Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1804-06-20 00:00:00

THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[VOL. XII.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1162.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1804.
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Advertisements, no exceeding a square in length, are inserted in this paper for seven-five cents the first time; three dollars for three weeks (6 times); and for every additional insertion thirty-three cents. Long ones in the same proportion—unless a special contract be made by the year.
FOR SALE, By Edward Hallam, At his Grocery Store, opposite the Swan Tavern. 500 Wt. excellent Salt Petre Bacon. Patent Shot, by the bag or 100. Madeira, Tenerife and Sherry Wines. Antigua, Jamaica and New-England Rum. Cogniac Brandy and Whiskey. Philadelphia Porter, by the bbl. 3 doz. each. Coffee by the bag—Molasses by the hid. Loaf & brown Sugar—Hyson & Imperial Teas. 9 by 11 and 10 by 12 Window Glass. Bar Iron, Irish Potatoes, &c. The above articles will be sold low for ready pay. April 28, 1804. wtf
FOR RENT, And immediate possession given, a Convenient Tavern, Pleasantly situated.
Land for Sale. I AM disposed to sell my tract of land in the county of Amelia, whereon I at present reside, containing 400 acres. It is advantageously situated on the north side of West creek, just above its junction with Deep creek. There is on this tract about 280 acres of cleared land, under good fences, and in good farming condition, the balance stands in woods and is of prime Tobacco quality. The creek, by which it is bounded on the south, has a considerable quantity of swamp land attached to it, which abounds with fine large timber of white oak, poplar, ash, &c. and is convenient enough to every part of the plantation to furnish rails without cutting any of the high land. There is also about 40 acres of first rate meadow land, which lies in one body, beautifully situated, and produces natural grass sufficient to winter one hundred head of cattle annually—about 20 acres of this meadow is reclaimed, and the balance may be put in the same situation with but little trouble or expense—it may be necessary to observe that no part of it is liable to overflow, over being a considerable distance from the creek, and sufficiently dry to produce either Tobacco or Corn. The improvements consist of a new dwelling house, 34 feet by 18, with a brick chimney at each end, 2 rooms below and 2 rooms and a passage above stairs, also a corn house, a smokehouse and kitchen, all of which are newly painted on the out side, tobacco barns, &c. Those who are inclined to purchase such property are invited to view the premises, which I presume will be a better recommendation than anything I can say. I will treat with any gentleman privately until the first day of July, on which day it will be sold at public sale, on the premises, if not previously disposed of at private sale. The terms will be one half cash when possession is given (which will be when demanded) and the other half in twelve months—to secure the payment of which a deed of trust on the property will be required. There is at present 120 bushels of wheat sowed on the best part of the plantation, which the purchaser may take, or not take; also 8 prime laborers, which he may have the balance of the year—Application to be made to the subscriber, on the premises. J. ROBERTSON. Amelia, 1st February, 1804. wtf
Twenty Dollars Reward, FOR apprehending the following Negroes. Broke out of Chesterfield county jail, on the night of the 3rd of May last, two Negro Men, to wit: one by the name of DIXON, the property of Mr. James Hollee of Buckingham county, about 25 or 30 years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, went off with a pair of spangles on, rather a bright looking fellow, very pleasing countenance when spoken to. The other is the property of Henry Winfree, living at the said county jail, by the name of LEWIS, about thirty years of age, very black complexioned, five feet six or seven inches high, has a very large nose, with a rife in the middle of it, the end of his little finger on his left hand has been cut off, and a scar over one of his eyes, I do not recollect which, a very pleasing countenance when spoken to by a white person, went away with a pair of spangles on. Also, on Friday the first of this inst. ran away a Negro Woman belonging to Henry Winfree, by the name of BETTY, the wife of the above mentioned Lewis; she is black complexioned, a very down look and flammers when spoken to, twenty five or six years of age, and five feet six or seven inches high, carried with her a child two years of age by the name of Sukey. Also, the same night, ran away a Negro Woman belonging to V. Winfree, by the name of Phebe, is about sixteen or seventeen years of age, has a will look when detected, and speaks very short and low, so that she cannot be understood, a very large breast, walks very upright, a short thick foot, her toes are all nearly of a length, about five feet five or six inches high, it is unnecessary to mention the clothing, for they took different dresses with them, which they will change. I will give five dollars for Dixon, delivered to me at Chesterfield courthouse, besides what the law allows—also, five dollars each for the other three, delivered to me at Chesterfield courthouse, or secure them or any of them in any jail in this state, besides what the law allows. All matters of vessels or any other persons are hereby forewarned from conveying or carrying said negroes away at their peril. VALENTINE WINFREE, jr. June 2, 1804. N. B. I expect they will be lurking about Richmond and up and down the canal. 175
For the information of the Freeholders of the State, the following correct list of the persons who compose the Republican Ticket of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, is published. The Election for Electors will be held in each county and corporation, on the first Monday in November next.
PHILIP N. NICHOLAS, Chairman. J. H. Foushee, Sec'y. Richmond, May 25th, 1804. wtf Richard Evers Lee, of Norfolk Borough. John Goodrich, of Isle of Wight. Edward Pegram, of Dinwiddie. Dr. Richard Field, of Brunswick. Thomas Read, of Charlotte. Creed Taylor, of Cumberland. William H. Cabell, of Amherst. George Penn, of Patrick. George Wythe, of City of Richmond. John Taylor, of Caroline. Larkin Smith, of King & Queen. John Minor, of Spotsylvania. William Elzey, of Loudoun. William Dudley, of Warwick. Mann Page, of Gloucester. John Taliaferro, jr. of Prince George. Richard Brent, of Prince William. Hugh Holmes, of Frederick. James Dailey, of Hampshire. James Allen, of Shenandoah. Archibald Stuart, of Augusta. James M. Farlane, of Russell. Gen. John Preston, of Montgomery. William McKinley, of Ohio.
REMOVAL.
WILLIAM D. WREN, COACH AND HARNESS MAKER, Begs leave to inform his friends in particular, and the public in general, that he has removed his shop to the place formerly occupied by Greaves, Holton & Greaves, coach-makers, and opposite the Governor's, where he will continue to carry on his business in all its various branches. W. D. WREN returns his thanks to his friends generally for the encouragement he has hitherto met with, and hopes that by his assiduity and steady attention to business, to merit their further patronage. He can also assure them that he has on hand, a large quantity of well seasoned timber, which (with the assistance of some of the best workmen in this state) will enable him to furnish carriages of the best quality, and on the shortest notice, with punctuality. N. B. W. D. W. is in daily expectation of a large quantity of COACH LACE, which, with what he has on hand, will make a general assortment, suitable for country coach-makers. As he receives it direct from the manufacturer, he will have it in his power to sell at very moderate price. March 16, 1804. wfm
At a Court continued and held for Albemarle county, the ninth day of May, 1804. Richard Harrison, plff. Against Claiborne Sandidge and Jesse White, defts. In Chancery.
The defendant Claiborne Sandidge not having entered his appearance according to law and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the said Claiborne Sandidge is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth: It is ordered, that the said Claiborne Sandidge do appear here on the first day of the next August term and answer the bill of the complainant; and that a copy of this order be inserted in some newspaper published in this state, and continued for two months successively, and that another be posted at the front door of this courthouse. A copy—Teste, JOHN NICHOLAS, Clk.
By virtue of a Decree of the Court of the United States for the 5th Circuit in the Virginia District, bearing date the 3rd day of December, 1803, in behalf of John Glassell, against William Walker, James Walker, Merry Walker and John Walker, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at Kenhawa courthouse, on the 24th day of August next, the following TRACTS OF LAND, viz:—One granted to Wm. Walker on the 3d of May 1786, containing 112 1/4 acres on Elk river, a branch of the Great Kenhawa, about 6 miles from the mouth, opposite to a survey made for Leonard Cooper and Wm. Morris, at the mouth of the Sciona creek that empties into Elk on the south side—One other tract granted to said Wm. Walker on the 26th May 1788, containing 500 acres, on the head waters of the left hand fork of a creek emptying into Elk river on the north west side at the shallow ford, about 4 or 5 miles from the mouth of said river, adjoining a survey made for said Walker—One other tract granted to said Wm. Walker on the 26th May 1788, containing 770 acres, on Elk river, on the south east side, about a mile from its mouth—One other tract granted to said Wm. Walker on the 27th of May 1788, containing 200 acres, on the north side of Elk river, the third bottom above the mouth of Sandy creek—One other tract granted to said Wm. Walker on the 27th of May 1788, containing 100 acres, on the north side of Elk river, the fourth bottom above the mouth of Sandy creek on the same side of the river—One other tract granted to said Wm. Walker on the 26th May 1788, containing 1000 acres, on a left hand branch of a creek emptying into Elk river, on the north west side opposite to the first island on said river—One other tract granted to said Wm. Walker on the 26th of May 1788, containing 200 acres, on the south side of Elk river, the third bottom on the river above Wm. Arbuckle's land, opposite the mouth of Sandy creek.
The whole of the above mentioned land at the time it was surveyed lay in the county of Greenbrier, all of which will be sold, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to raise the sum of four thousand one hundred and ten dollars 38 cents, with interest on dollars 2798 78, at 5 per centum per annum, from the 22d March, 1799—the costs of suit and carrying this decree into effect. BEN. MOSBY, Acting Commissioner.
A FRESH SUPPLY OF CHURCH'S
Patent Medicines, Is just received and for sale at this office—including Cough Drops, Peßoral Pills, Eye Salve, Cordial Restorative Balsam, Essence & Extract of Mustard, Antiseptic Liniment, Volatile Tincture, Herb Tobacco, Aromatic Snuff, Peppermint Lozenges, Botanical Tea, James' Powders, warranted Tooth Powder, &c. &c. &c.
Having deputed my son
SAMUEL RICHARDSON, jun. to transact all my business, relative either to the estate of John Ellis, dec. to whom I am executrix, or my own individual concerns—This is therefore to notify all persons, that any act of the said Richardson, jr. relative to the above business, shall be obligatory on me. All persons having any unfulfilled transactions in which I am, in any capacity, concerned, will therefore oblige me to make application to him. BETTY ELLIS. Hanover, June 2d, 1804. w34
The famous high-blooded English horse,
HAMBLETON,
Bred by the Duke of Grafton, a beautiful bright bay, near sixteen hands high, of high form and elegance, rising thirteen years old, in good health and great perfection, imported last spring by William Lightfoot, Esq. of Charles City county, and now his property, will stand the ensuing season at the subscriber's, in Charlotte county, five miles below the courthouse, and three from Boulton's old stores, to cover mares at Six Guineas the season, for which a note will be required, dischargeable by the payment of Twenty Dollars, at any time before the 10th of August next, when the season will expire, with One Dollar to the groom for each mare, paid at the stable door. Good and extensive pasturage, well enclosed, with a creek and branches running through, the flat land affording as good forward pastures as any in this part of the country. Servants that may be sent with mares will be boarded without charge, and mares fed, if required, on reasonable terms. The utmost attention paid and care taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible for any that may happen. HENRY LESTER. March 5, 1804. wtf
PEDIGREE.
