The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-10-06 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
Vol. 6.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1809.
[No. 43.]
FOR SALE , the high bred imported Horse, MAGIE ; 14 years old last spring. He will be disposed of on accommodating terms, to an approved purchaser. He is now at my stable, where he stood the last season, and may be seen at the Petersburg Races, on the 17th next month, or any time before then, at my house. THOMAS BRANCH. Oct. 3.
THE different business concerns, heretofore existing under the firms of Joseph Marx & Co. in Richmond, Virginia, Asher Marx & Co. in New York, and George Marx & Co. in Manchester, Va. are this day dissolved by mutual consent. The partner resident at each place is charged with the settlement of their respective concerns. Those who have demands on either of the above firms, will apply accordingly for payment, and those indebted are requested to settle their accounts without delay. JOS. MARX, ASHER MARX, GEORGE MARX. Oct. 1.
The business at Richmond, will be continued under the firm of Joseph & George Marx, and at Manchester, under the firm of George Marx & Co. Asher Marx having taken Joseph Linsley, Jr. into partnership, their business will be conducted at New York, under the firm of Marx & Linsley.
M. MYERS , of this city, and B. M. Myers, late of Petersburg; have, this day, renewed their former connection in business, under the firm of M. & B. MYERS. Richmond, Oct. 3.
FIFTEEN DOLLARS REWARD , for apprehending & delivering Fanny , a bright Mulatto Girl, about five feet two inches high, seventeen years old, inclined to be fleshy; who ran away about the 20th Dec. last. She has been harbored in Richmond most of the time since, where she passed by the name of LOUISA SMITH . She was seen on the 5th instant on the basin, and brought home on the 6th, went off again on the morning of the 7th. She had on an India cotton frock; and left, she says, a variety of clothes, at different houses where she has been secreted; is very fond of dress, and has been frequently detected in committing daring robberies. She is one of those entitled to liberty when she arrives to a certain age, under the Will of the late John Pleasants of Henrico county; in consequence of which, many of them are very ungobernable—many of her connections enjoy their liberty, and live in the adjacent counties. The above reward will be given on delivering her to SAMUEL PLEASANTS. Powhatan County, Sept. 27.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD —Runaway from the Subscribers, in the early part of April last, near South-West Point, in Tennessee, a negro man, named MOSES ; we suppose him to be about six feet high, well made, a little inclined to be knock-kneed, of a dark complexion, speaks slow when spoken to, and inclined to lie a little; his clothes cannot be described, as he took off a number, and of various kinds. The said negro was purchased by the subscribers, (in February last), of Martin Turner, of this City, and generally calls himself Moses Turner . He has a wife in this place, and it is supposed he is now lurking some where in this Town, as we have been informed he has been seen here, previous to our arrival. The above reward, besides legal charges, will be given to any person who will deliver the said Negro to Richard Terrel or J. A. Grant, or secure him in any Jail so that they get him again. R. TERREL, J. A. GRANT. Sept. 15.
All persons are strictly forbidden from harboring or employing the above Negro. Also, all Captains of Vessels, or any other person, are forbidden from taking the said fellow out of the State under the strictest penalty of the Law. R. T. & J. A. G.
The Partnership of BREAM & FOLLET is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to and from the Firm, will be settled by James Bream. JAMES BREAM, FRANCIS FOLLET. Richmond, Sept. 13.
JAMES BREAM respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, that the partnership of Bream and Follet being dissolved, the Business will be continued by him—he expects shortly to receive a fresh supply of articles in the Ironmongery and Hardware line, which with his present stock in hand, he will sell low for cash, approved paper, or country produce. Sept. 18.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD ; for apprehending an Apprentice of the subscribers, who eloped on the 19th inst. named Francis Childers , aged about 20 years, a shoe-maker by trade; thin-visaged; about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, much pimpled in the face; had on when he went away, a blue cloth coat, a pair of blue Virginia cloth pantaloons; he may have changed his clothes since. Whoever will deliver the above apprentice or secure him in any Jail, shall receive the above reward. I forward all persons from harboring the said Apprentice. DAVID LOGAN. September 29.
TO THE PUBLIC —The subscribers, executors of John McRae, dec'd. will, on Tuesday, the seventh day of Nov. next, offer, at public sale, before the tavern of Mr. James Durrell, of this town, the following PROPERTY , viz: Twenty-five or thirty Slaves, among which are several good carpenters, distillers, bakers, cooks and house servants: Two brood Mares, one of which is the celebrated running mare Carolina , with a Florized colt by her side, and now in foal by Sir Harry: the other a high bred mare also in foal by Sir Harry, together with six or eight saddle and work horses, three milk Cows, carpenter's tools, plantation utensils, &c. The terms of sale will be, for the slaves, a credit of one, two and three years, and for the balance of the property, a credit of twelve months; in all cases, bonds with approved security will be required, to carry interest from the date it not punctually paid. RICHARD MCRAE, and DANIEL MCRAE, Executors of John McRae, deceased. Petersburg, Sept. 29.
All persons having claims against the estate of John McRae, dec'd. are requested to bring them forward for adjustment, and all who are indebted to the said estate, to make immediate arrangements for pay, as no indulgence can be given. R. MCRAE & D. MCRAE.
CITY of Williamsburg, NEW BOARDING-HOUSE —The subscriber who lives in the large and commodious house, formerly occupied as a tavern by Mrs. Maupin, on market square, being the centre of the city, respectfully informs the public, that he intends opening immediately, a Boarding-House, and proposes to take in about 12 boarders. P. R. DENEBUVILLE. Sept. 26.
GEORGE WATT has just received, and offers FOR SALE , Sicily, Madeira, and Sherry WINE , by the Hhd. and Qr. case, Green Coffee , Orleans Sugar by the Hhd. & Co. German Platillas 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, Prime Pork, Liverpool and Stone Ware, Souchong, Hyson, Skin, and Gunpowder Tea, Spanish Segars, Raisins, Almonds, Nutmegs, Window Glass, Men's & Women's Shoes, which he will dispose of by wholesale on reasonable terms. July 22.
NOTICE —All persons concerned are required to take notice, that we have sold the debts due to the late concerns of Robert Pollock and Co. of Richmond, & Dunlop, Pollock and Co. of Manchester, to Messrs. Tompkins and Murray of Richmond, and that payments hereafter are to be made to them alone, or to those whom they may empower to collect. JAMES & JOHN DUNLOP. Petersburg, Sept. 5.
Those indebted to the late concerns of Dunlop, Pollock and Co. of Manchester, and Robert Pollock and Co. of Richmond, are now requested to come forward and settle their respective balances, as longer indulgence cannot be granted; lawyers and agents having the collection or settlement of debts due either of the above concerns, will be pleased to forward us statements of the business in their hands. TOMPKINS & MURRAY. Richmond, Sept. 5.
A CARD — DOCTOR LEWIS , lately from the West-Indies, has opened his Office, at Manchester, in the house of Mr. L. Bishop, for the practice of Physic, Surgery, and Midwifery . He hopes from his success and experience, to merit the patronage of a liberal public. N. B. Private families may be supplied with Medicines, with suitable directions. Advice for the poor, gratis. September 26.
ADVERTISEMENT —Will be sold, to the highest bidder, on the 22nd day of November next, at the late dwelling house of John Gilum, dec'd. of Albemarle county; five Negroes; household & kitchen Furniture; plantation tools: the crop of Corn, Fodder, Rye, Oats, Flax, Hemp, and the stock of Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs. There will also be sold, on the 12th day of December next, on the premises, a tract of Land, (occupied by Wm. Gilum,) containing 200 acres, lying in the county of Louisa, about 4 miles below the court-house. Also, will be sold, on the 16th said December next, on the premises, one other tract of Land, (occupied by Joseph D. Smith,) containing 118 acres, lying in the county of Albemarle, about three miles from Charlottesville. Those who become purchasers for any of the above property, must give bond with approved security, payable twelve months after date. All persons having claims against the estate, are requested to bring them forward according to law. FREDERICK GILLUM, MATTHEW WINGFIELD, Execrs. September 19.
LAND FOR SALE —The subscriber offers for sale that valuable estate on which he formerly resided, lying on James River, near the Town of Warminster, in the County of Nelson, lately Ambler's . This tract contains nearly two thousand acres. The low grounds are of the most valuable kind, and the highlands immediately adjacent thereto are very fertile and uncommonly level. It might be divided into two plantations to advantage, or continued in one, as might suit the owner. The houses are new and amply sufficient for the comfortable accommodation of a family. A more minute description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed the purchaser will view and judge for himself. The subscriber will only observe that the place is very healthy, lies in a fine neighborhood, and commands, perhaps, as many advantages as any other situation that is offered for sale in the state. One fourth of the purchase money will be required on the first of January, when possession will be given; and the balance will be divided into nine equal annual installments, without any charge of interest if the principal be punctually paid. A large crop of small grain will be sown in good order, and the purchaser may be accommodated with corn &c. sufficient for a year's supply. Letters directed to Buckingham Court-House, or to Warminster, would be soon received and attended to. In my absence, my brother Mr. Joseph C. Cabell will show the land to any person desirous to purchase. WM. H. CABELL. September 1.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD —Runaway from the Subscriber on the 1st June last, a negro man named Billey , commonly called ( Billey Hickman ;) he is about thirty years of age, 5 feet, 8 inches high, some what of a yellowish cast—I expect he is lurking about the neighborhood of Mr. Thomas Hickman's in Caroline, to whom he formerly belonged; or in the neighborhood of Col. Christopher Tompkins, in King William where it is understood he has a wife: whoever will deliver the said negro to me shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable expenses paid. JOHN HARRIS. Powhatan, Sept. 22.
The Subscriber has for sale Ten Shares in the Manchester Turnpike Company; Those that are inclined to purchase, may know the terms by applying to Mr. E. D. Digges of Manchester, or to the Subscriber. J. HARRIS. Sept. 22.
MANCHESTER ACADEMY —In consequence of the intended removal of Mr. John Wood, to the city of Richmond, on the 25th September next, the trustees of the above Academy, are desirous of engaging a Teacher of the Languages and Mathematics, to supply the station he now holds. On application to the Treasurer of the Academy, residing in Manchester, the terms will be made known to any gentleman of liberal education and moral conduct. August 23.
THE TRUSTEES will proceed, on Saturday, the 14th October next, to elect a teacher, as above, out of the candidates, who may then be in nomination. September 29.
TO all whom it may concern — RICHARD SMYTH , a native of Ireland, departed this life on the 18th of June, 1809, without leaving in this State, or in the United States, any relation by consanguinity, and possessed of some Estate in Lands within this Commonwealth, of which, as well as of the United States he had long been a Citizen. His intent was to give the whole to the subscriber, as his Nuncupative Will, now of Record, will sufficiently prove; but the Subscriber hath been advised, that a Will of that kind cannot effect a conveyance of Lands, how far soever it may prove the intent of the Testator, and that the Lands late of the said Richard Smyth do of consequence, escheat to the Commonwealth, though contrary to his intent, as he avowing them on a citizen thereof. For that reason, the subscriber shall request the General Assembly, at its ensuing session, by Petition, to carry the intent of the said Smyth into execution, by releasing the Interest of the Commonwealth in the Lands whereof he was possessed, or entitled to within the same, to the Subscriber. DAVID DOYLE. August 25.
STOMACHIC ELIXIR OF HEALTH is a very valuable medicine for the cure of the cramp, pains, or wind in the stomach; carrying off superfluous bile, removing habitual costiveness and sickness at the stomach. It gives immediate relief in the dysentery, and cholera morbus, and removes the bowel complaints in children: It also gives relief in colds, asthma and the whooping-cough. Price 1 $ 50 cts per bottle.
DR. ROBERTSON'S VEGETABLE NERVOUS CORDIAL , is celebrated for the cure of hysterical and other nervous complaints, impurities of the blood, seminal weakness, & the various inconveniences resulting from dissipated pleasures, residence in warm climates, and feminine complaints. Price 1 $ 50 cts per bottle.
DR. ROBERTSON'S PATENT STOMACHIC BITTERS , are particularly recommended for restoring weak constitutions, cleansing & strengthening the stomach and increasing the appetite. They expel worms from children, & are a good preventive against intermittent fevers and agues. Price 1 $ per bottle.
DR. ROBERTSON'S CELEBRATED GOUT and RHEUMATIC DROPS , are in high repute for relieving the gout and rheumatism, umbago, stone and gravel. They cure weaknesses of the joints, sprains, bruises and all kinds of green wounds. Price 2 $ per bottle.
A constant supply of the above medicines for sale, by FITZHUGHSON & POTTER , Booksellers & Stationers, Richmond, where pamphlets containing certificates of cures &c. may be had gratis.
Take Notice, That none are genuine without the signature of T. W. Dyott N. D. Grandson of the late Dr. Robertson of Edinburgh. Sept. 15.
