Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1808-07-29 00:00:00

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At a Court of Hustings
for the city of Williamsburg, held the 28th day of June, 1808. Robert Greenhow, Plff. In Chancery AGAINST Thomas Reeves & James Davis, Defs. THE Defendant Thomas Reeves not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the court that he is not an inhabitant of this country, on the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, It is ordered , that the said defendant do appear here on or before the fourth Monday in October next and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the newspapers printed in the city of Richmond for two months successively and posted at the front door of the court house of this city; & it is further ordered, that the defendant James Davis, do not pay to the said Thomas Reeves, his agent or attorney, any money or other property in his hands belonging to the said Thomas, until the further order of this court.
A copy—Teste, William Russell, C. C.
Buckingham County, June
Court, 1808.
Peter Guerrant, Jr. Plaintiff AGAINST James Rea, William Guerrant and John Hobson, Jr. Defendants ON the motion of the plaintiff by counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendant James Rea is not an inhabitant of this state It is ordered and decreed , that unless he shall appear here on or before September next and answer the Plaintiff's bill, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to him, and decree the matter thereof accordingly; & that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively and another copy be posted up at the front door of the court house of this county.
A Copy—Teste, R. Eldridge, Jr. D. C.
25 Dollars Reward
WILL be given for apprehending and delivering to the subscriber, or committing to jail, so that I get her, a runaway negro woman, named
Ann or Annaca,
Who eloped on Sunday morning last—She is a remarkable likely young mulatto woman, about 19 years of age, rather above the middle stature, more of a bright mulatto than otherwise, is uncommonly straight and well made; she has a full face, and when she speaks, seems inclined to lisp, though hardly obvious, and as if her tongue was too large for her mouth. She has a variety of clothes, and therefore it is unnecessary to attempt a description of them. It is uncertain where she will take herself, whether to Richmond or elsewhere. She has lived in Richmond in my tavern for several years, and has extensive acquaintance, having always been in a tavern.
Parke Goodall.
Four Dollars Reward.
STRAYED from the commons of this city, about six weeks ago,
A Reddish Coloured Cow,
with very little (if any) white on her; she has short crumpled horns, was in remarkable good order, when she strayed away. It is most probable she is gone down the country, as she was raised by Mr. Pierce of Drummonds Creek, James City county. Any person that will deliver her to me in Richmond, shall receive the above reward, or whoever will give such information that I may get her again, shall receive two dollars reward.
Peter Aubrey.
Richmond July 9th, 1808.
Notice.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of CHARLES F. BATES, dec. are requested to make them known, that provision may be made to meet them. Those indebted are earnestly solicited to make speedy payment, as it will be extremely unpleasant to be compelled to resort to coercive measures. Col. HEATH L. MILLER is authorised to transact and settle all business relative thereto.
Mary H. Bates, adm xx . Goochland, July 18th 1808.
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed by Samuel Lizzon, on the 7th day of December, 1807, for the purposes therein mentioned, WILL BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, on the premises, for ready money, on Friday the 5th August 1808.
Three Acres of Land,
Adjoining the Fairfield race ground, in the county of Henrico, with all the improvements thereon consisting of a framed dwelling house, garden fence, &c. being the same piece of land whereon said Lizzon now lives. Also his household and kitchen FURNITURE, and the whole of his
Carpenters' Tools,
Or so much as will satisfy the trust mentioned.—
The sale will take place between the hours of 10 and 3 o'clock.
James Jenks, Trustee. Rocketts, 25th July, 1808.
Poetry.
FOR THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
ON THE BATTLE OF PRINCETON,
JANUARY 3, 1777.
A SONG.
STERN winter scowld along the plain, And ruthless Boreas urg'd amain His fierce impetuous course; In ice the wat'ry regions bound, The torrent's foaming rage confound And stop its boisterous force.
While hostile bands their rights invade, Columbia's sons in tents were laid, And winter's blasts defied: No foes appal, no dangers fright, Whilst freedom's sacred cause they fight, And Washington's their guide.
While slumbers seal'd the hero's eyes, He saw a God-like form arise, Like martial Pallas dress'd: 'Twas LIBERTY, celestial maid! In all her golden charms array'd, The Goddess stood confess'd.
My son, she cried, the Gods above, Thy country's sacred cause approve, And on the virtues smile; Though proud oppression waste the land, Yet freedom purchas'd by thy hand, Shall soon reward the toil.
Lo! where Britannia's banners rise, In awful pomp, and brave the skies, Exulting o'er the land; Her haughty legions soon shall feel, The force of thine avenging steel And this thy chosen band.
Though veterans compose their train, And ten-fold legions fill the plain, To martial deeds enur'd; Undaunted rise and take the field, For liberty shall lend her shield And victory her sword.
Up rose the chief, at the command And strait conven'd his faithful band, Inspir'd by freedom's lore; Egyptian darkness veil'd the night, But liberty's celestial light Their footsteps went before.
Where Princeton rears the muses' seat, In arms the hostile legions met, And fate upheld the scale; Forth rush'd the blazing orb of light, To add new glories to the sight, When freedom's sons assail.
Like Mars Columbia's hero stood, Her haughty foes were drench'd in blood, Or shunn'd the doubtful fight; Whilst Britons shame and grief confound, Fair liberty the victors crown'd With honors ever bright.
Henceforth the grateful muse shall twine Her annual wreath at freedom's shrine, The hero's brow to grace; By whose victorious arm resor'd, No more she flies the hostile sword, But hails her native place.
And still with the revolving year, A garland shall the muse prepare, To deck her MERCER's urn; While freedom fills the trump of fame, Columbia shall revere his name, His fate her sons shall mourn.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Liverpool, to a Merchant in Philadelphia, dated May 2d, 1808.
I send you a copy of the fourth edition of a pamphlet, ( Britain Independent of commerce ) that has, at least, drawn a great deal of notice to it in all parts of England; and by the next opportunity you shall have a review of the pamphlet in the Edinburgh Review, No. XXII, as I have not yet read all that valuable work myself, but shall by the time Captain ***** is ready to sail.
I see nothing indeed in this pamphlet that would suit Britain so well as America. We have no such variety of soil or production as you have. You have many more articles, for instance for tea, such as sassafras, &c. also, the maple tree for sugar. If, in Britain, we should reform as much as the author means, he has not shown how revenue from tea, wines, &c. can be supplied—and how will seventy millions sterling continue to be annually raised? At the same time, it will be acknowledged, that the inland or home, trade of Britain, is fifty times as much as the foreign trade; for, by wise regulations and acts of parliament, it is so regulated, that our home manufactures are protected by heavy duties on the foreign. The only articles of manufacture allowed to be imported into and sold in Britain are linen goods, or articles made of flax—and these are loaded with a duty of from 75 to 120 per cent.—and plain muslins and narkens by the India company, which are loaded with a duty from 35 to 50 per cent.—all printed muslins and calicoes, silk goods of every description, and all manufactured goods, imported by the company, must be sold for exportation, none are permitted to be sold for home consumption—by a late act of parliament, foreign linen goods draw back none of the duties on being exported.
"Brandy pays a duty of eighteen shillings per gallon, customs and excise included. Gin about seventeen shillings per gallon. And Rum only about ten shillings per gallon, because it is the produce of our colonies. Over and above the duties, the annual licence paid for by the retailers of wines and foreign spirits, is about ten pounds sterling per annum—while the sellers or retailers of home made spirits only pay about two pounds sterling for their yearly licence—by these wise acts of parliament, our people are prevented and deterred from using so much of the foreign luxuries, and thereby save large sums annually to the nation, that would otherwise, if they came cheap, be wasted. Nay, you will be surprised when I inform you that night three times the quantity of foreign wines and spirits are consumed in the U. States of America, for the use of six millions of people, than are consumed in Britain by twelve millions of people."
"These wise acts of our government, who put heavy duties upon foreign articles, both encourage substitutes to be made or used in their place—and act as bounties or protecting laws, saving great sums to the nation, while luxury is allowed to vent itself in dress, furniture, &c. because these are British manufactures, and by the use of them the labouring poor are employed. Heavy taxes are not only laid on foreign articles, to encourage the make of them at home, but bounties are given often to encourage the exportation of them abroad. Thus bounties are given to vessels employed in the fisheries, as well as a bounty upon the fish exported; a bounty of one penny per yard is given upon all linen and cotton cloths exported, if below one shilling and six pence per yard in value."
"In the last session of parliament, some favor had been extended to the chemical branches which your embargo has frustrated, and we fear will cut off our trade in the oil of vitriol and other things. We calculate, however, that your congress, being all farmers, and reputed to be very covetous, will take off the embargo when they meet in October, to which time I learned they are prorogued."
* The pamphlet is for sale at this Office.
From the Port Folio.
ELOQUENCE OF ST. CHRYSOSTOM.
OF the biography of St. Chrysostom, the celebrated orator of the Greek church, Gibbon has given us a sketch interesting for the vicissitudes of his life, and the extraordinary splendour of his character.—With his works he possesses no acquaintance; being alarmed at the sight of thirteen folio volumes filled with homilies, and satisfied to form his opinion of their excellence from those critics, who have been most moderate in their commendations.—They (he says) unanimously attribute to the Christian orator the free command of an elegant and copious language, the judgment to conceal the advantages which he derived from the knowledge of rhetoric and philosophy; an inexhausted fund of metaphors and similitudes, of ideas and images, to vary and illustrate the most familiar topics; the happy art of engaging the passions in the service of virtue, and of exposing the folly as well as the turpitude of vice, almost with the truth of dramatick representation."
As a proof that this criticism is both moderate and just, we need only refer to the wonderful effects of an oratory which exalted an obscure and unambitious individual to a height of power in the metropolis of the Eastern Empire, equal, if not superior, to the Emperor himself.
Having lately met with one of those volumes, and thinking that I perceive a mine of eloquence which justifies the application of "Chrysostom," (or "the golden mouth") given by his contemporaries, and which might contribute, if successfully explored, to the literary wealth of the present age, I have ventured to offer you the following translation of a passage in his homily on PATIENCE.
"Remember then, my brethren! in the pressure of poverty, in the pain and languor of disease, in all afflictions, remember the sufferings of Job, and blush for your complaints. But let me display to you all the terrors of a war, in which all nature was combined against him. Ten children were torn from him; all in one dreadful moment; all in the flower of life; all in the bloom of virtue! and by no ordinary means, but by a death the most cruel, the least expected. Is there any, whom such a flood of ruin would not overwhelm?—Any heart of adamant which could resist it? There is none; not one. For if any of these calamities would have been of itself intolerable, think what must have been his agony against whom such a host of miseries was assembled!"
