The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-04-04 00:00:00

THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) PUBLISHED BY RITCHIE & WORSLEY, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM...payable in advance.
NUMBER 102.]
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1805.
[VOLUME 1.
CONDITIONS.
I. The ENQUIRER will appear twice a week... During the session of Congress and the Virginia Legislature, either a third paper or a supplementary half-sheet, during the week. II. Terms of payment FIVE DOLLARS per annum, in advance. III. ADVERTISEMENTS, from those who do not subscribe to the paper, should not exceed a square in length, shall be inserted for seventy-five cents the first time, fifty cents for each time during three weeks, and for every additional insertion thirty-three cents; long ones in the same proportion. IV. SUBSCRIBERS shall have their advertisements inserted for fifty cents the first time, and thirty-three cents for every additional insertion.
Sales at Auction.
On Wednesday, the 10th day of April next, will be sold, at Public Auction, on a credit of four months, at the dwelling house of Thomas Gilliat:
ALL his HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, consisting of a variety of Valuable Articles. At the same time, and on the same terms, will be sold a pair of elegant well broke CARRIAGE HORSES, or a SADDLE HORSE. On the same day will be rented to the highest bidder, for one or more years, the HOUSE and LOT now occupied by said Gilliat.
THOMAS TAYLOR, & Co. V. M. March 21.
Auction Sales.
THOMAS TAYLOR & Co.
WILL in future sell at the store occupied by M. W. Hancock & Co. on Wednesdays in each week; and at their office, on Tuesdays and Fridays as usual. Dec. 1, 1804. epf
ALEXANDER PLAINVILLE, CONFECTIONER,
RESPECTFULLY informs the inhabitants of Richmond, Manchester and their vicinities, that he has rented the
HAY-MARKET GARDEN,
For the summer season, where he intends to make it his study to try and please those who may favor him with their custom.
A Plainville being acquainted with the distilling of Cordials, making of Ice-Creams, &c. flatters himself that those who favor him with their custom will be entertained in a manner far superior to that in which they have heretofore been.
All kinds of Wines, Liquors, Cordials, Ice-Creams, Syrups, &c. of the first quality, and moderate charges. Tea Parties accommodated with every thing suitable to please both the taste of the ladies and gentlemen—Cold Snacks, &c. at the shortest notice. Barcarozes occasionally as it may best suit those gentlemen who choose to subscribe for them—Fire Works, Music, &c. occasionally. The other entertainments as usual, with some alterations for the better. Ladies and gentlemen wishing to be accommodated with Ice-Creams, Cordials, Syrups, &c. without going out of the city, may be supplied at his house on the main-street, where he has made every preparation requisite for their reception.
The Hay-Market Garden to be opened every day at 9 o'clock, Sundays and Holidays excepted, when it will be opened in the morning, and continue open all day. Gentlemen will receive Tickets at the gate for 25 Cents, for which they may receive the value in any thing they choose.
P. S. ICE for sale at his Confectionary on the main street. April 2.—(9tp if.)
By virtue of a deed of trust executed by the late Richard Burch, to secure a debt due to the late firm of Dunlop Pollock & Co.
Will be sold on twelve months credit, on Tuesday the 2nd instant, before the tavern of Mr. Brook, in the town of Marchester;
NINE Likely NEGROES, to wit: Frank, Adam, Joe and Joan and her child Charity. Bonds with approved security will be required, to carry interest from the date, if not punctually paid.
ALLEN POLLOCK, THOMAS TREDWAY, } Trustees. April 2. epf
HATS AND SHOES.
AN ASSORTMENT JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE BY JUDSON & BURN,
Second door above the Eagle—ALSO,
THREE Bales India Cottons, 1 Cafe 4-4 fine Irish Linens, 2 tons country refined Bar Iron. March 28.—(e p 6).
STORED AT THE SUBSCRIBER'S
TWO Casks Marked (C.) shipped at New-York, on board the Schooner Esther and Sons, Henry Aberdeen master. The owner is requested to call, pay charges, and take them away. SARAH LESTER.
WHO HAS FOR SALE,
Boards, Plank, Scantling, Cypress Shingles, Cedar Posts, Rhode Island and Philadelphia Lime in bds. and tiers. Black and Bright Paints, Tar, Wheat Farnish, Tar, Wheat Farn, Wood Wires, and Wire Sifters, &c. March 28.—(epf)
FOR SALE,
By the Subscribers, at their PAINT & OIL MANUFACTORY, Water-Street, Norfolk:
WHITE LEAD, Yellow Ochre, Venetian Red, Spanish Brown, Black & Lead Colour } Ground in Oil and in 28 & 14lb. kegs. for painting roofs,
Blue and Green in pots of 1, 2 & 3 lbs. each, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Patent Yellow, Red Lead, Litharge, Sugar of Lead, White Vitriol, Ivory Black.
ALSO
1200 gallons Dutch Linseed Oil, Spirits of Turpentine, Copal and Turpentine, Varnish and Window Glass, of all sizes.
Orders for any of the above articles, left with Messrs. Proffer & Moncure, Richmond, will be attended to immediately, by
JOHN RORKE & CO. Norfolk, March 1, 1805. (epf)
CASH
WILL be given for 12 or 15 BOYS, from 7 to 15 years old. Enquire of the Printers. Dec. 15. [epf.]
Wm. MCKENZIE & Co. HAVE FOR SALE—4000 Dollars Military Certificates, bearing interest at 6 per cent, and stock of the Bank of Virginia. February 26. epf
BROKER'S OFFICE.
THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Coal-yard-house, of Thomas and Anna Ladd. All business confided to him, will be transacted with strict fidelity.
THOMAS NORFELL.
He has for sale—A FEW SHARES IN THE MANCHESTER TURNPIKE. Also—Old State Certificates, bearing six per cent interest. March 12. tf
FAIRFIELD RACES.
ON Monday the 6th day of May, The FAIRFIELD JOCKEY CLUB CUP will be run for, free for all ages—the horses to be bona fide the property of members—distance, two mile heats. The day following, the JOCKEY CLUB PURSE of four hundred dollars, four mile heats.
On the third day, the PURSE OF THE PROPRIETOR OF THE COURSE, of two hundred dollars, three mile heats.
On Thursday, a SWEEP STAKE for Colts of 3 years old, for a pipe of best Madeira Wine; distance, two mile heats. Four Colts are entered, and the subscription closed.
WEIGHTS AS FOLLOW:
 Aged 133 lbs.  6 years old 128  5 do. do. 118  4 do. do. 106  3 do. do. 90  Mares & Geldings allowed 3 lbs. 
ESME SMOCK, who is now proprietor of the Course, informs gentlemen of the Turf, that the money to be run for each day, will be placed in the hands of the Judges. He is willing to rent the Dining House, and the Booths in the Field. Persons will be placed at the gate to receive Tolls, as usual. He will also furnish stables and litter for race horses gratis; and board servants at 25c pr. day. March 26. (epf)
STRAYED from the subscriber, on the 14th day of February last, about six miles from the Coal Pits, in Chesterfield county, TWO MARES, one a black about 4 feet 9 or 10 inches high, 12 or 13 years old, paces naturally, somewhat rubbed with the deer, and had all round. The other a yellow bay, about 4 feet 10 inches high, 7 years old, a small star in her forehead and a snip on the nose, one hind foot white, and had all round. Any person that will deliver the said horses to me in Charlotte county, near Bibb's ferry, or lodge information with the printer hereof, shall be handsomely rewarded. March 23. epf
HELLERY MOSELEY.
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND,
MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use.
Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. Gentlemen at a distance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as if they were on the spot. A—the length of the Boot. C—the round of the Calf. B—the pitch of ditto. D—round the heel and instep. E—round the instep. G—across the ball of the foot. F—the heel against a perpendicular, and stick a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. January 1. epf
THE PATENT BALANCE.
THE great accuracy, convenience and dispatch, besides economy of expense, labor and time attendant on this truly valuable improvement in the art of weighing, had such weight with the last general assembly, as to induce them to authorize the use of it in the tobacco warehouses of this commonwealth.
This late testimonial in its favor, with many others in possession of the subscriber, together with the general approbation expressed by all purchasers, and his own experience, afford him ample reason to believe they are preferable to the common beams, scales and weights now generally used. As agent for the Patentee, he keeps always a general assortment on hand, to weigh from 100 to 3000 pounds, or fith more if required by particular order. Feb. 12. E. W. ROOTES.
DOCTOR WILSON received yesterday a supply of Peruvian Bark, Castor Oil and Talap, all of the best quality. He also has Calomel, Rheubarb, Senna, Manna, Rochelle and Glauber Salts, Tartar Emetic, Ipecacuanha, Opium, Elastic and Silver Cobalters, Elastic and common Douciers, &c. &c. He designs to keep a supply of the best Medicines that can be procured, and flatters himself that his acquaintance with Medicines, will entitle him to a share of public patronage. Persons of needy circumstances by paying the retail prices of his Medicines, will be prescribed for gratis. October 31. ewf
FOR SALE,
THAT valuable and well known TAVERN, with about two hundred and forty acres of LAND adjoining thereto, in the county of Henrico, about seven miles from the city of Richmond, at the junction of the Fredericksburg and Richmond roads, commonly called Gregory's Tavern, now in the occupation of Mr. Gatewood. The advantages attached to this property are so well known as to render it unnecessary to detail them in an advertisement. The terms may be known on application to the subscriber, living in King William county, and the land will be shown by Mr. Gatewood. ROGER GREGORY. March 28.—(eth3).
NOTICE.
All persons indebted to the Estate of John Talb, Esq. late of Amelia county, taxator by engagement entered into with the decedent in his lifetime, or with his administrators since his death, are requested to make immediate payment. It is desired that due attention will be given to this notice, as the administrators are now about finally closing their accounts of administration, and of course, can no longer exercise any discretion respecting further indulgence. If there be any person who have just claims against the estate, not hitherto presented, they are now requested to present them for payment. THE ADMINISTRATORS. Amelia, March 28.—(eth3).
IN CHANCERY. Williamsburg Hustings Court, February 25, 1805. John Coke, administrator de bonis non of Samuel Coke, dec'd. Against Robey Coke and Samuel Coke, Defs. THE Defendants, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of this court, that they are not inhabitants of this state; on the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of June Court next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Enquirer printed in Richmond, for two months successively, and another copy posted at the front door of the Court-House of this city. A Copy, Teste, WILLIAM RUSSELL, c. c. March 28.—(eth3m).
IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHASE. TUESDAY, February 12, 1805. (continued.) JOHN THOMPSON MASON Esqorn. Mr. Randolph. It has been contended on the part of the respondent, that the quo animo, or the animus quo determines the guilt or innocence of an action; now, if the quo animo with which he went down to Richmond to execute the sedition law, can be shown, it will have an important bearing on his conduct. I will therefore ask the witness this question: Did you ever hear Judge Chase, previous to the trial of Callender, utter any expression, and if any, what was it, on the subject of Callender's prosecution, or respecting the book called the Prospect Before Us; did he say the counsel at the Virginia bar were afraid to press the execution of any law, and particularly the sedition law; did he say he had a copy of that book, or what did he say? State the circumstances particularly?
