The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-12-27 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE.....AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.....(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 71.]
RICHMOND, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1806.
[VOLUME 3.
JOHNSON & REAT,
JEWELLERS & SILVER-SMITHS, Have for sale at their store three doors below Messrs. Taylor and Brown's Vendue Office, and a few doors above the Bell Tavern, the following articles, viz: DIATED Tea Pots, Sugar Dishes, and Milk Pots, Tea Urns, Caster Stands, Candle Sticks, Defert Dishes, Salt Stands, Table Spoons, Sugar Tongs, Goblets, Bread Baskets, Decanter Stands, and plated handled Knives and Forks. Silver, Table, Defert, Tea, Soup, Toddy, Sauce, Mustard, and Salt Spoons; Silver Milk Pots, Tumblers, Sugar Tongs, Salt Shovels, Pin cushion Rims and Chains, Scissor Chains, Clock Clasps, Hooks and Eyes, Netting Needles, Tooth and Ear Picks, Bodkins, Pencil Cases, Thimbles, Shell Snuff Boxes silver mounted; Fruit and Penknives.
Tortoiseshell Combs ornamented with gold of every size and description from 15 dols. to 50 cents, Gold Watch Chains, Seals and Keys of various patterns, elegant Pebble Seals, Paste and Gold Earhops of different sizes and patterns, Miniature Settings of various sizes, Mourning and Fancy Lockets, Jet and Coral necklaces gold mounted Necklaces, Jet and Coral necklaces plain and neat, Gold Neck Clasps, Enamelled Fancy and Mourning Bracelets; Gold, Cobalt, and Silver Sleeve Buttons; Gold Studs for the sleeve and Collar; Plain, Stone, Heart, Dog Collar, Topaz, Pearl, Cornelian and Mourning Rings, and Breast Pins of almost every description, all of which with an additional supply that they expect very soon, they offer upon the most moderate terms.—They will also furnish any article in the plate line upon the shortest notice.
N. B. The highest price given for old gold and silver.—December 2.
JOHN SOUTHGATE,
At the house lately occupied by Messrs. Thomas and Amos Ladd, and directly opposite the Union Tavern, offers for sale, a pretty general assortment of
FALL GOODS,
Well worth the attention of country dealers.—Cash, country produce, or approved paper will be received in payment. ALSO FOR SALE, AS ABOVE, London Particular, Madeira Wine in pipes; and a few boxes Martineque Cordials. October 23.
PICKLING VINEGAR.
Of superior quality, made from two years old cider—For sale by
WILLIAM HART,
Opposite the State House.
ALSO—
SALT, loose and in sacks, 30 Barrels out HERRINGS, BROWN SUGAR in barrels and by retail, COFFEE, TEA and other Groceries, Philadelphia bottled PORTER, Do. Draft BEER. September 19.
ENOCH SULLIVAN,
OFFERS FOR SALE, At his Jewelry Store, nearly opposite the Eagle, COMPLETE assortment of Gold, Silver, Plate, Japan, Country Ware, Guns, Tea-Pots, Sugar Dishes, Milk Pots and Spoons, Rims and Catches and bottle Siders.
Silver Watches, Seals, Keys and Chains, and Watch Materials, Sand Gravel, Ladies and Gentlemen's Morocco, Pocket Books, and Purse, Glove Ties, Elastic Garters, silk Purse, &c. Ivory and bone chessmen and boards, Backgammon Tables, Battle Doors and Shuttle Cocks, fan Wood Tea Caddies, Ladies & Gentlemen's dressing Cases, patent Suspender, hat Covers, &c. Guns, horsemen's and pocket Pistols, Swords and Dirks, Sword Knots, Belts, Sabres, Epaulettes, military Bearings, &c. Flutes, Fifes, Drums, Violin Strings, &c. Powder Flasks, shot Belts, bird Nets, gun Hammers and Flints, Whips, Canes with and without Swords, boot Jacks and Hooks, Spurs, Horse Pheleses, &c. Razors and razor Straps, shaving Boxes and Brushes, Violet and Windfor Hair Soap, Powder, Bags, Puffs & Pomatum, tooth Powder, Essences, Revenger's Colors, tambore Needle Cases, Pins and Needles, Scissors and Thimbles, hair Lead and Slate Pencils, Ivory Paper Folders, letter Racks, &c. Ivory, Tortoiseshell and Horn Combs, goggles, Spectacles and Cases, key and curtain Rings, Inkstands, Tobacco and Snuff Boxes, Candlesticks and Snuffers, bread Baskets, Waters, Tea Trays, Knives and Forks, Britannia Metal Mugs, Tea Pots, tea and table Spoons, glass globe Lamps for Halls, tooth comb, Cloths, hearth, Floor, scrubbing & shoe Brushes. With a variety of other articles connected with the above enumerated. Articles of Jewellery or Silver Ware, will be executed to patterns or description, with dispatch. Highest price will be given for old gold or silver. E. SULLIVAN. Nov. 7.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD,
FOR apprehending a negro man named WILL STUART or STUART. He left my house three weeks ago, is 6 feet three inches high, long measure face, red eyes, speaks rapidly and with great confidence, aged about 50 years. He may attempt to pass for a free man as formerly. The above reward will be paid on delivering him here—or ten dollars for securing him in a country goal. Wm. LONG. Nov. 14.
FOR SALE.
TWO likely young MALE SERVANTS, well acquainted with house business.—For terms, Enquire of the Printer. Sept. 12.
TO BE RENTED—The Tenement where
I now reside, and possession given in time. J. PENN. April 11.
JUST RECEIVED,
A FRESH assortment of Claret Wines, Champagne, Mouleux by the box, Burgundy, Sautern, Vin de Grave, Lafitte, Muscat of Frontignac Wine Bitters—and also, a fresh supply of Olives, Capers, Anchovies, Cayenne Pepper, Mustard, Prunes, Raisins by the box, Almonds and Filberts. All kind of West-India Sweets; all kind of Confectionery—and different articles of Perfumery—For Sale by ALEXANDER PLAINVILLE. Richmond, Oct. 17. (2aw6m)
ROBERT JOHNSTON,
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has removed his Store from the house he lately occupied opposite the Eagle Tavern, to one of Mr. Thomas Mitchell's new houses nearly opposite to Messrs. Taylor and Brown's Vendue Office, where he is now opening a general assortment of DRY GOODS & IRONMONGERY, which he will dispose of at a moderate profit. N. B. He will Rent or Sell his Brick Tenement on Shockoe-Hill, adjoining to Mr. Robert Gordon's. October 7.
TO satisfy a decree of the Federal District Court, Hodgdon & Tate, vs. the estate of Edward Carter, dec'd; also a judgment of Backhouse, vs. the same, and two decrees of the court of Chancery, Francis Brooke, and Polly his wife, and Ann Williams Carter, vs. the same; I shall offer for sale, at Milton, in Albemarle, on the first day of January, 1807; one hundred and fifty negroes. Among those negroes, there are ten Carpenters, and a penter s, and a Blacksmith: the residue consists of likely Fellows with their families. A certain proportion of the above negroes, will be offered for cash, & a part of them on a reasonable credit. Those negroes will be sold, subject to the life estate of Mrs. Sally Carter. December 2. CHARLES CARTER, Executor.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of John Pendleton, esq. late of the City of Richmond, dec'd. are requested to exhibit them to either of the subscribers as speedily as possible. GEO. PICKETT, ROBERT POLLARD, CHS. JOHNSTON, N. SHEPPARD. Administrators. November 18.
FOR SALE,
MILITARY CERTIFICATES: BEARING 6 per cent interest, receivable at the Treasury in discharge of taxes, due previous to the year 1798. Apply to THOMAS WILSON. Dec. 9.
CLOVER-FARM,
whereon I now live, laying in Louisa county, on the South Anna River, adjoining the Land of Capt. James Winton and Mr. Edward Garland, containing 309 1-2 acres; the plantation in good repair. On this Land are valuable meadows well set with timber and herb grass, and a great deal more ready prepared for seeding. There is a good Apple Orchard, with a variety of other fruit trees; there is a number of highly manured Lots with a very highly manured garden. The situation is a very handsome & pleasant one; the improvements are very convenient and comfortable and are insured. A great bargain may be had in this valuable property, the present crop of Tobacco will show the fertility of the soil. If it is not sold privately before Louisa January court, it will then be sold at public sale. A small part of the purchase money will be required in hand, the balance to be paid in two equal annual payments. F. L. CAMPBELL. Louisa, Dec. 16. 2aw3w.
REMOVAL.
THE Subscribers have removed their COMPTING HOUSE, from the Main-Street to one of David Bullock's Brick Buildings, at the lower end of the Battery, between the Tenements occupied by C. and T. Saunders, and Norvell, Watt and Bullock—where they continue their purchases of wheat as usual.—They also keep for sale a regular supply of Flour, Corn Meal, Hominy and Bran. THOMAS & AMOS LADD. 10 Mo. 3d, 1806. epf.
ANDREW JAMIESON'S
ALEXANDRIA CRACKERS, Now Landing, A CONSIGNMENT by Mr. Jamieson, direct from the Bakery, of his far-fam'd excellent Crackers, in barrels, half bbls. and kegs. Also superior Pilot-Bread, in bbls. and for sale, (at the Bakery price in Alexandria, and charges,) at the store lately occupied by Messrs. Granberry and Hancock, by JAMES SMITH. Who has in store, low-priced blue sack lift Cloth, and assorted Flannels, which he will sell at a bargain. Also—India Piece Goods—cheap. Dec. 2.
FOR SALE,
Muscovado Sugar in hds. do. of first quality, in bbls. Holland Gin and empty Gin Casks, L. P. Tenerife Wine, Cognac Brandy, Molasses in hds. and tierces, Coffee and German Steel. SAMUEL MYERS. Nov. 25. 16w.
S. JACOBS
Has just received his supply of
FALL AND FANCY GOODS:
—CONSISTING OF— SUPERFINE and common Cloths, Coatings and Kersymeres, Lyon Skins and Frizes, Kendal Cottons, Plains and half thick, Rose, striped and point Blankets, Manchester and Bennet's Cord, Fancy Woolcotting, Silk, Cotton, Worsted and plain Hosiery, Gloves, Durants, Wilches, Bombazines and Bombazines, Irish Linens and Ozanburgs, India Cottons, Cambricks and Fancy Mulls, Silk, Camal Hair and Cotton Shawls, Calicoes, Cotton and Silk Chambrays and Italian Sarcenets, Veils, &c. &c. A few Ladies elegant Circassian Robes unusually low. The whole of which will be sold on terms the most reasonable that found goods can be afforded for. Gun Powder single and double F. of superior quality by the Keg. Nov. 18.
JOHN TOMPKINS,
HAS received an assortment of GOODS Consisting of FLANNELS, Coatings, Blankets, Rose and Dun Be Drabs, Frize, Kersies, Peasemouth, Cloths, Carpets and Carpeting, Bombazines, Swansdown, Patent Cord, Powder and Shot, Dowlas, Sheetings, Kersymeres, Calicoes and Mulls, &c. &c. which he will dispose of on very liberal terms, by the piece or package. Nov. 14.
THE General Meeting of the Mutual Insurance
Company against Fire on Goods and Furniture in the State of Virginia, will take place at Fletcher's Tavern Monday in the next month. WM. H. FITZWYLLSONN, P. A. December 20. ep2j.
MCCAY & COWAN,
HAVE received by the late arrivals from London, a large and fashionable assortment of Gold and Silver WATCHES, with a variety of articles of Jewellery and Silver Work. Also, an assortment of Watch Makers TOOLS and materials; which, with their former stock, renders their assortment very general. All of which they offer at the most reduced prices for cash. December 13.
THE FARMER'S VIRGINIA ALMANACK,
for the Year 1807, printed by Thomas Ritchie, is now for sale, by the gross, dozen or single, at the ENQUIRER Book-Store. Also—A General Assortment of Lawyer's and Sheriff's BLANKS, just printed.
SPORTSMEN ATTENTION.
ON Monday the twenty-ninth day of this month, Will be Sold in this city, for ready money, that valuable piece of land, the Williamsburg JOCKEY CLUB COURSE, containing about sixty ACRES. At the same time, and on the same terms, Will be sold, for very valuable HOUSE and LOT the UNION-TAVERN. The above property will be disposed to satisfy certain sums of money due by Deeds of Trust, and will positively be sold, without reserve on that day by R. O. ANDERSON, Auctioneer and Commission Merchant. Williamsburg, Dec. 20. epfd.
NINE SHARES in the
Manchester Turnpike Also—Virginia Land Warrants, at a very reduced price. The highest price will be given for Military and United States Land Warrants. T. N. Dec. 23. tf.
THE SUBSCRIBERS,
Having taken a House a few doors below the Bell-Tavern, offers For Sale, under the firm of WHITE & SHELTON, A GENERAL assortment of GROCERIES, which they will dispose of on very moderate terms, for Cash, Country produce, or approved paper. ISAAC WHITE, JOHN S. SHELTON. December 23. epf.
FENCING.
THIS ELEGANT ACCOMPLISHMENT, —Taught By— G. L. BARRETT, OF THE THEATRE. December 20.
SELLING OFF CHEAP.