"Remember then, my brethren! when you have lost the cherished objects of
your souls, a son, a daughter, remember that your refuge from despair, is the example of Job. Look there for consolation. Remember his words in the midst of his anguish; they sanctify his memory with a splendor to which the lustre of a thousand diadems is pale. Behold the extent of his desolation! Behold this shipwreck of every remaining comfort, this last and bloody scene of a tragedy of horrors! You may have wept over the grave of one child, perhaps of another or of another; but he, of all; he, in one, moment the delighted father of a numerous offspring, is, in the next childless. Nor did they expire gradually and gently in their beds—nor did he sit by them—nor did he feel the last faint pressure of their hands—nor did he hear the dying whispers of affection. Even these sad soothings were denied him. Nor was aggravation wanting, which can add to the bitterness of grief. They died not only suddenly, but in their youth, not only in youth, but in innocence; unconscious of evil, unsuspecting of misfortune.—In the sons and daughters of Job, he had watched every bud of virtue as it opened; they shone in all the varieties of human excellence; they were worthy of all his love, and they were all beloved. If any one of these circumstances would have swelled the torrent of adversity, what must have been its fury when they were all seen united, when they all rushed together against him?—The enemy of the world had put forth all his strength, and attacked him with all the malignity of his nature; he had bereaved him of all his enjoyments; he had left him no hope but for death."
"When we think how these things were borne, my brethren, we are lost in amazement! we behold a miracle of the Almighty! The storm had howled among his branches, had stripped him at once of all his fruit: it had passed over him and he stood a leafless trunk—but he stood. The angry waves of affliction had rolled upon him, but his bark still floated in a sea of sorrow—All the foundations of his faith were undermined, but the tower was unshaken."
"In the intervals of pain, when disease had suspended her tortures, that the several tortures of reflection might be inflicted, what must have been his feelings! His thoughts flew back to the children he had lost—sad recollection to a father! He remembered also their filial tenderness, their obedience, their endearing qualities which had increased the natural affection of a parent, and now aggravated his misfortune. Had they been vicious the unworthiness of their lives would have been some consolation for their deaths; but the memory of their virtues showed him the inestimable value of blessings snatched from him forever.—He remembered also that, alas! he had lost all—that not one was spared—that he had no earthly object of his love remaining. Had only one survived, how would he have cherished it? How sweet would have been such a comforter in his misery? But where now was a wretched father, deprived of all his children, to look for comfort? He remembered also the suddenness of their fate. The force of grief, as of joy, is strengthened by being unexpected. How often, when death had seized upon his victim, after a few days illness, do we hear complaints of the cruelty of death? Yet he had beheld the destruction of his children, not in a few days nor in a few hours, nor in one; but in a moment.—In a moment the scene of their social festivity was made a den of slaughter—their habitation their tomb? At this funeral pile, my brethren! Behold a father; He searches among the ruins—he grasps a broken pillar of the building—it is wet with the blood of his children. With one trembling hand he removes a stone—the other shrinks from the mangled bodies are before him—the illusions of hope are vanished. There is neither life, nor form, nor feature remaining. In vain does he attempt to recognize their well known lineaments, in vain to distinguish one from another.—They are all alike; all lacerated with innumerable wounds: all crushed into a loathsome mass of deformity."
"You are agitated, my brethren! I behold your tears. If you cannot bear those things, how would you have borne them? If your hearts can be thus melted by a cold recital of another's calamity, think what must have been the agony of the man who beheld it—of the father who endured it? Amidst the wailings of distress, do you hear the voice of upbraiding? Does he say, "Wherefore is this evil come upon me? Is this the reward of benevolence; Have I opened my doors to the stranger? Have I distributed my wealth to the poor? Have I been a father to the fatherless? And is it therefore that I am naked and destitute? Have I instructed my children in wisdom? Have I led them in the paths of righteousness? Have I taught them to worship God? And is it therefore that he has destroyed them?" No such murmurs escape him. He kis-
ses the hand that chastises him. He bends with resignation to the will of Heaven—"The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: blessed be the name of the Lord!" Wonder not, my brethren, that he tore his hair—that he scattered the fragments of his garments to the winds—that he fell upon the earth—that he rolled in the dust. He was a father.—Had he been unmoved, his fortitude would have been without merit—a cold and brutish philosophy would have disgraced the character of Job."
FROM THE MONITOR.
Our readers will recollect that the editor of the Democratic Press has hitherto been the zealous advocate of Governor Clinton, for president, in the state of Pennsylvania. The following declaration of his convictions of the propriety of supporting Mr. Madison are copied from his paper of the 18th inst. To say nothing of the merits of Messrs. Madison and Clinton, the view which Mr. Binns has taken of the subject is extremely just, and cannot fail to have a salutary influence on the mind of every real republican.
From the Philadelphia Democratic Press.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
It has been remarked by the readers of the Press, that for some weeks I have declined any publication on the Presidential Election. Let it not be inferred that I have been an indifferent observer on so important a public question. With patient industry, unwearied attention, and an ardent desire to come to right conclusions, I have read all that has been published on the subject throughout the United States. I have reflected on it with seriousness and anxiety. The result I now submit.
My opinions as to the merits and claims of Mr. Clinton and Mr. Madison, and as to the dangerous tendency of the mode of nominating, remain as they were; and could I believe, as I have done, that there was a probable chance of Mr. Clinton's being elected, by the votes of the Democratic party , he should have my ardent and zealous support. I do not so believe. On the contrary, I am thoroughly satisfied that if it were possible Mr. Clinton could succeed, it must be by the aid of the Federal party , who can have no serious expectation of electing a man of their own principles. I have seen enough, and more than enough, in Pennsylvania, of the evil consequences of elections conducted on such understandings, ever to wish to see a Chief Magistrate elected by such unnatural means, as the union of the minority of the democratic with the federal party. With the consequences, deadly and destructive as they have been, of the memorable election of 1805 before my eyes, I should be infatuated, criminally obstinate or corrupt, if I did not cry aloud and spare not, against such a connection.
The causes which have led to those conclusions and determinations are many, I shall state such of them as occur to my mind.
A great number of respectable republican meetings in the several states have determined to support James Madison as President, and George Clinton as Vice President of the U. S. not a single meeting, in any district of the Union, has come to a resolution to support Mr. Clinton as President, except the late meeting of township delegates in the county of Northumberland.
That county is assuredly one of the most decidedly democratic counties in this state, and the meeting of the delegates which declared in favor of Mr. Clinton, was composed of some of the most respectable men in that truly respectable county. With most of them I have long had the honor and pleasure to be in habits of personal intimacy and confidential intercourse. I know and venerate the purity of their motives and the soundness of their principles, and I am perfectly satisfied that when the evidence which is daily presenting itself to the public mind shall be presented to theirs, they cannot resist the new current of opinion which has set in favor of Mr. Madison in this state.
Next to the regular organization of public meetings for the expression of public opinion, the toasts which are drunk on National Festivals, are among the best criteria to ascertain the public sentiment. I have read those drunk on the Fourth of July, with care, and marked well that the same preponderance of the public mind which prevailed in favor of Mr. Madison in the calm deliberation of public bodies did, still more decidedly, influence the spontaneous effusions of the American people when commemorating their emancipation from foreign thralldom, and renewing their oaths to Freedom and Independence.
Another and a powerful means of judging as to the state of the public mind is from the public journals. I have observed

ed, that, with very few exceptions indeed, the Republican papers on the continent have declared for Mr. Madison. These are strong and impressive facts of a domestic and party nature: facts which most seriously affect every democrat who values the integrity of the party, is conscious of the advantages of union, and has no motive but principle on object, but the public good. There are also National considerations, of no light or trifling kind, which press heavy upon this object, and cannot fail to awaken serious apprehensions. A large proportion of the republican papers which do advocate Mr. Clinton, advocate him in such a manner as, must wound his feelings and excite his disapprobation. I make this assertion on the firm confidence I have in the inflexible republican principles of a veteran of the Revolution. He can never lend his name to sanction arguments the object and tendency of which are to give efficacy to federal declamation and put to hazard the peace and prosperity of the country, by obstructing the measures of a wise and virtuous government, which are honestly intended and well calculated, to correct mischief from abroad and prevent evils at home.
The Presidential election is too intimately connected with our foreign relations, not to make the following circumstances deserving the attention of the people of the U. S.
It will not be denied, at this day, in the present state of the European and Commercial worlds, and with the mass of testimony which is before us; that foreign nations feel greatly interested in the decision of the citizens of the U. States as to who shall be their chief magistrate: But if there be well grounded suspicion that any foreign government is attempting, either directly or indirectly, to influence the election, it would, as it ought, arouse all the proud spirit of independence, the manliness of national feeling and meet the determined opposition of freemen.
It is now ascertained that the federal merchants, the anglo-federalists and British agents in the U. S. in their private circles, make no scruple to avow that they would consider the failure of Mr. Madison's election as equivalent to a vote of censure on the principles and measures of the present administration of the general government. Any man, therefore, but Mr. Madison, no matter how pure, no matter how inflexible, no matter how determined, would, by them, be welcomed with Huzzahs and his path strewn with flowers as the harbinger of a victory over democratic principles and democratic men.
One other fact of a solemn and alarming nature has within a few days come to my knowledge and that in so unquestionable a shape as to leave no loop upon which to hang a doubt of its truth. It is a v. time of argument in favor of Mr. Madison. A British Officer in this country declared to the following purport, that he should "consider it a triumph if any other candidate than Madison were to be elected President!!"
If these solicitudes and this extraordinary declaration from a British Officer, be taken in connection with the late tour of the accredited agents of the British government, through the Eastern States, and the anticipations in the federal papers that Mr. Rose is shortly to return to this country, they are abundantly sufficient to excite alarm, jealousy and apprehension, and abundant motives to induce all the lovers of the real and substantial Independence of America to rally round their government and unite as one man in a determined, animated national exertion to defeat the machinations of a government whose inclination and endeavor it is, and ever has been, to humble the just pride and blast the freedom and happiness of the U. States.
With anxious and deliberate attention I have considered all the facts, which in the abstract I have now offered, and which so deeply affect the public interest, the harmony and unity of the democratic party and the national honor and independence; and I am frank to confess my decided conviction that it has become necessary for the whole democratic party cordially and faithfully, to unite in the support of James Madison as President and George Clinton as Vice President of the U. States. Such unanimity will be fatal to the aspiring hopes of the enemies of our principles at home and convince the foreign enemies of the U. S. that they have nothing to hope from democratic difference of opinion.
NEW-YORK, July 22. We mentioned yesterday, that the brig Edward was boarded by a French privateer from Charleston. They considered the Edward a good prize, but owing to a passenger on board the Edward, who had befriended the capt. of the privateer, the Edward was suffered to proceed, and from no other cause.
