Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1804-09-29 00:00:00

THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[VOL. XII.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1191.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1804.
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Advertisements, not exceeding a square length, are inserted in this paper for seven-five cents the first time; three dollars for three weeks (6 times); and for every additional insertion thirty-three cents. Long ones in the same proportion—unless a special contract be made by the year.
Valuable Medicines.
PUBLIC confidence has never been more deliberately and firmly reposed, and perhaps in no instance more justly, than it appears in the efficacy of HAMILTON'S WORM LOZENGES , prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, by RICHARD LEE , no. 56, Maiden-lane, New York. And in Richmond, (only) at S. Pleasants' Printing-office.
The proprietor has lately presented to the public eye the testimony of the Hon. A. C. Hanson, Chancellor of Maryland, the Rev. Mr. Mother, and of other distinguished and respectable characters. The following cases, of more recent occurrence, are now respectfully submitted.
Copy of a letter from Mr. Henry Ackerman, Brick-layer, Magazine-street, near Broadway, Jan. 24, 1804.
SIR—It would be ungrateful were I to withhold my testimony in favor of Hamilton's Worm Destroying Lozenges . I had been between five and six years past much indisposed, and latterly often tormented with severe griping and pains of the bowels, troubled with offensive breath, and with violent feverish fits, and other obvious symptoms of worms; but frequently hearing your Worm Lozenges recommended in cases similar to mine, I determined on a trial of them, as my last resource. The first dose evacuated twelve or thirteen feet of a tape worm; two other doses were taken which brought away a quantity of matter like broken skins and pieces of worms. I suppose the tape worm, voided at different times must have exceeded forty feet. The almost incredible benefit I received from this medicine, induced me to give a dose to a child of mine who was pining and sickly; it produced the same good effect in this instance, expelling a worm of a different kind, from nine to twelve inches long, and at the same time restoring a good state of health. I remain, Sir, yours, &c.
HENRY ACKERMAN.
FOR SALE AS ABOVE. Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mustard ,
A safe and effectual remedy for acute and chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Rheumatic Gout, Palsy, Lumbago, Nephritis, White Swellings, Chilblains, Sprains, Bruises, Pain in the Face and Neck, &c.
"AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE." For the prevention and cure of Bilious and Malignant Fevers I recommended
Hahn's Anti-Bilious Pills .
The operation of these pills is perfectly mild, so as to be used with safety by persons in every situation, and of every age.
Hamilton's Elixir ,
A sovereign remedy for Colds, Obsolete Coughs, Asthma, Sore Throats, and approaching Consumption.
To Parents who may have children afflicted with
The Hooping Cough .
This discovery is of the first magnitude, as it affords immediate relief, checks the progress, and in a short time entirely removes the most cruel disorder to which children are liable. The Elixir is so perfectly agreeable, and the dose so small, that no difficulty arises in taking it. From LUTHER MARTIN , Esq. attorney general of the state of Maryland.
GENTLEMEN—I comply with your request in stating my opinion of Hamilton's Elixir . It has been used in my family for two or three years past with uniform success, whenever coughs, coughs, or similar complaints have rendered medicine necessary. I have myself found it an excellent and agreeable remedy for a very painful and troublesome affection of the breast, accompanied with soreness, and with obturated and difficult breathing.
On these accounts, I do not hesitate to recommend Hamilton's Elixir as a valuable medicine, and deserving public attention.
LUTHER MARTIN.
HAMILTON'S
Grand Restorative ,
Is recommended as an invaluable medicine for the speedy relief and permanent cure of the various complaints which result from diffipated vigour, debility, indolence, residence in climates unfavourable to the constitution—the immoderate use of tea—frequent intoxication, or any other destructive intemperance—the unskillful or extensive use of mercury—the diseases peculiar to females at a certain period of life—bad lyings in, &c.
Hahn's true and genuine
German Corn Plaister ,
An infallible remedy for corns, speedily removing them, root and branch without giving pain.
The Genuine Persian Lotion .
So celebrated among the fashionable throughout Europe, as an invaluable cosmetic, perfectly innocuous and safe, free from corrosive and repellant minerals (the basis of other lotions) and of unparalleled efficacy in preventing and removing blemishes in the face and skin, of every kind—particularly freckles, pimples, inflammatory redness, scurfs, tetter, ring worms, sun burns, prickly heat, &c.—The Persian Lotion operates mildly, without impeding that natural, insensible perspiration, which is essential to health; yet its effects are speedy and permanent, rendering the skin delicately fit and clear, improving the complexion, and restoring the bloom of youth—ne-
ver failing to render an ordinary countenance beautiful, and a handsome one more so.
The Restorative Powder for the Teeth and Gums ,
HAHN'S GENUINE EYE WATER , A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eyes whether the effect be natural weakness or of accident, speedily removing inflammations, defluxions of rheum, dullness, itching and films on the eyes; never failing to cure those m-ladies which frequently succeed the small-pox, measles and fever, and wonderfully strengthening to weak sight. Hundreds have experienced its excellent virtues when nearly deprived of sight.
Tooth-Ache Drops ,
The only remedy yet discovered, which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe instances.
The Anodyne Elixir ,
For the cure of every kind of head ache.
The Damask Lip-Salve .
Infalible Ague and Fever Drops , For the cure of Agues, Remittant and Intermit-tant Fevers
Thousands can testify their being cured by these drops after the bark and every other medicine has proved ineffectual: not one in a hundred has had occasion to take more than one, and numbers not half a bottle.
The Sovereign Ointment for the Itch ,
Which is warranted an infallible remedy at one application, and may be used with the most perfect safety by pregnant women, or on an infant a week old, not contain a particle of mercury, or any dangerous ingredients whatever; and is not accompanied with that tormenting smart which attends the exhibition of other remedies.
For the cure of a certain deplorable Malady, The Indian Vegetable Specific .
The Medicines prepared by Richard Lee , have been in high estimation and general use throughout the United States, for upwards of six years; many of them are sold for less than the drugs of which they are compounded could be purchased at a retail store.
It is no inconsiderable evidence of their utility, that during the above period, numerous imitations of every article (the production of ignorance and inexperience, urged by envy and penury) have intruded on the public, from a day and then perished; others now succeeded them, which in like manner are fast descending "to the tomb of the Capulets," while our remedies become more generally used and acquire a daily accession of well earned celebrity.
To prevent the imposition of worthless or dangerous preparations, purchasers are requested to remember, that an engraved label, with the signature of Richard Lee's (to counterfeit which is felony) is affixed to each of his genuine medicines.
WARS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Just published, and for sale at S. Pleasants, junr's Printing-Office and Book-store, Richmond.
THE HISTORY OF THE WARS which arose out of the French Revolution; to which is prefixed, a review of the causes of that event. By ALEXANDER STEPHENS , of the hon. Society of the Middle Temple, Esq.
otavi et gestas populi Romani etiam, uti queque digna videbantur, praesertim e. comagia quod mira, a spe metu, paribus reipublicae animus liber-erat. Sall. de conjurat. Catil.
The London edition of this work which has just come to hand is now selling at 25 dollars. Extract from the Monthly Magazine and British Register , for July, 1803
"The late eventful war has found an able historian in Mr. Alexander Stephens, whose work, entitled " A History of the Wars which arose out of the French Revolution from 1792 to the general peace in 1802 ," exhibits a connected and well arranged detail of the most eventful & important contest that has occurred since the subjugation of the Roman empire; and in the course of the work the author has united the interest arising out of biography with the instruction to be derived from history; in both departments his manner is dignified his language is eloquent and his information is obviously derived from the most authentic source.
"The introduction after touching on the great changes that have taken place in ancient and modern states, presents a dissertation on the government of France, in which the opinions of Montesquieu, Froissart, Commines, and Hottman, are quoted and investigated. An attempt is also made to trace the late revolution up to its original source, while the leading men and contending parties are fully and judiciously portrayed; the characters of Turgot, Colonne, Claviere, Robespierre, Marat, Brissot, Talleyrand, Mirabeau, Lally, Barnave, &c. are accordingly developed in succession.
In the course of this work the principal statesmen in Britain as well as in France, pass in review and the opinions, talents and pursuits of a Pitt a Fox, an Addington, a Sheridan, a Dundas, a Bedford and a Grenville, are noticed and enumerated.
Notice.
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly to revive the Inspection of Tobacco at Tuckahoe upper and lower Ware-houses. Sept 6th, 1804.
Notice.
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly for the revival of the Tobacco inspection at Glascow's warehouses in Richmond county. September 1, 1804. [ec04w]
JUST RECEIVED, At S. Pleasants' Book-Store, Richmond, a very elegant assortment of the best
PEN-KNIVES
Which will be sold by the dozen or single.
A Black Woman,
Between forty and fifty years of age, wanting to attend to making beds and cleaning rooms. One who can come well recommended for industry, sobriety and honesty, shall receive very high wages. For terms apply to the printer hereof. 24th September, 1804.
On the 22nd day of September next, will be SOLD, at Diacon Bridge , to the highest bidder, for ready money,
A TRACT OF LAND,
Containing about 425 acres, lying partly in New Kent and partly in James City county, on each side of Diacon creek , and extending below the bridge, whereon Lewis A. Pauly , esq. formerly resided. The dwelling house thereon is a large, new and commodious one; the store house, granary and various other houses are all in good order. The quality of the soil is such as is usually found on Chickahominy, and both a tavern and store, it is believed, may be kept there to advantage. This valuable property is to be sold at the request of John L. Dormoy , esq. under a deed of trust made to the undersigned by Lewis A. Pauly , esq. to secure the payment of £500 with interest to the said Dormoy —the deed is recorded in the General Court. In the same deed a moiety of a LOT in Richmond is mentioned, belonging to Mrs. Pauly , but as she did not execute the deed, that will not be offered for sale, and should she survive her husband, she will be entitled to a dower in the said tract of land, whereof it was deemed necessary to apprise those who might be induced to purchase. The sale will take place at one o'clock, or thereabout.
CHAMPION TRAVIS.
JAMES SEMPLE.
Williamsburg, Aug. 6, 1804. The sale of the above property is POSTPONED till the 7th November next, when it will take place at Diacon bridge . J. Semple, C. Travis. September 25, 1804.
AT a board of Directors
of the Bank of Virginia, on Thursday the 20th of September, 1804.
"Resolved, that the operations of the Bank commence on Monday, the 8th of October next."
