Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1806-04-15 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XIVth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1251.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum...paid in advance.]
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1806.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
JUST received on consignment, a few Tierces prime LAMP OIL , Which will be sold cheap for ready money.
B. TATE. Richmond, March 31st 1806.
VIRGINIA: In the Superior Court of Chancery holden in Richmond.
Between John Garthright, And John Miller, plaintiff,  defendant. ON the motion of the plaintiff by counsel, the court the sixteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, referreth the accounts in this suit to one of its commissioners, to be by him examined, stated, settled, and to the court reported and any special matter thought pertinent by himself for required by the parties to be specially stated.
A Copy—Teste,
P. TINSLEY, C. C.
Commissioner's Office, Richmond, March 20th, 1806. THE parties are hereby notified that I have appointed the fourteenth day of July next to carry into effect the annexed order of court, on which day they are desired to attend at my office in this city with their accounts and vouchers ready for examination and settlement.
SAMUEL GREENHOW, M. C.
FOR SALE, by the SUBSCRIBER,
BURR MILL-STONES, Of different sizes, from 3 feet 10 inches to 6 feet diameter—about one thousand BURR ROCKS , that have just come to hand and are of good quality.—Also, constantly keep a large & good assortment of BOLTING CLOTHS , of the best quality, that I have had purchased at the Manufactories with cash, that I offer for sale for cash or good paper, on as good terms as they are sold in the United States.
ISAAC MPERSON.
Baltimore, March 19, 1806.
Apply to M. & B. Myene, Richmond, for particulars.
TAKEN up as a runaway on the 29th of March, and committed to Hanover jail, a negro man-slave, who calls himself WARD BROWN , and says he is the property of James Holle of Lovington. The owner is requested to come forward, pay charges and take him away, who will be dealt with according to law. HENRY H. VAUGHAN. April 1, 1806.
LAND FOR SALE.
THE subscriber is authorised to dispose of between two and three thousand acres of LAND , situate in the county of Prince George, and known by the name of OLD TOWN , on the following terms, to wit:—One fifth of the purchase money to be paid down, and the balance in four annual installments, to carry interest from the time of sale—the payment whereof must be secured by bond and mortgage on the land. This land is distant from the town of Petersburg about 14 miles, from James river 4 or 5 miles, and about 1 1/2 from Noble's creek, which is navigable for boats up to Peachy's mill. The soil is remarkably well adapted to the culture of corn, wheat and Tobacco, and the greatest part of the tract is covered with fine timber. It will be sold in lots to suit purchasers, and will be shown to any person desiring to view it, by Mr. Drury Liversey, who resides on it. Prompt attention will be paid to any communication on the subject, directed to the subscriber at Shirley, in Charles City county, by post, to Granville mills. W. M. Patrick Henderson, agent for Ch: Carter of Shirley. Feb 20 1806.
BUZZARD,
Imported by the late Col. John Hoomes, of the Bowling Green, will stand the ensuing season, (to commence the 1st of March, and end the 15th of July) at my farm in Chesterfield county, four miles from Goodloe's and Bevil's Bridges, on Appomattox river, twenty five above Petersburg, the same from Richmond, and fifteen from Amelia courthouse; & will be let to mares on the following terms.
Fifty Dollars the season, by note, dischargeable at any time within it, by the payment of forty, with one dollar to the groom.
In every instance, either a note, or the money must accompany the mares.
BUZZARD in point of form, blood and performance, stands almost unrivalled, in this, or any other country; and as a foal getter, the racing calendar of England fully attests his celebrity. In 1799, he produced on the turf at Newmarket, 5 winners. In 1800, seven. In 1801, fourteen. In 1802, sixteen. In 1803, twenty-one; and in 1804, sixteen (total seventy nine) and from what I have seen of the sheet calendar for 1805, I think his numbers in the list of winning horses, will exceed that of any other year.
I have in possession a calendar of the 9th of November last, which concluded the Hough ton meeting at Newmarket. It contains thirty odd races, eleven of which were won by Buzzard's stock; and in the same calendar, two of them are advertised to cover at ten guineas a mare, the next season.
BUZZARD 's stock are large and highly formed. Poppinjay is upwards of sixteen hands, and is said to be the most elegant horse in England. Quiz won the Great Oatland stakes, and a match over the Great course (4 miles and a quarter) for 1000 guineas.
Good high and low land pastures, and every attention paid to mares sent, but no responsibility for accidents. Mares will be fed on moderate terms if required, for which the money must be sent.
THOMAS BRANCH.
24th January, 1806.
FEDIGREE.
BUZZARD was got by Woodpecker, his dam Misfortune, by Dux, his granddam Curiosity, by ap—Regulus—Basset's Children.
St. PAUL,
A beautiful sorrel horse, 15 hands 3 inches high, remarkable for his elegance, beauty, strength and fine bone; will stand the ensuing season, at my plantation on James river, generally known by the name of Maiden's Adventure , about 3 miles above Fine Creek mill, and 4 miles below Michaux's ferry, in Powhatan county, to cover mares at twenty-five dollars the season, which will commence the first of March, and expire the first of August—Extraordinary good and extensive pasturage gratis, but no liability for accidents or escapes. Gentlemen wishing their mares fed, may be furnished with corn at the market price, for which cash must be sent with the mares—as also, notes of hand for the due payment of the money for the season.
N. B. Twenty dollars, paid on or before the third Wednesday in November (being Powhatan court day) will be received as full compensation of the above, with half a dol. to the groom.
This beautiful horse, St. Paul , was raised by the Prince of Wales, and got by his horse Saturn , who was got by Eclipse that covered at 200 guineas the season—his dam Virago by Snap —his granddam by Regulus out of a sister to Black and all-Black , and was thought to be the best runner of his time—he won several large stakes, among which was the Derby , 1783, beating Dungannon , Volunteer , Phenomenon , Gonzales , and several others—he was the sire of Whiskey , who at 3 years old won 4650 guineas, also of Whip , Royalist , Peeping Tom , General , Coiner , Sylvia , Sepiem , Carolina , Tiffany , Laudantina , S. David , Sprightly , Queen of Sheba , Spankaway , Rose , Sweeper , Cyrus , Coal Merchant , Pickpocket , Oscar , Ambrosio , Pretty Party , and several others of the first rate runners. St. Paul's dam Purity was got by Marchmont , who covered for several of the last years of his life at 50 guineas a mare—her dam the Old Quirt mare, of as great fame perhaps as a good breeder, as any mare in the kingdom—she was the dam of Virgin Dido , Conundrum , Ranthis , Enigma , Miss Timms , Pumpkin , Maiden (who was dam of Walnut ) Le Sang , Rasselas , Purity , and several others. Purity was the dam of Rockingham , Archibald , Fitzwilliam . St. Paul is a good and sure foal getter may be seen at his stand. THOMAS HARRIS, Jr. Powhatan city, March 1st. 1806.
MATCH RACE.
ON the day preceding the Jockey Club Purse, a MATCH RACE will be run over the New-Market Course, for 100 guineas, between Mr. Lightfoot's filly by knowfly , (her dam Country Lass ) and Mr. Collier's  Harrison's colt Whipster , by Whip , out of the dam of Brutus —4 mile heats—36 lbs. on each. New-Market, April 4th, 1806.
Racing at New-Market.
THE subscriber having taking this celebrated Race Course, for the ensuing Spring races takes the liberty of informing the gentlemen of the turf, and the public generally, that the SPRING MEETING will commence on the Powis Tuesday in April next, being the 2nd of the month, and continue four days viz.
1st. A Sweepstakes for three year old colts and fillies, 2 mile heats, carrying 86 lbs. each, the latter allowed 21bs entrance 100 dollars, half forfeit—to close the 15th of April.
2nd. The Jockey Club Purse 450 dollars, 4 mile heats, agreeably to the rules and regulations of the turf.
3rd. The Proprietor's Purse of 225 dollars 3 mile heats, the same rules and regulations.
4th. A Sweepstakes for 4 year old colts and fillies, 3 mile heats, carrying 100 lbs. each, the latter allowed 21bs entrance 100 dollars, half forfeit—to close also the 15th of April.
The 5th and last day will be a Handy Cap , 2 mile heats, free for any nag running at these races or others never having won a race of greater value than 100 dollars—entrance 25 dollars; weights to be determined by the members of the Jockey Club.
Toll will be collected at the gate: each day as usual, viz. 4 wheel carriages 6s 4 wheel do. 3s, horsemen 3s, footmen 1s 6d.
Good stables and litter furnished race horses, & all, and the very best accommodation for gentlemen their servants and horses—at the house, where the utmost civility and attention shall be paid, by their obedient servants.
BENJAMIN MORRIS,
N. B. Persons wishing to rent booths can be accommodated, if immediate application be made to
New Market. 14th March.
N. B. The public are assured, that the different purges in the spring meeting, will be made up by the subscriber.
March 21, 1806.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed by Charles H. Saunders and Jane his wife , and Lucius M. Waugh to the subscribers for the purpose of securing a debt due to Samuel H. Saunders , (since assigned to Robert Lewis , sen. dec. and now due to his representative) from the said Lucius M. Waugh —Will be SOLD , to the highest bidder, for cash, on the premises on the 1st day of May next, one certain Tract or Parcel of LAND lying and being in the county of Powhatan, and described in the said deed as follows: to wit: Bounded by the creek on the west, by the land of Wm. Hickman on the north and by the lands of John H. Saunders on the east and by the Southam Glebe lands on the south, containing by estimation one hundred and twenty nine acres, be the same more or less, it being the land on which the said Lucius M. Waugh now resides, or so much of the said land as will be sufficient to discharge the amount due on the said deed of trust.
Signed, David Owen, sen.  Robert C. Pleasants,  John H. Saunders, Jr.  Trustees. Powhatan, April 3rd, 1806.
STRAYED or stolen from the commons, some time last week, a likely grey horse, in good order, about 7 or 8 years old, nothing remarkable recollected about him. I will give a generous reward to any person that will bring him to me in Richmond.
April 9th 1806.
I. PENN,
TO BE RENTED,
THE TENEMENT where I now reside, and possession given in June.
April 9th, 1806.
J. PENN.
SALES AT AUCTION,
AT ROCKETT'S.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by Mr. Richard Young & others , bearing date the 11th of February, 1804, to secure the payment of a debt therein mentioned, due Mr. Giley Lewis and Mrs. Susanna Lewis , will be SOLD , on the premises, on Saturday the 26th inst. for ready money, the LOT or LOTS , expressed in said deed, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to discharge the balance due, together with expenses attending the execution of said trust.
John Prosser,  John Fox, Jr.  Trustees. Richmond, April 1st, 1806.
The Fairfield Races
Will commence on Monday the 5th of May, a d'eminu for four days.
1st Day—The Jockey Club Cup free for all ages, the horse being bona fide the property of the members; distance 3 mile heats.
2nd Day—The Jockey Club Purse , of four hundred and fifty dollars, four mile heats.
3rd Day—The Purse of the Proprietor of the Course, for two hundred and fifty dollars, three mile heats.