M. & B. Meyers, intending to decline the retail business, offer for sale, at reduced prices, the whole or any part of their present stock of DRY GOODS, Consisting of a variety of useful and fashionable articles—to wit:
IRISH LINENS, Flanders Sheetings, Oznaburgs, Hems, Long-lawns, Linen and Cotton Cambricks, Superfine and second Broad Cloth, and Kersymeres, Blankets, Coatings and Flannels, Bennet's and Fancy cords and Velvets, Swansdown and Molekins, Rich figured Satins, Silver-Muffs, Sarcenets; Italian Lutestrings, Cotton and Silk Chambrays of very handsome patterns. A few excellent silk Pelisses, Gloves and Hosiery, elegant Plumes, wreaths and fancy Head Ornament, a variety of handsome Ribbons, Table Cloths and Napkins in sets, 3-4, 7-4 & 10-4 Diapers. A few sets of China in boxes of 40 pieces. Sets of Cut Glass Decanters, Wine and Tumblers, glass Bolas, specia-bottles, Hall Lamps, &c. &c. Those who buy with cash, will be allowed a very liberal Discount, which will be increased according to the augmentation of the amount of their purchase at any one time. On any sums of consequence, a credit if required, will be given of three to six months—The purchaser giving approved negotiable paper. For sale, also, as usual, a complete assortment of Dutch Bolting-Cloths. Dec. 11. epf.
BELL TAVERN!!
THE Subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has taken the house in Manchester, formerly called the Rising-Sun-Tavern, and occupied by Mrs. Leath, and having furnished himself with good Beds and the best of Liquors, Grain, &c. He flatters himself from paying particular attention, he will be able to give general satisfaction. ROBERT McTYRE.
FOR SALE,
N. B. A Waggon and six Mules, a good Riding-Horse, and a Jack of good flock—for sale. R. M. Manchester, Dec. 2. tf.
WANTED immediately,
ten ton of clean Merchableant Hemp, for which a liberal price will be given in cash. PROSSER & MONCURE. Dec. 20. epf.
THE Subscriber adopts this mode of informing his
friends, that he intends to practise LAW in the District Chancery Court of Williamsburg. CARTER BRAXTON. King & Queen, Dec. 20. tf.
THE Subscriber, having disposed of his Apothecary
establishment, requests that all persons indebted to him, will call and settle their accounts. D. WILSON. (ref.) November 21.
JAMES STRATTEN,
Taylor and Hair Maker, from PHILADELPHIA, BEGS leave to inform the gentlemen and ladies of Richmond and the country, that he intends carrying on the above business in all its various branches; being well acquainted with the newest fashions, he hopes from punctuality and address to business, to deserve a little of their patronage, as nothing shall be wanting on his part to render satisfaction to customers; and for neat workmanship, he pledges himself to have it done in the neatest manner. JAMES STRATTEN, N. B. His residence is on the Main-Street Richmond, next door to David Logans. Oct. 17. 2awtf.
ALL persons having claims against the estate
of John Hoomes, dec'd. of the Bowling-Green, are requested to make them known, that provision may be made for a final settlement.—And those indebted must make immediate payment to JOHN HOOMES, and JOHN G. WOOLFOLK, Executors of John Hoomes, dec'd. Jan. 28, 1806. tf.
A GREAT Bargain offered in 795 acres of
LAND, lying in King & Queen county, one 8 1/2 miles from York River, and bounded by Poplarhurst Creek, the Lands of captain William Shackelford and Zachariah Shackelford. This land is level, fertile and well timbered, with tolerable good buildings and excellent water.—The abundance of fish and oysters at the very spot, may also be mentioned as a great inducement to any person willing to purchase. This Land may be had low for cash, or good bonds at short payment. For further particulars apply to John H. Smith, or to the subscriber JOHN TEMPLE. Walkerton, September 26. tf.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE subscriber is very desirous of taking in WRITING of any kind during the winter evenings. JOSEPH JACKSON. N. B. A few very handsome LOMBARDY POPLAR TREES for sale, at his place of residence, on hocke-hill. December 13. tm.
Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, Dec. 19.
Mr. Stanton offered a resolution, to which the House agreed, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to lay before the House a statement exhibiting the amount of the direct tax paid by the respective states, together with the amounts remaining due.
Mr. Kelly presented the petition of — H. Gerfetz, which was referred to the committee on public lands.
On motion of Mr. J. Clay the petition of Hugh Maxwell and Wm. Lewis, heretofore presented, was referred to Messrs. J. Clay, Jackson and Wadsworth.
On motion of Mr. J. Clay the House concurred in the resolution of the Senate for the appointment of a joint committee to superintend the expenditure of the money appropriated for the support of the library, and appointed Messrs. J. Clay, T. M. Randolph, and Dana, a committee on their part.
The Senate have appointed on their part Messrs. Adams, Baldwin and Mitchell.
On motion of Mr. Smilie the petition of Oliver Evans, heretofore presented, was referred to the committee appointed on sundry petitions for the extension of the periods of patent rights.
Mr. Holmes presented a petition from a number of inhabitants in Augusta, Virginia, praying for a change in the course of the mail, which was referred to the Post-Office committee.
Mr. Dawson presented a petition from Samuel Davidson and others, praying provision to be made for a legal division of their lots, which was referred to Messrs. Dawson, Magruder and Van Rensselaer.
Mr. Darby presented a bill to incorporate the trustees of the Baptist Church in the city of Washington, which was made the order of the day for Monday next.
Mr. Holmes from the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Benjamin Sadler, made a report adverse thereto, in which the House concurred.
Mr. Crowninshield offered the following resolution
Resolved, That the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures be instructed to inquire into the expediency of erecting buoys and beacons on or near the rocks and shoals in the passages leading to Salem harbor, in the state of Massachusetts.
Mr. C stated that Salem carried on an extensive commerce—that the harbor was difficult of access, and there were many dangerous rocks and shoals laying near it, upon which vessels had frequently been stranded; at present there were no beacons or buoys erected there, and he thought Salem had as strong claims as any port in the union.
The House agreed to the resolution.
On motion of Mr. Jer. Morrow, Resolved, That the committee on the public lands be directed to enquire into the expediency of making further provision for the sale of the sections heretofore reserved for the future disposition of Congress, and that they report by bill or otherwise.
On motion of Mr. Southward, the petition of Jona. Snowden, heretofore presented, was referred to the Committee of Claims.
Mr. Crowninshield presented a petition from sundry inhabitants of New Bedford and Nantucket, which was referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
On motion of Mr. Jackson, Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be directed to enquire into the expediency of repealing so much of the act of Congress of the 23d of March, 1804, as limits the time in which the location of Virginia military warrants shall be made.
FRIDAY, Dec. 20.
On motion of Clinton, the petition of Isaac Clason, and the report of the Committee of Claims made the last session, were referred to the Committee of Claims.
On motion of Mr. Smilie, the petition of Nathaniel Irish, heretofore presented, was referred to the Committee of Claims.
Mr. Boyle, from the committee on public lands, presented a bill to revive and continue in force, an act, entitled, an act for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Canada & Nova-Scotia, which was referred to a Committee of the whole House on Monday.
On motion of Mr. Boyle, the Committee on public lands were discharged from the further consideration of the petition of Wm. McCarty, which was referred to the Committee of Claims.
On motion of Mr. Wickes, the memorial of N. Ledyard was referred to the committee on claims barred by the statutes of limitation.
Mr. Early, from the committee to whom was recommitted the bill prohibiting the importation of slaves into the U. S. presented a new bill, which was referred to a committee of the whole House on Monday.
On motion of Mr. Bidwell, the consideration of the bill "to revive and make permanent an act to prescribe the mode of taking evidence in cases of contested elections for members of the House of Representatives of the U. S. and to compel the attendance of witnesses, and in addition to the same"—was resumed in committee of the whole—Mr. BASSETT in the chair—
Mr. J. Clay offered two new sections, in conformity with the intimation made by him when the bill was before under consideration, the purport of which was—
1. To provide that the magistrate before whom an election was held should be empowered to examine on oath any person, voting without being qualified, for whom he voted, and directed him to transmit such examination to the clerk of the House of Representatives.
2. Inhibiting any court before whom a criminal prosecution, or action of debt shall be instituted, from receiving the contents of such examination in evidence.
On these provisions a debate of some length arose. Messrs. J. Clay, Elliot, Smilie and Findlay supported, and Messrs. Varium, Bidwell & Sloan opposed the amendments.
By the former gentlemen it was observed that the provisions submitted were offered for the purpose of preserving sacred the right of election; that under the existing provisions of law,
it was frequently necessary, in the case of a number of bad votes being given, either to confine the returns, where there was great appearance of fraud, or to set aside the election altogether, and to order a new one. This was a great grievance that loudly called for redress, if any means could be devised for affording it. It was added that a similar provision had been adopted in the state of Pennsylvania, and had been carried into effect without inconvenience; and that even if it should be acknowledged that it would be attended with some inconveniences, it did not follow that it was not freer from objection than any other provision which could be devised.
On the other hand it was contended, that the right of ballot was justly considered sacred, and that whatever tended to impair it, ought to be resisted; that in this instance, although nominally the power given to the magistrate only applied to persons not legally qualified to vote, it usually gave him the right of determining who were, or were not so qualified. On this point the magistrate was liable to misjudgement, and might consequently compel a qualified voter to declare for whom he voted, and thus destroy the secrecy of the ballot. Nor was it uncharitable to suppose, that in addition to the mistakes of the magistrate, party spirit might in some instances carry him beyond the bounds of propriety. It was besides a strong objection to the proposed provision, that it made the issue of an election depend on the oaths of persons who had previously committed a fraud by giving illegal votes.
After this discussion the committee, without coming to any decision, rose and asked leave to sit again, which was refused, and the bill recommitted to Messrs. Bidwell, Halsey, Smith of Pen. Smith of Virg. Pitkin, R. Nelson and M'Farland.
Mr. Crowninshield, from the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, made a report on the petitions of sundry inhabitants of Philadelphia and Baltimore, praying for a drawback of duties on refined sugar exported.
The report states that the subject was fully examined by the committee in the last Congress, to which report they refer for their reasons against granting the prayer of the petitioners, concluding with a resolution, declaring it inexpedient to grant the prayer of the petitioners.
Referred to a committee of the whole on Tuesday.
Mr. Crowninshield then moved the following resolution
Resolved, That it is expedient to reduce the duties on foreign refined sugar, and sugar candy from and after the day of the next, and that all restrictions at present imposed on the importation and exportation of refined sugar be removed.
Mr. Crowninshield remarked that the duties at present paid on the importation of these articles were exceedingly high, and operated as a monopoly to domestic sugar refiners. He was opposed to any such monopoly, and to such exorbitant duties. His object was to call the attention of the House to the subject—for which purpose he moved the reference of his resolution to the same committee with that to which the report had been referred, in which motion the House concurred.
Mr. Chandler presented a petition from several collectors of customs in Maine, praying for an increase of their emoluments, which was referred to the committee of Ways and Means.
Mr. Dawson presented a petition from Gresham, which was referred to the Committee of Claims.
Mr. R. Nelson presented a petition from sundry inhabitants of Maryland and Pennsylvania, praying for a new post road, which was referred to the post office committee.
The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole—Mr. MASTERS in the chair—on the bill to change the name of the district of Nanjemoy to that of St. Mary's.
After a short consideration of the bill, the committee rose, reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again.
West-Indies.
TRINIDAD.

cess of which will depend the expediency of extending the project to its utmost practicable limits; and as that success to which his majesty's ministers attach very great importance, as a national concern, will depend much on the impression that will be made on the individuals who compose the present party, it is a duty incumbent on this government to co-operate in every measure calculated to facilitate this important object, and it is thus publicly enjoined to all classes and descriptions of persons within this government, to conduct themselves towards these new settlers with kindness, so as to conciliate their good opinion, and reconcile them to their new abode, whence will ensue their favorable report to their friends, by the return of the ship to Bengal, and promote future migrations, which in course of time, will produce the most important advantages to the colony.
His excellency and the council have thought proper to lay before the public this candid statement of the origin of the plan, and the intention of its application; and they trust, that all his majesty's subjects will afford their cordial co-operation and assistance to the views of government, so manifestly directed to their interest. Proper regulations will be formed for their police, they will, however, be subject to the existing laws in all cases, civil and criminal, in common with the rest of the community; but it has been deemed expedient to order and direct, and it is accordingly hereby ordered and directed, that in all causes of dispute or litigation between Chinaman and Chinaman, or between them and others of every class or description of the inhabitants, the judge, magistrate, or commandant before whom such dispute or litigation shall be carried, shall immediately remit the same to cognizance of his excellency, with a summary report, who will administer justice according to the nature of the case, assisted by the head men and interpreters of the Chinamen, that they may see impartial justice is done, and that punishment is not inflicted without proper cause.
The taking up portions of land for immediate cultivation, or hiring themselves out as laborers, having been submitted to their choice, they preferred the latter for the present, to acquire a knowledge of the soil, and the various productions of the country, before they establish themselves as proprietors. His excellency and the council are accordingly ready to agree with such planters as may be inclined to employ them, for a term of six months at least, at the monthly wages that may be agreed on, which shall not be less than six dollars.
And as it is represented that these people are very scrupulous of performing whatever agreement they make, and of having it as strictly observed by the party with whom they contract, it has been deemed expedient by his excellency and council that all the bargains between the Chinamen and their employers shall be specified in writings, signed by the parties, in presence of his excellency or of two members of the council, and to be recorded in a book to be kept by the clerk of the council for that purpose only, the expense of which enrolment shall be defrayed by the employer.
