The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-06-28 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
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RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 23, 1805.
[VOLUME 2.]
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold on the premises, on Wednesday the 26th day of July next:
A LOT on Shockoe-hill, No. 594, adjoining the lot whereon Mr. Samuel Greenhow lives. The terms of sale will be, one hundred pounds cash, the remainder in twelve months; to secure which a deed of trust upon the lot will be expected.
THOMAS TAYLOR & Co. V. M. (tds)
FOR CHERBOURG,
The copper-bottomed ship MARIE , Capt. PETRIE, burden about 650 bds, having two thirds her cargo now engaged, is expected to sail about the 15th July, and will take 100 or 150 bds. tobacco on a moderate freight. For terms apply to
JOHN NEWELL, Jr. Norfolk, or BROWN, RIVES & Co. Richmond. (ep4w)
WILLIAMSBURG HUSTINGS COURT,
May 27th, 1805.
ORDERED that notice be given for four weeks in the Enquirer, printed in Richmond, that this court will on the fourth Monday in July next, proceed to the settlement and distribution of the estate of John Ferguson, deceased, committed to the hands of Philip Moody late Sergeant of this City for administration.
A Copy, Test, WILLIAM RUSSELL, c. c. Williamsburg, June 25. (ep4w.)
FOR SALE,
The TRACT OF LAND on which Chesfield court-house is situated.
The subscribers, being desirous of making a division of their lands, will dispose of the above on advantageous terms to the purchaser, for cash or on credit. This tract contains 1424 acres; an excellent grist-mill; good and convenient buildings, that are insured in the Mutual Assurance Company of this state against fire; the situation inferior to none in this state for the man of public business, or the planter. Many other advantages, singularly inviting, might be particularized, but we deem it unnecessary to say more, than to invite those who wish to purchase, to come and view the premises.
V. WINFREE, Jun. Wm. WINFREE. Chesterfield, June 26, 1805. (ep2w)
ELLIS & ALLAN
Have received by the Bello from London, part of their SPRING GOODS , amongst which are the following articles: ONDON Superfine Cloths and Cambric, Quiltings and Dimities, Handlooms fashionable worked & laced Muslins, 3-4, 8-4 and 10-4 Diapers, 9-4, 8-10 and 10-16 Damask Table Cloths, Gentlemen's white and brown Cotton Stockings, Ladies' elegant laced white do. do. Tortoise-shell bent and braid Combs, Chimneys, Calicoes and Furniture, Gentlemen's black fashionable Hats, do. do. patent silk do. Umbrellas, Boy's Morocco Caps, plain and furr'd, Belt Hoop Belts, English White Lead, Spanish Brown, Yellow Ocre, ground in oil, and Verdigris, Prussian and Tig. Blue, Best Boiled Oil, Durham Mustard, &c. &c. Which, added to their present stock, and those expected (daily) from Liverpool, will render their assortment general. May 7. (ep5)
JUST RECEIVED,
AND FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBER, FOUR hundred pieces House Paper, Philadelphia Beer by the barrel, a small quantity of first quality New-England Cheese; also 300 barrels Corn. EDWARD HALLAM. ALSO—5000 wt. Salt Pered BACON;—and a constant supply of FRESH CORN MEAL. June 13. (ep12)
THE SUBSCRIBER
begs leave to inform his friends, and the public in general, that he has leased of Capt. Samuel Ellis, for a term of years, his white house at Rocke-woods, nearly opposite Mrs. Sarah Leffler's lower wharfs; where he purposes carrying on the COMMISSION BUSINESS in its various branches. Merchants of this place, who are in the habit of making frequent, may frequently be furnished with good & substantial vessels to transport their commodities, by application to him. Those who may be pleased to employ him in this line of business, may rest themselves assured that every exertion in his power will be made, to render general satisfaction. He expects to be in the habit of receiving a very considerable quantity of Lumber of all kinds, suitable to this market, particularly half and three quarters inch Shingles, one hundred thousand of the former he imagines will be up in the course of ten or fourteen days, which will be sold on terms, not unpleasing to the purchasers. Bacon, &c. will also be received by him. EDWARD FAULCON. May 31. (5 eptm.)
MOUNT SIGN FOR SALE.
THE subscriber offers for sale, his Plantation in Northumberland county, known by the name of MOUNT SIGN . The above tract contains about 500 acres, all of which is equal to any land in that part of the country for fertility of soil, and has every requisite to make it a desirable plantation for a quiet family. There is on the land an excellent brick dwelling house, with every convenient out-house; it is situated on a navigable water of the Potomac, and commands an elegant view of the river; it is very convenient to gists, oysters, &c. and is within one day's sail of Alexandria, Norfolk, and Baltimore. Terms of the sale will be made known by application to Mr. Henry Ball, who lives on the land, or to the subscriber. JESSELL JONES. May 3. (ep5)
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
Will be sold, to the highest bidder, on the premises, on Friday the 12th of July next: THE TENEMENT formerly occupied by James Harris, belonging to the James River Company; containing one acre of Land, with a Dwelling House thereon, which, with a small expense, may be made to accommodate a family comfortably. The Tenement borders on the Canal, and has the advantage of an excellent spring of water, and affords a prospect not surpassed by any in the neighbourhood of this city. A credit of twelve months will be allowed the purchaser, on giving bond with approved security. By order of the President and Directors. ROBERT POLLARD. June 21. (tds)
BROKER'S OFFICE.
THE subscriber informs the Citizens of Richmond and the public in general, that he has taken the house, next door to Mr. William Austin's, lower end of the Basin, where he transacts the BROKERAGE and COMMISSION BUSINESS in all their various branches. From his general knowledge of business, aided by his attention and solicitude for the interest of those who may place to favor him with their commands, hopes to participate in the confidence of a generous public. He pledges himself that no exertion of his shall be wanting to give the utmost satisfaction. GEORGE WILY. (ep5)
CASH
Will be given for 12 or 15 BOTS, from 7 to 15 years old. Enquire of the Printers. Dec. 15. (ep5f.)
WASHINGTON TAVERN.
THE subscriber still continues to keep a house of ENTERTAINMENT for genteel company, only; He flatters himself, he is as well provided to give general satisfaction as any person in his line in the state. There is a Mail Stage established which runs from Richmond to his house once a week, and for the accommodation of the public, he has an excellent hack, horses and driver. J. EDMONDSON. Staunton, June 21. (9 3r)
MILITARY CERTIFICATES.
FOR SALE, Certificates of this state, bearing interest of 6 per cent. and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrearages of taxes, prior to the year 1793. WILLIAM PRICE, Cashr. Genl. M. A. S. May 10. (t)
IRISH LINENS, &c.
We have received, by the late arrivals, an extensive assortment of— 7-8 and 4-4 IRISH LINEN, 5-4 IRISH SHEETING, 3-4 and 8-4 DIAPERS, and DIAPER TABLE CLOTHS; which, in addition to other goods, are offered for sale at our usual low prices. GILLIAT & KIRBY. June 14. (ep4w)
TO BE SOLD,
To the highest bidder, on the premises, on the last Saturday in June next, SO much of the LAND, whereon John Kello lives, in the county of Cumberland, late the property of Peter Francisco, as will pay the balance claimed of him, by Samuel G. Adams, of £. 162, with its interest, by virtue of a deed of trust executed to me, by the said Peter Francisco, for that purpose. CREED TAYLOR, Trustee. May 17. (ep4tds.)
BENJAMIN DU VAL,
AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN MORTAR, RICHMOND, HAS just received a very large and extensive assortment of fresh MEDICINES, SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, DRUGS and DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS of all kinds, OIL, VARNISHES, PUTTY, &c. Also a complete assortment of HATTERS' MATERIALS, consisting of
  Hatters' Irons Crude Tartar   Logwood Baton Irons   Coppers Bow-Strings   Vinegar Linings   Fustick Gloves   Spanish Indigo Taffet Bands   Oil of Vitriol Rubbing Dishes   Aq. Fortis Stumpers   Quicksilver Trenchers, &c. 
Which added to his former stock, completes an assortment that was never equalled in his line of business, in this city. He thanks his customers for past favors, and hopes to merit a continuation of their custom. His former attention to the quality of his Medicines, importing them in their crude state, that he might be able to judge of their quality, and powdering and preparing them under his immediate inspection, have contributed to his present establishment; and opposition he presumes will not relax his exertions to give general satisfaction in future. His experience for more than 12 years past, as Apothecary and Druggist in this city, added to a small stock of Medical Information acquired before, enables him, he thinks, to form a tolerably correct judgment as to the quality of Drugs and Medicines, although he cannot boast of honors conferred on him, greater than the confidence of numerous and respectable customers. In regard to his wholesale prices, he promises to furnish each of his wholesale customers with a printed price current, as soon as possible, and feels himself confident in their approbation, knowing that no one in this state can afford to under-sell him. This he intends to do, not to get others' customers from them, but to secure his own. Any articles that may be ordered, and not approved of as to quality, may be returned if in good order, and in a reasonable time. June 7. (3w&4f)
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
A QUANTITY of SENICA or Rattle-Snake Root; and the Virginia or Black-Snake Root; for which liberal prices will be given. BENJAMIN DU VAL. (ep 6t.)
LAND FOR SALE.
THE subscribers living in this place, have for sale a tract of LAND lying in the county of Louisa, and adjoining Yanceyville, containing two hundred and fourteen, and one half acres more or less; the land is well timbered, and the same which was sold under a deed of trust from Francis Locker, dec'd. A credit of one year will be given the purchaser on securing the payment, bearing interest from the date, if not punctually paid. LYLE & MCCREDIE. March-offer, June 7. (ep 3w)
NEAL NELSON,
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND,
MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use. Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. Gentlemen at a distance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as if they were on the spot. A—The length of the Boot—C—round the Heel—B—the pitch of ditto—D—round the heel and instep—E—round the instep—G—across the ball of the foot. Fix the heel against a perpendicular, and stick a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. January 1. (ep5f)
VIRGINIA.
In the Superior Court of Chancery held in Richmond, Between Thomas Price and John Sandridge, Plaintiffs, And Alexander Outlaw, senior, and Alexander Outlaw, junior, Defendants. On motion of the defendant, Alexander Outlaw, junior, by counsel, this cause is ordered to be re-ordered; thereupon the said defendant filed his answer, to which the plaintiffs replied generally, and exceptions are awarded the plaintiffs and the said defendant, to examine and take the depositions of their witnesses; and on the further motion of the said defendant, the court referred the accounts, between him and the plaintiffs in this suit, to one of its commissioners, to be by him examined, dated, lettered, and to the court reported with any special matters thought pertinent by himself, or required by the parties to be specially stated. A Copy, Teste, PETER T. NSLEY, C. C.
COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE,
Richmond, 15th May, 1805. THE parties will take Notice, that I have appointed the twenty-ninth day of July next, to commence the account directed by the annexed decree of the Court—on which day they are requested to attend at my office in this city, with the accounts & vouchers prepared, and ready for examination and settlement—and with copies of the court papers. SAMUEL GREENHOW, M. C. May 21. (t)
TO BE SOLD,
ALL persons having claims against the estate of the late R. v. Robert Ware, dec'd. of Middlesex county, are desired to bring them forward, properly authenticated, on or before the first day of September next, otherwise this advertisement will be plead in bar against all claims exhibited, after that date; as the subscriber is desirous to close his administration account as soon as possible. EDWARD WARE, Adminr. with the will annexed. Essex, May 31. (ep1m.)
ANECDOTES
OF THE LATE LORD CHATHAM.
