The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-11-07 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
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RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 7, 1806.
[VOLUME 3.]
FOR PORT OLASGOW.
The British Ship PHOENIX, Captain EDINGTON, daily expected at Barnuda Hundred, burthen about 400 bds. Tobacco. She will take on freight Tobacco, Cotton, &c. on moderate terms; apply to JAMES F. LEITCH & Co. Manchester, Nov. 4.
NOTICE.
THE purchasers of property, at the sales in Charlotte and Albemarle, conducted by Wilson Cary Nicholas, Esq. are requested to take notice, that the bonds executed by them for the amount of their respective purchases, are now in my possession, by virtue of an assignment from Mr. Nicholas. Punctual payment at my office, on the day on which the bonds become due, is expected. In every case of failure a suit will certainly be brought without delay. As some of these bonds will become due between the 15th and 22nd of December, when I shall be necessarily absent on public business in Norfolk, Maj. Scott, the Marshall of this district, will act for me from the time of my departure until my return. GEO. HAY, Attorney of the U. S. for the Va. District. Richmond, Oct. 31.
STORE OF IRONMONGERY, HARDWARE, &c.
BREAM and FOLLET, Opposite to Messrs. Taylor & Brown's Auction Store, and next door to Doctor Wardlaw's, have just received from England, A LARGE AND GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF IRONMONGERY, HARDWARE, &c. —AMONGST WHICH ARE—
CARPENTER'S, Blacksmith's and other mechanics tools, Building materials of all kinds, such as Locks, Hinges, Nails, &c.—Farmer's and Household utensils, viz. Trace Chains, Hoes, Straw Knives, Gras Scythes, & Sickles, Knives and Forks, Spoons, Grid Irons, Smoothing Irons, And Irons, Shovels, Tongs and Pokers, Coal Carriers and Sifters, Wire Fenders, Pots and Kettles, Steam Kettles, Tea Kettles, Frying Pans, Coffee-Mills, Waffle Irons, Warming Pans, Tin in Boxes, Iron and Brass Wire, Bar Lead, Patent Shot, Sheet Iron, Close and open Stoves, for burning wood or coal, Fanning Mill Wheels, Mill Saws, German Steel, Wrought and Cut Nails and Brads, Window Glass, 10 by 8, 11 by 9, 12 by 10, 14 by 10, and 18 by 18, Seine Twine, Glue, Patent Windor Shaving Soap, an assortment of Brushes; with a variety of other articles too numerous to insert. The above goods are laid in on the best terms for cash, and will be sold on like good terms, for cash, country produce or approved paper at a short date. Also for sale a consignment of three Bales WOOLLENS, consisting of Blankets, 6-4 low priced Blue Cloths, and Red and Yellow Flannels, at a moderate price and liberal credit for approved paper. An elegant Gold Repeating Watch—a bargain. October 24. oaw3w.
VIRGINIA, to wit:
At a Chancery District Court, held in the city of Williamsburg, the 23rd day of April, 1806. Sarah Robins, widow and relict of Joshua Robins deceased, Arthur Robins, Sarah Robins, John Robins, Joshua Robins, Ann Robins and Charles Robins, children of the said Joshua Robins, deceased; the said Ann & Charles being infants under the age of twenty-one years, by the said Arthur Robins, their brother and next friend, William Baines, administrator of the said Joshua Robins, deceased, and the said William Baines and Elizabeth his wife, a daughter of the said Joshua Robins, deceased. Plffs. against Thomas Robins and Carvey Dutton, executors of Arthur Robins, deceased, Levin Aimes and Bridget his wife, and James Bonnell and Mary his wife. Defs.
THE Defendants, James Bonnell and Mary his wife, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are not inhabitants of this country, on the motion of the Plaintiffs by their counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and also posted at the front door of the former Capitol in this city. A Copy. Teste, ANTHONY ROBINSON, c. c. October 17. oaw 2m.
FOR SALE.
At public auction on the premises, on Wednesday 10th September next, (if not previously disposed of by private contract): FIVE hundred and fifty acres of LAND, situated in the upper end of Cumberland County, eighteen miles from the court house, three from Farmville and one from a good manufacturing mill, on Appomattox river, now navigable almost to Petersburg. This land lies handsomely, is in good order and inferior in quality to none east of the mountains; there is 10 or 12 acres meadow, handsomely set with Timothy, and about 20 acres more prepared for sowing next Spring. In addition there is an extensive bed of coal, which to a person of capital would be highly valuable. One third the purchase money will be required in hand, and the balance in two annual installments. Cumberland, August 12. JOHN KELSO.
The sale of the above property is unavoidably postponed until Monday 1st December, when there will be 100 acres sown in wheat. At the same time, I will offer for sale, 12 or 15 likely negroes, part for cash and on a credit of 12 months, my Stock, Crop, Household furniture and farming utensils. Also on Tuesday 9th December on the premises, the property in James Town, occupied by Messrs. James Dick and Eina Brooks, consisting of two acres, with a Store House, Granary and Stables, a Dwelling-House, Kitchen & Smoke-House, all in good repair and almost new. The situation for a merchant is not inferior to any in the upper country, situated on Appomattox, and in an independent neighborhood as any in Virginia. The payments will be made to suit the purchaser. N. B. Any of the above property, will be disposed of privately, and a considerable discount allowed for cash. September 26. oaw1bD.
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE.
ON Monday the 15th of December next, if fair weather, or the next fair day, I shall offer for sale at Walkerton, to the highest bidder, that valuable tract of land called Whitehall, belonging to the estate of John Garlick, deceased, lying on Mattaponi river in King and Queen County, about one mile above Walkerton, and nine miles below Dunkirk. This tract contains between eight and nine hundred acres, is very fertile, and well adapted to the culture of wheat and corn. It has on it a large two-story Brick House and other convenient out houses. This is as handsome a situation as any on Mattaponi, remarkable healthy, and very convenient for navigation. I have not been very particular in describing the Land, as it is presumable, any person inclined to purchase, will first view it. The terms of sale will be five hundred pounds down, and the balance in three annual payments, the purchaser giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid, and a mortgage on the land to secure the payments. On the day subsequent to the sale of the land, will be sold on the premises, all the stock of every description, household and kitchen furniture, and plantation utensils; also, the crop of corn, brandy and cotton. Twelve months credit will be given on all sums exceeding five dollars—the purchaser giving bond with good security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually complied with. EDWARD GARLICK, Administrator of John Garlick, deceased. September 19. osf 3w
EDUCATION.
DURING the ensuing year, R. L. Bohannon will continue and pursue the professional instruction of youth in the town of Port-Royal. His course of instruction comprehends Latin Grammar, English Prody, the art of reading, Arithmetic, Geography with the use of the globes and maps, Mathematics, and the principles of some of the most useful and curious branches of Natural Philosophy. With respect to the importance and utility of those branches of learning that form his course of education, it would be chimerical in him to enter into any disquisition, since they are obviously the foundation on which youth may, whatever be their prospects or future walks in life, place their future usefulness and esteem. As affording a satisfactory evidence to the parents and guardians of those young gentlemen whom he may have under his care, of the improvement which his pupils derive from his course of instruction, he will continue to pursue his adopted plan of causing his pupils to undergo annually a public examination in the studies in which they may have been respectively engaged; this plan, besides the satisfaction that it may exclusively afford to the parent or guardian, will (he thinks) ever be a powerful incentive to create ardor, add new vigor to the mind, & above all, to produce in the breasts of his pupils, a laudable and praiseworthy emulation to excel. It is his most ardent desire, the primary objects of his labours, and the strongest motive for his most ardent devotion, to develop amongst his pupils new genius of intellectual activity, and at the same time to point out the objects to which this activity may be the most usefully directed. He deems himself an ardent lover of industry and proper improvement of time, it shall be one of his most eager concerns to inculcate habits of intellectual activity in the youthful mind, for he is impressed with a belief that however great the talents and genius of youth may be, without the activity for exerting them, they will be unavailing, pine, decay and perish. As it shall be one of his most ardent concerns to rear the tender daim to habits of industry and application, so will he deter youth from frequenting pleasure parties, pursuing frivolous amusements, and such other pernicious habits that they may have previously acquired; the great foes to virtue, health and happiness; such habits that encourage violent passions, and sink the native vigor of youth into contemptible effeminacy and apathy. For such of his pupils that may attend, exclusively to the art of Reading and Arithmetic, his charge for tuition will be eight dollars per quarter. To those who may attend other branches of learning, his charge will be ten dollars per quarter. N. B. His School will commence on the second Monday in January, 1807. Port-Royal, October 28, 1806. sm.
50,000 !!! 20,000 !!! 10,000 !!! DOLLARS, HIGHEST PRIZES, In the Lottery No. 5, for the Encouragement of Literature in the State of New-York. MANAGERS.—THOMAS STORM, DANIEL HALE. SOLOMON SOUTHWICK, JOHN H. SICKELS, and JOHN L. BROOME.
FOR Sale at his Lucky Lottery-Office (where a large proportion of Capital Prizes in former Lotteries were sold), TICKETS in the present Lottery, in Whole, Half, Quarter, and Eighth parts—Cash, or undrawn Tickets, given for Prizes as soon as drawn. SCHEME. 1 Prize of 30,000 is 50,000 1 20,000 20,000 1 10,000 10,000 2 5,000 5,000 2 2,000 4,000 5 1,000 5,000 10 500 5,000 30 200 6,000 30 100 8,000 120 50 6,000 400 20 8,000 7,100 10 71,000 4,000 8 32,000 11,751 Prizes. Dolls. 210,000 23,249 Blanks.
35,000 Tickets—Less than one Blank to a Prize; subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. Prizes payable 30 days after the conclusion of the drawing. The first drawn 4,000 Blanks will be entitled to eight dollars each. OF THE ABOVE PRIZES, First drawn number, 1st day of drawing, entitled to 1,000 Dollars, (and whatever else may be drawn against said number.) do. 10th do. 2,000 do. 15th do. 1,000 do. 20th do. 5,000 do. 25th do. 1,000 do. 30th do. 10,000 do. 35th do. 1,000 do. 40th do. 20,000 do. 45th do. 1,000 The Managers will commence drawing in the city of New-York, on the second Tuesday in December next, and will continue to draw 600 Tickets each day, until finished, except the last day, when there will remain 800 to be drawn. 14 Distant adventurers, by forwarding Bank Notes of any description, Directed to N. Judah, New-York, post paid, will be supplied with Tickets from the above Office, with the utmost punctuality, with perfect safety, and the earliest advice of their success. Owing to the great demand for Tickets, they will soon rise from the present price, which is 7 dollars. September 26. eo2m.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, held at Edward Holland's tavern in the city of Richmond, on Tuesday the 29th of July, 1806. RESOLVED, That five dollars be paid on each share held by the Stock-holders in the said company to Nathaniel Sheppard their treasurer on or before the first day of September next. Resolved, That propositions be received from any person inclined to undertake the work on the Turnpike until the first day of October next, and that the same be filed in writing with the clerk of the Company by the persons making such propositions. An extract from the minutes. N. SHEPPARD, Clerk. N. B. I have been directed by the president and directors, to request the persons making propositions for undertaking the abovementioned road, to make their statements in such a way, as to give the amount upon a supposition, that the road is from forty to one hundred feet wide; and also, to inform them, that the time for receiving proposals, is postponed till the first day of November next. N. SHEPPARD, Clerk. September 9. (tf)
FOR SALE.
A YOUNG and active House SERVANT Enquire at this office. October 7. tf.
ON the second Wednesday in December next, I shall offer for sale to the highest bidder, at Powhatan Court-House:
ABOUT thirty NEGROES, consisting of men, women and children, on the following terms: one third cash and the balance in twelve months. Bonds with approved security will be required, carrying interest from the date, but if punctually paid, the interest will not be demanded. Wilton, Nov. 4. WM. RANDOLPH. edf.
BY VIRTUE of a Deed of Trust, executed to me by Armistead Ruffell, to secure the payment of one thousand two hundred and nineteen pounds and eight pence, due from said Ruffell to Bartholomew Danbridge, I shall, on Monday the 24th of the present month, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, at New-Kent C. H. that valuable tract of LAND lying in N. Kent County, called Poindexter, containing twelve hundred and thirty-six acres, together with twelve likely young NEGROES, or so much of the said property as will be sufficient to satisfy the said debt with interest from the 22nd of May, 1806, until paid, and the expenses attending the execution of the said deed of trust. Nov. 4. WM. ARMISTEAD, Trustee. t24th
THE subscriber has accommodations for Twenty Five Gentlemen of the Legislature. He has also stabling for as many Horses. October 17. ALEXANDER QUARRIER. tf.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of John Boomes, dec'd. of the Bowling-Green, are requested to make them known, that provision may be made for a final settlement. And those indebted must make immediate payment to JOHN BOOMES, and JOHN G. WOOLFOLK, Executors of John Boomes, dec'd. Jan. 28. tf.
NOTICE.
A PETITION will be presented by William Fitchett to the next General Assembly of Virginia, praying that a law may pass to establish a ferry across Piankatank river from my land in Matthews County, to the land of my late Thomas E. Churchill, dec'd. of Middlesex county. September 12. WILLIAM FITCHETT. co2f.