Another Revolution in Spain. By the brig Aurora, Capt. Ripley, arrived last night at Quarantine, we have received a Trinidad paper of the 25th June, containing the following important intelligence:—
TRINIDAD, June 25. Yesterday evening arrived in this port the police ship L'Orient, after the short passage of 20 days from Gibraltar. We regret that this paper was so far advanced before the public prints received by this occasion were put into our possession, that we cannot gratify our readers with an account of the important intelligence they exhibit, respecting the fate of the Spanish monarchy, now in all probability annihilated by the treachery of the Corsican.
We therefore propose to bring it into one point of view, by publishing a gazette extraordinary, which we will lay before our readers early in the ensuing week. Let it suffice at present to say that another revolution has taken place in Spain, by which the old king, Charles IV. has again resumed the reigns of government; but by a fatality which appears to attend all the continental crowned heads, he has put himself under the tuition of Bonaparte, who keeps him, the Prince of Asturias, the Prince of Peace and several of the grandees, who accompanied the Royal visitors to Bayonne, prisoners. The grand duke of Berg, under the authority of the deluded monarch, now executes the office of lieutenant-general of Charles, in the government of his kingdom. The intelligence upon the whole is highly important and exhibits a scene of treachery on the part of the Corsican, not equalled by any of his former intrigues in his extraordinary career; which however, it is very possible, his present attempt may bring to a crisis.
We have received, by the Aurora, arrived last night from Trinidad, the "Trinidad Current" of the 26th June, containing the Official Detail from the Madrid Gazette, of the surprising events which have recently taken place in Spain, they will fill five columns. The old king of Spain formally renounces his right to the throne in the following manner:
"I have ceded to my ally and dear friend, the Emperor of the French, ALL MY RIGHTS TO SPAIN AND THE INDIES, having stipulated that the crown of Spain and the Indies shall continue independent and entire, such as it has been under my dominion; and likewise that our holy religion, is to be not only the established religion, but the only one professed throughout the territories of this monarchy," &c.
The Prince of Asturias and their highnesses Don Carlos & Don Antonio have also renounced their right to the throne of Spain.
The following is an extract of a letter from a gentleman of the first respectability in Trinidad, to his friend in this city dated June 27, 1808.
"Two revolutions have taken place in Spain since the 15th of March. One produced the abdication of the old king in favor of the prince of Asturias; the other, the resignation of the Prince in favor of the father; and as they could not agree among themselves, they went into Bayonne to submit their differences to the decision of BO-NAPARTE, who has laid violent hands on the whole party, including the Prince of Peace, and several of the grandees and keeps them all prisoners. He has made the king, appoint MURAT Lieutenant General of the kingdom. Murat, they say, is in Madrid, with 34,000 men; but I don't believe he has more than 30,000. The province has revolted against this authority of Charles; proclaimed Ferdinand the 7th the lawful king and called all faithful Spaniards to take arms in defence of their religion and their country. The supreme council of government is at Seville; in Andalusia alone 150,000 men were in arms. It would appear that they rise en masse, & massacre all who do not wear the red cockade, which the council has ordered that every man shall wear. We are before now I suppose, in possession of CADIZ and the SPANISH NAVY, which the council have agreed to deliver up in trust to admiral PURVIS and general SPENCER whose expedition, it now appears, was sent out to favor the king's emigration to Mexico. Six French ships of the line are also in the inner harbor of Cadiz but they are completely in jeopardy. Not a man dare go on shore, and Purvis is in the rear with 14 ships. THE POPULACE OF CADIZ TORE OLD OSLAND THE GOVERNOR INTO PIECES, from a suspicion that he was in the French interest. The French merchants are all on board the French ships, and the only means of saving their lives is to surrender to the British admiral Purvis; for if they land, they would be hunted down like wild beasts by the people."
MADRID GAZETTE, May 13, 1808.
Circular address of the Council of Castile. Most Faithful Spaniards!
You have, for twenty years together, obeyed with unexceptionable loyalty, the august monarch of Spain; ever treading in the steps of your forefathers: you have made suitable returns to his paternal love, and shared the just concern which the council expressed to his majesty respecting his abdication, on the day following that on which it took place. If we published his successors accession to the throne, it was merely to comply with his supreme commands. We would have long continued submissive and faithful to his majesty, if we had understood that his abdication and resignation of the crown was not accompanied with the requisite spontaneous freedom.
Ever since Charles IV. made it known that this abdication had been forced from him and that he deemed himself fully entitled to resume the crown, the board of government, the council of Castile and the whole nation, have been anxiously waiting the decision of a question of such high importance; and the council have examined with the greatest attention, the documents upon which the powerful umpire who has been appointed for that purpose, has grounded his determination. The most important of these are subjoined here; and, in the opinion formed by the council, they have the certainty that they have not deviated from that which the august party himself would have adopted, if less complicated circumstances had not stopped that concert. It is undoubtedly unfortunate that the union of the Fathers of the people has not yet taken place; but this misfortune will prove less distressing to their beneficent hearts, as the result of the late events holds out flattering hopes for the future, and the nation will shortly be enabled to proceed with steady steps in the career of her happiness and prosperity.
These hopes begin to be realized since the king has appointed to supply his place in the government of these kingdoms, a prince who without any other interest than that of Spain, already evinced by his unremitted exertions at the head of his army,
devotes himself with eagerness and the most suitable means, to whatever is conducive to her glory and felicity.
The board of government, which shares all the sentiments of the council, has viewed the crisis of the preceding events in the same light and considers the determination adopted by the wisdom of the tribunal and to which it subscribes without restriction, as the fulfilment of the irrevocable decrees of providence, which never forsakes a religious people, attached to their sovereign and to the laws by which they are governed.
The principal documents quoted, and which the council had taken into consideration at the meeting held on the 6th inst, in the presence of their excellencies marquis Caballero don Geo Gil and don Gio O'Farrell, members of the board of government, are the following ones:
PROTEST OF CHARLES IV.
"Dearest brother—On the 19th of last month, I put into the hands of my son a decree of abdication. On the very same day I entered a solemn protest against the decree which had been issued in the midst of wild commotions, and forced from me by the critical circumstances of that period. Now that tranquility is restored; that my protest is in the hands of my august friend and faithful ally the Emperor of the French, king of Italy, and it is notorious, that my son could not induce his imperial and royal majesty to acknowledge him in that capacity—I solemnly declare that the deed of abdication which I subscribed on the 19th last month, is null and void in all its parts; and therefore it is my will that you should make it known to all my subjects that their good king who loves them wishes to dedicate the remainder of his life to unremitting exertions for their happiness. I provisionally confirm in their situations the members of the present board of government and all the civil and military officers who have been appointed ever since the 19th day of March last. I intend to go and meet my august ally the emperor of the French, king of Italy; after which I will send further orders to the board.
ITHE KING.
To the supreme board of Government.
Letter of his Majesty the Emperor of France, to his Royal Highness the Prince of Asturias.
"Brother—I have received your Royal Highness's letter. The inspection of your royal father's paper, must have already convinced you of the affection I ever bore him; under the present circumstances, you will allow me to speak to your highness with frankness and candor; I entertained a hope, that upon my arrival at Madrid, I might persuade my illustrious friend to make some necessary reforms in his dominions, and in some degree to gratify the public opinion. The prince of peace's dismissal appeared to me requisite for his happiness and that of his people. The events in the north have retarded my journey. In the mean time the occurrences at Aranjuez have taken place. I do not set up for a judge of what has happened, nor of the conduct of the prince of peace; but, what I know is, that kings should never ensure their subjects to shed blood, doing themselves justice. I pray to God that your royal highness may never experience it. It would not suit the interests of Spain that a prince who has married a princess of the royal family, and who has so long governed the kingdom should be persecuted. He had no friends left; nor would your royal highness have any, if you should one day be unfortunate. The people gladly seize the opportunities of making themselves amends for the respect they shew us.—You cannot try the prince of peace; his crimes, if he be charged with any, ought to be buried in the rights of the throne. I have often expressed my wish, that the prince of peace might be dismissed:—If I have not been more urgent, it has been owing to my friendship for King Charles, from whose weak partiality I choose to turn my eyes. Oh wretched humanity! imbecility and error: such is our motto! All this, however, may be reconciled; let the Prince of Peace be banished from Spain, and I offer him an asylum in France. With respect to the abdication of Charles IV. it has taken place at a time when my armies occupied Spain; and Europe and posterity might believe that I have sent so many troops for the sole purpose of driving my friend and ally from his throne. As a neighbouring sovereign, I am bound to inquire into what has taken place, previous to my acknowledging this abdication. I therefore wish to converse with your royal highness upon the subject. The caution with which I have hitherto proceeded in these affairs ought to convince you of the support you will find in me, if actions, of any description, ever disturb your reign. When King Charles informed me of the events of October last, I was greatly concerned at them, and I flatter myself, that I have contributed by my suggestions, to their happy issue—Your royal highness should dread the consequences of popular commotions; some of my scattered soldiers may be assassinated, but such excesses could only bring ruin into Spain—Your royal highness knows all the recesses of my heart: you may see, that I am aggravated by various ideas which want to be fixed. You may be certain, that at all events I will deal with you as I have done with your father: rely upon my wish to reconcile every thing, and to find opportunities to give you proofs of my affection and high regard. And so, I pray God may keep you, brother, under his holy and worthy protection.
(Signed) NAPOLEON.
NEW YORK, July 20.
PASSAMAQUODDY NEWS.
To the Editor of the Newburyport Herald.
EASTPORT, 18th June.
Sir, The long boasted liberty of the United States, having extended its fame through every civilized country on earth; its greatest and best patriots having declared it a Free and Sovereign asylum for the oppressed of mankind, it is not to be wondered that we should be thronged with foreigners of every class and description.—But how repugnant to liberty must be the wretch, who can cringe to the affluent usurper of humanity, and wantonly sport with the lives of the poor and friendless fugitive, who after enduring all the calamities, the oppressions and scourges of tyranny; who after having suffered more than once under the excruciating lash of despotism, for the attempts to gain his freedom, can give him up wantonly to the merciless execution of tyrannical vengeance, must be one of those infernal scourges, sent on earth to show mankind, to a demonstration, the very extent of merciless inhumanity.
I have been led to make the above reflections from an occurrence in this place of late, which I shall endeavor to relate as briefly as possible, and leave the public to judge.
