Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1807-11-20 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1408.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum—paid in Advance.]
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1807.
12 1-2 Cents Single.
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, September 15.
The gazette announces that the vigorous blockade of the rivers Elbe, Weser and Ems, is discontinued for the present; and that neutrals will be suffered to trade at the said rivers, provided such vessels are going from or to a neutral or British port, and shall not be trading, nor shall have previously traded, between either of the said rivers, and any port or place in the possession, or so far under the control of the enemy, as that British vessels may not freely trade therewith nor from one to another of the said rivers.
A letter from a distant part of the continent informs us that the French navy against us, unless some precautionary measures be taken to prevent it, the following list of ships not perhaps, be acceptable. Several of them are unfit for service.
 13 ships of the line, of 74 and 80 guns.  14 frigates - - - 36 and 44 do.  10 brigs - - - - 14 and 20 do.  2 schooners - - - - 12 and 16 do. 
Some of these vessels are very handsome and equal to any in the British navy, according to the opinion of Lord St. Vincent, who inspected several of them when at Lisbon. The timber is all got from the Brazils, and is more like iron than wood, and the Portuguese seamen are the best of our navy, and only superior perhaps to their soldiers, who are a burlesque upon the military profession. In the present weak state of the fortifications on the Tagus, it would be no difficult enterprise to destroy or bring off the whole of their navy by a coup de main.
General Junot is stated to have set out for Bayonne, to take the command of the troops there; and it is again mentioned, that he is going upon an important mission to Lisbon.
The French funds are now so high as 90-3-4. They were under ten when Bonaparte took up with the government.
London Gazette Extraordinary.
Downing street, Sept. 16.
Dispatches of which the following are extracts, have been received by Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state, from Admiral Gambier and Lieutenant General the Right Hon. Lord Cathcart, K. T. commander of his Majesty's naval and military forces to the Baltic sea.
Prince of Wales, Copenhagen Road, September 7.
My Lord—My letter of the 5th inst. will inform your Lordship of the operation of his Majesty's forces against Copenhagen to that period. I have now the honor and satisfaction to add, that previously to the hour intended for the opening our batteries that night, an officer with a flag of truce came out of the town with proposals for an armistice, to settle terms of capitulation. This was accordingly done, after a correspondence between the Danish General and Lord Cathcart and myself, of which I transmit a copy; and your Lordship will be informed of the stipulations agreed upon by the inclosed copy of the articles. Our army has accordingly been put in possession of the citadel and the arsenal, and the most vigorous exertions are commenced for equipping and sending to England the Danish Navy.
I have the honor to be, J. GAMBIER. To Lord Viscount Castlereagh, &c. &c.
Citadel of Copenhagen, Sept. 8.
My Lord—It has fallen to my lot to have the great satisfaction of forwarding to your Lordship the ratified capitulation of the town and citadel of Copenhagen, including the surrender of the Danish fleet and arsenal in this port, which are placed at his Majesty's disposal.
The object of securing this fleet having been attained, every other provision of a tendency to wound the feelings or irritate the nation has been avoided; and, although the bombardment and cannonade have made considerable havoc and destruction in the town, not one shot was fired into it till after it was summoned, with the offer of the most advantageous terms; nor a single shot after the first indication of a disposition to capitulate; on the contrary, the firing, which had lasted three nights from his Majesty's batteries, was considerably abated on the second, and was only renewed on the third, to its full vigour, on supposing, from the quantity of shells thrown from the place, that there was a determination to hold out.
On the evening of the 5th September, a letter was sent by the Danish General, to propose an armistice of twenty-four hours, for preparing an agreement on which articles of capitulation might be founded. The armistice was declined, as tending to unnecessary delay, and the works were continued; but the firing was countermanded, and Lieut.-Colonel Murray was sent to explain, that no proposal of capitulation could be listened to, unless accompanied by the surrender of the fleet.
This basis having been admitted by the subsequent letter, on the 6th, Gen. Major A. Wellesley, whom I had sent for, for this purpose, from his command in the country, where he had distinguished himself in a manner so honorable to himself and so advantageous to the public, was appointed, with Sir H. Popham and Lieut.-Colonel Murray, to prepare and sign articles of capitulation; and these officers having insisted on proceeding immediately to business; the capitulation was drawn
up in the night between the sixth and seventh.
The ratification was exchanged in the course of the morning, and at four in the afternoon of the same day Lieutenant General Burrard proceeded to take possession.
The British grenadiers present, with detachments from all the other corps of cavalry and infantry, under the command of Colonel Cameron, of the 79th regiment, with two brigades of artillery, marched into the citadel; while Major-General Spencer, having embarked his brigade at the Kalk Bradiere, landed in the dock-yard, and took possession of each of the line of battle ships, and of all the arsenal; the Danish guards withdrawing when those of his majesty were ready to replace them, and proper officers attending to deliver stores, as far as inventories could be made up.
The town being in a state of the greatest ferment and disorder, I most willingly acceded to the request that our troops should not be quartered in it, and that neither officers nor soldiers should enter it for some days, and having the command of possession from the citadel whenever it might be necessary to use it, I had no objection to leaving the other gate in the hands of the troops of his Danish majesty, together with the police of the place.
The amount of the garrison of the town is not easily ascertained. The regular troops were not numerous; but the number of batteries which fired at one time, together with the floating defences, proved that there must have been a very great number of militia and burghers, with other irregular forces; and their ordnance was well served.
Considering the advanced position in which his majesty's troops have been placed for the last fortnight, our loss (highly as I prize the value of every officer or soldier who has fallen or been wounded) has been comparatively small.
[Here follows an eulogium on the several officers and men engaged in the expedition, also his acknowledging his having received the most prompt and beneficial assistance from the fleet.]
I send this dispatch by Lieut. Cathcart, who has been for some time my first aid-de-camp, who has seen every thing that has occurred here and at Stralsund, and will be able to give any further details that may be required.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) CATHCART.
 List of Killed, Wounded, and Missing.  Killed—Four Officers, 1 Serjeant, 1 Drummer, 36 rank and file, and 8 horses.  Wounded—Six Officers, 1 Serjeant, and 138 rank and file, with 25 horses.  Missing—One Serjeant, 4 Drummers, 19 rank and file. 
Names of Officers killed. Lieut. Lyons, of the royal artillery; Ensign Robert Dixon, of the 82d foot; Lieut. Rudolph of the 1st Reg. of Light Dragoons King's German Legion; and Ensign Jennings, of the 23d foot, or Royal Welch Fusiliers.
Names of Officers wounded. Capt. Hasting, of the 82d foot; Lieut. Suery, of ditto; Capt. Daring, 1st batt. King's German Legion; Gen. St. David Baird, in the shoulder and hand, slightly; and Ensign Bison.
ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION.
For the town and citadel of Copenhagen, agreed upon between Ad. Gambier, Commander in Chief of his Britannic Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the Baltic Sea, and Lieutenant General the Right Hon. Lord Cathcart, K. T. Commander in Chief of his Britannic Majesty's Forces in Zealand, on the one part; and his Excellency Major-General Poiman, Knight of the Order of Dannebrog, and Commander in Chief of his Danish Majesty's Forces in the Island of Zealand, on the other part.
Art. I. When the Capitulation shall have been signed and ratified, the troops of his Britannic Majesty are to be put in possession of the Citadel.
Art. II. A guard of his Britannic Majesty's troops shall likewise be placed in the Dock yards.
Art. III. The ships and vessels of war of every description, with all their naval stores belonging to his Danish Majesty, shall be delivered into the charge of such persons as shall be appointed by the Commanders in Chief of his Britannic Majesty's forces; and they are to be put in immediate possession of the dock yards, and all the buildings and store-houses belonging thereto.
Art. IV. The store-ships and transports in the service of his Britannic Majesty are to be allowed to come into the harbour for the purpose of embarking such stores and troops as they have brought into this island.
Art. V. As soon as the ships shall have been removed from the dock-yard, or within six weeks from the date of this Capitulation, or sooner if possible, the troops of his Britannic Majesty shall deliver up the Citadel to the troops of his Danish Majesty, in the state in which it shall be found when they occupy it. His Britannic Majesty's troops shall likewise, within the beforementioned time, or sooner if possible, be embarked from the island of Zealand.
Art. VI. From the date of this Capitulation, hostilities shall cease throughout the island of Zealand.
Art. VII. No persons whatsoever shall be molested, and all property, public or private, with the exception of the ships and
vessels of war and the naval stores before mentioned, belonging to his Danish Majesty, shall continue in the full exercise of their authority throughout the island of Zealand; and every thing shall be done which can tend to produce union and harmony between the two nations.
Art. VIII. All prisoners taken on both sides shall be unconditionally restored, and those officers who are prisoners on parole shall be released from its effect.
Art. IX. Any English property, that may have been sequestered in consequence of the existing hostilities, shall be restored to the owners.
This Capitulation, shall be ratified by the respective Commanders in Chief, and the ratifications shall be exchanged before 12 o'clock at noon this day.
Done at Copenhagen this 7th day of September, 1807.
ARTHUR WELLESLEY.
HOME POIMAN.
GEORGE MURRAY.
Ratified per moi, (signed) POIMAN.
September 20.
DECREE AGAINST ENGLISH COMMERCE.
HAGUE, Sept. 3.—Louis Napoleon, by the grace of God and the constitution of the Kingdom, King of Holland. Considering that, consistent with the true interests of our kingdom, it is our duty, by all the means in our power, to co-operate in the desired execution of the great measures adopted by the emperor and King, against the common enemy, for the purpose of obtaining a general peace, and the independence of the seas; considering that some secret agents have rendered themselves criminal by want of firmness and neglect in the execution of measures directed by our decree of the 15th December, 1806; considering the artifice and bad faith which have been employed in several ports of the enemy, with respect to the papers of neutral vessels, and by which the health of Europe was put in hazard, by making out letters of quarantine; considering, finally, that all those irregularities ought to be terminated at a moment so crucial for the enemy of the whole continent, and in particular at all commercial states; and that the honor and the dearest interests of our subjects would be compromised, were the strict execution of the laws and decree passed for this purpose overlooked; we have therefore decreed as follows:
Art. 1. The agents, arrested in consequence of the orders of our minister of justice and police, shall be brought before the competent courts to answer for their conduct according to the laws.
2. The vessels stopped in our harbors, a list of which is subjoined, shall be decided upon by competent tribunals.
3. Reckoning from the date of the present decree, all vessels entering inwards shall give a double security, which shall remain until the legality of their papers be only acknowledged, and until it be proved that these vessels have not touched at an enemy's port.
4. In case the papers should be false, or it should appear that, contrary to the declaration of the captain the ship had touched at an enemy's port, the double security shall be immediately demanded of the sureties and the amount paid into the public treasury.
5. As soon as the security shall be settled, the delivery of the ships may take place, in presence of the persons appointed to superintend it; the minister of finance, who shall take care that the owners do not unload any articles which may be presumed to be English merchandise.
6. It is should be proved that the goods are of English manufacture, or have come from an enemy's port, they shall not be confiscated, for the benefit of the public treasury, but the double security shall also be levied, and the ship shall be obliged to put to sea; and the same shall, in case of bad weather, have no shelter, except under the strictest precautions.
7. All correspondence, journals, &c. which come in a neutral flag, shall be seized and burnt.
8. All passengers or travellers, who cannot prove that they do not come from the British Isles, shall immediately be sent out of the kingdom.
9. All prohibitory regulations respecting the commerce with England remain in full force, in so far as they are not altered by the present decree.
10. All who contravene the present regulations shall be tried and punished for disobeying the laws.
11. Our minister of finance is solely and personally answerable for the strict execution of these regulations. Our minister at war shall place at his disposal such troops and vessels as he may demand.
Mr. Abraham Newland on Thursday resigned the Chief Cashiership of the Bank of England, at a general court meeting, after having been sixty years in the service. The directors intimated their intention of settling an annuity on Mr. Newland, agreeably to custom; but this he refused, being possessed of ample property. Mr. Henry Hase, the present second Cashier, will succeed Mr. Newland.
Return of the Lisbon and Oporto Fleets.—There is every reason to believe that all is not right at the court of Lisbon. The fleet bound to Lisbon and Oporto, upon joining their convoy, had their instructions taken from them, and have returned to Falmouth. General Junot's mission is supposed to have a hostile object.
By order of government, a strict inquiry is to be immediately made as to the occu-
pation or employment of every foreigner in the united kingdom, and such as cannot give a clear and satisfactory account of themselves will be forthwith ordered out of the country.
Approaching rupture of Russia and Sweden.—By some private letters which have been brought by the Gottengburgh mail, and which have subsequently been delivered, it would seem that Russia and Sweden were upon the point of an immediate rupture. While the king of Sweden was in the Island of Rugen, a Russian chamberlain had arrived, who was confidentially reported to be the bearer of most important dispatches. It was generally stated, and fully believed at Gottengburgh, that the emperor Alexander had demanded of the king of Sweden, that he should pledge his royal word that the Swedish navy should remain in Carlscrona, and in no event whatever should act in concurrence with the English fleet. The Russian chamberlain, according to report, was commanded to return with the absolute answer of the king of Sweden; which answer is stated to have been in substance, that the king of Sweden, as an independent Monarch, was master of his own actions; and that his alliance with England imposed obligations which he should have no scruple to fulfil when required. We do not hesitate to express our most absolute conviction, that our success at Copenhagen will be followed by a Russian war. Russia will remonstrate, and there will be no alternative.
Sept. 30.
DECLARATION. His Majesty owes to himself and to Europe a frank exposition of the motives which have dictated his late measures in the Baltic.
His Majesty had delayed this exposition only in the hope of that more amicable arrangement with the court of Denmark, which it was his majesty's first wish and endeavor to obtain, for which he was ready to make great efforts and great sacrifices; and of which he never lost sight even in the moment of the most decisive hostility.
Deeply as the disappointment of this hope has been felt by his majesty, he has the consolation of reflecting that no exertion was left untried on his part to produce a different result. And while he laments the cruel necessity which has obliged him to have recourse to acts of hostility against a nation with which it was his majesty's most earnest desire to have established the relations of common interest and alliance; his majesty feels confident that, in the eyes of Europe and of the world, the justification of his conduct will be found in the commanding and indispensable duty, paramount to all others amongst the obligations of a sovereign, of providing, while there was yet time, for the immediate security of his people.
His majesty had received the most positive information of the determination of the present ruler of France to occupy with a military force the territory of Holstein—for the purpose of excluding Great Britain from all her accustomed channels of communication with the Continent; of including or compelling the court of Denmark to close the passage of the Sound against the British commerce and navigation; and of availing himself of the aid of the Danish fleet for the invasion of Great Britain and of Ireland.