TO BE SOLD FOR CASH,
ON Saturday the 8th November, at the Store door of the subscriber: The residue of the estate of John Watkins, dec'd. consisting chiefly of household and kitchen Furniture, a negro Man and one Horse. All persons having claims against said estate are requested to bring them forward on or before the day of sale, and those indebted will please make immediate payment, as the subscriber intends closing his Administration as quick as he possibly can, after the sale is made. Manchester, Oct. 22. J. F. ROBERTSON. oaw.
JOHN SOUTHGATE,
AT the house lately occupied by Messrs. Thomas and Amos Ladd, and directly opposite the Union Tavern, offers for sale, a pretty general assortment of FALL GOODS, Well worth the attention of country dealers.—Cash, country produce, or approved paper will be received in payment. ALSO FOR SALE, AS ABOVE, London Particular, Madeira Wine in pipes; and a few boxes Martinique Cordials. October 23. (tf)
THE SUBSCRIBER,
HAS just received a handsome assortment of CHINA, China Glazed and Crockery WARE, and very soon expects a handsome parcel of Glass to afford what he has now on hand; he has also received on consignment Antigua and New-England Rum by the puncheon, London particular Tenerife Wine by the pipe, Teas by the chest, and men's fine Hats by the box, which articles will be sold low for cash, or on the usual credit for negotiable paper. He has on hand a general assortment of Groceries, among which are Brown Sugar & Coffee by the hhd. and bbl. Salt by the sack, Shad, Clipped Herrings, & Tarr by the bbl. and northern Potatoes, loafs and in bbl. Vinegar, Claret and Port Wine in boxes of one and two dozen bottles each, Cordials, Olives, Capers and Anchovies, also in boxes; and he keeps constantly a large supply of Philadelphia bottled and draught Porter and Ale, and Beer in barrels. He has lately rented the Brick Ware-House on the cross-street leading from the Brick-Road immediately to the Basin, which has been occupied for many years by Messrs. Pickett, Pollard and Johnson. He will be glad to receive on storage Flour and other country produce at the ordinary rates. October 25. DANIEL TRIPLETT. 6w.
ELLIS & ALLAN
INFORM their friends, that they have received a part of their FALL GOODS, per the ships Hercules from Liverpool, and Dido from London— CONSISTING OF, Refé Blankets from 6-4 to 12-4, Duffel Blankets, Flannels, Ginghams, and Cottons, London Refé Superfine Cloths, Spanish wool, Keysermeres single and double milled, Gentlemen's Beaver and patent silk Hats, Ladies fashionable Beaver Refé trimmed, Mouselins and Silk Quiltings, Mouselins, Swan-downs and Talcints, for Vests, Chambray Silks and Muslins, new patterns, Ladies cotton, silk and wool Hosiery, Gentlemen's cotton, silk and Angola do. fine wool frocks and drawers, Ladies Spanish Morocco Boots and lift Shoes, elegant Muffs and Tippets, Fox Brush and Cibaney Tippets, Brusht and Kidderminster Carpeting, Great Coats, Umbrellas, Gloves, Demitits & Muslins, Callicoes and Cambricks, Salt in sacks, &c. &c. &c. The Balance of their Goods, per the Laura, are expected daily, and which will be sold on very moderate terms. Sept. 23. 15lb.N.
ROBERT JOHNSTON,
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has removed his Store from the house he lately occupied opposite the Eagle Tavern, to one of Mr. Thomas Mitchell's new houses nearly opposite to Messrs. Taylor and Brown's Vendue Office, where he is now opening a general assortment of DRY GOODS & IRONMONGERY, which he will dispose of at a moderate profit. N. B. He will Rent or Sell his Brick Tenement on Shockoe Hill, adjoining to Mr. Robert Gordon's. October 7. tf.
A BARGAIN
MAY be had in a Chariot, Harness, and pair of excellent horses—Enquire of the Editor. August 5. tf.
Europe.
FRANKFORT, Aug. 28.
There has lately appeared here, in the name of the magistrates of this city, a proclamation, of which certain passages are considered, by intelligent people, as very extraordinary. Marshal Augereau, to whom a report thereof had been made, addressed the following letter to the Burgo-masters and Magistrates of Frankfort. "Gentlemen,"
"Being desirous to alleviate as much as possible, the burthens imposed on you by the circumstances of the war, you have seen me on every occasion contributing with you, to the public tranquility, and the comfort of your fellow citizens. Consulted by you on the general measures interesting to your city, I have taken pleasure in those which were best adapted to your immediate convenience."
"On the arrival of the French commissary general, charged to prepare the remission of the city of Frankfort, and its territory, to its electoral highness the prince primate (conformably to the treaty of confederation of the 12th of July last) several members composing your government, announced to me their intention of proclaiming the new order of things—the time was not yet arrived—I dissuaded them from doing—and they appeared to appreciate my motives."
"What has been my surprise, when at Aschaffenburg, where I had gone to pay my respects to the prince Primate, a courier, dispatched from head quarters by the commandant bro't to me a journal containing the translation of a proclamation, which you had profusely distributed during my absence!"
"I have perused with pain, gentlemen. It is unjust towards the French government, which, in the changes of Germany, has treated you in the most favorable and distinguished manner; and which you ought to have duly estimated, and impressed on your constituents.—On the contrary, you seem to have wished to excite their discontent."
"More enlightened on their true interests, a great majority of the inhabitants of Frankfort applaud the change which is preparing for them.—The privileged classes being abolished, they all became citizens, and equal in the eye of the law, and they will alike participate in the favors of a paternal government."
"My connection with you, gentlemen, hitherto to have been agreeable—but by your late conduct, they must cease to be so."
"The reproaches, which I now address to you, are the more painful to my feelings, as they must be of equal publicity with your act which has occasioned them; that act is moreover the error of certain individuals only—I know positively that several among you had no part in it; and, as they ought not to be confounded with its authors, I summon you to declare, within twenty four hours, who are the authors of the proclamation which is now circulating." (Signed,) "AUGEREAU. "Marshal of the empire, commanding the seventh corps of the grand army."
PARIS, Aug. 18.
Thursday being the day of Saint Napoleon, there was a spectacle at St. Cloud, a drawing room, cards in the apartments and a supper for the ladies.
Yesterday, at nine in the morning, there was a grand levee; the princes, the ministers, the grand officers, the officers of his household, &c. congratulated his majesty on the anniversary of his birth.
After the levee, the senate, the council of state, the tribunate, the courts of cassation, and the departmental council, were successively presented to the emperor and king by the grand master of the ceremonies.
The governor of Paris presented the municipal body. The presidents of these different bodies and the prefect of the Seine addressed speeches to his majesty.
At ten the corps diplomatic were conducted to an audience of his majesty, by the masters and aids of the ceremonies.
At this audience were presented to his majesty by his excellency the count de Metternich, ambassador from his majesty the emperor of Austria—The count de Craxky, a gentleman of Transylvania; the count de Potofky; M. De Floret, M. Lefebvre de Rechtemburg, M. De Neumann—secretaries of embassy.
By his excellency the prince de Masserano, ambassador from his catholic majesty—M. De Ayensa, Chevalier of the military order of St. James.
By his excellency M. De Brantzen, minister plenipotentiary from his majesty the king of Holland.
M. Verhuell, counsellor of state and chamberlain to the king of Holland.
M. Meyer, ex-devant minister in France—M. Myfien, consul from Holland at Algiers.
Their majesties then went to mass. His eminence cardinal Fesch, grand almoner, officiated in his pontificals, and gave the papal benediction. The mass was followed by Te Deum.
At eight in the morning their majesties came to Paris. On traversing the Champs Elysees and the Quays which lead to the Palace, in the midst of an innumerable crowd who were assembled, they were received with the loudest acclamation.
When the emperor appeared in the balcony of the palace, an immense crowd spread themselves in the garden, and made the air resound with loud applause and reiterated acclamations of Vive l'Empereur! Vive Napoleon!
After the fire-works, their Majesties returned to St. Cloud.
The illumination of the palace and the garden of the Tuilleries was most magnificent. The fine avenue of the Champs Elysees was a continued blaze of light.—A great number of houses belonging to individuals rivalled, in splendour and elegance, the public establishments.
The whole city was illuminated.
LONDON, Sept. 7.
We have received a letter from our Correspondent at St. Petersburg, of one day later than the dispatches transmitted to Government. It states that news had just reached that capital of a complete victory gained by the Russian army over the Persians, in which the latter were

almost all killed or taken prisoners. It appears that the Russian officers had for some days previous to the battle, been exciting their troops to take a dreadful revenge for the murder of Prince Zizianoff, and their efforts were crowned with success. This victory was considered of so much importance, that when the post came away, preparations were making to illuminate the Russian capital.
Though the interchange of Couriers between London and Paris is renewed with great activity, the state of the negotiation is still involved in all the secrecy that has attended it from its origin. It is, however, understood, that on the receipt of the intelligence of the Emperor Alexander having refused to ratify the Treaty concluded by M. D'Oubril, instructions were sent off to Lord Lauderdale to hold a higher tone in insisting on the ultimatum, said to have been already given in by his Lordship on the part of our Court.
By the vessel which brought over Mr. Basilico, we received a letter from a friend in Paris, which has given us the following important information: It was understood in the Ministerial Circles of that Capital, that the following were the bases of the Negotiation which had been proposed by the British Government, England has stipulated the uti possidetis , viz. that G. B. as well as France, shall retain what each may possess up to the moment of signing the Preliminaries, and that his Britannic Majesty's German possessions shall be restored to him. Before Lord Lauderdale received any direct communication from Talleyrand, an express was sent to the King of Prussia, to require his resignation of Hanover, which he peremptorily refused; in consequence of which the French Minister opposed the proposition of his Lordship. The Courier, from London, which reached Lord Lauderdale on the night of the 10th, therefore, brought him directions to insist on this point by way of ultimatum ; and, in the event of refusal, immediately to depart without listening to any other overtures. We are assured, that his Lordship was actually ready to set out the whole day of the 11th, and several times demanded passports; these were, however, delayed, and it was not till the evening that hopes of a renewal of the Negotiation were in some degree revived. Talleyrand does not appear in the discussions, but their progress is daily laid before him. The Agents on the part of France are, Champagny, Minister of the Interior, and formerly Ambassador at Vienna, and Gen. Clark.
The latest letters received from Vienna, state that no official account has yet been received of the evacuation of Cattaro. By the emperor's orders, two new fortresses will be raised, viz. one at Ens, and another at Bruck, on the Muhr. The plans are by Gen. Dedovich, and for the execution of which fifteen millions of florins have been assigned. The marches of troops and warlike preparations have for the present ceased in Austria. Vienna will remain the residence of the Emperor, who will not change this place for Offen, as has lately been reported; but it is certain that a Diet will be held in Hungary.
The Wefel Gazette, like the Moniteur, speculates much on the improbability of a war on the Continent, and the perfectly good understanding now subsisting between France and Russia; but the movements of the French troops in every part of Germany, particularly from Holland to Wefeland Westphalia, on the Saxon and Austrian frontiers, increase every day. Naval preparations also are again ordered in the Texel, and several camps of French and Batavian troops will, it is said, be speedily formed at Zeist, in Groningen and East Friesland. A very heavy train of artillery has arrived at Wefel, with vast quantities of ammunition and provisions, sufficient for the maintenance of a large army.
The Servians under General Milenko lately defeated a corps of 6000 Turks and Cressians near Borasch, in which action 4000 of the latter remained dead on the field. The Porte has granted to Russian ships the free navigation of the Black Sea, and has sent a firmation to the States of Barbary to respect the Russian flag. The Persians intend to take Bassora; for which purpose Babr Khan was in full march against it.
Letters from Portsmouth state, without assigning any cause, that the embarkation of the 2d, 23d, 40th, and other regiments, has been suspended. The 1st, 6th, and 40th, expect orders to proceed for Plymouth, where the transports are more numerous.
It is understood, that the expeditions now in port will yet proceed. At Plymouth, officers are actively employed in engaging transports for that purpose. The troops will probably be re-embarked in the course of the next week.
The embarkation of the troops at Plymouth, we understand, was chiefly directed with a view to the preservation of the health of the men, who would otherwise have been on board for some weeks before sailing.
The Buffs, 8th, 36th, 88th, and 89th are in perfect readiness, and hourly expect to receive orders to embark.
The 2d battalions from England will not be embarked for Ireland till transports arrive from that country. Probably these transports will bring over complete regiments to join the different expeditions.
A general removal of regiments from Scotland to Ireland will take place immediately.
PHILADELPHIA, October 30.
Yesterday arrived the ship Jane, captain Theodore Bliss, in 40 days from Bristol. Capt. Bliss failed from Bristol the 15th Sept. and brings London papers to the 14th; being two days later than by any other arrival.
Having received the whole of captain Bliss's Newpapers, it will be in our power to present to the readers of the Philadelphia Gazette a succession of highly interesting extracts.
By these papers which include the Courier of the 13th, it would seem that Mr. Fox's disorder had experienced considerable mitigation; notwithstanding this, however, the verbal accounts brought by captain Bliss, state positively, that this distinguished personage closed his earthly career in the course of Sunday the 14th Sept. This intelligence was received in Bristol on the day following, through various channels equally entitled to credit.
