The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-02-13 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
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RICHMOND, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1806.
[VOLUME 2.]
MARSHAL'S SALES.
TO BE SOLD, for ready money, under a decree of the court of the U. States, for the fifth circuit in the Virginia district, between Plincaus Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plf. and David Roff and others, lfts. in order to raise the sum of 967 dols. 89 cts. due and payable on the first day of July, 1805, and the further sum of 1666 dols. 63 cts. due & payable the 1st day of January, 1806, that valuable and well known estate, in the county of Botetourt, called FORT LEWIS, situated by said Roff to contain 2608 acres.
The Sale will take place on the premises, on the 27th day of February next.
Also on the 4th day of March next, under the aforesaid decree, will be sold at the Oxford Iron Works, in the county of Campbell, a number of valuable SLAVES.
BENJ. MOSBY, D. M. for JOS. SCOTT, M. V. D.
January 16. tf.
NOTICE.
By virtue of a deed of trust, executed to me by John Kelso, to secure the payment of a debt due by him to John and Wm. Bell, I shall, on the 25th of February next, at the house of the said John Kelso, in the upper end of the county of Cumberland, proceed to sell so much of that valuable FARM, containing 550 acres of Land, on which he now lives, (subject to two prior deeds of trust) as will pay the sum due to the said John and Wm. Bell, of about six hundred and fifty pounds, with some interest thereon, for the benefit of John Eppes.
CREED TAYLOR, Trustee.
P. S. On the above land, is one of the best farms in the surrounding country, in fine order, with an excellent crop of wheat sown on it, and it is within 2 miles of a manufacturing mill on Appomattox, from whence there is a good navigation to the Petersburg canal. I will dispose of it at private sale and give a reasonable credit for the balance after receiving 2000 dols in cash.
JOHN KELSO.
IMPORTANT TO SPORTSMEN.
On the 29th day of April next, will be offered for sale, at the Bowling Green, in Caroline county,
THE STUD, of the late col. John Hoomes, consisting of imported and country bred Stallions, Brood Mares, and their produce, for several years past—total about one hundred head. This is certainly the most numerous, and probably the best selected Stud, ever before offered at public auction in this country; as it is well known, that the late owner, spared neither money or exertion, in procuring both at home and abroad such stock as appeared to certain to insure him success, as a breeder. To gentlemen who may feel a disposition to engage immediately in the sports of the turf, several fine three and four year olds could be highly recommended, for five, blood and figure. Should any of the Stud horses be farmed out for the approaching spring, the sale of such, will be postponed, until the expiration of the season. The other stock will be sold without reserve. The terms of sale will be one half of the purchase money payable in six and the other at 12 months, to be secured by bond, with approved securities, to be paid from the date if not punctually paid.
A considerable discount will be made for cash. Gentlemen in the neighboring states are hereby assured, that the sale shall positively take place on the day above stated.
A catalogue will be exhibited, stating age, blood, &c.
JOHN G. WOODFOLK, JOHN HOOMES, Executors of John Hoomes, dec'd. Bowling Green, January 23. (tds)
ENOCH SULLIVAN,
SILVER, GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER,
RETURNS his grateful thanks to his friends and the public for the liberal encouragement afforded him in his line of business, and hopes by his punctilious attention to the business, to which he was bred, to insure a continuation of the favor of a liberal public. He offers now for sale at his shop adjoining the Eagle Tavern, a general assortment of silver ware and jewellery of the most fashionable kind, consisting of silver Tea Pots, cream Urns, Tumblers, Spoons, and mourning and fancy Earrings, Lockets, Finger Rings, and Breast Pins, jet, white and coral Necklaces and Earrings, a general supply of Combs, plain and ornamented Pocket Books, thread Cases, Miniature and ring Cases, gold and gilt Scales, Keys and Chains. Highest price given for old gold or silver. December 3. tf.
FOR SALE, BY AUCTION.
Valuable property on the Brick Row, in the city of Richmond.
IN conformity to a decree of the honorable court of the United States, for the fifth circuit and Virginia district, (made between Joshua Waddington plaintiff, and James Brown, Henry Banks and Daniel Call defendants, and between the same plff. and Henry Banks, James Taylor executor of James Herron, dec'd. and James Herron, John Herron, William Herron, and Sarah Herron, infants, under the age of twenty one years, by the said James Taylor, then guardian, James Brown and Daniel Call defendants) Will be sold, upon the premises, to the highest bidder, at public auction, on the 20th day of February next ensuing, the Houses, Lands and tenements situated on the Brick Row, in the city of Richmond, at present occupied by Samuel Clark, Samuel Barrett & Co. and Baruch H. Judah. The tenements will be let up separately, and there will be attached to each tenement the land now occupied therewith, and one third of a brick lumberhouse 60 by 30 feet.
The sales will be made by the subscribers as commissioners under the said decree, and the terms thereof will be one fourth of the purchase money paid down, one fourth in four months, one fourth in eight months, and the remaining fourth in twelve months from the day of sale—the purchasers to give bond for the three last installments, to carry interest from the date, if not punctually paid—on payment whereof and not before (as the property will be held liable for the purchase money, and subject to be sold to raise the said installments, or any, or either of them if not punctually paid) a conveyance or conveyances, will be executed by us as commissioners aforesaid to the purchaser or purchasers, in virtue of the said decree.
GEOR. FISHER, CHAS. I. MACMURDO, JAMES BROWN, Commissioners January 25. tf.
DOCTOR UPSHAW,
INTENDS practicing medicine and surgery in the city and neighborhood of Richmond; he promises punctilious attendance on those who give him employment. Jan. 11. S&T&w.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
INTENDS in addition to the courts of Richmond and King William, in which he now practices, to attend the county court of New Kent.
WILLIAM FITZHUGH BRAXTON. January 16. T&w.
ROBERT GORDON & Co.
HAVE just received, and offer for sale, an additional supply of the best Madeira WINE in pipes, hds. and qr. casks. The two last vintages in Madeira, having yielded wine of a better quality than for several preceding years, they are enabled to say the quality is excellent—it is imported from two houses, from which very different flavored wine is sent. They have heard of the arrival, and will have at hand in a few days, a parcel of London Particular Dry Lisbon Wine, directed to be put up in the same way as some they had two years since, which gave great satisfaction to all who had of it; also, a parcel of Corks, Almonds and a quantity of Oranges in boxes.
ON HAND:
Port Wine, in pipes, hds. and quarter casks;
A few Demijohns Old Malmsay, at 8 dols. per gall.
A quantity of Sheet Copper and Tin Plates.
A general and extensive assortment of Dry Goods, consisting of Woolens of all kinds; printed goods, Manchester Stuff, Irish and Scotch Linens, Gloves and Hosiery, Hardware, Cutlery and Ironmongery.
Plain Cambric, Laced Cambric, Book, Chambray and Colonada Mullins, &c.
January 25. 2aw2w & law3w.
WILL BE SOLD,
To the highest bidder, for ready money, on the 17th of this month, for the purpose of satisfying the balance of a debt due from Edmund Lacy to Nathaniel Benjamin and John Shepherd:
ALL that part of Lot number thirty-five, with the improvements thereon lying on the Main-street in this city, and nearly opposite the Court-house, which was conveyed by myself and wife to Edmund Lacy, and by the said Lacy to me, in trust for the purpose of satisfying the debt above mentioned and expenses of executing the trust. The part to be sold contains thirty-six feet four inches in front.
JOHN TURNER, Trustee. February 6. tf.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
On Tuesday the eleventh day of March next will be offered for sale, by public auction, at the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond, the following valuable property:
Four half-acre LOTS, adjoining each other, forming what is usually called a square in the city of Richmond, and described in the plan of said city by the numbers 151, 152, 153 and 154. These Lots command beautiful prospects of the river, and in every respect are well worthy the attention of persons disposed to build.
The BRICK STORE or LUMBER HOUSE situated on the street which leads from the Main street in Richmond to Shockoe Slip, about 30 feet in breadth and about 32 feet in length, more or less—being part of the property formerly owned by Mr. Wm. Fenwick, and lying between the building now occupied by Mr. George Watt and that owned by Mr. Marcus Elean.
The MEZZANINE or TENEMENT and parcel of ground containing one and an half acres more or less where Mr. Wm. Fenwick formerly resided, near Rocketts.
A more particular description is deemed unnecessary, the property intended for sale being well known to most persons residing in Richmond or the neighborhood—and it is presumed any person inclined to purchase, will examine it—for which purpose the keys of both Tenements may be had by applying to Gallego, Richard, & Co. who will give any further information that may be wished.
Terms of sale, approved endorsed notes negotiable at the bank of Virginia, at 9, 15, and 20 months. The legal title to be retained till the purchase money is paid, or Deeds of Trust to be executed by the purchasers as may be agreed on.
GALLEGGO, RICHARDS, & Co. February 6. tf.
WILL BE SOLD,
At Public Auction, in Charlottesville, on the 8th March next, 50 NEGROES.
JAMES LINDSAY, HUGH NELSON. February 4. tf.
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
At the front door of the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on the eighteenth day of March next ensuing.
THAT most valuable estate, situated in the county of Wythe, and commonwealth of Virginia, and heretofore well known by the name of Chiswell's Lead Mines; but which, for sometime past hath been considered, as the property of Stephen Austin and company, of the city of Philadelphia, by virtue of a purchase thereof by them, made under a decree of the high court of chancery of the said commonwealth, with the terms whereof they have not complied.
That purchase was made on the 20th day of February 1793, for the sum of £ 6,305, and since that period, they have made many great and valuable improvements on the said estate.
The well known value of the property, and the certainty which the subscribers feel, that those who mean to become purchasers will satisfy themselves thereof, on view, renders any further description of the property to be sold unnecessary.
The sale will be made in conformity to two several decrees of the superior court of chancery, which is directed by law to be held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond aforesaid, the one pronounced on the 8th day of June, and the other on the 7th day of October, in the year 1802.
Credit will be given to the purchaser or purchasers, for a term of nine months for one, and eighteen months for the other moiety of the purchase money, each moiety being secured not only by a bond with good security made payable to the subscribers, or the survivors of them, their executors, administrators or assigns, for the uses in the said decree specified, and bearing interest from the date; but also, by the retention of the legal estate, until the whole purchase money, with such interest, shall be fully paid; on which payment a conveyance or conveyances will be executed to the purchaser or purchasers in virtue of the said decree by
JOHN WICKHAM, JOHN WARDEN, WILLIAM HAY, Commissioners of the court. Jan. 21. 8w.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
TWO HOUSES and LOTS on Shockoe Hill, in a most desirable part of the city, and possessing every accommodation for a family. A long credit will be allowed, or Virginia Bank Stock at a very liberal price taken in exchange.
I have 8000 acres of Virginia land warrants which I will sell low for cash.
THOMAS NORVELL. Jan. 11. tf.
Seat of Government.
IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
JANUARY 28, 1806.
Mr. Mitchell, from the committee to whom was referred, the memorial of the merchants of N. York, submitted a report on that part of the same, which relates to "the defenceless situation of the port of New-York."