Confident as his majesty was of the authority of the sources from which this intelligence was derived, and confirmed in the credit which he gave to it, as well by the notorious and repeated declarations of the enemy, and by his recent occupation of the towns and territories of other neutral states; as by the preparations actually made for collecting a hostile force upon the frontiers of his Danish majesty's continental dominions, his majesty would yet willingly have foreborne to act upon this intelligence until the complete and practical disclosure of the plan had been made manifest to all the world.
His majesty did forbear, as long as there could be a doubt of the urgency of the danger, or a hope of an effectual counteraction to it, in the means or in the dispositions of Denmark.
But his majesty could not but recollect that when, at the close of the former war, the court of Denmark engaged in a hostile confederacy against Great Britain, the apology offered by the court for so unjustifiable an abandonment of a neutrality which his majesty had never ceased to respect, was founded on its avowed inability to resist the operation of external influence, and the threats of a formidable neighboring power. His majesty could not but compare the degree of influence, which at that time determined the decision of the court of Denmark, in violation of positive engagements solemnly contracted but six months before; with the increased operation which France had now the means of giving to the same principle of intimidation with kingdoms prostrate at her feet, and with the population of nations under her banners.
Nor was the danger less imminent than certain. Already the army destined for the invasion of Holstein was assembling on the violated territory of neutral Hamburg. And, Holstein once occupied, the island of Zealand was at the mercy of France, and the navy of Denmark at her disposal.
It is true, a British force might have found its way into the Baltic, and checked for a time the movements of the Danish fleet. But the season was approaching when this precaution would no longer have availed; and when his majesty's fleet must have retired from that sea, and permitted France, in undisturbed security, to accu-
mulate the means of offence against his majesty's dominion.
Yet, even under these circumstances, in calling upon Denmark for the satisfaction and security which his majesty was compelled to require, and in demanding the only pledge by which that security could be rendered effectual—the temporary possession of that fleet, which was the chief inducement to France for forcing Denmark into hostilities with Great Britain; his majesty accompanied this demand with the offer of every condition which could tend to reconcile it to the interests and to the feelings of the court of Denmark.
It was for Denmark herself to state the terms and stipulations which she might require.
If Denmark was apprehensive that the surrender of her fleet would be resented by France as an act of connivance; his majesty had prepared a force of such formidable magnitude, as must have made concession justifiable even in the estimation of France, by rendering resistance altogether unavailing.
If Denmark was really prepared to resist the demands of France, and maintain her independence; his majesty preferred his co-operation for her defence—naval, military, and pecuniary; and the guarantee of her European territories and the security and extension of her colonial possessions.
That the sword has been drawn in the execution of a service indispensable to the safety of his majesty's dominions, is a matter of sincere and painful regret to his majesty. That the state and circumstances of the world are such as to have required and justified the measures of self preservation, to which his majesty has been compelled under the necessity of resisting, is a truth which his majesty deeply deplores, but for which he is in no degree responsible.
His majesty has long carried on a most unequal contest of scrupulous forbearance against unrelenting violence and oppression. But that forbearance has its bounds. When the design was openly avowed, and already but too far advanced towards its accomplishment, of subjecting the powers of Europe to one universal despotism, and of combining them by terror or by force in a confederacy against the maritime rights and political existence of this kingdom, it became necessary for his majesty to anticipate the success of a system, not more fatal to his interests than those of the powers who were destined to be the instruments of its execution.
It was time that the effects of that dread which France has inspired into the nations of the world, should be counteracted by an exertion of the power of Great Britain, called for by the exigency of the crisis, and proportioned to the magnitude of the danger.
Notwithstanding the declaration of war on the part of the Danish Government, it still remains for Denmark to determine whether war shall continue between the two nations. His majesty still prefers an amicable arrangement. He is anxious to sheathe the sword, which he has been most reluctantly compelled to draw. And he is ready to demonstrate to Denmark and the world, that having acted solely upon the sense of what is due to the security of his dominions, he is not desirous, from any other motive, or for any object of advantage or aggrandizement, to carry measures of hostility beyond the limits of the necessity which has produced them. Westminster, Sept. 25, 1807.
LONDON, September 20.
A Gottengburgh mail arrived last night. A Swedish Bulletin announces the arrival of Louis the XVIII and the Duke d'Angouleme at Carlscrona, on board a Swedish frigate. They were received with the highest respect.
The following extract of a letter from the vicinity of Copenhagen exhibits a faint picture of the effects of the bombardment.
Copenhagen, Sept. 8.
The day before the Danes proposed to capitulate one third of the town appeared in a blaze, and a column of fire was rising the whole night, which appear'd from our windows (about two miles from the town) of at least half a mile in diameter. A time piece at our yard first took fire, and a small powder magazine blew up. After that, the flames raged with such fury, the wind being strong, as to defy all means of extinguishing them. As the wind had not changed, the whole town must have been destroyed. The great scuple fell in with a tremendous crash; 1800 houses are said to have been destroyed. Excepting when the bombs were flying there was no appearance of war. Many of the peasants came their corn all around the different camps, & were protected. The Danes are very much exasperated against us, especially at the sight of our tars rigging their ships to bring them away.
Directions have been sent to Chatham and Sheerness for receiving the Danish fleet at those places; and as the number of seamen that will be necessary to navigate them will be more than can possibly be spared from the men of war in Copenhagen, directions were yesterday given to Captain Richbell, the regulating officer in town, to propose to the crews of the ships recently arrived from the Greenland fishery, to proceed to Copenhagen without delay, or the purpose of being put on board the Danish ships to navigate them to England. For this service they are to receive a bounty, and the other usual allowances, and will also be entitled to their protections from the impress, on their return, in

The same manner as they are from the ships employed in the Greenland fishery.
The Trinity House are also to send a certain number of masters and pilots, well acquainted with the North Seas, to assist in piloting the Danish ships to England.
Vienna, August 15
The Court Gazette of this day contains the following article under the head Turkey:
"On the 1st of July the Captain Pacha, with his whole fleet, made a new attempt on Tenedos; but the troops which were disembarked had scarcely time to get back to their ships. The fleet was defeated, and six Turkish Captains & 12 Tschausch killed or made prisoners, or devoured by the flames, which began to rage on board several ships at the same time. The well known Bekir Bey is among the slain. The Grand Admiral, with his dismasted 3 decker, has returned to the Strait of Constantinople."
"On the 10th July, a dreadful fire broke out in the suburb, of Galata, at Constantinople, which destroyed many thousand houses."
Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Tuesday, November 10.
The question being on the final passage of the bill and the yeas and nays on the passage being called for,
Mr. J. M. MOORE said, that as the yeas and nays had been required he should exercise the right of assigning reasons for the vote he was about to give. This bill provided for extraordinary expenses incurred in the navy department since the 22d June last; these extraordinary expenses had resulted from the cowardly attack committed by the Leopard on the Chesapeake. This act, marked with such daring and atrocious circumstances, had excited the detestation of every American; one sentiment on this subject pervaded the Union. The President of the United States had adopted firm, energetic, and dignified measures on the occasion; amongst others those which had occasioned the expenses for which this bill provides. He had heard no complaint that the conduct of the Executive was defective either in prudence or energy. He was authorized, and he exercised the authority vested in him by law, to call out the marine corps to its full complement. He had exercised the authority given to him by the act of 1806, in preparing the gun-boats for service: the sense of the nation and the exigency of the times called upon him to do so. Other expenses incident to calling out the marine corps and manning gun-boats, were comprised under the different articles of clothing, &c. These extraordinary expenses the President was authorized to incur; the state of the country justified him in exercising that authority, and Mr. M. was of opinion that the honor of the nation called upon the House to make the appropriation. Then, as to these extraordinary expenses which had been incurred, there could be no difficulty; their honor was at stake for the payment. There was another item which he presumed would meet with as little difficulty as any other: he was instructed, as a member of the committee of ways and means, that the provisions specified in the bill were used by the militia called out for the protection of the port most in danger. Was there any member in the House who would hesitate to make an appropriation of $1,000 dollars for that purpose?
At this important juncture, when our country was in danger, the Executive had examined the state of the several departments; in the war department there were sufficient supplies of military stores; in the navy department there were none, except a few pounds of powder. At this alarming crisis, the country being threatened with war, the President looked up to the President for energetic conduct: he did not hesitate to make expenditures to supply these necessities for the department. Of the navy department there was more required than of the war department, because the outrage had been committed on the ocean. What more prudent, more correct conduct than that of the President could be wished, or what more could the people expect, than that he should have made these necessary provisions of ordnance and military stores, and timber for gun-boats? The President had judged it expedient to make preparation; and the state of affairs had called for a warlike attitude: for, said Mr. M. we have learnt from our departed Washington, that to command peace we must be prepared for war; the President had acted upon this principle, which the House would no doubt approve. There was no law at that time, nor had any law yet been passed, to authorize the purchase of these articles; but the President of the United States, when his country was in danger, hesitated not to take upon himself the credit and proper responsibility. Upon these items what was the language of the President of the United States, contained in the message delivered to us? Strong and forcible, and clearly showing the necessity for incurring these expenses: "The moment our peace was threatened, I deemed it indispensable to secure greater provision of those articles of military stores, with which our magazines were not sufficiently furnished. To have awaited a previous and special sanction by law, would have lost occasions which might not be retrievable. I did not hesitate therefore to authorize engagements for such supplements to our existing stock as would render it adequate to the emergencies threatening us; and I trust that the Legislature feeling the same anxiety for the safety of our country so materially advanced by this precaution, will approve when done, what they would have seen so important to be done, if then assembled."
Mr. M. hoped his trust was well founded; that the Legislature, feeling the same anxiety for the public safety so materially promoted by this precaution, would decide that this was what they would have done had they been in session. He asked, had the President of the United States passed over this great emergency, and failed to make these preparations, ought
he not to have been censured for a neglect of duty? As these articles therefore had been purchased because the interest and safety of the country required them, and the expenses had been incurred for the public safety, the House could not hesitate to give their sanction to the appropriation.
It had been asked by a gentleman from Massachusetts, whether these articles were actually paid for; if paid for out of what monies had the payment been made. As a member of the committee of ways and means, he could declare that not one cent had been actually paid. The President had said, that he had authorized engagements for these articles: the government was pledged for them; and the House were as strongly called on by faith and honor to make an appropriation for them as they were bound to do in the case of the marine corps.
Mr. M. said it had been asked by another gentleman, perhaps from Connecticut, whether the timber mentioned was for general navy purposes, or for gun-boats only? At this important crisis, when hostilities were menaced, it had been thought prudent to lay up a stock of timber for building gun-boats and it was accordingly done; but in buying it up, it had been contracted for, and prepared in such a manner as to answer any naval purposes. If our differences should be amicably settled, and it was not required that gun-boats should be erected, the materials would still be on hand for the use of the navy.
It had been stated, he believed, by a gentleman from Virginia, that appropriations had been anticipated; that this was not the language used by the President of the United States or these the principles defended by him in his first communication made to Congress in 1801: Mr. M. said he admired the principle laid down by the gentleman; appropriations should never be anticipated but in extreme cases. The principle was in general correct; but he would ask the gentleman from Virginia, who had taken this ground yesterday, if a case could not occur in which it might be departed from? He would ask any gentleman, need there exist a stronger case than the present to justify such a departure? He believed not.
They had been told by a gentleman from Connecticut, that in the manner in which they were now acting, in making appropriations, they were justifying the measure upon arguments resorted to by the former administration. God forbid, said he, that we should take any of the principles of the former administration for our rule of conduct. The present measure stood on firm ground; the exigencies of the times had justified the anticipation and not the example of the former administration.
They had been told by a gentleman yesterday, that our navy had been disgraced by this outrage. True, if the officer of the degraded vessel, instead of a verbal answer from the mouth of his trumpet, had sent a metal one from the mouth of his cannon, the honor of the navy of the United States would have been preserved. That officer and his conduct were now under investigation; but from the courage, character, and patriotism of the other officers of our navy, the country might be assured, that if occasion offered, they would retrieve its reputation.
It had been said that the government had received two marked insults from foreign powers; he presumed the case alluded to was that of the Spanish minister; if he was wrong in this idea, he wished to be corrected. In a minister began to show his Spanish airs to our home-spun government: he was informed that a demand would be made for his recall. If it should be thought that I am incorrect in this, said Mr. M. resort to the Department of State, where the facts may be obtained. What was the conduct of the ex-minister? Did he dare to persist in his insolence? No; he nearly solicited our government to write on or represent his conduct to the Spanish government. Our government granted his solicitations; if they got rid of him, it was immaterial in what manner. After he had thus obtained his point, what was his conduct? He came within the city of Washington, contrary to the understanding which had taken place. Did the government then put up with his behavior? He received, on the contrary, an intimation that his company would be dispensed with. In the course of a few days he stole off to Philadelphia. Under such circumstances, he presumed no American would feel the dignity of the Nation injured in this case.
In the other case, it had been said we had received a blow; and a blow only? No; murder had been committed. The reeking blood of our fellow-citizens and the insulted dignity of the nation called for satisfactory retribution, or speedy retaliation. If retribution is refused, then the constitution did not vest the power in the President of the United States to resent the injury; it did vest it in the Congress of the United States. If such a crisis should take place, they would meet it with energy and firmness, and use every exertion to effect the insult.
The present measure now under consideration, said Mr. M. is the first defensive measure presented for our determination. If we give this measure a quibbling, quibbling, or reluctant affirmative, the people will be disappointed in their hopes. I have no apprehension that we shall do so; I believe the contrary. I have no doubt but that the patriotic characters here called together on the exigency of the moment, and to whom is intrusted the honor of the nation, will realise all the wishes of the people.
Mr. M. concluded by saying, that, feeling conscious of the rectitude of his intentions, as far as his feeble abilities would permit, he had discharged his duty to his country, his constituents, and to himself. (Debate to be continued.)
Wednesday, November 11.
Mr. Porter presented the petition of Oliver Evans, stating, that by a late decision in the circuit court of the United States, the patent issued to the petitioner for improvements in the art of manufacturing flour and meal, had been declared insufficient and void; and praying that the Department of State may be authorised to
grant him a new patent. Referred to a select committee of five members.
Mr. Rice of Ten. presented a letter received from the post-master-general, inclosing a number of petitions, for new post offices, &c. Referred to the committee on the post-offices and post-roads.
Messrs. Moore, Lewis, Hoge, and S. Smith each presented petitions respecting post-roads or offices in their several districts, which were referred.
Mr. Jen. Morrow said, that an act for the sale of public lands had been passed in 1796, which provided that certain sections should be reserved for the disposal of Congress in each township; in 1800, an act was passed authorising the surveyor general to lease these sections, parts of which were accordingly leased. An act had been since passed authorising the sale of the sections heretofore reserved for the disposition of Congress, with a provision attached to it, that no section should be sold at a lower rate than 8 dollars per acre. This price was so extravagantly high, that it appeared from the report of the Secretary of the Treasury only four sections had been sold in the course of the last year. To reduce the price fixed, so as that all the public lands might be sold and occupied, he moved the following resolution-- He remarked that a similar resolution was last year referred to the committee on Public Lands, who reported a bill; but from the press of business, it was not acted on.
