The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1808-06-17 00:00:00

PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, DEPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
THE subscriber has lost a RED MOROCCO POCKET-BOOK of a tolerable large size, containing sundry papers, among which are two bonds executed to him, one by William Randolph of Richmond, for the sum of two thousand seven hundred and seventy-two dollars, and the other by Richard K. Randolph of Prince Edward county, for about one hundred and seventy or eighty pounds. All persons are hereby forewarned from trading for or receiving the assignment of said bonds, the obligors having been notified that the said bonds are lost.
A generous reward will be given for said Pocket-Book and papers by the subscriber, who resides at Fowhatan court-house.
EDWD. JOHNSON.
VIRGINIA, to wit: At a court of Appeals held at the Capitol, in Richmond, the third day of June, 1808.
GENERAL RULE—After the end of this present term, all causes depending in this court shall be called in the order in which they stand upon the docket, and such as may be ready for hearing pursuant to the former rules of this court, shall, unless good cause be shown to the contrary, be heard in the same order in which they stand upon the docket, until the whole shall be gone through; and the causes which shall be passed over, shall, unless for some very special reason appearing to the court, be put at the end of the docket of each term.
Ordered, That the above rule be published in at least three of the newspapers printed in Richmond, once a week until the first day of October next.
A Copy. Teste, J. BROWN, c. c. June 14. [1stO]
FINE fresh Hyson Teas, India Nankeens, Medock Claret, of superior quality, in cases of 30 bottles.
Sherry Wines, Sack Salt, Assorted Crates of Crockery, for sale by PICKETT, POLLARD & JOHNSTON. RICHMOND, June 14. [law4w1]
TO RENT—The upper APARTMENTS in the House occupied by Messrs. Kirby, Drake & Taylor, possessing convenient accommodations for a family. Possession will be given immediately—apply to Kirby, Drake & Taylor, or to THOMAS NORVELL. [LE]
June 13.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of the Revd. Matthew Maury, late of this county, are requested to bring them forward for settlement; and all persons indebted, are solicited to make engagements for payment at an early period, as, (consistently with the terms of his will) Long indulgence cannot be extended.
MATTHEW MAURY, } Acting executors. THOMAS W. MAURY, } [cp6w4]
THE subscriber, hereby forewarns all persons from trading for, or taking an assignment of a bond or note, executed by him to John Smith of Rockingham county, Virginia; for one hundred and ten dollars; being the only bond or note executed by him to said Smith; because he will not pay the same; the said bond or note having been obtained from him by said Smith, by deception. JAMES POINDEXTER. Louisa County, June 14. (2w)
WAR DEPARTMENT, May 12th, 1808.—PROPOSALS in writing will be received by this department until the first day of August next, for manufacturing MUSKETS with BAYONETS, of the kind and dimensions manufactured at the United States' Armouries at Springfield, Massachusetts, and at Harper's Ferry, Virginia; every part to correspond in dimensions, materials, workmanship and proof with the samples, which will be given from one or the other of those armouries, or from Mr. Whitney's armoury at New Haven in Connecticut.
It will be unnecessary for any one to offer terms unless the price shall be reasonable, and not exceeding ten dollars and seventy-five cents.
Any person inclined to contract for the delivery of from five hundred to two thousand stands a year, for five years, will, on the execution of the contract, and entering into bond, with approved sureties for the faithful performance thereof, receive in advance, if required, a sum equal to the amount of the contract price of the number he shall agree to deliver the first year; and such other subsequent advances, as his punctuality in the faithful performance of his contract shall entitle him to.
No proposals will be attended to, unless from persons of such character as can be fully relied on for a faithful and punctual performance of their contracts and who can give ample and satisfactory security for the correct fulfilment thereof.
No muskets will be received under any contract, that shall not, on a full and correct inspection by persons appointed for the purpose, be found in all their parts, and in workmanship, fully to correspond with the patterns.
H. DEARBORN, Secy. of War. May 24, 1808. (2aw7)
RICHMOND TILE MANUFACTORY.—The subscriber having procured the exclusive right to manufacture in this and several other states Harwood's much improved Patent Tile for covering houses, and at considerable expense erected the necessary buildings, &c. for carrying on that useful business extensively, now offers to supply, at a short notice, any quantity that may be required, at the moderate price of thirty-five dollars per thousand, delivered at his Factory.
He can with confidence, founded on actual experiment, in the covering of about 20 houses in this city, assert, that houses can be covered with this tile as cheap in the first instance, as with shingles of the first quality, and when the security against fire, the difference of insurance, the durability and particular construction of those tile to resist the most penetrating rains and snows are considered, he cannot doubt of meeting with considerable encouragement. It requires only the examination of a well covered roof to convince the most prejudiced mind of their superiority to any other tile heretofore made, or to the best of slate, and will cost less than the latter, after paying the expense of water carriage to almost any part of this continent.
Particular attention will be paid to orders from other towns, and in all cases where they are shipped, he will deliver them whole and sound, along side the vessels, at the expense of cartage only to the purchasers. Any person skilled in the art of tiling, will put on those tile with great facility, but where they cannot be procured, he can engage a few here who have had some experience, and will go a moderate distance, if the job is of sufficient magnitude and their travelling expenses paid. BENJAMIN DUVALL. Richmond, March 22. [cp2w&lawtf]
N. B. I wish to sell Patent Rights in several other States. B. D.
The Advertisement dated April 26, 1808, is withdrawn.
PROPOSALS for carrying MAILS of the UNITED STATES, on the following Post-Roads, will be received at the General Post-Office in Washington City, until the first day of August next, inclusive.
10. From Washington City to Alexandria, seven times a week.
Leave Washington City every day at 3 P. M. and arrive at Alexandria by 5 P. M.
Leave Alexandria every day at 2 A. M. and arrive at Washington City by 5 A. M.
11. From Alexandria by Colchester, to Dumfries, seven times a week.
Leave Alexandria every day at 6 P. M. and arrive at Dumfries by 5 A. M. the next day.
Leave Dumfries every day at 6 P. M. and arrive at Alexandria the next day by 1 A. M. in 7 hours.
12. From Dumfries by Aquia and Stafford court-house to Fredericksburg, seven times a week.
Leave Dumfries every day at 6 A. M. and arrive at Fredericksburg by 11 1/2 A. M. in 5 1/2 hours.
Leave Fredericksburg every day at noon, and arrive at Dumfries by 5 P. M.
13. From Fredericksburg by Bowling Green, White Chimneys, and Hanover court-house to Richmond, seven times a week.
Leave Fredericksburg every day at noon, and arrive at Richmond the next day by 6 A. M. in 18 hours.
Leave Richmond every day at 6 P. M. and arrive at Fredericksburg the next day by 11 A. M. in 17 hours.
14. From Richmond by Osborne's to Petersburg, seven times a week.
Leave Richmond every day at 6 1/2 A. M. and arrive at Petersburg by 11 1/2 A. M. in 5 hours.
Leave Petersburg every day at 12 1/2 P. M. and arrive at Richmond by 5 1/2 P. M.
15. From Richmond by Fraziers, New-Kent court-house, Williamsburg, York-town & Hampton to Norfolk, three times a week.
May 1, to December 1. Leave Richmond every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 7 A. M. and arrive at Norfolk on the next days by 10 A. M. in 27 hours.
Leave Norfolk every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 2 P. M. and arrive at Richmond the next days by 5 P. M. in 27 hours.
December 1, to May 1. Leave Richmond every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 7 A. M. and arrive at Norfolk on the next days by 5 P. M. in 34 hours.
Leave Norfolk every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 A. M. and arrive at Richmond the next days by 5 P. M. in 34 hours.
16. From Petersburg by Cabbypoint, Smithfield, Surry court-house, Sleepy-hole ferry, to Norfolk, three times a week.
May 1, to December 1. Leave Petersburg every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 1 P. M. and arrive at Norfolk the next days by 10 A. M. in 21 hours.
Leave Norfolk every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 2 P. M. and arrive at Petersburg the next days by 11 A. M. in 21 hours.
December 1, to May 1. Leave Petersburg every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 1 P. M. and arrive at Norfolk the next days by 5 P. M. in 27 hours.
Leave Norfolk every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 7 A. M. and arrive at Petersburg the next days by 11 A. M. in 27 hours.
NOTES.
1. The mail will be carried on the routes, number ten to fourteen inclusive, in the same time through the year; and the contractor must calculate upon conveying the mail in a sulkey, when the roads will not admit of its being conveyed by the usual stage; or if it shall be shewn, that the roads are too bad for a sulkey, the mail of letters will be separated from the news-papers, which are to be conveyed by stage, as fast as the roads will admit, and the letters conveyed on horseback within the time limited, so that bad roads shall never be admitted as an excuse for non-performance.
2. The Post-master General may expedite the mails and alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contract; he previously stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby.
3. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mail at all offices where no particular time is specified.
4. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continue until the departure of any depending mail, whereby the mails destined for such depending mail lose a trip, a forfeiture of double the amount allowed for carrying the mail one trip shall be incurred, unless it shall be made to appear that the delay was occasioned by unavoidable accident, in which case the amount of pay for the trip will, in all cases, be forfeited and retained.
5. Persons making proposals, are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly, in the months of February, May, August and November, one month after the expiration of each quarter.
6. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail.
7. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposal.
8. The Post-master General reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end, whenever three failures happen, which amount to the loss of a trip each.
9. The contracts are to be in operation on the first day of October next, and to continue in force for two years from that time.
GIDEON GRANGER, Post-Master General
GENERAL POST-OFFICE, Washington City, May 26, 1808. [law2m]
IN CHANCERY—February Court, 1804—Pauquier County, to wit: Benjamin Hector, Complainant—Against Thomas Chapman, surviving executor of William Carr, deceased Defendant.
On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered, that master commissioner Scott state, settle, and examine the accounts between the parties and make report thereof to the court, with such matters specially as he may think pertinent or the parties may require.
A Copy. Teste, F. BROOKE, c. c.
The parties to the above suit are hereby notified, that I shall attend at my office at Fauquier court-house, on the 26th day of July next, between the hours of ten and two o'clock to carry the above order into effect, at which time and place the parties are requested to attend with a copy of the court papers, and such evidence and vouchers as they may think proper to produce, in order to a final adjustment of the accounts. C. R. SCOTT, m. c. Fauquier Co. H. May 24, 1808. [law8w]
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
Treasury Department, May 28th, 1808. It has recently been made known to this department, that on the first day of June, 1807, the first moieties of the under-mentioned notes of the bank of the United States, were enclosed by William Keats, Esq. Collector of the Customs at Washington, North-Carolina, in a letter addressed to Thomas Tudor Tucker, Esq. Treasurer of the United States, and put into the Post-Office at that place; and on the 8th day of June, 1807, the second moieties of the said Bank notes were enclosed, addressed and put into the Post-Office as aforesaid; neither of which letters, with the notes enclosed, have been received. On the back of each moiety of every note was written the name of William Keats, and on one was written the name of Lewis Leroy; from which circumstance the notes may with certainty be traced and detected. Payment of the notes has been stopped at the Bank of the United States and its several offices of Discount and Deposit; and a reward of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS will be paid to any person who shall give such information to this department, as shall produce the conviction of the offender by whom the letters containing the said notes were purloined or stolen. ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury
DESCRIPTION OF NOTES.