4th Day—A Sweep Stake for three years old colts and fillies, two mile heats, one hundred dollars entrance—This Sub-cription will remain open until the 5th May.
Weights as follows: Aged Horses, 133 lbs 6 years old, 128 5 do. do. 112 4 do. do. 106 3 do. do. 90 Mares and Geldings allowed 5 lbs.
I wish to rent the Dining House, & the Booths in the Field; those who have formerly rented them, shall have a preference, application must be made immediately.
The members of the club, will please to observe a little more punctuality in paying up their subscriptions, as the money, on each day, has to be placed in the hands of the Judges.
Those gentlemen, who have not yet paid up their forfeits, in the produce sweep Stake, won last October, by Mr. Hugh Wylie , will be so good as to pay it to Mr. Wylie , or the Treasurer, by the last day of the races in May next.
ESME SMUCK, Treasurer and Proprietor of the Course.
Robin Red Breast,
A fine bay, fifteen and a half hands high, imported from England in spring 1804—Will stand the ensuing season at my stable, in the Manakin Town, on James river, 17 miles above Richmond, to cover mares at twenty-five dollars the season, for which notes will be expected.
On or before the first of October, 1806, with one dollar for each mare to the groom. Good and extensive high and low ground pasture gratis, and strong fences—The greatest attention shall be paid to mares left in my care, but will not be liable for accidents or escapes.
PEDIGREE.
ROBIN RED BREAST was got by Sir Peter Teazle , his dam Vren by Woodpecker , his granddam Papillon (Sir Peter's dam) by Snap , his great granddam Miss Cleveland , by Regulus , his great grand granddam Midge , by son of Bay Bolton , Barclay's Children , Honeywood's Arabian , dam of the two True Blues . [Taken from the general Stud Book.]
PERFORMANCE.
In 1800 (the only year he ran) at Bridgnorth, June 18, 4 mile heats, at four years old, he won the maiden plate bearing Mr. Day's  Magpie , by Precepitate and Mr. Carr's  Prospect .
The next day, at the same place, 4 mile heats, he came in first a d'eminu, but lost the race for the want of a few own's in weight the last heat.
At New Castle, July 3rd, he won the member's purse of £50, 4 mile heats, beating Mr. Harris's  Trumpator , and distancing Sir T. Mostyn's  Hede .
At Nantwich, July 10, he won the town purse of £50, beating Mr. Smith's  Sultan , and distancing Sir T. Mostyn's  Hede .
At Warwick, Sept 2, he won his majesty's plate of 100 guineas, 4 mile heats, beating Lord Donegall's  Fugleman , and distancing Mr. Tharm's  Marquis .
He won the purse at Litchfield, Sept 11, 4 mile heats, beating Lord Donegall's  Baron , by Poets , and distancing Brooke's  Baron Nite , Lord Oxford's  Victoria and Mr. Cox's  Ocean Tree . He was never beaten 4 mile heats except at Bridgnorth, as above stated, where, although it was given against him it was evident that he was much the best horse.
March 1st, 1806.
THOMAS HARRIS.
THE Private Academy of Doc-
tor HALLER , will be removed on the first day of May next, to that large brick house lately built by Colonel Harvie , not far from the scale house.
On the said day, a certain number of fresh scholars will be admitted to the said institution; but only children of approved habits & deportment can be admitted; as Dr. H. is firmly determined to adhere to the rules and regulations mentioned in his plan of education, the printed copies of which may be had at his house. Richmond, April 5 1806.
TO BE RENTED
TWO TENEMENTS , near
By opposite the court house in this city—One containing a front shop room and compting room adjoining, upon the ground floor, and four rooms above, with fire places and grates in each—The other contains a front shop room and compting room adjoining upon the ground floor, and two rooms above, with fire places and grates in each—with some back ground and a small kitchen to each tenement. Enquire of GEO. WM. SMITH. Richmond, March 31st, 1806.
TAKEN UP by the subscriber,
in Charlotte county, a dark brown STEER , marked with a crop and a ear in the left, and a swallow fork in the right ear, supposed to be four or five years old, and appraised to fifteen dollars. WM. C. MOON.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, March 6.
DEBATE,
ON MR. GREGG'S RESOLUTION,
[CONTINUED]
Mr. SLOAN —I do not rise to deny, but to acknowledge myself, one of those horn book politicians alluded to by a member from Virginia, and to assure this committee that I do not envy or grudge that member either his superior genius, talents, or learning—and further, to ask on behalf of myself and others of this class, the favor of being permitted to deliver our sentiments on this and other important subjects, in such language as we are capable of, until our constituents may have an opportunity of electing other members of superior learning and talents, and farther advanced in political knowledge. This is a favor I hope will not be denied, otherwise a great number of American citizens, the remainder of this and the ensuing session must go unrepresented.
In answer to the assertions, that our late conduct respecting Spain, was such as we dare not mention, that we dare not take off the injunction of secrecy, that we are ashamed to let the nation know the secret, permit me to assure that member, and this committee, that I feel neither shame nor compunction of heart for the part that I acted in that business—no doubt that when the injunction is taken off, and the public acquainted with the whole transaction, the real friends of the peace and interest of the United States will fully approve the conduct of the majority, with whom I had the pleasure to act, and which, were I by side glances and insinuations, to endeavor to impress the public mind with a belief that a majority of their representatives had acted in a manner they were ashamed of—I conceive my constituents would thenceforth consider me unworthy of their confidence, and, consequently, of a seat on this floor.
We are told that we have no cabinet. Is it necessary, is it recognised by the constitution? No. The president's powers are defined, and have for five years been fulfilled to the satisfaction of the people.
I have heard of British cabinets, British ministers and British privy councils—of their conduct I imbibed a very bad opinion, before the member alluded to, was out of his nurse's arms, and have seen no cause to change that opinion—it is therefore pleasing to me to hear that we have no such institutions.
Mr. Chairman, however great my gratitude to that member for his paternal care over the children in politics on this floor, which roused him from his sick bed, to give his superior opinion upon this important subject, before our weak and feeble minds had been misled by Tom, Dick, and Harry, or some other arrogant chaps, that might have some knowledge of steering a ship at sea; but totally ignorant in navigating our vessel of state, I say, notwithstanding I gave all the attention in my power, to his eloquent speech of 2 hours and 48 minutes, there were divers parts which my weak brain could not comprehend, and which I beg leave to lay before this committee for the purpose of receiving further information.
1. I cannot comprehend how our demanding the release of our impressed seamen;—and a restitution for unjust captures of our vessels; can be construed as throwing our weight in the scale of France for the purpose of supporting a set of men, who do not support the public weal of the United States.
2. Nor can I possibly discover that Great Britain stands precisely in the same situation that republican France did in '93. For information on this subject, let me ask, was it not British gold and British intrigue that then formed the coalition against republican France? And is it not the same that has formed the present coalition against monarchical France? Have the armies of France in either case advanced beyond their own territory previous to the raising and advancing toward them powerful armies for the express purpose of subjugating them, and dividing their property amongst the coalesced powers? If the accounts received are true, they are not.
But we are told that Britain is now the only barrier against tyranny, and her navy our only security, that the battle off Trafalgar prevented the fleets of France and Spain from laying our seaport towns under contribution, and that the British navy alone stands between us and their tyranny. Mr. Chairman if a British subject was admitted on this floor, to advocate his sovereign's cause, I should from him have expected such language, but to hear it from a member of congress has astonished me more than anything
I ever heard within these walls. I may add that I believe even a British subject of common sense and prudence would not have committed his character by asserting that the combined fleets of Holland, France, and Spain, were so reduced, that ten British ships (I expect of the line was meant) would be glad to meet their whole force.
Neither can I comprehend that language that in one breath asserts that Spain has grossly insulted us on our own territory; that we pocket those insults because they are a favored nation, and in the next breath, asserts that she is no nation; but those aggressions are the act of France.
I here deem it my duty to make some remarks on observations made on this floor, which have tendency to mislead and alarm the public mind with regard to France and Spain. We have been told that Spain has insulted us on our own territory. I appeal to the gentleman from Virginia whether he has not declared that we do not possess one foot of ground beyond the Iberville. If so, let the world judge of the consistency of his remarks—I ask if Spain has not ordered her cruisers to respect our vessels, and whether France is not on a friendly footing with us. Shall then the public mind be deceived with the idea that congress have not noticed towards those nations with spirit? For what? Because our boundaries with Spain are not defined. I trust in God, we shall never go to war for that. I repeat it, our affairs are in a train of amicable settlement, and, I trust, that they will be soon settled.
It is asserted that France would be as tyrannical on the ocean, as England, had she the same power—this is a point that I have neither foreknowledge or sagacity enough to determine, nor do I consider such assertions either necessary or proper on the present occasion, the degraded point of view in which Spain has been represented, the tyrannical disposition of France; and Britain represented, as the only barrier against her tyranny, the forlorn hope of European liberty—I have heard with a frow, believing such language highly improper, to be used in a legislative capacity, by any representative of a free people whose interest it is to cultivate peace and harmony with all nations of the earth.
I shall only trouble the committee with one more observation upon the learned and eloquent speech first mentioned in which I think it was alleged that parchment was the only remedy applied to aggressions on our territory, for which a member from New-Jersey might receive a vegetable specific. If I am the member alluded to, permit me to reply, that if by dealing in parchment, we can continue to purchase as good bargains as Louisiana, and thereby preserve peace, I hope the United States will always prefer dealing in that commodity rather than to imbue their hands in human blood—Respecting vegetable specifics I shall only observe, that if that member lives to my age, needing no more specific medicine either vegetable or mineral, he may consider it a great blessing; but which I think very improbable.
Mr. Chairman, believing it my duty to deliver my sentiments in a few words, as possible, that other members standing on an equal floor, may have an opportunity to deliver theirs, I shall have to a conclusion—at the same time no doubt, that if I was disposed so to do, I could take up the time of the committee as long, and as little purpose as any member within these walls.
I could, under the pretext of explaining, keep the floor two hours and nine minutes, if the chairman did not order me down, which I hope he will if ever I attempt it.
In explaining I could declare that I did not mean to stigmatize a respectable class of citizens with dishonesty, or any other reproachful epithet—and immediately compare them to butterflies of the day, and to slippery eels who will get round and evade any regulations or restrictions that can be made, whose interest is their go d, regardless of the peace and interest of the nation in which they reside.
I could declare that I had not insulted the house; but aimed at certain political characters—and in the next breath charge a majority of the same house with having hoodwinked its members, but unable to do so with foreign nations—I again, could charge them with bullying England,

SPANISH AFFAIRS.
Debate on the motion of Mr. JOHN RANDOLPH to amend the Secret Journal by inserting in it the MESSAGE of the PRESIDENT of the 6th of December.
I could then in the prophetic form the committee, that if they offend the British minister, he would immediately put forth his strength and make the United States feel it—and that although France at present appears friendly, she is like the still hog drinking swill, meditating future evil, and will eventually (if in her power) treat us worse than England.
