The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-12-06 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE.....AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.....(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 61.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1805.
[VOLUME 2.]
ENOCH SULLIVAN,
SILVER, GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER,
RETURNS his grateful thanks to his friends and the public for the liberal encouragement afforded him in his line of business, and hopes by his punctilious attention to the business, to which he was bred, to insure a continuation of the favor of a liberal public. He offers now for sale at his shop adjoining the Eagle Tavern, a general assortment of silver ware and jewellery of the most fashionable kind, consisting of silver Tea Pans, cream Urns, Tumblers, Spoons, and mourning and fancy Earrings, Lockets, Finger Rings, and Breast Pins, jet, white and coral Necklaces and Earrings, a general supply of Combs, plain and ornamented Pocket Books, thread Cases, Miniature and ring Cases, gold and gilt Seals, Keys and Chains. Highest price given for old gold or silver. December 3. tf
CHINA WARE, &c.
THE subscriber has just received a handsome assortment of China, Glass, and Liverpool Ware, amongst which are some elegant sets of Tea China gilt with burnished gold, and a great variety of inferior kinds in complete and broken sets, China Bowls assorted, China and China glazed dining, breakfast, & desert Plates, and China glazed Pitchers of various sizes, also, Tea Pans, Sugar Dishes and Cream Urns of the pearl and wedge wood kind. His glass chiefly consists of sets of Decanters, wine and dessert Glasses, Tumblers and Goblets, oval cream Bowls, Sweet Meats and Sals handsomely cut and engraved, castor and liquor Bottles in morocco frames, and a pretty general assortment of German plain Glass. His Liverpool ware is generally assorted, from which he can pack assorted crates to suit country retailers at a very moderate advance. He continues to keep a general assortment of groceries for retailing, of the best quality, and has now on hand, brown Sugar by the hogshead and barrel, Rum by the puncheon and bbl. Coffee by the bag, New-York Candles by the box, Imperial Tea by the chest, Salt by the sack, and Castings well assorted, by the ton or smaller quantity, all of which articles will be sold reasonable for ready money or negotiable paper. DANIEL TRIPLETT. (sp4w.)
YOUNG LADIES ACADEMY.
MR. & Mrs. O'Reilly respectfully inform the inhabitants of Richmond, that they have opened an Academy on the Capitol hill, adjoining Major Du Val's, for the education of Young Ladies in the following branches, viz: The English and French languages grammatically; writing and arithmetic; history, geography and globes; music, drawing, and all kinds of work, viz: embroidery in chenilles, gold, silver, silk, &c. comprising figures, historical and ornamental, landscapes, flowers, fruit, birds, &c. maps wrought in silk, chenilles, gold, &c. print work in figures or landscapes; cloth work in fruit, birds, flowers, &c. flagging and varnishing in vases, pyramids, baskets, tea caddies, &c. perga, &c. grotto and shell work, artificial flowers, rambor and Dresden, crock fitch, tent fitch, tapestry, &c. bungalow pearl work, painting on velvet gauze, silk, vellum, &c. N.B. Terms for boarders and day Scholars, made known at the Academy. November 19. eplm
LAND AND OTHER PROPERTY FOR SALE.
ON Wednesday the 11th day of December 1805, will be exposed at public sale, to the highest bidder, upon a credit of one and two years, that valuable and well known tract of LAND belonging to the estate of Goodrich Crump, dec'd. in Powhatan county, situate on the Buckingham road, 6 miles from the court-house, 38 from Manchester, and 1 1/2 from Appomattox river. The improvements are a small and convenient dwelling house with two rooms below and two above, a kitchen, dairy, smoke-house and every other out house in good repair, and calculated for the accommodation of a genteel family. It is unnecessary to state all the advantages this tract of land has, as it is presumed no one will purchase, without first viewing it, farther than to say, that it is in the centre of one of the most opulent, healthy and agreeable neighborhoods in this state and contiguous to several mills—sufficiently large to work ten or twelve hands to great advantage, with 120 bushels of wheat well put in—Any person wishing to view the above land before the day of sale, will apply to Mr. John Crump the present occupant. At the same time and place, will also be SOLD upon 12 months credit, for all sums exceeding ten dollars, all the HOUSEHOLD & KITCHEN FURNITURE. Together with the STOCK of every description—horses, hogs, sheep and horned cattle, among the latter of which are several good pair of work oxen—plantation utensils, two cars, a waggon, two pair of old wheels, &c. &c. For all sums under ten dollars each will be required. Bonds to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. Those who have claims against the estate of Goodrich Crump, dec'd. are requested to bring them forward to Richard Crump, properly authenticated, by the first of April next. WM. HICKMAN, } Exors of Goodrich Crump. } rich Crump. Powhatan, December 3.
PROPOSALS for raising Two Thousand Dollars, by subscription, within the counties of King and Queen, Essex, Middlesex, King William, Westmoreland, Richmond, Lancaster, and Southampton, for the purpose of purchasing the Mad Dog Stone, belonging to James Mico, and fixing it in a situation central to those counties. 500 Shares at 10 Dols. is 2000. So soon as the whole number of shares shall be subscribed for, the present proprietor of the stone shall advertise in the Enquirer, printed in Richmond by Thomas Ritchie, esq. requesting a meeting of the Shareholders, on a certain day, at the house of Tunstall Banks, esq. in Tappahannock, when all, when met, pay up their respective subscriptions, and the sum of one hundred dollars (or any greater number present) shall constitute a board, and proceed to make rules and regulations relative to the said Stone. Dec. 3.
McCABE & WALKER, WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS, At the corner house opposite Messrs. Gamble's Store Richmond. OFFER their services to the public. From strict attention to all commands appertaining to their business, and the pains that will be bestowed in the execution of their work, they have full confidence to hope for a continuance of the favours they may receive. Great care will be taken in repairing all kinds of watches and clocks. December 3. (tf)
FOR SALE. THREE valuable Slaves, viz. a male and female house servant, and a gardener; their characters are unexceptionable. For further particulars apply to the printer. Nov. 26. T4w
NOTICE.—If Francis Lightfoot, a native of the county of New-Kent, and formerly a resident of the state of Virginia, be now living, or has any legal heir or defendant living, either in the United States or elsewhere, by applying either in person or by special agent, and producing sufficient evidence of their being such legal descendant, to Wm. or Nicholas Lightfoot of the county of James City, to Geo. or Lightfoot Poindexter of New-Kent, or to James Poindexter of Powhatan, will hear of something highly important and much to their advantage. * * * The Printers throughout the U.S. are requested to insert the above twice, in their respective papers, and transmit their accounts to the Editor of the Enquirer. Nov. 19. ep2m
GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA.
THE Grand Lodge of Virginia will meet in the Mason's Hall in this city, at 6 o'clock in the evening of Monday the 9th day of December next. W. H. Fitzhugh, G.S. Nov. 12. tf
BANK OF VIRGINIA.
THE Stockholders are hereby Notified, that the Annual Meeting for electing Directors, will be held on Monday the 6th January.
Power of Attorney for voting by proxy for Directors:
Know all men by these presents, That I of do hereby appoint to be sub-stitute and proxy, for and in name and behalf, to vote at any election of a Director or Directors of the Bank of Virginia, as fully as might or could were personally present. In witness whereof have hereunto set hand and seal, this day of in the year Signed and delivered in the presence of
Power of Attorney for receiving Dividends:
Know all men by these presents, That I of do hereby constitute and appoint lawful attorney for and in name and behalf, to receive and give receipts for all dividends now due, or which may become due on shares to belonging in the capital or joint stock of the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of Virginia. In witness whereof have set hand and seal this day of in the year Signed and delivered in presence of TIRJ Nov. 19.
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY.
DELINQUENT Shareholders, on the 8th Requisition, are hereby Notified, that such shares, on which the said requisition shall remain unpaid, will be sold on the 21st day of December next, at Mr. Brooks's tavern in Manchester, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon. JAMES BRANDER, Clk. Nov. 19. ep21RD
FROM THE BALANCE, PUBLISHED IN HUDSON, N.Y.
AMERICAN CAPTIVES IN TRIPOLI.
Extract from the Journal of Dr. Conder, kept during his captivity in Tripoli. [CONTINUED.]
August 10. Lewis Heximer, who lately turned Turk, went by order of the Bashaw, and told capt. Bainbridge, the particulars of the two late actions. The Bashaw informed me that the late commander of the schooner Vixen, Lieut. Smith, was commander of the gun-boats in the late action, and was killed by a musket shot through his head. Our men complained of being drove and beat about at an unmerciful rate, in consequence of which they petitioned the Bashaw, in the following terms: To his Excellency the Grand Bashaw of Tripoli. The petition of the whole of the American prisoners most humbly beseecheth: That your humble petitioners, when doing, with all their power, as they are commanded, are most cruelly beaten by our wardens, flogged, insulted, and spit upon by the soldiers and others; required to carry burthens impossible for us to sustain; and chased and bruised, until we are or soon shall be, unable to labour at all. From the many acts of justice, kindness, and generosity, we have experienced from your excellency, we cannot suppose that such conduct is authorised by your commands; or that we should be punished for what is out of our power to perform; or for the actions of others, which we have no agency in, and which we cannot prevent. Returning your excellency our sincere and humble thanks for your bounty and privileges heretofore shewn, and relying on your goodness for protection, we therefore, most humbly pray, that your excellency would interpose your royal authority, and grant us a speedy relief. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will remain your excellency's most humble, faithful, and obedient servants. On the petition being explained to the Bashaw by Heximer, (or Hamet American, his new name) the Bashaw forbid the Turks striking the prisoners.
August 11. The Bashaw sent for me, and agreeably to his orders, I took a tent by his side. He began conversation about my country, and our squadron, which was then in sight, and consisted of eighteen sail. He said that for two dollars he could repair all the damages that the bombardment did to his town—that but one man was hurt by the shells; that what he had been offered for the American prisoners was about fifty dollars per man; that he would make them earn that sum in two months. He asked me what I thought my country would give for me. I told him I did not know. He said he would not take twenty thousand dollars for me; to which I replied, that I might then expect to remain in slavery for life. He patted me on the shoulder, and said, I must then content myself to stay with him. I asked to go and see our men, but he refused, saying the Moors and Arabs would kill me if they could catch me.
August 12. Our squadron hoisted a flag of truce, sent in a brig and schooner, and fired a gun. The Bashaw did not, and swore he would not answer it; and said he would not treat with commodore Preble. A truce, however, was afterwards held. Consul O'Brien wished to come on shore, but was refused.
August 13. Another truce was held, when the Bashaw demanded one million of dollars for our ransom. One hundred and twenty thousand dollars were offered and refused.
August 17. The Bashaw informed me that fifteen Americans were found drifted ashore to the westward of the town, and that one of them was an officer, with an epaulet on the right shoulder. We supposed they were men who were destroyed by the explosion of the gun-boat, in the late engagement. I asked permission to go with two or three of our men and bury them; and the Bashaw told me I might go the next day. Our squadron lay at anchor off the harbour. The inhabitants had chiefly moved out of the town, through fear of another bombardment; and the Bashaw ate, drank and slept in his bomb-proof room. Several tribes of the back country inhabitants had lately come in and offered their services to the Bashaw—in all, not more than one thousand men. Many of them had muskets without locks, but had a sort of match to put fire to them. They were almost naked, half starved, and without discipline. When they are going to battle, or appear before the Bashaw, they run to and fro, shaking their rusty muskets over their heads, all crying Holous Booy! (I am my fathers son.) Every tribe has a priest, or what they call Marabou , whose badge is a small green flag, which is carried in his hand or stuck up at his tent. They pretend great skill in prophecy, in which the people put the utmost faith. They prophecy success in battle; & for a small sum of money, ensure any one against wounds or death in fighting a Christian. They often get on eminences, and beckon and sing to the American vessels to run on shore. They prophesied that another American vessel was to get on the rocks, and the Bashaw fully believed it.
August 18. Was not permitted to bury our dead. Our squadron stood out to sea. At evening the Bashaw went to his country seat, and the Bey came in to keep the throne 'till his father's return. They never both leave the castle at once. When the Bashaw leaves it, the gates are shut until his return, for fear of insurrection upon the throne. In the evening, the moon shining very bright, the prince or Bey ordered out the band of music, which was very ordinary, and made Christians, Turks, Arabs, and Guinea Negroes, dance before him, according to the mode in their respective countries, at which he seemed highly diverted.
August 17. Between 9 and 10 o'clock in the evening, Mr. Church, a respectable English gentleman was shot through the head in the street, on his return from visiting his neighbours.
August 24. In the morning, between 2 o'clock and day light, two of our small vessels have about thirty shells, as was supposed, for the round fort, but they all fell short of the mark. Such attempts served rather to encourage than to intimidate the Tripolitans; and the Bashaw was in high spirits on the occasion.