On Monday the 13th inst. came in this place two men in common apparel, as passengers in a boat, by the names of Patrick McGuire and Connolly Donald; immediately after her arrival, lieutenant Swett, commanding part of a company of the United States forces stationed here by military force, took and pinned and confined them in the rendezvous, and kept them in that situation until the Wednesday following, when they were demanded by some of his Britannic majesty's subjects as deserters from the troops quartered at St. John's N. B. Lieut. Swett, desired them to send a boat to a bye port of the island—when after disguising the prisoners, they were conducted to the boat in two of Lieut. Swett's men's great coats. The boat then proceeded to put them on board one of his Majesty's cutters, which sailed immediately for St. John's, where they have received sentence. One is to be SHOT, and the other to receive NINE HUNDRED & NINETY-NINE LASHES.
As I conceive no treaty at present exists between the two countries, and no law whatever to have induced the Lieutenant to deliver up these men, I consider it an infringement of the laws of hospitality, and contrary to the constitution of the United States and hope you will give this publicity, that it may for the future deter the like inhumanity, & wanton occurrences.
Your constant reader.
HUDSON, (N. Y.) July 12.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—On Friday last as captain John Smith, of this city, was employed in depositing a quantity of flax in the Caverac creek, for the purpose of water rotting it, influenced by the warmth of the season, and the agreeable temperature of the water, he plunged into the stream, plunged into the stream, to enjoy the pleasure of a cold bath. Having never been, as he says, an expert swimmer, and having wholly neglected the practice for several years past, he was immediately carried by the rapidity of the current, to a deep place in the river, and there went to the bottom. Being immediately sensible of his danger, he attempted as he rose to the surface of the water, to call for assistance to a Mr. Hutchinson, a man in his employ, who was dropping the flax at a small distance below him. But as he was in a measure strangled, he failed to excite the attention of Hutchinson and again went to the bottom. As he rose the second time he found himself too much exhausted to attempt calling for help, and went down the third time. All hopes of preserving his life now vanished, and he prepared to meet his fate. Just at this critical moment, a large dog belonging to the captain, seeing his master in distress leapt into the stream and swam to the place where he last disappeared. As he rose again he was so forunate as to lay hold of his dog. He was immediately brought to the shore, supported as he supposed by his friend Hutchinson; but how great must have been his astonishment and gratitude when he found that he had been preserved from a watery grave not by the friendly arm of a fellow creature, but under the guidance of a merciful providence by the wonderful sagacity of his faithful dog!
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PHILADELPHIA, July 23.
CHESNUT WARD.
At a meeting of the democratic citizens of Chesnut ward—
JONAS SYMONDS, was unanimously called to the chair, and
WM. DUANE, secretary.
It was Resolved, That a committee be elected to meet the committees from the other wards, on the subject of the ensuing general election—when the following citizens, having the greatest number of votes, were chosen:
J. SYMONDS, WM. DUANE, B. McM AHON, WM. Y. BIRCH, S. MEEKER,
The following resolutions were then unanimously agreed to:
Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting, that THOMAS JEFFERSON, president of the U. States, is entitled to the gratitude of his country, for his long, consistent and successful devotion to the promotion of the liberty and independence of the United States, and the maintenance of a policy corresponding in virtue and wisdom, with the principles which gave America existence as a nation.
Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting, that the embargo laid by congress, was founded in wisdom, and has been justified by every day's subsequent experience; and that we will, by all legal and just means, support the government in its execution, and in such further measures of wisdom and policy as congress may hereafter adopt, to maintain the peace of the United States, if possible, and to render war effectual against foreign enemies and domestic traitors, should the constitutional authorities find such a resort necessary or inevitable.
Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting, that JAMES MADISON and GEORGE CLINTON, recommended by the meeting of the majority of the members of congress, at Washington, for president and vice president; and of SIMON SNYDER, recommended by the meeting at Lancaster, for governor, during the last winter, are the candidates of the republican party, and the only candidates who ought to be supported by the democratic party of this commonwealth.
Taking into consideration, some recent deceptions attempted to be put upon the people of this commonwealth, by a meeting of 34 persons in the county of Northumberland,
Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting that the citizens put in nomination for the electoral ticket of president and vice president,
by the state convention at Lancaster last winter, should be called upon, before their election, to declare whether they will or will not support the candidates put in nomination in the usual manner; and if they should refuse to support that nomination, or refuse to make a declaration thereupon, that such persons, if any, should not be retained on the republican ticket; and that the state committee of correspondence be requested to call on them severally for that purpose.
Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting, that the nomination of James Ross, as candidate for the chair of this state, is an avowal, on the part of those who support him, that they approve of all those acts of his public life, which lost him the confidence of the people of this commonwealth; and that, as the odious measures of policy in the general and state governments; the dangerous and destructive measures which he endeavored to carry into effect, had they been successful, must have undermined the liberties of the American people; we recommend to the people of this commonwealth, as they are opposed to the destructive laws of the reign of terror, to the traitorous schemes of Aaron Burr, and his associates, and to the scheme proposed by James Ross, for taking the election of the president from the people, and placing it in the hands of a secret conclave—to come forth in their might at the election in October, and save themselves from their worst enemies.
Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting, that Simon Snyder, of Northumberland, as a man of an useful and irreproachable private life, and of an active and faithful character in public, merits the confidence and the most effective and active support of the people of this commonwealth for the office of governor.
J. SYMONDS, Chairman. WM. DUANE, Sec'y.
MONTREAL, (L. Canada) June 20.
We understand that on Monday evening and Tuesday morning last, a frigate took place at the provincial line on Lake Champlain.—The circumstances which happened were on account of a large raft, which the American custom house officers had embargoed, and meant to prevent going to Quebec market; the citizens, however, adjacent to the place where the raft was taken from, embodied, and in defiance of the whole force which could be collected on the occasion, brought her this side the line. In this transaction considerable powder and balls are said to have been expended on both sides, but no blood shed. A small cabin erected on a raft, was perforated in forty different places, by the balls of the militia from the custom house.
We learn by a gentleman from Lake Ontario, that a person there in the employ of the custom house officers, was lately shot dead, when on the watch for those attempting to run property into the province. The coroner's inquest was accidental death . A lesson omen for American custom house attendants.
LEXINGTON (Ken.) June 18.
By a gentleman immediately from St. Louis, we are informed that several of the Indian tribes up the Missouri had manifested a very decided spirit of hostility towards the United States; that some murders had been committed, and a general alarm excited among the inhabitants on the frontiers.
By a traveller who passed through this town this week from New Orleans, we are informed that the Indians are continuing their murders. A gentleman from Georgia for Natchez was lately shot through the body and robbed. A company coming up from the latter place, was attacked and plundered just ahead of the person who gave us the information, but whose party were fortunately sufficiently numerous to deter the Indians from hostilities.
Some travellers from the Eastward who lately passed through this town, and as is customary with such gentlemen, condescended to instruct the stupidity of Kentuckians in the science of politics, expressed a wish that the Embargo might continue a twelve-month longer—purposely that Ton Jefferson might lose his popularity!—We have no objection at all to stake the popularity of Mr. Jefferson, a ton  tonnement hence, on the mere credit of that act; and notwithstanding it was a tory wish, we cordially join issue with it; may it continue.
Some excuse, indeed, might be offered for the zeal of these travellers:—their heads were intoxicated with doses from Massachusetts, from New York and Rhode Island; but as there has been time for the fumes to evaporate, we expect 'ere this "the Embargo is a damn'd bad measure" with them.
BOARDING HOUSE.
Mrs. Judith Nelson
HAVING taken the tenement belonging to Mr. William Price, lately occupied by Mr. McCraw, on the street leading from the capitol, has opened a BOARDING HOUSE, where she will take boarders by the day, week, month or year. She has excellent services, and assures those who may become her boarders that no exertion at all is wanting to give satisfaction. Rehum at 24th July. 1.08. if
Messrs. Joseph and Jesse Dabbs.
AS each of you reside out of the state and have no agent residing in the state who is known to me, I have taken this mode to give you notice that I shall on the first Monday in October next, between the hours of 10 in the morning and 4 in the afternoon of the same day, at Charlotte courthouse, proceed to take the deposits of Thomas Read, jr. Joseph Venable, Brookes Baker, Henry Lester, Chesley Daniel and Thomas Harris Spencer, to be read as evidence on the argument of exceptions, taken to a report of commissioners in a suit in chancery depending in Charlotte court, wherein Joseph Dabbs and others are plaintiffs, and Catharine Dabbs and others, defendants, when and where you may attend if you please.
Charles Noel.
June 16, 1808.

Mount Comfort, FOR SALE. SITUATED on Rappahannock in the county of Essex, within fifteen miles of Tappahannock and about the same distance from Urbanna and King and Queen Courthouse and very convenient to the post-office at Montague's Tavern...
Carter Wood, Mount Comfort, if June 1, 1808 MATTRESSES OF ALL SIZES AND KINDS, MADE and repaired, agreeably to order, in the large wooden house opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the market bridge, Richmond.
Joseph Marx & Co. Have on hand an assortment GERMAN OZNA BURGS, TIC: LENBURGS, DOWLASS, and TOWELLING, by the bale, box or piece. COGNAC BRANDY and MOLASSES, SACK SALT, coarse and fine. Which they will sell for cash, tobacco, or approved paper. Richmond, April 28, 1808.
I AM desirous to exchange the following property, or any part thereof, as may be agreed on, for a small tract of good Land, in a healthy situation, with a dwelling house and other improvements, a good spring of water, and an agreeable neighborhood, at a distance of 30 to 100 miles up the country—To say for Houses in this city—Lands in Henrico county, joining the acadenemy lands, and near this city—2,000 acres on Richland creek, in Lincoln county, Kentucky—1,000 acres on the waters of the Ohio, in Mason county—and two tracts of Military Lands on the river Tennessee, each 556 2-3 acres. Robert Mitchell. Richmond, Feb. 6, 1808.
Penitentiary Store. SHOES at the Manufacture of the Penitentiary have been lately REDUCED, considerably below their former prices. D. J. BURR, Agent. 10th May, 1808.
To Aaron Burr, Esq. SIR, TAKE NOTICE that I shall apply on the fifth day of the August term of Henrico county court, which commences on the first Monday in August next, to award commissions to take depositions in Kentucky to be read in evidence in three suits depending in said court, in which I am plaintiff and you are defendant. Your obedient servant, Robert Miller. July 5, 1808.
To Aaron Burr, Esq. SIR, TAKE NOTICE that I shall apply on the 5th day of the August term of Henrico county court, which commences on the first Monday in August next, to award commissions to take depositions in Kentucky to be read in evidence in a suit depending in said court, in which I am plaintiff and you are defendant. Your obedient servant, Henry Schroeder. July 5, 1808.
Gallego, Richard & Co. HAVING NO LONGER ANY CONCERN IN THE Columbian Mills, COMMONLY CALLED ROSS'S MILLS, Inform their friends and the public in general, that any WHEAT sent to them by water, from the upper country, will be received at THEIR MILLS ON THE CANAL; and any wheat sent them by LAND, will be received at a convenient lumber-house contiguous to their counting room. Richmond, July 11, 1808.
