The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-08-15 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 6.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1809.
[No. 28.]
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE GLOBE TAVERN, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
So long as the present state of the markets continues, and prices are little more than nominal, we shall suspend the publication of our PRICE CURRENT.
For sale, at this Office—Price 56 cents—Letters on the subject of THE CATHOLICS, to My Brother Abraham, who lives in the country, BY PETER PLYMLEY.
(A more severe and argumentative satire, has never been published.—Anon. Review.)
STAGES FOR SALE.—Will be sold to the highest bidder, at this place, on Friday, the 15th of next month, (September,) the fine of STAGES, between Richmond and Fredericksburg. The terms will be one-fourth of the purchase money to be paid on the day of sale: the balance in six, nine and twelve months. On the same day, will be sold, on a credit of twelve months, several very valuable STUD HORSES, among which are, Archdale and Speculator.—The purchasers to give bond with approved securities, to JOHN HOOMES, and JOHN G. WOOLFOLK, Executors of JOHN HOOMES, Deed. Bowling Green, August 11. 9t
JACOB JOHNSON, BOOKSELLER, near the Market-Place, Richmond, has just imported, from London, via Philadelphia, J. Reeve's Water Colors, in boxes, of 1, 2, 3 and 4 rows, hair pencils, &c. &c. Pewter, lead, glass and wedge wood Ink-Stands, Pen-Knives, well assorted, one, two, three and four blades. Scissors at various prices, from 25 cents to ten dollars—some with silver, and others gold handles.
Lead Pencils, fine Dutch Wax, Quills, &c. &c. J. Johnson has lately published: D. C. The Life and Works of Dr. Franklin, written by himself, price 75 Life of Washington, written for the use of young lads, 1 00 Walker's Dictionary abridged, 1 00 Polite Learning, being an epitome of the arts and sciences, with plates, 62 Ferguson's Astronomy for young ladies and gentlemen, with plates, 1 00 Newtonian Philosophy explained, a new edition improved by R. Patterson, Professor in the University of Pennsylvania, 62 Smriti's Horace, 2 vols. 2 00 Family Bible, 4to with 20 plates, 7 00 Goldsmith's Geography, with an Atlas, 75 Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary, 4 50 Schrevill's Greek Lexicon, 3 50 Biography for boys, by Mrs. Pilkington, 37
J. Johnson has just received: Conversations on Chemistry, a new edition in which is given an account of the Mineral Waters of the U. States, price 1 50 This is the best edition of the work for sale, and is 75 cents below the price of others. Barton's Works of St. Pierre, 3 vols 9 00 Burke's Works, 4 vols. 12 00 Female Biography, 3 vols. 7 50 Literary Magazine, 8 vols. 24 00 Mathews on Population, 2 vols. 5 00 He has constantly for sale, a general assortment of Books, in the different departments of Literature, more particularly School-Books and Works of Amusement for children. The latter are executed with a neatness, not attempted by any other publisher in the United States, at terms the most moderate.
In press and will be published in a few weeks: Guthrie's Geographical Grammar, with 23 maps, 2 vols. Goldsmith's account of the customs and manners of nations, 2 volumes, with fifty engravings. Parents' Assistant, by Mr. Pilkington. * The highest price given for clean linen & cotton Rags. 8 mo. 11. 3t
BY virtue of a deed of trust, from Richard Young to the subscribers, bearing date the 27th day of April, 1808, and recorded in the General Court, for securing a certain debt, therein mentioned: Will be sold, to the highest bidder, on the 29th September, next, before the Eagle-Tavern, in the city of Richmond, (or so much thereof, as will be sufficient to satisfy said debt, with interest and costs,) the following valuable PROPERTY, viz. Lot No. 1, with the wharf attached thereto: No. 3, a water lot: No. 9, a lot with the yellow house, back of which No. 1, No. 13, back of water lot No. 5: No. 16, part of lot No. 17, in the plan of the city of Richmond, & No. 21, bought of the Executors of Francis Lewis, and on Bloody Run street. The same being the said Richard Young's part of property, situated at Pickett, Poindexter and Johnston, & assigned to him by deed of partition, executed by the parties, on the 17th March last.
The said sale will be made agreeably to the directions in such cases, of the act of Assembly, passed the 31st day of January, 1803, entitled, "An act concerning executions and for other purposes." EDWARD JOHNSTON, JOHN FOX, Trustees. August 11. 16s
NOTICE is hereby given, to all whom it may concern: that a PETITION will be presented, by a majority of the Overseers of the Poor, and many other inhabitants of the county of Middlesex, to the next General Assembly of Virginia, praying a law to pass, authorising the sale of a certain tract of land, therein described, lying in the said county; which tract of land was given by one Alexander Frazier, for the benefit of a Free School, or for the education of Poor Children. August 11. 3t
THE subscriber, residing in Richmond, having bought of Benjamin B. Bernard, a Patent Right to the state of Virginia, excepting five counties, Cumberland, Amelia, &c. which patent Bernard obtained from the President of the U. States, according to form, and which is for a new and useful Machine, fitted for threshing out many kinds of small grain, and universally patented after by the farmers in this state. Reference may be had to the original Patent, and the Schedule thereto annexed, bearing date the 13th day of November, in the year Nosti, Domini, 1807, for the term of fourteen years.
Those who may have had Machines built on the plan of said patent, since the above mentioned date, are requested to apply to the subscriber for licence, and pay for the same; otherwise, they will be dealt with according to law.
From this time, no person is allowed or will be allowed to build on the plan of the said patent, in this state, five counties excepted, without previous obtaining a licence for the same.
The subscriber offers for sale to any county or counties, section or sections in this state. DANIEL FORD. August 3. 4t
RICH LAND—TO RENT.—On Wednesday, the 16th inst. will positively be rented to the highest bidder, at Powhatan court house, being court day, those three tracts of LAND in that county, belonging to the estate of the late Charles Logan, Esq. Two of the tracts lie on James River, and have Low-Grounds. One of them called Bell Mead, has a large quantity, and is sufficiently extensive to work 20 or 25 hands to advantage: The other is adjoining it, and has from 4 to 500 acres cleared Land on it. The third tract is about 5 miles from the river, and has about the same quantity of cleared land. They will be rented for from 1 to five years, as may best suit those inclined to rent. On that day they will certainly be rented, so that those inclined to rent, need fear no disappointment. August 9. 16s
FOR SALE.—By virtue of a deed of trust executed by Pleasant Youngblood, in his life time, and recorded in the General Court: (September,) at the Eagle-Tavern, in the city of Richmond, four hundred and ninety-three acres of LAND, in the county of Henrico, being the tract of Land whereon Francis Lewis, dec'd. resided until his death, which Land was devised to said Youngblood, by Moses Davis and wife. The deed was executed to the subscribers, to secure to Frederick Harris, the payment of two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars, with interest from the first of March, 1809.—It is mentioned in the deed, that the sale was to be made for ready money, but the deed is dated on the 23d March, 1808, therefore subject to the act of the last session of Assembly of Virginia, entitled "An Act concerning executions & for other purposes." DAVID BULLOCK, THOS. NORVELL, Trustees. August 8. 16s
TO BE SOLD, on Wednesday, the 23d day of this month, at Hanover court-house, being court day, the tract of land I formerly lived on, containing between 4 and 500 acres. There is, on this land, a pretty good dwelling-house, a tolerable barn, and a considerable number of fruit trees, some valuable meadow and more good pine timber, than sufficient for the support of the houses on the land. I shall want half the purchase in cash or negroes, paid down, and the residue secured, to be paid at the end of 18 months, by a deed of trust on the land. This land lies within 15 miles of Richmond, and 5 of Hanover court-house. Also, another piece of LAND, in the same county, of 187 acres, upon the same terms, lying about 17 miles from Richmond. This land has a considerable quantity of good pine timber, and is within three miles of a saw-mill. Mr. Benjamin Tinsberkie will show the 1st mentioned piece of land, and Joseph Cross the last. Wm. SIMS. Hanover, Aug. 8. 3t
P. S. Ten dollars reward will be given for runaway GEORGE, about 40 years old, with a ridge across his breast—used to work on the Canal, and for Mr. Money Lacey; if delivered to me, or secured so that I get him, by the first of September. Wm. SIMS.
FOR SALE OR RENT.—That valuable property adjoining the city of Richmond, called the COLUMBIAN MILLS. Mr. Samuel Leech, living on the premises, will show the property to any person inclined to rent or purchase. The terms will be made known by application to the Subscriber residing in Norfolk. JOHN GRANBURY. July 11. tf
PASSAGE FOR LONDON. THE SHIP PATRIOT GROENING, Matthias Probst, Master; Will sail for London, on or about the 15th of next month, and can accommodate eight or ten Passengers; she is a remarkably strong and well built ship, of about 300 tons, almost new, and has a roomy and elegant Cabin. Her cargo being engaged, apply for Passage only, to the Master on board, or to NIEMETER & VON KAPFF. Norfolk, July 28. 1m
NOTICE.—All persons indebted to the late mercantile concerns of Thos. & W. Friend; Joseph and W. Friend & Co. or Jos. & W. Friend are hereby notified that James Robertson, jr. attorney at law, Amelia, is alone authorised to receive money and grant discharges, and those who have claims against either of the above mentioned firms, are requested to make them known to the said Robertson, in order that provision may be made for payment. THOMAS BRANCH, Exec'r of Wm. FRIEND, who was surving partner of J. & Wm. F. & Co. and Thomas and Wm. Friend. EDWARD FRIEND, adm'r. of JOS. FRIEND, Deed. July 25. 1m
THE Subscriber solicits payment as speedily as possible, from all those who are indebted to the firms above mentioned, as the formation of the business, will not admit of longer indulgence than has already been given. The books, accounts, &c. which were lately in the possession of C. F. Bates, Esq. are now in my possession. J. ROBERTSON, jr. July 25. 1m
WILL BE SOLD, on the 28th day of August next, at Cumberland court-house, (being Cumberland court day,) agreeably to an Act of Assembly, passed on the thirty-first day of January last, entitled an act concerning executions and for other purposes; by virtue of a deed of trust, made to us by David Coughlin, & legally recorded in the county court of Buckingham, for the purposes in the said deed of trust mentioned, one certain tract or parcel of LAND, being a part of the tract on which the said David now resides, containing one hundred and fifty acres, binding on the lines of George Anderson and Charles Wheeler, jr. beginning at Wilson's, and running to the north of his house, to his back line, as expressed in said deed of trust being only interested as trustees for the benefit of others, we will only convey the title we have by virtue of said deed of trust. SAMUEL ANDERSON, JAMES WILSON, Trustees. July 25. 4v
GEORGE WATT has just received, and offers FOR SALE, Sicily, Madeira, and Sherry WINE, by the Hhd. and Br. cask, Green Coffee, Orleans Sugar by the Hhd.; German Platilla Simples by the piece or case, half pint Glass Tumblers in cases of 1000 each, and New York Soap & Candles.
ON HAND, Madeira Wine, Orleans and Mucavado Sugars, Green Coffee, Molasses, Prime Pork, Liverpool and Stone Ware, Sunchang, Hinson Skin, and Gunpowder Tea, Spanish Segars, Raisins, Almonds, Nutmegs, Windows Glass, Men's & Women's Shoes, which he will dispose of by wholesale on reasonable terms. July 27. tf
NOTICE.—On Monday the 23rd day of October next, will be sold at WHITEBY, in the County of Chesterfield, upon a credit of 12 months: the personal estate of the late Col. Robert Goode, consisting of the present crop of Corn, Wheat, Oats, Fodder and Hay; the stock of Horses, Cows, Sheep and Hogs; the plantation Utensils and Household and Kitchen furniture. Bonds and approved security will be required of the purchasers to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid.
It is particularly requested that all those who may have claims against the Estate, will make them known immediately, to either of the subscribers, in order that provision may be made for payment. RICHARD B. GOODE, } Adm'rs of the FRANCIS GOODE. } Will annexed.
THAT valuable and well known Estate called Whiteby, on James River, about three miles from the town of Manchester, will also be sold by private contract; it contains 1252 Acres of Land, about 220 acres of which are of the first rate low-grounds, and more than one half of the residue thereof is heavily timbered. To this Estate there is attached one of the best Fisheries on James River, and every convenient and necessary House for the accommodation of a Family. An indisputable title will be made and possession given on the first day of December next, with the liberty of sowing small Grain at any time, agreeable to the purchaser. The terms may be known on application to the subscribers. RICHARD B. GOODE, } Manchester FRANCIS GOODE, } Powhatan. July 14. w1s10
VIRGINIA.—At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, the tenth day of June 1809.
John Watkins ex'or. of the testament and last will of John Wyatt deceased, and John D. Wilkinson administrator &c. of Agnes Wilkinson late Agnes Wyatt deceased, Pl'ffs against Edward Bland Administrator with the will annexed of Edward Bland dec'd, Benjamin Cooke, George Cooke, Robert Cooke, Saml. Cooke, John Morrison and Anne his wife in right of the said Anne, Thomas Boothe administrator &c. of Mary Boothe, deceased late Mary Cooke & — Boothe an infant child of the said Thomas and Mary by the said Thomas especially assigned his guardian, Agnes Cooke, Edward Wyatt and John Phillips sheriff of the county of Prince George, successor of Billy H. Avery late sheriff of the said county to whom administration of the estate of Pleasant Cooke deceased, had been committed by the court of that county.
