Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1800-10-14 00:00:00

The VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[No. 50 OF VOL. VIII.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[House No. 777]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR.
[FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM—PAID IN ADVANCE]
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14th, 1800.
[12 1/2 CENTS SINGLE.]
Forty Dollars Reward, For apprehending and securing John Pigot,
And the property he carried off, or so much of it as will pay the forty dollars, or twenty dollars for each. He calls himself a watch-maker, is dally in looking fellow, about 5 feet 10 inches high, stout made, full faced, large white eyes, short dark hair, speaks quick and as though he had a plumb in his mouth, owing to the loss of his fore teeth—has a brown coat, cut at the elbows, black waist, light-colored breeches, cotton stockings, and black shoes about half worn. He carried with him a gold watch, a silver watch, 12 table spoons, 5 dozen tea and plain, several pair sugar tongs, and silver articles in the jewellery line, such as lockets and rings—they were mostly stamped with two plain letters, M. M. The above reward with thanks will be paid by
Mordecai Miller.
Alexandria, Sept. 24th, 1800.
(3w)
300 DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN on the evening of the 24th of this instant, at the house of Mr. Priddy on the Stage road, a remnant from Richmond, from off my horse, a pair of
Saddle Bags,
containing upwards of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS IN BANK NOTES, principally of the Bank of the United States, the others of Penn.sylvania. The money was in a Red Morocco Pocket Book with a silver clasp. Here were also in the bag, one Georgian Coat, two Vests, two pair of Nankeen Pantaloons made with text, one Shirt, &c. &c. Whoever will secure the said, and deliver the bags with the contents above mentioned to Mr. Wm. Nix, Richmond, shall receive the above reward, or for the bag and contents ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, and no questions asked.
JOHN IDLE.
Richmond, September 25, 1800.
ROBERT POLLOK & CO.
Are now receiving from the Ships Nancy and New York, the principal part of their
FALL SUPPLIES;
the remainder are daily expected.
BUCHANAN, DUNLOP & CO
Of Peterborough; and
DUNLOP, POLLOK & CO.
Of Manchester,
Fall & Winter Goods.
Richmond, Sept. 22, 1800. (4w)
MR. FLORANCE,
Surgeon Demis, from London, M.D. respectfully informs the ladies and gentlemen of Richmond that he performs all the operations of the Teath and Gum in the most scientific and approved manner. He also transplants Natural and sets Artificial Teath, equal at least to any other Professor. Upon the principal of merit, and honorable performance of what he undertakes, & c. P. Prefers to incur the honor of public patronage.
Teeth extracted in the easiest manner; likewise
Seams &c. inserted in the easiest manner.
He also strongly recommends his Tincture and
Dentifrice Paste, prepared by himself, which preserve the teeth, and change them to a beautiful white, cure the gums of the scurvy, and make the breath at all times sweet and agreeable, and cure the tooth ache immediately.
Mr. Florance is to be spoke with, at Mr.
Daniel's (Rising Sun) Tavern. October 24, 1800.
Needham & May,
WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS,
ESPECIALLY inform their friends and the
public, that they have commenced business in a house belonging to Mr. Daniel Truett, opposite Capt. William Richardson's Hotel, in which shop, where they intend carrying on their business in all various branches; and are determined by unswerving attention, to deserve the patronage of the public. They warrant their clocks and watches to be perfect for twelve months.
S. P. 20, 1800. [1/2]
N. B. Two Apprentices wanted to the above business, who can come well recommended.
THE subscribers have on hand the
following Articles, which they will sell low by Private sale, viz.
Coarse Cloths & Duffils
by the bale or piece.
Rose & striped Blankets,
White & colored napped
Cotton & Plaids,
Mens' Hats,
Coffee by the bag,
Hylon Tea by the chest,
German Oznaburgs by
the bolt,
Molasses by the Hhd.
Irish Linens,
4-4 and 6-4 Muffins,
Cloths and Coatings,
A large assortment of Hardware &
Cutlery, &c. &c. &c.
Vandewall & Mosby.
Oct. 24, 1800. [1/2]
CASH GIVEN FOR Wheat & Tobacco,
BY BARTLETT STILL.
Gilliat & Kirby,
HAVE RECEIVED THEIR FALL SUPPLIES CONSISTING OF A VARIETY OF FANCY AND FASHIONABLE GOODS. Also, a very extensive assortment of WOOLLENS, Which they offer for sale on their usual terms. (14h) September 25, 1800.
Assorted bales of Cloths, Striped & rose Blankets by the bale, Kendal Cottons, ditto Blue & green Halfthicks, ditto Womens Shees by the trunk, Green Coffee in bags, Tea by the chest, Madeira Wine by the pipe, FOR SALE, BY Picket, Pollard & Johnston. Richmond, Sept. 29, 1800. 4w
Wm. Mackenzie & Co.
HAVE RECEIVED THEIR Fall Assortment, Which they will dispose of on their usual terms. (6w) October 4th, 1800
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
Run away from my plantation on the south fork of Little Otter, on the 20th inst. a negro man have named
JACK,
is rather under the common size, his clothing is not well recollected, he has a large scar on his forehead and another near the top of his head, has had the fingers of his right hand cut in two; he is between thirty and forty years of age—He was raised by Mr. Edward Watts of this county, was hired by Mr. Watts about 12 or 14 years ago to Mr. William Wright of Franklin county, for one year; Wright hired him part of the same year to Col. John Early. Any person who will discover the said negro, and cause him to be secured, shall receive the above reward besides all lawful expenses.