It is also to be premised in the agreement that good and sufficient lodging shall be furnished them, proper care and medical assistance in case of sickness, and a regular allowance of wholesome food, especially of rice, which is an indispensable article of their subsistence, and must be furnished them, together with meat and fish, in such quantity daily, or weekly, as shall be specified in the contract; and the better to enable the planters to supply them with this necessary article of their food, a quantity adequate to furnish them an allowance at the rate of 2 lbs. per man per diem, for the term of their agreement, will be sold them by government at the current market price, from the surplus rice remaining of the provisions laid in at Calcutta for the voyage.
The wages earned on all occasions by the Chinamen, must be contracted to be paid in gold and silver money, and not in produce, unless the Chinamen should consent to take produce at cash price, and in all dealings or bargains it is particularly recommended that they be treated fairly and equitably, so as not to occasion murmur or discontent, which would tend to defeat the intentions of government, and frustrate the plan which it appears to have so much at heart, in promoting the establishment of this valuable description of settlers in the island.
Given under our hand and seal at arms, at government-house, Port d'Espegn, in the said island, the 18th day of October, 1806, and in the 47th year of his majesty's reign.
THOMAS HISLOP. By his excellency's command, T. WALKER, acting secretary.
IMPORTANT. Buenos Ayres retaken.—Mr. Hall, a passenger in the brig Adeline, captain Wickham, 18 days from Havana, has sent us from Graveled Bay, the following important intelligence: "Two or three days previous to the falling of the Adeline, news was received from Panama, stating, that accounts had just been received there (the 20th of October) of the recapture of Buenos-Ayres, on the 8th of August, by a naval commander, named Don St. Jago Le Nair, at the head of 1500 troops, and 3 or 400 hundred volunteers; that they had killed about 500 and took about 1000 Englishmen prisoners, including in the latter commander KIRKBY, and a number of officers. The Spanish troops were from Montevideo, and were carried over the river about 24 miles N. W. of Buenos-Ayres, to the river Conchas, in launches and small vessels. It appeared to have been an enterprise of Le Nair and his followers unknown to the Spanish government. P. S. The accounts received at the Havana make no mention of the English shipping."
[Evening Post] REMARKS.
This report would appear to be rather extravagant. In the first place, as to the very circumstantial manner in which the news has come. It comes from Panama to Havana—from Havana to New-York. Buenos-Ayres lies in lat. 34, 35, S. long. 58, 26, W. Panama which is on the other side of the continent, and which lies on the Pacific ocean, is in lat. 8, 48, N. long. 80, 15, W. Supposing a straight line to be struck, and not calculating for winding, the distance from Buenos-Ayres to Panama would be 2593 miles! Then from Panama to Havana, which latter place is in lat. 23, 13, N. long. 82, 13, W. the distance is at least 1000 miles more, in a straight line. The news must have gone from Buenos-Ayres to Panama by land, and must have taken at least a month, for every body knows the inconvenience of travelling through that country. Then from Panama to Havana—and then from the Havana to this place. Now, several vessels from Buenos-Ayres have been spoken at sea within eight weeks past, who did not relate any thing of this extraordinary intelligence.
People's Friend.
The following resolution was reported and adopted in the house of assembly of Jamaica on the 22nd October last: "That it be recommended to the house to appoint a select committee to enquire into the proceedings which have lately taken place in the parliament of the united kingdom of G. Britain and Ireland, for an abolition of the slave trade; and if on such an enquiry, it shall appear expedient, that the committee do prepare an humble representation and petition to our most gracious sovereign setting forth the inevitable calamities which will be brought upon this country by cutting off or abridging the supply of laborers, on the faith of which this island has been settled; and praying his majesty's paternal intervention to maintain and protect by his royal power and authority, his faithful subjects, the inhabitants of this colony to the enjoyment of their established birth-right, as held and transmitted to them by their ancestors."
EUROPE.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 20.
FROM LEGHORN.—A gentleman who arrived here yesterday from Leghorn, gives the following sketch of political affairs in Italy: "Malfena had passed Monteleone, and Verdier was at Catanzaro. It was expected that the advanced guard of the French army had arrived at Reggio."
"The French had passed the Turkish dominions and entered Ragusa with 6000 men: Gen. Lauriston had arrived by water in a small vessel."
"The Montenegrins had retired with the booty they had collected, and refused to join the Russians again. The latter had been repulsed in their attack of a fort near the Boca di Cattaro with the loss of 600 men. Admiral Senaren was still off Cattaro, and had twice refused to give it up. The Russian army had retired to that vicinity. French troops from the Black sea were daily expected at the Seven Islands."
"Sir Sidney Smith has returned to Messina, with the Chiefs of the Calabrians. Marshal Jordan had returned to Paris. 600 Polacks had arrived at Capria: and of the 18,000 men ordered for Naples, only 5000 were permitted to go. In Naples executions were very common, and scarcely a day passed without five or six persons being put to death; which induced several of the first families there to go to Rome."
"A battery at Malta had been destroyed by the explosion of a magazine. This accident happened during a parade, and 600 persons lost their lives—chiefly soldiers. Part of the town was damaged, and much property destroyed."
LONDON, Nov. 19.
Now that the hopes of peace are for the present at an end, Ministers have resolved to take the sense of the country on their conduct. His Majesty's pleasure has been taken on the measure, and it is resolved that the present Parliament shall be dissolved immediately.—The new writ will be issued about the 22nd instant.
The Gov. of Leghorn, &c. has given information, that in consequence of the representations made to the Imperial Government at Paris, from the Government of Italy, the following decree has been issued: —1st. All English produce of the first necessity shall be permitted to be freely imported. 2d. Provisions of all kinds. 3d. Raw materials necessary to our manufactures, will enjoy the same privilege. 4th. English goods shipped at a port, in which the aforesaid law (prohibiting the importation of British produce, &c.) might not be in force, and if its existence here was not known, will be admitted, provided they may not be English manufactures. 6th. In case of their being English manufactures, they may be landed in the king's ware-house for exportation.
From London papers to the 27th of October. The following was received by the Hamburg mail:
BERLIN, Oct. 14. Prince Louis of Prussia is no more; he died like a hero; he lost his life on the 11th, at the passage of the Oria, by two bullets, aimed at the star of his order. His sword has been brought to the king, but his body is in the possession of the French. His brother, prince Augustus, has sent to demand it of them, but it is not known whether they will give it up. Prince Hohenlohe having sent him word to hold out as long as he could, he fought for 6 hours against more than 20,000 French, tho' he had but 6000 men. The Prussians lost 1500 men in this affair. The loss of the French, it is said, is more considerable. The soldiers are in despair at having lost their prince, and will fight with fury in the next action. It is believed there was a general engagement yesterday; if there was, it was doubtful a bloody one, for the Prussians are exasperated to the utmost.
Another letter—same date. The action in which prince Louis fell, took place between Rudolstadt and Saalfeld. He had orders to defend this bridge, but not to attack, as the prince of Hohenlohe intended to turn the enemy. Prince Louis did not wait, but made the attack. He received a musket-ball through his heart. Count Nollitz, one of his three adjutants, saw him ready to fall from his horse, and hastened to him, when he received a second ball, and immediately fell to the ground. He breathed with difficulty for about a minute, and then expired. Count Nollitz alighted from his horse, and endeavoured to defend the body, fighting like a hero, but was severely wounded, and is now at Weimar.
At the departure of the Elisabeth, which has arrived here from the army, a great battle was hourly expected. The late prince Louis was the son of prince Augustus Ferdinand, the brother of Frederick the Great. He was born November 18, 1772, and was also lieutenant-general in the army.
BRAUNSWICK, Oct. 14. Hostilities between France and Prussia began on the 10th and 11th, by an action which took place in the environs of Schleiz. Though the accounts we have received are contradictory, they agree, however in stating that the Prussians, by the brisk attack of the enemy, at first lost some men, and their brave general, prince Louis; but afterwards the corps of prince Hohenlohe gained a signal advantage over that of marshal Bernadotte. The French appear to have intended to penetrate through the Prussian army, and
We have seen a letter from an officer on board the Pompee, dated Messina, 12th Sept. which enables us to state, the reports that ascribed to the British arms another victory over the French in Calabria, on the 20th Augst. are erroneous. It appears, that to the 14th Sept. no fresh debarkation of our troops had been effected on the Continent. Our correspondent mentions that an expedition was then preparing at Messina, and that some of the corps were on shipboard; but adds, that the object in view was rather to alarm the coast and embarrass the enemy, than to effect a permanent footing in the country. We are in the belief that at the date of this letter, there were not any British troops in Calabria; and that, so far from the Cambre having obtained a decisive victory over the French, they are not in a condition to take the field as an army; in small detached corps, they may harass the enemy, interrupt his supplies, and cut off any weak parties that may venture from the main body, but we are not warranted in anticipating
ting from their operations, any result of more importance.
Domestic.
FROM THE AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Remarks on the political and military affairs of Europe.
The battles which decided the fate of the king of Prussia and his government, began on the 9th of October and ended on the 17th of that month; but the final event, that of the total overthrow of the Prussian army of 150,000 men on the 14th, was not known in England till the 26th or 27th of October.—The first public notice of it is in a London paper of the 27th Oct. The article in the London paper of the 27th, which announces this event, begins as follows: "LONDON, October 27. It is with very great concern that we are obliged to check the pleasing expectations that were entertained "yesterday of the success of the Prussian army."
The manifesto and declaration of the English government on the failure of the negotiation for peace with France, and which throws all the blame of that failure on the French government, was published in the London Gazette (the official paper of the English government) on the 21st of October, five or six days before that government knew of the overthrow of the Prussians. Query. Would the English government have published that manifesto had it been kept back till after the overthrow of the Prussians was known? I think not, unless it be true which fanatics have formerly said, that "the whole world intends to destroy the best renders mad."
It is a saying often verified by experience, that "one fly is good until another is told." In a little time we shall have the manifesto of the French government, and then by comparing the two with each other and with such circumstances as are known, which is the only true way of interpreting manifestoes, we shall be enabled to form some judgement of the whole.
But as far as circumstances are already known, Bonaparte has done exactly what I would have done myself, with respect to the present war, had I been in his place, which, thank God, I am not. Why are coalitions continually formed and forming against him, against the French nation, and the French government? Or, why does the government of England oppress and empoverish the people it governs, by loading them with the burdensome expense of paying those coalitions? It is they who pay, and I pity them sincerely.
The opponents of Bonaparte say, "he is a usurper." The case is, that all the kings in Europe are usurpers, and as to an hereditary government it is a succession of usurpers. The present hereditary government of England is derived from the usurper William of Normandy, who conquered England and usurped the government. If there is any man at all that is less a usurper than the rest, it is Bonaparte, for he was elected by the French nation to the rank and title he now holds.—The others assumed it by the sword, or succeeded in consequence of the first usurpation.
As to the coalitions against France, it is impossible in the nature of things they can succeed, while the French government conducts itself with the energy and activity it now does. The English government may amuse itself with forming coalitions, as long and as often as it pleases, but they will come to the same fatal end. For in the first place, there is no single power on the continent of Europe that is able to stand against France until a coalition army, coming in detachments from different and distant parts of Europe can be collected and formed. And in the second place, those distant detachments of an intended coalition army cannot be put in march for the purpose of assembling some where in Germany without its being known to the French government. The case therefore will always be that as soon as the French government knows that those distant parts are in motion, the French army with Bonaparte at its head, will march and attack the first part of the coalition army he can come up with and overthrow it. Last year that part was Austria. This year it is Prussia. The English government may vote coalition armies in the cabinet, but Bonaparte can always prevent them in the field. This is a matter so very obvious to any man who knows the scene of Europe, and can calculate the probability of events, that a cabinet must be sunk in ignorance and stupidity not to see it, and thus it is that the lives of unoffending men are sported away.
As to the late negotiations for peace between England and France, I view it as a trick of war on both sides, and the contest was which could outwit the other. The British manifesto says: "The negotiation originated in an offer made by the French government of treating for peace on the basis of actual possession." Well! be it so; it makes the matter neither better nor worse; for the fact is, though the British manifesto says nothing about it, that the British cabinet had planned and was forming this coalition army of Prussians, Russians, and Swedes, several months before that offer was made, and the French government had the knowledge of it, for it is impossible to keep such things a dead secret. The French government, therefore, having at least, what may be called suspicious knowledge of this coalition intrigue, made the offer, to find out the whole of that intrigue, that it might be prepared against it. And on the other hand, the British cabinet closed with the offer and went into the negotiation to give time to the Russians and Swedes to march and join the Prussians while the comedy of negotiation was going on.
But the Corsican usurper, as they call him, has been too quick for them. He has outwitted the coalition usurpers. The fallen king of Prussia has to deplore his fate, and the British cabinet to dread the consequences.
In speaking of these circumstances it ought always to be remembered that the British government began this war. It had concluded a treaty of peace with France called the treaty of Amiens, and soon after declared war again to avoid fulfilling the conditions of that treaty. It will not be able to conclude another treaty so good as the treaty it has broken and most probably no treaty at all. That government must now abide by its fate for it can raise no more coalitions. There do not remain powers on the continent of Europe to form another. The last that has been raised has been tried and has perished.