HAMBLETON was got by Dunganon (one of the best sons of O'Kelly's famous Eclipse, who was esteemed to be the best horse of his day, and covered at fifty guineas,) his dam by Snap, sister to Jupiter, bred by Mr. Cross 1773—her dam (young Marske's dam) by Blank, Stirling, Miss Magnet, by Partner, Greyhound, Curwen, Bay Barb, Lord D'Arcy's Arabian, Whittleshi, old Montague mare. Thus it appears he descended from the best running stock in England.
PERFORMANCES.
This horse ranks very high as a racer, both for speed and bottom, as he proved successful in twenty races before he left the turf, four of which he walked over, none refusing to start against him. In 1794, at Hambleton, Yorkshire, on Wednesday May 14th, he won a sweepstakes of ten guineas each, for 3 year olds, six subscribers, two to wit, beating Mr. Bethell's b. f. by Magnum Bonum, Pierce's b. f. by Young Marske, Turner's Confederation, and Craddock's ch. c. Leicester. At York he won 50L for three year olds, beating Lowther's b. c. Griffin, Crompton's ch. c. Ambush, Sheppard's Madcap, Clifton's ch. c. Cedar, and Garforth's ch. c.—even betting on Ambush against the field. At Manchester in June, he won 50L for three year olds, two mile heats, beating Foreigner and Loyalist. At Stockton September 20th, he won a sweepstakes of twenty guineas each, five subscribers, then Sir H. Williamson's property, formerly Mr. Hutchinson's, beating Highflyer, out of Wm. and Turner's Delpine.—In 1795, Hambleton won five times to wit—a handicap plate of 50L two mile heats at four years old, beating Insect, Blacklegs, and Watkins' b. c. five years old. At Edinburgh July 20th, he won his majesty's plate of 100 guineas—four years old, four mile heats, beating Pysbald—and on the 23d walked over the ground for 50L all ages—and on the 24th 50 guineas for all ages, four mile heats, beating Gregson's b. h. Archer, 6 years old, Mr. Peacock's ch. g. Farmer, and Mr. Wilson's Creeping Kate. At Dumfries in October, he won 50L beating Lord Darlington's b. m. Constant.—In 1796, Hambleton won at Kelso, 5th of October, a purse of 50 guineas, beating Mr. Bailer's Black Cock.—In 1799 he won eight times, to wit—at Middleham, in Yorkshire, a sweepstakes of 10 guineas each, five subscribers, 3 mile heats, beating Merry Lad and Arthur.—At Edinburgh on Wednesday the 26th, 50 guineas for all ages, beating Eliza Fox and Betsy. On Friday 28th, the ladies subscription purse of 50 guineas, beating Fletcher's Jane. At Montrose in Scotland, August, he walked over the ground for a 50L plate—and also walked over the ground for a subscription of 50L. At Kelso, October 16th, for a plate of 50 guineas, he walked over the ground—and also his majesty's 100 guineas given to the Caledonian Hunt, for any horse, &c. carrying 12 stone, four mile heats, then six years old, he won against Mr. Wentworth's Trimbush, Piermont's Trummer aged, and Kimcail's Hektor aged—and Saturday following a purse of 50L given by the Hunt, free for any horse, &c. beating Farewell and Rolliker. At Carlisle he won 100 guineas of Mr. Sitwell, beating his b. f. by Meteor.—In 1798, he won at Edinburgh, August, 50L for all ages, beating Maxwell's Arab, and Mr. Maule's Hippopotamus.—At Montrose he won a plate of 50 guineas, for all ages, beating Pitforth and Contractor. See the Racing Calendars for the foregoing years. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT.
For Sale at S. Pleasants, jr's. Book Store, Richmond;
LETTERS
FROM HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, TO ARTHUR YOUNG, ESQ. F.R.S. AND SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, BART. M.P. Containing an account of his husbandry, with his opinions on various questions in agriculture; and many particulars of the rural economy of the United States. A NEAT ASSORTMENT OF Morocco Pocket Books Is just received and for sale at this office.
Scheme of a Lottery,
For the benefit of WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE.
  FIRST CLASS.    8000 Tickets at 10 dolls. 80,000  2 Prizes, dolls. 10,000 20,000  60 of - 500 30,000  2,000 of - 15 30,000  80,000  Subject to a education of 15 per. ct. 12,000  Expense of drawing, 2,000  Dollars, 10,000  First Ticket drawn, Dolls. 500  Last drawn, 10,000  1 other Prize of 10,000  59 other Prizes of 500 dolls. 29,500  2,000 of 15 dollars, 30,000  Dollars, 80,000  
All tickets drawn blank may be renewed in the next class, at 10 dolls. each; the price of all others will be 15 dolls.
All prizes of 15 dollars may be renewed for the next class, or paid, at the option of the person entitled. If they be not claimed within three months after the drawing commences, they will be considered as renewed in the second class.
The drawing to commence in the city of Williamsburg, on the 1st day of June, 1804, under the management of James Madison, John Bracken, William Nelson, Robert Greenhow, Burwell Bassett, Robert Saunders, Samuel Tyler, Chapman Travis, William Lightfoot, Littleton W. Tazewell, George Tucker and James Sempie.
SECOND CLASS.
  5,938 Tickets at 10 dolls. 59,380  4,685 ditto at 15 dolls. 70,275  129,655  Deduct loss on 2,062 tickets renewed at 2 1-2 5,155  Dolls. 125,155  2 Prizes of 20,000 dolls. 40,000  2 ditto of 10,000 dolls. 20,000  3 ditto of 5,000 15,000  50 ditto of 1,000 50,000  1 ditto 155  125,155  Deduct 10 per cent. 12,500  Expenses of drawing, 2,500  Dolls. 10,000  Ticket first drawn, Dolls. 1,000  Ticket last drawn, 20,000  One other prize of 20,000  Two ditto of 10,000 20,000  3 ditto of 5,000 dolls. 15,000  49 ditto of 1,000 49,000  1 ditto 155  Dollars 125,155  
TICKETS
May be had of George Tucker, Thomas Taylor, and Samuel Pleasants, jr. in Richmond; Robert Birchett, and Watkins Leigh, Petersburg; Thomas Newton, Dr. Barrand, & Littleton W. Tazewell, Norfolk; Hugh Mercer, Fredericksburg; Henry Tucker, Winchester; Chapman Johnson, Staunton; and in all the towns in Virginia, and in many places in the country.
The Celebrated English Stallion,
DRAGON,
Late the property of his grace the duke of Bedford, and sire of Squalator, Tarantula, Jenny, Spinner, Creeper, Phoenix, Hospitality, &c. will stand the ensuing season, near Farmville, at Ten guineas and a dollar to the groom for each mare. The season will commence the first day of March next, and end the 1st day of August. Following extensive pasturage of superior quality will be furnished gratis, and the greatest attention paid, but no responsibility for accidents or escapes. The money will be expected for the season of such mares as are pastured before they are removed, and notes sent with those that are not to be left with the horse, payable the 1st of August next. Apply to RICHARD KNOWLES, Agent for John Randolph. Bizarre, Jan. 13, 1804. 2w
P S Farmville is 8 miles below Prince Edward courthouse, and 35 from Cartersville. Mares fed if required.
Among the numerous feats of this extraordinary horse the following instances of his prowess are selected. He beat Precipitate (both 4 years old) for the Claret Stakes of 200 guineas each, equal weights, over the Beacon course (4 miles and 338 yards) six to four on Dragon. Six others paid forfeit. This was one of the fairest races ever run in England.
He walked over for the jockey club plate, 4 miles. He beat Chanticleer (who also beat Precipitate) over the Beacon course (4 miles 338 yards) for one thousand guineas, equal age & weights, five to four on Dragon.
He beat Chanticleer again, and two others (fifty guineas each) 4 miles, five and six to four on Dragon, against the field. At five years old, carrying 140 lbs. he beat two capital six year old horses (Creeper and Piper) carrying the same weight, for the win and 200 guineas each, Beacon course, six to five on Dragon against the field.
At the same age (five) carrying two hundred and ten pounds each, he beat Chuden (six years old) over the Beacon course (four miles 338 yards) for three hundred guineas.
He also beat Palafax, Cormorant, Lance, Toss, Jerico, Asparagus, Sir Charles, Easterns, Esca, smother, spendthrift, Spearman, Laurels, &c. &c. and received forfeit from Spearman, Lais, and Swan.
At 3 years old he beat Seagull, 4 years old, for 200 guineas across the flat. 6 to 5 on Dragon.
He won a sweepstakes of 300 guineas each, beating Asparagus and Sir Charles.
At 4 years old he won the Claret stakes, &c.
A BY-STANDER DISSECTED.
Richmond, June 15th, 1804.
MR. PLEASANTS,
HAD the celebrated Locke, with all his ability and skill in the analysis of the human mind, attempted to have given us an account of that part of a person, half-formed into a lawyer; it is believed, he would have been much puzzled, if not entirely baffled in the undertaking. The obscurity, the distortion and absurdity, into which the ingenuity of such a person is ever doomed to throw every subject he attempts to handle, reduces it invariably to that awful depth of unfathomable profundity, which no powers of security, however piercing, are completely capable of penetrating. Besides this bewildering quality of the mind of such an one, there is a habitual, nay even a proverbial, if not a hydrophobia aversion arising elsewhere, to every thing like the pure and limped streams of candor, honesty and truth. If, indeed, as the inimitable Junius has supposed, that the indiscriminate support of right and wrong, produces effects the most unfavorable on both the heads and hearts of the most virtuous and wise of that profession; what must be the melancholy situation of the most vicious and weak? Especially in those cases where they are immediately employed to view and advocate one side only! Certainly, not the most impartial and accurate statements of such cases, are to be expected from such heads and such hearts.
With these undeniable, preliminary truths before our eyes, permit me now to examine, as far as can be understood, into a late production in your paper from Albemarle, under the signature of a "By-Stander." And in doing this, I claim it from your impartiality and independence as a printer, as well as from your candor and justice as a man, to afford to one the same free and unrestrained means of defence, that you have given to another, in a most wanton and unjustifiable personal attack. Should any compensation be necessary, further than the satisfaction of rendering to your readers, full and ample information on a subject you have thought of sufficient importance to give them a view of in part, and further too than the common support which one subscriber contributes towards your establishment with every other, such compensation will be readily afforded. But let me not be told sir, after such an invidious and bitter string of charges, of "falsehood and calumny," as have been exhibited in your paper against such subscriber, that the just report of a full proof of those very crimes, are inadmissible in the same print. Permit me, in anticipation of such an objection to recall to your recollection, in the first place, the very out-set to this very wonderful production of this Solomon of the law.
