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A COMPENDIOUS VIEW of the ESTABLISHMENT & OPERATIONS of the MANUFACTORY of ARMS, and of the late public investigation, from the commencement to the expulsion of the officers in February, 1809. By HENRY BANKS.
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BY the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it is represented to the Executive, that a new courthouse, lately erected in the county of Gulpur, for the purpose of holding therein the superior and inferior courts of law for the said county, will be so far completed as to be in a situation by the next court to have the same held therein: I have therefore thought fit, with the advice of the council of state, to issue this Proclamation, hereby notifying all whom it may concern, that the next court to be held for the said county of Gulpur is, and all succeeding courts hereafter to be held therein according to law, are authorized and required to be held in the new courthouse aforesaid, so lately erected in the said county of Gulpur.
Given under my hand, with the seal of the Commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 24th day of July, 1809. JOHN TYLER.
A N EXAMINATION of the youth instructed in the subscriber's Academy, will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday next, (1st and 2d August.) The young Gentlemen will be examined on the morning of each day, and the young Ladies on Wednesday afternoon.
On Thursday, at half past nine A. M. original Oration on interesting subjects will be delivered, at the Capitol, by four of the senior students.
Parents, Guardians, and in general, the friends of Juvenile instruction, are earnestly requested to attend.
N. B. The examination will be held at the Academy, and commence on each day at 9 in the forenoon.
L. I. GIRARDIN. July 28th, 1809. (2)
Foreign.
LONDON, June 1.
MR. ERSKINE.—The instructions to Mr. Erskine have been called for in Parliament and published.—Mr. Canning said he was perfectly willing, as it would appear that no minister ever went wider of his powers. On inquiry whether Mr. Erskine had sent no justification, it was answered he had; but the house could judge from his instructions how far they coincided. His account of his reasons would be left for him to produce on his trial! Mr. Canning said Mr. Erskine had been instructed to make concessions to America arising out of such concessions as they should propose on their part to him, and in such a manner as should make the concessions mutual. Instead of this however, Mr. Erskine had made every concession on his part, without attaining one stipulated concession on the part of America. The instructions of his Majesty's government had been explicit, and would throw the necessary light on the subject.
The Russian fleet is supposed to be destined against Stockholm. The Emperor's army has broken up from its cantonments in Finland, and he threatens to pour it into the heart of Sweden, unless she consents to accept a king of his nomination. Sir James Saumarez has sailed for the Baltic, and we hope will come up with the enemy. The Swedish Diet is said to be much divided—the deputies from the farmers insist upon framing a new constitution before they choose a king. The army, it is also reported, is far from being unanimous. Finding that the disposition of the king has not produced the effect of restoring peace with Russia, several regiments, it is said, have expressed sentiments of compassion for the unfortunate monarch, and repentance at the conduct that has been adopted towards him.
June 5.
The Emperor of Russia has explained to the Swedish Rulers the terms on which alone he will consent to negotiate, viz. the Cession of Finland, the Exclusion of the British Shipping from the Swedish ports, and the establishment of a legitimate government. We know not whether the last mentioned condition is to be understood as an interference in favor of the king, or as a hint to the nation to acknowledge a sovereign of Russian appointment.
A number of reports have been in circulation within these few days respecting the L'Orient squadron.—The Leichard, which arrived on Monday afternoon at Plymouth, brings a report that Rear-Admiral Sotheby, in the Defiance, with another ship of the line, was in chase, to the Northward of L'Orient, of the two line of battle ships which escaped from the Saints, and there was every prospect of his coming up with them. The frigates which accompanied to the Saints, forming with L'Hautpoule, the whole of the squadron that sailed for the West Indies, are stated to have got safe into L'Orient. Should Admiral Sotheby meet or come up with the enemy, it does not require the gift of prophecy to foretell how the contest will terminate.
June 10.
The accounts from the continent respecting Col. Schill continue to be most favorable. It is said that he is advancing with a regular equip army of 10,000 men, to besiege Castel. He has issued a proclamation, declaring Jerome Bonaparte an outlaw.
He has beaten the Mecklenburgh troops in several actions. The Duke of Brunswick Oels, one of the members of the Rhenish confederacy, has taken the field against the French.
A declaration has been published against Austria by the Court of Petersburg, but as it does not go the length of announcing the commencement of actual hostilities, it is not likely to be attended with any other result than a suspension of friendly intercourse between the two nations.
FIFTH FRENCH BULLETIN
"From the Imperial Camp at 4th, May, 1809."
"On the 3d, the Duke of Istria General Oudinot marched towards Ebersberg, and effected a junction with the Duke of Rivoli. They met the Austrian rear guard before Ebersberg. The intrepid battalions of the tirailleurs, and the Corsican tirailleurs, charged the enemy, who was passing the bridge, drove into the river the cannon, waggon, and from eight to nine hundred men, and took in the town from three to four thousand men, whom the enemy had left there for its defence. General Claparède who advanced was these battalions, pursued them—He halted at Ebersberg, and found 30 000 Austrians occupying a superior position. The Duke of Istria passed the bridge with his cavalry, in order to support the division, and the Duke of Rivoli ordered his advanced guard to be strengthened by the main body of the army. The remains of the corps of Prince Louis and General Hiller were left without resource. In this extreme danger the enemy set fire to the town, which was full of wood. The fire spread in an instant in every direction. The bridge was soon enveloped and the flames seized the site, which it was necessary to cut. Neither cavalry nor infantry was able to act; and the division of Claparède alone, with 10 pieces of cannon, fought during three hours against 30,000 men. This battle of Ebersberg is one of the finest military occurrences, the memory of which can be preserved by history."
"The enemy seeing the division of Claparède cut off without any communication, advanced three times against it, and was always received and stopped by the bayonet. At length after a labour of three hours, the flames were turned aside, and a passage opened. The General of Division, Legrand, with the 25th light infantry, and the 18th of the line, marched towards the castle, which the enemy had occupied with 800 men. The sappers broke in the doors and the flames having reached the castle, all who were within perished there. Gen. Legrand at once marched to the assistance of Claparède's Division. Gen. Durosnel, who advanced to the right shore, with 1000 horse found himself to him, and the enemy was obliged to retreat with great haste. On the first report of these events, the Emperor had himself marched up the right shore with the division of Nansouty and Modier."
The enemy who retreated with the greatest rapidity, arrived at night at Enns, burnt the bridge, and continued his flight on the road to Vienna. His loss consists of 12,000 men, of which 7,500 are prisoners. We also possess four pieces of cannon and two standards."
"The division of Claparède, which constitutes a part of the grenadiers of Oudinot, covered itself with glory. It has lost 300 men killed, and 600 wounded. The impetuosity of the tirailleurs of the Po, and the Corsican tirailleurs attracted the attention of our army. The bridge, the town, and the positions at Ebersberg, will be lasting monuments of their courage. The traveller will stop and say, 'It is here from this superb position, from this long bridge, and this castle so strong from its situation, that an army of 45,000 Austrians were driven to flight by 700 Frenchmen.'"
"Colonel Gen. of Brigade, an Officer of singular intrepidity, had his horse killed under him. Colonels Cardenan and Lendy were killed."
"A company of the Corsican battalion pursuing the enemy into the woods, made alone seven hundred prisoners."
"During the affair of Ebersberg, the Duke of Montebello arrived at Stey, where he rebuilt the bridge which the enemy had cut."
"The emperor sleeps to day at Enns, in the castle of Prince Auersberg; to-morrow will be spent in rebuilding the bridge."
"The Deputies of the States of Upper Austria were presented to his Majesty at his Rivouac at Ebersberg."
"The citizens of all classes, and from all the provinces allow that the Emperor Francis II, is the aggressor; they expect great changes, and admit that the House of Austria has merited all its misfortunes. They secede, even openly, the feeble, obstinate and perfidious character of their sovereign, as the author of their afflictions; they manifest the deepest gratitude for the generosity which the Emperor Napoleon showed towards the capital and country he had conquered. In common with all Europe, they are indignant at the resentment and hatred which the Emperor Francis has not ceased to nourish against a nation which had been so noble & magnanimous towards him. Thus, in the opinion even of the subjects of our enemy, victory is on the side of the good cause."
SIXTH BULLETIN.
"Saint Pölten, May 9."
"The Prince of Porto Corvo, who commands the 9th corps, composed in a great measure of the Saxon army, and which has marched near the Bohemian frontier, spreading disquietude every where, has caused the Saxon General Gutschnitt to march to Egra. The General has been well received by the inhabitants, whom he has ordered to dismiss the landwehr (militia). On the 6th the head quarters of the Prince of Ponte Corvo were at Reiz, between Bohemia and Ratisbon."
"One Schill, a sort of robber, who was covered with crimes during the last campaign of Prussia, and who had obtained the rank of Colonel, has deserted from Berlin with his whole regiment, and repaired to Württemberg, on the Saxon frontier. Proclamation has been made against him as a deserter. This ridiculous movement was concerned with the party which wished to send fire and blood through Germany."
"His Majesty has ordered the formation of a corps of observation of the Elbe, which will be commanded by the Duke of Wagram, and composed of 60,000 men. The advanced guard is ordered to proceed to Hanau."
"In the cellars of the Abbey of Molck were found several thousand bottles of wine, which are very useful for the army, for it is not till beyond Molck that the wine country begins."
"It follows from the accounts delivered in, that the army has found, since the passage of the Inn, in the different magazines of the enemy, 40,000 quintals, 400,000 rations of biscuits, and some hundred thousands of rations of bread. Austria had formed these magazines, in order to march forward. They have been of great use to us."
SEVENTH BULLETIN.
"VIENNA, May 12."