NOTICE —All those indebted to the estate of David Crenshaw , dec'd. are requested to come forward and make payment, as no further indulgence will be given. All those that have claims against the said estate, are requested to come forward, and make them known, as I am about to settle up the estate. CHARLES CRENSHAW, Executor of David Crenshaw September 26.
ON Wednesday, December 27, 1809 —At the late dwelling-house of Nathaniel Lancaster, dec'd. about ten miles above the court house, in Prince Edward county, on Appomattox river: Will be sold, to the highest bidder, the following PROPERTY , belonging to the estate of the deceased, a valuable stock of Horses, Cattle, Hogs and Sheep, the plantation Utensils, household and kitchen Furniture, too tedious to mention.
Also: Nine valuable NEGROES ; also, the crop of Corn, Wheat, Oats and Fodder. A credit of twelve months will be given the purchasers, on their giving bond, with approved security.
All those who have legal claims against the estate of the deceased, will be pleased to exhibit them duly authenticated, on or before the day of sale, to enable the administrators to make provision for their payment. All those who are indebted to the estate, will see the necessity of immediate payment, as it must be evident no indulgence can be given. JOHN LANCASTER, ROBERT LANCASTER, Admrs. August 18.
VIRGINIA INN —THE SUBSCRIBER having disposed of his interest in the EAGLE TAVERN , respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, that he has leased for a number of years, the old CITY HOTEL , of Mr. Couch, at considerable expense this well known house is rendered as comfortable as any in Richmond. If the most unremitting attention, the best Tables, Liquors, Stables and Water, can conduce to public patronage, the Subscriber pledges himself that these shall not be wanting. A few genteel Boarders can be accommodated at 40 pounds per year.
RATES , &c.—Gentlemen putting up at this House will be charged one dollar per day—Horses at livery, 50 cents per day—All other charges equally moderate. J. S. SMITHERS. Richmond, Sept. 29, 1809.
VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE —The Subscribers wish to dispose of that valuable tract of LAND called FOUR LEWIS , lying in the Counties of Botetourt and Montgomery, and containing about 2,000 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 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.
THE Hanover Jockey Club RACES , will commence on the second Wednesday in October next. First day's race, 5 mile heats; the second day's race, two mile heats. Each day free for any horse, mare or gelding to run, according to the rules of the Fairfield course. A general meeting of the Club is requested to attend at Hanover court house, the day preceding the race. EATHURST JONES, Treasurer and Proprietor of the Course. September 26.
N. B. In consequence of the interference of the Fredericksburg races, the Hanover Races are postponed until the 3rd Wednesday of October, instead of the 2nd as stated above.
EUROPE.
From London and Liverpool Papers received at the Office of the Baltimore Federal Gazette.
LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
MONDAY, August 7. DOWNING-STREET, Aug. 7.
Dispatches, of which the following are copies, were last night received at the office of Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of his majesty's principal Secretaries of State, from Lieut. Gen. the Earl of Chatham, dated Middleburgh, 2d and 3d Aug. 1809. Head Quarters, Middleburgh, 2d Aug. 1809.
My Lord, I have the honor of acquainting your Lordship, that having sailed from the Downs early in the morning of the 20th ultimo, with Rear Admiral Sir Richard Strachan, in his majesty's ship Venerable , we arrived the same evening, and anchored in East Capelle Roads, and were joined on the following morning by the division of the army under Lieut. General Sir John Hope. It blew in the course of that day a fresh gale from the westward, which created a heavy swell, and the small craft being much exposed, it was determined to seek shelter for them in the anchorage of the Room Pot, where Lieut. General Sir John Hope's division was also directed to proceed, in order to possess such points as might be necessary to secure the anchorage; as well as with a view to future operations on the East Scheldt.
The left wing of the army under Lieut. General Sir Eyre Coote, particularly destined for the operation against Walcheren, arrived on the 29th, and morning of the 30th—but the wind continued to blow fresh from the Westward, and occasioning a great surf on the beach, both on the side of Zoutland, as well as near Demerara, it became expedient, in order to effect a landing, to carry the whole fleet through the narrow and difficult passage into the Veer Gat , hitherto considered impracticable for large ships; which, being successfully accomplished, and the necessary preparations for debarkation being completed, I have the satisfaction of acquainting your Lordship, that the troops landed on the Breskens, about a mile to the Westward of Fort der Haak, without opposition, when a position was taken up for the night on the Sand-Hills, with East Capelle in front. Lieut. Gen. Fraser was detached immediately to the left against Fort der Haak, and Ter Vere, the former of which, on his approach was evacuated by the enemy, but the town of Vere, which was strong in its defences, and had a garrison of about 600 men, held out till yesterday morning, notwithstanding the heavy and well directed fire of the bomb-vessels and gun-boats during the preceding day, and until the place was closely invested.
Early on the morning of the 31st, a deputation from Middleburgh, from whence the garrison had been withdrawn into Flushing, having arrived in camp, terms of capitulation were agreed upon—copies of which I have the honor herewith to enclose, as well as that of the garrison of Ter Vere; and the divisions of the army, under the orders of Lieut. General Lord Paget, and Maj. General Graham moved forward, and took up a position with the right to Maliskirke, the center at Grypereskirke, and left to St. Laurens.
On the morning of the 1st inst. the troops advanced to the investment of Flushing, which operation was warmly contested by the enemy. In this movement he was driven by Major General Graham's division on the right, from the batteries of Dykeshoek, the Vyger and the Nole, while Brig. Gen. Houston's brigade forced the enemy, posted on the road from Middleburgh, to retire with the loss of four guns, and many killed and wounded. Lieut. Gen. Lord Paget's division also drove in the posts of the enemy, and took up his position at West Zouberg.
Nothing could exceed the gallantry of the troops throughout the whole of this day; and my warmest praise is due to the several General Officers for their judicious disposition in the advance of their respective columns. To Lieut. Gen. Sir Eyre Coote I feel much indebted for his exertions in this service, and the prompt and able manner in which he has executed my orders. The light troops under Brig. General Baron Rottenburg have been admirably conducted; and with the officers commanding the several corps engaged, I have every reason to be most perfectly satisfied. The third battalion of the Royals, and flank companies of the 5th regiment, maintained the right under difficult circumstances, with great gallantry, and killed and wounded a great many of the enemy.
Ter Vere being in our possession, Lieut. General Fraser's division marched in the evening upon Rottenburg, detaching a corps for the reduction of Rammekens, which, when effected, will complete the investment of Flushing. I have to regret the temporary absence of Brig. Gen. Browne, who was wounded late in the day; but I trust not to be long deprived of his services.
I have the honor to enclose a return of the killed, wounded and missing. Deeply as the fall of every British soldier is at all times to be lamented, the loss will not appear to have been great, when the serious impediments it was in the power of the enemy to oppose to our progress are considered, as well as the formidable state of the batteries of Flushing, to which the troops were necessarily exposed. The pressure of circumstances has prevented the commanding officer of artillery from furnishing a detailed account of the guns and ordnance stores taken in the several batteries, and fortress of Ter Vere, but which will be hereafter transmitted, with a return of the prisoners taken since our landing, supposed to amount to one thousand. Commodore Owen's squadron with Lieutenant General the Marquis of Huntly's division, remains at anchor in the Winding Passage , and the division of Lieut. General the Earl of Rosslyn, and Lieut. Gen. Grosvenor, are arrived at the anchorage in the Vere Gat .
I cannot conclude without expressing in the strongest terms, my admiration of the distinguished ability with which the fleet
was conducted through the passage into the Vere Gat , nor can the advantages resulting from the success of this operation be too highly estimated, as by it we were not only enabled to effect a disembarkation, which in the then state of the wind, was impracticable in any other quarter, but also that the enemy, probably relying on the difficulty of the navigation, was less prepared for resistance. I must also warmly acknowledge the great assistance the service has derived from the zealous exertions of the officers of the navy, and the seamen employed, in drawing a considerable proportion of the artillery through a heavy sand, and without whose aid, the advance of the army must necessarily have been suspended, the strength of the tide rendering the landing of the horses for a time extremely difficult. I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) CHATHAM. P. S.—Since writing the above letter, I have received intelligence from Lieut. Gen. Sir John Hope; that the reserve of the army had effected their landing on South Beveland, and that a detachment had occupied the town of Goes. (Signed) CHATHAM.
[Middleburgh capitulated without firing a shot; but the enemy made a sortie from Flushing, when a smart action took place, in which we had about 300 men killed and wounded. The loss of the enemy was much greater. The number of prisoners in our possession is about 2000. Three of our gun-boats were sunk.]
ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION
Entered into for the surrender of the Town of Middleburgh to his Britannic Majesty's forces, in consequence of a Deputation from the Prefect and Burgomasters for that purpose.
Art. I. Security to be granted to every person, public functionaries, private persons, citizens, and inhabitants, whatever their political opinions may have been or now are. Answer. Granted, provided they conduct themselves as peaceable citizens, & conform to such regulations as will be hereafter established by the authority of the British government.
Art. II. Protection to all property without exception whatsoever. Ans.—Granted as far as relates to private property; all public property is to be accounted for to such Commissioners as will be named by the General commanding his Britannic Majesty's forces.
Art. III. The armed citizens or other inhabitants who may have taken up arms, or done military duty to maintain public tranquility, to be protected in their persons and property, and permitted to return to their dwellings. Ans.—Granted, upon condition that their arms are given to such persons as will be duly authorised to receive them.
Art. IV. Public Functionaries and their families are permitted, if they desire it, to return to any other part of the kingdom of Holland.
Art. V. Inhabitants who are absent from their houses, to be permitted to return with their property. Ans.—Granted, subject to the restriction specified in the first article.
Art. VI. The troops to be quartered in barracks. Ans.—This must be determined according to circumstances, but every care will be taken to render the quartering as little burdensome to the inhabitants as possible.
Art. VII. Should any misunderstanding take place relating to the foregoing articles, they will be explained in favor of the town and inhabitants. Ans.—Granted.
Art. VIII. The above article to be also extended to all parts of this department which may not have obtained equally favorable terms. Ans.—This article to apply in the present instance to the town of Middleburgh alone; but no difficulty will be made to grant the same advantageous terms to any town that will surrender in like manner without opposition.
ADDITIONAL ARTICLE. All military sick in hospital, to remain where they are at present, and to be taken care of; on recovery to be permitted to return to their corps. Answer.—The sick are to be taken care of by their own medical people, but must be considered as prisoners of war. (Signed) C. G. BELDERVELD, P. G. SCHORER, J. VAN HOORN, H. VAN DE MERDENDEKE.
Agreed to by me, conformably to the powers vested in me by Lieut. Gen. the Earl of Chatham, K. G. Commander of his Britannic Majesty's forces. (Signed) EYRE COOTE, Lieut. Gen. Heights of Bree Sand, this 31st day of July 1809.
PROPOSAL OF A CAPITULATION.
By the Commandant of the Fortress of Veer to his excellency Lieut. Gen. M. Fraser, commanding the besieging army before Veer, and to Capt. Richardson, the senior Naval officer on shore:
Article I. The Garrison of Veer shall be allowed to quit at one of the gates of the town at all the honors of war, and ground their arms upon the glacis, and they shall not be allowed to serve against his Britannic Majesty, or his allies, until they have been regularly exchanged, and the troops shall be sent home to some Dutch place in Holland at the expence of his Majesty. The officers shall keep their swords, horses, and property, and the soldiers their knapsacks. Answer. Agreed to, excepting that the garrison is to be considered generally as prisoners of war, and shall be disposed of as is customary on such occasions.
Art. II. From this moment, until the evacuation of the fortress, the troops of both armies shall remain in their present position. Answer. Granted.
Art. III. All hostilities shall cease from both sides, and no preparation of attack or defence shall be carried on. Ans.—Granted.
Art. IV. All the artillery and stores shall be delivered over by the commissaries appointed from both sides. Answer. Agreed to, considering that in this article the

render of public property of all descriptions is included.
Art. V. All the sick and wounded shall be left to the humanity of the general until their recovery. Answer.—Granted.
Art. VI. The inhabitants of the town of Veer shall continue to enjoy all their privileges, and their particular property shall be respected, and shall, if they choose, be allowed to leave the place. This privilege shall likewise be granted to all the women of the garrison. Answer.—Granted.
(Signed) A. M. FRASER, Lieut. Gen. commanding the troops before Veer.
C. RICHARDSON, Senior Naval Officer. V. BOGART, Commandant of Garrison of Veer. [A true copy.]
(Signed) T. CAREY, Lieut. Col. Mil. Sec. Veer, August 1, 1809.
Number of prisoners taken at Ter Veer, 319.
T. CAREY, Lieut. Col. Military Secretary.
EXTRACTS FROM RETURNS.
Total—1 officer, 2 serjeants, 2 drummers, 41 rank and file, killed; 13 officers, 15 serjeants, 1 drummer, 184 rank and file, wounded; 34 rank and file missing.
