The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1804-12-29 00:00:00

THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) PUBLISHED BY RITCHIE & WORSLEY, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM...payable in advance.
NUMBER 71.]
SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1804.
[VOLUME 1.]
CONDITIONS.
 I. The Enquirer will appear twice a week...During the session of Congress and the Virginia Legislature, either a third paper or a supplementary half-sheet, during the week.  II. Terms of payment FIVE DOLLARS per annum, in advance.  III. ADVERTISEMENTS, from those who do not subscribe to the paper, should they not exceed a square in length, shall be inserted for seventy-five cents the first time, fifty cents for each time during three weeks, and for every additional insertion thirty-three cents; long ones in the same proportion.  IV. SUBSCRIBERS shall have their advertisements inserted for fifty cents the first time, and thirty-three cents for every additional insertion. 
Sales at Auction.
Will positively be sold on Saturday next, the 29th inst. at 12 o'clock, on the premises, at Public Auction:  THE LOT OF GROUND near the Court House, on the river bank, with a commodious DWELLING HOUSE, &c. thereon, the property of the estate of Patrick Wright dec'd. The lot known in the plan of the city by the No. 8. Terms of sale 1/4 Cash, the balance in an endorsed negotiable note in the Bank of Virginia, at 90 days. PROSSER & MONCURE, V. M's. (tds.) December 25.
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold on Wednesday the 2d January next, at 12 o'clock, on the premises, for approved negotiable notes in the Bank of Virginia at 60 days,  SIX VERY VALUABLE LOTS , known in Queeney's plan of the Academy or Theatre, lots, No. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, the situation of which is inferior to very few, if any lots in the city of Richmond. The plan may be seen at the office of the subscribers. PROSSER & MONCURE, V. M's. (tds.) December 25.
Auction Sales.
THOMAS TAYLOR & Co. WILL in future sell at the store occupied by M. W. Hancock & Co. on Wednesdays, in each week; and at their office, on Tuesdays and Fridays as usual. Dec. 1, 1803. eptf
NEIL MCCOULL has received his FALL SUPPLY OF DRY GOODS. Nov. 24. ept 1f
FARMINGDALE NURSERY.
THE SUBSCRIBER has FOR SALE, for the present season, at his Nursery, adjoining the Borough of Norfolk.  10,000 WORKED FRUIT TREES; Consisting of Apples, Peaches, Pears, Cherries, Apricots, Plums, Nectarines, &c. &c. selected from all parts of this state, from the Nurseries to the Northward, and from England. He flatters himself that these trees will be found equal to any others of the same kind being near one hundred sorts. He has also for sale a quantity of Lombardy and Balsam Poplars, Pride of China &c. with a large assortment of Tulip Roots, imported three years ago from London, and are beautifully variegated, of all colours. BAYLOR HILL. December 15. (eptf Wm. T.)
NOTICE.
BANK OF VIRGINIA. Richmond, Dec. 12, 1804. A GENERAL meeting of the Stock-holders will be held at the Bank-House, on the first Monday in January next, for the purpose of electing Directors for Richmond, Norfolk, Petersburg and Fredericksburg; and for other purposes relative to the affairs of the corporation. In order that a list of the real share-holders may be exhibited, those persons who have not sent in the receipts granted by the commissioners for receiving subscriptions, are requested to transmit them by the day above mentioned, together with the cashier's receipts for the second instalment, when new scrip will be issued, in lieu thereof, by the president. (eptf) JOHN BROCKENBROUGH, Custbr.
Insurance against Fire.
Phenix Fire Office, London, May 1, 1804. THE numerous and destructive fires which have happened within the period of the two last years, in different parts of Europe and America, (more particular in the towns of Liverpool in England, Gothenburg in Sweden, and Norfolk in Virginia,) render it proper to remind all persons who possess property in the United States of America of the utility of insurance. The Phoenix Office of London, is an institution sufficiently known by the very large and important losses it has paid, in consequence of the extensive conflagrations in the cities and towns of America to such sufferers as have had the prudence to protect their property, by Insurance.—The Phoenix Company deeply regret that, owing to the expense of officers and continued losses, upon the buildings and stores in the timber towns, no alteration nor remission on such risks can be made at present—but the Directors hope from the increase of brick and stone buildings, and other improvements of security, that the period is not far distant, when they will be able generally, to mitigate the rates of insurance in North America; and they confidently presume that the promptitude and honor with which they have uniformly fulfilled their extensive engagements, have unequivocally established the solidity, credit, and good faith of the Company. The Phoenix Company grant insurance upon buildings, goods and ships, whilst in dock or in harbor, from loss or damage by fire, upon the most moderate and equitable terms; and persons desirous of securing their property by policies from this company, are requested to transmit their orders to their correspondents in Great Britain. Nov. 3. eptf.
HUGH J. CRAWFORD, HAS Just Received, per the ship Alexander, from London: A general assortment of Genuine DRUGS & MEDICINES, which he will dispose of on moderate terms. Richmond, Dec. 25. (18w2m.)
Printing.
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THE YAZOO PAPERS.
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DOCUMENTS
Accompanying the Report of the Commissioners on the Georgia Mississippi Territory, ceded to the U. States. (A1.)
WEST FLORIDA, W.
George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, and so forth: to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:
Know Ye, that we of our special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors do give and grant unto Daniel Clark, Esquire, a reduced captain in the Pennsylvania troops, and to his heirs and assigns, all that tract of land, situated three miles south of Panamre, at the Natchez, on the river Mississippi, at a place known by the name of St. Catherine's Creek, and is bounded on all sides by vacant land, in our province of West Florida, and having such shape, form, and marks, both natural and artificial, as are presented in a plan thereunto annexed, as drawn by our said surveyor general of lands, which said tract of land contains three hundred acres, and is bounded as in and by the further certificate hereunto likewise annexed, under the hand of our said surveyor general of lands in our said province, may more fully and at large appear, together with all woods, underwoods, timber and timber trees, lakes, ponds, fishings, waters, water courses, profits, commodities, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining: together also with the privilege of hunting, hawking, and fishing, in and upon the same, and all mines and minerals; and referring to us, our heirs and successors, all mines of gold and silver. To have, to hold the said tract of land, and all and singular the premises hereby granted, with the appurtenances, unto the said Daniel Clark, his heirs and assigns forever, in free and common socage, yielding and paying unto us, our heirs and successors, or to the receiver general of our quit rents for the time being, or such other officers as shall be appointed to receive the same, a quit rent of one half-penny sterling, per acre, at the feast of St. Michael every year. The first payment to commence on the said feast of St. Michael, which shall first happen after the expiration of ten years from the date hereof, or within fourteen days of the said feast annually: Provided always, and the said grant is upon condition nevertheless, that the said Daniel Clark, his heirs or assigns, shall and do, within three years after the expiration of the said term of ten years as aforesaid, for every fifty acres of plantable land, hereby granted, clear and cultivate three acres at least in that part thereof which he or they shall judge most convenient and advantageous, or else do clear and drain three acres of marsh, or any such shall be contained therein, and shall further, within the time aforesaid, put and keep upon every fifty acres thereof accounted barren, three neat cattle, and continue the same thereon until three acres for every fifty acres be fully cleared and improved; and if it shall so happen that there be no part of the said tract of land for cultivation within the time aforesaid, without manuring & improving the same, if the said Daniel Clark, his heirs and assigns, shall, within three years after the expiration of the said ten years as aforesaid, erect on some part of the said land, one good dwelling house, to contain at least twenty feet in length, sixteen feet in breadth, and put on his said land the number of three neat cattle as aforesaid on every fifty acres therein contained; or otherwise if any part of the said tract of land that is stony or rocky ground, not fit for culture or pasture, shall and do within three years as aforesaid, after erecting the said house, begin to employ therein, and continue to work three years then next ensuing, in digging any mine, quarry, or draining any funkens or swampy grounds, it shall be accounted sufficient cultivation and improvement: Provided also, That every three acres which shall be cleared, and worked or cleared, and drained as aforesaid, shall be further accounted a sufficient seating, planting, cultivation and improvement, to save forever from forfeiture fifty acres of land in any part of the tract hereby granted; and the said Daniel Clark, his heirs and assigns, shall be at liberty to withdraw his or their stock, and to forbear working in any quarry or mine, in proportion to such cultivation and improvements aforesaid as shall be made upon the plantable lands, swamps funkens grounds or marshes therein contained: Provided also, That this grant shall be duly registered in the register's office of this province, within six months from the date hereof, and also that a docket thereof shall be entered in the auditor's office within the same time, if such establishment shall take place in this province: Provided always, That the said Daniel Clark, his heirs and assigns, at any time hereafter having seated, planted cultivated, and improved the said land, or any part thereof, according to the directions and conditions above mentioned, may make proof of such seating, planting, cultivation and improvement in the general court, or in the court of the county, district or precinct where the said land lieth, and having such proof certified to the register's office, and there entered with the record of this grant, a copy of which, duly attested, shall be admitted on any trial to prove the seating and planting of said land: Provided always nevertheless, That if the said Daniel Clark, his heirs and assigns do not in all things fully comply with, and fulfil the respective directions and conditions herein set for the proper cultivation of the said land, within the time herein above limited for the completion thereof, or if the said Daniel Clark, his heirs and assigns, shall pay to us, our heirs and successors, or to the receiver general of our quit rents, or to the proper officer appointed to receive the same, the said quit rent of one half-penny sterling per acre on the said feast of St. Michael, of St. Michael, or within fourteen days after annually, for every acre contained in this grant, that then, and in either of these cases respectively, this grant shall be void, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding; and the said lands, tenements, hereditaments and premises hereby specified, and every part and parcel thereof shall revert to us, our heirs and successors, as fully and absolutely as if the same had never been granted. Given under the great seal of our province of West Florida. Witness our trusty and well beloved Montfort Browne, Esq.