A country friend of Sir Robert Walpole hearing Mr. Pitt (who was then but a cornet, and had just got into the House) speaking with great elocution upon some public topic, told the minister the same day at his table, that he thought it would be well worth his while to make that young man a captain. "My dear Sir," says Sir Robert, "to let you see how much I think with you, make him my friend, and I'll give him a regiment." Lord Chatham had great knowledge of the characters of men, and could apply himself with great dexterity even to their foibles, when proper occasions demanded it. When he was rather forced upon the late king as his minister, by the unanimous voice of the people, he found it necessary to discover the king's temper by some little exterior mark of respect. An occasion soon presented itself, which was to bring his majesty the news of a victory. His lordship, however, was so ill of the gout, that when he was led to the closet door he could not stand. The king, seeing this, called for a stool. "No, Sire," says Mr. Pitt, "it is not my duty to sit in your presence; but though I can't stand, I can kneel;" and in that position read the dispatches. The king was so pleased with the manner of his behaviour, and the news, that he spoke ever afterwards of Mr. Pitt with great friendship. His general phrase was, "I like that Pitt—he's an honest man—I understand all he says." Another instance of Mr. Pitt's personal attention to the king, was upon his accepting the feuds—receiving them with great marks of deference and respect. The late Chase Price used to say facetiously upon this occasion, "that he bowed so low, you could see the tip of his hooked nose between his legs." When the present Lord Stanhope was courting his first wife (a daughter of Lord Chatham) the father found them one morning engaged in some friendly difference, which he wanted to know the reason of. "Why, to tell you the truth, my Lord," says Lord N. "I can't get your daughter to fix the day of marriage, and as you have come in so opportunely, will you be so good as to settle it for us?" "Oh, with all my heart!" says he: "Let me see, next Friday will be St. Thomas's day, the shortest day and the longest night—of course the properest day to consummate a marriage." The lady blushed; and his lordship claimed and possessed the rewards of the arbitration. When the Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Pitt were joint Secretaries, the former loved a warm room, and the latter, from the constant fever of his gout, could not bear it. This often teized the Duke, who was obliged to hold conferences with Mr. Pitt at his own house. One cold morning, when Mr. Pitt was confined to bed with the gout, the Duke begged hard for a fire in the room. "I cannot possibly bear it," replied Mr. Pitt. "Why then you can spare me a blanket," says the Duke, (snatching at a counterpane that lay at the foot of the bed, and wrapping it round him) "as I find myself so cold, that without this covering, I'm afraid my words will freeze before they reach you." He despised all kind of what is called puffing so much, that he took no notice of those persons who voluntarily praised his Administration. Owen Ruffhead wrote above sixty numbers of a paper, called "The
ANECDOTIANA.
FROM LATE LONDON AND GRENOK PATERS.
Signior Rossignol, who lately died so miserably poor at Stathis, near Whitby, first appeared in London about twenty five years ago, at Bresslaw: His exhibition consisted of tutored birds. A number of little birds to the amount we believe, of twelve or fourteen, being taken from different cages, were placed upon a table in the presence of the spectators and there formed themselves into ranks like a company of soldiers. Small cones of paper, bearing some resemblance to grenadiers' caps, were put upon their heads, and diminutive imitations of muskets, made of wood secured under their left wings. Thus equipped, they marched to and fro several times, when a single bird was brought forward, supposed to be a defector, and set between six of the musketeers, three in a row, who conducted him from the top to the bottom of the table; on the middle of which a small brass cannon, charged with a little gun powder, had been previously placed; and the defector was situated in front of the cannon—His guards then divided; three retiring on one side, and three on the other, and he was standing by himself. Another bird was immediately produced; and a lighted match being put into one of his claws, he hopped boldly on the other to the tail of the cannon, and applying the match to the priming, discharged the piece without the least appearance of fear or agitation. The moment the explosion took place, the defector fell down, and lay apparently motionless, like a dead bird; but, at the command of his tutor, he rose again. The cages broke, the feathered soldiers were stripped of their ornaments, and returned into them in perfect order. After he quitted Bresslaw, his next performance consisted in counterfeiting the notes of all kinds of singing birds. When he assumed the name of Rossignol, (Angl. Nightingale) & appeared on the stage at Covent Garden Theatre, where in addition to his imitation of the birds, he executed a concerto on a fiddle without strings; that is, he made the notes in a wonderful manner with his voice, and represented the bowing by drawing a small truncheon backwards & forwards over a fiddle. His performance was received with great applause: & the success he met with produced many competitors; but none of them equalled him. It was, however, discovered, that the sounds were produced by an instrument, contrived for the purpose, concealed in the mouth, and then the trick lost all its reputation.
ANECDOTIANA.
OF THE LATE LORD CHATHAM.
Lord Chatham being asked his opinion of Cromwell at Lord Rockingham's table, he gave the following short, but forcible character of him: "He was a faint-like chief, who under the cloak of liberty committed a burglary on the constitution, murdered his Royal Master to get possession of his diadem, and stole from the public their title to freedom."
ANECDOTIANA.
FROM LATE LONDON AND GRENOK PATERS.
Professor Robertson, who is now at St. Peterburgh proposes, in the second volume of the Arbiter de Mode , to construct a balloon which will measure 122 feet in diameter, will carry 74 400 pounds, and in which fifty persons, with provisions and necessaries, may embark for many months, in order to make researches and experiments in natural philosophy and astronomy at all heights, in all seasons, in every kind of weather, and over every point of the earth they think proper. A most successful accident happened yesterday morn-
ANECDOTIANA.
OF THE LATE LORD CHATHAM.
Called," in favour of his administration, and yet he had never the curiosity to enquire the name of the author, or ever so much as saw him. He never liked to read any of the debates of the House of Commons (though his own speeches made so considerable a part in them) till the year 1767, when he bought them, as he said, to amuse himself in a fit of the gout. "Twas Lord Chatham that appointed General Wolfe to the command at Quebec, though contrary to the wishes of the Minister at War, and even to the appointment of the King. "I know," says he, "that man will do his business properly, without sheltering himself under forms of trifling expediences:—he is young, and vigorous too, and will not be subject to personal attentions as older officers." Lord Chatham's general maxim upon this and similar occasions was, that Ministers should look out men for offices, not offices for men.]
ANECDOTIANA.
OF THE LATE LORD CHATHAM.
Two of the leading features of Lord Chatham's character were promptness and decision. When Minister, he wanted a great number of transports to be got ready immediately for service; which, Lord Anson, First Lord of the Admiralty, said was impossible. "Come, come," says Lord Chatham, "I'll show you the possibility of it directly: There's a large fleet of colliers just arrived; throw the coals into the Thames, and put the foldiers aboard immediately—the service of the government must not stand still for a paltry expense!"
ANECDOTIANA.
OF THE LATE LORD CHATHAM.
At another time he received some dispatches which required a speedy answer, which he was racked with the gout. The moment he read them, forgetting his pain, he sprang out of bed, and called for pen, ink, and paper. "My dear," says Lady Chatham, "you'll kill yourself by these means." "And suppose I do, Madam, what's my life in comparison with the millions which may be lost through my neglect!"
ANECDOTIANA.
OF THE LATE LORD CHATHAM.
In a case of sudden emergency, Lord Chatham wanted to consult the Commander in Chief, and First Lord of the Admiralty (Lord Ligonier and Lord Anson), and being informed by the messenger that neither of them were at home, he ordered him to go, alternately, to a certain well-known Bagnio, and to White's Coffee-House; and, "Do you hear," says he to the messenger, "take no excuses, but bring the first away in his night cap, and the other with the cards in his hand!"
ANECDOTIANA.
OF THE LATE LORD CHATHAM.
He once promised to show some foreign Noblemen a remarkable piece of water work, which he was forming at a country house of his, by a certain day. Capillary Browne was his projector on the occasion, who told him it could not be done at that time, even if one hundred men worked day and night. "Why then," replied his Lordship, "put two hundred men, and let them work by torch light." The business was effected.
ANECDOTIANA.
OF THE LATE LORD CHATHAM.
Henry Lord Holland, the rival and political antagonist of Mr. Pitt for many years, and who, from long habits of thorough-paced business, it was difficult to discompose, often frequently to feel the force of Mr. Pitt's opposition. One day the former coming from the House to yexed and fatigued he could not eat his dinner, Lady Holland asked him what was the matter? When, without answering the question, he replied, from the fullness of his suffering, "As for his talking, though that is often pointed and severe, I don't mind it; but 'tis his eye—that d—d eye so focuses me, that he constantly gives me a pain in the back."
ANECDOTIANA.
OF THE LATE LORD CHATHAM.
Mr. Pitt's acquaintance with the present Lord Camden arose from the recommendation of Lord Northington. Mr. Pitt, when Secretary of State, spoke to Lord N. to get him a young man of sound knowledge in the law, whose practice was not very extensive, and he would make his occasional attendance at the office worth his while; "for (says he) I want a person of legal knowledge about me, that we should at least act constitutionally." Lord N. recommended Mr. Pratt, and the congeniality of their minds afterwards produced a friendship which brought Mr. Pratt to the honours he so justly enjoys, and which still continues with unabated affection in the two families.
ANECDOTIANA.
REMARKABLE RESIGNATION.
Don Joze Cordero Periora, arrived in town last week from Portugal, on a visit to the Portuguese Ambassador. The gentleman is 27 years of age, and 22 inches in height, elegantly formed. He will be presented to his Majesty and the Royal Family by his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, to whom he had the honour of being known at Lisbon. The Portuguese's Charge d'Affairs raises the Don erect on his hand, and carries him about the house, and wraps him in a Spanish mantle whilst he conveys him from his Excellency's hall that brings him at his apartments in Hanover-square. Hanover-square. It is said he is as accomplished as his appearance is prepossessing.
ANECDOTIANA.
OF THE LATE LORD CHATHAM.
On Sunday fe'night, at the Collegiate Church in Manchester, there were 160 christenings. Same day the marriages amounted to 17, and on Monday to the like number. A publican of Cork, a few days ago, actually broached a hogshead of Spirits with a red hot poker! The blunder nearly cost him his life, as he was shockingly burnt by the explosion. When Mr. Whitbread had closed his elaborate and powerful speech on Monday fe'night, he stepped forth into the Lobby, calling "Porter, porter, Porter." No messenger appeared, a wag called out "Whitbread's Porter," and the exhausted orator was instantly furnished with a well frothed tankard! A mercenary sailor, on seeing the Spanish frigate blow up in the late engagement, with so many of the sailors flying about, exclaimed that it was a glorious sight. When Garrick and Rigby were living together in Norfolk, they observed upon a board at a house by the road side, the following strange inscription:— "A good kowled hear." "Heavenly powers," said Rigby, "is it possible that such people as these can cure agues?" "I do not know," replied Garrick, "what their prescription is—but I am certain it is not by a spell!" An American having brought up his son to the profession of the Bar, was asked in what branch of the law he proposed to distinguish him—Why said the old man, alluding to the Criminal Law, "I believe something in the hanging line." The curious in the Epitaph way, will find some thing whimsical in the following lines, actually inscribed upon a country tombstone, in the North, to a little deformed man named Thomas Woodcock: "Here lies an honest cock, ill flappen." "Would you know his name, 'twas Tom-Woodcock-pou." Not long since a Gentleman near Manchester having occasion to see a neighbouring friend, called at his house, and was informed he was gone out. To save the trouble of calling again he expressed a wish to see the mistress, but she also was gone out. That same time might be lost, he requested to see the young master; but he likewise was out. With this, however, not to go without accomplishing his business, enjoining he would take a walk in, and sit by the fire till one of them returned, he was told by Polly, "Master, Sir, and you ain't for that too, 'tis 'gon out!"

European Intelligence.
VIA BOSTON AND NEW-YORK.
LONDON, April 26.
The Paris intelligence of the 17th, would induce the belief, that the French government contemplates a vigorous and extensive system of operations against our possessions in both the East and West-Indies. It is intimated in a note in the Monitor upon an article of English intelligence, that while we are occupying Malta and projecting expeditions against Minorca and Alexandria, we leave Ireland, Dominica, Jamaica, Ceylon, and the East-Indies, unprotected. From this the politicians of the French capital infer, that we are to be annihilated in all those points, when opportunities shall occur.
