Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1807-04-28 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS
[XVth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1349.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum—paid in Advance.]
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1807.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
RICHMOND PRICE CURRENT.
(CORRECTED WEEKLY.)
 Tobacco, - - - $ 5 75 CASH.  WHEAT, - - - 1 8 do.  FLOUR, superfine, - - 6 00 do.  FLOUR, fine, - - - 5 50 do.  CORN, - - - 4 50 do.  Hemp, clean, (per ton) 200 00 do.  Iron, - - - 120 00 do.  Bacon, - - - 12 do.  Whiskey, - - - 52 do. 
LOUISA COUNTY, FEBRUARY COURT, 1807.
Lancelott Minor, comp't. In Against Chan-cery. John Hawkins and Thomas Shel-
THE defendant John Hawkins 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 state: Therefore, on the motion of the complainant by his attorney, It is ordered and decreed by the court that the said defendant (Hawkins) do appear here on the second Monday in April next and answer the compl't's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the public newspapers published in the city of Richmond for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of this courthouse on some court day.
A copy, Teste, JOHN POINCEXTER, C.L.C.
UNITED STATES' COURT, FIFTH CIRCUIT, AND VIRGINIA DISTRICT, November Term, 1806.
Lewis Morgan and Hester Morgan, ex'r. and ex'x. of the last will and testament of Benjamin Morgan, dec'd.
Against Alexander Banks, adm'r. &c. of Thomas Banks, dec. who was one of the ex'r's. of Jacob Rubsam, dec'd. and Jacob Balthazar Rubsam and Maria Catherine Rubsam and Frederick Augustus Kuhn, D. M. and James Lyle, sen. defts.
And James Bonny, adm'r. of Benjamin Bonny, dec'd. plt.
Against The same, defts.
THE deft. Frederick Augustus Kuhn, D. M. not having entered his appearance and given security according to a rule of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this district: On the motion of the plt. by their counsel, It is ordered , that the said deft. do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the plt.'s bills respectively; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers 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, WM. MARSHALL, CLK.
DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, TO WIT:
BE it remembered that on the fourth day of April, in the thirty first year of the independence of the United States of America, Seaton Grantland, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "The examination of Col. Aaron Burr before the Chief Justice of the United States, upon the charges of a high misdemeanor and of treason against the United States; together with the arguments of counsel and opinion of the judge, to which is added, an appendix, containing the opinion of the supreme court, delivered by Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of Bollman and Swartwout;" in conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."
WILLIAM MARSHALL, Clerk of the District of Virginia. The above will appear in a pamphlet, on Saturday the 11th instant, and may be had of the several booksellers, in Richmond. w4t
PROPOSALS
WILL be received by the Executive, till the first day of June next, for a supply of FREE STONE and MARBLE, in the Rough State, to be delivered at the Penitentiary, in the City of Richmond.
Marble from the quarries in Virginia would be preferred, but there will be no objection to receiving it from other places.
Persons wishing to contract will specify the size and quality, and the price by the ton, as well as the cubic foot.—Apply to DAN'L. L. HYLTON, C.C. 18th April, 1807. lawt1j
Land for Sale.
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed by William Johnson, for the purpose of securing a debt due to Kendall Lee, will be sold, on the premises, on the 11th day of May next, to the highest bidder, for cash, one certain tract of LAND, lying in the county of Goochland, on the waters of Licklinghole creek, adjoining the lands of William Morris, William Richards and others, containing by estimation three hundred and fourteen and a half acres, or so much thereof, as will be sufficient to satisfy what may now be due on the said deed of trust. THE TRUSTEES. Goochland, April 7th, 1807. w4t
The noted and much admired English horse,
Jack Andrews
Fifteen hands & a half high, a blood bay, finely formed, in high health, vigor and spirit, and the most active horse ever imported into this country.
WILL stand the ensuing season, at my stable in Charles City county, Sandy Point, and will be let to mares at five guineas the season, which may be discharged by the payment of twenty dollars, if paid by the 10th day of August; and 3 guineas the leap, and forty dollars to ensure a mare to be in foal, and one dollar to the groom—the leap and groom money to be paid when the mare is covered—provided the mare is changed, the owner shall be liable. The season will commence the first day of March, and end the first day of August. Extensive low and high ground pasture, well enclosed, and servants sent with the mares, boarded gratis; grain will be furnished at the market price, and will be given to them in manner and quantity agreeable to direction; and all possible care taken to prevent accidents and escapes, but will not be liable for any that may happen. [4]
WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT.
This celebrated horse's performance in England, has not been inferior to any horse there, except his brother, Dick Andrews, who is considered now the best horse in that country, giving seven pounds.—Jack Andrews won twice in 1797, then Mr. Lord's property—See Racing Calendar for that year.
At Worcester, July 5th, a maiden plate of £50, for 3 years old, 6 stone, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, at three heats, beating Mr. Darlington's ch f Miss Edwin, 4 years old; Mr. Atkinson's ch m Priscilla, aged; Sir W. W. Wynns's b h Sweet Botherem, 5 years old; Mr. Hardin's b c Eglantine, 4 years old.
Stafford, October 7th—The town purse of £50, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, 3 years old, at three heats, beating Mr. Betteson's Little Pickle, 4 years old; Mr. Barlow's Roderick, 4 years old; Mr. Denham's Honest Tom, 6 years old; Sir W. W. Wynns's b h True Blue, 5 years old.
In 1798, at Nantwich, Thursday, July 8th—£50, for 3 and 4 years old, he won, beating Mr. Bayles' ch c Cannon, 4 years old; Stamford's a f Scutella, 3 years old.
Denby, August 15th—He won £50, free for any horse, beating Lilly of the Valley, Falconer and True Blue—in 1799, he won twice, to wit: at Ludlow, on Friday, the 4th of July, 4 mile heats, free for all ages, beating Lord Oxford's ch c Dart, at 3 heats.
At Worcester, August 8th—He won the city and county subscription of £50, 4 mile heats, at 3 heats, beating Mr. Arley's Billy, Dutchess, 4 years old; Mr. Coventry's b h Integrity, late Partner; Mr. Snell's ch g Hocks, 5 years old—after the first heat, four to one on her; after the second heat four to one on Jack Andrews.
In 1800, he won 6 times, to wit: At Lewes, then the property of Major Rooke, Aug. 12th, he beat Lord Sackville's b h Laborie, 4 miles, for 50 guineas—At Oxford, the town plate of £50, in Aug. was won by Jack Andrews, at 4 heats, beating Sir F. Poole's ch m Dutchess of Lumbos, 5 years old, Lord Donegall's b h Wrangler, distanced the 4th heat.—September, at Warwick, he won the town plate of £50, 4 mile heats, beating Mr. Tharm's b h Marquis, Mr. Brooke's b h Sheshire, Mr. Edwards b h Dutchess.
Sweepstakes of 50 guineas each, 2 miles, 5 subscribers, Mr. Rooke's (Jack Andrews, aged, 11 st 7 lbs) walked over, see Racing Calendar for 1802, pa. 385.
At Lambourne, in September—Wednesday, 10th, he won the £50 gift of Lord Craven, 4 mile heats, at 4 heats, beating Mr. Coventry's ch h Sacrapant, Mr. Bacon's b m Samp.
At Abingdon, Tuesday, September 16th, the members' purse of £50, for all ages, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, at 3 heats, beating Sir F. Poole's b m Miscreant, 5 years old, Mr. Whaley's ch h Expectation, Mr. Frogley's b h Cupid—6 to 4 on Miscreant.
In 1801, Jack Andrews, at New Market, April 20th, received forth from Hethcoat's Sympathy, 8 stone, 5 lbs. 200 guineas, half forfeit.
Bibury, June 16th—The Bibury stakes, a handicap of 100 guineas each, half forfeit, 4 miles, was won by Jack Andrews, aged, beating Lord Sackville's b h Expectation, 5 years old, Sir Henry T. Vane's Cock-fighter, 5 years old, Mr. R. Hethcoat's Hippona, aged, his royal highness the Prince of Wales's Dick Andrews, Mr. Hethcoat's Popinjay, and Cox's Edwin.
June 17th, a sweepstakes of five guineas each, 20 subscribers, was won by Jack Andrews, beating colonel Grosvenor's Lady Catherine, Mr. Howorth's Smith Box.
Bedford, Sept. 10th—The Woburn stakes of ten guineas each, 4 miles, 5 subscribers, was won by his royal highness the Prince of Wales's b h Jack Andrews, aged, beating Mr. Watson's b h Triumph, Mr. Galding's b c Skyrocket.
Endfield, Sept. 23rd—Fifty pounds, for all ages, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, aged, at 3 heats, beating Mr. Frogley's sgr g Poughboy, Velvet Horn, Little-Thought-Of, Hephession and Contestor. See Racing Calendars for these years. It would swell an advertisement to too great length to mention all the races he has won.
PEDIGREE.
Jack Andrews was got by Joe Andrews, his dam by Highlander, his grandam Cardinal Puff, his great grandam by Tattler, his great great grandam by Snip, his great great great grandam by Lord Godolphin's Arabian, his great great great great grandam by Stanyan's Arabian, which mare was own sister to Frampton's White Neck, full sister to the Minbury Galloway, great great great great grandam by Sauce Box, a son of Gigg, sire of Croft's Old Partner. JAMES LORD, (Seal.)
I do hereby certify, that the above pedigree is a true copy from the original one sent me by James Lord. Given under my hand and seal, this twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and four. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT, (Seal.)
Joe Andrews was got by Eclipse, his dam Amanda by Omnium, her dam Cloudy by Blank—Grab Widdrington mare by Partner.—General Stud Book page sixth, printed in one thousand eight hundred and three, by James Weatherby.
Land for Sale.
THE Subscriber is desirous of Selling his tract of Land in the county of Powhatan, on Appomattox river, (which is now navigable to within two miles of Petersburg) twenty-eight miles from Richmond, and thirty-two from Petersburg; containing four hundred and forty-four Acres. There is on this land a valuable MILL, now in good repair, with a permanent stone dam, situated on a constant stream of water, running immediately through the land. A further description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed any person inclined to purchase, will first view the premises. The terms will be such as to suit the purchaser and may be known by applying to the subscriber living on the premises.
CREED HASKINS. P. S. I would also sell another tract, situated about one mile from the above tract, on Skinquarter creek, containing three hundred acres. The quality of this land is equal if not superior to any in the neighborhood, and has a large proportion of valuable meadow Land.
The terms may be known by applying as above. CREED HASKINS. March 7th, 1807. wtf
Advertisement.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of John Epperson, dec. are requested to come forward and make them known by the 10th day of May next, as the administratrix is anxious to close her administration. This advertisement will be pleaded in bar against those who do not come forward within the time limited. BETSY ANN EPPERSON, Adm'x. March 29th, 1807. tM19
To the Public.
THE Subscriber has removed to an house near the upper end of the Town on the Street leading from the Capitol square. He continues to practise law in all the Superior Courts held in the City of Richmond, and also in the District Court of Brunswick. His Clients may rely on his utmost assiduity and attention to the business entrusted to his care. WM. MUNFORD.
FOR SALE,
By Bream and Follet, At the sign of the Anvil, 15 Barrels Liver Oil. 50 Casks FF Gun Powder. 2 Tons Patent Shot. 40 Boxes Tin Plates. 2000 lbs. German Steel, Heart & Club. 100 Casks Cut Nails and Brads. 20 doz. Spades and Shovels. Window Glass, 10 by 8 & 20 by 14. A general assortment of Ironmongery. Richmond, 23rd April, 1807. 4w
SHOES.
