Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1809-05-23 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVIIIth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 16.6.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS,) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
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TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1809.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
List of Original Land Warrants for which Exchange Warrants have been granted, published agree- ably to an act of Assembly, passed the 1st of February, 1809.
   Name of Original Holder. Right on which Original War- rant issued. Number of O- riginal War- rant. Acres. Date. Names of Indorsers, Assignors and Assignees, as also, place of residence of those to whom exchange warrants have issued.     James Winn Treasury } Right } 19191 5381 1/2 Sept. 6, 1783 Jn. Hedrick ass'ee of Jn. Higgens, who was ass'ee of Jn. Winn Isaac Henkle ass'ee of do. do. Oliver McCoy ass'ee of do. do. John Davis ass'ee of do. do. Wm. Donaldson ass'ee of do. do. John Higgens ass'ee of James Winn Peter Hull, jr. ass'ee of John Higgens, ass'ee of Francis Smith, ass'ee of Thomas Shore.   Thomas Shore ditto 20145 16500 Oct. 22, 1783 Same ass'ee of do. do. Pendleton 2000 1999 Thomas Tavener ass'ee of do. do. ditto 1600 2000 Same ass'ee of do. do. Wood 500 2001 Robert Given ass'ee of do. do. ditto 500 2002 Andrew Johnson ass'ee of do. do. Bath 2000 2003 Edmund Morris ass'ee of do. do. Giles 1000 2004 Nicholas Gibson ass'ee of do. do. Kanawha 1000 2005 William Byars ass'ee of do. do. Randolph 1000 2006 Thos. Norvell ass'ee of do. do. Washington 1000 2007 Alexander Campbell ass'ee of Jas. M'Dowell, ass'ee of Ed- mund Vaughn, ass'ee of Joseph Ligon Richmd.Cty 6500 2008   Joseph Ligon ditto 6674 1/2 500 Sept. 29, 1781 Rockbridge 200 2009   Thos. Norvell ass'ee of John Higgens, ass'ee of Francis Smith, who was ass'ee of Thomas Shore. Exch. Trea- sury Warrant 2008 6500 Feb. 4, 1809 Archibald Rutherford ass'ee of Thomas Norvell Thomas Norvell   Thomas Norvell Treasury Right 3598 1000 May 11, 1803 Reuben Norvell ass'ee of Thomas Norvell   Philip Slaughter Exch. T. War. 913 138 Sept. 21, 1797 William Lewis ass'ee of Philip Slaughter   Moses Bostwick Trea. Right 8379 1592 April 3, 1782 Melchezedick Spragins ass'ee of Archer Robertson, admr. of Moses Bostwick, dec'd.   George Nicholson Exch. T. War. 1635 55 1/2 June 6, 1804 George Nicholson  
EDWARD C. DAVIS, Reg'r.
Land Office, May 1st, 1809.
Richmond Price Current.
[CORRECTED WEEKLY.]
   CASH. D. C.     Tobacco, - - - - - 5 00   Wheat, - - - - - 1 08   Flour, super-fine, - - - - - 6 00   Flour, fine, - - - - - 5 50   Corn, - - - - - 2 50   Hemp, per ton, - - - - - 250 00   Iron, - - - - - 120 00   Bacon, - - - - - 00 10   Whiskey, - - - - - 00 44  
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the second day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the Commonwealth, the thirty-third.
AN ACT giving further time to the proprietors of certain lands, forfeited for the non-payment of taxes, to redeem the same.
[Passed February 1st, 1806.] BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the proprietors of lands forfeited to, and vested in the Commonwealth, by the non-payment of taxes, agreeably to the act, entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this Commonwealth," may redeem the same by paying into the treasury of this Commonwealth, on or before the first day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and seven, all arrears of taxes due thereon.
This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof.
A Copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the first day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and six, and of the Commonwealth, the thirty-first.
AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this Commonwealth."
[Passed 20th January, 1807.]
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That when the taxes on any tract or parcel of land shall have heretofore remained, or shall hereafter remain unpaid for the space of two years, such tract or parcel of land shall be forfeited to the Commonwealth, and shall not be subject to location. Provided nevertheless, That the tract or parcel of land so as aforesaid forfeited, shall be subject to the redemption of the former rightful and proper owner at any time within three years after such forfeiture shall have accrued, upon payment of the taxes due thereupon, according to the following rules, to wit: That if the said taxes shall be paid in the first year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid an interest of twenty-five per centum per annum on the amount of the said taxes from the time they became due, till paid. If the said taxes shall be paid in the second year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid an interest of fifty per centum per annum on the amount of taxes due as aforesaid; If the said taxes shall be paid in the third year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid an interest of one hundred per centum per annum, as aforesaid; Provided also, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the rights of infants, femes covert, or persons of unsound mind, until one year after the disabilities shall have ceased, on their paying all taxes due, with an interest thereupon at the rate of ten per centum per annum on the amount due as aforesaid.
All acts and parts of acts coming within the purview of this act, are hereby repealed.
This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day of March next.
A Copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the Commonwealth, the thirty-third.
AN ACT providing for the redemption of certain lands forfeited by the non-payment of the taxes thereon.
[Passed February 6th, 1809.]
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That all lands heretofore forfeited or hereafter to be forfeited to the Commonwealth for the non-payment of taxes, by virtue of the laws now in force, shall be redeemable at any time, within three years from the time when such forfeiture hath heretofore accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, and until the first day of March next succeeding the expiration of the said term of three years, on payment of the taxes due thereon, with an interest of ten per centum per annum on each year's tax, from the time when the same became or shall become due, until the time of such redemption. Provided, nevertheless, That all lands heretofore forfeited, shall be redeemable in like manner, and on payment of the like interest, on or before the first day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten.
BE it further enacted, That the auditor of public accounts, shall on or before the first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and on or before the first day of March in every year thereafter, deliver to the collector of the taxes of each county, a list of all such forfeited lands therein, as on the first day of March preceding, had become irredeemable, which list shall be forthwith posted or hung up in the most public place in the courthouse of the county.
BE it further enacted, That on the first Monday in August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and on the first Monday of August in every year thereafter, the collectors shall proceed, by public auction, at the door of the courthouse of each county, to sell to the highest bidder, each tract of land contained within the list of such forfeited lands, as were irredeemable on the first day of March in the preceding year, for ready money.
BE it further enacted, That if at any such sale, the former owner or owners of any forfeited tract of land so about to be sold, or any person for him, her or them, or in his, her or their behalf, with or without any authority or direction for that purpose, shall appear and pay the taxes due thereon, with interest as aforesaid, until the time of such sale, such tract shall not be sold, but an entry of such payment shall be made by the collector on the list aforesaid, and a receipt for such payment given to the person making the same in the name of the former owner or owners, and thereupon such land shall be taken to be redeemed, and the forfeiture accrued thereon, shall be, and the same is hereby fully waived and remitted.
BE it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioner or commissioners of the revenue, annually, on the first Monday in August, to attend at the courthouse of their respective counties, and to take and make out a list of all the sales so to be made by the collector, specifying the name or names of the former owner or owners, the sums paid and to whom sold; which list the commissioner or commissioners shall forthwith transmit to the auditor of public accounts, who shall charge the collector with the amount of sales appearing thereon.
BE it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every collector to pay annually into the public treasury, all such sum or sums of money as he shall receive by virtue of this act, deducting a commission of five per centum thereon, which payment shall annually be made on the same day on which the taxes collected in the same year shall be payable.
BE it further enacted, That the lists of sale so certified and taken by the commissioners, or either of them, shall be sufficient to charge the collector or his security or securities, his, her or their heirs, executors or administrators therein, with, on any motion to be made to recover the same by the auditor of public accounts. And if any collector shall make default in the payment of any monies by him received, by virtue of this act, at the time hereby required, such collector, and his security or securities, his, her or their heirs, executors or administrators, shall be liable to all such fines, interest, damages and costs, and be recovered in the same manner as in case of a default in the payment of the Commonwealth's revenue.
BE it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every collector making a sale by virtue of this act, to make and execute to the purchaser a deed in fee simple for the lands purchased, reciting the cause of sale, and in every action or suit at law or in equity, in which a former owner or owners of any tract of land so sold and conveyed, his, her or their heirs, devisees, or other person or persons claiming under him, her or them, shall contest the validity of the sale so made, the onus probandi shall lie on the party so contesting.
BE it further enacted, That the commissioner or commissioners for discharging the duties re-
quired of them by this act, shall be entitled to receive from the public treasury a commission of one and a half per centum on the amount of sales, on a warrant from the auditor of public accounts.
BE it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the auditor of public accounts, at the public expense, to cause a copy of this act, and of an act passed the first day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, entitled, "An act giving further time to the proprietors of certain lands forfeited for the non-payment of taxes, to redeem the same, and also of an act passed on the twentieth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled, "An act to amend an act entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this Commonwealth," to be published, for six months successively in the present year and for three months successively, preceding the first Monday in August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, to be published in some newspaper of general circulation, edited in each of the United States, if any such there be.
And be it further enacted, That the duties enacted, shall where the sheriff is collector, be performed by the high sheriff in person, and every purchase made, wholly or in part, by the sheriff or his deputy, or by any other person being a collector, or by any other person, wholly or in part, for the use of such sheriff, deputy sheriff or other person being collector, shall be void; and every sheriff, deputy sheriff or other person being a collector, making any purchase, either wholly or in part, for himself, or procuring any other person to make such purchase, wholly or in part, for the use aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of $500, to the use of the public, to be recovered by bill, plaint or information, in any court of record having jurisdiction thereof.
This act shall be in force from the passing thereof.
A Copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
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PROPOSALS will be received by the Executive for raising seven eighteen pounders opposite Drew's Point, Nansemond River, until the 1st day of July next.
Daniel L. Hylton, c. c.
11 July.

THE friends of the administration are charged with the most criminal intolerance because they continue to expose the du- cacy and jesuitry of their opponents— the Federalists. They are accused of be- ing anxious to keep alive the spirit of par- ty, and if possible, to increase the acrimo- ny which has hitherto existed. But what is the ground upon which they advance these charges? Because they will not ad- mit that the administration of the last eight years was conducted with a view to en- tangle us with France and to involve us in a war with Britain. Because they will not admit that Mr. Jefferson is perfectly destitute of virtue, talents and patriotism. Because they will not admit that the late re- strictions upon our commerce, were laid for the purpose of destroying commercial pros- perity and not for the purpose of saving our property, seamen, &c. &c. Because in fact they will not give up Mr. Jefferson as a victim to their hatred, calumny, and re- len less persecution. Because they will not suffer their mock, hollow-hearted adu- lation of Mr. Madison to pass as the genuine effusions of republicanism. And hence it is, that the republicans are charged with a party spirit, so intensely intolerant and persecuting as to produce the most serious and alarming consequences.
We ask in vain for a satisfactory answer to the question, Why they have thus sud- denly become the extravagant admir- ers of the administration and the man who has been for so long a time the object of their censure and abuse? The same allegations which have been urged against Mr. Jeffer- son have been urged against Mr. Madison. In order however to preserve the appear- ance of things they have drawn this ideal line of distinction. That if Mr. Jefferson had been in the place of Mr. Madison when the late propositions were made by Mr. Erskine, he would not have accepted them. This is the poor subterfuge to which they have resorted to preserve the reputa- tion of consistency. If they had come for- ward in an undisguised style of honesty & candour and have declared that they have all along been hurried away by pre- judice and impetuosity, and that now they were prepared to join in support of repub- lican men & measures, then indeed they would have deserved the highest encomiums: But to steal into our party as it were, and to claim the merit and success exclusively due to republican policy, presents a master piece of assurance that can only be viewed with mixed emotions of ridicule and contempt. There never was perhaps an assertion so boldly made which was so very easy of refutation. It is perfectly unne- cessary for this purpose to institute any in- quiry into the political life of Mr. Jefferson, because unfortunately for the Federalists, the reverse of their assertion has actually taken place. It is well known and it is e- ven admitted in the British Parliament, that the very same proposition (which has been accepted by Mr. Madison,) was offer- ed in August last by Mr. Jefferson. Is it to be presumed then by any intelligent, in- genious mind, that Mr. Jefferson would have rejected the proposition of Mr. Ersk- ine and particularly too, when it was at- tended with others which every person wished, but which no person expected?
It is impossible that his most inveterate foe can yield to this delusion and belief; but yet, this is the great cause which has effected such a wonderful revolution a- mong the Federalists. Because they are determined to overleap plain established facts and to indulge their imagination with the idea that Mr. Jefferson would not have acted in the same manner as Mr. Madison has done, they have become fervent converts to the new administration which is unquestionably es- tablished upon the principles of the preceding. Does not this evidently prove that they judge of political measures according to the criteria of men and not principles, which is the very charge they have been in the habit of urging against the republicans? But why they have become such prostrate worshippers of Mr. Madison, it is im- possible to imagine. It is a phenomenon in pol- itics that we are unable to explain. We cannot believe them sincere when they say that they believe that Mr. Madison will prove himself to be a federalist and that therefore they have joined us in advocating his administration. This is a trump to cheat us of our President and the ascendancy of our party over Herod's Herod.
