The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1804-05-09 00:00:00

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The following ORATION was delivered on the 5th of March to a numerous and respectable audience in the Capitol, at Richmond. The Author is willing to hope that the close and fatiguing labours of his profession, which have hitherto prevented him from copying and correcting it, will amply apologise for its appearing so long after the occasion which gave it birth.
Richmond, May 5, 04.
S P E E C H
ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MR. JEFFERSON'S ELECTION, DELIVERED ON THE FIFTH OF MARCH.
Fellow Citizens,
To celebrate the anniversary of events essentially connected with the happiness of nations, their emancipation from despotism, or their progress in civilization, has been the immemorial practice of mankind. Nor can any practice more clearly establish its claim to veneration and observance, whether we consult the voice of nature, the principles of immutable justice, or the records of history. Amidst the insipid and heartless monotony of human affairs, events occasionally occur, which kindle into enthusiasm the latent spark of generous sensibility in every bosom; at sight of which the eye of ignorance expands with wonder, the miser regards with momentary indifference his hoarded treasure, the votary of ambition averts his glance from the "blood stained banner & the bickering blade," & even the misanthropist feels a transient glow of benevolent emotion pervade his reluctant soul. To keep alive the memory of such events, the persons who achieved, the motives that prompted and the benefits produced by them, is dictated alike by duty & inclination. Yes! we are prompted by nature, guided by custom, and commanded by justice, to hallow by anniversary festivals the era of events important to the happiness of nations, or of mankind, to testify our gratitude for the services, our admiration for the talents, our veneration for the virtues of benefactors of society, not by senseless clamour, bacchanalian shouts & explosions of gunpowder, but by the interchange of rational gratulation, the expression of manly sentiments, the diffusi-
on of generous sympathy, enlivened by the festive board, the flowing bowl & joyous song. We are this day assembled to commemorate an event which no enlightened friend to his country, to freedom or to mankind, can recollect and contemplate without feeling his heart swell and his imagination kindle with the grandest sensations. The elevation of Jefferson to the first magistracy of the American people is probably the purest and proudest triumph ever obtained by the friends of freedom.
Whether we review the evils actual or imminent which this event arrested and averted, survey the permanent and extensive benefits it has produced, or anticipate the blessings it seems destined to dispense and perpetuate through all succeeding time, we shall be alike convinced of its claim to grateful and national commemoration. Under each of those lights I propose to consider this event, and although my observations will be dictated by a close and candid attention to facts as I apprehend them, yet I shall express my ideas with the sincerity and independence which become the subject, the occasion & myself. Utterly, indeed, should I be unfit for the task I have undertaken, and altogether unworthy of the honor which has been conferred on me, were I capable of uttering on the present occasion any sentiment other than the clear convictions of my understanding, and the spontaneous effusions of my heart. In order to estimate accurately the magnitude of the event where this day assembled to commemorate we must revert our attention to our previous situation.—The establishment of independence and the organization of the federal government, realised in the new world, a condition of society to which no parallel existed in the records of history, nor any prototype in the speculations of philosophy. That a civilized society should subsist in peace, prosperity and safety, without hereditary rulers, privileged orders, an established church, a permanent standing army and navy, or any modification of monopoly, political, territorial or commercial, must have been viewed by a mind fettered by historical analogy and accustomed to contemplate only European forms of rule, as an extravagant chimera. Yet such was the condition of society in the United States of America. To the United States of America, the attention of the Philosopher was directed with anxious solicitude, the philanthropist pointed with exultation and triumph, whilst despotism averted its eye with consternation & dismay, and felt with instinctive terror the sublime sentiment of Mirabeau, that if "kings would not reign over deserts they must relax their chains."—How long will this fair fabric of freedom and civilization endure was a question which all were anxious to resolve? "Tis a transient ebullition of popular enthusiasm" exclaimed the minions of monarchy. "Tis one of the splendid chimeras of fanciful speculation and philosophical delusion" cried the enemies of political innovation. "Tis a wanton deviation from every principle illustrated by the history and estab-
lished by the experience of mankind, cried the venal and servile tools of feudal usurpation. And can any one entertain so weak an imagination as that such a fabric is fitted for permanent duration. Wait but a little time and human nature to whose suggestions it has not condescended to listen, experience whose authority it despises & defies will speedily avenge their violated laws. The far-famed American Republic after exhibiting an affecting spectacle of intestine divisions, bloody civil wars and factious counsels, will speedily disappear and give place to some of those forms of monarchy or oligarchy which are alone calculated to preserve the peace, liberty and safety of civilized society." 'Tis to be feared that these gloomy predictions were not confined alone to the venal sophists and slaves of regal titled Europe. 'Tis to be feared that the same inauspicious presentiments were indulged by many American citizens, and especially by those into whose hands the administration of the federal government was confided, soon after its adoption. The establishment of the funding system, the assumption of the state debts and the ratification of the British treaty, exhibited decisive indications of a policy adverse to the spirit that achieved the revolution and the principles consecrated by the declaration of independence.—The political system adopted by Mr. Adams, evinced beyond the possibility of doubt, the existence of a faction in the very bosom of our country and at the helm of our government, who were determined to extinguish the spirit and subvert the principles of popular government, and establish an oligarchy on the ruins of republicanism. Even the mask of moderation was not assumed. "The politic well wrought veil" which dissimulation has worn to hide the visage and conceal the cloven-foot of arbitrary power was thrown aside. Tyranny in its most palpable and offensive shape stalked towards us.—Offices of emolument unnecessarily multiplied and distributed with the most flagrant partiality; an act passed to invest the President with absolute power over aliens; the organization of the standing army and the equipment of a fleet, and by necessary consequence an enormous accumulation of the public debt, and an oppressive augmentation of revenue and above all the unhallowed attempt to invade the freedom of the press, exhibit damning proofs of the profligate ambition by which the leaders of the federal faction were actuated, and of their inextinguishable hostility to republican principles. Could any doubt be entertained respecting the motives and objects of the leaders of the federal faction, three additional notorious and recorded facts would be sufficient to expel that doubt from every candid and discerning mind. It is well known that John Adams published three large volumes of elaborate sophistry for the purpose of proving the British constitution, composed of an hereditary monarchy, aristocracy and an established church, to be the grandest effort of human reason, and the best possible form of government. It is equally notori-
ous, that Alexander Hamilton in the face of the convention, assembled from every part of the union, proposed to annihilate the state governments and establish an hereditary chief magistrate and an hereditary senate. It is a fact equally well established, although I believe less notorious, that the late Secretary at War, Mr. McHenry, expressly recommended it to the officers of the army of volunteers, to encourage the enlistment of old Tories. From this inauspicious and disastrous crisis, the selfish, the superficial and superstitious augured the subversion of republican government. The fair fabric of freedom, erected in a new world, & an emancipated nation seemed about to vanish like a pleasing vision, and to leave its deluded votaries doomed to the darkness of eternal despotism. But in spite of these gloomy forebodings and this portentous crisis, the event we are this day assembled to commemorate, affords a memorable and triumphant evidence of the incorruptible virtue and incoercible energy of a nation ripe for the reception and competent to the assertion of national liberty. The people were roused from the supineness into which they had been betrayed, by acts of palpable and flagrant oppression. They beheld the fundamental principles of their free constitutions violated and felt their most sacred rights infringed. The characters of public men and the tendency of public measures became topics of anxious, incessant and universal scrutiny. A small phalanx of patriots exposed with irresistible force of reasoning and energy of eloquence, the nefarious machinations of the dominant faction, and the ruinous tendency of their measures. The press by giving publicity to their speeches awakened the suspicion, roused the indignation and enlightened the understandings of the people. Every illusion of venal sophistry was exposed, every artifice of sacerdotal imposture unmasked, every act of oppression denounced at the tribunal of public opinion. A spirit of sleepless and suspicious scrutiny hovered over every department and watched every latent operation of the government.—The acts of the legislature, the decisions of judges, the verdicts of juries, and even the public & colloquial declarations of influential individuals on political subjects, became topics of public curiosity and anxious discussion. Every avenue and vehicle which art has invented or custom appropriated for the diffusion of knowledge and the interchange of sentiment, were incessantly employed to diffuse political information. The crisis suggested motives calculated to rouse the sensibility of every variety of character and every class of society. The timorous were alarmed by apprehensions of personal safety; the sordid, by the augmentation of revenue; the opulent, by the peril to which accumulated property is exposed in periods of public commotion; the brave, by the violation of rights for the sake of which they were ready to die. The patriotic, by the sudden extinction of their fairest hopes and the melancholy prospect of national dege-
neracy. The nation became distinctly divided into two great parties whose motives, principles and objects were adverse as light and darkness. A decided majority of the American people composed the Republican party, who after divested of immediate control over the administration of the federal government, were by their unanimity, energy and electoral influence, armed with irresistible power to arrest the progress of usurpation and oppression. A decided minority of the American people, formidable from their concert, activity and talents, and more formidable still, from their exclusive possession of the trust, treasure and power and patronage of the federal government, composed the federal or anti-republican party. With the objects, principles and opinions of both parties, the people were fully acquainted. The policy adopted, and the principles avowed by the leaders of the federal party, exhibited decisive evidence of their hostility to republican government, and of their determination to subvert it. The uniform indignation and intrepid opposition which the leaders of the republican party had made to every violation of the principles and even to every departure from the forms of free government, evinced no less clearly their inviolable attachment to republican principles and their determination to preserve their purity unstained, and their energy unimpaired, or perish in the attempt. Both parties awaited the decision of the majority of the people with anxious apprehension & deferential dread. The momentous crisis approached. The ides of March had already become memorable in the annals of history by the tyrannicide of Cæsar. This epoch was about to witness a spectacle far more august than a band of patriotic conspirators; an achievement far more beneficent and glorious than the assassination of a tyrant. In contemplating this event, a sublime Poet has exclaimed with sublime enthusiasm—
Look then abroad through nature; to the range Of planets, suns, and adamant spheres, Wheeling, unshaken, through the void immense, And speak, O man! does this capacious scene, With half that kindling majesty, dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose, Refulgent, from the stroke of Cæsar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots; and his arm Alone extending, like eternal Jove, When guilt brings down the lightning, called abroad On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country live! For lo! the tyrant prostrate on the dust; And Rome again is free.
Silenside's Pleasures of the Imagination.
The event, we are this day assembled to commemorate, is far more grand and sublime whether we consider the causes which produced it, the manner in which it was achieved, or the consequences to which it gave birth. The first was an individual, the second a national act. The first was perpetrated by a band of muscled masked assassins. The second was the act of a sovereign people, under the eye of Heaven and in the face of the universe.—In the first case the tyrant was indeed destroyed, but the tyranny survived. In the second, a system of oppression was overthrown, but the oppressors were spared. The assassination of Cæsar was followed by a con-

fact in which the best and bravest citizens of Rome perished by their own hands, or butchered each other in unnatural war, whilst mankind were enslaved & the earth desolated by a succession of merciless and remorseless Despots for nearly two hundred years. The event we are this day assembled to commemorate—the downfall of the federal party & the elevation of Jefferson & his patriotic compeers to the administration of government, has certainly restored tranquility, liberty and concord to a people agitated by faction and enfeebled by division, has probably prevented the effusion of blood and the horrors of civil and foreign war, with which, under the former administration, we were twice awfully menaced, has exhibited to all oppressed nations a shining proof of the practicability, permanence and blessings of republican government, and triumphantly completed a system of political reform which is destined probably to pervade the world, subvert successively, every arbitrary government, civilize every savage horde, and provide for Man wherever he is found or can be introduced, the means of independence, happiness and progressive improvement.
[To be concluded in our next]
Foreign Intelligence.
MOREAU.
The Courier de Londres, of Tuesday, under the head of Paris, contains the following letters, which, it says, have excited a great sensation in the military circles:
Gen. MOREAU to Lieutenant General DUROC. PARIS, September 8. GENERAL. I have received the letter which you have done me the honor to write to me in the name of the First Consul, offering me a command in the expedition against England. I thought that my opinion of that enterprise was sufficiently known, to have saved me from the unpleasantness of rejecting such a proposition. I shall, however, answer with the frankness of a soldier, who can express himself without reserve, upon the present occasion, as he has given some proofs of courage, and done his country some important services; and besides, general, I consider your letters as being rather intended to sound my intentions, than as transmitting to me orders. I have never been the advocate of maritime expeditions, particularly since I have seen the remnant of our marine, and the choice of our armies, swallowed up in them with astonishing rapidity. I think that, in forming enterprises, the issue of which is very uncertain, and the result of which may give a mortal blow to the government which conceives them, and to the nation which seconds them, one ought to be forced to them by circumstances so imperious, that the safety and honor of the state would be compromised, if one should make a retrograde step that should discover weakness or irresolution.
But I do not see that the present circumstances oblige us to risk, against a thousand unfavorable chances, the great part of our land forces; and has reorganizing marine, which is beginning to be created as it were by magic, by an enthusiastic and industrious people. I have asked myself, when I saw the considerable armaments that were making for the re-occupation or acquisition of our colonies, whether the peace were so solid that we should hope to be able to preserve what we had recovered or acquired, and if the restoration of our commerce were so necessary or so certain that we ought to employ in it so much treasure and so many soldiers. Let the First Consul permit a soldier, who feels a lively attachment to his old companions in arms, to express here some regret for the unhappy events in the too bold combinations which have destroyed so great a number of them. This regret will explain to him my present opinion of the expedition that is preparing, and my refusal to take in part the direction of it. We had the best army in Europe, the best means of recruiting our forces weakened by eleven years war. In its place we have now a mass almost entirely composed of conscripts, among whom we no longer observe the veteran soldiers; but like those ruins which attest the grandeur and magnificence of those edifices which time has overthrown.
