The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1807-11-20 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
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VOLUME 4.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1807.
[NUMBER 56.]
GERARD BANKS.
HAS IT IN VIEW TO ESTABLISH A NEW SPAPER, IN RICHMOND, TO BE PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK.
THE TITLE.
THE EDITOR has been always attached to Republican principles. The project Administration, in his view, is well calculated to ensure the happiness of the people; and any administration which may succeed, pursuing the same general course, will be supported. Foreign and Domestic affairs will be noticed. Before the public will be laid the state of the affairs of the public institutions, and particularly of the court of the bank; its managers, its influence, its defects and impositions. The usurpations of this dangerous institution will be noted; the aristocracy which grows from its management will be exposed. This course will be pursued with a temper and firmness, which will yield neither to the blandishments of flattery, nor the frowns of power. Stock-jobbing and Fugitivism, Twin Demons, will be arraigned wherever they appear. 500 Subscribers at 5 Dols. per annum each, one half in advance, are necessary to the establishment of the Paper. GERARD BANKS. Richmond, October 30. eptf.
MORE CHEAP GOODS!
JOHN KING, again, respectfully informs his customers and the public, that he has just received, by the late arrivals from Philadelphia and New-York: a general assortment of FASHIONABLE & SEASONABLE GOODS, Which are now opening at his Store, the second door below the Eagle-Tavern; where they may be had upon as good terms, for cash, as at any other place in the City. November 6. eptf.
WILLIAM TEMPLE, has received by the ship Herschel from Liverpool and Calcutta from London, An extensive supply of MERCHANDIZE, suitable to the present and approaching season, which he will sell low. Oct. 10. eptf.
THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE JUST RECEIVED A SUPPLY OF COLOGNE MILL-STONES, OF DIFFERENT SIZES, WHICH will be disposed of for Cash or approved negotiable Notes at 60 days. TAYLOR & BROWN. June 10. eptf.
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY. The annual meeting of Stockholders will be held at Mr. Brock's Tavern in Manchester, on the 9th Monday in December next: Special matters of business important to the interest of the company require a full meeting; hence it is expected, that such members as cannot attend in person will appoint delegates to act for them. Nov. 12. JAMES BRANDER, CLK. rdm.
FOR SALE. THE subscriber is desirous of selling his PROPERTY in this City. The purchaser will be accommodated with time if required, on giving satisfactory security. EMMIL GREENHOW. Oct. 7. eptf.
Europe.
CONTINUATION OF EXTRACTS From London papers to the first of October, received at the Office of the Mercantile Advertiser.
LONDON, September 15. The gazette announces that the vigorous blockade of the rivers Elbe, Weser and Ems, is discontinued for the present; and that neutrals will be permitted to trade at the said rivers, provided such vessels are going from or to a neutral or British port, and shall not be re-captured, nor shall have previously traded, between either of the said rivers and any port or place in the possession, or to far under the control of the enemy, as that British vessels may not freely trade thereat nor from one to another of the said rivers. As the time may not be far distant when Portugal will be compelled to employ her navy against us, unless some precautionary measures be taken to prevent it, the following list of it may not perhaps, be unacceptable. Several of them are unfit for service: 18 ships of the line, of 74 and 80 guns. 14 frigates 36 and 44 ditto. 10 brigs 14 and 20 ditto. 2 Schooners 12 and 15 ditto. Some of these vessels are very handsome, and equal to any in the British navy, according to the opinion of Lord St. Vincent, who inspected several of them when at Lisbon. The number is all got from the Brazils, and is more like iron than wood, but the Portuguese seamen are the best of our navy, and only superior perhaps to their French, who are a burlesque upon the martial profession. In the present weak state of the fortifications on the Tagus, it would be no difficult enterprise to destroy or bring off the whole of their navy by a coup de main. General Junot is stated to have set out for Bayonne, to take command of the troops there; and it is again mentioned, that he is going upon an important mission to Lisbon. The French funds are now as high as 90 3/4. They were under ten, when Bonaparte took upon himself the government.
LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. DOWNING STREET, Sept. 16. Dispatches of which the following are extracts, have been received by Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, from Admiral Gambier, and Lieutenant General, the Right Hon. Lord Cathcart, K. T. commander of his Majesty's naval and military forces in the Baltic Sea.
Prins of Wales, Copenhagen Road, Sept. 7. My Lord—My letter of the 5th instant will inform your Lordship of the progress of the operations of his Majesty's forces against Copenhagen to that period. I have now the honor and satisfaction to add, that previously to the hour intended for the opening our batteries that night, an officer with a flag of truce came out of the town with proposals for an armistice, to little terms of capitulation. This was accordingly done, after a correspondence between the Danish General and Lord Cathcart and myself, of which I transmit a copy; and your Lordship will be informed of the stipulations agreed upon by the included copy of the articles. Our army has accordingly been put in possession of the citadel and the arsenal, and the most vigorous exertions are commenced for equipping and sending to England the Danish Navy. I have the honor to be, J. GAMBIER. To Lord Viscount Castlereagh, &c. &c.
Citadel of Copenhagen, Sept. 8. My Lord—It has fallen to my lot to have the great satisfaction of forwarding to your Lordship the ratified capitulation of the town and citadel of Copenhagen, including the surrender of the Danish fleet and arsenal in this port, which are placed at his Majesty's disposal.
The object of securing this fleet having been attained, every other provision of a tendency to wound the feelings or irritate the nation has been avoided; and, although the bombardment and cannonade have made considerable havoc and destruction in the town, not one shot was fired into it till after it was summoned, with the offer of the most advantageous terms; nor a single shot after the first indication of a disposition to capitulate; on the contrary, the firing, which had lasted three nights from his Majesty's batteries, was considerably abated on the second, and was only renewed on the third to its full vigor, on supposing, from the quantity of shells thrown from the place, that there was a determination to hold out. On the evening of the 5th of September, a letter was sent by the Danish General, to propose an armistice of twenty-four hours, for preparing an arrangement on which articles of capitulation might be founded. The armistice was declined, as tending to unnecessary delay, and the works were continued; but the firing
was countermanded, & Lieut. Colonel Murray was sent to explain, that no proposal of capitulation could be listened to, unless accompanied by the surrender of the fleet. This basis having been admitted by the subsequent letter, on the 6th, General Major A. Wellesley, whom I had sent for, for this purpose, from his command in the country, where he had distinguished himself in a manner to honor himself and to be advantageous to the public, was appointed, with Sir H. Phipps & Lieutenant Colonel Murray, to prepare and sign articles of capitulation; and these officers having insisted on proceeding immediately to business, the capitulation was drawn up in the night between the sixth and seventh.
ratification was exchanged in the course of the morning, and at four in the afternoon of the same day Lieutenant General Burrard proceeded to take possession. The British grenadiers present, with detachments from all the other corps of cavalry and infantry, under the command of Colonel Cameron, of the 79th regiment, with two brigades of artillery, marched into the citadel; while Major-General Spencer, having embarked his brigade at the Kalk Brædere, landed in the dock-yard, and took possession of each of the line of battle ships, and of all the arsenals; the Danish guards withdrawing, when those of his Majesty were ready to replace them and proper officers attending to deliver stores, as far as inventories could be made up. The town being in a state of the greatest ferment and disorder, I most willingly acceded to the request that our troops should not be quartered in it, and that neither officers nor soldiers should enter it for some days, and, having the command of possession from the citadel whenever it might be necessary to use it, I had no objection to relieving the other gate in the hands of the troops of his Danish Majesty, together with the police of the place.
The amount of the garrison of the town is not exactly ascertained. The regular troops were not numerous; but the number of batteries which fired at one time, together with the floating defences, prove that there must have been a very great number of militia and burghers, with other irregular forces; and their ordnance well served. Considering the advanced position in which his Majesty's troops have been placed for the last fortnight, our loss (highly as I prize the value of every officer or soldier who has fallen or been wounded) has been comparatively small. [Here follows an eulogium on the several officers and men engaged in the expedition, also acknowledging his having received the most prompt and beneficial assistance from the fleet.] I send this dispatch by Lieutenant Cathcart, who has become for some time my first aid-de-camp, who has from every thing that has occurred here and at Stralsund, and will be able to give any further details that may be required. I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) CATHCART.
List of Killed, Wounded, and Missing. Killed—Four Officers, 1 Serjeant, 1 Drummer, 80 rank and file, and 8 Horses. Wounded—Six Officers, 1 Serjeant, and 138 rank and file, with 25 Horses. Missing—One Serjeant, 4 Drummers, and 19 rank and file. Names of Officers Killed. Lieutenant Lyons, of the royal artillery; Ensign Robert Dixon, of the 82d Foot; Lieutenant Rudolf, of the 1st Reg. of Light Dragoons King's German Legion; and Ensign Jennings, of the 23d Foot, or Royal Welch Fusiliers. Names of Officers Wounded. Captain Halling, of the 82d Foot; Lieutenant Suter, of ditto; Captain During, 1st batt. King's German Legion; General St. David Baird, in the shoulder and hand, slightly; and Ensign Bilton.
ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION.