August 26. At about 4 o'clock, P. M. the fellow who murdered Mr. Church, was executed near the spot where the crime was committed. It had heretofore been a custom in this country, when a person had committed murder, to fly to the tomb of a Marabou (or priest) where they were protected from justice, and a fee to a Marabou would procure them absolution. This fellow fled to a place of this kind immediately after killing Mr. Church. The English consul, Mr. Langford, on being informed of the murder, addressed the Bashaw, and demanded justice. The Bashaw then found out by a boy, who accompanied the murderer when he committed the crime, the particulars of the affair; and immediately sent a file of men and ordered them to prevent any person from carrying food or drink to the murderer. They watched him until night, when the Bashaw sent his Marabou , who coaxed him away, brought him to the castle, and confined him in irons. The next day the Bashaw called his Divan, when it was decided that the prisoner was guilty of wilful murder, and ought to suffer death. It appeared by the evidence and the confession of the prisoner, that Mr. Church had lent a sum of money to a Spanish carpenter in this place; that Mr. Church had pressed him for payment; & that the carpenter's wife hired the Turk to kill Mr. Church for forty dollars. The villain took his watch from his pocket after he had shot him. The boy who accompanied him, and carried a lantern, was bastinadoed with 500 blows. The carpenter's wife was ordered to leave Tripoli.
August 27. Our squadron stood towards the harbour.
August 28. About 4 o'clock in the morning, I was awoken by a heavy and incessant firing of cannon, and the whistling and rattling of shot all around me. On getting up, I found that our gun-boats were close in, and were firing upon the town and batteries. Every gun in Tripoli, that could be brought to bear, was returning the fire. The Tripolitan gun-boats were close under the castle for protection. The firing continued until a few minutes after sunrise, when one of the largest gun-boats ventured out, with an intention of boarding the nearest American boat. As soon as she got within pistol shot, the Americans discharged their piece, loaded with grape, and killed four and wounded two of the enemy. They then put about and retreated. At the same time, commodore Preble bore down and gave the batteries at the westward of the town two broadsides. The squadron then stood out and anchored off the harbour. The damage done to the town was considerable. A large vessel was sunk in the harbour and others damaged. Many men were killed, and wounded.
August 29. The Bashaw sent me to his palace in the country, to see his eldest son, the Bey, whom I bled in the foot. He requested me to spend the day and dine with him, which I did. He endeavoured to have the dinner in the Christian style. It was set on a table; and consisted of a large dish of boiled rice and stewed fowls, out of which we both ate, he with a wooden spoon, and I with a silver one, without knife or fork. The prince's servant food by him, and pulled the fowl in small pieces with his fingers, for the prince to eat. I made use of my fingers and teeth to get mine in pieces. Our dessert was dates and watermelons. Our drink was Lagby , (or the Juice of the date tree) which we drank out of a large gourd cup. He shewed me the garden, and took great pains to entertain me.
August 30. A truce was held. I took a ride upon a mule, about eight miles to the westward of the town, in company with my guide Hamet, a Turkish officer, and several footmen. I there saw a boat, which had drifted on shore, with a dead man, and several muskets & swords in it. The man appeared to have been shot through the body with a cannon ball, which had also pierced the bottom of the boat. The Turkish officer collected about twenty Arabs,
who hauled the boat upon the beach, dragged the dead man out of it, stripped him entirely naked, and left him on the beach. I tried in vain to hire the Arabs to bury the body; they said it was contrary to their religion to bury a Christian. I asked permission to get him buried by our countrymen, some of my fellow prisoners, but was refused. I found that our men, who were destroyed by the explosion of the gun-boat on the 9th inst. lay in a state of putrefaction on the beach. They were scattered on the shore for miles, and were torn in pieces by dogs. The Bashaw had frequently promised me that these men should be buried; but refused to let me take some of our men to go and bury them. (To be continued.)
European Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, Nov. 23.
By the ship Bath, Captain Sanburn, from Liverpool, we have received a file of London papers to the 29th of September, inclusive. We have selected the most interesting particulars for the COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER of this evening.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, Sept. 28.
Letters from our Fleet off Cadiz, state that a serious affray has taken place between the French and Spaniards, at Cadiz, in which a number of lives were lost on both sides. The Spaniards are represented nearly in a starving state.
The first fruits of the Declaration made by Austria is, that the Elector of Bavaria has joined the Confederacy. He has either been cajoled by promises, or constrained by fear, to enter into a treaty with Bonaparte, whose great object it was to possess himself of the Venetian territory, and of every thing that Austria had acquired in the Adriatic. The scheme was most extensive, and, if it had succeeded, would have added most important strength to the maritime power of France; but it would have laid Austria for ever at its mercy. To accomplish his object, however, it was necessary for Bonaparte to tempt the Elector of Bavaria to an exchange of territory, that he might, thereby, have a compensation to offer to the Emperor, and we are assured that, up to the very moment of the explosion, he conceived that he was making progress in his plan. He was caught therefore in the plot; and the whole is now unravelled. The Elector of Bavaria has ordered his army, amounting, perhaps, to between 20 and 30,000 men, to join the Austrians; and he has received a complete guarantee for the safety of his dominions. The general preparation for war, and the certainty that the Funds for its maintenance must come from England, have more and more tended to lower the exchange; but it is certain, that better prepared, than at the commencement of the last war, to sustain the shock. The whole of the dollars seized from the Spaniards were purchased by government, and are now packed up, ready to be transmitted to Hamburg, for the purpose of keeping up the exchange; and, while the money lasts, it will certainly have the effect.
It is, however, by no means unlikely that the King of Prussia may yet offer his mediation; which after the official papers of the two Imperial Courts of Russia and Austria, cannot be refused. If Bonaparte feels himself weak, he will no doubt try this stratagem; for, with all his ambition, he would willingly give up the iron crown of Lombardy to retain the golden diadem of France. It must be to him a perilous contest. It deprives him in the outset, of all his external sources of revenue. He can no longer spread over, and quarter his armies upon the countries he has over run; and he has for many months past been exhausting his own treasury in naval preparations, which are now useless to him. The enthusiasm of liberty he has himself annihilated in France, and he cannot therefore, expect to raise the people in his cause. All fear of disturbance in the enjoyment of their property will be dissipated by the proclamations of Austria; and we should not, therefore, be surprised to see his grand spirit stoop to negotiation, as the means of indemnity for the past, and security for the future.
In the hope that the Emperor of Russia may be able to find in the Baltic a sufficient number of transports, of one kind or another, to send a body of troops to England before the frost sets in, orders have been given at our ports to prepare for their reception. They would be instantly joined by such troops as we can spare, and forwarded on an important expedition.
SEPTEMBER 29.
It was reported this morning, that Another Power has declared against France—the Elector of Hesse Cassel, whose troops are to be taken into English pay. If that be the fact, it is decisive of the sentiments of Prussia, without whose concurrence, a Power situated so near her territories would not have taken so decisive a step. But we do not guarantee the truth of the rumour.
The report of an immediate dissolution of Parliament was again revived yesterday; and it was even stated, that a proclamation to that effect had either received, or was about to receive, the Royal Signature. We deem it necessary to notice this rumour, from the general circulation which it obtained last night, without presuming to vouch the accuracy of the statement.
The following are said to be the fate and destination of the armies which Bonaparte was to set immediately in motion against the Combined Powers:—The Grand Army is to consist of one hundred and fifty thousand men; Bonaparte is to be the Commander in Chief, and under him Berthier; the right wing to Oudinot; and the left to Marmont. This army is to act in Germany and Switzerland. The army of Italy is to consist of 120,000 men; Jourdan is to command the centre, St. Cyr, the right, and Massena the left wing. An army of 50,000 men, under Angereau, is stated to be on its march as auxiliaries to Spain, and to keep Portugal in subjection. The army of Reserve is to consist of 80,000 men, under the command of Soult and Davoust. The army of England and Holland is to consist of 50,000 men, under the command of Ney and Bonhomme.
Several thousand tons, certainly not less than 12,000 tons of transports, have been held at the disposal of Russia in the Mediterranean, for a length of time past. We understand that a Russian squadron, of six or seven sail of the line, is expected to join our fleet in the North Sea.
DOVER, Sept. 27. The American Schooner, the Eliza and Katy, detained by the boats of the Ariadne frigate, as mentioned in a former letter, has come into the inner harbor; it is expected, that not only the cargo, which is sugar and coffee but the vessel will be condemned as enemy's property.
RUSSIA.
FRANKFORT, Sept. 2. Winzenrode are gone to join the army. The latter has taken an order to the General in Chief Kutusoff, to enter Austrian Poland, which he has already obeyed, with an army of 80,000 men. The guards, to the number of 10,000 men, commanded by the Grand Duke, Constantine, are marching to Lithuania, whence they will proceed to the Austrian States. Other troops from the Kuban, from Siberia, and from Kiow, will form different corps of reserve.
GERMANY.
VIENNA, Sept. 8. General Mack has already gone to the army encamped at Wels. The Archduke John goes to the Tyrol to preside at the Assembly of the State, and partly to inspect the positions and frontier fortresses of that province; from thence his Imperial highness will go to Italy, where he will take the command of the Italian army, the Archduke John, the right, and Prince John of Lichtenstein the left wing. The command of the troops encamped in the Tyrol will be given to General Bellegarde.—The Emperor himself, assisted by General Mack will take the command of the army in Germany, of which the Archduke Ferdinand will command the right, and Prince Charles of Schwarzenberg the left wing.
RATISBON, Sept. 12.
We have received intelligence here by an extraordinary courier, that the Austrian troops have passed the Inn and entered Bavaria.—The French envoy at Munich, M. Otto, immediately set out for Paris. Several envoys have sent off Couriers with the above intelligence to their respective courts.
HAMBURGH, Sept. 17.
The French government has demanded of the electors of Baden and Wirtemberg, the free passage of their army through those countries, and an auxiliary force of ten thousand men of each elector. This demand has been refused for the present, and couriers have been sent to Berlin, Vienna, and Petersburg, to request assistance in case of necessity.
The Prussian minister, count Haugwitz has been recalled from his retreat in Silesia, and sent to Vienna, to settle if possible the differences between the two cabinets. Bonaparte's equipage is actually arrived at this time collected on the Banks of the Rhine. The Swiss have applied to the Austrian and French governments for permission to remain neutral; but their request has been rejected on both sides. The Austrians, however, are expected to be the first to take possession of that country.
The Elector of Hesse Cassel has an army of 56,000 men on foot. The French have demanded a passage through his territories, but have been refused.
A new levy of recruits in Russia, has been ordered to the amount of 150,000 men.
By order of Bonaparte, the city of Frankfort has been obliged to demolish its fortifications.
The French have ordered away their artillery from Cuxhaven, and every day the distressed inhabitants of the banks of the Elbe, expect their emancipation from the invaders.
COLOGN, Sept. 8. On the 3d, the first division of the coast, 10,000 men strong, passed through Mone; they have, for the most part, proceeded on their march for the Upper Rhine, in carriages, over Luxemburg and Trier. No more than 30,000 men are said to be left on the coast. All now depends on which party can first occupy Suabia, and afterwards Switzerland; for it seems the die of peace or war is already cast.
LEIPSIC, Sept. 21. The third Russian army which is assembling at Wilna, will be commanded by the Emperor of Russia in person.
SWEDEN.
GOTTENBURGH, Sept. 9. Every thing here indicates the approach of war. The Swedish army is all in motion; several more regiments are ordered to Pomerania. The King was to leave Helsingburg for Christianstadt, on the 7th inst.
SPAIN.
MADRID, August 26. The Combined Fleet which has put into Cadiz will go to Cartagena, and take with it seven ships in that port. It will thence sail for Toulon, where there are still four or five ships of the line; so that the force of this fleet will be 50 ships of the line.
POLAND.
WARSAW, Sept. 4. A Russian army of 60,000 men, commanded by General Michelson, is at present in our neighbourhood; and it is to proceed to the Austrian States in the event of war.
HOLLAND.
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 21. Ninety-two thousand men, from the coast, will have passed through Rheims before the end of the month. It is expected the Hungarian Diet, which is to meet the 13th of October will not only grant the Emperor 50,000 men, but also, a considerable sum of money. An army of 80,000 men is to be formed in Bohemia. The Russians were to arrive in Brunn on the 12th inst. The Austrian troops assembling on the Inn, are shortly to advance into Bavaria. At Gottingen 20,000 French troops are arrived from Hanover. General Bernadotte is with them. It is said M. Bacher is to succeed M. Laforest as French Imperial Ambassador at the court of Berlin. Several thousand horses have been lately employed in conveying every thing that is valuable at the court of Munich to Wurtzburgh; and all the Officers throughout that territory have received orders to transmit to Munich all the public money in their possession without delay.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 15.
The rebellion in Natolia has taken a very suspicious turn for the Porte. The Pacha of Bizerte, Juluph Pacha, formerly Grand Vizier, was defeated in the engagement with Tayer Pacha; on which the latter sent forth orders to propose a negotiation; but Juluph Pacha captured their heads to be stuck off. Exasperated at this sanguinary deed, Tayer Pacha made a new attack on his antagonist, defeated, and took him prisoner. The new Reis Effendi has written and published the history of the Turkish Empire, from 1743 to 1805; a work which is highly approved for its correctness and impartiality. The Russian troops which lately passed before this city were commanded by Gen. Gerdau, a native Frenchman; 13,000 men are said to be ready for embarkation at Odessa and Sebastopol. We have received intelligence here, that M. Joubert, the French Secretary and Interpreter, has not proceeded for Paris but that he has taken up his residence for some weeks past at Widdin.