Resolved, That the committee on Public Lands be directed to enquire into the expediency of making further provision for the sale of the lands reserved for the disposition of Congress--and that they have leave to report by bill or otherwise. Agreed.
Mr. Dawson said, within a few days a number of gentlemen in the House had expressed much feeling on the subject of the injuries which had been received from a foreign power, & seemed desirous of a minute enquiry into the business. He rejoiced at these expressions of indignation. Whether it would become proper not only to speak, but to act, depended on circumstances not within their control. He was informed by the Secretary of War that there were in the magazines of the U. S. a great number of stands of arms, of our manufacture, which were daily increasing. It appeared that some of the states were in want of arms; the distribution of these would be serviceable both to the U. S. and to the states individually. For this reason he moved the following resolution:
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of selling to the individual states or territories, who may wish to purchase any arms or ordnance owned by the U. S. and which may be parted with without injury to the public; and that they report by bill or otherwise.
Mr. Nelson had no objection to the principle embraced by the resolution, but that it was improperly referred. He moved that the resolution should be amended so as to refer it to the committee so much of the President's message as relates to military establishments, &c.
Mr. Dawson had no objection. The resolution thus amended was agreed to.
Mr. Randolph said, that at the last session of Congress, an act had been passed prohibiting the importation of slaves into any port or place in the U. S. after the 1st day of January next. One of the sections of that act contained a principle in his opinion totally subversive of the right of property in slave holders. He had wished the subject to have been considered at the last session; but from the late period at which it had been brought forward, the House had declined acting upon it. He would say no more upon the subject at this time, but wished a bill to be brought in for amending the act, for which purpose he moved the following resolution, which was adopted, and a committee accordingly appointed.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of amending the act, entitled, "An act to prohibit the importation of Slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the U. S. from and after the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight."
A message was received from the Senate by Mr. Oris, their secretary, informing the House that they had chosen the Rev. Mr. McCormick a Chaplain on their part, in place of Dr. Gantt, who declines accepting his appointment.
Agreeably to the order of the day, the House went into a committee of the whole, Mr. Pitkin in the chair, on the bill for erecting a bridge across the river Potomac; and on a motion made by Mr. Nelson, to strike out the 1st section of the bill, a debate arose, which occupied the remainder of the day.
The motion was supported by Messrs. Nelson and Key, and opposed by Mr. Lewis, when, about 3 o'clock, the committee rose, reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again.
Thursday, Nov. 10.
After the presentation of various petitions, and the receiving of several reports, all of which were either of a private nature, or of subordinate importance, the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Basset in the chair, on the report of the Committee of Elections on the contested election of William M'Creery, when a long and interesting debate ensued, which was continued until the usual hour of adjournment.
Messrs. Findley, Sturges, Smilie, J. Clay, and Fisk advocated; and Messrs. Sawyer, Randolph, and D. R. Williams opposed the report, which is in favor of the sitting member.
The committee rose, reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 10.
The following address was on Sunday presented to General James Wilkinson, by the Officers of the 27th Reg. Maryland Militia.
SIR, THE institutions of a free people, are most peculiarly exposed to subversion, from the tenderness of the law, in refusing
to impose restraints on the actions of individuals, who are thus permitted at leisure to digest and mature schemes of ambition, and projects of revolution, of which the law takes no cognizance, until they may fatally explode upon the community. To the lovers of order and good government, it must be a subject of surprise and regret that ever an occasion should occur, when the law, which self-balanced and omnipotent, should equally protect society and the individual, having failed in its operation upon a great emergency, the fate of a portion of our country should be cast on the exertions and will of a single person; but when such a crisis existed, it must be a source of congratulation to every good citizen, that such a man with the requisite energy and patriotism, should be found at his post. Far distant from those to whom you looked for instructions, and by whose orders you were bound, embarrassed by difficulties, perplexed by artifices, and beset by toils, you resisted the prospect of ambition, the wiles of intrigue, and the arts of a master in cunning and corruption, and consulting the inspiration of patriotism, and the dictates of duty, you dared at your own dread risk, and upon your sole responsibility, to defeat the foul projects of treason, and save a people from the horrors of revolutionary rapine and violence. For this great and important service, you have merited the thanks of a grateful nation; and the impartial pen of history shall transmit your name unsullied by the false glosses and artful calumnies of the day, to a posterity who will revere your memory, as one who has deserved well of his native land, and is to be ranked among its benefactors. For our part, we take this occasion to assure you, that the attempts which have been made under the auspices of treason, to depreciate your services, and distort your motives, have only served to render the merit of those services more precious, the patriotism and purity of those motives more indisputable. That your country may continue to enjoy the fruits of your useful labors, that your services, and merits may never be forgotten, while honorable actions receive their reward, and that you may long live to feel the approbation of your country, and of your conscience, is the ardent and affectionate wish of those, who are happy to have this public occasion of expressing to you, sir, their attachment to your person, and of welcoming you to the city of Baltimore.
THE ANSWER.
GENTLEMEN, YOU embarrass and oppress me by this unexpected & unmerited courtesy.
Feeling and reflection instruct me to reverence your motives, and I shall ever acknowledge your approbation with grateful sensibility; but as the instance of my conduct which has produced the expression of your confidence, was imposed on me by imperious circumstances and sprung from a sense of duty, which I could not have neglected without incurring the reprobation of my own breast, and the condemnation of all good men, it necessarily follows that I can have no fair claim to extraordinary favor.
Yet pending the awful scenes to which you have adverted, the sufferings incident to the peculiarity of my situation, seem to give me some title to the sympathy of those for whom I have suffered; and I beg you to believe that in the commendation of the patriot band of citizen soldiers, who have honored me on this occasion, I have received a testimonial which I most highly appreciate.
When I offered myself a sacrifice to avert a great national calamity, I was not insensible that I exposed myself to serious perils, but indeed I did anticipate the perils of military conflict, and not the persecutions of the tongue and the pen. I have been deceived, and instead of the sword of the soldier, I have been assailed by the dagger of the assassin.
The gathering storm surveyed at a distance, which menaced those fundamental institutions I had sworn to defend, did not alarm me for myself, but put me in fear for my country--I yielded to a virtuous impulse, struck for the safety of the state, and in giving the blow I offended against the laws--encompassed by difficulties without guide or pilot but my own feeble discretion, and urged by the necessity of the case, I was impelled by my solicitude to the commission of a momentary violation, for the permanent security of the constitution, and in discharging a sacred duty, I have incurred heavy penalties--should the policy of my country prescribe it, I shall meet the infliction without a murmur, & prostrating myself before the civil authority, I shall triumph in my own degradation; or should it be deemed expedient to the safety and happiness of United America to abolish the precedent, let the honest purposes of a faithful soldier be fulfilled and my life obliterate the transgression;--then I shall not have lived in vain, and posterity whilst they applaud the generous sentiment which has moved you gentlemen this day, will do justice to the memory of a voluntary victim, whose expiring breath will be raised to heaven for the preservation of HIS COUNTRY, ITS GOVERNMENT AND LAWS.
WASHINGTON CITY, November 16.
On Friday last, we understand, the Secretary of the Navy laid before the Committee of the House of Representatives on aggressions, a detailed statement of the circumstances attending the outrage committed on the Chesapeake, together with those which occurred prior and subsequently to that event. To gratify the public solicitude on this important subject, we publish the following opinion of the Court of Inquiry and hope to be shortly enabled to submit to the public the other documents connected with this affair, which are said to be in the highest degree interesting.
At a Court of Enquiry assembled on board the United States ship Chesapeake, in the harbor of Norfolk and state of Virginia, by order of the Honorable Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy of the United States, and continued by adjournment from day to day from Monday the
5th day of October, 1807, until Wednesday the 4th day of November, 1807.
PRESENT,
CAPTAIN ALEXANDER MURRAY, President, and Captains Isaac Hull, and Isaac Chauncy, } Members thereof.
The following opinion and report was unanimously given, and directed by the court to be transmitted to the honorable the Secretary of the Navy of the United States.
PURSUANT to an order from the honorable Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy of the United States, to Captain Alexander Murray, directed, dated the twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seven, the court proceeded to enquire into the causes of the surrender of the Chesapeake, a frigate of the United States, then under the command of James Barron, Esquire, a captain in the Navy of the United States, to a British vessel of war, which surrender was made (as is in the said order stated) without that defence being made which might have been expected from the known valor of Americans; and having heard all the evidence adduced, as well by the Judge Advocate, as by the said captain James Barron, and having maturely and thoroughly considered the same, (captain James Barron having declined to offer any defence) REPORT to the honorable the Secretary of the Navy of the United States, as by this said warrant is required, a state of the matters touching the said surrender, together with their OPINION thereon, as followeth:
1. It appears to the court, that the United States ship Chesapeake, then under the command of James Barron, Esquire, a captain in the Navy of the United States, sailed from Hampton Roads, on an intended cruise in the Mediterranean sea, on the morning of the 22d of June last past, having on board a crew consisting of more than three hundred and seventy men, and competently equipped with every thing necessary for such a ship of war, sailing on such a cruise.
2. It appears to the court, that captain Barron was appointed commodore of the ships and vessels destined for the Mediterranean service on the 5th day of May last past, and hoisted his broad pendant on board the Chesapeake, the first time he came on board of her after her arrival in Hampton Roads, to wit, on or about the 6th day of June last past.
3. It appears to the court, that commodore Barron visited the Chesapeake only twice during the period she remained in Hampton Roads, and before he came on board to proceed to sea; on neither of which occasions, did he examine particularly into her state and condition.
4. It appears to the court, that the guns of the Chesapeake were never exercised before she proceeded to sea; that her crew were quartered but a few days previous to that time, and had never been called to quarters more than three times prior to her sailing for sea.
5. It appears to the court, that the ship was reported to commodore Barron to be ready for sea on the 17th day of June, that he came on the 21st, and that the ship sailed on the morning of the 22d of June last past.
6. It appears to the court, that antecedent to the sailing of the Chesapeake, there had been received on board of her some persons who had been claimed by the British government as deserters from their service, but who were not ordered to be delivered up by the American officers--That there was also a report in circulation, and generally known on board the Chesapeake, that a threat had been used by the captain of the British ship of war Melampus, to take these men from the Chesapeake--That commodore Barron had full knowledge of the facts that such men were on board his ship, that they had been demanded by the British government, and had not been delivered up, the court are perfectly satisfied; but no positive evidence has been adduced to prove, that the report of the threat above mentioned was communicated to him before his ship sailed.
7. It appears to the court, that the Chesapeake in proceeding from Hampton Roads to sea, passed a British squadron at anchor in Lynnhaven Bay, who at the time of her passing them were making signals to each other, which was not only reported to commodore Barron by one of his officers but actually observed by himself.
8. It appears to the court, that the British ship of war Leopard of fifty guns, one of the squadron then at anchor within the limits of the United States, weighed immediately after these signals were thrown out, and stood to sea.
9. It does not appear to the court, that at this time there was any vessel in sight, or any other object to induce her to go to sea, but the Chesapeake.
10. It appears to the court, that at the time the Leopard got under weigh, the wind was at south-south-west, and the refore fair for her to proceed to sea; but that instead of availing herself of this to clear the land, she hauled by the wind, close round Cape Henry, and stood to the southward, under easy sail; thereby shewing that it was not her intention to get off the land speedily.
11. It appears to the court that after this the wind became light and baffling, and likely to shift, and came out from the eastward; that when this happened the Leopard shortened sail, and stood to the eastward.
12. It appears to the court that after this the wind did come out from about south-south-east, and that the Leopard then having thus got the weather-gage, preserved it, by tacking in shore when the Chesapeake did so in order to get off her pilot, and after the Chesapeake again stood off to the eastward, that the Leopard wore, and bore down for her.
13. It appears to the court, that when the Leopard tacked and stood in shore, on the same tack with the Chesapeake, that her lower deck ports were all closed up.
14. It appears to the court that when the Leopard ran down for the Chesapeake, she rounded to on her starboard quarter, and to windward of her, and that at this time her topmasts were out of her guns.
15. It appears to the court that commodore Barron was upon deck, observing the

Leopard, during the time these manoeuvres were practising, and these appearances exhibited.
16.—The court is of opinion, that the circumstances above stated were in themselves so suspicious, as to have furnished sufficient warning to a prudent, discreet and attentive officer, of the probable designs of a ship of war conducted in that way, and ought to have induced commodore Barron to have prepared his ship for action, especially with the information he possessed of the situation of his crew generally, of those who had been demanded by the British government particularly, and of the general state of the ship at that time.
17.—It appears to the court, that commodore Barron nevertheless did not order his ship to be cleared for action, and that he did not call his men to quarters.
18.—It appears to the court, that when the Leopard came alongside of the Chesapeake, an officer was sent from her, with a communication from capt. Humphries, the captain of the Leopard, to commodore Barron, which the latter could not and did not understand, but very correctly concluded to be a demand with which he ought not and could not comply, and one which, if refused, would be enforced if possible.
19.—It appears to the court, that although such was the situation and impression of commodore Barron at this time, yet that he did not still order his ship to be prepared for action, although ample time was allowed for that purpose, the British officer being detained on board the Chesapeake from 30 to 45 minutes.
20.—The court is of opinion, that the neglect of commodore Barron to prepare his ship for action under such circumstances, is a direct breach of the fourth article of the rules and regulations for the government of the navy of the United States, adopted by an act of the congress of the United States, passed on the 23d day of April, 1800, entitled "An act for the better government of the navy of the United States."
21.—It appears to the court, that after the British officer left the Chesapeake, bearing a positive refusal from commodore Barron to the demand which had been made by capt. Humphries, and after commodore Barron was himself satisfied that an attack upon his ship would be made, he did not take prompt, necessary and efficient means to prepare his ship for battle. That his first order was merely to clear his gun deck, and the second given after the lapse of some time, was to get his men to quarters secretly, without beat of drum; although with such a crew as he had on board, and in such a situation as the ship then was, it was not to be expected that such orders could be effectually accomplished.
22.—It appears to the court, that the conduct of commodore Barron during the attack of the Leopard manifested great indecision, and a disposition to negotiate, rather than a determination bravely to defend his ship. That he repeatedly halted the Leopard during her attack upon him—that he drew his men from their guns to lowering down boats, to send on board of the attacking ship—and that he ordered his first lieutenant from his quarters during the attack, to carry a message on board of the Leopard, at that time firing upon him.
23.—It appears to the court, that during the attack, commodore Barron used language in the presence of his men calculated to disarm his crew, by ordering them to keep down, that they would all be cut to pieces.
