Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1804-03-31 00:00:00

The VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[VOL. XI.]
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[No. 1128]
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At a meeting of the Commissioners appointed by the Legislature of this Commonwealth, to receive subscriptions in the city of Richmond, under "An act for incorporating the BANK OF VIRGINIA"—present, Edward Carrington, (Chairman) Joseph Gallego, Robert Pollard, George Jefferson, N. Nicholas, John Brockenbrough, Thomas Rutherford, Benjamin Hatcher and James F. Leitch.
1st Resolved, that Books be opened at the Capitol, on the first Monday in May next, to receive subscriptions pursuant to the said act.
2d Resolved, with the consent of the Treasurer of the state, that the payments be made in the Treasury office, and that the persons so paying, upon exhibiting the Treasurer's receipt, shall be admitted to subscribe their names on the commissioners' books.
3d Resolved, that Edward Carrington, Joseph Gallego and John Brockenbrough be appointed a committee to notify the foregoing resolutions in two public gazettes of this city, once a week, from the present time till the first Monday in May next.
EDWARD CARRINGTON. JOSEPH GALLEG. JOHN BROCKENBROUGH. 15th March, 1804.
For the mutual accommodation of the Treasurer and the persons meaning to subscribe, the Treasurer will receive the money at any time previous to the day appointed for opening the Books by the commissioners.
ADMIRAL NELSON, Eight years old last spring, a beautiful well formed brown bay horse, imported last fall by William Lightfoot, Esq. and now his property, fifteen hands three inches and a half high, full of strength, health and vigor, and inferior to no horse either for speed or bottom; of fine bone and muscle and unequalled activity; Will stand at my stables this season, in Powhatan county, 20 miles above Richmond, on James river, and will be far to mares at Three Guineas the leap, paid down, and Six the season, with 40 to the groom; but the season may be discharged by the payment of 20 dollars on or before the 1st November.
This horse has not run many races but his performances will sufficiently justify the opinion of Lord Grosvenor and his son, who certify that they considered him the best three year old in England, which may be seen under their hands and seals.
In October 1798, at New-Market, he won a sweepstakes of 1400 guineas, 12 subscribers at 200 guineas each, half forfeit; colts carrying 8 stone 3lb filies 8 stone beating Sir Harry Mr. Cookson's b. c. by Sir Peter, Mr. Perrin's b. c. Young Javelin, Sir Francis Standish's ch. c. Split Pigeon—5 to 4 against Admiral Nelson, 7 to 4 against Sir Harry, 6 to 1 against Split Pigeon, and 10 to 1 against Young Javelin.
In 1799 he won a sweepstakes of 1600 guineas, 14 subscribers at 200 guineas each, beating Lord Egremont's b. c. by Preceptor, out of Bob Tail, Mr. Perrin's b. c. Javelin, and Mr. Golding's Boaster—3 to 1 on Admiral Nelson. In 1800, he got so much injured in his practice that he did not come on the turf again until 1803, when he won a purse of £50, 4 mile heats, beating several fine horses—See Sporting Magazine for this year.
PEDIGREE. ADMIRAL NELSON was bred by Lord Grosvenor, got by John Bull, and foaled in 1795; his dam Olivia, by Justice; her dam Cypher by Squirrel out of Fribble's dam, by Regulus.—See Supplement to the Stud Book, page 51. JOHN HARRIS. N. B. Notes for the six guineas must be sent with the mares.
The High Bred Imported Horse
SILVER, NOW in high health and vigour—will stand at my stable in the county of Pittsylvania, about two miles from the courthouse, the ensuing season, commencing the 1st of March next; and will cover mares at TWENTY DOLLARS, payable the 1st of October next, which may be discharged by the payment of Five Pounds, if paid by the 1st day of August next, at which time the season will expire; TEN DOLLARS the single leap, to be paid when the mares are covered, and TEN POUNDS to ensure a colt, to be forfeited if the mare is parted with before it is ascertained whether she be in foal or not. Excellent high and low ground pasture gratis, and gentlemen may have their mares fed with grain if required at the current price. Servants boarded gratis, and particular attention will be paid to the mares, but I will not be responsible for accidents or escapes. PEDIGREE.
SILVER is a beautiful Dapple GREY, five feet two inches high, full of bone, proportionable shape, symmetry, and fine action, and is a fine and excellent foal getter:—He was got by Mercury, who was got by Col. O'Kelley's Eclipse, out of a Tartar Mare; his dam was the famous Herod Mare, bred by Lord Millington; his granddam Young Hag, by Skim; his great granddam Ebony, by Crab; his great great granddam Ebony, by Childers; his great great great granddam Ebony, by Baily; his great great great great granddam by the Byerly Turk; his great great great great granddam by Leeds's Arabian. PERFORMANCE.
SILVER, in the second October meeting 1793, carrying 8st. beat the Duke of Bedford's Golden Rod, 8st. 2lb. one mile, for 50 guineas. In the second spring meeting, 1794, 8st. 3lb. he beat W. Taylor's St. George, 8st. 7lb. two miles, for 200 guineas. In the second spring meeting, 1794, 8st. 5lb. he beat Mr. Howorth's Anthony, 8st. half mile, for 100 guineas. In the July meeting, 1794, he won 60 gs. two miles, beating the Duke of Grafton's Grouse, Lord Oxford's Bruiser, Lord Grosvenor's Exciteman, Lord Clermont's Paymaster, and Lord Byron's Scapula. In the first October meeting, 1794, 8st. he received 20 guineas from Lord Egremont's Scapula, 8st. 7lb. one and a half miles, for 200 guineas. In the second October meeting, 8st. 2lb. he ran a dead heat with Lord Egremont's Scapula, 8st. 1lb. one and a half miles. In the second October meeting, 1794, he won a handy cap plate, two miles, beating the Duke of Grafton, Garland, Lord Egremont's Clunibar, Sir Charles Bunbury's Robin Gray, Mr. Taylor's Helmer, Duke of Queenbury's Bay Billy, by Diomed, and Lord Teynham's Quetlavaca. In the Craven meeting, 1795, 8st. he beat Lord Darlington's St. George, 8st. 6lb. 4 miles, for 300 gs. In the first spring meeting, 1795, he won the main of the Oatlands 1200 guineas, each two miles, beating Mr. Wilton's Bennington, Mr. Holme's Gabriel, and the Duke of Queenbury's Pecker. In the Houghton meeting, 1795, 8st. 4lb. received forfeit from Mr. Bowes's Volunteer colt, 7st. one mile, for 100 guineas.
I have the General Stud Book and Racing Calendars for '93, '94 and '95, and certificates from a number of respectable Gentlemen, to prove what is above offered of Silver. WILLIAM TUNSTALL. February 12th, 1804. (over)
N. B. Notes of hand will be expected with the mares put by the season, for Twenty Dollars, dischargeable as above. W. T. By virtue of a deed of trust, executed by John Christian, jr. of the town of Duiguerville, and county of Buckingham, to the subscribers, for the purpose of securing the payment of a certain debt, due from the said Christian, jr. to the late concern of Dunlop, Pollok & Co. will be SOLD, on the premises, on a credit of twelve months, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid, on the first Saturday in May next, to the highest bidder, a certain piece or
Parcel of Ground, Lying in the said town of Duiguerville, on which is a dwelling house, store house and lumber-house—for the purpose of satisfying the aforesaid debt, with interest and costs attending the execution of this trust. Bond and good security will be required of the purchaser, with interest from the date. JOHN FLOOD. I. FREELAND. Trustees. March 17, 1804. tds
NOTICE.
THAT BOOKS will be opened on the first Monday in next month, (April,) in the counting room of Robert Gamble & Son, at 12 o'clock, for receiving subscriptions to the "Richmond and Columbia Turnpike Company." Those who may become subscribers, are hereby notified that the first day of May next, conformably to the act of assembly, is designated for the General Meeting of the Share holders, for the purpose of appointing Directors. By order of a meeting of the managers, held at the Eagle Tavern, in Richmond, 21st March, 1804. RO: GAMBLE, Chairman. March 26, 1804.
Sport of the Pit.
A MAIN of 21 cocks to be fought at Jeremiah Vaughan's tavern, at Osburne, on Monday the 24 day of April, for 50 dollars a battle, and 500 dollars the odd, to continue 3 days. March 26, 1804. 2*
A FRESH SUPPLY OF CHURCH'S Patent Medicines,
Is just received and for sale at this office—including Cough Drops, Pectoral Pills, Eye Salve, Cordial Restorative Balsam, Essence & Extract of Mustard, Antiscorbutic Timbure, Volatile Tincture, Herb Tobacco, Aromatic Snuff, Pepperine Lozenges, Botanical Tea, James' Powders, warranted Tooth Powder, &c. &c. &c. Foolscap & Letter Paper For Sale at this Office
The famous high-blooded English horse,
HAMBLETON, Bred by the Duke of Grafton, a beautiful bright bay, near sixteen hands high, of high form and elegance, rising thirteen years old, in good health and great perfection, imported last spring by William Lightfoot, Esq. of Charles City county, and now his property, will stand the ensuing season at the subscriber's, in Charlotte county, five miles below the courthouse, and three from Boulton's old stores, to cover mares at Six Guineas the season, for which a note will be required, dischargeable by the payment of Twenty Dollars, at any time before the 10th of August next, when the season will expire, with One Dollar to the groom for each mare, paid at the stable door. Good and extensive pasture, well enclosed, with a creek and branches running through, the flat land affording as good forward pastures as any in this part of the country, gratis. Servants that may be sent with mares will be boarded without charge, and mares fed, if required, on reasonable terms. The utmost attention paid and care taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible for any that may happen. HENRY LESTER. wtf
March 5, 1804.
PEDIGREE.
HAMBLETON was got by Dungannon (one of the best sons of O'Kelly's famous Eclipse, who was esteemed to be the best horse of his day, and covered at fifty guineas), his dam by Snap, sister to Jupiter, bred by Mr. Cross 1773—her dam (young Marske's dam) by Blank, Stirling, Miss Magnet, by Partner, Greyhound, Curwen, Bay Barn, Lord D'Arcy's Arabian, Whitehead, old Montague mare. The 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 twenty races before he left the turf, four of which he walked over, none venturing to start against him. In 1794 a Hambleton, Yorkshire, on Wednesday May 14th, he won a sweepstakes of ten guineas each, for 3 year olds, six subscribers two miles, beating Mr. Becher's b. f. by Magnum Bonum, Pierce's b. f. by Young Marske, Turner's Confederacy, and Graddock's ch. c. Leicester. At York he won 50l. for three year olds, beating Lowther's b. c. Griffin, Crompton's ch. c. Ambush, Sheppard's Madcap, Crompton's b. c. Cedar, and Garforth's ch. c. even betting on Ambush against the field. At Manchester in June, he won 50l. for three year olds, two mile heats, beating Foreigner and Loyalist. At Stockton September 20th, he won a sweepstakes of twenty guineas each, five subscribers, then Sir H. William's property, formerly Mr. Hutchinson's, beating Highlander, out of Wren, and Turner's Delpine. In 1795, Hambleton won five times, to wit—a handicap plate of 50l. two mile heats, four years old, beating Insect, Blackleg, and Watkins's b. c. five years old. At Edinburgh July 20th, he won his majesty's plate of 100 guineas, four years old, four mile heats, beating Pyebald—and on the 23rd walked over the ground for 50l. all ages—and on the 24th 50 guineas for all ages, four mile heats, beating Gregson's b. h. Archer, 6 years old, Mr. Peacock's ch. g. Farmer, and Mr. Wilson's Cleaning Kate. At Dumfries in October, he won 50l. beating Lord Darlington's b. m. Constant. In 1796, Hambleton won at Kelso, 5th October, a purse of 50 guineas, beating Mr. Baler's Black Cock. In 1799 he won eight times, to wit—at Middleham in Yorkshire, a sweepstakes of 10 guineas each, five subscribers, 3 mile heats, beating Merry Lad and Arthur. At Edinburgh on Wednesday the 26th, 50 guineas for all ages, beating Eliza Fox and Bersey. On Friday 28th, the ladies subscription purse of 50 guineas, beating Fletcher's Jane. At Montrose in Scotland, August, he walked over the ground for a 50l. place—and also walked over the ground for a subscription of 50l. At Kelso, October 16th, for a plate of 50 guineas, he walked over the ground—and also his majesty's 100 guineas given to the Caledonian Hunt, for any horse, &c. carrying 13 stone, four mile heats, then six years old, he won against Mr. Wentworth's Trimbush, Piermont's Trimmer aged, and Kincaid's Hector aged—and Saturday following a purse of 50l. given by the Hunt, free for any horse, &c. beating Farewell and Rolliker. At Carlisle he won 100 guineas 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 Hippopotamus. At Montrose he won a plate of 50 guineas, for all ages, beating Piforshire and Contractor. See the Racing Calendars for the foregoing years. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT.
Valuable Property FOR SALE.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed by Richard and Dabney, of King William county, to the subscriber, to secure and satisfy a debt due from the said Richard to Cornelius Dabney, administrator with the will annexed, of Owen Dabney, dec. Will be offered to SALE, on the first day of Hanover county court, in the month of April next, at the courthouse of the said county, to the highest bidder, for ready payment, in current money, SUNDRY SLAVES, consisting of men, women & children, one Brood Mare, about 8 years old, by Lampghlight, two small Horse Cols, about 2 years old, by Americanns, the noted Stud Horse called Hanover, one Waggon and Gear, and 3 Horses, one excellent Chair Horse, about 9 years old, and one Bay Mare Colt, by Americanns. GEO: WM. SMITH. Richmond, March 26, 1804. 4th W A
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DOCUMENTS,
Accompanying the Report of the committee appointed to enquire into the official conduct of SAMUEL CHASE and RICHARD PETERS. (Continued)
Interrogatories exhibited on behalf of the House of Representatives of the United States, to George Hay and Philip N. Nicholas, Esquires, touching the official conduct of Samuel Chase, Esq.
1. Were you present at the trial of James T. Callender for sedition?
2. When and where did that trial take place?
3. Relate the circumstances of that trial?
4. Did Mr. Chase refuse to the prisoner the testimony of a witness because he the said witness could not prove the truth of all the facts set forth, and upon which the indictment was grounded?
Interrogatories exhibited on behalf of the House of Representatives of the United States to George Hay, touching the official conduct of Samuel Chase.
1. Were you present at the trial of James T. Callender for sedition?
2. When and where did that trial take place?
3. Relate the circumstances of that trial?
Answer. I will relate those which appear to me to be material.
At the session of the circuit court in May, 1800, an indictment charging Callender with libelling the President of the United States, was found by the grand jury to be a true bill. Process was soon after awarded, by virtue of which he was arrested, in or near Petersburg, and brought into court. The trial, it was understood was to take place immediately. For this Callender said that he was not prepared. Nor was I, who had undertaken to be one of his counsel, prepared at that time, to discuss the two great questions which were involved in the prosecution. I was ready to argue the point concerning the constitutionality of the sedition law, but not to prove what I then believed, and still believe to be sound doctrine, that the jury might acquit the prisoner, if they thought the law unconstitutional. An argument on this subject was during the trial hastily composed; but I was not permitted to deliver it, as will be hereafter stated. A motion therefore was made for a continuance, upon the facts stated in the affidavit, now among the papers filed with the indictment. The substance of it was, that witnesses were absent whose testimony was material, and that documents were wanted which could not be immediately procured. The witnesses were named, the evidence expected from each distinctly stated, and the documents wanted clearly specified. When this affidavit was presented to the court, it was urged by the counsel that the constitution secured to the prisoner a right to process to enforce the attendance of his witnesses. He had also a right, under the constitution, to the assistance of counsel in his defence; but if he were tried, when his witnesses were absent, and his counsel not prepared for his defence, without any default in him, or them, these important provisions in the constitution would be useless.