our lieutenant governor and commander in chief, in and over our said province. At Pensacola, the fifteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight, and in the eighth year of our reign.
(Signed)
MONTFORT BROWNE.
Secretary's office, certified by DANIEL CLARK, P. R.
Pursuant to a warrant from his honor, Montfort Browne, Esquire, lieutenant governor and commander in chief, in and over his majesty's said province, to me directed, bearing date the twenty-fifth day of February, anno domini, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven, I have caused to be surveyed and laid out unto Daniel Clark, Esq. a reduced officer in the Pennsylvania troops, a plantation or tract of land, containing three hundred acres, situated three miles south of Fort Panamre, at the Natchez, on the river Mississippi, at a place known by the name of St. Catherine's creek, and is bounded on all sides by vacant land, and hath such marks, both natural and artificial, as are truly represented in the plat annexed. Certified this twenty-eighth day of September, anno domini, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven, by ELIAS DUNFORD, Surveyor-General.
(A. 2.)
TO THE GOVERNOR.
I, Charles Howard, resident in this district, with due respect present myself before your worship and say, that desiring to settle a plantation in order to reside thereon, and labor to support my wife and five children: May it please your worship to grant me for this end, a piece of land situated on Fairchild's creek, adjoining the lands of John Jones, it being vacant and causing no prejudice to any of the adjoining neighbours. A favor which I expect from the distributive justice which you administer. Natchez, 28th August, 1794.
CHARLES HOWARD.
To the Governor General. I consider this petitioner entitled to four hundred acres of land. Natchez, 28th Jan. 1795.
MANUEL GAYOSO DE LEMOS.
New-Orleans, Feb. 24, 1795. The surveyor general, or particular, nominated by him, will establish this petitioner on four hundred square acres of land in the place mentioned in the foregoing petition, being vacant and in no wise causing prejudice to the adjoining neighbours, with the express condition, to make the road and a regular clearance within the peremptory term of one year; and this grant to be null, if at the expiration of the pre-cited space of three years, the land be not settled; nor shall he be enabled to alienate it within the same. Under which supposition he may make a survey thereof, and return it to me, to furnish the party interested with a corresponding title in form.
F. L. BARON DE CARONDELET.
Dn. Charles Trudeau, royal and particular surveyor of the province of Louisiana &c.
I certify that there was surveyed and laid out in favour and in the presence of Ebenezer Dayton, and with the assistance of both the adjoining neighbours, a tract of land of four hundred superficial acres, measured with the pole of the city of Paris, of eighteen feet king's measure in length, each area forming a square of ten poles on each side, conformable to the use and practice of this colony, which tract of land is situated in the district of Natchez, on the south bank of the river Homochitto, about sixteen miles to the S. E. of the fort: bounded on one side by land of William Henderson; on the other side by Nathan Swayzie; and on another by vacant land of his majesty's domain; the limits fixed agreeable to the lines in the plan, without paying attention to the variation, varying each eight degrees to the N. E. in which limits the titles and land marks figured in the plan were marked for boundaries, in the actual survey made thereof, conformable to the decree of the governor general, &c. dated the twenty-fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. In testimony of the foregoing declaration, I give the present certificate with the figurative plan annexed, drawn agreeable to the survey made by William Dunbar, deputy surveyor, dated the thirty-first of December last. April sixth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
Given for a second expedition, the twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. CHARLES TRUDEAU. Surveyor RI.
Dn. Francis Luis Hector Baron Carondelet, Knight of the religion of St. John, colonel of the royal armies, Governor, Intendant, General, Royal Vice Patron of the provinces of Louisiana and West-Florida, and Inspector of the Veteran Troops and Militia of the same, &c.
Examined the foregoing actual survey made by the surveyor of this province, Dn. Charles Trudeau, on the possession of which he has given Ebenezer Dayton the quantity of four hundred acres of land situated in the district of Natchez, on the south bank of the river Homochitto, about sixteen miles to the south-east of the fort; bounded on the one side by lands of William Henderson; on another by those of Nathan Swayzie; and on another by vacant lands of his majesty's domain, as is more fully shown in the preceding figurative plan; and finding it to be conformable to the rules of measurement, and to the grants of the aforementioned adjoining neighbours, without causing them any prejudice, nor having made any opposition, but given their consent, which their assisting in the said operations prove, allowing them, we also do allow them; using the power which the king has given us, we grant in his royal name to the aforementioned Ebenezer Dayton, the aforesaid four hundred superficial acres of land, that as his own property he may dispose of them, and the profits thereof, being governed by the said survey and observing the conditions provided, and regulations thereunto added.
We grant the present, signed with our hand, and sealed with our arms, and countersigned by the underwritten, his majesty's secretary of this government and intendant, at New-Orleans, the twenty-ninth of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. (Signed.)
(L. S.) F. L. BARON DE CARONDELET. By order of his lordship, ADREZ LOPEZ ARMESTO.
(B.)
The undersigned respectfully presents to the commissioners of the United States, appointed under an act of congress to settle the claims of the state of Georgia, and of individuals to the territory commonly called the Mississippi Territory, the representation of Joan Miller, junr. Thomas W. Francis, Henry Pratt, John Ahlfley, and Jacob Baker, trustees of James Greenleaf, and of Thomas Fitzsimons, Samuel Bennet, and Thomas Stretch, attorneys for Hugh Rofe and Valentine Jones: he begs leave to inform the commissioners that he shall remain here some time, in order to give any explanations that may be necessary.
The documents marked A, No. 1 to 4, represent the title of James Greenleaf's trustees to 2,500,000 acres of land in Georgia company, to wit:
 A, No. 1. Memorial of Henry Pratt, Thomas W. Francis, John Miller, junr. John Ahlfley and Jacob Baker.  2. Copy of the deed of conveyance from the grantees of the Georgia company to James Greenleaf.  3. Deed in trust to George Simpson.  4. Deed in trust, George Simpson to Henry Pratt, Thomas W. Francis, John Miller, junr. John Ahlfley and Jacob Baker. 