For the town and citadel of Copenhagen, agreed upon between Admiral Gambier, Commander in Chief of his Britannic Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the Baltic Sea, and Lieutenant General the Right Hon. Lord Cathcart, K. T. Commander in Chief of his Britannic Majesty's Forces in Zealand, on the one part; and his Excellency Major-General Poman, Knight of the Order of Dannebrog, and Commander in Chief of his Danish Majesty's Forces in the Island of Zealand, on the other part. Art. I. When the Capitulation shall have been signed and ratified, the troops of his Britannic Majesty are to be put in possession of the citadel. Art. II. A guard of his Britannic Majesty's troops shall likewise be placed in the dock yard. Art. III. The ships and vessels of war of every description, with all the naval stores belonging to his Danish Majesty, shall be delivered into the charge of such persons as shall be appointed by the Commanders in Chief of his Britannic Majesty's forces; and they are to be put in immediate possession of the dock yards, and all the buildings and store-rooms belonging thereto. Art. IV. The store-ships and transports in the service of his Britannic Majesty are to be allowed to come into the harbour for the purpose of embarking such stores and troops as they have brought into this Island. Art. V. As soon as the ships shall have been removed from the dock yard, or within six weeks from the date of this Capitulation, or sooner if possible, the troops of his Britannic Majesty shall deliver up the citadel to the troops of his Danish Majesty, in the state in which it shall be found when they occupy it. His Britannic Majesty's troops shall likewise, within the before mentioned time, or sooner if possible, be embarked from the Island of Zealand. Art. VI. From the date of this Capitulation, hostilities shall cease throughout the Island of Zealand. Art. VII. No persons whatsoever shall be molested, and all property public or private, with the exception of the ships and vessels of war and the naval stores before mentioned, belonging to his Danish Majesty, shall continue in the full exercise of their authority throughout the Island of Zealand; and every thing shall be done which can tend to produce union and harmony between the two nations. Art. VIII. All prisoners taken on both sides shall be unconditionally restored, and those officers who are prisoners on parole shall be released from their parole. Art. IX. Any English property that may have been sequestered in consequence of the existing hostilities, shall be restored to the owners. This capitulation, shall be ratified by the respective commanders in chief, and the ratifications shall be exchanged before twelve o'clock at noon this day. Done at Copenhagen this 7th day of Sept. 1807. ARTHUR WELLESLEY, HOME Popham, GEORGE MURRAY. Ratifié par moi, (Signed) Poman.
September 20. DECRET AGAINST ENGLISH COMMERCE. HAMBURG, September 8. Louis Napoleon, by the grace of God, and the constitution of the kingdom, king of Holland. Considering that, consistent with the true interests of our kingdom, it is our duty, by all the means in our power, to co-operate in the desired execution of the great
measures adopted by the emperor and king, against the common enemy, for the purpose of obtaining a general peace, and the independence of the seas—considering that some subaltern agents have rendered themselves criminal by want of firmness and neglect in the execution of the measures directed by our decree of the 15th of Dec. 1806—considering the artifice and bad faith which have been employed in several ports of the enemy, with respect to the papers of neutral vessels, and by which the health of Europe was put to hazard, by making out letters of quarantine—considering, finally, that all those irregularities ought to be terminated at a moment so critical for the enemy of the whole continent and in particular of all commercial states; and that the honor and the dearest interests of our subjects would be compromised, were the strict execution of the laws and decrees passed for this purpose overlooked—we have, therefore, decreed as follows:
1. The agents arrested in consequence of the orders of our minister of justice and police, shall be brought before the competent courts to answer for their conduct according to the laws. 2. The vessels stopped in our harbors, a list of which is subjoined, shall be decided upon by the competent tribunals. 3. Reckoning from the date of the present decree, all vessels entering inwards shall give a double security, which shall remain until the legality of their papers be fully acknowledged, and until it be proved that these vessels have not touched at an enemy's port. 4. In case the papers should be false, or it should appear that, contrary to the declaration of the captain, the ship had touched at an enemy's port, the double security shall be immediately demanded of the factors and the amount paid into the public treasury. 5. As soon as the security shall be settled, the delivery of the ships may take place, in presence of the persons appointed to superintend it, by the minister of finance, who shall take care that the owner do not unload any articles which may be presumed to be English merchandise. 6. If it should be proved that the goods are of English manufacture, or have come from any enemy's port, they shall not only be confiscated, for the benefit of the public treasury, but the double security shall also be levied, and the ship shall also be obliged to put to sea; and the same shall, in case of bad weather, have no shelter, except under the strictest precautions. 7. All correspondence, journals, &c. which come in a neutral ship, shall be seized and burnt. 8. All passengers or travellers, who cannot prove that they do not come from the British isles, shall immediately be sent out of the kingdom. 9. All prohibitory regulations respecting the commerce with England remain in full force, in so far as they are not altered by the present decree. 10. All who contravene the present regulations shall be tried and punished for disobeying the laws. 11. Our minister of finance is solely and personally answerable for the strict execution of these regulations. Our minister at war shall place at his disposal such troops and vessels as he may demand.
Mr. Abraham Newland on Thursday resigned the Chief Cashiership of the Bank of England, at a general court meeting, after having been sixty years in the service. The directors intimated their intention of settling an annuity on Mr. Newland, agreeably to custom; but this he refused, being possessed of ample property. He, however, was prevailed upon to accept of a service of plate, value 1,000 guineas. Mr. Henry Hoare the present Second Cashier, will succeed Mr. Newland.
RETURN OF THE LISBON & OPORTO FLEETS.
There is every reason to believe that all is not right at the court of Lisbon. The fleet bound to Lisbon & Oporto, upon joining their convoy, had their instructions taken from them and have returned to Falmouth. General Junot's mission is supposed to have a hostile object.
APPROACHING RUPTURE OF RUSSIA & SWEDEN.
By some private letters which have been brought by the Gottemburgh mail, and which have subsequently been delivered, it would seem that Russia and Sweden were upon the point of an immediate rupture. While the King of Sweden was in the Island of Rugen, a Russian chamberlain had arrived, who was confidentially reported to be the bearer of most important dispatches. It was generally stated, and fully believed at Gottemburgh, that the emperor Alexander had demanded of the king of Sweden, that he should pledge his royal word that the Swedish navy should remain in Carlskrona, and in no event whatever should act in concurrence with the English fleet. The Russian chamberlain, according to report, was commanded to return with the absolute answer of the King of Sweden; which answer is stated to have been in substance, that the king of Sweden, as an independent monarch, was master of his own actions; and that his alliance with England imposed obligations which he should have no scruple to fulfil when required. We do not hesitate to express our most absolute conviction, that our success at Copenhagen will be followed by a Russian war. Russia will renounce her alliance, and there will be no alternative.
SEPTEMBER 20. DECLARATION.
His Majesty owes to himself and to Europe a frank exposition of the motives which have dictated his late measures in the Baltic. His Majesty has delayed this exposition only in the hope of that more amicable arrangement with the court of Denmark, which it was his Majesty's first wish and endeavor to obtain, for which he was ready to make great efforts and great sacrifices; and of which he never lost sight even in the moment of the most decisive hostility. Deeply as the disappointment of this hope has been felt by his Majesty, he has the consolation of reflecting that no exertion was left untried on his part to produce a different result. And while he laments the cruel necessity which has obliged him to have recourse to acts of hostility against a nation with which it was his Majesty's most earnest desire to have established the relations of common interest and alliance; his Majesty feels confident that, in the eyes of Europe and of the world, the justification of his conduct will be found in the commanding and indispensable duty, paramount to all others amongst the obligations of a sovereign, of providing, while there was yet time, for the immediate security of his people. His Majesty had received the most positive information of the determination of the present ruler of France to occupy with a military force the territory of Holstein—for the purpose of excluding G. Britain from all her accustomed channels of communication with the Continent; of inducing or compelling the court of Denmark to close the passage of the Sound against the British commerce and navigation; and of availing himself of the aid of the Danish Marine for the invasion of Great Britain and of Ireland. Considerate as his Majesty was of the authority of the sources from which this intelligence was derived, and confirmed in the credit which he gave to it, as well by the notorious and repeated declarations of the enemy, and by his recent occupation of the towns and territories of other neutral states, as by the preparations
actually made for collecting a hostile force upon the frontiers of his Danish Majesty's continental dominions, his Majesty would yet willingly have foreborne to act upon this intelligence, until the complete and practical disclosure of the plan had been made manifest to all the world.
His Majesty did forbear, as long as there could be a doubt of the urgency of the danger, or a hope of an effectual counteraction to it, in the means or in the dispositions of Denmark. But his Majesty could not but recollect that when, at the close of the former war, the court of Denmark engaged in a hostile confederacy against Great Britain, the apology offered by that court for so unjustifiable an abandonment of a neutrality which his Majesty had never ceased to respect, was founded on its avowed inability to resist the operation of external influence, and the threats of a formidable neighboring power. His Majesty could not but compare the degree of influence, which at that time determined the decision of the court of Denmark, in violation of positive engagements, solemnly contradicted but six months before with the encroached operation which France had now the means of giving to the same principle of intimidation, with kingdoms prostrate at her feet, and with the population of nations under her banners.
Nor was the danger less imminent than certain. Already the army destined for the invasion of Holstein was assembling on the violated territory of neutral Hamburg. And, Holstein once occupied, the island of Zealand was at the mercy of France, and the navy of Denmark at her disposal.
It is true, a British force might have found its way into the Baltic, and checked for a time the movements of the Danish Marine. But the season was approaching when this precaution would no longer have availed; and when his Majesty's fleet must have retired from that sea, and permitted France, in unadulterated security, to accumulate the means of offence against his Majesty's dominion.
Yet, even under these circumstances, in calling upon Denmark for the satisfaction and security which his Majesty was compelled to require, and in demanding the only pledge by which that security could be rendered effectual, the temporary possession of that fleet, which was the chief inducement to France for forcing Denmark into hostilities with Great Britain; his Majesty accompanied this demand with the offer of every condition which could tend to reconcile it to the interests and to the feelings of the court of Denmark.
It was for Denmark herself to state the terms and dispositions which she might require. If Denmark was apprehensive that the surrender of her fleet would be retained by France as an act of connivance; his Majesty had prepared a force of such formidable magnitude, as must have made concession justifiable even in the estimation of France, by rendering resistance altogether unavailing.