24.—It appears to the court, that commodore Barron ordered the colors of the Chesapeake to be struck, and that they were struck, before a single gun of any kind was fired from her; and that at the time they were so struck, her main deck battery was in a situation which would have enabled the return of a broadside in a very short time.
25.—The court is therefore of opinion, that the Chesapeake was prematurely surrendered, at a time when she was nearly prepared for battle, and when the injuries sustained either on the ship or crew did not make such a surrender then necessary; and that for this commodore Barron falls under a part of the 6th article of the rules and regulations for the government of the navy of the United States, adopted by an act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the 23d day of April, 1800, entitled "An act for the better government of the navy of the U. States."
26.—The court is of opinion, that although the conduct of commodore Barron, before and during the attack of the Leopard, evinced great inattention to his duty and want of decision, yet that during that attack he exposed his person, and did not manifest either by his orders or actions any personal fear or want of courage.
27.—It appears to the court, that although the Chesapeake might and ought to have been better defended than she was, yet that she was not in a situation at the time of the attack made upon her, to have enabled so gallant a defence being made as might be expected. Some of her guns were not securely fitted in their carriages, some of her springs and wards were too large, but few of her powder horns were filled, her matches were not primed, some of her rammer were not in their proper places, her marines were neither supplied with enough cartridges, or were those which they had of the proper size. None of these circumstances however could have influenced commodore Barron in striking his colors, because they were not known to him at the time.
28.—The Court is of opinion, that the conduct of all the other officers of the ship, except those whose duty it was to have remedied the deficiencies before stated, and of the crew generally, was proper, commendable and honorable.
A true copy, L. W. TAZEVELL, Judge Advocate.
Hampden Sidney College.
THE Trustees wish to inform the public, that they have lately engaged the Rev. Messrs. Hook of Sheppards Town in this state, to remove to the College, and to take charge of it as President. They wish also to give notice, that the buildings are in a comfortable state of repair and that boarding and tuition for students continue at the usual rates. Prince Edward, 12th Nov. 1807. Gw
Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1807.
[Circular.]
TO THE MAJOR AND BRIGADIER GENERALs OF THE MILITIA OF VIRGINIA.
ADJUTANT GENERAL's OFFICE, Richmond, Nov. 17th, 1807.
SIR, BY the general orders of the 17th July last, it is directed, among other things, that "Correct muster rolls and inspection returns (of the detachments from the several divisions, forming the quota of this state, of one hundred thousand militia, required by the President of the United States) be made to the Adjutant General, who is, without delay, directed to transmit copies to the Secretary of War."
As it was not expressly stated by whom these returns were to be made, it was expected, of course, that they would be forwarded by the Brigade Inspectors (counter-signed by the Brigadier Generals) to the Major Generals, and by the latter to this office. Presuming that this course may have been intended to be pursued, I am instructed by the Governor to request, that the returns aforesaid may be transmitted to this office with as little further delay as possible.
If no such returns have yet been made to the Major Generals, and as they have been called for by the Secretary of War, I am further instructed by the Governor, to request, that they may be immediately transmitted to this office, directly from the Brigadier Generals.
I have the honor to be, With great respect, Sir, your obedt. servant, SAMUEL COLEMAN, D. A. G.
COMMUNICATION.
A letter has been received in this city dated the 11th instant, from a respectable merchant in New-York, stating that a gentleman who came passenger in the ship Sun-sun, saw Mr. Monroe on the evening of the 1st of October, who informed him, "that all hopes of an accommodation with Great Britain were at an end." Balt. Fed. Gaz.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
The Message of the President has been attacked by the federal prints on various grounds, which we shall amuse the reader with concisely noticing. We say concisely ; inasmuch as we shall not stoop to say any thing on the gross and indecent language in which some of these attacks are made, or to form any estimate of the motives which at such a time can induce in such invidious. We shall, therefore, regard the substance alone. This will be found to be so attenuated as almost to defy analysis; and to consist of "shadowy nothings," which are dispelled by the first ray of light that strikes them.
First. "A palpable falsehood," is charged upon the President, or our ministers at the British court, on account of the alleged opposition between the language of the late Message, and that of the last session, enclosing a letter from our ministers relative to a treaty with Britain. This is a high and sounding charge. Let us examine the grounds on which it is sustained. The President in his late Message says, "After long and fruitless endeavors to effect the purposes of their mission, and to obtain arrangements within the limits of their instructions, they concluded to sign such as could be obtained, and to send them for consideration; candidly declaring to the other negotiators, at the same time, that they were acting against their instructions, and that their government therefore could not be pledged for ratification." He adds, substantially, that these terms were inadmissible, even independently of the declaration, subject to which the British negotiators signed the treaty. The Message of the last session says, "I transmit to Congress a letter from our ministers plenipotentiary at London, informing us that they have agreed with the British commissioners to conclude a treaty, on all the points which had formed the object of their negotiation, and on terms which they trusted we would approve."
The accompanying letter is dated December 27th, and states that it would require only a few days to reduce the treaty to form.
Four days accordingly did elapse, when the treaty was signed. On these facts, these enquiries present themselves.
 1. Was the paper actually signed the same in substance with that concluded to be signed?  2. Did no intervening event produce a new and unexpected change in it?  3. Might not our ministers, in the interim, have received additional instructions, more in detail than those previously sent, particularly applicable to some points under consideration?  4. Might not our ministers honestly entertain a different opinion of the terms of the treaty from the President? 
If either of these enquiries can be answered in the affirmative, this high charge is annihilated; and we will appeal to every honest and unbiased mind whether it is not more likely, that some such reason, as we have intimated, did occur, than that the President, or Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney should have been guilty of a gross falsehood; a falsehood too which could not escape detection. The very idea that such men could be guilty of a falsehood is too absurd for belief. When to this is added an almost unavowable detection, we must suppose them fools to have uttered it.
We do know that a strange and unprecedented note was tacked to the treaty. Are we certain that no new principles were introduced into its body? Is it not also very possible that in reducing particular arrangements to form, their substance may be in no small degree modified? Might not then our ministers, when they had before them, the form as well as the
substance, the details as well as the general principles, have had a very different impression with regard to the instrument from that which they previously expected it would have produced? Is it not, also, possible that they may have viewed the French order as indicative of hostility against the U. S. and have conceived it sound policy under such an impression to accept from Britain the best terms they could get, subject to the reserved right on the part of our government to adopt or reject them.
There is one fact worth here noticing. Long since, Mr. King agreed with the British Minister on certain terms relative to the improvement of American seamen, in correspondence with which he was about to sign a treaty. But its signature was arrested in this critical moment by the lords of the admiralty whose earnest remonstrance prevented it. What has happened once, on a point of the first importance, and yet remaining unsettled, may happen again, and may have occurred in this very case.
Secondly. The President is charged with an attempt to invade the rights of a co-ordinate and independent branch of the government in the following part of the Message:
"I shall think it my duty to lay before you the proceedings, and the evidence publicly exhibited on the arraignment of the principal offenders before the district court of Virginia. You will be enabled to judge whether the defect was in the testimony, in the law, or in the administration of the law, and wherever it shall be found the legislature alone can apply or originate the remedy."
The charges detailed under this general head are multifarious, of which the submission of the evidence to Congress, the allegation of a defect in the testimony, the law, or its administration, are the principal. The right of the President to say any thing on this point is denied, with what justice we shall presently see.
The constitutional oath of the President requires him, to the best of his ability, to "preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States."
The constitution likewise makes it his duty to give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
Under his oath it became his duty to the best of his ability to protect the constitution against Aaron Burr and his associates, whether their ends were treasonable, or whether they aimed at carrying on a war against a nation at peace with the United States. That one or the other was the end of this association no man doubts. To arrest such a project was therefore clearly the duty of the President. For this purpose he pursued the best means in his power, in doing which a great disclosure of the circumstances connected with the enterprise has taken place, which disclosure directly goes to elucidate the "state of the union," to show whether it is free from danger, or whether there is reason to apprehend danger unless preventive measures be adopted. By whom? By Congress. To enable whom to judge for themselves all the evidence is proposed to be submitted. The President intimates that a defect exists some where. To enable Congress to judge where, he lays before them all the correct information that can be collected. That such defect does exist, no one can deny. Its existence has, indeed, we believe been admitted by the Chief Justice himself, so far as relates to the territories of the United States, where, by the bye, the greatest danger from treason will always exist. To show the existence of this defect, it was necessary to submit the proceedings of the court. It is, moreover, intimated that the defect may have been in the testimony. If so, there is an end of the enquiry, if there should be found to be no other defect. This intimation is consequently harmless. But the principal umbrella is taken at the suggestion that it may be in the administration of the law. This suggestion is altogether hypothetical, and cannot, therefore, be justly levelled at the Chief Justice: for the term "administration" is so comprehensive as to include likewise those who conduct the prosecution and those who enforce the mandates of the court. But if it were exclusively pointed at the Chief Justice, still, if the President thinks that his conduct has exposed any defect, it is not only his right, but his constitutional duty, as we have already seen, to recommend to Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. From the communication he has made, it is evident that he considers an enquiry by Congress on this point necessary and expedient.
Viewing the suggestion of the President, therefore, in either of the points of light in which he has presented it, it is not only perfectly correct, but he would have been justly reprehensible, had he been silent. A defect exists somewhere, which can only be remedied by Congress, who can only judge from an examination of the proceedings of the court, which it therefore becomes the duty of the Executive to furnish. This examination is essential to the determination, whether the defect exists in the testimony; it is equally indispensable to the decision whether it exists in the law, or its administration. But what say these writers, have Congress to do with the administration of the law? Let them make laws; but once made, let their administration devolve exclusively on the judiciary. Agreed—with a small qualification. Congress may institute impeachments, and they may propose an amendment to the constitution, which may affect the existing organisation of the courts: And if their proceedings shew either of these steps to be necessary, it is their duty to take them. In these respects we offer at present no opinion—but such being a part of the constitutional powers of the Legislature, it was indispensable the duty of the Executive, so far as he could, to lay before them all the information connected with their enlightened exercise.
While reading the description of the internal improvements within the French nation, we cannot but be struck with the contrast between that government and the British. While one is triumphant in all its military operations, the other is baffled in
almost all its enterprizes. The arts and sciences are as rapidly encroaching in France, as the extension of their power is in all parts of Europe. Agriculture, and every valuable improvement in the roads, canals, bridges and colleges, show the wonderful resources of that country, even in the midst of their controversies with the most powerful armies. While France is thus displaying its energies at home and abroad, England is sinking under the weight of the most complicated disasters. While France is ameliorating the situation of its citizens, and encouraging every philosophical and mechanical project, Britain is disgracing its national reputation by disturbing the repose of neutral states, bombarding their cities, murdering their citizens, and setting their towns on fire! What a disgraceful employment for a nation, which pretends to value itself on its religious and moral endowments! Yet strange to relate, we have men among us, who are daily advocating their cruelty, and attempting to connect this country in all their wanton barbarity. France is also adopting such legal measures as will prevent merchants from falling a sacrifice to a group of domestic depredators. The system of usury is abolished, which is so fatal to all those who are exposed to its avarice. Hard money is in circulation instead of a deceptive paper currency, solely calculated to give an undue advantage to those who trade in the various species. While we reprobate France as destitute of religion, we do not see her officers of the church, and others who profess to be religious, growing rich on the distresses of their neighbors.
[Boston Chronicle.]
Captain Brian, from St. Croix, arrived at New-York, informs that ten days before he sailed, two British frigates came in close under the forts at West-End, and took out 5 or 6 sail of American vessels, and took them to Tortola. Among the number was the brig St. Croix Packet, of Philadelphia, who had been released, and returned, and was to sail for Philadelphia next day. Capt. Brian was boarded shortly after he came out by a British frigate, but permitted to proceed.
The French have lately put their laws against usury into operation. It would be well for this country, if some measures were adopted to prevent the abominable impositions now practised within this town. It is disgraceful to observe the characters who live by the most excessive extortion, and whose religious professions ought at least to screen the unfortunate individuals from ruin by usury. There is no commercial country in the world so exposed to the domestic depredations of a clan of harpies on the exchange. It is time a stop was put to it, or thousands must fall a sacrifice.—Bost. Chron.
EXTRAORDINARY SPEED. —A match was lately run in England, by a Mr. Wedderburn (Webster), who undertook for a wager of 600 guineas, to ride a favorite horse from Ipswich to London, a distance of seventy miles, in five hours. The judges of the power of horses considered the wager as a certain loss, and consequently the odds ran high against the performance. Mr. Webster commenced his journey from Ipswich, and the sporting circles lined the road from the metropolis, anxiety having never been more strongly exhibited. The animal run the first twenty miles in one hour and ten minutes, when the rider halted for a few minutes, and gave the horse a portion of wine and water. The animal had to perform 14 miles an hour at starting, and kept on at a running rate the whole distance. Whitechapel church was the extent of the journey, at which place the horse and his rider arrived in four hours and fifty minutes! W. Webster rides about 9 stone.
NOTICE.
AT a meeting of the Directors of the Bank of the United States, held at the Bank, in Philadelphia Novemb. 10 1807:— THOMAS WILLING, Esquire, having resigned the appointment of President—DAVID DEXTER Esquire was unanimously elected President of the said Bank.
G. SIMPSON Cashier.
IN conformity with the 1st Section of Article X. V. of the Constitution of the Mutual Assurance Society against Fire on Buildings of the State of Virginia, the members of the said society are hereby notified to attend their annual General Meeting, to be held at the Capitol, on the first Monday in January next, being the fourth day of the said month.
Any member who doth not attend at the said meeting in person or by proxy, will be represented by the members of the State Legislature or by the county, or the Senator of the district where he is such absentee or resides.
LEWIS M. RIVALAIN, Ading as Principal Agent. General Office of Assurance. Richmond, 15th November, 1807.
Form of the Credentials to be produced by the person voting at the annual meeting by proxy, to wit: I, _____ subscriber of _____ member of the Mutual Assurance Society, do hereby constitute and appoint _____ to attend the annual general meeting of the said society to be held at Richmond, on the first Monday in January next, as proxy to vote and act on my behalf, on any business which may come before the said meeting as fully as if personally present. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set hand and seal the day of 1807. Teste, _____ w4.
Win. W. Dickenson, OFFERS FOR SALE ON LOW TERMS, 12 Tons James River Hemp, 16 Tons Country Bar-Iron, and 80 Tierces Whiskey. Richmond. Nov. 16 1807 tm
Will be Sold,
FOR ready money, on Monday the 30th November (sunset) at Books in the town of Manchester, one WOMAN, named Fanny, and her three children, Lucy, Ben and William; conveyed to us in trust, by Mr. Robert M'Lyle, for the purpose of discharging the debt therein mentioned, and the incidental expenses attending the execution of this trust. Nicholas Mills. James H. _____ Manchester, Nov. 19. 1807. tds
Postscript.
NORFOLK, November 16.
