Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1804-09-05 00:00:00

THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[VOL. XII.]
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WAR'S 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 Inner Society of the Middle Temple, Esq. Statutiæ gestas populi Romani tractum, uti quoque digna videbantur, præteritæ: eo magis, quod mihi, a spe metu, partibus respiciat animus liberari. 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 Entrepôt Register, for July 1803
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"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 distinctly portrayed; the characters of Turgot, Colonne, Clavière, Robespierre, Marra, Brissot, Talleyrand, Mirabeau, Lally, Barnave, &c. are accordingly developed in succession.
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FROM THE AURORA.
ROBERT EMMETT.
We sometime since signified that we had received from a friend in Ireland, an authentic copy of the address of Robert Emmett to Lord Norbury one of the judges before whom he was tried for treason. It appears that the government had taken perfidious pains to prevent the publication of Mr. Emmett's real speech and tortured the sentiments of their victim, into meanings and assertions the most remote from his character and his wishes. The real speech has been sent to America by a friend, "as the only country in which the virtuous living can find a refuge, or "truth find a certain passage to posterity "through a free press." The spurious edition was given before, the reader may compare them—and compare the government by which it was done with the most abhorred that has existed or that now exists.
MY LORDS,
What have I to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me, according to law? I have nothing to say that can alter your predeterminations, nor that it will become me to say with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce and I must abide by. But I have that to say, which interests me more than life, and which you have labored, (as was necessary your office in the present circumstances of this oppressed country) to destroy. I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which have been heaped upon it. I do not imagine, that seated where you are, your minds can be so free from impunity, as to receive the least impression from what I am going to utter—I have no hopes that I can anchor my character to the breast of a court constituted and trammelled as this is—I only wish, and it is the utmost I expect, that your lordships may suffer it to float down your memories, un tainted by the foul breath of prejudice, until it finds some more hospitable harbour to shelter it from the storm by which it is at present buffeted. . . . Was I only to suffer death, after being adjudged guilty by your tribunal—I should bow in silence and meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur—but the sentence of the law, which delivers my body to the executioner, will thro' the ministry of that law labor in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy—for there must be guilt somewhere; whether in the sentence of the court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated; but the difficulties of established prejudice:—the man dies, but his memory lives; that mine may not perish, that it may live in the respect of my countrymen. I seize upon this opportunity to vindicate myself from some of the charges alleged against me. When my spirit shall be wafted to a more friendly port; when my shade shall have joined the bands of those martyred heroes who have shed their blood on the scaffold and in the field, in defence of their country and of virtue, this is my hope, I wish that my memory and name may animate those who survive me, while I look down with complacency on the destruction of that perfidious government, which upholds its domination by blasphemy of the most high—which displays its power over man as over the beast of the forest—which sets man upon his brother, and lifts his hand in the name of God against the throat of his fellow who believes or doubts a little more or a little less than the government standard—a government which is steeled to barbarity by the cries of the orphans and the tears of the widows which it has made
[Here Lord Norbury interrupted Mr. Emmett, saying that the mean and wicked enthusiasts who felt as he did, were not equal to the accomplishment of their wild designs.]
God! I swear by the throne of Heaven, before which I must shortly appear—by the blood of the murdered patriots who have gone before me—that my conduct has been through all this peril and thro' all my purposes, governed only by the convictions which I have uttered, and by no other view than that of their cure, and the emancipation of my country from the superhuman oppression under which she has so long and too patiently laboured; and that I confidently and assuredly hope that wild and chimerical as it may appear, there is still union and strength in Ireland, to accomplish this noblest enterprize—of this I speak with the confidence of intimate knowledge, and with the consolation that appertains to that confidence. Think not my lord, I say this for the petty gratification of giving you a transitory
uneasiness; a man who never yet raised his voice to assert a lie, will not hazard his character with posterity by asserting a falsehood on a subject so important to his country and on an occasion like this. Yes my lords, a man who does not wish to have his epitaph written, until his country is liberated will not leave a weapon in the power of envy to impeach the probity which he means to preserve even in the grave to which tyranny consigns him.
[Here he was again interrupted by the court.]
Again I say, that what I have spoken, was not intended for your lordship, whose situation I commiserate rather than envy; my expressions were for my countrymen; if there is a true Irishman present, let my last word cheer him in the hour of his affliction—
[He was again interrupted, Lord Norbury said he did not sit there to hear treason.]
I have always understood it to be the duty of a judge, when a prisoner has been convicted to pronounce the sentence of the law; I have also understood that judges sometimes think it their duty to hear with patience, and to speak with humanity; to exhort the victim of the laws, and to offer with tender benignity his opinions of the motives by which he was actuated in the crime of which he had been found guilty; that a judge has thought it his duty so to have done. I have no doubt—but where is the boasted freedom of your institutions, where is the vaunted impartiality, clemency, and mildness of your courts of justice; if an unfortunate prisoner, whom your policy and not justice, is about to deliver into the hands of the executioner, is not suffered to explain his motives sincerely and truly, and to vindicate the principles by which he was actuated.
My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice, to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the purposed shame or the scaffold's terrors would be the same indurance, charges and imputations laid against me in this court; you my lord are a judge, I am the supposed culprit; I am a man; you are a man also; by a revolution of power, we might change places—who we never could change characters; if I stand at the bar of this court, and dare not vindicate my character, what a farce is your justice! If I stand at this bar and dare not vindicate any character, how dare you communicate it? Does the sentence of death which your policy inflicts on my body, also condemn my tongue to silence and my reputation to reproach; your executioner may abridge the period of my existence, but while I exist, I shall not cease to vindicate my character and motives from your aspersions, and as a man to whom fame is dearer than life I will make the last use of that life in doing justice to that reputation which is to live after me, and which is the only legacy I can leave to those I honor and love and for whom I am proud to perish. As men, my lord we must appear on the great day at one common tribunal, and it will then remain for the searcher of all hearts to shew a collective universe who was engaged in the most virtuous actions, or attached by the purest motives.
[Here he was interrupted and told to listen to the sentence of the law.]
My lord, will a dying man be denied the legal privilege of exculpating himself in the eyes of the community of an undeserved reproach thrown upon him during his trial, by charging him with ambition, and attempting to cast away for a paltry consideration the liberties of his country! Why did your lordship insult me? or rather why insult justice, in demanding of me why sentence of death should not be pronounced? I know my lord that form prescribes that you should ask the question, the form also presumes a right of answering! This no doubt may be dispensed with—and so might the whole ceremony of the trial, since sentence was already pronounced at the castle before your jury was impanelled; your lordships are but the priests of the oracle, and I submit; but I insist on the whole of the forms.
[Here the court desired him to proceed.]
I am charged with being an emissary of France? An emissary of France! And for what end? It is alleged that I wished to sell the independence of my country! And for what end? Was this the object of my ambition? And is this the mode by which a tribunal of justice reconciles contradictions? No, I am no emissary—and my ambition was to hold a place among the deliverers of my country, not in power, nor in profit, but in the glory of the achievement! Sell my country's independence to France! And for what! Was it for a change of masters! No! But for ambition! O my country, was it personal ambition that could influence me, had it been the soul of my actions, could I not by my education and fortune, by the rank and consideration of my
family have placed myself amongst the proudest of my oppressors? My country was my idol; to it I sacrifice every selfish, every indearing sentiment; and for it I now offer up my life. O God! no, my lord, I acted as an Irishman determined on delivering my country from the yoke of a foreign and unrelenting tyranny, and from the more galling yoke, of a domestic faction which is joint partner and perpetrator in the particle for the ignominy of existing with an exterior of splendor and a conscious depravity. It was the wish of my heart to extricate my country from this doubly riveted despotism.
I wished to place her independence beyond the reach of any power on earth; I wished to exalt you to that proud station in the world.
Connexion with France was indeed intended—but only as far as mutual interest would sanction or require; were they to assume any authority inconsistent with the purest independence, it would be the signal for their destruction; we sought aid and we sought it as we had assurances we should obtain it—as auxiliaries in war, and allies in peace.
Were the French to come as invaders or enemies, uninvited by the wishes of the people; I should oppose them to the utmost of my strength. Yes my countrymen, I should advise you to meet them on the beach, with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other—I would meet them with all the destructive fury of war and I would animate my countrymen to immolate them in their boats, before they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing and if forced to retire before superior discipline I would dispute every inch of ground, burn every blade of grass, and the last intrenchment of liberty should be my grave. What I could not do myself if I should fail, I should leave as a charge to my countrymen to accomplish because I should feel conscious that life any more than death is unprofitable when a foreign nation holds my country in subjection.
But it was not as an enemy that the successors of France were to land; I looked indeed for the assistance of France; but I wished to prove to France and to the world, that Irishmen deserved to be assisted; that they were indignant at slavery, and ready to assert the independence and liberty of their country.
I wished to procure for my country the guarantee which Washington procured for America. To procure an aid which by its example would be as important as its valor, disciplined, gallant, pregnant with science and experience; who would perceive the good and polish the rough points of our character: they would come to us as strangers and leave us as friends, after sharing in our perils and elevating our destiny—these were my objects, not to receive new task masters, but to expel old tyrans—these were my views—and these only became Irishmen. I know your most implacable enemies are in the bosom of your country.
I have been charged with that importance in the efforts to emancipate my country, as to be considered the key stone of the combination of Irishmen or as your lordship expressed it, "the life and blood of the conspiracy." You do me honor over much; you have given to the subaltern all the credit of a superior; there are men engaged in this conspiracy, who are not only superior to me, but even to your own conceptions of yourself my lord; men before the splendor of whose genius and virtues I should bow with respectful deference, and who would think themselves dishonored to be called your friend, who would disgrace themselves by shaking your blood stained hand.
[Here he was interrupted.]
