The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-08-20 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
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NUMBER 30.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY MORING, AUGUST 20, 1805.
[VOLUME 2.]
Richmond Prices Current.
Table with 4 columns: Item, D., C., C. Values for Tobacco, Flour, Wheat, Indian Corn, Whiskey, Bacon, Hemp, Bar Iron.
FOR LONDON.
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JOHN TOMPKINS,
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PICKLING VINEGAR.
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LAND—FOR SALE.
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An request by David Paterson, Junr. to execute a for sale, as trustee, the whole or so much of the property in the trust deed conveyed... GEORGE MCCREDIE, Trustee.
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THE Subscriber, anxious to discharge every just debt...
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THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Counting-house of Messrs. Ladd & Ladd. All business confided to him, will be transacted with great fidelity. THOMAS NORVELL.
HE HAS FOR SALE,
VIRGINIA BANK STOCK, on a credit to full purchasers. July 26.
FOR RENT:
THE HOUSE and OUT-HOUSES in the Town of Manchester, late in the occupancy of Richard Bough, deceased. The house is adapted to the accommodation of a small family... JOHN CRINGAN.
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ELLIS & ALLAN,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED, PER THE SHIP MARY, FROM LIVERPOOL: FOUR hundred Sacks of SALT, Liverpool Salt; also, a few dozen Ballot SHOVELS and SPADES.
ROBERT GORDON, & Co.
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THE Subscriber proposes to practise Law...
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RAN AWAY on Friday the 9th inst. a negro woman by the name of ELSE, of a middling size, dark complexion...
BENJAMIN DUVAL,
AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN MORTAR, RICHMOND, HAS just received a very large and extensive assortment of MEDICINES, SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, DRUGS AND DYE-STUFFS.
HATTERS' MATERIALS,
Table with 2 columns: Hatters' Irons, Logwood, Copperas, etc. and Crude Tartar, Bafon Irons, Bow-Strings, etc.
NEAL NELSON,
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND, MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion...
THE Subscriber, begs leave to acquaint his friends...
in Richmond, that he has commenced business... DAVID WYLLIE.
FOR SALE—BY THE SUBSCRIBER:
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RAGS.
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Pleadings of Council,
ON THE
IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHASE.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23.
MR. MARTIN, in continuation.
But to proceed with Basset.—What was his situation? He expressed a wish to be excused provided there would have been no impropriety in his being sworn...
European Intelligence.
CONTINUATION OF NEWS RECEIVED AT NEW YORK.
Through the medium of captain Duplex, who came passenger in the ship Hercules, from Liverpool, bound to Philadelphia...
LONDON, June 13.
The grand subject of discussion during the present week...
in both houses of parliament, has been the general state of public affairs... In consequence of a conversation which took place before the debate on the route of the commons...
The solemnities which have succeeded the coronation of Bonaparte...
of considerable importance. These were followed by the institution of a new order, viz. of the Iron Crown, and by the presentation of prince Eugene Beauharnais, as Bonaparte's viceroy of Italy.

cable hostility of his disposition towards Great-Britain, and how vain are the hopes of any adjustment of the differences taking place at the present. Dispatches from Lord Gardner were received on Saturday morning at the admiralty. His Lordship was cruising off Brest on the 16th inst. No disposition had been lately manifested to put to sea. The Gottenburg mail which arrived on Saturday, has brought little intelligence of interest. An article from the Lower Elbe of the 8th inst. mentions a report very prevalent in that quarter, that Austria is preparing to take a very active part in the affairs of the continent, and that the archduke Charles and general Mace are already appointed to very important commands in the armies. Sir J. Craig's expedition, it is now ascertained, was designed against Minorca, and that the enterprise has been abandoned in consequence of the place having been so strengthened, as to render the success of any attempt with such a force doubtful.
The Queen Charlotte Packet from New-York, due since the 25th of April, is captured by a Spanish privateer of 18 guns, after an engagement of two hours and an half, and carried into Cadiz. Stock this day, 3 per cent. consols 55 3/4—Omnium, 3 3/4, 4 per cent. June 24. Admiral Cornwallis resumes the command of the Channel Fleet immediately. The Ville de Paris is expected daily at Portsmouth, for the purpose of receiving the flag from the gallant admiral. Admiral Nugent is appointed to act as a captain of the fleet, under admiral Cornwallis, and is to leave town in a few days for that purpose.
LIVERPOOL, June 23. The Gazette of Saturday night contains dispatches from Gen. Lord Lake, which reach to the 11th inst. They confirm the accounts previously received of the reduction of Fort Deiz, and the repulse of a most gallant attack made by the army under his command on the town of Bhurtpore, which his Lordship entertained no doubt would shortly fall into his hands. Advices have also been received from the camp of his excellency the commander in chief under date of the 13th inst. by which it appears that a body of 700 of Jeewunt Rao Holkar's horse had quitted the service of that chief, and come into camp that day. The Sirdars of this body of horse had visited his excellency the commander in chief upon their arrival at head quarters. We have at length, from capt. Maitland, of the Loire, the official details of the brilliant achievement executed by Lieut. Yeo, belonging to that ship, against the Spanish fort of Muros. The daring feats of this gallant officer, and his little band of heroes, will shed a new lustre on the annals of British valor and intrepidity.
PARIS, June 15. The new order of knighthood of "The Iron Legion," is to consist of 500 knights, 100 commanders, and 500 officers; 200 of the order of knighthood, and 25 places of commanders, are to be conferred upon an equal number of those French officers and soldiers who have distinguished themselves in the battles by which the Italian kingdom has been established. The motto of the order of the Iron Crown will be—"God has given it unto me; woe be to him who dares to attack it." It is to be suspended from an orange ribbon, with a green border. By a letter from Bayonne, of the 6th of June, the important news from the Isle de France, received by the vessel Gravin Van Chancels, is communicated; namely, that admiral Linies has made himself master of twenty English ships, ten of which are said to belong to the East-India company.
LONDON, June 18. Admiral Cochrane had orders to follow the French fleet wherever he did not find them in the West-Indies. After he should have made due provision for the security of these islands. The following letter from Dublin appears in a morning paper of his day. The Dublin Evening Post, a day later in date than the published letter, does not even hint at any thing of a similar nature. DUBLIN, June 12.—Our government has certainly received intelligence, through various respectable channels, that symptoms of insurrection have manifested themselves in the County of Kildare, Carlow, Wicklow and Wexford; and that the 20th of the present month is the day on which more desperate measures are expected to be declared. An advertisement of a "White Horse" intended to be disposed of by public auction in the "Mountains of Wicklow," has appeared in all the Provincial papers, and is said to be a notification to the disloyal of the intended revolt. Your paper of Saturday last, we gave the substance of the late dispatch received from the East-Indies. The following from Lieutenant Archibald M'Neill the gentleman charged with these dispatches, contains a more minute detail of the particulars of the gallant, though unsuccessful attempt upon the fort of Bhurtpore. SIR, Having observed some inaccuracies in the papers with regard to the fort of Deeg, and the assault of the troops under Colonel Maitland, of the 75th regiment, on the fort of Burtapore, on the evening of the 10th January last, I think it necessary to mention, that the fort of Deeg was taken possession of in the latter end of December last, when Lord Lake moved with the army against the fort of Burtapore, belonging to the Rajah of that place, Holkar and his troops having retired to it; that on the evening of the 10th January the breach being reported practicable, Colonel Maitland, with the 75th and 27th regiments, and several flank companies of native corps moved to the assault. On arriving at the ditch, they found it so full of water that it took the men several hours; this difficulty was surmounted; but on coming to the breach they found it impracticable. The party retired in good order to camp. Colonel Maitland, after receiving several wounds, received a shot which killed him. Major Archibald Campbell, of the 75th corps; Captains Hemphill and Britton; and four Lieutenants, Byrne, Tuly, Matthewson, and McLean, were wounded; and forty-five non-commissioned and rank and file, killed and wounded. Brigadier Havelock. I am Sir, Your most ob't, Humble servant, ARCHIBALD M'NEIL, Lieutenant 75th Regiment.