Vessel ship CAPTAIN TOMPKINS, of the fast sailing ship Pocahontas, of this port, came up to town, having left his ship in the bay bound up to Baltimore, from Liverpool. Capt. T. left Liverpool on the 4th of October, brought London papers to the 1st of that month, and has favored us with a complete file from the 19th September upwards.
We understand from good authority, that on the 14th of September, Mr. Monroe delivered a memorial to the British government, demanding a final answer previous to his departure for the United States, for which he was already prepared, and did expect to depart immediately.
At this juncture the intelligence of the surrender of Copenhagen, the disasters in South America, & the measures of France against Portugal, with other important affairs on the continent of Europe, particularly with Russia, so pressed upon the British ministers, as to induce them to solicit Mr. Monroe's indulgence. Mr. M. accordingly agreed to remain, and we have good reason to believe that the ultimatum of the British government was delivered on the sixteenth, and moreover we understand "that no act of hostility will be committed by G. Britain, until this ultimatum has been submitted to, and acted upon by this government." Of the contents of this ultimatum it would be ridiculous in us to attempt a conjecture, but it is easy to infer that all the demands of our government have not been acceded to, but we venture to assert, that the British government have most unequivocally denied any pretension on its part to search a national ship of the U. States.
It is to be observed that several of the London prints stated that Mr. Monroe had actually left London, these prints are not always remarkable for correct information.—Ledger.
Manchester Turnpike Company.
THE Annual Meeting of Stockholders, will be held at Mr. Brooks's Tavern, in Manchester, on the first Monday in December next. Special matters of business important to the interest of the company require a full meeting; hence it is expected that such members as cannot attend in person will appoint deputies to act for them. JAMES BRANDER, Clk. November 13, 1807. tdm
New Books,
Just received at S. Pleasants' Book-store. Ramsey's Life of Washington Lady's Museum, vols. 1 & 2, new series, to July, 1807.
A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, under the command of capt. Lewis and capt. Clarke, of the army of the U. S. from the mouth of the river Missouri thro' the interior parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean during the year 1804—5 & 6. Containing an account of the most interesting transactions during the expedition—a description of the country—and an account of its inhabitants, soil, climate, curiosities, and vegetable and animal productions; by P. Gass, one of the persons employed in the expedition; with geographical and explanatory notes by the publisher. The Lay of an 8th Ha p. by Miss Owens. The Young Mill Wright's and Miller's Guide, by O. Evans; a new edition.
A Portraiture of Quakerism—Taken from a view of the education and discipline, social manners, civil and political economy, religious principles and character, of the S. ciet'y of Friends; by Thomas Clarkson, A. M. The Life of Charles James Fox; by W. Paley. Author's Ed. Imms. vols. 1 & 2.
DISSOLUTION.
THE partnership of LOWMYER & PEIRCE is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All persons having claims against the Firm, are requested to bring in their accounts for settlement; and those who are indebted, to make immediate payment into either of the Subscribers hands. JAMES LOWMYER. COOPER PEIRCE. Richmond. Nov. 16. 1807.
TO BE SOLD,
A Public Auction, for ready money at the premises, on Saturday the 28th instant.
The Land & Plantation,
Whereon James Allen now resides, lying in Henrico on the north branch of the Brimley, about eight miles from Richmond containing three hundred acres by estimation, formerly belonging to the late Mrs. Wilkinson, and being the land formerly advertised, and the sale postponed at the special request of the said Mrs. Wilkinson. Any person or persons inclined to purchase may attend on the day above mentioned as the sale will actually take place between the hours of twelve and five o'clock, by Watson Patton, } Trustees. Peter Wilkinson, } 15th Nov. 1807. 2w
BY virtue of a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery held in Richmond, the subscribers will expose to sale on the premises, to the highest bidder, for cash, on the 30th day of Jany next, the residue of a TRACT OF LAND, lying in Henrico, on Bonner's river, estimated to contain 1717 acres more or less, whereon the widow of John Markham and others now reside, or as much thereof as will be sufficient to raise the sum of £871 3 5 with interest from the 10th day of June, 1806, on £405 13 6 part thereof until payment, and interest on £466, also part thereof during the same period, the expenses of sale and the costs of suit. Robt. Haskins, son of Ewd. Thos. Wooldridge, senior. Edward Friend. Allen Whitworth. June 25, 1807.
The sale of the above property is postponed until Monday the 7th day of December, next, when it will certainly take place. Robt. Haskins, son of Ewd. Thos. Wooldridge, senior. Edward Friend. Allen Whitworth. November 6, 1807. w4.
NOTICE
is hereby given, that a petition will be presented to the next General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, praying that the right of the said commonwealth to the real estate of Wm. F. Asse, who died intestate, may be released for the benefit of his Nephew, Henry J. Anholst, who is an alien, having only resided three years in this state, the whole of that time in this city. Who prays to become a citizen under the same act. Richmond, October 12, 1807. w6.

STATEMENT OF THE SITUATION OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE. 1806 AND 1807.
(Continued.) The maritime ports have also witnessed new creations. Antwerp boasts of dock-yards built as if by enchantment upon a soil become a stranger to all maritime construction.
Flushing, which formerly afforded an asylum only to vessels of small dimensions, has had its sluice enlarged, its basins deepened, and can now receive whole fleets.
At Dunkirk, the western dike has been built anew, and the works ordered by the decree of the 28th Nivose, year 13, are almost finished.
At Calais, the two dikes to the east and west have been rebuilt or repaired.
At Cherbourg, the two moles are raised and the works are far advanced. In the middle of the sea, the Napoleon battery, lined with cannon, defends the road from the winds and the enemy.
At Rochefort, an ingenious apparatus is established, by means of which, first rate ships may come in and go out at any tide.
The clearing of the port of Marseilles, so ardently wished for by the trading interest, is, as far as can be judged by the soundings taken, already half accomplished.
Such immense works, undertaken at the same moment, require both time and constancy. But constancy, which always ensures success, belongs particularly to a government to whom the conviction of its strength gives that of its duration, whose march is invariable, because it has but one end in view, and which in overcoming present difficulties, has its eye always fixed upon the future.
Agriculture—Agriculture, in the first place, receives the benefit of them; other measures are no less favorable to it. The draining of the marshes of Contentin and of Rochfort, is in great forwardness; those of Bourges confided to the heirs of the ancient concessionaries, promise to cultivation a vast extent of grounds, and will give salubrity to the surrounding country.
productions of the countries that are least known to France.
The existence of our cotton Manufactories being consolidated and wonderfully increasing, government has made it its business to examine, whether the raw material which is imported from abroad, could not be found in France.
A still greater interest, and which is of the first consideration for trade and industry, the amelioration of our wool, has been the object of an unremitting attention.
Several national sheep folds in different parts of the empire, and in central situations, will preserve the race in all its purity, will multiply, and caused it to be circulated by means of national sales;
But the most important amelioration, and at the same time, the most difficult, because it was necessary to repair past losses, as well as to prepare future progress, was that of our race of horses, in former times so justly celebrated, and almost entirely destroyed in a few years.
The veterinary schools prosper, and they supply both the armies and the country with able subjects. Their instruction has received a new extension.
The rural code is compiling with all the maturity that is required in a work, which is to afford a new guarantee to property, to put an end to abuses, by respecting local customs, and to regulate without forcing industry, which is the origin and aliment of all other property.
These two first blessings a wise legislation and a solid and liberal instruction, are equally extended to the industry of commerce and to that of manufactures.
A code is preparing for trade and commerce, a code matured by the most profound discussions; its object is to give force to all that experience may have found to be useful in ancient ordinances in adapting them to our own times, in protecting good faith in transactions, in repressing by severe laws, the scandal always increasing of bankruptcies;
The law which you passed the year respecting the establishment of the tribunal of the prud'hommes has produced the most salutary effects, and many manufacturing towns through the latitude wisely left by that law, have been eager to demand admission to the benefits of that institution.
The existence of the chambers of commerce has received consistency, and many of their labors continue to attest the union of industry and intelligence;
(To be continued.) [Published by particular request of the Author.]
FROM THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE. To the Editor.
Gen Eaton has anticipated me, for which I thank him—I was about to have published those depositions, and had procured copies with that intent, but being informed that the general had determined to give them to the public, I preferred that thro' him, in the first instance, should be obtained the knowledge of the kind intentions towards me of that administration, of which, it seems, he has lately become such a favorite, and I only regret, that, while he had the pen in his hand, he did not also inform the public, that witnesses were summoned to attend the grand jury, in order to have me indicted for treason, but that as presidential sycophancy had not given information in time, such witnesses as came to Richmond, did not arrive until the day after the fare—most unfortunately the grand jury were discharged before they got to Richmond.
The truth is, that as I had dared to interpose between government and a friend of mine, who was destined to be a victim; either government, enraged by this interference, sought for testimony for the pious purpose of adding me to the number of its victims, or sycophants, who thought it the most certain means of recommending themselves to the presidential favor, volunteered in giving information against me.
In consequence of which, witnesses were summoned to attend the grand jury, one of which only, as I believe, attended here, that one was John Campbell White, M. D. now of Baltimore, but not long since, a united Irishman, engaged in treason against that government to which he owed allegiance, (I hope it may not be supposed that for this reason I consider him less fit to be an American citizen;) but unfortunately as I have observed, M. D. came too late; however, the administration finding that this manœuvre had not intimidated me from returning to Richmond, where I arrived the last day of July or first day of August, for the purpose of attending the trial;
There is nothing in them, which proves that I suggested this separation of the union was to be effected by military force. And the times when these declarations were made, unfortunately upon examination were found to be before any overt act of levying war is pretended by government to have been committed.
Upon the subject of these depositions, miserable as they are I feel myself bound, from my respect for my fellow citizens, to give them some explanation.
I have been one of those, who totally disapproved of the conduct of our government in the purchase of Louisiana. We had before a country equal to all Europe, with a population not equal to that insular speck, Great Britain. It would require fifty or a hundred years, by the natural increase of population, let republican energies be exerted for that purpose, with the utmost zeal and even taking into consideration the out-springs of European jails, to render the population of the U. S. as their extension was before the purchase of Louisiana, in a reasonable proportion to their extent.
The law which you passed the year respecting the establishment of the tribunal of the prud'hommes has produced the most salutary effects, and many manufacturing towns through the latitude wisely left by that law, have been eager to demand admission to the benefits of that institution.
With Mr. Hall, in whose company I have frequently been at Annapolis, I have often conversed on this subject—and after the conduct of Col Burr began to be a subject of public discussion, have often amused myself by telling him that I expected to see Col. Burr enjoy the benefit of this purchase, and that he would be emperor of Louisiana.
This Mr. Hall has all the merit of being a violent democrat, and as a reward, was a few years past appointed by Jefferson, commissioner of the loan office, at Annapolis; notwithstanding which, as he and myself have been on intimate terms, it is very probable that he may have given me the caution mentioned in the concluding paragraph of his deposition, more particularly so, as it not only proves his friendly regard for myself, but also, his correct and discriminating knowledge of the law of treason!
As to Mr. Graybell, he is a worthy respectable citizen, of a German descent, an intimate friend of mine, who, many a market morning, when I have no change, or when, as it sometimes happens, I have no money of any kind, he is my banker—I pass the door of his flour store in market street, when I am in the city, perhaps half a dozen times a week—on almost every of which occasions my good old friend has been in the habit of taking me by the hand with an affectionate smile, and asking me "what news?"
I have reserved for the whole, my united Irishman, and as to him I must solemnly declare, I have ever detested his principles too much to have had any other communication with him, than the mere common civilities, which every gentleman ought to shew not merely to a stranger, but to a stranger whose acquaintance they ardently wish to shun—I am confident that I never had any political conversation with him upon any subject, much less any in which the name of Col. Burr was mentioned.
I shall here add that from the time Col Burr first went to the westward, until he was wantonly and unconstitutionally deprived of his liberty, by the military, not a single letter ever passed between us—and that from the period he went first to the westward, or any time before, until the time of his being thus deprived of his liberty, he never directly or indirectly communicated to me his plans, whatever they might have been.
One remark more and I am done—From the information the public have now obtained, through Gen. Eaton and myself, it must be pretty evident that my friend the president, would hang me if he could—but if he found that not in his power, he would deprive me of my liberty.
LUTHER MARTIN. Buckingham County, August Term, 1807. Joseph Fuqua, Stephen Fuqua, Moses Fuqua, Aaron Fuqua, John Flood and Mary his wife, and Erasmus Jones and A. mey his wife, plaintiffs. Noah Flood, administrator of Elizabeth Fuqua, deceased, and John Goode and Judith his wife, defendants.
ON the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, and it appearing to the court that the defendants John Goode and Judith his wife are not inhabitants of this state; It is ordered, that unless they appear here on or before November court next and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to them, and decree the matter thereof accordingly; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and another copy be posted up at the front door of the courthouse of this county.
A copy, Teste, R. Eldridge, jr. d. c. Subscriptions for Lewis and Clark's Tour, received at this Office.
At a Court of Quarterly Session, held for Cumberland County, the 27th day of October, 1807.
James Roper, plaintiff, against Benj. Sims & Wm. Sims, defts. cery.
THE defendant William, not having entered his appearance and given security according to law, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state; on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, It is ordered, that the said William do appear here on the 4th Monday in February next to answer the complainant's bill, and that the defendant Benjamin do not pay, convey away, or secure any debt by him owing to, or effects of the said William in his hands until the further order or decree of this court; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Virginia Gazettes, for two months successively, and published at the front door of the courthouse of this county.
A Copy—Teste, Miller Woodson, jr. d. c.
Lands for sale in Albemarle.
THE subscriber being desirous of removing to the western country, offers for sale his TRACT OF LAND in Albemarle county, on the North river four miles from Charlottesville, containing a thousand acres—two hundred or two hundred and fifty acres of which are valuable bottoms.
October 1st, 1807. SAMUEL CARR.
Lands for Sale.
THE subscriber wishes to sell the Lands and Plantation whereon he a present resides, containing 800 acres well watered with several excellent springs, and convenient to four capital manufacturing mills.
FOR SALE. To be sold, at Public Auction, on Monday the eleventh day of January next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at my Plantation called the Goose-Ponds, and continue from day to day until all are sold.
MY Tract of Land, on Pamunkey River, about one hundred acres of which are low grounds, lying partly in Caroline and partly in King William, called the Goose Ponds, containing 842 acres, more or less. The quality of the Land, the buildings, beauty of situation, water and neighborhood, renders it an object worthy the attention of any gentleman wishing to purchase; a crop of Wheat is sown thereon.
Those having legal claims against me may perhaps find it to their interest to attend this sale. BENJAMIN TOLER. September 4, 1807.
Sale of Negroes.
