The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-06-18 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY RITCHIE & WORSLEY, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM... (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE)
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RICHMOND, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1805.
[VOLUME 2.]
Richmond Prices Current.
   D. C. D. C.     TOBACCO : 5 50 a 6   FLOUR : Superfine : 5 50 a 10    fine : 9 — a 9    middlings : 8 — a 8   WHEAT  OLD : 1 — a 1    NEW : 1 75 — —   INDIAN CORN : 5 — a 5   WHISKEY : — 50 a 60   BACON : — 15 — —   HEMP : 190 — 200 —   HAR IRON : 110 — — —  
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold on the premises, on Wednesday the 25th day of July next:
LOT on Shockoe-hill, No. 594, adjoining the lot whereon Mr. Samuel Greenhow lives. The terms of sale will be, one hundred pounds cash, the remainder in twelve months; to secure which a deed of trust upon the lot will be expected.
THOMAS TAYLOR & Co. V. M. (ids)
IRISH LINENS, &c.
We have received, by the late arrivals, an extensive assortment of— 7-8 and 4-4 IRISH LINEN, 5-4 IRISH SHEETING, 3-4 and 8-4 DIAPERS, and DIAPER TA- BLE CLOTHS; which, in addition to other goods, are offered for sale at our usual low prices.
GILLAT & KIRBY.
June 14. (ep14w)
B irth of two deeds of trust executed to the subscribers by John Henderson, to secure the payment of a debt due to Thomas Garth, jun. and William Galt— WILL BE SOLD , at public auction, on Saturday the 29th inst. at James Lewis' tavern in the town of Charlottesville, for ready money: The interest of said John in and to the following SLAVES , to wit: Tiller, Milley, Biddy and Washington, or so many thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy the aforesaid debts, with interest and cost.
JAMES LEWIS. THOS. GARTH, sen. } Trustees. DAVID ANDERSON, } Charlottesville, June 14. '05. (ep8w)
LINEED OIL.
A Quantity of Dutch Boiled LINEED OIL, for Sale by THOMAS WHITE. May 21. (T8w)
DOCTOR LOZARUS,
Of the city of Richmond;
OFFERS FOR SALE his Antiphlogistic Stomach Cordial , a medicine unequalled by any other in the whole Materia Medica , since the art of medicine was discovered. For this valuable discovery, he has obtained a patent from the United States; and for the benefit of the public, has reduced the price from two dollars to seven shillings and six pence per bottle. It has performed the most astonishing cures on many persons in this city, as well as other parts of Virginia, which will appear by a number of certificates now in his possession, some of which have been given by gentlemen of the first respectability, and which will accompany each bottle with directions for using the medicine.
PATENT
ANTI-
PHLOGO-
STO.
LIANS
MACH
CORDIAL.
Which cures almost every internal disease. It is recommended for all complaints at the Stomach and bowels, corrects bile, particularly relieving every species of cholick. It restores appetite, relieves griping pains attended with purging. It revives the strength and spirits, and is of singular efficacy in promoting digestion by strengthening the stomach and bowels. By taking a wine glass full in the morning fasting, it will be found to be an excellent stomachic and carminative. It is also a certain preventative against taking the ague and fever, or any malignant fevers. This cordial may be given to infants of a month old, if troubled with wind and cholick, giving half a tea spoon full. It is an excellent medicine for women in their early stage of pregnancy, taking a wine glass full at any time of the day. It has a very agreeable taste, and no patient can be injured by taking too much. It may not perhaps be too much to say, that this cordial has cured more persons of bilious complaints, in the course of two years past, than any other medicine in the known world.
N. B. The Doctor continues to cure the Rheumatism, either acute or chronic. He also has for sale his Lexington , with printed directions, by the use of which, persons residing at a distance may cure themselves. He has in possession certificates from gentlemen of respectability of this city to prove the efficacy and astonishing cures performed by this medicine. He also cleans the teeth, and cures the scurvy in the mouth—and has for sale his paste and tincture to very successful in curing this complaint, and which renders the breath at all times sweet and agreeable. Doctor Lozarus may be spoke with at his dispensary, next door to Mr. John Doyle, butcher.
All kinds of medicine prepared for private families, for every disease incident to the human body. June 14. (T8w)
THE SUBSCRIBER
has to inform his friends, and the public in general, that he has leased of Capt. Samuel Ellis, for a term of years, his white house at Rock-Wharf, nearly opposite Mrs. Sarah Lester's lower Wharf; where he purposes carrying on the COMMISSION BUSINESS in its various branches. Merchants of this place, who are in the habit of making shipments, now frequently be furnished with good & substantial vessels to transport their commodities, by application to him.
Those who may be pleased to employ him in this line of business, may rest themselves assured that every exertion in his power will be made, to render general satisfaction. He expects to be in the habit of receiving a very considerable quantity of lumber of all kinds, suitable to this market, particularly half and three-quarters inch shingles, one hundred thousand of the former he imagines will be up in the course of ten or fourteen days, which will be sold on terms, not displeasing to the purchaser.
Bacon, &c. will also be received by him.
EDWARD FAULCON.
May 31. (ep14w)
VALUABLE PROPERTY.
The subscriber desires to close his business in this place as soon as possible, is induced to offer for sale, the following valuable property, viz.
A CONVENIENT two story dwelling house, 24 feet square, having one room and a passage on the lower floor, two rooms on the second floor, and two good rooms in the garret, a cellar with plank floor, and divided into three apartments, one used for cooking; the yard inclosed with a brick wall seven feet high, the whole in good repair. This tenement is situated near the Bell-Tavern, on the crosstree leading to the Rock-landing, and is insured in the Mutual Insurance company, against fire in the state of Virginia, and the premiums paid.
Eleven unimproved half acres, on Shockoe-Hill, 600 acres Military land in Kanawha county, on the waters of Oldtown creek, a branch of Ohio river, being a grant made to George Mule, Adam Stevens, Andrew Lewis and others, in the year 1772.
25 tracts of Land in Montgomery county, containing 82,172 3/4 acres, the whole patented in my name.
4000 acres surveyed 3d April, 1786 in Montgomery county, on Cole river.
3080 acres surveyed 24th July, 1786 in same county, on 16 mile creek, adjoining the late General Washington's survey on Kanawha river.
3062 1/2 acres surveyed 22d July, 1786, in same county, on Loop waters, waters of New-river.
1000 acres surveyed 13th May, 1786 in same county, on the Ohio river.
3210 acres surveyed 5th April, 1786 in same county, south of a creek running into Cole river.
2138 acres surveyed 21st February, 1787 in same county, on Cole river.
320 acres surveyed 3rd February, 1787 in same county, on the waters of Cooper's creek and Little Blue stone.
1300 acres surveyed 16th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of the fourth fork of Cole river, that heads against Guyandotte.
95 acres surveyed 10th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of Glade creek.
78 acres surveyed 8th Feb. 1787 in same county, on a branch emptying into Glade creek on the fourth side of the same, and about one mile above the ford of said creek.
500 acres surveyed 10th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the north fork of Mud river, that heads against Guyandotte.
1500 acres surveyed 12th May, 1786 in same county, on Ohio river.
2000 acres surveyed 8th May, 1786 in same county, on the great Kanawha.
1000 acres surveyed 16th May, 1786 in same county and on ditto.
285 acres surveyed 8th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head of Glade creek.
214 acres surveyed 7th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the waters of Glade creek, on the south side thereof.
155 acres surveyed 6th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the west end of Joe's Ridge, and on the waters of Glade creek.
154 acres surveyed 6th Feb. 1787 in same county on Joe's ridge.
228 acres surveyed 6th Feb. 1787 in same county, on Joe's ridge, and the waters of Glade and Cooper's creek.
414 acres surveyed 22d Feb. 1787 in same county, on the second fork of Cole River, on the road crossing from Piney river to Guyandotte.
2000 acres surveyed 26th Feb. 1787 in same county, under the big pipe stem knob, and running down both sides of the creek.
416 acres surveyed 4th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the waters of Coopers creek, and Joe's ridge.
380 acres surveyed 3d Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of Cooper's creek.
3338 acres surveyed 20th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the fourth fork of Cole river.
1345 acres surveyed 2d Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of little blue stone, about half a mile north from the White Oak creek.
Three tracts of land in Monongalia county, patented in my name, viz.
350 acres by survey 1st June, 1796 in Monongalia county, adjoining Matthew Richey's land, and the Randolph county line, on waters of Cheat river.
400 acres surveyed 20th October, 1797 in same county, adjoining lands of Abner Harper, above the mouth of White Bay creek.
400 Acres surveyed 15th Nov. 1797 in same county, adjoining Peter Drago, on Finche's run, to include an improvement made in the year 1773.
1000 acres in same county, on the west of Cheat river, above the lands of Thos. Butler.
800 acres in same county, on Buffalo creek, on a pre-emption right of David Gray.
250 acres in Greenbrier county, on Little Deer creek, adjoining lands of Joseph McClung.
891 acres in Montgomery county, surveyed 18th August, 1787, on the waters of Piney river & Paint creek, waters of Kanawha river.
435 acres in Montgomery county, surveyed 30th June 1786, joining the lands of Joseph Eaton, Richard Mule, and James McCord.
230 acres in Wythe county, surveyed 4th Nov. 1795, on the Led Mine Mill creek.
180 acres in Albemarle county, patent dated 5th July, 1787, on William Hill creek, waters of Buck Island creek.
One undivided moiety of five lots, in the town of Winchester, No's. 89, 90, 100, 101, and 109.
The above will be sold very low, and the terms made known on application to Wm. AUSTIN. Richmond, April 9. (T8w)
FOR SALE.
A VALUABLE tract of Land containing about six hundred acres, lying within seven miles of the town of Staunton, in the county of Augusta. About an hundred and fifty acres are cleared, and in good condition for farming, which includes an excellent meadow of about twenty-four acres, and nearly, or quite as much more may be made.
The improvements are, two good log dwelling houses, with stone chimneys, near a large and never failing spring of excellent limestone water; a large and convenient barn; and a tolerable apple orchard, which seldom fails bearing.
This farm is conveniently situated, lies well for cultivation, well timbered, and in a good neighbourhood. It is generally supposed, by the best farmers, to be as valuable as any other of its size, within a considerable distance of Staunton, and reasonably worth eight thousand dollars, prompt payment. However, if an early application be made, it may be purchased for a less sum, and the purchaser accommodated as to the time which will be given for the payment of more than half the price. If the whole of this purchase money is rendered at the time of making the conveyance, or giving possession, it may be had for ten dollars per acre, which very little (if any) exceeds two thirds of its value. This property is certainly an object worthy the attention of any person who may be disposed to possess a productive farm in this part of the country. For further information apply to the subscriber residing in Staunton, who will view the land.
CHESLEY KINNEY.
June 7. (ep8w)
CASH
WILL be given for 13 or 15 BOYS, from 7 to 15 years old. Enquire of the Printers. Dec. 14. (ep14w)
FOR SALE OR LEASE:
THAT large and convenient TAVERN, situated in the centre of the town of Lynchburg, at the corner of the street leading to the court-house and jail, and not more than thirty yards from both, opposite Lychee's ware-house and the street leading from the ferry in the said town. The Tavern contains four rooms and a bar on the first floor, including two very large rooms suitable for a ball and dining room, with a dining partition to the ball room. The second floor contains six rooms, one the size of the ball room and the others suitable for lodging rooms, with an excellent garret. This Tavern has a large portico the full length of the house, also a good dry cellar, and a well opposite the door, together with a kitchen, smoke-house, dairy and a stable with twenty-two stalls therein, with a spacious garden and yard leading to the stable. Other improvements will be made to suit the purchaser or lessee. It is deemed unnecessary to state the great value of the above property, or say more as to the advantage arising from its central and eligible situation for a Tavern, as it is presumed no person would be inclined to purchase or lease the above property without viewing the premises, there being no doubt but they would be better satisfied after seeing the convenient situation, than any information they could get from this advertisement. A liberal credit will be given any person desirous of the purchase or an advantageous lease.