THE defendant John Morrison and Anne his wife and Agnes Cooke not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and given rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this country, on motion of the plaintiffs by council, It is ordered, That the said defendants do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Capitol in the said city. A Copy, Teste, PETER TINSLEY, C. C. July 11. law2m.
PATRIOTIC SKETCHES of IRELAND. Just published, and for sale at John R. Jones's new BOOK-STORE, corner of the main street, and that leading to the head of the basin, nearly opposite to the Eagle-Tavern. PATRIOTIC SKETCHES of IRELAND, By Miss Owenson.
Amongst the many literary productions of this justly celebrated woman, there are none better calculated to entertain, and at the same time, to impart useful information relative to the habits, manners, &c. of the people of that country, than the little work now offered to the public. Price in fine paper, and hot press, $1 25, and in common paper $1.
S. K. Jones has also received, a considerable addition to his stock of Stationary, School-Books, &c. &c. which he flatters himself, is now not inferior to any in Virginia; and as he will continually receive additional supplies, he hopes to partake of a share of the public favor.
Binding, in all its various branches, carried on as usual. On hand, a general assortment of Merchant's Account Books, Sheriff's Books, &c. &c. Blank Books bound and ruled to any given pattern.
Also, a few copies of THADDEUS of WARSAW, by Miss Porter, $2. August 8. w3t
LANDS FOR SALE.—The Subscribers, attorneys in fact, for Col. John Simon Farley, and his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison, residents in Great-Britain, offer for sale their remaining proportion of that valuable TRACT OF LAND, in the county of Rockingham and state of North Carolina, called the Sauratown Estate.
This land lying contiguous to one of the branches of Roanoke River, and in the midst of a wealthy country, is represented to be of great fertility, and to unite so many advantages as to be well worth the attention of the purchasers; it contains from 10 to 12,000 acres, and will be sold in one whole, or in distinct parcels, at the option of those who may wish to buy; for which purpose it has been laid off in separate lots. A plot of the land is left in the possession of Wm. Edward Broadnax, esq. of Brunswick county, Virginia, who has purchased a part of it, and to whom, for more correct information as to its quality, situation and other advantages, purchasers are referred, as well as to Mr. Ira Ellis, who lives on the spot. Mr. Broadnax will also make known the terms of sale, and any contract entered into with him for the purchase of the above land, or any part thereof, will be obligatory on ourselves, and our principals. G. K. TAYLOR, JOHN DUNLOP. Petersburg, Va. July 28. 6w
THE subscriber residing in Williamsburg will practice law in the Chancery District Court held in that place; he continues to do business in the county courts of Charles City, New-Kent, James City and York. Wm. BROWN, Jm. July 21. 1m
A MILLER, who is master of his business, has some knowledge of accounts, and can produce good recommendations, may hear of an eligible situation, by applying at the office of the Enquirer. August 3. tf
NOTICE.—The creditors of the estate of John J. Watt, deceased, are hereby requested to send their respective accounts or claims for settlement, and those indicated to make payment to the subscribers without delay. HENRIET TOMPKINS, } Adm'rs. D. J. BURR. July 16. law6w
EUROPE.
TWENTIETH BULLETIN.
VIENNA, 20th June, 1809.
Within an hour after the news of the victory of Raab arrived at Buda, the Empress & all those attached to the government left this city.
The army of the enemy was pursued during the 15th and 16th. It crossed the Danube by the bridge of Comorn.
The city of Raab is invested. We hope to be masters of that important fortress in a few days. Considerable magazines have been found in the suburbs.
The superb entrenched camp at Raab, which can contain 100,000 men was carried. The column which was intended to defend it was unable to reach it; its retreat was cut off.
A courier from Buda has been intercepted. His dispatches written in Latin, shew the effect which the battle of Raab produced.
The enemy circuit its false news throughout the whole country: this is part of the system adopted to stir up the lower classes of the people.
M. Metternich left Vienna on the 18th.—He is to be exchanged between Comorn and Buda, with Mr. Dodun and the other members of the French Embassy.
Mr. d'Epinay, an orderly officer to his Majesty, is arrived from Petersburg. He visited the head quarters of the Russian Army. Prince Serge Galitzin entered Galicia on the 3d inst. in three columns; viz: that of General Lewis by Drohobycz; that of Prince Gortszakoff by Therespol, and that of Prince Suwarow by Wlodzimierz.
TWENTY-FIRST BULLETIN.
VIENNA, 22d June 1809.
An aid-de-camp to Prince Joseph Poniatowski is arrived from the head quarters of the army of the Grand Duchy. On the 10th of this month, Prince Serge Galitzin was to be at Lublin and his van-guard at Sandomir.
The enemy is pleased to spread ephemeral bulletins, in which he every day relates a victory. According to his assertion, he took 20,000 muskets and 2000 cuirasses at the battle of Essling. He says that on the 21st and 22d he was master of the field of battle. He has even caused a print of that battle to be engraved and spread about; he is exhibited as riding from one bank to the other, and his batteries crossing the islands and the field of battle in every condition. He also imagines a battle which he calls the battle of Kitsee (1,) in which an immense number of Frenchmen are supposed to have been taken or killed. These puerilities, hawked about by small columns of landwehrs like that of Schill, are tactics employed for the purpose of disturbing and raising the country.
General Marziani, who was made prisoner at the battle of Raab, is arrived at the head quarters. He says that from the battle of the Piave, the Archduke John had lost two thirds of his men; that he afterwards received recruits who nearly filled up the rolls, but who do not know how to make use of their muskets. He rates at 12,000 men the loss of the Archduke John and of the Palatine at the battle of Raab. According to the report of the Hungarian prisoners, the Archduke Palatine was the first in that battle to take flight.
Some persons have attempted to put in opposition the strength of the Austrian army at Essling, estimated at 90,000 men, with the 80,000 men who have been made prisoners since the opening of the campaign: they have shown little reflection. The Austrian army took the field with nine corps of 40,000 men each, and there were in the interior of the corps both recruits and landwehrs; so that Austria had really upwards of 400,000 men under arms. From the battle of Abensberg until after the taking of Vienna, comprising Italy and Poland, we may have taken one hundred thousand prisoners from the enemy, and he lost one hundred thousand men in killed, deserted or missing. There must then have remained to him two hundred thousand men more distributed as follows. The Archduke John had at the battle of Raab 50,000 men. The principal Austrian Army had, before the battle of Essling, 90,000 men. There remained 25,000 men to the Archduke Ferdinand at Warsaw, & twenty five thousand men were disseminated in the Tyrol, in Croatia, and spread as partisans over the confines of Bohemia.
The Austrian army at Essling consisted of the first corps commanded by General Bellegarde, the only one which had not fought and which was still entire, and of the wrecks of the 2d, the 3d, the 4th, the 5th and the 6th corps, which had been crushed in the preceding battles. If these corps had lost nothing and had been united, such as they were at the commencement of the campaign, they would have formed 240,000 men. The enemy had no more than 90,000 men, thus we see how numerous are the losses which he had experienced.
When the Archduke John took the field, his army consisted of the 8th and 9th corps forming 80,000 men. At Raab it consisted of 50,000 men. Its loss would then have been 30,000 men. But in these 50,000 men were comprised 15,000 Hungarians of the insurrection. Its loss, therefore, was really of 45,000 men.
The Archduke Ferdinand had entered Warsaw with the 7th corps forming forty thousand men. It is reduced to twenty-five thousand. Its loss is, therefore, of twenty-five thousand men.
We see how these different calculations support and verify each other. The Viceroy beat at Raab fifty thousand men with thirty thousand Frenchmen.
At Essling ninety thousand men were beaten and kept in check by thirty thousand Frenchmen, who would have completely routed and destroyed them, had it not been for the want of the bridges, which produced the want of ammunition.
The great efforts of Austria have been the result of the paper currency, and of the re-
solution which the Austrian government took to risk all. In the danger of a bankruptcy which might have brought on a revolution, they preferred adding 500 millions to the mass of their paper currency, and to make a last effort to get it discounted by Germany, Italy and Poland. It is very probable that this reason had more influence than any other upon their determination.
Not a single French regiment has been drawn from Spain, except the Imperial guards.
Gen. Count Lauriston continues the siege of Raab with the greatest activity. The city has been already burning for 24 hours, and that army which gained at Essling so great a victory, that it took twenty thousand muskets and two thousand cuirasses; that army which at the battle of Kitsee killed so many men and made so many prisoners, that army, which, according to its apocryphal bulletins, obtained such great advantages at the battle of Raab, quietly sees its principal towns besieged and burned and Hungary inundated with parties, and makes the Empress, its disasters, all the valuable effects of its government, be carried off to the frontiers of Turkey and to the farthest extremities of the Empire.
An Austrian Major took a fancy to cross the Danube in two boats, at the mouth of the Marsch. Gen. Gilly-Vieux went to meet him with a few companies, threw him into the water and took from him 40 prisoners. (Moniteur.)
TWENTY-SECOND BULLETIN.
VIENNA, 24th June 1809.
The place of Raab has capitulated. That town is an excellent position in the centre of Hungary. Its enclosure is bastioned, its ditches are full of water, and an inundation overflows part of them. It is situated at the confluence of those rivers. It is from thence that the enemy was in hopes of assembling and training up the whole Hungarian insurrection & where he had made immense works, its garrison, eighteen hundred men strong, was insufficient. The enemy intended to leave 5000 men in it; but by the battle of Raab his army has been separated from the place. This town has suffered by eight days bombardment, which has destroyed the finest edifices. All that could be said on the uselessness of its defence has availed nothing; they amused themselves with the vain hopes of being relieved.
Count Metternich, after remaining three days at the advanced posts, has returned to Vienna.
Two battalions of landwehrs, two squadrons of Hulsans and a battalion of troops of the line forming together 2500 men, have entered Bayreuth. They have, as usual, issued forth proclamations, and endeavored to excite insurrection. At the same time Gen. Amende entered Dresden with three battalions of the line, three battalions of landwehrs, a confused collection of men raised by the Duke of Brunswick, and some squadrons of cavalry drawn from different corps, the whole amounting to seven or eight thousand men.
The king of Westphalia assembled the 10th corps, and has taken the field. The Duke of Valmy (Kellerman) has put in motion, from Hanau, the advanced guard of the army of reserve which he commands. Capitulation of the City of Raab.
Between us, G. Vergez adjutant commandant, charged with powers from the General of division Lauriston, commanding the Siege; and Major Dorre, invested with full powers from Colonel Pechy, commander of the place; the following articles of capitulation have been agreed upon:
 1. The garrison shall depart on the 24th June, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, in case of receiving no succor. It shall enjoy all the honors of war, and shall deposit its arms on the glacis; it shall march off for Comorn, after having taken the oath not to carry arms during the whole war against France and her allies, until a complete exchange. The gate of Weissenburg shall be occupied on the 23d at 4 o'clock in the evening, by a company of 100 men of French troops in company with the Austrian troops. The officers shall keep their swords, horses and baggage, the soldiers their knapsacks.  2. From this moment till the defile of the garrison, the troops of both nations shall remain in their respective positions.  3. All hostilities shall cease on both sides, and no new work offensive or defensive in the said place shall be made on either side.  4. The artillery of the place, the ammunition, magazines and stores of whatsoever kind shall be given up and received by the French and Austrian commissaries appointed for that purpose.  5. All the sick and wounded of the garrison, as well as the health officers who will remain to take care of them, shall be entrusted to the care and humanity of the French commander. After their cure, they shall take the oath prescribed by Art. 1, and shall follow the destiny of the garrison.  6. All the administrations and persons attached thereto, all pensioned officers, the wives and children of officers, may preserve their effects, and depart either at the same time or after the departure of the garrison, under the French safeguard.  7. The women and children whose husbands and fathers are with the army, may remain in the place or depart therefrom as they may think proper; at all events the preservation of their properties is warranted them by the French army, and necessary passports shall be delivered to them.  8. The inhabitants of Raab shall enjoy all their rights. Their properties shall be respected, and safety and protection shall be granted them.  9. All foreigners or inhabitants of the city shall have liberty granted them to go wherever they please, without being molested in their persons or properties.  10. Horses shall be furnished as may be wanted, to whoever shall wish to depart, they making their own bargain for the payment of them.  11. Hostages shall be given on each part for the warranty of the fulfilment of the present capitulation, which shall be exchanged, after having been approved, on one part, by the General of division Lauriston, and on the other, by Colonel Pechy, commander of the place. 
(1) Kitsee is upon the right bank of the Danube, a league in the interior of the country.

Done at Raab, 22d June, 1809. (Signed, The Adjutant Commandant, G. MERGER. DORRE', Major. Approved, Le General Comte de Lauriston. Approved, Le Colonel du Corps d'Eugene et Commandant de la place de Raab, PECHY.
From London Papers received at the office of the Federal Gazette. FROM DUTCH PAPERS.