PHILADELPHIA, August 12. By the fast sailing ship Hercules, Capt. Bradburn, arrived on Saturday evening from Liverpool, we have received files of London papers to the 27th June, and extracts from Lloyd's Lists to the 18th. The contents of our papers are by no means uninteresting. We, however, shall continue to extract from them such articles as appear in any manner illustrative of the present situation or future prospects of Europe.—Our correspondent in London, under date of June 24th, furnishes us with the following brief summary of English politics:— "There is an unfortunate misunderstanding between the friends of Mr. Pitt and Lord Sidmouth.—Without being informed of the particulars of this misunderstanding, we have reason to think that the difference between them arises from two points.—The friends of Mr. Pitt are for lenient proceedings against Lord Melville, and with that intent have instructed the Attorney General to throw in questions and obstacles before the House, previous to his Lordship's trial, for a criminal prosecution; while the friends of the opposite party were for impeachment and a speedy punishment. The friends of Lord Sidmouth complain of the severity with which Lord St. Vincent has been censured since he was first Lord of the Admiralty, only because he reformed many abuses, and prevented much waste committed by the officers in all the king's yards at Plymouth, Portsmouth, &c. and worked a complete reform in them; and contended he was the best First Lord of the Admiralty the Board ever had, and that since his time the Naval department has been and is badly managed. The friends of Mr. Pitt contend that the affairs of the country have been in a retrograde situation ever since the peace of Amiens in 1801; & that that weak and blameable treaty laid the foundation of all Bonaparte's designs for the subjugation of England.—The friends of Lord Sidmouth go on complaining (favored by circumstances lately) that neither the army or military force of the country is so numerous to meet the theatre of invasion, nor the number of ships at sea so formidable against the foe now, as during his administration. The debates of last night, which I shall send you herewith, will show how these charges are supported by comparison and calculation, and the real temper of the parties, and the conclusion; but Pitt is a match for them all. Sometimes it is reported this firm is such, that finding it difficult to act, Mr. Pitt will advise his Majesty to dissolve the Parliament, or else that he will try to get rid of Lord Sidmouth and his party, and endeavour to form a coalition upon a large scale, which shall include the leading men in opposition—Mr. Fox, —Gray, —Sheridan." "Be these things terminated as they may, I am warranted in a supposition by what I have read lately, taken from the French and German papers, that Bonaparte, seeing he has mounted the ladder of his ambition to the topmost mound at Milan, perceives that his dignities will be best secured and maintained by finding out some means whereby a general peace may be brought about; and what is there, after what we have seen, such a genius cannot accomplish? This object however will depend a good deal upon what success the English ministry will meet with in their present conferences with the powers already mentioned. Bonaparte's hints already, through the organs of his ministers and writers at Paris, there are two ways in which a general peace may be effected, either by maintaining the treaty of Amiens, or by admitting the rights and privileges of certain powers not provided for or mentioned in that treaty.—This expression, though it does not open the door to peace, is putting a hand on the latch."
pool, we have received files of London papers to the 27th June, and extracts from Lloyd's Lists to the 18th. The contents of our papers are by no means uninteresting. We, however, shall continue to extract from them such articles as appear in any manner illustrative of the present situation or future prospects of Europe.—Our correspondent in London, under date of June 24th, furnishes us with the following brief summary of English politics:— "There is an unfortunate misunderstanding between the friends of Mr. Pitt and Lord Sidmouth.—Without being informed of the particulars of this misunderstanding, we have reason to think that the difference between them arises from two points.—The friends of Mr. Pitt are for lenient proceedings against Lord Melville, and with that intent have instructed the Attorney General to throw in questions and obstacles before the House, previous to his Lordship's trial, for a criminal prosecution; while the friends of the opposite party were for impeachment and a speedy punishment. The friends of Lord Sidmouth complain of the severity with which Lord St. Vincent has been censured since he was first Lord of the Admiralty, only because he reformed many abuses, and prevented much waste committed by the officers in all the king's yards at Plymouth, Portsmouth, &c. and worked a complete reform in them; and contended he was the best First Lord of the Admiralty the Board ever had, and that since his time the Naval department has been and is badly managed. The friends of Mr. Pitt contend that the affairs of the country have been in a retrograde situation ever since the peace of Amiens in 1801; & that that weak and blameable treaty laid the foundation of all Bonaparte's designs for the subjugation of England.—The friends of Lord Sidmouth go on complaining (favored by circumstances lately) that neither the army or military force of the country is so numerous to meet the theatre of invasion, nor the number of ships at sea so formidable against the foe now, as during his administration. The debates of last night, which I shall send you herewith, will show how these charges are supported by comparison and calculation, and the real temper of the parties, and the conclusion; but Pitt is a match for them all. Sometimes it is reported this firm is such, that finding it difficult to act, Mr. Pitt will advise his Majesty to dissolve the Parliament, or else that he will try to get rid of Lord Sidmouth and his party, and endeavour to form a coalition upon a large scale, which shall include the leading men in opposition—Mr. Fox, —Gray, —Sheridan." "Be these things terminated as they may, I am warranted in a supposition by what I have read lately, taken from the French and German papers, that Bonaparte, seeing he has mounted the ladder of his ambition to the topmost mound at Milan, perceives that his dignities will be best secured and maintained by finding out some means whereby a general peace may be brought about; and what is there, after what we have seen, such a genius cannot accomplish? This object however will depend a good deal upon what success the English ministry will meet with in their present conferences with the powers already mentioned. Bonaparte's hints already, through the organs of his ministers and writers at Paris, there are two ways in which a general peace may be effected, either by maintaining the treaty of Amiens, or by admitting the rights and privileges of certain powers not provided for or mentioned in that treaty.—This expression, though it does not open the door to peace, is putting a hand on the latch."
In the British House of Commons, the 14th June. Mr. Whitbread made his motion of censure, for culpable neglect, (chiefly in not acting upon the information of Mr. Raikes) on the Chancellor of the Exchequer. After a speech of some length respecting the topics which are already amply before the public, he moved a string of resolutions. Mr. Pitt ably defended himself; and the tone of the House, and even of the Opposition, was evidently with him. Mr. Fox acknowledged himself perfectly satisfied; but as the proceedings of the Ministers had been irregular, he proposed a Bill of Indemnity. This was agreed to, and the resolutions cheerfully withdrawn. In a Liverpool paper of the 22nd of May, we find the following extraordinary circumstance which occurred a few days before, at Dingle, in the county of Kerry, Ireland. "On the 11th a wreck was discovered by some fishing boats in the bay, and towed to shore. She appeared to have been a long time lost, and to have been severely rigged, about 100 tons burthen: On examining her hold, her cargo was found to consist of codfish, cow-hides, seal-skins, and oil, sixty butts of which were saved. From the decks every article was carried away, hatchets, bulk head, &c. &c. and melancholy to relate, a part of two hundred skeletons were found in the hold: about 100 in a tin case in different pieces of gold and silver, spy glasses, quadrants, silver spoons, books, clothes, bedding, &c. &c. A chest containing three or four dozen of fine shirts, umbrellas, swords, &c. was also found, and it is probable, belonged to some respectable passenger. It is supposed she was bound from some part of Newfoundland, and there is some reason to believe her destination was Dartmouth, as one of the oil butts was marked, Tepeze & Co."
BOSTON, August 7. JEROME BONA-PARTE.—We have been a letter from a gentleman in Paris, to his friend in this town, dated May 26, 1805, which says "Jerome Bonaparte was presented to the king of Italy, at Milan, the day before his coronation, and received in full favour and grace. It is said, he is to marry the Queen of Etruria, with whom I had the honour of being in public company in Florence. Jerome's wife is here called Miss Patterson; she was forbidden to land, and ordered immediately back to the United States. It is said, however, she is to have a French pension." "It is known, that the Pope has annulled the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte with our beautiful country-woman; and is probable, that his brother, the Emperor and King, will endeavour to strengthen his alliance with some of the continental powers, by marrying Jerome to some one of their branches. Bonaparte has shown a singular anxiety to procure husbands for this Queen of Etruria. In every personal qualification she is said to be the very reverse of Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte, and the first husband Bonaparte could procure her was the late deformed dwarf, the King of Etruria. The Emperor has more than once endeavoured to coax his son-in-law, Prince Beauharnais, to wed the widow Queen; but he has declared off; and now, it seems, Jerome is to espouse her. We cannot think, after having fat so fair a feast as his lovely American bride has spread before him, he will very readily consent to "batten on a morsel." West-Indies. "Capt. Minor who arrived at Newbern, (N.C.) on the 28th ult. from the West-Indies, informs that a few days previous to that date, between Cape Hatteras and Bermuda, he F.M. with the French fleet consisting of 21 sail of the
line; they were under easy sail, & appeared to be standing for Forbes or Philadelphia ! The next day he took Admiral Nelson with 12 sail of the line and frigates, who immediately after obtaining information from Capt. Minor of the course the French were steering crowded sail and pursued them." "It was the opinion of Capt. Minor that Nelson would overtake them before they could reach the Chesapeake or Delaware." "If the information be correct, which we cannot doubt knowing Captain M. to be a man of veracity, it is strongly presumable that an engagement has already taken place; and we may daily expect tidings of the important event." Wilm. Gaz.