For further particulars, apply to William Roff, jun. Richmond, or the subscriber, residing about three miles from Lynchburg.
SAMUEL SCOTT.
April 30.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of the late Rev. Robert Ware, dec'd. of Middlesex county, are desired to bring them forward, properly authenticated, on or before the first day of September next, otherwise this advertisement will be plead in bar against all claims exhibited, after that date; as the subscriber is desirous to close his administration account as soon as possible.
EDWARD WARE.
Admin'r with the will annexed.
Essex, May 31. (ep14w)
TO BE SOLD,
To the highest bidder, on the premises, on the last Saturday in June next,
SO much of the LAND, whereon John Kelso lives, in the county of Cumberland, late the property of Peter Francisco, as will pay the balance claimed of him, by Samuel G. Adams, of £. 180, with its interest, by virtue of a deed of trust executed to me, by the said Peter Francisco, for that purpose.
CREED TAYLOR, Trustee.
May 17. (ep14w)
THE subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public at large, that he has obtained a commission for the exercise of the duties of a NOTARY PUBLIC, in and for this city; and that any business committed to him shall meet with prompt dispatch.
SAMUEL MCRAW.
May 21. (T8w)
LAND FOR SALE.
THE subscribers living in this place, have for sale a tract of LAND lying in the county of Louisa, and adjoining Yanceyville, containing two hundred and fourteen, and one half acres more or less; the land is well timbered, and the same which was sold under a deed of trust from Francis Lockett, dec'd.
A credit of one year will be given the purchaser on securing the payment, bearing interest from the date, if not punctually paid.
LYLE & MCREDIE. (ep 3w.)
BENJAMIN DUVAL,
AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN MORTAR, RICHMOND.
HAS just received a very large and extensive assortment of fresh MEDICINES, SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, DRUGS AND DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS of all kinds, OIL, VARNISHES, PUTTY, &c.
Also a complete assortment of HATTERS' MATERIALS, CONSISTING OF
   Hatters' Irons Crude Tartar   Logwood Baton Irons   Copperas Bow-Strings   Virdegreafe Linings   Fullick Galeons   Spanish Indigo Taffet Bands   Oil of Vitriol Rubbing Dishes   Aq. Fortis Stampers   Quickilver Trenchers, &c.  
Which added to his former stock, completes an assortment that was never equalled in his line of business, in this city.
He thanks his customers for past favors, and hopes to merit a continuation of their custom. His former attention to the quality of his Medicines, importing them in their crude state, that he might be able to judge of their quality, and powdering and preparing them under his immediate inspection, have contributed to his present establishment; and opposition he presumes will not relax his exertions to give general satisfaction in future.
His experience for more than 12 years past, as Apothecary and Druggist in this city, added to a small stock of Medical Information acquired before, enables him, he thinks, to form a tolerably correct judgment as to the quality of Drugs and Medicines, although he cannot boast of honors conferred on him, greater than the confidence of numerous and respectable customers.
In regard to his wholesale customers, he promises to furnish each of his wholesale customers with a printed price current, as soon as possible, and feels himself confident in their approbation, knowing that no one in this state can afford to undersell him. This he intends to do, not to get others' customers from them, but to secure his own.
Any articles that may be ordered, and not approved of as to quality, may be returned if in good order, and in a reasonable time.
June 7. (3w&8f)
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
A QUANTITY of Seneca or Rattle-Snake Root, and the Virginia or Black-Snake Root; for which liberal prices will be given.
BENJAMIN DUVAL.
June 7. (ep 6t.)
JUST RECEIVED,
And for sale at Ritchie & Worsley's book store: HISTORY of the CIVIL WAR in IRELAND; containing an impartial account of the proceedings of the Irish Revolutionists, from the year 1792, until the suppression of the intended Revolution. To which is prefixed, a Geographical and Historical account of Ireland.
By the Rev. JAMES GORDON.
With copious Additions and Corrections from various authors upon this subject; particularly prepared for the first American Edition. June 4.
Proceedings of Council,
ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHASE.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21.
[Mr. Hopkins, in continuation.]
In Hardy's trial, page 13, chief justice Eyre states to the grand jury, "jurors and judges ought to feel an extraordinary anxiety that proceedings of this nature should proceed upon solid grounds. I can easily conceive, therefore, that it must be a great relief to jurors placed in the responsible situation in which you now stand, bound to do justice to their country and to the parties accused, and anxious to discharge this trust faithfully; sure I am that it is consolation and comfort to us, who have upon us the responsibility of declaring what the law is in cases in which the public and the individual are so deeply interested; to have such men as the great Mr. Matthew Hale, and an eminent judge of our own times, who, with the experience of a century, concurs with him in opinion, fir Michael Foster, for our guides."
To proceed by steps—From these writers upon the law of treason (who speak as I have before observed, upon the authority of adjudged cases) we learn, that not only acts of immediate and direct attempt against the king's life, are overt acts of compassing his death, but that all the remoter steps taken with a view to assist to bring about the actual attempt, are equally overt acts of this species of treason; even the meeting, and consulting what steps should be taken in order to bring about the end proposed, has been always deemed to be an act done in prosecution of the design, and as such an overt act of this treason. This is our first step in the present enquiry. I proceed to observe, that the overt acts I have been now speaking of have reference, nearer or more remote, to a direct and immediate attempt upon the life of the king; but that the same authority informs us, that they who aim directly at the life of the king, (such for instance, as the persons who were concerned in the assassination plot in the reign of king William) are not the only persons who can be said to compass or imagine the death of the king. "To entering into measures which, in the nature of things, or in the common experience of mankind, do obviously tend to bring the life of the king into danger, is also compassing and imagining the death of the king;" and the measures which are taken will be at once evidence of the compassing, and overt acts of it."
Where is the criminality of such instruction and direction; but in what does it differ in principle and in all its possible consequences to the prisoner, from the conduct of judge Chase? The learned English judge thought he was obliging the jury, not encroaching upon them—by stating fully and precisely the legal construction of those acts which would probably be given to them in evidence, to support the charges of treason. It is true the treason charged upon Hardy was not that of levying war—it was that of compassing the king's death. Now what overt acts amount to compassing the king's death, is a question of law resting upon long and established decisions and precedents. And judge Eyre thought it no crime to declare to the jury his opinion of the law in this respect. So in our case, treason by levying war, is a general constitutional definition of the offence; but the application of this general definition, and the fixing and describing such overt acts as amount to a levying of war, is a matter of legal construction, depending upon a knowledge of former adjudications, which the judge was bound to know, or he was not worthy of his office, and which he was also bound to communicate to the jury. The difference of the cases is only here. Chief justice Eyre formed his opinion on deliberation and he reduced it to writing; but he also publicly delivered it with all the weight of his name and authority in the face of all the jurors and of the country. Whereas judge Chase gave his opinion privately to the counsel, to be at their disposal and discretion; to use it for the benefit of their client if they could; or to disregard and suppress it if they thought proper. It might forever have been concealed from the jurors and from the world, if the counsel of Fries had not themselves made it public.

recurring to such English authorities as they be- lieved apposite, or from citing certain statutes of the United States, which they deemed illus- trative of the positions upon which they intend- ed to test the defence of their client." This charge consists of two parts; it complains of a resurrection as to English authorities, and as to American statutes. I will consider them distinctly —first, as to the latter, to remark that these alle- gations are made to support the general charge of partiality, oppression and injustice. But what becomes of these pretences, when we bear in mind the testimony of Mr. Rawle, the district attorney, and always, and in every situation, a gentleman whose character, in all its relations both public and private, bears the first stamp of respectability, and fears no competition for cre- dit. He has informed this hon. court that this resurrection so grievously complained of, and now the subject of a criminal prosecution, was imposed upon him as well as upon the counsel of Pries. Is this the character or the conduct of partiality or oppression? Does it evince that strong appetite the judge is said to have, to drink the heart's blood of this unfortunate Ger- man, and stain the pure crine of justice with his gore? I have always understood by partial- ity in a judge, a favouring bias to one party to the prejudice of the other; but where a respec- tability is put equally on both sides, I cannot con- jecture how it can be resolved into partiality or oppression. It will be seen presently that as far as this resuscitation could have any operation, it was friendly in that operation to John Pries. But, sir, what was this resuscitation so much com- plained of and now magnified into a high crime? That certain English decisions in the law of trea- son, made before the revolution of 1688, should not or ought not to be read to the jury. And pray, sir, what were these decisions? I will take their character from Mr. Lewis himself, and no man is better acquainted with them. He says they were decisions of dependent and corrupt judges, who carried the doctrine of con- structive treason to the most dangerous and ex- travagant lengths. True, they were so—fan- guinary, cruel and tyrannical in the extreme— and could the exclusion of such cases injure John Pries? If cases which extenuated and softened the crime of treason had been rejected, he might indeed have suffered; but how he was or could be injured by keeping from the jury those cases which aggravated his offence, I am really at a loss to learn. The restriction there was on the United States. Had they been adduc- ed by the attorney general, no doubt they would have been ably answered by the defend- ant's counsel; but the ability of the counsel was not inferior to Pries's counsel; and if judge Chase had indeed a design to oppress and injure John Pries, and to convict him on strained con- structions of treason, his best policy would sure- ly have been to have suffered these cases to have come forward, and if supported by his authori- ty and the talents of the counsel of the United States, they might have had their influence with the jury, notwithstanding the able refutations they might have received. But why and for what good purpose did the counsel desire to read these cases, operating, if they operated at all, directly against the life of their client? Why would they fatigue the court and impose upon the jury with those wicked and ridiculous deci- sions against a man who wished his flag's horns in the king's belly—and another, who declared he would make his son heir to the crown. Sir, there could have been but one object in this at- tempt. It was this, to excite such horror in the minds of the jurors by reciting these tales of tyranny and blood, as would create a general prejudice in them against all the laws of treason. The abhorrence which would be honestly given to such extraordinary cases of cruelty practiced under the law of treason, they hoped would ex- tend itself to all cases of treason, even the most just and upright. I know another and ingenious colouring and pretence has been given for this design, this strange anxiety to read cases, which so strongly support prosecutions for treason. It has been said by Mr. Lewis, not here as a wit- ness, but in Philadelphia as counsel for John Pries, that his object in desiring to read these extravagant cases was of this sort. That many of the decisions on the law of treason made since the revolution of 1688, and which are received as authorities in modern courts, were actually grounded on the iniquitous cases decided be- fore the revolution; and therefore, says Mr. Lewis, as wished to lay these cases before the jury that they might place no reliance on those since the revolution, which were derived from them. Could the gentleman be sincere in this pretence? How far would he carry it? To all decisions since the revolution, and are we to have no adjudications on this subject which may be relied upon as found, legal and virtuous? I apprehend he does not mean so much. He de- sired I presume only to discredit such of the English decisions since the revolution, as were derived from those corrupt sources alluded to. Then most assuredly, he was premature in his attempt to read these precious cases. If the district attorney should read, and rely upon any case decided since the revolution to convict John Pries, and Mr. Lewis could trace that decision back to the horrible times spoken of, and show that it was derived from and grounded upon the opinions of those corrupt and dependent judges, it would surely have been competent for him to do so, and no court would have attempt- ed to prevent him. But that he is to delude the court and jury with a mass of trash and cor- ruption, and to declare to be by himself, by way of anticipation, and when no necessity had occurred or probably would occur to justify it, could not be endured by any court knowing its duties and respecting its dignity. These cases are law, or they are not law. If the former, their operation and influence were against the prisoner; if the latter, the court should not suffer them to be read to mislead and impos- e upon the jury. So far, sir, and I should trou- ble you no further, on the exclusion of those English statutes. Now, as to the statutes of the United States. That any such restriction was laid on the counsel of John Pries, rests wholly and entirely on the testimony and re- collection of Mr. Lewis. I will, sir, first con- sider the nature and extent of this charge against the respondent, supposing the fact to be so. I presume it will be granted to me that a judge has some sort of authority in a court; that he does not sit there as a mere cypher, without power or command. Among the ac- knowledged powers of a judge, is that of regu- lating and directing in some degree the argu- ment before him, and preventing the introduc- tion of matter either grossly improper or pa- pably irrelevant to the issue. If then it be de- monstrated that these statutes of the United States are really and truly nothing under hea- ven to do with the trial of John Pries, I hope the judge will not be condemned for excluding them. John Pries, sir, was indicted for the treason of levying war against the United States, and defined by the constitution of the United States. It became the duty of the attorney of the United States to that court, and jury, for that prisoner had been guilty of the trea- son charged in the indictment according to its definition and description in the constitution, or the prosecution must fail. If, on the other
hand he did show this to the satisfaction of the court and the jury, John Pries must neces- sarily be convicted. Now, sir, what possible influence or control could any act of Con- gress have over the character of a crime de- fined in and derived from the higher authority of the constitution. The act of Congress could not enlarge, restrict, or in any way affect the con- stitutional description. To what proper pur- pose then could any act of Congress be read? Why, sir, we have heard something about a le- gislative construction of the constitution; and that these acts of Congress defining sedition and other offences, might be used and were im- portant to show what was intended by the con- stitution in the description of treason. In the first place, sir, Congress in passing these statutes never had the most remote idea or intention of giving any sort of construction or opinion upon the law of treason; and if they had such an in- tention, it was beyond their powers and right, and should be wholly disregarded, not only by that court but by this. The construction of the constitution, in common with every other law, belongs exclusively to the judiciary, is best qual- ified both from its permanency and indepen- dence as well as from legal learning to exercise so important a right. The necessity of a power existing somewhere to judge of the constitution, and of the conformity or non-conformity of laws to the provisions of it, results from the very nature of a written constitution. It is in vain we have an instrument paramount to ordi- nary legislation, if there is no authority to check encroachments upon it, and there is no depart- ment of government with whom this power can be so safely lodged, or by whom it can be so fa- bly and impartially exercised as the judiciary. If the legislature, the very branch of govern- ment most controlled by the constitution, and intended to be so, shall be permitted to assume the wide and unlimited right of construction, the constitution will sink at once into a dead and worthless letter; moulded into various, fan- tastic shapes, at the will of the legislature, and purporting one thing to-day, and another to- morrow, and nothing at last. But Congress, I repeat, sir, in passing the sedition law, had no in- tention whatever of giving their construction to the constitutional description of treason, or of af- fecting or touching it in any way. The coun- sel of Pries were therefore about to use or abuse the act of the legislature to purposes never con- templated or intended. Should the court suffer a delusion of this sort to be practised on a jury, equally disrespectful to the court and to the Congress.