OPEN, (Buda,) May 18. Last Saturday, (the 18th,) two divisions of cavalry, of the past insurrection, passed through this city; on the 15th and 16th, they were followed by the third division and the infantry, afterwards the corps of the insurrection of Lower Hungary arrived in succession. His royal highness the archduke Palatine conducted, in person, the two first divisions into the city. Her majesty, the Empress Queen, accompanied by all the persons of the imperial house, condescended to inspect the troops in the place St. George. As soon as her majesty appeared, she was received by vivas a thousand times repeated. Gazette de Leyden, of June 13.
FROM SWABIA, June 3. The division of the French army, which is under the orders of the duke of Dantzig, had no sooner left the Tyrol, than that ill-fated country became again the seat of war-like operations, where on one side General Deroy, who was in Innsbruck, has been compelled to retreat to Kufstein, and the Bavarian Colonel, Aarce, sustained a severe conflict near Scarnitz and Loftach, on the other side. General Chastellar is marching at the head of an Austrian corps, joined by a numerous body of armed peasants, through the Vorarlberg, against Lindau. All the neighboring country is in the utmost consternation.
HAMBURG, June 9. Intelligence has been received from Sweden, by way of Elsinore, stating that the Duke Regent has declined to assume the government of Sweden as King, till the new Constitution shall have been finally settled, and that the Russians continue their warlike operations against Sweden. Letters from Silesia of the 3d instant, state, that another action had taken place in Poland, the official account of which, has not yet been received.
COPENHAGEN, May 27. To-day we have received intelligence, that the three small Islands of Egholm, Ogerøe, and Orns, to the south of Cortøer, have been attacked by the English, who were forced to abandon their enterprise, through the courageous resistance of our gunboats and the bravery of Captain GOLDBERG, and his detachment. The English have taken in the Cattegat, six American vessels. Moniteur, June 10.
SERIOUS INTIMATIONS. Extract of a letter dated Paris, June 12, 1809. [Communicated for the Federal Gazette.]
"The public papers will have apprized you of the events which have taken place on the Danube. But they will not inform you of the whole truth. It is said that our loss has been 40,000 men; but I think it is exaggerated by a fourth. What I know well, however, is, that the Empress wished to repair to Vienna, near the Emperor, which he prevented. The reason is, that he would have it believed that HIS WOUND does not prevent him from commanding in person. Whereas, if the Empress were with him, the army would think that the wound was dangerous; while not seeing her, nine tenths of the soldiers do not know that he was wounded on the 23d of last month. A prefect of the palace, one of my friends, has just set out for the army. He assures me that they have no solicitude about the life of the emperor, and that in despite of his physicians, he is occupied night and day with the Prince of Neufchâtel (Berthier) in the care of his army, which he wishes to re-assume the offensive. His majesty does not conceal the inquietude which the North of Germany occasions him. He says emphatically that that campaign which is to be the last, gives him more solicitude than all the others together. We are here without fear, and without inquietude. Touching the result of the war, we feel confidence in the talents and the foresight of that astonishing man; and we rely upon the fidelity of Russia—Although some evil-wishers, without doubt in the pay of England, have endeavored to cloud the subject by doubts. The credulous Gapers (Gobe-mouches) of the suburbs of St. Germain, (precincts of Paris) regard the Russian armies as already united to those of Austria, and the French troops as driven back to the borders of the Rhine. It must be acknowledged, that we had fears for a moment for the Grand Army, at the first intelligence of the battle of the Danube; but all has been dissipated by the 10th and subsequent bulletins. Private letters have been detained; but have at length arrived, and the truth is nearly known. Commerce is at an end. The maritime cities are totally ruined, and without remedy, should this state of things continue another year. Already some reports have arisen in the South and the West of France; but those reports are stifled. It was said that troops went from Spain to appease the troubles of the South, and that others, destined for Spain, had received counter orders in the environs of Bordeaux, to pass into the departments of the West; but it is thought all that is at an end. What afflicts the Fathers of families is, that a new conscription is on foot. In that case, your nephew Augustus will be taken, altho' he is not 18 years old. He avers that he will not march; and it is to be presumed that he will have many imitators." Balt. Fed. Gazette.
THE POPE. Among the curious events of this age, we learn that the head of the Roman Church has ceased to be a temporal Prince, and the cannon of the Vatican have expended their last thunderbolt; that conscientious effort which was developed in the attack upon the Chesapeake, and the expedition to Buenos Ayres; the seizure of Macao in the Chinese seas, and the occupation of the mouths of the Persian Gulf in the Erythraean sea; the expedition to, and conflagration of Copenhagen, and the seizure of the Russian fleet in Lisbon; assassination of the Emperor of the Ottomans, and the revolution at Constantinople; the revolt organized in Tyrol, in Westphalia, in Prussia, and the insurrection of the Court of Vienna; with this, a
rising in Calabria, and in the Roman territory, was combined; all corners of the earth was to be conflagrated, or set in commotion; Russia was to be tempted by no less an agent than the Prussian King and Queen; and the succours to Spain were to complete the circle of universal revolution; the holy father was seduced by the allurements of the regal successor of the defender of the faith; and brought to league with those whose power has been created on the pass word of—NO POPE. The Pope was found conspiring in his own palace; and the evidence of his copartnership, was exhibited to his confounded vision, by a military messenger of the successor of the eldest son of the Church. The Chief, whose temples were anointed by the fingers of the sovereign Pontiff with imperial unction, was found to be unfaithful to the concordat, and General Miollis signified, that as the correspondence of the holy father with Austria and with Spain, and his pastoral letters to the clergy of Ancona, and the ancient provinces of the ecclesiastical see, had determined that his holiness should be, in future, released from a concern in temporal affairs; that to support his character, as head of the Catholic church, his imperial majesty had appointed the sum of three millions of francs. His holiness repelled the proffered stipend, and the French ambassador withdrew, in silence, and withdrew his guard from the Papal palace.
An appearance of commotion on the trans-tiberine, was accompanied by a PAPAL BULL of EXCOMMUNICATION. The guards were renewed, the authority of the people was proclaimed as extinct; and the commotion ceased without bloodshed. The papal dominions are placed under prefects; it is supposed that Lucien Bonaparte will be furnished with a Roman sceptre; he having appeared in remarkable state at Rome in the last stage of the transactions. It was said, that an assemblage of Cardinals was to be called, and a new concordat, upon principles more conformable with christian toleration, was to be established. Aurora.
Translated for the Mercantile Advertiser.
ANNIHILATION OF THE POPE'S TEMPORAL POWER. ROME, June 10, 1809. This morning, at 10 o'clock, has been published, in the principal places, at the sound of the artillery of Fort Saint Angelo, a decree of his majesty the emperor and the king, which unites the States of the Pope to the French empire. This happy change has taken place with the greatest tranquility and the inhabitants of Rome have manifested great joy and a lively acknowledgment of an event which puts an end to all the uncertainties of their political existence. This decree, dated from the imperial camp at Vienna, 17 May, 1809, is conceived as follows:— Napoleon, &c.
Considering that when Charlemagne Emperor of the French, and our august predecessor, presented the bishops of Rome with divers tracts of land (contresces,) they were granted to them as feudal tenure, to secure the repose of their subjects, without Rome having ceased on that account to make a part of his empire; Considering that since that period the union of the two powers, spiritual and temporal, having been, as it still is at this present day, the source of continual discords; that the Popes having but too often made use of the influence of the one to support the pretensions of the other; and that in consequence of it, the spiritual affairs, which by their nature are immutable, are confounded with the temporal, which change according to circumstances and the policy of the times; Considering, lastly, that every thing we have proposed to conciliate, the safety of our armies, the tranquility and welfare of our people, the dignity and integrity of our empire, with the temporal pretensions of the Popes, have been proposed in vain; We have decreed, and do decree as follows.
1. The States of the Pope are re-united to the French empire. 2. The city of Rome, the first Christian See, and so celebrated by recollections which she enfolds on the mind, and the monuments she preserves, is declared an imperial and free city. Its government and administration shall be regulated by a special decree. 3. The monuments of Roman greatness shall be preserved and kept at the expence of our treasury. 4. The public debt is declared a debt of the empire. 5. The present income of the Pope shall be extended to two millions of francs, free from all charges and tenure. 6. The properties and palace of the Pope shall be subjected to no impost, jurisdiction, or visit, and shall besides enjoy special immunities. 7. An extraordinary consulum shall on the 1st of June next, take possession, in our name, of the States of the Pope, and make the necessary arrangements so that the constitutional government be in vigor on the first of January, 1810.
Signed, NAPOLEON. By the Emperor, The Minister Secretary of state, Signed, H. B. MARET. By another decree of the same day, 17th May, the extraordinary consulum, instituted by the preceding decree, will be composed of the following members. The general of division Miollis, governor general, president; Salicetti, Minister of the king of Naples; Degerando, Minister and del Pozo, masters of requests; de Balde, auditor of the state council, secretary. The consulum is charged with taking possession of the states of the pope in the name of the emperor, &c. It will correspond with the minister of finances of the French empire. The extraordinary consulum as soon as established and formed, addressed the following proclamation to the city and Roman states:
ROMANS. The will of the greatest hero unites you to the greatest empire. It was just that the first people on earth should share the advantage of its laws and the honor of its name, with those who in former times preceded it in glory. When your ancestors conquered the world, such were the counsels of their generosity, & the results of their glory. The love of your prosperity has alone dictated the decree of your union. The moment chosen for its accomplishment, unfolds to you the motives that inspire it.—You become a part of the French empire at a time when every sacrifice required for establishing it is perfected; you are called to the triumph, without having partaken in the dangers. Throw a glance over the annals of your history; for a long time they contain nothing but a recital of your misfortunes. Your natural weakness rendered you the easy prey of any warrior intent to cross the Alps. United to France, her strength becomes yours. All the evils which result from your weakness have ceased. Unhappy as a nation you are not less so as citizens. The wretchedness and unwholesomeness which existed in your cities and country for a long time back proved to Europe and yourselves, that your sovereigns, divided between cares too opposite found themselves unable to procure you that felicity which you are about to obtain.
Romans! not conquered, but united; fellow-citizens and not enslaved, not only our strength becomes yours, but our laws will insure your repose as they have insured ours. Whilst by this union you reap every blessing you were in need of, you lose none of those you possessed. Rome continues to be the see of the visible head of the church; and the Vatican richly endowed, and secure from every foreign influence, as well as above all vain terrestrial considerations, will exhibit religion to the universe more pure and surrounded with more splendor. Other cares, will preserve in your monuments, the inheritance of your ancient glory; and the arts, the offspring of genius, encouraged by a great man, enriched with all the examples and models, shall no longer be constrained to seek elsewhere either the opportunity or the reward of their divine inspiration. Such Romans are the future prospect that opens before you, and of which the extraordinary constitution is charged to prepare the foundation. To guarantee your national debt, enliven your agriculture and arts, improve in every respect your present destiny; in short to prevent and dispel the tears which the reform of abuses has so many times caused to be shed; such are the orders, such is the intention of our august sovereign.
Romans! by seconding our efforts, you may render to yourselves more prompt, and to us more easy, the salutary effects of the task we are charged with for your welfare, which we have much at heart. Rome, June 10, 1809. (Signed) SALICETTI JANET. The Count Miollis, Gov. Gen. President. For the Consulum, D. DE BALDE. Gazetta Romana.
FRANKFORT, June 26. The Austrians entered Leipsic on the 22d, but made no stay there. We expect every moment to hear of a battle. Prince Gagarin, who passed through here two days ago, is general aid-de-camp to his majesty the Emperor of Russia. He is going to the head quarters of his majesty the Emperor of the French.
CASSEL, June 24. The King arrived at Astern with his guard, the regiment of Berg and the Dutch division Gen. d'Albignac, with his division, has this day joined the Saxons who are on the Saale, at Weissenfels. The enemy is said to be at Leipzcic; if so, general d'Albignac will attack them to-morrow, and it is probable the enemy will not remain there long.
RUSSIAN DECLARATION. FROM THE PETERSBURG GAZETTE OF THE 25TH APRIL (5TH MAY.)
"The peace between France and Austria, which has long been wavering, is at length entirely at an end. By the last advices the Austrian troops have at last entered the Duchy of Warsaw, and the states of Saxony and Bavaria."
"It is thus that the flames of war which had been so lately extinguished upon the continent, have just been re-kindled, and by the force of circumstances, it is necessary that all the powers of Europe should take up arms again." "The preparations for war on the part of Austria, were the first cause for this misunderstanding. Russia could not see this with indifference. Every means were employed from the beginning to put an end to them. The guarantee of Russia of the integrity of the Austrian States was even offered, and at the same time it was declared that in virtue of the existing alliance with France, every attack upon the present order of things, would be considered as a violation of the rights stipulated by treaties, which ought to be maintained by the force of arms."
"Austria, not rejecting the pacific offers made to her, pretended at first that her measures were only defensive; that they were occasioned only by the fear of the danger which threatened her; that her intention was not to undertake an offensive war, and that she would not break the peace." "Facts have proved of how little value these assurances were. The measures of defence which progressively increased, have changed into offensive measures. In the room of the fear that was expressed, ambitious plans have been developed, and the war was broken out by invasion of foreign states even before any declaration of war in the accustomed form."
