, it appeared that the prisoner, alledgedly recently from America, is an Englishman, and had recently frequented a public house called the York Minster, immediately in the vicinity of the cotton manufactory of Messrs. Hughes & Lewis, Banhill row; to which the men employed in the service of Messieurs Hughes & Lewis resorted; and amongst others a man named Hutchinson, who had formerly been apprenticed from the Parish of St. Martin's, to a cotton manufactory, near Manchester, where he remained till he arrived at the age of 21. He then came to London, and was employed in the service of Messrs. Hughes & Co. in the wool dying business, and was in fact returned a fair workman. This man the prisoner frequently met, and by glowing representations of the advantages and great wages he was likely to obtain by going to America, induced him to agree to emigrate, for the purpose of being employed in a cotton manufactory, at a place called Cooper's Town, within two miles of New York, [Philadelphia] and a short distance from the residence of the prisoner.
Messrs. Hughes & Lewis having heard of this negotiation, sent for the prisoner and remonstrated with him on the illegality of the steps he was pursuing, forewarning him at the same time that if he persisted in his delinquency, they would punish him with the rigor of the law. The prisoner then declared his ignorance of any criminality attaching to his conduct, and promised most faithfully that he would relinquish his intentions. In a few days, however, Mr. Hughes discovered that Hutchinson was making preparations for his departure, and that his passage had been actually taken on board an American ship. The prisoner was then apprehended, and on being brought before a magistrate, produced a receipt of $121 paid by him to the mate of an American ship, for Hutchinson's passage and also a promissory note of Hutchinson's for that sum, and for other monies before paid to him by the prisoner to be paid out of the produce of his labors in America. The prisoner's defence was—that Hutchinson came a second time to him, and said he had his master's permission to leave the country, & that from his solicitations he was induced to pay his passage out.
The Common Serjeant, who tried the case, in summoning up the evidence, dwelt with peculiar force on the mischievous tendency of the crime with which the prisoner stood charged, which, he said, was most materially connected with the manufacturing interests of this country; and was deservedly punished by law in a most exemplary manner; the legislature having decreed, that prisoners guilty of such an offence should be subject to 12 months imprisonment, and a penalty of 500l.
The Jury, without a moment's hesitation returned a verdict of—Guilty. Hutchinson, the artificer, seduced, was then tried under an act passed in the 5th of George the First, which enacts, That any artificer, particularly in the manufactures of cotton, wool, silk, mohair, &c. who should be convicted of, or detected in, preparing to leave the kingdom, for the purpose of devoting his knowledge for the benefit and advantage of foreign countries, not within the British dominions, should be bound to enter into a recognizance himself and two sureties for remaining in the country. The evidence on the former case was again gone through, & the prisoner was found—Guilty.
Translated for the Norfolk Herald.
MADRID, Sept. 8 H. M. (Jos) issued in July last, the following Decree: "All the inhabitants of cities and other towns of Spain who have sons in the armies of the insurgents, shall put in the army of his majesty as many men as they have men in the army of the insurgents, or pay into the public treasury a sum of money according to the means of each. Those who have more than 3000 ducats income (1650 dollars,) shall pay 12,000 reals, (600 dollars,) for each man they are required to put into the army. Those who have an income of 2000 ducats (1100 dols.) shall pay 6000 reals (300 dols.) and those whose income exceeds 1000 ducats (550 dols.) shall pay 3000 reals (150 dols.) All those who have less than 1000 ducats income shall be arrested & held as hostages or carried to France, where they shall be detained until their sons shall have deserted the insurgents and returned to their respective towns and submitted to the authorities. The elder brothers, relatives, and guardians of those who have no fathers, come within the purview of this decree, and are rendered answerable for their younger brothers or wards."
LATEST FROM HOLLAND.
Yesterday arrived here, the ship Gov. Strong, Capt. Lord, 30 days from Rotterdam. Capt. L. left there the 7th October, but brought no papers. The verbal intelligence
communicated by Capt. Lord, and which is corroborated by the letter, of which here is the bearer, states, that Bonaparte still remained in Vienna—that the armistice had been prolonged to the 15th of Nov.—that Russia was at a stand, apparently undecided what course to pursue; and that no prospect of a peace was entertained. That the American shipping had sailed from the ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, principally for Russia; that there had been no recent change in the maritime regulations of the Dutch Government, nor any relaxation of Bonaparte's Commercial Decrees. Capt. L. adds that he did not hear of Bonaparte's being insane or indisposed.
Capt. L. in his passage through the British channel did not meet with a single British cruiser. The U. S. schr. Experiment, was to have sailed from the Texel, on the 4th Oct.
Walcheren remained in possession of the English, when Captain Lord left Rotterdam.
Domestic.
COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT.
BOSTON Nov. 7.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 13.
ISLAND OF CUBA.
HAVANNA.
FROM HOLLAND.
FROM MARTINIQUE.
FROM NEW-PORT. FROM NEW-YORK. FROM WASHINGTON. FROM NASHVILLE. FROM NEW-PORT. FROM NEW-YORK. FROM WASHINGTON. FROM NASHVILLE. FROM NEW-PORT. FROM NEW-YORK. FROM WASHINGTON. FROM NASHVILLE. FROM NEW-PORT. FROM NEW-YORK. FROM WASHINGTON. FROM NASHVILLE. FROM NEW-PORT. FROM NEW-YORK. FROM WASHINGTON. FROM NASHVILLE. FROM NEW-PORT. FROM NEW-YORK. FROM WASHINGTON. FROM NASHVILLE. FROM NEW-PORT. FROM NEW-YORK. FROM WASHINGTON. FROM NASHVILLE. FROM NEW-PORT. FROM NEW-YORK. FROM WASHINGTON. FROM NASHVILLE. sent to that minister having arrived at the moment when the American government was under the first irritation of disappointment in having just learned the non ratification of Mr. Erskine's arrangement, he had seized that favorable opportunity of pressing his proposals. The reports are believed, by many, to be well founded, but the ministerial papers think them destitute of probability. They say, that a notification was made to the American executive at the time Mr. Erskine's arrangement was rejected, that a minister would be immediately dispatched from this country who, it was hoped, would be able to adjust the differences between the two nations. It is not, therefore, at all probable, that the American government would refuse to await the arrival of our minister, and that it would so suddenly adopt a policy hostile to every idea of an accommodation with Great Britain. Another account states, that when the Virginia sloop, which brought these dispatches, left Madras, the dissatisfaction that had some time existed, caused by a circulation of a remonstrance against the act of government, in removing the late commander in chief, had subsided, that all was quiet, and that the officers, who had prepared and circulated this paper, were by a general order of the governor in Council, of the 6th May, to be sent home by the fleet which was hourly expected to sail for England. The names mentioned are those above stated, with the addition of Major Boles, namely, Col. St. L. ger, Majors Boles and De Morgan, and captains Grant and Marshall. Yesterday James Hewitt, an old man nearly 60 years of age, was indicted for a misdemeanor in having, in the month of August last, contrary to an act passed in the reign of George II, seduced an artificer of this country to leave the kingdom. From the testimony of the witnesses examined, it appeared that the prisoner, alledgedly recently from America, is an Englishman, and had recently frequented a public house called the York Minster, immediately in the vicinity of the cotton manufactory of Messrs. Hughes & Lewis, Banhill row; to which the men employed in the service of Messieurs Hughes & Lewis resorted; and amongst others a man named Hutchinson, who had formerly been apprenticed from the Parish of St. Martin's, to a cotton manufactory, near Manchester, where he remained till he arrived at the age of 21. He then came to London, and was employed in the service of Messrs. Hughes & Co. in the wool dying business, and was in fact returned a fair workman. This man the prisoner frequently met, and by glowing representations of the advantages and great wages he was likely to obtain by going to America, induced him to agree to emigrate, for the purpose of being employed in a cotton manufactory, at a place called Cooper's Town, within two miles of New York, [Philadelphia] and a short distance from the residence of the prisoner. Messrs. Hughes & Lewis having heard of this negotiation, sent for the prisoner and remonstrated with him on the illegality of the steps he was pursuing, forewarning him at the same time that if he persisted in his delinquency, they would punish him with the rigor of the law. The prisoner then declared his ignorance of any criminality attaching to his conduct, and promised most faithfully that he would relinquish his intentions. In a few days, however, Mr. Hughes discovered that Hutchinson was making preparations for his departure, and that his passage had been actually taken on board an American ship. The prisoner was then apprehended, and on being brought before a magistrate, produced a receipt of $121 paid by him to the mate of an American