FOR THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
IN your paper of the 16th instant; I gave a demonstration of the properties of a ro- tatory wheel along a plane and a general application of the same principle to the motion of the earth round the sun, with the consequences resulting from this motion. I shall now proceed to inves- tigate and illustrate these consequences more particularly than I did in my last essay; although my professional engage- ments permit but a very small portion of time for such purposes.
I am well aware, of the ridicule general- ly attached to those who form new theories, and depart from the established systems of the scientific world. There is no one more averse than myself to abandon systems which have been firmly established upon mathe- matical principles, or no one who holds in higher reverence both the name & works of Newton; yet whenever any other can support his doctrines by geometrical demonstration; I shall always be ready to hear him.
In my last essay, I observed that the ve- locity of the upper point, was to the velocity of the under point, as twice the chord of the arc of the circle over which they might have moved to the difference between twice the diameter, and twice the chord of the arc of the supplement of that arc; or halving the ra- tios the chord of the arc of the circle over which they might have moved to the difference between the diameter and the chord of the supplement of that arc. From whence without making any other calcula- tion, I concluded that when the arc was nothing, their velocities must be equal; but since, after calculating these respective proportions in different points of the quadrant, I found a consequence of a very different nature and still more surprising will result; for
then the velocity of the upper point will be to that of the under point as infinity to no- thing or in plainer terms that after the up- per and lower points have described very small arcs, the velocity of the upper point may be a million of times greater than the velocity of the under point. This no doubt will appear incredible to many who even doubted that the upper point of a wheel goes swifter than the under point; to be told; that for a certain, although very small space, the upper point of a wheel may move a million of times swifter, than its corres- ponding under point. Yet the assertion is a correct one, and I am also warranted in the same conclusion by a paper which I have seen, on this subject, by professor Blackburn of Williamsburg, a gentleman whose mathematical talents I hold in the highest respect.
The under point, therefore when in con- tact with the ground may be considered as stationary, and its velocity gradually to in- crease until it reaches the horizontal line when it becomes equal to that of its oppo- site point.
When the upper and lower points had each described thirty degrees, I found that the velocity of the upper point was to that of the under point as 5177 to 758 when they had moved over forty five degrees their velo- cities were to each other as 7653 to 1867; and when they had described an arc of sixty degrees they were in the proportion of 10 000 to 5404.
Let us now apply this to the motion of the earth round the sun. On the 21st March the sun entered Aries; therefore the earth was in the opposite point of Libra; and as the earth revolves round its axis from west to east, all those points in the Hemisphere next the sun will move lower than the points of the opposite Hemisphere; wherefore the gravity of matter will be most and the centrifugal force least at noon, on the 21st of March. Again on the 22d of September the sun enters Libra, and the earths axis; therefore the gravity of matter will be most and the centrifugal force least at midnight on the 22d of September or at noon on that day, the gravity of matter will be least and the centrifugal force greatest. The reason of this will readily appear from examining the second and third corollaries in my last essay.
Wherefore it appears that from the 21st of March until the 22d of September that particular moment when gravity is most has a variation of a few minutes later every twenty four hours, and in like man- ner it has a similar variation from the 22d of September until the 21st of March.
To calculate the particular hour when gravity is most for every day in the year; several circumstances must be taken into consideration, viz., the inclination of the axis of the Earth to its orbit; her irregular progressive motion, and the particular species of Cycloid which the Earth describes. These would lead to calculations which my present time does not permit, but to compare the effect, which the Earth's rotation has upon the tides with the effect which the moon produces, it is requisite that these calculations should first be made, and a table constructed, showing the pro- portion between the velocity of the points of the opposite Hemispheres of the Earth for every day and hour in the year.
In the same manner also as Sir Isaac Newton has calculated (Prop. XX, Book 3d of the Principia) the length of the Pendu- lum for the several degrees of Latitude from the Poles to the Equator; and the weight of bodies for these Latitudes; so likewise a Table may be constructed, ex- hibiting the length of the Pendulum and the weights of Bodies, for every hour and minute of the day throughout the year.
It has been frequently observed that the best Pendulums have varied in the 24 hours of the earth's rotation; but the cause has always been attributed to a change of temperature in the atmosphere, and not to a change of gravity in matter.
The atmosphere is affected by the earth's rotation in two ways. It is affected in the same manner as the Tides by the gravity of the matter which composes it, always changing—It is also affected by the action of light (which may be considered a fluid) upon its rotatory motion; since this motion is different in the opposite parts of the atmosphere. I cannot explain this better than by quoting the enunciation of the 52d prop. of the 2d book and the first corollary of Newton's Principia.
Prop. 52d. If a solid sphere, in an uni- form and infinite fluid, revolves about an axis, given in position with an uniform mo- tion, and the fluid be forced round by on- ly this impulse of the sphere; and every part of the fluid perseveres uniformly in its motion; I say that the periodic times of the parts of the fluid are as the squares of their distances from the centre of the sphere.
Cor. 1st. Hence the angular motions of the parts of the fluid about the axis of the globe are reciprocally as the squares of the distances from the centre of the globe, and the absolute velocities are reciprocally as the same squares applied to the dis- tances from the axis.
An ingenious writer in the last Visitor, affirms that the problem respecting the wheel is nothing new, and refers to the articles Roulement, Roue, Roue d'Aristote, Cycloide, Trochoide in the French Ency- clopedia in the possession of Mr. Cheva- lie.
Much as I respect the talents and erudi- tion of this writer, with whom I have the pleasure of being acquainted; yet I must beg leave to differ from him on this point. Another gentleman in Richmond who is al- so possessed of the French Encyclopaedia has been so obliging as to favor me with the volumes containing these articles which I have perused; and altho' a very particular account of the Cycloid is given in them; yet the proposition in question, "That the upper part of a wheel revolving along a plane moves swifter than the under part is no where mentioned." But that the curi- ous may judge for themselves, I have tran- scribed those passages which most apply to the present question, and to prevent any dispute respecting the translation of terms, I have thought it better to give them in French than in English; as it is to be presumed that those readers who are interested in this subject understand that language.
Under the article Cycloide there are the following observations:
"La Cycloide est une courbe assez mo- derne; et quelques personnes ont attribué l'invention au P. Mersenne, d'autres à Galilée; mais le docteur Wallis pretend que l'est de plus ancienne date; qu'elle a été connue d'un certain Bovillus vers l'an- nee 1500, et que le cardinal Cusa en avoit meme fait mention longtems auparavant c'est a dire avant l'an 1451."
"Il est constant, remarque M. Formey, que le P. Mersenne divulgué le premier la formation de la Cycloide, en la proposant a tous les geometres de son tems, lesquels y appliquant a l'envi, y firent alors plu- sieurs decouvertes; en sorte qu'il etoit dif- ficile de juger a qui etoit dû l'honneur de la premiere invention. De la vint cette celebre contestation entre MM. de Rober- val Toricelli, Descartes, Laiovera, &c."
"Depuis ce tems-la a peine a-t-on trouve un mathematicien tant soit peu dis- tingué, qui n'ait eprouve ses forces sur cette ligne, en tachant d'y decouvrir quelque nouvelle propriete. Les plus belles nous ont ete laissees par MM. Pascal, Huyghens, Wallis, Wren, Leibnitz, Bernoulli, &c."
Cette Courbe a des propriétes bien sin- gulieres Son identite avec a develop- per, les chutes en tems egaux par des arcs inegaux de cette courbe, et la plus vite de- scente, sont les plus remarquables."
"Ceux qui voudront s'instruire dans un plus grand detail de l'histoire de la cycloide pourront consulter la vie de Descartes en 4 par M. Baillet, liv. IV. chap. xij. xiv. xv. Il resulte de l'histoire assez etendue que cet auteur en donne."
"1. Que le premier, qui a remarque cette ligne dans la nature, mais sans en penetrer les propriétes, a ete le P. Mer- senne qui lui a donne le nom de roulette."
"2. Que le premier qui en a connu la nature, et qui en a demontre l'espace, a ete M. de Roberval qui l'a appelee d'un nom tire du grec trochoide."
"3. Que le premier qui en a trouve la tangente, a ete M. Descartes, et presque en meme tems M. de Fermat, quoique d'une maniere detournee; apres quoi M. de Roberval en a le premier mesure les plans et les solides et donne le centre de gravite du plan et de ses parties."
"4. Que le premier qui l'a nommee cy- cloide, a ete M. de Bougrand; que le pre- mier qui se l'est attribuee devant le pub- lic et qui l'a donnee au jour, a ete Torri- celli."
"5. Que le premier qui en a mesure la ligne courbe et ses parties, et qui en a don- ne la comparaison avec la ligne droite, a ete M. Wren, sans la demonstrer."
"6. Que le premier qui a trouve le centre de gravite des solides, et demi-solides de la ligne et de ses parties, tant autour de la base qu'autour de l'axe, a ete M. Pas- cal; que le meme a aussi trouve le pre- mier le centre de gravite de la ligne et de ses parties; la dimension et le centre de gravite des surfaces, demi-surfaces, quart- des-surfaces, &c. decrites par la ligne et par ses parties tournees autour de la base et autour de l'axe; et enfin la dimen- sion de toutes les lignes courbes des cy- cloides allongees ou accourcies. M. Pas- cal publia ces propriétes de la cycloide dans un petit livre imprimee au commencement de 1658, sous le titre de traite de la rou- lette et sous le nom de A. d'Etenville. Il est forte rare, le libraire n'en ayant tire que 130 exemplaires. La bibliotheque des Peres de la doctrine en possede un Bail- let, vie de Descartes."
The remainder of this article respects the application of the Cycloid to the pendu- lum by Huyghens.
Under the article Roue, the paragraph most applicable to the present question is the following:
"Le seul et unique mouvement qu'ait la Roue, est un mouvement curviligne, com- pose du mouvement progressif et du mouve- ment circulaire; ce qu'on peut voir aise- ment en fixant un crayon sur la roue, de maniere qu'il marque sa trace sur la mu- raille pendant que la roue tourne; car la ligne qui se trouve tracee alors est un vraie courbe; cette courbe s'appelle par les geometres Cycloide, et elle est d'au- tant moins courte, que le crayon a ete place plus proche de l'axe."
The article Roue d'Aristote only contains an explanation of the problem mentioned in the Visitor which was suggested by Ar- istotle viz. "During a complete revolution of the wheel, a line equal to the circum- ference thereof is described on the ground; why, then, during one revolution also of a concentric circle within the wheel, is a line described by that circle, greater than its circumference."
The article Roulement has the following observation by Fontenelle.
"M. de Fontenelle dans sa pluralite des mondes, veut expliquer ces deux mouve- ments par la comparaison d'une boue qui roule sur un plan en meme temps qu'elle avance. Mais le mouvement progressif de la boue produit necessairement son mouvement de rotation, au lieu qu'il n'est pas sur que la rotation des planètes sur leurs axes vienne du meme principe que leur re- volution annuelle, et que ces deux mouve- ments paroisent meme entierement inde- pendant l'un de l'autre; c'est pourquoi il est a croire que Monsieur de Fontenelle n'a pas donne cette explication comme forte exacte."
Now there is nothing in all this, which serves to prove that the present proposition "whether the upper points of a wheel move swifter than the lower points" was agitated by them or any other. It is true all the properties of the Cycloid are fully discus- sed; but this might have been without the idea of one part of a wheel moving swifter than another ever suggesting itself nor do I believe the idea was started, for if it had, Sir Isaac Newton and his contemporaries would not have passed it unnoticed.
J. W. Manchester Academy, May 21, 1809.
BRIGADE ORDERS.
THE commanding officer of the 3d bri- gade feels much pleasure in offering his sincere congratulations to his brother offi- cers and soldiers on the favorable change in our public affairs, which has produced the enclosed circular letter from the de- partment of war, accompanied with one from his excellency the Governor (just re- ceived) by which the requisition lately made upon the body of the militia of this state is declared to be no longer required to be held in readiness for actual service.
By whatever means a change so favor- able to the happiness and prosperity of our country may have been effected, it affords equal cause of gratulation to every patriot and friend of free government, to be trans- ferred from the gloomy prospects of a ca- lamitous and distressing war, with all its train of evils and privations, to the pleasing smiles of peace, with its concomitant bles- sings.
Influenced by the same benign providence which led us safely through an eight years' war of virtuous revolution, each of us may now again enjoy under our own vine & our own fig tree the just fruits of our labours—an event so joyful in all its ten- dencies and aspects—so auspicious to our national happiness, and the preservation of republican principles, will not fail to in- spire suitable sentiments of gratitude to the great arbiter of nations and dispenser of all good.
With whatever zeal, Fellow Citizens, officers and soldiers of the militia, we have (by rallying around the national standard) evinced our readiness to defend our country against its threatened dangers and to vin- dicate its injured honour against those na- tional insults & injuries to which it has been subjected by foreign powers—It equally behoves us as good citizens to rally around our national government by uniting our ef- forts with the constitutional functions to in- sure the blessings of Peace, Union, and Freedom, to our beloved Country.