May 6.
Paris Journals to the 28th ult. and Dutch papers to the 3rd inst. have been received. The latter contain the particulars of the acceptance of the New Dutch Constitution, and of the appointment of Schimmelpennick to be Grand Pensionary. With respect to the junction of the French and Spanish fleets, they contain the following intelligence:
LEIDEN, April 30.—We have received authentic accounts that the French squadron of Toulon got out a second time from that port on the night of the 30th March, consisting of eleven sail of the line, six frigates, and two corvettes, having on board about 9,000 men. The squadron is commanded by Admiral Villeneuve, and the troops by general Lantion. On the 7th ult. they appeared off Cartagena, and on the 9th they touched at Cadiz, from whence they proceeded on the 10th for their destination, which is altogether unknown, after having been joined by one French ship of the line and two corvettes, and by six Spanish ships of the line and one frigate, with 2,280 men on board, of the same nation, under the command of Admiral Gravina.
The emperor and king has created the following persons princes of the kingdom of Italy, with the title of Most Serene Highness , viz. Melzi, Melzi, Litta, Boromei, Stampa, Soncini, Camprara, and Mareschalchi.
Letters from Lisbon, of the 14th ult. corroborate the accounts of the Toulon fleet having passed the gut of Gibraltar, and joined the Spanish fleet at Cadiz. These letters also state, that the most active exertions are making throughout Spain to carry on the war with all possible vigour. A body of French troops had entered Catalonia to co-operate with the Spaniards in the siege of Gibraltar. The French Ambassador, with his lady and retinue, arrived at Lisbon on the 12th, via Madrid. Two Portuguese ships of the line and two frigates sailed from Lisbon about the 6th ult. to cruise against the Algerines; five sail of these pirates have lately appeared upon the coast of Portugal, captured several Portuguese coasters, and a Brazilian, carrying their crews, to the amount of 100 men, into slavery. Jerome Bonaparte after being five days under quarantine, landed, and received visits from the Spanish ambassador, and others of the corps Diplomatique in friendship with France.
The Prince of Peace had written to the commandant general at Ferrol, that intelligence has been received that the English expedition under general Craig, is destined against Ferrol.
The lords of the admiralty have lately adopted a measure for supplying his majesty's ships in the Indian seas with seamen, which, it is conceived, will prove highly beneficial to the public interest; they have sent on board the Indian ships that are on the point of sailing, near 100 fine lads which are to be delivered on board the admiral's ship on their arrival in India; the voyage to India, and a few months experience in the cruisers, will make them expert seamen; besides, it has been proved, that young lads will stand the climate much better than men, with all the care that can possibly be taken. The plan which is intended to be pursued, will, in all probability, soon prevent the necessity of impressing the seamen from the East-Indies, which hitherto has been unavoidable, from the great mortality and loss in his majesty's ships, besides giving security to the maritime interests of the East-India company.
Holland, &c.—The reports which it has been our duty to often repeat, of a relaxation having taken place in the rigour of the French regulations respecting the Batavian commerce, appear, after all, to have had little, if any foundation. A new tax has been imposed by the French on all goods exported; it has been intimated that ships outward bound would be seized, provided they were not furnished with satisfactory proofs of being destined for a neutral port. Vessels arriving in ballast are subject to the strictest investigation. They are instantly taken possession of by the French soldiers. The master and passengers are carried before the French general, and if the latter cannot give a good account of themselves, and find bail, they are immediately sent to prison. The consequence of all this has been, that the Dutch merchants have come to a resolution to make no further shipments.
These tyrannical measures have, however, the effect for which they were, partially at least, intended. They facilitate the adoption of the new constitution, although it will not be adopted with that unanimity, or rather silent submission that was anticipated. It has met with opposition in many places, and the principal inhabitants of the Utrecht have presented a strong memorial against it; but the Batavian Directory have prohibited the publication of the memorial in any of the newspapers.
The constitution, however, will be adopted by the great majority of the people, because they know that it cannot make their situation worse and it may make it better. The mercantile body have already, we are assured, prepared a petition to their honorary (that is to be) for a redress of grievances. The celebrated Van Haffelt is among those who have strongly recommended the adopting of the plan of the constitution—not because it has its approbation, but because there remains no alternative, no prospect of ameliorating the situation of his wretched countrymen, but in submission: He thus expresses himself:
"The difficult situation in which I find myself placed, does not permit me by the delivery of my sentiments with regard to the merits of this constitution, to anticipate the judgment of the nation; and therefore, relying at present on the report of your committee, I shall wait for the decision of the Batavian people. I cannot, however, forbear to remark, in passing, that this plan of the constitution in the terms in which it is to be proposed to the people, may, in the hands of a Cæsar, who loves freedom, virtue and his country, above every other object, restore the freedom of the honourable independence, the greatness, the glory and the common prosperity of this so much depressed republic; but in the hands of a Cæsar, who constituted only the gratification of his vicious desires, whose only objects of affection were self interest and personal aggrandizement; and
who tyrannized over his country, and transformed his fellow citizens into slaves, it may contribute to fasten the yoke of never-ending slavery on the necks of the already almost irrecusable Batavians. May the nation, entering a brighter prospect than hitherto of, it is to be hoped, a final deliverance, willingly performing this last sacrifice, however hard—and it is one, which even without any hope of amelioration, and without my suffrage must have taken place, unanimously accept the project now offered to them; and may the man who undertakes the arduous task of leading the way to the re-establishment of freedom, independence, and general prosperity, prove not a Cæsar but a Cato."
GREENOCK, May 10.
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
LONDON, May 6.—Mr. Pitt attended the select committee this day, and underwent an examination of some length.
House of Commons.
Mr. Calcraft presented a more formal declaration from Sir Francis Burdett, relative to the abandonment of his seat. It was read by the Clerk. The declaration stated, that it was not the intention of Sir Francis to defend his election and return. The petition of Mr. Mainwaring was then ordered to be taken into consideration, on Friday, the 7th of June. This arrangement is with a view to the freeholders themselves vindicating the return of Sir Francis.
Mr. Whitbread rose to bring forward his motion for taking into consideration the king's answer to the resolution of the 5th of April, respecting Lord Melville. The object of his motion, if carried, is to found an address to the sovereign, entreating him to drive from his presence and councils Lord Melville—for ever.
Mr. Pitt interrupted the honorable gentleman by announcing, that he had a communication on the subject to make, which might possibly anticipate the motion of that gentleman. Mr. Whitbread did not feel inclined to suffer the minister to state what he had to communicate, until after he had made his motion. He then proceeded over the charges against Lord Melville, who, he contended, had not been punished in any shape whatever. He called on the House to support their own dignity, honor and consistency, by which alone the resolution of the 5th could be rendered effectual. In the name of justice, and on every principle that rendered the constitution venerable, he called for punishment on this notorious offender. Mr. Whitbread is still speaking. I understand Mr. Pitt is to announce that Lord Melville has resigned all his offices and his name has been erased from the list of the Privy Council.
MADRID, March 28.
SPANISH FLEET.
The equipment of our fleet at Ferrol was completed on the 26th of March, and the ships are ready to put to sea on the first signal. That squadron consists of twelve ships of the line, besides the French ships, and of several frigates and corvettes. That part of the fleet at Cadiz which is already equipped, consists of the following ships of the line:—Trinidad, of 134 guns; St. Anna, of 114; Rago, of 100; Argonaute, of 86; St. Raphael, of 86; Terrible, of 76; Ferre, of 76; Glorieux, of 76; Bahama, of 76; Espana, of 68; America, of 68; Castilla of 62.—Four French ships of the line, Le Vanqueur, Le Souverain, Le St. Just, and Le St. Fermin, of 76 guns each; the frigates Magdalene and Roline, of 38 guns each.
HAGUE, April 13.
By the result of the votes given at the Hague, the new constitution has been accepted.—The number of citizens who did not inscribe their votes, and who are consequently considered as having consented, is ten times greater than that of those who voted.
BOSTON, June 17.
Captain Tuck, arrived here on Friday last from Gibraltar, informs, that Lord Nelson's fleet passed that place on the 27th April. The above account is direct and authentic, and corresponds with the intelligence given in our last, from Cadiz, received by the way of Plymouth.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.—The schooner Two Sons, captain Clark, has arrived at Newburyport from Nantz. She left that place on the 18th May, and on the 20th was boarded by a British 64 gun-ship, and informed, that a fleet of 15 ships of the line had sailed from England in pursuit of the combined French and Spanish fleet, which was presumed to have gone against Jamaica. Captain Clark also informs, that he learned by this vessel, that the Rochefort fleet had been a few days previous, steering towards L'Orient.
LIST OF LORD NELSON'S FLEET.
  Victory, 100 guns { Lord Viscount Nelson, Rear Ad. Gen. Murray, Capt. T. M. Hardy.   Royal Sovereign 100 { Rear Ad. Sir R. Bickerton, Captain J. Stuart.   Canopus, 100 { Rear Ad. G. Campbell, Captain.   Donnegal, 80 Capt. Sir R. Strachan, Bt.   Le Tygre, 80 Captain B. Holwell.   Excellent, 74 Captain Sotherton.   Belleisle, 74 Captain Harwood.   Kent, 74 Captain Malcom.   Leviathan, 74 Captain Byron.   Superb, 74 Captain Kaats.   Spencer, 74 Captain Stopford.   Triumph, 74 Captain Sir R. Barlow.   Agincourt 64 Captain Briggs. 
Daily Adv.
BRITISH FLEET.
  Off Brest, and ready to join 28 sail of the line. 12   Off Ferrol and Lisbon 15   With Lord Nelson, and gone to Jamaica 5   In Beershaven Bay 5   58 ships of the line, of which there are 15 of 120, and 98 guns each. 
  French, Spanish, and Dutch fleets on the home station, ready for sea, and fitting:   In the Brest Harbour 24 of the Line.   In Rochefort and L'Orient (all French) 4   In Ferrol and Corunna (French, Spanish and Dutch) 13   Toulon and Cadiz 26   Total 69 
General Craig, who commands the secret expedition which sailed from England in April last, was once a prisoner at Cambridge, (Mass.) being captured with Gen. Burgoyne in 1777.
NEW-YORK, June 19.
The ship America from Liverpool, brings no later news than before received. Captain Stit-
son (the master) informs, that a hot press for seamen took place at Liverpool the 7th of May, the day he failed.
Two countrymen a few days since, were discoursing at a public House in Yarmouth about the recent affair of the tenth report—"What could lord M—— do with all this money?" asked one of them. "Do with it," retorted the other, "Why he used to buy flock with it to be sure. "Aye, aye," replied his companion, with a "significant wink," I always thought there was some fellow behind the curtain, with a long purse, who bought up all the flock; and it is for this very reason, John, that the hogs & poultry are so curiously dear.—[Eng. pap.]
Captain Delano, who arrived last evening from Lisbon, is the bearer of dispatches for government.
Capt. D. informs that the French and Spanish fleets doubled Cape St. Vincent on the 23d of April, and it was supposed they had gone to the Northward, but no correct information had been received of their destination. On the 23d of May, the only two British Packets, were despatched from Lisbon to inform Admiral Craig, in the Channel of the movements of the French and Spanish fleets. On the 5th of May, 40 sail of British transports, convoyed by two men of war and 4 frigates, anchored in Cales Bay, a little to the Southward of the Rock of Lisbon; they are a part of the expedition that failed under the command of Sir J. Craig, bound for Gibraltar and Malaga, with troops for the garrisons. On the 8th of May, capt. D. left the mouth of the river, and saw the fleet of transports crossing the bar, bound up to Lisbon Roads.