TO RENT And possession given the first day of October next, The Tenement, OCCUPIED by Alexander Plainville, next door below Samuel Pleasants' Book-Store. For particulars, apply to WILLIAM COOK. Richmond, 1st July, 1808.
Peter Guerrant, Plaintiff. AGAINST John Fowler and Jordan Harris, Defendants. BY virtue of a commission issued from the superior court of chancery for the Richmond district, in the above suit, I shall on the eighth day of next month, (August,) at John Anderson's tavern in New Canton, in the county of Buckingham, between the hours of 5 in the morning and 7 in the evening of that day, take the depositions of William Guerrant, Robt. Moseley and others, to be read as evidence in the suit in chancery, now depending in the said superior court of chancery, wherein I am plaintiff and you are defendants. Peter Guerrant. To Messrs. JOHN FOWLER, residing in Kentucky, and JOHN HARRIS. July 4th, 1808.
SALES AT AUCTION. WILL BE SOLD, On Friday the 29th inst at 5 o'clock P. M. an unimproved Half Acre Lot, Fronting the street leading from the brick row to the residence of Mr. Joseph Gallego, and immediately in the neighborhood of Judge Taylor, known by the No. 718—Also, part of the LOT on which Mrs. E. Paguresides. One third of the purchase money to be paid in 60 days, and the residue in 6 and 18 months. Prosser & Moncure, auct'rs. Richmond, July 20, 1808.
By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is represented to the executive, that Henry Thacker, David Thacker and Elisha Thacker, late of the county of Louisa, and who were committed to the jail of the district court held at Charlottesville, charged with highway robbery, have escaped from the said jail on the night of the 19th instant; and whereas it is also represented to the executive that Reuben Marshall, late of the county of Albemarle, who was committed to the jail of said county, charged with maiming and putting out the eyes of Francis Taliaferro, has also, on the night aforesaid, escaped from the jail of the said county of Albemarle: I have therefore thought fit, with the advice of the council of state, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of one hundred dollars each for apprehending and conveying to the jail of the district court aforesaid, the said Henry Thacker, David Thacker and Elisha Thacker. And I do also hereby offer a reward of one hundred and fifty dollars to any person or persons who shall apprehend and convey to the aforesaid jail of the county of Albemarle, the said Reuben Marshall. And to the end that the law may be duly executed, and justice administered by the punishment of such crimes as its culprits aforesaid are charged with, I do moreover enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of this commonwealth to use their best endeavors to apprehend and convey to the jails respectively as aforesaid the said Henry Thacker, David Thacker and Elisha Thacker, and Reuben Marshall. Given under my hand with the seal of the commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 25th day of June, 1808. Signed, Wm. H. Cabell.
Henry Thacker is slender, about 25 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, very narrow faced, as are also the other two, all three being brothers. David Thacker is very slender, about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high. Elisha Thacker is also very slender, and perhaps about the height of David. Reuben Marshall is an active fellow, about 36 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, black eyes and light hair, and tolerably proportioned. He speaks quick, is impudent and subject to drink hard.
MYER MARKS, Respectfully informs the Parents & Guardians of Children, that he has OPENED A DAY SCHOOL, In the cross-street leading to Court's Ferry, a few doors below Joshua West's coach shop, where he will teach READING, WRITING and ARITHMETIC. He assures those who think proper to favor him with their children, that the strictest attention will be paid both to their morals and education. His School room is in a pleasant and healthy situation. The terms are such, that he believes will meet with the approbation of all. English Grammar will be taught. Richmond, July 8, 1808.
RICHMOND Turnpike Company. AT a meeting of the directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, on Thursday evening the 7th of July, 1808, Resolved, That all shares of delinquent stockholders in this company, be sold at the Swan tavern in this city, on Monday the 15th day of next month, at 5 o'clock, P. M. without reserve, and that the same be published in all the newspapers of this city. Resolved, That a call of 5 dollars on each share of the stockholders in the company be made, to be paid to the treasurer on or before the 15th of next month. Teste, N. Sheppard, Clk. Richmond, July 10, 1808.
ON Thursday the 8th of August next, will be offered for SALE, for cash, at John Anderson's tavern in New Canton, Five Negro Slaves, viz. Beck, Maria, Milley, Sam and Aggy, conveyed to the subscribers as trustees, by Col. Wm. Cannon, to secure a sum of money due by him, to Daniel Bagby and Robert Hill's representatives and others, as is in said deed expressed. As the subscribers are only trustees, they will convey only such title as they have by virtue of such deed. William Guerrant. Thomas Pittman. New Canton, June 25, 1808.
A Tract of Land, Lying in the county of Henrico, containing 86 3-4 more or less, it being the land purchased by Mrs. Mary White of Philip Turpin, and adjoining the lands of Elisha Harrowood and Joseph Price. Isham Goddin, } Trustees. W. M. Lewis, } Ttees. July 8, 1808.
Twenty Dollars Reward. RUNAWAY from the subscriber some time in January last, a negro man named BILLY. He is a middle aged man, and about the common size. The third finger of one hand is cut off and has five or six large marks across his breast. It is supposed he will make to the neighborhood of Williamsburg. He was purchased of Mr. John P. Shields of Richmond, by the subscriber, who resides in Giles county, who will pay the above reward and all reasonable expenses, to any person who will deliver the negro to me, or secure him in any jail, so that I get him again. All masters of vessels and others are forewarned from harboring or carrying him out of the state at their peril. JOHN TONEY. June 29, 1808.
SALES AT AUCTION. WILL BE SOLD, On Friday the 29th inst at 5 o'clock P. M. an unimproved Half Acre Lot, Fronting the street leading from the brick row to the residence of Mr. Joseph Gallego, and immediately in the neighborhood of Judge Taylor, known by the No. 718—Also, part of the LOT on which Mrs. E. Paguresides. One third of the purchase money to be paid in 60 days, and the residue in 6 and 18 months. Prosser & Moncure, auct'rs. Richmond, July 20, 1808.
In Council, July 16, 1808. PURSUANT to an act of the General Assembly intitled an act, to amend an act for appointing Electors to choose a President and Vice President of the United States, It is advised that the following persons be appointed and commissioned in the respective counties, and corporations of Richmond, Williamsburg and Borough of Norfolk, for the purpose of executing the said law, viz. Accomack, Thomas M. Bayley, George Layfield and Parker Barnes. Albemarle, Nicholas Lewis, George Divers and Rice Garland. Amelia, Edmund Harrison, John Lane and Daniel Hardaway. Amherst, Samuel Meridith, Wm. S. Crawford and John Camm. Augusta, Chapman Johnson, Chesley Kinney and James Cochran. Bath, Samuel Vance, John Wilson and John Berry. Bedford, Jabez Leftwich, Charles Clay and Daniel Pegram. Berkeley, Joel Ward, Erasmus Grant and William Sommerville. Botetourt, Martin M'Ferran, Charles Beale and Elijah M'Clanahan. Brooke, John G. Young, John M'Cormick and James Blair. Brunswick, Thomas Macklin, Philip Claiborne and Aaron Brown. Buckingham, Archibald Austin, Bolling Branch and Anthony Dibrell. Campbell, John Dabney, William J. Lewis and Thomas S. M'Clelland. Cumberland, William Daniel, John Hatcher and Charles Woodson. Caroline, Richard Hawes, George Buckner and William Anderson. Charles City, John Bradley, James Walker and John Christian. Charlotte, Joseph Wyatt, Williamson Price and William L. Morton. Chesterfield, Thomas Goode, Isaac Saile and Thomas Watkins. Culpeper, Moses Green, John Roberts and Aylett Hawes. Dinwiddie, Williamson Coleman, Archibald Thweatt and John Wilder. Elizabeth City, George Wray, Augustine Moore and Thomas Jones, jr. Essex, Tunstall Banks, James Webb and Threshley Rennolds. Fauquier, Augustine Jennings, Thomas Hunt and Richard H. Foote. Fairfax, Thompson Mason, George Summers and George Graham. Frederick, James Singleton, Henry St. George Tucker and William Castleman. Franklin, Henry Callaway, Moses Greer and Benjamin Cooke. Fluvanna, John Quarles, William Pasteur and Matthew P. Haden. Giles, George Pearis, Andrew Johnson and Thomas Shannon. Gloucester, Thomas Baytop, Richard Jones and William P. Byrd. Goochland, Nicholas M. Vaughan, James Carter and Archelaus Perkins. Grayson, Martin Dickinson, John Fielder and Enoch Osborne. Greenbrier, Ja's. Anderson, Oliver Towles and Ballard Smith. Greensville, Lewis Dupree, Joseph Wilkins and Francis Hill. Halifax, John B. Scott, Berryman Green and George Carrington. Hampshire, John Higgins, William Donaldson and Francis Murphy. Hanover, Nathaniel Pope, William Pollard and Thomas White. Hardy, John L. Schon, George Stump and Henry Judea. Harrison, Johnathan Ratcliff, George Arnold and William Bartlett, sen. Henrico, Major William Price, William Young (Brooke) and George Savage. Henry, Joseph Martin, George Waller, jr. and Patrick H. Fontaine. Isle of Wight, Jno. Barber (Everit's Bridge) Emanuel Willis and Andrew Woodley. James City, Champion Travis, William Lightfoot and Robert Greenhow. Jefferson, Ferdinando Fairfax, Jacob H. Manning and George Hite. Kanawha, John Rennolds, Morris Hudson and Charles Venable. King & Queen, Anderson Scott, John Hoskins and William Fleet. King George, William Hone, Theodosius Hansford and Lawrence Berry. King William, Walter Hawes, Hardin Littlepage and John Lord. Lancaster, Martin Shearman, William Gibson and William Kirk. Lee, Peter Fulkerson, Joshua Ewing and Hiram Craig. Loudoun, John Littlejohn, Armistead Long and Fleet Smith. Louisa, William O. Callis, John Poindexter and Henry Pendleton. Lunenburg, Waddy Street, Joseph Yarborough and Robert Chapell. Madison, Abraham Maury, William Mallory and Benjamin Cave. Mason, William Owens, William Sterritt and John M'Culloch. Mathews, Hundley Gayle, Tho's Brooke and Levin Gayle. Mecklenburg, Abraham Keene, Thomas A. Jones and Grief Green. Middlesex, Thomas Muse, Thomas Healy, jr. and Richard M. Segar. Monongalia, William John, Benjamin Reeder, and William G. Payne. Monroe, John Byrnside, William Graham and Benjamin Hall. Montgomery, Daniel Trigg, Charles Taylor and James P. Preston. Nansemond, Lemuel Riddick, Fisher Dashiell and Richard Yarborough. Nelson, Landon Cabell, Shelton Crosthwait and Nelson Anderson. New Kent, William Chamberlayne, John Saunders and Edmund Parke. Northumberland, Thomas D. Downing, Hiram L. Ope and John H. Fallin. Norfolk county, James S. Matthews, Daniel Bedinger and Bernard Maginian. Northampton, Caleb Fisher, Hezekiah Pitts and Caleb B. Upshur. Nottoway, Francis Fitzgerald, Edward Bland and Peter Randolph, jr. Ohio, Thomas Evans (merchant, Wheeling) Joseph Tomlinson and John Morgan. Orange, Robert T. Moore, James Barbour and Belfield Cave. Patrick, Samuel Staples, Gabriel Penn and William Carter. Pendleton, Robert Davis, John Slavin and William McCoy. Pittsylvania, Isaac Coles, William Tensell and Joseph Carter.