"Resolved, that any person producing and depositing at the Bank, scrip or commissioners' receipts for any number of shares regularly endorsed or assigned, shall be entitled to receive one in his, her or their own name or names in a form similar to that used by the commissioners at Richmond, stating therein, the whole number of shares to which he, she or they may be entitled, and the sum paid thereon."
JOHN BROCKENBROUGH , Cashier. 18 H O
100 Dollars Reward.
WHEREAS a most cruel and atrocious Murder has been committed on the body of a White Female Infant, on or about the evening of the 10th, or on the morning of the 11th instant, apparently just born, which child was found near the well on the lot of the late James Kind on the morning of the 11th. The above reward of One Hundred Dollars will be paid by the Coroner, by the direction of the magistrates of the city of Richmond, to such person or persons as will give information so that the offender may be brought to punishment; and all officers and citizens of this corporation, are hereby earnestly requested to make search and use all lawful means in their power to discover the said offender or offenders. Given under our hands, this 14th day of September, 1804.
George Fisher, Henry S. Shore, Alexander Quarrier, Anderson Barret.
TO BE SOLD, To the highest bidder, on the premises, on Monday the 8th of October next,
MY LOT,
IN the town of Columbia; on which is a two story dwelling house at present occupied by Doctor Nutt ; a store house occupied by David Johnson & Co. with stable and gardens; the whole in good repair and pleasantly situated. One third of the purchase money will be required on making a deed to the premises; the other two thirds at two equal annual payments. Bond with approved security will be required of the purchaser with a deed of trust on the property to secure punctilious payment. Possession may be had on the day of sale.
Thomas Mitchell. Louisa, Sept 10th, 1804. [5]
P. S. Any person wishing to treat for the above property before the day of sale may know the terms by applying to Mitchell & Gairdner of Richmond, or the sub scriber in Louisa county. T. M.
LAND FOR SALE.
WILL be sold to the highest bidder, on the premises, on a credit of twelve months on Friday the 12th October next if fair, if not, the next fair day, the
TRACT OF LAND,
Whereon the late Mrs ELIZABETH WILKINSON resided, containing (by estimation) 339 acres, lying in the upper end of New Kent county, about twenty miles from Richmond, on the stage road leading from thence to Williamsburg. The improvements are a good Dwelling house with four rooms below and two above stairs; a good kitchen, meat-house and other convenient out houses, also a handsome young Peach and Apple Orchard. A further description is deemed unnecessary, as it is supposed those who wish to purchase will view the premises previous to the sale. Bonds with approved security will be required to carry interest from the day of sale. The liberty of sowing small grain this fall will be allowed the purchaser. Possession to be given the first day of January next, by
EDMUND P. WILKINSON. September 17th, 1804. 108
A FEW COPIES OF
Lorenzo Dow's Dream:
ALSO, A SERMON
Preached by him in Norfolk, are just received and for sale at this office.
FROM THE AURORA.
TO THE FRENCH INHABITANTS OF LOUISIANA.
A publication having the appearance of a memorial and remonstrance, to be presented to congress at the ensuing session, has appeared in several papers. It is therefore open to examination, and I offer you my remarks upon it. The title and introductory paragraph are as follows:
"To the Congress of the United States, in Senate and House of Representatives convened."
"We the subscribers, planters, merchants, and other inhabitants of Louisiana, respectfully approach the legislature of the United States, with a memorial of our rights, a remonstrance against certain laws which contravene them, and a petition for that redress to which the laws of nature, sanctioned by positive stipulations have entitled us."
It often happens that when one party, or one that thinks itself a party, talks much about its rights, it puts those of the other party upon examining into their own, and such is the effect produced by your memorial.
A single reading of that memorial will show it is the work of some person who is not of your people. His acquaintance with the cause, commencement, progress, and termination of the American revolution decides this point; and his making our merits in that revolution the ground of your claims, as if our merits could become yours, shows he does not understand your situation.
We obtained our rights by calmly understanding principles, and by the successful event of a long, obstinate, and expensive war. But it is not incumbent on us to fight the battles of the world for the world's profit. You are already participating, without any merit or expense in obtaining it, the blessings of freedom acquired by ourselves; and in proportion as you become initiated into the principles and practice of the representative system of government, of which you have yet had no experience, you will participate more, and finally be partakers of the whole. You see what mischief ensued in France by the possession of power before they understood principles. They earned liberty in words but not in fact. The writer of this was in France through the whole of the revolution and knows the truth of what he speaks; for after endeavoring to give it principle he had nearly fallen a victim to its rage.
There is great want of judgment in the person who drew up your memorial. He has mistaken your case and forgotten his own; and by trying to count your applause has injured your pretensions. He has written like a lawyer, straining every point that would please his client, without studying his advantage. I find no fault with the composition of the memorial for it is well written; nor with the principles of liberty it contains considered in the abstract. The error lies in the misapplication of them, and in assuming a ground they have not a right to stand upon. Instead of their serving you as a ground of reclamation against us, they change into a satire on yourselves. Why did you not speak thus when you ought to have spoken it? We fought for liberty when you stood quiet in slavery.
The author of the memorial injudiciously confounding two distinct cases together, has spoken as if he was the memorialist of a body of Americans, who after sharing equally with us in all the dangers and hardships of the revolutionary war had retired to a distance and made a settlement for themselves. If in such a situation, congress had established a temporary government over them in which they were not personally consulted, they would have had a right to speak as the memorial speaks. But your situation is different from what the situation of such persons would be, and therefore their ground of reclamation cannot of right become yours. You are arriving at freedom by the easiest means that any people ever enjoyed it; without contest, without expense, and even without a contrivance of your own. And you already so far mistake principles that under the name of rights you ask for powers; power to import and enslave Africans; and to govern a territory that we have purchased.
To give color to your memorial you refer to the treaty of cession (in which you were not one of the contracting parties) concluded at Paris between the governments of the United States and France.
"The third article (you say) of the treaty lately concluded at Paris declares, that the inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated into the union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States, and,
"in the mean time, they shall be protected in the enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the exercise of the religion they profess."
As from your former condition you cannot be much acquainted with diplomatic policy, and I am convinced that even the gentleman who drew up the memorial is not, I will explain to you the ground of this article. It may prevent your running into further errors.
The territory of Louisiana had been so often ceded to different European powers that it became a necessary article on the part of France, and for the security of Spain the ally of France, and which accorded perfectly with our own principles and intentions, that it should be ceded no more ; and this article, stipulating for the incorporation of Louisiana into the union of the United States stands as a bar against all future cession, and at the same time as well as "in the mean time," secures to you a civil and political permanency, personal security and liberty which you never enjoyed before.
France and Spain might suspect (and the suspicion would not have been ill founded had the cession been treated for in the administration of John Adams, or when Washington was president, and Alexander Hamilton president over him) that we bought Louisiana for the British government, or with a view of selling it to her; and though such suspicion had no just ground to stand upon with respect to our present president Thomas Jefferson , who is not only not a man of intrigue, but who possesses that honest pride of principle that cannot be intrigued with, and which keep intriguers at a distance, the article was nevertheless necessary as a precaution against future contingencies. But you, from not knowing the political ground of the article, apply to yourselves personally and exclusively what had reference to the territory to prevent its falling into the hands of any foreign power that might endanger the Spanish dominions in America, or those of the French in the West India islands.
You claim (you say) to be incorporated into the union of the United States, and your remonstrances on this subject are unjust and without cause.
You are already incorporated into it as fully and effectually as the Americans themselves are, who are settled in Louisiana. You enjoy the same rights, privileges, advantages and immunities which they enjoy, and when Louisiana, or some part of it shall be erected into a constitutional state; you also will be citizens equally with them.
You speak in your memorial, as if you were the only people who were to live in Louisiana, and as if the territory was purchased that you exclusively might govern it. In both these cases you are greatly mistaken. The emigrations from the United States into the purchased territory, and the population arising therefrom will, in a few years exceed you in numbers. It is but twenty-six years since Kentucky began to be settled, and it already contains more than double your population.
In a candid view of the case, you ask for what would be injurious to yourselves to receive, and unjust in us to grant. Injurious, because the settlement of Louisiana will go on much faster under the government and guardianship of congress than if the government of it were committed to your hands; and consequently the landed property you possessed as individuals when the treaty was concluded, or have purchased since, will increase so much faster in value.—Unjust to ourselves, because as the reimbursement of the purchase money must come out of the sale of the lands to new settlers the government of it cannot suddenly go out of the hands of congress. They are guardians of that property for all the people of the United States. And besides this, as the new settlers will be chiefly from the United States, it would be unjust and ill policy to put them and their property under the jurisdiction of a people whose freedom they had contributed to purchase. You ought also to recollect that the French revolution has not exhibited to the world that grand display of principles and rights that would induce settlers from other countries to put themselves under a French jurisdiction in Louisiana. Beware of intriguers who may push you on from private motives of their own.
You complain of two cases, one of which you have no right, no concern with; and the other is founded in direct injustice.
You complain that congress has passed a law to divide the country into two territories. It is not improper to inform you, that after the revolutionary war ended, congress divided the territory acquired by that war, into ten territories; each of which were to be erected into a constitutional state, when it arrived at a certain population mentioned in the act; and in the mean time, an officer appointed by the president, as the governor of Louisiana now is, presided, as governor of the western territory, over all such parts as have not

arrived at the maturity of the law . Louisiana will require to be divided into twelve states or more; but this is a matter that belongs to the purchaser of the territory of Louisiana, and with which the inhabitants of the town of New Orleans have no right to interfere; and besides this it is probable that the inhabitants of the other territory would chuse to be independent of New Orleans. They might apprehend, that on some speculating pretence, their produce might be put in requisition, and a maximum price put on it; a thing not uncommon in a French government—as a general rule, without refusing upon sentiment, one may put confidence in the justice of those who have no inducement to do us injustice; and this is the case congress stands in with respect to both territories, and to all other divisions that may be laid out, and to all inhabitants and settlers of whatever nation they may be.
There can be no such thing as what the memorial speaks of, that is, of a governor appointed by the president, who may have no interest in the welfare of Louisiana. He must, from the nature of the case, have more interest in it than any other person can have. He is entrusted with the care of an extensive tract of country, now the property of the United States by purchase. The value of those lands will depend on the increasing prosperity of Louisiana, its agriculture, commerce, and population. You have only a local and partial interest in the town of New Orleans or its vicinity; and if, in consequence of exploring the country, new seats of commerce should offer, his general interest would lead him to open them, and your partial interest to shut them up.