From the Salem Register. JAMAICA TRADE.
The governor of Jamaica never thought of opening the ports of that island to American vessels, till he found the inhabitants almost starving—and the French, as he thought, on the point of attacking the island: and now, what a part of commerce are we allowed? Truly, we may carry flour, and beans, and peas, and corn, and Indian meal; and lumber is also admitted; and "for five months" we may carry away rum and molasses. Here we see fish, (of which we have so much) and beef, and pork, are excluded, to that all the New-England articles worth carrying , except lumber, are still prohibited, and we can take away only spirits and molasses; for sugar and coffee, cocoa and cotton, and all the valuable commodities, are not permitted to be touched, and the bottoms of our vessels might not be eaten up by the worms before a pound of either would be suffered to be shipped on American account from Jamaica. No matter how dear these things may be to the American consumer; no matter how high a freight the American ship could make in bringing a return cargo to this country; we are not to be indulged; that is, we encroach too fast already, and the wings of the American eagle must not be suffered to grow too long. But cannot a free commerce offer reciprocal advantages? Could not the British Government, by opening their ports, and allowing a free communication, place the trade on such a footing, that all should be benefited, and none injured? Is not the planter obliged to charge higher prices to the English consumer, for his produce now, than he would otherwise be, and yet the net payment to him is found not to be so much as he would receive if the Americans were allowed a free importation of their productions. The English manufacturer suffers: the planter is injured, and the revenue is not benefited. Reverse the system and there would be no complaints: the advantages would be immediately felt on all sides, and the English nation itself would then reap the greater profit. Their government looks up their colonies, and thus retards their growth for years. At home, they seem not to be aware that a tree may decay first in the stunted branches, as well as at the root. Besides, suppose a system of just retaliation was pursued by us, and we were to shut our ports against their vessels. Suppose we were to prohibit the exportation to Jamaica of all the necessaries of life, and that too at a time when the inhabitants were most in distress? Should we be to blame for this. Certainly not. Indeed it would be just and right at this moment to refuse the exportation of such articles as are most wanted, to any particular island where the entry is not freely allowed at all times, and we should soon hear no more of proclamations to admit American vessels "for five months, from the 23rd of May." The admission of our vessels would then soon be general and permanent. As it stands now, our merchants trade upon mere courtesy, and as a matter of favor, when in reality it is doing the English a favor to send a ship to their islands. Would they not starve if supplies could not be obtained from the U-States? Can England, or Ireland, or Nova Scotia, supply the British West-Indies? We all know it is impossible. Why then suffer the degradation of enjoying a trade upon favor, when we can have it as a thing of right? Let us treat other nations as they treat us. If they are so unwise as to exclude our ships from their ports, or to admit them partially, and then with exceptions as to the articles composing their cargoes, let us do the same thing with their ships, and if this will not bring them to a sense of duty, let us prohibit the exportation of all such productions, to the particular island, where the admission is not free, as they are known most to stand in need of. The evil then would soon correct itself. Besides, why should we stand upon such ceremony with such an island as Jamaica? We can not do without their assistance, and they cannot live without ours. When they open their ports "for five months" only, but for years for "twelve months" against them, and prohibit all supplies going there directly or indirectly, for the same period. Try it for a year only, and wait the result, it cannot but be favorable to our interest.—You would see an entire change in the British colonial system of trade, and this is all the American merchant wants to see. No adjudications of American vessels and cargoes would be known in the Vice Admiralty Courts of Jamaica. We should hear no more of such shameful captures of our property on the ocean as we have lately experienced. The Governor of Jamaica would tell us no more of "imperative orders from Government at Home." The writer of this has no interest in the trade to Jamaica, but feels as an American citizen, that his country has an unquestionable right to use the powers which God and nature has given her, in the most advantageous manner, and for the benefit of our own citizens; and he ardently hopes Great Britain may be made to feel that the United States possess not only the power but the disposition to protect their own commerce, and by just requisitions oblige her to respect our rights on the high seas.
NEW-YORK, August 9.
N-est Coast of America.—J. B. Cordis, Esq. of Bideburgh, has added something to the information we lately gave concerning discoveries and settlements on the Western Coast of North America. It was an officer on board the same vessel with Capt. Kendrick. On the arrival of Capt. Metcalfe at Washington Island, Mr. Cordis engaged with him as his second officer and pilot for the coast. That was the first port visited by Capt. Metcalfe. Mr. C's journals, during the time of his being in the Elgin, until his arrival in China, are now in the hands of Messrs. Russell. Captain Metcalfe was cut off on his second visit to Washington Island, in attempting to tow his vessel into Borell's Inlet, and all the people excepting one, were massacred. The tract of land purchased by Capt. Kendrick, as mentioned in Capt. Crowninshield's correct and intelligent statement to Dr. Mitchell, was at Nootka Sound; and his granters were Gallemu and Marquanna , two noted chiefs, though both are since dead. Mr. Cordis says, the Russians were on the coast as early as 1788 as far south as Cook's River, where they had erected several huts. Speaking of Columbia River, he thinks the name was given by Capt. Gray, of the Mary Washington, at the very time he was on the coast with Capt. Kendrick, in the ship Columbia.
FROM THE AURORA.
