The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-11-28 00:00:00

spread around the tidings of this joyful event. Three despatches upon the subject were accordingly sent from Tabreez: one to the Prince of the World, Muler of Persia and Khokkaloos, of all the havens and shores, & of the land of Lhar—another to Mahomed Nubee Khan, Lord of the Sea—and a third to the British Envoy.
As, moreover it was manifest, that, in this affair, the Russians had been the aggressors, it now occurred to the mind of the King, that they must have acted under the influence of the French Ambassador, at present in attendance at the Court of Persia. The dust of vexation, therefore, settled in the skirts of the Royal Favor towards the French nation, and it became desirable in the eyes of the King, that the friendship subsisting with that people, should be dissolved. It was, indeed to dismiss the embassy; and, according to one report, has actually done so. According to another, however, which is considered as the more authentic of the two, he has postponed the execution of his purpose, until the arrival of the English Envoy.
LEXNIN, Oct. 5. —The French Journals preserve, on the subject of peace, a profound silence. A periodical work, however, the political part of which is supposed to be under the direction of one of Bonaparte's senators, contains the following article, which under the present circumstances, will not be read without interest:—
With respect to Vienna, which one of our best Journals calls the former capital of Austria, it has recited from the emperor Napoleon, who has just quit it to review his army, every mark of his good will and entire confidence. It is said, that on his birth day he walked through it in disguise. Several measures of police have guaranteed the inhabitants from the manoeuvres of jobbers and for-sale. Provisions are in great abundance. Bread more plentiful than ever. The working classes have more employ than ever. Schoenbrunn has attracted numerous visitors; the most distinguished females are the most frequent, and are treated, by order of the emperor, with the most delicate attention. Vienna is become almost French.
The news from Altenberg, is confined to this:—D. Champagny has given a brilliant fete. The emperor Francis has bought a great quantity of jewels, and this is considered as a happy presage. The emperor Napoleon has been to Moravia, to review the Duke of Rivoli's corps. It is said that he will also go to Hungary, to review the Viceroy's army. No one at Vienna is astonished at these demonstrations of active superintendence on the part of his majesty—it is his daily habit to preside in his cabinet, over the organization of his army, and to inspect, in person, the minutest details. To see him engaged in reviews, under these circumstances, has nothing alarming in it.
Returning from his review of the troops, the emperor has drawn the corps nearer to each other from all parts of the line of the armistice. The troops of Austria have also received orders to encamp. But the negotiations continue, and no positive indication justifies us in presuming that they will not reach their maturity. Mercury of France.
PARIS, Sept. 14. Account of the military operations on the Scheldt, from the surrender of Flushing till the evacuation of the fort of Batz by the English. Moniteur.
Every circumstance relative to the military operations on the Scheldt, during the siege and bombardment of Flushing, is so important, that it had been thought proper to publish the original pieces themselves, or extracts of the official correspondence. The latter operations, from the surrender of Flushing till the evacuation of Batz, do not require to be detailed so minutely, it will therefore be sufficient to sketch their outlines.
After taking possession of Flushing, the enemy seemed to employ the period that elapsed between the 15th and 19th of August, in collecting all his force round the fort of Batz, situated at the extremity of South Beveland, at the point where the Scheldt divides itself into two arms. Every thing seemed to indicate in the enemy an intention of transporting his army over the Eastern Scheldt, on the right bank, between Sandvliet and Bergen op Zoom, whilst his flotilla and men of war should attack the forts on the banks of the Scheldt, and our flotilla on that river.
pendicular dike, at one of the elbows of the river. In this position, rendered celebrated two centuries ago by the offensive works of the besiegers, our marines reproduced those very same works for our defence; planted strong wooden posts; collected boats, and prepared them in a manner to prevent their being sunk, and formed a double boom under the protection of the forts and batteries of the Cross, Melkhuis, Pearl, St. Philip and St. Mary.
Behind this boom, and beyond the point where ships, in order to double the Cape of Fort St. Philip, are obliged to describe a curve in the Scheldt, three men of war were stationed, whose treble batteries, commanding the passage, would have assailed the enemy in front, whilst his flanks and rear would have been cannonaded by the forts and batteries on both banks of the river.
Higher up, Forts Isabella and Ferdinand, supported by the imperial battery, formed a third defensive line, which it was necessary to break through, in order to approach the fleets and dock yards, which might have been further secured by sinking vessels in the river, that might have been raised again after the siege—a last means of tearing from the grasp of the English a prey, which they might have thought almost in their power.
Supposing the difficulties to have been conquered, the fortified town and citadel of Antwerp still remained, and it would have required the greatest exertions on the part of the enemy to have attacked a brave garrison, protected by these vain obstacles; but measures equally prudent and bold were taken to seize and wreck these floating mines; and our navy in retaliation, increased good works, and resolved to defend it itself like the garrisons of Genoa and Mayence, that is to fight without its walls and to contend obstinately, in the midst of inundations, for each of the numerous natural posts with which Antwerp is surrounded.
To this system of defence, the threatening dispositions of the English only served to inspire us with the bold determination of adding new ones. Three batteries were by command of the Prince, erected under the fire of the enemy. The one at the Point of Doel, another in the ruins of the old Fort of Frederick Henry, and the third between that fort and Lillo, in the elbow which the dike forms near the creek of Blawgaeren.
Such were the means of defence employed to secure Antwerp, its dock yards and its fleets. We must, however, acknowledge, that time would have been wanting to finish those immense preparations on every point, and that hostile fortune might have granted some momentary advantages to the English, had they, on the 19th of August made their attack, and displayed all their means with the prudence and boldness indispensably necessary to meet such difficulties, and such adversaries. But even this was foreseen.
Defensive positions were marked in the neighbourhood of Antwerp, to be taken by the army which received daily reinforcements, and measures had been planned, in conformity with the emperor's commands, to cause the very progress of the enemy to become a snare, by which he would be separated from his ships, and the punishment of his temerity would have been more complete and memorable.
Every day of delay rendered the attack more difficult and its success more doubtful. New legions followed those which a first call had created, and French warriors rushing from every part, displayed that unanimous resolution, which saved them at the hour of misfortune, of never suffering the enemy to invade their territory. Reinforcements of troops and artillery arrived incessantly. The first inundations were effected, and the others prepared. Labourers and means of conveyance grew every day more numerous; and the soldiers beheld with complacency the progress of works which covered the Scheldt with forts, batteries and booms. Every day it became more probable that the naval forces of the enemy would not attempt to penetrate through the sinuosities of the river, in defiance to all the obstacles raised against them, and with a total disregard of the danger they would run of having their retreat cut off. It was, therefore, likely that the English would begin by attempting to destroy the defences of the two banks; that the only means of effecting this purpose, would be to attack our army; and that they would not be able to resist the shock of the forces destined to attack them at the moment, and in the confusion of their landing, which if delayed, would prove still more difficult.
Every thing shewed the enemy wavering in his plans; misinformed or mistrustful; confounded at the sight of unforeseen obstacles, spending in reconnoitring, the time which served to increase them, and losing with the opportunity the will of attack us. His boats employed in sounding the channel of the Scheldt, proved that he was not acquainted with its windings. His gun boats assailing every night with rockets the batteries erected at Coel, and in the ruins of the fort of Frederick Henry, did not check the construction of these works, in which we approached to bid him defiance. In a word, although the collected ships at Batz made some offensive demonstrations, they were such as not to announce the transport or landing of any considerable corps of troops, with its artillery, across the arm of a wide river, on a point selected before hand and defended by an army.
