The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-10-29 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM... (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 50.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1805.
[VOLUME 2.
Richmond Prices Current.
Table with 4 columns: Item, Price, Unit, and Notes. Items include Tobacco, Flour, Slaves, Wheat, Indian Corn, Whiskey, Bacon, Hemp, and Bar Iron.
NEIL MCCOULL
HAS received, by the late arrivals from London and Liverpool, his usual supply of FALL & WINTER GOODS.
By Virtue of a deed of Trust, executed to the subscriber, by Stephen Hughes, to secure a debt due to James Lewis...
ELLIS & ALLAN. Have just received by the Ships Prudence and George from Liverpool, and Suffolk from London, a SUITABLE and a well selected assortment of FALL GOODS.
Blankets from 6-4 to 11-4. Napped Cottons. Kerseys white and coloured. Fawns do. do. Yarn and Plaid Hose. Nails from 3d to 30d. Crown window glass 10 by 8, 11 by 9 and 12 by 10. Putty and Glue. Boiled Linseed Oil in Jars. English White Lead ground in oil. Yellow Ochre. Spanish Brown. Verdigris in pots. Bellows, Anvils, Vices and Smiths hammers. Liverpool Filled Salt. London Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, single and double Mill. Patent Woollen Cords. Velvets, Hunters and Constitution Cords, Corduroys and Thicksets. Ladies London Kid and Morocco Shoes and Boots. Silk, Cotton and Woollen Hose. Silk Bath Robes. White Angola Hose, very fine. Gentlemen's Silk, Cotton, and Worsted Hose. Angolas and Lambs Wool. Lambs Wool Half Hose. Real Italian Saracens plain and checked. Chambray Muffins. Plain and Tamboured Jacquet Muffins. Calomel, Pique, & Laced Calomel & Cambric do. Coloured Cambrics and Calicoes. Elegant Silk Shawls, do. Cambric do. Brussels and Kidderminster Carpets and Carpeting. Gentlemen's Real Beaver, Fashionable Hats. Patent do. Ladies Trimmed do. Rich Black Molekin. Rich figured do. Guns and Pistols. Elegant Bowling Pieces. Seine Twine. 8 and 10-4 Daper and Damask do. 8-4, 10-4, 10-18 Damask and Diaper Table Cloths. Irish Linens and 5-4 Irish Sheeting. Which will be sold on moderate terms. October 25. tf.
This Day is Published, And For Sale at the Book-store of the Enquirer, and the Minerva Office: THE VIRGINIA ALMANACK, For 1806: PRINTED FOR T. RITCHIE AND COOK & GRANT, LAND-CONTAINING. A considerable variety of matter; Political, Agricultural, Medical and Miscellaneous. Among others, an Essay on the Oratorical Character of Curran, attributed to the author of the British Spy. October 25.
WILLIAMSBURG RACES. On Wednesday the 30th October, will be run for over the Williamsburg Course, The Jockey Club Purse of Four hundred Dollars, four mile heats. The day following, The Proprietor's Purse of Two Hundred Dollars, two mile heats. WEIGHTS AS FOLLOWS: Aged Horses 133 lbs. 6 years old 123. 5 do. 118. 4 do. 108. 3 do. 90. Mares and geldings allowed 3 lbs. By Order of the Club. JAMES SEMPLE, Sen'r. Sec'y. September 6. £1300
TO BE SOLD, On liberal credit, and in lots to suit purchasers, FROM two hundred and fifty to three hundred acres of LAND, in the county of Henrico, about four miles from Richmond—a distance which renders it but little liable toillage, yet sufficiently near to one of the best and most improving markets in the United States. The advantages of small farms near large towns, are obvious and generally admitted, as not to require particular enumeration. Persons residing in the city with large families, and who are obliged to keep horses, would be able in one year to live more than the original purchase. For further particulars enquire of Mr. Thomas Norvell. May 14. [caftf.]
JOHN TOMPKINS, HAS just received a fresh supply of OLD COGNAC BRANDY, a part of the same shipment of his former parcel. Also, a few hds. of ANTICUA RUM, of good quality. He has on hand, a parcel of BEST FRENCH CAMBRICKS. The whole of which, he offers for sale very low for cash or on a liberal credit. August 16. (18N)
NOTICE.
That on Tuesday, the 29th day of the present month, I shall expose to sale, by Public Auction, for ready money, to the highest bidder, at the Vendue Office of Messrs. Proffer and Moure, the following SLAVES, viz: NANCY, a woman aged about 22 years, Daniel, a boy about twelve years, Yarmour, a girl about five years, Kitty, a girl about two years, and Jack, a boy about six months old, or such, and so many of them as may be sufficient to satisfy Thomas White, the sum of 300 dollars, with interest—Costs and charges attending the execution of a Deed of Trust, executed to the subscriber by Thomas Woodbridge, and duly admitted to record in the Henrico Court of the city of Richmond. ISAAC WHITE, Trustee. Richmond, October 18. (ep tds.)
MARSHAL'S SALES.
TO BE SOLD, for ready money, in pursuance of a decree of the court of the United States, for the fifth circuit in the Virginia district, between Thomas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards and David Ross, and others defendants, in order to raise the sum of 4200 dollars. 26 cents, with the expenses of sale, a number of very valuable slaves now at the Oxford Iron Works. The sale will take place at the said Works, on the 10th day of November next. BENJ. MOSBY, D. M. for JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. (ep tds.)
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY, 8th REQUISITION.
THE Shareholders in the Manchester Turnpike Company, are hereby required to pay to James Brander, Treasurer, the further sum of ten dollars, on each share, on or before the 15th of November next. By order of the directors, JAMES BRANDER, Clk. Manchester, October 11. 1805.
OYSTER HOUSE.
GEORGE WATSON, HAS commenced his former and well known occupation of furnishing OYSTERS, BEEF STEAKS, CORN STEAKS, and RELISHES, at the white House near the Union Tavern, wherein the Post-Office was lately kept. He begs leave to assure those who may favor him with their company or commands, that nothing shall be neglected on his part which promises to give satisfaction. October 15.
FALL GOODS.
THE Subscribers are receiving by the ships Intrepid, Proteus and George, from Liverpool, and the Suffolk from London, their supply of merchandise for the fall, which (especially in the Hardware line) is very extensive and general, and will be sold by the piece or package. They have also on hand a few Quarter Casks London Particular Madeira Wine, Cognac Brandy, Raisins, Pepper, Allum, &c. All of which they offer for sale on the most moderate terms. JOHN & ROBT. GAMBLE, Jun'r. October 11. (oaw4w.)
FALL GOODS.
THE Subscriber is receiving and opening a general assortment of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, which he offers for sale on his usual low terms. WILLIAM GALT. October 11. 4w.
JUST RECEIVED AT JOHN PUMFREY'S, BOOK-BINDER AND STATIONER,
TWO hundred and fifty Reams of FOOL SCAP POTT and POST WRITING PAPER. He has also on hand an extensive stock of BLANK BOOKS of all descriptions, manufactured from materials of the first quality, and every other article in the Stationary line. Tickets for sale in the Second Class of the Richmond Academy Lottery. October 11.
MC CALL'S NAIL MANUFACTORY, ON THE CANAL, RICHMOND.
WROUGHT and cut nails of a superior quality, are sold at present for the following prices, by the barrel.
Table with 3 columns: Item, Price, Unit. Items include Spikes, Nails, Cut Nails and Brads. Prices range from 12 1/2 to 14 1/2 per lb.
THE Co-partnership of the subscribers, under the firm of THOMAS TAYLOR & Co. will dissolve by mutual consent, on the 11th inst.
THOS. TAYLOR, JNO. SATCHELL. The subscribers, under the firm of TAYLOR & BROWN, Offer their services to the public as AUCTIONEERS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, at the hand lately occupied by Thomas Taylor & Co. where they have on hand a large stock of Dry Goods and West-India Produce, most of which will be disposed of at private sale on very low terms for cash or approved negotiable notes. THOMAS TAYLOR, JAMES BROWN, Jun'r. (H.) October 11.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF BLANKS, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
Printing, IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE ENQUIRER.
HUGH J. CRAWFORD, HAS just received per the ship Planter, Captain Boush, from London, his Fall supply of DRUGS & MEDICINES, which being laid in under his own immediate inspection, the quality may be depended on; and having purchased with cash, he is enabled to dispose of them on the most moderate terms. ALSO; London White Lead, gr'd in oil, Spanish Brown, do. Yellow Ochre, do. Paint Brushes of all sizes, Best English Glue, Gold and Silver Leaf. He has for sale, a few bottles Virginia Caster Oil, of the same quality as that lately sold at Dr. Criggan's. Sept. 20. oaw5m
MILITARY CERTIFICATES.
FOR SALE, Certificates of this state, bearing interest of 6 per cent. and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrears of taxes, prior to the year 1792. WILLIAM PRICE, Cashr. Genl. M. A. S. May 10. tf.
BOLTING CLOTHS.
A COMPLETE assortment of best Dutch Bolting Cloths, just received—for sale by M. & B. MYERS. September 10. (ep tds.)