(To be continued.)
European Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, June 10.
The ship John Morgan, captain Howard, arrived at this port on Saturday morning in 22 days from Li- verpool; and has enabled us to present the readers of the Mercantile Advertiser with European Intelligence to the first of May, inclusive, from London Papers to that date with which captain Howard has obligingly favored us. The following are amongst the principal articles they contain.
[Merc. Adv.]
LONDON, April 26.
An article from Augsburg, dated April 7, states, that letters had been received there from Vienna, an- nouncing the capture of Belgrade by the insurgents of Servia.
Yesterday, in the House of Commons, Mr. Pitt gave notice of his intention, on Monday, to move for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire in- to the expenditure of the army. Also, for leave to bring in a bill to continue the powers of the commis- sioners of naval inquiry. Mr. Whitebread likewise announced his intention of making a motion on his majesty's answer, on receiving the resolutions of the 8th of April. It will be of a similar tendency with that which he withdrew on the 10th.
A debate not very animated or entertaining, but certainly very important, took place on the further proceedings that are to be adopted in regard to Lord Melville and Mr. Trotter. The opposition wished that the whole of the tenth report should be referred to a select committee, giving up for the present the idea of legal proceedings for an account as inadequate to the end, but referring to themselves the right to move them, should the result of a committee justify that course. The ministerial side were desirous to take from the committee, in the first instance, the cog- nizance of Lord Melville and Mr. Trotter, as debtors to the public, preferring the proceeding in equity, at the same time they contended, that if necessary, the powers of the committee might be enlarged. On the motion of Mr. Whitebread, for a large committee, & Mr. Pitt's amendment, which went to define the powers of the committee a division took place, in which the numbers were:
For the Amendment 229 For Mr. Whitebread's Motion 151 Majority 78
April 27.
We have received Dutch papers to a late date. From the statements they give it would appear that great activity prevails in the ports of Holland, and the expedition against this country is again spoken of as an event that will shortly take place. Three ships of the line have been equipped and put in commission. A new 74 gun ship, named the Regulus, has been launched at L'Orient on the 18th instant.
The King of Spain has formally recognized Bona- parte as King of Italy.
April 29.
From the London Gazette, April 27. The King has been pleased to cause it to be no- tified by the Right Hon. Lord Mulgrave, his Majes- ty's Principal Secretary of state for Foreign Affairs, to the Ministers of neutral powers residing at this Court, that the necessary measures have been taken, by his Majesty's command, for the blockade of the ports of Cadiz and St. Lucas; and that, from this time, all the measures authorized by the laws of nations, and the respective treaties between his Majesty and the dif- ferent neutral powers, will be adopted and executed with respect to all vessels which may attempt to violate the said blockade.
The failing of the Toulon fleet, which took place on the 20th ult. was allowed to appear in the Paris papers on the 11th. A letter on this subject from Paris, says—"The Toulon fleet consists of eleven sail of the line, four of 80 guns, six frigates, and two cor- vettes. They have three thousand land troops on board. Their first object is said to be to attack the small English squadron under Sir John Orde, off Ca- diz, to form a junction with the fleet at Cadiz, and then to sail with their united force against Nelson, whose fleet has for a good while past quitted the neigh- bourhood of Toulon, in order to engage the attention of the English in the North and in the Channel. The Brest fleet came out of port, and the Boulogne flo- tilia came into the Road. We expect to hear shortly too of the united squadrons at Brest putting to sea."
Government has at length received official accounts of the above fleet having passed the Straits of Gi- braltar on the 9th inst. The Donegal, of 84 guns, was a head and the Sophia frigate of war after her, the Sir John Colpoys Schooner to the Brest fleet, and a purchased fast sailing brig was dispatched immedi- ately from Gibraltar in quest of Lord Nelson. The general opinion at Gibraltar was that the French fleet was bound to the West-Indies; but there are reasons to suppose it rather bound for the East-Indies. In consequence of the above intelligence, orders were last night sent off to Ireland, to stop for the present the sailing of the Cork Fleet. Dispatches have also sent off to be forwarded in a fast sailing vessel, to Sir John Craig.
The following Reports were evidently in circu- lation yesterday, viz. That on Saturday last Viscount Sidmouth resigned the Presidency of the council;—at the same time, the Earl of Buckinghamshire resigned also the Chan- cellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster; and Mr. Van- cort, the Chief Secretaryship of the state for Ireland, on the duties of which office he had entered only the preceding day. Sir Evan Nepean has also resigned his seat at the Board of Admiralty. The causes which led to these unexpected resignations are, of course, variously related; but the following state- ment, we have reason to believe, will be found the principal, and tolerably authentic:
That Lord Sidmouth, after the recent resolutions of the House of Commons, not only declined giving any further support to the measures in favour of Lord Melville, but is said to have pressed in the Cabinet the necessity of the erasure of Lord M's name from the list of his Majesty's Privy Councillors. He found himself, however, in a minority of one upon this question. It was afterwards proposed to postpone a further enquiry into the conduct of a prior Ex-Naval Member on the ground of the Eleventh Report, which Lord Sidmouth opposed; but on this point also he was ultimately in a similar minority. The absence of his Lordship's friends from the House of Commons on Friday night's debate is supposed to have been the result of these Cabinet schisms, as Mr. Pitt was in- formed by letter that night, that his Lordship could no longer form a part of his administration. A sim- ilar intimation was sent off to his Majesty at Windsor. That the Earl of Buckinghamshire, and Mr. Van- cort, lent in their resignations at the same time. No reason has been assigned for Sir Evan Nepean quitting his seat at the Admiralty, nor do we think it connected with the general rupture above stated: but arise from whatever cause it may, the public will have to regret the loss of his able, and efficient ser- vices.
That there have been some differences in the Cabi- net we have no doubt; but, just after this paper was at press, we learnt that they had been adjusted.
Four Spanish frigates, with treasure from America, are stated to have recently fallen into the hands of the squadron blockading Cadiz.
Price of stock this day at one o'clock, Consols, for money, 58 1-8 1-4—for May 58 3-8 1-2—Omni- um 3-4.
May 1.
We yesterday stated in part of our impression that accounts had been received in town of the Toulon fleet having got into Cadiz, and effected a junction with the Spanish division in that port. This intelli- gence, we now understand, was brought by the Fitz- gardi, of 36 guns, Lord Mark Kerr, which arrived from Cadiz on Sunday evening at Plymouth with dis- patches for government. It is further stated that Sir John Orde, with five sail of the line, fell in with the above fleet, and had an engagement with them, but in consequence of his inferiority was obliged to steer off. We do not vouch for the truth of this statement, but it is probable, as the fleet passed the Straits of Gibraltar on the 9th inst.
It is likewise said, that Lord Nelson, with his whole fleet, was at anchor in Cadiz Roads, where he was blockading the Toulon Squadron; similar ac- counts have been brought to Plymouth by the Siri- us, of 36 guns.
The following article, relative to the Toulon squad- ron, was yesterday posted at Lloyd's.
A letter has been received at the Admiralty from Lord Gardner, inclosing a copy of one from Vice Ad- miral Sir John Orde to his Majesty's Minister at Lis- bon. It appears, that on the afternoon of the 9th inst. the Toulon Squadron stood close to the harbour of Cadiz, and had nearly brought the Vice Admi- ral to action.
The King has been pleased to appoint William Bligh, Esq. to be Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Settlement of New South Wales.
A delegation from the town of Liverpool has prevailed upon the Lords of the Treasury to put that port upon the same footing as the port of London, in regard to the Warehousing System, without requir- ing new docks or warehouses to be constructed for that purpose. Thirty four warehouses, which have been tendered, are to be immediately licenced.
FALMOUTH, April 22.
Arrived last evening the American brig Rising Sun, capt. Gould, from the Isle of France, with cotton, &c. for orders: she has been 110 days from thence, and from the Cape 68 days; failed from the Isle of France in company with the French ship Charles, Morrice, with coffee, &c. for Bordeaux. The Mar- rango, of 84 guns, had got on shore in going into the Isle of France, and received considerable damage. Lincoln had carried in there the Princess Charlotte, & 18 Country Ships (prizes) Mr. Mansfield, an Officer of this Vessel, came passenger in the Rising Sun: The captain and Crew on their parole at the Isle of France, and expect to be sent home by the first Ves- sel.
The officer of the British frigate Mercury, spoke by captain Vaughan of the brig Industry, informed that he had been out of Gibraltar six weeks with dispatch- es for the English West-India Islands, in consequence of the Toulon fleet being out; and that the fleet was re- connoitred by vessels from Gibraltar until it had en- tered the harbour of Toulon.