"In the Washington Federalist of May the 18th," says this pretended By-Stander, "a person well known here, has undertaken to give a report of an action at law, lately tried in the district court of Charlottesville, wherein the President of the United States was plaintiff, and one Johnson, defendant:—From which he refers, by way of note, to the author of the "Ghost of Fame, Americanus, &c. &c. whose labors," he says, "have gone to the family vault of all the Capulets." Whether the person alluded to, was the author of the report of that case, or what has become of all his other labors, I shall not condescend to stop here to answer: I cannot, however, forbear from congratulating the person thus wittily alluded to, that in all the bitterness and malignity of his powerful, wise and important enemies, who revolve immediately around the GREAT LUMINARY of political information, they have been thus far merciful, to bring forth nothing more frightful than this poor hackneyed ghost, who we have never yet been informed was calculated to injure, even the most helpless woman or child, of the most nervous or superstitious sensibility. If there be any thing of a criminal or perfidious nature in this old story, why light up the useful information so often, and then hide it under a bushel? Why not let it out in the full nakedness of all its deformity? That it was a juvenile performance, which would prove the author as unintelligible and lame in poetry, as the By-Stander is likely to become celebrated and renowned in prose, from his present production and the one in which Mr. Baker gave so good an account of him in the Washington Federalist, (if I mistake him not) will be readily conceded. If it be any thing more, I hope we shall have a full explanation of it, for the good of the public. Let us know, sir, whether it be made up of a forgery of letters, of perjury, or of a breach of confidence, through one of the most sincerely pretended bosom friends; in destruction of one of the most sacred and endearing of human connections; or whether it be composed of a Robespierrian agency, of an assassin like penetration into the miserable dugs of a prison, for ease of the most atrocious and horrible of all bloody purposes! If so, then let this miserable ghost

be dragged fully out to public view, and meet its long merited punishment. But if in the great delicacy, and tender friend- ly forbearance, of this very liberal and candid By-Stander, he should have hereafter to behold a full display of these things, in all the magnificence of their real infamy of character, he will then be so charitably good also, as to remember, what very wise and able advocates of such characters, have thus raised them up from the ashes in those family vaults, where it would be better for some others as well as the author of the Ghost of Fame and Americanus, that their labors should have been forever in silence buried.
But, waving all this very unprofitable and uninteresting part of the subject for the present, I come next to the main objects of the By-Stander's publication; from which, I make no doubt, Mr. Pleasants, you think you have been too long and too minutely detained already. In the commencement of this part of his publication, he says much about the "falsehood and malice" of the statement in the Washington Federalist; but in all this, I beg you to observe, he contents himself with general assertions. He does not descend to mention one specific error, whereby the writer of that statement might have been enabled to deny, or even acknowledge and correct it; but goes on to make a new statement of his own, from facts, in some instances existing in other causes, but for the most part which have an existence no where but in the most premeditated and palpable design to deceive, mislead or confuse the public attention, to a public and penal prosecution, which he calls an entire private affair; and, to give it which appearance, he blends it with two private suits in Chancery, not yet decided.
That those two cases and the penal action still pending against Sneed, for selling the land in dispute to Johnson, were not made a part of that first statement, will readily be acknowledged; and "the impropriety of provoking a discussion in any case existing before a court of justice," mentioned by the author, gave them what ought to have been, not only a sufficient reason, but a proper example. Inasmuch, however, as it is highly improper in the friends of one party in court, and that too an influential and powerful party, to endeavor to prejudice the public mind, or interest the feelings of such court (if it were possible to enlist such feelings by the coarsest flatteries) against the other party, made up of indigent and almost entirely helpless and friendless, private individuals; it becomes the duty of every honest and impartial man to lend his aid in warding off, in time, such premeditated and improperly conducted efforts, to destroy such individuals. Lugged thus then, into those actions in chancery, which this mighty By-Stander makes the bulk of his great champion's brilliant merits, in this very noble endeavor to ruin two of his poor and ignorant neighbors; let us examine a little what is to be extracted from these sources.
In the first place, the By-Stander tells us, that the 100 acres of land in dispute, was "sold by Peter Jefferson, the father of the plaintiff, to James Spiers;" and goes on to insinuate that the title had been withheld by the plaintiff contrary to his father's will, on account of the non-payment of the purchase money: whereas, the fact is, the miserable spot, then scarce by aught anything, was universally understood to have been a free gift to James Spiers by old Mr. Jefferson, who it is not denied, but admitted, was a benevolent, worthy and neighborly man; such a one as would not himself have taken so miserable an advantage of two indigent persons for so paltry an object.* But even admitting the land to have been a purchase, every body but so superlatively able and profound a lawyer, as the By-Stander himself, would have supposed, that the clause itself in old Mr. Jefferson's will, of so long standing, would have exonerated Spiers and his heirs, at least by this time, from a charge of that sort, without an actual counteracting and attested obligation from under his hand and seal—After so barefaced a misstatement in so material a point, what is to be expected from such a very candid, impartial and disinterested a corrector of errors, whenever he travels out of the actual testimony in this case, and endeavors to move on the very uncertain and slippery ground of his, or his interested informer's, own bare assertions? Nevertheless, we find the whole other residue of his hopeful, and very correct statement, made up from one of the parties' own narrations in the cause; and in two other material points, his positions are as unsustainable as in the one just spoken of.
The payment of back quitrents and taxes are made another excuse for this noble and laudable "procedure" against Johnson and Sneed. This, it is true, is a subject spoken of by one of the parties himself in the course of these causes; But every body knows, that receipts which might easily be produced, are the best evidence that the nature of that case will admit of. These, I believe, have never yet been produced: But even admitting that they had, how in all that is wise and wonderfully learned in the law, is Spiers and his heir's neglect to pay the taxes on the land, to vitiate Sneed or Johnson's title either in equity or law, who owed none of those ancient arrearages?—Again, another excuse is set up for this business, on
* As is fully proved by his charitable leases to his poor neighbors, spoken of by the By-Stander himself.
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the score of a most violent fraud or attempt by Sneed to circumvent the other party in his honest and fair route to complete his title in this land; by buying William Spiers' right, after he had notice that Mr. J— had bought of John the son of the said William. On this fact, I will very readily admit, depends much, not only of the equity, but the propriety of the whole proceeding, as it relates to Sneed: But let us see, from the real history of this whole business, how this leading fact stands.
By the papers filed in this suit of chancery, (a copy of which was hauled across the bar on the trial of the case in Charlottesville for the inspection of all we are told) it appears, that Mr. Jefferson bought the right of John Spiers, the son of William, and that too, strangely to be told, though it is positively proven, after he had attempted to employ this very same John to go to the Southward to buy him his said father William's right: under a pretence in this same John, that he had a deed some years before from his father, which was lost, but which, wonderful to account for, it does not appear, he ever mentioned at the time of the propositions to procure his father's right. This lost-deed business, however, it is owned, is sworn to by one witness, who says he subscribed it; but disowned by others, to whom he refers as subscribing witnesses also. All the circumstances are sworn to by John Spiers and his wife, to whom, it will not be pretended on my part, that Mr. Jefferson has not paid the purchase money. Sneed, notwithstanding these circumstances (if he knew them) purchased William Spiers' right, obtained a deed and had it recorded in due form and time. Thus stands the history of the fraud on the part of Sneed.
I will now ask what the law says on this subject? That every deed, to be valid against subsequent purchasers, shall be recorded within eight months after its date. This is the legal notice required to such purchasers. And in equity (Mr. Jefferson purchasing with his eyes wide open to this legal difficulty) stands upon no better footing than Sneed himself; who, if he had even heard of this lost deed, had good reason, from the circumstances already related, to doubt that it had ever existed. But even admitting, for argument sake, that Sneed was the fraudulent purchaser spoken of, how is Johnson, who purchased at second hand, implicated in that fraud? And, above all, how do all those circumstances (which will certainly be rectified in a court of chancery, and Mr. Jefferson obtain his right, whatever it is) justify the President of the United States in standing forward as the public prosecutor of two of his poor neighbors in a way that was intended to ruin them forever? If his right is so clear and just as the By-Stander makes it, I contend that it is so much the more unjustifiable in him, particularly in the exalted station he fills, to have taken such a method to maintain it.
I would here willingly quit this subject, but cannot, properly, without saying something to this most noble and glorious By-Stander, on the encroachments he has passed on the jury who tried the case in Charlottesville. I had been led to believe, that the trial by jury was held as the very highest and purest source of justice by such flaming patriots: But when those institutions do not happen to subserve and answer their particular ends, they are corrupt and forsaken, for not rendering implicit obedience to the opinions of the courts—at least when those opinions are more congenial with those views. "They doubtless," says this infallible By-Stander, "in opposition to the admonitions of the Judge, and to the terms of their own oath, which were that they should decide according to law and evidence, were persuaded to believe that they might find against law and evidence, if they disapproved of the law." Taking, however, the opinions or admonitions of the courts, as the true standard by which the consciences of the different juries ought to have been regulated on this occasion; what will the By-Stander do with those opinions and admonitions on the second trial, which, it is well remembered, were decidedly in favor of the defendants? when, to retort another consideration, the court consisted of gentlemen who are called republicans; one of whom has been since singled out from that particular class of judges, for a still higher seat on the bench, which I have no doubt he will fill with equal ability and propriety of independence.
Whether an attempt in the President of the United States, to wrest from Johnson and Sneed by penal action , this land which they hold under the rightful heir of old Spiers, be similar to King Ahab, who did actually deprive Naboth of the inheritance of his fathers, and his life; I shall, with the By-Stander, leave to the impartiality of the public to decide. But whether an effort in the way that the By-Stander himself has shown has been taken throughout, to patch up a title, with John Spiers, through this very lame lost-deed story, be not that very combination and maintenance of actions by the powerful and wealthy, against the indigent and friendless, which the law itself (attempted to be taken advantage of) was meant to prevent or punish; requires no very great depth of legal insight, in any person not blinded by the sordid dust of interest, or the still thicker cloud of party-prejudice, to discover.—And lastly, with respect to the By-Stander's idea of the impropriety of "violating the sanctuary of private affairs," by exhibiting these public penal actions in Charlottesville to the world; I have really been
taught to believe, even by the example of the late republican prints themselves, that it was not only justifiable, but useful and laudable, to give a view of all extraordinary  law cases , even of a private and civil nature, to the public; and that too, with the actual parties' names. That a case, however, in which the name of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, happened to be concerned, was to be made an exception to this general republican rule, I was not in time well enough advised, to conform entirely thereto: neither could I possibly foresee myself, without the aid of such advice, that it was the wish of those good republicans , to regulate the press by that very excellent Bonapartian rule, of saying nothing offensive or injurious to our first magistrate in America: But as it comes from so intimate and near a connection to those high authorities, I have no doubt, we have now a plain hint of their wishes!
PLAISTER OF PARIS.
HAVING received information that there are some persons who doubt what I have said relative to my Farm in my "Treatise on Farming, &c." and others who attempt to ridicule it, I have thought proper to subjoin a few certificates, in which will be seen the difference between its former and present state, together with a confirmation of what I asserted as to the height of the clover, size of the ears of corn, hemp, and the growth of wheat and its product per acre.—I know there will be some that will still think that the other kinds of manure ought to have the credit. I would ask such persons where the manure came from when the ground would scarcely produce either grass or grain—say others by keeping a large stock of cattle. I would wish to know how they would keep a sufficient quantity to make manure enough to enrich as much ground in so short a period? If they will read the following certificates with attention I think they will be convinced of the good effects of the use of the Plaister, as also of its permanency.