At present, if we may judge from the immense preparations that are making, from the concentration of our forces, upon points near the coast, recollecting the declarations made by government, and the reports which it accredits, the business in hand is nothing less than a desperate enterprise, the impossible success of which would be the ruin of England, but whose almost certain result, will weaken us as a continental power, and be our total destruction as a maritime nation. I may be permitted to ask, upon seeing interests of such great magnitude hazarded or compromised, whether we were in a situation so critical with respect to England, that we were obliged to swear its destruction, and to prepare our own ruin. We were powerful & respected upon the continent; we directed (with too much impetuosity perhaps) all political movements; we were safe from the power of the English navy, and for a long time, no doubt, also the intrigues of their ministers of England; and it is in this situation, truly strong, energetic and imposing,
that we attempt an enterprise which could only be excused by a despair that left us no choice of measures. I am far from disapproving of the enthusiasm excited in the nation against a nation eternally its rival, and almost always its enemy, from blaming the efforts and the sacrifices which it inspires; but I think that the action of government ought to confine itself to the development of these dispositions for the purpose of preparing, through it, the restoration of our marine; but to go farther, to devote to such great perils, our armies, still in the labour of their re-organization; this, general, be assured, is to expose us to be assailed by those continental powers who are jealous of us, and have their eye upon us. This is to replace us in the disastrous circumstances from which we were only extricated by the miracle that brought back Bonaparte from Egypt, and made him triumph on the 18th Brumaire. May I be now permitted, general, to make an observation which a wise and regular government is worthy to hear and to appreciate; but which I should not have hazarded in the time of disorder and anarchy, when the laws of nations were scarcely more respected among us, than the liberty of individuals. We are told every day that we are restored to civilization, that we are replaced in the first rank of social order, and yet an expedition is announced worthy in its principles, of those unsearched colonies who contend with their neighbours for enjoyment which they do not find at home, or of those savage hordes who see, in the end of war, nothing but the booty which they may acquire, and in its result, the total annihilation of the adverse horde.
Such, however, are the strange ideas that have been propagated among the soldiers to excite them to obtain, from their cupidity, a devotion expected in vain from real courage. I do not pretend here to discuss the rights of conquest, nor to examine whether they can be extended in proportion to the perils which have been run to obtain them; but it is politic to announce before hand every thing that is meant to be derived from it? Is it fit to present it to the eyes of those who are to undergo it, only as a vast scene of pillage and assassination? I is, no doubt, contrary to the intentions of the First Consul that such means should be employed to corrupt the minds of our brave warriors, and to substitute the love of gain for the honor of glory; but it is to you, general, I confide the honorable task of illustrating to them these injuries, and telling them how much the officer military men, who are faithful to the laws of honor, they all see, as I do, with inquietude, that every day is suffered to depress that spirit which in the early period of our military glory had no other impulse but the thirst of glory, the love of the country, I might almost say the enthusiasm of liberty, and surely that spirit will not revive in which nothing is demanded of them but a blind serenity, in which nothing is prescribed to them but the abuse of victory. I speak with liberty, with confidence; and I do not think it is a proof of courage. It would be showing a want of esteem for the head of the government to see any danger in telling him what is just and true.
I have the honor to be, &c.
Lieut. General DUROC to General MOREAU. One o'clock in the morning.
M. Comrade. I have laid before the First Consul the letter which you have done me the honor to write to me, the 8th inst. It is with pain that I send it back to you by his orders. The general charges me to inform you that he does not recognize in it the language of a Frenchman, nor the character of a distinguished soldier. He has sent it back to you for the purpose, that by destroying this evidence of an error which he wishes to forget, you may be sure that it will never be made use of to tarnish your glory, nor to impeach your intentions. The general first consul orders me to acquaint you, that he wishes to have some conversation with you in private, the 25th inst. I am, with respect, your Comrade. DUROC.
From a Leyden Gazette of the 9th of March 1804, received at the office of the Gazette of the United States, in Philadelphia.
Extra from Paris News-papers as late as 11 Ventose (2d March.)
The last sitting of the Tribunal has apprized the public of the manner, in which the President and Secretaries of that body have presented to the First Consul the prayer for the immediate promulgation of the law against the receivers of conspirators, as also of the reception given them by the chief magistrate. Immediately after the sitting of the 9th of this month, the said deputation went to the Tuileries. Having been introduced to the Chief Consul, it presented to him the decree just passed by its constituents.
Citizen Duvidel, as President, added to this address, "Citizen Chief Consul, the Tribunal & Legislative body have adopted measures to cut asunder the last threads of the conspiracy. These measures, will be vain if they are not prompt. Love of country has dictated to the Tribunal the prayer just presented, that they may be executed immediately. All are concerned, since you are interested; it is the repulse, the glory, the existence of the republic which must be saved by saving its chief from the attempts of crime. The French people have confided their destinies to you; you owe to them, and we demand of you, that you take every means to preserve that which fixes their wishes, their affections, and their hopes."
The First Consul replied—"That he would take the prayer of the tribunal into serious and prompt consideration." It is known that the promulgation of the important law of that day followed immediately. Shortly after, in the evening, this law was solemnly published and afterwards put up in all quarters of Paris, according to the orders and arrangements of the Prefect of Police. The ordinance of this prefect relative thereto, as well as the proclamation made by him at the same time, are well known to the reader. One may figure to himself the commotion of this day in the city, filled with noise of the arrest of General Pichegru, and also with that of the
new law and of the extraordinary measures of surrounding the capital with private sentinels and officers of police."
"We have not yet learned here, that all the means and precautions united to other means of the police, have caused the delivery of Georges, or of others of his band into the hands of justice. To attain this end more certainly, with regard to the first, the chief judge has caused a description of him to be published. This person, become so famous in the history of conspiracies, is pointed out by the name of Georges Cadoudal, alias Larivo, alias Mafon. He is said to be thirty years old."
"In the mean time addresses of congratulation on the miscarriage of the conspiracy, continue to arrive to the First Consul from all parts of France, and from all the authorities. Above all are distinguished in the cloud of addresses daily encroaching an infinite number from the military. From among these we shall quote that of General Angereau, now clothed with the command in chief of the camp of Breft. It is of the following tenor."
"The General in chief Angereau, to the First Consul Bonaparte.—At head-quarters under Breft, the 6th Ventose, year 12, (February 26, 1804.)"
"CITIZEN FIRST CONSUL,
"The cries of alarm, founded on the borders of the Seine have echoed to the extremest point of Finisterre. Warriors, whom no danger could move, have trembled with fear, at the thought of the perils which have menaced your existence. Neither the vigilance of the magistrates, nor public description of the traitors, nor the bonds, with which justice has bound their particular hands, would have removed their fears had they not confided in the genius, who presides over your destiny, who watched you in the midst of combat, and who has commanded even the waves to respect your life."
"You will live, Citizen Consul, for the glory of France and the happiness of the world. You will live to avenge on England herself the approbrium with which she is covered by the unheard of crimes of a perfidious government; you will live, for so is the destiny."
"Such are the wishes and the thoughts of the soldiers, with whose command you have entrusted me, and whose organ I have the honour to be, on an occasion, on which above all their devotion to you has shone with a lustre, capable of making the endless contrivers of so many mischievous plots to tremble."
Health and respect, (Signed) ANGEREAU.
"The criminal proceedings, on account of the conspiracy appear about to commence. The debates, which will decide the lot of such men as Moreau and Pichegru will be peculiarly interesting. The form of them is determined. This is the object of the Senatus-Consulte , proposed the 6th of this month by government to the Senate by an extraordinary sitting, and passed in consequence, the 8th of this month, by that body. This important act was inserted in the Bulletin of the Laws , and is thus published officially. There are but three articles in which there is reference had to the law of 2d Floreal, year 10. The text of these articles follows—"
Art. I. The functions of the jury shall be suspended during the course of the year 12, and the year 13, in all the departments of the republic, for the trial of the crimes of treason, attempts against the person of the First Consul, and against the interior or exterior safety of the republic.
II. To this end the Criminal Tribunal shall be organized agreeable to the arrangement of the law of 23 Floreal, year 10, without prejudice of the power of abrogation.
III. The present Senatus-Consulte shall be transmitted, by a message, to the government of the Republic.
"The Journal de Paris , which, first of the journals of this capital, has announced the Senatus-Consulte , has added to the publication these remarkable reflections. "There is room for the opinion, that a pre-existing tribunal, composed of irremovable judges, independent and habituated to impartiality, is a surer guarantee of justice in decisions, in a time of revolution, than a body of jurors, naturally disposed to judge on political crimes, according to the spirit of the party, to which they may have been attached, and who will be opened beforehand by their society, as to things and persons. Add the danger of seeing jurors, after having borne the spirit of party in their judgments, transport more ardent and dangerous, into society."
Capt. Dashwood, arrived at Boston last Thursday from Bourdeaux, informs, that Moreau was still in confinement, and that the commander of the consular Guards, had been also arrested as an accomplice in the late conspiracy against the life of Bonaparte, and, after a summary trial was immediately shot—Pichegru and Moreau, it was expected, would meet the same fate.
Philadelphia, April 28. Yesterday arrived, ship Roebuck, Kelly, from Amsterdam, which he left the 14th ult. and has politely handed us French and Dutch papers to the 10th of March, which we have put into the hands of our translator, and if there appears any thing worth translating it shall be given in our next. Captain K. mentions, that a new French General, named Mermont, was appointed over the Batavian troops, who was generally disliked, and the appointment created great uneasiness in that quarter.—On the 29th of Feb. orders were given, for all the neutral vessels to go into the road, to give room for a number of transports in the Dieppe; but it was countermanded the next day, on the petition of a number of American Captains and they were all hurrying to get to
as an embargo was hourly expected. The French and Dutch were preparing for an expedition, 3 sail of the line, 2 frigates, 6000 of large transports and some gun boats, all which had failed from Amsterdam for Rotterdam. Captain K. further informs that accounts from Paris, said Moreau, Pichegru and some other of the Generals taken up, were tried and convicted.—That on the trial, several letters were produced, and Moreau asked if they were his writing, which he denied, saying whenever his hand writing was shewn him, he would not deny it. [True Amer.]
SPAIN.
Captain Young, arrived at Providence, (R. I.) in 72 days from Cadiz, informs, that at the time of his sailing, the Spaniards were momentarily expecting a war with the English. One French 74 and a sloop of war, were blockaded in the harbour by three English frigates. All vessels from New-York and Philadelphia are obliged to perform a quarantine of 40 days; very little respect is paid to bills of health; a vessel provided with one is only permitted to remain in port—but all vessels without are ordered off immediately.
St. Domingo.
FROM THE PHILADELPHIA GAZETTE.
MR. RILEY,
The Government confiding in your impartiality, hopes that you will please to publish the enclosed Arrete . Although motives of a political nature required that this Arrete should at first be kept a secret, in order to insure its execution. It is at present the desire of the Government to give it all possible publicity.—As civil disposed persons (of whom unfortunately there are too many) will not fail to charge us with causing an indiscriminate destruction of the whites, whether good or bad, who have remained in the island, it is right that the world should be undeceived by exposing the true motives which induced the Government to a measure which has never affected and never will affect any but the guilty.
I salute you respectfully, B. AIME. Gonaives, April 1st, 1804.
Extract from the Secret Deliberations of the government of the island of Hayti.
LIBERTY! INDEPENDENCE! or DEATH!
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, Considering that there still remains in the island of Hayti, individuals who have contributed either by their guilty writings or by their sanguinary accusations to the drowning, suffocating, assassinating, hanging and shooting of more than sixty thousand of our brethren under the inhuman Government of Le Clerc and of Rochambeau.
Considering that every man who has dishonoured human nature by prostituting himself with enthusiasm to the vile offices of informers and of executioners, ought to be classed with assassins and delivered up without remorse to the sword of justice; decrees as follows:
Article I. Every commandant of a division shall cause to be arrested within their respective commands those persons who are or shall be known to have taken an active part in the different massacres and assassinations by Le Clerc or Rochambeau.
Article II. Before proceeding to the arrest of any individual (as it often happens that many are innocent who nevertheless may be strongly suspected) we order each commandant to make necessary enquiries for procuring proofs; and above all not to confound with true and faithful reports, those denunciations too frequently suggested by hatred or envy.
Article III. The names and surnames of persons executed shall be inscribed in a list and sent to the General in Chief, who will make them public. This measure is entered into the order to inform the nations of the world, that although we grant an asylum and protection to those who act candidly and friendly towards us, nothing shall ever turn our vengeance from those murderers, who have bathed themselves with pleasure in the blood of innocent children of Hayti.
Article IV. Every chief who in contempt of the orders and unalterable will of the government shall sacrifice to his ambition, to his hatred, or to any other passion any individual whose guilt shall not have been previously well ascertained, and proved, shall undergo the same punishment which he shall have thus inflicted; and the property of such unjust officer shall be confiscated: one half to the government and the other half to the relation of the innocent victim, if any there may be in the island, at the time of his death. Done at Head Quarters, Gonaives, Feb. 29. (Signed) DESSALINES.
True Copy B. AIME, Secretary.
Capt. Peteron, informs that a gentleman arrived at Gonaives on the 1st of April, who stated that 10 days previous, a general massacre of the whites had taken place at Port-au-Prince, and that the massacre was to be carried all over the Southern department. The Americans were treated with great respect throughout the island, except at the Cape, where Christophe inflicted the greatest cruelties upon every description, without regard to age or sex.