The motion was instantly over-ruled. The attorney for the United States was told, that it was unnecessary to reply. Mr. Chase said that it would be a waste of time; that there was no reason for putting off the trial; that as the prisoner did not swear that he could prove all the charges recited in the indictment, his having testimony as to part of them, was immaterial: he must prove all, continued Mr. Chase, and it must appear that he can prove all, or the trial will not be postponed.
In the course of the argument, for the postponement, I took it for granted, as I yet believe I ought to have done, that the fine which might be assessed, would be ascertained by a jury. By the laws of Virginia, fines for misdemeanors are assessed by the jury. (See Virg. laws, Revised Code, p. 112.) Mr. Chase interrupted me, to tell me that I was wrong, that the supposition might be correct as to the laws of Virginia, but that it was a wild notion as applied to the federal court.
When the court had over-ruled the motion for the continuance, the counsel for Callender claimed for him the benefit of that clause of the constitution, which was intended to secure a trial by an impartial jury. The judge (Chase) declared that he would see justice done in that respect. When the jury were about to be sworn,
the counsel wished to ask each individual composing it, whether they had formed any opinion concerning the work called "The Prospect Before Us," from which the matter charged in the indictment to be libelous, was taken. They were not permitted to ask this question. Mr. Chase asked them himself whether they had formed and delivered any opinion, concerning the charges in the indictment. As they had never heard the indictment read, they of course answered in the negative. The jurors stated that they knew not what was in the indictment. Indeed it was hardly possible that they should know; as I believe the indictment was not read in court, until the jury were actually sworn. One of the jury, John Basset, stated that he was unwilling to serve, having made up his mind as to the book called "The Prospect, &c.;" but as he acknowledged that he had not formed and delivered an opinion concerning the charges in the indictment, because in fact, he knew not what they were, his objection was over-ruled.
When the trial commenced, Colonel John Taylor, of Caroline, was introduced as a witness for the prisoner. I believe he was sworn. The counsel wished to interrogate him. This they were not permitted to do, until they had stated the points to which his evidence related. They were then obliged by Mr. Chase, to reduce the questions they wished to propound to Col. Taylor, to writing, and then to submit them to his inspection, that he might determine whether they should be propounded or not.
Colonel Taylor's evidence was rejected.
The ground of this opinion, as stated by Mr. Chase was this, that Col. Taylor could not prove the whole of the charge. The charge was, the judge (Chase) said, "that the President was a professed aristocrat—that he had proved faithful and serviceable to the British interest." Proving half, he said, was doing nothing; both facts must be proved. It was contended, on the part of the prisoner, that if it was necessary to prove both facts by the same witness, the charge in both points would be proved by the testimony of Col. Taylor. He would prove that Mr. Adams had professed aristocratical opinions; and that he had proved faithful and serviceable to the British interest, in the way meant by "The Prospect, &c." by voting against the sequestration law, and the law suspending all intercourse with Great-Britain. The judge (Chase) repeated that the evidence was inadmissible, that the counsel knew it to be so, and that they only wanted to deceive and to mislead the populace.
The counsel, who were associated with me, in Callender's defence, attempted to address the jury on the unconstitutionality of the law, on which the indictment was founded. They were interrupted, and obliged, by Mr. Chase, if not ordered, to sit down. I then addressed Mr. Chase, himself with a view, to satisfy him, that I had a right to discuss this point before the jury. I told him that what I was then about to say, was intended for the court alone. He interrupted me; he asked some question, which was answered: in a very short time, after I had resumed my argument, I was interrupted again by Mr. Chase. How often I was interrupted I know not; but I was interrupted, rudely interrupted several times. Having seen in the course of this trial what I had never seen before, having felt what I never felt before, and what I certainly expect never to feel again, and being impressed with a belief that Mr. Chase was determined to silence me, if he could, my mind was overwhelmed by conflicting sentiments, and I quitted the bar, my client, and the court.
As to the manner observed by Mr. Chase during the whole of this trial, the interrogatories propounded do not seem to require that I should say any thing.
4. Did Mr. Chase refuse to the prisoner the testimony of a witness, because he, the said witness could not prove the truth of all the facts set forth, and upon which the indictment was grounded?
Answer. This question is already answered.
GEORGE HAY.
The deposition of Philip Norborne Nicholas, taken at the house of the honorable George Wythe, Esquire, in the city of Richmond, before the said George Wythe, Esquire, and Joseph Scott, Esquire, commissioners duly authorized by the House of Representatives of the United States, to take the said deposition. The said deposition being taken on interrogatories propounded to said Nicholas by the said commissioners, which interrogatories and the answers to the same are as follows, to wit:
1. Interrogatory. Were you present at the trial of James T. Callender for sedition?
Answer. I was.
2. Interrogatory. When and where did that trial take place?
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Answer. The trial of James Thomson Callender, on a charge of sedition, took place in the circuit court of the United States for the Virginia district, during the May term of that court, in the year 1800.
Interrogatory 3d. Relate the circumstances of that trial.
Answer. During the May term of the circuit court of the United States, for the Virginia district, in the year 1800, an indictment was sent to the grand jury against James Thomson Callender as the publisher of a work entitled "The Prospect Before Us"—a great many passages from the work were stated in the indictment and charged on Callender as sedition. The grand jury found the indictment a true bill. Callender was not in custody, but resided at the time in Petersburg; a warrant was issued against him, and some days afterwards he was arrested and brought to Richmond by the marshal. This deponent having previously formed a determination to appear as one of Callender's counsel, after his arrest, together with George Hay, esquire, had a conference with Callender to examine the charges against him and to ascertain whether he was prepared for his defence. The charges stated in the indictment were very numerous and dissimilar in their kind, and we soon perceived that it would be impossible to be prepared for the defence without the attendance of a number of persons, several of whom resided at a great distance. We were of opinion also that many documents were necessary which it would require time to procure; and the charges were so multifarious, and required a particular examination of so many facts and events of a public nature, that we believed if our evidence was present we could not be prepared during the term to do justice to our client. Under this conviction we advised Mr. Callender to move for a continuance of the cause, and an affidavit was prepared under his directions to found the motion on. This affidavit is filed amongst the papers in the cause in the federal court. It stated that Callender expected to prove by the persons whose names were mentioned in it, certain facts material to his defence; the facts which he expected to derive from each witness were particularly stated in the affidavit. It will appear by a comparison of the affidavit with the indictment, that the facts stated by Callender as being known to his absent witnesses, apply directly to many of the charges of the indictment. Before the motion was finally decided on by the court, they directed the cause to lie over for a few days, and in the meantime that Callender might subpoena such of his witnesses as were within reach. Subpoenas accordingly issued for general Mason, colonel Taylor of Caroline, and Mr. Giles. After the time had elapsed, during which the court consented the cause might lie, it became necessary that we should urge the court for a continuance, as none of Callender's witnesses attended but colonel Taylor, and as this gentleman's evidence, though deemed by us very important, applied only to part of the charges in the indictment. We accordingly renewed the motion, and it was urged with great earnestness, under a conviction that a fair trial could not be had without Callender's witnesses, and that as many of them lived at the distance of several hundred miles and the prosecution had originated only a few days before, it was impossible that Callender could have procured their attendance. We thought also that he had a constitutional right to obtain compulsory process to compel the attendance of his witnesses. The court refused to grant a continuance, and judge Chase declared, as the reason why the continuance was refused, that Callender had not stated in his affidavit that he could prove the truth of all the charges stated in the indictment; that it was necessary that Callender should prove the truth of all the charges to obtain an acquittal, and that as the witnesses who were absent were to give evidence as to part of the charges only, their absence afforded no good reason for a continuance, and that therefore our motion should be overruled. The court having refused to continue the cause, the jury was called, and one of the counsel for the defendant stated to the court, that he wished to ask the juror, who was called to the book, before he was sworn, whether he had formed an opinion on the work entitled "The Prospect Before Us," from which the charges in the indictment were extracted. Judge Chase said no such question should be asked, that the only question which would be allowed was whether the juror had formed and delivered an opinion on the charges contained in the indictment and that to exclude the juror, he must not only have formed, but also delivered an opinion. The juror answered that he had never seen the indictment or heard it read. The judge directed that he should be sworn in chief. The counsel then asked that the indictment should be read to the juror, which might enable him to decide whether he had formed and delivered an opinion on the charges in the indictment. Judge Chase said the court would not permit this—that they had indulged the counsel as far as they could, and that they ought to be satisfied. It is to be observed that Mr. Bassett who had been summoned on the jury, seemed to have considerable scruples at serving, and stated that he had expressed some opinion as to the "Prospect Before Us." Judge Chase however declared Mr. Bassett a good juror. The jury having been sworn and several witnesses having been exam-
ined on the part of the United States to prove the publication of the "Prospect Before Us," the counsel for the defendant asked that col. Taylor of Caroline should be sworn. The court decided that col. Taylor should not be examined, for reasons which this deponent will fully detail in answer to the fourth interrogatory. After the exclusion of col. Taylor's evidence, the attorney for the United States spoke at length on the charges contained in the indictment, and after he had finished, the counsel for C. commenced their defence. The counsel, who opened the defence, began by stating to the jury the embarrassed situation in which he and his coadjutors stood; that the prisoner during the same term was presented, indicted, arrested, arraigned and tried; and that this precipitation precluded the possibility of obtaining witnesses or making preparation for a subject of such extent. He was here interrupted by Judge Chase, who said he would not suffer any thing to be said which reflected on the court. The counsel then attempted to demonstrate to the jury that the act of Congress usually styled the sedition act was unconstitutional and void, and the jury were not bound to consider it as law. Judge Chase interrupted the counsel and stated that arguments might be addressed to the court on the right of the jury to consider the constitutionality of the sedition act, but that such arguments should not be addressed to the jury. The counsel then attempted to demonstrate to the court the right of the jury to inquire into the constitutionality of an act of Congress. In the course of the discussion of this point the counsel were frequently interrupted by judge Chase, particularly Mr. Hay, and that gentleman, who spoke last, after having received several successive interruptions from judge Chase, folded up his papers and declared that he would proceed no further in the discussion. The counsel for the defendant made no further effort at a defence, and retired from the court. The motive which influenced the counsel to abandon the defence, at least the motives which influenced this deponent, was a persuasion that in the absence of many of Callender's witnesses, after the exclusion of colonel Taylor's evidence, and the restrictions imposed on the counsel as to the manner of conducting the defence of their client, together with the decision of the court on the points which have been stated, that he could render no possible service to the defendant.
Interrogatory 4th. Did Mr. Chase refuse to the prisoner the testimony of a witness, because he, the said witness, could not prove the truth of all the facts set forth, and upon which the indictment was grounded?
Answer. After the jury in Callender's case were sworn, col. Taylor, of Caroline, who attended as a witness, in consequence of a subpoena served upon him on behalf of Callender, was called to the book and sworn in the usual form. Judge Chase at this moment asked, with considerable haste and eagerness of manner, what the counsel expected to prove by the witness? He was informed that they meant to ask him whether Mr. Adams had not avowed in his presence, sentiments inimical to a republican form of government, & whether he did not whilst Vice-President, give the casting vote in the Senate against the sequestration of British debts, and against the suspension of intercourse with Great Britain. Judge Chase demanded that the counsel should state in writing the questions meant to be asked. The counsel for the defendant opposed this, because, although a number of witnesses had been examined on the part of the United States, no similar requisition had been made with respect to them, because it was contrary to the practice of the state courts, and because also it was unreasonable in itself, and calculated to subject every question of fact to the control of the court. Judge Chase, however, insisted that the questions should be submitted to his previous decision. They were accordingly put in writing, and were as follows, to wit:
 1. Did you ever hear Mr. Adams express any sentiments favorable to monarchy or aristocracy—and what were they?  2. Did you ever hear Mr. Adams, whilst Vice-President, express his disapprobation of the funding system?  3. Do you know whether Mr. Adams did not in the year 1794, vote against the sequestration of British debts, and for stopping all intercourse with Great Britain? 
After having examined the questions, judge Chase declared that col. Taylor's evidence was inadmissible. He declared that no evidence could be received that did not justify the whole charge. The charge, said he, is, that the traverser said of the President, he is a professed aristocrat and has proved faithful to the British interest; now you must prove both points, or you prove nothing; and as your evidence relates to one only, it cannot be received—you must prove all or none. This was in substance, and it is believed the precise words in which judge Chase stated his objection to col. Taylor's evidence. The counsel asked the judge whether they could not be allowed to prove part of a charge by one witness and part by another? To this judge Chase replied, that if the counsel could prove the whole of any one charge by col. Taylor, that they might do it, otherwise they should not examine him. The counsel contended that col. Taylor's evidence applied to the whole of the charge which the judge had stated in his opinion. That they meant to prove by him, that the President had professed anti-republican sentiments, and had proved
faithful and serviceable to the British interest, in the sense in which those expressions were used in the Prospect. The judge, however, adhered to his determination to exclude the evidence; and colonel Taylor retired from the court with evident marks of astonishment. It is necessary it should be stated that judge Griffin sat in Callender's trial as well as judge Chase; but throughout the trial judge Chase delivered the resolutions of the court, and assigned the reasons on which those resolutions were founded; and with respect to the particular points which have been stated by this deponent, as decided by the court, judge Chase delivered the opinion, and assigned the reasons which have been attributed to him.
PA: NORBORNE NICHOLAS. (to be continued.)
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, March 15.
The bill appropriating 50,000 dollars for procuring with the public buildings in the city of Washington, after having passed through a committee of the whole, was ordered to a third reading to-morrow. The house went into committee of the whole on the bill providing rules for the government of the army. The 5th article is in the words following:
ART. 5. Whatsoever officer or soldier shall presume to use traitorous or disrespectful words, against the President of the United States, against the Vice-President thereof, against the Congress of the United States, or against the chief magistrate or legislature of any of the United States in whom he may be quartered, if a commissioned officer, he shall be cashiered, or otherwise punished as a court-martial shall direct, if a non-commissioned officer or soldier, he shall suffer such punishment as shall be inflicted on him by the sentence of a court-martial.
Mr. Nicholson moved to strike out this article. Mr. Varnum desired before the question was put, to be indulged with an opportunity of reading the article at present in force, which would show that in principle it was the same with that in the bill.
Mr. V. read the old article, which was found to correspond in principle with the article under consideration, the only variation arising from the old provision applying to the "Congress of the United States and the state legislatures."
Why gentlemen should now be inclined to leaving the army loose to calumniate the government he could not say.
Mr. Nicholson. It is not my wish to fence round the President, Vice-President and Congress, with a second sedition law. If the officers of the army conduct themselves improperly it is in the power of the executive to punish them—They can be removed at the will of the president, or by a court martial. Besides, I do not understand the section. I ask, what is the meaning of traitorous words used against the President, Vice President and Congress. I know of no traitorous words that can be so used. There are none such to be found in the Constitution; and I am decidedly opposed to any such mode of establishing by side-way means, so dangerous a construction.
