Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1808-02-16 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVII YEAR.]
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[No. 1432.]
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1808.
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Richmond Price Current.
(CORRECTED WEEKLY.)
  Tobacco, 8 25 CASH.   Wheat, new, 0 67 do.   Flour, superfine, new, 4 50 do.   Flour, fine, 4 00 do.   Corn, 2 00 do.   Hemp, clean, (per ton) 180 00 do.   Iron, 110 00 do.   Bacon, 12 00 do.   Whiskey, 46 00 do. 
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O'er moorlands and meadows, rude, barren and bare, As wilder'd and wearied I roam, A gentle young shepherdess sees my de- spair, And leads me o'er lawns to her home.
Yellow sheaves from rich Ceres her cottage had crown'd; Green rushes were strew'd on the floor; The casement sweet woodbines crept wan- tonly round, And deck'd the sod seats at her door.
We sat ourselves down at a cooling repast— Fresh fruits—and she cull'd me the best, Till thrown from my guard by some glances she cast, Love slyly stole into my breast.
I told my soft wishes—she sweetly replied— Ye virgins her voice was divine— I've great ones rejected, and rich ones de- nied; But take me, fond shepherd, I'm thine.
Her air was so modest, her aspect so meek; So simple, yet sweet were her charms, I kiss'd the ripe roses that glow'd on her cheek, And lock'd the lov'd maid in my arms.
Now jacund together we tend a few sheep, And if by yon prattler, the stream, Recall'd on her bosom I sink into sleep, Her image still softens my dream.
Together we range o'er the slow rising hill, Delighted with pastoral views; Or rest on the rock whence the streamlet distils, And point out new themes for my muse.
To pomp, or proud titles, she ne'er did as- pire: The damsel of humble content; The cottager peace is well known for her sire, And shepherds have nam'd her Content.
From the Democratic Press.
THE BLAST OF WAR BLOWS IN OUR EAR.
MARK YON ALGERINE!
Daily do the evidences of British perfidy multiply around us. Every arrival brings with it news corroborative of the determination of that devoted country to raise its arm against every country, and provoke every country to raise their arms against it. Months ago we suggested the idea that Britain, driven by its own injustice from the fair commerce and alliance of civilized nations, would become the plunderer of all nations, save the Barbary powers, with whom, having a common interest, they would make a common cause. We have no wish now to note her tyranny and despotic injustice, which has known no limit but that which imbecility has presented. Our present business is briefly to connect a few facts, to show the grounds upon which we have come to the conclusion, that war is inevitable.
Proceeding from the spoliation and capture of our merchant vessels, to the impressment of upwards of 3,000 of our seamen, and mistaking the calm moderation and firm justice of our government, they shot a citizen of the United States within its jurisdiction. That too was borne with; it was possible it might have been a mistake. What followed? A national ship was attacked, our waters again crimsoned with the blood of our citizens, and our flag struck within sight of our shores. Knowing the blessings of peace, and anxious to preserve them, instructions were sent to our minister at London to negotiate upon this point also. Upon one frivolous pretence or other, the question was evaded, and ostentatiously to show their disposition for peace, but really to gain time, they determined to send a special envoy. Much time was fooled away before the appointment was made, and still more before he was suffered to depart. He was then called back, and delayed again. All this was gaining time, and Great Britain, perfidiously professing peace, was taking measures for our destruction. She smilingly presented a golden chalice, but the liquor therein was deadly.
On the 17th of October, she issued a proclamation, represented as an apology to this country, but which, for injustice and bitter enmity, has no parallel. It insists upon the right of search and of impressment, and even, by implication, denies our independence, by refusing to acknowledge the certificates of citizenship, issued by authority of our government.
I will hear rest the case. I will not pass on to her orders of blockade—to her fortifications and preparations in Canada and Nova Scotia—I say nothing now of her inhuman excisions of our Indian neighbors, to tomahawk and scalp the inhabitants of our frontier country—I wish not to excite the passions of revenge, by an appeal to feeling. Let the voice of truth and reason
be heard, and if it excites not the strong spirit of indignant resentment in the whole nation, I am miserably mistaken in the sentiments I entertain of the resolution of my fellow citizens. But to return to the proclamation.
In that proclamation, issued in the name of the King of Great Britain, by and with the advice of his Privy council, are the words following, let them be well noted and well remembered. They are pregnant with important and conclusive deductions. What was suspected, is now proven. What was conjecture, is now historical fact. Hear the words of the King of England, addressing himself to his subjects, supposed to be in the employment of the U. States.
"We do hereby declare, that if any such masters of ships, pilots, mariners, seamen, shipwrights, or other sea-faring men, (being our natural born subjects) "shall be taken in any foreign service by the ALGERINES or other Barbary powers," and carried into slavery, they shall "not be reclaimed by us as subjects of Great Britain."
It will not be forgotten that at the time this proclamation was issued, we were in profound peace with Algiers and all the Barbary powers, and that no prospect of a misunderstanding was known to exist—it will also be recollected that this proclamation, when it says any foreign service, is well understood to mean the American service—To these stubborn facts let one other be added, and then let treason, treachery, and corruption do its best, it cannot disguise the perfidious hostility of England. Our last advices inform us that Algiers has declared war against the United States!
The all-commanding influence of the Navy of England, on the coast of Barbary, is notorious. Can it be doubted, that on the 17th of October, when this proclamation was issued, it was understood in the cabinet of England, that Algiers was ready to obey their beck, and let slip her corsairs upon our property and fellow citizens. Yet to keep up the farce of negotiation, to gain time, the more effectually to bring all the horrors of war upon us, she has sent a special Envoy! So she did to Copenhagen.
Legislators and Citizens, arouse to a sense of your duty. Loll not on the pillow of security, while your enemy is active. Indulge not in the dreams of peace, until aroused by the trump of war, you awaken to behold the ruins of your cities, and the murder of your fellow citizens.
NEW YORK, February 6.
At a late hour last evening, the ship President, captain Eldridge, arrived at this port from Liverpool, which place she left on the 17th of December. By this vessel, the editor of the Mercantile Advertiser has received a file of London papers to the fifteenth of December, and Lloyd's lists and prices current to the 12th. The following are all the articles of importance we find in our papers.
London, December 13.
The intelligence of the week is of more than common interest—American papers have been received, which contain the speech of the president of the U. States upon the meeting of Congress—it is not in the tone of conciliation, or ordinary temperance; it is the speech of a man who seems to think a quarrel unavoidable, and as such, contemplates it as a matter rather of congratulation than as a political misfor-
tune. If such be the feeling in America before the late proclamations in our gazette have reached them—we may easily conjecture how much their resentment will rise upon the sight of these commercial interdictions. If the public mind were even now wavering these orders would most assuredly fix it: the door will thus be shut upon accommodation, and war must be inevitable.
An article in one of the Hamburg papers states, that the whole of the coast of the continent, from Dantzic to the extreme point of the south of Portugal, is to be occupied by French troops, and that Gibraltar was to be immediately attacked. The force in march towards Spain and Italy is estimated at one hundred thousand men. Considerable armies of reserve are forming to feed and supply it. All the troops that constitute the grand army upon the banks of the Niemen, a great part of which have not yet reached the Rhine, are to be divided into two armies, one of which is forming at Boulogne. We may, therefore, soon expect to see the hills of Boulogne once more covered with camps, and hear the cry of invasion from the French shores.
We understand it to be in the contemplation of government to call upon the governor and directors of the bank of England, for a voluntary contribution of 500,000l. towards the public service, for the year 1807, or to demand of them, under parliamentary authority, to demonstrate, by a full disclosure of the state of their accounts, their inability to pay this small portion of tax upon their property, in common with the rest of his majesty's subjects.
Thursday the bank of England gave notice, that they had agreed to the postponement of the time for the redemption of the Omnium, paid upon at the bank, and instead of requiring the ten per cent. in one payment, they had agreed to receive it in two, at stated periods.
A paper of yesterday morning says, that "Some days ago proposals were issued by the victualling office for supplying our fleets &c. on the West-India station with fresh provisions. A number of persons sent in terms, and they waited on Friday on the victualling board for the purpose of closing their contracts. But they were surprised by a very unexpected question from the commissioners, to the following effect— "From whence do you propose to draw supplies for the execution of your contracts in the event of an American war?" The contractors being wholly unprepared for such a question, and struck by its tendency, required time to answer, and consider their proposals. In consequence of this very pregnant interrogation, any farther consideration upon the subject which gave rise to it has been postponed until Wednesday next.
Maenz, the Austrian Messenger, who was sent to Paris with dispatches, is returned to this country with fresh dispatches. He came over in the Lynx sloop of war, which arrived in the Downs on Friday afternoon. In the evening, we understood, he landed at Deal, and after going to the port admiral, set off for London.
The following is the letter from our Deal correspondent.
Deal, December 11. "I lose not a moment to inform you, that an Austrian Messenger, with dispatches for government, is just arrived in the Downs, in the Lynx sloop of war, captain Marshall. A cartel from Holland, under Dutch colours, is also at this instant come to an anchor in our roads."
November 14.
Two Gottenburgh Mails have arrived since our last. The contents of these mails are seldom of much interest; however, such as they are, in the present state of the continent, with respect to news, we are glad to receive them. The contents of these are of that nature as to induce us to suppose we shall not be troubled with many more, for it is evident that the emperor of Russia is taking measures to sever from us our only remaining continental ally. The King of Sweden has no force in his dominions to withstand that of Russia, and must in course yield to necessity. A messenger arrived from Sweden last night, which, no doubt, brought the intelligence to ministers of the march of the Russian troops towards Sweden, Finland, and probably announced to them the reluctant resolution of the Swedish monarch to yield to circumstances. Governed by a junto more formidable in attacking friends than enemies, Britain has no longer the power to succour the distressed, their hands are now stretched out towards her in vain, and one by one they become the sacrifice of their attachment to us.
The prohibition of neutral ships to bring their prizes into Danish ports is repealed, with respect to English prizes, as long as the war shall continue.
Price of Stocks at one o'clock—Bank Stock—3 per cent. Reduced 63—3 per cent. consols 64 1-4 3-8—India stock—Bank Long. An.— Omnium—pt.— Consols for Open—
At the Court of the Queen's Palace, the 9th of Dec. 1807, present the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
It is this day ordered by his majesty, by and with the advice of his privy council, that no ships or vessels belonging to any of his majesty's subjects be permitted to enter and clear out for any of the ports within the dominions of the emperor of Russia until further order; and his majesty is further pleased to order, that a general embargo, or stop, be made of all ships and vessels whatsoever belonging to the subjects of the emperor of Russia now within, or which shall hereafter come into, any of the ports, harbors or roads within any part of his majesty's dominions, together with all persons and effects on board all such ships and vessels; and that the commanders of his majesty's ships of war and privateers do detain and bring into port all ships and vessels belonging to the subjects of the emperor of Russia, or bearing the flag of the emperor of Russia; but that the utmost care be taken for the preservation of all and every part of the cargoes on board any of the said ships or vessels, so that no damage or embezzlement whatever be sustained; and the commanders of his majesty's ships of war and privateers are hereby instructed to detain and bring into port every such ship & vessel accordingly; And the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
W. FAWKENER.
The following copy of a letter from Sir Stephen Shairp, to the Governor of the Russian company, has been sent to Baltimore, for the general information of the merchants:
St. Petersburg, Nov. 11.