Capt. Bliss also informs, that the day he failed, it was currently reported at Bristol, that a frigate had arrived with dispatches from Sir Home Popham, announcing the capture of Buenos Ayres, by the squadron and forces under his command.
It was also reported, that advice from the Mediterranean stated, that the Port at Malta had been blown up by accident.
It will be perceived by our extracts in this day's Gazette, that, with regard to the discussions going on in Paris, no additional information had been developed by the English prints. On the continent of Europe, it is manifest, that some momentous events are rapidly approaching. For these events, in which the whole world is more or less interested, we must necessarily wait with patience.
Stocks at London, September 12. One o'clock, 5 per cent consols 63 3-4 5 3-4 - 5 per cent Navy An. 96 1-4 - Omnium 8 3-4 1-2 - Consols for Oct. 64 1-4 1-8. The French funds were on the 8th, at 66f. 80c.
LONDON, Sept. 12-13.
MR. FOX.
To the great joy of his numerous friends continued much better yesterday, as will be seen by the following Bulletin:
"Thursday, 12 o'clock at night."
"Mr. Fox has had some refreshing sleep, and his strength is increased since this morning."
At seven o'clock this morning, the verbal answer given at Chiswick House, was, "That he was better;" but, in the course of this forenoon, the two following Bulletins were successively exhibited at Devonshire House:
"Clifwick House, Friday morning, 8 o'clock."
"Dr. Moseley has the honour to inform Lady Elizabeth Foster, that Mr. Fox has had some hours of sleep at intervals in the night, and has taken his medicines regularly, with a sufficient quantity of nourishment, but that he is very languid this morning."
"Clifwick House, Friday morning, 10 o'clock."
"(After the Consultation.)"
"Dr. Moseley has nothing to add to the purport of his note of this morning, which he has already had the honor to send to Lady Elizabeth Foster."
Messrs. Basilico and Smith left town for Paris early yesterday morning. We find by our Deal letter that they actually took with them the Turtle, of which there was so much talk in the newspapers.
This day at noon Count Michael Woronzow set off from Harley-street for Harwick, whence he proceeds to St. Petersburg.
Mr. Kay, the Messenger, arrived yesterday from Constantinople. His dispatches, which are certainly of importance, were opened this day.
Dispatches were last night, at a late hour received from Sir Richard Strachan, whose ships are said to be in the very best state.
Our Consul for Egypt arrived last night at the Foreign Office. He thence proceeded to Mr. Fox's, and not finding access there, he is said to have gone to the house of Mr. Fox's Private Secretary, to communicate to him the cause of his journey.
This morning, about half past eleven o'clock, arrived from London Messrs. Basilico and Smith, messengers, who waited on Admiral Holloway, and then embarked on board the Speculator lugger, which immediately proceeded for the coast of France. They carried with them a very fine Turtle, about 150 lbs. weight, for Lord Lauderdale.
PARIS JOURNALS.
To the 8th instant, inclusive, have been received. The extracts which we have given from the Moniteur will be read with interest. Notice has at length been taken in that journal of the refusal of Alexander to ratify M. D'Oubril's treaty; and the French government, in the comments which they have given, betray no small chagrined at the event, mingled with an affected hauteur, which ill conceals the disappointment. They ascribe the circumstance to the "consequences of the change of ministry in the Russian government, and the extraordinary ascendancy which the English party had had the address to obtain over the new Cabinet."
This amounts to a direct acknowledgement, that the influence of the British government on the affairs of the continent is not reduced to that state of insignificance which we had been led to believe some time past. We have much confidence, and that the Emperor Alexander is not disposed to give to Napoleon that deference which has been so loudly boasted in that journal. While the government cannot hide the mortification which it has received, it affects to speak as if Bonaparte was willing to agree to a reconciliation with Russia, but entertained no apprehension for her power or opposition.
It was said that "the emperor was always determined not to suffer Russia imperiously to interfere in interests placed beyond the sphere of her power, and in discussions foreign from her local situation." It is observed too, that "by the political and military consequences of the battle of Austerlitz, Russia was placed in complete impossibility of disturbing the repose of the continent." This was all that was important to France." Nevertheless, however, some apprehension of the opposition of Russia shews itself. A boasting insinuation is thrown in of what the conquerors of Ulm and Austerlitz can do if they are again called into action. The article continues—"At the same time nothing can yet give reason to presume ( encore faire presumer ) the renewal of the continental war. The destiny of states is the secret of Providence. Their happiness and their glory depend upon the wisdom of their rulers. In every event the emperor, as well as the people of France, are prepared for all chances, and the armies of his imperial majesty will be found, wherever it is necessary to combat, in order to consolidate tranquility and a lasting and glorious peace."
From the tone of this article, it is pretty obvious that the nature of the rapprochement with Russia, which the French government desired, was very different from the principles which the emperor Alexander had adopted, and to which he is determined to adhere.
The Argus also presents a long article upon the non-ratification of D'Oubril's treaty. The gist of the reasoning in that paper as well as in the Moniteur , amounts to a compliment to our present ministers, far from being intended by our adversaries. They will not allow that the treaty was rejected because embracing principles not warranted by the powers entrusted to D'Oubril, but maintain that its rejection was occasioned by the "extraordinary ascendancy which the English party have obtained over the Russian cabinet."
They published a copy of the Full Powers of M. D'Oubril to conclude a Treaty; but they have not shown the Treaty itself, to enable the world to judge whether it really was concluded "upon principles calculated to consolidate the peace which may be established between Russia and France, as well as to lay the foundation of it between the other Belligerent Powers of Europe." If the Treaty contained principles of a different nature from these; if in the French meaning of the terms D'Oubril consented to withdraw that "interference of Russia with interests placed beyond the sphere of her power, and discussions foreign from her local situation," which Bonaparte was determined not to permit—it was to be expected Alexander would consider himself bound to ratify it? France would now shut Russia altogether from any concern in the affairs of Europe; yet surely it cannot be forgotten that Russia was associated with France in the settlement of the German indemnities. The principles of Russia, unquestionably, are to let limits to Bonaparte's encroachments, if possible, certainly not to recognize them. Unless, therefore, Bonaparte is disposed to accede something to the just and liberal views of Russia, there can be no reconciliation between the two Powers. It is possible that he may give way, because it now seems more and more probable that the principles of the
Emperor Alexander are those on which our Ministers have negotiated, and which the French Government cannot resist without taking upon itself the responsibility for the continuance of the war.
We were the first to inform the public, and we have more than once stated the fact, that D'Oubril was imposed upon by a falsehood, and, under an erroneous impression, he did sign what the French have called a treaty. We can state farther that as soon as it was signed, Talleyrand carried it to the Austrian and Prussian ministers, and shewed them his own and D'Oubril's signature, but not the contents of the paper. This was the second act of the same piece. The object was to impress both of these powers, with the opinion that the other States of Europe had nothing to expect from Russia or England, and were now at the mercy of Napoleon. This end succeeded with Austria—the Crown of Germany was renounced in the moment of panic, and the influence of Napoleon was acknowledged. Prussia hesitated—but in the mean time, as another fruit of this lying craft, the Confederation of the Rhine was not only formed, but consolidated by the accession of powers which could never otherwise have been induced to join it.
All this has taken place since the negotiations for peace were commenced, and yet we find people affecting to wonder at the delays which have taken place in its completion. Are not the grounds entirely changed? Is the interest, the influence, and preponderance of a power, which counts all means lawful to gain its ends, alone to be consulted on such an occasion? Did not these new arrangements, acquired by France, require the introduction of other arrangements into the treaties, which but for these would not have been necessary? Was it to be expected that our government would be formed into a hasty treaty by the machinations of a Statesman, who employs falsehood and fraud as two of his most powerful engines?
The attempt was made more than once, but it failed. We know that before Mr. Shaw, who brought dispatches from Lord Lauderdale which were received on Sunday, left Paris, his Lordship had sent for passports to quit France, and that in consequence Talleyrand begged to have another interview. His Lordship and Suite were packing up for their removal; but when the last messenger, Parsons, who arrived yesterday, left Paris, the negotiations had been again resumed. This furnishes some proof that the French Cabinet has lowered somewhat in the demands, and hold out a stronger ground than before existed for entertaining a hope that the present Negotiations may yet terminate in Peace.— Star.
PARIS, Sept. 8.—Yesterday his majesty the emperor and king received at a private audience, at the palace of Saint Cloud, his excellency the marquis de Lucchesini, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from his majesty the king of Prussia. His excellency presented his letters of recall.
Several hundred Neapolitan prisoners of war are expected at Antwerp, to work, with a log at one foot, in the harbour.
An American ship arrived at Leghorn, from Canton, has brought a considerable quantity of gold, which was obtained at the age of one to five for silver.
A Gazette is set up here in the Spanish language. It is said that the grand military festival will now be deferred beyond Sept.
HAMBURGH MAIL.
The Mail due on Sunday arrived this day, but at so late an hour, that we cannot give the following extracts. It will be seen that Austria must yet submit to farther degradations:
Frontiers of Austria, Aug. 23. —According to reports, the French wishing effectually to prevent Austria from taking a part in a new war, if by chance it should break out, have demanded to occupy the whole circle of Austria, till the re-establishment of peace with England. They are still not only at Brannau, but have likewise occupied the right bank of the Isonzo. All the measures that are silently taken, announce that the present tranquility will soon be disturbed. A great magazine is forming in Moravia, on the frontiers of Silesia. The artillerymen have received orders to make 8,000,000 of cannon cartridges and 22,000,000 of musket cartridges. Five companies have been employed in making them for these four or five days.
Count de Stadion, at the same time that he received the notification that Russia had refused to ratify the Peace with France, received also a note, printed at St. Petersburg, in which Russia states the reasons for her present conduct.
Vienna, Aug. 23. —The report which had been received of the evacuation of Cattaro is not yet confirmed. Great quantities of artillery, ammunition, &c. are sending to Comorn, Temeswar, and Buda, and distributing in the different depots.
The city of Leopoldstadt, in the county of Neutra, in Hungary, will be the principal depot of arms; the transports on the Danube continue without intermission, and thousands of bullets and bombs, which have lain for many years heaped up in the ditches of Vienna, and which were not touched by the French, probably because they could not carry them away, and have been taken out and embarked.
The French and Russian Ambassadors continually receive and send off couriers. Last night another courier arrived from St. Petersburg to Count Rasumovsky.
Berlin, Aug. 26.—All the movements now taking place appear to announce war. The garrison of this city as well as that of Potsdam have to day received orders to hold themselves in readiness to march at the first signal. The gens d'armes, the gardes du corps, and the hussars leave Berlin to day; the rest of the garrison will follow to morrow. The place of these troops will be supplied by other regiments. On the 13th, the Prussian troops, forming the garrison of Munster, likewise received orders to hold themselves in readiness to march at the first signal. It is evident that all these sudden and extraordinary movements and measures are of a nature to furnish matter for a thousand conjectures.
Vienna, August 13. —The Diet will be assembled in Hungary, in the course of next month, when the basis will be proposed of a new Constitution, more beneficial to that Kingdom. It appears to have no other object than to recompense the unshaken fidelity of the Hungarians towards the House of Austria.
Weich, August 25. —The fortifications of our town and of the citadel, are going to be considerably extended; the works will immediately begin; the necessary materials are collecting throughout the surrounding countries, and even as far as Holland; the contractors are shortly to furnish several thousand bricks. It is said, that new incidents have given rise to some diplomatic discussions, which have delayed the new arrangements to be taken in the North of Germany. It is added, that proposals have been made to the king of Prussia, for the purpose of more fully concentrating his States, to give up his possessions in Westphalia, and a part of the country of Hanover, for indemnities in Saxony; that East Friesland, with
the part of Embden, will aggrandize Holland; that the rest of Western Westphalia will be joined to the states of the Grand Duke of Berg, and that Eastern Westphalia will be given, with a part of Hanover, to the Elector of Hesse, who, in his turn, will cede the country of Hanau, and a part of his other possessions. Luface, and the sovereignty over all the petty states of the North of Germany, will also, according to this plan devolve to the king of Prussia, &c. We shall shortly know whether these reports have any foundation.
Some travellers lately come from Russia announce that from St. Petersburg to Russian Poland there are different camps of troops, and that many magazines have been established along that road.
The London Star, of Sept. 12, contains the following:
A work, highly interesting to the public, is now in the press, and will appear shortly, entitled negotiations with America , containing a collection of important tracts on the Navigation and Colonial System of G. Britain, which will include the two Reports of the Board of Trade in 1784 and 1791, on the intercourse between America and the British West-India Islands, &c. the proceedings of the Society of Ship Owners of Great-Britain, and several other valuable Papers on the present state of the Navigation of the Country, and the greater depression of the British Shipping, &c.—Also in the press and will be published at the same time, uniformly with the above, the Debates in Parliament since 1782, on the Navigation and Colonial System of Great-Britain, on the temporary and permanent Bills relating to the trade of America, with the British dominions, and in particular Debates on the West-India and American Intercourse bills of last session, which will be given more in detail than in any other publication—with an Appendix, containing all the Official Papers on the subject, the Memorials from the British Colonies in America, &c. and an introduction.