I could in a few words remove this mighty bugbear that the friends of the constitution have made so much ado about, I mean the impressment of 3,000 of our seamen; by informing the committee that it has been the practice of Britain time immemorial—that it has been found indispensably necessary to enable them to man their fleets—that is to say, without these diabolical means, which none but infernal fiends in human shape could even use; they could not so effectually have carried fire and sword, devastation and plunder, to every habitable part of the globe, and thereby so greatly increased the quantum of human misery, and cries of the widow and fatherless.
I could also, if my conscience would permit, after venting my hatred in the most bitter invectives against the French emperor, that my genius could invent, charging congress with truckling to him; and bestowing on the government of England the highest applause for their opposition to French tyranny—repeatedly deny being the apologist of Britain—but a subsequent question arises, would the members of this committee subscribe to the truth of such declarations?
But, Mr. Chairman, I will detain the committee no longer with telling them what might be done; but earnestly call their attention to what has been done, to what has been said on this floor—we have been told that France cannot get a pound of coffee or sugar, from her own islands, except through the medium of American vessels, and that we have a treaty that obliges us to treat them as one of the most favored nations—this raises the curtain, and gives a full and complete view of the whole scene—this explains in the most explicit manner the elaborate speech of two hours and forty-eight minutes, and the explanation of two hours and nine minutes. A horn book politician may by this clearly discover the intention of the member from Virginia, and Tom, Dick, and Harry, if they have only learned the three first letters of the alphabet, may understand his meaning, and why he would prefer an embargo, to even a partial non-importation of British manufactures. It is possible that George the third, that zealous defender of the most holy faith, by whose most gracious orders, the colonies of North America were declared out of his protection; and afterwards his paternal care was further manifested, in burning their towns, murdering their citizens, and causing their prisoners to perish with famine and pestilence in noisome dungeons and filthy prison ships. I say it is possible, as the precious life of this great benefactor of mankind, is yet preserved, and we are told on this floor, remains animated with the same benevolent spirit, fighting the battles of liberty against Gallic tyranny; if he should fail by land, his pious zeal may induce him once more to resort to his forlorn hope (as he did in the late war with republican France) declare all her ports and her allies in a state of blockade, cover the ocean with his fleets, in order to effect by famine, what he is unable to do by force of arms—in that case an embargo on the American vessels would facilitate his purpose—But here let me ask this committee, can the congress of the United States countenance such a procedure? I hope not.
Before I sit down, let me ask the members of this committee, especially you in whose ears the expiring groans of your brethren in arms, of your beloved fellow citizens yet vibrate; slain by the murderous bands of the mercenaries of Great Britain; or barbarously deprived of life, by famine or pestilence—can you while the same monarch reigns, and instead of diminishing, has added to the long, and black catalogue of crimes, set forth in our declaration of independence, which induced you to risk your lives in opposition to his tyranny; can you with complacency, or any degree of approbation, sit and hear that government who continues her tyranny and injustice to these United States, (witness the capture of our vessels and impressment of our seamen) held up by a member on this floor as the only barrier we have against the tyranny of that nation who in our struggle assisted us with vessels of war, arms, ammunition, men, and money; whose soldiers fought by your side, and bled to support American liberty and independence, and whose government continues friendly towards us—I hope not, I believe you cannot, your hearts must turn indignant from such language. For my own part I am free to declare, that since I have had the honor of a seat on this floor, I have heard nothing that has so hurt my feelings.
I have long borne them in silence—I am happy in obtaining a few moments in my plain unlearned way to express them, that this committee, and all the United States may know, that I retain the same abhorrence against British tyranny that I did in the revolutionary war; and also the same love for the liberty and independence of the United States.
(To be continued.)
Mr. JOHN RANDOLPH.—I rise to execute the purpose which I intimated yesterday. On the first page of this journal [holding in his hand the journal of the secret proceedings of the House] I find it stated that the Speaker laid before the House a letter and communication from the President of the U. States which were read, that they were referred to a select committee, and I find that then follows the report of that committee without any notice of the message of the President on which it was grounded. This I take to be a departure from the regular system of keeping the journal; because I perceive in other parts of it, messages, though of a private nature, accompanying other communications, inserted. I deem it not less important to the character of those who compose the select committee, of which I had the honor to be one, than to the character of the government of the United States, that a full and fair view should be given to the public, of the conduct of the government on the one hand, and of the legislature on the other. I beg pardon for using the phrase government, by government I meant the executive department. I shall feel it incumbent on me, in order to impress on the House the sense I entertain of the importance of this motion, to enter into some little history of the transactions which have taken place with closed doors in which, though I may not undertake to say what the message of the President contains, I shall feel myself at liberty, according to the course pursued here, to say what it does not contain.
It is true that on the 6th of December that message was referred to a select committee. That committee met, and one of the members, a gentleman from Massachusetts, whom I do not now see in his place, as soon as the committee met proposed that they should recommend to the House the making an appropriation of money to enable the executive to negotiate abroad. I understood, though it may not have been expressed that the object was the purchase of the Floridas. There was a great variety of sentiment in the committee, and other gentlemen of the committee, of whom I was one, objected, that in the confidential message of the President, there was not a syllable about the purchase of the Floridas, or an appropriation of money for foreign negotiation, that there was not a word in it to induce us to believe that Spain was willing to make the sale or to come to an amicable adjustment of differences with us; but that on the contrary, a direct and opposite inference could only be drawn from its contents.
On coming to town, and conversing with gentlemen of this House, I was apprized of the existence of a project for the purchase of the Floridas from Spain; and I was prepared to have considered any expression in the executive message as having this meaning, which could at all warrant it. There was such a difference of opinion in the committee that they came to no direct conclusion. Circumstances of an imperious nature called me to Baltimore; where I staid, I think, six days. On my return, on Saturday, I found, from the information of a gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Nicholson) that there had been considerable excitement in consequence of the committee not reporting. Without even changing my clothes, or going to my lodgings, I immediately met the committee, and it was agreed to write to the secretary of war, and learn from him the number of troops necessary to protect the southern frontier from Spanish inroad and insults. But although in the public message of the President at the opening of the session, we heard much of Spanish outrages and insults, and though the private message held a language in consonance with the public, I found a backwardness in the head of the war department, and generally of the executive government on taking a decided attitude as to Spain; and I found what was worse, before I left town to go to Baltimore, from a conversation with what has been considered the head of the first executive department under the government, that France was the great obstacle to the compromise of Spanish differences; that France would not permit Spain to come to any accommodation with us, because France wanted money, and that we must give her money. From the moment I heard that declaration, all the objections I originally had to the procedure were aggravated to the highest possible degree. I considered it a base prostration of the national character, to excite one nation by money to bully another nation out of its property, and from that moment to the last moment of my life, my confidence in the principles of the man entertaining those sentiments died, never to live again. Well, sir, during my absence in Baltimore, the dispatches contained in the message of the 17th of January arrived. This I shall have occasion to mention again. The House began to act on the subject of our foreign relations. Gentlemen who in select committee had declared they considered the executive message as a requisition to buy the Floridas, though there was not a word in it about the Floridas or about money, took a different ground in the
House. They said that though the executive did not recommend to Congress to purchase the country, yet that they were adequate to give the business this direction; that if they chose, they were at liberty to do it. But unfortunately for this new doctrine, and the previous one broached, and unfortunately for the whole system, gentlemen stepped forward to enforce, one gentleman asserted that he was ready in his own person to vouch that the course in question was in consonance with the secret wishes of the executive; and this is one of those reasons which calls most imperiously for the motion which I am about to make.—What was afterwards done the House will perceive. I pass over the motion made to restrict the purchase to the country not in dispute with Spain, and to exclude from that purchase the country in dispute, thereby testing the principle, whether we were actually buying land or peace. In spite of every obstacle, of all opposition, and the contradictory votes given, the bill was sent to the Senate, and on the next day, the 17th of January, after the business was out of our possession, we received dispatches from our minister at London, which had arrived before Christmas. It will be recollected that it was attempted to be insinuated by individual members, that inasmuch as we received the original paper and not a copy, the dispatches had just arrived, and there had not been time for transcribing them. But in returning from the House, I was so well convinced to the contrary, for I had myself received letters from London of a contemporaneous date, that I made enquiry of the secretary of state, and was told that they had been received the week before Christmas, at the same time with my letters.
While I am up, I will undertake to rectify a trivial inaccuracy (for I wish every thing which I state on this floor to be literally exact) which on some former occasion escaped me. I said that the existence of these dispatches was unknown to a high cabinet minister; although it is certain that I so understood, it is no less so that I was mistaken. But though their existence was not unknown, yet their contents were. That minister had no reason to believe that they contained, on the contrary he had every reason to believe that they did not contain, any thing relative to our differences with Spain; and as to their being sent to the House, he knew nothing of it until after they had been received. They were no sooner opened here, than they excited an instantaneous sensation, and produced a declaration that the course we had taken was wrong; they produced also an impression that it would be in vain on the subject of our differences with England to assume a manly attitude towards her, if we became the panders and caterers of the lustful appetites of France.
The question is now reduced to this point—whether the public shall read the secret journal without understanding one word about it, or shall read it intelligibly. For it is impossible to decide how far the report of the select committee is consistent with the message of the President, unless that message is also published. A difficulty may be raised, by saying this is a confidential message. But this is got over by the publicity given to the proceedings on it. It was confidential, because the proceedings on it were so. For instance—let us suppose that the United States, were preparing for some strong and decisive measure against Spain which it was politic to conceal from her till taken; but as to any thing decisive in the message, no man can contend that it contains any thing of this nature. When I speak of the message, I do not allude to the communications of the minister of the United States, with the authorized agents of Spain. Though I see no reason why even those should not be published, as the negotiation has been entirely closed by the abortion in which it has terminated. I however restrict my present motion to the message.
The public, from this vague and deulatory sketch, may acquire some principles by which to appreciate the conduct of members in this House. They will see what members were disposed to have adopted that course which the most authentic information from Europe recommended. They will see who were disposed to acting through the intervention of any foreign power, and more especially in the shape of a bribe, and when such a course was not asked for by the Executive. They will see who were these members; and I believe there are now but few who would be willing to take the responsibility on themselves which properly belonged to another department of the government; and to do all the dirty work, which would otherwise have soiled their fingers. They will see and beware.
Mr. J. RANDOLPH concluded by moving that the message of the President of the 6th of December last be printed; that it be inserted in the Journal of the secret proceedings; and that a new edition of that journal should be printed for the use of the members.