The ship Friendship, Davis, has arrived at Boston from Lisbon. A letter received by her, dated the 22d of April, says, "The French and Spanish fleets are in motion. The British fleet, unable to cope with that of France and Spain combined, contents itself for the present with now and then appearing in sight, and is waiting for the return of Lord Nelson from Egypt. The Algerines are committing depredations upon the Portuguese commerce, and this government has dis- patched a fleet to attack them."
A gentleman from Liverpool, who came passenger in the John Morgan, has favoured us with a copy of the following Bill, which he informs passed the im- perial parliament on the 27th April. [Merc. Adv.]
A BILL.
Intituled, an Act to permit the importation of Goods and Commodities from Countries in America be- longing to any Foreign European Sovereign or State in neutral ships, during the present war, and until Six Months after the Ratification of a Defini- tive Treaty of Peace.
Whereas by the laws now in force no Goods or Commodities whatsoever of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of America can (except in certain ca- ses) be imported into this Kingdom, but in British- built Ships, owned and navigated according to law: And whereas it is expedient, under the present cir- cumstances, to permit certain goods and commodities to be imported under certain restrictions in foreign ships belonging to subjects of States in Amity with His Majesty: Be it enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, that, from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to grant Licence to any British subject or subjects to import into this king- dom for his or their own account, or for account of a subject or subjects of any State in amity with His Ma- jesty, from any country in America belonging to any foreign European Sovereign or State, and goods or commodities of the growth or produce, whether man- ufactured or otherwise, of any such country, not pro- hibited to be used or consumed in this kingdom, in any ship or vessel belonging to any State in Amity with His Majesty, and under such rules, regulations, re- striction, and securities, as His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, shall approve, and subject to the same duties as such goods and commodities would be subject to if imported into any British-built ship or vessel, and to the same rules, regulations, re- strictions, and securities, penalties, and forfeitures, re- specting the payment of the same: any law, custom, or usage, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided always, that all sugar and coffee, imported in pursuance of this act, shall be warehoused immedia-
tely on importation and shall not be taken out of Warehouses to be used or consumed in this kingdom, but only for exportation to foreign parts: Provided always, that no such licence shall be granted to any person or persons who shall not have exported or given such security as shall be required for exporting from this kingdom according to law, to the Possessors in America belonging to the same European So- vereign or State, any goods or commodities bearing such proportion in value to the goods so to be imported as His Majesty, by and with the advice aforesaid, shall think reasonable and shall direct: Provided al- ways, that if any question shall arise in any case whe- ther any thing which shall be done was authorized by the done by virtue of any such licence, the proof that such thing was done under the circumstances and ac- cording to the terms and conditions in such licence to be expressed, shall lie on the person or persons respec- tively claiming the benefit of licence.
And be it enacted, That this act shall continue in Force during the present war, and until six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace.
Extract of a private letter from Hamburg, April 12.
The city of Lubeck has offered the French 100, 000 marcs banco; but, on conditions that they should be allowed to deduct from that sum the interest of the last loan, and receive security that no more should be required of them during the occupation of Hanno- ver by the French troops. It is said they were en- couraged to insist on their demands by a very favor- able letter from the King of Prussia; as also by a let- ter from the Prussian Minister Hardenburg to Gene- ral Bernadotte, entreating him no longer to molest and obstruct the trade of the city of Lubeck. The French general however, has refused to accept the sum offered, and demands 200,000 marcs banco. The Senate has assembled to deliberate on this de- mand, and has positively refused to comply with it, in expectation of being supported by the King of Prussia.
"We are assured here that the proposals made to Russia on the part of France, under the mediation of Prussia, have not been accepted by the former Court as Russia will listen to no propositions but such as are compatible with the general interests and peace of Europe."
Mr. SCHIMMELFENNICK, the present pen- sionary of Holland, before the revolution, was a man very little known—a barrister!—He is of a good family; his behaviour, since he has been in a political situation, has gained him the es- teem of many of his countrymen. It is said the palace of the late STADHOLDER at the Hague, will be appropriated for Mr. SCHIMMELFEN- NICK, his family and suite.
COMMUNICATION.
We have seen in a Philadelphia Gazette, under the London head, an account of an occurrence, which is said to have taken place at the French Theatre, Pa- ris, with which the ministerial journal of London has undertaken to amuse not only the Gale  Monche- of their own country, but likewise those of America, for Gale  Monche- are to be found every where—We do not pretend to deny that such an event would be very extraordinary; but we will venture to prove that such an event could not possibly be. It never happens at the Theatres of Paris, as it sometimes does at those of London, that we see orange and ap- ple skins thrown in the face of the king or the royal family.—On the contrary, it is known that at Paris the civil and military police co-operate in maintaining order and decency in the galleries of the Theatre, where there is always stationed a commissary of po- lice, an officer of the Etat-major of the governor or of the general, and at the Great Theatres an officer of L'Etat-major of the place. We know still further, that any actor is expressly forbidden, (even in the absence of the chief of the Empire and the Imperial Family) to read any letter or paper whatever, either thrown or found upon the stage, or in any other part of the house, without having previously submit- ted it to the civil or military officer, and having re- ceived an express permission to read it. Now we will leave it to any man of good sense, (for every where are men of sense to be met with) is it possible that an actor would be permitted to pronounce the libellous verses, quoted by the journal, before the Emperor—before Bonaparte. Our love for truth constrains us to tell the author of this anecdote, that he has fabricated a gross falsehood.—Nat. Inst.
[We shall only remark on the above, that we are informed there is at present a gentleman in this city who was present at the Paris Theatre on the occa- sion alluded to above, and who declares, that the cir- cumstances, as stated, in the London paragraph, actual- ly occurred. Phil. Gaz. Ed.]
At the gate of Troyes, by which Bonaparte entered in his way to Italy, there was erected in front a triumphal arch, surmounted by the Im- perial crown. This monument was ornament- ed by a number of inscriptions, amongst which the following was conspicuous.—
Pande Triumphales auditus, urbemque beatam, Porta, viro Francis unus quirefistit rem.
A column and a pyramid decorated the two principal squares of the city. On the first, was, IMPERATORI, REGI, NAPOLEONI, FELICI ET IN- VICTO ARARUM, ARTIUM, LEGUMQUE INSTAURATORI; Augusta Bona (Troyes) grato animo hoc monu- mentum posuit.—The second was an emblem of France, exhibiting the bust of the EMPEROR, to the inhabitants of Troyes, and addressing them in these words:
Subdute claro vivite loeti; Parvo sub amo vivite grati; Vindice magno vivite etuti; Judice justo vivite redi.
FROM CADIZ.
A letter from a respectable house in Cadiz, dated April 9, 1805, states the following intelli- gence:—"We have at the entrance of the bay, the Toulon fleet, consisting of 11 line of battle ships, 3 frigates, and 2 brigs. The English fleet consisting of 6 line of battle ships, 3 frigates and 1 brig, with 7 or 8 vessels of other description, to the number of about three or four leagues. The Spa- nish fleet has not, as yet, made any movement to put to sea, although it consists of 6 line of battle ships, 2 frigates, and has troops on board. In the bay, there are a French 74 gun ship, Hoop of war and a brig, which, it is probable, will join their fleet immediately. [Bost. Gaz.]
West-Indies.
PHILADELPHIA, June 8.
By the Eliza & Sarah, arrived at the Lazaret- to, from Porto Rico, accounts are received corresponding with those by the arrival at A- lexandria which stated, that a Spanish gov- ernment vessel had arrived there, bringing the in- elligence of the combined French and Spanish fleets being arrived off Barbadoes.
Relf's Gaz.
Since writing the foregoing we have received the following corroborative extract of a letter from a gentleman at Porto Rico, dated May 22—"Arrived here on the 19th inst. a Spanish armed brig in 30 days from Cadiz, which failed in company with a French and Spanish fleet of 12 sail of the line and 6 frigates destined for the West-Indies, and parted from them 10 days pre- vious."
FRENCH EXPEDITION.
It is said the capture of Deminique was one of the principal objects of the Rochefort squadron. It is in late expedition to the West-Indies. It
was intended to attempt to retain it, and a Captain General and other officers to govern it, were brought out in the fleet. The posses- sion of the island being deemed important on ac- count of its situation. The intention was as of the town of Robinson fire. So that that which was deemed of great importance to the British, was they may now think the leaf of two evils which threatened it.
Captain Bowler, of the brig Jane from St. Croix, is the bearer of very important intelligence. He in- forms us that accounts had been received there from Grenada, brought by Mr. Cooper, a respecta- ble resident at St. Croix that fourteen sail of French line of battle ships, ten frigates, and other vessels, with twenty thousand troops on board, had arrived at Martinique from Cadiz; and that two or three days afterwards (about the 27th of May) this report was confirmed by captain Fairchild, of the brig Jane of New-Haven, who arrived at St. Croix on the 28th from Dominica, with this addition, that the day after his departure he saw four sail of the line and two transports pass Dominica steering to the north-west. This intelligence, captain Bowler informs us, obtained general belief at St. Croix.
A gentleman who reached town yesterday from Philadelphia informs us that a vessel had arrived there on Sunday from the West-Indies with a com- memoration of the above account—and that he saw it posted on the books of the coffee-house. [N. Y. Merc. Adv.]
Captain Graham, in 14 days from Tortola, in- forms us that while he was getting under way, the British frigate Hercules , captain Venable, was off the entrance of the harbour, hoisted signals, and fired several guns. He then hoisted his boat with the intention of going on shore, but was met by another from the garrison, to whom he delivered some dispatches, and then returned to his ship, which made sail immedia- tely. On this, all the British merchant vessels made instant preparations for their departure, and three or four of them had got out of the harbour while captain C. was in sight. An express had arrived at Tortola three days before captain G. failed, with intelligence that a French and Spanish fleet, consisting of 16 or 17 sail of the line, had arrived to windward of that island; that a frigate in 12 days from England had brought important dispatches to Barbadoes; and that Lord Nelson with

COTTON.
Table with 3 columns: Item, Price, and Quantity. Includes 'For the best and cleanest parcel of the second best' and 'SPINNING AND WEAVING'.
CLOATHING.
Table with 3 columns: Item, Price, and Quantity. Includes 'For the best dressed woman on the 4th of July, 1805, all of her own make'.
50 Dollars for every decent young man who marries an orphan girl, and settles in the village.
Alto to, 8 and 6 dollars, for the best dyed suits of cloaths. This individual has furnished them with hempsed, which they are about sowing.
These people dance about six months in the year, and all they can get is spent in that way. This person has made a calculation, and shows that every family must lose in the course of 30 years, 4000 dollars, allowing only 12 balls in the year, and that the expenses to each family would be only two dollars to each ball;
He also advises them never to have a suit at law; because, he says, if a man even gains his suit, he will lose some money; he will lose his time, and the good will of his neighbours.
The people of this country, I mean the old inhabitants, are extremely honest, and civil and kind, but very ignorant; and their confidence in each other is such, that the greatest part of the property in this country has been passed from hand to hand, without even the scrape of a pen.
Quere.—Should the United States adopt some plan of the kind above, for the encouragement of industry and manufactures, would not the funds so laid out, return into its coffers, and produce cent. per cent. in a short time?
Daily Adv.
LEXINGTON, May 21.
Col. Burr passed Cincinnati ten days ago, and we understand has arrived at Louisville, where he is employed in viewing the ground, and making arrangements for commencing the canal round the Falls of Ohio.
The printers throughout the United States are requested to publish, for the information of Merchants and others concerned, the following extracts and translations of official letters received from the Royal College of Commerce at Stockholm, by
RICHARD SODERSTOM.
His Swed. Maj. Com. Agent near the U. S.