THE subscribers, under the firm of J. W. DENNIS & Co. have just received from the northward, a large supply of SHOES, which they warrant newly made, and of the best materials, viz:
Gentlemen's superfine Shoes. do. fine do. do. Negroes coarse do. do. Ladies' and Misses' leather Slips and Brunswicks. Boys' and Children's Shoes. Ladies' & Misses' Kid } assorted colors. & Morocco Slips with } and without heels. Children's Morocco Shoes, do.
Together with a general assortment of GROCERIES and fashionable BONNETS, all of which they offer at a reduced price for cash, produce or acceptances in town. J. W. DENNIS. BENJAMIN DENNIS. Richmond, April 23, 1807. if
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
Report of the Committee relative to the Governor's conduct—(Concluded)
Dr. Buchanan had been an inhabitant and citizen of Maryland seventeen years preceding his appointment, and the commission under which he acts, bears date on the 4th of July, 1806, three or four days before his arrival in this state. The constitution forbids any person from exercising the elective franchise, unless after two years residence, and the payment of a state or county tax; even the non payment of a tax a few days beyond the two years, was held by the governor to be a disqualification; and yet a person not a citizen at all, who had manifested no interest in, or attachment to the state, either by residence or contribution, was appointed to a lucrative and important office. No person can administer the office of a constable without the previous qualifications of citizenship; and yet, an office of far greater responsibility and interest, and which involves the safety, the property, the health and the lives of the citizens of the city and county of Philadelphia, was conferred by the governor upon a stranger, because he was his son-in-law, as much an alien to our constitution, as if he had been imported from Siberia.
The fashion which has been introduced by the governor, of having his name stamped upon the evidence of property, by means of a fac simile, and that too before they were completed by the proper officers and passed through the necessary forms, is calculated to produce endless strife and contention, and to render uncertain the tenure of property conveyed by the state and for which it has received a valuable consideration.
The evil cannot be considered as trifling, when we reflect, that warrants on the treasury and the laws of the commonwealth have been subject to the same unconstitutional process of verification. It is ascertained by the committee, that the name of the governor has been stamped upon public papers requiring his signature, and that too out of his presence; nay, so far has this practice been carried, that the judgment of the governor, rendering void the late election of a sheriff for the city and county of Philadelphia was never seen by him, either before, or after his name was annexed. It can scarcely be necessary for the committee to enumerate the frauds, and the mischiefs, and the distrusts, which must result from a practice so repugnant to the constitution. The possessor of his fac simile becomes the governor to a certain extent and instead of the wholesome restraints of the constitution and the laws upon imposition and fraud, the interests of the commonwealth, as well as those of its citizens may be jeopardized by an usurper of the governor's fac simile. The constitution requires that the governor shall "sign" all bills, which shall have passed both houses, if he approve them; and by what mystical interpretation, a stamp of his name, impressed by another hand, can be made to comport with the injunctions of the constitution, must be left to those casuists to determine, who are skilled in the secretary and legerdemain of royal government.
The removal of Dr. James Reynolds from the office of a member of the Board of Health, the committee conceive to be a palpable infraction of the law which created the office. The constitution recognises a tenure of office during good behavior, and its silence on the subject of offices, not held during good behavior, or for a specified term, has led to the conclusion, that they are to be held during the pleasure of the governor; and upon this construction has the tenure during pleasure been established. The law creating the office of a member of the Board of Health, specifies the tenure of office to be for one year, and the commission of the governor is in accordance with the terms of the law; and to exemplify the governor's own sense of the law, the usual phrases, which accompany a commission during pleasure are erased from the commission; leaving no doubt of the governor's own conviction, that the tenure of office of a member of the Board of Health was not during the pleasure of the governor, nor the commission revocable by him.
The compromise offered by the governor to William Duane, is of a character truly dark and alarming. The outrage committed by him on Joseph B. McKean and others, upon Mr. Duane, transcends any thing in baseness and barbarity, ever perpetrated among us by men pretending to the honor of a soldier—After having beaten and bruised him until he was lifeless, they raised him from the earth on which he was prostrate, that one of them might again knock him down; and these heroes of our constitution and laws, finished their murderous assault, by whipping the insensible body of a man, they had rendered lifeless by previous barbarity. For this inhuman treatment, Mr. Duane appealed to the laws of his country and from them expected a redress of his wrongs. On a charge of an intention to commit a breach of the peace, Mr. Duane had been previously arrested, and was held to surety of the peace; and under a pretext that he had been guilty of a breach of the peace, and a consequent forfeiture of recognizance, by the publication of certain paragraphs in the Aurora charged to be libellous, he and his surety were summoned by the then attorney general to answer for the amount of their recognizance. Mr. Duane had instituted actions for damages against Joseph B. McKean, and some of his coadjutors, and to relieve his son and those concerned with him from the penalty of the law, the governor offered to discontinue the suits of the commonwealth against William Duane and his surety on condition that Mr. Duane would withdraw the actions against his son J. B. McKean and his associates. Need the committee make any comment upon a proposition to commute an outrage so flagitious and unprecedented, and by a governor constitutionally enjoined to see the laws faithfully executed?
From the preceding facts, your committee are impelled to declare that however unwilling they might be to arraign the chief magistrate upon charges trivial and unsubstantial, when the fundamental principles of our constitution are invaded, it would be treason against the public liberty and a disgraceful abandonment of public duty not to demand the punishment of the aggressor. Public station ought to render no man inviolable, and the greater the trust, the more rigid should be the responsibility. If your laws justly punish a man for petty larceny, surely he ought not to escape the penalty of his bond, who assaults the vitals of our constitution. Even ignorance of the law is held to be no excuse for transgression; but where knowledge illumines the path of the public functionary, how much greater is the guilt of his sinning against conviction?
"Crimes", said the enlightened and humane Beccaria, "are only to be measured by the injury done to society, they err, therefore, who imagine that the crime is greater, or less, according to the intention of the person by whom it is committed; for this will depend on the actual impression of objects on the senses and on the
previous disposition of the mind; both which will vary in different persons, and even in the same person at different times, according to the succession of ideas, passions, and circumstances. Upon that system, it would be necessary to form not only a particular code for every individual, but a new penal code for every crime. Men often with the best intention do the greatest injury to society, and with the worst do it the most essential service." If then the principle be correct, that crimes are only to be measured by the injury done to society, he surely must be guilty of the greatest crime, who deprades upon the great charter of rights. The infraction of law, which embraces the case of an individual, must be considered truly venial, when contrasted with the violation of a constitution, upon which depends the fate and happiness of a whole community.
The committee deem it superfluous to sustain the resolution which is submitted by an appeal to the patriotism or the intelligence of the house. They are aware, that they are anticipated by its judgment and its integrity. The facts speak so loudly for themselves, that the feeble voice of the committee cannot be raised to reach their tone. Justice and the public welfare demand punishment. Do we desire to preserve our constitution in its letter and spirit? Then punish the infractor of it. Do we desire the government of laws, instead of that of the will of a public functionary?—Then make him amenable to justice who dares to substitute his will for that of the laws. Do we desire to preserve our republican institutions? Then permit no man to trample upon them with impunity. Do we hold the right of electing our public functionaries to be the essence of free government, and its exercise to be dear to the freemen of Pennsylvania? Then render him constitutionally accountable, who by an arbitrary fiat has laid it prostrate. Do we consider virtue as the vital principle of republican government? Then punish the officer who attacks republican virtue in her citadel; who, in disregard of public sentiment and public duty; and in defiance of solemn obligation, treats the people as his patrimony, and their rights as his inheritance.
Under a sense of imperious duty, and the solemnity of the obligation under which they act as representatives of the people of Pennsylvania, and from a conscientious conviction, the committee offer the following resolution, viz:
Resolved, That Thomas McKean, governor of this commonwealth, be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors.
From the American Citizen.
TO RUFUS KING, Esq.
SIR, From your silence on the subject of my letter of the 14th inst. I presume that I am not to be honored with a reply. Perhaps this may be owing to my temerity in addressing him, whom Mr. Coleman calls "the first man in the country." Of the height to which your friends exalt or wish to exalt you, I confess I was not aware when I rashly ventured to question the propriety of some part of your past conduct. I thought that, in this country, you had many equals; and I protest I imagined that Mr. Jefferson, for instance, was your superior. You will, sir, however, I hope, excuse my ignorance in this respect, and attribute it to the circumstance of my being an alien, and of course not yet sufficiently acquainted with the local politics of this country.
Though you sir, have not honored me with your notice, I have been abundantly honored by your friends; and yet extra-ordinary as it may appear, I mean to pay little attention to their assiduities, but to envelope myself in dignity like your own. As far as they have attempted to attack my character I shall leave it to be defended by others, or rather to defend itself. Not that I affect to be insen-ble to the value of public opinion; but in truth, sir, in the present pressure of professional business, I have not time to do justice both to you and to myself; and I think it of infinitely more importance to the community, in the existing crisis, to make known what you are than what I am. You are the candidate for public favor, and your conduct is the proper subject of public enquiry. Permit me, however, sir, before I enter upon that interesting topic, to make a few general observations touching myself. Mr. Coleman has brought forward some extracts from the reports of the secret committee in Ireland—I think it more than probable that he was not himself in possession of these documents—from whom then did he receive them?—There is no person in this country more likely to have them, than the gentleman who was at the time, the resident minister at London.—When you handed them to him, perhaps your memory might have served you to state, that as soon as those reports appeared in the prints of the day, Dr. McKean, Mr. O'Connor, and myself, at that time state prisoners, by an advertisement to which we subscribed our names, protested against the falsehood and inaccuracy of those reports; for which act we were remitted to close custody in our rooms, for upwards of three months, and a proposal was made in the Irish House of Commons by Mr. McNaghten, an Orange-man to ask us to sit and hang as with non trial! You might also, perhaps, have recollected (for it has been published) that while we were in that situation, other state calumnies accidentally reached the ears of one of our fellow sufferers in another prison, who wrote a letter to the editor of the Courrier in London, for the purpose of contradicting

them, and inclosed a copy of his letter to Lord Castlereagh. Upon this Mr. Secretary Cooke was sent to inform him, that if he published the contradiction he should be hanged; to that he replied he was ready to meet the event; upon which Mr. Cooke told him that since he was indifferent about his own life, he must know that if he persevered, the whole system of courts martial, massacre and horror should be renewed throughout the country. By that menace he was effectually restrained. Had you thought of mentioning those things, you might have jocularly added, that though these statements might serve some present party purposes, it was rather more unfair to judge of us by the calumnies of the Irish government than it would be to judge of Mr. Jefferson and his friends by the editorial articles in the Evening Post. The weapons you are using have been tried in Ireland among my friends and my enemies, where every thing was minutely known, and they failed of effect. If I had ever done any thing mean or dishonorable, if I had abandoned or compromised my character, my country or my cause, I should not be esteemed and beloved in Ireland as I am proud to know I am; I should not enjoy the affection and respect of my republican countrymen in America, as you, sir, and your friends confess I do. It would not be in the power of one who had departed from the line of his duty in theirs and his common country, by simply expressing to them his sentiments of you, to do you such an essential injury as I am accused of having committed.