In Council, July 8, 1808. THE Governor laid before the board a letter from John Claiborne, Esq. resigning his seat in the Congress of the United States as a representative of the district composed of the counties of Brunswick, Lunenburg and Mecklenburg. Whereupon, it is advised, that writs of election be issued to the several Sheriffs of the counties aforesaid directing them to hold elections in their several counties, to supply the vacancy aforesaid, on their several court days in September next. DANL. L. HYLTION, Clerk of the Council.
By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it appears to the executive from an order made at the October term, 1807, of the district court at Winchester, duly certified by the clerk of said court, that Jacob Ockerman, who was examined for murder in the county court of Shenandoah, and adjudged by that court to be tried in the district court, and entered into recognizance to appear in the said district court, on the first day of the term, and against whom the grand jury found a bill for murder, failed to appear and is going at large; I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of the council of state, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of one hundred dollars to any person or persons, who shall apprehend and conduct the said Jacob Ockerman before some one or more of the justices of the peace in and for the county of Frederick, in which county the jail of the said district court of Winchester is situated, that he may be dealt with as, in such cases, the law directs. And I do moreover enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of this commonwealth, to use their best endeavors to apprehend and carry before some one or more of the justices of the peace in and for the aforesaid county of Frederick, the said Jacob Ockerman, to be dealt with according to law. Given under my hand with the seal of the commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 19th day of July, 1808. Signed, Wm. H. Cabell.
Richmond Tile Manufactory. THE subscriber having procured the exclusive right to manufacture in this and several other states Harwood's much improved Patent Tile for covering houses, and at considerable expense erected the necessary buildings, &c. for carrying on that useful business extensively, now offers to supply, at a short notice, any quantity that may be required, at the moderate price of Thirty Five Dollars per thousand, delivered at his factory. He can with confidence, founded on actual experiment, in the covering of about 20 houses in this city, assert, that houses can be covered with this tile as cheap in the first instance, as with shingles of the first quality, and when the security against fire, the difference of insurance, the durability and particular construction on these tiles to resist the most penetrating rains and snows are considered, he cannot doubt of meeting with considerable encouragement. It requires only the examination of a well covered roof to convince the most prejudiced mind of their superiority to any other tile heretofore made, or to the best slate, and will cost less than the latter, after paying the expense of water carriage to almost any part of this continent. Particular attention will be paid to orders from other towns, and in all cases where they are shipped, he will deliver them whole and sound, along side of the vessels, at the expense of cartage only to the purchasers. Any person skilled in the art of tiling, will put on those tile with great facility, but where they cannot be procured, he can engage a few here who have had some experience, and will go a moderate distance, if the job is of sufficient magnitude and their travelling expenses paid. BENJAMIN DU VAL. Richmond, March 12, 1808. N. B. I wish to sell Patent Rights in several other states, wtf B. D.
Powhatan, Samuel Pleasants, James Poindexter and Frederick Woodson. Prince Edward, Peter Johnston, John Purcell and Thomas Green. Princess Anne, Lemuel Cornick, John Read and Tully Robinson. Prince William, John Bronaugh, James Kempe and Stephen French. Prince George, Thomas H. Cocke, George Ruffin and Miles Selden, jr. Randolph, Robert Maxwell, Nicholas Gibson and John Currience. Richmond county, Peter Rust, Ezekiel Levy and Vincent Brauhman. Rockbridge, James Caruthers, John Leyburn and Andrew Read. Rockingham, George Houston, Benjamin Harrison and Daniel Smith. Russell, James M'Farlane, Nathan Ellington and Harry Smith. Southampton, James Gee, Henry Trizvant and Griffin Smith. Spottsylvania, David C. Kerr, Hugh Mercer and Robert S. Chew. Stafford, Col. John Cooke, Hancock Euface and Travis Daniel. Surry, Nicholas Faulcon, James B. Edwards and Charles H. Graves. Sussex, Benjamin Wyche, William Massenburg and John Jarrott. Shenandoah, Philip Williams, Jacob Rinker and William H. Dulany. Tazewell, James Thompson, Samuel Bard and George Peery. Warwick, William Digges, Thomas Pescud and Matthew Willis. Washington, Francis Preston, Robert Preston and Henry St. John Dixon. Westmoreland, Alexander Parker, Samuel Templeman and Richard E. Parker. Wood, John Stockley, James G. Laidley and Thomas Tavenor. Wythe, John Montgomery, John Stonger and Joseph Kent. York, William Howard, Samuel Shields and Peyton Southall. Richmond City, Alexander Quarrier, Benjamin Tate and John H. Foushee. Norfolk Borough, Richard E. Lee, Robert Brough and William Lindsay. Williamsburg, James Sempie, Robert Anderson and Littleton Tazewell. Extract from the Journal. DANL. L. HYLTION, Clerk of the Council.
20 Dollars Reward. Runaway from the subscriber living in Halifax county, at the fork of Dan and Banister river, on or about the 22nd day of August last, SHADRACK, a negro man slave, aged between thirty five and forty years. He is a sensible well informed fellow, is an excellent house servant, to which business and that of a groom he was principally applied for some time by capt. John A. Fawkes his late master, previous to my purchasing him of his executor, which was only two days before his escape. His complexion is not entirely black, but yellowish, yet of the negro yellow: has a defect in the right eye which is nearly if not quite blind, occasioned by an inflammation, and both eyes generally show inflamed symptoms—he also has had an arm broken, but this will not be perceived without particular examination—he has a bold, open appearance, is well made, about five ft six or seven inches high, as well as recollecting—commonly complacent and conversable for a slave, and capable if he attempts it of much deception. He carried away with him a considerable variety of good clothes, a snuff colored cloth coat is particularly recollected, is very fond of dress, and it is expected will appear well as to that article and attempt to pass as a free man to effect which, it is probable, the indulgence afforded him by his late master and particularly the confidence placed in him in his last illness, was made use of to supply himself with cash—and that he has since procured from some evil disposed person false papers against which the public are cautioned in confiding. The above reward will be paid to any person delivering him to me, at my residence, or securing him in any jail so that I get him again as well as all legal and reasonable expenses. William Owen. January 4, 1808.
Royster & Bohannan Have For Sale, at their Store near the Market Bridge, Richmond, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF Groceries, Brown Sugar in hds and bbls Loaf Sugar, in do Best Green Coffee Imperial, and Young Hyson TEAS, Chocolate, by the box Pimento Pepper Ginger Rice Mustard W. I. Rum Jamaica do N. England do Molasses by bhd —Sherry and Malaga Wine Holland and Country Gin Spanish Segars by box or retail Whiskey by the bbl or tierce French Brandy Salt by the Sack A quantity of excellent Lard by the firkin A large assortment of Iron Castings, every description An assortment of Stone Ware Queen's Ware Soap and Candles by box Leiper's Snuff Writing Paper Wrapping do Decanters Tumblers Wine Glasses Leading Lines Bed Cords, &c &c &c Together with a number of other articles too tedious to enumerate—which they will sell low for cash, country produce, or approved paper in town It is earnestly requested that those who have long standing accounts, will settle them immediately, as no longer indulgence can be given. 17 June, 1808.
NOTICE. ALL persons to whom the estate of the late Judith Robinson, dec. of Cumberland county, is indebted, are desired on or before the first day of October next, to bring forward their claims properly authenticated, that provision may be made for payment, and to all claims exhibited after that period, this advertisement will be plead in bar. A division of said estate among the legatees will be made on the above day. JOHN HATCHER, Ex'r. March 17, 1808.
Buckingham County, June Court, 1808. Thomas and Francis Deane, for the benefit of Archd. Womack, Plaintiffs, AGAINST John Francis, Silas Flournoy and Samuel and Drury M. Allen acting partners of Hughes Allen & Company, Defendants. ON the motion of the plaintiffs by counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendants, Drury M. Allen and Silas Flournoy, are not inhabitants of this state, it is ordered and decreed, that unless they shall appear here on or before September court next, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to them, and decree the matter thereof accordingly; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and another copy be posted up at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A copy, Teste, R. ELDRIDGE Jr. D. C.
THE 3d NO. OF COL. TOUSARD'S AMERICAN Artillerists' Companion, Is ready for delivery to subscribers at this office. A few copies for sale. Pamphlets, CARDS, HAND-BILLS, LAWYERS, CLERKS & SHERIFFS BLANKS, &c. ARE NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY PRINTED AT THE ARGUS OFFICE.

The letters which are published in this paper, are communications, and are not offered to our readers as flowing from the editorial source. The subject upon which they treat is novel and interesting, and deserves the most serious consideration. Any countering publication will be received with cheerfulness. We are assured that nothing is so foreign to the design of the writer as to damp the manufacturing spirit, which he admires, and with which he will ardently co-operate if it is conducted under suitable regulations. We believe that the spirit of the people in this respect, cannot be diminished; but at the same time we consider it our duty to publish all communications, which may even shed the faintest ray of light. The subject of home-manufactures, is perhaps, the most important that has been presented to the people for a long course of time, and we are happy to find that they are determined to cherish them in every part of the state. We look upon it as the most flattering and unerring evidence of their virtue and patriotism that could be afforded. It is a new subject to this country, and of course there will be a great variety of manufacturing systems suggested, and it is the part of prudence, when we cannot avail ourselves of the benefit of experience, to canvass with patience, and decide with deliberation. The object of every body must be to encourage manufactures, and it should be the duty of every body to endeavor to find out the best mode. Truth, we are told, is the result of enquiry, and it very often happens, that a great effect is produced by a little incident, or a random observation. It was the hammer of a smith that inspired Pythagoras with music; it was a bad Italian performance that suggested to Milton his PARADISE LOST; and it was the fall of an apple that imparted to Newton the idea of gravitation. With these instances before us, we cannot reject publications upon untried systems. We may, perhaps, be better prepared to guard against evil, and at the same time, to pursue with more certainty, the benefit we wish.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman to his friend in the country.