Mr. Mason. The question refers to circumstances of which I have but an indistinct recollection, and which happened in a way, which renders it extremely unpleasant on my part to relate them. Judge Chase presided in the circuit court held at Annapolis in the spring of the year 1800; during the term a man by the name of Saunders, was tried for larceny and found guilty. After sentence was passed upon him, he was taken out of court to receive it. The press of the people being very great, the Judges and myself were detained within the room. Judge Winchester, Judge Chase and myself had a conversation, altogether of a jocular complexion. I think it was just after he delivered his valedictory, but how to connect the circumstances at this time, I do not know. I remember, however, that he asked me my opinion of the book called the Prospect Before Us; I told him I had not seen it, and from the character I had heard of it, I never wished to see it. He told me in reply, that Mr. Luther Martin had sent a copy to him, & had scored the parts that were libelous, and that he would carry it to Richmond with him as a proper subject for prosecution. There was a good deal of conversation besides, but I do not recollect it. There was one expression, however, that he used, which still occurs to my memory, and which I will repeat, that before he left Richmond, he would teach the people to distinguish between the liberty and licentiousness of the press. He said that he was as sincere a friend to the liberty, as he was an enemy to the licentiousness of the press. There was a sentiment, he expressed, which I cannot undertake to give in his precise words, that if the commonwealth or its inhabitants were not too depraved to furnish a jury of good and respectable men, he would certainly punish Callender. I do not precisely recollect the words—I never repeated this conversation before, and seldom or ever after it occurred, thought of it.
JOHN HEATH Esqorn. During the trial of J. T. Callender, I attended at the court in Richmond as one of the bar. I had occasion to apply to the court for an injunction. The motion not having been decided upon, I went round to Crouch's, where Judge Chase lodged, and found him in his chamber alone, in which I thought myself very fortunate. We then talked over the application I had made the day before for an injunction; while talking on it, Mr. David M. Randolph, the then marshal, stepped in with a paper in his hand. The Judge accosted him, and asked what he had in his hand. He said that he had the panel of the petit jury summoned for the trial of Callender. This was after the indictment was found by the grand jury. After Mr. Randolph had mentioned that it was the panel of the petit jury that he had in his hand, Judge Chase immediately replied, have you any of those creatures called democrats on the panel?—Mr. Randolph hesitated for a moment, and then said he had not made any discrimination in summoning the petit jury. Judge Chase said, look it over, Sir, and if there are any of that description, strike them off. This is all I know of this affair. WEDNESDAY, Feb. 13. JAMES TRIPLETT Esqorn. Mr. Randolph. I wish to know whether you ever heard previous to, or during the trial of Callender any expressions used by the respondent Judge Chase, manifesting an hostility towards J. T. Callender, and what were those expressions? Mr. Triplett. I recollect to have had a conversation with Judge Chase on our passage in the stage down to Richmond. A book was handed to me by him, and I was asked if I had read it. I was asked whether I had ever seen him (Callender) I told him, I never had seen him. There was a story recited about the arrest of Callender by a warrant of a magistrate under the vagrant act of Virginia—I recollect that the judge's reply was "it is a pity you have not hanged the rascal." Mr. Randolph. Was there any other expressions of this nature used, after you got to Richmond? Mr. Triplett. I did not hear any thing particularly; but I think the judge did say something about the government of the United States showing too much lenity towards such renegades. I do not recollect any other conversation passing between us at that time, until after the court was sitting, when Judge Chase was the first who informed me of the preindictment being made by the grand jury against Callender. At the same time he informed me that he expected I would have the pleasure of seeing Callender next day before fun down, that the marshal had that day started after him for Petersburg. Mr. Randolph. We with you, as well as my memory serves, to state not only the substance, but the exact expressions used by the judge. Mr. Triplett. I will state them as well as my memory serves me. Sometime after this conversation, I met the judge at the place where he boarded; he said that the marshal had returned without Callender, and used this expression, I am afraid we shall not be able to get the damned rascal at this court. Mr. Randolph. You say a copy of this book was handed to you by Judge Chase. Did you read it, Sir? Mr. Triplett. I read several passages of it. Mr. Randolph. Were they marked? Mr. Triplett. I saw several passages marked; but by whom I do not know. Mr. Randolph. Do you remember any particular passages that were marked? Mr. Triplett. I do not. I have stated every thing I recollect; but if the gentlemen have any questions to ask I am ready to give them an answer. Mr. Martin. I will ask how many days you resided at the same house with the judge? Mr. Triplett. I think, six days. Mr. Martin. Do you recollect whether my name was not marked on the book, which Judge Chase handed to you? Mr. Triplett. I do not. Mr. Harper. Can you state the day of the month, or of the week, when the last conversation passed? Mr. Triplett. I think it was Sunday, as I am not positive. I made no minutes, as I never expected to be called upon to answer enquiries of this kind. Mr. Harper. How long was it after the first conversation with the judge, when he mentioned that the marshal had gone after Callender? Mr. Triplett. I do not precisely recollect. It was not, I think, so much as three days—I do not think it was so much as two days; but I cannot be positive, after so great a length of time has elapsed. Mr. Harper. Do you recollect who travelled with you in the stage from Dumfries to Richmond? Mr. Triplett. I cannot recollect—The stage was much crowded from Dumfries to Fredericksburg; & there was a passenger taken in at Stafford courthouse. Mr. Harper. Well, Sir, how was it from Fredericksburg to Richmond? Mr. Triplett. I do not particularly recollect; but there were passengers repeatedly getting in all the way. Mr. Harper. Did this conversation take place before you reached Stafford court house? Mr. Triplett. It was after. Mr. Harper. Was it between Fredericksburg and Richmond? Mr. Triplett. Yes, Sir. President. Had you any conversation with Judge Chase previous to this interview? Mr. Triplett. No, Sir. President. Did you sit together in the stage? Mr. Triplett. We did the second day, and it was then the conversation passed. Mr. Hopkinson. When was it, that for the first time, you mentioned this conversation to any body? Mr. Triplett. I do not recollect when I mentioned it for the first time; but I remember to have communicated it to general Mason on my return to Dumfries. Mr. Nicholson. Have you since mentioned it to others? Mr. Triplett. Frequently. On the suggestion of Mr. Randolph, that Mr. Triplett had fractured his wrist, from which he apprehended serious consequences, he was dismissed with the consent of the counsel for the respondent, from further attendance on the court. At the instance of Mr. Lee, John Heath examined yesterday, was again called in. Mr. Lee. You mentioned yesterday that you made two applications for an injunction. Were they made at the Judge's Chambers, or in court? Mr. Heath. I mentioned that I made the application to the court, and that it was not then granted—I then stated that I went to the Judge's Chambers the next day before the court met. Mr. Lee. Who composed the court when the injunction was moved in the first instance? Mr. Heath. I think, but I cannot be particular, that Judge Griffin was there. He was, however, there the next day. Mr. Lee. At what time of the day was it that you went to the Judge's Chambers respecting your application for the injunction? Mr. Heath. It was immediately after breakfast. We generally breakfasted early. Immediately after I waited upon him. I think it was between 8 and 9 o'clock. Mr. Lee. What space of time were you there? Mr. Heath. I do not think I was there quite half an hour. Mr. Lee. Was the bill read by yourself, or put into the hands of the Judge to read it, at the time you made the application at his Chamber? Mr. Heath. I do not recollect to have presented the bill to the Judge. I am not positive that I had the bill with me. I called upon him for the purpose of learning the reasons why the Judge did not grant the application. [Here the witness related some remarks of Judge Chase on the application for an injunction, which were too indistinctly heard to be reported.] Mr. Lee. Who were present at the Judge's Chambers at the time you state the conversation took place between Judge Chase and Mr. David M. Randolph respecting the panel of the jury? Mr. Heath. No other person was present but myself. When I came in I found the Judge alone, and I thought myself fortunate in finding him. We had been in conversation by ourselves for 8 or 10 minutes before Mr. Randolph came in. Mr. Lee. Was any person present at the door, or was the door open at the time? Mr. Heath. I do not recollect that there was; but it appeared to me that as I was going into the house, somebody was coming out; and I found the Judge alone, I am positive when I entered; and we continued alone until Mr. Randolph stepped in. It struck me there might have been somebody that came in at the main
door of the house between the time I was there and Mr. Randolph's coming in; but I am not certain.
Mr. Lee. You say somebody was coming out, when you went into the room. Was it Mr. Randolph?
Mr. Heath. No, Sir. I did not see anybody coming out, but whether out of his Chamber, or out of another room, I am not certain; but when I entered his Chamber, I found him alone, and I thought myself fortunate in finding him.
Mr. Lee. On what day of the week was this?
Mr. Heath. I do not recollect.
Mr. Lee. How many days was it after your motion to the court before you went to the Judge's Chambers?
Mr. Heath. I do not recollect—but I think it was a few days after the bill against Callender had been found, and he had been arrested; but as to days, hours, and minutes, I do not pretend to recollect them.
Mr. Lee. Am I to understand that it was after Callender appeared in court?
Mr. Heath. I do not say so. It was after Callender was brought forward by the marshal, and a true bill found. I think it was immediately after; but I do not recollect whether a day or two after.
Mr. Lee. Did you go to Judge Chase's Chambers on any business more than that one time?
Mr. Heath. No—I never did more than that one time.
Mr. Chase. It was with the motion?
Mr. Heath. Yes, Sir, it was with the motion.
Mr. Randolph. Did you at any, and at what time, mention this circumstance, and to whom did you mention it?
Mr. Heath. As soon as it happened, I considered the conversation improper, and I thought I had a right to relate it, as I did not visit him as a friend, but as Judge in his judicial character to perform the duties of his office, and on business which might have been done in open court as well as at his Chambers. I mentioned it to Mr. Hugh Holmes, also to Mr. Meriwether Jones.
Mr. Randolph. Do you mean Mr. Holmes, the present Speaker of the House of Delegates of Virginia?
Mr. Heath. Yes Sir.
Mr. Randolph. You state that you mentioned it to Mr. Holmes and Mr. Jones—Did you mention it to any body else?
Mr. Heath. I was so much impressed with it, that I mentioned it to several others.
Mr. Nicholson. Did you say you made this communication to those gentlemen immediately after the conversation occurred?
Mr. Heath. On the very day, and within an hour afterwards; and I have since mentioned it frequently to others; I never have kept it a secret.
Mr. Hopkinson. Was this conversation on the day of the trial of Callender, or how many days before?
Mr. Heath. I do not recollect whether Callender was tried that day, I mentioned yesterday that I did not attend the trial.
Question. Did you make your motion at the same term that Callender was tried?
Mr. Heath. Yes, Sir—There were intervals during which motions were made by the counsel—During one of these intervals I made my motion for an injunction—Callender had not then been tried; I do not know that when I made the motion the marshal had returned with Callender, but I made it the day before I went to the Judge's Chambers.
Mr. Nicholson. Was the conversation before the empanelling of the jury in the case of Callender?
Mr. Heath. Yes, Sir—the marshal came in during the time I was in conversation with the Judge, it appeared to me, to shew the Judge what kind of a panel he had.
At the request of Mr. Harper, and with the consent of the Managers, JOHN BASSETT, a witness on the part of Judge Chase, was sworn and examined, in consequence of the peculiar situation of his family requiring his immediate return home.
Mr. Harper. Relate the circumstances that took place relative to your being sworn on the jury, on the trial of Callender, and what the application to the court was on your behalf?