The question was then taken on Mr. Nicholson's motion, and carried:—Ayes 53.
After some farther consideration of the bill, the committee rose and the house, by a great majority, refused them leave to sit again. This is probably a virtual rejection of the bill for the present session.
The house went into a committee of the whole on the bill for the government of Louisiana—Mr. Dawson in the chair.
The substitute of Mr. Early for the 4th section of the bill was, with some verbal amendments, agreed to—Ayes 51.
The bill was reported to the house, who concurred with the committee in striking out the 4th section of the bill (giving the President the power of appointing the legislative council)—Yeas 74—Nays 23—end in their agreement to Mr. Early's substitute—Yeas 53—Nays 42.
After considerable discussion of various features of the bill, the house adjourned, without closing its consideration.
SALEM, March 12.
By Captain Blackler, from Calcutta, we are informed that the English had a severe engagement with the Mahrattas, and had finally succeeded in taking the capital of their country, after great slaughter, on both sides. Captain B. had papers on board containing the official accounts of this event—but the confusion attending the late disaster of his ship, prevented his finding them in season for this day's paper.
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NEW-YORK, March 22.
Capt. Kemp, of the ship Oneida Chief, (who never arrives without bringing news) has favored the Editors of the New-York Gazette, with London papers to the 22d of February, three days later than by any former arrival.
The King's illness. —The Kentish Gazette of the 21st of February, contains London accounts one day later than will be found in the following details, of the illness of his majesty, who was still thought to be in danger, as will appear from the following extract:
CANTERBURY, February 21.
Our correspondent, on whom we can depend, has sent us further particulars:
London, Monday Night, (Feb. 20.)—In my last I was under the painful necessity of stating that his majesty was dangerously ill; the Bulletins have since given us reason to hope that some favorable symptoms have appeared, tho' private intelligence speak less favorably. I am sorry to say the Bulletin of to day contents itself with observing, that
His Majesty is much the same as yesterday.
As it was generally expected that some communication would be made to the house of commons this day, I have attended, but not the slightest hint was dropped respecting the King.
When I mentioned the dangerous situation of his Majesty, I suppressed one fact which has since unhappily been corroborated, viz. that his former malady [madness] has returned under very alarming circumstances, for reasons which it might not be prudent to state at this moment. Dr. Willis has not been called in; but Dr. Simmons of St. Luke's, has been in attendance.
The dreadful suspension of business, and the anxious concern of all ranks may easily be conceived.
Prices of Stocks this day, at 12 o'clock.
3 per Cent. Consols, 5 1-4—Do. for acc. 55 3/8.
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LONDON, February 16.
It is said that Moreau has absolutely refused to be admitted into the legion of honor; assigning as the reason, that he could not enter it, unless his whole army were to accompany him.
February 20.
The Bulletin yesterday was, we are happy to state, more favorable than we could have expected, even after the Bulletin of the preceding day. It was as follows:
Queen's House, February 19.
"His Majesty has had a good night, and is rather better to-day."
(Signed) LUCAS PEPYS, F. MILLMAN, H. REYNOLDS, W. HEBERDEN.
His Majesty has had a good deal of sleep, within these three nights, a circumstance from which, of course, a most favorable issue is augured.
The press of anxious subjects to see the Bulletin yesterday, was, if possible, greater than any preceding day. Between one and three o'clock, the crowd was so great, that the passage in the chamber where the Bulletin was exhibited was several times quite choked up. The peer and mechanic, the archbishop and the curate, elbowled each other with very little ceremony; but upon such an occasion, no one felt the least animosity, and each acknowledged in the other an equal interest in the health of their beloved sovereign.
At twelve o'clock this day, the doors of St. James's palace were, as usual, thrown open, and the following Bulletin was communicated by Lord Sidney:
"His Majesty continues much the same as yesterday."
L. PEPYS, H. REYNOLDS, F. MILLMAN, W. HEBERDEN.
This Bulletin is certainly as favorable, under all circumstances, as could have been expected.
Now that such a happy change has taken place in his majesty's disorder, we doubt whether any communication will be made to parliament. We understand, however, that the Lords have been summoned for to day.
On Friday, in the Court of King's Bench a witness named Lincoln, was called to prove a hand-writing; and having looked at the paper for some time without speaking, Mr. Erskine exclaimed, "Well, Sir, what is your belief? Don't let the Devil overlook Lincoln, but give us your belief of the hand writing." The witness with great composure, turned round and said, "I did not observe, Sir, that you were looking over me—and as for the hand-writing, I can form no judgment." The court was convulsed with laughter.
We understand that his Majesty is now upon the ground-floor at the Queen's House—His usual bed chamber before was on the first floor in the front of the Park. All the rooms in the lower part of the house, which were before not carpeted, have since his majesty was taken ill, been covered with green cloth. The locks and handles have also been muffled, to prevent his Majesty from being disturbed by any noise.
The Dublin mails of the 14th and 15th instant have arrived since our last. Our private letters inform us, that a very general alarm prevailed in that capital during the whole of Tuesday night, which originated in a communication made to the government of another insurrectionary explosion being about to take place, connected with a formidable and deep laid plot in the North. That the Irish government were under very serious apprehensions on this occasion, is evident from the extensive and extraordinary precaution they were induced to adopt. The whole of the military, both regulars and yeomanry, were under arms, and the city, throughout the whole night, exhibited an appearance of the greatest alarm. We are happy, however, to find, that at the departure of the post, on Wednesday night, the capital remained perfectly tranquil, and the only unpleasant account that had arrived from the provinces was, that some seditious meetings had lately taken place at Cork, where several of the principal offenders, who constituted a committee, had
fortunately been apprehended and committed to prison. Cordogan the noted rebel chief, has after a desperate resistance, been killed, and the whole of his gang either taken or dispersed.
Our advices from the coast continue to assure us, that the enemy's preparation for the invasion of this country are in such a state of completion as to render it highly probable that the daring attempt will not much longer be delayed. The information received by government is amply corroborative of these accounts; and ministers are, in consequence, in daily expectation of some movements of importance being attempted from most of the opposite ports. All the letters of Saturday concur in stating, that the enemy's flotillas are again on the alert, for the purpose of reinforcing the grand depot at Boulogne. A squadron of seventy sail, bound from Flushing to that port, was attacked by our cruizers on Friday last, and after a severe cannonading, obliged to take shelter at Calais, where they are still blockaded up—Same day another squadron was seen steering also for Boulogne; and we are sorry to say, the whole accomplished their object, except one schuyt, fitted up as a transport for horses, which has been brought into Dover by the Squirrel.
A smart action took place on the 2d inst. between a squadron of gun brigs bound to Boulogne, and his Majesty's ships Immortalite and Griffin, off Cape Griznes.—The former were supported by land batteries, and fire on both sides continued for some time with great severity.—Two of the gun vessels were obliged to run on shore to avoid sinking; but the remainder effected their escape.—Our ships experienced no material injury in this affair. The squadron off Boulogne was on Friday reinforced by the Arch, Lynx, Confid., Basilisk, and Milbrook, from the Downs.
PHILADELPHIA, March 22.
JUDGES SHIPPEN, YATES and SMITH. From information received from a correspondent at Lancaster, we are enabled to announce that the recommendation of the committee of grievances, appointed to consider the memorial of Thomas Passmore, submitted to the house of representatives of this commonwealth, has been accepted by that house, and a resolution passed for the impeachment of the three judges above named. Two days were occupied in a warm discussion of the subject, when on Tuesday last the question was taken and there appeared fifty-seven members in favor of impeachment, and against it twenty-four. A committee, was thereupon appointed, to draft the articles of impeachment, which consists of Messrs. Neally, Boileau, Holgate, M. Davis, Trevor, Ingle and Carr, all of whom voted in favor of the impeachment.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 23.
Millions for Defence, but not a Cent for tribute.
It has been often said that actions speak louder than words. Often as this remark has been made, we repeat it; and while we recall the attention of the nation to past events, when "millions for defence, but not a cent for tribute," rang through the land, we call upon them to notice, and duly to estimate, the measures of the present "weak and pusillanimous administration." Accident has thrown one of our frigates and three hundred of our citizens into the power of the pirates of the Mediterranean. Information of this misfortune was received at the seat of government on Tuesday last, and yesterday a bill passed the House of Representatives appropriating a million, authorising the President to engage two vessels of 16 guns each, and as many gun boats as he may think necessary, to defend the interests and to sustain the honor of the nation. This measure, which ought to shame forever the calumny that charges republican governments with a want of vigor and promptness, passed the House by unanimous vote.
It is thus that the present administration evinces its patriotism, and its energy; not by vain vaunting of prowess; but by actions, which will show the world that while the wish of the American nation is peace, she will not hesitate for a moment, to make that power feel the vengeance of her arms that dares, in violation of justice, to invade her rights.
NOTICE.
ESCAPED from the jail & penitentiary house on Thursday evening the 29th inst. the following persons, to wit:
Joseph Caldwell, convicted of horse stealing at the district court of Washington, May 1802; born in the county of Charlotte, 5 feet 11 inches high, 21 years old, fair complexion, dark hair and blue eyes, has a bad countenance, and when spoilt an to cannot look you in the face.
Robert Pearson, convicted of the same offence at the district court of the Sweet Springs, October 1802; born in the county of Botetourt, 6 feet high, 29 years old, fair complexion, dark hair and blue eyes, very thin visage, and has a down look; also has the appearance of bad health.
Cullen Demmory, a dark mulatto, convicted of murder in the second degree, at the district court of Suffolk, May, 1801; born in the county of Southampton, 5 feet 8 1/2 inches high, 37 years old, black hair and black eyes, and very thin visage.
I expect that a proclamation will be issued by the governor in a few days, offering a reward for apprehending the above persons.
MARTIN MIMS, Keeper of the Penitentiary, Richmond, Penitentiary, March 30, 1804.
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The Governor of South-Carolina, in consequence of a communication received from the President of the United States, has convoked the Legislature of that state on the 10th day of May next.
No vote, in either of the houses of congress, has more strongly marked the prevalence of party passions and prejudices, than that given in the senate U. States, on the question of judge Pickering's removal. The evidence of the immorality of that judge was so strong and imposing that we have seen no attempt made by the federalists to excuse or palliate the fault, or to invalidate the testimony; the witnesses, of different political sentiments, all concurred in the assertion that the judge had been, from 5 to 12 years past, known to be frequently intoxicated, to have such a fondness for rum as to carry a bottle to bed with him. As far as testimony on oath can be credited, judge Pickering must have been one of the most depraved individuals in the country, yet the six senators from the New England states, the land of steady habits too, voted against the removal of this sober judge; we confess we cannot conceive how their votes could be reconciled to their judgements or their oaths. It may be said the judge was insane, granted—but we humbly conceive a madman is as unfit for a judge as a drunkard—it is true the individual who is either, is to be pitied, but pity would rather incline one to wish his removal from the bench; the New England senators thought otherwise, and no doubt voted against the removal of Mr. Pickering because he was of their party, totally regardless of the demerits or infirmity of the man—their vote certainly proved their own political intoxication or insanity, and if it can be reconciled to their consciences so much the better for them.
(Aurora.)
On the 12th inst. an election was held in Salem, Massachusetts, for officers of the corporation, &c. The republican and federal parties had formed each a ticket; the former succeeded by an average majority of 110. This town for as part of the district which refused to return Timothy Pickering a member of the house of representatives of the U. States, to compensate for which the legislature put him in the senate. We hope the general election of Massachusetts will terminate in an equally honorable manner with that of one of the most respectable parts of the state.
LIST of Officers and Men quartered at the American Consular house at Tripoli—viz.
William Bainbridge, captain, David Porter, lieut. Theodore Hunt, Benjamin Smith, lieut. Wm. S. Osborn, lieut. marines, John Ridgely, surgeon, Keith Spence, purser, William Knight, sailing master, Jonathan Cowdery, surgeons mate, Nicholas Harwood, do. George Lodge, boatswain, Bernard Henry, midshipman, D. T. Paterson, do. James Gibbon, do. Benj. F. Reed, do. William Cutbush, do. Wallace Wormeley, do. Robert Gauble, do. Richard B. Jones, do. James Renshaw, do. James Biddle, do. Simon Smith, do. Joseph Douglass, sail maker, Richard Stephenson, gunner, William Carpenter, William Anderson, captains' clerk, Minor Foreman, masters' mate, James C. Morris, ships' steward, Otis Hunt, serjeant marines, David Irvine, do. William Leith, cook, James Casey, master at arms, Peter Williams, corporal, John Baptist, Lewis Heckener, Frederick Lewis, Charles Mitchell, Peter Cook, Leonard Foster, William James, William Gardner, William Kemperfill—43. 264 Men and boys in the Bashaws' palace, 307 Total of Crew.
FOUR DAYS LATER.
By the Oneida Chief, arrived at New-York, we have received London papers and letters to the 22d of February, and Lloyd's lists to the 18th, from which we make extracts for this day's Gazette.—It appears that the king of Great Britain continued indisposed. His malady is confidently stated to be a mental derangement, accompanied with alarming bodily debility. Our letters represent the country to be in an unparalleled situation. The subject of a regency during the king's confinement is openly discussed in the public prints; and every circumstance indicates a crisis pregnant with events of the highest moment.
LATE FROM FRANCE.
Capt. Golden, of the brig Eagle, who arrived at New York on Wednesday, the 21st inst. left Bordeaux the 21st of last month. Just before he sailed, and during an embargo of 28 days (which was raised the 11th) 30,000 French troops, including cavalry, were embarked at Bordeaux, on board of 30-oar boats and gun brigs, and had arrived at the isle de Yeu, near Rochelle—and intended to creep along the coast to avoid the British cruisers.
Captain G. further informs, that the seat of Government was removed from Paris to Dunkirk—in order, probably, that Bonaparte, who was on the coast, might at the same time attend to both state and military affairs.
Business in France was at a total stand. Every article of consumption was low, owing to the scarcity of money. Numerous failures had recently taken place.
and murmurs against the government were loudly uttered at every corner. Dispatches for our government were brought out in the Eagle. (ib.)
EXTRACT
Of a letter from Deacon Joseph Cottle, dated Upper Louisiana, St. Charles' district, June 17th, 1803, who migrated from Woodstock, in the State of Vermont, in the year 1801.