The accounts received from Port-au-Prince, by Commodore Barron, arrived at Charleston, confirm the former statement of the dreadful situation of the unfortunate whites in that island. On the 15th of March, a horrible massacre commenced at Port-au-Prince, which was continued four days, during which upwards of 400 persons were killed. Dessalines had arrived there
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
Internal Navigation.
We have frequently noticed the progress of improvement in the inland navigation of the river Potomac, & its tributary streams; and believing that no enterprise has been attempted by a private company, in this new world, of so much public utility, we shall continue to lay before our readers, such material information respecting it, as it may be in our power to obtain from sources, entirely correct.
It is generally known, that this great work was begun under the auspices of Gen. Washington, a few years after the revolutionary war: about five hundred thousand dollars have been expended in its prosecution; several years must yet elapse, before the whole of the object in the contemplation of the company, can be completely effected. Enough, however, has been accomplished, to afford such facility to the back inhabitants, that that part of the country, so remote from any sea port by land conveyance, as to prohibit the raising of any thing for sale, except cattle, have become, and are daily becoming, the best grain settlements in the Atlantic states. Merchant mills are erecting in the Allegany mountains, and farmers 200 miles from a sea port, get their flour transported to the seat of government of the United States, at an expense less than is paid for fifty miles land carriage.
The main branch of the river, which extends from tide water to the foot of the Allegany mountains, is now navigable to the mouth of George's creek, about 220 miles by water from the city of Washington, and twenty some odd miles above the town of Cumberland: there remains, however, some trifling obstructions in this branch, which impede the navigation in the dry seasons of the year; but it is questionable whether this inconvenience does not result more from the bad construction of the boats employed in the navigation, than any defect in the work on the river.
These boats carry 120 bbls. of flour and draw from 22 inches to two feet water. If they draw but 12 or 14 inches, they would meet with no difficulties for ten months in the year, and experiments are making the success of which is said to be certain, to reduce them to the proper draft of water.
In this year there has been no interruption in the navigation from the want of water, or too great draft of the boats: large quantities of flour, timber and other articles have descended the river; and the prospects are such as to leave no doubt, that every thing in the upper country prepared or preparing for water transportation, will readily find its way to market, in the present season. One gentleman, a rich enterprising farmer in Frederick county Maryland, residing some miles higher up the river Monocacy than Fredericktown, has already sent his boat five times to this market since the breaking up of the frost, and has delivered upwards of 2000 bbl. of flour.
There are several streams that discharge themselves into the main branch of the river, some of which are scarcely less important than the main branch itself. The most considerable of these are the Shenandoah, the South Branch, the Monocacy, and the Conococheague. The South Branch is now navigable 50 or 60 miles, the Monocacy, about half that distance and in the heart of Frederick county, the largest, richest and most productive county in Maryland—the other two branches are not in a state of so much improvement, but the whole energies of the company are now directed to an operation on the Shenandoah, which will cost 40 or 50,000 dollars, and which when finished, will add to our present inland navigation, little short of 200 miles, and into the finest country of the United States.
From these dates, the public will draw its own conclusion. Every intelligent reader will perceive in this great effort of a private company, consequences above the reach of ordinary minds, not to a large proportion of the people of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania only, who are more immediately to enjoy the benefits of this navigation; but to the best interest of the whole people of the U. States in the duration of their union. Between the heretofore navigable eastern & western waters, there is a country of immense extent, the greater part of which is without inhabitants & so would have remained, but for the enterprise of which we were speaking. It was in vain to hope that this country could be settled unless navigation could be carried near to its centre. It was equally vain to imagine that the Atlantic and western states separated by such a barrier, could remain long united under one government. The Potomac navigation which now extends westward within 40 or 50 miles of the navigable western waters, will largely contribute to the immediate settlement and cultivation of this wilderness, by affording to the cultivators, the means of carrying to market the fruits of their industry. It will also afford to the people on the western waters as low down as the falls of the Ohio, and perhaps lower the easiest and cheapest conveyance for those supplies from the old world, which their necessities and their comfort, require. No ties are so indissoluble as those of interest. This navigation is also interesting to the people of the U. States though in a smaller degree, in the influence it must have on the rapid growth and mature grandeur of that city which is established by the constitution and the laws, and by a full foreign bond, the general convention of their whole people, as the permanent seat of their government. Washington Federalist.

The public have already seen in the prospectus for this paper, what are the different topics which it is destined to take in...
Without meaning to compare his humble office with the high office of the first magistrate in our country...
CLEBE LANDS.
ON Friday last, the important question relative to the sale of the Clebe Lands, came before the Court of Appeals.
The sequestration of the ecclesiastical property in France could not fail to excite the alarm, or attract the admiration of different men...
port the mouldering fabric of despotism. It was one of those great monopolies, which by hypocritical pretensions to abstinence & poverty...
Far different will be the public sentiment, when the issue of the suit now depending before the Court of Appeals...
Whatever decision may be given by the Court, whether it substantiates the rights of the state or the rights of the church...
The Editor, notwithstanding his profound ignorance of the principles & practice of the law, could not but perceive the immense importance of this cause...
* C. V. A. 14.
VIRGINIA BANK.
Books for receiving subscriptions to the Bank of Virginia, were yesterday opened by the Commissioners in the Capitol.
No doubt is entertained, by the democratic or federal prints of New-York, but that Judge Lewis will be elected Governor of that state.
The Commercial Advertiser of New York says, that allowing the returns of the election to be true, as far as they are at present received...
The Editor of the Concord Courier, says, that there will be a federal majority of from 4 to 8 in the House of Representatives of New Hampshire the ensuing year.
FRENCH DEPREDACTIONS.—Has the Government of France proclaimed the Island of St. Domingo in a state of blockade?
chamts must make bricks, but they are allowed no straw.
[Boston Paper.]
Capt. Campbell from St. Domingo, informs, that a French national cutter, and a privateer failed from there the 16th March...
[Newburyport Paper.]
Captain Holland, arrived at Philadelphia from Alicante, which place he left the 28th of February...
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Paper-mill, at Springfield (N. J.) the property of Mr. Samuel Campbell, bookseller of this city...
SALEM, April 24.
Extract of a letter from the Cape of Good Hope, January 24. "There is a French ship in the bay, [the Geographe] which has been three years in search of the ships of the celebrated Peyrouse.
Yesterday's Mail.
We learn, (says the Boston Gazette) that Mr. Eaton, is to go out to Tripoli, to negotiate peace with that Regency...
FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN.
Capt. Coleman, arrived at Nantucket, from Salou, touched at Gibraltar, on his passage, and there saw a letter from Commodore Preble...
Arrived last evening, the Eliza, of Providence, Captain Holland, from Alicante, which he left the 28th Feb.
The following is an extract of a letter from an American gentleman residing at Paris, received by a recent arrival: "The unfortunate event of the loss of our frigate, off Tripoli, has given a new opportunity for Mr. Livingston to show his devoted influence in favor of his country.
Sales at Auction.
JUST RECEIVED, And will positively be sold without reserve, for cash, at public auction, on Monday the 14th inst. by 11 o'clock, by the subscribers, at their Vendue Office,
VELVETS, Bandannos & Canton Hfs. Checks, Fusians, Sarin & Hair Ribbon, Cotton Hose, Marseilles, Sewing Silks, Nuns & Ired Thread, Dimities, Nankeens, D. was & Hessians, a large assortment of Calicoes, Cambric, Tambored, Lappet, Book & Jacquet Muslins, Italian and Colored Cambric, Bobbins and Tapes, a large assortment of Straw Bonnets, Garden Pans, Velvet Ribbons, Ladies extra long Silk Gloves, Ladies white and colored Silk Hose, Madras, Lester, Soys and Romual H. f., 6-4 and 4-4 glazed and unglazed Cambrics, India Mull & Mull Muslins, Mamoodies, Gurrabs, & fine Mummums, Paper Hangings and Borderings, Boots and Shoes, Superfine Cloths, Cassimere, Irish Linens and Rolls, fine and coarse Hars, a large assortment Pocket Books, Jewellery, &c.—Best Spanish Segars in Boxes, Raisins in Boxes & Casks, Window Glass by the Box, and a variety of other articles too tedious to mention.
—ALSO—
ON A CREDIT OF 60 DAYS, FOR APPROVED ENDOSED NOTES, Antigua Rum by the Hhd. Windward Island do, Malaga Wine in quarter casks, Holland Gin in pipes, French Brandy in ditto, Imperial Tea by the chest, Brown Sugar in Hds. and Barrels, Green Coffee in Barrels, Bags and Fierces, Izz Iron by the ton, Molasses by the Hogshd. Leaf Sugar by ditto, &c. &c. PROSSER & MONCURE, V. M rs .
The present press in the office of the Enquirer is not of a sufficient size to receive a larger paper, than is this day published.
A SUBLIME ODE TO THE GRAND CONSUL.
By Peter Pindar, Esq.
MOST gallant noble Bonaparte, For our invasion all so hearty, Equipping millions to come over To eat old England at a meal...
POSTSCRIPT.
Mind!—in thy face I never spit Like Greville, Windham, Billy Pitt, And servile Parasites—their tools; No—for I blush'd for all the squad, Thinking them either drunk or mad, And call'd them all a pack of fools.
To facilitate to claimants under the 7th article of the treaty with Great Britain the receipt of their monies in instances in which they have not constituted the public agent in London, their special attorney...
Spring Goods.
WILLIAM TEMPLE HAS just received by the ship Rebecca, from London, and Yorkshire from Liverpool, AN ASSORTMENT OF GOOD S, Suitable to the season, which he will dispose of on the usual terms. Richmond, May 9th. (1.)
By virtue of a Deed of Trust executed to us by Mr. John Woodson, of Hanover County, to secure the payment of a debt due from him to Giles Terrell, Executor of Rev. William Douglass dec. will be exposed to SALE at Hanover Court House on the fourth Wednesday in June next, it being Hanover Court day, the
TRACT OF LAND, WHEREON the said Woodson now resides, adjoining the lands of Nathaniel W. Dandridge and others, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy the balance of the said debt still due, and the costs attending this trust, by DAVID BULLOCK, } Trustees, FREDK. HARRIS, } May 9, 1804. (1.)
NOTICE.
THOSE who have claims against the estate of WILLIAM C. BEALE late of the county of Westmoreland, are requested to exhibit them immediately to the subscriber, who is fearful there will not be sufficient assets to pay the debts due by the said William C. Beale, and is therefore anxious to apply the assets in such manner as the law directs. John Peake, Esq. Westmoreland County, January 1, 1804.
BY AUTHORITY.
[LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.]
AN ACT
Authorizing the creation of a flock to the amount of eleven millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of carrying into effect the convention of the 30th of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States of America and the French Republic; and making provision for the payment of the same.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of carrying into effect the convention of the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States of America, and the French Republic, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be constituted, certificates of stock, signed by the register of the treasury, and in favor of the French Republic, or of its assignees that sum of eleven millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, bearing an interest of six per centum per annum from the time when possession of Louisiana shall have been obtained, in conformity with the treaty of the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States of America and the French Republic, and in other respects conformable, with the tenor of the convention aforesaid, and the President of the United States, is authorized to cause the said certificates of stock to be delivered to the government of France, or to such person or persons as shall be authorized to receive them in three months at most, after the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty aforesaid, and after Louisiana shall be taken possession of in the name of the government of the United States; & credit, or credits, to the proprietors thereof, shall thereupon be entered and given on the books of the treasury, in like manner as for the present on credit funded debt, which said credits or stock shall be transferable only on the books of the treasury of the United States, by the proprietor or proprietors of such stock, his, her or their attorney: And the faith of the U. States is hereby pledged for the payment of the interest & for the reimbursement of the principal of the said stock, in conformity with the provisions of the said convention. Provided however, that the Secretary of the treasury may, with the approbation of the President of the United States, consent to discharge the said stock in four equal annual installments, and also shorten the periods fixed by the convention for its reimbursement; and provided also, that every proprietor of the said stock may until otherwise directed by law on surrendering his certificate of such stock receive another to the same amount and, having an interest of six per centum per annum, payable quarterly yearly at the treasury of the U. States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the annual interest accruing on the said stock, which may in conformity with the convention aforesaid, be payable in Europe, shall be paid at the rate of four shillings and sixpence sterling for each dollar, if payable in London, and at the rate of two guilders and one half of a guilder, current money of Holland, for each dollar if payable in Amsterdam.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That a sum equal to what will be necessary to pay the interest which may accrue on the said stock to the end of the present year, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for that purpose, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the end of the present year, in addition to the annual sum of seven millions three hundred thousand dollars yearly appropriated to the sinking fund, by virtue of the act, intitled, "An Act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," a further annual sum of seven hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of the duties on merchandise and tonnage be, and the same hereby is, yearly appropriated to the said fund, making in the whole an annual sum of eight millions of dollars, which shall be vested in the commissioners of the sinking fund in the same manner, shall be applied by them for the same purpose, and shall be, and continue appropriated until the whole of the present debt of the United States, inclusive of the stock created by virtue of this act shall be reimbursed and redeemed, under the same limitations as have been provided by the first section of the above mentioned act, respecting the annual appropriation of seven million three hundred thousand dollars, made by the same.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the treasury shall cause the said further sum of seven hundred thousand dollars to be paid to the commissioners of the sinking fund, in the same manner as was directed by the above mentioned act respecting the annual appropriation of seven million three hundred thousand dollars; and it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the sinking fund to cause to be applied and paid out of the said fund, yearly and every year, at the treasury of the United States, such sum and sums as may be annually wanted to discharge the annual interest and charges accruing on the stock created by virtue of this act, and the several installments, or parts of principal of the said stock, as the same shall become due, and may be discharged in conformity to the terms of the convention aforesaid, and of this.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives JOHN BROWN, President of the Senate pro tempore, November 10, 1803. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON,

THE FOLLOWING EXTRACT IS THE LAST NOTE IN THE APPENDIX TO VOL. I. PART 2. OF TUCKER'S BLACKSTONE.
