Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1809-09-19 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVIIIth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1689.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS,) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum—Paid in Advance.]
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1809.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
Richmond Price Current.
[CORRECTED WEEKLY.]
   CASH. D. C.     Tobacco, 5 00   Wheat, new, 0 96   Flour, super-fine, 5 75   Flour, fine, 5 25   Corn, 3 00   Hemp, per ton, 200 00   Iron, 115 00   Bacon, 00 10   Whiskey, 00 60  
THE imported and highly celebrated horse CITIZEN, now in high health, will stand the ensuing season at my stable in Chesterfield county, on the Appomattox river, 3 miles below Bevil's bridge, 23 south of Richmond, 25 above Petersburg. 14 north of Dinwiddie court house and 25 south east of Powhatan court house.
GEORGE EVANS.
Oakland, 22nd August 1809
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RAGS.
THE SUBSCRIBER WILL PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR
LINNEN or COTTON
RAGS;
(FOR THE VIRGINIA MANUFACTORY,) AND will contract with country Store-keepers for all they may be able to collect, which will be paid for in cash, on delivery at my store, near the Courthouse; where may be had a general assortment of GROCERIES, BOOTS, SHOES, & PATENT NAILS.
WILLIAM FARR.
Richmond, 23rd Jan. 1809.
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FOR SALE.
Landing this day from on board the Sch'r "Weymouth", from New York, 19 Hhds. & 103 bbls. MUSCOVADO SUGARS, of good qualities.
IN STORE,
28 Hhds. Brown Sugars, 50 Hhds. & 50 bbls. Leaf Sugars, 3 Tierces & 50 Bags Coffee, 20 Boxes Cotton Cards, 12 Boxes Playing Cards, Black Eagle, 10 Hhds. Antigua Rum, 20 half boxes 8 by 10 Window Glass. Together with a general assortment of Ladies' and Gentlemen's SHOES. Terms liberal.
Cash for wagon Flour.
HOVEY & SIZER.
August, 25th 1809.
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NOTICE. —On Monday the 23rd day of October next, will be sold, at Whitby, in the county of Chesterfield, upon a credit of twelve months; the PERSONAL ESTATE of the late Col. Robert Goode; consisting of the present crop of Corn, Wheat, Oats, Fodder, and Hay; the stock of Horses, Cows, Sheep and Hogs; the plantation utensils and Household and Kitchen Furniture. Bonds and approved security will be required of the purchasers to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid.
It is particularly requested that all those who may have claims against the estate will make them known immediately to either of the subscribers, in order that provision may be made for payment.
RICHARD B. GOODE,
FRANCIS GOODE,
Administrators with the will annexed. That valuable and well known estate called WHITBY, on James River, about three miles from the Town of Manchester, will also be sold by private sale; it contains 1262 acres of Land, about 220 acres of which are of the first rate Low grounds and more than one half of the residue thereof is heavily timbered. To this estate there is attached one of the best fisheries on James River and every convenient and necessary house for the accommodation of a family. An indisputable title will be made and possession given on the first day of December next, with the liberty of sowing small grain at any time agreeable to the purchaser. The terms may be known on application to Richard B. Goode, Manchester, or Francis Goode, Powhatan.
July 11, 1809. wids.
At the request of the Legatees, and by virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by the late Col. Robert Goode, dec'd for the purpose of satisfying a debt therein mentioned, due to Mr. James Lyle, the above mentioned tract of land and improvements will be sold to the highest bidder, on the premises, on the 23rd day of October next, if not previously disposed of by private contract, in which event taking place, timely notice will be given. Terms of sale, one third part of the purchase money will be required on the day of sale, one third in twelve months, and the remaining third in two years, the instalments to carry interest from the day of sale, and the purchaser giving such satisfactory security as may be required.
JOHN MURCHIE, TARLTON SAUNDERS, } Trustees. Manchester 24th August, 1809.
VIRGINIA:
At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol in Richmond, June 1st, 1809.
Archibald Pleasants and Jane his wife, John S. Moore and Anna his wife, John Cheadle and Elizabeth his wife, Isham Railey and Susanna his wife, John Woodson the younger, Thomas Railey and Martha his wife, William Railey and Judith his wife, and Philip Woodson and Sarah his wife Plaintiffs,
AGAINST Josiah Woodson, acting executor of John Woodson, deceased, Defendant.
ON motion of the plaintiffs by counsel, and for reasons appearing to the court, the order made in this cause the seventh day of February last, dismissing this suit with costs, is set aside, on the plaintiffs paying to the defendant the costs by him expended in defending the suit to the date of the said order; and on the further motion of the plaintiffs, by counsel, master commissioner Ladd is directed to perform the order made in this cause the seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and three; but the plaintiffs are not to have the benefit of this order unless they shall comply with the conditions upon which it is made on or before the first day of the next term.
A Copy—Teste, PETER TINSLEY, c. c.
Fluvanna County, May quarterly session 1809.
Moncrieffe Hill, Administrator with the will annexed of Ro-
bert Hill, deceased, Plf. Chancery.
AGAINST
John Forbes & Patrick William-son, Defendants.
THE Defendant Williamson not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of his country. On the motion of the Plaintiff b. his Counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant Williamson do appear here on or before the first day of August quarterly term next and answer the Plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Richmond Newspapers and continued for two months successively and another copy posted at the front door of the Courthouse of this county.
A copy—Teste, JOHN TIMBERLAKE, Jun. D. C.
At a Court held for Franklin County, July 3d, 1809.
Robert Hodges, Plf.
AGAINST
Isham Hall, James Roberts and Betsey his wife, children and heirs of James Roberts, deceased, defts.
THE defendants James Roberts and Betsey his wife, not having entered their appearance and given security according to law and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the court that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth: on the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on or before the first Monday in November next and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy hereof be inserted in some newspaper published in his state for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county.
A Copy—Teste, CALEB TATE, D. C. for
JAMES CALLAWAY, C. F. C. 8tw
United States Court, 5th Circuit and Virginia District, June 21st, 1809.
Smith, Calhoun, and Company, P.fts.
AGAINST
Edmund Edrington and James Diggs Dishman, executors of Christopher Edrington, dec'd and William Price Edrington, heirs at law and devisees of the said Christopher Edrington, defts.
ON motion of the plaintiffs, leave is given them to amend their bill, which amendment to the said bill was thereupon filed; and on the further motion of the plaintiffs, the court doth refer the accounts of James Diggs Dishman, as executor of Christopher Edrington, deceased, to one of the commissioners of this court, to be by him stated, settled, and to the court reported with any special matter thought pertinent by himself or by either party, required to be so stated, and the said commissioner is authorised if required by the plaintiffs, to examine said James Diggs Dishman, in solemn form.
A Copy—Teste, WILLIAM MARSHALL, Clk. w8t
Commissioner's Office, Fredericksburg, August 29th, 1809.
On Monday the 6th day of November next, I shall proceed to carry the foregoing order into effect, whereof, the parties interested are desired to take notice, and attend at my office, in the town of Fredericksburg, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon: And the said James Diggs Dishman is particularly required to attend with his accounts as executor of Christopher Edrington, dec'd.
BENJAMIN PARKE, Master Commissioner w8t
NOTICE is hereby given that I shall petition the ensuing General Assembly of Virginia, to invest in me the fee simple right to the lands of which my husband, James Allen Bradby, died, seized and possessed—the heirs of said Bradby being aliens, if any living.
ANN H. ADAMS. Surry County, 18th August, 1809. w4t
ADDRESS TO THE SUBSCRIBERS OF THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
MAN is desirous of knowledge and happiness: the one is the means, the other is the object of his labours. Providence in this as well as in most things essential to his well-being, has made his reason act only in subserviency to his inclination. Hence curiosity, through life, is a most ungovernable propensity of a generous mind: and the most speedy and obvious mode of its gratification is the publication of newspapers.
As longer productions require more time in their composition; so they also require closer attention on the part of the reader in their perusal. To this listlessness and indolence of the mass of mankind, prevent them from submitting. The recital, therefore, of foreign and domestic incidents in newspapers, from the novelty which they furnish, have been found the most appropriate kind of instruction for such persons.
The sudden revolutions of empires, and the phenomena of nature, of which those inform us, whilst they afford amusement to the imagination, are fitted also to exercise the understanding.
The facility thus afforded to the merchant and farmer in the publication of sales; to the house-keeper in the recovery of lost moveables; to all descriptions of persons in supplying their wants or ministering to their gratifications, are advantages well known to the inhabitants of this country. But, it is in the science of government, that newspapers are attended with great and lasting benefits to a people.
Government, like every other department of human knowledge, is progressive. Couriers themselves, now days, laugh at the divine right of kings and derivative excellence of blood. Principles which two hundred years ago would have consigned their authors to the flames and their abettors to a dungeon, are now avowed and practised in the courts of Princes. Despots themselves have learned that in proportion as a people become enlightened, they must relax something of their oppressions. And that if some governments, either through ignorance or through obstinacy, have slighted the demands of a people for redress of wrongs and emancipation from oppression; that the volcano of popular revolution has fatally taught them, that there was a time when, by yielding, they might have averted that accumulation of popular fury by which they were finally overwhelmed.
But in this country, where republicanism has not been strangled in the convulsions of its birth; the people have been lightened of a load of former errors. Religious prejudices have either entirely disappeared or assumed a milder aspect; freedom of opinion has been secured; a discrimination has taken place in the specific guilt of crimes and commensurate punishments have been established; the rights of nations continue to be discussed and to be developed: so that upon the whole, so great has been our improvements in every principle of government, arising from discussion and communication of opinion through the medium of the press; that were the persons now living who first published codes on those subjects, they would scarcely recognize the few truths they themselves found out, amidst the multitude of subsequent discoveries.
From the number of political publications which, in this manner, daily issue from the press; though each should contain but a small portion of political knowledge; yet from the various forms in which a subject is presented to public view; from the different modes of its illustration by different writers, and from the multitude of answers and replies which follow, it is scarcely possible that the rotten parts of an argument should not be found out and the sound parts established.
But the influence of the press is not alone considerable in pointing out existing defects, or in proposing new forms of government; but also informing the people, what benefits they have received or injuries they may have sustained from those who fill its various departments.
Hence, whether it be in the legislative assemblies of the state or of the
nation, the people are made acquainted with the subject under discussion; with the interesting speeches for, or against any measure: and by whom such measure may happen to be opposed or to be supported.