FOR SALE ON PRIVATE CONTRACT, GREEN-WAY;
the seat on which I now reside, including Mous-Sacer, & the Court-House Tenement, containing in all 1200 acres of fertile level farming land (reserving one acre of consecrated ground). The whole is bounded by two navigable creeks, emptying into James River before the door and forming a bay, therefrom 1400 yards only—25 miles to Petersburg by water, 30 to Richmond by land and 28 to Williamsburg. The Court-House Tenement has on it a large enlarged Tavern, with six rooms; one of which is 32 feet by 20 in length and breadth, arched in the middle and used for entertainment; all well necessary out-houses, a good garden and a fine Well of water, dry cellars, floors &c. for the use of a commercial business, which are now occupied to advantage in that line. This is an excellent place for flock, fish and fowl in their seasons; and enough of corn, wheat & oats may be made by common industry for the consumption of the Tavern. This Tenement has 200 acres of land annexed to it, and rents for £100 a year. GREEN-WAY contains 500 acres well improv'd. On it, is a genteel well finished dwelling house, containing six rooms; all wainscotted, chair board high, with fine dry cellars, the full length of the house which is 55 feet: also every other building which a reasonable portion could with desire, to wit: a handsome study, Store House, Kitchen, Laundry, Dairy, Meat House, Spinning House and an Ice House within the Curtilage, a Barn 40 by 34 feet, two granaries, two Carriage Houses, 20 stalls for horses, a quarter for house servants, a handsome Oflagon Pigeon House well stocked, and several other houses for slaves, a well of water, (excellent that I can drink it with delight) returning from a mountain circuit a large fertile garden abounding with a great variety of shrubs, herbs and beautiful flowers, well enclosed. The buildings new and well covered with shingles. MON-SACER contains five hundred acres more or less, on which is a neat small dwelling, a mill begun on a never-failing stream, one mile from James River and emptying itself therein. This farm is remarkably level and highly improvable, is in a fine settlement for wheat and timber, so that the manufacturing business may be carried on to great advantage, as also the fawning of timber now so much in demand. About half this estate inclusive is under fine fire wood and timber—and scarcely a gallon a week on any part of it. The age and fever has not visited a white person for 20 years that I recollected. In short there cannot well be conceived a more agreeable situation in all respects than this estate taken together. I will also dispose of—This little estate lies in James City county; is an Island surrounded by navigable water near the mouth of Chickahominy river, containing 746 acres of high land and hard marsh sufficient for the support of 1000 head of cattle in the month of May. The high land is rich and produces four and five barrels of corn to the acre. There are 100 acres of good timber adjoining the farm. In the center of this Island is a very handsome hill, on which a small but comfortable dwelling is built, affording a fine prospect over James River for many miles. Here every necessary of life can be had and many of its luxuries with little trouble. It overflows with milk and honey when sufficient flock is furnished to go upon. It is remarkable for fine fruit, as the frosts seldom or never affect it; and no place in Virginia surpasses it for fish and wild-fowl. From this place quantities of hay might be transported by water to Richmond, Norfolk or Petersburg. Any kind of public securities will be taken for the above property, or if more agreeable to the purchaser or purchasers, I will receive part in cash and the balance at convenient periods—Thirty or forty slaves and flocks of every kind may be had, if the estate is purchased all together. My lands on Clear Creek, Big Licking and Triplet in Kentucky I will also sell or exchange for property in Richmond. It may be now enquired why I should in an advanced stage of life part with an estate so convenient and agreeable in all respects? In the first place, in a little time I shall be compelled by the unerring voice of nature to "quit this mortal coil," and it is right I should so adjust all my matters as to leave nothing for litigation after my death. My years of regret will be therefore but few on that score. Secondly, it is the best mode I can adopt for a fair division of what I possess among my children; and lastly I am desirous of obtaining a situation, more convenient and cheap for the education of my sons, which the savings from a narrow parsimonious salary, and the profits arising from a much neglected estate, in consequence of my attention to public duties, can never support. JOHN TYLER. August 24. (1 wtf)
AT A COURT HELD FOR KING & QUEEN COUNTY, AT THE COURT-HOUSE ON MONDAY THE 16th of Sept. 1805. UPON AN INJUNCTION IN CHANCERY.
Richard Brooke, Plaintiff, Against Wallace Johnson & Muire & Robt. Price, Dfs. THIS day came the plaintiff by his counsel, and the defendants, Wallace Johnson and Muire not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly, in such case made and provided, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth. On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel: It is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the second Monday in November next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some public newspaper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of this court-house. A Copy, Teste, ROBT. POLLARD, s. s. October 11. (7 wtf)
European Intelligence.
BOSTON, October 15.
From France.—The ship Morning Star, capt. Hopkins, arrived at this port yesterday, in 24 days from Bordeaux. A continental war was considered inevitable. It may be reported, that the troops were ordered from the coasts to the frontiers of France; and that the military establishment was to be augmented with 60,000 conscripts. We have been favoured with Paris papers to September 1, and Bordeaux papers to September 3, received by capt. Hopkins. They mention the continuation of the warlike preparations of Russia and Austria; but state, that the Emperor has offered to consent to the mediation of a great power, (probably Prussia) for the continuation of peace. In the event of war, the neutrality of Denmark is calculated on. The Swedish minister has contradicted the report of the sale of Pomerania to Russia. Bonaparte was on the coast at the date of the last papers. The French Gazettes are full of accounts of the celebration of his birthday, throughout France, Italy, and Holland.
Borders of the Maine, August 24.
It is said that the Emperor, Napoleon, has sent an important declaration to a certain great Court, in answer to the late note of M. Novosiltzoff, in which his Majesty says, that he accepts, with pleasure, the mediation of that Court to adjust the differences subsisting between him and other powers. Without giving credit to all the reports, it may at least be concluded, that peace has numerous partisans on the continent, who circulate their stories in opposition to the warlike rumours of England.
In one of the public prints has appeared the note which the Prussian Minister, Hardenburg, addressed to the French Minister, at Berlin, last week, accompanied with the well known declaration of Novosiltzoff.—The note, dated at Berlin, July 11, is in these terms:
"The undersigned, Minister of State, &c. finds himself, most reluctantly compelled to communicate, to M. Lafaret, Envoy, &c. of the Emperor of the French, the office with which he is charged by M. Novosiltzoff, of returning the French passport, and of announcing to him the order, which the Emperor of all the Russians has sent him, in consequence of the late changes in Italy, and particularly of the union of the Liguurian Republic with the French Empire, not to pursue his journey into France. The king could not but feel infinite pain, at seeing thus confirmed the uneasy suspicions which, since the news of this unexpected event, he has not been able to repress, upon the effect which might result from it relative to the friendly negotiation upon the eve of being opened. The lively desire for the re-establishment of a general peace, with which his Majesty has not ceased to be animated, and which he has so often manifested, is a sure proof of the painful sensations he experiences upon this occasion."
PARIS, August 17.
Vice-Admiral Villeneuve to the minister of Marine—Vigo, July 19.
"I am now under way. I leave here two Spanish ships, and the French ship L'Atlas. These vessels have not suffered much in the action, but they fail badly, and I consider them as rather likely to delay the squadron than to reinforce it. "I have disembarked here my silk. The length of the voyage and the badness of the weather has caused a loss among the troops, but those who have nothing but the security are in no danger, and will soon be relieved by an fresh provision. I shall set out with 15 ships, of which two are Spanish, and if we have any affair on our voyage to Ferrol with the squadron we have fought, we have nothing to fear."
VILLENEUVE.
Rear Admiral Gourdou to the minister of Marine and Colonies—FERROL, August 2.
"MY LORD, "I have the honour to announce to your excellency, that adm'l Villeneuve and Gravina have this moment anchored at Corunna. The English Squadron re-appeared two days ago; it consisted of 13 ships of the line, but immediately on seeing the squadron of Rear-Admiral Villeneuve, it failed again. It had, however, nothing to fear from the combined squadron in Ferrol, the wind being well, and blowing fresh, which rendered it impossible for us to get out. We are all animated by an ardent desire to give his majesty proofs of our devotion for him, and our desire of enterprize for the glory of his flag. Receive the assurances of my respect. (Signed) GOURDON."
PARIS, Aug. 29.
Letters from Naples, dated Aug. 2, estimate the damages in that city, by the late earthquake at 84,600,000 francs. The following are extracted from returns made to the government by commissioners. In Iberia the commotion was terrible, the ground opened and vomited forth flames, and 239 families were swallowed up.
In Castel Petroso there perished 122 families.
Table with 2 columns: Location, Number. Locations include Mafino, Preselone, St. Angelo, in Coila, Baranillo, Cantalupo, Lorenzano and St. Angelo-in-Lombardi.
A letter from Rome mentions the whole number of families which perished, at 1750—that 11 villages were destroyed—and 4600 houses at Naples, more or less injured. August 31.
A slight shock of an earthquake has been felt at Vienna: and an alarming fire has destroyed a number of houses in the suburb of Ifero.
In the Moniteur of the 15th inst. the following passage is extracted from a Morning Paper of the 2d. "The enemy's preparations in the Texel, at
Brest, at Ferrol, and indeed in all other ports,
are known to be in a great state of forwardness, and Bonaparte is about to set out for the Coast. The attempt upon Ireland is expected to be made first, with a view of creating a diversion in favor of the grand effort against England, which is to be made at the same time from the ports of the Channel and those of Holland.—Just, we have certainly no reason to doubt, when they may, the enemy will find us prepared to chastise their temerity, and turn the daring enterprise to their own certain destruction."