"On the 10th, about nine in the morning, the Emperor appeared with the corps of the Marshal Duke of Montebello, at the gates of Vienna. It was just one month on the same day and hour that the Austrian army had crossed the Inn, and the Emperor Francis had rendered himself guilty of a breach of faith, which was the provocative of his overthrow. The Emperor experienced a secret satisfaction, when approaching the immense suburbs of Vienna, a numerous populace, women, children, and old men, hastened to meet the French army, and received our soldiers as friends."
"Gen. Couroux entered the suburbs and Gen. Thureau repaired to the platform which separates them from the town. At the moment when he was posting his troops he was saluted with a fire of musketry and cannon, and received a slight wound."
"Of the three hundred thousand which form the whole population of Vienna, the town properly so called, which is defended by bastions and a counterscarp, contains scarcely 80,000 inhabitants. The four quarters of the town, which are enclosed, and which are separated from it by a plain and on the land side, covered by entrenchments, includes more than 5000 houses, inhabited by more than 220,000 persons."
"The Archduke Maximilian had ordered registers to be opened to collect the names of the inhabitants who wished to defend themselves. Thirty individuals alone inscribed their names; all the others refused with indignation."
"The Duke of Montebello sent him an Aid-de-Camp with a summons; but butchers, and some hundreds of fellows, who were the satellites of the Archduke Maximilian, flew upon the Aid-de-Camp, and one of them wounded him."
"After this unheard of violation of the rights of nations, we saw the frightful spectacle of a part of the city firing upon the other part, and of a city whose arms were turned against her own citizens."
"Gen. Androssy, appointed Gov. of the city, organized in each suburb municipalities, a central committee of subsistence, and a national guard."
"The Governor General caused a deputation from the eight suburbs to proceed to Schoenbrunn. The Emperor ordered this deputation to go into the city with a letter from the Prince of Neufchatel, representing to the Archduke, that, if he continued to fire upon the suburbs, such an attack would forever break the ties that attach subjects to their sovereigns."
"The reply to this demand was a redoubled fire from the ramparts."
"The patience of the Emperor was worn out—He ordered a bridge to be built on the arm of the Danube which separates the Prater from the Suburbs. At 8 P. M. the materials of the bridge were united—100 howitzers were fired in less than four hours, and soon the whole city appeared in flames."
"One must have previously seen Vienna, her houses 8 or 9 stories high, her narrow streets, that population so numerous in a
small a space, to form an idea of the disorder and disasters occasioned by such an operation."
"The Archduke lost his judgment in the midst of the bombardment, and at the moment particularly in which he was informed that we had passed an arm of the Danube and were marching against him to cut off his retreat, as weak and pusillanimous as he had been arrogant and inconsiderate, he was the first to cross the bridge."
"At day break on the 12th the General informed the out-posts that a fire would be opened on the town, and that a deputation should be sent to the Emperor."
"A deputation was accordingly presented to the Emperor in the Park of Schönbrunn. It consisted of the following persons:"
 Count Von Dietrichstein, provincial marshal of the states.  The bishop of Clösternburgh.  The bishop of Scharten.  Count Pergen.  Count Veterani.  Baron Von Bartenstein.  M. Von Kusen, refreendee of Lower Austria. 
(All the above are members of the states) The archbishop of Vienna.
 Baron Von Lederer, captain of the town.  M. Wohlleben, burgomaster.  M. Meher, vice burgomaster.  M. Egua, Pink, and Hensen, counselors of the city magistracy. 
"His majesty assured the deputation that the town should obtain his protection.—He testified the regret that he felt at the inhuman conduct of their government, which had not shuddered at giving up the capital to all the horrors of war. His majesty intimated that Vienna should be treated with the same tenderness and regard as it had been in 1805. This assurance was received by the deputies with testimonies of the most sincere gratitude."
"At nine in the morning the duke of Rivoli, with the division of St. Cyr and Boudet, got possession of Leopoldstadt."
"In the mean time lieut. gen. O'Reilly sent lieut. gen. De Vaux and col. Bellouy to treat for the capitulation of the place."
"The capitulation was signed in the evening, and on the 13th, at six in the morning, the grenadiers of Oudinot took possession of the city."
CAPITULATION
"For the surrender of Vienna to the army of his majesty the emperor of the French and King of Italy, Protector of the Rhenish Confederacy."
"It is agreed between the general of division Androssy, grand officer of the legion of honor, and commandant of the iron crown, appointed by his majesty the Emperor and King; and baron De Vaux, lieut. gen. and col. Belcoute, in the name of count O'Reilly, appointed by the town and garrison of Vienna."
"Art. I. The garrison shall march out with the honors of war, carrying away their field pieces, arms, military chests, equipage, horses and property. The same right shall be allowed to other corps or divisions in the town which may belong to the army. The troops shall be conveyed by the shortest way to the Austrian army, and be supplied on their route with provisions, forage, waggons, &c. free of expense. Refused. The garrison shall march out with the honors of war, and after having defiled, lay down their arms on the glacis, and surrender prisoners of war. The officers shall retain their property, and the soldiers their haversacks."
"II. Reckoning from the signing of the capitulation, the troops shall be allowed three days to evacuate the place.—Refused. The gate of Carinthia shall, to morrow the 13th, at eight in the morning, be opened to the troops of his majesty the emperor and king, the garrison shall march out at nine o'clock."
"III. All the sick and wounded, and the necessary number of officers of health are recommended to the generosity of his majesty the emperor of the French.—Granted."
"IV. Every person of distinction, & particularly every officer included in this capitulation, who, on account of important reasons cannot leave the town, at the same time as the garrison, shall obtain a delay, and be at liberty at the expiration of that delay to rejoin his corps.—Granted."
"V. The inhabitants of all ranks shall be protected in their property, privileges, rights and liberties, as well as in the free exercise of their professions previous to the capitulation.—Granted."
"VI. The free exercise of religion shall be permitted.—Granted."
"VII. The wives and children of all persons belonging to the garrison shall be at liberty to remain in the place, and to retain their own property, and that left behind by their husbands. When such women shall so request for by their husbands they shall have all liberty to go to them, and to take away before mentioned property.—Granted."
"VIII. The military pensions shall continue to be paid to those to whom they are due, and all such persons shall be at liberty either to leave the town or to proceed to

for other place where they may cause to reside — granted.
X. The privileges of the persons employed in the military administration, with respect to their property, departure, or residence, shall be the same as that of the garrison — Granted.
XI. The Military Academy, the Military Institution for the education of children of both sexes, the general and particular regulations made for the advantage of those Institutions shall be maintained on their present footing, and placed under the protection of the Emperor Napoleon — Granted.
XII. The chests, magazines and property of the magistrates of Vienna, those of the States of Lower Austria, and also those of the Hospital, shall be preserved inviolate. This is not a military subject.
XIII. Commissioners shall be appointed on each side, for the exchange and execution of the above Articles of Capitulation. These Commissioners shall determine the rights of the garrison, according to the foregoing articles — Granted.
XIV. Immediately on signing the above Capitulation, an Officer shall be allowed to proceed with a Copy to the Emperor of Austria, and another Officer to the Archduke Charles, Generalissimo — Granted. With permission to Lieut. Gen. O'Reilly to proceed himself to his Sovereign.
XV. If any difficulty should arise respecting the meaning of the above stipulations, the same shall be explained to the advantage of the garrison and inhabitants of Vienna — Granted.
XVI. After the signing of this Capitulation, and the exchange of hostages, the Half Moon of the gate of Carinthia shall be delivered up to the troops of his Majesty the Emperor of the French; and the French troops shall not enter that place until the Austrian troops have evacuated it; Refused. Referred to Article 2.
A Duplicate hereof made at Maria Hill, in the Lines of Vienna, May 12. 1809. (Signed) ANDREOSSY, BEVAUX, BELOUTTE.
EIGHTH BULLETIN.
Dutch Papers have arrived, containing the eighth French Bulletin. This is dated Vienna, May 16, and consists of mere abuse of the Austrian Government, without one word of news.
Davoust is on the north of the Danube, at Budweis. The French had advanced into Hungary as far as Regensburg; the Austrians are near Presburg.
TENTH BULLETIN.
Ebersdorf, May 22. After describing the form of the Danube at Ebersdorf, the Bulletin states, that on the night of the 20th, the Emperor crossed the Danube, accompanied by Berthier, Massena, and Lasnes — they took a position on the 21st, on the left bank, the right wing was at the village of Ebersdorf, and the left at Grossaspere. Both these villages were taken. At four in the afternoon, on the 21st the enemy showed themselves, and attempted to drive our advanced guard into the river — Vain attempt!
The Duke of Rivoli was first attacked at Grossaspere, by Bellegarde — He manoeuvred with Molitor's and Legrand's divisions, and rendered all their attacks averse. The Duke of Montebello defeated Essling. The Duke of Isera covered the flank with cavalry. The action was severe. The enemy having two hundred cannon and 90,000 men, being the remains of their army.
Gen. D'Espagne divided his corps into squares; but he was killed with a musket ball at the head of his troops, and Gen. R. Foucault was also killed. General Nansouty arrived in the evening on the night of battle, and distinguished himself highly. At eight in the evening the battle ended; we remained masters of the field. During the night Oudinot's corps, Millard's division, and two brigades of cavalry, crossed from the right bank to the left. On the 21st, at four P. M. the Duke of Rivoli was engaged with the enemy, who made several successive attacks on the village; but Rivoli at last completely defeated them. The enemy occupying a large space between the right and left wing, we took the resolution of penetrating their centre. The Duke of Montebello headed the charge. Oudinot was on the left, St. Hilaire in the centre, and Boudet on the right. The centre of the enemy could not withstand us, in a moment all was overthrown.
The Duke of Isera made several charges. It seemed all over with the Austrian army, when at 7 in the morning an Aid-de-Camp of the Emperor came to inform him that the rising of the Danube had drifted a great number of trees and beams, which in consequence of the events at Vienna, had been cut down and laid on the bank, and that they had broken down the bridges which communicated from the right bank with the little island and with the island Inder Loden.