Another charge made against me, is that I am an alien, interfering in the politics of this country. Be it so for a moment, and let me ask why is it that I am an alien in this my adopted country at this day? Because, in consequence of your interference, I was prevented from coming to it in 1798, and from being naturalized upwards of three years ago. Supposing then that I should refrain from intermeddling with politics in every other case; where you are concerned I feel myself authorized to exercise the rights of a citizen as far as by law I may; for you know it is an established rule of equity and good sense that no man shall be benefitted by his own wrong. But how do I come forward? Not as a citizen, but as a witness. Allow me to ask you if I possessed a knowledge of facts which could prove Mr. Jefferson guilty of a robbery or a cheat, and unfit to be trusted with power, would you think me culpable if, notwithstanding my alienage, I made them known to the public to prevent their being deceived and misled? And shall I not be permitted because in consequence of your very misconduct I am not a citizen, to testify to facts which will prove you unfit to be entrusted in this country with any kind of delegated power? Whether Peter Porcupine or Mr. Carpenter ever went through the forms of naturalization, I know not; but perhaps they might both have been safely considered as aliens, and yet I have never heard any of your friends censure their interference in the politics of America. I do not mention those gentlemen as my models, nor propose their example as my vindication, but wish to show the pliability of those principles which are to be erected into a barrier against me.
As a witness, then, sir, I come forward to testify not to my countrymen, but to the electors of this city, to the whole of the U. S. if you should ever aspire to govern them, and I now present you with my evidence. In the summer of 1798, after the attempt of the people of Ireland for their emancipation had been completely defeated; after every armed body had been dispersed or had surrendered, except a few men that had taken refuge in the mountains of Wicklow; while military tribunals, house burning torture and every kind of devastation were desolating and overwhelming the defenceless inhabitants, some of the state prisoners then in confinement, entered into a negotiation with the Irish ministers for effecting a general amnesty; and as an inducement offered, among other things not necessary to the examination of your conduct, to emigrate to such country as might be agreed upon between them and the government. When I consented to this offer, for one (and it was the case with the great majority) I solemnly declare that I was perfectly apprised that there were no legal grounds discovered upon which to proceed against me. I further knew that the crown solicitor had, in answer to the enquiries of my friends informed them there was no intention of preferring a bill of indictment against me. So much for the personal considerations by which I might have been actuated; and now, sir, to return.
The offer was accepted, the bloody system was stopped for a time, and was not renewed until after your interference, and after the British ministry had resolved openly to break its faith with us. On our part we performed our stipulations with the most punctilious fidelity, but in such a manner as to preserve to us the warmest approbation of our friends, and to excite the greatest dissatisfaction of our enemies. Government soon perceived that on the score of interest it had calculated badly, and had gained nothing by the contract. It was afraid of letting us go at large to develop and detect the misrepresentations and calumnies that were studiously set afloat, and had therefore, I am convinced, determined to violate its engagements by keeping us prisoners as long as possible. How was this to be done? In the commencement of our negotiation, Lord Castlereagh declared as a reason for our acceding to government's possessing a negative on our choice, that it had no worse place in view for our emigration than the U. States of America. We had made our election to go there, and wished him to have our agreement carried into execution. In that difficulty you, sir, afforded very effectual assistance to the faithlessness of the British cabinet. On the 16th of September, Mr. Marsden, then under secretary, came to inform us that Mr. King had remonstrated against our being permitted to emigrate to America. This astonished us all, and Dr. M'Nevin very plainly said that he
considered this excuse as a mere trick between Mr. King and the British government. This, Mr. Marsden denied, and on being pressed to know what reasons Mr. King could have for preventing us, who were avowed republicans, from migrating to America, he significantly answered, perhaps Mr. King does not desire to have republicans in America." Your interference was then, sir, made the pretext of detaining us for four years in custody, by which very extensive & useful plans of settlement within these states were broken up. The misfortunes which you brought upon the objects of your persecution were incalculable. Almost all of us was fed for the best years of our lives in prison. As to me, I should have brought along with me my father and his family including a brother, whose name perhaps even you will not read without emotions of sympathy and respect. Others, nearly connected with me, would have come partners in my emigration. But all of them have been torn from me. I have been prevented from saving a brother, from receiving the dying blessings of a father, mother and sister, & from soothing their last agonies by my cares; and this, sir, by your unwarrantable and unfeeling interference.
Your friends, when they accuse me of want of moderation in my conduct towards you, are wonderfully mistaken. They do not reflect, or know, that I have never spoken of you without suppressing (as I do now) personal feelings that rise up wild in me, and swell my heart with indignation and resentment. But I mean to confine myself to an examination of your conduct, as far as it is of public importance.
The step you took was unauthorized by your own government. Our agreement with that of Ireland was entered into on the 29th of July—your prohibition was notified to us on the 16th of September; deduct 7 days for two communications between Dublin and London, and you had precisely 42 days, in the calm of summer, for transmitting your intelligence to America and receiving an answer. As you had no order then, what was the motive of your unauthorized act? I cannot positively say, but I will tell you my conviction. The British ministry had resolved to detain us prisoners contrary to their plighted honor; and you, sir, I fear, lent your ministerial character to enable them to commit an act of perfidy, which they would not otherwise have dared to perpetrate—whether our conduct in Ireland was right or wrong, you have no justification for yours. The constitution and laws of this country gave you no power to require of the British government that it should violate its faith and withdraw from us its consent to the place we had fixed upon for our voluntary emigration. Neither the president nor you were warranted to prevent our touching these shores; though the former might, under the alien act, have afterwards sent us away if he had reason to think we were plotting any thing against the United States. I have heard something about the law of nations; but you, I presume, are too well acquainted with that law not to know that it has no bearing on this subject. Our emigration was voluntary, and the English government had in point of justice no more to do with it than to signify that there was no objection to the place of residence we had chosen.
Another circumstance which compels me to believe a collusive league between you, in your capacity of resident minister from America, and the cabinet of St. James's, is the very extravagant & unwarrantable nature of your remonstrance, which had the ministry been sincere towards us, they could not possibly have overlooked. If they had intended to observe their compact, you, sir, would have been very quickly made to feel the futility of your ill-timed application. You would have been taught that it was a matter of mere private arrangement between government & us, with which you had no more to do than the minister of Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, or any other neutral power. What inference ought fairly to be made from the facts I have stated, every man must decide for himself. On me they have forced a conviction, which, if you can shake it, I shall more gladly forego than I state it here, that in the instance alluded to, you degraded the dignity and independence of the country you represented, you abandoned the principles of its government and its policy, and you became the tool of a foreign state, to give it a colorable pretext for the commission of a crime. If so, it is fit that you should hereafter be entrusted with any kind of delegated authority? What motives you may have had for that conduct, if in truth it was yours, I cannot undertake to say. Mr. Marsden seemed to doubt whether you wished for republicans in America—and I shrewdly suspect he spoke what the British ministry thought of your politics.
Perhaps it may be said that you were yourself deceived by those very calumnies of which I have complained. I sincerely wish I could believe that such were the fact—but observe this argument. We contradict the misstatements of the committees of the lords and commons of Ireland, by an advertisement written in prison, signed by our names, and published on the third of September—it must have reached London on the seventh or eighth—your remonstrance must have been made on or before the 12th; for it was communicated to us on the 16th. The effect produced by our advertisement was electrical, and the debates which it caused on the very evening of its appearance, in the Irish house of commons, was most remarkable. As you doubtless read the newspapers of the day, these facts could not have been unknown to you. Why then should you be deceived by misrepresentations which we have recently contradicted under circumstances so extraordinary? Mr. King, did you enter so deeply into the revolution of your country as to implicate your life in the issue of its fortunes? From the strong attachment of your political friends, I presume you were a distinguished leader in those eventful times; if not, you had certainly read their history. Did you remember the calumnies which had been thrown out by British agents against the most upright and venerable patriot of America? Did you call to mind the treatment which had been given in S. Carolina to general Gadsden, to general Rutherford, to col. Isaacs, and a number of others who had surrendered to that very
Lord Cornwallis, with whom, through his ministers, we negotiated; and that those distinguished characters were, in violation of their capitulation and of the rights of parole, sent to St. Augustine, as we were afterwards sent to Fort George; How then is it possible that you could have been a dupe to the misrepresentations of the British government?
These remarks I address with all becoming decency to "the first man in the country"—yet in fact sir, I do not clearly see in what consists your superiority over myself. It is true you have been a resident minister at the court of St. James's; and if what I have read in the public prints be true, and if you be apprised of my near relationship and family connection with the late sir John Temple, you must acknowledge that your interference as a resident minister at the court of St. James's against my being permitted to emigrate to America, is a very serious instance of the caprice of fortune. But let that pass. To what extent I ought to yield to you for talent and information, it is not for me to decide. In no other respect, however, do I feel your excessive superiority. My private character and conduct are, I hope, as fair as yours—and even in those matters which I consider as trivial, but upon which aristocratic pride is accustomed to stamp a value, I should not be inclined to shrink from competition. My birth certainly will not humble me by the comparison; my paternal fortune was probably greater than yours; the consideration in which the name I bear was held in my native country, was as great as yours is ever likely to be, before I had any opportunity of contributing to its celebrity. As to amount of what private fortune I have been able to save from the wreck of calamity, it is unknown to you or your friends; but two things I will tell you; I never was indebted, either in the country from which I came, nor in any other country in which I have lived, to any man, further than the necessary credit for the current expenses of a family; and am not so circumstanced that I should tremble "for my subsistence," at the threatened displeasure of your friends. So much for the past and the present—now for the future circumstances which cannot be controlled, have decided that my name must be embodied into history. From the manner in which even my political adversaries and some of my cotemporary historians, unequivocally hostile to my principles, already speak of me, I have had the consolation of reflecting, that when the falsehoods of the day are withered and rotten, I shall be respected and esteemed. You, sir, will probably be forgotten when I shall be remembered with honor, or if, peradventure, your name should descend to posterity, perhaps you will be only known as the recorded instrument of part of my persecutions, sufferings, and misfortunes. I am, sir, &c.
T. OS. ADDIS EMMET.
Mr. King, when a lad, was a servant to, and wore the livery of sir John Temple the near relative of Mr. Emmet. I assert this fact on the authority of a respectable gentleman in this city.—Editor.
It is said that on Monday evening last certain federal gentlemen held a private meeting, at which they agreed to withdraw, or cause to be withdrawn from Mr. Emmet federal professional business put into his hands, and, as in the glorious times of '98, to combine to do him all the pecuniary injury in their power!—Editor.
NEW YORK, April 20. Yesterday was a very great day of arrivals—nearly 60 sail of valuable vessels came in—and many more below last night, with a fine breeze from the southward.
From LONDON. By the ship Gold Hunter, capt. Vose, in 27 days passage, we have received London papers and Lloyd's lists to the evening of the 20th of March. They contain nothing later from the armies in Poland. They state that the Russian army, under the command of Gen. Michelson, was marching straight to Constantinople, and is already at Georgia, beyond Widdin, where it engaged a Turkish corps, and killed 3,000 men, but it sustained itself a loss of 3,000. The Turks are preparing for war with as much activity and vigor as so weak a government is capable of but long before the preparations are completed the Russians will have over-run the empire, and have fixed their standards on the walls of Constantinople.