Upon these observations, the Moniteur, contains the following curious and extraordinary comment in a note:
"And why does not the enemy come? We tell him by the illu-whose-temerity will be chastified. We know your Commander in Chief; one third of the army of Boulogne would be sufficient to turn his daring enterprises to certain destruction. But whatever you may say on the subject, you know, as well as we do, what you have to expect from a contest by land. As to the maritime war, was undoubtedly, have acquired and hitherto preserved a real superiority, but you were indebted for it, you still are indebted for it, to treachery. It was treachery that delivered to you 30 French ships at Toulon; the treachery of the Prince of Orange acquired for you 12 Dutch ships; it was treachery, in short, that destroyed at Quiberon all the then surviving officers of our ancient marine; in spite of these advantages so odiously acquired, and which we do not dispute with you, our squadrons attack you upon your own coasts; the Shannon is blockaded, not by small vessels, as you say, but by a front and a rear squadron. Your colonies had even arranged the terms of their capitulation, and sent agents to treat with Villeneuve; but that was not the object of his mission, and in spite of the obstacles which he encountered in returning to Europe, though his voyage lasted 50 days, though he lost 20 days by contrary winds, he passed through the center of your squadrons, and effected his junction. His object was not to attack your commerce, and yet he has done you damage to the amount of twenty millions (nearly one million sterling). In India a single French division made captures from you to a greater amount. One brig has taken a whole Newfoundland convoy of the Orkney's; our frigates traverse every sea; not a day passes without some one of them entering our ports, and you have not yet captured one of them. In a word, you boasted that you would attack our advanced line, which, however, has often attacked your cruisers, so far from the batteries, even in the middle of the Channel, and in such a manner that your ships, your frigates and corvettes have sought security in their superior sailing. But two years have been spent in preparing for the defence, and the defence has not yet been made! It will be made, unless you make peace. It will be made perhaps in one year, perhaps in two, perhaps in three years; but before five years shall have elapsed, we shall have humbled your pride, and that superiority which treachery has given you. As to the Continent, think not that you have allies there. You are the enemy of all nations, and every people will exult in your humiliation. But though you should succeed in corrupting some females or some Ministers, the consequences would not be favourable to you; we should certainly acquire a new line of coast, new ports, new countries, and we could afterwards turn our whole attention to the naval war. It is a singular concert in you to think, that we could pretend, in one day, one month, or one year, to accomplish the reduction of your colonial power. Time is one of the means, one of the essential elements of our calculations. Have recourse, in such a situation of things to conspiracies, to assassinations; well and good. This species of warfare you are no strangers to. It is already reported that Drake is thinking of returning to Munich; Spencer Smith to Stuttgart, and Taylor to Cassel. France will not suffer them to set foot, not only on the Continent, but in any place within five or six days march of its armies. Diplomatic affairs are out of the protection of the law of nations. We expected to suffer some losses when you declared war. We might lose Martinique, Guadalupe, the Isles of France, and Reunion. What have you done? You have reduced yourselves to the forty-fifth of blockade, which does not prevent our squadrons from traversing the seas. Continue to blockade our ports, but keep your eyes fixed on the beacons on your own coasts, and live in perpetual alarms."
Should your insulted nation, continuing to be the dupe of some men, who have divided the Government of England between them, not compel your Oligarchs to make peace, and to be persuaded that we are no more those Frenchmen that have been for so long a time fold and betrayed by weak Ministers, inactive Kings, or greedy Mistress, you are advancing towards an inevitable and fatal destiny.
"We desire the peace of the Continent, because it is in the situation in which we wished it should be. We might have augmented our own power, and weakened that of our rivals, if we had thought fit. If there be any State disposed again to disturb the Continent, it must be the first victim, and its defeat being reflected back upon yourselves, will render your dangers more imminent, and your fall more certain."
We repeat it; a just and reasonable peace alone can save you. One of our adages is already proved, and, since you cannot hope for safety, but through the assistance of a Power of the Continent, singly you can do nothing against France, and France will never suffer that you should only have vessels on the seas; the seas are the property of all nations."
The following Note appeared in the Moniteur of this day, upon an article inserted in most of the English papers, the substance of which was, that the British Government had given orders for the detention of American ships, having cargoes on board not shipped from the United States.
"The commerce of one people prospered. Remote from Europe, strangers to the present war, that people were exercising the free industry which belongs to an independent state. England is at length tired of forgetting with respect to that people the naval superiority which enables her to oppress all nations and all seas, and the American trade is at length aimed at—Sugar and coffee have just formed part of prohibited merchandise—it is quite as culpable in the eyes of England to convey sugar and coffee, as arms and warlike ammunition. It is not sufficient, that, by corrupting some faithless Min-

lifers, she has imposed upon several powerful Princes a barbarous Legislation; that she has dictated by menaces, the same laws to weaker princes, whose Ministers she might disdain corrupting; she now places no limits to her violence. Nobody hereafter shall navigate but upon her account, and to sell her articles alone. And this order of things, so humiliating to all states, does not fix the attention of the powers of the world! It is that which England wished when she precipitated Russia into such false steps. So long as the Northern Powers had any sentiment of their commercial independence, the English were forced to keep within certain bounds; but when the Court of St. Petersburg, influenced by corrupting intrigues, carried its condescension so far as to give an official character to the most contemptible pamphlets of the worst English Gazette writers, the Cabinet of London no longer doubted that its eyes were shut for a long time. When England thought too she was sure of Austria, whom she is precipitating into war by inducing her to make in the Tyrol and in Italy armaments which cannot but be considered as a commencement of hostilities , she ceased to fear that any State would return to the sentiment of its dignity. She threw off the mask immediately, and it is by the Americans that she has begun the application of her new pretensions.
BRITISH FLEETS.
List of the fleets under the command of Admiral Cornwallis, and Lord Nelson.
Table with 4 columns: Ship Name, Guns, Commander, and Notes. Lists various British ships like Ville de Paris, San Joseph, Hibernia, etc.
Total, 59 sail of the line.
Sir Robert Calder's and rear admiral Collingwood's divisions are part of admiral Cornwallis's fleet; and the ships which went from rear admiral Collingwood up the Mediterranean with the expedition were to return; all are included in the above list.
List of Lord Keith's fleet in the Downs and Yarmouth Roads.
Table with 4 columns: Ship Name, Guns, Commander, and Notes. Lists ships like Edgar, Elephant, Majestic, etc.
Total, ten sail of the line.
* 98's cut down to 74's.
The subterraneous works at Dover are quite completed, and an excavation has been made in the Cliff-faces to contain 12,000 troops. There are also massed batteries, very curiously contrived, and the place is, in every other respect, in so perfect a state of defence, that the Kentish men may bid defiance to the enemy in that quarter.
London Paper.
BRIG Lord Nelson, of 12 guns and 30 men; frigate, 12 carronades and 32 men; corvette, 8 guns and 150 men; corvette, 4 guns and 20 men; corvette, 13 carronades; ship West-lander, do; Emerald, do; London, do; Kirby, do; Prince of Wales, do; Patriot, do; Nancy, do; Urania, for Whitehaven; brig Singleton, do; Caroline, for Halifax; frigate, President, do; Eliza, for London; for Demerara; lugger Alert, of 14 guns and 50 men; corvette, Mary, of 16 guns and 40 men, of Liverpool. The preceding vessels were prizes to Admiral Villeneuve's fleet. The Spanish national frigate Minerva took a ship of 950 or 1000 tons, coming from Lima, loaded with dollars, and merchandise to the amount of 7 or 8 millions of dollars; she had been taken by the Liverpool privateer Mercy. The frigate, of 14 guns and 12 men, from Portsmouth, is also taken.
West-Indies.
FROM THE PARIS ARGUS.
MINISTRY OF THE MARINE.
Extract of a report of the Siege of Santo Domingo, and of some events which preceded it, addressed to his Excellency the Minister of the Marine and of the Colonies, by General Ferrand.
HEAD-QUARTERS OF SANTO DOMINGO, 20th Germinal, year 13.
MONSEIGNEUR—It is flattering to me to have to announce & to report to you, the circumstances of a military event, honourable for the troops I command and very advantageous to the mother country and to the colony. I mean the siege of Santo Domingo by the brigands, with all their united forces. Heaven, upon this occasion, has favoured the arms of the empire with a great success. This report will prove to his imperial majesty how much the free population and the army of St. Domingo are devoted to him.
I had for a long time been acquainted with the great preparations they were making, by means of the infamous commerce of some Americans, who have constantly supplied them with abundance of every thing necessary to maintain and extend their rebellion. I had information of their movements according as they went on, and I unrelentingly laboured to frustrate their efforts, by securing the affections of the Spaniards by a just administration and by every paternal care that the people love to find in their government. I had for a long time prepared their minds for the event that menaced them, and I was assured that their fidelity would
not be shaken by it. The French troops of the Havanna, under the orders of General Lavalette, were called upon. Provisions, arms, stores, and money, were demanded of the commissary-general, Pichon. The Captain aid-de-camp Castel, whom I had sent to the United States, also exposed my wants in a most urgent manner to all the private commissaries of the commercial relations. Nothing arrived; I every where met with refusals. My situation grew more and more as the danger increased; I had to struggle against difficulties of every kind; I at length struck out a plan. Being destitute of troops, I issued decrees favourable to population, which in a short time doubled the French militia; being without money, I made bargains with merchants whom my operations inspired with some confidence, and thus I obtained what was most indispensable to my situation. It was in these trying circumstances that Captain Bruce, my aid-de-camp, arrived from France with the 1,500,000 livres, in bills of exchange upon the public treasury, which your excellency sent me: this relieved my position a little.
On the 20th of Pluviose last, I learned that all the bands of the revolted were united. I lost not a moment. The union of the numerous forces of the revolted left me no longer in doubt as to their real projects, and it was from the moment easy for me to judge that the frontiers were unable to make sufficient resistance to stop them in their march. I redoubled my care and activity to victual Santo Domingo.
On the 2d Ventose, 1500 brigands came to reconnoitre the borough of Neyba; their chief, setting off at length from Mirebalais, arrived at St. Jean on the 6th Ventose, at the head of 6,000 men; and on the 8th the chief of battalion Viet was attacked in the post of Puerto, with some superior forces, that all resistance became useless.