   No. Date. To whom payable. Dollars.     1401 20th July, 1804. Adam Gilchrist bearer at Charleston, for 100 100   1402 20th July, 1804. Do. do. do. do. 100   1238 20th July, 1804. Do. do. do. do. 100   1239 20th July, 1804. Do. do. do. do. 100   4739 27th Feb. 1807. Do. do. do. do. 100   4740 27th Feb. 1807. Do. do. do. do. 100   2611 19th March, 1805. Joseph Habersham, Savannah, Do. 100   2612 19th March, 1805. Do. do. do. do. 100   2666 Do. do. do. do. Do. do. do. do. 100   2774 Do. do. do. do. Do. do. do. do. 100   3031 24th April, 1805. Do. do. do. do. 100   3032 24th April, 1805. Do. do. do. do. 100   3541 24th April, 1805. Do. do. do. do. 100   3542 24th April, 1805. Do. do. do. do. 100   1973 20th July, 1806. Adm. Gilchrist, Charleston, Do. 100   1974 20th July, 1806. Do. do. do. do. 100   5660 12th March, 1806. Commodore Ray, New-York, Do. 100   5661 12th March, 1806. Do. do. do. do. 100   2183 20th July, 1806. Do. do. do. do. 100   2184 20th July, 1806. Do. do. do. do. 100   1235 23rd March, 1806. Joseph Habersham, Savannah, Do. 100   1236 23rd March, 1806. Do. do. do. do. 100   1335 23rd March, 1806. Do. do. do. do. 100   1336 23rd March, 1806. Do. do. do. do. 100   5397 13th Nov. 1806. Do. do. do. do. 100  
Dollars 1,500 June 10.
MR. LE TELLIER, DENTIST.—In the house adjoining Mr. Edmund Randolph's near the Capitol, is now practising in the various branches of his profession, i. e. cleansing and restoring the teeth to their natural elegance, by removing that corrosive substance called tartar, which adheres to them in the form of a black or yellow crust, which is the cause of many teeth decaying, an offensive breath, and the corroder of the gums and sockets. He sets artificial ones so as to stand firm, being useful as well as ornamental, plugs the decayed cavities of such as can be preserved, and extracts such as are too far gone to be saved, in which operation he makes use of BRUFF'S PATENT EXTRACTING INSTRUMENTS, which takes the teeth out without any possibility of fracturing the jaw or bruising the gums, and with much less pain than the instruments that are in general use; for which operation his price is one dollar, when done at his own house.
He deems it unnecessary to say anything concerning the advantage derived from the manner of his performance or his abilities, leaving it for his former operations to speak.
He has DENTIFRICE prepared by himself of a superior quality for the preservation of the gums and teeth, void of corrosive substance.
MR. LE TELLIER wishes the public to have notice that as he has now made Richmond his permanent residence, all his prices are considerably lower than when he was only a visitor of the place.
A line or servant directed to the aforesaid place will be attended to. May 6. [law6m]
NOTICE.—The subscribers are desirous to dispose of their settlements, one of about 170 acres of LAND, the other of about 230 acres, with tolerable improvements on each tract, and a very valuable Mill now in good repair, working a pair of Colbourn and a pair of Burstones; the mill is adjacent to the former tract of Land on Falling Creek, about four miles from the Coal Pitts, and about eleven miles from Manchester. The terms are, one third part of the purchase amount to be paid down, and the other two thirds to be in three equal annual payments. We deem it unnecessary to say anything further, as we presume that any person disposed to become a purchaser, would first view the premises, and will apply to the subscribers living thereon. The mill and four acres of land attached thereto may be sold separate. JOHN BAKER THOMAS BAKER. Chesterfield, June 7. [law3w]
MURDOCKS, Donald & Co. against Lucy Dixon, widow of James Dixon, and Sarah, John, Nancy, and Patsey, children and heirs of the said James Dixon.
By virtue of a decree of the court of the United States for the 5th circuit and Virginia district, will be sold on the first day of July next, at public auction, for ready money, a tract of LAND in the county of Louisa whereof John Richmond died seized and possessed, and which is now in the possession of the above named Lucy Dixon and the children and heirs of James Dixon, deceased, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the demand of the plaintiffs in the said decree mentioned, and the expenses attending the sale. WM. MANN, Deputy for Joseph Scott, Marshall V. D. June 10. [law3w]
MOLASSES in hogsheads and tierces, FOR SALE BY SAMUEL MYERS. June 3. [law4w]
FOR RENT—The BRICK TENEMENT on the main street, two doors above the Eagle Tavern, and at present occupied by Messrs. Gibson and Jefferson—Possession may be had on the 13th July. SAML. MCCRAW. Richmond, June 7. [ff]
EUROPE.
Continuation of Foreign News received via New-York, with London Dates to April 23.
LONDON, April 22.
The following account of the course of the squadron of Admiral Duckworth, from its departure to its return, in search of the Rochefort squadron, is given in a letter from an officer of the squadron, dated Cawsand Bay Plymouth, April 18:—
Having run down the Bay of Biscay, and called off Capes Ortegal and Finisterre and Lisbon, we arrived off Madeira, and found Sir Samuel Hood lying in Funchall Roads, where we remained for two days—On the morning of the 3d February, his majesty's ship Comus gave us intelligence of her having been chased two days before to the N. W. of Madeira, and it then became obvious that the destination of the French squadron was the West Indies, for which we proceeded with all expedition, and made the Islands of St. Lucie and Martinique in 21 days. Off the east end of Martinique we saw six sail of the line: we cleared for action, and formed the line of battle, but on exchanging signals, we found friends instead of enemies; it was Sir Alexander Cochrane, with his squadron, who was waiting to give that enemy a reception which we were in chase of, conceiving that he would take refuge in that port. Finding that his fleet was sufficient to cope with them in those seas, we passed all the Windward Islands, and anchored on the 16th February in Bassaterre Roads, St. Kitt's, where we remained only 18 hours, just long enough to take in water, but no provisions, nor even linen washed. We then proceeded to St. Domingo, where it was supposed the enemy had proceeded for the purpose of landing troops; but on our arrival there we found no ships. After cruising in the Mona Passage for seven or eight days, we made all dispatch for the American coast, and arrived off the Chesapeake on the 11th March. We communicated with the Statira frigate, and found our Ambassador Mr. Rose was at Washington for the last time, to determine whether it should be peace or war with England. We should have gone in, but the Yankees would not let us have a pilot, nor supply us with water or provisions which forced us to be content to live upon half our usual allowance; they would not give us a single pint of water or a cabbage stalk. We left the Eurydice, to bring us any intelligence that might occur as to peace or war with America and quitted the inhospitable shores of America for the West Indies, where we procured all we wanted, after a very long and very anxious cruise. The Governor of Flores (a Portuguese) came off to us, but not being able to give us any information, the Admiral thought it most expedient to proceed for England, where we arrived this morning, after having been upwards of three months at sea, and made a complete circuit of the Western and Atlantic Ocean, a journey of upwards of 18,000 miles.
April 23.
The most active preparations are making to fit out the expedition destined for the assistance of Sweden. The whole force will probably exceed 30,000 men. Orders have been given for the horse transports to proceed from the River to Ramsgate, there to take the horses and men on board, the number of transports thus ordered will be sufficient for four thousand cavalry. Part of the troops will, we understand, embark at Harwich. They comprise 4000 German Legion The 4th, 26th, 52d, 79th, 92d, and 95th, British regiments, have already received orders for this service. Two brigades of artillery, with a proportionate number of drivers, will accompany the expedition.
The naval strength of the expedition consists of seven sail of the line, several frigates gun brigs, and some boats of a particular construction, built for the purpose of enterprize. The whole will be under the command of admiral Keats and Sir James Saumarez.
Courier-office, three o'clock.
We have just received the following information respecting Mr. Rose's mission.—The affair of the Chesapeake, we understand, has been adjusted.—The Embargo in America however, is to be continued.—But the American Government, we hear, declared to Mr. Rose, that its continuance was to be attributed to the present situation of Europe, and not to any particular hostility towards this country.
Speculation is extremely active with respect to the objects and destination of the expeditions. We shall just mention some of the conjectures that have been indulged without adding any of our own.—It has been imagined that we are sending troops to cooperate with those of Sweden in wresting Norway from the Danes. His Swedish majesty would thus be indemnified for the loss of Finland. The expectations of Russia, we believe, do not extend further than making herself mistress of Finland. Having no superiority at sea, she will not venture to send an army across the gulph of Bothnia, nor will she attempt to proceed by land round the northern extremity of the gulph to the western side of it. The possession of Norway by Sweden would be of considerable advantage to this country. The Norwegians have very little reason to be satisfied with the manner in which they have been treated by the Danish monarchs.
The possession of the little Island of Bornholm is an object supposed to be of importance to this country. Its situation is extremely advantageous, and, by wresting it from the Danes, the enemy would be deprived of a shelter for their privateers, we should have an excellent depot, and the sea would be entirely open to our fleets. It is about seven miles in length and four in breadth. In most places the coast is inaccessible on account of its dangerous rocks, and the landing place is defended with cannon—but the conquest of it would be a work of no difficulty.
Our attack upon Cronstadt or Revel is another object which is supposed to be in the
contemplation of his majesty's ministers.—This supposition has been entertained in consequence of a note or comment made by the Swedish government upon a passage in one of the Russian intercepted dispatches.—"Let us see," says Sweden, "whether the insidious invasion of Finland will protect the Russian coasts from the thunder of the British cannon."—Since our expedition to Copenhagen, Russia has entertained the greatest apprehensions of our battering Cronstadt or Revel about her ears.
The Hindostan, of 54 guns, which was dispatched to Sir C. Cotton's fleet, off Lisbon, with provisions, returned on Thursday afternoon to Plymouth, having on board a considerable number of Portuguese, one of them a person of distinction, who contrived to make their escape from Lisbon on board our fleet. They are going to join their lawful sovereign in the Brazils. They represent Lisbon to be in a most deplorable state; yet the French General, in order to make the people bear with patience, represents it as if they have a very pleasant situation of this country as even more dreadful than that of Portugal, and asserts that a speedy peace alone can save us.
April 25.
By the Penter gan brig, Government have received dispatches from Sir Hugh Dalrymple at Gibraltar, which they are said to consider of the utmost importance. Whether as they relate to the internal state of Spain, or the affairs of the Mediterranean, we have yet to learn. Be it, however, as it may, immediately on their arrival in town, messengers were dispatched to the different ports of the Channel, with orders for several ships of war to put to sea with all possible speed.
RAMSGATE April 21.
The expedition.—Orders have been received for the following regiments to embark at Ramsgate immediately. They are to march in here on the days undermentioned, viz. 2d light infantry of the German legion, on the 1st do. 24th inst. 1st do. do. 25th 1st regiment of the line German infantry, on the 26th 2d do. do. 27th 5th do. do. 28th 7th do. do. 29th
The first battalion of the 52d regiment is also under embarkation orders, and, it is supposed, will immediately follow the above regiments; near 300 pikemen of the second battalion of the 52d regiment were yesterday drafted, to complete the first battalion, and marched to Canterbury to join; it is a remarkably fine body of active young men. Other British infantry regiments are also mentioned as being under orders of embarking; they are not yet correctly known. The number of British infantry to embark is said to be six regiments.
We understand that only one regiment of cavalry (the third light dragoons, German legion) has as yet received orders to embark. This is a fine regiment, it

Kingdom of Great-Britain and Ireland, &c. The Right hon. Lord Castlereagh, one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, having transmitted to us His Majesty's instructions, under his signet, and sign manual, dated 16th March, 1808, to the commanders of his majesty's ships of war and privateers, directing that all vessels having on board Negroes, captured on the coast of Africa, pursuant to the provisions of an act of Parliament passed in the 47th year of his present majesty's reign, entitled, "an act for the Abolition of the Slave trade," be carried into Sierra Leone, a colony on the coast of Africa, for adjudication; we send you inclosed printed copies of his majesty's instructions above mentioned, and do hereby require and direct you to pay the strictest regard and attention thereto, and to give the like directions to all the captains, commanding officers of his majesty's ships and vessels under your command. Given under our hands the 2nd of April 1808.
