Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1807-06-20 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1363.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum—paid in Advance.]
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1807.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
Royster & Bohannan, Respectfully inform their friends and the public generally, that they have just received a general assortment of  GROCERIES, Which they will sell low for cash, country produce, or good notes at sixty days—  —AMONGST WHICH ARE— Brown Sugar in hds. & T. bbls., pint and half pint Loaf Sugar in do. do. Decanters, quart and pint Jamaica } RUM } Leiper's Snuff Antigua } } Window Glass N. England } } London Mustard Best Cogniac Brandy } } Rice Holland Gin } } Copperas Country do. } } New York Candles Madeira } } Ginger Sherry } } Alspice Malaga } } Pepper Dry Lisbon } } Queen's Ware in Hibbert's } } Stout and Porter } crates, assorted Writing Paper } } New York Soap Brown do. } } Imperial & } TEAS Nutmegs } } G. Hyson } Indigo } } Best Green Coffee in Allum } } bags Salt Petre } } Back Salt English Gun Powder } } Cotton and Wool Shot, assorted } } Cards, by the box, } assorted.  Richmond, April 1, 1807. tf
Military Land for Sale.
THE subscriber wishes to sell or exchange for property in Virginia, the following tracts of Military Land, viz. one tract of ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED and SIXTY-SIX ACRES, in the state of Kentucky, situated on Cumberland River, about eighty miles above the mouth of the river, about the same distance from Nashville, and twenty-five miles from Christian court house.
ONE THOUSAND ACRES in the state of Ohio, situated on the Little Miami river, and within a small distance of the Ohio.
The following tracts are all situated on Paint Creek, and within fifty miles of Chillicothe.
One tract of Five Hundred Acres, one of One Hundred and Forty, one of Eight Hundred and Ninety, one of One Hundred and Ninety-four, one of One hundred and Seventy-six.
Also one moiety of a tract of One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty-six Acres, situated on Whiteoak Creek.
I will also dispose of a tract of One Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Acres, in the county of Harrison, in this state, situated on the Little Kanawha. For terms apply to the subscriber, near Genito Bridge, Powhatan.
SAMUEL JONES. oaw2m
Sales at Auction.
ON Wednesday the 24th instant, will be SOLD, positively without reserve, about eight thousand dollars worth of fresh imported
DRY GOODS, Consisting of Callicoes and Chintz, white and black Cambricks, ladies' fine cotton Hose, fine cotton Shirting, Irish Sheetings, Bandanna and Madras Handkfs., Brown Platillas, German Dowlas, Cotton Cashmers, Chambray Muslins and Ginghams, Furniture Callicoes, Germantown Prints, colored Cambricks, elegant worked Shawls, 6-4 Cambricks and other Dimity, silk and cotton Umbrellas, &c.
A few Bales of Sennahs, Baftas & Cossas. 1 Bale of Gillia Handkfs. and a variety of other articles.
Terms of sale—all sums of $100 and under, cash; between $100 and $300, 90 days; over $300, 6 months credit will be given.
Notes negotiable at the Bank with approved endorsers will be required.
DARMS DATT, POSTER & SATCHELL, Auc'ts.
Richmond, 15th June, 1807. tds
NOTICE is hereby given, that on Friday the 10th of July next, WILL BE SOLD, AT PUBLIC AUCTION, the Household Furniture, Horses, Cows, Sheep and Hogs, of the estate of William McCaul, dec. at the plantation of the deceased, in Hanover county. Credit of six months, with bond and security for all sums exceeding ten dollars, will be given.
NOTICE is likewise given to those owing the estate to make immediate payment; and those having claims against the estate to bring them forward for settlement.
JOHN McCaUL, } Adm're. EVAN FRANCIS, } Hanover, 14th June, 1807. 3t
Ten Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY from the Subscriber, on the 28th of April, a Negro Man JOE, and Woman named FANNY, but called by the black people FANNY KENNY, which eloped on the 11th of June. The man is a bright mulatto, about 28 years of age, straight and well built, and has a very brisk walk, and is a very handy, sensible fellow—about 5 feet, 8 or 10 inches high—The woman is so light, that hardly any person would take her to be a slave—She has blue eyes and straight sandy colored hair, and if her skin was well kept, she would be taken for a white woman—her right forefinger is off at the first joint, and has a large scar on her left arm, occasioned by a burn, and has a very brisk walk, about 20 years of age, and had on when she went away, a white Virginia Habit, and as they are Brother and Sister, it is likely they will get together, change their names, and pass as free people. Any person that will deliver them to the Subscriber, in Hanover county, or secure them in any Jail, so that I get them again, shall receive the above reward.
BENJAMIN BOWLES. June 13, 1807. N. B. I forewarn all owners or masters of vessels from carrying them off.
Messrs. Robert King and Charles Croughton and Robert King, James Thompson and Thomas Ravenhill, John Edie, Conrad Lamb and William Davidson, executors of James Short, deceased.
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT I shall, on the eighteenth day of July next, 1807, proceed to take the deposition of Howard Bennett and others, at the Tavern kept in the town of Lynchburg by Mr. Ward, between the hours of ten in the morning and sun set, to be read as evidence in two suits now depending in the Chancery Court for the Richmond District, in which I am plaintiff and you are the defendants.
ROBERT H. ROSE. June 8th, 1807. 4w
TO BE SOLD,
For ready money, at Public Auction, on the premises, on the 10th day of July next,
The Tract of Land & Plantation,
IN the county of Henrico, whereon James Allen now resides, containing by estimation three hundred acres, be the same more or less—By virtue of a deed of trust executed by the said Allen to the subscribers to secure the payment of a sum of money therein expressed, due to Nathaniel Wilkinson, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to discharge the debt and expense of the trust aforesaid. On the land is a genteel dwelling and other necessary out houses, with an apple and peach orchard of the choicest fruit now in high perfection. The said plantation is a desirable situation, lying on the north branch of the Brook, about eight miles from the city of Richmond. Any person wishing to purchase the said land ought to view the premises before the day of sale, which will actually take place on the above recited day, between the hours of 12 and 5 o'clock.
PETER WILKINSON, } Trustees. WATSON PATMON, } June 15th, 1807. 101y
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by William Wood of B. I., I shall proceed to sell at public sale, on the first Monday in July next, at the front door of the Tavern of Triplett T. Estes, in Charlottesville, for ready cash, TWO SLAVES, Bob and Jack, for the purposes in the deed mentioned.
JAS. BARBOUR, Trustee. May 4th, 1807. 2
Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND: SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1807.
TRIAL OF Col. Aaron Burr.
(Chief Justice Marshall's opinion on the motion for a writ of subpoena duces tecum to the President of the United States—concluded.)
How essentially this difference of circumstances must vary the policy of the laws of the two countries in reference to the personal dignity of the executive chief will be perceived by every person. In this respect, the first magistrate of the union may more properly be likened to the first magistrate of a state—at any rate under the former confederation;—and it is not known ever to have been doubted that the chief magistrate of a state might be served with a subpoena ad testificandum. If in any court of the U. States, it has ever been decided that a subpoena cannot issue to the president, that decision is unknown to this court.
If upon any principle the president could be construed to stand exempt from the general provisions of the constitution, it would be because his duties as chief magistrate demand his whole time for national objects. But it is apparent that this demand is not unremitting, and if it should exist at the time when his attendance on a court is required, it would be shown on the return of the subpoena, and would rather constitute a reason for not obeying the process of the court, than a reason against its being issued. In point of fact it cannot be doubted that the people of England have the same interest in the service of the executive government, that is of the cabinet council, that the American people have in the service of the executive of the U. States, and that their duties are as arduous and as unremitting. Yet it has never been alleged that a subpoena might not be directed to them.
It cannot be denied, that to issue a subpoena to a person filling the exalted station of the chief magistrate, is a duty which would be dispensed with much more cheerfully than it would be performed; but if it be a duty the court can have no choice in the case.
If then, as is admitted by the counsel for the U. States, a subpoena may issue to the president, the accused is entitled to it of course; and whatever difference may exist with respect to the power to compel the same obedience to the process as if it had been directed to a private citizen, there exists no difference with respect to the right to obtain it. The guard furnished to this high officer to protect him from being harassed by vexatious and unnecessary subpoenas is to be looked for in the conduct of a court after those subpoenas have issued, not in any circumstance which is to precede their being issued.
If in being summoned to give his personal attendance to testify, the law does not discriminate between the president and a private citizen, what foundation is there for the opinion that this difference is created by the circumstance that his testimony depends on a paper in his possession, not on facts which have come to his knowledge otherwise than by writing? The court can perceive no foundation for such an opinion. The propriety of introducing any paper into a case as testimony must depend on the character of the paper, not on the character of the person who holds it. A subpoena duces tecum then may issue to any person to whom an ordinary subpoena may issue, directing him to bring any paper of which the party praying it, has a right to avail himself as testimony, if indeed that be the necessary process for obtaining the view of such paper.
When this subject was suddenly introduced, the court felt some doubt concerning the propriety of directing a subpoena to the chief magistrate, and some doubt also concerning the propriety of directing any paper in his possession, not public in its nature, to be exhibited in court. The impression that the questions which might arise in consequence of such process were more proper for discussion on the return of the process, than on its issuing was then strong on the mind of the judges, but the circumspection with which they would take any step which would in any manner relate to that high personage, prevented their yielding readiness to those impressions, and induced the request that those points if not admitted, might be argued.
The result of that argument is a confirmation of the impression originally entertained. The court can perceive no legal objection to issuing a subpoena duces tecum to any person whatever, provided the case be such as to justify the process. This is said to be a motion to the dis-
cretion of the court. This is true. But a motion to its discretion, is a motion not to its inclination, but to its judgment, and its judgment is to be guided by sound legal principles.
A subpoena duces tecum, varies from an ordinary subpoena only in this, that a witness is summoned for the purpose of bringing with him a paper in his custody. In some of our sister states whose system of jurisprudence is erected on the same foundation with our own, this process, we learn, issues of course in this state it issues not absolutely of course, but with leave of the court. No case, however, exists, as is believed, in which the motion has been founded, on an affidavit, in which it has been denied, or in which it has been opposed. It has been truly observed, that the opposite party can regularly take no more interest in the awarding a subpoena duces tecum, than in the awarding an ordinary subpoena. In either case he may object to any delay, the grant of which, may be implied in granting the subpoena, but he can no more object regularly to the legal means of obtaining testimony, which exists in the mind, than in the papers of the person who may be summoned. If no inconvenience can be sustained by the opposite party, he can only oppose the motion in the character of an amicus curiae, to prevent the court from making an improper order, or from burdening some officer by compelling an unnecessary attendance. This court would certainly be unwilling to say that upon fair construction the constitutional and legal right to obtain its process to compel the attendance of witnesses, does not extend to their bringing with them such papers as may be material in the defence. The literal distinction which exists between the cases, is too much attenuated to be countenanced in the tribunals of a just and humane nation. If then, the subpoena be used without enquiry into the manner of its application, it would seem to trench on the privileges which the constitution extends to the accused; it would seem to reduce his means of defence, within narrower limits than is designed by the fundamental law of our country, if an overstrained rigor should be used with respect to his right, to apply for papers deemed by himself to be material. In the one case the accused is made the absolute Judge of the testimony to be summoned; if in the other, he is not to judge absolutely for himself, his judgment ought to be controlled only so far as its apparent that he means to exercise his privileges not really in his own defence, but for purposes which the court ought to discountenance. The court would not lend its aid to motions obviously designed to manifest disrespect to the government, but the court has no right to refuse its aid to motions for papers to which the accused may be entitled and which may be material in his defence.