Mr. Bassett. The circuit court of the United States at which James T. Callender was presented and indicted for a libel, was held on Monday the 2d or 3d of June. I left home in the morning and arrived in Richmond as early as might be expected. On my arrival I saw David M. Randolph, who was standing at a corner of a street; perceiving me, he came towards me; before I alighted from my horse, he informed me that I had been summoned as a grand juror, and that for not appearing, I had been fined, and that it was my duty to go to the court and justify myself for my absence; that he summoned me on the petit jury for the trial of Callender, and that my serving in that capacity would be an apology for my previous absence. I presented myself to the court, but the trial did not come on that day. The second day I attended also. I knew very well that the law under which the traverser was to be tried, was odious to my fellow-citizens; I knew it was conceived to be a great oppression to the liberty of the subject, and I believed that great umbrage would be given to the mass of the people by those who should undertake to execute that law. I was weak or wicked enough to be among that class of people called federalists, and I did believe that the law (sedition law) was constitutional. I felt myself bound when called on to be a jurymen, to make a declaration of my political sentiments. I made this declaration to relieve the impression on my own mind, and not in order that it should be considered that I declined, in consequence of my political opinions, to serve on Callender's trial, or in any other case. I thought it possible that I might be excused; but if I was found by the court to stand in a proper relation between my country and the traverser, I would cheerfully serve. My object was to justify my own conduct to myself, and to the whole world. I made use of these expressions, and I believe I repeat the very words, but I am well assured that I shall express the force and efficacy of what I said. I declared to the judge that my politics were federal; that I had never seen the book called the Prospect Before Us, but I had seen in a newspaper some extracts from it; that if the extracts were correctly taken from the book, and if the traverser was the author or publisher of that work, it appeared to me that it was a seditious act, that I had formed and expressed an unequivocal opinion, that the book was a seditious act,

that I had never formed an opinion in respect to the indictment, for I had neither seen it nor heard it read. The court considered me a good juror, and I was sworn accordingly. After the trial had been gone through, the jury retired to their room. I informed the jury that I thought we should have the book read through.
The President here stopped the witness, and informed him that it was an unfeigned waste of time to relate what took place in the room of the jury.
The witness, however, continuing the statement he had previously begun, the President desired him to go on, if it were necessary for the purpose of connecting the testimony he had to give; but to pass over what occurred among the jury as briefly as possible.
Mr. Basset. I told the jury that I thought the book should be read. The jury did not at first agree, but the greater part of it was afterwards read. In respect to the general progress, I will state one point that makes a great impression on my mind; I do not pretend, however, to a superior recollection, especially after a lapse of five years, during which I never dreamt it would be the subject of discussion, but I will give my impressions. The judge, addressing the counsel for the traverser said, when my country invested me with my sacred office, it placed me under an obligation to administer justice according to law; this I am determined to do, and I have done it. I have decided what the law is, but this decision is not conclusive against the traverser. If any exceptions are made by his counsel to my decision, they may be reduced to writing, and if I have committed errors, a superior tribunal shall correct them.
Mr. Randolph. You stated that you had read extracts from the Prospect Before Us in newspapers, before you were impanelled on the jury, which impressed you with the opinion that it was a sedition publication. After reading over the book, did it appear to you to answer that description?
Mr. Basset. I thought it was more libelous than the extracts I had seen.
Mr. Randolph. The extracts and the book did not then correspond.
Mr. Basset. I cannot say. I could not say the extracts were the same with what I read in the book, I only recollected that my impression was that they were the same. I could not then nor can I now say, that they were conformable to the book, but my impression is, that they were the same in substance.
Mr. Harper. Did you mean to say that the contents of the book were more libelous than the extracts?
Mr. Basset. I meant to say, that after I had read the book, my impressions were that it was more libelous than I conceived it to be when I read the extracts.
Mr. Nicholson. Do you recollect at what time you arrived in town?
Mr. Basset. I cannot recollect, but I believe soon after the court met—that morning I rose early and rode 22 miles, about four hour's riding.
Mr. Nicholson. Was the book given by the court to the jury?
Mr. Basset. I understood that it was delivered by the court to the jury for their inspection, and to compare the extracts from the book, and see whether they were correctly taken, but I do not recollect that the judge particularly called our attention to the book and directed us what was to be done with it, but my recollection is that the book was delivered to us.
Mr. Rodney. Was the indictment read after all the jury were sworn?
Mr. Basset. I do not recollect that the indictment was read till after the jury was sworn.
Mr. Rodney. Had the book been to the jury any passages scored?
Mr. Basset. I think it had.
Mr. Rodney. Do you know whether the passages marked formed any part of the indictment?
Mr. Basset. I cannot say that I recollect.
Mr. Campbell. When you were sworn did you understand that the charges in the indictment were taken from the book called the Prospect Before Us?
Mr. Basset. It was a subject of general notoriety, that the indictment was drawn from the Prospect Before Us.
Mr. Campbell. What authority had you for supposing that the extracts you had read were taken from the Prospect Before Us?
Mr. Basset. I had no authority but the newspapers, they purported that the extracts were taken from the book called the Prospect Before Us.
Mr. Randolph. Have you any reason to believe that the extracts in the newspapers were not taken from the book?
Mr. Basset. I firmly believe they were taken from it.
Mr. Hopkinson. Was the book which you took out, that which was given in evidence during the trial?
Mr. Basset. Whether it was the book which was furnished by the prosecutor & handed to us by the agent of the court, I cannot tell.
Mr. Hopkinson. At what hour did the court meet?
Mr. Basset. I believe about 10 o'clock.
The President. I understand you as saying that you never saw the book, until you saw it in court?
Mr. Basset. I am firmly and fully so impressed.
The President. When you were questioned as a juror, I understand you to have said, that if the extracts you had read were correctly given, the matter was libelous; did you say that you had formed an opinion?
Mr. Basset. No sir, nor that I had delivered an opinion, but I said that if the traverser was the author of those extracts, he was guilty of a breach of the sedition law. I repeat every expression that is now remaining on my memory. I answered so far as to the fact. The enquiries extended no farther than to making up my opinion on the extracts contained in the newspapers. It had no connection whatever with the book. I do not know that I stated to the court that I had expressed an opinion.
Mr. Harper. Did you make an application to the court to be excused, or did your observations arise from motives of delicacy?
Mr. Basset. If my memory does not fail me I did not solicit the judge to excuse me; the office of a jurymen is no doubt always an unpleasant one, but when I am called upon to perform a duty, I do not shrink from the task. I had some doubts whether my mind was in a proper state to pass between my country and the traverser. It was to remove these doubts that I made the declaration and for no other purpose.
Mr. Lee. On what day of the week was Calender tried?
Mr. Basset. I arrived about 10 o'clock on Monday, and the next day the jury were sworn at the usual time.
Mr. Bayard. What was the general deportment of the judge to the counsel, and of the counsel to the court?
Mr. Basset. The different colouring through which the same things are seen makes some men see things differently from others. My own opinion is, that the judge conducted himself
with decision unmixed with severity, and that he was witty without being farcical—it was my impression that the judge viewed the prisoner to have a full hearing, that he might be acquitted, if innocent, and found guilty, if really guilty—it appeared to me, that the sole point on which the counsel hoped to save their client, was by proving the unconstitutionality of the sedition law, and it appeared to me that they could not form a reasonable expectation of acquitting him on any other ground; I believe his counsel believed the law unconstitutional, and thought they had eloquence and argument enough to convince the jury of it; I believe they thought the judge deprived them of their right to address the jury on that point; and that having the cause very much at heart, they were vastly mortified that the court did not permit them to take the course they wished; they appeared to consider themselves as advocating the cause of an oppressed citizen, and they felt hurt at not being allowed the mode of defence which in their opinion the law authorised; in all their arguments they travelled but little way before they came to the point that went to prove the law unconstitutional, and the judge declared, at every such time, that they had no right to address the jury on that point; that the constitution had made the court the sole judges of a law as far as its respect to its constitutionality; from these circumstances, it is my impression that the altercation between the bar and the court arose solely from the sensibility of the counsel to this particular subject, and from being deprived, as they supposed, of their rights.
The President. What were the particular causes of irritation between the Judge and the counsel?
Mr. Basset. I have stated what I considered the causes—They arose from the counsel advertising to that particular point, and their so frequently doing it occasioned the Judge to elevate his voice, and to pronounce over and over again what he conceived to be the law.
Mr. Rodney. Was the question put by the court, whether you had formed and delivered an opinion on the charges contained in the indictment?
Mr. Basset. My memory on the particular form of the question is imperfect, but I will state my idea of it—I at first thought the question had been put in the disjunctive, or—but I am now persuaded that I was mistaken, so many gentlemen concurring in recollecting that the word 'and' was used, I must believe I was mistaken.
Mr. Rodney. When the question was put, did you not say that you had formed an opinion on the extracts, and did you not express the court express the very opinion which you had formed?
Mr. Basset. I did, and I said that if the book answered to the extracts, I had formed an unequivocal opinion that it was libelous.
Mr. Rodney. And this before you were sworn?
Mr. Basset. Yes, Sir.
The witness was then, from the peculiar circumstances already stated, excused with the consent of the parties from any further attendance on the court; the President observing that although the indulgence was granted in this instance, he hoped it would not be made a precedent for a general practice.
(To be continued.)
Foreign Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, March 28.
London and Liverpool papers and Lloyd's Lists, each to the 8th of February, inclusive, are received at the office of the Mercantile Advertiser, for which we are indebted to the patrons of captain Waite of the Liverpool Packet. They are ten days later than any heretofore received, and we believe are the latest on the Continent. They are however, uncommonly barren of political intelligence, as the subsequent extracts (which comprise every article worth extracting) will show.
The news of the Rochefort fleet having eluded the vigilance of the British, and got out of port, was well known in England early in February, and its destination was the subject of much speculation. It was by some supposed to have a visit to Portugal for its object; by others an attack on Ireland. The latter opinion was current for some time, and was founded on the circumstance of five large ships having been seen off the Cove of Cork on the 31st of January, which it was afterwards discovered were Indian from St. Helena. It does not appear by the London papers that the remotest idea was entertained of the fleet's having failed for the West-Indies.
We have in the paper of the 8th February a very distressing account of the loss of the Earl of Abergavenny, East-Indianman, which left Portsmouth for Bombay and China on the 21st of January, with four hundred persons on board, three hundred of whom perished with the vessel. In the most interesting part of the narrative the paper has been so torn by accident by one of the passengers of the Packet that we are unable to give (as we otherwise would have done) a connected and circumstantial account of this unfortunate disaster.
Merc. Adv.
LONDON, Feb. 2.
The two Hamburg mails, which became due, arrived here yesterday. An article from Madrid states, "that on the day on which the declaration of war appeared here, a treaty of alliance was signed with Portugal, by which the court of Lisbon declares itself an ally of Spain, and an enemy to England."
Letters from Genoa, dated January 2, state, that on the 28th of December, the French fleet lay ill at anchor at Toulon; the report that it had put to sea was premature. On the 21st of December, Admiral Nelson, with 18 ships of war, failed from Cagliari, in Sardinia, where he had taken in water and provisions, while Admiral Bickerton, with his squadron was cruising off Minorca.
The French squadron at Rochefort, consisting of six sail of the line and two frigates, effected their escape from that port on the 11th ult. There is no doubt but some of our fleets will be able very soon to give a good account of them.
We are concerned to state the loss of his Majesty's ship Doris, of 36 guns, Captain Campbell, which struck on a rock on the coast of Spain, while in chase of one of the enemy's brigs. The officers and all the crew were saved.
The Felix Schooner arrived at Plymouth on Thursday, having on board part of the crew of the Doris. The same vessel also brings the melancholy intelligence of the death of Captain W. M. Jervis, of the Tonnant of 80 guns, who was upset in his barge in going from that ship to the Admiral—one man perished with him. Captain Jervis was nephew and heir to the titles and estate of Earl St. Vincent.
Government have just issued instructions to our Naval Commanders, not to molest any neutral vessel going with supplies of grain to Spain, during the present distress of that unfortunate country, even though the grain should belong to our enemy.
Orders have been sent to the transport board, that all the private property belonging to the
officers and men of the captured Spanish frigates, whether in money or in goods, should be forthwith restored to the owners.