In communicating the thanks of the Pre- sident of the United States, to the volun- teers whose patriotic services have been rendered to the United States—and the congratulations of the Governor of this state on the late happy change of prospect with respect to our foreign relations, and his sea- sonable and judicious exhortation to ac- quire a knowledge of military discipline as the best security in the day of battle—the commanding officer cannot withhold the just tribute of applause to the officers and soldiers of the 3d Brigade for the prompt and manly discharge of their respective duties upon all occasions when called upon by the constitutional organs of their country—a retrospect of the past insures the plea- sing anticipation of their future good con- duct.
The commandants of the regiments com- posing the 3d Brigade will forthwith dis- charge from requisition the detachments now in readiness for actual service.
JOHN GUERRANT, Jr.
B G. 3d B. V. M. Goochland, May 16th, 1809.
COMMUNICATIONS.
To the Printers of the Boston Patriot.
SIRS,
A few words more on the subject of pressing. In strictness we have to do with the question, whether impressment of seamen in England are legal or illegal. Whatever iniquity or inhumanity that go- vernment may inflict on their own sub- jects, we have no authority to call them to an account for it. But when they ex- tend that power to us, a foreign nation, it is natural for us, and it is our duty as well as interest to consider what it is among themselves.
The most remarkable case in which this subject has been touched in Westmin- ster Hall, is in Cowper's Reports, page 512, Rex vs John Tubbs. The report of the case is very long, and I shall only ob- serve, that the question of the legality of the power of impressment, was not before the court. The question was whether the lord mayor had a right to exempt thirty or forty watermen for his barges.— Lord Mansfield sufficiently expresses his alarm and his apprehensions of the con- sequences of starting a question relative to this subject, in the following words: "I am very sorry that either of the res- pectable parties before the court, the city of London on the one hand, or the lords commissioners of the admiralty on the o- ther, have been prevailed on to agitate this question," &c.
"I was in hopes the court would have had an opportunity of investigating this point to the bottom, instead of being ur- ged to discuss it so instantaneously, &c. I own I wished for a more deliberate con- sideration upon this subject; but being prevented of that, I am bound to say what my present sentiments are. The power of pressing, is founded upon immemorial usage, allowed for ages. If it be so found- ed, and allowed for ages, it can have no ground to stand upon, nor can it be vindi- cated or justified by any reason but the safety of the state: and the practice is de- duced from that true maxim of the con- stitutional law of England, that private mischief had better be submitted to, than public detriment and inconvenience should ensue. To be sure there are instances where private men must give way to the public good. In every case of pressing, every man must be very sorry for the act, and for the necessity which gives rise to it. It ought therefore to be exercised with the greatest moderation and only upon the most cogent necessity, & though it be a legal power, it may, like many o- thers, be abused in the exercise of it."
The case is too long to transcribe; but it is worth reading. My remarks upon it shall be short.
1. Lord Mansfield most manifestly drea- ded the question, probably on account of the innumerable difficulties attending it, as well as the national uproar it would most certainly excite.
2. His lordship carefully avoided the use of the word right. He knew the sense, force and power of words too well to pro- fane that sacred expression, by applying it to a practice so loose and undefined, so irregular and capricious, so repugnant to the inherent, hereditary, unalienable and indefeasible births right of British sub- jects.
3. He calls it a practice and a power, but he does not even venture to call it a prerogative of the crown.
4. He does not even affirm that there exists such an immemorial usage, allow- ed for ages. He says, "if it be found ad- mitted and allowed for ages." The existence of such an immemorial usage, allowed for ages, was probably one of the principal points which he wished to investigate.
5. He does not affirm that such a custom, usage, power or practice, could be pleaded or given in evidence against Magna Char- ta. If his Lordship had been allowed time to investigate the subject to the bottom, he perhaps would not have found evidence of any such immemorial usage allowed for ages. He certainly would not have found it allowed by any national act or legal autho- rity, and without one or the other, how can it be said to have been allowed? Allowed by whom? By those who committed the trespass, on others. His Lordship moreover might have found, that no custom, u- sage, power or practice could be alleged, pleaded or given in evidence, in any court of justice against Magna Charta.
6. All the judges allow that exemptions, badges and protections against impressment have been given by Peers, Commons, Lord mayors, Lords and officers of the admiralty, and as I understand Lord Mansfield, by officers of the navy. Now what a loose, undefined, arbitrary power is this, to be legally established as an immemorial usage allowed for ages?
7. I wonder not that his Lordship dreaded the discussion of it and an investigation of it to the bottom, for he must have foreseen the endless difficulties of ascertaining, defi- ning and limiting the usages which were immemorial, and distinguished them from such as were modern, temporary, usurped and not allowed.
8. The counsel for the city had before ob- served, that the legality of pressing, if found- ed at all, could only be supported by im- memorial usage, there being clearly no sta- tute in force investing the crown with any such authority.
9. The infinite difficulty of determining who were seamen and who were not, must be obvious, and all agree that the power is confined to seamen and them only.
Christian, in his edition of Blackstone, vol. 1, page 419, says, in a note—"The le- gality of pressing is so fully established, that it will not now admit of a doubt in any court of justice," and in proof of this he quotes Lord Mansfield's opinion in the case of the king against Tubbs, in the words I have a- bove transcribed. Whereas I think that taking all Lord Mansfield says together, he makes the subject as doubtful as ever, and encumbered with innumerable and insepara- ble difficulties.
Upon the whole, all I concluded from the conduct of the modern judges and lawyers in England is, that the pride in the navy has got the better of their sense of law and justice, and that court and county lawyers, as well as administration and opposition, have been gradually endeavoring to unite for the last thirty or forty years, in sacrific- ing the principle of justice and law to rea- sons of state, by countenancing this branch of arbitrary power.—But let them keep their arbitrary powers at home: not practise them upon us, our ships, or seamen.
JOHN ADAMS.
Quincy, April 25, 1809.
To Messrs Everett and Monroe, Editors of the Boston Patriot.
Gentlemen,
His Excellency, Mr. Adams, late Pres- ident of the United States, having express- ed in the Boston Patriot of yesterday, a desire that I would publish copies of my let- ter to the Secretary of State, dated Nan- tasket Road, October 1, 1798, and of the let- ters of M. Talleyrand to myself, together with his assurances, communicated by me to the President, in conversation; in com- pliance with the President's request, I now send you the copies referred to, and shall transmit the "assurances" in time for pub- lication.
Your most obedient servant, E. GERRY.
Cambridge, 27th April, 1809.
Extract from the letter of Mr. Gerry, to Timothy Pickering, Esq. Secretary of State, dated Nantasket Roads, 1st Oct. 1798.
"When I left the United States in Au- gust 1797, the citizens in general appear- ed to be earnestly desirous of a reconcilia- tion with France, on terms consistent with the honor, interest and welfare of the two republics; these being free from claims & controversies in regard to territory, boun- daries, and many matters which embroil states; and loom competitions relative to their productions, manufactures and com- merce, had a mutual and manifest interest in the renewal of their commercial and friendly intercourse with each other. Na- ture seemed to have entitled the U. States, in their remote situation, to the peaceable pursuit of their industry, by means where- of, in its various branches, their wealth & power were rapidly increasing; and to an exemption from the conflicts of Europe; which, involving them, would check their population, drain their resources, and en- sure their poverty. On a candid investi- gation then of the causes of the unhappy differences between the two governments, on a disposition to correct errors, to which all governments are more or less liable, and on their mutual resolution to reciprocate justice, the success of the mission was conceived to depend; and as this temper marked the plan of pacification adopted by the U. States, there was a rational pros- pect of success.
On the 26th of July, I left Paris; and from the best information which I could obtain relative to the disposition of the Ex- ecutive Directory (for I never had any di- rect communication with them) they were very desirous of a reconciliation between the republics. Every impediment to my departure had been adopted by the French minister, and he would have prevented it had he succeeded in his plan of an epistola- ry discussion; this object was, as I conceiv- ed, to gain time for ascertaining, whether the United States were then disposed to a treaty; of this he manifested doubts, being

persuaded that their resentment was too great to admit of it. He seemed also to apprehend, that in consequence of the incredible exertions of Great Britain, and the unequivocal evidence she had given of her ability to defend herself, they were inclined to avenge their injuries, by an alliance with her; and that, should France come forward with overtures, on the plan of a treaty, she would fail therein, and commit her honor. I was nevertheless of opinion, that should France be just and liberal in her measures, the government of the United States would still meet her on the ground of accommodation. My judgement was the result of their instructions; for I had never received any other official intelligence since my departure from America: I have therefore uniformly inculcated that sentiment.
Having been thus in a situation, wherein, amidst a series of events, each has been productive of fresh embarrassments, I have invariably pursued what to me appeared the honor, interest and welfare of my country, and been guided by the sense of the government, as far as I could ascertain it.
If the door is still open to peace, the establishment of it must be an happy event to the United States, as it will exempt them from calamities, which notwithstanding delusive appearances, will, with short intervals, probably continue for half a century to exhaust and depopulate Europe.
Extract from the letter of Ch. Mau. Talleyrand, Envoy of the United States, dated Paris, July 22, 1798. You repeat to me that the government of the United States has always been disposed to terminate amicably the differences which subsist between the two republics. This fresh assurance, at a time when hostile demonstrations have just been made, could not but temper their effect. But let a frank, candid, and truly amicable act speedily realize those dispositions. Far from entering into the answers of the President to the addresses which have been presented to him from different parts of the United States, whatsoever they may be, I would fain behold in his expressions nothing but a political expedient. I do not thence judge less favorably of the true intentions, which you profess in his name, and I would not have engaged you to warrant the success of the first proof, which he will render of them, if the Executive Directory, which was ready to receive you, had not made a fixed determination upon the subject. A negotiation may therefore be resumed even at Paris, where I flatter myself you have observed nothing but testimonies of esteem, and where every envoy who shall unite your advantages cannot fail to be well received. Moreover, I know not, sir, why you tell me that it would be requisite to lop from this negotiation every preliminary respecting a loan, and explanations on the subject of the speeches delivered. Be pleased to read over again the propositions which I transmitted to you on the 30th Prairial, [June 18.] they contain all the ideas of the French government; and you will not find in them a word which justifies your recurring to those two questions. An odious intrigue had got possession of them: the dignity of the French government could not permit this mixture; and it did not wish that views as pure as its own should be associated therewith hereafter. As to the preliminary measures, which you suggested, sir, the government has already anticipated your desire. By information which it has just received, it indeed learns that violences have been committed upon the commerce and citizens of the United States in the West Indies, and on their coasts. Do it the justice to believe, that it needs only to know the facts, to disavow all acts contrary to the laws of the Republic and its own decrees. A remedy is preparing for it, and orders will soon arrive in the West Indies, calculated to cause every thing to return within its just limits, until an amicable arrangement between France and the United States, shall re-establish them respectively in the enjoyment of their treaties.
To Mr. Gerry, Envoy of the United States. Presuming, sir, that you have not yet embarked, I address to you a decree of the Executive Directory, wherein you will find a part of the measures, which I announced to you the fourth of this month. Its solicitude will not be confined to that. Neutral, in general, will have reason soon to be convinced of its firm attachment to the principles to which it is desirous that all the maritime nations might agree. It depends upon the United States in particular, to cause every misunderstanding immediately to disappear between them and the French Republic. Accept, sir, the assurance of my perfect consideration. (Signed) CH. MAU. TALLEYRAND.
Extract from a memorandum containing the substance of a conference with the Dutch Minister, the 25th July, 1798. Just before dinner, the Dutch minister called on me, and said, he had received from Mr. Talleyrand, a printed copy of his letter to me, dated 24th Messidor, (12th July,) that the Dutch government took a friendly part in the disputes between France and the United States, and that he came to offer his services, and the mediation of his government, who had authorized and instructed him on this head.
I answered, that the conduct of M. Talleyrand, in publishing his letter to me, had an hostile appearance: that if a mediation could be supposed necessary, it must be offered to the government of the United States: I had no authority to accept it: that if the government of France was sincere in its declaration, made through M. Talleyrand, its minister, all that was wanting was to open a negotiation; for he had expressed a desire to show by treaty how all disposed France was to put an end to these disputes; that the government of the United States was so reasonable, and just in its demands, that it could not fail to evince a good disposition to a reconciliation, that the etiquette of setting on foot a negotiation, appeared at present to be
the only embarrassment; more especially as the principal obstruction to a negotiation had ceased, this government having relinquished all claims of loans and reparations on account of the President's speeches.
The case of Gideon Olstead, which has excited so much attention and anxiety, is at length brought to a close. When the supreme Court of the U. S. peremptorily ordered an attachment to issue against the executrixes of David Rittenhouse. Gov. Snyder, in compliance as he alleged with the act of Pennsylvania of 1803, ordered a guard to be drafted from the militia of Philadelphia and stationed at the dwellings of the said executrixes, under command of General Bright, to protect their "persons and property." The marshal finding himself resisted in the service of the attachment, had issued notices to several thousand of the citizens to appear on a certain day to aid in carrying the laws of the United States into effect. Before that day arrived, however, he found an opportunity to evade the guard, obtain an entrance into the house of one of the executrixes, and serve the attachment. The notices to raise the posse were then countermanded. The Governor on receiving information of this ordered the detachment to be discharged, and, under a law passed by the Legislature just before it rose, the money in dispute paid out of the Treasury of the State. Meantime, General Bright, and the individuals composing his detachment, were indicted in the District Court of the United States for opposing by force of arms the authority of the United States, found guilty, and sentenced, Gen. Bright to pay a fine of 200 dollars and be imprisoned for three months, and the eight others each to pay a fine of 50 dollars and be imprisoned one month, and to stand committed until these sentences were complied with. They were accordingly committed to prison; where they remained from Tuesday the 2d May until Monday the 8th, when a pardon arrived from the President of the United States remitting both their fines and imprisonments, and they were discharged accordingly. This case has given rise to great differences of opinion, not only in Pennsylvania, but throughout the Union—as to the question whether the State or the United States were in the right—it being contended on one side that the state had set up a claim where it had none in law or equity, and on the other that the United States Judiciary had usurped a jurisdiction not given it by the Constitution. The case is new; and opens a wide field for argument.