These observations are made to show the nature of the discretion which may be exercised. If it is apparent that the papers are irrelevant to the case, or that for state reasons, they cannot be introduced into the defence; the subpoena duces tecum would be useless; but if this is not apparent; if they may be important in the defence; if they may be safely read at the trial; would it not be a blot in the page which records the judicial proceedings of this country, if in a case of such serious import as this, the accused should be denied the use of them?
The counsel for the United States take a very different view of this subject, and insist that a motion for process to obtain testimony, should be supported by the same full and explicit proof of the nature and application of that testimony, which would be required on a motion which would delay public justice;—which would arrest the ordinary course of proceeding, or which would in any other manner affect the rights of the opposite party. In favor of this position, has been urged the opinion of one, whose loss as a friend, & as a judge I sincerely deplore; whose worth I feel, whose authority I shall at all times greatly respect. If his opinion was really opposed to mine, I should certainly revise, deliberately revise the judgment I had formed: But I perceive no such opposition.
In the trials of Smith and Ogden, the court in which Judge Patterson resided, required a special affidavit in support of a motion made by the counsel for the accused for a continuance and for an attachment against witnesses who had been summoned and had failed to attend.
Had this requisition of a special affidavit been made as well as a foundation for an attachment, as for a continuance, the cases would not have been parallel; because the attachment was considered by the counsel for the prosecution merely as a means of punishing the contempt, and a court might certainly require stronger testimony to induce them to punish a contempt, than would be required to lend its aid to a party in order to procure evidence.
At a Court held for Cumberland county the 23d day of March, 1807. James Morton & Company, Comp'ts } In against } Drury Watson & John Bibb, Def'ts. } Cey. THIS day came the plaintiffs by Henry E. Watkins their attorney, and the defendant Drury Watson not having entered his appearance and given security according to an act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the said Drury is not an inhabitant of this state: On the motion of the plaintiff by their counsel aforesaid, It is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of July court next and answer the plaintiffs' bill, and that a copy of this order be inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively and posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county on some court day.
A copy—Attest. SAM. HOBSO, D. C. Buckingham County, May Term, 1807. Daniel and Wm. Guer- rant, } plifs. } In vs. } Thomas Ballow, admin- } Chan- istrator of Chloe Ballow, } cery. dec'd. } def'ts. } THE defendant not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the rules of this court, and it appearing to the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state. On the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, It is ordered, that unless the said defendant shall appear here on or before August term next, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed and decree the matter thereof accordingly, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, & another copy be posted up at the front door of the courthouse of this county. (A Copy.) Teste, R. ELDRIDGE, jr. D. C. (wbt*)
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, MAY TERM, 1807. Jones Gill, } complainant. Against } William H. Clayton and Clarissa his wife, and Mary Mosby Hales, an infant under the age of twenty-one years, } In ON the motion of the complainant, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant William H. Clayton is not an inhabitant of this state: It is ordered and decreed, that unless he shall appear here on or before August court next and answer the bill of the complainant, the same will then be taken for confessed as to him, and the matter thereof decreed accordingly, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and another copy be posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A copy—Teste. R. ELDRIDGE, Jr. D. C.
To the Public.
THE Subscriber has removed to an house near the upper end of the Town on the Street leading from the Capitol square. He continues to practise law in all the Superior Courts held in the City of Richmond, and also in the District Court of Brunswick. His Clients may rely on his utmost assiduity and attention to the business entrusted to his care. WM. MUNFORD.
Just published & may be had at this office Reports of Cases ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA: WITH SELECT CASES, Relating chiefly to Points of Practice, decided by the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District. PART I. VOL. I. By WM. W. HENING & WM. MUNFORD.
Tobacco Land for Sale.
IN Amherst county, on Horsley's creek, 509 acres of rich TOBACCO LAND, formerly the property of Mr. Daniel Warwick, and known by the name of WINCANTON. This land has the advantage of lying on the main road leading from Amherst courthouse to Waugh's ferry on James river, is a valuable stand for a country store, with a framed house for that purpose, and sufficiently large, having two rooms below and two above stairs, with a good brick chimney, and well underpinned with brick; also a lumber-house sixteen feet square, with a cellar of its full size, walled up with stone: there is also a Taylor and Saddler's shop and other out houses; likewise a tolerable good dwelling-house, with three rooms below and two above stairs, a kitchen, dairy and other out houses within a mile of the store, suitable for a private family.
This tract of land is only seven miles from Bethel, where there is an inspection of tobacco, and within eighteen miles of Lynchburg. As it is presumed no person will be inclined to purchase without viewing the premises, they will be shown by Messrs. Taliaferros & Loving, who live within a few miles of Wincanton, and are fully empowered to make sale, and the terms of payment may be known from them, as also on application to
THOMAS GILLIAT. Richmond, June 15th, 1807. tds
The above tract of land and improvements will be offered for sale at Amherst Courthouse on Monday the 17th day of August next (being court day) on a credit of one, two and three years if punctually paid, if not to carry interest from the day of sale.
A deed of trust will be required on the premises, or satisfactory security for punctual payment.
A FRESH SUPPLY OF Church's Cough Drops
Is just received from the Proprietor's Dispensary New-York, and for sale at this office.

never will. The amendment to the constitution they say, does not apply to the present case, but to a trial—We do not mean to force this point, although ample authority might be produced in support of it—You, sir, will certainly do what is right in the present motion, this we do not mean to doubt; but you will give me leave to ask, what our situation would be, in what a deplorable dilemma we should be placed, if at the instant the attorney was pressing us with his testimony, we had to supplicate your honors to grant us the purport of the motion now in question; and if the trial could not be postponed, which in all probability it would not, we must go to a final decision without it. In that case, even were the sun of innocence ready to shed his beams upon us, we would be cast into utter darkness. No, sir, such can never be the opinion of this court; justice must be changed; law must be changed; nature must be changed, before such sentiments can be heard—I won't trouble you much farther with discussing the propriety of our application, feeling the confidence with which I am certain it is regarded by the court; but I will come directly to the consideration of what are the real points in discussion.
This is not whether a President can be summoned. That part is happily conceded, and I rejoice that we mistook in the commencement of the argument, the sentiments of the Attorney on the part of the prosecution on this point. I rejoice I say, that I did mistake him; because from that very concession, I will draw every corollary that may be necessary for establishing the great point for which we contend. By admitting that the President of the United States can be summoned, a great canon of evidence is admitted. I must, however, be excused by the worthy gentlemen, if I tell them they are a little inconsistent. In throwing obstacles in our way against obtaining the papers for which we have moved the Court to issue a subpoena, they imitate that bad example, which they have imputed to us—What is the nature of the evidence we do ask? We ask for that sort of evidence which may enable us to confront James Wilkinson with himself. There is not an idea beyond this—We wish to show that James Wilkinson in his official capacity as commander of the army of the United States at New Orleans, is not the same with James Wilkinson the correspondent of the President. We wish to prove that James Wilkinson has varied from himself, and that he has varied in most essential points in the greatest degree. Mr. Hay tells us, that every thing depends upon this same James Wilkinson, that he is in reality the Alpha and Omega of the present prosecution—He is in short to support by his deposition the sing song & the ballads of treason and conspiracy, which he has heard delivered from one extremity of the continent to the other. The funeral pile of the prosecution, is already prepared by the hands of the public Attorney, and nothing is wanting to kindle the fatal blaze, but the torch of James Wilkinson. He is to exhibit himself in a most conspicuous point of view in the Tragedy which is fancied will take place. He James Wilkinson, is to officiate as the High Priest of this human sacrifice.
Of James Wilkinson we are not afraid in whatever shape he may be produced, in whatever form he may appear before this court. We are only afraid of those effects which desperation may produce in his mind. Desperation, please the Court, is a word of great fitness in the present case. General Wilkinson we behold first acting as a conspirator to ensnare others, afterwards as a patriot to betray others from motives of patriotism. What must be the embarrassment of this man when the awful catastrophe arrives, that he must either substantiate his own innocence by the conviction of another, or be himself regarded as a traitor and conspirator in the event of the acquittal of the accused. (Remainder of Mr. Randolph's speech in our next.)
A sketch of the most important recent proceedings.
SATURDAY, June 13th. 1807 Col. Burr said, he hoped the court had perused the instructions, which he had wished them to give to the grand jury; and, if they were satisfied with the truth of the points for which he contended, would immediately communicate them. If doubts were entertained by the court, his counsel were ready to demonstrate their correctness.
The Chief Justice observed, that the court had prepared a supplemental charge to the grand jury; but that this morning had been devoted to preparing another opinion; that the charge had been put into the possession of the Attorney for the U. S. but so shortly before the sitting of the court, that he had not had time to show it to the counsel on the other side; that the finding of the grand jury would necessarily be postponed until after Monday; that, in the mean time, there might be an interchange of communications, and the charge might be delivered on that day.
Col. Burr and his counsel wished the supplemental charge to be delivered to the grand jury before they proceeded any farther in examining the witnesses; alleging that they could send no evidence to the grand jury; that that body ought to be possessed of the principles according to which their enquiry was to be conducted, before they commenced it; and that the supplemental charge would suggest to them the proper questions to be put to the witnesses.
The Chief Justice answered that the charge could not prevent the witnesses from being examined; and that no inconvenience could result from that examination; since the charge, being subsequently given, would instruct the grand jury as to the conclusions proper to be drawn from the testimony. He mentioned that a charge to a petit jury was always pronounced after all the evidence had been gone through.
Mr. Randolph observed there was a difference between a grand and petit jury; that when evidence was introduced before the petit jury, the court could see the whole ground of enquiry, and prevent any thing improper; but it could not, in the present instance, in any other way than by means of the supplemental charge.
The Chief Justice said the court had already gone far enough; the nature of the crime of Treason had been fully explained to the grand jury; that it must consist in levying war against the U. S. and in overt acts; that suspicions, intentions, and projected enterprises were not sufficient proof that Treason had actually been committed; but that some overt act must be proved. He declared therefore the difficulty was more imaginary than real.
He then delivered his opinion on the motion for a Subpoena Duces Tecum; for which see the last and present Argus.