CERTIFICATES.
THIS is to certify that I was at the Farm Mr. John Binns now owns, just after he had got it from Mr. Douglass, and was astonished that a man of his understanding should have exchanged his property near his father's (who was then alive) for so poor a place as he had got, and I really thought he would never make bread on it. I also heard his father and mother lament that John, as they called him, had ruined himself; that he had given rich land for the poorest place in Loudoun county, because there were more acres in the tract he had got in exchange for the one near them. I was at Mr. John Binns' sometime in the year 1802 and was greatly surprised to see the amazing quantity of stacks of wheat and rye, out houses crammed with it on his farm, and asked him where he raised such a quantity of wheat. Mr. Brent, the late member of congress happened also at Mr. Binns' at the time I was there; we proposed that he should show us his farm and particularly where he raised the large quantity of wheat we saw; he did so; the field was not large, nor contained more than thirty acres of land in fallow, and to my judgment there was about 15 acres of corn ground, and the stubble, crab grass and clover, were nearly as high as my knees; this being about the middle of August, it exceeded anything I ever saw in my life; when I first saw the quantity of wheat and then viewed the ground it came off, I could scarcely believe my eyes: I also saw a piece of corn growing on the said Binns' farm at the same time, and did suppose that it was impossible that corn could be better; indeed the whole of Mr. Binns' farm appeared to be as rich as any person's garden. He informed me it was from the use of Plaister of Paris and deep ploughing. Given from under my hand this 24th day of May, 1802.
W. H. WASHINGTON. N. B. I do think from the appearance of the wheat straw stalks which I saw on Mr. Binns' farm in the above year, that he must have raised at least 50 bushels per acre.
W. H. W. I HAVE frequently been at the house of Mr. John Binns of Loudoun, and viewed with much attention the greatest part (or perhaps the whole) of his farm. The crops of every description, that I have usually seen growing there, were luxuriant in the extreme and promised to yield a product, rarely, if in any instance to be equalled by other crops that have come under my observation, and the general appearance of exuberant fertility, which the cultivated parts of his estate exhibited (that is such parts as were not wood lands) did in my judgment, at least equal, and most probably exceed, anything I have ever witnessed throughout any other farm of any tolerable extent, however highly cultivated or naturally fruitful.
RICHARD BRENT.
I CERTIFY, that I knew the plantation Mr. John A. Binns now lives on, when I considered it as extremely poor, upwards of 20 years ago. I viewed it last year, and from the appearance of the crop, then growing on it, I considered it to be as rich land as I ever saw. I rode nearly round a pretty large field of wheat, which had nearly all fallen down, but the straw looked bright and well, and I think it would have made more wheat per acre than any wheat I ever saw. Some little that was standing was extremely tall and beautiful. Given under my hand, July 11th, 1803.
ISRAEL LACY.
I DO hereby certify that I was present when John A. Binns laid an ear of James river Gourd seed corn in paper, and upon shelling the said ear of corn, lacked between 40 and 50 grains of being a quart, and filled the paper—Also that I always understood that the plantation that he now lives on was to every appearance at the time he moved on it worn out, and at this time I know that it produces, and has for some years past produced as good wheat, corn and red clover as I ever saw—and I believe that the improvement was occasioned by the use of Plaister. Given under my hand this 11th day of July, 1803.
JOHN HAMILTON.
I DO hereby certify, that I saw an ear of corn shell a quart. Given under my hand this 25th of July, 1803.
JAMES COLEMAN, JR.
THIS is to certify that I heard Mr. Wm. Hix on who is now dead, say that he saw J. Binns shell some ears of corn out of his field, which shell a quart each; & must further say he was considered to be a man of much truth; and believe this field of corn alluded to superior to any I ever saw in my life for large ears. Given under my hand this 4th day of June, 1803.
MOSES CALDWELL.
Being called on by John A. Binns as a neighbor, to say what was the state of the farm he now lives on, prior to his living on it, do certify, that 10 or 12 years ago, I do not believe it would have turned out more than two barrels of corn per acre, on an average on the plantation, and a few acres of the Triticale are just received and for sale at S. Peacock's book-store, Richmond.
not more than three or four bushels of wheat per acre, on the corn ground; and to my knowledge, know the place 12 years ago, to be owned for less than 30s. per acre—I now consider it to be worth at least 50 dollars per acre, and believe it will turn out 10 barrels per acre, on an average, and 25 or 30 bushels of wheat at least per acre. On Fallow, I also believe the knolls will bring good Tobacco, and the hollows excellent large hemp. Last Spring was a year, I was passing through his place and saw one of his family sowing hemp in a spot of ground I knew formerly to be very poor; I do not think it would have produced 10 bushels of corn 10 years ago. I asked him what he was sowing; he answered hemp; I then asked him what he expected to get there—his reply was bag strings; my answer was, as much as the bargain. And my present belief of the growth of the hemp is, that it must have been from 10 to 15 feet high, and believe that my neighbor Binns has not manured the spot with any other manure, except Plaister; I also recollected that he had to cut his crop of Wheat twice or thrice down, a great part whereof, last spring, before it was in head, and do not think I ever saw the quantity ever stand on a field before or since; and know his plantation to be made very rich by the use of Plaister and good cultivation.
JESSE TAYLOR. May 6th, 1803.
EARLY in the Spring of 1802, I sent some Plaister of Paris to the Long Glades, requesting that it might be laid on the uplands at that place, but contrary to my desire, it was principally made use of in the meadow; which in the month of May and the early part of June brought forward the White Clover, in an astonishing manner. In the meadow is an old road which, I am informed, has been in use till within these five years, for fifty years at least; this was also plaistered without any other manure, ploughing or harrowing, and brought forward the white clover in the most luxuriant state, which may be now seen by any one from the present season.
J. SWIFT. June 1st, 1803.
WE do hereby certify, that about nine years ago we plaistered about four acres of ground, the middle of an old poor field, with six bushels of Plaister of Paris; and have never plaistered the ground since, nor yet manured it with any other manure, except rolling the corn planted in the field, before or since plaistering of it; and have always discovered that spot of ground to bring at least five times as much of wheat or grass as any other part of the field; and have seen stalks of clover four feet high; and intend mowing that spot of ground this present year although the same has not had any Grass seed sown on it since it was plaistered; and consider that spot of ground equal to any on our farm and believe the Plaister to have a more lasting effect than any other manure we ever tried. Given under our hands this 6th of June, 1803.
WILLIAM CLAYTON, ISRAEL CLAYTON.
JAMES COUNTY.
I DO certify, I was at Mr. John Binns in the year 1802, and perceived to my great satisfaction his progress in agriculture. From the appearance of many of the neighboring farms, as to fertility of soil, in comparison with his, I was thoroughly induced to believe Mr. Binns had experienced great benefit from the use of Plaister of Paris; what more particularly convinced me, was the very heavy crop of Wheat he had then growing on his plantation; to the best of my judgment, he must have had nearly 32 acres of Fallow, which I candidly thought, would not bring less than 42 bushels per acre. The most of his wheat was in corn ground, and I supposed, from every appearance, that it would average at least eighteen bushels to the acre. His clover field was luxuriant in growth, and the uncultivated part of the plantation appeared to be very fertile. Given under my hand this 25th day of July, 1803.
ALEX. SPOTSWOOD. Test. Wm. HARRISON.
SIR—In answer to your request, I shall give you such information as my memory now furnishes respecting the piece of ground from which you raised twelve or 12 1/2 brels of Corn. I can say I happened at your house directly after the corn was gathered and measured; I did not see the Corn measured but was then informed that such was the quantity, and do not hesitate to say I fully believed the measurement to be correct. Feeling very much astonished that such a quantity of corn could be had from the ground, I inquired of you what quantity of ground there was in the lot, you replied 5-8 of an acre, I supposed there was more ground. Having my surveying instruments at your house Mr. Enoch Francis and myself chained the lot, and on calculation, I observed, I had never known any person to come so near the quantity of land as you had by stepping, there being between 5-8 and 6-8 of an acre, about 115 square perches.
I am Sir, yours, &c.
WILLIAM H. HARDING. Mr. JOHN BINNS. September 14, 1803
I DO hereby certify, that I was at the Plantation of John A. Binns, about five or six years ago, and I can say I never saw such a luxuriant field of corn in my life, as I then saw on the said Plantation: The said Binns showed me a spot of ground, which he said contained a half and half quarter of an acre, which is about 5-8ths and do not think the ground more—and then showed me the corn which came off the said spot, which was then lying in a heap just husked; supposed it to contain at least 12 brels of corn. We then walked all over the whole field, and found that there was no other spot gathered. I have formerly known this place, and considered it very poor at that time; and believe now, from every information, that the same is very rich by the use of Plaister.
SAMUEL TILLETT.
WE do certify that we saw John Binns with clover stalks in his pocket 10 feet long or thereabouts. Given under our hands this 23rd day of May, 1803.
DAVID LACEY. SARAH LACEY.
I DO certify that I reaped in John A. Binns's fallow field 1802, and can say that there was at least twice as many sheaves to the acre as any where I ever reaped in all my life: we saw the wheat on the Island and Potomac bottoms the same year at the same time of reaping of wheat, and do not believe there was half the straw. Given under our hands this 20th day of July, 1803.
D. JACOBS.
X W. FULTON. mark.
WE do hereby certify that John Binns to our knowledge in the year 1802 had to reap his Wheat field down all over the fallow once besides partially to keep it from growing too large, and in 1803 had four barracks and one small stack of wheat and barley on about six acres.
his CONROD X VERTS. mark ADAM VERTS. HENRY VERTS.
I DO hereby certify that I saw Mr. John Binns's crop of wheat last year before and after harvest, and do not believe he could have made less than 50 bushels per acre. I likewise saw a gentleman from Maryland of respectable ability who came over to view his farm and thought he would make from 50 to 60 bushels per acre. I now think his Plantation the richest spot of ground I ever saw; which I am informed by his most respectable neighbors was extremely poor when he came on it. I believe his present crop of corn, should it continue tolerably seasonable, will produce from 10 to 12 barrels per acre; the season has been so far extremely dry, but I believe on a favorable season he can raise as much as 15 barrels per acre. Given under my hand this 16th day of July, 1803.
FRANCIS WHITELEY.
I DO hereby certify, that I have lived with John A. Binns between eight and nine years, in the capacity of a farmer, miller, store-keeper and collected for him, and have gathered and measured from 5-8ths of an acre 12 1/2 barrels of corn. I have also gathered in the years 1798, 1799 and 1800 from 15 to 16 barrels of corn per acre throughout the field, and I do further certify that in the year 1802, about the first of April, he began with three and four hands, near six weeks, cutting the fallow ground wheat, to prevent it from lodging, and have threshed 4 acres of the white bearded wheat which produced upwards of sixty bushels of heavy wheat per acre, and I believe there was 1 acre of wheat, had it been threshed by itself, would have made upwards of seventy bushels; there was on this acre 13 tolerable large hand stacks, and I can say that I never saw such a luxuriant growth of Wheat in Europe. I also have this present year hauled 397 dozens of early ripe wheat from about four acres of ground; our barley was so luxuriant this present year as to be obliged to mow the greater part. Given under my hand this 20th day of July, 1803.