Sketch of the policy of the U. States in relation to the trade with the Indian tribes. After the peace of 1783, the United States looked for that kind of retroaction and reponse which a vigorous body requires after an arduous & desperate exertion of strength—the overthrow of the adversary opened a new view of creation—the habits of thought which had been previously considered as flowing from the natural instincts of the people, were found to be inapplicable—new situations, new necessities, new powers and duties—new relations and new dependencies; every thing appeared to be or to require to be newly created; it was not to be expected that all these mighty operations of change which were to recreate as it were subject colonies , into a free, sovereign and independent people, could be the work of a few days or a few years—they had before the natural difficulties of their interior organization— various opinions to encounter—the jealousy, political & commercial, and the wounded pride of the conquered rival—we leave out of view all topics irrelevant to our Indian relations—to illustrate this single topic is the immediate object.—We pass over the wars brought on by the interference and agency of the British, prior to the surrender of the western ports—the cessation of Indian wars, however, refers to be particularly regarded by the reader, because it will appear to be the result of a happy policy, conducted under many disadvantages, and subject to great dissipation of public property on the part of the agents employed —but still producing the main and salutary purpose proposed of the ultimate pacification—the Indians. Laws were passed in the first and second sessions of the first congress and in succeeding congresses, before this system acquired a safe and efficient operation; the government had, as is ever the case in human affairs, to act with as much skill as was possessed, and to correct the system as experience taught to be salutary where defects appeared. That Pandora's box , the treaty of 1794, unfortunately did more to prejudice the policy of the union in re-
lation to the commerce with the Indian tribes, than any previous event. By the third article of that unfortunate treaty, the fur trade and the trade in peltry were as much facilitated as the cotton trade . In that treaty— "Art. III. It is agreed that it shall at all times be free to his (Britannic) majesty's subjects, and to the citizens of the U. States and also to the Indians dwelling on either side of the boundary line, freely to pass, and repass into their respective countries, and to navigate all the lakes, rivers, and waters, thereof, and freely to carry on trade and commerce with each other," &c. "No duty of entry shall ever be laid by either party (U. States and Great Britain) on peltries brought by land, or in land navigation into their territories respectively, nor shall the Indians in passing or residing with their own proper goods and effects of whatever nature, pay for the same any impost duty or whatever." The mischievous effects of these provisions were felt in less than a year after the passage of the treaty, and in a treaty between the Wyandots and other Indian tribes, and the U. S. it was stipulated "that no person should be permitted to reside at any of the towns or hunting grounds of the said Indian tribes, as a trader, who was not furnished with a licence for that purpose from the U. S." The British policy took a real or an affected alarm at this, and an explanatory article was negotiated between the U. S. and G. B. declaring that this treaty with the Indians, "cannot be understood to derogate from the treaty of 1794!" This was reviving upon the U. S. the evil to which emissaries among the Indians had constantly exorted us; and it was discovered that British houses had been established on or near our frontiers whose special purpose was to underfell us and to monopolize the fur and peltry trade , greatly to the prejudice of our home industry. Upon Mr. Jefferson's accession to the executive chair—this was the state of the Indian trade—it was overrun by the agents of British factors—drunkards, debauchery, and murder prevailed among the Indian tribes, the American citizens on the frontier were in constant alarm, and subjected to massacre. On the other hand the agents employed who had been entrusted with property to an immense amount had not made returns or accounts of the trust reposed in them! By the death or absence of the name of Price , there was a failure to a vast amount, under the surveyorship of Mr. Whelen —and this failure it was which called the attention of the executive to the subject, and which induced the introduction of a bill in congress last session for the appointment of a general agent. The public, however, defective as the system was, and great as the dissipation had been, profited by the pacification of the Indians perhaps more than they lost by pecuniary deductions from the public property; the augmentation of the funds, and the new distribution of the factories by Mr. Jefferson, have had the most beneficial effect on the general objects of the policy.—The British factors for a while endeavored by reducing the price of goods below prime cost in Europe to secure the whole trade and drive us from competition, but they then found that as a losing trade ; they have disappointed—and what has followed, consent, concord, fabrics, and faith , no hostility to the United States, and civilization progresses to an unexampled extent among the Indian tribes; this is the effect of a correct administration, of a wholesome and beneficial system, and this system by the acquisition of Louisiana, is necessarily extended to that country; where we hope, and trust no British agent will be admitted, as that country cannot be comprehended under the provisions of that most wretched of all treaties, that of 1794. Here then we discern the policy which pecuniarily fits our situation, and which the national reputation and interests combine to support.
FROM THE BOSTON CHRONICLE.
Messrs. Adams & Rhodes. As the Centinel account of the sale of our public vessels may lead the public into error, be pleased through the medium of your paper, to state the following facts, which (though they relate more particularly to those sold in this town) may enable them to form an opinion respecting those sold in other parts of the Union. It should be remarked that the off ordering the sale of public ships, was based under the administration of Mr. Adams; and that Mr. Jefferson, in causing it to be carried into effect, only discharged an official duty. The ships Merrimack , Warren , and Herald , as they arrived in this port having been divested of their warlike and military stores, iron ballast, provisions, extra rigging and sails, boats, and all other materials not absolutely necessary for a merchant ship, and which constituted nearly two thirds of their value, were sold after having been advertised at Boston, Salem, Portsmouth, and Rhode-Island for one month at a time, as under— £ cts. £ The Merrimack , 20,200 00 instead of 11,116 The Warren , 19,359 40 9,220 The Herald , 14,654 65 14,654 The Merrimack proved so defective before sailing, as to oblige the purchasers to replace six new top-timbers, with other considerable repairs, and having been shipwrecked on the voyage, the under writers ( all federal men ) so doubted her having been seaworthy , that the loss was adjusted by compromise. It seemed to be argued by all parties that the Herald was unfit for a public vessel, being a bad rigger and not calculated to carry guns or accommodate her crew— Domineers generally entertained whether the materials of which the Warren was built had been properly fastened. The necessity to have a vessel without delay was the accompanying apology at the day. The expenses that have since accrued to the United States by the repairs of the Constitution , Boston , & other public ships , and the present situation of the Effect , makes it very questionable whether a sale of obsolete ships would not have been the best policy the United States could have adopted. The reduction of our navy was made during Mr. Adams' administration—since the election of Mr. Jefferson to the presidency, it has been considerably augmented. NESTOR IRONSIDER.
PHILADELPHIA, August 12.
Mr. Madison we are informed on Saturday last, dined with his excellency the Marquis de Yrujo. Letters, dated Alicant , May 4. state, that the celebrated Talian , the man by whose intrepidity the monster Robespierre was hurled from his throne, was about to leave the city to return to nature in that City. He was not expected to survive many days the effects of a drop in the chest. CHARLESTON, July 29. Captain Tate from Guadalupe, was boarded off the Bar, yesterday, by a French privateer Solomon mounting 4 short guns, and one 18 pounder, and apparently about one hundred men on board; who appeared to be a motley collection of all nations. We are sorry to learn that Capt. Tate recognized several Americans, and among them a Captain Rose, who formerly failed out of this port. Captain Tate informs that the brig Lydia , Patterson of this port, captured by a French privateer in Turks Island passage, had been carried into St. Bartholomew's, and the Capt. and crew liberated. The privateer had arrived at Guadalupe, and the commander having informed the commander in chief of his having liberated Capt. Patterson, General Ernouf expressed his approbation of his conduct, not without some more Americans, so situated, to be brought into Guadalupe. On his outward bound passage, 24 hours after leaving this Port, Capt. Tate was boarded
by a French privateer, who after a short chase, took her into Guadalupe, and the commander having informed the commander in chief of his having liberated Capt. Patterson, General Ernouf expressed his approbation of his conduct, not without some more Americans, so situated, to be brought into Guadalupe. On his outward bound passage, 24 hours after leaving this Port, Capt. Tate was boarded
NEW-YORK, August 9.
N-est Coast of America.—J. B. Cordis, Esq. of Bideburgh, has added something to the information we lately gave concerning discoveries and settlements on the Western Coast of North America. It was an officer on board the same vessel with Capt. Kendrick. On the arrival of Capt. Metcalfe at Washington Island, Mr. Cordis engaged with him as his second officer and pilot for the coast. That was the first port visited by Capt. Metcalfe. Mr. C's journals, during the time of his being in the Elgin, until his arrival in China, are now in the hands of Messrs. Russell. Captain Metcalfe was cut off on his second visit to Washington Island, in attempting to tow his vessel into Borell's Inlet, and all the people excepting one, were massacred. The tract of land purchased by Capt. Kendrick, as mentioned in Capt. Crowninshield's correct and intelligent statement to Dr. Mitchell, was at Nootka Sound; and his granters were Gallemu and Marquanna , two noted chiefs, though both are since dead. Mr. Cordis says, the Russians were on the coast as early as 1788 as far south as Cook's River, where they had erected several huts. Speaking of Columbia River, he thinks the name was given by Capt. Gray, of the Mary Washington, at the very time he was on the coast with Capt. Kendrick, in the ship Columbia.
FROM THE AURORA.