These volumes are brought forward at this most critical juncture, in order that the public attention may be directed to the imperative necessity of maintaining, in future, inviolably, the Colonial System of Great-Britain, and which has become of infinitely higher importance to the Nation, from the mischievous and ruinous consequences which have resulted from the impolitic concessions already made to neutrals of all denominations, but especially to those of the United States of America.
NEW-YORK, November 1.
A letter from one of the most respectable commercial houses in Bordeaux to another in this city, dated the 12th Sept. has the following postscript.
"This moment we have news that the camp which had formed at Paris, for the celebration of the Grand National Fete, has received marching orders and is about breaking up."
A passenger on board the brig Sally, captain Mattock, who failed on the 17th of September, from Bordeaux, relates, that at the time of his sailing, it was currently reported in Bordeaux, that Austria and Prussia had joined in the coalition against France.
N. Y. paper.
CHARLESTON, October 26.
Captain Nelson, arrived yesterday from Havana, informs us, that a few days before he failed, a Spanish packet arrived at Trinidad, (Cuba) in 30 days from Cadiz. Letters by this arrival were received at Havana, stating, that East and West-Florida had been ceded by Spain to France, and by France to the U. States. It was also stated, that the Island of Cuba had been ceded by Spain to France, in consequence of Bonaparte's agreeing to reinstate the King of Naples on his Throne. Knowing, as we do, that a douceur of two millions has been dispatched to France, to pay the way in a negotiation for the Floridas, we think the first part of this article very likely to be correct—but that Bonaparte should consent to take down his brother Joseph from the throne of Naples, so shortly after having elevated him to that dignity, for the purpose of reinstating its lawful Sovereign, is very doubtful. Courier.
Domestic.
From the N. Y. American Citizen.
The emissary Cullen otherwise Carpenter.
In Cullen's emissary paper, clandestinely entitled the People's Friend , of October, is a piece signed Hamilton , in which several notorious falsifications are made from a publication of mine entitled Communication in the (N. Y.) American Citizen of October 11th, and the falsifications thus made are imposed upon the public as literal extracts from that communication.
On Saturday, October 19, I made a written copy of those falsifications, and desired a friend of mine to call on Cullen or Carpenter, or whatever his travelling name may be, and read the said falsifications to him, and also a note written by myself in my own name, asking him if he was the writer of those falsifications and of the piece signed Hamilton from which I had copied them, or to declare who the writer of them was.
The gentleman who undertook to see Carpenter upon this business called at his (Carpenter's) printing office the next day, but could get no intelligence of him. He then left word with the person in the office that he would call again the next day, Monday, and that he had something to communicate to Mr. Carpenter. The gentleman called accordingly, but Carpenter was not to be found. He left the same message for the next day, Tuesday, and called the third time, but Carpenter was not to be found. He then enquired of the persons in the office who appeared to belong to it, where Carpenter lived, or lodged. They said they did not know, but they believed it was a good way off. They also told him he might leave his message with them; but as the gentleman's business was to see Carpenter and to read a message to him from me, and as he found after calling three times that Carpenter kept himself obscure, he came away and I desired him to call no more. An emissary is always a skulking character. His business is lying and deceiving. He fears the public and is afraid that every enquiry about him is for the purpose of apprehending him.
The publication of mine entitled Communication in the American Citizen of Oct. 11th, which Cullen or Carpenter in his paper of Oct. 23d has falsified, was written to impress on the mind of the people of New-York some apprehension of the danger to which they might expose themselves and the city by giving protection and encouragement to the emissary of one belligerent nation to the injury of another belligerent nation.
The United States professes to be a neutral nation, and as such she cannot harbour an emissary.
ry of either of the belligerent nations. If that emissary be demanded by the party injured, the nation harbouring him must give up or take the consequence. Nations do not settle their disputes by law suits; for there is no court to try such disputes in. They complain first of some real or supposed injury, and if it is not explained or redressed by the government of the nation they complain to, they redress themselves; for nations, with respect to each other, are like individuals in a state of nature. We have no laws respecting emissaries, and therefore emissaries are a sort of outlaws that must take just what fare or fate they meet with.—They are not entitled to protection. They violate, like spies, the laws of hospitality and expose to danger the place that harbours them.
In the piece entitled Communication , before spoken of, I stated that the British ministry sent emissaries to some of the states of Germany to carry on conspiracies against France, and that when the French government found it out, they sent an armed force and seized those emissaries, those German states had to fly the country. Drake, the English minister at Munich was one of them. "It is not, said I, because New-York is more remote from France than those states were, that conspiracies can be carried on with greater safety or ought to be permitted. Two or three thousand French troops would soon force New-York and carry off a cargo of conspirators." Carpenter, among other falsifications, has falsified this passage, which was a caution against the danger of harbouring him, and made it into an invitation for two or three thousand French troops to come over and plunder the "merchants." If Carpenter should be prosecuted, and convicted of lying, he cannot complain his sentence is hard. But lying is so naturally the mother tongue of an emissary, that truth is to him like a foreign language.
The cases I stated with respect to emissaries sent by the British ministry to Germany, ought to have put the federalists of New-York on their guard, for their own safety sake, not to countenance or encourage Carpenter. This was the more necessary for the men calling themselves federalists to do, because their own political character is very doubtful. They have never declared what their principles are, or for what purpose they are federalized.—Their language is abuse instead of argument; and as far as their conduct discovers their motives, for as to principles they have none, their leaders are an English faction dissatisfied to the peace of the United States.
Carpenter came to the United States about the same time that Pitt, whose means were equal to his ignorance, sent his emissaries into Germany. Carpenter is the successor of Porcupine. He is his equal in blackguardism but not in wit. The one had talents, the other is a fool that has not talents enough to be a knave.
I am not entering into a contest with this emissary. I am exposing him; and putting the federalists, or rather those who have been deceived by that faction, on their guard against him, and having done so, I leave them. The republicans have nothing to fear. They are not the abettors of conspiracies against a friendly power.
THOMAS PAINE.
NEW-YORK, November 1.
Captain Cook, of the sloop Sally, 9 days from St. Thomas, informs us that two days before he left that port a British fleet of nine sail, including ships of the line and frigates, left Barbadoes to make an attack upon Curacoa. This was a packet which had only two days passage, and which had been specially dispatched at the time the fleet failed. Mer. Adv.
** According to the New-York Post, the British fleet consists of two 74's, 4 frigates and 2 brigs, and they had gone down to take Curacoa, in aid of Miranda's Expedition.
Information has been received at Nassau, N. P. by his Britannic majesty's schr. Pike, that Portobello, on the south side of Cuba, is destroyed, and 12 vessels (one a French privateer of 4 guns) captured by his majesty's vessels Stork , Superieur , Pike , and Flyingfish . ib.
BALTIMORE, November 2.
The new British brig Avon , of 20 guns, with the new British minister, Mr. Erskine, arrived at Annapolis on Thursday last. The Avon , we learn, was fallen in with by the French ship of war Foudroyant , of 80 guns, mistaking her, we presume, for a British man of war. The Frenchman gave her a broadside, and while he was ceremoniously hauling up his courses, and putting about to give her another, the Avon made her escape. Fed. Gaz.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.
Mr. ERSKINE, the British minister, arrived in this city on Saturday from Annapolis.
NORFOLK, October 30.
The ship Aberdeen , Captain Morgan, arrived at Falmouth on the 27th of August, in 27 days from this port.—On the 19th the Aberdeen spoke the ship Alert , from Boston bound to Amsterdam, on board of which ship were the masters of nine ships belonging to the Quebec fleet, captured and destroyed by the Veteran French line of battle ship, commanded by Jerome Bonaparte .—While the English Captains were on board the Veteran , they learnt the following particulars:—Admiral Guillemets and Jerome could not agree, it seems, respecting the destination of the squadron. Jerome was for returning for France, while the Admiral persisted in staying at sea some time longer, in the hope of doing something to insure a welcome on his return. [Or perhaps it was policy to send Jerome's ship home singly, to give him a better chance of escaping.] It also appears that they expected an English squadron after them; but brother Jerome most magnanimously resolved not to wait for them. During a chase he contrived to lag after: and when the rest of the squadron were a long way ahead, and as he supposed did not observe his movements, he bore up for Europe, and left them to shift for themselves. It was reported among the officers of the Veteran , that Jerome , on his arrival in France, is to be dubbed King of Sardinia .—He is a most effeminate little animal, but endeavours as much as possible to appear like a man . He wears moustachios on his lips, and allows his beard to grow under his chin, &c. In his dress he is most superb—gold lace all over. His gaiters trimmed and laced with gold; his pantaloons edged and figured with gold, &c. The Veteran mounts 84 guns, of large calibre, and is a fine ship; 800 men compose her crew; but they are in a wretched state of discipline. It is said that Jerome (who by the bye is never addressed by any other title on board but "Prince") expressed a determination of rather shooting himself, or blowing up his ship, than be taken by the English. Lond. pop.

NEW-YORK, Oct. 31. Capt. Patterson informs, that previous to his leaving New-Orleans, Governor Claiborne had returned from Natchitoches, and had ordered out all the militia, with a view of marching them to the relief of the troops; though it was expected they could not arrive in time to prevent a skirmish with the Spaniards. All the inhabitants, it was supposed, would turn out. We have been favored with New-Orleans papers to the 10th inst. from which we make the following interesting extracts.
On the 27th ult. in the country of Attakapas, Gov. Claiborne was married to Miss Clarice Dugalde, daughter of Martin Dugalde, Esq. member of the Orleans legislature.
NEW-ORLEANS, Oct. 8. The letters received by this day's mail from Natchez and Fort Adams, states that every preparation is making to meet and repel Spanish encroachments. All the remaining regular force that was left by Col. Kingsbury at Fort Adams, have marched under the command of Capt. Sparks, for Natchitoches. Major Ferdinand J. Claiborne was hourly expected when the mail left Fort Adams with Capt. Farrar's troop of dragoons, and a handsome detachment of militia, on their march to Natchitoches, via. Rapide. No doubt now exists but blood will be shed unless the Spaniards fall back.
NATCHEZ, Sept. 30. Aspect of Spanish Affairs. —The most recent and accurate information from Natchitoches, states the Spanish force, embodied within our limits, at 1500, commanded by Governor Herrera, who evinces a spirit of marked hostility to the Government of the U. S.
Gen. Wilkinson, we are informed, had an interview with Governor Claiborne, at Rapide in the territory of Orleans, which resulted in the requisition of 250 mounted infantry and dragoons, from the Mississippi territory, who are ordered to march immediately to Natchitoches, and join the regular army stationed at that place.
The patriotism displayed by the citizens of this territory, at a crisis so interesting and momentous, deserves the eulogy of every friend to the liberty and independence of the U. States. The honorable Cowles Mead, our acting governor, has exerted all his energies to place the militia in a proper organization, assisted by the vigilance of his aid-de-camp, Major Shields, and we are happy to believe their exertions have not been ineffectual. It is with peculiar pleasure we observe the alacrity with which Capt. Benjamin Farrar's company of Dragoons have manifested their disposition to chalyze Spanish influence on this occasion, and a tribute of applause is also due to Capt. George Poindexter, who, with that zeal which forms the characteristic of every patriot, has organized a very considerable volunteer corps in the country. Captains Newman and Voss, we also understand, have made a patriotic tender of their services to the Executive. These companies, with such others from the different counties as may be necessary to constitute the number required, are ordered to rendezvous at the town of Washington, on Thursday the 2d of October, equip for service, and to receive further orders.
When the citizens of a country, where government rests upon their affections, move with such celerity to meet the invaders of their territory, we have nothing to anticipate but victory and vengeance.
CHARLESTON, October 23. INTERESTING LETTER. Shortly after Louisiana had been surrendered to the Americans, M. GASTILLON, President of the Corporation of the Church of St. Louis, in New-Orleans, addressed a letter to PORTALIS, the French Minister of Religious Affairs, in which he stated, that considerable schisms had taken place in the Church, since the Change of government; and requesting such relief as could be afforded by the Emperor of the French, in restoring order, and replacing the affairs of the Church in their former state. A gentleman from New-Orleans has favoured us with a copy of the Answer of PORTALIS, which was received a short time since. It excited considerable interest in New-Orleans.—Times.
PARIS, 5th of June, 1806. The Minister of Religious Affairs, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, to Mr. GASTILLON, President of the Corporation of the Church of St. Louis, in New-Orleans, (Louisiana.) I had the honor, Sir, of announcing to you, by my letter of the 29th of March last, that I had laid before his Majesty, the state of tumult and schism, in which the Church of New-Orleans had been placed, during the vacancy of the Episcopal See.
The Emperor, whose solicitude embraces every object which can be productive of good, as well as anxious to arrest the progress of evil, still bearing in mind that you were once Frenchmen, has expressly directed me to urge the Holy See, to adopt the most strenuous measures to repress the dissensions which have broken out among you. It is his Majesty this day orders me, to apprise you, that in consideration of his high recommendation, his Holiness has vested in the Bishop of Baltimore, the necessary powers of administering provisionally, and during the vacancy of the See, on the affairs of the Church of New-Orleans; and that this Prelate has been enjoined to offer some Candidates, amongst whom a new Bishop may be chosen, provided the Government of the United States does not object to the election. His Majesty has further expressly charged me, to assure you of the unceasing regard he entertained for the inhabitants of Louisiana; and the interest he takes in the support of all their religious rights, amongst the most prominent of which, is the preservation of an Episcopal See in your city. He will at the same time, that I should recommend, in a special manner, your interest to the President of the United States.