There is probably some justice in your remark, as it applies to the governments under which you formerly lived. Such governments always look with jealousy, and on apprehension of revolt, on colonies increasing in prosperity and population, and they send governors to keep them down . But when you argue from the conduct of governments distant and despotic , to that of domestic and free government, it shews you do not understand the principles and interest of a republic, and to put you right in friendship; we have had experience and you have not.
The other case to which I alluded as being founded in direct injustice, is that in which you petition for power , under the name of rights , to import and enslave Africans!
Have you put up a petition to Homer for such a power, without fearing to be struck from the earth by its justice?
Why then do you ask it of man against man ? Do you want to renew in Louisiana the horrors of Dominion ?
COMMON SENSE.
FROM THE AURORA.
DIPLOMATIC SKILL.
From Major Jackson's paper of last evening we copy an article, which as Cox says "viewed in all its aspects," presents an object of particular curiosity—whether it relates to the Spanish Minister or to the Major! We solicit the attention of our readers to the subject and to the following facts.
On the 20th of August last there appeared in Major Jackson's paper, a most malevolent attack upon the government, in which the vilest epithets were employed—but we republish it a second time—it is as follows:
"We have stated on information which will not be contradicted, that Spain has refused to ratify the convention heretofore agreed on; which convention among other stipulations allowed to the citizens of the United States an indemnity for the spoliations committed on their property by the government and subjects of Spain. The reason assigned by Cevallos for this refusal was expressed as follows: "The occasion of Louisiana has so varied the relations between Spain and the United States, that we cannot, and will not, ratify the convention."
Hence it appears that the boasted acquisition of Louisiana which has been so much trumpeted and celebrated by our leading string administration , and for which we have paid FIFTEEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS , or nearly one-fifth part of the whole amount of our national debt, may cost fifty millions more to quiet the possession. This boasting bargain turns out to be, neither no more nor less than a purchase of individual injury and national dishonor—Of individual injury, being the cause of an absolute refusal to ratify an act of just retribution to our citizens—Of national dishonor, inasmuch as the refusal is made by a government, which a proper exertion of our power could have compelled to the performance of its engagements, and even shaken to the base of its authority.
But the energies of our country are paralysed, and her resources wasted in the trembling hands to which they have been confided—The claims of our citizens are disregarded, and the character of the nation, when brought into competition with the ease and convenience of our rulers, is an object of no importance.
The frown of war might shorten their stay in office—peace must, therefore, be maintained at any sacrifice."
The papers of the continent in opposition to the administration teemed with productions of a similar kind, and all from the same source.
In the same paper of the 20th of September appeared the famous (or infamous) letter from Madrid containing the three
propositions which have since appeared under the signature of Graviera Manent . Animadvertting upon this production in No. 11. of Spanish aggressions, we said—"the whole article is easily understood—the source from whence it comes cannot be mistaken—and Major Jackson is made the instrument of diplomatic skill. His malice towards the executive has caused him to be used—and the object is to obtain as far as practicable a division of party in favor of the measures which the Spanish court may have directed her agents to employ!"
It was in the Aurora of the 7th September that we published the above article from Major Jackson's paper—a reference to the date of the Major's affidavit will shew that though he could not discover in the audacious publications themselves an indignity to the American government of which he was so long an officer, that the hint was not thrown away.
FROM THE REGISTER.
In the discharge of an important, and to myself an indispensable, duty, the subjoined statement was communicated, in the first instance, to the government.—In a respectful solicitude for the rights and interest of our country the deposition and letters are now made public.
W. JACKSON.
Sept. 20th. On Thursday, September 6th, 1804 about noon, a note, of which the following is a transcript, was left at my office, as my clerk informed me, by a person who lives with Mr. Francis Breuil, merchant in Philadelphia:
"The Marquis de Casa Yrujo presents his compliments to Major Jackson and would be very happy to know from him when and where he could have the pleasure to see him in the course of this day."
"Thursday 6th." Never having before received any communication from Mr. Yrujo—never having even exchanged one word of conversation with him in my life—I was not a little surprised at receiving this message, which I answered by a note to the following purport:
"Major Jackson presents his compliments to the Marquis de Casa Yrujo—in reply to his note of this morning, just now received, Major Jackson will be at his office until 2 o'clock—and at his house in Chestnut street, next to Gen. Dickinson's until 4 o'clock—at either of which places he will see the Marquis de Casa Yrujo—or, if more convenient, he will wait on him."
"Thursday, Sept. 6th." This note was sent by Mr. Johnson, my clerk, and left at Governor M'Kean's. Mr. Breuil called on me soon after, and said that the Marquis de Casa Yrujo would be glad to see me at the Marquis' house at 5 o'clock.
I asked Mr. Breuil if he knew on what business Mr. Yrujo wanted to see me—he said he did not know.
I went at 5 o'clock to Mr. Yrujo's house and on entering the room was accosted by him in nearly the following words:
"You will be surprised Major Jackson, at the liberty I have taken in sending to you, but I trust an explanation of the motive will excuse me. I consider you, sir, as a gentleman, a man of letters, and a man of honor."
"By a political intolerance you have been forced to adopt a profession different from that you have heretofore pursued—but it is one in which you are qualified to be very useful. I observe by certain opinions expressed in your paper that you consider the present administration (for I will not call them government) as inclined to go to war with Spain, however, you are mistaken—the reverse is the fact—and they only wish the federal papers to utter those opinions that they may have an argument of that sort for indulging their wish to go to war with my country, which would certainly be very injurious to yours—for if the king, my master, was to order three ships of the line and six frigates to the Mississippi—three ships of the line and six frigates to the Chesapeake—and three ships of the line & six frigates to Sandy Hook—what would you do? But you have it in your power, to do much good, by espousing the part of peace, which is so necessary to both nations—and if you will consent to take elucida-tions on the subject from me, I will furnish them—and I will make you any acknowledgments." Perceiving at this moment, his infamous purpose, I with difficulty stifled the emotions which it excited, and restrained my indignation. He went on to examine in detail the several points in dispute between Spain and the United States—and as I wished to learn his opinions respecting them, I suffered him to proceed. Among other things he said that if Mr. Puckney had acted by instructions from the administration, or if his conduct should be approved by them war was inevitable. But he had no doubt war was the wish of our administration—for he had received a letter from New Orleans dated on the 25th of April last, which stated that there was a letter at that place in Mr. Jefferson's hand writing, dated in March last, which declared that if the settlers between the Mississippi and the Rio Perdido would raise the American colors they should be supported.
He continued his observations, and pressed me to give him an answer—assuring me that this was no diplomatic maneuvring, but an epanchement (unbosoming) of himself to me as a man of honor and he trusted I would so consider it. I then quitted the room; he went with me to the street door, and again asked me when I
would give him an answer. With difficulty I suppressed the indignation of my feelings and left the house.
W. JACKSON.
Sworn the 7th Sept. 1804. That the contents of the within statement are just and true.
EDWD. SHIPPEN, chief Justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Sept. 7, 1804.
Sir, Considerations paramount to all others, the love of my country, and a sense of personal honor, which no change of fortune or circumstance can ever efface or diminish, have decided me, on the present occasion to address you.
The accompanying document refers to the most interesting objects that can engage my attention, and for the moment, those objects banish every other remembrance.
Mr. Yrujo's official character, precludes the only reparation I would consent to receive for this attempt against my honor. It is for you sir, to determine what satisfaction is due to our country and its government.
I shall wait the time necessary to learn your decision before I give further publicity to the transaction.
I am sir, Your most obedient servant, W. JACKSON.
Thomas Jefferson, esq. President of the United States.
Philadelphia, Sept. 15, 1804.
Sir, I have received your letters of the 7th and 9th instant,* and shall use their contents in due time and place for the benefit of our country. As you seem sufficiently apprised that the person of the Marquis Yrujo is under the safeguard of the nation, and secured by its honor against all violation I need add nothing on that head. On another however I may be permitted to add that if the information respecting a letter said to have been written by me was meant as a sample of the communications proposed to be given to you, their loss will not be great. No such letter was ever written by me by my authority, or with my privity, with my acknowledgments for the communication I tender you my salutations.
TH: JEFFERSON
Major William Jackson * Duplicate.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Attempts have been recently made, by letters from, and representations of occurrences at Madrid, to excite the feelings of the public on the issue of a question of great magnitude to the United States. It is said that the king of Spain has refused to ratify the Convention for the indemnification for spoliated property, on several grounds, among which is assigned the legislative authority given to the President to erect a port of entry on the Mobile and its waters emptying into the Gulf of Mexico east of that river. Whether it be true that Spain has refused on this, or any other ground, to ratify the Convention, we shall not undertake to say; much less to determine the accuracy of the fact that Mr. Puckney has demanded his passports and is about returning to the United States; or whether we are on the eve of a war with Spain. We shall only observe that the pictures drawn in some of the Eastern prints appear to us so extravagantly coloured as to lead to a suspicion that they are intended to cover some commercial project. Waving, however, all considerations arising out of these circumstances, as unlikely from the little knowledge respecting them in possession of the public, to afford much important light, we have considered it proper to attempt laying before the public a view of the merits of the interesting question, "What are the boundaries of Louisiana," as acquired by the United States from France by the late treaty of cession. This point, independent of any connection it may have with the ratification of the convention, or with any pending negotiation, is extremely important; and although the discussion of it, at this time, may be premature, as it has been brought into public notice, it appears necessary, to avoid erroneous impressions, to state the prominent facts on which its decision must depend. We shall at present attempt little more than this; our object being to take sure ground, and to exhibit a short and clear view of facts, and to draw those inferences only which immediately flow from them.
In order to exhibit this view the more distinctly, it is necessary to go back to an early period of the colonisation of Louisiana.
In the year 1673, M. Joliet and Marquette, two French Canadians, excited by the information of the Indians, explored and truck the Mississippi, which they descended to the Arkansas. Their representations awakened the curiosity of M. de la Sale, who in the year 1680, under the permission of the French government, explored the Mississippi. On the lower part of the Illinois he garrisoned a fort called Crevecoeur; and he sent father Hennepin down the Mississippi until he reached the ocean. In 1682, M. de la Sale and M. Jonti went down the river with sixty men, named the country Louisiana, built a fort in the Chickasaw territory, 60 leagues below the Ohio, by the name of Prudhomme. M. de la Sale then returned to France. The French government, entering with ardour,
into the scheme of forming settlements along the St. Lawrence and Mississippi from sea to sea, placed under his direction four vessels, with men and stores. He sailed in 1684; but missing the mouth of the Mississippi, landed on the 18th of February in the Bay of St. Bernard. Here he made two successive establishments.