Information, however, founded on these demonstrations, led us to believe several times, but especially on the 22nd of August, that the enemy's intention was really to land; and the Prince of Ponte Corvo announced the approaching attack in the order of the day, as an ordinary event, long expected by the army. Every thing was quiet; but until the 28th of August, bombs and cannon balls, thrown by the enemy's gun boats against the batteries of Doel and Frederick Henry, a fire of musketry against the dikes, vain discharges of artillery, and trifling engagements of out posts, were the only hostilities committed by the English.
When losing with the hope of an easy victory, the wish of attacking our army, the enemy, if we give credit to the rumours circulated in Zealand, attempted to devise means of sending fire ships and infernal machines against the booms and the fleet, and closing the Scheldt by sinking into its deep channels, vessels filled with stones, or whole blocks of stone work. We might have entrusted the rapid current of the river with the care of opening new channels for our ships, by removing or destroying the number of its fire ships, in order to fight the enemy with his own weapons and with defensive means which the number and collection of his vessels would have rendered more destructive.
Convinced, at last, that their miserable attempts, after the pompous display of their
Expedition, would only draw shame and ridicule upon their arms, the English seemed to intend to carry their land and naval force to other parts less well prepared to oppose them. They threatened at once Holland, the countries of Hult and Axel, the island of Cadzand, and the coast of Flanders. But, on the side of Holland, they would have met General Gratien's division on its return from the north of Germany, and the Dutch population in arms to defend their king, their country and their allies. In the countries of Hult, Axel and Cadzand, an army created whilst the enemy menaced Antwerp, awaited him, under the orders of the Marshal Duke of Cornegliano; and on the same line of that army, the first Inspector of Engineers had put all the towns of Dutch Flanders, and on the coast from Hult to Nieuport, beyond the reach of danger. Whatever be the point of attack, the Prince of Ponte Corvo, placed at Antwerp, in the centre of the line, could follow and defeat them with his army. Every thing shewed them that France and Holland were capable of repelling their attacks.
The prospect of so many obstacles increased by the sickness prevalent in his army, caused the enemy to prefer the disgrace of a retreat to that of a defeat. His last demonstrations had no other object than to conceal the evacuations of his sick and artillery. The island of Beveland and the fort of Batz were abandoned. As early as the 29th of August, 150 sail, several men of war, frigates and cutters, had come down to Flushing—a few days later, the rest descended the Scheldt. On the 4th of September, no sail was seen before Batz, our gun-boats took possession of that fort, and in a few hours restored it to the Dutch troops, belonging to the corps of Gen. Dumonceau.
Such is the result of this Grand Expedition! In order to diminish the disgrace with which it has been attended, the English will, undoubtedly, exaggerate the importance of an easy conquest (Flushing)—But Europe will see, by their own acknowledgments, that they have missed the principal end of their Expedition. Their allies will reproach them with having sacrificed the advantages of the common cause to their commercial avidity. The wish of adding to their naval force by the capture or destruction of a few ships; the vain hope of shutting a river that rivals the Thames, have outweighed, in their consideration, and in the midst of the great events, that took place in Austria and Spain, the interests of their allies. Were not, besides, the national guards, which, twenty years ago, conquered them under the walls of Dunkirk, equal to the task of defeating their designs? Should Spain be the sooner tranquillized—should Austria hasten the signature of peace, Europe, will this time, owe these blessings to England. To her, France is indebted for the present opportunity of displaying her power against an unexpected attack, and proving that a single call of the Emperor to twenty of his departments, is sufficient to raise, in less than a month, one hundred thousand warriors, against his enemies, without detaching a man from his armies, which were fighting at a distance of seven hundred miles from the point of attack.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21. —Yesterday arrived, sloop Phoebe , Capt. Turley, 37 days from Carthagena , who informs that markets were dull and that they were overstocked with English manufactures.—That the port of Carthagena was opened for nine months for neutrals, with the prohibition of Dry Goods and Spirituous Liquors.
The Spaniards throughout South America, it was said were ripe for a revolution, they say, they will not submit to any other crown, and that Ferdinand 7th, if they appear willing should be their prince, should be once more regain the Spanish throne but should he fail, then, they are clear for setting up a Republican form of government, independent of any European Junta or other power. The Province of Quito , it was said, had already set up an Independent Government and thrown off all obedience to the Spanish Government. To quell the spirit of insurrection, so called, troops were marching from the other Spanish provinces against the inhabitants of Quito , who had already chosen their Junta and declared themselves a free and Independent people. True American.
Extract of a Letter from Malta, September 14. "From the Adriatic we have no late intelligence. The port of Trieste, by the last advices was still in the hands of the French; but Trieste remained open. Few, however, adventurous to it, from the precariousness of its situation, as well as the little encouragement the market held out. Some American vessels have gone there of late, and many others of the flag remain in the ports around us, still uncertain how to proceed for the disposal of their cargoes. The Levant markets, like ours, are quite overloaded and offer no temptation to try them. Sates here are merely nominal. There is neither warehouse room to store goods, nor money to buy, and a speedy amelioration we confess we see no hopes of, unless some important political change should take place, and open to us other sources of consumption; for we are totally cut off from every port of Italy, from Genoa to Trieste. Our Exchange keeps up, and will not, we apprehend, fall naturally for sometime to come as the Government Departments being apparently in want of cash."
PRICES AT MALTA, Sept. 14.—Mocha Coffee, 32 cents; Martinique, 25 to 26; Bourbon, inferior 16 to 17; white Havana Sugars, 11 to 11 50; Brown do. 6 to 6 50; Muscovado, 5 to 5 25; Pepper, 18 to 18 1/2; Caracasa Cocoa 25 to 25 1/2; Tobacco 9 to 10; Opium 4 50 to 5; Rum, 4th proof Jamaica, 80 to 90 cents; Beef, 16 dollars; Pork, 18; Hyson Tea, 1 to 1 10; Souchong, 60 to 70 cents; Nankins, 80 to 85—merely nominal.
Domestic.
THE APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE.
We shall now have an opportunity to test the professions of those who are in opposition to the American government. The British Minister after insulting the government, and exposing himself to disgrace, has appealed from the decision of the government to the people. And so he is welcome to do. The freedom of our happy institutions, and the dignity and justice of the American people, have thus extorted a compliment from an enemy, which, if it be no excuse for the irregularity, may be fairly admitted upon principles of toleration and fairness.
But let us now see what they say, who declaimed against Genet , the ambassador of a republic. Will they now applaud that act in the minister of a monarch, which they reproached in the minister of a popular government?
Or will they now say that Genet was right in order to find a vindication for Jackson?
But it will be called by a different name from an appeal to the people; it will be said it is only an address to the diplomatic corps! Who are the diplomatic corps? There is only one ambassador we believe now in the United States, the minister of France, and the charge des affaires of Russia and Denmark; and it is to M. Turreau that Mr. Jackson has addressed his apology? This would be humiliation indeed; we cannot suppose that he would expose himself to the extreme ridicule of the warrior of the Alps; such a procedure would keep the French legation on the broad grin for a fortnight.
Was it to M. Dashkoff , the consul general of Russia? This would be almost as silly, since the relations between the two nations no longer exist; and the duties of the Russian charge des affaires are of a limited kind. But there is Mr. Pedersen , the charge des affaires of Denmark; it is to the agent of Denmark that Mr. Jackson has sent his apology? We can conceive the Danish agent with the well-known picture of Copenhagen in flames before him; and the 1st Jan and contemptuous address of Jackson to the crown prince of Denmark open before him on his bureau, when the apology of this minister of inquiry was presented to him; and we can very well anticipate, that modest, amiable, and moderate as Mr. Pedersen is, that his first emotion would be to thrust the audacious message in the messenger's face, or foot him into the contiguous kennel.