ship, for Hutchinson's passage and also a promissory note of Hutchinson's for that sum, and for other monies before paid to him by the prisoner to be paid out of the produce of his labors in America. The prisoner's defence was—that Hutchinson came a second time to him, and said he had his master's permission to leave the country, & that from his solicitations he was induced to pay his passage out. The Common Serjeant, who tried the case, in summoning up the evidence, dwelt with peculiar force on the mischievous tendency of the crime with which the prisoner stood charged, which, he said, was most materially connected with the manufacturing interests of this country; and was deservedly punished by law in a most exemplary manner; the legislature having decreed, that prisoners guilty of such an offence should be subject to 12 months imprisonment, and a penalty of 500l. The Jury, without a moment's hesitation returned a verdict of—Guilty. Hutchinson, the artificer, seduced, was then tried under an act passed in the 5th of George the First, which enacts, That any artificer, particularly in the manufactures of cotton, wool, silk, mohair, &c. who should be convicted of, or detected in, preparing to leave the kingdom, for the purpose of devoting his knowledge for the benefit and advantage of foreign countries, not within the British dominions, should be bound to enter into a recognizance himself and two sureties for remaining in the country. The evidence on the former case was again gone through, & the prisoner was found—Guilty. Translated for the Norfolk Herald. MADRID, Sept. 8 H. M. (Jos) issued in July last, the following Decree: "All the inhabitants of cities and other towns of Spain who have sons in the armies of the insurgents, shall put in the army of his majesty as many men as they have men in the army of the insurgents, or pay into the public treasury a sum of money according to the means of each. Those who have more than 3000 ducats income (1650 dollars,) shall pay 12,000 reals, (600 dollars,) for each man they are required to put into the army. Those who have an income of 2000 ducats (1100 dols.) shall pay 6000 reals (300 dols.) and those whose income exceeds 1000 ducats (550 dols.) shall pay 3000 reals (150 dols.) All those who have less than 1000 ducats income shall be arrested & held as hostages or carried to France, where they shall be detained until their sons shall have deserted the insurgents and returned to their respective towns and submitted to the authorities. The elder brothers, relatives, and guardians of those who have no fathers, come within the purview of this decree, and are rendered answerable for their younger brothers or wards." LATEST FROM HOLLAND. Yesterday arrived here, the ship Gov. Strong, Capt. Lord, 30 days from Rotterdam. Capt. L. left there the 7th October, but brought no papers. The verbal intelligence Domestic. COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT. BOSTON Nov. 7. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10. BALTIMORE, Nov. 13. ISLAND OF CUBA. HAVANNA. FROM HOLLAND. FROM MARTINIQUE. FROM NEW-PORT. FROM NEW-YORK. FROM WASHINGTON. FROM NASHVILLE. sent to that minister having arrived at the moment when the American government was under the first irritation of disappointment in having just learned the non ratification of Mr. Erskine's arrangement, he had seized that favorable opportunity of pressing his proposals. The reports are believed, by many, to be well founded, but the ministerial papers think them destitute of probability. They say, that a notification was made to the American executive at the time Mr. Erskine's arrangement was rejected, that a minister would be immediately dispatched from this country who, it was hoped, would be able to adjust the differences between the two nations. It is not, therefore, at all probable, that the American government would refuse to await the arrival of our minister, and that it would so suddenly adopt a policy hostile to every idea of an accommodation with Great Britain. Another account states, that when the Virginia sloop, which brought these dispatches, left Madras, the dissatisfaction that had some time existed, caused by a circulation of a remonstrance against the act of government, in removing the late commander in chief, had subsided, that all was quiet, and that the officers, who had prepared and circulated this paper, were by a general order of the governor in Council, of the 6th May, to be sent home by the fleet which was hourly expected to sail for England. The names mentioned are those above stated, with the addition of Major Boles, namely, Col. St. L. ger, Majors Boles and De Morgan, and captains Grant and Marshall. Yesterday James Hewitt, an old man nearly 60 years of age, was indicted for a misdemeanor in having, in the month of August last, contrary to an act passed in the reign of George II, seduced an artificer of this country to leave the kingdom. From the testimony of the witnesses examined, it appeared that the prisoner, alledgedly recently from America, is an Englishman, and had recently frequented a public house called the York Minster, immediately in the vicinity of the cotton manufactory of Messrs. Hughes & Lewis, Banhill row; to which the men employed in the service of Messieurs Hughes & Lewis resorted; and amongst others a man named Hutchinson, who had formerly been apprenticed from the Parish of St. Martin's, to a cotton manufactory, near Manchester, where he remained till he arrived at the age of 21. He then came to London, and was employed in the service of Messrs. Hughes & Co. in the wool dying business, and was in fact returned a fair workman. This man the prisoner frequently met, and by glowing representations of the advantages and great wages he was likely to obtain by going to America, induced him to agree to emigrate, for the purpose of being employed in a cotton manufactory, at a place called Cooper's Town, within two miles of New York, [Philadelphia] and a short distance from the residence of the prisoner. Messrs. Hughes & Lewis having heard of this negotiation, sent for the prisoner and remonstrated with him on the illegality of the steps he was pursuing, forewarning him at the same time that if he persisted in his delinquency, they would punish him with the rigor of the law. The prisoner then declared his ignorance of any criminality attaching to his conduct, and promised most faithfully that he would relinquish his intentions. In a few days, however, Mr. Hughes discovered that Hutchinson was making preparations for his departure, and that his passage had been actually taken on board an American ship. The prisoner was then apprehended, and on being brought before a magistrate, produced a receipt of $121 paid by him to the mate of an American ship, for Hutchinson's passage and also a promissory note of Hutchinson's for that sum, and for other monies before paid to him by the prisoner to be paid out of the produce of his labors in America. The prisoner's defence was—that Hutchinson came a second time to him, and said he had his master's permission to leave the country, & that from his solicitations he was induced to pay his passage out. The Common Serjeant, who tried the case, in summoning up the evidence, dwelt with peculiar force on the mischievous tendency of the crime with which the prisoner stood charged, which, he said, was most materially connected with the manufacturing interests of this country; and was deservedly punished by law in a most exemplary manner; the legislature having decreed, that prisoners guilty of such an offence should be subject to 12 months imprisonment, and a penalty of 500l. The Jury, without a moment's hesitation returned a verdict of—Guilty. Hutchinson, the artificer, seduced, was then tried under an act passed in the 5th of George the First, which enacts, That any artificer, particularly in the manufactures of cotton, wool, silk, mohair, &c. who should be convicted of, or detected in, preparing to leave the kingdom, for the purpose of devoting his knowledge for the benefit and advantage of foreign countries, not within the British dominions, should be bound to enter into a recognizance himself and two sureties for remaining in the country. The evidence on the former case was again gone through, & the prisoner was found—Guilty. Translated for the Norfolk Herald. MADRID, Sept. 8 H. M. (Jos) issued in July last, the following Decree: "All the inhabitants of cities and other towns of Spain who have sons in the armies of the insurgents, shall put in the army of his majesty as many men as they have men in the army of the insurgents, or pay into the public treasury a sum of money according to the means of each. Those who have more than 3000 ducats income (1650 dollars,) shall pay 12,000 reals, (600 dollars,) for each man they are required to put into the army. Those who have an income of 2000 ducats (1100 dols.) shall pay 6000 reals (300 dols.) and those whose income exceeds 1000 ducats (550 dols.) shall pay 3000 reals (150 dols.) All those who have less than 1000 ducats income shall be arrested & held as hostages or carried to France, where they shall be detained until their sons shall have deserted the insurgents and returned to their respective towns and submitted to the authorities. The elder brothers, relatives, and guardians of those who have no fathers, come within the purview of this decree, and are rendered answerable for their younger brothers or wards." LATEST FROM HOLLAND. Yesterday arrived here, the ship Gov. Strong, Capt. Lord, 30 days from Rotterdam. Capt. L. left there the 7th October, but brought no papers. The verbal intelligence Domestic. COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT. BOSTON Nov. 7. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10. BALTIMORE, Nov. 13. ISLAND OF CUBA. HAVANNA. FROM HOLLAND. FROM MARTINIQUE. FROM NEW-PORT. FROM NEW-YORK. FROM WASHINGTON. FROM NASHVILLE.