Sketch of the policy of the U. States in relation to the trade with the Indian tribes. After the peace of 1783, the United States looked for that kind of retroaction and reponse which a vigorous body requires after an arduous & desperate exertion of strength—the overthrow of the adversary opened a new view of creation—the habits of thought which had been previously considered as flowing from the natural instincts of the people, were found to be inapplicable—new situations, new necessities, new powers and duties—new relations and new dependencies; every thing appeared to be or to require to be newly created; it was not to be expected that all these mighty operations of change which were to recreate as it were subject colonies , into a free, sovereign and independent people, could be the work of a few days or a few years—they had before the natural difficulties of their interior organization— various opinions to encounter—the jealousy, political & commercial, and the wounded pride of the conquered rival—we leave out of view all topics irrelevant to our Indian relations—to illustrate this single topic is the immediate object.—We pass over the wars brought on by the interference and agency of the British, prior to the surrender of the western ports—the cessation of Indian wars, however, refers to be particularly regarded by the reader, because it will appear to be the result of a happy policy, conducted under many disadvantages, and subject to great dissipation of public property on the part of the agents employed —but still producing the main and salutary purpose proposed of the ultimate pacification—the Indians. Laws were passed in the first and second sessions of the first congress and in succeeding congresses, before this system acquired a safe and efficient operation; the government had, as is ever the case in human affairs, to act with as much skill as was possessed, and to correct the system as experience taught to be salutary where defects appeared. That Pandora's box , the treaty of 1794, unfortunately did more to prejudice the policy of the union in re-
lation to the commerce with the Indian tribes, than any previous event. By the third article of that unfortunate treaty, the fur trade and the trade in peltry were as much facilitated as the cotton trade . In that treaty— "Art. III. It is agreed that it shall at all times be free to his (Britannic) majesty's subjects, and to the citizens of the U. States and also to the Indians dwelling on either side of the boundary line, freely to pass, and repass into their respective countries, and to navigate all the lakes, rivers, and waters, thereof, and freely to carry on trade and commerce with each other," &c. "No duty of entry shall ever be laid by either party (U. States and Great Britain) on peltries brought by land, or in land navigation into their territories respectively, nor shall the Indians in passing or residing with their own proper goods and effects of whatever nature, pay for the same any impost duty or whatever." The mischievous effects of these provisions were felt in less than a year after the passage of the treaty, and in a treaty between the Wyandots and other Indian tribes, and the U. S. it was stipulated "that no person should be permitted to reside at any of the towns or hunting grounds of the said Indian tribes, as a trader, who was not furnished with a licence for that purpose from the U. S." The British policy took a real or an affected alarm at this, and an explanatory article was negotiated between the U. S. and G. B. declaring that this treaty with the Indians, "cannot be understood to derogate from the treaty of 1794!" This was reviving upon the U. S. the evil to which emissaries among the Indians had constantly exorted us; and it was discovered that British houses had been established on or near our frontiers whose special purpose was to underfell us and to monopolize the fur and peltry trade , greatly to the prejudice of our home industry. Upon Mr. Jefferson's accession to the executive chair—this was Indian trade—it was overrun by the agents of British factors—drunkards, debauchery, and murder prevailed among the Indian tribes, the American citizens on the frontier were in constant alarm, and subjected to massacre. On the other hand the agents employed who had been entrusted with property to an immense amount had not made returns or accounts of the trust reposed in them! By the death or absence of the name of Price , there was a failure to a vast amount, under the surveyorship of Mr. Whelen —and this failure it was which called the attention of the executive to the subject, and which induced the introduction of a bill in congress last session for the appointment of a general agent. The public, however, defective as the system was, and great as the dissipation had been, profited by the pacification of the Indians perhaps more than they lost by pecuniary deductions from the public property; the augmentation of the funds, and the new distribution of the factories by Mr. Jefferson, have had the most beneficial effect on the general objects of the policy.—The British factors for a while endeavored by reducing the price of goods below prime cost in Europe to secure the whole trade and drive us from competition, but they then found that as a losing trade ; they have disappointed—and what has followed, consent, concord, fabrics, and faith , no hostility to the United States, and civilization progresses to an unexampled extent among the Indian tribes; this is the effect of a correct administration, of a wholesome and beneficial system, and this system by the acquisition of Louisiana, is necessarily extended to that country; where we hope, and trust no British agent will be admitted, as that country cannot be comprehended under the provisions of that most wretched of all treaties, that of 1794. Here then we discern the policy which pecuniarily fits our situation, and which the national reputation and interests combine to support.

"Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice."
"If there ever was a moment when we regarded Mr. Jefferson with more abhorrence than at any other time..."
What unsophisticated reader would not infer from these assertions: that Mr. Jefferson had contributed to the abuse of Washington, Adams and the Federal Constitution...
Extract of a letter signed T. C. Callender, and published in the Virginia Gazette July 31st, 1802.
Mr. Davis; In answer to the enquiries of several of your friends, as to what passage of the first volume of the Prospect received the assassination of Mr. Jefferson...
And yet even this short paragraph is not a precise extract from Mr. J's letter; for in that letter it occupies no more than one sentence.
CASE OF CALLENDER.—A short time after I came to Richmond, there was printed in a monthly magazine a long extract from the first and last of the above-mentioned vol. of the Prospect.
But then we have the very plain and marrow of those odious accusations which the enemies of the President have extracted from his candid regards to Callender.
Mr. J. then gave him 50 dollars "after having received the specimen sheets, printed" in the National Magazine.
Mr. J. "sent him a second remittance to the same amount." Will the reader however recollect the time, when he offered this contribution?
On one point we are happy to correct an interesting mistake. Instead of Gun-boat No. 5 being condemned by a Spanish Court of Admiralty, we are now told that the vessel was originally attacked under an impression that she was British...
His case had become the concern of every honest and zealous patriot in the country, & by an abuse of power which reflected its credit upon the federal administration...
The sedition law was first executed upon them to feel the pulse of the people, "that our rulers might know if it beat high with indignation..."
It is not unimportant to remark, that each of these facts is misrepresented in the letter of T. Turner.
PLAN OF DEFENCE.
Such is the situation of our country that whether we engage in a war or continue in peace, we seem to require some fort of force for our protection on the water.
Let the defence of our rivers be entrusted to artillery on the land, and to heavy galleys on the water.
The heavy galleys are to be built very shallow, and capable of retiring into low water.
For the defence of our bays and sea-coasts, heavy artillery on land and heavy galleys on the water are an inadequate resource.
The number of these frigates will of course be proportioned to their peculiar use.
RELATIONS WITH SPAIN.
On this subject, the most interesting of all to the American people, no light has been shed by recent communications.
On one point we are happy to correct an interesting mistake. Instead of Gun-boat No. 5 being condemned by a Spanish Court of Admiralty, we are now told that the vessel was originally attacked under an impression that she was British...
gives us pleasure to correct this fabrication, because it was probably intended and obviously calculated to heighten our indignation against the Spaniards...
CURIOUS MISTAKE.—"But other evidence is not wanting than that contained in the Article itself, to convince us, that it is an emanation of the mind, if not actually a production of the pen of Mr. JEFFERSON."
FUR TRADE WITH THE INDIANS.
The active and agitated discussions of Pennsylvania have lately introduced one question before the public of considerable importance.
Mr. Davis has been appointed the Principal Agent of Indian affairs, without the express authority of any act of congress.
But those two questions are far less important to the curious enquirer, than the comprehensive view of the Indian fur trade which has thus been incidentally called forth.
The Furr trade with the Indians, on the prudent management of which depends the prosperity of our nation and the peace of our own, may be considered in 5 different ways...
2d. Should the trade be left to the uncontrolled discretion of individuals, the Indians will appear to enjoy all the advantages of a free competition...
3d. Should the government reserve this trade into its own hands, it would in fact reproduce all the evils of a privileged company.
What plan then remains but the one which is already adopted; of establishing factories for the benefit of the government and of living individuals under certain restrictions?
The N. W. C. was never in fact a chartered company.—See Mc Kenzie's Travels.
Unavoidable circumstances have prevented the appearance in this day's paper, of the 1st. No. of Mr. Jefferson's vindication.
CITY OF RICHMOND.
Affair of BREAD until further notice. A Four Pence Half-penny Loaf, made of Superfine Flour, shall weigh twenty ounces.
WM. DUVAL, Mayor. August 17.
A TRACT OF LAND.
JOHN GILMER, wishes to sell a tract of land consisting of 350 acres, lying within half a mile of Charlottesville.
by a French privateer, who robbed him of every article they could lay their hands on—compelled him to open his hatches, and took out several articles of his cargo.
July 20. The ship Benjamin of New York, capt. Scofield, was captured off our bar yesterday afternoon...
CHARLESTON, August 5.
Extract of a letter from Charles Pinckney, esq. late American Minister at Madrid, dated at Annapolis. (In league from Madrid) May 4.
It is now five months since Mr. Munroe & myself have been deeply and closely engaged in arranging some very important concerns...
FROM THE BALTIMORE TELEGRAPHER.
SPEECH, DELIVERED BY HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR CLAIBORNE, TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, ON PROROGUING THEM, JULY 5, 1805.
Fellow Citizens of the Legislative Council:
I have attended in this hall for the purpose of proroguing you session, and thus to close, perhaps forever the political connexion now subsisting between us.
It is a matter of fact, and many have been deceived into the belief, that this country became annexed to the United States under the most favourable circumstances...
In a territory whose citizens are for the most part of other nations, or descendants of natives of France and Spain, who had long cherished a fundamental maxime of the country of their forefathers...