John Wright. B.ford, Sept. 24, 1800. (2w)
The Property
RECENTLY advertised, is still for SALE—viz. a house, with a nappy or preender. The former might be advantageous used as a pasture house during the summer, having an ice house and bath, to render it a pleasant resort for company from the city, and
2d. The Dwelling-House and Of-
fices, either with or without the plantation, hands and stock, furnished with a nappy or preender.
3d. A Brick-Yard at Rocketts,
supplied with a constant supply, where bricks may be had and bricks disposed of on the best terms, and to which wood will be supplied at an easy carriage.
Many other advantages will occur
to a reflecting mind upon examining the premises, unnecessary here to be related.
It is wished that those inclined to engage in any
of these proposals would do it quickly, as they are parts of a more extensive plan which depend on each other for their accomplishment. The terms will be easy, and security required for their contracts, by
William Mayo, jr. Powhatan, Oct. 4th, 1800.
Indian Meal, Ho-
many & Bran,
Are kept for Sale at the Lumber-
house formerly owned by Thomas and Ebenezer Maule, near the canal bridge leading to the Hay-Market, where Corn will be received in exchange for Meal or Hominy at the usual toll of grinding.
Richmond, October 7, 1800. (1/2)
Blank Writs, Executions
Subpoenas, &c.
For sale at this Printing-Office.
JUST RECEIVED, From Doct. Gaurich's Dispensary,
New-York, and for sale at this Printing-Office, a fresh supply of the following
Patent Medicines:
Church's Cough Drops, A medicine unequalled by any in the world, for the Cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma and Consumptions.
Chemical Essence and Extract of Mustard, For the cure of the Rheumatism, Gout, Rheumatic Gout, Palsy, White Swellings, Chilblains, &c. &c.
Anodyne Essence, For the Head Aches.
Volatile Tincture, For the Tooth Aches.
The Botanical Tea.
Infalible German Corn Plaster, For the Cure of Corns.
Scotch Ointment Cures the most intractable Itch in four hours without Mercury.
Dr. Church's Antiphlogistic Pills, For the Cure of Malignant and Bilious Fevers, Dyspepsy, Jaundice, Catarrhous Acidity, Cholera Morbus, Gravel, In- digestion, Loss of Appetite, and all disor- ders of the Head, Stomach, and Bowels.
Eye Salve, For all disorders of the Eyes.
Antiscorbutic Tincture, For the Teeth, Breath, and Scurvy in the Gums.
Essence of Sarsaparilla, For preventing and curing the Scam and Land Scurvy.
Vermifuge Lozenges, For destroying Worms in children and grown persons.
Antispasmodic Elixir, For the cure of all kinds of Fits.
Cordial Restorative Balsam, For Nervous Disorders, Debility, Inward Weakness, &c.
Vegetable Lotion, For the face and skin, freckles, sun-burn, priest heat, Ring Worms, Tetter, &c. &c.
July 10, 1800.
Monday, August 12, Amelia county.
The SEMINARY of LEARNING,
Announced in this paper to have been established in Amelia, is now in activity and ready to receive students. For particulars apply to Mr. Wm. May, editor of the Richmond Examiner.
Ran away
FROM the subscriber, in Powhatan county, a Negro Man, named SIMON and BABY. Simon went on the 28th of March —he is 35 years old, five feet seven or eight inches high, and of a yellowish complexion.
Baby, the property of Miriam Pleasants, went on the 28th of April—he is 3 years old, yellow complexion, rather round shouldered; his hair thin upon the top of his head, and about the height of the former.—
It is probable they are in the neighborhood of Curles or Petersburg, and will endeavour to pass as a part of the negroes that obtained their freedom under the will of John Pleasants, deceased, of Bennington—I will give FIFTY DOLLARS reward to any person that will deliver them to me, or secure them any jail so that I get them again.
JOHN HUNNICUTT. M 7 24 h, 1800. [1/2]
HOUSE & LOT FOR SALE.
By Virtue of a Deed of Trust, (on the premises) to me executed, by Lewis De Gorgue and his wife, to secure a debt, due by said L. De Gorgue to Joseph Galt, I will sell, for cash, to the highest bidder, at the Poplar Tavern, on the first day of November next, at 12 o'clock, A. M.
The House, Out Houses, and half-
acre Lot of Ground, now occupied by Mr. John Pleasants, situate on the east side of Shockoe creek, near the cross Ma- son's Hall.
M. B. Poitiaux. Richmond, October 7, 1800. (1/2)
FROM THE AURORA.
ADAMS
PINCKNEY.
It is fortunate for the people of America, that these great men furnish evidences of their own characters, which renders every o- ther evidence of a secondary nature unneces- sary.
It will be remembered that the Editor of this paper, was indicted at Norristown, in this State, under the Sedition Law, for pub- lishing a declaration of Mr. Adams, that Bri- tish influence had been used in procuring the appointment of Thomas Pinckney, Am- bassador to the Court of London, in the room of Mr. Adams.
Upon an offer of the editor by his coun- sel to produce the Letter in Court, some confusion was manifested, and some legal Pantomime was played off, until the trial was postponed.
But the Indictment was withdrawn by or- der of the President, and that part and another article concerning Lord Hawkesbury, taken from the Indictment.
A letter from this same Thomas Pinck- ney, who is the brother of Gen. Charles Pinck- ney, has made its appearance in the Ameri- can papers, of which the following is a copy:
Moultrieville, 15th Sept. 1800.
