Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1808-08-05 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVIII YEAR.]
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[No 1573]
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1808.
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By virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by Richard C. Pollard to secure the payment of a debt due to Murphy, Brown & Co. as therein expressed, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for the best price that can be obtained in ready money, at Mrs. Ann S. Hopkins's, in the county of Nelson, on Saturday the 6th day of August next.
Four Slaves, to wit:
Daniel a negro man, Phillis a woman, Squire a boy, and Pallas a girl, but as we are only trustees for the benefit of others, we will only warrant the title as to ourselves and those claiming under us.
William F. Carter. Robert Franklin.
Warm Springs, July 6 1808.
At a Court of Hustings
for the city of Williamsburg, held the 28th day of June, 1808. Robert Greenhow, Plaintiff AGAINST Thomas Reeves & James Davis, Defendants. THE Defendant Thomas Reeves 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 court that he is not an inhabitant of this city, on motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, It is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on or before the fourth Monday in October next, and answer to the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the newspapers printed in the city of Richmond for two months successively and posted at the front door of the court house of this city; & it is further ordered, that the defendant James Davis, do not pay to the said Thomas Reeves, his agent or attorney, any money or other property in his hands belonging to the said Thomas, until the further order of this court.
A copy—Teste.
William Russell, C. C.
Buckingham County, June
Over, 1808. Peter Guerrant, Jr. Plaintiff AGAINST James Rea, William Guerrant and John Hobson, Jr. Defendants. ON the motion of the plaintiff by counsel and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendant James Rea is not an inhabitant of this state, It is ordered and decreed, that unless he shall appear here on or before the first Monday in October next, and answer the plaintiff's bill, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to him, and decree the matter herein accordingly; & that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and another copy be posted up at the front door of the court house of this county.
A Copy—Teste.
R. Eldridge, Jr. D. C.
NOTICE.
WHEREAS Mr. James Fisher, by a deed executed on the first day of July, 1808, and recorded in the county court of Henrico, has assigned to the subscriber as trustee for certain of his creditors therein named the whole of his estate of every description, (except his household furniture, and some few debts transferred by him as trustee, subsequent to the execution of said trust, as will more fully appear by a reference to the schedule annexed to said deed), consisting of some lots in the city of Richmond together with all his bonds, notes and accounts. This is therefore to give notice to the debtors of the said James Fisher, that all judgments obtained against him, and all other debts due to him, are now depending in the courts of this Commonwealth, or elsewhere, all monies in the hands of attorneys, sheriffs or others, which may have been collected by virtue of any suit, debt or demand of the said James Fisher, that he is the only person authorized to receive such debts and demands and grant such acquittances and make such compromises as he may deem most advisable for the interest of said creditors.
A hope is therefore cherished, that every effort on the part of said debtors, will be made, in order to a settlement of their balances, and every indulgence will be given by him to those who manifest such a disposition.
And whereas it is stipulated by the contracting parties to said deed, that certain creditors of said James Fisher, who from absence or other causes, could not signify their wish of becoming parties thereto, now, be it understood that if they do within sixty days, from the said first day of July 1808, sign the said deed, that in that case, they are to be considered entitled to their ratable proportion of such money as shall be collected from the sale of property and collection of debts—otherwise if they do not, within the time specified, make known their determination by subscribing to the terms agreed upon in the said trust, that he the said trustee shall pay over such sums as they would have been entitled to if they had acceded to the said James Fisher.
Edw'd. W. Trent.
28th July, 1808.
THE 3d No. OF COL. TOUSARD'S AMERICAN Artillerists' Companion, Is ready for delivery to subscribers at this office. A few copies for sale.
Doetry.
FOR THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
PATRIOTIC ODES FOR THE YEAR 1808.
BY VIRGINIENSIS.
ODE III.
TO THE EMBARGO.
Avant! thou fiend! abomination dread Of every Tory and good Anglo-fed! Because thou keep'st them from engrossing cash,
And cutting, as of old, a dash! Thou keep'st too their master George the third, Upon my word, The best of Kings, With whose successful schemes all Europe rings, From taking now and then, a ship and cargo, Hence art thou a most infamous embargo, The theme of federal trolps of swearing, And scurrilous abuse beyond all bearing! Preemptuous thou would'st break the British yoke,
So light, 'tis but a joke; N't weigh'd with heavy taxes down, Nor ornamented with a golden crown, Which ev'ry Tory views with gaping wonder, And thinks its wearer grasps Jove's potent thunder!
In love with this his subjects all declare, (Whether in London, Boston, or elsewhere,) That his most sagacious majesty George the third Should truly be preferred.
For wisdom, justice, valor, and what not? To all the sovereigns Europe ever knew! Yet thou, confest, rate with a lawless crew Of rebels destined soon to go to pot,
Last taught them how to save their bacon From being by his corsairs taken, Or plunder'd in his custom houses. Nay, justly, this the five houses Of all the royal Essex Juntos;
From Tinternay, their ablest leader, unto, Thee-ham their lowest seal and tail! And they with keen reprobates thee assail! The government assiduous to peoples, One moment, they lament thy three effects;
And in the next, complain That thy existence fruitless is and vain; And will, (howe'er by pe'al-stone aided) Be by themselves and by their friends evaded! But what, thy other wickedness exceeds Is this, the worst of all thy deeds,
That in thy mean domestic gear Thou hast Columbia's sons array'd! Alloppery and finery, I fear, By them will soon aside be laid, And ruin'd quite the British trade!
E'en ladies now will card an spin, And every thing think no shame nor sin; The vulgar trades! Ressenting ancient queens, (quite void of taste And modern pride,) in work their time they waste,
Like their own maids! A dreadful thing, I do declare! Yet thus by thee degraded are the fair! While (horrible to tell!) the more Their low-born lovers praise them and adore! Each virgin, while her maid the shuttle guides, They say, like Pallas, o'er the loom presides!
When gracefully she to the wheel, Or from the spindle draws the slender thread, She best displays her well turn'd arm, And shape by love himself contriv'd to charm. Still, as she moves, their hearts new raptures feel;
While Gull's darts are all around her sped, And ever varying beauties rise to view, So strange their fancies, so debauch'd by you! There was a time when dames genteelly bred Would seem to do one earthly thing;
Labor by some was scan'd aloud esteem'd; To live by others' toil was honor deem'd, And he as idle as a lazy king! Alas! those golden times, too sweet to last, Are all forever gone and past!
And ev'ry rich and stately fed Might now as well be number'd with the dead; Since independence rears aloft his head, And all their hopes of monarchy are fled. Ah! sad reverse! what else can cause the pain Of mournful tories but to cross the main
And swear allegiance to their king again? Since ships, for ballast, may the gang convey, And even thou wilt not compel their stay. While crowds of democrats, content With home-spun measures, yea, perversely, bent On risking all for glorious FREEDOM, With smiles contemptuous, cry, "God speed 'em."
"And send them safe to those who need 'em; There to enjoy what honest men abhor, The charms of titles, taxes, debts and war."
The following biographic sketch of the celebrated Roscoe, will no doubt be extremely interesting to our readers, not so much in consequence of the literary elevation he has reached as from the recollection that the fervor of his eloquence has been united with the energy of argument to mark out the treacherous and perfidious course which has been pursued by the British Ministry.
In order to diminish the excellence of his late pamphlet, the federalists have spoken of him in the most contemptuous style and have not unfrequently said that he was induced to the support of that doctrine by sordid pecuniary considerations. The lovely traits of his amiable man's life must excite the warmest glow of admiration in every feeling heart. The Biography before us is particularly cheering to those who are blessed with genius, but unblessed with fortune, it proves that this "ray divine" cannot be checked or controuled by the hand of man, and that it
will beam even through "the thickest clouds of humility, poverty, and oppression." We are in possession of many of his poetic effusions which evidently spring from the soul of benevolence, philanthropy and enthusiastic love of liberty. We published his inspiring poem, "From the ne covered hills and gay valleys of France," In the Argus of the 15th ultimo. We shall continue to publish h, as it does not fail to "thaw the coldest bosom or charm the dullest mind."
From a British Magazine.
MR. ROSCOE.
The history of the celebrated author of the life of Lorenzo de Medicis, evinces the wonderful effects resulting from assiduous industry, superadded to the intuitive rapidity of genius. Favored by no advantages of education, fostered by no patronage, raised by the native energies of his mind alone, Mr. Roscoe has reached a pitch of literary eminence, which is rarely attained even by those who have made the best use of the privileges of academic instruction.
His parents moved in the number sphere of life; they were of course precluded by their circumstances from giving their son a very extensive education; and with a strange perverseness of temper he obstinately refused to attend at the day-school where his father wished him to be taught writing and arithmetic. In consequence he did not even the common opportunities of acquiring knowledge, usually enjoyed by those of the same station in life as himself. He was fated to be the architect of his own fame.