What my lord, shall you tell me, on the passage to that scaffold, which that tyranny of which you are only the intermediary executioner, has erected for my martyr; that I am accountable for all the blood that has and will be shed in this struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor, shall you tell me this—and must I be so very a slave as not to repeat it?
I do not fear to approach the omnipotent judge—to answer for the conduct of my whole life, and am I to be appalled and falsified by a mere remnant of mortality here; by you too who, if it were possible to collect all the innocent blood that you have shed in your unhallowed ministry in one great reservoir your lordship might swim in it.
[Here the judge interfered.]—Let no man dare when I am dead to charge me with dishonor—let no man attain my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence—or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen; the proclamation of a provisional government, speaks for itself—no inference can be tortured from countenance or countenance barbarity or home or subjection or hum-chery from above—I would

mitted to a foreign oppressor, for the same reason that I would resist the foreign and domestic oppressor; In the dignity of freedom I would have fought upon the threshold of my country, and its enemy should enter only by passing over my lifeless corps. And I who lived for my country, who have subjected myself to the dangers of the jealous and watchful oppressor, and the bondage of the grave, only to give my countrymen their rights and my country her independence, and I am to be loaded with calumny and not suffered to resent and repel it—No, God forbid!
If the spirits of the illustrious dead participate in the concerns and cares of those who were dear to them in this transitory life—O ever dear and venerated shade of my departed father, look down with scrutiny upon the conduct of your suffering son; and see if I have even for a moment deviated from those principles of morality and patriotism which it was your care to instil into my youthful mind; and for which I am now to offer up my life.
My lords—you are impatient for the sacrifice—the blood which you seek is not congealed by the artificial terrors which surround your victim, it circulates warmly and unshrunk through the channels which God created for noble purposes, but which you are bent to destroy, for purposes so grievous, that they cry to Heaven—be yet patient! I have but a few words more to say—I am going to my cold and silent grave: my lamp of life is nearly extinguished: my race is run: the grave opens to receive me and I sink into its bosom! I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world, it is the charity of silence!—Let no man write my epitaph, for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let no prejudice or ignorance aspers them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain un-inscribed, until other times, and other men, can do justice to my character;—when my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then—and not till then—let my epitaph be written—I have done.
FROM THE AURORA.
REMARKS
On Governor Morris's Funeral Oration on General Hamilton.
The Quotations from the Oration are taken from Chetham's New York Country paper , the Watch-Tower , of July 13.
As Governor Morris is fond of criticising others, he becomes a fair subject of criticism himself. Give and take is fair play.
In all Governor's Harangues let the purpose be what it may, there is always a great deal of what the Players call Stage Trick ; that is, an extraneous attempt to excite surprise. Of this kind was his Speech, in Congress, on the judiciary bill; when putting himself in an attitude of marvellous solemnity, and holding out his hand in awful position, as if he were going to announce the sound of the last Trump, he cried, "Pause! Pause! For Heaven's sake Pause!" Heaven, however, did not listen to his Call; for laughter followed, where he expected a Groan.
In his Funeral Oration on Hamilton he said, " His Life (pointing to the corpse) was one of Honor and Glory ." This pointing scene (like the Ghost in Hamlet pointing with his finger) was a sort of Stage Trick , and, in this place, injudiciously introduced; for you cannot say, the life of a Corpse ; and consequently not " his life ," pointing to a Corpse. The proper expression would have been the life of our departed Friend ; but the sedateness of this would have excluded the Stage Trick of the finger-scene, and Governor cannot go on long in anything, without some sort of tricks. As to " the Honor and Glory ," we'll let that pass. Least said is soonest mended. Perhaps what the ill-fated Duke of Wharton said, in one of his last epistles to a friend, would have suited quite as well, and made a better impression than this wholesale Encomium of Governor.
"Be kind to my Remains; and O defend, Against your judgment, your deceased Friend."
"When our revolution began," says Governor, " his fame was heard of before his person was seen ." This is undoubtedly true, if his fame was heard of , or prophesied of, before he was born; but, in any other case, it is one of Governor's Bulls: Neither is it correct, as to the circumstance; for Hamilton was unknown when the revolution began.
Our Orator goes on: " Washington ," says he, " that excellent judge of Human Nature, perceived his virtues, appreciated his Talents, &c. " This is one of Governor's sly Tricks ; for it includes the idea, that " Washington, that excellent judge of Human Nature ," perceived my Virtues, yes, my Virtues, and appreciated my Talents; for he appointed me Minister to France—And a very injudicious and unfortunate appointment it was.
From hence Governor gets to York-Town, in Virginia, where Cornwallis was taken, and where Hamilton had a command, at the head (says he) of a Forlorn Hope, attacked the redoubt (a redoubt) of the Enemy, and " was victorious ." This sentence gave us pace . Hold: Not last, Mr. Orator. Burgoyne and Gen. Burgoyne had been taken before; and Gen. Burgoyne was the General in the American army, who was defeated to the southward, in the Southern states. But, in one circumstance that con-
tributed more than any other to the capture of Cornwallis, it was the French fleet, of 31 sail of the line, slanting Cornwallis up in the Chesapeake, and preventing the English fleet taking him off; and in addition to this, a frigate loaded with money, brought from France by Col. John Laurens and Thomas Paine , arrived at Boston the 25th of August, almost two months before Cornwallis surrendered. This timely supply enabled Congress to go on, and the army to proceed to York-Town. Governor knows all these matters; (for he was at that time a sort of Deputy-financier to Robert Morris) but it did not suit his tricks , even to allude to them; and therefore he sacrificed them all to the merit of taking a redoubt. But Governor is no Soldier; he did not lose his leg in Battle.
From hence our Orator conducts Hamilton to the Convention, which met at Philadelphia, in 1787, to form the Federal Constitution. " Here ," says he, " I saw him labor indefatigably ." For what?—" For his Country's good ," continues the Orator. No, sir. He labored to establish a Constitution that would have deprived the Citizens, of every description, of the Right of Election; and have put himself , and you too, Mr. Prate a piece , in possession of part of the Government for life.
"When," continues our Orator, "the labors of the Convention were closed, he frankly expressed a doubt of the fitness of the constitution to maintain, with necessary energy , public Freedom." Governor Morris has yet to learn the Principles of Civil government; but he will talk about it; for, " On all things talkable he boldly talks ."
Governor Morris, and others of his description, who have conceits instead of principles , and vanity instead of wisdom , are very fond of this word Energy ; but they always mean the Energy they are to act themselves ; not that which they are to suffer. The same persons who were for what they called an energetic government , and a President and Senate for life, in the time of Washington (who was of their own party) would oppose it, now the Presidency is in the hands of Mr. Jefferson, and the Senate is no longer of their Faction ; which shows that these Energy-schemers do not act from principle; because principle, if right, is right at all times. The Energy of the people has overthrown these schemers; but we do not hear them praise this sort of energy! No! No! It is the energy of themselves, over the people, that they mean. When the constitution for the Federal City was to be formed, Governor's first article was, There shall be a damned strong Jail . He certainly did not mean it for himself; but had he staid a few days longer in France he would have known what a strong Jail was, and Energy too; for the committee of public safety had intercepted some letters, and they sent a guard to the house where he used to live, to arrest and take him to prison. But, fortunately for him, he was off, with all his waggons-loads of fine French furniture; for Governor knew how to feather his nest.
The constitution being established, and Washington elected President, our Orator then proceeds with his harangue: " Washington, with whom (Hamilton) had toiled, and by whose side he had travelled through every stage of our revolutionary contest; Washington, who saw his manly struggles in the convention, and best knew how to promote his country's welfare, called him, under the new constitution, to preside over an important department of our government ." Secretary of the Treasury.
Washington's choice of officers for the principal departments of government, was neither judicious nor fortunate; nor could it be so; for, excepting Mr. Jefferson (who had just arrived from his ministry in France, and was appointed secretary of state, which he soon resigned) Washington appointed those only of the convention who had supported arbitrary measures. " The manly struggles ," of which Governor speaks, " that Hamilton made in the convention ," and which Washington saw with approbation, were exerted to lift Washington above his fellows, by making him President for life, with a Senate of the same description, or something worse. " Here ," continues our Orator; " that is, in the treasury, Hamilton displayed all the talents of a great financier ;" for, at this period, we had no credit; but we had re-sources ." This is putting the cart before the horse, which Governor is very apt to do; for he seldom begins at the right end of anything. The old Congress had no credit because it had no resources. The new constitution provided resources for the new Congress, and credit, like the cart behind the horse, followed of consequence. Hamilton created neither the one nor the other; but he created an insurrection by his injudicious vexations, and unproductive tax upon stills: But this was energy. Our Orator next proceeds to the period when an army of 50,000 men was to be raised; of which Washington was appointed commander in chief, by that prior creature J. M. Ad. ms.
" Menaced ," says he, " by dangers from without ,"—this is an absolute falsehood, with respect to foreign invasion—" Washington was called from his beloved retirement to the field ,"—that bloodless field, where the masquerade of danger was to be performed.—Governor then goes on, " That
† It took 16 Ox teams to remove the money brought by this frigate, the Resolute , from Boston to Philadelphia. Thomas Willing, now President of the U S Bank, received it.
‡ Governor Morris was not appointed to the convention by his own state; for he had lost its confidence; but Robert Morris, managed to get him appointed for Pennsylvania; to which he did not belong.
great man ," (who made Governor Morris a great man) " had not forgotten the young hero (Hamilton) who, early in the revolution, had attracted his notice . He viewed him as worthy of the second in command, and he was appointed Major general of our army." As our Orator had no deeds of " honor and glory " to rehearse, on this dangerous occasion, he closes his account of it by saying, " Washington deemed him, in case of accident "—it must be all accident, where there is no danger—"perhaps the only man in whose hands, which now lie cold in the coffin"—this is a paltry attempt at the pathetic—"the sword and purse of America could be so safely entrusted." It is a thing of no consequence to us, what Washington thought of Hamilton, when he appointed him to office or command; or what Hamilton thought of Washington, when he called him an Old Fool : Thank God, those times are past, and better are come in their place.