SUMMARY VIEW OF THE LAWS RELATIVE TO CHURCHES AND CHURCHES.
THE act of 1661, c. 1, enacts, "that there be a church decently built in each parish, unless any parish as then settled by reason of the fewness or poverty of the inhabitants be incapable of sustaining so great a charge; in which case such parishes shall be joined to the next great parish of the county, and a chapel of ease be built in such place, at the particular charge of that place."
1661, c. 2. For the making and proportioning the levies and assessments for building and repairing churches and chapels, provision for the poor, maintenance of the minister, and such other necessary uses, and for the more orderly managing all parochial affairs, vestries are appointed to be elected; but none shall be admitted to be of the vestry, who do not subscribe to be conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the church of England.
1661, c. 3. No minister shall be admitted but such as shall produce to the governor a testimonial of his ordination by some bishop in England, and subscribe to be conformable to the orders and constitutions of the church of England.
1661, c. 10. Church Wardens to keep the church in repair; to provide books, ornaments, &c. as the ability of the parish will permit.
1661, c. 5. [An act] For the better encouragement and accommodation of the ministry, there be glebes laid out in every parish, and a convenient house built for the reception and abode of the minister according to his majesty's instructions.
1667, c. 3. [An act] The like liberty shall be granted for two acres of land and no more, for erecting churches, as by that act is granted for the erection of mills (as at present) provided that in case of default of any structure the land shall revert to the first proprietor, he paying what he received for it.
1696, c. 11. Recites, that whereas the law then in force entitled "glebes to be laid out" in making such provision, doth appear very deficient and uncertain, it is therefore enacted, that the said act be repealed. And it is further enacted, that every vestry shall be, and are authorised & empowered, where the same is not already done, to purchase and lay out a tract of land for the glebe, in their discretion, and at the charge of their respective parishes; and likewise to build and erect a convenient dwelling house for the reception and abode of the minister of such parish. Provided always, that if the vestry of any parish shall find their parish to be so small and poor, as not to be able to allow and maintain a minister as aforesaid, that then upon application of the vestry to the governor, for the time being, that their parish may be united and consolidated to the next adjacent parish, the said governor is thereby to unite and consolidate the said parishes.
1727, c. 6. [Ed. 1733.] In parishes where glebes are not already purchased and appropriated, with convenient tenements for the habitation of the ministers, the vestry may purchase 200 acres of land at the least, for a glebe, and may erect thereon a convenient mansion house, and other necessary out-houses for the habitation of the ministers; and it is further enacted and declared, that the vestry of every such parish are hereby authorised, empowered and required to levy the charge of the said several buildings, and purchase of the glebe on the titheable persons in their respective parishes. And the vestries of vacant parishes are empowered and required to put all the buildings upon the glebe of the parish, into good and sufficient repair for the reception of the succeeding minister.
1728, c. 58. Re-enacts the provisions contained in the last mentioned act of 1727, c. 6, vestries right of presentation for twelve months.
1776, c. 2. O. S. Sess. All dissenters of whatever denomination, from the church by law established, shall be totally free and exempt from all levies, taxes, and impositions, whatever, towards supporting and maintaining the said church, as it now is, or hereafter may be established, and its ministers. With an exception as to arrears of salary, and engagements already entered into by vestries, and provision for the poor. The act then proceeds, "There shall, in all time coming, be saved and reserved to the use of the church, by law established, the several parts of the glebe land already purchased, the churches and all arrears of money or tobacco, arising from former assessments, or otherwise; and there shall be, moreover, saved and reserved, to the use of such parishes as may have received private donations for the better support of the said church and its ministers, the perpetual benefit and enjoyment of all such donations."
1779, c. 36. O. S. Sess. Repeals all and every act providing salaries for the ministers, and authorising the vestries to levy the same; provided nevertheless, that the vestries might levy and assess all salaries and arrears of salaries due to ministers for their services to January 1, 1777, and moreover might make such assessment on all titheables, as will enable them to comply with their legal engagements, entered into before the same day, &c.
* The title of this act, occurs in the Ed. of 1733, page 109. "An act for the better support and maintenance of the clergy." In a manuscript (c. 175) collection of public papers lent me by Mrs. William Hornsby, which appears to be very old, there is a copy of the act at large, from which I have extracted what is here inserted. See also V. L. abridged, Ed. 1722, p. 17.
1783, c. 33. The act for incorporating the protestant episcopal church, enacts, that every minister of the protestant episcopal church now holding a parish, either by appointment from a vestry, or induction from a governor, and all the vestrymen in the different parishes now instituted, or which hereafter may be instituted within the commonwealth, that is to say, the minister and vestrymen of each parish respectively, or in case of a vacancy, the vestry of each parish, and their successors for ever, are hereby made a body corporate and politic, by the name of "the ministry and vestry of the protestant episcopal church, in the parish where they respectively reside, and by the name, title, and the title aforesaid they and their successors shall for ever, lawfully have, hold, use and enjoy all and every tract or tracts of glebe land, already purchased, the churches and chapels belonging to them, and such as were begun and contracted for, before the first day of January, 1777, for the use of the parishes, with their hereditaments appurtenances; and all books, plate, and ornaments, appropriated to the use of, and every other thing, the property of the late established church, to the sole and only proper use and benefit of the protestant episcopal church, in the parish where the respective ministers and vestries reside; (except the glebe in the county of Augusta) and where the property is situated, and being, agreeable to the true intent for which it was purchased or given; and by the name, title, and title, aforesaid, they shall be capable in law to hold, maintain, and recover, all their estates, rights, and privileges, and to sue and be sued, &c. and have a common seal; and to take, acquire, and purchase lands, and to demise, alien, improve, and leave the same, glebe lands intended for the ministers' residence excepted, unless during a vacancy; and to build and repair churches, and dwelling houses for the use of the minister, &c. All former laws relating to vestries and church-wardens, and to the support of the clergy repealed, and all former vestries dissolved, the next Easter day, &c. &c.
1785, c. 37. Provides for the election of vestries, where the same had not been done pursuant to the last-mentioned act of 1784, c. 38.
1786, c. 12. Repeals the act for incorporating the protestant episcopal church; saving to all religious societies the property to them respectively belonging, who are thereby authorised to appoint, from time to time according to the rules of their respective societies, who shall be capable of managing & applying such property to the religious use of such societies. And to guard against all doubts and misconstructions, it is further enacted and declared, that so much of all laws then in force as prevents any religious society from regulating its own discipline, shall be, and are hereby repealed.
1788, c. 47. Declares that the trustees appointed in the several parishes to take care and manage the property belonging to the protestant episcopal church, & their successors, shall, to all intents and purposes, be considered as successors to the former vestries, and shall have the same power of holding and managing all the property formerly vested in them whether for charitable purposes, by private donation, or in trust for the use of individuals.
1788, c. 58. Enacts, that the trustees of any religious society, shall have full power and authority to prosecute suits heretofore instituted, and now depending, upon bond, or otherwise, for any arrears due to the different parishes, with the church-wardens.
1788, c. 9. Recites, that "Whereas the constitution of the state of Virginia, hath pronounced the government of the king of England, to have been totally dissolved by the revolution: hath substituted in place of the civil government so dissolved a new civil government, and hath, in the bill of rights, excepted from the powers given to the substituted government, the power of reviving any species of ecclesiastical or church government, in lieu of that so dissolved, by referring the subject of religion to conscience: And whereas the several acts previously recited, do admit the church established under the regal government, to have continued so, subsequently to the constitution; have bestowed property upon that church; have asserted a legislative right to establish any religious sect; and have incorporated religious sects, all of which is inconsistent with the principles of the constitution, and of religious freedom, and manifestly tends to the establishment of a national church: For prevention whereof, it is, therefore, enacted:
That the several laws, the titles whereof are as follows: "An act, for exempting the different societies of dissenters, from contributing to the support and maintenance of the church as by law established and its ministers, and for other purposes therein mentioned;" "An act, to repeal so much of the act, for the support of the clergy, and for the regular collecting and paying the parish levies, as relates to the payment of the salaries heretofore given to the church of England;" "An act, for incorporating the protestant episcopal church;" "An act, to authorise the election of certain vestries;" "An act to repeal the act, for incorporating the protestant episcopal church, and for other purposes;" "And an act for giving certain powers to the trustees of the property of the protestant episcopal church," be, and the same are hereby repealed, and declared to be void & of none effect. And it is further declared, that the law, intitled, "An act, for establishing "religious freedom," is a true exposition of the principles of the bill of rights and constitution.
1801, c. 5. Further recites, that, "Whereas the general assembly, on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, by their act of that date repealed all the laws relative to the late protestant episcopal church, and declared a true exposition of the bill of rights and constitution respecting the same, to be contained in the act entitled "An act for establishing religious freedom," thereby recognizing the principle, that all property formerly belonging to the said church, or every description, devolved on the good people of this commonwealth, on the dissolution of the British government here, in the same degree in which the right and interest of the said church was derived therein from them: And although the general assembly possesses the right of authorising a sale of all such property indiscriminately, yet being desirous to reconcile all the good people of this commonwealth, it is deemed inexpedient at this time to disturb the possession of the present incumbents."
It is therefore enacted by the general assembly, That the overseers of the poor and their successors, or a majority of them, within each county of this commonwealth, wherein any glebe land is vacant, or shall become so, by the death or removal of any incumbent, shall have full power and authority, and they or a majority of them are hereby directed, on giving at least thirty days public notice, at the front door of the court-house of their county, to sell all such lands and appurtenances, and every other species of property incident thereto, on the premises, to the highest bidder, on twelve months credit, taking bond with good security for the amount thereof payable to themselves and their successors; provided that no sale of any such property shall take place, where any person is in possession thereof, under a lease from any person or persons in behalf of the said church, whether called trustees or not, prior to the passing of this act, until the said lease shall expire; and all sums of money or tobacco due thereon, or to become due, shall be recovered by action in the names of the said overseers of the poor, or a majority of them conducting every such sale, or their successors, on receiving satisfactory security for the amount thereof, and they are hereby authorised and directed, to convey all such property sold by them as aforesaid, to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, by good and sufficient deeds for that purpose—that in all cases where any person or persons may have received any sum or sums of money or tobacco, for the use of the episcopal church as established under the former government, and shall not have paid the same as directed by law, the said overseers of the poor and their successors, or a majority of them, shall be entitled to receive the same, and on non-payment thereof, to recover it by action in any court of record within this commonwealth: that when any person or persons, other than an incumbent or his tenant, shall have had the use of any glebe land or other property incident thereto, and may not regularly have accounted for the profits of the same, they shall hereafter account to the said overseers of the poor, or a majority of them, of the county in which such property lies; and in case any such person or persons, their executors or administrators refuse to account accordingly, the said overseers of the poor, or a majority of them, of the county in which such property lies; and in case any such person or persons, their executors or administrators refuse to account accordingly, the said overseers of the poor or their successors, may sue for and recover the same in any court of record within this commonwealth. That in all cases where such property is in possession of any incumbent or his tenant, either or both, of them shall be restrained from the commission of waste, in like manner as other tenants for life or years may be, by the said overseers of the poor or their successors, in whom the right of action for that, and the purpose of carrying this act into effect, is hereby vested. That in every case where the overseers of the poor, or any one or more of them in any county, shall have good reason to believe, that the incumbent therein shall be about to remove any or the whole of the personal estate, which he holds as formerly belonging to the episcopal church from such county, they or any one or more of them shall upon application to any magistrate therein, obtain from him an attachment which he is hereby authorised to grant, against the estate to about to be removed, upon the execution of which, and the return thereof, being made to the next court of such county, the said court may compel the said incumbent, on due proof thereof, to give bond with sufficient security; not to remove the said property, or any part thereof, from the premises; and, in case of refusal, the said court may order the said property to be delivered to the said overseers of the poor, and their successors, or a majority of them, to be by them disposed of, as in other cases. That in all cases, where there shall be any just demand, unpaid by any parish, the said overseers of the poor and their successors, or a majority of them, in every county comprehending such parish, or the greater part thereof, shall, from any of the funds aforesaid, before they are otherwise applied, pay the same: and shall then be entitled to a credit with the overseers of the poor of the county comprehending the residue of such parish, for their proportion thereof. That in case where a glebe shall be in, or a parish run into, more counties than one, the overseers, as aforesaid, as the county wherein the glebe, or greater part thereof, shall lie, shall hold the same, as aforesaid; & in all cases, the said overseers, and their successors, or a majority of them, shall appropriate the money arising therefrom, to the poor of such parish or to any other objects, which a majority of the freeholders and housekeepers therein, may direct, by a writing from under their hand directed to the said overseers of the poor, or a majority of them in the counties respectively, applied in like manner, unless directed otherwise as aforesaid; Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall authorise an appropriation to any religious purpose, whatsoever. That the said overseers of the poor or a majority of them, or their successors, shall meet as often as they may deem it necessary, for the purpose of carrying
the said act into effect. That the overseers of the poor, and their successors in each county where any such property remains, shall perform all the duties required of them, respectively by this act, under the penalty of two hundred dollars each to be recovered in any court of record, by any one who will sue for the same. That the said overseers and their successors or a majority of them, who shall perform the duties hereby required, shall be entitled to receive for advertising, selling and conveying, any of the said property, a commission of three per cent. and for collecting and appropriating any of the funds by them received, three per cent. more; and shall be accountable to their successors as in other cases. That nothing herein contained shall authorise a sale of the churches and the property therein contained, or the church-yards, nor in any manner affect any private donation made prior to the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, for church and other purposes, where there is any person in being entitled to take the same under any private donor; nor to affect the property of any kind, which may have been acquired by private donations, or subscriptions by the said church, since the date last mentioned."