The monthly report of the ships in commission in the British Navy, states them to be 697, of which number 105 are of the line; 24 of 50 guns; 157 frigates, and 431 sloops of war; besides these, there are a great number building and repairing, receiving ships, smaller vessels, &c. making in the whole a grand total of 995 sail.
February 5.
Mr. Pitt gave notice yesterday of his intention to bring forward the Budget next Monday week. The bringing forward the Budget earlier than was expected, and the idea of its being the intention of the chancellor of the Exchequer to raise a sum sufficient to pay off the Loyalty Loan, in addition to the Loan for the service of the year, occasioned a depression of the funds yesterday of nearly one per cent. It is supposed that the Loyalty Loan Holders will be paid off by an issue of Exchequer Bills.
The army estimates were moved yesterday. By these it appears that we have an army of regulars, militia and fencibles, of upwards of 200,000 men, and a Volunteer army to an equal amount. If to these be added our naval force, it will be found that we have a greater number of men in arms than any country in Europe, not excepting France herself; we had almost laid than any two countries.
February 8.
PRICE OF STOCKS
Table with 2 columns: Stock Name, Price. Includes Consols (58 1/2 to 59), Fine Flour (88s 9d), Seconds (82s 48s od).
We are still unable to communicate any information to our readers respecting the Rochefort Squadron.
Dispatches have been received from Lord Nelson and Sir John Orde; but we understand they do not contain any thing of importance. Sir Thomas Trigge has arrived from Gibraltar in the Tribune frigate. He failed on the 27th December. We are happy to state that all remains of the Garrison in the Garrison have disappeared. Only three persons died in the Garrison the week before the Tribune failed, & none of them of the Fever.
We have the strongest reason to believe that there is no foundation for the report of the capture of the Prince of Wales's Island.
We have forborne, for some days, to notice the silly stories in the leading opposition paper, of letters having been sent by Mr. Pitt to a Great Personage—of his determination to resign, &c. &c. &c., because we really considered them as too contemptible to require animadversion. With respect to the statement in another paper which pretends to support Administration, of the intended Resignation of Lord Melville, we can only say, that it is just as destitute of truth as the former.
FROM CADIZ.
We have been favoured (says the New-York Gazette) with the perusal of several late letters from Cadiz, written by one of the most eminent merchants of that place—from these letters we learn.
That, from the 23rd of April, to the 23rd of December, 1804, there was imported into that port, 1,769,232 bushels of wheat, and 55,854 barrels of flour.
That there was grain and flour enough in Cadiz to last till the first of May, held by the Corporation of that place, which is bought by the Bakers as they may want it.
That notwithstanding this great supply, it was expected the price would continue, in consequence of the scarcity in the adjacent cities—the probability of this circumstance was increased, as no grain was expected from the Mediterranean, or the Baltic, and because none would come in from France, as the price in that country exceeded the sum established there for exportation.
That from the favourable state of the weather, there was every prospect of good crops of grain the ensuing season, which was a great, though slight relief to the minds of the people, then afflicted with war, famine and plague.
That although the British squadron off the port permitted neutral vessels to go in with their cargoes of wheat or flour, that after inducing their visitors, they would not suffer them to come out except in ballast.
Another letter states, that in the year 1803, there was an immense loss in wine from the quantity of rain which fell during the vintage, which having the wine obliged the inhabitants to distill it. To avoid the evil the next year the grapes were generally collected before they were ripe, which produced the same effect. Therefore, there is no doubt, but the wines on hand abroad, will not only be preferred to recent exportations, but will command a much higher price.
West Indies.
The situation of affairs in the West-Indies, seems at this moment extremely critical.—The French squadron which has lately made its appearance in that quarter, especially if re-inforced by another from Toulon, may ere long effect such a change on the aspect of the British possessions, as shall lead to very important consequences—consequences indeed which shall be sensibly felt by the parent country, and perhaps powerfully influence her future negotiations with the enemy. The force at present on the Jamaica station is doubtless far inferior at least to the united squadrons; and before the British could obtain assistance from Europe, the French may have carried danger and devastation far and wide through the damaged colonies. To the movements of the two powers in this part of the world, not only Europeans but Americans will look with anxiety, as they will have a considerable influence not only on the relative conduct and designs of the former, but also on the commerce and speculations of the latter. In a short time, probably, we will hear farther concerning the motions and views of the French fleet, and better understand the line of procedure which they mean to follow. (N. Y. Adv.)
NEW-YORK, March 27.
Capt. Clapp, of the Rolla, from Trinidad and St. Thomas, arrived last night, informs us, that on the 12th ult. he spoke the Schooner Adventure, 11 days from Martinique, bound to Charleston, who informed him that 5 sail of the line and 5 frigates had arrived at Martinique from France, where they stayed but four hours, and then failed for Dominique, and landed their troops there. The first fire from the forts killed 600 Frenchmen; when they embarked their men and decamped.
He was also informed, that twelve sail of the line failed from France some days previous to the sailing of the above fleet, for the windward islands, to attack Trinidad.
On the 1st of March, while Capt. Clapp was at St. Thomas, information was received that twenty sail of the line had passed to the north of Porto-Rico; whether they were English, French or Spanish, was not known.
Capt. Clapp, also informs, that the American Consul at St. Thomas, had received a decree of 14 articles (which capt. C. saw) from the government of the city of St. Domingo, declaring, among other regulations, that all vessels, of whatever nation, that were found within three leagues of the Brigand Ports, should be taken, & THEIR CREWS PUT TO DEATH. This law was to be put in force, from and after the 1st April next.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
HALIFAX, February 23, 1805.
It is said, "That the intercourse between this Province and the United States, hitherto authorised by Proclamation, will be discontinued after the 5th of May next, unless some urgent necessity, occasioned by the failure of crops should require the importation of flour & grain."
As the purpose of this stop, if taken, must be to encourage the agriculture and commerce of the province, we flatter ourselves, that the exceptions of the farmer, and the liberality of the mercantile interest, will mutually co-operate to ensure the propriety of the measure.
Should we thus prefer Canada, as the source from whence to supply our deficiencies in grain &c. it would be but fair and just, were the Parliament of that Province to exonerate our trade from the extra duty under which it labours there.
NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
On the 12th March, the annual election for Governor, Senators, &c. was held in the state of New-Hampshire; we are happy to learn that the republican ticket will, in all probability, be carried by a considerable majority.
Mr. Langdon was the republican and Mr. Gilman the federal candidate for governor. We have been returns from forty-seven towns, which give Mr. Langdon 6277, and Mr. Gilman 2161, votes—last year Mr. Langdon had but 4938 votes from the same towns, Mr. Gilman had 55539.
MASSACHUSETTS.
The law to prevent the circulation of private notes, bills, orders, and checks, under five dollars, will be in force after the 10th April next. Every person who issues or passes any note, &c. excepting bills of incorporated Banks in this state, of the United States, will forfeit the sum of 50 dollars for every bill, check, note, &c. thus issued.—Boston Cent.
It is said that a bill passed both houses of our legislature, to take from the Governor the power of appointing the Comptroller General and Register General, and to vest that power in the assembly. In the lower House the question was taken by yeas and nays, and carried, yeas 50, nays 21. Bill. Pap.
RHODE-ISLAND.
The amendment to the federal constitution, proposed by the state of Massachusetts, so as to prevent the representation of slaves, has been rejected by the legislature of Rhode-Island.—The amendment proposed by the state of N. Carolina, so as to empower Congress to prohibit the importation of slaves into any part of the United States, was postponed until their next session.
NEW-YORK.
In the House of Assembly of this state on Thursday the 14th inst. Mr. Veder and Mr. Woodworth delivered from the Senate the Bill, entitled "An act to incorporate the Stockholders of the Merchants Bank in the city of New-York." It was read a first and second time and committed to a committee of the whole house.
On Friday it was taken up in a committee of the whole, Mr. Shurtleff in the chair. The first enacting clause was under consideration. A pretty lengthy debate ensued; in which Mr. Van Nels advocated, Messrs. German, W. Gilbert, Few & Elmond opposed the bill. During the argument Mr. W. Gilbert stated that he had in his possession documents to prove that very improper means had been made use of by the Agents of the Bank, to induce certain Members of that House to vote in favor of granting the said Bank a charter, and said that he would, with the permission of the house, read them. Mr. Van Nels, Mr. Luff and Mr. Elmond opposed the reading of the documents at that time as improper. They had no objection to the documents being read, but thought, at that stage of the business, the reading of them would not be proper. A motion was made by Mr. German that the committee should rise, report progress, and ask leave to sit again, which motion was agreed to.
On Saturday, two several certificates from John Ballard and Gordon Huntington, Esquires, a letter from Peter Berts, Esq. addressed to William W. Gilbert Esq. an affidavit of George Merchant, Esq. and a letter from Anthony Marvine, Esq. addressed to his honor the Speaker, were severally read in the house, and are as follows:
The subscriber being in conversation with a member of the assembly on the subject of the Merchants Bank, was told (seemingly as an inducement for the subscriber to vote in favor of it) that those members who would vote in favor of giving the said Bank a charter, would have the privilege of having some shares in the said Bank; and that if they did not wish to fill up the said shares, some person would appear who would give them twenty-five per cent. advance on the said shares; and further, that the said member who mentioned this, was then and still is in favor of giving the said Bank a charter.
March 15, 1805. JOHN BALLARD,
The subscriber, while in conversation with a member of the assembly on the subject of the Merchants Bank, was told that those who would vote in favor of giving the said Bank a charter, would have the privilege of having some shares in the said Bank; and further, that the said member is in favor of the said bank.
GORDON HUNTINGTON. Dated March 15, 1805.
Sir. As you mentioned in your place in the House of Assembly, that improper means were made use of, to influence the Members to vote for the Merchants Bank, now before the house, I will state to you a fact that happened to me.—Some time after the meeting of the Legislature, and previous to the time that the bill for incorporating the Merchants Bank was brought into the Assembly, a member of this house observed to me, that if I would support that institution by my vote, I could have a number of shares, and that if I was not disposed to keep them I could sell them to a confidential advance. That as I was alphabetically near the first of the list of the assembly, my voting for that bill would be of use, as they wanted to give a run in the first instance. I thought proper to give this information, and for you to make such use of it as you may deem expedient. I am, Sir, yours, &c. PETER BERTS. William W. Gilbert, Esq.
Albany county, ss.
Personally appeared before me George Merchant, Esq. of the city of Albany, and being duly sworn, saith that Mr. Marvine, a member of the house of assembly, from the county of Delaware, told this deponent that he had been offered twenty-four shares in the Merchants Bank, provided he would vote for the incorporation of the said Bank, and asked this deponent what he would have done in such a case—to which he replied, that he would conceive it his duty to accept the man who made the offer, or words to that effect. Mr. Marvine then observed, that it was a particular friend who made the offer, and therefore he thought he ought not to expose him; and further this deponent saith not.
GEORGE MERCHANT.
Sworn before me, this 15th day of March, 1805. BENJAMIN WALLACE, Esq. one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Albany.
THE HON. THE SPEAKER, SIR.
Being informed that Mr. George Merchant, of this city, had made an affidavit advertising to my conversation in relation to the bill now before the legislature for incorporating the Merchants Bank, and which affidavit is intended to be brought before the honorable the house of assembly, for their consideration; I therefore think it proper to state, that on Thursday evening last, Mr. Merchant and myself were in conversation on the subject of the Bank question, in the course of which I observed to him in a hypothetical manner, as follows:—Suppose a question was to be offered for you twenty-four shares in the Merchants Bank, what would you do? He remarked, "that he would expose the person"—upon which I further observed, "but suppose it was a particular friend of yours," and to which he added, he did not suppose that would alter his conduct, or words purporting similar ideas.