"When I ride or walk out, and behold the beautiful appearance of these numerous and extensive meadows, I am surprised and astonished, I am left as it were, in wonder and amazement; and ere I am aware my soul ascends to God in devout thanks. It is impossible to describe the beauties that surround me; but I will make an attempt at it. The most romantic description of a Shakespeare, or a Ratchiff are here realized.—About one half of this country consists of numerous and extensive meadows, agreeably interspersed with copse, glades and groves, of the best of timber, and fruit trees. No rough broken land—it is some nearly level—other gentle swells and says exactly right—exceeding rich and fertile. Some clothed with grass of different kinds, and of good qualities; others filled with herbs and weeds, and the whole abounding with lilies, roses, and hundreds of other beautiful flowers, which in succession adorn earth's lap from April to December. The ground affords many rich roots, both for food and physic. And for fruit, first, the strawberry, large and sweet, ripe the first of May; the black and dew berries, a large kind of black berries, raspberries, gooseberries on shrub, black haws, service berries very sweet, black cherries, plums of various kinds and crab apples in abundance. The paw-paw, or custard apple, on a small tree, and of the size and shape of a kidney and is like a mandrake, which grows on an herb resembling the ginseng, the bigness of a small apple, yellow as gold, and sweet. The mulberries very sweet. The honey locust abounding everywhere. The locust tree grows very large and strait, is durable for rails, &c. The pruscimm, which exceeds all the rest for richness and sweetness; they grow on small trees, are the bigness of small apples of a deep yellow, soft as a plum; their juice makes excellent liquor, very good to put in puddings, &c. Various kinds of grapes, they are good to make wine, vinegar, &c. The hazelnut, black walnut, butternut, hickorynut, and various kinds of pecans. The forest timber is various kinds of oak, hickory, ash, elm, black walnut—very large and strait, butternut, linn and bass wood, cherry, honey locust, mulberry, maple, sugar tree, sycamore and cotton tree."
"I have just been viewing my corn, which is rising of six feet in height.—We have one distillery in our neighborhood. There is a great merchant from Germany, who is building mills on the Dard river—he builds on a large scale calculated to cost 15000 dollars, with a ship and boat yard on the Missouri."
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
To the Members of both Houses of Congress, and of the government generally.
PETER MILLER, Baker, residing near the Navy Yard, on the Anna Costi River, respectfully invites them to taste of a MAMMOTH LOAF, of the Washington manufacture; of between nine and ten feet dimensions—which will be offered for their entertainment on Monday next, at twelve o'clock, at the Capitol. March 23, 1804.
From the New York Morning Chronicle.
COMMUNICATION. "Good lord! to see the various ways of dressing a calves head!" TO THE BEAUX OF NEW-YORK. GENTLEMEN
Being one of those who are friends to style and fashion, I presume, I have a right to oppose any unwarrantable encroachments on the present ton. An attempt is made to introduce again, a custom long since exploded as too barbarous for this enlightened age; I mean poohered heads and large queues; a custom established contrary to reason, and which, I am bold to say, has no foundation in nature. Who could have attempted to introduce so quizzical a fashion, but some old, would-be beaux, who are determined to hide his grey hairs under a load of pomatum & powder? Can any man of taste compare the beauty and convenience of a bruis crop, to the stiffness and formality of a powdered pate? and a queue too! of all things in the world the most ungraceful! If men are determined to assimilate themselves to certain contemptible animal, by wearing this dangling appendage, I shall think, they deserve the stigma long since fixed on the beaux of the old school by impertinent naturalists; "that they are but one link in the chain of animal creation, above the monkey tribe."
If men of style will wear tails, I think, with my cousin Tom Switch, that they should be sewed in the rear, to the bottom of their spencers.
Should this detestable mode, in spite of all reason, be adopted, it is to be hoped that our belles, as a counterpart, will revive all the horrors of the ancient mode: the huge unshapen hoop; the formal stays; the horse shoe roll; and the unsightly cash. Besides, gentlemen, although I like to be in the dippy, I honestly confess, that I wish to be so, at as cheap a rate as possible. In our present mode of crops, what trouble or expense have we? No barbers' fees, no disbursements for powder, poma-
tum, &c. not even the expense of a comb! Nothing is necessary but to sleep without a night cap, to tumble the hair a little with our fingers, when lo! is produced that beautiful disorder, that regular irregularity, which is the pride and glory of the present ton! For these and a thousand other reasons, I hope, the enlightened order of beaux, will oppose this attempt to revolutionize the fashionable world. I have the honor to be, gentlemen, one of you. BOB CROP.
DEATHS.
Departed this life, at G. Anderson's of Newington, on Friday the 16th inst. Mrs. REBECCA E. TUCKER, in the 77th year of her age, after a painful illness of near three weeks, which she bore with amazing fortitude. No pen can describe praise equal to her merit; let it suffice then to say, that the exemplary and unspotted life she spent, deserves immortal fame, and that it is justly believed she might have well said, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness."
Departed this life, on Friday the 16th inst. in Gouchland county, Mr. HENRY ROYSTER, in his 25th year. The illness of which he died, was short but excruciating; the manly firmness with which he bore it, proved, that that fortitude which had marked his passage through life, was a genuine feature of his character.
The distress of his relations, and the general sympathy of his numerous friends and acquaintance, prove his value; he was indeed a man of worth, for
"Even his failings lean'd to virtue's side."
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The Celebrated English Stallion, WHIP,
By Saltram, two years left fall from London, will stand the ensuing season in Charlotte county, 8 miles above the courthouse, and four below Cole's ferry, on the main road leading from Danville to Carter's ferry and Richmond, at Six Guineas the season, but which may be discharged by Five, provided the money is paid by the last day of July, at which time the season will expire. Nine Guineas to insure a mare in foal, and Three Guineas the single leap, and in either case one dollar to the groom, to be paid when the mare is first covered. A note sent with each mare for the season money will be expected.
WHIP is a beautiful bay horse, ten years old next spring, of great size and strength, being 15 hands 3 inches high. Let it now suffice to say, it is generally thought by all that have seen him, his equal for beauty has seldom if ever been seen in America. His dam was got by King Herod, which was also the dam of Mr Galtway's Ariel, Mr Wilson's Duchess and Mr Durand's Kitty Cut a Dash, all very speedy mares—his granddam by Oronoko, his great granddam by Oronoko was got by Crab, out of Miss Slamerkin by True Blue, Lord Oxford's Dun Arabian D'Arey, Black legged regal mare—Oronoko is the sire of the granddam of Porbos & full brother to Black and all Black, the sire of Pating's Puff, who was the dam of King Fergus, Cartouch by Bald Galloway, Cripple Barb as Hampton's Puff, Make-do, Place's White Turk Dodsworth, Layton Barb—Cartouch is the sire of the granddam of Phipps, who carried at 240 guineas the season, his dam Virago by Snou, his granddam by Regulus, out of a full sister to Black and all Black—Saltram was formerly the property of his royal highness the Prince of Wales, and was then the best runner of his time. He won several large stakes, among which was the Derby in 1783, beating Dungannon, Volunteer, Phenomenon, Gonzales and several others—He is the sire of Whiskey, who won at three years old, 4650 guineas; also of Whip, Royalist, Peeping Tom, General, Corner, Syph Septem, Caroline, Tiffany, Lawvultin, St David, Sprightly, Queen of Sheba, Spanishway, Role, Sweepster, Clytus, Coal Merchant, Pick Pocket, Olear, Amorous, Petty Pity, and several others, all first rate runners.
WHIP was the first favorite for the Derby in 1797, and no doubt would have won it, had he been well enough to have started. He was found to have so much speed as to be able to give many colts of the same year from 20 to 30 lbs. The first time he started he won the sweepstakes of 20 guineas each, at Alford for three year olds, and afterwards the three year old plate at Reading, beating Mr Daphn's Hickwell by Woodpecker, for C. Bunbury's Wrangler by Diomed, and several others. At five years old he won the four year old plate at Alford & a plate at Brighton, beating Combatant and gave him 22 lbs—Whip ran the week before for the cup at Oxford, against Diamond, Brickleby, Johnny and O'Land, and was supposed to be winning when he ran out of the course—He also won the sweepstakes at Oxford, which was the last time he started, having taken lame. Several of his races were won at three heats—Whip gave Coigner 27 lbs and beat him in his trial, and never lost a race that he ran where there were heats. After Whip fell lame (which was in the year 1798) he was kept as a covering horse, and stood in England at five guineas the season. I have in my possession a certificate from under Mr Durand's hand of Whip's blood. The stud books & calendars are also in my possession, which any gentleman may see on application.
Good and extensive paddock grazing, extraordinary well enclosed low grounds and high, well watered, well for clover, & nearly all kinds of grass. Gentlemen who wish to have their mares fed (which is given up by good judges to be the best scheme) shall have as much as they can eat at 15d. per day, in strong falls made in the paddock under a grove sufficiently large for a mare and colt to eat, safe from being disturbed by other mares. I will not be liable for escapes or accidents of any kind, but will pay strict attention to every gentleman's mares in rotation.—Whip stands in Prince George county the two last seasons, and covered largely upwards of 100 mares each season, notwithstanding there were 12 imported horses that stood within 60 miles of him. I will take £ 40 for the season of 6 mares provided the money is paid by the last day of July.
EDWARD JORDAN. THOMAS JONES, gen. March 16, 1804.
Certificate.—At the request of Mr Edward Jordan, who has lately purchased the imported horse Whip I do certify that the said horse has stood for the two last seasons within 3 qu. of a mile of my residence, that I have seen him in the pastures attached to his stand, during the last season, several colts & fillies at a time (at least a dozen in number) got by him, equal, and in my opinion superior in point of form and size to any equal number I have ever seen, got by other horses—I also believe him to be as sure a foal getter as any horse in America. Any gentleman in this neighborhood who may accede with me in opinion, will do more than justice to the reputation of the horse and also oblige Mr. Jordan, by adding their signature. GEORGE RUFFIN. Prince George county, Dec. 11, 1803.
Edward Ruffin, Peter Epps, John Avery, Thomas Gault, Reuben Hollings, Briggs Reeves, Van Leonard, Jas T. Hubbard, Edward Markes, Jesse Heath, John James Wm Cole, John Maries, Roger Atkinson, Tom Gay, Wm Glover, Thos Morrison, John Bates, Sterling Gary, James Curran, John I. Heath, Silas Gregory, Jos. Ford, Geo. Cooke, Isaac Hill, James Cooke, W. Epps, Fed. R. Butte.
FOR THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
THE TEAR.
IN beds of snow, the moon-beam slept, And chilly was the midnight gloom; When in the grove, fond Ellen wept, Sweet maid, it was her lover's tomb.
A warm tear gush'd, the wintry air, Congeal'd it, as it flow'd away, All night it lay, an ice drop there, At morn, it glitter'd in the ray.
An Angel, wand'ring from the sphere, Who saw this bright, this frozen gem; To dove-eyed pity, brought the tear, And hung it on her diadem.
THE public are hereby informed, that the subscriber is prepared with an excellent line, which will be employed the whole of this season, at the well known SHAD & HERRING FISHERY at Varias, twelve miles below Richmond. The road that leads to this fishery, is plainer and better, than the road leading to any other fishery on James river below this city. His prices for fish will be as follows: Thirty-three shillings and four pence per hundred for shad, or six pence a piece for a smaller quantity. For herrings, twenty-five shillings per thousand. He will keep a regular supply of salt and barrels for the accommodation of those that may be disposed to purchase fish by the quantity. MOSES BATES. Henrico, March 20, 1804.
Notice is hereby given,
that on the first day of June next, we intend to close the administration of the estate of Edmund Toney, dec. and this advertisement will be plead in bar to all claims which may be brought against the said estate after that date. EDMUND TONEY, } Adm's. JOHN TONEY, } Powhatan, March 24, 1804.
The Public Warehouse
on the James River Canal is now in readiness to receive TOBACCO on STORAGE, especially to law, and every attention will be paid by the Superintendants to preserve it from injury. WM PRICE, } TH: UNDEWOOD } Superintendants. Richmond, 27th March, 1804.
The members of the Dis-
mal Swamp Canal Company, either in person, or by proxy, are requested to meet at the Exchange in Norfolk, on the first Monday in May next, to elect a president and directors, and on other business of importance to the company. Notice is also given to those who are delinquents in the payment of their quotas, heretofore called for that unless they make payment of their respective balances on or before the said day, that their shares will be sold on the Tuesday following the above mentioned day of meeting. By orders of the directors, } J. Lewis Newton, } Wm Chas Lee, } Wm Vaughan, } Clk Sec D S } Richard Blow, } Canal Co. 23d Mar. 10, 1804.
LORENZO DOW, wishes
without delay, to inform the public, that through the misunderstanding of his friends, his appointments as published in the Virginia Argus, clash with other course published by his friend, on. He, therefore gives notice, that he will follow the route appointed by the Argus till he comes to Richmond—but from Richmond he intends to make his way to Norfolk, and from Norfolk to Alexandria agreeably to the appointments made by Dr Hall and the other M. E. Dist. preachers of those parts. March 2, 1804.
Taken up by Rob't Crad-
lock in Amelia county, some time in August last, one pied STEER, supposed to be about 10 or 11 years old, marked with a swallow fork in each ear, has a scar on his back and the appearance of being used to the yoke—appraised to four pounds by us Thompson Scott, Archer Neil, John Mitchell Dec 8, 1804.
The Broad Rock Jockey
Club Races will commence on Tuesday the 8th day of May next, and will continue for 4 days—the 1st day the Jockey Club purse of dollars 400, four mile heats—2d day the Proprietor of the Field's purse of dollars, 200, three mile heats—3d day the Jockey Club Cup of dollars 100 value, two mile heats, free for all ages, no person permitted to start for the cup but members of the club, and for their only benefit—4th day a Sweep Stakes for 4 years old colts and fillies, two mile heats, entrance dollars, 100, half forfeit; subscription to close on the 10th day of April; 4 subscribers or no race; the weights and rules for those races are agreeable to the Richmond Jockey Club rules—weights as follows: aged horses 133 lbs; 6 years old 128 lbs; 5 years old 115 lbs; 4 years old 106 lbs; 3 years old 90 lbs. Mares and Geldings allowed 5 lbs. The Treasurer for the club requests the members to be pointed in paying up their subscription on or before the day of running. THOMAS CHEATHAM, Tr. March 29, 1804.
THE MEMBERS OF THE CLUB
are requested to meet at the Broad Rock course, the day preceding the Jockey Club Purse at 4 o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of making some regulations for the different days running.
Westham Iron Foundery,
NEAR RICHMOND
THE subscriber takes the liberty of informing the public that he has taken a lease and is at present working the above foundery, and having provided the best artists in that line from New York and George Town, together with pig iron of the first quality:
Proposes to cast—Mill-gudgeons and links of every description also, cast iron wheels for the machinery of mills, Rumford, registered and plain grates; grate front and bottoms, for Rumfordizing fire places; large and small stoves; caldrons and cabin stoves; Franklin stoves for wood or coal; kitchen grates, with crane and range complete; coach-warmers, plain stoves and moulded plates; cast railing of every pattern; plow shares and plow boards; cast waggon, coach, phetson and chair boxes; scale weights from 1 to 60 lbs; sash and clock weights; cast iron irons for smiths, on a very approved plan; hooks, jams and back lyes; nail cutting machines with screws complete; wheelbarrow bowls; garden dits; cast iron anvils; fire dogs and hand irons of every description—together with any other article in the casting line, to a given pattern, at the shortest notice, by application at the foundery, or to JAMES DUNLAP, in Richmond, 24th March, 1804. P.S. Old iron purchased by application as above.