The documents marked B, No. 1 to 15, represent the title of Hugh Rofe and Valentine Jones, to land within the Georgia company's purchase, and upper Mississippi company to wit:
 B, No. 1. Memorial, Samuel Bennet, Thomas Stretch, and Thomas Fitzsimons, attorneys to Hugh Rofe and Valentine Jones.  2. Power of attorney, Hugh Rofe to Samuel Bennet.  3. Power of attorney, Valentine Jones to Thomas Stretch, and Thomas Fitzsimons.  4. Notarial copy of the grant of the state of Georgia to the Georgia company.  5. Ditta, of the conveyance, Matthew M'Allister to Wade Hampton, of his remaining interest.  6. Ditta of the conveyance, J. Waldburger to James Gunn, and Wade Hampton.  7. Ditta of Zachariah Cox to James Gunn.  8. Ditta George Walker and W. Longstreet, to James Gunn and Wade Hampton.  9. Articles of agreement between the grantees of the Georgia company to which is annexed, a list of fundry conveyances, &c.  10. Copy of conveyance, James Gunn, and Wade Hampton, to Hugh Rofe, for the one half of a tract of land therein described, the half to contain 1,200,000 acres.  11. James Warrington's conveyance to Hugh Rofe, for 1-12th and 1-5th of 1-12th of the upper Mississippi Company.  12. Lease, Rofe to James.  13. Release, fame to fame.  14. Articles of agreement, Wade Hampton, & Hugh Rofe.  15. Articles of agreement, James Gunn and Hugh Rofe. 
NOTE.—Hugh Rofe's conveyance to Valentine Jones, is in England, but expected daily. Washington, Nov. 24, 1804.
Geo. SIBBALD.
Hon. Samu Madison, Albert Gallatin, Levi Lincoln, Esquires.
(B, No. 1.)
To the Honorable: James Madison, Albert Gallatin and Levi Lincoln, Esqs. commissioners on the part of the United States, for treating with commissioners appointed by the state of Georgia, &c. &c.
The subscribers, attorneys to Hugh Rofe and Valentine Jones, Esq. of Great Britain, respectfully represent.
That, in pursuance of an act of the general assembly of the state of Georgia passed on the 7th day of January, in the year of our lord 1795, entitled, "an act supplementary to an act for appropriating a part of the unlocated territory of this state, for the payment of the state troops, and for other purposes therein mentioned, and declaring the right of this state to the unappropriated territory thereof, for the protection and support of the frontiers of this state, and for other purposes therein mentioned." George Matthews, then governor of the state, under the great seal of the same, did on the thirteenth day of January of the same year, give and grant unto James Gunn, Matthew M'Allister and George Walker and their associates, called the Georgia company, their heirs and assigns forever, a certain tract of country described in the deed, an exemplified copy of which is deposited in the office of your honors, and by one other deed under the great seal of the same state, did on the fifteenth day of January 1795, grant unto John B. Scott, John C. Nightingale and Wade Hampton, under the style and title of the Upper Mississippi company, one other tract of land described in the deed likewise deposited in your office.
That Wade Hampton being one of the associates in the said Georgia company, and James Gunn one of the grantees under them both seized as tenants in common, in fee simple of the following described tract (being that part of that granted to the Georgia company) that is to say, beginning on the river Mississippi, where the latitude of thirty-three degrees, twenty minutes north of the equator intersects the same, therein running a due east course (by land conveyed by the said Georgia company to James Greenleaf) to the main Tom Bigby river, thence up the said river to where the parallel of latitude thirty-three degrees twenty minutes intersects the said Tom Bigby river, thence a due west course along the said parallel, being the distance of twenty-four British statute miles as aforesaid, north of the latitude of thirty-three degrees twenty minutes to the river Mississippi, thence down the Mississippi to the place of beginning.
That the said Wade Hampton understanding of the one equal moiety thereof, and James Gunn of the other half, the said Wade Hampton and James Gunn, on the fourth day of February, 1797, sold to Hugh Rofe then in Philadelphia, one full equal and undivided moiety of their respective shares, and interest in the said described tract (except one tenth of the whole) which moiety should contain one million two hundred thousand acres, and for which full payment and satisfaction was made, as by the deeds and contracts accompanying this memorial will more fully appear.
That John A. Scott, being one of the grantees in the Upper Mississippi company, did, on the sixteenth day of January, 1795, transfer and assign over to Wade Hampton, his heirs and assigns forever, all the right, title interest and benefit which he the said John A. Scott as grantee or otherwise had or did hold in the said Mississippi company, being unto twenty-five parts thereof, and John C. Nightingale by indenture, bearing date the seventh day of January in the same year, did sell and convey to the said Wade Hampton, his heirs and assigns forever, all his right, title and interest which he as grantee or otherwise held to the said Mississippi company, being nine twenty-fifth parts thereof by which the whole territory or tract of country granted to the said Mississippi company was fully vested in the said Wade Hampton, his heirs and assigns, in as full and ample a manner as the same was by the grant of the state, vested in the said John B. Scott, John C. Nightingale, and Wade Hampton, as trustees or otherwise.
That Wade Hampton, by indenture bearing date the sixth day of March, 1795, granted and sold to Adam Tuno, James Miller and James Warrington, their heirs and assigns forever, the whole of the said tract as contained within the original grant from the state of Georgia to the said Mississippi company with all the rights, privileges and pre-emptive appointments thereto. And that James Warrington on the twenty-fifth day of February, 1795, sold and conveyed to Hugh Rofe, all the right, title, and interest which he the said James Warrington held in the said Mississippi company being one twelfth part and the one fifth of one twelfth, making together one fifth thereof, containing one hundred and fifty thousand acres.
That Hugh Rofe, by indenture under his hand and seal, bearing date the twentieth day of February, conveyed to Valentine Jones, the one half as well of the one million two hundred thousand acres, purchased of James Gunn and Wade Hampton (part of the tract granted by the state of Georgia, to the Georgia company) as of the one twelfth and one fifth part of one twelfth of the tract granted to the Upper Mississippi company, purchased of James Warrington, so that the said lands are now held in equal and undivided proportions between the said Hugh Rofe and Valentine Jones, who have never conveyed the same or any part thereof to any other persons, or persons who have received or authorized any other person to receive any part of the original purchase money from the state of Georgia.
That the said several tracts of land having been lately ceded by the state of Georgia to the United States, your memorialists have judged it necessary to lay this their claim before your honors, with copies of the several papers therein referred to, the originals whereof when called for, will be produced, and if it shall be thought proper by the United States, to grant a reasonable compensation in lieu of this their claim, they will be ready to treat for the same, at such time and in such manner as you will please to point out.
SAMUEL BENNET, Attorney for Hugh Rofe. THOMAS FITZSIMONS, THOMAS STRETCH, Attorneys to V. Jones.
(B. No. 9.)
Accompanying the preceding letter No. 1.
STATE OF GEORGIA.
