Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1804-08-08 00:00:00

THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[Vol. XII.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 76.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1804.
[12 1-2 CENTS SINGLE.]
Advertisements, no exceeding a square in length, are inserted in this paper for seventy-five cents the first time; three dollars for three weeks (6 times); and for every additional insertion thirty-three cents. Long ones in the same proportion—unless a special contract be made by the year.
Westham Iron Foundry,
NEAR RICHMOND.
The subscriber takes the liberty of informing the public that he has taken a lease and is at present working the above foundry; and having provided the best artists in that line from New-York and George-Town, together with Pig Iron of the first quality:—
Proposes to cast—Mill gudgeons & links of every description; also, cast iron wheels for the machinery of mills; Rumford, registered and plain grates; grate front and bottoms, for Rumfordizing fire places; large and small stoves; caissons and cabin stoves; Franklin stoves for wood or coal; kitchen grates, with crane and range complete; coach warmers; plain stoves and mauld plates; cast railing of every pattern; plow shares and plow boards; cast waggon, coach, phaeton and chair boxes; scale weights from 1 to 60 lb; sash and clock weights; patent raw irons for smiths, on a very approved plan; backs, jams and back lays; nail cutting machines with screws complete; wheel-barrow bowlers; garden ditto; cast iron anvils; fire dogs and hand irons of every description—together with any other article in the casting line, to a given pattern, at the shortest notice, by application at the furnace, or to
JAMES DUNLAP, in Richmond. 25th June, 1804. w3m P. S. Old Iron purchased by application as above
NOTICE.
Application will be made to the next General Assembly, praying that an act may pass to vest in the subscriber, the right of the Commonwealth to a lot in the town of Charlottesville, No. 50, which formerly belonged to Thomas West, dec. FREDERICK GAUDER. Charlottesville, July 20th, 1804. [w3m]
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, August 1st, 1804.
SIR, FOR the information of all concerned, and particularly the General Officers, and Field Officers of the Artillery and Cavalry, be pleased to publish in the Argus, the accompanying arrangement and organization of the Militia of this Commonwealth, and oblige,
Sir, your obedient servant, SAM: COLEMAN, D. A. G. SAMUEL PLEASANTS, Esq. Printer to the Commonwealth.
Organization of the Militia under the acts of the General Assembly, passed at the Sessions of 1792, 1793, 1795 and 1798.
FIRST DIVISION COMPOSED OF FOUR BRIGADES, viz:
4th Brigade, composed of 6 Regiments, viz: 1st Regiment, Amelia, 17th, Cumberland, 23d, Chesterfield, 24th, Buckingham, 49th, Nottoway, 102d, Powhatan.
11th Brigade, composed of 6 Regiments, viz: 26th Regiment, Charlotte, 42d, Pennsylvania, 63d, Prince Edward, 69th, Halifax, 84th, Halifax, 101st, Pennsylvania.
12th Brigade, composed of 7 Regiments, viz: 10th Regiment, Bedford, 18th, Patrick, 43d, Franklin, 53d, Campbell, 64th, Henry, 91st, Bedford, 110th, Franklin.
15th Brigade, composed of 8 Regiments, viz: 23d Regiment, Mecklenburg, 29th, Dinwiddie, 50th, Greensville, 65th, Brunswick, 73d, Lunenburg, 83d, Dinwiddie, 96th, Brunswick, 98th, Mecklenburg.
SECOND DIVISION, COMPOSED OF FOUR BRIGADES, viz:
1st Brigade, composed of 6 Regiments, viz: 3d Regiment, Orange, 5th, Culpeper, 16th, Spottsylvania, 30th, Caroline, 34th, Culpeper, 82d, Madison.
3d Brigade, composed of 7 Regiments, viz: 12th Regiment, Fluvanna, 28th, Amherst, 38th, Goochland, 40th, Louisa, 47th, Albemarle, 88th, Albemarle, 90th, Amherst.
5th Brigade, composed of 6 Regiments, viz: 25th Regiment, King George, 35th, Prince William, 44th, Fauquier, 45th, Stafford, 85th, Fauquier, 89th, Prince William.
6th Brigade, composed of 4 Regiments, viz: 56th Regiment, Loudoun, 57th, Loudoun, 60th, Fairfax, 106th, Town of Alexandria.*
* Being within the district of Columbia, is no longer considered as a part of the Militia of Virginia.
THIRD DIVISION, COMPOSED OF SEVEN BRIGADES, viz:
7th Brigade, composed of 5 Regiments, viz: 13th Regiment, Shenandoah, 32d, Augusta, 58th, Rockingham, 97th, Shenandoah, 93d, Augusta.
10th Brigade, composed of 7 Regiments, viz: 4th Regiment, Ohio, 11th, Harrison, 76th, Monongalia, 103d, Brooke, 104th, Monongalia, 107th, Randolph, 113th, Wood.
13th Brigade, composed of 5 Regiments, viz: 8th Regiment, Rockbridge, 48th, Botetourt, 79th, Greenbrier, 80th, Kanawha, 81st, Bath.
16th Brigade, composed of 4 Regiments, viz: 31st Regiment, Frederick, 51st, Frederick, 55th, Jefferson, 67th, Berkeley.
17th Brigade, composed of 5 Regiments, viz: 70th Regiment, Washington, 72d, Russell, 78th, Grayson, 94th, Lee, 105th, Washington.
18th Brigade, composed of 4 Regiments, viz: 14th Regiment, Hardy, 46th, Pendleton, 77th, Hampshire, 114th, Hampshire.
19th Brigade, composed of 6 Regiments, viz: 35th Regiment, Wythe, 75th, Montgomery, 86th, Montgomery, 100th, Wythe, 108th, Monroe, 112th, Tazewell.
FOURTH DIVISION, COMPOSED OF FOUR BRIGADES, viz:
2d Brigade, composed of 5 Regiments, viz: 19th Regiment, City of Richmond, 33d, Henrico, 52d, Charles City & New-Kent, 68th, Elizabeth City, Warwick, York and James City, Hanover.
8th Brigade, composed of 6 Regiments, viz: 15th Regiment, Sussex, 29th, Isle of Wight, 59th, Nansemond, 62d, Prince George, 65th, Southampton, 71st, Surry.
9th Brigade, composed of 7 Regiments, viz: 2d Regiment, Accomack, 7th, Norfolk, 20th, Princess Anne, 27th, Northampton, 54th, Norfolk Borough, 95th, Norfolk, 99th, Accomack.
14th Brigade, composed of 10 Regiments, viz: 6th Regiment, Essex, 9th, King & Queen, 21st, Gloucester, 37th, Northumberland, 41st, Richmond county, 61st, Mathews, 87th, King William, 92d, Lancaster, 109th, Middlesex, 111th, Westmoreland.
Taken from the record in the office of the Adjutant General.
Attest, SAM: COLEMAN, D. A. G.
Colechester, July 29th, 1804.
SIR, BELOW is a list of three hogheads of TOBACCO, which have lain in this Warehouse upwards of two years without being claimed, which the law requires shall be advertised to be sold at the expiration of three months, at our Courthouse, Fairfax county. You will please advertise it accordingly.
I. H. No. 226 642 115 527, April 3, 1801 M. F. G. 370 1135 135 1000, June 13, 1801 Do. 372 1114 122 996, June 13, 1801 COULTER & HAMPTON, Inspectors at Colchester.
To the Printer for the Public. 3m
CASH SALE OF LAND,
IN ALBEMARLE.
ON September 15th, will be SOLD in Charlottesville, to the highest bidder, for Cash, the TRACT OF LAND, lying on the east side of Rivanna, over against Charlottesville, containing about 600 acres, with a new commodious Dwelling-House. Two years of a lease under good restrictions have to run after this. The land is all of the South-West Mountain quality, and though much injured in parts, is in general still very good, and all reclaimable. The sale proceeds from a deed of trust to indemnify against loss as security and bail, which was executed in December, 1802, by William Barbe of Pennsylvania, to THOMAS M. RANDOLPH. July 25. tds
* * * Tickets in the William & Mary College Lottery are for sale at this office.
JUST RECEIVED, At S. Pleasants' Book-Store, Richmond, a very elegant assortment of the best
PEN-KNIVES, Which will be sold by the dozen or single.
FRANCE.
ORGANIC SENATUS CONSULTUM.
(Concluded.)
Title V—of the Great Dignities of the Empire.
32. The grand dignities of the empire are those of grand elector, arch chancellor of state, arch-treasurer, constable and grand admiral.
33. The titularies of the grand dignities of the empire are nominated by the French princes and take precedence immediately after them. The period of their reception determines the rank which they respectively hold.
34. The grand dignities of the empire cannot be removed.
35. The titularies of the great dignities of the empire are senators and counselors of state.
36. They form the grand council of the emperor; they are members of the privy council; they compose the grand council of the legion of honour. The present members of the grand council of the legion of honour shall retain during life, their titles, functions and prerogatives.
37. The emperor presides in the senate and council of state. When the emperor does not preside in the senate or council of state, he shall nominate one of the titularies of the great dignities of the state to be President.
38. All acts of the senate and legislative body are passed in the name of the emperor, and promulgated or published under the imperial seal.
39. The grand elector performs the functions of chancellor.—1st In convoking the legislative, the electoral colleges, and the cantonal assemblies. 2d, In promulgating senatus consulta for dissolving the legislative body or the electoral colleges. The grand elector presides in the absence of the emperor, when the senate proceeds to the nomination of senators, legislators or tribunes. He may reside in the palace of the senate. He makes known to the emperor the remonstrances presented by the electoral colleges or the cantonal assemblies, in regard to the preservation of their prerogatives.—When a member of an electoral college is denounced, agreeably to the 21st article of the organic senatus consultum, of the 16th Thermidor, year 10, as having committed an act contrary to the honor or the good of his country, the grand elector will invite the college to manifest its will—He shall report the will of the college to the emperor.—The grand elector presents the members of the senate, of the council of state, and of the legislative body, to take the oath before the emperor.—He administers the oath to the presidents of the electoral colleges, of the departmental and cantonal assemblies. He presents the solemn deputations of the senate, the council of state, the legislative body, tribunal, and electoral colleges, when admitted to an audience with the emperor.