Thus far what may be considered as public acts, are a multiplicity of private acts, scattered among the sessions of our legislature which may contribute to throw an additional light upon this subject.
From the whole of these private acts it may be collected, that the glebes and churches were purchased at the expense of the parishioners generally. That they were considered as having an interest therein, that on the division of parishes, the inhabitants of one part of the parish, were frequently reimbursed by the other for their contributions towards the purchase of the glebe and church for the first parish, or the glebes were sold, the money divided between the parishes in proportion to their number of titheables, and vested in the vestries respectively for the purpose of purchasing other glebes. It also appears that in some instances, by a special provision in the acts, the vestries were declared to be persons capable of taking the conveyances and holding the lands.
* See acts of 1734, c. 19, 20, 1736, c. 16, 22, 1738, c. 20, 1740, c. 4, 1742, c. 30, 31, 1744, c. 19, 23, 25, 27, 31, 1747, c. 2, 1753, c. 19, 21, 1755, c. 19, 1762, c. 26, 28, 31, 33, 34, 1769, c. 45, 49, 50, 51, 61, 62, 64, 67, 1772, c. 47, 49, 58. Octo. 1776, c. 44. May 1777, c. 30, 34, 37. May 1778, c. 13. Octo. 1778, c. 31. May 1779, c. 37, 39. Octo. 1779, c. 36, 46, 49. Octo. 1780, c. 19. The above are all private acts.
See also 1730, c. 18, 19. 1732, c. 16, 18.
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BY AUTHORITY.
[LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.]
AN ACT To enable the President of the United States to take possession of the territories ceded by France to the United States, by the treaty concluded at Paris, on the thirtieth of April last, and for the temporary government thereof.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That the President of the United States, be and he is hereby authorised to take possession of, and occupy the territory ceded by France to the United States, by the treaty concluded at Paris on the thirtieth day of April last, between the two nations; and that he may for that purpose, and in order to maintain in the said territories the authority of the United States, employ any part of the army and navy of the United States, and of the force authorised by an act passed the third day of March last, entitled "an act directing a detachment from the militia of the United States, and for erecting certain arsenals," which he may deem necessary, and so much of the sum appropriated by the said act as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of carrying this act into effect; to be applied under the direction of the President of the U. States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That until the expiration of the present session of Congress unless provision for the temporary government of the said territories be sooner made by Congress, all the military, civil and judicial powers, exercised by the officers of the existing government of the same, shall be vested in such person and persons, and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct, for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of Louisiana in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and religion.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN BROWN, President of the Senate pro tempore. October 31, 1803. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Making provision for the payment of the claims of citizens of the United States on the government of France, the payment of which has been assumed by the United States by virtue of the convention of the 30th of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French Republic.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America, in Congress assembled, That a sum not exceeding three millions seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars (inclusive of a sum of two millions of dollars, appropriated by the act of the twenty sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and three, intitled, "An act making further provision for the expenses attending the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations," to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby is appropriated, for the purpose of discharging the claims of citizens of the United States, against the government of France, the payment of which has been assumed by the government of the United States, by virtue of a convention made the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States of America and the French Republic, respecting the said claims.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be paid at the treasury of the United States, in conformity to the convention aforesaid, the amount of such claims, as under the provisions of the said convention, shall be awarded to the respective claimants; which payments shall be made on the orders of the minister plenipotentiary of the United States, for the time being, to the French Republic, in conformity with the convention aforesaid, and the said minister shall be charged on the treasury books with the whole amount of such payments, until he shall have exhibited satisfactory proof to the accounting officers of the treasury, that his orders, thus paid, have been issued in conformity with the provisions of the said convention.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, be and he hereby is authorised to borrow, on the credit of the United States, to be applied to the purposes authorised by this act, a sum not exceeding one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, at a rate of interest, not exceeding six per centum per annum; reimburseable out of the appropriation made by virtue of the first section of this act, at the pleasure of the United States, or at such period, not exceeding five years from the time of obtaining the loan, as may be stipulated by contract; and it shall be lawful for the bank of the United States to lend the same.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the duties on merchandise and tonnage as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is appropriated for the purpose of paying the interest which shall accrue on the said loan.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That for defraying the expense incident to the investigation of the claims abovementioned, there be appropriated a sum not exceeding eighteen thousand five hundred and seventy five dollars, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the compensation to be made to any of the commissioners appointed, or to be appointed, in pursuance of the abovementioned convention, shall not exceed the rate of four thousand four hundred and fifty dollars per annum; that the compensation of their secretary shall not exceed the rate of two thousand two hundred and twenty five dollars per annum; and that the compensation of the agent shall not exceed the rate of one thousand dollars per annum.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN BROWN, President of the Senate pro tempore. November 10, 1803. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
A CARD.
The national amusement, and the utility derivable from well conducted Magazines, will hardly be controverted. Accordingly there are few countries in which they are not numerous & well received. And yet the a brother thinks he is correct when he says that NOT ONE is published in the respectable and scientific state of Virginia. He designs to publish a MAGAZINE, principally, if not altogether of a literary complexion, provided he ob a sufficient support from his fellow citizens; in which case, he flatters himself, that his exertions will prove fully satisfactory to his patrons, and somewhat advantageous to himself. The prospectus of the work will, in a short time, be published.
J. DIXON. Richmond, May 31, 1804.
Richmond County, June 1803. John Campbell, complr. AGAINST William Morgan and Peter Northern defts.
THE defendant Morgan notwithstanding his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this court, and after appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state; on motion of the complainant, by his counsel, is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bills of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be published in some newspaper printed in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and a copy also posted at the front door of the courthouse; and it is further ordered that the defendant Northern, do not pay, convey away or secret, the debts and effects in his hands, due and belonging to the said Morgan, until the further order of the court, in the premises.
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Samuel Myers
For 1804..5...Vol. I.
The Figures have reference to the Number of the Paper, and the Letters a, b, c, d, to the Pages of that Number.
Foreign Intelligence.
 Addington, thanked by the king for his services, 22. b.  Algiers, threatened by an English fleet, 5. a.  Antigua, trade with the United States, opened by proclamation of Livingston, 85. c.  Apollo, shipwrecked 9 c. particulars, 35. a.  Balance of power in Europe 57. b.  Bavaria: Elector's note to Mr. Drake, about detected conspiracy, 18. a.  Bauden's Voyage to Isle of France, 15. b.  Bayonne ravaged by fire, 25. a.  Blockade of French ports by England, 46 b—47 b.  Bonaparte: Portrait by Holcroft, 2 c. change of officers on arrest of Moreau, 7 b. addressed by ministers, 7 c. report of his becoming Emperor, 17 b—18 c. suppresses a work on the state of France, 21 a. proceedings in tribunal on making him Emperor, 22 b. receives addresses from armies, &c. on his elevation, 24 a. publishes a decree on the manner of taking the votes of the people, 24 b. proceedings in conservative senate about his elevation, 25 a. his reply to their address, 1 b. their rejoinder, 28 a. administrators oaths to the Generals of Brigades, 25 a. English reflections upon the event, 25 b—27 b. receives the new constitution from the conservative senate, and his reply to them, 26 a. his letter to the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, 26 c. addresses from his imperial guard, 27 a. from the Tribunate—1 b. issues certain decrees of indulgence and beneficence, 28 a. acknowledged by German Princes & Electors 30 b, his aid to have proposed new partitions to Austria, Prussia, & Russia, 32 b, initiates the legion of honor, 33 a. his family. 1 b. notifies his elevation to the cabinets of Europe, 34 a. re-organizes the senate, 1 b. organization of his household, 43 b. arrives at Boulogne, 44 b. administers the oath to his troops, 49 b. acknowledged by Court of Vienna, 1 b. visits Aix-la-Chapelle, 50 b. to be crowned by the Pope, 59 b. ultimatum which he is said to have delivered to the Russian minister, 73 b. votes of the French people on his elevation, 85 d—86 b. outline of a peace with England, that is talked of at Paris, 86 b. Pomp of his coronation, 86 b—89 c—95 c. overtures to England for the restoration of peace, 93 b. his speech on opening the legislative body, 93 c. address of that body and of the Tribunate. 1 b. alteration at the levee with Count Cobentzel, 99 b. reflections upon his gigantic projects, 104 b. his letter of pacification, with Talleyrand's report to the senate, 106 b. comments of the legislative body on that affair, 108 b. proceedings in the tribunal, with an official view of French relations to England, 109 b. his address to the legislative body, 110 b. proposes to visit Italy, 113 b. made military commandant at Boulogne, 17 b.  Bonaparte (Joseph) addressed by the high authorities of the Empire, 50 b.  Lucien's rumoured quarrel with Beauharnais, 23 b. ought he to be called a Prince? 29 b.  Rotany Bay: its fine flocks of sheep, 53 b.  Brest harbour: described, 17 a. report of a plan to surrender it to the English 1 b.  Cape of Good Hope: English expedition against it spoken of, 27 a. contradicted, 28 b. preparations made to repel an attack, 79 b.  Carnot: opposed to making Bonaparte Emperor, 22 b. his admirable speech, 50 b.  Catholics of Ireland, 7 a. determine to petition parliament, 82 b. committee arrive in London, 110 b.  Chaptal: resigns, 49 b. is made senator. 1 b.  Colbert charged with a libel, 23 b. trial, 27 a—29 a—30 b.  Coin of England, 16 a & b—36 b. of France, 63 b.  Conspiracy in France. Proceedings of government and army upon it, 1 b—2 b. details of its discovery, 6 b—9 b. Mehee de la Touche, 23 b. sentence of court, 25 c—29 b. some pardoned 32 b, 34 a, 38 b.  Cooper Stabs Barrymore by mistake, 32 b.  