By the publication of the laws which follow, they are enabled to judge how far the rights of property or personal freedom are abridged: and whether such laws ought to be continued or repealed.
In the same manner they are informed of the good or bad conduct of their judges and magistrates: whether they discharge their respective offices with ability, integrity, humanity or attention; or whether for incapacity, partiality, negligence or connivance in the execution of the laws, for vexations and oppressive practices; they deserve to be tumbled from that elevation, for which the defects of their heads or the depravity of their hearts have rendered them unqualified.
The proprietor of this paper is one among the many who has thus endeavored to discharge his duty as a centinel in the fortress of our political rights. He has tried to exercise according to the utmost of his ability, a power that is formidable to every agent of executive government: a power that continues to pervade every quarter of the country. It should, therefore, reasonably be hoped, that the public, from the consciousness of its utility, would contribute at least punctually, if not liberally, to its maintenance. Has the case been so? He will state the facts, and his patrons will themselves pronounce on the statement submitted to their inspection.
This paper has been sixteen years established last April; and we trust, with some beneficial effects to the cause of freedom: yet there are thousands of dollars on our books, of which a large amount consists of debts of from six to ten years standing.
With twelve hundred and fifty subscribers, and upwards of six and twenty hundred papers issued weekly from our press; the profits of the establishment should amount to a considerable sum. Yet whilst the price of paper (without mentioning workmen's wages, &c.) amounts weekly to from five and twenty to thirty dollars: and whilst types require to be renewed every three or four years; our annual receipts do not amount to two thousand dollars, exclusive of advertising; a sum inadequate to answer the disbursements of the establishment.
The price of this paper too, has not been raised, but is continued at four dollars per annum, whilst most other papers published twice a week, are at five dollars.
Under such circumstances, it has become an imperious duty for the proprietor to address himself to the justice of his subscribers. He feels it indispensably necessary, that those who owe him long standing debts should come forward and discharge them: and that those for whose punctual payments hitherto, he feels grateful, will pay the amount of the sums which they respectively may owe him.
The proprietor feels conscious that he has conducted the paper since its first establishment, upon those principles which he deems the most virtuous. He therefore hopes that his present appeal to the justice of his subscribers, will produce those effects which he thinks it merits.
Argus Office, 5th September, 1809.
Foreign.
GERMANY.
Translation From papers received at the office of the Baltimore Whig, per the Europa.
THE TWENTY-THIRD BULLETIN.
VIENNA, June 28.
On the 25th inst. the emperor Napoleon reviewed a large body of troops on the heights of Schoenbrunn. A beautiful line of 8,000 cavalry was displayed, and another of artillery, with 200 pieces of cannon. Saturday the 24th, our troops entered Rasb at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. On the 25th, the garrison, consisting of 2,500 men, marched out prisoners of war. The command of the town was given to general Narbonne.
The duke of Auerstadt is before Presburg. The enemy was fortifying himself
The duke sent in a flag to the enemy, demanding the surrender of the town, which was refused. The town was then closely invested, and 4,000 bombs thrown in, which set it on fire in different places.
On the 22nd the duke of Ragusa, with the army of Dalmatia, crossed the Drave, and is marching against Graz. On the 24th the general Vandamme ordered 300 men of the Wurtemberg troops, under the command of col. Kehler, to cross the river at Mulk, in order to reconnoitre the dispositions of the enemy. As soon as they had got over, they met with several companies of the enemy, which they put to rout, and of which they made 80 prisoners (amongst them two officers) belonging to the regiment Mitowsky.
The prince of Ponte Corvo with the Saxon army, is at St. Polten. The duke of Dantzig, who remained near Lintz, ordered the general Wrede to reconnoitre the enemy's camp. All the enemy's posts were destroyed; several officers and 20 privates were taken. The design of this reconnoitring was to acquire some information concerning the dispositions of the enemy.
The city of Vienna and the army are provided with provisions of all kinds in abundance. We have found in the convents, which are in the neighborhood of Vienna a large quantity of wine (several millions of bottles) which was distributed among the soldiers.
Extract from Vienna, dated 6th July.
On the 4th the Austrian General Von Weissenwolf arrived at the head quarters of his majesty the Emperor Napoleon, in order to treat, in the name of the Archduke Charles, respecting an armistice and the preliminaries of a peace. When the monarch declined it, Gen. Von Weissenwolf declared, that the army of the Archduke Charles was 200,000 men strong. It was answered that the fate of this army would be decided in a day or two. Weissenwolf obtained orders, however to go to Vienna to his relations.
MUNICH, July 11.
Lieut. Gen. Von Wrede had first an horse shot under him; and afterwards he received a contusion on the hip, from a cannon ball, which is not dangerous. It is said that in the battle of the 5th and 6th among others the Archduke Lewis was dangerously wounded.
HAMBURG, 21st July.
On the 19th inst. Gen. Reubell with a Westphalian division of 6000 men commenced his march from Erfurth for Hanover for which his majesty the King of Westphalia with the guards breaks up on the 24th inst.
From the Danube, July 10.
Field Marshall Lieut. d'Aspre died of his wounds and on the 8th was buried at Brunn.
From Moravia, 12th July.
On the 4th the French threw a new bridge from the Island Lobau across the Danube. The ground and an immense quantity of Artillery much facilitated this undertaking. The imperial royal army were posted on the heights behind the Russbach and extended their right wing to Sussenbrunn and Kagran, with the left to Neustadel. The center was at Wag-ram. In the night between the 4th and 5th the enemy completed his passage to the left bank, and very early in the morning shewed himself in great numbers on the plain.
About noon he attacked at all points the line of the Imperial Royal army; but his greatest effort was directed against the centre. His attacks, supported by an immense number of artillery, among which were many batteries of the largest calibre, were repeated with the greatest fury. At 10 o'clock at night, the firing ceased.
On the 6th at 4 o'clock in the morning the enemy repeated his attacks with still greater vehemence, than the day before. The struggle against the centre and right wing was renewed, when the enemy all of a sudden, with fresh divisions and great eagerness fell upon the left wing at Neustadel, and succeeded after an obstinate battle in compelling it to retreat; whereupon as one flank of the imperial army was threatened, his imperial highness the Archduke Generalissimo, ordered a retreat to Stammersburg and Bisamberg, that the army might take a new position and cover the communication with Bohemia.
The imperial army suffered a great loss. In general Norman it lost a most accomplished commander. The generals Peter Vecsay, d'Aspre and Vukasowitz are past recovery. Less severely wounded are generals, the prince of Hesse, Homburg, Stutterheim, and Paar. His imperial Highness the Generalissimo himself, and also the Prince Lichtenstein received wounds, but which will have no bad consequence.
From Augsburg, 13th July.
Agrably to orders yesterday received from Vienna, this morning early the gen.

and Division the Reichsgraf and Sena- for Baumont with a considerable body of troops, that were hitherto cantoned in this city and neighborhood, marched thro' Memmingen towards Voralberg. They have a powerful train of artillery with them.
The number of the new conscription, which has arrived here within 3 days a- mounts to 6000 men.
The Copenhagen Gazette states that the news of the battle of the 5th and 6th of July between the French emperor and the archduke Charles was known in Par- is on the 12th of July.
The Turks are reported to have forbid- den the English passage of the Dar- danelles, and it is generally believed that their friendship with England is at an end.
STRASBURG, July 8.
Letters from Vienna state, that on the first inst. in the night the duke of Rivoli crossed the Danube with 800 men, and des- troyed several works which the enemy had erected to oppose his passage, on the same night 10,000 men followed.
The general of the guard in a letter to his family, of the 2d July from the island of Lobau (Napoleon) says, "60,000 men are to day crossing the Danube, 60,000 more are immediately to follow them. When you receive this letter a grand de- cisive battle will have been fought."
From the Danube, July 5.
Gen. McDonald's division which forms the right wing of the Italian army, has crossed the Raab, and must at this mo- ment have advanced as far as Nesprum.
On the night of the first July, the French passed from the island Lobau to the left bank of the Danube with a nu- merous train of artillery, a number of cav- alry and some infantry.
BOSTON, Sept. 8.
From Sweden, July 23.
A letter from Salem, dated yesterday, says, "The Mary and Eliza, has arrived here from Gottenburg.—Peace between Russia and Sweden was soon expect- ed. The terms would undoubtedly be dictated by the Russian Army near Stockholm. The Crown Prince (of Denmark) has ex- pressed a disapprobation of the alleged causes of condemnation of American ves- sels in Norway, and an intention of "cor- recting the procedure."
"Gottenburg is no place for early new- from the Armies."
A letter from Copenhagen, dated the 20th of June, mentions, that the Aurora, captain Masters; the Henry, captain Har- ris, and several other American ves- sels, had been brought in there by Dan- ish privateers. The documents of some of them, perhaps of all were ample and fair; but they were to undergo a trial. Hop- es were entertained of their acquittal. There are many difficulties in the way of voyages to Russia; and the exportation of hemp, iron and sail cloth from Copenhagen is prohibited.
NEW FRENCH TITLES.
Emperor of the French, King of Italy and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine.—Napoleon Bonaparte, born in Cor- sica, August 15, 1769, crowned December 2, 1804; married March 8, 1796, to Jo- sephine Tascher De La Pagerie, born in Martinique, June 24, 1768. This period of the Empress' birth is as given in the French Kalendar; persons acquaint- ed with her say she was born at a much earlier period. She was the Widow of Gen. Beauharnais who married her in Martinique. The Empress has five bro- thers, viz.
1. Joseph Napoleon, late king of Na- ples, sold an king in Spain, grand elec- tor of France, born in 1768, married in 1794 to Marie Julie Clary, born in 1777. 2. Louis Napoleon, king of Holland grand constable of France, born in 1778, married in 1802, to Hortense Eugene de Beauharnais, born in 1783, and daughter of the empress Josephine. King Louis has one or two sons, one of whom has been named by the emperor Napoleon, as his successor.
3. Jerome Napoleon, king of West- phalia. Our Register does not give the date of his birth, but we conjecture it to have been about 1782.
4. The emperor's fourth brother is Lucien Bonaparte, who has not yet been acknowledged as belonging to the impe- rial family. We believe he is the next oldest to the emperor. He resides in Rome.
The emperor Napoleon has several sis- ters, of which are 1. Eliza, married in 1797, to Felix de Bacciochi. 2. Marie Pauline, born in 1782, married in 1802, to Carreille, prince of Borgheze; and now we believe, princess of Pambano. 3. An- nunziata Caroline, born in 1783, married in 1800 to Joachim Murat, king of the Two Sicilies.
