Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1808-09-09 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVII YEAR.]
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[No. 1532.]
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FOR SALE. A Likely Young Negro Man, WHO has been regularly bred to the Tanning and Currying Business, and is an excellent Workman, and of good qualities—For terms apply to the subscriber living near Louisa Court-house.
John Edwards. August 15, 1808.
Buckingham County, June Court, 1808.
Foster Guerrant, Jr. Plaintiff AGAINST James Rea, William Guerrant and John Hobson, Jr. Defendants ON the motion of the plaintiff by counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendant James Rea is not an inhabitant of this state. It is ordered and decreed, that unless he shall appear here on or before September next and answer the plaintiff's bill, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to him, and decree the matter thereof accordingly; & that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively and another copy be posted up at the front door of the court house of this county. A Copy—Teste, R. Eldridge, Jr. D. C.
At a Court of Hastings for the city of Williamsburg, held the 28th day of June, 1808.
Robert Greenhow, Plf AGAINST Thomas Reeves & James Davis, Defs THE Defendant Thomas Reeves not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the court that he is not an inhabitant of this country, on the motion of the plaintiff by counsel, It is ordered , that the said defendant do appear here on or before the fourth Monday in October next and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the newspapers printed in the city of Richmond for two months successively and posted at the front door of the court house of this city; & it is further ordered, that the defendant James Davis, do not pay to the said Thomas Reeves, his agent or attorney, any money or other property in his hands belonging to the said Thomas, until the further order of this court. A copy—Teste, William Russell, C. C.
TO THE CURIOUS.
A Live Cassowary.
To be seen at the City Tavern. This Animal is a native of the Island Borneo, and was brought here, in the ship America, captain Leflar, from Batavia. It is young and in full plumage—very docile, and worth the attention of every person. The following extract from Dobson's Encyclopedia, shows the estimation in which it is held by the lovers of Nature, being conformably to the description given. —[See volume 18, Page 40.] The Cassowary is nearly equal in size to the Ostrich, but its legs are much thicker, and stronger in proportion. It is five feet and a half long, from the bill to the end of the claws. The legs are two feet and an half high from the belly. The head and neck together are a foot and a half; and the largest toe is five inches long. The wing is so small, that it does not appear, being hid under the feathers of the back. The part which most distinguishes this Animal is the head, which, though small, inspires some degree of terror. It is bare of feathers, and armed with an helmet of horny substance, black before, and yellow behind. The neck is of a violet colour, and red in several places. The Cassowary has the head of a Warrior, the eye of a Lion, the defence of a Porcupine, and the swiftness of a Courser. It can devour glass, without the least injury." &c.
To be seen at the same place. Several other living curiosities, &c.
ALSO, A Piece of Mechanism,
Such as was never seen before in this country—AN ORGAN of an entirely new construction—This Organ plays several favorite tunes—a number of figures as natural as life, dance to the music, while several artificers discharge their pieces, &c. a representation which has ever been highly gratifying to spectators.
Admittance every day (Sundays excepted) Twenty-five cents.
FOR SALE AT S. PLEASANTS' BOOK STORE, HENING'S
New Virginia Justice,
CONTAINING The Duties of a Justice of Peace, &c. together with a variety of useful precedents, adapted to the laws now in force. Also, forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, lease and re-lease, mortgage, trust, &c.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by James Pittman and Henningham his wife, to secure the payment of a sum of money to Joseph Brackett as expressed in the said deed, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for the best price that can be obtained in money, on the premises, in the County of Cumberland, on Thursday the 6th day of October next, a valuable
Tract of Land,
containing 718 Acres and eight likely NEGROES, consisting of men, women and children. The land is situated on W. side of the river, not far from its confluence with James River, in the neighborhood of Cartersville; the improvements consist of a good dwelling-house and other necessary out-houses and one half of a good grist mill; possession as to 250 acres of said land can be given on the day of sale and a title made for the whole as agreeable to the powers vested in us by the said deed of Trust.
JESSE MICHAUX } Trust- SAMUEL HOBSON }ees. Cumberland County, August 15, 1808. wids. If should the above day of sale be so unfair as to prevent the sale, the next fair day is intended to carry the intent of the deed into effect.
To Aaron Burr, Esq.
SIR, TAKE NOTICE, that by virtue of a commission from the county court of Henrico, I shall proceed on the third Monday in October next, between the hours of eight in the forenoon and six in the afternoon, and between the same hours of each succeeding day, until the whole testimony is taken, at Gwynn's tavern, in the town of Louisville, Kentucky, to take the depositions of Richard Cluff Anderson, William Croghan, James Breckenridge, Norborne Beale, and Stephen Smith, to be read in evidence in a suit depending in said court, in which I am plaintiff and you are defendant. Your ob't. serv't. HENRY SCHROEDER. Sept. 5, 1808. 4w
To Aaron Burr, Esq.
SIR, TAKE NOTICE, that by virtue of a commission from the court of Henrico county, in three suits depending in that court, in which I am plaintiff and you are defendant, I shall proceed on the third Monday in October next, between the hours of eight in the forenoon and six in the afternoon, and between the same hours of each succeeding day, until the whole testimony is taken, at Wilson's tavern, in the town of Lexington, Kentucky, to take depositions of Alexander Barker, James Morrison, Sam'l Trotter, John Bradford, Henry Clay, Abraham S. Barton, John Jordan, Jr., Robert C. Nicholas, and William Todd, to be read in evidence in said suits. Your ob't. serv't. ROBERT MILLER. Sept. 5, 1808. 4w
FOR SALE. The Tract of Land,
IN Charlotte county, whereon the late John Garden, dec. lived, containing 669 acres, more or less. This land lies on the road leading from the courthouse to Ro-ker's ferry on Staunton river, about 12 miles from the former and 6 from the latter place. The land produces corn and small grain, and a considerable part good tobacco—the plantation thereon is sufficient to work 6 or 8 hands, and under good fences. The improvements are, a stone house on the road, 32 by 18 feet, a counting room at one end with a fire place; a lumber house 18 by 16 feet, both in good repair; a dwelling house a small distance from the store, two rooms with fire places below and two rooms above stairs, a cellar under the same, a kitchen and meat house, stable, &c. a good peach and apple orchard near the dwelling house. This place will be profitable to a merchant or tavern keeper, and will suit a private family. It may be purchased cheap for cash, or on short credit. If not sold by the first of December, it will be rented for one year. Application may be made to either of the executors. Catharine T. Garden, Ex'x. Francis Scott, } Executors. Jos. W. Scott, } July 25, 1808. 1m4m*
NOTICE.
ALL persons to whom the estate of the late Judith Robinson, dec. of Cumberland county, is indebted, are desired on or before the first day of October next, to bring forward their claims properly authenticated, that provision may be made for payment, and to all claims exhibited after that period, this advertisement will be plead in bar. A division of said estate among the legatees will be made on the above day. JOHN HATCHER, Ex'r. March 17 1808. oam 10c
A NEW COPIES OF BROUGHAM'S
CELEBRATED SPEECH
AGAINST THE BRITISH ORDERS IN COUNCIL;—AND,
Baring's Pamphlet,
On the same subject, are just received and for sale at this office. FOR SALE AT THE ARGUS PRINTING OFFICE.
THE TRIAL
OF THOMAS O. SELFRIDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, FOR KILLING CHARLES AUSTIN. On the Public Exchange, in Boston, August 4th, 1806.
Poetry.
FROM THE TRENTON TRUE AMERICAN.
EMBARGO AND NAVY.
The TORIES dislike the EMBARGO , because It keeps all our ships, crews and cargoes at home; Which they'd rather should gorge the insatiable maws Of hungry sea-robbers that 'round the world roam.
The WHIGS answer NO —what we've got let us keep, Till right is respected and commerce is free; Put our ships afloat now, they are gone at a sweep; They are safer in port than they are at sea.
Then give us a navy—the TORIES rejoin— Our rights to assert and our trade to protect; All the evils we feel and at which we repine, Can fairly be trac'd to the navy's neglect.
The WHIGS can retort—and have truth of their side— A navy can serve us no purpose at all; Has not the experiment often been tried, And do not the large navies swallow the small?
The navies of Holland, of France, and of Spain, Were larger than we could expect to equip; Yet, united, their fleets could no footing maintain, But, disrac'd and defeated, abandon'd the deep.
The navy of Denmark , respectably large, In her harbors securely and peaceably lay;
Yet from ships of the line to a custom-house barge, To Britain it falls, "at one fell swoop," a prey.
Just so with our navy, it doubtless had been, Had vanity led us a navy to build; 'Twould have heighten'd the triumphs of ocean's proud queen; And blasted the laurels we won in the field.
A cheaper and safer defence, is, by far, To excise all their goods, all our products retain; This will finish them worse than a seven years' war, Yet will injure us less than a single campaign.
From a London Paper.
MR. FOX'S HISTORY.
On Thursday the 26th day of May, the splendid work of Mr. Fox was published. It is entitled, "A History of the early part of the reign of James the Second, with an introductory chapter."—There is an address to the reader, prefixed to the work, the composition of Lord Holland, in which we observe the same simplicity of style, the same scrupulous love of truth, and the same ardent zeal in the cause of liberty, which distinguish the history that follows. Holland concludes his preface with this short observation on the character of the work:
"His friends will contemplate with some satisfaction this monument, however imperfect, of his genius and acquirements; they will recognize throughout the work those noble and elevated principles which animated his own conduct in life; and in the simplicity of the thoughts, as well as in the nature of the reflections, they cannot fail to discover a picture of his candid and amiable mind."
"An egregious blunder has been unfortunately made in the inscription under Mr. Fox's bust, on the frontispiece. The lines, when originally written were as follows:
A Patriot's even course he steer'd, 'Mid faction's wildest storms unmov'd; By all who mark'd his mind, rever'd— By all who knew his heart, belov'd.