I feel happy, Sir, in being authorized to give you assurances of the utmost protection of his Majesty; and tender you the homage of my highest consideration.
(Signed) PORTALIS.
KENTUCKY. Frankfort, Oct. 9. Extract of a letter from a gentleman at St. Charles, to a gentleman in this town, dated 23d Sept. 1806.
I have the pleasure to inform you of the arrival of Captain Lewis and Clark. They were the first white people that ever visited that country. By the best accounts they could get, there are about ninety or one hundred thousand inhabitants, (Indians) on the west side of the Rocky Mountains; horses without number. It is thought to be a very poor Indian that did not own 300 horses. Not an iron tool among them. They erected a fort on the sea shore, and engraved their names. They have brought a number of curiosities; among which is a wild sheep; its head and horns weigh about 30 or 40 pounds. He was caught on the Rocky Mountains. Palladium.
The Western Country. —The increase of population in our territories beyond the Allegany
Ridges is rapid beyond example. The States of Kentucky and Tennessee have been principally settled within twenty-five years past. According to the last census, Kentucky contained 220,959 inhabitants, and Tennessee 100,000. And it is reasonable to conclude, they have increased at least one quarter since that census was taken in 1800.—The State of Ohio has received the principal part of its white population within twelve years. When the general peace with the Indians in the N. W. Territory was concluded in 1795, the white population was supposed to be not more than 10,000. We have reason to conclude, that the State of Ohio, which comprehends not all the settled country N. W. of Ohio River, contains at least 60,000 souls.—Very many of the emigrants to these three States, especially to Ohio, were from New-England. Considering the condition of the settlers, we are informed they pay considerable attention to learning. Kentucky and Tennessee have colleges. In Ohio a college is about to be established at Athens, a pleasant township on Hocking river about 45 miles from its junction with the Ohio.
Col. Burr, for some cause or other, has, during the last 18 months, been traveling "to and fro" in the western country. The affair of his killing Hamilton has driven him from his former residence at New-York. He has no wife—no rising family to induce him to forget his chagrined disappointed ambition in the solace of domestic comforts. His situation is such, as leaves him entirely under the control of his reflexes, aspiring disposition.
Col. Burr is now gone to the westward. It has long ago been intimated, that he is preparing to effect something in that quarter—supposed to be a separation of the western States, &c. from the Union. These things ought certainly to be looked after by the government—we think the administration must be inexcusable, if it sleeps at such a juncture. The shepherd ought to be awake when the wolf is invading the fold.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of respectability in Hampshire County, Mass. to his friend in this vicinity, dated in September last.
"General Eaton is now in this town; and he says, that he has seen a letter but a few days from Marietta (Ohio) which informed, that Col. Burr, was there, and was undertaking, or endeavoring to undertake, an expedition—that he had actually engaged some boats, and offered commissions to a number of young gentlemen in those parts, to engage with him in what he (Burr) said "would be a laudable and honorable undertaking." General Eaton has no doubt that Burr's intent is to erect a separate government west of the Alleghenies, and probably make himself either a foreigner, or be Viceroy to some foreign Prince. The latter, I am inclined to think, cannot be the motive. Burr had rather be the first in hell, than to serve in heaven. Spain will not be in a condition to support such a colony; perhaps France may.—Should Burr raise an insurrection, many things will be necessary, which we little think of."
Farmers Cabinet.
The Enquirer. RICHMOND, 7th NOVEMBER.
COMMUNICATION.
It is impossible to peruse the federal papers of this country; and to observe their complete contempt for truth, their gross servility, their repulsive impudence, without feeling an aversion, which ought not to exist, against the very profession which they pursue. It is possible, have I often exclaimed to myself, that Condorcet and Franklin could have been the editors of a newspaper?
When I have contemplated the superior advantages which we enjoy over the inhabitants of England; in the freedom of our political institutions, and in the equality of our manners; my heart has swelled with conscious dignity. But when I have laid down a London paper and taken up a Federal print, my proud, high-swelling patriotism has sunk into silence. What elegance, what gentility of style in the one! what billingsgate and scandal in the other!
The station of a public editor is in itself a high, a dignified, a commanding one. In this country, where libraries are so few and books so little read; where the people look to their public prints for the most solid information; that station is peculiarly exalted. Why then is it not so considered? Because the ordinary conductors of our papers destroy by their own manners all the dignity of their vocation.
What is the remedy for these abuses? What shall give that utility to our public papers, of which they are susceptible? It is not the interposition of government or law, as some have contended; but the enlightened efforts of individuals; of those who patronize, and those who conduct our journals.
For instance: What immense advantages would arise from the observance of the few following rules which I have sketched for the regulation of our press! By the term "permitted" I mean only that permission which is granted by the public, in the patronage which they confer. God forbid that there should be any law for enforcing these
RULES!
1. Let no foreigner be permitted to conduct a public journal in the United States, who has not at least taken the oath of Naturalisation. 2. Let no Editor be permitted to speak of his own birth, education, life, adventures, or character, unless it be absolutely necessary for the vindication of his moral character. But it is expressly understood, that this vindication shall not command more than a half or three-quarters of a column, within every three months. It is also to be understood, that this restriction is not to controul the privilege incident to every man of noticing such criticisms as appear upon his opinions in all important cases.—This regulation is indispensably necessary to checking that unpolitic habit of egotism, to which these gentlemen are particularly subject. 3. Let no Editor be permitted to indulge his vanity or his envy, in what are called Editorial disputes; a kind of disease, which even Dr. Darwin has not described in his Zoonomia, but which is peculiarly incident to all Editors of weak minds and great pride.—If an Editor have a quarrel with one of his brethren; if he be jealous of him; if he has either received or if he wishes to inflict an injury, he has several ways of expressing his resentment. He may call him into the field of blood, in the manner of a gentleman. Or he may bruise with him, a la mode de Mendoza. Or if it pleases his feelings better, he may abuse and blackguard him with his tongue as long as he pleases. There is some little spirit in all these modes of manifesting passion. But it is the very height of cowardice for an editor to shield himself behind the privileges of his press; and instead of fighting with pistol and with bullet, to encounter him with nothing but his printing balls and his ink. There is another strong objection too to this curious Chivalry of the press. If an editor
knocks his brother down with his fist, or blackguards him with his tongue, he scarce does any mischief but to himself or his antagonist. His fist and his tongue are perhaps his own; and no man except his antagonist can reasonably find fault with the free use which is made of them. But the case is materially changed, when he fights through the medium of his press. That instrument belongs to him in common with his countrymen. It is intended for their use, their instruction, for the disclosure of news or the diffusion of principles. The Editor strangely forgets himself and his calling, who holds back a large mass of important intelligence from his anxious readers, to find room for his most elegant, decent and learned criticisms upon the false grammar of his brother A. or the contemptible misrepresentations of his brother B.—But if these gentlemen must sometimes indulge their spleen or their wit upon each other, it is proper to lay down certain rules for their military department. Each kind of war has its laws; from the sports of the pit to the melancholy battle of men. This kind of fighting more particularly requires to be regulated in a proper manner, from the trouble-some frequency with which it occurs:
4. Let it then be an established rule that no editor shall speak of or abuse another by name. As they fight rather in the character of editors than of men, it would be as consistent not to call each other "Mr. A. or Mr. B." but "the editor" of this paper, or "the editor" of that. Should they however address each other by name, it would perhaps be as respectful to affix the title of Mr.: before it.
5. Let them beware of speaking of the private history of each other; for the preceding principle is equally applicable here. They appear as editors themselves, and should therefore seldom attack any but the editor.
6. As they may with to be treated like gentlemen themselves, they should attempt to treat each other as such. Hence it would be as well not to abuse each other in the grossest terms of billinggate. But as a bad habit is difficult to be surmounted all at once, it would be better for them to lay down certain arbitrary rules, to be punctiliously observed, until their manners have a little improved: for instance, not to call each other a liar, a knave, or a fool, more than fifteen times in one column. When they have brought themselves to observe this rule, they may be assured of their own amendment, and they may with the greater confidence proceed to enlarge it. In this manner, they may gradually approach the manner of liberal controversy, until at last, like certain mathematical approximations, the epithets of knave and fool may almost be made to vanish from their columns.
7. In no event, let them be permitted to pester the public with more than half a column of billinggate against each other at any one time. This rule obviously follows from that celebrated axiom in morals, that the worse any thing is in its kind, the less should it be in quantity.
8. These same rules apply with equal force to their animadversions upon any other individuals.
9. In making any statement of facts, it would be as well for an editor to distinguish what is fact from what is rumour. It is astonishing, how near these two distinct departments are to each, in many a journalist's brain.
10. It would be as well too never to assert anything to be a fact, unless he had some reason at least, however slight, for believing it himself. It must have occurred to every reader of federal papers, how many very elaborate articles would have failed to adorn their columns, had this one simple rule been in the slightest degree observed. Poor, ingenious spiders, who spin their webs out of their own bowels, and after all their labour, produce nothing but flimsy cobwebs.
INDICTMENTS are said to have been preferred against the Editors and Publisher of the "Western World" for libels against certain individuals, who are charged with having formed a conspiracy for delivering up the Western Territory of the United States to Spain and England.—The Defendants insist upon it, that the "members of the Spanish Association" were afraid to commence an action for damages, being aware that proof would be suffered to be produced in support of the facts with which they were charged. They have therefore, say the Editors of the W. World, resorted to the old English mode of proceeding by common law, where "The greater the truth, the greater the libel."
Should this course of prosecution be actually pursued, it will deservedly excite the suspicious indignation of the people. They were anxious to see a sober and official investigation into the truth of this reputed conspiracy. Many have suspended their opinions, until such an enquiry could be made, as would compel the accusers and the accused to bring up every thing that could be respectively urged in their behalf. But who ever looked forward to that species of investigation, which would prevent the libeller from pleading justification, and the truth from being fairly elicited; where the only enquiry would be, not into the existence and extent of a Spanish conspiracy in Kentucky, but into the consequences produced by an attempt to develop it?
From this species of investigation, therefore, the country will not only turn with dissatisfaction, but distrust. They cannot but regard this compulsory and gag-mode of proceeding, as the Ultima Ratio Reorum. They will consider such an attempt to repress the free spirit of enquiry, as an additional proof of the truth of the reputed conspiracy. How natural & irresistible is the conclusion, that the truth is not suffered to be produced, lest it should go to establish EVERY FACT that had been published, respecting the conspirators!
Impartial men therefore who are the friends of truth; men, who suppose that the history of the Spanish association combines a little truth with much falsehood; and who therefore wish to see the one thoroughly winnowed from the other; must oppose this course of proceeding. If the history of this conspiracy be true, in all its parts, they would prefer to see it laid upon its own evidence only. But if it be partly true and partly false; or if it be altogether false, they would dislike any measure which wears the air of persecution; which by enlisting the prejudices of the world in its favour, would hurry us into a belief of more of its assertions, than its intrinsic evidence would warrant. How many a man has had the art to represent himself as a martyr to truth, because he was imprudently persecuted by her real friends!
But there is no one, more interested in a fair and free investigation, than General Wilkinson, Mr. Brown and their accused associates. If these indictments should seem to be presented at their special instance; if the grand jury who presents them be composed of their particular friends; it will be almost impossible for them to escape suspicion. Let them be innocent or guilty of the facts which have been laid to their charge, this simple fact will endanger and perhaps blast their reputation for ever.
Passengers that were taken out of the Enterprise and Polly by Capt. Beresford of the Cambrian, and sent on board the Schooner Eliza Ann into Norfolk.
RUMORS. —We have received no positive information respecting the truth of the reports, stated in our last. Numberless other tales are however afloat.
Some report that Col. Burr has purchased a large quantity of provisions, in the state of Ohio, more than sufficient for any ordinary purpose.
Others assert that Col. Burr intends to establish some large manufacturing mills on the Ohio, for which he has made these and other preparations.
Another report represents him as being enlisted in Miranda's expedition, and intending to join him with the ten gun-boats, which he is said to be building on the Ohio.
But all these are mere rumors; the dreams perhaps of a jealous imagination. We have seen no other account in print since the publication of our last paper, save only the article which we have extracted from the Farmer's Cabinet, published at Amherst (in the District of Maine) and a very short paragraph in the Alexandria Expositor.
If the Farmer's Cabinet correctly quotes the letter to Gen. Eaton, it sufficiently proves that certain suspicions were entertained about Col. Burr, at Marietta, the reputed Theatre of action, as long ago as the middle of September. What is the expedition which Col. Burr has "endeavoured to undertake," is beyond our ingenuity even to conjecture. It is still more difficult to conceive of any armed expedition, that Col. Burr could fit out in the U. States, which could be represented even by himself as "a laudable and honorable undertaking."
The Expositor states, that the following rumors had a "very wide circulation" in the town of Alexandria: "that the President has issued a process on a charge of high treason, to arrest a certain individual, who once stood high in the opinion of his countrymen, and whose late conduct in the western country has been marked by public suspicion. Other reports are added, still more alarming. To say we credit them would be to violate truth, but still we think, something unpleasant has occurred."