40. The arch chancellor of the empire exercises the functions of chancellor in promulgating the organic senatus consultum and the laws. He likewise exercises those of chancellor of the imperial palace. He is present at the annual report in which the grand judge minister of justice gives an account to the emperor of the abuses that may have found their way in the administration of justice either civil or criminal. He presides over the high imperial court, and over the united sections of the council of state and of the tribunal, conformably to the senatus consultum. He is present at the celebration of marriages and at the birth of the princes; at the coronation and at the obsequies of the emperor, he signs the process verbal drawn up by the secretary of state. He presents the titularies of the high dignities of the empire the ministers, the secretary of state, the grand civil officers of the crown, and the first president of the court of cassation, to the oath which they take at the hands of the emperor. He receives the oath of the members of the court of cassation; of the president and attorneys-general of the courts of appeal, and of criminal courts. He presents the solemn deputations and the members of the courts of justice admitted to the audience of the emperor. He signs and seals the commissions and brevets of the members of the courts of justice and of the ministerial officers, &c.
41. The arch chancellor of state exercises the functions of chancellor in promulgating the treaties of peace and alliance, and declarations of war. He presents to the emperor and signs the letters of credence and ceremonial correspondence with the different courts of Europe, digested according to the forms of the imperial protocol, of which he is the keeper. He is present at the annual report, in which the minister of exterior relations gives an account to the emperor of the political situation of the state. He
presents the ambassadors and ministers of the emperor to foreign courts to the oath they take at the hands of H. I. M. He receives the oath of the residents, charges d'affairs, secretaries of embassy and of legation; and of commissary generals and commissaries for commercial relations. He presents the extraordinary embassies and the French and foreign ambassadors and ministers.
42. The arch-treasurer is present at the annual report in which the ministers of the finances and of the treasury furnish to the emperor the accounts of receipts and expenditures of the state, and communicate their ideas on the exigencies of the finances of the empire. He receives every three months statements of the labors of the national accountability, and every year the general result with views of reform and melioration in the different departments of the accountability, which he lays before the emperor. He audits and signs every year the ledger of the public debt. He receives the oath of the members of the national accountability, of the administration of finances, and of the principal agents of the public treasury, &c.
43. The high constable is present at the annual report in which the minister of war and the director of the department of war give an account to the emperor of the dispositions to be taken to complete the system of the defence of the frontiers; and the keeping in repairs and provisioning of the fortresses. He lays the first stone of fortified places of which the construction is ordered. He is governor of the military schools. When the emperor in person does not transmit the colors to the corps of the army, they are to be transmitted to them in his name by the high constable. In the absence of the emperor, the high constable inspects the grand reviews of the imperial guard. When a general of the army is accused of a crime specified in the military code, the high constable may preside over the council of war who is to judge. He presents the marshals of the empire, the colonels general, general inspectors, general officers, and colonels of all the armies, to the oath which they take at the stands of the emperor. He receives the oath of the majors, chiefs of battalion and of squadron of all the armies. He installs the marshals of the empire, &c.
44. The high admiral is present at the annual report in which the minister of marine gives an account to the emperor of the state of the naval constructions, of the arsenals and necessary supplies. He presents the admirals, vice-admirals, rear-admirals, and captains de Vaisseau, to the oath which they take at the hands of the emperor. He receives the oath of the members of the council of the prizes, captains of frigates, &c.
45. Each titular of one of the high dignities of the empire presides over the electoral colleges of department. The electoral college sitting at Brussels is presided by the grand elector—that at Bordeaux by the arch-chancellor of the empire—that at Nantes by the arch-chancellor of the state—that at Lyons by the arch-treasurer of the empire—that at Turin by the high constable—and that at Marseilles by the high admiral.
46. Each titular of the high dignities of the empire, receives annually as a fixed salary, the third part of the sum allotted to the princes, conformably to the decree of the 2d December 1790.
47. A statute of the emperor regulates the functions of the titularies of the high dignities of the empire near the emperor, and determines their costume in grand ceremonies. The successors of the emperor cannot derogate from this statute by a senatus consultum.
TITLE VI. Of the Grand Officers of the Empire.
48. The grand officers of the empire are; first, marshals of the empire, chosen from among the most distinguished generals. Their number shall not exceed sixteen. In this number are not included the marshals senators. Secondly, eight inspectors and colonels generals of the Artillery and of the engineers, of the troops of the horse, and of the marine. Thirdly, of the grand civil officers of the crown, such as they shall be instituted by the statutes of the emperor.
49. The places of the Grand officers are permanent.
50. Each of the grand officers of the empire presides over an electoral college, which is specially attached to him at the time of his nomination.
51. If by an act of the emperor, or any other cause whatever, the functions of a titular of a high dignity of the empire or a grand officer should happen to cease, he preserves his title, rank, prerogatives, and one half of his salary—he only loses them in consequence of a judgment of the high imperial court.
TITLE VII. Of the Oaths.
52. Within two years after his accession the emperor accompanied by the titulars of high dignities, ministers and grand
officers of the empire, takes the oath on the evangelists to the French people, in presence of the senate, the council of state, the legislative body, the tribunal, the court of cassation, the arch bishops, bishops, grand officers of the legion of honor, the presidents of the courts of appeal, presidents of the electoral colleges, the presidents of the district assemblies, the presidents of the consistories, and the mayors of the 36 towns that will be pointed out by a senatus consultum.
53. The oath of the emperor is thus conceived—"I swear to maintain the integrity of the territory of the republic—to respect and cause to be respected the liberty of worship, & the laws of the concordat—to respect and cause to be respected the equality of rights, political and civil liberty, and the irrevocability of the sales of the national domains—to levy no impost, to lay no tax, but in virtue of the law; to maintain the institution of the legion of honor—and to govern with a view only to the interest, welfare and glory of the French people."
54. Previous to assuming the exercise of his functions the regent, accompanied by the titulars of the high dignities of the empire, shall take an oath on the evangelists, and in presence of the senate, the council of state, the president and questors of the legislative body, the president and questors of the tribunal, and the high officers of the legion of honor. The secretary of state shall prepare the process verbal of this ceremony.
55. The oath to be taken by the regent shall be thus—"I swear to administer the affairs of the state conformably to the constitutions of the empire, to the senatus consulta, and to the laws; to maintain all their integrity, the territory of the republic, the rights of the nation, and those of the imperial dignity, and to restore, faithfully, to the emperor, on the moment of his majority, that power, of which the exercise is confided to me."
56. The titulars of the high dignities of the empire, the ministers, the secretary of state, grand officers, members of the senate, council of state, legislative body, tribunal, electoral colleges and district assemblies, take the oath thus: "I swear obedience to the constitutions of the empire, and fidelity to the emperor." The public functionaries civil and judiciary, and the officers and privates of the land and sea army take the same oath.
TITLE VIII. Of the Senate.
57. The senate is composed, 1st, of the French princes having attained their eighteenth year; 2d, of the titular of the high dignities of the empire; 3d, of the eighty members named on the presentation of candidates chosen by the emperor upon the lists formed by the electoral colleges of department; 4th, of citizens whom the emperor thinks proper to elevate to the dignity of senator.
58. The president of the senate is named by the emperor, and chosen from among the senators. He remains in office for one year.
59. He shall convoke the senate on an order issued by the emperor, at his own pleasure, and upon the demand of either of the committees hereafter named, in article 60 and 64, of a senator, conformably to the dispositions in article 70, or of an officer of the senate on affairs relating to the interior of the body. He shall make known to the emperor the convocations held at the instance of a senator or of the committees, their object, and the result of their deliberations.
60. A committee of seven, named by the senate, and chosen from its members, shall have cognizance of the communications made to it by the ministers; of the arrests in consequence of the 64th article of the constitution, when the persons arrested have not been examined before the tribunals in ten days after their arrestation. This committee shall be called, the senatorial committee of personal liberty.
61. All persons arrested, and not brought to judgment in ten days after their arrest, may have recourse, directly, by themselves, their relatives, or their representatives, and in form of petition, to the senatorial committee of personal liberty.
62. When the committee are of opinion that the detention prolonged beyond the tenth day of arrest, is not justified by the interest of the state, it shall invite the minister by whose order the arrest was made, either to restore the person detained to liberty, or to conduct him for trial before one of the ordinary tribunals.
63. If, after three successive invitations renewed within one month, the person arrested shall neither be restored to liberty nor brought to trial, the committee shall demand an assembly of the senate, which shall lay before it the following declaration—"There are strong presumptions that N. is arbitrarily imprisoned in article 112, TITLE XIII.