The blunder which occurs in the engraving, consists in the repetition of the word course in the third line, instead of mind ; by which error the sense is altogether marred, and the whole meaning and effect of the inscription utterly destroyed. This mistake having happened in the engraving, cannot be rectified by the press, and leaves to the purchasers of the work no alternative, but an option between the defacing the appearance of the copper-plate by a written correction, or sacrificing the sense for the sake of preserving the fair appearance.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Mr. Canning's Speech. —We inserted in our paper of Friday Mr. Canning's remarks on the existing state of the relations between this country and Great Britain. They embrace several topics; the affair of the Chesapeake, the orders in Council, and generally the alleged amicable disposition of the British administration to the United States; all of which are treated in such a way as to excite the astonishment of any one in the least acquainted
with the situation of the two countries.—Whatever may have been the intention of the minister, the use made of his allegations on this side of the Atlantic is such as might well have been foreseen. They are everywhere republished, with copious commentaries, by the enemies of the administration, on the eve of several important elections, to show its culpable supineness or partiality, and to palliate, if not to justify, the temper of the British cabinet.
We may shortly take occasion to notice somewhat in detail the several topics adverted to by Mr. Canning; at present we propose to confine our remarks to that part of his observations which applies most pointedly to the conduct of our government relative to the orders in Council. These are as follows:
"Sir—Since the return of Mr. Rose, no communication has been made by the American government, in the form of complaint, or remonstrance, or intimation of any description whatever. I mention this particularly, because it is notorious that there have been several arrivals from America, supposed to be of great importance, and the several special messengers have reached this country from thence, after having touched at France. But, Sir, if the honorable gentleman, in execution of his public duty, had thought fit to move for any communications that had been made by the American government, since the departure of Mr. Rose, my answer must have been, not that his majesty's government were disinclined to make them, but that absolutely there were none to make. If it be asked 'why,' I am unable satisfactorily to reply; I can conjecture, that America has entered into negotiations with France, which are expected to lead to some result, and that the communications of America to this country are to be contingent on that result. This, Sir, is conjecture alone, but it is founded on the extraordinary circumstance of so many arrivals without any communication."
This part of Mr. Canning's remarks requires the more distinct notice, as it is made the foundation of a charge against our government, of evincing a criminal indifference to the restoration of harmony with England; by withholding all remonstrances to her government on the orders of Council; while it is more than insinuated that repeated remonstrances have been made to the French government:—We pronounce this charge a gross and palpable falsehood, and aver that the measure, either of remonstrances or of action, has been equally and impartially dealt out to both governments. The fact is, that no important aggression on neutral rights has been perpetrated by either France or England without immediate and strenuous remonstrance on the part of our government. The fact is, that with respect to every such aggression, an uniform sentiment has been felt, and an invariable course pursued. When injured, no matter by which nation, redress has been demanded for the wrong, and security against its repetition. The documents published prove this to have been the case down to a late period, and those, which in all probability will be submitted to Congress at their next session, will equally prove it down to the present moment.
To substantiate our allegations beyond the reach of controversy, we shall proceed to specify some of the grounds on which they are made. If they bear hard upon the honor, the veracity or the delicacy of Mr. Canning, it will not be our fault; but that either of himself or his reporter. We shall be perfectly satisfied with understanding that the facts asserted by him, or the impression which the artful structure of the terms in which they are couched is fitted to make, are surreptitious. We shall in the mean time, demonstrate either the falsehood of the facts, or of the impression evidently intended to be produced.
The celebrated British orders bear date the 11th, but were not promulgated until the 17th of November last. For some days, however, previous to their publication in the Gazette, general rumor prevailed that some such measure was on the eve of adoption, and the American merchants, consequently, took the alarm. So strong was this rumor that Mr. Pinkney, our minister at London, deemed it his duty to wait on Mr. Canning, and he accordingly did wait on him on the 11th of November, the very day on which these orders were signed, to enquire with regard to the correctness of the rumor, and to remonstrate, in such case, against the contemplated measure. Mr. Pinkney did not succeed in seeing Mr. Canning, but he saw the under Secretary Hammond, to whom he communicated the leading considerations that offered themselves to his mind against the orders. Mr. Hammond neither admitted or denied that a measure was either taken or contemplated thereby studiously concealing from Mr. Pinkney the fact, as if with the express and deliberate purpose of preventing remonstrance against it, until remonstrance should be too late. But Mr. Pinkney did, notwithstanding, remonstrate against it,
not merely with a view to prevent a measure actually taken, but to prevent its being taken. But the die was already cast, and he found to his surprise, a few days after, that the fatal act had been consummated, the Rubicon had been passed, on the very day of his interview, without the least notice or opportunity for explanation or remonstrance.
On the 17th of November the orders appeared in the Gazette in form. Such a marked indignity had been offered to his country by this gigantic outrage on her rights without the least notice or explanation, that Mr. Pinkney might justly have shrowded himself in a proud silence. He might have disdained remonstrance to a government that thus levelled a deadly blow at the prosperity of a nation she called her friend without apology or notice. But feeling profoundly the deep responsibility of his station as the representative of a pacific nation, he determined to control his feelings, and by making a manly appeal to the justice and magnanimity of the British government, attempt to awaken them to a sense of their interests and a respect for our rights. This appeal, this remonstrance was made without delay to Mr. Canning on the 21st of Nov. in an interview with him. While Mr. Pinkney was preparing his remonstrance Mr. Canning asked an interview, when Mr. Canning said he had requested to see him, not with the intention of discussing the general propriety of the orders, for they being now adopted, discussion could answer no valuable purpose, but with the view of explaining such of their provisions as might be supposed to be liable to misconstruction.
Thus was the door forcibly closed by Mr. Canning upon all explanation, or remonstrance, by the unqualified declaration that discussion could answer no valuable purpose.
But Mr. Pinkney, confident of his power to expose the injustice of the orders, and entertaining, it would appear, some hope of the good effects of sound argument, insensibly led to a conversation upon the whole subject, in which he exposed the injustice of the orders, their unreasonable-ness and impolicy, and their destructive operation as well upon belligerent as neutral nations, as well upon Great Britain herself as upon the United States.
But his remonstrance was unavailing. It was received with a silence that proved that the administration, had unequivocally decided on their new system, which had, no doubt, been long meditated in secret. All that could be got from Mr. Canning, on the enquiry of Mr. Pinkney whether Mr. Rose was authorised to advise the American government of the orders, was, that his mission had a special object, and that it was not meant that his functions should interfere with those of Mr. Erskine, to whom a communication of the orders would be made, as soon as they should be freed from ambiguities and defects by the judgment of practical men being exercised upon them.
So far it appears that every avenue to remonstrance in England was closed by the British government, and that its future theatre, if to be found any where, was located in this country. Accordingly on the 23rd of February, the Orders, three months and a half after their date, were formally communicated by Mr. Erskine to the Secretary of State, accompanied by a letter, communicated to Congress at their last session, specifying the grounds on which they were issued. To this letter the Secretary of State replied in a strong and comprehensive remonstrance. A copy of this reply was sent to Mr. Pinkney by the April packet, the receipt of which Mr. Pinkney acknowledges on the 30th of May, by which conveyance Mr. Erskine indisputably likewise sent a copy of it, which must have been received by his government at the same time, and at least twenty four days previous to the delivery of the speech ascribed to Mr. Canning.
However, then, Mr. Canning may equivocally say "since the return of Mr. Rose (who reached England about the end of April) or since his departure from this country (about the first of April) no communication has been MADE by the American government in the form of complaint or remonstrance," the fact is, that such a communication, made at a period anterior to both those events, has been RECEIVED, and to this day remains unanswered. The fact is that the American government, through its minister at London, strenuously endeavored to prevent the Orders altogether by remonstrating against them anterior, as he supposed, to their existence; that he afterwards, as soon as he was apprised of their existence, more fully and pointedly remonstrated against them to Mr. Canning, who informed him that remonstrance could answer no valuable purpose; that Mr. Canning closed the door against all further remonstrance, England by making Mr. Erskine the organ of communicating and explaining the orders to our government here; that Mr. Erskine accordingly communicated and justified them in his letter to the Secretary of State of the 23rd of February last;

and that finally the Secretary of State returned a full reply or remonstrance which remains unanswered. If there be an American, who, after this explanation, would have his government humiliate itself by further remonstrance, which could only serve to court still higher indignity, while the outrage on the Chesapeake remains unatonated, he is unworthy of the name.
It is only necessary to prevent all evil further to say, that the letter of Mr. Pinkney, to which we have alluded, was among the documents presented to Congress at their last session, and was read in the Senate with open doors, and that for the dates of the other papers we applied to the proper sources of authority.
BOSTON, August 27.
The crisis has arrived when all the energy and watchfulness of the republicans have become necessary to counteract the efforts of the enemies of our republic. The federal presses throughout the union are in treason and rebellion—the leaders of the federal party reiterate their contents with all the eloquence and cunning of which they are capable. It does not appear to be merely a question among them what policy is best calculated to secure the promotion of their party; but they now openly threaten that should not the government, at all events, shortly rescind the laws which restrict commerce, an open systematic and formidable force will be raised to coerce them into the measure.
And has it come to this, that we the direct descendants of patriots who suffered every privation for the achievement of our liberties, are to yield the inestimable boon without one manly struggle? Were the portion of public virtue which yield immediate advantages for the general good, to be appreciated by what is self-evident in the principal commercial towns in Massachusetts—we make no hesitation in giving it as our opinion, that this government is about to suffer political dissolution, and to be numbered with those noble structures which the united efforts of intrigue and corruption have erased from the map of the world.
It must be evident to the most superficial observer, that were that dastardly and avaricious spirit which now prevails in this section of the union, to have influenced for a moment the individuals in whose hands, under providence the destinies of this people were confided during the revolution; we should not now enjoy the high privileges of an INDEPENDENT NATION; but be accursed as a mere satellite of Great Britain, from whose ruinous and irrevocable fate may the God of Nations save this people from participation.
To descend from the honest and dignified ground which we have taken to shield ourselves from those dire calamities with which Europe is so universally accursed, would fix a stigma on the government, and on the people, which the page of history would record to posterity; and happy would it be should the universal peal of execration be heard in a LAND OF LIBERTY!
The leaders of the opposition seem to have relinquished all those feelings which alone would entitle them to the character of free men. While the government have adopted every means to keep aloof from a participation in the miseries of other countries; and in particular to retain the great resources of our independence in case of a LAST APPEAL—these men, are imputing to them the most unworthy motives—motives of which they know the government is not capable of possessing. Let all honest men look to this serious crisis in the affairs of the country, and if a majority of them are not vigilant and active, we are assuredly in a most dangerous situation.
(Democrat.)
NEWBURYPORT, August 29.
More particulars of the late Violation.
In our last, we noticed the late violation of the embargo laws, in this town; which may justly be considered as one of the most barefaced, unprincipled transactions, that has transpired since the institution of our republican government.
