The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-08-22 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 6.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1809.
[No. 50.]
Published by Thomas Ritchie, nearly opposite the Globe Tavern, Richmond, Virginia.
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FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE:
The 5th Volume of the ENQUIRER, complete, bound in boards.
VIRGINIA DEBATES , in the Convention, bound in calf, sheep and boards.
BURR'S TRIAL , for Treason and for a Misdemeanor, in boards—By D. Robertson.
LETTERS on the Subject of THE CATHOLICS—By Peter Plymley—from the 11th London Edition.
BLANKS , for Lawyers, Clerks, Sheriffs, Constables, Merchants, &c. &c. which will also be printed according to any form exhibited, at the shortest notice.
NOTICE. —In pursuance of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber, there will be offered for sale, the 7th day of Sept. next, on a credit of six months, a small tract or parcel of LAND, lying on the Buckingham Road, about four miles above Powhatan court-house: Also, one negro man named BOB, the property of Archibald Conway, to satisfy a debt due to Major John Archer of Amelia.
HENRY ANDERSON, Trustee. Powhatan, August 15. 3w
TO THE PUBLIC. —Notice is hereby given, that at King William superior court, a petition will be made for the discontinuance of a Road leading from the West-Point road, through the estate of Robert Slaughter, and that of James Ruffin, dec'd. to Ruffin's Old Ferry. August 4. 8t
BOARDING-HOUSE , to be opened in Williamsburg. The Subscriber, being about to remove to Williamsburg, informs the public that she intends to keep in that city, a
BOARDING HOUSE, AND HOUSE OF PRIVATE ENTERTAINMENT, which will be opened on the 20th day of September next. Her house is large and commodious, and situated nearly in the centre of the town—She will have an entirely new set of Servants, & hopes, by the strictest attention and exertions to please, to give satisfaction to those who may favor her with their company. Her intention is to accommodate Boys, Girls, Students of William & Mary College, grown Gentlemen, or Ladies, with board and lodging, or board only, by the day, month, or quarter of a year, on reasonable terms. ANNA BYRD Richmond, August 1. 4205
FOR SALE , in the town of Cartersville, upon James River, Lots No. 6 and 24, being the same formerly owned by Messrs. Deane—On the first is a good dwelling HOUSE, store and other improvements: and on the last, a good lumber house. A credit of one, two, and three years will be given to Buyers with approved security, to bear interest from the date, if not punctually paid, will be required—For further particulars, apply to Messrs. John & B. Cunningham, at Cartersville, who will show the premises, or to JAMES & JOHN DUNLOP. Petersburg, July 28. 6w
VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE. —The Subscriber wishes to dispose of that valuable tract of LAND called FORT LEWIS, lying in the Counties of Botetourt and Montgomery, and containing about 2,600 acres. They also wish to sell 3,180 acres of Land lying in the County of Fluvanna, on the south side of the Rivanna river, extending from Col. Cary's line, down the river, to within about a mile of Columbia.
This last mentioned Land, being in five distinct tracts, will be sold separately or together, as may best suit any person desirous of purchasing. One-fourth of the amount being paid in hand, any reasonable credit will be given for the balance.
GIBSON & JEFFERSON. Richmond, July 28. tf
THE Subscriber for the Book of Forms of Legal Process and Judicial Proceedings, proposed to be published by me, is informed that the work is in Press, and it is expected, from the progress which has been made in the printing thereof, that the Book will be ready for delivery by the ensuing fall. I take the liberty of suggesting to those who wish to own the Book, and have not subscribed therefor, the advantage of doing so as early as possible, and complying with the terms of subscription heretofore published, as a very small number of copies will be printed, which will be delivered (if there be occasion to do so) according to the dates of subscriptions. J. ROBINSON. Richmond, July 28. tf
FOR SALE. —By virtue of a deed of trust executed by Pleasant Youngblood, in his time, and recorded in the General Court—Will be sold, on the first day of next month (September), at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, four hundred and ninety-three acres of LAND, in the county of Henrico, being the tract of Land wherein Francis Lewis, dec'd. resided until his death, which Land was devised to said Youngblood, by Moses Davis and wife. The deed was executed to the subscribers, to secure to Frederick Harris, the payment of two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars, with interest from the 1st of March, 1809.—It is mentioned in the deed, that the sale was to be made for ready money, but the deed is dated on the 23d March, 1808, therefore subject to the act of the last session of Assembly of Virginia, entitled "An Act concerning executions & for other purposes." DAVID BULLOCK, THOS. NORVELL, Trustees. August 8. tds
GEORGE WATT has just received, and offers FOR SALE , Sicily, Madeira, and Sherry WINE, by the Hhd. and Qt. each, Green Coffee Orleans Sugar by the Hhd.; German Plantation Simplex by the piece or case, half pint Glass Tumblers in cases of 1000 each, and New York Soap & Candles.
ON HAND. Madeira Wine, Orleans and Muscovado Sugars, Green Coffee, Molasses, Pr. M. Pork, Liverwort and Stone Ware, Souchong, H. son, Shin, and Gunpowder Tea, Spanish Segars, Raisins, Almonds, Nutmegs, Window Glass, Men's & Women's Shoes, which he will dispose of by whole or on reasonable terms. July 22. tf
PASSAGE FOR LONDON.
THE SHIP PATRIOT GROENING, Mathias Probst, Master; Will sail for London, on or about the 15th of next month, and can accommodate eight or ten Passengers; she is a remarkably strong and well-built ship, of about 300 tons, almost new, and has a roomy and elegant Cabin. Her cargo being engaged, apply for Passage only, to the Master on board, or to NIEMEYER & VON KAPFF. Norfolk, July 28. 1m
BY virtue of a deed of trust, from Richard Young to the subscribers, bearing date the 27th day of April, 1808, and recorded in the General Court, for securing a certain debt, therein mentioned: Will be sold, to the highest bidder, on the 29th September, next, before the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, (or so much thereof, as will be sufficient to satisfy said debt, with interest and costs,) the following valuable PROPERTY, viz: Lot No. 1, with the wharf attached thereto; No. 3, a water lot; No. 9, a lot 13, back of water lot No. 5; No. 16, part of lot No. 178, in the plan of the city of Richmond, & No. 21, bought of the Executors of Francis Lewis, and on Bloody Run street. The same being the said Richard Young's part of property, situated at Rocketts, which he held jointly with Pickett, Pollard and Johnston, & assigned to him by deed of partition, executed by the parties, on the 17th March last.
The said sale will be made agreeably to the directions in such cases, of the act of Assembly, passed the 31st day of January, 1809, entitled—"An act concerning executions and for other purposes." EDWARD JOHNSTON, JOHN FOX, Trustees. August 11. id
THE different business concerns heretofore existing in this state, under the forms of Buchanan and Pollok at Petersburg, Robert and Allen Pollok at Richmond, and Pollok and Tredway & Co. at Manchester, are this day dissolved by mutual consent.
The partner resident at each place, is charged with the collection of the debts due to the concern hitherto under his arrangement, and we earnestly request those indebted to come forward and make satisfactory arrangements for the discharge of their debts. Those having claims against either of the concerns, will please apply accordingly.
DAVID BUCHANAN, by Robert Pollok, his Atty in fact. ROBERT POLLOK, ALLEN POLLOK, THOS. TREDWAY. Virginia, July 13.
The subscriber having purchased the stock of Goods on hand at this place, will continue business in his own name, and for his own account, at the former residence of Buchanan and Pollok. ROBERT POLLOK. Petersburg, July 13.
The subscribers have renewed their connexion in business, and mean to prosecute it in this place under the firm of Pollok and Tredway. ROBERT POLLOK, THOMAS TREDWAY. Manchester, July 18. 6w
WANTED to hire, for one or two months, a hand that has been accustomed to work in the field. For further information, apply to the printer. August 18. tf
THE subscriber will sell the HOUSE & LOT at present occupied by himself; and also an unfinished House, with an half acre of Land attached to it, near his residence.
First previously disposed of by private contract, this property will be sold, at public auction, upon the premises, on the fourteenth day of September, ensuing. The improvements on the Lot, occupied by the subscriber, are plain, neat, comfortable and in good repair.
If required, some time will be given for a part of the purchase money. The situation of this property is eligible, both as regards health and a good neighborhood. SAM'L. GREENHOW. August 18. 44Sep
EUROPE.
(VIA BOSTON.)
LONDON, June 22. The Amelia has taken a large row boat fitted out by the French, having about 15,000 dollars on board. There was another in company with 50,000 dollars on board, but she escaped.
Letters from Madrid dated the 25th, express in confident terms the hope, that the French will soon leave Madrid, and that a correspondence between the capital and London will be restored—"We expect," says one of these letters, "to communicate direct with London in the course of two months."
The Court Martial on Admiral Gambier does not take place this day, owing to the absence of necessary witnesses.
The trial of Lord Gambier will be extremely interesting. The charges have been made out from the logbook of Lord Cochrane's ship, but his Lordship is not the prosecutor. It is said that a certain degree of ill humor prevailed in the fleet at the circumstance of his being employed on the expedition, and that the signals were either not seen, or not repeated so as to be answered in time to complete the destruction which Lord Cochrane so gallantly began. ST. ANDERO.
The re-occupation of St. Andero by the Spaniards is confirmed. The Revenge arrived at Plymouth, brought a brief detail of the particulars and about 100 French prisoners, out of 500 who swam from the shore of St. Andero, and saved themselves from slaughter by throwing themselves into the arms of the English. They report that the Spanish patriot, Don de Polier, a young man of twenty-two, who took the field some time ago with a few followers, armed with pikes, fusils and other weapons, had now with him five thousand men—that he had set out with the avowed purpose of giving no quarter to the invaders of his country, whose atrocities had roused the spirit of insatiable revenge. He had succeeded in every skirmish, and excessively harassed the enemy. He took St. Andero by assault, and of the garrison of 800 men he put 500 to the sword. The remaining body had got on board the Statira, which lay in the roads; and as we have stated, above 100 of them are arrived in the Revenge sloop of war.
Charles IV, his Queen, and the Prince of Peace, are still at Marseilles; they inhabit one of the finest hotels in that city, and live at a very expensive rate.
LONDON, June 24.
RUSSIAN UKASE.
A new ukase has been published at St. Petersburg, dated 7th May. The regulations go to a further restriction of commercial intercourse with Great Britain, and resemble much in effect the famous decree of Napoleon, to put all our ports in a state of blockade. Among other things it enacts, that neutral vessels unprovided with documents sufficient to prove the property neutral, shall not be permitted to discharge in a Russian port—Neutral ships partly loaded with merchandise the manufacture or produce of an enemy, the goods to be seized; but if more than half of the cargo consists of such goods, both ship and cargo shall be seized. If the supercargo or master, or more than one third of the crew, should be subjects of powers at war with Russia, both ship and cargo shall be seized, but the crew shall be set at liberty.—If it should appear that a vessel is provided with double documents, with different destinations, such vessel and cargo shall be seized.
GRAND EXPEDITION.
In the absence of foreign intelligence, there is nothing talked of upon Change but the Grand Expedition, now on foot. It is to consist of 55 or 40,000 men. The naval part of it is to be under the command of Sir Home Popham, and if we are rightly informed, the military command will be given to General Hope, or the Earl of Moira. It is understood to be destined for an attack upon the island of Walcheren, which government has learnt within these few days, is almost destitute of troops; they have been all marched to join the grand army in Germany.—This enterprise is also undertaken with a view of giving the Dutch people an opportunity of shaking off the French yoke.
This day two Gotterden mails arrived. The Duke of Sudermania has been elected, crowned and proclaimed King, by the title of Charles XIII.
There is a report of the Turks having defeated the Russians, and killed 6000 men.
The Plover which arrived on Tuesday at Plymouth, spoke several neutral vessels from France, the masters of which informed her, that all the French privateers had been laid up, and their crews sent to join the French armies.
MOUNT ÆTNA.
Extract of a letter from an officer in the 27th regiment to his friend in Glasgow, dated Sicily, 12th April, 1809, says—"Mount Ætna burst out on the 26th or 27th ult. in a most tremendous manner. The first great eruption was from the very top. Twelve new craters opened shortly afterwards, about half way down the mountain, and have continued to throw out rivers of burning lava ever since. Several estates have been covered with the lava 30 or 40 feet deep. The first three or four nights, I saw it very well from here, and a very large river of red hot lava running down from the crater."
Expeditions. —Great preparations are making both to fit out the grand expedition under Sir J. Hope, and two or three smaller expeditions, intended for the coasts of Spain, France and Holland. Among other regiments, the first to go are—2d battalion 5th 2d 2d, 23d, 2d 2d, 28th, 32d, 34th, 35th, 39th, 42d, 51st, 2d battalion, 58th, 76th, 77th, 94th, 95th; besides the German artillery, two regiments of German dragoons, six of British heavy, and four of light horse.
The following embark at Harwich in a few days—3d battalion 1st or royals, 1st and 2d 2d of the 4th, 2d or Queen's, 2d 2d, 43d, 20, 28th, 59th, 79th and 84th.
The report of Bonaparte having solicited a truce to enable him to bury his dead, and which the Archduke Charles is said to have refused, is understood to be authentic, the intelligence having been received by government.
Louis Morandi is the name of the person who arrived in town on Monday night, from Vienna. He is a Piedmontese, and at the beginning of the late war, was employed as a messenger by Government. He says he was in the battles of the 21st, 22d, and 23d, in which the French lost 52,000 men, and upwards of 150 pieces of artillery. In effecting his escape, he changed the character of his dress twelve different times.