Capt. D. further, informs, that a war was shortly expected to take place between Portugal and France. Prices Current at Lisbon, May 7.—Flour dolls 8 50, to 9 dolls; wheat, 17.5, to 20 dolls, per bushel, corn 1 10 to 1 25; beef 12 to 19; pork 15 to 16; codfish 5 50; pipe flaves 90 to 100, hhd. do. 50 to 55; and barrel flaves 40 to 45. Spec. Bank.
Extract of a letter from a respectable commercial house in Lisbon to another in this city, dated May 2.
"Since our last advice the continued and abundant importations of grain from France, the beginning of those from the Mediterranean, the certain advices of considerable purchases in the north of Europe, the occasional supplies from America, and the flattening appearance of our own crop, have altogether had a more sudden and important effect upon our market than we ever remember to have experienced. Very little more than a month ago we sold flour at fifteen dollars and a half per barrel on board, and wheat rather higher in proportion. The nominal price is now from 10 to 11 dolls. In Spain, flour, which was lately at 22 dolls, is now unsaleable at 15; and we are afraid much money will be lost at your late high prices. Very few of our dealers will not buy at any rate. The case is nearly the same throughout Spain." Merc. Adv.
Accounts from Lisbon state, that on the 1st April, a Portuguese 74, a frigate and a sloop of war, failed in pursuit of some Algerine cruizers, which had landed and carried off from the coast of Algiers about 200 of the inhabitants.
West-Indies.
NEW-YORK, June 20.
Mr. Blake, who left St. Pierres, Martinique, on the 28th May in the brig Minerva, informs us that the French and Spanish squadrons arrived at Port Royal on Wednesday the 15th of May—that they went to St. Pierres for a regiment of troops, under the pretence of going against Trinidad—that they returned and landed the regiment, and that when he left the island, the idea of any immediate enterprise was relinquished. Mr. B. adds that it was generally believed at St. Pierres, that the combined squadrons had not more than from 3 to 5000 troops on board; and that it was believed that they would not attack Jamaica. (Merc. Adv.)
Captain Schring of the brig Friends, left the French and Spanish fleets at Martinique on the 30th May, the latter in a very sickly condition. Their destination was not known; but it was supposed they would proceed to windward against Trinidad and the other colonies in possession of the English. B.
By Captain Thompson, in 12 days from St. Croix, we are informed that news was received there the day before he failed, that a British fleet of 17 sail of the line had arrived off St. Lucie; and that another French fleet, consisting of 14 sail of the line, had arrived at Martinique. Capt. T. says the above news was believed at St. Croix.
Captain Fowler, of the schooner Mariner, left Martinique on the first of June, at which time no second fleet had arrived there, as reported by Capt. Brown.
IMPORTANT.
Captain Brown, of the schooner Roger-Williams, arrived here yesterday in 14 days from St. Bartholomews, giving us the positive assurance that a British fleet of 18 sail of the line had arrived at Barbadoes on the first of June, under the command of Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton, who was to be joined immediately by Admiral Cochrane with six sail of the line. The squadron under Sir Richard is that lately commanded by Admiral Lord Nelson, who is said to have returned to England on account of the ill state of his health.
Captain B. further informs us that another French and Spanish fleet from Ferrol and Cartagena, consisting of 36 sail (14 of which were of the line) having 12000 troops on board, had arrived at Martinique, from whence they were to proceed against Antigua and Trinidad. Merc. Adv.
Extract of a letter from Havana, to a merchant in this city, dated May 30.
"The sacrifices that have been made here by the Americans is astonishing; scarcely a single cargo has lost less than 25 per cent. and almost all of them 50-1-2 and 50."
"A certain cargo of dry goods that left New-York some time before me, its whisperer, will lose something less than 50 per cent. The merchants and every body else have been completely gulled by the government, with respect to duties; ever since the opening of the port they have promised to reduce them to 15 per cent. and yesterday it was decreed that the duties should continue as formerly, viz. 32 1-2 per cent. on every thing imported; but they say that some few articles considered of the first necessity will be valued 5 per cent. less than formerly—but no one can enumerate one of these articles; and it is the general opinion that it is nothing more than a trick. It would be an act of charity to give publicity to these facts, which may be implicitly relied on; for some of our young American merchants settled here, still continue to solicit consignments from America, every one of which must be absolutely ruinous."
IMPORTANT!
By the brig Lucy, Captain Anderson, arrived at the Lazaretto, in 23 days from Port-France, Martinique, the following important intelligence is received: (Poulton's A. D. A.)
Captain Anderson informs that on the 28th May, off the Saints, he was boarded from the British frigate Spy, the look out ship (as he was informed) of Lord Nelson's fleet, from the Mediterranean, in
search of the French and Spanish fleets from Cadiz—that the left the British fleet 20 days previous, in lat. 30, long. 22, bound to the West-Indies. On captain Anderson's informing that he had left the combined squadrons at Port-Royal, Martinique, the Spy made sail to windward, to meet Lord Nelson's fleet.
Lord Nelson's force is not mentioned; when in the Mediterranean his fleet consisted of twelve sail of the line; and it may have been reinforced. In a junction with Admiral Cochrane, their combined force would exceed that of the French and Spanish fleet. The most interesting accounts may be hourly expected from the West-Indies.
A letter from St. Croix, dated May 25, received at Philadelphia, says:
"Lord Nelson was seen yesterday from shore with 14 sail of the line, in pursuit of the French fleet."
After receiving the above extract, we took some pains to ascertain how far it was entitled to credit. We have seen the owner and mate of the brig Sarah Ann, now at quarantine, from St. Croix, which place she left on the 27th of May. The owner informs, that he received a letter from St. Croix, dated the 27th ult. mentioning that Lord Nelson was in the West-Indies with 15 sail of the line. The mate of the brig says, that just before he failed, three ships of war passed by the west end of St. Croix, and several others were seen at the same time in the offing all steering to the westward.
The probability is, however, that the above is not Lord Nelson's but the French Toulon fleet bound to Jamaica; as we have accounts from Martinique, that the embargo at that place was raised on the 27th of May, after the sailing of the fleet.
FROM MARTINIQUE.
Capt. Lynch, of the fchr. Mars, who arrived this morning from Martinique, informs us, that on the 27th of May there were signals hoisted for another fleet to windward, supposed to be British; and that off Bermuda, he saw two British ships of the line steering SSW. under a heavy press of sail.
Capt. Ray, of the Alliance, from Falmouth, left here, brig Ohio, Ruff, just arrived from St. Jago de Cuba; brig Ranger, Forrester, for New-York, in 6 or 8 days. The ship Andromache failed the day before, and the Ann, Ann, Murdock, 6 days before. Havana, bearing distance 10 leagues, spoke the ship Ann, Murdock, 19 days from Jamaica for New-York. Lat. 23, 30, long. 77, 30, the ship Commerce, Dan-son, 7 days from Matanzas, for New-York. The ship Favourite, Mackie, had arrived at Aracababe, (Jam.) The ship Anna, Johnson, from Savannah, had been taken by a French privateer, retaken by the English, and sent into Kingston.
Capt. Webb from Martinique informs that the combined fleets were still at Port Royal, on the 28th of May; and that though they had made some necessary repairs, and the embargo taken off, yet there was no appearance of their sailing. It was said they were waiting for a reinforcement.
KINGSTON, (JAM.) May 18.
By the report of the committee appointed at the meeting of the inhabitants on Monday, to inspect the state of the market, it appears that there are now in this city
  2329 barrels of flour   1060 corn meal   185 tierces rice   7430 bbls salted meat of all descriptions   1893 ditto pickled fish   126 bhd. codfish   90 tierces ditto   422000 flaves   320000 feet lumber a very great part of the latter consisting of ranging and other heavy timbers; scarcely any pitchpine or common boards are at market. 
The foregoing statement, particularly with respect to dry provisions, needs no comment. Estimating the consumption of flour by Kingston, Port Royal, and Spanish town, at 500 barrels per week, and we are convinced this is far below the mark, and supposing no supplies will be wanted by government, of which who shall assure us, we are possessed of the means of subsistence for almost five weeks!!!
NEW-YORK, June 21.
THE BRITISH FLEET AT JAMAICA!
Capt. Ray, of the fchr. Alliance, who arrived this morning in 24 days from Falmouth, (Jam.) informs us that Admiral Decres had arrived with ELEVEN SAIL OF THE LINE, and had stationed his fleet across the harbour of Port-Royal.—Lord Nelson was hourly expected with a strong reinforcement. Prior to the arrival of the English fleet, the inhabitants of Port Royal were thrown into the utmost consternation. Information had been received of the arrival of the French and Spanish fleets at Martinique, and rumour with her hundred tongues, had swelled the combined forces to 45 sail of the line. They expected immediate orders to march to Kingston and to leave their own port to the ravages of the enemy. The arrival of Admiral Decres, however, dispelled their fears and renewed their hopes.
Admiral Cochrane had failed in the Northumberland, of 74 guns, to take command of the Windward station.
The ports of Jamaica continued shut against American vessels.
Martial law was expected to take place immediately throughout the island.
Domestic Intelligence.
DEPREDACTIONS UPON AMERICAN TRADE.
NEW-YORK, June 22.
On the 4th, 5th and 6th inst. a small Spanish privateer of 2 guns, 8 swivels, and 46 men, brought into St. Augustine the ship Golden Age, from this port to Liverpool, with naval stores; also the brig Oryx from hence for Jamaica, and the brig Polly and Betsey for Bermuda. Herald.
The British ship of war Leander, has captured and sent to Halifax, the schooner Eliza, Penners, from St. Thomas's, bound to New-York, the schooner Volunteer, Morris, from Curacao, to ditto, and the ship Nancy, of Boston, from Havana. B.
It is our painful duty to state, that the Leander and other British cruizers, are actively employed, within view of our shores, in intercepting our homeward bound merchantmen, and sending them to certain condemnation, fas aut nefas, in the court of Halifax. (Jackson's paper.)
NORFOLK, June 23.
Arrived Sch'r Friends Adventure, Dickson, 6 days from New-Providen—Sunday off Roanoke, spoke the schooner Concord of Dighton, and took from on board the mate and crew of the brig Comet, Capt. Chilton, of this port, and the crew of the schooner Imperial of Baltimore, captured by the French privateer schooner Mathilde, of 18 guns and 120 men—The mate of the Comet states, that she failed from Jersey on the 6th of June bound for Norfolk, in company with the armed ships Neptune and Maria, of and for Philadelphia; brig Isabella, fchr's Nonsoh, Imperial, Hetty, Maryland and Effiance, for Baltimore; with which they parted the day after they left land, not being able to keep them longer company? On the 16th at half past five p. m. in lat. 23, 20, long. 76, 30, fell in with the privateer schooner Mathilde, of Guadaloupe, who made a prize of the brig, took all hands out except the Steward and Cook, and put them all, except the captain, in irons—At the time the crew of the Comet was taken on board they found Capt. Neverson, and the crew of the schooner Imperial, and Capt. David Killock, of the brig Clyde, of Greenock, captured on a voyage from St. Thomas to Liverpool, on the 9th of June; and they were told that the privateer had taken seven American vessels, before she fell in with the Imperial, although she had been but one month out—On the
19th, she put seventeen Americans on board a brig from New-Orleans bound to Liverpool—she was with the brig Rosanna of Philadelphia—On 21st fell in with the schooner Concord, Capt. Webb, on board of which vessel the above-mentioned crews were put (with the exception of the Captains with whom the commander of the privateer laid he durst not part) with only two days provision, although the schooner was then on allowance—The mate says that they were tolerably well treated by the commander of the Privateer, who read to them his instructions, which were to hang all persons taken in the trade with the blacks, the crews, therefore, acknowledge themselves indebted to him for his forbearance. On the 22nd fell in with the ship New-York of New-York, and were supplied with bread and water; she also took two hands on board. Captain Webb, to whom both crews are desirous of expressing their gratitude for his kind treatment, failed from Jamaica on the 26th of May, on which day an Embargo was to be laid on all shipping in port—The ports had been opened for six months, by proclamation, dated 21st May.