IN pursuance of a deed of trust executed to me by John Ogilby of the county of Person, N. Carolina, for purposes therein expressed I shall on the 31st day of the present month, proceed to sell, at the Red House, in Gaskell county, N. C. to the highest bidder, for ready money, the following SLAVES, to wit, James, Davy, Tom, Adam, Bob and Major, or as many of them as will be sufficient to answer the purposes of said deed.
William S. Archer. October 15th, 1807.
The sale of the above property is postponed until Monday the 23d of November, when it will take place agreeably to the terms above mentioned.
Wm. S. Archer, Trustee. The Grand Lodge of Virginia, Will meet on Monday, December the 14th next, Wm. H. Fitzhugh, G. S. Richmond, Nov. 16, 1807.

VIRGINIA ARGUS EXTRA.
[XVth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1408.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum—paid in Advance.]
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1807.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
Valuable Medicines.
PUBLIC confidence has never been more liberally and firmly reposed, and perhaps in no instance more justly, than it appears in the efficacy of HAMILTON'S WORM LOZENGES, prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, by HANNAH LEE, no. 56, Maiden-lane, New York. And in Richmond, (only) at S. Pleasants' Printing-office.
The proprietor has lately presented to the public eye the testimony of the Hon. A. C. Hanlon, Chancellor of Maryland, the Rev. Mr. Melcher, and of other distinguished and respectable characters. The following cases, of more recent occurrence, are now respectfully submitted.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCES.
THE wife of Mr. Wm. Stillwell, merchant, Water street, New-York, had been in a poor state of health for several years past, and was often confined to her chamber by indisposition: her symptoms were various, though generally attended with great debility; sometimes they were supposed to indicate dropsy, at others a disease of the liver. Having suffered a very severe attack, without obtaining any relief from her physician, and almost despairing of recovery, she was induced to make trial of Hamilton's Worm Destroying Lozenges; having heard of their performing cures in several complaints that could not be accounted for. Two doses were taken, which brought away a large worm, nearly half a yard in length, and a great quantity of matter evidently pieces of worms, &c. On taking the third or fourth dose, an entire animal shaped like a crab, was expelled: its parts were examined with the aid of a microscope, when the claws, feet, &c. appeared perfectly formed; different in but few respects from the common crab. Mrs. Stillwell began from that time to recover her health;—three months have since elapsed, and she has been free from her former complaints, and has acquired a degree of health and strength which for years before she had been a stranger to. She being free to extend the knowledge of a medicine from which so much benefit has been received, she has authorised Mrs. Lee, the present proprietor, to state these particulars for the good of others.
New-York, June 5, 1807.
Philadelphia, May 22, 1806.
TO H. LEE.
Having in a most singular manner, experienced in my family the astonishing efficacy of Hamilton's Worm Destroying Lozenges, prepared by the late Mr. Lee, I feel it my duty to add the following curious case to the list of remarkable cures performed by that celebrated medicine. My daughter at the age of 17 months was taken ill with those symptoms which are supposed to denote worms: after having tried a number of things which are said to be good in such cases, without any benefit, we had the attendance of a respectable physician; but she still continued to decline in health, and at the end of six months became so weak that she could not walk, nor keep food on her stomach, it was so extremely disordered. At this interesting period, one of our neighbours recommended your Lozenges so earnestly, we were induced to send to Mr. Birch's for a box of them; on her taking the third dose, according to the printed directions, there came from her a living animal about three quarters of an inch long and of a most frightful appearance, being very white, with a great number of legs, and something which resembled wings, by which it appeared to spring; and which it did repeatedly, to our great surprise, about the same distance that a small toad can hop on the ground. Its form was altogether unknown to every person who saw it. It lived in water about 16 hours. We afterwards put it in spirits, and it is now in the possession of Dr. Bleight of this city. The child grew better from that day; in a very short period began to walk again, and is now in perfect health.
Yours, &c. WM. BRADLEY, Callowhill street, between 8th and 9th sts.
Any person may be satisfied of the accuracy and authenticity of this singular occurrence, by making enquiry in the neighborhood: many of the neighbors saw the creature alive, and are well acquainted with the above particular.
W. B.
Among the symptoms attending worms, are, disagreeable breath, especially in the morning; bad and corrupted gums—itching in the nose and about the seat—convulsions and epileptic fits and sometimes privation of speech—starting and grinding of the teeth in sleep—irregular appetite; sometimes loathing food and sometimes voracious; purging, with slimy and foetid stools; Vomiting; Large and hard belly; Pains and sickness at the stomach; Pains in the head and thighs, with lowness of spirits; Slow fever, with small and irregular pulse; A dry cough; Excessive thirst; Sometimes pale and
unhealthy countenance, and sometimes the face bloated and flushed.
Persons afflicted with any of the above symptoms, should have immediate recourse to
HAMILTON'S WORM DESTROYING LOZENGES. which have been constantly attended with success in all complaints similar to those above described.
A dose of this medicine given occasionally during the warm season, will effectually prevent the "vomiting and purging of children," a dreadful disorder which annually destroys thousands of the infant part of our citizens.
Children generally take this medicine with eagerness; having a pleasing appearance and an agreeable taste.
FOR SALE AS ABOVE, Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mullein.
A safe and effectual remedy for acute and chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Rheumatic Gout, Palsy, Lumbago, Numbness, White Swellings, Chilblains, Sprains, Bruises, Pain in the Face and Neck, &c.
"AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE."
For the prevention and cure of Bilious and Malignant Fevers it is recommended
Hahn's Anti-Bilious Pills. The operation of these pills is perfectly mild, so as to be used with safety by persons in every situation, and of every age.
Hamilton's Elixir, A sovereign remedy for Colds, Obstinate Coughs, Asthma, Sore Throats, and approaching Consumption.
To Parents who may have children afflicted with
The Hooping Cough. This disorder is of the first magnitude, as it affords immediate relief, checks the progress, and in a short time entirely removes the most cruel disorder to which children are liable. The Elixir is so perfectly agreeable, and the dose so small, that no difficulty arises in taking it.
From LUTHER MARTIN, Esq., attorney general of the late of Maryland.
GENTLEMEN—I comply with your request in stating my opinion of Hamilton's Elixir. It has been used in my family for two or three years, with uniform success, whenever colds, coughs, or similar complaints have rendered medicine necessary. I have myself found it an excellent and agreeable remedy for a very painful and troublesome affection of the breast, accompanied with forensis, and with obturated and difficult breathing.
On these accounts, I do not hesitate to recommend Hamilton's Elixir as a valuable medicine, and deserving public attention.
LUTHER MARTIN.
HAMILTON'S Grand Restorative,
Is recommended as an invaluable medicine for the speedy relief and permanent cure of the various complaints which result from dissipated pleasures—juvenile excesses—residence in climates unfavourable to the constitution—the immoderate use of tea—frequent intoxication, or any other destructive intemperance—the unwholesome use of mercury—the diseases peculiar to females at a certain period of life—bad lying in, &c.
Hahn's true and genuine
German Corn Plaster,
An infallible remedy for corns, speedily removing them, root and branch without giving pain.
The Genuine Persian Lotion.
So celebrated among the fashionable throughout Europe, as an invaluable cosmetic, perfectly innocent and safe, free from corrosive and revealing mineral (the basis of other lotions) and of unparalleled efficacy in preventing and removing blemishes in the face and skin, of every kind—particularly freckles, pimples, inflammatory redness, scurf, tetter, ring worms, sun burns, prickly heat, &c.—The Persian Lotion operates mildly, without impeding that natural, inoffensive perspiration, which is essential to health: yet its effects are speedy and permanent, rendering the skin delicately soft and clear, improving the complexion, and restoring the bloom of youth—never failing to render an ordinary countenance beautiful, and a handsome one more so.
The Restorative Powder for the Teeth and Gums.
HAHN'S GENUINE EYE WATER, A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eye, whether the effect be natural weakness or of accident, speedily removing inflammations, defluxions of rheum, dulness, itching and films on the eye; never failing to cure those maladies which frequently succeed the small-pox, measles and fevers, and wonderfully strengthening to weak sight. Hundreds have experienced its excellent virtues when nearly deprived of sight.
Tooth-Ache Drops,
The only remedy yet discovered, which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe inflammation.
The Anodyne Elixir,
For the cure of every kind of head-ache.
The Damask Lip-Salve.
Infallible Ague and Fever Drops,
For the cure of Agues, Remittants and Intermit-
tant Fevers.
Thousands can testify their being cured by these drops after the bark and every other medicine has proved ineffectual: not one in a hundred has had occasion to take more than one, and numbers not half a bottle.
The Sovereign Ointment for the Itch,
Which is warranted an infallible remedy at one application, and may be used with the most perfect safety by pregnant women, or on an infant a week old, not contain a particle of mercury or any dangerous ingredients whatever; and is not accompanied with that tormenting smart which attends the exhibition of other remedies.
For the cure of a certain deplorable Malady, The Indian Vegetable Specific.
The Medicines prepared by Richard Lee, have been in high estimation and general use throughout the United States, for upwards of six years; many of them are sold for less than the price at which they are compounded could be purchased at a retail store.
It is no inconsiderable evidence of their utility, that during the above period, numerous imitations of every article (the production of ignorance and inexperience, urged by envy and penury) have intruded on the public, seen a day and then perished; others now succeeded them, which in like manner are fast descending "to the tomb of the Capulets," while our remedies become more generally used, and acquire a daily accession of well earned celebrity.
To prevent the imposition of worthless or dangerous preparations, purchasers are requested to remember, that an engraved label, with the signature of Richard Lee (to counterfeit which is felony) is affixed to each of his genuine medicines.
Lee's Infallible Ague Drops.
Recent Cures. A child of Mr. William Lozier, grocer, corner of Hudson and Jay streets, was sick about five or six weeks with ague and fever, and in so violent a degree, as for the hot ague to terminate frequently in most alarming convulsions. A variety of medicines, recommended by sympathising neighbors, were administered, without alleviating the disease; at length hearing of the uniform efficacy of Lee's Ague Drops, a bottle was procured, of which three doses until yprid forsook the wench any to a cure. Five weeks have elapsed without any return of the complaint.
Mr. James Joyce, assistant in the warehouse of Mr. — Pearl street, was severely afflicted with an intermitent; but after taking Lee's Ague Drops, was cured in two days. At the recommendation of Mr. Joyce, a friend, Mr. Terence Tole, who had suffered much from an obstinate intermitent upwards of a year (with few and trifling intervals) was cured by a few doses of the same Medicine. At the recommendation of Mr. Joyce, a bottle was procured by M. P. Skooley, who was likewise horrified with an obstinate intermitent. A small portion completely removed every symptom of the complaint (which may surprise, those who regard the bark as the only specific.)—Four persons of Mr. Skooley's acquaintance was by the remaining part of this single phial, cured of the prevailing malady.
The above narrations may suffice to prove the usefulness of this medicine; but if the affection of the proprietor, and the fact of an unusual demand for several thousand bottles have any weight, the public will believe that this preparation has never failed effecting a cure, and may without effort be termed INFALLIBLE.
Prepared and sold by HANNAH LEE, No 56 Maiden-lane New York, and at S. Pleasants' Printing office, Richmond. Od. 4.
FOR SALE AT S. PLEASANTS' BOOK STORE, Hening's New Virginia Justice,
Containing the Duties of a Justice of Peace, &c. together with a variety of useful precedents, adapted to the laws now in force. Also, forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, lease and release, mortgage, trust, &c.
Notice,
THAT the following articles, manufactured at the Penitentiary, with the prices thereto annexed, are constantly kept for sale at the store of Nicholas Hamam, agent for the commonwealth, a few doors above the Swan Tavern in the city of Richmond; viz.
CUT NAILS.
  Wholesale. Retail.    5d. 13 cents. 14 cents per pound.  4d. 12 1-2 13 1-2  6d. 11 1-2 12 1-2  8d. 10 1-2 11 1-2  10d. 10 11  12d. 10 11  20d. 10 11  
CUT BRADS.
  8d. 10 11  10d. 9 1-2 10 1-2  12d. 9 1-2 10 1-2  20d. 9 1-2 10 1-2  
WROUGHT NAILS.
  6d. 13 13  8d. 12 1-2 13 1-2  10d. 12 13  12d. 12 13  20d. 12 13  40d. 12 13  
Spikes of all sizes the same price as 50d nails.
  Men's fine shoes from 19s to 12s 6d coarse do from 7s 6d to 10s  Women's fine do from 7s 6d to 9s  Boys & Miss's do from 3s 6d to 6s  Negroes' shoes from 7s 6d to 9s  
Richmond, November 4th, 1807. GERARD BANKS
Has it in view to establish a NEWS-PAPER in Richmond, to be published twice a week— The Title
THE VIRGINIAN.
THE Editor has been always attached to Republican systems. The present Administration, in his view, is well calculated to ensure the happiness of the people; and any Administration which may succeed, pursuing the same general course, will be supported. Foreign and Domestic details will be noticed. Besides this, the public will, time after time, be apprised of the affairs of the public institutions, and particularly of the course of the Bank, its managers, its influence, its defects and imperfections. The usurpations of this dangerous institution will be noted; the Aristocracy which grows from its management will be exposed. This course will be pursued with a temper and firmness, which will yield neither to the blandishments of flattery, nor the frowns of power. Stock-jobbing and Favouritism, Twin Demons, will be arrested when ever they appear.
500 Subscribers at 5 dollars per annum each, one half in advance, are necessary to the commencement of the paper. (45) GERARD BANKS.
LOAN-OFFICE, State of Virginia, June 3, 1807.
NOTICE is hereby given, That in conformity with the provisions of the act supplementary to the act, intitled "An act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," books will be opened at the office of the commissioner of loans for the state of Virginia, on the first day of July next, to continue open until the seventeenth day of March, 1808, inclusively, the fourteen last days of each quarter excepted, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions for such parts of the old six per cent. deferred six per cent. and three per cent. stocks, as may, on the day of subscription, stand on the books of the said commissioner of loans.
Those proprietors of the old six per cent. and deferred stocks, who may subscribe, will receive in lieu thereof a new six per cent. stock, equal to the unredeemed amount of the stock surrendered, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, under a proviso however, that no reimbursement shall be made, except for the whole amount of any such new certificate of stock, nor till after six months previous notice; and the proprietors of the three per cent. stock who may subscribe, will receive in lieu thereof, a six per cent. stock, equal to sixty-five per cent. of the amount of three per cent. surrendered, redeemable in the same manner as the new six per cent. above mentioned, but not reimbursable however, without the assent of the holders, until after the whole of the new six per cent. (given in exchange for old six or deferred as abovementioned) as well as the whole of the eight per cent. stock of the United States, shall have been reimbursed. It is also provided that in every reimbursement which may take place, a preference will be given to those creditors who may notify their wish to be reimbursed; and that if the applications to that effect shall at any time either exceed or fall short of the sum then applicable to that purpose, the priority of payment shall, so far as may be necessary, be determined by lot.