GERMANY.
FROM THE GOTTENHEIM MAIL.
HELSINGBORG, June 13.
The emperor of Russia is on his journey to Koningsberg.—The purport of his journey is to obtain an interview with the King of Prussia, respecting matters that at present can only be conjectured.
FRANKFORT, June 13.
"Since yesterday we have had here the King of Saxony, with his whole family & suite as well as the Grand Duke of Wurtzburg, and our Prince Primate. The enemy of our Confederation is said to be at Wirtzburg—God preserve our City and its environs!"
[EXTRACT OF ANOTHER LETTER.]
"Yesterday the corps under the Duke of Brunswick entered Wurtzburg, driving the two French divisions before them: the Prince Primate, King and Queen of Saxony, with their suites, having arrived the day before for safety. The French party are packing up all their moveable property, and we are in hourly expectation and dread of the arrival of the Austrians, whose numbers cannot be well ascertained, & all that is known on that head is, that according as they move, their forces augment rapidly. It is now reported that the Austrians, under one of the Archdukes has gained a great victory."
DRESDEN, June 12.
Yesterday morning, an Austrian corps from 8 to 10,000 men strong, arrived here very unexpectedly from Bohemia, after it had previously fallen in, a few miles distant from this capital, with a Saxon corps commanded by colonel Thümen, Adjutant General to his Majesty the king of Saxony. This officer marched from hence with about 3000 men, the whole of our disposable force, as soon as he received advice of the Austrians having made their appearance on the frontiers of Saxony to reconnoitre their strength. De-
ceived by a treacherous spy, who reported the Austrians to be only 600 strong, he advanced too far, and found his corps on a sudden on all sides surrounded by the enemy, and was at length obliged to yield to the enemy's vast superiority in numbers, after the most gallant resistance. The brave colonel Thümen fortunately escaped with some hundred horse, and carried the unpleasant intelligence to Leipzig, where the court then resided. Immediately after the Austrians had occupied this place, their van put itself in motion on its march to Leipzig, and was last night followed by the whole corps, with the sole exception of the regiment of Erbach, which forms at present the garrison of this town. The Austrians keep the strictest discipline, and all the royal buildings are provided with safe guards.
MUNICH, June 9.
From an official report concerning the latest events in the Tyrol, it appears that the Duke of Dantzig and general Wrede, having, after the submission of the inhabitants, marched out of the Tyrol towards Salzburg, gen. Deroy was left at Inspruck. He was attacked on the 25th ult. by a great number of rebels, and 600 Austrians, whom he drove into the mountains. After three days they returned and attacked our troops at Inspruck with great force. They were however repulsed. In all the engagements, the Tyrolese were joined by regular Austrian troops, but now the insurrection burst forth in the upper and lower valleys of the Inn, by which our troops were cut off from their countrymen, and destitute of provisions. The inhabitants of Inspruck were also starving; and the troops wanting ammunition, were in consequence obliged to retreat through bye ways, as the insurgents had broken down the bridges. At length we reached Kufstein with little loss.
SWEDEN.
The new Swedish Constitution is ready for presentation to the Diet, for its adoption or rejection. It consists of 104 articles, and seems to be founded upon the principles of the Constitution of England. The nobles, contrary to expectation, have relinquished some of their privileges, which, it was suggested to them, militated against the general interest of the country. The eldest son only is to have the title, and to enjoy the privileges attached to the order of nobility, and not as heretofore claimed and enjoyed by the younger branches of noble families.
The exemptions of land, the property of the nobility, whether obtained by descent or by purchase, from the payment of certain taxes—a grievance which produced much discontent and inconvenience to the government itself, is declared to be abolished; so that landholders of every description will in future contribute equally to the exigencies of the State, and the commercial interest will be relieved from the necessity of paying beyond their proportion to supply the deficiency. The new Constitution also provides, that the King is to be invested with the prerogative of declaring war and making peace. That a national Court of Judicature, wholly independent of the Executive, is to be established for the decision of all causes between subject and subject; but whether State and criminal offences are to be tried by this tribunal, is not known.
ITALY.
NAPLES, May 25.
Several persons have been apprehended here, under suspicion of their maintaining a correspondence with the court of Palermo. A commission has been appointed to examine their papers.
LONDON, June 28.
We have received intelligence of a very recent date, from the new residence of the Portuguese government, by which we learn that Liniers still retains his authority at Buenos Ayres.
"RIO JANEIRO, April 8."
"All trade to the river Plate, hitherto unlawful, is still interdicted, and it is supposed that the government of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video are waiting orders on the subject from the existing government in Spain; in the mean time, by licences granted by the Viceroy Liniers, and by smuggling, a vast quantity of goods are introduced."
"As soon as the embargo is taken off in America, a great many vessels are expected here from that country; and no doubt, among other articles, they will supply us with flour of better quality, and cheaper than comes from Rio Grande."
"The valuation of certain descriptions of goods underwent some alteration since the arrival of the Consul-General, who called in certain persons, supposed to be well informed of the value of the goods; but a great deal was, perhaps unavoidably, left undone, which it is hoped will be accomplished, and every thing ratified by a treaty of commerce, and said to be in great forwardness between this Court and Great Britain. The business of the custom house is by no means more tedious than it was at Lisbon, and in this respect we have not the least complaint to make."
"The Exchange was at 73 to 75."
From the London Gazette.
ADMIRALTY OFFICE, June 24, 1809.
Copy of a letter from the Hon. Captain Irby, of his Majesty's ship Amelia, addressed to Admiral Lord Gambier, transmitted by his Lordship to the Honorable W. W. Pole: "His Majesty's ship Amelia, off St. Andero, June 10, 1809."
"MY LORD,"
"Acting in obedience to your Lordship's order of the 15th ult. I received information of an attack being about to be made by the Spanish Patriots on the French troops in possession of the town of St. Andero, and having established signals between his Majesty's ship, under my command, and the fortress of Golezand, I proceeded off this place in company with his Majesty's ship Statira, she having joined me on the 8th inst. but a strong wind and current prevented our getting up till this day, when on our approach, firing was observed in every direction on the shore, and several vessels try-
ing to effect their escape out of the harbor, which were captured as per margin; one boat only getting away; more must have escaped, but were prevented through the activity of Captain Boys, in his Majesty's ship Statira. They appear fine vessels, and several of the French army on board, with a chief part of the hospital staff. The corvette is the same lately so gallantly engaged by Captain Skinner, with his Majesty's sloop Goldfinch, and since by the Black Joke lugger, and has proved a great annoyance to our trade. I learn by a Spanish officer, who came to me from the shore (aided by our boats which I sent on shore), and by French troops have all surrendered—and that the town is in the possession of the Spanish Patriots, under the command of Gen. Ballesteros.
"In consequence of the number of prisoners, I have sent the Statira into port, with the prizes, and shall remain myself off this coast, in hopes of being able to render further assistance to the Spanish cause."
"I have the honor to be, &c. "FRED. PAUL IRBY."
To the Right Hon. Lord Gambier, &c. &c.
See, further on, under the New York head—the Official French accounts of the events at St. Andero.
"French Corvette La Mouche, Capt. Allegre, 16 brass eight pounders, and 180 men—French brig La Rejune, Capt. Breton, eight 8 pounders, 57 men—Schooner La Mouche, Capt. Cormouf, one four pound gun, 25 men—Lugger, La Leger, Capt. S. quere, not sea-worthy, cargo removed to La Rejune—Lugger, Notre Dame, Capt. Dergo Chiri, 5 men."
BELFAST, (Ireland) July 3.
The Hamburg Correspondent confirms the intelligence of the successes of the various Austrian corps which are in motion in detached parties in Saxony and in the Tyrol—the operation of these armed bodies have evidently excited considerable alarm on the part of the French, as a proof of which we may add that fresh troops are continually pouring into the seat of war from France and its dependencies.
Letters from Holland state, that the conscription has met with great resistance. In several of the provinces the conscripts have assembled, and positively refused to march. Threats have been used against them; but as Bonaparte has drained the country of regular troops, it is doubted whether the Dutch government has the means of forcing them to join the armies in Germany. The same letters state, that several English and American ships have lately been condemned at Riga.
In the Court of King's Bench, on Monday, Valentine Jones, Esq. late Commissary General in the West-Indies, was brought up to receive the judgment of the Court, having been found guilty of fraud and peculation to the amount of £. 87,179.
The following case came before the English Lords Commissioners of Appeal in Prize Causes on the 3d of June:
Corn Planter—Gardner, master. —This vessel, under American colours, laden with beef, bound from Monte Video to the Havanna, was captured by the Latona and carried to Antigua, where the ship and cargo were condemned. On the part of the captors it was contended, that going to the Havanna was in breach of his Majesty's instructions, on behalf of the claimants, that it was not the original intention of the owners to go to the Havanna; but to proceed first to the Island of St. Thomas, for the purpose of enquiry whether she might proceed, and that therefore the destination must be considered as contingent.—Sentence of the court below affirmed.
Washington—Adams, master. —This vessel, under American colours, laden with rum, brandy, &c. was captured on the coast of Africa by the Prince of Orange privateer, and carried to Surinam river. The Vice-Admiralty court, at Barbadoes, restored both ship and cargo to the claimants; there was also a reserved question of costs and damages against the captors, which the judge rejected. From both these sentences appeals were presented. Their Lordships took time to consider of their determination.
(NOV. SCOT.) HALIFAX, August 1.
British bravery has been once more brilliantly displayed in the capture of the enemy's frigate La Furieuse of 43 guns on the 6th ult. by la Bonne Citoyenne, of 18 guns, after an engagement of 6 hours and 51 minutes. The French vessel had 71 men killed and wounded. The English ship 1 killed and 6 wounded. The frigate is laden with sugar, coffee and cocoa, and was from Guadaloupe for France. The Citoyenne chased 20 hours. Both vessels have arrived here.
Lord W. Bentick is gone on a mission to the continent. Government requested it might not be mentioned in the London prints. We copy it from a Belfast paper, which adds, that he goes to his Prussian Majesty, to arrange a subsidy, &c. and that Bonaparte has made military dispositions which show he suspects Prussia.—Jamaica paper.
BOSTON, August 12.
SPANISH GRATITUDE.
The Spanish consul, resident in this town, having transmitted to Spain, an account of the splendid festival given here, in March last, in honor of the Spanish Patriots, has received the following acknowledgement of that illustrious body, acting for and in the name of Ferdinand 7th, the lawful Sovereign of Spain:
TRANSLATION. The Supreme Governing Junta of Spain, and the Indies, having seen the contents of your letter, under date of the 16th March last, in which you give information of the public dinner, given by three hundred respectable citizens of your town, in honor of the Spanish Patriots, to which you had been invited:—His Majesty has heard with the utmost satisfaction, of the friendly demonstrations of the said American citizens, on the aforesaid occasion; and commands me

to manifest to you, that he is very much satisfied with the tokens you have given of your loyalty and adherence to the good cause of our legitimate Sovereign, Ferdinand VII. God preserve you many years.
Seville, 21st May, 1809. (Signed) MARTIN DE GARAY. Pavel Ray, A. Don Juan Stoughton, Consul de España, in Boston.
The ship Golden Age, capt. Remick, arrived last evening, from Cadiz, which she left the 1st July.
Mr. Peake, a passenger, politely favored us with a file of the Spanish Government Gazette, to the 26th June, and the following verbal articles:
That the French were concentrating their force in the vicinity of Madrid.
That the army of General Blake had advanced from Taragona, defeated the French entered Arragon, but in an attempt to recover Saragossa, was attacked by the French, beaten, and compelled to retire.
That Marshal Victor had evacuated Estremadura. He was followed by Cuesta, who had 70,000 men under him; and the English army under gen. Wellesley was at Badajoz.
That the Spanish army of La Mancha, had advanced to within ten leagues of Madrid.
That the enthusiasm of the Spanish Patriots had regained its prime height; that no despondency existed of the success of their cause; that the decrees of the Supreme Junta were universally respected and obeyed; that the great body of the people appeared resolved to die rather than submit to French domination; and that the English and Americans were highly respected.
That discipline and subordination were making soldiers of the Spaniards; and there were several thousand young volunteers from the Canaries, who were in daily drill in Cadiz, for the field.
The English have a small squadron in Cadiz, and the French Prizes were equipped for sea.
NEW-YORK, April 15. NEWS FROM SPAIN. Translated for the Mercantile Advertiser.
PARIS, June 23.
Letter from Marshal Duke of Elchingen, Commander in Chief of the 7th corps of the French army in Spain, to his Excellency the minister of War, dated Oviedo, May 21, 1809.
"I have the honor of acquainting your excellency, that the expedition of the Asturians had been concerted with General Kellermann, immediately after his arrival at Lugo. This important operation has been promptly terminated.
"I set out from Lugo on the 13th, with the 25th of light infantry, the 27th and 59th of the line only, the 3d of hussars, the 25th of dragoons, eight pieces mountain artillery, carried on mules, 200,000 cartridges of reserve & biscuits for several days. This division, commanded by General Maurice Mathieu, was divided into four brigades under the orders of Generals Lorcet, Labassée, Marcognet and Bardet. The troops took position the same day in the Val de Pedrosa.
