The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1808-06-14 00:00:00

PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, DE-POSITE THE POST-OFFICE, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
SALES AT AUCTION.
ON Wednesday the 15th inst. will be sold, the following PROPERTY, belonging to the estate of Marcus Elcan, deceased, (viz.) an excellent three story BRICK HOUSE on the main street, [nearly opposite the Old City Tavern,] well calculated for a store, and completely fitted for the reception of a genteel family, being well finished and having all necessary out houses, with a sufficiency of ground for a garden. The house is 22 feet in front—the lot on which it stands, is 60 feet in front, and extends from the street to the river bank.
Twelve months credit will be given the purchaser of this property—the payment of the purchase money to be secured both by personal security and a deed of trust. The sale will take place on the premises at 10 o'clock, A. M.
At the same time and place, will be sold, two years lease (from the 1st May last,) of that valuable TENEMENT, with the Dwelling House attached thereto, lately in the occupancy of Mr. Elcan, and belonging to the estate of Jacob Boeckius—the purchaser of this lease, will after the expiration thereof, have the privilege of finishing any materials which may at that time be in the vats, or otherwise unfinished, after being tanned.
Payment of the annual amount of the purchase money, will be required at the expiration of each year (30th April.)
Will also be rented, at the same time and place, until the first of October next, the STORE and DWELLING-HOUSE nearly opposite the Bell-Tavern, lately occupied by Mr. Elcan, possessing almost every convenience for a family, having a stable, kitchen, lumberhouse, &c. &c. The rent will be payable on the 1st of October next.
Also will be sold for cash, if under 50 dollars, and if above on 6 months credit, one Share in the Richmond Library, & one Share in the Richmond Theatre; and for cash, a Military Certificate of 148 dollars.
The payments for all the abovenmentioned property sold on a credit, must be secured by approved endorsed notes negotiable and payable at the Bank of Virginia.
By order of the Executors, JAMES DROWN, Jr. Adm. June 10. (t:12)
MURDOCKS, Donald & Co. against Lucy Dixon, widow of James Dixon, and Sarah, John, Nancy, and Patsey, children and heirs of the said James Dixon.
By virtue of a decree of the court of the United States for the fifth circuit and Virginia district, will be sold on the first day of July next, at public auction, for ready money, a tract of LAND in the county of Louisa whereof John Richmond died seized and possessed, and which is now in the possession of the above named Lucy Dixon and the children and heirs of James Dixon, dec'd. so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the demand of the plaintiffs in the said decree mentioned, and the expenses attending the sale.
Wm. MANN, Deputy for Joseph Scott, Marshall F. D. June 10. [1w3w]
NOTICE—By virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by William Newton bearing date the 13th day of May 1807, and recorded in the County court of Buckingham, for the purpose of securing the payment of a debt due from the said Newton to Hobson and St. John, will be exposed to sale on the premises for ready money on Saturday the second day of July next one hundred Acres of Land in the county of Buckingham adjoining that on which the said Newton resides.
ROBERT MOSELEY Junr. June 10, 1808. (714)
COW POX—The subscriber informs those persons wishing to be vaccinated, that he has lately received fresh matter from his friend Dr. Belfor, (Norfolk) that has succeeded in several vaccinations, and is in a proper state for inoculation. DANL. WM. SACKRIDER. June 10. (41)
NOTICE—All persons indebted to the Estate of Marcus Elcan, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment, and creditors to present their claims without delay.
C. J. MACMURDO, Ex'ors. JOE. MARX, (t)
BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS—The subscriber respectfully offers his services to his friends and the public, in the above line of business and solicits their patronage.
G. GREENHOW Dec. 15. [conw13]
THE MILLING BUSINESS which has heretofore been carried on under the firm of LADD & WEBSTER, was dissolved on the first instant.
THOMAS & AMOS LADD, ISAAC WEBSTER March 18. [t]
TO RENT—A convenient Brick HOUSE near the Hay-Market—For terms apply to JAMES H. LYNCH. May 27. [ep3w]
JOSEPH MARX & Co. have on hand an assortment of German Oznaburgs, Ticklenburgs, Dowlas and Towelling, by the bale, box, or piece. Cognac Brandy, Molasses, Sack Salt, coarse and fine, which they will sell for cash, tobacco or approved paper. May 17. (t)
NOTICE—The subscribers are desirous to dispose of their settlements, one of about 170 acres of LAND, the other of about 230 acres, with tolerable improvements on each tract, and a very valuable Mill now in good repair, working a pair of Callon and a pair of Burstones; the mill is adjacent to the former tract of Land on Falling Creek, about four miles from the Coal Pits, and about eleven miles from Manchester. The terms are, one third part of the purchase amount to be paid down, and the other two thirds to be in three equal annual payments. We deem it unnecessary to say any thing further, as we presume that any person disposed to become a purchaser, would first view the premises, and will apply to the subscribers living thereon. The mill and four acres of land attached thereto may be sold separate. JOHN BAKER. THOMAS BAKER. Chesterfield, June 7. (1w3w)
THE subscriber being appointed one of the Master Commissioners for the United States' Federal Court, fifth circuit, district of Virginia, and also for the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, gives this public Notice, that his office is kept at No. 3, at the Eagle Tavern, where he will attend from the first to the tenth of each month, and also during the sessions of said courts—in the interim, any communications directed to him, post paid, to Charles City court house, will be promptly and strictly attended to. When his reports are ready for delivery, he will leave a notification thereof in the respective offices of said courts. PATK. HENDREN. Richmond, June 3. [law4w]
WAR DEPARTMENT, May 12th, 1808.—PROPOSALS in writing will be received by this department until the first day of August next, for manufacturing Muskets with Bayonets, of the kind and dimensions manufactured at the United States' Armouries at Springfield, Massachusetts, and at Harper's Ferry, Virginia; every part to correspond in dimensions, materials, workmanship and proof with the samples, which will be given from one or the other of those armouries, or from Mr. Whitney's armoury at New Haven in Connecticut.
It will be unnecessary for any one to offer terms unless the price shall be reasonable, and not exceeding ten dollars and seventy-five cents.
Any person inclined to contract for the delivery of from five hundred to two thousand stands a year, for five years, will, on the execution of the contract, and entering into bond, with approved sureties for the faithful performance thereof, receive in advance, if required, a sum equal to the amount of the contract price of the number he shall agree to deliver the first year; and such subsequent advances, as his punctuality in the faithful performance of his contract shall entitle him to.
No proposals will be attended to, unless from persons of such character as can be fully relied on for a faithful and punctilious performance of their contracts and who can give ample and satisfactory security for the correct fulfilment thereof.
No muskets will be received under any contract, that shall not, on a full and correct inspection, by persons appointed for the purpose, be found in all their parts, and in workmanship, fully to correspond with the patterns.
H. DEARBORN, Sec'y of War. May 24, 1808. (2aw3w)
FOR SALE, 121,000 acres of LAND in Kentucky county, in the forks of Great Sandy river:
24,000 do. in Tazewell county, on the waters of Clinch river:
20,000 do. in the county of Wythe, on Reed and Peak creeks:
1,600 do. in Randolph county, on the waters of Cheat river:
Also, 30,000 acres of Virginia Land Warrants. The above will be sold very low, and great accommodation given in the payments.
To RENT, a Brick House, on Shocoe-Hill, in a good neighborhood, and possessing every accommodation for a family.
THOS: NORVELL. Dec. 19. (t)
POLITICAL.
From the National Intelligencer.
The enemies of the administration who, in their zeal to recover their political power, have shown their readiness even to take part with a foreign enemy, having ineffectually endeavored to inflame the popular resentment against the principles of the embargo, are now insidiously aiming at the accomplishment of the same object by indirect attacks upon the embargo, by attempts to shew the oppression and unconstitutionality of the supplementary acts passed to carry it into effect. The style in which these attempts are made proves the intention. Our reason is not addressed, but our passions are stirred. We are patrically addressed as an oppressed, a ruined people, and are called upon to resist our oppressors. In this appeal to our passions we behold the true features of federalism!
Now, as to the alleged oppression of the supplementary acts, it is admitted that the embargo cannot be justly tried unless carried into full and impartial operation. The attempt to carry it into effect without multiplying legal sanctions has been tried; and it has proved illusive. Worthless foreigners and unprincipled partisans, men who to carry their point will use every means, have extorted from Congress the iron provisions of law. Before these provisions were enacted we were told, and truly told, that the embargo executed was less onerous, by its exclusive pressure on the honest part of the community, and its evasion by the dishonest part. We were told that the latter were enriching themselves on the spoils of the former, and facts demonstrated it. To cut up this oppression by the root, the supplementary acts were passed. These require bonds to be given in almost every instance; interdict the clearance of vessels to districts of the United States adjacent to foreign possessions, and give authority to executive officers to stop any vessel within or without the United States, suspected to be engaged in any traffic inhibited by the act laying an embargo.