If Denmark was really prepared to resist the demands of France and maintain her independence; his Majesty preferred his co-operation for her defence—naval, military and pecuniary aid; the guarantee of her European territories, and the security and extension of her colonial possessions.
That the sword has been drawn in the execution of a service indispensable to the safety of his Majesty's dominions, is matter of officers and painful regret to his Majesty. That the state and circumstances of the world are such as to have required and justified the measures of self-preservation, to which his Majesty has found himself under the necessity of resorting, is a truth which his Majesty deeply deplores, but for which he is in no degree responsible.
His Majesty has long carried on a most unequal contest of scrupulous forbearance against unrelenting violence and oppression. But that forbearance has its bounds. When the design was openly avowed, and already but too far advanced towards its accomplishment, of subjecting the powers of Europe to one universal domination, and of combining them by terror or by force in a confederacy against the maritime rights and political existence of this kingdom, it became necessary for his Majesty to anticipate the success of a system not more fatal to his interests than those of the powers who were destined to be the instruments of its execution.
It was time that the effect of that dread which France has inspired into the nations of the world should be counteracted by an exertion of the power of Great Britain, called for by the exigency of the crisis, and proportioned to the magnitude of the danger. Notwithstanding the declaration of war on the part of the Danish Government, it still remains for Denmark to determine, whether war shall continue between the two nations. His Majesty still proffers an amicable arrangement. He is anxious to sheath the sword, which he has been most reluctantly compelled to draw. And he is ready to demonstrate to Denmark & the world, that having acted solely upon the sense of what was due to the security of his dominions, he is not desirous, from any other motive, or for any object of advantage or aggrandizement, to carry measures of hostility beyond the limits of the necessity which has produced them. Westminister, Sept. 25, 1807.
LONDON, Sept. 18. It appears by some of the letters from Peterburgh, to have been understood there, that the English Government had applied to the Emperor Alexander to guarantee to Denmark the possession of its fleet, and that France should not compel the use of it against us; and it was not until his Imperial Majesty had declined an interference which might interrupt the good understanding he had established with France, that our government adopted the resolution to deprive the enemy of the means with which the Danish marine would furnish him for our annoyance. The hitherto unconcomprehensible delay which occurred in the early stages of our operations in the Baltic, is now ascribed to the negotiations of St. Peterburgh. September 21.
The marriage of the Emperor of Austria with the Princess of Saxony, is determined on. It is said that the Hereditary Prince of Bavaria will receive the hand of the Archduchess Louisa, the daughter of the Emperor.
It has been notified to all proprietors of estates on the left bank of the Elbe, that they cannot remain in Prussia, under pain of losing their hereditary rights, according to the regulations of the Napoleon code now in force in those countries—they must therefore retire from the Prussian service, and return into their country.
His Majesty has directed letters to Admiral Gambier and General Lord Cathcart, expressive of his highest approbation of their conduct. The former is created a Baron, and the latter is to be advanced to the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom. Sir Arthur Wellesley is likewise to have some additional honour conferred on him. Vice Admiral Strachan and Sir Home Popham are to be created Barons.
Lord Caledon, it is settled by Ministers, is to retain the government of the Cape of Good Hope. September 24.
The question between this country and America may be reduced to a very narrow compass. The Americans contend that they have a right to trade with the French colonies, because France has permitted them during the war. We answer, that in the very nature of things, a war in which they are not a party, cannot confer privileges on them, from which they are debarred in time of peace. France does not allow America to trade with her colonies during peace, and allows her to do during war, because it is of service to France. By the spirit of colonial law, none
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold for ready money, on Saturday the 28th inst. at the Eagle-Tavern, in the City of Richmond, A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, lying partly in Hanover and partly in Goochland, being the property of John S. Moore, and adjoining the lands of Eliza Locke, Samuel Mobley, Wm. Wood, Tom and others, and containing by estimation, five hundred and fifty acres. Nov. 10. W. B. GILLIAM. eptf.
VALUABLE PROPERTY—FOR SALE.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust from Abraham Shepherd to the subscribers, dated the 24th day of May, 1806, and recorded in the General Court in the month of June of the same year, to secure the payment of a debt due from the said Shepherd to Robert Riddell; and another debt due from the said Shepherd to Walter Jenkins and Company, Will be exposed to sale, by the subscribers or one of them, at Auction, on Thursday the 10th day of next month, at the Store-House of the said Shepherd, in the county of Fluvanna: THE Seven following Tracts or LAND, lying in the County of Fluvanna, & Four Slaves. No. 1. A tract of 404 acres, more or less, being the same tract of land whereon the said Shepherd now lives, commonly called by him his dwelling house tract. On this tract, or so part of it, there is a prior encumbrance to David Riddell; it will be sold subject to that encumbrance. No. 2. A tract of 375 acres, more or less, lying on Ballinger's creek of this tract A. Shepherd bought 207 acres from William Pace, and the residue he bought of Peter Brown. No. 3. A tract of 137 acres, more or less, lying on the Rivanna river, opposite to Burnside, being the same tract of land which A. Shepherd bought from William and James Payne. No. 4. A tract of 155 acres, more or less, lying on the fourth side of the Rivanna river, opposite to J. B. Magruder's mill; being the same tract of land which Shepherd bought from Robert Adams. No. 5. A tract of 184 acres, more or less, lying in the fork of Ballinger's creek; being the same tract of land which A. Shepherd bought from David Bullock and Richard Morris, or from one of them. No. 6. A tract of 88 acres, more or less, adjoining No. 5; being the same tract of land which A. Shepherd bought from Samuel Hardy. No. 7. A tract of 172 acres, more or less, being the same tract whereon the Bore-house of A. Shepherd stands, and lying on Machunk creek; seven acres and a half of this tract A. Shepherd bought from Peter Barnard, and the residue of the tract he bought from William Ballinger.
FOUR SLAVES.
Namely—Penny, a woman about 29 years old. Daniel, a boy about 16 years old. Matilda and Winy. two female children of Penny's; the first about 6 years old, the last about 2 years old. The slaves will be sold for cash, and the lands will be sold on the following terms. One third of the purchase money must be paid down in cash. Twelve months credit from the day of sale, will be allowed for one third of the purchase money, and two years credit from the day of sale, will be allowed for the other third of the purchase money. The purchasers of the lands must give bond for two thirds of the purchase money, and security too, if required; and must also give a deed of trust on the lands purchased by them, to secure the punctual payment of the bonds as they become due. If the purchasers either of the lands or slaves do not comply with the terms of sale when the property is struck to them, the same property will immediately be set up to sale again. If all the property should not be sold the first day, the sale will be continued from day to day until all is sold. C. COPLAND, ? Trustees. J. PROSSER, eptf. Richmond, Nov. 10.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to me by S. J. a certain James Gatewood, on the third day of May, 1807, for the purpose of securing the payment of a debt to Henderson McCaul & Co. will be sold to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the 26th day of the present month, at the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond, a tract of LAND, containing two hundred acres, lying on the waters of Tye River, in the county of Amherst. ALEXA. STUART, Trustee. Nov. 10. eptf.
By virtue of a Decree of Gloucester county court, hearing date June term 1807, in a suit in Chancery therein depending, in which Philip Tabb was complainant, and Mary Anderson executrix and devisee of Matthew Anderson, dec'd, was defendant. We shall on Tuesday the 10th of December next, if fair, otherwise the next fair day: proceed to sell for cash, All that tract or parcel of LAND, of which the late Matthew Anderson died seized, lying & being in the said county of Gloucester, on the North river, commonly called and known by the name of the Exchange. The sale will take place on the premises, for the purpose of satisfying the said Philip Tabb, a debt of £287. 18s. 6d. with interest thereon, after the rate of five per cent. per annum, to be computed from the 10th of April, 1806, till paid; also, the further sum of £200, with interest thereon, at the rate of five per cent. per annum, to be computed from the 10th day of April, 1806 till paid, and the costs and charges attending the said sale. JAMES H. POY. JOHN CATLETT, Commissioners. GEO. W. BOOTH, Nov. 10. eptf.

can trade with the colonies of any country but the mother country—and it follows that every vessel so trading can have no other protection in that trade than what the mother country can afford them—they become, while in that trade, the vessels of the mother country.
September 23.
A mail from Lisbon arrived this morning in fourteen days. The letters by her assert that the Portuguese government have absolutely refused to accede to Bonaparte's demand of four millions of crusades; and that aware of what would be the consequences of the refusal, they were fitting out their whole navy to convoy their property and the royal family to the Brazils. Ten sail of the line are said to have been already equipped. The resolution of withdrawing to the Brazils rather than submit to French insult, and live with nothing more than the shadow of independence, is worthy the dignity and spirit of the House of Braganza.
The Hamburg papers confirm the account previously received, of Rugen and all the Swedish islands on the German coast of the Baltic, having been ceded to France. The French were to take possession on the 9th. The papers do not communicate to us the terms of the capitulation.
September 28.
Accounts from Algiers mention, that a treaty has been concluded with the regency of that country and Great Britain, by which the exclusive right of the trade of the ports of Bone, La Calle, and El Col has been ceded to the latter, for the exportation of hides, wool, wax, and 7,500 fanagues wheat annually; and ceded the Coral fishery on the coast.
French troops were marching from Upper Italy to the Kingdom of Naples, whence it is concluded that an attack on the island of Sicily was not far distant. French troops have taken possession of Caltaro.
Lord Colingwood failed from Malta the latter end of July, with a squadron for the Dardanelles.
The British Parliament has been further prorogued to the 10th of Nov.
Gen. Fox and his staff has arrived in England from Sicily; and the command of the army in the Mediterranean devolved on Gen. Moore.
September 29.