The procedure therefore, is a mere mask for an appeal to the people; and for that reason it is, that we think it to be now full time that the people should take up the appeal and act upon it, and say at once whether this nation is to be eternally made the butt of every desperate and flagitious emissary, which Great Britain may chuse to send here, to add contumely to her outrages, and to hear our government, instead of redressing and repairing the loud crying wrongs which this nation has suffered from her.
Aurora.
VERMONT BANKS.
The Vermont Reporter says—"It is stated, that on an investigation of the officers of the Vermont Banks, it was found, that in September last there had been put in circulation upwards of 760 000 dollars, and that more, than 404 000 dollars now remained unredeemed. A bill has been brought into the Legislature, to collect debts due the bank in a very summary way, by issuing Eutents against the delinquent's person and property, in three days after the notes become due! It is also said, the legislature have it in contemplation to create funds for the bank, by a land tax of three cents per acre, to be paid in Specie or Vermont bills."
"We are likewise informed that Messrs. Chapin and Campbell, Directors, & Campbell, the Cashier of the Westminster branch, have been removed."
NEW YORK, Nov. 30. We are authorized to state, that the report published in a morning paper of Saturday last, that the United States ship John Adams was to sail immediately for England, is without foundation. Pub. Adv.
CANADIAN TRADE.
The following article in the Montreal papers, shows a spirit of improvement in the Canadians, for facilitating trade between them and the citizens of the U. States: "MONTREAL, Nov. 6.—It is to be hoped that the public will now be satisfied that a road, direct from this to the head of the Connecticut river, would give a supply of beef to this market, sufficient to reduce the price of that article one or two pence on the pound. It is pleasing to see twenty or thirty fine American oxen lately come in through the Shipton road. If a further subscription were made for clearing that road, there remains not the least doubt but that it could be made passable for carriages; and then what advantages would be derived by every class of people, this place being only 230 miles from Portland; and 100 miles of that road, from the Connecticut river to Portland, now turnpike; and from Portland to Boston only 112 miles. Forty miles of road is made on this side of the Canada line, and 21 from here to La Beance."
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22.
Extract of a letter to the Editors, dated Elkton, (Md.) Nov. 20. "The Dutchess of Baltimore, (Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte) attended by col. Toustard, with the young Prince, are now at this place, on their way to honor the city of Philadelphia with their august presence. You have been accused of announcing to the public, upon insufficient authority, the creation of the Dutchess and Prince by Napoleon, but no doubt of the fact is entertained in this quarter. Col. Toustard is now attending them in his and their official character."
We understand the Dutchess and Prince have arrived in this city.— Freeman's Jour. Madame Bonaparte and family arrived in town yesterday from Baltimore, and has taken lodgings at the Union Hotel.— Relf. It is said, that they are bound to France.— Eng.
REPLY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
to the Address of the Republican citizens of the County of Washington, in the state of New York.
I have received, fellow citizens, your address of the 14th September, with a just sense of the favorable manner in which it reviews the course pursued by the administration—in relation to the arrangement made in April with the minister plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty, and next in consequence of the disavowal of that arrangement.
Whatever may be the sequel of this abortive result to a transaction so reasonable in its terms, and so auspicious in its tendencies, it is a consoling reflection that the United States will have given the most incontrovertible evidence of that conciliatory disposition by which they have been constantly guided; and that it may the more confidently be expected that all true friends to their country,
persevering the spirit of party to its honor and its welfare, will unite on whatever measures the maintenance of these may call for.
I thank you for the friendly regards which you have been pleased to manifest towards me: and I sincerely join in extending to my illustrious predecessor, in his retirement, the veneration and grateful remembrance due to his exalted endowments, and his arduous services.
JAMES MADISON. Washington, Oct. 9, 1809.
Extract to the Editor of the Aurora.
"WASHINGTON, 15th Nov. The late British Ambassador, F. J. Jackson, is still here, and like Chrononhotonthologos about to "exit in a big passion," his rage is however, not mere dramatic, but real, and has exhibited the proverbial ignorance of his countrymen, in regard to the true character of the American people and government, in conjunction with his fears; for he is so cursedly frightened, that he has demanded for himself and his household, passports of safe conduct, to protect his person and the legation from that insult and chastisement which he thinks he merits; but which the American people are too much devoted to the laws to inflict on him. Indeed in any other situation than that of a public minister protected by the laws of nations, no treatment expressive of national contempt could be inapplicable, and of this his fears convict him. His conscience must certainly smite him sorely, or he would hardly in a situation so onerous have confessed his bodily fear. New York is to be the place of his future residence, perhaps the contiguity of that city to the sea, and thereby affording the opportunities of a correspondence with Nova Scotia or an escape by night, may have been the cause of the selection. The number of persons disaffected to the government being very numerous there, may be an additional motive; for certainly no other class of persons in this country will associate with such a character, or give him countenance."
Aurora.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 21.
GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL.
The legislature of this state have elected Messrs James Butcher, George E. Mitchell, Thomas W. Hall, Reverdy Ghiselin & Lewis Duval, council to the governor for the ensuing year.
From the National Intelligencer.
The paper denominated a "Circular" which Mr. Jackson, the British minister, has just uttered, is an appeal to the people of the United States from the decision of their government. The fact is established by the complexion of the production, the statement of particulars in which was altogether unnecessary. If his object had merely been to notify the sub agents of England resident in this country to address their communications to him at New York.
It is contrary to the law of nations and repugnant to the very nature of the diplomatic function, for a foreign envoy to plead, in his official character, the merits of his cause before the citizens of the country wherein he resides. There can be no dispute as to the inpropriety of addressing them in a direct or indirect form, in person or by "circular," because he is prohibited by the attributes of his mission from accusing them as a minister in any form. Mr. Jackson is the representative of the government of Great Britain to the government of the United States; and that is all he is. He speaks to the American people in any other manner than through the Executive, which is the constitutional organ, he sets himself up as the rival of the Executive, and is justly censurable. The transition from addressing the public to invoking with the people against the government by which he is accredited, is easy; and the manifest tendency of his conduct in either case is to subvert the constituted authorities of the republic. If Mr. Jackson were a private man, he would have no right to controvert and denounce the acts of the President, because he is an alien, and therefore not even a solitary unit of the constituent part of the nation; much less is he justifiable, being a minister, in assuming that freedom, which belongs only to the citizen.
Would Mr. Jackson himself be willing to abide the consequences of an appeal thus made, admitting the worst that could, but which certainly will not happen? Supposing the community to be indignant at his behavior and excited to anger against him, would he be willing to meet the terrible judgment of that people whom he had made the arbiter of his actions? Would he be willing to encounter that spirit of vengeance which he had invited and which, when roused, is awful as the thunder of Heaven and overwhelming as the tumultuous waves of the ocean? Would he not require from that Executive magistrate whom he insults, protection; and would he not demand security and safe conduct in the name of those very laws of nations which he has outraged?
Mr. Jackson claims consideration as an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary. In that aspect he is entitled to various important exemptions from restraint, which are denied to private men. In return, he is himself subject to certain restrictions from which individuals are free; and if he breaks through them, he is as guilty in relation to the government as the government would be in relation to him, were it to infringe any of his privileges; for the rights of governments and those of ministers are mutual. The dissemination of Mr. Jackson's "circular" is a gross infraction of the obligations imposed upon him by the nature of his office.