Early in the history of North America, the harbour of New-York was discovered by the Dutch to be a convenient place of resort for ships. Subsequent experiment has proved the judgment of the Hollanders to have been good. The place where the North river forms a juncture with Long Island Sound, is as well if not better adapted to navigation and trade than any which the Atlantic coast affords.
The city at the head of the harbour, is about 27 miles from the ocean, the ebb and flow of the tide is about 6 feet. The saltness of the water is not much inferior to that of the neighbouring sea.
The harbour is a bay or basin, surrounded chiefly by islands. Though the space from the foot of the Never-sink hills, to the mouth of the river Raritan, and another space from Bergen point, to Hoboken are parts of the main land, which skirt the shores between the insular portions. The land is mostly low and is composed principally of gravel, sand, and loam; and in certain spots strata of solid granite appear.
The island of Sandy Hook, where the light-house stands, is little more than a beach rising not far above the level of spring tides. Staten Island swells into moderate hills, and presents especially on its eastern side several bold elevations. Long Island whose western extremity loses its ridges and hills in the plains of Flatlands and New Utrecht, still retains at the Narrows where its cliffs are somewhat abrupt and prominent, several portions of considerable strength. In these shores of the two last mentioned islands, the army of the enemy was landed in 1776, and a repetition of such an invasion might be discouraged by the erection of suitable works to oppose it. Governor's Island has been already much improved by military works and is the spot on which fort Jay and the principal other fortifications have been erected. Bedlow island, though very small, has also been considered proper for defensive operations, and in some degree prepared to annoy an enemy. On Manhattan Island, where the city of New-York stands, there was once a fort and battery. These have been demolished of late years, under a conviction of their uselessness, as have likewise some more recent breast works and parapets, which though constructed but 8 or 9 years ago, were within a twelve month, destroyed by the people who made them.
Between these islands there are deep channels and rapid currents. Ships of large force may be brought in from sea and anchored in safety abreast of the town. And having once reached that station, there is water enough to convey frigates or even larger ships, quite to the city of Hudson.
To the saltness, depth, and swiftness of the current, is to be ascribed the openness of the harbour of New-York during the winter. In 1780, its surface was covered by a thick and frozen covering of ice. The like has never happened since, not even during the rigorous winter of 1805. And it is remarkable that while the Delaware, Patapsco, and Potomac are frozen, and Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Alexandria are secured thereby from the fleets of an invader, the bay of New-York, though situated further to the northward, possesses commonly no such protection, but is accessible from the ocean with but trifling impediment.
The insecurity of the city is evinced by other facts. With a small squadron of ships in 1674, the English took it from the Dutch. Shortly afterwards it was retaken with almost equal ease. No cause of attack occurring until the commencement of the revolutionary war, it was found utterly incapable of defence against a hostile fleet and army in 1776, and abandoned to the enemy by the troops arrayed for its protection. And that very force, which then gained the possession, held it as a garrison until 1783, when on its evacuation, the inhabitants were enabled to return to their homes, after an exile of 7 long years.
Since the revolution, New-York has greatly increased in population, extent, capital and enterprise. The memorials state that there one third of the national revenue is collected. They hope so important a sea port may be thought worthy of an efficient defence. And they beg that a portion of the public treasure accumulated, both that treasure and the city in which it is kept, more secure.
For the further information of the Senate, the committee beg leave to observe, that a piece of land has been already purchased by the state, on Staten Island, comprehending the high point on which the signal poles of the merchants are erected. The greater part of Governor's Island is understood to be the property of the state, a small part of it only having been purchased by the nation. On these parcels of ground the labour of constructing works is the principal matter of expense. And it is in this posture of affairs that the memorials state, after the state has done so much as the nation to bear a proportional part of the charge, necessary to provide more formidable means of defence and offence.
Extravagant estimates have been made by certain jobbers and projectors. Artificial islands, and immense piers, and enormous floating batteries, and vast cheveus de fer, have been talked of; enough to absorb the whole revenue, and to terrify all other calculators of the cost. The committee have dismissed those schemes, as favouring rather of the visionary and magnificent, than of the useful and feasible. They content themselves with recommending an appropriation to a moderate amount, for making further military improvements on the sites already purchased, and which the state may hereafter purchase and surrender; in full confidence at the same time, that a due proportion of the heavy artillery, armed ships, and gun-boats of the nation, will be stationed at the harbour of New-York.
Under these impressions, the following proposition is submitted:
Resolved, That it is expedient to appropriate the sum of _____ dollars, to be laid out in such manner and under such direction as
Congress shall judge proper, in fortifying the harbour and city of New-York.
The committee have deemed it to be within the limits assigned them, to recommend another proposition, in favour of the capital of South-Carolina:
Resolved, That it is expedient to appropriate the sum of _____ dollars, to be laid out in such manner, and under such regulations as Congress shall judge proper, in fortifying the port of Charleston in South-Carolina.
And for the purpose of providing for other defenceless places, if any such there be, the committee submit another proposition:
Resolved, That it is expedient to appropriate the sum of _____ dollars, to be laid out in fortifying such ports and harbours, other than New-York and Charleston, as the President of the U. States shall think most conducive to the public security.
Committee room, Jan. 27, 1806.
[In Senate of the United States.]
JANUARY 26, 1806.
Mr. Logan, from the committee appointed to consider the bill to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and certain parts of the island of St. Domingo; reported the bill amended as follows:
A BILL
To suspend the commercial intercourse between the U. S. and certain parts of the island of St. Domingo.
BE IT ENACTED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U. S. of America, in Congress assembled, That all commercial intercourse between any person or persons resident within the U. S. and any person or persons resident within any part of the island of St. Domingo, not in possession, and under the acknowledged government of France, shall be, and from and after due notice of this act at the custom houses respectively, is hereby prohibited: And any ship or vessel, owned, hired or employed, wholly or in part, by any person or persons resident within the U. S. or by any citizen or citizens thereof, resident elsewhere, and sailing from any port of the U. S. after that time, or day of whatever, after the day of next, which, contrary to the intent hereof, shall be voluntarily carried, or shall be destined to proceed, whether directly, or from any intermediate port or place, to any port or place within the island of St. Domingo, and not in possession, & under the acknowledged government of France; and also any cargo which shall be found on board of such ship or vessel, which detected or intercepted in such unlawful purpose, or at her return from such voyage to the U. S. shall be wholly forfeited, and may be seized and condemned in any court of the U. S.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That after due notice of this act at the several custom houses, no ship or vessel whatever shall receive a clearance for any port or place within the island of St. Domingo, and not in the actual possession of France; nor shall any clearance be granted for a foreign voyage to any ship or vessel, owned, hired or employed, wholly or in part, by any person or persons, resident in the U. S. or by any citizen or citizens thereof resident elsewhere, until the owner or the employer for the voyage, or his factor or agent, with the master, and one or more sufficient surety or sureties, to the satisfaction of the collector of the district, shall give bond to the U. S. States, such owner, employer or factor, with the master, in a sum equal to the value of the vessel and of her cargo; & such surety or sureties in a sum equal to the value of the vessel and of one-third of her cargo, when it shall not exceed ten thousand dollars; and if it shall exceed, then in that sum, with condition that the ship or vessel, for which a clearance shall be required, is actually destined, and shall proceed to some port or place without the limits of such part of the island of St. Domingo, as shall not be in the actual possession, and under the acknowledged government of France, and shall not, at any such port or place voluntarily land, deliver or unload any part of such cargo; and generally that such ship or vessel, whilst on such voyage, shall not be employed in any traffic or commerce with or for any person resident within any part of the island of St. Domingo, not in the actual possession, and under the acknowledged government of France.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted That all penalties and forfeitures incurred by force of this act, and which may be recovered, shall be distributed, and accounted for, in the manner prescribed by the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage;" and may be mitigated or remitted in the manner prescribed by the act, entitled "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities, accruing in certain cases therein mentioned."
* Vol. 1. page 240.
Miscellaneous.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
Communicated for Publication in the Trenton Federalist.
Doctor Dexter, of Boston, has discovered as is supposed the Egyptian Cement, that will resist water, & some persons imagine fire. The first attempt he made was for the purpose of preventing the water running into his house by the sides of the chimney. He made a common water pail full of ordinary lime and sand mortar, and added thereto one pound of brown sugar, which after it had dissolved in the mortar rendered it so fast as to prevent its use for upwards of two hours, after which period it began gradually to soften. He then plastered round the chimney on the roof of his house, and in two or three days afterwards he found it so hard that it was with very considerable difficulty he drove a nail into it with a hammer. It has effectually resisted the water and kept his roof tight.
The next experiment he made was the covering of an old wooden house, that was so bad, my informant told me, the owner was to pull it off and cover it anew. I saw and examined the house myself, some months after it had been done. It has been found too upon calculation to be much cheaper to cover a house in this way done by giving it a coat of white paint. The
house I mentioned had been clap-boarded, or one board projecting in a small degree over the other, and the lath nailed on flatwise, if I may use the expression, to enable the mortar when put on to curl round it; they had thrown on it when the mortar was first put on and while soft, a fine gravel, which made the whole resemble one solid piece of stone. The covering appeared to me to be as hard as stone, and I observed a great number of houses in Bolton, Salem, and in the country round, done in the same way.
It is since found that molasses will answer as well, except that it changes the colour of the mortar which sugar will not. In covering houses with tile or slate molasses is preferred.
It is also found sufficient to take a quart of molasses to a bushel of mortar, or thereabouts; the mortar must be made at least two hours before it can be used.
I have such confidence in the Cement that I intend to cover a house I am building at Powles-Hoyle with it.
Yours, &c. ANTH: DEY. 27th May, 1806.
Col. Kenney.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of sciences in London, to his correspondent in New-York, dated Aug. 1. 1805.
"Since my last letter to thee, the Horticultural Society has been fully established, and from the important views it proposes, will probably prove an useful institution.
In imitation of the Royal Institute of Westminster, which was upon the plan of the National Institute of France, one has commenced in the city of London. Towards carrying it into execution £75,000 were subscribed in 24 hours; had the subscription been open a few hours longer £100,000 would have been raised. Some who were discontented have begun another upon a less expensive scale, and it seems likely to succeed. As I thought that both are useful I have subscribed to each.—There is a select scale, called the British and Irish, to promote arts and sciences, in a national and extensive manner; so that at the same time that we are a fighting nation, we have become a philosophic one. I wish the latter may soften the asperity, and shorten the duration of the former.
The exertions of this nation are astonishing. In the midst of an expensive war, two docks have been excavated, one at the expence of one million, the other of one million and a half.—The subscriptions were raised in a few hours, and the shares pay ten per cent. profit.
Still more surprising it is, that there should be at the same time, a national debt of 500 millions, which in reality is so much superfluous wealth. Some years ago Mr. Pitt began a sinking fund after a plan of Dr. Price's to pay off the national debt. It has liquidated 70 millions, and now proceeds at the rate of 6 millions a year; but the time cannot be far distant when another act of parliament must be passed to stop its progress; for as the national debt is demands of commerce, manufactures, and agriculture, were it paid off it must be lent to other nations, or laid by as dead capital. It must be asked who is to pay the interest of the national debt? Ultimately those who lent the principal, and they can well afford it. The wealth of this country is about 4000 millions, and a debt under 500 millions would be ruinous to the country. By this immense wealth of national debt, or deposit of monied men, government could raise 20 or 30 millions sterling in 24 hours.
