The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1807-03-13 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
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NUMBER 98.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1807.
[VOLUME 3.]
IN CHANCERY.
United States Court, Fifth Circuit, and Virginia District, November term, 1806. Cunningham Corbett, John Laurie, Gilbert Hamilton, John Sterling, and George Loethan, assignees of Ninian Munies, Piffs.
William Johnson, one of the heirs and devisees of Edward Johnson, dec'd. Henrietta Johnson and Edward Johnson, likewise heirs and devisees of Edward Johnson, dec'd. and infants under the age of twenty-one years, by William Hickman their guardian, John Powell and Elizabeth his wife, formerly Elizabeth Johnson, widow of said Edward Johnson, dec'd. William Fentley administrator of William Ronald, dec'd. William Fenwick and Catherine his wife, which said William is administrator, &c. (of Andrew Ronald, dec'd. administered by William Wickham, late administrator of the said Andrew Ronald, dec'd. Andrew Ronald and William Stephen Ronald & George Ronald, children of the said Andrew Ronald, dec'd. Sally Ronald and Jane Ronald by the said William Fenwick their guardian, William Murray, Bexley Ronald and Nancy Ronald, co-heirs of said William Ronald, dec'd. Samuel Pleasants, Jr. Goodrich Crump, Brett Randolph, William Hickman, Richard Bentley, Calime Cooke, John Archer, John Swann, Benjamin Harris, Peterfield Archer and Richard Archer, securities to William Bentley, administrator, &c. of said William Ronald, dec'd. Robert Goode, one of the securities to William Ronald, dec'd. and Edward Carrington and John A. Chevalier, administrators of William Wickham, dec'd.
Samuel Donaldson, surviving partner of Gibson, Donaldson and Hamilton, Pids. The same Defts.
THESE causes coming on again to be further heard on the papers formerly read, the amended bills, bills of revivor and answers thereto, replicants, exhibits and reports of a commissioner, made pursuant to the orders of the eighth of June and ninth of December, in the last year, and was argued by counsel; on consideration whereof, the court setting aside the order made in the first suit on the fourteenth day of June last, for the present doth adjudge, order and decree, that unless the defendants, co-heirs of William Ronald, dec'd. who was one of the executors of Edward Johnson, dec'd. shall, on or before the first day of the next month, pay into the Bank of Virginia, the sum of twelve thousand and forty dollars fifty one cents, including the fees of the commissioner in taking the several accounts under the orders of this court; subject to the future order of this court, that William Berkeley, Josiah Ellis and William Mann, who are appointed commissioners for that purpose, any two of whom may act to lay off and allot to Catherine Cooke, late Catherine Ronald, widow of the said William Ronald, deceased, her dower in the following tracts or parcels of land, whereof the said William died seized and possessed, to wit: one tract in the county of Powhatan, whereon he lived, containing fifteen hundred acres, also one other tract in the same county, containing forty four acres, purchased by him of F. Woodson, together with two tracts in the county of Goochland, the one on Beaver-dam creek, containing nine hundred acres, the other ten acres called Little Island, & after allotting to the said Catherine her dower in the same, that they having advertised the time and place of such sale, for six weeks successively, in one or more of the newspapers printed in the city of Richmond, do sell at public auction, for ready money, the remaining two third parts of the said four tracts or parcels of land (except so much of the nine hundred acres tract in the county of Goochland, as is stated in the report of the commissioners to have been claimed by a certain Jacob Johnson, about which the court will at a future day decide) as also the reversion in the other third, so to be allotted to the said Catherine as her dower, subject however to the extent of Ann Barclay, in the said report mentioned, and after defraying the expenses of laying off the dower, and making the sale aforesaid thereof, pay the same into court subject to its future order. And the said commissioners who may act, are directed to report their proceedings to the court. And the court doth further order that the said commissioners of William Wickham, dec'd. who was executor of Andrew Ronald, dec'd. who was surviving executor of the said Edward Johnson, dec'd. do on the tenth day of the next term, pay into the court the sum of six hundred and eighty-five pounds four shillings and two pence, or the value of two thousand two hundred and eighty four dollars, three cents, with interest thereon, to be computed after the rate of five per centum per annum, from the thirty first day of December, one thousand eight hundred, till payment, subject to the future order of the court. And the court doth recommit the report made in these suits to commissioner Greenhow, with directions to make the accounts required by the former orders made in these suits, as also the account of William Ronald's administration on the estate of the said Edward Johnson, dec'd. so far as any errors or omissions may have been made in the report made by commissioner Hay, in a suit depending in the superior court at Chancery for the Richmond district, between Powell and others, and the administrators of the said William Ronald, dec'd. and others; a copy of which is among the exhibits in these suits, and of the partnership of the said William Ronald and Edward Johnson, of whom the said William was surviving partner, if either party shall require the same to be taken, together with an account of the debt, William Bentley's administration on the estate of William Ronald, deceased, so far as any errors or omissions may be found therein, as also an account of any monies received by the said William Bentley, as guardian of the said William Ronald, dec'd. or in any other character, by him, or otherwise, or any part of the real estate whereof the said William Ronald died seized or possessed, or to which he claimed any title at law or equity, to be by him examined, flatly settled, and to the court reported, with any matters thought pertinent by himself or required by the parties to be specially stated. And the court doth direct, that the said commissioners who may act, do (if the plaintiffs in these suits will consent thereto) sell the said lands upon such credit as they may agree to, and take bonds with security from the purchasers, for the payment of the same, payable to the marshal of this district, and also retain the title of the said lands, and in case default shall be made in the payment of the said money so agreed to be given for the said lands or any part thereof, that the said commissioners do sell such part of the said lands as shall be unpaid for, and pay the money due into court, and the residue, if any, pay to the original purchaser. And on the motion of John Bracken and William Coleman, they are admitted parties plaintiffs in these causes, & a subpoena is awarded them against the defendants returnable here, &c. A Copy. True. WM. MARSHALL, Clerk.
IN Pursuance of the foregoing decree, we shall proceed to sell at Public Auction, for ready money, at the times and places following, to wit: to lay: The tract in the county of Powhatan, containing 1500 acres, as Powhatan court-house, on the third Wednesday in April, 1807, being the 15th of the month, and court day of the said county; the other tract in
the said county of Powhatan, containing forty-four acres, at the court-house of the said county, on the third Wednesday in April next; The tract on Beaver-dam creek, in the county of Goochland, containing 900 acres, at Goochland court-house, on the third Monday in April, 1807, being the 20th of the month, and court day of the said county; and the other tract of ten acres, called Little Island, in the said county of Goochland, at the court-house of the said county of Goochland, on the said third Monday in April next, in the year 1807.
WILLIAM BERKELEY, } Commissioners. JOSIAH ELLIS, } epgw. WILLIAM MANN, } February 20.
IT being more advantageous to the defendants, who are interested in the foregoing tracts of land, that they should be sold, on credit, than for cash; and the plaintiffs, by their counsel, having assented to sale on credit; the same will be accordingly sold on credit. The lands will be laid off for sale in the manner, which shall seem most beneficial. One fourth of the purchase money is to be paid down in cash; one half of the remaining three-fourths in six months from the day of sale, and the balance in nine months from the same period. The conveyance to the purchasers are not to be made, until the whole amount of their respective purchases shall be discharged. The Goochland lands will be sold at Goochland court-house on the court day thereof, in the month of April next; to wit, on the third Monday, being the 20th day of April.
WILLIAM BERKELEY, } Commissioners. JOSIAH ELLIS, } WM. MANN, } March 3.
IN COUNCIL, February 13th, 1807. IT is advised, that the following agents be appointed for the collection of the arrears of Taxes due this Commonwealth, viz: William Nimmo, Jr. for the Counties of Accomack, Northampton, Princess Anne, Norfolk, and the Borough of Norfolk. Park Street, for Nansemond, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, Prince George, Elizabeth City, Warwick, York, James City, Charles City, New Kent, Hanover, Henrico, Cities of Richmond and Williamsburg. Peter G. Rice, for Gloucester, Matthews, Middlesex, Essex, King-William, King & Queen, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond and Westmoreland. Theodotus Hanseford, for Loudoun, Fairfax, Fauquier, Prince William, Stafford and King-George. William C. Williams, for Culpeper, Madison, Orange, Spotsylvania, Caroline, Louisa, Goochland, Fluvanna, Albemarle and Amherst. Joseph Fawcett, for Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson, Rockingham, Augusta, Shenandoah, Hampshire, Hardy, Pendleton, Monongalia, Ohio, Brooke, Harrison, Randolph and Wood. James McFarlan, for Wythe, Montgomery, Monroe, Giles, Washington, Russell, Lee, Grayson, Tazewell, Rockbridge, Botetourt, Greenbrier, Bath, Kanawha and Mason. William Norvell, for Henry, Patrick, Franklin, Campbell, Bedford and Pittsylvania. Thomas T. Buxton, for Halifax, Charlotte & Prince Edward. Major Edward Pegram, Jr. for Dinwiddie, Greenfield, Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Chesterfield, Amelia, Nottoway, Powhatan, Cumberland and Buckingham. DANL. L. HYLTON, Clerk C. C. February 20.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed by the subscriber, John Williamson, junr. to the other subscribers:
WILL be sold, on Saturday the 14th of the next month, for ready money, so much of the tract of land, whereon the said John Williamson resides, in Henrico county, as lies between the road, near his house; and the land of Dabney Williamson, supposed to contain about one hundred acres; also, about fifty other acres of land, adjoining the land of Samuel Browning; and the land last mentioned, and being a part of the aforesaid tract, belonging to the said John Williamson. The proceeds of which sale are to be applied, in pursuance of the said deed, towards discharging such sums of money as shall have been paid by John Robinson, at the instance of the said John Williamson, together with lawful interest thereon; and also, the expenses attending the said trust, and the execution thereof; and the surplus by desire of the said John Williamson, is to be paid to Allan Pollok. The sale will be made in the afternoon of the day, aforesaid, at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, by consent of the said John Williamson, who will previous to the sale, show the boundaries of the land to any person desirous of purchasing. JOHN WILLIAMSON, Jr. NAT. SHEPPARD, JOHN SHEPPARD, B. TAYLOR. Feb. 27.
BY virtue of a deed of trust, executed on the 24th day of May, 1806; whereby David Ross conveyed to us, a tract of land called Coles, in the county of Goochland, containing by an late survey, 1510 acres; also, another tract a small distance from that called Coles, containing 200 acres, more or less, it being the same land, that the said Ross purchased from John Hughes and wife, and also the tract of land called Mount Prospect, the greater part of which lies in Fluvanna, containing by estimation 1200 acres, except 225 acres heretofore sold by the said Ross, out of the said tract, to Samuel Pettit, to raise the sum of eleven thousand and four hundred dollars, with interest thereon from the 1st January, 1807, together with all charges and expenses of sale; and in pursuance of a requisition made in writing, under the provisions of the said deed; we shall on the 21st day of March next, before the front door of the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, sell for ready money, all and singular, the land and estates above mentioned, at which time and place, conveyances will be made to the purchasers. A more particular description of the above property, may be seen by tracing the references contained in the said deed now of record, in the general court, under an acknowledgment of the same in court, on the 12th June, 1806. THOMAS NORVELL, W. ALLEN, WM. C. WILLIAMS. February 10.
AS it is my intention to settle in the state of Kentucky, I have, therefore, to request all those who have claims against me to come forward for settlement, on or before the tenth of March, that they may receive payment; and all indebted to make immediate payment, or suits will be instituted immediately. ROBT. CROUCH. February 20.
WANTED, FIFTY THOUSAND RED OAK BARREL STAVES. APPLY TO— THOS. RUTHERFOORD & Co. February 20.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of William Mullen, deceased, of Chesterfield county, wherein I am concerned, are requested to bring them forward, their accounts properly authenticated, on or before the first day of April next, as provisions may be made for the discharge of the same. Also, all those having claims against the estate of Andrew Scott, dec'd. of said county, are requested to come forward; and those indebted, to pay off their respective accounts, as no indulgence will be given, and this notice plead in bar, of any claim brought forward, after the above date, as I intend to close my administration, to April court. ROBERT MYTTE, Adm'r of ANDREW SCOTT. March 10.