It appears that the determination to send the sloop out in "defiance of all authority," had been publicly made known several days previous to the attempt; and the federalists (with few exceptions) were strenuous advocates for the proceeding. These men, not content with aiding and abetting this violation of the laws of government, in the first instance, had previously determined, if the sloop should be taken, to wrest her from the officers who should hold her in possession.
For the completion of this diabolical object, a multitude of the "friends to order and good government," assembled, soon after the sloop arrived in the harbor, on Mr. Brown's wharf, with the hellish plot was the general topic of conversation; and many of the mob were prepared for "cutting the throats of every democrat in town." Boats, scows, &c. were prepared, and the men armed for carrying into effect their project; but Messrs. Brown and Bartlett (whose timely interference reflects honor on them,) endeavored to quiet those disorderly, seditious and turbulent men, and finally succeeded in dispersing the mob; but not however without many bitter exclamations against the government and its officers, for faithfully performing their official duties.
That a party, who have so lately addressed the president, in a respectful and decent manner; for a removal of the embarrassments under which they pretend to suffer, should be concerned in so disgraceful and riotous a proceeding before their very respectful petition had reached the city of Washington; and before the determination of the president could possibly be known, may appear strange to some of our fellow citizens at a distance, but to those who are acquainted with Newburyport federalism, it is nothing remarkable. It is in fact, a piece with their whole conduct—and the more discord and confusion that appears to be excited, the more delighted and happy are they. We only regret that the collector, suffered the men concerned in this transaction to escape unpunished. If the laws
are to be violated with impunity, and the lives and property of those who discharge the duties which they have sworn faithfully to fulfil, are to be threatened and the aggressors to escape unpunished—we may well exclaim, "there is no safety here." (Statesman.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 2.
LATEST FROM LONDON.
The British ship Truro, Capt. Kendall, has arrived at Newcastle in a short passage from Londonderry. A valuable commercial friend, who has received Irish papers by this vessel, has favored the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser with the Dublin Correspondent of the 14th of July, containing London dates of the 11th two days later than our former advices) from which the following articles are copied:
DUBLIN, July 14.
SAILING OF THE EXPEDITION. The interesting circumstance, to which the hopes, the pride, and the affections of the United Kingdom are so closely united, took place on Tuesday morning at Cove. The wind being round at East, the signal for weighing was made, and in a few minutes his majesty's ships the Donegal, 84, Capt. Malcolm, and the Resistance, and Crocodile Frigates, forming the convoy were under sail. The Resistance was the van ship, and was followed by the transports, after which the Donegal, with Sir Arthur Wellesley and his Staff on board, stood out to sea. In passing Carlisle fort a mutual salute of 15 guns was fired, between the battery and the ship which was received by the shouts of an immense assembly of persons on shore, who crowded on the adjacent heights. The entire fleet stood on to sea under a propitious breeze, and were soon out of sight, accompanied by the cheers and blessings of an admiring multitude.
Should the intelligence prove well founded, that Bonaparte's sister, Madame Murat, has fallen into the hands of the Patriots, it cannot be looked upon as a trifling occurrence. He who is so earnest in the exaltation of his family to Royal Power, cannot be indifferent to an event which throws into the hands of the most ardent and exasperated enemies, a personage of so much importance as his own sister, and the wife of one of his most favored and useful Generals.
Correspondence Office.
Three o'clock.
The arrival of the London papers of Monday, and several Spanish journals, as also communications from Gibraltar, have induced us at this late hour to stop the press to give a summary of their glorious contents, for our country subscribers. These journals are filled with victory after victory on behalf of the noble Spaniards, which are too voluminous for us, at present, to detail, they may, however, be generally summed up in the following brief outline:
The surrender of the French squadron to the Spaniards—the defeat of the French division under the orders of Dupont near Cordova by general Echavarre—another column, commanded by Lefebvre, routed by general Palafox: no quarters given, the division of Moncey has suffered loss in the neighborhood of Cuenca; in Madrid, seven or eight thousand only remain, who have retired within their entrenchments, apprehensive of an attack, which was daily expected from the combined forces of Arragon, Valencia and Andalusia; all the provinces of Spain are under arms, and propose to assemble the general Cortes, or Grand Council of the Nation.
To the above we have to add, that letters which reached us from Gibraltar, state, that all the French in the neighborhood of Barcelona, have been killed or taken prisoners by the patriots under general Esplanza.
The following Bulletin, has been sent to the Lord Mayor, and posted on the front of the Mansion house:
Admiralty Office July 11. My Lord—I have great pleasure in acquainting your Lordship, that by a dispatch received this morning at the Admiralty from Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, dated off Cadiz 14th June it appears that the French squadron in Cadiz struck their colours to the Spaniards at seven o'clock in the morning of that day, when the Spanish colors were immediately hoisted on board of them. "The Spanish Admiral is about to embark for England, on board the Revenge, commanded by Sir John Gore, as one of the commissioners from the Council of Seville to his majesty's Government." I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed)
MULGRAVE.
To the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor.
Dispatches from Lord Collingwood.
Admiralty Office July 11.
"Dispatches were this morning received at this office, from Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood and Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, brought to Plymouth in the Primrose. By the former it appears that the French squadron in Cadiz struck their colors to the Spaniards, at 7 o'clock on the morning of the 14th June, when the Spanish colors were immediately hoisted on board of them. The French ships were not much injured, nor has there been much loss of men on either side.
"The Spanish Admiral is one of the Commissioners about to proceed to England, and the Revenge, commanded by Sir John Gore.
"The dispatches from Sir Charles Cotton, down to the 14th of June, confirm the reports of the general spirit of detestation of the French Government in Portugal, in many parts of which it has been formally abolished, and that of the Prince Regent re-established.
"By a letter from Capt. Creyke, of the Eclipse, dated Oporto, 20th June, it appears, that owing to the treachery of Don Oliveira, Governor of Oporto, (now confined as a traitor,) the French were enabled to re-establish their authority, which they maintained until the 16th June, the day of Corpus Christi, when an attempt was made to carry the French flag in the procession. This incensed the populace to such a degree that under the countenance of the Priests, they rose en mass, broke open the depots, supplied themselves with 25,000 stand of arms, and together with the regulars, formed a most determined and enthusiastic army. From this moment all French authority ceased, and every man either French, or suspected of being inclined to the French interest, was arrested.
"The Bishop of Oporto is elected Governor. An army of 20,000 men was sent to meet the French, who, with a corps of 900 men had marched within six leagues of Oporto. The Provinces Tras-os-Montes, Minho, and the Northern parts of Beira, have risen in arms to the amount of one hundred thousand men, inclusive of the force in Oporto.
"General Spencer arrived off Lisbon on the Scout brig, on the 24th of June, and after communicating with Sir C. Cotton, returned to join the forces off Cape St. Vincent.
"A dispatch has also been received from Admiral Lord Gambier, enclosing a letter from Captain Doby, of the Cossack, dated off St. And. ro, 25th June, by which it appears that on the 23rd, the French entered the place, previous to which the boats of the Cossack and Comet spiked all the guns on fort Salvador de Anjo, and fort Sedra, and completely destroyed the magazines with 300 barrels of powder, and a quantity of other stores. The boats had just returned round point de Anjo, when a considerable body of French dragoons appeared on the hill."
"A French prize sent into Plymouth brings accounts that the traitors of the Aristocracy who had joined Napoleon's Court at Bayonne, were fighting for the French against the Spanish population in the province of Biscay, which reaches from Bayonne to St. Andero—a small tract, and which seems to be the only Spanish territory now occupied by the French. The French have taken possession of St. Andero with 3000 men, but before they arrived the boats of his Majesty's ships Cossack and Comet had landed, picked all the guns and blown up the magazine. In that quarter it is reported that Bonaparte is marching to Madrid with an army of 100,000 men. We do not believe it—He will be careful how he ventures to advance into the heart of a country where every human being is a patriot, and every patriot ready to sacrifice himself for his country.
Papers and letters have been just received from Holland. The former contain a Proclamation of Louis Bon parte, stating, that King Joseph's reception in Spain with the most perfect peace and tranquility prevailed throughout that whole kingdom, particularly at Madrid and Cadiz. The Dutch papers contain nothing else of any interest.
"We are sorry to observe, that some symptoms of a riotous disposition, and a resistance to the laws, have appeared in the parishes of Dunnycloney and Tullylish, in the county of Monaghan, where the sale of some lands (Bleary) was recently attempted to be stopped, accompanied by acts of outrage and violence. A meeting of the Magistrates and Gentlemen of that country was in consequence convened on the 4th inst. at Muckagh, when a public express on their reprobation was made known in resolutions to resist such unlawful attempts, and to bring the perpetrators to condign punishment.
"Our working silk manufacturers appear to be recovering from their late despondency, as they shortly expect a large supply of raw silk from the ports of Spain, & though it may not be of so fine a quality as that of Piedmont, Luce, Calabria, &c. yet it may be made to answer several purposes in the silk trade, and to afford employment to numbers of people who are literally famishing, and their families in a perishable state.
"Muscovato and clayed sugars are at present in such quantities at the stores of our merchants, that they are still looking down, as we have no foreign market as yet to send them to.
"Coffee falls under a like predicament.
"Russian iron is now exhausted, but there is a tolerable stock of Swedish iron on hand, but Russian iron is rather inferior even to that of Russia. We, however, still expect large supplies of that of Sweden.
"The French fleet remains quiet at Toulon; it now amounts to 12 sail of the line; two Russian line of battle ships having gone into Toulon port.
September 3.
By the packet Alonzo, captain Westcott, we learn that the result of the election in Rhode Island, which took place on Tuesday last, for members of Congress and State Legislators, has been favourable to Federalism. In New Port, where the republican majority has been 80, there was a majority of 50 in favour of the Federal candidates; in Providence, a federal majority of 350; in Jamestown, a federal majority of 7; Middletown and Portsmouth were divided. The other towns had not been heard from.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1.
It appears that Coleman of New York, has not been able to overcome the trembling with which he was seized some time ago, and has relinquished the Editorship of the New York Evening Post to Cullen alias Carpenter, a successor worthy to step into his shoes, and who will act in a more strict concert with the other British editor, Cheetam.---Aurora.