64. A committee of seven members, named by the senate and chosen from its body, shall be charged to watch over the

liberty of the press. Works printed and distributed by subscription, and periodical-ly, do not fall under its notice. This committee shall be denominated, the senatorial committee of the liberty of the press. 65. Authors, printers, and book-sellers, who may conceive that they have cause to complain of obstacles created to oppose the printing or circulation of their works, have immediate recourse, by petition, to the senatorial committee of the liberty of the press. 66. When the committee is of opinion that these impediments are not justified by the interest of the state, it shall call upon the minister who created, to remove them. 67. If within three successive calls, renewed within the space of one month, the impediments still subsist, the committee shall demand an assembly of the senate, before which, convened by the president, the following declaration shall be made: "There are strong presumptions that the liberty of the press has been violated." The senate shall then proceed as prescribed in article 112, title XII. 68. One member of each of the senatorial committees shall cease to exercise its duties every four months. 69. The projects of laws decreed by the legislative body, shall be transmitted, the same day of their adoption, to the senate, and deposited in its archives. 70. Each decree sent from the legislative body may be denounced before the senate, by a senator;—1. As tending to the re-establishment of the feudal system—2. As contrary to the irrevocability of the seals of national domain—3. As not having been deliberated in the form prescribed by the constitutions of the empire, the regulations and the laws, in such cases—4. As injurious to the imperial prerogatives, or to those of the senate: the execution of the 21st and 37th articles of the act of the constitutions of the empire, passed 22d Frimaire, year 8, notwithstanding. 71. The senate, within six days after the adoption of a project of law, having deliberated on the report of a special committee, and after having heard three readings of the decree, at three sittings held on different days, may declare its opinion that it is not necessary to promulgate this law. The president shall make known to the emperor the determination and motives of the senate. 72. The emperor with the advice of the council of state, may announce by a decree, his adherence to the determination of the senate, or cause the law to be proclaimed. 73. Every law, in such case, which has not been promulgated before the expiration of ten days, cannot then be promulgated, unless it has been again debated and adopted by the legislative body. 74. The entire operations of an electoral college, the partial operations relative to the presentation of candidates to the senate, to the legislative body, and the tribunates, cannot be annulled on account of unconstitutionality, but by a senatus consultum. Title IX.—Of the council of state. 75. When the council of state deliberates upon projects of laws, or upon regulations of public administration, two thirds of the members of the council in ordinary sessions must be present. The number of counsellors of state present, cannot be less than twenty-five. 76. The council of state divides itself into six sections, viz. section of legislation, of the interior, of the finances, of war, of the marine and of commerce. 77. When a member of the council of state has been during five years on the list of the members of the council in ordinary service, he receives a brief of counselor of state for life. Title X.—Of the Legislative Body. 78. The members of the legislative body whose time of service is expired, may be re-elected without interval. 79. Projects of law presented to the legislative body, are returned to the three sections of the tribunates. 80. The sittings of the legislative body are distinguishable by ordinary sittings and by general committees. In an ordinary sitting the legislative body hears the orators of the council of state, and those of the three sections of the tribunates, and votes upon the project of law. In a general committee they discuss among themselves with closed doors the advantages and inconveniences of the project of law. No deliberations can be taken in a general committee. 81. The ordinary sittings shall be composed of the members of the legislative body, of the orators of the council of state, and of the orators of the three sections of the tribunates. The general committees shall be composed solely of the members of the legislative body. The president of the legislative body shall preside at the ordinary sittings, and in the general committees. 82. In ordinary sittings the legislative body shall hear the orators of the council of state, and those of the three sections of the tribunates; and vote on projects of laws. In general committees the members of the legislative body shall discuss, among themselves, the advantages and inconveniences of the projects of laws. 83. The legislative body shall form itself into general committees—1. when called to do so by the president on affairs relating to the interior of the body—2. when required to do so, by motion addressed to the president and signed by fifty members: in these two cases the committee is secret, and its discussions should nei-
ther be printed nor divulged—3. when required by the orators of the council of state, especially authorized to that effect: and in this case the committee is necessarily public. No decision can be had in either of the general committees. 84. When the general committee deliberates in secret, the decision shall be postponed until the next day, in ordinary session. 85. The day when it is to vote upon a project of law, the legislative body shall hear, at the same sitting, what the orators of the council of state may have further to say on the subject. 86. The determination on a project of law cannot, in any case, be deferred beyond three days after that fixed for closing the discussions. 87. The sections of the tribunates shall constitute the only committees of the legislative body which cannot form any others, except in the case provided for by art. 113, title XIII. Title XI.—Of the Tribunates. 88. The functions of the members of the Tribunates continue 10 years. 89. Half of the Tribunates is removed every five years: the first will take place for the session of the year 17. 90. The president of the tribunates is appointed by the emperor from three candidates named by the tribunates. 91. The functions of the president continue two years. 92. The tribunates shall have two questioners,—They shall be chosen by the emperor from a triple list of candidates, nominated to him by the senate, at a secret meeting, and by an absolute majority. Their functions are the same as those attributed to the questioners of the legislative body, by articles 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25, of the organic senatus consultum, 24th Frimaire, year 10.—(Dec. 14, 1801.)—one of the questioners shall be removed each year. 93. The tribunates are divided into three sections, to wit: 1. the section of legislation—2. the section of the interior—3. the section of the finance. 94. Each section shall present a list of three of its members, from which the president of the tribunates, shall choose the president of the section: who shall continue in office one year. 95. When the respective functions of the council of state and of the tribunates, shall demand to be united, their conferences shall take place under the presidency of the arch chancellor of the empire, or of the arch-treasurer, according to the nature of the subjects to be examined. 96. Each section shall discuss separately, and in assembly of section, all projects of laws transmitted to it by the legislative body. Two orators of each, shall declare the voice of their section to the legislative body, & unfold its motives. 97. In no case can the projects of the laws be discussed in the general assembly of the tribunates. It shall form itself into a general assembly, under the order of its president, for the exercise of its other functions. Title XII.—Of the Electoral Colleges. 98. The grand officers, commanders, and officers of the legion of honor, are members of the electoral college of the department in which they reside, or one of the departments of the colony to which they belong. The legionaries are members of the electoral college of their district. The members of the legion of honor are admitted at the electoral college of which they are to make a part, on the presentation of a brief delivered to them to that effect, by the grand elector. 99. Prefects and military commanders of departments cannot be elected candidates for the senate by the electoral colleges of the departments in which they exercise their functions. Title XIII.—Of the High Imperial Court. 100. A high imperial court takes cognizance, 1st. of personal offences or crimes committed by the imperial family, by the titlars of high dignities of the empire, by the ministers, the secretary of state, the grand officers, the senators, and the counsellors of state—2d. of crimes, attempts or conspiracies against the interior and exterior safety of the state, the person of the emperor, or that of the presumptive heir of the empire, &c. 101. The sitting of the high imperial court is in the senate. 102. It is presided over by the arch chancellor of the empire. 103. The high imperial court is composed of the princes, the titlars of the high dignities & grand officers of the empire, of the grand judge minister of justice, of sixty senators, of the six presidents of the council of state, of fourteen counsellors of state, and of twenty-four members of the court of cassation. 104. There will be attached to the high imperial court, an attorney-general, appointed for life by the emperor. 105. There shall be attached to the high imperial court, a chief clerk, appointed for life by the emperor. 106. The president of the high imperial court is not subject to be objected against. 107. The high imperial court can act only on the prosecutions of the public ministry. In offences committed by those who are, by their rank, placed under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, there be a plaintiff, the public ministry becomes necessarily the acting party, and must proceed as herself directed. The public ministry becomes equal to the prosecutor in cases of trespass. 108. The justice of the peace, and the directors of justice, are commanded to forbear further proceedings, and to transmit, after the eighth day of delay, to the solicitor general, attached to the high imperial court, all the records of the case, when they shall find, whether from the quality of the parties the title of the accusation, or from the peculiar circumstances, that the offence which they are called upon to punish, is cognizable by the high imperial court. Nevertheless the magistrates shall continue to collect proofs to establish the crime. 109. The ministers or counsellors of state, entrusted with any part of the public administration, may be impeached by the legislative body, if they have in any case acted contrary to the constitution and laws of the empire. 110. Causes general of colonies, colonial prefects, commanders of French establishments distant from the continent; administrators general, when they shall have abused the powers vested in them; generals of land or sea, who shall have disobeyed their instructions; and prefects of the interior, who shall have been guilty of extortion or displacement; may likewise, be denounced by the legislative body. 111. The legislative body may, in like manner, denounce the ministers, or agents of authority, when they have received, on the part of the senate, a declaration of strong presumptions of arbitrary imprisonment, or the violation of the liberty of the press. 112. Impeachments by the legislative body cannot be interrupted, but on the demand of the tribunates, or the reclamation of fifty members of the legislative body, who shall require a secret committee to be appointed, to designate by ballot, ten of their members, who shall investigate the purpose of the impeachment.
113. Impeachments, the demand or reclamation must be made in writing, signed by the president and secretaries of the tribunal, or by the ten members of the legislative body. If the impeachment shall be against a minister or counsellor of state, charged with a part of the public administration, it shall be imparted to them within the delay of one month. 114. The minister or counsellor of state denounced, shall not be called upon to reply to the denunciation. The emperor shall name three ministers of state, to appear before the legislative body on the day appointed, and give the necessary explanations on the facts charged in the impeachment. 115. The legislative body shall discuss, in secret committee, the facts set forth in the demand or reclamation, and shall decide on them by ballot. 116. The act of impeachment must be circumstantial, and signed by the president and secretaries of the legislative body. It shall be addressed to the arch chancellor of the empire; who shall transmit it to the solicitor-general of the high imperial court. 117. Collusions or abuse of power by captains-general of colonies, colonial prefects, commanders of establishments distant from the continent, and administrators general; acts of obedience of orders by generals of land or sea; and dilapidations or extortions by prefects shall be denounced by the ministers, each in his particular department to the officers charged with the public ministry. If the denunciation is made by the grand judge, minister of justice, he can neither assist at the trial, nor take part in the judgment rendered on his own accusation. 118. In the case described by articles 110, 111, 112, and 113, the solicitor general shall inform, within three days, the arch chancellor of the empire, that there is occasion to assemble the high imperial court. The arch chancellor, after having taken the orders of the emperor, shall fix the opening of the session within eight days. 119. In the first sitting of the high imperial court, it is to judge of its own competency. 120. When there shall be a denunciation or complaint the solicitor general, in concert with the tribunates and the three magistrates of the bar of the court of judicature, shall examine and decide whether it furnishes grounds for a prosecution. One of the magistrates of the bar may be ordered by the solicitor-general to conduct the prosecution. If the public ministry is of opinion that the complaint or denunciation ought not to be received, it shall assign the conclusions upon which the high imperial court shall decide, after having heard the magistrates charged with the report. 121. When these conclusions are adopted, the high imperial court shall terminate the affair by a definitive judgment. When they are rejected, the public ministry is directed to continue the prosecution. 