The papers also state a change in the English administration. On this subject the COURIER of the 20th March says:—"On Wednesday, before his majesty left town, a message was transmitted to Lords Eldon and Hawkesbury, commanding their attendance at Windsor yesterday morning. Their lordships attended his majesty, and upon their return they waited upon the duke of Portland, who with the before-mentioned lords, and lords Lowther and Melville, were to frame a new administration. As soon as a list of the new ministry has been prepared, it will be laid before his majesty, but the arrangements are not expected to be completed before the end of next week. His majesty will then cause it to be intimated to the present ministers, that he has no occasion for their further services—for they give out openly that they are determined not to resign—but to remain in till they are turned out. The king having consented to a partial indulgence to Catholics by extending the Irish act of 1793 to Great Britain, ministers made use of this consent to surprise the king's conscience into a total repeal of the Test Laws, as far as the army and navy are concerned. Papists were to be our generals on the staff; our masters-general of the ordnance; our commanders-in-chief; the captains and admirals of our fleets; in short they were to be trusted with the full power of the sword. His majesty having gained information of this attempt to swindle his consent to a repeal of the test laws, expressed his displeasure and his determination to resist this dishonest attack upon his conscience. Ministers being thus detected and exposed, propose to his majesty the retraction of their measure, to which his majesty, with the utmost condescension and forgiveness, consents, provided they will agree not to force the measure upon him again, or make a second attempt to surprise his conscience.
To this stipulation ministers refuse to consent, and acquaint the public they have taken their line; they shall not resign, his majesty may turn them out if he pleases.
"The change therefore which some supposed would be partial, keeping in the Sidmouths, who are known to be adverse to the Catholic question, and even the Prince's friends, will be complete. The Sidmouths will go out as well as the Grenvilles and the Foxites. Lists of the new ministers are already handed about—the following has been transmitted to us; we do not pledge ourselves that it is authentic:
"First lord of the treasury, Duke of Portland. Chancellor of the exchequer, Lord Castlereagh. Foreign sec'y, Lord Hawkesbury. War secretary, Mr. Yorke. Lord Chancellor, Lord Eldon. First lord the admiralty, Lord Melville. President of the council, Lord Camden. Privy seal, Earl of Westmoreland. Master general of the ordnance, Earl Mulgrave. President board of control, Earl of Chatham. Treasurer of the Navy, Mr. Rose. Joint paymasters, Mr. Long. Secretary at war, Mr. Dundas. Attorney general, Mr. Perceval. Solicitor general, Sir V. Gibbs. Secretaries of the treasury, Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Sturges Bourn. Lord lieutenant of Ireland, Earl Hardwicke, or Marquis Abercorn. Chancellor of Ireland, Lord Redesdale.
Stocks—3 per cent consols for money 62 1-2—For April accounts 62 3-4—Omnium 1 1-4 p.
The following is a copy of the sentence of the court martial of Sir Home Popham: the court is of opinion, that the charges have been proved against the said captain Sir Home Popham: That the withdrawing, without orders so to do, the whole of any naval force from the place where it is directed to be employed, and the employing it in distant operations against the enemy, more especially if the successes of such operations should be likely to prevent its speedy return, may be attended with the most serious inconvenience to the public service; or of the success of any plan formed by his majesty's ministers for operations against the enemy, in which such naval force might be included, may by such removal be entirely prevented. And the court is further of opinion, that the conduct of the said capt. Sir Home Popham, in the withdrawing the whole of the naval force under his command from the Cape of Good Hope, the proceeding therewith to the Rio de la Plata, was highly censurable; but, in consideration of circumstances, both adjudge him to be only severely reprimanded, and he is accordingly severely reprimanded."
February 23. Execution of the murderers, and most dreadful accident. Halloway and Haggerty, for the murder of Steel—and Elizabeth Godfrey, for the murder of Prince.
The concourse of people that assembled this morning to witness the execution of the murderers was immense. By six o'clock every house and avenue was crowded. At five minutes past eight o'clock they were brought out from prison—Haggerty came first—Halloway next, and Elizabeth Godfrey, for the murder of Richard Prince, last. Haggerty was dressed in a light colored great coat, such as are worn by soldiers—Halloway in a jacket. Haggerty appeared deeply affected, and mounted the scaffold with an unsteady step and pale countenance. Halloway behaved with much effrontery; seemed regardless of the horrors of his situation, looked round him with unconcern, surveyed the multitude with as much indifference as if he had been one of the spectators, and bore no marks on his countenance either of fear or contrition—Haggerty seemed to shrink from his hardened associate. The poor woman was deeply affected; they were attended by two clergymen, a Protestant and a Roman Catholic. Haggerty being a Roman Catholic. The Catholic priest prayed by Haggerty, who joined in fervent prayer. The Protestant Clergyman prayed with Elizabeth Godfrey; Haggerty refused to join. Almost as soon as they came upon the scaffold, Halloway turned to the multitude and said with a loud voice, "gentlemen, I am innocent." This he repeated three times—he then spoke to Haggerty, and said to him, according to the account given by those who were nearest the scaffold, "take no notice of the Clergyman." Haggerty seemed to pay little attention to him. Whilst the rope was fixing round their necks, Halloway preserved his usual effrontery: Haggerty trembled—the countenance of the poor female assumed a death-like paleness, but there was on her features a mixture of remorse and resignation. Twice or thrice Halloway was invited to pray—he invariably refused, and with a look of impatience. We have not heard whether either of the men confessed their guilt, though it is reported that Haggerty did. About ten minutes after they had been on the scaffold, the Clergymen descended—the signal was given and they were launched into eternity. Haggerty struggled much for some minutes. Halloway scarcely moved—the sufferings of the poor female seemed to be short.
A most dreadful scene now took place—never, as we have already said, was there such a crowd assembled to witness a public execution. Streets, lanes, houses, all were crowded almost to suffocation. After the murderers had been hanging about five minutes, the pressure of the crowd above the platform, and near the Skinner-street side, was so great, that some persons in the midst of the crowd, overcome by fatigue, fell down—to raise them was impossible—they were instantly trampled on; others fell—to extricate them was equally impossible—they were trampled on also. Screams were heard from the poor sufferers, and from the persons who witnessed the scene from the different windows: help was called for, but the crowd was so great, that no person could penetrate it for some time. About fifty persons in all were trampled under foot, ten of them women—a considerable time elapsed before the constables could clear the way; at length they effected a passage; on raising up the poor sufferers, some were found with broken limbs; others with dreadful bruises; some were quite dead. It is said that six were killed; other persons state that thirty were
killed. All the sufferers were immediately conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital; where surgical assistance was administered to those to whom it could be of any use; the dead were deposited in one of the wards, till their friends or relations take them away.
One o'clock.—On further enquiry we are sorry to find the above account does not state the calamity to its full extent. Twenty-seven persons lay dead at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the gates of which are shut against the populace; four lay dead in the yard of the Saracen's Head; three in St. Sepulchre's church; and two or three in other places. In the Hospital there are three women, a child or two, and several young men, apparently clerks. Some persons in business, who have missed their clerks this morning, have been to examine the dead bodies; but we do not find that any of them have been owned.
Persons within twenty or thirty yards of the platform were squeezed, till with fear and pressure they could not breathe; it was extremely warm; the weakest fainted and dropped, others fell over them; the shrieks and confusion were tremendously horrible. It was as much as the strongest could do to support themselves—the doors of some houses in the street were burst open; hundreds rushed in, sweating, panting, speechless, and almost expiring. There was no possibility of assisting those who dropped, and near forty were trampled to death, besides hundreds who were bruised, some more or less, limbs broken, the flesh torn off the legs of others, &c. &c. When the mob was cleared away, several hundred pairs of shoes were picked up in the streets, with boots, cloaks, bonnets, &c.
When Halloway and Haggerty came into the press-yard for execution, there were many noblemen and gentlemen of distinction—Halloway went on his knees on the pavement to protest his innocence, expressing confidence that he would be forgiven his sins in heaven—Haggerty also protested his innocence, but did not go on his knees. On the platform each addressed the populace, protesting his innocence, even while the caps were pulling over their faces. Halloway was attended by the Rev. Mr. Knight, of Rowland Hill's Chapel; Haggerty by a Roman Catholic Clergyman.
Fairfield Races.
FIRST day—Monday, 4th May, will be a run for over the Fairfield Course, the Jockey Club Cap, value thirty guineas—Distance two mile heats, the horses to be bona fide the property of members of the Club.
Second day—The Jockey Club Purse of five hundred dollars, four mile heats.
Third day—The Proprietor's Purse of two hundred and fifty dollars, three mile heats.
Fourth day—A Handy-Cap Purse, free for any horse, two mile heats—Entrance twenty dollars.
There is, also, a Sweep Stake open for three years old colts and fillies, two mile heats, fifty dollars entrance—This subscription will be closed on the evening of the 21 day's race.
WEIGHTS AS FOLLOWS:— Aged Horses, 133 lbs. 4 Years, 105 lbs. 6 Years, 128 3 Years, 90 5 Years, 118
Mares and geldings allowed 3 lbs. The proprietor of the course informs gentlemen of the turf, that the money for each day will be placed in the hands of the judges.
The dining house and booths in the field, are to be rented as formerly, but no preference given to any person—the first applicant will have a choice.
E. SMOCK, Treasurer and Proprietor. Richmond, March 27, 1807.
TO BE SOLD, To the highest bidder, on Friday, the 15th day of May next, at Mr. French's tavern, in Powhatan county.
All the Estate,
Of Poindexter Mosby, jr. dec. late of the said county, consisting of nine Negroes, one Horse, Household Furniture, &c. on a credit till the first day of January next. All persons having lawful claims against the said estate, are hereby requested to bring them forward on or before the day of sale, as the administrators are anxious to provide for the payment of all just debts, as early as possible, in order to close their administration. Bonds and security will be required of the purchasers to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid.
Those having claims who produce them prior to the sale, (and are adjusted) are requested to attend and bid for the property or receive the amount due them in bonds.
Littleberry Mosby, jr. } Adm'rs. Francis E. Harris, } March 14, 1807. wtds
AMELIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
COMMITTED to the jail of this county, on Thursday the 23d of April last, a negro man, who calls himself JOE; appears to be about 35 years of age, middle size, and speaks slowly; dressed in white plains, with an old black hat.
This fellow says he belongs to George Morton, lately removed from Bedford county (Va.) to the state of Tennessee. The owner of said negro is requested to come forward, pay expenses and take him away, or he will be dealt with as the law directs.
WILLIAM T. EGGLESTON, Jailor for the county aforesaid. April 27, 1807. Aw
JUST RECEIVED And for sale at S. Pleasant's Printing Office and Book Store,
THE TRIAL
OF THOMAS O. SELFRIDGE, COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Before the Hon. ISAAC PARKER, Esq. FOR KILLING CHARLES AUSTIN, On the Public Exchange in Boston, August 4th, 1806.
[Price One Dollar] Taken in short hand by T. Lloyd, Esq. reporter of the debates of congress, and George Gaines, Esq. late reporter to the state of New York; and sanctioned by the court and reporter to the state.
* Porcupine was not naturalized, and I understand that Mr. Carpenter is not. Citizen.

THE Impartial Observer of Saturday last, has paid us many handsome compliments, intermingled with a great deal of censure delivered with peculiar asperity. We return him our thanks for the former, but shall make no answer to the latter. The "judicious choice of subjects," for which his praise has been so kindly bestowed upon us, will always prevent our devoting the columns of the Virginia Argus to personal abuse, or an unprofitable contest of scurrility.