"I have to communicate to you, that the seals of Government have been put upon all the warehouses of British merchants, and of British subjects who are foreign guests.
"An embargo is likewise laid upon all British shipping in Cronstadt, &c. I have considerable satisfaction in saying, that only the four ships hereinafter mentioned have been seized.
"Timely information of that hostile intention was given, and by the great exertion of Mr. Booker, all the others were loaded and despatched. The ships detained are the Elbe, Betsey, Apollo and Mary. The Apollo was afterwards liberated."
The Austrian Messenger who sailed from Dover some time since with dispatches from prince Stahremberg to the Austrian Ambassador at Paris, returned on Saturday with an answer; report says, that prince Stahremberg's departure from this country will very shortly take place. The messenger arrived at Deal on Friday, on board the Lynx sloop, at which time a cartel from Holland also reached the Downs.
A gentleman of the name of Jones, arrived in town yesterday, from Verdun, and had a conference with Mr. Canning, at the Foreign Office, in Downing street, and also with Mr. Pole, the Secretary of the Admiralty. Mr. Jones states that all the American prisoners at that place, who had been taken during the war on board of English vessels, have been set at liberty, and allowed to return home. Among them are several pursers, lieutenants, warrant officers, &c. yet they were all discharged, without the allowance of common seamen. The discharge of these prisoners, clearly shews that Bonaparte is anxious to conciliate America. Indeed, in the present state of things, in relation to England, it is sound policy.
GOTTENBURG MAILS.
RUSSIAN URASE.
To Count Nicolay Petrovitch Romanzoff.
In consequence of the present political circumstances, which have compelled us to break off all connections with Britain, we order:
1. An embargo to be laid on all British ships in our harbors, and on all property of the British on board of the same, as also on that at 'Change and in the custom house pack houses.
2. Their immovable property, and what does not consist of goods, to be left in their possession as heretofore, but not to be allowed to be sold, mortgaged, or transferred into other hands. Taking such measures merely from our evident mercy to them, we hope they will not, during the existing differences, transgress their duty by actions which might prove prejudicial to Russia, and thus incur our just displeasure, but live in due quietness and tranquility.
3. Concerning the embargo, a committee is to be appointed at this port, of the most respectable Russian merchants & one member of the college of commerce; authorizing you to select these men, we leave it to you to form this committee, and to inform us of the same.
4. Similar committees to be appointed in Riga and Archangel, which are to be dependent on the one here. The selection and appointment of the members of them to be left to the military governors, directing also the civil department, and where no such are, the civil governors.
5. The charges which may accrue on this occasion to be provided from the revenue of the respective custom houses, and placed to the account of sequestered ships and goods. We are, &c.
(Signed by his imperial majesty's hand.)
ALEXANDER.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 28, 1807.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 13.
Since the 8th inst. the Sound has been blocked by the English ships, that no vessels can go out or enter Cronenburg to pay toll, without being obliged to come under their guns.
On the 10th, some boats which went out from this harbor, took a large three-masted ship, and brought her into Kallebosstrand.
Between the 17th and 20th of October, 56 English ships arrived at Riga; and on the 15th of October three were lying at Cronstadt.
GOTTENBURG, Dec. 7.
Various travellers, chiefly English, have this week arrived from Russia, who all report that a large body of Russian troops are marching to the frontiers of Swedish Finland.
LONDON, Dec. 1.
Projected Commercial Revolution.
The following outline is furnished by a gentleman who lately came from France, where he enjoyed the privileges of American citizenship, and was in habits of intimacy with some of the persons attached to the government. The plan appears romantic in the extreme, and we may hope will prove impracticable:—
"The king of Sweden is to be compelled, on pain of forfeiture of his crown, to join the continental confederation. No more naval stores are to be permitted to come to this country from the north, & we are to have no peace but such a one as shall annihilate our maritime greatness. For this end American ships as well as British are to be
excluded from every port of the continent; no produce from either of those countries, nor from the West-Indies, is to be received in any port belonging to France, or in alliance with her. Those countries are to have trade with each other, and to exclude the rest of the world: they are to form a grand commercial confederation, extending from the extremes of Europe to Asia, & uniting the frozen regions of Norway and Lapland with the East-Indies. This trade is to be carried on internally, by means of great roads and canals, and round the coast by small vessels, protected by guns and batteries placed on advantageous situations.
"Gibraltar is to be taken from us, and an army of 60,000 French and Russians are to aid the native princes in driving us out of the continent of India. This being accomplished, the lucrative commerce of the East is in future to flow through Persia, Turkey, Russia, and France, and from thence into the other states of Europe.
A canal (as these people pretend) is to be dug for the purpose of connecting the Euphrates with the river of Pheasants, at some place in Armenia, where they are said to be very near each other; by which means the ancient conveyance of merchandise from India along these rivers into the Black Sea, will be restored, and the Danube and the Don will there receive them, and convey them into the interior of Germany and Russia. The Danube is likewise to be connected in four different places with the Elbe, the Maine, the Neckar, and the Rhine, consequently with the rivers and canals both in the north and south of France. Venice is to recover the commercial splendour she possessed, when the wealth of the east flowed into her port by the channel above mentioned.
"Napoleon, it is said, has promised the king of Westphalia, that he will shortly see bales of India goods transported from Bassora to Hamburg, by inland navigation; and the manufactures of Europe are to find their way to Hindostan in the same manner.
"But this is not the road that these potentates are to take, in order to reach India. The French army is to cross the Danube, and proceed by the Crimea, to the Caspian Sea; they will continue to march through the dominions of their allies, the Russians as far as Astrabath; which is a port on the southern extremity of the Caspian sea, in 55 degrees of eastern longitude, and from thence to the N. W. extremity of Hindostan is only 13 degrees, or about 800 miles. Astrabath has been fortified by Russia, and has a fine port, by means of which it can draw provisions from the Don and the Wolga countries abounding in corn and other necessaries, which in time of peace, are usually shipped in large quantities from Asoph and Kirson to Constantinople. Astrabath is therefore to be their grand depot, and at that place the Russians are, it is said, at present in considerable force."
PARIS, Dec. 8.
Mr. Stephen Cathalan, consul of the U. States of America in Marseilles, has communicated to the chamber of commerce of that city, the following letter, which he received from the American consulate, dated at Tunis, Nov. 5. 1807.
"Sir—I hasten to communicate to you, the following information contained in a letter, which I received about three days since, from col. Lear, the consul general of the United States at Algiers, by which he informs me, that the day sent for the drogomans of the American, Swedish, Danish & Dutch consuls, & ordered them to inform their respective consuls that he had waited a long time for the annuities due from them; that his patience was exhausted, and that if he did not receive either by way of Aliant, or some vessel which should soon arrive, information that they might be shortly expected, they would feel the consequences."
"The consul general considers this as a formal declaration—the reigning Dey being in the habit of putting his threats into execution; and he thinks there is very little doubt he will declare against some one, or perhaps the whole of the powers above mentioned; but it is to be presumed, that if his attacks should be confined to one alone, the extent of our commerce in those seas, will offer the greatest object for his cupidity."
"You will, therefore, be pleased, immediately to notice all the American vessels within your district, of this circumstance, in order that they may be upon their guard, and to forward this information to those of our consuls in Europe, with whom you may have an opportunity of corresponding."
"I have the honor to be, &c."
(Signed)
"C. D. COKE."
General Armstrong has received information of the sudden declaration of war by the Dey of Algiers, against the U. States of America.
It is reported that England has accepted the mediation of Austria, for entering into negotiations for peace.
December 10.
The Argus repeated to-day the report of the entrance of the French into Lisbon on the 28th November.
December 13.
The Portuguese are well satisfied as to the intentions of the French, and have received them with enthusiasm, as their saviors. It is said the prince regent has directed his course towards the Brazils; the people of Lisbon complain bitterly of his conduct, and particularly for having caused the cannon of fort Belier to be spiked up, for the purpose of permitting a free access to the English, and afterwards having joined them. He left behind him a proclamation addressed to his subjects.

The vessel is yet in sight. Among the numbers of distinguished emigrants are the duke de Cadaval—the marquis de Pombal, and the minister of state, Araujo. At the departure of the courier, it was stated that the English had landed at Piche, an important post, about 11 leagues from Lisbon.
December 14. Letters from the first corps of observation of the Gironde, commanded by gen. Junot, announces, that the prince regent of Portugal, as soon as he was informed of the arrival of the French troops at Abrantes, took the resolution of retiring to the Brazils. He set sail accordingly on the 29th ult and gen Junot entered Lisbon on the 30th. He was received with great attention and regard by the inhabitants of that city. So great was the confidence reposed in the French there, that shops remained open, and business did not experience a moment's interruption.
Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SATURDAY, February 6. The Speaker laid before the House a report from the Secretary at War, favorable to the petition of Asa Delozier, which was referred to a committee of the whole. The Speaker also laid before the House the annual report of the commissioners of the sinking fund. Referred to the committee of Ways and Means. An engrossed bill to revive and continue certain causes in the district court of Columbia was read the third time and passed.
Mr. J. Montgomery moved that the unfinished business of yesterday lie on the table to give an opportunity for the renewal of the motion originally made by Mr. Sloan, and afterwards renewed by Mr. Blount, for the removal of the seat of government; which was agreed to, 52 to 51. Mr. Lewis then moved the consideration of the resolution renewed by Mr. Blount yesterday. The House agreed to take up the consideration of the resolution by Yeas and Nays—Yeas 56, Nays 54. On this resolution a very long and animated debate took place for four hours and a half, when the House adjourned (this being the fifth day of discussion) without taking a question. In this day's debate Messrs. Sloan, Bacon, Smilie, Milnor and Upham supported, & Messrs. Dawson, J. Montgomery, Blount, Van Horn and G. W. Campbell opposed the removal.
AUGUSTA, (Maine) January 22.
AN INSURRECTION! In consequence of the following application, maj. gen Sewell has detached 400 privates, with the necessary officers, from his division, to be held in perfect readiness to obey the orders of the sheriff of the county of Kennebec, in enforcing obedience to the civil authority. The detachments are made from col. Fillebrown's and col. Sherwin's regiments, and maj. Grant's squadron; and capt. Spaulding's troop of cavalry.
To Henry Sewall, esq. major general of the eighth division of Massachusetts militia.
As the sheriffs of the respective counties, among other civil officers, are by law required, whenever there is reason to apprehend that a dangerous insurrection will be excited to obstruct the course of justice or the due execution of the laws, that it shall be the duty of the sheriff to certify the same to the maj. gen, or commanding officer wherein such county lies—I think it my duty to make known to you, that certain daring acts of violence and outrage have been lately committed in the county of Kennebec, upon the persons and property of several officers of government in the regular discharge of their official duties, and that combinations to oppose, by force, the civil authority, have been so openly avowed, that it is no longer prudent or safe to execute the law, or to enforce, in the ordinary way, the regular administration of justice. I do, therefore, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me as sheriff of the county of Kennebec, request that major general Sewell detach immediately four hundred men, armed and equipped according to law, being a number which I think sufficient to defeat the purposes of the insurgents. I take the liberty to suggest, that it would be very desirable to have capt. Solomon Vose's company of light infantry included in the above detachment. It is with regret that I find myself urged by a sense of duty to make the above request, according to a law passed February 20, 1807, being an act for the suppression of tumults and insurrections in the commonwealth. I have the honor to be, with respect, sir, your most obedient, "ARTHUR LITHGOW, "Sheriff of the county of Kennebec."