On this day the following witnesses were called, on the part of the U. S. viz:—Commodore Thomas Truxton, Gen. Eaton, Capt. Stephen Decatur, William Duane, Benjamin Stoddert, formerly Secretary of the Navy, Major Nicholas Perkins, who arrested Col. Burr, Edward P. Gaines, Commandant at Fort Stoddert, John Graham, Secretary of the Orleans Territory, Sergeant Jacob Dunbaugh, whose affidavit was before rejected as not sufficiently certified, Erick Bollman, Samuel Swartwout, Julien Dupre, James Miller, Samuel Scouter, George Morgan, John Morgan, Thomas Morgan, Robert Spence, George Harris, Cyrus Jones, Thomas Peterkin, Simeon Poole, Dudley Woodbridge, Edmund B. Dana, James Read, Charles Willie, (said to be Col. Burr's private secretary), P. H. M. Prevost, John G. Henderson, Hugh Phelps, Alexander Henderson, David C. Wallace, Ambrose Smith, Charles Lindsay, John Marshall, James Knox, William Love, David Fisk, Thomas Heartly, Stephen S. Welch, James Kinney, Samuel Moxley, A. D. Smith, Elias Glover, Peter Taylor and Jacob Albright. Gen. Wilkinson, having just arrived in town, and being much fatigued, was not called.
Before Doct. Erick Bollman was sworn, Mr. Hay informed the court that that gentleman had made a full disclosure to the government; in consequence whereof a pardon had been issued in his favor; that he had received it from himself in a hesitating manner, saying "he wished to consult his friends or counsel concerning it;" that he had returned it to him; declaring that he would neither accept nor reject it. Mr. Hay said that, in his opinion, Doct. Bollman, whether pardoned or not, was a competent witness; but that he would offer him his pardon in the presence of the court. Mr. Hay then tendered him the instrument of pardon, signed by the President, with the great seal of the U. S. affixed. Doct. Bollman refused to accept it; and Mr. Hay delivered it to the Clerk to be kept for his benefit.
Mr. Martin said that Doct. Bollman's reason for refusing to say, whether he would accept or reject the pardon, was that he might have the pleasure of rejecting it publicly; that he was perfectly innocent, and did not choose to acknowledge that he had done any thing for which a pardon was necessary.
Doct. Bollman was sworn as a witness; after which a considerable debate ensued. whether he ought to be compelled to answer any questions which might criminate himself? and also, whether he was to be considered as pardoned or not.
Mr. Hay wished the circumstance of his having been pardoned to be noted by the clerk on the back of the indictment; but, after some dispute, it was agreed to send him up to the grand jury without it.
Mr. Williams, as counsel for Dr. Bollman, contended that, whether pardoned or not, he was not bound to answer questions which might criminate him; & cited 1 McNally 256, 2 State-Trials 822, 3 State-Trials 439. He insisted also that the pardon was ineffective, as it had not been accepted, and pleaded. In this he was supported by Mr. Martin, who cited 5 B. C. 293, 2 Hawk. c. 37, § 58, 59, & 65. Mr. Williams also said that, if Dr. Bollman was to answer a question tending to criminate himself, the grand jury might find a bill of indictment against him upon it; that if a by-stander be sworn, and say any thing proving his own guilt, it may be used against him (see 2 Doug. p. 598.) He said too, the witness was to be his own judge whether to answer a question, (which he conceived would criminate him,) or not; see 1 McNally 257, 258.
Nothing conclusive took place, and, after a variety of desultory conversation, the court adjourned.
MONDAY, June 15. Some observations were made about the form of the oath administered to the witnesses; which, at length, was agreed to be proper.
The counsel for Col. Burr raised a difficulty about papers which might be laid before the grand jury by persons examined by them as witnesses; and wished the grand jury not to receive any papers but through the court.
After a long and interesting debate, an instruction was sent to the grand jury, to the following purport; that papers, which were referred to by any witness, in the course of giving in his evidence, for the purpose of explaining it, and which were proved to have been written by Col. Burr, or by his directions, were admissible as evidence.
Mr. Hay then produced a letter, partly in the Dutch language, and partly in cypher; and called Mr. Willie, the secretary of Col. Burr, to prove it was written by his directions; observing, that he could afterwards have it deciphered by Dr. Bollman; that it was directed to Henry Wyndburne, but intended for Erick Bollman; and contained, as he had reason to believe, very important testimony.
A variety of curious conversation and some extraordinary circumstances (all of which shall be fully published hereafter) occurred on this occasion.
Mr. Willie refused to answer a question, "whether he understood the contents of the letter?" declaring that his answer might tend to criminate himself in a certain event.
Mr. Williams, (his counsel,) contended that he ought not to be compelled to answer the question, but was himself to be sole judge, whether it might, by possibility, tend to criminate him or not. In this he was vehemently supported by the counsel for Col. Burr!
TUESDAY, June 16. Mr. Hay read to the court the following letter to him from the President of the United States:
WASHINGTON, June 12, '07. SIR, Your letter of the 9th is this moment received. Reserving the necessary right of the President of the U. S. to decide, independent of all other authority, what papers, coming to him as President, the public interest permit to be communicated, and to whom, I assure you of my readiness, under that restriction, voluntarily to furnish on all occasions whatever the purposes of justice may require. But the letter of Gen. Wilkinson of Oct. 21, requested for the defence of Col. Burr, with every other paper relating to the charges against him, which were in my possession when the Attorney general went on to Richmond in March, I then delivered to him; and I have always taken for granted he left the whole with you. If he did, and the bundle
retains the order in which I had arranged it, you will readily find the letter desired under the date of its receipt, which was November 25; but lest the Attorney general should not have left those papers with you I this day write to him to forward this one by post. An uncertainty whether he is at Philadelphia, Wilmington or Newcastle may produce delay in his receiving my letter, of which it is proper you should be apprised. But as I do not recollect the whole contents of that letter, I must beg leave to devolve on you the exercise of that discretion, which it would be my right and duty to exercise, by withholding the communication of any parts of the letter, which are not directly material for the purposes of justice.
With this application, which is specific, a prompt compliance is practicable; but when the requests goes to 'copies of the orders issued in relation to Col. Burr, to the officers at Orleans, Natchez and by the secretaries of the War and Navy departments,' it seems to cover a correspondence of many months with such a variety of officers civil and military all over the U. S. as would amount to the laying open the whole executive books. I have desired the secretary at War to examine his official communications, and on a view of these we may be able to judge what can and ought to be done towards a compliance with the request. If the defendant alleges that there was any particular order which, as a cause, produced any particular act on his part, then he must know what this order was, can specify it, and a prompt answer can be given. If the object had been specified, we might then have had some guide for our conjectures as to what part of the executive records might be useful to him. But with a perfect willingness to do what is right, we are without the indications which may enable us to do it. If the researches of the secretary at War should produce any thing proper for communication and pertinent to any point we can conceive in the defence before the court, it shall be forwarded to you. I salute you with esteem and respect.
T. JEFFERSON.
GEORGE HAY, Esq. Some observations were made on the subject of stating more particularly the orders of which copies had been demanded; but the counsel of Col. Burr insisted that the subpoena duces tecum lately issued, had described the orders as specially as they desired.
The debate was then renewed on the point, whether Mr. Willie should be compelled to answer the question which had been propounded. Messrs. Botts, Williams and Martin, argued very much at length that he should be excused from answering. Messrs. McRae, Hay and Wirt, delivered able speeches in support of the right and duty of the court to compel him to answer. Mr. Martin commenced his reply, but did not finish it.
WEDNESDAY, June 17. Mr. Martin finished his speech; and was followed, by Mr. Wickham on the same side. The whole debate on this subject was highly entertaining and interesting.
Col. Burr then gave notice of a motion which he intended to make against Gen. Wilkinson, John G. Jackson, late a member of Congress from Virginia, and Harry Toulmin, a judge of the Mississippi Territory; that an attachment should be issued against them for contempt of the court in obtaining letters improperly from the post offices, and using improper practices to procure and influence witnesses for the purpose of proving him guilty of treason; and particularly, against Gen. Wilkinson for compelling witnesses by force to come from New Orleans to Richmond.
Mr. Hay moved that this motion should be postponed until after the present trial was over; but the court declared it would be proper to hear it, even during the pendency of the trial; since the counsel for Col. Burr contended it was important to the justice of the case; it not being in the power of the court to decide, that the motion was groundless, or unimportant, until they had heard the evidence upon it.
THURSDAY, June 18. The Chief Justice delivered the opinion of the court that Mr. Willie should be compelled to answer the question propounded to him, (for which opinion see the next Argus.) Willie was then asked whether he understood the contents of the letter in Cypher. He answered that he did not; but afterwards said he understood a part written in the Dutch language; but not the remainder; which was in cypher. He moreover gave evidence that the cyphered part was copied by Col. Burr's direction from a paper written by that gentleman; but said he knew nothing of the superscription.
Mr. Hay desired the letter to be sent to the grand jury. Col. Burr's counsel objected to this; saying, its materiality as evidence ought to appear, which could not be the case until it was deciphered; and the court so decided. The Attorney for the U. S. requested Erick Bollman to be called to decipher it; but, as he was not present, a short suspension of proceedings took place.
After some time the grand jury came into court; and Mr. John Randolph (their foreman) mentioned that they desired the letter in cypher to be sent to them; a witness, whom they were examining, having alluded to it in his testimony. The court decided that that circumstance sufficiently proved its relevancy; and directed it to be delivered to the grand jury; by whom we hope some witness will be found who is both able and willing to decipher it.
(For Friday's proceedings, see Argus Extra.)
From Sir John Doyle's Speech in the British House of Commons, on the bill for abolishing the Slave Trade.
Sir John Doyle made a most able speech in favor of the bill. When those who were interested in keeping up the slave trade told him the slaves were happy, it reminded him of a man whom he had once seen in a warren sewing up the mouth of a ferret. When he remonstrated with the man upon the cruelty of the act, the man
answered, "Lord, sir, the ferret likes it above all things." (A laugh.) It was argued that the Liverpool merchants fitted up a number of ships for this trade, that these ships were manned with seamen who were unfit for any other navigation than that of slave ships. He would suppose the case of a highwayman—(a laugh)—accustomed to stop persons upon the road, "Yes, I do stop the men upon the road, and take their money, but if I do not—well—Bagshot and his gang would." When asked why he did not get an honest livelihood, he would make the parallel more near if he should answer—"I am used to this, and would be awkward at any other; I have bought a horse, which, though a very good horse, is fit for nothing but stopping gentlemen on the highway; I have built a stable, which will hold no horse but a horse accustomed to highway robbery, and a blunderbuss that would never do execution but on such business." (Loud and continued bursts of laughter.) He denied that the governors of colonies were at all qualified to give evidence of the condition of the Negroes. They were the persons in the colonies who knew least about it. He recited some shocking instances of cruelty to Negroes that had come under his own eyes. He had known the contempt of these poor creatures carried so far, that when one white man killed two Negroes belonging to another, the other would not be so ungentle as to exact the fines due by law, but balanced the accounts gently by shooting two of his. Abolition of the slave trade was the only mode of securing better treatment for the blacks, and of rendering the colonies flourishing.
* This method of killing these poor creatures is not half so refined as that invented by a certain South-Carolina nabob, who rid a great number of his slaves of their existence, by feeding them with cotton seed. This is an indispensable fact. (Vir. Mercury.)
GEN. VICTOR LEOPOLD BERTHIER, Chief of the first corps of the French army, and one of the commanders of the Legion of Honor, died at Paris, on the 24th March, after a month's illness.