On this subject, however, I feel no uneasiness, as the errors of a good intention will readily be excused by a venerous people; but in relation to the enemies to which I have been subjected...
But whatever, upon the whole, may have been the defects of that administration, this much at least we find to be a fact...
been the defects of that administration, this much at least we find to be a fact, that the country has suffered no material injury from them...
Fellow Citizens of the Legislative Council.
I now come to the period at which your labours commenced, and permit me to assure you of my great admiration of the judgment you have manifested...
Another important change in the nature of our government, now awaits us. The Congress of the United States, ever just to their engagements...
But possibly there may be many, whom this new form of government will fail to satisfy. It would indeed, be a presumption unwarranted by experience...
Fellow Citizens of the Council.
After the political change, on the eve of which we now are, there remains but one more which this territory is destined to experience...
Fellow Citizens of the Council.
I fear the range I have taken has been too extensive, and that I trespass upon your patience...
WILLIAM C. C. CLAIBORNE.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
The following elegant lines, from the pen of an accomplished female, accompanied a Golden Crescent, which was lately sent to another lady...
Sweet friend! this little emblem wear, Of Cynthia's mild endearing light; Oh! could it loathe thy ev'ry care, And cheer thee in affliction's night.
Vain will! alas! too forcibly vain, Since all are born to weep and die; To drag of grief a lengthening chain, And seek a refuge in the sky.
Yet RAVENSCROFT's sympathetic power, Of Cynthia's soothing charm imparts, And when misfortunes darkest hour, Illume the deep-responding heart.
Yes! 'tis the flow'r Queen of night, When pleasures of fancy disappear; She sheds her soft benignant light, Relieved from the dewy tear.
Far more refreshing to the mind, Than all that splendour ever gave; She shines a Seraph, heav'n assign'd, To triumph even o'er the grave.
Then, when in absence doom'd to pine, Remember that all alone remain; Oh! guard with care her sacred shrine, Nor let her brightness know a wane.
August 11. WILLIAM MCCABE, WATCH MAKER, RICHMOND.

THE YAZOO SPECULATION.
No. 1.
The voice of the country is heard, the indignant voice of reprobation pervades the remotest corners of this land—the sense of the country is awakened to the dangers to which it has been exposed, and from which as if by a miracle it has escaped—the people have seen all that was worthless, which had made republican principles the passport to their unfor-
character as the trick upon the speculators, of whom some were also concerned in the speculative speculation, that the depreciated paper money , of which there were great quantities abroad, should be called into the hands of the speculators at its peculiar value (which was in some cases 1 for 500) and palmed upon the state at the nominal value—that is the state was to be paid for the land with this paper and were to receive credit for 500 dollars, where the paper was really worth no more than one dollar for every nominal 500!
The two first of the above companies lodged a considerable amount of this depreciated paper in the hands of the Treasurer of Georgia, and within two years they tendered the whole amount (nominally) in the same kind of paper. The state of Georgia refused to submit to the fraud, and the Virginia company withdrew the whole amount of its deposit.
But the South Carolina company was composed of "flatterers" determined to have a little law for it, and instituted a suit in the supreme court against the state, which was foreclosed by an amendment made to the constitution relative to the liability of states, for it was found that speculation had made its way to the courts of justice.
Of the character of this speculation and those that followed, the best picture we can give will be from a presentment of a grand jury of Chatham county, in which the city of Savannah stands, at the October term of 1796.
"We further present these abominable and iniquitous grants of pine barren land which have been palmed upon foreigners and northern citizens, the plots of which have been generally decorated with timber not found on them; and most of the pretended tracks sold, are not in existence, to the injury of the character of the state and the honest citizens thereof: nine tenths of whom, behold the speculation with the utmost abhorrence, considering the measure calculated to injure their reputation, and to cheat the unwary; or to add to the pelf of a few men, who are void of principle and honor, and who would sacrifice their country and its rights, to increase their own property. We are sorry to say, that among these characters are those high in office in the United States, and two judges thereof, to wit: James Wilson, of the supreme court of the United States, and Nathaniel Pendleton, of the district court of this state, together with James Gunn, senator from this state to congress, have been foremost in influencing the legislature, which passed the pretended Yazoo law, bartering the rights of this state and the most fertile tract in the United States, for a mere song, and which, if it was deemed to be legal, those concerned have sold for ten times as much, which the state, by proper management, might have put into her treasury. We congratulate our fellow citizens, however, on the virtue of the last legislature, which declared the said pretended sale, constitutionally null and void, as well as fraudulent and corrupt; and we hope our fellow citizens at large will now exhibit their virtue, by sending such men only to the next legislature, as are known to be free from speculation, and will respect our rights, by continuing and confirming the annulling law. It is only by a firmness of conduct, in the citizens at large, on this important occasion, that our rights can be respected in congress and at home—that this species of gambling, can be discountenanced, and speculating sharps be defeated; which is as much to be desired, on account of morality and our rising generation, as the future repose of society and the reputation of our growing community."
"We further present on this head the attempt of Alexander Moultrie and others, to drag this state into a federal court to answer a suit in equity under a former pretended Yazoo law. We abhor both speculations alike, and we recommend to the officers of the state, who may have been served with copies of the bill filed in the said suit, to make no answer thereto, until the meeting of the next legislature, who, we hope, will remonstrate to congress on this subject. We cannot suppose the state liable to be tried, and in this case we hope she will preserve her dignity, by refusing an answer, particularly in a court where the judges have been guiding the last speculation, and where she consequently can expect no justice. We hope that the amendment to the constitution unanimously entered into by congress, against the liability of a state, will not be leaped over, to answer the most infamous speculation."
On this spirited and expressive presentment of the citizens of Georgia, we shall not attempt to offer any further illustration—in our next number we shall go into an history of the grand iniquity which has menaced the people with a civil war, entered congress by corruption, undermined the foundations of public justice, assailed the morals of the nation, and manaced the government of the union with disgrace and destruction.
NOTICE. A PETITION will be presented to the General Assembly of Virginia, at the next session, praying that an act may pass to incorporate a company for the purpose of cutting a Canal on the south side of the falls of James River, or otherwise improving the navigation of the river for the passage of Batteaux; and also for the establishment of a Bank in the town of Manchester.
The Petition of sundry inhabitants of the town of Manchester respectfully represents: That one among the great blessings of the government they live under and enjoy, is the right of representing their grievances to the legislature. That before the James River Company progressed with the improvements of the navigation of that river, so far as to entitle them to the receipt of tolls, under their act of incorporation, Manchester, as a commercial town, was but little, if any, inferior to the City of Richmond; but since then, all the means in the power of that Company, have been practised to the advantages of the latter, and to the injury and ruin of the former. This was not intended by the legislature. The God of Nature has given to both equal advantages. The legislature has fixed their opposite on the same river—the full benefit of which Manchester now claims. It cannot be the policy of the legislature to promote the commerce of one place in preference to another equally entitled to its protection. The same difficulties that existed in the navigation of the great falls to Richmond, present themselves in the navigation of the same to Manchester. If this circumstance was sufficient to procure the charter, of the James River Company , for cutting what is called, the Richmond Canal , it is not sufficient to entitle the people of Manchester, to a similar right, in making a like Canal, on their side of the river, to avoid the same falls? The fostering hand of the legislature, should be alike extended to every branch of the commerce of its country, and in every direction. A convenient commerce is fostered by all descriptions of men. A commercial competition between towns can never fail to produce great advantages to the agricultural interest of the surrounding country. Manchester droops while Richmond rears her head. These facts are too obvious to require proof. Let every member of this honorable house, to satisfy himself—look at the two places—Richmond rising like a new city of custom—Manchester declining like a deserted village. And to what is this principally owing? but to those advantages which the former has obtained over the latter, by means of the James River Canal : advantages afforded by the legislature, of which your petitioners will not complain, provided they can derive equal advantages, from a source of the like nature.