I further state, that I have no knowledge of any further or different conversation with Mr. Merchant on this subject. And I also add, that no member of the house has ever made any offers whatever to me of a similar nature to the above, nor has the same been made by any agent for the Bank; that during the time the subject has been agitated, I have had no conversation with several gentlemen out of the house, and from some of whom I have heard it observed, that shares would be at the service of the friends of the Bank, if it succeeded.
ANTH: MARVINE.
Sundry resolutions and amendments thereto were offered for the consideration of the house by different members, founded upon the facts contained in the foregoing documents; and the house finally adopted the following resolution and recital:
"Whereas, it appears to this house, as well by the certificates as the declarations of several of the members thereof, that offers have been made by a member or members of this house, and by others to the said members of certain shares in the Merchants Bank in the city of New-York, to induce the said members to vote in favor of a bill to incorporate the said bank; and particularly, that John Ballard, one of the members of this house, hath not only been offered a certain number of shares, but has also, in order that his vote might be secured in favour of the said bill, been promised twenty-five per cent. on the nominal amount of the said shares after the said incorporating act should be passed; And whereas, attempts to influence the votes of members of this house, by the proffer of bribes in the shape of money, or other beneficial rewards, are not only breaches of privilege and high misdemeanors, but have an alarming tendency to corrupt and pervert the opinions and votes of individual members, and to disgrace and destroy the purity of legislation, in open violation of the dear and most invaluable interests of our constituents: And whereas it is fuggelated to this house, by a member thereof, that certain undue and indirect means, by surprise or otherwise, have been adopted to obtain the incorporation of certain other banks within this state: And whereas the dignity and independence of the legislature are implicated in the said fuggelations—Be it therefore
"Resolved, That a committee of this house be appointed for the purpose of enquiring into the truth of these suggestions and charges, and that they have power to send for persons and papers, and all other power incidental and necessary to detect and bring to light the said offences; and that they have leave to sit during the session of the house, and that they report their proceedings in the premises with all convenient speed."
The following are the gentlemen who form the committee, appointed by the house agreeable to the above resolution, viz. Messrs. W. Gilbert, W. Livingston, German, Arcularius, McIntyre, Silverster and Luff.—It was further
Resolved, That the sergeant at arms attend the said committee, receive their orders, and carry them into effect.
New-York, March 28.
We received the following letter by yesterday's Northern Mail:
"Albany, Thursday, March 21, 5 o'clock, P. M.
"The House of Assembly have this moment rose, after having been closely engaged from nine o'clock this morning. The trial.

that spirit was revived, and warmly encouraged by the government. A respectable company formed itself in England for the purpose of colonization, and a patent was granted to its members. More judicious plans were arranged, greater exertions made, and a code of laws drawn up for the intended establishment. In short, every measure was embraced, which, to the framers of the design, appeared likely to promote its future success.
In December, 1606, Capt. Newport, with a hundred and ten men, two barks, and a hundred and five men, destined to compose the infant colony, failed from the Thames. The original place of his destination was Roanoke, but, after a difficult and circuitous voyage, he reached the mouth of the Chesapeake. Impatient to land, some of his companions hastily went on shore at Cape Henry; they were attacked by the aborigines, and most of them wounded. This hostile reception induced the English to seek another spot for the contemplated establishment. Sailing up a large and beautiful river, called by the natives Pocahontas (a name which the new comers converted into that of James ) they fixed upon the peninsula which we have mentioned for the seat of their colony. To the hasty but rude fortifications which they erected there, they gave the name of JAMES-TOWN , conferring, by this appellation, as well as by that of the river, the memory of the monarch under whose auspices the establishment was commenced.
To describe minutely each subsequent event, were foreign to our task. The difficulties of the colonists from famine, sickness, and the hostile jealousy of their fierce neighbours; their fatal divisions; their ill-concerted measures; their injudicious towards the gallant Smith, who still continued to serve them; the adventures of that extraordinary man; the good offices, the amiable sensibility, of the compassionate Pocahontas, a young Indian princess, who saved him from impending death; the golden dreams, and delusive hopes of the infatuated settlers, who eagerly sought after mines, instead of exploring the rich veins of agriculture; the tardy, yet effectual, relief afforded by Lord Delaware to the drooping colony; in short, the various circumstances relating to Jametown, and its inhabitants, from the time of Wingfield to that of Nicholson, when the seat of government was removed to Middle-Plantation (now Williamsburg ) have been amply detailed by English and American historians, to whose page the young reader is referred.
When the Europeans first landed on the unknown shores of America, many circumstances hindered them from selecting for their infant settlements the most advantageous sites. The country was covered with lofty and almost impenetrable forests; deep and extensive morasses arrested their steps. The hungry hordes of the Sivan hordes, the fill more formidable Indians, together with the necessity of holding with the mother country an easy and frequent intercourse, compelled them to fix on some secure situation near the sea-coast, or along the banks of navigable rivers. In process of time, enterprise and industry overcame every difficulty, every terror. The foil, the wild beasts, the fierce natives themselves, yielded to the superior energies of civilized man. Neat mansions arose where rude Indian huts had stood; the fertilizing plough-share succeeded the murderous tomahawk, and rich, cultivated fields smiled where a rank vegetation had spread for ages its wild, uncontrolled luxuriance. It was then that new and more favorable situations were chosen for building towns, and the original settlements partly or totally abandoned. Hence the wonder of European travellers must cease, when, in their progress through the American states, they find in places comparatively young and recent, mournful images of decrepitude and antiquity; and the silence of gloomy desolation, where they had, perhaps, expected the gay bustle of an active, emulous crowd.
Other causes too, seem to have contributed to the removal of government from Jamestown, and to its subsequent solitude. Nicholson aspired to the glory of founding a city. Utterly devoted to William III, he named it Williamsburg in honor of that monarch; and his ingenious flattery paid to the same prince a singular homage in tracing the streets, which now run parallel, in the form of a W.
In the view now offered to the public, Jamestown is represented as seen from a point on the bank of the river, in the S. S. W. part of the peninsula. The venerable ruins of an old church-steple, from the top of which serpentine garlands of ivy, and other climbing and laxative plants, hang in irregular festoons; the beautiful contrasting groups of trees and shrubs which partly encircle it, and among which the Platanus Occidentalis (Sycamore or Poplar) hold a conspicuous rank; the sepulchral monuments beneath their shade; the hawks in the background, which seem to peep through the interstices of the verdure, and one of which has been fantastically ornamented by nature with a mantle of Pygmaea radiating climbing (twpot) flowers; the domestic herds wandering here and there, and seeking the support of sensitive life amidst the very trophies of death; unaccountable the sacredness of the spot; the various birds falling through the air, unmolested by the hostility of man; the swift barks silently gliding along the lonely shore; and other prominent objects, which it is needless to indicate, form an ensemble highly harmonious and picturesque.
It was impossible to embrace in a quarto view the southern bank of the river; its abrupt cliffs, and elevated promontories, capped with the sombre verdure of coniferous pine and cedar-trees; the beautiful amphitheatre behind, presenting to the delighted eye neat villas, smiling fields, romantic copse and groves; and terminating, on that side, by a range of bold woody hills, a sublime, enchanting horizon. The almost unlimited prospect of the noble stream gradually widening, and evolving with tranquil majesty its cerulean waters, over which the western sun shed, when we contemplated the scene, golden tints of the richest hue, was found above the powers either of imitation or description.
We regret that the limits which we have prescribed to ourselves do not permit any botanical disquisition. Jamestown is rich in aquatic, riparian, and other plants, extremely curious. We have found there in abundance the beautiful passiflora incarnata , spontaneously growing among the different sorts of grana . The maranta , which is described by Linnæus as an exotic from Vera-Cruz, also met our eye along the solitary beach.
As monuments of art, and when compared with those superlative fragments of a bold and majestic architecture which Egypt, Syria, Greece, Italy, and other regions of the Eastern hemisphere, present to admiring travellers, the ruins of Jamestown are humble and inconsiderable; nor, whilst exploring its shores, do we tread on "Classic ground." Yet, the emotions which the aspect of those rude national vestiges conveys to the soul, are powerfully enthusiastic, rapturously melancholy—Here, nothing foreign or indifferent. The retropect is not sufficiently remote to fatigue and obfuscate "the mind's eye"; and the distance of depopulation too small to preclude the contact of sensibility. Here, no artificial impressions. The " amor patriæ ," the
memory, the imagination, act in concert with irresistible force. We feel, we recollect, we indulge, by turns the sorrows and the pleasures of the fancy, not only as men, but as citizens. Eager acquaintance, a friend in distress, with whom we sympathize, and hold mournful converse. Under such feelings, (and such feelings are necessarily excited) the scenery becomes truly interesting, truly pathetic.
Whence (says the elegant author of the Brigs Spoff ), speaking of the ruins now under consideration) arises the irrepressible reverence and tender affection with which I look at this broken Reople? Is it that my soul, by a secret subtle process, invests the mouldering ruin with its own powers; imagines it a fellow-being; a venerable old man, a Nefor, or an Otho, who has witnessed and survived the ravages of successive generations, the companions of his youth, and his maturity, and now mourns his own history and desolate condition, and hails their spirits in very pallid cloud?—Wintermay be the cause, as I look at it, I feel my soul drawn forward as by the chords of gentle sympathy, and involuntarily open my lips to offer consolation to the drooping pile!"
The contrast between the savages of time, and the fecundity of nature is here peculiarly striking. Where the one destroys the other creates. Love, life, teens, among those desolate fragments. Several families of the feathered race inhabit the grey clefts of the mouldering Reople; from those clefts and from the fissures in some of the ruinous tomb stones, little various herbs, grasses, and creeping plants, which shade or embrace their mossy surfaces, spreading a thick veil over the inscriptions traced by the pious hand of affectionate sorrow. This, however, is not the case with all the sepulchral monuments in the luxurious group. Some, containing the ashes of the ancestors and friends of neighboring families, are religiously protected against the injuries of time, and any rude violation. Would not a total inlosure of so sacred a spot at the national expense be highly commendable? There are no monuments more interesting than the tombs of men, especially those of our kindred. It is worthy of remark that all savages, and even most civilized nations have made the tombs of their ancestors the center of their worship, and an essential part of their religion. This pious melancholy prevails everywhere. In China, the tombs of ancestors constitute one of the principal ornaments of the suburbs of towns, and of the hills in the country. Among savage nations they form the strongest link in the social chain. When, at any period, the Europeans have proposed to the latter to quit their native territory, they have uniformly answered, "shall we lay to the bones of our forefathers, arise and follow us into a foreign land?" To them that objection has always appeared insurmountable. Our voluntary, who sometimes return to natural sentiments, have fictions of tombs erected in their gardens. A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of both "worlds."
It thus consecrated by the national veneration, if adorned, too, with a suitable monument to the memory of the most conspicuous and deserving among the fathers of Virginia, we know enough of the human heart to assert that the cemetery at Jamestown, so impressive even in its present state, could not be viewed without exciting emotions of a patriotic, exalted, and virtuous tendency!†
P. S. Under the influence of the sentiments which we have so faintly described, we could not, whilst exploring the desolate beach, forbear affixing to a tree which overhangs the river, the following humble inscription:
PRIMIS VIRGINIÆ COLONIÆ, PRÆSIDIUM JOANNIS SMITH; QUI OPTIMUM HOC, PARVU MAGNU POSTEA GENUS RUDIMENTUM, (EHED! NUNC SITUS ET RUINIS HORRENS!) A. D. MDXVII CONDIDERE, PAULATIM AUXERE ET COLONIAM FAKE, MORBO, BARBARORUM FURERE, FENE OP- PRESSAM, CONSILIO, VIRTUTE, PERSEVERANTIA, RESTITUERE, FLORENTIAM POSTERIS TRADI- DERE; ARROS ISTA, DUM VIVET, ESTO SACRA! (DIX AUGUSTI XXV, A. D. MDCCCIV.)