SAVANNAH, (Ga.) June 6. INDIAN ALARM. Extract of a letter from St. Mary's, dated May 31, received this morning by a gentleman of this city.
"We are very much agitated with an Indian alarm, which, I am really inclined to think, will cause a failure of our June court. Two Indians have been down to St. Mary's river, to a place called Trader's Hill, and killed a man of the name of Greene, in a most horrid and cruel manner. It appears, that they were well fed and treated by Greene; after which he took his seat in a shade out at the door, when they both took their guns fired through him, and cut open his bowels with their knives. His wife and children, we understand, were not molested in their escape."
William Ashley and some others went after them two days since, if I mistake not; and last night, about 12 o'clock, an express came with orders from Gen. Floyd, ordering out our troop of horse in pursuit of the offenders, and some of the foot, if necessity requires. A party of the horse, say six or eight are gone."
NORFOLK, June 15.
We have been favored with London papers of the 20th, and Liverpool of the 22d of April, received by the Isabella, captain Nutter, from the latter port; they contain but few articles of interest. The New Administration have had another contest in the House of Commons, on a motion to adopt the following resolution: "That this House, considering a firm and vigilant administration indispensable in the present posture of public affairs, has seen with the greatest regret the late change in his Majesty's Councils." On this resolution the House divided—for 198, against 244. Majority in favor of Administration 46. The late hour at which we received these papers permit us only to take a hasty view of their contents.— Ledger.
Latest Foreign Intelligence, From papers received at the office of the Public Ledger by the ship Isabella, Capt. Nutter, 42 days from Liverpool.
LONDON, April 18. We received this morning New York papers to the 13th ult.—The treaty with this country occupies almost exclusively the public attention. It has not been published, but some of the prominent points of it are known. It is certain that the President has declined submitting it to the Senate, and has rejected it because there is no provision in it against impressing seamen, and because it is accompanied with a declaration on the part of the British Government, that the signature of its commissioners is not to bind it to ratify the treaty, or to restrain it from retaliating measures against the late French decree, unless it shall be previously assured by the explanations or conduct of the United States, that they will pursue a satisfactory course against the infringement of their natural rights by that decree. The rejection of the treaty has occasioned a great ferment. The President is said to have declared that in rejecting it he would put in full force the Non-Importation Act after the arrival of the period (1st of July,) to which it had been suspended.
April 20.
A mail from Denmark, the one due yesterday, arrived last night. It prepares us to expect that the next mail will bring us the important intelligence of a general battle having been fought in Poland. Both armies have been strengthening themselves by large reinforcements. The last advices from St. Petersburg mention, that the emperor and the grand duke Constantine had both set out for the army, and that a determination had been taken to give battle to the enemy.
The articles from Constantinople by the mail last night, continue to assert that our squadron has retired from Constantinople, and has quitted the Dardanelles—that the French officers employed the interval of negotiation in the construction of batteries, and that admiral Duckworth, finding that his negotiation did not succeed, and that such a force of artillery was about to be brought to bear against him, had deemed it prudent to retreat, and leave Constantinople as he found it.
Letters from Koningsberg of the 31st March, mention the distressing fact, that of 30,000 wounded French and Russians who were brought from the field of battle at Eylau, to the hospitals of that city, not more than 13,000 were alive at the time these letters were written.
LIVERPOOL, April 22. POLITICAL RETROSPECT. French papers down to the 12th, Dutch to
the 15th, and Hamburg and Altona to the 11th have been received, and they all agree in affirming that the French head quarters continued at Ostrorode up to the 2d inst. and that no action of consequence had occurred since the bloody and destructive battle of Eylau, but that each army had received considerable reinforcements.
The exertions Bonaparte is making to bring every soldier he can command to the army, before the recommencement of active operations, have given rise to very serious alarms. The retreat of the French army from before Stralsund may be attributed to the determination of Bonaparte to rest every thing on the fate of the grand combat that must soon take place, satisfied that the result of the war in every other quarter must be exactly conformable to the issue of the engagements in Poland.
The letters from Altona express great apprehensions of the immediate fall of Danzic. It is true the French have no heavy cannon to batter the fortifications in form; but they had succeeded in diverting the course of a stream which supplied the town with water, and which served to turn a mill that was the means of furnishing the principal supply of flour and meal to the garrison and inhabitants. It was imagined that the distress produced by these privations would lead to a speedy surrender of this strong and important city; but letters from Elbingen say the garrison has again taken possession of this stream and that the city was relieved from danger by the seasonable arrival of 4000 Russians. These letters are said to contain intelligence from Danzic as late as the 4th inst.
The 67th and 68th bullets contain only accounts of some unimportant skirmishes before Stralsund, previous to the march of the beleaguered army to join Bonaparte in Poland. In order to supply the deficiency occasioned by the total drain of the army from France, and to raise a supply for the increasing demands of the present crisis, the conscription of the year 1808, is immediately to be called out by anticipation, and trained to arms within the French frontiers. From this proceeding, some are sanguine enough to argue, that Bonaparte is tottering, and that he is compelled to exert his means to the utmost to prevent the total overthrow of his power. But we must deprecate the indulgence of such a course of argument as this. Bonaparte would make the extraordinary exertions we have adverted to, to secure his power against the possibility of a shock, as well as to recover the effects of shocks already suffered, and to prevent a total overthrow, and to one, who, while blood and devastation afford him amusement, looks upon his subjects as born on purpose to carry swords and muskets, this measure follows of course; and ought to give rise to no other reflection, than to consider the people, on that side the water, as having nothing to do with the laws but to obey them; and dutifully to submit to the will of their sovereign lord and master. It is indeed a mis-reduction to the degrading situation of acknowledging, but one will to which the nation must bow, not only submissive, but thankfully, and kiss the hand that plants thorns and briars in their path.
Every one must perceive how humbly the little great emperor talks now, who could a few months since speak of the overthrow of empires as a very easy thing; well would it be if this mighty warrior could so conceive of the blessings of peace, as to be contented with the superior rank in life to which he has raised himself, and no longer curse the world with a display of his military talents—After all the blood he has shed he may probably be able only to— ca ch a Tartar.
The court of Vienna has concluded a treaty, by which French troops are allowed to march through the Austrian territories, and the price they are to pay for articles of consumption regulated. This treaty confirms what we have often said, viz. that Austria would not join the war against France.
The Russian messenger, who arrived on Friday, is said to have brought the basis of a treaty of peace between France, Russia, Prussia, Great Britain and Sweden, as proposed to the court of St. Petersburg by Bonaparte. Altho' we do not give full credit to this rumor, it is not at all unlikely that such a proposition has been made on the part of the enemy; more particularly when we connect it with the most recent accounts from the continent. The long pause which has taken place in the operations of the armies; the convention said to be concluded between France and Russia for an exchange of prisoners of war; and a similar measure between France and Prussia; the late proposal made to the king of Sweden for an armistice, and Gen. Blicher's journey to Bonaparte's head quarters, by the express order of the French emperor himself; all combine to lead us to expect soon to hear something on the subject by which we may hope for at least the cessation of the shedding of human blood. Should a treaty be entered into by the present contending powers, it requires not the gift of prophecy to foresee in it the downfall of the Turkish empire.
Thirty Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY from the subscriber, on the 15th of May last, two Negro Women, DAFNEY & MILLEY; Dafney has one of her upper fore teeth out, and a mole in the middle of her forehead, which can be easily discovered. She is a very dark negro, supposed to be about 27 years old, and was bought of Mr. John Gleason of the county of New-Kent. Milley has also one of her fore teeth out, rather of a tawny color, supposed to be about 26 years old, and bought of Mr. William Burton of Hanover. I am apprehensive, the said slaves are lurking about Richmond. Whoever will deliver them to me, or secure them in any jail so that I get them again, shall receive the above reward.
WILLIAM WOMACK. Nottoway county, June 17th, 1807. 2*
FOR SALE.
BY virtue of a deed in trust executed to the subscriber by Adam Barkedale, to secure the payment of a debt to William Galt, will be exposed to sale, at Public Auction, for ready money, on Monday the sixth day of July next, being Albemarle court day, at Triplett T. Estes's, Charlottesville.
A Tract of Land,
Lying in the county of Albemarle, containing one hundred and twelve acres and a half, being the same land the said Goodman Barkedale purchased of Douglas Barkedale—also two Negro Girls, Maria and Mourning, or so much of the aforesaid property as will be sufficient to discharge the debt, interest and cost aforesaid. Acting as trustee for others, will only convey title vested in me as such.
DAVID ANDERSON, Trustee, Milton, 6th June, 1807. 2*

Advantageous Establishment.
THE subscriber, because of circumstances which have lately occurred in his family, wishes to admit a partner in the business of the Henrico Gun-Powder Works, about a mile and a half from Rocketts, or to sell his rights in the same: Said works are so nearly completed, that they will soon be in operation, and the manufacturer who is engaged to manage the making of the powder, understands the whole art so as to make it equal to any imported.
None need apply for a share who cannot advance soon $1000, and employ their resources in the course of the business; there is a fair prospect that said works will be a very advantageous establishment; for further particulars apply to
HUGH WARDEN Richmond, 1st May, 1807. tf
Valuable Property
FOR SALE.
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by Peter F. Archer, for the benefit of John G. Jefferson, WILL BE SOLD FOR CASH, on the premises, in the county of Amelia, on the 16th day of July next, a
Valuable Tract of Land
Called Fox-Harbour, containing by estimation above 650 acres, lying on both sides of the road leading from Pridesville to Berkle's Bridge.
Also the following SLAVES or such of them as can be had, Simon, Dilsey and her three children, Leonard, Sam, Phill, Sukey and her three children, Davy, Sarina and her two children, Phoebe and her two children, Joe, Tom, Bristol, Murrier and her three children, or so much of the said property as shall be sufficient to satisfy the purposes of the said deed of trust. The sale will continue from day to day till it is completed. A minute description of the land is thought unnecessary, as it is imagined that those inclined to purchase will view it and judge for themselves.
JOSHUA CHAFFIN, } Trustees. WILLIAM CASSELLS, } WILLIAM BENTLEY, } May 28, 1807. tds
TO RENT,
A Neat House,
IN the Falling Garden, sufficiently large to accommodate a moderate sized family, either by itself or with the following probable property, to wit:—An ice-house 20 feet by 18 and about 18 deep, well filled and p-inded down with good clean ice—a bath-house, which if well attended to will yield a handsome profit; and also may be accommodated with a small or large part of a garden.
The above property will be rented either for the season, say six months, or for a longer time, and possession given immediately.
Good security will be required for the rent. Enquire of JAMES LOWNES, on the premises. 3d mo. 16th, 1807. tf
MATTRESSES.
CAN be had on very short notice, MATTRESSES of all sizes & kinds, agreeably to order, in the large corner white house, opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the Market Bridge—BEDS made & MATTRESSES repaired.—Horses TAILS & MANES purchased.
Ino. S. Pleafants.
FOR SALE.
My tract of Land,
IN Powhatan county, containing between nine hundred and a thousand acres, and lying within two miles of the courthouse, and on both sides of Fine creek. This tract of land would be sold entire, otherwise laid off in lots to suit purchasers. Any persons inclined to purchase, it is expected will first view the premises—any further description is deemed unnecessary. For terms apply to the subscriber, living on the premises.