To. By command of their Lordships. A Letter from London, received at Glasgow on Thursday, says, "We lose no time in furnishing the information, that the Portuguese Ambassador has at length relaxed in his prohibition of cotton piece goods to the Brazils."
NEW-YORK, June 8. By the arrival of the Liverpool packet yesterday, we learn that Mr. Nourse has arrived in England. It is very probable that dispatches have been transmitted by him to the executive. Report also says, that Mr. Armstrong had left Paris. When Mr. Rose resided in Washington, he also left that city, but it was for the purpose of visiting Alexandria; and, perhaps, Mr. Armstrong may have left Paris to visit Versailles. In the present political era, we are left to conjecture upon every subject. Until the blow is struck, nothing official is published, by which an inkling may be formed of the intentions of the diplomatic rulers. Empires are established and governments overturned before we have an opportunity of even forming opinions on the subject. Such proceedings may be proper, may be absolutely necessary, but still excite dissatisfaction. The account of Mr. Armstrong having left Paris is, however, not improbable; as from late accounts, he has not been treated with the respect due to the representative of an independent nation. The feelings of a republican must, in such a case, be severely tried; and from the known tenor of Mr. Armstrong's mind, it is not to be supposed, that he would brook any indignity offered either to himself or his country. On Mr. Nourse's mission a great deal depends. The unfavorable issue of Mr. Rose's embassy to this country may have excited some exasperation in England both in the minds of the ministry and the people. With anxiety we therefore look forward to the issue of the negotiation. "Be it well, or be it ill," we hope that there is fortitude & energy among the citizens of the United States to encounter every difficulty. When opposition is made at Passamaquoddy, and in almost all the seaports of the Union to the measures of government, we need not be surprised to find that foreign nations will adopt the same means and endeavor to profit by our dissensions, and appropriate our dissenters. On national energy, every thing now depends, and we hope that that energy will never be relaxed by the machinations of ambitious individuals, or the intrigues of foreign agents. L'Oracle
Intercepted Dispatches.—The dispatches found upon the Russian Courier, who was arrested on the 7th March, on the Swedish territories, as he was coming from St. Petersburg, and which were intended for Mr. Alopaeus, the Russian minister at Stockholm, are of a very interesting nature. The King of Sweden has submitted them to his people in the form of a pamphlet, published at Stockholm, and notes and comments explanatory of each dispatch have been annexed. The following is a preface to this curious work:— "The irruption of the Russian troops into Finland, and the incendiary proclamations circulated in the province, were already known to the King, whilst the minister of Russia (Mr. Alopaeus) had not yet made any communication that could pave the way for such intelligence, and no couriers nor dispatches from the Swedish ambassador at Petersburg, had arrived since those events. Considering, therefore, that that minister has been deprived of his public quality, by the insidious aggression of his Court, as a dangerous enemy, by the revolutionary principles with which that aggression was accompanied, and as a hostage for the ambassador, whose liberty had in all probability been violated, his Majesty ordered, on the 2d of March, that a military guard should be stationed with Mr. Alopaeus. This measure, which in every other circumstance would have been extremely repugnant to the King, has been fully justified by the event. A courier from Petersburg arrived at Scyldskär, on the 22d, and set out on the 28th February, for Tornea, for Stockholm, having been arrested on the 7th March, a mile from Haruosand, with the following dispatches:— No. 1, is a letter from Count Romanzoff to Mr. Alopaeus, dated the 17th February, inclosing the Swedish ambassador's note to the Russian Government, and the answer of the latter, which Mr. Alopaeus is ordered to communicate to the Swedish ministry. Upon the expression in Count Romanzoff's note, that it still depended upon the king to preserve harmony between the two states, the Swedish government observes, in a note—"The Russian army was to enter Finland before the Russian declaration could be delivered, and of course, therefore, before any answer could be received. Yet they have the impudence to speak of harmony—and they praise so much the Prince Royal, of Denmark, for having refused to treat with England after hostilities—and yet they propose it to the king of Sweden. Contradictions, bad reasoning, and falsehood, are the usual concomitants of injustice. No. 2, is a note from Baron Stedinck, to Count Romanzoff, in which Russia is reminded that she who was the principal support of the Convention of armed neutrality, in 1780, was the first to abolish it in 1801.—But the king of Sweden thinks it possible that England might still consent to the neutrality of the Baltic. No. 3, is the reply of M. De Romanzoff. No. 4, is a dispatch to Mr. Alopaeus, from M. De Romanzoff, who sends him the Order of St. Wladimir, as a token of his Imperial Majesty's satisfaction.—"The Emperor," says the note, "is very much satisfied with the list of the Swedish fleet you have
sent me, and I expect with so much the more impatience the documents you promise me relative to the land forces, and the interior of the country (1). At present these documents are more necessary than ever, and you know the service you will do his majesty in procuring them as exact as possible." No. 5, is a note from Count Romanzoff, to D'Alopaeus, desiring him to sound Baron D'Arnfeldt, and to flatter his ambition, in order to induce him to quit the court of Stockholm (the subject of this note we have already given). This dispatch concludes with observing, that Count Romanzoff is well acquainted with Mr. Alopaeus's experience in business (2).
No. 6, is a letter from Count Nicholas Romanzoff, to M. De Lisakewitsch, the Russian minister at Copenhagen, instructing him to press the Danish ministry to co-operate with Russia, in persuading the Court of Stockholm to join these two powers against England, or in case of its refusal, to declare war against it. (1) The plan, no doubt, was to revolutionize Sweden as it was attempted to revolutionize Finland. Can a sovereign so far forget himself? To descend to the obscure paths of treason and corruption? To sacrifice the respect due by every lawful sovereign to the ties that unite subjects to their government. Such are the examples afforded in an empire composed of ten different nations that hate each other. (Note by the Swedish government.) (2) It is this experience which justifies the measures of the King towards Mr. Alopaeus. (Ditto.)
A gentleman of veracity who says he has read Madrid Gazettes of recent dates, gives the following details:— The Prince of Peace learning no doubt that some unforeseen circumstances would strip him of the unlimited power he possessed, formed the project of making himself a sovereign prince over the Electorate of Hanover, and render himself independent of the caprice of a master. He wished to buy the electorate of the King of England, with a guarantee that he would not attempt to conquer it. Money carried in English frigates from Vera Cruz, was the price of the absolute renunciation of the King of England to the Electorate. One of the objects of Beauharnais, the French ambassador at Madrid, was the marriage of one of the relatives of Napoleon, to the prince Asturias. The Prince of Peace foreseeing his fall, if this union took place, multiplied the obstacles to its accomplishment. He negotiated with the French government for that same electorate; and his consent to the marriage was the apparent success of the negotiation. Here is the reason or pretext which accelerated the passage of a great number of Spanish troops to the French army in Europe. The prince of Asturias on his part carried on secret correspondence with the French ambassador; the object was to ruin this powerful upstart. This last having discovered the conspiracy, denounced to the king, the prince of Asturias, as a traitor to his father and to the state. The irresistible influence of Napoleon obtained the pardon and reinstatement of the prince in the king's favor, or rather convinced him of his son's innocence. The prince of Peace has been a tool which the French Government made use of to effect his purposes and who they destroyed when he became useless or troublesome. Louisiana Monitor .
BALTIMORE, June 10. The ship General Clarkson, of New-York, from China, has been detained and sent into Plymouth (E). She had been 180 days from Canton and brings intelligence that the Albicore, country ship, caught fire, and was totally burnt, with a valuable cargo of silks, and upwards of two millions on board. Sir Edward Pellew's expedition is now known to have been against Batavia; he was before Batavia, when the General Clarkson passed the Straits.
DOMESTIC.
THE BLOW.
Translation of a letter dated, Hamburg, 9th April, 1808, to a merchant in this city, received by yesterday's mail via Baltimore. "Since our last of the 29th October, we have waited with much anxiety for the certificate we requested of you, in order to save your property if possible, from confiscation. We are now sorry to say, that inquiry has prevailed; for without producing any proof, and disregarding all remonstrances, here, as well as in Paris, the French commissioners have thought proper to confiscate your goods. Such treatment amongst civilized people is without example; but it is not the only instance of injustice of which the French have been guilty, and which calls for vengeance. These unjust confiscations are carried to such a shameful extent, that the chief French commissary for a long time hesitated, whether he would furnish us with the act of condemnation of your property. Happily for us, however, after all hopes of saving those goods had vanished, we with much trouble, prevailed on that man, to order a formal Act of condemnation to be made out, which enables us to furnish you the regular and official evidence of the fact. However, not being allowed a Duplicate of the said act of condemnation, we have thought best to have the same recorded in the American Consul's Office, a certified copy of which you will find annexed to this. There is no other method of recovering any thing, than by means of the said copy of condemnation, and to apply to the French government direct through your Ambassador at Paris. The success is however very doubtful; at least as long as your government does not come into the views of the French Emperor with respect to Great-Britain. Enclosed you will find account of charges on your goods, amounting to Flo. 804, 15. It is extremely hard that besides the loss of our property, you should be subjected to this extra charge. The cost of the condemnation act, we have charged you with on the postage account. Our commerce has been totally ruined, as we receive no more supplies of colonial produce, the prices advance daily." Hamburg, April 4th, 1808. Imperial Customs. The Director of the French Customs, Certifies that forty-six seroons bark, weighing ct. 4628 pounds have been seized by the Superintendent of the Customs, on the 21st of September 1807, that the seizure has been confirmed by his Imperial and Royal Majesty. (Signed) P. EUDEL. A true copy, (Signed) J. M. FORBES, Consul of the U. S. of America.
copy. These are to certify that the annexed is a true and faithful copy of the original certificate signed by Mr. P. Eudel, Director of the French Imperial Customs, for the District of Hamburg and its Dependencies, carefully collated by me. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Consulate aforesaid, the sixth day of April, 1808. (Signed) J. M. FORBES, Consul of the U. S. of America.
HALIFAX, N. S. May 20.
Yesterday, being the day appointed by Proclamation, the legislative Assembly convened for the dispatch of business. A little after two o'clock P. M. his Excellency the Lieut. Gov. proceeded to the Council Chamber: where being seated, a message was sent, requiring the attendance of the Representative Body. The Speaker & Members of the House attended accordingly; when his Excellency was pleased to deliver the following speech:— Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Council: Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly: His Majesty having been graciously pleased to appoint me to the government of this important establishment; my duty as well as my inclination, will ever deeply interest me in its prosperity and happiness. In addressing you for the first time, I embrace the opportunity it affords me, of detailing his Majesty's paternal solicitude for the security of his province of Nova Scotia. In addition to the formidable reinforcement of select troops, with ample supplies of warlike stores which have been landed on your shores, our Gracious Sovereign has commanded a considerable supply of arms, accoutrements, clothing and camp equipage to be sent out for the equipment and accommodation of the Militia Forces of this Province. After enumerating these marks of the King's benevolent consideration, I am persuaded you will perceive the propriety of giving immediate attention to the revision and amendment of the Militia Laws; and will adopt such measures as will co-operate with his majesty's views, and tend to the permanent strength and security of the province, in its present critical situation; and that his majesty's loyal subjects in Nova-Scotia, will evince a ready disposition justly to appreciate the exertions which are made for their preservation, and will display in their own defence, the courage, energy and patriotism of British subjects. Mr. Speaker, & Gentlemen of the Assembly. Aware as you must be from long experience, that expenses must necessarily be incurred to support the Civil Establishment, and the honor of his majesty's crown, I rely on your wisdom and public spirit for granting such supplies as circumstances and the exigencies of affairs may require. Gentlemen of the Council, and Gentlemen of the Assembly. Accustomed as I have been, from my early youth to a military life, I will endeavor to supply my want of knowledge and experience in discharging the duties of the civil authority, by diligence and a strict attention to the general interests of the colony. I shall hope at all times for your able counsel and assistance; and ready as you will ever find me to listen, with the most careful attention, I confidently trust that, by our joint endeavors, my administration of the government will prove honorable to myself and beneficial to the colony. If at any time, contrary to my wishes, I should unfortunately err, it will gentlemen, be an error of judgment, and not of the heart. And although I am unused to make professions, I will give you the honest assurance of a soldier, that I shall constantly endeavor to act with the strictest justice and equity towards every individual.