These provisions have had the effect contemplated. But no sooner is this discovered and the first oppression exclaimed against destroyed, than a new cry is raised against the very measures taken to relieve it. No other measures are pointed out, having this effect, which would be unoppressive. It is not contended that the embargo could be carried into effect without resorting to these measures, but an idle cry of oppression is kept up. There is no doubt but that there is a considerable degree of oppression in the original act, as well as in all passed that are incidental to it. But the simple question is, how could this have been prevented. The embargo was adopted to save our property, nearly our whole property, from destruction, and to preserve peace. To avert so great an evil as the former, it was necessary to take a lesser. The man, who is driven to his house at night to secure himself and his effects against the murderer and robber, might as well enchain against the unfortunate necessity that compelled him to take such precautions. Let us not be deceived; let us look to the actual effect of these measures. They have given to the embargo salutary vigor so far as it is applicable to foreign powers; they have given it an equal and impartial operation so far as it relates to ourselves; they have stopped short the career of unprincipled traders, traders in their country's misfortunes. They have, unfortunately, we admit and regret it, diminished the coasting trade of the merchant; but this is a small evil compared with those plagues they have cured. The farmer and planter, it cannot be too often repeated, constitute the great interest affected by the embargo; and to give it an impartial operation on them ought to be the great object. Some little inconvenience may be felt, in consequence of these provisions, by the fair
traders; but they will be temporary, and will be counteracted by the decisive check given to the inequities of the fraudulent dealer. As to the oppressive exercise of the powers given to executive officers, that is out of the question. There is no motive to prompt it, and the spirit of the country would not bear it. Does it exist? Is it felt? Are provisions scarce in any one point, or is their price materially elevated in one place or depressed in another, thereby supplying the materials for pernicious speculation? The fact is not alleged; it does not exist. Instead of this, the inevitable effect will be to diminish speculation.
Now, as for the unconstitutionality of these provisions. It is contended that the constitution does not authorise some of the provisions in the last supplementary act; and further, that if it did, that act does not authorise some of the measures taken by the President.
The powers given by the act are said to be unconstitutional, because the constitution only gives the power to regulate commerce, not to annihilate it, and declares, likewise, "that no preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another." The first argument, it will be at once perceived, applies to the principle of the embargo, as well as the supplements. The article of the constitution relied on this—Congress shall have power, "to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and with the Indian tribes." This power was given, not so much with a view to the protection of commerce (though doubtless that too may have been contemplated) as in order, in the language of the constitution, "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity"—these being all the objects specified in the preamble of that instrument.
It is without hesitation admitted that the power to regulate does not include the power to annihilate commerce. The idea of annihilating it is absurd; human existence, savage or civilized, depends upon it. Regulate it to ten times the extent done by the embargo, and it still continues in a wide extent. They who talk of the embargo annihilating commerce talk without understanding the force of words. Carry the embargo into the fullest effect and there still remains by far the greater part of the commerce between man and man previously carried on in the interior, there remains that portion of trade which consists in the importation of foreign vessels, and the trade of the American merchant from one foreign port to another, with various other species of traffic, which it is not necessary to enumerate. It is manifest, then, that trade in this point of light is not annihilated by the embargo.
Further, annihilation implies permanent destruction. Can that then be called permanent destruction which is nothing more than temporary suspension ? Were the provisions ten times as severe, they could not, under this aspect of the subject, amount to the annihilation of commerce. As they are they have necessarily flowed from the power to provide for the common defence, and to promote the general welfare. And if these great national objects dictate either such a measure as that resorted to, or one still more severe, so long as they were adopted as temporary, they would be in strict correspondence with the constitution. Let us put a case which we apprehend to be completely decisive. Congress have power to declare war , as well as power to regulate commerce . Would not the exercise of the first power, connected with the duty of defending the country, in case of war, should be declared against all the nations with whom we have commercial intercourse, warrant their prohibiting the supply of our produce to them or their dependencies in case they opened their ports to our vessels and promised to refrain from taking them on their passage over the ocean? It certainly would—thereby proving that the power to regulate commerce may in certain events, temporarily suspend it altogether.
But "no preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another;" and, yet, the supplement prohibits the going of any vessel to the ports of districts adjacent to foreign possessions. We are said to give a preference to one place over another, when we confer upon it a privilege denied to the other. The expression as here used, must mean a legal privilege , as all the trade of the U. States is carried on under certain provisions prescribed by law. Now these provisions as well as the constitutional provision quoted, have for their object the securing to the whole U. States, the same benefits, and the supplementary interdiction goes to insure this very end. But for it, the temptations to fraud in the districts adjacent to foreign possessions would be so great, as to give to their ports a decided preference over the other ports of the U. S.; as in the latter the embargo would be strictly enforced. If by this provision there be a privilege taken away, it is the unjust & illegal privilege of a fraudulent trader.
So much for the constitutionality of the supplementary act; now for the measures adopted by the President to carry it into effect. The 11th section authorises the collectors to detain any vessel ostensibly bound with a cargo to some other port of the U. S. whenever in their opinion the intention is to violate any of the embargo provisions, until the decision of the President shall be had thereupon.
Under this provision, the President has recommended to the collectors that all shipments of flour and other provisions, lumber, naval stores, pot and pearl ashes and flax seed from places where they cannot be wanted for consumption, should be detained. But to guard against inconvenience that might arise from the want of a sufficient supply of provisions, authority is given to the governors of Orleans, Georgia, South Carolina, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, to permit any merchant possessing their confidence to obtain a supply from any port of the U. S. usually exporting flour.
It is contended that the act does not authorise this exercise of power by the Presi-
dent; much less its transfer to the governors of states.
In the exercise of this power, the Executive, instead of waiting for information to be sent to him by the Collector in each specific case, in the Circular to collectors generalizes the cases in which certain acts will amount, in his opinion, to evidence of an intention to violate the act, by which he is made the final judge. To avoid injurious delays he expounds the principles which are to regulate his judgment. But to guard against an abuse of the power, thus conferred, weekly returns of every detention are directed to be transmitted to the treasury department. Does it not then clearly follow that he reserves to himself, notwithstanding the duty assigned to the collectors, the right of finally determining on every case that occurs? He invades no right; he usurps no power; but merely to save trouble to the revenue officers and vexation to the merchant expounds the principles which will regulate his decision in examining cases brought before him as invasive of the embargo; for which the merchants ought to thank him. If the detentions made by the collectors are all correct, he is silent; if incorrect, he, no doubt, would interpose his authority.
But his right to bestow the power, we have stated, on the governors of states, is disputed. But we ask, how could the great object in view be answered by any other means? Are the people of the several states, in want of flour, to wait for permission to get it until they shall have heard from the President of the U. S.? The idea is too monstrous to be maintained for an instant, and only evinces the absurd length to which the faultfinding spirit of party is prone to go. How could the President judge of the degree of confidence proper to be reposed in merchants, or of the quantity of flour wanted for a particular state, but from the information received from others, and who so entitled to confidence as the man invested by his state with the highest political trust?
EUROPE.
Extract of a letter from Madrid, April 7.
Cevallos sheltered by his virtues, has escaped the tempest; and an honorable decree has been issued in his favor; he is appointed minister of state; Aranzazu is named minister of finances; Pignola, minister of favour and justice; O'Callell minister of war. It is rumoured that Mazaredo, who was in disgrace will be appointed minister of marine, and Camano chief treasurer.
The emperor of the French is every day expected at Madrid. The imperial guard has arrived.
The palace of the ex-monarch, is prepared for his imperial majesty. Prince Charles is gone to meet him, and the king is about leaving the capital for the same purpose.
From the Madrid Gazette Extraordinaria.
Thursday, March 31, 1808.
The issue of the suit, carried on at the Escurial has not been published, notwithstanding the decree of 30th Oct. last; and his majesty being desirous that all his subjects should be acquainted with the proceedings against his royal person, who interfered in those occurrences, has ordered a summary of the same to be made out, from the documents relative thereto, found among the papers of the Prince of Peace, which summary is as follows:
On the 28th October last, the ex-monarch Charles IV. delivered to the marquis Caballero, secretary of the department of favour and justice, some papers which he said he had found amongst those of the prince of Asturias, our actual sovereign. They consist of a little book of twelve leaves, another of five and a half, both in his hand writing; a letter dated Tallavera, 28th of May, in an unknown hand, and without signature; a key to the same with rules to write in cypher; a half pate in numbers, cyphers and names, and a note without a signature.
The little book of twelve leaves is a representation tending to manifest with the greatest respect to the king, (father) the whole life and notorious errors of Don Manuel Godoy, prince of Peace. It is replete with all his actions, fortune, pride and despotism, since the days of his childhood; in it his majesty begged of his august father, that he would deign to bring him to an account, when in his presence he might inform himself, by calling on persons deserving of his greatest confidence or any others whom chance might throw in the way, respecting the affairs which he represented to him, and by this means he would be undeceived, and discover the truth contained in that paper; that he ought to remove him from his person, by confining him and his family wherever he might think proper; and by these merely precautionary measures, he would convince himself of how much he was beloved by his people, who would by acclamations of joy testify their apprehension of such measures. There are many more reflections bearing to the purpose and to the benefit of the nation, which are omitted, as the above may suffice to convey a correct idea of its contents. But it must be observed that he begged of the king, his father, that in case he did not approve of the measures proposed, he would not discover them on account of the danger to which his life might be exposed.
The paper consisting of five leaves, principally treated under fictitious names, of the manner of resisting a connection proposed to him, and in no wise suited on account of the present circumstances of the times.
The letter dated Tallavera, is from Don Juan Escoiquiz, late canon and dignitary of the church of Toledo, late preceptor to his (reigning) majesty, in reply to several questions which he had proposed—the cypher and key they made use of in writing to each other some times concerning the same business—and lastly the note was from a former domestic of his majesty but in no manner has it connected with the present affairs.
On the 29th October, about half past 6 in the afternoon, there were convened in the apartment of the king, (father,) the secretaries of the departments, and the temporary president of the council, and his majesty who now reigns, being called upon, was asked for the papers, and afterwards was conducted by
his august Father to his own apartment where he remained under arrest deprived of all communications, unless with the new attendants appointed to wait upon him, for the same afternoon all his former attendants were put into confinement.
On the 30th the king, (father) delivered to the marquis Caballero the decree, which under the same date was published throughout the kingdom, stigmatizing as traitors who were attached to him. This decree, cited by order of his majesty has been certified by our officers of the departments of favour and justice and of war, to be the hand writing of Don Manuel Godoy prince of peace who was then in the capital; but it did not appear as an original document in the suit, as it was delivered to the king as soon as copies were taken for publication.