SAM BASKERVILLE. Powhatan, Jan. 4th, 1807. tf
FOR SALE,
SEVEN HUNDRED ACRES OF FIRST RATE SOUTH WEST
MOUNTAIN LAND,
FORMERLY a part of the estate of the late Col. James Madison, and lying in Orange county, within forty-five miles of Fredericksburg, and seventy-five of Richmond. The above tract of land is generally considered the best tract of high land in the county for tobacco, corn and wheat, and will produce from ten to fifteen bushels of wheat to the acre without manure or any other aid. There is a sufficiency of meadow land on it, and most of it reclaimed. It is under good fences, and in the course of the year I shall put on it a tolerable dwelling house and an excellent barn three stories high, with a stable in the lower one, with a wheat machine on the Scotch model.
Another tract of LAND, lying in Amherst county, on Harris's creek, within six miles of Lynchburg, and containing five hundred and five acres, being part of a tract formerly belonging to Col. Hugh Rose, dec. This tract is considered of equal quality to any land, in a neighborhood generally esteemed the best soil for tobacco in Amherst.
Any person inclined to purchase the land in Orange, will apply to the subscriber residing on the premises; and for the land in Amherst, to G. A. Rose, of Lynchburg, or to Mr. Landon Cabell, of Amherst. Negroes (in families) will be taken in exchange for either or both of the above tracts of land.
ROBERT H. ROSE. Orange, April 8th, 1807. 3m
Lesueur & Saunders
Are now receiving and will constantly keep a large supply of
Bar-Iron & Castings,
Of superior quality. Feb. 2d, 1807. tf
Notice.
THE Debtors to the late firm of GILLIAT & KIRBY are hereby informed, that THOMAS GILLIAT alone is empowered to receive payment of the debts due to that concern. All persons having demands against them are requested to apply to Thomas Gilliat, and those indebted to the firm are earnestly requested to come forward without delay, and discharge their respective debts.
For JOHN GILLIAT & SELF, THOMAS GILLIAT. JAMES KIRBY. Richmond, 25th May, 1807. 3m
ROBERT M'DOWELL,
RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he continues to keep entertainment at the Red House in Jennings' Gap, sign of the Spread Eagle, situated in the forks of two roads, 12 miles from Staunton and 21 miles from Harrisonburg, leading directly to the different Mineral Springs in the back country. His house is large and airy, with plenty of lodging rooms, well furnished with good Beds. Liquors of the best quality. Also good Stables, to hold upwards of thirty horses, well furnished with Hay and Grain, and an excellent Hostler, &c. He flatters himself by his assiduity to please to give general satisfaction to those who call on him. May 11th, 1807. 6w
SHOES.
THE subscribers, under the firm of J. W. DENNIS & Co. have just received from the northward, a large supply of SHOES, which they warrant newly made, and of the best materials, viz:
 Gentlemen's superfine Shoes.  do. fine do.  Negroes coarse do.  Lady's and Misses' leather Slips and Brunswicks.  Boy's and Children's Shoes.  Lady's & Misses' Kid & Morocco Slips with assorted colors, and without heels.  Children's Morocco Shoes, do. 
Together with a general assortment of GROCERIES and fashionable BONE-NETS, all of which they offer at a reduced price for cash, produce or acceptances in town.
J. W. DENNIS. BENJAMIN DENNIS. Richmond, April 23, 1807. tf
FOR SALE,
Opposite Colonel May's new Buildings, 4th, 3rd and 2nd proof Antigua Rum in hds. of the crop 1805—Imported early 1806
New England Rum in hds. and barrels
1 pipe very Superior Holland's Gin
Rye Whiskey in barrels
Loaf and Brown Sugar in Ditto
Coffee by the barrel or bag
Beef and Pork in barrels
Irish Potatoes in ditto, suitable for table or planting
Potomac Shad and Herrings,
Stone Lime in large and small casks.
And a general assortment of GROCERIES, &c. &c.—which will be sold low for Cash, good paper, or exchanged for country produce, by
JOE GREENE. Richmond, 27th May, 1807.
The subscribers having purchased the
Stock of Dry Goods
OF GILLIAT & KIRBY, and taken
the store lately occupied by them,
will carry on the business under the firm of
KIRBY, DRAKE & TAYLOR.
They will sell low for CASH or on a short
CREDIT to punctual customers.
JAMES KIRBY.
RIVERS DRAKE.
EDM: TAYLOR, jr.
May 29.
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed by the subscribers by John Henderson of the county of Albemarle, to secure the payment of certain debts therein mentioned and for other purposes, we shall expose to sale, by Public Auction, for ready money, before the door of the Tavern of Mr. Triplett T. Estes, in the town of Charlottesville and county of Albemarle, on the first Monday in July next, being Albemarle court day, John Henderson's interest in the following property, to wit:
One certain tract or parcel of LAND, on the waters of Hardwire river in the said county, containing by survey six hundred and sixty-six acres, adjoining the lands of Christopher Hudson, Henry Copeland and others.—Also, about six acres of LAND, in or near the town of Milton, on which there is a valuable mill-seat.—Also, an undivided interest in LOTS in the said town of Milton, his proportion being five lots.—Also, the life estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson in and to the LAND and HOUSES near Milton, at present occupied by Mr. Thomas E. Randolph.—Also, 2,000 acres of LAND on Taylor's creek in the counties of Jefferson or Scott in the state of Kentucky.—Also, the interest of Hill Carter under the Will of Edward Carter, deceased, to certain LANDS in the state aforesaid, which interest the said Henderson purchased of the said Hill Carter.—Also, the interest of the said John Henderson as distributee of his father Bennet Henderson, dec. in and to a certain tract of LAND in the county of Scott and state aforesaid, supposed to be four hundred acres.—Also, the like interest in and to certain LOTS in the town of Milton.—Also, one BAY HORSE.—Also, a BOND executed by James L. Henderson to said John, for the title to certain lands in the state of Kentucky. As the residue of the money arising from the sale of the above-mentioned property is to be paid over by us to the proper creditors of John Henderson, authorised to receive the same, it would be to the interest of those creditors to attend the sale and force the property to its proper value.—Acting as trustees, we shall only convey the title to the above property vested in us as such.
James Lewis, } Trustees. Matthew Henderson, } June 9, 1807. 6w
Patent Iron-bound Boots, Bootees, and Shoes.
JOHN BEDFORD,
PHILADELPHIA,
RESPECTFULLY informs the public in general, and Store-keepers in particular, that he is now prepared to supply them with the above valuable goods, wholesale and retail, on moderate terms.
Shoemakers, also, may be supplied with patent-rights, on easy terms, which they will find it highly their interest to obtain, as they can, by this improvement, make four times the quantity of shoes, with their usual number of hands: for example, the usual work of three men, is only three pair of common shoes per day; whereas, in the improved way, three men, with the assistance of a boy, can make from twelve to fifteen pair per day. Thus the advantages resulting from this improvement, are evidently of the most essential importance: in the first place, three-fourths of the labor is saved: in the second place, half the leather is saved, (for one pair of shoes, made in this way, will wear as long as two pair, made in the usual way) and, in the third place, there is a saving of flax (at the rate of one pound, to twenty-four pair of shoes) they are also much more water-proof than the others, and easier mended.
These are well ascertained facts, proved by actual experience. The patentee therefore hopes, that an improvement, fraught with such important public utility, will not only engage the attention, but the encouragement of every friend to the infant manufactures of this country. It may not be amiss to remark, that the country Shoemaker, in particular, may derive in calculable advantages from this improvement, as he can supply his customers in one-fourth of the time he has usually devoted to that purpose, and have the other three-fourths for the cultivation of his farm, or other avocations.
Price of patent-rights, for the country, 100 dollars. For states, districts or towns, in proportion. Applications may be made to the Patentee, or to Mr. Jacob Harrison, Richmond. 3m Feb 12, 1807.
FOR SALE,
MY LANDS in Cumberland county, lying on Appomattox river, joining the lands of Mess. William & George Skipwith; this Land is equal if not superior to any Land in Cumberland county, one half of which is covered with fine timber of every description. There is on this land a decent DWELLING HOUSE, and between four and five hundred bearing apple trees of choice fruit. One third of the money will be expected when a title is made, the other two thirds may be divided into two annual payments. Mr. Jerman Baker or Mr. William Skipwith will show the land to any person wishing to become a purchaser.
FRANCIS EPPES. Chesterfield, June 3, 1807. 4w
Twenty-five Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY from the Subscriber living near New-Castle in the lower end of this county, on the 27th of March last, a Negro Man
BILLTY,
About 50 years of age, and about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high; he is of rather delicate form, a little inclined to a yellowish complexion, and considerably marked in the face with the small pox; his hair rather inclined to be bushy, tho' not very long: He is a fellow of good understanding, a well informed mind, and very specious insinuating manner; he speaks rather quick and pert, and has a disposition to be very polite: He no doubt, will attempt to change his appearance, by altering his name, changing his hair for a wig, &c.—He is pretty well known in most parts of this state, as well as in the Carolinas and Georgia, as the waiting man and fiddler of Mr. Nicholas M. Johnson, of whom I purchased him—His wife lives in Richmond, where he has frequently been since his elopement; and he has also been a part of his time in Petersburg; and his wife has a daughter a free woman living in Norfolk, where it is probable he has been also—Tho' having so general an acquaintance, there is no knowing where he will keep himself.
I will give the above reward to any person who will deliver the said runaway to me, in Hanover.
P. STREET. Hanover, May 31, 1807. tf
WILL BE SOLD,
AT Public Auction, at the Eagle Tavern, in the City of Richmond, on Thursday the 2nd day of July next, if fair, if not the next fair day thereafter, a valuable TRACT of
LAND,
Containing 160 acres more or less, lying in the lower end of the County of Louisa, whereon Thomas Wash now resides, and adjoining the lands of Messrs. John S. Smith, Joseph Eggleston and Henry Dickenson.
Six Months credit will be allowed the purchaser, on his giving a Note negotiable in the Bank of Virginia with an approved endorser or endorser, and a deed of trust on the property to secure the payment of said note.
TAYLOR & BROWN, Trustees for the Creditors of Mr. Geo. Greenhow. Richmond, June 2, 1807.
POSTPONEMENT.
THE Sale of Col. Quarrier's Square of Ground, advertised by us, for sale, on the 10th inst. is postponed until Saturday the 20th inst. when it will certainly take place.
TAYLOR & BROWN, v. m. June 8, 1807.
WHEAT FANS,
For Sale by
SAMUEL PARSONS & SON. June 8. 2w
PRICES OF Nails, Brads & Sprigs,
MANUFACTURED at the Penitentiary, and for sale by NICHOLAS HALLAM, agent for the Commonwealth, a few doors above the Swan Tavern, Richmond.