THOMAS PAINE. New-York, December 14, 1806.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18. It is now very generally believed, that our ministers in London have satisfactorily adjusted all the points of difference and complaint against Great-Britain; excepting only that which relates to impressments from on board American vessels. Some difficulties, in retrenching this practice, had occurred; but it was confidently believed, that these would soon be removed. Phil. Gaz.
We are requested to state, that at the time of the capture of the ship Titus, by a British cruiser, she was not within the waters or jurisdiction of the United States, being distant from land upwards of 10 miles. Ib.
The Legislature of this state have postponed the election of a Senator of the U. S. until the 13th of next month. Ib.
LEXINGTON, (Ken.) Nov. 21. From Frankfort we learn that the house of representatives have cited Judge Sebastian to appear before them on Thursday next, to answer to the charge of receiving a pension from the Spanish government.
Extract of a letter from John Gavino, esquire, consul of the United States at Gibraltar, to the secretary of state, dated 4th Oct. 1806.
"The restraint on Tobacco from the United States continues at this port and has overfret several voyages, by which our merchants in America will be considerable sufferers."
NORFOLK, Dec. 19. COMMUNICATION.
The Brig Ann & Frances, Captain Gifford, from Cadiz bound to New-York, with a cargo of Wine and Salt, belonging to Hicks, Jenkins & Co of New-York, was captured on the 26th November on St. Georges Bank, (and ordered for Bermuda) by the Cambrian frigate Captain Beresford. A gentleman who was on board the Ann & Frances, a passenger, was taken on board the Cambrian, and treated very politely; he was detained on board the frigate during the whole time she was lately in Hampton Roads, and put on board a pilot boat the day on which she failed. Ledger.
WASHINGTON, December 24. BURR.
From information received from the westward we are told that Mr. Burr was, in the latter part of November, at Louisville, which is about sixty miles from Frankfort.
We are also informed that three drafts, amounting to 10,000 dollars drawn by Burr, endorsed by Blennerhassett, and accepted by Ogden of New-York, the relation of Dayton, have passed through the hands of Alexander Henry, merchant of Philadelphia. Ogden is stated to be possessed of little property.
We have perused a letter, which among other things states the following:— That some men high in office in Kentucky are concerned in Burr's project. That an offer was made to — of letters of introduction and credit to a member of Congress, who was concerned, by which he would have received advances payable in Kentucky or Orleans. That Burr has his emissaries in Washington, who watch the cabinet, and the cabinet, and give regular information. That in a certain event Burr will come to Washington—the event is represented to be the Executive taking serious measures to stop his enterprise; in which case, it is said he will take this step with the view of drawing the attention of the people and government to himself, while his plans are progressing in the West. Twelve days is the period named "for his probable arrival in Washington."
Burr left Cincinnati from Louisville Nov. 29d. The grand jury were to meet at Frankfort on the first of December.
It will be satisfactory to our readers to know that orders were some time since issued to call out a sufficient body of the militia of the state of Ohio, and the other states and territories on or adjacent to the Ohio river, for the purpose of guarding against any unlawful enterprise that might be attempted.
Extract of a letter, dated Cincinnati, November 24.
"I have been engaged on a long letter to — relative to two boats which passed this on Saturday morning last, loaded with arms, ordinance, and military stores. There were about eighty gentlemen on board, besides hands, who all spoke French. Col. Burr was at Cincinnati when they passed, and set out yesterday for the falls." "Men who had been previously in the company of these boats, represent that— They had a number of arms displayed in one of the apartments of a flat-bottomed boat well fixed off, with fixed bayonets and in fine order. The rest of the muskets were in boxes. The flat boat was about 60 feet, and the keel 80 feet long; both heavy loaded. The keel they could not well see, as it was covered with a tarpoling. They said, on being asked, what those arms were for, that they were private property, and that the boats belonged to Mr. Berthoud of Louisville."
SOUTH CAROLINA.
On the 9th inst. the Legislature of this state proceeded to the election of a Governor, Lieutenant governor and a senator to Congress, when the following gentlemen were duly elected:
Governor—Charles Pinckney, Esq. Lieut. Governor—John Hopkins, Esq. Senator to Congress—John Gaillard.
General Assembly of Virginia.
Extracts from the Journals of the House of Delegates.
Wednesday, December 17, 1806.
An engrossed bill, "Concerning the election of members of the court of hustings and common hall of Fredericksburg," was read a third time, and a blank being therein filled up, it was passed.
An engrossed bill, "To amend the several acts empowering securities to recover damages in a summary way," was read a third time, and a blank being therein filled up, it was passed.
An engrossed bill, "To amend the laws of this commonwealth concerning discounts and offsets," was read a third time and passed.
An engrossed bill, "To amend and explain an act, entitled, an act "To reduce into one all acts and parts of acts respecting county and corporation clerks," was read a third time, and a blank being therein filled up, it was passed.
An engrossed bill, "To amend and explain an act, entitled, an act to reduce into one all acts and parts of acts respecting county and corporation clerks," was read a third time, and a blank being therein filled up, it was passed.
Ordered, That the clerk carry the said bills to the Senate and desire their concurrence.
A petition was presented and read from Samuel Pleasants, jun. of the city of Richmond, stating that he hath at very considerable expense prepared a Second volume of the Laws of the Commonwealth, and praying that certain persons may be named to examine the same whose certificate may authorize the use of the said work as evidence of the statute law of the state; and also stating the terms and conditions of publication should it be the pleasure of the Legislature to have any number of volumes submitted for the use of the public;
Also a petition of a number of the inhabitants of Henrico county, praying for certain alterations in the law relating to mills, mill dams and other obstructions of water courses;—the said petitions were referred to the committee for courts of justice.
A petition from a number of the inhabitants of Peterburg, praying the passage of a law authorizing a cross street to be run in the said town;
Also, a petition of Francis I. Taylor and Moses Myers, of the borough of Norfolk, praying the passage of a law authorizing the extension of a street in the said borough, called South street, to the channel of Elizabeth river;
Also, a petition from a number of the inhabitants of said borough, praying the passage of a law authorizing the court of said borough to let out the ferries from the borough;—the said petitions were referred to the committee of propositions and grievances.
Thursday, Dec. 18, 1806.
Mr. Baker presented from the committee for courts of justice,
A bill, "Providing for the payment of the fees of Norfolk borough;"
A bill, "Authorizing the erection of flood gates across the Back creek in Norfolk borough;" and
A bill, "Authorizing the appointment of a mathematical surveyor for the borough of Norfolk;" which were severally received and read a first time and ordered to be read a second time.
Mr. Gholson presented, according to order, a bill, "To amend an act, entitled, an act, to amend the several laws concerning slaves;" which was received and read the first time and ordered to be read a second time. Ayes 41—Nays 7.
A petition was received from a number of the inhabitants of Norfolk county in opposition to a petition from the borough of Norfolk, heretofore referred to the committee of propositions and grievances, praying that the court of said borough may be authorized to keep a ferry from the said borough across Elizabeth river; and,
A petition was presented and read from Christian Gilliam, Mary Eppes and Archibald Eppes, of Prince George county, praying that they may be authorized to erect a warehouse for the inspection of tobacco on their lands at City Point in the said county.—The said petitions were referred to the committee of propositions and grievances.
The following petitions were received and ordered to be laid upon the table, viz.
A petition of Andrew Lewis; a petition from a number of the inhabitants of Norfolk county; a petition of John Williamson and Elijah Frankhouse; a memorial of tobacco at Roanoke; a petition of William Clarke; a petition of George Cattet; a petition of the members of the German Lutheran Church and other inhabitants of London county; a petition of Richard Kelkie; a petition of the town of Portsmouth; a petition of Thomas Woodlie; a petition of the inhabitants of Powhatan; a petition of Richard Marshall Scott, attorney in fact for Robert Briscoe; a petition of Gabriel L. Huber; a petition of Nicholas Wills; a memorial of a number of the inhabitants of Ohio county, in opposition to the last petition; a petition of John Nuzam; a petition of Sarah Boyce; and a petition of James Browne.
Friday Dec. 19.
A communication from the Senate by their clerk,
The Senate have passed the bill "Concerning the attendance of witnesses in the courts," with an amendment, to which they request the concurrence of the House of Delegates.
They have also agreed to a resolution communicating to the House of Delegates the report and resolutions of the committee, appointed on the part of the Senate, to examine the subject embraced by the said report and resolutions.
The house proceeded to consider the amendment to the said bill, and the same being twice read, was on the question put thereupon, agreed to by the house.
Ordered, That the clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.
The house then proceeded to consider the additional communication of the Senate, which was read, and is in the following words:
In Senate, December 18, 1806.
The house proceeded to consider the resolution laid yesterday upon the table, for communicating to the House of Delegates the report and resolutions of the committee appointed on the part of this house to examine the Treasurer's account.—And the same being read and amended, was on the question being put thereupon, agreed to by the house as follows:
Report and resolutions of the committee of the Senate appointed to examine the Treasurer's account.
The Committee appointed by the Senate to examine the Treasurer's accounts convened in his office to perform that duty; but, to their great surprise, found that the vouchers and documents, without which no satisfactory investigation could be made, had been destroyed by the committee of the House of Delegates, who had acted on the subject. They have therefore been unable to obey the order of the Senate, unless they had been disposed to examine a mere statement of accounts, which, in part, must unavoidably have been unsupported by evidence.
This procedure of the committee of the House of Delegates does not appear to be justified by any practice of the government as heretofore used; but, in the opinion of this committee, is in violation of the existing laws of the state, and totally incompatible with that respect, which is due from each branch of the legislature to the other, and in direct hostility with the rights appertaining to the Senate.
That the House of Delegates hath the right to appoint a committee to examine into any of the accounts of the Treasurer, concerning which information may be required, need not now be denied; nor is it deemed necessary to notice the difference between the terms by which the committee on the part of the House of Delegates were appointed to examine the Treasurer's accounts this year, and the terms heretofore used. It is more important to inquire by what authority a committee of that House alone could be justified in destroying the vouchers and documents, which belong to the Treasurer's office, by which only he could support his accounts, and without which it becomes impossible for him to exhibit and justify to the General Assembly, a true statement of his accounts, which by law he is bound to do.
The act of the General Assembly of 1785, re-enacted in 1792, and now in force, entitled, "An act to reduce into one the several acts concerning the Auditor and Treasurer;" prescribes, "that the Treasurer, in books provided at the public expense, shall state the accounts of money by him received for public taxes, and impositions, and paid in pursuance of acts and votes of the General Assembly, in such a manner, that the net produce of the whole revenue, as well as of every branch thereof, and the amount of disbursements in discharge of the several demands, may distinctly appear; and lay the said taxes from time to time and all his other transactions before the Gen. Assembly; And if he divert or misapply any of the public treasure, being convicted thereof, upon such prosecution, as is before prescribed, be shall not only be adjudged to pay double the money so found to be diverted or misapplied, to the use of the commonwealth."

shall thereby be rendered incapable of any office or public trust."—By this law it is evidently seen to be the duty of the Treasurer to lay his accounts and all his other transactions before the General Assembly. For what purpose? That they may see "if he divert or misapply any of the public treasure"—How is this to be determined? By an examination and comparison of his vouchers and documents with the statement of his accounts. But how can this now be done by the General Assembly, since a committee from the House of Delegates has destroyed those vouchers and documents?