At the same time another brigand chief, with 8,000 men attacked the militia of Cibao, encamped and intrenched before the town of Yago, with equal success, due in like manner to the superiority of his forces. The brave colonel Serapio of l'Orve perished upon the occasion, manfully fighting, and his troops deprived of their chief, took refuge in the woods. The enemy pushed on hastily upon the town, entered it, surprised the unfortunate inhabitants incapable of bearing arms, massacred them without any distinction of age or sex, and hanged some of the members of the council of Notables. I learned this sad event from Mr. Franco, president of that department, and from some individuals who owed their safety to the swiftness of their horses.
A prodigious population of the country, in women, children, old men, slaves, flying before the brigands, came to take refuge in the town. I profited of all these bands to finish around us some fortifications that were not yet terminated; and every body assisted in this work, women, citizens, officers, and soldiers. We cut down the trees and bananeras, demolished the borough of St. Carlos, half a musket shot from the town, where the enemy might have lodged; and I hastened to lay an embargo upon all the merchant vessels which were luckily in the port.
It was in this place so little favoured in a military light, that the troops under my command conceived the hope of honouring themselves by a defence worthy of the annals of Europe; and I, MONSEIGNEUR, recollected my duty to its full extent, and my engagement to preserve this place to his imperial majesty.
On the 15th Ventose, at five o'clock in the evening, the brigand chief, who arrived with his forces upon the habitation Gaillard, a league and a half from Santo Domingo, sent me, by a Spaniard from the country, the summons by which he demanded the immediate surrender of the place, or threatened an implacable sacking. I did not judge it worthy of an answer. It was highly necessary for me to convince the brigands that my intention was to defend the place to the last; which they would always have doubted of as long as they saw merchantmen laying at anchor in the harbour. They might have thought that I retained these vessels in order to embark on board them in case of an evacuation, and this idea determined them to continue the siege with more constancy and vigour. Besides, this resolution made the troops see the necessity of making a vigorous defence; and I was resolved not to leave to timid minds if there were any, a hope, which might have compromised the safety of the place. In consequence, however, desperate the determination appeared, I was fixed on it, and it was carried into execution on the same day. These vessels took their departure to the great astonishment of the rebel army; I profited by it however, by putting on board all useless persons; beginning with the old men, the white women and their children. This measure delivered me from near 4000 persons, who were sent out from the colony, but who, unfortunately, on leaving the port, were almost all pillaged and ill treated by the English cruizers of the royal navy, several of which have converted the war into a piracy dishonourable to their flag and a civilized people.
On the 18th, we perceived the craft which the brigands had employed during the night to shelter their workmen from the range of our cannon. Some men concealed by a small elevation, spoke just high enough to be heard from the ramparts, striking the ground with their pick-axes, and appearing to excite each other strongly to labour, whilst on another spot, they carried on their work with vigour and silence, to such a degree, that it was impossible for us during the night to direct our fire well and to hinder their works.
I must inform Y. E. that the forties which I executed had a more important and essential end in view than merely to recognize the enemy, or hinder their works, the execution of which we could not prevent. It was extremely important for me to convince him of the attachment of the Spaniards which this fort of affairs accustomed to warfare. I taught him to dread the bravery of a garrison which, not content with waiting for him behind their walls, went to seek and fight him behind his encroachments, and this greatly contributed to cool his design of making an attack upon the place by open force, which, on account of his great number, might have become dangerous. I succeeded most completely in this view. This assurance taught him to respect us, and he was so intimidated at it, that when the brigand chief proposed to his army to mount to the assault in order to terminate the whole affair in one day, they were so much put out of countenance by the proposal, that he did not think it proper to insist upon it any farther.
On the 22d, at nine in the evening, a French Schooner from Porto Rico, brought us the welcome intelligence of the arrival of a French squadron with a large force on board for the Windward Islands. The news soon spread over the place, and as every one entertained hopes that Santo Domingo was one of the ports the expedition was bound for, courage & general confidence was redoubled.
The enemy had concluded and run on shore under the fire of his entrenchments, a large brig which he had got into his possession on the river at some leagues from Santo Domingo. It would have been imprudent to have left her at his disposal but it was difficult to find a swim-
mer hardy enough to bring her off. In the night between the 24th and 25th, Ventose, Simon Maille, a light dragon of the 25th regiment, asked permission to attempt this hazardous enterprise. It was granted him; and under the eyes of his commander and comrades, in spite of the imminent risk he ran of being taken or killed, with no other arms than a knife and provided with a rope, he swam across the river, set the brig afloat, and brought her under the walls of the place. The enemy fired once, but mist him. This trait, which announces both coolness and courage, I have thought worthy to inform you of, in order that Y. E. may obtain for this brave fellow, that recompense already adjudged him by general admiral.
On the 4th Germinal, a brig arrived from St. Thomas, commanded by the brave captain Cottin an old French privateer captain, who by his conduct in the war against the English, merited five and twenty years since, a sword and a pension from the government. He brought the confirmation of a French squadron being at the Windward Islands, and added that another squadron under the orders of admiral Gantheaume had set sail from Brest in order to take Jamaica. In consequence of this good intelligence, I order a salute of thirteen guns to be fired from the Battery of la Conception, which was answered in the road from the Amelie Schooner firing a 16 pounder. This sign of rejoicing appeared to disturb the enemy for a short time.
On the 6th, at half past three in the afternoon, the warning bell from the Tower of la Force announced ten sail in sight. I had then no doubt of their being the French squadron; our joy became general. An hour afterwards, the squadron approached so near that we could not be deceived; it made sail towards the port, in order of battle. It was described from the different posts of the brigands.
There appeared to be a considerable movement in their line; and as I entertained no doubt but that the sudden sight of the squadron must have caused them much trouble and irresolution, I resolved to take advantage of it, in order to oblige them to fall back and thereby raise the siege, by making a vigorous attack on them. In consequence of this determination, I gave orders to the Chief of Brigade Baron to lead himself in readiness to march at five in the afternoon, at the head of 450 men, and penetrate to the left of the enemy's entrenchments.
At five o'clock, the Comet and Savannah gates were thrown open. The Chief of Brigade Baron, having under him the Chief of Battalion Coillot, of the 29th, marched on the first, the Chief of Squadron Aussenac, followed by the Chief of Battalion Ruez marched next, the troops of the line headed the two columns. The Commandant Baron directed his march to the position of Saint Carlos, to the assistance of which the enemy sent a considerable body of troops. At the same time the Chief of the Squadron Aussenac, marching along the shore, made a brisk attack on the right flank of the line of the Gabbions, supported on the road side by fort St. Jerome, penetrated it in spite of the obstinate resistance of the brigands who defended it, and after a very bloody contest in which he charged them several times with the bayonet, they were forced to abandon that part of their entrenchments and to take refuge in the woods. In the mean time, the chief of brigade Baron, continued to make a firm stand under a terrible shower of musketry; it was supported by the artillery of the place wherever it could play without injuring our own troops. In the midst of this formidable noise, it was one of the finest sights ever beheld, to see at a hundred toises distant from the fort of Saint Gilles, in front of the points where the troops were fighting, the whole squadron of rear-admiral Missiessie witnesses of this glorious sortie.
At eight in the evening, I received packets from rear-admiral Missiessie and the general in chief Lagrange, which informed me of their intention the following day to land a body of troops and a supply of ammunition.
The night passed over tranquilly; the squadron beating up and down the road.
On the 7th, in the morning, the fire of the brigands had slackened considerably. At 8, gen. Legrange, gen. Claparede and their staff came on shore. I took a pleasure in walking with them round the place, pointing out to them the enemy's works; this done, after landing the reinforcement of troops, &c. they re-embarked on board the squadron which set sail the same evening.
Not the least noise was heard in the enemy's entrenchments during the night, and this led me to suppose he had begun a retreat.
On the 8th, at six in the morning, we found that our suspicions on the preceding evening were well founded. A young man of colour, of the name of Sterling, an inferior officer in the colonial legion who was thought to have been killed on the 6th Ventose, at the affair of Puerto, appeared at the gate de Comte, and demanded admittance; he informed us of the departure of the brigands. I ordered him to be let in and brought before me; from him I learned that the brigands had spared his life, and made him enter their guides; and having under this title always remained at the head-quarters, he knew every thing that passed in their army during the siege. He related that the brigand forces encamped before Santo Domingo, both in infantry and cavalry, amounted to 18,000 men, including the 8000 stationed on the other side the Ozama; that their chief had all his followers with him, which was in my opinion very probable, the barbarian being too mistrustful and jealous to have commanders and forces behind him, who at a great distance might probably have caused him much apprehension. This officer likewise stated, that the brigands had 600 men killed, and nearly 1500 wounded, during the twenty-two days they remained encamped before the place; they had sent their wounded off a few days before for the French part of the island; and in this statement was not comprised a great number whom the Spaniards had killed in the woods, when they left the main body of their army, in order to pillage the country. The brigand chief, on the day we made our last sortie, had taken the French for an English squadron, which had come for the purpose of summoning me to evacuate the place; this determined him to stand firm, and it was not till the following morning that he was convinced of the truth, when he saw soldiers, arms and stores landed. Finding the places thus succoured, he lost courage, and issued orders for the retreat of his army, which began the same evening between eleven and twelve o'clock at night; his column took the route of Azua, whilst another proceeded by Saint Yago. He gave out on taking his departure, that he would soon return with sufficient forces.