On the same day, (30th Oct.) his present majesty, seeing himself under arrest and deprived of communication, found it necessary to manifest what he had transacted till then for the benefit of the country, in order to be relieved from the embarrassment under which he laboured—and on the same and following days, in the presence of the marquis Caballero, he declared his wishes to render his country happy by contracting an alliance with a princess of the imperial house of France; the means he had employed for this; what he had done to dissipate his father's prejudices, pointing out the calamities occasioned by the boundless confidence reposed in Don Manuel Godoy; that under the apprehensions to which this personage would have recourse to arms, and possess himself of the kingdom when his father expired; the foregoing year in a dangerous illness, he had given the duke del Infantado a decree in his own hand writing, with a blank for the date, and with the black seal, authorizing him, immediately on his decease to take the command of the army in New Castile.
After this the prince of peace went to the Escurial, and proceeding to the present king's apartment, he gave him a letter to copy, wherein he asked pardon of his august father—this he complied with, as he could not refuse giving him this proof of filial obedience and respect, writing at the same time another to his revered mother, both which were annexed to the decree of the 5th of November, which in the hand writing of Don Manuel Godoy, prince of peace, was delivered to the marquis Caballero, as already certified to his majesty's secretaries.
The only crimes for which a suit has been instituted and carried on against such an illustrious and worthy personage as is the duke del Infantado, were his having received the decree already mentioned, and supplied his present majesty with sums of money to defray certain unavoidable expenses. Those in like manner, alleged against Don Juan Escoiquiz were for being the author of the two first papers written in his majesty's hand together with the letter dated Tallavera, and some other offices dictated by his loyalty and predilection for his royal pupil.
The marquis de Ayerbe, the count de Orgaz, and Don Juan Manuel de Villena, have had no other share in the transactions than serving their master in what they thought to be un censurable. It was intended to implicate in this suit the duke de San Carlos, count de Bornos, and Don Pedro Giraldo, but the attempt miscarried.
By the official declarations made by these persons and others, it appears that one of the imperious causes for taking measures of precaution, and to undeceive the ex-monarch, was, that Don Diego Godoy, duke de Almodovar del Campo, had intimated to brigadier Don Thomas de Jauregui, colonel of the regiment of Pavia, the necessity there was of changing the dynasty, in consequence of the perilous state of his majesty's health, and other concomitant circumstances. Of this indiscretion neither he nor Don Louis de Vigui, ex-intendant of the Havanna, who, 'tis said expressed himself in the same manner, have yet exculpated themselves, notwithstanding the declarations, and confrontation of witnesses which then took place.
For the trial of this cause the ex-monarch, on the 6th November appointed a tribunal composed of Don Arias Antonio Mon, deacon temporary president of the royal council, Don Sebastian de Torres, and Don Domingo Fernandez Compommes, members of the same council, at which was to assist as secretary, Don Benito Arias de Prada. The summary being completed, Don Simeon de Vigas, eldest member of council, was appointed to act as attorney general; and to give the verdict, after all the formalities and solemnities of law should have been passed through; in addition to the three persons composing the tribunal, were appointed eight more, to wit—Don Gonzalo Jose de Vilches, Don Antonio Villanueva, Don Antonio Gonzalez Yebra, the marquis de Casa Garcia, Don Andres Lavauca, Don Antonio Alvarez Contreras, D. Miguel Alfonso Villagomez, all of the same council, and D. Eugenio Manuel Alvarez Caballero, erisical of the council de ordenes.
Don Simon de Vigas, king's attorney for the prosecution, in his charge, demanded that the punishment prescribed by law against traitors, should be inflicted on Don Juan Escoiquiz and the duke del Infantado; and that a more signal punishment should be inflicted on the Marquis de Ayerbe, count de Orgaz, and other prisoners; but the eleven judges, seeing that nothing had been proven against any of those who had been arraigned for a crime so atrocious as was that expressed in the decrees of 30th Oct. and 5th Nov. nor had any thing appeared which could justify the slightest suspicion, nor even the shadow of a proof that any design or attempt had been contemplated either against the life or throne of his majesty, they with unanimous consent decreed and subscribed the sentence and circular letter, whereof here follow the copies.
SENTENCE.
At the royal palace of St. Lorenzo on the 23d of January, 1808. The illustrious D. Arias Antonio Mon, deacon and temporary president of the council, &c. (Here follows the names of the members already expressed) members of the royal council, appointed by his majesty for the trial of those persons now confined for the occurrences which took place relative to the most serene prince

of Asturias: having attended to the proceedings in this cause, together with the accusation brought by D. Simon de Viegas, eldest member of the council, and acting as his majesty's attorney by royal appointment, in the decree 30th November, wherein he attempts to implicate D. Juan Escoiquiz, archdeacon of Alcaraz, dignitary of the church of Toledo, and the duke del Infantado, as traitors, and requires that the punishment be provided by the ley de partida; moreover, that a more signal punishment take place on the persons of the count de Orgaz, marquis de Ayerbe, Andres Casana, D. Josef Gonzalez Manrique, Pedro Callado, and Fernando Saldana, now prisoners, for infidelity in the exercise of their respective officers; and having, in like manner, attended to their respective defences and representations. It is the unanimous opinion of the tribunal, that charges in the accusation brought forward by the attorney for the crown, are groundless and unsupported; it is therefore decreed, that the aforesaid persons, (here the names of the accused are reiterated) be absolved and are hereby absolved, and are to be forthwith set at liberty, together with such others as are in confinement on the like charge, although they be not named in the final accusation—Commanding that the confinement suffered by them, shall not at present, nor at any future period, prove prejudicial to the honorable fame which they enjoyed previous to their arrest, nor shall it impede the exercise and continuance in the offices previously occupied by them, nor exclude them from the favour and protection to which the unalterable justice and clemency of their sovereign heretofore, might have considered them entitled. Ordered to be published and posted up at the usual places in virtue of the decree of 30th Oct. 1807, &c. &c.
(Here follows the names of the judges, &c.) SIRE—The president of council transmits the proceedings in the case instituted against the persons confined for the occurrences relative to the Prince of Asturias, together with the sentence pronounced on this occasion, in virtue of the authority vested by your majesty in said tribunal. It is the wish of this body, that the same may meet with your royal approbation. San Lorenzo, Jan. 26. Published by order of his majesty.
DECREE. BY CHARLES IV. &c. As the indisposition with which I am afflicted, no longer permits me to support the weighty burden of the government of my dominions, and as it becomes necessary for the restoration of my health, that I should enjoy in a more temperate climate the tranquility of private life, I have determined, after the most mature deliberation, to abdicate my crown in favour of my heir and well beloved son the prince of Asturias. Therefore it is my royal will, that he be acknowledged and obeyed as king and legitimate sovereign of all my kingdoms and dominions. And to the end that this my royal decree of free and spontaneous abdication may have its full and due effect, you are to communicate it to the council, and to all those whom it may regard. Aranjuez, 19 March 1808.
BY ME THE KING. To Don Pedro Cevallos. ROYAL DECREE IN FAVOR OF D. PEDRO CEVALLOS. Notwithstanding my chief secretary of state, Don Pedro Cevallos, for several reasons which he has made known to me, has resigned his commission into my hands, I have not thought proper to accept of the same, since, I have just cause to believe notwithstanding his marriage with the first cousin of the prince of peace, Don Manuel Godoi, he has never concurred with the sentiments and unjust designs attributed to that person, and respecting which I have ordered the proper investigations to be made. Confiding then in his honorable principles and attachment to the sovereign whereof I ought to avail myself, it is my will that this my royal appointment be made public for the information of all my subjects. You will attend to the same for its due accomplishment. BY THE KING. To the marquis Caballero.
MADRID, April 19. His majesty has been pleased to address to his excellency the president of the council the following decree of the 6th instant. Having thought proper to appoint as president of my supreme council of state the Marquis Caballero, late secretary of state and of the department of favour and justice, in consequence of his signal services and more particularly of the merit he has displayed in the late occurrences in the reign of my august father. And in like manner to permit Don Antonio Olaguez Solis, lieutenant general of my forces, to retire from the office of secretary of state and of the war department, in which he has served to my satisfaction. Moreover, I have thought fit to appoint Don Sebastian Pineda y Alonso, secretary of favour and justice of the council and state of Castile, to the office of secretary of state and public affairs; and to that of secretary of state and war department, Don Gonzalo O'Farrell. You will make this communication to my state and privy councils.
April 12. On the 8th instant his majesty was pleased to address the following decree to all the councils for their information, and other purposes, for which it is intended. Knowing that the emperor of the French and King of Italy, is shortly expected to arrive at this capital, it is my intention to go and meet his royal and imperial majesty, in order to afford him a convincing proof of my esteem for his august person, as well as of my ardent wishes to consolidate more the bonds of amity and close alliance, happily subsisting between the French empire and this monarchy, for the reciprocal benefit of both nations. I shall therefore proceed for Burgos, the day after to-morrow, being the 10th of the month. And although my absence will be of short duration, I have resolved on account of the present circumstances, to invest with the necessary authority, my beloved uncle, the infante Don Antonio, in whom I repose full confidence in virtue of the bonds of consanguinity uniting him to my person, as well as the noble qualities for which he is distinguished; in order to discharge the weighty and urgent affairs of government, which may occur during my absence, wherein he will previously attend to the advice of my secretaries of state, &c.
On the 14th April the king reached Vitoria, which is 240 miles from Madrid. The emperor left St. Cloud on the 2d April, and on the 4th was at Bordeaux.