The circulation of the paper in question by Mr. Jackson, even in manuscript, was a publication of it. Its appearance in print is only an aggravation of the original offence. The opposition gazette in which it came forth affords strong evidence in favor of the opinion that it went to the press immediately from himself, or mediately through some of his agents. In either case, the misdemeanor is the same; for, let the channels of communication to the public or to the printer have been what they may, the "circular" is the production of the honorable Francis James Jackson.
This act of Mr. Jackson is more conspicuously odious, because it proceeds from the ambassador of a nation whose parliamentary history furnishes an exalted example of just resentment against a similar appeal, from the sovereign to the subjects of the British monarchy. It was Monsieur De Paiz , the imperial resident at London, who, after an odious parallel to Mr. Jackson, had raised a memorandum, which he had previously presented to the British king, to be printed

circulated among the people of England... and this being considered by the parliament... an unlawful interference on the part of a foreign envoy...
Resolved, That the congress of the United States be respectfully solicited to appropriate the sum of six hundred dollars annually...
Resolved, That the committee heretofore elected, consisting of the hon. Augustus B. Woodward, George Hoffman, James Henry, Solomon Sibley, and James May, Esqrs., be charged...
CHARLESTON, November 16.—Arrived, sch. Martha Crawley, Elsworth, Havana six days Coffee. To L. & R. Groning—All the American vessels which had been lying off the Moro...
HAVANNA, Oct. 19.—The Honorable the President, Governor and Captain General, and the Intendant General of this Island, of common accord, resolved, that the foreign vessels at anchor in the offing of this port...
WASHINGTON, November 22.—The following letter, said to be addressed to the British consuls, is taken from the Independent American—We are authorised to say that its contents, so far as they contradict the article published in this paper...
LEAVE has been given in the house of delegates of Maryland, on motion of Mr. Archer, to bring in a bill entitled "An act to alter and abolish all such parts of the declaration of rights, the constitution and form of government of this state..."
COLUMBIA, (S. C.) Nov. 11. The resolutions adopted by the citizens of Columbia and its vicinity, on the 4th September last, were forwarded to the President of the United States...
COLUMBIA, Sept. 20: SIR. Conformable to the request of my fellow citizens of this town and its vicinity, I hasten, with pleasure, to transmit you their resolutions, which are highly evincive of their patriotism...
Resolved, That the congress of the United States be respectfully solicited to appropriate the sum of six hundred dollars annually...
Resolved, That the committee heretofore elected, consisting of the hon. Augustus B. Woodward, George Hoffman, James Henry, Solomon Sibley, and James May, Esqrs., be charged...
CHARLESTON, November 16.—Arrived, sch. Martha Crawley, Elsworth, Havana six days Coffee. To L. & R. Groning—All the American vessels which had been lying off the Moro...
HAVANNA, Oct. 19.—The Honorable the President, Governor and Captain General, and the Intendant General of this Island, of common accord, resolved, that the foreign vessels at anchor in the offing of this port...
WASHINGTON, November 22.—The following letter, said to be addressed to the British consuls, is taken from the Independent American—We are authorised to say that its contents, so far as they contradict the article published in this paper...
LEAVE has been given in the house of delegates of Maryland, on motion of Mr. Archer, to bring in a bill entitled "An act to alter and abolish all such parts of the declaration of rights, the constitution and form of government of this state..."
COLUMBIA, (S. C.) Nov. 11. The resolutions adopted by the citizens of Columbia and its vicinity, on the 4th September last, were forwarded to the President of the United States...
COLUMBIA, Sept. 20: SIR. Conformable to the request of my fellow citizens of this town and its vicinity, I hasten, with pleasure, to transmit you their resolutions, which are highly evincive of their patriotism...
Two hundred NEGROES for sale—Will positively be sold at Christopher Owen's Tavern, in the town of Urbanna in Middlesex county, the above quantity of Negroes belonging to the estate of Philip L. Grymes, Esq. of Brandon, dec'd.
Resolved, That the congress of the United States be respectfully solicited to appropriate the sum of six hundred dollars annually...
Resolved, That the committee heretofore elected, consisting of the hon. Augustus B. Woodward, George Hoffman, James Henry, Solomon Sibley, and James May, Esqrs., be charged...
CHARLESTON, November 16.—Arrived, sch. Martha Crawley, Elsworth, Havana six days Coffee. To L. & R. Groning—All the American vessels which had been lying off the Moro...
HAVANNA, Oct. 19.—The Honorable the President, Governor and Captain General, and the Intendant General of this Island, of common accord, resolved, that the foreign vessels at anchor in the offing of this port...
WASHINGTON, November 22.—The following letter, said to be addressed to the British consuls, is taken from the Independent American—We are authorised to say that its contents, so far as they contradict the article published in this paper...
LEAVE has been given in the house of delegates of Maryland, on motion of Mr. Archer, to bring in a bill entitled "An act to alter and abolish all such parts of the declaration of rights, the constitution and form of government of this state..."
COLUMBIA, (S. C.) Nov. 11. The resolutions adopted by the citizens of Columbia and its vicinity, on the 4th September last, were forwarded to the President of the United States...
COLUMBIA, Sept. 20: SIR. Conformable to the request of my fellow citizens of this town and its vicinity, I hasten, with pleasure, to transmit you their resolutions, which are highly evincive of their patriotism...
Two hundred NEGROES for sale—Will positively be sold at Christopher Owen's Tavern, in the town of Urbanna in Middlesex county, the above quantity of Negroes belonging to the estate of Philip L. Grymes, Esq. of Brandon, dec'd.
Resolved, That the congress of the United States be respectfully solicited to appropriate the sum of six hundred dollars annually...
Resolved, That the committee heretofore elected, consisting of the hon. Augustus B. Woodward, George Hoffman, James Henry, Solomon Sibley, and James May, Esqrs., be charged...
CHARLESTON, November 16.—Arrived, sch. Martha Crawley, Elsworth, Havana six days Coffee. To L. & R. Groning—All the American vessels which had been lying off the Moro...
HAVANNA, Oct. 19.—The Honorable the President, Governor and Captain General, and the Intendant General of this Island, of common accord, resolved, that the foreign vessels at anchor in the offing of this port...
WASHINGTON, November 22.—The following letter, said to be addressed to the British consuls, is taken from the Independent American—We are authorised to say that its contents, so far as they contradict the article published in this paper...
LEAVE has been given in the house of delegates of Maryland, on motion of Mr. Archer, to bring in a bill entitled "An act to alter and abolish all such parts of the declaration of rights, the constitution and form of government of this state..."
COLUMBIA, (S. C.) Nov. 11. The resolutions adopted by the citizens of Columbia and its vicinity, on the 4th September last, were forwarded to the President of the United States...
COLUMBIA, Sept. 20: SIR. Conformable to the request of my fellow citizens of this town and its vicinity, I hasten, with pleasure, to transmit you their resolutions, which are highly evincive of their patriotism...
Two hundred NEGROES for sale—Will positively be sold at Christopher Owen's Tavern, in the town of Urbanna in Middlesex county, the above quantity of Negroes belonging to the estate of Philip L. Grymes, Esq. of Brandon, dec'd.
Resolved, That the congress of the United States be respectfully solicited to appropriate the sum of six hundred dollars annually...
Resolved, That the committee heretofore elected, consisting of the hon. Augustus B. Woodward, George Hoffman, James Henry, Solomon Sibley, and James May, Esqrs., be charged...
CHARLESTON, November 16.—Arrived, sch. Martha Crawley, Elsworth, Havana six days Coffee. To L. & R. Groning—All the American vessels which had been lying off the Moro...
HAVANNA, Oct. 19.—The Honorable the President, Governor and Captain General, and the Intendant General of this Island, of common accord, resolved, that the foreign vessels at anchor in the offing of this port...