The privateer Mathilde is one of the squadron off Charleston.
Capt. Harvey, arrived at Boston from Havana, in lat. 23, on the 21 June, at ten o'clock, P. M., in lat. 23, long. 75, brought to, and ordered on board of a French brig of 1

the important causes instituted by the devisees of the late Lord Granville for a portion of the territory which they claim in this state. This expectation has been disappointed. On Monday last it was announced by Judge Potter, that the court had formed, and were ready to pronounce an opinion on the motion, made at the former term by the defendant's counsel in one of the suits to discharge the demurrer to evidence. The plaintiff's counsel obtained leave to be heard further in opposition to this motion; and on the succeeding day argued it at considerable length and produced a number of authorities. Judge Potter pronounced it as his opinion, that the demurrer was irregular and improper; that it should be discharged, and that a jury should be impanelled again to try the issue of fact between the parties. The Chief Justice expressed his sincere regret that he found himself compelled to decline giving any opinion. He observed that on a former occasion he had informed the counsel on both sides that if the decision of that controversy depended on the operation of the treaty of peace in protecting the rights of British subjects to lands once held by them, he had formed an opinion so decided that he believed it could not be altered, or even shaken by argument; but that as his opinion was formed at a time when he felt a very strong interest in the question, he knew not how far it might be attributable to the bias so perhaps occasioned, and that therefore he would not be willing to sit as a judge in the decision of the cause if they turned on that point. He added, that he was then informed by the counsel on both sides that, although that point was one among several others which would be raised in the course of the argument, it was not the one on which the determination of the cause was expected to depend. Upon this information he had attended to the able discussion which was had on the merits of the claim. On one point he had for some time doubted—whether the state of North Carolina had or had not confiscated the property in question?—Mature consideration had not enabled him to say that property was confiscated; on all others he had never entertained a doubt. Thus driven to a determination on the point whereon his mind was so fully made up, and made up under the circumstances formerly announced, he conceived proper to withdraw himself wholly from the decision of the case. With peculiar emphasis he remarked that, next to the forming of correct opinions on correct principles, it was most important to courts of justice that the correctness of those principles should be unquestioned. With respect to the motion on which an opinion had just been given, as he had withdrawn himself from the case generally, it was unnecessary for him to say anything. Were he to concur in the opinion pronounced it would thence derive no additional validity; & were he to differ from it, the consequence would be but to delay the progress of the cause until the sentiments of the supreme court could be ascertained on a matter foreign from its merits, and not connected with its final event. The chief justice having thus declined giving an opinion, that of Judge Potter was recorded as the decision of the court. The demurrer was thus discharged and a new venire ordered. The plaintiff's counsel not satisfied with the determination, prayed leave to except thereto, in order that if the suit should be removed by writ or error to the supreme court, the determination might be there reviewed. The exception was accordingly recorded. The issues of fact come on of course to be tried by a jury at the next term. (Minerva.)
Thomas Morris of Tennessee, who was taken up at Edenton some months ago for passing counterfeit bank notes, and brought to this place by col. Blount, was tried on Wednesday last. The evidence was so clear that the jury had retired but a few minutes when they returned with a verdict of guilty. The court fined him one hundred dollars, and sentenced him to five years imprisonment in Hillsborough jail—to stand committed until he paid the fine.
John Jones of Virginia, who was apprehended last winter in Norfolk and underwent an examination for passing counterfeit bank bills at Hertford in this state, and who was brought to this state by the marshal of Virginia, was tried and convicted at this term: the judgment of the court was five years imprisonment in Hillsborough jail, and to be confined until he pay a fine of one hundred dollars.
The trial of Nathan Holdslaw, who formerly lived in this county, and who was committed a few weeks ago to Hillsborough jail, on a charge of having attempted to pass counterfeit bank bills in Montgomery, was continued until next term. Not being able to give bail, he was remanded to Hillsborough jail.
Isaac Sullivan of Roberson, who was bound to appear at the Federal Court, to answer a charge of the notorious Holdslaw of having passed counterfeit Bank Notes, appeared but could not obtain his trial and was remanded to appear at the next term.
We learn that Abraham Irwin, who was brought here by col. John Moore of Lincoln, under a charge of signing counterfeit Bank Notes, has been examined before Judge Potter, and discharged.
Benjamin Dorsey and Lewis Hunter who were also brought here by col. Moore of Lincoln, charged with counterfeiting, were admitted to bail.
Abraham Collins of Lincoln, who was bound to this court under a charge of counterfeiting Bank Notes, was not tried at this term; he was committed to Hillsborough jail, with permission to be bailed before a magistrate of Orange in the sum of forty thousand dollars. (B.)
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 28th JUNE, 1805.
"AFRICANS FOR SALE." "PRIME CONGO NEGROES." or similar exhibitions, will continue to disgust our eye, as we glance over the Charleston prints. That the same avarice, which originally opened their ports to this trade, would still continue to pursue it, and that the increasing number of imported Africans would gradually supply the demand and depreciate their value, were facts which required little ingenuity indeed to foresee. But had any evidence been really wanting to confirm these predictions, the number and terms of their advertisements, would have readily supplied it. Hundreds of this abused race of men, from almost all the servile tribes of Africa, and from the West-Indies, are daily exposed to sale in their markets. The same spirit of gain, which feeds the hardy New-Englanders into the frozen ocean to seek and harpoon the whale, has prompted these Charleston adventurers or their agents, to traverse the whole coast of Africa in search of their peculiar prey. Some of their victims are taken by decoy, or torn from their habitations by force; some are sold by the avarice of their masters in Africa to gratify the avarice of their American proprietors; and many who were unfortunate enough to become the captives of war, are still more unfortunate in becoming the slaves of commerce. Obtained by such a variety of means, these unfortunate objects exhibit a no less diversified appearance of faces and figures. In this Charleston vessel, you are presented with a collection from the Mandingo nation: here you have a knot from the Congo tribe: or there a knot from the Gold Coast. Meantime the demand for slaves is gradually satisfied, and their value decreases as importation increases their numbers. In one advertisement the purchaser is flattered with the hope, that he may "get great bargains for cash or produce of any kind;" whilst another assures him, that his "produce will be taken at the highest market price in payment."
It would be rendering a substantial service to his own and to the other states of the union, if some enlightened inhabitant of Charleston would present us with a statement of the whole number of the slaves that have been imported, and the gradual diminution of value which they have occasioned. A view of this sort would come in as an admirable supplement to the history of the nefarious means made use of in carrying on this trade; the whole system would then appear to be of a piece; and every feature of it would then exhibit a malady, that would inspire some future projector of a slave trade with the necessary horror. Even the mercenary projectors of S. Carolina might be made to shrink with disgust at the aggregate view which should thus exhibit before them. They who can now see without any alarms of policy or any yearnings of pity, tens and hundreds of these beings successfully transplanted into the very bosom of their state, might be recalled to a momentary sense of their duty, by having before them a collective view of thousands or tens of thousands.
To expose the injustice, the impolicy, or even the folly of the slave trade at this period and in this country, would be a useless and superfluous undertaking. That which no man is prepared to deny, it would be vain for any one to prove. Yet there is one point of view, in which the injurious consequences of an American slave trade, have always impressed themselves upon my mind with peculiar force. We continue to reprobate the existing corruptions of the British government; we admire the exertions of a Wilberforce to arrest the progress of one of those corruptions, which the avarice of their merchants has opened upon the nation; and yet the statesmen of South Carolina are inconsistent enough to pursue the very same iniquity. We execrate the abominable policy of the mother country, which originally introduced the Africans into these colonies, and yet the people of South Carolina are now in the pursuit of this same abominable policy. We vaunt that we are free and yet they are seeking by the employment of various means to multiply the number of their slaves. What a lesson is this for the oppressed inhabitants of Europe? Disgusted as many of them must be with their own monarchical institutions, they still demand a satisfactory proof that a revolution in their government would be accompanied with correspondent advantages. To satisfy these doubts, they are anxious to have before them the model of some republican society, whose institutions they may attempt to imitate, and whose peculiar advantages may stimulate them to revolutionary exertions. If they seek such a specimen in the democracies of Greece and Rome, they will discover these countries agitated by internal factions and assailed by innumerable wars. The late revolution of the French has exhibited a spectacle, which cannot fail to discourage all nations oppressed as they have been, from encountering the same perils. It was our office to exhibit the model, which they so anxiously desired; the model of a republic, so just, so beneficent, and so happy, that it could not fail to cast into deeper shade the oppressive monarchies of Europe. Yet even this model appears marred and disfigured by the institution of slavery; a slavery which one of those free states so far from striving to diminish, is striving to exacerbate. So far as the people of S. Carolina have any regard then for the destinies of the European world, they cannot but perceive the injurious tendency of this policy upon them. They have furnished every European master with a topic of ridicule upon the boasted virtue of republics; and every subject with a miserable consolation in the midst of their oppressions. It is fortunate however that even this evil weight is light against the innumerable advantages of our republican constitution & the encouragement which it holds out to other nations to imitate our example.
Should this trade continue till 1808, there is one thing which cannot be done, and there is one which we may do. It is not in the power of congress to prevent this commerce; nor is it even in the power of 3-4ths. of the states to give them this power by altering the 9th. sect. of the first art. of the constitution. All the other states have no right to amend this part of the political compact so long as a single state may be found against it. Hence the late proposition of the Legislature of North Carolina to amend that section must have been nugatory, as soon as there was found a single vote for its rejection. But though congress is unable to exercise a power on this subject, it is in the power of the Virginia Legislature to apply some sort of corrective. They may prevent the introduction of slaves from any other state into this state. The trade of S. Carolina has already inflicted some injury upon us, by supplying its inhabitants with those slaves, which they would have partly sought for among us, and which it would have been our interest to have parted with. Now it is much to be feared, that this current of importation should it continue, may at last roll back upon us the population, which they have once received from us. Is it not then time to provide for this evil ere it oc-
cur, or at least to show the indignation which we feel at the unworthy policy of Carolina? Let us pass the salutary law which was proposed but rejected during the last session of the assembly, and exclude every slave whatever from the commonwealth, whether he shall be acquired in any other state by descent, marriage or devise, or whether he shall belong to a citizen of any other state, who may wish to remove into our own.
It gives us pleasure to discover, that in the celebrated case of GRENVILLE's heirs against the proprietors of land in North Carolina, Judge Marshall had modesty enough to withdraw himself from the decision. When at the last spring term of the Circuit Court, it was decided by Judges Marshall and Potter, that a jury should be discharged from a further consideration of the cause, and that it should be referred to the decision of the bench, the impression upon the people of that state was not to be mistaken. They expressed their apprehension that Mr. Marshall in giving that decision had been misled by his ancient propensities; that the man who had derived such considerable advantages from the claims of Lord Fairfax in Virginia, had experienced and indulged some secret affection for the representatives of Earl Grenville: and that for the purpose of indulging this propensity, he had been anxious to withdraw the cause from the consideration of a jury, who would have rendered an impartial and independent verdict, and refer it to a judge, whose opinion was already formed, and whose secret partialities were so strongly suspected. How far these suspicions may have come to the knowledge of Judge Marshall; how far they may have excited his apprehensions about the existence of a perishable popularity; how far they may have recalled his mind to a calm review of the propriety of his interfering; we have no adequate means of discovering. It is certainly fortunate for him and conducive to the ends of justice that he has declined giving any opinion, and that the case of the landholders is once more fairly brought before a jury of their peers. These men have now every reason to hope for an impartial and independent verdict; and though their decision should not be strictly conformable to the benefits of justice, it will more readily obtain the acquiescence of the people.