NOTICE.
ALL those indebted to the Estate of the late CHARLES POTTER, deceased, are requested to make payment; and all those having claims against the said Estate are desired to bring them forward for adjustment to Mr. JOHN POTTER, Richmond, Mr. ROBERT CURRIE, Philadelphia, or to THOMAS ALLAN, Adm'r. March 8.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of John Pendleton, esq. late of the City of Richmond, dec'd. are requested to exhibit them to either of the subscribers as speedily as possible. GEO. PICKETT, ROBERT POLLARD, CHS. JOHNSTON, N. SHEPPARD. Administrators. November 18.
NOTICE.
By virtue of three Deeds of Trust, executed to the undersigned, by William Cooke, of the county of Goochland, (and of record), in the court of that county, for the purpose of securing the payment of a debt due to John Shelton and Son, and funding other debts due to John L. Harris, & Co. will be expected to sale, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at Goochland (Court House), on the 31st day of March next.
A TRACT OF LAND, the property of said Cooke, now in the occupancy of George Underwood; lying in the county of Goochland, adjoining the lands of John Markham, John Lewis, Lewis Powers, and others; containing between three and four hundred acres, as expressed in said several Deeds of Trust. FREDERICK HARRIS, } Trustees. WILLIAM MILLER, } February 27.
FOR SALE.
TEN likely Virginia born SLAVES, most of whom are excellent house servants. For terms, apply to EDWARD HALLAM. Feb. 27.
FOR SALE.
THE BEAUTIFUL EAT OF BELVIDERE adjoining this city, with four acres adjacent, or any additional quantity, the exceeding twenty, which will be laid off to suit the purchaser. The dwelling house contains on the first floor, a spacious dining room, a parlour, a small sitting room, a chamber and two rooms, with a passage through the centre of the building, and a correspondent number of apartments in the second story. To the principal buildings, are attached all the outbuildings requisite for a large establishment, and the whole are in a state of good repair. Any person desirous to purchase, may know the terms, on which the above property will be disposed of, by applying to E. HARVIE. March 3.
FOR RENT.
A SMALL HOUSE near the Bank, lately occupied by Lewis Harvie, Esq. as an office.—Apply at the Bank. March 3.
THE Subscriber has commenced the practice of the LAW, and has determined to prosecute it with the greatest assiduity in all the courts held in this place. He will, likewise, regularly attend the county courts of Goochland and Chesterfield. His Office is over the store of Mr. Burr, in the second house above the Eagle Tavern. Wm. HAY, JR. Richmond, Feb. 27.
THE SUBSCRIBERS, UNDER THE FIRM OF LESUEUR & SAUNDERS.
Inform their friends and the public, that they will continue the COMMISSION business, lately done by C. & T. Saunders. They promise the strictest attention to the interests of those who are now receiving a general and extensive adjustment of GROCERIES, which will be offered for sale, Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms and usual credit, in the store lately occupied by Messrs. William M'Kean & Co. opposite the Post Office. Messrs. Proffer & Moncreiff among which are the following articles:
BROWN SUGAR of Bar Iron, German, Craw- Superior quality, key's & Biffened Steel, Ditto ditto second ditto. Antigua & Jamaica Rum, Belt Green Coffee, Very Old Antigua Rum, Salt in Sacks, Holland Gin, Molass's and Treacle, Cognac Brandy, of very Superior quality, Pickled Salmon, Race Ginger, Pepper, Scotch Barley, Pimento, Nutmegs, Madeira, Port, Sherry & Malaga Wine, Mace, Cloves & Cinnamon, Fresh Molecat Ruffs & Currants, Fresh London Mustard, Soft Shelled Almonds, in small boxes, Coppeas, Belt Finest Indigo and Saltpeetre, Fig Blue, of Superior quality, in boxes of 20 lbs. each, English P F Gunpowder, Fresh Capers, Oil, &c. Patent Shot, well assorted, Fresh Gunpowder, Hibbert's Brown Stout and Porter, Tea in Canisters, Belt Spanish Segars, Ditto by the lb. Caldwell, Frazer & Co's Young Hyson do. of the Superfine Chocolate, first quality, New-York Candles and Soap, N. England & Bullock's Spermaceti Candles, Cheese. THOMAS NORVELL, JOHN L. LESUEUR, W. ALLEN, C. H. SAUNDERS. February 10.
DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.
THE COPARTNERSHIP of C. and T. Saunders, is dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due by the concern will be adjusted and paid by Lesueur and Saunders, who are alone authorised to settle all claims due to and by the concern. C. H. SAUNDERS, TANTION SAUNDERS. October 10.
N. B. Those indebted are requested to make immediate payment as no further indulgence can be given. LESUEUR & SAUNDERS. Nov. 22.
WAR DEPARTMENT, February 23, 1807. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary for the department of war, until 12 o'clock at noon of the first Wednesday in June next, for the supply of all rations that may be required for the use of the United States, from the fifth day of October, 1807, until the 30th day of September, 1808, both days inclusive, at the following places, viz:
First, At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Fort Wayne, Chicago, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of Ohio, and territory of Michigan, and at any place or places within the Indiana territory north of the 41st deg. of north latitude.
Second, At the new military post opposite the mouth of the Hiawasee, and within the Cherokee nation between Tennessee and Georgia, and on the Tennessee river, and on the road between said river and Nashville, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Kentucky and Tennessee.
Third, At the garrison near Vincennes on the river Wabash, at Fort Maffac, New Madrid, Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas, Natchez, and Fort Adams, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in the Mississippi territory, except the county of Washington, and at any place or places in the Indiana territory south of the 41st degree of north latitude, and fifty miles east of the Mississippi river.
Fourth, At St. Louis, St. Charles, Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the territory of Louisiana north of New Madrid, and at any place or places in the Indiana territory within fifty miles east of the Mississippi river; and south of the 41st degree of north latitude, Fort Maffac excepted.
Fifth, At New-Orleans, Plaquemines, Point Coupee, Osheta, Natchitoches, Apponequas, Attakapas, Fort Stoudart, Fort St. Stephens, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the territory of Orleans, and in the county of Washington in the Mississippi territory, and at any place or places on the west side of the Mississippi river below Arkansas.
Separate proposals will also be received as aforesaid for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January 1808, to the 31st day of December of the same year, both days inclusive, within the several places heretofore mentioned, viz:
Sixth, At the Oakmulgee Old Fields, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Georgia and on the Indian boundary between Georgia and the Creek nation.
Seventh, At Charleston, Rocky Mount, on the head waters of the Santee, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the states of North and South Carolina.
Eight, At Norfolk, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Virginia.
Ninth, At Fort M'Henry, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Maryland and the district of Columbia.
Tenth, At Fort Mifflin, Carlisle, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Pennsylvania east of the mountains, and within the states of New-Jersey and Delaware.
Eleventh, At Pittsburgh, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Pennsylvania west of the mountains.
Twelfth, At Fort Jay, West Point, Albany, Schenectady, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New York; Niagara and its dependencies excepted.
Thirteenth, At Fort Trumbull, Fort Wolcott, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Connecticut, Rhode-Island and Vermont.
Fourteenth, At Fort Independence (Boston harbor) and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Massachusetts; the town of Springfield, and the district of Maine excepted.
Fifteenth, At Portsmouth, Portland, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New-Hampshire and the district of Maine.
Sixteenth, Proposals will also be received as aforesaid, for the supply of all rations, which may be required by the U. States, for the troops who are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the town of Springfield in the state of Massachusetts, and for the armoures and other persons employed in the United States' armory at that place, from the 1st day of January 1808 to the 31st day of December in the same year, both days inclusive.
A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whiskey or brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and a half of candles to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the ration shall be specified; but the United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid, as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price of the whole ration. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit and Chicago for six months in advance; and at each of the other posts on the western waters for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of the same can be transported, to call for, at seasons when urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper.
It is understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of fitting the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid by the United States at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or more persons of creditable character and the certificate of a commissioned officer, stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is understood to be referred to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies, which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued, until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed; and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the sea-board or Indian frontier, not exceeding three months. H. DEARBORN, Secretary of War. February 23.
Europe.
STATE PAPER. BY HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
As inferred by authority in the Gazette of Konigsberg, of the 1st Dec. 1806.
The battle of the 14th of Oct. notwithstanding the courageous efforts of his majesty's armies, has been too unfortunate for the Prussian arms, that the road of the capital and even to the very heart of his majesty's dominions, has been left open to the enemy; the king was, therefore induced to offer terms for an armistice, of which he had every reason to expect a cordial acceptance on the part of the enemy, as in the midst of the battle he received a letter from the emperor Napoleon, full of friendly expression; but to this offer of the armistice, the door of acceptance was shut unless the king consented, as the basis of a peace, to certain sacrifices, incompatible with his honor and dignity.
The king who saw the full extent and magnitude of the misfortunes and dangers which unavoidably surrounded his faithful subjects, preferred an immediate and uncertain tranquillity, to the remote and uncertain prospect of the return of the fortune of war in his favour; his majesty, therefore, immediately took the resolution of making such sacrifices, however great they might be, as were compatible with the interests of his throne, and accordingly sent the Minister of State, the Marquis Lucchesini, on the 18th of October, with ample diplomatic powers to the head-quarters of the Emperor and King Napoleon. The sacrifices which the King had agreed to, on receiving the first dispatches from Marquis Lucchesini (to whom, in order to accelerate the business, his majesty had sent major-general Zastrow) were so adequate to the advantages which the enemy, by the fortune of a single day had gained, that by early as the 30th of October they were respectfully acknowledged, and received as the basis of a treaty for peace, by the plenipotentiary, the grand marshal of the palace Duroc; upon this basis the peace itself was to have been concluded without delay, and the king on his own part, took all the necessary measures to provide that these conditions of peace should be punctiliously fulfilled, immediately after the signing of the preliminaries thereof. The emperor Napoleon, on the contrary, refused to put a stop to hostilities, and allowed his army not only to enjoy all the advantages they already possessed, but to proceed in acquiring new conquests, and even all the provinces of the king, on the Oder and the Warthe, destitute of garrisons, were inundated with French troops, and thus these defenceless provinces felt all the horrors of war, as well as the capital.
At the head quarters of the emperor, even four days after the acceptance of the conditions of peace, a seditious proclamation was printed, published, and distributed, tending to produce an insurrection or disturbances and rebellion, among the subjects of his majesty in South Prussia. Wherever the enemy's troops could find their way, the property of the king was taken possession of; the royal treasures were seized, and it was attempted to seduce the servants of his majesty from their lawful allegiance, and an oath was then tendered to them, whereby they were required to swear fealty to the enemy.
Those facts created a suspicion that the emperor was not serious in his intention of concluding a peace upon the basis already understood by the plenipotentiaries of both nations. The unceasing, but ineffectual endeavors of the plenipotentiaries of the king, and to break off entirely the thread of communication between the two belligerent powers, proved clearly to his majesty that this suspicion was well grounded, more particularly as the positive declaration, "That the emperor, knowing the situation in which Prussia has been placed, since the unfortunate battle of the 14th, must take advantage of that situation for the conclusion of his peace with England and Russia," leaves no doubt remaining with respect to the intentions of France.
After this the formally concluded basis for peace was entirely set aside, and instead of it an armistice was proposed, on the part of the French, at the very moment when it was thought that the basis of a defensive peace had been settled, and each new advantage gained in the interim by the French, now increased the severity of the demands made upon Prussia.
After having indulged themselves in so many illusory hopes, the plenipotentiaries of the king, at last thought themselves justified in concluding, on the 16th of November, the armistice hereafter inserted verbatim , in order to put a stop to the continually increasing demands of the enemy. This document was accompanied by the official declaration of the imperial minister for foreign affairs, M. Talleyrand, prince of Benevento, the contents of which prove more clearly than anything that had gone before, that Prussia would only flatter herself in vain, if she cherished the most distant hope of a secure and lasting peace, notwithstanding the unheard of sacrifices which the armistice imposed upon her.