Articles of agreement made and concluded upon this first day of January, in the year of our lord 1795, between James Gunn, Matthew M'Allister, George Walker, Zachariah Cox, Jacob Waldburger, William Longstreet, James Gunn in trust for his friend Wade Hampton as well for himself as for William Stick junior and Gideon Denison, all at present of the town of Augusta, gentlemen. Whereas the aforesaid persons did from themselves into a company, known and distinguished by the name of the Georgia company, for the purpose of purchasing from the said state a part of her unlocated western territory, and on the written application of the aforesaid James Gunn, Matthew M'Allister and George Walker, for themselves and their associates the before named persons, did propose to purchase from the legislature of the said state, all that tract a district of country described as follows: all that tract or parcel of land including islands, situate lying and being within the following boundaries, that is to say, beginning on the Mobile bay, where the latitude thirty one degrees north of the equator, intersects the same, running thence up the said bay to the mouth of the lake Penfab, thence up the said lake Penfab, to the Alabama river, including Gurry's and all other islands, therein, thence up the said river Alabama to the junction of the Coatee and Oakfuskee rivers, thence up the Coatee river above the big shoals, to where it intersects the latitude of thirty four degrees north of the equator, thence a due west course to the Mississippi river, thence down the middle of said river to the latitude thereby two degrees forty minutes, thence a due east course to the Den on Tom Bigby river, thence down the middle of said river to its junction with the Alabama river, thence down the middle of said river to the Mobile bay, thence down the said Mobile bay to the place of beginning. And whereas it has been found expedient to dispose of a considerable quantity of said lands to divers persons, for the purpose of raising a fund to effect the purchase of the same: and the said parties have also found it necessary to distribute to a variety of citizens of this state, certain outshares or quantities thereof, in order that the benefit of said purchase, if any there be, should be as generally diffused as possible: now therefore it is mutually agreed upon, by and between the said James Gunn, Matthew M'Allister, George Walker, Zachariah Cox, Jacob Waldburger, William Longstreet, James Gunn in trust for his friend Wade Hampton, as well for himself as for the said William Stick the younger, and Gideon Denison, and the several and respective heirs, executors and administrators for the better securing the remaining quantity of land, within the limits aforesaid, to the above named James Gunn, Matthew M'Allister, George Walker, Zachariah Cox, Jacob Waldburger, William Longstreet, James Gunn, in trust for his friend Wade Hampton, as well for himself as for the said William Stick the younger, and Gideon Denison, and their respective representatives as aforesaid, they mutually agree with each other, for themselves and their respective representatives, in the following manner, that is to say, that the said several persons and their respective representatives as aforesaid, except the said William Stick the younger, and Gideon Denison, who have transferred their respective shares to the said Wade Hampton, shall be, and they are hereby equally entitled to all the lands that may remain unappropriated, and undisposed of, and also to any surplus which now is, or may hereafter appear to be within the limits before described, share and share alike, as tenants in common, and not as joint tenants, and all expenses and disbursements which have taken place, or reasonable charges which may hereafter accrue, in carrying the disposition of the company into effect, shall be borne by the said parties and their respective representatives equally, and the profits and produce of any sales which shall be made at any time or times hereafter, by direction of a majority of said company, or their respective representatives as aforesaid, of any part or parcel, or the whole of said land, shall be divided between the company and their respective representatives, share and share alike as aforesaid; and further, it is the true intent and meaning of these presents, and of the parties hereto subscribing, that the said parties, and their respective representatives shall be equally benefited by the purchase of the aforesaid territory, and shall share in all respects the same advantages, in witness whereof, the said parties have interchangedably set their hands and seals, the day and year above written.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of, JAMES GUNN, for self and friend, (L. S.) MATTHEW M'ALLISTER, (L. S.) GEO. WALKER, (L. S.) JACOB WALDBERGER, (L. S.) W. LONGSTREET, (L. S.) W. HAMPTON, (L. S.)
The word "therein" interlined in the twenty-seventh line of the first side, also the word "represen-tive" interlined in the twenty-fourth line of the third side. JOSEPH WARE, T. SUMTER, Jr.
(To be continued)

Foreign Intelligence.
Continued from London papers to the 22d of October, received at the office of the N. Y. Mercantile Advertiser.
LONDON, October 19.
Letters were said to have been yesterday received in town from Dublin, announcing the discovery of a formidable conspiracy in the county of Kildare, and that 30,000 men were organized. We have this morning received letters and papers from Ireland which are perfectly silent upon the subject, and we have every reason to believe that the rumour is altogether unfounded.
It is with great pain we lay before our readers the following distressing account of the loss of the Princess of Wales, captain Colin Campbell, from Jamaica for Grenock, which was received in Glasgow on Saturday morning:
"Liverpool, 11th Oct. 2 o'clock, P. M. "We are extremely sorry to communicate the following distressing intelligence, just received by the ship Hope, captain Stanton, arrived from New-York in 18 days."
"On the 9th inst. between 11 and 12 A. M. Beachy Head bearing E. by S. dist. about 6 leagues, fell in with part of a wreck, and took therefrom Hugh Rankine, seaman, who informed me he belonged to the Princess of Wales, Colin Campbell, from Martha Brae, bound to Grenock, with rum, sugar, cotton, &c. that was cast away on Saturday last, about five P. M. in thick foggy weather, on the shoals between Wicklow and Dublin; does not know if the captain is saved, as the last he saw of him was on the poop deck attempting to get into the boat. The first and second mates, two passengers, and eleven of the crew remained on the wreck without provisions or water; they secured a small keg of spirits which floated out, and was all they had to subsist upon. On Monday morning the poop deck separated; Mr. Hunter, Mr. McMillan and Rankine got thereon; the two first died, and were washed off, about two hours before the latter saw the Hope, which took him up. Several vessels passed by near the wreck in the morning, but took no notice."
October 20.
Admiral Cornwallis is still in Torbay. According to the last accounts from Boulogne no vessels have ventured to appear outside the harbor.
Orders have been sent down to Portsmouth to allow the Spanish officers to come on shore, and to go to any convenient town, on their parole, but to be at full liberty; the men also are not to be considered as prisoners of war, but only as detained persons, and to have the same allowances of provisions and other indulgencies as our own people.
We have never been sanguine enough to hope that, in the event of a continental war, the king of Prussia, could be induced to depart from his neutrality, or to adopt a system of policy more consonant with his real dignity, the permanent interests of his kingdom, and the general independence of Europe. Indeed, from the extraordinary preponderance of French influence in the councils of Berlin, we have been inclined to apprehend, that if Prussia were to take any share in the contest, it would be as the ally, and not as the enemy of France. The answer which his Prussian majesty is stated to have given to the letter addressed to him by the king of Sweden, strongly confirms our opinion. In this answer, it is said, his Prussian majesty declares, "that he will maintain with his power, the system of neutrality he has adopted, and that he will protect the tranquility of the north of Germany against all attempts to disturb it." His majesty has also declared, "that he could not permit Sweden to prepare hostile armaments in Pomerania, or to make demonstrations against the French forces in the electorate of Hanover."—We do not vouch for the accuracy of this extract from the king of Prussia's letter, but it is circulated and generally believed on the continent.
The Hamburg mail which we received this morning, brings no further particulars respecting the intended change in the government of Holland; but our Paris letters concur in stating, that it is hourly expected to take place. The moderate party, of whom Schimmelpennick is considered as the chief, will be placed at the head of affairs.
The defections from the camp at Zeist still continue, notwithstanding all the precautions that are used. The regiment de Waldeck alone, lost 80 men within a few days.
On the 2d inst. the city of Bremen paid the first instalment of the contribution imposed by the French, amounting to one hundred thousand rix-dollars. The remainder is to be paid at the rate of 50,000 rix dollars every eight days until the whole is satisfied.
Count Panin, whose attachment to this country is well known, is appointed to a high situation in the Russian ministry.
The famous Kotzebue has married a Mrs. Von Karfel, formerly Von Krusensteln. She is his third wife.
The Spanish ship mentioned yesterday to have arrived at Spithead, is the Fama frigate, 84 guns, which, in company with two others, commanded by a Spanish admiral, has been taken by a squadron of frigates, commanded by Captain Graham Moore, consisting of the Indefatigable Lively, Capt. Hammond; Medusa, Captain Gore; and the Amphion Captain Sutton; after an action of Cape St. Mary's going into Cadiz, which port the English squadron was blockading, with the express intention of detaining these ships. But we are grieved to state, that another of the Spanish frigates which was opposed to the Amphion, blew up and every man perished. The Fama fought the Lively with spirit, having had twelve men killed and fifty wounded, and the ship very much cut up. The Lively had two men killed and seven wounded. The Medusa and the other frigate are hourly expected to arrive.
When the Spanish admiral hove in sight, Capt. Graham Moore, the commander, communicated to him the purpose upon which he was employed, and begged that he would accompany him with the squadron without opposition, into the English port. The Spanish admiral took some time to consider of this invitation and shewed his aversion to it by attempting to get away.
The indefatigable then fired a large gun to bring her to, but they all instantly made sail. The squadron pursued, and after several hours running light, three of them struck and one blew up, and we lament to say, that every man perished. They have about 1,000,000 on board. The Fama is very much shattered, and had twelve men killed and forty seven wounded; and the Lively had two men killed and six wounded. The other two prizes are ordered to this port. Captain Hammond went to London last night. The prisoners are put on board the prison ships in the harbour. On the approach of the squadron off Cadiz several frigates came out, it is supposed, with pilots, to conduct the ships into port; but they quietly returned, hearing a gun fired.
It is imagined, by the officers that the Spanish suspected the intentions of our ships.