Robert Gamble & Son, Are receiving by the ship FAME and other arrival from Europe, a general assortment of MERCHANDIZE. Suitable to the season—which they are disposed to sell on moderate terms for cash, country produce, or to punctilious customers, on the usual credit. Having a large and convenient WAREHOUSE, calculated to store flour, &c. those who may confide country produce to their care, are assured, that their endeavors will be used to give general satisfaction, and their charge for storage, &c. will be reasonable. Richmond, 17th Oct. 1803.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE. The Corner Brick Tenement in this city, in the occupation of Messrs Ellis & Allan, Judah & others, burning three floors, with cellars and accommodations for three families—also three kitchen-cars attached to it, with all other appurtenances. Mr John F. Price will show the boundaries of the land also, the various conveniences. This information for mercantile business so far recommends itself, that any farther description or comment upon it is thought unnecessary. Those who are disposed to purchase will be pleased to make application to the subscriber between this and the 10th of next month, and if not sold by that date at private sale, it will be offered at public sale for ready money. Should the subscriber be absent a few days in the mean time, Jos. Gallego and Jos. Scott, Esq., or either of them, will have adequate powers to conclude an agreement, which will be duly confirmed and ratified by DAVID ROSS. Richmond, 20th March, 1804. 13a
SANFORD EDWARDS. If Sanford Edwards, who about thirteen years ago lived with him 30 miles of Edenton, N. C. or any of his children, will apply to me at Baird's Town, Kentucky, they may hear of something to their advantage. Baird's Town Jan 1st. 1804. 3t N.B. The editor of the National Intelligencer, and the editors of newspapers in the Southern departments of the U. States, are requested to give the above a few insertions. B. F.
James River Company. THE Richmond James River Company want to HIRE TWENTY NEGRO MEN for the balance of the year, and to employ an OVERSEER to take the management of them. None need apply but such as come well recommended for respectability of character and capacity for the trust. They would purchase eight or ten likely NEGRO MEN or LADS, that are under good character, for which a liberal price will be given in cash. ROBERT POLLARD. Richmond March 19. 1804. 3w
Run away, some time the last winter, a negro man named DAVE, belonging to the estate of Christopher Robinson, dec. he is a small dark fellow, with a thin visage, about 60 years of age; he was lived out the beginning of the year and in a short time left his master; it is understood that he sold himself to a person who was removed from Gloucester to the plantation of Warner Washington, Esq. in Fredericks, by Miss Mildred Rootes, to whom she belonged—the wife's name is Nemina; it is supposed the fellow is still near here, wherever she may be. I will give Ten Dollars in addition to what the law allows, to any person who will deliver him to me in Gloucester, or half that sum to have him secured in jail so that I recover him. I warn all persons not to employ him in any manner, nor permit him to remain on their plantations. WM. CURTIS, Esq., of C. Robinson. Gloucester, Highgate, Jan 16, 1804. P.S. It is understood that he has obtained a pass. Whose name is to it, is not known—It is requested when he is apprehended that the pass may be secured and delivered with him. W. C. We have a few Hogsheads and Quarter Casks of very excellent Madeira Wine, for sale. GIBSON & JEFFERSON. 23d March, 1804. 2w
Fifth Requisition. By order of the Board of Directors of the Manchester Turnpike Company, the Stockholders are hereby required to pay the further sum of seven and an half dollars, on each share, into the hands of the Treasurer, on or before the first day of April next. JAMES BRANDER, Clerk. Manchester, 6th Feb. 1804. (tMil.)
Juvenile Instruction. The Senior Class in J. Ogilvie's school have commenced the study of Criticism, Ethics and Metaphysics; an analysis of the principles of Political Economy and Government will conclude this part of the course. Young men who have not had an opportunity of studying these branches of science, (of all others the most important to such as aspire to literary, legal or political eminence,) will probably find the manner in which they are taught in this school, peculiarly calculated to facilitate and expedite their progress. The senior class is at present composed of seventeen young men; but as J. O. communicates instruction on these subjects entirely through the medium of Lectures, eight or ten additional students, would extend his utility and increase his emoluments, without imposing upon him much more labor than he at present undergoes. Richmond, March 9th, 1804.
FOR SALE, About 450 acres of Land, Lying on the Three Chopt and the River roads, half a mile from the river at Westham, and six miles from the city of Richmond, three fourths in woods. This land combines the important advantages of a good soil, convenience to the seat of government, a handsome situation for buildings, and very healthy—a good mill seat with permission to erect a mill, an abundance of oak and pine timber, and good spring water. The subscriber would be glad also to treat for two or three BRICK TENEMENTS not far from the Capitol. These houses are not finished, but they will be completed in the course of the ensuing spring, and one of them is now in sufficient forwardness to show the plan of the buildings. JOHN PENDLETON. City of Richmond, 20th Jan. 1804. 1A
HENING'S New Virginia Justice, Containing the Duties of a Justice of Peace, &c. together with a variety of useful precedents, adapted to the laws now in force. Also, forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, lease & release, mortgage, trust, &c. FOR SALE AT S. PLEASANTS BOOK-STORE.
By Authority. Scheme of a Lottery. TO BUILD AN ACADEMY IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND. Dollars. 1 Prize—last drawn ticket, having a blank to its number, 20,000 1 do. 10,000 1 do. 5,000 5 do. of 1,000 make 5,000 6 do. of 500 — 3,000 10 do. of 200 — 2,000 20 do. of 100 — 2,000 100 do. of 50 — 5,000 250 do. of 30 — 7,500 420 do. of 25 — 10,500 1,500 do. of 20 — 30,000 3,000 do. of 15 — 45,000 1 first drawn ticket after 1,000 having a blank to its number, 250 1 do. after 2,000 do. 250 1 do. after 3,000 do. 250 1 do. after 4,000 do. 250 1 do. after 5,000 do. 500 1 do. after 6,000 do. 500 1 do. after 7,000 do. 500 1 do. after 8,000 do. 500 1 do. after 9,000 do. 500 1 do. after 10,000 do. 500 1 do. after 12,000 do. 500 1 do. after 13,000 do. 500 1 do. after 14,000 do. 1,000 5,325 prizes, 150,000 9,675 blanks—not two to a prize. 15,000 tickets at 10 dollars each, 150,000 N. B. Prizes subject to a deduction of 15 per cent.
This lottery has been authorized by the Legislature of Virginia, for the laudable purpose of erecting a seminary of learning in or near the metropolis of this state. With this view, it is contemplated to raise 20,000 dollars, and 2,500 dollars in addition, for defraying the expenses attendant on drawing the lottery. Citizens of the first respectability have been selected as trustees, and they have pledged themselves to use their utmost exertions to carry it into effect. The scheme has the advantage of giving to each adventurer, a chance for some very large prizes, whilst the proportion of prizes to blanks, is so great as to invite the friends of the intended institution to partake in the lottery, with very little risk of their becoming losers. The treasurer of the state is to be appointed to receive the money for the tickets as they are sold, and to pay the amount of the prizes to the fortunate adventurers. It is believed that the above considerations will induce a rapid sale of tickets, and the drawing will commence as soon as a sufficient number shall be sold to authorize it—which it is believed will be on the second Monday in December next. Richmond, January 31, 1804.
TICKETS to be had of Robert Pollard, Doct John Brockenbrough, Jr. Wm. Price, (Reg.) Samuel Pleasants, Jr. and William Prichard. BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY. THE subscriber takes this mode of returning his thanks to his former patrons, and informing the public in general, that he has (by desire of his friends) re-commenced the MANUFACTURING of BURR MILL-STONES; and having furnished himself with a supply of the best materials, and having had sixteen years experience in the business, in Baltimore, Petersburg and Richmond, hopes to be able to give satisfaction to his employers. The stones he will warrant to be as good as any in the United States. Any orders left with Capt. WILLIAM PENROCK, Norfolk; Capt. WILLIAM CHAMBERS, Staunton; Mr. WILLIAM HAY, Wythe county, or Mr. ROBERT MOORE, Petersburg, shall be duly attended to, and country produce received in payment, at the customary prices. TWO APPRENTICES will be taken to the above business, and short time required. WILLIAM DAVIDSON. Richmond, Jan. 10th, 1803. (tf) N.B. FOR SALE, PLASTER OF PARIS, in stone or ground, for the improvement of land, with directions for the use thereof.
Valuable Property. The subscriber offers for sale, that valuable unimproved Lot of Ground, Situate on the main street in the city of Richmond, containing about sixty six feet in front and running one hundred feet back, on the cross street leading to the basin of the canal, & immediately opposite to the corner stores now in the occupancy of Messrs. Pickett, Pollard and Johnston, and that of Mr. Charles Spencer. The numerous advantages attending this property needs no comment, its situation being in the centre of business renders it an object for public or private employment, and is perhaps the most eligible in this city for either—Any person desirous of purchasing will be treated with privately on application at any time between this and the first day of May next, and if not sold previous to that day, the same will be offered for sale at public auction, on the fifth day of that month, and the terms thereof made known. JOHN McENERY. Feb. 15th, 1804.
S E E D S. The subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has just received a supply of Red & White Clover Seed, Lucern, Timothy, Ryegrass and Sainfoine, Which is warranted to be of the last summer's growth. He has likewise, a general assortment of PEAS, BEANS, CABBAGE, LETTUCE, RADISHES, &c. From London, per the ship Shepherdess, now selling at his Seed Store, Main Street. MINTON COLLINS. Richmond, Feb. 28, 1804. 1m
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. RUN away from the subscriber on Saturday the 19th of February, 1804, a dark mulatto man called BILLY, 24 or 25 years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, has a thick head of hair, which he combs up, and little inclined to be how legged, is very polite and conversant, and no doubt will attempt to pass as a free man; he is a good waiter and an excellent hostler, the latter occupation he is very fond of. I have reason to believe he will make for the county of Fauquier, having a brother in that county the property of Mr. Pickett; his dress consisted of a round blue jacket, with blue and drab pantaloons, a pair of boots and a leather hat, and carried off other clothes. I will give the above reward to any person who will deliver him to me in Hanover county near Newcastle, or secure him in jail so that I get him again. All masters of vessels and others are forewarned from carrying him out of the state on their peril. THOMAS BLAKEY. Feb. 21, 1804.
THE HIGH BREED IMPORTED HORSE, ROBIN REDBREAST, WILL stand at my stable in Chesterfield county, to cover mares the next season—The performance of this horse on the turf for the time he ran in England, was equal to any horse imported into this country. In getting him out of the ship at City Point, he fell and was much hurt, but is now so well recovered that there can be no doubt of his being in high perfection by the spring. Terms will be made known before the season commences. THOMAS GOODE. December 21, 1803. ROBIN REDBREAST was got by Sir Peter Teazle, his dam Wren, by Woodpecker, his grand dam Papillon, (Sir Peter's dam) by Snap, his great grand dam Miss Cleveland, by Regulus, his great grand grand Midge, by a son of Bay Bolton, Bartlett's Children, Honeywood's Arabian, dam of the Two True Blues. (Taken from the general stud book.)
A Proclamation. BY authority of the President of the United States, a reward of 500 dollars is hereby offered to any person or persons, who shall apprehend and secure in some jail within the United States, or deliver to the commanding officer of any military post within the United States, or its territories, JAMES WOODS, charged with the murder of a Cherokee Indian, in Buncombe county, in the state of North Carolina, on or about the 14th day of January last—Said Woods is about thirty or thirty three years of age, five feet nine or ten inches in height, is stout and well made, has thick sandy hair and beard, and a fair complexion, has at times worked at the silversmith's trade, and has left a wife at Pigeon settlement, near where the murder was committed. Given at the War-Office, City of Washington, the 1st day of March, 1804. H. DEARBORN, Sec'y of War. A PROPOSAL, BY WILLIAM YOUNG BIRCH & ABRAHAM SMALL, OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA: FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THAT CELEBRATED WORK, GIBBON'S HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: Together with MEMOIRS of the LIFE and WRITINGS of the AUTHOR. No book could be offered, which stands in less need of encomium and recommendation—It has been read in almost every European language—The history of the long and interesting period from the reign of Augustus to the taking of Constantinople, and the death of Mahomet the II. is no where else to be found in the shape of regular and well arranged history.—The Publishers presume to hope, that they do a service to their country in giving an Edition of it from the American press—They will briefly speak of their intentions, and the superiority of this edition. 1. It will be the most complete Edition of Gibbon extant—Because it will be enriched with the Memoirs of his Life and Writings, written by himself.—This will be an addition to the London copy of nearly 200 pages. 2. It will be about one third cheaper than the London Copy. 3. It will be executed in the best stile—The Publishers, with confidence, recommend to the public an inspection of the books, published by them within the last three years.—They are, Russell's Ancient and Modern Europe, 7 Volumes.—The Domestic Encyclopedia, 5 Volumes, and Tucker's Blackstone, 5 Volumes.—They promise not to degenerate. CONDITIONS. 1. It shall be printed from the last London edition, and be published in Eight Octavo Volumes, during the year 1804. 2. It shall be delivered to those Subscribers who take it in Volumes, at Two Dollars per Volume, in boards. 3. Those who wait for the completion of the Work, may have it either at Sixteen Dollars in boards; or in a good and handsome binding, at Twenty Dollars; payable on delivery. 4. It will be enriched with Two whole sheet Maps—One of the Eastern, the other of the Western part of the Roman Empire—A Map of the parts of Europe and Asia adjacent to Constantinople, and an elegantly engraved Head of the Author. Subscriptions received by SAMUEL PLEASANTS, Jr. Richmond. cp
An Elegant Coach, And HARNESS, complete, for four horses, may be had a great bargain, on application to A. MYERS, near the bridge. Richmond, Feb. 11, 1804. tf
4439 Acres of valuable LAND, In the south of Kentucky, the greater part military, will be SOLD for good bonds, or exchanged for property in the state of Virginia.—Enquire of the printer. Dec. 26th, 1803. tf
TO RENT, A THREE STORY BRICK HOUSE, Near the Market bridge, well situated for a dry or wet goods store, with good accommodation for a family.—For further particulars enquire of the Printer. Richmond, March 2, 1804.
Family Flour. A CONSTANT supply of FLOUR, of a superior quality, for family use, kept for SALE, by GEORGE WATT. Richmond, 5th March, 1804. tf Stephen Baranzino & Co. JUST arrived from Philadelphia, beg leave to inform the public, that they have opened a STORE opposite to the Market-house, which was formerly occupied by Mr. Isaac Delyon; where they offer for sale the following articles, for cash, at a very low price.—An assortment of LOOKING GLASSES, and a handsome collection of PICTURES in elegant gilt frames, with an assortment of BAROMETERS and THERMOMETERS, and an assortment of SPECTACLES. They have likewise a great variety of TOYS of different descriptions. Richmond, March 17, 1804. 3w* Lawyers' Declarations For Sale here.
FOR SALE, THE ESTATE, CALLED VARINA, LYING on James river, in Henrico county, twelve miles from Richmond, and about the same distance from Petersburg. The quantity of land about 820 acres, of which 500 are of the best quality in the state for wheat, lying in a gentle and uniform slope entirely above floods, completely free from stumps and all obstructions to the plough, yet continuing in strong heart. The remainder is mostly, rather uncommonly high and firm tide marsh, about one fourth cleared; 10 or 15 acres completely surrounded by a good bank of clay, which has been extended, with the view of reclaiming the whole, as far as about two thirds of the requisite distance. The wood which can be carried almost from the stump on board large vessels upon two spars, for the distance of three fourths of a mile along the skirts of the forest, will pay all the expenses of reclaiming many times over. A part which was formerly reclaimed from the tide, proved dry enough for tobacco, and brought several immense crops of it without showing a possibility of exhaustion. The marsh abounds with that tall and fine natural grass, the bay of which is thought by numbers preferable to timothy.—A few valuable Negroes raised on the place, viz. three men and a woman, also about a score of cows and oxen of the Aughthill and Boynton breed mixed, some other stock, about a score and a half of Spanish ewes very nearly pure Merino's blood, and 100 barrels of corn, will be left on the place. The tenant is bound to furnish seed and sow a full crop of wheat, about 100 acres, in due time. The estate will be shown to visitors, by Mr. Moses Bates and Mr. W. Bedford, living upon it. Mr. George Jefferson of Richmond, or Mr. Thomas Estlin Randolph, will make known the terms to applicants, and will either of them conclude a bargain, which the proprietor will ratify. December 30, 1803.