Cowpock: does it prevent the plague? 37 b.  Cuba: port of St. Jago, opened for American vessels, laden with provisions, 101 b—110 b.  Curacao: reported to have surrendered to the English, 20 b.  Curran's prosecution of Frizel, 48 b. speech on the prosecution of man of Headfort, 60 a.  Debt of England, operations of sinking fund, 37 b.  Civil List 1 b. funded debt, 43 a.  of Holland, 51 c. French plan of finance, 52 b.  Defence of England: plan to furnish volunteer horse, &c. 45. a—for the more rapid conveyance of troops, 46. b—instructions to the Lord Lieutenants, 51. b—plan of an impregnable battery, 53. b plan for defending London, 55. b.  Denmark's supposed resentment against France 15. b. 18. a—presents a man of war to the Dey of Algiers, 23. a—force of Denmark, 53. b.  D'Enghien seized, 5. a—condemned, 6. a—executed, 9. a—aneecdotes, 16 a, 17 a, 50 a.  Diet of Ratisbon's proceedings on the affairs of Hanover and the elector of Baden 39 a, 40 b, 42 b, 44 b, 52 b—refuses to pursue Russia's instructions on the affair of D. D'Enghien, 66. a.  Domingo (St.) trade regulated by an arrest of Ferrand, 97. b.  Drake's correspondence discovered, 5. b; agents, 7. b; its details, 12. a, 36 b; introduced into parliament, 15. b; circular letter from Br. government, 17. b; Drake leaves Munich, 18. a; documents to prove his connection with Sir Sp. Smith, 19. b 36. b; the plan by Mehee de La Touche, 23. b; Drake's letter to the Bavarian minister, 40. b.  East Indies: Delhi conquered, 9. c; victories over the Rajah of Berar, 12. c, 13. a, 17. a; treaty of peace with him, 20. a; state of the war with Holkar, 24. a, 36. b; East I. company's sales in England, 51. b; Rampoorah taken, 87. c; Lord Cornwallis to succeed Wellesley, 95. b; victories of the English, 106 b, 107 b, 108 b; views of the Mahrattah powers, 107. b.  Egypt: proceedings of the beys, 39. a; respect maintained for the English, 101. b.  Elfi Bey attacked by the Mamelukes, 28. b 33. b; anecdotes, 39. b.  Emmett's immortal speech before the court of prosecution, 25. a.  England: measures for its defence, 4. b, 8. a; police of trade during 1802 and 1803, 21. b; views of the country, 56. a; declaration of war against Spain, 98. d. history passim .  Ernouf (of Guadeloupe) forbids all neutral trade with Hayti, 20. b; decree, 25. b.  Ferrand's decree for re-establishing order in the Leeward islands, 38. c; decree about that part of St. Domingo which belongs to France, 43. b; appointed chief commander of the colony, 79. b; forbids all intercourse with Hayti, 108. c; his brave conduct at the siege of St. Domingo, 109. c; reinforced by troops from the Rochfort fleet, 110. b.  Fox's rumoured coalition with Pitt, 6. b; favours the mediation of Russia, 12. b; speech on the address to the king, 101. b; sparring between him and Pitt, 104. b.  Fleet leaves Rochfort, 100. b; arrives at Martinique, 98. c; lands at Dominica, 101. b; visits Basseterre and Nevis, 105. b, 107. b.  puts to sea from Toulon, 107. b; returns into port, 108. b.  of English merchantmen from Malta, captured by French frigates, 105. b, 110. b.  France: official expose of its situation, 3. c; naval preparations, 24. b, 28. b; its new constitution, 26. a; chances of a coalition against her, 26. c; new qualification of legislator, 28. b; state of the armies, 29. b; resources and strength, 54. a; statistical account, 73. b; official expose, 94. b.  Free Mason's Lodges opened in France, 43. b.  Frere's correspondence with the Prince of peace, 37. b, 59. a; leaves Madrid, 85. d, 86. b.  George 5. indicted, 3. c; convalescent, 52. a; regency talked of, 30. b; he recovers, 35. b; reconciled to P. of Wales, 50. b.  Georges: confined as a conspirator, 1. b, 5. a, 11. a; memoirs, 7. b; examined, 30. a; executed 36. b 39. a.  Germany: the emperor assumes the title of hereditary Emperor of Austria, 53. a; acknowledged by the principal powers, 57. b, 86. b, 105. b; the plan attributed to France, 58. a; forms a cordon on the Italian frontier, 103. b.  Goree, said to be taken by the English, 20. b.  Hamburg: navigation opened to lighters between the Weser and the Elbe, 26. b.  Hanover seized by French loans, 6. b; rumours of an English expedition against it, 30. b.  Havannah opened to American vessels with stores, lumber, &c. 26. c.  Hayti: massacre of the whites 1. b, 10. c, 11. a; neutral trade subjected to license, 29. b; negotiations between Dessalines and the British government, 30. b; trade forbid by Ferrand, 35. b. Dessalines nominated emperor, 46. b, 50. b; capture of Port au Plate and St. Jago, 107. b; advance of the army to Santo Domingo, 108. c, 109. c.  Holland: naval preparations in its ports, 18. a; depreciation of property and emigration of its inhabitants, 20. c, 22. a, 23. b; fixes the indemnification to the Prince of Orange, 32. b; proposed change in its government, 71. c, 73. b; its trade with England forbidden, 74. c, 83. b, 84. b, &c. vessels detained, laden with British colonial produce, 82. b, 98. b; stops payment of the public annuities, 108. c. Van Haffelt's gloomy picture of its condition, 106. d. New constitution, 110. b, 113. b.  Horseman returns to London, 49. b.  Invasion of England, 34. a, 36. a; historical remarks on 97. a; rumoured plans, 42. a, 49. b; engagements of flotilla, 51. b, 69. b; flotilla attacked by machines for blowing them up, 70. a; force at Brest, 99. b; rumours passim .  Ireland: its melancholy condition, 14. a; loan for it in 1804—17. a; its finances, 35. b; symptoms of disturbance, 36. b, 59. a, 64. b.  Iron mask: anecdotes of its wearer, 72. b.  Italian republic nominates Bonaparte, before president, hereditary king of Lombardy, 28. b; its 12 departments, 53. a.  Jamaica: complaints about the restrictions upon its trade with the United States, 39. b; Governor's reply to the assembly, 79. b; their remonstrance to the king, 97. b.  Jesuits revived in Naples, 29. b; and in France, 37. b.  Law of nations violated by the English, according to Talleyrand's note, 84. b; that note objected to in part by Denmark and Austria, 97. b.  Legion of honor instituted, 33. a. number 39. a; decorations, 40. a; installation, 41. b; constitution 44. b.  Lille's (Count de) protest against proceedings of French nation, 37. b; his refusal to resign the throne, 43. b; report of an attempt to poison him 50. a, 51. a; refused, 64. b; Retires to Grodno, 50. b; to Mittau, 59. b; fixes himself at Calmar, 60. c; letter from Cardinal Maury to him, 91. c.  Linois (admiral) destroys English vessels before Bonaule: 25. a; force of his squadron, 99. a; defeated in his attempt upon the homeward bound China fleet, 41. b, 42. a, 47. b.  Livingston's address by Talleyrand, with his answer, 8. c; visits England, 25. b; conjectures about the object of his visit, 27. b, 34. a, 36. a; visits Italy, 97. b.  Malkey destroyed, 37. a.  Martinique blockaded by English, 20. b, 24. b.  Ministry (Em.) rumours of changes, 17. b, 18. c; reflections on this event, 18. a; ludicrous report of a new ministry, 21. b; the new ministry, 22. a.  Monroe graciously received at Paris, 94. b.  Moreau's letter to General Duroc, 1. b; confined as a conspirator 1 b. character by Holcroft, 2. c; letter to Bonaparte, 4. b; his life 6. a; details of his defence, 52. b; speech before the court and letter to Bonaparte, 26. b, 50. b; some particulars of trial, 30. b; banished to America, 34. b, 36. b, 57. b; the memorial in his defence suppressed 56. b; proceeds to Spain 41. b; justificatory memoir, 42. b, 43. a, 44. a, 45. a, 46. b, 47. a, 48. a, 49. a; letter to his brother, 47. b; detained by his wife's accouchement 1 b. 52. b; anecdotes, 55. b; said to have taken command of Spanish army, 108. c.  (madame) receives a letter from madame Bonaparte and replies to it, 30. b; correspondence with Regnier, 59. b.  Navy (English) in commission on 1st May, 20. b; statement of its distribution to 1st June, 27. b; to Sept. 1st, 55. b.  (French) ships building, 37. a; rewards held forth to seamen, 44. b; naval force about March 5th, 1805—113. b.  Necker's death, 17. a.  Nelson's letter to the lord mayor, on the blockade of Toulon, 70. a.  Paper money: reflections on it by L. Sheffield 10. b.  Parliament: debate on Indian affairs, 18. c; on bill accepting the services of the Irish militia, 1 b. on the motion on the defence of the nation, 19. a; proceedings on volunteer bill, 23. b.  Pitt's plan of defence, 29. a; passed, 30. b; debate on slave trade 31. b, 32. a. corn bill 43. b. votes of supply 97. b. debate on rupture with Spain 98. b on the Spanish war 112. b, 113. a.  Pichegru apprehended 1. b, 5. a. memoirs 8. c. supposed suicide 15. b, 16. a. pamphlet against him in Paris 20. a. letter to Louis 18. 30. b.  Pierre's (St.) proposals for a new edition of his Paul and Virginia 21. b.  Pitt made prime minister 22. a. Grenville's letter to him 30. b.  Police of Paris arrests conspirators 21. a. its domestic visits 24. a. described 29. b. notices the fashion of generals 53. b. new regulation about granting passports 70. b. Fouché's letter to the Bishops 31. c. controul over the press 1 b.  Pope's difference with the emperor of Russia 29. b 32. b. selected to perform Bonaparte's coronation 40. a, 70. c. arrives at Fontainebleau 85. d.  Portugal: its ministry 13. b. Fitzgerald's notes to the minister about French libels 18. a. invited to shut her ports against the English 99. b.  Press gang protected by court of K's. Bench 27. a.  Prussia: comments upon her neutrality 53. a.  River fencibles of England 41. a.  Rumboldt seized at Hamburg with his papers 74. c 76. b. note of the British government to the courts of Europe 82. b. Senate of Hamburg protests agt. his seizure 83. b. liberated through the interference of Prussia 83. b, 85. d.  Rumford married 110. b.  Russia: change in the ministry 6. b. the court goes into mourning for the murder of D'Enghien 22. b. its resentment 23. b. reports about her entering into the war 24. b, 27. b. complains to the Diet of the violation of Ger. neutrality 25. b. note 27. b. 36. a. troops arrive at Corfu 32. b, 52. b, 58. b, 66. c, 73. b. refuses to recognize Bonaparte's title 67. b. estimated force on 1st Jan. 49. b. apparent preparations for a war 51. b. ambassador d'Oubril leaves Paris 1 b. reflections on her relations to France 54. a. her commerce 55. b. gradual encroachments upon Turkey 58. b. reflections upon her colonization of the seven islands 64. b. terms by d'Oubril for settling the affairs of Europe 70. c. war with the Persians 72. b, 73. b. note delivered to Talleyrand 75. b. encourages domestic manufactures 84. b. population 94. b. succeeds on the Caspian 99. b.  Smith's (S. Syd.) attack upon Dutch flotilla and general orders afterwards 28. b.  Spain: its ministry 13. b. insurrection in Bilbao 59. a. settled 74. c, 75. b, 83. b. cruisers with grain permitted by Eng. to pass free 64. b, 69. b, 71. b. changes in the monarchy spoken of 82. b. vessels captured by the British 86. b. declaration of war against England 91. c. plan for attacking Gibraltar 97. b, 98. b, 99. b, 110. b. address of the Prince of Peace to the armies 98. b.  of its navy on the 25th Jan. 107. b. Cadiz blockaded 109. c, 110. b.  Stone expedition 16. b.  Submarine boats 2. b.  Surinam attacked 11. a. surrenders 13. b.  Sweden: King's protest against the arrest of French emigrants in Baden 18. a. orders gun boats to be sent to Stralsund 22. a. refuses to acknowledge Bonaparte's title 41. b. no friend of France 51. b. suspends its political relations with it 52. a, 64. b. its force 53. b. forbids the admission of French papers and books 64. b. Bonaparte's threats to deprive it of Pomerania 70. b. King's speech to the states of Pomerania 85. d. Swedish vessels embargoed in French ports 1 b.  Talleyrand's circular letter to foreign ministers 9. b. answers 10. a.  Taxes (war) in England 17. b. new ones proposed 110. b.  Toussaint (Madame) anecdotes about her 77. a.  Turkey: revolt of the Servians 11. b, 18. a. they besiege Belgrade 42. a, 52. b. declines acknowledging Bonaparte's title 56. a. Acre besieged by the Capt. Pacha 71. b. propositions of peace from the Servians 1 b. not on good terms with France 82. b. Gen. Brune leaves Constantinople 113. b.  Vendee in a state of profound tranquillity 42. a.  Volney votes against changing the government of France 36. c.  Whig Club meeting 25. b.  Wilberforce obtains leave to bring in a bill for abolition of slavery 25. b. reflections on 27. b. its provisions 29. b. renews his motion 110. b.  Windham's speech against the volunteer system 13. b. 
Domestic Intelligence.