TRANSLATIONS (For the Chronicle.) From Madrid Gazettes of the 22d April, received by the Joanna, arrived at Salem from Bilboa. March 27. Besides the combined fleet under admiral Ganteaume, which, as we have already said, had happily entered Coruña, two brigs have also arrived in the said port, under the command of chevalier Pauluce. These had arrived previously a convoy loaded with ammunition and provisions sent from Ancona by general Lemarquis. No English vessels are seen on the coasts. General Douzelot is appointed governor general of the Seven Islands, in the place of general Cesar Berthier.
Paris, April 4.—The Emperor set out the day before yesterday from St. Cloud at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and took the road to Bordeaux, where it is thought he will arrive this day. The Prince of Neufchatel, Mr. Champeaguy, minister of foreign affairs, and Mr. Maret, minister and secretary of state, have also set out to accompany the Emperor. The high steward Durok likewise accompanies His Majesty in this voyage.
Letters have been received from Venice, dated the 24th March, stating, that the day previous, a letter had been received from Mr. Bessieres, imperial commissary in the Seven Islands, with the agreeable intelligence, that the combined fleets of Rochefort and Toulon had happily arrived in the road of Coruña the 25th of February, the first under the command of Admiral Albinou, and the second under that of Admiral Ganteaume. Both fleets consist of 10 ships of the line, and several frigates and smaller vessels. The English have disappeared from those waters, and the navigation of the Adriatic sea remains entire.
All the disputes which existed between France and the regency of Algiers have been settled and terminated after the elevation of the new Dey. The Genoese have been acknowledged as members of the French empire, and the Italians as her friends and Allies. The Genoese and Italian slaves that were in Algiers, and they amounted to 103, have been set at liberty, and transported to Marseilles. Mr. Dubois Thainville, charge d'affaires of France, has shown much zeal in this negotiation, and exposed his person several times.
April 9.—The 6th instant, H. M. the Empress set out for Bordeaux, accompanied by the senator Mr. Harville, her squire of honor, Mr. H. Beaumont, her gentleman, and her secretary Mr. Deschamps.
Bordeaux, April 7.—H. M. set out from St. Cloud the 2d instant, and slept at Orleans. The following day (3d) he dined at Amboise, and at half an hour past noon, he passed through Tours without stopping. Two hours before, the count Fernan Nunez, the ambassador from Spain, had arrived at Tours, with a letter from his sovereign for H. I. M.—Marshall Duroc, who was in the first coach, alighted to receive it, and put it in the hands of H. M. who read it, and answered that he would give an audience in the first post. Thereupon the ambassador left his coaches, and got into a post chaise to follow the Emperor. The 4th, at 8 o'clock in the evening, H. M. arrived at Bordeaux. The following day he received the chiefs and magistrates, and reviewed the troops in the field of Mars. Afterwards he went on the river, examined the port, and returned to his palace traversing the courts of Castel Trompete.—H. M. passed yesterday dispatching business, and only went out to repair to the theatre, escorted by the guard of honor, which has been prepared for him in this city, being the only one he would have. It is impossible to describe the joy and enthusiasm of all the towns through which H. M. has passed.
MADRID, March 25.—The King our master, accompanied by his beloved brothers, uncles and nephews repaired yesterday the 25th instant, from the royal seat of Aranjuez to the palace of this city, where H. M. and H. R. now are, without any variation in their important health. The rejoicing and rejoicing of the loyal inhabitants of Madrid have been such as because the actual extraordinary circumstances; and the applause, huzzas, and other expressions of fidelity and tenderness of the immense concourse that had attended to solemnize the first entry of our young monarch, have shewn in a conspicuous manner the affections of all hearts and the veneration of his people, who full of love towards his royal person, and of hopes that a reign which begins under such happy auspices promises, congratulate one another that they live under his august empire.
April 5.—H. I. H. the grand duke of Berg and Cleves had manifested to his excellency D. Pedro Cevallos, first secretary of state, that H. I. M. the Emperor of the French and King of Italy would like to possess the sword that Francis I. King of France, surrendered in the famous battle of Pavia, when the invincible Charles V. reigned in Spain, and was kept with due regard in the royal armory, since the year 1525, charging him to represent the same to the King our master. H. M. being informed of it, who is desirous to improve every opportunity to manifest to his high ally, the Emperor of the French, the high consideration he feels for his august person, and the admiration which his unbounded exploits have inspired him with, ordered that the said sword should be immediately delivered to H. I. and R. M.; and for that purpose he thought there could not be a more worthy and respectable channel than the said most serene Duke de Berg—who, formed by his side, and in his school, and illustrious by his prowess and military talents, was more deserving than any one to take charge of such a precious deposit, and transfer it to the hand of H. I. M.
MADRID, April 15.—The king our master, who left this capital to go and meet his intimate ally, the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, arrived most happily at Burgos the 13th instant. All the towns and villages on the passage and their environs, were desirous to run and enjoy the presence of their beloved monarch; men, women, old people and children, vying who would shew the highest demonstrations of the loyalty and love which animated them. Here they strewed the ground on which H. M. was to pass with flowers; there they overspread it with their garments and gala dresses, thanking themselves very happy that his crown should go over them; and sometimes they endeavored with dances, as beautiful as ingenious, and with imitations and obsequiousnesses of all kinds, to recreate the mind of their king and father. And every where during his journey, amidst the tears of joy and tenderness, resounded the most eloquent huzzas and acclamations, the most fervent Benedictions and vows for the prosperity of an idolized king, around whose august throne, all the Spaniards being most closely united, have sworn in their hearts to shed even the last drop of their blood for his defence and honor.
NEW-YORK, June 3. The ship Liverpool Packet, capt. Parsons, whose arrival below we noticed in yesterday's Mercantile Advertiser, left Liverpool on the 27th of April. We have received by her a file of Liverpool papers to that date, London papers to the 25th, Lloyd's Lists & Prices Current to the 23d. Mr. Rose, in the Statira frigate, reached Lymington in 31 days from the U. States, & arrived in London on the morning of the 23d of April. On the day captain Parsons sailed, it was reported that the Gage was detained in France under the Milan decree, which subjects to seizure all neutral vessels who may have been spoken on their passage by British cruisers. We are strongly inclined to discredit this rumour, there is only on the authority of the following letter, which mentions the arrival of Mr. Nourse in England, and which comes to us from so respectable a source as to silence every doubt we might otherwise cherish on this subject. Extract of a letter from a merchant in Liverpool, to his correspondent in New-York, dated April 27th. "I have just time to inform you that the "STATESMAN" of Monday (a copy of which I could not procure in time to send by the Liverpool Packet) stops the press at four o'clock in the afternoon to announce the arrival of Mr. Nourse from France, and that General Armstrong had left Paris. This information you may rely upon. It is not known whether General Armstrong is recalled, or whether his departure indicates a rupture between France and the United States. This matter, I presume, will be better known on your side the water."
The newspapers contain very little intelligence of an interesting nature. We have given the most important occurrences. Capt. Parsons has brought dispatches from our minister in London to the Secretary of State.
LONDON, April 20. By the Gottenburg mail some letters have been received from Dantzic, which state, that an American vessel had arrived there whose papers certified her to have come from New-York. She was, in consequence permitted to land her cargo, which sold at a very high price. From the examination of the crew, however, it was found that the vessel came last from Liverpool.—On this discovery, the Consul who sanctioned the clearance was sent to the galleys, and the whole amount of the cargo was obliged to be delivered up to the French commander, general Rapp.
April 21. A gentleman arrived yesterday from Amsterdam, (on his way to America,) which place he left a few days ago, states, that that place now suffers the greatest commercial distress; many warehouses and shops are entirely shut up; and a general outcry prevails against the war. He further states that the report of our intending to make Spanish America independent, had caused the greatest apprehension in the French government; that its fears for the success of such a measure, though studiously concealed, were yet obvious; and that Bonaparte was determined to use every effort for hurrying North America into a war with England, that he may be able to embody the numerous French now in the United States, into an army for invading Mexico, in conjunction with the Americans, whence he could afterwards send troops into the different parts of South America. Just as the 1st Courier came away from Stockholm, which was the day after the mail set out, a communication was received by the telegraph across the Gulph, that the fortress of Sveaborg had been attacked by the Russians, but that they were driven back with great slaughter. This was known at Gottenburg at the sailing of the last packet. A private letter mentions the fact, though not more circumstantially. As long as this fortress remains in the hands of the Swedes, Finland is not lost. It is here the King means to land his army as soon as the ice is gone. The garrison of Sveaborg consists of 7,000 men, under the command of the old and experienced general Cronstedt.—The fortress is provisioned for four months, owing to the foresight of Baron Sedingh, the Swedish Ambassador at St. Petersburg, who found means to acquaint the commandant of the approaching danger. This brave general has assured the King, that he shall defend it, if even attacked by the whole Russian army.