   CUT NAILS.   Wholesale. Retail.     3d. 12 1-2 cents. 13 1-2 cents per pound.   4d. 11 1-2 12 1-2   6d. 10 1-2 11 1-2   8d. 10 11   10d. 9 1-2 10 1-2   12d. 9 1-2 10 1-2   20d. 9 1-2 10 1-2  
   CUT BRADS.   Wholesale. Retail.     8d. 9 1-2 10 1-2   10d. 9 10   12d. 9 10   20d. 9 10  
   WROUGHT NAILS.   Wholesale. Retail.     6d. 12 13   8d. 11 1-2 12 1-2   10d. 11 12   12d. 11 12   20d. 11 12   30d. 11 12  
Spikes of all sizes the same price as 30d nails.
   CUT SPRIGS.   Wholesale. Retail.     3d.—50 cents per thousand. 4d. 67 cents per thousand.   4d.—64 cents per thousand. 5d. 84 cents per thousand.  
Also, for sale as above, a variety of Plantation Utensils, such as Plough-irons, Harrow-teeth, Axes, Wedges, Chains, &c. tf
Notice.
ALL persons are forewarned from using or taking Sand from the Sand-Bar, called Coutts's, without the previous consent of the subscribers, who are alone authorised to sell or appropriate the same. For the convenience of those who incline to purchase, we have authorised Mrs. Coutts to act. Any sale or contract which she may make will be ratified by us.
Samuel M'Craw, } Trustees. Pleasant Younghusband, } Richmond, 20th Feb. 1807.
NOTICE.
MESSRS. Robert King and Charles Croughton and Robert King, James Thompson and Thomas Ravenhill, John Edie, Conrad Laub and William Davidson, Executors of James Short, deceased.—Take notice, that I shall proceed to take the following depositions at the times and places hereafter mentioned, to be read as evidence in two suits now depending in the Chancery Court for the Richmond District, in which suits I am plaintiff and you are the defendants, to wit, at the tavern of Mr. Norris, at Fauquier courthouse, on the 30th day of June in the year 1807, between the hour of ten in the morning and sun-set of the same day, I shall take the depositions of Mr. John Love and Mr. Josiah Watson, sr. and others. At the tavern of Paul Verdier, at Orange courthouse, on the 6th day of July, 1807, between the hour of ten in the morning and sun-set of the same day, I shall take the deposition of Charles Noel and others. On the thirteenth of July, 1807, between the hour of ten in the morning and sun-set of the same day, I shall take the deposition of John M. Rose at his dwelling house in the county of Buckingham, and on the 29th day of July, 1807, between the hour of ten in the morning and sun-set of the same day, in Brunswick courthouse, I shall take the deposition of Abner Newman and others.
ROBERT H. ROSE. Richmond, June 1st, 1807. 4w
Just Received,
And for Sale on reasonable terms,
20,000 Weight of well cured
BACON,
Amongst which are 700 HAMS of a superior quality.—Likewise,
15 Ton of IRON,
Assorted, with our usual assortment of
PAINTS, OIL, &c. &c.
RUSSELL & WALLACE. Richmond, 12th June, 1807. 2m
We have lately received,
FOR SALE,
   12 hds. sugar 15 boxes cotton & wool   30 bbls. do. cards do.   3000 lbs. green coffee 4 tons cassings assort-   10 hds. Antigua rum ed, viz. pots, ovens,   5 do Windward Island skillets, spiders, and-   do irons, teakettles and   14 hds. N. E. rum waggon boxes   14 bbls. do 350 sacks salt   12 hds. molasses 100 bbls. cut herrings   8 casks Malaga wine 30 do whole do   20 tiers & bbls. whisky 15 do shad   4 pieces apple brandy 40 lbs Spanish indigo   15 bbls do 15 lbs nummegs   12 crates Liverpool 100 pr men's fine shoes   ware assorted 50 do coarse do   10 do stone do 500 lbs Glauber salts  
We have also on hand,
 Iron
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TRIAL OF Col. Aaron Burr.
FRIDAY, June 19.
Col. Burr informed the court that the express, who had been sent with the writ of subpoena duces tecum to the President of the United States, had returned; that the process had been served, and the President had told the person who served it, that "no answer would be sent by that person." The inference was that some answer was intended to be sent in some other way; but, as none had been received by the last mail, and time sufficient, as he contended, had been allowed, he gave notice that, on the next day, a motion would be made to enforce the process.
The counsel for Col. Burr called two witnesses; a Mr. James Knox and a Mr. Chandler Lindley; who were severally sworn to certain affidavits; which were intended to be made the foundation of the motion against Gen. Wilkinson, of which notice had been given the day before. The affidavits were shown to the counsel for the United States. The Chief Justice proposed that the court should peruse them, before any argument should be had: in order that the grounds intended to be taken on behalf of Col. Burr, should be better understood; and that the motion should be made the following day.
Mr. Hay thought this very proper, but wished the court, (if they should be of opinion, after examining those affidavits, that they contained nothing on which the motion could be founded,) to reject them altogether; but, if they entertained any doubts, to direct an argument on the subject. He observed that, from a single glance at one of them, he had noted an expression so monstrous, it convinced him of the falsehood of the whole; that they were evidently intended only to slander Gen. Wilkinson, and thereby to make an improper impression on the public mind with respect to the trial of Aaron Burr; and had been obtained from persons who were willing to say anything to answer the purposes of the accused, but very reluctant to give any evidence on behalf of the United States.
After a series of desultory conversation, in which Col. Burr's counsel endeavored to vindicate the witnesses whose affidavits were taken, and insisted that, as their characters had been attacked, the affidavits should be immediately read and the argument commenced; while the counsel for the United States contended that those affidavits should not be publicly read until the court had perused them, and directed it to be done; it was finally determined that the court would take them for the present, and that, on this day, the argument on the motion should take place. Some conversation also occurred concerning the wording of the motion; which was reduced to writing by Mr. Randolph; and is, in substance, that a rule be granted requiring Gen. Wilkinson to show cause, if any he can, why an attachment shall not be issued against him for a contempt of the court, committed by him, touching the witnesses whose affidavits had been taken, and for obstructing the due administration of justice.
Mr. Hay also moved to be permitted to send interrogatories to the grand jury, to be propounded by them to the witnesses before them; alleging that many of the witnesses were unwilling to state the whole truth, and cautiously answered only so far as they were interrogated; and that the grand jury were not as well informed as himself as to the questions which ought to be put, for the purpose of fully explaining this mysterious business.
The Chief Justice asked if there was any objection on the other side to this mode of proceeding. Col. Burr's counsel agreed to it, provided interrogatories might also be sent by them. The Chief Justice said that, in principle, he could not discover the impropriety of such interrogatories being furnished on both sides, although a practice of this sort was unprecedented in this country. Particularly, he conceived, that if interrogatories were permitted to be sent on behalf of the U. S. the same privilege ought to be granted to the accused; because, although the grand jury were to examine only the witnesses on the part of the U. S. they were to obtain from those witnesses the whole truth, as well where it might make in favor of the accused, as where it made against him.
The counsel for the U. S. said they could not consent to interrogatories propounded by the accused being sent to the grand jury; as no example to authorize such a mode of proceeding had ever occurred within their knowledge; and, in the end, withdrew their motion.
BOSTON, June 11.
Late Foreign Intelligence.
The arrival at this port, yesterday, of the Sarah and Eliza, Holland, from Liverpool, has furnished us with some late and interesting articles of foreign intelligence. Our limits would not ad-
mit of copious selections—but such as we have made, though greatly condensed from the original matter, will be found to contain the prominent points of news.
DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.
London, April 27.
The lord chancellor, in his majesty's name, delivered the following speech: "My Lords & Gentlemen, "We have in command from his majesty to inform you that his majesty has thought fit to avail himself of the first moment which would admit of the interruption of the sitting of parliament, without material inconvenience to the public business, to close the present session: and that his majesty has therefore been pleased to cause a commission to be issued, under the great seal for proroguing parliament.
"We are further commanded to state to you, that his majesty is anxious to recur to the sense of his people, while the events which have recently taken place are yet fresh in their recollection.
"His majesty feels that in resorting to this measure, under the present circumstances, he at once demonstrates in the most unequivocal manner, his own conscientious persuasion of the rectitude of those motives upon which he has acted; and affords to his people the best opportunity of testifying their determination to support him in every exercise of their prerogative of his crown, which is conformable to the sacred obligations under which they are held and conducive to the welfare of his kingdom; and to the security of the constitution.
"His majesty directs us to express his entire conviction, that after so long a reign, marked by a series of indulgencies to his Roman Catholic subjects, they, in common with every other class of his people, must feel assured of his attachment to the principles of a just and enlightened toleration; and of his anxious desire to protect equally, and promote impartially, the happiness of all descriptions of his subjects."
"Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "His majesty has commanded us to thank you, in his majesty's name, for the supplies which you have furnished for the public service.
"He has seen with great satisfaction, that you have been able to find the means of defraying in the present year, those large but necessary expenses, for which you have provided, without imposing upon his people the immediate burden of additional taxes.
"His majesty has observed with no less satisfaction the inquiries which you have instituted into subjects connected with public economy. And, he trusts, that the early attention of the new parliament, which he will forthwith direct to be called, will be applied to the prosecution of these important objects."
"My Lords and Gentlemen, "His majesty has directed us most earnestly to recommend to you, that you should cultivate, by all means in your power, a spirit of union, harmony and good will amongst all classes and descriptions of his people.
"His majesty trusts that the divisions naturally and unavoidably excited by the late unfortunate and uncalled for agitation of a question so interesting to the feelings and opinions of his people, will speedily pass away; and that the prevailing sense and determination of all his subjects to exert their united efforts in the cause of their country, will enable his majesty to conduct to an honorable and secure termination, the great contest in which he is engaged."
The lord chancellor then in his majesty's name, and by virtue of the said commission, declared the parliament to be prorogued to Wednesday the 13th day of May next.
The lord's commissioners withdrew from the house, and the commons retired from the bar.
There are circumstances in the manner of proroguing parliament yesterday which we feel it to be our duty to lay before our readers. They unfortunately give too much sanction to the report which prevailed that the prorogation was owing to other causes than his majesty's anxiety "to recur to the sense of his people, while the events which have recently taken
place, were yet fresh in their recollection."
For a considerable time before the speaker came to the house, the deputy-usher of the black rod waited for him behind the bar. The speaker came precisely at five minutes past 3 o'clock, and the deputy-usher then retired to the outside of the door. Prayers being read as usual, the speaker immediately proceeded to count the house, but, before he had counted four, the deputy-usher knocked at the door and entered. The speaker immediately took the chair, the black rod, according to parliamentary usage dispensing with the necessity of the usual numbers requisite to form a house. The deputy-usher then in the usual form summoned the house to the house of peers, to hear the commission for prorogation read. The speaker, attended by most of the members present, proceeded to the house of peers. He returned in about twenty minutes, read the speech at the table, according to the usual custom and retired.