But though he threw off the trammels of the school, he was not idle:—he read much, and thought more.
At an early age he was articled as clerk in the office of Mr. Eyes, an attorney in Liverpool. Soon after this period he was induced to undertake the study of the Latin language, by one of his companions suggesting that he had read Cæsar de Amicitia, and speaking in high terms of the elegance of the style, and the sentiments of that composition. Mr. Roscoe immediately procured the treatise in question; and smoothing his difficulties by perpetual reference to his grammar he drudged through the task which emulation and incited him to undertake. The success which he experienced in his first effort prompted him to proceed; and he did not stop in his career till he had read the most distinguished of the Latin classics. In this pursuit he was encouraged by the friendly intercourse of Mr. Francis Holden, an eccentric genius and excellent scholar.
Having made considerable progress in the Latin language, Mr. R. still without the assistance of a master, proceeded to the study of the French and Italian. The best authors in each of those tongues soon became familiar to him: and it is supposed, that few natives of the country have so general and recondite a knowledge of Italian literature, as the subject of the present memoir.
During the whole of this period, Mr. Roscoe regularly attended at the office; and his seasons of study were the intervals of business.
His attachment to the muse was of a very early date. While yet a boy he read with avidity the works of the best English poets. Of their beauties he had an exquisite sense: and it may easily be imagined that the earliest of his compositions were of the poetic class. "Mount Pleasant," a descriptive poem, which he wrote in his 15th year, is a record not only of the fertility of his genius, but of the correctness of his taste.
Soon after the expiration of his clerkship, Mr. R. was taken into partnership by Mr. Aspinwall, a very respectable money of the town of Liverpool; and the entire management of an office, extensive practice, and high in reputation, devolved upon him alone. In this situation he conducted himself in such a manner as to gain universal respect. For notwithstanding his various pursuits, he had paid strict attention to his profession, and had acquired a liberal and minute knowledge of law. And in earnestness of comprehension, and rapidity of dispatch in business, he had few equals.
About this time he commenced an acquaintance with the late Dr. Enfield*, and the present Dr. Aiken, then resided at Warrington, the former being tutor of the belles lettres in the Warrington academy, and the latter established as a surgeon in that town. These gentlemen had the honour of being early sensible of his surprising talents, and they contracted with him a friendship which was sure to be lasting, as it was built on the solid basis of mutual esteem.
When the voice of humanity was raised against the slave trade, Mr. R. fearless of the inconvenience to which the circumstances of his local situation might expose him, stood forth a zealous and enlightened advocate for the abolition of that inhuman traffic. In his boyish days, indeed, he had expressed his feelings on
his subject in the following beautiful lines, which are extracted from the above-mentioned poem, Mount Pleasant, p. 13: There Afric's swarthy sons their toil repeat, Beneath the fervors of the noon tide heat; Torn from each joy that crown'd their native soil, No sweet reflections mitigate their toil; From morn to eve, by rigorous hands oppress'd, Dull by their hours, of every hope unblest: Till broke with labour, helpless, and forlorn, From their weak grasp the lingering morsel torn; The reed-but hovels' friendly shade den'd: The jest of folly and the scorn of pride; Drooping beneath meridian suns they die, Lift the faint head, and bend the imploring eye; Till death, in kindness, from the tortured breast, Calls the free spirit to the realms of rest.
Shame to mankind! but shame to Britons most, Who all the sweets of liberty can boast; Yet, deal to every man in claim, deny The bliss to others which themselves enjoy; Life's bitter draught with harsher bitterness fill, Blast every joy, and add to every ill; The trembling limbs with galling iron bind, Nor loose the heavier bondage of the mind.
Thus by his own reflections Mr. R. was prepared to enter with ardour into the views of the friends of suffering humanity. He had frequent conversations with Mr. Clarkson, who first drew the attention of the kingdom at large to this national disgrace. A specious pamphlet was published in defence of the trade, in which, Scriptural Researches into the Likelihood of the Slave Trade , and written by a Spanish Jesuit of the name of Harris, Mr. R. answered it with great spirit and acuteness, in a counter pamphlet, entitled A Scriptural Refutation of a Pamphlet lately published by the Rev. Raymond Harris .
But this copious and interesting subject awakened all his sympathies and the public were gratified by a most affecting poem, entitled The Wrongs of Africa . This poem Mr. R. intended to complete in three parts. The two first appeared 1787 and 1788, but the lovers of genuine poetry have to lament that he has not yet fulfilled his promise of favouring them with the publication of the third.
A mind so active and generous as Mr. R.'s could not be uninterested in that stupendous event, the French revolution.—He caught the enthusiastic flow which warmed the breasts of the friends of freedom, while they beheld a mighty nation throwing off the fetters of despotism; and fondly hoped that the consequences of their exertions would be lasting peace, good order, and equal laws. He tuned the lyre on this bewitching theme, and proclaimed the praises of Freedom in a translation of an ode of Pindar, which found its way into the Mercurio Italico : a song intitled Millions be Free , and the famous poem, The Vine covered Hills which may be classed among the most finished compositions in the English language.
During the season of tumult and discord, which succeeded the attempt of the combined powers to reinstate, in the plenitude of its authority, the despotism of France (an attempt in which this country really to itself, too cordially united), Mr. R. was busily employed in writing the history of Lorenzo de Medicis. This work was begun about the year 1790.—It may be presumed that it has now passed through the ordeal of criticism: more than two years have elapsed since its publication. The literary world have had time to recover from the dazzle of surprise—and the buzz of ignorant applause, raised by the leaders of literary fashion is still. The sentence of sober judgment confirms the verdict which was pronounced according to the dictates of first impression. The liberal scemen of Parr has assayed the Life of Lorenzo, and has found it sterling gold. Its dignity and grace have shielded its author from the merciless mawk of the writer of the Pugnals of Literature ; and we may fairly presume that its rank is fixed among the most splendid ornaments of English literature.
The admiration with which the public have been affected by the perusal of this work is, no doubt, be increased by a knowledge of the circumstances in which it was composed. At the time when it was projected, Mr. R. lived at the distance of two miles from Liverpool, whither he was obliged daily to repair to attend to his business of his office. The dry and tedious details of law occupied his attention during the whole of the morning and afternoon; his evening alone he was able to dedicate to study; and it will be easily conceived, that a gentleman, surrounded
* Mr. Mathias.
by a numerous family, and whose company was courted by his friends, must have experienced, even at these hours, a variety of interruptions. No public library provided him with materials. The rare books which he had occasion to consult he was obliged to procure in London at a considerable expense. But in the midst of all these difficulties the work grew under his hands. In order that it might be printed under his own inspection, he established an excellent press in the town of Liverpool, and submitted to the disgusting toil of correcting the proofs. The history of Lorenzo de Medicis was at length published early in the year 1796.
Soon after the publication of his history, Mr. R. relinquished the profession of an attorney, and entered himself at Gray's Inn, with a view of acting as a barrister.
He took advantage of the leisure which the relinquishment of business afforded him to enter upon the study of the Greek language; in which, according to the report of his intimate friends, he has made considerable progress.
The public have, with concordant voice, called upon Mr. R. for the life of Leo X; and lord Holland and lord Bristol have with great liberality offered their assistance in procuring from Italy and other parts of the continent, whatever documents he might think it necessary to consult in the execution of so grand a design. The lovers of polite literature will be glad to hear that Mr. R. has actually begun this expected work; but such is the troubled state of Europe, that he is debarred, at present, from the use of materials which might be collected abroad.
In the course of his conduct, Mr. R. has uniformly maintained a character of simplicity, sincerity, and benevolence. He acts uprightly without effort. Ill-fated genius cannot plead his history as a precedent for irregularity of life; nor will his example sanction the herd of men of abilities, who deem their talents a licence to live in idleness, and prey upon the public. His resources are in his own exertions. He is, in every sense of the word, an independent man. Long may he enjoy the blessings which are the meed of virtue.
WASHINGTON-CITY, July 30.
REPUBLICANS!—TO YOUR POSTS!—UNITE.