No. 1. Letter, to commercial agents residing in the United States of North America. Although from official reports respecting the contagious disease which raged last autumn in Malaga, occasioning so much devastation, the Royal College has likewise been informed that the said contagion had ceased in the month of December next following, so as to leave no apprehension of its spreading any further, and that consequently all measures of precaution hitherto enforced, had been discontinued in Spain, since the month of March last; yet as this Epidemic, which in all probability was a species of Yellow Fever, had already, within a few years, repeatedly renewed its symptoms in the said kingdom; and whereas, on account of its mercantile relations with America, it is ever to be feared that the contagion may again be communicated, especially because the measures of guarding against it may be less generally known, or not strictly enforced; Now therefore, the Royal College thinks it hereby to apprise you of the necessity of taking particular notice that upon every occasion of Swedish vessels bound to or from your district; or foreign vessels being bound for Sweden, a correct knowledge may be obtained respecting the state of health and soundness of the crew, and whenever there is any ground for apprehending contagion, then to certify the same on the pass, and immediately to report the same to the Royal College, &c. &c.
Stockholm, July 16th, 1804.
II. His Majesty, for the purpose of securing the kingdom against the raging Epidemic which has again broke out in Malaga, has, by royal letter of the 16th instant, been pleased graciously to ordain, that all vessels from the said city or other suspected places, arriving into any port of the kingdom situated out of the Sound or Baltic Sea, shall be ordered for the island of Kansa, situated one Swedish mile from the fortress of Elfsborg, for the purpose of undergoing quarantine, a provisional establishment of this kind being immediately to take place by his Majesty's command; And moreover his Majesty, desirous of enforcing such regulations as have been adopted in Denmark, has been pleased to ordain that no vessel, coming from Malaga (or other suspected places) and bound for any Swedish port or place in the Baltic, shall be allowed to pass the Sound until it can prove, by a bill of health in due form, granted by the commission (or Board) of Health established at Christiania in Norway, that it has undergone the quarantine in said place, or been found by the said commission to be free of all suspected contagious disease; otherwise such vessel or vessels will be ordered back again to Christiania. The royal College hereby apprizes you of this royal order, and desirous to communicate the same not only to all masters of Swedish vessels which may arrive within your district, but also to foreign vessels arriving from Malaga, or other suspected places which may be bound for this kingdom. Given at Stockholm, October 23, 1804.
No. III. Since erecting and establishing a quarantine ground on the island of Kansa, on the coast of Gottenburgh, his Majesty has graciously been pleased to command by letter of the 27th of November, last p.m., adjoined to the Royal College of Trade of commerce, that
during the continuance of such quarantine, the said port shall be shut against all vessels arriving from places free from contagion; of which the commercial agents are hereby required to communicate information in foreign newspapers; at the same time, his Majesty has judged it to be necessary, that all masters of vessels from Sweden and its dependencies, who may be in foreign ports, shall receive order through the commercial agents abroad, to provide themselves with a black flag, and hoist the same on approaching the Swedish coast whenever they may be coming from infected or suspected places; this flag being intended as a warning to pilots and others concerned, &c.
Stockholm, 10th Dec. 1804.
No. IV. Whereas his Majesty has graciously ordained, under date the 21st instant, that it shall henceforward be the duty of all Swedish commercial agents and commissaries residing abroad, whenever a contagious disease breaks out in or near their places of residence, immediately to report the same, not only to the Royal College of Trade of Commerce, but also direct to the Quarantine Commissioners (or Board of Health,) at Gottenburgh, and moreover, to transmit a list of such vessels as may then lie in port and be loading for Sweden and ports in the Baltic; Now, therefore, the Royal College does hereby make known to you his Majesty's gracious command for your faithful observance, &c.
Stockholm, 27th Dec. 1804.
CHARLESTON, June 6.
CAPTURE OF THE TWO FRIENDS.
The regular trading American Ship Two Friends, Captain McNeil, from London for this port, with a full cargo of Dry Goods, supposed to be worth one hundred thousand pounds sterling, was captured on Tuesday last, in ten fathoms water, by the French privateer schooner L'EMERANCE, Captain Molan, from Guadalupe, now cruising off our bar.
The plea urged by the privateer for capturing the ship was, that she had not a certificate from the American Consul resident in London, declaring her to be American property. The passengers and crew were permitted to take out their baggage, &c; and were treated civilly while on board the privateer. Captain McNeil, the cook, and two boys, remain on board the ship—which, after putting 24 Frenchmen on board, they ordered for Guadalupe. The passengers arrived in town this morning in a pilot boat.
The two Friends left Gravesend on the 21st April, and was 42 days out when captured.
The privateer mounts four 12-pounder caronades, a long brass 12-pounder, and two double-fortified 4-pounders; and had on board 97 men. They stated that, one of the Guineamen which they had taken, bound into this port, had 450 slaves.
Thus, by the daring and piratical proceeding of a small privateer, is our port completely blockaded, and our citizens wantonly robbed of their property! The disappointment and loss occasioned by the capture of the Two Friends will be felt by our importers—She was literally crammed with goods, and the only ship expected from London with the spring supplies.
The Times.
JUNE 8.
The privateer schooner L'Emérance, which captured the Two Friends, was joined on Thursday by two others from Guadalupe, a brig and a schooner, mounting 14 guns each. They captured the brig Lydia, capt. PATTERSON, from Cape-Francois for this port, about three weeks since, and ordered her for Guadalupe—the mate and crew are now prisoners on board.
Courier.
The following protest, declaring the commission of insults and injuries the most daring, against the honor and neutral rights of our country, was handed to the editors of the American for publication, by one of the deponents therein mentioned.
ST. BARTHOLOMEW.
By this public instrument of declaration and protest, be it known unto all persons whom it doth, shall or may concern, that on this present day, being the sixth of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, before me Paul Ollengren, Register in the Royal Council, on the Island of Saint Bartholomew aforesaid, by Royal authority, exercising the functions of Notary Public, in and for the said Island, personally appeared William Brewster, late master of the armed ship called Nancy of Charleston, S. Carolina, in the United States of America; John Kennan, second mate, and John Cope, boatman's mate of the said ship, who being by me severally sworn, upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, depose and say, and each of them for himself deposes and saith that they and each of them failed in and on board the said ship Nancy, and in their several capacities aforesaid from Port au Prince, in the island of St. Domingo, on twenty eighth day of February last past, with a cargo of Coffee, Cotton, and Logwood, bound to Charleston aforesaid, the said ship Nancy being on the day of her so failing from Port au Prince, Island of St. Domingo aforesaid, in good order and condition, and well and sufficiently found, fitted, victualled and manned for the said voyage, that they proceeded thereon without any material circumstance happening until the third day of the month of March last past, when Cape Haut, bearing east distant about four leagues, the said ship Nancy was brought too by a ship under French colours, which proved to be his Britannic Majesty's ship La Defiance, Whitby commander, and from which a boat was sent on board the Nancy, with an officer, who having mustered the crew impressed the boatman, gunner and carpenter, together with nine men of the said crew of the Nancy, and after some abusive and very threatening language, wanted to force the said master of the Nancy to give him seventeen hundred dollars for the wages of the said men so impressed, which being refused, he went on board the said ship La Defiance, and as soon as said officer had got on board the said ship began a smart fire of musketry and large swivels on the Nancy, although within hail, and under a very fresh blowing wind, the shot going through the sails of the Nancy and galling her rigging very much—after some time they discontinued, however their fire, when the deponents lowered down their boat, and then the frigate sent one of his on board and forced the said master of the Nancy to take on board the frigate the sum of one thousand and twenty five dollars, which sum not being sufficient to pay off the men impressed, they brought the said master on board of his ship again, and made him take on board of the frigate a further sum of five hundred and twenty four dollars and 83, together with all his papers, receipts, accounts, clearances, &c. &c. Which papers being frantically overhauled, & the money rendered by Captain Brewster; he was sent on board the Nancy about midnight—that during the time the said captain Brewster was on board of the frigate, the boat of the Nancy being ashore, broke and was lost. On the 5th day of the said month of March, they had the said frigate La Defiance in sight, and about 9 o'clock P. M. of the same day she bore down upon the deponents, fired two cannon shot, close to them, and shortly after commenced a fire of musketry on them; they then boarded the Nancy in their boat, and after some excels left the deponents to proceed, about 10 o'clock P. M. That on the same fifth day of March, about 5 o'clock, P. M. they the said deponents saw the island of Heneaga in their weather bow, and here away, running under the west end of that Island with the sail set. On the 6th following, at 3 o'clock, P. M. by sea account, the said deponents saw a sail bearing down upon them, which, after coming near
enough, was observed to be a privateer schooner, that the said privateer having hoisted English colours and fired a gun, the said deponents convinced she was a French privateer, and not being able to run from her, nor to defend themselves, having but twenty men left on board, owing to their impairment aforesaid, hauled up their courses and took in all light sails. That the said privateer proved to be the schooner Perfervance, from Guadalupe, with four 4-pounders and one 18-pounder in a circle, Joseph Rodriquez, master, with eighteen men, who immediately took possession of the Nancy, and proceeded in for the island of St. Martin, where they arrived at Marigal on Sunday the 24th of the said month of March, the said privateer keeping them company into port; that after their arrival at the said island of St. Martin, the ship Nancy was immediately stripped and in four days the whole of the cargo discharged, the said captain William Brewster and second mate John Kennan, being kept prisoners on board the said ship Nancy until the 27th of the said month, when they together with the said boatman's mate, were brought on shore, attended by two men of the crew of the said privateer, before an officer by whom they were severally and separately examined, whereafter they were sent on board of the ship Nancy again and remained there until the twenty ninth of the said month, when they were sent up to this island of St. Bartholomew, where they arrived on Saturday the thirtieth of this same month, about ten o'clock in the forenoon. No condemnation or other papers, except a pass for island having been obtained at the said island of St. Martin, wherefore, I, the said Notary at the request of the said deponents, the said William Brewster, late master of the said ship Nancy, having on the first of this instant, month of April, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, noted and entered his protest in my office, did and do hereby solemnly protest against his Britannic majesty's said ship Defiance, Whitby, her commander, her officers and crew, and all others concerned in the impressment of the said men of the said Nancy's crew, the enforcing the said payment of wages, and the firing on the said ship; as also against the French privateer schooner Perfervance, Joseph Rodriquez, the master of the said schooner, her other officers and crew and all others concerned in the taking and bringing the said Nancy and her cargo or lading into the island of Saint Martin, and taking possession thereof for all losses, costs, charges, damages and expenses already suffered or sustained, or to be hereafter suffered or sustained, by any person or persons concerned in the said ship Nancy or her cargo, or lading, or any part thereof, for or by reason of the premises. In testimony of the truth whereof the said deponents have hereunto set their hands in presence of Meilleurs Gerhard Rohl and Grealit Shalsfeldt, witnesses hereunto required.
(Signed) W. BREWSTER, JOHN KENNAN, JOHN COPE. Witnesses, G. ROND, GRESTAL SHALSFEDT. And in faith and testimony whereof, I, the said Notary have hereunto set my hand affixed my seal of office, at Guadalupe, St. Bartholomew aforesaid, the day and year first aforesaid. (Seal) P. OLLENGREN, Notary Public.
Memorandum of Questions and Answers by the lieutenant and captain of the Le Defiance Frigate, which the master of the armed ship Nancy, omitted in the protest of Wm. Brewster.
When the said officer came on board, he demanded my papers—then ordered my crew to be mustered. They produced their protections—The said officer tore them in pieces, and said they could get another for half a dollar in America, and got into the boat. After the first insult of firing into the ship had ceased, they sent their boat on board with the same officer, took me with the money on board to pay my sailors. The first compliment given me after entering the cabin, by captain Whitby, was, "You damned old rascal, I wish I had killed you." Ans. Thank you.