† In a country where the amor patriæ is imbibed from the very cradle, such details cannot fail to interest. It is a pleasure, as well as a duty, to contemplate, to study the situation of our native corner of the globe, in every stage of its existence. The young Virginian may consult Smith's own account, Keith, Smith, Beverley, Salmon, Robertson, Chalmers, Belknap, (American Biography, Life of John Smith, &c. Burke, &c. &c. Should none of those writers be within his reach, he will find in Marshall's Life of Washington , lately published, the leading facts of Virginia history interwoven with collateral events. The introductory sketch prefixed by that gentleman to his Biography of the "American hero" is drawn with a masterly hand, and elegantly coloured. The density of his narrative is preferable to the diffuse pages of others. Mr. Jefferson's Notes are in every American library. In that work, which stands at once above praise and criticism, the inquisitive will find, beside a considerable portion of historical knowledge, abundance of valuable and interesting information of a miscellaneous nature, conveyed in the most captivating style.—A good map of Virginia has long been a desideratum among us; but we will soon be favored with one that promises to combine accuracy of information and research with elegance of execution. This map is directed by the gentleman to whom we have already alluded, when stating the lat. and long. of Williamsburg, and is, we are told, to be accompanied with geographical, historical, and other documents in the form of a pamphlet: if so, Virginia may boast of historians and geographers equalled by few either on this or on the other side of the Atlantic.
† See Salmon's Modern History, Present state of Virginia. This took place about the year 1608.
‡ The passiflora is commonly called passion-flower , or May-pole , sometimes May-pole . Linnæus places it in the order passifloræ of the class gyndria . The maranta bears a pod resembling the head of a woodcock at the first glance. When dry, it bears a better resemblance to a fish with black and white spots, and a dorsal fin. Those analogies between the conformation of certain vegetables and animals might be a fertile source of amusing, and, perhaps, useful research.
¶ The passage here quoted is worthy of Otho himself, why has the ingenious, feeling, and elegant Tourist ceased to soon to intrude and delight us? The "intellectual and physical topography" of Virginia is far from being exhausted. We ardently wish that he may resume his fascinating delineations, and long exercise the happy art, which he possesses in so eminent a degree, lectorem delectandi, pariter que monendi !
‡ With emendatory impressions, we observed traces of an intended inuendo.
§ Our notes are, perhaps, already too numerous, yet we cannot forbear recommending, in this place, to our young readers, the perusal of the "Studies of Nature," from which the above quotation has been extracted. The amiable author is well known to the votaries of humanity, of science, of polite literature, and even to those readers who travel only over the
pages of romance. Who is it that has not shed tears on the tomb of Virginia and that of the unfortunate Paul? Who has not repented himself in the Indian Cottage, &c.?
In the descriptive part of his studies, St. P. displays with articles elegant, a fresh, brilliant and picturesque imagery, by which the fancy is delightfully amused. His humane and generous views, many of which are obviously practicable, awaken the noblest sympathies of the heart; his bold and original conceptions astonish and captivate the intellect. When he paints nature, he is truly sublime, truly poetic; his touches are simple, but masterly, his colours vivid and pure, as his model. The work possesses, besides, a peculiar advantage: whilst it enlarges the mind, it impregnates the heart with a tender, genuine, and rational piety. Almost in every page, the reader is taught, "To look through nature up to nature's God!"
ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, APRIL 4, 1805.
THE PRESENT POLICY OF THE FEDERAL PARTY.
No. IV.
We have at length ascended to the prevailing principles of the federal party. After having retraced all their subtle and vigorous exertions, since the era of the present administration, to restore their fallen fortunes, we have noticed their repeated defeats. We have seen them predicting, that should Mr. Jefferson be put at the head of our affairs, in a few short months we should see our country involved in a war with Britain, and entangled in an alliance with France; and we have seen the peace and prosperity of our beloved country refuting their predictions. We have seen them attacking the principal measures of the administration, and the private character of the officers of government; and we have seen the people rewarding these meritorious criticisms, by heaping new honours upon their opponents. Disappointed in their attempts to overthrow the republican party, by attacking the political system which they supported, we have observed the federalists of the north, changing the grounds of their attack; skillfully attempting to foster division and diffusion in the republican ranks, by playing off the republicans of the north against those of the south, and bringing local prejudices in array against the leading principles of the party; and we have seen the republicans of the north ridiculing these unfounded suspicions, exposing all their infamous arts, and acting in more perfect union with their brethren in the south. In spite of these repeated exertions, we have observed the federal party daily losing some part of their ground, successively driven from one strong hold to another, dwindling in their numbers, and reduced at last to such a state of imbecility as to be incapable of any serious effort to recover from their defeats. So feeble are the apprehensions entertained of their success, that we have already seen the republican party relaxing in their vigilance, and in the strictness of their discipline. We have seen little differences of opinion, which had previously appeared of small consequence, now assuming an unusual importance. We have seen individual interests, which would never have been thought of amidst the great conflicts of party, suddenly starting up into collision with each other. In fact, the light indications of an approaching division among the republican party have already obtruded themselves upon our notice. Thus, at the very moment when the federal party were falling into irretrievable ruin, when their spirits were yielding to despair, another ray of consolation and hope springs up from the very gloom which envelopes them, to animate their spirits, and to point the way for new exertions.
Here then is the ground, on which the federal phalanx have now pitched their standard. They know they are impotent by themselves. They feel how necessary it is to their success to attach a part of the republicans to their cause; and they therefore dwell with delight upon the prospect of a republican disunion. They know that if ever individual interests, or a slight difference of opinions should produce an alienation among the republicans; it would be impossible to calculate the duration or degree of its effect. Let this alienation once exist on any topic, and what shall prevent it from extending the sphere of its influence? Private passion is called into action; reciprocal enmity may be generated, & the rival sects will attempt to thwart each other's designs. Their mutual opposition becomes scarcely less violent than their united opposition to their former enemies. At length, the distance between each other becomes as great as between themselves and their common opponents. The points of difference become as numerous as the points of contact; and when this state of things arrives, adieu to a friendly union, adieu to common principle, & to the ties that have hitherto bound them together! Welcome in their place mutual defiance, vehement altercation, an unnatural junction with the federal party! Such has uniformly been the history of religious feuds; and it will equally be the fate of political schisms. When the catholic church, held the sceptre of religion in England, all who dissented from its discipline and doctrine, united together to retrench its prerogatives. But when this object was once accomplished, and the dissenters had obtained a greater degree of toleration, you find them diverging into smaller sects; and in proportion to their division you find them opposing each other with the same warmth of zeal, which they had formerly felt towards the great ecclesiastical establishment. And what now is the temper of those dissenting sects in this country? So extremely violent, that some of the Methodists do not hesitate to declare that the Deist who does or agree with them in a single tenet of Christianity, has as great a chance of sharing the joys of heaven, as even the Baptist himself, who agrees with them in many of the articles of their faith.
It is then the interest of the federal party, that this division among the republicans should continue and extend its influence. It will be their best policy to promote it by all the resources in their power. Who were they, that attempted to play upon the pride of those republicans, who were not so much distinguished in our councils, and to stir up a jealousy in their bosoms, by crying up John Randolph as their leader, and ridiculing them for being his subservient followers? Who were they that have attempted to work upon the ambition and pride of every nominal republican, who, too weak to influence others, and too vain to go along with them, was anxious to distinguish himself by an affected impartiality of opinion? Who were they that lavished such elaborate eulogiums upon James Elliott of Vermont; who puffed him in the papers; who toasted him at their feasts; who velped him the independent & truth-swayed republican; who tried to make him conceit, even from himself, that the patriotism of which he vaunted, was no more than private pique towards a young man of his gratitude, to bind him forever to their interests? Such has been, and such will be the policy of the federalists. Watch their present movements, and you will find them fanning the flames of diffusion; aggravating every little difference of opinion that exists among us; setting individual interests, as much as they can, into contrast; inflaming the little passions of competition; and as far as they can, without openly avowing their designs, meddling, inflaming and hurrying beyond, the chance of a reconciliation, every little discordant sentiment, which may chance to arise among the republicans. You will find them ridiculing and denouncing that part of the republicans, which happens to gain a little triumph over their own friends. You will find them binding up the wounds of the vanquished, sympathizing with all their misfortunes, and by making themselves useful as comforters, attempting to make them confederates of their cause.
Yet let me not be misunderstood in the view which I have here delineated, of federal policy. I do not mean to affirm, that this is the policy of all the federalists, in all the states, but that it has been employed in all those situations where some differences have existed among the republicans, and that it will "grow with the growth, and strengthen with the strength" of these internal divisions. And by internal divisions, I do not mean those alienations, which are produced by a fundamental change of political sentiment, but by those smaller variations of opinion and interest which are to be found in men of the same political party. These are the alienations, which the federal policy will attempt to encourage, as these may lead to more important schisms. By taking advantage of some little division of this kind, the federalists have been pleased to hope, that they may form at last a closer combination with those very men, who would not at first have agreed with them on a single political principle, that related to the two parties in this country.
From what other cause is it, that they now attempt to raise such an unfounded alarm about the safety of the constitution? To what other cause are we to attribute their puerile attempts to bring John Randolph into contempt? Why do they expatiate in the most pathetic language upon the ruin which hangs over the constitution? Why call upon every honest man to unite and rally round them! "Forget (they cry) the errors of the two last administrations. Generally throw the mantle of oblivion over our treaties, our armies, our navies, our unconstitutional laws, a gaged press and the waste of public treasure. Throw away the lights of experience, by which only you can know us for what we are, by which alone you have been taught to feel the curses of our system; & take us for age and virtuous patriots. The public good demands such a sacrifice at your hands, for unless you assist us to drive back your own party, we shall see our government laid in ruins. Without the union of all honest men, not a vestige of the present constitution can remain to lift our children." Why, I repeat, does such language flow from their lips? It is because they hope this tochin of alarm will divide the republicans. Those who have less courage or less penetration than the rest, are expected to desert their friends and throw themselves into the arms of the federalists to save the constitution! Federalists, did I say? No: these gentlemen have already changed their title. They are no longer federalists. They now call themselves Constitutionalists; the friends of the constitution; the constitutional party; and they flatter themselves they have now erected a standard, which shall wave, other heads than their own. Yet why all this alarm? We as well as they are as warmly attached to the constitution. We would do as much to guard its safety. If the amendments of Messrs. Randolph and Nicholson, or any other amendments, are found upon investigation to be necessary to our security, the American people will adopt them. But let not the federal party pretend to say, that the majority of the republicans will adopt them without any deliberation: and let them not delude themselves into the hope, that any part of the republicans, who may entertain the same views on this subject, that they do, will unite with them for the attainment of any other than this single object, or that they will enter into a general treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive!