The loss of the inhabitants at Copenhagen does not exceed 700 in the course of the siege. The houses totally destroyed were 250.
It is reported, that the ships and troops employed in taking the Danish fleet and capitals, are to be sent to the river of Plate.
We learn by a neutral vessel from Bayonne, that a van guard of soldiers entered that town, for the purpose of preparing the way for an army of 40,000 men who were on their march for Lisbon, in order to compel Portugal to agree to Bonaparte's favorite design of excluding British commerce from her ports.
September 30.
Government have ordered a large number of flat bottomed boats to be got ready for service, with all possible expedition. The boat builders of the different ports, have been required to state the numbers they can furnish in a month.
A Copenhagen mail arrived last night. A Swedish Bulletin announces the arrival of Louis the XVIII & the Duke d'Angouleme at Carlsruhe, on board a Swedish frigate. They were received with the highest respect.
The following extract of a letter from the vicinity of Copenhagen exhibits a faint picture of the effects of the bombardment:
"Copenhagen, Sept. 8."
"The day before the Danes proposed to capitulate, one third of the town appeared in a blaze, and a column of fire was rising the whole night, which appeared from our windows (about two miles from the town) at least half a mile in diameter. A timber yard first took fire, and a small powder magazine blew up. After that, the flames raged with such fury, the wind being strong, as to defy all means of extinguishing them. If the wind had not changed, the whole town must have been destroyed. The great staple fell in with a tremendous crash; 1800 houses are said to have been destroyed. Excepting when the bombs were flying, there was no appearance of war. Many of the peasants cut their corn all around the different camps, and were protected. The Danes are very much exasperated against us, especially at the sight of our stars rigging their ships to bring them away."
Directions have been sent to Chatham and Sheerness for receiving the Danish fleet at those places; & as the number of seamen that will be necessary to navigate them will be more than can possibly be spared from the men of war off Copenhagen, directions were yesterday given to Capt. Richbell, the regulating officer in town, to propose to the crews of the ships recently arrived from the Greenland fishery, to proceed to Copenhagen without delay, for the purpose of being put on board the Danish ships to navigate them to England. For this service they are to receive a bounty, and the other usual allowances, and will also be entitled to their protections from the impress, on their return, in the same manner as they are from the ships employed in the Greenland fishery.
The Trinity House are also to send a certain number of masters and pilots, well acquainted with the North Seas, to assist in piloting the Danish ships to England.
List of the Danish ships delivered up to the English on the capitulation of Copenhagen:
Line of battle—Christian 7th, 96 guns; Neptune 84; Waldemar 84; Princess Sophia Frederica 74; Crown Prince Frederick 74; Justice 74; Heir apparent Frederick 74; Fuen 74; Oden 74; Three Crowns 74; Skjold 74; Crown Princess Maria 74; Dannebrog 74; Norway 74; Princess Caroline 74; Detmarken 64; Conqueror 64; Mars 64. Frigates—Pearl 44; Hoste 44; Liberty 44; Iris 44; Rota 44; Venus 44; Nyade 44; Triton 28; Fredericks 28; Little Pelt 24; St. Thomas 22; Fylla 24; Elbe 20; Cyderen 20; Gluckstadt 20. Brigs—Sarpe 18; Glommen 18; Ned eleven 18; Mercury 18; Courier 14; Flying Fish. Total—Ships of the line 18—Frigates 15—Gun Brigs 6—Gun Boats 24.
Omission of Late Foreign News.
LONDON, September 10.
The report that America had peremptorily demanded certain concessions from this country, and had absolutely specified the time in which they were to be granted or refused, is wholly without foundation; & we have the pleasure to state, that Negotiations are proceeding in the most amicable manner, and will, we hope, be attended with the most satisfactory result.
San.
We understand it has been proposed by the American government that proper agents or officers shall be appointed in every commercial port in each country, before whom all complaints relative to seamen, shall be heard and adjusted, and every seaman given up to that nation to which he is found to belong.
It is said that there are in the American trade upwards of 3,000 British seamen, & that this country has in its employ 15,000 American seamen, leaving a balance against us of the latter number, but we know not on what date this computation is founded.
According to the American laws every captain of an English vessel is liable to a fine of 1,000 dollars for every American seaman found on board his ship.—The fine was paid in the case of the Ethier, an English vessel, which took some Americans on board.—It is not fair that a similar law should be enacted in this country.
San.
The nature of the demands which the American Minister has been instructed to make to our government has been entirely misstated. Instead of a pre-emptory requisition of an answer within four days the whole subject is to be left open to the most full and deliberate discussion.—The Government of the United States, it is said, is willing to concede the right of search for goods under certain circumstances, but never to allow any vessel bearing their flag to be searched for men.
M. Clarendon.
NEW-YORK, November 6.
The emperor of Austria (says a London print) it is understood to be immediately married to a daughter of the king of Saxony; and the Archduke of Wirtzburg, the emperor's uncle, is to be king of Franconia. These may be considered as boons granted by Bonaparte, for the neutrality of Austria during the last contest.
The Saxon army is to be newly organized and placed under the command of the French marshal Ney.
Of Portugal.—Private letters received on the 6th Sept. by the Packet at London from Lisbon, states, that the Spaniards have demanded of the Portuguese government ten sail of the line, three of which were getting ready when the Packet failed, and orders had been sent to the arsenal at Lisbon to repair and equip the following:
Ships of the line. Frigates. Alfonzo D'Albuquerque. Minerva. Medusa. Principeza. Conde don Henrique. Carlotta. Cherub. Brigs. S. Godo Mayno. Gavião. Principe. Condessa de Reseada. Princeza Real.
BOSTON, Nov. 9.
COPENHAGEN TAKEN.
On Thursday, Capt. Stanwood arrived here from Gottenburgh, which he left the 13th Sept. last.
It was reported at Gottenburgh that a serious misunderstanding had arisen between the Russian Emperor, and his Senate, on the subject of the treaty of Tilsit; and that the Senate had not ratified that instrument.
The Swedes remained zealous in their co-operation with the English, to oppose French domination; and were fitting out nine sail of the line with all possible expedition. Capt. S. heard nothing of any threats from the Russian court against Sweden. The King had returned to Sweden.
It was understood at Gottenburgh, that the Russians were still favourably disposed towards the English.—[It will be recollected that most of the accounts of an animosity between Russia and England, have reached us through the French papers; whose interest it is to inculcate the belief of such animosity.]
NEW YORK, November 13.
Captain Dixon, of the brig Bulia, informs us that the port of St. Thomas was blockaded by the British, and that the inhabitants were under martial law.
Domestic.
What more they (the English) can do, excepting sending a fleet to cruise on our coasts, an army to occupy Florida, which they certainly will do; and as we firmly believe the expedition of 20,000 men is intended to do.
What more they can do, beside an attack from Canada, and a disturbance by the Indians; we are not competent to perceive.
This, however, the American people are bound to do in time—to look round and note their enemies and their friends—because the English government calculates (and our government is well apprized of it)—the British government calculates upon a large body of corruption in the United States.
We have constantly called upon the people to prepare, but they, like the sheep in the fable, seem to believe the wolves will never come—this would be well enough, if the fold were not daily plundered, and the wolves were not already thick among us.
Extra from the Aurora.
The expedition of 20,000 men fitting out in Great Britain, is victualled and equipped for eight months—provisions are laying up at Port-au-Prince in St. Domingo, for an army of 40,000 men; a fleet of transports of 88 sail, has left Cork for Jamaica. Gen. Craig, with a numerous suite, has arrived in Canada; and several immense sums have been recently deposited by British agents in our capital cities, but in the names of accommodating citizens. These circumstances appear to tally so exactly with a system long pursued by Great-Britain, that if the American people are so stupid as to be indifferent to them they will merit their fate.
Ibid.
BALTIMORE, November 14.
Communication.
A letter has been received in this city, dated the 11th inst., from a respectable merchant in New-York, stating that a gentleman who came passenger in the ship Sanfon, saw Mr. Munroe on the evening of the 1st of October, who informed him, "that all hopes of an accommodation with Great-Britain were at an end."
Federal Gazette.
The Maryland House of Delegates consists of 43 Republicans and 31 Federalists.
The Washington Expositor of the 11th says, "Messrs. Thruston, Cutts, Barlow, Clay, Moreton, and A. Wolcott, are spoken of as likely to succeed Mr. Granger as Post-Master-General."
From the National Intelligencer.
"A palpable falsehood," is charged upon the President, or our ministers at the British court, on account of the alleged opposition between the language of the late Message, and that of the last session, enclosing a letter from our ministers relative to a treaty with Britain. This is a high and founding charge. Let us examine the grounds on which it is sustained. The President in his late Message says, "After long and fruitless endeavors to effect the purposes of their mission, and to obtain arrangements within the limits of their instructions, they concluded to sign such as could be obtained, and to send them for consideration, candidly declaring to the other negotiators, at the same time, that they were acting against their instructions, and that their government therefore could not be pledged for ratification." He adds, substantially, that these terms were inadmissible, even independently of the declaration, subject to which the British negotiators signed the treaty.
The Message of the last session says, "I transmit to Congress a letter from our ministers plenipotentiary at London, informing us that they have agreed with the British commissioners to conclude a treaty, on all the points which had formed the object of their negotiation, and on terms which they trusted we would approve." The accompanying letter is dated Dec. 27th, and states that it would require only a few days to reduce the treaty to form.
Four days accordingly did elapse, when the treaty was signed.
On these facts, these enquiries present themselves.
1. Was the paper actually signed the same in substance with that concluded to be signed? 2. Did no intervening event produce a new and unexpected change in it?
3. Might not our ministers, in the interim, have received additional instructions, more in detail than those previously sent, particularly applicable to some points under consideration?