Names of officers killed and wounded. Killed—3d Bat. 1st foot, Lieut. D. M c Lean.
Wounded—3d Bat. 1st foot, capt. John Wilson, Lieut. Jackson, and Volunteer, J. P. Drury, slightly; 2 bat. 35th Foot, Capt. Tisdell, slightly; Capt. Frederick dangerously; 68th Foot, the names of the three officers wounded, not specified in the return; 2d bat. 32d foot, Lieutenant Reed, slightly; Lieutenant Pratt dangerously; 85th Foot, the name of the officer wounded not mentioned in the return.
Staff—25th Foot, Captain Fotheringham, Deputy assistant Adjutant General, slightly; 40th Foot, Brig. Gen. Browne, slightly; 62d Foot, Captain Browne, Aid de-Camp to Brigadier Gen. Houston, slightly.
ROBERT LONG, Col. Ad. Gen.
MIDDLEBURGH, Aug. 3, 1809.
My Lord—Since my letter of yesterday's date, I have received intelligence from Lieut. General Sir John Hope, of his having occupied Bultz, and taken possession of the whole island of South Beveland. I have also the satisfaction to acquaint your lordship, that upon the batteries being prepared to open, the fortress of Remakins surrendered this evening, and I have the honour to include the articles of capitulation.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) CHATHAM. To Lord Viscount Castlereagh, &c.
Terms of Capitulation of the fortress of Remakins, 3d August, 1809.
Article I. The garrison surrenders prisoners of war, with every thing that belongs to the fortress, whether ammunition, cannon, or government stores belonging to the French and Dutch, of every sort and kind.
Art. II. The garrison will lay down their arms this moment, and are to be disposed of as the British government chooses, and as has been the custom of war.
Art. III. The officers will be allowed to keep their swords, and will, with their soldiers, be permitted to keep their private baggage.
(Signed) A. M. FRASER, Lt. Gen. commanding his B. M's troops before Remakins.
WOUNIER, capt. com't. [A true copy.]
T. CAREY, Lt. Col. Mil. Sec.
Garrison taken—2 captains, 1 Lieutenant, 3 serjeants, 7 corporals, 2 drummers, 111 privates.—Total 127.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 29.
THE ALLOCUTION OF HIS HOLINESS PIUS VII. TO THE EMPEROR BONAPARTE.
Since the time, when by the decree of Providence, notwithstanding our unworthiness, we were invested with the sovereign pontificate, you have been a witness of our wish for the peace of the Catholic Church. You have been a witness of our wishes for the spiritual peace of the French people and of our paternal condescension. You have been a witness of the benefits, which we have conferred on the Gallican church, yourself and your subjects. You have been a witness that under all the circumstances, we have lent ourselves, as far as lay in our power, to all the concessions and concordats with the French Empire and kingdom of Italy. In fine, you have been a witness of the immense sacrifices which we have made to the detriment of our people, for the benefit & the repose of the French & Italian nations; and which are such, that our subjects already in misery are unable to procure the means of subsistence. You however, in return for so many favors, have not ceased to fill our heart with bitterness, to reduce us to the greatest extremities under false pretences and to harass our conscience. In return for the ecclesiastical concordat, you have not ceased to seek to destroy it by separate laws, called organic. You have made to us propositions, calculated to that effect, and irreconcilable with the morality of the gospel and with the unalterable maxims of the universal Catholic church. In return for these benefits the states of the Holy See have had to support the enormous burden of your troops, in such a way, that since the year 1801 up to the present time, they have wasted five millions of Roman crowns, without keeping the solemn promise of reimbursement by the kingdom of Italy. In return for these sacrifices you have despoiled us of the Duchies of Benevento and of Ponte Corvo, under promises of indemnifying the Holy See, in the most generous manner. In return for our condescension, you have demanded our sanction to articles contrary to the law of nations, to the unity & the canons of the church, to the good of the Catholics of other kingdoms, and destruction of our independence and of the liberty of the church. To accomplish these designs, you have invaded an enemy, not our states only, but the estates given to the Apostolic See by the piety and generosity of sovereigns for the most part French, states consecrated to the independence and to the liberty of the successors of St. Peter, and confirmed to the common father of all the faithful, by all the Catholic princes, during eleven centuries of possession, in order that the common father might
enjoy in the midst of his children, complete liberty and independence. In short, you have invaded, as an enemy, the capital itself; you have caused the military to revolt; you have occupied with an armed force the Post Office and the printing houses; you have torn from our bosom our counsellors, who aided us in conducting the affairs of the Catholic church, and the ministers of justice; you have even kept us prisoners in our Apostolic residence, while our people were trod upon by your soldiers. We even appeal to yourself, to pronounce your own conduct marked by a contempt of all the rights of nations, of your sacred duties and your people. We appeal even to you as a man whom we have consecrated, and who had sworn to repair the losses and to maintain the rights of the Church. Take care, however, lest if you do not stop short, we should exercise, though in all humanity of heart, that authority which almighty God has placed in our hands; take care lest you add new motives to make known to the world the justice of our cause; for then, all the misfortunes which shall fall on our conduct must be passed to your personal responsibility.
Translated for the Baltimore American.
The following is a written declaration from the late king of Sweden, on his abdication of the throne—From the Danish paper DA-GEN.
In the name of the holy Trinity! ! !
We Gustaf Adolph by the grace of God, King of the Swedes, Goths and Venders, Duke of Sleswig, Holstein &c. &c. &c. make hereby known—That since we seventeen years ago were declared king, and inherited with a bleeding heart, a beloved and illustrious father's bleeding throne, it has been our constant wish and desire to promote the true honor and prosperity of this old kingdom, inseparably connected with the real welfare and honor of a free and loyal people. But since we are now fully persuaded, that we no longer can execute our royal office in an honorable manner, both for us and our subjects, to maintain order and advance peace and happiness in the kingdom—We have judged it our sacred duty, and of our free will, by the present instrument to resign all our royal functions, in order to spend the remainder of our days to the honor of God. We wish all our loyal subjects, grace and blessings from the most high and a more prosperous futurity for themselves and their posterity. Yes, fear the lord and honour your king! ! !
In testimony whereof we have written this with our own hand, and affixed our Royal Seal.
Gripsholm palace, the 29th March, & in the year after the nativity of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, 1809.
BOSTON, Sept. 26, 1809.
Yesterday arrived the brig Governor Sumner, Capt. Hilliard, from Alicante and Gibraltar, with papers from the latter place to the 5th of Aug. containing the following interesting information.
SEVILLE, SPAIN.
Dispatch of General D. Gregoria de la Cuesta, dated El Bravo, July 24.
The French under Marshal Victor who had entrenched themselves on the banks of the Alberche, and were on the eve of being attacked, fled in silence, on the night of the 23d; and the Anglo-Spanish armies are pursuing them in their retreat. Our Advanced Guard is Cebolla. (Government Gazette.)
CADIZ.
H. E. Don Martin de Garray, Member and Secretary of the Supreme Board of Government of the kingdom has just received the important intelligence, that the Anglo-Spanish army has most completely defeated the French army, on the banks of the Alberche, after two days most severe fighting, and great slaughter, in which all the troops have entitled themselves to the national esteem. H. M. hastens to impart this favorable news to the Consulate of Cadiz.
General Cuesta's Dispatch.
Gen. Cuesta sends information from the camp at Talavera, under date the 28th July, that, upon being apprized that the enemy to the number of 40,000 men, were making dispositions to attack him, he crossed the Alberche, to take up a position previously agreed upon with the British commander in chief.
At five in the afternoon of the 27th, the enemy presented themselves, made a most vigorous charge with fixed bayonets, & were repulsed with great loss, the battle ended at 8 at night.
On the 28th very early in the morning, the enemy renewed their attack, which they were still carrying on at 7 in the evening, when the Dispatch came away; at which time, the whole of the enemy's troops were driven back. The general flatters himself, that such will be the issue of every successive action, the English and Spanish army displaying the gallantry characteristic of their Nations.
The Usurper was present in person; on that evening he withdrew to St. Osella, with 93 carts of wounded. Laci's Division is close to Toledo; and Venega's army must have been in Aranjuez yesterday, with an intention to proceed to Madrid.
(Signed) CARAY. P. S. Intelligence has just been received, by express, that the enemy have been completely defeated.
CADIZ, Aug. 2.—Reports have reached this city from Seville as follows:
FIRST REPORT.
That a glorious victory had been gained, by the combined armies under Field Marshal Cuesta and Lieut. Gen. Sir Arthur Wellesley, over the French army commanded by Marshal Victor.
The loss of the British is said to be two General officers killed, and one wounded, and from 4 to 5000 men.
SECOND REPORT.
(By an express arrived here this day, 2d.) That Marshal Victor, with 15,000 men, had surrendered to the combined armies.
In Galicia and Asturias, now free from the Vandals, our army is daily reinforcing, and the public administration organizing. It is remarkable, that, upon their marching to the dock yard in Ferrol, or to the manufactures of muskets in Oviedo. The patriots of the Arragonese is rising higher and higher every day; their army in Tortosa is gaining more and more strength. Gerona, furiously attacked by Angea's Division, set a memorable example of valour in the defence of Monjuich on the 8th, and is yet making a heroic resistance, although, one
reinforcements sending to her assistance, have miscarried.
A new Ambassador from England (the Marquis of Wellesley) had arrived at Cadiz.
The French consul lately arrested at Algiers, has been released, and has arrived at Marseilles.
NEW-YORK, September 30.—We stop the press at one o'clock this morning, to announce the arrival, below, of the ship Triton, Capt. Henderson. She sailed from Liverpool the 19th of August, and brings London papers to the 15th.
These papers contain the official particulars of the battle fought in Spain on the 27th and 28th July. The intelligence reached London on the 14th August, and the Park and Tower guns fired on the occasion—and the following official note was sent to the Lord Mayor:
Downing-street, 14th August, 1809.
My Lord—I have the honor to inform your lordship, that the enemy having assembled on the Alberche all his forces in that part of Spain, consisting of the corps of Victor and Sebastiani, and of 7 or 8000 troops from Madrid, the whole under the personal command of Joseph Bonaparte, assisted by Marshals Jourdan and Victor, and Gen. Sebastiani, attacked the combined armies posted at Talavera, on the 27th and 28th ult. The efforts of the enemy were chiefly directed against the British troops, and I have the satisfaction to acquaint your lordship, that on both days he was defeated with the most distinguished gallantry, and compelled to retire over the Alberche, with the loss of not less than 10,000 men, 20 pieces of cannon, and five standards. A victory so glorious to his Majesty's arms, has not been purchased without a severe loss on our part. We have to lament the loss of Major General Mackenzie, Brigadier General Langworth, and many other gallant officers who have fallen on this occasion. The total loss on both days is stated to be in killed 801; wounded 3913; missing 365. The French Generals Lapisse and Morlot are killed; Generals Sebastiani and Boulet, wounded.
I have the honor to be, &c.
CASTLEREAGH.
The Right Hon. Lord Mayor.
A Gazette extraordinary was published on the 15th, with the official dispatches from Sir Arthur Wellesley.
The surrender of Flushing was reported, but no official advice had been received.
It was reported in Spanish papers of the 31st of July, that Vanegas had captured Madrid.
Sir James Saumarez's squadron had made a successful attack on Archangel, and took 100 ships in the harbor, laden with tallow & other valuable commodities.
The Emperor of Austria had repaired to Campsin, to accelerate the conclusion of the negotiations for peace. It was reported that a Congress would be held at Presburg, to settle the terms of peace.
Nothing of American affairs.
The Triton reports, that the Henrietta Charlotta, was to sail from London on the 21st of Aug. for N. Y.—New York Gazette.
FROM THE GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
DOWNING STREET, August 15.
Dispatches of which the following are copies and extracts, were this day received at the office of Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state, from Lieut. general the right hon. Sir Arthur Wellesley K. B. dated Talavera, July 29.
Talavera de la Reyna, July 29.
My Lord,
General Cuesta followed the enemy's march with his army from the Alberche on the morning of the 24th, as far as Santa Olalla, and pushed forward his advanced guard as far as Torrijos.
For the reasons stated to your lordship in my dispatch of the 24th, I moved only two divisions of infantry and a brigade of cavalry across the Alberche to Casalegos, under the command of Lieut. general Sherbrooke, with a view to keep up the communication between general Cuesta and me, and with Sir R. Wilson's corps at Escalona.
It appears that General Venegas had not carried into execution that part of the plan of operations which related to his corps, and that he was still at Daniel, in La Mancha; and the enemy in the course of the 24th, 25th and 26th, collected all his forces in this part of Spain between Torrijos and Toledo, leaving but a small corps of 2000 men in that place.