THE subscriber, according to a former advertisement, now gives notice, that on Saturday the 14th day of April next, at 12 o'clock, on the premises, he will offer to public SALE, A Number of Lots, Intersected by commodious streets, crossing at right angles, running due North and South, by East and West, agreeably to a plan deposited at Mr. Samuel Pleasants' Office. This land lies upon the margin of James river, and adjacent to that part of Richmond called Rocketts. The advantages of this property will present themselves to every person who will view it. The channel runs very near the bank, & that so high as to be entirely safe from freshes. Valuable warehouses are already erected near this spot, and there can be no doubt that the rapid increase of population and commerce of Richmond will render it desirable, both as a place of residence, and of business. It is known that the canal which has been accomplished at a considerable expense, and must shortly be communicated with tide water, & the improvements for land carriage, afford the means of conveying to this place the productions of an extensive & fertile country heretofore carried to the northern markets for want of these facilities; and if properly managed, must make it the important point of junction between the Eastern and Western people, as well a depot as a market for produce, coal and foreign merchandise. The legislature have lately incorporated a company for deepening the channel of the river, so as to bring ships of 300 tons burthen, to Rocketts. And have also established a bank on extensive principles which must greatly increase commercial enterprise. These important considerations contribute to render the property now offered for sale an object of attention to the Landlord, Merchant and Mechanic. The terms of sale will be one fourth for approved notes, in 60 days, the residue on bond payable the 1st Jan next, to carry interest if not paid punctually, and no title made until the bond shall be discharged. A discount of 6 per cent on the last payment, will be allowed for ready money. Wm. MAYO. Powhatan, Feb. 24th, 1804.
A man who writes a plain hand, is in want of employment. A line addressed to A. B. and left with Mr. Samuel Pleasants, Jr. will be attended to. March 9, 1804. tf
NOTICE. THE Election for Commonwealth Council-men and Aldermen for the city of Richmond will commence on the 1st Wednesday in April next, agreeable to an act of the General Assembly. J. WHITELAW, Serjeant of the city of Richmond. March 7, 1804. N. B. The place for holding the Election in Jefferson ward, at the court house of said city—in Madison ward, at the Eagle Tavern—in Monroe ward, at Judge Wythe's new tenement, nearly opposite to the dwelling house of Mrs. Braxton. J. WHITELAW, Sjt. Run away from the subscriber, living in Amherst county, on the 18th of last month, a mulatto man named WARRICK, about thirty years of age, and about five feet ten inches high, rather knock-kneed & slender made, had on when he went away a new suit of nap'd cotton. Whoever will deliver the said slave to me or secure him in jail so that I get him again, shall receive TEN DOLLARS reward besides what the law allows. ROBERT PAGE. 1st March, 1804. 3w*
W. COWAN, Watch & Clock Maker, Respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has commenced business in part of the shop occupied by Mr. E. Sullivan, Jeweller, one door below the Eagle Tavern. W. C. repairs Repeating, Horizontal and plain Watches; Musical, Chimé, Chamber and plain Clocks, on the most reasonable terms—Those who favor him with their custom may depend on having their work done with neatness and punctuality. N. B. A variety of WATCH CHAINS, SEALS and KEYS, for sale. March 12, 1804. 3w
WILLIAM TEMPLE, HAS FOR SALE, 100 gross black QUART BOTTLES, packed in hds. containing 2 1/4 gross each—100 gross WHITE LEAD, ground in oil, containing 2 3/4 gross, each—50 Kegs SPANISH BROWN—500 Sacks SALT—21 Bales best twilled SACKING, containing 6839 yards—4 chests 4-4 Irish LINENS, containing 50 pieces each, assorted, from 18d to 4s 6d sterling, or the bleach of Stephen, which by all who know them are preferred—1 chest 5-4 Irish SHEETINGS, containing 25 pieces, assorted, from 18d to 5s sterling—2 Bales INDIA COTTONS. Richmond, 8th March, 1804. [v]
WAR DEPARTMENT, Feb. 8th, 1804. Notice is hereby given, That separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary for the Department of War, until the eighteenth day of May next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of October, 1804, until the 30th day of September, 1805, both days inclusive, at the following places, viz. First. At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Chicago, Fort Wayne, the post on the Miami of the Lakes, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Ohio, and at any place or places within the Indiana territory north of the 41st degree of north latitude. Second. At South West Point, Tellico, Knoxville, Nashville, and within the Cherokee nation between Tennessee and Georgia, and on the Tennessee river, and on the road between said river and Nashville, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Tennessee and Kentucky. Third. At the garrison near Vincennes, on the river Wabash. Fourth. At Fort Massac, near the mouth of the Ohio, Kaskaskia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the Indiana territory, south of the 41st degree of north latitude, (Vincennes excepted.) Fifth. At St. Louis, New Madrid, and any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in Louisiana, north of the settlements on the river Arkansas. Sixth. At Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas, Natchez, Fort Adams, Fort Stoddart on the Mobile, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the Mississippi territory, and on the road between Natchez and the Tennessee river, (the post on said river excepted.) Seventh. At New Orleans, and any place or places on the Mississippi river, below Fort Adams, and at Opelousas, Natchitoches, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited in Louisiana, nor before mentioned, or provided for. Separate proposals will also be received as aforesaid for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of January, 1805, until the 31st day of December of the same year, both days inclusive, within the several states herein above mentioned, viz. Eighth. At Fort Wilkinson, Cockspur Island, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Georgia, and on the Indian boundary between Georgia and the Creek nation. Ninth. At Charleston, Rocky Mountain, on the head waters of the Santee, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of South and North Carolina. Tenth. At Norfolk, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Virginia. Eleventh. At Fort M'Henry, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Maryland and the district of Columbia. Twelfth. At Fort Mifflin, Pittsburg, Carlisle, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Thirteenth. At Fort Jay, West Point, Albany, Schenectady, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New York, (Niagara excepted.) Fourteenth. At Fort Trumbull, Fort Wolcott, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont. Fifteenth. At Fort Independence, (Boston harbour) and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Massachusetts (the district of Maine excepted.) Sixteenth. At Portsmouth, Portland, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New Hampshire and the district of Maine. A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of beef or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whisky or brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and one half of candles, to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the rations shall be specified; but the United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price for the whole ration. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara and Chicago for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the western waters for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the Commanders of fortified places or posts to call for at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in the case of urgency such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the Commandant shall be deemed proper. It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredation of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid by the United States at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or more persons of creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed. The privilege is understood to be reserved to the United States, of requiring that none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed, and that supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the S. Board or Indian frontiers, not exceeding three months. H. DEARBORN, Secretary of War. (t M 18) NOTICE. ALL persons having bonded claims against the estate of the late Gen. JAMES A. BRADBURY, are requested to bring them forward without delay, to SAM'L BUTLER, Ex'r. Surry County, February 8th, 1804. 2m COURTNEY'S COLLECTION OF Hymns & Spiritual Songs, Are for sale by the dozen or single, as S. Pleasants' Printing Office.

The VIRGINIA ARGUS Extra.
[Vol. XI.]
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REPORT.
Report of the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, on the resolve of the house of Representatives, directing them to enquire into the expediency of authorising the President of the United States to cause certain remote and unknown parts of Louisiana to be explored.
By a series of memorable events the United States have lately acquired a large addition of soil and jurisdiction. This is believed, besides the tracts on the east side of the Mississippi, to include all the country which lies to the westward between that river and the great chain of mountains that stretch from north to south, and divide the waters running into the Atlantic from those which empty into the Pacific Ocean; and beyond that chain between the territories claimed by Great Britain on the one side, and by Spain on the other quite to the South Sea.
It is highly desirable that this extensive region should be visited, in some parts at least, by intelligent men. Important additions might thereby be made to the science of geography. Various materials might thence be derived to augment our knowledge of natural history. The government would thence acquire correct information of the situation, extent and worth of its own dominions, and individuals of research and curiosity would receive ample gratification as to the works of art and productions of nature which exist in these boundless tracts.
There is no need of informing the house that already an expedition authorised by Congress at the second session of the seventh Congress, has been actually undertaken and is going on under the President's direction, up the Mississippi. The two enterprising conductors of this adventure, captains Lewis and Clark, have been directed to attempt a passage to the western shore of the South Sea; from them on their return in 1805, a narrative full of instruction may be expected. It is also understood that a survey has been ordered to be made of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio, to the falls of Saint Anthony. Of this a correct map may be expected within a reasonable time. The like also is hoped, in the course of a moderate period, from the latter place to the source of the Mississippi, and thence to the Lake of the Woods.
Men of political research have, in like manner, long known that the course of the Mississippi downwards to the Gulf of Mexico, has been well delineated by captain Hutchings; and that more recently, by the assiduous observations of Mr. Elliott, the turnings and windings of that river, southward of its junction with the Ohio, and the territorial line on the 31st degree of north latitude, to the north western angle of Florida, have been exhibited in a perspicuous and scientific manner. Along the coast of the ocean too, from Berdido bay to the bay of Saint Bernard, navigators have viewed the shores and coast so often, that there is little to explore.
But although there is so much really known, or in a train of investigation, concerning Louisiana, there are still some parts upon which it would be desirable to possess additional information. The tracts alluded to are those which remain principally in their original obscurity, and strongly attract the eye of the adventurer. Their pathless forests may be advantageously penetrated along the channels of the Arkansas and the Red River, two of those large and long water courses which intersect them. An expedition of discovery up these prodigious streams and their branches, might redound as much to the honor, and more to the interest of our government, than the voyages by sea round the terraqueous globe have done for the polished nations of Europe who authorised them. Such liberal enterprise will befit the present season of prosperity, and may be expected to succeed best during the reign of peace.
The Red River was visited many years ago, and even settled as high as Nachitoches. This old establishment is laid down in some of the maps, as being only seven leagues distant from the station of Adaïs, the capital of the province of Texas, and situated on the river Mexicano. Red River is described as difficult to ascend when the waters are low; but when high, a traveller may, by means of them, penetrate where he pleases. More than half a century ago, it was said that along its banks were many inferior lakes and drowned lands, that abounded with alligators and fishes; that its shores were inhabited by plenty of bisons, bears, tigers, wolves, deer and several other species of untamed beasts; as well as by turkeys, geese, swans, ducks and other kinds of wild fowl; and that all manner of indigenous fruit trees and grape vines sprout up luxuriantly from the soil. To these accounts, which are common to most other parts of the American wilderness when first visited by civilized men, other facts and considerations are now to be added—The nation has been lately told, on respectable authority, that
the Red River is navigable by boats one thousand miles beyond Nachitoches. It is reported to run through a country abounding in rich prairies, where neat cattle and horses range in innumerable herds as independent as the natural inhabitants. There is reason to presume the head of this stream lies concealed in the south western corner of the newly ceded territory. The limits of Louisiana, in that quarter, are obscure and undefined. And it is worthy of legislative consideration, whether the latitude and longitude of the Red River source ought not to be ascertained under the authority of the nation. It may be expedient that individuals will venture upon such undertakings for the gratification of their own speculative curiosity, and by discreet management, the journeys of such persons to minister to the national wants, and to general instruction, will but a trifling appropriation from the treasury.
The Arkansas which has been already traced above one thousand miles, also seems worthy of being explored with more care and to a greater extent than has hitherto been done. A spacious plain and valley inclosed annually, (like the soil in some spots about the Persian Gulf,) with native salt, in quantity sufficient to impregnate a branch of the Arkansas, and occasionally the river into which it falls, with its briny quality, and to make it a SALT RIVER down to the settlement of Ouïsarque, for considerably more than six hundred miles of its course, might be mentioned as no ordinary occurrence. The masses of VIRGIN SILVER and gold that glitter in the veins of the rocks which underlay the Arkansas itself and mingle with the minerals near certain other of its streams, and offer themselves to the hand of him who will gather, refine and convert them to use, are no less uncommon and wonderful. These extraordinary productions might be dwelt upon to considerable length, in this report; but credible as both relations are the committee forbears to offer anything more than that the existence of a salt river, precious mines and ores, and of some other remarkable objects, are stated upon solid and credible testimony.—Omitting these things as not necessary to be urged to congress, the committee considers that the latitude, longitude and relative situation of the source of the Arkansas, are themselves of sufficient moment to render their attainment very desirable.
Without writing a sentence on the advantages of tracing the streams of the Black river, the White river, the Mexicano, and of other rivers to their sources, the committee submits the following opinion:
That it will be honorable and useful to make some public provision for further exploring the extent, and ascertaining the boundaries of Louisiana—and
That a sum not exceeding dollars be appropriated for enabling the President of the United States, to cause surveys and observations to be made on the Red river and the Arkansas, or either of them, or elsewhere in Louisiana, as he shall think proper, for these purposes.
[By Authority.]