At this time the Chevalier Tontit descended the mouth of the Mississippi, and on ascending the river formed a permanent settlement on the Arkansas. Not long after this period several other small settlements were made by enterprising Frenchmen.
In 1689 war commenced between France and Spain, which lasted till 1697, during which period nothing appears to have been done by France to succour her colony. In 1698, M. D' Iberville was despatched as Governor. He established two settlements, one at Ile Massacre, which he called Ile Dauphin, and the other at Mobile. It may be proper to observe that during the war, in 1696, Spain had taken post at Pensacola.
From these facts it follows that France enjoyed the actual and undisturbed possession of the coast from the Mobile to the Bay of St. Bernard, and from the mouth of the Mississippi to the Illinois, which, together with other territory, comprises what is now called West Florida, but which then, together with the country as far as Canada, went by the common name of Louisiana.
In this condition things stood, when Louis XIV, by letters patent, on the 14th Sept. 1712, granted to M. Crozat, the exclusive commerce of this country for fifteen years. This document is important, as it appears to contain the first formal recognition of the extent of the French possessions. The extracts in point, are as follows:
"Louis by the grace of God, King of France and Navarre: To all who shall see these Letters, Greeting. The care we have always had to procure the welfare and advantage of our subjects having induced us, notwithstanding the almost continual wars which we have been obliged to support from the beginning of our reign, to seek for all possible opportunities of enlarging and extending the trade of our American colonies, we did in the year 1683 give our orders to undertake a discovery of the countries and lands which are situated in the Northern part of America between New France and New Mexico. And the Sieur de la Sale, to whom we committed that enterprise, having had success enough to confirm a belief that a communication might be settled from New France to the Gulf of Mexico by means of large rivers; this obliged us immediately after the peace of Ryswick to give orders for the establishing a colony there, & maintaining a garrison, which has kept and preserved the possession we had taken in the very year 1683 of the lands, coasts and islands which are situated in the Gulf of Mexico between Carolina on the East, and Old and New Mexico on the West. But a new war having broke out in Europe shortly after there was no possibility, till now, of reaping from that new Colony the advantages that might have been expected from thence because the private men, who are concerned in the sea trade were all under engagements with other colonies which they have been obliged to follow: And WHEREAS upon the information we have received concerning the disposition and situation of the said Countries known at Present by the name of the Province of Louisiana, we are of opinion that there may be established therein a considerable commerce, so much the more advantageous to our kingdom in that there has hitherto been a necessity of fetching from foreigners the greatest part of the commodities which may be brought from thence, and because in exchange thereof we need carry thither nothing but commodities of the growth and manufacture of our own kingdom; we have resolved to grant the commerce of the country of Louisiana to the Sieur Anthony Crozat, our Counsellor, Secretary of the Household, Crown and Revenue, to whom we entrust the execution of this project. We are the more readily inclined hereunto, because his zeal and the singular knowledge he has acquired in maritime commerce encourage us to hope for as good success as he has hitherto had in the divers and sundry enterprises he has gone upon, and which have procured to our kingdom great quantities of gold and silver in such conjunctures as have rendered them very welcome to us."
"For these reasons, being desirous to shew our favor to him, and to regulate the conditions upon which we mean to grant him the said commerce, after having deliberated this affair in our Council, of our certain knowledge, full power, and Royal authority, We by these Presents, signed by our hand, have appointed and do appoint the said Sieur Crozat solely to carry on a trade in all the lands possessed by us, and bounded by New Mexico, and by the lands of the English of Carolina, all the establishments, ports, havens, rivers and principally the port and haven of the Ile Dauphine, heretofore called Massacre; the river of St. Lewis, heretofore called Mississippi from the edge of the sea as far as the Illinois, together with the river of St. Philip, heretofore called the Missouri, and St. Jerome, heretofore called Ouabache with all the countries, territories, lakes, within land, and the rivers which fall directly or indirectly into that part of the river St. Lewis."
"The ARTICLES—1st—Our pleasure is, that all the aforesaid lands, countries, streams, rivers and islands, be and remain comprised under the name of the government of Louisiana, which shall be
dependent upon the general government of New France, to which it is subordinate; and further that all the lands which we possess from the Illinois be united, so far as occasion require to the general government of New France, and become part thereof, reserving however to ourselves the liberty of enlarging as we shall think fit the extent of the government of the said country of Louisiana."
This is a solemn declaration that the waters running directly or indirectly into the Mississippi and the country they embrace, constituted the province of Louisiana. Within these limits France continued without disturbance to extend her settlements till the year 1763. During this period were formed the treaties of Ryswick in 1697, of Utrecht in 1713, and of Rastadt in 1714, to which Spain was a party, and which in none of their provisions invalidate the rights of France.
In 1718, the French took Pensacola from Spain, to whom it was restored at the peace of 1719; since which the Perdido between Mobile and Pensacola, has been the acknowledged boundary between Louisiana and Florida. The boundaries of Louisiana, then, as held by France, were the coast and islands from the Perdido to the Rio Norte; up that river to its source; thence to the high lands and round the sources of the Missouri and Mississippi, and their waters to the Alleghany mountains, along those mountains and the high lands surrounding the waters of the Mobile to the head of the Perdido, and down that river to the ocean.
There was, it is true, a collision between these claims and those of the English colonies, whose charters extended from sea to sea; but these interfering claims were adjusted by the treaty of Paris of 1763; by which the Mississippi and Iberville were made the limits of the English possessions on the East, and Louisiana on the West.
Thus far then, that is to the year 1763, there is no doubt that, what is now denominated West Florida, was a part of Louisiana.
To the war which commenced between France and England in 1755, Spain in 1762 became a party on the side of France—England having been so successful as to conquer a considerable portion of the island of Cuba from Spain, negotiations were entered into for a peace. In these negotiations Great Britain required Florida and that part of Louisiana between the Iberville and the Perdido, in exchange for Cuba. To enable Spain to offer these as an equivalent, France, by a secret treaty dated November 3, 1762, (the same day on which the preliminary treaty of peace was signed) consented to cede to Spain all Louisiana. By the definitive treaty, signed on the 10th February, 1763, France ceded to England all Louisiana east of the Mississippi, except the island of New Orleans; which, with the remainder of the province she ceded to Spain. The cession to England, altho' formally on the part of France (for the treaty between France and Spain was still secret) was substantially made by Spain, who had become the real proprietor of all Louisiana.
England immediately divided her newly acquired possessions into two distinct governments; to one she gave the name of West Florida , which embraced the tract west of the Apalachicola; and to the other, embracing the residue of her possessions, she gave that of East Florida . This is the first that we hear of West Florida , it being a name given by Great Britain to a subdivision of her territory.
At the close of the American war in 1783 Great Britain restored to Spain Florida, and the country east of the Iberville. Spain, on taking possession, continued, with some modification, the English arrangements, placing, however, West Florida under the jurisdiction of the governor of Louisiana, who resided at New Orleans; and since that time this territory, as well in public instruments, and in general conversation, has gone by the names of Louisiana or West Florida , sometimes the one and sometimes the other name being used.
On the 1st of October, 1800, by the treaty of St. Ildefonso, Spain receded to France the "colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it actually has [in 1800] in the hands of Spain. To determine the import of this stipulation it is only necessary to ascertain the extent of country embraced by the term Louisiana . It has been clearly shown that previous to the cession of France to Spain, Louisiana extended to the Perdido. Had anything occurred previously to the date of the treaty of St. Ildefonso, to contract its limits? If nothing had occurred, the limits must be considered as unaltered.—That portion of territory, ceded in 1763 to Great Britain, was receded to Spain in 1783, with the new name of West Florida , given by England. Restored to Spain, although this name was not formally dismissed, the territory which it covers, was re-annexed to the government of Louisiana, and the old arrangements, previous to

its cession to England, re-instated. By these arrangements Louisiana, as to its extent, was replaced in the same situation it occupied previous to the cession of a part of it to Great Britain, which was the same with that it held when possessed by France under whose arrangement West Florida formed a part of it.
But as if solicitous to remove all ambiguity, the treaty proceeds to stipulate, in the second place that Louisiana shall be ceded in the same extent that France possessed it (that is previously to the year 1763.) Now the facts that France never possessed this province, with any extent that did not include the English province of W. Florida—It may have occurred to the framers of the treaty of St. Ildefonso, that doubts might arise as to the meaning of the term "the province of Louisiana," after the cession of a part of it to Great Britain, and its re-cession to Spain. Hence the propriety of dissipating all such doubts by declaring that the new cession should be in the same extent it had when France possessed it. This effectually set aside all regard to the regulations of England. Supposing, then, the first stipulation to be of doubtful import, the second, so plain as not to admit of any other construction, comes in to remove all doubts. For it is an established principle of construction, that where there are two passages tending to the same end, one of which is doubtful, and the other clear, the last shall preponderate. The denial of this construction to the stipulation will be tantamount to saying that it shall have no meaning at all, which on so solemn an instrument as a treaty, and on so important an occasion as the transfer of territory, is altogether inadmissible.
In the third place it is stipulated that the cession shall be such as it ought to be after the treaties passed subsequently between Spain and other states—that is, subsequently to the cession by France, which was in the year 1762. Now, subsequently to this was formed the treaty of 1795 between Spain and the United States, by which the former confirmed to the latter a degree of latitude (from 32 to 31 degrees) which she had alleged to be a part of Louisiana ceded to France, and consequently belonging to her.
According to these stipulations, taken together, Spain ceded Louisiana to France exactly as France possessed it previous to the year 1763, with the only exception of a reservation of the rights acknowledged by Spain to attach to the United States, and in this precise shape France, thus possessed of Louisiana has ceded it to the United States. If the facts we have stated, and the inferences deduced from them be correct, it follows that the Perdido is the boundary of Louisiana, and consequently that West Florida is a part of the cession to the United States.
The subject may admit of a much wider illustration; and several of the points, which we have but cursorily noticed would doubtless be enforced by many incidents and arguments that might be associated with them; but we wave these for the present, under the persuasion that the concise sketch now offered is sufficient to evince the just pretensions alleged to be entertained by our government. It is possible that some of the facts assumed may not be correct; though we have taken pains to avoid error, and have omitted to introduce all doubtful matter.