Units assigned this notice do not ad- vance a particular detail of his executive acts—suffice it to say that the articles cre- ated by local circumstances and Wilkinson were soon united—the Indians were treated with and large purchases of valuable land made of them—the laws were amended, and judicious ones adopted—to the securing the citizens of the territory from a renewal of the scenes of 1804.
During the few leisure moments he had from his official duties, he was employed in writing the particulars of his celebrated tour up the Missouri; to complete which appears to have been the wish nearest his heart; and it gives us much pleasure, if we can feel pleasure in the present melancholy instance, to state that we have it from a source which can be depended upon, that he had accomplished the work in three very large volumes, with an immense number of paintings; and all was ready for the press. We hope these volumes may be the means of transmitting to posterity the worth of a man whose last act cast a gloom over the fair pa- ges of his early life.
"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave Await alike the inevitable hour— The paths of glory lead but to the grave." Clarion.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, NOVEMBER 17, 1809.
POINTS IN DISPUTE BETWEEN G. BRITAIN AND THE U. STATES.
No. I.
It seems, that many censure have been cast upon the last administration, for a sup- posed want of liberality towards G. Britain. As these reproaches may be shown to be des- titute of any foundation, by recurring to the terms which were proposed to G. Britain as the basis of a treaty—it seems a matter of some moment to exhibit what these prop- ositions were.—There is another advan- tage in such an Essay—it is not every man who is able to sift a long diplomatic cor- respondence—and to trace the terms, which were successively offered and rejected. To show the actual state of this question, the following elucidations are submitted:
The two most important points in dispute were, 1st. the Colonial Trade . 2d. the Im- pressment of our Seamen .
1. As to the Colonial Trade —The Secreta- ry of State, in his joint letter of instructions to Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney, permits them to take the article of Oct. 1801, supple- mentary to the treaty of June of that year, be- tween G. Britain and Russia, as the rule of their conduct—this article abandons the p- int of carrying, in time of war, the pro- duce or merchandise of the colonies, &c. di- rect to the mother country, and vice versa from the mother country to the enemy's co- lonies.
As many abuses had crept into the British practice under the pretex , that this neutral trade, from enemy colonies, through neutral ports, was in fact the direct trade , it became essential to adopt some rule as a precaution on this point. They were, therefore, to con- cede on the part of the U. States, that the landing, securing the duties and change of ship, or preferably the landing alone, or se- curing the duties besides, should be neces- sary to destroy the continuity of the voyage —of which facts, the ordinary documents of our custom houses were to be held as evi- dences enough. Here let it be distinctly re- marked, that these were held sufficient, in the celebrated correspondence of Mr. King and Lord Hawkesbury in the year 1801—the Advocate General himself hav- ing formally reported, that "landing the goods and paying the duties in the neutral country breaks the continuity of the voyage, and is such an imposition as legalizes the trade, although the goods be re-shipped in the same vessel, and on account of the same neutral proprietors, and be forwarded for sale to the mother country or the colony."
In the project of the treaty, signed by these gentlemen, however, greater con- cessions were really made. All articles to , as well as from the colonies were to be landed in the ports of the U. States—on re ship- ment of those of the growth, produce & man- ufacture of Europe , one per cent was to be deducted from the draw-back—on re- shipment of those of the growth of the ene- my's colonies to Europe , two per cent were to be retained from the draw-back—in both cases, the goods and vessels to be bona fide , the property of the citizens and inhabitants of the United States.
Did the administration, however, reject this new tax of one and two per cent, on our colonial trade—Did they refuse to meet this singular requisition of the British go- vernment?—a requisition which was entire- ly dictated by their commercial jealousy and avarice . Nothing like it. On the contrary, the Secretary of State in his critique on this article of the treaty, is silent as to this particular—and his silence may be consid- ered as equivalent to an acquiescence. Be- sides, into the list of changes , which our ministers were instructed to procure, this joint did not really enter. The only objec- tion, which he does urge against this article, is in this "restricting to the market of Eu- rope, the re-exportation of colonial produce, and (its restricting) to European articles, the supplies to the colonial market !" The effects of these restrictions, he shows to be important. In direct contradiction to the adjudication even of British courts, the pro- ductions of the continental and the insular colonies of America were no longer to be shipped to the Asiatic or African shores of the Mediterranean, nor to any of the ports beyond the Cape of Good Hope, where a market was to be had—nor were "the im- portations from beyond the Cape of Good Hope, more especially the cotton fabrics of China and India, to be sent as heretofore to the W. Indies, or the Spanish Main, where they not only now yield a great profit to our merchants, but being mixed with the pro- duce of this country, facilitate and encou- rage the trade in the latter." Besides, as Mr. Madison truly observes, the greedy enquirers who swarm on the ocean, might easi- ly convert the similarity of the manufactures of Europe, and those of China and India, into a pretext for new interruptions and vexations of our trade.
Surely then, on this point, the last admin- istration were disposed to go as far in the spirit of accommodation and peace, as its bitterest enemies would desire. They spent further than the British government itself, after a solemn report of the Advocate Gene- ral, thought necessary to require in the year 1801.—There has lately been an indirect proposition in some of the republican prints to abandon this colonial trade. But there is a distinction which ought certainly to be ta-
ken. The U. States ought not to be plunged into a war for this trade—neither ought they to abandon it in a commercial treaty with G. Britain. It is one of the rights of our commerce—one of the privileges attach- ed to the freedom of the seas—but it may be our interest to go, as far as the last admin- istration went, to modify this abstract right, in order to appease the commercial scruples of Britain. A reservation of the whole right accruing to us, may be made in the same, ar- ticle of the treaty.
2. Impressment of Seamen —The great point which has been uniformly insisted on by the U. States, is, that on the high seas no seaman whatsoever should be taken from an American vessel—in other words, that on the high seas, no vessel of the United States should be searched for seamen, nor any seaman impressed from on board.—This rule, however, has been pressed by our go- vernment in one or two different forms.
In the letter from the Secretary of State, of January 5, 1804, two schemes are laid down for the guidance of our minister, one of them called the first proposal , the other the  2d and ultimatium . The 1st was, that no person whatsoever shall, upon the high seas and without the jurisdiction of either party, be demanded or taken out of any vessel be- longing to either party, by the public or private armed ships of either, unless such person be at the time in the military service of an enemy of such other party.—The 2d was made with an eye to an objection, which had been started by the British govern- ment; that is "the facility which would be given, particularly in the British channel, by the immunity claimed for American ves- sels, to the escape of traitors and the deser- tion of others, whose services in time of war may be particularly important to an enemy." To obviate this objection, it was laid down in the ultimatium , that, in addition to the immunity specified in the 1st Proposal, it was to be understood, this article was not to exempt any person "on board the ships of either of the parties, from being taken therefrom by the other party, in cases where they may be liable to be so taken ac- cording to the laws of nations, which liabi- lity, however, shall not be construed to ex- tend in any case to seamen or sea-faring per- sons, being actually part of the crew of the vessel in which they may be, nor to persons of any description passing from one port to another part of either of the parties."