"Austria, who knew perfectly well the conduct which Russia would hold under the present circumstances, has determined to renounce her friendship, and rekindle the flame of war, even upon our frontiers, rather than desist from her projects." "In consequence orders have been given to the Russian ambassador at Vienna, to quit that capital immediately, and it has been declared to the Austrian ambassador at this court, that from this moment his diplomatic functions have ceased, and that all relations are broken off with him and his court."
FRENCH COMMERCIAL ARRANGEMENT. AMSTERDAM, May 21. The following has been communicated to the merchants of Bordeaux. His majesty having authorised the exportation of corn, wine, brandy, liquors, dried or preserved fruits and herbs, has been pleased, the farther to facilitate such exportation, to decree, that a special license shall be granted to foreign ships loaded with cargoes consisting of the aforesaid articles. Those licenses shall be granted through the Minister of the Interior, and shall be signed by his Majesty's sign manual.
Conditions of granting Licenses. They shall be granted only to well known and respectable mercantile houses, which can give securities equal to the capital employed, and which shall become responsible for all transactions of the law. All foreign flags shall be admitted to this indulgence, those of England and her allies excepted. The applications for licenses must be addressed to the Prefects, who shall verify the same, and forward them to the minister of the interior. In these applications the name of the ship, her flag, her burthen, the number of her crew, and the name of the Captain must be stated. The firm by which security is proposed to be given for the voyage, the place where the house is established, and the trade in which it is known, must also be described. None of the Passes herein mentioned shall be granted, until it appears from a previous investigation carefully made:
1. That the House offered as security possesses a well known commercial existence, and has always faithfully fulfilled its engagements. 2. That the heads and managers of the said House have invariably shown a ready submission to the laws of the state, &c.
ment to the person of his Majesty, and an aversion to all criminal dealing or intercourse with the enemy. This previous investigation being in all respects strictly and legally completed to the satisfaction of the minister, a pass shall be granted, declaring, that the ship therein specified shall be at liberty to sail from the French empire, and return to the same without hindrance or molestation. The captain, and those by whom the ship is consigned, must take care that the formalities prescribed by the custom house are complied with, and that the usual duties are paid. The passes shall also contain a clause, stating, that the ships to which they are granted, must land only with the before mentioned articles; that they are not permitted on their return to France, to bring back any sort of colonial produce or merchandise of England, or any other country, wood for ship building, hemp, masts, northern iron, &c. &c. excepted; and that, in case of the violation of this clause, the ship shall be confiscated, and the owners condemned to pay a fine for having disobeyed the commands of the emperor. No kind of preference shall be shown in granting these licenses to the persons who have proved themselves qualified to obtain them.
The above measure is, from its nature, liable to change, and cannot be regarded as a permanent system. Retract of a letter to a gentleman in Baltimore, dated Live-pool, 19th June, 1809. Sir, For some days previous to the 10th instant, the Irish Channel swarmed with American vessels; and from the 11th, to this day, no less than 99 have arrived at this port. It was a most pleasing sight, after so long an interruption of commerce between Great Britain and America, and we congratulate our friends most sincerely on the renewal of an intercourse, which will be so much for the interest of both countries. We have, on the other side, given you prices of the different articles, but they must be considered nearly nominal, as, after this large importation of all kinds of American produce, you may suppose the market is very much over-stocked, and that prices, for some time to come, will be very unssteady. We, besides, still expect a great many vessels from all parts of the United States, and until the arrivals begin to slacken, we shall neither see business on any regular footing nor an amendment in prices. New Upland Cotton is from 13d. a 14d. per lb. and should much more arrive soon, it may go still a little lower; Sea Islands, in proportion, at about 22d. per lb. Our stock of Tobacco is very light, there not being more than 1,400 hds. in the Warehouse; but 1,850 hds. are now ready to be landed, and we see little prospect of prices mending for some time to come. Naval Stores have experienced a wonderful depression; previous to the Embargo being removed, we sold a cargo of Turpentine at 88s. per cwt. and now 18s. cannot easily be obtained. Tar extremely dull; at 26s. per cwt.
Ashes—Pots are down as low as 40s. and Pearls 48s. per cwt. but we are of opinion, these prices will be obtained throughout the season. All sorts of Lumber is very unsaleable, and when our imports from British America take place, it will be still more so. A few cargoes of Timber, just arrived, have been sold at 3s. per foot, but we see no prospect of this price being supported. Flour and wheat are more in demand than any other kind of produce, the former is from 48s. a 50s. per barrel, and the latter 13s. a 15s. 9d. per bushel, and notwithstanding there are about 40,000 barrels of Flour already arrived, and a considerable quantity of Wheat as per the annexed statement, we do not see a prospect of a reduction in price, particularly for that which is perfectly sound. We hope our next will contain more pleasing accounts of the markets; and with an assurance that we shall be at all times happy to hear from you, We are, respectfully, Sir, Your most obedient servants, COATES & HAY.
Imported into Liverpool, from the United States of America, by 71 vessels, from the 10th to the 16th June, 1809, inclusive. Cotton, bags, 21,744; rice, tiers, 4,900—barrels, 750; flour, barrels, 57,239—half do. 2,101; wheat, bushels, 48,395; Indian corn, bags, 800—bushels, 269; turpentine, barrels, 6,895; tar, barrels, 5,830; pitch, barrels, 12; rosin, barrels, 25; staves, M. 581; ashes, barrels, 5,157; tobacco, hds. 1,850; flaxseed, casks, 1,233—barrels, 129; beeswax, packages, 122; quercitron bark, hds. 145; cedar, pieces, 129; lumber, 6 entire cargoes.
Extract of a letter from the House of Martin, Hohe & Thomely, dated Liverpool, June 12.
[England, pursuing a systematic course of hostility to this country, taxes her exports to us higher than to any other nation. In the same spirit is the scheme subjoined.]
"The following are the duties on AMERICAN PRODUCE, proposed in a bill now before Parliament, but in which there will probably be some alteration: Ashes, 5s. 4d. per cwt.—Bark, quercitron, 8d.; bees-wax, 2s. 6d.; deer skins, 6d. each; flax seed, 4d. per bus.; cotton, 1 l. 14s. per 100 lbs.; indigo, 4d. per lb.; pitch, 1 l. 5s. 4d. per 12 barrels; rosin, 4s. 8d. per cwt.; tar, 19s. 4d. per 12 lbs.; turpentine, 3s. 6d. per cwt. rice, free of duty until 12th August, after which date 6s. 4d. per cwt.; wheat, when the average price is under 63s. per qr. of 8 bus. 1 l. 13s. 4d. per qr.—above 63s. and under 66, 3s. 4d.—under 66, 8d.; flour is regulated by the average price of wheat—if under 63s. per qr. 9s. per cwt.—above 63s. and under 66, 2s. per cwt.—above 66, 1s. 4d.; timber, pine logs, above 10 inches square, the load of 50 cubic feet, 1 l. 9s. 8d. per load—oak, 1 l. 7s. 4d.—hands pikes, under 7 feet long, 1 l. 0s. 8d. per 120—7 feet or above, 2 l. 1s. 4d.—lathwood, under 5 feet long, the fathom 6 feet wide by 6 feet high, 2 l. 2s. 8d. per fathom—above 5 feet long, 3 l. 2s. 4d.—staves, not above 5 inches thick, 7 inches wide and 36 inches long, 11s. 4d. per 120—36 50, 1 l. 1s. 4d.—50 60, 1 l. 7s. 4d.—60 72, 2 l. 1s. 4d.—above 72, 2s. 8d.
PHILADELPHIA, August 9. Extract of a letter from John M. Forbes, Esq. American Consul at Hamburg, to a gentleman in this city, dated 20th May, 1809. "We have three arrivals at Tonnigen and its vicinity, all from Baltimore. The Danish Government has permitted them to unload, and has replied to my Enquiries, that vessels bearing Danish Consuls certi-
ficate of the neutrality of the property, and not having, under any pretext whatever, touched in England, will be freely admitted to land and sell." MASKS OFF!! From Cobbett's Weekly Political Register.
When the Ministers found, that the American government was determined not to settle the affair of the Chesapeake, unless the settlement included a renunciation on our part of the right of searching their merchant vessels for our deserters, they resolved upon sending a special envoy to offer a tonnement for the attack on the Chesapeake, but not to permit him to negotiate upon any other point whatever; and at the same time, they issued a proclamation, in which the king declared, that he never would give up the right in question. It is therefore probable, that the negotiation between Mr. Rose and Mr. Madison would, if it had been commenced, have soon been broken off; but it was, as the reader will perceive, prevented from beginning by the refusal of the American government to rescind their hostile proclamation, which our Ministers justly considered as an act of retaliation and the rescinding of which they demanded as a step previous to their tendering any reparation at all.
The demand was refused, and of course, Mr. Rose came back as he went. The reader will perceive, that the Americans now choose to represent the hostile proclamation, not as an act of retaliation, but an act of precaution. As if they were afraid that we should send in our ships to burn their towns! Believe them who will; for my part, the contrary is evident to me; and so it, at first, was to them; for they, in all their newspapers, called it an act of retaliation. See the proclamation itself in page 249 of Vol. XII, and say whether it be an act of mere precaution. It was the mildest measure they could adopt. Mr. Madison says, and I say it was the harshest, because they had it not in their power to injure or annoy us in any other way. It was the worst they could do. It was not a blow, for a blow they were unable to deal us; but it was sitting in our faces. It was, too, a measure still in existence, at the time when Mr. Rose arrived in America; and, therefore, to have offered reparation, until it was rescinded, would have been disgraceful to us in the highest degree. It would have been begging pardon with a cane suspended over our shoulder. It would have been going one step further than the late ministers, who entered upon a negotiation touching the right of search, while the America had a non-importation act passed for the avowed purpose of compelling us to give up that right, and kept suspended over our heads ready to be put in execution, in case we refused to accede to the terms proposed. The result of this negotiation, or rather, of the total failure of it, proves the truth of what I told the ministers from the first, that is, that every step in the way of concession, would but cause the difficulties to thicken. If they had stood firm upon the ground of MARITIME DOMINION, there would have been a loud out-cry for a few weeks; but what would the Americans have done more than they have done now? They have now done their worst, and they could have done no more. There would have been an end, for ever, of all claims and disputes about searching ships. And to this it must come at last. IN REALITY it is now. We do exercise an absolute maritime dominion. We must exercise it, or we cannot remain independent of France. It would, therefore, be better to do it, at once, avowedly, and not encumber the thing with "Orders in Council," and other trappings, which only serve to rob the principle of its simplicity and dignity. The alarm of Mr. Alexander Baring and his brother wisecare, Mr. Roscoe, that the open avowal of such a principle, will rouse and unite the world against us, is curious enough, at a moment when all the world is actually so roused and united. America is as much our enemy as she can be. Nothing can possibly make her more so—She would declare war, but she dare not. There is no fear of "throwing her into the arms of France." She is there, already, as much as she can be. Our ships of war keep the two dear friends asunder. What the revolution of Spain may do, by placing the countries, joining the United States, under the immediate control of France, I know not.
If the Americans were not such miserable slaves to their envy and hatred of England, this event would, at once, produce an alliance offensive and defensive between us and them; but, I am of opinion, that it will produce no such effect, until severe suffering (which is in short for them) shall have taught them justice and modesty. The Floridas are inhabited by Spaniards; Louisiana by Spaniards and Frenchmen; the key of the Mississippi in their hands. Without the aid of England, it is impossible for the Southern and Western States of the American union to maintain themselves against France, if attacked by her; and to avoid being attacked, there is but one way, that is, by doing what Napoleon shall command; in other words, yield to him without resistance. What a fine field would, by this revolution in Spain, be opened for a grand co-operation of England and America, were it not for the rancour of the leaders in the latter country; The way for them to proceed is so very plain, that it needs not to be pointed out.
How natural, how glorious, would such a co-operation be! But it is not for us to endeavor to hasten it. The first motions toward it must come from the other side; and they will not come, till the people, the REAL people of America, shall rouse themselves, trample under foot the slaves of France, and resolve to act for their own interests. This event can be at no great distance. They know what French armies are. They PERSONALLY hate the French; and when once they hate them in their neighborhood, they will begin to think seriously of their means of defence. Drive them from the continent of North America, they must; or they must themselves become subjects of France. There is no other alternative. They cannot drive them away without the aid of England; and the giving of that aid will naturally and necessarily lead to a connection, which may have a wonderful effect in the world. But, it cannot be too often repeated, that the first movements towards such a connection "must not be made by us."
LATEST FROM PORTUGAL. GLOUCESTER, August 4, 1809.
The schooner Jane, Captain Ignatius Webber, has just arrived in 57 days from Lisbon. The verbal intelligence he brings is, that the English and Portuguese had marched against Madrid. The papers are of the 19th, 20th and 21st June. They are filled with the ar-

counts of the war on the Danube, which have been anticipated by arrivals from France and England. The following is the only article of local news they contain:
Lisbon, June 19. Yesterday arrived here a number of transports with two regiments arrived from England. We daily expect other reinforcements.