BOSTON, June 4.
Arrived, the ship Bellisarius, Brown, from Canton, via Baltimore. July 11, 1807, on the coast of China, was boarded by an officer from the English sloop of war Bellona, John Bastard, commander; who pressed five men, all American born, who unfortunately had no protectors, viz. Coit, Smith, of Gilmanstown, New Hampshire; Joseph Robbins, of Mason, N. H.; Lemuel Dodge, of Franklin, Connecticut; Mathew Stanley, of Tunbridge, Vermont; and Henry Stoddard, of Hinsdale, Vermont. Captain Bastard, afterwards, came to Canton; sufficient proof of their being Americans was produced to the American consul, who gave them protectors, and tried every way he could, to get them released, but to no effect. Captain Bastard said that he had no doubt but they were all Americans, but should not give them up.
NEW-YORK, June 10.
The accounts from the West-Indies (see Marine head) are of the most distressing nature. While provisions here are spoiling on our hands, owing to Mr. Jefferson's Embargo, the inhabitants of some of the islands are starving for the want of them. At Martinique the price of flour is SIXTY DOLLARS a barrel, and the inhabitants in a state of revolt and starvation. At Dominique, flour is Fifty Dollars. Lang's Royal Gazette. Port of New-York. Arrived the schooner Federal Jack, Collins of Boston, from Bilboa, 32 days from Martinique and 25 from Dominique, with rum to Stephen Gorham on board and Robt. Dickey. Left at Martinique, the ship India Packet, of Portsmouth N. H. loading for London; a Baltimore armed Schv. to sail soon; an armed brig just arrived in 18 days from N. York, said to belong to Baltimore—and bound to Bordeaux. Flour was sixty dollars a bbl. and scarcely any to be had—no beef or pork at market. The military had broke open three merchants stores and took out the provisions by force; a revolt of the inhabitants was hourly expected. Left at Dominique, brig Charles, Pond, of N. Haven, last from Cape de Verds; schr. Caroline, of Baltimore, trading under a licence from English to French ports; schr. Jephson, of New London, from Martinique, sent in, and under trial. Flour was 50 dollars, and great scarcity of all kinds of provision. Captain Tredwell, of the Elizabeth, from Gibraltar informs, that the British sloop of war Squirrel arrived at Gibraltar with information that a French squadron of 7 sail of the line and 50 transports had passed by Minorca, supposed to be bound to Cetté or Algerias. A frigate was immediately despatched with information to the British squadron off Cadiz.
Capt. Hudson, of the Quantibaycock, from Madeira, informs, that just before he sailed, a cartel arrived at that place from England, and brought out further orders to have the island surrendered to the Portuguese—which was accordingly done, and the Portuguese colors hoisted on the forts. A frigate was daily expected to take on board Gen. Berresford, who it was reported was going to the Brazils. Mr. Cathcart, the American consul, informed capt. B. that news was just received by a vessel in 6 or 7 days from Lisbon, (with passengers) that the old king of Spain was killed, and that Bonaparte was only two days' march of Madrid, at the head of 80,000 men! The inhabitants of Lisbon were in great distress for provisions. [The news of the demise of the old king of Spain is not true. Later accounts, from Madrid of the 27th of April, received in this city, do not notice it.]
SAVANNAH, (Geo.) June 2.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in St. Mary's, to his friend in this city, dated 24th May, 1808.
A day or two ago all the property, at least all the provisions, for sale, belonging to Josiah Smith of Savannah, was seized by the collector of St. Mary's and the officers of the gun-boat, I believe, on suspicion of his being a smuggler—he has before been detected in thus violating the laws of our country. It is truly distressing to reflect on the sufferings of the people of Florida. I am told they are absolutely starving, without a grain of corn or morsel of bread of any kind. A man, a few days since, obtained permission from the collector to carry some corn to Cumberland, with the hope of getting it over to Amelia at night. In attempting it however, he was discovered by the gun-boat and brought back—he said his family and twenty-five negroes must starve, for he had not a grain of corn when he left home, which was two days before; the other inhabitants of the island, he adds, are alike distressed. In giving publication to the first paragraph in the preceding extract, it may be urged by some, that we should have observed a greater degree of delicacy than to have mentioned the name of the offender; but we conclude, and believe every well-wisher to the country—every one not engaged in, or approving the nefarious traffic, will agree with us, that an American who can so far forget the obligations he is under to support the measures of his government, as thus to endeavor to thwart its plans of defence, ought to be held up to public view and public infamy. And as a mean of preventing, in some measure, future evasions of laws made for our preservation, it behoves every friend of the nation to be vigilant and bold in making public the names of those who are ever ready to sacrifice national happiness and prosperity at the shrine of a lawless and pitiful pecuniary compensation. Sau. Repub.
Another letter from St. Mary's dated 27th May, says:—
"We expect a large English armed vessel to load by force: If she does we shall have warm work. The day before yesterday sixty-four barrels of provisions were taken out of a store on Cumberland Island, belonging to Josiah Smith, and carried to St. Mary's. Ib."
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. MAY 11.
Mr. Bryan laid upon the table a resolution relative to certain instructions being given to the electors of President and Vice President of the U. States, touching certain Vazoo claims. Mr. Poyey laid on the table a resolution approving of the conduct of James Monroe. Mr. Huceingson from the committee appointed, reported a bill to regulate the appointment of electors of President and Vice President of the United States, in the state of Georgia, was received and read the first time—the object of this bill is to elect the electors, and the election is to be held on the Wednesday in October.
MISCELLANY.
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.
Account of a Patent, granted in France, (Brevet d'Invention,) for an improvement in weaving, to the Sieur Despiac, manufacturer at Condou, January 5, 1805. The invention renders it unnecessary for the workman to throw the shuttle with his hand, according to the ordinary method. The following is the mode of proceeding. The weaver, when he sets his foot on the treadles to open the warp, at the same time moves two springs, placed on each side of the loom, by which the shuttle is thrown at the moment when the frame is removed back as far as it ought to be. His hands therefore remain at liberty, and he can pull back the frame either alternately with one or the other, or with both hands at once, when he wishes to make the texture closer. The experiments made on this loom at the conservatory prove that a weaver may work a longer time at it, and with much less fatigue, than at the loom with the ordinary shuttle; that he may weave in twelve hours fourteen metres twenty-five centi-metres, or twelve Paris ells, of a kind of yard-wide cotton stuff. It is certain that a good workman cannot make by the hand in the same time, more than four ells of the same kind of stuff, and six ells at most, by the ordinary flying shuttle. The same experiments likewise demonstrated, that this improved loom may be employed with advantage in the manufacture of all kinds of stuffs, particularly woollens, blankets, linens, &c. that the additions and alterations required by ordinary looms will be attended with very little expense; that the construction of the mechanism by which the shuttle is thrown is simple, and requires no expense to keep it in repair; and lastly, that it may be adapted to all the looms of the ordinary construction. The loom for weaving woollen cloth, for a single man, according to the invention of M. Despiac, has been simplified by M. Reton. From this it results, that in eleven hours a man can weave four ells and a quarter of cloth, of 3,660 threads, white, in the same space, two men with the common loom could only finish three ells three-eighths. As the patentee is unable to supply all the demands that have already been made for his invention, he has resolved to have models of it executed. All the parts composing these models, together with the box in which they are packed, weigh only twenty-eight kilogrammes, and are sold at the moderate price of thirty-six francs. With one of these models any manufacturer may himself adapt the new invention to his loom. Messrs. Barbazan and Co. cloth manufacturers, at the Gobelin at Paris, are fitting up all their looms on this principle. Two springs, 40 francs; two latches, 5 francs; two swings of wood, 6 francs; stretchers for the frame, and a case for the shuttle, 12 francs. Total 75 francs. For looms for weaving woollen stuffs, silk, or cotton, up to an ell in width, the total expense is only 48 francs.
TO BE SOLD to the highest bidder, for ready money, on Thursday the 21st July next, at the house called Napier's Tavern, in the town of Columbia, a Tract of LAND whereon Abraham now lives, on the Rivanna, in the county of Fluvanna, containing by a late survey, 304 acres, more or less, adjoining the lands of Charles Adams, Richard Adams, Pleasant Bybee, and others, being land sold by David Ross to said Shepard, and conveyed by him, Shepard, to us in trust, to secure a debt due to said Ross, as stated in said trust deed, which said debt has since been assigned by said Ross to Henry E. Coleman—We sell our right as trustees only. GEORGE HOLMAN, WILLIAM PASTEUR, JACOB MYERS, Trustees. June 11, 1808. (Epds.)
We believe there can be very little doubt about Mr. Madison's Election to the Presidency. We do not believe that any other candidate will get a vote in North Carolina. Edit. Reg.
RALEIGH, (N. C.) June 9.
Our readers will require no better evidence than the following paragraph, to convince them of the improper means resorted to by the Federalists to mislead the public judgment. [Here follows an extract from the Washington Federalist, stating that N. C. had become completely Federal.] The citizens of this state need not be told that this paragraph is founded in falsehood—they know it; but for the information of the people of the U. States, we declare it as our opinion (and we trust the issue of the approaching elections will confirm it, notwithstanding the unfair means taking to prejudice the public mind against the present administration and majority in Congress) that N. Carolina remains, as it has long been, a decidedly Republican State.

SUBMISSION—OR—THE EMBARGO?
No. IV.
The comparison between the profit and loss of these two systems is not yet completed. —We have attempted to show; that our submission would have cut off at least 3-4ths of our usual trade:
and that even of this residue of about $ 32, 000,000 the profits would have been reduced almost to nothing: because
on the supposition, that our EUROPEAN TRADE would be confined to the markets of Great Britain, the glut of that market would be so great as to reduce the prices of produce to a minimum, and the profits of our merchants would still further be reduced by the capture of their vessels.
And on the supposition, that some of our vessels would have ventured to the continent, that the glut of the market in England—and what is still more, the number of captures by both belligerents would have been so great as almost to impose upon our merchants the necessity of a voluntary embargo; that very species of measure, which has been adopted by our government.
We have also suggested the probability of G. Britain's extending these blockading restrictions from our European trade to our trade with the West-Indies.—This suggestion gives rise to some general remarks, which are of extreme importance to us, even as merchants, setting down coolly to calculate the profit and loss of these systems.
Is it not of immense importance to consider not only the immediate effects which may arise from our submission to the British Orders—but those too which may grow out of them hereafter?
Men who would have us submit to these usurpations of Great-Britain, are as ignorant of the consequences of this submission, as they are dead to the honor of their country. When did "submission set boundaries to encroachment?" When did encroachment boldly unmask her ultimate objects? When did she lay bare the whole magnitude of her intentions to the eye of her persecuted victims?