WASHINGTON, November 22.—The following letter, said to be addressed to the British consuls, is taken from the Independent American—We are authorised to say that its contents, so far as they contradict the article published in this paper...
LEAVE has been given in the house of delegates of Maryland, on motion of Mr. Archer, to bring in a bill entitled "An act to alter and abolish all such parts of the declaration of rights, the constitution and form of government of this state..."
COLUMBIA, (S. C.) Nov. 11. The resolutions adopted by the citizens of Columbia and its vicinity, on the 4th September last, were forwarded to the President of the United States...
COLUMBIA, Sept. 20: SIR. Conformable to the request of my fellow citizens of this town and its vicinity, I hasten, with pleasure, to transmit you their resolutions, which are highly evincive of their patriotism...
Two hundred NEGROES for sale—Will positively be sold at Christopher Owen's Tavern, in the town of Urbanna in Middlesex county, the above quantity of Negroes belonging to the estate of Philip L. Grymes, Esq. of Brandon, dec'd.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, NOVEMBER 28, 1809.
POINTS IN DISPUTE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. No. III.
The principal points of commercial relations between the two countries are, 1st, the restrictions on commerce in the ports of either. 2d. Our trade to the British West-Indies, and 3d, to the East-Indies.
so anxious was the P. U. S. for an accommodation with Great Britain, that, however solicitous he was to obtain right on this point, he instructed our minister not to make an amendment of this part of the treaty, a sine qua non.
In order to complete the residue of the Resolutions of the Decree of the honorable High Court of Chancery, for the Richmond District, dated the 20th June, 1809, and published in this paper from the 22d August to the 19th Sept.
Richmond Theatre. The public are respectfully informed, in future there will be no postponement on account of weather.
On Wednesday Evening, November 29, 1809, will be presented, Colman's much admired Comedy, of JOHN BULL.
The Hunter of the Alps. Doors to be opened at 5, the Curtain to rise at 6 o'clock.
A New Theory, OF THE DIURNAL ROTATION OF THE EARTH. Demonstrated upon Mathematical Principles, from the properties of the Cycloid and the Epi Cycloid.
VALUABLE LAND—FOR SALE—The subscriber, intending to remove to one of the southern states in the course of fifteen or eighteen months, offers for sale, the tract of LAND on which he now dwells.
JUST RECEIVED, one piece Fawn coloured KERSEYMERES, suitable for Ladies' PLICES—Apply to C. FARCHILD.
NOTICE is hereby given, that I shall petition the next General Assembly of the State of Virginia to relinquish to me the Commonwealth's right, to a tract or parcel of land lying in the County of James City.
ADVERTISEMENT—Will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 6th day of December next, at the late dwelling house of John Carr, dec'd.

MINISTERIAL DUEL.
"Set a beggar on horse-back, and he'll ride to the devil," is a proverb, the truth of which is daily apparent. From the scum of society, from the casual fruition, from the spawn of itinerant vagrants, one might have expected, that a long and bitter quarrel, about place and profit, would end in an attempt upon one another's lives; but from the great men of the realm; from our ministers of state; from our law givers; from the king's privy counsellors; from members of that "noble, honorable, and reverend assembly;" from this description of persons, one might have expected something a little better than the popping off of pistols at each other's skulls. The base hirelings who conduct the Morning Post and Courier newspapers, have not as yet openly asserted, that this duel arose from the influence of Jacobinism; they have not yet openly asserted, that Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Wardle and Mr. Madox were the cause of it; but, I shall be greatly surprised, if they do not, before they have done, make shift to twist the matter as to make even this transaction appear to their beastly tribe of readers as having its origin in a Jacobin plot; and that the actors themselves were perfectly innocent of any evil intention, and at the time when they were cocking their eye at each other's heads, felt loyalty bubbling up their very throats; nay, as far as they were concerned, it was a mere rivalry in loyalty, that was the ground of their quarrel. But be this as it may, let us have the facts upon record, as those facts have been stated in the newspapers.
The fact of the duel is stated as follows: "We understand there was a meeting at Putney Heath, this morning between Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning. Lord Yarmouth accompanied the former to the field—Mr. Ellis the latter. After taking their ground, they fired by signal, and missed; and no explanation taking place, they fired at each other a second time, when the ball from Lord Castlereagh's pistol went through Mr. Canning's thigh, on the outer thigh of the bone. Thus the affair terminated—Mr. Canning's wound is not considered to be dangerous. The cause of this extraordinary affair is said to have originated in some official misunderstanding, the nature of which we shall not enter into at present, as we are greatly deficient in information upon the subject, and in a matter of such extreme delicacy, we think it our duty to avoid hazarding any statements which we do not know to be accurately correct."—What! "Extreme Delicacy!" Delicacy towards fellows like these; towards men who set the law at defiance, who go deliberately out and shoot at each other's heads, when not many months have passed since a man was hanged for a similar offence, and that, too, tho' every means were tried of obtaining a pardon from that king, amongst whose advisers these very two men were at that time, and who, of course, advised him not to spare the life of that man! Talk of delicacy, indeed, towards men like these! It is the most insolent expression; it is the grossest insult upon the public understanding and taste, that has been for a long time attempted, even by the abettors of this set, who have brought the country to the brink of destruction, while it is added that the cause of this duel is a quarrel between the parties of long standing; or at least, of some months standing. Nothing was wanting to prove, that this nation, as to its public spirit and sentiment, was in the lowest state of degradation. The transactions at the close of the last session of parliament, the contempt with which the people were then treated; the utter disregard of all decency in this treatment; the "making a raid against popular encroachment," when all that was demanded was the punishment of those, who had sold or swapped Seats in Parliament; this alone proved to the whole world to what a degraded state the people of this once high minded country had sunk; but, if proof had still been wanting, it certainly would have been found in the history of this duel, where we see the government committed to the hands of men, having so little sense of common decency as to forget the high rank they had been placed in, and to turn out, like a couple of broth- heated bullies, and shoot at each other's heads—Why, these men, besides having the principal affairs, by far the most important affairs of the nation, committed to their immediate discretion and control, were, in virtue of their office of privy counsellors alone, keepers of the king's secrets; magistrates of the very highest order; and judges in many very important cases. And in order to give them peculiar protection, the law makes it felony for any one to assault and strike them in the execution of their office. It was by men of this description, that Mr. Le Maitre was sent to jail and there kept for five years, and then discharged, without being brought to trial; without even having any charges preferred against him; and without being able to obtain any redress, though he petitioned the parliament over and over again, and though he was daily sold, in the news papers, which, during the five years, reached him in the jail, that the war was going on for the preservation of the liberties of Englishmen—Such were the persons, which, as privy counsellors, were committed to the hands of these men. As ministers of state, the public will do well to bear in mind, that, besides their patronage and power, a law was passed, in the time of Pitt, and in the passing of which both these men assisted, to send men to Botany Bay, to transport them for life, to put them upon a level with felons, for writing or publishing any thing, calculated to bring them into contempt. These are the men, who have proposed, and passed laws like this; these very men, who, while still ministers of state, go out upon a heath, and shoot at one another's heads! For writing or printing any thing, however true, calculated to expose men like these to contempt, any Englishman was liable to be transported; aye, and to be told, at the same time, that his sentence was just, that it was according to law, and that he ought to bless God for having such laws to live under. The public will also bear in mind, that, with the sole exception of Mr. Charles Yorke, these two men were the very loudest, at the first broaching of the charges against the duke of York, in the cry about a Jacobin conspiracy, and in accusing the press of being the organ of that conspiracy; that these two men were the most strenuous, in the attempt that day made, to pave the way for laws, which should render the press a mere instrument in the hands of men of power, as the press in Calcutta is; and that these two men were the loudest in the cry against what they called an "attack upon public men," and in calling for a stand against popular encroachment. This should now be