Mr. JACKSON. I think it highly probable that a majority of this House will be disposed to take off the injunction of secrecy, not only on this document, but on all their proceedings; that the people may be enabled to judge for themselves whether the representations made from time to time are correct; but I submit whether it is correct in point of order to act in this way. What is the resolution adopted by this House? That the injunction of secrecy, relative to the proceedings,
not the messages or other communications, shall be taken off. This is not the proper course to effect the object in view. I, for one, am willing to go into conclave, and have the injunction on the whole taken off. It is not my wish to see the eyes of the people hoodwinked any longer. It has been declared by the gentleman who has offered this resolution, that we have not an inch of territory beyond the Iberville. It was therefore that I considered it important to have the Floridas, and it was therefore I voted, as Congress did in the memorable instance of the purchase of Louisiana. And it was the fear that taking off the injunction of secrecy might affect the issue of this all important negotiation that induced me some time since to vote against it. But during the whole of the discussion we have had on this subject, no proof has been adduced, that the money we have appropriated is to be given to France, although the gentleman from Virginia has declared there is no Spain, no Pyrenees; although he has declared that Spain is confessedly merged in France; although he has declared France would not permit Spain to settle her differences with us, and although this has been adduced as an argument to show that we can do nothing with Spain; and although the gentleman has further said that if we could see the dispatches of the Spanish minister, we should see them signed "Charles Maurice Talleyrand;" and although he has alleged that a negotiation could not be opened with a government reduced to a mere nonentity; as I did not anticipate the motion of my colleague, I cannot be expected to be prepared to go into an examination of the motives, as has been done by my colleague, which influenced the decision of the House. This could not be done unless all the documents on this subject were printed. Some gentlemen appear to me to have given an importance to a certain document which it does not merit; and it has been said it was withheld until our vote was taken for the purpose of trepanning us. I have heard of but two gentlemen who have declared it would have affected their votes. On me it would have had a different tendency. I wish it published. I will say for one, that I think, had it been received before the passage of the bill, it would have had a tendency to increase the majority, stupendous as it was, because—but I am not at liberty to say why. I hope the Speaker will decide this question not proper to be discussed with open doors.
Mr. J. RANDOLPH said that he had to his astonishment, found a detailed report on the journal, which it was not usual to enter upon it. He found also three messages, and this was the only instance in which a message was not entered upon it.
Mr. LEIB asked whether it was consistent with the rules of the House to have the message now read? If it were not, he could not concur with the gentleman from Virginia in voting for the motion under consideration, though he agreed with him in the propriety of taking off the injunction of secrecy from all the papers.
Mr. J. RANDOLPH asked, whether, when the journal was read, the clerk had begun to read the message, when the reading was dispensed with. This was his recollection, and if so, it must be considered as a part of the journal respecting which the injunction of secrecy had been taken off.
The Clerk said this was the fact. Mr. LEIB then said, before he decided on the resolution, he wished to hear the message read.
The Speaker said it would be most acceptable that the House should decide whether the reading were proper.
Mr. ALSTON. I merely rise to remind the speaker of the decision he gave, and of the question I put to him when the injunction of secrecy was removed. I well recollect the decision of the chair that the message of the president and the letters of our minister were not embraced in the motion for taking off that injunction. And I have not a doubt on my mind that it was in consequence of that decision that the vote of the house was such as it was. As to the publication of the message, it is immaterial to me. I voted against giving publicity to the secret journal until we had heard the result of the negotiation. To act consistently on this subject with that vote, I am for going no farther. I believe however for the justification of those who voted as I did, the publication of all the documents will be advantageous. In voting therefore against publishing this message, I shall make a sacrifice of my feelings to the public interest. For this vote the good of the nation will be my only motive. But when a negotiation is about to be opened for an object so important as the Floridas, I ask whether it is not right, I appeal to the American people whether they do not think it right to use every necessary means for ensuring its success? With regard to the appropriation of two millions with a view to this purchase, I voted for it as a set off to the resolution reported by the select committee. I voted for it in preference to a standing army. I would rather strengthen the arm of the executive with money than with a standing army, so fatal to liberty. And I believe a majority of the republicans in this nation will uphold me in this opinion. Every body knows the importance of this country. Has it not been said on this floor that there does not belong to you a foot of ground between the Mississippi and the Perdido? I recollect when this country was ceded to the United States,
to have had a conversation on this subject with a gentleman from Virginia, for whose opinion I have a high respect, and he was of opinion with me that it was very doubtful whether this country was included, indeed we rather thought it was not in the treaty. Will any man say that it is not of vast importance to us to have the small territory that divides our people, and by a fair purchase remove all grounds of future quarrels. If it has entered into the minds of gentlemen to make other than a fair purchase of this country from its rightful owner, this is not my opinion, nor have I any recollection that any such motive has been avowed. A particular document has been referred to, the receipt of which I have heard one or two gentlemen say, might have altered their votes on the bill passed by the house.—But I was astonished to hear such a declaration. It could not have altered my opinion; it had in my mind no bearing on the measure. I have one farther observation to make. If it was doubtful whether this country belonged to us, what would have been the effect of adding one or two additional regiments to your standing army? And placing them on a territory you acknowledge you do not believe to be rightfully yours? I would rather put down a regiment of the present standing army than add one man to it. When our rights are invaded we shall not require a standing army to defend them—it will be the militia that will defend them. I am opposed to a standing army, and ever will be opposed to it. For these reasons I was in favor of strengthening the arm of the executive by an appropriation, instead of strengthening it by a standing army.
Mr. CLARK requested the speaker to examine the secret journal, and see whether this message were in it. The speaker said it was, and might therefore be discussed with open doors.
Mr. J. CLAY. I was astonished when I found this journal without the message. Five messages appear to have been received, all of which appear on the journal, excepting this, which is the only message of any consequence. I did believe when the injunction of secrecy was removed, it applied to all the papers received by the House, and I did not conceive myself bound to conceal one title of what occurred while we had locked doors. I should therefore wish my friend from Virginia, so to amend his motion, as to include all the documents. I consider this essentially necessary to elucidate the transactions of this House. It seems to have been fashionable for gentlemen to declare what were their motives, for the several votes they have given during the time our doors were shut. I had but one motive, which I hope will continue to govern me as long as I have a seat in this House. My object was to be prepared for war while I endeavored to maintain peace. I voted for the resolution for the increase of the army because every body knows, who is the least acquainted with the state of the south and south western frontier, that the militia in that quarter are not able to defend it. They are indeed but a people of yesterday—aliens to your habits and language—and used aliens in every sense of the word. We had seen that frontier invaded by Spain—I was not willing therefore to withhold from the executive the means of chastising this aggression, I therefore voted for the resolution. I also voted for the appropriation of money, because I was willing to show Spain that while we were prepared to chastise her aggressions, we were also willing, by amicable negotiation to adjust our differences. I therefore voted for an appropriation for the purchase of a country which I deemed highly valuable to us. Whether the money appropriated was to go to France or Spain did not influence the vote. I gave. I did not know then that any circumstances were concealed from the House calculated to throw light upon the subject, and of the contents of the message of the 17th of January I was totally ignorant, as it was handed in the day I went to Philadelphia, and was immediately afterwards returned to the President. I could have wished that between the 24th of December and the 17th of January, there had been found time to make an official copy of it, since we have heard that it would have a considerable bearing on the votes of the members of this House; and I should conceive that it would be very important as forming an item in the transactions of the session. When we came here the public expectation was highly excited. We had been injured and insulted by Spain on land and by England at sea. The nation required the adoption of measures to procure redress, and to prevent similar aggressions in future. What have been the consequences? We have passed an act appropriating two millions to purchase the Floridas and to chastise Spain, and we have passed an act prohibiting the importation of certain goods from Great Britain as a peace offering to her. It is in my opinion necessary that all the documents should be published to give the people an opportunity of judging whether their representatives have been faithful to their trust. There are parts of those documents which I suppose will not be published, which had a considerable influence on my mind on the votes which I gave. I allude to the threat of hostility by France.
Mr. Speaker here called to order. Mr. Clay concluded by observing that as they had published five messages which had contained nothing, he hoped they would publish the one that contained something.
Mr. DAWSON expressed himself in favor of giving publicity to the message, which he believed could do no possible injury. So far as it went, he thought it favored both the resolutions—as well that for raising an army, as that for conducting a negotiation by the appropriation of money.
The reading of the message being called for, Mr. Speaker said he thought it was in order to read it, as it was inserted on the private journal.
Mr. BLACKLEDGE appealed from the decision of the chair.
Mr. ALSTON observed that his colleague would better get at his object by taking a question on the reading of the message, and Mr. Blackledge so modified his motion.
Mr. SMILIE said a regard to consistency would prevent him from voting to give publicity to the message. He could not vote for it, because he did not wish to take on himself that responsibility which might flow from the publicity defeating the negotiation. It rested with those who voted for the taking off the injunction of secrecy to take that responsibility on themselves. At the same time, however, that he must vote against it, he hoped a majority would be found in its favor, because he saw it would be necessary to publish this document, to place their conduct in a proper point of light. So far

was the message of the 17th of January, which had been alluded to, from having any influence in changing his vote, that it tended strongly to confirm him in the propriety of it.
On the Speaker reminding Mr. Smith of the question before the House, he declined saying anything further than requesting the Yeas and Nays to be taken.
Mr. ELLMER said if he understood the decision of the Speaker, the motion of the gentleman from Virginia was altogether useless. He had understood from a former decision that the journal did not include the message; but other gentlemen appeared to have considered it in another way. He was perfectly willing that it should be published, and he did not think any ill could arise from it. For reasons already assigned by other gentlemen he had been against taking off the injunction of secrecy at this time. He should therefore vote against every question of this kind.
Mr. JACKSON Is it not competent, Mr. Speaker, to any member of the House to demand an official copy of the message? You have decided it to be a part of the journal ordered to be made public, and now it is said it shall not be read, because the reading it will give it publicity. I am not now prepared to make a motion, which I shall do at some future time, unless anticipated by some other gentleman, that the President be requested to communicate to the House all the papers heretofore communicated from him, with a view to giving them publicity. I hope, however, that the message will now be read to give it publicity. I wish on all occasions to give publicity to my conduct, as well in concave, as when these doors are open. I will take this occasion to express my sense of an insinuation made the other day, in a debate on the Yazoo question, which I am told applied to me. I was charged with deserting my seat through fear of voting upon it. I will candidly confess that in the year before the last I declared I considered it for the interest of the country that those claims should be compromised, but that finding gentlemen in whom I had confidence of the opinion that such a measure would tend to sanction a scene of nefarious swindling, I was induced to say that I would not again vote on it; and I was the more induced to do this from the existence of certain claims called Indiana claims, which hover over the head of my constituents, and in consequence of the resuscitation of which, lands have been sold at one-fourth of their value. I was willing to think that the opinion I had formed on this subject was not correct. But when at the last session, the gentleman from Virginia charged all who voted for the compromise with corruption, and threatened them with the vengeance of the people, and declared that no member from Virginia who voted for it should be re-elected, I was driven from the ground I had taken, and thus borne down by the impetuous eloquence of the gentleman, I thought it became me not to shrink from the vote I had given. The reasons on which I acted went before the people, who received me by a greater majority than I had ever before received. I cannot therefore be considered as having shrunk from the vote for this reason. As an individual, I gave not for the decision on these claims, but as a judge I wish it to be equitable. My colleague knows I refused by my vote to give leave to the gentleman from Maryland to be excused. Having given this vote I went to the other side of the House, to ask a gentleman from North Carolina to spend a social evening with me. I will not attempt to scan the feelings of every man who holds different opinions from itself. I thank God that my feelings are not of this cast. It is my desire to avoid acting on cases which have a tendency to excite malignant feelings; but I will never shrink from a performance of my duty in this House or elsewhere at any sacrifice.