TRAVELLERS IN AMERICA.
It has grown into a sort of proverb, that books of travels are generally fraught with erroneous descriptions, conversations that were never held, countries that were never seen and characters that were never studied. Many of these have been written in the closet by men, who have employed their imagination upon countries which their feet have never traversed. Most of them have been published by men who have seen what they had no opportunity to study, and whose eye took in such a variety of objects, that they had neither the wish nor the power to scan them with precision. Scarcely one of them has been written by an author, who far down coolly to describe what he had coolly surveyed, and who only anxious to transfer that very impression to his reader's mind which existed upon his own, rejects all the bewitching embellishments of fancy and style. All travellers indulge the same though not an equal licence of description, which should belong only to the poet and the novelist. They are not so anxious to tell what is true, as to make out some tale that is striking. Even when they draw their ground-work from experience, it is the imagination alone that supplies the colouring. Almost every thing is strained to the supernatural degree. They people every country through which they pass, with the very best or very worst of men; monsters and prodigies start up under their prolific pen, and when their painting comes under the eye of the experienced connoisseur, of the very man whose country they had delineated, he is perhaps the very last man in the world to recognise the original from which it was taken.
We had no right to expect that our country would have fallen into the hands of more correct describers. Coming from Europe as most of them have done, and returning to Europe before they published their works, they had the advantage of seeing and describing a country which was upwards of 3,000 miles beyond the circle of their readers and the back parts of which were seldom visited even by the natives on the coast. Men may lie with safety about such remote objects, when there are so many to believe and so few to contradict. We see every day that even facts of the most public notoriety are materially changed in their nature by a trip across the Atlantic. Was it not the other day, for instance, that we exposed a most material misstatement in a Paris print of that part of the president's last message to congress, which related to the St. Domingo trade? Was it not in our last paper that we published a strange account from the celebrated astronomer Lalande of some proceedings of the senate that were said to have been held on Col. Burr's trial? When we see such facts as these so strangely misstated, how can we expect that the varying & diversified manners of our countrymen should meet with more faithful historians?
The list of American travellers has indeed been small and it is much to be regretted that their errors had not been equally so. They have almost without exception given a false colouring to our manners, and they have not always put it on with the most friendly hand. Even the cool and philosophical Volney, from whom we might have expected greater truth & civility, has in the very few words which he has expended upon our manners in his last volume of travels fallen into the most ridiculous mistakes about our diet and cookery. "Our pastry" he declares "is pumpkin pye, and nothing but half baked greasy dough; and all our gravies, even that for roast Beef are nothing more, than melted butter." These specimens are sufficient to show the very extravagant censures which he would have passed upon our manners, had he indulged his spleen in drawing them at full length. To an American who saw him at Paris after his return, he represented every thing among us in the most contemptible colours. Our roads were imp-passable; our landscapes were rude; and "our women were just fitted for such men."
In any of our readers acquainted with the person and character of another of those travellers, who has lately figured upon the stage? We observe him under the name of Thaniod; and have the following description from his pen, as it has been published in a late London paper, of our national customs:
VIRGINIAN MANNERS. —A French Traveller, THANIOD, who has lately returned from Virginia, thus describes the manners of the inhabitants of that country.—"The Virginian is proud—as he is fond of expense; but he pays for it as seldom as possible. Looking negligently on a shop with a quid of tobacco in his mouth he enters into a bragging description of his hunting, enumerates his horses, describes them and his negroes of which he gives an account how many he has bought and sold in his life-time. He is always on the point of building an elegant country-house, and nothing delays him but a plaguy troublesome lawyer. He is reasonably fond of his wife, and not averse to his children; but is passionately attached to his game-cock. He would not part with him for 200 guineas, though
perhaps he has not two dollars in his pocket. To this animal he looks for the re-establishment of his fortune; and when, as he calls him, with, he hopes, before a month elapses, regain him all the money he has lost in the last two years by horse-racing. Not that he is destitute of other resources.—No; he has lands in Kentucky. Perhaps you would wish to see the title-deeds: O! they are all locked up in the office of the Council of War, because he wants money to redeem them. But his great boast is the liberty of his Country, to which he tells you that he has contributed not a little. Vanity and poverty are his characteristics: a republican to outward appearance, but a despot in his heart. He anticipates his revenues, and spends more than he can possibly get. He is perfectly contented to suffer a want of linen, provided he can induce himself with his phaeton. This, and arrack punch, form the delight of a Virginian; and if he can enjoy those, he cares not whether he wears a shirt or goes without one."
We repeat the question, is any of our readers acquainted with the name of this Thaniod? Can they account for the invidious caricature which he has thus given of our manners? Is he one of those enlightened fages like Volney, who are capable of estimating things properly, but that their eyes against the most obvious objects; or is he one of those miserable itinerants, who plod their way from door to door, from novel to hut, in some obscure corner of Virginia, and who are liberal enough to take their description of all the classes of society, from the few, which hospitality has introduced to his assistance? He talks familiarly enough of fophas, and rich planters; but is there any thing which this man says worthy of credibility?
If this man's description of our manners be incorrect, we have a fine illustration indeed of the gratitude of European travellers. When they come among us we receive them with open arms; the inhabitants of the country are pleased to see, to entertain and make them happy. Hospitality is still the virtue of the Virginia farmer. When he returns to his native country; how does he repay those services? By abusing our nation; representing them as the slaves of the most contemptible vices; devoted to Horses, to game-cocks, and the taste of arrack punch, and possessed of scarce a single virtue. Bad as this picture is, surely it is worse than the original from which it is professedly drawn.
Yet let us not "lay this flattering unction to the soul." Much as Monsieur Thaniod has exaggerated our vices, there is sometimes a slender vein of truth in what he says. Free as our people are not by name but in nature, fraught with the finest original genius, friendly to one another and hospitable to the stranger, it is not to be concealed that some of our amusements are coarse, repulsive yet ardently pursued. "I once saw" says a celebrated humourist "as I was riding in a part of Virginia that shall be nameless, a man riding upon a good horse, with a pair of black satin breeches, white silk stockings and suitable accompaniments, and going to a cock-fight, with a cock under his arm." Many of our lower classes are no doubt distinguished by their coarseness and simplicity; but what is the remedy? Not introducing among them the luxury of the towns; but the intellectual influence of education and reading. These will counteract the secret charm of pampered wealth; furnish an inexhaustible amusement to the people; and support the inestimable edifice of American freedom.
We have recently published a short view of the French finances; by which it appears that the whole annual expenditures amount to 684,000,000 francs, or about 137 millions of dollars. We are naturally led to compare this amount of expenditure with that of Britain; as these two powers are at present engaged in an arduous contest, the issue of which must depend, in a great measure, upon their respective resources.
The annual expenditures of Great Britain and Ireland amount to about dolls. 310,000,000 Those of France to 137,000,000
Difference against G. B. 173,000,000 Although the population of the latter is double that of the former. Whence is it that this great difference arises? The government of France is supported with superior splendor to that of England; and the objects effected by the former are more numerous; a large portion of the resources of France being devoted to internal improvements, to public instruction, and to the advancement of the arts and sciences. France also supports an army of 500,000 effective soldiers, while the force of England does not amount to one third of that number. We can only satisfactorily account for the enormous expenditures of Britain by attending to three circumstances. 1st. Her vast national debt. 2d. Her gigantic navy; and 3d. Her extensive colonies. These are the ceaseless channels through which her wealth flows; and they are drains which threaten to endure for ages unless they shall be dried up by some extraordinary convulsion. It is because France is free from these perpetually increasing sources of expenditure that she is able to keep her disbursements within such narrow limits.
In these respects the example of England should be perpetually present to the view of our countrymen. Whenever their disposition to regard the present rapid extinguishment of the national debt relaxes from a wish to answer some temporary purpose, let them reflect on the rapidity with which the British debt has progressed to its present enormous and alarming magnitude. Whenever our ambitious views lead us to indulge ideas of conquest, let us remember that these carry in their train, a vast naval establishment; and whenever our pride suggests the policy of a great naval armament, let us previously decide one problem, viz. whether we can limit its ultimate extent within narrower bounds than the great maritime powers of Europe.
One other impressive view. The expenditures of Great Britain impose an annual burthen of twenty-six dollars upon each individual; those of France five dollars; and those of the United States two dollars. National Intelligencer.
The preceding view is not of itself sufficient to shew, on which of these nations the expenses of the war will bear most heavily, because this will entirely depend upon the proportion which may exist between the expense of the war and the income of the nation. Now it may be contended, as Cicero says there is no error so absurd which has not been supported by some philosophers, that the income of the English is as much greater than that of the French, as their expense is greater. Without going into any elaborate details on this point, we may mention two considerations which are unfavourable to that opinion:
1st. That the resources of the British government are principally drawn from their commerce; that this commerce is now to all appearances shut out from the ports of the north of Germany, of Holland, of France, of Spain and greater part of Italy; though in fact the exclusion has not been so complete as appearances would induce us to believe, because there are numberless shifts and expedients to carry on an interdicted trade; that this partial interruption of their commerce must have been alleviated by the employment of an extra number of labourers in the navies and armies of England, and the correspondent suspension of
trade, manufactures or farming, to nearly as great an extent; that a smaller quantity of produce and manufactures must consequently have been raised, and the resources of the nation and the government must have sustained a proportionable diminution. In fact no man can have a perfect knowledge of the injurious effects of the present war upon England, who has not examined the internal economy of her affairs; her bills of poor rates, and the bankruptcies among her merchants. The reader has not yet forgotten the melancholy picture which Cobbett, in his late view of the Jamaica affairs, has given us of the first; and as to the last, we are sorry to say, that our American prints do not give us sufficiently lengthy extracts from the English papers. When we come to institute a comparison in these points with the French nation, we immediately discover that their resources being principally derived from farming and manufactures, have been much less exposed to diminution by the interruption of their commerce; and that although they have diverted some of their productive labour, as the English have done, into the services of their navy and army, yet that the quantity thus appropriated and absorbed, can scarcely be greater; for the greater number of their standing soldiers is sufficiently compensated by the smaller number of their seamen.
2nd: That in fact the income of France has been augmented during the present war by the income of Spain, of Holland and of Hanover. It is within the recollection of every reader, that one of the principal complaints of England against Spain, was one of the pretended causes of the war, was that Spain had commuted the men and ships promised by her treaty with France, for sums of money; and that the French armies have levied frequent contributions upon the Dutch, and the cities of Bremen, Hamburg, and Lubec. The expense of the war is consequently not only less on the side of France, but a smaller proportion of it is paid by herself. She has even had the ingenuity to levy contributions on Hanover, and make the king of England's Electoral dominions supply some of the sinews of the war.
We have no time to expatiate at present on W. India affairs. All the diversified intelligence which we have received on this subject, we have called and collected for the information of the reader. One suggestion only deserves to be mentioned: If an engagement should take place between the English & French fleets and the former should be triumphant, Louisiana must become our's under the boundaries, which we have long since claimed, even if Mr. Monroe has not already adjusted them with the Court of Madrid.
By Last Evening's Mail.
NEW-YORK, June 23.
THE BRITISH FLEET. —It will be remembered, (says the New-York Commercial Advertiser) that on the 1st of April last, Admiral Duckworth referred his fleet to Jamaica to the charge of Admiral Deeres, and himself failed for England. Since that period, Admiral Deeres has been cruising among the islands. On the 6th of April Admiral Cochrane arrived with an reinforcement of six ships of the line and 5 frigates. Adm. Deeres has now it seems returned to Port Royal with his own fleet, and the whole of Adm. Cochrane's, excepting the Northumberland, which is gone to Barbadoes. We state these facts to show the probability, that Adm. Deeres may have collected, from the various stations in the West-Indies, and from Halifax, a force equal to one mentioned by capt. Ray.