The Spanish ships fought with uncommon bravery. The one which blew up, was opposed to the Amphion half an hour; and the Fama engaged the Medusa some time before the Lively too roughly treated her. The Spanish admiral had time to prepare his ships for battle, as it was an hour before he attempted to run. Lieut. Peake of the Lively, is arrived in charge of the prize.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 19.
This day the Spanish frigate the Fama, captured by his Majesty's ship Lively, made signal for coming into harbor; but the wind blew hard, and her leaving Spithead is postponed until tomorrow.
In the engagement with the Spanish frigates no British officer fell, but we are sorry to learn that we lost eleven of our brave tars. In one of the frigates were 14,000 Seal skins; in another nine thousand dollars: the third entirely loaded with bullion.
HAMBURG, October 5.
We are assured that the letter of the emperor Napoleon, delivered by M. D'Abberg to the king of Prussia, is of the most friendly contents. The emperor declares, among other things, that he feels a lively interest in every thing that may increase the lustre of the Prussian monarchy. It is confirmed, that the court of Berlin will not only continue its former system of neutrality, but that it will employ all the means in its power to prevent the peace of the North of Germany from being disturbed, against every one who attempts it.
According to letters from Constantinople of the 27th of August, the Grand Seignor was for some days so ill, that public prayers were said in the mosques for his recovery.
They write from Copenhagen, that the Russian squadron in the road is expected soon to sail for Revel.
CONSTANTINOPLE, August 27.
As the Janissaries have not received their pay for several weeks we are in fear of an insurrection. Yesterday the Aga of the Janissaries was deposed.
The Capt. Pacha is now with a considerable squadron before Acre, and holds that fortress blockaded by sea, while it is besieged by land by the new Pacha Ibrahim. Every exertion is made to compel the surrender of the usurper Ismael, who, after the death of Djezzar Pacha, seized the government of Acre, and refused to resign it to the successor appointed by the Porte, or to deliver up the great treasures which Djezzar Pacha had amassed. It has been reported that Acre is taken; but this wants confirmation; as does also the report that the Bays in Egypt, and the Bedoin Arabs who had joined them, have entirely been defeated by the Arnauts. It is much more certain the Bays of Belgrade have been obliged to yield to the superior force of the Pacha of Bosnia, and deliver up four of their chiefs, whose heads have been stuck off. The inhabitants of Servia have been promised that for the future, they shall be freed from those oppressions which caused them to take up arms; that the Porte will confirm and protect their privileges; and that they shall hereafter be governed by officers of their own nation.
Two very considerable Greek commercial houses viz: Coima, Mamuni and Co. and Demetri, Bally and Son, have lately stopped payment. Several other bankruptcies are expected. The scarcity of money here is extreme.
SEMLIN, Sept. 12.
According to the last letters from Servia, conferences continue, and a certain agreement is on the eve of being concluded between Bekir Pacha and the chiefs of the insurgents. The proposals made by the Servians are regarded as forerunners of a pacification, and are now under deliberation. They are as follows:
 I. The command over the Servians shall remain exclusively with their present chief, Czerri George. He shall collect the taxes and contributions which the Servians usually pay to the Grand Seignor and shall regularly remit to the Ottoman Porte the sums he thus receives.  II. No Turk shall have a right to decide in any affair concerning the Servian subjects. That right belongs exclusively to the general, Czerri George.  III. No Turk is permitted to settle in the towns and villages of Servia, and to remain there without previously having obtained the permission of Czerri George and the Pacha.  IV. It is understood that all Turkish Custom House officers and officers of justice shall be immediately sent away, and replaced by others of the Servian nation, appointed by Czerri George.  V. The garrison duty, and service in fortified places are to be performed in common by the Servians and Turks: 500 of the latter are, therefore, to be elected and supported by the Servians.  VI. Five hundred Servians are chosen to attend General Czerri George every where.  VII. The Servians shall every year pay to the Ottoman Porte a tribute of half a million of dollars, and supply besides the Pacha with every thing necessary for his rank and support.  VIII. The Pacha is to continue to receive the sums as formerly from the custom and imports. The Servian general shall not meddle with them.  IX. The Servian subjects shall have, in future, full liberty to dispose of the productions of their lands or industry, in what manner they choose. Every thing shall be paid them in ready money, according to settled price.  Such are the articles proposed by the Servian insurgents for consenting to peace; declaring them at the same time their ultimatium, which it is supposed will be acceded to. It is said that Bekir Pacha, to prove his inclination for a peace, has offered to unite 10,000 Servians with his own forces, and to march against Musso Aga, who has caused new disturbances in Bosnia. The commander of the Kersalen has requested permission to be of the same expedition.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 22.
The arrival of the British Packet Princess Charlotte, has furnished us with a regular file of the London General Shipping and Commercial List to the 20th of October inclusive, from which we have made the proper extracts. The Princess Charlotte comes in place of the Eliza, which failed from Falmouth with the American mails on the 9th, but having sprung a leak soon after sailing, was obliged to return to rest. The List of the 20th mentions that two Spanish vessels, whose cargoes were landed, had been taken possession of at Cowes, by order of the admiral. The capture of the Spanish frigates, and the detention in British ports of vessels belonging to Spain, without any cause being assigned, is doubtless tantamount to a declaration of war.—[Daily Adv.]
A private letter from Paris says, General Augereau has lately been in that capital with O'Connor and Martin, noted Irish Revolutionists and after many conferences with the war Mini-
ster, has departed to Breth. It was conjectured he had received his final instructions, and was to proceed to Gantheume's fleet on a secret expedition.
Dutch papers mention that Malta is to be given to Russia. 1b.
By a gentleman of information just arrived from St. Peterburg, (Russia) which he left the 26th September, we are informed, that a war with France was considered inevitable. That the Chargé-des-affaires which had been left by the French Minister, was ordered to leave Russia on the 24th September; but that, in consequence of the receipt of information that the Russian Chargé-des-affaires had been detained at Strasbourg, a courier had been dispatched to Revel, to detain the Frenchman:—That the greatest activity prevailed in the Russian Navy yards, and several ships of the line had been ordered out of dock, which circumstance, at the season of the year, evinced urgency. That an army of 150,000 men was assembled on the western frontier of Russia, to command which the Grand Duke Constantin (brother to the Emperor, and an eleve of Suwarrows) left Peterburg, some days before our informant failed:—That the general expectation was, that hostilities against France would commence in the spring, unless conciliatory propositions were received from Bonaparte during the winter. Russia can fit out a navy of 70 sail of the line.
Sweden, it was agreed on all hands, would follow the fortunes of Russia; without whose assistance she was in no situation to engage in a war.
Denmark, it is said, would preserve her neutrality as long as the cold; and seemed rather inclined to France than Russia. She cannot long remain in peace, if the expected war break out. Bost. Centinel.
Domeftic Intelligence.
RHODE-ISLAND. Dec. 13.
On Wednesday, 5th instat, the Presidential Electors of this state met at Bristol, and we are happy to learn were unanimous in their ballots for Thomas Jefferson as President, and George Clinton as Vice-President of the United States. Republican.
VERMONT.
The Vermont Electors on Wednesday sevenday, convened at Woodstock, gave their votes for President and Vice-President as follows, viz:
Thomas Jefferson, President, 6. George Clinton, Vice-President, 6.
NEW-YORK.
The American Citizen of New-York, informs, that Messrs. Stockton and Mr. Whortner, two leading federal lawyers of New-Jersey, have accepted fees from Mr. Burr, to plead in his defence in the case of the indictment found against him for having killed Mr. Hamilton in a duel. From this circumstance it would appear that Mr. Burr means to submit himself to the laws.
The New-York State Society of the Cincinnati have unanimously adopted the following Report of their committee to whom was referred the Letter of C. C. Pinckney, esq. inclosing the resolutions of the State Society of South Carolina on the dishonourable practice of Duelling:
REPORT.
The Committee appointed on the subject of General Pinckney's Letter, beg leave to report the following resolutions with a draft of an answer to said letter.