The following statement of the population and revenue of the countries possessed by the House of Austria, is abridged from the Paris Moniteur of June 11.
   Names of Provinces. Number of Inhabitants. Revenue to the Prince.     Upper Austria, 670,000 12,500,000   Lower Austria, 1,070,000 16,465,000   Bohemia, 2,450,000 37,000,000   Moravia, 1,137,000 12,500,000   Austrian Silesia, 250,000 1,500,000   Galicia, 3,500,000 32,000,000   Styria, 296,000 14,700,000   Carinthia, 294,000 5,665,000   Carniol, 412,000 5,000,000   Frioul, 120,000 900,000   Salzbourg, 200,000 3,750,000   Hungary, 7,350,000 45,000,000   Transylvania, 1,443,000 9,750,000   Bokowine, 130,000 1,250,000   Selavonia, 280,000 1,340,000   Croatia, 400,000 1,950,000   20,402,000 201,570,000  
The city of Vienna is stated to contain 6,500 houses, and with its suburbs, 220,000 souls. The population of Prague is stated at 75,000; Gratz 30,000, Presbourg 27,000, Olmutz 11,000; Cracovia 24,000, &c.
WEST-INDIES.
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) July 15. The Tweed sloop of war, of 18 guns, capt. Symonds, arrived here on the 6th from St. Domingo, having on board, brigade major Twigg and de-camp to major general Carmichael, charged with despatches to his grace the Duke of Manchester, and vice admiral Rowley, announcing the surrender of that place to his majesty's arms.
We learn by the Tweed that the major-general landed on the 28th ult. with 500 men, about 50 miles to leeward of the city, and marched forwards, when he was met by an aid de-camp of Gen. Dubarquier, offering to surrender on certain conditions, which was however, rejected. Several other offers of surrender were also made, but all refused. On the 6th inst. the British troops had advanced within 300 yards of the city, when a message was sent by the enemy to the commander in chief, signifying his intention to submit to an unconditional surrender, which was of course accepted. On the following morning the terms of capitulation were agreed upon and signed, which we understand are merely that the garrison should lay down their arms as prisoners of war, to be sent to France at the expence of the British Government for the purpose of being exchanged, although we have no doubt they will meet with the same reception on their arrival as the garrison of Martinique has already experienced, &c will consequently remain in England until the conclusion of a peace. Private property of every description to be respected.
The whole of the French force in St. Domingo, at the time of its surrender, consisted of about 600 regulars, belonging to the 5th Legere, and about 300 militia, under the command of gen. Dubarquier & col. Asselineau. There were upwards of 200 soldiers sick in the hospitals, and the place exhibited the most distressing picture of famine, the inhabitants not being able to obtain a sufficiency of the most loathsome food.
Some of the Expedition had not reached their destination when the Tweed sailed—Last Monday, at a short distance from the city, she fell in with a brig and two schrs. with troops, supposed to be part of the 2d division. A few hours after she spoke the Helder frigate and Bramble schr. all well.
The schooner Diego, which sailed with the first division of the expedition, put into Jacmel, from whence all the officers embarked in her were forced to proceed in boats to the place of her destination.
Lieutenant Col. J. Francois, twelve officers, and 180 French soldiers, the garrison of Fort Jerome arrived in the Tweed.
We have been favored with the following particulars respecting the operations of our army at Santo Domingo, communicated by an officer present, dated July 7.
The British Flag is now flying on the walls of Santo Domingo. As rapid and bold movements were the surest means of success with a brave enemy, General Carmichael established his head quarters in the first instance at St. Carlos, under the muzzles of the enemy's guns. He refused the French General's request for an armistice, pressed him within his walls with advanced piquets, and cut off his communication with the strongest post and Fort Jerome. A storming party of the Royal Irish, under Major Walker, in his front; an intercepted correspondence and prisoners taken; the enemy seemed determined not to lay down their arms. On the third the enemy requested Commissioners might meet to arrange articles of capitulation. The enemy's proposal of the garrison being put on its parole, and allowed to go to France, was peremptorily refused by General Carmichael. On the 6th scaling ladders and all other preparations for an assault being in readiness, the columns of 500 British troops were formed within musket-shot, when General Carmichael sent a message to the French General, giving the option of a surrender or an assault with its consequences, allowing an hour's consideration. At the expiration of that time Gen. Carmichael sent Major Twigg to know the cause of a white flag being hoisted, which was ascertained to announce the surrender of the garrison as prisoners of war. The General is now employed in returning good for evil to Jamaica, by his endeavors to promote its commercial interests with the Spanish commandant, who seems cordially disposed to prove his friendship and gratitude to the English. Return of French 1400 regulars and 500 militia. The British force for the assault amounted to 528 rank and file."
A letter from an officer in the Santo Domingo Expedition, dated St. Carlos, July 7, 1809, says, "We have just time to inform you of the city having surrendered without any resistance. We have experienced considerable inconvenience from the incessant rain, and no place but a hut to shelter us in. We landed a week since at 40 miles distance, and had to pass a very rugged and uneven country, full of rivers. Little or no assistance has ever been received from the Spaniards. In about two days time we shall enter the city."
NEW YORK, August 9. The Captain of the ship Manchester re-
ports, that for many days previous to his sailing there had been great rejoicing at Havana in consequence of pleasing intelligence received there from Spain.
DOMESTIC.
WASHINGTON, August 10. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS in consequence of a communication from his Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, declaring that the British Orders in Council of January and November, 1807, would have been withdrawn on the 10th day of June last; and by virtue of authority given, in such event, by the 11th section of the act of Congress entitled "an act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, or for other purposes," I, JAMES MADISON, President of the United States, did issue my Proclamation bearing date on the 19th of April last, declaring that the Orders in Council aforesaid would have been so withdrawn on the said 10th day of June, after which the trade suspended by certain acts of Congress might be renewed; And whereas it is now officially made known to me that the said orders in council have not been withdrawn, agreeably to the communication and declaration aforesaid: I do hereby proclaim the same, and consequently that the trade renewable on the event of the said orders being withdrawn, is to be considered as under the operation of the several acts by which such trade was suspended.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the United States at the City of Washington the ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, and of the Independence of the United States the thirty-fourth.
(Signed) JAMES MADISON. By the President, R. SMITH, Secretary of State.
[The following letter has been addressed by the Secretary of the Treasury to the respective Collectors, in consequence of the above Proclamation:]
[CIRCULAR.] TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 9th, 1809.
SIR, You will herewith receive the copy of a Proclamation of the President of the United States, announcing that certain British orders in council were not withdrawn on the 10th day of June last, and consequently, that the trade renewable, on the event of the said orders being withdrawn, is to be considered as under the operation of the several acts by which such trade was suspended.
The act "to amend and continue in force certain parts of the act entitled 'An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes,'" passed on the 28th day of June, is therefore in every respect applicable to Great Britain and her dependencies, as well as to France and her dependencies; any thing in my circular of the 29th June last, to the contrary notwithstanding.
It results that, from the receipt of this, you must in every instance, except as heretofore expressed, refuse clearances for British ports, requiring, as usual, bonds from all vessels, bound to permitted ports, in the manner provided by the 3d section of the act above mentioned. But as many British vessels have or may come into the ports of the United States in consequence of the President's proclamation of the 19th of April last, he directs, that you will permit such British vessels to depart without giving bond, either in ballast, or with the cargo on board when notified of the enclosed proclamation: it being, however, understood, that this indulgence shall not be extended to any other vessels than such as are now in the ports of the United States, or such as may hereafter arrive, having sailed from a foreign port before information of the enclosed proclamation shall have been received at such port.
The President also directs that, until a decision from Congress on that unexpected point shall have been obtained, or until otherwise instructed, seizures or prosecutions for supposed contraventions of either the abovementioned act or of the non intercourse act of 1st March last, arising from acts which would, in conformity with his proclamation of the 19th April last, have been considered as lawful, shall be suspended in the following cases, viz:
1. All vessels which have entered a British port since the 10th of June last, or which may hereafter enter such port, having sailed for the same, before information of the enclosed proclamation had been received at the port of departure; so far as relates to any forfeiture or penalty which may accrue or have accrued by reason of their having thus entered a British port.
2. All vessels which have arrived, either from British ports or with British merchandise in the United States subsequent to the 10th of June last; and also all vessels which may hereafter thus arrive, having sailed for the United States, before information of the enclosed proclamation shall have been received at the port of departure; so far as relates to any forfeiture or penalty accruing from having arrived or arriving in the United States from British ports or with British merchandise.
3. All vessels now owned by citizens of the United States, and sailing under the American flag, which, being in a foreign port at the time when the enclosed proclamation will be made known at such port, shall with all due diligence depart therefrom, and return without delay to the United States; so far as relates to any forfeiture or penalty accruing from their arriving in the United States from British ports of the United States from British ports, or with British merchandise.
In the above mentioned cases of vessels arriving in the United States, and which are for the present exempted from seizure, the vessels and cargoes may be admitted to entry. The time when the enclosed proclamation shall have been known at the ports of departure respectively, must be ascertained by the best means in your power; and you may refer doubtful cases to this department. Application may of course still be made in all cases for an absolute remission of the forfeitures and penalties in the manner provided for by law; the instruction herein given to abstain from prosecutions and seizures in the above mentioned cases, being only in-
tended to prevent the expenses and inconvenience to which the parties concerned would otherwise be exposed.
I am respectfully, Sir, Your obedient servant, ALBERT GALLATIN.
The Collector of NEW-YORK, August 9. EXTRACT—DATED WASHINGTON, August 6, 1809.
"As I wrote you a few days since, the President at first determined not to return to this city until some time in the month of September next—Mr. Jackson's probable arrival to the contrary notwithstanding; and he so informed the Secretaries of state and the Treasury. European official dispatches have, however, since poured in upon us very copiously through your city, Annapolis, &c. and it is generally understood that he has confirmed to the opinion of the heads of departments, or some of them, by returning to the seat of government; which he has done this evening at 6 o'clock. This is unquestionably a step taken without any immediate or particular view to the arrival or reception of Mr. Jackson. The generally interesting and critical state of our affairs, according to the recent advices from all the belligerents has led to it. His family is not with him, and probably he will not remain long."
"All the members of the cabinet are now here, the Attorney general, I believe, excepted."
"Gen. Turreau, the French minister, is also on the ground."
"Mr. Sumpter, the American Minister to the court of the Brazils, is here receiving his instructions, preparatory to his departure on his mission. Jackson is not yet arrived. Should any thing particularly interesting occur, I shall endeavor to advise you of it the moment it transpires. The official advices from France are doubtless of an unsatisfactory nature."....Pub. Adv.
List of American Sailors, detained as Prisoners of War, in France. Communicated by Mr. Barnard, American consul at Havre.
At the Depot of Arras. Francis Rogers, of Philadelphia, John Williams, Maryland, Thomas Pierce, N. Carolina, John Briggs, negro, Virginia, Richard Hedley, do. do. Wm. Fry, Philadelphia, John Moore, Massachusetts, James Humphreys, do. Wm. B. Ford, Pennsylvania, Jno. Lander, Massachusetts, John Bradley, Connecticut, Daniel Manchester, Rhode-Island, John Hall, Do.
James Bride, Virginia, taken coming from Philadelphia, received assistance from Mr. Skipwith, Consul. Wm. Progbrook, of Baltimore, his papers are with the American Minister, received assistance from Mr. Skipwith.
Wm. Bowers of Philadelphia, lost his papers at the time of his capture.
John Neal was nineteen months and four days, a slave at Tripoli; ransomed by the U. S.
Robert Slope of Philadelphia—his papers with Gen. Armstrong.
James Jeffrey, of Rhode-Island. Cesar Godfrey, of Rhode-Island. David Malster, do.
At the Depot of Valenciennes. Stephen Churchill, of Virginia—his papers with the American minister.
John Brown, of Boston, do. Thomas Hutchinson, Virginia, do. Robert Johnston, do. do.
Thomas Russell, Charleston. James Neill, Baltimore. Samuel Spees, of Philadelphia, had delivered his papers to the commandant of the Depot. Mr. Skipwith had acknowledged him on proofs furnished, and had allowed him pecuniary aid.
George F. Smith, of Philadelphia, 9 years in chains at Algiers, carried the treaty with that Regency to the United States—Acknowledged by Mr. Skipwith with the consul general, and obtained pecuniary assistance from him.
John Robins of R. Island, a man of color, has lost his papers. Wm. Younger of N. York, had furnished proofs of his American citizenship to Mr. Skipwith, & participated in the pecuniary succors.
James Greathead of New York, had sent his papers to the American Legation. Jonathan Sevier, of Boston, do. do.
At the Depot of Sarre Libre. Nathaniel Lincoln, of New London, already acknowledged as an American, by the Minister of War. Ambrose Dodd, of Marblehead.
At the Depot of Verdun. Joseph Rocher and J. Coals, both acknowledged by the American Minister.
At the Depot of Givet. Philip Giffard, already acknowledged by the American Minister, and by Mr. Skipwith, who caused pecuniary aid to be given to him.
At St. Quintin, employed in the Manufactory of Mr. Jolly. Hugh Ferran of New-York, has also received pecuniary aid from Mr. Skipwith. List of American Seamen, detained as prisoners of War, principally at the Depot of Arras.