Messrs. Freneau & Paine,
A letter, copied from a newspaper of Bal- timore, having been inserted in your Gazette of Saturday last, signed JOHN ADAMS, and purporting from its contents to have been written to Mr. Thomas Pinckney, of Philadel- phia, in the year 1792, wherein are contain- ed some comments on my appointment as mi- nister plenipotentiary to the court of Great-Bri- tain—I think it right at present only to say that this letter either is a forgery calculated for electioneering purposes, or if genuine, must have been founded on a misapprehension of persons. This last suggestion I infer from facts, alluded to in the letter, and from the subsequent nomination of my brother, Gene- ral Pinckney, to two highly confidential of- fices by its supposed writer.
To my fellow-citizens of South Carolina, who have so often honored me, by testimo- nies of their confidence, I should deem it un- necessary to urge a syllable of justification from such charges as are implicated in this production, however unauthenticated; but as it appears, from the time of its publication, to be calculated for more extensive influence, I have deemed it of importance publicly to state what is above, that those persons who may be unacquainted with the characters concerned, may be guarded against giving credit, either to the authenticity or justice of this performance, until the event of an inves- tigation, which I will immediately commence, shall be made public.
THOMAS PINCKNEY.
In this letter we shall see the character of Mr. Thomas Pinckney and his brother, per- fectly in unison with the whole tenor of de- ceit and imposition, which has characterised the anglo-federal party; and we shall state such plain facts as any man may comprehend and apply.
We think it proper to republish Mr. A- dams's letter also, because the original has been seen, and known to be in the hand- writing of Mr. Adams, by several federal ci- tizens, and federal law-officers in this city; and to recall the public attention to the facts it contains.
(COPY.) Quincy, May 1792.
Dear Sir,
THE first thing I have to com- municate to you must be an explanation of the date of my letter. The legislature of Massachusetts last winter, upon a petition of the North Parish, in Bristol county, separated it from the rest of the town, erected it into a new one, and gave it the name of Quincy.
By this measure you see they have deprived me of my title of "Duke of Brimstone," and made it necessary that my friends should write me in future, as an inhabitant of Quincy. So much for this Brimstone.
Something that interests me much more is your obliging letter of the 12th of this month.
I should have been happy to have seen Mr. Pinckney, before his departure; but more from individual curiosity, than from any other opinion, that I could have given him any information of importance to him. If he has the talent of searching hearts, he will not be long at a loss, if he has not, no information of mine can give it him.
The Duke of Leeds, once enquired of me very kindly, after his visits at Wel- minster-Abbey, to the two Mr. Pinckneys, which induces me to conclude, that our own ambassador has many powerful old friends in England. Whether this is a recommendation of him, for the office or not, I have o- ther reasons to believe that his family have had their eyes fixed upon the embassy to St.
James's, for many years, even before I was born there; and that they got it, after the duration of my commission to three years, in order to take away from the Duke to succeed me. I will say they have as much honor and pleasure in it, as they ex- pected and that the public may derive from it, dignity and utility. But knowing as I do, the long intrigue, and expecting as I do, much British influence in the appoint- ment, were I in any executive department, I should take the liberty to keep a vigilant eye upon them.
Accept of my thanks, for your reflections on the state of the union, which I have read with all the pleasure which the intelligence, information, accuracy, and elegance of the remarks on Lord Sheffield inspired.
There is one secret which you must be careful to keep, more after you have good government. They cannot exist where they are without it, much less can they be intro- duced where they are not. But a great part of the people of America appear to be so inclined to have no government at all, that if you let them know the whole truth you will excite an unmanageable party a- gainst manufactures. Manufacturers cannot much less, thrive, without honor, fidelity, punctilious public and private faith, dis- respect to property, and the moral ob- ligation to promise and contract; virtues and habits which never did, and never will greatly prevail in any populous nation, without a decisive, as well as an intelligent and honest government. The science of po- litical economy is but a late study, and is as yet generally understood among us. Though I have read most of the authors of reputation on the subject, both among the French and the English, I pretend not to have digested anything relative to it, with the precision of a master. But to me it ap- pears, that the general interest of agriculture in particular, as well as of the nation in ge- neral, will be promoted by a direct and judicious encouragement of manufactures, and that it is not the land jobber, who can be benefited in the rapid rise of his mono- poly, by drawing every labouring hand into the wilderness to fell trees.
The continual succession of foreigners will endanger and destroy our peace, if we know not how to govern them. They will move over corrupt our elections, and tear us to pieces. Sufficient to the day, however, is its evil, and in that day and hour it always has been, and I doubt not, always will be given us to provide against its dangers.
Yours, &c. (Signed) JOHN ADAMS.
During the last sitting of congress in this city, many members had expressed doubts of the existence of such a letter written by Mr. Adams; and some of them, friends of the editor, were apprehensive that some im- position had been practised to bring him in- to the power of those who had manifested a disposition to destroy this paper and the editor.
After repeated representations of this kind the Editor saw the necessity of satis- fying them. And the Editor having when in England in 1795 experienced attention from Mr. Thomas Pinckney, he conceived it to be an act of justice, to make him ac- quainted with the contents of the letter.
He accordingly prepared three copies there- of, one of which he delivered to Mr. Charles Pinckney, accompanied by a wish that he should show it to Mr. Thomas Pinckney. A second copy was given to another member of the Senate, and the third was enclosed in a blank cover, and sent to Mr. Pinckney's lodgings.
Soon afterwards the Editor was informed that Mr. Thomas Pinckney had waited on Mr. Adams expressly in consequence of this letter, and that John Rutledge was present when the explanation took place, among others.