"On the 14th, they encamped at Navide Suarra; we exchanged a few musket shots in entering it, and we made 25 prisoners. I learnt that the army denominated Galicia, 3,000 strong, composed of troops of the line and of a multitude of armed peasants, was encamped at Fuensagrada and Peguin; I might have easily attacked it on the 15th, by facing round about upon them, and the success was obvious; but I preferred to take advantage of the ignorance in which the enemy was of my designs, in order to gain a few marches, fall on a sudden on the centre of his forces, and by these means render the junction impossible. He presumed, no doubt, that when arrived at Navia de Suarra, I would alter my course to the right, in order to reach the road to Villa Franca by the Val de Neyra, and then bend my way upon Orense.
"On the 15th, I took position at Torimaler; on our way we dispersed a convoy of 300 mules, carrying flour, muskets and ammunition to the enemy's army. The peasants, who remained in the villages, would look upon us as a crazy set of people to dare encountering troops in the Asturias through such a way; and truly the road, or rather path, was impassable.
"On the 16th, I took position at Cagude-Tineo; there we found recruits, intended for Fuensagrada; I sent them back to their villages; a number of muskets and ammunition were destroyed.
"On the 17th, I arrived at S. Ias, and my advanced guard reached Boadella, where I purposed crossing the Narcea; there is no bridge on this torrent, which the melting of the snow renders very wide and rapid; fortunately we found there two vessels capable of carrying twenty men at a time, but there was no fording place for the cavalry; I determined to cause a dyke to be opened in order to procure a new passage to the winter. The troops set about this laborious task with so much eagerness, that in three hours the river fell one foot, and the cavalry and baggage could ford it. Swimmers placed at proper distances, recovered six men who were carried off by the stream; four horses were drowned.
"It was only on the 17th that Romana, whose head-quarters were at Oviedo, learnt with certainty that I was marching up to him. The garrison of that city was 3,000 men, composed of the Princess' regiment and the militia. He hastened to send 1,200 men, with 2 pieces of cannon, to Penmañor's bridge, and marched the remainder of his troops to Gallegos, in order, likewise, to defend the bridge on the Narcea. These two detachments were provided with implements and powder to blow up the bridge in case of need. After these dispositions, Romana remained tranquil at Oviedo, and sent orders to Generals Mahy and Mantizabal, to retrograde by Salime and Lapola-de-Allande, in order to cut off our retreat.
"On the 18th, at 6 in the morning, the advanced guard had crossed the Narcea, and was bending its way towards Grado; at 8 o'clock, the whole of the artillery and a battalion of the 25th, marched to support it. The enemy, whom they found at Grado, was routed with extreme rapidity as far as Penmañor—all the heights were covered with peasants, and the firing became excessively brisk on all sides.
"Ordered General Lorcet to carry the bridge at the point of the bayonet. This order was executed with the greatest boldness; the two pieces of cannon were taken, and every one of the enemy we could come up with was run through. The cavalry was in battle array in a small plain, and kept up our
communications; but it was requisite to abandon it, because I wished to avail myself of the enemy's flight, in order to carry the bridge of Gallegos. Accordingly, I left the battalion of the 25th, to guard the bridge and heights of Penmañor, whilst the battalion of Voltigeurs of advanced guard, and 50 hussars marched on to Gallegos. This last bridge was considerably well defended by the Princess' regiment, but it was nevertheless carried; we also took a 12 pounder. The enemy was pursued a short distance, and we returned to Barricado ourselves on the bridge, in order to wait the meeting of the brigades. Meanwhile the passage of the Narcea continued the whole day and night.
"On the 19th, at 6 in the morning, the 3d and 4th brigade were at Oviedo; the advanced guard and the first brigade were taking position at the forked road of Gijon and Aviles, as likewise at Coyes and Lugones, on the Narcea.
"Romana embarked on the 19th, at five in the morning from Gijon, with the members of the Junta, on board of a Spanish Scout, which kept within sight by contrary winds: He could behold the entry of the French.
"On the 20th, the troops entered Gijon. We found in that town and at Oviedo upwards of 250,000 wt. of powder, as much shot, a great quantity of artillery, muskets and military equipages, the whole furnished by the English. Two brigades, of the same nation, loaded with sundry articles, were set on fire by the enemy at the moment of his flight; our soldiers succeeded in saving one of them.
"This day a small column of infantry, which I had sent to Polade Lona, effected its junction with the head of General Kellermann's troops. The General will arrive here this evening. This column met with the enemy and routed him.
"To-morrow I shall depart from hence, to march against the insurgents army, called Galicia. I know the chiefs are very much perplexed. I am in hopes of dispersing their troops and returning to my former position.
"As far as one can judge in this first moment of the dispositions of their minds, the lower class of people seems weary of the war; Romana and the other chiefs are detested.
"It is very difficult to appreciate the loss of the enemy; it must have been very considerable, for the whole road, from the Narcea to Oviedo, is covered with dead bodies. Our loss is not worth mentioning. We have recovered many soldiers of the 6th light infantry and of the several regiments of the 2d corps.
"(Signed) "The Marshal Duke of Elchingen, NEY".
Second letter from his Excellency Marshal Duke of Elchingen, to his Excellency the Minister of War.
"LA CORUNNA, 3d June. "MY LORD "I had the honor of addressing you, on the 21st ult. a report upon the expedition of the Asturians; I now owe you an account of the return of my troops into Galicia, of the obstacles they had to encounter in their march, and of the events which have taken place in this extensive province during my absence.
"On the 21st, General Kellermann arrived at Oviedo, and his troops successively relieved mine at Gijon, Aviles and in the important positions of Penmañor and Gallego. After having settled with that General the necessary arrangements for the preservation of the tranquillity of the country, I began my march.
"On the 22d, I arrived at Aviles, where General Marcognet had two days before a smart fight with the insurgents, who lost 200 men, and in which the 25th of dragoons and the 29th of the line distinguished themselves.
"The left of my troops was marching ahead, covered by Colonel Ornano with a squadron of dragoons, followed by the 59th of the line, under the orders of General Bardet.
"Colonel Ornano took a position on the Nalon, with a few companies of Voltigeurs, opposite Moroz; he was instructed to collect on that point, the greatest number possible of boats; another column went up the river for the same purpose as far as Pravia, from whence they brought ten barks loaded with 12,000 rations of provisions, destined for the troops that were to have come to dispute with us the passage.
"I had dispatched from Aviles, under the orders of chief of battalion Regnard, my aid-de-camp, a small flotilla armed with some pieces of artillery and 120 men of infantry to range along the shore to pick up boats and bring them successively in the river we had to cross.
"On the 23d, the insurgents lined the heights on the left of the Nalon; some few embarks were sufficient to disperse this assembly which lost 40 or 50 men. The passage began at 3 in the morning and was completed by 10 at night; the horses of the cavalry swam over. The rear guard coming from Gijon, effected its passage only in the morning of the following day.
"On the 24th, all the troops were in march by day break making for Luarca; a fording place was observed on the Caneito, and the infantry could cross over on a bridge of carts without being disturbed by the enemy. The rear guard joined the first brigade and from that moment continued united to the rest of my troops. The flotilla continued to range along the shore, still increasing the number of their boats; they had orders to enter in the Navia; off Cape Saint-Pedro, they were attacked by a privateer and a large fishing boat which they obliged to shear off after an obstinate conflict of three hours.
"On the 25th, at day-break, the column passed through Luarca; the head was already on the Niava; some militia and a multitude of peasants defended the passage with two 24, one 8, and one 6 pounder, manoeuvred by coasting cannoniers. The troops on our approach kept up a very brisk firing of artillery and small arms. Colonel Ornano, who had been sent to reconnoitre the river, found a ford opposite Cuana; immediately the voltigeurs rode behind the dragoons on the same horses, and the enemy attacked in flank, precipitated their retreat; but having perceived too late our movement, he experienced a great loss, and our dragoons cut a great many of them. Whilst the crossing at the fording place was effecting, a number of swimmers, at the head of whom was capt. Tressard, were swimming over under the fire of the artillery, shoving along before them a chest filled with muskets and cartridge boxes, and in a short time this handful of brave men advanced to the enemy, who, assailed on all sides, disbanded & abandoned his artillery; from that moment we could direct our attention to the passage of the infantry, which went on with such activity that at 9 o'clock in the evening, the rear guard only remained on the right bank, and
they crossed it during the night. The flotilla directed its course towards Ribados in order to protect our passage of the Eo.
"On the 26th, the troops were divided in two columns; One of them marched towards Castropol, and the other to Lavegna; we met with a ford at the latter place, and the infantry crossed over on a bridge of carts—I learnt at Castropol of the arrival of the duke of Dalmatia (Soult) on the Miño.
"On the 27th, I directed the greatest part of my troops towards Mondariz, my advanced guard made some prisoners of the enemy, whose retreat was towards Meyra.
"On the 28th I drew my troops closer to Lugo, the right extending beyond Castro-del Rey; I sent reconnoitring parties towards Meyra and Lugo, to ascertain the position of the enemy, and to know the state of affairs in Galicia. The officer sent to Lugo confirmed to me the arrival of the 2d corps, and informed me of the result of the attempts made by the enemy upon that city and San Yago, from the 19th to the 23d.
"On the 29th the troops remained in position, excepting the 3d of Hussars, with which I went to Lugo for the purpose of conferring with the Duke of Dalmatia, upon the measures to be taken to disperse the enemy & baffle his projects.
"On the 30th, and 31st May, & first of June, my troops approached successively to Betanzos, in order to be in readiness to act vigorously against the corps of Garera which occupied San-Yago.
"Yesterday, 2d June, my advanced guard entered this city; the enemy has retreated upon Elpadron and Pontedeira.
"During the toilsome march of the troop, upon Oviedo and their return into Galicia from the 13th of May to the 26th, they have been constantly in motion from 4 o'clock in the morning till 9 and 10 at night; they had to climb up steep hills, and go through the most impracticable roads I ever saw in my life. The enemy, whatever his position might be, could not resist them, in short, it is impossible to show more devotedness for the service of his majesty than has been manifested in this circumstance by all the generals, officers and soldiers.
"I shall forward to your excellency, the list of the officers, subalterns and soldiers who distinguished themselves under my own eyes, and who have a claim for reward.
"The loss we have sustained in the expedition of the Asturians is unimportant. We have liberated a great part of the battalion of the 6th light taken at Villa Franca, and several hundred soldiers of the 2d and 6th corps.
"(Signed) The Marshal Duke of Elchingen, NEY.
Extract of a letter from General Bonet, to Marshal Duke of Treviso [Mortier] dated Saint Andero, June 12.
"General Kellermann will have given you an account of my march for the purpose of reaching the corps of Ballesteros. Having set out on the 8th of June from Cargas d'Ovis, I arrived on the 11th opposite to Torrevieja, where Ballesteros and Marquezado had formed a junction. The enemy having in the morning, made a movement towards St. Andero, I gave orders to follow him—and notwithstanding the fatigue of the troops, who were without bread, I marched rapidly in the direction of Saint Andero.
"All the advanced posts were overthrown with the bayonet; at midnight two battalions of the 12th light infantry entered the city, where the enemy had the Princess' and Hibernia's regiments and other troops. After two hours slaughter, I took position, the forces I had to fight being superior in number. At day-break, my dispositions being made, an enemy's column 3,000 strong was attacked and laid down their arms.
"General Ballesteros having made his escape with several chiefs, I sent out patrols to make a sweep in the country. Marquezado, who had concealed himself until 4 o'clock, endeavored to effect his escape; not having been pursued, his corps was dispersed, killed, and a great part of it drowned.
"This day costs 5000 men to the enemy. The regiments of Hibernia and Princess are destroyed. We have 3000 prisoners, among whom are 150 Officers; besides 600 Frenchmen have been liberated at St. Andero, independently of the garrison, and 500 sick, who happened to be in the place. I have given orders to follow the enemy in the direction of Santonia.
"Signed, The General of Division, BONET
DOMESTIC.
ANTI-DUELLING ASSOCIATION. NEW-YORK, August 8, 1809.
Agreeably to public notice, a large number of respectable citizens met at the North Dutch Church, this day, to receive the report of a committee appointed at a former meeting, relative to the adoption of measures for the suppression of duelling.
HON. JOHN BROOME, Esq. in the chair. COL. LEBBEUS LOOMIS, Secretary.
The following plan was reported by the committee, and unanimously adopted, viz. "WE, whose names are hereunto subscribed, viewing with alarm the increase of duelling; desirous of opposing to its further prevalence the strongest lawful resistance; and persuaded that a proper use of the Right of Suffrage, will have a powerful effect in discountenancing and banishing it; do hereby unite ourselves in an Association, to be called the
ANTI-DUELLING ASSOCIATION OF NEW-YORK
And do, by our signatures hereunto annexed, solemnly pledge ourselves to each other, not to vote at any election for any man whom, from current fame, or our own private conviction, we shall believe to have sent, accepted, or carried a challenge to fight a Duel, or acted as a Second or Surgeon therein, after the date hereof.
For the better attaining the object of this Association, the affairs thereof shall be conducted by a committee of ; with a President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary, chosen by themselves, out of their own number. members shall form a quorum.
Simple subscription to the above agreement, without regard to religious or political connection, shall constitute a membership in this Association.
The subscribers shall be convened in general meeting whenever the Committee shall judge it necessary."
The Committee also reported an Address to the Electors of this State, which was in like manner agreed to.
On motion, Resolved, That a Committee of twenty-one be appointed to procure subscriptions to
the agreement now adopted, to fill up the blanks therein, and to prepare a list of persons proper to compose the standing Committee of the association; and report the same to a meeting of the subscribing electors as soon as possible.
Resolved, That the Committee appointed, cause the proceedings of this meeting to be published.