His united army thus consisted of the corps of marshal Victor, of that of general Sebastiani, and of 7 or 8000 men, the guards of Joseph Bonaparte, and the garrison of Madrid, and it was commanded by Joseph Bonaparte, aided by Marshals Jourdan and Victor, and gen. Sebastiani.
On the 26th, General Cuesta's advanced guard was attacked near Torrijos and obliged to fall back, and the general retired with his army, on that day to the left bank of the Alberche; general Sherbrooke continued at Casalegos, and the enemy at Santa Olalla.
It was then obvious that the enemy intended to try the result of a general battle, for which the best position appeared to be in the neighborhood of Talavera; and general Cuesta having consented to take up this position on the morning of the 27th, I ordered general Sherbrooke to retire with his corps to its station in the line, leaving Gen. Mackenzie with a division of infantry and a brigade of cavalry, as an advanced post in the wood, on the right of Alberche, which covered our left flank.
The position taken up by the troops at Talavera extended more than two miles; the ground was then open upon the left where the British army was stationed, and it was commanded by a height, on which was, in echelon and in second line, a division of infantry, under the orders of Major general Hill.
There was a valley between this height and a range of mountains still further upon the left, which valley was not at first occupied, as it was commanded by the height before mentioned; and the range of mountains appeared too distant to have any influence upon the expected action.
The right, consisting of Spanish troops, extended immediately in front of the town of Talavera down the Tagus. This part of the ground was covered by olive trees, and much intersected by banks and ditches. The high road leading from the bridge over the Alberche, was defended by a heavy battery in front of a church, which was occupied by Spanish infantry. All the avenues to the town were defended in a similar manner: the town was occupied, and the remainder of the Spanish infantry was formed in two lines, behind the banks on the roads which led
from the town and the right, to the left of our position.
In the centre, between the two armies, there was a commanding spot of ground, on which we had commenced to construct a redoubt, with some open ground in its rear.
Brigadier general Alexander Campbell was posted at this spot with a division of infantry, supported in his rear by general Cotton's brigade of dragoons and some Spanish cavalry.
About two o'clock on the 26th, the enemy appeared in strength on the left bank of the Alberche, and manifested an intention to attack general Mackenzie's division.
The attack was made before they could be withdrawn; but the troops, consisting of general Mackenzie's and colonel Donkin's brigades, and general Anson's brigade of cavalry, and supported by General Payne with the other four regiments of cavalry, in the Plain between Talavera and the wood, withdrew in good order, but with some loss, particularly by the 2d battalion 67th regiment, and 2d battalion 31st regiment in the wood.
Upon this occasion the steadiness and discipline of the 45th regiment, and of the 5th battalion 60th regiment were conspicuous; and I had particular reason for being satisfied with the manner in which major general Mackenzie withdrew his advanced guard.
As the day advanced, the enemy appeared in larger numbers on the right of the Alberche, and it was obvious that he was advancing to a general attack upon the combined army.
General Mackenzie continued to fall back gradually upon the left of the position of the combined armies, where he was placed in the second line, in the rear of the guards, colonel Donkin being placed in the same situation further upon the left of the position of the combined armies, where he was placed in the rear of the king's German Legion.
The enemy immediately commenced his attack in the dusk of the evening, by a cannonade upon the left of our position, and by an attempt with his cavalry to overthrow the Spanish infantry posted, as I have before stated, on the right. This attempt failed entirely.
Early in the night he pushed a division along the valley on the left of the height occupied by Gen. Hill, of which he gained a momentary possession, but major general Hill attacked it instantly with the bayonet and regained it.
This attack was repeated in the night, but failed, and again at day light in the morning of the 28th, by two divisions of infantry, and was repulsed by Major General Hill.
Major general Hill has reported to me in a particular manner the conduct of the 29th regiment; and of the 1st battalion 43th regiment, in these different affairs, as well as that of major general Tilson, and Brigadier general Richard Stewart.
We have lost many brave officers and soldiers in the defence of this important point in our position, among others, I cannot avoid to mention brigadier general Gardner; and major general Hill was himself wounded, but I am happy to say, but slightly.
The defeat of this attempt was followed about noon, by a general attack with the enemy's whole force upon the whole of that part of the position occupied by the British army.
In consequence of the repeated attempts upon the heights on our left by the valley, I had placed two brigades of British cavalry in that valley, supported in the rear by the Duc d'Albuquerque's division of Spanish cavalry.
The enemy then placed light infantry in the range of mountains on the left of the valley, which were opposed by a division of Spanish infantry under Lieut. Gen. De Basscourt.
The general attack began by the march of several columns of Infantry into the valley with a view to attack the height occupied by Major general Hill. These columns were immediately charged by the first German light dragoons, and 23d dragoons under the command of Gen. Anson, directed by Lieut. Gen. Payne, and supported by Gen. Fane's brigade of heavy cavalry; and although the 23d dragoons suffered considerable loss, the charge had the effect of preventing the execution of that part of the enemy's plan.
At the same time he directed an attack upon Brigadier general Alexander Campbell's position in the centre of the combined armies, and on the right of the British.
This attack was most successfully repulsed by Brig. gen. Campbell, supported by the king's regiment of Spanish cavalry, and two battalions of Spanish infantry; and Brigadier Gen. Campbell took the enemy's cannon.
The Brig. Gen. mentions particularly the conduct of the 97th, the 2d battalion 7th, and of the 2d battalion 53d regiments, and I was highly satisfied with the manner in which this part of the position was defended.
An attack was also made at the same time upon Lieut. Gen. Sherbrooke's division, which was on the left and centre of the 1st line of the British army.
This attack was most gallantly repulsed by a charge with bayonets, of the whole division; but the brigade of Guards, which were on the right, having advanced too far, they were exposed on their left flank to the fire of the enemy's battery, and of their retiring columns; and the division was obliged to retire towards the original position, under cover of the 2d line of Gen. Cotton's brigade of cavalry, which I had moved from the centre, and of the 1st battalion 43th regiment.
I had moved this regiment from its original position on the heights, as soon as I observed the advance of the Guards, and it was formed in the plain, advanced upon the enemy, and covered the formation of Lieut. Gen. Sherbrooke's division.
Shortly after the repulse of this general attack, in which apparently all the enemy's troops were employed, he commenced his retreat across the Alberche, which was conducted in the most regular order, and was effected during the night, leaving in our hands twenty pieces of cannon, ammunition, tumbrils, and some prisoners.
Your lordship will observe by the enclosed return the great loss which we have sustained of valuable officers and soldiers in this long and hard fought action, against more than double our numbers. Loss of the enemy has been much greater. I am inclined that entire brigades of infantry have been destroyed; indeed the battalions that returned were much reduced in numbers—By all accounts their loss is 10,000 men: Generals Lapisse and Morlot are killed; Gen. Sebastiani and Boulet wounded.
I have particularly to lament the loss of Major General Mackenzie, who had distinguished himself on the 27th; and of Brigadier Gen. Langworth, of the King's German
Legion; and of Brigade Major Beckett, of the Guards.
Your lordship will observe, that the attacks of the enemy were principally, if not entirely, directed against the British troops. The Spanish command in chief, his officers and troops manifested every disposition to render us assistance, and those of them which were engaged did their duty; but the ground which they occupied was so important, and its front at the same time so difficult, that I did not think it proper to urge them to make any movement on the left of the enemy while he was engaged with us.
I have reason to be satisfied with the conduct of all the officers and troops. I am much indebted to Lieut. Gen. Sherbrooke for the assistance I received from him, and the manner in which he led on his division to the charge with bayonets.
To Lieut. Gen. Payne and the cavalry, particularly Gen. Anson's brigade, to Maj. Gen. Hill and Tilson, Brigadier Generals Alexander Campbell, Richard Stewart, and Cameron, and to the divisions and brigades of infantry under their commands respectively, particularly the 29th regiment commanded by Col. White, the 1st battalion 43th, commanded by Col. Domand, afterwards, when that officer was wounded, by Major Middlemore; the 2d battalion 7th, commanded by Lieut. Col. Wm. Myers, the 2d battalion 53d, commanded by Lieut. Col. Bingham; the 97th commanded by colonel Lyon; the 1st battalion of detachment commanded by Lieut. Col. Bunbury; and the 2d battalion 31st, commanded by Maj. Watson, and of the 45th commanded by Lieut. Col. Guard, & 5th battalion 60th, commanded by Maj. Davy, on the 27th.
The advance of the brigade of Guards was most gallantly conducted by Brigadier Gen. Campbell, and, when necessary, that brigade retired, and formed again in the best order.
The artillery under Brigadier Gen.霍worth was also, throughout these days of the greatest service, and I had every reason to be satisfied with the assistance I received from the chief Engineer Lieut. Col. Fletcher, the Adjutant General Brigadier gen. the Hon. C. Stewart, and the Quarter master general, Col. Murray, and the officers of those departments respectively, and from col. Barthart and the officers, of my personal Staff.
I also received much assistance from Col. O'Lowlor, of the Spanish service, and from Brigadier General Whittingham, who was wounded when bringing up the two Spanish battalions to the assistance of Brigadier gen. Alexander Campbell.
I send this by Capt. Ld. Fitzroy Somerset, who will give your lordship any further information, and whom I beg leave to recommend. I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY.
FRENCH COMMERCIAL DECREES.
A Liverpool paper of July 29, contains the following article, which appears to admit a greater latitude of indulgence than was contemplated in the decree, as originally published here.
In pursuance of a Decree dated Paris, 10th inst. add issued in Holland the middle of last week, American vessels are permitted to discharge their cargoes, to be disposed of only to the subjects of the King of Holland, who are strictly prohibited from transshipping, or sending by any means the merchandise to the ports of France, unless authorised by the certificate of the French Consul. On the other hand the French Consul is made responsible that the colonial and other produce be transshipped, or sent, shall not be of the growth of any colony, or soil, under the dominion or control of the British Government.
DOMESTIC.
RUTLAND, (VT.)
FROM THE HERALD.
THE TRIAL OF DEAN AND MOTT.
It has been a matter of general surprise, why Dean should be found guilty of a murder and executed, for aiding and abetting Mott, in the killing of Ormsby and Marsh; and Mott, the actual killer, not found guilty of the crime of murder, though tried on the same evidence. It is the general remark, that Dean is unjustly condemned, or Mott is unjustly acquitted of murder. The inference is just. But being thoroughly acquainted with the whole circumstances that attended those trials, and the party interest and party spirit, excited by the leading demagogues in opposition to the measures of the general government, (especially the embargo laws,) who had eagerly caught the opportunity of our embarrassed situation in our relations with the belligerent powers of Europe, to excite jealousies and insurrection against the measures of government, in the interim between the trial of Dean in September 1808, and that of Mott in January 1809, I deem it my duty to unfold the matter to the public. During this interval the public mind had become so inflamed, that reason had to give way to party spirit, and unfounded prejudices had obscured the understanding, & conscience was enveloped in thick darkness. Whoever considers this, will not be so much surprised at the cause of those different decisions, as at the alarming consequences of such dangerous impressions. The horrid murder committed at Burlington, in August, 1808, at noon day, on the peaceable citizens, was so alarming, that for a season all party spirit appeared to be hushed, and a general exertion to detect the murderers and bring them to justice prevailed. The Sheriff then in office in Chittenden county, a well known Republican and a supporter of the measures of government, was vigilant in the execution of his office, in securing the offenders for trial, as also in his duty in the summoning the jury. And as it is the right of criminals, in capital offences, to challenge from the jury six for reasons, and six without assigning reasons, the panes of the standing juries are so swept that the sheriff has to supply the jury by talisman at his discretion. The sheriff, in the case of Dean, filled the panel with men of known integrity, to which the counsel for the delinquents could take no exception; and if the sheriff did his duty, he filled the jury with men who were the supporters of government and law. Nor has the sheriff (if then so disposed) an opportunity of learning the private opinion of the members of that jury as to the case on trial, as were to be heard before the trial of Mott in January following.
Under these circumstances Dean had a solemn and candid trial by a wise and impartial jury, and was found guilty by a verdict of jury for murder, for the aiding and abetting Mott in the killing of Ormsby and Marsh. After the trial of Dean, Mott was

trial upon the same evidence ad- duced against Dean; and after a lengthy hearing, the jury were charged and sent out, and after due deliberation returned prepa- red to give a verdict against Mott for mur- der; but through a careless neglect or de- sign of the then Clerk, in not swearing the officer who attended the jury, the verdict was not received by the court; in conse- quence of which, Mott's trial was deferred to January stated term.
In the course of Dean's trial, it was dis- closed by two witnesses, taken from the Black Snake's crew, that the crew had been em- ployed and furnished in carrying on an il- licit commerce and intercourse with the pro- vince of Lower Canada, by certain men- chants of Burlington; and that the evening before this horrid massacre, the Black Snake's crew were supplied by men at the Falls with provision and ammunition, and that early the next morning (the day on which the murder was committed,) two men from Burlington came to the Black Snake's crew, at the river, and told them they dare not load them, for that the revenue cutter lay at the mouth of the river, and offered the Snake's crew ten gallons of rum, if they would go down and destroy the cutter. The names of those two persons were suppressed by the court, but they were so well describ- ed by the witnesses, that little doubt re- mained as to their identity.