The Editor was informed that Mr. A- dams did not deny the authenticity of the letter; but that he endeavored to give it an explanation different from its apparent tenor, by endeavoring to show that it was not Mr. Thomas Pinckney who was alluded to but Mr. Charles Pinckney, now of the Sen- ate.
A member of Congress, and a friend of the federal Pinckneys and Adams's declar- ed unreservedly, afterwards, that the apolo- gy was the most radical he ever heard.
The following facts will be seen in Mr. Thomas Pinckney's letter above—That he pretends to enter into the spirit, and to accommodate himself to the explanation of Mr. Adams, for he insinuates that "it must have been founded on a misapprehension of persons."
But it also appears, that he pretends to doubt its authenticity, by insinuating hy- pothetically, "that this letter either is a for- gery, or if genuine, must have been found- ed on a misapprehension of persons."
Mr. Thomas Pinckney here certainly in- sinuates that he knows not to be true—but he is so far satisfied that it was a forgery, that he was a genuine letter to Mr. Adams.

The letter of Mr. T. Pinckney, however, is an interesting paper. It must be considered in two points of view. As an electioneering trick of Mr. Pinckney for his brother. And as a production couched so artfully, as to make a pretence of exonerating the Pinckneys and Mr. Adams, while it really conveys the most hostile censure upon the latter.
AS AN ELECTION TRICK. The election comes on in South Carolina, it is believed, the 2nd Monday in October, Mr. Pinckney knows very well that between the 15th September and that period, his letter could not reach this city, in time sufficient to render any legal authentication of Mr. Adams's letter inadmissible and transferable in time. His call upon the people, therefore, to guard against giving credit to the authenticity of the letter, is in our eyes as unwarthy as it is in Mr. Pinckney as the forgery of such a letter could be, because he knew it was authentic; and because, had he any doubt of its authenticity, he would not have waited to "commence an investigation," to this period, and at his present distance, which he might have done, when he was on the spot where the letter is, and was well acquainted with Mr. Gose, to whom it was written.
AS A CENSURE ON MR. ADAMS. While he affects to suspend his opinion on the genuineness of the letter, and the misapprehension of facts; Mr. Thomas Pinckney takes a becoming care to guard his reputation and integrity, and to draw by implication on that if it was genuine, Mr. Adams was guilty of infidelity and worse. He says that he infers from the charges of British influence in Mr. Adams's letter, being employed to obtain his appointment as Ambassador to the Court of Great Britain, that Mr. Adams could not in strict consistency with his sentiments therein contained, have appointed gen. Pinckney vice Ambassador to France.
To the inconsistency of Mr. Adams in this case, every honest man will subscribe. If Mr. Adams believed what he wrote, gen. Pinckney was certainly the last man that ought to have been sent to France. His conduct in France unhappily proved Mr. Adams's mistake in sending him. Mr. Thomas Pinckney further says, that he would "deem it unnecessary to urge a violation of justice on the charges implied in the production bona fide asserted." Here then Mr. Pinckney stands upon different ground, and the true ground he ought to have stood upon. He stands upon his reputation as free from foreign contamination, and although Mr. Adams is the author of the implication, he flatters himself that his reputation is superior to the suspicion.
This is a false exposition of the two letters, and it is incumbent on the American people, whom these important documents may reach, to bestow on them a serious consideration. For it is evident from both the letters that there is duplicity and cunning; there is a temper of deceit which renders those who are capable of it, unworthy the confidence of the country. To place confidence in such men, would be to justify any deception which they might practise hereafter, if entrusted with power.
In this place, and at this time, it will be proper to state to the public, how the letter of Mr. Adams came to the knowledge of the Editor; as it will show the fallacy of Mr. Thomas Pinckney's first assumption that it was calculated for electioneering purposes .
It is very well known that there could be no design to mislead against the Pinckneys two years ago. It is nearly eighteen months since the production was commenced against the Editor, for publishing Mr. Adams's letter, which came to the Editor's knowledge this way. In a conversation with a gentleman of Dr. Franklin's now in Virginia, on the corrupt practices of Great Britain and among other things, some accounts of the British government to suppress the publication of Dr. Franklin's life and private papers in England, he mentioned his having heard that Mr. Adams had charged the British with not only acting corruptly but indirectly upon our government even under the administration of General Washington.
The editor expressed a wish that he would make such enquiries as to assure himself that such a declaration had been made. He did so, and his informant, as well as quasi be excluded from a cursory knowledge, was immediately published, and continued to be repeatedly published in the Aurora . The editor was aware and satisfied that the original was in Mr. Gose's hands, and he determined that the people should not be deprived of the knowledge of a truth which it was the duty of Mr. Adams to have proclaimed to his country publicly and officially. Mr. Gose was arrived at the publication, and stated that there were some inaccuracies in the phrasing of the sentence, the text was the same.
Upon the release of Franklin's Letters upon Sweden , the Editor furnished a variety of facts tending to the great point namely, to prove that British influence had been practiced in the United States. These points were—
1. Mr. Adams' Declaration. 2. Lord Shelburne's Declaration. 3. Tilton's Declaration. 4. A Declaration of Lord Shelburne in the Irish House of Lords. 5. A Declaration of Mr. Pierrepont.