ALEPPO, June 26.
The Russians continue their preparations against the Persians; they are striving to procure auxiliaries among the Armenians. Their hostile designs seem to extend through the whole Peninsula between the Caspian and Black Seas. Towards this latter point, they have made themselves masters of the ports of Anargi, independent of their garrison on the Phasis. It is said that they have 1500 men in this part of Colchide; and it is added, that their politics do not always favor their military operations; and that in Georgia, their system of severity seems adapted to excite general discontent. Prince Zizlanow has caused 60 of the principal inhabitants of Tiflis to be arrested, while two sons of Prince Heraclius have been compelled to take refuge in Persia.
SAVANNAH, Nov. 25.
By the Tippoo Saib, with Liverpool dates to the 21st of October.
LONDON, October 3.
The last accounts from Vienna, in the Batavian Gazette, reach to the 19th ult. They state that the Emperor of Germany was to go to the Tyrol in the ensuing week, whence he was speedily to return, and proceed to Hungary to open the Diet. The Hungarians would, it was thought, raise another Army of Reserve. The Archduke Ferdinand has by this time joined the army in Bavaria.
The two columns of Austrians which have entered Silesia are estimated at thirty-six thousand men. They will be followed by the main army, under the Archduke Ferdinand and General Mack. The latter arrived at Augsburg on the 18th of September, and proceeded on the same day for Ulm. The imperial troops at Regensburg are also advancing towards the west of Suabia.
It is mentioned in several articles from the Tyrol, of the 14th of September, that the Imperial troops from Venice are advancing in great force to the Adige, with a great train of battering artillery. The French were also advancing to the other side of the Adige. The bridges Delle Pietra and Ponto Nuovo, at Verona, have been broken down by the French; and a third bridge strongly guarded. Marshall Massena arrived at French Verona previous to the 13th of September, and his army had been reinforced by 4000 cavalry.
We have received Dutch Journals of so recent a date as last Tuesday. They contain several interesting particulars.
The Russians continue their march to the hereditary dominions with the utmost expedition. They are allowed to halt only one day out of seven. The whole of the war establishment fixed by the Court of Petersburg is stated at 300,000 men. In other words, this is about the total number of troops destined to co-operate with the French. An article dated Petersburg, the 11th ult. says, that the regiments which were to embark at Cronstadt had commenced their march for that port, where the stores and provisions were already shipped. General Kutusoff had received orders to go through the Austrian territory to Salzburg, where he is to receive further instructions. The junction of the Russians with the Imperialists on the frontiers of Bavaria cannot well be expected before the middle of this month.
October 5.
It was yesterday said that Ministers had actually received by the last Hamburg packet, a declaration from the King of Prussia, in answer to the Note presented to him by the two Imperial Courts, that it was his determination to maintain a strict neutrality in the Circle of Lower Saxony, and that for the purpose of securing that part of Germany against encroachments by the armies of either of the Belligerent Powers, he had put his own army, to the amount of 200,000, on a footing of complete preparation.
Sir Sidney Smith attended yesterday morning at the Admiralty, to make his report of his late attempt to burn the Boulogne flotilla. He came no doubt to consult with the Board upon his further operations, & to receive instructions. Forty gun boats are, it is said, firing for him at Woolwich. They carry two guns, one 18 lb. the other in the stern. They are very light, and consequently draw very little water.
The following Bulletin was this morning issued from the Admiralty, and posted at Lloyd's:
Admiralty Office, October 4.
Extract from the log book of his Majesty's ship Indefatigable —Friday, Sept. 27th, lat. 40. S. long. 9. W. variable E. N. E. at half past two several guns fired in the N. W. at three observed his Majesty's Calcutta , haul out of the covey; at half past three a heavy cannonading commenced between the Calcutta and a very large ship; observed another ship coming to, firing her bow chasers, and two more ships following her. At half past 4 observed the large ship to haul from the Calcutta and heave to. At dark spoke the Indefatigable who informed me, that the ship which engaged the Calcutta , was a large French frigate, and two ships in chase of her were line of battle ships. At half past nine heard a very heavy cannonading in the S. W. supposed to be between the Calcutta and the enemy. At half past ten the firing ceased. At day light four sail in sight. At noon fresh breezes and cloudy; three frigate sail in sight. It is perfectly understood that the India House, that none of the Calcutta's convoy were regular Indian. They consisted, in all probability, of the India extra ship from Madras, and some South Sea Whalers and Swedes. When Admiral Ranier sailed from St. Helena, he left the following vessels there—the Indus , Maia , Carolina (a Swede) from China; Africana , from the South Seas; and a Dutch ship, prize to the Calcutta .
October 5.
In addition to the Bulletin which we gave yesterday, respecting his Majesty's ship Calcutta and her convoy, we have now to communicate the following extract of the log-book of the Africana South-Whaler, transmitted to the Admiralty:
Thursday, the 20th Sept. lat. 49. S. long. 8. W. the Calcutta made a signal for a strange vessel, and in the course of the day another for an enemy, and for the covey to disperse. Observed a ship of the line and four frigates, with about twenty sail of merchant ships, supposed to be West-Indiamen, which they had captured. Two French frigates in chase of the African, coming up fast; hauled to the windward.
Friday, 27th—French frigates fill in chase; at about four P. M. saw one of the enemy open fire upon the Calcutta , which was returned from the French chase guns of the latter. Apprehended that the whole company, except ourselves, fell into the enemy's hands. At sun-set heard the report of many guns, and observed flashes in the W. S. W.
Upon this interesting subject no official accounts have yet reached the Admiralty; but it is ascertained, by despatches brought from Admiral Cornwallis, by the Adrian cutter, lieut. Forbes, that on
planetary of the exact time, "very soon" may come.
Friday last night, a Squadron had been sent from the Channel fleet in quest of the enemy. The morning of that day Rear Admiral Stirling, with five of the line, rejoined Admiral Cornwallis, after an unsuccessful cruise in pursuit of the Rochefort Squadron, which was known to have been out a month. Such has been the anxiety of Admiral Cornwallis for the security of our trade, that when the Adrian left the fleet he had not a single frigate with him, having despatched them all on the look-out for the enemy.
NEW-YORK, November 29.
From the Boston Centinel, of Saturday.
By the ship Charles, capt. Lewis, from Liverpool, arrived last evening, we received our London files to the 5th October, inclusive. [No details are given from these papers.]
Mr. Thomas Parry, master of the fchr. Fanny, from St. Johns, Newfoundland, which he left the 6th inst. informs, that on the 4th, two London ships arrived there, in 26 days, bringing London papers, which announced that Admiral Cornwallis had had an engagement with the British fleet, and captured eight sail of the line, which had arrived in England before the vessels failed; and also, that war had commenced in Italy, and a victory been gained by the Austrians.
If the above dates, &c. are correct, the London vessels must have failed the 9th October. We have nothing to date. Our last London date is the 5th—and the Charles from Liverpool, failed the 9th. Roundabout news is always to be received with caution.
A letter from London mentions, that Salt-Petre had considerably risen in consequence of the war on the continent.
Our last English papers report, that the French Rochefort Squadron of five sail of the line, in lat. 49, long. 9, fell in with an English East-India fleet from St. Helena, of four extra ships and three whalers, convoyed by the Calcutta of 50 guns; which, including the Calcutta, were all captured, excepting the African, a whaler. The Haddock sloop of war fell in with the fleet during the action; and immediately proceeded off Uliant to inform Lord Cornwallis of the news, that squadrons might be sent to intercept them. There were also fears that a part of the English West-India fleet, of 300 sail, from Tortola, had also been fallen in with by this Squadron; but capt. Lewis, from Liverpool, informs us, that Oct. 11, off Cape Clear, he fell in with about 19 sail of English ships of war, and on the same evening with about three hundred sail of English merchantmen, supposed to be the homeward bound East-India fleet.
BOSTON, Nov. 22.
WAR. Extract of a letter from Messrs. D. L. and C. W. GREENE, of New-York, to their friends in this town, received via the Sound.
Sunday Morning, Nov. 17.
The Swift to-day, in 40 days from Bordeaux, brings the account of Bonaparte's declaration of war against Austria and Russia.
Mr. WILLIAMS, of Boston, came passenger in the above vessel.
[We could not learn that Mr. WILLIAMS, mentioned above, had reached town last evening. It is probable the Declaration of War was made between the 20th of September and 1st of October, and preceded or accompanied by hostilities, in Italy, and in the North of Germany.] Boston Pap.
Domestic Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, Nov. 26.
The anniversary of the evacuation of the city of New-York by the British troops, was celebrated yesterday with more than the accustomed demonstrations of joy.—General Morton's brigade of artillery, consisting of the first and second regiments, commanded by lieut. colonels Curtenius and Swartwout; col. Van Zandt's legion of infantry, and the several troops of horse, the whole under the command of brigadier-general Morton, assembled on the battery, where they went through the usual military evolutions with much precision, and made a most brilliant appearance. They were reviewed by major general Stevens, and by the French general Moreau, whose reception was such as must be grateful to the feelings of the illustrious exile, and was highly honorable to the humanity and public spirit of our citizens. A grand dinner was given in the afternoon at Lovett's Hotel by the officers of the several regiments, and the hero of Hohenlinden, was amongst the guests.
A stage had been erected on the battery for the accommodation of the officers of the corporation, &c. which broke down with the great pressure; and we are sorry to state that a son of Mr. James Walker, in Maidenlane, had the back part of his skull broken by a beam falling on him, and we understand is since dead; a journeyman of Mr. Ruckle, baker, had his leg broken in two places, his ribs broken, and was sent to the hospital with little hopes of his recovery; Mr. Bingham was badly hurt in the breast and several others much injured. These were all under the platform when it fell. Alderman Montagne, who stood on that part of the stage which fell, received considerable injury.
The following toasts were drank at the public dinner given on Monday, by the first brigade of Artillery in compliment to the illustrious Gen. Moreau.
 1. Our Country—Liberty's last asylum.  2. The President of the United States.  3. Governor Lewis—His zeal in organizing and disciplining the Militia of this State, merits our applause, and the thanks of the community.  4. The Corporation of the City of New-York.  5. Merit—It needs not the sunshine of prosperity to show its value.  6. The Heroes of American Liberty—Fame will erect their Mausoleum in the bosom of Posterity.  7. The memory of the Father of his country, George Washington—May each succeeding year scatter fresh Laurels over his Tomb.  8. The Army of the United States—the germ of its future glory.  9. The Navy of the United States—an infant Hercules, rocked in the Cradle of Neptune.  10. The Patriot—the tenor of whose life is a complete defence against the calumnies of his enemies.  11. The Militia of the United States.  12. The Plough, the Keel, and Sword, the sources of Independence, Wealth and Honour.  13. The Port of New-York—Its millions of revenue, its harbours without defence, are eloquent appeals to the government of our country.  14. The Youth of America—May they ever be the proud holders of their country's liberties.  15. The Heroes of Tripoli—rich in the applause of their country, may that virtue be ever celebrated which prefers Death to Tribute. 
BOLTING COTTONS.
16. The Legion of Invincibles—The American Fair—Their Standard, Modesty.
17. The Day—May each anniversary bring some new blessing to our country.
VOLUNTEERS.
General Moreau's Toaft. The Militia of the U. S.—May they preserve to their country the Liberty which they have acquired.
Lieutenant Governor Broome's. The first Brigade of New-York State of Artillery—May their zeal for improvement be emulated by all the other military corps of the State & throughout the Union.
By General Stevens. The 25th of November 1805—It has given to our acquaintance the greatest General of the Age.
By General Clarkston. The union of the states, our best Security.
After General Moreau had retired.
By General Morton. General MOREAU—May the new World open to him new sources of felicity, and render his remaining days as happy as the former have been glorious.
Tammanical celebration of the Evacuation of New-York.
Agreeably to public notice, the sons of Tammany assembled in the Great Wigwam on Monday the 25th inst. at 5 o'clock, P. M. The society being resolved into a committee of amusement, brother Harmond delivered an appropriate and elegant long talk—after which they partook of a most excellent and abundant repast, furnished from the stores & lakes of Columbia, all of which was amonitored by the waters of the great spring.