By order of the Meeting. JOHN BROOME, Chairman. LEBBEUS LOOMIS, Secretary.
* The first blank has been filled up by the Committee with fifty and the second with fifteen.
THE FOLLOWING IS THE ADDRESS TO THE ELECTORS OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.
A number of your fellow citizens solicit your attention to a subject of great and common interest. They address you not as adherents to any political or ecclesiastical party; but as men who abhor that atheism which rejects the authority & government of God—as citizens who feel the importance of making the law respected; and who know that the impunity of crime tends to destroy both public order and private happiness, with all the security of property, liberty and life. As friends, brothers, fathers of families, to whom the social charities are sacred; and who can never hold cheap the blood of such as are united to them in the tenderest ties of amity, of nature and of love. They call upon you to consider, and resist the prevalence of a crime which strikes at you in all these relations; which has hitherto eluded, but too successfully, the several efforts to suppress it; and which, emboldened by past impunity, threatens to leave nothing safe of all that is venerable and valuable in human life—the crime of Duelling.
They need not prove the absurdity and atrocity of a practice which cannot reckon among its advocates a single wise or good man. Few even of the abandoned, venture to apologise for it upon any other principle than this, that "it is a means, however bad, which the state of society renders necessary for the protection of person and character;—and that if one should not resent an insult by calling out his author, or should decline a challenge from another, he would become an object of universal contempt, liable to the meanest affronts, and incapable of retaining his place among men of dignity and spirit. Briefly, the public opinion, which regulates private honor, is in favor of Duelling, and compels one to sacrifice his reason, his conscience, and his wishes, to the respectability of his social standing."
Thus the duellist, assuming it as a fact, that he is to be rewarded with the approbation of the community, flies to his weapons of death; sates his revenge with blood; and produces public opinion as the warrant for his murders.
On the MORALITY of this doctrine it would be superfluous to comment. There can be but one judgment pronounced upon it by all who recognize the distinction between right and wrong, as originating in a higher source than human custom. But if the allegation of fact is correct; if the duellist has rightly estimated the public opinion; if it is true that the American people look with satisfaction upon deeds which fill every virtuous breast with horror and dismay, then is our condition dreadful indeed.
We cannot submit to such a libel upon the understanding and the morals of this nation. Public opinion is merely the collective opinion of individuals. To be known, it must be expressed. And when, where, how has it been expressed in FAVOR OF DUELLING? Let the man be produced who has, from principle refused either to give or accept a challenge, and has been pursued, by public reprobation!
The true expression of public opinion is to be sought in the religion of the land, in its laws, and in the conversation of its inhabitants.
The religion of the land is decisive.—That religion which is received by the people of the United States as of divine authority, and which has interdicted not only the matured act, but all incitements to the commission of it.
The laws of the land are decisive. They speak death to the man who kills another in a duel. They speak degradation and infamy to every man who, in any manner, assists in a duel. But the laws are merciful.—They will not allow of any avoidable risk of punishing the innocent. And the guilty, availing himself of their precaution and of the facility of escape, created by different jurisdictions, eludes their blow, and in the very act of shrinking from this expression of the public will, pleads PUBLIC OPINION in his own vindication!
The private circle is decisive. Go thro' the state from house to house; number the patrons of duelling; and when you have found them one in a thousand of our independent electors, begin to speak of their opinion. Shall we, then, hear that our opinions collectively are in diametrical contradiction to our opinions separately? And that the public applauds a practice which every one who contributes to make up that public, a handful of the desperate excepted, pronounces to be senseless and wicked? Yet strong as the facts are, full, peremptory, solemn and habitual as are the expressions of public opinion against duelling, without one solitary expression in its favor, this baneful practice, the offspring of barbarous manners and bloody passions, is still fathered upon PUBLIC OPINION! And, what is deeply alarming, gains rapidly among our citizens—gains, in opposition to all the expositions of reason, and all the sanctions of religion; in opposition to the rebuke of the law; to the testimony of the wise and good; to the protestations of common humanity; to the tears of the widow and the sorrows of the orphan; to the agnies of a father's bosom and the yearnings of a mother's bowels; to all that is affecting in this world, and all that is tremendous in the world to come!
Are we fathers? Are we brothers? Are we citizens? Are we men? And shall we permit a crime, the reproach of our land and the scourge of our peace, to stalk openly and impudently through our streets? Are we to tremble every hour of our lives, lest a brother or a son, on whom rest our fairest hopes, cross our threshold in the morning to be brought back, at noon, a victim to that Moloch—modern honour? and, as the sword passes through our souls, to be told, that we invited its point, and bribed the assassin, by our own complacency to his character?
But what shall be done? Religion has spoken and she is mocked. The laws have spoken, and they are defied. Humanity has spoken and she is insulted. This is unhappy true. One measure, however, still remains. A measure simple, dignified and probably more effectual than any which has been tried hitherto. It is in the elective
franchise. The freemen of this state have only to refuse their countenance and their VOTE at the elections to every man who shall hereafter be engaged, either as principal or necessary, in any duel or in any attempt to promote one.—As the utmost art is used by offenders in this way to frustrate the law, by rendering the requisite proof impossible, nothing more is necessary to cut them off from the benefit of their ill-gotten impunity, than to make current report, or one's private persuasion, by which means severs the ground of withholding one's vote.
That the influence of such a determination, if generally adopted and acted upon, would be very great, cannot admit of a doubt. The only plausible objections are the two following:
1. That a judgment founded upon presumptive proof such as common rumor, or an article in the public prints, might condemn an innocent man; and 2. That the measure recommended may interfere with the freedom of elections.
Upon the first objection it is sufficient to remark, that should the case even occur, that a candidate for office should fail in his election from an unjust suspicion of his having been concerned in a duel, it would still be much better that an individual should be kept out of an office to which he has no right than the people's gift, than that an atrocious crime should go longer without coercion. The injury, if any, would flow not from the vote but from the suspicion which existed prior to it, and therefore could be no way occasioned by it.
But such a case is so extremely improbable, as not to be of any weight in the contemplation of a grand social reform. Among all those to whom a general and permanent suspicion has attached on this subject, it would be difficult if not impossible to point out an instance of mistake. And should a mistake happen hereafter, the person accused, knowing that the charge, if believed, is to shut him out from the people's honors, will not be slow in repelling it, and rescuing his character from unmerited odium.
With regard to the second objection.—Instead of interfering with the right of election, the expedient proposed is founded upon the broadest and freest exercise of that right. It is the prerogative of every elector to give or to deny his vote to any candidate for any reason which to himself is satisfactory; or for no other reason than his own choice. He enjoys a control over his own vote which no man nor body of men may question. And as he may give or refuse it to whomsoever he pleases at the time of election, so he is at perfect liberty to declare, before hand, what causes shall govern him in its application.
While the measure proposed does in no manner invade the freedom of election, it is recommended by the most forcible motives of public utility and virtue.
The class of avowed duellists is too small to impoverish the councils or offices of the state by their absence. Nothing will be lost by leaving them out.
The intended remedy against their inroads upon society, addresses itself to the very principle on which they profess to build their practice, a sense of honor. Close up the avenues to public confidence: Let it be heard, and seen, and felt, that duelling and duellists are infamous—and their plea is gone. If, after this, any of our citizens should persist in the practice—they will convict themselves, in the face of Heaven and earth, of fighting from the impulse of ferocious malignity and thirst of blood.
The political power of the people will be arranged on the side of individual virtue, of domestic happiness and of public morals.
Many an unhappy man, who would otherwise be hurried away by notions of false honor and the dread of open scorn, will be preserved to himself, his family and his country.
The storm of public opinion, thus efficaciously turned against a crime of frequent occurrence and the blackest dye, will obliterate the reproach of our name and prevent the accumulation of both guilt and suffering.
As no retrospect is designed—what is past being considered as past—an opportunity will be given to such as may have been unwillingly drawn into duels, to declare themselves in the cause of their convictions and of truth.
Such fellow-citizens, are the sentiments which have given rise to the Anti-Duelling Association of New-York. You are earnestly entreated to join in a general and solemn resolution never to confide the interest of your families and your country to the hands of men, who, by the future commission of the crime of duelling, shall prove that they neither fear God nor regard man. Such a resolution will refute the slander that your opinions are really favorable to their folly and their violence. It will put away from you, as individuals, if faithfully kept, the guilt of blood. It will be as beneficial to the community as it will be consolatory to yourselves. It will speak to offenders in a tone which they will not dare to despise. And if this magnanimous conduct will not furnish an example, no example is ever to be furnished in the course of human things, that the voice of the people is the voice of God!
By order of the Meeting. JOHN BROOME, Chairman. LEBBEUS LOOMIS, Sec'y. New-York, August 8, 1809.
PHILADELPHIA, August 17. We are extremely happy to learn, that the unfortunate captives confined at Carthagena, for their connection with Miranda, have succeeded in effecting their escape, and have returned in health to their native country.—Gazette.
The British armed ship Maida, will sail from New-York for Liverpool, on Saturday next.
The British packet for Falmouth, via Halifax, sailed from New-York yesterday.
NEW-YORK, August 17.
Yesterday afternoon, the United States' Sloop of war Wasp, Lieut. Lawrence, sailed from this port with Government Despatches, for France.
WASHINGTON, August 15.
Mr. Secretary Smith received, on the 14th instant, from Mr. Erskine a long and very satisfactory letter, in answer to one of the 9th inst. in which Mr. Smith had respectfully requested a candid explanation, as to the conversations which Mr. Canning's dispatch of the 23d of January had imputed to Mr. Madison, Mr. G. G. and himself.
Mr. Erskine has, moreover, in this letter, stated the reasons which, in the exercise of the discretion given him, had induced him not to lay his instructions before the government of the United States.

These papers will, no doubt, be communicated in due time to Congress. Wm. T. C.
There is the strongest reason to believe, that the note of Mr. Canning of the 23d of Jan. was not framed as a guide to Mr. Erskine, or with a view to its being communicated to our government, so much as with a view to publication at a proper season to produce an unjust impression of the sentiments of our government and the disposition of his own. Had certain events occurred, this celebrated note would never have seen the light. Not having occurred, it is ushered to the public as proof positive of the firm and unswerving conduct of the British ministry, and of the pusillanimity of our government! Whatever the catastrophe may be, it is calculated that the plot will answer for a short period. It will in England completely gull the public credulity, and even in this country, to our reproach, it must be acknowledged, it will operate to a certain extent, as a fire brand of discord. Until the full correspondence is unveiled, we must consider the fact of Mr. Erskine's not having communicated this dispatch, or having acted under it, as evidence of the existence of other instructions of a different complexion. But, in the mean time, while the public curiosity and interest are most alive, this is the only paper published. In England, it will have the temporary effect of giving popularity to the ministry, by the appearance of firmness on their part, connected with the great gains of her merchants and manufacturers. Although this last result be strictly the result of the arrangements made by Mr. Erskine, which his government disavows, it has, nevertheless, taken special care to reap the full harvest; and Mr. Canning has probably calculated, that the ultimate award of his constituents will be in proportion to the success of his measures, without a nice discrimination with regard to their causes. If the depredations committed on our trade (for they do not merit a milder epithet) under the terms of the disavowal, enrich the English merchant and manufacturer, enable them to resume the activity of their occupations, by purchasing the goods of the former and furnishing raw materials to the latter, and furnish the government with naval supplies, so essential to its vigorous career, if they supply the fund for new taxes or loans to aid the operations of Spain and Austria, Mr. Canning doubtless concludes, that this breach of good faith towards a rival and a republic will, amidst the blaze of triumph and the intoxication of prosperity, be viewed as a mere peccadillo, if not as an accomplished stratagem. If pressed hard, he will conjure up the plea of necessity, and show that the very existence of his country depended upon the measures resorted to, and he will demand to know of what value the feelings or character of an individual are, compared with the salvation of a nation. If, on the contrary, all his gay hopes of triumph and victory fade away, and he and his coadjutors are driven from the royal cabinet by the clamors of a distracted people, this feature in their conduct, it will be presumed, will challenge but little regard amidst the other numerous invasions of principle and justice. The nation too, will be likely to be satisfied with their fall, and in the hope of better times, look forward instead of backward. The whole conduct of the present English ministry shows, that they hazard everything on a successful issue, realising that it is neck or nothing with them. 16.
WASHINGTON, August 18. The Secretary of State left the city yesterday for Baltimore. The Secretary of the Treasury departed from the city on Wednesday. The Secretary of War left this place for Boston on Sunday. Mr. Erskine the British Minister, departed for Philadelphia on Wednesday.
R UNAWAY from the Subscriber in Amherst County, on the 24th Instant, my noted Waterman Robin, he is between 35 and 40 years of age, of black complexion, has very hollow cheeks, owing to the loss of his upper, and jaw teeth, he has been accustomed to run the river from Lynchburg to Richmond for many years, and has numerous acquaintances and it is highly probable that he will be harbored by some of them, I will give a reward of 10 dollars and pay all expenses to any person that will bring the said Robin to me, otherwise will pay 5 dollars for putting him in the Jail of the County where he may be taken up. THOMAS MOORE. August 22.
A BSCONDED from the Subscriber, on the night of the 7th July last, a Negro man named Stephen 20 years old, five feet, eight or nine inches high, of a tawny complexion, with a very remarkable scar, on the right side of his forehead, occasioned by a burn, he carried with him sundry clothes among them was a black duranta coat, constitution cord pantaloons and two cotton shirts. The above negro was purchased of Mr. Joseph Deahfield of Northumberland County, to which place I suspect he will endeavor to get, as his parents live in that county. I will give twenty dollars to any person that will apprehend or secure him in Jail, so I get him again, or forty dollars for his delivery to me living in Brunswick County. PETERSON RAWLINGS. August 22.