N. B. These seamen formed a part of the crews of the American ships, seized in the river Charente, viz:
John Toulemann, mate of the ship Holland Trader of N. York.
John Wyle of —, mate of the ship Two Brothers, of N. York.
Isaac Doulittle, of New-Haven, mate of the ship Portland.
Robert Pottinger of Massachusetts, James Dougherty, do. Benjamin Vanhorn, do. Francis Tucker, do. Nathaniel Law, do. Francis Tucker, do. Jno. Billings, of Maryland, Jno. Win-grove, Pennsylvania, John Wiltens, New-York, Thomas Slawson, Connecticut, has been three years and a half in prison. John Chandler, New-York, John Wingus, do. Thomas Copping, Connecticut, James Burke, New-York, Hugh Seymour.
The Right Rev. Dr. JOHN RANDOLPH, late Bishop of Bangor, has been translated to the metropolitan See of London, vacant by the death of Dr. Beilby Porteus.
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.
Break off the blows or flowers of the potato tops, as they are about forming into apples, it will increase the quantity one half. Try the experiment, leave some hills, and examine for yourselves.
We are informed, upon very respectable authority, that Mr. Secretary Smith has declared that he never saw the instructions of Mr. Erskine, as lately published, and that during their conversation, previous to the arrangement, no allusion was had to the two points mentioned in Mr. Canning's published dispatch. It is also added, that Mr. Erskine persists in declaring that he has acted strictly in conformity to his instructions. Thus the whole odium of the rejection of the arrangement devolves on Mr. Canning....Phil. Gaz. (Federal.)
On Saturday the Hon. John Q. Adams sailed from Boston, on his mission to Russia. The ship left Charleston about 12 o'clock,
and was saluted in passing the Navy-Yard, Fort Independence and the Chesapeake frigate, lying in the outer harbor.
WASHINGTON August 9.
There will be found in our preceding columns a short debate in the British House of Commons on a call for further parts of the correspondence between Mr. Canning and Mr. Erskine, from which it appears that Mr. Canning has resisted their production on the ground of prejudicing a pending negotiation, with what color of justice we leave it to the reader to determine. Until such stronger light is shed on the subject, we must continue to believe that Mr. Erskine has been, either formally or verbally, authorized to make the propositions submitted by him to our government. We partially assigned our reasons for this belief before the appearance of the note of Mr. Canning to him. This note, from the astonishing complexity of its contents, strengthens our first impression.
It is date naturally gives rise to the suspicion that some other instruction, formal or verbal, issued, above twenty days having elapsed between its date and the departure of Mr. Oakley for this country.
It does not, as usual, recognise Mr. Oakley as its bearer, thence strengthening the inference that subsequent instructions were penned, of which he was the bearer.
It does explicitly recognize instructions heretofore given. Why are these withheld? It contains no allusions to the affair of the Chesapeake, which from the strain of Mr. Erskine's correspondence with the Secretary of State, made so important a feature, if not indispensable preliminary to the propositions relative to the revocation of the Orders in Council.
It contains allegations which we believe to be totally unfounded. It ascribes to Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Smith, or the authority of Mr. Erskine, the declaration that the American government were prepared to "renounce during the present war the carrying on all trade with the enemy's colonies from which she was excluded during peace," a principal for which Mr. Madison as Secretary of State, had strenuously contended, as strictly conformable to the law of nations, and as all important to the American merchant. We do not believe that the members of the cabinet named, ever authorized Mr. Erskine to make this assurance to his government. And as Mr. Canning has already, in a memorable instance, been convicted of misrepresenting the declarations of our government, we must, until a full disclosure of the correspondence is made, ascribe this misrepresentation to him. The other assurance, said to have been derived from Mr. Pinkney, that his government would agree to authorise the capture by British cruisers of all American vessels trading with France, & the powers adopting & acting under the French decrees, is alike incredible. We do not believe that Mr. Pinkney ever gave it; we do not believe his government authorized it; we do not believe the American nation would have acquiesced in it if it had. But to what rational motive can we ascribe this allegation of Mr. Canning, supposing Mr. Erskine not to have authorised it. To the same motive we reply, that prompted Mr. Canning solemnly to declare, on the floor of Parliament, that our government had not offered to remove the embargo so far as it affected England on her revoking her orders, when, in truth, the offer had been long since made; to the same motive that prompted the more recent publication in this country of his celebrated letter to Mr. Pinkney, without publishing the reply; both of which steps had the effect for a time of flagrantly misrepresenting the opinions and conduct of our government. As in these two instances, so in that now under notice, Mr. Canning has calculated upon instilling into the minds of the American people suspicions of the virtue or firmness of those who administer their affairs; and certainly nothing could more admirably subserve this purpose than the general belief that Messrs. Madison, Gallatin, Smith, and Pinkney made the propositions imputed to them.
Mr. Canning no where expressly declares that this note was the whole instruction given to Mr. Erskine even relative to the orders in council. He says, "you are at liberty to communicate this dispatch in extenso to the American Secretary of State." For what purpose? Doubtless to obtain, if favored by circumstances, a recognition of the three stipulations made essential conditions of the revocation of the orders. A government so constantly in the habit of yielding to circumstances as that of Great Britain, entertained a hope that events in this country would arise that might lead our government to yield even to those humiliating terms. Their friends here, no doubt, advised them, that our people were on the eve of rebellion, and their government on the brink of dissolution. It was judged that no price would be deemed too great that should avert these awful calamities. Under this state of things, Mr. Erskine was authorised to communicate this dispatch to the Secretary of State. Did he communicate it? No. Why? Because a different state of things existed from that it contemplated; a state of things which, he must have well known, would have rendered its presentation in the highest degree insulting; a state of things, which justified his acting under some other dispatch, framed to meet different events—events which manifested the triumph of principle and the abortion of British hopes in this country. "For this purpose," says Mr. C. "you are at liberty to communicate this dispatch." What purpose? To obtain a distinct and official recognition of the above degrading conditions from the American government. Well, if this purpose could have been answered by communicating this dispatch, Mr. Erskine would have communicated it. His not having communicated it, is proof that it could not be effected; and if it could not be effected, he was not at liberty to communicate it. This view of the case acquires no mean strength from being the only one which satisfactorily accounts for Mr. Erskine's not having communicated this dispatch. If we suppose that there was another dispatch suited to other circumstances, all difficulty vanishes, the more than Egyptian darkness is dispelled, and we are enabled to reconcile the correspondence and arrangements of Mr. Erskine. The lofty and insolent tone of the note of the 23d of Jan. from its not being communicated, presents no obstacle to an adjustment, and the numerous inconsistencies and contradictions between this note and the propositions of Mr. Erskine no longer stare us in the face. Whereas, supposing this to have been the only instruction, we perceive nothing but opposition and inconsistency. For instance—
Mr. Erskine's first letter to Mr. Smith breathes a spirit of amity and confidence towards the American government—Mr. Canning's dispatch, on the contrary, mani-
fests nothing but distrust, and tauntingly offers an opportunity to our government to give proof of its sincerity!
The dispatch notices the interdiction of French ships of war from the waters of the United States, a topic on which Mr. Erskine's letter is totally silent.
The dispatch commends the extension of the "non-importation act" to the other belligerents, adding, "these measures remove those preliminary objections, which must otherwise have precluded any useful or amicable discussion." Not final agreement, but merely discussion. Mr. Erskine, in his correspondence and arrangement, is again silent on this head, and does not even make an effort for what is pronounced indispensable, even to amicable discussion.
The dispatch says, "In this state of things it is possible for G. Britain to entertain (not definitely adopt) propositions," of the humiliating complexion we have stated.
Mr. Erskine, without a scruple, definitely agrees and pledges his government, under an authority vested in him for that express purpose, to propositions, totally different and equally hostile to both governments.
The dispatch says, on receiving an official recognition of the alone degrading terms "his majesty will lose no time in sending to America a minister fully empowered to consider them to a formal and regular treaty." Mr. Erskine, announces his majesty's determination of sending an envoy "invested with full powers to conclude a treaty on ALL THE POINTS of the relations between the two countries."....Nat. Int.
August 11. The PRESIDENT of the United States left this city yesterday for Montpelier....Ib.
Several of the United States' frigates, &c. are now making short summer cruizes on the coast, to exercise their crews.
We learn from New Orleans by the arrival of the agent, that the U. S. troops at that place, under Gen. Wilkinson, are encamped on the banks of the Mississippi, about 12 or 15 miles below the city; that upwards of one third part of the whole army are sick, and the number daily increasing. Several officers have recently resigned their commissions, and many others had it in contemplation....Charleston Courier.
CHARLESTON, July 11. Extract of a letter from New Orleans, dated 18th June.
"The commotions of Mexico will soon begin between the Bonapartists and the Independents—and the vicinity is such that I think we cannot escape their influence."
CHARLESTON, August 2. SOMETHING TO REFLECT ON.
We are informed, that the President of the South-Carolina Homespun Company, on Friday last, called upon J. M. DAVIS, agent for the London Phoenix Insurance Company in this City, for the purpose of effecting insurance on the Homespun Factory of Charleston, and that Mr. Davis positively refused to insure the same, declaring, that he was expressly interdicted from making insurance on Factories in America, in which Cotton was an article employed. He further stated, that the Phoenix Company had already sustained heavy losses, from the many fires already communicated to Factories on the continent....City Gazette.
ENQUIRER OFFICE, August 15. This day's paper is filled with articles, which are too interesting to be omitted or abridged.
1 st A Projector proposes, as Great Britain is almost powerless on the land and in the forests, and as the Lion is one of the most generous of wild beasts, that she should adopt into her escutcheon some animal from the element of waters, whose character is better descriptive of her own disposition. Instead of the Lion, let her emblem be the SHARK.
1 st Read the esay from Cobbett's Register!—It most strongly confirms the sentiments of Junius Brutus, published in our last.
"Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the Waves!" is the burden of Canning, Sheffield & Co. "Better," says Cobbett honestly and plainly, "exercise an absolute maritime dominion, avowedly and not encumber the thing with "Orders in Council" and other trappings, which only serve to rob the principle of its simplicity and dignity." Merchants of the United States, what say you to this?
Singular Association—"A number of the Citizens of the City of N. York, being deeply impressed with the mischievous influence of the practice of Duelling, and with the necessity of adopting some efficacious means of preventing it," held a meeting on the 26th ult.—Hon. John Broome, Esq. in the Chair—"for the purpose of consulting on the steps proper to be taken for the attainment of so desirable an end." A committee was appointed to draught a "plan of co-operation," and an address to the public. The committee were ready to report on the 8th inst.
1 st ATTENTION—CAVALRY!!! You will attend Muster, on Wednesday evening, at 5 o'clock, at the usual Parade Ground. By order of the Captain, James H. Lynch, Serg't. August 16.
NOTICE—In pursuance of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber, there will be offered for sale, the 7th day of Sept. next, on a credit of six months, a small tract or parcel of LAND, lying on the Buckingham Road, about four miles above Powhatan court-house: Also, one negro man named BOB, the property of Archibald Conway, to satisfy a debt due to Major John Archer of Amelia. HENRY ANDERSON, Trustee. Powhatan, August 15.
VIRGINIA—At a Superior Court of Chancery, held at the Capital, in Richmond, June the 1st, 1809.
Henry L. Biscoe Plff. against Peter Sallee, Def't. The defendant 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 satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country: On motion of the plaintiff, by counsel, It is ordered, That the said defendant do appear here, on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some news-paper, published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the capital in the said city. A Copy: Trustee, PETER TINSLEY, C. C. August 15.

POLITICAL.
AMERICAN PRINCIPLES.
A REVIEW OF WORKS OF FISHER AMES; COMPILED BY A NUMBER OF HIS FRIENDS. BY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
No. III.
1. "There is a kind of fatality in the affairs of republics, that eludes the foresight of the wise as much as it frustrates the toils and sacrifices of the patriot and the hero."
"Dangers of American Liberty," p. 380 of the vol.
2. "It is pretty enough to say, the republic commands, and the love of the republic dictates obedience to the heart of every citizen. This is system, but is it nature? The republic is a creature of fiction; it is every body in the fancy, but nobody in the heart. Love, to be any thing, must be select and exclusive. We may as well talk of loving geometry as the commonwealth." p. 395.
3. "It is said, that in republics, majorities invariably oppress minorities. Can there be any real patriotism in a state, which is thus filled with those who exercise and those who suffer tyranny? But how much less reason has any man to love that country, in which the voice of the majority is counted, or the vicious, ignorant, and needy are the instruments, and the wise and worthy are the victims of oppression." p. 413.
4. "Is there in human affairs an occasion of profligacy, more shameless or more contagious than a general election? Every spring gives birth and gives wings to this epidemic mischief. Then begins a sort of tillage, that turns up to the sun and air the most noxious weeds in the kindest soil; or to speak still more seriously, it is a mortal pestilence, that begins with rottenness in the marrow." p. 415.
5. "Federalism was, therefore, manifestly founded on a mistake, on the supposed existence of sufficient political virtue, and on the permanency and authority of the public morals." p. 416.