As the title of the People's Friend, did not succeed under Cullen's management; as the Printers say, suppose Cheetam and Cullen were to work in a pocket; and the same purse serve them both.---ib.
Already (says the Lexington Kentucky Reporter) has the embargo, or the injustice of those which produced it, given such a spur to domestic manufactures in the other states as well as in this, as will ensure to our farmers a constant demand for all the flax and hemp they can grow. We have not as yet, made so great a noise upon this subject, as some of the other states in the union; but we believe it to be a fact, that in the course of three months, fourteen manufactures for spinning and weaving hemp, flax, and cotton, will be in operation in this town; which manifests a spirit of industry and enterprise worthy of imitation. To the embargo are we indebted in the highest degree, for this growing prosperity, which is of more real and permanent service, than millions expended in foreign commerce.
WASHINGTON CITY, Sept. 5.
In the election in Portsmouth, and four other towns we have heard from in the state of New Hampshire, Republicanism has triumphed most gloriously. The votes given in were
  Republican 1166   Federal 374   The Vermont election takes place to morrow. 
Blank Replevin Bonds, (agreeably to the law of 1808,) For sale at this office.
From the Salem Gazette.
MR. CUSHING. I observe in your paper of Tuesday last, an assertion that I was not perfectly correct in the statement I made, "that out of seven vessels which sailed from this district for the continent of Europe in the month preceding the commencement of the embargo," not one even reached her destined port in safety."
When I applied at the custom-house for information on this subject, a list was given me of all the vessels which had been cleared for the continent of Europe in December, the month preceding the commencement of the embargo. In this list the ship Augustus was not included, as she was cleared at the custom-house in November, although she did not leave the harbor until early in December; and even this vessel, either before, or immediately upon her entering the harbor of Leith, was taken possession of by the French, and the consignee was not permitted to receive her cargo, until he gave bonds for the amount, which remained in force against him or the owners for several months, and then about two thousand dollars were paid as a compensation for those bails being given up. Is this arriving in safety!—I now add, and I am ready to prove, that out of eight vessels, which sailed from this district for the continent of Europe in the month of December last, not one even reached her destined port in safety.
WILLIAM GRAY.
Salem, August 25th, 1808.
FROM THE AURORA.
TO THE EDITOR.
There is a report in circulation on which I know not what degree of credit can be placed, that a meeting of notables, in Jureto at New York, Governor Morris in the chair; it was agreed, that the friends of Great Britain, should adopt the following ticket, and run it through out the union.
Geo. Clinton, of N. Y. for President. C. C. Pinckney, of S. C. for V. President. I do not suppose nor believe, that this was done with the knowledge of Mr. Clinton; and I begin to suspect, that the day of the British notables to publish this ticket, arises from their apprehension, that Mr. Clinton will not suffer his name to be employed to purposes so base and dishonorable, as it has been by such a project proposed to employ it.
Looking over a bundle of papers at the Coffee House, I saw the paper called American Citizen, published by an Englishman at New York, of the name of Cheetam, a pretended extract of a letter, in which it is assumed to be set forth, that the state of Pennsylvania will vote for Geo. Clinton, as president, 13 votes; South Carolina 10 votes; N. Carolina 7, Georgia 6, Kentucky 4, Tennessee 2, Ohio 3, besides other states.
Now, as I know from good information, as any man can have concerning what has not yet happened, that there is not any truth, but no shadow, for finding any suspicion or belief that there is a word of truth, in the said 13, 10, 7, 6, 4, 3, votes of these states being intended, or probably to be given for Mr. Clinton; I am rather suspicious, that the meeting of notables in New York, and those consultations by the English news printer, have some connection that the only object of the partisans of Britain being to divide and to distract the nation, and thus to weaken its ability to act against the British government. (I suppose,) it may have been taken up Mr. Clinton, with the hope of drawing men aside from their duty to their country, who may feel an attachment to the man.
As a Pennsylvanian, I feel for the credit of his state, we have been on former occasions tricked most shamefully; and I am not willing to let the votes of this state be thus awfully betrayed by treachery, as they were baselessly betrayed by those who were entrusted to preserve them in 1803.
I hope and trust, that the citizens of this state will, therefore, resolve to vote for no man who shall not previously, and in the most unequivocal manner declare himself, that he will support the candidates put in nomination, by the republican majority at Washington—that is, JAMES MADISON, for president, and GEORGE CLINTON, for vice-president.
It appears to me, that the township meetings, wherever held should take this measure into consideration, and express their opinions on the subject; and should the federalists propose to run G. Clinton, then then they will consider according as he may act, what they ought to do. For our presidential election, is in fact only another struggle for our liberties against the power and gold of Britain.
THRASO.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
INSANITY.
QUIEM DEUS VULT PERDRE PRIUS DEMENTAT.
The following precious morsceau is from the Boston Gazette. It seems as though these writers had a method in their madness.
"Among our first and most important rights is the free use of the ocean, and of this we WILL NOT be deprived under the false pretence that the Leviathan will swallow us up.
"If when Congress meet they do not take off our chains, they will soon find but one sentiment pervades us from the Delaware to St. Croix. It will demand free commerce—No more Embargoes. If Virginia and her satellite choose, let them keep on a perpetual Embargo among themselves, we want it not, or if there be any among us who do, let those remove beyond the Potomack."
"Virginia again! "Southern prejudices against commerce" These are the "disciples of Washington!"
The attempt of the federal meeting at New-York to put the Vice President in nomination for President after the votes given in so many cities, towns and counties in favor of Mr. Madison, and in confirmation of his nomination by the republican members of Congress, is a very unhandsome act. It goes upon the mistaken ground that Mr. Clinton will disregard these clear expressions of the republican interest. We see that the meeting at Northumberland, in Pennsylvania, which had been so explicit in his favor, has recinded its vote, and nominated Mr. Madison.
disson as President from a conviction that the republican majority is in his favor. (Nat. Int.)
"Federalists and friends of order."
As the leaders of the party, opposed to the present administration, still assume the appellation of Federalists and friends of order , it may not be amiss, at this important crisis to examine their pretensions to names thus arrogantly assumed.
It is well known that the term Federalists originated in this country at the adoption of the present Constitution, and was understood to designate those who were in favor of that bond of union; that magna charta of our liberties. The constitution commences thus "We the people of the U. S. &c." It is here evidently founded on democratic as well as federal principles; and consequently a person cannot be friendly to the Constitution who is inimical to the principles of democracy.
But if it be denied that anti-democratic , and anti-constitutionalists are synonymous terms—let me ask whether those who are in favor of a dissolution of the Union merit the appellation of federalists? I am far from believing that the great body of those who have arranged under the banners of the opposition leaders, would countenance, much less aid in promoting so treasonable a project, as a dismemberment of the republic. It cannot however be denied that many of the opposition papers have for some time past been filled with inflammatory essays calculated to excite local jealousies, and ultimately to prepare the public mind for a dissolution of the Union.
Having endeavored to show that the leaders of the opposition party are hostile to the constitution, I shall now proceed to investigate their claim to the appellation of "friends of order." No sooner was this justly compelled, by the indignant voice of an injured and insulted people to abandon the helm of state, than a number of mercenary presses were employed for the avowed purpose of destroying the popularity of those whom "the people delighted to honor." But instead of entering into a fair and candid investigation of the measures adopted by the administration, calumny, misrepresentation, scurrility and personal abuse has been the order of the day.
Not content however with calumniating our most distinguished patriots, not content in opposing with jacobinic rage every measure adopted by the government, not content with palliating, and even justifying the conduct of a piratical king in his relations with this country, the leaders of the opposition party have recently proclaimed sentiments which amount to treason & rebellion against the laws & constituted authorities of the Republic. The embargo has been denounced as unconstitutional and oppressive; and in consequence of the incendiary publications on this subject, several deluded persons have actually entered into combinations for the purpose of violating the laws of their country. Nay, the blood of some of our citizens has been already shed, and God only knows how many more will become the victims of this treasonable opposition, unless the leaders thereof are soon punished for their temerity.
Republicans! —The critical state of our foreign relations, together with the insidious machinations and intrigues of our internal foes, ought to convince you of the necessity of vigilance and unanimity.—The Genius of Liberty, demands of you this new proof of your patriotism, and I am persuaded she will not demand it in vain.
FRANKLIN.
TAKEN UP BY JOHN A. JONES,
A Black Bull,
Unmarked judged to be 3 years old this spring, appraised to five dollars and a half. A cow—Teste,
Rolfe Eldridge, Jr. D. C. Buckingham county, May 1, 1808
PIPING TREE.
THE subscriber wishes to RENT for the ensuing year, that well known stand for public business, called the Piping Tree, together with the FECKY, which, for custom, is equal to any in the lower part of this state. On the premises there is a very convenient house, calculated for a tavern, with an excellent dry cellar underneath, and all suitable out houses, a fertile and well enclosed garden, a stable, coach house and grainery under one roof, a straw house with a cellar also, a lumber house at the water edge, where vessels from 4 to 500 bushels but then, can load and unload. Also, from 4 to 500 acres of
GOOD LAND,
About 250 acres of which are arable, laid off in convenient fields and all under sufficient fencing, and on which is a very good barn. To those who are not acquainted with said place, it is necessary to observe that it is in a healthy and opulent neighborhood, and there is no tolerable assorted store within several miles of it. If said premises are not rented privately, on or before the 1st day of October next, it will, on that day, be rented publicly by
Mary King.
September 5, 1808.
Advertisement.
Stolen out of my pasture on Friday night the 19th of August,
A Small Bay Horse,
About 4 feet 7 inches high 5 years old, branded on the near buttock F. S the 5 turned the wrong way, inclined to have a sorrel mane and tail, paces well, trots rough, goes well in a single chair. I will give five dollars reward to have him brought home and ten on conviction of the thief, if a white man.
Francis Smith.