The Society deeply regretting the prevalence of Duelling, a practice which they reprobate as a heinous violation of the laws of God and of their country, as derogatory to the principles of true honor, and as fraught with private and public misery, do resolve:
 1st. That this Society highly approve of the sentiments expressed in the letter of the Vice-President General Charles Colesworth Pinckney, and will take every proper means to discountenance and abolish the mode of settling disputes by Duel or single combat.  2d. That if any member of this Society shall be hereafter concerned in a Duel either as principal or as an accessory, he shall be expelled from the Society.  3d. That a copy of the resolutions shall be sent to the Societies of the Cincinnati in the several states; that the delegates from this Society to the next General Convention, be instructed to obtain the adoption of these or similar resolutions; and that they be published at present in all the newspapers in this city, signed by the President, and countersigned by the Secretary of this Society. 
EBENEZER STEVENS, President. W. POPHAM, Sec'y.
AWFUL FIRE.
For many years past the citizens of New-York have not witnessed a fire so extensive and ruinous as that which yesterday morning dealt destruction to a very valuable portion of our city. At an early hour the inhabitants were alarmed with the cry of fire and the ringing of alarm bells, and upon obeying the painful call of duty they found the flames bursting with dreadful fury from the house No. 104, Front-street (where the fire originated) and the adjacent buildings. The night was very cold, and perhaps to this must be ascribed the tardy motions of the citizens to the scene of action: at three o'clock four very comparatively had assembled, and at four the bucket ranks were very imperfectly formed. At this time, owing to the force of the wind, which blew fresh from the west, and the inflammable state of the houses and especially of their contents, the flames were spreading their ravages with frightful and fatal haste. So irresistible indeed was their rage, that in the lapse of an hour between twenty and thirty houses had become a prey to the devouring elements, and with regard to them the operation of the engine was altogether unavailing. When the citizens had numerously collected, laudable exertions were made to supply the engines; but as the water in the harbor was at ebb, and as the pumps and cisterns furnished a very spare quantity, they were not served to ample as the awful occasion required. The floating engine, however, stationed at a convenient spot, proved of essential benefit, and plentifully supplied the small engines in its immediate neighborhood. The progress of the fire was in the direction of the gale; and as it commenced at 104 Front, it of course proceeded towards the Coffee-house Slip, involving in destruction almost every building situated in Front-street, and on the east side of Water street, between Gouverneur's alley and the slip. Meantime the coals and brands carried along by the wind, fell on the shipping in the wharf, and the houses on the opposite side, and thus the fire was communicated to a still greater extent. Fortunately however the vessels sustained no material damage, and the progress of the fire on this side of the wharf after it had consumed a few wooden houses was arrested. About five o'clock in the morning, the conflagration was at its height, and the general scene at this moment, as seen from the roof of the Tontine, was dreadfully grand and impressive. Forty houses enveloped in white waving flames—columns of murky smoke ascending in thickening volumes, and sweeping before the wind—showers of red hot embers scattering danger far and wide—the hiss of blazing timber—the crash of falling walls—the busy stir of hundreds & hundreds carrying furniture, serving water, and
working engines—the melancholy appearance of women and children driven from their homes, now involved in ruin—all conspired to impress the most painful sensations, and fill the mind with horror. The destruction of property on this occasion has been immense. A subsequent article gives a valuation of the buildings, but the value of the goods destroyed is much more—a million of dollars probably would not cover the loss. Among other buildings which fell a prey to the devouring element, we have to mention the excellent fire proof stores of Bailey and Bogert & Joshua Jones, the office of the Morning Chronicle and old Coffee-Place. The following statements from the evening papers are, we believe, pretty correct.
The following, says the Evening Post, is the list we have obtained of the particular houses, owners and occupants affected.
Swollen buildings in Front-street.
 One three story wood building, occupied by John Sullivan, wholesale and retail grocer.  One three story wood building, occupied by M. Blake as flaxseed store.  One four story fire proof building occupied by John D. Martin and William R. Wheaton, merchants.  One two story wood building occupied by Daniel Sullivan, as a flaxseed store.  One two story wood building, occupied by M. Ward.  Two four story fire proof stores occupied by Bailey and Bogert, commission merchants.  One three story wood store, occupied by James Forbes.  One three story brick building occupied by Mr. Shonnard, boarding-house.  One three story brick building occupied by J. B. Kuribbeed, merchant.  One three story brick building occupied by John Sullivan as dwelling.  One small wood building occupied by Charles M. Carthy, grocer, where the fire is said to have originated. 
 One three story wood store, occupied by Hannah Russel, tobacconist.  One three story wood store occupied by Roche and Betts, grocers.  One three story wood store occupied by Alexander Ogelvie, grocer.  One three story wood store occupied by William Bradbury, grocer.  One three story wood store owned and occupied by James Brier, tobacconist. 
Two-story houses in Wall street.
 One wooden three story building, occupied by Steddford and Marshalk, as an auction store, and by Mr. Gavisher as a retail grocery.  One small brick building, occupied by John Place as dwelling house and retail grocery.  One two story wooden building, occupied by Byrne and Smith as an auction store.  One two story brick building, owned and occupied by Mr. Post as an office.  One three story brick building, occupied by E. Backus and co-auctioneers.  One small brick building, occupied by Mr. Hyde, watch maker, and owned by the Widow Douglass.  One two story wooden building, occupied by Mr. Caverer, and owned by John Jones.  One two story wooden building, occupied by Fisher, and owned by John Jones.  One three story brick, occupied by Mr. Pettit, and owned by John Rathbone.  One two story brick, occupied by Mrs. Berry and owned by the estate of W. Bruce.  One brick three story, occupied by Mrs. Wentworth, and owned by the estate of commodore Nicholson.  One two story wood, occupied by H. J. Massie, hair dresser, and owned by W. Bingham. 
Four buildings on Jones's Wharf.
 One three story wooden building, occupied as a wholesale grocery store by Joshua Jones.  One three story wooden, occupied by N. Horton, commission merchant.  One three story wooden, occupied by gen. Gibbs and W. Seabury, commission merchants.  One three story wooden, occupied by John A. Robinson, wholesale grocer. 
Eight three story brick buildings in Water street.
 Old Coffee House, occupied by Edward Barden, and owned by the widow of George Douglass.  One dwelling house owned and occupied by James Patterson.  One occupied by John H. Hutton as a grocery store, and by Benjamin Baily as a dwelling, owned by capt. Maxwell.  One owned and occupied by Isaac Gomez, Jar, and Shay and Noah, auctioneers.  One occupied by Henry Wylie, as a wholesale dry goods store, and owned by the widow Hallart.  One occupied as a printing office, by the Morning Chronicle and by Mr. Wilkey, pilot, and owned by Michael Price.  One occupied by captain Storey, owned by widow Stocker.  One occupied by captain Curtis, and owned by the estate of Isaac Gouverneur. 
For the following list of houses and stores which were consumed, including an estimate of their value, we are indebted to the politeness of a friend. It will be observed that this statement presents simply an estimate of the buildings, exclusive of the property they contained.—Com. Adv.
FRONT STREET.
   Brick houses occupied by George Shonnard, Value.     Do. do. I. B. Kuribbeed, 3000   Do. do. John Sullivan, 3200   Wood store, C. M. Carthy, 4000   Do. do. Hannah Russel, 1800   Do. do. Roach and Betts, 1600   Do. do. Alexander Ogilvie, 1800   Do. do. William Bradbury, 1800   Do. do. James Brier, 1400   Do. do. John M'Caviston, 1800   Brick and wood do. Joshua Jones, [corner of Wall street, 2200 opposite corner, 54300   Wood store, James Forbes, 4500   Brick do. Baily and Bogart, 12000   Wood do. Win. Ward, 1400   Do. do. Daniel Sullivan, 1800   Do. do. Joshua Jones, 1800   Brick store, owned by Joshua Jones, 5000   Wood do. occupied by V. Blake, 1800   Do. do. John Sullivan, 1800   dolls. 54300  
WALL STREET.
   Wood store occupied by J. A. Robertson, } owned 1800   Do. do. Nath. Horton } by Jn. 1800   Do. do. John Jones, } Jones, 1800   Do. do. Steddford and Marshalk, 1600   Small house, do. John Place, 900   Brick and Wood house do. Byrne and Smith, 1600   Do. do. do. Hugh Madlin, 1600   Do. do. do. David I. Daniels, 1800   Do. do. owned by Widow Douglass, 600   dolls. 13200  
WATER STREET.