Latest from Europe.
LONDON, July 30.
At Vienna, the French minister is shunned by all the diplomatic agents, except those of Prussia and Spain, and the Russian ambassador has declined to return his repeated visits. Since the departure of count Markoff from Paris, the Russian ministers at the several continental courts have been ordered to drop all intimacy and connection with the diplomatic agents of Bonaparte.
The senators Vire and d'Harville are appointed masters of the horse to the empress, who has accepted madame La Valette, the wife of the counsellor of state, for one of her majesty's ladies in waiting. Field marshal Berthier, generals Duroc and Caulincourt, occupy the three first places at the court of the empress.
Paris paper.
August 2.
Tuesday, his majesty went in the usual state to the house of peers, and put an end to the present session of parliament by the following most gracious speech from the throne:
My lords and gentlemen,
Before I put an end to the present session of parliament, I am desirous of expressing my entire approbation of the zeal and assiduity with which you have applied yourselves to the great objects of public concern which have come under your consideration.
You have wisely continued to direct your attention to the encouragement and improvement of that respectable and powerful volunteer force which the ardour and spirit of my subjects has enabled me to establish to an extent hitherto unexampled: you have at the same time endeavoured to combine an additional establishment for our domestic defence with the means of augmenting our regular army, and of maintaining it on such a scale as may be proportioned to the circumstances of the times, and to the rank which this country ought ever to hold among the powers of Europe.
Gentlemen of the house of commons,
You are entitled to my warmest acknowledgments for the fresh proof which you
have given me of your constant & affectionate attachment to my person and family, and your regard to the honor and dignity of my crown, by the liberal provision which you have made for the payment of the debt on my civil list revenues, and for furnishing me with the additional means of defraying the increase which has unavoidably taken place in different branches of my expenditure.
I must also return you my warmest thanks for the extensive provision which you have made for the exigencies of the public service; especially for the just and prudent attention which you have shown to true economy, & to the permanent credit and welfare of the country by the great exertions you have made for preventing, as far as possible, the accumulation of debt, and for raising so large a proportion of the expenses of the war within the year.
My lords and gentlemen,
I have now only to recommend to you to carry into your respective counties the same zeal for the public interest which has guided your proceedings. It will be your particular duty to inculcate into the minds of all classes of my subjects, that the preservation of all that is most dear to them requires the continuance of their unremitted exertions for their national defence.
The preparations which the enemy has long been forming for the declared purpose of invading this kingdom, are daily augmented, and the attempt appears to have been delayed only with the view of procuring additional means for carrying it into execution.
Relying on the skill, valor, and discipline of my naval and military force, aided by the voluntary zeal and native courage of my people, I look with confidence to the issue of this great conflict; and I doubt not that it will terminate, under the blessing of Providence, not only in repelling the danger of the moment, but in establishing in the eyes of foreign nations, the security of this country on a basis never to be shaken.
In addition to this first and great object, I entertain the animating hope that the benefit to be derived from our successful exertions, will not be confined within ourselves; but by their example and their consequences, they may lead to the re-establishment of such a system in Europe, as may rescue it from the precarious state to which it is reduced, and may finally raise an effectual barrier against the unbounded schemes of aggrandizement and ambition, which threaten every independent nation that yet remains on the continent.
Then the lord chancellor, by his majesty's command said:
My lords and gentlemen,
"It is his majesty's royal will and pleasure, that this parliament be prorogued to Tuesday, the 4th day of September next, to be then here holden; and this parliament is accordingly prorogued to Tuesday, the 4th day of September next."
NEW-YORK, Sept. 20.
Two or three villages, in the northern part of this state, are afflicted with the Yellow Fever, & we are concerned to add, that it exists at Mill River, a village in Fairfield (Conn.) At that place, some persons have died with the yellow fever, in its worst form, (two in one family, the father and a son, by the name of Thorp) and others are yet ill. This disease must have originated from an unquestionable source, that no vessel had arrived there to bring it; and that no instances of fever existed in New York, or any of the Northern states at the time it appeared there. While we recount the ravages this terrible scourge is making in many parts of the union, we are happy in stating (for the information of persons at a distance) that New York is at this time perfectly free from fever: and, excepting a mortality prevalent among children, remarkably healthy for a warm season.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20.
LATEST FROM FRANCE.
Arrived this morning at the Lazaretto, the Snow Philadelphia, captain Kennedy, in 40 days from Bourdeaux. Sailed from thence the 5th of August, to which date papers are received. Translations shall be given hereafter.
The verbal news by this arrival consists merely of the hackneyed story of the forwardness of the preparations for invading England. Indeed they now assure us, that every thing was in complete readiness: waiting only for a suitable season, and the orders of the Emperor. Bonaparte, accompanied by the Minister of Marine, and several officers of the Empire, had left Paris for Boulogne, where it was said, he would remain until the expedition sailed. This circumstance, which can be relied on, evinces pretty clearly, that this long threatened and long wished event is not very remote.
A considerable increase of deaths has occurred in the city of Baltimore, during the last five days. A gentleman who left there yesterday informs, that it was apprehended the yellow fever had made its appearance—We mention this with the hope that it will excite enquiry, and in the result of its being confirmed, to the adoption of precautionary measures.
September 21.
FROM GIBRALTAR, July 23.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER.
"We have sold our Flour at 18 dollars per barrel. The general failure of the crops in Spain has caused this sudden rise in the price; and the Barbary powers have prohibited the exportation of this article.—Fish are at 5 to 6 dollars and dull; Rice, 7 to 8 dollars; Pine Staves 160 dollars, per M. Indian Corn, none at market.
September 22.
Died, on Sunday last, after a lingering illness which he bore with resignation to the will of his creator, Capt. EDWARD BURROWS, in the 44th year of his age.
SAVANNAH, (Geo.) Sept. 11.
HURRICANE.
On Saturday last, this city was visited with the most violent hurricane ever experienced since its settlement. It commenced by slight wind and rain in the morning, until about ten o'clock, when it began to blow with uncommon violence, accompanied with heavy rain, and continued to increase
until six or seven at night, and did not cease before three in the morning of Sunday.
During its continuance, the shaking of the dwelling houses, the scattering of the slate and tile from such roofs as were covered with those materials, the falling of several chimneys in the city, and the levelling of fences and trees around, created an incessant alarm, which the arrival of morning proved to be too well founded.
A chimney in falling, killed two children of Mr. J. Nelson; a house fell and killed John F. Webb, and slightly bruised his child who was sitting near him.
But it was in the morning that the full horrors of the scene were witnessed. The shores covered with lumber and the ruins of scores destroyed; the wharves with shipping; the ropes of the merchants scattered among the fragments of the buildings or floating in the river, and in many of those stores which withstood the gale, damaged or ruined; the innumerable small boats crashed like egg shells, and thought almost as little worthy notice; reeds and marsh grass torn by the roots from the opposite island, and accompanied by numerous serpents, turtles, marsh birds, &c. forming a black ground of the picture; and the negroes who had survived the night on that island, composed wholly of rice plantations, screaming for assistance, & for the loss of their drowned companions, completed the affecting, the sublime collection. Insensibility itself could not have looked on unmoved. We have not yet heard from the neighbouring plantations, nor can we form any idea of all the damage done.
On Wilmington island, Mrs. Scriven, wife of Major Scriven, and one of their children, were killed by the fall of the house.
On Hutchinson's island Mr. Hoxham and wife who had the care of a plantation were carried away and drowned. The number of negroes drowned cannot be ascertained. It is supposed not less than thirty.
Fort Green at Cockpit island, is completely levelled, and all the buildings destroyed. Of the soldiers, 7 of those who were there, escaped by getting on the roof of the last house which fell, with fourteen others, men and women, soon after floating, the roof parted, and they separately escaped to land on Wilmington island. A son of Capt. Nicholls is among the drowned. Four soldiers and a non-commissioned officer were fortunately detained in town, as was lieutenant Pitt.
Gun Boat, No. 1, is safely lodged in a corn-field on White marsh island, about eight miles from where she drifted, and within sixty feet of a creek. It is hoped she will be got off without difficulty. All her men are safe & she has received no damage.
Notice.
The subscriber having formed a connexion with JOHN L. LESSEUS, which will commence on the 8th da. of October next—and in order to close his present business, he will, on Thursday the fourth day of October next, at 10 o'clock, at his Store, offer at PUBLIC SALE, the whole of his
Present Stock of Goods, Consisting of Old Madeira and Port Wine; Rum, Brandy and Gin; Loaf and Brown Sugar; London Brown Stout; Imperial and Young Hyson Tea; and almost every article in the Grocery line.
JAMES FISHER.
The terms of the above sale, for all sums under 50 dollars cash; above and not exceeding 150 dollars 60 days; and for all sums above 150 dollars, 120 days credit; for notes with approved security.
PROSSER & MONCURE, v. ms.
Richmond, Sept. 27th, 1804.
Hay-Market Garden.
NOW in a high state of accommodation for ENTERTAINMENTS, being provided with excellent Musicians and a Fire Worker of great celebrity, will be prepared to amuse visitors during the races, with CONCERTS, BALLS, FIRE-WORKS & ILLUMINATIONS, in the most splendid style.—The musical arrangements directed by Monsieur Folly, and the Fire Works and Illuminations prepared and exhibited by Monsieur St. Aubin, a pupil of Mr. Josselyn, professor of Fire Work at the Tivoli Gardens in Paris, lately from Philadelphia and Baltimore.
September 28th, 1804.
Full bred Horses for sale.
THE subscriber being very successful for several years past in breeding horses from the best English turf stock, has now for sale, about twenty of unequestionable blood; consisting of brood mares, colts and fillies, from four to one year old; among them are three very fine imported mares, and covered by Dragon & Stirling the last season. Warranted pedigrees of them all will be shown; they are very healthy and in fine condition, and well worth the attention of any gentleman, who wishes to get the best blood. If they are not sold at private sale, they will be set up to the highest bidder, at the Bowling Green, on the second Tuesday, in November next; one third of the money will be expected on the day of sale, one other third in six months after, and the remainder in twelve months. Bond and approved security will be expected. The subscriber has also three very fine English Stallions, to be sold at the same time and on the same terms, among them the famous horses Dragon and Archduke.
JOHN HOOMES.