NEW-YORK, Feb. 6.
Captain Shaler of the ship Gen. Hamilton, who arrived at this port last evening from Amsterdam, left there on the 18th of Dec. and informs, that the Emperor of Austria, had offered to negotiate for peace between England and France:—that there had not been any seizures of American property or vessels in Amsterdam, and no idea of an embargo.
Extract of a letter from New-Bedford, dated 1st month 31.
"This afternoon, arrived ship Niagara, captain Cross, 43 days from Rotterdam. Captain C. confirms the accounts of the capture of our vessels by the Algerines. He understood, a short time previous to leaving Rotterdam, that Louis had retired from the government of Holland, on account of ill health, and that Talleyrand had arrived at the Hague to supply his place. A more rigorous treatment of neutrals it was expected would result from this change. Came passenger in the Niagara, capt. Kinsley, late of the ship Alexandria, of A-
lexandria, lost on the 27th October, on the island of Goree." Capt. Howes, who has arrived at Gloucester from Bordeaux, in 45 days, informs, that American vessels had been embargoed, and their papers kept from them; but the latter had been restored, and the vessels allowed to depart. Americans are treated in an unfriendly manner; and the emperor is said to have declared, that the United States should declare for him or against him.
WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 8.
The monument, to be erected to the memory of the officers who fell in the Mediterranean, has arrived, and is now at the Navy Yard.
The circuit court for the district of Ohio, convened at Chillicothe, have adjourned. Neither Burr or Blennerhassett made their appearance, and both have forfeited their recognizance. Bills of misdemeanor were found against both of them, on which it apprehended, they will take their trial at the ensuing term.
It is said that eleven of the grand jury voted for a bill against John Smith for misdemeanor. Twenty-one members were present. Our readers know that it requires the concurrence of twelve to make a presentment.
What will the apologists, the friends of Aaron Burr, say to his non-appearance, to his flight from justice? Does this manifest conscious innocence, or betray conscious guilt?
To General John Armstrong, Minister of the U. States, near the Court of France. WE the undersigned citizens of the United States at present in Leghorn, having under our care considerable property, beg leave to represent to your excellency the grievances under which we labor, since the occupation of this city by the French troops. The Tuscan government had hitherto so far favored our commerce that we found perfect security for what we landed and no restraint on the re-exportation of such goods as suited our purpose for other markets.
A decree was issued in November 1806 by the French government prohibiting the importation of English produce and manufactures, and a commission was appointed in this port under the authority of the same, to carry that law into execution. On the arrival of American vessels the masters thereof were required to deposit with that commission the manifests of their cargoes together with the certificates of the French consuls in America—these proofs were deemed sufficient for the admission of their cargoes.
Since the possession of the city by the French army under General Mollis, a new commission has been instituted with authority to search for and arrest all merchandise presumed to be of the growth or manufacture of Great Britain or her colonies. This commission has arrested in the warehouses and lazareths property to a large amount belonging to citizens of the United States, regardless of the accompanying proofs of its neutrality and origin. The articles thus arbitrarily detained are a description of India muslins, India sugars, pimento, ginger and Indigo. The alleged ground for the detention of muslins has been because of their superior quality, ignorantly supposing that such could be imported only through the East-India Company agents, a supposition refuted by the smallest acquaintance with the business of India. The sugars, pimento, ginger and indigo have been indiscriminately sealed. When the fact is represented, that these articles are daily admitted in ports of France no plea can be imagined in justification of the act of violence.
In consequence of these faithless proceedings on the parts of the French authorities, our ships are detained on heavy disbursements and exposed to an approaching inclement season—our returns are rendered impracticable by the refusal of our consignees to make the usual advances, important voyages are defeated and many other injuries particularly distressing at this juncture of our affairs with England.
We trust that for grievances of so serious a nature we shall obtain from your Excellency a zeal in your representations which will produce for ourselves a speedy relief and for the United States a disavowal of proceedings so contrary to the good faith hitherto subsisting between the two nations.
Signed by all the American Captains and Superintendents. E. SOLOMONS, Sec'y. Leghorn, Oct. 3, 1807.
BY virtue of a deed of trust from Thomas Poor, to the subscriber, bearing date the 18th day of January, 1803, and recorded in Goochland court, for the purpose of securing the payment to James Scruggs, of a certain sum of money therein mentioned, together with interest and costs attending the sale, will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at the house of the said Thomas Poor, in the county of Goochland, on Saturday the 5th day of March next.
200 Acres of Land,
More or less, whereon the said Poor now resides, possession to be given the purchaser on the 25th day of December next. ARCH. BRYCE, Trustee. Goochland, Feb. 6, 1808. w3
A Lot of Ground,
In the town of Columbia, whereon is a large & well-finished two story store house calculated for a store and family, with convenient out houses. The money arising from said sale will be applied agreeably to said deed.
MATTHEW WILLS. THOMAS WILLS. WM. PASTEUR. Columbia, Feb. 10, 1809. wtds
Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1808.
THE curtain is gradually rising, and unfolding to view more and more plainly the true nature of the opposition to Mr. Madison's election. The advocates for that of Col. Monroe, have hitherto exhibited a strange mixture of ardent Republicans, and violent Federalists, of foes and friends of the present administration. But if the ground, which some of them have now taken, is to be that of the party, we do not hesitate to predict that those who answer to the latter description, will soon forsake it altogether.
We are now given to understand that Messrs. Jefferson and Madison are chargeable with all the present distresses of our country, which would have been avoided, if the treaty negotiated by Col. Monroe had not been rejected for the insidious purpose of preventing his success, and promoting that of Madison, in the approaching contest for the Presidential chair; that the treaty, which he sent over was a good one, and ought to have been ratified; notwithstanding it contained no provision to protect our seamen from impressment, and, in other respects was clogged, and, indeed, rendered a nullity, by the concomitant declaration of the British government, that they would not observe it, if the U. S. submitted to the terms of Bonaparte's blocking decree; that our government occasioned improper delays in the progress of Colonel Monroe's negotiation, and also treated him with disrespect, by sending to England Mr. Pinckney, as Envoy extraordinary, to assist him; that this was done (with an eye to the Presidential election,) at a time when he was in a fair way to adjust all the disputes between the two nations, to prevent his obtaining the undivided glory of accomplishing so great and useful a work, and the popularity which would have been it's necessary consequence.
Such are the objections which have lately been made to the conduct of Mr. Madison, and, with this to that of Mr. Jefferson, relative to the treaty with England.
We shall endeavor to give them a fair and impartial consideration, and a candid and temperate answer.
In the first place, we deny that the treaty negotiated by Messrs. Monroe and Pinckney ought to have been ratified by the President.
On this point we wish to be distinctly understood. We do not mean to change those excellent Patriots with having surrendered any of the rights of America; with concluding a treaty contrary to their instructions; or with having failed to get as advantageous terms for us as the government of Great Britain could at that time be persuaded to grant. The instrument which was drawn up was rather a projet for a treaty , than a treaty actually agreed upon; for (as the President himself informs us, in his communication to Congress at the commencement of the present session,) they told the British ministry, when the clause for the relief of our seamen was struck out, that they were instructed to insist on the insertion of that clause, and therefore would not pledge our government to sanction the treaty without it, but would sign and send over the instrument, only as a proposal made on the part of Great Britain for the consideration of the President and Senate.
Our ministers were certainly free from all blame. But it does not follow that the treaty sought to have been ratified on our part. To say that the President was bound by his duty to consent to it, because it contained the best terms which the British were willing to grant, would be to proclaim a political heresy indeed.
According to such doctrine, the patriots of 1776 ought to have submitted to all the oppressions of the tyrant George the 3d, and of his obsequious parliament, because all their petitions and remonstrances had proved ineffectual, and those oppressions were the best terms which could then be obtained. At this rate, all the addresses and resolutions occasioned by the outrage on the Chesapeake, in which none concurred with more zeal and sincerity than many of the present friends of Col. Monroe's election, must have been extremely improper and unjustifiable, because none of them spoke of being satisfied with concluding a treaty on the best terms that could be got, but all insisted on reparation for the past, and ample security for the future. The language of all America, a few months ago was loud and energetic, that war, immediate War, with all its train of evils, (beginning with Embargoes, and loss of commerce,) was infinitely better than the tame surrender of any of our rights. And is it possible that Party spirit could have blinded some of our respectable republicans, so soon, and to such a degree, that they do not perceive the impropriety and inconsistency of blaming the President for rejecting a treaty, in which one of our most important rights was silently pretermitted, and might thereby have been considered as relinquished, a treaty which was declared, by the British ambassador here, not to be binding, so far as it went to recognize and establish another of those rights except upon conditions to which we could not submit? Can it seriously be contended (all our patriotic declarations to the contrary notwithstanding) that rather than have produced the inconveniences of the present Embargo, or the still greater which may follow, if our differences with England cannot be settled, the President ought originally to have given up the points in dispute? surely gentlemen who find fault with the course pursued relative to this subject do not consider the tendency of their own arguments, and the lengths to which their opposition may lead them. As republicans, and men determined to maintain the rights of their country, they must admit that the President acted correctly in rejecting the treaty.
Of course, they must, moreover, admit that neither the President, in rejecting the treaty, nor the Secretary of State, in advising him to do so, (if that was the case) could have been influenced by electioneering motives, for the injury of Mr. Monroe. We believe it was not certainly known that Mr. Monroe (however great his merit) would
be in nomination for the office of President; and if he had actually then been proclaimed as a candidate, the sanctioning of that treaty by our government would not have added to his popularity. So highly and so justly incensed were the people of the U. States against Great Britain; so tremblingly alive have they always been to the vindication of their rights; that nothing could have induced them to acquiesce in the sacrifice of any, even of the smallest. If, therefore, such a treaty, with no provision for the safety of our seamen, and with none acknowledged to be obligatory for the freedom of our legitimate commerce, had been ratified; their ardent indignation would have been excited against the ministers by whom it was negotiated, and against the administration by which it was accepted. The popularity of Jefferson and Madison would have been ruined by such a measure; neither would all the purity of his intentions, and the strict propriety of his conduct, have saved Monroe from sharing in the same fate. We confess we are at a loss to discover in what manner the result could have been otherwise.
If, indeed, Messrs. Jefferson and Madison or the friends of either, had, in any instance, attempted to cast reproach on Mr. Monroe, by insinuating that he could have obtained a better treaty, there might have been some plausibility in the suggestion that it was rejected for the purpose of diminishing his popularity; but, for such a supposition, there is not the smallest foundation. On the contrary, they have always done him the justice to applaud his conduct. He did his duty in sending over the treaty as the then ultimatum of the British government, and they did theirs by rejecting it.