This publication appeared in the Aurora of the 27th July 1799 and upon this publication a pro- secutio was commenced. The Editor had now an opportunity to bring forth this letter by legal means. Mr. Gose could not deny it, and he was under the necessity of surrendering the original document into the hands of the Council employed by the Editor. That it is that the letter will now be reprinted. When the federal court at Philadelphia decided the trial, the court contrary to right and law, enjoined the editio not to publish the proceedings. Judge Peters evidently intended to prevent the publication of the proceedings. The editor could not but find it an important matter, but knowing the ground upon which he stood, he flooded the water to no avail. The proceedings were withdrawn. Copies of
them shall be published in the course of the next week. The editor is informed that they have been reprinted, only with the omission of Mr. Adams's letter and Lord Shelburne's document. To show the public that no impediment was attempted, the editor published the letter of Mr. Adams, purporting that the withdrawing of the letter was intended to produce the suppression of the letter altogether, and to bring the matter to an issue, furnished the copies to those more immediately concerned.
NEW-YORK, October 4. LATEST Foreign News.
From Glasgow Papers to the 30th August, received at the Office of the Mercantile Advertiser, by the brig Brandywine-Miller, in 31 days from Greenock.
LONDON, August 25.
The French Minister Bourgoing set out from Hamburg to Copenhagen on the 17th in order to be present during Lord Whitworth's Negotiation. An article from Copenhagen dated August 19, says, "Lord Whitworth is arrived from Elsinore. Before his arrival our government sent off dispatches to Peterburgh by a courier, who proceeded in the greatest haste through Sweden, and duplicates of them were also sent off by a Swift sailing ship."
"Orders were given on the 9th, to get ready for sea the following six ships of the line: The Nepotun , Waldermar , Odin , Dronningen , Eyynauen , and Louis Auguste ." Count Bernstorff, the Danish Secretary of State had a long conference with the British and Russian Charge d'Affairs on the morning of the 9th, and immediately after a report prevailed, that one of them, Mr. Murray, was about to return to Britain. Certain it is, that an order was issued to suspend all intercourse with Great Britain, and the several outward bound vessels were directed to wait for further instructions.
The Hamburg mail which arrived on Saturday brought letters and papers from India, which contain the intelligence that a conspiracy has been discovered at Malacca, which had for its object the delivery of that settlement to the Republicans. The plan had been arranged by the government of Batavia, whence a communication had been for some time carried on with the Dutch residents at Malacca. Mr. Fein, formerly first in Council, has been sent to Malacca by the Governor, as has Mr. Boddly, the Fiscal, by the Elizah, these persons appearing to have been principally active in the plot.
We learn from the date, that the Lord Clive, in her passage from Canton, which she left the 5th November, fell in with, and on the night of the 10th was captured off Oudebois by the Constance French privateer, of 26 brass 12 pounders, and 150 men. The Lord Clive had on board a cargo worth 30,000 dollars.
Cronenburg, the place which Admiral Dickson is supposed to attack, is a fortress in Denmark in the island of Zealand, near Elsinore, which guards the passage to the Sound. In this fortress is a Royal Palace, in which the late unfortunate Queen Maria Theresia, sister to his Britannic Majesty, was imprisoned till she was permitted to return to Zoll. About half a mile from this is a Garden, called Hansel's Garden, laid by tradition to be the spot where the murder of his father was perpetrated. Frederick II. King of Denmark, constructed Cronenburg in 1577, and fortified it strongly. It is 15 miles from Copenhagen, near the town of Elsinore, and is the best defence of the country, whether against those who attack it on the side of the ocean, or within the Baltic Sea. It is here that the duties of the Sound are levied for the king of Denmark. It has been taken by the Swedes more than once.
The following are some further particulars respecting the fire in Radnor Forest, extracted from the Salopian Journals :—
BREWSBURY, August 20.
A very singular occurrence has taken place on the mountains ranging along the vale of Llangollen. The heath & fern, at the close of the last week, had been burning for more than eight days, and the flames had spread themselves in different directions to an amazing extent. On Thursday, and Friday, the range of fire on that side of the vale adjoining Sir Watkin Williams Wynne's estate at Wynnstay, was supposed to extend from 8 to 10 miles, and on the opposite side about four. In the day time the smoke rising to ascend in immense volumes to a most amazing height, and the whole country is enveloped with a thick mist, which totally obscures every distant object. When darkness comes on, the spectacle exhibited is still more awful. To a person standing on any central mountain, a circumference of 20 miles appears like a immense volcano, vomiting forth the most scorching flames, which, in their progress have unutterably communicated themselves to several fields of standing corn. There are various conjectures respecting the cause of this extraordinary event. By some, it is supposed to have originated either with lightning or by the intense heat of the solar rays concentrated in some of the narrow passes between the mountains. Others believe it has been occasioned by setting some portion of heath and fern on fire for the purpose of clearing the ground, or collecting the Ulex . Whatever may have been the primary circumstance that has lighted up this tremendous fire, the dryness of every vegetable production has spread it like wild fire in every direction with such rapidity, that many poor sheep are said to have been caught and perished in the flames. A great number of hands have been employed in cutting trenches, to intercept the progress of this alarming conflagration, but hitherto without complete success. The air in and round this town has been strongly impregnated with the effluvia of the burning heath, for this week past whenever the wind has been in a favorable point for its conveyance. This may appear extraordinary, at the distance of fifty miles, but it will not be thought incredible to those who have read the well authenticated accounts published by Sir William Hamilton and others that the scoriae from Mount Etna, have been conveyed an hundred leagues, and the smoke of that volcano pervaded the whole atmosphere as far as the islands of the Levant.
August 27.