True American. Several federal papers have spoken very warmly in praise of Mr. Madison. —In the days of Grecian degeneracy and corruption, Phocion, (who was at once the wisest Statesman and best General of Athens, but whose salutary counsels were disregarded, as his splendid victories were unimproved) was addressing the Athenians from the rostrum when, observing he was generally applauded by the people, he turned to the friend next him and enquired, "did you observe that I committed any egregious blunder?" —The same distrust which the applause of the rotten-hearted Athenians excited in the breast of Phocion, the approbation of the wrong-headed Federalists ought to raise in the bosom of Mr. Madison.
Mr. Erskine, in his correspondence with Mr. Madison, affects to consider the non-intercourse act as a conciliatory measure. —The Governor of Canada, in his speech to the legislature last month, declares, "As a feature of hostility the non-intercourse act is even more strongly marked than the Embargo." &c. "Who shall decide, when such men disagree?"
By a federal calculation, between ten and eleven thousand seamen have already sailed from the U. States, since the partial repeal of the Embargo. As many more are probably shipped for those vessels about to sail. Yet how often have Federalists told us that our seamen were all driven out of the country by the Embargo!
The Boston Junto who but a few months ago were loudly threatening a division of the Union, finding public opinion adverse to their plan, have not only abandoned it for the present, but stoutly deny that they entertained any such idea. This sneaking conduct of the Junto reminds us of the Anecdote related of a Scotchman, who, creeping through the hedge of an orchard with an intent to rob it was discovered by the owner, who called out to him, "Sawney! hoot mon, where are you gawing?" —"Bock agen," cried Sawney.
What was published as fable by
the Republican papers last fall, has now become fact. The combat between the Lyon and Terrapin, where in the latter seized the former by the nose and held him till he was vanquished, has been realized. The British Lyon has been conquered by the American Terrapin the Embargo.
From the (Salem) Essex Register. WHAT THINK YOU? Mr. Stephens, author of "War in Disguise," in a late Speech in the British House of Commons, said— "America has made use of this argument, and alleged that our trade has suffered no damage from the Berlin Decrees—and even the BRITISH PARTY IN AMERICA had not been bold enough in the face of such open and continued misrepresentation to state how the fact really was. —Mr. Pickering, who had so ably and justly defended the BRITISH CAUSE, had not stated it."
From this and various other expressions used by the British ministry, and their supporters, there can remain no question on the mind of any impartial or disinterested man, that they claim and claim justly, the whole clan of junta federalists, as their own—such they are soul and body.
By perusing the following paragraph copied from a London paper, our readers may form a pretty correct idea of the delusion with which those British Editors have been pampered by the Tories in this country. They had anticipated the most pleasing results from their conjunction with the opposition party in the U. S. but the firm and dignified stand of the republicans, has completely foiled their plans, and has sunk the degenerate mortals to wallow in their contemptuous baseness.
"Insurrections have broken out in different parts of the United States, and the troops have refused to act against the insurgents"—the greatest confusion prevails in all the principal seaports in the U. States, and a determined resistance is made to all the restrictive regulations of the Embargo Law. —The vessels for Europe (particularly for England) now put to sea in defiance of the power of their government, and the most serious results seem to threaten the existence of their Union."
SUMMARY OF LATE AND INTERESTING PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
Communicated for the Philad. Register The latest letters from England mention the receipt of private information from France, of the discovery of a real or pretended conspiracy against Bonaparte, and that in consequence, 550 persons have been arrested at Paris alone. Several senators, generals, legislators, and prefects, were said to be implicated in a plot of removing Napoleon, and of placing the crown of France on the head of its legitimate prince Louis XVIII, as the only mean of restoring Europe to its long lost tranquility. No public examinations had taken place from fear, as was stated, of alarming the armies; but the prisoners underwent daily interrogatories in the temple and other revolutionary bastiles, before Fouche, and the confidential members of the secret police of the French emperor. —Strict search has been made after the duke of Angouleme, the presumptive heir of the French Bourbons, married to the daughter of Louis XVI, who was supposed to be concealed at Paris. This prince was however, safe in England with his uncle Louis XVIII. Ferdinand VII. and his brother, were reported to be confined in the state prison, the castle of Vincennes, near Paris, where the duke of Enghien was murdered in 1804. Bonaparte's journey to Germany is stated to have been retarded by these occurrences; and before he quitted his capital, he deposited his will in the senate, which the grand officers of state, as well as the members of the senate swore, in case of any accident to him, punctually to execute.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
A postscript to a letter from St. Bartholomews, dated the 28th of April, contains the important news which follows: "I open my letter to say, that by a vessel yesterday from Liverpool, we have news to the 28th ult. [8 days later than by the Ann] by which it certainly appears, hostilities have commenced between Austria and France, and that peace between Russia and Britain is before this supposed to have taken place."
[N. York Gazette]
ALBANY, May 12. Our returns are now complete as to members of the assembly, and the result is as follows:
The house of Assembly is composed of 112 members, of whom there are 63 federalists and 49 democrats.
Making a federal majority of 14 in the house.
The senate consists of 32 members, who hold their seats for four years. They are elected in classes, eight being chosen every year. Last year, there was but one federalist in the senate.
Of the eight chosen this spring, five (from the Eastern and Western Districts) are federal—and three (from the Middle and Southern) are democratic. —Majorities not yet ascertained; but there is a clear majority of federal senatorial votes in the state.
The council, by which all the appointments, excepting those of treasurer and state printer, are made, consists of the Governor, and one Senator from each of the four great districts, chosen by the house of Assembly.
Balance.
WE regret that the essay entitled "THOUGHTS ON PARTIES" was received too late to be inserted in our paper of today. Essays of this character are extremely appropriate to the present times and cannot be too frequently addressed to the understanding and reflection of the people.
To our Correspondent we return our thanks and shall always be happy to receive his valuable strictures. "Thoughts on Parties" shall appear in our next number.
The RACES over the NEW-MARKET Course, commenced on Wednesday last; on which day the Jockey Club Purse of $500 was won by Mr. Selden's horse Wrangler, beating Mr. Johnson's Sir Archy, Mr. Wynne's Gallatin, Mr. Goode's Sir Robin, Mr. Wade Mosby's Rattray, & Mr. Turpin's sorrel horse.
Thursday the Proprietor's Purse, $225, was won by Mr. Watson's Sir Sidney, (formerly Atlantic,) beating five others.
Uncommonly good sport on both days.
Married, on Thursday evening last, Doctor JOSEPH TRENT, of this city, to Miss ANN REYNOLD, of New-Kent.
Married on the 14th inst, by the Rev. J. D. Blair, Mr. JACOB S. DOYLE, to the amiable Miss HANNAH WOOD, late of Philadelphia.
MARRIED—At Pelham, (Mass.) Mr. WILLIAM M'FALL, a sprightly youth, aged 100 years, to the blooming widow JUDITH PERKINS, aged 79, both paupers.
"If love's a flame that's kindled by desire," "An old stick's surely best, because 'tis drier."
LONDON, March 24.
A gentleman who arrived from the continent on Tuesday last, states that France had declared war against Austria, that the declaration was published at Paris on the 17th inst.
At Dresden (Saxony) measures have been taken to protect the town from attack, which were become the more necessary, as a great quantity of Austrian cavalry was cantoned near the Saxon frontier, and the archduke Charles was arrived at Prague. The garrison of this city has already marched, and it is said that a powerful Austrian army is already collected at Eggra.
According to intelligence from the Maine of the 3d of March, Russia is laboring to compose the differences between the two powers.
Letters from the south of France, received at Frankfort the 7th of March, state, that the communication with Spain by way of Perpignan, through Catalonia, is not altogether free. The French have strong Garrisons in Rosas and Figueras; but in the neighborhood of Gerona, and beyond, there are still numerous bands of insurgents, who indeed are dispersed as soon as regular troops approach, but as soon as these retire they appear again & render the plains insecure. At Perpignan, an army of reserve has been formed probably destined to besiege Gerona while St. Cyr has advanced towards Arragon, in order to unite with the French marshals. In Barcelona also a strong garrison is left behind.
[Delf Courant, 16th March.
PARIS, March 10.—According to intelligence from Saragossa, the life of Palafox, is despaired of. The people hold him in such abhorrence, that it had been found necessary to have a guard before his door to prevent his being stoned. In every square gibbet were raised to hang those who spoke of surrendering. The commission who carried these sentences into execution consisted of six monks. Two of these counsellors of Palafox, Basalis and Asfaca, have been publicly shot. The inhabitants of Saragossa manifested the greatest pleasure to see themselves delivered from two wretches to whom they ascribed all their sufferings. There have been found at Saragossa more than 100,000 muskets of English manufacture, and 200 pieces of Cannon. Fifteen thousand prisoners of war have been sent under the escort of the division Morlot, by way of Pampeluna, towards Bayonne. General O'Neill is dead. The duke of Treviso is gone against Lerida.
BOSTON, May 10.
Late from Portugal—Capt. Sawyer, who arrived here yesterday from Lisbon, informs, that when he sailed from that city (April 8th) the French had not arrived there and the periods of their expected arrival were variously
stated, from seven days to two months:—that the French were marching into Portugal in two columns under marshals Lannes and Junot, whose united forces were estimated at round numbers, at eighty thousand men;—that they had taken Oporto and had advanced several leagues beyond it; but that their progress was slow, owing doubtless to the scarcity of subsistence in the country they were overrunning:—that the British troops in Portugal amounted to upwards of 21,000; and the Portuguese army was estimated at 50,000;—That the British were repairing the fortifications; but that notwithstanding these, it was not expected a defence of the city would be attempted; and that on the near approach of the French, the British and Portuguese would embark on board the British fleet in the Tagus, which consisted of two sail of the line, three or four frigates, and 300 sail transports; part of which would proceed to Brazil, the others for England. —The intelligence from Spain was extremely vague and limited.
INSPECTOR'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, April 27, 1809. (ORDERS.)
ALL Officers of the Army who are furloughed or absent from their respective corps or stations, will report themselves without delay to the Adjutant and Inspector of the Army, Maj. Nicoll, at the City of Washington; stating on what authority they are absent and the period for which their furloughs were given, and all officers who shall hereafter be absent from their respective corps or stations, will report themselves monthly as herein directed.
By order of the Secretary of War, A. Y. NICOLL, Adj. & Inspector.
Those Printers who are authorized to publish the Laws of the tenth Congress of the United States are requested to insert the above twice a week for three weeks and transmit their account to the Accountant of the War Department for settlement.
April 28. (3w)
REMOVAL.
Andrew Stevenson HAS removed his office to the BRICK TENEMENT immediately above the Bell Tavern, where the most punctilious attendance will be given to his professional duties. Richmond, May 23, 1809.
FOR SALE.
Forty Thousand weight Isle of Wight Bacon, Amongst which are 900 Hams, 500 Barrel Herrings and Shad, 100 Sacks Salt, Liverpool filled, 20 Bales Georgia Cotton, 40 Tierces Rye Whiskey, 8 Barrels Ditto, 45 Kegs English White Lead, 30 do. Spanish Brown, 20 Tons American and Swedish Iron, will be Sold low for cash only.
GROCERIES,
AS USUAL, Russell & Wallace, Richmond, May 22, 1809 3m.
Negroes for Sale,
By virtue of a deed of trust executed by William Cannon to William Guerrant and his subscribers, bearing date the 1st day of December, eighteen hundred and seven, and of record in the County court of Buckingham, to secure the payment of money due to Daniel Boggs and others, as expressed in the said deed, will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at John Anderson's Tavern, in the town of New Canton, on Saturday the 24th day of June next, FIVE NEGROES, viz. Beck, Maria, Milly, Sam and Aggy. The subscriber will only convey such title as he has received by said deed.
Thomas Pittman, Surviving Trustee. New Canton, 20th May. 1809. idy.
I OFFER FOR SALE,
The PROPERTY where I now live.
THE improvements are new, in good order, very convenient for a family. Persons inclined to purchase will please apply to Mr. THOMAS TAYLOR or myself. If a sale is not made privately before Friday next, it will then be sold at Auction, on the premises, on credit of 4, 8 and 12 months, the purchaser giving a note negotiable at the Bank of Virginia, with an approved endorser for the first payment, and notes of the same description or a deed of trust on the property for the other instalments, as may be most agreeable to himself.
N. Sheppard.
May 15, 1809.