recollected by the insulted people of England; but, they have so long been insulted with unmerited gall, that they are scarcely to be either dreaded or pitied. These are the gentry, who complained so bitterly about the attempts to degrade all public men; who advised the king (in the last speech from the throne) to the people in the parliament houses to go into their several counties and inculcate among their constituents an obedience to the laws; these are the people, during whose administration, the crown bar judge at Winchester, at the last assises thought proper in his charge to the grand jury (of which the right honourable old Geo. Rose was foreman,) to express his sorrow at observing, that there was a prevalent disposition to degrade public men, which he attributed to the abuse of the liberty of the press; yes, these are two of the gentry, who were at office at that very time, and who, at that very time, as it now appears, were brewing a quarrel, which has terminated in an attempt to kill, to murder each other. When the Tinnian of Plymouth was tried and punished so severely for an attempt upon the virtue of Mr. Addington, the circumstance of the latter being a privy counsellor was strongly urged in aggravation of the offence; and I am fully persuaded, that, if any one had said and published, that a duel was about to take place between these two men, an outcry would have been raised against him; he would have been represented as having committed a dreadful outrage upon his "majesty's government," in the persons of two of his right honourable privy counsellors; we should have seen all the high sounding words of law marshalled against him; and very likely, have seen him prosecuted to his utter ruin, and penned up in a jail, as distant as possible from his affairs and his friends. Yes, only for saying, that these men would do, or were likely to do, what they have now actually done, this would have been my fate, or that of any other writer or publisher. When we find, that these two men, the one secretary of state for foreign affairs, and the other the war secretary, have been at daggers drawn for many months past, are our failures and misfortunes any longer a subject of wonder? For several months past: that is the fact stated. Is it not in human nature, that they should, during that time, have thwarted one another by all possible means; and, indeed, it is supposed, that two men, who could not be restrained from shooting at one another, would restrain themselves from doing anything, in their official capacity, to annoy each other, and to produce each other's disgrace? To what a state then, is this nation reduced! What a shame, what a scandal, it is, that the affairs of a great nation should be thus committed! For months past, nay, for more than two years, of the most perilous part of this most perilous war, have the most important concerns, questions of war and of peace, been entrusted to these men. The expenditure of one half of those endless taxes that are weighing us to the earth; the faith and honor of the country; the lives of hundreds of thousands; and happiness of millions, have all hung upon the breath of two men, whose malignant rivalry, or whose passions of one sort or another, have at last induced them to sally forth upon a heath, with the avowed intention of blowing out each other's brains! And, while this is going on, we are bidden not to attempt to degrade public men, upon pain of jail and pillory!
It was this Mr. Canning; it was this son of Mrs. Hunn; indeed it was both these men, who, as plainly as men could speak, recommended new and more severe laws against the press, and that, too, because, as a Jacobinical conspiracy; it was they who cried out against those, who, as they said, were endeavoring to disturb the peace of mind of "our good old king," whose "age and infirmities" became us to consider, when we were pressing for a certain decision in parliament. Have they, then, now the impudence to reproach others with a want of consideration for the king's peace of mind? They, who, to the degradation of all rank and office, have turned out and popped at each other's heads. They, who have brought upon this reign a stain, which no other reign, in this or any other country, has ever received; a stain that does not belong even to the worst part of the French revolution, in all its democratical madness! That revolution, mad and bloody as it was, never exhibited two ministers of state shooting at each other. What a figure do we, at this moment, cut in the eyes of the world! Bonaparte's ministers are not thus employed. They are engaged in quite other sort of matters. This Mr. Canning is he, who above all others, has prated about the want of decorum and dignity in the proceedings of the French; it was he who talked so much about dignity in his paper, relative to the "universal Spanish nation." The world will now be able to judge of what his notions of dignity are worth. There wanted only this scandalous occurrence, this degrading, this black guard rencontre, to make the fitness of the Jubilee complete. It will, indeed, after having congratulated the king upon, and returned God thanks for the six to seven hundred millions of government debt, and the premium upon guineas; the increase of the poor rates and the doubling of the number of paupers, the creating of the income and assessed taxes, with a vast addition, to the number of all other taxes; the adding ten fold to the number and expense of the standing army; the introduction of large bodies of foreign troops into the kingdom; the fall of Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Naples, Germany, before our mortal enemy, and, indeed, their having become dependents of France; the existence of a French dock yard and fleet at Antwerp, within four hours sail of the mouth of the Thames; the late events upon the Danube, and the more important negotiations now there going on; the achievements of our army at Dunkirk, at the Helder, at Ferrol, at Buenos Ayres, at Cairo, at Cintra, in Leon and Galicia, at Walcheren, and, though last not least, at Talavera: After having congratulated the king upon all this, and taken the view of the present situation of our country, in the hospitals of Zealand and Spain; after this, it will be very fit to congratulate him upon the duel between two of his ministers & privy counsellors upon Putney Heath; it will, indeed, a way to flatter him, and to smooth the latter part of his life, to thank him for having chosen, as the immediate managers of the most important of the national concerns, two men, who, after months of smothered hatred and malice, go out, and let fly at each other's heads. The Jews and Seat Monagers will, surely, not forget this topic of congratulation, when they call upon the people to illuminate their houses in sign of joy. It will be for those Jews and Seat Monagers to tell us what mode was taken by the duelling ministers to transfer the papers,
and the information of their offices, to their successors. The Jobbers will be able to tell us, perhaps, what measures were taken by these allies of the state to shift the bad upon other shoulders; and to show us in what the case of either of these men, supposing the other to have been killed, would have differed from the case of the man lately hanged upon a gallows in Ireland; and, when they are upon the subject of congratulation, they may go on to the fact of that man having been hanged, and having been refused to be pardoned, while these two men were amongst the advisers of the king.—After all, however, scandalous as this duel is, disgraceful as it is to the government and to the nation, it is not, if one takes time to reflect, anything to wonder at. What was to be expected from such men, placed in such a situation? Their appointment to such high offices, was, of itself, an unequivocal symptom of the rapid decline of the country; their continuance there was another symptom; and, that, when they became rivals for power and emolument, they should quarrel, and if they quarrelled, they should have no regard to decency, was naturally to be expected. These are, too, a brace of the "young friends," a brace of the chickens that were hatched under the wings of Pitt, and for the fostering and rearing of whom, this miserable nation has paid so dearly.—These were two of the famous Anti-Jacobins, and Mr. Ellis (if it was George) was a third. These were two of the men, who rose out of the heat of Anti-Jacobinism. I know no two like them; and if you go and ask the Irish, they will tell you so too, with many and many, an instance of their feats. But we deserve this, and much more. If the people of England had had common sense, they never would have fostered this numerous brood of Anti-Jacobins; and, if they had but a common portion of public spirit, they would now be taking all the lawful means in their power to guard themselves and their children against them, instead of contenting themselves, as they now do, with silent contempt, which never has any effect upon profligate public men.—I have but a word or two to say upon the relative merits, or rather, demerits of these pistolting privy-counsellors; and that must be only conditionally. If it be true, that the cause of the duel was, what is stated in some of the news papers; namely, that Mr. CANNING went to the Duke of Portland, in the month of May last, just about the time of the discussion about the other's having given an office to be swapped against a seat in parliament, and endeavored to get him turned out of his place, without acquainting him what he was doing or had done; if this be true, the other had, certainly, good reason to be offended; for the act was a very underhanded one, and quite worthy of a "young friend" and a "staunch Anti-Jacobin." I know nothing at all about, but if the charge be true, Mr. Canning is the person most to be blamed, though nothing can justify the conduct of either. The public will recollect, that it was Mr. Canning who moved for the acquittal of Lord Castlereagh, in the case referred to, and that, upon that occasion, he accused, the people of factiousness. If, therefore, it be true, that he was then at work to get Lord Castlereagh out, while he was pretending in the House of Commons to look upon him as innocent, and was calling him his "noble friend;" if this be true, he does, indeed, cut a very shabby figure, and furnishes us with a pretty good criterion whereby to judge of his sincerity and of the motives by which he was actuated.