Thus terminated in a manner peculiarly abrupt and unexpected, after setting four months and eight days, the first and only session of the third parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
April 28.—We are enabled from personal observation, to furnish our readers with the clue to all this management, to many of whom it would otherwise be unintelligible. The finance committee met yesterday, and had prepared a report to be submitted to the house. The members of the committee were in the house, and one of them, Mr. Giles, in the absence of Mr. Bankes, the chairman was waiting below the bar to present the report. That consistent with the usages of the house, could not be done until the speaker had taken the chair. While he was going through the necessary ceremony of counting the house, to ascertain if forty members were present, the usher of the black rod, who, as we have stated, was in attendance at the door during the time of prayers, knocked, and being introduced, summoned the house to the house of peers. The manoeuvre has succeeded to a certain extent. It has prevented the formal presentment of the report, and consequently all possibility of its becoming, as such, a subject of parliamentary discussion.
The Report, as we understand, states in substance, that a sum of 19,800 l. had been applied by a late Pay master of the Forces to his own use, and that the fact came to the knowledge of his Colleague, who did not give any direction to his clerks on the subject. It also states, that the Committee had discovered other and great abuses in the public money concerns on which they should shortly proceed to report. This, according to the rumors which were circulated yesterday in both Houses, is supposed to allude to a farther discovery of public plunder, an enquiry into which would have involved persons of high station and in office.
This however, we trust, is but a temporary escape from detection and disgrace. Parliament must meet again before the 5th of July, as the whole of the annual act relating to the Irish Customs, expire on that day. To re-enact these, the Legislature must be re-assembled. We should think poorly indeed of the virtue of our countrymen, if some Member should not be found in the next Parliament, with spirit and patriotism enough to seize the first opportunity that should offer, of making such malversations the subject of public discussion.
The writs for the General Election were, we understand, issued from the Crown Office this day at noon. The proclamation for dissolving Parliament will appear in this night's Gazette.
OF TURKEY.
Government are in hourly expectation of the arrival of dispatches from Adml. Duckworth. There is a mystery in his proceedings before Constantinople, which must continue inexplicable until they arrive. He was furnished with ample means of destroying the town; his instructions were positive and full as to suit every possible exigency. Even the number
of minutes during which he was to wait for an answer to the proposals transmitted to the Divan, was specified.
EXPECTED ARMISTICE.
No intelligence from the Continent has reached us this morning. It is a prevailing opinion that an armistice has taken place between the armies in Poland.
SPECK OF PEACE.
It was rumored yesterday that a cartel had arrived from France, and that some pacific proposal had been made to our government. Stocks in consequence experienced a rise. We cannot find out, however, that any communication has been made from the French to our government. There was a rumor too last night, an unfounded one, we believe, of an armistice between Russia and France.
Accounts from various parts of the continent agree, that during the late cessation of military movements, some negotiations for a peace were entered into....and in fact they go so far as to state, that an armistice had absolutely been concluded; but this needs confirmation.
The Russian Emperor Alexander has certainly reached Memel; and his brother, the Arch-duke Constantine, Koningsberg. Immediately on their joining the army it was expected some general movement would take place. The King of Prussia was also at Memel.
The Russian and French armies are not more than 25 German miles distant from each other.
Great hopes were entertained that Austria would shortly break from the degrading restraint under which she has been long held by France.
The Swedes are said to have taken the field with considerable force....and already to have possessed themselves of Restack, Prentzlow, and several other places.
The spirited conduct of Sweden has not only produced the important event of causing the French to raise the siege of Stralsund, but likewise the complete exclusion of the French from the whole of Swedish Pomerania. The particulars of these events have been officially announced to our government.
The accounts from Vienna are to the 5th. The emperor had set out on the preceding day, for Buda, to meet the Hungarian Diet; after which it was supposed he would proceed to visit the Austrian Cordon upon the frontiers. The Arch-duke was expected to follow him in a few days.
The Decree for calling out the conscription of 1808, is executed with uncommon rigor and dispatch throughout the different departments of France. All attempts to evade it are punished with unexampled severity. The lists or registers are all to be completed by the end of April. The actual enrollment and march to the frontiers will not be delayed long after.
If we were to credit the reports from the continent, received thro' French channels, we should be inclined to believe that the expedition through the Dardanelles had completely failed; but when we reflect on the character of the officer trusted with that important affair, and on the knowledge we now possess, that he was to waste but one hour in negotiation; and after that period, if not successful, to bombard the capital, we doubt the truth of them all. It is also well known that he received a considerable reinforcement of ships.
The report of a pacific negotiation having been opened between Russia and Prussia on the one part, & France on the other, can have little foundation in truth, as on the contrary we find that new levies of troops, and new supplies of arms, are daily sent off to the Russian grand army....that Sweden has taken an active part in the war; and Austria expected to throw her weight into the scale.
Every thing is in motion along the naval ports. A squadron at Hardwich is in motion, and immediately expected to sail on some important service. The 70th and 92d regiments are to embark on board the fleet.
There is no doubt but our government will immediately take possession of Hamburg. The Dutch (French) troops at that place are not numerous
...and greatly dissatisfied with the conduct of the French.
A great dearth of provisions is said to prevail in the republic of the Seven Islands.
Our Dover letter states that a heavy firing took place on the opposite, French coast on Saturday evening, but the cause was unknown. A circumstance of this kind always excites considerable interest, as the French announce their victories and other important events in this way.
It is the intention of ministers to entirely abolish the new financial system introduced by lords Grenville and Henry Petty, and to revive the old system.
A correspondence has taken place between Mr. Secretary Canning and Mr. Monroe, which the former is authorized thus officially to state the disapprobation of the admiralty at the conduct of certain British commanders, in having warned some American ships from entering the port of Antwerp.
NATIONAL FRIENDSHIP.
On Saturday last, a very elegant dinner was given at the London tavern, by the British merchants, trading to North America, to Mr. Monroe, the minister from the United States of America.
The company was very numerous and highly respectable—among the visitors were—Mr. Pinckney, (who it is understood is to succeed Mr. Monroe) the chancellor of the exchequer, lords Mulgrave, Castlereagh and Erskine—Sir Wm. Scott, Mr. Canning, Mr. Rose, &c.
Philip Sansom, esq. the chairman of the committee of the American merchants, who presided on the occasion, filled the chair with great ability, and to the highest gratification of the company.—The day was passed with the utmost harmony and good humor, and at the same time with a degree of order which has seldom been witnessed on such occasions. The toasts were—
The King. The Queen. The Prince of Wales, &c.
And the following from the chairman, were received with bursts of applause, as particularly appropriate to the object of the meeting:—
The President of the United States of America.
Perpetual friendship between Great Britain and the United States of America.
Mr. Monroe.—Mr. Pinckney.
The honorable Mr. Erskine, the British Minister to the United States of America.
Upon the health of Mr. Monroe being given, that gentleman addressed the company in a feeling energetic speech, expressive of the high sense he had of the compliment paid to him, and of the pleasure he felt at the unanimity that prevailed.
Mr. Pinckney also, upon his health being drunk, addressed the company in an eloquent speech, expressing similar sentiments.
Before the visitors withdrew, Mr. Canning, the secretary of foreign affairs, gave the following toast:—
May the British and Americans never meet on terms less friendly than they have done this day.
Which was drank with the utmost satisfaction.
The situation in which the military affairs of the continent stood at our last dates, renders it pretty certain, that a great and decisive battle has taken place ere this.—Report is busy in stating the fact and numbering the loss of the French, in killed alone, at 30,000 men; but this we do not credit. Rumor also states, that Jean Bonaparte , has been surprised and taken prisoner by the Prussians.
Political Retrospect. —No intelligence of any importance has been received from the Continent—Paris papers to the 17th, and Duch to the 23d inst. have come to hand—they contain the 62d Bulletin of the French army, dated at Finckenstein on the 4th. It states that not a shot had been fired at the advanced posts during the fifteen preceding days—it is supposed that this suspension of active hostilities is connected in some degree with the Negotiations of Peace, which are said to be carried on at Memel, as it were in the presence of the King of Prussia and the Emperor of Russia who have been for some time at that place. Both armies have received considerable reinforcements. The French are making the most active preparations. They continue to drain the country behind them of every disposable man in order to strengthen themselves for a, conflict which, should it take place, will be decisive of the fate of Europe. In the event of the result of this conflict being against them, they are putting the fortresses they possess on the Vistula in the most effectual state of defence, while they continue to push the sieges of Danzig and Gollberg with increased activity. The contending powers must now be able to estimate their ability to do each other all the mischief originally intended, and by this time must be heartily tired by a contest, calculated to produce ruin and destruction to all the parties engaged in it.
The real state of our affairs at Constantinople is involved in the thickest veil of mystery; no official accounts have been received from Adml. Duckworth, and the whole must be mere rumor and conjecture.—We confess we are anxious for the arrival of dispatches from that quarter, and until their arrival no opinion can be given on the subject.
LONDON, April 25.—That part of the stipulated subsidy (amounting to about half a million) which remained due to the Emperor of Austria, has been lately sent off.

They write from Vienna, the 4th instant, that the Emperor had set off from Buda on the preceding day, at eight in the morning. After opening the Hungarian Diet, the Emperor will proceed to Semlin and to Gallicia, to survey the Austrian cordon on the frontiers. The Archduke Charles will proceed on the same journey on the 6th or 7th of April.
A letter from Dantzic, of the 4th, says: "Twenty thousand men, mostly Poles, are lying round the place. General Kalkreuth has arrived with a reinforcement of 2000 Cossacks, and has taken the command of the place. We are taking the most efficient means of defence. The suburbs are already destroyed, so that 8000 people are without house or home. A very strict military police is established in the interior. No assemblies are permitted in the streets or any of the public places."
The French armies are in motion in every quarter. The Italian army has commenced its march for Turkey, through Bosnia. It is stated to be 100,000 strong. It was formerly under the command of Massena, but since he has been called into Poland, it is supposed that Augereau will be appointed in his place.
PHILADELPHIA, June 16.
The information, relative to affairs in England, is as usual of an instructive nature. The men in power have produced a dissolution of parliament, and compelled the monarch to assign motives for the measure, which are totally false. He is made to say, that he seeks for an expression of public will upon the late change of ministry, when every one knows that a ministry in power can obtain a majority in parliament for any measure, however villainous the grossness of this trick is only equalled by the management with which the parliament was prorogued: for an exposition of this business we refer the reader to London authority under the foreign head. An attempt was to have been made to bring public delinquents and robbers to account; the ministry heard this, and, as some of them were implicated, the parliament doors were shut up—such are the blessings and freedom of a British house of commons. This is no fiction, it is given in the most authentic way, and defies the sophistry of federalism.
But what better could have been expected, where Melville, the greatest of all dictators, is at the helm—he is interested in winking at public plunder, for the exposition of the lesser iniquity would make his own appear the more enormous. As for the speech of the king, it is a tissue of hypocrisy and falsehood—he had the impudence to talk of toleration, at the moment he was dissolving a parliament because it had too many of the friends of toleration in it; and he affects to hope for an investigation of accounts, altho' a stop was put to it on the threshold.
When the live administration came into power, the Tories in this country, produced that event as an evidence, that in England there was a public will or something like a fair representation—that popular ministry was turned out, & now that popular ministry is dissolved; there was no popular voice in the whole business. We venture nothing, in predicting, that the next parliament will consist of as many corrupt men, as were ever marshalled under Pitt—elections in England have all the folly of farce, with an equal share of vice and depravity.—Aurora.
FROM THE LYNCHBURG STAR.