The arrival of the British admiral Deeres at Jamaica with 31 sail of the line, gives a new aspect to affairs in the West-Indies; the question now will be whether the combined fleets shall blockade the British in Port Royal, or attack St. Lucie?
Port Royal is one of the first sea ports in the world for its extent and convenience. The town stands on a neck of land nearly half a mile in breadth, but running into the sea eight or nine miles. It is about 12 miles by land to Spanish Town; and the harbor which would contain a thousand sail at safe anchorage, being 8 or 9 miles broad is defended by very strong works.
Kingston was founded after the destruction of Port Royal by the hurricane several years ago, stands about five or six miles from Port Royal, and also a harbour, spacious, safe from storms and a place of considerable trade. These are the places of most importance on the southern side, which faces the tract of those vessels which make what is called the windward passage; and the course which vessels pursue on the route to Europe when they wish to avoid the trade winds. The course of vessels by the windward passage is through the strait formed by the south east point of Cuba, or Cape Maize, and the two promontories which form the western extremities of St. Domingo.
There is however another commodious bay on the north west side of Jamaica, on the margin of which the town of Montego stood; this town was destroyed in 1755 by fire, but has been since restored, and is now a place of considerable importance. There are several places on the north side, which though not commodious for a fleet, admit of the landing a considerable force—and either at Montego bay, or on the called the Newport, an invading force would most probably make a descent.
Martinique is the largest of the windward islands. (Aurora)
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Mr. Canning reminded the honorable gentleman (Mr. Whitbread) of a former proposition he had made—that of being ready to co-operate with his right honorable friend in any measure that had a tendency to promote the object he had in view. His right hon. friend had no design of delaying the inquiry; he was only of opinion that if it was the intention of the hon. gentleman to move for a legal prosecution, it would be proper to give that motion precedence of the other. The propriety of this motion was obvious. For those persons who were to be subjected to legal enquiry were not to be expected to give any answer before the committee that might tend to criminate them before a court of justice. Such an arrangement, therefore, would defeat the very end of any legal proceeding, and cramp at the same time the enquiries of the committee, as those persons were the only evidence from whom they were to derive their information. In regard to the amendment proposed by his right hon. friend, he entirely concurred in thinking that the committee ought to be confined to their proper object, and not to interfere in such points as should be judged necessary to be referred to a court of justice. If, therefore, the motion for a legal inquiry were first fixed, and the object or objects for that legal investigation determined, the committee would have the advantage of knowing to what objects they were to confine their exertions, and would be relieved from that part of the subject which would come under the cognizance of a court of justice. From the disposition the hon. gentleman seemed to be in the night this subject was before the house, he did not think he could have any objections to such an arrangement.
The attorney general, as a court of law had better means of procuring evidence, than either a commission or a committee, and could have wished therefore that the hon. mover had adhered to his original design. In respect to the powers of the committee to be appointed, he was clearly of opinion that they ought to be general, and for that reason opposed the amendment. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that he had proposed the committee to be invested with specific and limited powers, under the idea of a legal prosecution, at the same time as originally proposed by the framer of the motion. Mr. Windham, with his usual ability, argued in favor of an unlimited committee, which should go into an inquiry of the whole of the report, and then refer such particular parts of the subject to legal discussion as the house should afterwards think proper. The house ought to have a regard to its own character. They ought to be as anxious also to make a proper example to prevent future disorders. They ought not, but with the greatest caution, part with powers they possessed, particularly as the attorney general might afterwards tell them that he could effect nothing. Lord Castlereagh allowed, that the house ought not to part with any of its powers unless convinced that that part which they relinquished would be equally well in the hands of those to whom they entrusted it as in their own. He thought a legal inquiry would be more effectual. At any rate it was not to be expected that any individual would answer before a committee if they should think that evidence would be afterwards brought against them in a court of justice. Should the powers of the committee be found too limited, they might afterwards be extended as necessity should require, but at present he saw no farther powers necessary than those proposed by his right hon. friend's amendment. Mr. Banks thought it was in the power of the house to proceed on the whole business, and found any necessary legal proceedings on the report. It would have been his wish, he said, to refer the matter again to the committee, giving them larger powers than they at present possessed. The extent to which the doctrine was carried, of not criminating one's self, he conceived to be dangerous, and would render all reference to the Attorney General nugatory, as he might be able to obtain no answer that could serve as evidence. Mr. Sergeant Best, objected to any legal proceeding, on the ground that it could be of no advantage. If evidence refused to answer interrogatories before a committee on pretence of not criminating themselves, they would do the same in a court of law. A committee, however, would have this advantage over a court of law, that it would not be tied down to any particular course of enquiry. But even supposing a prosecution to succeed, a restitution of the money was a consideration of the least consequence among so many others of greater magnitude. He was therefore astonished at the amendment the right hon. gentleman had proposed, which went so much to narrow enquiry and disappoint the anxiety of the public, in proof of which the table was now loaded with petitions. The powers of the committee, he thought, would be sufficiently limited when confined to the tenth report. Sir John Hippisley vindicated the manner in which drafts had been made at the bank. He adverted to the advice given by Mr. Trotter to Mr. Tierney on his retiring from office, which, he said had had a considerable influence on the public mind, to the prejudice of the former, and which did not he was sure, make that impression, at the time on Mr. Tierney's mind as has been since represented. He considered that advice, of which so much had been said, as a legacy only, left by Mr. Trotter to Mr. Tierney as his friend. The public had heard much also, of a fine palace, but that palace, he was warranted in saying, had not cost Mr. Trotter 8000l. nor was that gentleman so rich as had been stated; his income, and he would pledge his word for the fact, was not more than 1200l. The ends of public justice, the hon. baronet thought, were already sufficiently answered, and he objected therefore to any farther measures. Mr. Tierney contended in reply to the last speaker, that the draft made at the Bank might be conformable to the act of Parliament, and yet a violation of that act, because, tho' made conformably to the act, they might be drawn for services that had no existence. He illustrated very forcibly the impropriety, and in some cases the danger of a balance in the hands of the paymaster or his private banker. The advice Mr. Trotter gave him on entering into office, related to the messengers employed in conveying money, and consisted in a new plan of managing the drafts, so as to prevent accidents from the messengers losing, embezzling, or absconding with the money. The attorney general said, that he had been backward in delivering his opinion, until he had now been called upon individually to state his opinion upon the case; or, otherwise, as his right honorable friend (Mr. Tierney) had expressed himself, no doubt with the purest motives, it had been asked how far the law officers of the crown would undertake in the proceeding submitted to the house? His reason for having thus been backward in giving his opinion to the house, was, that it had been always held as proper, that the crown lawyers should refrain from delivering any opinion of their own, when a motion for them to prosecute was before the house, unless they saw that any particular mode was likely to be adopted, which would not be afterwards tenable in a court of justice. Now that he had been called upon, however, he had no hesitation in saying, that any person who should be called upon to render an account in a court of law, might enter their demurrer. And, if it should be proved in a court of equity, that Mr. Trotter had derived a profit from the use of public money and that a participation of such profits could not be traced to Lord Melville, the public would not be able to recover from him at equity. He was clearly of opinion however, that a proceeding in a Court of Law, would be much more likely to be advantageous to the public, than any proceeding which a committee of that house could possibly adopt. Mr. Tierney, in explanation, said that he wished it to be distinctly stated whether, if Mr. Trotter should state what was the amount of the profit which had been gained by the use of the public money, it would be consistent with the forms of law in that case, to ask, whether Lord Melville had participated to any, and to what amount in such profits? The attorney general stated, that he believed, that if it should be said that the public money which had been so improperly applied had been fully restored to the public use, it would be not in their power to press the question farther. Mr. Alexander observed, that he had always had the greatest deference for public opinion, but he hoped that the day would never come when the house of commons would, contrary to their own good sense, be induced to adopt a particular line of conduct in consequence of any public clamour which might then be raised. He had attended minutely to the different arguments which had been used on both sides, and upon a serious consideration of the whole, it appeared to him that the mode of proceeding by law was the most temperate and dispassioned that could be adopted in the present instance.
Mr. Sheridan adverted to the tardy opinion which he said the attorney general had given; and the solicitor general and an hon. judge opposite had as yet remained silent. But he recollected that when the principal members of the South Sea company had been first examined before a committee of that house, that prosecutions were commenced, and that some members had been expelled that house in consequence of the part which they had taken in that transaction. There was an additional object to be gained by an examination before a committee of that house, that they could order the accounts of Messrs. Coutts and Co. or Messrs. Drummonds to be produced, and they would not dare to refuse them. The chancellor of the exchequer explained. Mr. Fuller reminded the house, that an hon. member under the gallery (Sir J. C. Hippisley), he seemed to allude to) had said that he could prove that the most magnificent edifices, and the most superb palaces, had been raised out of 1200l. a year. In such a case he should be ashamed to belong to any party, but he thought it his duty to recommend further inquiry into such a business. A great deal had been said about the propriety of persons answering to questions which might lead to criminate themselves. He knew, without possessing at the same time any knowledge of the regular forms of law, that it had been the uniform practice of every villain at the Old Bailey, for these 100 years past, to say, "O Lord, I must not answer that question, because it may lead to convict myself!" But in honorable society, what would be said to a gentleman who would answer in this manner? On the other hand, if a person in office did honestly confess that he had misapplied the public money, but would prove that he had not done so to enrich himself, the generosity of that house, and of Englishmen in general was such, that he might be certain of being free from any further prosecution. Mr. Fox observed, that the apprehensions of a committee to be appointed for the purpose of inquiring into Lord Melville's conduct lay heavy on the minds of all Lord Melville's friends. The attorney general had even gone so far as to say, in effect, that nothing could be gained by proceeding at law, if he understood him right, and yet he had recommended to the house to adopt that mode of proceeding. He had said that, if the guilty participation was not traced home to Lord Melville, we could not recover from him; but, in a civil action, of what consequence was that, so as he was able to recover the sum stated for his client? It might be proper in a legal sense to say that a man had a right to refuse giving an answer to his employer, as the representatives of the people whom they served undoubtedly were? But it was also right that they should do their duty, and take care that such persons should never at any future period have an opportunity of injuring their constituents. Mr. Canning said, that if one mode was adopted, there must be a pledge that the other should be abandoned. If it was said that great sums of money had been lost by the public, the most certain means of recovering those sums, was by a legal process. He supposed the honorable gentleman had only changed his mode with the hopes of gaining a few stray votes. The solicitor general was of opinion, that all the evidence which was desired to be brought forward, could be as well enforced in a court of law as in a committee of the House. Mr. Fox complained stated, that whatever might be the practice in the particular court to which the honorable and learned gentleman alluded, it was not so in that which he practised in. Mr. Whitbread relied on the contradictions, which had been given to the opinion of the crown lawyers, by such respectable persons in their professions, as his honorable friends (Mr. Sergeant Best, Mr. Ponsonby, and Mr. Fox) who, if he got any stray votes, it would be, perhaps, that of the right hon. gentleman himself (Mr. Canning) which it was not usual for him to have. The house then divided—For the amendment 229—For Mr. Whitbread's motion 151—majority 71. Mr. Whitbread then said that he held in his hand a list of members whom he meant to propose to the consideration of the house, as fit persons to compose a committee to whom the subject should be referred. It was of the utmost importance that this committee should consist of persons whose character for talents, independence and integrity, should give confidence to the country, and he was sure that no objection would be made to any one of the names that he held in his hand. They were selected without consideration to party, from both sides of the house. He read over the names as follows: Mr. Baker Lord Arch. Hamilton Mr. Banks Mr. Madocks Mr. Blackburn Lord Marham Mr. N. Calvert Hon. T. Lascelles Hon. S. Cowper Sir J. Wrottesley Mr. Creevey Sir Robert Peel Mr. Pierrepont Lord Henry Petty Hon. John Fane Mr. Sheridan Sir John Newport Mr. Whitbread Lord Folkestone Lord R. Spencer P. Gregor, esq. and concluded with moving the first name William Baker, esq. member for the county of Hertford. The Chancellor of the Exchequer objected this mode of naming the committee; and moved as an amendment, that the committee should be chosen by a ballot. Mr. Fox expressed his astonishment, that on a subject of such moment the Right Hon. gentleman should resort to this mode. Nothing but the most perfect publicity could satisfy the ends of justice, or convince the public that they were in earnest. That it was perfectly understood that a select committee of 21 if chosen by ballot, was a committee of persons who, somehow or another, spoke the sentiments of the minister, and if this were chosen in that way, jealousy and distrust would be the consequence—That this was a committee to try the ministers themselves—and that it was a monstrous thing that it should be nominated in a way that would countenance the supposition of influence. The Chancellor of the Exchequer answered, that the mode of ballot was the ancient usage of parliament in such cases. That to the proceedings of committees chosen by ballot, the country owed the highest obligations—and he trusted his friends would not be diverted from following the ancient practice of the house in the best times by any insinuations of sinister motives. Mr. Grey replied to Mr. Pitt, and the house divided on the motion for a ballot. Ayes 251—Noes 120—Majority 131. JUST PUBLISHED—AND FOR SALE AT RITCHIE & WORSLEY'S BOOK-STORE: THE DEBATES AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS OF THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION. The Publishers will thank those subscribers, who can make it convenient, to call or send for their books. [June 18.]