In the joint letter of May 17, 1806, ad- dressed to Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney, the Secretary of State authorises them, in  case the preceding ultimatium should not be pleasing to the British government, to substi- tute one of this import: That no seaman or sea-faring person (thus doing away the gene-  reality of the terms of the 1st proposal) "shall upon the high seas &c." thus proceeding in the words of that proposal down to the words "and private armed ships of either," and concluding with these words "and strict orders shall be given for the due observance of this engagement." "An article in these  terms , says Mr. Madison, was with the acqui- escence of Lord Hawkesbury & Mr. Addington, concerted between Mr. King & Lord St. Vin- cent, on the approaching renewal of the late war. It was frustrated by an exception of the 'narrow seas,' inserted by Lord St. Vincent, an exception so evidently inadmissible both in principle and in practice, that it must have been intended as a pretext for evading ading the stipulation at that time."
The correspondence of our ministers ex- hibits all their difficulties and their measures on this important question. Objections were urged by the British Commissioners as to the efficiency of the local authorities of the U. S. in apprehending and restoring deser- ters from their vessels. These might immediately go to sea, beyond the reach of the local authorities—and besides, according to the English law, the term "deserters" was confined to such only, as should leave their ships of war. To remove these two objec- tions, our ministers submitted a project , in the 1st place, making it peral for the com- manders of each other's vessels to take de- serters from the vessels of the other, under such circumstances, and also making it the duty of each government to restore them upon their arrival in their respective ports, on suitable application and proof; and 2d: extending the meaning of "deserters" to such as should leave the merchant vessels. To which this project seemed to go down with the British Commissioners—they expressly agreed to propose an article to the Cabinet , to that effect—but at the very next inter- view, all their scruples and difficulties re- curred—they had been consulting the Board of Admiralty and the Crown Officers in Doctors' Commons—and they asserted it to be the prerogative of the King "to require the services of all his sea-faring subjects against his enemy, and to seize them by force wherever found, not being within the terri- torial limits of another power." All that they did, towards a furtherance of any ad- justment, was to make the tender of a counter  project , which explicitly reserved the right of search and impressment , on the high seas, of such as were not the subjects of the other—but stipulating for the enactment of laws of both sides, inflicting heavy pen- alties on the Commanders of the belligerent ships, who shall impress the native subjects of the neutral, or others not being the sub- jects of the belligerent, from on board the neutral vessel, on any pretence whatever— and on the other hand, making it highly penal in the subjects of the neutral, to grant any certificates of the birth and country of sea-faring persons, without due proof of the same. This proposition however is nugatory and ridiculous—the conceit of the spirit of the British Commanders—their ingenious and arrogant use of every avenue which is left open for abuse—the temptation laid open by spoliations on the rich commerce of the U. S. in case of a war, to produce this state of things—are all cogently exhibited by the Secretary of State as irresistible reasons for putting an end to the discretionary power of these commanders. To which may be added, that as mistakes in such cases would really be inevitable, the British cabinet would soon acquire the art of contriving apologies for not enforcing their penalties . As in the case of Bradley , the punishment of their officers would be a promotion .
At length the Treaty was signed by our ministers without any article on this subject. They had received a note from the British Commissioners, promising "the observance of the greatest caution in the impressing of British Seamen, and prompt redress on the representation of injury sustained by our citizens—but this note was not considered as sufficient by our government, and the omission was justly considered as an insuperable objection to the Treaty."
Throughout the whole of this transaction, the last administration has certainly made the most liberal advances, consistently with the consecrated principle, which forms the  Vade mecum of our seamen and our com-
merce. The British assure us, that they do not desire the services of our own seamen —we certainly do not require the aid of theirs'. The only point, therefore, is to fix on some means of assuring and ascertain- ing the subjects of each. And the only question is, which is the best expedient, to refer the decision to a hasty examination of an  impetuous Commander on the high seas, accompanied by all the vexations which are incident to the detention and search of our vessels, and by a sacrifice of one of the rights of our sovereignty to one of the assuming prerogatives of the British King—or to refer it to an impartial tribunal, constituted on shore, and accompanied with legal pre- cautions calculated to prevent the employ- ment of each other's seamen in our respec- tive vessels. Certainly there can be no question as to the balance of advantages ar- ising from these two projects . Our govern- ment has maintained a principle, which they surely could not have abandoned.
The other points in the Treaty are reserved for the next No.
TO THE FEDERALISTS.
GENTLEMEN. You have seen that Francis James  Jackson, Esq. has received his Quitus — that he has been dismissed from the commu- nication and confidence of our government. Before you make up your minds on this im- portant question, it may become you to weigh deliberately a few considerations.
When Mr. Jackson reached our shores, his character was covered with reproach. His appointment was regarded by many an honest man as an insult to the U. S. It was even so considered by some of the Journals of London. He came red from the flames of Copenhagen, and flushed with the blood of the persecuted Danes. The question was then most emphatically put, what good were we to expect from such a negociator ?
Yet he came on an Errand, which requi- red all the patience and magnanimity of our government. An arrangement concluded with his predecessor, after the most solemn and repeated assurances of his having the authority to conclude it, was abruptly broken by his government. The pressure of our Embargo was gone. Our vessels and proper- ty were let loose upon the ocean, to become perhaps the victims of British rapacity. Our confidence in the faith of that government was shaken—Yet in spite of these things, how did Mr. Madison act? Did he reject this boasted missionary of Peace? No. He was received and installed in the authority of Minister Plenipotentiary.
In what way has he acted? We are told, that he has twice most indecorously and in- solently charged our government with a conni- vance in Mr. Erskine's breach of his in- structions—with duplicity in denying it—with lies—for such is the true spirit of the reputed insinuation, when divested of its courtly phrases. A minister, who had come to excuse the errors of his predecessor , at- tacks us with insult—he, that was to show us, in a spirit of frankness, the instructions under which Mr. E. had acted, is the one to face us down with the asseveration of our having seen them before—he that was to have come, in the garb of peace, is to assume the language of defiance and insult. Even though he had believed his own assertions, instead of repressing his convictions, in the spirit of amity and peace, he has dashed them in our teeth—sacrificed the important interests of the two countries, perhaps, to a miserable trifle.
Every thing that is before us, is in favor of the veracity of the P. U. S.—What said Mr. E. at the time ? Twice, that he was au- thorised to make the arrangement. What  since ? We have not his letter of the 14th August, before us—but we are told by the National Intelligencer, in his account of it, that "Mr. E. in this letter, stated the rea- sons which, in the exercise of the discretion given him, had induced him not to lay his in- structions before the government of the U. S." What says probability? That "with such knowledge, such an arrangement would not have been made"—that the P. U. S. must have been too well acquainted with the risks on such an occasion, and the pretences which such a fact would have furnished the British government to sacrifice the arrangement to its interests, to have agreed to it.
What course were our government to take with Mr. J.? To have furnished him with new opportunities of repeating his in- sinuations—submitted to such indigni- ties—encouraged Mr. J. to repeat them in the course of the negotiations—overlook- ed the respect, which is due to the U. States, by suffering him to ramble at under his feet —disgraced our national character in the eyes of the world? No. It was really time to show the Jenkinsons and the Percivals, that we had some little character at stake —that we would enforce the respect which was due us from their understrappers—that we had a sensibility to feel, and a nerve to resist these insults. These men, from the time since they were called to the ministry have never ceased to aggrieve other nations and ourselves. Look at Denmark. Look at their orders of November 1807—at the attack on the Chesapeake—at the state of the diplomatic communications. Every thing seemed to call for some energetic mea- sures of self respect.