The papers announce a new attack upon the Christian Religion, by our countryman Thomas Paine. I am one of those who feel towards Mr. Paine, the mingled sentiment of admiration and aversion. I admire his genius and the singular precision and perspicuity of his style—I feel grateful for the services he rendered us during our revolutionary struggle, and I honor the zeal with which he has sought to disseminate through the world, the principles of freedom and equal right. But when I reverse the picture, and contemplate his over-weening vanity, and excessive egotism; when I view his malignant hatred towards the religion of our country, and his ceaseless efforts to unhinge the faith of those who possess it, disgust supercedes every other feeling.
I, myself belong to no particular denomination of Christians. A religious establishment enforced by law—any union between church and state, I should deprecate as much as any man—But to religion I am the decided friend, because I conceive it to be the friend of human happiness. I deem him an enemy to his species, a traitor to the commonwealth of mankind, who seeks to subvert the religious faith of his country, with nothing to offer in its place but a cold and comfortless philosophy. In countries where the people groan under an oppressive hierarchy which equally debases and enslaves their minds and their bodies, to overthrow so monstrous a tyranny, would be the work of a patriot—But in our own country, where no shackles are imposed upon the mind, where the laws and constitution, while they protect religious worship, sanction in its utmost latitude, the freedom of conscience—Where a religion is professed, which, to say nothing of its divinity, recommends a richer and more exalted morality than ever was devised in the schools of philosophy, and whose teachers depend alone upon the purity of their lives for support; any attempt to destroy so mild and rational a system, fraught as it is with so many blessings to individuals, and such important benefits to society, must spring from a detestable vanity or a corrupted and malignant heart. Who that has witnessed the effects of religion in reforming the morals and purifying the lives of mankind, who has beheld its influence in the time of adversity, who has seen it clear the clouded brow and reanimate the faded cheek of sorrow, will be thankful to the man who sells him that these are the effects of an absurd superstition; or an hoary imposture?—Let not the follies and aberrations of superstition, be charged to religion—no man of enlarged and liberal views will be guilty of such injustice—But I have no intention of entering the lists of controversy. The system that has withstood unshaken, the assaults of Hume, Shaftesbury and Voltaire, and of the whole host of Deists and Atheists, generated by the French revolution is not I trust, destined to fall before the pen of Thomas Paine. W.
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Hamilton's Elixir, A sovereign remedy for Colds, Obsolete Coughs, Asthma, Sore Throats, and approaching Consumption. To Parents who may have children afflicted with The Hooping Cough.
It is disorderly of the first magnitude, as it affords immediate relief, checks the progress, and in a short time entirely removes the most cruel disorder to which children are liable. The Elixir is so perfectly agreeable, and the dose so small, that no difficulty arises in taking it. From LUTHER MARTAIN, Esq. attorney general of the State of Maryland.
GENTLEMEN—I comply with your request in stating my opinion of Hamilton's Elixir. It has been used in my family for two or three years past with uniform success, whenever colds, coughs, or similar complaints have rendered medicine necessary. I have myself found it an excellent and agreeable remedy for a very painful and troublesome affection of the breast, accompanied with forenses, and with obstructions and difficult breathing.
On these accounts, I do not hesitate to recommend Hamilton's Elixir as a valuable medicine, and deserving public attention. LUTHER MARTAIN.
HAMILTON'S Grand Elixir.
Is recommended as an invaluable medicine for the speedy relief and permanent cure of the various complaints which result from dissipated pleasures—juvenile indiscretions—residence in climates unfavourable to the constitution—the immoderate use of tea—frequent intoxication, or any other destructive intemperance—the unskillful or extensive use of mercury—the diseases peculiar to females at a certain period of life—bad lying in, &c.
Hahn's true and genuine German Corn Plaister,
An infallible remedy for corns, speedily removing them, root and branch without giving pain. The Genuine Persian Lotion.
So celebrated among the fashionable throughout Europe, as an invaluable cosmetic, perfectly innocent and safe, free from corrosive and repellent minerals (the basis of other lotions) and of unparalleled efficacy in preventing and removing blemishes in the face and skin, of every kind—particularly freckles, pimples, inflammatory redness, scurf, tetter, ring worms, sun burns, prickly heat, &c. The Persian Lotion operates mildly, without impeding that natural, insensible perspiration, which is essential to health; yet its effects are speedy and permanent, rendering the skin delicately soft and clear, improving the complexion, and restoring the bloom of youth—never failing to render an ordinary countenance beautiful, and a handsome one more so.
The Restorative Powder for the Teeth and Gums.
HAHN'S GENUINE EYE WATER, A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eye, whether the effect of natural weakness or of accident, speedily removing inflammations, defluxions of rheum, dullness, itching and films on the eye; never failing to cure those maladies which frequently succeed the small-pox, measles and fevers, and wonderfully strengthening to weak sight. Hundreds have experienced its excellent virtues when nearly deprived of light.
Tooth-Ache Drops, The only remedy yet discovered, which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe instances.
The Anodyne Elixir, For the cure of every kind of head-ache.
The Damask Lip-Salve.
Infalible Ague and Fever Drops, For the cure of Agues, Remittant and Intermit-tant Fevers.
Thousands can testify their being cured by these drops after the bark and every other medicine has proved ineffectual: not one in a hundred has had occasion to take more than one, and sometimes not half a bottle.
The Sovereign Ointment for the Itch.
Which is warranted an infallible remedy at one application, and may be used with the most perfect safety by pregnant women, or on an infant a week old, not contain a particle of mercury or any dangerous ingredients whatever; and is no accompanied with that tormenting smart which attends the exhibition of other remedies.
For the cure of a certain deplorable Malady, The Indian Vegetable Specific.
The Medicines prepared by Richard Lee, have been in high estimation and general use throughout the United States, for upwards of six years; many of them are sold for less than the drugs of which they are compounded could be purchased at a retail store.
It is no inconsiderable evidence of their utility, that during the above period, numerous imitations of every article (the production of ignorance and inexperience, urged by envy and penury) have intruded on the public, seen a day and then perished; others now succeeded them, which in like manner are fast descending "to the tomb of the Capulets," while our remedies become more generally used and acquire a daily accession of well earned celebrity.
To prevent the imposition of worthless or dangerous preparations, purchasers are requested to remember, that an engraved label, with the figure of Richard Lee's (to counterfeit which is felony) is affixed to each of his genuine medicines.
Lee's Infalible Ague Drops.
Recent Cures. A child of Mr. William Lozier, grocer, corner of Hudson and Jay Streets, was sick about five or six weeks with ague and fever, and in so violent a degree, as for the hot and toxify to terminate frequently in most alarming convulsions. A variety of medicines, recommended by sympathising neighbors, were administered, without alleviating the disease; at length hearing of the uniform efficacy of Lee's Ague Drops, a bottle was procured, of which three doses only were found necessary to perfect a cure. Five weeks have elapsed without any return of the complaint.
Mr. James Joyce, assistant in the warehouse of Mr. — Pearlfall, Pearl-street, was severely afflicted with an intermittent; but after taking Lee's Ague Drops, was cured in two days. At the recommendation of Mr. Joyce, a friend, Mr. Terence Tole, who had suffered much from an obstinate intermittent upwards of a year (with few and trifling intervals) was cured by a few doses of the same Medicine. At the recommendation of Mr. Joyce, a bottle was procured by M. P. Skooley, who was likewise harassed with an obstinate intermittent. A small portion completely removed every symptom of the complaint (which may surprise those who regard the bark as the only specific) —Four persons of Mr. Skooley's acquaintance was the remaining part of this single phial, cured of the prevailing malady.
The above narrations may suffice to prove the usefulness of this medicine; but if the affection of the practitioner, and the fact of an annual demand for several thousand bottles have any weight, the public will believe that this preparation has never failed effecting a cure, and may without effrontery be termed INFALLIBLE. Prepared and sold by Hannah Lee, No 50 Maiden-lane New York, and at S. PLEASANTS' Printing office, Richmond. O. & A.
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Just received direct from the Patentees, and for SALE WHOLESALE and RETAIL, by SAMUEL PLEASANTS, Jr. Richmond, a large supply of the following very valuable Medicines, viz:
Dr. Cooley's Vegetable Elixir, or Cough Drops.
Superior to any other medicine ever before invented, for all complaints of the Lungs, and has been known frequently to effect a cure after all other medicines have failed. It is to be hoped that all those who are laboring under Consumption and other diseases of the Lungs, will resort to this valuable medicine for relief.—Price 75 cents a bottle
Dr. Rawson's Anti-Bilious and Stomachic Bitters,
Which have proved so extremely serviceable for a few years past in restoring weak and decayed constitutions of almost every description, and for removing all those complicated complaints so common in the spring season—For a common bitter to use in families, none can excel them for pleasantness. To show that these excellent bitters are held in high estimation by Physicians of eminence, we need only insert the following extract of a letter from Dr. John Willcox a respectable Physician, and post-master at the city of Vergennes.
VERGENNES, October 23d, 1804.
SIR, I have been one of those who never put much faith in patent medicine until of late, but must acknowledge from actual experience, that I have received more benefit from Dr. Rawson's Bitters, than from all the medicine I ever before took; I have been very unwell with a flow remittant fever.
I am, &c. JOHN WILLCOX, M. D.
Dr. Lee's (Windham) Bilious Pills, Which have proved so eminently useful for these 12 years past in all Bilious Complaints, Indigestion, Jaundice, Dropsies, Debility, Head Aches, Costiveness, Female Complaints, &c. Their virtues are too well known to need comment in an advertisement.—Price 50 cents a box.
Dr. Thompson's Aromatic Tooth Paste, Which whitens and preserves the teeth gives an agreeable smell to the breath, and cures the scurvy in the teeth and gums; it may be applied all times without in the least injuring the teeth The very great and extensive sale this medicine has met with bespeaks its intrinsic worth.—Price 50 cents a box.
Dr. Rawson's Anti Bilious Pills, or Family Pills,
A medicine which no family ought to be without, as those Pills are useful in every complaint where purgatives are necessary; they are certain to operate in a short time without occasioning the least pain or griping.—Price only 25 cents a box.
Dr. Rawson's Celebrated Worm Powder.
The most proper medicine that can be given to children to destroy Worms, & to remove crudities of every kind from the first passages.—Price 50 cents a packet.
Dr. Rawson's (Genuine) Itch Ointment, The most certain and safe application for that disagreeable complaint called the Itch, of now and in use. It also cures all kinds of eruptions on the face or skin, is very agreeable in smell leaves the skin smooth & beautiful, it may be applied at all times with the greatest safety.—Price only 42 cents a box.
Doc. Rawson's much celebrated Worm Powders,
Which have proved very efficacious in dislodging and expelling worms from the bowels of children, they are also a gentle purge, and the most proper physic that can be given to children to remove crudities of every kind from the first passages—ample directions accompany each package—50 cents.
Finkleys infallible remedy for the Piles.
A certain cure for that disagreeable complaint. 50 cents a box.
Doc. Cooley's Rheumatic Pills.
Good in all Rheumatic complaints.—Price 24 cents.
Very particular directions accompany each of these valuable medicines
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