But if the king himself even had indulged such a hope, it was no longer in his power, to fulfil those conditions in that armistice with regard to the return of the Russian armies, because, as the French troops during the negotiation had advanced even to the Vistula, his majesty was not in a situation to stop the march of the Russian armies, when their own frontiers were menaced by the enemy. Thus no choice was left to the king; he was obliged to refuse his ratification of the armistice, which the grand marshal Duroc brought to his headquarters, at Osterode, on the 22d of November.
If any alternative remained, it was one that implied the accomplishing of impossibilities, viz. to invite the cabinets of St. James and St. Petersburg to unite with his majesty, and agree upon the basis of a negotiation with the emperor Napoleon for a general peace.
This has been done, and though there were but feeble hopes of the success of such an attempt, yet the king did not recall the Marquis Lucchesini from the head-quarters of the Emperor and King.
During the time that the king was thus exhausting all the resources in his power to stop the shedding of human blood, he was nevertheless busily occupied in bringing forward all the means of resistance which God has given him.

While the fortresses, provided with ample means of defence, such as those of Stettin, Custrin, Magdeburg, &c. have been delivered up to the enemy in a most scandalous manner by their respective commanders; the other fortresses of the country, particularly those on the banks of the Vistula, have been now put in the best possible state of defence, and entrusted to the command of brave and honorable officers. The rest of the marching regiments which were quartered or encamped near the Vistula and Warta, shall be united with numerous, well disciplined and brave army brought to the assistance of the king by his true friend and faithful ally the emperor Alexander.
While these united troops attack the enemy, a new and numerous army, which is being rapidly collected, well disciplined, and equipped for war, shall follow their fellow soldiers to the field of glory. Above all, the king relies on the support of that people, who gloriously fought the battles in the seven years war against almost all Europe, and who did not defend nor waver in their allegiance to their monarch, even when the capital and the greatest part of the kingdom, were in possession of the enemy; his majesty looks with confidence to the support of that people, who, upon that occasion, in the midst of unheard of perils and calamities, evinced an energy and firmness which has merited the applause of the present age, and secured them that of the future generations.
At the present moment, there are even greater calls upon our energies than there were at the period of the above calamities. We now struggle for all that is dear & honourable to us as a nation, or sacred to humanity. To preserve the independence and existence of the nation alone, the king took up arms; this the nation, nay the whole world knows; and the enemy will be able to deceive the people by the phantom of a pretended coalition, of the existence of which he cannot produce the least evidence.  In her former struggles in the seven years war, Prussia stood alone, or at least without any material assistance from any other power. She then stood up against the first powers in Europe. In the present struggle she can reckon upon the assistance of the powerful and magnanimous Alexander, who with his whole strength stands forward to the preservation of Prussia.  Prussia in this great struggle has only one interest in common with Russia; both will stand and fall together. With such an intimate union of both powers in such a holy struggle against an enemy whose success has raised him to such a giddy height, that he knows no limits to his career, the issue of the struggle cannot long remain doubtful.
Perseverance in danger, according to the glorious example of our forefathers, can and will lead us on to victory.  [Here follows the armistice concluded at Charlottenburgh, on the 16th November, 1806, between Prussia and France, as heretofore given.]
NOTE  Of Charles Maurice Talleyrand, Prince of Benevento, delivered in after the above Armistice was signed.  The undersigned minister for foreign affairs has received his imperial and royal majesty's commands to declare to their excellencies the marquis Lucchesini and the general Von Zastrow, plenipotentiaries of his majesty the king of Prussia, as follows:  Four coalitions, of which the last has brought on the present war, were formed against France—all four have been conquered; the victories which her imperial and royal majesty, has gained over them, have subjected under her power very extensive dominions. Thrice has France, actuated by a moderation unexampled in history, determined to give back the whole or at least the greater part of her conquests, and has re-established princes upon their thrones, without any great diminution of that power which they had forfeited in consequence of the emperor's victories.
Although the emperor has thrice acted in this manner, yet he is willing once more to display his extraordinary moderation, though it might produce, before the lapse of ten years, even a fifth coalition.  In the course of those continually renewed wars, France, Spain and Holland, have lost their colonies. It is natural, it is just, that those countries which, by the laws of war have come into the possession of the emperor, should serve as compensations for those colonies. But the most material injury which the fourth coalition has done to France is that the Porte has lost its independence. Wallachia and Moldavia were governed by two men who were justly deposed by the Porte; but she has been forced to reinstate them in their Signiorities by the threats of Russia; and those concessions on the part of the Porte may be reckoned as actual conquests by Russia; if therefore, the total independence of the Porte ought to be a chief point to France, his majesty the emperor would lose the greatest advantage of his victories, if he were not to obtain the guarantee of the future independence of that power.  His imperial majesty, therefore, cannot in the least consent to the restoration of the conquered countries until the full enjoyment of the rights of the Porte over Wallachia and Moldavia, is acknowledged, and its total independence recognized and guaranteed.  The undersigned has the honor to renew to their excellencies the marquis Lucchesini, and the general Von Zastrow, the assurance of his high consideration.
C. M. TALLEYRAND. Prince of Benevento. Berlin, Nov. 16, 1806.
IMPERIAL UKASE, Alexander, Emperor of all the Russias, &c. &c. &c.  Our manifest of the 30th of August, declared the situation of our affairs with the French government.  At that period of our hostile situation, Prussia still formed a barrier between us and the French, who tyrannized over various parts of Germany. But soon after, the fire of war blazed out in Prussia also; after various disasters, and important losses on her part, our own dominions on the frontiers are now threatened by the flame.  To the Russians, accustomed to love the glory of their country, and to sacrifice every thing to it, it is unnecessary to explain how unavoidable these events have made the present war.
Honour unsheathed our sword for the protection of our allies; how much more justly must it be drawn for the defence of our own safety? Before these events could approach our frontiers, we took, at an early period, every measure to be ready to meet them. Having, in good time, ordered our army to move beyond the frontier, we have now commissioned our general, field marshal Kamenstok, to command it, and to act against the enemy with all the forces entrusted to him.  We are assured, that all our faithful subjects will join us in fervent prayers to the Almighty, who directs the fate of states, and the issue of battles, that he may take our righteous cause under his all-powerful protection, that his victorious strength and blessing may direct the Russian armies employed for repelling the general foe of Europe.  We are confident, that our faithful subjects of the government on the frontier will, in the present circumstances particularly, redouble the proofs of their attachment and their zeal for the common good; and that, unshaken by fear or delusive promises, they will tread with firmness the same path in which, under the protection of the laws, and of a mild government, they have hitherto enjoyed tranquility and undisturbed property, and shared in the universal prosperity of the whole empire.  Lately, we are confident, that all the children of the land, relying on the help of God, on the valour of their troops, and on the known experience of their leader, will spare no sacrifice, no efforts which patriotism and the safety of our country may demand.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 28, 1806.
BOSTON, Feb. 23.  From the River La Plata.  By Mr. Wells, who arrived in town last evening from the River Plate, by the way of the Vineyard, we have the following particulars:  After the recapture of Buenos Ayres, commodore Popham came in with his squadron before Monte Video. About the 5th Oct. there arrived from the Cape of Good Hope, the Lancaster 64, Medusa frigate, and a number of transports, with about 1500 troops.  On the 28th of Dec. an attack was made by the squadron against the town of Monte Video. But for want of water for the large ships, the attempt was relinquished. But the next day the town of Maldonado was taken by the said troops, and remained in their possession in Nov. when Mr. Wells failed.  It appears it was the object of commodore Popham to keep possession of Maldonado, and remain in the river until he had accounts from home. If reinforced, it was believed he would make a serious attack on Monte Video; but otherwise, it was supposed he would leave the country, directing a few ships to remain to blockade the river.  Considerable distress and discontent seems to exist in the province of La Plata, which may lead to consequences not generally expected.
NEW-YORK, Feb. 23.  The editors of the New-York Gazette, have received London papers to the 11th of Jan. six days later than those by the ship Oliver Elsworth. The complexion of these papers are much more lively than our last; the gloomy state of the French army, and the brilliant prospects of their opponents, gave new life to the enemies of the powerful Napoleon.  The papers contain two very important state papers. One is the proclamation of the King of Prussia, stating the reasons of his refusing to ratify the armistice. The other is a note of Talleyrand (prince of Benevento,) presented to the Prussian plenipotentiaries on signing the armistice.  The king of Prussia states that previous to the conclusion of the armistice, a basis of peace had actually been agreed upon, but from which the continued successes of the French led Bonaparte to depart; and on account of his growing demands, no hopes of peace could be entertained. As to the armistice, his majesty states, that it was impossible for him to comply with the conditions of it, as the Russians were advancing not only to his aid, but to defend their own frontiers, which the French armies menaced.  The West India fleet failed from Falmouth the 6th, under convoy.  An order of Council was to appear in the London Gazette of the 10th Jan. and is in substance, says the Morning Chronicle, "that no neutral ships be permitted to trade from any port under the control, or in the possession of the enemy. The neutral trade direct from neutral nations to the enemy's ports is still permitted; but the neutral trade from port to port is prohibited."  On the above order, the Morning Herald observes—"This measure will speedily decide the question, whether France, who has no commercial marine of her own, can dispense with the carrying trade, as pursued by neutrals, but which this measure goes completely to extinguish. She will now, in return for her menaced blockade, be hermetically sealed up, without an opportunity of exporting any of her produce to any part of the globe. The direct trade from America is permitted, but under this salutary regulation the Americans will not be allowed to carry on the trade between France, Spain, Italy, and Holland, &c."
LONDON, Jan. 8.  The mails from Denmark bring news to the 30th ult. All accounts agree in this, that the French army are in a most direful state by dysentery and other infectious disorders, produced by the severity of the weather and the want of proper food—nearly the whole of the army being disabled.  The Danes, apprehensive of French attempts to violate their neutrality, and force them into measures inconsistent with their interest, are making preparations to vindicate their rights, and have equipped several ships of the line for the protection of their coast and trade.  Sheffield, Dec. 30.  We learn that Napoleon arrived at Warsaw on the 19th ult. where prince Murat was confined to his bed.  Skirmishes daily take place between the Russian and French out-posts.  Five hospitals are erected at Warsaw. Koscziuszko, who left Paris, the 13th, was expected at Warsaw, to put himself at the head of the Polish confederation.  Gen. Beningsen with 73,000 men, retreating before the French to Narew, destroyed all the provisions, and took with him all the Poles who were able to serve in the army.  Tonnungen, Dec. 30.  All accounts agree that the French army are much reduced by sickness and scarcity. The Empress Josephine and the queen of Holland have fled from the contagion.  General Beningsen, with 80,000 men, is near Warsaw, harassing the French, whose misery and distress gave them no stomach for fighting. In truth, we are assured, that the affairs of Napoleon are desperate.  Preiburg, Dec. 30.  We learn that the Russians, 50,000 strong, are posted at Moldavia and Wallachia, as friends and allies of the Sublime Porte; that they have advanced as far as Widdien, and united with 40,000 Servians commanded by Czerni George. Accounts from Berlin of the 10th state that the hospitals there and at Magdeburg are full of sick and wounded French, who arrive nightly by waggons full. Contagious fevers and flux prevailed to an alarming degree. The physicians are put in requisition.  The Russian army on the frontiers of Poland amount to 850,000 men, and will be enlarged by January.  Denmark, Dec. 30.  Accounts from Berlin of the 28th say, that the French army in Poland has suffered so much from disease, occasioned by a constant fall of rain, as not to be able to act on the offensive with safety.