To shew the zeal of the Swedes in the honorable conflict in which they are engaged, we need but mention two facts:—The sailors having been ordered to attend at the offices in the respective districts, where they are registered, the wish of the King was communicated to them by old naval officers, when, without asking what their pay would be, they volunteered all to a man. The navy was thus completed in a fortnight. The levy of all young men from 18 to 25 years, constituted no less than 280,000 men, since many who were above 25 under-rated their age, and others insisted on their right to serve their country. This number being far more than is wanted, or the country could well support, the King has been obliged to publish a proclamation, stating how many, and no more, each district shall furnish; and also those who are on no account to be enrolled, such as students at the universities, burghers, and mechanics. These volunteers are now training in all parts of the country, and such is the public spirit, that many attend the drill who are not suffered to enlist. The account of the hostile feelings of the Americans, experienced by Admiral Duckworth's squadron, during its stay in the Chesapeake, as stated in the Globe, yesterday, made a serious impression in the city, and the funds fell 1 per cent. The attack of the Leopard upon the Chesapeake frigate was the cause of the President's Proclamation, interdicting the entrance of all British ships of war into the waters of the United States, and prohibiting all intercourse between them and the shore. Ample reparation on has been long since made for this offence by the recall of Admiral Berkeley, and the renunciation of all claim to search ships of war; but from the inextinguishable treatment received by our squadron, it appears, that the reparation offered by our government has not been received, and that the hostile proclamation continues in force. It does not follow however, that the apology was refused on the ground of insufficiency. It most probably has arisen from the determination of the American government to abide by the demand which they have made, of bringing the whole of their complaints forward together, and not to make the affair of the Chesapeake a matter of separate discussion. It might have been expected that Mr. Rose's mission would at least have procured for our squadrons the rights of hospitality, if it did not effect a complete re-establishment of the former good understanding between the two countries; but so far it has not been attended with desired success. It is said, that there are nine sail of the line ready for sea in Flushing harbour. By some of our cruisers, from off the coast of France, we learn, that within the last fortnight, two more sail of the line have been added to a strong force assembled in the outer harbour of Brest, which seems in a complete condition for sea, and ready for a start the first fair wind, or any such as may oblige our blockading fleet to quit its station. It is said that the French, since they have been prevented from importing colonial pro-
duce, have discovered a substitute for coffee, in the roots of endive, or what is more generally called dandelion.
April 25. Three Gottenburg Mails arrived this morning, but bring no very interesting news.—From the frontiers of Norway we learn, that the Norwegians have cut down the woods and felled the branches of the trees across the roads so as to render them impassible, especially for artillery. General Arnsfeldt has joined the Swedish army there. The Swedish gun boats are all going to the Sound.—Accounts from Finland are very gloomy.—The Spanish army is still retreating. Sverderg is however capable of making a good defence from its strong situation, and having, it is said, a garrison of 7000 men. Price of Stocks on Monday. 3 per Ct. Cons. for money 66 3/4; do. for May 66 3/4.
LIVERPOOL, April 27. POLITICAL REVIEW. Mr. Rose has arrived in London from America; he came in the Statira frigate. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office on Saturday last, to deliberate on the subject of his communication; we are sorry the accounts from America are not very favorable to England. Although nothing has hitherto transpired which renders an amicable adjustment hopeless, yet certainly there exists good reason to fear that the negotiations are attended with much difficulty. The American government seems determined to abide by the demands which they have made, of bringing all their complaints forward together, and are not disposed to be satisfied with a mere apology and reparation for the affair of the Chesapeake. The disputed points between the countries involve questions of vital national importance; and, however inclined we may be to wish for a friendly termination of the difference, we see more reason to fear than to hope. But the refusal of the American government to permit Admiral Duckworth to water his squadron in the Chesapeake, does not of itself render war more probable. It was understood, when the last accounts came away, that the embargo remained in full force, and that no relaxation of the measures which the American government had adopted was to take place till an answer had been received to the dispatches transmitted to Europe. Mr. Erskine remains in America.—We understand that the report of an insurrection in the Western Country, and of a revolution in the Floridas, under the direction of the French General Moreau, are without foundation.
PORTSMOUTH June 4. Captain Dane from Sicily, in 60 days, confirms generally the information brought by captain Mantor, and given in the Centinel of the 7th ult. that a large French squadron had left port, and been pursued by Lord Collingwood, accompanied by Admiral Thornborough and Sir R. J. Strachan. The last accounts before he sailed, stated, that the French squadron had arrived in the Gulph of Taranto; where it was supposed they expected to join a small Russian squadron from the Adriatic, and afterwards proceed towards the Black sea, with an intention of forming a junction with the Turkish fleet. Admiral Martin with five sail of the line, was at Palermo.
WEST-INDIES. BALTIMORE, June 9. By the arrival of the schooner Five Sisters at Philadelphia, from New Providence, we have received our file of Ba ama papers down to the 21st of May. In these we find the publication by the governor's order, of the instructions of the British commissioners of the high court of admiralty, directing and authorising a trade from the British West-India islands and Nova-Scotia, with the revolted part of St. Domingo. Thus it appears that the British cabinet persevere in supporting the right of all colonies to rebel against their mother country but her own. They bear testimony that the colossal power of the whole British navy is not capable of sheltering their commerce under their all-protecting wings against even a marauding one gun privateer. A court-martial had been assembled on board the Diamond frigate in Port Royal harbor, for the trial of the captain and officers of the ship Maros, on account of her loss off Baya Honda—they were honorably acquitted. Three cruisers, French or Spanish, are making successful operations on the English shipping off the edge of the Bahama banks; three licensed Spanish traders have fallen prizes into their hands.—The loss sustained by the inhabitants of Port Spain, Trinidad, is estimated at half a million pounds sterling. The British brig Rapasso was captured last February by the Spaniards and sent into Carthagena. They have since been released, and upon their arrival at Kingston, Jam. they were court-martialed and honorably acquitted. A violent squall was experienced at New-Providence on the 16th of May, by which at Nassau, 20 vessels were driven ashore, but were got off at high water with little difficulty or damage. The Intendant of Havanna has issued an order, demanding that the merchants who hold American produce shall furnish for the use of government, 6,744 barrels of flour, 1,027 barrels pork, 1,251 barrels of beef, 65,562 wt. of good beans, and 5,113 wt. of vinegar, 9,295 jars of oil, and 81 barrels of ordinary; which, if not delivered in ten days, he will take measures for obtaining by force, for the use of his Catholic majesty's troops. Nassau paper.
We understand that Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry P. Stanhope, Bart. second in command of the squadron employed in the expedition to the Baltic, is shortly expected to relieve Vice Admiral Dacres in the naval command on this station.—Jamaica paper. THE subscriber has lost a RED MOROCCO POCKET-BOOK of a tolerable large size, containing sundry papers, among which are two bonds executed to him, one by William Randolph of Richmond, for the sum of two thousand seven hundred and seventy-two dollars, and the other by Richard K. Randolph of Prince Edward county, for about one hundred and seventy or eighty pounds.—All persons are hereby forewarned from trading for or receiving the assignment of said bonds, the obligors having been noticed that the said bonds are lost. A generous reward will be given for said Pocket-Book and papers by the subscriber, who resides at Powhatan court-house. EDWD. JOHNSON. June 14. (24) WANTED immediately—a few good LABORERS, by the month, at the Columbia Mills; to whom liberal wages will be given. SAMUEL LEECH, for JOHN BRANDSBY. June 14. (25)
DOMESTIC. FROM ALBANY, (N. Y.) May 20. In addition to the militia, several days since detached from this regiment, twenty-five more were last week detached from this town and Georgia, and marched under the command of lieut. Whittimore, to the military station near the provincial line.—The principal object of this military force was ostensibly, the detention of ruffs; several of them have been brought to and boarded.—They have, however, found means to liberate themselves, and not a raft, we understand, is now left in our waters. Taking the advantage of the night, and a strong south wind, those concerned in rafts have evaded every exertion to molest them. On Saturday evening last, the wind being favorable, the then remaining raft joined making a surface, it is said, of about ten acres, and carry- ing forty sail, made an expeditious and safe exit from the United States.
As neighbors to the province of Canada it is the wish of this part of the country to remain on terms of friendship and amity, and we anxiously look forward to the time when we can, constitutionally, exchange our commodities. It is now reduced to a melancholy fact that a set of unprincipled speculators on or about Lake Champlain are determined to oppose and evade the embargo law, at all events. The interposition of a small detachment of the militia which is now about to be made, we believe, will disperse these transgressors of our laws, and induce them to return to their respective homes. [Rutland Herald.]
THE EMBARGO.—The following letter, received on Tuesday, not only corroborates the opinions universally entertained of the embargo in Europe, but incontestably proves the union of sentiment on that important subject, collected from every quarter, as distant from each other as from America; while in this country alone, men are to be found so treacherous to the interests and honor of the United States as to reproach our own government for doing what all the rest of the world approves.—Bost. Chron. Extract of a letter from an American gentleman in Portugal, dated April 15th, to his friend in this town. "This I presume is the last opportunity I shall have to write you until the embargo shall be taken off; and I hope a general peace will put an end to the necessity of its continuance. I can readily conceive that it must cause great distress in our seaport towns, as well as here; but I trust it will be borne with patience, and even with a degree of cheerfulness by all ranks of citizens until the grand object is effected for which it was put on—namely, to force the leading nations of Europe to respect our national rights and privileges. I have no doubt our present conduct strikes the rulers of England and France with dismay, as much so more than would fifty line of battle ships. This is a cheap and effectual weapon of defence, and one that puzzles the European nations to find the means of combating—if we remain firm, they must give way."
LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. TUESDAY, May 31. After various motions for adjournment—talk of calling for the yeas and nays on minor questions, &c. &c. the House agreed to postpone the consideration of Mr. WHEATON'S Resolutions till to-morrow morning. WEDNESDAY, June 1. The Resolutions of Mr. WHEATON being the order of the day, were taken up. They were supported by Messrs. WHEATON, BAYLEY, ADAMS, THATCHER, SARGENTS, WHITHAM, BATES, and GORE, and opposed by Messrs. DANGS, WESTON, RIPLEY, MARTIN & MORTON. The House adjourned without a decision. In no debate before in our house of Representatives, has more information and talents been displayed, or more auditors been collected.