"In my last I gave you the light sketch of a current calamo as to the consequences, that are likely to result from our becoming a manufacturing people. I had intended to search into the mysteries of the shuttle and the distaff, but as yet I have only met with theorists like myself, and have been perfectly unable to draw any practical information from mechanics and clothiers. Thus you perceive how purely agricultural we are, and I wish from my soul that we could continue so. If the instructive hand of history and experience is not to be showed aside, and if the new-born schemes of visionists are not to be substituted in the place of calm and dispassionate calculations, we may still hope to remain in the haven of agricultural safety, without embarking upon unlooked-for waters. In times of danger too much passion is as much to be avoided, as too much submission. In showing our indignation at foreign injustice, let us not run into impetuosity. In gratifying our national pride, in examining our native resources, let us not lose sight of the elements of political happiness by cherishing systems whose perfection might be our ruin in creating what a certain Lord of England declared the golden inequality."
"The manufacturing spirit is like an artful, insidious foe, & when once it has fastened itself around the mind, it is impossible to discard it, for by its insinuating corruption, the original virtue that was opposed to it, becomes subdued, and subservient to its every purpose. It is not expected that the present order of the fleece will ever live to attest the injuries of their well intended scheme, and it is possible, that posterity when they have forgotten the genius of agriculture, will be so corrupted as not to recollect or perhaps to laugh at the origin, because all manufacturers look upon the farmers and the planters as the very worms of the earth. It was but a little time ago, when the most inspiring odes were sung with sacred veneration to agriculture; It was but a little time ago that a certain political sect were abused as being friends of manufacture and commerce, and they as the enemies of our independence; It was but a little time ago, that our land was worshipped as our alma mater , and when simplicity of manners, the effect of agricultural life, was the standard of patriotism; It was but a little time ago, that our most elevated patriots would say, that so long as agriculture was cherished and undisturbed, that "our hills would rejoice on every side, and the valleys shout for joy." But we are told that importation is forbidden, and our European connections destroyed; that self-preservation as well as indignant justice require us to turn manufacturers. There is a medium in every thing. The means of obtaining an object ought to be considered, and the benefits resulting from that object when obtained. I most cordially join in the encouragement of home-spun cloth to the extent prescribed in my preceding letter; let agriculture & domestic manufacture go hand in hand at every man's home, or in little societies in every county, for as soon as you separate them, they become enemies, & we leave the native healthy plant of our country, for the hortlan fruit of the epicure. If the end of clothing ourselves in this way and by these means can be attained, it is surely preferable to the half million-scheme, to which if the state should agree, it would be immediately accursed as a state engine. The only medium that presents itself to me between (in the language of one of the committee) clinging close to our mother's bosom, and entering into the full spirit of manufactures, is that of encouraging little societies of premiums in every county. This mode will afford profit to the skillful artisan, which is certainly no little inducement, and in a very little while, will produce looms enough to clothe each county. The manufacturer would exchange his cloth for the bread of the agriculturist,
the skill of the shuttle would play with the labor of the plough, and thus we should keep these two antipodes in their proper balance. This state of independence, of feeding and clothing ourselves ought to be looked upon with the face of gratitude, whilst the mind is perfectly at ease in regard to the chilling train of evils that follow in the wake of manufactures. If this scheme is feasible, and I presume no one will deny it, for we perceive that county-factories are rising and progressing every day, where then can be the necessity of this grand parade with the state in its van? Where can be the necessity of getting manufacturers from, I had high said abroad ." Where is the necessity of increasing the price of loom-materials in order to distress those who can barely now work their own supply? Why should they wish to hold out the inviting hand of the state to lead manufacture from its own country? Why is the scheme to last for twenty years ? and above all, why is so much of the profit to be lost in the salaries of superintendents, who perhaps will not even know the difference between mother-wool and woof. To every person who views State Manufactories thro' the same medium that I do, it must be extremely grateful and consoling to his feelings to believe that it will not be accomplished. The people in the first place are opposed to these usurpations which find their way into the Clay Cabin of humility, and drag from thence the humble tenant of his hut, or force away his materials of Workmanship by high prices, which only wealth can afford. The people know that by sticking to the Hoe and the Plough, they can not only furnish food but raiment. The people are indignant and will not if they can possibly help it, dispose of their raw materials to be worked and fashioned by a heterogeneous set of mechanics." The people do not wish to have a hive of manufacturers whose country is a loom, whose patriotism is servility, and whose delight is a dissipated mockery of farmers.
Before I dismiss this subject I will endeavor to give you a kind of schedule as to the probable quantity of wool now in the country, the probable number of sheep and the nature of their wool, the number of hands which either seventy five thousand dollars or half a million would require, and to prove still further the futility of the Richmond association scheme.
You will know my dear B. believe that my opposition to this plan, proceeds from the deepest conviction of its impropriety, as you know that I hold its authors in the very highest esteem. I can never fail into that fashionable tea-table cant of flattering an ugly offspring, because its parents are present, or from the foppish fear of being overheard. I remember once to have been told of a disgusting instance of a fop whose head was whiter than his heart. He understood that some lady since his last visit (to speak in the technical term) was blessed with a little stranger, and instantly set off upon his parisiatical trip, and after seeing some minutes, the lady went to bring a beautiful little basket of fruit, and forgot to take off the napkin, vanity induced him to suppose that she intended to introduce the little stranger, he immediately ran up and cried out "how astonishingly beautiful!" how much like its mother! The lady removed the napkin, and I leave you to guess the rest. Adieu.
* In the address of the committee to the people of the state, they observe that they can get workmen, and mention particularly Maryland.
The writer of these letters is accused of having erred in three material points. If this assertion is intended as an inuendo argument, or as an overweening dictum to forbid any untoward approach towards this infallible institution, it will not be regarded. The Enquirer commences the examination of his three material points of error with observing "That the writer seems to forget that this plan is to go into operation with a capital of $75,000." The writer would fain ask the Enquirer from whence he infers this want of common apprehension which he has so politely insinuated into forgetfulness. The articles of the Richmond association have been published, and every person has seen that the manufacture might commence with $75,000. Why is this distinction drawn between these two sums, that the first is the effective capital, and the last merely nominal? Does not this distinction indemnify the remark "that this scheme is calculated to figure on paper, while it will languish in reality"? The sum of $75,000 is the effective capital, because the articles of association will not permit the manufacture to go into operation upon a smaller fund, but at the same time it may extend to the nominal capital of $500,000, which, no doubt, they calculate upon getting, and which will, no doubt, become the effective capital. It is merely to stand as a great exercise, upon a small substance which it will surely destroy, all benefit will be lost, and where can be the objection of taking it off. So long as these features remain upon this system, the Enquirer ought not to pronounce so confidently that the institution will certainly procure even $75,000.
It is objected in the second place, that manufactures will not produce the evils in this country which it has produced in other countries. Is this remark founded upon any superstitious idea of exemption from frailty on the part of the Virginia people.
Mr. Jefferson and many other great men and philosophers, as well as the history of the human character, fully prove that nature is the same on every side of the Atlantic, and that the same causes will always produce the same effects. The Enquirer in order to counteract this doctrine or rather to vary the case, has suggested the great abundance of land. The intention of this remark is to show that no person employed, will suffer degradation when he can so easily fly to another calling.
The limits of a note forbid the refutation of this remark, the writer therefore hopes that the Enquirer will reconsider it, and if he is open to conviction and unswayed by parental partiality, he will have the pleasing satisfaction of satisfying himself. The Enquirer continues, "let those evils be even as great, as they are represented, the writer seems to forget the evils which these institutions annihilate." It would seem from the frequent use of this word forget , that the writer had lost his faculty of remembrance, or that he was in a state of mental inanity. From the Enquirer's dizziness of vision it appears that he can only see such parts as are suited to his purpose.
It has never been suggested nor any idea forced into the construction, that the writer is entirely opposed to manufactures, or that he would "purchase the manufactures of Europe at the price of the independence and honor of the nation." The insinuation is a poor sub-
tute for argument. The third objection is, that each can never become dog cheap . This assertion is perfectly naked like the rest, which is impliedly admitted when he says "that in the present infant state of the arts in Virginia it is impossible to ascertain with any precision the quantity of capital required for this purpose."
Thus it is evident that he has made no calculations to show how much cloth would be produced by $75,000, and a fortiori he knows less what would be the product of $500,000.
It affords us pleasure to announce that Mr. Peter Johnston, the former speaker of the House of Delegates, is brought forward as an opponent to Mr. John Randolph.
The people appear at last to be convinced of the inconsistency of Mr. R. or rather his uniform persevering temper of opposition to the late measures of the administration. It is high time that the people should exert themselves in order to banish discord and ambitious intemperance from the councils of the nation. We may be told in the faint and lingering tone of moderation that opposition excites vigilance, which is the best safe guard of our rights: But at a time like this, when powers abroad catch at every circumstance to infer disaffection and disunion, it is of the most serious importance to preserve the character of harmony and patriotism at home. Whilst upon this subject we can but regret that the impetuosity of Mr. R. has perhaps betrayed him into unwary opinions, which his pride upon subsequent reflection, would not suffer him to recall or amend. As a man of unsullied honor and pure integrity we cannot refuse our assent, but we have too much cause to fear, that when his passions are roused, his reason "swings from its mooring" and that when his displeasure is excited, it acquires hatred from pride, which renders him fixed and inexorable. Under these circumstances, and for the reasons already assigned, we can but hope that the friends of the administration in that district, will prevail in electing a man whose voice will be raised in support of the present course of things.
ANOTHER REVOLUTION IN SPAIN.
The series of important incidents in regard to this devoted kingdom, which are presented in this day's Argus, cannot fail to inspire horror and amazement. The sceptre of Spain has been nothing more for some time than the mere tennis-ball of perfidy and folly. We at one moment find it abandoned by a pusillanimous father, and surrendered to an abandoned son, in the next we find it returning to its original source from the same cause, and now we find that the king of Spain is nothing more than the ivory image of a chess-board to be played with by Bonaparte. We may now emphatically exclaim there are no Pyrenees . The letter of his Majesty, the Emperor, to the prince of Asturias, is perhaps one of the finest-woven pieces of hypocrisy, treachery and jesuitry, that we ever remember to have seen. What are we to infer as to the fate of the Prince of Peace when we examine that part of the letter which speaks of the weak partiality of king Charles, "from which he observes he chooses to turn his eyes" and then breaks out in the exclamation "Oh wretched humanity! imbecility and error; such is our motto! all this however, may be reconciled, let the Prince of Peace be banished from Spain, and I offer him an asylum in France"—Will this be to the sepulchre of the living, or the more happy mansions of the dead?