Continuation of news received at New-York, by the William and Penn, from Bordeaux.  Field-marshal Kamenstok, who is intrusted at this time with the command of the Russian army, in Poland, is furnished with very extensive powers. He has been highly distinguished in the preceding wars of Russia, by his knowledge of tactics, and particularly by the severe discipline he maintains among his troops.  The Russians have gained some advantages in Asia under gen. Bulgakow, who has reduced the towns of Kubá and Baku, in the province of Daghestan.  A Grand Duchess has been born to the court of St. Petersburg. Great illuminations took place on the occasion.  A Russian general arrived on the 17th Dec. at Vienna. He was presented at court by the Russian minister Ratumouki.  A particular form of new Bank Notes were issued at Vienna about the latter end of December.  A private letter from Saxony, of the date of 17th Dec. says that the manufactures are in a state of great stagnation. It speaks of the scarcity of cotton yarn, which was formerly procured from England; but they have now recourse to France, where cotton spinning has within these few years been greatly improved; several manufacturers have already sent orders to the French spinners, from whom they expect to receive as good and fine yarn as they formerly had from England; the receipt of this yarn, it is said, will give fresh activity to the cotton spinners.  The Saxon traders complain of the interruption of their communication with the north of Europe, particularly with Russia and Poland, where Saxon goods have had the greatest sale. They cannot now draw the money out of the hands of their agents there by bills of exchange. The great vent for Saxon goods at present is the Austrian states and the Levant.  The following is the position in which the Grand French Army have advanced against the Russians, on the other side of the Vistula.  The Grand Duke of Berg is at the head of the advanced guard, consisting of five divisions of cavalry, to wit:—the divisions of generals Beaumont, Klein, Mihaud, Nanfoulti, and de Haulpoult.  Afterwards the divisions of infantry of the generals Morand, Friant, and Guden, and a division of cavalry commanded by gen. Vandamme: me: These divisions have followed the armies of Marshals Davoust and Augereau.  The corps of Marshal Lannes covers the right wing on the side of Thorn.  The armies of Marshal Bernadotte and Soult form the centre.  1,100 Prussian prisoners have entered the French service as volunteers, and arrived at Frankfort (on the Oder) on the 25th of Dec. to join the army in Poland. New French troops had also arrived there.  A rising has taken place in Lithuania in favor of the French, which the Russian general Benignen had endeavored to suppress.  An English squadron of four men of war were lying in Elsinore (a seaport of Denmark) roads, on the 24th December, and will it is thought, be immediately reinforced by their ships.  Letters from Copenhagen state, that the circumstances of the moment, and the extreme penury which prevailed in that city, had induced the Danish government to permit the merchants to borrow money, through the organ of a committee appointed for that purpose, on the merchandise they had in store, and to put in circulation bills bearing interest.  Bonaparte, having concluded a peace with the Elector of Saxony, intends making a king of him.
LONDON, January 10.
The report which we mentioned yesterday, of Bonaparte being on his return to Paris, obtained much credit in the course of the day; and though no certain advice upon the subject had been received, the funds experienced in the early part of the day a material rise.  By a neutral vessel arrived at Falmouth from Rochefort, we learn that when the failed, ten days since, there were lying at that Harbour, ready to put to sea the first opportunity, five sail of the line and two frigates, all full of troops.  The report of the Russians having been defeated on the Vistula, was current on the 28th ult. at Rochefort, previous to the sailing of above vessel; but this rumour is entitled to no degree of credit. Had such an event taken place, it would have been known at Hamburg much sooner than at Rochefort, and we know that the German papers and letters to the 1st instant are totally silent upon the subject.  The order of council stated in our paper of yesterday to have been issued relative to the trade of neutrals with the ports of the enemy, is a measure which must meet the full approbation of every British subject. Its effect will be to place France, and the commercial countries under her influence, in a state of blockade, and to bring at once the question to an issue, whether the enemy can do without foreign trade. It is a measure of just, though dreadful retaliation, against the enemy for the piratical expedients to which they have lately resorted against our commerce; and there is every probability of its speedily annihilating the little that remains of their trade, or mercantile spirit in France.  Bonaparte, in issuing his decree of blockade, hoped, no doubt, to commit England in hostilities with neutral powers, by tempting her to reprisals; but it would be an insult to neutral nations to suppose that they are not capable of discovering to whom the blame attaches; indeed, the conduct of Denmark already sufficiently evinces that she forms a just opinion of the relative merits of the case. The real substance of the order was yesterday circulated in the form of a Bulletin: which is as follows:
"No Neutral Vessel to be permitted to trade from any port under the controul, or in the possession of the Enemy."  "The Neutral Trade direct from Neutral Nations to the Enemy's Ports still permitted; but the Neutral Trade from Port to Port is prohibited."  "The order is out, and will be published in the Gazette to-morrow (this day.)"  The Privy Council, we understand, have finally pronounced upon the charges lately preferred against General Picton by Colonel Fullarton, and decided that there is no real ground for the accusations thus preferred. The case of the girl who was put to the torture, however, remains to be re-argued in the court of King's Bench.  LOWER ELBE, Dec. 22.  Yesterday morning all the physicians and surgeons of the French troops at Hamburg, received orders to proceed to Berlin and Poland; and the medical practitioners have been invited to join them. Many of these particularly the Jews have accepted the offer.  December 23.  General Kamenstok was marching at the head of 80,000 men against Turkey; when being informed of the renewal of the treaty between Russia and the Porte, he immediately proceeded and put himself at the head of the Russian grand army in Poland, which he reached on the 5th inst.
December 30.  The white flux continues to rage among the French army in Poland, besides another shocking disorder called the Vitisla queus (Plica Polonica.) If the latter, painful matter flows out of the end of every hair on the head, and the hairs swell and grow down to the middle of the body in the form of queues. The disease is almost incurable. The dody of the patient is also in general covered with a leprous eruption.  The faculty of medicine at Vienna, having been consulted about the best method of curing the white flux, have returned for answer, that the patient must eat very strengthening food and drink choice white wine. The emperor of Austria has, it is said offered 1,500 barrels of Hungarian wine, for the relief of the French sick. Eight P. M. It is now strongly reported that the French have been defeated by the Russians on the Narew.
PROCLAMATION BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA, TO THE INHABITANTS OF SILESIA.  "Brave Inhabitants of Silésia!"  "Among the mournful events which have taken place during the course of the present war, there is nothing that has so much filled with grief the heart of his majesty, as to see a considerable part of his provinces and faithful subjects, oppressed by the weight of sufferings, which must be the inevitable consequence of a war, in which the enemy, by his manner of making war, unusual in our time, entirely exhausts the country through which he passes, with forced requisitions of every kind, and by the large bodies of marauders who swarm round his disciplined armies, and who, incapable of sparing, treat the armed warrior and the unhappy peaceable inhabitant with the same cruelty, and every where leave behind them traces of the grossest barbarity, desarts and ashes; even where, through fear of violence, the unarmed inhabitants have shown the greatest submission in the reception of those destroying horde.  "His majesty perceives that his faithful Silesian provinces are now threatened with the same wretched fate.  "It sensibly grieves his majesty that he is prevented by the situation of affairs, which renders his presence necessary at other points, from hastening in person to the aid of his faithful Silesians, who have at all times, and under all circumstances, rewarded the paternal care of their monarch for the welfare and prosperity of their country, by the most unshaken attachment to the house of Prussia.  "The enemy boasts, favored by fortune, so liable to change, and not less favored by the treachery of base traitors—that he has already annihilated the whole force of the Prussian monarchy.  "But he knows not that his majesty is at this moment at the head of a formidable army, which burns with eagerness to engage the oppressors of the country.  "He knows not, or appears not to wish to know, that the monarch of Prussia finds himself surrounded by a guard which no force, no misfortune, no talisman can subdue—the unalterable love of his people.  "He knows not that every day thousands of volunteers offer themselves, with arms in their hands, to set bounds to his progress, and that the Silesians display no less activity and energy in defence of their king and country, than to defend their property from unexampled rapacity.  "He flatters himself with the doubts he is anxious to disseminate of the promised aid of Russia.  "But he deceives himself in his hopes; the most sacred and inviolate fulfilment of all treaties entered into, is one of the principal traits in the character of the noble minded sovereign of all the Russias.  "Already two formidable Russian armies have arrived near the banks of the Vistula, while a third, much more numerous, is advancing by rapid marches.  "Already legions of patriots, voluntarily armed, and used to battle, are prepared to join the armies in the field.  "His majesty, under these circumstances, depends on the attachment of his Silesian states and subjects, who have at all times, both by word and deed, given the most manifest proofs of their unshaken fidelity; and he believes that, by the appointment, ad interim , of one of the most distinguished of them, his excellency the prince of Anhalt Pleis, to be governor general of Silésia, he gives them a proof of his confidence and good will. Conducted by this prince, who has gloriously signified himself in the course of the war, the states, and all classes of the inhabitants of Silésia, will certainly exert themselves to contribute all in their power, in conjunction with the forces which his majesty will send to their assistance, to defend their country, and their own province in particular.  "Involved with full power by his majesty, I therefore hereby call on all and each of the inhabitants of the Silesian provinces, to bear cheerfully the sacrifices and burthens which probably may be necessary for the attainment of this great object, and the rather as they not only can bear no proportion to the enormous sacrifices to which they must be subjected should the enemy succeed in his attempt to conquer Silésia, but as in due time they will be rewarded by his majesty, and as far as possible made good.  "Given at Bresslau, the 2d of December, 1806."  "COUNT VON GOTZEN, Major and Augel adjutant to his majesty the king."
POSEN, December 3.
Our Gazette contains the following proclamation:  "By command of his excellency the general of division, Dombrowski, knight of the grand order of the legion of honor, and commander of the royal order of the iron crown, it is hereby intimated on the part of the French imperial war and finance chamber, to all tax and impost gatherers in the country, as also to all police magistrates in the cities, that they are to seize all prisoners of war, deserters and vagabonds of all descriptions, Poles and others, and cause them to be transported under a strong escort, and at the personal risk of said magistrates, &c. to the nearest appointed place of assembling for the Polish levies, viz. Rogasen, Rawitsch, Gnesen and Rosen; the Prussians, & other foreigners, however, are to be transported from Frankfort on the Oder, or to Custrin. As this command requires the utmost publicity, we hereby ordain that it shall be immediately printed and published in all cities and churches, and also in the public Gazettes.  "Posen, 26th Nov. 1806. By order of the French imperial war and finance chamber. BOZEA."
Extract of a letter from Posen, Nov. 25.  "Gen. Dombrowski has this day received a letter from marshal Davoust, who informs him that he had had an affair with the Cossacks. The letter is in the following terms:—  "A detachment of French cavalry was attacked on the 22d of this month by 5 or 600 Cossacks at Lowicz. The combat continued from the morning till the evening. The French defended themselves bravely against the Cossacks, who suffered very considerable loss. Many Polish gentlemen came forward to assist the French to repulse the enemy, and one of them, animated by his patriotic courage, killed five Cossacks, and remained dead on the field of battle.
From Portugal.—Captain Hilliard, arrived at New-London on Wednesday last, in 61 days from Lisbon, informs, that the Decree of Bonaparte, declaring England in a state of blockade, had caused much confusion at that place. Business was wholly at a stand; and many neutral vessels that had been chartered, and were ready to sail for England, had refused to proceed, and were re-landing their cargoes.