AN ACT Providing for the expenses of the Civil Government of Louisiana.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the monies which have been, or which shall be received, by any officer of the United States, on account of duties or taxes within the territories ceded to the United States, by the treaty of the thirtieth of April, eighteen hundred and three, shall be paid into the treasury, and accounted for in the same manner as other public monies.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of making a reasonable compensation to the person, or persons, in whom the powers of civil government, heretofore exercised by the officers of the said territories under the Spanish and French governments, have been vested by the President of the U. States, and also for defraying the other civil expenses of the said territories, from the time when possession of the same was obtained by the United States, to the time when a form of government shall, under the authority of Congress, be established therein, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, and to be accounted for as other public monies, shall be, and the same hereby is appropriated, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 19, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT For the relief of the sufferers by fire, in the town of Norfolk.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons who, being indebted to the United States for duties on merchandise, have given bond therefor with one or more sureties, payable to the collector of the district of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and who have suffered a loss of property by the late conflagration at the town of Norfolk, shall be, and they are hereby allowed to take up, or have cancelled, all bonds heretofore given for duties aforesaid, upon giving to the collector new bonds with one or more sureties to the satisfaction of the said collector, for the sums of their former bonds respectively, payable in twelve months from and after the day of payment specified in the bonds to be taken up or cancelled, as aforesaid; and the said collector is hereby authorised and directed to give up or cancel all such bonds, upon the receipt of others, as described in this act; which last mentioned bonds shall be proceeded with in all respects, like other bonds which are taken by collectors for duties due to the United States: Provided, however, that nothing in this act contained shall extend to bonds which had fallen due before the nineteenth day of February last.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 12, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Making an appropriation for defraying the expenses incurred in enquiring into the official conduct of Samuel Chase and Richard Peters, and in conducting the impeachment against John Pickering.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of such expenses as may have been, or hereafter may be incurred in prosecuting the enquiry into the official conduct of Samuel Chase and Richard Peters, and in conducting the impeachment against John Pickering.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That to every witness summoned to attend the Senate in support of the said impeachment, there shall be allowed for every day's attendance, the sum of three dollars, and at the rate of twelve and a half cents per mile, in coming from and returning to his place of abode, for travelling expenses.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any other expense certified by the chairman of any committee appointed to conduct the said enquiry or impeachment, to have been authorised by him, shall also be allowed and paid.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 19, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Granting further time for locating Military land warrants; and for other purposes.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act in addition to an act entitled "An act in addition to an act, regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen," approved the twenty-sixth day of April, eighteen hundred and two, be and the same is hereby revived and continued in force until the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and five: Provided, however, That the holders or proprietors of warrants or registered certificates, shall and may locate the same, only on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships, and the fractional quarter townships which had been reserved for original holders, by virtue of the fifth section of an act entitled "An act in addition to an act, entitled "An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen: And provided also, That no holder or proprietor of warrants or registered certificates, shall be permitted to locate the same by virtue of this act, unless the secretary of war shall have made an endorsement on such warrant or registered certificate, certifying that no warrant has been issued for the same claim to military bounty land; and by virtue of the second section of the act entitled "An act to revive and continue in force an act in addition to an act, entitled "An act in addition to an act regulating the
grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen, and for other purposes," approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and three.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 19, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT For the relief of the Captors of the Moorish armed ships Meshouda and Mirboha.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of eight thousand five hundred and ninety four dollars and fifty cents, being one moiety of the value of the armed ship Meshouda, captured by the frigate John Adams, commanded by captain John Rodgers, and restored to the Emperor of Morocco, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for defraying the expenses of prize money due to the captors; and that the further sum of seven hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty five cents, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for defraying the expenses incurred for the said ship, whilst in possession of the captors.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the further sum of five thousand dollars, be, and the same hereby is appropriated, for defraying the expense of prize money due to the officers and crew of the frigate Philadelphia, commanded by captain William Bainbridge, being one moiety of the value of the armed ship Mirboha, captured by the aforesaid frigate Philadelphia, and likewise restored to the Emperor of Morocco.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid several sums shall be divided amongst the captors, respectively, in the proportion already established by law, for the distribution of prize money, and shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 19, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
RESOLUTION to instruct the joint committee of Enrolled Bills to wait on the President of the United States, respecting a variance between an engrossed and enrolled bill.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the joint committee for enrolled bills be instructed to wait on the President of the United States, and lay before him the engrossed bill intituled "An act for the relief of the captors of the Moorish armed ships Meshouda and Mirboha," with the several amendments thereto, as the same was finally passed by both Houses of Congress; and to state the variance between the said engrossed bill and the enrolment thereof, as approved by the President, and to request that he will cause the said enrolled bill to be returned to this House, in which it originated, for the purpose of rendering the said bill conformable with the engrossed bill and the amendments thereto, as passed by the two Houses of Congress.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore.
AN ACT Making an appropriation for carrying into effect the convention concluded between the United States and the king of Spain, on the eleventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and two.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of defraying the expense which may arise in carrying into effect the convention, concluded between the United States and the king of Spain, on the eleventh day of August, one thousand eight hundred and two, the following sums, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same hereby are appropriated, that is to say;
For the salaries of the commissioners, including half the compensation of the fifth commissioner, half the expenses of the board and the contingent expenses of the commissioners of the United States, twelve thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars: Provided, that the compensation to be allowed to any of the commissioners, who may be appointed in pursuance of the said convention, shall not exceed the rate of four thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars per annum.
For the salary of an agent, whom the President of the United States is hereby authorised to appoint, for the purpose of
supporting the claims of citizens of the United States, before the board of commissioners, and to whom a compensation, not exceeding the rate of three thousand dollars per annum, may be allowed, three thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, be, and he hereby is authorised, to make the appointment of the said commissioners and agent, during the recess of the Senate, and to grant to the persons thus appointed, commissions which shall remain in force until the end of the next session of Congress and no longer.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after the day when the exchange of ratifications of the said convention shall be made.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 16, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Declaring the assent of Congress to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, therein mentioned.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the assent of Congress is hereby given and declared to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, intituled "An act for improving the navigation of James river," which act was passed on the twenty third day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 16, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT To revive and continue in force, an act, intituled "An act for the relief of the refugees, from the British Provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act intituled "An act for the relief of the refugees from the British Provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia," approved on the seventh of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, shall be, and the same is hereby revived and continued in force for the term of two years from the passage of this act, and no longer.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 16, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT To provide for light houses and buoys in the cases therein mentioned.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That as soon as the proprietor of the south end or point of St. Simon's island in the state of Georgia, shall convey by good and sufficient titles, unto the United States, so much land on the south end of the said island, as the President of the United States shall deem sufficient and most proper for the site and accommodation of a light house; and the jurisdiction of the land, so to be conveyed, shall have been ceded to the United States, by the state of Georgia, it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to provide by contract, which shall be approved by the President of the United States, for building a light house thereon, and for furnishing the same with all necessary supplies, and also to agree for the salaries or wages of the person or persons who may be appointed by the President for the superintendence and care of the same. And the President is hereby authorised to make the said appointments.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury under the direction of the President, be authorised and required to cause to be placed a buoy or buoys at such place or places on or near the bar of St. Simon's, as may conduce to the safe pilotage of vessels to and from the ports of Brunswick and Frederica.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the secretary of the treasury to cause to be rebuilt, in such manner as he may deem expedient, the light house at Clark's point within the town of New-Bedford in the state of Massachusetts.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury shall be, and he is hereby authorised and required to cause a sufficient light house to be erected on Five-mile point so called, at the entrance of the Harbour of New-

ven in the state of Connecticut, and to ap- point a keeper, and otherwise provide for such light house at the expense of the United States. Provided, That sufficient land for the accommodation of such light house can be obtained at a reasonable price, and the legislature of Connecticut shall cede the jurisdiction of the same to the United States.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated for the purpose of defraying the charges and expenses to be incurred in executing the two first sections of this act, the sum of seven thousand dollars;—for rebuilding the light house as aforesaid at Clark's point, a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars; and for the erection of a light house at the Five-mile point aforesaid, a sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars; which sums shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise ap- propriated.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JESSE FRANKLIN, President of the Senate, pro tempore. March 16, 1804. APPROVED: TH: JEFFERSON.
Advertisement. TAKEN up and committed to the jail of Washington county, a runaway negro man, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, supposed to be between 30 and 40 years of age, says his name is JERRY, thin visage—had on when brought to jail a drab colored coat, blue overalls, and with him a number of clothes, among which is a broad ribbed dimity jacket. He says that he belongs to John Walker a Cherokee Indian, and was sold to the said Walker by a Mr. Teel of Tennessee. He was committed to the jail of this county the 11th day of December last. The owner is requested to come and prove his property, pay charges and take him away. JAMES LONGLEY, Jailor. Washington county, Virginia, } Feb. 9th, 1804. } w3m
Sports of the Pit. A MAIN of twenty-one Cocks will be fought at Sweeney's Court-house on the 2d Tuesday in May next, for One Thousand Dollars. The subscriber will use his endeavors to have the best accommodation. At the same time and place, will be offered for sale, eight or ten Negroes, consisting of a valuable man, three or four Negro boys, and five girls—they are remarkably likely to compose one family; also, a valuable pair of young, well matched grey horses. GEO. DILLARD. Mar 19, 1804. 6
A Young Man is in want of a situation in a store, or as a clerk. Apply at John P. Shields' tavern, where he may be seen. FOR SALE. On Friday the 27th day of next month, will be sold to the highest bidder, at Dunkirk, in King & Queen county, A Tract of Land, contiguous to said town, and containing 1040 acres—800 acres of this land are low grounds on Mattaponi river, and compose a handsome plantation in good order for farming—the remainder consists of high land adjoining, of good quality, and has on it a commodious dwelling house, besides a valuable orchard of peach and apple trees. At the same time will be sold several improved LOTS in the town, on one of which there is a convenient tavern, with stables and a garden. The property will be sold collectively or separately as purchasers may wish. The land will be shown to any person, on application to Mr. Samuel Fauntleroy, who will bear his expenses. One third of the money to be secured in hand, and the balance in three annual payments. THOMAS MILLER. Powhatan, March 17, 1804. 1m
The subscriber will receive until the 14th day of next month, at the public market-house of Henrico, PROPOSALS, for furnishing the commonwealth of Virginia, for the Cavalry there- of, six hundred pair of HOLSTERS, and six hundred SWORD BELTS. He will also receive, until the above date, proposals for erecting a HOUSE in the city of Richmond, for the preservation of public Ordinances. JOHN CLARKE. March 20th, 1804. 11m
Fairfield Races. On Monday the 30th of next month, will be run for over the Fairfield course, a Sweepstakes for colts four years old, two mile heats. Five colts are entered at 300 dollars each, and the subscription closed; weights agreeably to the rules of the Jockey Club. On the same day the "Fairfield Jockey Club CUP" will be run for, two mile heats, free for all ages. The horses to be bona fide the property of members of the club. On Tuesday the first day of May, the Jockey Club Purse of 400 dollars will be run for, four mile heats. On Wednesday, the Purse of the proprietor of the course, three mile heats—weights as follows: Aged horses, 143 lbs.—6 years old, 126 lbs.—5 years old, 118 lbs.—4 years old, 106 lbs.—3 years old, 90 lbs.—Mares and geldings allowed 3 lbs. The treasurer takes this opportunity of reminding delinquent members, of the necessity of forwarding the amount of their subscriptions previously to the commencement of the races. March 23d, 1804. 1m
Louisa County Court, December 15th, 1803. Ludlow Bramham, plaintiff AGAINST John Boswell Johnson, Thomas M. Johnson, William Johnson, Patrick Michie and Dorothy his wife, Jane Johnson and Ann Johnson, defendants. IT appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant John B. Johnson, is not an inhabitant of this state, and he not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court: On the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney, It is ordered and decreed by the court, that he do appear here on the first day of May next and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith entered in some public newspaper in the city of Richmond for two months his successively, and posted at the front door of the court-house of this county. John C. COPE. WM. CO. POINDEXTER, D. C. V. G. 70
Just received direct from the Patentee's and for Sale by SHARP & LUCKE, RICHMOND, The following Valuable Family Medicines, Which they are also forwarding to the following persons, viz. Virginia—Thomas H. Walton, Cartersville; Thomas Wyatt, Lynchburg; John Gilliam & Co. Cumberland; Thomas Miller, Bedford; Moses Norris, Columbia; Samuel Shelton & Co. Warren; Zachariah Hall, Powhatan; John Peyton, Milton; Isaac Gauthier & Co. Lexington; Benj. & Christopher Morris, Staunton; Richard Rankin, Augusta (Jennings' Gap); Peter Crawford, Louisa; Henry H. Dickinson, Caroline; Robert Washington, Williamsburg; Barclay & Barclay, Aylesbury Warehouse; Capt. Lewis Booker, Essex. North Carolina—Major James Vaughan, Wilmington; Norwood & Blackwell, Granville; Thomas Webb, ditto.
Dr. RAWSON'S Anti-Bilious and Stomachic Bitters, Prepared by Thomas H. Rawson, New London, Member of the Connecticut Medical Society, for which discovery he obtained a Patent, signed by the President of the United States, July 24th, 1802, agreeably to an Act of Congress. THE celebrity and demand for these Bitters, and unolicited letters and certificates of their singular virtues and effects, as well from eminent Physicians as others of the first respectability, daily received by the Patentee, from all parts of the union, proves them experimentally the greatest discovery ever yet made in the healing art. The following are some of the most prominent complaints in which these Bitters are efficacious, and to universally admired, viz. Indigestion, Bile-tendencies, Debility, Gravel, Head aches, Dropsies, Lowness of spirits, Worms, Bilious complaints, Agues, Jaundice, Rheumatism, Female complaints And all that train of complicated complaints so common in the fall and spring seasons. They remove by their stimulating effects the two extremes of colic and relaxed habits of body, procure a strong appetite and digestion, diffusing to briskness and liveliness those persons who before taking them were melancholy, low spirited, and troublesome, and remove those dull, unpleasant feelings, so disagreeable to be borne. —Price 50 cents.
Dr. RAWSON'S Patent Anti-Bilious Pills, or Family Physic. These Pills produce the most sensible and surprising effects on the Bilious passage, and discharge with facility and ease all kinds of Bilious Congestions, and experience proves them superior to any other physic for Bilious & Yellow Fever, Costiveness, Female complaints, Cholics, Dizziness, And for destroying Worms in the bowels of children. Pains in the Stomach & Bowels. In great Colds and sudden attacks of disorders, an early use of these Pills often produce the happiest effects. Families living remote from skillful Physicians ought always to be provided with my Pills and Bitters, as their seasonable application by discharging congestions and giving tone to the first passages, often prevents the most tedious and formidable maladies, and when taken agreeably to directions have produced wonders in the cure of Fevers and Agues, so prevalent in new countries and low and marshy villages.—Price 25 and 37 1/2 cents a box.
Dr. RAWSON'S Itch Ointment. This Ointment has a remarkable ascendancy over every other composition heretofore discovered, for cleaning and beautifying the skin. Pimples and all kinds of Eruptions on the Face and elsewhere, and Cutaneous Disorders of almost every kind, are radically cured by this Ointment. It cures the Itch in a short time with safety, and ease. This Ointment is very agreeable in smell, it leaves the skin smooth and beautiful, and may at all times and on all occasions be used agreeably to directions, without in the least endangering the patient's health.—Price 42 cents a box. Tyee's Ditto, price 50 cents.
Dr. RAWSON'S Worm Powders, A Medicine which for efficacy and safety in its operation stands unrivaled. The most authentic proofs and respectable authorities of its astonishing virtues and surprising effects in extreme and alarming cases of Worms, may be seen at the places of sale.—Price 50 cents a package.
Genuine Aromatic PASTE, For the Teeth and Scurvy in the Gums. Prepared only by J. THOMPSON, New London, Connecticut. THE only Medicine in the world that will with certainty, and certainly, cure the Scurvy in the Mouth and Gums. This Paste cleanses the Teeth and purifies the Gums of any foulness, or acid corrosive humour; it braces and strengthens the fibres of the Gums, so that they adhere close to the Teeth; it is likewise a most effectual remedy for the breath, which generally arises from Scurvy in the Gums and bad Teeth. The Paste is contained to be on their guard against purchasing a spurious kind of Paste, made by one S. H. P. Lee, of New London; his spurious kind is of a dirty brown colour in rough tin boxes. The genuine kind is of a lively red colour, in neat powder boxes, and each direction paper signed by J. Thompson the only Proprietor, in his own hand writing. Where also may be had, Dr. RAWSON'S Anti-Bilious Patent Pills.
Genuine Windham Bilious Pills, PREPARED by Samuel Lee, Jun. of Windham, in the State of Connecticut; for which discovery he obtained a Patent signed by the President of the United States, April 30, 1796, agreeable to an act of Congress. The numerous puffing impositions upon the public, and statements of remarkable cures never made, yet certified by feigned names, or by persons unacquainted with the nature of diseases, and the effect of particular medicine, render it difficult to do justice to the Public, in offering sufficient motives to make trial of the virtues of this invaluable medicine. WISW
Bail and Delivery Bonds May be had at this Office.