I was resolved not to omit the good opportunity presented me by his retreat towards Azua, and entertaining no doubt but that one of his columns would march along the shores of the bay of Ocoa; I immediately sent thither the Schooner le Department du Nord, with directions to cut anchor at some cables length from the shore, to pour grape shot on the brigands as soon as they should come up. My expectations were not disappointed; on the 10th, at seven in the morning, a column of brigands
made their appearance and marched along the beach in security, at that moment the twelve pounders from the Department du Nord opened a murderous fire upon them, killed vast numbers, made the rest fall back and abandoned upwards of 600 animals, and all the booty they had and were carrying off.
At two I sent out reconnoiting parties of dragoons to a league's distance, on the roads of Azua, St. Yago, and Galindo. According to their report, which fully confirmed the retreat of the brigands, 1200 of the Spanish militia were marched out to destroy the gabbions of their entrenchments. We were then able to judge of the strength of their works and of the wonderful celerity with which they had finished them. Each of these gabbions was 6 feet high and 4 feet and a half in diameter on the basis; each line had 8 gabbions in thickness, and 5 in those parts the most exposed to our artillery.
On the 9th and 10th Germinal, in the morning, I sent out to reconnoitre, to the distance of 8 or 10 leagues upon every road; the result left no doubt of the retreat of the brigands, who fled rather precipitately, pursued by a panic terror. The Spaniards who lay in ambush, fell on them whenever an opportunity presented itself, and so effectually, that no less than 200 remained in the mire at Pingal. I cannot but deplore the atrocities of every description which they committed in their retreat, their footsteps were marked by fire and murder; no crime was scrupled by them; they calied on the inhabitants with words of peace to sacrifice them more surely to their rage. The chief of the brigands, in his retreat, informed the inhabitants of St. John and Neyba, that having taken Santo Domingo he was returning into the French part, and that, in his road he should be happy to review and give them proofs of his attachment: these credulous inhabitants believed him; they quitted their woods and came to give themselves up to death. The other brigand chief did the same to the inhabitants of Cotay, deceived by their curate, who a traitor to the government had, sought to make his parishioners commit the same treason as himself.
The chief who commanded the brigands of the first column, caused the boroughs of Rany, Azua, Neybe and Saint Jean, to be burnt.
The chiefs of the second column set fire to those of Colay, of la Veyga, and ordered the town of St. Yago to be demolished.
Such, MONSEIGNEUR, are the monsters which the justice of the French empire must pursue and annihilate to the very last, if its intention be ever to restore this magnificent colony.
Mr. Gailard, a physician, whom the brigands had detained among them at the time of the evacuation of the Cape, and whom one of their chiefs had brought him to the siege of Santo Domingo, found means to escape during the retreat of the brigands, and arrived in the town on the 14th. He confirmed that the brigands were to the number of 18,000 armed men; that they had between 6 and 700 men killed before Santo Domingo, and 12 or 1500 wounded; that all the brigands or mulatto chiefs had assisted at the siege; that when the French squadron made its appearance on the 6th Germinal, the brigands took it for an English squadron which came to offer its ships to the garrison for the purpose of evacuating; and that they were only undecieved the next day, by the landing of the troops and stores; that the chiefs assembled and ordered a retreat, saying, that nothing forced them to raise the siege, but that they wished to preserve their soldiers for another time. He informed me also that their project, had the town capitulated, was to grant without reserve all the articles demanded; but once admitted within the walls, to massacre the whole of the inhabitants without distinction. Their army was afterwards to quit the place, except the men necessary for the total demolition of the town, for the massacre of the white and free Spaniards in the country; and to carry away into the French part the remainder of the slaves and animals.
Mr. Gailard detailed to me all the cruelties the brigands had exercised in the country, and spoke to me of the discontents of a portion of the brigands and of the jealousy of their chief against Christophe, who, of his own accord, is often very bountiful to the brigands under his orders. He added, that previous to their departure from the French part for Santo Domingo, the mulatto Martial-Bassa had arrived at the Cape, bringing with him a number of workmen, and had offered to make a thousand pounds of powder a day, with only the local means. That the Americans incessantly met all the wants of the brigands, traffick with them armed, which is confirmed by a letter of Lasserriere d'Orly, Commandant of Samana, of the 16th March, in which he announces to me that the French privateer the Heureux Rencontre declared to him she had fallen in with an American convoy of 14 sail coming out of the Cape, and another of the same nation of 22 sail coming out of Port-au-Prince, all armed and escorted by large ships strongly armed. Mr. Gailard denounced to me a Frenchman, called Brunel, who had the infamy to espouse a negress, and who is at this day the public agent of the brigands, at Philadelphia, executing their commissions, informing them in time of the operations of the French Government, and exciting them to maintain themselves in their revolt.
Such, MONSEIGNEUR, are the details of an event too important for the colony of St. Domingo, to be read by your Excellency without interest, and for the troops under my command not to receive from you marks of personal satisfaction. There is not a single corps, not a soldier, not an officer but I have infinite cause to be satisfied with.
Present, MONSEIGNEUR, this act of our devotion and of our military fortune to him who now reigns so gloriously over the French. The army of St. Domingo will be proud if he condescends to applaud their conduct. It is very flattering for me, in sending to him, by the Captain aid-de-camp Castel, the congratulations of the people and of the army upon his happy accession to the Empire, to be able to add for a bouquet a memorable success; as if we were only victories that had the right to ally themselves with the name of so illustrious a hero and so powerful a monarch, who has created a new age.
MONSEIGNEUR, I have the honour to be with profound respect, the devoted servant of Your Excellency. FERRAND.
Domestic Intelligence.
AUGUSTA, October 10.
On Monday morning last, col. Benjamin Hawkins the Indian Agent for the United States, arrived here with a deputation of Chiefs from the Upper and Lower Creek Nations, consisting of Alexander Cornells and Tuskehannaw, from the upper towns; and William McIntosh, Tuckee nee huc Chapco—Enchau Tuckee, and Che, cop, cheko Emantlau, from the lower towns. On Tuesday they left this place in the stage on their way to the City of Washington. We understand that their visit to the seat of government is to treat for the extension of the boundary line of this state to the Ocmulgee river—the Upper Creek are told are in favor of ceding the land as far as the Ocmulgee, and the Lower Creek opposed to it; we believe however that the agent is of opinion, the land may be obtained.
There were in the Creek nation when the agent left it twelve Lodges employed, eight of them, if we recollect aright, were made by Indians and are worked by Indian women, who also spin the cotton which they weave. The plough and the hoe are now also in very general use among them, and in becoming attached to property, and being acquainted with the comforts and advantages of agricultural improvements, they are losing very considerably that predilection for the chase and the hunting life, which almost universally characterises savage nations.
It will be recollected by our readers, that after several ineffective efforts to obtain the land from the Indians to the Ocmulgee river, a treaty was entered into with them for it last year, on terms which the Senate of the United States rejected. It has been frequently asserted and repeatedly published in different papers, that the payment for the land was to be made to the Indians in transferable stock of the United States, and this provision of the treaty has been much censured, and by some has been supposed to have been founded from a conversation with Col. Hawkins, that the observations on this subject have been altogether founded on a mistake. The tale was consented to by the Indians, to secure them a permanent fund for their own support, and the discharge of their debts—the payments for their land therefore, was by the treaty to be made expressly in United States' stock, made payable to the secretary at war for the time being, in trust for the Indian nation. We feel it a duty, and an act of justice to the agent, to make this correction, as we believed we re-published from some other paper, an erroneous statement on the subject.
Augusta Herald.
CHARLESTON, October 15.
The British ship Northumberland, capt. Gibbs, in attempting to enter the South channel yesterday, got ashore on the North Breaker, and is bilged. The crew left the ship with five feet water in the hold, and came up to town last night.
The Northumberland failed from Jamaica with the last homeward bound fleet of merchantmen; but having sprung a leak, left the convoy. She was a fine ship, of 425 tons burthen; had a cargo of 527 hogsheads and 57 tierces Sugar, 48 puncheons Rum, 53 cases and 188 bags Coffee, 112 bags Pimento, 50 bales Cotton, and 47 tons Logwood—a very trifling proportion of which it is supposed will be saved.
LAW REPORT.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Aug. 13.
Blaise v. Irving.
Messrs. Samuel Williams and John Carey, Merchants of Alexandria, on the shores of the Chesapeake, were owners of the fshr. called the Friendship. This vessel was captured by an English ship of war, and was sold with her cargo, under an order of the Admiralty, for $3,551. 17s. 2d. By the treaty with America, a board was formed, consisting of five Commissioners, whose duty it was to determine the cases submitted to them by American citizens, stating themselves to be aggrieved by decisions in our Civil Courts, superior and subordinate. G. W. Irving, Esq. lately appointed Ambassador of the Republic to the Court of Madrid, before his nomination, acted in this country in the capacity, not only of Consul, but of Judicial Agent to the United States, in whose name all demands were to be made, and to whom all sums were to be paid, awarded by the said Commissioners on behalf of American natives. In consequence of proceedings before that board, the claim of Messrs. Williams and Carey was acknowledged for said amount of $3,551. 17s. 2d.; and for their account the sum was paid over, according to the direction of the government of the Republic, to George William Irving, Esq. The interest of the house at Alexandria, in this concern, had been assigned over to Mr. Blaise, the Plaintiff in this cause, and the object of this bill was to procure the interposition of the Court, that the agent might be required to deliver the money to him, instead of accounting with the Treasurer of the United States. The bill had been over-ruled, and the ground of that Demurrer was, that the object intended to be assigned was a chose in action, and therefore not assignable.