He then called my sailors, by way of derision, and asked them "what have you received from master?" Some answered more and some of them less. I suppose you received a month's advance on leaving Charleston? Yes, sir. Pay them, master, pay them. The officer on board would not give me time to look and see what monies I had advanced them in Port au Prince.
After the money was counted on the table, his expression was—by G—d I wish all this was my prize money. My answer was, I believe you. What do you mean by that! I mean that my sailors will get very little of it. His boarding and firing into the Nancy was done under French colors.
The first bag of dollars not being sufficient, I was sent on board for more, then they brought my second mate on board for to retain him—but on examination found him not to be in good order and well conditioned, they returned him on board the Nancy. After all my sailors were paid off, Whitby demanded of them if they would enter? They answered no. His answer was he'd warrant they would enter tomorrow, and if you do not carry yourselves dam'd upright. I will have you taken to the gun and flogged. It is well known by all American captains, that are boarded by this British tyrant, that they receive treatment similar to this. It is a pleasing event that he will be more out of the way of insulting neutrals.
Giving a description of this Whitby will not be a mis, as those that conduct themselves in this manner, generally keep their names and the names of their ships a secret, that an American may not know them, to give any information to the world of their character. This said Whitby may be known by his wearing a black patch over his right eye, having lost the fight of it, and I think it is a misfortune the other is not in the same situation, as then he could not so well insult neutrals.
WM. BREWSTER.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT.
We can inform our readers from the best authority, that the Marquis de Cassa Yrujo has lately received direct information from the Governor of Porto Rico, of the arrival at that port of a small armed vessel from Cadiz, which failed in company with a combined French and Spanish fleet; this vessel left the fleet in about 18 degrees of latitude, and was composed of 12 French line of battle ships and three frigates, and of six Spanish line of battle ships and a large frigate. This fleet had on board ten thousand regular troops, although there was not a single transport with them. The squadron is commanded by the Spanish admiral Gravina, lately ambassador from Spain near the court of the Emperor of the French. [Freeman's Journal.]
According to authentic information, it was not certainly known at Paris on the 2d April last, when the bill in payment of claims covered by the Louisiana convention would be drawn, but the commencement of the draughts was expected to take place with very little delay. On this point therefore the intelligence brought by the Aligator, as published in the New-York Gazette, is incorrect; and there is little room to doubt that it is so in some other points.
National Intelligencer.
The votes of the French people, respecting the hereditary succession of the family of the Emperor, to the imperial dignity, were 3521694 for it and against, 2569.
Accounts from the Mediterranean, state, that Gibraltar was tranquil, and has lately received a reinforcement of 2000 troops from England. The S.iards keep an army before it; but have not attempted any thing.
William Eaton, Esq. (formerly American consul at Tripoli) is now on his voyage to Egypt, for the purpose of co-operating with the brother of the reigning Basha of Tripoli, in such efficient measures, as shall be deemed necessary to raise and secure the government from which his brother, the present Basha, had unlawfully driven him.
Eff. Gaz.
Speculations.
A third letter from M. Humboldt, concerning his travels in South America and Mexico, was lately read in the national institute of France. In the first he related the observations which he had made in the Atlantic Ocean, at the top of the Peak of Teneriffe, and in the province of New-Andalusia. In the second he described the operations performed in the province of Venezuela, and the plains of Cazoobozo, where he made some curious experiments on the gnomous electricity. In the third memoir he has given a short account of his navigation to the Oronooko, Rio Negro, and the Cariqueque, executed with great danger to determine astronomically the communication of the Orinoco and the Amazon river. The parts of his memoirs which contain an account of the geography, botany, and mineralogy, of those countries, as well as of the manners and customs of the people, will be shortly published.
ON TIME.
BY SELLECK OSBORN. Mov'd by a strange, mysterious pow'r, Who hastes along the rapid hour, I touch the deep-ton'd string: E'en now I see his withered face, Beneath yon tower's mouldering base, Where massy vestments cling.
Dark roll'd his cheerful eye around, Severe his grisly visage found, No locks his head array'd, He grasp'd a hero's antique blade, The marble crumbled into dust, And funk amidst the shade!
Malignant triumph fill'd his eyes; "See, hapless mortals, fee," he cries, "How vain your idle schemes; Beneath my grasp the fairest form Dissolves, and mingles with the worm; Thus vanish mortal dreams. The works of God and man I spoil; The noblest proofs of human toil I treat as childish toys; I crush the noble and the brave; Beauty I mar; and in the grave I bury human joys."
Hold! Ruthless phantom—Hold, I cry'd, If thou canst mock the dreams of pride, And meaner hopes devoure, Virtue, beyond thy reach, shall bloom, When other charms sink to the tomb, She scorns thy envious power. On frosty wings the demon fled, Howling, as o'er the walls he sped, "Another year has gone!" The ruin'd spire—the crumbling tower, Nodding, obey'd his awful power, As Time flew swiftly on.
Since beauty, then, to Time must bow, And age deform the fairest brow, Let brighter charms be yours; The female mind, unsmutched in truth, Shall bloom in everlasting youth, While Time, himself, endures.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 18th JUNE, 1805.
No apology seems necessary for inserting the following communication. It is the determination of the Editor of this paper, not to enter, himself, into a controversy with the Editor of the Virginia Gazette; but this determination does not and ought not to extend to the criticisms of others. Consulting his individual feelings, he would decline such a ridiculous controversy; but acting likewise as a vehicle for the opinions of others, he has no right to reject any communication, which is appropriate in its statement or decorous in its style. Though he may think the lucubrations of the Virginia Gazette unworthy of his notice, his opinion may not be the opinion of all.
COMMUNICATION.
"Magnus Homerus dormitat," says the editor of the V. G. and "the little Homer" too, say I.
A federal editor has given a very curious proof of the increase of federalism. He says that the democrats of Baltimore are calling on the mayor to prevent the landing of two ship loads of Dutch convicts. Now why do the democrats oppose the landing of those convicts? Not, to be sure, from a fear that they will join the democratic party; oh no, this is in direct opposition to federal logic. Cæsar Rodney, you know, was elected by an exportation from Europe. Then why, I repeat, do the democrats of Baltimore fear the landing of these convicts? As the federal editor has alleged this circumstance as a proof of the increase of federalism, it is natural enough to suppose, that his opinion is, that the democrats of Baltimore oppose the landing of these convicts from a fear that they will join the federalists. This is a very candid confession. It is more than was expected. It shews to what means federalism will descend, in order to gain a small accession of strength. A hopeful alliance it will be—Dutch convicts and American federalists! I give you joy, gentlemen. Your principles are no doubt perfectly similar; you will soon become bone of one bone, and flesh of one flesh. If such proofs of the increase of federalism are often given, we shall indeed be soon obliged to stop, or at least to lay a large duty on such cargoes of foreign growth and manufacture. But let the paragraph speak for itself—here it is—
"There are many good reasons for trusting that democracy is on the decrease in the United States generally. Among other late proofs of this proposition we now mention with pleasure the symptoms that appear in Baltimore, indicative of a great falling off from democracy. The last democratic news-papers mention the daily expected arrival of two Prussian vessels, with no other cargo than convicts from Holland; & the same papers, instead of hailing, as heretofore, these sons of "oppressed humanity," who have fled to this asylum, and cordially uniting with them in praise of Jefferson and liberty, are calling on the Mayor and Corporation to prevent their landing."
The 4th of July, the anniversary of the declaration of American independence, is rapidly approaching. Have no arrangements been yet made in Richmond for the celebration of this national festival? Has the orator of the day been appointed? Or a committee for arranging the details of the Entertainment? and composing a set of appropriate toasts? We hope that these things will be "better ordered" at the approaching festival than they were on the last fourth of July!
The editor has been prevented by indispensable engagements, from furnishing his usual quota of original matter.
Ep Last Evening's Mail.
NEW-YORK, June 12. The Hon. Breckinridge Livingston, we understand, has declined accepting the office of District Judge, to which the President of the United States had recently appointed him. Mere. Adv.
Gun-Boat no. 7, which returned a short time ago in consequence of having sprung her mast, has been repaired, and has gone into the north river, where she is waiting for orders to proceed to the Mediterranean.
Extract of a letter from a merchant in St. Croix to his correspondent in this city, dated May 25th, received by the brig Jane, capt. Fowler. "Capt. Wm. Fairchild has just arrived here from Dominique, with information that 17 till of the line have arrived at Martinique." Ib.
BALTIMORE, June 13.
The accounts from New-York this day, in addition to former advices, being corroborated by capt. Bishop's arrival this morning at this port. The certainty of the French and Spanish fleets having reached the West-Indies is established—as so many different persons from different ports could not have joined to deceive us by unfounded reports which to strongly damp the spirit of our mercantile transactions. Evening Post.
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FROM THE AURORA.
THOMAS PAINE,
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.
LETTER THE EIGHTH.
Much has been said, and much remains to be said, of that undescribed and unlabelable calling called Federalism. It is a word without a meaning, and designates a fashion that has no principles. Ask a man who calls himself a federalist, what federalism is? and he cannot tell you. Ask him, what are its principles? and he has none to give. Federalism, then, with respect to government, is similar to atheism with respect to religion, a word without principles. The federal papers, especially those of New-England, have been said, that "religion and federalism must go together"; if it is as debatable of morals as their federalism is of principles; and I fear it is; it will do them no good in this world or the next. It will condemn them as impostors and hypocrites in both. Those who once figured as leaders under the abused and fraudulent name of federalism, (but who are since gone, not into honorable and peaceful retirement, like John Dickinson and Charles Thompson, but into obscurity and oblivion, like John Adams and John Jay) had some plans in contemplation which they concealed from their deluded adherents; but those plans can be discovered through the gauze, but cunning veil of conduct those leaders adopted. "No power is large enough to hide itself," says the Spanish proverb.
It requires more artifice and management to disguise and conceal than to avow. Schemers are aware of it. A man never turns a rogue but he turns a fool. He incautiously lets out something by which those he intended to cheat or impose upon begin to find him out. Whereas truth is a straight forward thing, even an ignorant man will not blunder in a true story; nor can an artful man keep a false story straight.
But those leaders, supposing themselves in an higher position than what common observation would reach, presumed, on their supposed consequence and the expected credulity of their adherents, to impose on the nation by clamorous and false pretences, for the purpose of raising a standing army of fifty thousand men; and when they had got that army, the mask would have been thrown off, and their deluded adherents would have paid the price of their duplicity by being enslaved.
But in the midst of this career of delusion and imposition, those leaders became fools. They did every thing they ought not to have done. They advocated plans which showed that their intention and their cause were not good. They labored to provoke war. They opposed every thing which led to peace. They loaded the country with vexatious and unnecessary taxes, and then opposed the reduction of them. They opposed a reduction of useless offices that served no other purpose than to maintain their own partisans at the expense of the public. In short, they run themselves a ground, first, by their extravagance, and next by their folly. Blinded by their own vanity, and though bewildered in the wilderness of their own projects, they foolishly supposed themselves above detection. They had neither sense enough to know, nor logic enough to perceive, that as we can reason upward from cause to effect, so also we can reason downward from effect to cause, and discover, by the means they make use of, the motives and object of any party; for when the means are bad, the motive and the end to be obtained cannot be good.
The manner also, and language of any party is another clue that leads to a discovery of their real characters. When the cause and principles of a party are good, its advocates make use of reason, arguments, and good language. Truth can derive no advantage from boisterous subterfuge. But when the motives and principles of a party are bad, it is necessary to conceal them; and its advocates saying principles they have not acknowledged and cannot defend, avoid every thing of argument, and take refuge in abuse and falsehood.