It has always been the duty of the Treasury department to keep regular and distinct accounts of receipts and disbursements to be submitted to the inspection and examination of the General Assembly. And it appears that the early practice of the government, commencing in 1776, in relation to the subject of examining the Treasurer's accounts, and thereafter destroying the vouchers, was to appoint, by act of the General Assembly, a special committee for that purpose, with instructions to destroy particular specified vouchers, and to give the Treasurer a certificate thereof. This method was continued until 1780, at which time the practice of examining the Treasurer's accounts, and destroying his vouchers by joint committees of both Houses commenced, and hath been used ever since until this year. Thus, before the passage of the aforesaid act of 1785, which repeals all other laws on the subject, and subsequent to the time when a standing committee was raised by law for the purpose already noticed, from the year 1780 to 1785, the House of Delegates, in appointing a committee to examine the Treasurer's accounts, accompanied it with an order, "that a message be sent to the Senate to inform them that this House have appointed a committee to examine the Treasurer's accounts—that, if they please to appoint a committee of their house, for the same purpose, both committees may proceed in the business together;" and the like conduct was observed by the House of Delegates in 1786 & 1787, and, in all succeeding time, the same course hath been essentially observed until this year. And although no authority is given by the act of 1785 to destroy the vouchers of the Treasurer, yet it hath usually been done in the presence of, and by, the joint committee of both houses, who represented the General Assembly in the examination of his accounts: And the chairman of the committee of each house, pursuant, as it is supposed, the practice of the old standing committee, signed a receipt for the vouchers destroyed, which was held as the Treasurer's justification. A report of this joint examination and destruction of vouchers was made to each House, accompanied with a statement of the Treasurer's accounts; and this report, being approved, the House of Delegates resolved, "that the Treasurer's accounts do pass"—and a message was, by that house sent to the Senate to desire their concurrence. This notice of the manner in which the Treasurer's accounts have heretofore been examined is taken, not to prove that either House of the General Assembly may not appoint a committee to examine the Treasurer's accounts without acting with the other; but to show that neither hath the right to destroy the vouchers before the other hath examined and approved them. For the General Assembly cannot know that the Treasurer hath not "diverted or misapplied any of the public treasure," when no vouchers can be produced to one of the Houses thereof, to support and justify a statement of the accounts, which he offers to lay before it. But the act which passed the 28th of January, 1802, entitled, "An act for calling in and registering certificates of the public debt of this state," places this subject in a still stronger point of view, if indeed any thing further were wanting to show the thoughtless conduct of the committee of the House of Delegates. This act declares that owners and holders of certificates of the public debt shall deposit them with the Treasurer, who shall give a receipt therefor, specifying the amount, distinguishing principal from interest, before the Auditor shall issue a new certificate for the principal and a warrant for the interest—that all certificates of debts due from this commonwealth upon which interest is allowed by law shall be receivable in discharge of arrears of public taxes due prior to the year 1798—and further that "the Treasurer of this commonwealth shall keep in a book or books well bound, a register of all certificates alphabetically arranged, for the principal as aforesaid, and of such others as from time to time shall be paid in discharge of taxes or otherwise redeemed, and shall also carefully file and preserve the original certificates deposited with him by virtue of this act, and all others which may be redeemed, so that the same may be inspected by the succeeding General Assembly." This act gives no direction for the destruction of the original certificates, yet the committee of the House of Delegates hath destroyed the original certificates, which had been registered, before they had been inspected by the General Assembly, although the law positively directs that they shall "be carefully filed and preserved" by the Treasurer, "so that the same may be inspected by the General Assembly." By what course of reasoning can the conduct of that committee be justified? Could they mistake themselves for the General Assembly? Was their conduct the effect of a negligent inattention to the course which had heretofore been observed upon similar occasions? Was it the result of a designed disrespect to the Senate? Will the House of Delegates sanction such conduct? However these questions may be answered, the committee are of opinion that the Treasurer would have acted consistently with his duty if he had refused to allow that committee to destroy his vouchers. And this committee, to whom the Treasurer could produce no vouchers to justify the statement of his accounts, which he offered to exhibit, refused on their part to sign the usual certificate, without which, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate, the Treasurer's accounts cannot be said to have received the sanction of the General Assembly.
Resolved, therefore, as the opinion of this committee, that the conduct of the committee of the House of Delegates, in destroying the vouchers and documents of the Treasurer's office, relative to the statement of his accounts, designed to be laid before the General Assembly cannot be justified: and if allowed and approved by the House of Delegates, will have a direct tendency to destroy that harmony which ought to subsist and be cherished between the two houses of the legislature.
Resolved, also, as the opinion of this committee, that the Treasurer, by the conduct of the aforesaid committee of the House of Delegates was misled into a breach of his duty in not withholding, from the destruction of the committee of the House of Delegates, the vouchers and documents relative to the accounts of his office, a statement of which he is bound to lay before the General Assembly, before they had been inspected and examined by the committee of the Senate.
December 16, 1806.—Agreed to by the Senate. THEO. HANSFORD, C. S.
On motion, Ordered, That the said communication be laid upon the table.
The committee of propositions and grievances, reported in favor of the petition of sundry inhabitants of the town of Manchester and its vicinity, praying that a law may pass incorporating a company for the purpose of improving the navigation of James river adjoining the falls, on the Chesterfield shore.
A motion was made to reject this resolution, and lost. Ordered, that a bill be brought in.
The committee for courts of justice reported in favor of sundry inhabitants of Norfolk borough and its vicinity, setting forth that the northern boundary line of the said borough has not been run agreeably to the act passed relative thereto, in the year 1761; and praying that the said line may be now run and ascertained according to the meaning of the said act.—as also in favor of the petition of sundry inhabitants of the town of Petersburg, praying that an act may pass for organizing in the manner therein mentioned, the militia in the said town.—Resolutions agreed to.
A bill was ordered to be brought in, to disinherit Daniel Rose from his wife.
The committee for courts of justice made the following report:
1. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that so much of the petition of the Little river turnpike company, as prays that the said company may be authorized to improve in future the worst parts of the road from Alexandria to the ford of Little river, previous to the improvement of the other parts thereof, is reasonable.
2. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that the residue of the said petition, praying that the said company may be authorized to demand for every five miles of the above-mentioned road, as the same shall be improved by them, tolls in proportion to those allowed by the act, passed for improving the said road, is reasonable.
3. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of Loudoun county, to the same effect of so much of the petition last mentioned, as is above stated, in the first resolution thereon, is reasonable.
4. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that so much of the petition of the president and common council of the city of Richmond, as prays that an act may pass, establishing the width of sixty-six feet, all the streets in that part of the said city added to the town of Richmond, on the eastern boundary thereof, and northwardly of the street leading from the court-house towards Gilley's creek, is reasonable.
5. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that such other part of the said petition, as prays that the corporate body of the said city may be authorized to lay off such streets and ways in that part of the addition above-mentioned, east of the said town, and south of the said street, leading from the court-house aforesaid, as to them shall seem necessary and proper, having respect to the boundaries which have been erected in that part of the said city, is reasonable.
6. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that such other part of the said petition, as prays that the right of the commonwealth in the public wharf at Rocketts' landing may be vested in the corporation of the said city of Richmond, provided they shall never be empowered to collect toll or wharfage upon any vessel while actually engaged in shipping or unshipping, is rejected.
7. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that the residue of the said petition, praying that the 4th section of the act passed the 26th of December, 1792, entitled "An act for regulating ordinances and restraint of tipping houses," so far as the same relates to the city of Richmond, may be repealed, is reasonable. The 1st and 2nd resolutions were rejected by the House. The 3d, 4th and 5th resolutions being read a second time were on the question put thereupon, agreed to by the House. The 6th resolution being read a second time, a motion was made to amend the same by striking out at the end thereof the words "be rejected," and inserting in lieu of them the following—"is reasonable, and that the wharf at Rocketts' landing, be granted to the corporation of Richmond on the following conditions, to wit—that they be permitted for twenty years to use and enjoy the said property, provided they keep up the said wharf, and permit tobacco, and vessels employed in taking off the same to be free of any toll, duty, or tax." And the question being put on the proposed amendment, it passed in the negative. The 7th resolution was rejected by the House.
Saturday, Dec. 20, 1806. The house, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole house, on the bill, "To amend the act, entitled, an act, 'To amend the several laws concerning slaves,'" and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. B. Harrison reported, that the committee had according to order, had the said bill under consideration, and made several amendments thereto, which he handed in at the clerk's table—where the same were read—A motion was then made to postpone the further consideration of the said bill to the 21st day of March next—and the question being put on the said motion, it passed in the negative.—Ayes 78—Noes 87.
The Enquirer. RICHMOND, 27th DECEMBER.
A RAPID COUP D'OEIL. The resolutions of the House of Delegates have once more led to an investigation of the policy pursued by the minority during the last session of Congress. This policy has been strenuously condemned by a vast majority of the legislature; but a few have still appeared to be loquacious to defend it.—It is our own decided opinion, that as far as that course has been tested, it has been condemned, by experience; and that there was not an atom of foundation for the curious resolution adopted by the eleven members of the Senate.
We shall make no comments upon the plea of a want of "documents," which these gentlemen have employed; because they have neither undertaken to tell us what they were, nor can we take the liberty of conjecturing. But on the more obvious and pertinent plea of "effects resulting from these measures" we shall offer a few deflatory observations. It is our most decided opinion, that in neither the effects resulting from our British nor Spanish policy, can a single justification be found for the opposition they experienced from the minority during the last Congress, or the indirect censure passed upon them by a minority of the Virginia Legislature.
SPAIN. Spain had refused to exchange territory for territory, but not to sell the Floridas. And so completely impressed was our illustrious President with the practicability of effecting this measure, that he has been known to express his regret that he had not before the last Congress met, attempted to negotiate a purchase. And why did he not? Because it was only three or four weeks before the meeting of that body, that he received dispatches from Europe communicating the disposition of France towards that purchase. He deemed it more respectful to consult them on the subject. He had no doubt that it would be immediately acted upon. He was disappointed. Weeks passed away without a decision; and the American nation are yet perhaps to rue the consequences of a procrastination, by which we may lose the opportunity of obtaining the Floridas by peaceful purchase.
But these consequences are yet undeveloped. The Spanish Court is said to have sent Commissioners to treat with our own respecting all the points in contest between us: Spoliations upon our commerce, the purchase of Florida, and the boundaries of Louisiana. It is impossible for us to know what has been the result of this conference. Nay it is extremely probable, that the negotiation itself is not yet
concluded; but that it will wait for Bonaparte's return to Paris. What then? If Bonaparte returns to Paris flushed with conquest and acquisition; no nation sufficiently strong and daring to check him on the continent; and all his armies at liberty to fly wherever he may command, except what may be necessary to keep his conquered confederacies in subjection; his spirit may be too proud; his conditions too rigorous, to bring the negotiation to a fortunate issue. He pours the treasures of Berlin into his coffers; and he views our 2,000,000 of dollars with contemptuous indifference. He demands eight—ten—fifteen millions: perhaps altogether rejects all our propositions for the purchase of the Floridas. Suppose all these visions to be accomplished; what will be the result?
That it was an improper policy which the majority pursued? That the minority stands justified by facts, in the opposition which they made to it? Horn-book politicians may speculate in this manner; but not to the man of common sense, who calculates the force of every new incident which disturbs the operation of his machine, and makes allowances for its friction. Neither the majority nor even the minority themselves, were gifted with the inspirations of prophecy.
Were they to foresee the engagements of Jena—the ruin of Berlin—the increased aggrandizement of Bonaparte in the north of Europe? It is true enough, when these events have happened, to profit by the experience which they evolve; to consider France as less likely than ever to promote the sale of the Floridas, and more than ever disposed to stimulate Spain to hostilities with us. It will then be more than ever our duty to arm and discipline our citizens and prepare for war. But— tempora mutantur et nos mutamur cum illis . Whatever be the necessity that now demands these precautions; it cannot be said to have existed during the last winter. Berlin was then in the hands of its hereditary sovereign; and the purchase of the Floridas was not so difficult an expedient, as the existing revolutions of Europe may now have rendered it.
GREAT-BRITAIN. Not a single one of the effects, with which we were threatened by the minority has really resulted from the non-importation law. It has not stirred up the indignation or revenge of G. Britain.
She has neither embargoed our vessels in her ports, more authoritatively instructed her cruisers to pirate upon our neutral commerce; nor manifested a stronger spirit of hostility towards us. On the contrary, she has set free some of our impressed seamen.
Fewer of our vessels employed in the colonial trade have been condemned by the Court of Admiralty. She has made liberal propositions to our government for the adjustment of differences.
Mr. Monroe had come to an understanding with the premier on many points of the negotiation. Mr. Fox was taken sick: This was no fault of our cabinet. But it suspended the negotiation.
We appointed a new peace commissioner on our part; and ultimate arrangements were again postponed till the arrival of Mr. Pinckney. Mr. Fox died:—This was still no fault of the cabinet; but still it protracted the negotiation. And yet it was not an affair of a day or a week. It could not be settled at once by a Coup d'Etat . The points of difference are not only of great number, but each is difficult of adjustment. We are not only to fix upon the principles for compensating our past injuries, but our plenipotentiaries are instructed to take in all the points of dispute, and determine upon some treaty, by which an end may be put if possible, to all future bickerings between us.
Here too is a fact, which is entitled to immense weight. Their Cabinet have not once required the repeal of our non-importation law. They have not dared to lay down that measure as a preliminary to a treaty; nor even to a negotiation. They have not to little respect to us as to advance any such pretension. They have not even pronounced the suspension of this law as a preliminary to a negotiation. They have been more modest in their wishes. They wish us to give a proof of a conciliatory disposition on our part, by suspending it for a short time.
And surely there ought to be no hesitation in acceding to this request. The law was originally suspended till the 15th of Nov. to allow full time for the negotiation to be concluded; a great part of this time was uselessly consumed, by the illness and death of Mr. Fox; but this was no fault of the B. Cabinet. It was neither because they wished to deny us justice, nor to put off the negotiation. If it was right then to suspend the law at first; it is right to suspend it now. If it was right to allow them time to conclude the negotiation at first, the same argument will now justify the extension of that period.
But why these remarks? Because some of the minority have said, that if it be right to suspend it now, it was wrong to pass it at first. A more absurd argument cannot be conceived. Was it right to force the British ministry into their senses? This law ought to have been passed. Has it brought them to their senses? If so, why not suspend it for a short period, to give a more conciliatory spirit to the negotiation? This conclusion then follows:
That not one of the effects predicted by the minority have taken place. But that every one predicted by the majority, is in the fairest way for accomplishment.
THEREFORE. Under a conviction of the advantages resulting from those measures, we should have completely acquiesced in the sentiments expressed by the Resolutions of the H. of D. We should have wished too to have expressed them in this formal manner, that we might announce to foreign nations the undiminished confidence which we reposed in the administration, and our resolution to support its firm and liberal measures. This would have been our sole inducement to have voted for these resolutions; and not any regard to our internal relations.
The H. of D. is not the proper theatre for passing that censure upon the minority, which their conduct so eminently deserves; because if vigilance and firmness be the indispensable duties of every representative, the Legislature of Virginia should adopt no measure, which may in the slightest degree repress it. That vigilance may have been abused by the minority; or rather the most unfounded charges may have been made under this specious pretext; but if they deserve censure, let the people alone express it. But there is another consideration in the present case which would have condemned this course.