On the same day, will be SOLD, at auction on the premises,
THE UNIMPROVED CORNER LOT
On the hill, nearly opposite Mr. Hylton's and back of Samuel Bell's lot. A credit of six months will be allowed for this, the purchaser giving a note negotiable at the Bank of Virginia, with an approved endorser.
N. Sheppard, B. Sheppard. May 15, 1809. (2.)
In consequence of the badness of the weather, the sale of the above property is postponed until Wednesday next. May 19.
Rees"> Rees's Cyclopaedia.
The 19th No. or Vol. 10, part 1, is just received and ready for delivery at this office.

One Thousand Pounds
WANTED,
FOR the interest of which, a plantation of 500 acres of valuable land will be given, until the money is refunded. Nearly 100 acres are rich low grounds, now in cultivation, lying on navigable water, the improvements new and very good, in a healthy and desirable country. Enquire of the Printer.
September 8, 1809. tf
IN COUNCIL,
January 20, 1809.
PROPOSALS will be received by the Executive for manufacturing three hundred an ninety Rifles during the present year, being the number directed by law to be provided annually, including the deficiency of last year. Extract from the minutes.
DANL. L. HYLTON, Clerk of the Council.
MATTRESSES
OF ALL SIZES AND KINDS, MADE and repaired, agreeably to order, in the large wooden house opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the market bridge, Richmond.
J. S. PLEASANTS.
May 31, 1809. tf
NOTICE.
By virtue of the last will and testament of Pleasant Younghusband, decd.
WILL BE SOLD,
To the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 13th of June next, at the courthouse of Botetourt county, being court day,
One Tract of Land,
Containing 254 acres, more or less, it being the same tract of land deeded to Pleasant Younghusband by Thomas M'George and Judith his wife, as by indenture bearing date the 2d day of July, 1800, on the following terms, to wit: one third cash, one third in twelve months, and the remaining third in two years. Bonds with security, to carry interest from the date if not paid in three months after they become due, and a deed of trust on the land to secure the two last payments, will be required.
ELIZA T. YOUNGHUSBAND, Administratrix SAMUEL P. PARSONS, Adm'r. With the will annexed. ids
2d mo. 17th. 1809.
N. B. The above sale is postponed to Botetourt August Court.
E. T. YOUNGHUSBAND, Adm'r. S. P. PARSONS, Adm'r.
5th mo. 6th, 1809.
A Bank Note
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, taken from a black boy, who called himself James Smith, and says he found it in the street—not thinking it proper to let the boy keep it, I detained it for the proper owner, who may have it, on giving satisfactory evidence of his or their right to it and paying the expense of this advertisement.
JOHN McDONALD. Richmond, March 10th, 1809. tf
Just received and for sale at this office,
A FEW ELEGANT
PORTRAITS
OF JAMES MADISON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Engraved by the celebrated EDWIX, from a painting by Mr. STEWART.
A. L. Philips, & Co.
Opposite Jacob Johnson's Book Store, Main Street, Richmond, have just received an Extensive Assortment of
DRY GOODS,
Among which are Chintz and Callicoes. 4.4 6.4 9.8 Cambrics 6.4 figured, do. 6.4 & 4.4 Laced, do. 6.4 & 4.4 veined, do. 4.4 & 7.8 colored, do. 6.4 & 4.4 Figured Lawn no Muslin. 4.4 Plain, do. do. 10.4 8.4 6.4 & 4.4 Le-no Shawls. 6.4 Muslin, do. 4.4 & 6.4 Mull Mull Muslin. 4.4 & 6.4 Jacquet do. 4.4 & 6.4 Book Muslin and hks. Ginghams, assorted colors. Black Lustrings. Italian Silks. Red, Yellow, Brown and Blue Bandano Hks. Madras do. Pin ed & White Cambric Shawls. Dumities. Yellow and Blue Nan-kins, Cotton Cassimeres. Printed Umities. Fancy Mouselines, Florentines. And a variety of other articles too tedious to mention, all of which we offer at wholesale or retail for cash or approved notes at a short credit. Country produce taken in payment, and will allow good prices for Tobacco. May 4th, 1809. tf
A Stock of Dry Goods,
OF from 3 to 4000 dollars worth, are offered for sale on advantageous terms, for cash, produce, or on credit. Apply at this office. Richmond, March 16th, 1809. (tf)
FOR RENT,
In a central part of this city, a few CENTEEL ROOMS, With a kitchen, stable, smoke house, &c and an elegant pump of water. Enquire of the printer. tf
The Subscribers,
Take leave to inform their friends and the public in general, that the EAGLE TAVERN, IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND,
WILL hereafter be conducted under the immediate management of GEORGE TURNER, they having formed an engagement for this purpose. They entertain the most sanguine hopes that their unremitting exertions will entitle them to patronage and favour. Every comfort which necessity may require, or which taste may suggest, will be procured with avidity and pleasure. They are determined, if possible, to render the EAGLE in every department of their business agreeable to their guests, and a pleasant abode to the stranger. Their solicitude upon this score has induced them at considerable expence to make some important changes in the arrangement of the rooms. They feel a great share of confidence in assuring their friends that they will meet with every convenience and attention that a house of this character is calculated to afford. Their Bed rooms are furnished with an entire new set of beds and furniture, with a suit of curtains to each, and the floors covered with carpets. Their stables are large and commodious which will always be furnished with a full supply of the best provender the country affords. stands within twenty steps of the house, with a pump of excellent water at the door, for the purpose of watering and washing the horses. They take leave further to state, that a COFFEE ROOM has lately been established in one of the rooms of the Eagle, in which the news papers from all the principal towns on the continent are to be seen. With these advantages, and these determinations, in which they are resolved never to relax, they can but hope for the most flattering success.
George Turner. James S. Smithers.
N. B. The printers throughout the United States who now direct their papers to James S. Smithers, are requested to insert the above one week, and in future direct to TURNER and SMITHERS.
G. T. J. S. S. (3w)
May 1st. 1809
Wm. M'CAY,
Watch & Clock Maker,
In consequence of the late fire, has removed
To the next House above his former Dwelling, on the Main street;
Where he continues to MAKE and
REPAIR all kinds of WATCHES and
CLOCKS, as heretofore.
Grateful to his numerous friends
for the great encouragement he has hitherto
experienced, he will omit no exertions
to merit their future support.
He has on hand, an assortment of JEW-
ELRY and SILVER WORK, for sale; &
constantly keeps good workmen employed,
to execute in the newest style, and on the
shortest notice any orders in the above
branches, with which he may be favored.
W. M. C. has also erected proper
furnaces, with every necessary apparatus,
for the purpose of CASTING BRASS to
any given pattern; and has in employment,
some of the most skillful founders, or cast-
ers of Brass to enable him to complete all
orders in that line, in the very best man-
ner.
N. B. The highest price given for old
Gold, Silver, Copper Brass and Pewter. May 4th, 1809. 6w
Richmond Turnpike
Company.
AT a meeting of the Directors of the
Richmond Turnpike Company, on
Friday evening, the 21st of April, 1809
Resolved, That a call of five dollars on
each share of the holders of shares in the
said company be made; and that the same
be paid to the Treasurer on or before the
21st day of next month.
To obviate many inconveniences which
have arisen and which may hereafter arise,
the board agree to the following:
Resolved, That when the shares of de-
linquent holders are advertised for sale,
the name of each holder, with the sums
thereto annexed, as due, shall be publish-
ed.
(A copy) N. Sheppard, Clerk. (121st May.)
Richmond Turnpike
Company.
THE subscribers are hereby notified, that
their annual general meeting will be held
at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond,
on the first Monday in next month, at the hour
of 10 o'clock in the forenoon, that being the
day appointed by the Charter for such general
meeting.
N. Sheppard, Clk. May 6, 1809. tdm
To Rent,
And possession given immediately,
THE TENEMENT
AT present in the occupancy of Mr. William
son, and directly back of the Hon.
Creed Taylor's. Apply to
EDWARD W. TRENT. May 4 1809. tf
To be SOLD, or BARTERED
for LAND in the State of
Ohio, a certain
Tract of LAND,
IN Augusta County, 7 miles from Staunton, on
the waters of Middle river; said tract contains
about 345 acres, 120 of which are under cultiva-
tion; it is well watered and timbered, and has an
excellent meadow of 12 acres and a fine orchard,
with other improvements. For terms apply by
letter or otherwise, to the subscriber, who now
lives on said land.
Abram Carnes. Augusta, (Virg.) May 6, 1809. w3t
N. B. There are two or three tracts of land
near the tract above named, which could be had
for land in Ohio. A. C.
FOR SALE,
A Tract of Land,
LYING in the upper end of Nottoway county,
on the waters of Sailor Creek, containing by survey 112 acres, with improvements sufficient for a small family. This land is well watered and lies well. For terms apply to the subscriber, living in Henrico county. John Woodfin. May 2d, 1809. tf
JUST RECEIVED FROM NEW YORK, AND FOR
SALE AT THIS OFFICE,
A FRESH SUPPLY OF
CHURCH'S & LEE'S
GENUINE
Patent Medicines.
INCLUDING
Worm Lozenges, Cough Drops, Restorative Balsam, Hamilton's Elixir, Essence and Extract of Mustard, Hahn's Antibilious Pills, Itch Ointment, Eye Water, Eye Salve, May 11, 1809. tf
Ague and Fever Drops, Vegetable Lotion, Alternative Pills, Hill's Balsam of Honey, Turlington's Balsam, Anderson's Pills, Antispasmodic or Fit Drops, &c. &c.
From the subscriber, at Four Mile Creek Ferry,
A Negro Man, named
B O B,
ABOUT 20 years of age, 5 feet 11 inches high,
slender made, black complexion, had on
when he went away, negro cotton waistcoat and
breeches, barefooted, ragged, his toes next his
big toes are the longest. I will give Six Dollars
to any person that will deliver him to me at Four
Mile Creek. Samuel Grimshaw. May 9th, 1809. 4tp
MALTHUS
ON
POPULATION.
THE first American edition of this valuable
work is just published, and may be had
at this office. It is in two large octavo volumes,
very handsomely executed by Mr. Weightman,
of Washington City. Subscribers will
please call or send for their copies.
HOSTLER WANTED.
A liberal price will be given
FOR A
Good Hostler,
At the Bell Tavern, either by the month
or year. Richmond, 27th April, 1809. tf
FOR SALE.
IN consequence of a power vested in me by a
deed of trust executed on the 14th day of
March, in the year 1808, by the late William
Nice, of this city, in order to secure a sum of
money therein mentioned, due unto Mr. William
Cook, I shall on the premises, between the
hours of 12 and 2 o'clock, on Wednesday the
31st inst. proceed to sell that highly improved
TENEMENT, on which the said Nice resided.
The sale will be made subject to the law passed
the last Session of Assembly of Virginia,
entitled "An Act concerning executions and
for other purposes,"—and the deed from me a
special one, as trustee only. E. W. TRENT, Trustee. tds
May 4, 1809.
NOTICE.
I HEREBY forewarn all persons from credit-
ing my wife Ann Clopton Lightfoot, on my
account, as I am determined not to pay any
debts of her contracting—she having left my
bed and board without any provocation. I al-
so forewarn all persons from harboring her, as
I shall prosecute such to the utmost rigor of
the law. Wm. Lightfoot. Charles City, May 6, 1809. 6tp
HOUSES AND LOTS
FOR SALE.
BY virtue of the last will and testament of Ro-
bert Means, deceased, will be sold, to the
highest bidder, at public auction, on Tuesday the
23d instant, the following LANDS and TENE-
MENTS, in the city of Richmond, that is to
say:
Some Wooden Houses and a piece of Land op-
posite to Crouch's Tavern, on the street leading
up by the Governor's.
A House and Lot upon the Basin.
A moiety of another house upon the Basin,
and the third of the Lot belonging to it.
The Tenement where the testator lived, and
naked Lot of Land adjoining to it.
Part of a naked Lot of Land lying between
the dwelling house of Augustine Davis and the
Basin.
The sale will commence at the house where
the testator lived, and will be adjourned to the
other tenements successively, until the whole are
sold. 12 months credit will be allowed; the pur-
chasers to give bond and approved security, to-
gether with a deed of trust upon the property, to
ensure punctual payment of the purchase mo-
ney. DANIEL CALL, Ex'r of the last Will and Testament of ROBERT MEANS, dec'd Richmond, May 11th, 1809. tds
FOR SALE.
BY virtue of a deed of trust, executed to us
by Sherwood Fowler, of the county of Cum-
berland, Will be SOLD, to the highest bidder,
on the premises, on Saturday the tenth of June
next.
100 Acres of LAND,
Part of the tract whereon the said Fowler now
resides, or so much thereof as will be sufficient
to pay a debt due John Chaffin, with cost and in-
terest. SAYMUR WRIGHT and JOHN WOODSON, Trustees. May 11th, 1809. 2w
Upper Appomattox Com-
pany.
AN election of Trustees will be held at

ion, such plans may be devised and carried into effect, as may tend to cement and strengthen this interest, and produce extensive advantage to individuals and to the nation at large.