The federal papers are an instance of the fullness of this abuse. These pages are crowded with abuse, but never with argument; for they have no principles to argue from; and as to falsehood, it is become so naturally their mother tongue, especially in New-England, that they seem to have lost the power as well as the disposition of speaking the truth. Those papers have been of great aid to the republican cause, not only by the additional disgrace they have brought on their own disgraceful fashion, but by serving as a foil to let off, with greater eclat, the decency and well principled arguments of the republican papers. I have had some experience, perhaps as much as most men have had in the various turns of political life, but I never saw a greater lot of fools undertake to conduct a party than the leaders of the federalists have been, and the editors of their papers. They correspond to the story told of a man who was become so proud and famous for lying that he distanced speaking truth lest he should lose his character.
Cannot those stupid people see, or, according to some dogmas, of their own are their hearts hardened, but they shall not see, that the more vulgar and abusive they are, the more ground they lose in the estimation of the public. Every election, especially in New-England, is wearing them down, till they will be lost even as a fashion, and Machiavelli and Connecticut will recover their former character. Every thing this fashion does hastens its exit. The abusive vulgarity of Hildreth, a petty fogging attorney of Sheffield, in Massachusetts, and one of its legislators, has contributed to bring forward the funeral. In his late unprincipled speech in the legislature of that state, he has driven another nail in the coffin of the federal fashion, and I leave it to the New-England Palladium to clinch it. It is a paper worthy of being the bier of such a fashion, and of such an hypocritical impostor. Thus much for the character of parties and the method of ascertaining their motives and objects. I now proceed to other matters.
When I returned to America in November 1802, (after an absence of more than fourteen years) I found the country in a state of disquietude. The people were divided into two classes, under the names of republicans and federalists, and in point of numbers appeared to be nearly balanced. The republicans were the majority in congress, and all the administration were of that description; but they were assailed with outrageous abuse in all the federal papers, but never by argument. I am enough acquainted with life and the world, to know that shift is the evidence of want of argument, and that those who use it, have not right on their side. There is a dignified calmness in conscious rectitude, which descends not to abuse. It can reason but it cannot rage. It cannot quit the strong fortress of rectitude to skirmish in the fields of vulgarity.
It was not difficult to perceive, that this division and agitation arose from some reports spread during the administration of John Adams, and in the latter time of general Washington, which one part of the people believed, and the other did not; and the point to be ascertained, was, whether those reports were true or false. If either of those cases could be ascertained effectually, it would unite the people. The chief of those reports was, the danger of an invasion from France; and this was made a cause for borrowing, by loan, five millions of dollars at the high rate of eight per cent. laying on a land tax of two million dollars annually; besides a great number of other taxes; and for raising a standing army of fifty thousand men.
Now, if the danger was real, it ought to have been provided against. It was a fashion, with the design of raising an army to be employed to accomplish some concealed purpose, the country ought to be informed of it. The party flying themselves federalists appeared to believe the danger, and the republicans to ridicule it as a fabrication; and in this state the parties stood. It was, however, equally the interest of both, to know the truth, on which ever side the truth might fall.
Kentucky, the same person who brought in the bill for repealing John Adams's judiciary law, and the midnight appointments made in consequence of it. This repeal saved the country thirty two thousand dollars annually, besides freeing it from an intended judiciary despotism.
I spoke to him of the propriety of congress appointing a committee, or by some other method as they might think proper, to enquire into the conduct of the former administration, that of John Adams, and to call upon him to produce the information whether official or otherwise, which he went upon, if he had any, for putting the country to such vast expense, under the idea, real or pretended, of an invasion from France. This would have given John Adams a fair chance of clearing himself, if he could, from the suspicion that his administration was a gross imposition on the public; and on the other hand, if the imposition should be proved, it would enlighten the country, and put it on its guard against future impositions.
Mr. Breckinridge agreed with me in the propriety and fitness of the measure. He saw that information was wanted, and that it would be useful, because when the truth should be known, it would compose the people. John Adams had gone away in what may be called a clandestine manner, without surrendering into the hands of his successor as he ought to have done in person, any account of the affairs of the executive department, foreign or domestic. There are no papers or documents that I know of, and I believe there are none, because there can be none in the secretary of state's office, that will justify John Adams in the absence to which his administration put the country; or even afford ground for suspicion that either France or England intended to invade the United States. For what purpose then was an army to be raised? The projectors of such a measure must have had some object in view; and as that object has never been examined, it ought to be enquired into. It is bad policy, and also bad precedent especially in public affairs, to let imposition slide away without detection.
At the time I talked with Mr. Breckinridge on this subject, I expected that Mr. Shippen formerly at this time, American consul at Paris, and Joel Barlow would soon arrive, and I did not with the enquiry to be gone into till they came. After the fall of Robespierre and the establishment of the directory constitution, those two gentlemen and myself (Mr. Monroe being re-called) had better opportunities of knowing the sentiments and intentions of the French government with respect to America than other persons had; and they can be evidence equally with myself, that no intention existed in the French government to invade America; nor was any preparation made for such an attempt, nor could it be made. The possibility of such a thing did not exist. The French navy at that time was nearly annihilated; their ports blocked by the British; and she had to fight by land, single handed, against almost the whole of Europe. She had it not in her power to spare a regiment, much less could she spare an army, to send to America; and if she could have spared one, she had not the means of transporting it, nor a convoy to protect it. All the circumstances as well as the evidence that can be provided, will show that the administration of John Adams was a fraudulent and expensive imposition on the country; and that the army to be raised was intended for some secret purpose, and not for the purpose of defence. If John Adams was not conscious of something wrong, and apprehensive of some consequences, why did he abscond in the hurry and private manner he did? or why did his partisans want to put Aaron Burr in the presidency? In the days of the black code laws John Adams had one so enormous and so voluntarily large, that he appeared to be suspended by it; but when his midnight hour arrived, his valor fled and himself also.
The voluntary embassy of Dr. Logan to Paris appears to have discovered John's administration, and disconcerted its leaders; because it served to expose and put an end to their projects. When Dr. Logan called on Timothy Pickering, secretary of state, with Mr. Shippen's dispatches from Paris, Timothy, before he knew their contents, though Logan knew the whole, began to talk of invasions and dangers, and the necessity of preparation. "It may be very well," said Logan, "to have the militia always in good order." "The militia for 1800," said Timothy, "the militia never did any good and never will. We must have an army of fifty thousand men." When Logan was coming away, Timothy said to him at the door, "Sir, the government don't thank you."
When Logan waited on general Washington, who had been then appointed the lieutenant general of the army then raising, of which John was commander in chief, the general received him coolly and sternly, and said to him in a haughty tone, "and pray, sir, what right have you, that are but a private citizen, to interfere in matters of government?" Logan very prudently replied, "I have no answer, sir, to make to that;" and withdrew. The state of Pennsylvania, soon after this, elected Dr. Logan one of its senators in congress.
Circumstances often unridle and explain themselves, and it happens so in this case; for if the administration, and those leaders connected with it, were sincere in their belief that the danger was real, and that the country (as Governor Morris expressed it, in his funeral oration on Hamilton) was "menaced with dangers from without," and that France intended an invasion; and if at the same time, they had no concealed object in contemplation themselves, they would welcome the messenger that should bring them good tidings that all was well. But if, on the contrary, they knew they were acting a fraud, and heating the country with falsehoods and false alarms for the purpose of procuring loans, levying new taxes and raising an army to accomplish some concealed purpose that could not be accomplished without that treachery, they would be enraged at him; and this accounts for the rude reception Dr. Logan received from that administration. Thousands who supported that administration from a belief that it was acting right, have since abandoned it from a conviction that it acted deceitfully wrong, and this also accounts for the great majority at the last presidential election. We have no alarms now, nor should we have had any then, if the present administration had existed at that time.
It requires only a prudent and honest administration to prefer America always in peace. Her dif-
† Mrs. Shippen refused the consulate during the administration of John Adams. I believe an account of a rude insulting letter to be received from Timothy Pickering, then secretary of state—Mr. Jefferson reappointed Mr. Shippen.
† Timothy Pickering's reflection on the militia deserves a rebuttal. It was the militia that fought at Bunker's hill, under Warren, a militia general. It was by the aid of numerous reinforcements of militia to join general Gates that Saratoga was taken. It was by a volunteer militia under Sulli, a volunteer general, that col. Burgoy, a Hessian officer, was defeated at Bennington, in Vermont, which was the prelude to the capture of Burgoyne. But perhaps Timothy reasons from himself; and if he makes himself the standard by which to judge of the merits of the militia there is ground for his saying the militia never did any good and never will. Timothy's first public employment was very harmless, that of a teacher of plowmanry. When the revolution began he learned the manual exercise, and then taught it. He was afterwards appointed col. of a regiment of militia, and when the affairs of Lexington and Concord took place, April 19, 1775, and the British were retreating from Concord back to Boston, an order was sent to Timothy, to march with his regiment, and put himself at a certain place to cut off their retreat. Timothy marched but he stopped short of the place, drew up his men and went to prayers, till the British passed it. His prayers saved him from the dangers of that day. I do not know that he sung psalms. Perhaps not. The enemy might have overheard him. Had Timothy done his duty on that occasion, and put his trust in God without loitering away his time, the whole party of the British, about two thousand, much have been prisoners, for they could not have got back into Boston; and the slaughter at Bunker's hill, the 17th of June following, could not have taken place. The whole force of the British at Boston at that time, was about four thousand, one half of which was on this expedition. T. P.
tance from the European world frees her from its intrigues. But when men get into power, whose heads, like the head of John Adams, are filled with "strange notions" and counter-revolutionary principles and projects, things will be sure to go wrong. John Adams, who was more the dupe of a party than the leader of it, entered on the office of president with his best formed by the elevation he was lifted to; and his principles (if he ever had any) corrupted. He turned out to be a counter-revolutionist; and if the concealed projects of his administration had succeeded, the federal constitution would have been destroyed, and that by perfidious under the assumed and fraudulent name of federalists.
"As general Washington (said John Adams) has no children, it will be right to make the government hereditary in the family of Lord Washington." Perhaps John intended this as a fly introduction of himself and his hopes for Quincy, in preference to any of the Washingtons; for this same John Adams was one of the chiefs of a party in congress at York Town in Pennsylvania, in the latter end of the year 1777 and beginning of '78 for dismissing Washington from the command of the army, because they said he was not capable of it and did nothing. Yet under John's administration the name of Washington was made use of, for the purpose of introducing and covering a counter-revolutionary system. Such is the inconsistency of faction and of men who have no fixed principles!
The independence of America would have added but little to her own happiness, and been of no benefit to the world, if her government had been formed on the corrupt principles of the old world—it was the opportunity of beginning a new world anew, as it were; and of bringing forward a new system of government in which the rights of all men should be preferred, that gave value to independence. The pamphlet, Common Sense, the first work I ever published, embraced both those objects. Mere independence might at some future time, have been effected and established by arms, without principle, but a just system of government could not. In short, it was the principle, at that time, that produced the independence; for until the principle spread itself abroad among the people, independence was not thought of, and America was fighting without an object. Those who know the circumstances of the times I speak of, know this to be true.
I am not perfecting John Adams, nor any other man, nor did I ever perfect any; but I see the propriety, and even the necessity of instituting an enquiry into the confused state of affairs during his administration. All the circumstances and the evidence combined with them, justify the suspicion that during that administration the country was grossly imposed upon, and put to so great and unnecessary expense, which the present administration has to pay off; and that some concealed and counter-revolutionary scheme was in contemplation. The leaders, separately, might hide from each other what their particular object was. Each of them might have a different one. But all of them agreed in the preliminary project, that of raising an army; and the safe would have been, that when they had collected that army, they would have broken into distinct parties, like the generals of Alexander's army, and destroyed each other, to decide who should be the reigning usurper. Symptoms of disgust had already begun to appear among the chiefs. Hamilton despised Washington; Adams was jealous of Hamilton; and Hamilton had a perfect contempt for Adams. But in the end, John, I believe would have come poorly off. He was not a man of the sword, but only of the cockade.