The Editor of the Monitor pledges himself for the truth of the facts contained in the following extract; and he does so upon the authority of the writer and of the person to whom the letter was written. They are both gentlemen of respectability and unexceptionable veracity.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Maryland to his friend in Washington. "You ask me how the republican cause stands in this quarter? I answer never better than at the present moment, notwithstanding the unexampled efforts of the Federalists to get into power. I am told that they are forming small committees of vigilance in every neighborhood throughout this state; that those committees are to make regular reports to a committee of correspondence to be composed of persons in each county. By this arrangement, a chain of intelligence is to be extended from north to south of the union, so as to enable them to ascertain their actual strength with the utmost nicety. It should appear that they have a tolerable chance of success, they are to come out in full cry in favor of King and Pinckney, though I am not certain as to the order in which their candidates are to stand; indeed I am inclined to believe that that point is yet to be arranged. But if they find that neither can succeed, then their attention is to be turned to Clinton and Monroe; they will not boggle about either, though Monroe is their decided favorite. They say that he is nearly every thing that they could wish. There is, however, an idea that the northern states want the next president; and should Mr. Clinton's friends induce them to believe that whatever they (the federalists) fall short, he can make up, Mr. Monroe will be dropped.—The Embargo is to be played off with all the force that art can suggest: it is to be assigned as the cause of every calamity that has happened since its passage. The republicans of this state were never more united. Randolph's influence is so completely destroyed that it has scarcely left a wreck behind. Several of the most dispassionate Federalists are about to be denounced for having approved of the Embargo."
Thirty Dollars Reward.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber on the 23rd inst. a Negro Man by the name of HALLY, about 20 or 21 years of age, five feet 8 or 9 inches high, his complexion rather yellow, has a mole in each ear in which he generally wears a straw, also a scar on the lower part of his breast occasioned by a knife in an affray with another negro, he wears his hair plaited in several locks about his face; he is a shrewd, artful fellow, and will perhaps endeavor to pass as a freeman by the name of Harry Hall. I have reason to believe he will lurk about Petersburg, Richmond or City Point, where he was raised, as his parents are living near there. The above reward will be given to any person who will secure him in any jail so that I get him, or deliver him to me in Caswell county N.C. near the Red House. John Lea.
30th July, 1808.

It appears from various accounts from the North that Federal intrigue is exerting itself in every possible shape to diminish the popularity of Mr. Madison in the idle fancy that Mr. Pinckney may be elevated to the Presidential office.
A QUESTION TO POLITICAL JURISTS.
Has the king of Spain according to the hereditary monarchy of that country, a right to transfer that by deed which it has been contended he could not do by last will?
We would recommend it to our Brother Republican Editors to suffer the notorious apostate Cheetham to sink into contemptuous oblivion.
LAST ACCOUNTS FROM EUROPE.
It appears that the insurrection of the manufacturers in England becomes more general and alarming every day.
Humanity cannot forbear to drop a sympathetic tear at the miserable situation of these people, whilst indignation must rise in every bosom at the conduct of the British ministry.
FOR THE ARGUS.
TO THE EDITOR.
The great diversity and often contrast of honest opinion has scarcely ever appeared to me in so striking a light as on the subject of internal manufacture.
The poet Southey in his "letters from England" has given to the evils of the manufacturing system the highest coloring of which the subject is susceptible.
If the American merchant, when debarr'd from the particular trade in which he had been engaged has not yet become a manufacturer, it can be accounted for on other principles than those of individual unprofitableness or national utility.
In the vast chain of human events, and in the equally immense volume of human understanding, causes and effects are linked together; premises and conclusions are built upon each other.
* In Britain large tracts of country are reserved or laid waste for forests and parks, for the diversion of the great, and the lords of manors...
barous policy shall not deprive him of the pursuits of tillage, or turn his attention to manufacture, and supply his wants by traffic.
As the competition for the sale of labor and the purchase of food increases, those who supply the market with labor are induced to give a more assiduous attention and a more constant attendance.
War too has a vast effect upon the manufacturers of Europe. With the increase of their enormous taxes, the proportionable difficulty of subsistence increases also.
In the U.S. the price of labor is high and stationary. As long as this immense continent remains but thinly peopled, and its inhabitants are permitted to emigrate to any part of it or of the world.
The difficulty of subsistence can never in this country be so great as to induce us to destroy our health by eternal toil, or to murder our children by the premature imposition of tasks.
* It would be well if some forgetful writer would recollect they are not yet so, but only recommended to the attention of the legislature.
factories tell us to do with the nations of the old world; for to do it here, say they, would encourage monopolies.
War cannot affect our manufacturers as it does those of the old world; nor can fashion.
We are not burdened with a weight of taxes; this is a point in which we materially differ from the Trans-Atlantic states.
I have hitherto gone on the supposition that our intercourse with the other nations of the earth was still uninterrupted.
It has been objected that when the restrictions on commerce are removed, our manufactures will fall of course.
* We possess the raw materials for every thing essential to our comfort, except, perhaps, winter clothing; even with this article we can supply ourselves for a time, and perhaps permanently.
and perhaps permanently. Cotton is not so bad a substitute for wool as some imagine; many of the free white laborers in this country wear nothing else throughout the year.
The country which despises the productions of every other and looks to itself alone for food and raiment, for convenience and luxury, cannot be affected by the political relations of any other, but in the single case of a direct attack upon herself.
1st August, 1808.
FOR THE ARGUS.
To the Freeholders of the counties of Prince Edward, Charlotte, Buckingham and Cumberland.
FELLOW-CITIZENS, IT is with feelings of diffidence and reluctance, that I am induced to solicit your attention to a few observations.
But why has this gentleman, abounding in talents and knowledge, not condescended to furnish you with accurate statements of his conduct, and his reasons for it, that you might be correctly informed, and remain no longer under foreign influence?

Mount Comfort, FOR SALE. SITUATED on Rappahannock in the county of Essex, within fifteen miles of Tappahannock and about the same distance from Urbanna and King and Queen Courthouse and very convenient to the post-office at Montague's Tavern—there are upwards of one hundred and fifty acres of land attached to this seat, a considerable part of which is wood land and heavily timbered—The improvements are a dwelling house, forty feet by eighteen, a Kitchen, Smoke-House, Stable, Ice House, &c. on the Hill—And on the river bank, a store house, with a commodious Store and Counting-Room and an excellent Granary—all of which—except the Stable—have been recently built. Mount Comfort commands as good, if not the best view of the river of any seat on the Rappahannock, and the best fish and oysters may be had at the door with very little trouble—It is well calculated for a merchant, being in a populous and wealthy neighborhood, where it is believed five or six thousand pounds worth of goods might be retailed annually—it would also be a convenient stand for a professional character—I would either sell on credit if the payments can be agreed on, or exchange for other lands without improvements. For further particulars apply to Reuben M. Garside, or to
Carter Wood, Mount Comfort, if June 1, 1808 MATTRESSES OF ALL SIZES AND KINDS, MADE and repaired, agreeably to order, in the large wooden house opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the market bridge, Richmond. J. S. Pleasants. May 31, 1808 Joseph Marx & Co. Have on hand an assortment GERMAN OZNALENBURGS, TICKLENBURGS, DOWLASS, and TOWELLING, by the bale, box or piece. COGNAC BRANDY and MOLASSES. SACK SALT, coarse and fine. Which they will sell for cash, tobacco, or approved paper. Richmond, April 23, 1808. tf