THIRTY thousand French troops were entered in Portugal. The Portuguese government was raising troops and fitting out its ships of war with the utmost dispatch. On leaving Lisbon, captain H. saw a fleet of English ships of war off the Rock, bound in.  KIEF (in Holstein,) Dec. 29.  The French Charge d'Affaires, Desaguires who was here for some time, has again returned to Copenhagen; our Court does all in its power to preserve its neutrality. In Sweden the most vigorous preparations are making for war. The King of Prussia has transferred his headquarters from Koenigsberg to Wehlau. His forces, with those of the Russian General Tottleben, amount to near 100,000 men. The former are commanded by Gen. Kalkreuth. The Commandant of Spandau, who returned to the King after the surrender of that place, has been tried by a court-martial, and condemned to be shot.  SPAIN.—There is something mysterious in the conduct of Spain at this moment, that merits attention. It is a fact that a British frigate lately went to La Vera Cruz and took in three millions of dollars, with which she failed about the latter end of January. Two other British frigates were momentarily expected, (and some reports say that they had arrived) to take off eight millions more. We know of a certainty that several American vessels have been hired to go to La Vera Cruz, to take off specie. These vessels have Spanish permissions of course, and they are furnished with British Passports. These things would not be done without an understanding between the two governments.  A file of Paris papers to the 28th of December, which we received last night, contains some papers which notice Spain in terms that prove that her conduct has excited some attention in France, and that it has been felt in Spain. Those who know the state of the Press in both Countries will make due allowance for the caution with which they speak. A Paris Journal of the 16th of Dec. thus remarks.  "In the critical situation to which the enemies of France have been reduced in so short a time, it is not wonderful that for want of an army capable of resisting, they should have sought easier and more shameful means of fighting her. We might range under this head, the absurd conjectures formed upon some military dispositions of Spain" (then speaking of Austria, and alluding to an article under the Madrid head, the Journalist adds) "The court of Spain has every thing to gain in the alliance to which it has remained faithful; and that of Vienna, being at length fully awakened to its own interests, fees in the new order which is preparing, the end of those political convulsions that have for long rent Europe."  "We shall soon have an occasion to expatiate more at large upon this important object."  The following is the article alluded to:  MANCHA, November 1.  We have been greatly surprised here at the strange interpretation given by a French Journal to the Proclamations which had been made for the purpose of putting our military forces on a more formidable footing, preventing the aggressions which the situation of Europe might lead Spain to apprehend, and those dangers which the genius of Napoleon has so soon caused to disappear. Closely connected as Spain has been for several years past with France, both by her commercial interests and by her policy, as soon as she saw the war break out on the Continent, she put herself in a posture either to assist her ally or to resist her enterprizes which England might make, either by herself or by her aid of the power engaged in the coalition newly formed against France. Nothing assuredly but a profound ignorance of the real situation of this country could occasion a doubt as to the part it had taken between a powerful nation which can do every thing to defend us, and is in want of nothing to do us injury, and an enemy employed for these 5 years past, in destroying our navy, undermining our trade, pillaging our treasures, and laying waste our colonies with the torch of rebellion. N. Ledger.
In consequence of great numbers of privateers having issued out to infest the French decree, a message has issued at the British admiralty, for the sailing of every armed vessel in port. This necessary movement will perhaps free the British Channel from the privateers which seem to swarm there.
It now appears beyond a doubt, that the Dutch government will not relax, in the smallest degree, from the rigor of its proceedings, respecting the trade of Holland with this country. All commercial intercourse, therefore, is suspended between the two countries. A letter of the 27th was received yesterday from Holland which determines the point. As no ship could possibly sail with it, it was put on board the first vessel met with at sea bound to England, in order to communicate to the merchants here the impossibility of any traffic between the two countries, and to prohibit the exportation of any merchandise to Holland from this country. The letter also states, that a Petition had been presented by the Dutch merchants to the Government, praying, that such ships as were loaded prior to the issuing of the Decree might be suffered to sail.  London Paper.
The ship Western Trader, capt. Whitefides, has arrived at Liverpool in 30 days from this port. On the 5th of January, off Cork, was boarded by a French privateer of 18 guns—a nother of 22 guns then in flight; examined and dismissed. Phil. Reg.
NEW-YORK, March 2.  We are happy in being able to state, from undoubted authority, that the four principal British merchants in Hamburg, who were arrested by the French on entering that city, have been set at liberty, the seals taken of their effects, and the guards withdrawn from their houses; and that all property not bona-fide owned by persons residing in England, was respected. The embargo, however, continued in force on the 19th of December, on all vessels in that port; nor would any American vessel be permitted to sail, notwithstanding the application of our Consul there, until the French minister should receive an answer from the emperor Napoleon, to a remonstrance from the senate of Hamburg respecting neutrals.  Captain Perry, of the Betsey, from Cuba, informs, that the British brig George, of New-Providence, cruising on the west end of Cuba, had, in three weeks, captured seventeen sail of Spanish prizes, all of which she had safely moored in a small harbour in the Isle of Pines. The Spaniards hearing of the capture of these vessels, sent from Trinidad a privateer & two feluccas, which came up with the George, and after an engagement of three-quarters of an hour, succeeded in capturing the brig and all the prizes. One officer was killed on board the George, and 7 men wounded. The Spaniards had 21 men killed and 17 wounded. The captain of the Spanish privateer died of his wounds the day after his arrival at Trinidad.
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PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28.
[TRANSLATION.]
City of Carracas, July 25, 1806.
The Capt. General, with the advice and approbation of the Auditor of War, a judge appointed to hear the first appeal in military affairs, condemned the companions of the traitor Francis Miranda, to the following punishments, viz:
To be banged. —Jas. Gardner, Gustavus Adolphus Benguett, Charles Johnson, Miles Hall, John Fers, Francis Ferguson, Thomas Donahue, Thos. Billop, Daniel Kemper, Paul Francis George, a Portuguese.
All the above were commissioned officers under Miranda, and above twenty-five years of age.
Transportation to the Forts at Boca Chica, [at the entrance of the harbour of Carthagena] for 8 years hard labour.
Benjamin Nicholson, Samuel Price, Robt. Stevenson, William Long, Henry King, Wm. Praix, George Forguison, Joaquim Hoyt, Abraham Head, William Burnside, William Coante Wright, Daniel Newberry, Samuel Tocher, Henry Sperry, Pompey Grand, Benjamin Davis.
Transportation to Omea for ten years.
John O. Sullivan, David Helette, Henry Ingerfol, John Birch, Robert Saunders, John Erifell, Paul Nanqui, Jeremiah Powell, John Sherman, Daniel Mackey, John Hays, John Elliot, Thomas Gill, John Moore, Bayley Negus.
Transportation to Porto Rico for 10 years.
Moses Smith, James Grant, Matthew Buchanan, David Winton, Joseph Bernet, John Vanech, Frederick Riekers, Enias Baymen, Eden Burhagman, John Scott, Stephen Bantis, Alexander Belman, William Lippincott.
Boys. —Confined at Bocachica, until the determination of the King.
Reng, Joseph Hedelle, Joseph Smith.
The foregoing judgments have been regularly executed.
Domestic.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
February 25th, 1807.
The Speaker read from the chair a communication from the President of the United States, in answer to the Address of both Houses, forwarded to him during the present session of the Legislature:
It is thereupon ordered, that the same be deposited among the archives of the House, and printed in the paper in which are promulgated the laws of this Commonwealth.
Extract from the Journal.
Attest, C. P. SUMNER, Clerk.
To the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 1807.
Gentlemen, I acknowledge, in the first moment it has been in my power, the receipt of your joint letter of Jan. 26th, with the Address of the two branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, expressing their approbation of the proceedings of our government. This declaration cannot fail to give particular and general satisfaction to our fellow citizens, and to produce wholesome effects at home and abroad. The remarkable union of sentiment, which pervaded nearly the whole of the States and Territories composing our Nation, was such, indeed, as to inspire a just confidence in the course we had to pursue; yet something was sensibly wanting to set up the measure of our happiness, while a member so important, so esteemed as Massachusetts, had not yet declared its participation in the common sentiment: that it is now done, will be a subject of mutual congratulation. I am sensible that the terms in which you have been pleased to make this communication are not merely those of official duty. I feel how much I am indebted to the kind and friendly disposition they manifested, and I cherish them as proofs of an esteem highly valued. Permit me, through you, to return to the two branches of the Legislature the inclosed answer, and accept the assurances of my esteem and high consideration.
TH: JEFFERSON.
To the two branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts.
It is with sincere pleasure that I receive from the two branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts an address expressive of their satisfaction with the administration of our Government. The approbation of my constituents is truly the most valued reward for any services it has fallen to my lot to render them, their confidence and esteem the greatest consolation of my life. The measures which you have been pleased particularly to note, I have believed to have been for the best interest of our country; but far from assuming their merit to myself, they belong first, to a wise and patriotic legislature, which has given them the form and sanction of laws; and next, to my faithful and able fellow-labourers in the executive administration.
The progression of sentiment in the great body of our fellow-citizens of Massachusetts, and the increasing support of their opinion, I have seen with satisfaction; and was ever confident I should see; persuaded that an enlightened people, whenever they should view impartially the course we have pursued, could never with that our measures had been reversed: could never desire that the expenses of the government should have been increased, taxes multiplied, debt accumulated, wars undertaken, and the tomahawk and the scalping knife left in the hands of our neighbors, rather than the hoe and the plough.
In whatever tended to strengthen the republican features of our constitution, we could not fail to expect from Massachusetts, the cradle of our revolutionary principles, an ultimate concurrence: and cultivating the peace of nations, with justice and prudence, we yet were always confident that whenever our rights would be to be vindicated, against the aggressions of foreign foes, or the machinations of internal conspirators, the people of Massachusetts, prominent in the military achievements which placed our country in possession of the right of self-government, would never be found wanting in their duty to the calls of their country, or the requisitions of their government.
During the term, which yet remains, of my continuance in the station assigned me, your confidence shall not be disappointed, so far as faithful endeavours for your service can merit it.
I feel with particular sensibility your kind expressions towards myself personally; and I pray that that Providence, in whose hand are the nations of the earth, may continue to bless our country with her fostering care, and bestow on your services the blessings of his protection and favor.
TH: JEFFERSON.
February 14.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 6. We learn that the treaty lately concluded at London by the American and British commissioners has not yet been received by our government. It is believed, however, on good grounds, that the instrument in its existing form presents some difficulties which will require further negotiations in the same amicable spirit which has throughout prevailed, in order to render it acceptable to our government. It is understood particularly that it is deficient with respect to the important subject of impressments from American ships on the high seas; and that it is accompanied with a declaration on the part of the British government, that the signature of its commissioners is not to bind it to ratify the treaty or to refrain it from retaliating measures, against the late French decree, unless it shall be previously assured by the explanations or conduct of the United States, that they will pursue a satisfactory course against the infringement of their neutral rights by that decree.
We learn also that Mr. Purvis was the person appointed by our commissioners, to be the bearer of the Treaty and their accompanying Dispatches, and that he left London on the 8th of January. His arrival may consequently be hourly looked for. Nat. Int.
We discharge the painful duty of announcing the death of ABRAHAM BALDWIN, a member of the Senate of the United States.
He died on the morning of the 4th inst. We expect, in a subsequent paper, to be able to give a sketch of Mr. B's character. Id.
We had intended to have given in this day's paper a detailed statement of the proceedings of the last days of the session of Congress. But, on revising our notes, we have thought it would be more satisfactory at present briefly to state the most important objects attended to, referring a fuller statement until the publication of the debates, which will be given with but little delay.
The following acts were passed:
An act authorising the employment of about 500 additional seamen, in case the President shall consider the same necessary.
An act appropriating 150,000 dollars for fortifications. The appropriation for gun-boats was struck out.
An act authorising the use of the military force to prevent intrusions on the public lands.
The bill appropriating 250,000 dollars for opening roads to the state of Ohio was indefinitely postponed by the House of Representatives. Id.
Copy of Colonel Burr's letter to the Secretary acting as governor of the Mississippi Territory. Bayou Pierre, 12th January, 1807.
Sir, Being on my way down the river with a number of my friends, who are disposed to emigrate with me, I am greatly surprised to hear that my views have been grossly misrepresented, and that my approach has been made the subject of alarm to the country.
The reports which charge me with designs unfriendly to the peace and welfare of this and the adjacent territory, are utterly false, are in themselves absurd, and are the inventions of wicked men for evil purposes; I do assure you, fir, that I have no such designs, nor any other, which can tend to interrupt the peace or welfare of my fellow-citizens, and that I harbour neither the will nor intention to intermeddle with their government or concerns: on the contrary my pursuits are not only justifiable but laudable, tending to the happiness and benefit of my country, and such as every good citizen and virtuous man ought to promote. These pursuits have very recently been the subject of investigation before an enlightened grand jury in Kentucky, whose report is herewith enclosed.
If the alarm which has been excited for the most mischievous purposes, should not be appeased by this declaration, I invite my fellow-citizens to visit me at this place, and to receive from me in person such further explanations as may be necessary to their satisfaction; presuming that when my views are understood, they will receive the countenance and support of all good men.
It is hoped, fir, that you'll not suffer yourself to be made the instrument of arming citizen against citizen, and of involving the country in the horrors of civil war, without some better foundation than the suggestion of rumour, or the vile fabrications of a man notoriously the pensioner of a foreign government.