Captain Duvall, of the navy, arrived yesterday at the Admiralty, with dispatches from Lord Whitworth at Copenhagen. There was a council of his majesty's ministers on the occasion, consisting of the duke of Portland, earls Shelburne, Spencer, and Liverpool, Lord Grenville, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Dundas. The deliberations lasted from eleven till four in the afternoon. Capt. Duvall left town last night with the return of
the council, to admit Lord Dickson, to be forwarded to Lord Whitworth. This morning were received Paris papers to the 24th inst. which were obtained by a Gravelend packet vessel that arrived at Dover on Monday night. A paper of the 23rd mentions the intended journey of the king of Prussia into Silesia. On the subject of peace we find but one paragraph in the Cler du Cabinet. "It is said (says this Journal) that the preliminaries of peace are signed; and, among other articles, one is quoted, which states that the belligerent powers shall remain masters in Italy of their mutual conquests."
Yesterday a rumour was very prevalent in the city, of fresh overtures for peace having been made to this country by the Chief Consul. The funds, which had fallen in the morning, rose towards the close of the day one per cent. and considerable purchases were made. We have not learnt that any messenger has arrived directly from the Chief Consul, but some advices from France were, we believe, received by government on Sunday, and a flag of truce with dispatches sailed from Dover for Calais yesterday. We understand also that Government received dispatches yesterday from Vienna, dated the 5th inst. containing the answer of the Chief Consul, to the dispatches which the Austrian government, after the receipt of the determination of the Court of London, transmitted to Paris. In this answer Buonaparte has expressed a willingness to treat with Great Britain and Austria jointly—Upon these dispatches a Cabinet Council was held, and it is probable that a negotiation between the three powers may take place immediately.
According to the advices received yesterday by Mr. Basilico, the messenger, who brought dispatches from Constantinople, as well as Vienna, there is reason to believe that general Kleber was murdered, as has been before reported.
An express has been received at the admiralty from Cook, which announces the sailing of ten men of war, and four armed ships, with troops on board, on Friday last, to join the red of the armament engaged on an expedition, the object of which is still kept a profound secret.
By accounts from the Grand Fleet, we find that one of the transports sailing badly, did not arrive off Ushant till all the others were gone from the fleet—in consequence of which an order was given for the single transport to repair off Belleisle immediately; from this it is evident, that although that may not be the place of attack, it is most certainly the place of rendezvous. The result of all the reports is, that Belleisle is the object of the expedition.
PARIS, August 19.
The news from the north of Germany, and the best informed Journals in that quarter, state that the Russians are approaching more and more towards the Austrian frontiers. The army which is now at Brezeck, and on the banks of the Vistula, consists of four grand divisions, each of 20,000 men, of which a third are cavalry. The first is commanded by gen. Lascy; the second by gen. Reibinder; the third by gen. Soltikow; and the fourth by gen. Borkoff. Prince Panaration is finally appointed commander in chief of all these forces. Besides this army a second is forming in Lithuania, and on the shores of the Baltic. At the same time, it is now certain, that the best intelligence prevails between the two Imperial courts, and that Russia takes the most lively interest in the conclusion of the war, and in the future destiny of the Empire.— Journal du Debats of the 29th Thermidor .
At the opening of the campaign the effective forces of Austria amounted to 330,000 men. They are not now 300,000 in spite of the recruits they have received. Defection is prevalent; more than 15,000 deserters have gone to Prussia to offer their services.
The extraordinary levy of horses has already produced above 42,000 though 40,000 was the number originally proposed. The Senate of Hamburg has implored the mediation of the king of Prussia on the subject of the arrest of the authors of the Censor , as they did in the case of Napper Tandy. The king answered, that the point did not concern the armed neutrality, and he would not interfere.
General Berthier left Paris for Madrid this morning. His mission is said to be of great importance to both countries. The greatest activity is employed in demolishing the castle of Milan, and the fortifications of Pisin, Ceva, Cooi and Tortona. It is said that the blockade of Genoa will be raised for the benefit of commerce.
August 21.
Though there is no nor unfavorable to peace circulated in this city, yet the Tier-Confide fell yesterday with a remarkable despatch. We are not sufficiently acquainted with the mysteries of the Rock-jobbers to account for this fall. It is probably owing only to this, that some financiers having fixed in their own head the day on which a peace was to be signed, and having made their bargains in consequence, the necessity of fulfilling their engagements made them sell out, and in this way reduced the funds, by making the number of sellers greater than that of the buyers.
Citizen Durac arrived yesterday at half past five o'clock from Vienna. Not finding Buonaparte at the Consular Palace, he immediately changed horses and carriage, and set off for Malmaison. Nothing is known of the success of his mission, but his courier being interrogated by some curious persons, replied as he went along, "Good news! Good news!"
Citizen Durac, chief of brigade, aid-de-camp to the first consul, returned to Paris yesterday morning. (Journal Des Defenseurs de la Patrie) Citizen Durac, aid-de-camp to the first consul, charged some time since, with a mission to the court of Vienna, arrived yesterday morning at six o'clock. He could not pass the head-quarters of gen. Kray, where he was obliged to wait the answer of the court of Berlin, which did not arrive till the end of ten days. Nothing yet transpires concerning the result of this mission.
(Journal du Debats) It was yesterday expected that the funds would experience some depression, because it was the day of transfer for the shares sold at the exchequer on the 29th; but the fall of these funds was considerable, and every one was eager to enquire into the cause of it. A variety of rumours were set afloat, which all appeared to be without foundation. Such as the arrival of Durac, who brought an account of the rupture of the negotiation, the departure of the Prussian minister, &c. &c. The only probable cause, however, of this powerful reaction is the indifference of those who buy up the funds, without having the means of making good their payments, and are therefore obliged to sell out at any rate they can get; while others multiply their offers to buy at the moment of the fall, to which they themselves contrive to give occasion. The whole is only a Rock-jobbing trick.