122. In the second case provided for by the preceding article and also when the public ministry is of opinion that the denunciation or complaint ought to be heard, it shall prepare the act of accusation within eight days, and deliver it to the commissary, or attorney, whom the arch chancellor of the empire shall appoint from among the judges or the court of abrogation, being members of the high imperial court. The duties of the commissary, or in his default, the attorney, shall be to frame the instructions and the narrative. 123. The reporter, or his attorney, shall submit the act of accusation to twelve commissaries of the high imperial court, chosen by the arch chancellor of the empire, six from the senators, and six from the other members of the high imperial court. 124. If the twelve commissaries judge that there is ground of accusation, the reporting commissary shall make a decree in conformity, issue the mandamus for arrest, and proceed to prepare the brief. 125. If, on the contrary, the commissaries are of opinion that there exists no ground of accusation, they shall refer it, to the reporter to the high imperial court which shall pronounce definitively. 126. The high imperial court cannot give judgment unless sixty members shall be present. Ten of the whole number of members who may compose it, may be challenged by the accused, and ten by the public accuser. The sentence shall be pronounced by an absolute majority of voices. 127. The trial and judgment shall be public. 128. The accused shall be allowed counsel; if they do not present any, counsel shall be assigned them by the arch chancellor of the empire. 129. The high imperial court cannot inflict any punishment not provided for by the penal code. 130. When it gives judgment of acquittal, it may place the acquitted under the superintendence, or at the disposition, of the high police of the state, for such time as it shall determine. 131. The judgments pronounced by the high imperial court cannot be reversed. Those which sentence to an infamous or corporeal punishment, cannot be executed until they have been signed by the emperor. 132. A particular senatus consultum shall contain the further disposition relative to the organization and operation of the high imperial court. Title XIV.—Of the Judiciary Order. 133. The judgments of the courts of justice are cited arrest. 134. The Presidents of the court of cassation, the courts of appeal and of criminal justice are appointed for life by the emperor, and may be chosen out of the courts over which they are to preside. 135. The Tribunal of cassation takes the nomination of court of cassation; the tribunals of appeal; that of criminal justice; the President of the court of cassation and the President of the courts of appeal divided into sections, take the title of first President, the Vice President that of President; the commissaries of government, near the court of cassation, the court of appeal and of criminal justice, take the title of Imperial Attorney Generals; and the commissaries near the other tribunals that of Imperial Attorneys. Title XV.—Of the Promulgation. 136. The Emperor causes to be sealed and promulgated, the organic senatus consultum, the senatus consultum, the acts of the senate, and the law. The organic senatus consultum, the senatus consultum, and the acts of the senate are promulgated on the tenth day after their emission at farthest. 137. Two originals are drawn up of each of the acts mentioned in the preceding article. Both are signed by the Emperor, revised by one of the titlars of the high dignities, each according to their rights and attributes, countersigned by the Secretary of state and Minister of Justice, and sealed with the great seal of the State. 138. One of these originals is deposited among the records of the seal and the other is transmitted to the archives of the public authority from which the act emanates. 139. The promulgation is thus conceived: "N (the first name of the Emperor) by the grace of God and the constitutions of the Republic, Emperor of the French, to all to whom these presents may come, Greeting: The Senate, after having heard the orators of the council of state, has decreed, and we order as follows: (and if of a law) the legislative body has rendered on the following decree, conformably to the proposition made in the name of the Emperor, and after having heard the orators of the council of state and the sections of the tribunates, the— We order and command that these presents sealed with the seals of the state, inserted in the bulletin of the laws, be addressed to the courts, tribunals, and administrative authorities, that they may be inscribed on their registers, to observe them and cause them to be observed; and the grand judge Minister of justice is charged with superintending the publication thereof." Title XVI.—And the last. 140. The following proposition shall be offered for the acceptance of the people in the forms determined by the article of the 9 Floreal, year 10: "The people will the hereditament of the imperial dignity in the direct descent natural, legitimate and adoptive of Napoleon Bonaparte, and in the direct descent natural and legitimate of Joseph and Louis Bonaparte, as it is thus regulated by the organic senatus consultum of the 28 Floreal year 12." Signed CAMBACERES, Second Consul, President; MORARD DE GALLIES, JOSEPH CORNUDET, Secretaries. Approved and sealed. The Chancellor of the Senate, LAPLACE. We order and command that the e presents, sealed with the seal of the state, inserted in the bulletin of the laws, be addressed to the Courts, Tribunals, and Administrative authorities, that they may be inscribed on their registers, &c. Given at the palace of Saint Cloud, the 28 Floreal, year 12, and of our reign the first. Signed, NAPOLEON. By the Emperor, The Secretary of State, H. B. Maret. Seen by us, Arch Chancellor of the Empire, CAMBACERES.
SPEECH OF MOREAU, BEFORE THE COURT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE. Gentlemen,—In presenting myself before you, I ask to be heard for a moment. My confidence in the council I have chosen is entire; I have resigned to them without reserve the care of defending my innocence; it is only in compliance, with their desire that I wish to speak before the court, but I feel the need of speaking myself, both to you and the nation. Unhappy circumstances produced by chance or prepared by hatred, may obscure some periods of the life of the most upright man. With much address a criminal may remove from him both the suspicions and the proofs of crimes: a whole life is always the surest testimony against, or in favor of the accused. It is then my whole life which I oppose to the accusers who pursue me. It has been sufficiently public to be known. I will recall some epochs of it and the witnesses that I shall invoke are the French people, and the people whom France has conquered. At the commencement of that revolution which was to found the liberty of the French people, I was devoted to the study of laws. I changed the destination of my life; I devoted it to arms; I did not place myself among the soldiers of liberty from ambition—I embraced the military life from respect for the laws of the nation; I became a warrior, because I was a citizen. I supported this character under the colors—I have always preserved it. The more I loved liberty, the more I submitted to discipline. I advanced very rapidly, but always from grade, to grade, without overleaping any—always serving my country, never flattering the committees. Arrived at the chief command when victory caused us to advance into the middle of hostile nations, I did not less apply myself to make the character of the French people respected, than to make their armies dreaded. The war under my orders was a scourge only in the fields of battle. Even from the midst of their ravaged plains, more than once have nations and hostile powers rendered me this testimony. This conduct I believed as proper as our victories, to make conquests to France. At the time when even contrary maxims appeared to prevail in the committees of government, this conduct did not excite against me either calumny or persecution. No cloud ever arose to tarnish the military glory which I had acquired, till that too famous day—the 18th Fructidor: those who with too much rapidity extolled that day, reproached me with being too slow to denounce a man, in whom I could see only a brother in arms, even at the moment when the evidence of facts and of proofs convinced me that he was accused by truth, and not by unjust suspicions. The Directory, who alone knew the circumstances of my conduct sufficiently to judge of it correctly, and who every one knows could not be disposed to judge me with indulgence, boldly declared that they found me irreproachable; they employed me in their service: the post was not brilliant, but it soon became so. I dare to believe that the nation has not forgotten how much I showed myself worthy of it; it has not forgotten with what facile devotedness I fought in Italy in subordinate stations; it has not forgotten how I was restored to the chief command by the reverses of our armies, and renamed general, in some measure, by our misfortunes; it remembers how I twice recomposed the army of the wrecks of those that had been dispersed; and how, after having twice sent it back in a condition to oppose the Russians and Austrians, I twice resigned the command of it to enter on one of much higher confidence. I was not in that era of my life, more republican than in all the others: I appeared more so. I saw fixed upon me, in a more peculiar manner, the regards and the confidence of those whose province it was to impress new movements, and new directions on the republic. They proposed it is well known, to place me at the head of ———, little similar to that of the 18th Brumaire. My ambition, if I had much of it, could easily conceal itself from all appearances, or even do honor to itself by every sentiment of the love of country.
The proposition was made to me by men celebrated in the revolution by their patriotism, and in our national assemblies by their talents; I refused it; I believed myself made to command armies, and did not wish to command the republic. This was enough to prove, in my opinion, that if I had an ambition it was not that of authority, or of power: very soon after, I proved this still farther. The 18th Brumaire arrived, and I was at Paris. That revolution, provoked by others as by me, could not alarm my conscience. Directed by a man evinced with a blaze of glory, it made me to hope for happy results. I began to second it when other parties pressed me to put myself at their head to combat it. I received in Paris the orders of General Bonaparte. In executing them I concurred to elevate him to that high degree of power which circumstances rendered necessary. When sometime after he offered me the chief command of the army of the Rhine, I accepted it from him with as much devotion as from the hand of the republic itself. My military successes were never more rapid, more numerous, more decisive, than at that epoch when their splendor overspread the government which accused me. Upon the event of so many successes, of which the greatest of all was to have ascertained, in an efficacious manner, the peace of the continent, the soldier heard the lofty shouts of national gratitude. What a moment to conspire if such a design had ever been able to enter my soul! Every one knows the devotedness of armies to chiefs whom they love, and whom they have just led from victory to victory: an ambitious man, a conspirator, would he have suffered the occasion to escape, when at the head of an army of a hundred thousand men so often triumphant, he returned to the midst of a nation still agitated, and always restless with regard to its principles and their duration? I only thought of disbanding the army, and returned to the repose of a civil life. In this repose, which was not without glory, I enjoyed without doubt my honors—those honors which human power can never wrest from me, the remembrance of my actions, the testimony of my conscience, the esteem of my compatriots and strangers, and, if it may be said, the flattering and sweet presentiment of posterity. I enjoyed a fortune which was not great, because my desires were not immense, and which caused no reproach of conscience—I enjoyed the entertainment of my retreat. Surely I was content with my lot—I who never envied the lot of any. My family and my friends, so much the more precious as not having any thing to hope from my credit or my fortune, they could remain attached but to myself alone. All these blessings, which alone I highly appreciate, filled my soul entirely, and could permit no undue desire or ambitious wish to enter; would it then be open to criminal projects? This condition of my soul was so well known, it was so well guaranteed by the distance at which I kept from all the paths of ambition, that since the victory of Hohenlinden till my arrestation, my enemies have never been able either to find or to seek me by another crime than the freedom of my discourses; my discourses—they have often been favorable to the operations of government: and if at any time they have not been so, could I therefore think that that was a crime among a people who had so often decreed that of thought, that of word, that of the press, and who had enjoyed much of it even under kings. I confess, that born with an openness of disposition, I have not lost this attribute of the country (of France) where I received life, neither in the camp where every thing gives a new impetus, nor in the revolution which has always proclaimed it as a virtue of the man, and as a duty of the citizen—But do those who plot blame so openly what they disapprove? If I had wished to form and pursue plans of conspiracy, I would have dissembled my sentiments, and solicited all the situations which could have replaced me in the midst of the forces of the nation. In order to trace this plan, in default of political genius, which I never possessed, I had examples known to all the world, and rendered imposing by their success. I know well that Monck did not withdraw from the armies when he wished to conspire, and that Cassius and Brutus approached the heart of Cæsar to pierce it. Magistrates, I have nothing more to say to you. Such has been my character, such has been my whole life. I protest in the face of heaven and of men, the innocence and integrity of my conduct: You know your duties, France listens to you, Europe contemplates you, and posterity awaits. At a meeting of the President and Directors of the BANK OF VIRGINIA, on Thursday the 2d of August, 1804— "Resolved, that the President and Directors will proceed to appoint the following officers on the 30th current, viz: "TWO TELLERS." "ONE DISCOUNT CLERK." "ONE RUNNER." "ONE PORTER." "Resolved, that the first Teller shall be allowed twelve hundred dollars; second Teller nine hundred dollars; Discount Clerk nine hundred dollars; Runner six hundred dollars, and the Porter four hundred dollars per annum." Teste, Wm. DABNEY, Clerk.

The Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1804.