Mr. Romilly and Mr. Trower said, that Mr. Irving had received the instalments composing the total produce of the ship and cargo, after he had sworn that he did not intend to do so. Although he was succeeded in his Consular character by Major-General Lynch, he still was the ostensible agent for the trans-atlantic citizens. After all possible means had been employed to make this assignment available, by the act of a moment, Mr. Blaise was told, that he was no longer the creditor of Mr. Irving, but of the United States, and for his redress he must memorialize a government at the distance of 3000 miles. It was evident by the 7th article of the Treaty, that the agents acting in these cases under it were not responsible to the Republic, but to the individual claimants, and the very terms of the award made by the commissioners, stated that the money was paid for account and on behalf of Samuel Williams and John Carey, their executors, administrators, or assigns, and the plaintiff claimed as assignee. In this situation of things, Mr. Irving must merely be considered as the trustee of Mr. Blaise. Then Mr. Irving replied, that he was a Public minister, and not amenable to the jurisdiction of this court, and he further states that for various charges in these affairs, Messrs. Williams and Carey are indebted to the American government 871. and further in the sum of 3041. on other concerns: and he adds, he does not know to what further extent his government may be creditors of the merchants.
The Attorney General and Mr. Martin said, it was impossible the court could accede to the prayer of this motion. The first answer was in January 1804: the second was in September of the same year, to the amended bill: in which the Respondent says, that he had orders from the American government to pay all balances in his hands to the Treasury of the U. States; that from that office of finance, a bill for 60,000. had been drawn upon him, and that the produce of the ship and cargo in question, constituted a part of the balances comprised in this bill. The learned counsel thought it extremely disrespectful to a minister of an independent country, to have his name so often mentioned with indignity; and they considered it right, that the public should be informed of the circumstances, showing his complete vindication.
Mr. Romilly, in reply expressed his apprehensions, that the forms of the Court would not permit the cause of his client to be supported; but he had no doubt of the Plaintiff's justification before the tribunal of the public, to which his Learned Friends had appealed. The Plaintiff would have applied for an injunction, if Mr. Irving had not distinctly sworn, that he would not receive the money.
The Lord Chancellor—"Here is a bill filed by a British subject, stating himself to be entitled to a sum of money awarded by the ship Friendship, and her cargo, taken by the English from the Americans. In the treaty, the United States contracted, that this Government should make compensation for grievances of this nature, suffered by their citizens. It was a compact between nation and nation; and considerable doubt might have arisen, if either this, or any other municipal Court, could have decided

whether the sums awarded by the Commissioners should be paid over to the American government, in exclusion of the demands of the individual claimants here. I overruled the demurrer, because according to the forms of this Court, the principal question had not been raised; and whatever might be the proper determination on the hearing, was therefore necessarily deferred for future discussion. After the answer came on, a motion might have been made, which would have led the Court to determine the point whether Mr. Irving should receive the money in such a character as would make him personally responsible. The parties did not think it necessary to make this motion, and Mr. Irving judged it proper to receive the money, and to pay it over to his government. This gentleman being restrained by no injunction, cannot order him to bring the money into Court; and this is the single question before me. My opinion is, that, according to the forms and authority of this Court, I have no right to order him so to do.
"As to what has been addressed to the tribunals of the public, the public may give its sentiments according to its own judgment or pleasure; I have nothing to do with that."
The supercargoes of the ship Louisiana, having seen a copy of an instrument purporting to be an Imperial Decree of the Emperor of Hayti, in which the departure of the Louisiana from Port-au-Prince, in June last, is styled clandestine and fraudulent, deem it their duty to state, that the Louisiana did, on the night of the 28th of June last, leave Port-au-Prince after shipping one cable and cutting another, and without a clearance or any other Custom House paper from the government of Hayti.
This measure the supercargoes were induced to take in consequence of the government of Hayti having demanded and insisted on the payment of duties to the amount of 25,000 dollars, or thereabouts, when the duties had been fully adjusted and paid, in account and according to an agreement with the government signed by the minister of finance, and the government yet remains indebted to them for goods sold, and cash advanced in at least 9,000 dollars. Notwithstanding the before-mentioned imperial decree, the supercargoes have strong reasons for believing that their conduct is not disapproved of by some of the most respectable officers of the government of Hayti. They are conscious that no injustice has been done to the government, but that on the contrary they in many instances received a most shameful treatment, and had they complied with the demands of government, it would have been a submission to gross injury, and at the risk of ruin to their ship and cargo.
EDWARD TILGHMAN, Junr. JOHN D. LEWIS.
The Enquirer. RICHMOND, 29th OCTOBER. FOR THE ENQUIRER. A compendious and prophetic view of Europe.
THERE are not many who regard the geography and policy of the European nations, and few of those who understand either; it is therefore not expected that the following observations will be much attended to. They will, however, be noticed by a few, and may probably excite some of those to discuss the subject more extensively and with better talents.
The ancient balance of power, for the pretended preservation of which, Europe has been so often deluged with blood, is lost, and no one is stupid enough to suppose that it will ever be restored. In the convulsions which have occasioned this event, France has risen to an eminence which either awes, commands, or disposes the rest of Europe. Great Britain, Russia, Sweden and Turkey are the only independent nations of Europe, which are not exposed to the sudden operations of a French army. During the late convulsive storms and sudden changes of the French revolutions, almost all Europe was leagued against France; and not withstanding she was at the same time torn to pieces by civil discord and a rebellion not less bloody than powerful, still France triumphed, and is now rising from every convulsive struggle with renovated strength.
Many of these great events happened before the incorporation of those conquered countries which have added at least ten millions of inhabitants to her population. France seems now to prefer her own limits; and so far are her resources that there is no single power in Europe which can say it shall not be so. The public prints inform us, that she claims the Rhine as her boundary on the north, and the Adige on the south. These limits include great parts of Holland and Switzerland with many of the ancient principalities of Germany and Italy. With such acquisitions, and supported by a well organized and powerful military force, France as some fear, seems to threaten the overthrow of all the governments of Europe.
This picture and these facts induce us to enquire what may be, or what ought to be the real policy of Bonaparte. Is it his interest or design to subjugate or give law to the rest of Europe? Is he able to fulfil these designs, provided they really exist? What is the general policy which will in future give to Europe the greatest portion of happiness, and the most permanent security. It is not expected that these questions will be considered alike by only two persons, nor is it believed that the following observations will meet with general approbation. This enquiry may, however produce further investigation, the public mind may thereby be informed, and individuals who are misled by errors or prejudices may adopt permanent and useful opinions.
Extensive and powerful as the boundaries population and resources of France are, awful as her power is to the rest of Europe, it is not expected that the other nations can, if willing, form a coalition which can either force France back to her ancient limits, restore the Bourbons, or produce any other great change; or if this should be so, it is likely that the ancient governments of Switzerland, Holland, the low countries, Piedmont and parts of Germany and Italy will be restored and confirmed. All the changes which have happened in relation to these countries may be considered as irrevocably settled, and even tho' the French Empire might be dismembered, the ancient regime will never be restored, they will be consigned to new makers under new modifications; but this prospect is too remote to justify argument; these countries now or soon will form an integral part of the French empire; and the other powers of Europe, certainly will have more to fear from the matchless talents of the emperor, than to hope from the vain prospect that their efforts can make his power less terrible than it is.
The true policy of Bonaparte now appears to be, to obtain the guarantee of Europe for the present state of things. He wants no more, because already he enjoys as much as is necessary to enable him to act, either offensively against one, or defensively against the whole. His own military character and the goodness of his troops leave to the other powers nothing to be hoped, but much to be feared from war. How much better then would it be, if the dif-
contested powers would consider what future arrangements would give to Europe a new and permanent destiny, such as promised to procure the greatest portion of happiness and safety.
To form an opinion upon these important considerations, it is necessary to examine with accuracy the map of Europe, and to know what are the relative resources of the existing powers; this being done we shall not fail to decree a new fate to those who are too feeble to defend themselves, or too desirous to promote a long existence, and by such means new & natural boundaries being acquired, Europe will thereby receive a new and permanent balance.
In the first place, and most conspicuously on the map, we behold a vast peninsula comprehending an area as large as that of France even with her new acquisitions, in the possession of two nations, whose inability compels them to seek the protection of others. Once they were renowned for arms enterprise and wisdom, but now they are but little better than the vassals of those, to whom once they might have given laws. Spain and Portugal, concerning which these remarks are made, were once the same nation, they are united by nature, and ought still to compose but one government. If this event should happen, and the people could be roused from their ignominious lethargy and disgraceful idleness, this peninsula might soon assume an exalted rank in the scale of nations. It is, however, not likely that this event will happen unless it shall be enforced by other nations. Before the subject is dismissed it will be shown that the union ought to be now effected, and that almost all Europe is interested in the event.
Italy next claims our notice. It requires no time to determine that the whole of that portion of Europe, ought to be united under one general government, and to include all which lies on the south of the mountains of Tyrol, with Croatia Bosnia Slavonia and Dalmatia. The Italians might then not only become a commercial and prosperous nation, but might occupy an important rank in the scale of nations. Italy once gave law to the world, strange would it be when their own empire was divided into many powerful nations, that she who was once the mistress of all, should not be able to maintain a defensive position against a single one; the changes which are necessary to produce this event, would be opposed by many perhaps all the great powers of Europe, except France, Venice, Tyrol, Slavonia, Croatia and part of Dalmatia belong to the empire of Austria, Bosnia and other parts of Dalmatia belong to Turkey; neither of these powers would consent to give up any portion of their territories without receiving equivalents. As respects the Turks, so far from offering an equivalent to them, it will presently be recommended and urged, that, that, that empire should be dismembered and overthrown, and that Turkey in Europe should be restored to the rights and enjoyments of civilization and legitimate government.