4. Might not our ministers honestly entertain a different opinion of the terms of the treaty from the President?
If either of these enquiries can be answered in the affirmative, this high charge is annihilated; and we will appeal to every honest and unbiased mind whether it is not more likely, that some such reason, as we have intimated, did occur, than that the President, or Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney should have been guilty of a gross falsehood; a falsehood too which could not escape detection. The very idea that such men could be guilty of a falsehood is too absurd for belief. When to this is added an almost unavoidable detection, we must suppose them fools to have uttered it.
We do know that a vague and unprecedented note was tacked to the treaty. Are we certain that no new principles were not introduced into its body? Is it not also very possible that in reducing particular arrangements to form, their substance may be in no small degree modified? Might not then our ministers, when they had before them, the form as well as the substance, the details as well as the general principles, have had a very different impression with regard to the instrument from that which they previously expected it would have produced? Is it not, also, possible that they may have viewed the French order as indicative of hostility against the U. S. and have conceived it found policy under such an impression to accept from Britain the best terms they could get, subject to the reserved right on the part of our government to adopt or reject them.
There is one fact worth here noticing. Long since, Mr. King agreed with the British Minister on certain terms relative to the impressment of American seamen, in correspondence with which he was about to sign a treaty. But its signature was arrested in this critical moment by the lords of the admiralty whose earnest remonstrance prevented it. What has happened once, on a point of the first importance, and yet remaining unsettled, may happen again, and may have occurred in this very case.
Letter from the secretary of the treasury, transmitting an estimate of extraordinary expenses incurred by the navy department, since the 22d June last, for the service of the year 1807.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, October 28th, 1807.
Sir, I have the honor to transmit, at the request of the secretary of the navy an estimate of extraordinary expenses incurred by the navy department, since the 22d day of June last, for the service of the year 1807. The general estimate for the ordinary service of the year 1808 will, it is expected, be ready in the course of next week. I have the honor to be very respectfully, Sir, your obedient servant,
ALBERT GALLATIN.
The hon. the Speaker of the house of Representatives.
Estimate of extraordinary expenses incurred by the navy department, since the 22d June, 1807, for the service of the year 1807.
  Ordinance and military stores. Dolls. Cts.    506.571 lb. shot-petre 97,898 36  20,943 of sulphur, 1,673 44  121,500 of powder, 29,000 do. of ball, muskets, bayonets, cutlasses, pistols, boarding axes, pikes, &c. 98,980 80  500 32lb. & 24lb. cannon, 112,500  310,554 60  Repairs of Vessels, &c.  95,000lb. of copper, 41,224 84  64,000 of sheet iron, Cordage, canvas, ship chandlery, carpenters, joiners, sail makers, smith's bill, labour, &c. 9,012 12  101,659 77  151,996 73  Provisions, &c.  Beef, pork, bread, 31,468 15  Marine Corps.  For clothing, 10,139 42  For medicine, hospital stores, Pay, 1,283 48  18,500 00  29,992 39  Pay of 1,100 extra able seamen, ordinary seamen, boys, petty officers, &c. 74,754 29  Timber for 73 gun boats, 87,500 00  686,076 58  Recapitulation.  For ordnance & military stores, 310,554 60  Repairs of vessels, 151,996 73  Provisions, 31,468 15  Marine corps, 29,992 39  Pay of the navy, 74,754 29  Gun boats, 87,500 00  666,076 59  
Navy Department, Oct. 21, 1807.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.
On Friday last, we understood, the Secretary of the Navy laid before the Committee of the House of Representatives on aggressions, a detailed statement of the circumstances attending the outrage committed on the Chesapeake, together with those which occurred prior and subsequently to that event. To gratify the public solicitude on this important subject, we publish the following opinion of the Court of Inquiry and hope to be shortly enabled to submit to the public the other documents connected with this affair, which are said to be in the highest degree interesting.
At a Court of Enquiry assembled on board the United States' Ship Chesapeake, in the harbor of Norfolk and State of Virginia, by order of the Honorable Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy of the United States, and continued by adjournment from day to day from Monday the 5th day of October, 1807, until Wednesday the 4th day of November, 1807.
PRESENT,
CAPTAIN ALEXANDER MURRAY, President, and Captains Isaac Hull and James O'Neilly, Members thereof.
The following opinion and report was unanimously given, and directed by the court to be transmitted to the honorable the Secretary of the Navy of the United States.
PURSUANT to an order from the Honorable Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy of the United States, to Captain Alexander Murray directed, dated the twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven, the court proceeded to enquire into the causes of the surrender of the Chesapeake, a frigate of the United States, then under the command of James Barron, esquire, a captain in the navy of the United States, to a British vessel of war, which surrender was made (as is the said order stated) without that defence being made which might have been expected from the known valor of Americans; and having heard all the evidence adduced, as well by the Judge Advocate, as by the said captain James Barron, and having maturely and thoroughly considered the same, (captain James Barron having declined to offer any defence) Report to the honorable the Secretary of the Navy of the United States, as by his said warrant is required, a fair statement of the matters touching the said surrender, together with their opinion thereon, as followeth:
1. It appears to the court, that the United States' Ship Chesapeake, then under the command of James Barron, esquire, a captain in the navy of the United States, failed from Hampton Roads, on an intended cruise in the Mediterranean sea, on the morning of the 22d June last past, having on board a crew consisting of more than three hundred and seventy men, and completely equipped with every thing necessary for such a ship of war, failing on such a cruise.
2. It appears to the court, that captain Barron was appointed commander of the ships and vessels destined for the Mediterranean service on the 15th day of May last past, and hoisted his broad pendant on board the Chesapeake, the first time he came on board of her after her arrival in Hampton Roads, to wit; on or about the 6th day of June last past.
3. It appears to the court, that commander Barron visited the Chesapeake only twice during the period he remained in Hampton Roads, and before he came on board to proceed to sea; on neither of which occasions, did he examine particularly into her state and condition.
4. It appears to the court, that the guns of the Chesapeake were never exercised before she proceeded to sea; that her crew were quartered, but a few days previous to that time, and had never been called to quarters more than three times prior to her sailing for sea.
5. It appears to the court, that the ship was reported to commander Barron to be ready for sea on the 17th day of June, that he came on board on the 21st, and that the ship failed on the morning of the 22d of June last past.
6. It appears to the court, that antecedent to the sailing of the Chesapeake, there had been received on board of her some persons who had been claimed by the British government as deserters from their service, but who were not ordered to be delivered up by the American officers.—That there was also a report in circulation, and generally known on board the Chesapeake, that a threat had been used by the captain of the British ship of war Melampus, to take these men from the Chesapeake.—That commander Barron had full knowledge of the facts that such men were on board his ship, that they had been demanded by the British government, and had not been delivered up, the court are perfectly satisfied; but no positive evidence has been adduced to prove, that the report of the threat above mentioned was communicated to him before his ship failed.
7. It appears to the court, that the Chesapeake in proceeding from Hampton Roads to sea, passed a British squadron at anchor in Lynhaven Bay, who at the time of her passing them were making signals to each other, which was not only reported to commander Barron by one of his officers, but actually observed by himself.
8. It appears to the court, that the British ship or war Leopard of fifty guns, one of the squadron then at anchor within the limits of the U. States, weighed immediately after these signals were thrown out, and fired on her.
9. It does not appear to the court that at this time there was any vessel in sight, or any other object to induce her to go to sea, but the Chesapeake.
10. It appears to the court, that at the time the Leopard got under weigh, the wind was at south-west, and therefore fair for her to proceed to sea; but that instead of availing herself of this to clear the land, she hauled to the wind, close round Cape Henry, and stood to the south-west, under easy sail; thereby showing that it was not her intention to get off the land speedily.
11. It appears to the court, that after this the wind became light and variable, and likely to shift, and came out from the eastward; that when this happened, the Leopard shortened sail, and stood to the eastward.
12. It appears to the court, that after this the wind did come out from about south-south-east, and that the Leopard then having thus got the weather-gage, preferred it by tacking in shore where the Chesapeake did in order to get off her pilot, & after the Chesapeake again stood off to the eastward, that the Leopard wore, and bore down for her.
13. It appears to the court, that when the Leopard tacked and stood in shore, on the same tack with the Chesapeake, that her lower deck ports were all triced up.
14. It appears to the court, that when the Leopard ran down for the Chesapeake, she rounded to on her starboard quarter, and to windward of her, and that at this time her topmasts were out of her guns.
15. It appears to the court, that commander Barron was upon deck, observing the Leopard, during the time these manoeuvres were practising, and these appearances exhibited.
16. The court is of opinion, that the circumstances above stated, were in themselves so suspicious, as to have furnished sufficient warning to a prudent, discreet and attentive officer, of the probable designs of a ship of war conducted in that way, and ought to have induced commander Barron to have prepared his ship for action, especially with the information he possessed of the situation of his crew generally, of those who had been demanded by the British government particularly, and of the general state of the ship at that time.
17. It appears to the court, that commander Barron nevertheless did not order his ship to be cleared for action, and that he did not call his men to quarters.
18. It appears to the court, that when the Leopard came along side of the Chesapeake, an officer was sent from her, with a communication from capt. Humphries, the captain of the Leopard, to commander Barron, which the latter could not and did not misunderstand, but very correctly concluded to be a demand with which he ought not and could not comply, and one which, if refused, would be enforced if possible.
19. It appears to the court, that although such was the situation and impression of commander Barron at this time, yet that he did not till order his ship to be prepared for action, although ample time was allowed for that purpose, the British officer being detained on board the Chesapeake from 35 to 45 minutes.