Pray what societies have you at New-York? Have you a natural history society? Have you one for promoting manufactures, arts, and commerce? Is the society for the recovery of drowned persons well supported? All these seem particularly to claim your patronage, and might be established under no great pressure of expence.
If you have any statistical history or account of New-York, I should be glad to peruse it. I possess already the valuable works of my friend Dr. Morie; I have Belknap's Massachusetts, and Ramsay's Carolina; but no distinct work on New-York."
From the Bombay Gazette of August 7.
On Saturday last, anchored in the harbour the American ship Connecticut, Capt. William W. Story, belonging to New-York, last from Batavia.—The Connecticut failed from New-York in November last, and on her passage to India, touched at the Cape of Good Hope.—The Connecticut failed from Batavia on the 13th of June last, at the period of her departure there were two Dutch line of battle ships at anchor in the roads, one of them bearing the flag of Admiral Hartink, there were also either two or three frigates at Batavia, and the remaining frigates belonging to the fleet were undergoing some repairs at Onroost.—Both sugar and coffee were exceeding scarce and consequently dear—the season had been remarkably healthy.
On Monday last, anchored in the harbour, the American ship Olive Branch, Captain Shepard, from Boston, in America,

European Intelligence.
BALTIMORE, February 6.
Just before our Gazette was put to press, we had put into our hands by a commercial friend, a series of official bulletins of the armies of the Danube and Italy.
February 7.
In the subsequent columns will be found some of the very important bulletins, promised yesterday.
In Italy the archduke Charles gave more work to the enemy, and continued to struggle manfully against the tide of war; but an important advantage gained over one of his wings on the 26th November.
The ways of Providence are inscrutable! To have entertained the notion, a few years back that Germany, one of the most warlike and powerful nations in Europe, would be conquered by France, would have been sufficient to have branded any man as a fool;
In the list of bulletins, of 150 pages, (for it is not a file of news-papers) which we have been politely furnished with, there are no editorial remarks or other local articles, except the following, which bears the last date, and which we consider as official as the bulletins themselves;
TRANSLATIONS FOR THE FEDERAL GAZETTE. PARIS, December 2.
M. de Stadion, late minister from the emperor of Germany at the court of Russia, and M. the lieutenant-general count de Gulay, have been presented to his majesty the emperor of the French at Brunns.
TWENTY-SECOND BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
St. Pöten, November 12. Marshal Soult has followed up his success. The whole corps of Meerfeldt is destroyed.
This day the French troops made their entry into that capital. The Russians refused every opportunity which was offered them to engage in battle.
The 11th at day break, marshal Mortier, at the head of six battalions, fixed himself at Stein, expecting to find there a rear-guard; but the whole Russian army was still there.
This has been a bloody day. Dead bodies covered the whole field of battle. More than 4000 Russians have been killed or wounded.
The emperor of Germany, the empress, the minister and court, are at Brunns, in Moravia.
Gen. count de Guille has been the bearer of many dispatches between the emperors of France and Germany.
The Hungarian complain of an illiberal government which offers nothing to encourage their industry, and which shows a constant jealousy of their privileges.
For Napoleon has wished only for peace, that he is the friend of all nations and of every noble sentiment.
Since the passage of the Inn, the grand army has made in the different skirmishes which have taken place, about 10,000 prisoners.
PROCLAMATION.
Since the decree of his excellency, the commissary of the court established in Lower Austria, the public are informed, that for the preservation of peace and order in the interior, it has been decreed that a certain number of armed citizens, comprising the nobles as well as the members of the academy of fine arts, & other individuals who have means of putting themselves in a condition of appearing in arms, shall always be ready to perform any service which may be required of them.
Brave inhabitants of Vienna! you will thank me for the wisdom of those measures which are taken for the good of your country.
(Signed) The Vice-Burgomaster. Dated, Vienna, Nov. 11.
NOTIFICATION.
His imperial majesty, who according to the promise which he made to the respectable states of Hungary, has designed to close the diet, has been prevented by intervening circumstances from returning to Vienna before going to Brunns, agreeably to his first determination.
(Signed) Rodolphe, Comte Wrbna, Commissary of the court. Vienna, Nov. 12.
TWENTY-THIRD BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
From the castle of Schönbrunn, 14th Nov.
At the battle of Dürnstein, where 4000 French attacked on the 11th, between 25 and 30,000 Russians, kept their position, killed between 3 and 4000 men, captured their colors and made 1500 prisoners.
Marshal Mortier pursued the Russians, while another corps of the army passed the Danube by the bridge of Vienna, to intercept them to the right, and the corps of marshal Bernadotte marched to intercept them on the left.
Prince Murat has established his head-quarters at the house of duke Albert. Duke Albert has done much for the city. Many quarters wanted water.
The emperor received at noon M. De Wrhna, who is now placed at the head of the administration of all Austria.
The corps of marshal Soult passed through Vienna this morning at 9 o'clock.
The Bavarian army receives great reinforcements every day.
The city of Kulstein has capitulated to col. Pompee.
Gen. Michaud has driven the enemy on the road to Brunns as far as Vöslauer. To-day
at noon he has made 500 prisoners, and taken a park of 40 pieces of artillery, complete.
Marshal Lannes arrived at 2, P. M. at Stockerau. He there found an immense magazine of clothing, 100,000 pair of shoes and boots, and cloth enough to make great-coats for the whole army.
[The bulletin here goes on to give a particular inventory of 1547 pieces of cannon, 473 mortars, 109,292 muskets and carbines; a great number of swords and pistols; an immense quantity of powder, cannon, musket and pistol balls, flints, lead, and many other military stores.]
HEAD QUARTERS.
Vienna, Nov. 13.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
The emperor testifies his satisfaction to the 4th regiment of light infantry; to the 100th of the line; to the 9th of light infantry, and to the 23d of the line, for the intrepidity which they displayed at the battle of Dürnstein; where their bravery in preserving the position which they occupied, obliged the enemy to quit that which he held on the Danube.
Prince Murat, marshal Lannes, the reserve of cavalry, and their corps of the army, entered Vienna the 13th November, made themselves masters the same day of the bridge over the Danube, prevented it from being burnt, passed it immediately, and put to flight the Russian army.
TWENTY-FOURTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
Palace of Schönbrunn, November 15.
At the battle of Dürnstein, the Austrian major-general Smith, who directed the movements of the Russians, was killed, as well as two Russian generals.
A column of four thousand Austrian infantry and a regiment of cuirassiers, passed through our army, who permitted them to go off, false report of a suspension of arms having been spread among our soldiers.
General Milhaud, commanding the advanced corps of marshal Davoust, has taken 191 pieces of cannon, with all the provision-wagons and 400 men.
The palace of Schönbrunn, in which the emperor resides, was built by Maria Theresa, whose portrait is to be seen in almost every apartment.
Prince Charles, at the moment of setting out for the army of Italy, wrote to the emperor, representing to him the imprudence of his conduct, and predicting the downfall of the monarchy.
All the columns of the army are making rapid marches, and are already in Moravia, and many days march from the Danube.
Gen. Marmont informs that the corps which had advanced as far as Oedenburg, by the valley of Murch, has evacuated that country.
The number of prisoners made by the army increases every moment.
His majesty has given audience to-day to the Batavian major-general Bruce, brother-in-law
to the grand duchess. He came to renew the emperor on the part of the high and mighty states of Holland.
The emperor has not yet received any of the authorities of Vienna, but a deputation from the different corporations of the city, who, the day of his arrival, came to his levee, at Sigarts-Kirchen.
The general of division, Clarke, has been nominated governor-general of Upper and Lower Austria.
IMPERIAL DECREE.
At the palace of Schönbrunn, Nov. 15.
NAPOLEON, emperor of the French and king of Italy.
We have decreed, and do decree as follows:
TITLE I.
Of the government and administration of Austria.
Art. 1. There shall be a governor-general and intendant-general over the province of Austria.
Art. 2. There shall be a commandant and intendant for each circle, which will make five commandants and intendants for Upper Austria, and four for Lower Austria.
TITLE II.
Of the governor and intendant-general.
Art. 3. The governor-general and intendant-general shall reside at Vienna.
Art. 4. The governor-general shall be charged with whatever relates to the police.
Art. 5. The intendant-general shall be charged with whatever relates to the administration. The commissaries of war, and inspectors employed in the finances and for the army shall be under his orders.
Art. 6. The gens-d'armes, the troops of the country who serve in their places, the regencies, the captains of circles, and the burgomasters, shall be under the orders of the governor and intendant-general.
Art. 7. The first care of the governor and intendant-general shall be to arrest stragglers and put an end to irregularities in the army.
Art. 8. The governor and intendant-general shall co-operate with us.
Art. 9. The general of division, Clarke, is appointed governor-general of Austria.
Art. 10. The councillor of state, Daru, is nominated intendant-general.
TITLE III.
Of the Commandants and Intendants of Circles.
Art. 11. The commandant and intendant of each circle, shall reside in the chief place of the circle.
Art. 12. The commandants of circles shall correspond with the governor-general and shall be under his orders. They shall also correspond with the intendant-general and shall be under his orders.
TITLE IV.
Art. 14. The major-general shall to-morrow present to us, the commandants of all the circles. He shall at the same time present to us the intendants, who shall be chosen from among the inspectors or sub-inspectors of reviews.
Art. 15. As soon as Stiria, Carinthia, and Carniola shall be taken possession of, there shall be given to them commandants and intendants of circles, who shall correspond with the governor and intendant-general of Austria.
(Signed) NAPOLEON. By the emperor. The Secretary of State, (Signed) B. H. Maret.
TWENTY-FIFTH BULLETIN.
Schönbrunn, November 15.
Prince Murat & the corps of marshal Lannes yesterday overtook the Russian army at Hollabrunn.
The enemy had effected a junction, and the dispositions for an attack were made, when an Austrian flag of truce advanced and requested permission for the troops of the emperor of Germany to separate themselves from the Russians.
Shortly after, the baron Wintzingerode, aide-de-camp-general to his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, presented himself at the advanced posts and offered to capitulate for the Russian army.
General Vitalianes, commanding the cavalry of marshal Davoust, has entered Pressburg, gen. count de Paffi has written a letter to which marshal Davoust has returned an answer.
A body of 3,000 Austrians have intrenched themselves in the position of Wal, nunchen on the borders of Bohemia, gen. Baraguay d'Hilliers, at the head of three battalions of dismounted dragoons, marched against that corps which precipitately abandoned their post.
He had arrived on the eighth at Trinity, in Bohemia, and expected to overtake the above corps.
with the usual ceremonies, tears trickled down the cheeks of the veteran soldiers. The young conscripts were overjoyed at having assisted in retaking those standards, which were wrested from their elder brethren in arms by the vicissitudes of war.