SAMUEL WARD.
Foreign Intelligence.
CONSPIRACY AGAINST BONA-PARTE.
The grand judge's report to the first consul.
No. 1.
October 30, 1803.
I have received yours of the 24th, and I congratulate you heartily on your safe arrival in good health at Toulouse (Strasburg). I hope to have some news of Mr. Loiselet (Bonaparte) soon, as I do not doubt of your being now in Chalons (Paris).
There is nothing in your letter which requires any observations of mine, except touching the money. On this subject, I beg you to recollect, that I requested of you to give me before hand, an estimate of your probable expenses. You received at Bordeaux (London) before your departure, five hundred pounds, for the general wants of the association; two hundred guineas for your travelling expenses, &c. to the 15th November, to which I have added fifty pounds, making together seven hundred and fifty pounds; before this is expended, you will no doubt send me the particulars of your expenditure for my government, and you may depend on my punctuality.
I have this moment received a letter for you from our president, under the date 11th October, of which I here transmit you a copy, choosing to run the risk of not sending you the original. I do not understand it because there are ciphers in it, to which you have given me no key.
You may very easily cause minutes of letters to be taken, being attentive to whom you confide this important trust.
You will do well to inform your friend Toulouse (Strasburg) that when he takes my letters to the post office, he will do well to burn the covers.
I have just made a trial of a new way of writing, which consists in dipping the pen alternately into sympathetic ink, and a glass of water.—By this means the writing is not so visible on the paper, and becomes afterwards equally legible on applying the liquor. I adopted this method in writing you this; I request you will inform me if it succeeds.
Adieu, take care of yourself, and let me hear from you soon.
COPY OF THE PRESIDENT'S LETTER,
Dated 11th Oct. 1803.
Since your departure, sir, we have made general trials of the solution of salt, of which you have the receipt; and we have observed that if it be admirable for certain wounds and contusions, there are nevertheless, cases where it may be hurtful, as you have perceived.—For example it must not be used when it is necessary to operate on 44, 31, 44, 8, 102 (a 23, 13, 12, 22, 71, 10) generally Goulard a little strong, suffices, and is not subject to the same inconveniences, but the saline solution is the only remedy that can be applied with success which it is necessary to operate on 303, 15, 40, 10, (39, 13, 37, 44, 31, 49, &c.) 44, 26, 38, 27, 6, 20, 37, (34, 19, 26, 27, 10, 24, 2) incorporates itself, thoroughly with (37, 8, 13, 43, 10) in all cases you must for the future use the elixir, without any mixture of water, of which we have given you a bottle, and which may be justly termed Beaume de Vie , for its inventor pretends, that it will raise the dead to life. You may give these instructions with all confidence to those surgeons or apothecaries you may happen to employ; I hope they

with God's help, our saline solution will ultimately make as much noise in the world as the Vaccine Inoculation.
I keep in reserve several 34, 41, 1, (43, 37) (43, 37) which I will send you in proper time and place. I desire you will not fail to acquaint me of the receipt of this letter. I need not tell you with how much impatience we wait the particulars of your journey. Adieu.
D. V. Do not forget to recommend to the compilers of 38, 24, 23, 27, 10, 12, 6, 43, 37, to write them always to 3, 4, 2, 40, 10 of the 2d & 3d of the 2d & 3d, 24, 2, 4, 4, 31, 40, 13 of the 30, 36, 44, 33, 35, 10.
No. II.
14th November, 1803.
I have just received your's of the 3d, and must lose no time in acquainting you, that the ink was legible in two or three places of that letter; perhaps you have bro't the sheet too near to the other composition; nevertheless there was not any word that was illegible.
I observe that the post mark of the letter was Strasburgh; would it not be better, that your friends, at Strasburgh put the letters into the post office at Kehl? For one ought not to trust to the post office at the former city.
I wait with impatience your report of the particulars of the conferences you mention, as also the arrangements which you have made.
Instead of the address you have hitherto used, I beg of you to make use of the first fourteen addresses which you will find at the bottom of this, taking care to use them alternately, and to change the seal and alter the hand frequently.
You may, for the future address your letters under cover to "Mr. Lindemann, post office, at Munich," where you may recommend them to the care of the servant at the post office. Not to give rise to the least misunderstanding on this point, I here subjoin a form of each of the three methods which you must use alternately.
First method—"To Mon. Jacob Rechberg, recommended to the care of Mons. Lindemann, of the post office, at Munich."
Second method—"To Monsieur Lindemann, post office, at Munich, to be transmitted to M. Pierre Straulino, merchant."
Third method—"To Mrs. Cramer, at Munich," and afterwards put under cover, addressed to "Mr. Lindemann."
N. B. Take care never to write upon your letters, "to be forwarded to M. D." It is not only unnecessary, but may excite suspicion.
The following are the addresses which you must for the future, alternately use for your letters; at the same time putting them under cover, and addressing them to the care of Mr. Lindemann:
 1. Mr. Reiberg—2. M. Pierre Stranlino, merchant—3. Mrs. Cramer—4. M. Grassli—5. Doctor Stretcher—6. Rev. Father Waldsegg—7. Councillor Fischer—8. Miss Jaser—9. M. de Zucher, Physician—10. Count de Westerhoff—11. Councillor Muller—12. Mr. de Cirschaum—13. Mr. Schellenberg—14. Miss de Schmeirt. 
That your letters may never miscarry, you may, if you think proper, make them somewhat heavier, paying additional postage.
Accept, sir, the assurances of my particular friendship.
(To be continued.)
BOSTON, June 4.
In filling the vacancies at the Council board, on Saturday last, the whole number of votes was 251, of which 126 made a choice. The highest candidate on the federal list had 135 votes; and the republican ticket, containing the following names, Hon. James Bowdoin, Dr. Marshall Spring, Dr. Daniel Killam, Samuel Dana, esq. & Hon. Charles Turner, had 116 votes—leaving a difference of nineteen in favor of federalism, in the convention of both houses!—According to the best of our recollection, there are upwards of twenty republican members absent, whose names we shall endeavor to obtain for our next, as well as some other particulars, which will incontrovertibly prove "an increase of Democracy in Massachusetts."
NEW-YORK, June 6.
Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Alexander Lamb, keeper of the prison, put an end to his existence by shooting himself. This event is ascribed to embarrassed circumstances, by our informant.
June 11.
SUICIDES.—Within the last few days a number of suicides have occurred in this city and its neighbourhood—several have come to our knowledge, which we were requested not to notice by the relatives of the deceased. On Thursday morning, Henry Hannan, shoemaker, who lived in the Old slip, hung himself. He had been deranged for some time, and had threatened his wife: in consequence of which, his brother-in-law slept in the house in order to attend him. In the morning above mentioned he left his brother in bed about day light, went down stairs, as was supposed, as usual, to open his shop. His brother followed him shortly after, and, reading, judge of his surprise, when he found him a corpse, hanging by a handkerchief in the entry of his own house.—He had elevated himself by means of a chair, and after swinging off, it is supposed he kicked it from under him.
PHILADELPHIA, June 11.
A letter from our correspondent at N. York dated yesterday morning, says, "Two
British frigates are now off this port, in waiting for the French ships destined out. They came into the Narrows at night, & lay off all day; so that it will be impossible for the French frigates to escape without engaging them. They are supposed to be the Leander and Boston.—Should Jerome Bonaparte and his lady take passage in the French frigates, it is very likely they will touch at an English port, before they arrive in their mother country."
June 13.
The following article, though it comes from a questionable source, Lang's Gazette, is not improbable:
"We learn that a request of our ambassador at Paris (Mr. Livingston) to be recalled, has been accepted by the President; and that general Armstrong of this state, now a senator of the United States, will be appointed to succeed him."
It is very certain that Mr. Livingston is about to return to the United States; whether general Armstrong would be accepted of the situation or not, cannot be so certain; but should he be disposed to accept the mission, the choice is such as no man of any party could object to, on the score of transcendent talents and integrity, and every qualification calculated to render service and do honor to his country.
READING, (Penn.) June 9.
Last Monday afternoon this borough & neighborhood experienced two violent storms, at an hour's interval, attended with very heavy rain and hail, which in their course caused very severe damages, breaking a great quantity of windows, laying waste gardens, grain fields and timber—fields likely to produce three or four hundred bushels were quite cut down, so that hardly a straw was left standing—its extent, as far as we could learn, was about a mile in breadth and reached 8 or 9 miles below this place, along the east side of Schuylkill.—The second storm from N. E. laid waste a number of very valuable grain fields along the west side of Schuylkill, & most all the clover in the fields was lodged down as if wallowed.—Some of the ice pieces were square and measured five inches round, and hail lay in some places as thick that they could be taken up by the half bushel. Thus, in the course of a very little time dwindled away one of the finest prospects of plentiful harvests this part of the country ever beheld!
William & Mary College, June, 1804.
The public annual Exercises will commence on the 4th of July, at 10 o'clock; and will be succeeded by an examination of the classes in the different schools.
Mr. Pleasants. I OBSERVE in your paper of last week, a short piece addressed to the public by a Mr. John Mosby, who says he was raised in Powhatan; I being also a native of that place, and not having ever heard of a person of that name but myself, presume that there are some who may suppose me to be the author. Lest any unfavorable impression should have arisen in the minds of any from such a supposition, and also deeming it an indispensable duty, which I owe to my friends as well as myself, to counteract any such impressions, I beg you to insert this in your paper. Should any more publications appear with the same signature, I would thank you to date them at some place, so as to leave no doubt with respect to the author; by the doing of which you will oblige, Sir, yours, JOHN GARLAND MOSBY, Student of Wm & Mary College. Williamsburg, June 14, 1804
WE the subscribers, Judges of the General Court, have pursuant to law allotted the Judges of the respective District Courts as follows: Joseph Jones and Robert White, esquires, to the Districts of Winchester, Hardy and Monongalia Courthouses;
Joseph Prentiss and William Nelson, junior, esquires, to the Districts of Richmond, Petersburg, Brunswick Courthouses and Suffolk;
Paul Carrington, junior and Edmund Winston, esquires, to the Districts of Prince Edward Court house, Franklin, Washington Courthouses, and the Sweet Springs in Botetourt county;
John Tyler and Francis T. Brooke, esquires, to the Districts of Northumberland, King & Queen, Williamsburg and Accomack Courthouses—And Richard Parker and Archibald Stuart, esquires, to Staunton, Charlottesville, Fredericksburg and Haymarket Districts at the next succeeding terms thereof.
Witness our hands and seals this twelfth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and four.
 Jos: Prentiss, (Seal.)  Rich'd. Parker, (Seal.)  Jos: Jones, (Seal.)  Wm. Nelson, Jr. (Seal.)  Arch'd. Stuart, (Seal.)  Francis T. Brooke, (Seal.) 
Published by order of the Judges. WILSON ALLEN, C. C. O.