In comparison of these which are usually made—Let us observe, however, that the insolent conduct of some of her ships of war (such as the Cambrian, stated in this day's paper) is strongly calculated to excite our resentment, & to inspire a suspicion of her sincerity.
Such a step was unnecessary, because this was the feeblest opposition which has ever appeared against the measures of the administration. Truth can perform wonders, even against a multitude; but these men were maimed by her legs. Their cause was infinitely too weak to win upon the hearts and understandings of the people. As to numbers they were powerless; as to talents there were few to uphold them, but those of their leader. Had these been the talents of James Elliott, instead of John Randolph, we confidently believe that opposition, feeble as it is, would have appeared almost without a proselyte.
But a vote of censure would not only have been unnecessary, but injurious. It would have clothed them with an air of consequence to which they are not really entitled, and spread an opinion among our Sister States, that they had obtained something like a firm standing in Virginia. Those who are acquainted with the politics of our citizens are best enabled to determine the fallacy of such an opinion. They will best know, how completely opposed to the resolution of the Senate will be the great mass of the citizens of Virginia.
BURR EXPEDITION.
The following extracts, and the various communications which we have detailed on the last page of our paper, are calculated to excite the curiosity, and the astonishment of our reader. But what virtuous mind will pause at these neutral feelings! Who that loves his country, will not detect the infamy of the Traitor, who scruples not to compromise her tranquillity and honour by such nefarious schemes, as these rumours seem to develop? But are they really nefarious schemes, which are now rearing in the western country? Is it possible to believe, that Aaron Burr, is, in sober truth, a desperate madman? That he has formed schemes, that must not merely forfeit all those pretensions to discretion for which the world have hitherto allowed him credit, but must certainly eventuate in his ruin?
Still it is almost impossible to resist the accumulated evidence which flows from so many sources; or to entertain a moment's doubt; 1. That a military plan has been formed; and 2. Aaron Burr is the leader of it."
The only doubt which now seems to exist relates to the destination of this expedition.
Col. Burr has large resources of money. He has built boats; and bought up (it would seem) large quantities of provisions, and military stores, besides enlisting a number of men.
It is to be presumed, that all these resources were drawn from private purses; though one of his allies is Bienville himself, the rich Fishman who inhabits an Island in the Ohio? But if not drawn from private purses, they must be supplied by some public treasury. But what treasury? Certainly not that of our own government; certainly not from one of the corrupt and corrupting nations of Europe.
There is another feature which is worthy of notice. There are more provisions and arms, than men; and of course there are more men to be collected, to consume them. Where are those men to be found? Most probably among the undisciplined, unprovided, & unarmed inhabitants of some country, ripe for the purposes of insurrection.
What European nation then is most likely to form such a scheme; or what scheme of this nature is most calculated to enlist their interests?
There are two nations, by whom they may have been formed: Spain, and Great-Britain; and each of these may conceive itself interested in forming them.
Spain, to produce an insurrection in Louisiana. Great-Britain, to conquer some of the Spanish possessions.
1. Were New-Orleans in the hands of Burr, and an insurrection excited in that territory, an army under Wilkinson might be expected to retreat from the Sabine, and leave Spain in quiet possession of the disputed territory: She might even flatter herself not only with a temporary possession of that territory, but of compelling our government to recede from its demands altogether. Perhaps too she may even aspire to a recovery of the whole of this country, by the help of its disaffected French and Spanish inhabitants.—All these expectations are apparently absurd; in our own opinion not one of them will be realized; but it is certainly a fact that the Court of Madrid is not always sufficiently enlightened to select proper objects or proper expedients.
If however we recollect, the smallness of the force under General Cordero, it is difficult to believe that she would adopt any of these projects; unless the improbable supposition be admitted, that the Army of the U. S. under Wilkinson is to co-operate with the insurgents. But ere we indulge this suspicion, we must not only admit the existence of a coalition between Wilkinson & Burr, but a degree of treason in an army of the U. S. which has never yet disgraced an American camp.
2. The British project stands upon far more probable grounds:
It is said to be a fact, that most of Burr's resources are drawn through the hands of Ogden of N. York; the man, who was so notoriously connected with the British emissary, Miranda. Is it then altogether improbable that some of the many British expeditions bound to South America, may be destined to the mouths of the Mississippi and there to act in co-operation with Burr? Why may they not be defined, as some have supposed, to act against Vera Cruz? a position which commands so extensive an influence over the Isthmus of Darien; and a city, where the produce of the gold and silver mines of Mexico are generally deposited?
But enough on this mysterious subject. Time alone must decide upon these, or all other speculations.
The following extract of a letter was presented to us by a member of the Virginia Legislature, who thinks from the tenor of the writer that the falls which it contains may be depended upon.
Extract of a letter from Charlesstown, (Brooke county, V.) dated Dec. 10. "There is a great noise here concerning Burr's expedition, it is said that five or six Keel Boats, have gone down the river loaded with Men and Provisions. Last Sunday a Kentucky Boat passed this from Pittsburg, and landed on the Ohio side about three miles below. A Mr. Silver and Mr. Ferue, two young men from Pittsburg came up to town; they would not acknowledge they were engaged in that expedition, they told me they were Morgan Neville a son of Gen. Pringle Neville and a number of young men from Pittsburg, some from Meadville and Beaver were in the Boat, that she was loaded with men and provisions. They would make no discovery of their intentions further than that they were going down the river to view the country, but I make not the least doubt but they are to join the Burr party (there are some at or near this place that I know of, that are going or that business). It is said they are to rendezvous at the falls of Ohio on the 25th instant. What Burr's intentions are cannot be here sufficiently developed at present, also there are various conjectures, but an apprehensive he must have something in view which will not be for the honor or peace of the United States, otherwise he would not keep it so profound a secret. It is said he is to discover his plan to hi
people when they arrive at the Falls of Ohio, and those that do not then choose to go on with him, may return home and he will pay them for their time."
THE CAMBRIAN a British ship of war, for which an order to enter our waters by a proclamation of the P. U. S.
We have this day received an official communication, of which the substance is as follows: A British ship, the Cambrian, some time ago stationed off New-York, and lately commanded by Capt. Whitty, came a few weeks past into Hampton roads. The pilot who accompanied her near the Capes, and who on learning who she was, refused to conduct her into port, was compelled to remain on board, and on peril of his life to carry her to the place where the anchor-
ed. In her way to the anchorage-ground, or after she had reached it, the officer commanding one of the Revenue Cutters, went on board, requesting the usual information as to the character and destination of the ship. The answer received from the commander (Captain Berresford, if we are correctly informed) was, "that he had no report to make: that it was his 'majesty's' ship the Cambrian, who came ashore 'if he pleased,' and went when he pleased." An officer of the ship was then told to attend the pilot: the meaning of which on land, would be, "shew that man the door."—We understand that a full statement of this transaction has been transmitted to the secretary of state.
The Cambrian we are told, procured before her departure, the supply of water and stores for which she came, from the Bellona and Mea lampus, two British ships of war now lying in the roads.
The Cambrian has failed.
In the remarks of Mr. Lindsay in the last Enquirer, we neglected to state his declaration, that it was by no means his intention to have wounded the feelings of Mr. Nelson or to have charged him with a want of independence.
CONGRESS, Dec. 23. Mr. Elliott's Resolutions.
1. Resolved, That it is expedient to make provision, by law, for the farther and more effectual protection of the commerce, the seamen, the harbours, the coasts, and the frontiers of the U. States.
2. Resolved, That for the great purposes of national protection and defence it is expedient to provide, by law, for repairing and supporting in actual service the whole of the frigates and smaller vessels of war belonging to the United States.
3. Resolved, That it is expedient to provide, by law, for defraying the expense incident to building two new frigates, to supply the places of the Philadelphia, which was lost during the late war with Tripoli, and the General Green, which has been condemned as unfit for service.
4. Resolved, That provision ought to be made, by law, for preparing two or more navy yards and naval arsenals, situated on or near the margin of the ocean, for the reception of ships and vessels of war, and for other naval purposes.
5. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire what provisions it may be necessary to make by law, in relation to the location, establishment and superintendence of navy yards and navy arsenals, and that the said committee report by bill or otherwise.
6. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire what further measures are necessary for the protection of American seamen, and for their release and indemnification, when impressed into foreign service by the officers or subjects of foreign powers; and that the said committee report by bill or otherwise.
7. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the situation of the fortifications of the ports and harbours of the United States into the practicability and propriety of a general system of fortification, and the expense with which it would be attended; and also into the best method of fortifying the port of New-York, and the other principal ports which are now in a defenceless state; and that the said committee report a statement of facts, with their opinion thereon to the House.
8. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of investing the President of the United States, by law, with ample powers to cause every aggression and attack upon the rights, the honor, and the interest of the United States, which may be committed or commenced by the officers, citizens or subjects of any foreign power within the ports or harbours of the United States, within the waters under their jurisdiction, and upon the high seas within certain distances of the coast, to be immediately repelled and effectually chastised; and that the said committee report by bill or otherwise.
9. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to revise the existing laws respecting the militia; to devise means for completely arming and equipping for actual service, and for more effectually organizing and disciplining the whole of the militia of the United States, in order to render it an efficient force for the protection of the United States from invasion by any foreign power; and that the said committee report by bill, or otherwise.
A motion was made to refer these resolutions to a committee of the whole, and was lost. Ordered to lie on the table.
Sales at Auction.
On Tuesday the 30th Dec. will be sold without reserve, at the Office of the Subscribers, SIX Pipes L. P. Madeira Wine, in pipes, hhds. and quarter casks, on 130 days credit. Two new handsome Mahogany Side-Boards, 60 days credit. Negotiable notes with approved endorser will be required. TAYLOR & BROWN, Aucrs. Dec. 27.
Sales at Auction.
On Friday the 16th January next, will positively be sold by the Subscribers, on the premises at 11 o'clock A. M. for approved endorsed negotiable notes at 90 days:
FOUR valuable LOTS, containing by survey 1/2 of an acre each making the half acre Lot known in the plan of the city, by the No. 214, and nearly opposite to the Lot in front of the residence of William Hayes, Esq. PROSSER & MONCURE, Aucrs. Dec. 27.
Sales at Auction.
VALUABLE LOTS—FOR SALE, On a credit of five, twelve and eighteen months On Tuesday the 13th day of January next, at noon, on the premises, will be offered for sale by public auction:
FOUR half acre LOTS adjoining each other, & forming what is usually called a square, described in the plan of the city, by the numbers 151, 152, 159 and 160. Darnest, Fisher and Estell, Aucrs. Dec. 27.
THE LAND whereon I now reside, containing 630 acres is still for sale by private contract, (& immediate possession given if required) JOHN KELSO. Dec. 27.
WANTED to hire six men likely to negro MEN to work on the Richmond Turnpike, for which a generous price will be given. WILLIAM HAYARD. Dec. 27.

WASHINGTON, December 22. The following are the documents which accompanied the report of the committee on that part of the President's Message which relates to an invasion of our territory by the troops of Spain, and to the adoption of measures for the protection thereof.  WAR DEPARTMENT, December 15, 1806.  Sir,  Agreeably to the request of the committee, as expressed in your letter of the 10th inst. I herewith enclose such information on the subject referred to them, as is possessed by this department, in addition to what was communicated to Congress with the message of the President of the United States, at the commencement of the present session.  A copy of Governor Cordero's answer to general Wilkinson's letter of the 4th October, marked No. 1, and an extract from captain general Salcedo's answer to governor Claiborne's 1st letter to governor Herrera, marked No. 2.  To which I would beg leave to add the following statement and remarks.  The law fixing the military establishment of the United States, being under the eye of the committee, it may only be necessary to remark that, of the force which it authorizes, eighteen companies are posted as follows, viz.  One company in Portland and Portsmouth harbors.  One do. Boston harbor and at the arsenal Springfield.  One do. Rhode Island and Connecticut.  One do. New York harbor.  One do. on the Delaware, below Philadelphia.  One do. Norfolk and Baltimore harbors.  One do. Charleston harbor, S. C. and in North Carolina.  Two do. frontiers of Georgia.  One do. do. of Tennessee.  One do. at Chickasaw Bluffs and Arkansas.  One do. Massac and Vincennes.  One do. at St. Louis.  One do. Chicago, south end of Lake Michigan.  One do. Detroit.  One do. Michilimackinac.  One do. Niagara.  One do. Fort Wayne, on the portage between the Wabash and the Miami of the Lakes. The remaining force is under the immediate command of the general in the Orleans and Mississippi territories.  The corps are nearly complete, including the recruits now on their passage for the lower Mississippi.  In addition to the regular force under the immediate command of the general, he is authorized to call on the Orleans and Mississippi territories for such reinforcements of militia, as may be thought expedient.  Arms for infantry, and pistols and swords for a due proportion of cavalry, have been forwarded to New Orleans, for the use of such militia as might be called into service.  The Spanish force which has lately crossed and recrossed the Sabine, has been represented as amounting to 1500 men, principally mounted militia; there is, however, reason for believing that their numbers have been over rated. Their force at Pensacola, Mobile, and Baton Rouge, amounting probably, to from 500 to 650 men.  It is not possible to form any thing like a correct opinion of the force which Spain could bring into the field from her extensive western and southern territories, or from beyond sea. It may be presumed that the war in which she is at present engaged, and which endangers some of her valuable possessions, must render it difficult for her to draw a very considerable force to any point on our frontiers.  As to the protection of our citizens, I may be allowed to refer the committee to the message of the President of the United States to Congress, of the 2d inst.; in which he has expressed his idea of the means of protecting them at the commencement of a war, and until a regular army may be raised. But as the right of deciding on this, as well as other questions, rests with Congress, the President must rely on the means they shall judge it most expedient to provide.  I am, very respectfully, Sir, your obedient servant,  H. DEARBORN.  Hon. John Randolph, chairman, &c.