Again, Mr. Madison is accused of being actuated by the same unworthy views, in sending Mr. Pinckney to England. Mr. Monroe, it is said, stood in need of no assistance; and the furnishing an envoy extraordinary, as his aid, conveyed an insinuation that he was not able to do without him. As well might a similar observation have been made, when Mr. Monroe himself was sent to France, to assist Mr. Livingston, and to share in the glory of acquiring Louisiana. Yet that appointment was given him by the same men who are now accused of wishing to depreciate his merit, for which we venture to pronounce that they feel the highest esteem and respect, and which they are far, very far, above the pitiful baseness of endeavoring to attack. The truth is, that, when they sent Mr. Pinckney, they knew that Mr. Monroe was zealously laboring for his country's interests, that he was shed for nothing but to accomplish the object of his mission, and could not be influenced to such a degree by the selfish desire of enhancing his own reputation by singly concluding a treaty, as to take umbrage at their affording him an able coadjutor. The public good being the only object which they, as well as Mr. Monroe, had in view, they did not permit the trifling considerations of Etiquette to prevent them from doing what they supposed might possibly promote that object; remembering the vulgar but true adage that "two heads are better than one," and the sound doctrine of holy writ, that "in the multitude of counsellors there is wisdom." Perhaps, in this opinion they were mistaken; and Monroe might have done very well without Pinckney; but, surely, this is a ridiculous ground of complaint against them, and a strange reason for declaring Madison unworthy of the office of President. Is it not plain and obvious that a knowledge of the state of the public mind in America, of the warmth of zeal among the people in defence of their rights, and of their general union in support of the administration (in spite of the declamatory speeches of the minority in Congress) was calculated to be very useful for the purpose of opening the eyes of the ministry of England, and urging them to an accommodation? that the mission of Mr. Pinckney, immediately from this country, would convey information, on those subjects, which Mr. Monroe's long absence had incapacitated him from communicating, and that therefore (without any disrespect to Mr. Monroe as it is said) the President and secretary had reason to think that the arrival of Mr. Pinckney would really be conducive to the ultimate success of the negotiation? Is it not well known that although the business was in a train for adjustment, yet, even in the lifetime of the celebrated Fox, its conclusion had been continually procrastinated by the British ministry? and was it not probable, that a new envoy, by personally conveying to their ears the recent sentiments of the American nation, would have a good effect on their proceedings, and sooner bring them to a close?
If the measure occasioned any delay, it ought not to have produced it; and we conceive, no good reason can be assigned for supposing that such a consequence flowed from it. The subsequent death of Mr. Fox, and other causes are amply sufficient to account for any delays that ensued.
We are so far from being of opinion that Pinckney's mission was intended to injure Monroe, that we think it demonstrable, that the latter might have been materially injured, (by men so disposed) if no envoy had been sent to assist him. His treaty might have been rejected, & all the blame thrown on his shoulders; whereas, now, his associate Mr. Pinckney, who is not a competitor with Madison for the Presidential chair, & whom we therefore may charitably suppose that Madison does not wish to injure, stands as a shield, between his imaginary malice, and Monroe, its victim; and, by testifying to the propriety of the conduct of Monroe, adds the weight of his own reputation to his.
Every consideration which has occurred to our minds demonstrates the futility of such accusations against Mr. Madison as are founded on any of the circumstances which have been mentioned; and we trust that future attacks may be repelled with equal ease.
A writer, under the signature of "Philo," challenges the administration to lay before the public the rejected treaty, with its accompanying documents.
We wonder that writer did not recollect the impropriety of taking such a step at present; while a negotiation, on the same subjects which were embraced in that treaty, is still depending! At a proper time, no doubt his curiosity will be gratified, and the public will in due season, see and judge
how far Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison deserve to be censured for its rejection.
Acts passed at the Session of 1807-8
(Concluded from our last.) 100. Further to amend the laws respecting the militia of this commonwealth.
Until a sufficient number of drummers and fifers shall be procured for each regiment agreeably to the 56th section of the act passed the 28th of January 1804, each officer commanding a battalion or company may employ a drummer and fifer to attend his muster, who shall be paid out of the militia fines of the regiment not exceeding $1 25 cents each; and the captains of light companies may enlist such musicians as they think necessary, but such musicians shall not be entitled to any compensation unless when in actual service. Until proper musicians can be trained in the troops of cavalry, the captain may employ a trumpeter to attend any regular parade, whose services shall be paid for out of the like and in like manner as is provided for musicians in the infantry. The fine on a non-commissioned officer or private for failing to attend any regimental, battalion or company muster, shall not be less than 75 cents, nor more than three dollars. A person appointed to attend as clerk or judge advocate at a court martial for the trial of an officer, as well as any person appointed to summon witnesses, shall receive such compensation as the court shall adjudge. Not more than three witnesses to prove the same fact shall be summoned to attend a court martial for the trial of an officer, and if more be summoned, they shall be paid by the party at whose instance they attend. No commissions shall hereafter be granted to more than one company of grenadiers, light infantry or rifle-men to each battalion. So much of any act as directs that caps and uniforms for grenadiers, light infantry and rifle-men, out of the money arising from fines, is repealed. Any non-commissioned officer or private failing to go into the ranks, at a muster (not having a reasonable excuse to be judged of by a court of enquiry) shall be fined not less than 5, nor more than 10 dollars. No company of militia shall exceed the number of 80, nor be less than 40 rank and file; whenever a company district shall exceed 60, it shall be divided into two, and the new district shall constitute an additional company to the battalion; whenever it shall be reduced to less than 40, the company shall be apportioned among the other companies of the battalion, in such manner as may be agreed on by the regimental court of enquiry, and the officers of the company so reduced shall be considered supernumerary, but shall fill the first vacancy corresponding with their rank which may occur in the company within the bounds of which they may reside. Whenever a battalion court of enquiry shall fail to meet on the day appointed, one member may adjourn from day to day till a board be formed. When the fines of any regiment shall not be sufficient to pay the drafts hereafter made by the commandant, in favor of any adjutant, clerks of courts of enquiry, provost martial, or musician, the same shall be paid out of any money in the treasury arising from militia fines. The executive is authorised to contract for the making 300 rifles annually, by such persons as they may think best qualified, to be distributed to such parts of the militia as shall be thought proper, and to order payment for the same when satisfactory evidence of a compliance with the contract shall be made to them, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and in proportion to contracts entered into for this purpose, cause a diminution of rifles to be made at the armory; provided that the cost of each rifle complete shall not exceed 15 dollars. The executive are to procure and furnish to each commissioned officer of the cavalry a copy of a late work on the discipline of cavalry and the use of the broadsword, published by Scaton Grantland. And the executive are also to cause to be printed and distributed so many of the militia laws in force after the commencement of this act, together with the articles of war lately revised by Congress, as will be sufficient to furnish to each commissioned officer one copy. Any adjutant who shall fail to attend any regimental or battalion muster, or other meeting of the regiment or battalion, shall forfeit 20 dollars; the quarter-master and pay-master, serjeant & surgeon's mate, failing to attend the regimental muster, shall forfeit 15 dollars; the serjeant-major for failing to attend the regimental or battalion musters, or training the officers shall forfeit 5 dollars. Officers to whom commissions have issued to raise volunteer companies attached to any battalion or regiment of the militia, shall not sit in courts martial till their companies are complete, and a return of their strength made to the commandant of the regiment. Other commissions shall hereafter issue for the purposes aforesaid, the officers shall not qualify to their commissions till their companies are complete, and a return made as above directed; and until a volunteer company be complete and such return made, no person belonging to it shall be exempt from the militia duty he was bound to perform in the company to which he belonged. Enlistments into volunteer companies shall be for three years at least, and not for more than five. The keeper of the penitentiary and his assistants shall be exempt from militia duty, and the cryers of the court of appeals and chancery district courts, shall be exempt from fines for failing to attend musters which may happen during the sitting of their courts. The executive shall not organize or establish any regiment, battalion or company, or commission any officer to command any such, unless it shall have been previously established by the laws of this commonwealth, or unless the executive be expressly authorised to organize or establish the same; and every person to whom any commission shall have issued heretofore contrary to the provisions of this section, shall not be exempt from militia duty, nor be entitled to any rank by virtue of such commission. Every person employed by any Lieutenant Col. Commandant as an express in pursuance of any order from the executive, or of any Major or Brigadier General, shall receive such compensation as the court of enquiry of the regiment where such person was employed, shall direct to be paid out of the fines of such regiment. A person intending to take an appeal from a sentence of a court

martial, shall give notice thereof within 10 days thereafter to the judge advocate, and prosecute his appeal within 90 days, otherwise the sentence shall stand as if approved by the executive. Every clerk of the courts of enquiry shall take an oath faithfully to execute his duty, to be administered by the President of the court before such clerk shall act; and every such clerk failing to furnish the sheriff or other officer with a list of fines within his bailiwick, or district, &c. or to certify the list to the auditor, shall be subject to a fine of 50 dollars for every failure; and the Lieutenant Col. Commandant shall certify within 90 days after the meeting of his regimental court of enquiry annually, the name of the clerk of such court; and every Lieutenant Col. Commandant failing herein shall forfeit 50 dollars; and it shall be the duty of the auditor to certify every such failure to the Lieutenant Col. Commandant of the regiment whenever it happened, to be by him laid before the next regimental court of enquiry; who shall proceed to adjudge such fine against the delinquent as in other cases; and the fines so imposed shall be collected and accounted for as other fines are by law directed. Every Brigadier General failing to appoint or direct the training of the officers in any regiment, or to appoint regimental masters directed by law, shall forfeit not less than 50, nor more than 200 dollars, to be adjudged by the court of enquiry of the regiment wherein he resides; and it shall be the duty of the Lieutenant Col. Commandant in whose regiment such failure shall happen, within 30 days thereafter to certify the same to the president of such court of enquiry; who shall cause notice to be given to such Brigadier General; and such court of enquiry shall at their ensuing session proceed to a judge such fine as in other cases; saving, to the party aggrieved the right of appeal to the executive under the regulations prescribed by this act; and the fines so imposed shall be collected and accounted for as other fines. The oath prescribed to be taken by any militia officer may be administered by any justice of the peace of a county, or mayor or alderman of any corporation within the commonwealth; and the officer taking such oath out of the county in which he resides, shall transmit the certificate of such qualification signed by such justice, mayor, or alderman, to the court of the county where such officer may reside, there to be entered of record by the clerk. All acts contrary hereto are repealed. [To commence from the passing.]
101. Appropriating the public revenue. 102. Supplemental to the act entitled an act to organize & establish a superior court of law in each county of this commonwealth. This act is merely intended to give effect to the system by which a superior court of law is organized in each county. It contains a number of important provisions; among others that venire men attending such courts shall be entitled to no compensation, & witnesses only the same allowance which is made to those attending the county courts. Its operation is postponed till the first of January, 1809, when the new judiciary goes into operation.
103. To amend the penal laws of this commonwealth. If any slave or slaves at any time hereafter shall wilfully and maliciously burn or set fire to any barn, stable, cornhouse, or other house, or shall advise, counsel, aid, abet or assist any slave or slaves, free negro or mulatto to commit either of the said offences, being thereof lawfully convicted, if the amount of the burning be of the value of ten dollars, he, she or they shall be deemed guilty of felony, and suffer death. To burn or set fire to any stack or cock of wheat, barley, oats, corn or other grain, or to any stack or cock of hay, or to counsel, &c. any free negro or mulatto to commit either of the said offences, subjects a slave to the punishment of burning in the hand, and any number of lashes not exceeding thirty-nine, at the discretion of the court. [To commence from the passing.]