Your communication addressed to Wm. Davy, C. C. M. A. Philadelphia, will receive respectful attention from,
Sir, your most humble servants, WILLIAM DAVY JOHN HARRISON JAMES ROBINSON ADAM SEYBERT ABRAHAM SMALL
AARON BURR. Advices are said to have been received from London, by the arrival of the brig LEVANT, stating that this Profligate Traitor left that City some time in the month of March last, and was waiting at one of the out ports for the sailing of a ship bound for the U. States, on board of which he was to take his passage—we can hardly credit the relation, conceiving his temerity not quite so infatuated as to venture on a step so every way outrageous; he has surely by his intrigues and Treason, insulted the Union sufficiently without adding to the measure of his infamy.
We give this information without absolutely vouching for its authenticity, however we shall endeavor to sift the report, & in the event of learning the name of the vessel shall think it our duty to put as well the government, as the citizens at large on their guard. DEMO. PRESS.
The advices from Europe (says the Aurora) are such as lead us to a belief, that we shall have no further disturbance, until the issue of the new coalition, of which Austria is the dupe, shall be decided; should the Austrians gain a momentary advantage, such as that obtained over Juvot in Portugal, we may expect a renewal of British outrages; but should the Archduke enter once more into contest with his superior genius, the conflict will be short—ten weeks will place the king of Bavaria on the throne of Austria and Hungary—place the duke of Neufchatel on the throne of Bavaria—convert Prussia and Bohemia into a new and common kingdom, under Jerome Bonaparte; transfer the Saxon monarch into Prussia beyond the Oder; and unite Westphalia, with its five millions, to Holland. The house of Lorraine, as Bonaparte told Mack at Ulm, will be extinguished.
WASHINGTON CITY, May 22. In proof of the attention of country gentlemen to the improvement of their breed of sheep, we learn that two young rams were shown at Northampton, the seat of Osborn Sprigg, Esq. of Prince George's Co. a few days since, whose fleeces averaged nine and half pounds and whose carcasses 186lbs. each. At the same time and place the fleeces of six ewes, with twin lambs, averaged eight & a quarter pounds. The fleece of one of the ewes weighed 12lbs.; the whole of the wool being of a remarkable fine fibre and length of staple.
ELEVENTH CONGRESS. LIST OF MEMBERS COMPOSING THE SENATE OF THE U. S. New Hampshire. Nahum Parker, Nicholas Gilman. Massachusetts. Timothy Pickering, James Lloyd. Rhode Island. Francis Malbone, Elisha Mathewson. Connecticut. James Hillhouse, Chauncy Goodrich. Vermont. Stephen R. Bradley, Jonathan Robinson. New York. John Smith, Obadiah German. New Jersey. John Condit, John Lambert. Pennsylvania. Andrew Gregg, Michael Leib. Delaware. Samuel White, James A. Bayard. Maryland. Samuel Smith, Philip Reed. Virginia. William B. Giles, Richard Brent. Kentucky. Buckner Thruston, J. H. Pope. North Carolina. James Turner, Jesse Franklin. Tennessee. Joseph Anderson, Jenkins Whiteside. South Carolina. Thomas Sumter, John Gaillard. Georgia. John Milledge, William H. Crawford. Ohio. R. J. Meigs, One vacant. LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES According to states. New Hampshire. Daniel Blaisdell, John C. Chamberlain, William Hale, Nathaniel A. Haven, James Wilson.
Massachusetts. Ezekiel Bacon, Orchard Cook, Richard Cutts, William Ely, Gideon Gardner, Barzilla Gannett, Edward St. Loe Livermore, Benjamin Pickman, Josiah Quincy, Ebenezer Seaver, William Stedman, Samuel Taggart, William Baillies, Jabez Upham, Joseph B. Varnum, Laban Wheaton, Ezekiel Whitman.
Rhode Island. Richard Jackson, Elisha R. Potter. Connecticut. Epaphroditus Champion, Samuel W. Dana, John Davenport, Jonathan O. Moseley, Timothy Pitkin, Jun. Lewis B. Sturges, Benj. Tallmadge.
Vermont. William Chamberlain, Martin Chittenden, Jonathan H. Hubbard, Samuel Shaw.
New York. William Denning, James Emott, Jonathan Fisk, Barent Gardenier, Thomas R. Gold, Herman Knickerbacker, Robert Le Roy Livingston, Vincent Matthews, Gordon S. Mumford, John Nicholson, Peter B. Porter, Erastus Root, Thos. Sammons, Ebenezer Sage, John Thompson, Uri Tracy, Killian K. Van Rensselaer.
New Jersey. Adam Boyd, James Cox, William Helms, Jacob Hultf, Thomas Newbold, Henry Sou hard.
Pennsylvania. William Anderson, David Bard, Robert Brown, William Crawford, William Findlay, Daniel Heister, Robert Jenkins, Aaron Lysle, William Milnor, John Porter, John Rhea, Matthias Richards, John Ross, Benjamin Say, John Smilie, George Smith, Samuel Smith, Robert Whitehill.
Delaware. Nicholas Van Dyke. Maryland. Brown, John Campbell, Charles Goldsborough, Philip B. Key, Alexander McKim, John Montgomery, Nicholas R. Moore, Roger Nelson, Archibald Van Horn.
Virginia. Burwell Bassett, William A. Burwell, Matthew Clay, John Clopton, John Dawson, John W. Eppes, Daniel Sheffey, Thomas Golson, jun. Peterson Goodwyn, Edwin Gray, Michael Swoope, John G. Jackson, Walter Jones, Joseph Lewis, jun. John Love, J. Stephenson, Thomas Newton, Wilson C. Nicholas, John Randolph, John Smith, J. T. Roane, James Breckenridge.
Kentucky. Henry Christ, Joseph Desha, Benjamin Howard, Richard M. Johnson, Matthew Lyon, Samuel McKee.
North Carolina. Willis Alston, jun. James Cochran, Meshack Franklin, James Holland, Thomas Kenan, William Kennedy, Nathaniel Macon, Archibald M c Ride, Joseph Pearson, Lemuel Sawyer, Richard Stanford, John Stanley.
Tennessee. Pleasant M. Miller, John Rhea. One not certain.
South Carolina. Lemuel J. Alston, William Butler, Robert Calhoun, Robert Marion, Thomas Moore, John Taylor, Richard Winn, Robert Witherspoon.
Georgia. Wm. W. Bibb, Howell Cobb, Dennis Smelt, George M. Troup.
Ohio. Jeremiah Morrow. DELEGATE FROM THE Mississippi Territory, George Poindexter.
Indiana Territory, vacant. Orleans Territory, J. Poydras.
Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, May 22, 1809.
At twelve o'clock, the clerk called over the lists of members from the several states; and it appearing that 120 were present, a quorum was of course, formed.
The house proceeded to the choice of a speaker: Messrs. N. R. Moore, Cutts, and Porter, (Penn.) were appointed tellers: the number of votes given in was 120.
On the first ballot, General Varnum had 60 votes. Nathaniel Macon 36 Timothy Pitkin, jun. 20 Roger Nelson 1 Mr. Goldsborough 1 Blank votes 2
A question arose, whether the two blank votes were to be included in the whole number given in; and whether, as the highest number on the first ballot, did not amount to a majority, a speaker had been chosen?
Mr. Alston said, that it would be recollected by the house, in the case of the election for the President of the U. States in 1801, that the state of Maryland gave in four votes for Thomas Jefferson, and four blank votes; that the vote of Maryland was recorded for Mr. Jefferson; and that consequently this case established the principle that votes which were thus thrown away could not be counted in ascertaining majorities.
Mr. Macon thought there could be no doubt on the question. He thought the blank ballots ought not to be counted.
Mr. Randolph hoped that the house would proceed to a second ballot, and decide who should be its speaker. He knew that if his worthy friend from North Carolina had not been implicated in the decision of this question, he would not have expressed the opinion he had just given. He thought that this house were in danger of establishing a precedent highly a-
larming and unconstitutional. The question was a very important one. It might happen that the speaker would have to act in the capacity of President of the United States, and he trusted that the house would now be governed by the good old rule, that a majority should prevail in their decisions.
Mr. Stanford was also in favor of another ballot.
The question was then taken whether the house would proceed to a second ballot, and carried—67 to 43.
Mr. Macon moved to postpone the ballot for a short time, that the gentlemen who had been so good as to give him their votes, might have an opportunity of selecting another candidate. He was very thankful to those gentlemen; but he had no wish to occupy the chair; he preferred a seat on the floor—and, in fact, his health would not justify his acceptance of the station of speaker. The motion was lost.
On the second ballot, Gen. Varnum had 65 Mr. Macon 45 Mr. Pitkin 4 Scattering votes 3 Joseph B. Varnum was declared to be duly elected speaker.
The speaker having taken the chair, expressed his thanks for the confidence and favour which the representatives of the nation had thought proper again to confer upon him, and promised every exertion of his talents to discharge the duties of his station in such a manner as to meet their approbation.
On the Ballot for clerk— Patrick Magruder, had 63 votes. William Brent, 33 Nicholas Van Zant, 14 Mr. Lambert, 7 Mr. Scott, 1 Mr. Magruder was elected.
The speaker was then sworn in by Mr. N. R. Moore. The oath of office was also administered to the members present, by Mr. Speaker.
A message was received from the senate stating, that they had formed a quorum; and were ready to proceed to business; also, stating, that they had appointed Messrs. Anderson and Gilman, a committee, jointly with a committee from the House of Representatives, to wait upon the President of the United States, and inform him, that the two houses were ready to receive any communications he might be pleased to make to them.
It was ordered, That the Clerk do inform the senate that this House had formed a quorum, and were ready to proceed to business.
Mr. Macon and Mr. J. G. Jackson were appointed a committee on the part of the house, in conjunction with the committee from the senate, to wait upon the president.
A resolution was offered by Mr. Holland, and adopted, that the rules and orders of the last house be in force during the present session, until alterations and revisions take place.
Mr. Dunn, Mr. Wheaton, and Mr. Reily were named as candidates for the office of sergeant at arms. On counting the ballots, Mr. Dunn had 80 votes, and consequently was elected.
Mr. Claxton was re-elected door-keeper, without opposition.
Jesse Edwards and Benjamin Burch were nominated as candidates for the office of assistant door-keeper.
On counting the ballots Mr. Burch was found to have 68 votes, and was elected.
Mr. Macon, from the joint committee appointed to wait upon the president of the U. States reported, that the committee had discharged that duty, and received for answer from the president, that he would make a communication to congress to-morrow at 12 o'clock.
Mr. Dawson made a motion, that ten o'clock be the hour to which the house shall adjourn. Carried.
The house then adjourned till to-morrow morning, ten o'clock.
From the National Intelligencer Extra.
WASHINGTON CITY, May 23, 1809.
THIS DAY, at 12 o'clock, the PRESIDENT of the United States communicated, by Mr. Graham, the following Message to both Houses of Congress:
Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives
ON this first occasion of meeting you it affords me much satisfaction, to be able to communicate the commencement of a favorable change in our foreign relations; the critical state of which induced a session of Congress at this early period.
In consequence of the provisions of the act interdicting commercial intercourse with Great Britain and France, our Ministers at London and Paris were, without delay, instructed to let it be understood by the French and British governments, that the authority vested in the Executive, to renew commercial intercourse with their respective nations would be exercised in the case specified by that act.
Soon after these instructions were dispatched, it was found that the Bri-
tish government, anticipating from early proceedings of Congress at their last session, the state of our laws, which has had the effect of placing the two belligerent powers on a footing of equal restrictions, and relying on the conciliatory disposition of the United States, had transmitted to their Legation here, provisional instructions, not only to offer satisfaction for the attack on the frigate Chesapeake, and to make known the determination of his Britannic Majesty, to send an Envoy extraordinary with powers to conclude a treaty on all points between the two countries; but moreover, to signify his willingness, in the mean time, to withdraw his orders in council, in the persuasion that the intercourse with Great Britain would be renewed on the part of the United States.
These steps of the British government led to the correspondence and the Proclamation now laid before you; by virtue of which, the commerce between the two countries will be renewable after the tenth day of June next.
Whilst I take pleasure in doing justice to the counsels of his Britannic Majesty, which, no longer adhering to the policy which made an abandonment by France, of her decrees, a prerequisite to a revocation of the British orders, have substituted the amicable course which has issued thus happily; I cannot do less than refer to the proposal heretofore made on the part of the United States embracing a like restoration of the suspended commerce, as a proof of the spirit of accommodation which has at no time been intermitted, and to the result which now calls for our congratulations, as corroborating the principles, by which the public councils have been guided during a period of the most trying embarrassments.
The discontinuance of the British orders, as they respect the U. States, having been thus arranged, a communication of the event has been forwarded, in one of our public vessels, to our Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris; with instructions to avail himself of the important addition thereby made, to the considerations which press on the justice of the French government a revocation of its decrees, or such a modification of them, as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States.
The revision of our commercial laws, proper to adapt them to the arrangement which has taken place with Great Britain, will doubtless engage the early attention of Congress. It will be worthy, at the same time, of their just and provident care, to make such further alterations in the laws, as will more especially protect and foster the several branches of manufacture, which have been recently instituted or extended by the laudable exertions of our citizens.
Under the existing aspect of our affairs, I have thought it not inconsistent with a just precaution, to have the gun-boats, with the exception of those at New-Orleans, placed in a situation, incurring no expense beyond that requisite for their preservation, and convenience for future service, and to have the crews of those at New-Orleans reduced to the number required for their navigation and safety.