So far, however, as any arguments, worthy of notice, have been used by him in opposition to the doctrines advocated by us, we will endeavor to pay them some attention. He states that the distinction which the Argus has made between justice & legality , is not very honorable to the profession of the law; and says, it were much to be desired "that law should be justice , and that equal and exact justice to all men should be administered according to law ."
In this meritorious wish we unite most heartily with him: but as long as human laws are defective, (and that must ever be the case while human nature is imperfect) they must be insufficient to provide for every case that may occur. If municipal law could be absolutely perfect, it would be identified with justice: but, until that happy time shall arrive, a discrimination will always be made between justice and law .
Justice is indeed the end , and law are the means by which that end is intended to be accomplished; but the means are often inadequate to the end proposed. In such cases, it becomes necessary sometimes to vary from the written law for the purpose of attaining justice itself. We contend therefore, that the sentiment we expressed was not incorrect; and, that the conduct of gen. Wilkinson, though illegal , might have been just .
In one sense indeed, law and justice are synonymous; for the law of nature, which that of society was created to support and enforce, is altogether free from injustice: but our allusion was to the municipal law, and we had supposed that allusion was too plain to be misunderstood by any Impartial Observer.
He accuses us also of making a quibbling distinction between the acquittal of a person accused, and his discharge from custody by virtue of a writ of Habeas Corpus. But surely the difference is substantial and important between an acquittal on a fair trial, and full examination of evidence, and a mere discharge from custody, or permission to go at large. The former is a bar against any future prosecution for the same offence, but the latter is not. The former ought to clear the character of the person accused from all reproach; the latter leaves it subject to every suspicion to which before it was liable; especially when the discharge is occasioned by the circumstance that sufficient evidence against the prisoner was not produced, and time enough to procure it has not been allowed. We really think the editor of the Observer, in making this objection, must have forgotten for a moment the candor for which he is so remarkable.
He contends too that the question we have asked "whether he could say with truth "there was no such necessity in the circumstances in which Gen. Wilkinson stood;" is "a question not to be asked," & "challenges and defies us to prove that any such necessity did exist." Here too we conceive the worthy Observer has acted a little uncandidly; because in examining the Argus of the 21st instant, it will be found that the words immediately following that question expressly stated the circumstances which proved the existence of that necessity.
As the rest of the arguments of the Impartial Observer are much of the same nature with those we have noticed, and as we have not space to spare for the purpose of paying attention to the five columns he has employed in our service, we will say nothing farther concerning them. Indeed our abilities are unequal to the task of following the indefatigable scribbler, who seems to lament that we do not take notice of all that he writes. We will bid him therefore adieu! requesting him not to be afflicted if he cannot discover who are the authors of the communications which appear in the Argus. He has no right to suppose that any person is the editor of this paper, except the proprietor; and, for our part, we are content not to enquire under whose patronage the Impartial Observer has lately revived like the Phoenix, from its ashes, nor by whom it is at present conducted; but will give Mr. Samuel Brooks, its ostensible editor, all the credit of all the excellent observations it contains.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE ACTS OF THE LAST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA. (CONCLUDED.)
THE last, but not the least important, subject for our consideration is that of the public revenue; which, in the situation of the commonwealth, laboring at the same time under the distresses occasioned by a general scarcity of the necessaries of life among the people, and a deficiency in the amount of the taxes when compared with the expenditure, was a subject of peculiar delicacy and difficulty during the last session of the General Assembly.
Notwithstanding the strange declaration of a majority of the House of Delegates, at a former session, that on the ensuing first day of October, there would be a surplus of more than an hundred and eighty thousand dollars in favor of the state; it appeared most evidently that a deficiency in the public finances then actually existed, and had since that time increased every year: Yet the still more alarming deficiency in the crops of 1806, which at this moment almost threatens a general famine in the country, convinced the members of the legislature that the collection even of the taxes imposed at present would be very difficult and oppressive, and any addition to the burden would be altogether intolerable. It must be admitted, therefore,
that, under all the circumstances of the case, they acted correctly in not raising the taxes; although the necessary consequence may be that at the next session this measure must be adopted. The friends of monarchy and energetic government , whose maxim is not to be governed by the wishes of the people, but to regard their happiness or misery as objects unworthy of attention, may sneer at the patriotic legislators of Virginia, and accuse them of failing through the love of popularity, to provide the funds requisite for the support of government; but on the present occasion, those reproaches are unjust and unavailing. The great advantage, we conceive, which a republican possesses over a monarchy, consists in the very thing which those gentlemen deride; to wit, in the respect which the representative is apt to pay to the will of his constituents. The people indeed in that happy system, govern themselves by means of their representatives, and therefore are always disposed not to lay upon their own shoulders more heavy burdens than they can bear: whereas, in what is called an energetic government , those who impose the taxes are quite different persons from those who are to pay them. Exalted above the people, they have only to spend the money extracted from them, and therefore regardless of their miseries, extract it from them without mercy. Such we hope will never be the feelings or the conduct of those who are elected to serve the people of Virginia.
It must be acknowledged, however, that as obedience to the wishes of his constituents and attention to their comfort are virtues in a republican legislator, so, on the contrary, that extreme fondness for popularity, which would prevent his voting for such necessary taxes as can be collected and paid without oppression, would be a vice. We grant too, that the influence of this vice has sometimes been felt in the Virginia Assembly, as well as in all other representative bodies; It is indeed difficult to judge of the motives of men; since, such is the infirmity of human nature, that pure and impure motives are often blended together, and the shades of virtue and vice so intimately connected, that a very nice discrimination is necessary to separate them from each other. The inordinate love of popularity, or the pitiful fear of losing it, by doing well may therefore sometimes be concealed under the appearance of obedience to the will of the people; & none but the Deity who made the heart of man, and to whom all its secret emotions are known, can at all times certainly distinguish between them. One criterion indeed, enables the wisdom of man on common occasions to make the just distinction between the faithful servants of the public, and the false pretenders to patriotism: it is the rectitude and utility of their measures, from which their motives will generally be sufficiently discovered for practical purposes. According to this criterion we may pronounce that the motives of the last General Assembly were pure and patriotic ; but the same compliment could not with truth be paid to their successors, if a plentiful harvest of the fruits of the earth should diffuse plenty through the state, and they should then refuse to supply the deficiency in the revenue by raising the taxes.
Attempts, indeed, have been made by sundry acts passed at the last session, to bring more money into the treasury; and also to prevent its going out. The additional tax on ordinary licenses will be productive of a small sum; and an act to amend the act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this commonwealth, will probably add very considerably to the revenue in a few years. But that act, any tract of land, the taxes on which have heretofore remained, or shall hereafter remain unpaid for two years, is to be forfeited to the commonwealth, and not subject to location, but redeemable at any time within three years after the forfeiture upon payment of the taxes due thereupon according to certain rules, to wit; that if such payment be made in the first year, an interest is demanded at the rate of 25; if, in the second year, of 50; and if in the third year, of 100 per centum per annum; saving, as is usual in such cases, the rights of infants, femes covert or persons of unsound mind, until one year after their disabilities shall have ceased, on their paying all taxes due, with an interest thereon at the rate of ten per centum per annum. This act is of great importance; and ought to be particularly attended to by the holders of large tracts of land in the western parts of the state, on which no taxes have been paid to the commonwealth for many years; but it cannot immediately produce any large supply of revenue.
The act to empower the Executive to appoint persons to collect the arrears of taxes (on which we are happy to observe that the governor and council have acted) will, we hope, in the end, bring into the public coffers many large sums of money, which have been most fraudulently and unjustly withheld from them; but the collections from this source must necessarily be difficult and slow.
The measures adopted to prevent money from going out of the treasury, have in some instances been of a singular nature. By the act to appropriate the public revenue, the sum of nineteen thousand two hundred and three dollars and thirty-three cents, is appropriated to pay a debt due the estate of Robert Tucker, (a) sixteen hundred and thirty-one dollars and seventy-five cents, to discharge a judgment of the district court of Richmond, in behalf of Baird and Hosier against the commonwealth, and three thousand dollars as the bounty allowed by law on Wolf-scalps; but the payment of those sums from the treasury, is directed to be postponed until after the first day of October next. This was indeed an ingenious expedient to prevent the treasury from being empty at as early a period during the present year as it has been for several years past; but, by throwing those expenditures on the revenue of next year, will exhaust it so much the sooner. This will make the ensuing Assembly feel most forcibly the necessity of
(a) It should be observed that interest on the principal sum due to Tucker's representatives, is to be paid from the 6th day of January 1806, until the first day of October 1807.
raising the taxes: but as, when they shall be raised, they cannot, as the law now stands, be paid before the first day of October 1808, a most deplorable vacuum will be in the treasury for many months; or the legislature will be compelled, either to extend still farther the system of postponing the payments of warrants, or to direct the taxes to be paid in at an earlier period than heretofore.
The system of postponing payments, which the last Assembly introduced, was not altogether consistent with a strict regard to the public faith; but no objection can be made to some of their acts which introduce economical improvements, and prevent an useless expenditure of the public money. The act concerning the internal regulations of the Penitentiary house, (which we have already noticed,) will have an excellent effect in this point of view; and a similar observation applies to the first and second sections of the act respecting the militia, by which the hitherto enormous expenses of courts martial will be greatly diminished.
An act to amend an act concerning grand juries, petit juries and venire-men, militates however against the system of saving expense, which the Assembly were desirous of establishing; although it is certainly not unreasonable in principle. By that act the district courts are empowered to make an additional allowance, not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per day, to each venire-man, for every day he shall be detained upon the trial of a criminal, after the first day. This regulation will increase considerably the charges of criminal prosecution; for which (including the expense of guards) the enormous sum of thirty-five thousand dollars per annum, is appropriated. It would therefore perhaps have been better to have deferred making this allowance to venire-men, until the state of our finances had been more prosperous.
We have now finished our observations on the acts of the last General Assembly; in the course of which we have endeavored to give our opinions with candor and correctness, and impartially to bestow either praise or censure according to what we conceived to be the merit or demerit of every measure which has been adopted. We rejoice for our country that much good has been done by its legislature, and that we have found much more to praise than to blame. If any observation we have made shall furnish a single hint for any improvement by a future Assembly on the useful labors of the last, we shall be amply compensated for the trouble we have taken.
BAD HABITS. There is an obstinacy in bad habits which renders it difficult to throw them off, or alter them to advantage—the steady habits of Connecticut are of that cut.
In England they are so much in the habit of considering the U. S. as English dependent colonies, that a Liverpool price current, thus remarks on the article of cotton:
"Foreign cottons are lower in importation than American."
This however is not wonderful, for the prints forwarded from our sea ports to England, and they are about three to one of that cast, are as much British in their publications as if they were actually written and printed at the expence of the English cabinet—on every occasion at English courts, and other clubs—the first toast is " the king ," as if there was only one king, and our country a kingdom; in the same spirit we see articles of news couched in this royal and courtly style—"his majesty's ships"—"his majesty's navy"—"his majesty's army"—"his majesty's order in council," &c. &c. the addition of British or British is never thought of.
It is not therefore wonderful that there should be persons in England dupes enough to this infatuation, to believe that the Executive of the United States would receive such an encumbrance of dishonor as was attempted to be foisted on us by the late article called by way of distinction a treaty.