September 5, 1808

Mount Comfort, FOR SALE. SITUATED on Rappahannock in the county of Essex, within fifteen miles of Tappahannock and about the same distance from Urbanna and King and Queen Courthouse and very convenient to the post office at Montague's Tavern—there are upwards of one hundred and fifty acres of land attached to this seat, a considerable part of which is wood land and heavily timbered—The improvements are a dwelling house, forty feet by eighteen, a Kitchen, Smoke-House, Stable, Ice House, &c. on the Hill—And on the river bank, a store house, with a commodious Store and Counting Room and an excellent Granary—all of which—except the Stable—have been recently built. Mount Comfort commands as good, if not the best view of the river of any seat on the Rappahannock, and the best fish and oysters may be had at the door with very little trouble—It is well calculated for a merchant, being in a populous and wealthy neighborhood, where it is believed five or six thousand pounds worth of goods might be retailed annually—it would also be a convenient stand for a professional character—I would either sell on credit if the payments can be agreed on, or exchange for other lands without improvement. For further particulars apply to Reuben M. Garnett, or to
Carter Wood, Mount Comfort. June 1 1808  MATTRESSES OF ALL SIZES AND KINDS, MADE and repaired, agreeably to order, in the large wooden house opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the market bridge below the market bridge, Richmond.
J. S. Pleasants. May 31, 1808  I AM desirous to exchange the following property, or any part thereof as may be agreed on, for a small tract of good Land, in a healthy situation, with a dwelling house and other improvements, a good spring of water, and an agreeable neighborhood at a distance of 50 to 100 miles in the country—To say for Houses in this city—Lands in Henrico county, joining the academy lands, and near this city—2,000 acres on Richland creek, in Lincoln county Kentucky—1,000 acres on the waters of the Ohio, in Mason county—and two tracts of Military Lands on the river Tennessee, each 866 2/3 acres. Robert Mitchell. Richmond, Feb. 6. 1808
TO RENT And possession given the first day of October next,  The Tenement, OCCUPIED by Alexander Plawville, next door below Samuel Pleasants' Book Store. For particulars, apply to
WILLIAM COOK. Richmond, 1st July, 1808  BOARDING HOUSE.  Mrs. Judith Nelson HAVING taken the tenement belonging to Mr. William Price, lately occupied by Mr. M'Graw, on the street leading from the capitol on the main street, opposite to Harp's brick buildings, where she will accommodate ladies and gentlemen by the day, week, month, quarter or year with genteel board, lodging and entertainment. She has excellent servants, and assures those who may become her boarders that no exertion shall be wanting to give satisfaction. Richmond 14th July, 1808.
Boarding, Lodging & Entertainment. THE subscriber will commence keeping a boarding house on the first day of September next, in the commodious & conveniently situated house at present occupied by Major James Gibson on the main street, opposite to Harp's brick buildings, where she will accommodate ladies and gentlemen by the day, week, month, quarter or year with genteel board, lodging and entertainment. No exertions shall be wanting on her part to give satisfaction to those who will favor her with their company. Anna Byrd. Richmond, August 3, 1808.
ON the 28th of September next, WILL BE SOLD, on the premises, to the highest bidder, by trustees appointed for that purpose, on a credit of one, two and three years, that highly improved and valuable FARM,
CHILLOWEE, Situated in the county of Cumberland, and immediately between Farmville and Jamestown, containing by estimation 500 acres. For the cultivation of tobacco, wheat, corn, &c. perhaps it is inferior to no land in the middle country. The improvements on this farm, besides the local situation, would be objects of considerable importance with any gentleman who wishes to purchase a country seat. Also, at the same time and place, will be SOLD, on a credit of twelve months, a variety of valuable
Household Furniture, And Plantation Tools & Utensils. If the sale is not finished on the first day, it will be continued from day to day, until every thing is sold. WILLIAM RANDOLPH. August 21, 1808.
TO RENT or Lease, FOR A TERM OF YEARS,  THE PLANTATION
WHEREON the late William S. Smith, dec. resided, in the county of Powhatan, about 22 miles from the city of Richmond. There are on this plantation, a good dwelling house, out houses, orchards, &c.—Possession given at Christmas next, with the privilege of sowing wheat this fall. Further particulars will be made known on application to Mr. Wm. Graves, living near the premises, or to the sub-criber. JOSIAH SMITH. Powhatan, August 4, 1808.
If the above plantation is not rented before Saturday the 10th of September, it will on that day be offered to the highest bidder, on the premises. J. S.
Winter Turnip Seed OF THE LAST YEAR'S GROWTH For Sale at this Office.
By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia,  A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it appears to the executive by an inquisition held in the county of Northumberland, on the 21st day of September, in the year 1808, before John H. Fallon, Esq. coroner for the said county that on the 23rd day of the said month of September, in the year aforesaid, a certain George Gordon, late of the county aforesaid, stands charged with the murder of a certain negro slave named Bartley; and it appearing that after the perpetration of the said murder, the said George Gordon did immediately, and doth still fly from justice: I have therefore thought fit, with the advice of the council of state, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of one hundred dollars to any person or persons who shall apprehend and convey before some justice of the peace for the said county of Northumberland, the said George Gordon, that he may be dealt with as the law directs. And I do moreover hereby enjoin all officers civil and military, and exhort the good people of the commonwealth, to use their best endeavors to apprehend and convey as aforesaid, the said George Gordon, that he may be dealt with in the manner which the law in such cases prescribes. Given under my hand, with the seal of the (L. S.) commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, the 5th day of August, 1808. Signed, Wm. H. CABELL.
George Gordon is about five feet eight or ten inches high, is stout made, has light colored hair, blue eyes and a downy look when spoken to. It is believed that he is frequently lurking in the county of Southampton, Maryland: The editor of the National Intelligencer is therefore requested to insert this proclamation in that paper for two weeks.
NOTICE. WHEREAS Mr. James Fisher, by a deed executed on the first day of July, 1808, and recorded in the county court of Henrico, has assigned to the subscriber as trustee for certain of his creditors therein named, the whole of his estate of every description, (except his household furniture, and some few debts transferred by him as trustee, subsequent to the execution of said trust, as will more fully appear by a reference to the schedule annexed to said deed;) consisting of some lots in the city of Richmond, together with all his bonds, notes and accounts—This is therefore to give notice to the debtors of the said James Fisher, that all judgments obtained where the money has not been paid, all suits now depending, in the courts of this commonwealth, or elsewhere, all monies in the hands of attorneys, sheriffs or others, which may have been collected by virtue of any suit debt or demand of the said James Fisher; that he is the only person authorized to receive such debts and demands and grant such acquittances and make such compromises as he may deem most advisable for the interest of said creditors. A hope is therefore cherished, that every effort on the part of said debtors, will be made, in order to a settlement of their balances, and every indulgence will be given by him to those who manifest such a disposition. And whereas it is stipulated by the contracting parties to said deed, that certain creditors of said James Fisher, who from absence or other causes, could not signify their wish of becoming parties to the deed, now be it understood, that if they do within sixty days, from the said first day of July, 1808, sign the said deed, in that case, they are to be considered entitled to their ratable proportion of such monies as shall be collected from the sale of property and collection of debts—otherwise if they do not, within the time specified, make known their determination by subscribing to the terms agreed upon in the said trust, that the said trustee shall pay over such sums as they would have been entitled to if they had acceded to the said James Fisher. Edward W. Trent. 28th July, 1808.
Just received, and for Sale, At the Bookstore of  S. PLEASANTS, JR. RICHMOND, VOLUME TWO, OF The American Register, Price 3 Dollars and 25 Cents. The first volume of this work has been so long before the public that its merits are too well known to need any encomium. It may not however be improper to observe, that it contains a very complete History of the Political Occurrences and Transactions both Foreign and Domestic, of the last year; a sketch of American and British Literature—and a valuable collection of State Papers, both American and European, besides a number of Miscellaneous Articles. Perhaps no other publication in this country, condenses so much historical information in the same limits; and being an annual publication, it is presumed that it will be deemed a necessary addition to every well furnished library. 6w
IN pursuance of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by John P. Shields and Jane Crawley his wife, to secure the payment of a certain sum of money therein mentioned, due to Henry Cary, will be exposed to sale, on the premises, for ready money, on the 17th day of September next, a very valuable
Tract of Land, containing one hundred acres, lying on each side of the turnpike road, about 9 miles from the Town of Manchester, and known by the name of SALLEY'S HILL, on which there is supposed to be coal; or so much thereof as will be sufficient to meet the intention of said trust deed, and costs of said sale. Beverly C. Stannard, } Trustee Archibald Woodbridge, } Chesterfield, August 27, 1808. tds
Advertisement. I wish to sell my Interest in the  LOT, which I occupy; It is subject to a yearly rent of 3 dollars, for each foot in front.—The improvements need not be described, because the purchaser will necessarily view them. The situation is on the Cross Street, leading to the Basin, a Blacksmith shop is attached. It is my intention to remove to the Western Country. The terms of sale will be made known by the Subscriber, at any time, but the sale will be public; on the 15th of September next. James Lynch. Richmond, 30th August, 1808. tds
Electoral Ticket. The following is the Madisonian Electoral Ticket, republished for the information of the citizens of Virginia: Joseph G. G. sen. Nansemond. Benjamin Harrison, Prince George. Edward Pegram, sen. Dinwiddie. Richard Field, Brunswick. Col. Thomas Read, Charlotte. Joseph Eggleston, Amelia. Hugh Nelson, Albemarle. Col. George Penn, Patrick. Philip N. Nicholas, Richmond City. Judge Spencer Roane, Hanover. John Roane, King William. Robert Taylor, Orange. Gustavus H. Horner, Fauquier. Robert Nelson, York. Mann Page, Gloucester. Richard Barnes, Richmond County. John T. Brooke, Stafford. Hugh Holmes, Frederick. Osborne Spriggs, Hampshire. James Allen, Shenandoah. Archibald Stuart, Augusta. Andrew Russell, Washington. Gen. John Preston, Montgomery. William McKinley, Ohio
William Lownes, RETURNS his thanks to his friends and the public generally for their liberal encouragement, and hopes his assiduity to business and punctuality will in time him to a continuance of their favors. He has removed to the corner immediately opposite the Bell, formerly occupied by S. Grantham, where he intends carrying on the Book-binding business in all its variety and in the most modern & fashionable style, with punctuality, neatness and dispatch. Printed books bound in the most elegant manner in Morocco and Calf skin, full gilt and lettered; also in sheep skin, gilt, lettered and plain. Blank Books of every description ruled to any pattern and bound with the latest improved spring or patent backs. Orders from the country will be thankfully received and punctually attended to. Old books rebound. N. B. An apprentice will be taken to the Book-binding business, if immediate application be made, with good recommendation. August 23.
IN THE PRESS And shortly will be published by the printer hereof,  The Virginia Almanack, FOR THE YEAR  1809: Which will contain, in addition to the Astronomical Calculations by Benjamin Bates, a great variety of useful and entertaining matter. * * * A liberal discount will be made to wholesale purchasers.