"Par noble fratrum!" BRITAIN & ALGIERS—ALGIERS & BRITAIN.
England, we all thought, had by her multiplied wrongs and outrages alienated all the powers on earth; all the civilized powers are, it is true, either arrayed directly against her, or, waiting with anxious suspense the turns and issues of the present aggression—and the fate of war; but Algiers, feeling, like our Federalists, irresistible sympathies with her Brother, John Bull, has declared war against the United States!
Thus the world is likely to be again embroiled; civilized against the uncivilized; the pirates and barbarians against the advocates of "the freedom of the seas." It would be the height of weakness to admit the possibility of success on the part of the two grand piratical brothers.— Whig.
"To your Tents, O Israel!" People of America!—Men of all parties who feel an emotion of virtue, of love of country—of virtuous liberty—Ye who can look back with glorious exultation to the triumphs of Independence, and the virtues and valor by which it was achieved—annihilate the little animosity of party, nobly resolve to spurn all foreign feelings, and be Americans worthy of the name. For the hour is at hand—when there can be no neutrality—You are on the verge of war.
Your government, has been called on as the Danes were called on at Copenhagen, to abandon independence, and become the dupe of Great Britain. The negotiation, which was never intended for the ostensible purposes, is at an end.
Prepare for war— Unite,—arm,—like men,—or perish slaves. You are men and that manhood will be tried.— Aurora.
CONSISTENCY. There are some inconsistencies of the federal printers, which no man, however blind, can help seeing—though every man may account for them in his own way. For example— Formerly their cry was "support the government!"—and all who did not support
all its measures were denounced as "rebels, disorganizers, &c." Now those Oracles oppose the government all in their power, condemn all its measures, and calumniate and abuse all in the administration of it. Formerly, they considered it sedition to say any thing against public men or measures however bad—now, it would seem as if they thought it treason to speak a word in favor of either, however praiseworthy. Formerly, as in the case of differences with France and with Spain respecting Louisiana, they could on the least pretext raise the war-whoop, and talk of exterminating a whole nation, or conquering a vast empire as mere sport—Now, the plunder of our commerce, the impressment of our seamen, the massacre of our citizens, the blockade of our harbors, and an absolute denial of many of our most essential rights, will not, they contend, justify a resort to any measures which can possibly lead to war, however necessary to our safety and independence.
Formerly, "Millions for defence, but not a cent for tribute," was their toast—Now, the only feasible mode of "defence" is ridiculed and derided, and a "tribute" of three or four thousand of our seamen to the British navy is not held as worthy of consideration. Formerly, "defend your rights, defend your shores," was the burden of their song—Now, both our maritime and territorial "rights" are readily relinquished to the British government; and the decks of our ships of war, which are or ought to be as sacred as our "shores" are abandoned by them to British press-gangs.
Formerly, an Embargo was wise and beneficial—now it is both ruinous and iniquitous. Formerly, a non-intercourse act was a mild measure towards an offending nation—now, a non-importation act is harsh and "irritating." Formerly, Washington was applauded for withholding from congress important documents—now, Jefferson is abused for asking a return of letters which the public interest might require to be kept from the eyes of the ministers and emissaries of foreign courts.
Formerly, with these men, every thing that government did was right of course—now, measures right in themselves are made wrong by government's adopting them! Such are a few of the inconsistencies in the conduct and language of federal printers. If these inconsistencies proceed from ignorance, ought such "blind guides" to be longer followed?—If they proceed from a perverse and malicious disposition, should they not be discarded from public confidence?— A. Y. Aurora.
A WORD IN TIME. Our readers may rely on the assurance we give—we have never hitherto deceived the public, either by speculations hostile to the interests of the nation—by falsehoods bottomed upon the most respectable authority —nor by any other trick or artifice. We now repeat it, that the conduct of Mr. Rose is such as to indicate the most hostile rather than conciliatory dispositions. We repeat it that the hostility of the British government is inveterate against the U. S.
We repeat it, that expeditions hostile to our territory, have been in preparation in England; and unless her new embarrassments with Russia and Sweden, compel her to retain her whole force at home, that it was the determination of Great Britain to seize New Orleans and the Floridas. ( Aurora. )
A curious circumstance concerning a forgery has fallen into our possession—in which a man who has made some affidavits is implicated.
We are also in possession of a clue to the disturbances in Louisiana in 1804, and the source and object of the famous or infamous memorial at that period, upon which we shall call Daniel Clark to witness the truth of our information. If the business of the court of enquiry was only once fairly going on, we should not feel scrupulous about going into matters more at large—but every dog has his day —"Think of that, Master Brook!"— ib.
THOMAS PAINE'S PETITION TO CONGRESS. Presented on the 4th February, and referred to the committee of claims To the Honorable the Representatives of the United States.
The purport of this address is to state a claim I feel myself entitled to make on the United States, leaving to their representatives in Congress to decide on its worth and its merits. The case is as follows: Towards the latter end of the year 1780, the continental money had become so depreciated, a paper dollar not being worth more than a cent, that it seemed next to impossibility to continue the war.
As the U. States were then in alliance with France, it became necessary to make France acquainted with our real situation. I therefore drew up a letter to Count Vergennes, stating undigestedly the true case, concluding with the request whether France could not, either as a subsidy or a loan, supply the U. States with a million sterling, and continue that supply annually during the war.
I showed this letter to M. Marbois, secretary to the French minister. His remark upon it was, that a million sent out of the nation exhausted it more than ten millions spent in it. I then showed it to Ralph Isard, member of Congress from South Carolina. He borrowed the letter of me, and said, "We will endeavor to do something about it in Congress."
Accordingly congress appointed colonel J. Laurens, then aid to general Washington, to go to France and make representation of our situation, for the purpose of obtaining assistance. Col Laurens wished to decline the mission, and that congress would appoint colonel Hamilton, which congress did not choose to do.
Col. Laurens then came to state the case to me. He said he was enough acquainted with the military difficulties of the army, but that he was not enough acquainted with political affairs, nor with the resources of the country; but, said he, if you will go with me, I will accept, which I agreed to do, and did so.
We sailed from Boston in the Alliance frigate, captain Barry, the beginning of February, 1781, and arrived at L'Orient the beginning of March. The aid obtained from France was six millions livres as a present and ten millions as a loan borrowed in Holland on the security of France. We sailed from Brest in the French Resolution frigate, the first of June, and arrived at Boston the 25th August, bringing with us two millions and a half in silver, and conveying a ship and a brig laden with clothing and military stores. The money was transported in 16 ox teams to the national bank at Philadelphia, which enabled the army to march to Yorktown to attack, in conjunction with the French army under Rochambeau, the British army under Cornwallis. As I never had a cent for this service, I feel myself entitled, as the country now is in a state of prosperity, to state the case to congress.
As to my political works, beginning with the pamphlet Common Sense published the beginning of January '76, which awakened Americans to a declaration of Independence, the president and vice-president both know. As they were works done from principle, I cannot dishonor that principle by asking any reward for them. The country has been benefited by them, and I make myself happy in the knowledge of it. It is however proper for me to add, that the mere independence of America were it to have been followed by a system of government modelled after the corrupt system of the English government it would not have interested me with the unabated ardor it did. It was to bring forward and establish the representative system of government as the work itself will show, that was the leading principle with me in writing that work and all my other works, during the progress of the revolution. And I followed the same principle in writing the Rights of Man in England.
There is a resolve of the old congress while they sat at New-York, of a grant to me of three thousand dollars. The resolve is put in handsome language, but it has relation to a matter which it does not express. Elbridge Gerry was chairman of the committee who brought in the resolve. If congress should judge proper to refer this memorial to a committee, I will inform that committee of the particulars of it.
I have also to state to congress, that the authority of the old congress was become so reduced towards the latter end of the war, as to be unable to hold the states together. Congress could do no more than recommend, of which the states took no notice; and when they did, it was never uniformly recommended by congress, to pay the interest of a loan to be borrowed in Holland, I wrote to chancellor Livingston, then minister for foreign affairs, and Robert Morris, minister of finance, and proposed a method for getting over the whole difficulty at once, which was by adding a continental legislature to congress, who should be empowered to make loans for the union, instead of recommending them. As the method proposed met with their full approbation, I held myself in reserve to take the subject up whenever a direct occasion occurred.
In conversation afterwards with governor Clinton, of New York, it was adjudged that for the purpose of my going fully into the subject, and to prevent any misconstruction of my motives or object, it would be best that I receive nothing from congress, but leave it to the states individually to make me what acknowledgements they pleased.
The state of New York made me a present of a farm, which since my return to America I have found it necessary to sell; and the state of Pennsylvania voted me five hundred pounds their currency. But none of the states to the eastward of New York, or to the southward of Philadelphia, made me the least acknowledgment. They had received benefits from me, which they accepted, and there the matter ended. THIS STORY WILL NOT TELL WELL IN HISTORY. All the civilized world knows I have been of great service to the United States, and have generously given away talents that would have made me a fortune. I much question whether an instance is to be found, in ancient or modern times, of a man who had no personal interest in the cause he took up, that of Independence and the Representative System of Government, and who sought neither place nor office after it was established, that preserved the same undeviating principles as I have done for more than thirty years; and that in spite of difficulties, dangers and inconveniences, of which I have had my share.
THOMAS PAINE. "The worm that, fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed, "No teeth for the present."
AARON BURR. In the press of the 18th ult. we stated the fact of Aaron Burr's being within seven miles of this city. Since that time we have seen articles in various papers stating him to have been seen in various parts of the United States, and others suggesting that he was gone to England. The fact is, that A. Burr is now in the city of Philadelphia. A gentleman informs me that he saw him within three days. From correct information we affirm, that Burr is in expectation of foreign aid, and has lately declared that he intends some time about April next to attempt the settlement of his Onondaga lands.
These are interesting facts, to which we call the attention of the Government and People of the United States, particularly those in the Western country. Let every person known to have been connected with Burr be vigilantly watched, and if any circumstance of a suspicious nature shall transpire, let it immediately be communicated to the government. In watchfulness there is safety: a careless security might be productive of evil.— Dem. Press.
NEW-YORK Feb. 8.
We have since our last publication, completed our files of London papers and Lloyd's Lists to the middle of December by the ship President. From these we have continued our extracts at considerable length.
The severity of winter has been experienced in England this season to an unusual degree. Our papers furnish many distress
instances of persons who have perished in the streets and on the highway thro' excessive cold.
We observe in some of the British prints, and especially in those which are termed provincial, a spirit of thinking on important political subjects worthy of high minded men, and a freedom of expression against obnoxious public measures not exercised in any other nation on earth excepting the United States of America.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 8. Captain Manders, of the brig Sea-Horse, put into Ramsgate, from which place he sailed on the 24th December. Captain M. had one or two London papers as late as the 16th December; but we are not so fortunate as to obtain them. A paper of the 15th states that the King of England was severely indisposed; and the day before captain M. sailed a gentleman arrived at Ramsgate from London, who informed, that when he left the city, the bells of St. Paul's Cathedral was tolling, a circumstance which never takes place except in the case of the death of some of the Royal Family, from which it was inferred and generally believed, that the king was dead. Should this be the case, it will probably lead to some important changes in the affairs of Europe; perhaps be the cause of a general peace.