Taken up by the subscriber living on Jeremie's fork of Lawson's creek on the fourth side of Dan river, in Halifax county, one Heifer, about three years old, marked with a smooth crop in the right ear, white or mottled face, white under her belly, and speckled legs—appraised to five dollars, November 28th, 1803. Edwin Garlington. Thomas Watkins, J. P. A copy, Teste, John Barkdale, d. c. b. c.
Bacon Hams. The subscriber has received a parcel of very fine Hams, which he will sell on moderate terms. Apply at Messrs. Wm. Brown & Co's.
JAMES BROWN, Jr. June 16th, 1804.
TICKETS IN the William & Mary College Lottery are for sale at S. Pleasants' Bookstore.
The drawing will commence on the 2d of July in Williamsburg.
NOTICE. A petition will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying that the James River Canal Company may be compelled to carry their Canal into Tite Water.
23d May, 1804.
SUBSCRIBERS TO THE
Domestic Encyclopedia, Are requested to call or send for their copies, which are now complete, and ready for delivery at S. Pleasants' Book-Store.
June 15.
The Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1804.
RICHMOND PRICE CURRENT.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
  Tobacco 36s Cash.   Wheat 6s 6d do.   Flour Fine, 31s 6d do.   Do. Sup. 34s 6d do.   Corn 28s do.   Hemp, Clean £ 50 do.   Iron £ 34 do.   Bacon 8d do.   Whiskey 3s 9d do. 
It was with considerable reluctance that the Editor consented to publish the piece in this day's paper, over the signature of "C." He is well aware that such productions can do no credit to any paper. But having given publicity to "A By-Stander," he deemed it his duty to admit the answer also. The authors of these pieces, however, and all other correspondents, are informed, that unless they avoid personalities and scurrilous language, they need not expect the columns of this paper to remain open to them. This determination will in future be rigidly adhered to, not only in regard to anonymous publications, but it will be extended also to personal altercations and quarrels where the real names of the parties are used. The Editor solemnly avers that no pecuniary considerations shall induce him to sully his paper with pieces of this description, even in the shape of advertisements.
A meeting is proposed at the Washington Tavern on Wednesday evening the 20th inst. at 7 o'clock, to adopt such measures as may seem most expedient to celebrate the 4th of July.
The Officers of the 19th Regiment are requested to attend.
Delegates chosen for the next General Assembly of Virginia.
Halifax, William Tetty, William Yancey.
"Although," says Governor Trumbull, in his late speech to the Legislature of Connecticut, some untoward circumstances exist among us, (by which, without doubt, he means the increase of republican principles, in opposition to the combined tyranny of church and state in Connecticut) yet, says he, the God of our fathers, who is also our God, hath hitherto sustained us, and in him, while doing our duty, and walking in the ways of our fathers, we may still trust for future support."
That people may know what were the ways which those whom Governor Trumbull calls "our fathers" walked in, we here subjoin some extracts from the laws made in the dominion of New Haven, in the colony of Connecticut at its first establishment.
"No quaker, or dissenter from the established worship of this dominion, shall be allowed to give a vote for the election of magistrates or any officer." "No food or lodging shall be offered to a quaker, Adamite, or other heretic.—If any person turn quaker he shall be banished, and not suffered to return on pain of death."
"No one shall run on the sabbath day, or walk in his garden, except reverently to and from meeting."
"No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep houses, cut hair or shave on the sabbath day."
"No woman shall kiss her children on the sabbath or fasting day."
"No one shall read common prayers, keep Christmas or set day, make mirth, or play on any instrument of music except the drum, trumpet, and Jew's harp."
"No man shall court a maid in person or by letter, without first obtaining her parents' consent—five pounds penalty for the first offence, ten pounds for the second, and for the third imprisonment during the pleasure of the court."
"Every male shall have his hair cut round according to a cap."
There is not one moral principle in any of those laws. They are a compound of tyranny, persecution, ignorance and fanaticism. Yet these are the ways which those whom Governor Trumbull calls "our fathers" walked in, and whose example he recommends. Am. Cit.
VENERABLE TORTOISE.
Few have any idea of the surprising longevity of the Land-Tortoise (commonly called the Land-Turtle.) The following instance, however, which is well authenticated, will put this matter beyond a doubt. In the year 1746 one of these creatures was caught by a person in Massachusetts who engraved on the under shell the figures 1746, together with the initials of his name.—Fourteen years afterwards, it was found by a gentleman, about a mile from the spot where it was first taken, and marked W. S. 1760.—About thirty years afterwards, it was found a third time in the same vicinity, and being bro't to the gentleman last mentioned he renewed his mark adding "Sept. 1790." This venerable animal was again set at liberty for another tour. It is observable, that he appeared of the same size as when first taken, 44 years before: and as long life is generally preceded by slow growth, both in the animal and vegetable world, it was concluded he had been an inhabitant of this state more than sixty years, having been both royalist and republican, and in the worst of times, adhered to his country, when some others with more brains and less constancy, turned their backs upon her. The life of the animal
may probably in time be published, unless he should out-live all his contemporaries—in which case he will have to trust for immortality to the industrious researches of the nineteenth century.
KINE POCK MATTER PRESERVED.
A Baltimore paper of the 4th of last month contains an address of Dr. James Smith to the Patrons of a Vaccine Institution under his care.
After mentioning the extreme difficulty of preserving the Kine Pock matter, he adds—"In direct contradiction to Dr. Jenner's "Golden Rule," different writers long since asserted, that the scab or kine pock in its dry state, would serve to communicate the infection from one subject to another. Accordingly, I often attempted during the first year of this institution, to inoculate in this way, but never succeeded to infect my patients in a single instance. I had therefore given up this mode of inoculation as altogether ineffectual. Having obtained, however a very regular scab from my own son who was inoculated at the age of 23 days, on the 14th of October last I was induced to try it again; and I succeeded far beyond my expectations.—As before I had used the matter from the bottom of the scab, I now took it from its top or external surface, having previously removed the cuticle from it and moistened the substance of the scab with a little water. I have since uniformly found this to be the best mode of inoculating, and very few of my acquaintances now use the vaccine matter in any other way, except when it happens to be perfectly convenient to substitute fluid matter in its stead. As additional proof of the great efficacy of the scab, I need only mention that I have in my possession at this time a small portion of a scab which yet continues good, although it has been in constant use since November last, and in the interim, has to my certain knowledge infected upwards of 100 persons.* I have never been able, even during the winter season, to preserve the vaccine matter longer than two, or at most three months by any other method which I have yet tried; and during the summer months I could scarcely preserve it, while I transmitted it from one arm to another. But I am now of opinion, that a good scab may be preserved from one season to another, or perhaps for many years and still retain the vaccine matter to its most active state, without using any other precaution than to keep the scab always within a temperate degree of heat and to prevent the access of moisture to it.—To put this opinion, however, to the test of a decisive experiment I am constructing a dry place on the principles of an ice house, in which I flatter myself I shall be able to preserve the vaccine scabs in their active state during the ensuing summer. If, nevertheless, I should fail in this attempt, I hope my endeavors will not be deemed by my medical brethren, either as chimerical or useless.
JAMES SMITH. * As I have frequently sent this scab to different gentlemen in this city and the country round about, who have all used it freely, with the most pleasing success; I might perhaps fare within the bounds of truth, that 150 persons have been inoculated by it from the small pox."
RECIPE
For the destruction of worms on fruit trees. Take a strong decoction of ashes, or what is commonly called Lix, absorb a sponge or mop of rags therein and apply it to the nets of the worms by attaching it to the extremity of a pole; this will be found to be a certain and expeditious method of ridding our trees of this troublesome and destructive reptile.
Extract from a letter addressed to the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, on raising Calves without new milk.
Could we discover a method not only to raise calves, but to make good veal for the butcher, without the use of new milk, it might induce our farmers to keep their calves five or six weeks, at which age the meat would be much better, and the skins much more valuable, particularly for boot legs, than when killed young.
In order to make some discovery on this subject, I lately made the following experiment: I had two calves nearly of the same age and condition; the one, from a fine young cow, was confined in a clean airy stable, and had the cow turned into him three times a day, from an adjoining field of good clover. The other at three days old was taken from the cow and confined in a dark stable, well littered with clean straw every two days; for the first week he had as much new milk as he could drink three times a day, when it was changed to skimmed milk having two or three handfuls of fine Indian meal stirred into it. After suffering him to drink plentifully of this mixture, he was crammed with two boluses of the size of an hen's egg, made with Indian meal, linseed oil, and an egg. One week before the calf was killed the oil was omitted, as it is reserved to give the flesh of animals fed on linseed cake a disagreeable taste.
The result of the experiment was, that the veal fed with the oil was one pound and a quarter heavier than the other, and rather superior to it in every other respect, not having the taste of the oil, of which I was apprehensive. At the same time that the oil is very nourishing, it tends to keep the body open, which is of great advantage in the fattening of animals. I have experienced a very great advantage in the use of a small quantity of oil in bringing stalled oxen rapidly to a condition fit for the knife.
From the Northampton Gazette. Mr. BUTLER. Agriculture being the employment of a
great part of mankind, the grand question is how we may cultivate our lands to the best advantage. Having the last year made an experiment by putting Plaster of Paris on Potatoes, I have thought it might be of advantage to the interest of agriculture to communicate it through the medium of your paper.
The experiment I made by putting a about a table spoonful of Plaster to each hill of Potatoes, which was put on the latter part of June, on about every fourth row. I soon found the vines of those that were plastered to assume a different color, and the stalks to grow much larger and in greater quantities. When I came to pull them in autumn, I had more than double the quantity. The potatoes were of a much better quality and much larger. As potatoes are of great use to a farmer in fattening swine and beef cattle, I would recommend it to those people who use the Plaster, to make the experiment for themselves, by plastering their Potatoes soon after the first hoeing.
JUSTUS FORWARD, Jr.
Belchertown, May, 1804.
A Duel was lately fought in England between two country squires, on the plan of the satirical rencontre in "Folly as it flies," and after exchanging shots like Cursor and Post Obit , one second proposed their shaking hands; on which the other observed, there is no occasion, their hands have been shaking all the time.
A Beau's pudding, if its size should continue to increase, will soon answer a very valuable purpose. A man will shortly be enabled to use it for a portmanteau; & the shirts, stockings, and shoes, necessary for every traveller, will answer very well the purposes of well the purposes of neck-wadding .
Bell's Weekly Messenger of a late date in March has the following article—"They write from Hamburg, that the English have employed more than sixty millions in France . Drake at Munich! Spencer Smith at Stutgard; their agents at Hamburg, Frankfort and other places have immense sums at their disposal."
Arthur Scale, a printer and bookseller was lately tried in London for publishing a libel of which the following is an extract.
"ARE YOU RIGHT?