Bowling Green, Sept. 15th, 1804. tds
TO RENT,
And may be entered upon the first day of December next,
A Tenement and Lot,
At Charlotte Courthouse, consisting of a good store-house and counting room, a lumber-house, and a small two story dwelling-house, all nearly new; a stable with some necessary out-houses—The high commanding situation of this place gives it a salubrious air, which makes it healthy indeed; the prospect is handsome, and the water is inferior to none in this part of the country; an agreeable neighbourhood, and the inhabitants wealthy; the site remarkable for the advantages of its local situation standing on one of the most public post roads, leading direct from the northern to the southern states, and to the market towns of Richmond and Petersburg, a considerable part of the country trade centering at this place. To any gentleman in the mercantile line wanting a pleasant and agreeable residence for his family, and an advantageous situation for active business, wishing to rent, may know the terms on application to the subscriber, living at Charlotte courthouse.
THOMAS READ.
22d September, 1804. wtd
Notice.
THE Copartnership of CLAIROURNE & BARKSDALE & SON, was by mutual consent, on the first day of October last dissolved. All those who have claims against said concern, as well as those who are owing them, will apply to Grief and Claibourne Barkedale, Jr. either to receive or pay, as the case may be, by whom the business will in future be carried on.
Claibourne Barkedale.
Grief Barkedale. 15th September, 1804. 6w
THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
RICHMOND:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1804.
William Henry Harrison, esq. governor of the Indiana territory, has published a letter from the secretary of the treasury, by which it appears,
1st. That the land granted by the governors and which has been laid off under their direction, is not to be resurveyed at the expense of the proprietors.
2d. That no other title paper is to be recorded when the claim has been confirmed but the patent or other evidence of the confirmation.—And
3d. That all the grants made by the governors, are to be recognized, excepting such only as may have been surreptitiously and fraudulently obtained, thro' the false representations of the party."
The Commissioners (says the Petersburg Intelligencer of yesterday) have rented Mr. Grammer's house on Bollingbrook Street for an office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of Virginia at that place.
New-Hampshire Election.
By the returns from 180 towns, the votes stand as follows:
Federal, 11,000. Republican, 10,908.
The Honorable JOHN PENN has forwarded from London, by the ship Pigeon, capt. Collet, and presented to "The Contributors of the Pennsylvania Hospital," a Statue of his illustrious Grand father WILLIAM PENN, the founder of Pennsylvania. Paula pap.
FROM THE BOSTON CHRONICLE.
By the fast sailing ship Sally, captain Webber, we have been favored with English papers to the 18th August.
The affairs of Great Britain wear a very disastrous complexion. The insolent premier is going all lengths to establish himself in power, but notwithstanding all the energies of his government (and he is the father of that sanguinary system, which it has been fashionable with our royal faction to call energy) there is an evident sentiment of horror, among the people, towards him and his measures. He contrived by his secret influence, with the elder branches of the royal family, to eject poor Mr. Addington from office whose only criminality, in the eyes of the nation was his obsequiousness to Mr. Pitt. In the change there is but little alteration in governing folly, only that the present minister is the more violent of the two: it is the king stork succeeded by king stork how it will terminate, is a secret that no human sagacity can discover.
It appears, by letters from Plymouth, that Gantheaume has escaped from the outward road of Brest, with four sail of the line and five frigates. Vice admiral Graves had intelligence of the event, a few hours afterwards, and sailed in pursuit of them, with six sail of the line and two frigates. The destination of Gantheaume is not known; the probability is that he is going to Ferrol or the Straits, or to make a dash upon the British East India fleet.
The election for a member of parliament for Middlesex has terminated in the most shameful manner. The candidates were sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Mainwaring, the former had a considerable majority, yet the sheriffs made a return in favor of Mr. Mainwaring. No act of government was ever supposed to be more atrocious in principle than this; but it is a la Pitt, and that is saying enough upon the subject.
Ireland is in a state of frightful iniquitude to the British ministry. The miserable wretches in Dublin, are starving by groups—their wages not being equal to their exigencies. The following is a fragment of a letter from that unhappy country, copied from the Courier of August 11th, a ministerial paper—"We are sorry to say, that the spirit of combination among the working people, in Dublin, has not been repressed by the recent example made of some of the ringleaders—[This example means the hanging a few undone poor creatures who would not starve in legal silence]—instead of that, the combination is almost general, among shoemakers, tailors, bricklayers, &c. but Scottish mechanics will be invited over, and every encouragement given. The increase of wages is not their great object, but increasing the spirit of disaffection to the government."
There has been a meeting of the merchants of the city of London, at the Mansion house, to consider of the best means of contributing to the expeditious conveyance of troops, in case of invasion by the terrible soldiers of Bonaparte; whose very name in England concentrates every idea of horror—not to the people but to the luxurious and worthless aristocracy, whose fears emanate in their abuse.
We have attentively perused these papers, and are consoled in some degree, to observe that none of the wiles of the British cabinet have been able to inveigle any of the continental powers into a participation of their career of blood. The Ceneinel of Saturday seemed to brood with a furious delight over the slimy possibilities that were presented by a London paper, of another national alliance with England, in her present desperate state of offence & defence. It is fortunate for the cause of mercy, that Russia and Austria are not so willing to draw the sword of extermination, as the enemies of humanity would desire; and, whether this forbearance arises from policy or apprehension, is of little moment while the carnage is withheld.
ROBBERY!
Capt. Bradshaw, from Havanna, (arrived at Charleston) informs, that a few days before he sailed the ROYAL TREASURY was robbed of $30,000 DOLLARS, in doubloons:—The building we are told, is constantly surrounded by a strong guard—but the robbers entered by the roof, which communicates with the adjoining houses, and carried off their plunder, without molestation. This took place, between Saturday night and Monday morning; at which time an embargo was laid upon the shipping in the harbor, and every vessel closely examined—Since search had also been made throughout the city, but without leading to any discovery. Some of the inferior officers were suspected of being concerned in the plot.—Times.
FOR THE ARGUS.
Mr. Editor, BEING on the look out for a good Threshing Machine, which I think is essential on a profitable farm, I have noticed one invented by John Cottle, and described in your last paper. It is impossible for me as well as many others, to go to the places mentioned to see the models, therefore request some further explanation, as the description appears incorrect. I do not comprehend the meaning of the first sentence, and I see some other errors, which I request some of your readers will explain. "This machine shews more work, than is necessary for those who have not the convenience of barns. A small roof covers the whole—(Query, what?)—which is about eighteen feet in length and six in breadth." Whether are we to understand by the work about the machine, or the work done by the machine, as necessary to those who have or who have not barns. How can the small roof be sufficient, when the horse circles eighteen feet diameter? Oval plank I presume, should be oak plank. The filling with sand must be a bad resort. The operation appears to resemble the steel mills, with the substitution of nails, in lieu of solid grinders; for building clover, it appears to come near a method which may be useful. The motion described I presume, is misquoted, as I am confident it is not sufficient, (viz. turning revolutions whilst the horse makes one, in eighteen feet diameter,) for speed is one of the requisites to the machines hitherto invented. I am told Tunstall's patent machine makes one hundred revolutions for one of the horses, in an eighteen feet diameter track, the horses travelling two and an half miles in the hour. John James and Thomas Fove, who have made many threshing machines in Amelia and Chesterfield, have undertaken to introduce this patent machine in seven neighboring counties; so that we shall soon have an opportunity of judging of one of these new fashioned machines, from the experience of these skillful workmen, I am very sanguine they will produce a superior machine; being a well-wisher to improvements which are demonstrated. VIGIL.
RESOLVED, by the President and Directors of the BANK OF VIRGINIA, That the form of the power for voting by proxy, at any elections, be—
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That of do hereby appoint to be substitute and proxy, for and in name and behalf to vote at any election of a director, or directors of the Bank of Virginia, as fully as might or could, or were personally present. In witness whereof, have hereunto set hand and seal, this day in the year
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That the form of the power for voting by proxy, respecting the enacting, repealing or amending by-laws, ordinances and regulations, be—
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That the form of the power for selling, assigning and transferring bank stock, be—
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That of do hereby constitute and appoint of true and lawful attorney, for and in name and behalf to sell, assign and transfer unto any person or persons, the whole or any part of share unto, belonging in the capital or joint stock of the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of Virginia, and for that purpose to make and execute all necessary acts of assignment and transfer, and further more one or more persons under this have hereunto set hand and seal, this day of
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Signed, JOHN BROCKENBROUGH, Cashier.
Washington Tavern.
THE subscriber has taken a lease of this tenement for a term of years, and has put it in a state of repair which renders it no inferior to any in this city. Besides the Tavern he has detached buildings, well calculated to accommodate those who are desirous of greater privacy than a tavern usually affords. These tenements adjoin the public square, and are within two hundred yards of the Capitol. They have a decided advantage over any other houses in this city, with respect to pure air and excellent water. He has good stables and a constant supply of the best Forage. He renders his services to his friends and the public, and assures them, that no unlawful gaming, nor any other practice which might, in any degree, have a tendency to destroy the peace of his house, will ever be permitted.
EDWARD WALLAM.
Richmond, September 22d, 1804. N. B. About thirty Members of the re-t Assembly may be well accommodated, of whom eighteen have already engaged. E. W.

Notice. The office of supervisor of the revenue, for the district of Virginia, being discontinued, and the unfinished business in the said office transferred to me—the collector of the direct tax & internal revenue, whose accounts have not been finally adjusted and paid, are hereby informed, that they are now requested to call at my office, in the city of Richmond, without delay and pay the balances due to the United States.—And those whose lands have been sold in the district of Virginia by authority of an act of Congress of the United States for non-payment of the direct tax, may redeem such lands, by paying to me within the time limited, the principal, costs and fees as the law directs.
As most of the abovenamed lands were sold in Dec 1802, the privilege of redemption will continue until December next. The money received by me for the redemption of the said lands will be returned to the purchaser, with interest at the rate of 25 per cent per annum on the purchase money, to the day on which it may be paid to me. JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. June 27th, 1804.
To be let, on building Leases, three beautiful, airy and elevated situations for dwelling houses. To any gentleman in the mercantile line, or other occupation, who wishes a pleasant and agreeable residence for his family, either of these sites would be truly desirable, as they are contiguous to the scene of active business, at the same time that they are removed from the dust and bustle of the town. Enquire at this printing office. An experienced, sober and industrious GARDENER will hear of an advantageous situation on application as above. None of opposite character need apply. tf April 23, 1804.
4439 Acres of valuable LAND, In the south of Kentucky, the greater part military, will be SOLD for good bonds, or exchanged for property in the state of Virginia.—Enquire of the printer. Dec. 26th, 1803.