The present stockholders who reside in any part of Europe, and may assent to that modification, may, at their option, receive the interest accruing on the new stock, either in the United States as heretofore, or in London, or Amsterdam, at par; in which last case the interest will be paid thereby by the bankers of the United States, six months subsequent to the day on which the same would be payable in the United States and subject to no variation; nor to any other deduction than a commission to the bankers, of one half per cent. on the interest thus paid.
JOHN PAGE, Commissioner of Loans.
NOTE.
Proprietors of 1000 dollars nominal six per cent. stock, subscribed before the 1st October, 1807, will be entitled to receive, 649 62 of new six.
of subscribed between the 1st October, and 31st Dec. 1807, 644 37
If subscribed between the 1st January, and 17th March, 1808, 619 03
Proprietors of 1000 dollars nominal deferred, subscribed before the 1st October, 1807, will be entitled to receive, 855 78
If subscribed between the 1st October, and 31st Dec. 1807, 853 62
If subscribed between the 1st January, and 17th March, 1808, 831 48
Being the unredeemed amount of the old stock on the 1st July, and October, 1807, and 1st January, 1808, respectively.
Proprietors of 1000 dollars three per cent. stock will be entitled to receive 650 dollars of new six.
99m J. P. Com'r. Loans.
For sale at S. Pleasants' Book-Store, A NEW SYSTEM OF DOMESTIC COOKERY,
Formed upon PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMY, and adapted to the use of Private Families.
ADVERTISEMENT.
AS the directions which follow were intended for the conduct of the families of the author's own daughters, and for the arrangement of their table so as to unite a good figure with proper economy, she has avoided all excessive luxury, such as essence of ham, and that wasteful expenditure of large quantities of meat for gravy, which so greatly contributes to keep up the price, and is no less injurious to those who eat, than to those whose penury bids them abstain. Many receipts are given for things which, being in daily use, the mode of preparing them may be supposed too well known to require a place in a cookery book; yet how rarely do we meet with fine melted butter, good toast and water, or well made coffee! She makes no apology for minuteness in some articles, or for leaving others unnamed, because she writes not for professional cooks. This little work would have been a treasure to herself, when she first set out in life, and she therefore hopes it may be useful to others. In that idea it is given to the public, and as she will receive from it no emolument, so she trusts it will escape without censure.
The Imported Horse Bedford,
So noted for getting capta racers, will stand the next season at my stable in Chesterfield county. Further particulars will be made known before the season commences. 14th October, 1807 THOMAS BRANCH. wlt
Encouragement of Literature.
BY AUTHORITY.
Scheme of a Lottery,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF
MARY'S COLLEGE, (OF BALTIMORE)
  Dollars. Dollars.    1 Prize of 30,000  1 do 15,000  2 do 10,000 20,000  2 do 5,000 10,000  5 do 1,000 5,000  10 do 500 5,000  20 do 200 4,000  100 do 100 10,000  150 do 50 7,500  7000 do 15 84,000  
7291 Prizes, 190,500
Stationary Premiums 24,500
14209 Blanks.—Not two to a Prize. 218,000
21500 Tickets, at 10 Dollars each, 215,000
Arrangement of Stationary Premiums, viz.
  1st drawn Blank, Dollars 500  1st ditto after 2,000 are drawn, 1000  1st do after 4,000 1000  1st do after 6,000 1500  1st do after 8,000 1500  1st do after 10,000 1500  1st do after 12,000 1500  1st do after 14,000 1500  1st do after 16,000 1500  1st do after 18,000 1500  1st do after 20,000 1500  Last drawn Blank, 10,000  
Dollars 24,500
15 per cent. on 21500

Night School. At the sixth door below the Old City Tavern, will be taught by the subscriber, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Book-Keeping, Geography, the perfect use of the Globe, the French language, Surveying, Navigation, or any of the branches of Natural Philosophy, Latin, Greek, &c. The first three of the above at five dollars per quarter, and the rest at eight.
Pupils find their own candle—Tuition from six to nine. Commencement of the above tuition will take place on Monday the 16th instant. N. B. Discount will be made for Christmas Holidays.
HUGH WHITE, A. M. November 10, 1807. FOR SALE, On the 1st day of December next, on the premises, a very valuable
Tract of Land, Belonging to the estate of William Ragland dec. lying in the neighborhood of the Green Springs, in Louisa, on the waters of Foster's creek, containing about 400 acres. This plantation is in excellent repair for cropping, the buildings are also in good repair, and such as are worthy the reception of a general family. The terms are one third of the purchase money, in twelve months from the day of sale, the balance in two equal annual payments. Bond and approved security will be required with interest on the two last payments from first December, 1808, till paid, also will be required a deed of trust on the premises to secure the payment of the purchase money—There will also be sold at the same time and place, about twenty likely NEGROES, on a credit of 12 months. Bond and approved security will also be required, to be paid from the date if not paid until paid by the ADMINISTRATORS. October 27, 1807. 3w*
FALL GOODS.
KIRBY, DRAKE & TAYLOR, ARE now receiving by the Ship Rolls, from London, a large and handsome assortment of FASHIONABLE GOODS, (selected by a partner of the house.) AMONG WHICH ARE London Superfine Cloths, Casimeres, and Toilets, superior quality. Gentlemen's Patent Silk and Beaver Hats. Children's Trafalgar and Erskine do. Elegant Leno Pique and Sewed Muslins. Do. Robes and Dresses. Colored Italian Crapes for Ladies' Dresses. Silk, Cotton, and Worsted Hosiery. Irish Linens, Lawns and Sheetings. 4-4 Canton Shirting, very fine. Ladies' Kid Shoes. Galloes, Cambricks, Chambrays, Cotton and Thread Laces, &c. And in daily expectation of receiving by the Protector from Liverpool, a large assortment of COARSE WOOLLENS, and all of which will be sold very low, wholesale and retail, for cash, or on a short credit to punctual customers. Richmond, September 29, 1807. if
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by Ambrose Dudley of King William county, to secure a debt due by the said Ambrose Dudley to Benjamin Mosby, assignee of William Dan-dridge—We shall proceed to sell, for ready cash, for the best price that can be obtained, on the premises, on the fifth day of January next, A certain Tract or Parcel of Land, Lying and being in the county of King William, being the same on which the said Dudley now resides, & the same which the said Dudley purchased of William Dan-dridge, containing 602 acres, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to pay the sum of four hundred pounds current money, with legal interest thereon from the last day of April, 1807, till payment, together with all expenses attending the execution thereof. BURN D. LIPSCOMB. NATHL FOX. 3d Oct. 1807. ids
Fifty Dollars Reward. RUN AWAY from Reuben Clopton, when living in King William county, in the year 1791, on the first of January,
A Negro Man, By the name of NEPTUNE, who formerly belonged to the estate of John Hales, dec. being then in the lower end of Hanover, he is a tall, portly fellow, stoops in his shoulders, or you may say round shouldered, high forehead, his hair peaked on each side of his forehead, flat nose, large white teeth, draws his words when he talks, or rather talks through his nose, and has a scar where in his face, about forty-five years of age—it is supposed he is now passing as a free man in the city of Richmond, as he thinks himself secure. There never has any efforts been made to apprehend him—he has a wife at John Hales, dec. living in the lower end of that county, and a mother—perhaps he may be harbored there. Any person, that will deliver him to William Clopton, in Cumberland, or secure him in any jail, so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward. ELIZABETH CLOPTON. Cumberland county, Aug. 14, 1807. if
Now Landing and for Sale. 20 bds Leaf Sugar 20 bds first quality 20 bds Key Whiskey Brown Sugar 17 bds Antigua Rum 23 boxes cotton Cords 19 Boxes prime green 10 casks Malaga Wine Coffee 2 ton patent Shot. In Store. 40 bags Green Coffee 30 bds N. E. Rum 20 bags Pepper 15 pines 4th proof Cog-nac Brandy 30 boxes by 10 Glass 20 bags Hamilton's 20 trunks Shoes 2 ton bar Lead Terms liberal, and made known on application to BARNY HOVEY. October 20, 1807
FALL GOODS.
TOMPKINS & MURRAY, Are now opening in the house opposite the Post-Office, lately occupied by Messrs. Bohn & Hubner, an extensive assortment of FINE GOODS. Received by the ship Calpe from London. They have been selected with much care and attention. Among them they would particularly recommend their Assortment of London Superfine Cloths, Casimeres, Toilets and Hats. All of a very superior quality. Also, an elegant assortment of FASHIONABLE ROBES, MUSLINS, LACES, &c. They have also on hand, a large assortment of Coarse Woolens, Hardware, &c. Received by the ships Harebell, and John & Charles from Liverpool. The whole forms a complete assortment well worthy of attention, which they offer for sale on liberal terms. Richmond, 10th Oct. 1807. if
To BE LEASED for a term of years, the TAVERN, STORES, and two hundred acres of LAND at Charles City Courthouse—An excellent situation for the merchant business, in a rich neighborhood and on James river 25 miles from Petersburg, 30 from Richmond, and 28 from Williamsburg. For terms apply to John Tyler. Green Way, Nov. 10th, 1807. 6t
GERMAN GOODS.
BOHN & HUBNER, Have just received from Bremen, a general Assortment of German Goods—consisting of Osnaburgs, Rowans Sheeting Ticklenburgs, Patillas Brown Rolls, Brown Holland Hollands, Dowas, and Dantzic Rolls, Bielefeld Linen. Sacking
Glass Ware.
Quart, Pint and half pint Tumblers. All of which they will sell on reasonable terms. N. B. They have removed to the new brick tenement, the door below Messrs. Taylor and Drew's Vendue Office. Richmond, 2d November, 1807. 4w
A Lot of one Hhd. Tobacco Remaining in Henderson's Warehouse, upwards of two years, inspected in the names of Joseph Ponds, marked I. T. No. 126—124—192 and if not claimed will be disposed of according to law. Oglesby & Sharp. Mill St. Oct 31, 1807. 3w
NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition will be presented to the next Virginia Assembly, praying that the lands whereof John M'Murry died seized, may be sold for the purpose of satisfying his just debts, he having no heir or legal representative to inherit the same. WM. OVERTON, Admin. de bonis non, of John M'Murry. Prince Edward, Oct. 27, 1807. 2m
Land for Sale!
PURSUANT to a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by John C. Miller, for the purpose of securing the payment of sundry debts therein mentioned; will be sold upon the first Monday in January, 1808, for cash upon the premises, a TRACT OF LAND, mentioned in said deed, lying upon the waters of Lockett's and Harris' creek, in the county of Prince Edward, and supposed to contain between six and seven hundred acres. We shall make such title as is transferred to us by said Miller, saving all former encumbrances. The improvements upon this land are such as are usual upon good plantations in this part of the country, but better fenced than usual. CHARLES WOODSON, } Trustees. JAMES MADISON, } Prince Edward, 16th Oct. 1807. 10w
PURSUANT to a deed of trust executed by James M. Marshall of the county of Buckingham, to the subscriber, for the purposes therein expressed, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, or upon a credit of six months, at the dwelling house of said Marshall, on the first Monday in December next, four head of HORSES, six head of CATTLE, and twenty head of HOGS, and sundry articles of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE; or so much of said property as may be sufficient to satisfy the purposes of this trust. RICHARD POWELL, Trustee. Wachaprequee October 28, 1807. 1m
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers on the 30th day of April last, by Peyton Saunders, for the purposes therein mentioned, will be sold, at the front door of the Eagle Tavern, on Monday the 7th day of next month, between the hours of 11 and 1 o'clock, for ready money, two valuable TRACTS OF LAND, lying and being in Buckingham county, one of them containing two hundred and thirty-eight Acres, this tract is adjoining the lands of Limnaeus Bolling, John Drury, John Lipscomb and James Hudgens, on Bullhead creek—The other tract containing four hundred acres and adjoining the lands of John Harris, Ramey Chastain, Nancy Allen and Charles Caul—We shall convey one title to said lands, only as trustees. THOMAS LADD, } Trustees. JOHN TOMPKINS, } 11th Mo. 4th 1807. ids
HARDWARE, IRONMONGERY, and CUTLERY STORE.
BREAM & FOLLET, At the sign of the Anvil, Main-street, Richmond, have received, by the latest arrivals from London and Liverpool, a very large and General Assortment of Hardware, Ironmongery, Cutlery, &c. Which will be sold low for Cash, or on a short credit—Amongst which are— CARPENTER'S, joiner's cooper's, shoemaker's & other mechanical Tools; sheet iron, sheet copper and copper bottoms, tin plates, iron bars and copper wire; building materials, nails, tack, brads, locks & hinges, house bells, bell wire, cabinet mountings, surveyor's compasses, chain, cases of mathematical instruments, gun locks, gun and pistol flints, bear wolf, fox, rat and mouse traps, shot, bar and sheet lead, pots and kettles, bake pans, tea kettles, chafing dishes, block tin coffee pots, Britannia metal tea pots, table and tea spoons, knives and forks, pewter dishes, plates and basins, dish covers, plate warmers, plate baskets, tea kettles with lamps and coals, candlesticks and snuffers, fire irons, andirons, coal hods, cinder irons, bellows, irons for footmen, smoothing irons, grid irons, warmers, patent lamps, horse lanterns, small hand lanterns, clock pings, curtain holders, brass nails, fish hooks, jews harps, brass cocks, knitting needles, Bartlett's old patent needles, ivory and horn combs, button moulds, japaned ware, scissors, pen and jack knives, razors and razor stones, razor straps, shaving brushes and brushes, curling irons, curriers' knives and steels, spectacles & cases, coffee mills, corn mills, scale beams, & weights, money scales, steelyards, cork screws, hair and wire sieves, vertical racks and screens, mill, cross-cut and pit saws, jack screws, Gouges, man steel, wedging & garden hoes, garden rake, scythes and sickles, straw knives, grind stones, mallets with a great variety of other articles too tedious to enumerate. —ALSO— 40 Kgs EF gun powder, double battle canister powder, liver and paint oil, boiling cloths, glue; 13 pipes 4th proof cognac brandy, window glass, paints, putty, glaziers' diamonds, best scene twine, wrapping twine, patent Windsor shaving soap, Spanish segars, prime pork New-York inspection, old flat corn, a few pieces low priced blue cloths and yellow and white flannels, and a few pipes best New-York & Anchor Gin. Richmond, November, 1807. 4w
William McCay, Watch-Maker, Main-st. Richmond, Bears his thanks to his friends for the encouragement he has met with in his profession, and hopes for a continuation of past favors. W. McCAY has a general assortment of Gold and Silver Ware, made by the best workmen, which he has taken pains to obtain, consisting of warranted gold and silver Watches, ladies' ornamented and plain Combs, mourning, fancy and plain Ear-Rings, mourning, fancy and plain Finger Rings, mourning and fancy Lockets, Miniature Settings, Necklaces plain and ornamented, mourning and fancy Breast Pins, Bracelets, Neck Chains, gold, silver, and steel. Watch Chains, gold, silver, and steel. Seals, gold, silver and steel. Keys, pocket and ring Cases, gold, silver and steel. Buttons, table, desert and tea Spoons, soup and punch Ladles, sugar Tonges, salt Shovels, scissors, Chains and Cases, Thimbles and penell Cases—with a variety of other articles; all of which he offers at the most reduced prices. Clocks and Watches of every description repaired by him. October 14, 1807. 6w
N. B. Two Boys who can come well recommended will be taken as Apprentices to the above business. TO BE SOLD, At Paineville, in Amelia county, on Monday the 28th of December next, an Extraordinary valuable Black-smith Belonging to the estate of Richard Eggleston, dec. on a credit of six months. Bond with approved security will be required of the purchaser, by THE EXECUTORS. October 11, 1807. 1d*
LAND
In the state of Ohio—For Sale. The subscriber wishes to SELL a valuable TRACT OF LAND, in the state of Ohio, containing 1,000 acres. This tract is of excellent quality, as the subscriber has understood from most respectable information. It lies on Deer creek, a branch of the Sciota, about 16 miles from Chillicothe, in a well settled neighborhood, and is very convenient to the trade of the Ohio. He will dispose of it for cash, or on a short credit, for notes acceptable at the Bank of Virginia; or will exchange it for property in the city of Richmond. An unquestionable title, with general warranty, will be made to the purchaser. WM. MUNFORD. Richmond, Sept. 24, 1807. if
ADVERTISEMENT.