The crafty usurper generally proceeds by degrees. Harmed by the lightning of heaven, he is as rapid as the Eagle's flight in pouncing upon his defenceless prey. But if his antagonist be strong and he himself a little superior in strength, he supplies by cunning, what he wants in strength. The snail's pace is not more cautious than the studied prudence of his advances. Like the sly and sanguinary Tiger, he crouches before he leaps. It is not his policy to alarm the suspicions and vigilance of his adversaries, by the strength and rapidity of his movements. He must draw his resources from the gradual accumulation of his own strength, and the increasing apathy and concessions of his victims. He must not all at once strike boldly for every thing, that he wants: but he must gradually go on, making one encroachment a precedent for another, until his prey is ready for the sacrifice. Then, when the vigilance of virtue has been set asleep, when the honor of the country has become a theme of ridicule, with dishonest demagogues, when the mercenary spirit of interest has pervaded her public councils, the work of usurpation is accomplished. The usurper obtains the brilliant prize of his ambition; while the country, which submits to his power, sinks into a slave!
Bonaparte did not at once declare himself a candidate for the Empire. First he was only a consul for ten years; then a consul for life; and last of all, he has become the Emperor of France and the Lord of Europe.
It was under these impressions, that the fathers of our revolution determined to resist the early aggressions of the very same nation, who now presumes to assail our independence. The tax upon tea or upon stamps, would have fallen lightly upon these gallant spirits. But they had the prudence to look before them. In these minor usurpations they saw the specks of a tremendous cloud, which was charged with tempests and desolation. They determined to perish at once rather than to acknowledge a principle, which would have ultimately destroyed half their revenue and all their liberty.
It is almost certain that Great Britain has formed the gigantic plan of acquiring the supremacy of the ocean. This system was projected under the reign of Mr. Pitt; and is now about to be accomplished under the ministry of Mr. Canning. According to this nefarious system, G. Britain is to become the mistress of the ocean; she is to enact whatever laws she pleases for that wide element; not a vessel is to navigate it without purchasing her permission; her kingdom is to become the universal emporium of the productions of the universe, and every power is to become a tributary to the supremacy of her power. She is to appear in the same light in every sea, that Algiers has so often done in the Mediterranean. Instead of the ocean's being a high-way, as nature intended it, free and open to all the world, Great Britain seems determined to monopolize it as her own private domain; and no vessel is to enjoy its benefits, until it has paid the price of a British licence, similar in its virtues to the Med terranean pass or Algerine passport.
We have heard many eloquent declamations on the ambition, the towering port and the meditated encroachments of France. We have seen Bonaparte represented as the secret enemy and future invader of this country. During all this time, Great Britain has been represented as the last asylum of civilized Europe, and the only remaining barrier between ourselves and this mighty conqueror. The compliment is a proud one, and perhaps in some respects may be true.
But let the "whole truth" be disclosed. If Great Britain is a bulwark against usurpation, let it also be said that she is herself an usurper. If she shields us against the oppressions of France, she herself labours to oppress us. If France menaces us with persecution, she in some degree constitutes a barrier between ourselves and Great Britain. And though our country is powerful enough to resist the direct attacks of either of those nations upon our independence, yet it must be admitted that we may be in some degree indebted to the power of either nation for our exemption from the most formidable attacks of the other.
This insolent system of encroachment was however to be conducted with caution. We could not have expected, that G. Britain should come boldly out and avow her
pretensions and designs. No; No. John Bull has cunning enough, altho' he is sometimes most woefully deficient in wisdom. It might have been fatal to his purpose, to have alarmed the sensibility and honor of this country by an explicit declaration of war against our commerce. This was the policy of the crafty and aspiring usurper, who is obliged to proceed step by step from one encroachment to another. Great Britain no doubt conceived it prudent to feel the pulse of this nation, before she ventured to place the whole of our commerce under the ban of her empire.
She would first interdict our direct trade with the continent of Europe. If we submitted to this infamous and flagrant attack upon our independence, it would be an encouragement for her to proceed one step further. She would then interdict our trade to the W. Indies. If our patience still kept pace with her encroachment, if our citizens were still permitted by our government to gather up the crumbs of colonial commerce; then, we should surely have been rotten enough to have been ripe for all her purposes. Then, probably her proclamation would have issued with all the becoming solemnity of her maritime supremacy, asserting her right to the dominion of the seas, denouncing every vessel as a pirate that refused to render her the homage of feudal service, and confiscating every cock-boat and cockleshell that presumed to navigate the ocean, without purchasing her passports and paying her tribute.
These new usurpations upon our rights, these new shackles and impositions upon our commerce, these alarming deductions from our mercantile profit, must be taken into calculation by every man, who pretends to estimate all the consequences of the orders in Council. France would not aspire to these usurpations, because she could not succeed. It is G. Britain, with her 5000 ships of war; and the proud burthen of whose favorite air is "Britannia, rule the waves;" that would not fail to borrow an unbounded ambition from her matchless power.—To calculate then truly the pecuniary losses, which would be inflicted by our submission to her orders in council, we should be able to estimate the additional restrictions, which would be sanctioned and invited by this mercenary submission. However great would have been the injuries which these orders would have imposed upon us, the new aggressions which they would certainly have encouraged, would not a little have contributed to swell their amount and magnify their enormity.
This amount is likewise to be extended by a new calculation. It is the duty of politicians to look forward to the ultimate consequences of great measures. In the 15 or 20 years to come, how often might not this very policy of Great Britain have been repeated; how often might she not have attempted to forbid our trade to Europe, and turn it into her own channels! Had we now tamely submitted to the insolent restrictions which she has imposed upon our commerce? On the slightest suggestion of her interest; at the least freak of her caprice; she might have re-enacted those celebrated orders, captured millions of our property, deranged the whole order of our voyages, and reduced the price of our produce and the profits of our capital.—What is true of the municipal regulations of one country, is perhaps more strictly applicable to the laws of nations; that what is "practice to-day, becomes precedent to-morrow." Hence it is that obsta principijs , is the great basis of the law of resistance.
But there is one important principle, which should never be overlooked by those who are forming a comparative estimate of the pecuniary benefits of the embargo and submission. This principle alone is sufficient to give a proud & pre-eminent advantage to the embargo. We must not only calculate the pecuniary profits and losses of those systems for any given time; but we should also calculate them for the respective periods, during which these systems may be expected to subsist. If for instance, we even suppose that submission to the orders in council had produced only 2-3ds of the losses which the embargo has done; but that the orders in council had subsisted twice as long under the encouragement of our submission as under resistance of the embargo; it is not mathematically certain that submission would have been productive of 1-3d more injury than the embargo has inflicted?
No impartial politician will however dispute this position.
Suppose, we had submitted to the British orders, would it not have been the very thing, which Great Britain would most have desired? According to the fulcra as she entertains of her own interest, nothing could have been more favorable to her trade or her maritime pretensions. By this conduct we should have tacitly admitted her right to prescribe laws to our commerce on the high seas, while almost the whole of that commerce would have been thrown into her possession. What then would have been better calculated to encourage her in her perseverance of this system? Prompted by the inhuman satisfaction of seeing the commerce of a reputed and powerful rival languishing and expiring beneath the influence of her power; & animated too by the prospect of her own aggrandizement; what circumstance was likely to set limits to the duration of the orders?
Not one. These Orders in council would have probably subsisted for two or three years. And our only resource at last would have been, either in a declaration of war against G. Britain, or in the adoption of this very embargo.
The embargo however is calculated to produce a different result. It is calculated to bring the question between us and Great Britain to a much speedier issue.
Will G. Britain consent to abandon the market which formerly consumed 1-4th of her exported manufactures? for the United States received about ten of her forty millions, annually exported?
Will G. Britain consent to expose her W. India colonies to the dangers of scarcity and famine, and the loss of breaking up many of their sugar plantations?
Will Great Britain consent to abandon all that part of the market of the European continent, which consumed so large a portion of her manufactures? for, now that the flag of the United States is withdrawn from the ocean, there is no other neutral flag which can convey them to the continent.
Will Great Britain consent to abandon the market of the United States, in which she formerly purchased so large a proportion of the raw materials of her manufactures?
These are questions, which Great Britain must seriously put to herself. And if any reliance is to be placed in reasoning drawn from the nature of her situation, or in the information drawn from the West-Indies or
from her own dominions, it is extremely probable at least, that these considerations will shortly obtain a decided ascendancy over the councils of that nation. The Orders in Council will not continue perhaps until the meeting of Congress.
Should the embargo prove ineffectual in its influence; should it fail in producing the revocation of these orders;—then let this disappointment be ascribed to the unpatricotic opposition which this measure has received from our own countrymen. Had our country solemnly risen en masse to support this measure; had they presented one united phalanx to all the aggressions and all the temptations of Great Britain; that infatuated nation would have discovered no other alternative, than an immediate abandonment of her oppressive measures. But no. This idea did not exactly correspond with the wishes of Mr. Randolph, of Mr. Key and the whole host of federal orators and writers. These gentlemen, forsooth, could do nothing better, than to feed the hopes and confirm the resolutions of G. Britain; convince her that we were a divided people, and that there was a very respectable party among us devoted to her views or infuriated against our own administration; and persuade that gallant nation, that it would be useless for them to repeal their Orders in Council, as it would be impossible for our government to adhere to the embargo—These impressions may derive some confirmation from the result of the elections in Massachusetts and New-York.—But still it is believed, that the spirit of our fellow-citizens will support the government, and that the cabinet of Great Britain will recede from their insolent pretensions.
In point of time, therefore, the embargo is likely to have a decided advantage over submission.
There is a third point of view, in which the comparison should be instituted between these two systems, in regard to their pecuniary expenses. What effect would have been produced upon the other great Belligerent, by our submission to the British Orders in Council? The light, in which France now views our Embargo, is not distinctly seen. The effects that it may have upon that government, are consequently wrapt in the womb of time. But there is no serious reason to apprehend, that it will invite Napoleon to a declaration of war against us.
There is reason to believe, that our submission would have almost certainly led to a different result. This opinion is founded upon the inveterate antipathy of France to the commercial prosperity of England, on the known temper of her Emperor, on the declarations of the Moniteur , as quoted by Mr. Baring, and on the celebrated letter of Mr. Champagny.—The experience of a war with France is one of those items of expence which defies all calculation.
We have then arrived at three conclusions, respecting the comparative pecuniary profits of these two systems.
 1st. That even during the same period of time, submission was not likely to produce a much greater profit than the embargo.  2d That the evils of submission were likely to continue a much longer time than those of the embargo; and of course that whatever balance of profit might accrue from submission during a given time, would probably have been lost by its longer duration; and  3d. That Submission to the British orders was much more likely to involve us in the Expences of a French war, than the Embargo. 
COMMUNICATION.
It is said, that all the American property at Hamburg has been confiscated by the special order of the French Emperor.—This report is however directly in conflict with the more authentic statement laid before the underwriters of Baltimore, which confines this confiscation to the ship Judith & to others placed "in a similar predicament." The difference between these two reports is obvious. By the one, all the American property is confiscated: by the other, only a certain part, that stands on the same ground with the cargo of the Judith . It is not a little curious that the grounds on which this condemnation has been made, have not been stated in any of these reports. This concealment itself gives room for suspicion, that there was at least some colourable pretext for the adoption of this measure; and as this subject is yet completely wrapt in obscurity, every man is at liberty to frame his own conjectures of the pretexts or reasons, which produced it.
It seems probable, that the property said to have been confiscated at Hamburg, stands on different grounds from the American property in the ports of Spain, sequestered under the decree of Milan, and said to have been lately released. This latter property most probably consist of bona fide American cargoes, which had not touched at England. If the property at Hamburg was placed in the same situation, it is impossible to reconcile the inconsistency, which would prevail between the decisions of the two cases. —In the one, the property is said to have been confiscated; in the other, it is said to have been released. The only way to avoid the supposition of any inconsistency in these transactions is, to suppose that the property at Hamburg was either British property which had been fraudulently introduced under cover of the American flag, or that if it was bona fide American property, it had either touched at England, or had been taken in England, or had violated some of the executed provisions of the Decree of Berlin.