I AM desirous to exchange the following property, or any part thereof, as may be agreed on, for a small tract of good land, in a healthy situation, with a dwelling house and other improvements, a good spring of water, and an agreeable neighborhood, at a distance of 30 to 100 miles up the country—To say for Houses in this city—Lands in Henrico county, joining the academy lands, and near this city—2,000 acres on Richland creek, in Lincoln county, Kentucky—1,000 acres on the waters of the Ohio, in Mason county—and two tracts of Military Lands on the river Tennessee, each 860 2-3 acres. Robert Mitchell. Richmond, Feb. 6, 1808. tf Gallego, Richard & Co. HAVING NO LONGER ANY CONCERN IN THE Columbian Mills, COMMONLY CALLED ROSS'S MILLS, Inform their friends and the public in general, that any WHEAT sent to them by water, from the upper country, will be received at THEIR MILLS ON THE CANAL: and any wheat sent them by LAND, will be received at a convenient lumber-house contiguous to their counting room. Richmond, July 11, 1808. 2m
TO RENT And possession given the first day of October next, The Tenement, OCCUPIED by Alexander Plainville, next door below Samuel Pleasants' Book-Store. For particulars, apply to WILLIAM COOK. Richmond, July 1, 1808. (11) Peter Guerrant, Plaintiff. AGAINST John Fowler and Jordan Harris, Defendants. BY virtue of a commission issued from the superior court of chancery for the Richmond district, in the above suit, I shall on the eighth day of next month, (August,) at John Anderson's tavern in New Canton, in the county of Buckingham, between the hours of 5 in the morning and 7 in the evening of that day, take the depositions of William Guerrant, Robt. Mosely and others, to be read as evidence in the suit in chancery, now depending in the said superior court of chancery, wherein I am plaintiff and you are defendants. Peter Guerrant. To Messrs. JOHN FOWLER, residing in Kentucky, and JORDAN HARRIS. July 4th, 1808. 4w
RICHMOND Turnpike Company. AT a meeting of the directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, on Thursday evening the 7th of July, 1808. Resolved, That all shares of delinquent stockholders in this company, be sold at the Swan Tavern in this city, on Monday the 15th day of next month, at 5 o'clock, P. M. without reserve, and that the same be published in all the newspapers of this city. Resolved, That a call of 5 dollars on each share of the stockholders in the company be made, to be paid to the treasurer on or before the 15th of next month. Teste, N. Sheppard, Clk. Richmond, July 10, 1808. 15A
ON Thursday the 8th of August next, will be offered for SALE, for cash, at John Anderson's tavern in New Canton, Five Negro Slaves, viz. Beck, Maria, Milley, Sam and Aggy, conveyed to the subscribers as trustees, by Col. Wm. Cannon, to secure a sum of money due by him, to Daniel Bagby and Robert Hill's representatives and others, as in a said deed expressed. As the subscribers are only trustees, they will convey only such title as they have by virtue of such deed. William Guerrant. Thomas Pittman. New Canton, June 25, 1808. 215
In Council, July 16, 1808. PURSUANT to an act of the General Assembly intituled an act, to amend an act for appointing Electors to choose a President and Vice President of the United States, It is advised that the following persons be appointed and commissioned in the respective counties, and corporations of Richmond, Williamsburg and Borough of Norfolk, for the purpose of executing the said law, viz. Accomack, Thomas M. Bayley, George Layfield and Parker Barnes. Albemarle, Nicholas Lewis, George Divers and Rice Garland. Amelia, Edmund Harrison, John Lane and Daniel Hardaway. Amherst, Samuel Meridith, Wm. S. Crawford and John Camm. Augusta, Chapman Johnson, Chesley Kinney and James Cochran. Bath, Samuel Vance, John Wilson and John Berry. Bedford, Jabez Lestwich, Charles Clay and Daniel Pegram. Berkeley, Joel Ward, Erasmus Grant and William Somerville. Botetourt, Martin M'Ferran, Charles Beale and Elijah M'Clanahan. Brooke, John G. Young, John M'Cormick and James Blair. Brunswick, Thomas Macklin, Philip Claiborne and Aaron Brown. Buckingham, Archibald Austin, Bolling Branch and Anthony Dibrell. Campbell, John Dabney, William J. Lewis and Thomas S. M'Clelland. Cumberland, William Daniel, John Hatcher and Charles Woodson. Caroline, Richard Hawes, George Buckner and William Anderson. Charles City, John Bradley, James Walker and John Christian. Charlotte, Joseph Wyatt, Williamson Price and William L. Morton. Chesterfield, Thomas Goode, Isaac Sall and Thomas Watkins. Culpeper, Moses Green, John Roberts and Aylett Hawes. Dinwiddie, Williamson Coleman, Archibald Thweatt and John Wilder. Elizabeth City, George Wray, Augustine Moore and Thomas Jones, jr. Essex, Tunstall Banks, James Webb and Threshley Reynolds. Fauquier, Augustine Jennings, Thomas Hunton and Richard H. Foote. Fairfax, Thompson Mason, George Summers and George Graham. Frederick, James Singleton, Henry St. George Tucker and William Castleman. Franklin, Henry Callaway, Moses Greer and Benjamin Cooke. Fluvanna, John Quiles, William Pasteur and Matthew P. Haden. Giles, George Pearis, Andrew Johnson and Thomas Shannon. Gloucester, Thomas Baytop, Richard Jones and William P. Byrd. Goochland, Nicholas M. Vaughan, James Carter and Archibald Perkins. Grayson, Martin Dickinson, John Fielder and Enoch Osborne. Greenbrier, Jas. Anderson, Oliver Towles and Ballard Smith. Greensville, Lewis Dupree, Joseph Wilkins and Francis Hill. Halifax, John B. Scott, Berryman Green and George Carrington. Hampshire, John Higgins, William Donaldson and Francis Murphy. Hanover, Nathaniel Pope, William Pollard and Thomas White. Hardy, John L. Schen, George Stump and Henry Judea. Harrison, Johnathan Ratcliff, George Arnold and William Bartlett, sen. Henrico, Major William Price, William Young (Brooke) and George S. Page. Henry, Joseph Martin, George Walter, jr. and Patrick H. Fontaine. Ist of Wight, Jno. Barber (Everett's Bridge) Emanuel Wills and Andrew Woodley. James City, Champion Travis, William Lightfoot and Robert Greenhow. Jefferson, Ferdinand Fairfax, Jacob H. Manning and George Hite. Kanawha, John Renfrew, Morris Hudson and Charles Venable. King & Queen, Anderson Scott, John Hoskins and William Fleet. King George, William Hoos, Theodosius Hanford and Lawrence Berry. King William, Walter Hawes, Hardin Littlepage and John Lord. Lancaster, Martin Shearman, William Gibson and William Kirk. Lee, Peter Fulkeron, Joshua Ewing and Hiram Craig. Loudoun, John Littlejohn, Armistead Long and Fleet Smith. Louisa, William O. Callis, John Poindexter and Henry Pendleton. Lynchburg, Waddy Street, Joseph Yarborough and Robert Chapell. Madison, Abraham Mundy, William Mallery and Benjamin Cave. Mason, William Owens, William Sterritt and John M'Culloch. Mathews, Hundley Gayle, Tho's Brooke and Levin Gayle. Mecklenburg, Abraham Keene, Thomas A. Jones and Grief Green. Middlesex, Thomas Muse, Thomas Healy, jr. and Richard M. Segar. Monongalia, William John, Benjamin Reeder, and William G. Payne. Monroe, John Byrneside, William Graham and Benjamin Hall. Montgomery, Daniel Trigg, Charles Taylor and James P. Preston. Nansemond, Lemuel Riddick, Fisher Dashiell and Richard Yarborough. Nelson, Landon Cabell, Shelton Crosthwait and Nelson Anderson. New Kent, William Chamberlayne, John Saunders and Edmund Parke. Northumberland, Thomas D. Downing, Hiram L. Opie and John H. Fallin. Norfolk county, James S. Matthews, Daniel Bedinger and Bernard Maginian. Northampton, Caleb Fisher, Hezekiah Pitts and Caleb B. Upshur. Nottoway, Francis Fitzgerald, Edward Bland and Peter Randolph, jr. Ohio, Thomas Evans (merchant, Wheeling) Joseph Tomlinson and John Morgan. Orange, Robert T. Moore, James Barbour and Belfield Cave. Patrick, Samuel Staples, Gabriel Penn and William Carter. Pendleton, Robert Davis, John Slavin and William M'Coy. Pittsylvania, Isaac Coles, William Tunstall and Joseph Carter.
Powhatan, Samuel Pleasants, James Poindexter and Frederick Woodson. Prince Edward, Peter Johnston, John Purcell and Thomas Green. Princess Anne, Lemuel Cornick, John Read and Tully Robinson. Prince William, John Bronaugh, James Kempe and Stephen French. Prince George, Thomas H. Cocke, George Ruffin and Miles Selden, jr. Randolph, Robert Maxwell, Nicholas Gibson and John Currence. Richmond county, Peter Rust, Ezekiel Levy and Vincent Branham. Rockbridge, James Caruthers, John Leyburn and Andrew Read. Rockingham, George Houston, Benjamin Harrison and Daniel Smith. Russell, James M'Farlane, Nathan Ellington and Harry Smith. Southampton, James Gee, Henry Trizvant and Griffin Smith. Spottsylvania, David C. Kerr, Hugh Mercer and Robert S. Chew. Stafford, Col. John Cooke, Hancooke Eustace and Travis Daniel. Surry, Nicholas Faulcon, James B. Edwards and Charles H. Graves. Sussex, Benjamin Wyche, William Massenburg and John Jarrett. Shenandoah, Philip Williams, Jacob Rinker and William H. Dulany. Tazewell, James Thompson, Samuel Bard and George Peery. Warwick, William Digges, Thomas Pescud and Matthew Wills. Washington, Francis Preston, Robert Preston and Henry St. John Dixon. Westmoreland, Alexander Parker, Samuel Templeman and Richard E. Parker. Wood, John Stockley, James G. Laidley and Thomas Tavener. Wythe, John Montgomery, John Stonger and Joseph Kent. York, William Howard, Samuel Shields and Peyton Southall. Richmond City, Alexander Quarrier, Benjamin Tate and John H. Foushee. Norfolk Borough, Richard E. Lee, Robert Beough and William Lindsay. Williamsburg, James Semple, Robert Anderson and Littleton Tazewell. Extract from the Journal. DANL. L. HYLTOM, Clerk of the Council.