But in the notice of the cotton it is worthy of remark, that Demerara a colony actually in possession of the British, is ranked as foreign , while the United States are reckoned as British or domestic ; Demerara , they are willing to give up at a peace ; but they sicken at the notion of ever abandoning America, hook or by crook . They languish after America almost as much as George III. after Hanover ; we have heard some Tories not very long ago, dwell with some delight on an old Jacobite tune, which begins or ends with this line; "And the king will have his own again."
The burthen of this song was that the house of Stuart was to have England again; the servility which is inseparable from the humiliating obedience of men to monarchs, renders the transfer of servility always easy; general Frazier who was killed at Saratoga, was the loyal subject of George III. though his father was the famous lord Lovett , who was beheaded for his steadfast attachment to the principles of hereditary succession and the house of Stuart .
With us the Tories all range under whatever party they find assuming arbitrary power—or approaching to the old Tory or Jacobite notions of government. [Aurora.]
Small things serve as indexes to greater things—to resist the oppression of George III. in Ireland—was rebellion !
To resist George III. any where was rebellion . Ergo—what British captains say according to this logic, must be considered as orthodox, and we are therefore all " damned Yankee rebels ."
Again—the government of England in Ireland was mild and merciful—and free and tolerant—for example the population of 4,500,000, consisting of persons of three religious descriptions, principally, The established church 500,000 Presbyterians 1,000,000 Catholics 3,000,000 4,000,000
The four millions who possessed land or cultivated the earth, were obliged to pay one tenth of the fruits of their land and labor to maintain the established church.
And it was a few years ago a crime liable to transportation for any man of one religious sect to marry a woman of the o-
ther; and the clergyman who married them was also liable to be sent to Botany Bay. [Ib.]
"By their works you shall know them"—if you compare and adjust governments by their works, what comparison can America bear with the government of George III. Cobbet said that there were upwards of a million of persons in the poor houses; the expenses of which form a tax separate from the cabinet taxes, and from tithes, and church taxes: and from militia taxes.
But let us go even farther back than the French revolution, let us go before it; in the year 1765—the poor taxes of England amounted to 9,700,000, nine million seven hundred thousand dollars.—America contrived to maintain the whole economy of her government for the same year for one half of the sum—the poor rates of Eng and which were at £2 885,189 sterling in 1765; were in 1805 at 5,057,394; or dollars 27,286,970; while the whole expense of the United States in the same year, was not half the amount—it was not 12,000,000 of dollars.
Allegiance to such a government—bespeaks the moral and political principles of those who owe it, acknowledge it, and who unite with those who pay or are paid by their allegiance. ib.
NEW MARKET RACES. On the 21st inst. was run for over the New Market course, A Post Sweepstakes, for colts and fillies, three years old, carrying 86lbs. two mile heats, entrance 200 dollars. Collier Harrison's black colt } 1—1 Hickory, by Whip. W. R. Johnson's colt Magic } 3—2 Miles Selden's chestnut colt } 2—dis. Foreman, by Dragon. John McRae's sorrel colt Al-fred, by Clifford. } dis.
The Carolina Jockey Club Races commenced on Wednesday last. First Day—One mile heats. A Post Sweepstakes—7 Subscribers, 30 Dollars entrance.
Wm. Taliaferro's c. c. by Bedford, 1 1 James Smock's b. m. by do. 3 2 John Hoomes' s. h. by Dragon, 2 3 Turner Dixon's b. c. by Bedford, 4 dis. Anthony Samuel's s. f. by do. dis. Humphrey Hill's b. c. by do. dis. James Taliaferro's b. c. by Tip, dis.
Second Day—Three mile heats. Turner Dixon's c. h. Gestion, 2 1 1 Arm'd Hoomes' b. h. Negotiator, 1 2 2 William Ball's c. h. Brandy, 3 3 3 Wm. Taliaferro's b. h. Farmer John, 4 dis. Mr. Hill's b. h. Eagle, 5 dis. Mr. Young's b. h. m. dis. Delegates elected to serve in the next General Assembly. Norfolk County—William C. Holt, James W. Murdaugh. Lunenburg, Robert Chappel, James Smith. Dinwiddie, Joseph Goodwin, Thomas B. Roberson. Fairfax, George Summers, James H. Blake. Culpeper, John Roberts, George Strother.
FROM ALEXANDRIA, April 22. CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION. Fairfax County. The following is the result in this county. Littlejohn, 157 Lewis, 121 Majority 36
RECAPITULATION. The counties of Prince William, Loudoun and Fairfax form one congressional district. The candidates were Joseph Lewis, jr. (federal) who has represented the district for the four last years, and John Littlejohn, esq. (democratic)—The following is the result—
In Prince William Mr. Littlejohn had a majority of 70 Fairfax do. do. 36 106 In Loudoun Mr. Lewis had a majority of 231 Major. in the district for Mr. Lewis 125
CUSTOM HOUSE—RICHMOND. APRIL 3. ENTERED.
Sch'r Sally, Travers, New York. Welcome Return, Creighton, do. Ann, Creighton, do. Brothers, Rose, Norfolk. Amelia Ann, Anderson, do. Oliver, Goodrich, Philadelphia. Rebecca, Tyler, Baltimore. Manchester, Cropsey, N. York. Sloop Susannah, Gerrish, Philadelphia. CLEARED.
Sloop President, Ireland, Philadelphia. Independence, Scull, do. Sch'r Rebecca & Polly, Creighton, Alex'a. Sloop Colodon, Woglon, Perth Amboy. Sch'r Richmond, Seaman, N. York. Sloop Jenny, Collins, Baltimore. Anselmo, Ketcham, N. York. Sch'r Weymouth, Weymouth, do. Sally, Travers, do. Packet, Luce, Boston. Maria, Blackmon, Providence. Enterprise, Kendrick, Boston. Jane, Salmon, New-York. Welcome Return, Creighton, Balt. Manchester, Cropsey, New-York. Sloop Lark, Collins, do. APRIL 21. ENTERED.
Sch'r Jane, Pearson, Philadelphia. Sloop Sally, Thorp, N. York. Ann, Blackmon, G. E. Harbor. Sch'r Virginia, Clark, Norfolk. Regulator, Sears, Baltimore. Sloop Friendship, Parker, Petersburg. Laura, Sail, Norfolk. Sch'r Dispatch, Smith, N. York. Clotilda, Goodwin, do. Sloop Lark, Ireland, G. E. Harbor. Sch'r John, Sampson, Norfolk. CLEARED.
Sch'r Three Friends, Fisher, Philad. Prudence Mary, Shaw, Charleston. Rebecca, Tyler, Baltimore. Sloop Susannah, Gerrish, Philad. Dolphin, Chambers, do. Sch'r Sea, Hewett, N. York. Sally and Eliza, Cary, do.
ERRATA—In the Argus of April 14, and in the piece signed a Virginian, in the 3d column and 10th line from the bottom, for "dryness" read dampness or moisture.
No Mail North of Alexandria has been received here since Friday last.
(By Authority.)
AN ACT Making appropriations for carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw tribe of Indians; and to establish a land office in the Mississippi territory.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of carrying into effect a treaty, made on the twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and five, between the United States and the Chickasaw nation of Indians, the following sums, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be and the same hereby are appropriated in conformity with the stipulations contained in the said treaty, that is to say; to the said Chickasaw nation, twenty thousand dollars; to George Colbert and O'Koy, each, one thousand dollars; and to Chimbabe Mingo, chief of the nation, an annuity of one hundred dollars, during his natural life.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the surveyor general of the public lands, south of Tennessee, to cause to be surveyed and laid out, in the same manner as is provided by law for the other public lands in the Mississippi territory, so much of the lands ceded to the United States by the Cherokees and Chickasaws, as lies within the said territory; and the president of the United States is hereby authorised, whenever he shall think it proper, to establish a land office for the sale of the said lands, and to appoint a register of the same, and a receiver of public monies accruing from the sale of the said lands, whose respective emoluments and duties shall be the same as those of the registers and receivers of the other land offices in the said territory.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate pro temore. March 3, 1807. APPROVED. TH: JEFFERSON.
M'CALL, ELLIOT & Co.
SIRS, TAKE notice, that in pursuance of a commission issued from the Clerk's Office of the Federal Circuit Court for the district of Virginia, I shall proceed to take the depositions of sundry persons at Northumberland Courthouse, to commence on the sixth day of May next, and to continue until the 22d of the same month, in a suit pending and undetermined on the chancery side of the said court, in which you are plaintiffs, and William Gordon, executor of John Gordon, the material defendant.
WILLIAM GORDON, Executor of John Gordon, dec'd. Richmond, April 27th, 1807. 2w
FOR SALE,
20 Hhds. Northern Rum, 20 Tieses Prime Green Coffee. 50 Hhds. of Loaf and Lump Sugar. 15 Hhds. Brown do. 20 Boxes Cotton and Wool Cards. 20 Boxes Chocolate. 10 Kegs. Raisins. 15 Crates New York Stone Ware. 5 Bales India Cottons and Checks. 3 Pipes Hollands Gin. 9 Pipes Cogniac Brandy. 1000 Pair Men's fine and coarse Shoes. 500 Pair Ladies' Morocco Slippers. 300 Pair do. Kid Ditto. 300 Pair do. Leather Ditto. 50 Casks Stone Lime. 20 Boxes Brown Soap. 5 Tons Sweets Iron. Cut Nails, Paper, Pepper, &c—Terms liberal. HENRY HOVEY. April 27, 1807. 4w
AT AUCTION.
WILL be sold, on the premises, by the subscribers, on Wednesday the 20th of May next, at 11 o'clock, a convenient two story
Brick House,
On Shockey Hill near the lots of Mr Robert Gordon—together with a HALF ACRE LOT, very well enclosed, and on which lot, there is a well of fine water. Terms of sale 6, 12 and 18 months credit, for approved endorsed negotiable notes, and a deed of trust on the property to secure the punctual payment of the same. PROSSER & MONCURE, V. M. Richmond, April 25th, 1807. 1ds
For Sale.
BY virtue of a deed in trust executed to the Subscriber by Goodman Barksdale, to secure the payment of a debt due to William Galt, will be exposed to sale, at public auction, for ready money, on Saturday, the thirtieth day of May next, at Keyes's Mill,
A Tract of Land,
Lying in the county of Albemarle, containing one hundred and twelve acres and a half, being the same land the said Goodman Barksdale, purchased of Doudlass Barksdale; also, Two Negro Girls, Maria and M'urung, or so much of the aforesaid property as will be sufficient to discharge the debt, interest and cost of sale. Acting as trustee for others, will only convey title vested in me as such. DAVID ANDERSON, Trustee. Milton, 25th April, 1807. 3w.
THE subscriber being desirous of closing her administration on the estate of Alex'r. Roseberry, dec'd. purposes attending in the city of Richmond, at the house formerly occupied by the said Alex'r. Roseberry, near the mills of David Ross, on the 18th day of next month, for the purpose of adjusting such demands against the said estate as may be exhibited on that day, legally authenticated—or so much thereof as will not exceed the assets in hand; at which time it is expected that those who may have demands against the said estate will attend—also those who are indebted thereto, prepared for payment. LUCY ROSEBERRY, Adm're. of Alex'r. Roseberry, dec. Louisa county, 18th April, 1807. w2*

WANTED, A DISCREET industrious Woman, as a house-keeper—one who can come recommended for her integrity, will meet with liberal wages by applying at the Bell Tavern. February 12th 1807.  MATRESSES. CAN be had on very short notice. MATRESSES of all sizes & kinds, agreeably to order, in the large corner white house, opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the Market Bridge.—BEDS made & MATRESSES repaired.—HORSES TAILS & MANES purchased. Jno. S. Pleasants.