20. The court is of opinion, that the neglect of commander Barron to prepare his ship for action under such circumstances, is a dire breach of the 4th article of the rules and regulations for the government of the Navy of the United States, passed on the 23d day of April, 1800, entitled "An act for the better government of the Navy of the United States."
21. It appears to the court, that after the British officer left the Chesapeake, bearing a positive refusal from commander Barron to the demand which had been made by capt. Humphries, & after commander Barron was himself satisfied that an attack upon his ship would be made, he did not take prompt, necessary and efficient means to prepare his ship for battle.—That his first order was merely to clear his gun deck, and the second given after the lapse of some time, was to get his men to quarters secretly, without the beat of drum; although with such a crew as he had on board, and in such a situation as the ship then was, it was not to be expected that such orders could be effectually accomplished.
22. It appears to the court, that the conduct of commander Barron during the attack of the Leopard manifested great indecision, and a disposition to negotiate, rather than a determination bravely to defend his ship. That he repeatedly hailed the Leopard during her attack upon him—That he drew his men from their guns to lowering down boats, to send on board of the attacking ship—and that he ordered his first lieutenant from his quarters during the attack, to carry a message on board of the Leopard, at that time firing upon him.
23. It appears to the court, that during the attack, commander Barron used language in the presence of his men calculated to disparage his crew, by ordering them to keep down, that they would all be cut to pieces.
24. It appears to the court, that commander Barron ordered the colors of the Chesapeake to be struck, and that they were struck, before a single gun of any kind was fired from her; and that at the time they were to be struck, her main deck battery was in a position which would have enabled the return of a broadside in a very short time.
25. The court is therefore of opinion, that the Chesapeake was prematurely surrendered, at a time
when she was nearly prepared for battle, and when the injuries sustained either on the ship or crew did not make such a surrender then necessary; and that for this, commander Barron falls under a part of the sixth article of the rules and regulations for the government of the Navy of the United States, adopted by an act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the 23d day of April, 1800, entitled "An act for the better government of the Navy of the United States."
26. The court is of opinion, that although the conduct of commander Barron, before and during the attack of the Leopard, evinced great inattention to his duty and want of decision, yet that during that attack he exposed his person, and did not manifest either by his orders or actions any personal fear, or want of courage.
27. It appears to the court, that although the Chesapeake might and ought to have been better defended than she was, yet that she was not in a situation on the time of the attack made upon her, to have enabled to gallant a defence being made as might have been expected. Some of her guns were not securely fitted in their carriages, some of her spars and waded and were

a protection to American seamen, is not meant to protect them under their own or even any other neutral flag, on the high seas. We cannot even admit, that in such a situation, any other protection is required for them, than the neutral flag itself on the high seas. The document is given to prove their real character, in situations to which neither the law of nations, nor the law of their own country, is applicable; in other words, to protect them, within the jurisdiction of the British laws; and to secure to them within every jurisdiction, the rights and immunities due to them. If in the course of their navigation even on the high seas, the document should have the effect of repelling wrongs of any sort, it is an incidental advantage only; of which they avail themselves."
But the British government is certainly entitled to demand some guarantee of this kind; and if protection is not sufficient for their purpose, what other substitute can be adopted? Some have proposed, that the British consule in our ports should have the right of examining the crew before it fails, and if he is satisfied with its purity, to give it a general certificate of protection. But this plan would put it in the power of a British agent alone, to lay a virtual embargo upon each of our vessels, until he should be pleased to acknowledge himself satisfied with their crews.
A much more eligible expedient is said to have been proposed to the British government, on condition that they would abstain from the impressments from our vessels on the high seas; which is, that "proper agents or officers shall be appointed in every commercial port in each country, before whom all complaints relative to seamen shall be heard and adjusted, and every seaman given up to that nation to which he is found to belong."
The two nations must however agree upon the principle, on which these adjudications are to be made. If when any seaman is brought before these officers by a British captain in an American port, his articles are to form the grounds of reclamation, the British government, so far as it relates to that man, must abandon the right of allegiance. If his being a British subject is to supersede every other claim, then the American captain must dismiss him from his vessel, though he may be bound to him by the severest articles.
As to fugitives from justice, it would not seem extremely difficult to make some arrangement that would be mutually satisfactory to both countries. But it is most obviously our duty not to surrender every fugitive from British justice, even those who are "charged with murder and forgery."
Suppose that a British captain should first violate the rights of an American seaman by an unlawful impressment. The seaman is authorized by right of resistance "to break his chains on the heads of his oppressors." Suppose that in the exercise of this right he sheds the blood of a British seaman, and afterwards flees to the jurisdiction of the U. S. Shall we deliver him up, because the British claim him as a fugitive from justice? Certainly not. The case of Jonathan Robbins has at least established this principle in the feelings of the people.
These general principles of course comprehend the case of a national vessel, with this additional confirmation, that a national vessel represents the sovereignty of the state to whom she belongs—that the jurisdiction of her country is as perfect on her own deck as on the soil itself; and that no nation has ever yet attempted to search the public ships of another, for her own seamen or even for contraband goods.
All these principles of course apply to the case of the Chesapeake, and leave the infamy of that transaction without the slightest justification. So heinous indeed is its atrocity, that even the British ministry, corrupt as it is, they who have lately stolen the Danish fleet and now pretend to blockade almost the whole of Europe with a dash of their pen, are said to have disavowed it.—Still there are British minions even among ourselves, who attempt to trump up some miserable sophism for their vindication. These Anglo-federalists pretend, that G. Britain had a right to seize her deserters, whom we had previously refused to surrender.
But how could G. Britain have expected that we should have delivered up those seamen, when even she had previously refused under the same circumstances to deliver three of them at least to ourselves? Three of these men were deserters from an American vessel, and yet capt. Poyntz had refused to deliver them up.
And even if they had not been in this situation, by what right could she claim them from the U. S.? No nation is bound by the general law of nations, to surrender the deserters of another country. This is an affair of special stipulation, between the two countries, and the British certainly knew that there was no treaty between us. Nay; the treaty itself which has expired, did not recognise this right; the 27th article of that treaty extending only to those persons who were "charged with murder or forgery." Neither could the British government claim it as a mere concession of courtesy; for with a very ill grace indeed could they have claimed a favour from us, which they refused to us in their own ports.
And even if they had possessed the right to claim deserters, how could they have used this right in the present instance? Some of these seamen were native-born citizens of the United States.—Let the British government be consistent in its pretensions. Either let them abandon the right of seizing their own subjects on the sea, when they are found articleed to an American vessel; or let them abandon the right of retaining an American citizen, because he has resorted himself to one of their vessels.
What then results from these enquiries? It is this:
That we ought never to submit to the search of our vessels on the high seas, for the seamen of any nation in the world. Let our principle be; that the American flag protects every person who falls under it, except soldiers destined to the use of an enemy's country.
But it appears, that the British government are willing to disavow any right to search national vessels, but will never abandon their right of impressment from merchant vessels. Here then we are at issue; and the only remaining
* We had supposed that this vast encroachment was without example. The British blocking decree of 1793, related to provisions only. The celebrated blocking decree of France is yet in name only. The order of G. Britain, lately spoken of, seemed to be the only instance where the whole trade of a country had been cut off by blockade. But Vattel has furnished us with such a precedent; and to the honour of Old England, she has still all the merit of the invention.
"England and the United Provinces having agreed in the treaty of Whitehall, signed on the 22d August 1689, to notify to all states, not at war with France, that they would attack, and preventively declare every ship bound to, or coming out of the harbors of that kingdom, to be a lawful prize; Sweden and Denmark, from whom some ships had been taken, entered into a counter-treaty on the 17th March 1699, for maintaining their rights and procuring just satisfaction, and the maritime powers perceiving that the complaints of the two crowns were well grounded, did them justice."
But it is yet to be seen, whether there is really any such order as has been lately said to exist.
question is, shall we now accept of reparation for the attack on the Chesapeake, and waive the attainment of the grand principle itself—or shall we seize the present moment, and strike for every thing? Our own maxim is, now, Aut Caesar aut nullus . Better insist upon every thing now; when "the whole of Europe is in battalion" against G. Britain: than calmly wait, a few years longer.
NOTE.
That the reader may see how much more liberal our own laws already are, than those of G. B. we present him with the following view of the laws of Virginia on this subject.
In consequence of a seaman having been sent from Norfolk to be tried in a foreign court, on suspicion of being an accomplice in a mutiny on board of a British vessel of war (the Hermione ) the Legislature turned their attention towards this subject and passed a law in 1800-1.
The first section of this law declares "That any person who shall, hereafter, of his own free will and accord, or by the persuasion of, or combination with any foreign agent, or any other person, being an alien, or a citizen of this commonwealth, or of any other of the U. S. deliver up or surrender, or cause to be delivered up or surrendered, either by his own authority, or under colour of any officer whatsoever, held, or claimed to be held, under the authority of this commonwealth, any citizen of this commonwealth, or of any other of the U. S. or any other free person whomsoever, being within the limits of this commonwealth, and entitled to the protection of the laws thereof, during his residence therein, to be transported beyond sea, or elsewhere, without the U. S. States, shall on conviction of every such offence, be adjudged a felon, &c."
The 2d section declares that if the person so delivered up, be transported to any place without the jurisdiction of the courts of this country, and be tried, condemned and executed, every person concerned in such delivery shall be adjudged a felon, and suffer death.
From the general tenor of this act, the magistrates had refused to issue warrants to apprehend deserters, even from a merchant vessel. In consequence of this Mr. L. W. Tazewell (the Delegate from the borough of Norfolk) proposed a bill to the Legislature of 1804-5; which he introduced in the following manner.