Just Received, a General Assortment of Dutch Bolting Cloth, Of a superior quality. J. Darnstadt. Oct. 22, 1807. if
FOR CASH,
TEN or fifteen likely young NEGROES, consisting of men, women, and children. For terms apply to Mr. Daniel Mayo (above the court house) where they may be seen, or the subscriber. JOHN CRUMP. Powhatan, October 14, 1807. if
Lands and Negroes
FOR SALE. Will be offered for SALE, on the premises, to the highest bidder, on the 24th day of November, (if not previously sold) the TRACT OF LAND whereon the said subscriber resides, lying in the county of Prince Edward, on the waters of Bullhead. Containing between 2500 and 3000 acres; a considerable portion of which is valuable CHEESE LOW GROUNDS, well adapted to the culture of Tobacco, Corn and Grass. Persons wishing to purchase, will apply to the subscriber on the spot. ALSO, FORTY NEGROES, of different ages and sexes. One third part of the purchase money will be demanded on the day of sale, and the remainder to be paid in twelve months from that date. Bond and security will be required, bearing interest from the date, if not punctually paid. At the same time and place, the Imported Horse MUFTI, Will be offered for sale on a liberal credit, and if not sold, will be farmed out for the ensuing season. Richard K. Randolph. N. B. The terms on which the land is offered, will be made known on the day of sale. September 11, 1807. 4w w. N.
MUFTI,
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by Zachariah Lanford, to secure the payment of a debt therein mentioned, the WM. Howland, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the premises, on Monday the 9th day of November next, the TRACT OF LAND whereon the said Zachariah Lanford now resides, containing seventy-seven acres more or less, in the county of Henrico, adjoining the land of Jesse Smith and Bernard Reynolds. Daniel Burton, } Trustees. Robt. Priddy, } October 27, 1807. 3t
Richard K. Randolph.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by Zachariah Lanford, to secure the payment of a debt therein mentioned, the WM. Howland, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the premises, on Monday the 9th day of November next, the TRACT OF LAND whereon the said Zachariah Lanford now resides, containing seventy-seven acres more or less, in the county of Henrico, adjoining the land of Jesse Smith and Bernard Reynolds. Daniel Burton, } Trustees. Robt. Priddy, } October 27, 1807. 3t
BREAM & FOLLET.
It is a consequence of the badness of the weather, the sale of the above mentioned land is postponed until Saturday the twenty-first of this month, at which time it will certainly be sold. Daniel Burton, } Trustees. Robt. Priddy, } November 9th 1807. 3t
Will be Sold,
To the highest bidder, on Wednesday the 16th of December next, (if fair, if not, the next fair day), all the Household & Kitchen Furniture, STOCK of all kinds, the Crop of CORN, FODDER, &c. belonging to the estate of Peter Baker, dec'd, among which are some very valuable high blooded Cols, an excellent large Horse Clock, and a Ten Plate Stove. The sale will take place at Dover, (the late residence of the deceased)—Terms of sale will be, nine months credit on all sums above ten dollars, the purchaser to give bond and security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid—for all sums under ten dollars cash will be required. CHRISTENIA BAKER, Ex'x. Dover, Goochland, Nov. 10, 1807. ids
New Publication.
A TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND. Along the right and left Banks of the Rhine, to the south of Germany in the summer and autumn of 1806 By SIR JOHN CARR, Author of Stranger in France, Stranger in Ireland, &c. A few copies of the above work are just received and for sale at this office. Nov. 4. wft Subscriptions for Lewis and Clark's Tour, received at this Office.
TAKE this opportunity of informing my friends and the public, that I shall continue to keep a BOARDING HOUSE during the next Assembly. Every accommodation for gentlemen and their horses will be furnished as usual, and as low as possible. John P. Shields. November 9th, 1807. wft
FOR SALE,
My Dwelling House, In the town of Manchester, built of brick, two stories high, with 7 rooms and 7 fire places, two passages, besides 4 cellar rooms; together with a complete square of land of two acres, under a fence, and much improved with a variety of choice trees, both forest and fruit. This property will be sold on a long credit, with a small proportion of the purchase money paid at the time the title is made, which is clear of any kind of encumbrance. I propose the 30th day of this month, for the sale thereof, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at Mr. Brook's tavern door, at public auction, should it not be disposed of before at private sale—and on Monday next, the 19th instant, I mean to sell at my house, all my Valuable Furniture, and an elegant Chariot and Harness, completely finished and varnished, on a credit of 9 months for all sums above ten dollars; discounts made where I owe on any known sum. This arrangement in my affairs I am disposed to make, from the late loss my family has sustained, intending to live at my plantation in Chesterfield, six miles above the town of Manchester. Archibald Campbell. November 15th, 1807.
THE above Sale, as it respects the Furniture, is postponed until Saturday the 21st current, at 11 o'clock, in the forenoon; when it will certainly take place.
ARCHD CAMPBELL.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by John H. Saunders, Junior, of Powhatan county, to secure two debts, one due to Alban Gilpin & Co. and the other due to Gilpin, Cooke & Co. of said county, amounting to money one hundred and fifty-three pounds eighteen shillings, with interest from the date of said deed; will be sold, one NEGRO MAN, Sam, the property of said Saunders, to the highest bidder, for ready cash, on Saturday the 8th of December next, at Powhatan Courthouse, to satisfy the said debts, together with all charges attending the execution thereof. John Archer, } Trustees. Wm. Royall, } Nov. 9th, 1807. 3w
FOR SALE.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by Peter F. Archer, of Powhatan county, to secure the payment of two debts due to Alban Gilpin & Co. and Gilpin, Cooke & Co. of said county, amounting to three hundred and forty-seven pounds from shillings and seven pence, with interest from the date of said deed; will be sold, the following PROPERTY viz. one certain tract or parcel of LAND, containing forty-two acres, which said Archer purchased of Dabney M. Wharton, and adjoining Powhatan Courthouse tract, and also one Negro Woman, Chinney, the property of said Archer, the fit day of December next, at Powhatan Courthouse, to satisfy the said debts, together with all charges attending the execution thereof. Wm. A. Cooke, } Trustees. Jacob Michaux, } Nov. 9th, 1807. 3w
FOR SALE.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by Archibald Cary Randolph of Goochland county, to secure the payment of a debt due Samuel Harris of Powhatan county, amounting to one hundred and fifty-three pounds eighteen shillings, with interest from the date of said instrument; will be sold, the following PROPERTY, viz. one Negro Woman, Nelly, and her son John, and a Mulatto Girl, Priscilla, the property of said Randolph, to the highest bidder, for cash, on Friday the fifteenth of January, 1808, at Jefferson, to satisfy the said debt, together with all costs and charges attending the execution of said trust. Alban Gilpin, trustee. Nov. 9th, 1807. ids
Holland Linen.
JUST received, an Assortment of HOLLAND LINEN from 3s 9d to 12s. per yard. BOHN & HUBNER. November 12, 1807. 2w
For Rent,
A HOUSE and LOT, with a stable, a smokehouse and a good garden well enclosed, on Shockoe Hill, wherein Mr. John Pease lived the present year. Thomas Elliott. Richmond, Nov. 9th, 1807. if
FOR SALE.
And may be seen at the Bell Tavern, one of the most elegant pair of
Full bred Bay Horses,
that has ever been exhibited in the city of Richmond—one of them 5 and the other 6 years old Nov. 12
JUST PUBLISHED,
And for sale at this office by the gross, dozen or single,
THE VIRGINIA FARMER'S
Almanac, for 1808; Adapted to the latitude and meridian of Richmond: By BENJAMIN BATES, of Hanover county.
CONTAINING,
beside the Astronomical calculations, Officers of the State Government—Senators & Members of the House of Delegates—Judges of the Superior Courts—Superior and County Court days—An Essay on the cultivation of Trees, &c.—Farming Horses—Raising Turnips and preventing the Fly—Killing of Cytisus—A variety of interesting Anecdotes—The celebrated New Tid He, or the birth of Paddy O'Rafferty, Junior, &c. &c. &c.
FITZWHYLSONN & POTTER,
BOOK BINDERS AND STATIONERS; HAVE just received a few copies of a Treatise on MILITARY TACTICS, in which are fully explained the duties of a Soldier and the movements of an army, with rules and regulations designed for the forces of the United States, illustrated with copper plates, blank forms, &c. At a moment like the present, when the national peace is involved in uncertainty, and the necessity of war in a great degree probable, it becomes us to prepare for that event, and this treatise offers to the young officer such lessons in the military science and principles of discipline, as highly merit his attention. F & P have also received a large collection of new Music; Foolscap, Post and other Writing Papers; some excellent Pen Knives, Spectacles for ladies, &c. &c. N. B. Blank Books of all kinds, Pocket Books, School Books, and a general assortment of Stationery for sale. Richmond, Nov. 10, 1807. wft
PROPOSALS, FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF Col. Aaron Burr, FOR HIGH TREASON, In the Circuit Court of the United States, held at the City of Richmond, in Virginia, in the Summer of the year 1807. TAKEN IN SHORT HAND, BY DAVID ROBERTSON, OF PETERSBURG.
THIS publication will contain a correct and full statement of the documents in the case, the arguments of counsel, and the opinion of the Judges on the different points discussed, including the preliminary and interesting proceedings which occurred before the Grand Jury were sworn, and while they were in deliberation.
It will consist of two volumes, bound in boards, of which, the precise number of pages cannot yet be ascertained, as the trial is not finished; but the price will not exceed fifty cents for every hundred pages; it will be less if it can possibly be afforded. It will be put to the press as soon as possible. The first volume will be ready to be delivered in two, and the second in four months from the termination of the trial, and sooner if it can be accomplished. It is essential to a correct execution of the work, that it should not be too hastily published. The price must be paid on the delivery of the first volume. The arguments of the counsel will be detailed verbatim—as also the opinions of the Judges—except where they were read in court; in which cases, they will be published as read and furnished by themselves. To all persons capable of reading and understanding, this trial, the most important that has ever yet taken place in America, will be amusing and interesting, and to the lawyer, politician, and man of general information, it will be particularly gratifying and useful; as comprising a valuable treatise on legal subjects, especially High Treason. Mr. ROBERTSON, with some inconvenience to himself, undertook this publication at the earnest request of many respectable gentlemen, and in compliance with what he conceived to be a very general desire. The applications to him were numerous by a wish, to have a faithful and correct statement of the proceedings. His known skill and experience in this art, his strict impartiality in former publications, and his legal and literary knowledge, warrant the belief, that the utmost confidence may be put in the fidelity and accuracy of his report. To the foregoing will be added, the subsequent proceedings against Col. Burr. His trial for a misdemeanor—for preparing an expedition against Mexico—and the motion to commit him, in order to send him to Kentucky to be tried for treason said to be committed at the mouth of Cumberland river.
PROPOSALS
By LORENZO DOW, FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A Pocket Testament, (Designed as a companion for young people)
WITH a short Analysis to the different Books—Also, as John Wesley's translation from some Clergy of different denominations, (as well as by some Doctors) is acknowledged to be nearer the original than the common translation, his variation on will be added in short notes—And as soon as 1000 Copies are subscribed for, the work shall be put to press and finished without delay.
CONDITIONS.
I. The work will be printed on good paper, octodecimo form, on a new type cast for the purpose. II. The Book will be plain bound, Pocket Book form, with a silk tie. III. It will be sold to subscribers at one Dollar—to be paid on the delivery of the Book. IV. Those who will be accountable for ten copies, shall have the eleventh gratis—the number of copies subscribed for must be returned to S. Grantland's Printing-Office, Richmond, or Doctor Jennings, New-London, or forwarded by the Preachers to the Baltimore conference in May next, to L. DOW. October 14, 1807. * * Subscriptions for the above work are received at this Office. wft.
NEW BOOKS,
JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE BY S. GRANTLAND, JR.
PLEASANTS, JR. Malthus on Population Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas, in the year 1802, giving a correct picture of those countries—Translated from the French Winter in Towns—A satirical poem Jackson's Commerce of the Mediterranean, deduced from actual experience M'Neven and Emmet's Pieces of Irish History My Pocket Book—By a Knight Errant Miseries of Human Life, or the Grafts of Samuel Sensitive, and Timothy Testy The Novice of St. Dominick, by Miss Owen St. Clair, or the Heiress of Desmond, by the same Johnson's Dictionary, and Thompson's Seasons, in miniature Marmontel's Memoirs, written by himself Stranger in Ireland, and Dermody A new and handsome Edition of Steele's Military Exercises, with Cavalry Exercise annexed Essays, Moral, Economical and Political, by F. Bacon, Baron of Verulam, &c. New American Dispensatory The Penitential Tyrant, a pathetic poem, by Thomas Brannigan Little and Moore's Poems, 2 vols. neat pocket edition Wild Flowers, or Pastoral and Local Poetry, by Bloomfield Memoirs of Ninon de L'Encles, with her letters to the Marquis de Sevigne and Mons. de St. Evremont Seasons in England, a descriptive poem Trial of Smith and Ogden The School of Reform, or how to rule a husband, a comedy, by Morton Adrian and Orilla, or a Mother's Vengeance, a Play, by Dimond Cleasurs of Hope, and Memory, in one vol. Linkerton's Geography epitomized Podolia, an opera, by J. P. Kemble Lacey's General Atlas
BLANK BONDS For Sale at this Office.