Who is it, that has dismissed J. F. Jack- son? Mr. Madison—the man, whom you yourselves say has manifested no hatred to- wards England—and who has even violat- ed the letter of a law, to meet her over- tures for accommodation. You do not wish for war with England. He does not either with France or England, if it can be ho- norably avoided.—We wish to be at peace with all the world—and to "sit under our own vine and our own fig tree, with none to make us afraid." Why should such a man reject even Mr. Jackson, but from the commanding influence of national honor?
Think of these things—unless you learn to behold the British ministry in their true lights —unless you repress their hopes of your di- visions—and manfully resist the encroach- ments of Britain—Insoledor or War must be the alternative.
Mr. Jackson seems to have adopted Mr. Canaing as his model in diplomatic courtesy —Mr. C. turns our laws into jest—and his representative beards our executive to his face. The one charges Mr. Pinkney with misrepresentation—the other, gives our President the lie direct. We are happy at last to see ill manners receive a salut- ary lesson. Mr. J. will feel at least that it is no "joke."
his assertions to the skies , whilst they decry the veracity & civility of our own govern- ment:
That either he or his minions will soon give the lie to the Northern press :
That he has gone a tour of electioneering to the East—to administer Rose wa-  ter , to rally his troops, and draw a party around him to support his steps;
That he will drop many a hint, for geese to pick up; and mutter many a mystic word about the five terms and the reasona-  ble propositions which he had tendered to the U. States.
That the time is near at hand—when like other fair and perishable illusions, the pop- ularity of Mr. Madison with federal partizans will vanish—that this outré spectacle of civility and encomium is nearly at an end—and when the old Chorus of hatred to Eng-  land and the influence of France , will once more be sounded with all their variations by a full band of printers and of partizans:
And many not hope? when the honest and magnanimous Federalist, will discard his prejudices—will awaken at last to the insults and wrongs of the British ministry—and trace in all the steps of the Percevals and the Cannings only some new encroach- ment upon our rights or some insolent attack upon the respect which is due to our country .
Mr. Jackson has been dismissed —but let him remember that there are other sorts of disgrace which may pursue the minister who  plots against the tranquility of a country. He may be ordered off —unfortunately there are not a few cases of this sort in the Law of  Nations .
One proposes to discuss the question, whether Mr. Randolph will lay a resolution before the next Congress, appropriating "the promptitude and frankness with which the P. U. S. has dismissed the minister of G. B." Another projector proposes to investigate "from what quarter the wind means to blow on a given day."
Query—Would Jackson have dared to have charged our Executive with any conni- vance with Mr. Erskine, unless there had been a party in this country, to side with G. B.? To whom he was to furnish the mate- rials of invention and of opposition ? Let Pickering, and Gore and others answer for this!
F. J. Jackson, it seems, complains of the failure of his mission, because he had no British  fleet with him to back his assertions—no bombs, & congreve rockets to Copenhagen —no cities "by every possible means of de-  vastation "—Surely the ministry ought to be  impeached for such flagrant omissions .
Some of the New-York papers, are at this time exhibiting a curious military spectacle. The Public Advertiser , is asable in its de- fence of the measures of the Administration , as firm in its opposition to Mr. De Witt  Clinton and his supporters. The American  Citizen , edited by the not- orious Cheetham , has apostatised from almost every sound princi- ple which it had once professed. It has no longer the gait or spirit of a republican pa- per. It incessantly abuses the character of Jefferson, which it once adored—denounced the embargo which it once defended—justi- fies the encroachments of Great Britain—and unblushingly asserts, that "we owe our safety to England," and then immediately demands, how England herself could be saved, if "she relinquished any of those princi- ples by which her maritime ascendancy is maintained." Yet does this paper still pro-  fess itself to be the champion of the Vice-  President .
Things were in this situation when a new print took the field. It was led on by Mr. C. Holt —who, had previously pointed the stings of the " Bee " at Hudson—and was one of the victims of the infamous Sediti- on-Act . This new paper "The Columbian " professes to aim at "cultivating harmoni-  ly , healing the wounds that had been inflic- ted, and exhorting to union ." Its enemies say that it is under the banners of Mr. De  Witt Clinton , for whom it certainly draws the " bickering blade ," on all occasions.— Such was the state of parties, at the out- set of the campaign —but Cheetham being galed and harassed by some light weapons from the  skirmishing troops of the Columbian , began to mutter vengeance against De Witt  Clinton —and threaten to involve him in the hostilities .
Cheetham avers that he is a " Clintoni-  an of the Governor Clinton school and  therefore hates hypocrisy and perfidy " (meaning D. W. C.); that it was Gov. C. who "founded the family; that his patrio- tism acquired its fame, his heroism is the basis of its health, his firmness is the prop of the house." This, by the way, is repub- licanism burlesqued !—He avers, that D. W. C. did, "first to Federalists and others, bitterly inveigh against the Embargo , and afterwards made a Speech (in the N. Y. Legi-  slature ) in its favor—that he first insinu- ated the existence of a French Influence in the Cabinet and afterwards denied its exi- stence in a Speech —that he was vehemently hostile to the nomination of Mr. Madison , but was equally though secretly opposed to the election of Gov. Clinton "—thus in- sinuating that the nephew had plotted against the uncle , with a view to secure the  Vice Presidency for himself—"The P. Ad-  vertiser too, deals its blows at Mr. D. W. C. and in the firm tone of justice , exhorts and calls upon Cheetham to come boldly forward with his exposures ."—The Colum-  bian , though attacked by both, stands firm to its post—he "puts the writers in both these papers at utter defiance , and challenges them to come out with their worst "—and in the name of Mr. Clinton and his friends, "despises the threats of Cheetham as much as they detest his ingratitude ."
The battle is evidently waxing warm — but which of the parties is to bear off the palm of victory, is yet more than mortal ken can know.—One thing, however, seems clear, that though Mr. Cheetham should be triumphant, it will merely, "feast his re- venge "—he may ruin the reputation of Mr.  Clinton , but it will not restore his own.
"I know not where is that Promethean heat "That can thy light rekindle."
TENNESSEE.
The Legislature of Tennessee have passed an Act, to disqualify any person, who may hereafter  give, receive or bear a Challenge , from holding any office or appointment under the government, giving evidence in any court of record, or serving as a Jurymen . In one respect, this statute goes a step further than most of the State-laws on this subject, for it provides, that

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.
PARIS, Aug. 17.
CONSERVATIVE SENATE.
On the 14th, his serene highness the prince arch-chancellor of the empire, repaired to the senate, which was presided over by count Germain Garnier, senator and annual president. His serene highness was accompanied by his excellency the minister of war; their serene highnesses the prince arch-treasurer, and the prince vice-grand elector, were present at the sitting, as well also his excellency the minister of general police.
The prince arch-chancellor delivered the following speech.
GENTLEMEN, "When the emperor was set off in order to avenge the faith of treaties, which was violated by Austria, his majesty ordered the proper measures to be taken for defending the territory of the empire against any attacks from the exterior. He particularly depended on that generous energy which is the characteristic of the nation, and which will always make the inhabitants fly to arms when they are menaced in their homes.
"A great expedition was, however, preparing in the ports of England. Whether it was that the object of our perpetual enemy was determined, or that he had changed his intention upon receiving the account of the signature of the armistice, he successively presented himself at different points of the northern coast of France, and effected a landing in the island of Walcheren, upon the Dutch territory.
"Upon the first accounts of this attempt being received, the minister of war developed the zeal and activity which the nation had a right to expect from one of the principal depositaries of the emperor's confidence.
"Detachments of the national guards have been called into actual service, regular troops have been put in motion, trains of artillery have been sent towards the Dutch frontiers, and also officers of engineers, in order to take advantage of all the positions which are susceptible of being fortified. Every where have the orders been either voluntarily anticipated or eagerly executed.
"Circular letters which were sent by the minister of general police, have redoubled the activity of the public functionaries and accelerated the success of the different missions which were confided to them.
"The minister of marine, being animated with the same spirit, has given similar instructions to the chief officers of the fleet. Every thing possible to be foreseen has been foreseen by him.