Your petitioners therefore respectfully beg leave to represent, on the honorable members of this house, that a Canal on the south side of the falls, from the lower point of the upper navigation, to pass through Manchester, into tidewater, is much more practicable than the Richmond Canal was, & can be completed for a sum far less than that expended by the James River Company , at this time. That should it be the pleasure of the honorable house, to incorporate a company, for cutting the proposed canal, Manchester will be then restored to her former commerce. The moment the canal is completed,
the people of Manchester, will be able to renew their commerce with the upper and lower country which, for the want of such a canal, has dwindled into almost nothing—owing to the great inconvenience of crossing the river, besides the expense and trouble incurred therefor. The advantages derived by the people of Richmond from their Canal are seen on every hand. Give to Manchester a like Canal, and like advantages will result to the people of that place, and to all the agricultural interest south of it; and as far as the Tennessee and Kentucky lines west; the James River Company can have no reasonable objection: they have omitted to do, what long since, for the interest of the community, they should have done, that is, to communicate with tidewater: their charter might have been claimed, upon the ground of forfeiture, but for the benign spirit of the legislature in procuring a work of such great public utility.
Hence your petitioners acting under an impression, that there is too much justice in their application, to be denied, respectfully beg leave, for the attainment of a measure, so much calculated to promote the public good, to state the outlines of a proposed charter. That those who shall subscribe for the stock hereafter mentioned shall be incorporated, by the name of The President and Directors of the Manchester Canal Company , with the usual rights and privileges of other corporations: that their capital stock shall not exceed 50,000 dollars: that a share in the said stock shall not exceed 50 dollars: that subscriptions for the said capital stock shall be opened in the town of Manchester under the direction of a majority of them, and continued until shares are subscribed for in person or by proxy, but no person shall subscribe for more than one share, or shall at any time vote upon any greater number: and the said subscriptions shall be further kept open for the term of 30 days, for the benefit of such persons as may choose to subscribe for more than two shares: that the state may direct the treasurer for the time being, to subscribe for shares: that the James River Company may subscribe for shares: that no other subscriptions shall be received, until they have been subscribed, or refused at the instance of the commissioners: that the property of the Manchester Canal Company shall be conducted by thirteen directors, who shall be stock-holders and citizens of Manchester or Richmond, of whom the Treasurer for the time being, if the state shall subscribe for any shares, shall be one ex-officio : that as soon as the Capital stock shall be subscribed for, the commissioners shall convene the stock-holders on a certain day to be named, and at a certain place, in the town of Manchester, and they or a majority of them in person or by proxy shall proceed to appoint twelve directors, in case the treasurer is one, and thirteen, if he is not, who shall form a board, and proceed to the appointment of a President, Cashier and other officers and servants. All elections or appointments shall be by ballot. Removal from Manchester or Richmond shall vacate the seat of a Director, unless it be from one of those places to the other. All vacancies which by removal, death, or resignation, shall be supplied by the other Directors for the time being: that the Directors, so to be appointed, shall continue in office until the first day of January, succeeding their appointment, which is hereby declared, to be the day for the annual meeting of the said stock-holders, in the town of Manchester, on which day in every year shall a board of directors be chosen as aforesaid, who shall in like manner proceed to appoint their President, Cashier, and other officers and servants: all of whom (except the President) are at all times to be amenable to the President and Directors of the said company: the President and Directors of the Manchester Canal Company , shall in proportion to their annual tolls, as soon as their canal is completed, assist the James River Company , in the improvement of the upper navigation; that at the annual meeting of the stock-holders, a full and fair statement of the books, exhibiting the whole transactions of the said Company, (except private accounts of individuals in the use of the surplus funds hereafter mentioned) shall be produced for the inspection of the stock-holders: that the commissioners aforesaid, as soon as the President and Directors are chosen, shall deliver over to them the books of subscriptions, to the said Capital stock; that the stock-holders at their first meeting, and at every annual meeting thereafter, shall have power and authority to make all such by-laws, rules and regulations, for the better government, of the said President and Directors of the Manchester Canal Company , their cashier, officers and servants, and all other matters and things of and concerning the rights and duties of the said company, in making the said Canal, or in any other matter or thing concerning the interest of the said Company, as the said stock-holders in person or by proxy may deem proper: nor infringing upon the laws of the United States or of this state: that all lands, stones, or timbers, necessary for answering the ends of this act, in case the said company shall not be able to agree with the owner or owners thereof, shall be valued by a jury, to be ordered, on application to the superior court of chancery, for the Richmond district, or to the judge thereof in vacation: that upon the report of the said jury, if the same shall be affirmed, the said company shall pay the amount thereof to the person or persons entitled thereto: and thereupon the said lands, stones, or timbers, shall be absolutely vested in the said company; that all the surplus capital belonging to the said company or that may accrue to them, in the purchase of public or other stock, or in any other monied transactions or operations shall be applied by the said company, in any way they may think proper, any thing herein contained, or contained in any existing law, to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the said company to acquire or hold, any real estate, but for the purposes before mentioned: Provided also, that the state shall not be liable for any mismanagement of the President and Directors of the Manchester Canal Company , of their surplus capital, or that which may accrue to them, in the purchase of public or other stock, or in any other monied transactions or operations, but in proportion to her interest in the said corporation or company; that it shall be lawful for the President and Directors of the Manchester Canal Company to call upon the stock-holders respectively, from time to time, as they shall think proper, for all sums by them subscribed, or any part thereof with the said commissioners, as the said President and Directors shall think proper, under pain of forfeiture on the part of the said stock-holders, of their shares, and of all previous payments thereon; that the said President and Directors shall provide their necessary offices in the said town of Manchester, and shall always convene there, for the purposes of this act; that the Canal aforesaid shall be begun and completed in ten years from the making of the first board of the said President and Directors: And provided also, that until the said Canal shall be begun and prosecuted for at least six months with industry, in order to ascertain what the probable expense will be, that the amount of the supposed surplus capital may also be known, no part thereof shall be used by the said President and Directors of the Manchester Canal Company , in any other way, or for any other purpose, than protecting the work of the said Canal, and in case the said Company shall at any time before the said Canal is completed relax, in the execution of their plan, the use of their supposed surplus capital, under any other way, or for any other purpose, under this act, shall for that time, be suspended in proportion to the forfeiture of their charter; that for any injury which may be done to the public works of the said company, the persons so offending on conviction thereof in the ordinary course of law, shall pay three times the amount of the verdict, in every such case, with double costs of suit, and judgment shall be entered accordingly: that if any person shall forge, or counterfeit any note, bill, or receipt, of the said President and Directors, purporting on the face thereof to pay to any one, or bearer, any sum of money, or shall aid, or abet, in forging or counterfeiting any such note, bill, or receipt, he or she, shall on conviction thereof be confined in the jail and penitentiary house at hard labour, for not less than ten, and not more than twenty years; that all the stock subscribed for, to the said company, shall be held and conveyed as real estate; that to much of the Charter hereby granted to the said company as allows them to use their supposed surplus capital, which they may have, in any way they may think proper, except as herein before excepted,
shall expire with the charter of the Bank of Virginia, unless at or before that time, the same shall be renewed by the legislature; that no taxes shall be imposed upon any of the stock; that the corporation shall not be dissolved by the failure of any meeting of the stock-holders, or of the President and Directors; but they shall still meet in the manner to be provided for by the by-laws of the said corporation. These are the outlines of the proposed charter, which your petitioners have respectfully asked leave to submit; but they beg leave to observe, that any other plan which may occur to this honorable body, be but calculated to insure the ends proposed, will be readily accepted of on their part. To whatever shall be the decision of this honorable house—your petitioners shall patiently submit—but as in duty bound they shall ever pray.
TO BE SOLD, On liberal credit, and in lots to suit purchasers, FROM two hundred and fifty to three hundred acres of LAND, in the county of Henrico, about four miles from Richmond—a distance which renders it but little liable to pilottage, or sufficiently near to one of the best and most improving markets in the United States. The advantages of small farms near large towns, are so obvious and generally admitted, as not to require particular enumeration. Persons residing in the city with large families, and who are obliged to keep horses, would be able in one year to save more than the original purchase. For further particulars enquire of Mr. Thomas Norvell. May 14. [adff.]
FOR SALE, A very valuable shoemaker. For terms apply to the Editor of the Enquirer. July 2. (law.2m.)