"He observed that whenever seamen deserted any American vessel, the captain enjoyed all the necessary means of redress; by an application to the magistrate, he could obtain a warrant to apprehend the delinquent, and he could thus compel him to comply with his stipulated contract. But should the captain of a foreign vessel apply to the same authority, he could not enjoy the same means of redress. No magistrate had conceived himself authorised by the act of assembly of 1800 to issue his warrant for the apprehension of a seaman, who had articleed himself to the captain of a foreign vessel. What was the consequence? The seamen hearing of the interpretation, which had been put upon this act by the magistrates of Virginia, would frequently desert their vessels upon coming into port, although they had bound themselves by a most sacred contract, and although they might have received a part of their wages in advance. Having thus violated their contract, they would then make a boast of their impunity, and laugh at the disappointment, the importunity and the impotence of their Captain. Being a resident of the largest sea-port town in Virginia, such scenes had frequently been the subjects of his observation and regret. He had sometimes seen in Norfolk, the crews of 9 or 10 vessels going at large in the streets, because there was no competent authority or at least no authority according to the interpretation of the law, to compel them to obedience. &c. &c."
After some modifications, this bill passed into a law, which contains the following section.
"Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That if any seaman or mariner, not being a citizen of this commonwealth, or of any of the United States, who shall have signed a contract to perform a voyage on board any merchant ship or vessel (either a ship or vessel of the United States, or of any foreign nation nation whatsoever) shall at any port or place within this commonwealth, desert, or shall absent himself from such ship or vessel, without the leave of the master, or other officer commanding in the absence of the master, it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace of any county or corporation within this commonwealth, upon the complaint of the master of such ship or vessel, or other officer commanding in the absence of the master to issue his warrant to apprehend such seaman or mariner, and bring him before such justice; and if it shall appear by due proof, that such seaman or mariner has signed a contract as aforesaid, and that the voyage agreed for, is not finished, altered, or the contract otherwise dissolved, and that the seaman or mariner has deserted the ship or vessel, or absented himself without leave, the said justice shall commit him to the jail of his county or corporation, there to remain until such ship or vessel shall be ready to proceed on her voyage, or till the master, or other officer commanding in the absence of the master, shall require his discharge, and then to be delivered to such master, or other officer commanding in the absence of the master, he paying all the cost of such commitment."
COMMUNICATION.
BRITISH BARBARITY!
What is the difference to an American citizen between slavery in Barbary and slavery on board a British ship of war? Much difference indeed; but really in favor of Barbary. Here indeed the slave is deprived of his country, his freedom, and his friends.—His rations are short and his labors constant—but he is generally subject to the discipline of but one master—has his regular hours of rest and is generally secure in his master's protection of his person.
But an American citizen in slavery in a British war ship is subject to all the privations of an American citizen in the chains of a Barbary Pirate, and to many more severities, and these more unnatural. He is equally deprived of his country, his freedom, and his friends—his rations are not much better—is subject to as many masters as there are officers in the ship, from the Captain to the Midshipman, any one of whom may order him to the gangway at discretion and flog him as a dog, without a hearing and without resistance. He is subject to constant privations of rest and comfort—to be driven like a goaded beast at the rope's end of a merciless boatswain—until worn out with wounds—he becomes subject to be cast on any wild shore to perish or beg because he is an American citizen! Such is the contract.—If, perchance, an hundred of our citizens fall into chains on the healthful coast of Barbary, the spirit and the vengeance of the nation are roused.—We have more than three thousand fellow citizens in this more direful slavery of British chains.—What emotion does it excite? None. Why? Because Great-Britain claims it as a right! So does Algiers; and with equal justice! But
Great-Britain can enforce this right! Ah—There's the rub—How sits the pale, trembling reptile cowardice on the brow, citizens of the United States—and overrules thy destiny?—What! dare not resist a claim which chains your sons! Go then and beget slaves and cultivate your fair fields for imperious foreigners.
You have abandoned your title to a land of freedom . I know there are among you who rail at your President for rejecting a treaty which concedes this claim as a right to the British depot. Where is the American who will not, with his blood, support him in the measure! The citizen who will not is a coward or a traitor—or both. But the right is to be enforced! Remember the 22d of June. A British squadron in the hospitality of your port has opened her batteries on your women and children.—What was the fate of the Chesapeake? Bound to sea indeed, but to a station where no hostility exists. Within our own capes, where there could be no suspicion of a foe.—A hospital on her gun-deck, and on her quarter-deck families of ladies and their little ones. A British commander, with the knowledge of these facts, daredevilly opens his broadsides upon the Chesapeake.—What is the pretext? Right of search! What the consequence? The murder of your citizens, and the degradation of your flag! And sleep we still? Have we yet advocates for British insolence? Down with them—they are not Americans .—Violated rights and blood wantonly shed cry for vengeance.—Vengeance. Let these proud masters of the deep once more learn that we have feeling. Where is the villain who would not rather die a freeman than live a slave!
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
COMMODORE TRUXTON, AGAIN.
The interesting trial of col. Burr, and the collateral circumstances which have been brought into view, have excited much private feeling as well as public interest. It has happened, that many of the most distinguished citizens of the union have been brought into notice, and have been thereby exposed, either to suspicion or censure.
Among the names which have excited solicitude as well as notice, few, if any, have appeared with more interest than that of the justly celebrated Thomas Truxton, late a commodore in the service of the United States. This gentleman, in every quarter of the globe had greatly contributed to render the name and character of America respectable. The general course of service, the splendor of his naval exploits, tho' brilliant, did not surpass his well established character as a citizen, gentleman, friend, and patriot. So that every one who takes an interest and a pride in the concerns of his country, could not fail to feel impressions of great solicitude when the name of Truxton was connected with the suspicions of treason.
This solicitude exists no more: Commodore Truxton has appeared before the Jury, and in the face of the world. His testimony has been publicly delivered, and gives the most complete confirmation, to that honorable opinion, which had been always entertained of him by his friends.
The services of Commodore Truxton, during the dispute between the French Republic and the United States, were highly honorable to the American flag. The capture of the Insurgent , a ship greatly superior in force, and the defeat of the Vengeance , of 54 guns, of heavier metal, while Truxton's ship the Constellation mounted only thirty eight are bright examples of skill as well as heroism. But brilliant as they were, they did not, with those who knew Commodore Truxton, add to his worth, because, during the whole of the war with G. Britain, his conduct was marked with an undeviating and unfulfilled course, fortified by many hard actions with British cruisers frequently of superior force.
Steady a patriot and in the times of the greatest distress and hazard, not merely in words, but in voluntary and brilliant exploits, it will afford double gratification to his friends, to find, that during the storms and tempests of parties, of intrigues and plots, by which the public mind has been often agitated, the name of Truxton has not sustained a single stain or blemish.
This testimonial of respect has been paid to Commodore Truxton's merit, not merely for the reasons assigned; but because, at this time, the public at large, should be apprised of the names of those distinguished citizens, who are best entitled to confidence.
Extract of a letter from a member of Congress, to his friend in this City, dated November 17, 1807.
"Resolved, That provision ought to be made by law, forbidding all transfers of rights of action and of all monies and other things, real or personal to or by any subject of the crown of Great-Britain—and also forbidding any citizen or resident in the United States paying any debt or demand to any such subject."
"The above resolution has just been submitted to the house of Representatives.—It is unnecessary to make any comment on the principles of the resolution or the period at which it has been brought forward.—It is sufficient to say that it is the offspring of the brain of Matthew Lyon the mover.—On his motion the galleries were cleared and after a few minutes debate on the question whether his resolution should be discussed with open or closed doors, Mathew withdrew his resolution and the house decided that the proceeding should be made public.—Our doors being closed at this interesting crisis is calculated to excite alarm.—Mathew claims on this occasion much exclusive merit. He made the motion. He withdrew the motion. He was the only member of the House of Representatives in favor of the motion. He possessed also exclusively the information on which the motion could be supported."
It is presumed from the fourth and sixth art. of the rules and regulations of the navy that a general court martial will be held on the conduct of Commodore Barron.
Capt. Tompkins of the ship Pocahontas , has arrived at Norfolk, with London dates to the 14th. The Editor of the Ledger observes, that the extracts from the London papers are contradictory, but that on "comparing the papers with letters by this ship and with private information, he thinks there is no reason to apprehend an unfavourable issue to the negotiation; of which the detention of the Revenge and Mr. Monroe's flag are evidences." That "Mr. M. was at one time fully expected to return in the Pocahontas , but was delayed on public affairs;" and that he (the editor of the Ledger ) has the "most satisfactory information, that nothing is less desired in England than a war with the U. S."—The Ledger thus proceeds:
"We understand from good authority, that on the 14th of September, Mr. Monroe delivered a memorial to the British government, demanding a final answer previous to his departure for the United States, for which he was already prepared, and did expect to depart immediately."
At this juncture the intelligence of the surrender of Copenhagen, the disorders in South America, and the measures of France against Portugal, with other important affairs on the Continent of Europe, particularly with Russia, so pressed upon the British ministers, as to induce them to solicit Mr. Monroe's indulgence. Mr. Monroe accordingly agreed to remain, and we have good reason to believe that the ultimatum of the British government was delivered on the 5th of October, and moreover we understand "that no act of hostility will be committed by Great Britain, until this ultimatum has been submitted to, and acted upon by this government." Of the contents of this ultimatum it would be ridiculous in us to attempt a conjecture, but it is easy to infer that all the demands of our government have not been acceded to, but we venture to assert, that the British government have most unequivocally denied any pretension on its part to search a national ship of the United States. It is to be observed that several of the London prints stated that Mr. Monroe had actually left London; these prints are not always remarkable for correct information.