25 Dollars Reward WILL be given for apprehending and delivering to the subscriber, or committing to jail, so that I get her, a runaway negro woman, named Ann or Annaca, Who eloped on Sunday morning last—She is a remarkable likely young mulatto woman, about 19 years of age, rather above the middle stature, more of a bright mulatto than otherwise, is uncommonly straight and well made; she has a full face, and when she speaks, seems inclined to lisp, though hardly obvious, and as if her tongue was too large for her mouth. She has a variety of clothes, and therefore it is unnecessary to attempt a description of them. It is uncertain where she will take herself, whether to Richmond or elsewhere. She has lived in Richmond in my tavern for several years, and has extensive acquaintance, having always been in a tavern. Parke Goodall. Hanover, 23d July, 1808. tf
BOARDING HOUSE. Mrs. Judith Nelson HAVING taken the tenement belonging to Mr. William Price, lately occupied by Mr. M'Craw, on the street leading from the capitol, has opened a BOARDING HOUSE, where she will receive gentlemen, ladies and children, to board and lodge by the day, week, month or year. She has excellent servants, and assures those who may become her boarders, that no exertion shall be wanting to give satisfaction. Richmond, 24th July, 1808. tf
Penitentiary Store. SHOES at the Penitentiary of the Penitentiary have been lately REDUCED, considerably below their former prices. D. J. BURR, Agent. 10th May, 1808. tf
NICHOLAS HALLAM, (NEAR THE SWAN TAVERN.) Is in hourly expectation of a further supply of the Best Philadelphia Leather, Which will be continued, and for sale, on equally good terms as heretofore. Wax and fair Calf Skins First quality Cossack boot legs do. do. Long, three quarter do. do. half, draft, calf skin and Cordovan, do. Calf and Cordovan roundings and binding skins Bridle and seat leather, &c. &c. Boots and Shoes. Nails of all kinds.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF WELL CHOSEN GROCERIES. Boots and Shoes made to measures at short notice, and rips mended gratis. A few thousand wt. of Hams and Middlings BACON. The above articles may be had low for cash, produce, or approved paper at short credit. August 2, 1808. 1awtf
Buckingham County, June Court, 1808. Thomas and Francis Deane, for the benefit of Archd' Womack, Plaintiffs, AGAINST John Francis, Silas Flournoy and Samuel and Drury M. Allen acting partners of Hughes Allen & Company, Defendants. ON the motion of the plaintiffs by counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendants, Drury M. Allen and Silas Flournoy, are not inhabitants of this state. It is ordered and decreed, that unless they shall appear here on or before September court next, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to them, and decree the matter thereof accordingly; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and another copy be posted up at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A copy, — Teste, H. ELDRIDGE, Jr. D. C.
By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is represented to the executive, that Henry Thacker, David Thacker and Elisha Thacker, late of the county of Louisa, and who were committed to the jail of the district court held at Charlottesville, charged with highway robbery, have escaped from the said jail on the night of the 19th instant; and whereas it is also represented to the executive that Reuben Marshall, late of the county of Albemarle, who was committed to the jail of said county, charged with maiming and putting out the eyes of Francis Tabalero, has also, on the night aforesaid, escaped from the jail of the said county of Albemarle: I have therefore thought fit, with the advice of the council of state, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of one hundred dollars each for apprehending and conveying to the jail of the district court aforesaid, the said Henry Thacker, David Thacker and Elisha Thacker. And I do also hereby offer a reward of one hundred and fifty dollars to any person or persons who shall apprehend and convey to the aforesaid jail of the county of Albemarle, the said Reuben Marshall. And to the end that the law may be duly executed, and justice administered by the punishment of such crimes as the cups aforesaid are charged with, I do moreover enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of this commonwealth to use their best endeavors to apprehend and convey to the jails respectively as aforesaid the said Henry Thacker, David Thacker and Elisha Thacker, and Reuben Marshall. Given under my hand with the seal of the (L. S.) commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 25th day of June, 1808. Signed, Wm. H. Cabell.
Henry Thacker is slender, about 25 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, very narrow faced, as are also the other two, all three being brothers. David Thacker is very slender, about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high. Elisha Thacker is also very slender, and perhaps about the height of David. Reuben Marshall is an active fellow, about 35 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, black eyes and light hair, and tolerably proportioned. He speaks quick, is impudent and subject to drink hard.
By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it appears to the executive from an order made at the October term, 1807, of the district court at Winchester, duly certified by the clerk of said court, that Jacob Ockerman, who was examined for murder in the county court of Shenandoah, and adjudged by that court to be tried in the district court, and entered into recognizance to appear in the said district court, on the first day of the term, and against whom the grand jury found a bill for murder, failed to appear, and is going at large; I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of the council of state, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of one hundred dollars to any person or persons, who shall apprehend and convey the said Jacob Ockerman before some one or more of the justices of the peace in and for the county of Frederick, in which county the jail of the said district court of Winchester is situated, that he may be dealt with as, in such cases, the law directs. And I do moreover enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of this commonwealth, to use their best endeavors to apprehend and carry before some one or more of the justices of the peace in and for the aforesaid county of Frederick, the said Jacob Ockerman, to be dealt with according to law. Given under my hand with the seal of the (L. S.) commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 19th day of July, 1808. Signed, Wm. H. Cabell.
By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it appears to the Executive by an inquisition taken before William White and James M. Williams, gentlemen, justices of the peace for the county of Pittsylvania, that an atrocious murder was committed on the 14th day of the present month, by a certain Gardiner Mays, late of the county aforesaid, on the body of Robert Wynn, who it appears was a deputy sheriff for the said county and in the execution of the duties of his office as such, when the said murder was committed, and that the said Gardiner Mays has fled from justice; I have therefore thought fit, with the advice of the council of state, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of two hundred dollars to any person or persons who shall apprehend and carry before some justice of the peace for the county of Pittsylvania aforesaid, the said Gardiner Mays, that he may be dealt with as directed by law. And I do moreover hereby enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of this commonwealth to use their best endeavors to apprehend the said Gardiner Mays, that such proceedings may be had against him as is prescribed by law. Given under my hand, with the seal of the (L. S.) commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 27th day of July, 1808. Signed, William H. Cabell.
N. B. Gardiner Mays is from 40 to 45 years of age, 5 feet, from 3 to 5 inches high, close, stout and strong made, particularly in the body, in which he is longer than usual for men of his height, his arms are stout, his thighs short and small compared with his body, his legs short and well proportioned, his face a little prominent, with strong full beard, his nose large, and a little swelling from the forehead to the end, where it appears quite full; on nice observation his eyes may appear rather nearer together than usual, and it is believed there is a small blemish in one of them, perhaps the left; his hair is dark colored and short; he has been bred to labor, and is of a complexion common to men of that description. Amongst his wearing apparel, is a blue common cloth suit, lined with red flannel; a Virginia cloth coat with black buttons, button holes and black silk cape, and a pair of white cashmere pantaloon and waistcoat. He occasionally carries a large butcher knife, under the breast of his coat, ground on the back to an edge, so as to represent the blade of a dirk.
Notice. ALL persons having claims against the estate of CHARLES F. BATES, dec. are requested to make them known, that provision may be made to meet them. Those indebted are earnestly solicited to make speedy payment, as it will be extremely unpleasant to be compelled to resort to coercive measures. Col. HEATH J. MELLOR is authorised to transact and settle all business relative thereto. Mary H. Bates, adm'x. Goochland, July 18th 1808. 8w
By virtue of a deed of trust executed by Samuel Liggon, on the 7th day of December, 1807, for the purposes therein mentioned, WILL BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, on the premises, for ready money, on Friday the 5th August 1808. Three Acres of Land, Adjoining the Fairfield race ground, in the county of Henrico, with all the improvements thereon consisting of a framed dwelling house, garden, fence, &c. being the same piece of land whereon said Liggon now lives. Also his household and kitchen FURNITURE, and the whole of his Carpenters' Tools, Or so much as will satisfy the trust mentioned.—The sale will take place between the hours of 10 and 2 o'clock. James Jenks, Trustee. Rockets, 25th July, 1808. (15d)
Richmond Tile Manufactory. THE subscriber having procured the exclusive right to manufacture in this and several other states Harwood's much improved Patent Tile for covering houses, and at considerable expense erected the necessary buildings, &c. for carrying on that useful business extensively, now offers to supply, at a short notice, any quantity that may be required, at the moderate price of Thirty Five Dollars per thousand, delivered at his factory. He can with confidence, founded on actual experiment, in the covering of about 20 houses in this city, assert, that houses can be covered with this tile as cheap in the first instance, as with shingles of the first quality, and when the security against fire, the difference of insurance, the durability and particular construction on these tiles to resist the most penetrating rains and snows are considered, he cannot doubt of meeting with considerable encouragement. It requires only the examination of a well covered roof to convince the most prejudiced mind of their superiority to any other tile heretofore made, or to the best slates, and will cost less than the latter, after paying the expense of water carriage to almost any part of this continent. Particular attention will be paid to orders from other towns, and in all cases where they are shipped, he will deliver them whole and sound, along side of the vessels, at the expense of cartage only to the purchasers. Any person skilled in the art of tiling, will put on those tiles with great facility, but where they cannot be procured, he can engage a few here who have had some experience, and will go a moderate distance, if the job is of sufficient magnitude and their travelling expenses paid. BENJAMIN DU VAL. Richmond, March 12, 1808. N. B. I wish to sell Patent Rights in several other states. wtf B. D.