"The artifices employed will eventually disappoint those whose only object is to deceive. Surely you are not to be imposed upon by misrepresentation. Look at our prisons, the oppression of lawyers has crowded them with thousands of victims. Men of virtue and integrity, who might become the ornament and protection of the country are pining in those loathome dungeons. The officers of the army and navy have become the pale inhabitants of these dark recesses, where there is a man in England who has not suffered by lawyers. They encroach all the honors & emoluments and fatten on the distresses of the country.—Bribes which are given by parliament are paid by the people. The people are forced to discharge the wages of public iniquity. What then are we to fight for?—not for our country but for its oppressors!—not for our liberty and property for both are gone. Correct abuses, restore our freedom—reduce the expenses and the iniquity of law proceedings—tantalize us no longer with promises of reformation which only aggravate and mock our distresses. Let government enable us to live by our industry, and it may safely repose in confidence on the public spirit—France can no longer be formidable."
B.
It is unnecessary to add that the man was convicted—tho' in England the truth is allowed by law to be given in evidence—among other things all aged against him by counsel was, that the following books, "The Reformation of society" the political works of Fletcher and other political writings were found in his possession!
Died, at Salem, "CESAR PRATT, a black man, aged 65—remarkable for his instinctive facility in numbers, by which he was able to make, in an instant, calculations which would require in common persons the aid of many figures; his memory was also the register of every person's age of which he had ever been informed, and which he was sure to remind them of as the anniversary of their birth came round; and in other respects he was a convenient chronologist."
The subscriber offers for sale a bargain in his present
Stock of Goods,
Consisting of Dry Goods, Groceries, Medicines, Glass and Crockery Ware: amount about 8000 dollars—For one half a credit of two years will be given, and good bonds payable at a short date will be taken for the balance. Any person desirous of engaging in the Mercantile business will have an excellent opportunity—the assortment is well chosen, such as will suit this place.
RICHARD MASON.
Williamsburg, June 16, 1804.
New Books,
Just received at S. Pleasants' Book-store, Richmond.
RETROSPECT
OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; Containing a sketch of the Revolutions and Improvements in Science, Arts and Literature, during that period—By Doct. MILLAR, of New York, one of the editors of the Medical Repository.
MISCELLANEOUS POETRY, Selected in general from the most entertaining & instructive writings of the British Poets: in two vols.—By the Rev. THOMAS DAVIS of Alexandria.
SOMETHING NEW—The harbinger of Peace and U-n, Nos. 1 & 2—being an introduction to the 5th, or Millenial Dispensatory &c &c. By a Christian.

BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY. THE subscriber takes this mode of returning his thanks to his former patrons, and informing the public in general, that he has (by desire of his friends) re-commenced the MANUFACTURING of BURR MILL-STONES; and having furnished himself with a supply of the best materials, and having had sixteen years experience in the business, in Baltimore, Petersburg and Richmond, hopes to be able to give satisfaction to his employers. The stones he will warrant to be as good as any in the United States. Any orders left with Capt. WILLIAM PERROCK, Norfolk; Capt. WILLIAM CHAMBERS, Staunton; Mr. WILLIAM HAY, Wythe county, or Mr. ROBERT MOORE, Petersburg, shall be duly attended to, and country produce received in payment, at the customary prices. TWO APPRENTICES will be taken to the above business, and short time required. WILLIAM DAVIDSON. Richmond, Jan. 10th, 1803. (H) N.B. FOR SALE, PLASTER of PARIS, in stone or ground, for the improvement of land, with directions for the use thereof.
I C E, For sale at the Falling Garden. Apply at the Brick house in said garden, where constant attendance will be given. May 20. GUN SMITHS. A few BARREL-WELDERS, LOCK-FORGERS and MOUNTING-FORGERS, may meet with employment at the Virginia Manufactory of Arms at Richmond. JOHN CLARKE, Supt. May 15th, 1804. 2m
APPALUSIA, NOW standing at my plantation on Chickahominy, near the new bridges, will be let to mares at Twelve Dollars the season, payable the first day of October next, but Notes (to be sent with the mares) may be discharged by paying Ten Dollars on or by the 1st of August, when the season will end. Insurance Eighteen Dollars, (notes sent as above payable the 1stated) the 1st March, 1805) Five Dollars cash the lease. In either case Half a Dollar to the Groom, to be paid down.—Mares will be fed with Clover and Lucerne gratis, and Corn if required, at the selling price. I have 20 spare stalls in a strong new stable, with substantial locks, where they may be kept of nights, but will not be answerable for escapes. APPALUSIA is lately from South America, about nine years old, 15 hands high, of a beautiful snow white color and most elegantly formed. It is unnecessary to point out the best breed of horses for the saddle, harness, &c. as it is generally known that they are well gaited, gentle and the most hardy and thrifty horses in the world, and many live to be upwards of 50 years old. BENJAMIN DU-VAL. Richmond, May 21st, 1804. SPRING GOODS. WILLIAM GALT, Has received by the ships Little William and Fame from Liverpool, and the Robey & Bersey from London, An Assortment of Goods, Suitable to the season, which he will dispose of on the usual terms. He has also on hand SUPERFINE FLOUR, of a very superior quality, for family use. Richmond, May 29, 1804. 4w
To be let, on building Lots, three beautiful, airy and elevated situations for dwelling houses. To any gentleman who wishes a pleasant and agreeable residence for his family, either of these sites would be truly desirable, as they are contiguous to the scene of active business, at the same time that they are removed from the dust and bustle of the town. Enquire at this printing office. An experienced, sober and industrious GARDENER will hear of an advantageous situation on application as above. None of opposite character need apply. tf April 23, 1803 4439 Acres of valuable LAND, In the south of Kentucky, the greater part millinery, will be SOLD for good bonds, or exchanged for property in the state of Virginia—Enquire of the printer. tf Dec. 26th, 1803. Plaster of Paris. I have just received from Nova Scotia, a cargo of PLASTER of PARIS, said to be of the best kind, which I will sell on reasonable terms. SAMUEL PAINE Mar. 14, 1803. Family Flour. A CONSTANT supply of FLOUR, of a superior quality, for family use, kept for SALE, by GEORGE WATT. Richmond, 5th March, 1804. tf
A few Pamphlets Concerning the LAWS against GAMING and GAMES, are for sale at the Book-store of S. Pleasants, Jr. and W. P. Preble. 178
MADEIRA WINE, Of superior quality, in pipes and quarter casks, for sale by GALLEGO, RICHARD & Co. 6t A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is represented to the Executive, that Joseph Caldwell and Robert Peirson, confined for horse stealing, and Cullen Demmory, confined for murder in the second degree, have (the two former for the second time) escaped from the penitentiary. 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 for each of the convicts so escaped, to any person or persons who shall apprehend and convey them or either of them to the penitentiary. And I do moreover require all officers civil and military, and exhort the good people of the commonwealth to use their best endeavors to apprehend and convey to the penitentiary aforesaid the said Joseph Caldwell, Robert Peirson and Cullen Demmory. Given under my hand with the seal of the commonwealth annexed at Richmond, this 31st day of March, 1804. Signed, JOHN PAGE.
ROBIN REDBREAST, A FINE bay, fifteen and a half hands high, imported from England last spring, will stand the ensuing season at my stable in Chesterfield county, on Appomattox river, 15 miles above Petersburg, to cover mares at twenty-five dollars the season, for which notes will be expected, dischargeable by the payment of twenty dollars on or before the first day of October next; ten dollars to be paid when the mare is covered, with one dollar for each mare to the groom. Good and extensive pasture gratis, having nearly one thousand acres of high and low land in six different enclosures, under strong fences, besides several clover lots. The greatest attention shall be paid to mares left in my care, but will not be liable for accidents or escapes. P A D I G R E. ROBIN REDBREAST was got by Sir Peter Teazle, his dam Wren, by Woodpecker, his grand dam Papillon, (Sir Peter's dam) by Snap, his great grand dam Miss Cleveland, by Regulus, his great great grand dam Midge, by a son of Bay Boli, Bartlett's Children, Honeywood's Arabian, dam of the Two True Blues. (Taken from the general stud book.) P E R F O R M A N C E. In 1800 (the only year he ran) at Bridgnorth, June 18, 4 mile heats, at four years old, he won the maiden plate, beating Mr. Day's Raginer, by Precipitate, and Mr. Car's Prospect. The next day, at the same place, 4 mile heats, he came in first and first, but lost the race for the want of a few ounces in weight the last heat. At New-Castle, July 3d, he won the members purse of £50, 4 mile heats, beating Mr. Harrison's Trumpator, and distancing Sir T. Mostyn's Hedera. At Nantwich, July 10, he won the town purse of £50, beating Mr. Smith's Sultan, and distancing Sir T. Mostyn's Hedera. At Warwick, Sept. 2, he won his majesty's plate of 100 guineas, 4 mile heats, beating Lord Donegall's Fugleman, and distancing Mr. Tharm's Marquis. He won the purse at Litchfield, Sept. 11, 4 mile heats, beating Lord Donegall's b. h. by Potso's, and distancing Mr. Brooke's Baron Nile, Lord Oxford's Victoria and Mr. Cox's Cocoa Tree. He was never beaten 4 mile heats except at Bridgnorth, as above stated, where, although it was given against him, it was evident that he was much the best horse. THOMAS GOODE. March 1st 1804. tf
A list of six hogsheads of TOBACCO, remaining in Wiccocomicoe Warehouses over two years No Gro. Tar. Net P. W. 41 1252 102 1150 6th Jan. 1802. 1. S. 84 1201 120 1031 20 do. do. B. S. 93 1292 93 1199 26 do. do. 1. H. 132 1214 117 1097 9th Feb do. B. S. 173 1310 122 1188 2d Mar. do. B. N. 43 1429 107 1322 28th Jan. do. South. JAMES HARCUM, GEO. BARNETT, } Inspectors. May 14th, 1804. 3w
Robert Greenhow, MERCHANT, in Williamsburg, has it again in his power to inform his friends and countrymen, that by the Roba and Betsey the Alexander, and Reunion, from London and Liverpool, he has received a supply of Useful & fashionable Goods Which he offers on as low terms as they can be afforded at. His well known very general assortment, made complete by such arrivals, renders it unnecessary to state, that almost every article, usually found in Mercantile houses may be in his; which being purchased of the manufacturers themselves, with cash, may be relied on as good in quality, and modern in fashion, as any imported. To his distant customers, assurances are reiterated, that every possible attention will be invariably paid to their orders. He still retains his inclination formerly expressed, of retiring from business, and again offers, as well his present whole stock in trade, as what he has ordered from different parts of Great Britain, to make complete his winter assortment; on terms, that will be found advantageous to the purchaser; which being large enough with propriety to admit of a division; the business might be so extended, as to meet with ease the payment of the different instalments. 2m June 1 1804. TEN DOLLARS REWARD, FOR apprehending THOMAS WELCH, who ran away from the subscriber on the 29th of March last—he is in the eighteenth year of his age, and of a dark complexion, has a small round face on the lower part of his left cheek, has a down look and speaks quick, though not apt to force discourse; he is in general a person of few words. Thomas Welch was bound to me to learn the shoe making trade, and has a very good notion of that business; he has made several eloements from me, and in one of his eloements went to Richmond, and he informed me that he was taken on board the Schooner Nancy, the property of capt. Wm. Block of Richmond, and commanded by a Mr. Smith, captain, & carried to Charleston, where he continued for several months, and returned to Richmond, and was found in the employment of Mr. Ralph Allen of that city, altho' he was previously advertised. I expect he will aim for Richmond, as he is acquainted there, to get on board of some outward bound vessel. I do forewarn all masters of vessels and all other persons from removing, employing or harbouring the said Thomas Welch at their peril. The above reward will be given to any person who will confine the aforesaid apprentice in any jail so that I get him or deliver him to me in Cumberland county. JAMES ROPE. May 24th, 1804. 3w
Mediterranean Passports. NOTICE is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport issued to vessels of the United States; that from the eighth day of July next, those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passports of which she may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange; and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use. Department of State. 23d of May, 1804. The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Collectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices. June 1. 6m ThIRTY Dollars Reward. DESERTEd from the Public Guard, DANIEL KYZER, a stout, well made, good looking man, about six feet one inch high, very much pitted with the small pox, born in Philadelphia, and is about thirty-five years of age. His clothes are new, and consisted of a black hat, a blue short coat, with red cape and cuffs and lined with the same, blue vest and osnaburgs pantaloons. ALEXANDER QUARRIER c. p. c. Will be Sold, At the Market-House, in this city, on Saturday the 23d of June (instant) for cash, the following articles belonging to the estate of London Munford deceased, viz: A CART & HARNESS, a SORREL MARE, a COW & CALF, and a number of articles of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c. ROBERT HYDE, Adm'r. Richmond, June 11, 1804. tds Fooscap & Letter Paper For Sale at this Office.