All the reverse corps which were advancing were upon the right bank, as also part of our heavy cavalry, and all Lasner's corps. In consequence of this shocking accident, the Emperor resolved to stop the troops from advancing. He ordered the Duke of Montebello to stop on the field of battle, and take his position in the left wing against a curtain which the Duke of Rivoli covered and his right wing. The cannon, infantry, and cartridges which belonged to our park, could not be brought over. The enemy was in the greatest disorder just at the moment when he learned that our bridges had been broken down. The slackening of our fire, and the concentration of our army, left him no doubt respecting the unforeseen accident that had happened. All his cannon and artillery equipment were again brought in line, and from nine A. M. till seven P. M. he made the greatest efforts supported by 200 cannon to overthrow the French army; but all his efforts turned only to his discredit. Three times he attacked the village, and three times he failed with his dead. The enemy resumed the position which they had left before the attack began, and
we remained masters of the field of battle. Their loss has been great. Prisoners who have been taken say that they lost 22 Generals and 60 superior officers. Marshal Welsch and 1500 prisoners are in our hands. Our loss has also been very considerable; 1100 killed and 3000 wounded. The Duke of Montebello (Lasnes) was wounded by a cannon ball in his thigh on the 22nd, in the evening. General Millard was also wounded. General Durosel was killed. The waters of the Danube did not permit the bridge to be rebuilt during the night, and the Emperor ordered the army to pass the little arm from the left bank, and to take a position on the island of Inder-Loden. We are labouring to replace the bridges & nothing will be undertaken till they are replaced.
In addition to these particulars, a great part of the Bulletin consists of sentimental description of the interview between Lasnes and Bonaparte, at a time when the Marshal's wound was thought to be mortal, in which, of course, the Duke of Montebello manifested all possible heroism, and evinced the greatest readiness to die for his Emperor; and that the Emperor was melted into tears.
The Bulletin has however, other passages from which some inferences may be drawn as to the extent of the loss sustained by the French. Bonaparte it is said, boasts that the retreat was well conducted, though 200 pieces of cannon were playing upon them, which they could not answer, during which forty thousand rounds of shot were fired at them. Bonaparte, promises to repair the loss, and declares his intention not to renew the attack till his force is concentrated and better prepared. He allows the Austrian army to have been well furnished and equipped on the occasion.
ELEVENTH BULLETIN.
This Bulletin is dated Ebersdorf, 24th May, and relates entirely to the operations in the Tyrol. The Duke of Dantzick is stated to have entered Innsbruck on the 10th.
TWELFTH BULLETIN.
The Twelfth Bulletin is important only for enabling us to state, that on the 22nd, Bonaparte himself was at Ebersdorf, with two hundred thousand men, on the south side of the Danube, but his army was not yet concentrated to the contrary. He is measuring the height of the Danube with a plummet, which the Austrians took from the Turks, after the siege of Vienna. He speaks of the arrival of troops, and of every thing, except of operations against the Austrians. The Danube, he says will continue to rise till the 15th of June.
EXTRACTS OF LETTERS.
HALIFAX, July 13. The Windsor Castle Packet has just arrived in 33 days from Halifax. Our London papers by her are to the 10th June.
General Kellswarth, with an Austrian division, is stated to have passed the Danube, near Linz, and to have taken 5000 prisoners.
The Duke of Sutherland has been honoured with the crown of Sweden — his title is Charles XIII.
The island of Arran, in the Baltic, has surrendered to the British.
We are sending a powerful naval force to the Baltic.
The British and Defence prevented the French ships from the Saints getting into Brest — but night favoured their escape to Cherbourg.
HALIFAX, July 14.
Mr. Erskine's Instructions. Our paper of this day, provided neither of the Captures from England, or the Packet with Mr. Jackson is arrived, will be interested to you. Since publishing it, I have seen a copy of Mr. Canning's official instructions to Mr. Erskine, and had previously supposed him to have laboured under an error in his views, but on examination, I find that I was otherwise. Mr. Erskine having stated to Mr. Canning that Mr. Madison, Mr. Grenfell and Mr. Smith (last three in the U.S.) had expressed a desire to come to an amicable accommodation with Great Britain, Mr. Canning replied (July 11) on the 23rd of February last, that it would be a reality the case, if the Secretary of His Majesty's ministers, will be ready to withdraw the exceptional orders, in Council, so far as respects America, on the condition that —
1st. America shall withdraw her interdicts, and repeal all such as are in any way relative to the rights of war, and trade of Great Britain, so far as respects America, as to France and the powers who adopt her decrees.
2d. That America, willing to renounce, during the present war, the possession of carrying on in time of war all trade with the enemy's countries, from which she was excluded during peace.
3d. Great Britain for the purpose of securing the operation of the 2d. article, and of the bona fide intention of America to prevent her citizens from trading with France and the powers acting under her decrees, is to be considered as being at liberty to capture all such American vessels as may be found at sea, trading with the parts of any of those powers, without which security for the observance of the embargo, [interdict] the raising of it, is absolutely with respect to Great Britain alone, would in fact, raise it with respect to all the world.
On these conditions the 1st and 2d articles, suggested by persons [now] in the American government, His Majesty would consent to withdraw the Orders of January and November, 1807, so far as respected America, and for this purpose, Mr. Erskine was authorized to communicate the above, in substance, to the American Secretary of State.
And on the receipt of an official note, engaging to adopt the 3 conditions above, and his Majesty would be ready to repeal the orders in Council, either previous or subsequent to the conclusion of a Treaty for that purpose, for which a person would be immediately appointed to negotiate. This I think is nearly the substance of the Note (Instructions).
PARIS, June 1.
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.
On the 25th Prince Eugene completely defeated the enemy, with the loss of 7000 killed and wounded.
On the same evening we entered Leopold.
On the 22nd Gen. MacDonald obliged the enemy to capitulate in Budach. A Lieut. General and 3000 men were made prisoners.
AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL BULLETIN.
Of the Defeat of the French.
Published by order of his Imperial Highness the Archduke CHARLES.
In pursuance of the command of his Royal Highness the Generalissimo, the following preliminary report of the brilliant victories obtained the 21st and 22nd of May, is laid before the 23rd, from the Head quarters at Breitenfeld.
On the 19th and 20th the Emperor Napoleon passed the greater arm of the Danube, with the whole of his army, to which he had drawn all the reinforcements of his powerful allies. He established his main body on the island of Lobau, whence the second pillage over the less arm, and his further offensive dispositions, were necessarily to be directed. His Imperial Highness resolved to advance with his army to meet the enemy, and not to obstruct his passage, but to attack him after he had reached the left bank, and thus to defeat the object of his intended enterprises.
This determination excited throughout the whole army the highest enthusiasm! Animated by all the feelings of the purest patriotism, and of the most loyal attachment to their Sovereign, every man became a hero, and the smoking ruins, the scenes of desolation which marked the track of the enemy in his progress through Austria, had inflamed them with a just desire of vengeance. With joyful acclamations, with the cry, a thousand times repeated, of — "Live our good Emperor," and with victory in their hearts, our columns at noon on the 21st, proceeded onward to meet the reciprocal attack, of the advancing enemy; and soon after 3 o'clock the battle commenced.
The Emperor Napoleon in person directed the movement of his troops, and endeavoured to break through our centre with the whole of his cavalry; that body of horse he had supported by 60,000 infantry, his guards, and by 100 pieces of Artillery. His wings rested on Aspern and Esslingen, places to the strengthening of which, the resources of nature and of art had, as far as possible, contributed. He was not, however, to penetrate the compact mass which our battalions presented, and every where his cavalry showed their backs, while our cuirassiers unhorsed his armour-piercing cavalry, and our light horse carried death into his ranks. It was a gigantic combat, and is scarce capable of description. The battles with the infantry became immediately general. More than two hundred pieces of cannon exhibited on the opposite sides a rivalry in the work of destruction. Aspern was ten times taken, lost, and again conquered. Esslingen, after repeated attacks, could not be maintained. At eleven at night the villages were in flames, and we remained masters of the field of battle.
The enemy was driven up in a corner, with the island of Lobau and the Danube, in his rear. Night had put an end to the carnage.
Meanwhile the boats which were floated down the Danube, destroyed the bridge which the enemy had thrown over the principal branch of the river. The enemy however conveyed over during the night, by continued embarkations, all the disposable troops which he had in Vienna & on the upper Danube made every possible effort for the reconstruction of his great bridge, and attacked us at dawn in the morning with a furious cannonade from the whole of his artillery, immediately after which the action extended along the whole of the line. Until seven in the evening every attack was repelled.
The perseverance of the enemy was then compelled to yield to the heroism of our troops, and the most complete victory crowned the efforts of an army, which, in the French Proclamation, was declared to be dispersed, and represented as annihilated by the mere idea of the invincibility of their adversaries. The loss of the enemy has been immense; the field of battle is covered with dead bodies, from among which we have already picked up 6,000 wounded & removed them to our hospitals. The French could no longer maintain the reserves in Aspern, the brave Hussars were obliged to make a last attempt, and were repulsed.
At the departure of the courier the Emperor Napoleon was in full retreat to the other side of the Danube, covering his retreat by the possession of the large island of Lobau. Our army is still engaged in pursuit. The more particular details of this memorable day shall be made known as soon as they are collected. Among the prisoners are the French General Durosel, General of division, and Poullet Royer, first aide-de-camp to the Emperor; also the Württemberg General Royer, who was made prisoner at Naudorf, by the second battalion of the Vienna Landwehr.
From the Edinburgh Correspondent of the 2d June.
MORAVIA, May 24.
The report of a most severe battle which lasted two days is confirmed by further accounts. It was fought on the 21st and 22nd near Ebersdorf, between the villages of Aspern and Esslingen, about a league and a half to the south east side of Vienna.
LONDON, June 3.
Yesterday letters were received from Cadiz of the 24th ult. and Seville Gazettes to the 21st.