20 Dollars Reward. Runaway from the Subscriber living in Halifax county, at the fork of Dan and Banister river, on or about the 23d day of August last, SIADRACK, a negro man slave, aged between thirty five and forty years. He is a sensible well informed fellow, is an excellent house servant, to which business and that of a groom he was principally applied for some time by capt. John A. Pawles his late master, previous to my purchasing him of his executors, which was only two days before his escape. His complexion is not entirely black, but yellowish, yet of the negro yellow: has a defect in the right eye which is nearly if not quite blind, occasioned by an inflammation, and both eyes generally show inflamed symptoms—he also has had an arm broken, but this will not be perceived without particular examination—has a bold, open appearance, is well made, about five feet six or seven inches high, as well as recollecting—a commonly complacent and conversable for a slave, and capable if he attempts it of much deception. He carried away with him a considerable variety of good clothes, a snuff colored cloth coat is particularly recollected, is very fond of dress, and it is expected will appear well as to that article and attempt to pass as a free man to effect which, it is probable, the indulgence afforded him by his late master and particularly the confidence placed in him in his last illness—was made use of to supply himself with cash—and that he has since procured from some evil disposed person false papers against which the public are cautioned in confiding. The above reward will be paid to any person delivering him to me, at my residence, or securing him in any jail so that I get him again as well as all legal and reasonable expenses. William Owen. January 4, 1808. w12p
Royster & Bohannan Have For Sale, at their Store near the Market Bridge, Richmond, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF Groceries, AMONG WHICH ARE— Brown Sugar in hds Whiskey by the bbl or and bbls tierce Loaf Sugar, in do French Brandy Best Green Coffee Salt by the Sack Imperial, and A quantity of excellent Young Hyson TEAS, Lard by the Bilk Chocolate, by the box A large assortment of Pimento Iron Castings, every Pepper description Ginger An assortment of Stone Rice Ware Mustard Queen's Ware W. I. Rum Soap and Candles by Jamaica do box N. England do Leiper's Snuff Molasses by bbl Writing Paper —Sherry and Malaga Wrapping do Wine Decanters Holland and Country Tumblers Gin Wine Glasses Spanish Segars by box Leading Lines or retail Bed Cords, &c &c &c Together with a number of other articles too tedious to enumerate—which they will sell low for cash, country produce, or approved paper in town. It is earnestly requested that those who have long standing accounts, will settle them immediately, as no longer indulgence can be given. 17 June, 1808. wtf.
Dampfleis, CARDS, HAND-BILLS, LAWYERS, CLERKS & SHERIFFS BLANKS, &c. ARE NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY PRINTED AT THE ARGUS OFFICE.

has laid an embargo, unconstitutional and injurious to the people, and advantageous to our enemies. He contends that the constitution says, that congress can lay no duty upon exports which will amount to a prohibition. Certainly congress cannot lay an embargo in which there is necessarily a prohibition included, and therefore it is unconstitutional.
But how long has it been since Mr. Randolph has made this capital discovery, that an embargo is a duty upon exportation, and unconstitutional, which no one else has been able to discover, and he but very lately. For if I have not forgotten his expressions last July, upon the affair of the Chesapeake, he then declared, that the president ought immediately to call congress and they ought to lay an embargo. And when congress received the president's message, recommending an embargo, Mr. R. was foremost in the lower house, in bringing forward a bill to lay an embargo. But strange! when there comes a bill from the senate, he has discovered that it is unconstitutional, that it is injurious to the people of this country, and advantageous only to our enemy, Great Britain.
He states, that one of the principal causes of difference between us and Great Britain, was the carrying trade; by laying an embargo we have shut up our own vessels in port, and given it up to Great Britain. Another subject of dispute is the impressment of our seamen. "We began," says he, to quarrel with Great Britain about impressing two or three thousand of our seamen. By laying the embargo, we have given up to Great Britain 60,000 of our seamen—they will go coast-ways to Halifax in Nova Scotia, and enter into the British service, they must have employment to support them, they are not like other citizens who can turn their hands to other employments for a support."
But what then should we have done? Why have laid such an embargo as was contemplated by Mr. Randolph? Why not an embargo upon all our ships and vessels and all the produce of the United States? "No," says Mr. R. upon our own vessels alone, and permit other nations to come and carry our produce." This certainly would be the acme of political wisdom. Now, where is the objection to the present embargo, that it will not bear with equal force, like the one proposed by Mr. Randolph? If the present one is unconstitutional, the one proposed by him must be unconstitutional also. If this is advantageous to our enemies and injurious to us, how much more would it have been so, if the embargo had been laid on our vessels alone? Then might he have said with propriety, "that the government of the United States had done more for the West India farmers than the parliament of Great Britain could have done for them."
"Now," he says, the United States are excluded from the carrying trade by their own act, and Great Britain being the only power at sea, she can carry the produce of her own West India Islands to her enemies, purchase up the produce of the islands at her own price, and carry that also, sell it at a better price than she could before the embargo was laid; for then, we being neutrals and not running the risks of war, could carry to her enemies the produce of their islands, and under the B. dish merchant."
This argument of Mr. R. is false and deceptive—for by the decrees of the French government, the British merchant is not permitted to carry to France nor her dependencies, and the small quantity of the West India produce that can be smuggled into the ports of France and her dependencies, will not raise the price and be an advantage either to the West India farmer, or to the merchant or carrier; and unless Great Britain can consume the whole of her West India produce, it must lie on the hands of her farmer or merchant. For since the decrees of France, and the embargo by the American government, there is no neutral power through which it can be sent to her enemy. Mr. R. admits that under the present prohibition of exporting our produce to the British West India islands, they have been subjected to some inconvenience and a small increase of price, that flour was about ten or twelve dollars per barrel before the embargo, and now it is only about twenty dollars. But suppose the embargo had been laid on our own vessels alone, would it not have been much more to the advantage of Great Britain and her West India farmers? She might then, being the only power at sea, bring the produce of her West India islands to us, sell it at her own price, give us as low a price as she pleased for our produce, carry that to the West Indies or elsewhere, and instead of flour being 20 or 30 dollars per barrel in the W. Indies, it would not be more than five or six dollars. Such an embargo as that, is just such an one as Great Britain would wish us to lay on, and continue eternally. She would have all the commerce and carrying trade of the whole world in her own hands—her ships coming into our ports daily, there would be a fair opportunity, and an inducement to our seamen to enter into the British merchant service—in fact, it might then be said by Mr. R. that we had given up the carrying trade, not only of other nations, but our own also, with our seamen. Mr. R. says the present embargo is a law only to "enable rogues to get rich at the expense of honest men." This would not have been the case, if it had not been for such men as Mr. R. who, in and out of congress, have been continually endeavoring to persuade the people, that the law is unconstitutional and injurious to the people of the United States, and as such, ought not to be that respect and obedience paid to it, as to the laws that are constitutional and advantageous. But what laws have ever been enacted, that have not been infringed and trampled upon by some unprincipled rascal or other, who have thought that it was his interest to break through them.
Suppose the law had been past to prohibit our own vessels alone from going to sea, would there not then have been a much wider field for "rogues to get rich at the expense of honest men?" There certainly would—for then the only thing that would be necessary for those men who are running so many risks in endeavoring to evade the law, would be to hoist a British flag upon an American vessel or take a licence from some British ship or vessel, lying in or out of our ports, under the various orders of council that have been issued, and the whole
of our trade would be carried on under British houses, or British authority, and we should be just thrown back upon the ground we stood upon in 1763, or much worse.
Instead of that we are now keeping our seamen, our property and resources in reserve, without giving up any of the points contended for. I have shown to you that the objects we had in view, would not have been answered, by the embargo proposed and contended for by Mr. R.—the preventing of our ships, property and seamen, from falling into the hands of the belligerents. But, on the contrary, it would have had an effect to throw all of them into the hands of one of the powers, and have been a certain loss to us, and, perhaps, embroiled us in a war with the other, from whom we had received the fewest insults and the least injury.
I observe further, that Mr. R.'s language and conduct, is strangely at variance. One day he would have the president call congress to seize upon Nova Scotia and Canada, make a descent upon Jamaica, go to war with Great Britain—and the next, he is for taking such measures as will throw us into a war with France, without any material change in our internal situation, or external relations.