Having understood that the militia of this neighbourhood were to be reviewed this day, I thought it a fit occasion to undeviate my fellow citizens and relieve their apprehensions, and you the proper medium of communication; to this end I pray, fir, that you will cause this letter to be read to the militia when assembled, and I hope from your candor that you will confirm the sincerity of the declarations, by remarks derived from your personal knowledge of me, and to be inferred from the whole tenor of my conduct, as well public as in private life. I have the honor to be your obedient servant, (Signed) A. BURR.
To his Excellency Cowles Mead, Esq.
A LIST OF ACTS
Passed during the Second Session of the Ninth Congress.
 1. An act to suspend the operation of the act, entitled "An act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares, and merchandise," and to remit the penalties incurred under the same.  2. An act making appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven.  3. An act making appropriations for the support of the military establishment of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven.  4. An act for the relief of George Little.  5. An act to alter the time of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of North-Carolina.  6. An act for the relief of Seth Harding, late a captain in the navy of the U. States.  7. An act for the relief of William Hearn.  8. An act to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States.  9. An act authorising the erection of certain light-houses, and the fixing of stakes, buoys and beacons at certain places therein named.  10. An act for the relief of sufferers by fire in the town of Portsmouth, New-Hampshire.  11. An act for the relief of Edmund Briggs.  12. An act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States."  13. An act to annex certain shores and waters to the district of Mississippi, and to authorise the building of a custom house at New-Orleans.  14. An act to extend the power of granting writs of injunctions to the judges of the district courts of the U. States.  15. An act establishing circuit courts and abridging the jurisdiction of the district courts 
in the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio.
16. An act to punish frauds committed on the bank of the U. States.
17. An act authorizing the President of the United States to accept the service of a number of volunteer companies, not exceeding thirty thousand men.
18. An act to continue in force for a further time, "An act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States, and certain parts of the island of St. Domingo."
19. An act further supplementary to the act, entitled "An act concerning the district of Columbia."
20. An act respecting seizures made under the authority of the United States; and for other purposes.
21. An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military warrants, and for returning the surveys thereon to the office of the secretary of the department of war; and appropriating lands for the use of schools in the Virginia military reservation, in lieu of those heretofore appropriated.
22. An act for the relief of John Chester.
23. An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States, until authorised by law.
24. An act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January, in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eight.
25. An act authorizing the employment of the land and naval forces of the U. States, in cases of insurrections.
26. An act making appropriations for finishing the fourth wing of the Capitol; and for other purposes.
27. An act respecting claims to land in the territory of Orleans and Louisiana.
28. An act for the relief of Stephen Sayre.
29. An act for the relief of Oliver Pollock.
30. An act for the relief of Daniel S. Dexter.
31. An act to prevent settlements on public lands, until authorised by law.
32. An act regulating the grants of land in the territory of Michigan.
33. An act making appropriations for the support of government, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven.
34. An act making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, and their companions.
35. An act disapproving of an act passed by the governor and judges of the territory of Michigan, entitled "An act concerning the bank of Detroit."
36. An act making appropriations for carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw tribe of Indians, and to establish a land office in the Mississippi territory.
37. An act making appropriations for carrying into effect certain treaties with the Chickasaw and Piankeshaw tribes of Indians.
38. An act for the relief of William Eaton.
39. An act making provision for the disposal of the public land, situate between the United States military tract and the Connecticut reserve, and for other purposes.
40. An act making further appropriations for fortifying the ports and harbours of the U. States.
41. An act concerning invalid pensioners.
42. An act confirming claims to land in the district of Vincennes; and for other purposes.
43. An act to reduce the expenses attending the administration of justice in the district of Columbia.
44. An act repealing the duties on salt, and continuing in force, for a further time, the first section of the act, entitled "An act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers."
45. An act to establish certain post-roads; & for other purposes.
46. An act making compensation to the governor, judges, and secretary of the Indiana territory, for extra services.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 13th MARCH.
NEW ORDER OF THE BRITISH COUNCIL. The British cabinet was to have issued a new order on the 10th of January, which was said to be intended as a retaliation upon France for her blockading decree, and which must be deeply interesting to neutral commerce. The contents of the order were announced by a bulletin on the 9th of January.
No neutral vessel is to be permitted to trade from any one port to any other under the control or in the possession of the enemy.
The Neutral trade direct from Neutral Nations to the enemy's ports is to be permitted; but the Neutral trade from port to port is prohibited.
What is this in effect but declaring to the United States: "We are not for the law of nations and the rights of neutrals. Necessity has no law; we are upon the very brink of a precipice, which yawns to devour us; and what is it to us, what becomes of the rights of Neutrals, if we can but secure for ourselves a momentary and precarious existence?"
"The laws of nations empower you to trade from one port to another of an enemy's country; and a fortiori from the ports of one enemy to those of another."
"But what are these principles to us? We forbid you to trade from Bordeaux to Rouen, or from Rouen or Barcelona to Amsterdam. We forbid you under pain of confiscation from trading from one port of France to another; or to any port in Holland, Spain or Italy; nay, we extend our prohibition farther. We forbid you to trade not only from one port of France to another of her own ports or to those of her allies; but to any and to every port which may be actually in her possession."
And upon what grounds will the British pretend to excuse these encroachments upon our commerce?
"Have we violated any of their privileges? Have we suppressed their seamen; interrupted their colonial trade; or declared their whole island in a state of real or fictitious blockade?"
No; not one of these pretended accusations can be urged against us. Our administration is conducted on the most enlightened principles of policy towards foreign nations; no people in the world are more forbearing, more just or humane than our own; and there is not that belligerent or neutral nation on the many-peopled globe, which can justly reproach us with partiality towards their enemies, or the slightest violation of neutral rights.
"True, lays the British cabinet, we do not lay such accusations at your door: It is not to retaliate upon you the injuries which we have suffered from you; it is not to punish you for crimes you have perpetrated towards us, or because you have perpetrated them at all; it is because France has assumed the rights of neutrals; and therefore do we abate them. We retaliate upon your commerce, because she retaliates upon ours. We but imitate the example injustice, which her blockading decree of the last of November has set us. She has attacked
our trade in a dangerous and unauthorised manner; and we but return her blow."
"Ridiculous as these pretexts are, we should not be astonished to see them seriously urged by G. Britain; and assigned as the basis and justification of her attack upon our commerce."
They are ridiculous for three reasons:
1. Because no nation is authorised to make such retaliations upon her enemy, as may injure the rights of other nations, though the but pursues the example of that enemy.
2d. Because the French blockading decree does not violate our own rights, if it be but executed according to the professed objects of France, as represented by Decree's letter.
And 3d. Because if it were even to have this effect, G. Britain has no right to retaliate upon our trade, until she has first discovered that we intend tamely to submit to her rival's encroachments.
This first principle flows from the very first elements of morality, and requires no proof. A nation is authorised to retaliate upon an enemy; but upon what principle of justice can she retaliate upon a neutral the injuries which she receives from her enemy; or adduce her enemy's violation of neutral rights as any justification of her own?
If a neutral tamely submits to these attacks; if there is no remonstrance employed, no exertions used to arrest such encroachments, the Belligerent may indeed plead this submission in justification of his own encroachments. He may say to the neutral "you suffer your rights to be infringed to our annoyance. You suffer our enemies to attempt to starve us, by permitting them to capture your vessels laden with provisions. We will resort to measures of retaliation."
Without such an exception, however, where are the principles which can justify the encroachments of a belligerent upon neutral trade? Where are the principles which can justify the preamble to the French decree? We must have remained silent and submissive under the British proviso Order of the 8th June 1793; before France could have employed these orders to justify to our government her universal blockade of British ports; had such been the object of her decree. And the late order of Great-Britain is founded upon principles equally false and unjust.
2. But G. Britain cannot even excuse this measure upon the principle of retaliation.
What is the object of the French decree?
The French minister of Marine declares that it is not in fact to place G. B. in a state of blockade; and of course is not intended to intercept neutral vessels bound to or from British ports. Its only effect then upon us will be to exclude such of our vessels from her own ports, as are laden with British merchandise, or coming from British ports. We contend that this is a privilege of France, of which we cannot justly complain. It is certain that France has the absolute right to regulate her own trade; and to exclude even every neutral vessel from her own ports, if she but impartially extends the same restriction to every nation, and provided she violates not the rights secured to any of them by treaty.
But what is said to be the object of the British decree? Not to retaliate the same measures upon France; not to exclude vessels laden with French merchandise or coming from French ports; not to regulate the trade of her own ports; but to prescribe what shall be the trade of neutrals with her enemy's ports; to violate an established principle of National law and one of the solemn rights of Neutrals.
So striking is the difference between the French and English decrees!
3. But should the French government even intend to execute this ambiguous decree according to the spirit of its first Art. it will furnish no excuse to Great-Britain for her meditated encroachments upon our commerce. Surely we are not responsible for every injustice, of which France may be guilty. Surely Great-Britain is not authorised to employ any retaliation against us, until she discovers that we permit France to wound her interests, by the injuries which that power inflicts upon ourselves.
G. Britain should have avoided any retaliatory measures which would have affected our own commerce, until experience had decided how far the French decree would have interrupted our rights of commerce, and how far we should have unreluctantly submitted to such an encroachment.
It would then have been time enough for her to have struck a blow at our commerce; and to have trampled the sacred principles of neutrality under foot.
It is no longer doubted, that the British treaty has been rejected by the President, and upon two most solid objections:
That it was perfectly silent on the impressment of our seamen;
And that it contains only the conditional ratification of the British government; the condition being, that we shall resist whatever encroachments may be attempted upon our neutral rights by the late decree of France.
It appears that the President has made no secret of this opposition or to the source from which it proceeds. And indeed this conduct stands justified by two very obvious advantages:
That our merchants should be prepared for the execution of the non-importation act. They know that the suspension of this act continues till 14th of the June, and that its further suspension till the 31st of Dec. lies within the breast of the President. It is proper therefore that our merchants should begin to calculate the possibility of an event, which the adoption of the treaty would have dispelled.
The present is a most delicate crisis for the U. States. It is not only their interest to keep aloof from the present contentions of Europe, but to impress this idea upon the belligerent powers. We should avoid the appearance of every thing which may produce any unfounded suspicion of our attachments or partialities. We should beware, how we furnish France with any specious pretexts to carry the execution of her blockading decree farther than she does at present; for no power has more frequently employed pretexts for the gratification of her own desires.
Let us then cordially admit, that whatever were the other advantages, which the treaty secured to us, it was for our real interest that it should be most promptly and peremptorily rejected by the administration.
2. The French government should not be suffered for a moment to suspect, it is our disposition to make a common cause with Great-Britain against her. They should know in the most positive manner that so far as there is anything on the face of the treaty which looks like this co-operation, it has received the most decided opposition of our government.
It is our interest to have no treaty, which shall not most explicitly guarantee the rights of our seamen.
Or which shall prepare the smallest possible means for a gradual and conclusive co-operation with G. B. or which shall produce the slightest suspicion of such an event.
What then? Let us wait for a light of the dispatches of our commissioners, before we
pretend to understand what are the relations in which we now stand to Great-Britain; how far it was proper, why, and in what form our commissioners have submitted it to the eye of our government.
Was the case of impressed seamen excluded from the treaty itself, that it might be referred for future discussion; and afterwards introduced under the form of a supplementary article? Or was it first introduced into the body of the treaty itself, and this article afterwards struck out by the British cabinet, with a positive assurance that we need not at any time to expect such a favorable provision?
What was the precise tenor of the memorandum, annexed by the British cabinet in regard to the French decree?
Was the treaty, clogged by this insuperable difficulty, approved by our commissioners; or did they simply send it to this country, to consult the wishes of our own cabinet, and perhaps merely to inform them of the prevailing disposition of this British government?
It is said that some weeks since, the President sent new explanations to our commissioners, most positively instructing them to enter into no treaty with G. Britain which did not most explicitly secure the rights of our seamen.