General Cuesta retained his head quarters at Merida; his force was considerable, and he had announced to the central Junta his capacity and desire to give battle once more to marshal Victor; but the Marshal had moved to the right towards Portugal.
From the dispatches yesterday received, it appears that Sir A. Wellesley had passed the Mondego, and was within 25 miles of Gen. Mackenzie's corps. This was stated near Castel Branco, and had been ordered to march to Alcantara.
Letters from Captain McKinley, dated Vigo, May 25, state that the Spaniards had taken St. Jago; that Ney was strengthening himself at Coruna; & that the Spaniards had defeated a body of the French, after three actions, near Lugo, and had driven them to take refuge in that town.
The London Gazette of June 3, contains a letter from Sir Arthur Wellesley, to Lord Castlereagh, in which he details his proceedings after his late engagement with Soult. "Their soldiers, says (Sir A) have plundered and murdered the peasantry at their pleasure; and I have seen many persons hanging in the trees by the sides of the road, executed for no reason, that I could learn."
"We have taken about 500 prisoners. The enemy has not lost less than a fourth of his army, and all his artillery and equipments, since we attacked him upon the Vouga."
PLYMOUTH, June 4.
Came down a King's messenger, with dispatches for the government of North America. He went immediately on board the Contest, which sailed directly for New York. In the evening another Messenger came down with further dispatches, with which he went on board the Plover, and sailed immediately for Philadelphia. The Phoenix, 44, takes out our new Envoy to the American government, Mr. Jackson and his suite.
The Express Packet has arrived in 16 days from Halifax, previously from New York.
Transports are taken up for the conveyance of 30,000 troops, on another expedition.
STILL LATER FROM EUROPE.
SALEM, July 23.
Arrived at Beverly, last evening, schooner Augusta, Stickney, in 33 days from Bayonne, to Hon. I. Thorndike. This vessel was permitted to sail in ballast by giving bonds agreeably to the late order of the French government. Every thing remained in the state of suspension as to American affairs, when the Augusta sailed, as the last accounts stated received from that country.
Mr. Thorndike, a nephew of Col. Thorndike, who came passenger in the Augusta, informs that the reports respecting the last battles in Austria were such as to produce a belief in the minds of all well informed persons who dare to converse on the subject that the loss of the French was at least 30,000 men.
Spoke two days after sailing an English cutter, who treated cap. Stickney politely, the cap. of the cutter observed he had lately received orders from the British Government to capture an American vessel. In lat. 44 15, long. 30 14, spoke ship Brilliant of New Bedford, from New York for Liverpool — long 33, saw a ship to the Eastward, dismasted, in long 35 — long 49 25, lat. 44 59, ship Charles of New Bedford, from New York for Rotterdam — passed at the same time a brig bound to the eastward — on the banks spoke schr. Madison, 6 weeks out, had taken 450 quintals of fish.
By the politeness of Mr. Gould, of Beverly, we have been favored with the loan of a file of the French papers to June 11.
Not having an opportunity to examine the papers till a late hour, we are obliged to content ourselves with an outline of the important contents we find in the latest of them.
From the 15th Bulletin, date 12d June, at Ebersdorf, we learn: — The French had great success in Dalmatia, & had taken the commander in chief of the army opposed to them. The Duke of Ragusa reached Piume on the 28th May, and made a junction with the army of Italy, of which this was the division on the right. The Duke reports that an English squadron had reached Trieste, with a view to seize the Russian fleet — but such dispositions were made as secured the Russian fleet, and the English left the port. A thousand Austrians at Kiems, on the right bank of the Danube, were made prisoners by the troops of Wurtemberg.
By the 14th Bulletin, at Ebersdorf 1st June, the bridges on the Danube had been rebuilt, and important preparations had been made on the Danube. After the defeat of Jellachich, the French on the Selza, had made many prisoners. Gen. Lasell had his head quarters near Presburg. General MacDonald had entered Gratz, and had taken immense stores of the enemy. — The Duke of Dantzick was at Linz. The Prince of Ponte Corvo at Vienna. Vandamme at St. Pölten. — Order was restored in the Tyrol — Vienna was quiet. The Duke of Montebello (Marshal Lasnes) had died of his wounds.
From the Bayonne Journal of June 11, we learn that the French had every success in Dalmatia.
By letters from Gospick, the French had taken more than a thousand prisoners, and having dispersed the enemy the French were advancing. In Turkish Croatia the Turks had risen in arms, and had invaded the Austrian part of that country.
They had taken Celin & Dresnick and had already possessed of a considerable part of that country.
By letters from Trieste the French flag was displayed in that place on the 18th of May. The Russians had saluted it by repeated discharges of cannon.
From Petersburg May 13, we learn, that the Russian troops had received orders to penetrate into the Austrian provinces.
From Prussia we learn that the news of the war between Russia and Austria had reached Warsaw. That the Austrians had left Warsaw, which they had entered, and that the Duke Ferdinand had been forbidden by Prussia to violate the peace of Silesia. On the 18th of May, the Russians were within two days march of Warsaw, and the Duke Ferdinand was upon the retreat.
The Saxon army had reached Lintzen on the 17th May, and was marching for Vienna.
Couriers for the French Emperor passed Leipzig on the 21st May from Russia and Sweden.
The Austrian Gen. Muhr had been wounded at the siege of Thorn — The Russians were moving in that direction.
In the campaign in Italy the Archduke John had lost eighteen thousand men, sixty cannon, and six standards.
The French papers contain several bulletins of the army of Germany, of a previous date to those we have mentioned, but we had not time to examine them.
On the 28th April the Emperor of Russia informed the Austrian Minister that as the Austrians had attacked the Dutch at Warsaw, he considered himself at war with Austria, and that all diplomatic relations between the two courts had ceased.
The American national brig Syren had arrived at L'Orient from Baltimore, with dispatches.
Salem Register.
New-York, July 26.
[TWO DAYS LATER FROM LONDON.]
By the British Packet Windsor Castle, captain Sutton, the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser, has received London papers to the 12th of June inclusive, from which the following articles are copied.
LONDON, June 12.
Dutch Gazettes to the 8th, and Paris Papers to the 4th inst. have reached us. The former communicate the death of the gallant Schiff. He fell at the head of his brave followers, contending for glory and independence, in the heart of the city of Strausund, of which it appears he had been in complete possession. Strausund was attacked by the French General Gration, whose report of the action is not very clear. The fate of the intrepid Schiff was a circumstance too important to be passed over; but the conclusion of the affair is not noticed with precision; we are merely told that his troops were thrown into confusion.
The Monitor contains a detail of the operations of the army of Italy, at most from the first reverses of the Austrians in that quarter to the capture of Trieste, and the junction of the army with that part of the French force in Germany commanded by General Lauriston. If we are to give implicit credit to this detail, the trophies gained by his son in law, Eugene Beauharnais, are not less brilliant than those of Bonaparte himself in the most successful campaigns. We are assured that the French army has in this extraordinary career of victory, taken 25,000 prisoners, 60 pieces of cannon, and 10 standards. Of the accomplishment of the objects in view, no doubt, we think, can be entertained; but when we are gravely assured, that 500 Austrians, were taken by a Lieutenant and 12 men, we are surely justified in considering these official accounts very grossly exaggerated.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. R- 67 7/8 — 4 per Cent. 83 3/8 — 5 per Cents. — 93 3/4 prem.
We have received Lisbon Gazettes to the 31st. The Supreme Junta of Government in Spain has directed a Decree confiscating all the property of the Spanish Nobles and other persons who had adhered to the French interest; ordering also that those persons therein named, should be arrested and carried before the Tribunal of Public Welfare, to be tried and punished for high treason.
The papers contain a correspondence between Marshal Beresford and the Portuguese General Many, announcing some partial actions between the latter with the French who were shot up in Lugo, when Ney marched to the Austrias. The amount of the French force in Galicia is between six and seven thousand men. In an action which took place in Ponte Neuvo, between Mina and Lugo, the French lost three thousand men killed and wounded, besides two thousand Germans, who deserted and came over to the Spanish army. Lugo has been recaptured, and four thousand prisoners taken. According to the accounts transmitted, the situation of Marshal Ney is very precarious. There was every reason to suppose, from the aspect of affairs, that Galicia would be speedily cleared of the enemy. A French column of three thousand infantry and thirty horse had been completely routed near Santiago; the remains had fled to Coruna, abandoning the former place, which the Spanish troops entered on the 23d, finding considerable magazines of arms and ammunition therein. The Marquis de la Romana was at Santiago. Vigo is occupied by his brother, with a force of 7000 men. This morning arrived a mail from Gottentburg. The possession of Strausund by

the patriotic Schill is mentioned in terms of high satisfaction; but his unfortunate catastrophe does not appear to have been known when the mail was sent off. The war continues with vigour between the Russians and Swedes.
DOVER, June 11.
Passed by for the Downs, the ship Powhatan , Capt. Poytress from Virginia; ship Pandora , Capt. Sheraton, from Madeira ; and the ship Sally , Hill, from Mogadore .
A vessel, called the Richmond , is arrived in the Downs from Philadelphia, from whence she sailed on the 31 May.
NEW YORK, July 27.
LATEST FROM FRANCE.
Last evening arrived at this port, the ship Hope , Capt. Humphries, 35 days from Bordeaux . The Hope has brought upwards of 50 passengers, and sailed by special permission. Capt. H. has furnished the Educator of the Mercantile Advertiser with Paris Papers to the 9th of June inclusive, but upon a hasty perusal, we do not find that they contain any thing new.
We learn from the captain and passengers, that the dispatch ship Mentor , Capt. Ward, remained at L'Orient , waiting the orders of Gen. Armstrong, our minister at Paris ; and that the U. S. brig Syren , was to be immediately dispatched from L'Orient to England . That no account of any new battle between the Europe or Bonaparte , and the Arch Duke Charles had reached Bordeaux —and the affair between America and France , remained in statu quo.