Penitentiary Store. SHOES at the Manufacture of the Penitentiary have been lately REDUCED, considerably below their former prices.  D. J. BURR, Agent. 10th May, 1808.  FOR SALE, THAT VALUABLE  Coal Estate, In the State of Virginia, Chesterfield county, twelve miles above Richmond, known by the name of RAILEY'S PITTS. It is useless to mention the superiority of the coal, or situation of the works, as it is presumed no person will purchase without viewing the premises. A part of the money will be required in hand—considerable credit will be given for the balance on bond with approved security. Any person inclined to purchase will be met on the premises in all October next, by one of the owners duly qualified to treat for the same. There has been raised at these pits by Messrs. Nicolson and Heth, upwards of 400,000 bushels of coal in one year, and the body of coal at present very extensive. August 25, 1808. (3w.)
The Editors of the National Intelligencer, Boston Chronicle & Petersburg Intelligencer are requested to insert the above two weeks, in their respective papers, and forward their accounts to this office for payment.
For Rent, THE tenement, at present occupied by Mr. Archibald Foster, near the market bridge, possession may be had on the 1st of October next. Also, for rent or sale, a two story house, &c. (now finishing off,) on Shockoe Hill, possession of which may be had about the 1st of November next. W. M'KIM. Richmond, Sept. 1st, 1808. 3w
JUST RECEIVED, A few hundred barrels cut & whole Herring Antigua Rum by the hogshead & Best Green Coffee by the bag. FOR SALE BY C. H. SAUNDERS, 2d June, 1808. w3m
NICHOLAS HALLAM, (NEAR THE SWAN TAVERN,) Is in hourly expectation of a further supply of the Best Philadelphia Leather, Which will be continued, and for sale, on equal good terms as heretofore.
Wax and fair Calf Skins First quality Cossack boot legs do. do. Long, three-quarter and half, draft, calf skin and Cordovan, do. Calf and Cordovan roundings and binding skins Bridle and seal leather, &c. &c. Boots and Shoes.  Nails of all kinds. A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF WELL CHOSEN GROCERIES. Boots and Shoes made to measures at short notice, and rips mended gratis. A few thousand wt. of Hams and Middling  BACON. The above articles may be had low for cash, produce, or approved paper at short credit. August 2, 1808. 1awtf  Fifa & Casa Executions, For sale at this office.
By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia,  A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it appears to the Executive by an inquisition taken before William White and James M. Williams, gentlemen, justices of the peace for the county of Pittsylvania, that an atrocious murder was committed on the 14th day of the present month by a certain Gardiner Mays, late of the county aforesaid, on the body of Robert Wynn, who it appears was late a deputy sheriff for the said county and in the execution of the duties of his office as such, when the said murder was committed, and that the said Gardiner Mays has fled from justice: I have therefore thought fit, with the advice of the council of state, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of one hundred dollars to any person or persons who shall apprehend and carry before some justice of the peace for the county of Pittsylvania aforesaid, the said Gardiner Mays, that he may be dealt with as directed by law. And I do moreover hereby enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of this commonwealth to use their best endeavors to apprehend the said Gardiner Mays, that such proceedings may be had against him as is prescribed by law. Given under my hand, with the seal of the (L. S.) commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 27th day of July, 1808. Signed, William H. Cabell.
N. B. Gardiner Mays is from 40 to 45 years of age, 5 feet, from 3 to 5 inches high, close stout and strong made, particularly in the body, in which he is longer than usual for men of his height, his arms are stout, his thighs short and small compared with his body, his legs short and well proportioned, his face a little prominent, with stone full beard, his nose large, and a little swelling from the forehead to the end, where it appears quite full; on close observation his eyes may appear nearer together than usual, and it is believed there is a small blemish in one of them, perhaps the left; his hair is dark colored and short; he has been bred to labor, and is of a complexion common to men of that description. Amongst his wearing apparel is a blue common cloth suit, lined with red flannel; a Virginia loth coat with black buttons, button holes and back silk cape, and a pair of white cambric pantaloons and waistcoat. He occasionally carries a large butcher knife under the breast of his coat, ground on one edge, so as to represent a blade of a dirk.
JUST RECEIVED, And for sale, by the subscribers, Imperial, TEAS, Gunpowder, } In small boxes, of Young Hyson, & } Hyson Skin, } a superior quality. Hyson Tea, in lead caddies, 2 1/4 lbs. each. Old Jamaica, An. } Tigua, W. India } RUM. N. England } 20 bbls Prime Green Coffee. Jamaica Sugar, in bbls. Half-borne's double refined Havannah SUGAR. 15 Hds. MOLASSES. Fresh RICE in tiers. Best SPANISH SEGARS, wholesale and retail. A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF Paints, Oil Spirits Turpentine, Shoes Hardware, &c. —ALSO— Daily expected, by the schooner Manchester, Storer, 10 hds. Antigua RUM, and SWEET OIL in cases of 30 bottles each. BRYSON & PARKHILL. August 26, 1808. 1m
The Noted Imported Horse  KNOWSLEY, WILL stand the fall season at my stable in the neighborhood of Charlotte county, to be let to mares at Ten Dollars the season, to be paid by the 1st day of March, or Twenty Dollars by insurance. The season to commence the fifteenth inst. and expire the first day of November. No responsibility for accidents. Martin Hancock. August 15, 1808. 3w
Knowsley will stand at the above place the next ensuing season in 1809. The terms, &c. will be made known in due time. M. H.  James A. Oswald EMBRACES the earliest opportunity to return his grateful acknowledgments to his friends, for their polite and friendly attentions to him, during his late indisposition, and informs them, and the public in general, that (Deo Volente,) he will resume his professional functions on Monday next, 5th Inst. on which day, he requests his pupils punctually to attend at the usual hour. September 1, 1808. 3i.
100 Dollars Reward. RUNAWAY from the subscriber the 5th November, 1806, a Negro Man, named ANDREW; he is about 24 years of age, about 6 feet high, well made, of a dark complexion; he has a pleasing countenance, and when spoken to has a stoop in his speech. He was raised by Dr. John Shore, of Petersburg; his father and mother are living in Manchester, where it is probable he is now lurking. The above reward will be given to any one who will deliver the said negro to me near Petersburg, or secure him in any jail, so that I get him again. Masters of vessels and others are forewarned carrying him off or harboring him at their peril. Drury Birchett. Richmond, August 25, 1808. w3m
FOR SALE, AT S. PLEASANTS' BOOK STORE, A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF Miranda's Expedition, Including the trial & execution OF TEN OF HIS OFFICERS, AND an account of the imprisonment and sufferings of the remainder of the officers and men, who were taken prisoners. Upon the authority of a person who was an officer under Miranda, who was taken and condemned to ten years imprisonment, and who after suffering nearly two years, effected his return home.
By the Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia,  A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it is represented to the Executive, that on the fourth day of the present month, an atrocious murder was committed in the county of Mecklenburg, by a certain John Daws, an inhabitant of the said county of Mecklenburg, on the body of Francis Ballard, late of the same county; and that the said John Daws hath fled from justice: I have therefore thought fit with the advice of the Council of State, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of two hundred dollars to any person or persons, who shall apprehend and conduct before some justice of the peace for the said county of Mecklenburg, the said John Daws, that he may be dealt with as the law directs. And I do moreover enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of the commonwealth, to use their best endeavors to apprehend and carry before some justice of the peace for the county aforesaid, the said John Daws, that such proceedings may be had thereon as are prescribed by law. Given under my hand, with the Seal of the L. S. Commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 19th day of August, 1808. Signed, Alexr. M'Rae.
Penitentiary Store. THE subscriber, Agent for the Penitentiary, offers for sale the following articles, the manufacture of that institution, at very low prices for cash only at retail, and at 90 days credit at wholesale, for approved endorsed negotiable notes.  CUT NAILS.    Wholesale prices  Retail prices.    3d  13 cents. 14 cents per lb.    4  12 1-2 13 1-2    6  11 1-2 12 1-2    8  10 1-2 11 1-2    10  10 11    12  10 11    20  10 11    Slating nails  11 1-2 12 1-2    CUT BRADS.    8d  10 cents. 11 cents per lb.    10  9 1-2 10 1-2    12  Do. Do.    20  Do. Do.    SPRIGS.    3d  39 cts. ft. lb. 50 per m.    4  22 1-2 67    6  17 84    WROUGHT NAILS and BRADS:    6d  13 14 per lb.    8  12 1-2 13 1-2    10  12 13    12  11 1-2 12 1-2    20  11 12    30  11 12   Spikes of all sizes same price as 30d. nails. Broad and narrow Axes, Hatchers, Hoes, Plough Shares and Coulters, Hinges, Wedges, Hammers, Fenders, Traces and Stretchers, Tin Ware, &c. &c. 
Boots and Shoes. Fair tops, back straps, $9 Ditto 8 Suwarrows, 7 Half Boots, 5 Plantation and light fine shoes, 106 1/2 12 3/4 Do. second & third qualities, 78 6 9 3/4 Negro shoes (strong) 68 7 7 3/4 Girls do. 48 4 48 Boys do. 39 9 6 68 Children's shoecees, 38 4 48 Five Buckets $4 1/2 8 3/4 per pair Bridles, Surcingles, Whip thongs, Spur leathers, Hame strings, Back Bands, Leading, Garden, Hambro and Fishing lines. Any of the above articles made to orders left at the Penitentiary Store, second door above the Eagle Tavern. D. J. BURR April 26, 1808. (2aw1m 1awtf)
The shoes are reduced much below the former price. On a point that may concern. A Pension will be preferred to the next General Assembly, as a release of all rights of the Commonwealth to the lands lying in Gloucester and Middlesex Counties, to the subscribers, of which Dr. Robert B. Spratt and Dr. George D. Spratt died seized, the subscriber Charlotte Gwathmey, being nearest of kin to the deceased. Richard Gwathmey & Charlotte Gwathmey. King Wm. County, Aug. 20 1808. 6t.
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by Branch H. Bibb, to secure the payment of two debts therein mentioned; one due to Thomas, McKinney, & Co. the other to Charles McKinney, for the benefit of the executors of Robert Jennings, dec. WILL BE SOLD, for ready money, on Thursday the 15th day of September next, at the store of Thomas, McKinney, & Co. in Charlotte County, the following
Negro Slaves, to wit: Nanny, Ben, Kit, Rachel, Isaac, Molly, and Nat, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy the above debts, with all the costs attending the same. CLEMENT A. JENNINGS, Trustee. August 17th, 1808. w3t.