Dean received sentence of court on the verdict of the jury, and the execution was postponed to give the convict an opportunity to petition the legislature for a pardon or re- prieve, which was accordingly done. A correct statement of the evidence and pro- ceedings being laid before the legislature, they approved the sentence of the court, and granted to the convict only a short reprieve to prepare to meet his awful destiny. Dean was accordingly executed by the concurrent sentence of the supreme authority of the state of Vermont. How then came Mott acquitted of the murder of Ormsby and Marsh? Where shall we search for the cause? To any imperfection in the system of law, uniformly established? What constitutes the crime of murder from time immemorable? The same facts were given in evidence on the trial of Mott as in the case of Dean. There was a deliberate preparation, and an avowed intention, hostile to the lives of the crew of the revenue boat, and premeditated- ly carried into execution by Mott, by march- ing down the river near a mile, and way- laying the revenue boat's crew, and with that fatal instrument of death, called the "Wall Piece," previously procured, and loaded with powder and fifteen balls, levelled, aim- ed and fired by Mott, taking away the lives of Ormsby and Marsh. If this is not wil- ful, premeditated murder, I know not what constitutes the crime. I would by no means implicate any member of that jury with the crime of wilful perjury. Where then shall we search for the cause, but in that baneful spirit of party, led on towards insurrection by the leading partridges of our constitution, whose fascinating, serpentine charms had be- wildered the understanding, perverted the judgment and banished every ray of light from the conscience?
From the foregoing disclosures of the em- ployers and countenancers of this murderous banditti, arose an alarm. Every measure was taken to excite opposition to the mea- sures of the general government, defy its au- thority and violate its laws. The council for Dean had the hardness in the face of the court to declare the embargo law uncon- stitutional; that government had trampled on our rights, and that the citizens were not bound to pay obedience to their laws; and that the killing complained of was but a jus- tifiable homicide. With a lengthy catal- gue to the same effect, this was followed by in- surrections, town meetings, and treasonable resolutions, declaring government under foreign influence, and enemies to their coun- try. The present governor visited the north- western part of the state and administered consolation to the insurgents. Regardless of our national happiness and national security, every measure was taken by the leaders of faction to remove from office every friend to the administration, and to place in their room the caders of opposition. In the e- lection of governor and council they too well succeeded, by filing our council with arist- ocratic lawyers—those leeches who have sucked dry from the people their vital subsistence— Thus flushed with imaginary victory, his ex- cellency the governor stepped from behind the curtain, and declares open hostility to the general government; and in his speech at the opening of the assembly, on the sub- ject of the embargo, says—"Among a peo- ple accustomed to honest industry, and un- der a government which had permitted them freely to dispose of the fruits of their labour, as a natural and unalienable right, it was to be feared there might exist a strong disposi- tion to evade its restrictions." "Suspending our commerce by an embargo without limitation, we sincerely regret that the law was not accompanied with that evidence of national necessity or utility which alone would have commanded obedience and res- pect."
Here the governor in explicit terms declares the embargo laws to be an infraction of our natural and unalienable rights. Next, the governor, instead of that honest fairness which became his station, in showing the im- perious necessity which the government were drove into, in adopting the embargo, from the decrees and orders of the belligerent powers, was wholly silent on the subject, but arrogantly declares, that he "regrets those laws were not accompanied with evi- dence of their national necessity and utility, and of course could not command obedience and respect."
Under these invectives from the supreme Executive of this state, exciting a spirit of insurrection, many of the people of Chittenden and Franklin counties stood tiptoe for o- pen rebellion.
Thus agitated was the public mind at the trial of Mott, and the opinion of most men in the county of Chittenden had be- come known, and to secure a jury in their interest, it became necessary to remove the old sheriff, as they knew him to be a friend to the measures of government, and that in furnishing tales-men he might not favor their design. They then pitched on a man as a competitor, in the vicinity of the Falls, expecting doubtless he would favor their de- sign. Several of their merchants and hire- ling attorneys were passed off from Burling- ton to Montpelier, and kept up their rota- tion during the session of assembly, who by adroitly and on air mist-representations against the old sheriff, and by their uncess- ing assiduity, after a lengthy struggle be- came their end. A fair opportunity pre- sented to the delinquent and his council to raise an challenge on the jury, and of ob- taining talismen whose opinion was conceiv- ed to be favorable. I would by no means imply the old sheriff who is a gentleman
respect—but mention one unfavorable cir- cumstance alleged against him, that he may have an opportunity to vindicate his conduct in that respect. It is alleged that in the trial of Mott, the sheriff in filling the panel of the jury with talismen, though there were a number of respectable men in and about the court house, went to the Falls to supply the tally, where it was supposed their op- inions were known, and, where it is said the evil originated.
Thus I have endeavored to account as well as I am able, for the different verdicts of the two different juries in the cases of Dean and Mott. But it is an alarming consideration to see the hazard to which our lives are ex- posed through the baneful influence of lead- ing demagogues.
SPECTATOR.
TROY, Sept. 26.—On Thursday last came on, before Judge Van Ness, the trial of the libel cause of E. C. Genet vs. Isaac Mitchell, former editor of the Republican Crisis. The libel was pub- lished pending the election of Gov. Tompkins in 1807, the principal charge set forth in the declar- ation was that Genet was the spy of Bonaparte. To justify this charge no testimony was adduced, and the Court advised the Jury to find for Plain- tiff. They brought in a verdict for Plaintiff 200 dollars, damages, and costs.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—The President of the United States arrived here yesterday, from Mont- pelier. The Secretary of State also arrived here last evening from Baltimore.
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, OCTOBER 6, 1809.
THE LAST!
The late accounts from Europe are by no means of a decisive complexion.
It is not true, as has been said, that the late French Decree has forbidden the use of French markets to all the colonial produce, which is seen through Holland. To counteract the British system of smuggling, it is true that passports are required from the French Consuls. But with these, any quantity of colonial produce may be sent to France.
There is every reason to believe, that the Austrian armistice will terminate in a peace.
Flushing has not been taken,—though it had been several days invested. Every day's delay of the British troops is almost a ruin to the cause. Reinforcements will pour from all quarters to the defence of Antwerp,—and if it be true, that Junot (the duke of Abrantes,) is already there with 30,000 troops, the British may as well attempt to nip the lightning, as make a descent upon the town. Their troops will be cut off—or forced to fly like Sir R. Abercrombie in 1799.—These ex- peditions must be attended with great expense, and in most cases, with no species of remuneration.
The British may attempt to retain some of the islands—as depots to facilitate their grand system of smuggling into the continent. But is there not a doubt, whether they will be able to hold them long? Some of these isles are said to be separa- ted by such narrow straits as to be navigable on- ly to boats—in which case it is probable that the French may succeed in making a descent upon the invaders.
The British it is said have seized, in one of the Russian ports, 100 private vessels, loaded with tallow, and naval stores, of which they may be in want.—It is thus that they carry on an ignoble and predatory war upon individuals.
The dispatches of Wellesley are by no means of a brilliant complexion. Are they not evident- ly written with an air of despondency? Accord- ing to their own confession, the French had been at the attack—they retired to a position on the banks of the Alberche, which they had occu- pied—they retired in the most regular order—and the British loss alone is very considerable. The loss of the Spaniards is not mentioned. "A few more such victories," said P. P., "and we shall be ruined." It is one of my suspicions circumstance, that the French are now represented to have been twice as numerous as the allies— But now long has it been, since we heard, that the troops under Victor and Soult, were on y 35 or 36,000—those under Weydentzky to have been 20,000, and the centre under Guesda, 53, 000?—The corps of Soult had not yet arrived at Junction.
But if the British were really so successful, the cause of Spain would be hopeless. Her destiny was sealed at the battle of Wagram. There were few who expected that the French could have maintained their position in Spain, but will they not sweep everything before them, like a torrent—since the events on the Danube will permit them to send reinforcements to their ar- my? Besides, it is too true that the Spaniards are not inspired by the unshrinking spirit of in- dependence. For why have they not risen en masse, since the diversion in Austria? Why have they not driven the French from Spain, and seized the passes of the Pyrenees? Why have Moore and Blake, and the officers of Wellesley given such somnolent representations of their spirit, discipline and resolution?
[Communicated for the Enquirer.] In the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, fall term, 1809.
RONALD vs. BENTLEY ET AL. & HARNER vs. KEY.
In these cases, on motion of the plaintiffs respectively, by counsel, for a rule, in the former case, on the deputy sheriff of Pow- hatan county; and in the latter case, on the deputy sheriff of Albemarle county, to show cause at the next term, why they should not be severally attached, for not executing and returning in due time, the process of this court, which had been delivered to them for that purpose.
The Chancellor said, that he would make the rule, that the power of the court might be enquired into; but that he should not then decide, whether the plaintiffs would be entitled to an attachment, in case no cause should be shown; but that it was very clear, the sheriffs were liable to the action of the plaintiffs at common law; and although there were many cases in which sheriffs might be attached, yet whether these were of that description would be left open to investiga- tion; the rule was made returnable at the next term.
In the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, Fall Term, 1809.
WEBB vs. BARBOUR: two cases.
The plaintiff, by counsel, moved for a rule upon the justices of the county court of O- range, where these causes were depending, to show cause at the next term, why a man- damus should not go, commanding them to hear and decide upon the rights of the par- ties therein; alleging that the said county court had refused to do so, and that their refusal had been so often repeated, that it amounted to a denial of justice.
The Chancellor said, that the motion in- volved in its consequences many weighty considerations; that he was not ready to say, admitting the facts, that the court could ex- ercise such a power; but from the circum- stances stated and proved, he would make the rule, that upon the return of it, the sub- ject might some fairly before the court; he
hoped, however, that that court was so well disposed than himself, to discharge as spee- dily as possible, in the order of their docket, the public trust confided to their hands; for certainly, said he, nothing could contribute more to the honor and justice of the country, than a speedy determination of controver- sies at law or in equity; and so the rule was made returnable to the fifth day of the next term.
¶ We have been favored with two in- teresting decisions of the Chancellor in a case of Alimony and of Usury —which shall appear immediately.
¶ The following Article is from a federal print—but as it is on a most interesting subject, we shall give it a very conspicu- ous place in our paper:
THE FRENCH ARMIES.
THE French Armies have become the wonder and admiration of the civilized world. Their discipline is acknowledged by all their enemies; and the organization is perhaps at the summit of perfection. To the mere read- er of the history of passing events as well to the military man, some minutes of the component parts of this astonishing machi- nery must be interesting. We have been favored with the official Army List of the French Empire, for 1809; from which we have collected the particulars which follow:
The General Staff of the army, consist of Three Lieutenants of the Emperor, Twelve Marshals of the Empire. Four Senators have the title of Marshals of the Empire. Eight Colonels Generals. One hundred fifty-seven Generals of Divi- sion.
Two hundred eighty-six Generals of Bri- gade.
The Lieutenants of the Emperor, are the Kings of Spain (Joseph) and Naples (Jo- achim) and the Viceroy of Italy (Eugene) all sumamed Napoleon; who command the French armies in their several dominions.
¶ The Prince of NEUCHATEL (Berthier) Vice-Constable of France, holds the temporary rank of "Major General of the Grand Army," and is the Emperor's Lieut. with that army.
The Marshals of the Empire, are I. M. the Duke of Conegliano, (Moncey.) Inspector General of the Gendarmerie. 2 Duke of Rivoli, (Massena.) 3. Duke of Castiglione, (AUGEREAU.) 4. M. the Prince of Ponte- Corvo, (Bernadotte.) 5. Duke of Dalmatia (Soult) Commandant of the 2d Corps of the army of Spain. 6. M. Brune. 7. Duke of Montebello, (Lannes.) Colonel General of Swiss Commandant Superior of the 3d & 5th corps of the army of Spain (dead.) 8. Duke of Treviso (Mortier) Commandant of the 5th corps of the army of Spain. 9. Duke of Elchingen, (Ney) Commandant of the 6th corps of the army of Spain. 10. Duke of Auerstadt (Davoust.) 11. Duke of Is- tria, (Bessieres.) Commandant of the Im- perial Guard, & the reserve of cavalry of the army of Spain, since with the grand Army. 12. Duke of Belune, (Victor) Commandant of the 1st corps of the army of Spain.
NOTE.
¶ It is stated in the 28th Bulletin, that three new Marshals of the Empire had been created in July last, viz. I. M. Count Mi- chin. 2. Duke of Ragusa. (Marmont.) 3. M. Macdonald.