Plaster of Paris. I have just received from Nova Scotia, a cargo of PLASTER OF PARIS, said to be of the best kind, which I will sell on reasonable terms. SAMUEL PAINE. May 14, 1804. tf We have received a small additional supply of
MADEIRA WINE, Of a superior quality, which we offer for sale by the hogshead and quarter cask. GIBSON & JEFFERSON. Richmond, 13th July, 1804. (tf) Cochectown, July 20th, 1804.
TICKLETOBY Will stand the next season, at my stable in the upper end of Chesterfield county, five miles from Goodlee's and Bevil's Bridges and twelve from Genito.—The terms, his pedigree and performance will be made known before the season commences. THOMAS BRANCH. tf
I AM INCLINED TO SELL, The TRACT of LAND I live on, lying in Hanover county, 14 miles from Richmond, and about 5 from Hanover Town and Newcastle. By survey the tract contains two hundred and twenty-seven acres. The buildings are comfortable and in good repair, with a good barn, stable, &c. a large and extensive garden of two acres of ground, well inclosed, with sawed palings, on a declivity of twenty feet perpendicular, laying well to the sun. There is not a more healthy spot between the mountains and the sea. This place is particularly recommended as a retreat in the sickly season, either from the lower country or towns of the state. The sale will take place publicly at Hanover Courthouse, on the fourth Wednesday in October next, being the first day of the court of the county. In case the land is sold, I would then sell the CROPS, STOCK, &c. and perhaps some NEGROES. SAMUEL RICHARDSON, Jr. 31 September, 1804. ids
Notice. ALL persons indebted to the estate of JOHN DAWSON, dec. of Amherst county, by bond, note or otherwise, are requested to come forward immediately and discharge the same.—And those having claims against the estate, are also requested to bring them forward legally authenticated, that they may be discharged. JOHN S. DAWSON, Administrator of JOHN DAWSON, dec. August 10, 1804. 3m
Forty Dollars Reward. RAN away from the subscriber last night, a negro man named BILLEY, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, straight and well made, about 22 years of age, bushy hair, rather light complexion, and has lost some of his teeth before. He has waited in my house for nearly four years; he formerly belonged to Peter Heiskell and John Bowyer, and was sold by Bowyer to Mr. Boothe of Fincastle, and ran away from him and was gone nearly 12 months, and was caught in Hanover, where he had been secreted in a quarter. He took with him sundry clothing, a striped santon coat with yellow buttons, and lined with red; home made linen shirts; a grey mixed broad cloth coat, nearly new, made in the fashion; white casimere pantaloons; several waistcoats; a round jacket and pantaloons of dark blue striped velvet, with yellow buttons, the lining home made linen; boots and shoes. I will give 40 dollars if taken out of the county and brought home, and 20 dollars if taken and secured in any jail so that I get him again, and 10 dollars if taken in the county and brought home. J. EDMONDSON. Stamton, Aug. 29th, 1804. 3w
Foolscap & Letter Paper For sale at this office.
TO RENT, Till the 27th May, 1805, THE TENEMENT, Near Mr. Wythe's, on Shockoe Hill, lately occupied by Mr. L. BURFORD.—For further particulars apply to WILLIAM M. KIM. Richmond, Sept. 8th, 1804. tf
Notice to Distillers. WANTED, a MAN who understands the Distilling Business in all its various branches—for such a one great wages will be given. For further particulars apply to the Editor of this paper. N. B. A Single man will be preferred. tf
FOR SALE, A very likely Negro Man, Who is an excellent Sawyer. Apply to THOS. TAYLOR & CO. v. M. Sept 3d, 1804. tf
Notice. THE LOCKS near this place will be shut on Monday the 24th instant, and continue impassable until a set of new Gates can be put up, and the Locks repaired, which will require from two to three weeks.—Due notice will be given of the time they will probably open, after the work commences. ROBERT POLLARD. Richmond, September 6, 1804.
Mediterranean Passports. NOTICE is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport issued to vessels of the United States; that from the eighth day of July next, those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passports of which she may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange; and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use. Department of State 23d of May, 1804. tf
The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Collectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices. June 1 6w
Family Flour. A CONSTANT supply of FLOUR, of a superior quality, for family use, kept for SALE, by GEORGE WATT. Richmond, 5th March, 1804. tf
Robert Greenhow, MERCHANT IN WILLIAMSBURG, Has just received, by the Commerce, Capt. Bowers, direct from London, a supply of Useful & fashionable Goods By the Brutus, Capt. Bance, who is daily expected from Liverpool, his Woollens, Ironmongery, &c. will be received. All of which, being purchased with cash, from the manufacturers themselves, will be found good in their respective kinds; and as such offered on as low terms as they can be afforded, to his friends and countrymen, whose orders will always meet with his wonted attention. August 25th, 1804. 3m
TO HIRE, For the remainder of the year, an excellent House Servant. Enquire at this office. August 21st, 1804. tf
The subscribers respectfully inform their friends and the public that they have farmed the noted and much admired English horse, KNOWSLEY, (The property of William Lightfoot, esq. of Charles City), to stand the next season at William Wood's, in Albemarle, ten miles above Charlottesville. The terms of covering will be made known in due time. KNOWSLEY will be at his stand by the 15th of the present month. WILLIAM WOODS. JAMES KINSOLVING. September 31, 1804.
The subscribers agree to run a SWEEPSTAKES over the Pridaville Course, in Amelia county, on Thursday the 8th of November next, with Colts and Fillies three years old this spring, and no more, carrying on each 85 lbs, entrance fifty dollars, half forfeit. The subscription to close the 25th day of October next. The colts and fillies to be accurately described at the time of entering. To run one mile heats. Entrance to be made by personal application, or letter directed to the subscriber, living at Pridaville. Three colts already entered. JAMES TOWNES, Jr. Amelia, 10th Sept 1804. tf
WILL BE SOLD, For ready money, on Saturday the 15th of December next, if fair, if not, on the succeeding Monday, A Tract of Land, Lying in the county of Chesterfield, near Swift creek mill, it being the same tract on which Mr. Francis Lockett, sen. dec. lived, supposed to contain two hundred acres more or less. The sale will take place on the premises. Any person or persons who have claims upon the above tract of land, are hereby notified to come forward with them previous to the day of sale.—Also, all persons who have claims of any kind whatsoever against the estate of the said Francis Lockett, sen. are desired to make them known to us, for we intend as soon as possible to close our executorship, and after which this notice will be plead in bar to the payment of any claim or demand upon the estate. ARTHUR AIKEN, } Executors ELIAM LOCKETT, } for Francis Lockett, sen. deceased. 4t 125*
Tickets in the William & Mary College Lottery are for sale at this office. Purchasers to the number of ten tickets may be accommodated with a credit of sixty days from the commencement of drawing.
WANTED TO HIRE OR PURCHASE, A WET NURSE Without a child of her own.—Enquire of the Printer. Surry Jockey Club.
WILL be run for, over the course at Surry Courthouse, on Thursday the first day of November next, THE SURRY JOCKEY CLUB PURSE OF THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, three mile heats.—And on Friday, the PURSE of the Proprietor of the Course, of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, two mile heats. All persons wishing to start horses, &c. for the latter purse, will be required to pay an entrance of twenty dollars, except members of the Club, and from them an entrance of eight dollars will be expected.—The weights of the course are as follows: Aged Horses 130. 6 Years Old 120. 5 Years Old 110. 4 Years Old 100. 3 Years Old 86. CHARLES H. GRAVES, Secretary. A meeting of the Club will be held at Mr. David Price's Tavern, on the evening preceding the first day's race. Surry Courthouse, 1st Sept. 1804. tN.
The day following the above races (Saturday) will be run for over the same course, a SWEEPSTAKES for three and four year old Colts, entrance fifty dollars, half forfeit, two mile heats, carrying the weights of the course. The subscription for which will be kept open until the Friday before. Stables and litter furnished race horses as usual, gratis. DAVID PRICE, proprietor of the course. Surry Courthouse, 1st Sept. 1804.
THE delinquent Shareholders in the MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY are hereby notified, that all shares upon which a requisition shall be due on the third Friday in October next, will on that day, be sold as the law directs, at Zech's Brooks's Tavern, in the town of Manchester, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. It is requested that those who may have purchased shares from the original subscribers, where transfers have not been made do notify the Treasurer of the number of shares so held, and the persons from whom they may have purchased the same, on or before the 3d Friday in October, otherwise they will be sold on that day, in the name, and for the benefit of the original subscribers. JAMES BRANDER, Clerk & Treasurer. 10th Sept. 1804. t3df
Taliaferro & Dickenson, Offer for Sale on very low terms, Antigua Rum by the Hhd; Tenerife Wine by the Pipe; Sherry by the gr. Cask; Loaf and Brown Sugar by the Hhd or Barrel; best green Coffee by the Bag; Imperial Young Hyson and Hyson Tea by the Chest; Molass by the Hhd; Earthen and Glass Ware by the Crate; Liverpool Salt by the Sack; Cotton Cards by the Box; Pepper, Ginger and Pimento by the Bag; Wrapping Paper by the Ream; Mustard by the Doz; India Muslins by the Piece or Bale. Also ten Tons Bar-Iron. Richmond 14th September, 1804. tf
NOTICE. Is hereby given, that I shall be ready to receive PROPOSALS for furnishing the Public Guard with RATIONS, until the first day of October next, or on or before which time all persons desirous of engaging in that business are desired to come forward. THO: UNDERWOOD. Richmond, 29th Aug 1804.
L. Joseph & Co. RETURN thanks to their friends and customers for the very liberal encouragement they have received, and flatter themselves that by their punctilious attention to business, and cheapness of their goods, to merit a continuance. They inform their customers and the public, that their store will not be opened on the 20th, 21st, and 22d and 27th, 28th, and 29th instant, —being their uniform practice to do no business on days ordained by the Mosaic Law to be holy. Richmond, September 12, 1804.