I purposely delayed entering upon this subject till the presidential election should be over. Had I published it before that time the clamor of faction would have said it was an electioneering trick. None, they cannot say it. The choice made at that election was the spontaneous choice of the people; and is therefore the more honorable, both to the electors and the elected. The country at this time, compared with what it was two or three years ago, is in a state of tranquility; and in a fit disposition to calmness to take the matters herein stated into consideration before the next meeting of congress. It is by keeping a country well informed upon its affairs, and discarding from its councils every thing of mystery, that harmony is preserved or restored among the people, and confidence reposed in the government.
THOMAS PAINE.
June 5th, 1805.
[BY AUTHORITY.]
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EDUCATION & POLITE ACCOMPLISHMENTS, FOR YOUNG LADIES:
AT WILLIAMSBURG, VA.
WHILST the enlightened period in which we live dawns with benign influence on female improvement, and parents every where become anxious to obtain for their daughters, the advantages which polite education confers, an establishment calculated to gratify this sensible and just solicitude cannot fail to excite interest, and meet approbation.
Mr. Anderson's institution for the instruction of young ladies, formed in the bosom of a society distinguished for intelligence and refinement, and embracing both the useful and ornamental branches of their improvement, enjoys peculiar advantages of situation.
As the seat of a justly celebrated university, and the residence of many families of the first distinction in our country, Williamsburg presents a scene, propitious in the highest degree to mental and personal accomplishments; and with a view, particularly, to the general improvement of young ladies, no place has superior claims to attention.
DOCTOR WILSON
HAS removed his Apothecary Shop to the lower floor of the Bell Tavern, where he has a general supply of MEDICINES, PAINTS, & OTHER ARTICLES IN THE APOTHECARY LINE.
Physicians, merchants and others, who may be pleased to patronize him, shall be supplied on the most reduced terms. Persons of needy circumstances, by paying the retail prices of his medicines, will be prescribed for gratis.
NOTICE. THE copartnership of ROBERT GAMBLE & SONS, will be dissolved by mutual consent, on Saturday, the 11th instant. All persons indebted to the said firm, are earnestly entreated to make immediate payment to either of the subscribers. A commission with this request will prevent the painful necessity of resorting to coercive measures. The books will be placed in the possession of Messrs. John and Robert Gamble jun. who are authorized to settle all accounts due by, or to the concern.
Richmond, May 8th, 1805.
RO. GAMBLE. JOHN G. GAMBLE. RO. GAMBLE, jr.
The subscribers take this method of informing their friends and the public, that they intend carrying on the mercantile business, under the firm of JOHN & ROBERT GAMBLE JUN. They are now receiving by the ship Rolla, a choice selection of LONDON GOODS, and daily expect from Liverpool, a general assortment of HARDWARE, &c. suitable for the season—which will be sold by the piece, package or dozen, on the most moderate terms, for cash, merchantable country produce, or the usual credit to substantial and punctilious customers.
They also possess large and convenient Brick warehouses covered with slate, for receiving and storing Flour, Tobacco &c. Those gentlemen who favor them with consignments, will find their charges reasonable, and may rely on their best exertions to afford satisfaction.
The highest rates given for Bees-Wax, good Bear, Deer, and Otter skins, and other shipping Furs.
JOHN G. GAMBLE. ROBERT GAMBLE, jr.
The subscriber (Robert Gamble, sen.) avails himself of this opportunity to thank his numerous friends for the very large share of patronage he has received in the Mercantile line—and hereby tenders to the public his future services as a Commission Merchant. He flatters himself, his long experience (with other circumstances unnecessary here to mention) entitles him to the confidence of those who may have business of that nature to transact in this city—affording such of his best exertions to merit approbation.
Richmond, May 10, 1805.
RO. GAMBLE. ep3w oawtf.
JAMES SEABROOK, TAYLOR.
RETURNS his grateful acknowledgments to his friends and the public, for their liberal encouragement, and informs them, that he continues to carry on his business in all its various branches, nearly opposite the Post Office and next door to Ritchie & Worrlay's Printing-Office—And as he has established a regular correspondence in Philadelphia, gentlemen may depend on having their clothes made in the newest fashion.
May 14. (6Ttl)
N.B. A few good JOURNEYMEN wanted, to whom liberal wages will be given.
IN HANOVER COUNTY COURT,
April 29th, 1805.
Austin Morris, Plaintiff.
John Crenshaw, Defendant.
THIS day came the plaintiff by his counsel, and the defendant not having entered his appearance and given security according to the acts of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country, on the motion of the plaintiff it is Decreed and Ordered, That the defendant do appear here on the first day of the next quarterly term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some one of the newspapers printed in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the Court-house in this county.
A Copy. Teste, THOS. POLLARD, D. C. H. C. (T3m)
May 28.
VIRGINIA, ss:
At a Chancery District Court held in the city of Williamsburg, the 6th day of April, 1805, Helen Gilmour, widow and relict of Robert Gilmour, deceased, and John Morton Gilmour and Robert Gilmour, only children of the said Robert Gilmour, deceased, Plaintiffs, Against Bogle Somerville and company, and Bogle Somerville and company, and James Mc Gregor, John Robertson and Cunningham Gochett, trustees for the creditors of the aforesaid companies, and Gavin Lawton, Defendant.
IT appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendant Gavin Lawton, since the institution of this suit, hath left this country, and the said defendant not having given security according to the acts of assembly and the rules of this court—on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is ORDERED, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former capitol in this city.
A Copy. Teste, ANTY ROBINSON, C. C. (T2m)
May 21.
FOR SALE—BY THE SUBSCRIBER:
LOAF SUGAR, by the hhd. bbl. or single loaf, direct from Pennington's Manufactory, Philadelphia: SOAL and UPPER LEATHER, on moderate terms. Also, PRIME SPANISH HIDES.
MICAJAH DAVIS. 6th mo. 11th, '05. (6Ttl)
A TRACT OF LAND.
JOHN GILMER, wishes to sell a tract of land, consisting of 350 acres, lying within half a mile of Charlottesville. Any person wishing to purchase, may see the land, and know the terms by applying to him in that place.
June 4. (1a w8w.)
MOUNT SIGN FOR SALE.
THE subscriber offers for sale, his Plantation in Northumberland county, known by the name of MOUNT SIGN. The above tract contains about 500 acres, all of which is equal to any land in that part of the country for fertility of soil, and has every requisite to make it a desirable situation for a seated family. There is on the land an excellent brick dwelling house, with every convenient out house; it is situated on the navigable waters of the Potomac river, and commands an elegant view of the river; it is very convenient to fish, oysters, &c. and is within one day's sail of Alexandria, Norfolk, and Baltimore. Terms of the sale will be made known by application to Mr. Henry Ball, who resides on the land, or to the subscriber.
JEKILL JONES. May 3. ctf.
A FEW HUNDRED EXCELLENT
QUILLS
FOR SALE AT THE ENQUIRER OFFICE. May 21. (Ttl)
MRS. RIVARD'S ACADEMY.
Reverend Sir, YOU had the kindness to allow me, two years ago, to look upon you not only as one of the chief protectors of the establishment under my charge, but also did me the honor of becoming its chairman with Dr. B. Ruff, J. B. McKean, R. Smith and A. Morris, Esquires, one of the Trustees of said Seminary. The condescension has at all times rendered me extremely anxious to defer your patronage; indeed I ascribe in a great measure the credit which the establishment I hope has generally obtained, to that circumstance. Few persons are yet informed of the favour so politely conferred on me, as the greater number of my pupils are from abroad. On several occasions you had the goodness to express the satisfaction which you, and all those who have honored my school-rooms with their visits, derived from the improvements of the young Ladies, as well as from the manner in which the Seminary is conducted. I have never taken the liberty of publishing your letters of approbation—Would you and the other gentlemen permit me to make it known, that I am authorized to consider you as Trustee of the Institution. I should not only deem it a distinguished mark of your approbation, but a certain means of assuring the full confidence of those parents and guardians who have intrusted their children to my care. With great respect, I have the honor to be, Reverend Sir, Your very humble and ob't servant, MARIA RIVARD. The Right Reverend Dr. White. APRIL, 1805.
The high opinion we entertain of your qualifications for the arduous and diversified duties of the institution under your direction, and the evidences which have been presented to us, at examinations, of the improvement of the young Ladies, who possess the advantage of being your pupils, induce us to comply with your request, by the present testimony of our approbation of your Seminary, and to express our wishes for the success of an institution so useful to our city, and so honorable to you. We are, Madam, Your very humble Servants, WILLIAM WHITE, BENJAMIN RUFF, J. B. MCKEAN, ROBERT SMITH, ANTHONY MORRIS, TREASURER. Mr. Rivard, Philadelphia, April 24. (nav. 12.)
NEAL NELSON.
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER,
MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND.
MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use. Imported BOOTS and SHOES, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. Gentlemen at a distance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as they were on the foot. A—the length of the Boot. C—round the Calf. B—the pitch of ditto. D—round the heel and instep. E—round the instep. G—across the ball of the foot. Fix the heel against a perpendicular, and stick a knife at the end of the great toe—let down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. January 1. ctf
VIRGINIA.
In the Superior Court of Chancery held in Richmond, Between Thomas Price and John Sandridge, Plaintiffs, And Alexander Outlaw, senior, and Alexander Outlaw, junior, Defendants.
ON motion of the defendant, Alexander Outlaw, junior, by counsel, this cause is ordered to be re-docketed; thereupon the said defendant filed his answer, to which the plaintiffs replied generally, and commissions are awarded the plaintiffs and the said defendant, to examine and take the depositions of their witnesses; and on the further motion of the said defendant, the court referred the accounts, between him and the plaintiffs in this suit, to one of its commissioners, to be by him examined, stated, settled, and to the court reported with any special matters thought pertinent by himself, or required by the parties to be specially stated. A Copy. Teste, PETER TINSLEY, C. C.
COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE,
Richmond, 15th May, 1805.
THE parties will take Notice, that I have appointed the twenty-ninth day of July next, to commence the account directed by the annexed decree of the Court—on which day they are requested to attend at my office in this city, with the accounts & vouchers prepared, and ready for examination and settlement—and with copies of the court papers. SAMUEL GREENHOW, M. C. May 21. (Ttl)
ELLIS & ALLAN
Have received by the Rolls from London, part of their
SPRING GOODS,
among which are the following articles:
LONDON Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, Quiltings and Dimities, Handmade fashionable worked & laced Muffins, 3-4, 8-4 and 10-4 Diapers, 8-4, 8-10 and 10-16 Damask Table Cloths, Gentlemen's white and brown Cotton Stockings, Ladies' elegant laced white do. Do. Tortoise-shell bent and braid Combs, Chintzes, Calicoes and Furniture Gentlemen's black fashionable Hats, Do. drab beaver do. Do. caps silk do. Umbrellas, Boy's Morocco Caps, plain and fur'd, Best Hemp Ropes, English White Lead, Spanish Brown, Yellow Ochre, ground in oil, and Verdigris, Prussian and Fig Blue, Best Boiled Oil in jars, Durham Mustard, &c. &c. Which, added to their present stock, and those expected (daily) from Liverpool, will render their assortment general. May 7. (cpf)
FOR CHERBOURG,
The copper bottom'd Ship MARIE, Capt. PETRE, burthen about 650 lds. having two thirds her cargo new engaged, is expected to sail about the 15th July, and will take 100 or 150 lds. tobacco on a moderate freight. For terms apply to JOHN NEWELL, Jr. Norfolk, or BROWN, RIVELS & Co. Richmond. (cp4w) May 31.