It is known by most merchants, that in spite of the interdiction of trade between the English and German ports, some shipments have been made from Liverpool and other ports to Hamburg and other ports. The great demand of the Hanse towns for various articles has no doubt produced a fraudulent trade. Most merchants know also that the American flag has been abused for these purposes, principally by the British agents, who have actually settled in this country to reap the benefits of the neutral trade. Mr. Baring, 'tis true, has demonstrated in his pamphlet, that a smaller part of this fraudulent traffic is carried on under cover of the American flag than by any other neutral nation in proportion to their commercial resources; but it is still not to be doubted, that the privileges of the American flag have been frequently abused by the British merchants, who secure its independence while they claim its protection.
Recent circumstances show, that a fraudulent trade with various parts of the continent is still going on, in spite of all Napoleon's efforts to suppress it. It is said in a letter from Rotterdam of March 22, to a gentleman in New-York, published in the American papers, that "six of the first merchants at Antwerp had been seized and sent to the Temple, for having held a communication with England; and that similar measures had been adopted at Ghent."
A more striking instance occurs under the London head of April 20, in the case of an American vessel at Dantzic. It was proved that the vessel had come last from Liverpool.—One of the consequences of this discovery was, the surrender of her cargo to the French commander.
But we have another report in our news-papers, more in point in the present instance, than all these general symptoms of a fraudulent trade. It is impossible not to connect this confiscation of American property at Hamburg with what has been so recently asserted about the conduct of marshal Brune —The most explicit statement which has yet been published on that subject, is in these words: "that the alleged crime for which marshal Brune is imprisoned in the temple at Paris, is that of having secretly received from the English six millions of livres for permission to smuggle goods into Hamburg ;" that he has been compelled to refund this money; besides incurring the displeasure of his royal master who is said to have declared that he spared his life only in consideration of his past services, and because of the dignity of Marshal to which those services had raised him." If there be any truth in this statement, it furnishes us with a clue to the confiscation at Hamburg. It is not presumable that Bonaparte's resentment would have spared the property, when it was so near falling with such severity upon the head of the Marshal .
These remarks are not intended as any vindication of Bonaparte's general conduct. His rapacity, and his complete indifference about the means of gratifying it, are too well known to demand exposition, or to defy justification. But there is certainly no necessity or justice in heaping every species of rapacity or violence upon this man's head. It would certainly be as liberal, when other causes may possibly be assigned, not to disregard their operation. If others have been guilty of fraud, it would be unjust to ascribe their punishment altogether to his rapacity. Under these circumstances, it would not be more prudent to suspend our judgments until we have distinctly understood the reasons or pretexts assigned for this confiscation?
Things go on "swimmingly" in the Legislature of Massachusetts. All offices have been exclusively confined to the Federalists. They have been appointed. Notaries Public of the several counties, in the room of Republicans, displaced! A committee of both houses has been named to "consider the expediency of directing the mode of appointing Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, the present session, to report by bill or otherwise." The joint committee have reported, that it is inexpedient to recommend any mode of appointment during the present session.—What is the consequence? As no mode can be designated before the next session of the Legislature, there will no time for the people themselves to choose their electors in districts or by a general ticket. By this ingenious manoeuvre, therefore, the Federal Legislature have substantially reserved to themselves the power of appointing Federal Electors.—
Go on, Gentlemen, and ruin your own cause by your own zeal and precipitation. Let the world see by your conduct, to what length your party is capable of proceeding; let us have a proper illustration of what the genuine spirit of federalism is disposed to produce. The world will soon determine, that the intolerance and violence which mark the Federal Legislative of Massachusetts are only on a small scale, what the federal policy would really be, when extended to larger objects and directing the administration of the general government.
As soon as the books of the Petersburg Manufacturing Society were opened, 25,000 dollars were immediately subscribed for.—The Petersburg Troop of Cavalry have resolved to appear clad in homespun uniform , on the approaching Anniversary of American Independence.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER.
Believing as I do, that the solid interest and permanent happiness of our country, consist more in the most homely independence of its citizens, than all the splendour that wealth can give,—I have experienced a heart-felt gratification from the demonstrations of that spirit, which has of late stimulated into existence the Petersburg and Richmond associations for the encouragement of Domestic Manufactures:—as well as from other manifestations of the same patriotic sentiments, in various parts of the state. It is to add another proof to these unequivocal indications of public spirit, so honorable to Virginia, that I avail myself of your paper, which, I am sure, will always be a ready vehicle of disseminating whatever will prove so peculiarly gratifying to those magnanimous and patriotic citizens, who had rather be poor with independence, than rich by the permission of the usurper of the ocean.
As early as the 26th April last, a numerous association of the citizens of Surry, was formed for the purpose of encouraging Domestic Manufactures. The members of the Society are already for the most part, clad in homespun, and will very shortly be entirely so. The effect of this institution in stimulating the poorer class of people to industry, is already perceptible.
I believe, without regarding the charge of extravagance, I may venture to say, that within the short period which has elapsed since the existence of the association; more Virginia Cloth has been offered for sale in the county, than in any twelve months preceding.
A committee is now engaged in obtaining information, as to the properties and expence of labour-saving machinery:—with the view (should the result of the committee's enquiries invite to it) of raising a fund for the execution of such a spinning jinery and other machinery, as may be adequate to supplying the exigencies of the county.
A FRIEND TO DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. Surry County, June 9th.
A general meeting of the Citizens of Richmond and Manchester is requested at the Capitol, on Saturday next, at 10 o'clock in the morning, to receive the REPORT of their committee, of a plan for the encouragement of Domestic Manufactures.
JAS. MONROE. Thursday, June 16, 1808.
We are authorised to state, that Mr. John Kipps declines serving on the Monroe ticket for the county of Greenbrier.
We are authorised to state, that Mr. J. Cantrell declines serving on the Monroe ticket for the county of Mason.
We are authorised to state, that Mr. Benjamin Graves declines serving on the Monroe ticket for the county of Chesterfield.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
PINDARIC ODES.
ODE VIII.
TO J. R.—M. C.
Thou art a pretty little speaker, John, Tho' some there are who think you spoke too long;
And even call, sweet sir, your tongue a bell, That ding-dong, dong-ding, tolls away!
Yet mind not what such "Ragamuffins" say, Roar still "against" "back stairs influence"! I pray,
And lash the "pages of the water closet" well!
To "dust and ashes" pry thee grind-em, Altho' I'm told, "twould puzzle ye to fat-em!
But John, like water, thou must find thy "level," Those horn-book politicians are the devil;
Some how or other, they're so "pleased the nation:
For spite of "cobweb theories" and "sharks," Russells, Garnetts, Clays, and Clerks,
"Straight jackets," "water gruel" and "de-petion;"
Yes, yes, in spite of all those curious things, The name of each, with glory round us rings:
Willst thou, of even patriotism doubted, Art on all hands, detested—laughed at—"sneered at"?
Nay, many think, (tho' this perhaps is scandal,) That soon you'll nothing be, but plain Jack R—dal.
SEDLBY.
We are authorised to state, that satisfactory proof was produced to the collector of this district, that the schooner La S. prairie, which sailed from this port a short time since, was a public armed vessel, possessing a commission from the emperor of France, and as such was exempted from the operation of the embargo act, as will appear by the following extract from the 2d section of said act, viz: "Armed vessels possessing public commissions from any foreign power, are not to be considered as liable to the embargo laid by this act."—Aurora.
NOTICE TO CLAIMANTS UNDER THE CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN IN THEIR AGENTS.—Such persons as profess, in pursuance of the Order of the Board of Commissioners of 11th October, 1805, to lay before the subscriber, during his residence in this city, any evidence in support of their claims, and have not yet given him notice of their intentions, are requested to do so without delay, in order that he may make the necessary arrangements for the business of this station. And it is further expected, that all concerned will after this public intimation, be in readiness to present their books and documents, for examination at any time, when required, so as to prevent delay and loss of time.
If there are any persons in this country who have charge of the claims under enumerated, they will be requested to communicate immediately the necessary information regarding them, to the agent of the board, viz:
VIRGINIA CLAIMS.
Gavin Alston for the Greenock saddle and shoe factory,
Garsang Bradstock, in right of John Breakhill of Liverpool, mariner,
Henry Clay, representative of Clay and Midgley of Liverpool,
Droghorn, Murdoch and Co.
Mary Doyle and Maegt. Mallory, legatees of J. Mallory,
Representatives of William Duncan, James Hunter & Co.
John Glassel,
Samuel Get,
Richard Hanson,
Wm. R. Lidderdale, executor of John Lidderdale,
Sam. Lytle, for Lyond and Saml Lytle,
Colin Ross, administrator of R. Jardine,
George Russel, for Smith, son, and Russel,
Joseph Stanfield, assignee of Syme,
Abie t Sheldon & Co.
John Tyndale Warre, executor of Wm. Jones,
John Fate, executor of Willings,
Wakelin Welch, for Carey Moore and Welch,
Peaks and others, executors of Waterman.
NORTH-CAROLINA CLAIMS.
Edmund Fanning,
Wm. Hamay, assignee of John Cruden & Co.
Jos and Cath. Martyr, representatives of Thomas Cobham.
Henry Eustace McCulloh,
John Macdonell,
Joseph "Rutherford for Wm. Rome & Co. Eden-dale,
ALEXA. DICK, Agent of the Board, Richmond, June 17. [3w]
NOTICE.—By virtue of a deed, executed by John Pierce, sen. to me, bearing date the 27th day of November, 1807, conveyed in trust, a Tract of LAND on which the said Pierce lives, in James City county; I shall proceed on the 24 Monday in next month to make sale of the said Land, before the door of the court house of James City, or so much as may be necessary to pay the sum of £ 344 : 3 : 10 with interest due to Mary Fitzhugh, Martha Burwell Digges and Rosewae Cole, besides incidental expenses. The sale will be for cash and a title made in conformity to said deed to the purchaser.
RO: GREENHOW, Trustee. [2w]
June 17.
COMMITTED to the Jail of Hanover, a Negro man slave TIMOTHY, (as run away) who says he is the property of the estate of John Royal, dec'd of the county of Amelia, and that he ran away from John Jefferson to whom he was hired. The owner is requested to pay charges and take away the said slave.
THE JAILOR. [1m]
June 17.
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY.—At a meeting of the directors of the said company on Tuesday evening the 14th of June, 1808:
Resolved, That a call of two dollars and fifty cents be made on each share held by the stockholders in the said company, and that they pay the same into the hands of their treasurer on or before the 1st day of next month.
A Copy. N. SHEPARD, Clerk. June 17. [1st July]
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.—Run-away from the subscriber on the 8th of this present month, a likely mulatto woman by the name of KITTY, about 20 years of age; she is stout made, and rather low for her bulk, her complexion is of rather dark, has a knotty head of hair, more so than is common for one of her colour, she carried on a variety of clothing, of course a description of her dress is unnecessary. She was invisible by her husband, by the name of James, the property of one Watkins near the coal pits, who is hired to a Mr. Trabue, to go in his coal boat; he has a good many relations in Chesterfield and Powhatan, particularly a father and mother, who, I am informed, are free, where probably she may be harbored, or she may be concealed at Mr. Augustine Davis's plantation in this county, where her husband and herself are very intimate; her father and mother belong to Mr. Jesse Smith of this county, they are both very artful and designing, and as her mother has more indulgence than generally falls to the lot of slaves, she may perhaps be concealed by her.
I will give the above reward for her delivery, or secured in any jail so that I get her again.
NATHAN L. W. PRICE. Henrico, June 17, 1808. [law2w]

The Philadelphia Gazette of last evening, asserts that the letter published in the Aurora of yesterday, was published or handed to, or received by major Pike from gen. Wilkinson...
MR. R. G. HARPER'S EXAMINATION.