THURSDAY, June 2. The consideration of Mr. WHEATON'S Resolutions was resumed. Mr. STORY spoke against them, and Mr. BRADBURY in their favor. At one o'clock the question was taken by yeas and nays, and decided in the affirmative—yeas 240, nays 219—Majority for the Resolutions 27. AFTERNOON. COUNCILLORS.—At 4 o'clock the House proceeded to the election of Nine Councillors, vice the gentlemen chose on Tuesday, who declined serving. The following gentlemen had the number of votes affixed to their names, and were elected: Hon. DAVID COBB, 276 GEORGE CABOT, 275 JOHN C. JONES, 276 EPHRAIM SPOONER, 276 THOMAS DWIGHT, 276 ARIEMAS WARD, 276 BENJAMIN PICKMAN, jr. 274 PRENTISS MELLEN, 276 OLIVER FISKE, 275 The Democratic List consisted of the Councillors of last year, who had 224 votes each. SENATOR.—At 5 o'clock, the House proceeded to the election of a National senator, as Mr. ADAM's term of service expires with the 3d of March next; the [Votes Hon. JAMES LLOYD, junr. had 248 Hon. JOHN Q. ADAMS, 213 LABAN WHEATON, Esq. 1
REPUBLICANS! LOOK OUT!! BOSTON, June 4, FROM ALBANY, May 28, 1808. Our democrats elected, are Clintonians; and as they will decree, that the Electors shall be chosen by the Legislature, only such men will be appointed, as are pledged to vote for GEORGE CLINTON, as President; & JAMES MONROE, as Vice President; unless indeed an understanding, which is talked of takes place with the Federalists in the other States; in which case, a different arrangement will be made. In any event, I am confident, MADISON will not have a vote in New-York. To me it appears certain, that if the Federalists unite, and adopt a magnanimous policy—they will have a commanding influence in electing the next President and Vice-President of the United States. God grant they may be wise, and united; and that some friend to impartial justice towards all nations, and free trade with all the world, may be elected. We have chosen eight staunch Federalists for the 11th Congress, in the present we have only two! Bost. Cent. a federal print.

The recent conduct of the Judiciary at Charleston is only an additional proof of the monstrous absurdity, of what is called the independence of the judges...
If the laws and policy of the nation are to be set aside upon a quibble... the very principles of peace and war are to be involved...
BALTIMORE, June 9.
MONTREAL, May 28. The boats of the Michillimackinac Company, under the sanction of the permanent articles of the treaty of 1794...
A representation of the outrage has been forwarded to the government of the United States by express.
IMPORTANT! The following information was laid before the underwriters this day, by a respectable merchant of this city. That by the French Emperor's special order of the 27th January last...
At the request of the Emperor of France, the young King of Spain has presented him with the sword of Francis the first of France...
Balt. Ex. Post.
COMMUNICATION. R. R. Keene, Esq. attorney at law, late of New-Orleans, purchasing not long since in Baltimore the fast sailing schooner Meteor...
A few queries on the preceding communication will tend to some curious reflections in the reader's mind.
Was Keene really bound for Havana? Was Daniel Clark acquainted with that destination?
Upon what grounds did Mr. Harper lately depose that Keene was in Cuba? A solution of these questions might give us a clue to the kind of men who violate the embargo law.
Wash. Mon. or.
A NARROW ESCAPE. RALEIGH, (North-Carolina) May 26. The person who bore the suspension of the execution of West, for the murder of James Craig...
Since the suspension of execution, petitions from most of the respectable men of that county, including the whole of the petit jury, but one, who was absent, have been presented to governor Williams...
VIRGINIA, to wit: At a court of Appeals held at the Capitol, in Richmond, the third day of June, 1808.
GENERAL RULE—After the end of this present term, all causes depending in this court shall be called in the order in which they stand upon the docket...
Ordered, That the above rule be published in at least three of the newspapers printed in Richmond, once a week until the first day of October next.
A Copy, Teste, J. BROWN, c. c. June 14. [Jsto]
TO RENT—The upper APARTMENTS in the House occupied by Messrs. Kirby, Drake & Taylor, possessing convenient accommodations for a family.
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, JUNE 14, 1808.
TO JAMES CHEETHAM, EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN CITIZEN OF N. Y.
The conduct, which you are now pursuing, is a subject of astonishment in more than one point of view. After the suspicious and disgusting course which you have adopted...
It is no news to you, that you have completely lost the confidence & respect of those republicans in this district of country, who know any thing about you.
Your estimate of the result of the next election, is the most ridiculous piece of political arithmetic, which this controversy has called forth.
Virginia will give Mr. Madison "a plumper," in spite of you or all your political arithmetic.
All the world now sees that the contest is between—Madison—Clinton—and probably Cotesworth Pinckney.
Table with 3 columns: State, Madison, Monroe, Clinton. Lists federal votes for Clinton by state.
It is the time for the Republicans of the union to break into schisms, and by their divisions encourage the hopes and the exertions of the federalists.
This will have almost certainly been expressed. Mr. Madison has been nominated by the Republican members of Congress at Washington...
But it is superfluous to appeal to this principle for your satisfaction, as you have indirectly admitted the efficiency of another.
First asserting that "no one state had previously arrogated to itself the right of making the nomination," but the "invariable practice of the republican party had been for the members of Congress...
Now, most unfortunately for you, there is no need of any sophistry or ingenuity to disprove this favorite idea of a previous nomination at Richmond...
You say most emphatically, that the nomination of Mr. Madison was made at Richmond, on the twenty-first day of January.
At no time was there a suspicion that there were more than two of the citizens, nominated for electors, partial to Mr. Clinton...
distinct and separate sounds as could exist. No events could have taken place, and not even "ingenuity" itself could have contrived an arrangement, better calculated to show the complete co-incident of the Richmond and Washington caucuses...
This principle of nomination is not a new one. It has the decided concurrence of one of your own writers, under the signature of John Milton...
Another of your Essayists, who comes forward like a second Nestor with all the gallantry of age, to lay the treasures of his experience at the feet of his countrymen...
It is certainly untrue that Mr. Bankhead was induced, solely at the instigation of a federalist, to offer his services to the County of Westmoreland, in the late election.
It is true, that Mr. B. consented to serve the County, if elected, some short time previous to March Court...
It is of some importance to the feelings of Mr. B. and his friends, that it should be understood that he did not enter into any coalition with the federalists on this occasion...
The 4th No. on the EMBARGO in our next.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
As it is said, that "in any event the attempt to expose error, must at all times give some importance to every communication," it is presumed, that the writer of the following remarks, need not enter into a ceremonious apology...
A writer under the signature of "A Citizen of Westmoreland," in reply to a communication from Port-Royal, on the subject of the late Westmoreland Election...
and that communication—They are between Mr. Bankhead and his Westmoreland republican friends to determine upon, as they please.
So far then, as this statement goes to this particular part of the subject, the truths in it, are, to the writer irresistibly conclusive...
Should any farther communications or explanations be necessary on this, to others uninteresting and unprofitable subject, it would, perhaps be most correct, to confine them to the district or its neighborhood...
Port-Royal, June 7th, 1808.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER.
SIR, Unwilling that a misrepresentation of facts, of any description, whether they concern the public or an individual, should go uncontradicted...
It is certainly untrue that Mr. Bankhead was induced, solely at the instigation of a federalist, to offer his services to the County of Westmoreland, in the late election.
It is true, that Mr. B. consented to serve the County, if elected, some short time previous to March Court...
It is of some importance to the feelings of Mr. B. and his friends, that it should be understood that he did not enter into any coalition with the federalists on this occasion...
The 4th No. on the EMBARGO in our next.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
As it is said, that "in any event the attempt to expose error, must at all times give some importance to every communication," it is presumed, that the writer of the following remarks, need not enter into a ceremonious apology...
A writer under the signature of "A Citizen of Westmoreland," in reply to a communication from Port-Royal, on the subject of the late Westmoreland Election...
June 14, 1808. [epgw]

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY ON THE SUBJECT OF PUBLIC ROADS & CANALS, Made in pursuance of a resolution of Senate of March 3.
III. DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE CANAL. A company incorporated by the states of Delaware and Maryland, for opening this canal, has commenced its operations, now suspended for want of funds.
The canal will commence at Welsh point on Elk river, an arm of the Chesapeake, and terminate at a distance of 32 miles, on Christiana creek, a branch of the Delaware. Allow water the depth of water in Christiana is nine feet, and in Elk twelve feet, within one hundred feet from the shore. The tide rises four feet in both rivers.
The highest intermediate ground, over which the canal will be carried on a level of 13 miles in length, is 74 feet above tide water, the descent being effected by nine locks on each side. The digging is generally easy; no expensive aqueducts or bridges, nor any other obstacles but those which have already been overcome in digging the feeder through a very rocky soil.
The supply of water drawn from Elk river, by a feeder six miles in length, already completed, which is itself a boat canal three and a half feet deep, united by a lock of ten feet lift with the main canal, is calculated to fill daily 144 locks; a quantity sufficient on an average for the daily passage of twenty four vessels.
The canal 26 feet wide at the bottom, and 58 at the top on the water line, being dug at the depth of 8 feet, is intended for vessels of forty to seventy tons, drawing 7 1/2 feet water; but the banks 20 feet wide for towing paths, and one of which may be converted into a turnpike road being raised three feet above the level of the water, will, by increasing the height of the lock gates one foot, admit a depth of nine feet of water in the canal; at which depth it would perhaps be eligible to dig at once. The locks 80 feet long, 18 feet wide, and 9 (or 9 1/2) feet deep over the gate-sills, containing each 11,500 to 13,000 cubic feet of water, and with a lift of 8 to 9 feet each will be constructed of hewn stone laid in tarras.
The present annual carriage across the Peninsula, which would be drawn through the canal, is estimated at 42 thousand tons, exclusive of passengers. This will be greatly increased by the facility which the canal itself will afford to the commercial intercourse between the two bays, and to the conveyance of articles now carried through other channels, or too heavy for transportation, at the present expense of carriage.
The expenses of the whole work are estimated as follows: Digging 32 miles, at $20,000 a mile, $640,000; 10 locks, at $10,000 each, $100,000; (The whole lockage being 148 feet, would at $1,250 a foot, amount to 185,000 dollars.) Feeder, (nearly completed) reservoirs, lock at the feeder, purchase of water rights and land, including a debt of dollars due by the company, 230,000 Dollars, 850,000
The interest on which sum, at 6 per cent. is 51,000 dollars.