 Academy of Arts (N.Y.) makes Bonaparte, &c. honorary members 33. b.  Adjutment Bill in Penn.—petition to pass it 56. b.  Amendment to the constitution on the election of President adopted by 3/4ths of the states 23. c.  American annals proposed to be published 33. b.  Appointments by President since last congress 47. b.  Armory in Vir. the number of arms manufactured 66. c.  Armstrong nominated ambassador to France 14. b. fails 37. c. delivers his credentials 89. c.  Bank (Purvis's) in Maryland 59. c.  of Potomac 39. c.  Lift of, in the union 63. c.—in case of a counterfeit note, can any evidence short of the Cashier's be sufficient? 47. c.  Barbour's address 95. c.  Bell's statistical tables 103. b.  Rowdon nominated ambassador to Madrid 59. c.  Brown (Judge) committed to prison 2. c, 3. a. denounced by the Grand Jury of Circuit Court 6. b. legislature addresses the governor for his removal 9. c. removed 10. b.  British vessels at New-York impress American seamen 16. b, interrupt our trade 17. c, 18. b, 19. b, 20. b, 27. b, 28. b, 29. b, 30. c, 31. b, 32. c, 33. b, 34. b, 51. c, 54. a.  Burr's duel with Hamilton 22. c, 23. b, 24. b. found guilty of murder by the Coroner's inquest 28. b, 29. b, 31. b, arrives in Georgia 39. c, 48. c. Bill of indictment found in New-Jersey against him 54. b, 56. c. his farewell address to the Senate 96. b.  Cabarrus Gold Ore 66. b.  Cabrera's cafe 111. b.  Catawba company 12. b, 14. c.  Celebration of the Acquisition of Louisiana in Phi. 5. b.  Charleston: Lift of vessels that have entered 52. c, and of negroes 1 b.  Chafe (Judge): articles of impeachment reported 62. c, articles 64. a, discussed 64. b, debate 65. a, 66. b, managers chosen 65. b, proceedings before the senate 75. c, his speech 76. a, and affidavit 78. b, rules of proceeding 79. a, answer of the Judge 87. a, 88. a, 89. a, 90. a, decision of senate 92. b, Randolph's speech 93. a, argument of council ad finem .  Chesapeake and Delaware Canal: its size determined 12. b, 31. c.  Chodawa described 24. d.  Claims upon France: difficulties in their adjustment 24. c, 27. b.  Clinton addressed on retiring from the Gov's chair in New-York 20. b, sketch of his life 47. b.  Clure's (Mc.) valuable importation of seeds, &c. from Cape of G. Hope, &c. 24. d, which are presented to the Agri. Society at Charleston 27. d.  Congress: debate on the bill to protect the trade of U. States against Barbary powers 4. a, 5. b, report of committee on petition of inhabitants of Natchez 9. a, do. on hospital money 1 b. J. Randolph's speech on Yazoo claims 31. d, T. M. Randolph's speech on do. 38. a, meeting on 5th Nov. and President's Message, 55. b, resolution in honor of Decatur 56. c, resolutions on President's message 57. c, Bill to carry into effect the 7th art. of Bri. Trea. 1 b. draw-back on goods exported from N. Orleans 1 b. committee to enquire into the law of the Dis. of Columbia about Bail 1 b. on the fisheries 58. b, on roads 1 b. resolution to appoint an agent to report on lead mines 59. b, report against increasing the duties on slate 59. c, bill reported for regulating the clearance against merchant armed vessels 60. b. Debate on it 61. b, 62. a, 63. a, memorial of the Pha. Chamber of Commerce on it 69. c, debate on it 76. a, 77. a, 78. a, 85. b, mode fixed upon for appointing the Chairman of a committee 1 b. bill relative to a bridge over the Potomac 61. c, debate 73. a, 74. a, 75. a, report of committee on unfinished business 63. d, address presented from the memorialists of Louisiana 64. a, motion to reduce the duty on salt 67. a, debate on the bill establishing courts for the adjudication of prize causes 69. a, the bill 70. a, proceedings on the election of John Hoge 71. c, debate 72. a, 75. a, debate on the reception of district of Columbia 78. b, 79. b, 80. a, 81. a, 82. a, 83. a. Crowninshield's resolution about W. India trade 83. b, 84. a, 85. a, proceedings on the Yazoo claim 84. b, 85. b, 86. a, 90. b, debate 89. b, 90. b, 91. d, 92. a, 93. d, 94. a, 95. a, 96. a, counting of the electoral votes 88. b, list of acts 95. b.  Connecticut: Gov. Trumbull's speech 6. c, rejects amendment to Fed. Con. 11. b, law to regulate the press 14. b, proposals to establish a constitution 39. b. Gov's speech 50. c, bill to prevent circulation of less than 5 dollar notes 52. c, for impeaching Judd and others 53. b, election for congress 46. c, 54. b, 61. b.  Constellation (frigate) leaves the Eastern Branch 14. b.  Cotton recommended to be employed in our India trade 32. b.  Creeks: useless negotiation to obtain from them, the land between the Oconee and Oakmulgee 27. b. cession made 62. b. treaty rejected by the senate U. S. 85. c.  Dearborne's proportional balances recommended 57. b.  Decatur promoted 10. c.  Delaware: Election of Governor, &c. 46. c. Indians cede land to U. S. 44. c, 45. c.  Depreciations on our commerce: English and French passim .  Documents presented to Congress, on the acquiescence of Spain in our right to Louisiana 57. a, on the lead mines in upper Louisiana 1 b. on the destruction of the Philadelphia, 59. b. report of the Sec. of Treasury on Revenue and expenditures 61. a, report on the Public Buildings in Washington 70. d, 79. b, report of the director of the mint 86. c, correspondence with English and French ministers about the coining of merchant vessels 87. c, lift of Amer. seamen impressed on board Brit. vessels 92. b, lift of exports 94. d, their value and destination 95. b, summary statement 96. b.  Duelli society: strange account in N. York 27. b.  Duelling, denounced by the Cincinnati society 36. c, 39. b, 71. b, Vannels and Pendleton disfranchised for 20 years 78. b.  Duty (new) upon foreign goods 11. b. (new) in England, upon the American imports 28. b.  Electors of President chosen in N. Jersey 56. b, Connecticut 1 b. Vermont 58. b, New-York 1 b. Dela- 

ware 23. Pennsylvania 90 b, Massachusetts 61 b, Georgia 62 b, N. Hampshire 62 c, R. Island 63 b, S. Carolina 67 c. their meeting: in V. 62 c, in P. 65 b, Mar. 16. in N. H. 67 b, in N. J. 70 b, in Co. 16. in S. C. 70 b, in R. I. 71 b, in Vermont 16. entire return 78 b. Elizabeth river: tollage over the new bridge 12 b. Eugenia, captured off New-York, by the Leander 30 c. Exports of U. S. 14 c. Fowles's letter of justification 92 d. Franklin's life: materials for its history suppressed 32 d. French picaroons' daring conduct off Savannah 21 b. Gallatin's character 42 c. Georgia: Gov. Milledge's address to the Legislature 9 c. Election for Congress 48 b, 52 c, for Senator 62 b, Governor's message 63 a. Gun-boats to be sent to Charleston 29 b, 32 c, their ves 92 d, 42 b, 62 b, to be sent to the Mediterranean 101 c. Gun-powder explosion at Brooklyn 43 a. Hamilton (Genl.) details of his death and duel 22 c, 23 b, 23 b. Mrs. affecting anecdote concerning 37 c. Havana: American trade with enlarged 31 c. Hoge resigns his seat in Congress 57 b. Honduras: Am. trade with regulated by proclamation 34 b. Huger declines a Roll for Congress 13 c. Indiana territory: vote taken about its entering the second grade of Govt. 44 c, decided 49 b, Governor Harrison's proclamation on it 57 b. Insurance: cafe of an Amer. vessel 8 b. Jefferson's inaugural speech 92 b. Jerome Bonaparte about to embark on board of Didon frigate 14 b, 15 c, declines the trip 40 b, receives monitory letters from France 42 b, shipwrecked in Delaware Bay 54 a. Jupiter's shipwreck 113 b. Jurisdiction of U. S. how far does it extend? tried in cafe of L'Africaine 11 b. Kemper retires beyond the Mississippi 51 b, incidents connected with him 57 b, 89 c, 42 b, 44 c, 60 b, 67 b. Kentucky: Frankfort a fine site for ship-building route of foreign commerce recommended, by means of the Ohio and Mississippi 28 c, election of governor and members of congress 33 c, 37 c, G. Greenup's address to the legislature 45 c, Thurston chosen Fed. Senator 61 c, proposes an amendment to the Fed. Con. 78 b. Libel in the cafe of the Pamphlet Artilides 33 b. Louisiana: day of its session celebrated 14 b, festival given to the commissioners 16. Red river to be visited by Dr. Dunbar and Doctor Hunter 21 b, British speculations on the policy of our acquiring it 28 b, measures for preparing a remonstrance to congress 31 b, discontent 32 b, the remonstrance 35 b, Gov's Letter to civil commandants notify-
ing the establishment of first grade of government 51 c, Claiborne takes the Oath as Gov. 54 b, remonstrance framed by inhabitants of Upper Louisiana 16. counter resolutions 38 c, appointments by President 55 c, Gov's letter to newly-appointed members of Le. Council 80 b, Jones's refusal 58 b, Bole's 59 c, first session of the Supreme Court 78 c, Gov's Speech on opening Le. Council 80 b, report in congress about giving the right of self-govt. 83 d. Lycoming claim in Pennsylvania 31 b, 33 b, 37 c, 59 c, decision of the court 40 b, revolvers taken 44 b. Maryland: election of members of congress 46 c, 50 c, of governor 51 b, Bank stock secured by C. Pinckney 62 b. Massachusetts: Strong elected governor 12 b, his speech 13 b, Ely's amendment to the F. Con. 15 b, 16 b, 17 b, 18 b, resolution to choose electors by general ticket 17 c, protest 18 b, resolution of Leg. against small Bank notes 20 b, review of the militia by gen. Hull 43 c, Gov's Speech to Leg. 60 b, Speech during the winter session 85 b, law relative to Bank notes 102 b. Amendment to the Fed. Con. rejected by Vermont 16 b, New-Jersey 57 b, New-Hampshire 68 b, Virginia 73 c, Maryland 80 b, New-York 107 c, Bidwell's speech against it 63 b, 64 b, report of Kentucky Leg. against it 70 b, proceedings of Delaware 85 c, of Ohio 90 b. Mississippi described by Dunbar 25 b, 30 d, 31 d, 32 d, 33 d. Missouri described 81 d. Mitchell (N. Y.) elected Senator 57 b. Morocco: its hostile disposition to U. S. removed 52 b. Morris (commodore) removed 6 c. Natural Bridge in Lee County 32 d. Navigation of the Potomac 1 b. New-Hampshire: election of Senators 17 b, Gilmer elected governor 4 c, his speech 15 b, resolutions in senate in approbation of the present administration 16 b, Governor's dissent 18 b, election for congress 39 b, 44 b, Governor's Speech 68 b, Langdon elected governor 103 c. New-Jersey: Bloomfield elected gov. 54 b. New-Orleans: improving under new revenue laws 15 b, Dubigny's Oration on 4th July 33 b, memorial from the Ursuline Nuns to the President 59 b. New-York: Lewis elected Gov. 42 b, his address to the assembly 56 b, cafe of the Merchants' Bank 99 c, 102 b. city: Prison set on fire 3 c, fire in the city 71 b. North-Carolina federal court and cafe of Granville's heirs 14 c, 16 c, 77 b, election for congress 32 c, 39 c, of governor 62 b. Obituary: Commodore Nicholson's death 37 c, Judd's 62 b, Schuyler's death 16. Col. Ephraim Kirby's 61 c. Ohio: List of vessels built at Marietta in one season
10 b, election for Congress 39 c, 62 b. Opport: directions to all American vessels which enter that harbour 19 c. Osage ambassadors 17 d, 19 c, 31 c, 32 c, President's address to them 45 b. Ouachita river described 97 c. Paine's letter to Holker 96 c. Pecuniary of Virginia, State of 70 c, abstract of prisoners 80 c. Pennsylvania: Election in Philadelphia for congress 47 c, 48 b, complete list for the state 61 b, Governor's address 66 a, impeachment of Judges 71 b, 78 b, 83 b, 84 c, facts relative to the change of constitution and governor 103 c, 104 b, 105 b, 106 c. Rhode Island: Senators to congress 58 b. Road between the Genessee county and Pittsburg 16 b, between New-Orleans and Phil: thro' Pittsburgh 44 b, between Tennessee and Georgia thro' the Cherokee country 45 c, from Boston towards Canada 48 b, route proposed from Washington to the Ohio 72 b, Jackson's remarks on it 79 c. Rufus King's dinner in Boston 52 c, comments 54 b. Sax and Fox Indians ceded land 77 b. Seal skin and Whale trade 41 b. Seamen (American) demanded by the commissary of Pouce at Bordeaux 29 b, passers necessary, when bound to France 34 b, list of those impressed in British vessels 92 b. Shad and herring fishery 17 d. Senate of U. S. per od for which each individual member is to serve 15 b. Skuykill water works 48 c, permanent bridge 51 c. South Carolina: Governor Richardon's speech 7 c, adopts last amendment to Fed. Con. 16. evils from the importation of slave 32 c, election for congress in Charleston 48 b, remarks on it 51 c, election of Fed. Senators 67 b, bill against the importation of slaves rejected 69 c. Spain disputes the American claim to the Eastern boundary of Louisiana 20 c, refuses to ratify the Convention 23 b, 34 b, 37 c, 38 c, 40 b, 42 b, 43 b, memorial from Philadelphia merchants 43 c, copy of the convention 43 c, its history and remarks on it 46 b, Mr. Pinckney said to have left Madrid 51 c, 56 b. Stages established between Washington and Pittsburg 13 b, between Richmond and Staunton 16. Storm at Charleston 40 b, extends to the West Indies 48 c, and to Boston 49 b. Sumner: Trade with U. S. regulated by proclamation 16 b, 60 b. Tea-trade: Remarks on 40 b. Tennessee adopts the amend. to the Fed. Con. 28 c, Gov. Sevier's communication to the legislature 42 b. Tobacco: new orders in Eng. about vessels laden with it 31 c. Tornado in N. Jersey 11 b. Tracy (Gardner) tried for a libel against Morgan Lewis 15 b. Tripoli: Preble takes a Turkish corsair and receives
proposals for peace 2 b, treatment of prisoners 3 c, 4 b, Philadelphia destroyed 5 a, 13 b, 24 b, gun-boats borrowed from Naples 11 b, U.S. squadron fails for the Mediterranean 19 c, design of bombarding the town 21 b, treatment of prisoners after burning of the Pha. 25 b, a Tripolitan brig taken 37 c, 44 c, vessel taken under British colours 45 b, Commodore Barron arrives at Gibraltar 52 b, Preble attempts in vain to ransom the prisoners 54 a, preparations for bombardment 16. the bombardment 59 c, 60 b, 69 b, a new attack 63 b, 64 c, 65 c, new attack 74 c, official details 75 b, heroic death of Somers, &c. 76 c. bombardment interrupted by the season 83 b, Preble's comprehensive letter to the secy of navy 91 a, honorary resolutions of congress 16. strength of the fortification of Tripoli 97 a, 100 c. Tureau arrives in U. S. 58 b, sketches of his life 60 b, 61 b, 69 c. Vermont: election for congress 50 c, of governor 52 c, governor Tichenor's address 54 b. Virginia Legislature: meeting 61 c, governor's letter 65 c, appoints federal Senators 64 c, re-election of Mr. Page 65 c, debate on abolishing the office of public printer 67 c, arguments on the petition of the Quakers 16. on amending the law respecting insolvent debtors 68 c, first report on the Massachusetts amendment 72 c, debate on the appointment of auditor 73 c, rules adopted in cases of contested elections 16. remarks on the bill to prevent slaves being brought into the state 74 c, report on the finance 75 b, amendment proposed to the bill concerning freedom 75 c, debate on the bill to prevent the partial emancipation of slaves 77 c, on the bill to amend the penal laws 78 c, 79 c, proceedings on mutual assurance society 16. on divorces 16. on division of counties 80 c, on circulation of private Bank notes 81 c, a summary of the public acts passed 82 c, 83 c, nominal list of all the acts 83 c. Revenue and taxes 83 c, election for cong 113 c. Washington: census of its inhabitants 3 a. Washington's Life: critique on 2nd vol. 41 b, London review of 1st, 45 b. William's (tra)unprecedented murder of Lee Lane 48 b. Wirtzburg emigrants, proposing to settle on Ohio 21 b, 0 d. Yazoo papers 66 d, 67 d, 68 d, 69 d, 71 a, 72 d, 73 d, 74 d, 75 d, 76 d, 77 d, queries on the Yazoo claim 83 d. Yellow Fever: at the Wallabour 20 b, 21 b, said to be in Charleston 39 b, denied 55 c, appears in the county of Delaware (N. Y.) 40 b, at New-Orleans 42 b, in the W. Indies 43 b, at Malaga 56 b, 66 c, Trujillo (Marquis de) tampering with the editor of the Pol. Register 42 c, his letter to the secretary of state relative to it 45 c, Jackson's reply 48 b.
Miscellaneous.