IN CHANCERY. Richmond County Court, June 1905. Vincent Redman, Compt. Against Ann V. McNeill, William R. Kel- 3 Defs. flek, and Barnes Beckwith. It appearing to the Court, that the defendant, Ann V. McNeill, is not an inhabitant of this state, and not having entered her appearance and given security according to law, and the rules of this court—on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said Ann V. McNeill, do appear here on the first Monday in August next, and answer the complaints bill, and that a copy of this order be published in the Enquirer printed in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and a copy also posted at the front door of this court-house; and it is further ordered and decreed, that the defendants Killick and Beckwith do not pay, convey away, or secrete the debts and effects due and belonging to the said Ann V. McNeill, until the further order of the court in the premises. A Copy, teste, B. McCARTY, c. r. c. (et2m.) July 9.
DOCTOR WILSON HAS removed his Apothecary Shop to the lower floor of the Bell Tavern, where he has a general supply of MEDICINES, PAINTS, & OTHER ARTICLES IN THE APOTHECARY LINE. He takes the liberty to observe, that he has not an article of medicine but such as he uses in his own practice. Physicians, merchants and others, who may be pleased to patronize him, shall be supplied on the most reduced terms. Persons of needy circumstances, by paying the retail prices of his medicines, will be duly attended for gratis. May 21. (rif.)
POLITE ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR YOUNG LADIES, AT WILLIAMSBURG. To those who are acquainted with the excellent society of Williamsburg, a recommendation of it as an eligible scene for the education of Young Ladies, is unnecessary. Mr. & Mrs. ANDERSON, who continue to receive some pupils into their family, have endeavored to add to the advantages of the situation, by forming an establishment, intended to unite, under the same roof, the various branches of female instruction and improvement. Parents, who feel interested on this subject, are invited to enquire into the merit of their institution. Letters addressed to Mr. L. Anderson, Post-Master, Williamsburg, will be duly attended. June 18. (Tif)
BENJAMIN STETSON, INFORMS his friends and the public in general, that he has for sale, 400 gallons Holland's Linseed Oil, White Lead and Spanish Brown ground in Oil, Patent Green ground in ditto, Verdigris and Spanish Brown, dry; 8 by 10 Window Glass, & Putty; 24, 34, 44, 64, 84, 10d, and 20d Nails, two Casks Spike Nails, Bar Iron, German and Blistered Steel; general assortment of Iron Hollow Ware; 10 Hds. Molasses, French Brandy, West-India and New-England Rum, Tea, Coffee, Leaf and Brown Sugar, Chocolate, Mers, fine and coarse Shoes, Ladies Kid & Morocco and Leather Slippers; 8 Boxes Cotton and Wool Cards assorted; half pint and quart Tumblers, small invoice elegant cut glass, stone ware, German Ozenburgs, 30facs Salt, Novascotia Grind Stones, and many other articles in store, which he will sell cheap for cash or country produce. April 22.—(law12m.)
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF BLANKS, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
FAIRFIELD RACES.
ON Monday the 30th of September, will be run for over the FAIRFIELD COURSE, the great PRODUCE SWEEPSTAKE. To this race there are twenty-three subscribers, at 200 dollars each; half forfeit if the Dam named produced a Foal. Distance, two mile heats.—Subscription closed. The day following, the JOCKEY CLUB PURSE of four hundred and fifty Dollars, four mile heats. On the third day, the PURSE OF THE PROPRIETOR OF THE COURSE, of two hundred and fifty Dollars, three mile heats. On Thursday, the FARMER'S SWEEPSTAKE. There are, to this race, twenty subscribers at 20 dollars, and the subscription closed. The Secretary and Treasurer have taken the liberty to change the day for running this race: the day preceding the PRODUCE STAKE was fixed upon by the subscribers, but this day commences the week. WEIGHTS AS FOLLOWS: Aged Horses, 135 lbs. 6 years old 123 5 do. do. 118 4 do. do. 106 3 do. do. 90 Mares and Geldings allowed 3 lbs. The money for each day's purse will be placed in the hands of the Judges; it is to be hoped that more punctuality will be observed by the subscribers in paying up the amount of their subscriptions before run. ESME SMOCK, Treasurer. The subscriber wishes to rent the Dining House and the Booths in the Field. Persons who have formerly rented them, will have the preference, if application is made in time. ESME SMOCK, Proprietor of the course.
TO RENT, A BRICK LUMBER HOUSE on the Eason German Ozenburgs, by the piece or bale. Gen. Medock Chert, of vintage of 10? In house of some Wine of the vintage of do. 3 20 each. A few dining and desert sets of elegant French China. The above Wines are such as can be particularly recommended, having been laid in last September at Bordeaux by one of the partners then on the spot, who took uncommon pains in the selection. PICKETT, POLLARD & JOHNSTON. July 23. ep4w.
MOUNT SIGN FOR SALE. THE subscriber offers for sale, his Plantation in Northumberland county, known by the name of SAGUN STON. The above tract contains about 600 acres, all of which is equal to any land in that part of the country for fertility of soil, and has every requisite to make it a desirable situation for a yoked family. There is on the land an excellent brick dwelling house, with every convenient out house; it is situated on the navigable waters of the Potomac, and commands an elegant view of the river; it is very convenient to fish-oxys, &c. and is within one day's sail of Alexandria, Norfolk, and Baltimore. Terms of the sale will be made known by application to Mr. Henry Ball, who resides on the land, or to the subscriber. JEFFREY JONES. May 8. epf.
FOR SALE, THE PLANTATION subjoined, Major Thomas Callis now resides, and formerly the residence of Mr. David Anderson. This land is in the upper part of Hanover county, and near the Louisa line. The tract contains about four hundred ACRES, is remarkably healthy and well adapted to the culture of Corn, Wheat, and Tobacco. It is 38 miles from Richmond, and 20 from Hanover town. If this plantation is not sold by private contract before the 1st of September next, it will on that day be sold at public auction on the premises. One half of the money will be secured in bond, the balance to be paid on the 14th day of August 1806. For terms apply to Meriwether Jones, Esq., or to the subscriber living in this place. WILLIAM CALLIS. August 6. epids.
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and PLAGIATOR OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. [epff.] Dec. 4.
MILITARY CERTIFICATES. FOR SALE, Certificates of this state, bearing interest of 6 per cent, and receivable at the Treasury for all arrearages of taxes, prior to the year 1798. WILLIAM PRICE, Cashr. Gentl. M. A. S. May 10. tf.
GEORGE WILY, BROKER & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Near the Basin. BUYS and sells all kinds of Produce—Also, Lands Lots, and houses, Bank Stock, &c. He has for Sale, LOTS No. 141, 2, 3, and 4, which make one entire square in Du-Val's addition. There is a good Spring attached to them. These lots are well worth the attention of any any gentleman wishing to build a summer retreat for his family. July 23.—tf.
TO BE SOLD, At Public Vendue, at Grafton's Hotel, in Alexandria, on Monday the 15th day of September, at 12 o'clock, at noon: ALL that TRACT OF LAND, late Presby Thornton Esquire's, situated in Northumberland county, Virginia, lying immediately on the Potomac River. The following description is given of this property by persons well acquainted with it:—It contains 2,500 acres, 1,700 acres of which are the most valuable low grounds on the river, between 3 and 400 acres heavily timbered, and the remainder very high land, extremely productive. The soil of this tract is equal to any in the state for the cultivation of corn, wheat, tobacco, timothy, and small grain of all kinds. On this tract are a large commodious Brick Mansion House and two Offices, a Large Brick Stable, Valuable Barn, Cow-House, and many other out-houses. The Orchards and Garden contain a variety of valuable fruit trees and the waters abound with excellent fish and oysters. It is situated about a day's sail from Baltimore, Alexandria, and Norfolk. There are two good mill seats for grist and saw mills on the estate, and plenty of cedar and chestnut timber, for which an excellent market may be found at the City of Washington. The terms of sale are—some forth cash, one-fourth in one year, one-fourth in 18 months, and the residue in two years from the day of sale. The payment to be secured by bonds, with mortgages on the premises, and to be on interest from the day of sale. For further information, application may be made in behalf of the subscriber, Thomas Robinson, to Richard Peters, Jun. attorney at law, in the city of Philadelphia, or to William Lewis, in the same city, (Philadelphia.) THOMAS ROBINSON. W. LEWIS. July 23. ep 152.
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