I have thought also, that our citizens detached in quotas of militia, amounting to one hundred thousand, under the act of March 1808, might, not improperly, be relieved from the state in which they were held for immediate service. A discharge of them has been accordingly directed.
The progress made in raising and organizing the additional military force, for which provision was made by the act of April 1808, together with the disposition of the troops, will appear by a report which the Secretary of War is preparing, and which will be laid before you.
Of the additional frigates required, by an act of the last session, to be fitted for actual service, two are in readiness, one nearly so, and the fourth is expected to be ready in the month of July. A report which the Secretary of the Navy is preparing on the subject, to be laid before Congress, will shew at the same time, the progress made in officering and manning these ships. It will shew also the degree in which the provisions of the act, relating to the other public armed vessels, have been carried into execution.
It will rest with the judgment of Congress, to decide how far the change in our external prospects may authorize any modifications of the laws relating to the army and navy establishments.
The works of defence for our seaport towns and harbors have proceeded with as much activity, as the season of the year, and other circumstances would admit. It is necessary however to state, that the appropriations hitherto made being found to be deficient, a
further provision will claim the early consideration of Congress.
The whole of the eight per cent stock remaining due by the U. States, amounting to five millions, three hundred thousand dollars, had been reimbursed on the last day of the year 1808. And on the first day of April last, the sum in the Treasury exceeded nine and a half millions of dollars. This, together with the receipts of the current year on account of former revenue bonds, will probably be nearly, if not altogether sufficient to defray the expenses of the year. But the suspension of exports and the consequent decrease of importations, during the last twelve months, will necessarily cause a great diminution in the receipts of the year 1810. After that year, should our foreign relations be undisturbed, the revenue will again be more than commensurate to all the expenditures.
Aware of the inconveniences of a protracted session, at the present season of the year, I forbear to call the attention of the Legislature to any matters not particularly urgent. It remains therefore only to assure you of the fidelity and alacrity, with which I shall co-operate for the welfare and happiness of our country; and to pray that it may experience a continuance of the divine blessings by which it has been so signally favored.
JAMES MADISON.
PHILADELPHIA May, 18.
Extract of a letter from col. David Humphreys, dated 6th May, 1809:
I propose as a more certain project, to send on to Philadelphia to the cattle show, on the 4th of July next, a few full blooded Merino's (already engaged) and a considerable flock of very fine wooled sheep of various degrees blood, derived from my imported flock. Now all I shall wish you to do is, to hire pastureage in the neighborhood of the city, where they may be kept well, reasonably and safely, until they shall be either disposed of or brought back. The number will be from 60 to 80. I wish you to mention this to the gentlemen presidents and members of the premium and domestic societies, in order, if they judge proper, they may make the fact extensively known through the medium of the different papers, that the flock in question will certainly be in Philadelphia at the before mentioned time, if no unforeseen accident should happen to prevent it.
BALTIMORE, May 20.
LATEST FROM SPAIN.
The brig Cerberus, for Philadelphia, arrived yesterday at New-Castle. A gentleman who came passenger in the brig, writes to his friend in this city, that they sailed from Cadiz on the sixth April. His account is unfavourable to the cause of the Patriots. Information, said to be from two English gentlemen, had reached Cadiz, that a French army was on the first April within 18 or 20 miles of Seville, on their route to that city; that Cuesta had been beaten; no particulars, however. The writer's impression was that no part of Spain, except Cadiz, could hold out more than two months, say till June.—This by the way, we may term very slow destruction, when it is considered that the threatening torrent is the military force of France. By to-morrow's mail we may receive particulars.
May 23,
DARING OUTRAGE!
Cold must be the blood that does not warm with indignation at the conduct of the pirates detailed under our marine head. Here is another proof of British faith! A fresh outrage is committed within our territory while her minister talks of peace, and our army is disbanded!
The Subscriber offers for Sale,
A LOT,
SITUATED at Rocketts, convenient to navigation, on which is erected two frame buildings, one of which is large and two stories high, and suitable for a Tobacco Manufactory or Warehouse; the back part of the lot may be improved to great advantage, in buildings of any description.
Also, the LOT, where he now resides, on Rocketts hill, a very pleasant and healthy situation, commanding a beautiful prospect of James River, and the plantations laying thereon, from the Falls to Warwick.
WILLIAM GOODWIN. May 25th 1809.
IT is proposed to publish from the Press of Messrs. Lynch and Southgate, A SERMON, lately delivered, on the impiety and bad effects of Passion. It is prove beneficial to any that shall read it. The design of the publication will be fully accomplished, yet it is desirable to obtain as many subscriptions as will defray the expense of printing.
JOHN D. BLAIR. May 22d, 1809.
Subscriptions will be received at the office of "The Visitor," 25 cents each.

One Thousand Pounds WANTED.
FOR the interest of which, a plantation of 500 acres of valuable land will be given, until the money is refunded. Nearly 100 acres are rich low grounds, now in cultivation lying on navigable water, the improvements new and very good, in a healthy and desirable country. Enquire of the Printer. September 8, 1809. tf
IN COUNCIL,
January 20, 1809.
PROPOSALS will be received by the Executive for manufacturing three hundred and ninety Rifles during the present year, being the number directed by law to be provided annually, including the deficiency of last year. Extract from the minutes.
DANL. L. HYLTUN, Clerk of the Council.
MATTRESSES
OF ALL SIZES AND KINDS, MADE and repaired, agreeably to order, in the large wooden house opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the market bridge, Richmond.
J. S. PLEASANTS.
May 31, 1809. tf
NOTICE.
By virtue of the last will and testament of Pleasant Younghusband, dec.
WILL BE SOLD,
To the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 13th of June next, at the courthouse of Botetourt county, being court day,
One Tract of Land,
Containing 254 acres, more or less, it being the same tract of land deeded to Pleasant Younghusband by Thomas M'George and Judith his wife, as by indenture bearing date the 2d day of July, 1800, on the following terms, to wit: one third cash, one third in twelve months, and the remaining third in two years. Bonds with security, to carry interest from the date if not paid in three months after they become due, and a deed of trust on the land to secure the two last payments, will be required.
ELIZA T. YOUNGHUSBAND,
Administratrix
SAMUEL P. PARSONS, Adm'r.
With the will annexed. tds
2d mo. 17th, 1809.
N. B. The above sale is postponed to Botetourt August Court.
E. T. YOUNGHUSBAND, Adm'r.
S. P. PARSONS, Adm'r. 5th mo. 6th, 1809.
A Bank Note
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, taken from a black boy, who called himself James Smith, and says he found it in the street—not thinking it proper to let the boy keep it, I obtained it for the proper owner, who may have it, on giving satisfactory evidence of his or their right to it and paying the expense of this advertisement. JOHN McDONALD. Richmond, March 10th, 1809. tf
A. L. Philips, & Co.
Opposite Jacob Johnson's Book Store, Main Street, Richmond, have just received an Extensive Assortment of
DRY GOODS,
 Chintz and Calicoes.  4.4 6.4 9.8 Cambrics.  6.4 figured, do.  4.4 & 4.4 Laced, do.  6.4 & 4.4 veined, do.  4.4 & 7.8 colored, do.  6.4 & 4.4 Figured Le-no Muslin.  4.4 Plain, do. do.  10.4 8.4 6.4 & 4.4 Le-no Shawls.  6.4 Muslin, do.  4.4 & 6.4 Mull Mull Muslin.  4.4 & 6.4 Jacquet, do.  4.4 & 6.4 Book Muslin and hks.  Gingham, assorted colors.  Black Lustings.  Italian Silks.  Red, Yellow, Brown and Blue Bandano Hks.  Madras do.  P'ined & White Cam-bridged Shawls.  Dimities.  Yellow and Blue Nan-kins, Cotton Casimere.  Printed Dimities.  Fancy Mouselines, Flo-rentines.  And a variety of other articles too tedious to mention, all of which we offer at wholesale or retail for cash or approved notes at a short credit. Country produce taken in payment, and will allow good prices for Tobacco. May 4th, 1809. tf
FOR RENT, In a central part of this city, a few GENTEEL ROOMS, With a kitchen, stable, smoke house, &c. and an elegant pump of water. Enquire of the printer. tf
To Rent,
And possession given immediately, THE TENEMENT
A present in the occupancy of Mr. William Amerson, and directly back of the Hon. Creed Taylor's. Apply to
EDWARD W. TRENT. May 4, 1809. tf
Just Received at this Office, Part 1st of vol. 10th—or No. 19 of, Dr. Rees' New Cyclopaedia.
Subscribers to the above work are requested to apply for their books. 57 Subscription still open 156
Wm. M'CAY, Watch & Clock Maker,
In consequence of the late fire, has removed To the next House above his former Dwelling, on the Main street; Where he continues to MAKE and REPAIR all kinds of WATCHES and CLOCKS, as heretofore.
Grateful to his numerous friends for the great encouragement he has hitherto experienced, he will omit no exertions to merit their future support.
He has on hand, an assortment of JEWELRY and SILVER WORK, for sale; & constantly keeps good workmen employed, to execute in the newest style, and on the shortest notice any orders in the above branches, with which he may be favored.
W. M. C. has also erected proper furnaces, with every necessary apparatus, for the purpose of CASTING BRASS to any given pattern; and has in employment, some of the most skillful founders, or casters of Brass to enable him to complete all orders in that line, in the very best manner.
N. B. The highest price given for old Gold, Silver, Copper Brass and Pewter. May 4th, 1809. 6w
Richmond Turnpike Company.
THE subscribers are hereby notified, that their annual general meeting will be held at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on the first Monday in next month, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon, that being the day appointed by the Charter for such general meeting.
N. Sheppard, Clk. May 6, 1809. tdm
FOR SALE, A Tract of Land,
LYING in the upper end of Nottoway county, on the waters of Sailor Creek, containing by survey 112 acres, with improvements sufficient for a small family. This land is well watered and lies well. For terms apply to the subscriber, living in Henrico county. John Woodfin. May 2d, 1809. tf
JUST RECEIVED FROM NEW YORK, AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE,
A FRESH SUPPLY OF CHURCH'S & LEE'S GENUINE Patent Medicines.
 Worm Lozenges,  Cough Drops,  Restorative Balsam,  Hamilton's Elixir,  Essence and Extract of Mustard,  Hahn's Antibilious Pills,  Ich Ointment,  Eye Water,  Eye Salve,  Age and Fever Drops,  Vegetable Lotion,  Alternative Pills,  Hill's Balsam of Honey,  Turlington's Balsam,  Anderson's Pills,  Antispasmodic or Fit Drops, &c. &c.  May 11, 1809. tf
MALTHUS ON POPULATION.
THE first American edition of this valuable work is just published, and may be had at this office. It is in two large octavo volumes, very handsomely executed by Mr. Weightman, of Washington City.—37 Subscribers will please call or send for their copies.
HOSTLER WANTED.
A liberal price will be given FOR A Good Hostler, At the Bell Tavern, either by the month or year. Richmond, 27th April, 1809. tf
FOR SALE.
IN consequence of a power vested in me by a deed of trust executed on the 14th day of March, in the year 1808, by the late William Nice, of this city, in order to secure a sum of money therein mentioned, due unto Mr. William Cook, I shall on the premises, between the hours of 12 and 3 o'clock, on Wednesday the 31st inst. proceed to sell that highly improved TENEMENT, on which the said Nice resided. The sale will be made subject to the law passed the last Session of Assembly of Virginia, entitled "An Act concerning executions and for other purposes"—and the deed from me a special one, as trustee only. E. W. TRENT, Trustee. May 4, 1809. tds
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, And may be had at Jacob Johnson's book store, adjoining the Market Bridge, PART 3, OF VOL. 1, OF HENING AND MUNFORD'S REPORTS,
CONTAINING The Decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, at the October Term, 1807, and completing the first volume. At the same place may be had the said volume (of 656 pages) elegantly bound, in calf.
Price to subscribers $5—to non-subscribers $6.
The size of the volume having far exceeded the limits at first contemplated, (which were 500 pages only) the authors have been induced to furnish it to subscribers at the above price, which is considerably less, in proportion, than that mentioned in the prospectus.
Gentlemen who take these Reports in numbers, will be permitted to return them at any time within six months, and receive a volume, for which numbers they will be allowed the original cost in part payment for the volume. Richmond, Oct. 29, 1808. wtf
New Establishment OF THE BELL TAVERN.
THE exclusive management and superintendence of this house, has devolved upon the subscriber, who, with DR. WILLIAM HOOMES and WILSON ALLEN, are alone interested in it. No pains or expense has been spared to render this establishment one among the first upon the continent; and nothing on the part of the subscriber shall be wanting to support its reputation, and deserve public patronage. There are 40 rooms: in and attached to the tavern—The largest and most commodious stable in the city; and every convenience to render the house A GOOD ONE. It has lately undergone considerable change and thorough repair. The subscriber has laid in an assortment of the BEST LIQUORS, and hopes from his experience and attention to merit and meet public support. RD: C. Wortham. City of Richmond, May 10th, 1809. w2m
NOTICE.