At present, nothing "but clouds and darkness rest upon" this subject.—But as gossipers may point out the course of the wind, we submit the following toasts drank at Nashville on the 4th of October, to the consideration of the curious enquirer. Such as are already alarmed by rumor, will see conspiracy and treason, lurking in every line. To more sober imaginations, the following Toasts will seem nothing but the effusions of the most ordinary civility.
The rising greatness of the state of Tennessee. By Col. Burr.
The friend, and friends of the state of Tennessee. By Gen. Robertson.
The Union of all honest men. By Maj. W. P. Anderson.
But if the two first toasts seem to breathe a strong attachment to the local interests of Tennessee, & as it may be inferred, to the independence of the western states, why was not this latter sentiment delivered in more explicit terms? Or, why was the following toast given which is directly at war with a proposition for dividing the states?
The federal constitution, May it be supported by the citizens of the U. S. By Col. Hays.
A man must indeed be in the habit of seeing spectres in every bush, before he could scent "treason and fratricide" in such frivolous incidents as these. Let us wait for some more solid evidences of conspiracy, ere we finally deliver up the name of Col. Burr to the lit of traitors. At the same time let us recollect the character of the being with whom we have to deal. If ever there existed a man, who would forbear to commit himself by any direct and cognisable act; if ever there was a man, who could advance up to the very brink of accomplishing his object, without subjecting himself by any overt-act to the cognizance of the law; that man is Col. AARON BURR.
ELECTIONS.
Representatives to Congress for Vermont. James Elliott, Esq. James Witherell, Esq. James Pisk, Esq. Gen. Martin Chittenden.
Connecticut Election. —Jonathan O. Moseley, Lewis B. Sturges, Timothy Pitkin, Jun. Benjamin Tallmadge, Epaphroditus Champion, Samuel W. Dana, and John Davenport, Esqrs. Theodore Dwight, Esq. is chosen a representative from Connecticut in the ninth Congress, in the room of the Hon. John C. Smith, Esq. resigned.
The Legislature of Connecticut have re-elected the Hon. Uriah Tracy, Esq. a Senator in the Congress of the United States, for the term of six years from the 4th of March next.
Pennsylvania Election. —Robert Brown, John Pugh, William M'Iner, Robert Jenkins, John Heister, Mathias Richards, James Kelly, Robert Whitehill, David Baird, and R. Franklin, Esqrs. are elected.
South-Carolina Election. —Robert Marion, Miles B. Pinckney, Col. Samuel J. Alston, David R. Williams, Gen. Levi Casey, have been elected to Congress.
The last Lynchburg "Star" states, that there is scarcely a doubt of William A. Burwell's being elected to Congress to supply the vacancy, occasioned by the resignation of C. Clarke, Esq.; that at the Bedford election, where Mr. Burwell least expected it, he had a respectable majority."
Our good friends, the British—seem determined to furnish us with new arguments for enforcing our non-importation law. It is a curious coincidence that this act goes into operation on the 15th of this month, and that the deprecations which are described in the following paragraph, have just been committed. Yet these deprecations are but moonshine, in comparison of those which may be apprehended from the late admiralty orders, which are said to have been given to British commanders. But it is impossible to pass by the following paragraph, without expressing our doubt as to the correctness of that report:
Norfolk, November 1.
The Officers of the Cambrian informed the above passengers, that they had orders to capture all American vessels from French, Spanish, or Dutch ports or colonies—the Captain of the Bellona, of 74 guns, the day before had examined the ship Polly of New-York, and let her pass, but that being afterwards informed of these new orders by the Captain of the Cambrian, he returned to the pursuit, took her and sent her to Halifax, as also the Enterprize from Bordeaux to New-York, the Messenger from Gaudaloupe to New-York, and the Schooner Alpasia, from Cayenne to Boston.
Passengers that were taken out of the Enterprise and Polly by Capt. Beresford of the Cambrian, and sent on board the Schooner Eliza Ann into Norfolk.
DEPARTED this life on Monday the 27th inst. Capt. ROBERT JENNINGS of Charlotte County, 61 years old. Death, (after a few hours illness), deprived us of a worthy Citizen, and an invaluable friend and neighbour.
Sales at Auction.
WILL BE SOLD at Public Auction, for ready money, on the Premises, on Wednesday, the 29th of this Month, Nov.
By Virtue of a Deed of Trust, dated the 12th June last, executed by John Pendleton, Esq. to secure the payment of a debt herein mentioned, due the first instant: That valuable LOT known by the number 594, with all the appurtenances thereunto belonging.
JOHN PROSSER, } Trustees. WM. MONCURE, } Nov. 7.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
By Virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to myself and John Royal, dec'd. by Peter F. Archer, for the benefit of William Fitzgerald, and assigned to Richard K. Cralley.
WILL BE SOLD for cash, on the premises, in the county of Powhatan, on the 1st day of December next: That Valuable TRACT OF LAND, whereon the said Peter F. Archer lately resided, containing by estimation, about One Thousand Acres, two miles from the river, with a good DWELLING, HOUSE—Aits, convenient Out-Houses—Also, about Twenty LIKELY NEGROES, or so much of the said property as shall be sufficient to satisfy the purpose of the said deed of trust.
JOHN ARCHER, } Surviving Trustee. Amelia, November 7.
ENOCH SULLIVAN, OFFERS FOR SALE.
At his Jewellery Store, nearly opposite the Eagle, COMPLETE assortment of Gold, Gilt, Silver, Plated, Japan'd & Cutlery Ware, Uarns, Tea-Pots, Sugar Dishes, Milk Pots and Spoons, Rims and Casters and bottle Sliders.
Silver Watches, Seals, Keys and Chains, and Watch Materials, Sand Crucibles, Ladies and Gentlemen's Morocco Pocket Books, and Purse, Glove Ties, & Jaffie Garters, Silk Purse, &c. Ivory and bone chisels and boards, Backgammon Tables, Battle Doors and Shuttle Cocks, Gun wood Tea Caddies, Ladies & Gentlemen's dressing Cases, patent Suspender, hat Covers, &c. Guns, horsemen's and pocket Pistols, Swords and Dirks, Sword Knots, Belts, Safes, Epaulettes, military Feathers, &c. Flutes, Flutes, Drums, Violin Strings, &c. Powder, Musk, Shot, Belts, Bird Nets, gun Hammers and Flints, Whips, Canes with and without Swords, bont Jacks and Hooks, Spurs, Boxes and Brushes, Violet and Windsor Soap, hair Powder, Bags, Puffs & Pomatum, tooth Powder, Essences, Reave's Colors, tambore Needle Cases, and Slate Pencils, Ivory Paper Folders, letter Racks, &c. Ivory, Tortoiseshell and Horn Combs, goggles, Spectacles and Cases, key and curtain Rings, Inkstands, Tobacco and Snuff Boxes, Candlesticks and Snuffers, bread Baskets, Waters, Tea Trays, Knives and Forks, Britannia Metal Mugs, Tea Pots, tea and table Spoons, glass Galle Lamps for Halls, tooth comb, Cloths, hearth, Floor, Scrubbing & shoe Brushes.
With a variety of other articles connected with the above enumerated. Articles of Jewellery or Silver Ware, will be executed to patterns or description, with dispatch. Highest price will be given for old gold or silver. E. SULLIVAN. Nov. 7.
THE SUBSCRIBER.
John Williamson, Junior, being desirous of discharging as soon as possible, all of his just debts, unites with the other subscribers, in giving notice, that on Saturday the 22nd day of the present month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon, and 2 in the afternoon,
WILL BE offered for ready money, at public sale, on some part of the premises, so much of the TRACT OF LAND, whereon the said John Williamson resides, in Henrico county, as lies between the road near his house and the Land of Dabney Williamson, supposed to contain about one hundred acres—Also about fifty other acres of LAND adjoining the Land of Samuel Browning, and the Land last mentioned, and being a part of the aforesaid tract, belonging to the said John Williamson. The whole of which tract of Land was conveyed by the said John Williamson to the other subscribers in trust for the purpose of reimbursing John Robinson, certain sums of money paid by him, or which he may be liable to pay at the instance and on account of the said John Williamson. And the object and with all of the subscribers, is, that the said trustees or one of them, out of the proceeds of the said sale, shall first satisfy the said Robinson, all such sums of money as he shall have paid, and to discharge such other sums as he may be bound to pay, on account of any undertaking made by him at the instance of the said Williamson, together with the lawful interest that may be due on the said sums of money and the expenses attending the said trust and the execution thereof; and that the surplus shall afterwards be applied by the said trustees or one of them to the discharge of executions now in the hands of the Sheriff of Henrico county against the person or effects of the said Williamson. The boundaries of the Land offered for sale will be particularly shown on the aforesaid day of sale.
JOHN WILLIAMSON, Jr. N. SHEPPARD, J. SHEPPARD, BENNETT TAYLOR. Nov. 7.
20 DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN from the Subscriber 130th last month, a Bay HORSE, 4 feet 9 or 10 inches high, with a blaze face, and several white spots about his body, hind legs white, one eye out or much injured, 8 or 9 years old; he lately belonged to P. N. Nicholas, Esq. of this place, and is an excellent Saddle Horse. And some time in July last, a dark bay or brown Horse about the same size, had been nicked, drew well in harness and was 7 or 8 years old. The above reward or 10 dols. for either will be paid for their delivery to SAML. G. ADAMS. Richmond. Nov. 7.
NOTICE.
THAT in virtue of a decree of the Hustings court of the city of Richmond, in a cause therein depending, between George F. Stras plaintiff, and Lucy H. Southall, and others defendants, I shall, on Friday the 5th day of December next, expose to sale, by public auction, upon the premises, for ready money, the half share LOT in this city No. 683, upon the street leading from the Capitol square, to the Land of Thomas Rutherford, and which said Lot, is opposite that occupied by Mr. Murphy. SAMUEL M'CRAW, Commissioner. Nov. 7.
FOR SALE.
A TRACT OF LAND, lying in the county of Cumberland, on Big Guinea, containing 800 acres. This Land is well adapted to the culture of corn, wheat and tobacco, and about one-third is uncultivated. A small part of the purchase money will be required in hand, and a credit of one, two, three and four years will be given for the remainder. The Land will be shown to any person, by Samuel Sheppard, who lives on a plantation adjoining, and the terms of sale will be made known by Thomas Miller of Powhatan, or the subscriber near Lynchburg. JOHN H. BURTON. Campbell, Nov. 7.

Miscellaneous
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
Yes--you despise the man to books confined, Who from his study rails at all mankind.
Pope Sat. Epist.
Speculatists involving all in general and indiscriminate censure, will rarely be prized for utility or entertainment. For who will hug the Cockatrice when apprized of its venom; or where shall be found that generation of knaves and villains will accord? Hence the maxims of La Rochefoucauld though often fraught with truths irrefragable; though often deductions with a pervading laxity from practical commerce with mankind; lose much of their weight from that diffi-
The illustrious author of the Prince of Abyssinia has remarked, that vice should never be presented under a delusive garniture, which may remove or lessen our horror at its native deformity; and to the Attic orators of Le Sage it has been justly objected, that they exhibit in such intimate alliance, the estimable and pernicious qualities of human nature, as to leave us propending towards facile toleration of the one, and different depreciation of the other.
Cautious such as these, should not preside in the closets of literary only; living manners fall more particularly within their scope. Necessity, seductive pleasures, a diversity of causes may forbid an attention to books; but extreme levity is arrested by existing active objects, addressed immediately to the senses. 'Tis then in real life only such cautions can operate material benefit; whilst it is a truth notorious as lamentable, that in cloister abstractions alone they are found. For where by most liberal donation, fortune would seem to have designed the perfection of her millions, or the patronage of excellence in others, proper discrimination is easily made; empty parade fails not to usurp despotic domination, and the buzzing ephemera of fashion, of folly and of vice, compose the respectable subjects of her empire.
The present observations have grown from a perusal of Mr. Owen's "Fashional World displayed," and its description of that race by which it is peopled, naturally suggested the following enquiry: What can these creatures propose to themselves? what have they in view in the mode of life, they prosecute? Is it fame? Can they cheat themselves into an opinion, that such circumferentiae, evanescence, and disgraceful notoriety as a loose jest, a pertinacious and incorrigible adherence to frivolous inanity; or the hardihood of open shameless excess can bestow, is fame? Is it pleasure? Do they eliminate life by the quantum of enjoyment it affords? To be convinced that they wander from their object, let them enquire of that bard who, says Dr. Murphy,
"To our fancy brings, The gayest, happiest attitudes of things" & he will declare to them the delights which science lavishes on her votaries; he will tell them,
"That the beams of truth More welcome touch the understanding eye, Than all the blandishment of found the ear, Than all of taste the tongue."