N OTICE.—The Trunk which was advertised by the subscriber as stolen from the Basin on the night of the 21st ult. marked L. D. Lynchburg, Va. contained the following articles, viz: gold breast-pins of oval, octagon, and other forms, with a glass to each, some of which are inlaid with pearl, others being plain and in the form of a key—gold earrings of new patterns, some of which are set with a topaz stone—also, a parcel of plain half moon hoop, do. and some plain finger rings, with a small red stone in each—books of gold leaf—tortoiseshell combs—black high topped buttons, and silk cord. A liberal reward will be given for the whole of the articles above mentioned, or a handsome compensation for such a portion of them as may be recovered. And should they be offered for sale, it is hoped they will be stopped, and information given to THOMAS GUY. August 22.
N ICHANCERY.—At a Court held for Buckingham County, the 10th July, 1809. Thomas Higginbotham and Company, Plf. against Zacharias Taliaferro and Charles Patterson, Def. On the motion of the plaintiffs by counsel and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendants are not inhabitants of this State; It is ordered and decreed, That unless they shall appear here on or before October Court next, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, the Court will then proceed to take the same for confessed, and decree the matter thereof accordingly, and that a copy of this order be forth with published in some public news paper 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. ELDREDGE, Jr. D. C. August 22.
THE ENQUIRER. RICHMOND, AUGUST 22, 1809.
FOR THE ENQUIRER. Lord Sheffield, long noted for his opposition to the rights of the U. States, and his unprincipled attempts to extend the trade of his country by piracy upon our own—has lately drawn his grey goose quill in defence of the Orders in Council . The theme and the advocate are worthy of each other. He, who has never drawn back from a defence of the most absurd or oppressive measures towards us, is fit to be the champion of one of the most atrocious encroachments which stands upon record.
The ground which he has taken in his pamphlet of February last, is this; that, "the Orders in Council and the American Embargo are beneficial to the political and commercial interests of G. B." Perhaps some man of rather a more modest turn of mind, might have been contented with proving less; such as that these measures had not been as detrimental to G. Britain as they had been represented to be—or that they were not detrimental at all. But these are not the narrow limits which bound the ambition of Lord Sheffield. His Lordship must lay claim to some positive merit of success. It is for him to show not only that the Orders of his friend Mr. Canning are not bad , but that they are really good . And it must be confessed that his means are at least consistent with his object. No man ever came to the charge with a finer show of documents, a bolder front, a more impenetrable armour of brass. And if these were sufficient to prove propositions, then indeed would the paradox of Sheffield be established, and the American Embargo be the best thing in the world for G. B.
He comes not however alone.—The square of this valiant knight, in this no less valiant adventure, is one, who has figured for some time in the pamphleteer annals of London by the vulgar name of old Rose—'old Geo. Rose'—once a petty purser in a British ship, afterwards discharged for some neat malfeasance or other—now a clerk in some of the British treasury departments—and the sire of Mr. Rose of negotiation memory. This man is as famous for his financial tables as Huggins for his shaving pulls and Hamilton for his Worn Lozenges—just as much quackery, and about as much good in them. He does all the dirty work of every dirty ministry. Whenever there is any impudent document to be produced for the good of his employers, they are not long in want of a father for the varlet. The unblushing vizard of "Old Rose" is always at their service.
Armed with the financial tables of this faithful ally, which were laid before the H. of Commons on the 6th of last March, mi Lord Sheffield comes forth in his defence of the Orders in Council and his abuse of the American Embargo. It is really astonishing, what prodigies can be wrought with such mangled materials—such allies—and a little want of scruple . But it will not puzzle even David with his sling, to overthrow such a Goliath in politics.
The history which Lord Sheffield presents of the trade of G. B. for the years 1806-7, before the Orders and the Embargo, is merely calculated to show the use which she makes of the neutral flag —and of course the injury which she would sustain by the withdrawal of the greatest neutral flag in the world—that of the U. S. He asserts, that previous to the occupation of Hamburg, the French government had made unavailing attempts to shut out the British merchandise. France herself continued to import, through the medium of neutrals , large quantities of cotton yarn or twine, and of calicoes and cambric muslins, to keep her printing works in motion. This, it seems, was owing to the aid of the neutral flag.
After the occupation of Hamburg and the invasion of Prussia, there was a diminution of the exports to the continent—British trade through Tonnigen and other northern ports of Germany ceased, except in the article of cotton—still goods to a considerable amount were smuggled into Holland. But what was lost in the north of Europe, was gained in the south. Large quantities of hardware, cotton, woolen and other goods were shipped to Malta, Sicily, and even the Italian states. Most of the consignments to Malta were re-exported, in neutral vessels , to the ports of Trieste and Trieste for the supply of Germany, Hungary, &c. as well as of the Adriatic, Turkey and the Levant. These facts suggest three considerations. 1st. that Malta has served to the British as a depot , a kind of convenient half-way-house for carrying on the smuggling trade with the continent—a species of arrangement which they seem lately to have consulted in all their transactions. Thus Heligoland (an island) has been occupied towards the mouth of the Elbe to smuggle contraband into Germany—thus Rügen (an island) has been attempted in the Baltic for the same purpose—thus an attack is now projected against Walcheren (an island), not, as has been said, to fan the flame of disaffection in Holland, but to carry on the smuggling trade—thus Halifax has served the same purposes in N. America. The question is, will Bonaparte permit G. Britain to retain Malta, at the pacification of Europe? 2d. The smuggling trade to Trieste and Fiume is now extinguished in the ruin of Austria. 3d. Lord Sheffield confesses, that even this trade was carried on under the neutral flag .
En Passant —as Great Britain has thus reduced smuggling into a system, as she thus attempts to convey her exports into the continent—shall we permit her to interdict those fair neutral branches of trade to ourselves, which she herself carries on by smuggling? Is it in this way that she retorts upon her enemy, the "pressure of the war"—& "the evils of his own injustice?" No. The fact merely proves that this is a poor pretence for the concealment of her real designs—that it is not a war against an enemy, but a rival—not an open hostility upon France, but a masked battery upon the trade and prosperity of this country. This is the TRUTH—let that sophistical jesuit, Mr. Canning, disguise it as he will.
These facts are, however, of little consequence to the main point at issue—they no further touch that point than to show the probability of the loss that G. Britain has sustained by the diminution of her exports to the continent during the year 1808, from the withdrawal of the American flag from the seas. Lord Sheffield attempts to meet this objection indeed, by showing that during the year 1808, the total exports were not materially less than in the two preceding years; that in 1806, they were about £ 34,900,000; in 1807, 36,000,000; and in 1808, about 34,500,000—but if these statements are true, they would only prove two things: 1st. the
increase of their dexterity in the arts of smuggling; and 2dly, the number of British vessels which they actually equipped, with counterfeit American papers and flag.—Let my lord Sheffield choose between these two alternatives! But even admitting his position, what does it prove? Why—that G. B. has shipped a large stock of goods—but surely not that she has sold them all—much less made the usual profit on them.
But it is on the great point at issue, that he puts forth his strength—it is in attempting to prove, that even in the American trade, the retrenchment produced by the Orders in Council and the Embargo, is, as it were—nothing. And how does he prove it? Why—that from Mr. Rose's statements, the estimated value of exports to the U. S. on an average of two years, ending Oct. 10, 1807, was £ 11,774,000—and that ending Oct. 10, 1808, was 5,784,000—being a decrease of 5,990,000—but that this was almost made up, by sending 12,359,000, being 4,250,000 more than in the two preceding years—leaving a decrease of trade to all the ports of America of only £ 1,760,000.
Here it is conceded that G. B. sustained a loss of upwards of 5 millions through the American Embargo—but this, it is said, was nearly made up by the extraordinary 4 millions most of it to South America.
But this contemptible sophism is even unworthy of Lord Sheffield's prejudiced understanding. According to him, nations are to estimate the profits of their trade, by the mass of exports, not by their returns—in the same manner as merchants are to account themselves rich, by what they send out , not what they sell to advantage. It is certain, that the merchants of G. B. being shut out of the markets of the U. S. and finding their manufactures immensely reduced in value, did risk shipments to every part of the world, where there seemed to be an opening—among the rest, to the ports of S. America. But what have they made by it? Let us look at their returns? Let us see the number of Bankrupts whom the spirit of adventure has shipwrecked. And then let us see how much of the 12 millions have been exported to advantage. Mr. Baring has stated in his place in the H. of C. on the 6th March, that "the stocks already sent out would not be consumed in less than ten years." Away then with such miserable tests of trade, and the false conclusions that are drawn from them!
As to the Imports from the U. S. my lord Sheffield fails to come forth with his formidable display of tables and documents. He was wise in this—because he well knew, that in this respect, the custom houses would not bear out his assertions. Neither the ports of S. America, nor any other, had supplied G. B. with that large stock of articles which our embargo had locked up from her. In place of documents, however, he has been very profuse in his speculations. Yet these go for nothing—as a few remarks will exhibit:
Thus Cotton for instance—he assures us that the cessation of the supply was not felt, 1. from the supplies elsewhere. 2. from the stocks on hand, and 3. from the diminution of the export to other countries—at least one-half of the cotton-wool received into England being usually exported, in the state of yarn, or other partly manufactured form, to the continent of Europe. All these however, were impotent to break the force of the embargo. For why, were so many weavers thrown out of employment, just before the revolution in Spain? Was it not one great reason, that the raw material was so high, they could not afford to work it up? Why was cotton so high? When the raw material is so costly, is it not an immense drawback on the manufactures? No other markets could supply nearly the quantity demanded. During the year 1807, the U. States supplied about 5-8ths of the importation. But if all the cotton of Brazil had been sent to England, it is computed by Mr. Barring at about 140,000 bags at 110 lbs. each—not 1-3d of what was received from the U. States in 1807.
Aprpos —The fact of the exportation of cotton yarn &c. from G. Britain to the continent is however an important one—why may not the citizens of the U. States spin it themselves, and ship the yarn straight to the continent—and thus save the duities in England?
Flour—there has been no want of it, says Lord Sheffield, even in the W. Indies. Jamaica has been so well supplied through Canada and Nova Scotia, that of 1000 barrels shipped from Great Britain at a certain time, less than one half had been sold with difficulty, under prime cost . Flour has even been cheaper (quoth this accurate statesman) at Kingston than at Philadelphia. Shame, my Lord, for the gross ignorance you have shown! Woe be on the empire, which is guided by such statesmen!—This is really the first time, when we have heard that during the pressure of the embargo, flour in Jamaica was less than 20, 25, or 30 dollars per barrel.
That 44,000 barrels might have been sent from Halifax, and 36,000 from St. Andrew, New-Brunswick, to the West Indies, is plausible enough—The greater part was smuggled into them from the U. S.—That it is difficult to cut off the contraband supply—from "the number of islands in the bay of Fundy"—the numerous ports in those waters, only a few hours sail distant from each other, and the short navigation over lake Champlain—is probable too. But if this were true in all the extent, in which he assumes it, it would prove the necessity of our wresting Canada and Nova Scotia from the hands of a people who use them for the purposes of evading and violating our laws. Perhaps at last the U. States must come to this desideratum .
Let us extend the remark—if these colonies could supply such resources for evading our Embargo laws, will they not be equally convenient for evading our Non-Intercourse laws? If flour can be smuggled out of the U. States, cannot clothes be smuggled into them with more facility; because they are less bulky and more portable? This then obviously suggests one defect which Congress ought to remedy in our laws. They ought to have equipped gun-boats, and swift revenue cutters, to have enforced the Non-Inter-course law, and arrested the nefarious enterprises of the smugglers.
There is a second defect in this law—no vessel is to clear out for a permitted foreign port, without giving bonds to twice the value of the vessel and cargo—not to visit a prohibited port. Still she may clear out for one of our own coasting ports, and thence may march off for Liverpool or London—the penalty is a forfeiture of her coasting bonds; not perhaps $ 2000.
Let us return to the dreams of my lord Sheffield—On the subject of lumber, fish, and other articles usually sent to G. Britain, he displays his usual accuracy. But it is time to drop the curtain. We conclude with saying that if there be a single man who can be convinced by this pamphlet, that our
embargo has really proved beneficial to G. B. let that man stand up as a monument of the inability of reason and the force of prejudice.
WILLIAM COBBETT. William Cobbett, alias Peter Porcupine, is now the warm advocate of Parliamentary Reform —of Sir Francis Burdett and Wardle—and the opponent of political corruption. Will miracles never cease?
On this subject he has addressed a series of letters to the People of Hampshire—of which the last presents a most serious and monitory lesson to the people of the U. S.—Some of you, says he, will have heard, perhaps, that while I was in America, I wrote several pamphlets, some under a feigned name, and some under my name at all. From one of these pamphlets, the London ministerial newspapers have extracted these words: "For my part, I am no friend of the Revolution ; I wish their island was sunk to the bottom of the sea!" Having taken this sentence, the Revolutionary writers, that it is quite natural "such a person" should wish for a Reform that would lead to Revolution .—Gentlemen, I do not recollect any thing so bad as this, ever done or attempted to be done, by any writer in the world.