Deputations were sent to the different bodies who celebrated the day—complimentary returns were received from the Corporation, &c. &c. After the repast the following patriotic toasts were drank:
 1. The virtuous Whigs of '76—who after an exile of seven long years returned to their defolated city uncontaminated, and rich in principle though poor in purse.  2. The Father Hope of America (the Congress of '76)—led by Omnipotence, the adamantine walls of Despotism fall! The genius of our country is unshackled! The Temple of Liberty reared! and the Goddess of Liberty guards the sacred dome.  3. The memory of him—who first—who last our Armies led!—Who in our hearts yet lives, tho' ranked among the dead—The immortal WASHINGTON.  4. A grateful remembrance of all our departed countrymen, whose blood sealed the certificate of Independence.  5. THOMAS JEFFERSON, President of the United States—Under his administration our country enjoys peace, prosperity, and happiness—God save him! and long may he live to receive the tribute of our grateful hearts.  6. GEORGE CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States—an old exile—a brave soldier—and a wise statesman.  His hoary locks demand repose, His Ancestral Patrician's Freeman knows, Long may he live the envy of his foes.  7. MORGAN LEWIS, Governor of the State.  8. The Mayor and Corporation of New-York—May their public acts be such as at all times can be approved by their fellow-citizens.  9. The American Character—Ever jealous of our rights, (even to a fault) the selfish demon of civil discord is always on the wing, vulture like, ready to gorge itself on the vitals of the commonwealth. But the vigilance of our guardian genius the foul fiend expels, when harmony and order again reign in Freedom's hallowed Dome.  The Virtuous Perfected of all Nations, who fight for Liberty—The heavenly flame is not extinct! A latent spark will again burst forth, whose resplendence will resuscitate the torpid world! Emperors and Kings will be no more! The Republic of the world will be established.  11. The ever memorable 25th of November, 1783—the day we celebrate—At its recollection every patriotic heart expands—The spirits of the departed free descend from the regions of immortality to participate our joys.  Go, venal mercenary flaves to Kings, Co lick the dust! While Columbia's Sons enjoy What's next to Gods, the first! Sweet Liberty.  12. Our Fellow-Citizens in Arms—one and all—May the martial spirit which now guides them continue their glory, and the world be convinced that a well organized militia is superior to a mercenary standing army.  13. Our Navy—May the noble character they now bear, continue to raise with the ascending glory of our country. May they soon force our coasts (a la Tripoline) of every piratical or insulting foe of that nation forever.  14. Agriculture, Commerce, and the Arts—May their increase be as rapid as our population, and their benefit equal to our most sanguine wishes.  15. Our Diplomatic Characters in Europe, and those which have lately returned. May the true interest of their country always prove to be the ruling passion.  16. The Sons of Tammany all over the world—May they keep this day in grateful remembrance of the happy emancipation of their country from the galling yoke of despotism.  17. The Fair Daughters of Columbia, who join with us in the celebration of this memorable day. 
Volunteer from the Grand Sachem.
May a spirited remonstrance for injuries done, supersede the necessity of appealing to arms, with any foreign nation whatever.
Volunteer by the Father of the Council.
May our Republican Council fires continue to burn from New-Hampshire to Georgia, until they decompose every particle of Aristocracy and Monarchy among us, into dust and ashes.
Extract of a letter from St. Pierres, (Mart.) dated October 26.
"We yesterday received the unpleasant news of the capital town (Cassiers) of St. Lucie, being entirely destroyed by fire—the loss has been very great; the flames spread with so much fury and quickness, that most people lost all their furniture, not even saving their plate."
Merc. Adv.
The brig Three Thomas's, Capt. N. Foster, from Boston to Cherbourg, with a load of sugar, &c. was captured by the private ship of war Diana, carried into England, and after a detention of 12 days, liberated on paying the claimants costs. The Supercargo of this vessel writes, under date of 30th Sept. "By late decisions in the High Court of Admiralty of England, it would seem that the importation of goods from the enemies colonies into the United States, must be made for the purpose of introducing them into their national stock or general commerce; that where that purpose does not evidently appear, or, where an intention to export them to Europe does appear, then his landing the goods, securing the duties, advertising them for sale, and re-shipping them in the same, or another vessel for Europe, are not sufficient to
break the continuity of the voyage; which will be considered as a direct voyage from the colony to the mother country; and therefore render the property liable to confiscation." "That the bona fide neutral purchaser of colonial produce in the United States, may export it to Europe."
Ib.
From the Philadelphia Gazette.
For the following interesting particulars relative to the situation of the American commerce to the Empire of Hayti, we are indebted to the papers of a respectable merchant of this city, who received it from a passenger in the Greyhound, bound to Baltimore, but captured off Monte Christi. He left Cape Francois the 25th of October, and informs, that the ship Mount Vernon, White, of this port, arrived off Cape Francois the 17th Oct. A boat was sent on shore from her, but the complexion of affairs not comporting with the wishes of the supercargo, she proceeded on to the Bite, where she has since arrived in safety. The Hindostan of Philadelphia, had been compelled to unload at the Cape, and put the property on board of her into the hands of the Indigene merchant, to whom number she arrived. Markets were extremely dull, and coffee came in very slow, and was immediately purchased up at 50 fous. Much dissatisfaction was publicly expressed at the late conduct of the Emperor, and it appeared to be the universal wish that * * * * *
The fchr. Island, Lucket, belonging to Alexandria, would leave Cape Francois about 14 days after the Greyhound; also the fchr. Mary Ann, for New-York.
The gentleman further informs, that with respect to the Hindostan, it was the general opinion, that when she had discharged half her cargo, she would be permitted to sail with the remainder for the Bite—that her supercargo goes stuck close to the Indigene merchant night and day, and would not permit him to sell any thing before they knew to whom, and for what consideration. Further that the officers of the administration at the Cape, though compelled to carry the Imperial decree into effect, were violently opposed to it, and he thinks, would punish, with uncommon severity, any Indigene merchant who having received a cargo into his charge, by virtue of the decree, contrary to the wishes of the master or supercargo, should dare violate his trust in such a manner as even to be proved by presumptive evidence.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 30.
MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.
On Friday last the bill to abolish the general court, which passed the last session, was confirmed in the Senate, yeas 8—nays 4; which was made the order of the day for Thursday last, in the house of representatives.
We understand the bill to abolish the General Court passed in the House of Delegates on Thursday, by a majority of two. Telegraphic.
WASHINGTON, December 2.
His excellency Solomon M'Kean, Ambassador of his highness the Bey of Tunis, arrived in this city in the Congress frigate on Friday last, and on Saturday morning landed at the Navy Yard. On his leaving the ship he fired a salute, and on his approach to the Marine barracks, he was received with Military honors by the Marine corps under the command of Col. Wharton. Hence he proceeded with his two Turkish servants and two black domestics to the house provided for him on the Capitol Hill. After remaining there about an hour, he went with his attendants to the Department of State, and had an audience of the Secretary.
We understand that on this day he will be presented to the President. Nat. Adv.
ALEXANDRIA, December 2.
The U. States frigates Congress, captain Decatur, John Adams, captain Shaw, and brig Hornet, passed this town on Friday last, for the City of Washington.
KENTUCKY.
On the 4th inst. the legislature of Kentucky convened at Frankfort, when William Logan was chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives.
On the 8th inst. General John Adair was elected a Senator of the United States in the room of John Breckenridge resigned. The votes were in the House of Representatives for John Adair—31; for John Pope, 26; and in the two branches of the legislature for John Adair, 43; for John Pope, 35.
On the 9th inst. Mr. Flannery moved for leave to bring in a bill, "to take the sense of the people as to calling a convention," which was rejected—Yeas 21—Nays 32.
RALEIGH, (N. C.) December 2.
On Monday last the Legislature elected Doctor NATHANIEL ALEXANDER of Mecklenburg, now member of Congress, Governor of this State for the ensuing year.
It will be seen from the head of the Legislature, that the report of the Committee in favour of granting a Court of Oyer and Terminer and general gaol delivery to try the Hon. Duncan McFarland, Esq. was disagreed to in the house of Commons—77 to 40.
For Freight or Charter, to Charles Town, S. C. N. York, Boston, or the West-Indies: The fast sailing Packet Sch'r, THREE FRIENDS, Ebenezer Hazewes, master; now lying at Lister's Upper Wharf, in complete order. Apply to the Captain on board, or to SHAPARD & LUCKE, December 6.
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Directors of the Manchester Turnpike, will attend at Robt Anderson's, in the county of Chesterfield, on the 20th inst. for the purpose of receiving proposals for completing that part of the road which remains unfinished. By Order of the Board, JAMES BRANDEN, Ch.
Manchester, Dec. 6th, 1805.
AT A MEETING
Of the Trustees for the New Glasgow Academy, held in the town of New Glasgow, the 27th day of November, 1805:
RESOLVED, That William S. Crawford, David S. Garland, James M. Brown, Edmund Penn and Hudson M. Garland, or any three of them be appointed a committee to make engagements with any person as a Teacher of the Languages and the Modern Branches of the Mathematicks, and that they cause notification of this Resolution to be inserted in such public newspapers as they shall think proper, and that they make report to the board. Copy, Teste, S. GARLAND, Clerk.
December 6. Tfw
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, VA.
THE Subscriber intends to leave this State in February or March next—All persons that have any claim or demands against him, are desired to bring them forward; and those indebted to him, are requested to make immediate payment, as he is desirous of settling all his accounts before he leaves this State. BENJAMIN COOK. December 6.
LEGISLATURE OF VIRGINIA.
IN SENATE.
Wednesday, December 4, 1805.
Another member returned to represent a district in class No. 4, according to the constitution or form of government, having taken the oaths prescribed by law, appeared and took his seat in the House; and a quorum, consisting of a majority of members, being present.
Ordered, That Theodos, That Theodosius Hansford be appointed Clerk of this House.
Mr. Coles reminded the House of the necessity of proceeding to the choice of a Speaker, and recommended Robert Taylor, Esquire, as a person sufficiently qualified to discharge the duties of that office, in which he was seconded by Mr. Bayly.
Whereupon it was unanimously resolved, that the said Robert Taylor be appointed Speaker, and being conducted to the chair, made his acknowledgment to the House for the honor conferred upon him.
On motion, Ordered, That Archibald Denholm be appointed Sergeant at arms, and William Hix and James Pennington door-keepers to this House.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from Philip Grymes, Esquire, communicating the resignation of his office as a councillor of state; which, being read, on motion was ordered to lie upon the table.
The Speaker also laid before the House a letter from Burwell Bassett, Esquire, communicating the vacancy of his seat in this House by his election as a member of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States, which being read, On motion,
Ordered, That writs do issue for the election of a member of this House, to represent the district composed of the counties of Charles City, James City and New-Kent to supply the vacancy occasioned by the election of Burwell Bassett, Esquire, as a Representative in the Congress of the United States.
COMMUNICATION OF THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA, TO THE LEGISLATURE.
Richmond, December 2nd, 1805.
Sir,
As it is proper to give the earliest notice of such proceedings of the Executive as require the approbation of the General Assembly, I have the honour to notify to them the appointment of Creed Taylor, Esq. to fill the vacancy occasioned on the bench of the General Court, by the death of the venerable and patriotic Joseph Jones, Esquire; and to state, that this appointment was made in obedience to an injunction of the 14th article of the Constitution, which ordains "that the two Houses of Assembly shall by joint ballot appoint Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals," &c. to be commissioned by the Governor, &c. "In case of death, incapacity, or resignation, the Governor with the advice of the Privy Council, shall appoint persons to succeed in office to be approved or displaced by both Houses."
And I next lay before the General Assembly, the several papers herewith directed to your attention which are marked alphabetically, from (A) to (G) referring a few others for a future communication, which will be made as soon as the reports shall be prepared for the Executive.
The paper marked (A) contains a communication from the Governor of Pennsylvania, respecting an amendment of the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the state of Kentucky, by confining the judiciary powers of the Courts of the United States, to cases in law and equity arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States and treaties made or which shall be made under their authority—Cases affecting ambassadors or other public ministers and consuls—Cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction—to controversies to which the United States shall be a party—and to controversies between two or more states; which amendment was adopted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania by their respective resolutions; in which also the concurrence and co-operation of each state in the union is requested.—That marked (B) contains a letter from the Governor of Pennsylvania, dated April 5th, 1805, inclosing a copy of an act of the Legislature of that state, on the subject of improving the navigation of the Ohio river, which has been passed in consequence of dated December 9th, 1

The following Essay is from the same pen, which drew the Portrait of Mr. Jefferson in our last paper.
THE PETITION OF AGRICULTURE AND RE-ELICIANISM, TO THE LEGISLATURE OF VIRGINIA.
Your petitioners approach the legislature, with hopes of awakening its attention, because one sustains, & the other sweetens human life; and because one is the natural interest of the state, and the other its political soul.
A single fact will demonstrate their intimate connexion, and close affinity. By the official returns of the exports of the two countries, those of the United States appear to have exceeded those of Great Britain in the year 1803, in relation to the numbers of people; even allowing to Britain a re-exportation due to her foreign possessions, and containing the United States to native commodities. It is republican-ism, which, within twenty years, has enabled us to overtake a state of centuries, in the arts of industry.
By saving her, agriculture will flourish. She was never saved by factitious wealth or exclusive knowledge; by the quackery of oracle, or the patriotism of privilege.
Some diffusion of knowledge, is admitted to be necessary for her existence; and in Virginia, the government diffuses none.
Hence, about five hundred of our children, at an expense of four hundred dollars each, are annually sent to other countries, to find, what they cannot find at home; and many return, fraught with the most pernicious prejudices. This annual drain of cash is equal to a capital of four millions. Yet half a million would save it. By laying out that sum in an university, the whole expense would be reimbursed to the state, in somewhat above two years, if extraneous educations should not increase; but as these daily accumulate, the annual loss will presently amount to the whole sum sufficient to establish an university. By investing half a million once, in providing for the education of our children at home, we shall therefore save an accumulating capital of half a million annually, to invigorate agriculture and industry.