In addition to the above, a passenger in the Hope , has favored us with the following extract of a letter, dated the 15th of June from Bordeaux , which was sent to him just as the Hope was leaving the Cordovan .
"The Commissary of Marine, at Rochefort , has just written to the Maritime Prefect at Bordeaux , not to grant any more clearances to American vessels, as they had just heard that the Commercial Intercourse between America and France had been suspended by a law of the American Congress on the twentieth day of May last."
The Hope sailed from the Cordovan on the 20th of June.
MR. ERSKINE'S INSTRUCTIONS.
NEW YORK, June 27.
Copy of a dispatch from Mr. Secretary Canning, to the Hon. D. M. Erskine; dated Foreign Office, 23d January, 1809.
Sir—If there really exists in those individuals, who are to have a leading share in the new administration of the United States, that disposition to come to a complete and cordial understanding with Great Britain, of which you have received from them such positive assurances: in meeting that disposition, it would be useless and unprofitable to recur to a recapitulation of the causes from which the differences between the two governments have arisen, or of the arguments already so often repeated, in support of that system of retaliation, to which his majesty has unwillingly had to have recourse.
That system his majesty must unquestionably continue to maintain, unless the object of it can be otherwise accomplished.
But after the profession on the part of so many of the leading ministers of the government of the United States, of a sincere desire to contribute to that object in a manner which should render the continuance of the system adopted by the British government unnecessary, it is thought right that a fair opportunity should be afforded to the American government to explain its meaning and give proof of its sincerity.
The extension of the interdiction of the American warships to the ships of war of France as well as of Great Britain, is assisted in my former dispatch, an acceptable symptom of a system of impartiality towards both belligerents; the first that has been publicly manifested by the American government.
The like extension of the non-importation act to other belligerents is equally proper in this view. These measures remove those preliminary objections, which must otherwise have precluded any useful or amicable discussion.
In this state of things, it is possible for Great Britain to entertain propositions, which, while such manifest partiality was shown to her enemies, were not consistent either with her dignity or her interest.
From the report of your conversations with Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin, and Mr. Smith, it appears:—
1st. That the American government is prepared, in the event of his majesty's consenting to withdraw the orders in council of January and November 1807, to withdraw contemporaneously on its part the interdiction of its harbors to ships of war, and all non-intercourse and non-importation acts, so far as respects Great Britain, leaving them in force with respect to France, and the powers which adopt or act under her decrees.
2d. (What is of the utmost importance, as precluding a new source of misunderstanding, which might arise after the adjustment of the other questions.) That America is willing to renounce, during the present war, the pretension of carrying on at sea all trade with the enemy's colonies, from which she was excluded during peace.
3d. Great Britain, for the purpose of securing the operations of the embargo, and of the bona fide intention of America to prevent her citizens from trading with France, and the powers adopting and acting under the French decrees, is to be considered as being at liberty to capture all such American vessels as may be found attempting to trade with the ports of any of these powers; without which security for the observance of the embargo, the raising it nominally with respect to Great Britain alone, would in fact, raise it with respect to all the world.
On these conditions his majesty would consent to withdraw the orders in council of January and November, 1807, so far as respects America.
As the first and second of these conditions are the suggestions of the persons in authority in America to you, and as Mr. Pinkney has recently (but the first time) expressed to me his opinion, that there will be no indisposition on the part of his government to the enforcement by the naval power of Great Britain of the regulations of America with respect to France, and the countries to which these regulations continue to apply, but that his government was itself aware, that without such a force, these regulations must be altogether nugatory; I flatter myself that there will be no difficulty in obtaining a distinct and official recognition of these conditions from the American government.
For this purpose you are at Liberty to communicate this dispatch in extenso, to the American secretary of state.
Upon receiving through you, on the part of the American government, a distinct and official recognition of the three mentioned conditions, his majesty will lose no time in sending to America, a formal and regular treaty.
As, however, it is possible that the delay which must intervene before the actual conclusion of a treaty, may appear to the American government to deprive this arrangement of part of its benefits, I am to authorise you, if the American government should be desirous of acting upon the agreement, before it is reduced to a regular form, (either by the immediate repeal of the embargo, and the other act in question, or by engaging to repeal them on a particular day) to assure the American government of his majesty's readiness to meet such a disposition in the manner best calculated to give it immediate effect.
Upon the receipt here of an official note, containing an engagement for the adoption by the American government of the three conditions above specified, his majesty will be prepared, on the faith of such engagement, either immediately (if the repeal shall have been announced in America) or a day specified by the American government, to repeal, reciprocally, to recall the orders in council, with an waiting for the conclusion of the treaty; and if you are authorised, in the circumstances herein described, to make such reciprocal engagement on his majesty's behalf.
I am, &c. GEORGE CANNING.
Domestic.
WASHINGTON CITY, July 23.
Although, from the casual character of the British orders in council, it is nearly as futile as it is difficult to analyse them, yet there are features in the late order of the 28th of May, that it may be of some service distinctly to notice.
1. The arrangements made by Mr. Erskine, it is said, are not such as were authorised by his majesty's instructions, for such as his majesty can approve. Here is an avowal by the British government of an inflexible purpose, unrelieved by time or circumstance, either not to make a proper reparation for the outrage committed on the Chesapeake, or not to rescind the principle of her orders of the 7th of January and 11th of November.
2. The temporary relaxations of the old orders in council are all coupled with one sweeping condition, to wit: a withdrawal of protection from any vessel that shall attempt to enter any port "actually blockaded by any of his majesty's ships of war." Is there no reason to fear that the whole of the enemy's ports will in this way be blockaded by a naval force altogether insufficient for the complete investment requisite to a legal blockade, and that vessels leaving ports thus "blockaded," will, on their return voyage, be seized on the high seas by British cruisers, and carried into British ports for adjudication for a violation of the blockade! There is the more reason to apprehend that the species of blockade here referred to is not one recognized by the law of nations, as, if it were, there would have been no reason for such a provision.
3. The order professes to indemnify American merchants, raised to avoid any interference with their adventures under the arrangements made with Mr. Erskine. But this will be found, on investigation, to be an idle pretext. The larger number of American vessels were designed for, and will have entered, British ports, with commodities, in part meant for consumption in England, in part for consumption on the continent. The value of these commodities must materially depend on a sale for them on the continent. This, being almost totally cut off by the order of April 20th, substituted in the room of the previous orders, the prices of those commodities in British ports have actually sunk, and may be expected to fall much more; and the American merchant, instead of making a profit, will incur a ruinous loss. A large portion of these shipments to England were, doubtless, meant to be deposited in that country, with a view to future transportation to the continent. This resource being now almost entirely cut off, a great and steady depression of prices will be inevitable.
By the disavowal of the British ministry, the order of April last comes into operation in lieu of the orders of January and November, 1807. Now the order of April, although otherwise represented in most of the public prints, will be found even more rigorous and oppressive than the preceding orders. Under these orders, the direct trade between the United States and the colonies of the enemies of Britain, that from the United States to the continent of Europe through a British port, and the transportation of American produce, cotton excelsior, through a British port, to enemy ports, under certain conditions, were allowed. By the order of April they are, with trifling exceptions, interdicted.
ed. The principal trade authorised with the continent by this order is to the ports of the Baltic, a trade, no doubt by Britain, for the express purpose of naval supplies through America bottoms, a trade which it will be likely to be inhibited, as soon as it is seen to have this effect, and which, independently of this circumstance, would be of little value to us, as but a small portion of our produce would there find a market. Besides this trade, the order allows a trade to the Southern parts of Italy, comprising Naples and a part of the territory of the Church, the whole of but inconsiderable importance, connected with the ports of Genoa and Leghorn in the northern part of Italy, with which all trade is interdicted. To this may be added a qualified trade to certain parts of Spain and Portugal, dependent upon their possession by England, which are, however, two trifling and precarious to be of much value to us. Under this view of the subject, the arrangements made with Mr. Erskine, attended by their recent disavowal, will be found to operate as a mere decoy, the smallest tenures of the order of May 24th to the contrary notwithstanding. —Nat. Int.
Virginia Act.
RICHMOND.
TUESDAY, August 1, 1809.
MEN who are disposed to find faults at all events, may suppose the executive to have been guilty of a hasty indiscretion in laying up the gun boats, and in dismissing the 100,000 volunteer militia: but these acts can surely have no other effect than to render the President an object of love and respect to the whole nation, seeing that his desire was to lessen the expenses of the government and the burden of the citizens' duty. Every man in Congress approved of his conduct in this respect; and if the collection of its productions any sensation at all, it must be such as one as will induce the American people more promptly to rally round the constitutional authorities on the first manifestation of danger.
Whoever has paid the least attention to the history of Greece during the reign of Philip of Macedon, will perceive a remarkable similarity between the corrupting arts of Philip and those of the British ministry. Let us briefly draw the parallel.
The Greek nation was composed of a variety of inferior commonwealths, the chief of which were Athens and Sparta: the design of the Macedonian king was to usurp dominion over the whole of the Greek states; and to that effect he corrupted their senators, he distributed his largesses among their orators, thereby creating in the heart of their country a formidable faction in his favor; on the other hand, he would occasionally intrude upon their national territories and insult their citizens: when the injured Greeks were irritated at his outrages, he would propose to treat of peace, invite them to appoint ambassadors, appointing ambassadors also on his part; then, again, he would intrigue with one state against another state, instil into these suspicions against Athens, instil into Athens suspicions against Lacedæmon; and, in this way, he had sown an inextinguishable jealousy of each other among all the commonwealths of Greece, which eventually was the cause of their destruction. Great Britain pursued the Macedonian policy: in our senate she has her partisans; out of doors, among our people, she has her orators and writers who preach to the citizens; and whenever any thing is proposed for the interest and the honor of the United States, a faction apparently devoted to her, rises up and vigorously clamor in her favor: Great Britain has likewise violated our territories, insulted and even slain our citizens; and when we have complained of her injustice, she has invited us to a negotiation, at the same time intriguing by her secret agents in one state against another state, by sending resolutions, and on all occasions attempting to distract our councils. So exact is the parallel, so precise the similitude, of the Macedonian and British policy! Even the pretext of vindicating the rights of Apollo, under which Philip committed so many execrable crimes, finds an humble imitation in the excuse which Britain offers for her numerous excesses, when she declares she is contending for the liberty of the world against the emperor of the French!