As to the danger, of which our Orator speaks, it marks one of those well-remembered circumstances which show, that the politics of that day were either foolish or worse. No man who possessed a grain of common sense could have supposed, that, while France and England were engaged in war, especially a land war, either could spare a regiment, much less an army, to send against America; neither was it ever thought of by either of them. The impossibility of the thing did not permit the existence of such a thought. What then was the army wanted for?
When we consider the parties engaged in it, and know what their politics were, we have a right to conclude, that it was to accomplish, by an armed force in the field, what had failed of success by projects in the convention. The chiefs, however, did not draw cordially together. Between Washington, Adams and Hamilton, there was a reciprocal jealousy and distrust, and some specimens of hatred; and they were well founded.
Our Orator concludes his account of Hamilton's public career as follows: " He toiled incessantly, with manly firmness, against popular zeal and snatched you, in spite of yourselves "—this is an affront to the audience—"from impending ruin" * If some body would be kind enough to snatch Governor Morris from his " worst enemy ," his foolish self , it might cure his otherwise incurable folly. Experience is lost upon him. In business, he is a babe; and in politics, a visionary; and the older he grows, the more foolish he becomes.
Of civil government he knows nothing: He has yet to learn, that the strength of government consists in the interest the people have in supporting it. The present administration is, for this reason, stronger than any that preceded it; and the next presidential election will show it. Mere politicians of the old school, may talk of alliances; but the strongest of alliances is that which the mildness, wisdom and justice of government form, unperceived, with the people it governs. It grows in the mind with the secrecy and fidelity of love, and reposes on its own energy. Make it the interest of people to live in a state of government, and they will protect that which protects them. But when they are harassed with alarms, which time discovers to be false, and burdened with taxes, for which they can see no cause, their confidence in such government withers away, and they laugh at the energy that attempts to restore it. Their cry then is, as in the time of terror, " Not to your tents, O! Israel ;" but, to the NEXT ELECTION. O! CITIZENS ." It is thus the representative system corrects wrongs, and preserves rights.
COMMON SENSE.
† When an affair of business is said to be put into a person's hands, it means, figuratively, his care and judgment; but Morris, referring to the hands in the coffin, destroyed the figurative meaning of the phrase, and makes nonsense of it.
‡ An Orator ought not to take the advantage of a Funeral Oration, to propagate things which are not facts. Morris ought to prove what he has said, or retract it. Funeral Oration give no protection to falsehoods.
From the Alexandria Expositor.
Mr. DINMORE, By inserting the following extract from a letter in the National Intelligencer of last Friday, you will oblige an old friend.
Alexandria, Aug. 27, 1804.
After giving an extract from Smith's Wealth of Nations , which goes to prove that Banks trading beyond the natural demands of the country are injurious, the letter writer adds—It does appear to me evidently, that most of the newly projected banks have originated in the chimeras or distresses of that class of projectors which our author describes that the real wants of the country require no such additional artificial capital, for artificial I must consider it, when I reflect that, in a community, in which the banking system had been already dealt out with a most liberal hand by the legislative authority, by increasing those institutions no additional specie capital is called into action—but the operation is to divide with the banks previously established the deposits of specie, before placed in their vaults, thereby lessening the power of the older establishments to make loans, and taking only a part of the means they before held to circulate their paper; and so far it might be innocent as related to the community at large, but from the forcing the circulation of a point beyond what the capital and resources of the country will bear, and which to accommodate their friends and to produce a good interest to their stockholders they will all, in this rival state, undoubtedly attempt, incalculable mischiefs must sooner or later
be expected—The legislatures of some of the states seem to have turned their attention lately to this abuse of banks. In New York by a law of their last session they have dissolved, what is called the merchants' bank in the city of New York, which had gone into operation without a charter; in Massachusetts, they have passed a law prohibiting under heavy penalties the erecting any bank without a charter previously obtained, and making it necessary to the petition for a charter; that the company proposing such an establishment, should have first obtained their whole contemplated capital in specie, and by importation; it is very much to be wished that some such legislative provision, as this last, was made to embrace every portion of the union.
I am one of those who consider the banking system as valuable to a certain extent, but that it may be very much abused; this abuse I think I see coming now much into practice; be this as it may, institutions of this nature which have such intimate relations with the general interests of our society ought not to be permitted to take effect without previous legislative sanction. The interests of the community require this, that of their own stockholders make it necessary. How far the property of every individual subscriber, over and above his stock, may be liable in case of an accident to an incorporated bank, I shall not undertake here to discuss; I know it is the opinion of some of our soundest lawyers, that no device which can be used in their articles of copartnership or in their promulgated terms of business, can subvert the great principle of the law of the land, that a partner in the profits of any trading company, no matter in how small a degree, shall be liable for the debts to the amount of his whole fortune if the company become insolvent; but a bank not incorporated is, as in the case with the merchants' bank at N. York, always liable to be dissolved by legislative interference.
In none of the newly proposed banks, and many might be pointed out in each project, do I see such glaring inconsistencies as in the scheme of the bank of Potomac, as it is to be called, at Alexandria. This is really sui generis . I have before heard of no bank erected, or attempted to be erected not having previously obtained legislative authority, that had not at least a charter in prospect, and which did not take originally some steps calculated to secure one. It has been reserved for the projectors of the bank of Potomac to undertake not only to establish a bank without the possibility of obtaining a charter, but to attempt to put such an institution into operation, under the palpable invasion of two existing laws; the one of the congress of the United States, the other of the state of Virginia. The 12th section of the act of Congress incorporating the subscribers to the bank of the United States, is in the following words—" and be it further enacted, that no other bank shall be established by any future law of the United States during the continuation of the corporation herein created for which the faith of the United States is hereby pledged ." Now Alexandria is in the District of Columbia, placed some years since under the exclusive and absolute jurisdiction of congress. If this newly designed bank be in Alexandria—to ask for a charter of the only competent authority would be vain; to obtain it would be impossible; and how far congress may consider, that to tolerate such an institution, would be tantamount to their sanction, and violation of their faith thus solemnly pledged, may be well worth the reflection of its advocates? It is true, there is a provision in the articles of association, that in the event of their obtaining a charter from the state of Virginia, the bank may be removed out of town, across the lines of the district into Virginia; but what possible chance is there for a charter from that quarter? Will Virginia be more disposed to favor the prayer of the advocates, foreigners to her, living under a different government, than that of her own citizens, who from the county neighboring to Alexandria it appears have already petitioned for a branch of the institution in which the state has largely interested herself?
In December, 1785, the legislature of Virginia passed the following law, entitled "an act, to prevent the circulation of private bank notes"—Be it enacted, &c. That it shall not be lawful for any person to offer in payment a private bank bill or note for money payable to bearer; and whoever shall offend herein shall not only forfeit to the informer ten times the value of the sum mentioned in such bill or note, but may be apprehended by warrant of justice, and upon due proof of the fact made to him or upon his own acknowledgment thereof be bound to good behavior, or if he afterwards offend in like manner it shall be deemed a breach of the recognizance." Revised code, chap. xi.
That part of the District of Columbia to the south of Potomac in which Alexandria lies, contains at most a territory of four square miles. This was cut off from Virginia; all its internal trading relations are with that state; every thing she exports she buys of Virginia; every thing she imports she sells to Virginia; all the circulation then of this projected bank, if there be any, must be in Virginia, and yet the moment her circulation begins there, it is stated full in the face, by an act entitled an act, "to prevent the circulation of private bank notes." If this bank be not authorised by law, it must be, in the full import of the term, a private bank. But it may be said the notes will not be made payable to bearer in the body of the bill—that they will be filed to the teller,
or any other officer of the bank, who will endorse them in blank, and thus the law will not reach the case. Surely when this blank endorsement is put on, it is intended as a means to make them payable to bearer, and it will still be a circulation "of private bank notes;" which by the title of the law it is intended to prevent—yet admit that this evasion of the letter, in the teeth of the spirit of the law, should be permitted by the courts of justice, which I cannot conceive is to be presumed that the state of Virginia will thus permit a paper to pervade her country long ago guarded against—and the more particularly now to the injury of the institutions she has lately established, and become interested in? Will early notice not be taken of it by her legislature and the evasion be provided for?
Placed then as will be this singularly constituted bank between Scylla and Charybdis, should it go into operation, it is not very difficult to foresee what will be the course and duration of its career.
N. P.
August 16, 1804.
BOSTON, August 19.
SHIP NEWS.
Arrived, ( six quarantine ) the brig Camillus , capt. Kennard, 32 days from Guadaloupe. Sailed July 16, and on the 24th, at midnight, was brought too by H. M. armed sch. Le Clair , Lieut. Sutton, who ordered Capt. K. to get out his boat and come on board, and to make haste or he would be fired upon; capt. K. said that his boat was very leaky, but was assured that he must come on board and bring all his papers. When capt. K. got on board he was deprived of his papers, and a prize master and crew were sent to his brig. The next day the captain was returned on board his vessel, the mate and seamen taken out, and the brig ordered for Tortola, because she had freight on board. On board the Camillus , the crew of the Camillus were asked by Lieut. Sutton, whether they would fight, if he fell in with a French privateer. They replied, they were Americans and prisoners, and would not fight under a foreign flag. The Lt. ordered one of the men to do duty, observing, that he intended to keep him. The seaman objected; whereupon he was ordered to the gangway, stripped and lashed, and the boatswain was directed to give him three dozen, and to start the skin. This cruel and inhuman punishment was inflicted with shocking severity—After keeping the Camillus in charge three days, finding they could not fetch Tortola, Sutton gave her up again, and returned her crew on board. Particular care was requisite for several days to recover the poor fellow who had been so barbarously abused. His name is Thomas Carpenter, and he was born at Falmouth, (M.)