I HEREBY forewarn all persons from crediting my wife Ann Clopton Lightfoot, on my account, as I am determined not to pay any debts of her contracting—she having left my bed and board without any provocation. I also forewarn all persons from harboring her, as I shall prosecute such to the utmost rigor of the law. Wm. Lightfoot. Charles City, May 6, 1809. 6p
FOR RENT,
The Two following TRACTS OF LAND, lying on James river, in the County of Powhatan.
THAT LARGE ESTATE called BELL MEAD, at present occupied by Mr. James Tucker.
The Plantation immediately below it, now in the occupancy of Mr. David Mead. Also, The Tract of Land, called the Old Courthouse Tract, in the county of Powhatan, lying on Deep Creek, and now occupied by Mr. William Wilburn.
These Lands, will, without reserve, be rented to the highest bidder, at Powhatan Courthouse, on the 19th of July next, (being the first day of the court) unless before privately rented.—Apply to JAMES CARTER, Goochland, NEIL MCCOULL, or JOHN ST. JOHN, } Richmond. April 30th, 1809. wtdr
NEW BOOKS.
Just received and for sale by Samuel Pleasants, Jr. Richmond, Struggles Through Life, Exemplified in the various Travels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, OF LIEUT. JOHN HARRIOTT, Now Resident Magistrate of the Thames police, London, IN TWO VOLUMES.
This work presents an engaging lesson, especially to such as are embarrassed with difficulty it is a persuasive stimulus to exertion and perseverance; and as Mr. Aikin in his Annual Review observes, contains anecdote and adventure enough to satisfy the keenest avidity.
System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry, by Frederick Accum, 2 vols. 8 vo.
The Exile of Exin, a New Novel.
The Forty Thieves; a grand operational Romance.
Conversations on Chemistry.
The Domestic Cookery.
Boyer's, Nugent's, and Chamlaud's French Dictionaries.
Petrarch.
Thornton Abbey, in 2 vols.
Studies of Nature, by St. Pierre.
Romantic Tales.
Bradley on Distresses.
Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary—First American Edition.
Greek Lexicons. wtf.
By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it is represented to the executive that on the evening of the 15th of last month, a wilful and atrocious murder was committed on the body of James Garner, late of the county of Isle of Wight, by a certain Joseph Garner, (his brother) also of the said county of Isle of Wight, who hath fled from justice: I have therefore thought fit, with the advice of the Council of State, to issue this Proclamation, hereby offering a reward of Two Hundred Dollars to any person or persons who shall apprehend and conduct the said Joseph Garner before some justice of the peace for the county of Isle of Wight aforesaid, that he may be dealt with as directed by law. And I do moreover enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of the commonwealth, to use their best endeavors to apprehend and carry before some justice of the peace for the county of Isle of Wight aforesaid, the said Joseph Garner, that such proceedings may be had against him, as are prescribed by law. Given under my hand with the seal of the L. S. Commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this first day of May, 1809. Signed, JOHN TYLER.
N. B. The said Joseph Garner is about five feet ten or eleven inches high, raw boned, of a dark complexion, dark eyes, a fierce look, and rather grum when spoken to; high cheek bones and dark hair; one of his feet has lost a toe, but which of them is not recollected. He is an active man and about 30 years of age Bold and high in his manner of walking.
REMOVAL.
THE subscriber has removed near the Basin, where he continues to keep a house of Private Entertainment.
He has also for sale, a general assortment of GROCERIES. Likewise sells all kinds of country produce on commission. HEZEKIAH PURYEAR. Richmond, May 17th, 1809. tf
Extract from the Journals of the Executive.
Published by order of the Governor, for the information of the Militia Officers.
IN COUNCIL, June 14, 1806.
IT is advised that a proclamation be issued, prescribing the uniform of the militia of this commonwealth, to be as follows:
For the General Officers.
A dark blue coat, skirts lined with buff, cape, lapels and cuffs buff, yellow buttons, gold epaulets (one on each shoulder) black cock'd hat, with black cockade and black stock.
For the Artillery.
A blue coat, skirts lined with red, cape, lapels and cuffs red, vest buff, overalls blue, edged with red, black garters, yellow buttons, a cocked black hat with red cockade.
For the Light Infantry.
A dark blue short coat, with half lapels, cape and cuffs white, white lining and buttons, vest and overalls white with black garters, black half boots, black stock, a round hat, cocked on the left side, with black cockade.
For the Grenadiers.
A dark blue coat, cape, lapels and cuffs white, white lining and buttons, vest and overalls white, with black garters, black half boots, black stock, a round hat, cocked on the left side, with black cockade.
For the Riflemen.
A linnen hunting shirt of purple color, with overalls of the same, leather moccasins or shoes, bound hat, cocked on the left side, with black cockade, and black stock.
For the main body of the Militia.
A blue hunting shirt trimmed with red fringe, white overalls with black garters round hat cocked on the left side, with black cockade and black and red plume, black garters, or half boots; the officer's uniform to be a dark blue coat, cape, lapels and cuffs red, white lining and buttons, vest and pantaloon white, with black stock, cocked hat with black garters black cockade.
For the Cavalry.
A short dark blue coat, with yellow buttons, white lining, half lapels, cuffs and cape red, white vest and leather breeches, Jack boots, spurs, black stock and black leather cap, dressed on the crown with bearskin, and decorated with a light blue sash and red and white plume.
The officers of the main body of the militia of the Light Infantry, Grenadiers, Riflemen & Cavalry, to be distinguished by epaulets of silver; the officers of Artillery to be distinguished by epaulets of gold. The field officers to wear two epaulets, the captains one on the right & the subalterns one on the left shoulder. All officers to wear side arms and boots.
Provided, however, that where any troop of Cavalry, company of Artillery, Grenadiers, Light Infantry, Riflemen or of the main body of the Militia, shall have provided themselves with an uniform different from that herein prescribed, they are respectively permitted to wear the same for three years, from and after the date hereof. (Attest) DANL. L. HYLTUN, c. c. (w3:)
THE IMPORTED HORSE PAUL,
Formerly St. Paul, is a beautiful sorrel, 15 hands 3 inches high, remarkable for his elegance, beauty, strength and fine bone, WILL STAND the ensuing season at my plantation, in Powhatan county, on James river, 3 miles above the Manakin Town ferry, and about the same distance below Jude's ferry, to cover mares at twenty-five dollars the season, but may be discharged by the payment of eighteen dollars, or the price of eighteen bushels of wheat at Dover mill in Goochland county, if paid by the first day of December next, with half a dollar to the groom. As good and extensive pasture as any in Virginia, gratis, and mares fed with corn at the market price, if the money is sent with them, and the greatest attention paid to the mares, but no liability for escapes or other accidents. The season will commence the first day of March, and end the first day of August. This beautiful horse Paul, was raised by the Prince of Wales, and got by his horse Saltram, who was got by O'Kelly's Eclipse, his dam Vago, by Snap; Paul's dam Purity, was got by Matchem; her dam the Old Squirt mare, of as great fame as any mare in the kingdom. Paul's colts are equal to any in Virginia, and he is a sure footed getter. Several of his colts may be seen at his stand. Tho's Harris, Jr. Millwood. Powhatan county, Feb. } 28, 1809. ep2mwt1jn
IN COUNCIL, May 18, 1809.
PROPOSALS will be received by the Executive for raising seven eighteen pounders opposite Drew's Point, Nansemond River, until the 1st day of July next. Daniel L. Hylton, c. c. 11 July.
Negroes for Sale.
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed by William Cannon to William Guerrant and the subscriber, bearing date the 1st day of December, eighteen hundred and seven, and of record in the County court of Buckingham, to secure the payment of money due to Daniel Bagby and others, as expressed in the said deed, will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at John Anderson's Tavern, in the town of New Canton, on Saturday the 24th day of June next, FIVE NEGROES, viz. Beck, Maria, Milly, Sam and Aggy. The subscriber will only convey such title as he has received by said deed. Thomas Pittman, Surviving Trustee. New Canton, 20th May, 1809. tds
DR. TISSOTT'S CELEBRATED Gout & Rheumatic Drops.
A CERTAIN cure for Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, weakness of the joints, and all kinds of Sprains; for greets, be they of ever so long standing, and for the stone and gravel; it is perhaps the most active, penetrating, and effectual remedy in the world; in the cramp and all kinds of pains in the head, face and body, it is without an equal.
This medicine [which justly claims a pre-eminence over all others, as being decidedly adapted for the speedy removal of those complaints above mentioned] owes its discovery to the celebrated Tissott, a physician of most exalted eminence in his profession, and is chiefly the extract of an herb, peculiar to Europe, to whose powerful, healing, restorative and balsamic qualities, this great man, by the administering, owed much of his fame.
It is peculiarly excellent for most disorders attending warm climates, and keeps for any length of time. Bottles, at two dollars each, with copious directions. The following are a few, of the many respectable certificates, which the proprietor has in his possession.
CERTIFICATE OF GENERAL RIDGELY, of Hampton.
I certify, that having received a blow on my knee, which produced severe pain and swelling, I was advised to apply Dr. Tissott's Gout and Rheumatic Drops, and on bathing the part with them only a few times, agreeably to the directions, they effected a perfect cure. At another time my wrist was affected with Rheumatism to such a degree as rendered my hand for the time useless, when on making application of the same remedy in like manner, the disorder in the course of 24 hours was entirely removed. I therefore from the experience I have had of the efficacy of said medicine, consider it as a beneficent act to recommend it in similar cases to others. Signed, C. RIDGELY, of Hampton.
CERTIFICATE OF MR. THOMAS CAMPBELL, Harness maker.
It would be an act of injustice to withhold my testimony of the salutary effects of Dr. Tissott's Gout and Rheumatic Drops, as I have experienced a very unequivocal instance of their virtue and efficacy. I was affected with two severe attacks of what is usually called dead palsy, from which I partially recovered, but was obliged to use crutches to aid me in walking when I left home, to this were joined violent Rheumatic pains, the result of the affliction, and I had feared the disorder would accompany me thro' life, but providentially was recommended to apply at G. Dobbins and Murphy's for Dr. Tissott's Drops, and after using only one bottle, found myself perfectly liberated from my disorder, and am now, thank God, as free from pain as if I never had been affected; finding this medicine operate so powerfully on myself, I determined to apply it internally to my child [a boy only eleven months old] who was then reduced almost to a skeleton, with the bowel complaint, after administering it four or five times to him, his complaint was entirely removed, and he is now recovering his strength with great rapidity. Signed, THOMAS CAMPBELL. Baltimore, July 22, 1806.
CERTIFICATE OF MR. THOMAS KELSO, Butcher.
About three weeks since I was most violently attacked with Rheumatic pains throughout my whole frame, in so severe a manner as not to be able to turn in my bed without assistance, proceeding. I suppose from a severe cold; on being advised by a friend to apply Dr. Tissott's Gout and Rheumatic Drops, I accordingly obtained from the agents, (Messrs. G. Dobbins and Murphy) two bottles, the application of which (under God) have perfectly restored my health. I am therefore induced with confidence to recommend this medicine as a certain cure for the above disorder. Signed, THOMAS KELSO. Baltimore, July 22, 1806.
AFFIDAVIT OF MRS. ANNE FIFER.
No. 107, Green-street, Old town, Baltimore. Being ever desirous of rendering assistance to my fellow creatures, as far as my abilities will permit, and also give additional credit to DR. TISSOTT'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC DROPS, which from their powerful efficacy I have received such surprising benefit, are the only motives for my offering a statement of my case to the public, under the following attested affidavit. Upwards of five years I had been afflicted with Rheumatic pains, which were seated principally in my loins, shoulders, and right arm; which at last I lost the use of, so that for a considerable time, I could not lift it to my head; at one period it confined me to my bed, in which I could not turn without assistance, and from the violent and agonizing pain in my loins, my cries could often be heard by the neighbors. Every remedy that I could think of, or prescribed by my friends were tried; I also had medical assistance both French and English, but they gave relief only for the moment, so that I despaired of ever being cured, and had resigned myself to be a cripple during life, when I was advised by a friend to make trial of DR. TISSOTT'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC DROPS. I accordingly applied at Love's Drug and Patent Medicine Store, No. 16 Sign of the Mortar, Centre Market-space, where I purchased a bottle for two dollars, from which I do positively declare, I received more benefit than I had from all the remedies attempted for 5 years past; but fearing a relapse, I procured another bottle and was perfectly relieved. ANNE FIFER. Sworn before me this 17th day of November 1808. JAMES WILSON. Witness, James Norris, Jun.
CAUTION.
No Gout and Rheumatic Drops being known excepting those invented by Dr. Tissot—The public are requested to notice that none are genuine unless the names of Dr. Tissott, and the proprietor Henry Ward, are cut in the glass of the bottle, and the outside cover of each bottle signed by the said proprietor himself. wtf Sold by H. WARD, sole proprietor, Philadelphia, and at the Book-Store of S. PLEASANTS, Jr. Richmond.
ALSO, Dr. TABB'S
Nature's Restorative Balsamic Cordial. The certificates attached to the bills which inclose each bottle of the above medicine, are from characters of respectability, on whose testimony the fullest confidence may be placed by those who labor under complaints of the Gout, Rheumatism, &c., also those of consumptive habits, general debility of the nerves and various other complaints incident to the human body.