Happy fortune for the United States of America! They are neither corrupted like Greece; nor are the British ministry so cunning and so formidable as the Macedonian monarch. Great Britain has had but few Philips; and they were certainly not of the House of Hanover: neither is every instant minister of foreign affairs an Antipater or a Pacinianus. Nevertheless, we should not neglect the lessons of experience, for it instructs the people in the nature of English policy, and enables them the more effectually to obviate its evil tendency.
It is not alone the avowed pretensions of England that have induced the British ministry to act towards the United States with so much perfidy: there are in this country a set of politicians who have as effectually served the ministry of Great Britain as if they had been bought by her gold. Such are those who, by their wickedness, by their writings tending to lessen the authority of the American government, by their versatile and profligate declamation, tend to thwart and perplex the proceedings of the cabinet of the United States: Such is Timothy Pickering; such is the vindication which Col. Monroe published in the winter of 1807-8; and such is John Randolph; the latter of whom, without perhaps the corrupted heart of Erskine, has been by his turbulent harangues as useful to the British ministry, as ever that unworthy and devised Athenian orator was to the king of Macedon.
To be sure, it appears, to have a new English minister; but what security have we that he will understand his instructions more clearly than Mr. Erskine? If the people of England would pledge their faith to the observance of the acts of the king, and to the observance of the acts, in itself, as small as a significant guarantee on the part of the cabinet of St. As there can be no reliance,
for it would be a weakness more contemptible than the imbecility of folly to put our trust in the professions of a court whose foreign secretary has been convicted before the world of deliberate falsehood, proved a base prevaricator, and finally been guilty of the most enormous perjury, tending to destroy all confidence in diplomatic transactions, and to barter the world. Yet, let not our executive reject this Francis James Jackson, although he may come with all the crimes of Copenhagen upon his back; let him be received, but not trusted until he shall produce some unequivocal pledge that these United States are no longer to be sported with; and that pledge ought to be as important as one as the dismissal of Canning from the British ministry: his degradation is necessary to restore faith in the public acts of Great Britain, and harmony between the two countries: the people of England owe it to their own honor, they owe it to our sincerity and plain dealing; and there never can be a durable peace between the nations whilst that man, or any other as profligate and abandoned, has any share in the councils of the British empire.
It seems that something has been published, stated to be the instructions sent to Mr. Erskine. But how can we be sure that they are those instructions? Canning and his coadjutors have the whole business in their own hands, and have no doubt published just as much (and no more) of the instructions as would palliate their own conduct to the British public. Why did Canning refuse, when called upon in parliament, to produce Mr. Erskine's "justification," as it is called?
But why should we trouble ourselves to decide whether it is Mr. Canning's villainy or Mr. Erskine's stupidity that has occasioned this perfidy, since, whether it was Canning or whether it was Erskine, it is still English? Men of America! Shall we be hoodwinked by suffering ourselves to be led into an idle disputation relative to the criminality or innocence of two Englishmen? Let them settle that matter themselves, and between themselves, whilst we prepare, as we ought to do, for the very worst that can happen. Let us no longer waste about the secrets enquiring "What news from England? What does Great Britain mean to do?" but let us ask ourselves what we mean to do? and when we have deliberated as to the mode of proceeding, let us act with firmness and decision.
Mr. Canning is becoming famous for misunderstandings; or, we should rather say for no man's being able to understand him. He told Mr. Pinkney at London that he did not understand him in certain verbal conversations which Canning found it convenient to misconstrue; and now he and Mr. Erskine, it seems, do not understand one another. It is to be hoped, and indeed it is believed, that Mr. Jackson and the English foreign secretary have a mutual capacity, but, nevertheless, if Jackson ought to produce some sort of security that he will understand his instructions:
Is Jackson the English incendiary that was concerned in the outrages at Copenhagen? Is not the man employed to bring about the murder (by assassination) of Bopp?—If he is, the United States are placed in this dilemma: should they refuse to receive him, our citizens lose their property; should they receive him, we are dishonored by dealing with an infamous ambassador. A bitter pill, indeed; but such as honest folks are frequently obliged to swallow when they have to do with knaves.
Extract of a letter from our correspondent at Washington, dated July 23, 1809.
"The Secretaries of State, Treasury and Navy, are still here, and it is probable will remain, to see what the new British minister may have to offer. There is some rumor of the President's intended immediate return; but this, I apprehend, is mere conjecture; indeed, I see no necessity for it; and it would be a mark of attention which the English, in present circumstances, do not merit. You will perceive by the public prints that the London Courier (Canning's confidential paper) accuses the style of Secretary Smith's letters to Mr. Erskine: private letters from England assert that Canning is much mortified at the arrangement, and has said that our new secretary was too much of a diplomatist for Erskine. Bell's Weekly Messenger , an able London print, advocates our cause in a very just, liberal, and manly way. The federalists here have been terribly shocked: they acknowledge that they will hardly ever recover the blow; but I can perceive they already begin to gain nerve, and lodge in an awkward palliation for G. Britain."
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD. Stolen
From me about the 12th of Nov. 1807, a negro man slave, named Cesar , the property of the subscriber—He formerly belonged to Mr. Robert Alexander, of Campbell county, and was bought from him a small boy, in the year 1809. He is now about 5 feet high, one of his big toes is very remarkable, being split with an anxe through the nail and nearly as high as the second joint, by that it is much broader and larger than the other. He was accustomed to run James river above the falls, I was informed that he went over the mountains in a bateaux owned by one Greasy. On delivering him to me or securing him in some jail so that I get him again, shall be paid by me the reward of thirty Dollars. Likewise, abandoned from me about three months ago, a negro man slave, named Sam : he is one of the negroes I had from the estate of Mrs. Childers, dec. of Amherst county. He was accustomed to run James river above the falls, and had the direction of one of my bateaux in the coal business. He is about 32 years of age, and is known almost by all the watermen that run the river. Both the negroes have been seen at Lynchburg. I will give a reward of ten dollars for delivering him to me or securing him in some jail so that I get him again. This is to forewarn any person or persons from harbouring or concealing them or either of them, as they may depend on it that I will prosecute such violators of the law to its full extent.
ROBERT MITCHELL. City of Richmond, July 27th, 1809.
IZ coming off of a keg PAINT and two barrels OIL, marked W. W. shipped from New York per the Schooner Dispater , William Smith, master, can get the same by application to the subscribers.
RALSTON & PLEASANTS. Richmond, July 25th, 1809.
VIRGINIA: At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol in Richmond, June 1st, 1809. Archibald Pleasants and Jane his wife, John S. Moorland and Anna his wife, John Cheadle and Elizabeth his wife, Isham Raley and Susanna his wife, John Woodson the younger, Thomas Raley and Martha his wife, William Raley and Judith his wife, and Philip Woodson and Sarah his wife, Plaintiffs,
AGAINST Josiah Woodson, acting executor of John Woodson, deceased, Defendant.
ON motion of the plaintiff, by counsel, and for reasons appearing to the court, the order made in this cause the seventh day of February last, dismissing this suit with costs, is set aside, on the plaintiff's paying to the defendant the costs by him expended in defending the suit to the date of the said order; and on the further motion of the plaintiff, by counsel, in order to commission Ladd is directed to perform the order made in this cause the seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and three; but the plaintiff are not to have the benefit of this order unless they shall comply with the conditions upon which it is made on or before the first day of the next term.
A Copy—Teste, PETER TINSLEY, c. c.
FOR RENT, and immediate possession given, A LUMBERHOUSE that will hold from 60 to 100 loads of tobacco, either with or without a large loft over it. It will answer well for a Tobacco Manufactory, or a Wine-light's or Coachmaker's shop, as it has a good inclosed yard attached to it—also a small brick house with but one room on a floor—also a Store on the Main Street opposite the Bell Tavern, and formerly occupied as a Printing Office and lastly as a Bookbinder's shop. Inquire of the subscriber, living at this Falling Garden.
James Lowndes. Richmond, 8th month 1st, 1809.
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY. At a meeting of the Directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, on Saturday the 20th of July, 1809.—
Resolved, That the share holders in the company pay to the Treasurer five dollars on each share held by them respectively in thirty days from this day, and the further sum of five dollars on each of the said shares, in sixty days from this day.
Resolved, That the shares of all delinquent share holders in the Company be sold on the first Saturday in September next, being the 21 day of that month, at the Washington Tavern in the City of Richmond, at 12 o'clock of that day.
(A Copy) N. SHEPPARD, clk.
IN COUNCIL, July 26th, 1809.
PROPOSALS will be received by the Executive. A five and one tenth day of August next for foraining 1400 White Oak Spires, 700 Willow Oak Piles, 100 Black Oak Spires, and 20 Hickory Axle-trees, all of seasoned timber and of such dimensions as shall be described by Alexander Quarrier, to the persons disposed to make such proposals.
DANL. L. MYLTON, Clerk of the Council.
BY virtue of a deed of trust bearing date the twenty-fourth day of October, eighteen hundred and eight, executed by Thomas P. Holman to the subscribers as trustees, for the purpose of securing a sum of money therein mentioned, to be due to Richard Booker, will be sold, for cash, at John Crisp's tavern, on the first day of September, next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, the following property, to wit: one negro man named George, one negro woman named Sukey, one other named Lilly, three feather beds and furniture, one grey horse, one bay horse, and some household and kitchen furniture. The subscribers will on y convey the title vested in them as trustees.