The empress Josephine has one son, Eugene (Beauharnais) Napoleon, viceroy of Italy, who married, in 1807, the prin- cess Augusta Amelia of Bavaria. The viceroy's infant daughter has been created princess of Bologna.
THE GRAND DIGNITARIES
Of the French empire are; king Joseph, grand elector; king Louis, grand constab- le; prince Cambacérès, duke of Parma, arch chancellor of the empire; prince Le-
brun, duke of Placenza, arch treasurer of the empire; Eugene Napoleon, viceroy of Italy; and king Joachim, grand admiral of France.
The following are all the other old de- signations and new titles we can recol- lect, viz.
OLD DESIGNATIONS. NEW TITLES. Cardinal Fesché, un- cle of the Emperor Archbishop of Lyons Mon. C. M. Talleyrand Prince of Benevento, & Vice Elector Marshal Berthier Prince of Neufchâtel &c Marshal Bernadotte Prince of Ponte Corvo Marshal Murat King of the two Sicilies Marshal Lefebvre Duke of Dantzic Marshal Massena Duke of Rivoli Marshal Ney Duke of Elchingen Marshal Bessiers Duke of Istria Marshal Victor Duke of Belluna Marshal Lasnes (dead) Duke of Montebello Marshal Augereau Duke of Castiglione General Arthuy Duke of Padua Marshal Moncey Duke of Cornegiana Marshal Kellerman Duke of Valmy Marshal Marmont Duke of Ragusa Marshal Junot Duke of Abrantes Marshal Savary Duke of Rovigo Marsal Soult Duke of Dalmatia Marsal Mortier Duke of Treviso Marshal Davoust Duke of Auerstadt Marshal Duroc Duke of Friuli General Clark Count Hohenberg M. Lacue Count Sessai
There are several of the Senators, Gene- rals, &c. which are Counts. We know of no other French male orders than that of Emperor, Princess, Dukes, and Counts. Marshal Berthier has a double title. The Duke of Vicerenza is ambassador from France in Russia; but we do not recollect his former name. Pub. Reg.
THE FRENCH MARSHALS.
The following particulars respecting some of the above nobility, extracted from The Edinburgh Review, may not be unacceptable to the reader:—
Bernadotte, at the commencement of the revolution, was a sergeant of marines. In 1794, he rose to a major general.
Murat was a subaltern in the militia under Louis XVI. and became an officer of cavalry in the revolution.
Lefebvre, son of a miller in Alsace, was a sergeant in the regiment of French guards before the revolution. He is the premier duke of the new French nobility. A short time since, on being delegated by the emperor to confer the order of the Legion of Honor on some Bavarian offi- cers, he told them they received their insignia from "the hands of one, who by his courage evinced in 150 battles and en- gagements and faithfully fulfilling his du- ties, had risen from a sergeant to the dig- nity of a Marshal of France."
Massena was a subaltern in the Sar- dinian service. At the commencement of the revolution. In 1793 he became a briga- dier general.
Ney was a Hussar, and passed through various grades to that of adjutant general in 1795.
Bessiers was originally in the ranks. In 1796 he became a captain.
Lasnes, also originally in the ranks, was in 1794 an adjutant in the Parisian guards.
Augereau was also a private and fencing master in Naples. He entered the French service in 1792, as a volunteer and was a brigadier general in 1794.
Kellerman was a private Hussar in the regiment of Conflans.
Junot was a grenadier under Dillon in 1792, in 1796 was one of Bonaparte's aids.
Soult was a subaltern before the revolu- tion, and in 1795 an adj. gen.
Mortier was a captain of volunteers.
Marshal Brune, of whom we have not heard much of late, and who has incurred the displeasure of Napoleon, was a prin- er before the revolution. He commenced his military career in 1792. Jourdan was a shopkeeper at the commencement of the revolution; and Perignon, after acting as justice of the peace entered the army and rose rapidly to the command of the army of the Eastern Pyrenees. We do not recollect the new titles, if they have any, of the three last.
PRINCES OF THE HOUSE OF AUS- TRIA.
The Emperor of Austria, Francis Jo- seph, was born in 1768—has been twice married; the last time to the Princess Maria Beatrice his cousin, the present empress. The Emperor has eight Bro- thers, all, I believe, Archdukes; and three Sisters. The Brothers are—
1. Ferdinand Joseph, born in 1769, and commanded the Austrian army in Poland —2 Charles Lewis, born in 1771, a gen- eralissimo of the Austrian forces—3 Jo- seph Anthony, born in 1776—4 Anthony Victor, born in 1779—5 John Baptist, born in 1782, and commander of the late Aus- trian army in Italy—6 Rainer Joseph, born in 1783—7 Lewis Joseph, born in 1785—8 Rudolph, born in 1788.
The Austrian Emperor has two uncles living, viz.—Ferdinand Charles, of Lor- rain, born in 1754; and Maximilian Fran- cis, of Lorraine, born in 1756. The cou- sins of the emperor are four, of which Maximilian Joseph, mentioned in the French bulletin as having deserted Vienna, was born in 1782.—P. Register.
HOUSE OF BOURBON.—The last ac- counts received from the Mediterranean inform us of the death of Alfonso, count de Beaujolais—youngest of the three sons of the late celebrated Philip Egalite, duke of Orleans. He was scarcely 39 years of age and had not distinguished himself by any actions of merit. It is said that his dissolution was accelerated by his ir- regularities. The duke de Montpensier, Anthony Philip, second of the sons of Eglise, died only about a year ago. He was a prince of some talents, in particular or painting; in which art he was such a
proficient, that it was believed he might have acquired both reputation and subsis- tence by his performances in that art, if he had been driven to the necessity of practising it for support.
The duke de Montpensier, and his bro- ther, the count de Beaujolais, were only of the age of 14 and 12, when the French revolution broke out in 1789.—On the ex- ecution of their father, in 1793, they were shut up, by order of the national assembly, in the fort of Notre Dame de la Garde, near Marseilles. In an attempt to effect his escape from that fortress, the duke de la Montpensier fell and fractured his leg. Their elder brother, the duke de Chartre, now duke of Orleans, having quit France, previous to his father's imprisonment and death, wandered over a large part of Europe. Born to the greatest succession of any subject in the world, he saw himself deprived of it as well as his high rank and collateral right to the crown of France in conse- quence of a revolution, in which his father acted a conspicuous part. To such dis- tress was he even reduced, about 1796 or 1797, as to have actually kept a school in Zurich, in Switzerland for some time.
Like the younger Dionysius, who, after his expulsion and exile from Syracuse, was compelled, according to Cicero, to have recourse to a similar expedient at Co- rinth. The present duke of Orleans is said to be a man of talents, on whom adversi- ty, that rugged nurse, has not been lost. After quitting Switzerland, he crossed the Atlantic to St. Domingo, and on his re- turn from the W. Indies, he travelled not only over the northern kingdoms of Eu- rope, particularly Sweden, but he followed the track of Maupeu to Tornea, in Lap- land. He even penetrated beyond Tornea almost to the North Cape, and returned back by Drontheim, Christiania, the capi- tal of Norway, from whence he reached Copenhagen. The present duke of Or- leans is not 35 years old. His health is said to be in a precarious state. He is the last of that branch of the illustrious house of Bourbon; is descended from Lou- is XIII and Ann of Austria, by Philip, younger brother of Louis XIV, who was the father of the famous Regent Duke.
ENGLAND.
Colonel WARDLE, in the British House of Commons, on the 19th June stated the burthen of the country, and the grievances from which he thought it might be relie- ved. In the course of his observations he said that the publick expenditure in 1808 amounted to 71 millions of money, and from the survey of the estimates presented for 1809, it had increased to 79 millions. He proposed to make the following alterations by which enormous sums would be saved: The regiments of Horse guards and Blues which now consist of 22,000 men he would reduce to 500, as they are only intended for parade.
There are at present 23,399 dragoons, which he would reduce to 15,000. This would save the country £1,276,000 annually.
The foreign troops in the British service amount to 22,978, the expense of this corps is £1,800,000 per an. He would discharge these altogether, believing it to be bad policy, to employ foreigners.
The Royal Staff Corps, he deemed use- less, as their duty appertained to the engi- neers. The annual expense of this corps is £20,000.
The militia of the United Kingdom costs the country annually three millions: by al- lowing half the men to spend a month em- ployed at the harvest, £300,000 might be saved.
The annual expense of the Local Militia was £1,218,000 out of this £300,000 was allowed for the staff, which he deemed a profligate expenditure.
The clothing of this corps costs £3 per man, whereas a jacket and trousers being all that was necessary for uniform, might be procured for half a guinea; £700,000 might be saved this way every year.
The Volunteer force cost £1,000,000 per an. This was useless; for the spirit of the country, and the attendant advantages on the service, such as exemption from hal- lot &c. ought to be sufficient to induce men to enter into it.
The Royal Waggon Train costs £48,993 per an. This is useless, because it can only be employed at home.
The Staff of the army costs £449,649 per an. He could show that £200,000 per an. might be saved.
The recruiting staff, cost £349,000 per an. £100,000 might be saved.
The expense of clothing the troops might be reduced, so as to save annually £135,000.
In supplies for the troops £300,000 per an. might be saved.
The clothing sent to the Spanish levies, might have been contracted for at a cheaper rate, and £100,000 have been saved. The military expen-
diture in
1806 was £17,314,420 1807 15,275,850 1808 15,396,539 1809 17,420,000
The whole charge for the collection of the Revenue, in the present year, amounts to £2,815,516; one million might be saved by reducing the commissions, &c. to 3 per cent.
The duties levied in Ireland amount to £5,551,650 and the charge of collecting it, was £528,633, being at the rate of £9, 10 per cent. A saving of £284,519 might be made in this.
The Post-Office revenue in Scotland is collected at an expense of 12 per cent. in the gross.
By abolishing the office of Commissioners for auditing the publick accounts, £75,000 per an. would be saved.
That several millions might be saved from the Post Office, fortifications, military roads, Barracks, &c. &c.
It was supposed that £455,000,000 of of the publick money was unaccounted for, as money was always voted upon general estimates.
HOLLAND.
Extract of a letter, from a mercantile house of the first respectability in Rotter- dam, to their correspondent in Baltimore, dated 4th July.
"We have now only time to transmit you a translated copy of a decree, whereby the importation of American produce is provisonally allowed for three months un- der the regulations therein mentioned. And as our government is evidently incli- ned to relax, we make no doubt, with the approbation of the French government, but ours will prolong the indulgence, and mo- dify the regulations as far as is necessary, for a free exercise of your neutral commer- cial rights."