FOR SALE, A valuable tract of Land, IN the lower end of Buckingham, lying on Buffalo creek, adjoining the lands of Mr. James Wilson and Mr. Copland, containing upwards of one thousand acres, being in a populous and wealthy neighborhood and within three miles of Ca-ira. A sufficient quantity is opened to work ten hands to advantage—the greater part being yet to clear, abounding in excellent timber, and affording from four to five hundred acres of prime tobacco land. Mr. Moses Scott living on the premises will show the land to any one inclined to purchase. For terms apply to the subscriber. SUSANNA WILCOX. Chellowe, 16th March, 1807.
FOR SALE. My tract of Land, IN Powhatan county, containing between nine hundred and a thousand acres, and lying within two miles of the courthouse, and on both sides of Pine creek. This tract of land would be sold entire, otherwise laid off in lots to suit purchasers. Any persons inclined to purchase, it is expected will first view the premises—any further description is deemed unnecessary. For terms apply to the subscriber, living on the premises. SAM. BASKERVILLE. Powhatan, Jan. 4th. 1807.
Notice. ALL persons are forewarned from using or taking Sand from the Sand-Bar, called Coutts's, without the previous consent of the subscribers, who are alone authorised to sell or appropriate the same. For the convenience of those who incline to purchase, we have authorised Mrs. Coutts to act. Any sale or contract which she may make will be ratified by us. Samuel M'Cracken, } Trustees Pleasant Younghusband, } Richmond, 20th Feb. 1807.
Will be Sold, AT Hanover courthouse, on Wednesday the 27th day of May next, if fair, and if it is not fair, on the first fair day thereafter, the TRACT OF LAND, wherein Samuel Richardson, Jr. esq. now resides, to satisfy George Street & Co. the sum of £114 6, with interest thereon from the 7th of June, 1803, till paid and costs; in conformity to a decree of the County Court of Hanover, pronounced on the 27th day of February, 1805, in a suit then depending in the said court between the said parties. THE COMMISSIONERS. Hanover, 1st April, 1807.
FOR SALE. Next door to Mr. William Temple's, Alum Salt, &c New-England POTATOES, Of superior quality. Also—A General Assortment of GROCERIES, Good of their kinds and low in price, which will be sold for cash, or exchanged for country produce, by JOB GREENE. Richmond, March 6th, 1807.
Lesueur & Saunders Are now receiving and will constantly keep a large supply of Bar-Iron & Castings, Of superior quality. Feb. 24 1807.
JAMES LYNCH, BLACK-SMITH AND FARRIER, Respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has lately removed to the first Cross street above the Eagle Tavern, leading to the basin—where he carries on the business as usual. Those that wish to favor him with their work, shall be strictly attended to. Richmond, April 6, 1807.
A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it appears to the executive, that Jacob West, late of the county of Montgomery, stands charged on inquisition had and taken before James Mason, esq. coroner for the county of Botetourt, with the murder of John George late of the said county of Botetourt; and that the said Jacob West hath fled from justice: I have therefore thought fit, with the advice of the council of state, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of two hundred dollars to any person or persons who shall apprehend the said Jacob West and convey him before some magistrate of the said county of Botetourt to be dealt with as the law directs. And I do moreover enjoin all officers civil and military and exhort the good people of the commonwealth to use their best endeavors to apprehend the said Jacob West and convey him before some magistrate for the county of Botetourt aforesaid to be dealt with according to law. Given under my hand with the seal of the commonwealth annexed at Richmond, this second day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven, and of the commonwealth the thirty-first. (Signed) Wm. H. CABELL.
Blank Bonds For sale at this Office.
EDWARD WANTON, WATCH MAKER, HAS removed three doors above his old stand, in the house formerly occupied by Mr. Solomon Marks, and lately by Mrs. Paul, umbrella maker, where he continues to carry on his business in all its branches. He has for sale an assortment of Watches, Chains, Seals and Keys, very low, for cash. April 13, 1807.
FOR SALE, SEVEN HUNDRED ACRES OF FIRST RATE SOUTH WEST
MOUNTAIN LAND, FORMERLY a part of the estate of the late Col. James Madison, and lying in Orange county, within forty-five miles of Fredericksburg, and seventy-five of Richmond. The above tract of land is generally considered the best tract of high land in the county for tobacco, corn and wheat, and will produce from ten to fifteen bushels of wheat to the acre without manure or any other aid. There is a sufficiency of meadow land on it, and most of it reclaimed. It is under good fences, and in the course of the year I shall put on it a tolerable dwelling house and an excellent barn three stories high, with a stable in the lower one, with a wheat machine on the Scotch model. Another tract of LAND, lying in Amherst county, on Harris's creek, within six miles of Lynchburg, and containing five hundred and five acres, being part of a tract formerly belonging to Col. Hugh Rose, dec. This tract is considered of equal quality to any land, in a neighborhood generally esteemed the best soil for tobacco in Amherst. Any person inclined to purchase the land in Orange, will apply to the subscriber residing on the premises; and for the land in Amherst, to G. A. Rose, of Lynchburg, or to Mr. Landon Cabell, of Amherst. Negroes (in families) will be taken in exchange for either or both of the above tracts of land. ROBERT H. ROSE. Orange, April 8th, 1807.
WHEREAS some time past, I purchased a piece of land in Goochland county, of one William Lovell, for which I gave him two bonds, one for eighteen pounds, payable the 25th day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight, the other bond for 27 pounds, payable the 25th of December, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and as the said Lovell has gone away without making me a right to the said land agreeable to bargain, I do forewarn all person or persons in trading for the above-mentioned bonds, as I do not intend to pay them unless I got a right agreeable to bargain. WM. SHEPPARD. 9th November, 1806.
TO RENT, THE TENEMENT, Lately occupied by Mrs. Whitaker, in an agreeable, retired situation, and very convenient for a family. WILLIAM M'KIM. Richmond, March 2 1807.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT THE PRINCIPAL BUILDING OF THE New-Glasgow Academy, In the county of Amherst, is now ready for the reception of Students, and the trustees have lately engaged with Mr. JOHN HENNING to superintend and direct the studies of the said institution, in teaching the Latin and Greek languages, and such branches of the Mathematics, of natural and moral Philosophy as are usually taught in Schools upon the most modern and approved plan. There is also engaged a Steward who is to furnish board to the professors, and such of the students as may choose to live with him, in a neat and commodious house very convenient to the academy and set apart for this purpose. The students are to reside and lodge in the academy, so that they will be under the immediate eye of the president or teachers. The trustees flatter themselves that from the qualified and usual diligence of Mr. HENNING in the line of his profession, and their own promised attention to the morality and virtuous education of the students, this seminary will shortly afford such samples of virtue, learning, as will not disappoint the hope of the future welfare, prosperity and usefulness of this infant institution. The fees of tuition will be at the rate of Ten Dollars per session for each scholar, payable one half in advance and the balance at the close of the session, and board 40 dollars per session, payable as aforesaid, and the students to furnish their own washing, and their firewood, lodging and candles in the academy with their teachers, excepting only those who may at present choose to board in the neighborhood. The trustees expect shortly to receive a collection of necessary school books for the use and accommodation of the students; in the mean time it is expected they will furnish themselves with such as they may want and can conveniently procure. The first session will commence on the 15th of May next ensuing. By order of the board, S GARLAND, Clerk April 10th 1807.
FOR SALE AT S. PLEASANTS' BOOK STORE, HENNING'S New Virginia Justice, Containing the Duties of a Justice of Peace, &c. together with a variety of useful precedents, adapted to the laws now in force. Also, forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, lease and release, mortgage, trust, &c.
REMOVAL.
NEW YORK STATE LOTTERY, Authorised by an act of the Legislature, and payment of prizes guaranteed by them, POSITIVELY commences drawing in the city of New York, on the second Tuesday in June next. THE CAPITAL PRIZES ARE: 1 of 25,000 DOLLARS. 2 of 10,000 DOLLARS. 2 of 5,000 DOLLARS. 2 of 2,000 DOLLARS. 6 of 1,000 DOLLARS. And several of 500, 200, 100, &c. &c. Less than 2 1-2 blanks to a prize. THE FIRST drawn ticket every FIFTH day will be entitled to a capital prize; and the second drawn ticket EVERY DAY, will be entitled to 200 dollars. TICKETS, HALFES, QUARTERS AND EIGHTHS, ARE NOW SELLING AT WAITE'S
TRULY FORTUNATE LOTTERY OFFICE, No. 64 and No. 38, Maiden Lane, New York. By enclosing bank notes, of any description, (post paid) to G. and R. WAITE, tickets and shares will be punctually returned by post, to any amount, and the earliest advice sent to adventurers of their success.
During the drawing, Waite's weekly printed prize list will be sent to the printer of this paper, and to the post master at Richmond; and at the conclusion of the drawing, will also be sent, the managers' printed prize lists, for the satisfaction of distant adventurers. At the above offices, have been sold in the late lotteries, prizes amounting to a sum, exceeding 300,000 dollars. Present price of tickets, Seven Dollars, but will advance as the drawing approaches. Prize tickets in the late New York lotteries taken in payment. New York, March 10, 1807.
TO RENT, A Neat House, IN the Falling Garden, sufficiently large to accommodate a moderate sized family, either by itself or with the following probable property, to wit: An ice-house 20 feet by 18 and about 18 deep, well filled and pounded down with good clean ice—a bath-house, which if well attended to will yield a handsome profit; and also may be accommodated with a small or large part of a garden. The above property will be rented either for the season, say six months, or for a longer time, and possession given immediately. Good security will be required for the rent. Enquire of JAMES LOYNES, on the premises. 3d mo. 16th, 1807.
Wanted immediately at this Office, AS AN APPRENTICE TO THE PRINTING BUSINESS, a youth about 13 or 14 years old of respectable connections, who can spell and read correctly. He will have the advantage, if more agreeable to his parent or guardian, of attending in the Book store during a part of his time, where he will have an opportunity of improving himself in reading, writing, &c.
IN COUNCIL, April 16, 1807. FOR the information of those persons who are entitled to lands in that part of the state of Ohio reserved by the legislature of Virginia in their act of cession, for satisfying bounties due to the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line, on continental establishment: It is advised, that so much of the act of the last session of Congress as relates to the granting of further time for locating those warrants, be published by the printer for the commonwealth, at least once a week in his paper for three months; and also once a week for two weeks in all the other newspapers, published in Virginia and in the district of Columbia. It is also advised, that the rules adopted by the executive, in relation to the evidence to be adduced by claimants for military land warrants, and to the amount of allowances to be made them in certain cases be in like manner and for the above periods published in the said papers—which rules are as follows:— In all cases where a certificate of military service is adduced as evidence of a claim for land bounty, the signature of the person certifying, must be authenticated by his acknowledgment before some magistrate, or by the affidavits of two witnesses, at least; and where a certificate of the same nature is granted by a person not a commandant of a corps, the same must be verified by the affidavit of such person, accompanied by a certificate of his credibility from the court of the county or corporation in which he resides, or from some magistrate thereof. 24 Any officer or soldier who has served for a longer period than six years, is entitled to additional land bounty in proportion to the time which he may have served beyond the six years, although the said additional service may fall short of or exceed one year. Extract from the Journals of Council DANIEL L. HYLTEN, Clerk of the Council.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment, their heirs or assigns, entitled to bounty lands within the tract reserved by Virginia, between the little Miami and Scioto rivers, for satisfying the legal bounties to her officers and soldiers upon continental establishment, shall be allowed: further time of three years, from the twenty third of March next to complete their locations, and a further time of five years from the said twenty third of March next, to return their surveys and warrants or certified copies of warrants, to the office of the secretary of the war department, any thing in the act entitled "An act to ascertain the boundary of the lands reserved by the state of Virginia north west of the river Ohio, for the satisfaction of her officers and soldiers on continental establishment, and to limit the period for locating the said lands," to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, no locations as aforesaid, shall after the passing of this act, be made on tracts of land for which patents had previously been issued, or which had been previously surveyed, and any patent which may nevertheless be obtained for land located contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be considered as null and void. The several printers in Virginia, and in the district of Columbia, are requested to insert the above in their respective papers, once a week for two weeks, and transmit the accounts to D. L. HYLTEN.