It was impossible for him at that time to have given any instructions on the blockading decree of France; of course no instructions could have been sent upon this subject.
It is most probable that these instructions did not reach our commissioners before the 27th of December.
At this very moment, therefore, our commissioners may have already resumed the negotiations.
From the instructions which they received, they must have known the temper of our government in regard to our impressed seamen.
They must have known, that the President would not ratify any treaty, which did not peremptorily secure the rights of our seamen.
They must have concluded without the necessity of waiting for direct information from our cabinet, that the treaty already formed would be displeasing to the President.
These instructions were tantamount to a rejection of the treaty; and it is not improbable, that the very moment they received them, they would conceive it to be their duty to open the negotiations once more, and attempt to form a new treaty more acceptable to the wishes of our government.
Perhaps this new treaty is now in a fair train of adjustment.
If the B. council have adopted their decree of retaliation; the French government may be expected to rejoin by seizing upon every vessel bound from or to G. Britain.
Then comes the Rebutler of the B. Government to declare France in a similar state of blockade.
In the mean time what becomes of the rights of neutrals; & of those principles of civilized war, for which both nations have made such pompous professions of respect?
Will the antiquarian declare at what period, in the history of Europe, they have been so little respected, both on land and on the ocean?
Sales at Auction.
ON Wednesday the 18th inst. will be sold, without reserve, at public auction, all the stock in trade of Mr. Robert Bathall, at his house adjoining the office of the subscribers,
 30 Crates Liverpool Ware, completely assorted, A Table Set of China,  5 Pipes 4th pf. Cogniac Brandy,  30 Barrels of Whiskey,  10 Ditto Apple Brandy,  15 Hds and 5 bhs N. E. Rum,  1 Hhd. 5 years old Antigua do

Miscellaneous.
The following is a bold, though overcharged PORTRAIT of BONAPARTE'S plans. It is correct, so far as it respects his military character and his designs upon foreign nations. But it does him no sufficient justice in confessing his exertions within the sphere of his camp. No man can be more completely a military monarch, who forms so many schemes for the internal government of his country; and if we trust his annual Exposé , his exertions for her internal improvement by the construction of roads, ports, and navigable canals, bespeak a mind not altogether devoted to the camp, nor completely abandoned to pernicious projects. As to the dissolution of his system which is predicted in the following sketch, we perfectly agree with the author. But we believe, too, that there is another cause for the same catastrophe. It will not be overturned merely by "the jealousies of the confederate princes;" the death of its great founder will most probably crumble it into atoms. What new system will succeed it, is certainly beyond the ken of prophecy.
Edin. Enq.
BRIEF REVIEW Of the State of France, and the character of its government.
From the British Ministerial Pamphlet , entitled The System of the Negotiation .
"Bonaparte is the Genghis Khan of Europe. He knows no law but the sword, no legislative assembly but the camp. The sword is his sceptre, the camp is his cabinet. Uniting the military simplicity of the Tartar conquerors with the military science of Europe, he rules not a moment from his martial habits; he is ever in a state to take the field in the very instant of his necessity. He is in every sense of the word a conqueror, and a military monarch. His system of rule is that of the feudal system purged of its ancient weaknesses. He is an emperor—an emperor in the strictest sense of the word as employed in the lower Roman empire—an emperor at the head of confederate princes, all connected with their chief, and with each other, by a common interest—an emperor elected by his fortune and his guards, governing his people with military despotism, and retaining his army by military discipline. His precedents and officers are but so many Cæsars, who govern the different provinces under their patron and political father, the Great Augustus. This system of empire, as it is founded, to be maintained, by conquest. Like the principle of motion, it ceases to exist when it ceases to proceed. It has, moreover, a still more fatal characteristic. The adage, ancient as the world, Molle ruit sua , does not apply to it. It easily admits of accession. If another kingdom be added, it requires but another press. The history of mankind is as uniform as the materials of human action. This empire will be sooner or later overturned by the jealousies of the confederate princes. But from its present, and immediate energy, it will in time overthrow every thing around it. Kingdom after kingdom will fall into its maw, till, like the death of the poet, having destroyed every thing about it, it will terminate by prey on itself. A new system will then succeed. The present monarchs of Europe are the fragments of the feudal system. When the military system, under which Europe must now suffer for some centuries, shall in its turn become split and scattered, our posterity will behold new forms of empire; and modes of rule, which prophecy itself, seeing through the foggy vista of time, could scarcely believe, though it were the finger of divinity that pointed to them."
NEW PILLAR OF THE IMPERIAL THRONE.
Bonaparte not contented with the power of the sword, has found a new support in the spiritual authorities of his Empire. The state has allied itself with the church; and the devout ministers of a holy God are called forth to consecrate the usurpations of a military chieftain. The old doctrine "to respect the powers that be" is revived in the liturgy of France; and a man certainly of no very divine virtues, is held up by the hypocritical adulations of a pampered priesthood as God's "image upon earth." It is, however, a new proof of the dexterity with which Bonaparte employs every expedient to uphold his power; that the same man who was certainly at one time no very devoted lover of the church, has now revived and confirmed the religious prejudices of his people, to add new confirmation to his own authority: and that the same man, who once dishonored the foreign pontiff by dragging him from Rome to Paris to dub him Emperor of France, is now professing to great a veneration for his name, as to employ this very consecration as a solemn tie upon the obedience of his subjects. Surely France is fast returning to the same abject superstition, which her revolution had suspended; and surely of all the fins in this finning world, the fins of intriguing governments are the worst. It is no fatuity to this picture, to say, that if France is now returning to her priesthood and her kingdom, it is because such evils have been graciously imposed upon her by the monstrous coalition which were formed against her safety. Evils do not diminish, from the nature of their causes; and the man of an honest soul, must turn with nearly equal indignation from the following extract, whether he abhors the coalitions of Pilnitz and Pavia, or whether he altogether denies their existence.
COMMUNICATION.
DR. PARK. I send you an extract, faithfully translated from "The Catechism established for the use of all Churches in the French Empire," and so established by the Archepiscopal authority. It may amuse some of your readers.
Question. What are the duties of Christians towards the Princes by whom they are governed, and in particular towards our Emperor NAPOLEON I? Answer. All Christians owe to the princes by whom they are governed, and to us, in particular, owe to our Emperor NAPOLEON I, respect, obedience, love, fidelity, military service, tributes ordered for the preservation of his empire and his throne; we owe him also fervent prayers for his safety and for the spiritual and temporal prosperity of the State.
Q. Why are we bound in such duties towards our Emperor? A. First, because God, who creates empires, and distributes them at his pleasure, by dispensing his blessings in peace and in war to our Emperor, has confirmed him as our sovereign, and has established him as the minister of his power and as his image upon earth. To honour and serve our Emperor is the same as to honour and serve God himself. Secondly, because our Lord Jesus Christ himself, both by his doctrines & his example, as taught us what we owe to our rulers. Q. Are there not other more particular motives, by which we should be more strictly bound to Napoleon our Emperor? A. Yes: because God has raised him up, in such trying times, for the purpose of re-establishing the holy worship of our ancestors, and to be the protector of our sacred religion; because he has brought back and preferred public order, by his profound and energetic wisdom; because he defends the empire by his powerful arm; because he has become the Lord's anointed, by means of the consecration which he has received from the Sovereign Pontiff, the chief of the universal church. Q. What are we to think of those who fail in these duties towards our Emperor?
A. That according to the apostle St. Paul, they resist the decree established by God himself, and render themselves subject to eternal damnation.
FROM THE RHODE ISLAND PHENIX.
Military establishment of France. Pecuniisque cursum numerum legionum, et quas provincias tuerentur. Quod mihi quoque ex sequendum reor, quæ tum Romana copia in armis, &c. The gigantic power and rapid conquests of France, render every thing relative to her resources an interesting subject of speculation. The following account of her present military establishment, which may be relied on for its accuracy, is furnished for the purpose of adding to the stock of materials for political information.
The regular army is divided into infantry, cavalry, the corps of engineers and the artillery. The infantry is again divided into infantry of the line and light infantry. The infantry of the line is composed of 112 regiments, of which 93 are of 3 battalions, and 19 of 2 battalions. The complement of a regiment of 3 battalions is 3,230 men, which is 300 390 men; the complement of a regiment of 2 battalions is 2,150 men, which is 41,021 men. The light infantry is composed of 31 regiments of 3 battalions, which is 100 130 men. The total therefore of the infantry is 441 542; officers and men.
The cavalry is likewise divided into cavalry of the line and light cavalry. The first is composed of 24 regiments, 2 of which are carabineers, 12 cuirassiers, and 10 ordinary heavy cavalry. The complement of a regiment of cavalry of the line is 706—total 16,944 men. The light cavalry is composed of 64 regiments, of which 30 are dragoons, 24 chasseurs, and 10 hussars. The complement of a regiment is 946, which gives 35,440 dragoons, 22,762 of chasseurs a cheval, and 3,480 hussars. Total of the cavalry 77,666.
The artillery is either field artillery or besieging artillery. Of these there are 3 regiments of foot artillery, 6 of flying artillery, 15 companies of artificers, 8 battalions of the artillery train, 14 companies of veteran cannoners, and 128 of cannoners gardes côtes (similar to the British sea batteries). The complement of a regiment of foot artillery is 2,582, making the total of the foot artillery 20,656. Each regiment of flying artillery contains 524 men, making the total of this corps 9,229. There are 1380 artificers; 3,816 of the artillery train.
The battalions of pioneers are employed in the construction of bridges for the passage of the armies across rivers; for which purpose they carry copper boats, which are linked together, and formed into bridges with amazing facility; the modern art of war thus rendering rivers of little importance in arresting the progress of troops. There are 2 battalions of these, composed of 610 soldiers, artificers and officers, each.
The veteran cannoners, and the companies of gardes côtes amount to 16,183, and are employed entirely on the sea coasts. Total of the artillery is 46,489.
The corps of engineers is composed of 5 battalions of sappers, of 9 companies of miners, and of a number of officers proportioned to the wants of the service. The complement of a battalion of sappers is 909; that of a company of miners 100; making 5,445 men—the corps of officers is 428.
Thus if every corps of the regular army had its complement, the grand total would be 565,509 men. But as some of the regiments are not full, the true number probably falls something short of this; but certainly much exceeds half a million of troops.
In addition to the regular army, the corps of gendarmerie forms a force of interior guard and consists of about 1,500 men.
The imperial guard affords a specimen of every species of troops in the French service, being drafted in a particular manner out of the army, or composed of volunteers of the first fortune and family in the country—it consists of about 8,500 men.
That part of the expense only of maintaining the army which consisted in its pay, amounted for the year before the last, to 102,408,914 francs, [20,450,000 dollars.]
L'Observateur.
Nature degenerates in America.
"According to the maxim of Buffon."
JERSEY BEEF & PORK. Mammals Os.—We mentioned some weeks since a pair of large Oxen, fattened by Mr. James Hunt of Hopewell in this country. One of these Oxen has since been killed—its weight was as follows:
  Weight alive, 2120 lbs.   of the Beef, 1280   of the Tallow rough, 214   of the Hide, 121 
COMMUNICATION.
The Industrious Farmer Rewarded. Raised and butchered within the vicinity of New-Egypt by Mr. Francis Shin, Farmer, and bought by Mr. Barzilail Hopkins, merchant of laid place. Thirty-six Hogs, weighing in the whole twelve thousand six hundred and twenty-seven pounds—the largest hog weighed 474 lbs. and the smallest 297 lbs.—they averaged more than 360 3-4 lbs.—The oldest Hog did not exceed 18 months, and the youngest ten months. The amount of this crop of pork, according to our market, amounts to eleven hundred and thirty-five Dols. and 43 cents—a handsome compensation to industry.
New-Egypt, Feb. 2, 1807. (Trenton paper.)
A bill has also passed appropriating 3000 dollars towards the establishment of a botanical garden. If the congress of the United States will but give equal encouragement to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, which may be fairly and truly considered as the link of national work, the example as well as the utility, will be a proud occurrence for the U. States.
Aurora.
RESIGNATION.