Mr. BLACKLEDGE said he was astonished at the course which this debate had taken. The question is this—shall a certain paper heretofore secret, be made public? And the chair has decided that this very paper is already public. Let the question then be decided which way it may, the paper goes to the public. My object is to get a vote which shall decide whether this question shall be debated with closed doors or in public.
Mr. SPEAKER said it was in order to appeal from his decision.
Mr. BLACKLEDGE then said he would appeal from that decision.
After some further conversation, Mr. Blackledge withdrew his motion, which was renewed by Mr. J. Clay.
The Speaker then said—the reading of the message of the President of the 6th of December is called for; the Speaker has decided that that document is part of the journal ordered to be published, and may be read. From this decision an appeal is made to the House, on which appeal there can be no debate.
When, with making a question, two successive motions were made to adjourn, the last of which prevailed.
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FROM WASHINGTON CITY, APRIL 9.
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES were on Monday almost exclusively occupied in discussing Mr. J. Randolph's motion to print the message of the President of the 6th of December, which was the basis of the measures taken relative to Spain.
At an early hour of the day when this subject was called up, Mr. Blackledge moved that the galleries should be cleared. The house continued in secret sitting for a short time, when the doors were opened and the question taken by Yeas and Nays on the point of order, whether the decision of the Speaker was correct, viz. "That the said message being contained in the journal of the secret proceedings of the house, as the same had been read in the house, it was now in order to call for the reading of the said message."
Yeas 43—Nays 59.
The question then recurred on the motion made by Mr. J. Randolph on Saturday as follows:
"That the printed supplemental journal of secret proceedings be amended, by inserting after the word 'read' in the third line of the first page, the message of the President of the United States of the 6th December last, and that a new edition of the said journal, thus amended, be printed for the use of the members."
On this motion a very interesting debate ensued, in which a pretty full view was taken by the different speakers of the arguments urged in secret debate. Messrs. J. Randolph, D. A. J. Clay, Eppes, and Kelly supported, and Messrs. Sloan, Findley, Fisk, G. W. Campbell and Jackson opposed the motion. As we shall give this debate with the utmost dispatch, we shall not at present attempt even an outline of it.
About 5 o'clock the Yeas and Nays were taken on the motion which was disagreed to—Yeas 44—Nays 74.
On TUESDAY, a motion was made by Mr. J. Randolph to print the letter addressed to, and the report received from, the Secretary of War, which is referred to in the report of the select committee on Spanish affairs—which was disagreed to—Ayes 43.
FROM THE LONDON MORNING CHRONICLE of February 10.
DILAPIDATED RESOURCES & HOPES
The Courier of Thursday last, with its usual candor and truth, remarks that the new ministry "are beginning to prepare the public not to be surprised if they find them unable to govern the country better than that excellent statesman who is now no more." They are laboring to impress a belief that they have succeeded to "dilapidated resources and hopes."
We should not have thought it necessary to take any notice of this, more than of the eternal columns of vapour common place and dull malignity which all the Courier night after night, were it not that it may be fit to remind the country of the situation in which the new ministry succeeded to the direction of affairs.
We have said (and with this article the new ministry have no more to do than with the squib of the Courier), that the new ministry succeeded to "dilapidated resources and hopes." And will the truth of the assertion be questioned by any man who has witnessed the events of the last four months? Do we say that the resources of the country are extinguished, or its hopes annihilated? Do we say that the victory of Trafalgar affords no consolation or that its splendor is not bright amidst the surrounding gloom? Certainly not. We neither despair of the country's resources, nor of its courage; but that man must be blind indeed, who does not see that the resources of Great Britain, and its hopes, too, are dilapidated by an ill-concerted, ill-supported continental war, by the battle of Austerlitz, and the peace of Presburgh.
Only a few days ago, the patriotic Mr. George Rose, who in a long official life, has made more money in the public service than the Duke of Newcastle spent in it, in a speech which, for true pathos and delicacy, surpassed far all that history or poetry records of the speech of Antony over the dead corpse of Cæsar, pronounced a funeral oration over the late Mr. Pitt, in which he depicts that "excellent statesman" as sinking under the weight of a nation's ills, and exclaiming in his last moments, "O! the times! O! my country!" The heavy afflictions which have befallen Europe, and in Europe England, are represented to have broken his heart, and to have killed him as a field of battle.
Whether this picture be too much coloured or not, we do not enquire. We did not throw blame on any one when we said that the new ministry succeeded to dilapidated resources and hopes. We meant to describe a state of things under which an "excellent statesman" sunk with sorrow to the grave.
We shall have a great reluctance to bring Mr. Pitt and his system into discussion upon personal grounds; but, for the sake of justice and of truth, we must not suffer the living to be robbed in order to deck the monuments of the dead.
We said that the new ministry succeeded to "dilapidated resources and hopes," because, after the late events on the continent, no man can reasonably entertain the same expectations of glory and ultimate success in the war as if these events had not taken place. This must be obvious, though the utmost praise were due to Mr. Pitt. His own friends agree that the success of his continental measures did not correspond with the wisdom of his plans. Be it so—But surely, if we can transport ourselves back to last June and July, before the continental war began, before the battle of Austerlitz and the peace of Presburgh, it might have been said with a certain degree of truth, that we had resources entire, and hopes fresh and vigorous. It might then have been said, that in addition to the courage, the zeal and enterprise of Lord Nelson, and all our fleet, we had numerous and confident allies on the continent. We had, according
to Lords Mulgrave and Castlereagh and Francis de Neufchateau, 500,000 men ready to take the field in the same cause with us. Surely, at least, that was a resource to look to in June last. A wise and able minister would have been entitled to calculate upon that as something to aid our own exertions and to oppose the force of the enemy. But where now are the 500,000 men? Where are those resources? Where the hopes built upon them of deliverance to Europe—of new banners to its independence, and additional safeguards to our own? It is false then to say, that now, after the battle of Austerlitz, and the peace of Presburgh, the new ministry succeed to "dilapidated resources and hopes."
We see, from the treaties laid before parliament, that the object of the confederates, among other things, was to
"Re-establish the King of Sardinia in Piedmont."
"The security of Naples, and the evacuation by the French of all Italy."
"The establishment of such an order of things in Europe, which may effectually guarantee the security and independence of the different states, and present a solid barrier against future usurpations."
These were desirable, most desirable objects, and he who, in the prosecution of them, could contemplate the prospect of 500,000 armed men, and with ability to employ them well, must be acknowledged to have possessed great resources; and perhaps, might have been indulged in considerable hopes. But when the aim has been made, and has failed, is there nothing taken a way of "resources of hope" from those who have the lot to succeed to the conduct of this arduous war?
The objects of the confederacy were laudable and they were, to use a simple phrase of one of the treaties, more desirable than easy of attainment. But what man in his sober senses can now indulge even the dream of such terms being obtained by war or negotiation?—What man would propose them to Bonaparte, so unscrupulous are they now, not to reason and justice, but to the ultima ratio regum , that force which has triumphed, that fortune which has decided. Is it false, then, that the new ministry succeed to "dilapidated resources and hopes?"
Far be it from us, however, to say, that because in many respects we are deprived of all reasonable expectation of setting bounds to the influence and the ambition of Bonaparte on the Continent that we are therefore to consider ourselves either deprived of resources or hopes. In relation to the Continent and the effectual reduction of the power of France, we assert that none but a visionary can expect such a result from the single exertions of this country. After what has lately befallen the Continent, as little can any reasonable man look to a new continental co-operation to which Bonaparte will be willing to make any concessions, either from fear or policy.
The new ministry, therefore, succeed to the helm of the state under disadvantages which cannot be denied. The war must now assume a different character from that which it possessed previous to the continental disasters. The public repose confidence in the new administration, but they are too just to indulge expectations or to make demands absolutely inconsistent with the state in which the affairs of Europe are now placed.
We entertain no fears, however, that the new ministry will find it necessary to caution the public not to be surprised if they do not govern the country better than the "excellent statesman" now no more. Had they negotiated the treaties with foreign powers, now before Parliament, and concluded the confederacy, so miserably broken to pieces, we are confident that no one man among them, however supported by conscious rectitude, would have arrogated the honors of a monument. There is not one among them who has not spirit to hold in supreme contempt the authors of such absurd and unreasonable adulation.
The citizens of London may raise what colour they please "to lift his head and lie of Mr. Pitt's merits," but the pile of ruins which cover Europe inspires the beholder with different sentiments, and must tell another tale to future times.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman on board the Leander, dated Toulon, March 1st, 1805, received at New-York. "General Miranda has explained to us his plan, and we were told before we left New-York, when it was explained to us, we were at liberty to proceed or return, we have pretty generally agreed to return. We are lauded in good quarters; have received what was promised, and money to return with passage free. The general will get as many here as he wants; general Pitt at Port au Prince, who has the command of eight thousand mulattoes, speaking the language of the people of the opposite coast, are all eager to accompany him, and the emperor of Hayti gives every facility, and for myself I believe Miranda will succeed: perhaps we may yet go."
We have been favored with a glance at some London papers to the 20th February, from which we could collect no information, worthy particular notice. There was much speculation on the subject, but no overtures for peace had been made on either side: indeed the general complexion of these papers confirm us in our opinion that the war will be prolonged: the enormous load of taxation is acknowledged, but then we are told that the exports and revenues increase faster even than taxation itself. Mr. Fox if disposed for peace, would find much difficulty in accomplishing his purpose, and we doubt if with all his efforts he could carry a measure, that must annihilate the commercial monopoly, a monopoly, that has in fact supported the country heretofore, and on which it depends at present.—Aurora.
The Political Register is the only federal paper that has yet attempted to censure the resolution, adopted in the secret sitting of Congress; the motives of its editor, every one who knows him, must be convinced are not patriotic or public-spirited, but arise from a disappointed vanity and presumption, that never fail to detract from real merit, but which are absolutely to be pitied in a man who has no pretension to any abilities whatever.
As these are his motives and his character, it cannot be supposed that he has said a great deal that calls for notice or refutation—what he has said, is, in fact, a miserable misrepresentation, which ignorance itself must have detected. He alleges that two millions of dollars more are to be given for a territory that we before purchased for fifteen millions; and, little as we think of his editorial prowess, we are persuaded he knew this was not true when he wrote it,
The country, which it is proposed to purchase with the two millions of dollars is that known as East and West Florida, to which we never had any title; it is true, indeed that after we purchased Louisiana from France, the boundary between that and West Florida was disputed by Spain; but we never had preferred a claim for what it is now intended to purchase. Independent of closing the differences with Spain on the subject, a point of much interest with men almost as heroic as the Register editor, there are other very strong motives for getting a peaceable and equitable title to the Floridas—leaving the disputed territory out of the question, that proposed to be purchased is greater in extent than the states of Virginia and Pennsylvania together;—it is extremely fertile: has excellent bays & harbours—by its possession, our territory would be complete, and we would not be under apprehensions from troublesome neighbours—it is now possessed by the Spaniards, and the Spaniards are said to be the vassals of France; if this is true, and that the French are so much to be dreaded, let us prevent them, if we can, from making a powerful establishment near us.—Policy and interest, indeed, combine to make the Floridas an object of importance to us; & we trust the negotiations for the purpose will prove successful.—id.