THE FAMOUS HIGH BLOODED ENGLISH HORSE, Hambleton, Bred by the Duke of Grafton, a beautiful bright bay, near 16 hands high, of high form and elegance, rising 16 years old, in good health and great perfection, imported by Wm. Lightfoot, esq. of Charles City county, and now his property, will stand the ensuing season, at Temple Hill, on Michum's river, in Albemarle county, ten miles above Charlottesville, within one mile of German's mill, and two miles of the Brick tavern, to cover mares at 6 guineas the season, for which a note will be required, dischargeable by the payment of 20 dollars, at any time before the 1st of August next, when the season will expire, with one dollar to the groom for each mare, paid at the stable door. Ten dollars the single leap, and 40 dollars to insure a mare with foal. Good and extensive pasture, well enclosed, with branches running through the flat land affording as good forward pastures as any in this part of the country, gratis. Servants that may be sent with mares will be boarded for two dollars per week, and mares fed, if required, on reasonable terms. The utmost attention paid and care taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible for any that may happen. Any gentleman putting five mares to Hambleton, may send one gratis. JAMES KINSOLVING, For William Lightfoot. February 24th, 1807.
PEDIGREE. Hambleton was got by Dungannon, sire of Bedford and one of the best sons of O'Kelly's famous Eclipse, who was esteemed to be the best horse in England of his day, and covered at fifty guineas—his dam by Snap, sister to Jupiter, bred by Mr. Cross, 1793—her dam (Young Marske's dam) by Blank, Stirling, Miss Meynell, by Partner, Greyhound, Cucumber, Bay Barb, Lord D'Arcy's Arabian, Whitehirst, Old Montague mare. Thus it appears he descended from the best running stock in England.
PERFORMANCES This horse ranks very high as a racer, both for speed and bottom, as he proved successful in 20 races before he left the turf, 4 of which he walked over, none venturing to start against him. In 1794, at Hambleton, Yorkshire, on Wednesday, May 14th, he won a sweepstakes of ten guineas each, for 3 year olds, 6 subscribers two miles, beating Mr. Bethel's b f by Magnum Bonum, Pierce's b f by Young Marske, Turner's Confederacy, and Craddock's ch c Leicester. At York he won 50l for 3 year olds, beating Lowther's b c Griffin, Crampion's ch c Ambush, Shepherd's Madcap, Clifton's b c Cedar, and Garforth's ch c even betting on Ambush against the field. At Manchester in June, he won 50l for 3 year olds two mile heats, beating Foreigner and Loyalty. At Stockton, September 20th, he won a sweepstakes of 20 guineas, 5 subscribers, then Sir H. Williamson's property, formerly Mr. Hutchinson's beating Fields Highway, out of Wren, and Turner's Delphine—In 1795, Hambleton won 5 times, to wit: a handicap plate of 50l two mile heats, at 4 years old, beating Insect, Blackleg and Watkins' b c 5 years old. At Edinburgh, July 20th, he won his majesty's plate of 100 guineas 4 years old, 4 mile heats, beating Gregson's b n Archer, 6 years old, Mr. Peacock's ch g Farmer, and Mr. Wilson's Greening Kate. At Dumfries in October, he won 50l beating Lord Dalington's b m Constant. In 1796, Hambleton won at Kelso 5th October, a purse of 50 guineas beating Mr. Bailor's Black Cock. In 1797, he won 8 times, to wit: at Middleham in Yorkshire a sweepstakes of ten guineas each, 5 subscribers, 3 mile heats, beating Merry Lad and Arthur. At Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 26th, 50 guineas for all ages, beating Luiza Fox and Betsey. On Friday the 28th, the ladies subscription purse of fifty guineas beating Fletcher's Jane. At Montrose, in Scotland, August, he walked over the ground for a 50l plate, and also walked over the ground for a subscription of 50l. At Kelso October 16th, for a plate of 50 guineas he walked over the ground—and also his majesty's 100 guineas given to the Caledonian Hunt, for any horse, &c. carrying 12 st 4 mile heats, when 6 years old, he won against Mr. Wentworth's Trimbu-h, Piermont's Trimmer, aged, and Kincaid's Hector, aged—and Saturday following, a purse of 50l given by the Hunt, free for any horse, &c. beating Farewell and Roiker. At Carlisle he won 100 guineas of Mr. Stivell, beating his b f by Meteor. In 1798, he won at Edinburgh, August, 50l for all ages, beating Maxwell's Arab, and Mr. Maule's Hippopotamus. At Montrose he won a plate of 50 guineas for all ages, beating Pirfort and Contrador. See the racing Calendars for the foregoing years. [4w] Wm. LIGHTFOOT.
CERTIFICATES. London, 17th February, 1806 William Lightfoot, Esq.
Colts' Performances—London. Hambleton's colts also rank very high as racers, both for speed and bottom, as they proved themselves good runners in England. In 1805, at Carterick bridge, on Thursday 18th, Mr. Wentworth's b c Silverheels by Hambleton, two years old, won a sweepstakes of ten guineas 8 subscribers two miles, beating Mr. Riddell's b c by Overton, dam by Spadille; Mr. Lonsdale's ch c, by Piper dam by Paymaster; Lord Strathmore's gr f by Overton, dam by Delphin—Several others also started but were not placed—DUNANN Wednesday 24th, a Maiden Plate of 50l, given by the country members, for all ages 3 mile heats Sir H. Williamson's b, c, by Hambleton 2 years old, run four heats, and proved second best; and four others started and proved themselves good runners.
DEAR SIR—Hambleton ought to stand very high with you, as his colts in this country turn out excellent runners, &c. Ro. Crew. Charlotte, 10th May, 1806. I put five mares to Hambleton, and they all proved in foal, and the colts fine and large—I also have a mare which has bro't me four colts one by Diomed, one by Dragon, one by Seagul, and another by Hamilton, and the Hamilton colt has the preference of either: I think her one of the finest fillies, both in size and figure that I ever saw.—Given under my hand. Henry Lester. Lunenburgh, 5th May, 1806. This will certify that I put a mare to Hambleton in 1804, when he stood at Mr. H. Lester's in Charlotte county, and am as well pleased, if not better, with the colts by him, than with any the same mare ever had—she previously bred by Coeur de Lion, Diomed, Quicksilver, and Dion. Thos. Rend. Jr. Hanover County. In the year 1804 I put a mare to Hambleton, then kept by Mr. H. Lester of this county and am fully persuaded that it is the best colt the mare ever had, and is in my estimation the best colt I ever bred from any horse—I moreover never have heard of any complaining of their colts from that horse. Thos. Rend. Jr. I herewith certify that Mr. Wm. Lightfoot's horse Hambleton, stood at my stable the last season, and that he has proved an excellent foal
THE Imported Horse, CITIZEN, A most beautiful brown bay, with black legs. He is fifteen hands one inch high, remarkable for his great beauty, elegance, strength and muscle, with excellent bone and sinew: Will stand the ensuing season at my stable in Chesterfield county, on Appomattox river, fourteen miles above Petersburg, ten from the courthouse, fifteen from Bevil's bridge, and three from the Exeter mill on Appomattox; and will be let to mares at the moderate price of forty dollars, ten of which will be remitted if paid within the season, which will commence the 10th day of March, and expire the 10th of August. Very extensive and most excellent high and low ground pasture, well enclosed, gratis, but no responsibility for accidents or escapes; servants' board gratis. Mares may be fed with corn at the neighborhood price, if required; but gentlemen wishing their mares fed must send the money with them, or else it cannot be done. One dollar to the groom for each mare. Citizen is a remarkable sure and excellent foal getter, and with my care will scarce fail in a single instance: This is something worth the attention of breeders, as the loss of a season with a good mare is apt to be felt. He is an excellent blooded horse, and is nearer allied to the Codo-phin Arabian than any horse in being, and possesses more Arabian crosses. Refer to his PEDIGREE.
CITIZEN was got by Pacolet, (Pacolet by Bank, one of the best sons of the Godolphin) his dam Princess by Turk, [Turk by Regulus; another of the best sons of the Godolphin] his grandam Fairy Queen, by Y. ung Cade (he by Old Cade, and he by the Godolphin) his great grandam Routh's Blackeyes, by Crab, out of the Warlock Galloway, by Snake. Bold Galloway Curwen bay Barb Taken from the General Stud Book. THOMAS GOODE. March 2, 1807.
FOR SALE, 12 hds. sugar 15 boxes cotton & wool 30 bbls. do. cards do. 3000 lbs. green coffee 4 tons castings assorted, viz. pots, ovens, skillets, spiders, and irons, teakettles and waggon boxes 10 hds. Antigua rum 350 sacks salt 5 do Windward Island do. 100 bbls cut herrings 14 hds. N. E. rum 30 do whole do 14 bbls. do do 40 lbs Spanish indigo 12 hds. molasses 15 do do 9 casks Malaga wine 15 lbs nutmegs 20 tiers & bks. whisky 12 crates Liverpool 4 pipes apple brandy 10 do coarse 15 bbls do do 10 do stone do 100 pr men's fine shoes 50 do coarse 500 lbs Glauber salts
We have lately received, FOR SALE, Iron German, Crawley and Bistered Steel Race & ground ginger Pepper Alspice FF & F powder Snuff, assorted sizes French brandy Rice Cheese Wrought and cut nails, assorted sizes Snuff Glass ware, viz. 1-2 pt. tumblers and decanters, assorted sizes Hats We daily expect to receive, a quantity of Sherry Wine, Window Glass, Copers and Alum, all of which articles, we will sell at a small advance, for cash, approved paper or country produce. Shapard & Lucke. Richmond, May 8, 1806.
WE have also on hand, Leaf sugar Tanners & Linseed oil Nova Scotia grind stones Ground plaster in bbls Good manufactured tobacco by the keg, for retailing Tar Weeding hoes Nests woodware Bed cords, leading lines and twine Necklace Stone jugs, butter pots, chamber pots, wash basins, baleb pans, churms, &c. &c. &c.
ISHAM HARVEY. Charlotte county, } April 17th, 1807. } w3t
HEREBY forewarn all persons from putting dry goods of any kind on board of my waggon to be hauled, unless at his or their own risk, as I am determined not to be responsible for any losses that may happen. ISHAM HARVEY. Charlotte county, } April 17th, 1807. } w3t