C. THOMPSON, PORTRAIT PAINTER.—Respectfully informs the inhabitants of Richmond and its vicinity, that he has commenced business, in the house opposite the Swan-Tavern—where some specimens may be seen. November 10. w4w
PUBLIC SALE, or NEGROES & STOCK On Monday, the 11th day of December next, will be exposed to sale, at the Oaks, in the county of Hanover—120 NEGROES, belonging to the estate of the late Judge Lyons, deceased, amongst whom are carpenters, sawyers & laborers, young and healthy. A credit of 12 months will be allowed the purchasers, on their giving bond with the most unexceptionable security to the trustees. On Wednesday, the 13th day of the same month, at the late dwelling house of the deceased; will be sold, the household Furniture, with the crop of corn, stock and farming utensils. On Friday, the 15th, will be sold, at the plantation, called the Fork, the crop of Corn, the Stock and utensils: And on Monday, the 18th, will be sold at the Mangohick plantation, in King William county, the crop of corn, stock, &c. The corn and pork will be sold for cash; the other articles on a reasonable credit. All persons indebted to the estate are requested to make payment before the first day of January, 1810; the money being appropriated to uses which will not admit of indulgence. BY THE TRUSTEES. Oct. 10. w11D
NOTICE.—In obedience to a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery, pronounced on 5th of May, 1807, and also, an additional decree pronounced on 9th February, 1809; will be exposed to sale, upon the premises, the tract of LAND, mentioned in said decrees, or so much thereof as will raise the sum of $115: 16, with interest thereon from 20th August, 1802, & costs of carrying the said decrees into effect. The above mentioned land lies in the county of Chesterfield, and adjoins the lands of Arthur Graves and John Perry, it being the land or part thereof formerly owned by James Perry. The sale of the above land will take place on the 30th day of the present month, (and will be sold under the provisions of the late act of the General Assembly, respecting executions, &c.) The decrees aforesaid, will be exhibited on the day of sale, and a title made the purchaser, in obedience thereto, by the SHERIFF. Of Chesterfield County. November 10. w31
RETAIL NIGHT AUCTION. THE SUBSCRIBER has opened a RETAIL NIGHT AUCTION, for the sale of DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, BOOKS, or any articles his friends, or the Public in general, may favor him with. He intends selling in large or small quantities, most for the advantage of owners or convenience of purchasers: And he hopes from the particular attention and punctuality, he is determined to pay to the business, to merit the patronage of a generous public. RICHARD BROOKE. November 14. w4w
FOR SALE, a Tract of LAND, in the county of Bedford, about 12 miles from Lynchburg, and two from New-London, adjoining Messrs. James Steptoe, N. Reed and Wm. Irvine. This Land lies in an agreeable neighborhood, and has many other recommendations. The Land will be shown by Robert Bradfute, living on the same. The terms of sale may be known by applying to me, in Richmond, or to Capt. William Irvine. DAVIDSON BRADFUTE. October 31. w4w
SHEPPARD AND LUKE HAVE received a general assortment of Groceries consisting of Pepper, Pimento, Sugar, Coffee, Ginger, Imp. Tea, W. I. Rum, Molasses, English Mustard, Salt, Country Gin, Whiskey, English Mustard, Salt, Sherry, and Malaga in Sacks. Also, Earthen, Glass, China and Stoneware, German, Crawley and blistered Steel, Bar Iron, Nail-roads, Seal-leather, Writing, Wrapping and Printing Paper, Spanish Segars, Cotton Cards, Shot, Powder, Window-glass, Indigo, Copperas, Salt, Allum, Logwood, Cut-Herrings, &c. &c. Which they offer low for cash, country produce or approved paper. N. B. Cash given for flour as usual. November 7. wtf
EDUCATION. THE subscriber intends to continue his school in the Forks of Hovover, the ensuing year, where he offers to teach spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, geography, the use of the globes, rhetoric, natural philosophy, geometry, and the French language. The price for board, tuition and washing, will be $7.50 payable half yearly. The term will commence the tenth of January, and end the tenth of Dec. Vacation one month, beginning the tenth of June. This school will be critically examined in June and December. JAMES BYARS, jr. November 21. w8t
HALIFAX COUNTY, October 10, 1809. THE subscriber wishing to remove to the Western Country, offers for sale, at present residence, 625 acres of Land, whereon he at present resides. This land is equal in quality, to most of the high land in the neighborhood, and superior to a considerable portion of it; is well adapted to the culture of grain of all kinds, tobacco & cotton, and highly improved with houses, enclosed, &c. and favored with excellent springs of water; altogether affording one of the most pleasant, and healthy situations in the county. The dwelling-house is sixty feet in length, composed of a centre part 24 by 22 feet, two stories high, and wings of twenty by eight feet, covered with the best pine feather edge plank and shingles; the underpinning and chimneys of brick, neatly laid, with convenient fire places, windows, &c. in the several apartments. Stair cases, &c. in suitable style. The kitchen is 28 by 16 feet—a meat house 12 by 16 feet, and a dairy 10 by 3 feet, all of hewn lumber, nearly built, and covered with feather edge plank and pine shingles, underpinned with brick; plank and brick floors, as they severally require; with a large brick chimney in the kitchen suitable for cooking, and a stair case and upper room, with other finishings. These houses are all new and cost upwards of $3,000; there are also, a number of other houses of considerable value and convenience. About 100 acres of the land is cleared, enclosed, & divided into different fields of from 10 to 20 acres, with excellent fences, and in good order for cropping. The residue, except a small part, is wood land, and generally of better quality than that heretofore cleared, and finely timbered: the whole lies well, is within two miles of Halifax courthouse, and upon the large trading road to Richmond, and Petersburg, which renders it a most eligible stand for any person wishing to turn his attention to public business. The price required is only six dollars per acre in cash—but if time is wished, it can be given to an extent not exceeding three or four years, upon payment of legal interest. The sale will be made privately, and possession given when required, on application to BERNATMAN GREEN. Oct. 10. w8w
THE Subscriber, residing in Amelia, intends on the first day of Jan. next, to open a BOARDING SCHOOL, at Prideaux, (about 5 miles N. West of the Court House,) where he will teach the English & Latin languages, History, Mathematics and Geography. The board for each student will be $7.50 per year; tuition for those who learn Latin or Mathematics, $2.50, and for English $2.50, for washing, &c. $1.25 per year, the student finding his own bedding and candles. One third of the board money, and one half of the tuition to be paid on the 10th day of July, and the balance at the expiration of the year. The situation I have selected, is high and healthy, and the houses numerous and commodious, and admirably calculated for the reception of students. JOHN L. TOWNES. November 3. w8w
EDUCATION.—The subscribers propose opening a Boarding-School, on Wednesday, the 10th day of January next, at the late dwelling of their father, the Revd. Matthew Maury, in the county of Albemarle, where they will instruct Young Gentlemen, in the Latin, Greek, French and English Languages, upon the following terms: Their price for board will be eighty dollars, for tuition, $33.13, and for washing & mending $12, payable half yearly, each boarder finding his own bedding. The qualifications of one of the subscribers have been proven by five years experience in this line of business. The other has been educated in the same School, and wants nothing but a few months experience to render his qualifications fully equal. The advantages of the situation are manifestly great, it being in the heart of a healthy and polished neighborhood, and far removed from every incentive to vice and dissipation. The subscribers, deeply impressed with the great importance of the duties which they have assigned themselves, pledge all their powers for their performance. They have a tolerably extensive and well selected Historical Library, which shall, (during the winter months,) be used under their superintendence, for the benefit of their pupils. Should any of those gentlemen, who have patronized the labors of F. Maury, at the Green Springs, in Louisa, choose to place their sons or wards with the subscribers, their bedding, books, &c. shall be removed to this place gratis. Communications directed to the subscribers, Lindsay's Store, Albemarle county, will be immediately attended to. THOMAS F. MAURY, FRANCIS F. MAURY. September 12. wtf