General Klein has made an incursion into Bohemia, with his division of dragoons.
In every where observed the Russians to be held in the greatest derision. The depredations which they commit, cause the loudest lamentations.
This, without doubt, is the last time Europe will invite to her protection such dreadful allies.
CAPITULATION.
Proposed by the Russian Army.
It has been agreed between the general of division, Belliard, chief of the staff, provided it should receive the sanction of his serene highness, prince Murat, grand marshal of the empire, and lieutenant of his majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy.
There shall, from the signature of the present conditions, be an armistice between the corps of the army under the orders of his highness prince Murat, and the Russian army commanded by the general in chief count de Kutusow.
The Russian army shall quit Germany, and immediately commence its march by the same route that it took in entering it.
The present conditions not to have effect until after having received the ratification of his majesty, the emperor Napoleon.
In the event of their non-concurrence by the emperor, four hours notice shall be given previously to the breaking of the armistice.
Done at Hollabrunn, the 15th November, 1805. Signed, AUG. BELLIARD, General of division, chief of the staff. WINTZINGERODE, Aid-de-camp general.
Letter from general count de Paffi.
GENERAL, His royal highness the archduke Palatine, in his quality of supreme, civil and military chief of Hungary, has charged the undersigned to declare, that his royal highness has established along the western frontier of this kingdom, a cordon of troops, supported by small detachments of cavalry, composed of invalids and recruits, with the sole view of arresting the marauders of the Austrian army, who may be found there.
As these small detachments, which should not be considered otherwise than as scouting parties, are to fall back on the approach of the French army, his royal highness has given to the pensionary officers, and to the individuals emigrants and military hospitals, to remain in their places, persuaded that the general or commander of the French troops will not refuse to grant them the necessary protection, and that he will give orders that the detachments of the French army which shall enter Hungary, shall not commit any excess, provided no kind of opposition be made to them.
He requests him to grant a meeting on parole in a boat in the middle of the Danube.
He waits his answer and has the honor to be his very humble servant, LEOPOLD, count Paffi.
Major-general commandant at Pressburg.
ANSWER.
Of marshal Davoust to general count de Paffi.
GENERAL,
I have laid before his majesty the letter which you addressed to the commandant of my light cavalry. His majesty has charged me to make known, through you, to his royal highness the archduke palatine, that he is ready to respect the neutrality of the Hungarians, and to forbid his army to enter the frontiers of Hungary, if on his part his royal highness the archduke palatine and the Hungarian people are willing to withdraw their troops, to make no insurrection, to continue to supply Vienna with provisions, and in fine to conclude between them, the archduke palatine and his majesty the emperor of the French, a convention tending to maintain harmony between the two countries.
I have the honor to be, Mr. General, Your very humble servant, (Signed) J. DAVOUST, Marshal of the empire, and one of the colonel generals of the guard of his majesty the emperor and king.

NEW-YORK, Feb. 3.
Rochefort Squadron captured. —A letter from a gentleman in St. Croix, dated January 10th, 1806, to a gentleman in this city, says—I have just this moment learnt that the Rochefort Squadron, with the Cork fleet in their possession, have been fallen in with by Admiral Sterlings, and the whole of them captured. Fifteen of the Cork fleet have already arrived at Barbadoes.
We give the above as we received it. [There does not appear to be much credit attached to this report.—Several letters have been received in Philadelphia from St. Croix, of a later date than the 10th of January, and they make no mention of the capture of the Rochefort Squadron, or the re-capture of the Cork fleet.] Phil. Register.
BALTIMORE, February 6.
Capt. Sanger, who arrived in the Sch'r Repeater , Graves, from Cumana, which he left the 10th January, informs, that the day before he failed, a government vessel arrived there with despatches from Martinique, an officer of which stated, that the Rochefort Squadron had arrived at Guadalupe, had sent their prizes, about 50 in number, to Fort-Royal (Mart.) As this is the latest and most direct account of the above squadron, it invalidates the report of their capture in yesterday's Gazette. Fed. Gaz.
Domestic Intelligence.
IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
FEBRUARY 5.
SENATE of Maryland, from the Committee, to whom was referred on the 15th of January last, that part of the President's message, which relates to the stipulations of our commerce on the high seas, and informs us of the new principles assumed by the British courts of admiralty, as a pretext for the condemnation of our vessels in their prize courts, respectfully reports for the consideration of the Senate, the following resolutions:
1. Resolved, That the capture and condemnation, under the orders of the British government, and adjudication of their courts of admiralty, of American vessels and their cargoes, on the pretext of their being employed in a trade with the enemies of Great-Britain prohibited in time of peace, is an unprovoked aggression upon the property of the citizens of these United States, a violation of their neutral rights, and an encroachment upon their national independence.
2. Resolved, That the President of the U. S. be requested to demand and insist upon the restoration of the property of their citizens, captured and condemned on the pretext of its being employed in a trade with the enemies of Great-Britain, prohibited in time of peace; and upon the indemnification of such American citizens, for their losses and damages sustained by these captures and condemnations; and to enter into such arrangements with the British government, on this and all other differences subsisting between the two nations, (and particularly respecting the impairment of American seamen,) as may be consistent with the honor and interests of the U. S. and manifest their earnest desire to obtain for themselves and their citizens by amicable negotiation, that justice to which they are entitled.
3. Resolved, That it is expedient to prohibit by law, the importation into the U. S. of any of the following goods, wares or merchandise, being the growth, produce or manufactures of the united kingdoms of Great-Britain and Ireland, or the dependencies thereof, that is to say; woolens, linens, hats, nails, looking-glasses, rum, hard wares, flat-iron, coal, boots, shoes, ribbons, fills, and plated and glass wares. The said prohibition to commence from the day of unless previously thereto, equitable arrangements shall be made between the two governments, on the difficulties subsisting between them, and to continue until such arrangements shall be agreed upon and settled. And the report was read and ordered to lie for consideration.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, Feb. 5.
Mr. T. M. Randolph reported a bill removing the limitation of the right of suffrage in the Mississippi territory, and empowering the legislature thereof to increase the number of representatives in the General Assembly by a given ratio to that of electors, which was referred to a committee of the whole House on Wednesday next.
Mr. Clark moved the following resolution which was agreed to.
Resolved, That the secretary of the navy be requested to inform this House of the nature & extent of the services rendered to the captive crew of the frigate Philadelphia, by the Danish consul at Tripoli.
Mr. Crowninshield observed that the House had on the 3rd inst. directed the secretary of the Treasury to lay before them a statement of imports and exports from G. Britain to the U. S. for the two last years. It was probable the secretary would not be able to furnish a statement for the year 1805; but that he could make it for the years 1803, and 1804. Mr. C. said he had been anxious when this subject was before the House, to have received a statement for the year 1802. G. Britain seizes our ships loaded with colonial produce, on the idea that we did not enjoy the colonial trade during a period of peace. Whether this is a fact will be decided by the statement he wished to obtain, as the year 1802 was a period of peace. Mr. C. concluded by moving a resolution directing the secretary of the Treasury to lay before the House a like statement of exports and imports for the year 1802, as was directed on the 3rd inst. to be furnished for the last two years.
The House immediately considered this resolution and agreed to it.
Mr. J. Clay. The gentleman from Massachusetts having laid on table a resolution arising out of the present state of our foreign relations, and as that subject is one on which I think there cannot be too much deliberation before we act, or of which too many views cannot be taken, I will take the liberty of submitting some resolutions which I have drawn up & to which I ask the attention of the House. In the present state of our relations with foreign powers, it appears to me that a system of commercial regulations mild & yet firm, one which can be carried into permanent effect without much inconvenience to ourselves, will be more effectual than any temporary expedients. If we are disposed to adopt such a system, it will be looked upon by foreign nations as one in which we are likely to persevere. They will consider its probable effects in time of peace upon their colonial possessions, and they may be induced to enter into permanent regulations opening to us a trade with their colonies. The distinction attempted to be made between a war trade and an accustomed trade will be destroyed, and with it the only pretext upon which are founded the vexatious and depredations committed on American commerce. The present is a favorable moment for the adoption of such a plan. At this time the ports of the belligerent powers are open, and the effect of the measures which I am about to propose, will not have an im-
If these measures are taken, the powers of Europe will find that unless they admit our ships into their colonial ports in time of peace the trade between their colonies and us, will be cut off by a system which will be but slightly injurious to ourselves. I think, I repeat it, that a permanent system which will be but slightly injurious to ourselves, will be more likely to induce G. B. in particular to recede from the unjust pretensions she has set up, than more violent and extreme measures, which from their very nature, and their injurious consequences to ourselves must be necessarily temporary.
Mr. J. Clay concluded with offering the following resolutions:
Resolved, That after the day of next, no trade or intercourse, in any ship or vessel owned in whole or in part by any citizen or subject of any foreign government, shall be permitted between the U. S. or their territories; and any port or place in the colonies or dominions of any European power, which trade or intercourse is not permanently permitted by the laws or regulations of such European power, to be carried on in ships or vessels of the U. S.
Resolved, That after the day of aforesaid, no goods, wares or merchandise, shall be exported from the U. S. or their territories, in any ship or vessel owned in whole or in part by any citizen or subject of any foreign government, to any port or place in the colonies or dominions of any European power, the importation of which into such port or place, in ships or vessels of the U. S. is not permanently permitted by the laws or regulations of such European power.
Resolved, That after the day of aforesaid, no goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be imported into the U. S. or their territories, in any ship or vessel owned in whole or in part by any citizen or subject of any foreign government, excepting articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the colonies or dominions of such foreign government, unless such importation be expressly permitted by treaty between the U. S. and such foreign government, or unless during a war in which the U. S. may be a party.
The House immediately considered these resolutions, and referred them to a committee of the whole on the state of the union.
Mr. Varnum observed that considerable light would be thrown on the extent to which colonial products were exported from the U. S. by a statement of the amount of exports for which drawbacks were allowed. He, therefore, moved the following resolution:
Resolved, That the secretary of the treasury be directed to lay before this House a statement of the amount of the revenue derived to the U. S. from merchandise, the growth, produce, or manufacture of any foreign country, which have heretofore been imported into the U. S. and exported from the same during the three last years.
This resolution was agreed to. The bill relating to bonds given by marshals was read a third time and passed.
FROM THE NEW-YORK EVENING POST.
Another judgment of Sir Wm. Scott.—The following case of which the manuscript copy has been handed us by a friend, will be read with no ordinary share of interest, as it contains the latest decision pronounced by Sir Wm. Scott, on the former criterion as to what should be a discontinuance of a voyage, and which is directly in the teeth of the latter criterion at this time acted upon.
At present we confine ourselves to a single observation: Had it not been that the extremities of this country as a neutral nation has driven her to examine with the eye of severe criticism the juridical decisions of this celebrated civilian, his name might have been left to stand on a broader basis than that of an eloquent judge.
COURT OF ADMIRALTY,
DOCTORS COMMONS,
SATURDAY, Jan. 21st, 1804.
THE ELIZA, HAFF MASTER.
[Before the Right Honorable Sir Wm. Scott.]