"In fine, all have labored in concert with one another in order to secure the defence of Antwerp.
"By the effect of these different measures, the details of which you will the more easily comprehend, after having heard the report of the minister of war, the enemy, being continually kept in check, has not been able to penetrate into the territory of the empire.
"His majesty has vouchsafed to approve the measures which have been taken: he has prescribed others which are now preparing to be executed, and which, at the same time that they provide for the wants of the moment, will also establish security for the future. They have essentially for their object to call national guards into actual service, in the divisions which surround the menaced arrondissements. The levies are to be under the command of generals who are already distinguished by their services, and who have received the worthy reward of them, in taking their seat among you.
"You know it, gentlemen, in every circumstance, the emperor takes a pleasure in communicating with the senate, and the public weal has always reaped the greatest advantages from it.
"It is for the same reason that I come now to inform you of all that has been done since the landing of the English, and to be assisted with your influence in regard to what remains to be done.
"Your wise resolves will fulfil the double object of conveying to the prince the expression of the devotedness of his people, and of enlightening the subjects of his majesty upon this occasion, with regard to the constant solicitude of which they are the object.
"You will be convinced, gentlemen, of how much importance it is to the nation to repel by the only means which we have in our hands, the enemy who presumes to menace it. That easy victory which he had succeeded in causing our banners to fall back from the limits at which they have been placed by victory. Let him know that the course of the destinies of France cannot be interrupted by vain efforts! That even when Europe is covered by our armies, a most warlike population is only waiting for the first signal to offer more soldiers to the country.
"Thus, gentlemen, the fury of the English is constantly giving us notice of our resources; every attempt on their part develops and confirms the reciprocal sentiments of confidence and love which unite the prince and the nation. I am very certain, gentlemen, that in this conjuncture, the senate will be eager to justify by their opinion, that of the public which is already so favorably disposed, and will give a fresh testimony of their zeal for the sacred person of our august sovereign, and for the glory of the French name.
His excellency, the president of the senate, in the name of the assembly, answered the prince arch-chancellor, that the senate had heard with the highest interest, the communications which had just been made to them; that they considered them as an additional proof of the wisdom of his serene highness, and the zeal with which he is constantly animated for the welfare of the state and for his majesty's service; that after having heard the details which were going to be given by the minister of war, they would take these communications into consideration.
His excellency, count Hunebourg, minister of war, having then demanded permission to speak, read the report which was announced in the speech of the prince arch-chancellor:
REPORT Of his excellency count Hunebourg (Clarke) minister of war, to the council called by his excellency the prince arch-chancellor of the empire, duke of Parma, &c. on the 14th August 1809.
MONSIEUR—When the immense warlike preparations of Austria called the emperor to Germany, his majesty had no occasion to withdraw his troops from Spain in order to fight other enemies; those which he had wisely kept in Germany added to part of the fresh levies which were ordered at that time and to the troops of the consideration of the Rhine, were sufficient for conquering Austria in ever memorable battles, and to induce that power to endeavor to find her safety in an armistice demanded by her, and in the hopes of peace which that armistice has produced.
Before leaving France, the emperor, whose paternal solicitude for his subjects foresees every thing, organized different corps of reserve upon several points of his empire. His majesty disposed them in such a manner as to prevent the French territory from being insulted, and so as to enable part of the new levies which had been exercised during several months, added to the veterans, rapidly to repair to the points of the empire which might be menaced.
But scarcely was the news of the armistice, which was granted by the emperor to Austria, known in London, when England, who had been repairing a considerable expedition, intended not only to augment her forces in Portugal and
Spain, and to repair the losses which she had just suffered, suddenly determined to throw this expedition, not upon the French territory, which she did not venture to attack, but upon the Dutch territory, where the cowardice, or perhaps the treason of a chief, a foreigner to that nation and to our cause, reserved for him a momentary success which, without that circumstance, would have been, as it were, impossible.
It cannot be doubted that the principal object of England was to oppose by a diversion the continental peace of which she stands in dread, and which she has so long prevented, and to endeavor to destroy our main-time establishments at Antwerp, our fleets in the Scheldt, and the navy of our allies.
On the 29th of July, the English expedition arrived off the islands of Walcheren and Cadzand; the troops, after having sustained a very considerable loss from the attack of one of our brigades upon their landing at the north point of Walcheren, took possession of Middleburg, and of Terveere, which made a defence of thirty hours, and very soon afterwards, of the island of South Beveland, in which the important fort of Batz had been abandoned three hours before the enemy appeared.
As soon as this news reached me, I dispatched, agreeably to what had been prescribed to me by the emperor before his departure, all the necessary orders for the arrival of reinforcements at the points which were menaced by the enemy; in less than three days upwards of twenty thousand men, under the orders of the senator-general Rampion, were drawn up on that part of the Scheldt which separates Holland from the French empire, whilst the senator-general St. Suasse was at Boulogne menaced in vain, and prepared to repel the enemy.
Since which, these forces have increased and are daily increasing.
The garrison of Flushing advanced out of the fortress; they defended and they continue to defend the approaches to it; they received a reinforcement of several thousand men, who boldly crossed the Scheldt within sight of the enemy, & even passed thro' his fleet, without his being able to obstruct their passage.
The imperial battery of the island of Cadzand, that of Napoleon, carried destruction among the English ships which had presumed to attempt the passage of the Scheldt between Flushing and Breskens, forced the enemy to respect that passage and to seek another on the side of Zealand. The forts of Lillo and of Liefkenshoek, which cross their fire on the Scheldt, before Antwerp, defend the approaches to the port and to the dock-yards of that important city, which has long excited the jealousy of the English. The means of defence of these forts has been augmented.
The van guard"> The van guard of the army of the north has arrived at the Scheldt; its forces are already considerable, and even exceed in number those which it is supposed the enemy has. On the side of Berg-op-Zoom, our troops are joining the army, which is commanded by his majesty the king of Holland, in person, whilst on the left they are assembling along the Scheldt, from Antwerp to the island of Cadzand, and thus are covering our northern frontier. The English have not yet set their foot upon the French territory.
But new convoys of vessels coming from the ports of England, announce that the enemy is assembling in the eastern Scheldt all the forces which he has been able to collect, in order to vanquish, by his obstinacy, and by fresh efforts, the obstacles which have kept him in check in the islands of Zealand.
It might be asked what the English hope to obtain from their efforts? will they take Flushing? that fortress is in a good state of defence; will they seize upon the squadron? the dispositions skillfully executed by the admiral who commands the fleet, have allowed him to take a position before Antwerp, which unites the means of the land and sea for the defence of that town; but if the English had any successes, they might retard peace, violate our territory, and essentially hurt our allies, whose cause is our own.
His majesty the emperor and king is persuaded that after having made his arms respected in all parts of the world, the French will not let themselves be insulted in their own country, during his absence, by 25 or 30 thousand Englishmen.
Under these circumstances, the emperor has confided to the marshal prince of Ponte Corvo, (Bernadotte) the command of the new army of the north; and he has confided that of the two corps of observation which are at this moment, from Grot Wesel and at Lisle to the marshal duke of Valmy (Kellermann) and to the marshal duke of Conegliano (Bessieres).
This situation of things so nearly interests the national honor not to lay upon us the obligation of repairing and momentarily calling into the ranks of the army of the North, numerous corps of grenadiers and rangers of the national guards, and companies of volunteer cannoniers, who heretofore so gloriously defended the fortress of Lisle against the impotent efforts of the enemy. The department of the Pas de-Calais and that of the Lys have done the same.
The enemy will no doubt shudder when he sees so many troops come from different points of the empire, ready to fight him with determined resolution, and to surround him if he should dare to set foot upon the French territory; the eagerness of the whole nation against their eternal enemy will, doubtless, for ever wrest from the English the hope of succeeding in such enterprises, and will, perhaps, put a curb upon their hatred against the French people, by the impossibility of ever satisfying it.