NEWTON FORD, } Trustees. JOHN FORD, JR. } Cumberland, July 25, 1809. 3w
INTERESTING TO SOME BODY. Any gentleman who owns lands in Kentucky or Tennessee, and would exchange for lands in Virginia, (situate 50 or 60 miles south of Lynchburg, between two and three thousand acres with fine improvements of all necessary buildings and orchards, 5 or 600 acres low grounds, highly productive in a very healthy neighborhood and well watered) may meet with a cap by directing a line to A. G. Rocky Mount post office, Franklin county, which shall meet with prompt attention.
July 20th, 1809. 3w
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. —Stolen or Stolen from the Falls Plantation in Chesterfield County about ten days ago, a bay FILLY, four feet eight or ten inches high, of the Diomed stock, as may be readily perceived by those who are acquainted with that stock, so remarkable for the construction of their heads being very much dish faced, she had on her right hind leg just below the pastern or fetlock joint a scar occasioned by a cut she received in the Spring; the above reward will be given to any person who will deliver her to the subscriber at the Rev. John D. Blair's in Richmond.
JOSEPH H. MAYO. Richmond, July 29th, 1809. tf
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. Runaway from the Subscriber the first day of May last, a Negro Man named Sandrick , very black, about five feet four or five inches high, has one or two scars on each side of his face, Looks very old, speaks broken, being an African born. Has lost most of his teeth, those remaining very large. A very grum look when spoken to. Had on, when he eloped a blue Saylor's Jacket and pantaloons, very much patched. I apprehend, he is either about Scuffletown, running the river, or at Cabin point; I will give the above reward, if taken up out of the County or Eight Dollars with all lawful charges annexed, if taken in the county.
MARRIN PRICE. Richmond, July 27th 1809. (2)
For sale at this office, A FEW COPIES OF BISHOP MADISON'S MAP OF VIRGINIA.

REMOVAL. THE subscriber has removed from the Bason where he continues to keep a house of Private Entertainment. He has also for sale, a general assortment of GROCERIES. Likewise sells all kinds of country produce on commission. HEZEKIAH PURYEAR. Richmond, May 17th, 1809.
NOTICE. By virtue of the last will and testament of Pleasant Younghusband, dec. WILL BE SOLD, To the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 13th of June next, at the courthouse of Botetourt county, being court day. One Tract of Land, Containing 254 acres, more or less, in being the same tract of land deeded to Pleasant Younghusband by Thomas McGeorge and Judith his wife, as be indenture bearing date the 2d day of July, 1800, on the following terms, to wit: one third cash, one third in twelve months, and the remaining third in two years. Bonds with security, to carry interest from the date if not paid in three months after they become due, and a deed of trust on the land to secure the two last payments, will be required. ELIZA T. YOUNGHUSBAND. Administratrix. SAMUEL P. PARSONS, Adm'r. With the will annexed. 2d mo. 17th, 1809. N. B. The above sale is postponed to Botetourt August Court. E. T. YOUNGHUSBAND, Adm'r. S. P. PARSONS, Adm'r. 5th mo. 6th, 1809.
One Thousand Pounds WANTED. FOR the interest of which, a plantation of 500 acres of valuable land will be given, until the money is refunded. Nearly 100 acres are in low grounds, now in cultivation lying on navigable water, the improvements new and very good, in a healthy and desirable country. Enquire of the Printer. September 3, 1809.
To Rent, And possession given immediately, THE TENEMENT At present in the occupancy of Mr. Williamson, and directly back of the Hon. Creed Taylor's. Apply to EDWARD W. TRENT. May 1809.
FOR SALE. Forty Thousand weight Isle of Wight Bacon, Amongst which are 900 Hams, 500 Barrels Herrings and Shad, 100 Sacks Salt, Liverpool filled, 20 Bales Georgia Cotton, 40 Tierces Rye Whiskey, 8 Barrels Ditto, 45 Kegs English White Lead, 50 do Spanish Brown, 20 Tons American and Swedish Iron, will be sold low for cash only. GROCERIES, As usual. Russell & Wallace, Richmond, May 22, 1809.
City Hotel to Let. THAT spacious convenient HOUSE and LOT with out Houses, Stables &c. situated on the street that leads from the main street by the Government to the Capitol; which was lately in the occupancy of Mr. Jas. Vaughan, as a Tavern. It will be let for one or more years, and possession given immediately. For terms apply to Benjamin Mosby of Powhatan, or B. Tate of this City, who are authorised by me to let the same. RICHARD CROUCH. Richmond, June 1st, 1809.
A Pair of Horses Stolen. 20 Dollars Reward. STOLEN from the commons of Manchester, on Thursday night 8th inst. A Pair of Black Horses. One a BROWN BLACK , very thick set and well made, his left hind foot white—The other a jet or deep black, of rather slender make, both nearly the same age, 8 or 9 years, and about five feet high; they pace, trot and gallop, and run well in harness. I will give Ten Dollars Reward, with reasonable expenses, to any person delivering them to me, or five Dollars for such information that I get them again—& Twenty Dollars for the apprehension and conviction of the Thief. CORNELIUS BUCK. Manchester, 14th June, 1809.
IN COUNCIL, January 20, 1809. PROPOSALS will be received by the Executive for manufacturing three hundred and ninety Rifles during the present year, being the number directed by law to be provided annually, including the deficiency of last year. Extract from the minutes. DANL. L. HYLTON, Clerk of the Council.
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, A NEW HANDSOME COPIES OF GIBBON'S DECLINE & FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE; To which is added, (in this edition only) THE VERY INTERESTING LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, written by HINSLE, Eight Vols. Large Octavo, Price 22 Dollars. 232
JENNINGS'S GAP, June 24th, 1809. Robert M'Dowell, RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he has Removed his family from Staunton to the Red House in Jennings' Gap, on the main Road to the different mineral Springs in Bath, Monroe & Greenbrier, where he keeps a HOUSE OF ENTERTAINMENT, at the Sign of the SPREAD EAGLE, twelve miles from Staunton and 23 miles from Harrisonburg. His house is large and airy, well furnished with good beds, liquors of the best, good stabling to hold upwards of thirty horses, with plenty of hay and grain and pasturage. Also some Mineral Springs very convenient to the house, and as he intends paying particular attention to the house himself, he hopes to give general satisfaction to those who favour him with their custom. 2m.
JUST RECEIVED FROM NEW YORK, AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, A FRESH SUPPLY OF CHURCH'S & LEE'S GENUINE Patent Medicines. INCLUDING Worm Lozenges, Cough Drops, Restorative Balsam, Hamilton's Elixir, Essence and Extract of Mustard, Hahn's Antibilious Pills, Rich Ointment, Eye Water, Eye Salve, May 11, 1809. Ague and Fever Drops, Vegetable Lotion, Alterative Pills, Hill's Balsam of Honey, Turbington's Balsam, Anderson's Pills, Antispasmodic or Fit Drops, &c. &c.
20 Dollars Reward, IS offered for apprehending ANDREW, a negro slave, who about the beginning of this month RUN AWAY from the subscriber residing in the neighborhood of Amelia Court House. Andrew is about thirty years old, an intelligent, active small man, a good house and stable servant, drives a Carriage well understands a little Shoemaking, and readily performs any kind of plantation labor. Some years ago he was in the service of Mr. Turner at the Bell Tavern in Richmond, where I believe he generally acted as hostler, and afterwards till last Christmas was employed by Mr. Henry L. Biscoe of Manchester in his tobacco stemmery. He has a wife living at the Manchester coal yard, a free mulatto woman named Sukey Hollinger, by whom I have reason to believe he is accreted. I will pay the above reward to any person who will deliver to me the above mentioned slave, or secure him in Jail, so that I get him again. James Henderson. 20th June, 1809.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Montgomery county, on the 27th day of April, a negro man who calls himself MOSES; says he is about twenty two years of age; he is near six feet high, stout built, and says he is the property of Richard Ferrell. The owner is requested to come forward, pay all charges and take him away, otherwise he will be dealt with as the law requires. H. GIBSON, Jailor. June 29th, 1809. FOR SALE OR RENT, that valuable Property adjoining the city of Richmond, called THE COLUMBIAN MILLS. Mr. SAMUEL LACEY, living on the premises, will show this property to any person inclined to rent or purchase. The terms will be made known by application to the subscriber residing in Norfolk. John Granbery. Richmond, July 10, 1809.
TO BE LET to the lowest bidder, at Prince Edward court house, on the last Saturday in July next, the BUILDING of a BRICK HOUSE, twenty two by 20 feet, twelve feet pitch, to be covered with Slate or Tile. By the Commissioners. June 22d, 1809.
COLUMBIAN MILLS. The Subscriber informs his friends, and the public, that he will purchase WHEAT delivered at the COLUMBIAN MILLS, or he will receive it here, to be manufactured on very moderate and advantageous terms to the holders of this article, viz... for every 540 pounds of good Merchantable Wheat, he will engage to deliver one barrel of good Superfine Flour, or he will receive Wheat at 6s and 6d per bushel, of 60 lbs. and deliver Superfine Flour at $1.12 1/2 cent, with a small proportion of Fine Flour at $1.62 1/2 cent per bushel—to be in perfect and delivered in good order at the Mill. The FLOUR made at this Mill has always been held in high repute, and it is the intention of the present Proprietor to sustain its character. The CORN MILL is in complete order—very attention will be paid to customers sending their CORN to be ground on toll at the usual rate. Good fresh MEAL, for sale in small or large quantities at very moderate prices for Cash. Apply to Mr Samuel Leech on the premises, or to JOHN GRANBERY, Residing in Norfolk. CASH given for CORN delivered at the Mill. Richmond, 7th July, 1809.