The Turks have long been the disgrace of nations and the scourge of some of the finest portions of the earth. They were once the terror of Europe, and threatened to extend their empire and their religion to every region of the earth. There is no man who knows any thing of their policy or habits, who will say that their government ought not to be overthrown, and that Europe should be liberated from its natural enemy. In this event, those fine provinces which the Turks now occupy might either be apportioned among the powers which now exist, by new and appropriate arrangements, or a new and independent government might be established. The warlike nations of Europe at this time can bring into the field at least two millions of men; they seem ready to deluge Europe in blood on account of some petty object, some small island or a few barren and inhospitable mountains. They turn away their eyes from that part of the map which exposes the feebleness of the Grand Seigneur, and seem to have forgotten how terrible the Turkish power once was to their ancestors. In every way in which the subject can be considered, there does not arise a single reason to shew that the Turkish empire, ought not to be for ever abolished. Even if the powers which are now in hostile array against each other, will not consent to this important revolution, still it requires no effort of the understanding to determine that the Turkish empire must and will soon disappear; and whether the revolution will be effected by their own discontented and enslaved subjects, by the general consent and co-operation of the great powers of Europe, or by the enterprise of a single one, will depend upon the ripening of events, which no individual on the side of the Atlantic can accurately analyze. It is sufficient for the purposes of this essay to shew that the empire cannot much longer exist. Will it not then be more wise for the powers of Europe, who are ready to plunge into war with each other, to settle their boundaries according to natural and geographical situations, and to obtain indemnities or counterbalancing territories by the means of Turkish provinces, than to sheath their swords in kindred and congenial bosoms?
According to the foregoing observations, France will be allowed to incorporate and retain all which she has claimed. Italy will become a separate, independent, and powerful nation. Commerce, agriculture, arts and sciences, will flourish, and restore these delightful regions to the rights of civilization, and Venice will become the emporium of the uncivilized Croatian, Bosnian, Slavonian, and Servian.
Thus having disposed of the southern parts of Europe, let us next give our attention to the nations who are situate on the north of the Rhine.
Germany has long afforded a picture for philosophical disconsolation; divided into many principalities, the people have been governed with unfeeling despotism. These things are known to all the world, and there is not a man of benevolence, in any part of the globe who reflects upon this picture, who will not turn from it with heart-rending sorrow, or who will refuse to unite in a fervent prayer that the system may be for ever abolished. It is not expected that the petty tyrants who now govern these regions will consent to a change which will deprive them of their titles and power. Many of them are powerful in men and money. They would make great and perhaps effectual exertions against the efforts of a single power; nor would the neighbouring powers permit a revolution in favour of one unless they should derive equivalent advantages. In this way the dismemberment and new arrangements of the Turkish empire may be brought into useful consideration. The abolition of the petty principalities would open to the empire of Austria, new and valuable acquisitions. Natural and permanent boundaries might be allotted. The Rhine, the ocean and the Elbe are those which appear to be proper. By these means the Austrian or German empire would be able to resist the ambition and oppose the hostility of France or Russia, and might guarantee by its position and its strength the tranquility and independence of other powers of Europe. The German nations might then become the commercial rivals of other nations, and might also become their own exporters and importers. The emperor of Germany no doubt would be well
suited with these arrangements. He would make no complaint for the loss of Venice, Dalmatia, &c. Tyrol, &c. or for the extended limits of France, if his own empire in the north should be extended, as has been seen, to the ocean.
But if these or similar arrangements should be made or meditated, the king of Prussia would not be an idle spectator; he would expect, and the general happiness and permanent security of Europe would require, that his dominions should be extended. Let his boundaries be the Elbe; the German Sea, the Baltic, and Russia, with a sufficient extent to the eastward to give to this power a strength and influence equal to that of the Emperor of Germany. In this arrangement Denmark and Pomerania are included. Their situation makes it necessary and convenient. They are not only separated, but are too feeble for independence. The people of Denmark will have no cause of complaint, but rather for joy. They are too few, too weak, and too much exposed on every quarter, to support an independent and energetic government; they must always depend upon the aid, and must of course give way to the designs of some other more powerful nation. It is therefore better to become an integral part of an extensive and powerful government, than to exist according to the interest or caprice of other nations. If Denmark and Prussia had been united during the late war with Great Britain, it is likely that a British fleet would have dictated its own terms, as was done by lord Nelson? No: the British government saw that Denmark had not the means of defence, much less for retaliation. They therefore waged a war, because the Danes had thought proper to exercise some acts of national independence, which did not comport with British interest or ambition. The union which is now recommended, will prevent future transgressions of a similar nature; and Denmark, instead of being a helpless and petty state, will form the advance guard of a powerful nation.
But if a different destiny awaits Italy, the Northern Powers would not consent to the proposed divisions. An independent power between Austria and the German Sea, bordering on the Rhine and Prussia, might be created; this would comprehend all the German principalities which do not belong, or would not fall within the natural limits of other powers, so as to leave no trace of that oppressive system. This important subject may certainly be considered under various modifications, but none will desecrate to afford to each of the means of protecting its own independence. But no arrangement ought to have weight which will not blot out the name of Turkey from the future destiny & annals of Europe.
With respect to Sweden, nature has prescribed her limits. Norway, Lapland, and Finland, are united by their relative situations; these ought to form the Swedish empire. In this Russia would cede some part of her dominion, and Sweden would be remunerated for Pomerania; but if this should not be the case, some other recompense must be made, because the division just recommended is essential to the people's happiness.
It is admitted that none of these great arrangements are necessary for the happiness & permanent security of Europe, cannot be accomplished without the consent of Russia. That power will not suffer her neighbours to become so powerful, and to acquire so much the means of perpetuating their power, without paying proper regard to her own rights and interest. Already it has been said that the Turkish empire ought to exist no longer. If the changes which are recommended should be approved, and compensation or equivalent advantages are required by Russia, these may be obtained from contiguous parts of the Turkish empire.
A superficial view will determine that the Russian empire is already by far too extensive; so that the foregoing arrangements might all be made, if equality was to be the principal consideration, without holding forth any remuneration to Russia; but emperors and kings never give up any thing without reward or by force. These arrangements, as has been seen, are predicated upon a general system of mutual agreement and reciprocal benefits. It would therefore be idle to expect the consent, much less the co-operation of the Emperor of Russia, unless the system should be entirely satisfactory.
If these, or similar designs are contemplated by Bonaparte, who will say that he ought not to succeed? Is it not evident, that by these great changes, arts, commerce, science & civilization will spread over Europe. The nations among whom that quarter of the globe will be divided, will be not only strong enough to ensure their own independence, but mutual interest will induce them to guarantee the dominions and rights of each other, by a general confederation. In this arrangement we behold a new Balance for Europe, and one too which promises to give happiness to the inhabitants of that portion of the globe. But perhaps while these grand and necessary changes are foretold by an American, those nations who have the power, and would be most benefited by the changes, have drawn the sword of implacable & destructive war. If so, it is too late to hope that measures so wise and so salutary will soon be accomplished.
With respect to the discontents which these changes will give to a few individuals, when compared with the general benefits, they will bear so little in the comparison, that it is scarcely necessary to offer arguments against them. In a few years they will die away and be forgotten.
The execution of these or similar innovations, depends upon the will of four men: These are the Emperors of France, Austria, Russia & the King of Prussia. If the design is good, why may not these mighty monarchs ensure the happiness and tranquility of Europe, and become the benefactors of mankind by a combined effort, which will be not less productive of their own glory and national strength, than it will contribute to the peace, prosperity and tranquility of the world.
There are some persons who believe, or pretend to fear, that Bonaparte's ambition has no bounds; and that he will never stop his career unless by force, until he has made himself the sovereign of Europe and the law-giver of the world. Let those who dream over such idle chimeras, cast their eyes on the map of Europe; let them contemplate the naval and military strength, extent of territory and population of other nations, and they will at once determine that it is not likely that a man of so much penetration as Bonaparte possesses, can seriously entertain such designs, or if entertained, that it is possible to execute them. Satisfied with a brilliant career, which has given to him both reputation and power, such as no other man ever did acquire, wielding the sceptre of the most powerful and polished nation of the earth, commanding all which greatness can require, Bonaparte will not give way to projects which might jeopardize his present situation. He rather desires to perpetuate what he has obtained. But if a new coalition shall compel him again to take the field, and put his greatness and his life upon the chance of a battle, it is likely that Europe will witness another battle like that of Marengo; and some of those who have provoked the war, may become fugitives from their own countries.
It is supposed that Bonaparte, since the gates of Vienna, once gave peace and independence to Austria, & that his power again to invest that proud capital, existed after the battle of Marengo? Will the Emperor of Austria forget these things, and again commence a war, which may terminate in the destruction of his own power, and may change the destiny of his people.
If Bonaparte should be again victorious, it is believed that he would again relinquish the advantages which victory would give; or would he again restore the same court to power, which already so often vanquished, has as often used its power against its benefactor, to disturb the tranquility of nations, and to convert the most civilized and enlightened regions of the earth into a vast camp?
In this country we are too apt to form opinions concerning the affairs of Europe, upon partial or superficial views. We give way to our passions, and listen to every evanescent tale. If our prejudices are excited, we cast from us every truth and resist every reason which might soften the asperity of jaundiced and irritated feelings. Hence it is that Bonaparte has been often condemned, and sometimes execrated for acts which were the necessary consequences of an unavoidable situation. We forget that nothing less than those very measures, which we condemn, could have saved him from destruction. But it is time to close this article, and to invite those who have read it, to examine well its contents before it shall be consigned either to oblivion or condemnation. The character which holds the most conspicuous place in it, has certainly been the favour of France. Why may he not become the benefactor of Europe, and the friend of mankind?