"Tobacco and Ashes are amongst the articles already permitted, by a decree of the 4th of April last."
Decree of the 30th June, 1809.
American vessels arriving within the time of three months from the date here- of, (those already arrived included) will not be subjected to the measures of the blockade, provided they have neither been in England nor visited by the enemy; to this effect the captain shall be obliged to make a declaration, which, if found false, the ship and cargo shall be confiscated. So far as the cargo shall consist of goods the importation of which, according to ex- isting measures, is permitted, the same shall be left at the disposal of the owners or consignees, the remainder shall be put un- der sequestration and deposited in the king's warehouses.
Decree of the 30th June, 1809.
ART. 1. The list of articles permitted to be im- ported by our decree of the 31st March last, is provisionally augmented by the fol- lowing, viz.
1. Rice 2. Staves 3. Peruvian Bark, and other medicinal drugs 4. Georgia, Louisiana, and Carolina cotton 5. Java Coffee 6. Sugar of that country.
ART. 2.
Besides the certificates of origin requir- ed by our above mentioned decree, our Director of the Customs will name a com- mittee of proper persons, consisting of sworn Brokers, for the special purpose of ascertaining whether the goods specified in the former article, are really and originally from our colonies or America, and can be acknowledged as such; for the better ex- ecution of which, the goods will be deposi- ted in the king's warehouses.
ART. 3.
One month after the date of this decree, our Director of the Customs shall make us a report whether it be advisable to pro- long the here above mentioned measures.
SWEDEN.
On Wednesday last arrived at Salem the brig Eliza and Mary, Capt. Turner, from Gottenburg. When she sailed (23d July) peace had not yet been made between Russia and Sweden, but it was an event on expected. The Russians had an army of 40,000 men, double the number of the Swe- dish army in the neighbourhood of Stock- holm. It was reported, that Russia had of- fered the restoration of Finland which she had recently conquered from Sweden, and Pomerania, which the French had here- tofore taken, on condition that Sweden should enter into the compact against G- Britain, and shut her ports to British com- merce.
A letter from the above arrival states the expectation of peace between Sweden and Russia.
Extracts of letters from Gottenburg, July 3d and 18.
"Ryburg & Co. of Copenhagen, write, that there is no regulation against Ameri- can vessels; but that they cannot guarantee that they will not be captured by Danish privateers; though they are of opinion, if their papers are clear, and they have not been to England, they would shortly be cleared."
"Mr. Williams writes from London, that the Danes will protect the American commerce, and that the vessels at Ton- ningen will meet with no detention."
SWEDISH CONSULATE.
BOSTON, 1st September, 1809.
No 24, India Wharf.
For the information of merchants and o- thers concerned. Notice is hereby given, that no vessel shall be admitted into Swe- dish ports in Europe, unless provided with a bill of health, and certificates to the proofs of property by the consul or vice-consul at the place of the vessel's departure—and that vessels from St. Bartholomews must also be furnished with proofs of property and consular certificates, to insure them an admittance in said island.
OF ITALY.
GIBRALTAR, July 26.—The British ex- pedition from Sicily, under gen. sir John Stuart, has disembarked near Naples and tak- en several places, among them Baida.
The natives, in great numbers, were joining the British army.
[The force of this armament was stated in a former account, to amount to 23,000 men.]
REUS, July 12.—We have good news from Gerona to day.—the garrison had re- ceived a reinforcement of 3000 men, and repulsed the French with great slaughter in a general attack they made upon the ci- ty and fortress on the 6th inst. which last- ed 10 hours. The Moniteur from the 23d to the 26th June, makes no mention of the army on the Danube—a sign they had no- thing good to produce.
From a Gibraltar paper of July 26.
MURCIA, July 8.—Yesterday's mail brought us the following letter, which we give here literally.
MAHON, June 21.
Mr. Editor, I avail myself of the opportunity of a ves- sel going to sail for the coast of Spain, to impart to our beloved nation the pleasing
and official intelligence which the gove- rnment of this island has just received from his Sicilian majesty, to the following pur- pose:
"The British and Sicilian troops, which landed on the coast of Italy, united with the intrepid natives of that kingdom, who are anxious to take vengeance of the evils in- flicted on them by the tyrant of Europe, have obtained the greatest advantages, as they have succeeded in setting the whole of that kingdom (of Naples) against the oppressor (Murat) who tyrannizes over it, and enabled many of the towns which groaned under his yoke, to shake it off."
"There is no city in Italy," it is further stated, "but has issued a proclamation to urge the inhabitants to rise." And this in- telligence being so favorable to the most just cause which the Spaniards are defending, I will not let this opportunity escape, thou- gh the nation may have the joyful news with- out delay:
I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) MARTIN COSTA.
Extrait of a private Letter.
MALTA, June 28.—Our troops and the Sicilians, after making themselves masters of Ischia and Procida have landed at Bula, whence they were to proceed immediately to Naples. The natives were flocking to the British standard.
SPAIN.
LATEST FROM SPAIN.
[By the ship Anthony Mangin, from Cadiz.]
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.
COMMUNICATED FOR THE SALEM RE- GISTER.
MADRID, June 20.—The king is desirous to secure the payment of the national debt, and has accomplished it. Deprecating a bankruptcy of the state, which under the old government had impoverished so many families, he has by a decree of the 9th June assumed the whole debt, and for the liquidation ordered national estates to be sold, which otherwise would have been of no value to the public. The paper money heretofore issued by government should pass current at its nominal value, and be received in payment for national estates as gold & silver. This will put a stop to the imposition of usurers and strengthen the confidence in the new government. Since the French have been in

WEST INDIES.
Extracts of a letter dated Kingston (Jam.) August 2.
"The American brig Constellation, captain Thomas, from Beaufort, North Carolina, loaded with lumber and provisions, after entering this harbor, has been seized and detained by his majesty's ship Polephemus, for having picked up a negro on board. This seizure has been made under the orders in council of 13th April last, to which I refer you, and by which you will perceive that 'staves and lumber, horses, mules, asses, neat cattle, sheep, hogs, and every other species of live stock and live provisions (beef, pork and butter excepted) are allowed to be imported and exported into and from the British West India Islands and Colonies in South America, for twelve months from the foregoing date, which are of the growth or produce of the country to which the vessel importing the same shall belong.' &c. "but nothing herein contained shall be construed to permit the first November, 1809, the foregoing articles to be imported into the said Islands, colonies, &c. in vessels on which there does not exist at the time of importing the same a tonnage duty of at least 5 shillings sterling per ton. Nor after the first of July, 1810, on which there does not exist at the time of importing the same a duty of at least 10 shillings per quintal on dried or salted cod or ling fish, cured or salted, and a proportionate duty per barrel on cured or pickled shads, alewives, mackerel or salmon, besides the tonnage duty on the vessel as aforesaid." Now there does not exist here a duty laid on April last by the assembly of this island, of more than five shillings sterling per ton on the vessel importing the same, and it is presumed she will be cleared on that score, although objected to by the captor as being only an Island Duty, and not originating at home; the case has been submitted (as all cases of capture or detention are) to the attorney general, and he has ordered her for trial; but I am informed that the agents for the captors, as well as the collector, are of opinion to withdraw; this will be ascertained to-day or to-morrow, and when I learn the issue will inform you. This law, I fear, will operate on Americans, bound to Islands or Colonies, where no such duties exist; and expose them to ruin in the most innocent pursuits. This being a novel case and of vast importance to the American trade in particular, I am anxious that my countrymen should be apprised of the same as soon as possible for their better government."
Domestic.
At a numerous meeting of the citizens of Baltimore, held at the Pantheon on the evening of the 23d of August, 1809.
THEODORICK BLAND, in the chair, Thomas Rogers, Secretary.
The following report of the committee appointed at a preceding meeting, was read and unanimously concurred with. The following resolutions were then entered into.
THE REPORT.
From a due consideration of the treatment which the Government and Citizens of the U. States, have, for several years, experienced from the nations of Europe, and the unreasonable prohibitions and depredations practised on, and against, the commerce of this country, it becomes the bounden duty of every citizen of the Union, to use all fair and honourable means for counteracting these infringements of our national rights; and since experience as well as the history of mankind, proves, that the independence of a nation is directly proportional to the extent and variety of its internal resources, it becomes, likewise, the duty of every citizen to endeavor to introduce and encourage whatever may have a tendency to lessen our mercantile dependence on other nations, and to increase the wealth of our own. Among the various means for promoting these ends, the encouraging of Domestic Manufactures, that of clothing claims the first regard. Presuming, then, that the best mode of encouraging the Domestic Manufacture of Clothing, is, to wear it, we, whose names are hereunto annexed, have entered, and by these presents, do enter into an association to be known by the name and title of "The Maryland Association for the encouragement of Domestic Manufactures."
The Articles of Association being as follows, viz.
Art. I. That each and all the members of this association, do mutually and severally pledge themselves to one another, and their country, that they will, as far as practicable, exclusively wear clothing of Domestic Manufactures; and that in all cases, they will give a decided preference to each and every species of the manufactures and products of the United States; provided, nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall extend to clothing in the possession of any person at the time of his becoming a member of this association.
Art. II. The officers of the association shall be a President and Secretary; each to be chosen annually by ballot; the duties of the President shall be, to preside in the meetings of the association, and to transact such business for the same as may be committed to his charge. The duty of the Secretary shall be, to record and preserve regular minutes of the transactions of the association, and in the absence of either of the above officers at any meeting of the society, the members present may make temporary appointments.
Art. III. The stated meetings of the association shall be on the first Monday in the months of August, November, February and May.
Art. IV. The association may, from time to time, make such bye-laws and pass such resolves, as shall, to a majority of members present, be deemed necessary for carrying the design of this institution into effect; and, in all meetings of the association, of which due notice shall have been given, seven members shall constitute a quorum.
T. ROGERS, Sec'y.
Domestic Manufactures.
As agriculture is the grand basis of manufactures, it can never happen that the manufacturer shall encroach upon the agriculturist. The one will greatly help the other; but the manufacturer and mechanic of America may stand like the Picts Wall
between the husbandman and the foreign manufacturer, who takes his raw material, and taxes him most severely for his folly, by heavy duties on the manufactured article.
The following advice of a distinguished foreigner ought to be imprinted deeply on the mind of every Independent American:— Wig.