Most of the public papers have said something of the speeches and recent conduct of Mr. Randolph; and we are sorry to say, we have seen in one or two respectable prints such remarks as do no credit to the heads or hearts of their authors. If Mr. Randolph's present sentiments are at variance with such as he formerly advocated, and if he has ventured to express different opinions from republicans in general, must it follow that he has been bribed by a foreign minister, that he is corrupt and destitute of all honor and feeling?—such insinuations have gained a currency where we were sorry to see them—to say the least, they are illiberal & unmanly. None can differ more widely, on particular points, with Mr. Randolph, than we do, yet we do him but justice to say we believe his private and political integrity to be unimpeachable:—It should be remarked that Mr. Jefferson himself was accused by federalists of receiving French gold; the charge fell, with the party that made it, into contempt. Why then for the mere variance of sentiment, is it necessary to impeach the moral rectitude of a man, whose life is without one stain of dishonor. At the worst of times Mr. Randolph was the undaunted advocate of the rights of the people, and abuse, and, if nothing else, gratitude should prevent republicans from giving currency to slanderous inventions by personal enemies of the man, not published from public or patriotic motives. Those who imagine they gratify Mr. Jefferson by such unworthy means, know very little of his character; he wishes to be defended by other means than vile insinuation and paltry artifice.—id.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 11. The Senate of the United States yesterday ordered the bill prohibiting the importation of certain goods, wares and merchandise from Great Britain, to a third reading. Ayes 20. Nays 9. The only material alteration we understand, made in this bill as it went from the House of Representatives, is to admit the importation of black bottles.
TUESDAY, April 8. A joint resolution was adopted for adjourning the two Houses on Wednesday the 16th instant. On motion of Mr. Jackson the following resolution was agreed to: Resolved, That the secretary of the treasury be requested to communicate to this House any information which he may possess in relation to an application said to have been made to draw money from the treasury for the purchase of the Floridas before an appropriation made by law for that purpose.
Richmond Academy Lottery. THIRTY FOURTH DAY   Prizes of 100 dollars—Nos 7691 7441 5766  Prizes of 50 dollars—Nos 7198 6858 7718  Prizes of 25 dollars—Nos 3897 4450 7201  5995 6239  Wheels—Nos 7166 4565 5907  6568 4709  673 5908 5249 7734  5339 4276 5433 5639  5396 5296 7156 4612  4851 4510 6071 4193  5595 4072 5876 7131  5317 5977 7261 6100  6379 6221 7615 6836  6590 7509 5134 5737  6014 6345 7111 5638  4058 5228 7419 4411  6246 4759 4752 4685  5791 5003 4734 7618  7090 6581 5659 4812  5989 4642 6013 5839  5415 5636 6368 4960  6754 5712 3724  7225 3863 5056 5395  6294 4533 6499 6466  5725 6558 4335 7106  7442 4101 4550 4554  6429 3911 6078 5102 
N B There are now only 1000 tickets in the wheel; the first to be drawn is entitled to 1000 dollars. The wheel is very rich, and is worth over 20,000 dollars in prizes. A few tickets in the hands of the managers for sale.
Richmond Theatre.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. & MRS. BIGNALL.
This Evening, April 15, 1806, will be presented (the first time in Richmond) a celebrated PLAY in five acts, called the WIFE OF TWO HUSBANDS.
END OF THE PLAY. "Bells have at ye all"—Mrs. Wilmot. New Song, "Tid Re I" &c.—Mr. Wilmot. A Hornpipe—Miss Green.
To which will be added, the Comic OPERA, ROBIN HOOD, or SHERWOOD FOREST.
Ready made Pens for sale n. s.
Valuable Property for Sale.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by Doctor James Warrell and Rebecca his wife bearing date the 22d June, 1805, to secure the payment of a purchase made of Mr. Wilshire M. Lewis, executor of Francis Lewis, dec. will be SOLD, on the premises on Friday the 9th of May next, ONE TRACT OF LAND, conveyed in said trust, lying in the county of Henrico, about four miles from Richmond and containing four hundred and ninety three acres more or less, together with one Negro Man Austin, one Negro Woman, Rachel (two bay Horses, three mules, one cow, one calf, one sheep, one pig, one hen, one rooster, and one duck, and all the farming utensils, &c. together with the stock and plantation utensils, on said farm, on a credit of six months, for all sums above ten dollars, with bond and approved security. Also, will be HIRED the time of 3 Likely Negroes, until Christmas next. Prosser & Moncure, v. m. Richmond, April 14, 1806. idf
MOUNT PROSPECT.
FOR sale, that elegant situation, called MOUNT PROSPECT, situated on the north side of Bacon Branch containing six half acre lots, with all its improvements, distinguished in the plan for its city in Duvall's plot; reference may be had to the survey which is as follows No 191, 192, 196, 197, 198, 199, the whole adjoining each other, composing a city square and surrounded by 3 streets each 35 feet wide—these lots are elegantly situated and highly improved, and in point of health and prospect none can excel it. On these lots are a complete two-story brick house, 32 by 20, with a complete kitchen underneath, with many conveniences not common in kitchens—on the first floor is a room of 18 feet square and a 12 feet passage, and above are four rooms including the garrets, which are comfortable—A stable of 16 by 20, completed, with stalls for four horses and a loft to contain four ton of hay, with a carriage house, granary, a well of most excellent water, well bricked, and with other necessary buildings, a complete garden in extreme high cultivation, planned in a superior manner, and from its production £100 a year might be made from the garden with a small exign, it being so handy to the market—there is about half an acre in excellent clover, a number of the best fruit trees that could be obtained, such as grafted Cherry, Apple, Pear, Peach, Quince, Damson, and a variety of Plum Trees. The inclosure of these lots are with the best heart paling cedar posts and oak rails, done in the best manner. This situation is worth the attention of many people; it must be admitted from the rapid increase of this city and the many improvements now executing adjoining these lots, must make it extremely valuable, and is daily increasing. It is unnecessary to give a further description of this place, as it is presumed no person will purchase without viewing the premises. I must be admitted that it has as many advantages as any situation to its size and is well worth the attention of every person who has a wish for such a pleasant retreat. Should I not dispose of this property privately, before Wednesday the 28th of next month, I will on that day sell to the highest bidder, where the terms of payment will be made easy and made known on that day. Solomon Marks. Richmond, April 11th, 1806. N. B. I will shew any gentleman the premises, who think it worth their while to call on me.
SPORTS OF THE TURF.
THE RACES will commence as usual at William Price's race field, in Charlotte county, on Thursday the 15th day of May next, and continue three days—First day, one mile heats entrance thirty dollars—Second day, two mile heats fifty dollars entrance, half forfeit—And the third day will be run for an elegant Saddle, Bridle, Whip, Martingale and Collar, for any horse two miles out, weights agreeable to New Market; fillies allowed 7lb—Any gentleman wishing to enter a horse, may do so by applying to the subscriber living on the place, or to William Price. The races will certainly commence on the above days, as several horses are already entered. In order to render no further disputes, the ground is to represent one mile. SHOOT JONES. 6th April, 1806. wtf
THE holders of Prizes in the first Class of the William & Mary Lottery, are informed, that every exertion is making to obtain payment for the tickets sold on credit; which those who, indebted, are again apprized, will become due on the 15th present; and are earnestly entreated, to make immediate remittances to the subscriber. So soon as funds sufficient to discharge such claims or the major part of them, are on hand, notice will be duly given. In the mean while, those inclined to receive bonds, or notes in payment, may on application have their claims immediately satisfied. The TICKETS for the 3d CLASS are preparing, and will be shortly ready for delivery by RO GREENHOW, Agent & Treasurer. April 10, 1806. 4w
NOTICE.
THE partnership of JOHN BUTLER & Co. at Gatersville is this day dissolved by mutual consent—The collection of debts due to that concern are committed on fully to Wm. Mackenzie, the acting partner of Wm. Mackenzie & Co. and to him alone or to any one he may appoint, payment to be made John Butler. Wm. Mackenzie & Co. Richmond, 10th April, 1806. 2w ALL persons indebted to the late concern of John Butler & Co. are requested to make payment to Mr. Robert Atkinson, as he alone I have authorised to grant discharges for the same. Wm. Mackenzie.
LOST or mislaid, a NOTE, for one Hhd. Tobacco, inspected in the name of Thomas H. Wounding on the 27th May, 1805—Weights, No 2c, 2763, 1590, 150, 1440, I forewarn any person from receiving or trading for the same, as the law has been complied with. Colin MacRae. Manchester, 14th April, 1806. 3v
Toolscap & Letter Paper For sale at this office.

Geo. Watt HAS removed from the store he formerly occupied to a brick house on the cross street leading from the main street to Shockoe warehouse, where he has on hand and offers to dispose of on moderate terms, by wholesale. The following Articles, viz: Loaf and Muscovado Sugars, N. England, W. Island, and Antigua Rum, Cognac, Barcelona and Apple Brandy, Sherry and Malaga Wine, Coffee of a superior quality, Molasses, Ginger and Fig Blue, Young Hyson and Imperial Tea, 440 Sacks Liverpool Salt, Patent Shot, assorted sizes—And the remainder of his Stock of Dry Goods, consisting principally of articles suited to the present and approaching season, which he will either sell on a credit of 3, 6 and 9 months, for notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia, with approved endorsers, or barter for Tobacco, Flour or Hemp. Cash given for Tobacco. Richmond, 22d Mch. 1805.
FOR SALE, THAT well known and very valuable farm belonging to the estate of Samuel Couch, dec. lying on James River, near Goochland court house, containing about 900 Acres of LAND, about half of which is well-timbered wood land; about 200 acres of River Low Grounds and from 50 to 100 acres of valuable Creek Bottom. The cleared land is well enclosed and improved, with convenient dwelling and out houses in good repair, with a commodious Store, a valuable Mill, and a choice collection of about 1,500 bearing fruit trees. The terms of sale may be known on application to Daniel Couch on the premises (who will show the land to any person inclined to purchase) or to Micajah Crew in Hanover. The above tract of land contains improvements and accommodations for two families, and, if more agreeable to the purchasers, they may be divided and sold separately. MICAJAH CREW, ANN COUCH, Ex'or. & Ex'ix. of S. Couch.
A. Hewes & Co. HAVE for Sale at their Store, next door to the Messrs. Shepard & Lucke's, opposite the Market, Richmond, an assortment of Groceries and other Articles, Which they will dispose of at the lowest prices for cash or country produce. Among which are Jamaica and Antigua Rum, old and very superior Cognac Brandy, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Coffee, Chocolate, Imperial, Hyson, Hyson Skin, and Young Hyson Tea; Port and Sherry Wine, Honey, Molasses, Figs, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, Cinnamon, Allspice, Pepper, Fig Blue, Starch, Soap, Candles, Salt, Tubing, etc. &c. Richmond, Feb. 10th. 1805.