SALEM, August 24.
INDIA NEWS.—A gentleman who arrived yesterday in the Lucia , from Calcutta, has favored us with the following summary of intelligence:
"The news of the war in Europe reached Calcutta about the beginning of December; in consequence of which, a number of sailors were impressed from the American shipping , for the British ship Caroline , capt. Page. A great number of American seamen had deserted their ships in the months of September, October and November, and volunteered on board the East India company's frigate Bombay , capt. Hayes, where they still are, and probably will be, during the war.
"The company had concluded a peace with the Mahrattah powers. The war was of but short duration, though extremely obstinate on the part of the natives—many hard battles were fought, in which the slaughter on both sides was very considerable. In one engagement, Scindiah, the Mahrattah chief, lost 90 pieces of artillery. A number of European officers fought under his standard; his soldiers were armed and clothed in a style superior to that of their enemies, and the English troops found them much better skilled in a war than at any former period. Several able and distinguished British officers fell in the course of the campaign. By the peace, the company have gained, as usual, a large accession of territory, besides several strongly fortified towns, and a good share of plunder.
"The event of the war seemed to diffuse a general joy among the inhabitants of Calcutta, both Europeans and natives, and his excellency the governor had publicly received a congratulatory address on the subject, from the principal inhabitants of the settlement. About the beginning of March, the palace and environs were most superbly illuminated. The names of " Lake and Wellesley " were exhibited in five works in various positions, and a splendid ball at the government house closed the festivities of the night. An immense throng of all nations, hues and tongues, surrounded the palace in every direction. In short, the ent event was grand and interesting beyond description.
"A dispute between Holkar , a Mahrattah chief, and the company, was much expected; and it was also whispered that Pegu would soon fall into the hands of the English! On this subject however, no surmise could possibly be formed from the Gazette of Calcutta ; as not a syllable appears in them which is not previously undergone examination by the chief secretary of government, who expunges such articles as he thinks proper.
"There had been a number of French privateers from the Isle of France cruising in the Bay of Bengal, several of which had been taken by English cruizers, and sent into Calcutta. They had been at Bercoole , and destroyed a quantity of pepper, and several vessels in the harbor.
"There had been two embargoes on all shipping at Calcutta, and on the river Hedgely , in consequence of the sailing of the company's ships for Europe."
FROM SUMATRA.
By capt. Haskell, we have intelligence of the English taking possession of the port and town of Macca (Sumatra) with a force consisting of a ship of 20 guns, one of 16, one of 8, one of 6, and one of 4, and between three and four hundred sepoys, after a fire and action of six hours, in which the Malays lost 50 men, and the English 20. This was on the 14th of April. [We presume the place alluded to must be Macba .]
PHILADELPHIA, August 29.
A letter from St. Domingo to a merchant in this city, says, "by several late arrivals from France, we have been informed that the government having conceived that all was lost at St. Domingo, after the evacuation of the Cape, have experienced an extreme satisfaction, on receiving the unexpected account of gen. Ferrand's possessing the whole of the ci-devant Spanish part of St. Domingo, with the remains of the French army. In con-

sequence he is now vested with unlimited powers, and every act of his administration will have full force and validity—every bill drawn by him on the public treasury has been duly honored, a circumstance highly interesting to the American commerce. The French troops beside the city of St. Domingo, occupy St. Jago, under the command of Devaux , adjutant commandant, and Pallie , chief of battalion. They also occupy Azua under the command of Ruiz, chief of the battalion. Colonel Peralta commands the Spanish national guards, who fight like veteran soldiers. In the defeat of Dessalines at St. Jago by gen. Ferrand the former had one thousand men killed and a great many more wounded: the enraged black chief, to avenge his loss, cruelly ordered several whites and mulattoes to be massacred, and the cities of Monte Christie and Fort Dauphin reduced to ashes. St. Domingo is in a complete state of defence, and, if the French agents in the U. States exert themselves in its favor, it must hold out until peace is established, however remote that period may be."
The above letter agrees with the information received from other quarters.
We hear that a captain Casset, an aide-de-camp of general Ferrand, commander in chief of Santo Domingo, has lately arrived from that island via Baltimore, and that he is come to demand the troops lately ordered to France by Mr. Pichon, the French charge des affaires, and to procure supplies from that gentleman for the use of the French army of St. Domingo, which for a year past have suffered every hardship. It is to be presumed that captain Casset will succeed, as gen. Ferrand's services under all circumstances are extraordinary; he appears to have pursued a different conduct from his predecessor, and established principles of the strictest economy and order, in every branch of his administration, without external aid, or other resources but those of a constant and unshaken resolution.
General Ferrand who now commands at St. Domingo, served in our revolution as a lieutenant in the Huzzars of Lauzun: he distinguished himself during the French revolution in many gallant actions, particularly at Boulogne, where he commanded when admiral Nelson attempted the Bombardment of that place.
General Ferrand is about 43 years of age, a tall and commanding stature, a fair complexion, but more taciturn than the generality of his countrymen.
FROM THE AURORA. Mr. Editor, I see in the American Citizen of New York, a communication, in which there is some good sense, but mixed with a little want of consideration. But I enclose the article—
"COMMUNICATION. "Nothing is more idle than for a nation to think of obtaining respect, when she has no force to command it. The conduct of the British frigates in annoying the commerce of New York, is just such as may be ever expected in the defenceless condition of the United States. It is not British but human nature ."
"A few vessels of war which the United States can easily, and must sooner or later furnish, would ensure protection to their trade. They then could say to those inclined to trespass, 'Gentlemen, you ought not, but you shall not do so.' Until such measures are taken, all complaints are vain, and there can be no remedy. Mr. Jefferson has said many good things, and none more just than that men 'feel power and forget right.'"
"Whatever may be the difference of political sentiments among us, and the animosity which it has occasioned, surely all would unite in supporting the dignity and safety of the nation. He is an unworthy citizen who would sacrifice these for any consideration. POLITICUS."
In all that concerns the folly of expecting to obtain respect from British ships of war—or from any nation in similar circumstances, I cheerfully concur.
But I totally differ from POLITICUS as to the supposed efficacy of "a few vessels of war."
I do not believe, sir, that any force less than an equal force with the British navy can secure any nation from British aggression, so long as her interests in the commission of the aggression are greater than her interests in the omission.
It is therefore, if I am correct in this opinion, superfluous to argue about any definite number of ships as competent to check the three ships of war now off New York—as the force we must necessarily have to be effective is to be determined only by the number which the British navy could spare from other stations to support its aggressions.
Arguing therefore upon a mere naval defence, is wholly unnecessary, since the question would involve in the first step the question—Could we sustain the expense of such a force?
I believe, sir, that the expense of such a navy as Great Britain maintains could not be possible in the present state of our population. Its expense exceeds 160 millions of dollars.
The expense of such a navy would amount to a tax of about 2000 dollars a year upon every white male between the age of 16 and 45 in the United States.
Naval equipments must depend in the existing state of the world upon pecuniary funds. The exaction of such funds as 2000 dollars a year from every individual of the active ages of life requires no other argument.
But there are resources much superior
to murder and warfare—though I do not expect those who deplore duelling and the sorrows of the orphans and widows of those killed in duels, to be disposed to approve of my notions. I believe that those who covered their heads in mourning weeds on a late occasion, would exhibit the most extravagant joy, at the murder of 1000 human beings more virtuous, and more estimable, in a naval naumachia .
Now, sir, I am not fond of murder either in the detail of duelling or by wholesale—I detest that system of war which carries conviction by the murderer's ball or bayonet, or which determines right and wrong, by the greater proportion of human carnage.
My mode of convincing would be more effective and not encumbered by any danger of failure—I would carry my arguments into the pockets of British merchants, and they should become my negotiators.
I would, sir, in short, do as was done by those whose virtue has immortalized them, the founders of our independence and our government—in a word, sir, I would refuse admittance to British ships and British goods until justice should be done us—or I would levy a triple or a quadruple duty upon the goods of that nation or of any other nation that should treat us with such barbarous insult and injustice.
I know, sir, that our executive has not the authority to enforce such a prohibition; and that it rests wholly with congress. I know what the executive can do, has been done, in the way of remonstrance and complaint, and that it remains with congress at its approaching session, to carry into effect, those measures which were brought forward under the expectation that the remonstrances at the court of London would be successful. I see no other resource but a non-importation and non-consumption agreement—or a law by congress which may operate to the same effect.
With regard to the injuries done our seamen—would it not be necessary that some principle of retaliation should be pursued.—If an American citizen, is seized by a British ship, why should not a British subject be put into confinement until the citizen is liberated.
HUDDY.
Latest from Europe.
The ship Prosperity , Capt. Barry, in 43 days from Liverpool, arrived at this port this morning. Sailed from Liverpool the 12th of July. Capt. Barry has politely furnished us with his papers to this date. They do not contain any information of consequence.
"LONDON, July 7.—The coronation of Bonaparte, it is said, is to be postponed to the 9th of November."
"Dispatches were yesterday received from Sir J. B. Warren, at St. Petersburg, which are said to be of a very important nature. Whatever may be the result of the communications between the English and the Russian courts, we have no doubt but they must refer to objects of very general interests to the states of the continent. It is said that 25 Russian ships, full of troops, have arrived at Corfu."
"It appears that of 12 judges who sat on the trial of Moreau, 4 of them voted for his death, 4 for acquittal, and 4 for 2 years imprisonment. This singular circumstance is said to have produced a debate of 6 hours, when the majority declared for the latter sentence."
"Adm. lord Duncan, it is understood is to succeed Adm. Cornwallis in the command of the Channel fleet."