But think they perhaps, that habitual application to literary enquiry, is the frost which fades the roseate bloom of life; and will rob them in duration of more than an equivalent in exquisiteness. Here too investigation will prove them the dupes of inconsiderate error, hooded in the opaque mantle of indolence and apathy; yet beyond controversy establish, that the higher, temperate, and lasting enjoyment of knowledge-
"move "The mind with calm delight, promote the just "And natural movements of the harmonious "frame." Unlike the wild, tumultuary indulgencies of sense, expiring with the very moment of their birth, inducing inorbid languor and disgust. Corroborative of our position, a few examples shall be adduced; and passing those subjects who have feared in the regions of fancy only, these adductions shall be of men whose minds have been bent to abstuse metaphysical contemplation. And first, immortal Socrates, the mighty sacrifice to jealousy, ignorance and superstition; Socrates, in whose condemnation has Athens reared a monument to shame her when all that Phidias' skill, or Pericles' magnificence has fabricated, shall be lost in the blank of time; Socrates, who antedated in his end, had seen his fourteenth lustrum. The subtle penetrating Socrates, whose speculations prove at once the strength and variety of his powers; whose refutation of government into three specific divisions, the mutations of ages have respected, and which still regulates the opinions of modern ages; this sagacious philosopher had attained to his 62nd year. Leaving, however, a dubious antiquity, and recurring to periods of historic certainty; exemplifications multiply.
About the commencement of the 16th century, Erasmus and Luther entered the lists of theological controversy, and contended with ardent ardor, (the latter without remission) beyond the age of sixty years. At the same era nearly, Copernicus mounting to the empyrean, fixed the sun as the centre of planetary revolution, and was soon followed by Kepler, by whose researches were ascertained the elliptic motion of the planets, their comparative velocities, and the direction of their foci. The former of these great astronomers lived 70, the latter 59 years.
With every reverential impression, we turn to contemplate those sublime fages, whose evidences of intellectual vastness and vigor, place them first in the order of human greatness: Newton, the most glorious representative of divine intelligence; and Locke, who "not less wonderful in his walk, unraveled the chain of human ideas, and opened a vista into the mysterious regions of the mind." The physical constitution of the former together with his mental faculties, seems almost to have put off its mortal nature, that in longevity as in wisdom, he might transcend the ordinary limit of humanity; and Locke with a body originally infirm, and with habits of intense thought, such as the subjects of his meditations necessarily demand, was aged 72 years at his death.
More numerous citation would be operose and superfluous. Our purpose is accomplished. We have demonstrated that the man of fashion is neither illustrious nor happy; for fame is the offspring of useful and benevolent exertion; happiness, of conscious rectitude and intellectual perfection; that destitute of these requisites, he in himself is contemptible, miserable or insensible; and viewed as to his relations to the world at large, an obnoxious to excellence in others, an enemy to social prosperity. But the great subject of reprehension is, the reception he finds with the estimable faculties or reputed enlightenment, from persons whose conspicuous station in life more particularly devolves on them the guardian advancement of genuine and retiring worth, and the suppression of every thing incompatible therewith. Such perversity appears to have its cause in a misplaced fondness in a minority of mankind, for superficial sparkling levity, grafted in the habit of wit - a fondness militating in its consequences, for they extend to a constitution of what nature and reason designed to distinguish - to render by insuperable limits.
85 years, born 1642 in 17th Charles 1. died 1727 in 3 Geo. 1. a term in which lasts, not only the licentious, profanation Car. 2, and all the grovelling willings and buffoons of his corrupt court were swept into non-existence; but during which, the whole Stewart line, (so much of it at least as was recognized by the act of settlement) became extinct. Queen Ann died 1714.
From the Salem Register.
We observe with pleasure how much the last number of the New-York Medical Repository is enriched,
ed by some valuable geographical articles. While we possess an unusual portion of information respecting diseases in the Western country, we are still deficient in the knowledge of the country and its population. An extract from a journal of I. McKay, Esq. written in French, in 1804, and communicated to Dr. Mitchell, discovers the route by which the whites have had commercial intercourse with the north western Indians. The great carrying place is given on the north side of Lake Superior, and 60 leagues from its western extremity, and 500 leagues west of Montreal. Hence the traders pass in canoes with the articles of traffic. The traders pass by the Rainy lake, the lake of the Woods and lake Winnipeg. This last extends from 50 to 56, N. L. and from 104 to 105, W. Longitude. On this route, are 72 portages, from 60 feet to a league in length. Several rivers fall into Lake Winnipeg, the broadest of which is Assiniboine. It rises in the Stony mountains and proceeds eastward to Winnipeg. From its mouth 200 leagues is the ascent to its source, and on one of its south-western branches is Catepol, the furthest post of the British traders. Hence the British traders pass to the Missouiri and Upper Louisiana. It is sixty leagues from this post to the place they visit on the Missouiri, going southward by a land communication. The writer performed this journey in seventeen days, and believed in summer he could perform it in ten, from Catepol to the Missouiri. He speaks kindly of his reception with the natives on the Missouiri, and of the advantages which might be derived from the commerce.
Mr. Evans ascended the Missouiri to the White River, about 80 leagues above the Arkansas, and observes that the country was well watered by streams which fall into the Missouiri. He conjectures that the Missouiri rises in 40 N. L. and runs northerly to Lat. 49 N. and then takes an easterly course. He says there is no other cataract in the whole course of the Missouiri than at the Stony mountain. The Missouiri unites with the Mississippi in 47, 48, N. L. He adds no new information of the Natives, but remarks that the tribes which have an imperfect knowledge of the whites, (being yet in a state of nature) are of a good and pleasant character, while those who have frequent intercourse with them seem to have contracted a great part of their vices, without having acquired any of their virtues.
LAVOISIER.--During the last year, a work appeared at Paris in two volumes Octavo, under the title of Memoires de Chimie . This collection consists of some Memoirs that Lavoisier had himself addressed to the Academy of Arts and Sciences, or of the Memoirs of such as had adopted his new theory of chemistry. Two very interesting and original communications accompany this work. The one is an historical disquisition by Lavoisier himself, in which he completely proves that this new theory of Chemistry, which constitutes one of the grandest of sciences, is due to himself. The other is the notice prefixed to the work by Madame Lavoisier, (now countess of Rumford) and written with all the eloquence of real feeling. As the latter communication is short; as it gives a general account of the nature of the work itself; and as it proves that there have been other men during the French revolution, besides Cordet, who unintimidated by the daggers of assassins could devote their last moments to the composition of a profound and dispassionate work; we have deemed it an acceptable present, to be laid before our readers. E. E.
Notice prefixed to the Memoires de Chimie by the countess of Rumford. In the year 1792 M. Lavoisier had formed the design of making a collection of all his memoirs which had been read at the academy during the twenty years preceding. This would have formed in some degree the history of modern chemistry.
In order to render this history more interesting, and more complete, he had proposed to insert the memoirs of those, who having adopted his theory, had published experiments in support of it. This collection was to have been comprised in about eight volumes. All Europe is acquainted with the cause which prevented their completion. The portion that have been recovered are, the first volume almost entire, the whole of the second, and some sheets of the fourth. Several men of science expressed a desire for their publication: this was received with hesitation--it is difficult not to be under apprehensions when we are entrusted with the power of publishing the unfinished work of a man justly celebrated. When we have lost the object of our affection and veneration, we should employ an impartial critic, in order to offer to the public those of his works only which may augment his fame. We should have persisted, and these fragments would not have appeared, had they not contained a memoir of M. Lavoisier (inserted below page 5) in which he explains the modern theory of chemistry as belonging to himself, and states the facts in support of his claim. It is consequently a duty towards him to fix the opinions of men of science concerning this point. Their indulgence is requested for the errors that may exist in some other parts of the collection. It will be granted when they are informed that the greatest part of the proof sheets were revised in the last days of the author's life; and that whilst he knew that his assassins were meditating his death, M. Lavoisier, calm and intrepid, employed his last moments in a work which he considered as useful to science, and gave a great example of that serenity which a virtuous and enlightened man can preserve in the midst of the most severe calamities.
GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY OF THE LAW
A more striking instance, than the following, is scarcely to be found in the annals of jurisprudence.
SINGULAR ANECDOTE
Of Timothy Brecknock, who was executed at Castlebar, in Ireland, with G. R. Fitzgerald, Esq. In the year 1758, a man, committed to Newgate on a charge of highway robbery, sent for Mr. Brecknock, and requested he would undertake his defence. When Timothy came to him, his first question was, whether he had really committed the robbery or not: it is no matter whether you have or no, said Brecknock, you shall not be hanged; but it is necessary I am necessary I should know the truth, that I may frame the defence accordingly. "Why indeed (replied the culprit) I did commit the robbery." "Very well," answered the solicitor, "now tell me first, have you any money?--How much can you command?" "I have somewhat above 100l. in cash and valuable." "Very well, let me have 80l.: it is not for myself; I leave my reward to your generosity, when you are cleared; but I want that money for a particular purpose, and will account to you for every farthing of it. There are now five weeks to your trial, so I have time enough; and with time and money every thing can be done." The sum was instantly given inuendo was instantly given in bank notes which the culprit had artfully concealed, and Mr. Brecknock proceeded to desire the criminal to give him a particular account of every circumstance of the robbery; which he did to the following purport:--That five weeks before that time, he met a gentleman in a chaise with a footman behind, near the nine mile stone on the Barnet road, at half past eleven at night; that he stopped the carriage, and robbed him of 137 guineas, and some silver, but refused his watch, as he did not choose to deal in disconvertable articles; that presently after he found himself pursued by the coachman on one of the coach horses and rode down a lane out of the high road, but finding the lane close at the bottom, he leaped his horse over some pales, and quitting him, took to his heels across the fields, and got safe to town; that
the coach horse not being able to leap, his own horse had got clear, and came home of itself next morning. Thus he thought himself quite safe as to this affair; but that shortly after the gentleman's coachman met him on the same horse in Whitechapel, had him seized and carried before a magistrate, where his person was identified by the gentleman, the coachman, and the footman who knew him by the bright moonlight; on this evidence he was fully committed for trial.
"This is rather an ugly affair," said Brecknock, "however, don't fear, I'll bring you off; I shall not attempt to prove you elsewhere at the precise time of the robbery; for an alibi is a very dangerous defence, unless it can well be supported; and I don't care to trust your life to a set of rascally witnesses, who may be fitted by a close cross examination, or have their characters enquired into;--no, no, I shall act otherwise, you have only to make your heart easy, and plead not guilty."
At the next sessions the trial came on, and the gentleman, the coachman, and the footman, deposed to every circumstance of the robbery, as above related; adding, that they were positive both to the horse and the man, whose face they had closely seen by the light of the moon, as his cape had fallen off when he first stopped the chaise, and the coachman had picked it up, when he unharnessed one of the coach horses to pursue the robber, by his master's permission. The prisoner was called upon to make his defence, when Mr. Brecknock addressed the court in these words:
"My Lords and gentlemen of the Jury. "I have not the least doubt of the innocence of the unhappy person at the bar, though he stands here under very disadvantageous circumstances. Inasmuch as to the very time the robbery is said to have been committed, yet he can prove that fact by no other testimony than that of his wife (and I know how little regard is usually paid to a wife's evidence for her husband), and of a child of five years old, who is too young to be admitted to an oath. I do not seek to impeach the veracity of the gentleman who is the prosecutor; his character is too well established, I have not the least doubt he was robbed in the manner he has sworn; neither would I controvert that the coachman pursued the robber as he has declared; yet, I am confident that the prisoner at the bar was not the person. In respect to the identity of the horse I put that entirely out of the question, and will say, that a horse seen in the dark cannot be easily known in the light, at a distance of five weeks. There is scarcely a horse so singularly marked, as not to have others similarly marked; and as a proof, there are now four horses I have caused to be brought into the court yard, flanking together with the prisoner's horse, which Mr. Sheriff has been so kind as to suffer to be brought hither; and, if the three witnesses agree in selecting, separately, the prisoner's horse, of which they are so very certain, from the rest, I will acquiesce in the prisoner's guilt. But my Lords, and gentlemen of the jury, I have still more to urge, in respect to the alleged identity of the horse; the prosecutor is, doubtless, impelled by a love of justice; but that love sometimes carries a man to an extreme of zeal. The coachman may have a love of justice, but when it is remembered that the conviction of the prisoner will entitle him to a reward of 40l. the court may be inclined to think him interested in the verdict, which you gentlemen of the jury, may bring in. The footman having heard some particulars sworn by his master and his fellow servant, may believe them true, as being the same story. The three witnesses have all declared that they recollected the prisoner's face from having seen it clearly at the time of the robbery, by the strong light of the moon. Now I have one witness, that will undoubtedly set aside this concurrence of evidence. It is indeed an uninterested witness, a silent witness, yet one that will speak home to the conviction of the whole court. It is Ryder's Almanack; and if your Lordships and gentlemen of the jury will take the trouble to look into it, you will find it utterly impossible that the witnesses could have seen the robber's face by the light of the moon; for, for you will see, on the night of the robbery, that the moon did not rise till sixteen minutes after three in the morning, consequently it could not give any light at half past eleven o'clock, near three hours before it rose; and if the witnesses are thus proved to be mistaken in the capital point of their evidence, no part of it can affect the prisoner. Having said this, he handed an almanack up to the bench, in which it appeared plainly that the moon rose on that particular night as Brecknock had said. The court and jury being satisfied as to that point, the prisoner was immediately acquitted and discharged out of court on paying his fees.