RICHMOND PRICE CURRENT.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. Items include Tobacco, Wheat, Flour, Corn, Hemp, Iron, Bacon, Whiskey.
From Knoxville, (Tennessee,) July 27.
This forenoon the legislature of this state, by the unanimous vote of both branches, passed the act, ratifying the amendment proposed to the constitution of the United States.
The Philadelphia Gazette of the 1st inst. says—We are informed, that Col. Monroe, at present minister at the British court, has been appointed by the president, governor of Louisiana. Whether true or not we cannot say.
The jury summoned, by the Coroner of the city of New York, to enquire into the cause of the melancholy death of General HAMILTON, have not yet agreed to their verdict. It is stated in the New York Daily Advertiser of Saturday, the 28th ult. that "Mr. M. L. Davis, and a boatman belonging to the office of the Morning Chronicle, were on Tuesday last, committed to Bridewell by the Coroner—the former for refusing, after having sworn, to answer the questions put to him as a witness—the latter for refusing to swear."
Mr. BRECKINRIDGE.
In the Lexington paper of the 17th ultimo, appears an address from Mr. Breckinridge, in answer to Bradford, after a few preliminary observations, Mr. B. introduces a number of affidavits, which go to prove that he never expressed a desire to be a candidate for the Vice Presidency, and that the piece, signed a "True Republican," alluded to by Mr. Bradford was written without the knowledge of Mr. Breckinridge, and that he had not the most distant hint or suggestion that it was written or intended to be published.
In the same paper Mr. Bradford's reply is published, in which he declares that he had no feelings unfriendly to Mr. Breckinridge, but was actuated alone by what he conceived his duty to the public—He promises still further to develop the business, and to make good his first assertions.—It is difficult to judge between them.—Mr. Bradford's assertions are made with boldness, and apparent sincerity; but on the other hand, the certificates are from men of acknowledged respectability. (Intelligencer.)
Extract from Major Gen. Hull's "Division Orders," to the Middlesex (Massachusetts) Militia.
"The major general feels an honorable pride in making the declaration, that he has ever been gratified, by the manly spirit, and laudable exertions of the officers and soldiers of the division. If in the discharge of his last military duties, he could present to them any considerations, which would increase that spirit, and those exertions, he should rank it among the most fortunate events of his life.—The discipline of the militia is as important, as the safety of our country—For it is on that discipline its safety depends.—In the conduct of parties on political questions the militia will be an exception, disappointed ambition will never corrode their hearts; but devoted to the best interest of their country, they will respect its constituted authorities, and support the measures they adopt, with their lives and fortunes—there will be no other party, than which company, which regiment, and which brigade, shall excel in the duties they are called to perform."
"Every American, worthy the name will unite in giving energy to an institution established for the common defence of his country—In this glorious work then, let every officer and soldier cordially engage—let a spirit of military emulation be exhibited, which will add to the honors already acquired by the division—Every officer and soldier will appear in complete military armor; and may the major general once have the satisfaction of reporting to the commander in chief, and of announcing to the world, that the whole division, consisting of more than five thousand men appeared by their own voluntary consent in complete uniform—It would stamp glory and fame, on the patriotic sons of Middlesex, which time can never efface."
"It is your happy lot, my companions, to inhabit a part of the country, where the first stand was made against oppression."
Remember you are the sons of those sires, who gallantly fought on the memorable plains of Lexington, Concord and Charlestown—Consider that here was laid the first foundation of that honorable independence which is celebrated by our country with the liveliest emotions of joy and gratitude—Let us then be animated with the same patriotic ardor, which distinguished our fathers; and let us form the most unshaken resolution to defend and perpetuate the valuable inheritance consigned to our care."
Death of General Hamilton.
This death has excited great sensibility.
and we do not hesitate to join in the general testimony that the general possessed talents and qualities, such as would entitle any man to distinction—but shall we say that he was more intelligent, more honest, more patriotic, and more brave than any other man in America? We will not say this for it is not true. Public sentiment has settled all those matters long since, and that sentiment was expressed when no cause existed to affect the heart or weaken the judgment.
When a country is divided by parties, the minority will improve every occasion to raise itself, and we cannot fail to discern in the magnificent funeral solemnities on the occasion some hazard that republicans will for the moment forget their abhorrence for the political system of the general.
While he lived they spoke plainly of his system and attached to his name the odium of it; but they will never attach this odium again to him, unless his friends shall bring him forward as the unerring standard of political right.
If honest mourning is the business let every man mourn, who is sorry, and every one weep who has an overstock of tears, for his own sufferings and those of his friends; but if the business is to proceed further, and parties are to be invited around the tomb of Hamilton, as they were about the tomb of Washington, we declare for once that we will not attend. Too long were we humbled by aristocratic systems and their authors. Every day of our lives will be either too long or too short for us to pay homage to them or their ashes.—Let them sleep in peace; we will call up nothing which can wound a real mourner; but if in the guise of sackcloth our rights are to be invaded, and our principles questioned, we will stand on our defence.
Having thus opened the subject we will say explicitly that we have many men in our country, whose intelligence and integrity our citizens estimate more highly than they ever did Gen. Hamilton's. The general, when living might have been the oracle of a party; but this party was small, compared with that immense multitude, in whose affections and confidence President Jefferson reigns, without a rival, because they know not his equal in all those attributes, which constitute a great and good statesman.
In expressing this sentiment we do not ask for Mr. Jefferson any idolatrous respect, nor will his friends ask it on any occasion of his future destiny. Were he to be removed from life we should not desire federalists to wear mourning for him, nor have we introduced him into the estimate for want of others, whom we consider equal to Mr. Hamilton; but we have done it to shew by a strong case the fallacy of those, who elevate the general above all other men.
We lament that the general's talents were like those of many other distinguished men, employed in favor of aristocracies against the body of the people, and that a national debt and a standing army were in his estimate national blessings.—Had his talents been otherwise directed, we would join in lamenting his death as a loss to the country. We consider it a severe loss to his family, to his friends, and to the federal interest; but should we shed the tear of sympathy, let it not be charged to us in our political capacity. A. Mercury.
Extract of a letter, dated
BORDEAUX, June 2.
"I suppose, ere now, you have heard of Bonaparte being declared emperor. There has been great rejoicing all over France in consequence. Upwards of 200 gun-boats have left this port to join the main body at Boulogne, and preparations for the invasion of England go on with great alacrity.
"Tobacco in great demand, at 112 1-2 livres per cwt. "The Julia. Calvert, for Norfolk, will sail about the 22d." (Phil. paper.)
Mrs. MICOW, wife of Lewis Micow, heretofore a Taylor at Cape Francois, now in Charleston, has lately been informed that her said husband was not massacred at the Cape, as she supposed, but had made his escape in some vessel to one of the northern states; this is to inform him should he be still living, that his wife and daughter are in this city, and are anxiously waiting to hear some tidings of him. The printers of papers in the northern states will oblige an unfortunate woman, by giving this notice a place once or twice in their publications. (Charleston pap.)
As some gentlemen were amusing themselves on Monday afternoon, on Long Island, in firing at a mark, the pistol of one, while in the act of raising it, went off, and lodged the ball in his foot. The accident is rendered singular from the ball entering into the foot near an inch and a half, & the stocking which was of silk, not being in the smallest degree fractured. N. Y. Mor. Chron.
NEW INVENTION.
SOLOMON DAWSON and ISAAC COX, of Kent county, (Delaware) have invented a machine, that takes off the heads of wheat, rye and barley, without losing the scattered grains, in its ripe state; it promises to be one of the greatest inventions ever yet discovered in agricultural improvements, as its utility tends greatly to curtail the expense and labor of the farmer, save abundantly more of his grain, and improves the land—The inventors have not had a full opportunity, this harvest to observe and correct the imperfections (naturally attendant on all new inventions) so as to make it entirely complete—but as it will equally apply to the taking off the heads of clover, they expect by the time the seed is ripe to be able to satisfy any person desirous to promote improvement in agriculture, who will find it answers every end contemplated.
COMMUNICATION.
We understand that the Rev. B. Allison of Bordenton, New Jersey, and Mr. Richard French of that neighborhood, have
invented a machine for making nails upon a plan entirely new, and very simple in its construction.
It is said that this machine cuts the nail, places it in a die, closes a vice on it, heads it by the action of the hammers, and discharges it by means of machinery. It is also further added that a boy can make, with this engine, from thirty to fifty pounds of nails per hour.
We are informed that this machine is now actually at work near Bordenton. (Aurora.)
TO DAIRY WOMEN.
To prevent your cheese having a rancid, nauseous flavor, put about one table spoonful of salt to each gallon of milk when taken from the cows in the evening, for the cheese to be made the next day; put the salt at the bottom of the vessel that is to receive the milk; It will increase the curd, and prevent the milk from growing sour or putrid the hottest nights in summer.
MARRIED—On Thursday the 2d inst. Mr. HENRY S. SHORE, of this city, to the amiable and much accomplished Miss CATHARINE R. WINSTON, daughter of Col. Wm. O. Winston, of the county of Hanover.
Departed this life, suddenly, on Sunday night last, Doctor ASHLEY ADAMS, for many years a respectable inhabitant of Petersburg—Dr. A. had not enjoyed perfect health for some time past, but was well enough to move about and attend to his business—he retired to rest, as usual, on Sunday night, and Monday morning was found dead.
DIED—On Sunday evening, of cholera morbus, Major Gen. WILLIAM IRVINE, a distinguished and active officer during the whole of our revolutionary contest. Gen. Irvine had every early command, and was on the Canada expedition, where his talents & gallantry were very important—and occasioned him to be consulted by the commander in chief during the remainder of the war, on all the operations in the middle states. He had the merit of being particularly obnoxious to the enemy, during the war, a criterion of merit which supercedes every other test. Gen. Irvine was a native of Ireland, and educated to the medical profession, which he relinquished at the calls of the country he had adopted long before the revolution. Gen. Irvine has held for some time the office of military intendant, and had charge of the public arsenals. He died president of the society of Cincinnati of this state. But it is on those relations which mark the man more than the exterior activity of the world that Gen. Irvine was most estimable—as the faithful, virtuous and affectionate husband, the fond and tender parent. In him neither disguise nor chicanery, superceded the honest integrity of the heart; sincere in his friendships and as sincere in his dislikes—he respected none but those he deemed worthy, and those he despised he shunned in silence. Could anything add to the reputation of such a man it is to be found in the grief of a numerous and tender progeny, in which his happiness in life was centered and to part with whom could be the only regret accompanying the close of a life of 63 years. Phila. pap.