A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is represented to the Executive by the Keeper of the Penitentiary, that two of the prisoners therein confined to wit: JOHN TRAMBLE and ISAAC HARRIS, have made their escape from the Penitentiary: I have, therefore, thought fit with the advice of the Council of State, to issue this Proclamation, hereby offering a reward of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for the apprehension of each, or either of the said prisoners and for their delivery at the Penitentiary; and I do, moreover, enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of the commonwealth to use their best endeavors to apprehend and convey to the Penitentiary the said John Tramble and Isaac Harris. Given under my hand, with the Seal of the (L. S.) commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 3d day of February, 1805. (Signed) Wm. H. CADELL.
John Tramble was convicted of Horse Stealing before the District Court of Washington, in the spring of 1805, and sentenced to five years and five months confinement. He was born in Maryland; is 5 feet 7 1-2 inches high; 25 years old; fair complexion; light hair; grey eyes; has a niche in his left ear; scars in his forehead, and is a shoemaker by trade. Isaac Harris was convicted of larceny before the District Court of Monongalia in the spring of 1805, and sentenced to two years confinement. He was born in the county of Wood, in this state, is five feet nine inches high, 18 years old, swarthy complexion, dark hair and hazel eyes.
N. FICE. I DO hereby forewarn any person or persons from trading or taking an assignment of a Bond executed by me to Charles Matthews of the county of Buckingham, for the sum of two hundred pounds, dated 5th February, 1805, and payable the 25th December, 1806, as the same was given in part purchase of a tract of land, which said Matthews was not possessed of. Walter Irvine. New Canton, 20th Feb. 1806.
JAMES WALKER & CO. RESPECTFULLY inform their friends and the public in general that they have just received from Baltimore and Philadelphia a complete assortment of  GOODS Suitable to the approaching Spring season, which they are now opening in the House formerly occupied by Clifton Garland, esq. in the town of Warren, where they will still very low for Cash, country Produce, or on a short Credit to punctilious customers. They will also receive Flour, &c. on storage, and will pay great attention in having the same forwarded to Richmond, as the owner may desire. Warren, Feb. 20th. 1806.
A NEW COPIES OF THE American Clerk's Magazine, Or, POCKET CONVERSANCER. Are just received at S. PLEASANT'S Book-Store.
New-York Grand Literature LOTTERY, No. 4. AUTHORIZED by an act of the Legislature, and payment of prizes guaranteed by them— Positively begins drawing in May next. 25,000 Dollars, 10,000 Dollars, 5,000 Dollars,  HIGHEST PRIZES. Tickets, Halves, Quarters and Eighths, are now selling in a great variety of numbers, at G. & R. WAITE'S Truly fortunate Lottery-Office, No. 64 and No. 38, Maiden Lane, New-York. Where was sold in the two last lotteries, the HIGHEST PRIZE in each, and other capitals to an enormous amount, amongst which were the following. No 17199 (highest prize) 25,000 dollars No 3929 (highest prize) 20,000 dollars No 15298 3,000 dollars No 13904 2,000 dollars No 25596 2,000 dollars No 28573 2,000 dollars No 3978 1,000 dollars No 20555 1,000 dollars No 22315 1,000 dollars Besides a great number of 500, 300, 100 dollars, prizes, &c. * Distant adventurers, by forwarding bank notes of any description in letters post paid, to G. & R. Waite, may have tickets and shares sent them to any amount, with the utmost punctuality and perfect safety, to any part of the United States, and the earliest advice will be sent of their success. Price of Tickets Seven Dollars. New-York, February 16th, 1806.
Bohn & Hubner, HAVE RECEIVED FROM BREMEN, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF  GERMAN LINENS, CONSISTING OF Osnaburgs, Romas Sheetings, Ticklenburgs, Platillas, Hessians, Brown Rolls, &c. Which they offer for sale on the most reasonable terms. Richmond, March 22d, 1806.
CITY OF RICHMOND. IN HUSTINGS COURT, March 14th, 1806. SAMUEL WILLIAMSON this day made application for a licence to stem Tobacco within the City for one year; which, according to a rule of this court, is ordered to be notified for one month, by advertisement in one of the newspapers of this city. GEO. CHISMAN, D. G. Teste.
THE IMPORTED HORSE ARCHER, Will stand at my stable in Chesterfield county, 6 miles from Richmond and 18 from Petersburg, and will cover mares at the low price of 20 dollars the season (to commence on the 20th inst. and expire on the 1st of August) or 15 dollars, if sent with the mare—10 dollars the single leap, and 40 dollars to insure a mare being in foal, with half a dollar to the groom in either case. Notes, payable on the 1st of August, will be expected with the mares. Archer is a fine brown, 16 hands high, remarkably gay and active—He was raised by the late Duke of Cumberland, and at his sale was bought by Mr. Broadhurst, who entered him for the Derby stakes, for which he was a very great favorite, until he fell lame in training, which prevented him from appearing as a racer. ARCHER was got by Faggersgill, his dam (bred also by the Duke of Cumberland) sister to Crassus by Eclipse, grandam by Young Gade, out of Miss Thigh, who was the dam of Selim, and got by Rib—Grewood's Lady Thigh, by Partner—Greyhound—Curwen Barb. Faggersgill was bred by Shattoe, and was got by Snap, out of Miss Cleveland by Regulus, her dam the famous Midge, by a well bred son of Bay Bolton, grandam by Bartlett's Childers, great grandam by Honeywood's Arabian, out of the dam of the two True Blues. Faggersgill was own brother to Mr. Shattoe's mare Papillon, who was the dam of Sir Peter Teazle, Wren, Lady Teazle, &c. & to his mare Middlesex, the dam of Scugull, Coddy, Moddy, &c. and at 3, 4 and 5 years old, was accounted one of the best horses of his year. For the satisfaction of gentlemen who may wish to breed from Archer, I have tho' proper to publish the certificates of John Tayloe and Carter Beverley, Esquires. I do hereby certify that the brown stud horse Archer, was sent some time by Mr. Rives, of London, and from the certificates I have seen of his blood, as well as the tracing his pedigree in the general stud book of England, where it may be fully ascertained, I believe him to be of as good blood as most horses that have been imported into this country. JOHN TAYLOE. January 27, 1806. I do hereby certify that the imported horse Archer, stood at my farm, in Culpeper county, the last two years, and that his colts were generally superior to almost any in that and the adjoining counties of Fauquier, Madison & Orange. I have been very anxious to purchase the horse, but the proprietor, Mr. Thomas Rives, of London, and myself, could not agree upon the price. Given under my hand at Williamsburg, this 16th day of Feb. 1806. CARTER BEVERLEY. Attest—GAWIN G. COULTER. Good and extensive pasturage is provided, and the greatest care taken to prevent accidents or escapes, but no responsibility for either. ROBERT TEMPLE. Ampthill, 17th March, 1806.
LAND FOR SALE. THE subscriber intending to move to the state of Kentucky next fall, offers for SALE his TRACT of LAND, lying in the county of Hanover, within fifteen miles of Richmond, ten of Page's town, and six of the courthouse, on Crump's creek, which affords ten or twelve acres of Meadow Land. This tract of land contains 385 1-2 acres, is as well timbered and watered as any tract of land in the county, has about 200 acres cleared, and in fine order for cropping. The dwelling house is 20 feet by 28, containing two rooms below stairs and three above; a barn 30 feet by 40, and all necessary out houses; 150 apple trees, also a quantity of fruit trees of almost every kind. Should the above land not be sold by the first day of October next, it will on that day be offered for sale to the highest bidder; terms of sale, one half cash, and a credit of twelve months given for the balance. Bond with approved security will be required, to carry interest from the date, if not punctually paid. Also, on the same day and place, will be offered for sale, the CROP of CORN and FODDER, HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, STOCK, and PLANTATION UTENSILS. It is presumable any person wishing to purchase, will first view the land, before the day of sale, which will be shown by making application to the subscriber, who lives on the premises. JOHN RUSSELL. March 4th, 1806. P. S. 330 Acres of Land adjoining the above, may be had.
Advertisement. IN consequence of a resolution of the General Assembly, passed at their late session, I am instructed by the Executive to make enquiry respecting the situation of all Ordnance and Military Stores, belonging to the state (not including those in the service of the United States or of this State) and make report thereof to the Governor. In obedience to this instruction, and as the most probable mean of effecting the object contemplated by the Executive, I have thought proper thus publicly to request of such of the citizens of the commonwealth as may have any knowledge of the situation, number, quality and size or weight of any cannon or other ordnance, and muskets; cannon balls, shells or other military stores, supposed to belong to the state, and not in immediate use, to communicate a particular report thereof to me as soon as convenient. SAMUEL COLEMAN, Clerk to the Executive. Richmond, Feb. 7, 1806.
Fresh Garden Seeds, All of the last year's growth. N. B. The above collection of seeds may be had at Mr. Oakley Philpotts' next door above Russell & Wallace's, main street, Richmond. William Crozier. Richmond, 7th March, 1806.
WANTED as House-Keeper, in a large family, an elderly Lady who can come well recommended. Liberal wages will be given. Enquire of the printer. Nov. 6, 1805.
KNOWSLEY, Imported in 1801 by Wm Lightfoot, esq. He is a fine bay, 15 hands 3 in. high, 10 years old last spring, in great perfection, and as to muscular strength & beauty not inferior to any horse in the state. He is the only horse in this country that has won 4 king's plates in one year; this he did in 1800; see R. C. for that year. Notwithstanding this and other unexceptionable evidences of Knowsley's superior worth, yet a personal view of him will be his best recommendation. KNOWSLEY will stand the ensuing season at our stable in Albemarle county, 10 miles above Charlottesville, to cover mares at 20 dollars the season, for which notes will be required, payable on or before the 15th of Sept. next; 14 dollars the leap, and 40 dollars to insure a mare to be in foal, with one dollar to the groom, which, with the leap money, must be paid when the mare is covered. Those gentlemen who sent mares to Knowsley last season and did not prove with foal, shall have them insured this season for 20 dollars, except those which were covered by the leap; for such 26 dollars will be required. Any gentleman putting six mares, shall have one covered gratis. The season will commence on the 1st of March, and expire the 1st of August next. We shall be able to furnish upwards of 200 acres of excellent pasturage, gratis, well enclosed, in 5 separate fields, besides several grass lots, which will be kept exclusively for mares with colts, and those which may be sent before foaling. Servants sent with mares will be boarded at 9s. per week. Mares will be fed, as directed, at the market price of grain—and gentlemen may rest assured that all possible care and attention shall be paid to the mares left with the horse, both to have them got with foal, and to prevent accidents or escapes—but no responsibility for any that may happen. KNOWSLEY was purchased by us in March last, from Mr. Lightfoot, at $5,000.—He covered 165 mares out of which number, as far as we have been able to learn, very few have not proved with foal. KNOWSLEY's sire, the famous Sir Peter Teazle, now covers in England by subscription, a limited number of mares, at 25 guineas each; no other horse at more than 12 guineas. In 1804, he had 24 winning colts on the turf, when no other horse had more than 16—and out of 23 king's plates run for, 8 were won by his colts—see R. C. for 1804—the last arrived. From the present appearance of Knowsley's colts, and the successful performance of his stock on the turf in England, very little doubt can be entertained but that his colts will prove also successful on the turf in this country. The annexed certificates from such respectable characters, will place Knowsley, as a foal getter, on as high ground as any other horse in the state. WILLIAM WOODS. GEORGE M. WOODS. Albemarle, Feb. 20, 1806. PEDIGREE—Given by Lord Derby in the following words, viz. "I do hereby certify, that the bay horse called Knowsley, late the property of the Prince of Wales, was bred by me. He was got by Sir Pe-
ter Teazle, out of Capella, and was six years old last May, and no more. (Signed) DERBY, (Seal.) "Knowsley, June 15, 1801. Capella was bred by gen. Parker, foaled in 1773, and got by Herod, out of Miss Cape, by Regulus, Blackeyes, by Crab, Warlock, Galloway. See general stud book, pa. 40. Sir Peter Teazle was got by Highflyer in 1784; see same book, pa. 182, Highflyer was got by Herod; see pa. 201; and so on he may be traced through a noble line of ancestors for ages past, without a single flaw in his genealogy, either on the male or female side. This extraordinary horse ran with great credit at 2 years old; at 3 he proved successful, and so continued until the last of the year 1800. In 1798 he won a sweepstakes of 20 guineas each, for 3 year olds, 8 subscribers, once round the ground, beating Mr Pierce's b c by Walnut, sir H. T. Vane's Push Forward, sir H. Williamson's Stripling, Mr Fletcher's gr c Camperdown, Mr G. Grompton's c Boston, and lord A. Hamilton's b b by Spadille, out of Snow Drop; see Calendar for 1798. He also won the members' plate of 50 gs for 3 and 4 year olds, beating lord Derby's 4 year old colt Diomed, 5 to 1 on Knowsley, who was then Mr Field's property; see Calendar for 1798. He also won a sweepstakes for 3 year olds, beating Mr Garforth's b c by Spadille, and lord A. Hamilton's b c by Spadille; see Calendar for 1799.