SENTENCE.
Court.—The only question in this case is, whether there has been sufficient bona fide importation of the bulk of the cargo in America to break the continuity of the voyage? There is no question as to the property; but under all the circumstances, it is fit the court should call for proof of the continuity of the voyage (taking it in the most favourable view) which began at Martinique, had been broke by the entrance of this ship in a port in America. As to laying down any rule, an actual payment of duties, and a landing must, in my mind, constitute a full and fair importation, and in general, where that appears, the court will look no farther; and where the papers are fair, it might induce the court not to put the parties to further expense.—But are there not circumstances in the present case which tend to deduct from the apparent credit of the transaction? The court would be inclined to show indulgence when there are no special circumstances to raise a surmise that the fact might be otherwise.
Now, in this case it certainly does appear that the sugar was brought from Martinique, and with this addition, that the master says he does not know of what country it was the growth or produce. I don't impute to the master any thing, but he being connected with and employed in the ship in the manner he has been, it is rather singular that he should labour under such an utter ignorance of this fact; it is a circumstance disadvantageous to the case, & it would have been more satisfactory if the master had fairly stated that in the former part of the voyage the bulk of the cargo had come from Martinique. It appears something of a reserve which seems to take off the credit which otherwise would be due to the documents.
There is proof of a re-shipment in America, and that supplies the chasm with proof of the unloading, and there is proof of a change of the crew in this case. That is a circumstance which might be interpreted into an unfavorable conclusion—namely, a plan of concealment and suppression of the real destination of this cargo being from Martinique to a French port, and this re-shipment in the American port might be done with some intention of throwing a cloud over the fact. I think these circumstances of weight sufficient to overthrow the favourable interpretation it otherwise would be entitled to. The court, therefore, is not quite in possession of the facts fully disclosed, to which it cannot at present apply any principle of law,
facts when fully disclosed. My present inclination is although the original intention might be to bring goods from the colony to the mother country, yet, if in fact there has been an actual payment of duties, and landing with no engagement to return, that that was a breaking of the voyage, and that they must be considered as two distinct voyages.
On the other hand, it would not necessarily follow that any indulgence which the government of America might grant to its own subjects, for the benefit of their commerce, would bind this court, which acts upon general principles, and therefore suppose America should declare in favour of its own subjects, that they might bring cargoes from a colony and carry them, after landing to France, without payment of duties. I don't conceive such a declaration (feeling all the respect due to the commercial interests of all other civilized communities) would constitute a rule for this court, or that it should not decide such to be an entire voyage; therefore, I shall call for further proof, namely what duties were paid in America; & also, a precise statement of facts, in which mode these goods were imported and exported.
An attempt has been made to assassinate THOMAS PAINE, in his house at New Rochelle, in the state of New-York. Last Christmas evening, Mr. Paine's two servants went to visit some of their acquaintances, leaving him and a neighbor's boy together in the house. A short time after this a musket was fired through the window, the ball narrowly missed Mr. Paine, and lodged in the opposite wall. Next day the supposed assassin was apprehended and admitted to bail. [Com. Adv.]
A writer in the Washington Federalist, under the signature of Columbus, has furnished several essays on the subject of Finance, in which he has collected a considerable quantity of information relative to the situation of the public lands. It appears that in the years
  1801 we had sold 398,640 acres for dols. 1,903,502   1802 738,666 1,885,502   1803 919,727 2,248,502   1804 1,295,336 2,888,509   1805 1,912,602 3,124,462 
and that we have yet 300,000,000 on this side, and 700,000,000 acres on the other side of the Mississippi.
This progressive view, increasing in a compound ratio, will show that we want nothing with our present water-price, but more men and more money, to become the first nation of the universe."
NEW-YORK, Feb. 4.
The following communication, though we have not the satisfaction of knowing the author, seems entitled to notice. A brush with the Dons is perhaps not far distant.
By the return of the Pilot a large bundle of letters were received from the persons on board the Leander, addressed to their friends, from which we learn, they were all in high spirits, perfectly satisfied with their destination, which appears to be decidedly New-Orleans. The great number of horse collected by the Marquis De Cajo Calvo, on the frontiers of Louisiana, has occasioned a very lively sensation in that district. It is conjectured that from the number of Pikes shipped on board this vessel, and others making at Springfield and at West Point, that our troops will be new organized, and formed in three ranks, the first & second of musketry, and the third rank with pikes of 10 feet, which when charged are a perfect protection against Cavalry.
It is pretty generally known in the city, that the ship Leander which cleared out 8 or 10 days since for Jacquetmel was not in reality bound for Hayti. Having taken on board a very large quantity of naval stores, artillery and ammunition, a considerable number of artisans, and several military characters, it was conceived by many that she was destined for some other quarter. From a correct source we learn that she is bound for a port in the gulf of Mexico; probably New-Orleans. The Dons in that quarter, as well as elsewhere, are very infolent.
Cumberland, January 25th, 1806.
Sir, I have notice that on the twenty-fifth day of March next at Green's old store, and on the twenty-sixth at Walshall's old store, I shall proceed to take the depositions of sundry persons, to read in a suit depending in the County Court of Amelia; in which I am Plaintiff and you Defendant.
I am, &c. CAIN MAUN. MR. ARCHER PERKINSON. February 13. (law 3wp.)
WILL BE SOLD,
To the highest bidder for ready money, on the premises, on Monday the 17th day of March next, by virtue of a deed of trust, executed by Mathew Brown, to John Nicholas, and John Kelly, to secure the payment of a sum of money as expressed therein, with interest and expenses of the sale, due to John M. Sheppard; and by him transferred to Doct. Isaac Winston of Culpepper County, a part of the tract of land, lying on the Northgarden, Albemarle County, whereon the said Brown now lives. The sale will take place, between the hours, twelve and three o'clock, P. M.
JOHN KELLY, Acting Trustee. Charlottesville, Feb. 13. (14w4.)
TO RENT,
FOUR ROOMS in my House on the street leading from the Main-street up Shockoe hill by the Governor's. The situation is healthy and pleasant, being in the centre of the town, near the Capitol and Main-street, it is very convenient for business; it would suit very well a gentleman of the law, as the lower room is very adapted for an Office. A small family would be preferred, which may have part use of the kitchen and stable for one or two horses. Immediate possession may be had. W. F. AST. Feb. 13. t3w
NEGROES FOR SALE.
Will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at Hanover town, in the county of Hanover, on Tuesday the fourth day of next month, if fair, but if not, the next fair day.
ELEVEN likely NEGROES, belonging to the estate of Wm. Harris, dec'd. to satisfy a judgment obtained by Arnold's adm'rs. against the adm'rs. of the said Wm. Harris, dec'd. at the last Federal Court, held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond. The negroes consist of a middle aged and two young men, an elderly and three young women, two well grown boys, one about 12, and the other about ten years old, and two children. They are free from incumbrance, and therefore those who may become purchasers will meet with no difficulty as to the title. BEVERLY ROBINSON, Attorney in fact for Henry Harris, adm'r. of Wm. Harris, dec'd. Feb. 13. eptds.
NEIL M'COULL.
HAS received, by the late arrivals from London and Liverpool, his usual supply of FALL & WINTER GOODS.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 13th FEBRUARY.
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.—Curiosity which has been so long "on the tiptoe," is now about to be satisfied by a mass of important information from Europe. The last official Bulletin which we received, was Norfollk, of the march of the Grand army of France, the 21st, and dated at Lintz on the 7th November. The interval which succeeded has been a long & anxious one; filled up by nothing except a few unofficial and uninteresting sketches from the London press. At length, however, an arrival at Baltimore has brought down the chain of Bulletins from the 18th December and supplied us with a history of the war in Europe, of the continued success of the French and the discomfiture of their allies as much lead us to expect that its catastrophe is near at hand.—That the reader may be enabled to judge of the progress of the war, not only to the present time, but to his own country, we have thought it proper to introduce all the intelligence which has come to hand, to the exclusion of other selected or original matter.
The 21st Bulletin left the Grand Army of France advancing towards Vienna in four columns, one under Mortier on the north bank of the Danube, intended to intercept the Russian column; one under Murat on the south bank of the river; the central corps under Davoust, marching to Neustadt; and Marmont's corps advancing still lower by the route of Leoben.
The Bulletins, which are now published, detail the fate and the success of these different detachments down to the 15th of Nov. every article of which, so far at least as we may place confidence in the partial representations of the French, gives a death blow to the accounts equally partial, and still made from London papers down to the 7th of December. What then must be the melancholy condition of the Austro-Russian armies; what may we add must be the gloomy prospects of England, when even these latter accounts represented the condition of the allies as so completely deplorable in spite of some advantages and reinforcements, which they were said to have recently obtained.
The London accounts declare, that Gen. Ney's corps was not strong enough to secure the possession of Inspruck and the Intendant : the French Bulletins announce that he had made his entry into Inspruck; and afterwards into Halle, and that the archduke John had evacuated the Tyrol, by the way of Luchta.
The London Journalists pride themselves upon the great victory said to be gained by the Russians over the French at Durnierien; the French Bulletin, no doubt with considerable exaggeration of the truth, make the victory altogether on their side: 4,000 French are said to have attacked between 25 and 30,000 Russians; to have killed between 3 and 4,000 men, captured their colours and made 1,300 prisoners.
The English looked forward with a beating and excelling heart to the second Russian reinforcement under General Kutschow: the twenty-fifth Bulletin, which is the last we have received, represents that body as ready to capitulate with the menace it may by the same route that it took in entering it." The content of the emperor Alexander, who was at that time in the neighbourhood, was alone wanting to give efficacy to the capitulation, and it is at this interesting point of time, that the Baltimore accounts fail us.
Mean time gen. Klein was pursuing the body of Russians who had retired into Bohemia; Murat had occupied Pressburg, the capital of lower Hungary, and was disputing with the archduke Palatine that the Hungarian people should withdraw their troops from the war, and the archduke Charles, who may be truly hailed as the Marcellus of his country, was retiring before Massena.
The only hope of the Austrian Empire lay therefore in the generosity of the Victor, or in the exertions of the Russians under gen. Toldoy & of the English under gen. Don, who had stationed themselves in Hanover, and the uncertain assistance of Prussia. On this subject, we present our readers with the following scraps of intelligence:
Extracts of letters from a gentleman now in Bremen, to his friend in this city.
November 24.—This day arrived in Bremen, 2,000 troops of Prince Ferdinand's regiment. The female remonstrated against it, and the Duke of Brunswick (their commander) assured them, that if they did not receive the Prussian, they might expect the Russian troops now stationed in the duchy of Holdenstein.
November 28.—The war upon the continent has been carried on with great success to the French. Prussia has interested herself a great deal to be the mediator of peace; but it is supposed that the last proposition which she made will not be accepted and that she will be obliged to join the northern convention.
November 1"> November 30.—Yesterday the Prussian regiment of infantry retreated again to Hanover, when the English gen. Don arrived at Bremen, who had a conference with the Duke of Brunswick at Hildesheim: So that we have only 100 Prussian soldiers in this city. This day entered 1,000 English of the guard and tomorrow we may expect 1,000 more, who had arrived at Cuxhaven. A part of the Russian troops lie three German (or 15 English) miles from this city.