"Let them, (the Americans) make the best of the benefits of nature, and the fruitful country they inhabit. Let the iron of your mines, the wool of your flocks, the cotton of your fields, and the skins of the wild beasts wandering in your woods, improve your manufactures, and take under your hands a new value: let agriculture, industry, arts, and the first of all sciences, that of procuring the greatest happiness to states and men, be perfected amongst you; let the recital of your happiness call around your habitations all the unfortunate of the earth; let tyrants of every country, let every oppressor, political or sacred, know, that there exists a place in the world where one may escape from their chains, where disgraced humanity has raised her head, where crops grow for the poor; where the laws are no more than a security for happiness; where religion is free, and science has ceased to be a slave; where nature seems at last desirous of justifying herself in the creation of man; and government, so long guilty over the whole earth, at least makes amends for her crimes."
In the Salem Gazette we find the following sentence:
"As we do not perceive that the condition, which by the law was to be the ground of such proclamation, was ever ascertained, it appears to us that the proclamation of the 19th of April was a mere unauthorised executive act, having no legal basis for its support."
We have seen the same sentiments hinted at in some other federal paper. It is because the federalists thought that Madison acted illegally in issuing the proclamation of April 19, that they approved of his conduct? And was it from such conviction they predicted that he would disappoint the democrats and become a federalist?— Salem Register.
The republican creed once was that no course remained for us but Embargo, War, or a disgraceful Submission . English perfidy has destroyed the hope that opened a new alternative; it has brought things back to the old stand, with this difference only, that they have multiplied injury, and ruined, for the present at least, the efficacy of that course which was justly deemed the only alternative but war. Submission is out of the question. Shall we have an embargo, or shall we, in any shape have war? We have tried an embargo—we have witnessed its power; but the misfortune is, we have, at the same time, witnessed that unprincipled and inhuman opposition from faction, the tendency of which was to destroy its efficacy, and the end of which has been still to keep us under the deplorable humiliation. With this view of the subject, and knowing the depravity which we have to encounter, reasonable doubts might be entertained, as to the policy of renewing that measure, even could we bring back, in a moment, every vessel and every cargo that has been lured from our ports. But then we cannot recal. Britain has again replenished her granaries and is now prepared to laugh at our return to a system lately so alarming to her iniquitous pretensions.
It is one question whether it would have been wise to have continued the embargo—it is a very different question whether a return to it will under present circumstances be advisable. We shall hold sacred, & religiously support those measures which must shortly have been adopted by the up-right and deliberate councils of this nation—but our poor opinion is avowedly in favor of a resistance which shall at least be co-extensive with the warfare carried on against us by that nation which is, comparatively speaking, the author of all our wrongs. In short, we would unite the whole energy of the nation against the plunderer of the seas, seeking in the spoils of her commerce, some remuneration for the losses to which she has too long doomed us with impunity.— ib.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 13.
Letter from Liverpool received in this City,
Dated, June 17th, 1809.
GENT:—To our friends in America we have already given an opinion respecting the differences which so long and so unhappily subsist—and we ventured to request that they would act with full confidence upon that opinion. How far occurrences have borne us out in our anticipations, little doubt can now exist—but new difficulties have arisen, and our ministers have certainly assumed a tone which does not appear very conciliatory. Many are decidedly of opinion, that war will be among the first consequences which will result from this new and extraordinary policy on the part of the British government. As a measure of diplomacy there is assuredly something perfectly unique in it—but whilst we can readily believe that Mr. Erskine during the negotiation may have mistaken a broad for an undefined basis—or, commands and instructions of a general nature, for those of an unlimited character,—we are decidedly of opinion that his conduct has not been in direct opposition to the orders received by him. That he would act in unqualified hostility to them, is not to be endured.
Upon this subject, our ministers, to say the best of them, have been very equivocal. We are strongly of opinion that the dispute must be shortly settled—and we think that those will act wisely, who act upon this expectation.
Mr. Canning would not, at least, we are decidedly of opinion, that he would not introduce his temporary Bill, unless he left a conviction that a continuance of its provisions would be effected in the interval, by a settlement of the whole affair.
At intervals of about a month, we shall wait upon you with a printed report for the changes and events which appear during
the period of publication—and, in the interim, we shall advise you of the variations, and prospects, that take place in this market, at the time of their occurrence, by such opportunities as may offer.
P. S.—Under date of the 23d January, it appears that Mr. Canning gave instructions to Mr. Erskine. Mr. Oakley did not sail until the 1st March on these subjects, but of what nature the orders subsequent to the 23d January were, we are left to conjecture. We have no doubt that Mr. Erskine has received in substance, though not in form, nearly every thing that was required—and we believe that Mr. Jackson, on leaving this country, declared his perfect conviction of a full and a friendly arrangement.
The whole Austrian army, expecting an attack, lay that night under arms, but nothing was done that night or the following day. The French did not seem disposed to fight, but began to obstruct a tete-de-pont on the left bank of the Danube, and built a fourth bridge. The Austrians believed that if the French wished to engage, they would be obliged to storm the batteries behind which their army was drawn up in battle array. On the 2d the archduke Charles ordered the whole army to resume their former positions in the interior of the fortifications, as he believed the expected attack of the French was postponed.
BUCKTOWN, August 23.
DIVING BELLS.
We learn with much pleasure, that the proprietors of this truly useful machine, anticipate the possession of considerable property for thirty years buried in the waters of Penobscot. The Government brig which was blown up and sunk at the close of the war, was laden principally with naval stores, cannon, ball, &c. A large quantity of balls have already been recovered, which have sustained some diminution, the natural consequence of their long immersion in water. We understand that the rigging and cordage, which was found served, still retains its original strength and durability, while the portion which came in immediate contact with the water was entirely rotten and decayed.
The Agricultural Society of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, has lately received 250 portions of different seeds, not natives, with letters from the secretary of the Agricultural Society in Paris upon interesting subjects. As a most valuable addition to the plan, the Agricultural Society at Philadelphia has engaged to collect all the models for inspection, which promise any improvement to instruments used in agriculture, and to keep such ready for use as will assist the knowledge and use of every valuable discovery. That at the same time the curious may examine and the agriculturist may be supplied at his discretion. Much may be hoped from this institution. Essex Reg.
Thirteen seamen have deserted from the British frigate L'Africaine since her arrival at Annapolis. They were demanded of the Sheriff of Baltimore by the British consul, and seven of them were accordingly taken into custody on Thursday. They were carried before Judge Scott on the following morning, and by him discharged on the ground of their being detained without any legal commitment. They report that Edward Swaine, John Ferguson, George Wilson, John Bailey, John Williams, and Amos Cross, all American citizens, have been impressed, and are now on board the L'Africaine.
A man who calls his name Abijah Sterns, and who in two letters, which he has written since his commitment to Stephen Jacobs and Elijah Pain, Esqrs. of Vermont, styles himself "Chief Judge of the Supreme Court" of that state, was last week apprehended in the county of Washington and committed to the goal in Saratoga, charged with being the perpetrator of a murder committed at a place called Newtown, in the town of Halfmoon, about 14 years ago. No account is given in the papers of the causes which have, at this time, led to the apprehending of this man—neither have we ever heard, who the person was that was murdered.
THE FISHERIES!—Schooner Farmer, from Labrador, with 7,000 fish; schr. Juno, from do. with 117,000; schooner Parrot, from do. with 84,000; and two or three others, with like fares, arrived at Newburyport last week. Fish has been very plenty this season. The aggregate amount expected to be received at Newburyport by vessels belonging there, is stated at 1,000,500 fish! A number of Cape Cod vessels were at Labrador 3d ult. Our fisheries are an important branch of business, (especially when "Commerce is left unembarrassed with too much regulation,") is a healthy employment, and an honourable and honest method of "drawing riches from the ocean."
POSTSCRIPT.
GERMANY.
VIENNA, July 5.
Since the first inst. several divisions of the French and Italian armies have crossed the Danube on three new bridges. The combined armies of France and Italy, (the latter commanded by prince Eugene Beauharnais) amount to 170,000 men and have already taken a strong position on the left bank of the Danube, over which the emperor himself crossed last night with the remainder of his army. We hear this day distinctly the sound of cannon on the side of the Aspern and Essling, and a courier has this moment arrived who states that the French had already taken by storm the first redoubts of the fortified camp of the archduke Charles. To-morrow, to all appearance will be a very dreadful day, will decide the fate of the Austrian monarchy.
AUGSBURG, July 9.
The Bavarian General Vincent arrived here this morning and gives the following detail. On the 5th inst. at an early hour
in the morning the emperor Napoleon by his manoeuvring, attracted the attention of the Archduke Charles on the side of Aspern and Essling and the latter ordered two additional bridges to be thrown over one of the arms of the Danube six miles below Essling, which was soon executed and 30,000 men crossed over on them. At twelve o'clock they came up and commenced an attack upon the enemy's flank. The emperor of France forced the centre of the Austrian army and soon after obliged the left wing to give way, when they were completely routed. At 7 in the evening they were flying in all directions.
Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1809.
The Secretary of State left the city of Washington for Baltimore on Wednesday last.
As the President of the United States is not at the city of Washington, it is presumed that, although Mr. Jackson has been received, he is not yet formally acknowledged; of course, Mr. Erskine will continue, in the interim, to discharge the functions of British Minister.
The public are acquainted with the fact, that the President of the United States has no power by law to suspend the non-intercourse with respect to Great Britain, upon any other terms than those entered into by Mr. Erskine. The probability is, that Mr. Jackson has nothing of the kind to offer.
Mr. Jackson, the new English envoy, we understand, is a man about five feet ten inches high, stoutly made, florid complexion, and rather an agreeable looking man. We fear he is, "a goodly apple, rotten at the core."
NEW REVOLUTION AT ALGIERS.
A friend to the Editor of the Argus has furnished him with the copy of a letter from a gentleman at Algiers to another residing in the city of Washington, which contains an account of a recent revolution in that regency. It is as follows:
ALGIERS, March 15th, 1809.