If institutions for education, patronized by governments, are errors, why are our children forced abroad to such? Is it not better to erect them at home, and instill into our children our own principles, than to send them abroad, to bring back such as other governments may instill?
Your petitioners, pleased with the theory of equalizing knowledge by the education of a whole nation, have delayed to remind the legislature of the subject, from a hope of seeing this theory carried into practice. But it has not been effected in the United States, or in any other part of the world.
An impracticable design, can no longer be a good reason for defeating what is practicable. At least, a refusal to place a good education within the reach of a considerable portion of the people, for the purpose of giving a bad one to all, would be unjust, unless that purpose was fulfilled. Will the legislature do nothing for republicanism, under pretence of doing every thing?
The same theory inculcates a community of knowledge, and a community of property. Is one part of it attainable without the other? Can we equalize knowledge without equalizing wealth? Moral machines are like physical. A wheel may work well in one, which would shatter another. If balancing knowledge by sharing it equally, should not be a project exactly as speculative as an Agrarian law, it could yet be easily proved, that an Agrarian law, & an equal division of knowledge, are moral wheels constructed upon principles so similar, that neither could work well without the other; nor in union with the inequalities of knowledge or wealth, produced by fair commerce or honest industry.
Not a theoretical, but an attainable diffusion and balance of knowledge and wealth, should guide patriots. The wealth out of the hands of a government, is the balance against the wealth within them. Such also is the attainable balance of knowledge; and it becomes more necessary, as governments are enriched by charter patronage. Not bad, but the best educations, can create a balance on the side of the people, against the talents collected into governments, and rich corporations. Such only are safe centinels to watch power and alarm nations. They ought to be too wise to be deceived, and too numerous to be corrupted. By an intercourse with men thus educated, the people will acquire more wisdom, than from any system for bestowing narrow educations; because a cheap university, by pouring into society a far greater body of learned men, furnishes a band of patriots, who must teach the ignorant to defend their rights, for the sake of preserving their own. Neither this, nor a balance of knowledge in relation to other states, so important to Virginia, is attainable, by making learned men rare, or teaching all the people to read and write.
Our present policy splits real estates by laws of inheritance; accumulates factitious wealth by charters; and makes the best educations dear and rare, by a necessity for seeking them abroad. Thus, in a short time, a monopoly of wealth and knowledge, will be opposed to a scattered, unchartered, needy and ignorant landed interest. On the contrary, the best educations ought to be cheapened for agriculture, as the laws by dividing inheritances, diminish its ability to buy them; to sustain her agnate character accumulations of privilege and wealth, and to preserve the most faithful ally of republican government. By making a right to keep a gun, dear in England, the rich become sole proprietors of the game. So they will monopolize good educations here from the same cause.
The dereliction of education by the legislature, will expose it to the occupancy of some adventurer. Will it be seized by a monied aristocracy, from its cofferless; or by an ambitious religious sect, as a medium for sowing with missionaries (in imitation of the Jesuits) its designs throughout the union? Or will such factions unite? Can a dereliction constitute the freedom of education, when an university, governed by the legislature, would be open to all parties; and a dereliction, will condemn knowledge to become the test of one?
The ingenious theory before attended to, contends that governments ought not to meddle with education; but it does not approve and unite with this opinion, modes of gratifying avarice and ambition by law. It does not advise us to swallow the poison and neglect the antidote. This is inevitable death. To feed avarice and ambition by artificial accumulations, to leave education dear, and thus to weave knowledge into a wreath for the brow of monopoly, is a system, immeasurably distant from the happy science an enemy has been drawn, to give over living knowledge by law. Education is an instrument which will be used to sustain or to destroy governments, of the most powerful nature. If free governments throw it away, it will be seized and used by some tyrannical principle. In their custody it is secured against misapplication, by the same responsibility which secures life and property.
A mode of government will probably cause a school to flourish, which causes a nation to flourish. Can a school flourish without government, whilst no other community can; or can aristocratical form, which are bad for nations, be good for colleges? Will irrepressibility, which paralyzes duty in one case, invigorate it in the other? personal genius and virtue may bestow temporary success upon bad principles, but good principles only can produce permanent good effects.
Your petitioners therefore implore the legislature, to set about the establishment of a college, by law and by example; upon a scale sufficiently plentiful and liberal, to educate the children of the state at home, in the most perfect manner.
Half a million of dollars will probably suffice. It is far less than Virginia pays for funding, for banking, or for Louisiana; and it will save her annually cent per cent: in money, besides the returns in science and republican principles, with all their effects; to neither of which any of these pecuniary expenditures pretend.
To raise a fifth of this sum, it is proposed that the legislature open a subscription by law; that they resort in addition to an annual lottery, excluding lotteries for any other purpose; and that they provide for a deficiency by a tax on pleasure horses, carriages, or other subjects.
Thus the poor will have secured to them the blessing of a moderate government without cost; and the contributions of the rich, for the sake of their own liberty and property, and the happiness of their children, will even bring the subscriptions payable when one hundred thousand dollars are subscribed, even this mode of contribution may become very general, and tolerably equal among the wealthy.
If the government of the university is made accountable to the legislature, an annual election of governors, will create an honorary duty; the discharge of which will be invigorated, as being a road to public favor, so as to prepare candidates for office, by habits of virtue and patriotism.
A site may be selected in one of the middle counties, near to fuel, wood, limestone and provisions, and far from the vices of towns; which may be kept at a distance by law, and by the purchase of a large tract of land; and the necessary professions and trades, as tenants, may be made subservient to collegiate morals.
Your petitioners, conscious that neither can flourish without the other; that agriculture will become a slave, if republicanism should perish; and that republicanism will perish, divided by charter interests; unless a vast accession of knowledge is infused into the agricultural interest, to regulate and check the vast accession of wealth bestowed upon exclusive privilege; the enemy of republicanism; doubt not of the same care of their welfare, which has often excited, and would upon this occasion kindle, their gratitude and filial piety for the legislature of Virginia.
The writer of this Essay, knows of about 50 youths sent out of the state for education. He advises those who are willing to patronize an university by subscription, to communicate the sums they will subscribe to the editor of the Enquirer. On his part, he will publish the two thousand dollars, and personally claim this engagement, if the undertaking is set on foot. For this purpose, a law empowering those, who will, to form themselves into a society, to appoint commissioners for soliciting subscriptions, and to provide a mode of bringing them into the treasury, them into the treasury, when they shall amount to a certain sum, will be necessary.
We are authorized to state, that Dr. James Jones, of Nottingham, is a candidate for the Senatorial District lately represented by Creed Taylor, Esquire.
The House of Delegates has been principally occupied during the three last days, in receiving petitions. This day is fixed upon for appointing a Judge of the General Court vice Joseph Jones deceased. The election of Governor is set for Tomorrow. The voting out of two members of the Executive Council is to take place on Tuesday week.
General Minor has authorized us to state, that in a letter which he received from Richard Brent, Esq. on Wednesday night, he has modestly and peremptorily declined being considered as a candidate to fill the Governor's chair.
During the sitting of yesterday, there were several nominations made, to fill vacant offices. Mr. Alexander Smyth (of Wythe) was nominated by Mr. Woodward, Mr. Hugh Holmes by Mr. Henning, Mr. Creed Taylor by Mr. Miller of Powhatan, to fill the seat in the General Court, vacated by the death of Joseph Jones, Esq.
Mr. Alexander McRae (member of the Executive Council) was nominated by Mr. McFarlane, (of Ruffey) seconded by Mr. Prunty (from Harrison) to the Governor's chair.
Our paper will benefit for a short time during the week, until one week after the rising of the Legislature; hence we shall have more room for the insertion of extracted and original matter.
Just Published, and for sale at the Enquirer Book-Store "The Dictionary of Merchandise, and Nomenclature, in all Languages, for the use of Counting Houses." This is a valuable work. Also, a few copies of "The School for Reform, a Comedy, in five acts," by Thomas Morton, Esq. Dec. 6.
A STRAY COW. TAKEN UP, by John Roach, sen'r. in the county of Charlotte, a Brindle Cow: she has a crop in her right ear, and a white spot over her right eye, supposed to be about five or six years old. Appraised to 12 dols. JOHN ROACH. December 5. TSW
NEIL MCCOULL HAS received, by the late arrivals from London and Liverpool, his usual supply of FALL & WINTER GOODS. October 22. tf
BOLTING CLOTHS.
M c B. MYERS have just received a fresh supply of Dutch BOLTING CLOTHS, of the best quality which renders their assortment complete. They have also received their assortment of FALL & FANCY GOODS, and a quantity of best three branded SEINE TWINE. October 29. TSW
CONGRESS.
Monday, December 2, 1805.
This being the constitutional day for the meeting of Congress, the two houses convened at the Capitol.
SENATE.
Twenty members took their seats, whereupon, the Vice President of the United States not being present, the Senate proceeded by ballot to the choice of a President pro tempore. The ballots having been taken, it appeared that SAMUEL SMITH of Maryland, having 15 votes, was duly elected.
It was then ordered that Messrs. Sumner and Mitchell be a committee, to join such committee as may be appointed by the House of Representatives, to inform the President of the United States that the two Houses have formed quorum, and are ready to receive any communications he may be pleased to make. The usual orders with regard to the supply of members with newspapers and the choice of Chaplains were then adopted.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
At 12 o'clock an enumeration having been made, it appeared that one hundred and four members were on the floor.
The former Clerk (Mr. Beckley) having communicated this circumstance to the members, and that the number of members present formed a constitutional quorum, submitted the question whether they were ready to proceed to business, which being decided in the affirmative, the Clerk observed that the business, usually first attended to, was the election of a Speaker, and submitted whether they would then proceed to such election, which being decided in the affirmative, the Clerk named Messrs. Nicholson, Crowningfield and Thomas a committee to count the ballots; which, being given and counted, Mr. Nicholson reported that the whole ballots given were 106, which were given as follows:
 For Nathaniel Macon 51  Joseph B. Varnum 27  John C. Smith 16  John Dawson 10  Andrew Gregg 2 
Of which ballots no gentleman having a majority, there was no choice.
Whereupon a second ballot took place which issued as follows:
 Whole number of ballots—106  For N. Macon 53  J. B. Varnum 26  J. C. Smith 17  J. Dawson 7  A. Gregg 3 
A majority not concurring in any one gentleman there was no election.
A third ballot was then taken, as follows:
 Whole number of ballots—106  For N. Macon 58  J. B. Varnum 25  J. C. Smith 18  J. Dawson 3  A. Gregg 2  Thomas Moore 1  D. Holmes 1 
This result having been reported by Mr. Nicholson, and it appearing that NATHANIEL MACON had a majority of the ballots given, he was conducted to the chair by Messrs. Nicholson and J. Randolph, from which he made his acknowledgements to the House.
The House proceeded to elect a clerk by ballot, the Speaker having named the same gentlemen tellers as were appointed on the choice of a Speaker.
On counting the ballots, it appeared that of one hundred and three ballots given, John Beckley had 85, and William Lambert 18, and that consequently John Beckley was duly elected Clerk.
Mr. Nicholson having received the qualification of the Speaker, the latter proceeded to qualify the members present in the geographical order of the states, beginning with New-Hampshire. After which the Clerk was qualified.
Mr. Ois delivered a message from the Senate representing that they had chosen Samuel Smith of Maryland, president pro tempore; that they had appointed a committee to join a committee of the House to wait on the President of the United States, &c. and that they had agreed to a joint resolution for the choice of two chaplains of different denominations to interchange weekly.
Ordered, On motion of Mr. John Randolph, that a message be sent to the Senate, informing them that the House have made a quorum, and have chosen Nathaniel Macon their Speaker.
On motion of Mr. J. Randolph.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed on the part of this House, to join with the committee appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the two Houses have formed a quorum, and are ready to receive any communications he may be pleased to make.
Mr. J. Randolph, from the committee appointed on the part of the House, to wait on the President, in conjunction with the committee appointed by the Senate, reported, that the committee had performed that service, and had received for answer that the President would make a communication to the two Houses tomorrow at 12 o'clock by way of Message.
December 2.
THIS DAY, AT 12 O'CLOCK, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES COMMUNICATED, BY MR. COLES, HIS SECRETARY, THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America.
AT a moment when the nations of Europe are in commotion and arming against each other, when those with whom we have principal intercourse are engaged in the general contest, and when the countenance of some of them towards our peaceable country threatens that event that may not be unaffected by what is passing on the general theatre, a meeting of the Representatives of the Nation in both Houses of Congress has become more than usually desirable. Coming from every section of our country, they bring with them the sentiments and the information of the whole, and will be enabled to give a direction to the public affairs which the will and the wisdom of the whole will approve and support.