PACIFICATOR.
We shall at present pause in our remarks and quotations on the means of defending the commerce of the United States, against the encroachments in Great Britain. Next to Mr. Barlow's arguments in favour of the sequestration of debts, and to Mr. Madison's resolutions and speech in favour of commercial restrictions, it was our plan to introduce some original or selected remarks upon the suspension of our commercial intercourse. These we have omitted because though we conceived it to be the policy of the United States to restrict and modify our trade with Great Britain, we do not conceive it to be our interest to suspend it altogether; and because many of the fundamental observations of Mr. Madison, are equally calculated to throw a light on this, as well as on the measure to which they were originally applied. The following resolutions on this very subject, and the proceedings which took place in the Senate in 1794, it may, however, be interesting as well as useful to recall to the consideration of the reader.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, In Senate, April the 28th, 1794.
The Senate proceeded to the second reading of the bill, sent from the House of Representatives for concurrence, entitled, "An act to suspend the importation of certain goods, wares and merchandise."
On motion to refer the bill to a committee of five, and after debate it was withdrawn—and a second motion for a commitment being made—it passed in the negative.
On motion to agree to the first section to wit: "Whereas the injuries which have been suffered, and may be suffered, by the United States, from violations committed by Great Britain, on their neutral rights and commercial interests, as well from the failure to execute the seventh article of the treaty of peace, render it expedient, for the interests of the United States, that the commercial intercourse between the two countries, should not, during the continuance of these embarrassments, be carried on in the extent at present allowed: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of November next, it shall be unlawful to import into the United States, any goods, wares or merchandise whatever of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, and if any such shall be imported, the same shall be forfeited, and may be seized by any of the officers of the customs: And where the value thereof, according to the highest market price, shall amount to four hundred dollars, the vessel importing the same, with her tackle, apparel and furniture, shall be subject to like seizure and forfeiture. Provided, that this prohibition and forfeiture, shall not extend to any such articles as are now exempt from duty."
It passed in the negative—Yeas 11—Nays 14. On motion that this bill pass to the third reading—It passed in the negative—Yeas 12—Nays 13. The yeas and nays being required by one fifth of the Senators present.
Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Messrs. Bradley, Brown, Barr, Butler, Edwards, Gunn, Hawkins, Jackson, Langdon, Martin, Monroe, Robinson, and Taylor. Those who voted in the negative, are, Messrs. Bradford, Cabot, Ellsworth, Foster, Frelinghuysen, Henry, Izard, King, Morris, Potts, Rutherford, Strong, and Vining. The yeas and nays being equal, the Vice-President determined the question in the negative.
The history of those times affords a very memorable fact, in illustration of the position which we have supposed: that we have both cheaper and more efficient means of defence against the encroachment of Great Britain, than the embattling of armies or the force of artillery.
When intelligence had arrived in London that we had laid an embargo, and that Congress was debating on the propositions for sequestrating British debts, and restricting and suspending our commercial intercourse, the merchants of that populous city were struck with alarm! Petitions would have been presented to the Throne to redress our grievances and disarm our resentment. Not long however is this intelligence permitted to operate upon them before an account arrives in London, that these precautionary measures had been rejected and that Mr. Jay is to appear at their court with the functions of a minister and a solicitor. The whole scene of agitation and alarm vanishes at once, and the celebrated British treaty appears on the stage. To Mr. Adams, therefore, who gave the casting vote in opposition to the non-intercourse bill, are we probably indebted for a disadvantageous compact and for the repeated injuries which we have sustained.
It is at all times necessary to discriminate between the tendency and intention of any political measure. The man who charges another with impure and censurable motives, because his actions may lead to deplorable consequences proves himself deficient in the most contracted knowledge of human nature.
Although we have sincerely lamented the combination of some of the republicans with the federalists of Pennsylvania; although we think we perceive in this event the teeming germ of a thousand political junks, selfish intrigues, and moral deviations; yet have we never presumed to scatter around the thunders of proscription, and to brand every man as a federalist or a trimmer who was willing to support the present government and constitution of Pennsylvania. Many of those men might have been actuated by the most selfish intentions: the conduct of all of them appears to have been really dictated by a narrow and most ruinous policy: but it would require even stronger arguments than those to
convince us, that such men as Logan and Smilie have ever been importers or are now importers, when they might have conscientiously believed that their whole constitution was in imminent danger, and that its ruin would be the inevitable forerunner of Jacobinism, anarchy, and convulsion. Under this point of view we cannot but disapprove of the spirit of the following "Extract of a letter from Beaver-town," on the western side of the mountain, that appeared in the Aurora of the 19th inst. We submit it to our readers, as we shall submit every composition that relates to the moving springs of the politics of Pennsylvania, that they may be able to understand the present temper and predict the probable movements of this agitated State. The writer is stating the result of the late election in the western districts of Pennsylvania, when he observes: "Fayette and Green have fallen off, and I am with regret forced to tell you, that this is owing wholly to the influence of Gallatin and Smilie. Greene county swarmed with Gallatin's letters to different persons, urging them to co-operate with the federalists and support McKean; you who know the part Gallatin took against McKean in 1799, must draw your own inferences. There is a brother-in-law of Gallatin, who has been riding the country on that same hopeful errand; and poor Smilie has completely sunk his character for independence. Col. Hamilton acted no better, so that it appears that old Findley will have companions in his defeat."
It is reported in this city, that the Spanish minister the Marquis d'Irujo having determined to leave the United States, has demanded his passports from our government. The report adds, that the President observed in reply; that we had no such etiquette in this country, and that it was in the power of a foreign minister to quit the United States when and how he pleased. A report so important in itself, since it may be regarded as an ominous sign of an approaching rupture between the two countries, we shall take the earliest opportunity to contradict or confirm.
A file of New-Orleans papers, which we received by yesterday's western mail, breathes a strong spirit of defiance and war against the Spaniards. They contain few facts of any great moment; and these appear rather in the form of floating rumours, than in the firm and authenticated language of truth. The paper of September 14th observes "we can fare from a source that may be relied on, that an army of 5000 men is on its march from Mexico to strengthen the Spanish frontier on Louisiana." The paper of the 18th observes "we learn from good authority, that the Marquis de Casa Calvo has written a circular letter to all the Spanish officers now in this territory, requiring them to repair without delay to Pensacola, to join their respective regiments." That of the 21st in sketching out a concise plan of the measures to be taken on the commencement of hostilities, remarks; that "by withdrawing the troops from the various posts on the Mississippi, from the Walnut hills to Point Coupee, and calling into service the Orleans volunteers, we should have a force sufficient to strike a blow that the enemy would not recover from during the war. Baton Rouge might be taken by the troops as they descend the Mississippi; when concentrating our forces at this place, we would pass into West Florida, and occupy Mobile, Pensacola, and such other places as we might deem necessary." That their exertions would have the desired effect, we cannot presume to doubt, when we recollect the general imbecility of Spanish policy and the remarkable defenceless condition of the Floridas. One of the Creek Chiefs, who was lately in this city declared, that a very inconsiderable detachment of men might obtain possession of all the forts on the Mobile and even of Pensacola itself.
Interested as he has been in an event, which has almost completely engrossed the feelings of the people of this city, the Editor has had no leisure to reply in satisfactory detail to the fractures of Thomas Turner. So far as they apply to public matters, he has presumptuously enough to believe that they have already been refuted in the vindication of Mr. Jefferson; and so far as they apply to the author of that vindication, he is not unwilling to reduce it to a pro & con to a mere question of character, and submit it without the slightest argument to the rigorous verdict of the public. Perhaps he may too highly over-rate the pretensions which he supports and the "lauding" which he has assumed, when he looks down with proud contempt upon the imbecile insinuations of his opponent. Yet contemptible as these insinuations are, they have furnished Mr. Turner with a subterfuge, which no man of an elevated and gallant spirit would have condescended to employ.
From the VIRGINIA GAZETTE and the ARGUS. PERMIT me to correct an inaccurate statement; which appeared in the Enquirer of yesterday, relative to the Duel between Skelton Jones and William Upham. They met as stated in the Enquirer: one of the preliminaries to bring was, that each should elevate his pistol until the word was given, so as to prevent injury by accidental discharge. Lieutenant Read was Jones's second, and was to give the word. While he was engaged in making some arrangements, he heard the report of a pistol; and on turning around, discovered that his friend had fallen. Lieutenant Read would have shot Doctor Upham upon the spot—but he continued to excuse himself by exclaiming—it was an accident! an accident! Jones is in a fair way to recover from this accidental wound.
MERIWETHER JONES. P. S.—The distance at which the parties stood is inaccurately stated in the Enquirer. It was three feet, instead of three yards. September 25.
Sales at Auction. To-morrow, the 30th inst. will be sold for cash, without reserve: FOURTEEN hogheads Antigua RUM, 6 ditto SUGARS. Also, at 60 days credit, Loaf and Brown Sugars, &c. &c. GRANBEY & HANCOCK. October 29.
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IRISH LINEN & SHEETING WELL assorted in boxes containing 26 to 96 pieces, purchased in Dublin last July, and imported in the ship George from Liverpool, for sale by the box and piece by JOHN HENRY. Who has also on hand, a few bales of GERMAN OSNABURGS, imported direct from Varel. October 29. 5wp
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