Days of my youth, ye are gliding away; Days of my youth, ye will shortly be vanished; Soon will the warm tints of fancy decay, Soon from my cheek will the roses be banished. Brief as the wild flower that lives on the spray, Brief as the bright dew that hangs on the morning, Your gifts are as fleeting as life's barren way, All the dews of time to an instant adorning. Soon will the hopes of my bosom be hush'd, Soon will the hours of my day dreams be number'd, Quickly the shoots of romance will be crush'd, All will be fled that I've with'd or I've slumber'd. Go then, ye warm beaming joys of a day; Go then, ye moments of bliss and of sorrow; Calm will I bend me to time's pale decay, And from contentment new roles will borrow.
DOCUMENTS
Accompanying a Bill, in addition to an act intitled "An act in addition to an act, intitled "An act supplementary to the act providing for a naval peace establishment; and for other purposes,"—Passed the 20th Feb. 1807.
House of Representatives, Feb. 17.
SIR, The enclosed resolution passed yesterday. It is designed to ascertain if the number of seamen allowed by law for the public service, make the complement necessary for, and commensurate with that object. The committee desire the fullest information on this point. As their organ I invite your attention to this subject, and request in their behalf all the information that can exhibit it in the proper point of view. A distinct statement on each of the following heads, is likewise requested, viz.
 1st. The number of seamen allowed by law for the public service.  2d. The number in actual service.  3d. The number requisite for a gun-boat, and the number of gun-boats in service.  4th. The number necessary for the relief squadron destined for the Mediterranean.  Receive the assurances of my respect, THOMAS NEWTON, jun. Chairman of the Select Committee. Robert Smith, Esq. Sec'y. Navy.
Navy Department, Feb. 18.
SIR, This morning received your letter of yesterday's date.
By the act intitled "An act in addition to an act intitled "An act supplementary to the act providing for a naval peace establishment, and for other purposes," passed April 21, 1806, it is declared "that the whole number of able seamen, or ordinary seamen and boys, shall not exceed nine hundred and twenty-five."
We have now in actual service about 925 The whole number requisite for one gun-boat is 24 The number of gun-boats in service is four, and there are also two bomb ketches. The number of able seamen ordinary, and boys requisite for such a bomb ketch as the Etah or Velutius, (the two now in service) is 60 The number of men necessary for the relief squadron destined for the Mediterranean is, including ordinary seamen and boys, 412, that is to say,
  For the Frigate Chesapeake, 292   For the Sloop of War Wasp, 120   412 
From the preceding statement it appears that the number of able seamen, ordinary seamen and boys, is restricted to 925
And that the number now in actual service is 700 And that the relief squadron will require 412 Exceeding the limited number, 187
Besides the 700 men stated to be now in actual service, we may, from a letter received from captain Shaw, dated at New-Orleans, November 26, 1806, presume that he has entered 400 additional seamen, in order that he might be the better enabled to aid in defending the city of New-Orleans against an apprehended attack.
I am, &c. ROBT. SMITH. Chairman of the select committee.
** Congress have authorised the President, in case he should deem it necessary, to employ five hundred additional seamen.
By Authority.
LAW OF THE U. STATES.
AN ACT
To extend the power of granting writs of injunctions to the Judges of the District Courts of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, the judges of the district courts of U. S. shall have as full power to grant writs of injunctions to operate within their respective districts in all cases which may come before the circuit courts within their respective districts as is now exercised by any of the judges of the supreme court of the United States under the same rules, regulations and restrictions as are prescribed by the several acts of Congress establishing the judiciary of the United States, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided, that the same shall not, unless so ordered by the circuit court, continue longer than to the circuit court next ensuing, nor shall an injunction be issued by a district judge, in any case where a party has had a reasonable time to apply to the circuit court for the writ.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO. CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. February 13, 1807. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
DRUGS & MEDICINES.
WILLIAM WEST has purchased the stock of DRUGS & MEDICINES, belonging to the firm of Dr. Daniel Willson & Co. at their Store on Main-street, Shockoe-Hill, where he intends to carry on the business of an Apothecary. In addition to the stock purchased of the said firm, he has just received a fresh supply of articles in that line, laid in for him by one well acquainted with their respective qualities, all are warranted genuine, and will be sold on moderate terms. Orders, &c. that he may be favored with, shall be promptly attended to. N.B. Just received a small invoice of patent Medicines, Copal Varnish and Paints. February 6. oawtf.
PENNSYLVANIA LOOKING UP.
We have particular gratification in stating to the public, that a bill has passed the house of representatives of this commonwealth, appropriating the sum of 300,000 dollars, for the constructing of the Canal which is to conduct the water of the Susquehanna and Schuylkill; the proceeds of the duties on auctions is to be received for this laudable and liberal purpose,
FOR RENT.
And immediate possession given. A THREE story HOUSE, smoke-house, garden, &c. on the Basin, occupied the preceding year by Mr. Chancellor H. Saunders. This house is well calculated for a boarding or a genteel private family, having four rooms and a passage on the ground floor, and two kitchen and two cellar rooms on the second floor. For terms apply to Mr. Thomas Underwood, jr. at the public ware-house, or to Mr. Leander Hughes at Melfer's. Sharland and Luckes, opposite the Market.
ARCHCLAUS HUGHES.
January 10. oawtf. The subscriber will also dispose of a part or the whole of a valuable half acre wate LOT on the Basin, N o . 409 with six small Tenements thereon, and a half acre LOT N o . 396 with a good Dwelling-House thereon, handsomely situated for a private dwelling. A credit of five or ten years may be had for three fourths of the purchase money, by giving satisfactory security and paying the interest thereon, annually. If the above property is not disposed of at private sale, by the 2nd day of March, it will on that day, if law, if not, the next fair day, be disposed of at auction, to the highest bidder on the premises. For terms, apply to Mr. Leander Hughes, in Richmond, and the subscriber living in New-Kent, near Bottoms Bridge, A. H. oawtf.
NEW STORE.
TO BE SOLD CHEAP, OPPOSITE THE EAGLE TAVERN. SIMPSON MORRIS, From London, begs leave to inform the public, that he has just imported from London, a large assortment of Fashionable DRY GOODS, fit for the approaching season, which he offers now for sale, on very low terms at the above house, viz.
BLACK and Colored Men's, Women's and Children's Worsted Hose; also, Men's, Women's and Children's assorted White Cotton Hose of excellent quality, with and without Lace Clocks; also, Woolen Broadcloths, Plain Velveteens, Cut Velveteens, Corduroys, Thicksets, Benett's patent Cord, Toilettes; Stocking-breches pieces, Swardlow, Florentine Silk, Black Twilled Sarenet, Black and White French and Brussel Laces, Fresh new pattern Ribbands, Bandannas, Handkerchiefs; a handsome assortment of Printed and Twilled Shawls, Durants of different colors, Common and Fine 7-8 and 4-4 fluted Linen, Fine Long Lawns, Sheetings, White Corded Dimities, Cheque for Aprons, Bed Furnitures, Printed Calicoes, a large assortment of Fine Plain and Fancy Muslin, Cambic Mullies; also, Real French Cambric, Red and White Flannels, Printed Dimity, Printed and White Quiltings and Marcellies, and a variety of other articles too tedious to mention. December 11. oawtf.
3,000 wt. SALT PETER'D BACON, 1,000 wt. first quality N. ENGLAND CHEESE, 10 gross BOT'LED CYDER, A few buthels CLOVER SEED, 150 pieces PAPER HANGINGS. For Sale by EDWARD HALLAM.
Constantly for Hire—An Excellent Carriage and Horses—apply as above. May 27. oawtf.
WILL BE SOLD.
On the premises, without reserve, to the highest bidder, between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock, Monday the 30th inst. the following PROPERTY, viz: ONE two-story BRICK HOUSE, 42 by 20 ft. do. single do. Wood do. 32 — 18 — Four do. do. do. do. All nearly finished and calculated for dwelling, seated on handsome well included Lots on Shockoe-Hill, in the City of Richmond; known in Duvall's plan, as N o . 101 & N o . 102, surveyed by Wm. G. Paule. TERMS OF PAYMENT: 1400 Dols. in cash—1050 dols. on the 25th of June, 1807—Half of the residue the 14th August—and the balance the 14th August, 1808. Satisfactory titles will be made to the purchaser, on the receipt of the money. ARCHIBALD PLEASANTS, jr. March 6. oawtf.
TO RENT.
THE TENEMENT lately occupied by Mrs. Whitaker, in an agreeable retired situation and very convenient for a family. Wm. M'KIM. Richmond, March 6. tf.
THE CAROLINE JOCKEY CLUB RACES,
at the UNION TAVERN, Mr. Joseph Siggins (Caroline) will commence on the 15th day of April next.
1st Day—A POSY SWEEP STAKES of 30 dols. each, 7 Subscribers & closed, 90 lbs. on each, with an allowance of 3 lbs. for Fillies & Geldings. 2d Day—THE JOCKEY CLUB PURSE, 45 Subscribers at 5 dols. each, 3 mile heat. 3d Day—Two mile heats for the Subscription of the PROPRIETOR of the course, with the toll of that and the preceding days entrance, 10 dols. each, free only for members of the Club—To carry the following weights, (Viz.)
  Three Years Old, 83   Four do. do. 102   Five do. do. 112   Six do. do. 122   Aged 126 
Three pounds to be allowed Geldings & Mares. PHILIP SAMUEL, Secretary of Caroline Jockey Club Union Tavern, (Car.) March 6. tf.
LOST,
ON Friday last in the Street—A small red morocco POCKET-BOOK, containing sundry papers of value only to the owner. Whoever delivers the same at the Office of the ENGINEER, shall receive five dollars reward. Richmond, March 6. tf.
HAY-MARKET GARDEN.
I WILL receive proposals till the 20th of March for renting the Hay-Market Garden, in this city for the ensuing season or a longer term, which is now enlarging and otherwise improving. Should the Garden not be let before that period it will be opened on a plan that will be offered, and it is hoped will meet the approbation of the Citizens of Richmond, Manchester and the Public generally. I would rent my dwelling house, and kitchen garden, to a genteel family, for one or more years, or will rent apartments in the house, and several small houses pleasantly situated in the yard, ready furnished for small families or individuals. JOHN PAYOR. March 6. tf.
WANTED
to hire or purchase a female house servant about 20 or 25 years of age, for one who can come well recommended for sobriety and steadiness, a generous price will be given. Apply to the printer. March 10. tf.
A Meeting of the visitors of WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE,
is requested on the 20th of the present month. SAMUEL TYLER, Rector. March 10. sw.
RACES AT APPOMATTOCK.
THE JOCKEY CLUB RACES at this place, will commence on Wednesday, the 29th April next. 1st Day—purse—150 dols. distance: 4 mile heats—Second day's purse, supposed to be nearly equal to the first, the greater part of the toll being given up for that purpose—distance, three mile heats. Weights as follows:
  Aged 120 lbs.   Six Years Old, 120   Five do. do. 110   Four do. do. 100   Three do. do. 86 
And under 3 years, a feather. Mares and Geldings to be allowed, 3 lb. A meeting of the members, will be required, on the day preceding the first day's race. A. S. BROCKENBROUGH, Secretary & Treasurer. March 10. tf.
THE Partnership that heretofore existed between
the Subscribers, trading in Richmond under the firm of ROBERT NEILSON & CO. having expired by its limitation, on the first inst. All persons having demands on said firm, are requested to present them immediately to Robert Neilson, that they may be discharged, and those indebted thereto, are desired to make payment to him. JOHN LISLE, jr. ROBERT NEILSON. JOHN WITHERS, jr.
N. B. The business will be continued at the old stand by the Subscribers under the same firm. JOHN LISLE, jr. ROBERT NEILSON. March 10. tf.
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, held at the Eagle Tavern, on Friday evening, the 20th February, 1807.
RESOLVED, That the further sum of five dollars be paid on each share, held by the Stockholders in the company to Naniand Sheppard their treasurer, on or before the first day of April next. A Copy. Tette, N. SHEPPARD, Clerk. February 27. tf.
JUST RECEIVED,
A FRESH Assortment of Claret W