Camp of Nacogdoches, Oct. 11, 1806.  Sir,  I informed your excellency by my letter of the 29th of last month, that I had sent that of your excellency of the 24th of the same month to the captain general brigadier Don Nemesio Salcedo, on whom I depend, because I was not invested with a competent authority, for its discussion, and as the answer belonged to said chief. I flatter myself that in consideration of the good of humanity which your excellency professed to with, and of the good harmony which reigns between our governments, your excellency would have expected his answer to determine on your operations, because I am not at liberty not to carry into execution the orders which command me to consider the Hondo river as the boundary line of the province.  I see, by the letter of your excellency of the 4th inst. which I have just received, that against my hopes you have marched your troops towards the Sabine without any hostile views against the Spaniards, but with the intention only of maintaining the pretensions of the United States to that side of said river.  Your excellency is very well acquainted with the facts of our operations; I must in consequence declare to your excellency that though the result of the operations which your excellency has undertaken, might not in any manner whatever be considered as an act of hostility provoked by my government, I must oppose myself to it, in discharge of the obligation which I am under, to oppose myself to the aggressions of the United States and to preserve entire as far as lies in my power the dominions of my sovereign.  I take the proper means that your excellency may receive this letter, praying the Lord our God that he may preserve your life for many years.  I am, respectfully, &c.  (Signed)  ANTONIO CORDERO.  His Excellency, Gen. James Wilkinson.  Extract of a letter from the captain general Don Nemesio Salcedo to Gov. Claiborne, dated Cibuaguá, 18th of Sept. 1806.  By my orders I am bound to maintain the best harmony with the government of the United States, and to that end I have directed all my views, as your excellency may be convinced by the conduct which has been followed, and by the letter, which under my direction, the governor of Texas wrote on the 7th of March last, to the commandant of the fort of Natchitoches, exhorting him not to repeat, on either side any acts of hostility concerning the disputed territory. Of this latter major Porter acknowledged receipt and gave assurances that he was on the point of sending an account of it to gen. Wilkinson, to whom he left the decision; which, however, has not as yet been verified.  After this intelligence your excellency will find no just motive to draw the sword on account of the movements of the troops on this frontier, especially after being assured that neither those troops nor their chiefs have had, or at present have, any orders to make new establishments. Your excellency may be assured that all my actions are directed in compliance with my duties, and with a view that I may, at no period whatever, be reproached with having suffered, in any manner, the usurpation of the smallest part of the dominions of my king under my charge. But in consideration of the assurance which your excellency gives that the subject is now in treaty between the two governments, and the frankness with which you have the dissipated claim as one that shall be amicably
adjusted, without availing ourselves of our rights, the operations of our corps shall be limited (under the responsibility of your excellency) to patrolling the disputed lands, to see and prevent any settlement from being made by citizens of either nation.  Your excellency knows very well that while this is the most moderate behavior I can adopt, I must also repel all aggressions of the American government, and act conformably to the strictest accomplishment of the first obligation of my station.
Communications respecting the BURR EXPEDITION.  WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.  Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Meadville, Pennsylvania, to a member of Congress, dated Nov. 26th, 1806.  For some weeks past the rumor and appearance of emigrants through the western country and particularly in the town of Meadville, excited considerable apprehensions among the friends of peace and of the union here. But the improbability then that any expedition or assembly of people would be attempted, led us to construe as favorably as possible, the rumors that were excited, and the devices that were manifested. We could not then believe that when a Captain Davis and a Colonel Smith appeared in this town, offering to engage as many adventurers as would accept their proposals of assembling at Beaver, on the Ohio, and of embarking there under the secrecy to be imposed on them by an oath, upon some private expedition under Col. Burr, that any seriously intended against the peace of the United States. Whether any such thing is yet intended, a few weeks will develop. However, on the 24th inst. in consequence of the proposals of Davis and Smith, and their private agents, nine men, after disposing of their property and settling their affairs here, embarked from this town for Beaver, with the expressed intention of joining the secret expedition under Col. Burr. The names of the adventurers are, Frederic Haysmaker, esquire, Luke Hill, Owen Alton, William Davis, Hugh Allen, James Knox, James Kennedy, John Melvin, a man of the name of Chichester, and another of the name of Bornside, Samuel Lord, the marshal's deputy for this district, with three or four others, are preparing to depart on the same business in a day or two. Charles I. Reed, Stephen Wolbertson, and a doctor, I think Mulhollan is his name, from Erie county, have passed through this place on the same expedition, also a number to the amount of eight or ten, from the western part of the state of New-York, on their route through this place openly avowed similar intentions, and held nightly meetings with their brethren in enterprise here. The doctor is by his own account an agent in the transaction; he informed me that they had three large boats built on Beaver, under the direction of Compt. Tyler, of the state of New-York, who is now at Beaver, and that they would embark from thence on the first Monday in December next. Hugh Allen, after he had returned from Pittsburgh, whither he had been sent by his associates here informed me, that he had been introduced to Compt. Tyler, and had arranged his plan with him. There are very flattering prospects of wealth held out to them, and the needy and desperate embark in it with avidity. An oath, they say, will be administered to them at Beaver, before they will be informed of the object of the expedition, and those unwilling then to go will be at liberty to return without that injunction of secrecy. They calculate upon the information they receive from their leaders that the expedition will be supported by more than five thousand men, and if the information we receive from travellers be correct, they have accommodations provided for that number along the Ohio, in different places. A salt merchant of the name of Kibby, went through Meadville on the 23d inst. and said he had sold to the projectors of the expedition seven hundred barrels of salt for their use. It is said that some of the Wilkins family in Pittsburgh are engaged in it, and though the expedition is kept very secret in Pittsburgh, many adventurers there are engaged to embark in it. What I mention from information may not be true, though it is derived from some of themselves. But I have seen those I mention of this place, embark in canoes in French Creek, and heard them bazaar a farewell to Meadville. They are all federalists, and cordially friendly to the government. They even declared that no democratic or man friendly to the government should be permitted to participate in the enterprise, as no such man could be trusted. The people here are much divided in their conjectures upon the expedition. Some believe that an attempt is projected to separate the western from the eastern states, and add them to Louisiana.  November 27.  There is something of moment and I apprehend of danger on foot. Since I wrote the above, Jabez Colt, Ralph Marlin, James Gibson and Samuel Lord, have departed for Beaver, Colt and Marlin expect commissions—Israel Miller is also gone from Erie.  Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to a member of Congress, dated Dec. 2, 1806.  A number of young men, inhabitants of this town amounting to seven, have set out with an intention to join Col. Burr in his expedition against Mexico, among whom is Morgan Nevill, son to gen. Prefly Nevill, it is said with the knowledge and consent of his father; he provided himself with two suits of regimentals before his departure—also Thomas Butler, son to the late Col. Butler, Mr. Forward, printer and editor of the Tree of Liberty, and publisher of the U. S. laws by authority, after having made preparation was prevented from going by sickness.  It would have been a fortunate circumstance had the President's proclamation arrived one mail sooner, we would have had it in our power to seize on a large quantity of pork and whisky. Nathaniel Irish and Robinson, two justices of the peace, issued process against Joseph Davis of this town for purchasing provisions for the expedition—when brought before them he acknowledged the fact alleged against him, and said that he was employed by a certain Tyler and major Smith both late of New-York—the money obtained here to defray the expense of purchase of provisions, &c. is on orders drawn by Compt. Tyler on Ogden and Smith of N. York—the orders are promptly paid.  All that have joined the expedition and all who encourage it are of that class of persons called federalists—Gen. Nevill has used his influence to promote it. Wilkins and his sons warmly advocate it—they make light of our worthy President's proclamation, and say that it is only a come off, that he will wink at the expedition—never did a set of men discover greater malignity and use such exertions to bring the administration into disrepute, but all wont do. Their conduct is calculated to excite the hatred and detestation of all honest and well-disposed men, even those of their own party.  We flatter ourselves that if the military force on the western waters is exerted, that it will be successful in stopping those insurgents. But of the conduct of some of the officers we are jealous. The commandant of this place was spoken to long since to keep a look out and attend to suspicious movements—he laughed and said it was a damned good thing.  Samuel Lord, the deputy marshal from Meadville, went as far as Beaver, but since returned.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 22.  Aaron Burr, Esq. arrived in the town of Cincinnati on the 21st November. On the same evening two gentlemen arrived there, who informed that they had passed two boats descending the Ohio. One was a large keel, loaded with French muskets; and they believed the other was loaded with ordnance and muskets. The crew spoke nothing but French during their stay on board, and that they passed every town on the river by night.  They further mentioned that several large boats, loaded with provisions, would shortly follow under the command of Blennerhassett.
Burr's arriving there on the same evening gave it rather a final appearance .  Telegraphic.  To the Editor of the Candid Review .  Sir,  I procured the following information from a gentleman who was on his way home to Kentucky; I understood he had been to the northward the past season for the benefit of his health. He shewed me the letter in Stoverstown, where I feel in company with him, and from it I took the subsequent extract, which you may publish if you think proper.  Yours, D.  "Tyger's Creek, Ken. Oct. 27."  "You no doubt have heard the reports for some time circulated thro' the country respecting the object of Col. Burr's frequent visits to this quarter. It has within a few days been whispered here, that Burr is acting in conjunction with Miranda; that they are both in the employ of Ogden and Smith, of New-York, who are the agents of the British. Rumour further states, that Miranda was directed to play off Carraccas and other southern parts of South America, to attract the attention of the inhabitants to that quarter, while Burr was to get in readiness a little fleet, &c. and attack the frontiers of the northern extremity. In case they in conjunction effect their purpose in conquering South America, they are to unite that country to Louisiana and the western states, and form a separate and distinct government. It is also further whispered that Wilkinson having discovered the disaffection of the people towards him, through a spirit of revenge has determined to unite with Burr; and while manœuvring through the country with his picked corps, is to act as a secret spy, and be ready to render his assistance when necessity shall require it. Numerous other characters, in almost every state in the union, of independent fortunes and of high standing, are also mentioned as confederates of Burr's, but it is at present thought best not to hazard the disclosure of their names."
LEXINGTON, (K.) Nov. 27.  Reports of an unpleasant nature were yesterday in circulation in this place, but we put no confidence in their truth: It was said that letters were received at Frankfort from St. Louis, informing, that the Spanish flandard had been raised at that place, and that nine-tenths of the citizens had declared their intention of changing the American government for the Spanish.  We see so many unfounded calumnies published in the Eastern papers against the citizens of Kentucky: stating that they are in a state of insurrection, &c. that we can readily believe our brethren of Louisiana are equally calumniated.  COL. BURR—AGAIN!  By a gentleman who left Frankfort yesterday, we learn that the United States Attorney moved the Federal Court on Tuesday, that a Grand Jury should be summoned, which was accordingly done, to meet on Monday next at 10 o'clock, for the purpose of enquiring into the conduct of Col. Burr. It is understood that Mr. Davies now conceives he has in his power to substantiate the charges against Col. Burr, made in his affidavit on a former occasion.  Mr. Floyd, whom our readers will recollect to have been the witness who failed to appear before the district court of Kentucky, has presented himself to the court, in consequence of which a citation has been issued requiring Mr. Burr to appear before the court on the 1st of December. The last accounts received represent Mr. Burr as being at Marietta.  ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 19.  A certain Virginia General, who once was distinguished in Congress as an Orator, and ever has ranked high as a Speculator, passed thro' Staunton a few days back, suspected on his route to join Aaron Burr, who it is reported we know not on what authority has actually descended the Ohio with 3,000 men.  Expositor.  EDUCATION.  JAMES OGILVIE, will continue during the ensuing year, in the village of Milton, Albemarle, to prosecute with his pupils the course of Education, they have commenced, and is desirous to receive ten or fifteen more, provided they can be associated with the classes, of which at this time his school is composed. The senior class are engaged in the study of Geometry, Natural Philosophy, History and Metaphysics: The second class will devote their attention to the Latin and French Languages, Euclid's Elements, and the philosophy of Rhetoric: The junior class will continue to study the Latin Language, Geography, Arithmetic and English Grammar. Exercises in Criticism, Composition and Elocution constitute essential parts of the course of instruction he pursues. His charge for tuition will be fifty dollars per annum. Every pupil will also be expected to pay two dollars and a half to defray the expense of rent, fuel, &c. The school will be opened on the 19th day of January, 1807.  December 5.  NEGROES FOR SALE—ON CREDIT.  Will be positively sold, to the highest bidder, on a credit of twelve months, on Tuesday the sixth day of January next, at the Tavern of John R. Brewer, in this town.  THE SLAVES belonging to the estate of William Cole, dec'd—who were advertised to be sold on the 18th of this month; but which sale did not take place, because of the inclemency of the weather, the excessive hardness of the roads, and difficulty of travelling, so few persons attended at the place appointed, that they themselves deemed a sale improper.—Those Slaves consist of men, women, boys and girls; are twenty-eight in number, very likely and valuable, and believed to be as well disposed as any slaves in this country. There are among them several very stout and likely men and women accustomed to labour in the field, some handsome boys and girls, a good wagoner, a good carriage driver, a young fellow who has been working for some time under a blacksmith—a good cook, two good washers and irons, and several other good house servants. Bonds with approved security will be required of the purchasers, to be interest from the date, but the interest to be remitted if the principal be punctually paid—and the lands to be executed before any of the slaves shall be delivered, or the sale considered valid. For most of the slaves (perhaps for all) a discount to the amount of their purchase will be allowed creditors having judgements and bonds against the estate.  DAVID ROBERTSON, Surviving executor of William Cole, dec'd. Petersburg, Dec. 22. 1806.  TO RENT.  THE TENEMENT on the Main-Street, at present in the occupation of Mr. Daniel Worrall. Enquire of CHARLES SPENCER.  WHO has for sale, a very general assortment of Carpenter & Blacksmith Tools of excellent quality, some Tennant, Pannel, Hand, Whip, Gravat and Mill-Saws, of refined Cast Steel, Sine Taine and Juperine flour of Musfarth—together with a great variety of articles which will be sold very low.  Dec. 25. 2m28w.