The pamphlet from which the extract is made, was written for the purpose, and the sole purpose of serving my king, and country, and that too at a time and in a place, when and where no man but myself had the seal to write a line for such a purpose. In order to give effect to what I was writing, it was necessary for me to say something, to disguise the fact that it proceeded from an Englishman's pen ; and that this was the case, there needs no proof but this, that the Government at home caused this pamphlet to be re-published in England. Further, for having written this and other pamphlets in America, the Government here made me offers of their support, which I never accepted of. Upon my return from America, those offers were renewed, but again rejected. I received marks of approbation, for these writings, from all the men then in power. I dined at Mr. Windham's with Pitt, which I then thought a very great honor; and really when Mr. Canning looks back to the time, when I dined at his house at Putney, and when he paid me so many just compliments for my exertions, in my country's cause, I can hardly think that he must not view with some degree of shame these attempts, on the part of persons, who are publicly said to write under his particular patronage. As to Mr. Windham, he has declared, in open Parliament, that for my writings in America, I deserved a statue of gold.
And now let the Federalists of the U. S. lay this extract—this "flattering union," to their souls. Who was Wm. Cobbett? The man who, in times of yore, was their oracle—the man whom they cherished, fed and encouraged—whose paper they subscribed and wrote for—and whose writings they admired with the same spirit which warned the gratitude of Pitt, of Windham and Canning. Of the hypocritical morality of Mr. Cobbett, we shall say nothing—he was a spy, a pensioner and a slave—he had at least as much morality, as belongs to his vocation. But of the Federalists, what shall we say? Whilst he was laboring for the sole purpose of serving his king & country, they seemed to be with him—the same in opinions and feelings—"bone of one bone, and flesh of one flesh"—the adherents of a creature, to whom the British government had "made offers of support."
There are writers in the U. S. at this very moment, who ply the same trade in the same disguise—who profess an attachment to the U. S. & hatred for England, the better to mask their views—and who cannot see the ENGLISHMAN in their hearts. They are devoted to the interests of Britain, and many of them are apostates to this, their native country—Cobbett's of the present day, whom Mr. Canning may reward for their exertions in his country's cause. When will the honest men of the opposition—when will the native-born true-hearted American Federalists, awaken from their delusion?
There are lights enough before the public to satisfy us, that Messrs. Erskine and Canning are directly at issue. The "very satisfactory" letter which Mr. E. has addressed to the S. of State, incontestably proves it.
Read the 6th No. of John Q. Adams, in the last page. Every republican print in the U. S. should re-publish it.
¶ We are authorised to state, that the RICHMOND THEATRE, under the management of Messrs. GREEN & PLACIDE, will be opened early in next month.
VIRGINIA —At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol, in Richmond, June 20th, 1809.
Philip N. Nicholas, Attorney General, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Plf. against Lucy Price, relict of Wm. Price, Register, dec'd. and Wm. D. Jones Alexander, John Harvie, and Anne Price, infant heirs of William Price, dec'd. by Wm. Duval, their guardian, and the said Wm. Duval, administrator of Wm. Price dec'd. Defs.
Philip Duval, Plaintiff , against the same, Defendants .
The Mutual Assurance Society, against Fire on buildings in the state of Virginia, Plf. against the same, Defs.
And— Wm. Marshall and Thomas Taylor, guardians of Eleanor and Lavinia Dandridge, orphans of Wm. Dandridge, dec'd. Plf. against the same, Defs.
THESE causes, by consent of parties, were this day heard together, on the bills, answer, exhibits, and report of Commissioner Greenhow, made in the second suit, which is substituted, by consent, in the other causes, and were argued by counsel: On consideration whereof, the court, by consent of parties, doth adjudge, order and decree, that John Prosser and Wm. Monure, or either of them, who are appointed commissioners for that purpose, after having advertised the time and place of sale for thirty days, in two of the news-papers printed in the city of Richmond, do expose to sale, at Public Auction, upon the premises, the following
LANDS. Of the estate of the intestate Wm. Price, late Register, namely: two thirds of two Lots, in the City of Richmond, known and distinguished in the plan of the said city, by the numbers five hundred and twenty-seven, and five hundred and eight, lying on the main street, which were purchased of Alexander Quarrier, and adjoining his present residence: Nine vacant Lots in the said city, near the tenement of Joseph Jackson, and distinguished by the numbers
A House and Lot, on the main street of Shockoe Hill, near the brick building of Thomas White, commonly called the Blue House, and which the intestate purchased of John Britain: Three hundred and fifty acres of Land (more or less) in the county of Goochland, adjoining the lands of Robert H. Saunders: Two hundred and eighteen acres (more or less) and eighty acres of coal land, both lying on Deep Run, in the county of Henrico: Three hundred and fifty acres on the Richmond Turnpike, situated about three and a half miles from Richmond, being the farm formerly occupied by the intestate, and now by Peter Wilkinson: And ten Shares in the Richmond Turnpike Company, or so much thereof, as shall be sufficient to satisfy the Plaintiffs, in their respective claims, with interest thereon from the day of sale, in the order, and on the terms following, to wit: To satisfy the Commonwealth of Virginia two thousand eight hundred and forty-five dollars and ninety two cents, with interest from the first day of October, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and eight, with costs of suit and expenses of the sales hereby directed, which sales shall be made on twelve months credit, the purchaser or purchasers paying interest from the date, and giving bond with sufficient security, payable to the Treasurer, for the time being, or his successors in office; which bond or bonds shall be delivered to the Auditor of public accounts, by the said commissioners: To satisfy in the next place, Philip Duval the sum of twelve hundred dollars with interest from the twentieth day of November, 1808, and costs of suit, with the expenses of the sales hereby directed, which shall be made on six months credit, the purchaser or purchasers executing a note or notes negotiable and payable in the Bank of Virginia, with approved endorsers, and the note or notes so taken for such sum as shall be equal to the said Philip Duval's claim, with interest until such note or notes shall become due, be delivered to the said Philip Duval, by the said Commissioners: To satisfy, in the third place, the Mutual Assurance Society, against Fire on buildings, in the state of Virginia, the sum of two thousand two hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents, with interest on two thousand and fifty-four dollars and five cents, from the first day of the present month, and the costs of suit, with the expenses of the sales hereby directed, which sale shall be made at twelve months credit, the purchaser or purchasers executing a note or notes negotiable and payable at the Bank of Virginia, with approved endorsers, for such sum as shall be equal to the principal and interest of the said Society's claim, until the said note or notes shall become due, and costs of suit, which said note or notes shall be delivered to the principal agent of the said society, for the time being: And to satisfy in the last place, the plaintiffs Wm. Marshall and Thomas Taylor, the sum of fourteen hundred dollars, with interest from the first day of the present month, with costs of suit, and expenses of the sales hereby directed, which sale shall be made on a credit of two years, the purchaser or purchasers executing bonds, with approved security, bearing interest from the date of the sale, the said bond or bonds to be delivered to the said Marshall and Taylor; and the court doth further adjudge, order and decree, that the said commissioners, or the one who may act, report their proceedings to the court: As to the dower of the def't Lucy, in the property directed to be sold, the court will, if the parties consent, at a future day, proceed to make compensation to her, out of the other lands of the intestate defendants: And liberty is reserved to the infant defendants to shew cause against this decree at any time within six months after they shall severally attain the age of twenty one years: & by consent of the parties in the last suit, the court doth, order the defendant Wm. Duval to make up the account of the intestate as guardian of Lavinia and Eleanor Dandridge, now wards of the plaintiffs Taylor & Marshall, before or else of the commissioners of the court, who is ordered to examine, state, settle & report the same to the court, with any matters required by the parties or deemed pertinent by himself.
A Copy. Teste, PETER TINSLEY, C. C.
In conformity with the foregoing decree, we shall, or one of us, proceed to sell on the premises, under the dates as hereinafter stated, the whole of the property embraced in the said decree, viz: On Friday, the 15th day of September next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. the three hundred and fifty acres Land, more or less, in Goochland county, lying on both of the branches of Tuckahoe Creek, adjoining the land and residence of col. Robert H. Saunders: On the ensuing day, Saturday, the 16th, in the city of Richmond, at 11 o'clock, A. M. part of Lot No. 508, and the whole of Lot No. 527, as designated and known in the plan of the said city, which have been divided into eight somewhat Lots of 23 feet 9 inches 4-10ths front, each on the street, running back 163 feet 4 inches, adjoining the present residence of Mr. Alexander Quarrier, and separated from the residence of Mr. Joseph Gallego, only by sixth street: A survey of which lots has been accurately made, and a plan of the same may be seen at any time at the Vendue Office of Prosser & Moncure. The ten Richmond Turnpike Shares, immediately after these lots are sold, and on the last of said lots disposed of; on the same day, immediately thereafter, the sale of the said eight lots, the nine acres on Shockoe Hill, near the tenement and residence of Mr. Joseph Jackson, and the same which the intestate Wm. Price, late register, purchased of Judge Washington, Nos.
On the ensuing Monday, the 18th September, in Henrico county, at 11 o'clock, A. M. the two hundred and eighteen acres Land, more or less, and 80 acres Coal Land, lying on Deep Run—On the 19th same month, (Tuesday) at 11 o'clock, A. M. in the city of Richmond, the House and Lot, on the main street of Shockoe Hill, near the brick building of Mr. Thomas White, commonly called the Blue House, which the intestate purchased of John Britain, and on the day after (Wednesday) the 20th September, in the county of Henrico, the truly desirable estate called Chantilly, containing three hundred and fifty acres Land, with very good improvements thereon, situated about three and a half miles from the city of Richmond, being the farm formerly occupied by the intestate Wm. Price, late register, and now by Mr. Peter Wilkinson, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy the plaintiffs in their respective claims, with the interest thereon, from the several days of sale, in the order and on the terms stated in the foregoing decree. JOHN PROSSER, } Com'rs. WM. MONCURE, } August 22.
B Y VIRTUE of two Deeds of Trust—One bearing date the 24th of November, 1804. Executed by Wm. Dalton to David Wood, as trustee for the purpose of securing the sum of three hundred and seven Pounds, thirteen Shillings and six Pence with legal interest from the date of said deed, due to Nimrod Branham and Co. the other bearing date the 9th of January, 1808: Executed to Marshall Head as Trustee, for the purpose of securing the sum expressed in said deed, to Nimrod Branham and Co. the sum of ninety-nine Pounds, eleven Shillings, and six Pence with legal interest from the 30th Nov. 1807, and to Nimrod Branham the sum of six Pounds, six Shillings and five Pence due 1st September, 1807. And further to secure to the said Nimrod Branham what said Dalton may owe him at the close of this Indenture for dealings. Will be sold on Thursday the 7th day of September next—On the premises that value Tract of Land, whereon the said Dalton now resides in the County of Albemarle, bounded by the lands of Wm. Marshall, Benj. Robertson, Marshall Head and Col. Thomas Dickerson, containing 400 acres: there is a considerable quantity of said Land good low grounds. On the above Tract is a dwelling house, and other convenient out-houses; the said Land will be sold according to the provisions of an Act Entitled an Act Concerning Executions and for other purposes passed 31st Jan. 1809. The subscribers will convey the Title to the purchaser or purchasers as vested in them as Trustees only. DAVID WOOD, } Trustees, MARSHALL HEAD } August 22.
VIRGINIA HONES —may be had at E. Hallam's, Archibald Hughes, Prosser and Moncure's, and several other places in this city, and at John F. Robertson's and Miles Botts', in Manchester, at from 1s. 6d. to 3s. They are found on a fair trial, to answer a better purpose for putting a razor in order, than any thing now to be obtained. They are finest used with oil, and quickest with water; their dust, if scraped off, is fine for a strap. Any one purchasing, that don't like, has liberty to return them and get his money again, if within 2 months. Wm. THURMON. July 28.

POLITICAL.
AMERICAN PRINCIPLES.
A REVIEW OF WORKS OF FISHER AMES; COMPILED BY A NUMBER OF HIS FRIENDS. BY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
No. V. Ah Fear! Ah frantic Fear! I see, I see thee near."—COLLINS. Let us assert a genuine independence of spirit: we shall be false to our duty and feelings as Americans, if we basely descend to a servile dependence on France or Great Britain."
Such was the language of Mr. Ames, on the 27th January, 1794, and with this just and honorable sentiment he closed his speech against Mr. Madison's resolutions. To this sentiment I now adhere, and in these papers, an endeavoring to defend it against the goblin terrors of Mr. Ames himself, and the more deliberate alarms of his publishing friends.
The object of these terrors, was compounded of two ingredients, which, in 1794, had at least an appearance of congeniality and co-operation. French power and democracy. The alliance between these two tremendous monsters, was surely dissolved long before Mr. Ames portrayed with such poetic powers, the dangers of American liberty. But although forever separated on the scene of real life, they were still united in dreadful harmony in the world of imaginary fear, and they tortured his fancy, with all their horrid shapes and sights unholy, as the images of the night-mare pass in confused succession before the waking slumbers of disease.
The degree to which his understanding was affected by these horrid visions, can be described only by himself. In the "Dangers of American Liberty," after bitterly complaining that even among the federalists, there were perhaps not five hundred who allowed themselves "to view the progress of licentiousness as so speedy, so sure, and so fatal as the deplorable experience of our country shows it to be, and the evidence of history and the constitution of human nature, demonstrates that it must be"—he apologizes for this federalist apathy by the following picture of his own sensations:
"Our days are made heavy with the pressure of anxiety, and our nights restless with visions of horror. We listen to the clank of chains, and overheard the whispers of assassins. We mark the barbarous dissonance of mingled rage and triumph in the yell of an infuriated mob; we see the dismal glare of their burnings, and scent the loathsome steam of human victims offered in sacrifice."