It is too late, however for Prussia to join in the coalition; and it is not too ridiculous to suppose that general Brune with an army of 50,000 men in Hanover will be at least sufficient to withstand any attack which may be made upon the north.
What resource then has the Emperor of Austria, but the generosity of the conqueror? By what possible exertion can he save himself from the necessity of making an unequal and dishonorable peace? In fact the last account from Paris of December 2d affirms that M. de Stadion, and M. de Leitenent-general count de Guilly, had been presented to his majesty the Emperor of the French, at Brunn (the capital of Moravia) as plenipotentiaries of his majesty the Emperor of Germany; that they were invested with powers to negotiate, conclude and sign a definitive treaty between France and Austria; and that the Emperor of the French had nominated M. de Talleyrand, whom he had invested with powers to that effect."
The Baltimore Fed. Gaz. received by last Evening's Mail, in continuation of the French Bulletins observes, that the Emperor of Austria had been driven from Brunn to Olmutz, and from Olmutz to Cracow in Poland. So states an article under the head of Donau, Nov. 19.
In giving publicity to the following extract from the Aurora, it is far from our wish to approve of the subject on which it treats and the spirit in which it is written. Private conversations ought always to be touched with the most delicate circumspection; both on account of the confidence which should be cultivated between the different members of society and the dangers of misunderstanding & misrepresentation, which such a deftly intercourse is peculiarly exposed to. If such an objection be applicable to the ordinary modes of communication, it applies with still more so to those which with greater force to the press, which gives an additional publicity and a kind of perpetuity to every thing which is committed to its care. I must have been in one of those unguarded moments, when we consult our feelings rather than our judgment, that the following communication escaped from the Editor of the Aurora.
than our judgment, that the following communication escaped from the Editor of the Aurora.
A letter from Washington, published in the New-York Evening Post, evidently from a federal member of congress, among a great quantity of other matter has the following—"A large majority perhaps think something ought to be done, but they know not what. Some are for a non-intercourse and sequestration: some are for fortifying, and some for building ships, &c. but with some of the buffoons of pulling down Mr. Randolph, and setting up another leader seems tantamount to all other considerations . It is unfortunate that this attempt should be made at this time, when his proceedings have been marked with a spirit so truly national, and prosecuted with such ability, zeal and perseverance."
The above extract contains matter of some pith and moment. A man holding an office of great trust, under the federal government, told the editor of this paper, that either he or RANDOLPH must fall. That officer made a tour of New-England last year for the purpose of organizing a party, one of the great objects of which is the pulling down of Randolph ; general Varnum, forgetting the honors of a long life, and actuated by a spirit of petulance and resentment unworthy of his years, and presuming upon talents and capacity, which nature and education have denied him, has been the most prominent person in congress in this singular effort; Mr. Bidwell has been pulled forward, whether conscious of what he is doing or not, God only knows, and the plan has been to make Mr. Bidwell, the file leader above alluded to: the measures of the executive have been thwarted by this little faction, of which Varnum is the vital principle ; and this miserable faction, also assumes to itself the appellation of the president's friends; the greater number of them are secretly in league with Burr, and their principal course is to embarrass the executive, and to force him into their views.
These are facts which cannot be contradicted with truth, nor eluded by sophistry—the officer of government to whom we allude, is the post master general . On his trying Randolph or he must fall, the first impression was that the post master general meant to call him out, and it was observed that Randolph would not be backward at a call of that kind; he replied not in that way—"I mean as a public man—a political character."
Now if some members of congress are to be bribed with post office contracts to obtain their votes for a nefarious speculation on one hand, and if a member of congress superior to all corruption and all pollution or dishonor is to be pulled down and the offices of the government are to be employed to such ends—it is vain to pretend that republican government can stand, if such corruption and such corrupt men are suffered to retain the power which they prostitute—and if men of virtue, honor, talents and integrity are to be made the victims of intrigue bottomed on such corruption. Aurora.
AUCTION.
THE sale of BOOKS, by Auction, will take place on Friday and Saturday evening, at WILLIAM PRICKARD'S Book-Store. Hours of sale from five o'clock until nine. February 13.
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This tenement is adapted to accommodate a genteel family, and perhaps not inferior to any stand for business on Shockoe-Hill, for terms apply to N. HALLAM. (2p p.) February 13.
To Mr. George Bruce of the state of Kentucky.
Sir, As you neither reside within this commonwealth, nor have any known agent or attorney therein, I have adopted this method, prescribed by law, to give you notice, that on Tuesday the 18th day of April next, at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, between the hours of ten o'clock A. M. and sunset of the same day, I shall proceed to take the deposition of Wm. W. Hening, who is a single witness in a material point, in a suit now depending in the Superior Court of Chancery, for the Richmond district, in which myself and Ann Burnley widow and devisee of James Burnley, dec'd. are complainants, and you are defendant. I am yours, &c. JOHN T. HAWKINS, esq. sup. Albemarle, Feb. 13. eav/sup.
THE subscribers to the Library Society of Richmond,
are desired to meet at Mr. Fletcher's Tavern, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of this month, at the hour of eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to elect a President and three Directors, in conformity to the act of incorporation of the said Society, passed on the thirtieth day of January last.
Gentlemen who reside within the jurisdiction of the city of Richmond, or the limits of the town of Manchester, who wish to become members of the society, are requested to give in their names to the present directors before the twenty-fourth instant, in order that they may be qualified to vote for officers under the charter.
That the directors may be enabled to make an addition to the Library, the present members who are in arrears to the society, are desired to pay their balances to the treasurer. THE DIRECTORS. February 12. 13th & 22d.
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY.

THE MEMORIAL OF THE MERCHANTS AND TRADERS OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE, TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled. Your memorialists beg leave respectfully to submit to your consideration the following statement and reflections, produced by a situation of our public affairs in a high degree critical and perilous, and peculiarly affecting the commerce of their country.
IN the early part of the late war between Great Britain and France, the former undertook to prohibit neutral nations from all trade whatsoever with the colonies of the latter. This exorbitant pretension was not long persisted in. It was soon qualified in favor of a direct trade between the U. States and these colonies, and some years afterwards was farther relaxed in favor of European neutrals. The U. States being thus admitted by the express acknowledgement of Great Britain, to a direct trade, without limit, between their own ports and the colonies of the opposite belligerents, another trade naturally and necessarily grew out of it, or rather formed one of its principal objects and inducements. The surplus of the colonial produce, beyond our own consumption, imported here, was to be carried elsewhere for a market, and it was accordingly carried to Europe, sometimes by the original importer, sometimes by other American merchants, either in the vessels in which the importation was made, or in others. In the course of this traffic it was understood to be the fence of G. Britain, and was explicitly declared by other courts of prize, that, although she had not expressly allowed to the merchants of the U. States by the letter of her relaxation, an immediate trade between the colonies of her enemies and the markets of Europe, yet that a circuitous trade to Europe, in the production of those colonies was unexceptionable, and that nothing more was necessary to make it so, than that the continuity of the voyage should be broken by an entry, and payment of duties, and the landing of the colonial cargo in the U. States. During the greater part of the late war, and the first years of the present, this trade was securely prosecuted by our merchants, in the form which Great Britain had thus thought fit to give it. The modification of a traffic in itself entitled to be free, was submitted to on our part, without repining, because it presented a clear & definite rule of conduct, which, altho' unauthorized in the light of re-exportation, was not greatly inconvenient in its practical operation; and your memorialists entertained a confident hope, that, while on the one hand they fought no change of system, by which the assumption of Great Britain to impose terms, however mild in their character and effect, upon their lawful commerce, should be repelled: on the other hand it would not be deemed that the "are of things, which G. B. had herself preferred, & which use & habit had rendered familiar and intelligible to all, should be disturbed by oppressive innovations, far less that these innovations should by a tyrannical retroaction, be made to justify the seizure and confiscation of their property, committed to the high seas, under the protection of the existing rule, & without warning of the intended change. In this their just hope, your memorialists have been fatally disappointed. Their vessels and effects, to a large amount, have lately been captured by the commissioned cruisers of G. Britain, upon the foundation of new principles, suddenly invented and applied to this habitual traffic, and suggested and promulgated, for the first time, by sentences of condemnation by which unavoidable ignorance has been considered as criminal, and an honorable confidence in the justice of a friendly nation pursued with penalty and forfeiture.
Your memorialists are in no situation to state the precise nature of the rules to which their important interests have thus been sacrificed; and it is not the least of their complaints against them that they are undefined and undefinable, equivocal in their form, and the fit instruments of oppression, by reason of their ambiguity. Your memorialists know that the circumstances which have heretofore been admitted to give legality to their trade, in colonial productions, with their European friends, protect it no longer; but they have not yet been told, and are not soon likely to learn what other circumstances will be suffered to produce the consequence. It is supposed to have been judicially declared, in general, that a voyage undertaken for the purpose of bringing into the U. S. the produce of the belligerent colonies, purchased by American citizens, shall if it appears to be intended that this produce shall ultimately go on to Europe, and an attempt is actually made to re-export and send it thither, be considered, on account of that intention, as a direct voyage to Europe, and therefore illegal, notwithstanding any temporary interruption or termination of it in the U. S.
Your memorialists will not here stop to enquire, upon what ground of law or reason the same act is held to be legal, when commenced with one intention, and illegal when undertaken with another; but they object in the strongest terms against this new criterion of legality, because of its inevitable tendency to injustice, because of its peculiar capacity to embarrass with feixure, and to ruin with confiscation, the whole of our trade with Europe in the surplus of our colonial productions. The enquiry which the late system indicated was short and simple, and precluded error on all sides, but the new refinement substitutes in its place a vast field of speculation, over-shadowed with doubt and uncertainty, and of which the faint and shifting boundaries can never be distinctly known. Intention as to the object of our colonial voyages may be inferred from numerous circumstances more or less conclusive. To anticipate them all is obviously impracticable, and of course to guard against the inferences in this respect, which British captors and British courts may be disposed to draw, will be impossible. Our property is, therefore, menaced by a great and formidable danger, which there are no means of elucidating; even if it should chance to escape the condemnation which this pernicious novelty prepares for it the wound inflicted upon our commerce, by arrests on suspicion and detentions for adjudication, will be deep and fatal. The efforts of our merchants will be checked and discouraged by more than ordinary inquiries; our best concerted enterprises broken up, without the hope of retribution, or even reimbursement for actual costs, upon the footing of an intention arbitrarily imputed, and the only alternative which will be presented to our choice, will be either to refuse at once from a traffic which enriches our country, while it benefits ourselves or to see it washed and in the end destroyed by a noxious scheme of maritime depredation.