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by Richard C. Pollard to secure the payment of a debt due to Murphy, Brown & Co. as their expressed, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for the best price that can be obtained in ready money, at Mrs. Ann S. Hopkins's, in the county of Nelson, on Saturday the 6th day of August next,
Four Slaves, to wit: Daniel a negro man, Phillis a woman, Squire a boy, and Pallas a girl, but as we are only trustees for the benefit of others, we will only warrant the title as to ourselves and those claiming under us. William F. Carter. Robert Franklin. Warminster, July 6 1808. wtf
Wirt's Speeches. The Editor of the Argus has lately published the SPEECHES of WILLIAM WIRT, Esq., on the trial of Col. AARON BURR, and others.—With a portrait by St. Memin.  Dampiers, CARDS,  HAND-BILLS, LAWYERS, CLERKS & SHERIFFS BLANKS, &c. ARE NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY PRINTED AT THE ARGUS OFFICE.

We are told that there are certain partisans who busily circulate the report in the country, that the republican papers in this place are not open to the communications of the minority. For what purpose this report was thrown into circulation, we know not, unless to injure the character of our papers, and to insinuate the idea that we are afraid to meet the "keen encounter of their wits."
There are certain politicians who affect to feel a very lively sensibility upon the subject of the Spanish revolution. They even go so far as to assimilate their situation to that of our own, when we threw off the chains of British tyranny, and very indignantly ask if we cannot feel for them as we have felt for ourselves.
Extract from an Oration, by JON PAGE, Esq. delivered at Gloucester Courthouse, on July the fourth, 1794.
Rejoicing at our happy escape from slavery, and full of gratitude that we enjoy the blessings of freedom, exulting in the idea of the inestimable benefits derived to mankind from our example, how much reason have we to be glad with exceeding great joy, when we celebrate this glorious day, which gave birth to that escape; to this liberty, and to the enchanting prospect of the future freedom and happiness of mankind.
But as some may hear me, who perhaps have not been sufficiently informed respecting the oppression under which we labored; the struggles, the arduous struggles we made, and the dangers we encountered, to get rid of that oppression—and perhaps, may not see, so clearly, as an American citizen ought, in what consists the excellence of a free government; I will, before I say anything more respecting the propriety of rejoicing on this day, take the liberty of describing, in a few words as my present undertaking will permit, the oppression under which we labored; and the means by which we extricated ourselves from that oppression; and then will show, that all the dangers to which we were exposed, and all the losses we sustained, were justly despised, as not to be put into competition with the glorious prospect of securing to ourselves, and to posterity, the blessings of liberty.
ourselves, and to posterity, the blessings of liberty. As to the oppression under which we labored, it was by many, not improperly, compared to that under which the Israelites groaned—their Egyptian task-master; were not more unreasonable than our British masters; for they, only required, in addition to their severe tasks, that the Israelites should not be furnished with straw with which they made their bricks, but that they should themselves collect it, & yet should be called on for the same quantity of bricks, as when the straw had been delivered to them; but our masters, not only, as I may say, required of us an additional number of bricks, but at the same time cut off from us the means of procuring straw to make them.
Besides these duties, we were obliged to pay a tax on our lands, called quit-rent, in sterling money, payable to the King; this however was received in tobacco, at a low rate, and paid as an acknowledgment that we held our lands of, or under him as proprietor of the soil. Indeed he seemed to be proprietor not only of our lands and of our other property, but of our persons, and even of our consciences—as the first was absolutely claimed by him and his parliament in sundry acts; the second demanded for him, by the officers of his army and navy impressing our citizens into his fleets and armies, either he had won only plunged us into a war with the French or other powers of Europe; and as to the claim to our consciences, he held it as supreme head of the church of England, here established, and exerted his royal prerogative in this state according to his royal will and pleasure.
In the mean time, as averse as we were to war, to shew our patriotism and loyalty, we voted by our Burgess, as our Representatives were called, large sums to carry on the war; and freely shed our blood to support the credit of the British arms. By the aid of these states, then called colonies, the British army took the Havannah from the Spaniards, and Canada from the French, in the war of 1756; and a British fleet, aided by the People of New-England alone, took Louisbourg from the French in the preceding war—and although the British government had acknowledged the services of the Colonies, and had confessed that they, at least some of them, had contributed beyond their abilities, and twenty thousand pounds were actually sent to Governor Dinwiddie, to reimburse Virginia the sum she had expended in the early part of the war of 1756, beyond her proportion of its expenses; yet this very Colony with every other was several years after the war, called on to repay the Mother Country the heavy expenses she had incurred in defending and supporting them (as she termed it) in that war—and the stamp act was passed with a view to raise a permanent revenue in the Colonies for this express purpose.
The famous act just mentioned, shewed what we had to expect from the British Parliament, if permitted to tax us—for, it was calculated to enforce its own execution; for the stamped papers on which the duty was payable were necessary to marriages, and contracts of all kinds; to transfers of all property; to every kind of legal process in our courts, and even to the reading of newspapers and almanacks; and yet such sums were required for all the various species of stamped papers, that all the money in the colonies was not sufficient to pay for the proceedings in the courts of Law and Admiralty alone—So that it was soon discovered, that this act would not only have swept away all the specie of the Colonies; but notwithstanding every shilling they laid might have been paid, in compliance with it, that it would have deprived them of the means of performing a variety of business, and some of it necessary to their comfort and happiness, and to the good order of society, for want of the stamps requisite for the legal performance thereof; and that it would establish a precedent for the Parliament to tax the colonies at pleasure, and to declare upon what conditions they might buy or sell; make contracts; bring suits in their courts, marry or even read! To a condition thus wretched and humiliatingly slavish, was this act calculated to reduce us! I was therefore almost universally detested & opposed; and in consequence of an association of the colonies not to deal with Great Britain, it was repealed. This act appeared to us the more unreasonable and cruel; as our assemblies had been accustomed to grant freely the sums which the governors stated to them as necessary for the service of the king or of the colony, and had peaceably submitted to acts submitted to acts of Parliament regulating the commerce of the colonies; although this regulation was truly oppressive and in some instances seemed calculated for no other end but to oppress us!
Independent of these modifying circumstances of insatiable oppression—The very government, even had it given no cause of discontent by an abuse of power, was enough to excite uneasiness in every breast which has any feeling—For the King appointed all officers civil and military amongst us, although it was impossible from the vast remoteness of our situation from his residence, that he should be acquainted with the character of the persons properly qualified to fill such offices as might become vacant—Hence, the fawning, flattering and intriguing of courtiers, & vice-governors and counsellors, and these were bound by the King's instructions, which they were sworn to observe, and keep secret; and yet they were judges in all cases, as well ecclesiastical as civil; and the council formed an Upper House of our Assembly, a complete branch of the legislature resembling as nearly as possible the British House of Lords; having like them, a right of originating bills (except money bills) amending or rejecting them, enjoying several privileges, and seemed against insults by an act of Assembly—and though not here literary, yet the office was generally by the royal favor handed down in rich families of approved loyalty, from father to son in a regular succession for more than one hundred years uninterrupted, except by some accident, or by non-age, or the too youthful age of the heir apparent of the deceased counsellor. And to secure completely the obedience of the council to the royal will and instruction, they were removable at the pleasure of the King, and might also be suspended by the governor, who might also be removed by the King's command—and he too had a negative on our laws; and exercised the royal prerogative of convening, proroguing and dissolving the Assemblies—and this power was sometimes exercised as the governor thought it would best accord with the caprice of his master at one time, or his resentment, and maltreat another. But this was not all, the King himself exercised an arbitrary control over the acts of our legislatures, as if to guard against a case in which his council and governor might have been prevailed on to pass laws in favor of the oppressed colony; and this control was exerted sometimes at the instigation of a company of merchants, and sometimes even of an individual—Our council or governor frequently refused to pass laws, unless they contained a clause suspending their operation till the King's assent could be obtained, which sometimes could not be had till the law might be useless or even mischievous—What situation then could be more wretchedly dependent and slavish than ours? We were permitted to have a government it is true in some measure resembling the British, which however was infinitely better than ours—For the people of Britain had deposed their Kings when they pleased, and had changed their succession—they had abolished monarchy, established republicanism in its stead, and had again put aside this or that species of government and resumed the former, and claim a right to change their government as it shall seem best to the Majesty of the People—but we were not permitted to depose a governor or counsellor, or even to complain of the abuse of power—The people of Britain, though unequally represented, were not more so than we should have been, had the King's pleasure been indulged; for all our new colonies were to be unrepresented—The British had a parliamentary right to an election once in seven years; but we had no certain claim to elections, and enjoyed them by the favor of the King's governors alone; it is true, we flattered ourselves that we enjoyed the British right to septennial elections; and elections were for many years nearly within that period, as they were granted to us on the death of a King, or of a governor, or on the removal of a governor, in all of which cases writs, issued from the governor or the president of the council for a new election of burgesses—in stead the frequent dissolving of our assemblies which followed the death of George the 2d. occasioned so many new elections that they were not distinguished by many of our countrymen from those which proceeded from the resignation of governor Dinwiddie, & the death of Fauquier & Lord Botetourt, and therefore led many to suppose, that we always had enjoyed at least septennial elections, till the late Richard Bland, one of the members of our first delegation of Congress, published a pamphlet, in which amongst other grievances he stated this, and proved its existence from the records of our Assemblies; showing that we were once nine years without an election of burgesses.