MARSHAL'S SALES.  By virtue of a decree of the Court of the United States for the fifth circuit in the Virginia district, pronounced at the May term, 1806.  John Somerville, Plf. against David Roff, Deft.  WILL be sold to the highest bidder, for ready money, so much of a TRACT OF LAND, lying on James River, in the county of Chesterfield, and commonly called and known by the name of the Falls Plantation, as will raise the sum of seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty-seven cents, and the costs. The sale will be had on the premises on the 20th day of January 1807.  JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D.  Dec. 18.
THE SUBSCRIBERS, UNDER THE FIRM OF LESUEUR & SAUNDERS,  Inform their friends and the public, that they will continue the COMMISSION business, lately done by C. & T. Saunders. They promise the strictest attention to the interests of those who may favor them with consignments. They are now receiving a general and extensive assortment of GROCERIES, which will be offered for sale, Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms and usual credit, in the store lately occupied by Messrs. William M'Kenzie & Co. opposite the Vendue Office of Messrs. Proffer & M'Kenzie—among which are the following articles:  BROWN SUGAR of superior quality, Ditto ditto second ditto, Belt Green Coffee, Salt in Sacks, Molasses and Treacle, Pickled Salmon, Scotch Barley, Madeira, Port, Sherry & Malaga Wine, Fresh Muscatel Raisins & Currants, Soft Shelled Almonds, Copra, Saltpetre, English F F Gunpowder, Patent Shot, well assorted, Hibbert's Brown Stout and Porter, Belt Spanish Segars, Caldwell, Fraiture & Co's Superfine Chocolate, New-York Candies and Soap, Spermaceti Candles, Bar Iron, German, Crawley's & Bittered Steel, Antigua & Jamaica Rum, Very Old Antigua Rum, Holland Gin, Cognac Brandy, of very superior quality, Race Ginger, Pepper, Pimento, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves & Cinnamon, Fresh London Mustard, in small boxes, Best Flotation Indigo, Fig Blue, of superior quality, in boxes of 20 lbs each, Fresh Capers, Oil, &c. Fresh Gunpowder, Tea in Canisters, Ditto by the lb. Young Hyson do. of the first quality, N. England & Bullock's Cheese.  JOHN L. LESUEUR, C. H. SAUNDERS.  October 10.
DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.  THE COPARTNERSHIP of C. and T. Saunders, is dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due by the concern will be adjusted and paid by Lesueur and Saunders, who are alone authorized to settle all claims due to and by the concern.  C. H. SAUNDERS, TARTILLON SAUNDERS.  N. B. Those indebted are requested to make immediate payment as no further indulgence can be given.  LESUEUR & SAUNDERS.  Nov. 22. tf.
FOR SALE.  THE LOT and HOUSES whereon John Hamilton, Esq. the British Consul, resides: on it are three story Dwelling-House, an Office and Kitchen, and other necessary Houses for family use; a Well of good Water, newly fitted, and a Garden lately laid out, a Ware-House and Cellar under it; the remains of a Wharf, which will make a good foundation to build on; with all the privileges of lots situated on the river, of extending a wharf.  Also—27 1/2 Acres of well timbered LAND, with a good Fishery on Willoughby's Bay, taking in the mouth and part of Maion's Creek, where the best of Oysters and Fish can be conveniently taken.  Also—A LOT in Smithfield, between Mrs. Purdie's and Captain Todd's lots.—For terms apply to THOMAS NEWTON. (f.)  August 22.
SALE OF SHARES  IN THE RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY.  In pursuance of a Resolution of the President and Directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, passed at their meeting held at Edward Hallam's Tavern, in the City of Richmond, on the 10th day of this month:  WILL be sold at Auction, at the Eagle-Tavern, in the said City, on the 4th day of next month, all SHARES belonging to delinquent Stockholders in the said Company.  N. SHEPPARD, Treasurer.  December 13. tf.
LAND FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBERS.  In Northumberland County, EIGHT hundred acres called Fxeter Lodge, residence of the late Col. John Gordon; Good Farming Land, adapted to the growth of corn, wheat & tobacco; on this tract, which lays on Yeocomico a branch of Potomac River, there is a large Brick Dwelling-House, within 200 yards of navigable water, abounding with oysters equal to any in Virginia, fish and fowl in abundance, and a remarkable healthy situation.  About 200 acres wood Land, adjoining Mrs. James and Mr. Eustace, near Elkrun Church.  In Caroline County, Twenty-seven hundred acres, being part of what is called Bromley Chase.  In Spotsylvania County, One hundred acres wood Land, adjoining Col. Joseph Brock, Messrs. J. Brock and S. Schooler, also the middle Tenement in the Brick Buildings in the Town of Fredericksburg.  In Culpeper County, Nine hundred & sixty acres, adjoining Landon Carter, Esq.'s farm on Rappahannock River, at Normans Ford, eight hundred and fifteen acres, adjoining Wm. C. Carter, Esq. and Col. M. Green, two thirds of this tract is in wood, & the whole of equal quality to any high Land in the county, also about eleven hundred acres in the Little Fork laid out and rented in small farm.  And in Albemarle County, That elegant and well known place called Blenheim, containing by a late survey two thousand nine hundred acres, which will be sold altogether or divided into Lotsof suit purchasers.  The whole or any part of the above property, will be sold on very low terms, payable one third in cash or in county produce on giving deeds, and for the balance, long credits will be given the payment being secured on the property.  COLIN & JAMES ROSS. Fredericksburg, Dec. 9. sw.
3,000 wt. SALT PETER & BACON, 1,000 wt. first quality N. ENGLAND CHEESE, 10 grofs BOTTLED CYDER, A few bahts CLOVER SEED, 150 pieces PAPER HANGINGS.  For Sale by EDWARD HALLAM.  Constantly for Hire—An Excellent Carriage and Horses—apply as above.  May 27. estf
WANTED a few Shares of the Virginia Bank—Enquire of the Editor.  December 18. 3m28w.
A VALUABLE FARM—FOR SALE.  I AM disposed to sell that valuable TRACT OF LAND, whereon I at present reside, situated in the County of Amelia, on Smacks Creek, containing by estimation about 600 acres: on this tract is about 150 acres of high wood Land, well timbered, and of good quality, also about 50 acres of low ground heavily timbered, and of prime quality, for Tobacco or grain. The improvements consist of a neat & well finished Dwelling-House with two rooms and a passage both below and above stairs, Kitchen, Dairy, Smoke-House, Barns, &c.  It is deemed unnecessary to give a minute detail of all the advantages of this Land, it being presumed, & requested, that those disposed to purchase will first view the premises.  TERMS.—One third cash and the balance in 2 equal annual instalments. Possession will be given in time to sow a crop of wheat in the ensuing fall. Application to be made to the subscriber on the premises, by letter or otherwise.  JAMES T. ROYALL, Amelia, Dec. 18. tf.
NOTICE.  THE Annual Meeting of the Stockholders, in the BANK of Virginia, for the purpose of appointing Directors of the Bank, and the several officers of Discount and Deposit, will be held in the City of Richmond, on Monday the fifth of January next.  JOHN BROCKENBROUGH, Dec. 5. epi5j.
JOHN ALCOCK,  INFORMS the Citizens of Richmond, and the public in general, that he has moved to the City of Richmond, where he has opened a complete assortment of Merchandise, next door to Messrs. Proffer and M'Kenzie's Vendue Store, and opposite the Eagle; consisting partly of the following articles:—  LONDON Springs, Panel and hand-Saws, Cast-Steel and German do. Casteel Files of every description, Till Locks, brads and iron, Wood Screws of every size, 3d. 4d. & 6d. wrought Springs, 10d. & 20d. wrought Nails, 2d. & 3d. fine drawn Clouts, Saddler's Tools of every size, Brads Nails, Straining & Girt Webb, Plated Bridle Bits assorted, Do. Stirrup Irons do. Brads mounted Steel blade Squares, Brads and Iron chamber door Locks of every size, Stock Locks of all sizes, Looking and Ladies dressing Glasses, Plated Moulding, Silver mounted Whips of every size, Carpenters & Joiners Tools of every description.  Also, an assortment of DRY GOODS, Superfine Cloths and Cambrics, Bennett's Velvet and Patent Cord, Manchester Stuff, Fashionable Silk Hose, Rose and Duffel Blankets, Coarse Linens and a number of other articles too tedious to insert; all of which will be sold low.  December 13. tf.
JOHN ALCOCK,  INFORMS his friends and the public, that he still carries on his CABINET MANUFACTORY in all its branches. He has removed his Warehouse in the front house of William Alt's, Esq. and adjoining the Fire Insurance Office, where he has a large quantity of ready made work on hand, which he will sell low. He flatters himself that if any persons are in want of anything in the Cabinet line, they may be supplied. I am determined to have good warranted work done on the lowest terms. Any orders left at my Warehouse with Mr. John Gray, my foreman, or at my store, shall be punctually attended to, and great care taken in delivering the furniture.  December 13. tf.
THE Subscriber, has taken the Store lately occupied by Granberry and Hancock, where he offers for sale at reduced prices, 3 Bales blue Cloths A consignment from the 1 Dals assorted Flannels Manufacturer, Also—A few bales of India piece Goods.  JAMES SMITH. tf.  October 23.
WILL BE SOLD,  Agreeably to the will of Lyne Shackelford, dec'd. at Curles, in Henrico County, on Tuesday the 6th of January next, all the personal estate of said decedent, consisting of—  HOUSEHOLD and Kitchen Furniture, Plantation Utensils, about 250 barrels of Corn, 200 bushels of Wheat, and forage of all descriptions. About four thousand weight of fine Pork, Stock of all kinds, among which is a fine brood Mare, and several likely well broke Mules.  And on the Thursday following at Varina, about 300 barrels of Corn, 600 bushels of Wheat, forage, &c. as above added to which are some excellent Sheep. Twelve months credit will be allowed the purchasers on all sums above ten dollars; bond and approved security will be required with interest from the date, which shall be remitted upon punctual payment.  WM. CHAMBERLAYNE, Execr. Dec. 11. Law3w.
BURR MILL STONES, of ALL SIZES; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. Dec. 4. [epitf.]
JAMES WORRALL,  HAS lately received a general and carefully assorted Stock of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Patent Medicines, &c. &c. which he offers for sale, at the first corner floor, above the Eagle Tavern, lately occupied by Messrs. Pickett, Pollard and Johnson. His articles have been selected of the first quality, and will be put up with the greatest care and exactness, on the lowest possible terms. The whole of his compound medicines, have been made by himself, with the most scrupulous attention, to the directions of the different Pharmacopoeias.  Physicians favouring him with their prescriptions, and country Merchants with their orders, may depend on their being executed punctually and with dispatch.  N. B. He has lately received from Dr. Solomon's agent, at New-York, a fresh supply of these invaluable medicines, the Balm of Gilead and Anti Impetigines.  November 28. oawtf.
TO be sold to the highest bidder on the premises on Tuesday the 10th of February next, agreeably to the will of Lyne Shackelford, dec'd.  THREE hundred and seventy acres of LAND, lying in the upper part of Mathews County, pleasantly situated on the Piankatank River, commanding an extensive view of the Chesapeake, and affording the finest Fish and Oysters in abundance. The Land is of good quality, level, is well watered and the form almost a regular square, two sides of which are bounded by the river and a navigable Creek, so that one half of the Land may be said to be enclosed by water. The improvements are a commodious Dwelling-House two story high, Kitchen, Smoke-House, Overseer's House, Barn, &c. a very handsome young Apple Orchard of about four hundred trees of well selected fruit.  Twelve months credit will be allowed the purchaser on giving bond with approved security to carry interest from the date which shall be remitted on punctual payment.  WM. CHAMBERLAYNE, Execr. N. B. Any person wishing to view the above, will apply to Mr. Spark, residing on the Land. Dec. 11. Law7w.