"Mr. Pitt, we are sorry to say, appears to be in a very indifferent state of health."
"The long rumored invasion, many correspondents from the coast persist in saying will take place in the course of next week. Without pretending to know the day or the week, however, we are apt to think, that the time is not very remote, when the contest between the two countries will be decided. The very formidable preparations, all along the extensive coasts of the enemy, from Brest to the Texel, we think evince Bonaparte's determination of making the experiment. We ought not therefore to relax a single moment, in our arrangements of defence. The Corsican regardless of the consequences, seems resolved once more to put his good fortune to the test;—but, convinced of the spirit and energy of our brave countrymen, we have no doubt that the contest will prove glorious to the British arms."
FROM THE SALEM REGISTER.
It might be supposed that the British by their captures of our vessels, expected to drive us to a new commercial treaty. They pursued this line of conduct at the commencement of the last war, and the then administration sought protection in a treaty which sacrificed many of our best commercial rights, and under which we sustained hardships, and sufferings, almost too grievous to be borne. Mr. Pitt is now hardly re-established in Great Britain, before the English frigates infest our coasts and blockade some of our seaports. It is not meant to be insinuated that Mr. Pitt has given orders to distress our commerce, but it would seem that British vessels of war have very lately made considerable depredations upon our defenceless merchant vessels. The affair of the Cambrian in impressing a ship's crew above the narrows, in New York harbor, was such as to call for executive interference, and this we understand was afforded in a prompt and efficacious manner. The frigate found it necessary to quit the port of New York where she was a very unwelcome guest, but her subsequent conduct off the Hook is pretty conclusive evidence that her commander is bound by no other law than that which his cannon enforces.
If his government sanctions aggressions like these, if it does not disavow outrages that bear the mark and stamp of intentional and premeditated insult, then will it be evident that he acts under authority, then will the nation be convinced that Great Britain means to try how far she may go without absolutely breaking friendship with America.
In due time there cannot be a doubt that the circumstances connected with the violation of our national sovereignty by the Cambrian, will be communicated to the nation. To compel the United States to a commercial treaty similar to Jay's, we would suppose it totally inadmissible.
Provisions for instance, can never again be considered in any case as becoming contraband.
The principle of an undefined blockade, could not be agreed to.
The list of contraband articles could not be admitted on the enlarged scale that Jay's treaty had sanctioned, and the examination of neutral ships, whether with or without enemies' goods, could not be allowed to the former extent without an abandonment of the right of free trade.—But why agree to any commercial treaty? Why give up rights we ought to enjoy, as the inheritance of a brave people, bound by no ties, but those which our independence gave us? Commercial treaties are a sort of cobwebs. The belligerent nations are the spiders, and the neutrals are no other than the poor unfortunate flies, which get entangled in the snares of admiralty courts, &c. where their wings are clipped, and if they escape adjudication it is more than what may be expected. The United States should take warning from past errors, and not again fall into the spider's web, for such the old treaty with England proved to this country.
some weeks put under sentence of death were executed in Plymouth harbour. One of them on board the Manouar , of 74 guns in Cawsand bay, and the other in Homage . Two others who are under sentence of death, are reserved, it is said, to be executed on board one of the ships of the fleet off Brest.
The Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND:
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1804.
RICHMOND PRICE CURRENT.
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A law passed at the last session of the Legislature of New York, to restrain hawkers, pedlers and petty chapmen from selling, foreign goods within the limits of the state, without a license. It enacts a fine of 25 dollars for every offence, to be recovered before a justice, in a summary way with costs; the one half of the fine to the complainant, and the other half to the overseers of the poor in the town where the offender shall be prosecuted. Licenses are to be granted by the Secretary of State, on application. The price is fixed at 50 dollars to a person travelling on foot; 20 dollars to a person travelling with one horse; and 100 dollars to a person travelling with two horses, per annum—pedlers navigating our waters with a boat, are to pay 80 dollars for a license. Their refusing to shew their license when demanded, subjects them to a fine of 10 dollars.
A PEACE MAD GENERAL.
It was some time since stated, says a London paper, that a Maniac has been taken up at St. Cloud, where he had arrived with an account of a peace having been concluded between France & England. The following are the particulars of the affair:—
On Monday the 21st of May, the Inspector of Artillery, General Le Vasseur, arrived at Paris, from Holland announcing that England had signed a peace, and given up Malta. In waiting for horses at St. Cloud, he went into the Palace royal and the Thuilleries garden, informing the people, in crowds, of this joyful news—When he came to St. Cloud, the Emperor was gone to Malmaison, where he followed his majesty, obtained an immediate audience, and related his peace story. Bonaparte at first spoke seriously to him, assuring him that no negotiation was carried on with England, of course no peace could be concluded. To this Le Vasseur answered, that Mr. Pitt himself had shewn him the Treaty—The Imperial physicians, Corvisart, was in the place, and ordered to feel Le Vasseur's pulse, whom he declared to be ill of a violent brain fever. He was then sent to the madhouse, Charenton, where he now is. The General commanded the French artillery in Holland, where this curious peace madness overtook him, and which country he left on the 19th, travelling night and day, with a post chaise and four, in his full regimentals, as a General proclaiming peace every where he stopped, and to every person he met on the road.
Extra couriers were dispatched by merchants from every town where he changed horses. At Senlis, a merchant procured horses before him, and had advanced a league on the way to Paris, where Le Vasseur, with pistols in his hands, forced his positions to overtake the merchant, whom he strongly rebuked for this attempt, saying, "that he alone was charged to inform the Emperor of the peace." At Paris, as well as at St. Cloud and Malmaison, he embraced and kissed every body he met with, in congratulation for the end of war. From Paris above forty extra couriers were sent to Bordeaux, Marseilles, Strasbourg, and even to Italy, and bargains concluded for near one hundred millions of livres, on the supposition of peace. What is surprising in this peace mad general, is the continuance of the same ideas during a journey of 400 miles, in such a regular manner, that no one suspected his madness. Should Le Vasseur recover, it is not supposed that he will ever be employed again, as his Imperial Majesty Napoleon cannot forgive him being peace mad, instead of war or victory mad. Had his folly been to announce the conquest of Great Britain, he would undoubtedly have obtained the Field Marshal's staff; and the Moniteur would have pronounced it as good an omen as the discovery of Queen Matilda's tapestry.
M. Lucien Bonaparte, eldest brother of the Emperor Napoleon, has lately been wounded in a duel with Prince Borghese his brother in law (the husband of the late Madame Le Clerc) who intends to settle in Germany, leaving his wife with her brother. As the Lady, when she entered Rome, drove her own gig, six in hand—she perhaps, carries too tight a rein for an Italian Prince.
and premeditated insult, then will it be evident that he acts under authority, then will the nation be convinced that Great Britain means to try how far she may go without absolutely breaking friendship with America.
In due time there cannot be a doubt that the circumstances connected with the violation of our national sovereignty by the Cambrian, will be communicated to the nation. To compel the United States to a commercial treaty similar to Jay's, we would suppose it totally inadmissible.
Provisions for instance, can never again be considered in any case as becoming contraband.
The principle of an undefined blockade, could not be agreed to.
The list of contraband articles could not be admitted on the enlarged scale that Jay's treaty had sanctioned, and the examination of neutral ships, whether with or without enemies' goods, could not be allowed to the former extent without an abandonment of the right of free trade.—But why agree to any commercial treaty? Why give up rights we ought to enjoy, as the inheritance of a brave people, bound by no ties, but those which our independence gave us? Commercial treaties are a sort of cobwebs. The belligerent nations are the spiders, and the neutrals are no other than the poor unfortunate flies, which get entangled in the snares of admiralty courts, &c. where their wings are clipped, and if they escape adjudication it is more than what may be expected. The United States should take warning from past errors, and not again fall into the spider's web, for such the old treaty with England proved to this country.
COMMUNICATION.
Departed this life on Sunday last, about 8 o'clock A. M. after a short but painful illness, which she bore with a fortitude not often equalled, in her 19th year, Mrs. MARTHA GORDAN, relict of Mr. James Gordan, of Manchester.
A Camp Meeting.
Will be held at Sandy River Church in Prince Edward county, to begin on Friday the 7th of September next, and continue for five or perhaps six days. The Rev. John Robertson, Clement Read, Edward Almand, John Hardin, Archibald McRobert, and many Ministers of the Gospel from the adjacent counties, it is expected will attend this meeting. Sandy River Church is distant eight miles due east course from Prince Edward Courthouse.
Gentlemen who have obtained subscriptions to the "LADY'S MUSEUM & WEEKLY MAGAZINE," will oblige us by returning the subscription papers as soon as convenient—COOK & GRANTLAND.
(By Authority.)
SCHEME OF A LOTTERY, CLASS NO. 1. To Build an Academy in the City of Richmond.
Table with 3 columns: Tickets, Prizes, Amount. Includes 3750 Tickets at 10 dollars each, 1 Prize of 5000 dollars, and various smaller prizes.
This Lottery has been authorised by the Legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purpose of erecting a Seminary of Learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view, it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dollars, and 2,500 dollars in addition, for defraying the expenses of drawing the expenses of drawing, &c. The Trustees to ensure success, have divided the Lottery into four distinct classes, so as to raise the sum contemplated by an annual Lottery, for four years, to raise every year 5000 dollars, that the work may progress; it is expected that the present Lottery may be drawn by the first day of January next.