The capital originally subscribed amounted to four hundred thousand dollars, divided into two thousand shares, of two hundred dollars each. One half of these has been forfeited after a small payment of five dollars on each share. One hundred thousand dollars paid by the other stockholders, have been expended in preparatory measures, in the purchase of water rights, and in digging the feeder, which was considered the most difficult part of the work.
IV. CHESAPEAKE AND ALBEMARLE. The shortest communication between the Chesapeake and Albemarle sound, is from North landing at the head of the tide of North West river, which empties into Currituck inlet, the easternmost arm of Albemarle, to either Kempville or Great Bridge, at the head of the tide of two different branches of the south branch of Elizabeth river, which passing by Norfolk, unites at Hampton roads, with James river, and the Chesapeake.
The canal extends twenty-two miles in length from Deep creek, a branch of the south branch of Elizabeth river, seven miles above Norfolk, to Joyce's creek, a branch of Pasquotank river, a northern arm of Albemarle sound. Vessels drawing eight to nine feet water may ascend both creeks to each extremity of the canal.
The intervening ground along the eastern margin of the Dismal swamp, is almost level, the rise towards the middle not exceeding two feet above the two extremities, which are only 18 feet and 9 inches above tide water.
The swamp itself supplies at the depth at which the canal is cut, the water which has heretofore been wanted; and a sufficient supply may be drawn by a feeder of 3 miles and a half in length, cut through a perfect level from lake Drummond, a natural reservoir in the centre of the swamp of fifteen miles in circumference, and about sixteen higher than the water in the canal.
The canal as cut by the company, is 24 feet wide, and 6 feet deep, with one bank on the west side for a towing path, 18 feet broad. The whole
digging, with the exception of two miles which must be deepened 8 feet, and of three quarters of a mile in another place not entirely finished, has been completed. The locks at the two extremities of the canal are not built; but two have been erected at some distance from each extremity, probably in order to save some digging in the intervening space; they are made of square hewn logs, and have cost only three hundred dollars each.
The expense of digging has not exceeded 4,000 dollars a mile; the whole capital expended, amounts to one hundred thousand dollars, of which the state of Virginia has furnished 17,500; and it is stated that the whole work may be completed in one year, and will not, including the locks and the payment of some debts contracted by the company, exceed 250,000 dollars.
But the canal, which by the original act of incorporation was to be 32 feet wide, and 8 feet deep, can on its present plan be considered only as a local object, the principal utility of which consists in bringing to market the otherwise useless lumber of the swamp.
The only boats which navigate it are flats, 40 feet long, 6 feet wide, drawing two feet of water and carrying eight thousand shingles. It must, in order to become a national object, be capable of receiving the vessels which navigate Albemarle sound, and for that purpose be restored to its first intended dimensions, or rather be widened and deepened, on the plan adopted for the Chesapeake and Delaware canal.
The last mentioned canal is in the most direct line of the communication through Albemarle to Pamlico sound, and the adjacent southern sounds. It has been objected, that the navigation of Pasquotank river was intricate, and that it would be more advantageous to open a communication with Chowan river, which passing by Edenton, and then uniting with the Roanoke, forms Albemarle sound.
A company was incorporated for that purpose; but the capital was not filled, and no other operation performed, but surveying the ground. The intended canal, if that route would commence at Suffolk, on Nansemond river, which empties into James river, a few miles above, and west of the mouth of Elizabeth river; and passing along the western margin of the Dismal swamp, would reach at a computed distance of thirty miles, Great court-house on Bennet's creek, a branch of Chowan river, which vessels drawing ten feet of water may ascend to that spot.
The highest intermediate ground is 28 feet above tide water, and consequently higher than the surface of lake Drummond. But Bennet's creek and Currituck swamp were considered as affording a sufficient supply of water.
This route will be, that the canal lands at Suffolk instead of Norfolk. This consideration, and the capital already expended on the canal from Elizabeth river to Pasquotank, seem to give a preference to this course.
To which way be added, that if it be preferable to strike the waters of Chowan river, a lateral canal may be hereafter opened, along the southern margin of the Dismal swamp, from the southern extremity of the Elizabeth and Pasquotank canal, to Bennet's creek or Edenton.
Whatever route may, after a critical examination of the ground, be thought the most eligible, the opening of this communication will be more easy and less expensive than either of the three northern canals.
The following table is a recapitulation of the distance to be cut on the whole line, and of the estimated expense.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
(BY AUTHORITY.)
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. AN ACT
To establish certain post roads in the states of Georgia and Ohio. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following post-roads be established, viz: From Darien, by John Jones, to Milledgeville, and from thence to Athens.
AN ACT Concerning the sale of the lands of the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the President of the United States has been or may be authorized to cause the public lands, in any land district, to be offered for sale, it shall be lawful, whenever he shall think it convenient, to offer for sale at first, only a part of the lands contained in such district, and at any subsequent time or times, to offer for sale in the same manner, any other part, or the remainder of the lands contained in the same.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the fourth section of an act passed the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, entitled, "An act in addition to an act, entitled, "An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States, south of the state of Tennessee," be revived and continued in force until the first day of October next; and in any case where a donation shall be granted in lieu of a prescription certificate, agreeable to the provisions of the said fourth section, the money, if any shall have been paid, shall be, by the receiver of the public money referred to the person or persons who have paid the same.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That certain settlers on the river Mobile, in the Mississippi territory (east of Pearl river) who reside near the line of demarcation between the United States and Spain, run in pursuance of the treaty of the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and whose claims to land have not been decided on according to law) shall be allowed until the first day of October next, to file a notice in writing with the register of the Land Office, stating the nature and extent of their claims, together with a plat of the tract or tracts claimed, and the said register of the Land Office, and the receiver of public monies are hereby required to hear and determine such claims according to the several acts of Congress, "regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States, south of the state of Tennessee," and to grant certificates in the form heretofore prescribed by the board of commissioners in said district.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the registers of the land-office east and west of Pearl river, in the Mississippi territory, to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on or before the first day of November next, a full and fair report of all the claims of certain persons to lands in the Mississippi territory, founded upon British or Spanish warrants or orders of survey granted prior to the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, not confirmed by former laws regulating the grants of lands in said territory, which have heretofore been regularly filed with the register of the land-office aforesaid, together with the evidence in support of such claims respectively, and to be by him laid before Congress at their next ensuing session.
And the land contained in such warrants or orders of survey, shall not be disposed of until otherwise directed by law.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That that part of the lands to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaty with the Choctaw nation, made on Mount Dexter, in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, lying on the east of Mississippi river, shall be attached to the land district east of Pearl river, and that the residue of the lands to which the Indian title was extinguished by said treaty, shall be attached to the land district west of Pearl river; and the said lands shall, with the exception of section number sixteen, which shall be reserved in each township for the use of schools within the same, and also with the exception of fifteen hundred acres of land, which is heretofore confined to John M'Grew, in compliance with the fourth article of the said treaty, be offered for sale under the same regulations as other lands lying within the said districts.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That every person and the legal representatives of every person, who being either the head of a family, or above the age of twenty-one years, who did before the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, actually inhabit and cultivate a tract of land, in the Mississippi territory, belonging to the United States, shall be allowed until the first day of October next, to obtain permission to remain on such tract or tracts of land, according to the provisions of the said act, entitled, "An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States until authorised by law," and the person or persons obtaining such permission shall be entitled to all the benefits, rights and privileges granted by law to those who obtained the same prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the right of the United States to two town lots lying and being in the city of Natchez, and the same is hereby forever vested in the corporation of the said city, so as not to affect the legal or equitable claims of any individuals, or of any body politic or corporate, if any such there be.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That whenever the claims of persons having a right of preemption in either of the districts east or west of Pearl river, shall interfere with each other, the register and receiver of public monies are hereby authorised in their respective districts so to regulate their locations or to prevent such interference.
Approved, TH: JEFFERSON. AN ACT For the relief of Joseph Chase, Jared Gardner, and others. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the owners of the ship Manilla, belonging to Joseph Chase and Jared Gardner and others, of the island of Nantucket, in the state of Massachusetts, be, and they are hereby permitted to cause to return to the United States the said ship Manilla, and her cargo, without being liable to any forfeiture or penalty, incurred, in consequence of the said ship having gone to the island of St. Domingo, under a clearance obtained on the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, before the act of the twenty-fourth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven, continuing the suspension of trade, with certain parts of the said island of St. Domingo, was known in the said island of Nantucket.
Approved, TH: JEFFERSON. MR. LE TELLIER, DENTIST-In the house adjoining Mr. Edmund Randolph's near the Capitol, is now practising in the various branches of his profession, i. e. cleansing and restoring the teeth to their natural elegance, by removing that corrosive substance called tartar, which adheres to them in the form of a black or yellow crust, which is the cause of many teeth decaying, an offensive breath, and the corroder of the gums and sockets.
He uses artificial ones so as to stand firm, being useful as well as ornamental, plugs the decayed cavities of such as can be preserved, and extracts such as are too far gone to be saved, in which operation he makes use of BUEFF'S PATENT EXTRACTING INSTRUMENTS, which takes the tooth out without any possibility of fracturing the jaw or bruising the gums, and with much less pain than the instruments that are in general use; for which operation his price is one dollar, when done at his own house.
He deems it unnecessary to say any thing concerning the advantage derived from the manner of his performance or his abilities, leaving it for his former operations to speak.
He has DENTIFRICE prepared by himself of a superior quality for the preservation of the gums and teeth, void of corrosive substance.
Mr. LE TELLIER wishes the public to have notice that as he has now made Richmond his permanent residence, all his prices are considerably lower than when he was only a visitor of the place.