We are authorized to say that Andrew Stevenson, Esq. is a candidate to represent the City of Richmond in the ensuing legislature of this state.
Mr. Osborn Lockhart, of Prince-Edward, has written to the editor, requesting him to announce to the public, that he declines serving as one of the committee for that county, to support the ticket for the election of Mr. Monroe as president.
The Famous High Blooded English Horse
HAMBLETON, BRED by the Duke of Grafton, a beautiful bright bay, near 16 hands high, of high form and elegance, rising 16 years old, in good health and great perfection, imported by Wm. Lightfoot, Esq. of Charles City county, will stand the ensuing season, at my plantation in Hanover county, 20 miles from Richmond and 2 from Hanover Town and New Castle, to cover mares at 6 guineas the season, for which a note will be required, dischargeable by the payment of 20 dollars at any time before the first of August next, when the season will expire with one dollar to the groom for each mare, paid at the stable door. Ten dollars the single leap, and 40 dollars to insure a mare with foal. Good and extensive pasture, well enclosed, with branches running through the flat land affording as good forward pasture as any in this part of the country. Servants that may be sent with mares will be boarded for two dollars per week, and mares fed, if required, on reasonable terms. The greatest attention will be paid by my overseer, Mr. John Hog, but no liability for escapes or accidents. * Any gentleman putting five mares to Hambleton may send one gratis.
GEORGE BLAKEY. February 15, 1808.
PEDIGREE. Hambleton was got by Dungannon, sire of Bedford and one of the best sons of O'Kelly's famous Eclipse, who was esteemed to be the best horse in England of his day, and covered at fifty guineas—his dam by Snap, sister to Jupiter, bred by Mr. Cross, 1793—her dam, Young Marske's dam, by Bank. Snelling, Miss Meynell, by Partner, Greyhound, Curwen, Bay Barb, Lord D'Arcy's Arabian, Whitehead, Old Montague mare. Thus it appears he descended from the best running stock in England.
PERFORMANCES.
This horse ranks very high as a racer, both for speed and bottom, as he proved successful in 20 races before he left the turf, 4 of which he walked over, none venturing to start against him. In '94 at Hambleton, Yorkshire, on Wednesday, May 14th, he won a sweepstakes of ten gs each, for 3 year olds 6 subscribers, 2 miles, beating Mr. B. d'Arcy's b h by Magnum Bonum, Pierce's b f by Young Marske, Turner's Confederacy, and Craddock's ch c Leicester. At York he won 50l. for 3 year olds, beating Lowther's b c Griffin Crompton's ch c Ambush Sheppard's Madcap, Clifton's b c Cedar, and Garforth's ch c—even betting on Ambush against the field. At Manchester, in June, he won 50l. for 3 year olds, two mile heats, beating Foreigner and Loyalty. At Stockton, Sept. 30, he won a sweepstakes of 20 gs each, 3 subscribers, then Sir H. Williamson's property formerly Mr. Hutchinson's, beating Field's Hillyard, out of Wren and Turner's Delphine—1795, Hambleton won 5 times, to wit: a handicap plate of 50l. 2 mile heats, at 4 years old, beating Insect, Blackeyes and Wathin's b c 5 years old, at Edinburgh July 20, he won his majesty's plate of 100 gs 4 years old, 4 mile heats, beating Greyhound's b h Archer, 6 years old, Mr. Peacock's ch g Farmer, and Mr. Wilson's Greening Rake. At Dumfries in Oct. he won 50l. beating Lord Dumfries's b h Compton. In 1796 Hambleton won at Kelso, Oct. 5, a purse of 50 gs beating Mr. Baillie's Black Cock. In 1797, he won 8 times, to wit: at Middleham, in York hire, a sweepstakes of ten gs each 3 subscribers, 3 mile heats, beating Merry Lad and Arthur. At Edinburgh, on Wed. next the 26th, 50 gs for all ages, beating Eliza Day and Bessy. On Friday the 13th the Ladies subscription purse of 50 gs beating Fletcher's Jane. At Montrose, in Scotland, August, he walked over the ground for a 50l. plate and also walked over the ground for a subscription of 50l. At Kelso Oct. 16 for a plate of 50 gs he walked over the ground—and also his majesty's 100 gs given to the Caledonian Hunt, for any horse, &c. carrying 12 st 4 mile heats, then 6 years old, he won against Mr. Wentworth's Trumbull, Piermont's Timmer, aged, and Rankade's Hector, aged—and Saturday following a purse of 50l. given by the Hunt, free for any horse, &c. beating Fawcett and Reiter. At Carlisle he won 100 gs of Mr. Sitwell, beating his b f by Meteor. In 1798, he won at Edinburgh, August, 50l. for all ages, beating Maxwell's Arab, and Mr. Maule's Hippo ramus. At Montrose he won a plate of 50 gs for all ages, beating Pistoche and Contradour. See the racing Calendars for the foregoing years. Wm LIGHTFOOT.
Colt's Performances—London. Hambleton's costs also rank very high as racers, both for speed and bottom as they proved them, serves good runners in England. In 1805 at Carterick bridge, on Thursday 18th, Wentworth's b c Silverheels by Hambleton, two years old, won a sweepstakes of ten gs 3 subscribers, two miles, beating Mr. Riddle's b c by Overton, dam of Spadille, Mr. Lonsdale's ch c by Piperdam dam by Spadille—Lord Stratmore's g f by Overton b, dam by Delphin—Several others also started but were not placed.—Durham, Wednesday, 24th, a Maiden Plate of 50l., given by the country members, for all ages, 3 mile heats. Sir H. Williamson's
b c by Hamilton, 2 years old, ran 4 heats, and proved second best—and 4 others started and placed then... as very good runners.
CERTIFICATES.
London, 17th February, 1808. William Lightfoot, Esq. Dear Sir,—Hambleton ought to stand very high with you as his cold in this country turn out excellent runners &c.
Charlotte, 10th May 1806. I put five mares to Hambleton, and they all proved in foal, and the colts fine and large—I have so have a mare which has brought me four colts, one by Diomed, one by Diogen, one by Seagull, and another by Hambleton, and the Hambleton colt has the preference of either. I think her one of the finest fillies, both in size and figure that I ever saw.—Given under my hand.
Lunenburg, 5th May, 1806. This will certify that I put a mare to Hambleton in 1804, when he stood at Mr. H. Lester's in Charlotte county, and am as well pleased, if not better, with the colt by him, than with any the same mare ever had, she previously bred by Coeur de Lion, Diomed, Quicksilver and Diogen.
Charlotte county. In the year 1804 I put a mare to Hambleton, then kept by Mr. H. Lester of this county, and am fully persuaded that it is the best colt the mare ever had, and is in my estimation the best colt I ever bred from any horse. I moreover never have heard of any complaining of the foetus from that mare.
Thomas Head, Jr. Hanover County. I herewith certify that Mr. Wm. Lightfoot's horse Hambleton stood at my stable the last season, and that he has proved an excellent foal getter: his colts would do credit to any horse on the continent. Mr. Wm. Morris of this county and I put five mares each, all of which proved in foal. Given under my hand this 7th day of May, 1806.
John Th. Inman. Albemarle county Temple Hill, (Va.) I do hereby certify that Mr. Wm. Lightfoot's English horse Hambleton, so called by me, for two seasons, viz in 1806 and 1807; and I consider him to be an excellent sure foal getter, as any horse that I have been acquainted with—I have seen a number of his colts; I consider them large, fine and handsome—None one that I have seen was indifferent—I have previously got my fine mare Lady Slipper to Precipitate, Knowles and Hambleton, and she brought a colt by each, the Hambleton I consider much preferable. Given under my hand 10th December, 1807.
Charlotte County, 6th May, 1806. We the undersigned subscribers have colts dropped last season by Hambleton, and they are generally, as we believe by the neighborhood generally, to be remarkable good colts; being for the most part large, fine and handsome. We also believe that the season he stood in this county, he got as many colts as any horse could get with the same number of mares. William Mitchell, James Lambkin, Glenn Smith, Coton Favis, Thomas Pettus, Wm. L. Morris, W. B. Lester.
NOTICE.
WILL be sold on the twenty sixth day of this month, at the tavern of Mr. Nathaniel Childress, in the town of Manchester, five likely NEGROES, one of which is a good blacksmith, belonging to the estate of James Winfrey, deceased. Six months credit will be given the purchaser, giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. All persons having claims against said estate are requested to bring them forward, that provision may be made for payment thereof; and all those indebted or suits will be commenced, as I wish to close my administration. WM. POINTER, Adm'r of JAMES WINFREY, dece'd. February 15.
THE Subscriber wishes to employ a manager for the present year that understands the culture of Tobacco & wheat, none need apply unless they can come well recommended; to such a man liberal wages will be given by applying to me at George Blakey's, eq. within one mile of Richmond. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT, if February 15, 1808.
TO RENT, A GOOD TENEMENT on Market Alley, opposite the Market House; it is among the best stands in the neighborhood for a grocery. For terms apply to the subscriber or to Harry Tompkins. ISAAC WEBSTER. February 15.
JUST PUBLISHED, And may be had at Jacob Johnson's Books STORE, near the Market Bridge, PART 2 OF VOL. 1, OF HENING & MUNFORD'S REPORTS. 12th February 1808
New Publications.
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For Rent, THE House on the Main Street, next to Messrs Ellis and Allan, and now occupied by Mrs. Phebe. Possession will be given on the first of January next—apply to JOSEPH GALLEGO. Richmond, Dec. 27, 1807. if
Notice!! THE Subscriber purposes leaving this City in the course of a few days, has determined to dispose of the whole or any part of his STOCK, now remaining on hand, at a very reduced price—which consist of a Large and Superior Assortment of
Mahogany Furniture, Mattresses of all kinds and sizes, Paper Hangings, Window Blinds, Fungies, Tassels, Cords, &c. &c. W. HAIGHT. Richmond, Jan. 1, 1808 N. B. Those who feel inclined to purchase, will apply opposite the City Tavern, on the Main Street. W. H.