Bartlett Still, IS OPENING A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF FANCY GOODS, In the house lately occupied by Mr. William Mewburn, next door to Messrs. Ellis & Allan, viz. Chintzes and Calicoes; Lace Cloaks and Veils; Fine Laces and Edgings; Lustreings and Satins; Silk Muslins; Italian Crapes; Feathers and Flowers; Fashionable Ribbands; Silk and Cotton Trimmings; Satin Umbrellas; Gloves and Glove Ties; Mouselin Vest Patterns; Hired Ware and Jewellery; Fine Guns and Pistols; Gold and Silver Watches and Clocks; warranted Gold and Silver Trimmings, new patterns; Gunpowder Tea and Spanish Segars, of a superior quality. N. B. B. S. offers his services to his friends and the public to transact Vendue & Commission BUSINESS. Those who may please to favor him with their business may depend on good treatment, as great exertions will be made to give satisfaction. PRODUCE and GOODS STORED and delivered on the shortest notice. Richmond, 14th Dec. 1803.
Louisa County, February Court, 1804. Henry Carter and Fanny his wife late Fanny Clarkson, Joseph Dudd and Lucy his wife late Lucy Clarkson, Thomas Jones and Catherine his wife late Catherine Clarkson, John Clarkson, and James Clarkson, Charles Clark, Francis Holges and Elizabeth his wife late Elizabeth Clark, Stephen Foster and Nancy Foster by Thomas Gardner their guardian and next friend, Sally Johnson, Benjamin Johnson, Polly Johnson, Charles Medlock, Susanna Medlock by Joseph Sanford her guardian and next friend, William Fordon and Anne his wife late Anne Medlock, William Hailey, Charles Hailey, Agatha Hailey, Henry Hailey, George Hailey, Mary Medlock, Agatha Medlock, and George Medlock, heirs of George Medlock, deceased, plaintiffs. AGAINST John Dickinson, Frederick Harris and William Turner, defendants. THE defendant Dickinson, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that said Dickinson is not an inhabitant of this state: It is ordered and decreed by the court, that the said Dickinson do appear here on the second day of May next to answer the complaint; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some of the Richmond newspapers for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of this courthouse on some court day. A copy, Teste, JOHN POINDEXTER, C. C. THE SUBSCRIBER IS VET DESIROUS TO SELL HIS Valuable Tract of Land, Lying in the upper end of Powhatan county, on both sides of Deep creek, being 12 miles from Cartersville, 2 from Appomattox river, less than one from the great Buckingham road and 42 from Manchester. The country is well regulated in its police and sociable in the manners of its inhabitants. To these local advantages may be added that the soil is fertile and well adapted to the culture of Tobacco, Grain and Grass. The mansion place is healthy, with dwelling houses and other places to accommodate a large family. It is supposed to contain about 1500 acres, of which 500 are valuable low grounds, 100 reclaimed for cultivation and the rest under heavy timber. Little more need be said to those inclined to possess a landed estate of easy access to Richmond and Petersburg by the Turnpike and Navigation. This land will be laid off in 2 or 3 convenient lots, and offered to public sale at Powhatan May Court, being the 16th, at 12 o'clock; for 1-4th payable at Christmas next, when possession will be given, and the remainder in equal annual payments, to carry interest from the time of possession, with approved personal and real security. The land and proposed allotments will be shown by Mr. David Maxey on the premises. WILLIAM MAYO. Henrico, March 15th, 1804. wtds
REMOVAL. WILLIAM D. WREN, COACH AND HARNESS MAKER, Begs leave to inform his friends in particular, and the public in general, that he has removed his shop to the place formerly occupied by Greaves, Holton & Greaves, coach-makers, and opposite the Governor's, where he will continue to carry on his business in all its various branches. W. D. WREN returns his thanks to his friends generally for the encouragement he has hitherto met with, and hopes that by his assiduity and steady attention to business, to merit their further patronage. He can also assure them that he has on hand, a large quantity of well seasoned timber, which (with the assistance of some of the best workmen in this state) will enable him to furnish carriages of the best quality, and on the shortest notice, with punctuality. N. B. W. D. W. is in daily expectation of a large quantity of COACH LACE, which, with what he has on hand, will make a general assortment, suitable for country coach-makers. As he receives it direct from the manufactory, he will have it in his power to sell at very moderate prices. March 16, 1804. w3m
JOHN WINSTON AND STANHOPE ROYSTER, Take this method of informing their friends and the public in general, that they have just commenced the Hatting Business, in the city of Richmond, on the main street, opposite the Bell Tavern, where they intend carrying on the same in all its various branches—they assure the public their commands shall be attended to with punctuality and dispatch, and hope from their assiduity to merit a share of their patronage. November 5th, 1803. [ec06m]
We are desirous of hiring TWENTY LIKELY Negro Fellows and Boys, To be employed in the coal business at our works in the county of Goochland, for which liberal prices will be given. We will likewise make contracts for raising from one to three hundred thousand bushels of Coal during the present year. JOHN ADAMS. SAMUEL G. ADAMS. March 20, 1804. 2w
READY MADE PENS For sale at this Office.
VIRGINIA: At a Court continued and held for Halifax county, the 24th day of August, 1803. Isaac Medley and Nancy his wife, late Nancy Cook, Robert Carter and Unity his wife, late Unity Cook, John Cook, Edmund Cook, Jarratt W. Cook, Elizabeth F. Cook, Richard Claiborne in right of his late wife Sally Cook, Patsy Cook and Rebeckah Cook by Elizabeth Cook their guardian, and Richard Cook by Isaac Medley his guardian, heirs and legal distributees of John Cook, dec. plaintiffs AGAINST Henry Cook, administrator of John Cook, dec. defendant. THE subpoena in this cause having been duly executed, and the defendant failing to answer the plaintiff's bill within the time by law prescribed after the filing of the same: Therefore, on the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, the said bill is taken for confessed; and it is decreed and ordered, that the plaintiffs recover against the said defendant the sum of one hundred pounds current money, the value of the land in the bill mentioned, unless the said defendant shall show cause to the contrary at or before the next quarterly session court to be held for the said county in November next, he being first duly served with a copy of this decree. A Copy, Teste, BERRYMAN GREEN, D. C. H. C.
VIRGINIA: At a Court continued and held for Halifax county, the first day of December, 1803. Isaac Medley and Nancy his wife, late Nancy Cook, Robert Carter and Unity his wife, late Unity Cook, John Cook, Edmund Cook, Jarratt W. Cook, Elizabeth F. Cook, Richard Claiborne in right of his late wife Sally Cook, Patsy Cook and Rebeckah Cook by Elizabeth Cook their guardian, and Richard Cook by Isaac Medley his guardian, heirs and legal distributees of John Cook, dec. plaintiffs AGAINST Henry Cook, administrator of John Cook, dec. defendant. IT appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendant is not an inhabitant of this state: On the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, It is Ordered, that the decree entered in this cause on the twenty-fourth day of August last, be made final, unless the defendant do appear and show cause to the contrary at or before May court next; and that a copy of the said decree and this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmond, for eight weeks successively. A Copy, Teste, BERRYMAN GREEN, D. C. H. C.
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol, in the City of Richmond, on Monday the sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and two, and of the commonwealth the twenty-seventh.
An Act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this commonwealth. [Passed 29th January, 1803.] WHEREAS numerous inconveniences and losses have accrued to this commonwealth, from the want of an adequate mode for the subjection of lands to the payment of taxes: And whereas it is a principle in well organized governments, that property should be held subservient to the purposes thereof: Be it enacted, That when the taxes upon any tract or survey of land shall have remained unpaid for the space of two years, such tract or survey of land shall be forfeited to the commonwealth, and subject to location, according to the terms prescribed by an act entitled "An act for reducing into one the several acts concerning the land office, ascertaining the terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated lands, for settling the title and bounds of lands, directing the mode of processioning, and prescribing the duty of surveyors," so far as the said act applies to waste and unappropriated land, and not to forfeited land; and title thereto shall be acquired by the said location, and by the payment of the taxes due upon such tract or survey of land: Provided nevertheless, that the tract or survey of land so as aforesaid forfeited, shall be subject to the redemption of the former right full and proper owner, at any time within one year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, upon the payment of the taxes due thereupon, with interest upon the same from the time they became payable. And be it further enacted, That at any time within six months after the annual return of the list of delinquents or delinquents for the non-payment of taxes upon land into his office, the auditor of this commonwealth shall cause this act to be published for three several times in the gazette of the printer of this commonwealth, and in some newspaper of general circulation, published at the seat of the general government: Provided always, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorise the location of any lands within the purview of this act, before the expiration of the time limited for the redemption thereof; nor to affect the rights of infants, femes covert, or persons of unsound mind, until one year after the disabilities shall have ceased. All acts and parts of acts, within the purview of this act, are hereby repealed. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day of March next. (A copy from the Roll.) Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of Rolls.
Notice.—All persons having claims against the estate of Samuel Cobb, dec. late of Chesterfield, are requested to make them known on or before the first day of May next. Those who fail may expect that every legal use will be made of this notice, as I wish to finally settle the accounts of the administration by that time. JOHN GOBBS, Adm rs . 19th March, 1804. w3t
JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale at S. PLEASANTS' Book Store, THE LETTERS OF CURIUS, WRITTEN BY THE LATE JOHN THOMPSON, OF PETERSBURG: TO WHICH IS ADDED A SPEECH, Delivered by him in August, 1795, on the British Treaty: WITH A SHORT ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE. Kills not the buds of virtue, no, they spread Beneath the heavenly beam of brighter sun Thro' endless ages into higher power. Thompson's Seasons.
A NEAT ASSORTMENT OF Morocco Pocket Books Is just received and for sale at this office.
The beautiful high-blooded horse, PRECIPITATE,
FULL fifteen hands and a half high, a fine sorrel, handsomely marked, of big bone, and great muscular strength and powers, evidently denoting the true English running horse—will stand at my stables, at Sandy Point, in Charles City county, at six guineas the season, and a dollar to the groom; but the season may be discharged by the payment of twenty dollars, on or before the 10th day of October. Extensive, rich and productive pastures, well enclosed, in various apartments, from which no mare can easily escape, as well on that account as from its physical situation. Servants found gratis; but no liability for involuntary escapes or accidents. This celebrated horse, whose name is so truly applicable to his character, was bred by Lord Egremont, foaled in 1797, got by Mercury (a son of Eclipse,) dam by Herod, granddam by Mamelon, out of Mr. Pratt's old Squirt mare, is undoubtedly one of the best horses ever imported into this country, and is now thought by many gentlemen, who have travelled some distance to see him, superior; although he has so lately crossed the sea, that it cannot be expected he should have gained his pristine form and beauty. He is truly such a horse as Virgil describes of a fine one—an eye large, black and full of fire, bold as the Lyon, active as the Greyhound, and in all his movements either, he rushes forward like a thunderbolt, and hesitates at nothing. In the first spring meeting 1799, at New Market, when three years old, he won the first class of the Prince's stakes, of 100 guineas each, beating Thunderbolt, Chanticleer, and Sir Pepper, four having paid forfeit. In the same week, he won the Polton stakes of 50 guineas each, beating Charboe, Dragon, and Palfrey—seven paid forfeit. Second spring meeting, he won the third class of the Prince's stakes, of 100 guineas, beating Thunderbolt—seven paid forfeit. And in the same week, he received 160 guineas forfeit from Lord Grosvenor's Radamanthus. In 1799, he won 50L at Guildford, beating Dage, Thunderbolt, Seringapatam, and Stout. The next day 50L at the same place, beating Cardock and Griffin. He also won the king's 100 guineas at Lewes, beating Skyscraper at three heats, the first being deemed a dead heat; after which he was so highly esteemed, that he became a stallion in his lordship's stud, at 12 guineas a mare.
This horse is the sire of Jongull, Petworth, Matramo, Rosalba, chestnut colt out of Bohail, chestnut colt out of Rosemary, Humburg, Lazarus, Ragimier, Apollo, Gulliver, Tag, Louise, Tipstaff, and many others of great fame now in training. I purchased him myself when in England last fall, at the sale of Richard Watt, dec. where a complete stud of his got were sold at auction, at prices far beyond what was common to wit, yearlings from 90 to 200L sterling—a printed list of which I now have in my possession, to be seen at any time. For character and performances, see Racing Calendar from 1790 to 1792 inclusive, Sporting Dictionary, page 188, vol. 2, printed 1803—William Taplin, author. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT. March 13, 1804. wtmy*
To cover the ensuing reason, at my stable in Chesterfield county, near Goode's and Bevil's Bridges, the high-bred, well-known English, Racer
DRUID,
A CHESNUT, elegantly formed, near sixteen hands high, twelve years old—His performances have been equal to any horse in England, as will appear by reference to the Racing Calendar.—He will be let to mares at SIX GUINEAS the season, which may be discharged by the punctual payment of Twenty Dollars during the season. Three Guineas the lenp, to be paid down and Teh Guineas insurance, and One Dollar to the Groom in each case—the insurance money demandable, if the property of the mare be changed after the first of August next, at which time the season will expire.—Good and extensive pasture, and the board of boys sent with mares, gratis; but I will not be responsible for escapes or accidents. Mares will be fed on moderate terms, if required, for which the money must be sent. THOMAS BRANCH. February 22d, 1804.
DRUID was bred by Earl Grosvenor, and got by Potonoconco, (son of Eclipse;) his dam (the famous Maid of Oaks) by King Herod; his granddam, Rarity, by Marchmont; his great granddam, called Snap-Dragon, by Snap; his great, great granddam, by Regulus; his great, great, great granddam, by Bartlett's Children; his great, great, great, great granddam, by Honeywood's Arabian, out of the dam of the two True Pines. DRUID started (for the first time) at New Market, in the Craven Meeting, 1793, for a Sweepstakes of 500 guineas each, (4 subscribers) and ran a dead heat with the Duke of Bedford's Top Gallant, brother to Sky Scraper, who the same day beat Lord Egremont's Golianna for another Sweepstakes. In the same Meeting, Druid won a Sweepstakes of 1000 guineas each, (3 subscribers) beating the Duke of Bedford's Hydra. In 1794, New-Market Craven Meeting, Druid won a Sweepstakes of 500 guineas each, (3 subscribers) D. I beating the Duke of Bedford's Top Gallant; and in the same Meeting won the second class of the Oatland Stakes of 50 guineas each, (21 subscribers) beating Kit Carr, Excelsior, Buzzard, Coriander, Golianna, Heroine, Patriot, and several others. In 1795 he only started once, being used chiefly as a trial horse. In 1796, New Market first Spring Meeting, he won a Sweepstakes of 200 guineas each, (4 subscribers) beating Mr. Churchill's Poet, and giving him 19lbs the two middle miles. The day following he won a plate of 50L beating Lord Sackville's Silver. Mr. Wilson's Eliza, and Mr. Lord's Mulespawner, the round course, 4 miles. Eliza afterwards won the King's Plate, and a great subscription at York.
In 1797, Druid won the second class of the Oatland Stakes, beating Viret, Spread Eagle, and many others. He also won the main of the Oatland Stakes, beating the famous horse Benington. In 1798, Druid won a 50L Plate at New Market; beating Sir C. Bunbury's Grey Hound and Mr. Gardner's mare, the round course—and won the Duke of Marlborough's Plate at Oxford, beating Mr. Lade's Truss, 3 mile heats. w8t