A PROPOSAL, BY WILLIAM YOUNG BIRCH & ABRAHAM SMALL, OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THAT CELEBRATED WORK, GIBBON'S HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: Together with MEMOIRS of the LIFE and WRITINGS of the AUTHOR. No book could be offered, which stands in less need of encomium and recommendation.—It has been read in almost every European language.—The history of the long and interesting period from the reign of Augustus to the taking of Constantinople, and the death of Mahomet the II. is no where else to be found in the shape of regular and well arranged history.—The Publishers presume to hope, that they do a service to their country in giving an Edition of it from the American press.—They will briefly speak of their intentions, and the superiority of this edition. 1. It will be the most complete Edition of Gibbon extant.—Because it will be enriched with the Memoirs of his Life and Writings, written by himself.—This will be an addition to the London copy of nearly 200 pages. 2. It will be about one-third cheaper than the London Copy. 3. It will be executed in the best style.—The Publishers, with confidence, recommend to the public an inspection of the books, published by them within the last three years.—They are, Russell's Ancient and Modern Europe, 7 Volumes.—The Domestic Encyclopedia, 5 Volumes, and Tucker's Blackstone, 5 Volumes.—They promise not to degenerate.
CONDITIONS. 1. It shall be printed from the last London edition, and be published in Eight Octavo Volumes, during the year 1804. 2. It shall be delivered to those Subscribers who take it in Volumes, at Two Dollars per Volume, in boards. Those who wait for the completion of the Work, may have it either at Sixteen Dollars in boards; or in a good and handsome binding, at Twenty Dollars; payable on delivery. It will be enriched with Two whole sheet Maps —One of the Eastern, the other of the Western part of the Roman Empire—A Map of the parts of Europe and Asia adjacent to Constantinople, and an elegantly engraved Head of the Author. Subscriptions received by SAMUEL PLEASANTS, Jr. Richmond. ep
A few Maps of Louisiana, Mounted and Varnished, for sale at this office.
At a Court of Quarterly Sessions held and continued for Albemarle County, the 11th day of August, 1804. John Carr, pt. Against Hackley and Fisher, and Anderson and Watson, defts. In Chancery. THE defendants Hackley and Fisher, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this state: On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, It is ordered, that the said defendants Hackley and Fisher appear here on the first day of November next and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the public newspapers printed in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and also posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A copy—Teste, JOHN NICHOLAS, Clk.
VIRGINIA, TO WIT: At a Chancery District Court, held at the former Capitol in the City of Williamsburg, the 14th day of July, 1804. Joseph Hague, pt. Against Samuel Bailey and Thomas Sandford, defts. THE defendants not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this country: On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, It is ordered, that the said defendants appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the bill of the plaintiff; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former Capitol in this city. A copy, ANTY. ROBINSON, c. c.
VIRGINIA: At a Court held for Halifax County, the 31st day of May, 1804. Joseph Hewell, plaintiff. Against Pleasant Turner, defendant. In Chancery. THE defendant not having entered his appearance and given security agreeable to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant is not an inhabitant of this state: On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, It is ordered, that the defendant do appear here on the fourth Monday in November next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A Copy, JOHN BARNSDALE, D. C. H. C.
At a Court of Quarterly Sessions continued by adjournment and held for James City county, on Tuesday, the 14th day of August, 1804. Daniel Jones, pt. Against Benjamin Leman and Rebecca his wife, late Rebecca Turner, Thomas Turner, Harriett Turner, Eliza Turner, Clarissa Turner, and Eleanor Turner, children of John Turner, deceased, and John Goodall, administrator, &c. of John Turner, defts. THE defendants, Benjamin Leman and Rebecca his wife, Thomas Turner, Harriett Turner, Eliza Turner, Clarissa Turner and Eleanor Turner, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth: On the motion of the Plaintiff by his counsel, It is ordered, that the said Defendants do appear here on the second Monday in November next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper printed in the city of Richmond for two months successively and posted at the front door of the court house of this county. Copy—Teste, RO: H. WALLER, c. c.
FOR SALE, A Tract of Land, WHEREON I now reside, in Albemarle county, ten miles above Charlottesville, on the waters of Merman's and Micham's rivers, containing 700 acres. There is on this land a valuable orchard, a good dwelling house, kitchen, barn and other convenient out houses, and an excellent spring—the plantation is large enough to work eight or ten hands to advantage, and in good farming condition—this land is well adapted to the culture of corn, wheat and tobacco—there is upwards of 30 acres of valuable low grounds—this land is considered the most valuable tract in that neighbourhood. Any person inclining to purchase will be shown the land by the subscriber—the terms of payment will be one third part of the purchase money paid in advance, the other two thirds in two equal annual payments. Bond with approved security will be required of the purchaser. Possession of the land may be had this fall, with a crop of small grain and a part of the buildings. A title will be made in March next and full possession given. JOHN RODES. August 15th, 1804. w2m
THE SUBSCRIBER HAS OPENED A Grocery Store, In the next house above the Eagle Tavern (the property of Mr. Temple) where he has for sale, SALT, COGNAC BRANDY, HOLLAND GIN, ANTIGUA SPIRITS, LOAF and BROWN SUGAR, COFFEE, IMPERIAL and YOUNG HYSON TEA, PEPPER, ALLSPICE, GINGER, NUTMEGS and other SPICES; SOFT SHELLLED ALMONDS, QUEEN'S WARE, DEMIJOHNS, and sundry other articles, which he will sell very low at wholesale or retail, for cash or country produce. DANIEL TRIPLETT. October 11, 1803. w12m
FOR SALE OR RENT, A Brick Lumber-House, On the cross street leading to Shockoe warehouse now occupied by Taliaferro and Dickenson. Possession to be given on the 1st of October next—for terms apply to MARCUS ELCAN. July 6th, 1804. wtf
ADVERTISEMENT. For SALE to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 11th of October next. A valuable tract of Land, Belonging to the subscriber, containing by late survey 425 acres, lying on the main road leading from Louisa courthouse to Hanover town, joining major Joseph Eggleston. This land lies well and is very productive of corn, wheat and tobacco; it is supposed there will be made on it the present year between eighteen and twenty thousand weight of tobacco; about one hundred and sixty or seventy acres cleared, the greater part of which is fresh, 15 or 20 acres of good meadow land, and houses for the accommodation of a small family. It is not thought necessary to mention further particulars, as it is supposed the purchaser will view the premises before the day of sale. The lan will be shown by application thereon, and terms made known on the day of sale, it being the intention of the subscriber to sell it on such terms as may suit the purchaser; as much cash however as is convenient will be preferred. W. MERVETHEIL. Sept. 10, 1804. (tds)
Robert Gordon & Co. Have received by the Juliana from Madeira, and offer for sale, 50 Pipes, SELECTED OLD WINE, Which they assure their friends proves to be excellent. They have also a few pipes, hogsheads and quarter casks DRY LISBON and PORT WINE, imported by themselves, direct from Lisbon and Oporto. They have received by the Charles and Edward from London, Part of their Fall Goods, And daily expect from Liverpool and Glasgow, an extensive assortment of nearly every article usually imported. Sub Sept. 1804. ep2a&co.w
This day is published, by S. Pleasants, Jr. [PRICE 50 CENTS, IN BLUE BOARDS] A SECOND EDITION OF A TREATISE ON PRACTICAL FARMING: Embracing particularly the following subjects, viz.—The use of Plaster of Paris with Directions for using it; and General Observations on the use of other Manures. On Deep Ploughing, Thick Sowing of Grain, method of preventing Fruit Trees from decaying, and FARMING IN GENERAL. By JOHN A. BINNS, of Loudoun County, Virginia, Farmer.
TO WHICH IS ADDED, A SUPPLEMENT: Containing additional Observations on Farming on the use of Plaster of Paris, Limestone, Salt, &c. to which are annexed sundry Certificates, proving the truth of his former statement thereon. * Country store-keepers who purchase by the quantity, will be supplied on liberal terms. Forensic Eloquence. Just received, and for sale at S. Pleasants' Book-Store, THE SPEECHES OF THE CELEBRATED IRISH BARRISTER, J. P. CURRAN, Accompanied with sketches of those trials for High Treason to which they belong. This volume contains a short account of the history and present state of Ireland, with a Biographical sketch of Mr. Curran. Also Mr. Gattan's Letter to the Citizens of Dublin; and Arthur O'Connor's Address to the Irish Nation. * Subscribers are requested to send for their Books.
JUST RECEIVED, From Dr. Church's Dispensary New-York, and for sale at this Printing-Office, a fresh supply of the following Patent Medicines: CHURCH'S COUGH DROPS, A medicine unequalled by any in the world, for the cure of coughs, colds, asthma & consumptions. PATI ROSA LOZENGES, For the voice, hoarseness, colds, coughs, &c. & a CHEMICAL ESSENCE and EXTRACT OF MUSTARD, For the cure of the rheumatism, gout, rheumatic gout, palsy, white swelling, chilblains, &c. ANODYNE ESSENCE, for the head-ache. VOLATILE TINCTURE, for the tooth-ache. THE BOTANICAL TEA. INFALLIBLE GERMAN CORN PLAISTER, For the cure of corns. CHURCH'S ANALYPTIC FEMALE PILLS. SCOTCH OINTMENT, Cures the most inveterate itch in four hours without Mercury. EYE SALVE, for all disorders of the eye. ANTISCORBUTIC TINCTURE, For the teeth, breath, and scurvy in the gum. ESSENCE OF SCURVY-GRASS, For preventing, and curing the sea & land scurvy. VERMIFUGE LOZENGES, For destroying worms in children & grown persons. ANTISPASMODIC ELIXIR, For the cure of all kinds of Fits. CORDIAL RESTORATIVE BALSAM, For nervous disorders, debility, inward weakness, &c. &c.
VEGETABLE LOTION, For the face and skin, freckles, sun-burns, prickly heat, ring worms, tatters, &c. &c. DR. CHURCH'S ANTIBILOUS PILLS, For the cure of malignant and bilious fevers, dyspepsy, jaundice, costiveness, acidity, cholera morbus, gravel, indigestion, loss of appetite, and all disorders of the head, stomach and bowels. THE GENUINE PATENT ALTERNATIVE PILLS, For the cure of scurvy, cutaneous disorders, the venereal disease, &c. HOOPER'S FEMALE PILLS. ESSENCE OF PEPPER MINT. ALSO, DR. CHURCH'S TREATISE ON THE VENREAL. Containing plain and easy directions for the speedy and effectual cure of that disease in both sexes; whereby any person may cure themselves at a small expense—price half a dollar.
HENING'S New Virginia Justice, Containing the Duties of a Justice of Peace, &c. together with a variety of useful precedents, adapted to the laws now in force. Also, forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, lease & release, mortgage, trust, &c. FOR SALE AT S. PLEASANTS' BOOK-STORE.