Personally before me, one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the United States, at Baltimore, in the district of Maryland, on the 12th day of May, 1808, appeared Robert Goodloe Harper...
Sir—I have the honor to notify you, that on the 12th inst. at the house of the honorable Samuel Chase, a judge of the supreme court, in the city of Baltimore...
Have you had any connection with Daniel Clark, esq. in relation to any report or allegation of Brigadier General James Wilkinson, having ever been a pensioner to the Spanish government...
(Signed) W. JONES, Junr. Officiating as Judge Advocate. (Addressed) Brigadier Gen. JAMES WILKINSON, Washington. Sworn before me the day aforesaid. (Signed) SAMUEL CHASE.
STATE OF MARYLAND, Baltimore, ss. Be it remembered, that on this 12th day of May, 1808, before me the subscriber, one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the United States...
Some time in the latter part of February or beginning of March, 1807, being at Washington, attending the supreme court of the United States, I heard it reported that brigadier general James Wilkinson...
(Signed) ROBT. G. HARPER.
CROSS INTERROGATORIES.
1st. Did you not voluntarily mention to the judge advocate, Walter Jones, esq. the information you have now deposed to, and request to be permitted to depose to it? 2d. In making this proposition, did you not indulge an emotion of friendship to Mr. Clark? 3d. How long have you been acquainted with Mr. Clark, and by whom were you introduced to him? 4th. When Mr. Clark mentioned to you that gen. Wilkinson had received no pension or money from the Spaniards in 1804, had the previous conversation turned on general Wilkinson's general conduct, or only certain parts of it? 5th. Did Mr. Clark intimate to you during that communication, or at any other time previous to the late session of Congress, that gen. Wilkinson had received a pension from the Spanish government? 6th. Did you hear Mr. Clark then, or at any other time, previous to his last arrival from New Orleans, speak injuriously of gen. Wilkinson, or imply by his language, that a friendly understanding did not subsist between them? 7th. Did you see Mr. Clark on his journey from
Richmond to Philadelphia last autumn, as he passed through this city, and had you any conversation with him respecting colonel Burr's trial then pending at Richmond, and which he had been subpoenaed on the part of said Burr to attend as a witness, and if so, be pleased to state it?
8th. Have you any knowledge of a letter written by John Randolph, esq. to the hon. Joseph Nicholson, in which mention is made of general Wilkinson; and if so, will you be pleased to state the particulars?
9th. Had you any knowledge of the documents delivered by John Randolph, esq. to the house of delegates of the Congress, calculated to criminate gen. Wilkinson for an illicit connection with the Spanish government previous to their exhibition by Mr. Randolph, and do you know from whom Mr. Randolph received those documents?
10th. Did you at any time hear Mr. Clark speak of the practicability of subverting the government of the Mexican provinces, and creating a separate empire there?
11th. Did you ever hear said Clark speak of the dismemberment of the union, of the erection of a western empire, and having col. Burr for president there? (Signed) JAS. WILKINSON.
And the said Robert Goodloe Harper, being further examined by me, on the annexed cross interrogatories exhibited by the said general James Wilkinson, answered thereto as follows, viz:
First.—To the first he answers—"I did not—Mr. Jones first mentioned the subject to me, and asked me what I knew about it, adding, that he intended to call on me as a witness, and that he thought it due to Mr. Clark to do so."
Second.—"I did not make the proposition—But I certainly at that time and ever since I knew him, felt warm and strong emotions of friendship towards him. If it be meant to insinuate by this question, that my friendship for Mr. Clark would induce me to discolour the truth, I have only to answer, that such an insinuation merits no reply."
Third.—To the third he answers—"I became acquainted with Mr. Clark first at Washington, during the first session of Congress which he attended. I had never seen him before—I was introduced to him by the gentlemen of the mess to which he belonged and with which I had been invited to dine, on the day of the introduction."
Fourth.—To the fourth he answers—"The conversation which I have related in my answer to the direct interrogatory, respecting the money in 1804, was introduced by myself, and before by a question from me to Mr. Clark, whether this report was true? Mr. Clark's answer put an end to the conversation on that subject—There was no previous conversation respecting general Wilkinson's conduct, as far as I can now recollect, and as I believe—This conversation took place at Mr. Clark's lodgings, during the same session of Congress, and same time, but I do not recollect how long after I first became acquainted with him."
Fifth.—To the fifth he answers—"Mr. Clark did not during that conversation intimate to me, further than what I have stated in my answer to the direct interrogatory, that gen. Wilkinson had received a pension from the Spanish government. Mr. Clark, then, and at other times, whenever the subject was mentioned or alluded to in his presence and mine, previous to his first communication to congress, seemed anxious to avoid any conversation on the subject. But I did conjecture, from his manner of answering my question, on the occasion alluded to, and especially from his discriminating between the money in 1804—and 'what might have happened at other times'—that he knew more on the subject of other money transactions than he wished to explain. My belief that he wished to avoid further explanation, as to other transactions, prevented me from pressing the matter any farther. I had no conversation with Mr. Clark afterwards on these subjects, previous to his first communication to Congress; but I have heard the subject afterwards mentioned in his presence, and he always appeared desirous of avoiding any explanation concerning it, further than to say that no money had been received by general Wilkinson from the Spaniards in 1804—which I think I frequently heard him say."
Sixth.—To the sixth he answers—"I never did hear Mr. Clark, previously to his first communication to Congress, speak injuriously of gen. Wilkinson, further than I have already stated, nor intimate that a friendly understanding did not subsist between them—I think that when the account of general Wilkinson's proceedings at New Orleans, in the winter of 1806 and 1807, was received at Washington, and mentioned in the presence of Mr. Clark, he expressed his disapprobation of those measures, on the ground of their being unnecessary, and unconstitutional, but of this I am not confident."
Seventh.—To the seventh he answers—"I cannot certainly recollect, but I believe, that Mr. Clark did not call on me, and that I did not see him on his way from Richmond to Philadelphia, in the autumn of 1807. If he did call, it was merely for a few minutes, and I had no conversation with him, on the subject of this interrogatory. If I saw him, he probably mentioned to me as he has done at other times, that he was not called as a witness, by reason of a division of the court, that no investigation of general Wilkinson's conduct, connected with his testimony against col. Burr, could be permitted. I have not at any other time had any conversation with Mr. Clark on the subject of this interrogatory."
Eighth.—To the eighth he answers—"I have no knowledge of any such letter. During the session of the court of appeals of this state at Annapolis, in the summer of 1807, while the case of col. Burr and his associates was before the court at Richmond, I did hear judge Nicholson speak of a letter which he had received from Richmond, giving him an account of the result of the grand jury's deliberation respecting general Wilkinson: but I did not hear, nor do I know, by whom that letter was written. I might have conjectured, and may perhaps have mentioned my conjecture, from the known intimacy between judge Nicholson and Mr. Randolph, that the letter was written by the latter gentleman."
Ninth.—To the ninth he answers—"I had no particular knowledge of those documents, or of their existence, before they were communicated to congress by Mr. Randolph—but I did learn, soon after the trial of col. Burr was concluded at Richmond, that Thomas Power had in his possession some original documents, tending to prove that general Wilkinson had received money from the Spanish government corruptly in 1806—This information I obtained of Power himself. After the trial he passed through Baltimore, on his way to Philadelphia, and called on me, to deliver a letter of introduction from a gentleman in New Orleans, not Mr. Clark. I asked him to dine with me in a family way, and he came. During the dinner he told me that general Wilkinson had violated a solemn engagement with him, by publishing a certificate obtained from him, under a promise that it should be communicated to no one but the President—that this certificate was given, at the most earnest solicitation of general Wilkinson, and to enable him to satisfy the mind of the President; that the publication of it, at a time when general Wilkinson knew that he (Power) was summoned as a witness in Burr's trial, was calculated to injure the reputation of him (Power) by holding him up as a person who had certified one thing, and was ready to testify to another—that for the justification of his conduct, and the support of his character, he was determined to publish the whole affair, with documents in his possession to support his statement, if he could procure the permission of the Marquis de Casa Yrujo; and that he was going to Philadelphia for the purpose of obtaining such permission. Having conceived a very high opinion of general Wilkinson's public and political integrity, from the facts and circumstances which had then become public, I took
some pains to obtain from Power, all the information I could respecting these transactions between general Wilkinson and the Spaniards; but he would state nothing more particular than is above related.
I sometimes afterwards learned, not from Mr. Clark, but from a gentleman with whom we were both intimate, that Power had not been able to obtain the desired permission from the late Spanish minister; but had left his papers, with a narrative in writing, of the whole transaction, in the possession of Mr. Clark, with the permission to use them as he might think proper. I never spoke to Mr. Clark respecting those documents and narrative; but I told the gentleman who communicated the matter to me, that as Mr. Clark was now a representative of the people, and gen. Wilkinson, in a situation where treachery and corruption might prove in the highest degree detrimental to the public interest, I thought it Mr. Clark's duty to make the matter known to Congress, so that an enquiry might be instituted into general Wilkinson's conduct. I did not then know the particular nature of the documents, nor that Mr. Clark had himself any knowledge of general Wilkinson's pecuniary transactions with the Spanish government. This gentleman, however, then informed me, that Mr. Clark had much knowledge of this kind, but did not state the particulars. I added, that, if Mr. Clark thought it best, he might make the communication through Mr. Randolph; but that, it was my decided opinion, that it was his duty to make it in some way or other; and I authorized and requested that gentleman to state this to Mr. Clark, as my opinion and advice. This gentleman afterwards informed me that he had done immediately after his return to Washington, where Mr. Clark then was. I heard nothing more of the matter till I received from Mr. Lloyd, of this state, a copy of Mr. Clark's first communication; nor did I ever see the documents till they appeared in print.
I believe that Mr. Clark delivered the documents to Mr. Randolph, and that he did so in consequence of my advice and persuasion. Soon after he made the communication, I learned from him, that after his return from New Orleans in the summer of 1807, he had received there, intelligence which convinced him of general Wilkinson's having received the ten thousand dollars in 1804; and that it was said by the Marquis de Casa Calvo; which circumstance prevented the payment from appearing in the book of ordinary expenditures for that year; and that this discovery had given him an entirely different view and impression of general Wilkinson's character and conduct, and rendered him more willing than he should otherwise have been, to communicate to Congress what he knew concerning general Wilkinson's former connections with the Spanish government—I recollect nothing more on this subject.
Tenth.—To the tenth he answers—"I have frequently heard Mr. Clark, in speaking of col. Burr's enterprise after it became known, and of the 'Mexican association,' say, that he considered all individual, or unauthorized attempts on Mexico, as not only unlawful, and therefore improper; but as visionary, impracticable and foolish. But, that, he believed that an army of twenty thousand men well appointed and commanded, and acting under the authority of the American or British governments, might effect a revolution in the Mexican provinces, and erect an independent government there."
Eleventh.—To the eleventh he answers—"I never did hear Mr. Clark mention such a project, except as a criminal and visionary scheme, attributed, and perhaps justly, to col. Burr and a few of his associates."
Being asked by gen. Wilkinson who the gentleman was, that alluded to in his answer to the ninth interrogatory, he answers—"It was Richard Reynell Keene, esq. formerly of New Orleans, and now in Cuba. I received from him the information of Mr. Clark's knowledge, and possession of the documents in question, and it was through him that I communicated the advice to Mr. Clark, as stated in my answer to the ninth cross interrogatory." (Signed) ROBERT G. HARPER.
(BY AUTHORITY.)