Your memorialists are the more alarmed by this departure from a plain and settled rule, in favour of a phant and mysterious doctrine, so eminently suited to the accomplishment of the worst purposes of commercial jealousy, because the injuries and vexatious qualities of the substituted rule must have been known to those who introduced it, and because if those qualities did not recommend it to adoption, it is difficult to conceive why it was adopted at all. If it is meant that our trade to Europe shall, notwithstanding this rule, be allowed to continue without being subjected to extraordinary difficulties, operating as actual reductions and mischievous restraints; if it is meant that a few faults, known and comprehended, shall, as heretofore, form a standard by which the lawfulness of our European voyages may be unequivocally ascertained; if a wide range has not been designed for the inquiry after intention, and a real effect expected from that inquiry; if, in a word, the late regulation has not been supposed to be capable of bearing upon our trade in a manner new and important, we should hardly have now been called upon to re-assert against a change. It is not pretended that the rule, now enforced against us, is levelled against any practice, or which we may be supposed to have lent ourselves, or
disgusting our own property of the enemies of Great-Britain. That is not its object; and if it were, we are enabled to assert, solemnly and confidently, that our conduct has afforded no ground for the injurious suspicion which such an object would imply. The view is professedly to regulate and affect our traffic in articles fairly purchased by us from others—and if the consequences to that traffic were not intended to be serious, extensive and permanent, your memorialists search in vain for the motive, by which a state in amity with our own, and moreover connected with it by the ties of a common interest, to which many considerations seem to give peculiar strength, has been induced to indulge in a paroxysm of capricious aggression upon our rights, by which it dishonors itself, without promoting any of those great interests, for which an enlightened nation may fairly be solicitous, and which only a ready regard for justice can ultimately secure. When we see a powerful state, in possession of a commerce of which the world affords no example, endeavoring to interpose into the laws of nations, calumnious niceties and wayward distinctions, which forbid a citizen of another independent and commercial country, to export from that country, what unquestionably belongs to him, only because he imported himself; and yet allow him to sell a right of exporting it to another, which prohibits an end, because it arises out of one intention, but permit it when it arises out of two—which, dividing an act into stages, search into the mind for a correspondent division of it in the contemplation of its author, and determine its innocence or criminality accordingly—which, not denying that the property acquired in an unauthorized traffic by neutral nations from belligerents may become incorporated into the national stock, and under the shelter of its neutral character, thus superinduced and still preserved, be afterwards transported to every quarter of the globe—reject the only epoch which can distinctly mark that corporation, and point out none other in its place—which proposing to fix with accuracy and precision the line of demarcation, beyond which neutrals are trespassers upon the wide domain of belligerent rights, involve every thing in darkness and confusion; there can be but one opinion as to the purpose which all this is to accomplish.
Your memorialists have endeavored with all that attention, which their natural anxiety was calculated to produce, to ascertain the various shapes which the doctrine in question, is likely to assume in practice, but they have found it impossible to conjecture, in what way consistently with this doctrine, the excess of our imports from the belligerent colonies, can find their way to foreign markets. The landing of the cargo, and a compliance with all the forms and functions upon which our revenue depends, will not so terminate the voyage from the colonies, as that the articles may be immediately re-exported to Europe, by the original importer. But if they cannot be exported immediately, what lapse of time will give them a title to be sent abroad? And if not by the original importer, how is he to devolve upon another, a power which he has not himself? And if by a sale he can communicate the power, by what evidence is the transfer to be manifested, so as to furnish an answer to the ready accusation of fraud and evasion?
In proportion as this doctrine has developed itself, it has been found necessary to invent plausible qualifications, tending to conceal its real character from observation. It has accordingly been furnished that, notwithstanding the obstacles which it provides against the re-exportation of a colonial cargo by the importer, such a re-exportation may perhaps be lawful. Attempts on his part to sell in the U. States, without effect, (which must often happen) may, it is supposed, be sufficient to save him from the peril of the rule: But, admitting it to be certain, instead of being barely possible, that these attempts would form any thing like security against final condemnation, it is still most material to ask, how they are to afford protection against seizure, by what document they can be proved to the satisfaction of those to whom interest suggests doubts, and whom impunity encourages to act upon them? The formal transmittal of the custom-house once deemed as a criterion, the cargo must be followed through private transfers, into the warehouses of individual merchants; and, when proofs have been prepared with the utmost regularity, to establish those transfers, or the other facts, which may be deemed to be equivalent, they are still liable to be suspected, and will be suspected, as fictitious and colorable, and capture will be the consequence. For the loss and damage which capture brings adequate indemnity. Redress of prize grant is difficult—to a competent extent impossible; and even the costs which an iniquitous seizure compels a neutral merchant to incur in the defence of his violated rights, before their own tribunals, are seldom decreed and never paid.
Your memorialists have thus far complained only of the recent abandonment, by Great-Britain, of a known rule, by which the oppressive character of an important principle of her maritime code, has heretofore been greatly mitigated. But they now beg leave to enter their solemn protest against the principle itself, as an arbitrary and unfounded pretension, by which the just liberty of neutral commerce is impaired and abridged, and may be wholly destroyed. The reasons upon which Great-Britain assumes to herself a right to interdict to the independent nations of the earth, a commercial intercourse with the colonies of her enemies out of the relaxation of which pretended right has arisen the distinction, in her courts between an American trade, from the colonies to the U. States, and from the same colonies to Europe will, we are confidently persuaded, be repelled with effect and firmness by our government.
It is said by the advocates of this high belligerent claim, that neutral nations have no right to carry on with either of the parties at war, any other trade than they have actually enjoyed in time of peace. This position forms the basis, upon which Great-Britain has heretofore rested her supposed title, to prevent altogether, or to modify at her discretion, the interposition of neutrals, in the colony trade of her adversaries. But if we are called upon to admit the truth of this position, it seems reasonable that the converse of it should also be admitted; that war should not be allowed to disturb the customary trade of neutrals in peace—that the peace-trade should in every view, be held to be the measure of the war-trade—and that as on the one hand, there can be no enlargement, on the other there shall be no restriction. What, however, is the fact? The first moment of hostilities annihilates the commerce of the nations at peace, in articles deemed contraband of war—the property of the belligerents can no longer be carried in neutral ships; they are subject to visitation on the high seas; to harassing and vexatious search; to detention for judicial enquiry; and to the peril of unjust confiscation. They are shut out from their usual markets, not only by military enterprises against particular places, carried on with a view to their reduction, but by a vast system of blockade, affecting & closing up the entire ports of a whole nation. Such have been the recent effects of an European war upon the trade of this neutral country; and the prospect of the future affords no consolation for the past. The triumphal fleets of one of the contending powers cover the ocean; the navy of her enemies has fallen before her; and the communication by sea with France, and Spain and Holland, seems to depend upon her will, and forbids us from transporting in our vessels, as in peace we could, the property of her enemies; enforces against us a rigorous list of contraband; dams up the great channels of our ordinary trade; abridges, transmits and obstructs what she permits us to prosecute; and then refers us to our encumbered traffic in time of peace for the criterion of our commercial rights, in order to justify the consummation of that ruin with which our lawful commerce is menaced by her maxims and her conduct.
(To be continued.) WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE. TABLE is established in college, to receive boarders at the low rate of thirty dollars per quarter; it is intended that the table shall be plentifully furnished in a plain but decent style. Those who wish it, may be accommodated with Beds, Fuel and Candles at a moderate charge. January 28. 8 & 10 P.M.
VALUABLE PROPERTY. AGAIN offer for sale, that valuable and well known Estate, in the Forks of Hanover, called BULFIELD; containing by estimation and old surveys 1676 acres, be the same more or less. There are cleared on this tract about or above 850 acres, laid out into three fields, including 150 acres of Lots, most of which are well set with clover. On this plantation is sowed about 400 bushels of wheat and barley; of the former 360, upwards of 100 of which is on sown and manured land, and very well put in. The plantation is in pretty good order—has some valuable Meadow Land, which, at much labor and expense has been prepared and just getting into use—a tolerable dwelling house, and convenient houses for negroes, with barns, corn houses, stables, &c. &c. If this estate is not sold at private sale on or before Monday the 20th of January next, it will be offered at public auction, on that day, if fair or the next fair day, at which time and place will likewise be offered for sale, between 80 and 90 VALUABLE LABOURERS, consisting of men, women, boys, girls and children, to be sold in families, together with all the stock of every description of cattle, sheep and hogs, seven brood mares, a number of blooded colts, 1, 2, and 3 years old, 11 excellent well-broke mules, and some work horses, and all the plantation utensils, and the crops of corn, fodder &c. now on the land, of from 800 to 1000 barrels. Should a sale of the land not take place, then only about 60 negroes will be for sale, and part only of the corn, and the stock, and plantation articles. The square of lots, with the appurtenances, at present in the occupancy of John A. Cheville, Esq. may be sold, if not given upon the 1st of August next, unless it shall be sooner convenient.
A life estate in the tenement at present in the possession of Mr. John Banks, on Church Hill. 3 pipes of Madeira Wine, which cost £ 44 sterling, imported by myself, nearly two years ago. I likewise with to sell, part of about 20,000 acres of Military Land, lying in the states of Ohio, Kentucky, and in the Indiana Territory. 5000 acres of this land lie on the little Miami and on Ponds Run—6000 acres on Big Bear, or Peter's or Small's Creek, and on Deer Creek, being some of the waters of Green River—upwards of 5000 acres on the North Fork of the Trade water—2000 acres on the east bank of Cumberland River—1000 acres on Rurill's creek, lying within a mile of the town of Columbia, in the county of Adair—200 acres on Greasy creek, in the same county, near the Cumberland River, and on the west side of it—and the balance in the Indiana Territory. On some of these lands I have recently been and know them to be extremely valuable, being in a thickly settled country, very rich, of deep black soil, well watered with springs and tears for mills, and heavily timbered, and several settlements upon them, which are tenanted for the next year, and at one dollar per acre for the cleared land. Of the others that I did not see, I have received good information in general as to the quality and situation. Only 15,000 acres of these lands are for sale, but the whole is offered to fair purchasers, being convinced myself, that all is valuable, and my object, which is a distant one, will be answered by the reservation of any part.
I have also for sale, about 5000 acres of land, lying in the counties of Mercer and Nelson, but as these lands were surveyed on Treasury warrants, and of this description there are many disputes as to title, I will only convey the right I legally hold. The patents have long been in my possession and I have never known the title to be contested. Satisfactory titles to the foregoing property will be made according to the tenure by which I hold it. The terms of sale generally are, one fourth in hand, and the balance in two annual instalments, to bear interest from the date, but a discount of 10 per cent for ready money, will be allowed on each instalment. Bond, with such security as I shall approve, will be required for all sums above 100 dollars, all under that sum will be paid in cash. To facilitate settlements and payments, I will take in discharge of either instalment, at the current or agreed value any stock of the United States or of the Bank of the United States, or any state or private Banks, or Insurance Companies within the state. It is my intention to remain here until the first of August next, for the purpose of winding up and adjusting every transaction of my life, and to prepare for that event which must sooner or later number me with those who have gone before me. Richmond, December 12. JOHN HOPKINS. (thf.)