It is hoped that the gentlemen who have purchased Tickets in the Richmond Academy will still hold them, as the division of the former Lottery into four classes was deemed necessary by the trustees to insure success to so useful an institution. The town of Boston (to the honor of its citizens) has public schools in which are about sixteen hundred pupils. The flourishing and increasing city of Richmond cannot boast of one public school. The Trustees of the Richmond Academy, have about thirteen acres of ground, nearly one half is accepted as a donation, and the remainder they have contracted for, on which they intend to erect the Academy. The site is elevated, healthy and beautiful. If any gentleman who has purchased tickets is dissatisfied with dividing the Lottery into four classes, if he returns the tickets the money will be repaid, provided they are returned in ten weeks from this day. Doct. William Poushie, William Du Val, William Price, (Registrar), and George Tucker, are appointed by the Trustees to sell and dispose of the Tickets, who are authorised to appoint agents for the above purpose.
Tickets may be had of the said committee, of Doct. John Brockenbrough, jr. Samuel Pleasants, jr. and William Prichard.
Richmond, Sept. 1st, 1804.
FOR RENT, A LARGE AND COMMODIOUS Lumber House,
On the bank of the Basin of the Canal, with four floors and a dry cellar, well calculated to receive either flour or tobacco. For terms apply to JOHN CUNNINGHAM & Co. Richmond, Sept. 1st, 1804.
RACES.
Will be run for, over the course at Surry Courthouse, on Wednesday the 30th day of September, a SWEEPSTAKES for three and four year old Cols., entrance fifty dollars, half forfeit, two mile heats, carrying the weights of the course.—Stables and litter furnished race horses as usual, gratis.
DAVID PRICE, Proprietor of the course. Surry Courthouse, 1st Sept. 1804.
On the day following the above race (Thursday) will be run for over the same course, the SURRY JOCKEY CLUB PURSE of FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, three mile heats—And on Friday, the PURSE of the Proprietor of the Course, of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS.
Table with 2 columns: Age, Weight. Ages range from 3 to 6 years old, with weights ranging from 86 to 130.
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.
Notice.
MY agency as Attorney in fact for Mrs. Polly I. Holman, (late Mrs. Polly I. Cooke), now ceases. All the papers of every description are deposited with Capt. George Holman, to whom in future applications must be made by those who have business with the executrix of Richard Cooke, dec.
RO. B. PAYNE. Columbia, Sept 1st, 1804.
In Hanover County Court,
July 30th, 1803. John Clopton, administrator of William Clopton, deceased, pt. Against James Blackwell, William Mason and John Swann, defts.
THE defendant James Blackwell, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this country: On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant, James Blackwell, do appear here on the fourth Wednesday in October next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively; and that another copy be posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A copy—Teste, THO: POLLARD, D. e. e.
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 three 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. Grattan'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.
We request that you will notify to the subscribers, that the fourth and last payment for the Richmond Theatre, must be paid to the Treasurer on or before the 5th September.
J. DARMSDATTE. JOHN FOSTER. WM. COOK. Richmond, 27th Aug. 1804. Geo: FISHER, Esq. Treasurer.
The subscribers are hereby notified, that in consequence of the rapid progress of the building the above requisition is necessary in order to defray the expenses now actually incurred. Punctuality is absolutely necessary. GEO: FISHER, Treasurer. 27th Aug. 1804.
Appomattox Company.
A MEETING of the Trustees is proposed to be held at Pridesville, on Friday the 14th September. It is hoped the members will be punctual in their attendance. RICH'D. N. VENABLE, JOS: EGGLESTON. EDW'D. MUMFORD. 231 August, 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 Thursday, Friday and Saturday next—being their uniform practice to do no business on days ordained by the Mosaic Law to be holy. Richmond, September 1, 1804.
Public Notice, IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT the Common Hall of the City of Richmond, will at their next monthly meeting, proceed to recommend to the Court of Hustings for the said City, one fit and proper person to be appointed a Constable of the said City in the room of Leighton Wood, who hath resigned. (By order of the Hall) ANDREW STEVENSON, c. e. u.
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, on or before which time, all persons desirous of engaging in that business are desired to come forward. THO: UNDE WOOD. Richmond, Sept. 1st, 1804.
A few Maps of Louis. na, Mounted and Varnished, to sale at this office.

Scottville Jockey Club. On the second Thursday in September, will be run for over the Scottville course, the Jockey Club Purse of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS , three mile heats; weights as follows: Aged Horses, lbs. 134 Six years old, 133 Five ditto, 117 Four ditto, 106 Three ditto, 90 Mares and Geldings allowed three pounds. 10* WILLIAM ARCHER, Sec'y
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 collectors 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, within thirty days, 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 45 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 dirt 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. 25th, 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. 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. (H) Colchester, July 27th, 1804.
TICKLE TOBT Will stand the next season, at my stable in the upper end of Chesterfield county, five miles from Good's and Bevil's Bridges and twelve from Gennett.—The terms, his pedigree and performance will be made known before the season commences. THOMAS BRANCH.
CASH SALE OF LAND, IN ALBEMARLE. ON September 15th, will be SOLD in Charlottesville, to the highest bidder, for Cash, the TRACT OF LAND , lying on the east side of Rivanna, over against Charlottesville, containing about 600 acres, with a new commodious Dwelling-House. Two years of a lease under good restrictions have to run after this. The land is all of the South-West Mountain quality; and though much injured in parts, is in general still very good, and all reclaimable. The sale proceeds from a deed of trust to indemnify against loss as security, and bail, which was executed in December, 1802, by William Bache of Pennsylvania, to THOMAS M. RANDOLPH. July 25.
FOR RENT, IN COLUMBIA, MY TENEMENT, It being one of the four central lots in the plan of said town; its situation is high and airy, and possesses a very commanding view. It affords two large dry cellars, the walls of which are rock, four chimneys, eight fire places, seven rooms, one of which in the second story is very large and well calculated for assemblies; it is well ventilated and lighted, having 398 panes of glass, besides two large passages and the garage.—Also a framed kitchen 32 16 feet, now putting up. When the constant and safe navigation from this place, the establishment of the Staunton mail stage by this place, and the expectancy of a turnpike road by this is considered, it is reasonable to expect it will become a place of increasing business. Those who may be disposed to rent, had better give early information, as the house is finishing within, and may be adapted to different purposes. Also, for Sale or Rent,
400 Acres of Land, In the lower end of Louisa, on the South fork of Elk creek, adjoining the lands of Robert & James Dickinson. This land is really good, its growth is generally red oak and hickory. For terms apply to the subscriber. J. WILIS S. Chatham, Fluvanna, July 28, 1804. w6t
A GREAT ASSORTMENT OF Morocco Pocket Books Is just received and for sale at this Office.
WANTED TO RENT OR PURCHASE, A WET NURSE Without a child of her own.—Enquire of the Printer. Auditor's Office, 10th August, 1804. THE Commissioners of the Revenue are requested to send, as soon after the fifteenth of September as possible, to this office, by post, a list of licences granted to merchants in their respective counties or corporations. (4w) SAM. L. SHEPARD, Aud.
PRIVATE TUTOR. A YOUNG MAN qualified to teach the Latin, Greek, and French languages, who can be well recommended, wishes to undertake the tuition of a small school, in some genteel private family.—Further particulars may be known by letter directed to Lindsay's Post Office, Albemarle county, and addressed to F. M. (4w) 7th August, 1804.
Notice to Distillers. WANTED, a MAN who understands the Distilling Business in all its various branches—for such a one a great wages will be given. For further particulars apply to the Editor of this paper. N. B. A Single man will be preferred. tf
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.
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
YOUNG FRIDAY. THIS very beautiful and very valuable horse will stand in or near Catersville on James river, the season of 1805. The terms and other particulars will be made known in due time. RICH'D. D. PINCHAM. July 27th, 1804. 3w
Mr. Abraham Sanderfer. SIR, TAKE NOTICE, that I shall on Saturday the fifteenth day of September next, take the Depositions of Benjamin Allen, John Price, Abner Watson and others, at the dwelling house of John Lancaster in the county of Cumberland, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon, and five o'clock in the afternoon of the day aforesaid, in the suit depending in the Superior Court of Chancery of the Richmond District, between myself complainant, and yourself defendant, agreeable to a commission issued from court on the 11th day of June last. Your very humble servant, STEPHEN COOKE. August 16th, 1804. 3w N. B. I have taken this method of giving notice to Mr. Sanderfer, not knowing where he resides, nor of his having any agents to whom I could give notice
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. Bunce, 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
Valuable Property FOR SALE. BY virtue of a deed of trust executed by Richard and Dabney of King William county, to the subscriber, to secure and satisfy a debt due from the said Richard to Cornelius Dabney, administrator with the will annexed, of Owen Dabney, dec. will be offered to SALE, on the fourth Wednesday in September next, at Hanover county courthouse, to the highest bidder, for ready payment, in current money.
SUNDARY SLAVES, Consisting of men, women and children, one Brood Mare, about 8 years old by Lamplighter, two small Horse Colts about 2 years old by Americannus, the noted Stud Horse called Hanover, one Waggon and Geer, and 3 Horses, one excellent Chair Horse about 9 years old, and one Bay Mare Colt, by Americannus. GEO: WM. SMITH. Richmond, August 27th, 1804. tds
I do hereby forbid the sale of any part of the LOT No. 60, in the town of Manchester, near the entrance of the turnpike road, as stated in an advertisement of Leighton Wood's, as the right is solely in me—I have never made any conveyance to any one, nor will I make any until the balance that is due me for the purchase of said lot is paid. NATHL. QUARLES. August 27, 1804.
JUST RECEIVED, At S. P. P. Book-Store, Richmond, a very elegant assortment of the best PEN-KNIVES, Which will be sold by the dozen or single.