Resolution 24 c, 58 c, 54 b, 109 c. Agricultural improvements 47 d. Andrometer of Sir W. Jones 113 d. Anecdotes of Tauverny's melancholy fate 9 c, of French emigrant 12 c, of Darwin 13 c, 18 b, of Gibson 16 d, of Voltaire 17 d, Jervis the Painter 32 d, executed Ruffian 40 d, T. P. Oldfield 44 d, Didot 47 d, A. Hamilton 54 b, Cooper the Player 16. Bonaparte 16. pretended Dauphin 58 b, Pitt, Fox and W. Pitt-Rivers 59 d, David the Painter 81 c, of a Sharper 111 d, Erskine 112 d, of Moreau 16. Bleaching by vapour 111 d. Bottle for ascertaining the currents of the sea 100 b. Butter how made 12 c, 33 d. Calves fattened 13 d. Camelion 14 d. Camphor refined 27 d, 28 d. Cast Steel welded 50 d. Chemistry: Klaproth's new salt 1 c, bituminous wood 32 d, Lectures on 67 b. Flax (New Zealand) 7 c. Coal as a fuel in America 59 d. Commencement at Pha. 13 c. Compass invented by the Chinese 80 d. Consumption cured 58 b. Cotton of Africa 12 c. Deafness cured by puncture of the Tympanum 88 d. Decayed looms restored 63 d. Drowned persons resuscitated 33 d, 55 d. Eclipse of the Sun in 1806, 33 b. Errors of the Press 33 d.
EXTRACTS—Biography of Jenner 2 d, of Gibson 11 c, John Thompson 22 d, Condorcet 29 d, Brantley 45 d, Sir W. Jones 49 d, Mills Linwood 64 d, George Morland 105 d, on the commerce of U. S. in 1805 5 d, Turkish government in Syria by Volney 4 d, French revolution by Stephens 13 d, 15 d, Anecdotes of Ph. Day 31 d, Literature of the United States 25 d, the division of Stock by A. Smith 25 d, use of scientific theories by Mr. Clug 39 d, uses of Gypsum by Burns 41 d, application of manures by Darwin 43 d, on the manufacturing interest of the United States 47 d, fortune-teller by Mercier 51 d, existence of Welch Indians 79 d, eulogium on the constitutions of America by Gerald 104 d, Rumford's theory of heat and cold 107 d, Dialogue on the principles of government by Sir W. Jones 110 c, cruelty to inferior animals by Soame Jenyns 111 d, on the direction of charity by Malthus 112 a. Female portraits by Carr, 10 c. Fines at Rome 48 d. Fire extinguished by Potash 113 d. Fortifications of the interior examined by Bishop Madison 27 d. Fresh meat preserved or cured 11 c. Galvanism: its influence on animals 55 d, 99 d. Godwin's Chaucer reviewed 14 d. Gypsum: of what use 32 d. Harvest in England 53 c. Hay cured with Salt 21 b.
Herculaneum manuscripts unrolled 44 d. Hessian Fly accounted for 28 d. Humboldt 12 c, 15 c, 41 d, 42 d, 53 b, 60 c. Invisible ink, how made 79 d. Invisible lady 21 b, 60 b, 101 c, 113 d. Jefferson's letter to Lapeyde 61 c. Kieffer's missionary labours 40 d. La Peyrouse's voyage 6 c, 16 d. Law cafe about a pirated publication 50 d. Lightning broke countermarked by water 16 d. Lithory notices—Aikin's life of Johnson 38 d, Austin's letter 41 c, Bell on Elocution 42 d, Coke's In-figures verified 43 d, the Commentaries verified 49 c. London amusements 12 c, 46 d. Longevity instances of 95 c, additional in Virginia 100 c. Lufus Naturae 6 c, 7 c, 24 d. Malta described 112 d. Manganese discovered in Pennsylvania 109 c. Manufacturing improvements in Manchester (Eng.) 60 b. Map of Virginia 63 c, 82 d. Musical notes multiplied 55 d. Oil: its effect upon water 34 c. Ostrich 3 c, 12 c. Preston's donations 93 d. Prize questions 5 c. Prizes by company of booksellers 27 d, 46 d. Progress of Philadelphia 100 c. Quicksilver discovered in New-Hampshire 111 d, Rudder invented 32 d.
Rust prevented 6 c. Salt: mountain: can there be such a thing? investigated by Cooper 10 c, works at Abingdon 16 d. Sheep-shearing at Woburn 34 b. Shipwreck of Apollo 35 a. Sound: how to communicate at great distance 38 d, 44 d. Stereorype 3 c, 14 d, 35 d. Tanning: new agents for it 15 c. Teaching on a new plan 10 c. Teeth analysed 55 d. Theatrical: Betty or the young Rofcius 8 c, 39 c, 44 c, 44 d, 52 d, 55 d, 86 d, 100 c. Threshing machine 59 d. Timber: how to try its soundness 9 c. "Until": its importance in a law cafe 35 d. Vaccination 12 c, 33 d, 40 d, 42 d, 43 d, 51 d, 58 b, 67 b. Varieties: literary and philosophical for Nov. 26 c, for Dec. 99 d. Vinegar made 48 d. Volcanic Eruptions of Ætna and Vesuvius 68 d. Volney's travels in America censured 34 c. Water raised by machines 35 c, purified 41 c. Wet Dock at Deppe 63 d. Wheat early recommended 46 d, Egyptian 54 b. Will of an old Bachelor 100 c. Wilmot's affecting appeal to society 35 a. Winter's day delineated in 19 prints 49 c. Yellow fever, method of cure 27 d, 39 c.
Original and Poetical Pieces.
ORIGINAL PIECES. Amendments (Mr. Randolph and Nicholson's) to the Fed. Const. remarked on 94 c. Amenities Graphica recommended 101 c. Its prospectus 16 d. extract from 1st No. 102 b. Aurora: comment upon some of its remarks 106 c, its character 107 c, remarks on its answer 111 c. Bacon's Rebellion: Its history 34 c, d, 35 d, 36 d, second account of it by a lady 37 b. Bank of Virginia: opening of the subscription books 1 c, number of shares and subscribers at Richmond 2 c, and of shares to each 4 c, recommendations for directors 15 16 17 c, election of them 18 c, 75 c, general sketch of past arrangements 19 c, salary of officers at Richmond 34 c, limiting of discounts before 2nd installment 40 43 c, on the election of cashiers for branches 49 c, on tobacco notes as a deposit 52 c, 56 c, 76 c, dialogue on the increase of the banking capital of Virginia 109 110 c. Bank notes: plans to prevent counterfeiting 2 c, on the Back stuff plate 4 c. Logwood's cafe 5, 6, 8 c. Banking, theory of 24 25 27 29 31 32 c. Betty: biographical sketches of 94 c. Bonaparte contrasted with Moreau 26 c, his portrait 27 d. Burr's portrait 35 c, vindication in part of his conduct 101 c. Capture of American vessels by British ships of war remarked upon 32 c, causes described 95 c. Chafe (Judge) summary of charges against 66 69 c. Did he influence the marshal in impelling Calender's jury? 71 72 c, remarks on his acquittal 93 c. Curran's portrait 43 d. Declaration of independence and remarks on 17 c. Jefferson was its author 31 c. Duelling vindicated 33 c. Education, course of 104 c. Election of President and Vice-President addressed 61 c. Eloquence: curious cafe of 21 c. Enquirer: introductory remarks on 1 c, address to its subscribers 21 28 c, 52 c, hints for the editor 40 c. French affairs: letter from a Virginian in Paris 11 c, views given by a Virginian traveller 41 c, French articles 50 c, important letter from Paris on 62 c, French expose remarked on 94 c. Glebe lands and Churches: summary view of the laws relative to 1 d, introductory remarks on the
suit before the Court of Appeals 1 c, decision 5 c, speech of Mr. Call 5 d, Mr. Nicholas 6 d, Mr. Wickham 7 d, Mr. Hay 3 d, notice of Mr. Randolph's 8 c, Judge Tucker's plan of a religious establishment 9 c, examination of it 9 c, 10 c. General ticket law examined 33 34 c. Hamilton's death, remarks on 22 c. Insurance Fire company of Virginia viewed 33 35 36 c, its new constitution 73 c. Invisible girl discovered in Richmond 38 c. Law cafe respecting legitimate issue 3 c, on the rights of British subjects born before the revolution, to real property in Virginia 109 d. Letter from R. H. Lee about the Am. Revolution 41 c, letters to the Vir. Legislature, on the treasury 57 c, James R. Canal company 58 c, James R. company 59 60 c, the taxes 59 c, on roads 61 64 65 c, redemption laws 65 c, letter to member of the General Assembly from Franklin on legislative subjects 76 c, from John G. Jackson, on opening a road to the Ohio 70 c, letter to James Elliott M.C. 84 c. Literature, Essay on its corruptions 55 d. Longitude of Richmond, found 78 c. Lotteries criticised 87 c. Louisiana: What is its Eastern boundary? 58 c, remarks on the remonstrance 43 c, on the acquisition 90 c, 91 c. Lycæum of the traveller Stewart 62 d. Madness produced by religious enthusiasm 51 c. Mathematical 59 c, 44 c, 46 c, remarks on the use & plan of such studies 110 c. Moreau: his speech applauded 27 d, welcomed on our shores 27 c. Obadiah Williams characterised 112 c. Oration on 4th March by J. Ogilvie 12 a, on acquisition of Louisiana by R. S. Parker 12 d, 4th July by J. H. Smith 15 20 d, extracts from one on the same by J. T. Lomax 21 c. Paine's letter to Holker remarked on 96 c. Party dissensions 39 c. Pennsylvania affairs viewed 104 105 c. Physiology of Darwin recommended 26 d. Political Intolerance: an essay on 87 d. Politics of Europe: remarks on 29 c, European affairs 107 c. Portraits of members of Assembly: Introductory letter 82 c, of Mr. ***** 83 c, of Mr. ***** from Or: 85 c. Present policy of the Federal Party 98 c, 99 c, 100 c, 102 c.
President's Message 55 c, curious misrepresentation in a Paris print 105 c. Press: its advantages to science and republican government 3 c, 4 c. Problems: respecting the inviolability of charters 72 c, Philosophical and its solution 107 c, 108 c, new problem and its solution 108 c, 110 c. Progress of improvement in an agricultural nation 58 c, 60 c, 62 c. Public printer: on abolishing the office 11 c, 12 c. Rainbow: Literary compact for the establishment of the society 28 c, No. on the utility of miscellaneous Essays 28 d, condition of women 30 d, politeness 34 d, French revolution 36 37 d, American Genius Part I. 38 d, building of towns 40 d, Illusions of Fancy 42 d, Truth and Eloquence 44 d, the Condition of Women 46 d, Establishment of Charity Schools 48 d. (Series II) On Luxury 51 d, Forensic Eloquence 54 d, Celibacy 56 d, Party 58 d, American Genius, Part II. 60 d, Luxury, Part I. 69 d, Duelling 78 d, Public Schools 97 d, Laura or the single Woman 103 d—Series 3d on Luxury, part II. 108 d. Communications to the society: on Scandal by Lyfippus 49 d, the female sex 63 d, suffrage and representation 72 d, irrepealable laws 80 d, progress of intellect in a youth 84 d, Vindication of duelling 100 d. Reconciler: its promising character 99 c. Removals from office 56 c, 112 c. Richmond candidate for the assembly 90 d. Senators (Virginia) recommended 19 c, elected by E. Council 29 c. Spanish Convention and claims investigated 33 c. Specimen of early proficiency in a boy 20 c. Squadron off Tripoli 65 c. Summary view of rights of British America by T. Jefferson 65 c, d, 53 d. Trade with Hayti under the regulation of France 41 c, right of Americans to pursue examined 86 c, 88 c, 90 c, remarks on clearance bill 92 c. Threshing machine (Tunhall's) 21 c, invention claimed by him 94 c. Trumbull's (Gov) Speech censured 50 c. View of the present war 14 c. Political economy of Great Britain and the United States 44 c. —on the Rubicon 46 c, 47 c, 48 c. Virginia: her vindication against the attacks of the
Northern Federalists 11 13 15 16 18 20 c, sportive attacks on 48 c, materials for writing its history 111 c, biographical account of its worthies promised 113 c, present congressional delegation 16. University: a plan for one in Virginia 82 d. POETRY—EXTRACTED. A sublime ode to the Grand Consul by P. Pindar 1 g. Hymn on the field of battle by Burns 9 c. Ode to the happy, by Mrs. O'Neil 16 d. Elegy from Botanic Garden 24 d. Verses to a lady by Moore 24 d. Review of Terrible Tractor on 26 d. On the Banks of the Skuykill 26 d. Lines to Mrs. Robinson from P. Pindar with her answer 34 c. Patience, a tale 39 c. Moore's specimens of the tender & terrible style 40 d. Affecting lines from Hugh Trevor 46 d. The natal genius by Moore 48 d. Barber, by Friskine, a parody on Gray's Elegy 52 d. Love and Liberty by R. Tyler 79 d. "Ranz des Vaches" in French 80 d. Anacreon's 24th Ode by Moore 84 d. The Hero, from Hugh Trevor 91 c. A Persian song by Hafiz, from Sir W. Jones 97 c. To a mountain daisy by Burns 99 d. Law Cafe from Cowper 101 c. To Erin, from the original Irish 111 d. ORIGINAL. Ode to the sweet-scented vine 8 c. — Matilda an Elegy 90 c. — on melancholy 22 c. Address to the moon 23 d. Epigram on the loss of a bad name 27 d. Sonnet on scholastic discipline 30 d. Ode to sleep 33 d. Impromptu on a dream 42 c. Epigram on Little's poems 50 c. Sweet Springs 57 c. Poem on Chiltern Mills 58 d. The ruin of Robert Emmett 63 d. Translations of Ranz des Vaches 82 c, 99 c. Translation from the Greek of Anacreon 86 d. On a young lady with a golden arrow in her hair 111 c.