(TO BE CONTINUED) The following article is recommended to the serious consideration of medical men. It leads to the discovery of a remedy for a disease which annually consigns thousands to a premature death. Worcester, (Mass.) August 27. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. Last winter a son of Mr. Eleazer Hawes, of Marlborough, about 11 years old, accidentally got a cent into the lower part of the oesophagus. A puke and other means were employed in bringing it up, without any effect. It got into the stomach. Drastic cathartics and other means were also used, without any effect. Olive oil was the principal medicine used afterwards. It continued to lay in his stomach until the boy was sent to ride four or five miles in haste, when he immediately felt a pain in his bowels; the next day the cent passed from him, which made six months to about an hour, that it lay in him. At the time the boy swallowed it he had the hooping cough, and it immediately cured him by the salvation of the copper, and it continued to salivate almost the whole of the time it lay in him. The cent by trying its weight with another one of the same stamp and date, was found to lose 1-16th part of its weight; which by the same rule would have taken eight years to digest the whole cent. We have selected the following from a respectable European publication for the benefit of the afflicted. An infallible remedy to stop Bleeding at the Nose. This remedy has been universally in use for more than a hundred years in the province of Frisia, but was kept a profound secret until M. Trialingii, apothecary at Amsterdam, made its composition public, which is as follows: Take an ounce of saccharum saturni, of vitriolum martis half an ounce, rub them in a glass mortar, then add eight ounces of spirits of wine and mix. Dose for young people from ten to twelve years of age, as many drops; under 20, fourteen or fifteen drops; grown persons twenty drops, four times each, in a spoonful of wine or brandy. Same remedy recommended in hæmorrhages of all kinds, external or internal. NEWSPAPERS—There are at present printed in the United States about three hundred newspapers, of which twenty-four are daily papers. Of these, seven are republican, twelve federal, and five neutral. Of the papers printed three times a week there are about twenty five. Twice a week about twenty. The remainder, about two hundred and twenty-five, are weekly papers. Within the last month we have noticed the establishment of eight new weekly papers, viz. Weekly Examiner—York, Pen. Statesman—Newport, Mas. Pilot—Cazenovia, N. Y. Vermont Courier—Rutland, Vt. Weekly Chronicle—Natchez, M. T. Herkimer Herald—Herkimer, N. Y. Missouri Gazette—St. Louis, Lou. The Dove—Washington, R. It is believed that since the adjournment of Congress, at least twenty new papers have commenced; and proposals are in circulation for about twenty more. [Nat. Int.]
publican, twelve federal, and five neutral. Of the papers printed three times a week there are about twenty five. Twice a week about twenty. The remainder, about two hundred and twenty-five, are weekly papers. Within the last month we have noticed the establishment of eight new weekly papers, viz. Weekly Examiner—York, Pen. Statesman—Newport, Mas. Pilot—Cazenovia, N. Y. Vermont Courier—Rutland, Vt. Weekly Chronicle—Natchez, M. T. Herkimer Herald—Herkimer, N. Y. Missouri Gazette—St. Louis, Lou. The Dove—Washington, R. It is believed that since the adjournment of Congress, at least twenty new papers have commenced; and proposals are in circulation for about twenty more. [Nat. Int.]
Malthus on Population. PROPOSALS For publishing by subscription (from the third London edition) BY J. MILLIGAN, BOOKSELLER, GEORGE TOWN, AN ESSAY ON THE Principle of Population; OR, A view of its past and present effects ON HUMAN HAPPINESS; WITH AN INQUIRY Into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions. BY T. R. MALTHUS, A. M. Late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. IN TWO VOLUMES. CONDITIONS. The first American edition of Malthus on Population, will be comprised in 2 volumes, octavo, price for page with the London copy. It shall be printed on a handsome woven paper and a new type: each volume will contain about 360 pages. The price in board, for each volume, will be $2 50 cents—handsomely bound and lettered $3. * * Subscriptions for the above work are received by S. PLEASANTS, Jr. Richmond, and by the principal booksellers in the United States. September 9. 2W
The writer of this essay, performs what he feels it to be in the most emphatic sense the term, a social duty, when on this subject he recommends to such of his readers as may not have been fortunate enough to peruse "Essay on Population," by Malthus. From the perusal of this great work, he has derived more original and valuable information, on the most important subject that can exercise superior genius, or attract the attention of an enlightened people, than from any other book, or from all the other books he has ever read. It is equally calculated to correct the gross prejudices of more common sense, and dissipate the splendid illusions of fanciful speculation respecting the immutable condition of man on earth, the productive causes and proper correctives of human misery and vice, and the future prospects of social improvement. To many of his readers this note may probably appear to be superfluous, & perhaps impertinent. For surely a work of such immense value and celebrity, must be already in the hands of every man who aspires to discharge the functions of an editor, legislator or instructor in Virginia.—Rainbow, Series 1, No. 1.
FOR SALE, AT S. PLEASANTS' BOOK STORE, A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF Miranda's Expedition, Including the trial & execution OF TEN OF HIS OFFICERS, AND an account of the imprisonment and sufferings of the remainder of the officers and men, who were taken prisoners. Upon the authority of a person who was an officer under Miranda, who was taken and condemned to ten years imprisonment, and who after suffering nearly two years, effected his return home. Also, for sale as above, A Winter in London, a new novel The Discarded Son or Haunt of the Banditti, by Mrs. Roche Coxe's New American Di-pensary Henry's Chemistry Bard's Midwifery Henry Tufis Lucky Mistake Hey's Surgery Monsignore's Precedents Oddity's Commerce Conversations on Chmery Mariner's Chronicle Popular Tales Burden's History of the Bible Charms of Literature To-Morrow Life of Pitt Life of Fox Bancroft's Life of Washington Hovey's Music Just received and for sale at this office, (PRICE THREE DOLLARS,) The Register of Arts, OR A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF SOME OF THE MOST USEFUL MODERN Discoveries & Inventions. BY THOMAS G. FESSENDEN
PURSUANT to a deed of trust from Messrs Davis and Mary, his wife to the subscriber, dated the 4th March, 1807, a sale of the payment of 2445 dollars, due, on a bond from Messrs Davis to Messrs P. & P. Moncure, assignees of the P. & P. bond, on the 20th day of September, on the premises, will be offered for sale, to the highest bidder, at 90 days credit, the balance of the
Lot & parcel of Land, Lying and being in the county of Henrico, contiguous to the city of Richmond, being a part of the same lot and parcel of land, conveyed by Richard Adams and Elizabeth, his wife, to said Messrs Davis by deed, dated the 3d day of March, 1807, beginning and running on the road or street, leading from the Market House, in the city aforesaid, to Du Val's Village, north 4 1-2 dees, 40 feet wide, dividing said lot and parcel of land, and the lot formerly William Cannon's now John Doyle's, & building on said street, north 89 degrees east, 4 chains, and 94 links to the corner of the said street; thence on said street, south 4 1-2 degrees, west 4 chains 32 links to a corner street 40 feet wide next towards said city, and binding on said street, south 89 degrees, west 4 chains 36 links, to the said road, about the beginning, with the buildings and improvements thereon, consisting of a LARGE FRAME ED HOUSE, making three tenements, or so much of said premises as will raise the instalments, or balance now due of the aforesaid debt, with the interest thereon, and the charges and expenses attending the sale. The sale will commence at or after 10 o'clock in the morning. George Wm. Smith. Richmond, Sept. 9, 1808. tds
FOR SALE, On private contract, the fine high bred running horse DOCTOR, The property of the late Dr. A. T. Dixon, out of the B. B. by Pantabon. Also, A FILLY, 3 years old, by Preakness, out of the same mare, of the best and purest blood in Virginia. Doctor was by Play or Pay, is in high health and perfect sound, six years old, a beautiful bay and 15 hands high. This horse has proved his bottom and speed in many trials, having from three years old been successful, except in two instances, which accident prevented. The filly is untired, but she would be highly valuable to a gentleman whose wish is to raise from a good stock. Apply to John Tyler, Ex'r. Green Way, Sept. 6, 1808. tf
Just Published, By C & A Conrad, & Co. Philadelphia, and for sale by Samuel Pleasants, Jr. Richmond, The Columbiad; A Poem in 10 Books.—By Joel Barlow.
This title announces a work of the highest interest that the re-gesta of our country, or of any other can furnish. With regard to the merits of the execution, it would ill become us, the publisher, to speak in the train of commendation, on which alone would give utterance to our sentiments. Of this, the public, to whom it is now offered, will judge for themselves. We will only state one circumstance, which ought to be understood by the purchaser before we solicit his patronage. The ancient Juvenile poem of Sir Barlow called the Vision of Columbus, is so far absorbed in this, as henceforward to disappear from the list of his works. All that he has thought worthy of the subject in that Poem has been incorporated in this—which may amount to one fourth or one third of the former work. He has now in his mature years and judgment, taken a much wider range over the immense regions of fact and fancy, than the fortunes of his hemisphere have opened to his view, and "the work is now probably destined to stand, the epic song of his century."
No pains or expense have been spared to give it a dress and ornament suitable to its intrinsic merit. It is in one volume royal quarto illustrated by twelve engravings on the following subjects: I. Hesperus's appearance to Columbus in prison. II. Columbus and Ojeda instructing the savages in agriculture and the domestic arts. III. Zimor killed by Capot. IV. Inquisition—V. Capot passing the Rubicon. VI. Cruelty prevailing over the Prison Ship. VII. Murder of Lucinda. VIII. Columbus resigning his sword to Washington. IX. Rape of the Golden Piece. X. Initiation to the Mysteries of Isis. XI. Final resignation of prejudices. These eleven subjects were painted by the celebrated Smirke, expressly for this poem. The pictures are now exhibited in the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, where the public can examine their admirable execution, and form some idea of the expense and labor bestowed on the decorations of this work. They were engraved by the first artists in England; and the engravings were in such high estimation among the amateurs, that several proof copies were sold in London at six guineas a set. To these is added a portrait of the author, painted by Robert Fulton, and finely engraved by Arthur Smith. The paper we believe, is better than any before made in this country; and the printing by Fry & Kammerey may be regarded as a specimen of typography hitherto unsurpassed, and seldom equalled in the world.
Strayed FROM the subscriber in Richmond, on Wednesday last, A BAY HORSE, black mane and tail the main hangs mostly on the near side, his weather very high scars on his back, and hair off in two or three places, occasioned by the saddle, being nine years old, fourteen and a half hands high; his left knee was cut and much swelled when he went away. Any person bringing or giving such information so I get him again, shall be rewarded for their trouble. A. FOSTER. September 6th, 1808. tf
For sale at this office, the MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM SAMPSON, Including particular accounts of his adventures in various parts of Europe; his confinement in the dungeon of the Inquisition in Lisbon, &c. &c. SEVERAL ORIGINAL LETTERS, Being his correspondence with the ministers of state in Great Britain and Prussia. A short sketch of the HISTORY OF IRELAND, Particularly as it respects the spirit of British domination in that country; and a few observations on the manners, &c. in America.