N. B. The Marshals of the Empire, ex- cepting Marshal Macdonald are all Grand Officers decorated with the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honor. Marshal Macdonald, unless advanced on his promotion, was only a Grand Officer of that Legion. While on this N. B. we shall mention, that there are five grades of titles in the Legion of Honor, viz. 1. Grand Officers decorated with the Grand Cordon. 2. Grand Offi- cers. 3. Commanders. 4. Officers. 5. Knights (Chevaliers).
The four Senators having the title of Mar- shals of the Empire, are.
1. M. the Duke of Volmy. (Kellermann.) 2. Duke of Danzig, (Lefebvre.) 3. Count Perignon, Governor of Naples; and 4. Count Serurier, Governor of the Invalids Hospi- tals.
The Inspectors and the Colonels Gene- rals, are—
1. M. Count Ganteaume, Inspector-Ge- neral of the coast of the Ocean. 2. Count Decres, Minister of Marine, Inspector-Ge- neral of the Mediterranean coast. 3. M. Sougis, Inspector General of Artillery. 4. Count Dejean, Minister of War, Inspector General of Fortifications. 1. Count Gouvion St. Cyr, Colonel General of Cuirassiers. 2. Count Baraguey D'Hilliers, Colonel General of Dragoons. 3. Duke of Abrantes, (Junot) Colonel General of Hussars. 4. Duke of Ragusa, (Marmont.) Colonel-General of Horse Chasseurs.
NOTE.
¶ The 28th Bulletin also mentions, that the places of Colonel General of Swiss (vacant by the death of Marshal Lasnes) and the Colonel General of Chasseurs, are vacant.
The Imperial Gendarmerie (Police Mili- tia Soldats,) consists of 715 officers, and 17,951 men. They are divided into 29 de- partmental legions, 58 squadrons, 123 com- panies, 388 lieutenancies and 2,793 brigades, viz: 1,365 of horse and 930 of foot, of 6 men each, with a few exceptions. The Duke of Conegliano (Augereau,) is first Inspector- General of this force.
The Imperial ARTILLERY consists of 8 regiments of foot artillery, 6 regiments of horse artillery, 2 battalions of Pontoniers, 16 companies of Artificers, 4 companies of Armourers, 26 battalions of battering artillery, 111 companies of Coast Artillery, 28 companies of Cannoniers—Sedentaries, and 18 companies of Veteran Cannoniers.
The General of Division Sougis, Grand officer of the Empire, is first Inspector General of this force. The following are Generals of Division of Artillery:—Baron D'Eble, Lacombe St. Michel, Count So- hier, Count Andreyossi, Dulaudou, Count Lau of Lauriston, Gassendi, Baron de Se- roux, Count de Laribissiere, Baron de Caret, Baron Hamique, St. Laurent, Per- net and Baronde Scarmont.
The INFANTRY is composed of 90 regi- ments of Infantry of the line, and 27 regi- ments of light Infantry.—¶ The regiments are numbered, but we find some vacancies in the series, so that the last regiment of the line is No 120; the last of the light Infantry No 32.
The CAVALRY is composed of 78 regi- ments, viz: two of Cuirassiers, 12 of Cu- rassiers, 30 of Dragoons, 24 of Chasseurs and 10 of Hussars.
The corps of Veterans is composed of ten demi-brigades.
In the preceding article, the Household Troops of the Emperor, or the Imperial Guards are not included. This establish-
ment is composed of a General Staff, of a General Administration, of a corps of foot Grenadiers, of a corps of foot Chasseurs, of a regiment of Fusiliers, attached to the foot Chasseurs, of a second regiment of Fu- siliers attached to the foot Grenadiers, of a corps of horse Grenadiers, and a squadron of Velites,* of a corps of Dragoons, and a squadron of Velites, of a corps of Polish light-horse, of a corps of light-artillery, park and artificers, and a squadron of Ve- lites, of a corps of Polish light horse, of a corps of light-artillery, park and artifi- cers, and a squadron of Velites, of a legion of select Gendarmerie of two battalions of train artillery, of a battalion of seamen, of a com- pany of Mamelukes attached to the horse Chasseurs, and of a company of Veterans attached to the foot Grenadiers. These are all chosen troops.
NOTE.
¶ A species of light troops, which, we are told, mount behind the dragoons, &c. and when arrived at the scene of action, dismount and form by themselves.
The General Staff of the Household troops is composed of the following:—The Dukes of Auerstadt, who commands the foot Grenadi- adiers, of Dalmatia, who commands the foot Chasseurs, of Istria, who commands the Ca- valry, and of Treviso, who commands the artillery and seamen.
The all-side-camps of the Emperor, are the Counts Lemarquis, Lau de Lauriston, Caffarelli and Ruffin; the Duke of Rovigo, all Generals of Division, Count Le Brun, General of Brigade; Counts Bertrand and Mouton, Generals of Division; M. Gar- donne, General of Brigade, and Count Peille, General of Division.—Poston Centinel.
¶ We have received New Orleans pa- pers, to Sept. 8, inclusive—the only article of any importance is the following.
GENERAL ORDERS.
HEAD QUARTERS.
¶ Terre aux Beuf, Aug. 27, 1809.
The main body of the troops being un- der orders of march for the upper country; the promotion of the public service, and the security of the capital of the territory of Orleans, induce the general to adopt the fol- lowing arrangements, which are to take im- mediate effect:
"Major MacRae being especially instruc- ted by the secretary of war to superintend the erection of the fortifications of the river and bayou St. John's, will be relieved from the command of the garrison of New-Or- leans, and is to confine his authority to the barrier ports of the English Turn and Pla- quemines, which he is immediately to rein- force by captain Cook's company. He will be held responsible for the progress of the works of those places, and the conduct and safety of the garrisons, which are to be re- inforced under his orders from the garrison of New Orleans, should he find it necessary. But as the frequent shifting of command from hand to hand, tends to destroy respon- sibility, the vital spring of military efficien- cy, and to produce collisions, destructive of the public interests, major MacRae is not to interfere with the command of New Orleans but in extreme cases, grounded on external attacks or interior commotions. The inter- est and the importance of the duties im- posed on major MacRae, and his responsi- bility for the ports below, make it impos- sible for him to give that minute attention and incessant vigilance to the command of New Orleans, which are deemed necessary under the circumstances of the moment, nor does his rank give him a title under the ex- isting distribution of the troops, to so exten- sive a command. Therefore, major Pike, with his corps of infantry, will relieve ma- jor MacRae, who will turn over to major Pike the public property of every species in his charge, for which he is to take tri- plicate receipts."
A LIST OF LETTERS
REMAINING IN THE POST OFFICE, AT RICH- MOND, 30th Sept. 1809.
A—Dr. John Adams, David Allen, Frances Anderson. B—Ann Boonen, Wilson Bryant, Leonard Barnes, Jr. Thomas Berry, Alexr. Barret, J. see Bowles, Martin Baker, Sarah Bowles, Richard Bates. C—Frederick Crossman, Mary Craig, William Clark, Thomas Chambers, Edmund B. Cren- shaw, Richard Callis, Wm. Crawford, Ab Crump, John H. Cunliffe, Robert Craig, Wm Cate, John Crenshaw, James Campbell, Charles J. Campbell, Lewis Cawley. D—Joseph Dames, Mary R. Diggs, Cole Diggs, Mrs.—Deningnooch, Sally Daily, Wm. Dandridge, Wm. A. G. Dade, Rachel Daily, Col. Wm. Daniel, James J. Denoon. E—Gideon Ellison, Thomas Elliott, James Edmunds, Frances B. Eggleston, Lidwell Eppin- son. F—Wm. Fletcher, Wm. Fuqua, Benjamin B. Ford. G—Willis Godwin, Obediah Gathright, Major A. Green. H—Cannellum H. Hines, Robert Hining, Ro- bert Hayes, Henry M. Hanna, William Haight, Thos. H. Hudson, Thos. H. Henderson, Richard D. Hines. I—Benj. Johnson, Capt. James Johnson, Robt. B. Jameson, Dr. Edward Johnson. K—Nevin Kearns, John D. Kelm. L—Ann Lownes, Henry Langford, James Lownes, James Lacy, Dr. Charles W. Lewis, John La Taste, Wm. B. Lynch, Ebenezer Lynch. M—John McCarty, William Murray, Lemuel Mead, John Mosby, Wm. L. Morton, Edward Magee, Thos. Mathias, Dr. Charles Mills, F. X. Martin, Henry Minor. N—Henry W. Nichols, Charles Norman, John O'Neal. O—Capt. Thos. T. Owens. P—Wm. Pace, Wm. F. Pendleton, William Pearce, Thomas R. Peters, James A. Pierce, John Ab. Pastore, Edmund B. Pearson, Hans Peppes. R—Benjamin Rose, Richard Randolph, Ma- ria D. Rind, Eliza Redford, Samuel Richard- son. S—Mary Statia, John Southall, Robt. Sneed, Frances Stark, Susan Shaw, Joseph Stoddard, Sally Singleton, Capt. Isaac Seaman, Captain William Smith, Lucy Singleton, George St. Orion, Charles Shaff, John Spencer, S. Slaugh- ter. T—St. George Tucker, George K. Taylor, Martin Turner, Dr. Philip Turpin, John Tur- ner, Francis Taylor, Seldin Tyler, Robt. S. Tay- lor, Peter Tinsley. W—Benjamin Wood, George Williamson, Martha Whitlocke, Jonathan White, Peter & Elizabeth West, Richard Winfield, Mrs. West, Mary Williamson, Nathaniel White, Mr. West, West, Dr. James Worral, Daniel Whit- man, Robt. Wallis, Charles Winegardner, Eliza Wood. V—Daniel Vandevall, Rosetta Vamet, Susan F. Voss. Y—James Young. The Clerk of the General Court. WM. FOUSHEE, P. M.
COLUMBIAN MILLS.
The subscribers having purchased the Columbian Mills, beg leave to inform the public they are giving cash for Wheat and Corn. P. HAYHALL & Co. September 3.
VIRGINIA.—At a Superior Court of Chan- cery, held at the Capitol, in Richmond, June 20th, 1809.
Philip N. Nicholas, Attorney General, on be- half of the Commonwealth of Virginia, vs. Lucy Price, relict of Wm. Price, register, decd, and Wm. D. James Alexander, John Har- vie, and Anne Price, infant heirs of Wm. Price, decd, by Wm. Duvall, their guardian, and the decd Wm. Duvall, administrator of Wm. Price, decd. Defts.
Philip Duvall, Plaintiff , against the same De- fendants .
The Mutual Assurance Society against Fire on buildings in the state of Virginia, Plf. against the same, Defts.
And— Wm. Marshall and Thomas Taylor, guardians of Eleanor and Louisa Dandridge, orphans of Wm. Dandridge, decd, Plf. against the same Defts.
THESE causes, by consent of parties, were this day heard together on the bills, answers, ex- hibits, 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. Moncure, or either of them, who are appointed commission- ers for that purpose, after being advertised the time and place of sale for thirty days, in two of the news papers printed in the city of Richmon- d, 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 pur- chased 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
1. 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 hun- dred and fifty acres of Land (more or less) in the county of Goochland, adjoining the lands of R. Bert H. Saunders: Two hundred and eighteen A- cres (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 Rich- mond Turnpike, situated about three and a half miles from Richmond, being the farm formerly occupied by the intestate, and now by Peter Wil- kinson: And ten Shares in the Richmond Turn-

MISCELLANEOUS.
LETTER
TO HENRI GREGOIRE, BISHOP, SENATOR, COMTE DE L'EMPIRE AND MEMBER OF THE INSTITUT DE FRANCE, IN REPLY TO HIS LETTER OF THE COLUMBIAD.
MY DEAR GOOD FRIEND,
I HAVE received your letter at once complimentary and critical on the Poem I sent you. Our venerable friend, archbishop Carroll, informs me that he has likewise received from you a copy of the same letter; and he has expressed to me, in conversation, with the same frankness that you have done in writing, his displeasure, at the engraving which has offended you.
While I assure you that I sincerely mingle my regrets with yours and with his on this subject, permit me, my excellent Gregoire, to accompany them with a few observations that I owe to the cause of truth and to my own blameless character. Yes, my friend, I appeal to yourself, to our intimate intercourse of near twenty years, when I repeat this claim of character. It cannot be denied me in any country; and your letter itself, with all its expostulating severity, is a proof of the sentiment in you which justifies my appeal.
The engraving in question, is gone forth, and unfortunately cannot be recalled. If I had less delicacy than I really have towards you and the other catholic christians whom you consider as insinuated by the prostration of their emblems which you therein discover, I might content myself with stating, what is the fact, that this engraving and the picture from which it was taken, were made in England while I was in America; and that I knew nothing of its composition till it was sent over to me not only engraved, but printed and prepared for publication. My position therefore in the crime, if it is a crime, is only the act of what our lawyers term an accomplice after the fact. But my affectionate regard for an offended brother, will not suffer me to meet his complaint with so short an answer. I must discuss the subject, and reply to the whole charge as though it were all my own; premising, as I have already done, that I am sorry there is occasion for it, and regret that the engraving was ever made.