LONDON, June 2.
Extract of a private letter from Paris "Do not imagine that the Addresses of the Prefects express the opinions of the Departments and of the People, more than the Addresses of the Gen. Inspectors, the sentiments of the Officers and of the Soldiers, concerning the Hereditary Imperial Dignity in the Bonaparte family. No, the former as the latter have either been extorted or brought from individuals, whose ambition or cupidity will write any thing, or subscribe any thing; and who have formerly addressed Robespierre as they now do Bonaparte; and as they will do hereafter Louis XVIII should he be restored to power. The mass of the French Nation is tired of the War, and disgusted with the Revolution; but, at the same time, as totally indifferent about Bonaparte, as about Moreau, or any other great man who have figured in the Revolution—Though they want spirit or patriotism to assert their rights, and to publish their opinions, they have sense enough to see, information enough to judge, and experience enough to know, that the return of order and of tranquility depends entirely upon the return of the Bourbons; and that neither senatus consultus, decrees of the Tribunate, or commanded Addresses, can ensure the rank of Bonapartes any longer than during Napoleon's life; and that those very persons, who have now been the first to proclaim the Hereditary Sovereignty in his family, will then come forward as the first pretenders to his dignity, to the exclusion of his relatives, persons foreigners in France, and who have performed nothing to be tolerated, and less to be elevated for."
"Here exists a faction which Bonaparte calls the faction of Generals, of which Massena and Macdonald are regarded as chiefs, but to which neither Jourdan, St. Cyr, Berthier, nor even Murat are strangers. The latter, though related to the Bonapartes, detests as cordially Joseph, Lucien, and Louis Bonaparte, as Massena himself; but policy causes him to keep upon good terms with Napoleon, who, in his turn sees him without confidence, and employs him from necessity only, not knowing really to whom otherwise to trust the important place of Governor of Paris. This faction of Generals is regarded by the senators as very dangerous, and they have therefore advised the First Consul to exclude for the future, as much as possible, Generals from being members of the senate. The Tribunes on the contrary, jealous of the power and pay of the senators, court the disfavored, and with the legislative corps, desire in their body as many Generals as possible; and, it is believed, that these two constitutional corps will at any future vacancy of the Chief Magistracy of the republic, join the faction of the Generals to exclude all Bonapartes from their future pretensions."
"Even among his brothers, Napoleon Bonaparte looks upon Joseph as his only friend, as Lucien is his avowed opposer, and Louis is led entirely by him. As to Jerome, he is in complete disgrace with all his sisters and brothers for having married a woman who has English blood in her veins. General Duroc is yet the First Consul's friend, though he envies Murat his place of governor, and Talleyrand his place of minister, a place to which he has promised to succeed, should Talleyrand resign or die."
"Several thousand works and pamphlets have been printed, and, with large sums, distributed in the armies among the officers and soldiers, and great presents are preparing for the day of coronation."
HAGUE, May 18.
General Marmont has made an experiment at Flushing to shoot hollow balls, in which letters
may be conveyed during a siege or otherwise. A 24 pound shot reached a distance of 2250 toises.
NEW-YORK, July 30.
Capt. Swaine from Bordeaux, was detained for about an hour off Sandy Hook yesterday morning, by the Cambrian British frigate.—Capt. Swaine informs, that the Cambrian boarded another ship bound in, just astern of him, and after a short detention went out to sea in company with the pilot boat Brothers, that was going to put a pilot on board the inward bound ship returned.
The brig Jefferson, Capt. Crocker from Bordeaux for this port, was on Thursday last also boarded by the above frigate and ordered for Halifax. We are informed that the Jefferson left Bordeaux without her papers—probably this is the cause of her capture.
An English armed brig of 16 guns arrived off Sandy Hook on Thursday, and was in company with the Cambrian and Boston frigates for three hours, and then put off to sea.
JULY 31.
We yesterday had occasion to mention, the boarding of several American vessels and the capture of one off the Hook, by the Cambrian and Boston British frigates. The following letter on this subject is put into our hands by a respectable gentleman, dated,
"Sandy Hook, July 29, 1804.
"Since you left me I have witnessed the greatest insult that could be offered to a nation. The British frigate Cambrian has detained for some considerable time, two inward bound vessels, while within two miles of the American land. In fact, I am informed by the persons who keep the light house, that no vessels inward or outward bound, pass without molestation; and that within the jurisdiction of the United States. If this be permitted, we may expect shortly that our vessels will be taken at our wharves." N. Y. Gaz.
NORFOLK, July 31.
COMMUNICATION FROM THE BANK. The French traders in the Borough, are particularly cautioned in the receipt of 100 bills of the office of Discount and Deposit of BALTIMORE, a great number of which are in circulation; and there are strong grounds to suspect the villainous attempts at passing, will be on those who are least likely to detect them.
A gentleman just returned from Edenton, S. C. informs, that there are now circulated in that state a great many forged 50 and 100 dollars notes, of the U. S. Branch Bank, Baltimore, dated Sept. 1802, letter G. The engraving is uncommonly well executed, except the upper part of the Eagle, the bill of which is rather clumsily done. The ink used in printing is rather paler, and the paper thicker and somewhat inferior to the real note. The signatures of Messrs. Simpson and Witting are equal to the original, and with ink similar to that generally used.—From the foregoing communication, we fear some of the above described notes have crept into this place.
August 4
We feel satisfaction in announcing the appointment of Capt. Corlies to the command of the Gun-Boats, fitting out by order of Government. One of which arrived on Thursday from the City of Washington; she is flat bottomed, sloop rigged, and carries a 32 pounder.
Juvenile Education.
J. OGLIVIE takes this opportunity to intimate that the midsummer holidays in his school will expire about the 15th of August. He will continue to teach Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, Elocution, Geometry, History, Political Economy, Natural and Moral Philosophy, with due attention as his pupils become prepared to the principles of Criticism. Composition. The young gentlemen who recently composed his senior class having finished the studies in which they were engaged, have withdrawn from his school. He will therefore be prepared to receive from twelve to fifteen additional pupils; youths from fourteen to sixteen years of age, who may have attained a tolerable acquaintance with the elements of literature, would be most acceptable to him, because most likely to be substantially and permanently benefited by the course of instruction he has adopted. Young men of more advanced years, whose opportunities for mental improvement, at an early period of their lives, may have been peculiarly scanty, or unfavorable, and such as may be desirous to qualify themselves for becoming instructors of youth, would probably reap considerable benefits from spending one or two years in this seminary.—Whilst he can afford perfect sincerity, declare his willingness to afford young men who are really desirous to acquire information and are at the same time disposed to observe the inviolable rules of Academic regularity and decorum, every assistance and encouragement in the prosecution of their studies which he is qualified to bestow; he wishes to have it distinctly understood, that such as may have unfortunately acquired inveterate habits of slothfulness and dissipation, could scarcely select a school where such habits will encounter more decided, vigilant and probably painful counteraction.—J. O's. charge for tuition will be fifty dollars per annum for instruction in the different departments of science, and forty dollars for instruction in the different branches of elementary literature, he proposes to teach: The fee for tuition to be paid quarterly and in advance. J. O. G. Ogilvie wishes to receive four of his junior pupils as boarders on terms, which will be made known to parents on application to him by letter, or otherwise. July 27th, 1804.
Five Dollars Reward.
STRAYED from Mr. Samuel Pleasants, in Powhatan county, on Tuesday last, a light bay HORSE, about eight years old, a small star on his forehead, has from all appearance one of his ribs broken, when young, on his right side. The above reward will be given to any one who will deliver him to Wm. El. Gay, Richmond, or who will give such information that he may be obtained. Aug 7
THE subscriber having been engaged for a few months in the Practice of the Law in the Chancery and Common Law District Courts held in the City of Williamsburg, and the County Courts of Charles City, James City, York & Elizabeth City; informs the public that any business committed to his charge either in his professional character, or in the collection of debts, shall be attended to with fidelity. JOS: PRENTISS, Junior. Williamsburg, Aug. 24, 1804.
AT a Convocation of the Visitors and
Governors of William & Mary College, held at the Council Chamber within the said College, the seventh day of July, 1804.
RESOLVED, That the Visitors of William & Mary College will, on the 28th day of September next, proceed to the appointment of a PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS; and that notice thereof be immediately given in the public papers. A Copy—Teste, W. RUSSELL, c. c.
HART and OUTINGATE,
Grocers and Commission Merchants,
In the store lately occupied by Mr. Boulton,
opposite Mr. Pleasants' Printing Office,
MAIN STREET, RICHMOND.
Respectfully inform their friends and the
public, that they have laid in a general assortment
of GROCERIES and LIQUORS, of the first quality,
which they are selling very low for ready money
or produce at cash prices.
Also, Shaw's Wine, Patent Shot, Gunpowder,
Indigo &c. &c. and Hare's Philadelphia bottled
Porter, of which they have a constant supply, by the
dozen or single bottle.
They have for sale on Commission, CUT
NAILS (from 3d to 24) by the cask or small quantities;
also, PEACH BRANDY by the barrel, and a
pair of COLOGNE MILLSTONES, 3 feet 11 in. August 8, 1804.
FOR SALE—THE FINEST OLD
Madeira & Sherry Wine,
In Butts, Hhds. and Quarter Casks.
Also, a few hundred bushels CADIZ SALT.
BROWN RIVES & CO.
Richmond, 6th Aug. 1804.
N. B. Wanted to purchase, BANK SCRIP
of the Virginia Bank. B. R. & Co.
Valuable Land for Sale.
THE subscriber wishes to sell the TRACT OF
LAND, whereon he now resides, in Chester-
field county, situate ten miles from Richmond,
within two of James river, and about fourteen
from Petersburg. This tract, independent of the
many advantages arising from its local situation,
has particular claims to the attention of any gen-
tee family who may wish to obtain an agreeable
seat contiguous to either of the above named towns.
It contains about one thousand acres; four hundred
of which are supposed to be cleared, and have
been for some years in cultivation. The soil, in
point of fertility, is equal, if not superior to that
of most of the land in the neighbourhood. The
buildings are a large and well planned two story
dwelling house with wings, an excellent kitchen
and every other necessary out house sufficient for
the accommodation of a large family.
The terms of sale will be one fourth of the purchase
money in hand, and the balance in three
annual instalments. Bond and security, together
with a deed of trust on the property, to ensure
punctual payments, will be required.