The Minister of War, Count of Hunebourg.
The reading of this report being terminated, the senate immediately appointed a committee of five members, charged to make as soon as possible a report concerning the object of the communications made to the Senate by the prince arch-chancellor.
This committee was formed of the senators Lapepede, Serrurier, Germain Garnier, Laplace and Fouché.
The senate adjourned the report of their committee to the next day.
On the 15th, at ten o'clock in the morning, the senate again met. The senator Lapepede, the organ of the committee, appointed in the sitting of the 14th, proposed to the assembly to proclaim the sentiments of the French people by an address to be presented to his majesty, the emperor and king.
This proposition having been adopted by the senate, the reporter in consequence, submitted to the Assembly a project of an address, which was in like manner adopted, in the following terms:
Extract of the registers of the conservative senate, of Tuesday, 15th of August, 1809.
The conservative senate, assembled to the number of members prescribed, by the article of the act of the constitutions of the 22d Frimaire, year 8:
Deliberating upon the communications which were made to them by his serene highness, the prince arch-chancellor of the empire, in the sitting of the 14th of this month:
After having heard the report of their special committee, appointed in the same sitting:
Decree, that upon the object of the said communications, there shall be made to his majesty the emperor and king, an address of the following tenor:
SIRE—The prince arch-chancellor of the empire has just made known to the Senate the military events, of which Zealand is this moment the theatre; and your majesty's minister of war has just communicated to us the report which he made to the council of ministers, presided by his serene highness, concerning these events.
The enemy of the repose of Europe has landed his troops upon two islands of Zealand. The cry of war directly resounded upon the French shores. All the neighboring departments answered this cry, which for the French, was always the cry of victory, and the brave national guards flew from all sides to avenge the violation of the territory of a neighboring and allied nation.
Under these memorable circumstances, sire, the senate, who share in so lively a manner, all the sentiments of the French people, have been expressing them to you in haste.
Let all hopes vanish upon the banks of the Thames. Never will a more noble enthusiasm have animated the French people.
Your majesty, sire, (the brave flows of the interior of the empire, conjure you) your majesty will not withdraw from the banks of the Danube, nor from those of the Tagus, any of those invincible legions which have so often had the happiness of fighting before your majesty's eyes, and nothing will delay the moment so much desired by you, when the olive of peace will rise above your triumphant eagles.
Wherever there are Frenchmen, there will be an army; and wherever they receive the signal of combat, the genius of your majesty will animate them, because they every way experience the same devotedness, the same admiration for your majesty.
They who, being more distant from the new fields of glory which victory is preparing in the name of honor, of the country and of Napoleon, cannot reach the enemy's cohorts without crossing a great part of your empire, will feel no other pain than the fear of arriving only to crown their brothers with the civic and military laurel.
Hands will not be wanting to hurl those terrible thunderbolts which your majesty's exalted foresight had caused to be prepared along the whole coast of your empire.
The wisdom of the prince depositary of your confidence, the devotedness of your ministers, & the zeal of all the civil and military chiefs, have seconded these generous movements.
These veterans of glory, who long sighed at not following your majesty to the midst of battles are going to direct by their experience the battle of your young Frenchmen. They will show them the noble palms with which your majesty has covered their noble scars.
Illustrous Generals, chosen by your Majesty, and filled with your spirit, march at their head.
Seven senators share this shining honor. Your ships of the Scheldt, protected by formidable batteries, and protecting them in their turn, double the barrier of iron and fire, which bounds the shores bordering upon Zealand.
The Dutch nation whose territory is attacked, is raising with pride its ancient banners which call to mind so many grand exploits of the valiant Batavians; and your august brother, who reigns over them is at their head.
All advance under the irresistible influence, present in all places, of the greatest of heroes; the English will soon be driven back to their ships.
Ah! if we could cease to listen for a moment to the voice of humanity, with what ardor, we should wish that their cohorts, daring to remove from the waves destined to favor their approaching flight, would advance upon the sacred land of the French! no Englishman would again behold the roof of his family.
The wrecks of their arms, Sire, will be the trophies with which the French people will ornament those numerous triumphal arches which their gratitude is going to raise along the triumphal road of the greatest of commanders and of the most beloved of sovereigns, returning from the fields of Austria at the head of his immortal armies, and causing victory to proclaim the peace of the continent.
Vouchsafe, sire, to receive with benevolence the fresh homage of the respect, devotedness, & fidelity of the senate.
The President and Secretaries,
(Signed) G. GARNIER, President. SEMONVILLE, } Secretaries. HERWIN, } See and Sealed. The Chancellor of the Senate, (Signed) COUNT LAPLACE. Moniteur.
PARIS, August 20. Letter from the Minister of Police to the Mayor of Paris.
SIR, After the peace of Tilsit, the English, who were lost if war ceased upon the continent, wished to burn Copenhagen. Now that Austria is ready to receive peace from the conqueror, the English would burn Flushing; they threaten with their bombs, Antwerp, whose docks yards lately so deserted, have rapidly increased, at the voice of our emperor, the fleets that were preparing to conquer those of England.
The English flatter themselves with being able to set fire to our coasts. Of their own accord, all France would fly to their defence; but we must regulate this noble impulse, in order to render it useful.
What is the force of Napoleon's army of reserve? ask the ministers of the cabinet of St. James. We can now reply to them. The army covers in its rapid march the roads from Paris to Antwerp; let them send their agents to count it. Let them know that not a soldier from the armies of Napoleon will quit his standards to come and defend the territory of his empire.
What Frederick would not take up arms when the soil of France is touched by the enemy? Are not the French armies national guards, and the national guards armies? The audacity of the English only prepares a new trophy for the trophies that are to decorate the feast of peace.
Sir, you take a particular interest in the glory of this capital. Too often our enemies have accused it of having energy only in tumults. Let it at once confound the calumnies of its enemies & their incendiary hopes. On the east and on the west, France is victorious 200 leagues from her frontiers—she will also triumph in the interior, in order that no kind of glory may be wanting.
Miscellaneous.
From the Baltimore American.
"That man that makes two years of corn, or two blades of grass grow where but one grew before; deserves more of his country than the whole herd of politicians and philosophers together."
A Prolific Potatoe.
Mr. Perigo, of Register's town (remarkable for raising fine crops of Potatoes) has now in his possession eighty-seven potatoes, which are the production of a single one; thirty of which will average one pound weight each; measuring altogether half a bushel.
The following is the history of this surprising vegetable, which I obtained from Mr. P. About the third of June he selected from his seed pota-
toes one of the largest of the white kind, and divided it into seven parts, being careful to preserve what is called an eye to each, he then dug a trench about eight inches deep in a corner of his potatoe ground, (which had been previously well prepared) and placed the pieces in it with a layer of four inches of earth, covered the whole with a coat of light stable manure and then filled the trench to the surface with mould—which is all the cultivation it received.
Mr. P. is of opinion that after the fibres to which the young potatoes were begin to shoot the plough and hoe are destructive, as they would the young shoots and prevent them from extending to that distance which they otherwise would, and thinks mowing more necessary than freeing them from weeds, which may be pulled by the hand. The usual mode of cultivation leaves a large proportion of the ground vacant for that purpose. But the method pursued in this experiment requires no more ground than will be sufficient for the potatoes to grow in. The half bushel spoken of occupied a space of but little more than two square feet. An acre of ground treated in this way, would, on a moderate calculation, produce 1000 bushels, and be a great saving of labor.
The British navy, according to the returns collected up to Saturday, comprised one thousand and fifty seven vessels, of which 263 are at sea, with 15 lines. Of these, 94 of the line are at sea, with 15 fires, 136 frigates, 149 sloops, 70 brigs, and 147 smaller vessels. London Courier, Sept. 22.