LAND In the state of Ohio—For Sale. THE subscriber wishes to SELL a valuable TRACT OF LAND, in the state of Ohio, containing 1,000 acres. This tract is of excellent quality, as the subscriber has understood from most respectable information. It lies on Dyer creek, a branch of the Sciota. about 16 miles from Chillicothe, in a well settled neighborhood, and is very convenient to the trade of the Ohio. He will dispose of it for cash, or on a short credit, for notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia; or will exchange it for property in the city of Richmond. An unquestionable title, with general warranty, will be made to the purchaser. WM. MUMFORD. Richmond, Sept. 24, 1807. if
Land for Sale! PURSUANT to a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by John C. Miller, for the purpose of securing the payment of sundry debts therein mentioned, will be sold upon the first Monday in January, 1808, for cash upon the premises, a TRACT OF LAND, mentioned in said deed, lying upon the waters of Lockett's and Harris' creek, in the county of Prince Edward, and supposed to contain between six and seven hundred acres. We shall make such title as is transferred to us by said Miller, saving all former encumbrances. The improvements upon this land are such as are usual upon young plantations in this part of the country, but better fenced than usual. CHARLES WOODSON, } Trustees. JAMES MADISON, } Prince Edward, 16 Oct. 1807. 10w The above sale is postponed till Wednesday the 20th of March next.—January 16
ADVERTISEMENT. Just Received, a General Assortment of Dutch Bolting Cloth, Of a superior quality. J. Darmstadt. Oct. 22, 1807. if
100 Dollars Reward. RUN AWAY about the first inst. from the service of Mr. William Rawleigh, (to whom he was hired,) a BLACK MAN, named JACKSON, a House Carpenter by profession, of thin, consumptive appearance, about 40 years of age, five feet eight or nine inches high; from circumstances attending his elopement, it is believed, he intends making his way to one of the Eastern States, and has been provided with false papers of freedom.—If taken within the State, and delivered to me here, or secured, that I get him, I will give Fifty Dollars, or if taken out of the State, One Hundred Dollars. Robert Gamble, Jr. Richmond, Dec. 24th, 1807. if
20 Dollars Reward. RUN AWAY about the 8th May from Richmond, JACOB, a very black fellow, about six feet high, twenty-eight years old, handsome address and very artful, has several scars on his neck, and one or two, I believe, on his left cheek, resembling small pox pits, a watermark by trade, and left his bateaux in the basin of the canal in the above city when he went off, at which time he broke open the store of a gentleman in Richmond and stole to a large amount, for which said gentleman has offered a reward of 50 dollars for apprehending said fellow (as I am informed)—he has a numerous acquaintance in the said city, the counties of Hanover and Caroline, in one of which he was raised, and where I expect he may be harbored. The above reward will be paid and all reasonable charges, for securing said fellow in any jail so I get him, or delivered me in Bent Creek, Buckingham, Virginia. Samuel Horsley. November 20, 1807. if 1d
For Sale, MY Dwelling House, and Four Half-Acre Lots of Ground, in the Town of Manchester, as formerly advertised: On receiving a part in cash, I am disposed to give a considerable credit, for the balance of purchase, or I will take young Negroes at a fair valuation, and Land in the State of Ohio, Tennessee or Kentucky, on such terms as may be agreed on.—If the said property is not sold between now and Christmas, it will be leased to an approved tenant for a term of years. ARCHD CAMPBELL. Manchester, Nov. 30, 1807. if
Valuable Lands. THE subscriber will Sell, on a credit, or exchange for Property in Richmond or its neighborhood, the following LANDS, to wit: 822 acres in the state of Kentucky, by survey bearing date the 10th day of October 1797, lying and being in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, on Little Barren river. Also, 1000 acres, in Kentucky, by survey bearing date the 10th October 1797, likewise lying in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, on the north side of Little river, a branch of Cumberland river, and about two and an half miles from the mouth of Little river. Also 450 acres of Land in the county of Mason, state of Virginia on Old Town creek, about 8 miles from Mason courthouse. Indispensible titles will be made to the above mentioned lands; and plots of each tract may be seen on application to the subscriber residing in Richmond. THOMAS BOHANNAN. January 23d, 1808. if
Just Published and for sale at this Office, MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM SAMPSON, Including particulars of his adventures in various parts of Europe, his confinement in the dungeons of the Inquisition in Lisbon, &c. &c. SEVERAL ORIGINAL LETTERS, Being his correspondence with the ministers of state in Great Britain and Portugal. A short sketch of the HISTORY OF IRELAND , Particularly as it respects the spirit of British Domination in that country; and a few observations on the state of manners, &c. in America. By the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it appears to the Executive, on the evidence of Jacob Stealy, Peter Link, Jacob Myers and William Williams, taken before Benjamin Wilson, jun. esquire, one of the justices of the peace in and for the county of Harrison, within this commonwealth, that a certain JOHN SOMMERVILLE did, on the night of the third of December last, at the house of David Hews, in the town of Clarkburg, violently assault with a club, the body of John G. Jackson, esquire, and did feloniously, on purpose and of malice aforethought by lying in wait, unlawfully maim and disable the head and right arm of the said John G. Jackson, by fracturing the skull of the said Jackson, and by a violent blow on the said right arm of the said John G. Jackson inflicted; by which fracture and blow, and also by reason of divers other wounds, blows and bruises given said Jackson, by said Sommerville, with the club aforesaid, the life of said Jackson became greatly endangered; and that the said Sommerville hath escaped from the justice of the law: I have therefore thought fit, with the advice of the council of state, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of FIFTY DOLLARS, to any person or persons who shall apprehend and conduct the said John Sommerville before some one or more of the justices of the peace in and for the said county of Harrison, that he may be dealt with as in such case the law directs: And I do moreover enjoin all officers civil and military, and exhort the good people of the commonwealth to use their best endeavours to apprehend and conduct before some one or more of the justices of the peace in and for the aforesaid county of Harrison, the said John Sommerville, to be dealt with according to law. Given under my hand, with the seal of the (L.S.) commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this fifteenth day of January, 1808. WM. H. CABELL. P. S. The abovenamed John Sommerville is a man of about six feet high, appears to be about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, rather spare, but nervous, of light complexion and light hair. The subscribers have for Sale, 300 SPANISH HIDES Of excellent quality. George Fisher & Co. Richmond, 26th January 1808. 3w
FOR RENT, A SMALL HOUSE, On Shockoe Hill, in an agreeable neighborhood. Apply to George Fisher. Richmond, Jan. 9th, 1808. 3w
BETHLEHEM GABOR, OR THE Man-Hating Palatine; An Historical Drama, By JOHN D. BURKE, of Petersburg. * A few copies of the above work are just received at this office, where also may be had, Fisher's Military Tactics
THE IMPORTED HORSES, Diomed & Robin Redbreast, Stand the ensuing season at my stables, to be let to mares—Terms made known in due time. Thomas Goode. Chesterfield city, Jan. 30, 1808. if
Wirt's Speeches. The Editor of the Argus has this day published the SPEECHES OF WILLIAM WIRT, Esq. on the TRIAL OF AARON BURR, and Others. By virtue of a deed in trust, executed by Jms Allen and Frances his wife, bearing date the 30th day of November, 1807, to Peter Wilkinson and Watson Parton, to secure the payment of the sum of $21,184 4d 1-2, with interest from the date of said deed, due George Mann, together with all legal costs and charges necessarily incurred by carrying the said deed into effect, will be SOLD, on the premises, on Monday the 22d day of the present month, (Feb.) at public auction, for ready money, 100 Acres of Land, Conveyed to us in trust by the deed aforesaid—situate, lying and being in the county of Henrico, on the north branch of the Brook whereon the said Allen now resides. The trustees will convey the land agreeable to the deed executed to them, which will be exhibited on the day of sale. PETER WILKINSON, } Trustees. W. PATTON, } February 2, 1808. 3w
The Tract of Land By virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by Carter Wilkinson, to secure the payment of a debt therein mentioned, to Austin Wharton, will be SOLD, on the premises, to the highest bidder for cash, on the 10th of March next, The Tract of Land Who con the said Wilkinson now lives, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to pay the said debt and costs. John G. Daniel. Thomas H. Walton. February 4, 1808. if
COUNCIL CHAMBER, Jan. 27, 1808. PROPOSALS will be received by the Executive to furnish the Public Guard with Rations for the ensuing year, on the 5th day of next month. DAN. L. HYLTUN, C. C.
I AM desirous to exchange the following property, or any part thereof, as may be agreed on, for a small tract of good Land, in a healthy situation, with a dwelling house and other improvements, a good spring of water, and an agreeable neighborhood, at a distance of 30 to 100 miles up the country—To say for Houses in this city—Lands in Henrico county, joining the academy lands, and near this city—2,000 acres on Richland creek, in Lincoln county, Kentucky—1,000 acres on the waters of the Ohio, in Mason county—and two tracts of Military Lands on the river Tennessee, each 866 2/3 acres. Robert Mitchell. Richmond, Feb. 6, 1808. if
TO RENT, A HOUSE On Shockoe Hill, lately occupied by John Royster For further particulars enquire of the printer. February 9, 1808. 3p
RUN AWAY from the subscriber living in Petersburg, on the 2d inst. a bright mulatto fellow named BILLY; a blacksmith by trade. He is about 25 years of age, 6 feet high, stout and well made; he has lost two of his fore teeth, has black whiskers, is a very likely fellow, and can tell a plausible tale. I expect he will attempt to pass for a free man, and it is probable he will endeavor to make for the north, as his wife (belonging to Mr Thomas Bennett of Petersburg) eloped about 3 months past, and has been seen in the neighborhood of the White Chimneys in Caroline county, and I have no doubt but they are together. I will give 20 dollars reward for securing the fellow in any jail, so that I get him, and 30 dollars if delivered to me in Petersburg. Twenty dollars is offered by the owner for the woman. Daniel Pock. Petersburg, Feb. 5, 1808. 3t N. B. I forewarn all masters of vessels and others from harboring or carrying away said run-away at their peril. D. P.
WASHINGTON HENRY ACADEMY WAS once a school of some note, but has been on the decline for many years. The fault is not so much in the foundation as in the prejudice of the public. The public is therefore respectfully requested to give it once again a small portion of encouragement and it may again hold up its head. Washington Henry Academy is situate in a very healthy and populous neighborhood, about nine miles from Richmond, in Hanover county, where pupils may be boarded in respectable families at 70 dollars per annum—tuition only five pounds. The Rev. Thomas Hughes will teach the dead languages, & the English grammar, mathematics, &c. will be taught by an assistant adequate to the task. The cardinal virtues and christian graces will be inculcated by precept, and enforced by example. N. B. Modern tactics will be taught and exemplified. December 1, 1807
Advertisement. WILL BE SOLD, on Saturday the 27th day of February next, for ready money, on the premises, a valuable Tract of Land, lying in the county of Halifax, on Staunton river, containing SEVEN hundred and twenty-five acres, more or less; it was once the property of Samuel Beall, was sold by him to William Mosely, and mortgaged by Mosely to Robert Andrews and John Price, trustees of Beall, to secure the payment of the purchase money—The indenture of mortgage, which was recorded in the general court, bears date the 22d day of June 1795.—At the same time and place, such of the SLAVES as are described in the said mortgage, and may be produced by the said Mosely, will also be sold for cash.—The sale is made by virtue of a decree of the superior court of chancery, for the Richmond district, pronounced in a suit therein depending, in which the said Price, surviving trustee is plaintiff, and the said Mosely is defendant and for the purpose of raising the following sums, with interest, viz.—£103 15 with interest at the rate of 5 per cent, from the 1st of January 1793—£105 2 6 with like interest from the 1st day of January 1794—£101 10 with like interest from the 1st day of January 1795—£97 17 6 with like interest from the 1st day of January 1796—£96 5 with like interest from the 1st day of January 1797—£81 14 with like interest from the 14th day of July 1802, and 35 dollars 88 cents, the costs of the suit.—The residue of the money decreed to be raised the plaintiff does not pretend to claim, as appears by an endorsement made by the clerk of the said court on the order dissolving an injunction obtained by John B. Scott, to stay the sale of the said land, which endorsement is copied from a writing filed in the suit first above mentioned, by the plaintiff's agent and attorney. The COMMISSIONERS. Richmond, January 14, 1808. 3w
The Tenement, ON which the subscriber lives, situated on Church Hill, within about one half mile of the Richmond market—containing two acres of ground, well enclosed and highly improved—The buildings consist of a large and well constructed dwelling house, laundry, kitchen, dairy, smoke house, two stores, brick office, coach house, barn and stable. All these buildings are well finished, and in complete order for the accommodation of a large and genteel family who may have easy access to all the advantages of the city, and live as retired as they could wish. John Ellis. February 4, 1808. if
Notice, THAT the following articles, manufactured at the Penitentiary, with the prices thereto annexed, are constantly kept for sale at the store of Nicholas Hallam, agent for the commonwealth, a few doors above the Swan Tavern in the city of Richmond: viz. CUT NAILS.   Wholesale.  Retail.    3d. 13 cents.  14 cents per pound.    4d. 12 1-2  13 1-2    6d. 11 1-2  12 1-2    8d. 10 1-2  11 1-2    10d. 10  11    12d. 10  11    20d. 10  11   CUT BRADS.   8d. 10  11    10d. 9 1-2  10 1-2    12d. 9 1-2  10 1-2    20d. 9 1-2  10 1-2   WROUGHT NAILS.   6d. 13  14    8d. 12 1-2  13 1-2    10d. 12  13    12d. 11 1-2  12 1-2    20d. 11  12    30d. 11  12   Spikes of all sizes the same price as 30 nails. Men's fine shoes from 12 1-2 to 13 3/4 coarse do from 7 3/4 to 10 3/4 Women's fine do from 7 3/4 to 9 3/4 Boys & Misses do from 3 3/4 to 6 3/4 Negroes' shoes from 7 3/4 to 9 3/4 Richmond, November 4th, 1807. if
JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, SIMPLE TALES, By Mrs. OPE. (First American edition in 2 vols.—Price 2 dollars.)