NOTICE. Pursuant to the last will and testament of Philip Gooch, dec'd. late of Amherst county, will be exposed to sale—A Valuable TRACT OF LAND, lying in the said county, on the main road leading from Lynchburg to New Glasgow, within 5 miles of the latter and 18 of the former place; containing by estimation, four hundred and seven and one half acres, be the same more or less—To Be Sold in the highest bidder, for one third of the value in ready money, to be paid on or before the first day of January, 1807, at which time a title will be made and possession given. The balance of the purchase money, to be paid in four equal annual payments. To secure the payment of which, with interest from the date of each, bond with good security, and a mortgage upon the premises will be required from the purchaser or purchasers. The interest to be remitted in either case upon punctilious payment being made. It is thought useful to say more of this Tract of Land, than that it is very valuable, and well worthy the attention of any person inclined to purchase property of the kind (being in a very agreeable and well-neighborhood) as it is presumed that any person disposed to purchase, would with propriety, to view the premises, which will be shown at any time by application to either of the subscribers, living in the neighbourhood thereof. The sale of the said Tract of Land as above described, and upon the terms, above mentioned, will certainly take place on the third Monday in March next; being court day of the said county, until which time the executors will treat privately with any person disposed to purchase upon the same conditions. Wm. B. GOOCH, ROBERT WALKER, } Executors. Jan. 30. Thf.sup.
STRAYED. From Mrs. Winfree's, in Louisa county, on the night of the 31st December last. A Very likely dark chestnut HORSE, five feet high, eight years old, white face, with some of his feet white, paces, trots and canters extremely well. He was seen the same night he went off, near Louisa court-house, and I do suppose he was aiming for Charlottesville where I purchased him, in September last, of Mr. John Winn. Any person that will deliver the said horse to col. James Lewis, Charlottesville, Maj. Nimrod Bramham, of Albemarle, Mr. Ludlow Bramham, of Louisa, or myself, shall be handsomely rewarded. JAMES W. BRAMHAM. Columbia, (Virg.) Feb. 8. 4t.
A TUTOR wanted, who can teach Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, in a small family. Apply to the Editor of the Enquirer.
TO BE RENTED. A BRICK HOUSE, near that of Mr. Robert Gordon, on the Hill, calculated to accommodate a small family comfortably; attached to it is a half acre of ground well included. December 7. JAS. GREENHOW.
THE subscriber has opened a BROKER'S OFFICE over the Store of Mr. Henry Hovey, and premises attention to all business entrusted to him. JOHN SATCHELL. Jan. 30. cpfw.
WARM SPRINGS, IN THE COUNTY OF BATH, VIRGINIA. HAVING taken a lease on the WARM SPRINGS for 10 years, from the 1st April, 1805; we wish to acquaint the public, that at a great expense and much labour, we have improved it, to accommodate gentlemen, 150 persons, having erected 15 new houses, among them a range of framed stables 240 feet long, together with other stables roomy enough to hold about 100 horses, also 10 new houses 21 by 17 feet, built convenient to the Bath, with fine chimneys, and heated air neatly; a Large and commodious sitting room for the ladies, furnished with different kinds of instruments of music, and kept for that purpose only. A new Bath will be made distinct from the present one, intended for such persons as may not choose to mix with the strong and bath. We have also taken a lease on the Sweet Springs in the county of Monroe, distant 50 miles from the Warm, for 9 years, and are making the necessary preparations for the accommodation of the visitors. The strictest attention will be paid to give satisfaction, as we know from many years experience, that without it but few customers can be expected. It is with much satisfaction that we have it in our power to assure the public that the different houses of entertainment on the roads leading to the Springs have of late been much added to by the proprietors, most of which (above the ridges) the travellers have wished, and have found that appearances run to indicate that in future travellers will be well accommodated. We wish to purchase a Blacksmith, for one that comes well recommended, a generous price will be given. Also wanted to employ a direct elderly woman to undertake the management of the place of house-keeper, either at the Warm or Sweet Springs, one inclined to be industrious, and qualified to discharge such duties, will meet with liberal encouragement on application to us. ROBERT GEORGE TURNER. January 21. cpfw.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE. To be sold to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 1st day of May next, in the town of Lynchburg, and county of Campbell. THAT large and commodious TAVERN and improved piece of ground, adjoining thereto; situated in the centre of laid town and on the main street at the corner leading to the jail and court house, and not more than thirty yards from the latter, opposite Lynch's Ware-House and the street leading from the ferry landing. The TAVERN contains four rooms and a bar on the first floor, including two very large rooms suitable for a ball or dining room; the second floor contains six rooms suitable for lodging rooms, with an excellent garret. This TAVERN has a portion the full length of the house, also a good dry cellar and a well opposite the door, together with a kitchen, smoke-house and stable with twenty-two stalls therein. The unimproved piece of ground contains 141 feet on the main street to Davis's Lot and a hundred feet on the middle street a Lot and a half which is called the Town Lot including the half Lot the stable stands on. It is deemed unnecessary to state the great value of the above property, or say more as to the advantages arising from its central and eligible stand for a TAVERN and store houses, as it is presumed no person would be inclined to purchase the same without viewing the said property; there being no doubt they will be better satisfied after seeing the convenient situation than any information they could get from this advertisement. The terms are one third of the purchase money paid down, one third 25th Dec. following and the remaining one third 25th Dec. 1807, the purchasers giving bond with approved security to carry interest from the date it is punctiliously paid. For further information apply to William Rose of Richmond or the subscriber living near Lynchburg. SAMUEL SCOTT. (tf.) February 21.
MARSHAL'S SALE. BY virtue of a decree of the court of the United States for the 5th circuit in the Virginia district, pronounced at May term, 1805, in behalf of John Tate and Thomas Aspin, officers of Henry Martin, against James Vaughan, administrator of Matthew Vaughan, dec'd and others; will be sold, to the highest bidder, on Saturday the 22d day of this month, the following, SLAVES, viz: Parrot, Peter, Billy, Gypsy, Betty, Joe, Ned and Nelly; or so many of them as may be sufficient to raise the sum of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and 34 cents, with interest on one thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars, part thereof, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the 23d day of May, 1805, and the expenses of sale. WILLIAM MANN, D. M. M. JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. February 4. tf.
THE subscriber offers his services as a BROKER in the city of Richmond, and will transact any business in that line for a moderate commission. He will not inform the public that it is a business with which he is familiar, but assures every one who may think him worthy of their confidence, that no one will be more attentive to their interest. He will also undertake to purchase tobacco on commission. His office is kept on the cross street leading from the Capitol square towards Col. Carrington's. CARTER B. PAGE. December 31.
SALE OF STOCK. On Friday the 14th of next month will be sold at Winchester, the seat of the late William Dandridge deceased, THE balance of the Cattle, Sheep and Hogs belonging to the estate of the decedent. A credit of 12 months will be allowed purchasers for all sums above ten dollars. N. SHEPPARD, For Wm. Langborne executor of Wm. Dandridge. (td.) January 28.
GEORGE WILY, BROKER & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Near the Basin, BUYS and sells all kinds of Produce—Also, and Lots, and houses, Bank Stock, &c. He has for sale, Lots No. 141, 2, 3, and 4, which make one entire square in Du-Val's addition—There is a good Spring attached to them. These lots are well worth the attention of any gentleman wishing to build a summer retreat for his family. July 23.—tf.
LAND. Positively for sale by the subscriber, One thousand acres, formerly known by the name of David Irvin's Quarter, on Otter river, in this county, adjoining the Land whereon the subscriber lives, where there is a merchant mill that makes as good flour as any in America; not more than twenty two miles from the flourishing town of Lynchburg, where there is a good market for all kinds of produce. On this tract there is as much cleared land as is sufficient to work seven or eight hands to advantage, consisting of two fields of first rate river Low Ground and three of High Land, all in good order for cropping, the balance is in woods, a great part of which is heavily timbered, and a great quantity is good tobacco land; there is also on this tract abundance of the best spring water in every field, a good lime-stone quarry the quantity inexhaustible, also an overseer's house, together with other necessary houses for plantation business. The Land is well adapted to the culture of Tobacco, Wheat, Cotton, Corn, Rye, Oats and Flax; the situation is very healthy, and in a good neighborhood, attached to which is a very good range for all sorts of stock. The purchaser may be accommodated with every kind of stock, grain and plantation utensils, and possession given next Christmas, or sooner if required. Credit will be given for two thirds of the purchase money at three equal annual payments, the other third will be required in hand. Tobacco, Bank stock, public securities or negroes will be received in payment. ROBERT SCOTT. Campbell, February 1. 3m.
VALUABLE PROPERTY. WILL be sold, to the highest bidder for ready money on the premises on Saturday the 15th day of February next, by virtue of a deed of trust executed by Richard Bate, to secure the payment of $333 dollars 35 cents, with interest thereon from the date, due to Ransbaw & Gernou and George Pegram junr. and the expenses of the sale. Two acres of land lying upon Appomattox river, within one mile of the town of Petersburg with the water grist and manufacturing mills, Bake house, Distillery house and other houses of improvements erected thereon. PLEASANT ARIN, for Henry Gagnon and Pleasant Arin. Petersburg, January 7. tf.
HOUSTON'S newly invented PATENT METALLIC HONE, may be had at Mr. Geo. Greenhow's store, opposite the Eagle Tavern. The utility of this machine for setting Razors and other instruments which require a fine edge, renders it an object worthy the attention of every individual who may have occasion for its use. December 12. tf.
GUM SWAMP,—FOR SALE. ON the 24th day of February next, will be sold that valuable TRACT OF LAND, late the property of John Salle, dec'd, in Chesterfield county, containing five hundred acres, known by the name of the Gum Swamp, on the turnpike road, ten miles above Manchester, the buildings on which are commodious. One half of the purchase money will be required in hand and the other in twelve months. FRANK SALLE. January 28. T4t.
A FIFTEEN DOLLARS REWARD. RUN-AWAY from the Washington Tavern, on the 27th Dec. last, a Mulatto Man by the name of LEWIS, about 25 years of age. This fellow was formerly the property of Edward Garland of Hanover, was sold to a Mr. Shields of Goochland, and while the property of the said Shields, travelled very considerably through several states. I believe inasmuch as I have no doubt but he will attempt to pass for a free man, to the contrary of which may be discovered by attending to his person; he is about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, with rather an intelligent countenance when spoken to, and is a very well made fellow; indeed he has not a body bound to any marks by which he may be particularly known, other than those already mentioned, and that of his extreme politeness. He is a self-taught living in the state of Mr. Wallins of Goochland, at a place called Dover Mills; yet his very general acquaintance may subject him to be caught elsewhere, perhaps in Lexington, in the county of Rockbridge (Virginia) at which place he lived for some time prior to his being my property. He is a very good barber, and perhaps may attempt that calling for a support in some of the remote towns of Virginia. Nevertheless if he is secured in any jail within the state of Virginia so that I can regain him again, or delivered to me in the City of Richmond, I will give the above reward and reasonable charges. EDWARD GARLAND. February 4. (tf.)
THE subscriber has opened a BROKER'S OFFICE over the Store of Mr. Henry Hovey, and premises attention to all business entrusted to him. JOHN SATCHELL. Jan. 30. cpfw.