   Old Coffee house (brick) occupied Edward Bardin, 7500   Brick house owned by J. B. Patterson, 5000   Do. do. Benjamin Bailey, 6000   Do. do. owned and occupied by Isaac Gomez Jr. 4500   Do. occupied by Henry Wylie, 4500   Do. do. Morning Chronicle, 4000   Do. do. owned by Widow Stocker, 4000   Do. occupied by Charles Curtis, 2200   Do. owned by E. I. Tucker, very little injured   Water street, dolls. 39,700   Wall street, 13,200   Front street, 54,300   Total dolls. 107,200  
[The remembrance of our situation from the European world, and the nature of our republican institutions, will generally exempt us from all the occasions of an offensive war. Should a war occur arise, with any of our neighbors, our operations will principally assume a defensive character. Our coasts will be invaded, and our seaport towns will be bombarded, and against any qualities of this sort it may perhaps be good policy to prepare the means of defence. These will consist either in a navy which may change its place of destination which may advance to meet the hostile fleet, or retire from its power; which may accompany it to different quarters and defend different points of our coast; or in forts and fortifications of our harbour which like a stationary navy upon the land may defend the places where they are erected, though they are unable to shift the scene of action, defend other places, or march against the invader. The following extract from a New-York newspaper is intended to illustrate the advantages of erecting timely fortifications to defend that harbour.]
New-York, Dec. 17.
Our old Friend.—The British frigate Cambrian, Bradley, Commander, returned from Halifax on Friday last and came to anchor within the Narrows. This is the same Bradley who, in the same frigate, resisted the visitation of our Health Officer, impressed American seamen on the Quarantine Ground, trespassed upon the sovereignty of this state, and opposed the operation of the Revenue laws of the United States. Mr. Lang, the "confidential friend" of Col. Barclay, "His Britannic Majesty's Consul General for the Eastern States" has not condescended to inform us whether Bradley or his successor Beresford, is again to blockade our harbour, insult our laws, impress our seamen, pour "grape-shot," most valiantly into our defenceless vessels, and plunder our merchants. He still finds us, however, in our wonted unprotected condition and as willing as ever to bear whatever outrage it may please this servant of the crown to offer.
By the bye it may be worth while for Congress to enquire, now that they are in session, into the expediency, if not necessity, of effectually fortifying the harbour of New-York. We have long enough been the sport, and we are every day liable to become the prey of foreign nations. The safety of this opulent city, imperiously solicits the attention of Congress to this subject. We have been buffeted, and kicked and driven from the execution of our laws, by the Cambrian, the Leander and the Driver; and to add to the infelicity of the disgrace, the minister of a Fief of France has threatened us with three ships of the line and six frigates from the "King my master!" Were the King his master to put his threat into execution he might lay us under a "contribution" equal in amount to any expense which the most complete and effectual fortification could cost. It imports with the pride and safety of the nation to be thus unnecessarily exposed to danger from without. Perhaps we are more vulnerable than any other part of the union. And yet as to its income of the greatest importance. Every one knows that the annual revenue of the United States is somewhat less than 13,000,000 dollars. Of this sum the port of New-York has generally yielded about a third.—But I am informed, and I believe correctly, that the commerce of this port yielded, the last quarter, but little less than 1,500,000 dollars: which is at the rate of 6,000,000 per annum, or one half of the revenue of the United States! Apart from all other considerations then, do not the receipts of our Custom House require the most efficacious protection? It is no answer to say that, under present circumstances, we have nothing to fear from without.—We know, we feel that we have suffered insult, and we are sensible that by the least as well as the greatest of European powers, our banks and wealthy individuals may be plundered and our city razed to the ground. We ought not to be at the mercy of any power on earth.
American Citizen.
The Rev. David B. Warden, late preceptor of the academy in Kingston, goes to France, private Secretary to Gen. Armstrong.

WEST-INDIES.
Captain Stevenson, from St. Pierre's (Mar.) informs that no blockade had taken place; that the markets were glutted; and that neutral vessels are generally stopped by British cruisers off Antigua and Tortola, and sent in for adjudication.
A letter from St. Thomas, dated the 25th of November, received by a merchant in Philadelphia, states, that the days proceeding, a dreadful fire occurred there by which the principal part of the town, including property to a great amount, was laid in ashes. The distress of the inhabitants was extreme.
Another letter, states, that the whole of the town, with the exception of but five houses, had been destroyed by the conflagration.
The fire took place on the night of the 23rd ult. - We do not hear that the shipping at the harbor sustained any injury.
CHARLESTON, December 14, 1804. We have been favored by captain Cameron, of the ship Devonshire, arrived yesterday from Nassau, (N. S.) with papers to the 30th inst. From one of the 27th we extract the following article: -
NASSAU, November 27. CURRACOA. - We have been favored with the following information, received via Turk's Islands: The honorable Capt. Murray has been detached with three or four vessels of war under his command from Jamaica, for the purpose of blockading the island of Curracoa until its surrender, which it was expected a very few weeks would accomplish, notwithstanding the arrival of a new governor from Holland with a few troops. By the last accounts from Porto Plata in Hispaniola, we are authentically informed that the Spaniards at St. Jago de Hispaniola, had intercepted a letter from the French to Dessalines, offering to sacrifice and deliver up that place to him if he would allow them to retire unmolested, and to assist in the destruction of the Spaniards. In consequence of which discovery, the Spaniards anticipated the French by attacking them, 27 of whom they put to death and made about 300 more of them prisoners. The commander in chief of the French forces at San Domingo, being apprised of this circumstance, sent to demand his countrymen being delivered up to him, which was refused on the part of the Spaniards, who immediately thereupon hoisted Spanish colors at St. Jago and Porto Plata; and applied to the commander of a British ship of war there, requesting to be supplied with arms and ammunition, and to the same effect sent over to the Turk's Islands, as he fully expected an attack from Dessalines, who had collected 22,000 of his people for the purpose - we understand however that neither of the Spanish commanders application could with propriety be granted, and of course necessity compelled a refusal.
[City Gaz.]
Congress. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, December 19.
A memorial of sundry manufacturers of refined sugar in the city and state of New-York, was read, praying that a drawback of duty may be allowed on the exportation to foreign countries, of sugar refined within the United States, equivalent to the duty on raw sugars employed in the manufacture of the refined sugar exported, under such regulations as will tend effectually to secure the public revenue from injury, in the amount and collection thereof.
The said memorial, together with the memorial of sundry merchants, ship-builders, farmers, planters and other persons concerned in navigation, residing in St. Mary's county, in the state of Maryland, presented November 23rd, 1803, and praying "that the office of the collector of the district and port of Nanjemoy, may be removed to some convenient place on St. Mary's river, in the said state;" and also, the memorial and petition of sundry merchants, farmers, planters, makers of vessels, owners, ship husbands, and others of the district of Nanjemoy, in the state of Maryland, in opposition to the prayer of the said recited memorial presented the tenth of Jan. last, were ordered to be referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures.
A memorial of Anne Ledyard, of the state of New-York, widow and administratrix of Isaac Ledyard deceased, was read, praying to be allowed the commutation of half pay due for the services of the deceased, as a hospital surgeon and assistant surveyor in the continental army during the revolutionary war with Great Britain, to which she conceives the legal representatives of the deceased are justly entitled by resolutions of Congress under the former government, and also, that a mistake made by the commissioner of army accounts, to the injury of the deceased in a settlement of his claims against the United States, assuming as is suggested by the memorialist, to a sum between eight hundred and one thousand dollars, may be rectified.
Referred to the Committee of Claims. The memorial and petition of Wm. T. Smith, of the city of Philadelphia, praying "that certain certificates of funded debt may be granted to him, in lieu of two loan-office certificates heretofore issued in favor of the memorialist, by the commissioners of loans, of South Carolina and Georgia, respectively," presented on the 7th of February last, was referred to the committee of the whole House, to whom was committed on the 6th inst. the bill making farther provision for extinguishing the debts due from the United States.