Daniel Simmons, Respectfully informs the public that he has taken the TAVERN formerly occupied by John Brewer, and assures them, that no exertion shall be wanting on his part, to add to the comfort and ease of those who may please to favor him with their company. He will constantly keep on hand good spirits and provender. Peterburg, February 2, 1808. w3t
LOAN OFFICE, State of Virginia, June 8, 1807 NOTICE is hereby given, That in conformity with the provisions of the act supplementary to the act, intitled "An act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," books will be opened at the office of the commissioner of loans for the state of Virginia, on the first day of July next, to continue open until the seventeenth day of March, 1808, inclusively, the fourteen last days of each quarter excepted, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions for such parts of the old six per cent. deferred six per cent. and three per cent. stocks, as may, on the day of subscription, stand on the books of the said commissioner of loans.
Those proprietors of the old six per cent. and deferred stocks, who may subscribe, will receive in lieu thereof a new six per cent. stock, equal to the unredeemed amount of the stock surrendered, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, under a proviso however, that no reimbursement shall be made except for the whole amount of any such new certificate of stock, nor till after six months previous notice: and the proprietors of the three per cent. stock who may subscribe, will receive in lieu thereof, a six per cent. stock, equal to sixty-five per cent. of the amount of three per cent. surrendered, redeemable in the same manner as the new six per cent. abovementioned, but not reimbursable however, without the assent of the holders, until after the whole of the new six per cent. (given in exchange for old six or deferred as abovementioned) as well as the whole of the eight per cent. stock of the United States, shall have been reimbursed. It is also provided that in every reimbursement which may take place, a preference will be given to those creditors who may notify their wish to be reimbursed; and that if the applications to that effect shall at any time either exceed or fall short of the sum then applicable to that purpose, the priority of payment shall, so far as may be necessary, be determined by lot. The present stockholders who reside in any part of Europe, and may assent to that modification, may, at their option, receive the interest accruing on the new stock, either in the United States as heretofore, or in London, or Amsterdam, at par: in which last case the interest will be paid there by the bankers of the United States, six months subsequent to the day on which the same would be payable in the United States and subject to no variation; nor to any other deduction than a commission to the bankers, of one half per cent. on the interest thus paid. JOHN PAGE, Commissioner of Loans.
NOTES. Proprietors of 1000 dollars nominal six per cent. stock, subscribed before the 1st October, 1807, will be entitled to receive, 649 62 of new six. of subscribed between the 1st October, and 31st Dec. 1807, 644 37 If subscribed between the 1st January and 17th March, 1808, 619 03 Proprietors of 1000 dollars nominal deferred, subscribed before the 1st October, 1807, will be entitled to receive, 855 78 If subscribed between the 1st October, and 31st Dec. 1807, 853 62 If subscribed between the 1st January, and 17th March, 1808, 831 42 Being the unredeemed amount of the old stock on the 1st July, and October, 1807, and 1st January, 1808, respectively. Proprietors of 1000 dollars three per cent. stock will be entitled to receive 650 dollars of new six. J. P. Com't. Loans. Ten Dollars Reward. RUN away from this city, about the 12th of last November, a negro man slave named CESAR, the property of the subscriber; he formerly belonged to Mr Robert Alexander of Campbell county, and was bought from him a small boy in the year 1789; he is now about 6 feet high his big toe on his right foot is very remarkable, being split with an axe thro' the nail and nearly as high; as the second joint, by that it is much broader and larger than the other. He was accustomed to run James river above the falls, and was seen on the 16th of the same month November, going thro' the locks in a bateaux, with a negro man slave named Abram, who was head man, and belongs to the estate of Col John Havvie, dec. If Cesar is not concealed by the said Abram he is going up the river in some other bateaux. On delivering him to me or securing him in some jail so that I get him again, shall be paid the above reward by Robert Mitchell. City of Richmond, 25th Jan. 1808. wtf
MILITARY LANDS IN THE STATES OF OHIO AND KENTUCKY. THE subscriber has for SALE, sundry valuable tracts of LAND, on the waters of the Miami and Scioto rivers, state of Ohio. Also, on the waters of Cumberland and Green rivers, state of Kentucky, which will be sold for cash or good bonds—For further particulars enquire of William Price, register, who has the title papers, or to William Du-Val. Buckingham, January 20, 1808. wtf
FOR RENT, The House and Lot, At present occupied by Mr Hezekiah Mosby, pleasantly situated, on Shockoe Hill, and very convenient for the accommodation of a family—Possession may be had on the 3d March next, when Mr Mosby's time will expire. Thomas Elliott. Richmond, 29th Jan. 1808. w3t
DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, to wit: BE it remembered, that on the 27th day of December in the 32nd year of the Independence of the United States of America, Scaton Grantland of the said district herein deposited in this office, the title of a book the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following to wit: "A Compendious View of the TRIAL OF AARON BURR (late vice President of the United States) charged with High Treason: together with Biographical Sketches of several eminent characters. By William Thompson, Attorney at law, Abingdon Virginia." In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned." WILLIAM MARSHALL Clerk of the District of Virginia. (L S)
THE above work is this day published and may be had at S. Grantland's Printing Office—stitched 50 cents—half bound 65 cents—neatly bound and lettered 4s. 6d. The copy right of this book being vested in the Subscriber by the Author and having been secured as the law directs, all persons are warned not to republish it. Jan. 5. S. GRANTLAND.
SIR HARRY, THE handsomest and one of the best sons of Sir Peter Teazle, (unquestionably by the best stallion now in England & inferior to none ever bred in that country,) will stand the ensuing season at my stable, in King and Queen county, about 40 miles from Richmond, 7 from Dunkirk and 12 from Tappahannock, at 50 dollars the season, notes for which, and half a dollar for the groom, must be sent with the mares or before they are taken away. The 50 dollars may be discharged by the payment of 40 dollars cash, (and in the event of the embargo continuing, or war, by 30 dollars) on or before the expiration of the season, which will commence on the 1st March and end 1st August. Extensive high and low land pasture, as good as any in Virginia, gratis. Mares may be fed with corn at the market price, and every attention will be paid to them, but no liability for escapes or accidents of any kind. Mares and foals will be kept by themselves. Sir Harry was imported in the fall of 1804, from London, is now 12 years old, in high health and vigor, 15 hands 3 inches high, full of bone and muscle, fine points, elegant form and beautiful full color. He has covered three seasons in this country, has proved himself a sure foal getter, and his stock are equal to any in the world. He was one of the best racers in England, both for speed and endurance, with very heavy weights, and probably cost more money than any horse ever imported into this country (standing the owner within a trifle of £1200 sterling when landed) and in the estimation of good judges, is equal, if not superior, to any that is now, or ever was in the state. As the universal practice here, is to run heats, it is needless to point out to those who have fine mares, the advantages that may result from sending them to this horse. His dam Matron, (foaled in 1785) was got by Alfred, grandam (dam of Pilot) by Marsk, great grandam by Regulus, great great grandam (dam of Wildair and Vampyr) by Steady, great great grandam by Palmer, Greyhound, Makeless, Counselor Brimmer Place's White Turk. Alfred was got by Matchem (foaled in 1770) out of a Snap mare (the dam of Conduct 7, Dictator, Georgiana and others) bred by the duke of Kingston, foaled in 1762; her dam by the Cul-len Arabian; Griswold's Lady Thigh, by Partner; Greyhound; Sophonisba's dam, by the Curren Bay Barb; Lord D'Arcy's chee-nut Arabian; Whiteshirt; Old Montague mare. Matchem was got by Cade; Cade (own brother to Lath) was got by the Godolphin Arabian; Marsk was got by Squirt; Squirt was got by Bartlett's Childers; Regulus was got by the Godolphin Arabian. Sir Peter Teazle was got by Highflyer, out of Papilion by Snap; Snap was got by Snip; Snip was got by the Devonshire Chillers, out of a Basto mare; Highflyer was got by Herod, out of Rachel by Blank; Herod was got by Tartar, out of Cyprian, by Blaze; Tartar was got by Partner, out of Meliora, by Old Fox. John Hoskins. January 15, 1808. wM1 N. B. It is not probable that Sir Harry will ever again stand to the northward of his owners in the neighborhood of Petersburg.
APPLICATION will be made to the county court of Charles, to DISCONTINUE the ROAD leading from Morton's ferry road to Cole's ferry road. THOMAS READ. February 4, 1808. (2)
NOTICE. I WILL DISPOSE OF MY TRACT OF LAND, LYING in Powhatan county, containing 500 acres, of which there is 30 or more prime low grounds, which never is overflowed by the river Appomattox. There is also a fine mill at the dam nearly completed, and timbers ready to complete the mill, upon a never failing stream. The terms will be one-half cash, the balance in 12 months. I will sell or treat with any one between this and the 1st July next, otherwise it will be sold upon the premises, to the highest bidder, together with other property. The terms of the personal property will be made known on the day of sale. John H. Saunders. January 5, 1808. tds
William & Mary College. A MEETING of the visitors of William and Mary College in their convocation room, is requested on the first Tuesday in the next month. The interests of the college require punctilious attendance. Samuel Tyler, Rector. Williamsburg, Feb. 5, 1808. am
A PROPOSAL, FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION THE STUDIES OF NATURE, And other works of JAMES HENRY BERNARD, Esq. Translated by HENRY HUNTER, D.D. author of Sacred Biography, and Translator of the Works of Lavater. CONDITION OF PUBLICATION. It shall be printed in three handsome Octavo Volumes, from the last London edition, embellished with five engravings, executed in the best manner, and be delivered to subscribers, handsomely bound, price eight dollars. It will be put to press immediately and published in the month of March next. Subscriptions received at S. Pleasants Printing Office and Book-Store. Dec. 8. wtf
BLANK BONDS For Sale at this Office.