A man must have no ordinary share of malice in his composition, who could wish to see his dearest foe, in the state of mind indicated by this paragraph. But this was not the worst. There is a species of alienation in the intellect, for which the miseries of a temporal life are not sufficiently distressing. Melancholy derangement often terminates in the belief of the unhappy patient that he is actually suffering the torments of eternity. The frequency with which the idea of Hell returns in the latter composition of this volume, connected with French conquest, and democratic triumph, affords too strong presumption that the natural tendency of the author's temperament was to that issue.
"If (Democracy) is an illuminated Hell that in the midst of remorse, horror and torture, rings with festivity; for experience shows, that one joy remains to this most malignant description of the damned, the power to make others wretched."
By comparing this paragraph with one written some years earlier, we shall perceive that one hell, was as inadequate to the immensity of Mr. Ames' fears, as one world was to that of Alexander's ambition. There was the "Hell" France, & the "Hell" Democracy.
"Behold France, that open Hell, still ringing with agonies and blasphemies, still smoking with sufferings and crimes, in which we see their state of torment, and perhaps, our future state."—Laocoon p. 37. This was written in 1799, when there remained in the writer's mind some hopes that we might possibly escape these infernal regions. But in 1803, these hopes were all extinguished, and to Hell we must go. For immediately after the passage which pronounces Democracy to be hell, comes a description of the French Revolution, in the author's most glowing manner, and which he closes by saying, "I have written the history of France. Can we look back upon it without terror, or forward without despair?"
When I consider the state of health in which these things were written, I cannot but feel a sentiment of compassion for the sufferings of the author, which checks the disposition, almost irresistible, to present them in the ludicrous light which would be most appropriate to them. The same indulgence, however, is by no means necessary for the editors who have published these political spasms to the world, for political wisdom. When Mr. Ames shrieks out,
"Look, look, fellow-countrymen, as we do, to your dear, innocent children. Ask your hearts, if they can bear so rocking a question, whether a shallow confidence in our unarmored security, against Bonaparte, in case Great-Britain should fall, does not tend to devote them to the rage of a restless, unappeasable tyrant. We tremble at the thought that our own dear children will be in Bonaparte's conscription for St. Domingo, in case the Gallican policy of our government should be pursued, till its natural tendencies are accomplished." We remember that these were among the last flutterings of a nervous system in ruins. But when upon this passage we had a note at the bottom of the page, informing the reader that Mr. Ames "could scarcely speak of his children, during the last few months of his life, without expressing his deep apprehensions of their future servitude to the French," we ask whether the annotator means it as a sarcasm upon the passage, or a recommendation of the sentiment it contains!
We are told by the biographical eulogist, that Mr. Ames had read Virgil, in the original, within two years of his death, with increased delight. How much is it to be lamented that the admirable mixture of philosophy and of poetry, in the Georgics, had not produced the effect of composing his mind to some portion of tranquility.
Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas: Atque metus omnis et inexorabile fatum Subjicit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari!
Illum non populi fasces, non purpura regum Flexit, et invidos agitant discordia fratres; Aut conjurato descendens Dacus ab Histro: Nec res Romanæ perituræque regna.
The sense of this passage, so opposite to the diabolical lamentations of Mr. Ames, may be rendered more accurately by a paraphrase than by any existing translation—the following will convey the substance of the ideas:
How blest the man, whose philosophic mind The real causes of events can find! Who spurns base fear, defies the bolt of chance,
No raves of Hell, Democracy and France. Nor royal robes, nor faction's fearful name, Nor yearly suffrage shall convince his frame. His dreams no shape of Bonaparte sees, His children's limbs, no phantom Frenchman teases.
Unmov'd he views the tyrant's transient sway, And smiles at iron crowns and empires of a day. This, however, was not the good fortune of Mr. Ames. The extracts in this paper, are but
a few, out of many, which, from an attentive perusal, might be collected, and which indicate the state of his mind, when they were written. It was a proverbial expression among the ancients, that "fear was a bad counsellor," and certainly so it proved to Mr. Ames. For it totally broke down that "genuine independence of spirit," which, in his speech, against Mr. Madison's resolutions in 1794, he called upon us to assert.
It was this fear, which, mingling with the contempt he felt for his own countrymen, drove his imagination to the British navy, as the only hope of salvation to mankind from the Tartarus of France and democracy. In fixing the attention of the reader on these particular passages, to which I shall confine this paper, I wish him to indulge me with a few remarks, which I shall make as short as possible, and leave them to his own meditations.
First.—Excessive terror is a sentiment as unworthy of a great statesman, as it is unbecoming in a man. As a basis for a political system, it is utterly incompatible with any pretension to independence.
Secondly.—A man may perhaps be allowed to fear, more for his children, than for himself; but he ought to bring them up in the fear of nothing but of God. To teach pusillanimity by rule, is to make your children dastards, if they were not born such. In Corneille's tragedy of the Horatii, when the messenger informs the father that two of his sons had been killed and the third had fled, he breaks out, not into lamentations over the dead, but into indignation against the fugitive survivor, & when asked what would he have had him do, one against three, his answer is—"He should have died." This is the sublime of sentiment. The contrast in the extract from Mr. Ames, may serve as a sample of the anti-sublime.
American Parents! instead of asking your hearts, whether your children are to be rescued from Bonaparte's conscription by the British Navy, teach your children, if it should be necessary, to die for their country. Take your lesson of parental affection as well as of patriotic virtue, from Corneille's Roman, and not from the faithless friends, who have divulged the weakness of Mr. Ames's last hours.
No. VI. In my last paper, I presented several extracts, demonstrating the revolution which had been effected in the mind of Mr. Ames, between the year 1794, when his sound head and honest heart disdained a servile dependence, either upon Britain or France, and the despairing period of 1808, when the British Navy was his only hope of redemption from the Hells of France and democracy. It might perhaps be an entertaining, and not altogether an uninteresting inquiry, by what process and by means of what agency this revolution was accomplished. But this is not necessary to my present purpose.
The opinion that nothing but the British navy can save us from the dominion of Bonaparte, is one of the thirty-nine articles of the select and exclusive church of Mr. Ames, in comparison with it, transubstantiation is a rational and intelligible doctrine, it was necessary to mark the gradations of fear, and horror, of France, and the transition from patriotic affection to unutterable contempt for our own country, which preceded the intrusion of this glaring absurdity, into a mind so capacious of better things, as that of Mr. Ames.
I compare it to transubstantiation, because it contains within itself an inconsistency; the mere statement of the position is its refutation.—American Independence, dependent upon a British navy! Nor is the inconsistency in the word only.—It is rooted in the thing. The independence of a nation must rest upon its own energies, and you might as well talk of the liberties of an African slave, as of the freedom of one nation supported by nothing but the power of another.
It is in its nature, a principle of servile dependence.—And if the fact were so—if the people of this nation were so utterly debased beneath the name and character of manhood, as Mr. Ames has declared them to be; if "we are of all men on earth fittest to be slaves," of what consequence is it whether we are the slaves of French or British masters?
Quid refert mea Cui serviatis, citellas dum portem meæ?
If the people of this Union were reduced to that deplorable condition, of having only to deliberate "whose base herd they would be"—still it would be incumbent upon those who prefer the domination of Britain to that of France, to show that the British yoke would be the easiest—that the protection of the British navy would be a safe reliance—that by redemption from the Hell of France, we should have a Paradise regained in Britain. Upon this subject, let us look at what has been passing in the world, from the commencement of the French revolution. Within the last fifteen years, there is not a nation in Europe, excepting France and Denmark, but has had the promise of British protection, and the curse of a British alliance—not one of them but has been plunged by it, into the jaws of perdition. And, what ought not to have escaped the attention of an American statesman, it has in the result, made them all dependent upon France.—The uniform course has been this: Britain first instigates them to unfurl their banners against her enemy, forms her alliance with them, makes them fight her battles, sacrifices them to her own projects of naval domination or foreign conquest, and ends by abandoning them to the mercy of an exasperated and victorious foe. When she has thus made them the helpless victims of her own treachery, & of France's resentment, she seldom fails to turn against them her own thunders, and like the Prince of Darkness, becomes the final tormentor of those whom she first seduced. This is the process through which the Spanish patriots are passing at this hour. It is the course through which Sweden is passing. It is the course through which the people of this Union, would, beyond all question, now be passing, if the government of the nation had been in the hands of the political sect who believe in these doctrines.
If our nominal independence of France rested upon no other foundation of power than the navy of England, the consequence would be that we should again be under the domination of England. Her argument would be, that in all reason we ought to contribute our share to support the expense of protecting us, and we should soon be called upon for our contribution of men, as well as of money. This is not speculative anticipation—in fact both these pretensions have been advanced. The tribute claimed, and in one instance levied, under the orders in council, was an undisguised attempt to renew the project of taxation upon America, which severed this continent from the British empire. The king's proclamation of October, 1807, was an open authorization and command to his naval officers to impress his subjects, from American merchant vessels—and of the question who was or was not his subject, the man-stealer himself was to be the only judge. With these two principles once established by our admission or acquiescence, no treaty of surrender, no articles of capitulation would be necessary to give to Great Britain an arbitrary control over the persons and property of Americans, for contribution to support her wars.
Our blood and treasure would both be at her disposal—more rigorous than Naahai the Ammonite with the men of Jabesh-Gilead, the token by which alone she would make a covenant with us was, that we should first let her thirst out both our eyes.
American independence must rest upon the foundation of American valor and American patriotism.—Such is the eternal law of God and of nature. If the generous purpose of republican virtue is extinguished in the sordid selfishness of avarice; if the fathers who suffered unspotted the conflagrations of Charlottesville and Fabiusville; of Fairfield and New-London; of Etowah and Norfolk, who shed their blood in battle, and
endured the loathing martyrdom of prison-ships and dungeons for the liberties of their country; if these fathers have been given up so to denature that we are not "reluctant at the same and condition of Hells," to sigh for the protection of the British navy, to hang the last look of Atlas upon the thread of a spider's web. What is the British navy? Wool-sack and iron—and what are these without the nerve of the British arm, and the fire of the British heart? Inert, passive, obedient matter. That soul and heart belong to Britain, and not to us. Enough have they to do to protect and defend their own island. But is the American navy more flaccid, is the American heart less ardent than those of Britons? Alas! it was the misery of Mr. Ames's malady, so to believe; it is the folly of his pretended friends so to publish! In him it was a lamentable error.—In them it is the most inexcusable of calumnies, the calumny of their own countrymen.
No, we are not that herd of servile usurers, that den of dastardly jackals which we are thus represented to be. We have no ambitious wish for war, no passion for foreign conquest; and of course no shallow love of needless armies and navies. Our very love of liberty fortifies, and perhaps carries to excess our jealousies of these double-edged weapons, which might be brandished inward against ourselves as well as outward against our foreign foes.—But the unconquerable will which carried us through all the trials of the revolutionary war remains unimpaired, and when called into action by the unequalled voice of the country, shines with undiminished lustre. The names of Truxton, Little, and Preble, are as glorious to our republic as those of the naval heroes of the revolution, and the annals of Roman history cannot furnish a firmer page than that to which the heroic devotion of Wadsworth, Somers, Israel and Decatur is entitled. These are the models of American character. In the present age, and if the examples which they have exhibited to their countrymen are rare, it is only because by the blessing of God the occasions to call them forth have been few.
Some of the extracts in my last paper were selected from an elaborate attempt to prove that in this country there is not, and cannot, in the nature of things, be any such thing as patriotism. The whole passage is too long for selection; but may be found in the volume, from the middle of page 412 to the close of page 414. I shall not here press this subject any farther. I shall bear to show, as with the greatest ease might be done, that both in point of argument and of fact, it is but the "baseless fabric of a vision"—but to exhibit the comparative state of affections in which Great Britain and America stand in the hearts of those who furnished the raw material of the author's lucubrations, I request the unbiased reader to reflect upon the following passage.
Great Britain, by being an island, is secured from foreign conquest; and by having a powerful enemy within sight of her shore, is kept in efficient dread of it to be inspired with patriotism. That virtue, with all its fervour and elevation that a society which mixes so much of the commercial with the martial spirit, can display, has other kindred virtues in its train; and these have had an influence in forming the habits and principles of action, not only of the English military and nobles, but of the mass of the nation. There is much, therefore, there is every thing IN THAT ISLAND to blend self-love with love of country. It is impossible, that an Englishman should have fears for the government, without trembling for his own safety. How different are these sentiments from the immovable apathy of those citizens, who think a constitution no better than any other piece of paper, nor so good as a blank on which a more perfect one could be written."
Let it be remarked that Mr. Ames in this place, and in the other to which I have referred the reader, appears to consider fear as exclusively the primary foundation of patriotism; and every other source from which this virtue may be supposed to derive, he seems to consider as merely a theme of hypocritical declamation. I will not recur to any supposition of benevolence, independent of selfish motives, as existing in the heart of man; from which some portion of patriotic feeling might originate. But surely fear is not the only principle of social attraction. The sense of common rights, of common enjoyments, of common moral and political principles, of congenial habits, manners, sentiments and even prejudices, the instinct of attachment to our native lands, the love of fame, which, though an individual passion, identifies itself so naturally with the love of our country, ambition, which an accurate and close observer, will find burning in the American breast more fiercely than that avarice, which strikes the superficial eye; the obligation of social duty, which Mr. Ames certainly supposed himself to feel, and which therefore in candor he ought to admit as one impulse of action in others, all these sources of patriotism, far more copious, as well as far more noble, than his miserable dread of being conquered.