In May, 1799, York. On Tuesday, May 28, a sweepstakes of 20 gs each, 7 subscribers, then the property of Mr Walker, was won by Knowsley, beating lord Fitzwilliam's c h Wonder, 5 years old, lord Hamilton's c h by Walnut, sir Th. Cuscagone's Maid of the Mill, & Jh. Robinson's b c Abraham Newland, now called Cock Fighter. On Thursday the 30th following, he also won the stand plate of 50 gs for 4 year olds, beating lord A. Hamilton's b c by Spadille, Mr Garforth's mare Caroline, 6 years old, lord Belhaven's c h Master Robert, 6 years old, Mr Wentworth's Barnaby, and Mr J. Anson's gr h Little Scott, 5 years old; see calendar for 1799. In June, 1800 (Guilford) the Prince of Wales owned him and won the king's plate for 4 year olds, of 100 gs; 10 st 4 lbs 4 mile heats, and beat lord Donegall's b h by Pot80's; see Calendar for 1800, page 35. Winchester, July 8. His majesty's plate of 100 gs was run for and won by Knowsley, beating lord Donegall's b h by Pot80's, 5 years old, and sir F. E. velin's b h Asparagus, 5 years old—six to four on Knowsley. Lewes, August 12, 1800. The king's plate of 100 gs 4 mile heats, was won by Knowsley, beating lord Donegall's c h Fogleman, 4 to 1 on Knowsley. Thursday following he won a subscription of 10 gs each, beating Mr Durand's Bellissima and Mr Ladbroke's Humbug; see Calendar for 1800—78 and 79.
Litchfield, on Thursday, September 9, he won the king's plate of 100 gs 3 mile heats, for 5 year olds, carrying 8 stone 7 pounds, beating Mr Heming's b h Ploro; ten to one on Knowsley.
CERTIFICATES. We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do certify that we have bred colts from Knowsley, (or seen of his get,) that they are of fine size and form, and from their present appearance bid fair to make capital horses, either for the turf or any other service. We also believe him to be as sure a foal getter as any horse in the state. Given under our hands, &c. January, 1805. John Coles, sr. Walter Coles, Miles Selden, sr. Miles Selden, jr. John Edloe, E. P. Chamberlayne, John Ronne, jr. C. Harrison, J. Minge, George W. H. Minge, Major Wilcox, George Cooke, James Stewart, John Christian, Hamlin Wilcox, William Southall, John Colgin.
I do certify that in the spring, 1803 I saw and took particular notice of a number of colts which were in pasture where the imported Sterling then stood—a considerable proportion of them by imported horses, among which were several of Knowsley's, and tho' them equal if not preferable to any that were there. Given under my hand, &c. BRIGHTBERRY BROWN. Albemarle, January 1, 1805.
I hereby certify that I have a filly, two years old this spring, got by the imported horse Knowsley, out of Capypso, and I think her equal to any colt I ever have had foaled, or indeed ever seen in this country. Given under my hand, this 5th day of May, 1805. JOHN TAYLOE, Mount Airy.
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The celebrated high bred English Horse OSCAR, Foli sixteen hands high imported by me in 1804, a ter having been him the year before, and satisfied myself as to his reputation, is now in fine health, full of vigor and muscular strength, and will be to mares the ensuing season, at my stables in Charles City county. Sandy Point, or Six Guineas the season, which may be discharged by the payment of Five Guineas, on or before the tenth day of August next; Three Guineas the leap, and Ten to insure a foal; a Dollar to the groom.—Pastures as extensive as any in the state and inferior to none for fine natural grass, especially the white clover, which abounds to a wonderful degree in the months of April, May and June, as also after harvest, that succeeds it of crab and other grass, which so plentifully takes place here, will be afforded, with entertainment for servants, free from charge. No liability for involuntary escapes, nor will I be responsible for any injuries or accidents which may not be the result of wanton neglect or abuse, as I here give my word to the public, that no pains nor industry shall be wanting on my part to render satisfaction without respect to persons, to every gentleman who thinks fit to send mares for the season—This very extraordinary stallion cost me, when landed in this state, greatly upwards of one thousand pounds, and without meaning to detract from the merits of any other, I can fairly venture to say, is the most perfect horse in Virginia; for the most critical observer has not yet been able to discover a single defect or blemish in him, either as to activity, strength, or beauty. Nothing can excel him in the neck, ear and eye; so bold, gay, and full of fire is he, that he fascinates in spite of prejudice, every beholder, that instant he is bro't into view. I would endeavor to give a full description of him, for the satisfaction of those gentlemen who cannot conveniently visit me, but in the attempt I might do him injustice, and therefore, I invite the most scrupulous examination of him, even by those who think themselves competent judges in this respect, and I do not fear the result. In short, it will not be deemed extravagant to say, he is, of his kind, the best effort of nature. "OSCAR is a dark brown, was got by Saltram, the best horse in his day, (who was the sire of Whiskey, and many good racers)—his dam by Highflyer, grandam by Herod, great grandam (Miss Middleton) by Regulus, great great grandam (Camilla) by a son of Bay Bolton. Bartlett's Childers, Honeywood's Arabian, dam of the two True Blues. In 1798, at New Market, at 3 years old he won a Handicap sweepstakes of 15 guineas each, two year old course, beating lord Clermont's b c by Dramator, Mr Howard's b c Mouse, Mr Adams' b c Cypriss, Mr Watson's b c Duplicity; two to one on Oscar. At Lambourn he was 2d best, 4 mile heats, against Heart of Oak and others, running 3 heats. In 1799 he won the Oatlands stakes of 50 gs. each, half ditch in (10 subscribers) beating lord Grosvenor's c h Lady Bull, Mr Heathcote's b c Warner, sir F. Standish's b c Stamford, Mr Durand's Play or Pay, Mr Cookson's b h Ambrosio, lord Clermont's b h Aimator, lord G. Cavendish's b h Jupiter. The judges could only place the first five. 2d May, the same year, he won at Bracket Hall, 50l. for all ages, heats about one mile and a quarter, beating Mr Charles Bunbury's Combatant, 4 years old, Mr Bowes's Sadler, 5 years old. In Oct. he won the Oatlands stakes of 30 gs. each (18 subscribers) beating Mr Tharpe's b c Chippendale, Mr Williamson's b c by Buzzard, out of Rachel, lord Clermont's Aimator, lord Grosvenor's c h Lady Bull, Mr C. Bunbury's Wrangler, Mr F. Poole's b h by Dragon, Mr Howard's Spectator, Mr Ladbroke's Humbug. The judge could only place the first three. In 1800, at New Market, April 14th, he won the Craven stakes, of 10 gs each, across the Flat, at 4 years old, carrying 8 st 9 lbs free for all ages, beating the duke of Grafton's b c First Fruit, lord Clermont's b c by Meteor, Mr Cookson's b h Diamond, Mr Coventry's b c Voltaire, Mr O'Kelly's Grey Pilot, Mr Durand's Ramchandray (late Princess) Mr Dashwood's Play or Pay & sir F. Standish's b c by Sir Peter, out of Storage. The judge could only place the first five. Even betting, Oscar against the field. In the same month and place, he won a subscription of 50l. beating Mr R. Heathcote's c h Georgia, Mr Haller's Quiz, Mr O'Kelly's Antim, lord Clermont's c h Vernal, Mr Golding's b c by Balloon, Mr Travis's Ballarina, Mr Perrin's Pizarro, and lord Grosvenor's c h by Buzzard. The judge could only place the first three, 7 to 4 on Oscar. He was second best for the King's plate of 100 gs for 4 years old, carrying 11 st. running against sir F. Poole's Worth, by Pot80's, and sir F. Standish's b h Stanford, 5 years old. In Oct. New Market, he received forfeit of Mr Heathcote's Warner, for 500 gs. across the Flat, half forfeit. For these remarkable instances of speed and bottom, in so young a horse, I refer the reader to the Racing Calendars for 1798, '99 and '00. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT. Sandy Point, Feb. 1806. N. B. The season will commence immediately
Land for Sale. THE subscriber offers for sale, 950 acres of that valuable tract of LAND, belonging to the late col. Bernard Markham, dec. about three miles above Manchester and lying upon the river affording several very convenient mill seats; this tract possesses many advantages which would be considerable to a purchaser. It is now under high cultivation, inclosed in a good fence and well watered; two thirds of the above tract is covered with valuable timber, and lies convenient either to the turnpike or river. The above land if not disposed of privately, prior to the 1st day of May, will then be offered at public auction, on the premises, in lots to suit purchasers. Any person wishing to view it, will be shown it by the subscriber, or in his absence by William Bowles residing thereon. George Markham. December 24th, 1805.
WE have just received for Sale, 30 Bags best Green COFFEE, 20 Hds MOLASSES, 2,500 lbs CHEESE, 20 Boxes Cotton & Wool CARDS, 6 Hds Antigua RUM, 6 do. Windward Island do. 6 do. New England do. 40 Tierces Stone LIME, 30 Barrels HERRINGS, 4 Casks fresh CLOVER SEED, 150 Sacks SALT, Which we will sell low for Cash, approved paper, or Country Produce. Feb. 20, 1806 Shepard & Lucke.
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