Who is there in the United States that is acquainted with our situation, that could wish to go to war with Great Britain, take Nova Scotia and Canada, and make a descent upon Jamaica, and keep possession of them against her fleets and armies? Who is there that can seriously reflect on so ridiculous a project, that is acquainted with military affairs? Where are our arms, and where are our fleets ready to achieve such an enterprise? No, my fellow-citizens, it is not as easy a matter for the U. States to achieve such military exploits as these, as it is for Mr. R. to abuse the president and congress, and to challenge us, his constituents, to lay our fingers upon the part of his conduct that is reprehensible.
He may challenge us to "come forward and say, where, when and what part of his conduct has not been strictly according to republican principles;" but let him take the command of the army and navy of the United States, and shew us how, when, and what he would do with Nova Scotia, Canada and Jamaica. But, I fear, the enemy would be too contemptible; he would not disgrace himself so far, as to contend in the field of honor, with so base a nation, as G. Britain.
On the 5th of March, 1806, upon the floor of congress, Mr. R. very gravely and circumspectly said, "there were three points to be considered, before he could vote upon the non-importation bill," as though it was a war measure; "first, our ability to contend with Great Britain for the question in dispute—secondly, the policy of such a contest—and, thirdly, the manner in which we can re-act upon, and annoy our adversary."
Now, let us see how far Mr. R. is governed by these principles. On the 10th of November, 1807, he says, he would have invaded Canada and Nova Scotia, and made a descent upon Jamaica.
Ave! fellow-citizens, is this the circumpect Mr. Randolph of 1806? Where now, more than then, is the ability in the United States to contend with Great Britain? Have you a force equal to her's? One thousand vessels of war, well manned and equipped for service—a revenue sufficient to support them—an army on foot ready to march to Canada and Nova Scotia, equal to that which Great Britain has there, and can send there, in less time than you can march your military forces from their stations and homes. Have you no vulnerable points that Great Britain can attack and make a descent on; no seaport towns, no frontiers exposed to their fleets, colonies or Indian allies?
Let Mr. R. think of his old principles, before he finds fault of the president's tardiness and circumspection. He certainly is not one of those Politicians, who want a straight waistcoat, a dark room, water gruel and depletion? He is not going to take possession of Canada & Nova Scotia and take up the trade of catching beavers, racoons and opossums, and going into the sea to catch periwinkles and muce, to compel Great Britain to respect our flag, and pay the damages she did the Chesapeake—certainly he is not! He is not going to war with Great Britain to take her possessions on the continent of America and make descents on her West India Islands, to compel her to permit us to carry on the carrying trade for her enemies; to make her desist from impressing our seamen; to make her afford reparation for the wound inflicted upon the honor of the national flag? When France, with all the continent of Europe, with a great part of Asia and Africa at her heels, cannot compel her to respect her flag and do her justice, according to the laws of nations, I say Mr. R. cannot have been in his senses and serious when he said so in congress. If he was, he is not a proper person to represent forty six thousand "Independent and enlightened inhabitants." I can see nothing that our representative in congress has been uniform in for these two years past, but his opposition to, and abuse of the measures of the majority in congress and the present administration. If we approve of them, we cannot approve of his conduct.
If we continue these, or men of similar principles in the administration, we shall be inconsistent and absurd to continue to elect a man of contrary principles in the Legislature, who will from his own recent declarations and conduct continue to thwart and bring into ridicule and contempt, every measure proposed by those who agree in opinion with ourselves. But I trust fellow citizens you will concur with me in opinion upon the principles I first laid down, that a representative should correspond as nearly in interest, opinion, principle and policy as possible be obtained. And in the present perilous and trying crisis, I see no mode that we can pursue to effect the objects more nearly, than to have meetings of the people of the different Counties in the district, to consult, and fix upon such a character who may be found, to agree in as many of the essential qualifications as possible; and to unite ourselves in the support of him. The friends
of our present representative are active, united and influential, and will spare no pains or labour to obtain their candidate. If we who disapprove of him, of whom there are a very great majority in the district, should be divided between three or four different candidates, our adversaries will accomplish their design and we shall not be represented, who are the majority and ought to govern. It is immaterial how mean a garb truth and good policy is presented to you: I trust you will not therefore reject them; but will unite with me, in my efforts to promote the public good and the individual happiness of the people of this district. I am, fellow-citizens, one of you in the district. A FREEHOLDER.
DISTURBANCES IN ENGLAND.
We stop the press to insert the following Postscript to a letter, received by a gentleman in this city, from his correspondent in London, dated June 2, brought by the ship Thalia, in 48 days from Falmouth.
"The times are very bad here. The disaffection among the mechanics and manufacturers, has risen to an alarming height, particularly in Manchester and Birmingham. In these places the government has been obliged to call out the Military to disperse the different tumultuous assemblages. Numbers of the half starved inhabitants have been killed; but the tumult still continues—and the people cry for vengeance!" More in our next. Pub. Adv.
NEW-YORK, July 29.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
The ship Thalia, capt. Silliman, arrived at this port yesterday from Falmouth, from whence she sailed on the 8th of June. Capt. S. has very politely favored the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser with a regular file of London papers to the first of that month, our present selections from which are so comprehensive (comprising every valuable article they contain) as to leave nothing to add but what has been communicated to us verbally.
Capt. S. informs that a few days before he sailed about 10,000 of the inhabitants of Yorkshire, principally weavers, had assembled in a tumultuous manner on account of the high price of provisions, and to demand an increase of wages. The troops in the barracks and in the town were employed to quell the riot, and the people at length dispersed, but not until several of them had been killed by the military. It was said also, that 60,000 looms in Manchester and its neighborhood were without employment.
A small vessel arrived at Falmouth about the 5th of June from Bilboa, having on board three Spanish deputies who had come to solicit assistance in arms and clothing from the British government, in consequence of the revolution. They reported that every Frenchman found in the province of Biscay had been massacred.
No detained property had been condemned in any part of France. Captain S. is the bearer of dispatches from Mr. Pinckney to the Secretary of State.
LONDON, May 16.
Letters from Holland, dated the 9th inst. have been received. They confirm the previous intelligence relative to the restrictions upon American commerce by the French government. The following official notice contains the substance of the decree issued at Bayonne. It is strongly indicative of a rupture between France and the United States. The account ordered to be taken of the American vessels is, we presume, with a view to ultimate confiscation. The charge of having violated the embargo cannot apply in this instance, as that measure only took place nine days before the period from which the account is ordered to be taken:—
LETTRE DU CONSEILLER D'ETAT, 22 Avril.
"Orders of his Majesty the Emperor, issued at Bayonne, April 17, 1808.
"The American government having a general embargo in all the ports of the U. S. has suspended our commerce.
"All American ships shall in consequence be considered as from England, and put under sequestration.
"And further, there shall be sent to the counsellor of state, in order to be laid before his Majesty, a statement of all the American vessels which have entered our ports since the first of January, 1808."
Further accounts, we understand, have been received from Spain. According to these, the possession of the throne has been confirmed to King Ferdinand by Bonaparte. The deposed Monarch has been persuaded to withdraw his protest, and to make a formal transfer of his regal authority. The new sovereign has entered into a treaty with France to the effect we have already stated. There are a number of secret articles, which are supposed principally to relate to the marriage of King Ferdinand, and the future disposal of Portugal. France, it is said, has also stipulated for a settlement in the Spanish colonies in South America.
Bonaparte has created general Junot, Marquis of Abrantes.
By a gentleman who reached town on Sunday, from Bordeaux, we have been favoured with the following anecdote:—The Lady of Gen. Moreau arrived in this city, from America, in December last. No sooner had she set her foot on her native shore, than the servile municipality put her under arrest. This conduct proved, as these gentlemen had calculated, perfectly agreeable to Bonaparte, who immediately confirmed the arrest. His recent visit to Bordeaux was considered a favorable opportunity by the Lady, for entreating her release. She accordingly requested an interview, but in vain. His imperial Majesty was inexorable, and she remains in confinement.
Of the seven American ships detained by the French privateer at Alcantara, we learn that three have been released, not from the acknowledged illegality of their capture, but because they have paid a sum of money to the renegado who commands the privateer. This fellow has had the presumption to occupy that station, during the last six
months, and to lay every defenceless neutral under contribution.
The following was posted at Lloyd's this morning:
Extract of a letter from the master of an American vessel arrived from Cadiz.
"I received a note by a boat after I left Cadiz, stating that there was an order in town to detain all Americans in that port. I spoke a ship on the passage from London for New-York, masters name Howard, in company with a privateer which had captured her, and was conveying her to Bayonne."