"In my last I gave you some account of the revolution that took place here on the 7th of November;—since that period every thing has been very quiet, (considering the number of idle Turks who have remained in the city,) until the 4th instant, when the death of Ali Pasha was decided on, partly because he had been always considered as unfit for the post, and (as is said) because he had determined to cut off the Aga and Hoga Cavallos, both of whom had been continued in office by the sultans, to whom they were highly agreeable. During the night of the 3d, these officers fled to the caserns and made known the Dey's intentions. In the morning the soldiers went unarmed to the palace and received their pay, having previously empowered the Divan to execute the plan of the intended change; upon their return, a chaos was produced, who presented himself before the Dey, and ordered him to follow him on; the Dey at first assumed a tone of authority; but to no purpose: the dreadful mandate must be obeyed, for a chaos and death are equally inexorable. He was instantly strangled, and succeeded by Haja Ali, the Hoga Cavallos, who had taken refuge in one of the caserns. The usual ceremonies of installation were performed, and the affair was terminated without exciting the smallest sensation or alarm. The poor devil (who was killed) was the Imam of a little Mosque; and totally ignorant of the charge his ambition prompted him to assume. He appeared to have received a shock by his unexpected elevation, which benumbed his faculties; and I know not that he is accused of generosity or bararity. His predecessor, Achmet, was a very different character—a tyrant of the first rank, whose name should be recorded with those of a Nero and a Caligula. The soldiers are said to be very contented with the present Dey, who is represented to be well acquainted with business, and possessed of a mild though firm character."
FOR THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
FEMALE PATRIOTISM; OR, THE BAD EFFECTS OF CONCUBINAGE, LATE MARRIAGES, AND NEGLECTED EDUCATION.
NO. I.
GOVERNMENTS, like animal bodies, have their periods of infancy, maturity and decay. Both contain within them principles of corruption: and the dissolution or existence of either may be prolonged or shortened by the prudence or folly of the agent by which it happens to be directed.
In a monarchy, the goodness of the government depends on the virtues of the prince; in a republic, on the wisdom and morality of the people. Politicians have therefore affirmed, that though a monarchy might exist with corrupt subjects; a republic must be destroyed by the immorality of its own citizens.
Whatever some may think of the justness of this reasoning in theory, there can be no doubt of its truth as a historical deduction from what has actually happened in the world. Sparta, Rome and Athens, by the virtues of their inhabitants, were elevated to the greatest pitch of human perfection; but in succeeding times, through the corrupt morals of their citizens, they have sunk into their present state of degradation.
There is nothing now-a-days in the characters of the wily Italian, or the unsteady, versatile, injudicious and faithless Greek, that bears any resemblance to the times of the Elder Cato, of Themistocles or of Lycurgus. Whilst experience, therefore, demonstrates the necessity of morality to a free people, have we since the establishment of our republic, made any advances in the domestic virtues, or have we any ways degenerated within so short a period?
Marriage among every people, whether savage or civilized, is the first principle of society. The attraction of the sexes, and the ardent desires of their common nature, stimulate them towards this union. This is the first object of their existence and the great source of their happiness. It is, therefore, the business of every friend to mankind, to expose every vice
that either has a tendency to prevent or interrupt the happiness of an union, or that which, in the revolution of a single century, the human race must be extinct. A mankind by these means are renovated in constant succession; so political bodies by the increase or decrease of their people, owe to this the strength or incapacity of their condition. Under the corrupt governments of Europe, where the revenue of one man would support the inhabitants of a province; and where the wealth which he abuses in the indulgence of his selfish passions, has ravished from them the stock of their subsistence; many are compelled to abstain from an union to which nature invites them, and which reason sanctions.
Among that debauched class of men falsely denominated nobles, as if words had changed their meaning, and nobility were baseness: many from the promise and indulgence of their passions, and from a thorough contempt of the other sex, which every attendant consequence, are entirely averse to matrimonial union. But in a country where the enormous fortunes of a few do not dry up the channels of the support of the many, and where, from the abundance of the necessaries of life and the high price of labor, every encouragement is given to early marriage, that we should have numerous instances of men preferring the mercenary caresses of an abandoned colored Delilah, to the chaste and honest loves of a wife, disgraces the arguments of the friends of freedom—that repulses are the only governments favorable to the perfection of human nature; and makes them tremble for that precocity in corruption of a young republican people.
In monarchical governments, where the nobility, insulated from the people, associate together in vice as well as in oppression; the impurity of their example in this seclusion outsteps that sphere in which they move; and the people are preserved by their poverty, by their morality and their education from its pestilential influence. So that, were persons of no or of moderate fortune, to imitate the vicious examples of the nobility, the doors of his me ghibbs and of his equals, would reach him, that though he may not have been declared an outlaw by the laws of his country, yet that he is already outlawed by public opinion to all the purposes of social intercourse. And shall we, who have abjured the government of nobles and kings, and have sworn eternal hostility to their principles, still preserve the consequences of their crimes and impure monuments of their former power?
SENEX.
THEATRE.
The public are respectfully informed that during the season no play will be repeated, nor will there be any postponement on account of weather.
On Wednesday evening, the 20th Sept. will be presented, the inimitable Tragedy of
HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK.
HAMLET Mr. Green, To which will be added (for the first time here) the Musical Entertainment of
My Grandmother, OR THE LIVING PICTURE.
Box one dollar—Gallery 75 cents—Children half price.—Tickets to be had at the Theatre, and from Mr. Davis at his printing office.—Doors to be opened at 6 o'clock—Curtain to rise at 7 o'clock precisely.
A TUTOR WANTED. Mr. Fongine Maury, who taught school at this place the last two years, will remove to Albemarle at Christmas. A person duly qualified will probably find it his interest to succeed him. The advertiser will furnish board, &c. upon the same terms as heretofore. Application ought to be made in time, that arrangements may be made by Richard Morris. Green Springs, Louisa County, } Sept. 19th, 1809. w3t
FITZWYLLSONN & POTTER, Book Sellers and Stationers, have just received a very large supply of Foolscap Cap, Pot and Letter Papers; Latin, French & English school books; Pocket, school and family Bibles; Paper-hangings and bordering; Quills of the first and inferior qualities; Metallic pens; Playing, blank and visiting cards; Ladies and Gentlemen's pocket books; Backgammon tables and Chessboards; Pearl counters; Toothbrushes and Dentifrice; Gold leaf, black lead pencils and water colors; Vocal and instrumental music; Durable ink, &c. &c. A few new publications, among which are some novels. A great variety of Day-Books, Journals and Ledgers, Record and sheriffs books on hand. Tickets in the Rhode-Island Coal Lottery for sale, at 50 cts. each. The price will be shortly raised. The scheme of this Lottery holds out peculiar advantages to the adventurers, as will appear on an examination of it. The drawing will commence shortly. September 15. (5w)
BALTIMORE COLLEGE GRAND LOTTERY.
TICKETS in the BALTIMORE COLLEGE LOTTERY, at $10 each, may be had at this office; and prizes in the New-York Black River Lottery, taken in payment.
The capital prizes in the above lottery are, 2 Prizes of 20,000 dollars 3 10,000 5 5,000 2 2,500 10 1,000, &c. &c. &c.
The above lottery will positively commence drawing in Baltimore, on the first Monday in November next, and will continue drawing, after the rate of FIFTEEN HUNDRED TICKETS per week, until the whole is completed, and will not be liable to the shortest postponement, under any circumstance whatever.
The price of tickets will be raised to $11, after Wednesday next. September 14.

REMOVAL. THE subscriber has removed near the Basin where he continues to keep a house of  Private Entertainment. He has also for sale a general assortment of  PROVISIONS. Likewise sells all kinds of country produce on commission.  FRANCIS PURYEAR. Richmond, May 13th, 1809. N. B. The highest price given for wheat. H. P.
One Thousand Pounds WANTED. FROM the interest of which, a plantation of 500 acres of valuable land will be given, until the money is refunded. Nearly 100 acres are in low grounds, now in cultivation, lying on navigable water, the improvements new and very good, in a healthy and desirable country. Enquire of the Prisoner. September 8, 1809. tf
City Hotel to Let. THAT spacious convenient HOUSE and LOT with out Houses, Stables &c. situated on the street that leads from the main street by the Governor's to the Capitol, which was lately in the occupancy of Mr. Jas. Vaughan, as a Tavern. It will be let for one or more years, and posses- sion given immediately. For terms apply to Benjamin Mosby of Powhatan, or B. Tate of this City, who are authorized by me to let the same. RICHARD CROUCH. Richmond, June 1st, 1809.
IN COUNCIL, January 20, 1809. PROPOSALS will be received by the Ex- ecutive for manufacturing three hundred and fifty Rifles during the present year, be- ing the number directed by law to be provided annually, including the deficiency of last year. Extract from the minutes. DANL. L. HYLTON, Clerk of the Council.
FOR RENT, and immediate possession gi- ven, a LUMBERHOUSE that will hold from 60 to 100 bds. of tobacco, (either with or without a large loft over it). It will an- swer well for a Tobacco Manufactory, or a Warehouse for Codermaker's shop, as it has a good enclosed yard attached to it - also a small Brick house with but one room on a floor - al- so a Store on the Main Street opposite the Bell Tavern, and formerly occupied as a Printing Office and latterly as a Bookbinder's shop. En- quire of the subscriber, living at this Falling Garden. James Lowndes. Richmond, 8th month 1st, 1809.
WILL BE SOLD on the first Monday, in October next, if fair, otherwise the next fairday, at the late dwelling house of Na- thaniel Pope, decd. in Hanover county, sev- eral likely slaves, consisting of men, wo- men and children, the stock of horses, cat- tle, sheep and hogs, one coach and single chair, household and kitchen furniture, plantation utensils, the crop of corn, wheat, oats, blades, and top fodder, &c. Twelve months credit will be allowed the purchaser for all sums above ten dollars on their giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date, if not punctually paid. PHILIP DUVAL, Administrator. August 1st 1809. ids N. B. Judgment and bonded creditors will have a right to purchase at the sale.