These strains of panegyric upon republics, & republican institutions, are extracted word for word from a dissertation upon "The Dangers of American Liberty," written by Mr. Ames, and communicated in February, 1805, to one of his friends, but never published until his decease, in this compilation.
Its title, "The Dangers of American Liberty," is a misnomer. The whole scope of its argument is to prove the position, which on the Thanksgiving evening of the same year he wrote in a private letter to another friend—that American liberty "was gone; never to return."
An ingenious annotator has seized upon one short paragraph, as indicating the motive for which this "gloomy picture of the affairs of our country" was delineated. He says it was to defer, or mitigate our fate by alarming the honest part of our citizens.
If this was really the motive, (and as the fair-est in favor of the author's intentions, to which it can be ascribed, I have the strongest inclination to believe it) the performance was ill adapted to the design—for the only possible application to be drawn from it by a rational being, would be, not exertion but despair. Every principle, every illustration, every inference leads the mind irresistibly to the conclusion, that the miseries of our condition were beyond the reach of counsel; that the virtue and wisdom of the country were under the irretrievable dominion of its vice and folly; and that there was nothing left, among the good and great of this nation, but to shew with what a profusion of rhetorical flowers they could strew the grave of liberty, and in how many graceful varieties of attitude they could bite their chains. Its natural effect was, not alarm but conviction.
It was not intended by its author for publication. In the letter to the friend to whom it had been communicated, he expressly says, that "to be of value enough for the author to own it, he must be allowed time, must bestow on it more thought, search for facts and principles in pamphlets and larger works, and in short, make it entirely over again."
I agree entirely with him, that it was not of value enough for the author to own it, and think that his friends would have proved their affection for him, as well as their respect for the public, if they had shown more deference to his opinion in this case, and less eagerness to spread abroad their favorite tenets. Whether the pamphlets or larger works to which alone in his temper of mind he would have resorted for facts and principles, would have improved the complexion of his work, is not necessary to enquire—if the only objection against it were its want of value, I should neither complain of the editors, nor dissent from the extracts to the meditation of the public—but it contains, upon a subject deeply interesting to this country, principles at war with reason, and assertions at war with fact. Had these been merely the errors of Mr. Ames, I would have lamented in silence the indiscretion of his friends, in exposing them to the world, and suffered them to perish by the natural decay of their own absurdity. But they are not the wanderings of Mr. Ames's imagination—they are the principles of a faction, which has succeeded in obtaining the management of this commonwealth, and which aspired to the government of the Union. Defeated in this last object of their ambition, and sensible that the engines by which they have attained the mastery of the state are not sufficiently comprehensive, nor enough within their control to wield the machinery of the nation, their next resort was to dismember what they could not sway, and to form a confederacy, to be under the glorious shadow of British protection. To prepare the public mind for this chasm so abhorrent to the temper and character of our people, the doctrines, with which a vile name teems, were to be ushered into the world, whenever a prospect for their favor, or a pretext on might appear. Mr. Ames, in writing these papers, and others, published before his death, disclosing not quite so clearly the system of the party, was acting under an impulse of which he was himself not aware. But the period of his death happening just at a moment of great national difficulty and distress, the chosen hour was concluded to have arrived, when these theories might be circulated with the greatest effect; and when disgust at our popular institutions, contempt for our own country, detestation of France, and subserviency to Britain, might be so mingled up with the influence of Mr. Ames's name, that the whole would be swallowed by the public, without examination, and all contributed to the purposes of the party. The proceedings of the state legislature during the present year have furnished ample proofs, that these principles have been at the root of their whole system of measures. It is also a fact perfectly well known, that many of these measures have been carried by reluctant votes; that many members of the majority have most unwillingly assented to them; and on one occasion when a single spirited member presumed to have an opinion of his own, he was attacked in one of the presses of the faction, for daring to think for himself. The legislature of the succeeding year will be of the same political party as the last. They will not be checked by a chief magistrate of different opinions, and the country has been threatened with no equivocal anticipation of what will be attempted, when the whole government of the state should be united in one joint effort, with other states, whose interests and views are similar to
our own." It is therefore a sense of duty to the country, which enjoins a pointed attention to the tenets of this book, as well as to their practical effects in the administration of our affairs.
Mr. Ames (says his biographer) was emphatically a republican. Let his republicanism be tested by these extracts, to which a thousand others of the same cast of character might be added. The first extract declares that the affairs of republics are governed by a perverse fatality—the second, that it is impossible to love a republic—the third, that there can be no such thing as patriotism in a republic, and least of all in one like ours—the fourth, that our annual elections are a mortal pestilence, that begins with rottenness in the marrow—and the fifth, that the federalism which formed our national constitution was manifestly founded on a mistake, in supposing the existence of political virtue.
The reasoning in the second deserves particular notice—it is impossible to love the republic; because the republic is a creature of fiction; and because love, to be any thing, must be select and exclusive. Instead of the republic, let the word be our country—the argument is precisely the same—our country is a creature of fiction. Our country comprises the whole nation to which we belong—The love of our country, if it be any thing, can neither be select nor exclusive: it is the love of the whole community, and prompts to zeal for the welfare of all, without distinction of party or of place. The sentiment of the heart which disowns all love, but such as is select and exclusive, is neither congenial with republicanism nor with Christianity. Mr. Ames acknowledged the authority of him whose injunction to his disciples was, "but I say unto you, Love your enemies." Was this select or exclusive? In truth, this principle of selection and exclusion, in the application of our affections to the political relations of society, is a pernicious error of morals as well as of politics. Mr. Ames would have found no such doctrine in Cicero's Books of Offices—And the consequences of this principle are as mischievous as its origin is contracted. It is the seminal principle from which faction takes its birth. It is this select and exclusive love which breeds the whimsy, that there are scarcely six hundred out of six millions, who look for liberty any where but upon paper. It sharpens all the asperities of party spirit, and makes federalists and republicans consider one another, not as fellow-citizens having a common interest; but as two rival nations marshalled in hostile array against each other.
Had Mr. Ames, but given himself time to reflect upon his own labors, he must have perceived the fallacy of confounding that sentiment of social benevolence, which in our country is properly denominated the Love of the Republic, with that select and exclusive affection which begets the connections of domestic life—Parental, conjugal and filial love, no doubt is select & exclusive, yet its limitations are not in its passion, but in its objects. The love of the Republic, which is the love of our country upon the same general foundation of good will, expands with the extent of its object, and can embrace a whole continent with as much ease as a single city. But like all the social virtues, it requires cultivation, and will not thrive upon ridicule and contempt.
Incorrect as this passage is with regard to principle, it is not more so than the fourth extract, in point of fact. What must be the opinion of respectable foreigners who shall read this terrible invective against our annual elections? And what must be their surprise on being informed that it is merely a picture of the imagination—That it has no foundation in reality. Indeed, a reader can discard the prepossession arising from the Author's name, there are, in this extract, some internal marks of inaccuracy. The accusation of shameless profligacy is in those broad and general terms, which so often shelter a delusion. No specific example of this supposed profligacy is alleged. The remainder of the paragraph may be cited as a curious instance of judgment extinguished in the blaze of fancy. Our elections are held in the spring. The Spring starts an idea of tillage; tillage leads the thoughts to Summer, and that gives the hint of an Epidemic. From that moment the accessory images become the principal figures. The tillage turns up noxious weeds—The epidemic becomes a mortal pestilence—The election is entirely gone from the mind both of the writer and the reader—Nothing remains but the noxious weeds and the pestilence.
The two great vices, to which the experience of ancient and modern times, in other countries has shown popular elections to be liable, are bribery and violence. I appeal now to the consciousness of every citizen of the Commonwealth. Are the instances of either, common in our elections? I affirm with the most perfect confidence that they are extremely rare. There is sometimes an excess of zeal, and an enthusiasm of party spirit in favor of the respective candidates, and the news-papers on both sides are too accessible to scurrility and calumny against the persons whose names are held up for the suffrage of the voters. The general election is always a period of some agitation, and it stimulates and sharpens the anti-social passions of many individuals. But I have no fear of being contradicted, when I say that our elections are remarkable for the purity, the mildness and the decorum with which they are conducted. It is inconceivable, that a man acquainted with the Roman history, in the age of Cicero and Clodius should say as Mr. Ames does say, that 'those times were not more corrupt than our own.'
But perhaps no one of these extracts deserves more seriously to be reflected upon than the fifth—Which so explicitly asserts that federalism, at the establishment of the Constitution, was manifestly founded on a mistake, in supposing the existence of virtue in the people.
It was observed, in a former paper, that the friends of Mr. Ames, who with such anxious industry, have gathered all the gleanings of the news-papers of late years, for hasty crudities, which he never avowed, and who have abused the confidence of private correspondence, by publishing letters, which, on the face of them, appear confidential, have, at the same time, omitted from this compilation, one of the most eloquent speeches, which as a public man, as a Representative of the People, he ever made. The remark might have been much more extensive in its application. It applies to all his speeches in Congress, from the establishment of the Government until January, 1794. In the first Congress, objects of great and lasting importance were dis-
• The deep corruption of those times, is described by the Poet Lucan, not with metaphors, about noxious weeds, and epidemic mischiefs; but with the specific characters of truth.
"Vis erat: hinc leges, et plebis scita coactae; Et cum Consilibus turbantes jura Tribuni; Hinc rapui precio facies sectorque favoris; Ipsa sui populus; letisque ambitus ubi; Ammu vendit referens certamina Campo. Hence plant, servile voices were constrain'd, And force in popular assemblies reign'd. Consuls and tribunes, with opposing might, Join'd to confound and overturn the right: Hence shameful magistrates were made for gold, And a base people by themseles were sold: Hence slaughter in the venal held returns, And Rome her yearly competitions mourns." Rome's. Lucan.
Is it not a perversion of the essential nature of things, to draw political principles from such a state of society, as applicable to ours? Yet Mr. Ames, after referring to some of the worst transactions of this very period, in the Roman history, asks, "Is not ALL THIS apparent in the U. States?"
cussed. The administration was organized. The principles were settled, and the constitution itself was, in some respects, new-modelled. We are told by the learned Biographer, and it is known to every man whose memory can trace so far back the progress of our history, that in all these discussions, Mr. Ames took an active and conspicuous part. Yet of all the speeches which he delivered on those occasions, the Compilers of this volume, have not thought one worthy of preservation, until they come to that upon Mr. Madison's Commercial Resolutions. Why all these omissions? and why this selection? The reply is plain as way to parish church." The compilers hold that the federalism which founded the national constitution, was manifestly founded on a mistake. They have renounced the principles of their better days, and withheld, from the public, every thing which could revive their influence or recall their recollection. This degeneracy from the honorable principles which they once maintained, is not a new phenomenon in the history of parties. In all free countries it is an event by no means uncommon, and it calls for the most watchful attention of the genuine patriot. It is by similar derelictions of their principles, that legitimate parties degenerate by degrees, into intriguing factions and treasonable conspiracies.
After thus formally renouncing the original principles of federalism, what has this sect of American politicians substituted in their stead?—The volume upon which I have already bestowed so much consideration, and which will yet require more, furnishes the answer.
The "Dangers of American Liberty" is a fable without a moral. It paints in the gloomy colors of a disturbed imagination, the supposed evils of our condition; and labors with painful argumentation to prove that none of the remedies or alleviations which minds of healthier hue had suggested, can have an efficacy to restore us to the enjoyment of freedom. It indicates no remedy as advisable to be tried. What was the reason of this?
In a free country, the first step of ambitious & disappointed leaders, whose only resource is in a revolution, must naturally be, to make the people dissatisfied with their condition. To prevent them from seeing their situation in its true light, to extinguish all their hopes of its amendment from the natural course of things, and existing institutions—the third is Revolution. Until the two first are accomplished, the instigators to the last, must often conceal, and sometimes disguise the means for its accomplishment.
A revolution, not in the administration, but of the constitution, was obviously the only remedy within the reach of human powers, upon the mind of Mr. Ames. Taking the facts and the principles exhibited in this treatise for true, and the duty of insurrection against such a state of things follows as an irresistible inference; but the time was not come, when this might safely be committed to paper. It is now known that the project for a dismemberment of the Union, by a plan which required a military commander, had been very seriously proposed to Mr. Hamilton, shortly before his death. It had probably been known to Mr. Ames, though he said nothing of it in his eulogy of Hamilton. The paper drawn up by this gentleman, previous to his meeting with Col. Burr, manifestly alludes to that proposition, and to a state of things for which it was material to the public, that he should keep his military character unquestioned. He had disapproved and rejected the scheme of dismemberment, & Mr. Ames, in this work, speaks of it as an expectation, as one of those fluttering hopes, which would not be realized. Possibly Mr. Ames was unwilling himself to look full in the face the expedients, which, on his statements, alone, remained for the redemption of the country. The essay on a British alliance, the dangers of American liberty, and the review of a late pamphlet, on the British constitution, all discovered him entangled in the toils between his premises and his conclusions. Like the poetical image of Fear, he first lays a bewildered hand amid the chords, and then recoils, he knows not why, "E'en at the sound himself had made."
The practical comment upon these principles is to be found, in the publication of these papers against the clear injunction of their author, and in the measures of the Massachusetts Legislature, precipitated by the men who believe in the same doctrines.