DIED—On the 3d inst. after a few days attack of the influenza, the venerable MICHAEL KALTENBORN, Esq. Commandant of Fort-Johnson, and Captain in the U. S. Regiment of Artillery and Engineers. His death was announced by 17 minute guns from Fort-Johnson, which were answered by the same number from the Gun-Boats in the harbor of Charleston.—Capt. Kaltensborn had passed his 85th year.
NOTICE.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Bank of the United States, held at the Bank, in Philadelphia, Novr. 10. 1807:—
THOMAS WILLING, Esquire, having resigned the appointment of President—DAVID LENOX, Esq. was unanimously elected President of the said Bank.
G. SIMPSON, Cashier.
The different Printers, throughout the United States, are requested to insert this notice.
CIRCULAR TO MAJOR & BRIGADIER GENERALS, OF THE MILITIA OF VIRGINIA.
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, RICHMOND, NOVEMBER 17, 1807.
BY the General Orders of the 17th of July last, it is directed, among other things, that "correct muster-rolls and inspection returns (of the detachments from the several divisions, forming the quota of this state, of one hundred thousand militia, required by the President of the United States) be made to the Adjutant General, who is, without delay, directed to transmit copies to the Secretary of War."
As it was not expressly stated by whom these returns were to be made, it was expected, of course, that they would be forwarded by the Brigade Inspectors (counter-signed by the Brigadier-Generals) to the Major-Generals, and by the latter to this office. Presuming that this course may have been intended to be pursued, I am instructed by the Governor to request, that the returns aforesaid, may be transmitted to this office without a further order as possible.
If no such returns have yet been made to the Major-Generals, and as they have been called for by the Secretary of War, I am further instructed by the Governor to request, that they may be immediately transmitted to this office, directly from the Brigadier Generals.
I have the honor to be, With great respect, Sir, yours obedt. Servt. SAMUEL COLEMAN, D. A. G.
FOR SALE.
And may be seen at the Bell-Tavern, ONE OF THE MOST ELEGANT PAIR OF BAY HORSES.
That has ever been exhibited in the City of Richmond—one of them 5 and the other 6 years old. November 20.
HAT & SHOE STORE.
The Subscriber has lately received a large supply of HATS, —Of almost every description— And Hat Trimmings. A general assortment of LADIES & GENTLEMEN'S SHOES.
ALSO, French Brandy in Pipes, Northern Cheese in do. Monild Candles in boxes. A constant supply of Philadelphia best bottled Porter, Ale and Cider. D. J. BURR. Two doors above the Eagle-Tavern. Nov. 17.
CASH SALES.
To be sold, for ready money, in pursuance of a deed of trust, from David Roff, Esq. bearing date on the 5th day of July, 1806, and recorded in the general court, in order to raise the sum of dollars 3,000 and upwards, and the charges and expenses of sale.
THOSE well known MILLS with the appurtenances in the city of Richmond, called the Columbia Mills . Two undivided third parts of the Deep Run Coal Pits , in the county of Henrico, containing about 1750 acres more or less. Two undivided third parts of the Falling Creek Coal Pits in the county of Chesterfield, containing about one hundred acres. Two undivided third parts of the Dover Coal Lands in the county of Goochland, containing about ninety acres, which three several Tracts of Coal Land were held in partnership between the said David Roff and James Currie, dec'd. The Columbia Mills & appurtenances , are subject to a ground-rent to Samuel Overton; and the Coal Pits and the two tracts of Coal Land , first mentioned, are pledged for the security of sundry sums of money, due to Mrs. Frances Tabb & Wm. B. Giles, administrator of John Tabb, dec'd, a large proportion of which, is stated by the said Roff to have been paid, and other estates are pledged for the balance. For further information on this subject, persons inclined to purchase, are referred to the said Roff, or it may be obtained on application to the subscribers.—The sales will take place at the Eagle Tavern , in the city of Richmond, on Wednesday, the 20th day of January 1808.
E. W. ROOTES, } Trustees. WILSON ALLEN, } Nov. 20.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust from David Roff, and Thomas Norvell to the Subscribers, bearing date the 4th day of December last, and of record in the Honorable the General Court of this Commonwealth; will be exposed to sale on Friday the 18th day of next month (December), before the door of the Eagle Tavern , in the city of Richmond, at public auction, for ready money, for the purposes in the said trust mentioned.
THOSE TRACTS or PARCELS of LAND in the county of Fluvanna, adjoining each other, containing in the whole three thousand one hundred and eighty acres, be the same more or less, it being the same Lands conveyed to the said David Roff by John Granberry and Susanna his wife, Littleton W. Tazewell and Ann S. his wife, and Michael W. Hancock. Also, one other Tract in the counties of Montgomery and Botetourt, called Fort Lewis , containing two thousand six hundred acres, be the same more or less.
Wm. C. WILLIAMS, } Trustees. JOHN PROSSER, } Richmond, Nov. 20.
STORAGE.
ON THE BASIN, IN RICHMOND. The Subscriber having erected large and commodious LUMBER-HOUSES near the lower end of the Basin and on the margin thereof, proposes to take in country produce on storage, on the most reasonable terms. His buildings are so situated as to admit of being delivered from the boats to the Lumber-house without the expense of drayage or injuring the barrels with mud.
Pickett, Pollard and Johnston will undertake to sell any produce committed to my care, where the owners require it.
A regular supply of Corn, Meal and Hominy, will be kept for sale at the above Lumber-houses, and constant attendance given by my agent.
GEO: PICKETT, law4w Richmond, Nov. 20.
FOR SALE.
That Large, Valuable and Well Built BRICK LUMBER-HOUSE, lately the property of Messrs. Wm McKENZIE & Co. 90 feet front, 50 feet deep, and three stories high, situated on the back street leading from the Basin, nearly opposite to the house lately occupied by Mr. John Henry. The terms will be liberal and convenient to the purchaser. Apply to TAYLOR & BROWN. law6w Nov. 20.
A TEACHER.
CAPABLE of instructing in the Greek and Latin Languages, Mathematics and Geography, and who can produce testimonials of an unexceptionably good moral character, is WANTED to superintend an old established Academy in the country—A liberal salary is allowed, and the situation possesses the advantages of healthiness and good society. Reference for further information may be had on applying at the Office of the Enquirer. Nov. 20.
FOR SALE.
THAT well known & valuable FARM, on Chickahominy river, formerly the property of Mr. Thos. Watkins, dec'd, about 14 miles from Richmond, containing 546 acres; a very considerable part, is valuable swamp Land, a part of which is reclaimed, and now in meadow, from which I have been credibly informed, that Mr. Watkins in his life time, cut upwards of 100 ton in the year; there is about 120 acres of the swamp Land now in timber; and could be reclaimed at a very inconsiderable expense, to make it produce at least double the quantity of hay, that has been formerly cut. There is a considerable quantity of cedar on the high Land, and I believe full sufficient to fire the greater part of the plantation in. On this plantation, is a tolerable good dwelling house, kitchen and a very good barn, with several out-houses for the negroes. Also, an excellent young apple orchard of about 300 bearing trees independent of the old orchard, of 100 more of the best fruit, and about 300 peach trees, selected from the best kind, with a variety of pears, cherries, and all of which are choice fruit.
There is also on this plantation, a very valuable mill, on which there was formerly a good grist mill, and from information, used to receive from 50 to 60 barrels of toll corn, per annum. Last year I erected a new mill upon it, with a considerable part of the running year, finished, and for about 100 dollars expense the mill could be completed. Few plantations in this country, possess more natural advantages, as the whole of the meadow can be watered from the mill stream. This farm is worthy the object of any person who is fond of farming, and can be made as productive as any in the state, for the number of acres it contains. I am satisfied, to any man, who would turn his attention to making of hay, the product of that article alone, would be from 4 to 500 pounds annually, independent of corn and wheat; to any person inclined to purchase this farm, I will give a credit of 3 years on paying down 1/4 of the purchase money, on securing the balance by a deed of trust on the premises.
DANIEL L. HYLTON, law4w Nov. 20.
FOR SALE.
A TRACT of LAND, lying on Mattaponny river in the county of King William, about two miles above Frazier's Ferry, belonging to the estate of William Brooke, deceased. This Land lies remarkably well, and contains 760 acres of high land and upwards of one hundred acres of wild oat marsh, which make a delightful range for flock. The sale will take place on the 30 day of December next, on the premises, on the following terms, to wit: One fourth of the purchase money to be paid on the 1st of January next, the balance in two annual installments, with interest from the date of purchase, which interest with particular description of this Land is thought unnecessary, as those who are inclined to purchase will doubtless view it. The Land will be shown to any person disposed to purchase, by Mr. Wm. Alvey adjoining the premises.
RICHARD BROOKE, Executor. N. B. Should the land not be sold on that day, it will be rented for the ensuing year. Nov. 17.
WANTED.
—On purchase or hire— A GOOD COOK—A man will be preferred; & a liberal price allowed. Apply at this Office. Nov. 17.
Extract of a letter from a member of Congress to a gentleman in this city, dated Washington, Nov. 14.
"I enclose you a paper, containing the article of capitulation of the town of Copenhagen. You will find in it also a manifesto of the British government on this occasion. The attempt to justify so flagitious and immoral an act is worthy of the corrupt government, from which it flows."
"The late newspaper accounts are unfavorable from England.—Much of what they contain we know to be false. Monroe could not have stated that he was instructed to declare, that the Non-Importation Act would be enforced against them. He was certainly authorized to make and would have made, if the occasion required it, a much stronger declaration. The British minister never could have altered, the right to search all vessels, and even national vessels would be adhered to, because as to national vessels, the right has never been claimed by that government, corrupt as it is; but on the contrary, has been absolutely disavowed. No dispatches are received from our ministers. If the newspaper accounts are true or bear any resemblance to truth, all hopes of accommodation may be considered as at an end."