MARSEILLE, August 4.
The British blockade our port more closely than ever; they lately seized 16 vessels returning from Bonaparte. Upwards of 150 Genoese and other vessels are detained at Ostend and Calais, because they dare not double the Cape of Dumaine, behind which the enemy's ships are constantly concealed. A Spanish vessel in attempting to pass, fell into their hands.
A cartel lately entered this port, having the prisoners on board that belonged to the Guillaume Tell .
STRASBURG, August 13.
The fire which is now raging in the vast forests near Fendenstadt and Kneibis, has lasted for 10 days. The smoke was still seen from this place yesterday. All the inhabitants of the adjacent districts are employed in digging trenches to prevent its progress. The flames have already extended over a space of between eight and ten leagues. The right bank of the Rhine has not been exempt from this misfortune, and the superb forest of Haguenau has been three times ravaged by the fire. In the department of the Upper Rhine sixty acres of wood have been consumed. Another violent fire has taken place at Kaysersberg and Worth, about two leagues from this place.
BERLIN, August 7.
The report for some time past in circulation, that Russia and Prussia would have recourse to an armed mediation, for the purpose of re-establishing tranquility, is destitute of foundation. Exertions are certainly made by our Court in conjunction with that of Peterburgh, to induce the belligerent powers to conclude a peace that will restore, as far as possible, the balance of Europe; but those exertions do not exceed the medium of negotiation.
VIENNA, August 6.
The Count de Kelschubey set out from Peterburgh on the 26th of last month for this capital, entrusted, as it is said, with an important mission relative to the march of a Russian army towards the frontiers of the two Galicias.
FRANKFORT, August 13.
All the French that were here on an infantry and cavalry, marched out yesterday and proceeded to the upper Mein. They were immediately replaced by the troops from Holland. They are well quipped and in the best possible condition. The commander in chief, Augereau, is expected this day and there is every appearance that he will fix his head-quarters at Frankfort.
There is little room to hope that we shall be freed from the French soldiery during the war. They are most probably to remain till a pacification is concluded; but when that is to happen cannot easily be conjectured. It is even presumed, and not without grounds, that though the preliminaries should immediately be signed between France and Austria, the French would not abandon the line which they now occupy, and that the general retrograde movement will only take place at the conclusion of a definitive peace with the Emperor and Empire.
BRUNSWICK, August 10.
The new Government has been installed, and has published a proclamation to the people. Nevertheless, the members of the Senate, who refused to agree to the new measures, and were prevented from assembling in the ordinary place of their sitting, shut by order of government, have assembled at an Inn, held their sitting, voted aside the Government, and had almost declared the members of it outlaws. If we are to credit certain whispers from this sanctuary of the laws, in spite of the profound mystery in which they wrap themselves, they are proposing to fix their place of meeting in some other town, and take every measure to overthrow the usurping government. They are endeavoring, it is said, to bring over some members of the Grand Council to their side, to aid the execution of this fine project.
EN BRUNSWICK, August 29.
On Tuesday last arrived in Leuth Roads, the Lark armed lugger from the Isle of Man . The
merchants ships that have arrived, and which sailed under convoy of the Lark and Isle of Man sloop, left Elsinore so late as Thursday last, at which time Adm. Dickson, with the ships of war under his command, were at anchor near the Castle. They had staid for some days in the offing, and had sent a ship to learn the state of things; when the news of their war being invited up, and orders given for their being supplied with provisions and water. A passenger who came by one of the merchant ships reports, that the opinion before he left Elsinore was that the officers would be amicably settled, Adm. Dickson and several of his officers having been invited on shore to dine on the day the fleet departed.
A gentleman is arrived at Edinburgh, who left Copenhagen yesterday evening. He brings intelligence that Admiral Dickson's fleet had arrived at Elsinore, near which a Danish fleet, consisting of ships of war, was lying. The British and Danish fleets saluted each other with great politeness. Admiral Dickson's fleet, by order of Lord Whitworth, had passed up above the Castle, and was lying on the inside of the Danish fleet.
ARMY ON THE MAINE.
Head-quarters at Frankfort , August 17. The Gen. in Chief, Augereau, having considered the representation of the Senate of the city of Frankfort, in which it states that the great inconveniences which are felt to the inhabitants from the orders given to the guards, placed at the gates of the city, and from the preventing of the free passage of carriages laden with merchandise, and considering farther, that such an arrangement, by restricting the commercial intercourse between France and Germany, is prejudicial to the well understood interests of the Republic, decrees,
Art. I. The Military Posts of the French Army are forbidden to oppose, in any manner, the free passage of provisions or merchandise of whatever kind, entering in or coming out of the city of Frankfort, either in carriages or vessels.
Art. II. Whatever may be done contrary to the preceding article shall be regarded null and void.
(Signed) ANGEREAU
ARMY OF RESERVE.
Summary of a letter from the Adjutant General, Dauvergne, second in command of Staff.
Head-quarters, Conternon, Aug. 19.
The Counsellor of State, Brune, commander in chief of the army of reserve, received on the 15th inst. orders to set out immediately to take the command of the brave army of Italy. This General, before his departure, gave up the command of the army of reserve to gen. Coclus, inspector general of cavalry; an officer in every respect worthy of esteem, and who has given, upon every occasion, unequivocal proofs of his devotion to the public good.
The general in chief, Brune, before he left the army of Reserve gave orders to the 4th provisional demi-brigade of the Line, and to the 1st battalion of the volunteers of Reserve to set out for the army of Italy. These corps will be replaced by an equal number of troops from the army of Italy, who require to recruit themselves in France.