How much our religious opinions depend on the place of our birth! Had you and I been born in the same place, there is no doubt but we should have been of the same religion. Had that place been Constantinople, we must have been musselemmen. But now the musselemmen call us infidels; we pity their weakness and call them infidels in our turn. I was born in a place where catholic christians are not known but by report; and the discipline of our sect taught us to consider them, not indeed as infidels, but as a species of idolaters. It was believed by us, though erroneously, that they worshipped images. We now find that they employed them only as instruments of worship, not as the object. But there is no wonder that to the vulgar apprehension of our people, it should appear as we were taught to believe; and that those nations who bow the knee before these emblems of deity, and address their prayers to them, should be considered as really worshipping them. This idea was, perhaps, corroborated by their prayers being uttered in an unknown tongue.
The desecration of Moses had inspired us with an abhorrence for images, and for those who bow down to them and worship them; and hence arose our unhappy aversion to the Catholics. We were told that their churches were full of pictures, statues and other visible representations, not only of the blessed virgin, of all the apostles and many of the saints, but of every person in the holy trinity. Our fathers had protested against that great section of the christian family which calls itself the mother church, not merely on account of the sale of indulgencies, against which Luther had let the revolt, but likewise on account of its making these pretended images of the intercessors.
The sect of puritans, in which I was born and educated, and to which I still adhere for the same reason that you adhere to the catholics, a conviction that they are right, were the class of reformers, who placed themselves at the greatest remove from the mother church, and retained the least respect for her emblems and the other ceremonies of her worship. They could suffer no bishops, no mitres, no crosses, crucifixes or censers. They made no professions, carried no lighted candles through the street at noon day; neither did they leave them burning in their churches through the night, when no human eye was there to see them; having entirely lost sight of this part of the institutions of Zoroaster, Isis, and Ceres. They would not allow their prayers to be written in any language, not even in Latin, though they did not understand it. But they chose to use their supplications extempore, like their other discourses, to communicate their own ideas, to express their wants and offer their confessions directly to the invisible God; through a mediator indeed, but without holding him in their hand, or having him fixed in effigy on a cross before their eyes. They had no organs in their churches, no instrumental music in their worship which they held to be always profane.
These people made use of no cross but the mystical one of mortifying their sins; and if they had been called upon to join in a crusade to the holy land, they must have marched without a standard. They would have fought indeed with as much bravery as saint Louis or the lion Richard; but when they had reconquered the tomb of Christ, they would have trampled on the cross with as fervent a zeal as they would upon the crescent. They were not conversant with what we call the fine arts; they spoke to the ear, but not to the eye; and having no reverence for images or emblems, they despised those that had, though they were doubtless wrong in so doing.
I mention these things, my worthy friend, not with the least idea of levity or evasion; but to prove to you how totally you have mistaken my meaning and my motive; to show by what chain of circumstances, mostly foreign to our own merits or demerits, our habits of opinion, our cast of character are formed; to show how natural it is that a man of my origin and education, my course of study and the views I must have taken of the morals of nations, their causes and tendencies, should attribute much of the active errors that afflict the human race to the use of emblems, and to the fatal facility with which they are mistaken for realities by the great vulgar of mankind; how the best of christians of one sect may consider the christian emblems of another sect, as prejudicial to a dangerous tendency, and honestly wish to see them destroyed; and all this without the least hostility to their fundamental doctrines, or suspicion of giving offence.
I never supposed that those Hollanders, who, to obtain leave to carry on commerce in Japan, trampled on the cross, as a proof that they did not belong to the same nation with the Portugueze who had done so much mischief in that island, really meant to renounce their religion as christians, when they trod upon its catholic emblem. The act might be reprehensible, as being done for lucre; but it must appear extremely different in the eyes of different sects of christians. To a catholic, who identifies the cross with the gospel; our only hope of salvation, it must appear a horrid crime; but to a protestant we may easily conceive it might appear of little moment, and by no means as a renunciation of the gospel.
You have now furnished in your own person an additional example, and a most striking one, of identifying the symbol with the substance. In your letter to me, you treat the cross and the gospel as the same thing. Had I been sufficiently aware of the force of that habit of combination among the catholics, especially in a mind of
those acute perceptions and strong sensibilities which I know to belong to yours, I should surely have suppressed the engraving.
You must perceive by this time, that you have mistaken my principles and feelings in another point of view. You suppose I should be greatly offended "to see the symbols of liberty, so dear to me, trampled under foot before my eyes." Not at all, my friend. Leave to me and my country the great realities of liberty, and I freely give you up its emblems. There was no time in the American revolution, though I was then young and enthusiastic, when you might not have cut down every liberty pole and burnt all the red caps in the United States, and I would have looked on with tranquility, perhaps have thanked you for your trouble. My habits of feeling and reasoning, already accounted for, had accustomed me to regard these trappings rather as detrimental than advantageous to the cause they are meant to support.
These images we never greatly multiplied in this country. I have seen more liberty caps at one sitting of the Jacobin club in Paris, than you were ever seen in all America.
You will say perhaps that it is the difference of national character which makes the distinction. This is doubtless true; but what has been the cause of this difference in the character of our two nations? Has not the universal use of emblems in one, and the almost universal disuse of them in the other, had as great if not a greater effect than all other causes, in producing such difference? I do not say that our national character is better than yours; far from it. I speak frankly, I think you undervalue the French character. I have a high esteem for that nation. They are an amiable, intelligent, generous, hospitable, unsuspicious people. I say nothing of their government, whether regal, revolutionary or imperial. In private friendship, they are as disinterested and unselfish, at least as any people I have seen. Of this I could cite numerous examples, though within my own experience and that of others; though it would establish my position in my own mind, if I were able to mention none but you.
It would indeed be paying too high a compliment to any nation on earth to cite Gregoire as a sample of its moral and social character. If all catholics had been like you, the world at this day would all be catholics. And I may say, I hope without offence, that if all pagans had been like you, the world had all been pagans; there might have been no need of catholics, no pretext for the sect of puritans.
This is an amicable discussion between you & me. The suavity of your manner does honor to the fortitude with which you defend your principles; though it is not easy to perceive against what opponent you are defending them. Your letter expatiates in a wide field and embraces many subjects. But really, my friend, the greater part of it has nothing more to do with me than one of Cicero's letters to Atticus. You begin by supposing that I have renounced christianity myself, and that I attempt to overturn the system by ridicule and insult. Neither of which is true; for neither of which, have you the least color of proof. No, my honest accuser, the proof is not in the book. Review the work with all the accusations of your discernment, and you must, you will recall the hasty accusation. I defy you and all the critics of the English language to point out a passage, if taken in its natural, unavoidable meaning, which militates against the genuine principles, practice, faith and hope of the christian system, as inculcated in the gospels and explained by the apostles whose writings accompany the gospels in the volume of the new testament.
On the contrary, I believe, and you have compelled me, on this occasion, to express my belief, that the Columbiad, taken in all its parts of texts and notes and preface, is more favorable to sound and rigid morals, more friendly to virtue, more clear and unequivocal in pointing out the road to national dignity and individual happiness, more energetic in its denunciations of tyranny and oppression in every shape, injustice and wickedness in all their forms, and consequently more consontant to what you acknowledge to be the spirit of the gospel, than all the writings of all that list of christian authors of the three last ages, whom you have cited as the glory of christendom, and strung them on the alphabet, from Addison down to Winkelman. Understand me right, my just and generous friend; I judge not my poem as a work of genius. I cannot judge it nor class it nor compare it in that respect, because it is my own. But I know it as a moral work; I can judge and dare pronounce upon its tendency, its beneficial effect upon every candid mind; and I am confident you will yet join me in opinion. Let me repeat my prayer that you will not mistake the spirit of this observation. It is not from vanity that I speak; my book is not a work of genius; the maxims in it are not my own; they are yours, they are those of good men that have gone before us both; they are drawn from the gospel, from history, from the unlettered volume of moral nature, from the experience and the inexpertness of unhappy man in his various struggles after happiness; from all his errors and all his vices in the social state. My only merit lies in putting them together with fidelity. My work is only a transcript of the tablet of my mind impressed with these images as they pass before it.
You will see that I have nothing to do with the unbelievers who have attacked the christian system either before the French revolution, or during or since that monumental period. I am not one of them. You say I resemble them not in anything else; you will now add, that I resemble them not in this.
So far as you have discovered a cause of the failure of that revolution in the renunciation of the christian faith by those who held, in stormy quick succession, the reins of your government, I thank you for the discovery. I was in want of more causes than I had yet perceived, to account for the unhappy catastrophe of that gigantic struggle of all the virtues against all the vices that political society has known. You have discovered a cause; but there is such a thing in logic as the cause of a cause. I have thought, but perhaps it is an error, that the reason why the minds of the French people took the turn they did, on the breaking out of the revolution, was to be found in the complicated ceremonies of their worship, and what you yourself would term the non-essentials of their religion.
The reasonable limits of a letter will not allow me to do justice to this idea. To give it the proper development would require five times the volume that I shall give to the present communication. The innumerable varieties of pomp and circumstances which the discipline of the church had inculcated and enjoined, became so incorporated with the vital principles of faith and practice; and these exteriors were overloaded with abuses to such a degree, that to discriminate and take them down, without injuring the system, required a nicer eye than the people can possess, a steadier hand than can comport with the hurried movement of a great revolution.
The scaffolding of your church, permit me to say it, had so enclosed, perforated, overlooked and underpirt the building, that we could not be surprised, though sorely grieved, to see the reformer lay his hand, like a blind Samson, on the great substantial pillars, heave and overturn the whole encumbered edifice together, and bury himself in the ruins. Why did they make a goddess of reason? Why erect a statue of liberty? a mass of dead matter for a living energetic principle? Have the courage, my good friend, to answer these questions. You know it was for the same cause that the people of Moses, made their golden calf. The calf Apis, had from time immemorial become a god in Egypt. The people were in the habit of seeing their divine protector in that substantial bovine form, with two horns, four legs and a tail: an this habit was so interwoven in the texture of their mind as to become a part of the intellectual man. The privations incident to a whole moving nation subject-
ed them to many calamities. No human hand could believe them; they felt a necessity of seeking aid from a supernatural agent, but no satisfaction in praying to an invisible God. They had never thought of such a being; and they could not bring themselves at once to the habit of forming conceptions of him with sufficient clearness and confidence to make him an object of adoration, to which they could address their supplications in the day of great affliction.
Forty years of migration were judged necessary to suppress the habit of using idols in their worship; during which time their continual marches would render it at once inconvenient for the people to move their heavy gods, and to conceal them in their baggage; while the severity of military discipline must expose their tents & their effects to the frequent inspection of their officers.
Shall I apply this principle to the French nation in her revolution? No, my friend, it is too delicate a task for a foreigner who has received her hospitality; I will leave it to your own compassionate and philanthropic mind. You will recollect how often I partook of your grief during that scene of moral degradation. No sooner did you and the other virtuous leaders in the revolution begin to speak of august liberty, holy reason and the divine rights of man, than the arizans took up the hammer, the chisel and the plane of Paris. They must reduce these gods to form before they could present them to the people with any chance of their being understood; they must create before they could adore. Trace this principle through five years of your history, and you will find why the catholic religion was overthrown, morality laid asleep, and the object of the revolution irretrievably lost, at least for our day.
My dear Gregoire, I am glad you have written me this letter, though at first it gave me pain. I was sorry to find myself so entirely misconceived by a friend so highly valued; but I see your attack is easily repelled, a thing which I know will give you pleasure, and it furnishes me an occasion at the same time to render a piece of justice to myself in relation to my fellow-citizens.
You must know I have enemies in this country. Not persons who, I never had a personal enemy, to my knowledge, in any country. But they are political enemies, the enemies of republican liberty, and a few of their followers who never read my writings; that is my writings that I wrote, but only those that I did not write; such as were forged and published for me in my absence; many of which I never have seen, and some of which I did not hear of till ten years after they had been printed in the American gazettes.
It has even been said & published by these christian editors, (I never heard of it till lately) that I went to the bar of your convention, when it was the fashion so to do, and made a solemn recantation of my christian faith, declaring myself an Atheist or Deist, or some other anti-christian apostate; I know not what, for I never yet have seen the piece. Now, as an active member of that convention, a steady attendant at their sittings, and as my most intimate friend, you know that such a thing could not be done without your knowledge; you know therefore that it was not done; you know I never went but once to the bar of that convention, which was on the occasion to which you allude in the letter now before me, to present an address from the constitutional society in London, of which I was a member. You know I always sympathised in your grief and partook of all your resentment while such horrors and blasphemies were passing, of which these typographical cannibals of reputation have made me a participant.