In taking a view of the state of our country, we in the first place notice the late affliction of two of our cities under the fatal fever which in latter times has occasionally visited our shores. Providence in his goodness gave it an early termination on this occasion, and lessened the number of victims which have usually fallen before it. In the course of the several visitations by this disease, it has appeared that it is strictly local, incident to cities and on the tide waters only, incomprehensible in the country either by persons under the disease, or by goods carried from diseased places; that its access is with the autumn, and it disappears with the early frosts. These restrictions within narrow limits of time and space give security even to our maritime cities, during three-fourths of the year, and to the country always. Although from these facts it appears unnecessary, yet, to satisfy the fears of foreign nations, and cautious on their part not to be complained of in a danger whole limits are yet unknown to them, I have strictly enjoined on the officers at the head of the customs to certify with exact truth, for every vessel failing for a foreign port, the state of health
respecting the vessel which prevails at the place from which the sails. Under every motive from character and duty to certify the truth, I have no doubt they have faithfully executed this injunction. Much real injury has however been sustained from a propensity to identify with this endemic, and to call by the same name, fevers of very different kinds which have been known at all times, and in all countries, and never have been placed among those deemed contagious. As we advance in our knowledge of this disease, as facts develop the source from which individuals receive it, the State authorities charged with the care of the public health, and Congress with that of the general commerce, will become able to regulate with effect their respective functions in these departments. The burthen of Quarantine is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination. Although the health laws of the states should be found to need no recent revival by Congress, yet commerce claims that their attention be ever wake to them.
Since our last meeting the aspect of our foreign relations has considerably changed. Our coasts have been infested, and our harbors watched by private armed vessels, some of them without commissions, some with illegal commissions, others with those of legal form, but of their commissions. They have captured in the very entrance of our harbors as well as on the high seas, not only the vessels of our friends coming to trade with us, but our own also. They have carried them off, under pretence of legal adjudication; but not daring to approach a court of justice, they have plundered and sunk them by the way, in obscure places, where no evidence could arise against them, maltreated the crews, and abandoned them in boats in the open sea, or on desert shores, without food or covering. These enormities appearing to be unresisted by any control of their sovereigns, I found it necessary to equip a force, to cruise within our own seas, to arrest all vessels of these descriptions found hovering on our coasts, within the limits of the gulf stream, and to bring the offenders in for trial as pirates.
The same system of hovering on our coasts & harbours, under colour of seeking enemies, has been also carried on by public armed ships, to the great annoyance and oppression of our commerce. New principles too have been interpolated into the law of nations, founded neither in justice nor the usage or acknowledgment of nations. According to these, a belligerent takes to itself a commerce with its own enemy, which it denies to a neutral, on the ground of its aiding that enemy in the war. But reason revolts at such an inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question, the interests of our constituents, and the duty of maintaining the authority of reason, the only umpire between just nations, impose on us the obligation of providing an effectual & determined opposition to a doctrine so injurious to the rights of peaceable nations. Indeed the confidence we ought to have in the justice of others, still countenances the hope that a founder view of those rights will of itself induce from every belligerent a more correct observance of them.
With Spain our negotiations for a settlement of differences have not had a satisfactory issue. Spoliations during the former war, for which she had formally acknowledged herself responsible, conditions affecting other claims in no wise connected with them. Yet the same practices are renewed in the present war, and are already of great amount. On the Mobile our commerce passing through that river continues to be obstructed by arbitrary duties and vexatious searches. Propositions for adjusting amicably the boundaries of Louisiana have not been accorded. While, however, the right is unsettled, we have avoided changing the state of things, by taking new posts, or strengthening ourselves in the disputed territories, in the hope that the other power would not, by a contrary conduct, oblige us to meet their example, and endanger conflicts of authority, the issue of which may not be easily controlled. But in this hope we have now reason to lessen our confidence. Inroads have been recently made into the territories of Orleans and the Mississippi, our citizens have been seized and their property plundered in the very parts of the former which had been actually delivered up by Spain, and this by the regular officers and soldiers of that government.
I have therefore found it necessary at length to give orders to our troops on that frontier to be in readiness to protect our citizens and to repel by arms any similar aggressions in future. Other details, necessary for your full information of the state of things between this country and that, shall be the subject of another communication.
In reviewing these injuries from some of the belligerent powers, the moderation, the firmness and the wisdom of the legislature will all be called into action. We ought still to hope, that time and a more correct estimate of interest as well as of character, will produce the justice we are bound to expect. But should any nation deceive itself by false calculations, and disappoint that expectation, we must join in the unprofitable contest, of trying which party can do the other the most harm. Some of these injuries may perhaps admit a peaceable remedy. Where that is competent it is always the most desirable. But some of them are of a nature to be met by force only, and all of them may be had to it. I cannot therefore but recommend such preparations as circumstances call for.
The first object is to place our sea port towns out of the danger of insult. Measures have been already taken for furnishing them with heavy cannon for the service of such land batteries as may make a part of their defence against armed vessels approaching them. In aid of these it is desirable we should have a competent number of gun-boats, and the number to be competent must be considerable. If immediately begun, they may be in readiness for service at the opening of the next season. Whether it will be necessary to augment our land forces, will be decided by occurrences probably in the course of your session. In the mean time you will consider whether it would not be expedient, for a state of peace as well as of war, to organize or class the militia, as would enable us on any sudden emergency, to call for the services of the younger portions, uninumbered with the old and those having families. Upwards of three hundred thousand able bodied men, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six years, which the last census shews we may now count within our limits, will furnish a competent number for offence or defence, in any point where they may be wanted, and will give time for raising regular forces after the necessity of them shall become certain: and the reducing to the early period of life all its active service cannot but be desirable to our younger citizens, of the present as well as future times, inasmuch as it engages to them in more advanced age a quiet and undisturbed repose in the bosom of their families. I cannot then but earnestly recommend to your early consideration the expediency of so modifying our militia system as, by a separation of the more active part from that which is less so, we may draw from it, when necessary, an efficient corps, fit for real and active service, and to be called to it in regular rotation.
Considerable provision has been made under former authorities from Congress, of materials for the construction of ships of war of seventy four guns. These materials are on hand ready to be used to the further will of the legislature.
An immediate prohibition of the exportation of arms and ammunition is also submitted to your determination.
Turning from these unpleasant views of violence and wrong, I congratulate you on the liberation of our fellow-citizens who were stranded on the coast of Tripoli and made prisoners of war. In a government bottomed on the will of all, the life and liberty of every individual citizen become interesting to all. In the treaty therefore which has concluded our warfare with that state an article for the ransom of our citizens has been agreed to. An operation by others engaged for the occasion, in conjunction with the troops of the Ex-Bashaw of that country, gallantly conducted by our late consul Esdaile, and their successful enterprise on the city of Derne, contributed doubtless to the impression which produced, peace, and the conclusion of this prevented opportunities of which the officers and men of our squadron destined for Tripoli, would have availed themselves, to emulate the acts of valor exhibited by their brethren in the attack of the last year. Reflecting very deeply whenever occasions permitted in the late Mediterranean service, I think it would be an useful encouragement, as well as a just reward to make an opening for some present promotion by enlarging our peace establishment of Captains and Lieutenants.
With Tunis some misunderstanding have arisen not yet sufficiently explained, but friendly discussions with their ambassador recently arrived, and a mutual disposition to do whatever is just and reasonable cannot fail of dissipating these. So that we may consider our peace on that coast, generally, to be on as found a footing as it has been at any preceding time. Still it will not be expedient to withdraw immediately the whole of our force from that sea.
The law providing for a naval peace establishment fixes the number of frigates which shall be kept in constant service in time of peace; and prescribes that they shall be manned by not more than two thirds of their complement of seamen and ordinary seamen. Whether a frigate may be trusted to two thirds only of her proper complement of men must depend on the nature of the service on which she is ordered. That may sometimes for her safety, as well as to ensure her object, require her fullest complement. In advertising to this subject, Congress will perhaps consider whether the best limitation on the Executive discretion in this case would not be by the number of seamen which may be employed in the whole service, rather than by the number of vessels. Occasions of large vessels; and it would lessen risk as well as expense, to be authorized to employ them of preference. The limitation suggested by the number of seamen would admit a selection of vessels best adapted to the service.
Our Indian neighbors are advancing, many of them with spirit, and others beginning to engage in the pursuits of agriculture and house-hold manufacture. They are becoming sensible that the earth yields subsistence with less labor than the forest, and find it their interest from time to time to dispose of parts of their surplus and waste lands for the means of obtaining those they occupy, and of fulfilling their families while they are preparing their farms. Since your last session, the northern tribes have sold to us the lands between the Connecticut reserve and the former Indian boundary, and those on the Ohio, from the same boundary to the rapids, and for a considerable distance below the rapids. We have also sold to the country between and adjacent to the two districts of Tennessee, and the Creeks, the residue of their lands in the fork of the Ocmulgee up to the Oconolufatche. The three former purchases are important, inasmuch as they consolidate disjointed parts of our settled country, and render their intercourse secure; and the second particularly so, as with the small point on the river which we expect is by this time ceded by the Piankeshaws, it completes our possession of the whole of both banks of the Ohio, from its source to near its mouth, and the navigation of that river is thereby rendered forever safe to our citizens settled and settling on its extensive waters. The purchase from the Creeks too has been for some time particularly interesting to the state of Georgia.
The several treaties which have been mentioned will be submitted to both Houses of Congress for the exercise of their respective functions.
Deputations now on their way to the seat of government, from various nations of Indians, inhabiting the Missouri and other parts beyond the Mississippi, come charged with assurances of their satisfaction with the new relations in which they are placed with us, of their disposition to cultivate our peace and friendship, and their desire to enter into commercial intercourse with us. A state of our progress in exploring the principal rivers of that country and of the information respecting them hitherto obtained, will be communicated so soon as we shall receive some further relations which we have reason to expect to expedite.
The receipts at the treasury during the year ending on the 30th day of September last have exceeded the sum of thirteen millions of dollars, which, with not quite five millions in the treasury at the beginning of the year, have enabled us after meeting other demands, to pay nearly two millions of the debt contracted under the British treaty and convention, upwards of four millions of principal of the public debt, and four millions of interest. These payments, with those which had been made in three years and an half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt nearly eighteen millions of principal.
Congress, by their act of November 1. 1803, authorized us to borrow 1,750,000 dollars towards meeting the claims of our citizens assumed by the convention with France. We have not however made use of this authority; because the sum of four millions and a half, which remained in the treasury on the same 30th day of September last, with the receipts which we may calculate on for the ensuing year, besides paying the annual sum of eight millions of dollars, appropriated to the funded debt, and meeting all the current demands which may be expected, will enable us to pay the whole sum of three millions seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars assumed by the French convention, and still leave us a surplus of nearly a million of dollars at our free disposal. Should you concur in the provisions of arms and armed vessels recommended by the circumstances of the times, this surplus will furnish the means of doing so.
On this first occasion of addressing Congress since by the choice of my constituents, I have entered on a second term of administration, I embrace the opportunity to give this public assurance that I will exert my best endeavours to administer faithfully the executive department, and will zealously cooperate with you in any measure which may tend to secure the liberty, property, and personal safety of our fellow-citizens, & to consolidate the republican form and principles of our government.
In the course of your session you shall receive all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of the public business, and all the information necessary for your deliberations of which the interests of our own country, and the confidence reposed in us by others, will admit a communication.
TH: JEFFERSON. December 2d, 1805.

Observations relative to a commercial treaty with Great Britain, by James M'Henry, Esq.
(CONTINUED.)
But the following statement is superior to all general reasoning, and must convince the candid and unprejudiced mind, that America is justly entitled to concessions from Great Britain, equivalent to the advantages we must forego by a renewal of former trading connections. We shall begin with Spain.
Articles which America can import cheaper from Spain than from Great Britain: Black cravats and silk handkerchiefs of all kinds from Barcelona; silk velvets, and other wrought silks, at the ports within the Straits; fruit wines, such as sherry and Malaga, brandy, figs, lemons, oranges, figs, raisins, currants, almonds, capers, olives; sallad or eating oil from Cadiz and St. Ubes, with anchovies and other products of Italy and the Levant.
Our usual exports to Spain, are White oak pipe staves, with some barrel and hoghead staves, wheat, Indian corn, rice, flour, bees wax, some tobacco, dried cod-fish, and fish oil, malt and spars, naval stores, viz. pitch, tar, turpentine, rosin, &c. Spain also purchases American built ships when in her ports, and these chiefly of the greatest burden.
Articles which America can import cheaper from Portugal than from Great Britain:
All the fruits and oils abovementioned, together with all the productions of Italy and the Levant; salt from Lisbon, wines, brandy. America can also have from Lisbon, tea and nankeens much cheaper than from England, and several East India manufactures. Our exports to Portugal the same as to Spain. Portugal also purchases American built ships, chiefly of the largest size.
Articles which America can import cheaper from France than from Great Britain: Wrought silks of all denominations, (perhaps gaze excepted) superfine broad-cloths, particularly those made at Abbeville; calicoes and chints; printed goods; linen handkerchiefs; linens, a great variety, especially those of a middling quality, among which are, sheeting and house linen, brimstones, royales, platillas, potties linens, &c. &c. cambricks, lawns, kenings, sewing threads, particularly white threads, thread lace, fine and common; blond and black silk lace, leather gloves and mits, particularly the kid & dogskin; cotton fabrics; of these, France manufactures a great variety, and in considerable quantities, some of them cheaper, some not quite so cheap, as the English, but all of them of a superior quality; a few manufactures of iron, particularly large nails; salt, writing paper, brandy, wines of various kinds; at Marseilles, and the ports of France in the Mediterranean, may be had, fruits, oils, and the products of Italy and the Levant.