One of their first acts, on securing a majority in the Legislature, was to manifest their hatred of popular elections, by taking a very important election from the people, to exercise it themselves; to shew that federalism was founded on a mistake; they undertook to dictate (under the pretence of a request,) to the representatives of the people in Congress, how they should act, & when some of those representatives discovered, in a firm, though respectful manner, their sense of their own rights and obligations to the people, they replied, with insulting contumely. They have attempted, and but for the negative of the chief magistrate, would have authorized direct and forcible resistance against the laws of the Union—They have countenanced the grossest outrages committed against us by Great-Britain, and have not scrupled to call aloud upon Congress to go to war with France. They have openly avowed the intention of a partial association with some of the neighboring states, and to manifest their select and exclusive love, they have fomented local jealousies, and instigated invidious animosities against our fellow-citizens in other parts of the union.
My countrymen! the seeds & the fruit are both before you. If the extracts at the head of this paper are emphatically Republican, the leading measures of the Legislature have been emphatically patriotic. They flow from the same sources—prostration to Britain, horror of France, and contempt for the American people.
(To be continued.)
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THE BOY AND THE BUTTERKNY.
As on a morn in blooming May, A butterfly in colors gay, Flew o'er the flowers on busy wing To sip the honied sweets of spring, A boy look'd on with ardent view, And ran to seize it, as it flew.
From pink to pink the insect hies, And to the fragrant myrtle flies, On beds of violets reposes, And on the blooming breasts of roses.
The boy, with many a bound in vain, Attempts the glittering prize to gain. Still flitting light on gaily wing, The butterfly eludes his spring, From flower to flower forever changing, O'er all the varied landscape ranging.
At length a tulip's bloom it spies; Eager to taste the flower it flies, Half buried in the Cup appears, Nor sees the youth, nor danger fears.
The boy drew nigh: with ardent bound He seiz'd the fly, and grasp'd it round. All mangled in his hand it lies, It's colors murr'd, and varying dies. With streaming eye the boy look'd on, Mourning its loss, and beauties gone. When thus in dying words it sung, Well worthy of a Stoick's tongue.
"Know, pleasure is, however drest, A painted butterfly at best, Which gently touch'd may charm the while,
"And gild with joy the path of toil: But press'd with too much ardent love, All mangled in th' embrace—and dies."
(BY AUTHORITY.)
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT
Concerning the Naval establishment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States, in the event of a favorable change in our foreign relations, be, and he is hereby authorised to cause to be discharged from actual service, and laid up in ordinary, such of the frigates and public armed vessels, as in his judgment a due regard to the public security and interest will permit.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the first section of an act, entitled "An act to authorise the employment of an additional naval force," passed at the last session of Congress, as requires the public armed vessels to be stationed at such ports and places on the sea coast, or cruise on the sea coast of the United States and territories thereof, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives, ANDREW GREGG, President of the Senate pro tempore. June 23, 1809. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON.
PURSUANT to the last will and testament of the Rev. Matthew Maury, late of Albemarle county: We shall, on Friday, the first day of September next, (if fair, if not, the next fair day) expose to public sale, on the premises, that valuable and highly improved FARM, on which the dec'd lately resided, containing between 1300 & 1400 acres. About 400 acres of this land are cleared and in excellent condition for cultivation, of which about 40 acres are very fine meadow.
There is, on the plantation, a great variety of fruit trees, among which a well selected apple orchard of about two hundred trees in high perfection. This land is intersected by a vein of excellent limestone, parallel with, and two miles distant from the south west mountains. There are, on this plantation, a large convenient dwelling house a large barn, stable, and all other necessary buildings, in very good condition for the accommodation of a large family. The quality of this land is very good, well adapted to the growth of tobacco and corn, and particularly so to the growth of small grain and grass. It has, from experiment, been proven capable of deriving very great advantages from the use of Plaster of Paris. We will allow a credit of one, two and three years, on the purchase money; for which we shall require a lien on the land, and approved personal security. The land may be seen by application to either of us who reside on it.
MATTHEW MAURY, Acting THOS. W. MAURY, Execrs. Albemarle County, Va. 25th July, 1809. w5w
LANDS FOR SALE—The Subscriber offers for sale his tract of Land in Amherst County, lying on the west side of the main road fronting the new Courthouse now building, containing three hundred & sixty acres. Upon this Land is an eligible situation for a store, also for a Tavern, there is likewise a very desirable situation for a Professional Gentleman. Being in a wealthy, populous and agreeable neighborhood, the Land is fertile, well watered, lies very well and extremely healthy. Upon it is a plantation well inclosed, and in a high state of cultivation; laid off into separate fields and each field in its turn for some years past has been sowed in small grain rolled in Plaster of Paris, and in the spring following sowed in red Clover. The Indian corn has also been rolled in Plaster of Paris when planted for some years past; the plantation is sufficient to work six hands to advantage.
Also another tract of Land, lying in the aforesaid County of Amherst, on the waters of Penny River, adjoining the Lands of James Franklin, Joel Franklin's estate, Micajah Camden and Bartlett Cash, containing near nine hundred acres. This Tract lies extremely well, upon it is a considerable quantity of plant-bed and meadow ground, it is very fertile, well watered, and well adapted to the culture of Corn, Wheat and Tobacco; upon it is a plantation sufficient to work eight hands. A considerable part of it is fresh Land, and the whole is in a high state of cultivation, well enclosed and divided into four fields, each field in its turn has been sowed in small grain. A part of the grain has been rolled in the Plaster of Paris, and the whole has been sowed in their turn in red Clover, which grows luxuriantly on this plantation, which together with the white Clover that grows naturally upon it produces very fine pasture. There is also upon it, a very good apple orchard, and there have lately been built thereon some useful and valuable houses. A fairer description is deemed unnecessary, it is presumed that no person will purchase without first viewing the Lands, the Overseers living on the plantations will shew the lands to any person wishing to purchase—These lands will be sold on time and the payments made accommodating to purchasers.
Also one other Tract of Land lying in Goochland County, on both sides of Tuckahoe Creek, on the north side of the three Chops Road, adjoining the lands of Benj. Hughes, Benj. Watkins and Elisha Leak's estates, containing three hundred & fifty acres, a considerable part of this land is cleared, and none of it has been in cultivation for some years past; it is land of good soil and is well adapted to the culture of corn and wheat, and is very convenient to Market, being within twenty three miles of the City of Richmond, this tract of Land will also be sold on time, and the payments made accommodating to the Purchaser. For farther particulars apply to the subscriber living in the City of Richmond.
WILLIAM GALT. July 11. w6w
FOR SALE—525 ACRES JAMES RIVER LAND—On the 10th December next, (if fair, or otherwise the next fair day,) the Subscriber will offer for sale on the premises, a Tract of LAND situate in Buckingham county, immediately opposite the mouth of Rock-fish river—Thirty acres of which are prime low ground, & the residue strong, finely timbered upland, well adapted to the culture of Tobacco, Corn, and Wheat.
A credit of one, two and three years will be given, payable at equal instalments, with interest from date, to be remitted if the payments be punctually made. Bonds with approved security will be required. A clear title made, & possession given on the day of sale. The above Tract of Land has been conveyed to me by Patrick Rose, Jun. of Buckingham, to be sold for the payment of his debts.
ALEX. F. ROSE, Trustee. June 23. 1w5m
IN CHANCERY.—In Powhatan county court, July 21, 1809. Brown, R. S. & Co. Plffs, against Samuel H. Owen, dec'd. Defs.
THE defendant Samuel H. Owen, 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 satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country; On motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel; It is ordered, That the defendant, Samuel H. Owen, do appear here on the first day of October court next, answer the plaintiff's bill, & that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted, in one of the Richmond news-papers, for two months successively, and posted at the door of the court-house of this county.
A Copy. Teste. JAS. POINDEXTER, c. a. August 1. 2m
A NELEGANT ESTABLISHMENT FOR SALE
The House and Tenement where the subscriber lately resided. This tenement justly ranks amongst the first in this place, combining elegance, convenience, contiguity to the Capitol, and in the centre of a most agreeable neighborhood. For terms apply to Mr. Wm. Long who is fully authorised to contract for the same. J. PENN. June 23. tf
THE different business concerns heretofore existing in this state, under the forms of Buchanan and Pollok at Petersburg, Robert and Allen Pollok at Richmond, and Pollok and Tredway & Co. at Manchester, are this day dissolved by mutual consent.
The partner resident at each place, is charged with the collection of the debts due to the concern hitherto under his arrangement, and we earnestly request those indebted to come forward and make satisfactory arrangements for the discharge of their debts. Those having claims against either of the concerns, will please apply accordingly.
DAVID BUCHANAN, by Robert Pollok, his att. in fact. ROBERT POLLOK, ALLEN POLLOK, THOS. TREDWAY. Virginia, July 18.
The subscriber having purchased the stock of Goods on hand at this place, will continue business in his own name, and for his own account, at the former residence of Buchanan and Pollok. ROBERT POLLOK. Petersburg, July 18.
The subscribers have renewed their connexion in business, and mean to prosecute it in this place under the firm of Pollok and Tredway. ROBERT POLLOK, THOMAS TREDWAY. Manchester, July 18. 6w
JAMES RIVER COMPANY—A dividend of four and a half per cent. was this day declared, on the stock in the James River Company, which will be paid to the respective Shareholders, or their order, on application to ROBERT POLLARD, Treasurer. July 25. 3w
TO THE PUBLIC.—Notice is hereby given, that at King William superior court, a petition will be made for the discontinuance of a Road leading from the West-Point road, through the estate of Robert Slaughter, and that of James Ruffin, dec'd. to Ruffin's Old Ferry. August 4. 8t
BOARDING-HOUSE, to be opened in Williamsburg. The Subscriber, being about to remove to Williamsburg, informs the public that he intends to keep in that city, a BOARDING HOUSE, AND HOUSE OF PRIVATE ENTERTAINMENT, which will be opened on the 20th day of September next. Her house is large and commodious, and situated nearly in the centre of the town—She will have an entirely new set of Servants, & hopes, by the strictest attention and exertions to please, to give satisfaction to those who may favor her with their company. Her intention is to accommodate Boys, Girls, Students of William & Mary College, young Gentlemen, or Ladies, with board and lodging, or board only, by the day, month, or quarter of a year, on reasonable terms. ANNA BYRD. Richmond, August 1. 120S
FOR SALE, in the town of Cartersville, upon James River, Lots No 6 and 24, being the same formerly owned by Messrs. Deane—on the first is a good dwelling HOUSE, store and other improvements, and on the last, a good lumber house. A credit of one, two, and three years will be given: Bonds with approved security, to bear interest from the date, if not punctually paid, will be required—For farther particulars, apply to Messrs. John C. E. Cunningham, at Cartersville, who will shew the premises, or to JAMES & JOHN DUNLOP. Petersburg, July 28. 6w
VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE.—The Subscribers wish to dispose of that valuable tract of LAND called Fort Lewis, lying in the Counties of Botetourt and Montgomery, and containing about 2600 acres. They also wish to sell 3180 acres of Land lying in the County of Fluvanna, on the south side of the Rivanna river, extending from Col. Cary's line, down the river, to within about a mile of Columbia.
This last mentioned Land, being in five distinct tracts, will be sold separately or together, as may best suit any person desirous of purchasing. One-fourth of the amount being paid in hand, any reasonable credit will be given for the balance. GIBSON & JEFFERSON. Richmond, July 28. tf
COLUMBIAN MILLS.—The subscriber informs his friends and the public, that he will purchase WHEAT delivered at the Columbian Mills, or he will receive wheat there to be manufactured on very moderate and advantageous terms to the holders of this article—viz. for every 340 pounds of good merchantable wheat, he will engage to deliver one barrel of good superfine flour, or he will receive wheat at six shillings and six pence per bushel of 60 pounds and deliver superfine flour at six dollars twelve cents, with a small proportion of fine flour at five dollars sixty two cents per barrel; all to be inspected and delivered in good order at the mill. The flour made at this mill has always been held in high repute, and it is the intention of the present proprietor to sustain its character. The Corn Mill is in complete order—every attention will be paid to the customers sending their Corn there to be ground on toll at the usual rate.
Good fresh Meal for sale in small or large quantities at very moderate prices for cash. Apply to Mr. Samuel Leech on the premises or to JOHN GRANBERY, Norfolk. Cash given for Corn delivered at the mill. July 18. tf
THE Subscribers for the Book of FORMS of LEGAL PROCEEDS and JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, proposed to be published by me, are informed that the work is in Press, and it is expected, from the progress which has been made in the printing thereof, that the Book will be ready for delivery by the ensuing fall terms of the Superior Courts of Law. There take the liberty of suggesting to those who wish to own this Book, and have not subscribed therefor, the advantage of doing so as early as possible, and complying with the terms of subscription heretofore published, as a very small number of copies will be printed, which will be delivered (if there be occasion to do so,) according to the dates of subscriptions. J. ROBINSON. Richmond, July 28. tf
PRINTING, IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED ATED AT THE OFFICE OF THE ENQUIRER. A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF BLANKS, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.