VALUABLE PROPERTY. The subscriber desires to sell his business in this place as soon as possible, is inclined to offer for sale, the following valuable properties, viz: A CONVENIENT two story dwelling house, 24 x 32 feet square, having one room and a passage on the lower floor, two rooms on the second floor, and two good rooms in the garret; a cellar with plank floor, and divided into three apartments, one used for cooking; the yard included with a brick wall seven feet high, the whole in good repair. This tenement is situated near the Bell-Tavern, on the cross street leading to the Rock Landing, and is insured in the Mutual Insurance company, against fire in the state of Virginia, and the premiums paid. Eleven unimproved half acre Lots, on Shockoe-Hill, 600 acres Military land in Kanawha county, on the waters of Oldtown creek, a branch of Ohio river, being a grant made to George Muff, Adam Stevens, Andrew Lewis and others, in the year 1772. 25 tracts of Land in Montgomery county, containing 32,172 1/2 acres, the whole patented in my name, viz: 4000 acres surveyed 3d April, 1786 in Montgomery county, on Cole river. 3850 acres surveyed 24th July, 1786 in same county, on 16 mile creek, adjoining the late General Washington's survey on Kanawha river. 3622 1/2 acres surveyed 23d July, 1786, in same county, on Loop waters, waters of New river. 1000 acres surveyed 13th May, 1786 in same county, on the Ohio river. 3210 acres surveyed 27th April, 1786 in same county, south of a creek running into Cole river. 2138 acres surveyed 21st February, 1787 in same county, on Cole river. 920 acres surveyed 3d February, 1787 in same county, on the waters of Cooper's creek and Little Blue stone. 1500 acres surveyed 16th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of the fourth fork of Cole river, that heads against Guyandott. 95 acres surveyed 10th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of Glade creek. 78 acres surveyed 8th Feb. 1787 in same county, on a branch emptying into Glade creek on the south side of the same, and about one mile above the ford of said creek. 500 acres surveyed 10th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the north fork of Mud river, that heads against Guyandott. 1500 acres surveyed 12th May, 1786 in same county, on Ohio river. 2000 acres surveyed 8th May, 1786 in same county, on the great Kanawha. 1000 acres surveyed 16th May, 1786 in same county and on ditto. 263 acres surveyed 8th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head of Glade creek. 214 acres surveyed 7th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the waters of Glade creek, on the south side thereof. 135 acres surveyed 6th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the well end of Joe's Ridge, and on the waters of Glade creek. 154 acres surveyed 6th Feb. 1787 in same county on Joe's ridge. 228 acres surveyed 6th Feb. 1787 in same county, on Joe's ridge, and the waters of Glade and Cooper's creek. 414 acres surveyed 22d Feb. 1787 in same county, on the second fork of Cole River, on the road crossing from Piney river to Guyandott. 2000 acres surveyed 26th Feb. 1787 in same county, under the big pipe stem knob, and running down both sides of the creek. 416 acres surveyed 4th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the waters of Coopers creek, and Joe's ridge. 380 acres surveyed 3d Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of Cooper's creek. 3333 acres surveyed 30th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the south fork of Cole river. 1345 acres surveyed 3d Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of Little blue stone, about half a mile north from the White Oak creek. Three tracts of land in Monongalia county, patented in my name, viz: 350 acres by survey 1st June, 1796 in Monongalia county, adjoining Matthew Richey's land, and the Randolph county line, on waters of Cheat river. 400 acres surveyed 30th October, 1797 in same county, adjoining lands of Abner Harper, above the mouth of White Day creek. 400 Acres surveyed 15th Nov. 1797 in same county, adjoining Peter Drago, on Finche's run, to include an improvement made in the year 1773. 1000 acres in same county, on the west of Cheat river, above the lands of Thos. Butler. 800 acres in same county, on Buffalo creek, on a preemption right of David Gray. 250 acres in Greenbrier county, on Little Deer creek, adjoining lands of Joseph McClung. 891 acres in Montgomery county, surveyed 1st August, 1787, on the waters of Piney river & Paint creek, waters of Kanawha river. 435 acres in Montgomery county, surveyed 30th June 1786, joining the lands of Joseph Eaton, Richard Mute, and James M'Corle. 250 acres in Wythe county, surveyed 4th Nov. 1795, on the Led Myne Mill creek. 180 acres in Albemarle county, patent dated 5th July, 1787, on William Hill creek, waters of Buck Island creek. One undivided moiety of five lots, in the town of Winchester, No's. 89, 90, 100, 101, and 102. The above will be sold very low, and the terms made known on application to Wm. AUSTIN. Richmond, April 9.—(Cf.) VIRGINIA. At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond the 23d day of March, one thousand eight hundred and five— Between James Brown Plaintiff And Edward Dudley, Mary Payne, Aaron? Fontaine and John Hancock, Defendants. THE defendants Mary Payne, Aaron Fontaine and John Hancock, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this country; on the motion of the plaintiff, by counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of the next September term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some new-paper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Capitol in the said city. A Copy, Teste, P. TINSLEY, C. C. May 3.—ePm. M.R. VIRGINIA. To wit. At a Chancery District Court, held in the City of Williamsburg the 6th day of April, 1835: Jethro Darden and Stephen Hookey, } Piffs. ro Darden and Stephen Hookey, } Against Oxley and Hancock, } Defts. THE Defendants not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this country, on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is Ordered, That the said defendants do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the City of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former capitol in this city. A Copy, Teste, ANTY ROBINSON, C. C. (Pam) W.C. May 17. BENJAMIN STETSON, INFORMS his friends and the public in general, that he has for sale, 400 gallons Holland's Linseed Oil, White Lead and Spanish Brown ground in Oil, Paint Green ground in ditto, Verdigris and Spanish Brown, dry 8 by 10 Window Glass, & Putty; 2d, 3d, 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, and 20d Nails, two Casks Spike Nails, Bar Iron, German and Bistered Steel; general assortment of Iron Hollow Ware; 10 Hhs. Molass., French Brandy, West-India and New-England Rum, Tea, Coffee, Leaf and Brown Sugar, Chocolate, Mens, fine and coarse Shoes, Ladies Kid & Morocco and Leather Slippers, & Boxes Cotton and Wool Cards assorted; 1 laid pint and quart Tumblers, small invoice elegant cut glass, Rose ware, German Ozenburgs, 30 sacks Salt, Nova Scotia Grand Stones, and many other articles in store, which he will sell cheap for cash or country produce. April 2.—(1aw12m.) VIRGINIA. At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and five— Between John Street, Plaintiff And Archibald Gracie, Daniel Anderson & William Twitty, Defendants. THE defendant Archibald Gracie, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country; on the motion of the plaintiff, by counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next September term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some new-paper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the capitol in the said city. A Copy, Teste, P. TINSLEY, C. C. May 3.—ePm. R. ABSCONDED, The second time, in the month of February, JACK, sometimes known by the name of Jack Ahern, is a person of 50 years of age, a gardner by profession, rather under the middle size. He was purchased of Lewis Burwell's estate in January 1804. He is well known in and about the city of Richmond; Amherst, in the county of Chesterfield, where he has a number of friends and acquaintances, and in the neighborhood of Williamsburg. It is very certain that he is lurking about one of the above places, most likely at Williamsburg, where he has a free woman for a wife. Mr. William Rote is authorized to give a reward of THIRTY DOLLARS on delivery of the above Jack Ahern to him. May 31. [E.P.] FOR SALE OR LEASE, THAT large and convenient TAVERN, situated in the centre of the town of Lynchburg, at the corner of the street leading to the court-house and jail, and not more than thirty yards from both, opposite Lynch's ware-house and the street leading from the ferry in the said town. The Tavern contains four rooms and a bar on the first floor, including two very large rooms suitable for a ball and dining room, with a sliding partition to the ball room. The second floor contains six rooms, one the size of the ball room, the others suitable for lodging rooms, with an excellent garret. This Tavern has a large portion of the full length of the house, also a good dry cellar, and a well opposite the door, together with a kitchen, smoke-house, dairy and a stable with twenty-two stalls therein, with a spacious garden and yard, leaning to the stable. Other improvements will be made to suit the purchaser or leaser. It is deemed unnecessary to state the great value of the above property, or say more as to the advantage arising from its central and eligible stand for a Tavern, as it is presumed an person would be inclined to purchase or lease the above property without viewing the premises, there being no doubt but they would be better satisfied after seeing the convenient situation, than any information they could get from this advertisement. A liberal credit will be given any person desirous of the purchase or an advantageous lease. For further particulars, apply to William Rote jun. Richmond, or the subscriber, residing about three miles from Lynchburg. SAMUEL SCOTT. April 30 FOR SALE, A VALUABLE tract of Land containing about six hundred acres, lying within seven miles of the town of Staunton, in the county of Augusta. About an hundred and fifty acres are cleared, and in good condition for farming, which includes an excellent meadow of about twenty-four acres, and nearly, or quite as much more may be made. The improvements are, two good log dwelling houses, with stone chimneys, near a large and never failing spring of excellent limestone water; a large and convenient barn, and a tolerable apple orchard, which seldom fails bearing. This farm is conveniently situated, lies well for cultivation, well timbered, and in a good neighborhood. It is generally supposed, by the best farmers, to be as valuable as any other of its size, within a considerable distance of Staunton, and reasonably worth eight thousand dollars, prompt payment. However, if an early application be made, it may be purchased for a less sum, and the purchaser accommodated as to the time which will be given for the payment of more than half the price. If the whole of the purchase money is tendered at the time of making the conveyance, or giving possession, it may be had for ten dollars per acre, which very little (if any) exceeds two thirds of its value. This property is certainly an object worthy the attention of any person who may be disposed to possess a productive farm in this part of the country. For further information apply to the subscriber residing in Staunton, who will shew the land. CHESLEY KINNEY, June 7. [ePm.] Just received, and for sale at RITCHIE and WORSLEY'S BOOK-STORE, Price one dollar and fifty cents. 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THOMAS NORFELL. He has for sale a few shares in THE MANCHESTER TURNPIKE. Also—Old State Certificates, bearing six per cent interest. March 12. BURN MILL STONES, of all sizes and PLASTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, at a cheap rate. WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. Dec. 4. [ePm.]