T'Orient is the great East India market, and furnishes teas and several kinds of East India goods, cheaper than we can get them from England. We can also import from thence, silk, cotton and thread men and women's hose.
Our exports to France are chiefly, Tobacco, rice, indigo, dried cod fish, fish oil, staves, bees wax, flour, wheat, Indian corn, peltry, naval stores, masts and spars, pot and pearl ashes, shipping.
Articles which America can import cheaper from Germany than from Great Britain: Among these we may reckon several kinds of linen, cotton and woolen manufactures, glass, copper, and iron manufactures.
Our exports to Germany will consist chiefly of tobacco, indigo, naval stores, spermaceti candles, bees wax, peltry, staves, and particularly shipping. The trade to Germany will be very advantageous to this country. Under the articles which America can import from Holland, or the United Netherlands, cheaper than from Great Britain, we shall comprehend, in order to save time, those articles also which we can import directly from several of the northern nations. These are, viz. Superfine broadcloths made at Leyde, kerseymers or calsemers, some fabrics of coarse woolen, Russia sheeting, brown and white; drillings or drabs, brown, white, or colored; ragged woolen, ticklenhens, ozozabicks and diapers, towelings, (a plain narrow linen) holland and brown rolls; Silesia linens and holland, brown and white; long lawns, cambricks, and lawns, dog holland, ruden silesia, damask and diaper table cloths and napkins, ditto and ditto in pieces, trolley lace, thread lace & edging, fine and coarse; Dutch Dresden or beggar's lace, cap and apron string tapes, plain and twisted, and all kinds of wrought lace, bobbing or bandring twill, bed-tick and Flanders bed bunts, Haerlem stripes, writing paper & quills, sealing wax & wafers, toys for children, a great variety; copper in sheets, wire, iron & brass of all sorts, Dutch scythes, & cutting knives, German steel (for springs & edge tools) guns, powder, drugs & medicines, painters colours, Geneva, arrack, wines, rhens and old hock cordage of all kinds, unstated yarns, packing, sewing and seine twines, and fishing lines, bolting cloths, tobacco pipes, dressed hog skins, Leghorn or straw and chip hats; black and white pepper, nutmegs, mace, cloves and cinnamon; bayon, fouchou, congo, green and bohea teas; muslins, plain, striped, checked and wrought; nankeens plain and worked, dimity and Dutch cord; china ware, East India, Dresden, &c. bandana, lungee, romal and Chinese silk handkerchiefs, raffles, Persians, damasks, and a variety of East India goods; to these may be added, looking glasses, calicoes, chinuz, brass kettles in nets, and brushes of all kinds.
Every export from this country comes to a ready market in Holland, and many of them brings a better price than we can get for them elsewhere; it is therefore unnecessary to go into their particular enumeration. I would observe, on this statement, that it is not complete; that more articles could have been added; and that some may have crept in, which may be had on as good terms from England. It is, however, clear and extensive enough, to show us our natural weight, and how little Great Britain is entitled to our exclusive custom on the principle of cheapness. It now remains to do justice to that country by a similar statement of its advantages over other countries.
Great Britain can furnish America with the following articles cheaper than we can import them from Holland or elsewhere, viz. Buttons, buckles, and all kinds of Birmingham wares, knives, scissors, and Sheffield wares, a variety of edge tools, hardware, and ironmongery, several coarse woolens, calamancos, durants, tamines, shellans, and most kinds of worsted piece goods, checks, worsted & yarn flockings; the whole of which scarcely make one fifth of our imports.
Charged with these facts, our commissioners may hold a candid but decisive language with the British administration. "The prosperity of your islands," they may say, "depends absolutely upon American supplies, and the American consumption of your productions. The commodities of the French islands are cheaper than yours; America can sell to other countries all her exports, without confusing your markets, and can get in return four fifths of her imports on better terms than your merchants can afford them; it is therefore not only reasonable, but just, if America should put her trade in a train of returning to your markets, that you should grant an equivalent for the concession."
But it may be said, that this country will naturally prefer British manufactures under every disadvantage of distance; for that the state of America is in their favor. This is a flimsy argument, but deceptive; for admitting the state or prejudice to exist, it could only operate in favor of a few articles; inasmuch as a considerable part of our imports from England was neither of her own growth or manufacture. She imported them from other countries, and sold them out to this country; the pretended title, therefore, will be against England, generally speaking, instead of being in her favor; unless its advocates can show that an article acquires some precious quality by passing through her hands. But prejudice or false taste will in vain contend against self-interest; for we know
very well, that it is not an English title, but a foreign one, that is most frequented. It is true, we traded with Great Britain, grew rich, were happy, and minded not whether by a trade with others we could have become richer; but the shifting scenes of this world have dissolved our partnership; we have opened our eyes; have made us an independent people; estranged us from former interests; and bound us by the most forcible policy to prefer our own prosperity. But did prejudices really prevail in favor of some English manufactures, the rivals of Great Britain, the manufacturing nations of Europe, are two wits not to turn them to their advantage. They will, if they have not already, send into this country agents properly instructed to consult our taste, know how broad or narrow they ought to make their clothes or linens to please us, and what colors or stripes they ought to give them. It is well known that this was one of the means by which France attracted from the English the woollen trade of the Levant. The house mentioned in my last paper, from Holland, Germany, and France, that are established throughout these states will have it effectually in their power to collect this information.
But what is more than all to be dreaded by Great Britain is the establishment of manufactures in America, for which she is so happily gifted; and which will gradually take place and succeed, till at length she will find little occasion for the manufactures of Europe. Nothing but a commercial treaty, on the most liberal principles, can check the progress of things in America, which is approximating to this independent, desirable and respectable situation. There is yet a more plausible argument in favor of Great Britain. Cincinnati, a writer we have quoted more than once, states our dependence on Europe to be the difference between the imports and exports of the last year, the former of which he makes precisely ten times greater than the latter. If this is true, we are indeed in a dependent & deplorable condition; there is, however, a species of consolation in reflecting, that this cannot hold, because the funds of the richest merchants in Europe will not enable them to supply America with ten times more goods than she can pay for. Cincinnati is unfortunate in having chosen the imports and exports of the last year to support the doctrine of American dependence. Those nations that must first, are as dependent as those who must buy; but such reasoning aside, several causes operated to augment the imports of last year over the exports. Foreigners and adventurers thought this country exhausted of goods by the war, and poured them in upon us in an unusual quantity. The great sinking, also, of the prices of goods in Europe, in consequence of the peace, and the idea that prevailed of goods being scarce in this country, induced those who had large stocks on hand to send consignments to these markets. To all which importations were added those made by our own provident merchants. Last year, therefore, cannot be taken as a scale of our exports and imports, being a singular case, and one which may not occur again in our days; of course, the proposition and conclusion founded on it must be treated as fallacious and illusive.
Those who ought to understand this subject better than this writer, do not proceed to the same lengths. They tell us, "that the capital part, or at least four fifths of the importations from Europe into the American states, were at all times made upon credit; and that nearly as many fifths of the American importations must be made from Great Britain." This statement is less humbling though not more true than that given by Cincinnati. A little reflection, however, and a recurrence to experience will reach us the fallacy of such speculative calculations. Previous to the non-importation agreement, the operation of which brought this country considerably in debt to Great Britain, our exports were on a level with our imports; or, in other words, the one paid for the other. For the truth of this assertion, I appeal to the merchants of the United States, to declare, whether their exports did not one year with another pay for their imports. The trade with England was against America, but with other countries, it was in our favor, and with the balances we received from these, we acquired the balance we owed to Great Britain. But ministry themselves will support me in this fact. In the second edition of their pamphlet, where they undertake to satisfy the English merchants, how America is to pay them for their goods, they are constrained to acknowledge, "that if the exports from the United States to this country are not sufficient to pay for the British manufactures they may want, they must pay the difference as they used to do formerly, in bills of exchange upon Spain and other countries, which they will get for their salted fish, flour, and other articles of export to those places." This I conceive to be decisive that our exports equalled our imports in past years; and may we not, for instance, pay to Holland and other countries for the goods we may want, the difference that our exports to these countries leaves unpaid, as we used to do formerly to England in bills of exchange?
Observations before quoted. Ibid.
BENJAMIN DUVAL, AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN MORTAR, RICHMOND, HAS just received a very large and extensive assortment of MEDICINES, SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, DRUGS AND DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS of all kinds, OIL, VARNISHES, PUTTY, &c.
Also a complete assortment of HATTERS' MATERIALS, CONSISTING OF Hatters' Irons, Crude Tartar, Logwood, Bason Irons, Coppers, Bow-Strings, Virdegrees, Linings, Fustick, Galoons, Spanish Indigo, Taffet Bands, Oil of Vitriol, Rubbing Dishes, Aq. Fortis, Stampers, Quickilver, Trenchers, &c.
Which added to his former stock, completes an assortment that was never equalled in his line of business, in this city. He thanks his customers for past favors, and hopes to merit a continuation of their custom. His former attention to the quality of his Medicines, importing them in their crude state, that he might be able to judge of their quality, and powdering and preparing them under his immediate inspection, have contributed to his present establishment; and opposition he presumes will not relax his exertions to give general satisfaction in future.
His experience for more than 12 years past, as a Apothecary and Druggist in this city, added to a small stock of Medical Information acquired before, enables him, he thinks, to form a tolerably correct judgment as to the quality of Drugs and Medicines, although he cannot boast of honors conferred on him, greater than the confidence of numerous and respectable customers.
In regard to his wholesale prices, he promises to furnish each of his wholesale customers with a printed price current, as soon as possible, and feels himself confident in their approbation, knowing that no one in this state can afford to under-sell him. This he intends to do, not to get other customers from them, but to secure his own.
Any articles that may be ordered, and not approved of as to quality, may be returned if in good order, and in a reasonable time. June 7. (Bw 84f)
THE subscribers, being desirous of closing their administration on the estate of William W. Nicholson, deceased, call upon all those who have claims against him, to make them known before the second Monday in November next, when they intend to render an account of their administration to the court of judgments, for the city of Richmond; after which, no claim not previously given in, will be attended to, but this notice will be placed in bar thereof. All persons indebted to the deceased are desired to make immediate payment, as no indulgence can be given. EDWARD GARRINGTON, J. A. CHEFFALLIE. September 18. (Fyf)
HAVING taken the first brick house on the right hand side after passing the corner of the Cross-street, leading from the Brick-Row to the head of the Basin, offers his services to the citizens of Richmond and its vicinity in the different branches of the MEDICAL PROFESSION. Families residing in the country, requiring his assistance, may depend on the most prompt and assiduous attention. October 22. (qaw2m.)
Louisa County Court, October 14th, 1805. John L. Morris, Plaintiff. Against Ruth Nutt, & Stephen Perkins, Defendants. By Injunction. THE defendant Ruth Nutt not having entered his appearance, and given security according to law, and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this state. Therefore, on the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney; it is ordered and decreed by the court, that he appear here on the second Monday in January next, and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some of the newspapers, printed in the city of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of this court house on some court day. A Copy. Teste, JOHN POINDEXTER, C. L. C. November 15. (F2m.)
At a court held for King & Queen county, at the court-house on Monday the 9th of Sept. 1805. UPON AN INJUNCTION IN CHANCERY. Richard Brooke, Plaintiff. Against Wallace Johnson & Muire & Robt. Price, Dfs. THIS day came the plaintiff by his counsel, and the defendants, Wallace Johnson and Muire not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly, in such case made and provided, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth. On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel: It is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the second Monday in November next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some public newspaper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of this court-house. A Copy. Teste, ROBT. POLLARD, C. C. October 11. (T 2m.)
Louisa County Court, October 14th, 1805. Nathan D. Anderson, Plaintiff. Against Wm. Lourey and James Pulliam and Thos. Daelpier, executors of John Pulliam, deceased, Defendants. In Chancery. THE defendant Wm. Lourey 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 state. Therefore, on the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney; It is ordered and decreed by the court, that he appear here on the second Monday in January next and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this decree be inserted in some of the public newspapers printed in the city of Richmond for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of this court house on some court day. A Copy. Teste, JOHN POINDEXTER, C. C. November 15. (F2m.)