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT
For extending the terms of credit on revenue bonds in certain cases, and for other purposes.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the payment of all bonds given for duties on the importation of coffee, sugar, pepper, indigo, cocoa, wine, and paying a duty of twenty-three cents per gallon, which remain unpaid at the passing of this act, and have or may become due, subsequent to the 22d of December last, and whilst the act entitled "An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States," shall continue in force, may be suspended during the continuance of the said act, on the terms and conditions herein after provided: Provided, that such extension of credit shall not apply to the duties due for any of the above-described articles, which, either have been re-exported or are not entitled to be exported with benefit of drawback, nor to any which have been, or will be sold by the importer.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the persons entitled to the extension of credit allowed by the preceding section, shall, in order to enjoy its benefit, take up, or have cancelled, the bonds heretofore given for duties on which the extension of credit is allowed, and give to the collector new bonds, with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of said collector, for the sums of their former bonds respectively, payable whenever the act entitled "An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States," shall no longer be in force: which bonds shall be accepted by the collectors respectively upon the terms following, that is to say, the goods for the duties whereon such bonds shall be accepted, shall be deposited at the same expense and risk of the importer, or importers, parties to the said bonds, in one or more store-house or store-houses, in the same manner as is now provided for the deposit of teas, by the 62d section of the act entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," but no delivery of the said goods, or of part thereof, shall be made to the owners thereof, unless the duties on so much thereof, as may, on the application of the owners, be thus delivered, shall have been paid. And whenever the sum specified in any of the bonds taken by virtue of this section, shall become due and remain unpaid more than forty-five days, so much of the said deposited goods as may be necessary, shall be sold by the collector at public sale, and the proceeds thereof, after deducting the charges of safe-keeping and sale thereof, shall be applied to the payment of such sum, rendering the overplus arising on such sale and the residue of the goods so deposited, if any there be, to the person or persons, by whom such a deposit shall have been made, or to his or their agent or lawful representative. But if the proceeds of such sale shall not be sufficient to pay the duties and charges, or if any of the goods shall while deposited, be destroyed, stolen, lost or damaged, the bonds taken by virtue of this section, for the payment of duties on such goods, shall be proceeded with, in all respects as other bonds taken by collectors for duties due to the United States.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever any goods, wares or merchandise, which being entitled to be exported with benefit of drawback, had prior to the 22d day of December last, been actually laden on board a vessel, and inspected under the superintendence of a proper officer, in conformity with the provisions of the 76th section of the act entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," have been detained under the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, so as to prevent the actual exportation of such goods, wares and merchandise, the payment of bonds given for duties on the importation of the same, may to an amount equal to that of such duties and no farther, be suspended during the continuance of the last mentioned act, in the same manner, and on the same terms and conditions, as is provided by the preceding section for bonds given for duties on certain specific articles: provided, that the owners of such goods, wares and merchandise, shall surrender any debentures which previously have been granted for the drawback of duties on the same.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the persons entitled to the extension of credit allowed by the next preceding section, may at their option, either deposit the goods, wares and merchandise, in a store-house or store-houses, or leave the same on board the vessel on which the same have been laden: the said goods, wares and merchandise, being in either case secured in the same manner as is provided for goods deposited in conformity with the second section of this act: Provided always, That whenever it may be lawful to export such goods, wares or merchandise, it shall be necessary that the same should again be inspected by a proper officer on board the vessel in which the same shall be exported, in order to entitle the exporter to the benefit of drawback: nor shall any debentures for drawback of duties on such goods, wares and merchandise, be issued or paid, until after the actual exportation of the same: And provided also, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the owners of such goods, wares and merchandise, who may not claim the extension of credit allowed by this act, and who have not received debentures for the drawback of duties on the same, from landing and keeping in their possession any such goods, wares or merchandise.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate pro tempore. MARCH 10, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT
To authorise and empower the President of the United States to exchange certain lands, for other lands more suitable for fortification.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorised and empowered, to cause the lands in Portland whereon the fort and battery now stand, and the lands at Ocracoke and Old Topsail Inlets, in North-Carolina, acquired with a view to erecting fortifications, to be exchanged for other lands more suitable for fortification, and the protection of Portland, in the district of Maine, and Ocracoke, and Old Topsail inlet, in North-Carolina.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate pro tempore. APRIL 25, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT
To authorise the President of the United States, under certain conditions, to suspend the operation of the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, and several acts supplementary thereto.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the event of such peace or suspension of hostilities between the belligerent powers of Europe, or of such changes in their measures affecting neutral commerce, as may render that of the United States sufficiently safe, in the judgment of the President of the United States, he is hereby authorised during the recess of Congress, to suspend in whole or in part the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, and the several acts supplementary thereto, under such exceptions and restrictions, and on such bond and security being given, as the public interest and circumstances of the case may appear to require: Provided, such suspension shall not extend beyond twenty days after the next meeting of Congress.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate pro tempore. APRIL 22, 1808. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
NEGROES FOR SALE.—By virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by Geo: Robertson of the county of Amelia, bearing date the 1st April, 1807, for the purpose of securing to David Rattray a sum of money therein expressed, we shall on Thursday the 16th inst. at Genito, proceed to sell for ready money, the following SLAVES, to wit: Jenny, Nancy, Dick and Tiller, or as many of them as may be sufficient to discharge the purposes of said deed. E.D.M.D. HARRISON. JAMES ROBERTSON, jr. } Trustees. June 3. [lawtds]
NOTICE.—The Co-partnership of Thomas Rutherford and Co. will be dissolved on the 30th June next: All those therefore, who may have claims against the said firm, or either of the partners, are invited in the mean time to apply for payment, and they earnestly request those indebted to them to settle their respective accounts as speedily as possible. THOMAS RUTHERFORD, FREDERICK ARGYLE. Richmond, May 6. [PilotJuly9]
By virtue of a deed of trust to us executed by Sherwood Fowler, and recorded in the county court of Cumberland, for the purpose of securing the payment of a judgment therein mentioned, we will proceed to sell to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the premises, on the 8th day of July next, a certain Tract or Parcel of LAND, containing (as expressed by said deed) one hundred acres, being a part of the tract whereon the said Fowler resides, in the county of Cumberland, about eleven miles above the court-house, and on the main Buckingham road, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to pay the judgment aforesaid, with interest and costs and the necessary expenses attending the execution of this trust. JOHN WOODSON, SAYMER WRIGHT, Sen. June 10. [lawtds]
ADVERTISEMENT.—I forewarn all persons whatever from trading or taking an assignment for a bond now in the hands of Mr. George Williamson of Powhatan, Exor. of Jacob Williamson, dec'd. The bond was given by Mrs. Hannah Williamson to William T. Walker of Prince Edward, for the amount of 30 pounds, and the bond dated the third day of January, 1803. GEORGE EGGLESTON, Executor of Hannah Williamson, dec'd. April 28. [lawtds]
VIRGINIA, To wit:—At a Chancery District Court held in the City of Williamsburg the 7th day of April, 1808.
Joshiah Ryland and Catherine his wife, Thomas Armistead and Jane his wife, and William T. Colston and Elizabeth his wife, Plaintiffs—Against John Nicholson and Bartholomew McCarty, Defendants.
The defendant John Nicholson, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this country, on the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, It is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Richmond newspapers for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former Capitol in this City. A Copy. ANTY. ROBINSON, cl. May 17. [law8w]
IN CHANCERY.—Charlotte Court, 8th March, 1808.
Grief and Claiborne Barksdale, jr. Plaintiffs—Against Charles Harris, Henry A. Watkins, executor of William Pentecost and Richard Pentecost, Defendants.
The defendant Harris, not having entered his appearance according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state, on the motion of the plaintiffs by their attorney, It is ordered, that he appear here on the first day of August court next, and enter his appearance and give security for performing the decree of the court, and that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the newspapers printed in Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the court-house of the said county.
A Copy. Teste, THOMAS READ, Clk. April 26. [law8w]
VALUABLE LANDS.—The subscriber will sell, on a credit, or exchange for property in Richmond, or its neighborhood, the following LANDS, to wit:
822 acres in the state of Kentucky by survey, bearing date the 10th day of October 1797, lying and being in the district set a part for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, on Little Barren river.
Also, 1000 acres in Kentucky, by survey bearing date the 10th October 1797, likewise lying in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, on the North side of Little River, a branch of Cumberland River and about two and one half miles from the mouth of Little river.
Also, 450 acres of Land in the county of Mason, state of Virginia on Old Town Creek, about 6 miles from Mason courthouse.
Indisputable titles will be made to the above mentioned Lands; and plots of each tract may be seen on application to the subscriber residing in Richmond. THOMAS BOHANNAN. Jan. 28. [lawtd]
VALUABLE MANUFACTURING MILL, & DISTILLERY.—The subscriber will sell or lease for a term of years, with or without a distillery, containing five stills of near 1000 gallons, the valuable Mill on Appomattox river, in Cumberland, lately owned by William Skipwith. The house is 66 feet long, 26 wide, and three stories high, containing 2 pair best burr and 1 pair corn stones, with Evans's patent machinery and a Saw Mill in complete order. Boats pass under the Mill through one of the best locks on the river—the neighborhood affords an abundant supply of wheat, and on the spot are two commodious houses calculated for a store and residence. If sold, the purchaser may be accommodated with 4 or 500 acres of Land, one half in wood. Terms may be known on application to Mr. Jeffers at the Mill or to me near Genito Bridge. EDMUND HARRISON. Amelia, April 19. (law8f)
IN CHANCERY.—Charlotte Court, 8th March, 1808.
Claiborne Barksdale and son, assignees of Major Parsons, Plaintiffs—Against James Green & Parish Green, Defendants.
The defendant James, not having entered his appearance according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state, on the motion of the plaintiffs by their attorney, It is ordered, that he appear here on the first day of August court next and enter his appearance, and give security for performing the decree of the court, and that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the newspapers printed in Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the court-house of the said county.
A Copy. Teste, THOMAS READ, Clk. April 26. [law8w]
NOTICE.—By virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by William Newton bearing date the 13th day of May 1807, and recorded in the County court of Buckingham, for the purpose of securing the payment of a debt due from the said Newton to Hobson and St. John, will be exposed to sale on the premises for ready money on Saturday the second day of July next one hundred Acres of Land in the county of Buckingham adjoining that on which the said Newton resides. ROBERT MOSELEY Junr. June 10, 1808. (74f)
COW POX.—The subscriber informs those persons wishing to be vaccinated, that he has lately received fresh matter from his friend Dr. Belfor, (Norfolk) that has succeeded in several vaccinations, and is in a proper state for inoculation. DANL. WM. SACKRIDER. June 10. (4f)
NOTICE.—All persons indebted to the Estate of Marcus Elean, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment, and creditors to present their claims without delay. C. J. MACMURDO, } Exors. JOS. MARX, } Richmond, May 17, 1808. (1f)
BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS.—The subscriber respectfully offers his services to his friends and the public, in the above line of business and solicits their patronage. G. GREENHOW. Dec. 15. [lawtd]
THE MILLING BUSINESS which has heretofore been carried on under the firm of LADD & WEBSTER, was dissolved on the first instant. THOMAS & AMOS LADD, ISAAC WEBSTER March 18. (1f)
JOSEPH MARK & Co. have on hand an assortment of German Oznaburgs, Ticklenburgs, Dowlands and Towellings, by the bale, box, or piece. Cognac Brandy, Molasses, Sack Salt, coarse and fine, which they will sell for cash, tobacco or approved paper. May 17. (1f)
THE subscriber being appointed one of the Master Commissioners for the United States' Federal Court, fifth circuit, district of Virginia, and also for the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, gives this public Notice, that his office is kept at No. 3, at the Eagle Tavern, where he will attend from the first to the tenth of each month, and also during the sessions of said courts—in the interim, any communications directed to him, post paid, to Charles City courthouse, will be promptly and strictly attended to. When his reports are ready for delivery, he will leave a notification thereof in the respective offices of said courts. PATK. HENDREN. Richmond, June 3. [law8w]