AT the same time and place, by virtue of a deed of trust executed to the sub- scriber by Nathaniel Pope, decd. bearing date 28th day of Oct. 1808, will be sold in conformity to the provisions of an act of the last session of Assembly of Virginia, entitled "An act concerning executions & for other purposes" the following slaves, to wit; Milly and her children, York, Betty, Kitty, Daniel and Ben, or so many of the slaves above named, as will be sufficient to satisfy the debt in said deed expressed, together with the charges of executing the same. THOMAS PRICE, Trustee. 1st August, 1809. ids
COLUMBIAN MILLS The subscri- bers having purchased the Columbian Mills, beg leave to inform the public, they are giving CASH for WHEAT and CORN. P. HAXALL & Co. Richmond, August 30th, 1809. tf
VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE. The subscribers wish to dispose of that valuable tract of LAND called FORT LEWIS, lying in the Counties of Botetourt and Montgomery, and containing about 2 500 acres. They also wish to sell 3,180 acres of Land lying in the County of Fluv- anna, on the south side of the Rivanna river, extending from Col. Cary's line down the river, to within about a mile of Columbia. This last mentioned Land, being in five distinct tracts, will be sold separately or together, as may best suit any person de- sirous of purchasing. One fourth of the amount being paid in hand, any reasona- ble credit will be given for the balance. GIBSON & JEFFERSON Richmond, July 28. tf
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD Solo- n from me about the 12th of Nov. 1807, a negro man slave, named Cesar, the property of the subscriber. He formerly belonged to M. Ro- bert Alexander, of Campbell county, and was bought from him a small boy, in the year 1739. He is now about 6 feet high, one of his big toes is very remarkable, being split with an axe through the nail and nearly as high as the second joint, by that it is much broader and larger than the other. He was accustomed to run James river above the falls. I was informed that he went up James River in a bateau owned by one Gentry, to the other side of the mountains. On delivering him to me or securing him in some jail so that I get him again, shall be paid by me the reward of twenty Dollars. This is to forewarn any person or persons from har- boring or concealing him, as they may depend on it that I will prosecute such violators of the law to its full extent. ROBERT MITCHELL. City of Richmond, July 27th, 1809.
NEW MEDICINE STORE. THE subscribers have recently taken a store, near the Market Bridge, opposite Messrs. White and Shelton's, where they offer for sale a very general assortment of DRUGS & ME- DICINES , a few of which are enumerated, viz: Gum Aloes Patent Medicine. Arsenic Steer's Caustical Opi- Assa Foetida didce Arabic Bateman's Drops Guaiac British Oil Gamboge Essence Peppermint Myrrh Lindley's Balsam of Opium Life Opiat Dr. Rawson's Celebra- Shell Lac ted Itch or Beautify- Tragacanth ing Ointment Aqua Fortis Do. do. Genuine Arsenic Anti-bilious and Sto- Arrow-root machic Bitters Camphor Do. do. Worm Cowhage Powders Red and Pale Bark Wheaton's Itch Oint- Cream Tartar-ment Chamomile Flowers Doctor Lee's Genuine Magnesia Windham Billoous Jalap Pills Ipecac Anderson's do. Calomel Hooper's do. Tar Emet Dr Thomas's Aro- Essence Burgamot matic Tooth Paste Lemons Do. Eye Water Spruce Febifuge Elecuary Cloves for Ague and Fever Nutmegs Minkley's Initial Re- Mace medy for the Piles Cassia, &c. &c. &c. Dr. Cooley's Vegetable Elixir or Cough Drops Genuine Spice Bitters ALSO A general assortment of PAINTS & DYING DRUGS - all of which will be sold as low as any other store in this city. Medical practition- ers and gentlemen who are in the habit of selling medicine in the country, will do well to call. VAIL & ROGERS. Richmond, 29th Aug. 1809.
By virtue of a deed of trust, from Andrew Lewis, of the county of Montgomery, WILL BE SOLD by the subscribers, to the highest bidder, at the Eagle Tavern in the city of Rich- mond, upon the 28th day of September next, the following
Tracts of Land With their appurtenances, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay certain debts in the said deed of trust mentioned, that is to say; one tract situate in the county of Montgomery, containing eight hundred acres being that tract on which the said Andrew Lewis now lives; one other tract adjoining the last mentioned on the north, containing ten thousand acres; one other tract adjoining the first mentioned, being an inclusive survey, containing seven thousand seven hundred acres; one other tract adjoining the last mentioned at the west end, containing four hundred and fourteen acres; one other tract called the CHESNEY NECK, containing three hundred and sixty six acres; one other tract called SEVEN as tract on Bottom Creek, adjoin- ing the first mentioned tract of eight hundred acres, and containing one hundred and fifty acres; one other tract also adjoining the first mentioned tract called Prothonous Garden, con- taining one hundred and twenty eight acres; one other tract adjoining the last mentioned, containing one hundred and thirty acres; one other tract adjoining the inclusive survey of sev- en thousand seven hundred acres aforesaid, con- taining eighty acres; one other tract adjoining the same inclusive survey and contain- ing one hundred acres; one other tract lying on both sides of Little River, containing one hun- dred and fifty acres, on which is situate Hope- well Forge - one other tract adjoining thereto, containing one hundred and forty acres - one other tract adjoining the same, called the Saw mill tract, containing four hundred and thirty eight acres - and one other tract adjoining the last mentioned tract, containing one hundred acres - which said several tracts of land are situate in the county of Montgomery. The said sale will be made agreeably to the directions in such cases, of the act of Assembly passed the 31st day of January, 1809, entitled "an act concerning executions, and for other purposes." EDWARD JOHNSTON, } Trustees. JOHN PROSSER, } N. B. The above mentioned property is situ- ate on and about what is generally called the BENT MOUNTAIN, and considered a very valuable estate, particularly for grazing. Any one wishing for more particular information, may apply to Charles Johnston, residing in Campbell County, near Lynchburg, or to Robert Pollard, George Pickett, or Gallego, Richard & Co. in the city of Richmond Richmond, July 11, 1809. ids
A BANK NOTE of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, was taken from a black boy who called himself James Smith, & says he found it in the street - Not thinking it proper to let the boy keep it, I detained it for the proper owner, who may have it, on giving satisfactory evi- dence of his or their right to it and paying the expense of this advertisement. JOHN McDONALD. Richmond, March 12th, 1809. tf
COMMITTED to the jail of Montgo- mery county, on the 27th day of A- pril, a negro man who calls himself MO- SES; says he is about twenty two years of age; he is near six feet high, stout built, and says he is the property of Richard Terrell. The owner is requested to come forward, pay all charges and take him a- way, otherwise he will be dealt with as the law requires. H. GIBSON, Jailor. June 29th, 1809. (3m)
20 Dollars Reward, is offered for apprehending ANDREW, a ne- gro slave, who about the beginning of this month RUN AWAY from the subscriber resi- ding in the neighborhood of Amelia Court House. Andrew is about thirty years old an intelligent, active, small man, a good house and stable servant, drives a Carriage well, un- derstands a little of Shoemaking, and readily performs any kind of plantation labor. Some years ago he was in the service of Mr. Turner at the Bell Tavern in Richmond, where I be- lieve he generally acted as hostler, and after- wards till last Christmas, was employed by Mr. Henry L. Blacoe of Manchester in his tobacco factory. He has a wife living at the Man- chester coal yard, a free mulatto woman named Susie Hollinger, by whom I have reason to be- lieve he is secreted. I will pay the above re- ward to any person who will deliver to me the above mentioned slave, or secure him in Jail, so that I get him again. James Henderson. 20th June, 1809. tf
NOTICE. All persons concerned are required to take notice, that we have paid the debts due to the late concerns of Robert Pollak & Co. of Richmond, and of Dunlop Pollak & Co. of Manchester, to Messrs. Tompkins and Murray, of Rich- mond, and that payments hereafter are to be made to them alone or to those whom they may empower to collect. James & John Dunlop. Petersburg, Sept. 1st. 1809.
THOSE indebted to the late concerns of Dunlop, Pollak & Co. of Manchester, and Robert Pollak & Co. of Richmond, are now requested to come forward and settle their respective balances, as longer indul- gence cannot be granted. Lawyers and a- gents having the collection or settlement of debts due either of the above concerns, will be pleased to forward us statements of the business in their hands. Tompkins & Murray. Richmond, 1st September, 1809. 2m
By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Vir- ginia, A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it is represented to the Executive, that a certain Wil- iam Strother, indicted for felony at the District Court held in the county of Hardy, in Septem- ber, 1807, hath escaped from the jail of the said District Court; I have therefore, thought fit, with the advice of the Council of State, to issue this Proclamation, hereby offering a reward of 50 Dollars, to any person or persons who shall ap- prehend and conduct the said William Strother to the jail of the Superior Court of the county of Hardy, that he may be dealt with as the law di- rects: And I do moreover enjoin all officers, ci- vil and military, and exhort the good people of the Commonwealth, to use their best endeavors to apprehend and convey to the jail of the Su- perior Court of the county of Hardy aforesaid, the said William Strother, that such proceedings may be had thereupon as in such cases the law directs. Given under my hand with the seal of the L. S. Commonwealth annexed, at Rich- mond, this 19th day of Aug. 1809. JOHN TYLER.
The said William Strother is supposed to be about 38 or 40 years of age, light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, about 5 feet 8 inches high, well made and active, with a smiling coun- tenance when spoken to, and very talkative. He is a native of this state.
NOTICE. Once more, it is hereby re- quested that those who are indebted to the trustees of the Richmond Academy, do make payment to the subscriber, as the work is now begun, and it is expected that there will be laid from one hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand bricks in the walls of the Academy this fall. He has un- dertaken the collection by agreement with John Brockenbrough and William W. Hen- ning, the other members of the committee, appointed by a board of trustees: There- fore, it is absolutely necessary that the col- lector may have as little trouble as possible in the collection, in order to have money in hand, to carry on so laudable an undertak- ing. ROBT. MITCHELL. City of Richmond, Sept. 7th, 1809. tf
PUBLIC SALE. By virtue of a deed of trust executed by Robt. and Geo: 1 Turner, and Ann the wife of the said Geo: 1 shall on Tuesday the 26th of this present month (Sept.) at the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond, expose for sale to the highest bid- der, all that lot, piece or parcel of ground, situ- ate, lying and being in the said City, on the east side of the cross street, leading from the Bell Tavern to the river, (subject to a ground rent of £10 per annum forever,) with its ap- purtenances and improvements; & also the fol- lowing slaves, viz: George (or so much of said property as will be sufficient to raise the sum of $750, with all costs attending the execu- tion of the said trust. The said Sale will be made agreeably to the directions and provisions of the act of As- sembly in such cases, passed in January 1809, entitled an act concerning executions and for other purposes. ANDREW STEVENSON, Trustee. Sep 6th, 3 1809. (tds)
FOR SALE. A handsome, second hand, London built CHARIOT, which has been but little used and is in a good state of preservation. Apply to the printer, or to Mr. HUGHES, coach maker, opposite the Old City Tavern, where the carriage may be seen. tf
NOTICE. By virtue of a deed of trust executed by John Yarrington to the subscriber, as trustee, for the purpose of securing the payment of a sum of money therein mentioned, due to Grief & Cla- born Barksdale, will be sold, at public sale, upon the premises, on the 12th Oc- tember next, the TRACT of LAND in the county of Charlotte, whereon said Yarrington resided, of about seventy two acres, lying on Cub creek, adjoining the lands of Sam- uel White, Nathan Harvy &c. The subscriber will only convey the ti- tle vested in him as trustee. The sale will be made agreeable to an act of as- sembly passed the 21st January, 1809, entitled an act, concerning executions, &c for other purposes. WILLIAM GAINES. Charlotte, 11th Sept. 1809. (64)
BLACKSMITH FOR SALE. FOR sale, a most valuable Blacksmith about 30 years of age. He is a stout well disposed negro; and probably inferior to no smith in the State. Enquire of the printer. September, 11th 1809. (3m)
GEORGE WATT, HAS just received and offers for sale - Sicily Madeira and Sherry Wine, by the hhd. and cask; Green Coffee; Orleans Sugar by the hhd; German Batillas Simplicy by the piece or cask; half pint glass Tumblers in cases of 1000 each - and New York Soap and Candles. ON HAND - Madeira Wine - Orleans and Muscovado Sugar - Green Coffee - Molasses - Prime Pork - Liverpool and Stone Ware - Souchong, Hyson Skin and Gunpowder Tea - Spanish Segars - Raisins - Almonds - Nutmegs - Window Glass - Men's and Women's Shoes - which he will dispose of by who, sale on reason- able terms. Richmond, 20th July 1809.