The federalists have now adopted as their motto, "the union of all honest men." But have they sufficiently reflected upon the extent of their demand? Are they yet to know that honesty of intention is not the only cement of political union? In order that they may honestly unite, men must be animated by the same views, and they must pursue the same expedients. Damens and Raville are supposed to have been influenced by the most virtuous motives, yet who would think of making Damens and Raville his companions at the festive board? Men of a different religion may be equally upright in their professions, and yet if you were to collect together all the honest men of every persuasion, the worshippers of the Lama and the Protestants of the crescent and the cross, you would produce the same tumultuous and discordant assembly which Volney has drawn together in his "Ruins of Empires." Yet not more distant are these from each other, than are the advocates of federal & republican principles. You might as well attempt to combine the opposite elements of nature, as men of such opposite opinions. More uncombinable than water and oil, I know of no political Alkali that can blend them together. They could scarcely advance a single step in cordial concert. The first momentous measure would reduce them to their original elements. Why then talk of a "union of honest men?"
Republicans! beware of wishing to form any combination with the federal party! Beware also that your own divisions, do not animate the hopes, and accomplish the triumph of your opponents. As yet the division in Virginia is in its egg state. It lies prostrate at your feet, and a little effort is sufficient to crush it. But let fall upon it a single genial ray of your approbation, & you must hasten it into a Hydra, that will sting you to the soul."
VIEWS OF THE THIRD PARTY.
It must be premised, that the rise of the third party is not to be attributed wholly to any single cause; but to a combination of causes; the principal of which have been
The secret ambition of some individuals: The disappointment of some others: The universal influence of the Yazoo speculation: And the effort of a party to realize the burlesque of the federal song "Rule New-England—New-England rule the states," &c.
A separate development of these leading causes would occupy more space than we can at present spare—but they may become at a future time subjects of more ample and particular discussion, we shall, at this time only touch generally what goes to show, that the Gaz. of U. S. though it has attempted to give the fact another color has really stated a fact.
That fact is, that intrigues were really set on foot prior to the decision on the candidates for president and vice president, which had in view all and every of the leading objects above specified, and which were brought to favor and fruition each other. Fortunately the project was commenced too late—the instruments employed were incompetent—and some of those whom they attempted to decoy and betray, were roused to indignant resentment and repulsion.
Among other things which leads us to think the Gaz. of U. S. editor has been led into the secret; the plan of intrigue appears to have originated with some gentlemen from Connecticut, and the politicians of that state were ready to surrender their federalism, to promote the "union of honest men"—the union of Yazoo and quiddipin.
Among the features of this union one was—That two of the federal members of Congress would go out by resignation; and that two of those who in Connecticut call themselves republicans, were to go into Congress from that state.
One exception only was made in this choice; the "honest men" who were to join the federalists, were to have had the right of nominating any two men, so that Pierrepont Edwards, should not be one of them.
It was understood that Gideon Crainger was to be one of the new representatives, and it was to be calculated and confidently declared, that Congress could not resist his irresistible eloquence.
Among other particulars of this project, it was considered as essential that some southern members, and some western members should be secured; and that the Pennsylvania members should be kept divided among themselves. Among the southern members, Mr. Y. H. Nicholson of Maryland was considered as of the greatest importance to be secured; and accordingly the overture was made to Mr. Nicholson, to take upon himself the lead in political affairs in congress, and that he would be supported by "the union of honest men."
Mr. Nicholson indignant and disgusted with the detestable offer, which opened to his view an intrigue which had not been by him suspected, spurned at the insult.
We have been thus particular on those two points of the Connecticut policy—and the attempt to dishonor Mr. Nicholson, in order to account for the call of the article in the Gaz. U. S. and particularly for the asperity thrown out against Mr. Nicholson in that paper, and in other papers of the same politics.
As to the aspersions on Mr. Randolph, they are to be accounted for in the same way, and by the same causes; the tactics of this new coterie party, this "union of honest men," is like that of the wherry man, who rows one way and looks another; or of him who cries out "stop thief" in order that he may not be suspected himself; the cry has been with this union of honest men against "Virginian influence" while the true meaning of this cry is that this faction means to rule; and the talents, integrity, and resolution of Randolph, are terrible to this phalanx; and they cry out against Randolph because beside his virtues he is proud of being a Virginian; and the pride ought to be reciprocal.
The conduct which has been exhibited towards this great and good young man, the public have no conception of; delicate of constitution, and subject to extreme ill health, perhaps seven tenths of the year, his sensibility is well known and to be connected with the loftiest ideas of personal honor and courage. The fact to whom he has been a terror, have contrived with a degree of malignant ingenuity, to operate upon his health, by wounding his feelings! Every man whose skirts have been assailed by the teeth, or ears annoyed by the barking of a village cur-dog—or who has been annoyed by the surly barking of a mongrel mastiff, may form an idea of the course pursued towards Mr. Randolph.
Instead of the solemn argument, or the splendid eloquence, which should dignify the chambers of congress and to which the arguments and eloquence of Mr. Randolph are entitled, a system has been pursued of subjecting him to the contumely of a reply from Elliot of Vermont, or Lyon of Kentucky.
A word more, and we shall close this article—the strength of "the union of honest men" is to be tried at the next session, upon the choice of a speaker—Macon is not to be reduced by the Yazoo, though he is far from being a rich man—and it is intended by the union of "honest men" to set up a candidate in opposition to him. The readers of the Aurora may at first light question, whether all these matters are dreams or ingenious fictions?—time which has so frequently testified to the information conveyed by this paper, will establish these facts, and more than these hereafter.
Aurora.
Delegates chosen to serve in the next General Assembly of Virginia.
Harris—Gervas Storr and Joseph Selden.
Sales at Auction.
WILL positively be sold, on Saturday next, at 12 o'clock on the premises, on a credit of twelve months, for a Deed of Trust on the property, or approved personal security, that beautiful and valuable LOT, known in the plan of the city, by the No. 542, and lying near to those lots of Wm. Hay, Esq. in front of his dwelling house.
PROSSER & MONCURE, V.Ms.
April 4.
LOST,
Three certificates standing on the books of the Commissioner of Loans for the state of Virginia, in the name of John Guel (Viz.)
One certificate of 6 per cent stock issued the 17th of April 1799; No. 852, for 23 dols. 84 cents—One ditto 6 per cent deferred stock issued the same time No. 814, for 11 dollars 92 cents—One ditto 3 per cent stock issued the same time, No. 810, for 17 dollars.
April 4. 6w.
FRESH SUPPLY OF SPANISH RIDER.
FOR SALE,
A LARGE quantity of prime Spanish Hides, in moderate terms. Apply to the Publisher or to the Post-Office, Richmond.
MICAIAH DAVIS.
4th Mo: 4th. 1805.

By Authority.
LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT,
Making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and five.
BE IT ENACTED , by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the expenditure of the civil list in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and officers; for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, buoys and public piers; for defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands in the territories of Indiana and Mississippi; for the unexpended balances of former appropriations, defraying the expenses of the second census, and the purchase and erection of wharves and piers under the quarantine law; and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated; that is to say.
For compensations granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, one hundred and ninety-eight thousand, nine hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing & all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, including the sum of three thousand dollars appropriated by the act of the sixth of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, twenty eight thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incidental to the dismantling the late library room of Congress, and fitting it up for the accommodation of the House of Representatives at the ensuing session, seven hundred dollars.
For the expenses of removal of the library, all other contingent expenses of the same, and librarian's allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and five, nine hundred dollars.
For the expense of labelling, lettering, and numbering five thousand seven hundred volumes of laws and journals of the old Congress directed by the act of the present session for the disposal of certain copies of the laws of the United States, to be deposited in the library, five hundred and seventy dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice-President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerk and persons employed in that department, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
For the incidental and contingent expenses in the said department, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For printing and distributing copies of the laws of the second session of the eighth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For printing the laws, and other contingent expenses of the government of the Indiana territory, in consequence of the union with it of that of the territory of Louisiana, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For special messengers charged with dispatches, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including those engaged on the business belonging to the late office of the commissioner of the revenue, thirteen thousand, four hundred and forty-nine dollars & eighty one cents.
For expenses of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea letters, stationery, and printing, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand, nine hundred and seventy seven dollars and eight cents.
For expense of stationery, printing and incidental and contingent expenses in the comptroller's office, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and ninety three cents.
For expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the office of the auditor of the treasury, five hundred dollars.
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars, and forty five cents.
For the expense of stationery, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer's office, three hundred dollars.
For compensation to the register of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty two dollars.
For expense of stationery and printing in the register's office, (including books for the public flock and for the arrangement of the marine papers,) two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation of the clerks employed for the purpose of making drafts of the several surveys of land in the territory of the United States, north west of the river Ohio, and in keeping the books of the treasury in relation to the sales of lands at the several land offices, two thousand six hundred dollars.
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incident to the stating and printing the public accounts for the one thousand eight hundred and five, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For purchasing books, maps, and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars.
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury, during the year one thousand eight hundred and five, including the expense of two watchmen, and for the repair of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns, and other incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For the erection of a fire proof brick building for the preservation of the records of the treasury; the cellars in which they have hitherto been kept, being found from their dampness improper for that use, nine thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the secretary of war, one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in his office of the accountant of the war department one thousand dollars.
For compensation to clerks employed in the paymaster's office, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of public supplies, clerks and persons employed in his office, including a sum of twelve hundred dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine, and for expense of stationery, store rent and fuel for the said office, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For compensation to the secretary of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
For expense of fuel, stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the secretary of the navy, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand one hundred dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine, and for expense of stationery, store rent and fuel for the said office, four thousand six hundred dollars.
penetration to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine, ten thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the postmaster-general, assistant postmaster-general, clerks and persons employed in the postmaster-general's office, including a sum of four thousand, five hundred and ninety five dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine, thirteen thousand nine hundred and fifty five dollars.
For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationery, shells, &c. exclusive of expenses of prosecution, postmaster-general, mail locks and other expenses incident to the department, these being paid for by the postmaster-general out of the funds of the office, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the federal loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the clerks of the several commissioners of loans, an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorized expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand dollars.
For defraying the expense of clerk hire in the office of the commissioner of loans of the state of Pennsylvania, in consequence of the removal of the offices of the treasury department, of the treasury department, in the year one thousand eight hundred, to the permanent seat of government, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor general, and the clerks employed by him, and for expense of stationery and other contingencies of the surveyor general's office, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, stationery, and other contingencies, three thousand and two hundred dollars.
For compensation to the officers of the mint:
The director, two thousand dollars.
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars.
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The chief coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars.
The engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars.
One clerk, at seven hundred dollars each.
And two, at five hundred dollars each.
For the wages of persons employed at the different branches of melting, coining, carpenter's, millwright's and finisher's work, including the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner & die-sinker, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For the repairs of furnaces, coil of rollers and screws, timber, bar-iron, lead, steel, potash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand nine hundred dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges, secretary, and legislative council of the territory of Orleans, nineteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the legislative council, and of the secretary of the said territory, two thousand dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Mississippi territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Indiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, two thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments of state, treasury, war and navy, & of the general post office, not exceeding, for each department respectively, fifteen per centum, in addition to the sums allowed by the act, entitled "An act to regulate, and fix the compensation of clerks," eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty five dollars.
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice, and two associate judges of the district of Columbia, and to the attorney general, fifty-five thousand nine hundred dollars.
For the like compensation granted to the several district attorneys of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the marshals of the district of Main, New-Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, east and west Tennessee, and Orleans, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures, and penalties, and likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.
For the payment of an annuity granted to the children of the late colonel John Harding, and major Alexander Trueman, by an act of Congress passed the fourteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred, six hundred dollars.
For the payment of the annual allowances to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, to the fourth of March one thousand eight hundred and six, ninety eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys and public piers, and flakage of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred and nine dollars and thirty six cents.
For fixing buoys in Long-Island sound, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object three thousand dollars.