ARCHIBALD BOLLING.
Chesnut Grove, Aug. 1st. 1804.
ON the 20th day of August next, will be SOLD,
at Goochland Courthouse, for Cash,
Four Negroes, to wit:
Judy, Henry, Peyton and Isham, conveyed to us
by a deed of trust from Samuel Randolph, to se-
cure to Daniel Couch & Co. the payment of seven-
ty-three pounds eighteen shillings, and 4d 1/2, with
interest thereon from the 8th of June, 1803, and
the expenses of carrying into effect this trust.
CH F BATES, ROBERT H WOODSON, } Trustees. August 5, 1804.
The full blooded English Station, and most com-
plete running horse,
TICKLETOBY
Will stand the next season, at
my stable in the upper end of
Chesterfield county, five miles
from Goochland, and five from
the Bridges and twelve from Ger-
rico—The terms, his pedigree
and performance will be made
known before the season commences
THOMAS BRANCH
Land for Sale.
THE subscriber offers for sale, that valuable
TRACT OF LAND (late the property of
Mr. William Clarke of Powhatan) situated in the
county of Amherst, on the waters of Duckhill
creek, and within three miles of the growing town
of Lynchburg. This tract contains about 420
acres only 50 acres of which is cleared, entirely
fresh, and under a most excellent enclosure; the
remainder is heavily timbered and its soil equal if

BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber takes this mode of returning his thanks to his former patrons, and informing the public in general, that he has (by desire of his friends) re-commenced the MANUFACTURING of BURR MILL-STONES ; and having furnished himself with a supply of the best materials, and having had sixteen years experience in the business, in Baltimore, Petersburg and Richmond, hopes to be able to give satisfaction to his employers.
The stones he will warrant to be as good as any in the United States.
Any orders left with Capt. WILLIAM PENROCK , Norfolk; Capt. WILLIAM CHAMBERS , Staunton; Mr. WILLIAM HAY , Wythe county, or Mr. ROBERT MOORE , Petersburg, shall be duly attended to, and country produce received in payment, at the customary prices.
TWO APPRENTICES will be taken to the above business, and short time required.
WILLIAM DAVIDSON. Richmond, Jan. 10th, 1803. (tf)
N.B. FOR SALE, PLAISTER of PARIS, in stone or ground, for the improvement of land, with directions for the use thereof.
I C E,
For sale at the Falling Garden. Apply at the Brick house in said garden, where constant attendance will be given. May 20
Notice.... The office of supervisor of the revenue, for the district of Virginia, being discontinued, and the unfulfilled business in the said office transferred to me—the collectors of the direct tax & internal revenue, whose accounts have not been finally adjusted and paid, are hereby informed, that they are now requested to call at my office, in the city of Richmond, without delay, and pay the balances due to the United States—And those whose lands have been sold in the district of Virginia by authority of an act of Congress of the United States for non-payment of the Direct Tax, may redeem such lands, by paying to me within the time limited, the principal, costs and fees as the law directs.
As most of the abovementioned lands were sold in Dec. 1802, the privilege of redemption will continue until December next.
The money received by me for the redemption of the said lands will be returned to the purchaser, with interest at the rate of 25 per cent per annum on the purchase money, to the day on which it may be paid to me.
JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. June 27th, 1804.
To be let, on building
Leases, three beautiful, airy and elevated situations for dwelling houses. To any gentleman in the mercantile line, or other occupation, who wishes a pleasant and agreeable residence for his family, either of these sites would be truly desirable, as they are contiguous to the scene of active business, at the same time that they are removed from the dust and bustle of the town. Enquire at this printing-office.
An experienced, sober and industrious GARDENER will hear of an advantageous situation on application as above. None of opposite character need apply. tf April 23, 1804.
4439 Acres of valuable LAND,
In the south of Kentucky, the greater part military, will be SOLD for good bonds, or exchanged for property in the state of Virginia.—Enquire of the printer. tf Dec. 26th, 1803.
Plaister of Paris.
I have just received from Nova Scotia, a cargo of PLAISTER of PARIS , said to be of the best kind, which I will sell on reasonable terms. SAMUEL PAINE. May 14, 1804.
Will be SOLD , to the highest bidder, on the premises, the 15th day of September next,
A Tract of LAND,
in the county of Goochland, containing 190 acres, on which there is a good dwelling house, kitchen, smoke house, &c. This place was formerly the property of Mr. Radford, and purchased of him by Mr. Elias Langham who now lives on it, and has authorised the subscriber to dispose of the same. The terms of sale, one half cash, the other half payable in 12 months, the purchaser giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. Any person or persons having any claim or claims against the above property are desired to make them known on or before the day of sale. JOSEPH MOREN. New Canton, 2d July, 1804. 2m
FOR SALE on liberal terms by the subscribers,
The House and Lot
Near the river bank, at present in the occupancy of Mr. John Taylor, and distinguished in the plan of the city by number eight; the property of the estate of Patrick Wright dec. which, if not disposed of privately before the 1st day of September next—will on that day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, be sold on the premises, for one half cash, and the other half on a credit of ninety days, for an approved endorsed note.—An indisputable title will be made before the money is received. PROSSER & MONGURE, v. ms. Richmond, July 17th, 1804. (tds.)
Bacon Hams.
The subscriber has received a parcel of very fine Hams, which he will sell on moderate terms. Apply at Messrs. Wm. Brown & Co's. JAMES BROWN, Jr. June 16th, 1804. tf
We have received a small additional supply of
MADEIRA WINE,
Of a superior quality, which we offer for sale by the hoghead and quarter cask. GIBSON & JEFFERSON. Richmond, 13th July, 1804. (tf)
In pursuance of a deed of trust, executed by William Love, for the purpose of indemnifying Cornelius Schenk, on account of sundry securities, will be sold, at the Eagle Tavern, in Charlottesville, on the 13th day of August next, all the estate, right, title and interest of the said William Love, in the
HOUSES and LOTS
In Charlottesville, late in the possession of Col. Thomas Bell, dec. This estate and interest consists of one moiety in remainder, of the above mentioned property. The terms will be made known on the day of sale, and more particular information communicated, by applying to either of the subscribers. WM. W. HENING, } Surviving JOHN KELLY, } Trustees. Charlottesville, 28th July, 1804. 3t
BANK OF VIRGINIA.
AT A GENERAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS.
RESOLVED , that until Certificates for the Stock held in this Institution be issued under the bye laws hereof, the Scrip or evidence of Shares held herein be transferable by Indorsement or Assignment, and that all the Shares standing in the name of any Stockholder shall be transferred in the Books of this company to the person or persons producing the Scrip or evidence of such shares, regularly endorsed or assigned.
RESOLVED , that the President of the Bank at Richmond be directed to call a meeting of all the Stockholders (which meeting shall be in the City of Richmond, on the first Monday in September next) for the purpose of adopting such bye laws, rules and regulations as shall be deemed necessary for the government of the Institution; and considering other subjects important to its interest.
A true extract from the proceedings of the General Meeting of Stockholders, on Saturday July 7th, 1804.
Test, WM. DABNEY, Secretary.
The Stockholders are requested to attend a General Meeting, at the Capitol in the City of Richmond, on the first Monday in September next, for the purposes stated in the foregoing resolution. ADAM B. VENABLE, Pres'dt.
By virtue of a Decree of the Court of the United States for the 5th Circuit in the Virginia District, bearing date the 3d day of December, 1801, in behalf of John Glassell, against William Walker, James Walker, Merry Walker and John Walker, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at Kenhawa courthouse, on the 24th day of August next, the following TRACTS of LAND , viz:—One granted to Wm. Walker on the 31st of May 1786, containing 112 1/4 acres, on Elk river, a branch of the Great Kenhawa, about 6 miles from the mouth, opposite to a survey made for Leonard Cooper and Wm. Morris, at the mouth of the Scioto creek that empties into Elk on the south side—One other tract granted to said Wm. Walker on the 26th May 1786, containing 500 acres, on the head waters of the left hand fork of a creek emptying into Elk river on the north west side at the shallow ford, about 4 or 5 miles from the mouth of said river, adjoining a survey made for said Walker—One other tract granted to the said Wm. Walker on the 26th May 1788, containing 770 acres, on Elk river, on the south east side, about a mile from its mouth—One other tract granted to the said Wm. Walker on the 27th of May 1788, containing 200 acres, on the north side of Elk river, the third bottom above the mouth of Sandy creek—One other tract granted to the said Wm. Walker on the 27th of May 1788, containing 100 acres, on the north side of Elk river, the fourth bottom above the mouth of Sandy creek on the same side of the river—One other tract granted to the said Wm. Walker on the 26th May 1788, containing 1000 acres, on a left hand branch of a creek emptying into Elk river, on the north west side opposite to the first land on said river—One other tract granted to the said Wm. Walker on the 26th of May 1788, containing 200 acres, on the south side of Elk river, the third bottom on the river above Wm. Arbuckle's land, opposite the mouth of Sandy creek.
The whole of the above mentioned land at the time it was surveyed lay in the county of Greenbrier, all of which will be sold, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to raise the sum of four thousand one hundred and ten dollars 38 cents, with interest on dollars 2793 78, at 5 per centum per annum, from the 22d March, 1799—the costs of suit and carrying this decree into effect. BEN. MOSSBY, Acting Commissioner. tds
WILL BE SOLD.
To the highest bidder, in Charles City county, at September court day, that well known Tract of Land, called
The Indian Fields,
Containing between eight and nine hundred acres, pleasantly situated, on the main road leading through the county. The situation is so generally known and admired that a minute description would be superfluous, as it is presumed any gentleman wishing to purchase, would previously view the land, therefore shall only observe that the houses are all going good order, having lately gone thro' a thorough repair—and the small proportion of land in cultivation, proves it to be very valuable and productive, the soil being admirably adapted to the culture of corn and small grain—Any person wishing to view the land will call on Mr. Royster who lives on the place. The terms of sale will be made known on the day of sale. WILLIAM EDWARDS, Surry. 1m
Family Flour.
A CONSTANT supply of FLOUR, of a superior quality, for family use, kept for SALE, by GEORGE WATT. Richmond, 5th March, 1804. tf
Public notice is here-
by given, That the President and Common Council of the City of Richmond, will, at their next monthly meeting to be held on the third Monday in August next, proceed to appoint one fit and proper person to act as Captain of the Night Watch within the said city, for the term of one year, at which time all Candidates for the said appointment, are requested to attend. ANDREW STEVENSON, c. c. h. 1m
FOR SALE, AN ELEGANT HORSE AND GIG.