Notice, Is hereby given, that on Saturday, being the eighth day of September next, at Brooks's Tavern, in the town of Manchester, I shall proceed to sell, at Public Auction, The following Property, To wit:—Five unimproved LOTS in the town of Manchester, designated and known in the plan of said town by the Nos. 23, 24, 38, 54 and 86.—Also, one TRACT, containing 2 3-4 acres, adjoining the said town, near to the canal—Also, one other LOT, in the said town, with the improvements thereon, being part of lot No. 60, near the entrance of the turnpike road, and lately in the occupancy of Thomas Glover—conveyed to me in trust, by Henry Robertson, to satisfy a debt due to Mr. James Dowe. Terms of sale, one half in hand and the residue on a credit of twelve months, with a trust upon the property for the punctual payment thereof, and interest from the day of sale. LEIGHTON WOOD, Trustee. Richmond, 21st Aug. 1804. tds
I take this method of informing the executors of Benjamin Harrison, son and only heir of Benjamin Harrison of Berkeley, Richard Walton, & William Price, register of the land-office, that I shall proceed to take the Deposition of Edmund Randolph, esq. at the Capitol, in the forenoon of the tenth of September, 1804, in a suit in the district of Richmond, in the Court of Chancery, between myself and them. PHILIP PLEASANTS TURPIN. August 20th. 3w
TO HIRE, For the remainder of the year, an excellent House Servant. Enquire at this office. August 21st, 1804.
Valuable Land for Sale THE subscriber wishes to sell the TRACT OF LAND , whereon he now resides, in Chesterfield county, situate ten miles from Richmond, within two of James river, and about fourteen from Petersburg. This tract, independent of the many advantages arising from its local situation, has particular claims to the attention of any genteel family who may wish to obtain an agreeable seat contiguous to either of the above named towns. It contains about one thousand acres; four hundred of which are supposed to be cleared, and have been for some years in cultivation. The soil, in point of fertility, is equal, if not superior to that of most of the land in the neighbourhood. The buildings are a large and well planned two story dwelling house with wings, an excellent kitchen and every other necessary out house sufficient for the accommodation of a large family. The terms of sale will be one fourth of the purchase money in hand, and the balance in three annual instalments. Bond and security, together with a deed of trust on the property, to ensure punctual payments, will be required. ARCHIBALD BOLLING. Chesnut Grove, Aug. 1st, 1804. wto
Scheme of a Lottery, For the benefit of WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE. FIRST CLASS. 3000 Tickets at 10 dolls. 80,000 2 Prizes, dolls. 10,000 20,000 60 of 500 30,000 2,000 of 15 30,000 80,000 Subject to a deduction of 15 per ct. 12,000 Expense of drawing, 2,000 Dollars, 10,000 First Ticket drawn, Dolls. 500 Last drawn, 10,000 1 other Prize of 10,000 59 other Prizes of 500 dolls. 29,500 2,000 of 15 dollars, 30,000 Dollars, 80,000 All tickets drawn blank may be renewed in the next class, at 10 dolls. each; the price of all others will be 15 dolls. All prizes of 15 dollars may be renewed for the next class, or paid, at the option of the person entitled. If they be not claimed within three months after the drawing commences, they will be considered as renewed in the second class. The drawing to commence in the city of WILLIAMSBURG, on the 1st day of June, 1804, under the management of James Madison, John Bracken, William Nelson, Robert Greenhow, Burwell Bassett, Robert Saunders, Samuel Tyler, Champion Travis, William Lightfoot, Littleton W. Tazewell, George Tucker and James Sample. SECOND CLASS. 5,938 Tickets at 10 dolls. 59,380 4,685 ditto at 15 dolls. 70,275 130,310 Deduct loss on 2,062 tickets renewed at 2 1-2 5,155 Dolls. 125,155 2 Prizes of 20,000 dolls. 40,000 2 ditto of 10,000 dolls. 20,000 3 ditto of 5,000 15,000 50 ditto of 1,000 50,000 1 ditto 155 125,155 Deduct 10 per cent. 12,500 Expenses of drawing, 2,500 Sum raised, Dolls. 10,000 Ticket first drawn, Dolls. 1,000 Ticket last drawn, 20,000 One other prize of 20,000 Two ditto of 10,000 20,000 3 ditto of 5,000 dolls. 15,000 49 ditto of 1,000 49,000 1 ditto 155 Dollars 125,155
TICKETS May be had of George Tucker, Thomas Taylor, and Samuel Pleasants, jr. in Richmond; Robert Birchett, and Watkins Leigh, Petersburg; Thomas Newson, Dr. Barrand, & Littleton W. Tazewell, Norfolk; Hugh Mercer, Fredericksburg; Henry Tucker, Winchester; Chapman Johnson, Staunton; and in all the towns in Virginia, and in many places in the country.
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.
WORTH THE ATTENTION OF BUILDERS AND OTHER IMPROVING GENTLEMEN. Stephen Brown, GUN-SMITH, &c. NORTH MARKET STREET, RICHMOND: Having purchased Kennedy's patent right of using and vending to others to be used in this city, and the counties of Henrico and Goochland, his invention and improvement of fastening, raising and supporting Window Sashes by Springs and Knobs; proposes to supply gentlemen upon the shortest notice, with any number of those patent springs, with their latest and most complete improvements, at the price of fifty cents a piece, ready fitted and adjusted to the sash; or at thirty cents, if taken from the shop. This abatement of sixteen cents is allowed to any gentleman who may prefer to have them set in by their own workmen, as the work is trifling; the abatement will be found to be liberal. Builders and others, who may require a quantity of those patent springs, will be accommodated with a generous allowance, on taking them by the gross. The above invention, for its utility, convenience and cheapness, will instantly convince any person who may examine it, that there was never any thing invented for the purpose, which could in any degree bear a competition with it. The former manner of fastening sashes by small bolts, and raising and supporting them by pulleys and leaden weights, was not only exceedingly complex, difficult, and expensive; but was also liable to many accidents, as the wearing or breaking of a cord or pulley, &c. would prevent the whole machinery from performing its expected functions, and would require more expense in repairing alone, than would purchase the new invented patent spring. This spring will act as a safe bolt to prevent the window from being opened by visiting from without, and by just touching the spring it may be raised from within to any convenient height, where it will rest with as much safety, as if it were supported by a pillar. It is not surprising that an invention so useful, which is at once so simple and so convenient, should prove a temptation to some thoughtless workmen, who had not considered the consequences, to vend a spurious kind without authority. Such a mean conduct I have already detected, owing to the extreme badness of the work; and to complete the pitiful fraud their trash has been set into the windows in my name! But as I have paid ONE THOUSAND AND FIFTY DOLLARS for the exclusive right to use and vend this patent within the city of Richmond, and the counties of Henrico and Goochland, I shall not fail to prosecute to the utmost rigour of the law, any person who shall in future attempt such a contemptible fraud. In order to secure gentlemen from any imposition in the above articles, the initials of my name (S. B.) shall be struck on the white metal knob, affixed to each of the springs, and those who are engaged to fix them in for me, shall be furnished with a written authority, and every such spring shall be WARRANTED by me. STEPHEN BROWN. N. B. Any orders for the above, will be received and punctually attended to if left at my shop as above, or at Mr. Pritchard's Book store, where the model may be seen. Old Weights and Pulleys, or any Old Metal, will be received in payment. S. B. July 9, 1804. tf
Doctor Wilson, HAS taken (as a temporary residence) the house lately occupied by Doct. Adams opposite the Bell Tavern, and intends to combine the Apothecaries business with the practice of Physic. He is now opening a part, and expects by the next arrivals from Philadelphia, a fresh and very general assortment of
MEDICINES, And other articles in the Apothecaries line, which will be sold on the lowest terms. Orders from the country, Recipes, &c. will be carefully attended to. Richmond, 25th June, 1804. w6m
LAND AND NEGROES FOR SALE. Two hundred and ninety eight acres of land in the county of Cumberland, lying on both branches of Tearwater run, about two miles above the courthouse—about one third of this land is well timbered, and equal in quality to the best high land in its vicinity, it is well supplied with good water, and the situation is remarkably healthy; the buildings on it are tolerably convenient and at a small expense might be made comfortable for a family—there is a remarkable fine apple and peach orchard, and several other kinds of fruit trees thereon, which seldom miss bearing, and on the main road from north to south, which passes through it, there is a large distillery, malt-house, cellar and granary, well constructed to carry on the distilling business extensively. Also, for sale a Distiller, a Man Cook and some other valuable Slaves, together with the stock of Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs, Carts and Farming Utensils, with some Household and Kitchen Furniture. If the above property is not disposed of by private sale before the 25th day of September next, the whole will on that day be set up on the premises, to the highest bidder, at public sale. Cash will be expected for all sums under twenty dollars, and on all purchases exceeding that sum, a credit of twelve months will be allowed, on giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date, which will be remitted on receiving punctual payment of the principal—a deed of trust on the land will be required to secure the payment for it. If agreeable to the purchasers, the Distillery, Stills, &c. and forty acres of Land adjoining, will be sold separately—but if not sold in this way, the Stills, Boiler and Distilling Utensils will be set up separately, to the highest bidder, on the same terms as the other property. The premises will be shown to any person wishing to purchase, by Lawrence Carlie, who resides thereon. LAWRENCE CARLIE. JOHN & ED. CUNNINGHAM. July 3d, 1804. w8t
HART and SOUTHGATE, Grocers and Commission Merchants, In the store lately occupied by Mr. DULTON, opposite Mr. PEALE'S Printing-Office, MAIN STREET, RICHMOND, Respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they have laid in a general assortment of GROCERIES and LIQUORS of the first qualities, which they are selling very low for ready money or produce at cash prices. Also, Queen's Ware, Patent Shot, Gunpowder, Indigo, &c. &c. and Hare's Philadelphia bottled Porter, of which they have a constant supply, by the dozen or single bottle. They have for sale, on Commission, CUT NAILS (from 3 to 20d) by the cask or small quantities; also, a quantity of SOLE LEATHER, for Cash, or to be bartered for Wheat; and a pair of COLOGNE MILLS STONES, 3 feet 11 in August 8, 1804.