JOHNSON & REAT, JEWELLERS, SILVER-SMITHS & GILDERS, A few doors above the Bell-Tavern, Richmond: RETURN the public in general their thanks, for the liberal encouragement they have received, and with confidence of giving general satisfaction, they hope for a continuance of it. They have now on hand, a handsome assortment of work, consisting of the following articles, viz: Table, Desert and Tea Spoons; Soup, Toddly, Sauce and Mustard Lades; Salt Shovels; Sugar Tongs; Tooth and Ear Pickes; Pencil Cases; Pincushion Chains and Reams; Scissor Chains; Silver Thimbles; Tortoise Shell and Pearl-handled Penknives. Miniatures drawn and set upon the shortest notice; Mourning and Fancy Lockets; Rings ditto; Brace-mourning and fancy; Gold, Silver, Pearl and Cook Sleeve Buttons; Gold and Hair Watch Chains; gold Seals and Keys of different sizes and shapes; an elegant assortment of fashionable Tortoise Shell Combs, ornamented, of various sizes and shapes, just from Philadelphia; Ear-Rings of the most fashionable forms and sizes; Gold and Gold Mounted Jet Necklaces; Ladies and Gentlemen's Morocco Pocket Books; Gentlemen's Passe Knee Buckles & many other articles too tedious to enumerate—all of which they offer on the most reasonable terms. Persons wishing to purchase by the quantity, will be allowed a reasonable credit by giving approved security in the city. Orders will be strictly attended to, and discharged with dispatch, by the subscribers. JOHNSON & REAT. N. B. The highest price given for Old Gold and Silver. Nov. 19. eptf
NOTICE. BY virtue of a deed of trust, executed to me by John Kelso, to secure the payment of a debt due by him to John and William Bell, I shall, on Friday the 20th of December, at the house of the said John Kelso, in the upper end of the county of Cumberland, proceed to sell to much of that valuable Farm, containing 550 acres of Land, on which he now lives, (subject to two prior deeds of trust) as will pay the sum due to the said John and William Bell, of about six hundred and fifty pounds, with some interest thereon, for the benefit of John Eppes. CREED TAYLOR, Trustee. Nov. 19. eptfs
WARDLAW, has received his fall supply of Medicines, by the ship Rolla from London; also a great variety of Paints, Varnishes, Surgeons Instruments, patent Medicines, &c. &c. And by the ship George from Liverpool, a large supply of vials and shop glass—Those who favor him with their custom may depend on being supplied with every article in his line on the most liberal terms. The citizens of Richmond are requested when they apply at his shop by a child or servant to put the name of the article wanted on paper to prevent mistakes. Nov. 1. eptf
PUBLIC SALE. On Tuesday the 17th day of December next, will be offered for sale to the highest bidder, at the late dwelling house of Col. William Peachey, deceased, in Richmond county: ALL the NEGROES belonging to said estate, consisting of Men, Women, Boys and Girls. The sale will commence at 11 o'clock, and terms of sale made known on the day of sale. JOHN NICHOLSON, adm'r. Nov. 12. ept16D
TO BE SOLD, At Warren, in Albemarle county, on the 10th of December next. ONE hundred prime NEGROES, consisting of Men, Women, Boys and Girls. A credit of one, two and three years will be allowed upon the purchasers giving bond and approved security. On account of the length of credit more than ordinary attention will be paid to the security that will be required. WILSON CARY NICHOLAS. Warren, November 12. tds
THE HIGHEST PRICE (IN CASH) WILL BE GIVEN AT THIS OFFICE FOR CLEAN LINEN & COTTON RAGS.
THE VIRGINIA ALMANACK, FOR 1806: PRINTED FOR T. RITCHIE AND COOK & GRANT. LAND—containing A considerable variety of matter; Political, Agricultural, Medical and Miscellaneous. Among others, an Essay on the Oratorical Character of Curran, distributed to the author of the British Spy.
To the highest bidder, on the premises, on the 2d day of January next: THAT Valuable Plantation called WINDSOR, the property of the late William Dandridge, dec'd situated on James River, about four miles above Richmond, containing by a late survey 777 acres. The situation is healthy and high, commanding a most beautiful and extensive prospect of the river and adjacent country. There is convenient access to this place, an excellent Fishery, where the finest shad, rock and other fish may, in their season, be had, with little expense, abundantly. There is attached to this farm about 120 or 130 acres of as good low land as any on the river. There is an orchard containing about 600 apple trees, besides other fruit trees of a superior quality to any in that part of the country. The buildings are a two story dwelling house, with two rooms and a hall and a passage below, and three rooms above stairs; a barn 40 feet square, the first floor of which is built of stone; a hay house 20 feet square, with sheds which are used as stables, and may with little repair be made excellent.
At the same time and place, WILL BE SOLD—All the Stock of Cattle, Horses, Mules, Sheep, Hogs, &c. Plantation Utensils, Household and Kitchen Furniture, and about 20 likely Negroes; among them are an excellent Blacksmith and a Rope-maker. All of which is the property of the said Dandridge.
Also will be Sold, A valuable collection of LAW BOOKS, &c. &c. The Land is subject to the widow's dower; if sold the term of payment will be made known on the day of sale. For the other property a credit of twelve months will be allowed by giving bonds with approved security. Should a purchaser prefer paying cash, a discount of 6 per cent. will be allowed. For all sums under ten dollars, cash will be expected. WILLIAM LANGBORNE, Executor of Wm. Dandridge, dec'd.
WILL BE SOLD, At Public Auction, at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on Monday the 6th day of January: TWO LOTS in the said city on Shockoe Hill, one of which is at present occupied by Doctor M'Clurg, and joining one of Major Duvals; on this lot is a two story brick dwelling house, 56 feet square, with convenient out-houses. The other lot also joins one of Major Duvals, and is occupied by Mr. M. Bates; this lot has a Dutch roof framed dwelling house on it 36 feet by 18. This property is likewise subject to the widows dower. The terms of payment will be made known on the day of sale. Wm. LANGBORNE, Ex'r. Nov. 19. eptf
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND, MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use. Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. Gentlemen at a distance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as if they were on the spot.....A—the length of the Boot.....C—round the Calf.....B—the pitch of ditto.....D—round the heel and instep.....E—round the instep.....G—across the ball of the foot. Fix the heel against a perpendicular, and flick a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. January 1. eptf
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. RUNAWAY from the subscriber on the twenty eighth inst. a negro man who calls himself TOM BUSH, he has been a stage driver from Fredericksburg to Dumfries for several years; he had on when he went away a great coat of bear skin cloth but very much worn, a pair of trowsers of the same kind, a London brown cloth coat; he is about five feet 10 or 11 inches high and about thirty years old; he has a very bold look and combs his hair back in a very large roll. Any person who will apprehend the said fellow shall have the above reward and all expenses borne if he is put in jail and secured so that I get him again. I am very apprehensive that he will attempt to make his escape by water on board of some vessel, all persons and masters of vessels are cautioned against harbouring, taking or concealing of said fellow under the severest penalty the law will inflict upon them. TRIPLETT T. ESTES. Charlottesville, November 29.
WILLIAM MCCAY RETURNS his grateful acknowledgements to his numerous friends and customers for the liberal encouragement he has received, and informs them that the business will in future be carried on under the firm of
MCCAY & COWAN WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS: Who tender their services to their friends and the public in the line of their profession, and hope from unremitting attention, to merit the confidence of their customers—Repair watches and clocks of every description. M. and C. have just received a large and fashionable assortment of jewellery, consisting of Large, fancy, mourning, plain and set Ear-rings, Gold and gold set Necklaces, A handsome assortment of ornamented Tortoise Shell Combs, Mourning, fancy, wedding, plain and plain set Finger Rings, Mourning, plain and plain set Breast Pins, Gold Miniature Settings and Chain, Mourning and plain Bracelets and Neck Clasps, Mourning and fancy Lockets, Ladies and gentlemen's gold, gilt, steel and silk Watch Chains, Gold, gilt, pebble, and glass Seals, Gold, gilt and steel Keys, Gold, silver and tortoise shell Sleeve Buttons & Studs, Silver Thimbles, Salt Spoons, Netting Needles, Tooth Picks and Shoe Clasps, with a variety of other articles. They have likewise on hand a few good Watches, all of which they offer on the most reasonable terms. N. B. Miniature Settings and Hair-Work executed in the neatest manner. WILLIAM COWAN Returns his acknowledgements to his friends and the public for the liberal encouragement he has received since his commencement in business, and flatters himself from his present connection to merit their future confidence. N. B. Persons who have watches remaining in his hands will please call at the shop of McCay & Cowan. November 26. eptu
This Day is Published, And For Sale at the Work-house of the Enquirer, and the Miniature Office: THE VIRGINIA ALMANACK, FOR 1806: PRINTED FOR T. RITCHIE AND COOK & GRANT. LAND—containing A considerable variety of matter; Political, Agricultural, Medical and Miscellaneous. Among others, an Essay on the Oratorical Character of Curran, distributed to the author of the British Spy.
TEN SHARES, in the James River Canal Company. Apply to THOMAS NORVELL. November 5. tf
ELLIS & ALLAN Have just received by the Ships Prot-Arch and Georgia from Liverpool, and Safford from London, A SUITABLE and a well selected assortment of FALL GOODS.—Among which are: Duffel and Point Blankets, Rope Blankets from 6-4 to 11-4 Napped Cottons Kerseys white and coloured Plaid do. do. Yarn and Plaid Hose Nails from 3d to 30d Crown window glass 10 by 8, 11 by 9 and 12 by 10 Putty and Glue Boiled Linseed Oil in Jars English White Lead ground in oil Yellow Ochre Spanish Brown Verdigree in pots Bellows, Anvils, Vices and Smiths hammers Liverpool Salt Salt London Superfine Cloths and Camerics, single and double Milled Patent Woollen Cords Velvets, Hunters and Constitution Cords, Corduroy, and Thicksets Ladies London Kid and Morocco Shoes and Boots Silk, Cotton and Worsted Hose Silk Bath Insep do. White Angola Hose, very fine Gentlemen's Silk, Cotton, and Worsted Hose Angolas and Lambs Wool Lambs Wool Half Hose Real Italian Sarcenets plain and checked Chamberay Muffs Plain and Tamboured Jacquet Muslins Colonade, Pique, & Laced Colonade & Cambric do. Coloured Cambricks and Calicoes Elegant Silk Shawls, do. Cambric do. Brussels and Kidderminster Carpets and Carpeting Gentlemen's Real Beaver, Fashionable Hats Patent do. Ladies Trimmed do. Rich Black Melchior do. Rich figured do. Guns and Pistols Elegant Fowling Pieces Swiss Twine 6-8 and 10-4 Diaper and Damask do. 8-4, 10-4, 12-18 Damask and Diaper Table Cloths Irish Linens and 6-4 Irish Sheeting Which will be sold on moderate terms. October 25. tf
HATS, SHOES, &c. THE subscriber has received a good assortment of Hats, Shoes and hatters trimmings. 4-4 Cotton Shirting and Irish Linens, Stevensons Bleach by the piece. For sale by D. J. BURR. Second door above the Eagle Tavern. November 29. (oaw6w.) THE subscribers offer for sale, their reversionary right in a new fire-proof warehouse on Maxwell's wharf in the Borough of Norfolk, described in the will of Doctor John K. Read, dec'd. as his upper warehouse. In this property, Mrs. Helen Read has a life estate. MERTHWETHER JONES, BENJAMIN F. READ. It is probable that I may leave this estate ere long: in which event, Meriwether Jones will be fully authorized to act for me. BENJAMIN F. READ. November 1. tf
MILITARY CERTIFICATES. FOR SALE, Certificates of this state, bearing interest of 6 per cent. and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrears of taxes, prior to the year 1798. WILLIAM PRICE, Cashr. Genl. M. A. S. May 10. tf
OYSTER HOUSE. GEORGE WATSON, HAS commenced his former and well known occupation of furnishing OYSTERS, BEEF STEAKS, COLD SNACKS, and RELISHES, at the white House near the Union Tavern, wherein the Post-Office was lately kept. He begs leave to assure those who may favor him with their company or commands, that nothing shall be neglected on his part which promises to give satisfaction. October 15.
BURR MILL STONES, of all sizes; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, as usual, at WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. Dec. 4. [spf.]
GEORGE WILY, BROKER & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Near the Basin, BUYS and sells all kinds of Produce—Also, Lands, Lots, and houses, Bank Stock, &c. He has for Sale, LOTS No. 141, 2, 3, and 4, which make one entire square in Du-Val's addition.—There is a good Spring attached to them. These lots are well worth the attention of any gentleman wishing to build a summer retreat for his family, July 23—tf.
IRISH LINEN & SHEETING WELL assorted in boxes containing 26 to 30 pieces, purchased in Dublin last July, and imported in the ship George from Liverpool, for sale by the box and piece by JOHN HENRY. Who has also on hand, a few bales of GERMAN OSNABURGS, imported direct from Varel. October 29. 5wp
JUST RECEIVED, THE 4th Vol. of Marshall's LIFE OF WASHINGTON.—Subscribers to this work are particularly requested to call for their respective books at William Prichard's Book and Stationery Store. Wm. Prichard begs leave to inform the public at large, that he is now falling off his stock in trade, at reduced prices. October 29. tf
A NEW TAVERN. RUBEN BURNLEY respectfully informs the public, that he has opened a House of Entertainment in that commodious new building west of the Court-house. Attached to the premises is a new stone stable inferior to none in the state; and that he is in every respect, well provided for the accommodation of genteel company. N. B. Very liberal wages will be given for a good Cook—a male would be preferred. Charlottesville, Nov. 22. ep2m A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF BLANKS, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.