Mr. Brecknock prided himself on his ingenuity in deceiving the court; which, as he afterwards boasted, he effected in this manner. He had employed the money he had received from the highwayman, in getting printed a new edition of Ryder's Almanack, exactly similar to the genuine edition except that the lunations for the whole year had been changed, so as to make it appear that on the night of the robbery there was no moon. He had only half a dozen copies struck off, one of which he presented to the bench, and lodged the other five in different hands in the court, to be produced in case any doubts had arisen and another almanack had been called for. The recorder discovered the fraud some days after, but it was then too late, as the prisoner had been acquitted, and the Solicitor was not responsible for the error in the almanack he produced, and which could not then be identified.
SOME FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE LOSS OF THE SHIP ESSEX, IN THE RED SEA, THE MASSACRE OF HER CREW, AND OF MAHOMED THE PIRATE.
In the year 1803, a numerous body of Arabians of the race of the Wahabees, under their leader, the invincible, and as they think, divine Abdul, (the Bonaparte of Arabia) twice sacked the city of Mecca, destroyed the tomb of the great Prophet Mahomet, and committed dreadful ravages on the unfortunate inhabitants of the country. After this he subdued Medina, another city, sacred in the eyes of all good Mussulmen, and conquered nearly all the country situated above Mocha, on the eastern side of the Red Sea, introducing a new religion entirely subversive of the Mahometan faith. Some of the followers of Abdul betook themselves to a new employment, that of plundering and destroying the vessels of every nation, that failed on the Red Sea. Among the rest Mahomed the pirate principally distinguished himself, having purchased the island Camoron, of the sheikh, or Prince of Lohia, which is made his head quarters, and from whence he has spread more terror, than did the Buccaneers formerly among the Spaniards.
He fails in a strong well-armed vessel, with a numerous crew, made up of fanatics like himself, and enemies to every nation, excepting their own, the Wahabees. Unfortunately this pirate was, with his ship, at Mocha, when the ill-fated capt. Orne arrived in the Effex of Salem, with 60,000 dollars to purchase a cargo of coffee. Coffee was not to be had at market, and captain Orne was altogether at a loss how to proceed. An English merchant, (whose name we have not learned) understanding the embarrassed situation of captain Orne, informed him that if he proceeded 60 miles further up to a town called Hadida, he would there procure coffee lower than usually asked for at Mocha, and offered himself to go in the Effex, and execute the whole business for the trifling commission of 2 1/2 per cent. Captain Orne listened to this advice and finally agreed to it. The pirate Mahomed by some means came to the knowledge of all these circumstances, and had the address to persuade captain Orne to receive on board about 90 of his crew, to help to navigate the vessel, and pilot her to Hadida.
The Effex failed in company with the pirate's ship; night approached, but alas! not one of the unfortunate crew were fated to behold their country again, or the light of another day. At a given signal the pirates on board fell upon the crew with their knives, the Corsair ranged along side, and in a few minutes not an American was left to tell the sad tale of their destruction. The headless body of the captain,
and mutilated carcass of the Englishman, floated on shore, and being recognized, received the rites of burial in a far distant land. The Effex was plundered and burnt.
This shocking catastrophe ought to prove a warning to all American captains, not only to guard them against the smallest deviation from their orders, but also against reposing confidence in strangers without being first well assured of their characters. It also shows the necessity of being well armed, and prepared to encounter those fiends in human shape, so encamped into the channel of the Red Sea--Sends, who massacre and plunder all nations without distinction--but we earnestly pray, that the vengeance of our country may one day overtake the cruel perpetrator of this eventful tragedy.
MUNGO PARKE.
LONDON, September 5.
MR. EDITOR.
As there have lately appeared in several newspapers various accounts of Mr. Parke and his fellow-travellers in Africa, the following extract of a letter from him to his friend at Goree, being the only authentic information received since he reached the river Niger, will no doubt prove acceptable to those who feel an interest in the fate of that enterprising man:--
"Sanfanding, Bomboua, Nov. 10, 1804. My dear Friend.--We left the Gambian good health and spirits, and continued travelling with the greatest and most flattering prospect of success, till we crossed the Falom River, and entered Minkolo: here alas! the rainy season commenced, and the soldiers were afflicted with fevers. The fever had at first the appearance of typhus, but in a few days the yellow tinge of the skin convinced us that we had a more dangerous disease to contend with. Here he relates his method of treatment, which, he says, he has every reason to believe would have been very successful, had they had proper convenience, and not been exposed to the heat of the sun. Our numbers diminished very rapidly; for, as the rainy season advanced, the dysentery made its appearance, and we reached the river Niger, (22d August) in a very weak and sickly state. On our arrival we had a long palaver with the king of Bomboua, and received permission to pass the eastward, and arrived at Thimpba, (Sanfanding) where we resided near two months, fitting out our Schooner, and laying in provisions. The healthy season is now set in, and I am, and I indulge the hope of reaching the coast before any more of us drop off. Out of 44 Europeans, who left the Gambian in good health, only Lieut. Martin, and three soldiers of the Royal African corps, and myself, remain alive. I have not had a day's sickness since I left Goree. Mr. Anderson, my brother's friend, and companion, died of a dysentery on the 28th of October, and Mr. Scott of a fever, two months ago. I am, your's, &c."
"MUNGO PARKE."
The guide who brought these letters says, that he saw Mr. Parke to the eastward of Sanfanding after the date of his letter. He also reports, that there was an English ship in the Gambian that had letters on board from Mr. Parke, for his Majesty's Secretary of State.
* Names of the soldiers:--Abraham Balton, John Connors, Thomas Higgins.
STRANGFORD'S CAMOENS.--This interesting little Poem, which was last year published in London, is the rival of Thomas Moore's Anacreon. The Lord Viscount Strangford and Mr. Moore were fellow-collegiates together; & such was the friendship subsisting between them, that the first Epistle of Mr. Moore's laudable composition is addressed to his noble friend. The manner of these two bards is extremely similar in the easiness of their style and the nature of their subjects: they are both candidates for the poetic bays: they have both sought it through the same road of elegant translation. Mr. Moore selected the old effective Grecian for his text: The Viscount Strangford preferred a more modern Poet, the Portuguese Camoens; who after having immortalized his country by his celebrated Lusiad, perished, in the manner of the English Poets, in an almshouse in Lisbon during the year 1579. Who will decide whether the following beautiful Canzonet, which we have selected from these little poems, reflects the greatest honour on the spirit of the original or the manner of the translator? E. E.
TO INES DE CUETE.
DEAR INES, wouldst thou but believe A heart that knows not to deceive, (Alas nor longer free!) That faithful heart should truly tell The secret charm, the tender spell, That bound it first to thine eye. 'Tis not, that cradled in thine eyes The baby Loves for ever lies On couches dipp'd in dew; 'Tis not because those eyes have won Their temper'd light from April's sun, From Heaven their tints of blue! 'Tis not that o'er a bank of snow Thy parted roses lightly flow, In waves of lucid gold; Nor yet because the hand of grace Has form'd that dear enchanting face In beauty's happier mould! It was not thence--but from my soul, It was a little smile that stole The cherish'd sweets of rest; And ever since, from dawn to night And dimple to dawn, it haunts my sight, In dimples gaily drest. E'en now by Fancy's eyes are seen The polished rows that break between Two lips that breathe of May; E'en now--but oh! by Passion taught, Young Fancy forms too bold a thought For timidous Love to say! Yet, Ines--wouldst thou but believe A heart that knows not to deceive, (Alas! nor longer free!) 'Twould tell thee, thou canst ne'er impart, A smile of thine to sooth a heart More truly bound to thee!
NOTICE.
WHEREAS, in consequence of the death of Robt. Burton, the partnership of Brown, Rives & Co. and of the different branches of that House, at Norfolk, Caira, Bent Creek, Lynchburg, New-Market, Warminster and Milton, will terminate, agreeable to the several articles of copartnership, at various periods, between the first day of August last, and the first day of January next. This is to give notice to all persons interested, that the business of each establishment will be closed immediately after the time limited for its expiration.
JAMES BROWN, ROBERT RIVES, Surviving partners of Brown, Rives & Co.
The business carried on by Brown, Rives & Co. will be continued by the subscribers, under the firm of Brown and Rives, and the Store at Caira, &c. furnished with their usual supplies.
JAMES BROWN, ROBERT RIVES. Richmond, October 7.
UNION TAVERN.
THE Subscriber is prepared to furnish genteel accommodations for twenty members of Assembly. PETER MOSELEY. October 28.
GERMAN GOODS.
Just Received from Bremen--consisting of LINENS, OZNABURGS, Ticklenburgs, Twilled Sacking, Hefians and Rolls. REAM Sheeting, Dowas, Pettillas, Bielefeld Linen. GLASS-WARE: Quart, Pint and Half Pint Decanters, Pint and Half Pint Tumblers. BOHN & HUENER. Oct. 21.
THE Subscribers, under the firm of Darmstadt, Foster and Satchell, have opened an AUCTION & COMMISSION STORE, at the foot of the Bridge, where they will sell publicly, on every Wednesday and Saturday morning. JOSEPH DARMSDATT, JOHN FOSTER, JOHN SATCHELL.
AT PRIVATE SALE: 40 hogheads } Brown Sugar. 56 barrels } 2 pipes London particular Madeira Wine, 6 tiers Old Apple Brandy, 8 pipes Holland's Gin, 2 cases German Sheulings, 2 do. do. Dowas, 1 do. Pettillas, 1 bale Hefians, 2 do. India Cottons.--And by the first arrivals from Liverpool, they will receive a large supply of coarse Woolens and Crockery Ware. Darmstadt, Foster & Satchell. Richmond, Oct. 28, 1806. (epwv)
THE SUBSCRIBERS, UNDER THE FIRM OF LESUEUR & SAUNDERS, inform their friends and the public, that they will continue the COMMISSION business, lately done by C. & T. Saunders. They promise the strictest attention to the interests of those who may favour them with consignments. They are now receiving a general and extensive assortment of GROCERIES, which will be offered for sale, Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms and usual credit, in the store lately occupied by Messrs. Williams & Co. opposite the Foundry Office of Messrs. Proffer & Mansure--among which are the following articles: BROWN SUGAR of Bar Iron, German, Crawley's superior quality, Ditto ditto second ditto. Best Green Coffee, Salkin Sacks, Molasses and Treacle, Pickled Salmon, Scotch Barley, Madeira, Port, Sherry & Malaga Wine, Fresh Muscatei Raisins & Currants, Soft Shelled Almonds, Copppers, Salt-petre, English F F Gunpowder, Patent Shot, well assorted, Hibbert's Brown Stout and Porter, Best Spanish Segars, Caldwell, Frazer & Co's Superfine Chocolate, New-York Candles and Soap, Spermaceti Candles, JOHN L. LESUEUR, C. H. SAUNDERS. October 10.
THE Subscriber, has taken the Store lately occupied by Granberry and Hancock, where he offers for sale at reduced prices. 1 Bale assorted Flannels } Manufacturer. Also--A few bales of India piece Goods. JAMES SMITH. October 28.
FOR SALE, A TRACT OF LAND, in Albemarle County, on the waters of Buck Island Creek, on the south side of the Rivanna River, containing by survey four hundred and seventy acres, patented to John Davidson, by grant, dated 18th of September 1796. This tract was conveyed by Davidson to me, to raise by sale of it divers sums of money, which he owed to Davidson and Goddard, Merchants Baltimore, and to John Goddard, by deed, under which, I shall expose it to public sale, on the 8th day of November next, at Charlottesville, before the Tavern of Mr. Ellis. At that time I will exhibit the patent and deed, under which I am authorized to make this sale. The title will be made in pursuance of the authority vested in me. HUGH NELSON, Trustee. October 7.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of Samuel Scherer dec'd. are requested to bring them forward, properly authenticated, before the 1st of November, at which time the administration of the subscriber will be closed, and if application shall not be made by the time above specified, this notice will be considered as a release from the payment of such claims. Those indebted must see the necessity of making immediate payment, as no further indulgence can be given. GEORGE SCHERER, Adm'r. (tw.) October 7.
MARSHAL'S SALES.
TO BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, under a decree of the Court of the United States for the Fifth Circuit in the Virginia District, between Phineas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plaintiff, and David Ross and others, defendants, in order to raise the sum of twelve thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars thirty-three cents, due and payable on the first day of July last, and further charges and expenses of sale--That valuable and well known estate in the county of Botetourt, called PORT LEWIS, sitated by the said Ross to contain 2608 acres. The sale will take place on the premises on the 14th day of November next. Also, under the same decree and on the same terms, will be sold at the Oxford Iron Works, in the county of Campbell, on the 18th of the same month, a number of VALUABLE SLAVES. BENJAMIN MOSBY, D. M. for JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. Oct. 7, 1806.
At the request of Mr. Ross, the sale of the Land above-mentioned, called Fort Lewis, is postponed until the 29th day of next month, when it will take place at the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond; and the sale of the Negroes, is postponed until the 6th day of December next, on which day it will take place at the Eagle Tavern aforesaid. BENJAMIN MOSBY, D. M. for JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. Oct. 16.
PICKLING VINEGAR.
OF superior quality, made from two years old cider--For sale by WILLIAM HART, Opposite the State House. ALSO--SALT, loose and in sacks, 90 Barrels of HERRINGS, BROWN SALT SUGAR in barrels and by retail, COFFEE, TEA and other Groceries, Philadelphia bottled PORTER, Do. DRAFT BEER. September 19. epf.