But it is the contrast of feeling in the heart of the writer, (or rather of his instigators) between Great Britain and America, manifested in this & many other places, which demands the unqualified reprobation of every virtuous American. It is the preference of a foreign country to his own, so undisguised, so glaring, and resting upon such false foundations, upon which I call the eye of the nation; not for the paltry purpose of affecting his reputation, but to put the country upon their guard against the machinations and intrigues of the men whose politics are governed by the same narrow views and the same vicious passions. I have given this extract as a specimen, but there is scarcely a page after the first hundred in this volume, but bears the marks of the same sentiment—scarcely a page but proves that with the idea of Great Britain, every associated idea, was esteem, love, veneration, idolatry—while every thought associated with that of America was bitterness & rancour, mingling with disgust and scorn.
* I am aware that this is one of the feelings which cold metaphysics will disclaim or deride; and which Mr. Ames would not allow as a source of patriotism. But upon questions of feeling we may depart from abstraction to poetry. This sentiment of attachment to the land of our nativity is painted with some of the most exquisite touches of nature in Virgil's Oberon.—The hero of the poem and his squire Sherwin, are riding along the banks of Euphrates, in silence, and the thoughts of each of them are represented as dwelling on the distant objects of their delight.
While in imaginary joy, the knight Clasps to his breast, the bride, thus dearly won, Steals unawares the old man's raptur'd sight Forth from Euphrates to his dear Garonne, Where first his childhood cutt'd the flower's delight! "No—thinks he—nowhere does God's b'lessed Sun So mildly shine as where by me first seen—No meadow blooms so gay—so fresh no other green."
Thou little spot, where light first on me shone, Where my first pang, my earliest joy I knew, What though remote, unnotic'd and unknown, Yet shall my heart, to thee for ever true, Still drawn by secret ties to thee alone, E'en Paradise as exile from thee be! Oh! prove but true at least my boiling mind—O lay me in thy lap, amid my sires recline!"
Oberon, Book 4, at. 21, 22. The last line is from Southey's translation. Deny, or sneer at these sentiments, who will! they will find an echo in every honest heart, and true philosophy will recognize in them some of the most powerful impulses to patriotism.
I might multiply the proofs of these anti-patriotic prejudices, until this review should swell beyond the size of the volume itself. But some there must be left to the judgement and understanding of the reader. I shall therefore only present the following passages in final proof of the propositions I have advanced, and if they have incredulity itself unconvinced, only ask him who desires more accumulation of evidence to the same point, to read the book.
"In that enlarged country (Britain) every exertive attempt at usurpation has been spiritedly and perseveringly resisted, and substantial improvements have been made in the constitutional provision for liberty. Witness the habeas corpus, the independence of the judges, and the perfection if any thing human is perfect, of their administration of justice, the result of the famous Middlesex election, and that on the right of issuing general search warrants. Let every citizen who is able to think, and who can bear the pain of thinking, MAKE THE CONTRAST AT HIS LEISURE. p. 429.
"For our part we deem her (Britain's) grandeur intrinsic, the fair fruit of her constitution, her justice, her arts, and her magnanimity. p. 375.
"The world's master allows no neutrality. In fact there are no neutrals. The maritime law supposes a society of nations bound together by reciprocal rights and duties. That society is dissolved; and it is chimerical, if not unwarrantable for the United States to claim singly the aggregated and supposed residuary rights devolved upon us by the departed nations. The old system is gone; and it is a mockery, or worse, for one nation to affect to represent a dozen once independent states, now swallowed up by a conqueror. Audition will violate our moon-shine rights; and if we submit to his decrees, we ourselves violate our neutral duties. What tyranny will do in contempt of right, self preservation permits the other belligerent to do in strict conformity with it. Where, then, is neutrality? LEF US BE ASHAMED OF A PETULANT STRIFE ABOUT LOST AND IRRECOVERABLE PRETENSIONS. p. 377.
"Gracious Heaven! this is the language of an American!—of a New-England man! And is this the patriotism which animated the last year's Legislature of Massachusetts? No! these are the principles upon which the supreme authority of the state called with such important courtesy upon the government of the Union to unfurl the republican banners against the imperial standard!—These are the doctrines which in 1809, are published in the metropolis of Massachusetts—for PATRIOTISM! (REVIEW CONCLUDED.)
PURSUANT to the last will and testament of the Rev. Matthew Maury, late of Albemarle county: We shall, on Friday, the first day of September next, (if fair, if not, the next fair day) expose to public sale, on the premises, that valuable and highly improved FARM, on which the deced lately resided, containing between 1300 & 1400 acres. About 400 acres of this land are cleared and in excellent condition for cultivation, of which about 40 acres are very fine meadow. There is, on the plantation, a great variety of fruit trees, among which is a well selected apple orchard of about two hundred trees in high perfection.
This land is intersected by a vein of excellent lime-stone, parallel with, and two miles distant from the south west mountains. There are, on this plantation, a large convenient dwelling house, a large barn, stable, and all other necessary buildings, in very good condition for the accommodation of a large family. The quality of this land is very good, well adapted to the growth of tobacco and corn, and particularly so to the growth of small grain and grass. It has, from experiment, been proven capable of deriving very great advantages from the use of plaster of Paris. We will allow a credit of one, two and three years, on the purchase money; for which we shall require a lien on the land, and approved personal security. The land may be seen by application to either of us who reside on it.
MATTHEW MAURY, } Acting THOS. W. MAURY, } Executrs. Albemarle County, Va. 25th July, 1809. W.W.
FOR SALE—323 ACRES JAMES RIVER LAND—On the 10th December next, (if fair, or otherwise the next fair day,) the Subscriber will offer for sale on the premises, a Tract of LAND situated in Buckingham county, immediately opposite the mouth of Rock-fish river—Thirty acres of which are prime low ground, & the residue strong, finely timbered upland, well adapted to the culture of Tobacco, Corn, and Wheat.
A credit of one, two and three years will be given, payable at equal instalments, with interest from date, to be remitted if the payments be punctually made. Bonds with approved security will be required. A clear title made, & possession given on the day of sale. The said Tract of Land has been conveyed to me by Patrick Rose, Jun. of Buckingham, to be sold for the payment of his debts.
ALEX. F. ROSE, Trustee. 14w5m.
NOTICE.—On Monday the 23rd day of October next, will be sold at WHITE, in the county of Chesterfield, upon a credit of 12 months; the personal estate of the late Col. Robert Goode, consisting of the present crop of Corn, Wheat, Oats, Fodder and Hay; the stock of Horses, Cows, Sheep and Hogs; the plantation Utensils and Household and Kitchen furniture. Bonds and approved security will be required of the purchasers to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid.
It is particularly requested that all those who may have claims against the Estate, will make them known immediately, to either of the subscribers, in order that provision may be made for payment.
RICHARD B. GOODE, } Admrs of the FRANCIS GOODE. } Will annexed. 14w1m.
THAT valuable and well-known Estate called White, on James River, about three miles from the town of Manchester, will also be sold by private contract; it contains 1262 Acres of Land, about 220 acres of which are of the first rate, low-grounds, and more than one half of the residue thereof is heavily timbered. To this Estate there is attached one of the best Fisheries on James River, and every convenient and necessary House for the accommodation of a Family. An indispensible little will be made and possession given on the first day of December next, with the liberty of sowing small Grain at any time, agreeable to the purchaser. The terms may be known on application to
RICHARD B. GOODE, } Manchester FRANCIS GOODE, } Poststation. July 14. w1m.
IN CHANCERY.—In Powhatan county court, July 21, 1809. Brown, Rives & Co. vs. against Samuel H. Owen and Joseph Mayo, executor of David Owen, dec'd. Defs.
THE defendant Samuel H. Owen, 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 satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country; On motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel; It is ordered, That the defendant, Samuel H. Owen, do appear here on the first day of October next, answer the plaintiffs' bill, & that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted, in one of the Richmond news-papers, for two months successively, and posted at the door of the court-house of this county.
A Copy. Test. JAS. POINDENTER, C. e. August 1. 2m.
A NELEGANT STAMENENT FOR SALE.—The House and Lot, in which the subscriber lately resided.
This tenement justly ranks amongst the first in this place, combining elegance, convenience, contiguity to the Capitol, and in the centre of a most agreeable neighbourhood.
For terms apply to Mr. Wm. Long who is fully authorised to contract for the same.
J. FENN. June 23. 14w.
VIRGINIA.—At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol, in the city of Richmond, the tenth day of June 1809.
John Watkins ex'or of the testament and last will of John Wyatt deceased, and John D. Watkins administrator &c. of Agnes Watkins late Agnes Wyatt deceased, vs. against Edward Bland Administrator with the will annexed of Edward Bland dec'd, Benjamin Cooke, George Cooke, Robert Cooke, Saml. Cooke, John Morrison and Anne his wife in right of the said Anne, Thomas Boothe administrator &c. of Mary Boothe, deceased late Mary Cooke & — Boothe an infant child of the said Thomas and Mary by the said Thomas especially assigned his guardian, Agnes Cooke, Edward Wyatt and John Phillips sheriff of the county of Prince George, successor of Billy H. Avery late sheriff of the said county to whom administration of the estate of Pleasant Cooke deceased, had been committed by the court of chancery.
THE defendants John Morrison and Anne his wife and Agnes Cooke not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this country; on motion of the plaintiffs by counsel, It is ordered, That the said defendants do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Capitol in the said city.
A Copy. Test. PETER TINSLEY, C. C. Law 2m.
PATRIOTIC SKETCHES OF IRELAND. Just published, and for sale at John K. Jones's new BOOK-STORE, corner of the main-street, and that leading to the head of the basin, nearly opposite to the Eagle-Tavern.
PATRIOTIC SKETCHES OF IRELAND, By Miss Ovenson.
Amongst the many literary productions of this justly celebrated woman, there are none better calculated to entertain, and at the same time, to impart useful information relative to the habits, manners, &c. of the people of that country, than the little work now offered to the public. Price in fine paper, and hot press, $1.25, and in common paper $1.
J. K. Jones has also received, a considerable addition to his stock of Stationery, School-Books, &c. &c. which he flatters himself, is now now inferior to any in Virginia; and as he will continue to receive additional supplies, he hopes to partake of a share of the public favor.
Binding, in all its various branches, carried on as usual. On hand, a general assortment of Merchant's Account Books, Sheriff's Books, &c. &c. Blank Books bound and ruled to any pattern.
Also, a few copies of THADDEUS OF WARSAW, by Miss Porter, $2. August 8. w3.
VIRGINIA.—At a Superior Court of Chancery, held at the Capitol, in Richmond, June the 1st. 1809.
Henry L. Biscoe Plff. against Peter Sallee, Deft.
The defendant 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 satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country; On motion of the plaintiff, by counsel, It is ordered, That the said defendant do appear here, on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper, published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the capital in the said city.
A Copy. Test. PETER TINSLEY, C. C. w3w.
STAGES FOR SALE.—Will be sold to the highest bidder, at this place, on Friday, the 15th of next month, (September,) the line of STAGES between Richmond and Fredericksburg. The terms will be one-fourth of the purchase money to be paid on the day of sale; the balance in six, nine and twelve months. On the same day, will be sold, on a credit of twelve months, several very valuable STUD HORSES, among which are, Archibald and Speculator.—The purchasers to give bond with approved securities, to JOHN HOOMES, and JOHN G. WOOLFOLK, Executors of JOHN HOOMES, Decd. Bowling Green, August 11. 9t.
COLUMBIAN MILLS.—The subscriber informs his friends and the public, that he will purchase WHEAT delivered at the Columbian Mills, or he will receive wheat there to be manufactured on very moderate and advantageous terms to the holders of this article—viz. for every 340 pounds of good merchantable wheat, he will engage to deliver one barrel of good superfine flour, or he will receive wheat at six shillings and six pence per bushel of 60 pounds and deliver superfine flour at six dollars twelve cents, with a small proportion of fine flour at five dollars sixty cents per barrel; all to be inspected and delivered in good order at the mill.
The flour made at this mill has always been held in high repute, and it is the intention of the present proprietor to sustain its character. The Corn Mill is in complete order—every attention will be paid to the customers sending their Corn there to be ground on toll at the usual rate.
Good fresh Meal for sale in small or large quantities at very moderate prices for cash. Apply to Mr. Samuel Leech on the premises or to JOHN GRANBERY, Norfolk. Cash given for Corn delivered at the mill. July 18. 4t.
LANDS FOR SALE.—The Subscriber informs in fact, for Col. John Simon Farley, and his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison, residents in Great-Britain, offer for sale their remaining proportion of that valuable
TRACT OF LAND, In the county of Rockingham and state of North Carolina, called the Samartown Estate.
This land lying contiguous to one of the branches of Roanoke River, and in the midst of a wealthy country, is represented to be of great fertility, and to unite so many advantages as to be well worth the attention of the purchasers; it contains from 10 to 12,000 acres, and will be sold in one whole, or in distinct parcels, at the option of those who may wish to buy; for which purpose it has been laid off in separate lots. A part of the land is left in the possession of Wm. Edward Broadax, esq. of Brunsick county, Virginia, who has purchased a part of it, and to whom, for more correct information as to its quality, situation and other advantages, purchasers are referred, as well as to Mr. Farley, who lives on the spot. Mr. Broadax will also make known the terms of sale, and any contract entered into with him for the purchase of the above land, or any part thereof, will be obligatory on ourselves, and our principals.
G. R. TUTOR, JOHN DONALD. Peabody, Va., July 24.