A Printer at Basle, has lately directed his attention to improvements in the principle of stereotype, by symylifying the plate; and he has so far succeeded, as to have copied a series of medals in this way. Ib
An ingenious German, M. Bozzine, has announced in several journals, the invention of a machine, intended to throw light in the interior of the animal body. It is composed of a recipient containing the light; of tubes which direct its rays to the cavities which it is wished to enlighten; and of reflecting tubes which transmit the luminous rays to the eye of the observer. Ib
COLD VAT for the BLUE DIE.
12lbs Best Indigo, 18lbs. Green Coppersas, 24lbs. Quick Lime. The quick lime must be very small, well sifted, and the quicker it is the better—mix the whole ingredients well together, & stir the mass every quarter or half hour, for two days—allow it to settle, and 'tis fit to dye cotton yarn, the fastest blue that is.
These proportions are for a vat of about 150 gallons. Ib
[FROM A LONDON PAPER.]
'TIS A PITY.
On Wednesday, all the people said, "That Canning certain, was dead;" Ah! then what said the city? A rank bore adly shook the head, And shaking sigh'd, and sighing said, Alas! 'Tis a Pity! But when on Thursday this was found To be a rumor without ground; Ah! then what said the city? The other nine parts shook their head, And deeply sigh'd, and sighing said, Alas! 'Tis a Pity!
EDWARD HALLAM.
HAS just received, from New York, and for sale at the store lately occupied by Daniel Triplett, a supply of Fresh GROCERIES, viz: Gun-Powder in cases of 3 lbs each, } TEAS. Imperial, Hyson, and Young; Hyson, }
  Green Coffee and fresh Chocolate,  Smoked and Pickled Salmon,    Loaf and brown sugars, Old Antigua Rum, Cognac and old Peach Brandy, Holland Gin, superior quality, Liquor Colouring, Madeira and Sherry Wines, Nutmegs, cloves, mace Cinnamon, Allspice, Pepper, Race, and Ground Ginger, Best London Mustard, Do. white in seed, Rice, Pearl Barley, Fresh Currants & cranberries, Raisins and Almonds, Anchovies, Olives, Capers and Catsup, Flotant Indigo, Fig Blue, Allum and Copperas,  Roll and Pot Potatum Windsor and Brown Soap, Liverpool Ware, Canton China, Large and small sets, Plain and Cut Glass, Best Spanish Segars, Shot assorted, Gun Powder, Agate Flint, Writing Paper, Wafers, Crockery & Dessert's superfine Playing Cards, Cotton & Wool Carls, New-England Cheese, superior quality, 15 dozen Salt Petred Hams, Sack Salt, Salt-Petre, Bar-Iron.  
The above articles will be sold low for Cash or Country Produce. November 3. wtf
MANCHESTER ACADEMY
WILL be opened on Monday the 30th Instant.
The branches of education in which instruction will be given, are the following: English Grammar, Elocution, Elements of English Composition and Arithmetic, Ancient & Modern Geography with the use of the Globes. Latin and Greek Languages. Rhetoric, Elements of Logic, of Moral Philosophy, of Modern and Ancient History. Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra, Elements of Surveying and Navigation.
A circular letter will shortly be published, stating the mode of tuition and discipline, which will be followed. It is only necessary to observe at present, that no corporal punishment is to be inflicted.
The prices of tuition are: eight dollars a quarter for such as begin to learn the elements of the English Language; ten dollars for those who learn English Grammar, Elocution with Arithmetic; twelve dollars and a half for Latin or Greek scholars, or such as learn any science separately. But for those who are to receive instruction in Latin or Greek, together with any science, an additional charge will be made of two dollars a quarter. It is expected that the price of tuition will be paid in advance, as has been heretofore customary.
FRANCIS S. O'REILLY. October 27. wdw
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY, from the Subscriber, in the city of Richmond, on the 20th of October last, a Negro Man named JILLY, supposed to be about five feet nine or ten inches high; stout, well made, a little bow-legged, has a full face; about twenty years of age; was purchased of Cyrus Curtis of Northumberland County; was raised in Lancaster County, on the Germantown plantation by Mr. Gartringer; he is called by the negroes of that place, waiting man Jilly; he is well acquainted at Shirley, on James River, where it is likely he is lurking at this time.
I will give the above reward if secured in jail in the City of Richmond, or sixty dollars if secured in any jail in the state of Virginia, and information given to Joseph Gartrier, of Richmond, or John Winn, of Charlottesville.
THOS. WINN, Sr. October 27. wdm
CASH will be given, for a good male House SERVANT, and female COOK.
October 31. tf
FOR SALE—One thousand acres Land lying in the lower end Buckingham county, on both sides of Hubbs creek, and on the road leading from Ca Ira to New Canton within half a mile of navigation on White's river, and about two miles from Ca Ira. This tract is estimated remarkably fertile, and has a plantation cleared on it sufficient to work ten or twelve hands to advantage, and a good proportion of rich tobacco land to clear. The improvements are only sufficient for the accommodation of an overseer and negroes, with a barn, and apple orchard. This estate, from its great fertility, vicinity to market, and situation in a polite and agreeable neighborhood, is well worthy the attention of any gentleman who may wish to remove from the lower country to a more healthy situation. For terms apply to Mr. Linæus Bolling, of the aforesaid county, who is fully authorised, by the subscriber, to treat with any person wishing to purchase. SUSANNA WILCOX. wdw
Chellow, November 3.
N. B. The above Tract of Land will be sold either altogether or divided, as may best suit purchasers.
BATTESEA PAPER MILLS.—Those who wish to encourage the manufactures of their own state are informed, that they can be supplied with Paper Manufactured in Petersburg, in any quantities.
   PRICES AS FOLLOWS:     Fine Letter Paper Vellum, $ 4 75   Do. do. Laid, 4 50   Fools Cap No. 1. 4 37 1/2   Do. No. 2. 3 75   Do. No. 3. 3 12 1/2   Folio Post Vellum, 9 50   Do. Laid, 9   Fine Printing Medium, 5 50   Do. do. 4 50   Excellent Wrapping Paper, 1 12 1/2  
A liberal discount made to wholesale purchasers.
Orders for any of the above qualities, addressed to the subscribers, executed at the shortest notice.
BANISTER & Co. August 4.
IN COUNCIL, September 23. 1809. It is advised that from and after the first day of January next, the Auditor be instituted, in every case, where an action of debt is commenced, or a certificate of court, is presented to him by a person who is not mentioned therein, to require such person to produce, also, an order or power of attorney from the individual in whose favor such order or certificate of court was made, together with an affidavit of one witness at least, subscribed by a magistrate or notary public, that such individual actually signed and acknowledged the same. And to give general information of this rule: It is advised, that a copy hereof be published in the Virginia Argus, Esquire, Petersburg Intelligencer, North Berk Herald, Lynchburg Star, Staunton Eagle and Winchester Gazette, once a week from the first day of January next.
Extract from the Journals, DANIEL L. HILTON, Clerk of the Council. September 23.
FIFTEEN DOLLARS REWARD, for apprehending & delivering Fanny, a bright Mulatto Girl, about five feet two inches high, seventeen years old, inclined to be fleshy; who ran away about the 20th Dec last. She has been harbored in Richmond most of the time since, where she passed by the name of LOUISA SMITH. She was seen on the 5th instant on the basin, and brought home on the 6th, went off again on the morning of the 7th. She had on an India cotton frock; and left, she says, a variety of clothes, at different houses where she has been secreted; is very fond of dress, and has been frequently detected in committing daring robberies. She is one of those entitled to liberty when she arrives to a certain age, under the Will of the late John Pleasants of Henrico county; in consequence of which, many of them are very unmanageable—many of her connections enjoy their liberty, and live in the adjacent counties. The above reward will be given on delivering her to
SAMUEL PLEASANTS. Powhatan County, Sept. 27. wtf
HAVING this day received information that
Mr. Fleming Payne, of Goodland County, is dead, I take this opportunity of informing his representatives, that I have in my possession a Silver Watch, which Mr. Payne left