From the Washington Monitor.
Washington, July 17, 1808. Mr. Colvin.—A duty which the citizens of Washington who were present at the meeting lately held, and who disagreed to the resolutions and address, applauding the character of gen. Wilkinson, owe to themselves and to their country, induces them to request that you will give publication to the accompanying statement, that the world may judge how far the citizens have refrained from approving the conduct of the general.
We therefore hope that you will, on behalf of those who publicly disapproved the address, give a place to our remarks; in doing which we believe you will meet the approbation of the citizens generally.
JAS. S. STEVENSON, ALEX. M. WILLIAMS, FRED. MAY, JAMES D. BARRY.
THE STATEMENT.
Washington, July 18, 1808. Mr. Colvin.—In your paper of July 16th, a publication has appeared, which, in stating that the citizens of Washington had, at a meeting adopted resolutions and voted an address to gen. Wilkinson, applauding his conduct, has a tendency to impose on the public mind; and, sir, you are well informed, that the meeting alluded to was conducted in such a manner as has made it a subject of remark with the citizens generally.
In has been deemed necessary, on behalf of the citizens, to give to the world a correct statement of what has been done by that meeting.
A meeting had been requested by a notice in the National Intelligencer, supposed to have been inserted at the request of a relation of gen. Wilkinson and one or two other persons, with a view to obtain a vote of an address to the general, at which meeting the citizens generally refused to attend; and when the meeting was held, but few persons appeared at it. At the opening of the business a lengthy eulogium on the character and conduct of gen. Wilkinson was spoken by the general's attorney, and certain resolutions were offered by him. On the question of agreeing to the resolutions being put, the company divided, 33 for and 31 against them. Of those who passed them, 30 persons are said to have been expressly engaged for that purpose. Several persons are known to have voted who had not reached the age of manhood; and even an officer of the army, under the direct control of gen. Wilkinson, so far infringed upon decorum and the rights of citizens, as to be counted amongst those who supported the resolutions.
Can it then be supposed that there was a fair representation of the sentiments of the citizens of Washington? Can a majority of two persons at a meeting held for the purpose of congratulating the general, and for which 30 persons are said to have been particularly selected to attend, and most of those from that situation of life, whose applause, though Wilkinson might covet, their persons he would spurn from his presence? Can so gross an attempt to impose on the public be pardonable?
If 33 persons only, out of a population of 6000, were willing to adopt those resolutions and to vote an address, may we not pro-
nounce that a severe censure has been passed on the conduct and character of general Wilkinson. But we will say that it proves that the citizens of Washington will not be puppets in a farce exhibited by any national showman; and that whilst we support a republican administration and venerate him who presides, we will not suffer a conduct to be ascribed to the citizens of Washington which would be a libel on their character.
In the language of the Editor of the Charleston Courier—"We request our readers to peruse, with care and attention, the "eloquence of St. CHRYSOSTOM," in the preceding page. None can read it without admiring, without feeling its force; and he who can feel this must be benefitted by its perusal."
The abuse about the embargo continues. After every effort to impute it to wrong motives, it is now represented as a wanton abuse of power, without any motive at all. (Boat. Chron.)
Subscriptions are now collecting in Charleston for the establishment of an institution for promoting domestic manufactures. It is to be styled "The Carolina Homespun Company," and its stock is proposed to be divided into one thousand or more shares, at twenty five dollars per share. The following are stated as its objects, and submitted as the ground work of the plan:—
1st. The erection of a suitable machinery for the packing, carding, spinning, and weaving of Cotton into cloths of the following descriptions, viz. Baftas, Stripes, Checks, Shirting, Sheeting, Dimity, Fustians, Jeans, Twillets, Cassimeres, &c. &c. 2d. The employment of a certain number of indigent, tho' worthy, artificers of the above profession, to conduct the operation of the machine, &c. 3d. The employment of a certain number of poor laborers to perform the necessary manual labor. 4th. The establishment of a company's Ware-house, for the reception of dressing, folding and packing said articles; and 5th. The supplying, as far as practicable, the deficiency of this state with articles of the above description, which are in general of very great and encreasing demand, and particularly in this city."
Extract of letter from a commercial House in Liverpool to another in this city, dated May 10.
"Since ours of the 18th ult. considerable stir has taken place in cotton, and many sales made about 1-4 to 1-8 is supposed to the trade, the rest on speculation. We at foot quote you the present prices. The want of export for goods and the uncertain state of political affairs had operated against prices, but official notice having been given that cotton goods will be admitted into the Brazils, opened a prospect of consumption, & this aided by the idea of the continuance of the embargo in America, has given spirit to speculation—The stocks of cotton in the hands of the American merchants are reduced to a trifle, but the speculators are more fully stocked than has been in general supposed, still however the supplies are considered moderate and the imports very trifling."
"The market for grain is rather better, wheat about 13s. 9d. and some persons sanguine that it will advance."
"Notwithstanding the captures which have been made, premiums continue moderate. 3 1-2gs. with warranty against British or American capture and 4 1-2gs. without, are the premiums demanded here."
"There has been some little export trade to the continent but through indirect and uncertain channels."
"The arrival of the Osage from France with Mr Nourse, has given rise to a variety of reports, that the treatment of that government to the American minister has been such as will in all probability produce a rupture, considerable confidence is attached to the rumors, but they do not appear to rest upon any official grounds."
"The accounts from the continent you will find detailed in the papers. The Swedes appear to be advancing into Norway, and there are reports that the southern parts of Europe suffer severely from the want of provisions."
American uniform.—The secretary at war has issued a public notice to the officers of the additional regular troops that the following is the uniform by which they are to be distinguished.
The Light Artillery to be similar to that of the old regiment of artillery, now in service, with the following exceptions: The coats to be nine inches shorter in the skirts, and leather caps instead of hats, with blue feathers, tipt with red.
The Light Dragoons—a deep blue coatee or jacket with blue facings, cuffs and collar, trimmed with white, white waistcoats and leather caps or helmets, with blue feathers, tipt with white.
The Infantry uniform will not differ from that of the old regiments, now in service, excepting the figure on the buttons, which will designate the number of the regiment.
The Rifle Regiment in addition to the summer dress, (which will be a rifle frock and linen pantalettes) will be a coatee and pantalettes, of bright green cloth. The coat with skirts of eleven inches from the hip button; the facings, cuffs and collars to be black trimmed with yellow; the seams of the pantalettes edged with yellow; white waistcoats and light leather cap, with green feathers, tipt with black.
The feathers of privates not to exceed ten inches in length.
Alphonso king of Spain, used to say that he knew only one happy married pair in his dominions—the man was deaf and the woman blind.—Lond. pap.
Deaths!!
DIED—On Friday the 8th, on board the schooner Experiment, Capt. Ricketts, in James river, and was buried the 10th inst. in Chesterfield county, Capt. JOHN ADDISON, who sailed out of the port of Richmond for many years; much lamented by his relations and friends.
DEPARTED this life on the 19th inst after a short but severe illness, Mr ROBERT P. GUERRANT, eldest son of Gen. John Guerrant of Goochland. Alas! this truly amiable young man is taken from us in the bloom of youth. In him his parents have lost a dutiful and affectionate son, and by this cruel stroke of death, society must ever lament the loss of him, who did fare to have been one of its brightest ornaments. Oh! how inscrutable are the eternal decrees of God. "Affliction from his sovereign hand Are blessings in disguise."
DEPARTED this life on the 21st inst. in his residence in the county of Albemarle, MICAJAH CLARK, sen aged 91 years, after a lingering illness of 7 months, which he endured to the last, with unceasing patience, and a christian-like fortitude, altho' he was from the commencement of his illness, confidently impressed with the belief, he should never recover. This venerable man, hath had the happiness of enjoying a long and well spent life, in good health, almost uninterrupted, never having experienced more than one attack, previous to the one which carried him off. He was, in every respect, perfectly uniform and temperate; his benign and humane countenance, plainly indicated the purity and benevolence of his heart, and opened an avenue to its innermost recesses, by which any one might enter. How melancholy are the sensations we feel, when meditating on the loss of this, our friend, and the friend of mankind.—Philanthropy, humanity, morality and benevolence will severely deplore his loss, and shed a tear in remembrance of his departed shade. It is needless to recount the many amiable qualities which were united in this man; they are well known to all who knew him; but to those who knew him not, suffice it to say, he was a kind and benevolent neighbor, a humane and tender master, and that the poor never passed unheeded by him. The writer of these lines, hath from his infancy, known this man, whose loss we deplore, and in making the foregoing communication he has done it conscientiously.
A FRIEND. July 26, 1808.
By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia,
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it appears to the executive by an inquisition taken before William White and James M. Williams, gentlemen, justices of the peace for the county of Pittsylvania, that an atrocious murder was committed on the 14th day of the present month, by a certain Gardiner Mays, late of the county aforesaid, on the body of Robert Wynn, who it appears was late a deputy sheriff for the said county and in the execution of the duties of his office as such, when the said murder was committed, and that the said Gardiner Mays has fled from justice; I have therefore thought fit, with the advice of the council of state, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of two hundred dollars to any person or persons who shall apprehend and carry before some justice of the peace for the county of Pittsylvania aforesaid, the said Gardiner Mays, that he may be dealt with as directed by law. And I do moreover hereby enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of this commonwealth to use their best endeavors to apprehend the said Gardiner Mays, that such proceedings may be had against him as is prescribed by law.
Given under my hand, with the seal of the (L.S.) commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 27th day of July, 1808. Signed, William H. Cabell.
N B Gardiner Mays is from 40 to 43 years of age 5 feet, from 3 to 5 inches high, close, stout and strong made, particularly in the body, in which he is longer than usual for men of his height, his arms are stout, his thighs short and small compared with his body, his legs short and well proportioned, his face a little prominent, with strong full beard, his nose large, and a little swelling from the forehead to the end, where it appears quite full; on nice observation his eyes may appear rather nearer together than usual, and it is believed there is a small blemish in one of them, perhaps the left; his hair is dark colored and short; he has been bred to labor, and is of a complexion common to men of that description. Amongst his wearing apparel, is a blue common cloth suit, lined with red flannel; a Virginia cloth coat with black buttons, button holes and black silk cape, and a pair of white casimere pan-taloons and waistcoat. He occasionally carries a large butcher knife, under the breast of his coat, ground on the back to an edge, so as to represent the blade of a dirk.
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The White Chimnies,
IN Caroline county, situate on the main road Attached to the tavern is a convenient store house—the stand for a merchant excellent. For terms apply to Richard Bridger, n. ar said tavern, or to John Bosher in Richmond. July 27, 1808. oaff
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