NOTICE is given, that a petition will be presented to the next Assembly, praying the passage of a law for the sale of the Jail in the town of Fredericksburg, lately built for a District Jail, by the counties of Caroline, Spottsylvania, Orange, Culpeper, Stafford and King George, and the proceeds of such sales applied towards reimbursing the said counties the expense of building the same, in proportion to the sums respectively payable each. 3w.
A BANK NOTE of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, was taken from a black boy who called himself James Smith, & says he found it in the street—Not thinking it proper to let him keep it, I detained it for the proper owner who may have it, on giving satisfactory evidence of his or their right to it and paying the expense of this advertisement. JOHN McDONALD. Richmond, March 10th, 1809.
By virtue of a deed of trust, from Andrew Lewis, of the county of Montgomery, WILL BE SOLD by the subscribers, to the highest bidder, at the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond, upon the 28th day of September next the following
Tracts of Land With their appurtenances, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay certain debts in the said deed of trust mentioned, that is to say: one tract situated in the county of Montgomery, containing eight hundred acres being that tract in which the said Andrew Lewis now lives; one other tract adjoining the last mentioned on the north, containing ten thousand acres; one other tract adjoining the first mentioned, being an inclusive survey, containing seven thousand seven hundred acres; one other tract adjoining the last mentioned at the west end, containing four hundred and fourteen acres; one other tract called the GRASSER NECK, containing three hundred and sixty six acres; one other tract called SEVEN'S TRACT on Bottom Creek, adjoining the first mentioned tract of eight hundred acres, and containing one hundred and fifty acres; one other tract also adjoining the first mentioned tract called FOOTHILL'S GARDEN, containing one hundred and twenty eight acres; one other tract adjoining the last mentioned, containing one hundred and thirty acres; one other tract adjoining the inclusive survey of seven thousand seven hundred acres above mentioned, containing eighty acres; one other tract adjoining the same inclusive survey and containing one hundred acres; one other tract lying on both sides of Little River, containing one hundred and fifty acres, on which is situated HOPESWELL FERRY; one other tract adjoining thereto, containing one hundred and forty acres; one other tract adjoining the same, called the Saw mill tract, containing four hundred and thirty eight acres; and one other tract adjoining the last mentioned tract, containing one hundred acres—which said several tracts of land are situated in the county of Montgomery. The said sale will be made agreeably to the directions in such cases, of the act of Assembly, passed the 31st day of January, 1809, entitled "an act concerning executions, and for other purposes."
EDWARD JOHNSTON, } Trustees JOHN PROSSER, N. B. The above mentioned property is situated on and about what is generally called the BENT MOUNTAIN, and considered a very valuable estate, particularly for grazing. Any one wishing for more particular information, may apply to Charles Johnston, residing in Campbell County, near Lynchburg, or to Robert Pollard, George Pickett, or Gallego, Richard & Co. in the city of Richmond. Richmond, July 11, 1809.
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE. I shall expose to public Sale, on the 2d Monday in August next, on the premises, a TRACT OF LAND situated in the County of Fluvanna on the three Forks of the Great Byrd Creek, eight miles from Columbia and fifty six miles from Richmond—it contains near 1800 Acres, one third of which is in cultivation, the balance is well timbered and generally fit for TOBACCO —the whole is well watered and peculiarly favorable to CLOVER and TIMOTHY. —There is upon this estate a decent dwelling House and out Houses and Mill with a pair of BURN and a pair of COLOGNE STONES. —Mr. Robert Minns, who resides upon the LAND, will show it to any person desirous of purchasing.—The tract may be conveniently divided into three or four parts to suit the wishes of purchasers, who may be accommodated with Stocks of CATTLE, SHEEP and HOGS and a team of oxen & well drawing Mules.—The terms will be, one fourth to be paid when the Title shall be made, the balance to be divided into three, four or five equal annual payments secured upon the Land by deed of Trust. JOHN ADAMS. Richmond, 3d July, 1809.
NOTICE is hereby given, that I shall petition the general assembly of Virginia at their next session, for a divorce from Bernard Florence Hantelman, to whom I was married on the 17th day of November last, for reasons which will be then and there made known. MARY HANTELMAN. July 24th, 1809.
GEORGE WATT, HAS just received and offers for sale—Sicily, Madeira and Sherry Wine, by the hhd, and cask; Green Coffee; Orleans Sugar by the hhd; German Flaxseed Simplex by the piece or cask; half pint glass Tumblers, in cases of 1000 each; and New York Soap and Candles. ON HAND —Madeira Wine—Orleans and Muscovado Sugar—Green Coffee—Molasses—Prime Pork—Liverpool and Stone Ware—Souchong, Hyson Skin and Gunpowder Tea—Spanish Sagar—Raisins—Almonds—Nutmegs—Window Glass—Men's and Women's Shoes—which he will dispose of by wholesale on reasonable terms. Richmond, 20th July 1809.
TAKEN up by Rice Graves, living in Louisa County, a dark coloured Mule, supposed to be fifteen years old—appraised to forty dollars, agreeably to law.
JUST received and for sale at S. Pleasants' Richmond, a few copies of the following valuable works:—The American Annual Register, vol. 4th—Bordley's Husbandry—Woman, a new novel by Miss. Owsen—Burder's Village Sermons—Gurney's System of Short hand writing—Ferguson's Lectures, a new edition—Marshall's Life of Gen. Washington—Thomson's seasons, a cheap edition for the use of schools—Russell's ancient and modern Europe—Carey's general atlas, (the best collection of Maps yet made in this country)—Morse's Universal Geography—Goldsmith's natural History—a general assortment of quarto Family Bibles, with and without plates, concordance, psalms, &c. &c. from $3.50, to $12 each—Gibson's surveying—American Clek's Magazine—Walker's pronouncing Dictionary—also, school Bibles, Testaments and Spelling Books.
MATTRESSES OF ALL SIZES AND KINDS, MADE and repaired, agreeably to order, in the large wooden house opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the market bridge Richmond. J. S. Pleasants. May 31, 1809.
VIRGINIA: At a superior court of chancery held at the Capitol in Richmond, June 13th, 1809 Charles Yancey, AGAINST William Lipscomb, David Bullock, executor of John Bullock, Nelson Crawford, John Crawford, and Charles Crawford, executors of David Crawford, and Robert Kimbrough, defendants. THIS cause was this day heard on the bill, answers, exhibits, examinations of witnesses, and reports of the commissioner, pursuant to the order of the eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and five, with exceptions thereunto, and was argued by counsel; on consideration whereof, the court doth recommend the said reports with the exceptions, to the commissioner who made them for him to reconsider and report thereupon. A Copy—Teste, PETER TINSLEY, c. c. COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, Richmond, July 7th, 1809.
The parties concerned will be pleased to take notice that I have appointed Monday the eighteenth day of September next for carrying into effect the within decree, upon which day their attendance is required at my office with their accounts ready or final settlement. 2m WM. HAY, m. c.
At a Quarterly Court continued and held for King and Queen County, at the Courthouse, on Tuesday, the 9th of May, 1809. James Bray & Aggy his wife, who was Aggy Stevens, and Mary Shepherd, who was Mary Stevens, AGAINST Sam Stevens, Tom Stevens, and John Stevens, Reuben Marshall and Nancy his wife, who was Nancy Stevens, Jesse Perkins and Maria his wife, who was Maria Stevens, THE defendants not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of August court next and answer the bill of the plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper printed in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of this courthouse. A Copy—Teste, RO: POLLARD, c. c.
York County Court, June quarterly session, 1809. Sarah Cary, against Thomas Reeves, and Thomas Griffin, Executors, &c. of Wm. Cary dec. defts. THE defendant Thomas Reeves not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the said deft. is not an inhabitant of this country, or the motion of the Plf. by her counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the third Monday in September next and answer the bill of the Plf. and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Virginia Argus printed in the City of Richmond for two months successively and posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. And it is further ordered, that the other defendant Thomas Griffin, Executor of William Cary, deceased, be restrained from paying away or disposing of any debts or effects due to, or in his hands as executor aforesaid belonging to the said Thomas Reeves until the further order of this court. (Copy) SAMUEL SHIELD, Jun. G. V. C.
Virginia: At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, the 10th day of June, 1809. Samuel Duval, AGAINST John Fowler, junior, Henry Banks, and David Ross and Company, Defts. THE defendant John Fowler not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country, on motion of the plaintiff by counsel, It is ordered, That the said defendants do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Capitol in the said city. A Copy—Teste, PETER TINSLEY, c. c.
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, June Court, 1809. Charles Garrott, vs. Samuel Allen, James T. Hubard, and William Daniel, Jr. Defendants, ON the motion of the plaintiff by counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant Samuel Allen, is not an inhabitant of this state, it is ordered and decreed, that unless the said Samuel Allen shall appear here at October court next and answer the plaintiff's bill, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to him, and decree the matter thereof accordingly; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively and another copy be posted up at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A Copy—Teste, R. ELDRIDGE, Jr. D. C.
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, June Court, 1809. Edmund Glover, vs. Samuel Allen, James T. Hubard, and William Daniel, Jr. Defendants, ON the motion of the plaintiff by counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant Samuel Allen is not an inhabitant of this state, it is ordered and decreed, that unless the said Samuel Allen shall appear here at October court next and answer the plaintiff's bill, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to him, and decree the matter thereof accordingly; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and another copy be posted up at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A Copy—Teste, R. ELDRIDGE, Jr. D. C.
RAGS. THE SUBSCRIBER WILL PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR LINNEN or COTTON RAGS; (For the VIRGINIA MANUFACTORY, ) AND will contract with country Store-keepers for all they may be able to collect, which will be paid for in cash, on delivery at my store, near the Courthouse; where may be had a general assortment of GROCERIES, BOOTS, SHOES, & TENT NAILS. WILLIAM FARR. Richmond, 22d Jan. 1809.