RAN-AWAY, from my house, on Tuesday, 26th September, a negro woman named MARY, about twenty or twenty two years old: She is a short black woman and tolerable likely. I expect she will make towards Manchester, as she was lately bought at that place of Mr. John F. Robertson. I believe she was raised by a Mr. Branch near Manchester. I will be thankful to any person who meets with her to have her secured and sent to me, or committed to some jail. I shall willingly pay for any extra expense or trouble that they may be in securing her, besides the legal fee for taking up. SAML. W. VENABLE. Prince Edward Court House, October 27. w6w
I HAVE REMOVED TO RICHMOND. BENJ. BOTTS. October 31. tf
WANTED to purchase or hire, a good house SERVANT—Apply at the Enquirer Office. October 31. tf
ELIAS V. LACHAIZE, TAYLOR; RESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Richmond, and its vicinity, that he has commenced business in the house next to Mr. Neilson's store, main-street, where he hopes, by assiduity and attention to all commands, to merit a share of public patronage. All orders executed after the newest and neatest fashions. November 21. 3w4w
VIRGINIA to wit:—At a Chancery District Court held in the city of Williamsburg, the 13th day of July 1809. William Evans, Thomas R. Evans, Sally Evans, Peter and Elizabeth his wife, Thomas Evans and Dice Evans infants under the age of twenty-one years by Thomas R. Evans their next friend, Harry Gardner and Stephen Prince and Elizabeth his wife, Plaintiffs—Against William Blake, Thomas Evans, senior, John Evans and Thomas Evans, junr. Defendants. The defendant John Evans not having entered his appearance and given security according to the Act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not an inhabitant of this County on the motion of the Plaintiffs by their counsel; It is ordered, That the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the Plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively and posted at the front door of the former Capitol in this City. A Copy. ANTT. ROBINSON, c. c. Nov. 14. w8w
VIRGINIA: At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol in the City of Richmond, the 7th day of Sept. 1809. William B. Giles acting for the benefit of the representatives of John Tabb deceased, Plaintiff—Against John Ponder, senr. John Valentine Mearns, executor and Nelson Harris, Defendants. THE defendant Valentine Mearns not having entered his appearance and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country, on motion of the plaintiff by counsel, is ordered, That the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff; & that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Capitol in the said city. 4 Copy. T. Tate. November 3. w8w
CURTIS FAIRCHILD, MERCHANT TAYLOR, respectfully informs the inhabitants of Richmond, that he has just arrived from New-York, and has taken a stand next door to the Rising Sun-Tavern, directly opposite Col. Gamble's where he is now opening a handsome assortment of Goods in his line, amongst which are Superfine Cloths of various colors, such as Black, Navy blue, Drab, Dark, Light, Mixt and Bottle-green Broadcloths, Flesh and other colored Cassimere, red, green, yellow and white Flannels, also a handsome assortment of Calicoes, all which he is determined to sell on the lowest possible terms for prompt pay. The Subscriber flatters himself from the long experience he has had in his business, together with the pains he has taken to get the latest fashions, that he will be able to merit a share of public patronage. All orders in his line both from town and Country, thankfully received, and strictly attended to by the public's humble servant, CURTIS F. IRCHILD. November 14. w8w
N. B. On hand, a Consignment of Shoes, which will be sold on reasonable terms at Wholesale only. Wanted immediately—two or three good journey men—none others need apply. FOR SALE, 1303 acres of LAND, lying on the waters of the river, in the county of Nelson, (formerly part of Amherst)—This tract, being part of the estate of the late Col. John Rose, is situated about ten miles from New-Market, and is conveniently contiguous to Major Massie's Merchant mill. Two hundred acres are cleared, the residue is covered with heavy and valuable timber. The soil is peculiarly adapted to the production of tobacco, corn, wheat &c. The tract will either be sold entire, or divided into 2 or 3 equal parts, as may meet the convenience of the purchaser. Slightly detached from the main tract, are 70 Acres bearing a heavy growth of pine, that will either be sold separately, or in conjunction with one of the divisions. One fourth of the purchase money will be expected in hand, the balance in three equal annual installments. The land will be shown by Mr. John N. Rose, or by Capt. Morgan, living in the neighborhood.—For further particulars apply to the subscriber. THOMAS FITZHUGH. N. B. The purchaser will have liberty of seeding in the fall, and possession at the commencement of the ensuing year. T. F. Stafford, July 4. 1wtf
FOUND! A Sum of money—The owner may have it by giving satisfactory evidence of his right, and paying the cost of advertising. Apply at this Office. November 7. tf
A CARD.—DOCTOR LEVITS, lately from the West-Indies, has opened his Office, at Manchester, in the house of Mr. L. Bishop, for the practice of Physic, Surgery, and Midwifery. He hopes from his success and experience, to merit the patronage of a liberal public. N. B. Private families may be supplied with Medicines, with suitable directions. Advice for the poor, gratis. September 26. tf
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY. THE Annual Meeting of Stockholders, will be held at Brooke's Tavern, in Manchester, on the first Monday in December next. Such members as cannot attend in person, will, it is expected, appoint their proxies. The undersigned requires to be furnished, so soon as possible, with the necessary evidence of shares sold and purchased, since the last meeting, in order that transfers may be made on the company books and shares duly represented. JAMES BRANDER, CLK. November 7. tf
LOUDOUN LAND FOR SALE. FOR SALE, on Thursday, the 21st of Dec. next, on the premises, the TRACT OF LAND, on which the late Judge Jones resided, in Loudoun county, with about 25 SLAVES, and the stock of Horses, Cattle and Hogs, on the estate. The tract contains nearly two thousand acres, & possesses many advantages which entitle it to the highly improved part of our country. Two merchant mills are in the neighborhood, one on the adjoining estate, and the other within two miles. It is 35 miles from Alexandria, and forty from George-Town. The new Turnpike from Alexandria, crosses a corner of the land, and terminates at the nearest merchant mill. The tract is remarkably well watered, little river passing on each side, emptying into that river. About 50 or 60 acres are already well set with timber, & at least 500 are capable of being made excellent meadow. It will be divided into tracts of different dimensions, to suit the convenience of purchasers. A credit of one, two and three years will be allowed bonds with approved security and a deed of trust on the land, will be required. The Negroes are supposed to be very valuable, some of them being good house servants, and the others principally young men and women. For the same term of credit will be allowed. JAMES MONROE. Executor of the late JOSEPH JONES, the Elder. Albemarle, Oct. 27. tf