This vessel was supposed on exchange to be the Science, Howard, from London for New-York, which sailed from London on the 19th ult.
The order for detaining American vessels has been extended to Portugal also. Two vessels of that country had arrived, which were towed out of the Tagus, on the 5th inst. to avoid an embargo, which was hourly expected to take place at that port. Great preparations were making there for the reception of Bonaparte. The palace lately occupied by the Prince Regent was fitting up for his reception.
It was currently reported yesterday, at the west end of the town, that all differences between this country and the United States had been adjusted by Mr. Pinckney and Mr. Canning.
An Algerine frigate and two smaller vessels have been cruising without the straights of Gibraltar, under pretence of looking out for American ships; but it is believed they will make prizes of all they meet without considering to what nation they belong.
The Island of Maderia has been restored to the Portuguese government. Our forces are to continue in the island. General Beresford is expected to return to England.
The Washington, Harding, has been captured off the Start, by a French row-boat privateer, and re-captured by the Sprightly Cutter and carried into Portsmouth.
May 18.
Very sanguine hopes are entertained that the propositions which were the subject of the late conferences between Mr. Secretary Canning and Mr. Pinckney will be accepted by the American Government. Ministers, it is said, have expressed their readiness to consider the United States in the light of the most favored nation, and to accede to an arrangement for allowing, under certain regulations, the produce of the enemies' colonies in the West Indies to be conveyed to the continent of Europe in American bottoms, without touching at a British port. The right of searching merchant ships of that country for British seamen, it is proposed to reserve for future discussion. These propositions have been transmitted by Mr. Pinckney to his government, in, as we understand, the fullest confidence that they will be accepted. The determination of the President on this interesting subject is expected by the latter end of July.
Extract from a letter, dated Oporto, May 4.
"Of the contribution levied by Gen. Junot, now Duke D'Abrantes, amounting to 40,000,000 of old crowns, the first payment, one third, has been enforced, and greater part paid in. The few British subjects (about 12 or 14) who remained here were at first imprisoned, but were enlarged after a few weeks confinement."
May 25.
The Dutch Papers contain intelligence from Copenhagen of the 8th inst. stating, that a battle was fought between the Swedes and Danes near Elverston, in which the Danes say they were victorious; and that a second action had taken place near the frontier, in which the Swedes lost 2000 men. It is probably an exaggerated account of the affair mentioned in Baron Armfeldt's report of the 23d of the preceding month.
The Gazette of Saturday contains an Order in Council, declaring, that in all places on the Continent of America, situated between the 10th and 30th degrees of N. lat. information shall be held to have been received on the 10th of February, of the Order in Council issued on the 11th of November. The line of coast here alluded to was omitted in the general notice given by the Order in Council of the 25th November.
May 26.
Hamburg papers to the 11th instant have reached us. They confirm the intelligence communicated in our paper of the 17th relative to what passed at the interview between Bonaparte and the merchants of Bordeaux. They mention that a reinforcement of 50,000 men was ordered for Spain, and that the French troops in Siberia and the Duchy of Bayreuth were concentrating, previous to their being marched for Italy.
The Swedish papers contain intelligence from St. Petersburg of the 9th instant. There has been a change in the Russian Cabinet, but it is not in favor of this country. Baron Budberg has resigned the office of Minister for Foreign Affairs, which is now filled by Count Romanzoff, one of the most ardent advocates for French connexion. Indeed, the Russian Cabinet, as now composed, is, to every great political purpose, as completely French as if the members had received their nomination from Bonaparte himself.
The American vessel Holland Erskine arrived in the River on Thursday from the Texel. She sailed from New York in January last, and was warned into our ports, but, after some time, obtained licence and proceeded to Holland, her original destination. She remained in the Texel sixteen days, during which time she was not allowed to have any communication with the shore, or to land any part of her cargo. She was, however, permitted to come out; a lenity in the government of that country for which we cannot account. Through the communication which the captain had with the Dutch commander, he learnt that the following American vessels were detained at Amsterdam on the 26th of May:—Elizabeth, J. Bartlett; Virginia, A. Crocker; Shepherdess, J. Nelms; Creole, J. Nolkirk; Mount Vernon, J. Owens; America, N. Laila; Monticello, Story; Sally, T. Frost, and Hannah, Taming. The following had been brought in by French privateers: Rising Sun, C. Birt; and Sally Ann, W. Nichols.
In the committee last night, in the House of Commons, it was agreed that the stoppage of the use of grain in the distilleries should take place, in England on the 10th of June; in Scotland on the 15th; and in Ireland on the 20th.
COCKPIT, WHITEHALL, May 26.
Before the most Noble and Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of appeals in prize causes.
Volunteer, Morris.—This vessel, under American colours with a cargo of hides, Nicaragua wood, and some dollars, sailed from Curacao for New York, and was captured on the 7th June, 1805, by the Leander, and carried to Halifax where she was condemned, on the ground of the breach of the blockade of Curacao—Sentence confirmed.
Globe, Atkins, master.—This American ship, laden with flour and vinegar, bound from Philadelphia, after having tried Barbadoes and other places, was captured by the E. K. on attempting to break the blockade of Curacao, and was carried to Jamaica, where ship and cargo were condemned, Sentence confirmed.
We are in hourly expectation of important intelligence from the fleet off Cadiz. Several vessels have arrived which passed through it on the 16th. The transports from Gibraltar were then with the fleet, having nearly 5000 troops on board. A Spanish officer of distinction had been twice on board the Ocean, and had each time a long conference with Admiral Purvis. The object of these was supposed, in the squadron, to relate to a proposal admitting a British garrison into Cadiz, and delivering up the French and Spanish ships of war on the terms we have already mentioned. It was understood that propositions to the same effect had been made to Sir H. Dalrymple, the Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar, by general Castaños, commander of the Spanish troops at St. Roch. The work of organization had begun most auspiciously. At Seville, between twenty and thirty thousand men were embodied. The whole country was ready to rise, and it was only necessary that some man of rank and talents should put himself at the head of the insurrection to render the situation of the French troops extremely doubtful. Their Number are said to have been much exaggerated. It was supposed they did not exceed in the whole 70,000 men, of which upwards of half were in the neighbourhood of Madrid. They are said to have lost 1200 men, killed and wounded in the affairs of the second. News had reached Cadiz, that Bonaparte had directed that Junta, or Council, to send immediately to him, at Bayonne, a Deputation, consisting of four Spanish Generals, four Counsellors of state, four Bishops, and four of the principal Grandees who are not in office, who re form a to Congress to deliberate on the state of Spain. The members will of course, be chosen from among those who are willing to submit to any arrangement Bonaparte may choose to dictate.
May 31.
This morning the bidders for the Loan waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Treasury and after some preliminary conversation, delivered to him their respective offers. The biddings, it will be recollected, were to be made in the 4 per cent. Consols, of which, for every 100l. sterling, the candidates agreed to take as follows:
  Sir F. Baring & co. £ 113 3 6   Curtis, Robarts & co. 118 18 0   Goldmids, 118 19 0   Walsh & Nisbet, 120 10 0   Barnes & co. 120 14 0 
The offer of Sir F. Baring and co. was of course accepted. The Loan, as soon as the terms were made known bore a premium of 2 per cent. The 3 per cent. consols opened at ten o'clock at 67 1/2, and by 12 o'clock had advanced to 68 1/4 for money.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, living near Richmond, a dark mulatto man, named JOHN, about five feet 6 or 7 inches high, of a good appearance, but grum look; he has a quantity of clothing of all descriptions. I suppose he is either in Richmond or Williamsburg, as he has a wife in both places, and he came from the estate of Col. Peacy, who resides in Williamsburg. Whoever will deliver the said fellow to me, shall receive five dollars, if taken in Richmond, and ten if out of the county of Henrico, or to Mr. John Poe, living with Capt. Tate.
Richard Brooke.
Richmond, 3d August, 1808. (4)
The public are hereby notified, that the land & per sonal estate, now in the possession of Mr. Richard Ripley, of Buckingham, belongs to the subscriber, after the death of the said Richard Ripley, by a deed duly executed by the said Richard, and recorded in the office of Buckingham county. I caution all persons from purchasing or contracting with the said Richard Ripley for any property, contained in said deed, which may be ascertained by an inspection of the deed in the office aforesaid, as I shall assert my rights, agreeable to the deed.
Reuben Chaudoin. Buckingham, 29th July, 1808. w2*
Ten Dollars Reward,
STRAYED or stolen from the subscriber on the 22d inst. a light bay Horse, about five feet high—He has a small white ring just above his right hoof, with two small scars on his neck, opposite each other—He had but three shoes on when he went away. Any person who will deliver the said horse to me here, shall receive the above reward.
William Byrd. Richmond, July 26.
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