By virtue of a deed of trust from Thomas Colley to the subscriber, made to secure a debt due from said Colley to Messrs. Dunlop, Pollok & Co. will be held on Saturday the 7th day of July next, for cash, to the highest bidder, EIGHT LOTS in Ligon Town, on Appomattox river, in the county of Amelia. The sale will be made on the premises, and commence at 12 o'clock. At the same time and place, upon the same terms and for the same use, will be sold a valuable NEGRO WOMAN and several likely CHILDREN. The lots intended to be sold are designated in the plan of Ligon Town, No. 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 15. WM. DANIEL, Jr. Trustee. 28th May, 1804. tds THE SUBSCRIBER Has just received from Philadelphia & New York, The following GOODS, Which will be sold low for cash, country produce, or approved acceptances at 60 or 90 days. Muscovado Sugar and New York Candles & Soap. Double and single refined Dutch Cases with plain and gilt Bottles. Old Antigua, Jamaica and Sherry Wine of a superior quality. London Bill Madeira, warranted 4 & 7 years old. Cogniac and Apple China Bowls from pimento and Nutmegs. Cut & plain Lemonades. Fresh Oil, Olives and Cut Jelly Glasses. Capers. Silvers, half pint, quart, half gallon and gallon Tumblers. Martinique, Noyau and Ginpowder, Imperial & Young Hyson Teas. French Cordials. Patent Shot, assorted. Box Raisins and soft Hamilton & Son, and shell Almonds. Thomas Leiper's Snuff. Coppers, Madder, Alum, Patent night Lamps. Brimestone, and Writing and Wrapping Paper. Logwood Turkey Cotton, Spelling Books and Primers. Spanish and Bengal Indigo. Sole Leather and Calf Skins. Also, received from Bristol, by the ship Olive Branch, EARTHEN & STONE WARE, in crates. Double GLOUCESTER & BRICK CHEESE. JAMES FISHER. Richmond, June 1st, 1804. 6t
A list of six hogsheads of TOBACCO, remaining in Wiccocomicoe Warehouses over two years No Gro. Tar. Net P. W. 41 1252 102 1150 6th Jan. 1802. 1. S. 84 1201 120 1031 20 do. do. B. S. 93 1292 93 1199 26 do. do. 1. H. 132 1214 117 1097 9th Feb do. B. S. 173 1310 122 1188 2d Mar. do. B. N. 43 1429 107 1322 28th Jan. do. South. JAMES HARCUM, GEO. BARNETT, } Inspectors. May 14th, 1804. 3w
A list of six hogsheads of TOBACCO, remaining in Wiccocomicoe Warehouses over two years No Gro. Tar. Net P. W. 41 1252 102 1150 6th Jan. 1802. 1. S. 84 1201 120 1031 20 do. do. B. S. 93 1292 93 1199 26 do. do. 1. H. 132 1214 117 1097 9th Feb do. B. S. 173 1310 122 1188 2d Mar. do. B. N. 43 1429 107 1322 28th Jan. do. South. JAMES HARCUM, GEO. BARNETT, } Inspectors. May 14th, 1804. 3w
A Court of Appeals held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, the 21st of May, 1804. Ordered, that the following Rules be published in the Richmond Gazette for one month. November 18th, 1803. RULE—In all cases whether of appeal, writ of error, or otherwise, the court will proceed to a hearing at the term to which such case shall be returned or sent up, unless good cause shall be shown to the contrary. May 15th, 1804. RULE—A clear and concise state of the case of each party in an appeal, writ of error, or supersedeas from a decree of the high court of chancery, or any district court in chancery, or from a judgment of the general court, or any district court in which a demurrer, special verdict, case agreed, demurrer to evidence, bill of exceptions, or point reserved, shall constitute a part of the record, or exhibits in the cause, with the points insisted on, signed by his counsel and printed, or fairly transcribed, the expense whereof shall be taxed in the bill of costs, shall after the end of this present term be delivered to each judge, time enough before the hearing of the cause, and that no error, other than such as shall be pointed out, and insisted on in such statement, on the part of the plaintiff or appellant shall be (without leave of the court) admitted as a ground for argument on the hearing of the cause, or for reversal of the decree or judgment sought to be reversed.—And that all depositions and exhibits accounts and articles intended to be relied upon or objected to in the argument, be particularly noted in such state, and recited & a reference thereto in the official copy of the record in the cause made. May 21st, 1804. RULE—That after the end of this present term, all causes depending in this court, which shall be ready for hearing in pursuance of the rule of this court made on the 15th day of this present month, shall, unless good cause be shown to the contrary, be heard in the same order in which they stand on the docket. Teste, J. BROWN, c. c.
Notice.... That a petition will be presented to the next General Assembly of Virginia, praying for an amendment of, or repeal of an act passed at their last session, entitled "An act for improving the Navigation of James River" Richmond, May 28, 1804. Wanted immediately for the use of the Bank of Virginia, A HOUSE, As nearly adapted to the purpose as can be obtained; for which a liberal rent will be stipulated, and for a reasonable term of a few years—Propositions will be received immediately by the commissioners for this city. E. CARRINGTON, Ch. Com. Richmond, May 17, 1804.
Notice. THE drawing of the LOTTERY for the benefit of William & Mary College, has been postponed, on account of unforeseen circumstances, until the 2d of JULY, on which day, the commissioners have determined, that it shall certainly commence. Those who are desirous of purchasing tickets will, no doubt, avail themselves of the intermediate time. Gentlemen who have been so friendly to the interests of the College as to undertake the disposal of tickets, are hereby particularly requested to forward, without delay, to the publisher, or any other of the commissioners, a list of the tickets sold, and of those remaining on hand. They are also requested to pay the money, which they have received for tickets sold, to either of the following gentlemen, viz: George Tucker of Richmond, Watkins Leigh of Petersburg, Littleton Waller Tazewell of Norfolk, Hugh Mercer of Fredericksburg, or Robert Greenhow of Williamsburg. Signed by direction of the Commissioners. J. MADISON, Chairman. Wm. & Mary College, June 2, 1804. 2w The editors of the Petersburg, Fredericksburg and Norfolk papers are requested to insert this notice three times.
FOR SALE, A Tract of Land, Living in the North Garden, in Albemarle county, containing 1000 acres, adjoining the Lands of Stephen Moore, William Wood, and the late William Cole, dec. within eighteen miles of Warren, and the same distance of Milton. There is on this Land a new Barn, 48 by 24 feet, a good Overseer's House, and Houses for the accommodation of fifteen or twenty Negroes. The Overseer's House, with a little expense, may be rendered very comfortable for a small family. About half the Land is cleared, the greater part of which is in good order for cultivation, and a considerable part of it fresh and well adapted to the culture of corn, wheat and tobacco. Any person inclined to purchase, or application to the overseer on the premises, will be shown the Land. The terms of sale will be, one fourth part of the purchase money paid on the first day of June, 1805, and the balance in three equal annual payments from that day, each instalment to carry interest from the day of sale, if not punctually paid. Bond with approved security, together with a deed of trust on the Land, will be required of the purchaser, to secure the payment. For further particulars apply to the subscriber, living at Scotch-Town, in Hanover county. If the above Land is not sold before, it will be offered at Public Sale, to the highest bidder, on the terms before mentioned, on the 23d day of August next, if fair, if not, the next fair day. In either case, the purchaser will have leave to seed wheat as soon after that time as he may choose, and may be furnished with the crop of Corn, &c. that may be made on the plantation this year—say from two to three hundred barrels. JOHN M. SHEPPARD. Scotch-Town, May 30th, 1804. tds GENERAL OFFICE OF ASSURANCE. Richmond, 11th June, 1804. To all whom it may concern. KNOW ye, that whereas a sufficient number of the members of the Mutual Assurance Society against Fire on Buildings of the state of Virginia, under the twentieth article of the Rules and Regulations of the said Society, have requested that a General Meeting of the Society should be called in the month of July next, and previous to the payment of the quota called for becoming due. The members of the said Mutual Assurance Society are hereby called on to make a general meeting, that is, a majority of the members to be present in person or by proxy, duly authorized for the purpose, on Monday the 30th day of July next, at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, at the hour of twelve o'clock. W. FOUSHEE, President.
Nicholas Hallam, Two doors above the Swan-Tavern, Richmond, has for sale, eight thousand wt. of American Cheese, Of the best quality, which he will sell on as good terms as can be bought in the state, by the single pound, or thousand. A constant supply of GROCERIES of the best kind—Also, A few bushels Northern POTATOES, for planting. Committed to the jail of Albemarle county, a negro boy, about 14 years of age, yellow complexion, had on a negro cotton coat and breeches, says his name is REUBEN, and that he belongs to a Mr. Wm. Suthers of Augusta county, on Polecat creek. The owner is requested to come forward, prove his property, pay charges and take him away, or he will be dealt with as the law directs. THOS. WELLS, Jr. Jailor Albemarle county. April 29, 1804. 2m
George Peery and William Peery, plaintiffs. AGAINST Thomas Inglis, Lon Brown, Jr., Joseph Davidson, Henry Fady, James Baily and Thomas Pickens, defendants. The defendant Thomas Inglis not having entered his appearance according to law and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court by the oath of Andrew Peery, that the said Inglis is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth: On the motion of the plaintiffs by James Thompson their attorney, It is ordered, that the said Thomas Inglis do appear here on the first day of the next August term and answer the bill of the complainants; and that a copy of this order be inserted in some newspaper published in this state, and continued for three months successively, and that another copy be posted up at the front door of this courthouse. A Copy. Teste, JOHN WARD, c. t. c. JUST RECEIVED, At S. Pleasants' Book-Store, Richmond, a very elegant assortment of the best PEN-KNIVES, Which will be sold by the dozen or single.