This small column is marching in the direction of Milan under the command of general Clement, and adjutant general Dauvergne.
The signal services which general Brune has rendered in the different armies, and particularly that of Italy, are certain pledges of the new triumphs which he is preparing for his country.
(Signed) DAUVERGNE
VIENNA, August 9.
Count St. Julien, the very next day after his arrival, had a long conference with Baron Thugut, who went afterwards to the Emperor at Hofstendorf, of whom the Count likewise had a long audience on the 7th inst. The general report was, that the basis of the preliminaries between France and Austria, planned at Paris, would be accepted, with some modifications: The Emperor is said to have held a great Council of State, in which he accepted these preliminaries, and declined the subsidiary aid offered by Britain, in consequence of the great alteration in his affairs since the 20th of June, when the treaty with Great Britain was concluded.
With Count St. Julien, also arrived general Zach, who was a prisoner of war at Paris; he has leave of absence for six weeks, within which time he will be exchanged. It was at first said that citizen Durac had arrived, but he has not yet reached Vienna. General Zach was mistaken for him on their first arrival.
Intelligence has been received that the Queen of Naples, with her children, had arrived at Trieste, accompanied by admiral Nelson and lady Hamilton. After a stay of a few days, she was to continue her journey to Vienna.
The Porte has refused to grant passports to the Ottoman Corral, the new intended Spanish minister to that court, declaring that no Ambassador from that Court would be received until a general peace should be placed. The interference of the Prussian ministers, both at Vienna and Constantinople, was quite in vain.
BREMEN, August 10.
The Jason, Paul Vackett Vetcher, master, bound for Hamburg, from Baltimore, has arrived in the Elbe, with a British prize-master on board. We have not been able to learn of what country this vessel is.

WILMINGTON, October 7.
Blessings of a Navy!
Borough of Wilmington, Jr. Before me James Brubaker, one of the Burgess...
That on Tuesday the 30th ult. he sailed from Philadelphia, wind being southerly...
Sworn and subscribed before me, Oct. 4. 1800. JAM B. OLSON.
Borough of Wilmington, Jr. Before me James Brubaker, one of the Burgess...
Sworn and subscribed before me, Oct. 4. 1800. James Brubaker.
WASHINGTON, (CITY) October 9.
From the Washington Federalist. State of the poll in the five districts of Montgomery county:
Table with 5 columns: District, Federal, Anti-Federal, Majority. Rows include Federal, Anti-Federal, and Federal characters.
NORFOLK, October 7. Messrs. Willet and O'Connor. The malignancy of the late fever having subsided...
WILLIAM SHARP, Register. PETERSBURG, October 7. The collection of the direct Tax in the State of North-Carolina...
The collection of the direct Tax in the State of North-Carolina, has been delayed until after the election of Electors...
the Tax. These are means made use of by the federalists to accomplish their wicked designs. But the progress of Republicanism is rapidly spreading in North Carolina...
THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
RICHMOND:
Tuesday, October 14, 1800.
To the Printer of the Virginia Argus.
SIR,
HAVING seen an extract from your paper in the Petersburg Intelligencer, entitled, "Negro Stealing," in which I find myself enrolled...
B. DREW. Southampton, Oct. 6, 1800.
Ten of the Slaves concerned in the late insurrection, were executed on Friday last.
JACK BOWLER, alias JACK DITCHER, for whom a reward of three hundred dollars was offered by the Governor...
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in this city to his friend in New-York, dated September 30th, 1800.
order connected with the late alarming insurrection, I am enabled to give you the outlines of the principal facts that have been given in evidence.
On Saturday morning the 30th ult. a negro man a few miles from Richmond, terrified with the thought of the danger to which he was about to expose himself...
The night on which the thunder storm discovered the plot by dispersing the conspirators...
The swelling of the waters prevented their meeting in a body, and it was a work of no difficulty to seize the suspected and convey them to Richmond.
One of the conspirators, a young negro of 18, named Ben, who had assisted in making cutlasses...
The judges conduct themselves with a degree of humanity highly honorable. The least doubt, the smallest suspicion, or contradiction on the part of the witnesses...
On the trial of Colonel George, Ben Woodfork (who had previously received his pardon) answered to the interrogations of the attorney for the state...
convenient for the people of Caroline county, who could not join the party without trouble on Saturday after quitting work...
The night on which the thunder storm discovered the plot by dispersing the conspirators...
For the Virginia Argus. No. II.
To prepare the public mind for the events which are yet in the womb of futurity, the author of these articles most pressing recommends to the American World the reading and thorough digesting of "The Memoirs of the Dukes of Sully"...
Glorious anticipation! when the Republic of the European Consulate—the Presidential Chair of the United States, and the Thrones of the European Kingdoms and Empires shall be filled with men of elevated distinction...
Anticipate, my beloved countrymen, the issue of such a glorious institution to the United States—View them concentrated in opinions, and assimilated to the condition; expanding and extending her commerce to the most distant nations on this terrestrial ball...
How long, O Lord, how long should thy people moan under the rigorous diadem of British insolence, and influence, and the barbarous intrusion of the Moors or Algerines...
Let us humbly adore that Divine Wisdom, which has formed the plan, and yield our every effort for its furtherance, in obedience to the call of Heaven.
As the season for purchasing an annual winter's life, is approaching, and the liberty of recommending a mode of procuring them...
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THE subscriber wishes to sell his SEAT in Chesterfield county, near Goods Bridge, containing fifteen acres...
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A fresh assortment of SHOES, of all sorts, which he will sell on very low terms for Cash.
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