For terms, apply at this Office. Richmond, July 5, 1804. tf
SALES at AUCTION.
On Thursday the 7th day of August next, will be sold, at Public Auction, at the office of the subscribers,
A LOT OF LAND,
Containing four acres more or less, lying at the Bowling Green, commonly known by the name of Du Vall's Village. Also, FOUR HALF ACRES LOTS , in the vicinity of Richmond, known and denoted by the survey and plot made by Wm. G. Payne for Mr. Du Vall; and Nos 88, 89, 90, and 91. The titles will be made, and six months credit allowed the purchaser, on giving bond with approved security. THOMAS TAYLOR & CO. Auctioneers. 18th July, 1804. tds
Notice to Distillers.
WANTED, A MAN who understands the Distilling Business in all its various branches—for such a one great wages will be given. For further particulars apply to the Editor of this paper. N. B. A Single man will be preferred. tf
READY MADE PENS
For sale at this office.
FOR SALE, A Tract of Land,
Lying in the North Garden, in Albemarle county, containing 1000 acres, adjoining the Lands of Stephen Moore, William Wood, and the late William Cole, dec within eighteen miles of Warren, and the same distance of Milton. There is on this Land a new B. H. 48 by 24 feet, a good Overseer's House, and Houses for the accommodation of fifteen or twenty Negroes. The Overseer's House, with a little expense, may be rendered very comfortable for a small family. About half the Land is cleared, the greater part of which is in good order for cultivation, and a considerable part of it fresh and well adapted to the culture of corn, wheat and tobacco.
Any person inclined to purchase, or application to the overseer on the premises, will be shown the Land. The terms of sale will be, one fourth part of the purchase money paid on the first day of June, 1805, and the balance in three equal annual payments from that day, each installment to carry interest from the day of sale, if not punctually paid. Bond with approved security, together with a deed of trust on the Land, will be required of the purchaser, to secure the payment. For further particulars apply to the subscriber, living at Scotch-Town, in Hanover county.
If the above Land is not sold before, it will on offered at Public Sale, to the highest bidder, be the terms before mentioned, on the 23d day of August next, if fair, if not, the next fair day. In either case, the purchaser will have leave to seed wheat as soon after that time as he may choose, and may be furnished with the crop of Corn, &c. that may be made on the plantation this year—say from two to three hundred barrels. JOHN M. SHEPPARD. Scotch-Town, May 30th, 1804. tds
The survey by which the turnpike road from Staunton to the Point of Fork is run, goes immediately through the land above mentioned, convenient to a handsome situation for building, and good water. J. M. S.
Mediterranean Passports.
NOTICE is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport issued to vessels of the United States; that from the eighth day of July next, those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passports of which she may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange; and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use. Department of State } 23d of May, 1804
The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Collectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices. June 1. 6m
TRAVELS IN GREECE. PROPOSALS, By JACOB JOHNSON, of PHILADELPHIA,
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THE TRAVELS OF ANACHARSIS THE YOUNGER, IN GREECE; During the Middle of the Fourth Century, Before the Christian era: WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES. BY THE ABBE BARTHELEMY, Keeper of the Medals in the Cabinet of the King of France, and Member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. First American, from the Fourth European Edition. IN FOUR VOLUMES.
The work now offered to the American reader exhibits a complete view of the Antiquities, Manners, Customs, religious Ceremonies, Laws, Arts and Literature of Ancient Greece at the period of its greatest splendor. A knowledge of these has hitherto been only attainable by a laborious perusal of writers who have been little solicitous to join entertainment with instruction. The TRAVELS OF ANACHARSIS, on the contrary, are so written, that the reader may frequently be induced to imagine he is perusing a work of mere amusement, invention and fancy; till his eye glances to the bottom of the page, when he perceives there is scarcely a sentence, and not a single fact or circumstance, but is supported by the authority of some ancient author. The amazing number of these quotations may, perhaps, at first sight, seem to have been unnecessary, and to have more the appearance of a parade of erudition, than to be of any real utility: but it is to be remembered that, at the same time that they must be highly acceptable to the man of real learning, by enabling him to refer immediately to the original Author, they are extremely useful, nay, we may say, absolutely necessary, even to such readers as can never be supposed to have a any intention to consult the authorities quoted; as they clearly show that such an idea, or such a circumstance is not merely a decoration or the offspring of the fancy of the author, but immediately taken from some ancient writer, and therefore perfectly accordant to the general scope and plan of the work.
TERMS.
I. The first Edition in America of Anacharsis's Travels, will be comprised in four volumes octavo. II. It shall be printed on handsome wove paper and a new type casting for the purpose. Each volume will contain about 400 pages. III. The price to subscribers per volume bound and lettered, will be two dollars: in boards 1 dollar and 75 cents, to be paid on delivery of each volume. The European edition sells at 12 dollars per set. IV. There shall be a handsome map of Greece given with the first volume, to be executed by one of the first engravers.
Subscriptions received at S. PLEASANTS' printing-office and books-store, Richmond.
Doctor Wilson,
HAS taken (as a temporary residence) the house lately occupied by Doct. Adams, opposite the Bell Tavern, and intends to combine the Apothecaries business with the practice of Physic. He is now opening a part, and expects by the next arrivals from Philadelphia, a fresh and very general assortment of
MEDICINES,
And other articles in the Apothecaries line, which will be sold on the lowest terms. Orders from the country, Recipes, &c. will be carefully attended to. Richmond, 25th June, 1804. w6m
A NEAT ASSORTMENT OF Morocco Pocket Books
Is just received and for sale at this office.
FOR SALE, By Edward Hallam,
At his Grocery Store, opposite the Swan Tavern. 5000 Wt. excellent Salt Petre Bacon. Patent Shot, by the bag or 100. Madeira, Teneriffe and Sherry Wines. Antigua, Jamaica and New-England Rum. Cogniac Brandy and Whiskey. Philadelphia Porter, by the bbl. 3 doz. each. Coffee by the bag—Molasses by the bbl. Loaf & brown Sugar—Hyson & Imperial Teas! 9 by 11 and 10 by 12 Window Glass. Bar Iron, Irish Potatoes, &c. The above articles will be sold low for ready pay. April 20, 1804. wtf
A VERY ADVANTAGEOUS STAND for a STORE,
Up the country, which has been occupied for twelve years past, together with a MANUFACTURING MILL & DISTILLERY , may be Rented or Leased for a term of years. Enquire of the printer. 3v
This day is published, by S. PLEASANTS, Jr.
[PRICE 50 CENTS, IN BLUE BOARDS]
A SECOND EDITION OF A TREATISE
ON
PRACTICAL FARMING:
Embracing particularly the following subjects, viz:—The use of Plaister of Paris with Directions for using it: and General Observations on the use of other Manures. On Deep Ploughing. Thick Sowing of Grain. method of preventing Fruit Trees from decaying, and FARMING IN GENERAL. By JOHN A. BINNS , of Loudoun County, Virginia, Farmer.
TO WHICH IS ADDED, A SUPPLEMENT:
Containing additional Observations: On Farming: on the use of Plaister of Paris, Limestone, Salt, &c to which are annexed sundry Certificates, proving the truth of his former statement thereon. * Country store-keepers who purchase by the quantity will be supplied in liberal terms
OR PART the SECOND of the TREATISE;
Containing additional Observations: On Farming: on the use of Plaister of Paris, Limestone, Salt, &c to which are annexed sundry Certificates, proving the truth of his former statement thereon. * Country store-keepers who purchase by the quantity will be supplied in liberal terms
Scheme of a Lottery,
For the benefit of WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE
FIRST CLASS.
8000 Tickets at 10 dolls. 80,000 2 Prizes, dolls. 10,000 20,000 60 of 500 30,000 2,000 of 15 30,000
80,000
Subject to a deduction of 15 per ct. 12,000
Expense of drawing, 2,000
Dollars, 10,000
First Ticket drawn, Dolls. 500
Last drawn, 10,000
1 other Prize of 10,000
59 other Prizes of 500 dolls. 29 500
2,000 of 15 dollars, 30,000
Dollars, 80,000
All tickets drawn blank may be renewed in the next class, at 10 dolls. each; the price of all others will be 15 dolls.
All prizes of 15 dollars may be renewed for the next class, or paid, at the option of the person entitled. If they be not claimed within three months after the drawing commences, they will be considered as renewed in the second class.
The drawing to commence in the city of Williamsburg on the 1st day of June, 1804, under the management of James Madison, John Bracken, William Nelson, Robert Greenhow, Burwell Bassett, Robert Saunders, Samuel Tyler, Champion Travis, William Lightfoot, Littleton W. Tazewell, George Tucker and James Semple.
SECOND CLASS.
5,938 Tickets at 10 dolls. 59,380
4,685 ditto at 15 dolls. 70,275
130,340
Deduct loss on 2,062 tickets renewed at 2 1-2 5,155
Dollars, 125,155
2 Prizes of 20,000 dolls. 40,000
2 ditto of 10,000 dolls. 20,000
3 ditto of 5,000 15,000
50 ditto of 1,000 50,000
1 ditto 155
125,155
Deduct 10 per cent. 12,500
Expenses of drawing, 2,500
Sum raised, Dolls. 10,000
Ticket first drawn, Dolls. 1,000
Ticket last drawn, 20,000
One other prize of 20,000
Two ditto of 10,000 20,000
3 ditto of 5,000 dolls. 15,000
49 ditto of 1,000 49,000
1 ditto 155
Dollars 125,155
TICKETS
May be had of George Tucker, Thomas Taylor, and Samuel Pleasants, Jr. in Richmond; Robert Birchett, and Watkins Leigh, Petersburg; Thomas Newton, Dr Barrand, & Littleton W. Tazewell, Norfolk; Hugh Mercer, Fredericksburg; Henry Tucker, Winchester; Chapman Johnson, Staunton; and in all the towns in Virginia, and in many places in the country.
Nicholas Hallam,
Two doors above the Swan Tavern, Richmond, has for sale, eight thousand wt. of
American Cheese,
Of the best quality, which he will sell on as good terms as can be bought in the state, by the single pound, or thousand.
A constant supply of GROCERIES of the best kind—Also,