A line or servant directed to the aforesaid place will be attended to. May 6. [law6m]
MOLASSES in hogsheads and tierces, FOR SALE BY SAMUEL MYERS. June 3. [law4r]
NOTICE-By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by Joseph Pollard, bearing date the 15th day of November, 1804, and recorded in the county court of Spottsylvania, for the purpose of securing the payment of a debt or debts due from the said Pollard to David Bullock, will be exposed to sale on the premises, for ready money, on Thursday the 16th day of June next: one moiety of the mill commonly called and known by the name of Rogers's mill, in the lower end of Spottsylvania county, together with one moiety of fifty acres of land adjoining thereto, and the houses and other appurtenances thereon erected, together with fifteen slaves, as named and conveyed in the aforesaid deed of trust, or so much of the aforesaid property as shall be sufficient fully and completely to carry the said deed of trust into effect, according to the true intent and meaning thereof. CHARLES SMITH, FREDERICK HARRIS, } Trustees May 10. (law4d)
NOTICE-By virtue of a deed of trust, executed to the subscribers by Francis M. Walthall, for the purpose of securing John Adams; Will be sold to the highest bidder for ready money at Sterling Smith's Tavern in James Town on Monday the fourth of July next, Three Negroes; Jenny, Sealy and Reamy, or so much of the said property as will be sufficient to raise the sum of $407, 48 cents with interest from the 18th day March last, and the necessary expenses attending the sale. STERLING SMITH, BENJAMIN MARSHAL, } Trustees Prince Edward, 18th May. [law3w1]
RICHMOND TILE MANUFACTORY-The subscriber having procured the exclusive right to manufacture in this and several other states Harwood's much improved Patent Tile for covering houses, and at considerable expense erected the necessary buildings, &c. for carrying on that useful business extensively, now offers to supply, at a short notice, any quantity that may be required, at the moderate price of thirty-five dollars per thousand, delivered at his Factory. He can with confidence, founded on actual experiment, in the covering of about 20 houses in this city, assert, that houses can be covered with this tile as cheap in the first instance, as with shingles of the first quality, and when the security against fire, the difference of insurance, the durability and particular construction of those tiles to resist the most penetrating rains and snows are considered, he cannot doubt of meeting with considerable encouragement.
Particular attention will be paid to orders from other towns, and in all cases where they are shipped, he will deliver them whole and sound, along side the vessels, at the expense of cartage only to the purchasers.
IN CHANCERY-February Court, 1804- Fauquier County, to wit- Benjamin Rector, Complainant- Against Thomas Chapman, surviving executor of William Carr, decd. Defendant.
On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered, that master commissioner Scott settle, and examine the accounts between the parties and make report thereof to the court, with such matters specially as he may think pertinent to the parties may require. A Copy Teste, F. BROOKE, c. c.
The parties to the above suit are hereby notified that I shall attend at my office at Fauquier court-house, on the 26th day of July next, between the hours of ten and two, o'clock to carry the above order into effect, at which time and place the parties are requested to attend with a copy of the court papers, and such evidence and vouchers as they may think proper to produce, in order to a final adjustment of the accounts. C. R. SCOTT, m. c. Fauquier C. H. May 24, 1808. [law8w]
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. Treasury Department, May 28th, 1808. It has recently been made known to this department, that on the first day of June, 1807, the first moieties of the under-mentioned notes of the bank of the United States, were enclosed by William Keas, Esq. Collector of the Customs at Washington, North-Carolina, in a letter addressed to Thomas Tudor Tucker, Esq. Treasurer of the United States, and put into the Post Office at that place; and on the 8th day of June, 1807, the second moieties of the said Bank notes were enclosed, addressed and put into the Post Office as aforesaid: neither of which letters, with the notes enclosed, have been received. On the back of each moiety of every note was written the name of William Keas, and on one part of the back of all or of most of the notes, was written the name of Lewis Leroy; from which circumstance the notes may with certainty be traced and detected.
DESCRIPTION OF NOTES
Table with 4 columns: No., Amount, Date, Description. Lists various bank notes and their details.
NICHOLAS LONG, TAYLOR, now occupies the old stand of James P. Hopkins, where he carries on the above business, and solicits a share of public patronage. He will apply himself strictly to his profession, and execute all orders in the best manner and on the most reasonable terms. May 17. (law4w)
FOR RENT-The Brick TENEMENT on the main street, two doors above the Eagle Tavern, and at present occupied by Messrs. Gibson and Jefferson-Possession may be had on the 15th July. RICHMOND, June 7. SAML. MCGRAW. [rf]
STRAYED OR STOLEN-On Friday morning last the subscriber missed his horse, has every reason to believe he is stolen. The description is as follows: A dark bay, has had his left eye injured, about seven years old, about fourteen and a half hands high, with cropped ears, has lately had a very bad wound on his left hind leg, which is not yet quite healed; on the other hind leg has either a wart or has snugged himself-his has been chased within a saddle on his back about the centre where a saddle would act. The subscriber offers a reward of five dollars for him if staid, if stolen, an additional reward of ten dollars will be given for apprehending the thief. D. DORRINGTON. June 7. (if)
WILL BE SOLD to the highest bidder for cash, on Saturday the 18th of June inst. at Daniel Michaux's Tavern, in Powhatan county, one hundred and sixty-two acres of LAND, lying on Swift Creek, in the county aforesaid, adjoining the lands of William Graves, Arthur Sublett and others; which land was conveyed to us by Charles Moseley, in trust, to secure the payment of a debt due to Messrs. Lyle & McCredie, as expressed in his deed of conveyance to us bearing date the 13th February last past. HENRY W. WATKINS, } Trustee. WILLIAM G. POVALE, } P. o. whaton, June 3. (ep2w1)
The Advertisement dated April 26, 1808, is withdrawn.
PROPOSALS for carrying MAILS of the UNITED STATES, on the following Post Roads, will be received at the General Post Office in Washington City, until the first day of August next, inclusive. 10. From Washington City to Alexandria, seven times a week. Leave Washington City every day at 3 P. M. and arrive at Alexandria by 5 P. M. Leave Alexandria every day at 2 A. M. and arrive at Washington City by 5 A. M. 11. From Alexandria by Colchester, to Dumfries, seven times a week. Leave Alexandria every day at 5 P. M. and arrive at Dumfries by 5 A. M. the next day. Leave Dumfries every day at 6 P. M. and arrive at Alexandria the next day by 1 A. M. in 7 hours. 12. From Dumfries by Aquia and Stafford court house to Fredericksburg, seven times a week. Leave Dumfries every day at 6 A. M. and arrive at Fredericksburg by 11 1/2 A. M. in 5 hours. Leave Fredericksburg every day at noon, and arrive at Dumfries by 5 P. M. 13. From Fredericksburg by Bowling Green, White Church, and Hanover court-house to Richmond, seven times a week. Leave Fredericksburg every day at noon, and arrive at Richmond the next day by 6 A. M. in 18 hours. Leave Richmond every day at 6 P. M. and arrive at Fredericksburg the next day by 11 A. M. in 17 hours. 14. From Richmond by Osborne's to Petersburg, seven times a week. Leave Richmond every day at 6 1/2 A. M. and arrive at Petersburg by 11 1/2 A. M. in 5 hours. Leave Petersburg every day at 12 1/2 P. M. and arrive at Richmond by 5 P. M. 15. From Richmond by Fraziers, New-Kent court-house, Williamsburg, York town & Hampton to Norfolk, three times a week. May 1, to December 1. Leave Richmond every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 7 A. M. and arrive at Norfolk on the next days by 10 A. M. in 37 hours. Leave Norfolk every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 2 P. M. and arrive at Richmond the next days by 5 P. M. in 27 hours. December 1, to May 1. Leave Richmond every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 7 A. M. and arrive at Norfolk on the next days by 5 P. M. in 34 hours. Leave Norfolk every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 A. M. and arrive at Richmond the next days by 5 P. M. in 34 hours. 16. From Petersburg by Gobbinspoint, Smithfield, Surry court-house, Sleepy-hollow ferry, to Norfolk, three times a week. May 1, to December 1. Leave Petersburg every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 1 P. M. and arrive at Norfolk the next days by 10 A. M. in 21 hours. December 1, to May 1. Leave Petersburg every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 1 P. M. and arrive at Norfolk the next days by 5 P. M. Leave Norfolk every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 7 A. M. and arrive at Petersburg the next days by 11 A. M.
NOTES.
1. The mail will be carried on the route, number ten to fourteen inclusive, in the same time through the year; and the contractor must calculate upon conveying the mail in a sulkey, when the roads will not admit of its being conveyed by the usual stage; or if it shall be shewn, that the roads are too bad for a sulkey, the mail of letters will be separated from the news-papers, which are to be conveyed by stage, as fast as the roads will admit, and the letters conveyed on horseback within the time limited, so that bad roads shall never be admitted as an excuse for non-performance. 2. The Post-master General may expedite the mails and alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contracts; he previously stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby. 3. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mail at all offices where no particular time is specified. 4. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continue until the departure of any depending mail, where the mails destined for such depending mail lose a trip, a forfeiture of double the amount allowed for carrying the mail one trip shall be incurred, unless it shall be made to appear that the delay was occasioned by unavoidable accident, in which case the amount of pay for the trip will, in all cases, be forfeited and retained. 5. Persons making proposals, are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly, in the months of February, May, August and November, one month after the expiration of each quarter. 6. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail. 7. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals. 8. The Post-master General reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end, whenever three failures happen, which amount to the loss of a trip each. 9. The contracts are to be in operation on the first day of October next, and to continue in force for two years from that time. GIDEON GRANGER, Post Master General. GENERAL POST OFFICE, Washington City, May 26, 1808. May 30. [law2m]