These calumnies you see could not be refuted by me while I did not know of their existence. But there is another reason which you will not conceive of till I inform you. The editors of newspapers, you know, ought to be considered as exercising a sacred function; they are the high priests of public opinion, which is the high court of character, the guardian of public morals. Now I am ashamed to inform you that there are editors in this country who will publish the grossest calumny against a citizen, and refuse to publish its refutation. This is an immorality unknown in France since the death of Marat.
A private letter of mine, written from Paris, was mutilated in this country, made to say things that I never wrote nor thought, and published in all our anti-republican papers. I saw it a year after the date and immediately wrote an explanatory letter, which re-established my first intention. This last I then published in Paris, London and Philadelphia. Not one editor who printed the original mutilated letter has, to this day, printed my answer: though it was published in all those places ten years ago. And perhaps not one person in twenty who read the first has ever seen the second, or yet knows of its existence, except these editors who refused to publish it.
You must not suppose from this statement of facts that I am angry with these people. On the contrary, I pity and forgive them. And there is no great merit in this, for they are not my enemies. They only do the work they are set about by their patrons and supporters, the monarchists of America. Their object is not to injure me, but to destroy the effect of my republican writings.
They now publish your letter with great avidity, because they think it will tend to decry my poem. It may have this effect in a small degree; but I still thank them for multiplying your publication. There is no work of yours that I do not wish to see universally read in America; and I hope soon to find in our language and in the hands of all our readers your last very curious and interesting treatise of la litterature des negres . It is a work of indefatigable research, and brings to light many facts unknown in this country; where the cause of humanity is most interested in propagating that species of knowledge. I hope the manuscript copy of Mr. Warden's translation is not lost; or if it is, that he will be able to furnish our booksellers with another.
I had renounced christianity, as your letter seems to suppose, that letter and my reflections on your life & conversation would certainly bring me back. For you judge me right when you say I am not ashamed to own myself possibly in the wrong; or in other words to confess myself a man. The gosp. has surely done great good in the world; and if, as you imagine, I am indebted in any measure to that for the many excellent qualities of my wife, I owe it much indeed.
I must now terminate my letter; or I shall be obliged to turn from you to the public, with an apology for making it so long; since I must offer it to the public in my country, and trust to your sense of justice to do the same in yours and in your language, in order to give it a chance of meeting your letter in the hands of all its readers. If, thus written, they serve no other purpose, they will be at least a short lived monument of our friendship, and furnish one example of the calmness and candor with which a dispute may be conducted, even on the subject of religion.
Your affectionate friend, JOEL BARLOW.
Kalorama, Sept. 13, 1809. The preceding reply of Mr. Barlow's was published in a pamphlet at Washington.
NOTICE That a Petition will be presented to the Next Session of the Virginia Assembly, praying that a law may pass authorising the subscriber to erect a dam across the Rivanna River, in the county of Fluvanna, from his lands on the north side of said river, to the lands on the opposite shore now advertised for sale by Gibson and Jefferson, and formerly the property of David Ross; for the purpose of erecting, and working a Grist Mill, or any other machinery, of public utility, under certain restrictions, which will be therein named.
Fluvanna, Sept. 15. JOHN ASHLIN. W.W.W.
At a convocation of the Visitors and Governors of William & Mary College, held at the Council Chamber, within the said College, the 5th day of July, 1809.
BE IT ORDAINED, That all students, during the first year of their attendance, who have entered the Junior Class, shall reside within the College, and board at the public table; those only excepted, who may live with their parents or guardians, or with a professor, and who will engage that any student living with them, shall observe the same rules, as far as they can be applied, which shall be in force within the college: Provided, nevertheless, That when the rooms, in college, shall be fully occupied by students, permission shall be granted others, by the society, to reside in any respectable private boarding-house, in the town or neighborhood: Provided, also, That at the request of the parent or guardian, of any young man, who is so sick or in such ill health as to render it necessary, in the opinion of the society, that he be permitted to reside out of college, permission may be granted by the society to him, to reside out of college, while his ill health continues.
2ndly. The hours of study which every student shall observe, shall be first, from sun rise till breakfast: Secondly, from 9 o'clock in the forenoon, till twelve, unless engaged at lecture: Thirdly, from half past two o'clock, in the afternoon, till five, unless engaged as before mentioned, or in such duties as shall be required by the rules of the college.
3rdly. No student shall be absent from his room during the hours appointed for study, unless engaged as mentioned in the second section of this statute, or for some sufficient reason of which the society shall judge.
4thly. At nine o'clock of every evening, except in the months of November, December, January & February, when the hour shall be eight o'clock, the bell shall ring, when every student residing in college, shall, in an orderly manner, retire each to his room, nor shall he leave the same till next morning: The rooms shall be visited by the President, or by a professor, and every absentee particularly noted.
5thly. In any case of disorderly conduct, within the College, in which students are concerned, every student in college, at the time, whether he be a resident therein or not, shall be considered as a principal, and treated accordingly, unless he can show his innocence.
6thly. A roll shall be kept by each professor, which shall be called over at the meeting of his class or classes, and all absentees noted. The roll so kept, shall regularly, on each Monday, at 12 o'clock, be laid before the society and examined, and those who have failed in any duty assigned, shall then be called upon, and in no case, shall a delinquent be excused, without good and sufficient reason. The proceeding of such meeting with the reasons on which delinquents have been excused, shall be entered on the minutes or journal of the society. Let each professor carefully preserve the rolls kept by him, and lay them before the succeeding convocation.
7thly. Any student who shall frequent a Tavern, or be concerned in riotous noise, in the streets, or who shall have degraded himself by a single act of drunkenness, or by any other act contrary to good morals, shall for the first offence be either publicly censured or expelled, and for the second offence shall be deemed unworthy of being a student, and shall be expelled.
8thly. Any student, concerned in gaming or duelling, shall be forthwith expelled, and information of every expulsion shall be communicated to all other colleges in the United States. The sentence of expulsion, with the reasons therefor, shall be immediately published in some paper, edited in Richmond, for three successive weeks. The parent or guardian of every student, who may be censured, suspended or expelled, shall also be notified of the same, and a copy of the proceedings, in each case, shall be transmitted to such parent or guardian.
9thly. Students shall be compelled to attend lecture, and in no instance, shall absent themselves, without the consent of the professor lecturing, except in case of sickness. Nor shall permissions of absence be allowed by any professor in term time, unless at the desire of the parent or guardian signified in writing.
10thly. No student shall be subject to censure more than once. Suspension for the remainder of the course or expulsion, as the case may be, shall always succeed the repetition of the offence, for which the censure has been passed, or any other act of violation of the Rules of the College.
11th. After the violation of any statute, rule or regulation, by any student, the society shall proceed to inquire into the case, and apply the punishment, although he may have absented himself.
12th. There shall be two public examinations, in each year, one as heretofore, on the second Tuesday in February; the other shall commence six days previous to the fourth day of July.
13th. Any student who shall be absent, from a public examination, unless he be prevented, by sickness, or hath the permission of the society, to be absent, which permission shall be granted only in cases of urgency, shall be expelled.
14th. Let the President examine the students and scholars, in presence of the respective Professors or Ushers, once in every three months, or oftener, if he shall deem it necessary, and also, apart from the Professor or Usher, once in every six months, in order that the Professors, as well as students and scholars, may be kept more strictly to their duty.
15th. Any student, failing to perform the duties required of him, in any school, which he may attend, shall be admonished by the Professor of such school, or his failure shall be reported to the society, at their meeting on the succeeding Monday: But the Professor shall not admonish the same person, more than once. In the second instance of failure, it shall be his duty to make report to the society, who shall censure, suspend, or expel, as the case may require.
16th. No student, after the second examination, in the first year of his attendance, shall be permitted to return to college, unless he shall obtain, either a vote of approbation of his attention to his studies, and of his moral demeanor, from the President and Professors—a copy of which, shall be furnished to the student approved, if required, or unless a special license to return be obtained, stating the reasons for granting such license, a copy whereof shall be laid before the succeeding convocation.
17th. No person shall be permitted to continue a student after the second year of his attendance, unless he shall, at the end of such second year, or before, obtain a degree of Bachelor of Arts: Provided, That at the end of such second year, the President and Professors, may permit such student to attend the lectures on the usual terms, if they be of opinion his attention and moral demeanor deserve such permission.
18th. No Professor shall absent himself from college, during the times prescribed for Lecturing, nor at the same time, of public examination or exercises; and every professor is hereby required, respectively to examine the students of his class or classes, at every such public examination, and also at every Lecture.
19th. All the Professors and Students shall attend chapel, and there demean themselves in a manner suited to public worship.
20th. No person shall be admitted, as a student, until he shall have made, in presence of the President and Professors, the following declaration. "I acknowledge myself to be a student of William and Mary College, and promise that I will observe and keep all the Statutes, Rules and Regulations, of said College." To which declaration he shall subscribe his name, in a fair and legible hand, in a book to be kept for that purpose.
Copy. Teste, W.M. RUSSELL, c. c.
Sept. 22. W.W.W.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 23, 1809. WHEREAS, in conformity with the provisions made by law, for the reimbursement of the Exchanged Six per Cent Stock, created by the second section of the Act entitled "An Act supplemental to the act entitled an act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," passed on the 11th day of February, 1807, it has been determined by lot that the Certificates of said stock designated by the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, should be reimbursed on the first day of January next.
PUBLIC NOTICE Is therefore given to the proprietors of the Certificates of Exchanged Six per Cent Stock created by the act aforesaid, and being the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, that the principal of the same, will on surrender of the certificates, be paid on the first day of January, 1810, to the respective Stockholders or their legal representatives, or attorneys duly constituted, either at the Treasury or at the Loan Office where the Stock thus to be reimbursed, may then stand credited to the proprietors thereof.
It is further made known for the information of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the Certificates of Exchanged Stock bearing the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, from the Books of the Treasury or of any Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the first day of December next. And the interest on all the Certificates contained in the said Schedule, will cease and determine, on the day preceding the day hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof. ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury.
Table with 5 columns: Number, and four columns of numbers representing stock amounts (e.g., 16063, 29008, 39005, 40207, 40455).
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A great variety of Toy Books, Journals and Ledgers, Record and Sterills books, on hand. Tickets in the Rhode-Island Coal Lottery for sale, at 50 cts each. The price will be short-ly raised. The scheme of this Lottery holds out peculiar advantages to the adventurers, as will appear on an examination of it. The drawing will commence shortly. Celebs in search of a wife—a new and rich admir Novel, just come to hand. Sept. 15. W.W.W.
BATCHELL'S PAPER MILLS—Those who wish to encourage the manufactures of their own state are informed, that they can be supplied with Paper Manufactured in Petersburg, in any quantities.
PRICES AS FOLLOWS: Fine Letter Paper Vellum, $4.75; Do. do. Laid, 4.50; Fools Cap No. 1, 4.37 1/2; Do. No. 2, 3.37 1/2; Do. No. 3, 3.12 1/2; Folio Post Vellum, 9.50; Do. Laid, 9.00; Fine Printing Medium, 5.50; Do. 4.50; Excellent Wrapping Paper, 1.12 1/2. A liberal discount made to wholesale purchasers. Orders for any of the above qualities, addressed to the subscribers, executed at the shortest notice. BANISTER & Co. wif.
August 4.
NEW LEATHER STORE—opposite the Eagle-Tavern—John McPherson respectfully informs the citizens of Richmond, its vicinity, and the public generally, that he has opened a general assortment of the best Northern Leather, in the store formerly occupied by Mr. Simpson Morris; consisting of—
Upper and Seal Leather—Harnes and Skirting—do—Black and Russet Bridle do—Black & Russet Baging do—Brown Upper and Bellows Hides do—Brwn & white Sheep Skins—Tanned and dressed Buck Skins—Wax and grained Calf Skins—Russet ditto and Boot Legs—Hog Skins and Roundings—Black and Brown Doer and Dog Skins—Black, green, red and yellow Morocco Skins.
Also, a great quantity of coarse NEGRO & WELTERD SHOES, all of which will be sold uncommonly low, for cash, or neat Dried Hides. September 8. W.W.W.
In Council, September 19th, 1809. It is advised, that from and after the first day of January next, the Author be instructed, in every case, where any claim by virtue of an order or certificate of court, is presented to him by a person whose name is not mentioned therein, to require such person to produce, also, an order or power of attorney from the individual in whose favor such order or certificate of court was made, together with an affidavit of one witness at least, attested by a magistrate or notary public, that such individual actually signed and acknowledged the same. And to give general information of this rule: It is advised, that a copy hereof be published in the Virginia Argus, Enquirer, Petersburg Intelligencer, Norfolk Herald, Lynchburg Star, Staunton Eagle and Winchester Gazette, once a week until the first day of January next.
Extract from the Journals, DANIEL L. HYLTON, Clerk of the Council. September 22. W.W.W.