For erecting beacons in the harbor of New-York, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, six thousand dollars.
For erecting beacons and placing buoys near the entrance of Savannah river, being an expense incurred under the act of the sixteenth day July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight (the balance of a former appropriation for the same object,) having been carried to the credit of the surplus fund two thousand four hundred and ninety four dollars and eighty nine cents.
For reviving so much of unexpended balances of appropriations granted by an act passed the sixth of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, and which have been carried to the surplus fund, to wit:
For erecting public piers in the river Delaware, five thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars, and seventy nine cents.
For erecting certain light houses, and fixing buoys in Long-Island sound, one thousand six hundred and seventy eight dollars and thirty eight cents.
And for building a light house on Cumberland South Point, four thousand dollars.
For completing the light-house at the mouth of the Mississippi, and the light-house at or near the pitch of Cape Lookout, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated to those objects, by the act of the twenty sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, twenty thousand dollars.
Towards completing the surveys of public land in the state of Ohio, and in the Indiana and Mississippi territories, forty thousand dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars.
For defraying certain expenses heretofore incurred in the war and navy departments, and which in due course of settlement in those departments have been adjusted, and cannot be discharged out of any existing appropriation, twenty thousand dollars.
For the expense of taking the second census of the inhabitants of the United States, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, fourteen thousand one hundred and sixty two dollars, and seventy seven cents.
For the expense of wharves and piers for quarantine of ships and vessels, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the credit of the surplus fund, seventeen thousand one hundred and forty three dollars, and one cent.
For the expense of returning the votes for President and Vice President of the United States for the term commencing the fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and five, one thousand six hundred and twenty four dollars.
For defraying the contingent expenses of government (the unexpended balance of a former appropriation for the same object being carried to the credit of the surplus fund) twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, fifty seven thousand and fifty dollars.
For the expenses of the intercourse between the United States and the Barbary powers, including the compensation of the consuls at Algiers, Morocco, Tunis and Tripoli, sixty three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the agents at Paris and Madrid, for prosecuting claims in relation to captures, four thousand dollars.
For payment of demands for French vessels and property captured, pursuant to the Convention between the United States and the French Republic, the balance of a former appropriation for the same object, by the act of the third of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, having been carried to the surplus fund, twenty one thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act "making provision for the debt of the United States," and of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOS. ANDERSON, President of the Senate, pro tempore. March 1, 1805. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
MAP OF VIRGINIA.
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A Map of Virginia: FORMED FROM ACTUAL SURVEYS, AND THE LATEST AS WELL AS THE MOST ACCURATE OBSERVATIONS.
BY JAMES MADISON, D. D. PRESIDENT OF WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE.
TO which will be added, A MAP of the greater part of the State of Ohio, from actual surveys; including the whole of the Virginia Military Tract; with all that part of the State West of the Ohio River, to the Indiana boundary line.
The north-east corner of the Map will be ornamented with an interesting View of the City of Richmond.
The size of the MAP will be five feet six inches in length, and three feet eight inches in breadth. An ingenious and skillful Engraver is engaged to execute the work, in a style not inferior to any similar work in the United States.
CONDITIONS.
The price to subscribers will be eight dollars, neatly mounted, colored and glazed.—One dollar, (to lighten the great expense of publication,) to be paid on subscribing.
To non-subscribers the price will be ten dollars.
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In offering the above work to the public, the proprietors are sensible that excellence is not often attainable; but with candor and truth, equally remote from arrogance and partiality, they can say, that they conscientiously believe it has a just claim to the confidence and patronage of the people.
A Map of Virginia has been long and anxiously looked for: None has been published, on the plan of the one now offered, for many years, when Augusta was the frontier county.
The labor, expense, and apparent difficulties, in accomplishing so interesting a work, have deterred several from the arduous undertaking. The proprietors, finding that most of the other states had recently given encouragement to similar productions, and entertaining a high sense of the real dignity and importance of Virginia, embarked in the business, from a well grounded belief that the magnitude and utility of the work, would insure, if accomplished, a remuneration. And while Virginia is powerfully stimulated with the love of science and virtue, they hope and believe the will view domestic productions, which prove pre-eminently useful, with a generous pride.
Those gentlemen who take subscription papers, are requested to return them to the subscriber, in Petersburg, by the first day of May. The maps will be ready for subscribers in the course of the ensuing summer.
WILLIAM PRENTIS. Petersburg, February, 1805. Subscriptions received by Ritchie & Worley and others with whom subscription papers are lodged.
VALUABLE LANDS—FOR SALE.
I WISH to sell a HALF SHARE in the Dismal Swamp Company —also, SHARES in the Canal from Albemarle Sound, to Elizabeth river —Also, one third of three Tracts of LAND , lying on Nansemond river near Suffolk , the three tracts amounting in the whole, to about 1200 acres. Any person inclined to purchase, may be informed of the terms of sale by directing a letter to the subscriber, leaving near the post-office at Lindsey's store, Albemarle county.
FRAS. WALKER. March 30.—(2aw6w.)
THE CELEBRATED WARM SPRINGS IN VIRGINIA.
THE subscribers have taken a lease of ten years, of the highly celebrated MEDICAL SPRINGS in the county of Bath, called the Warm Springs , so justly famed for their great cures and general relief in many complaints.
THEY are now preparing every necessary comfort and accommodation to suit the amusement of those who have health, (and to promote the recovery of those who want it,) and it is deemed necessary to make those things widely known, because complaints have heretofore been made against the entertainment which has been offered.
Preparations are made for at least one hundred constant boarders, besides transient guests, for the accommodation of which, the subscribers will make all possible exertions; and they flatter themselves, that those who may place confidence in this advertisement, will not find the smallest cause for regret or complaint.
ROBERT & GEORGE TURNER. March 28.—(ep8w.)
BANK OF VIRGINIA.
THE Shareholders are hereby notified, that the 4th installment will become due on Saturday the 6th of April, and will be received at the Bank and at the offices of Discount and Deposit at Norfolk, Petersburg and Fredericksburg. Certificates of Stock will alter that day be issued on application at the Bank.
March 8, 1805.—(ep1M.)
WILL BE SOLD,
At Public Auction, on Saturday the 20th day of April next, at the Rawleigh Tavern , in the city of Williamsburg ;
THAT valuable Plantation called YARMOUTH , lying in James City county , on Chickahominy River , ten miles from Williamsburg . The improvements are, a two story brick house, with two rooms and a passage above and below; porches on each side; a large and capacious barn, and three other out-houses. The whole tract, including an island, in view of the house, high and low land with marshes, contains about 2700 acres; scarce one third of which is cleared. Two thirds of the island is arable, which, with the land adjoining the house, is of superior quality. Adjacent to the island are two bold and navigable creeks with a convenient landing to each. The range for cattle is very extensive, and the marshes and meadows will supply an abundance of hay. Fish and wild fowl, in their respective seasons, may with ease be obtained at your door. The orchards, consisting of the greatest variety of all kinds of fruit, selected with care, are now in their prime. The terms of sale are one third cash and one, two and three equal annual payments, for the balance.
PEYTON RANDOLPH, Jr. For ELIZA INNES. Feb. 12. (ep1d)
A TRACT OF LAND.
THE subscriber offers for sale, a TRACT OF LAND, or which is at present rented , situated in the county of Wachapreague , and bounded by the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock . This tract contains about seven hundred acres of brave low grounds, one half of which is thickly covered with very valuable pine and oak timber, and the soil well suited to the culture of corn and small grain; the situation very healthy and handsome one, commanding an extensive view up, and a beautiful view down the Potomac . The waters to which this land is immediately attached afford an abundance and with great convenience the fresh oysters and wild fowl in their season; and fish in great variety and of the finest kinds throughout the year. The purchaser may have the flock of cattle, sheep and hogs, together with the implements of husbandry on the plantation. One half the amount of purchase must be paid at the time of taking possession, which may be had with the close of the present year with an undivided title; for the remainder, twelve months credit will be given on payment being satisfactorily secured.
ALEXANDER PARKER. Westmoreland, March 19. (ep1w.)
CHOICE LANDS—FOR SALE.
A DIVISION of the famous Sura Town Lands having taken place between the heirs of James Park Farley Esq. dec'd and Col. John S. Early and his sister Mrs. Elizabeth Morion , the subscribers, Robert Taylor of Norfolk , and Charles Duncan at Ross lin, near Petersburg , are fully empowered by the said Col. Early and Mrs. Morion , to dispose of their proportion, containing 12,382 acres, which are surveyed and laid off in eight lots, containing from 500 to 2800 acres, agreeable to plots in the possession of the said Duncan . The four largest lots are of excellent quality, each containing a considerable proportion of the richest low grounds, which produce tobacco of the very first quality, as has been experienced by one of the subscribers, who shipped it for a number of years.
Those lands lie on Dan and Smith's rivers , in Rockingham county , on the borders of North Carolina , about 170 miles from Petersburg and Richmond . As there are seldom such lands for sale, they must be an object to those who want to purchase such as will produce fine tobacco, hemp and small grain. One third of the price must be paid in ready money, one third in twelve months, and the other third in two years, the purchaser giving bond with unexceptionable security bearing interest from the date if not punctually paid. Those who wish to purchase will be shown the lands by Dr. John C. Cox , living at Leeksville , near Rockingham Court-House , and the terms made known by
ROBERT TAYLOR, or CHARLES DUNCAN. Petersburg, Nov. 24. ep1t
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
WILL BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, on the premises, on the third day of April next, at 12 o'clock, an undivided moiety in the two lots of ground, formerly the property of Andrew Ronald , dec'd. fronting the Basin of the James River Canal , near the center of the city of Richmond , with an undivided moiety of all the valuable buildings thereon, consisting of a large three story BRICK BUILDING , eighty feet in length, with fourteen rooms, twenty feet wide and forty-five feet in length, with fire places on the first and second floors, roomy garrets in each, with large wheels fixed for hoisting and lowering packages, &c. with dispatch and ease, good dry cellars, with fire places in each. This house has been lately built and in good repair; adjoining is a well finished two story framed dwelling house, thirty eight feet square, with two good cellars, with fire places in each for cooking, in the first and second floors are eight rooms and six fire places. Also, a small two story Brick House with four rooms, with fire places in each, convenient for a store or small family, likewise a small wooden building with a cellar, built for a kitchen, and may be used as a shop; also two stables and a carriage house. The buildings except the kitchen, stable and carriage house, are insured in the Mutual Insurance Company against fire in the rate of Virginia , and the premiums paid. The lots front the Basin on one side, and are bounded by Cary's street , and the street leading to Shockoe warehouse , on the two other sides of them, and are as convenient for commercial or other business as any in the city.
The terms of sale, will be seventeen thousand dollars in ready money, the residue payable the fifth day of August next, for which residue, bond with approved security will be required. It is deemed unnecessary to state the great value of the above property, to those who reside in this city, but for the information of strangers, the subscriber begs leave to state, that the aforesaid property is immediately opposite the lower part of the Basin of the James river canal , where all the produce of the upper country is landed; and to any person desirous of carrying on the commission business extensively, perhaps is superior to any other in this city.
WILLIAM AUSTIN. February 8.—(f
NOTICE.
** From circumstances not attended to when the above valuable property was advertised for sale, the subscriber has postponed the day of sale, till Wednesday the Eighth day of May next , at which time it will certainly take place at 12 o'clock on the premises; when one fourth of the purchase money only will be required in hand, and a credit of three, six and nine months given for the balance, the purchaser to give bond and security to carry interest from the day of sale, and a deed of trust on the property to secure the payment.
March 12. Wm: AUSTIN.
NOTICE.