TRAVELS IN GREECE. PROPOSALS, By JACOB JOHNSON, of PHILADELPHIA, FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THE TRAVELS OF ANACHARSIS THE YOUNGER, IN GREECE; During the Middle of the Fourth Century, Before the Christian Era; WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES. BY THE ABBE BARTHELEMY, Keeper of the Medals in the Cabinet of the King of France, and Member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. First American, from the Fourth European Edition. IN FOUR VOLUMES.
The work now offered to the American reader exhibits a complete view of the Antiquities, Manners, Customs, religious Ceremonies, Laws, Arts and Literature of Ancient Greece at the period of its greatest splendor. A knowledge of these has hitherto been only attainable by a laborious perusal of writers who have been little solicitous to join entertainment with instruction. The Travels of Anacharsis, on the contrary, are so written, that the reader may frequently be induced to imagine he is perusing a work of mere amusement, invention and fancy; till his eye glances to the bottom of the page, when he perceives there is scarcely a sentence, and not a single fact or circumstance, but is supported by the authority of some ancient author. The amazing number of these quotations may, perhaps, at first sight, seem to have been unnecessary, and to have more the appearance of a parade of erudition, than to be of any real utility; but it is to be remembered that, at the same time that they must be highly acceptable to the man of real learning, by enabling him to refer immediately to the original Author, they are extremely useful, nay, we may say, absolutely necessary, even to such readers as can never be supposed to have a ny intention to consult the authorities quoted; as they clearly show that such an idea, or such a circumstance is not merely a decoration or the offspring of the fancy of the author, but immediately taken from some ancient writer, and therefore perfectly accordant to the general scope and plan of the work.
TERMS. I. The first Edition in America of Anacharsis's Travels, will be comprised in four volumes octavo. II. It shall be printed on handsome wove paper and a new type casting for the purpose. Each volume will contain about 400 pages. III. The price to subscribers per volume bound and lettered, will be two dollars: in boards 1 dollar and 75 cents, to be paid on delivery of each volume. The European edition sells at 12 dollars per set. IV. There shall be a handsome map of Greece given with the first volume, to be executed by one of the best engravers. V. Subscriptions received at S. P. PEALE'S printing-office and bookstore, Richmond.
Nicholas Hallam, Two doors above the Swan Tavern, Richmond, has for sale, eight thousand wt of American Cheese, Of the best quality, which he will sell on as good terms as can be bought in the state, by the single pound, or thousand. A constant supply of GROCERIES of the best kind—Also, A few bushels Northern POTATOES, for planting. w6m
Committed to the jail of Albemarle county, a Negro Man who says he belongs to Mrs. Ragland in the county of Louisa, near the Green Springs, and that he was hired out to a Mr. Miller at the Iron Works over the Blue Ridge. The owner is requested to prove property, pay charges and take him away, or he will be dealt with as the law directs. 3m July 28, 1804. THOS. WILLS, Jun. Jailor Albemarle county.
Westham Iron Foundry, NEAR RICHMOND. THE subscriber takes the liberty of informing the public that he has taken a lease and is at present working the above foundry; and having provided the best artists in that line from New-York and George-Town, together with Pig Iron of the first quality: Proposes to cast—Mill gudgeons & Inks of every description; also, cast iron wheels for the machinery of mills; Rumford, registered and plain grates; grate front and bottoms, for Rumfordizing fire-places; large and small stoves; caboose and cabin stoves; Franklin stoves for wood or coal; kitchen grates, with crane and range complete; coach warmers; plain stoves and maul'd plates; cast railing of every pattern; plow shares and plow boards; cast waggon, coach, phaeton and chair boxes; scale weights from 1 to 60 lb; sash and clock weights; patent raw irons for smiths, on a very approved plan; backs, jams and back lays; nail cutting machines with screws complete; wheel-barrow bowls; garden ditto; cast iron anvils; fire dogs and hand irons of every description—together with any other article in the casting line, to a given pattern, at the shortest notice, by application at the furnace, or to JAMES DUNLAP, in Richmond. 25th June, 1804. w3m P. S. Old Iron purchased by application as above.
Taken up by John P. Steger, jun. in the county of Powhatan, in the month of April last, a BAY HORSE , about four feet nine inches high, about nine or ten years old, paces, and shod all round—appraised to sixty dollars. I do certify that the above described horse has been posted as the law directs. JAMES POINDEXTER, C. P. C. Powhatan, August 20th, 1804. w3m
NOTICE. Application will be made to the next General Assembly, praying that an act may pass to vest in the subscriber, the right of the Commonwealth to a lot in the town of Charlottesville, No 50, which formerly belonged to Thomas West, dec. FREDERICK GAUDER. Charlottesville, July 20th, 1804. [w3m]
Stephen Brown, GUN-SMITH, &c. NORTH MARKET STREET, RICHMOND: Having purchased Kennedy's patent right of using and vending to others to be used in this city, and the counties of Henrico and Goochland, his invention and improvement of fastening, raising and supporting Window Sashes by Springs and Knobs; proposes to supply gentlemen upon the shortest notice, with any number of those patent springs, with their latest and most complete improvements, at the price of fifty cents a piece, ready fitted and adjusted to the sash; or at thirty cents, if taken from the shop. This abatement of sixteen cents is allowed to any gentleman who may prefer to have them set in by their own workmen, as the work is trifling; the abatement will be found to be liberal. Builders and others, who may require a quantity of those patent springs, will be accommodated with a generous allowance, on taking them by the gross. The above invention, for its utility, convenience and cheapness, will instantly convince any person who may examine it, that there was never any thing invented for the purpose, which could in any degree bear a competition with it. The former manner of fastening sashes by small bolts, and raising and supporting them by pulleys and leaden weights, was not only exceedingly complex, difficult, and expensive; but was also liable to many accidents, as the wearing or breaking of a cord or pulley, &c. would prevent the whole machinery from performing its expected functions, and would require more expense in repairing alone, than would purchase the new invented patent spring. This spring will act as a safe bolt to prevent the window from being opened by visiting from without, and by just touching the spring it may be raised from within to any convenient height, where it will rest with as much safety, as if it were supported by a pillar. It is not surprising that an invention so useful, which is at once so simple and so convenient, should prove a temptation to some thoughtless workmen, who had not considered the consequences, to vend a spurious kind without authority. Such a mean conduct I have already detected, owing to the extreme badness of the work; and to complete the pitiful fraud their trash has been set into the windows in my name! But as I have paid ONE THOUSAND AND FIFTY DOLLARS for the exclusive right to use and vend this patent within the city of Richmond, and the counties of Henrico and Goochland, I shall not fail to prosecute to the utmost rigour of the law, any person who shall in future attempt such a contemptible fraud. In order to secure gentlemen from any imposition in the above articles, the initials of my name (S. B.) shall be struck on the white metal knob, affixed to each of the springs, and those who are engaged to fix them in for me, shall be furnished with a written authority, and every such spring shall be WARRANTED by me. STEPHEN BROWN. N. B. Any orders for the above, will be received and punctually attended to if left at my shop as above, or at Mr. Pritchard's Book store, where the model may be seen. Old Weights and Pulleys, or any Old Metal, will be received in payment. S. B. July 9, 1804. tf
Doctor Wilson, HAS taken (as a temporary residence) the house lately occupied by Doct. Adams opposite the Bell Tavern, and intends to combine the Apothecaries business with practice of Physic. He is now opening a part, and expects by the next arrivals from Philadelphia, a fresh and very general assortment of
MEDICINES, And other articles in the Apothecaries line, which will be sold on the lowest terms. Orders from the country, Recipes, &c. will be carefully attended to. Richmond, 25th June, 1804. w6m
LAND AND NEGROES FOR SALE. Two hundred and ninety eight acres of land in the county of Cumberland, lying on both branches of Tearwater run, about two miles above the courthouse—about one third of this land is well timbered, and equal in quality to the best high land in its vicinity, it is well supplied with good water, and the situation is remarkably healthy; the buildings on it are tolerably convenient and at a small expense might be made comfortable for a family—there is a remarkable fine apple and peach orchard, and several other kinds of fruit trees thereon, which seldom miss bearing, and on the main road from north to south, which passes through it, there is a large distillery, malt-house, cellar and granary, well constructed to carry on the distilling business extensively. Also, for sale a Distiller, a Man Cook and some other valuable Slaves, together with the stock of Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs, Carts and Farming Utensils, with some Household and Kitchen Furniture. If the above property is not disposed of by private sale before the 25th day of September next, the whole will on that day be set up on the premises, to the highest bidder, at public sale. Cash will be expected for all sums under twenty dollars, and on all purchases exceeding that sum, a credit of twelve months will be allowed, on giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date, which will be remitted on receiving punctual payment of the principal—a deed of trust on the land will be required to secure the payment for it. If agreeable to the purchasers, the Distillery, Stills, &c. and forty acres of Land adjoining, will be sold separately—but if not sold in this way, the Stills, Boiler and Distilling Utensils will be set up separately, to the highest bidder, on the same terms as the other property. The premises will be shown to any person wishing to purchase, by Lawrence Carlie, who resides thereon. LAWRENCE CARLIE. JOHN & ED. CUNNINGHAM. July 3d, 1804. w8t
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Select Plays. The 5th volume of Warner & Hanna's SELECT PLAYS is just received at Samuel Pleasants' Bookstore. It contains—The Wheel of Fortune, West-Indian, Way to get Married, Mountaineers. Where also may be had (in a neat pocket volume) price 50 cents—THE BEAUTIES OF POETRY, containing Pope's Essay on Man; Universal Pity; Letters to Kaim, &c.—Dying Christian; Moral and Satirical Essays; Hermit; Collier's Saturday Night; Gray's Elegy; Man was made to Mourn; the Passions; Dryden's Ode; the Fireside God of Thunder; Eternity.
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