VIRGINIA: At a superior court of chancery held at the capital in Richmond, June 20th, 1809. Philip N. Nicholas, attorney general, on behalf of the commonwealth of Virginia, Plif.
AGAINST Lucy Price, relict of William Price, regis- ter, deceased, and William D. James A- lexander, John Harvie and Anne Price, Infant heirs of William Price, deceas- sed, by William Duval, their guardian, and the said William Duval, administra- tor of William Price, deceased, defts.
Philip Duval, against defts.
The same, against defts.
The Mutual Assurance Society against Fire  on Buildings, in the state of Virginia, against defts.
The same, against defts.
William Marshall and Thomas Taylor, guardians of Eleanor and Lavinia Dan- dridge, orphans of William Dandridge, deceased, against defts.
THESE causes by consent of parties, were this day heard together on the bills, answer, exhibits, and report of com- missioner Greenhow, made in the second suit, which is substituted by consent in the other causes, and were argued by counsel; On consideration whereof, the court, by consent of parties, doth adjudge, order and decree, that John Prosser and William Moncure, or either of them, who are ap- pointed commissioners for that purpose, af- ter having advertised the time and place of sale for thirty days in two of the news- papers printed in the city of Richmond, do expose to sale, at public auction, upon the premises, the following Lands of the In- testate William Price, late register, name- ly; two thirds of two lots in the city of Richmond, known and distinguished in the plan of the said city by the numbers five hundred and twenty seven, and five hun- dred and eight, lying on the main street, which were purchased of Alexander Quar- tier, and adjoining his present residence: nine vacant lots in the said city, near the tenement of Joseph Jackson, and distin- guished by the numbers
: a house and lot on the main street of Shockoe Hill, near the Brick building of Thomas White, commonly called the Blue House, and which the intestate purchased of John Britain: three hundred and fifty acres of land (more or less,) in the county of Goochland, adjoining the lands of Robt. H. Saunders: 213 acres, more or less, and eighty acres of coal land, both lying on Deep-run, in the county of Henrico: three hundred and fifty acres of land on the Rich- mond Turnpike, situated about three and a half miles from Richmond, being the farm formerly occupied by the intestate, and now by Peter Wilkinson: and ten shares in the Richmond Turnpike Company, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the plaintiffs in their respective claims, with interest thereon from the day of sale, in the order, and on the terms following, to wit: - To satisfy the commonwealth of Vir- ginia, two thousand eight hundred and for- ty-five dollars and ninety-two cents, with interest from the first day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, with costs of suit and expenses of the sales hereby directed, which sales shall be made on twelve months credit, the pur- chaser or purchasers paying interest from the date and giving bond with sufficient se- curity, payable to the treasurer, or the time being, or his successors, in office, which bond or bonds shall be delivered to the au- ditor of public accounts by the said com- missioners: - To satisfy in the next place, Philip Duval the sum of twelve hundred dollars, with interest from the twentyeth day of November, 1808, and costs of suit with the sales hereby directed, which shall be made on six months credit, the pur- chaser or purchasers executing a note or notes, negotiable and payable in the Bank of Vir- ginia, with approved endorsers, and the note or notes so taken for such sum as shall be equal to the said Philip Duval's claim, with interest until such note or notes shall become due, be delivered to the said Philip Duval by the said commissioners To sa- tisfy in the third place, the Mutual As- surance Society against fire on buildings in the state of Virginia, the sum of two thou- sand two hundred and seven dollars and fi- fty cents, with interest on two thousand and ninety four dollars and five cents, from the first day of the present month, and costs of suit with expenses of sales hereby directed, which sale shall be made at twelve months credit, the purchaser or purcha- sers executing a note or notes negotiable and payable at the Bank of Virginia, with approved endorsers, for such sum as shall be equal to the principal and interest of the said Society's claim until the said note or notes shall become due, and costs of suit, which said note or notes shall be delivered to the principal agent of the said Society, for the time being: And, to satisfy in the last place, the plaintiffs, William Marshall and Thomas Taylor, the sum of fourteen hundred dollars, with interest from the first day of the present month, with costs of suit and expenses of the sales hereby directed, which sale shall be made on a credit of two years, the purchaser or purchasers execut- ing bonds, with approved security, bearing interest from the date of the sale, the said bond or bonds to be delivered to the said Marshall and Taylor; And the court doth further adjudge, order and decree, that the said commissioners or the one who may act report their proceedings to the court; as to the dower of the defendant Lucy, in the property directed to be sold, the court will, if the parties consent, at a future day, pro- ceed to make compensation to her, out of the other lands of the estate of the Intestate; and liberty is reserved to the infant defendants to shew cause against this de- cree at any time within six months after they shall severally attain the age of twen- ty-one years: And by consent of the par- ties in the last suit of the court, doth order the defendant William Duval, to make up the accounts of his Intestate, as guardian of Lavinia and Eleanor Dandridge, now wards of the plaintiffs Taylor and Mar- shall, before one of the commissioners of the court, who is ordered to examine, state, settle and report the same to the court,
with any matters required by the parties or deemed pertinent by himself. A Copy - Teste, PETER TINSLEY, C. C.
IN conformity with the foregoing Decree, I shall, or one of us, proceed to sell on the pre- mises under the dates as hereinafter stated, the whole of the Property embraced in the said De- cree, Viz: On Friday the 15th day of September next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. The three hundred and fifty acres land more or less, in Goochland county ly- ing on both of the Branches of Tuckahoe creek, adjoining the land and residence of Col. Robt. H. Saunders. On the ensuing day, Saturday the 16th, in the City of Richmond, at 11 o'clock, A. M. Part of Lot No. 503, & the whole of Lot 527, as designated and known in the plan of the said City, which have been divided into eight han- some Lots of 23 feet 9 in. 4-10 front each, on the main street, running back 163 feet four in. adjoining the present residence of Mr. Alexan- der Quartier & separated from the residence of Mr. Joseph Gallego, only by sixth street - and a plan of the same may be seen at any time at the Vendue Office of Prosser & Mon- cure - The ten Richmond Turnpike shares im- mediately after these Lots are sold, and on the last of said Lots disposed of. On the same day immediately thereafter, the sale of the said 3 Lots, the nine Lots on Shockoe-hill near the tenement and residence of Mr. Joseph Jackson and the same which the intestate, William Price, late register, purchased of Judge Wash- ington Nos. - On the ensuing Monday the 18th Sept. in Henrico county, at 11 o'clock A. M. the 213 acres Land more or less and 80 acres coal land, lying on Deep Run. On the 19th same month, Tuesday, at 11 o'clock, A. M. in the city of Richmond, the House and Lot on the main-street of Shockoe-hill, near the Brick building of Mr. Thos: White, common- ly called the Blue-house, which the intestate purchased of John Britain: and on the day af- ter, Wednesday the 20th Sept. in the coun- ty of Henrico, the truly desirable Estate, called Chanilly, containing about three hundred and fifty acres land, with very good improvements thereon, situated about three and a half miles from the city of Richmond, being the farm formerly occupied by the intestate William Price, late Register, and now by Mr. Peter Wilkinson, or so much thereof as will be suf- ficient to satisfy the plaintiffs in their respective claims, with the interest thereon from the several days of sale in the order and on the terms stated in the foregoing decree. JOHN PROSSER, } Commissioners. WM. MONCURE, } Richmond, August 12th. 1809.
In Richmond Hustings Court, June 12th, 1809. Elizabeth T. Younghusband and Samuel P. Parsons, administrators and administra- tor with the will annexed of Pleasant Younghusband, deceased - Ralston and Pickett - Pickett, Pollard and Johnston - Thomas Taylor and James Brown, late merchants and partners under the firm of Taylor and Brown - James Brown, jun and William Norvell, surviving part- ners of the late commercial house of Norvell, Wiat and Bullock. Plfs. AGAINST Moses Davis, Prosser and Moncure and George Wm. Smith, defts.
THIS cause this day came on to be heard on the bill, answer, sundry exhibits filed and was argued by counsel, on consideration where- of, the court being of opinion that the land con- veyed by the said Moses Davis and wife to the defendant George William Smith, was inten- ded to secure the payment of the notes in the possession of the plaintiffs, Pickett, Pollard and Johnston, and Ralston and Pickett, on which suits have not been brought - And also of the judgments obtained on the notes which came to the possession of the other plaintiffs, name- ly, Taylor and Brown, James Brown, jun. and the surviving partner of the house of Norvell, Wiat and Bullock, as well as of those taken up by Pleasant Younghusband, deceased, in his lifetime, do decree and order, that George W. Smith do proceed to make sale of the lot of land in the bill mentioned, to the highest bid- der, upon a credit until the repeal or extrica- tion of the act concerning executions and other purposes, passed 31st January, 1809, taking bond with two good securities for the payment of the purchase money, and return the bonds by him taken to court to abide its future order, he giving two weeks notice in some one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmon- d of the time and place of sale, and returning a report how he has executed this order. (4 copy) TH: G. HOWARD, Clk.
PURSUANT to the above decree, the land therein mentioned, which is situated in the county of Henrico, contiguous to the city of Richmond, being the same lot or parcel of land which was conveyed by Richard Adams and Elizabeth his wife, to Moses Davis, by deed dated the 31