An engrossed bill to provide for completing the valuation of lands and dwelling houses, and the enumeration of slaves in South Carolina, and for other purposes, was read the third time and passed.
An engrossed bill giving power to the stockholders of the marine insurance company of Alexandria to insure against fire, was read the third time and passed.
An engrossed bill to amend the act, entitled, "An act for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchants' service," was read the third time and passed.
The House, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole House, Mr. J. C. Smith in the chair, on the report of the committee of elections, of the 10th inst. to whom was referred, on the 5th inst. a petition of sundry citizens of the county of Washington, in the state of Pennsylvania, complaining of an undue election and return of John Hope, to serve in this House as one of the representatives for said state.
After considerable debate the committee rose. The House proceeded to consider the said report of the committee of Elections at the Clerk's table, and the same being twice read, in the words following to wit:
"That Wm. Hoge, member of the House of Representatives for the eighth Congress, having by letter to the governor of the state of Pennsylvania, dated the 15th of October, resigned his seat in Congress; the governor, in pursuance of the provisions made in the second section of the first article of the constitution of the United States, issued a writ of election to supply the vacancy which had thus taken place; That the said writ was issued on the 22nd day of Oct. and the election directed to be held on the 29th day of November, eleven days after the date of the said writ: That the writ was brought by the mail to the prothonotary's office in Washington, on the 20th of October, but not proclaimed by the sheriff till the 21st."
"It appears to the committee, that though by the second section of the first article of the constitution of the United States, it is made the duty of the Executive authority of the respective states to issue writs of election to fill vacancies, yet by the fourth section of the aforesaid article, it is made the duty of the legislature of each state to prescribe the times, places and manner for holding such elections. It appears, however, that several elections to supply vacancies in Congress, have been heretofore held in Pennsylvania, yet on examining the laws of that state, it appears that no law exists prescribing the times, places and manner of holding elections to supply such vacancies as may happen in the representation in Congress, and consequently if the election of John Hope is, on this account, let aside, no election can be held to supply the vacancy until the legislature of the state enact a law for that purpose."
"By the law for the general election of representatives to Congress for Pennsylvania, the sheriff is to give thirty days notice before the election, and to make the returns within thirty days after it." This election is held near five months before the expiration of the existing Congress. By law of said state for supplying vacancies in the three legislature, the Speaker of the respective Houses shall issue writs to supply vacancies that may happen, giving at least ten days notice. This governor, in the case now before the committee, has directed the election to be held on the same day, &c. on which the election for President & Vice-President were to be chosen. There is no proof before the committee of any abuse in the manner of conducting the election in obedience to the writ issued by the governor."
"While the committee are of opinion, that the legislature of Pennsylvania ought to have appointed as near as might be the times, as well as the places and manner of holding elections to supply vacancies in Congress, and that in ordinary cases a longer period ought to intervene between the time of public notice and the day of holding the election, yet considering the special circumstances connected with the election of John Hope, and particularly that the election took place on the day fixed by the state legislature for the appointment of electors for the state of Pennsylvania, the committee are of opinion that John Hope is entitled to a seat in this House."
So much as is contained in the last part of the 4th clause was again read in the words following, to wit:
"The committee are of opinion that John Hope is entitled to a seat in this House."
And on the question that the House do concur with the committee of the whole House, in their agreement thereto,
It was carried, - Yeas 69 - Nays 23.
Thursday, December 20.
The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole,
Mr. Varnum in the Chair,
On the bill to amend the Charter of Alexandria. The principal feature of this bill is the extension of the right of suffrage. A motion to strike out the first section produced considerable debate; and was lost by a large majority. The bill, after undergoing several subordinate amendments, was reported to the House, who took it into immediate consideration, and ordered it to be engrossed for a third reading on Monday.
Friday, December 21.
Mr. Rhea (of Ten.) moved that the secretary of War be directed to lay before this House a statement of the officers and privates of the several corps in the actual service of the United States during the years 1804 and 1805, and the names of the ports and the numbers of the officers and soldiers, occupying the same, also a detailed statement of the monies expended on the several fortifications, arsenals, armories and magazines of the United States during the aforesaid period.
Gen. Varnum doubted whether the secretary of war could give all the information required, particularly he could not make up returns of 1804 until some time in 1805.
Mr. Dana, did not know that there was any military secret in the disposal of the small military force of the United States, but he did not think it prudent to give a written document on this subject, lest any nation of Indians should occasion some trouble to a post but weakly manned.
Mr. Rhea of Ten. in answer to general Varnum replied that if the secretary at war could not give the information required he would say so. On the observation of Mr. Dana, he replied that in his opinion the representatives of the nation ought to be acquainted with the number of their troops and their respective stations.
Mr. Eiflis requested the resolution might lay on the table till Monday.
Mr. Rhea of Ten. acquiesced and the motion lies accordingly.
Mr. Eiflis reported from the select committee on the bill regulating the clearance of armed merchant vessels, several amendments thereto, which being adopted, the bill as amended was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Monday next.
Mr. Dana from the committee of Claims reported against the petition of Gilbert Deneh, who prayed, allowance for depreciation sustained in 1782, that the prayer thereof ought not to be granted.
Agreed to by the House.
Also, a bill for the relief of the legal representatives of the late general Moses Hazen, which was twice read and referred to a committee of the whole on Monday next.
An engrossed bill for establishing rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States, was read a third time and passed.
Mr. J. C. Clay presented the petition of Oliver Evans, stating his many and very useful inventions for the improvement of merchant vessels and steam engines, praying an extension of his patent right to his mill machinery, and on motion the same was referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
Mr. Crenshaw from the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, reported a bill declaring Cambridge in Massachusetts to be a port of delivery.
Ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Monday.
Another bill to authorise the collector of the port of Philadelphia to act by an additional deputy was read twice and referred to a committee of the whole for Monday.
Mr. Clapton presented a petition from sundry British merchants and other British subjects, praying a tribunal to be established for the trial of suits for smaller sums than 500 dollars, claiming this under the continuation and under the 4th article of the British treaty.
Referred to a select committee of five members.
Mr. Crenshaw presented the petition of John Verey, a fisherman from Massachusetts, complaining of the loss of his vessel and fish, by which he lost the bounty money on the fish he had taken out and praying relief.
Referred to the committee on the fisheries.
Another petition from Ezra Welton of Massachusetts, similar to the last was presented, and referred to the same committee.
Mr. Lab moved that a committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency of making provision by law to authorise the collectors of the several ports of the United States, to deposit for collection the bonds received by them for the payment of duties, in the bank of the United States, or any of its branches, or in any of the chartered banks of the several states.
In support of the reference he remarked that the resolution contemplated an enquiry, and an important one. The bank of the United States and its branches had usually a deposit of the monies of the government to the amount of between four and five millions of dollars, that by means of this deposit that the bank was entitled not only to hold the merchandise interest tributary to the institution, but all the banks of the states. His object was to qualify the benefits and not to permit that institution to monopolize an enormous profit from the treasure of the nation. He wished to inset the bank institutions generally, and he hoped the enquiry would obtain, and he believed the bonds due to the United States would be as carefully collected in the chartered Banks, which are at the same time equally secure, as that of the United States or any of its branches.
Mr. B. Griffith recollected this subject was suggested at a former session, and as it had a relation to the management of our finances he thought it would be more proper to refer it to the committee of Ways and Means - he made that motion accordingly.
Mr. Lab did not see that the subject necessarily appertained to the committee of Ways and Means. It has no relation to the increase or decrease of the du-
ties on imports; but merely to the deposit of the bonds given by the merchants to the collectors. His true object was to prevent a monopoly, and he trusted gentlemen would not be enabled to defeat it by this mode of reference.
Mr. R. Griffith understood the motion to relate to the deposit of the bonds, but it would be proper to enquire into the safety of such deposit before it was authorized by law; and in his opinion the committee of Ways and Means from the habits of their business was competent to make the enquiry as any select committee.
On the question it was referred to the committee of Ways and Means, 51 being in favor of such reference, and 41 against it.
The bill from the Senate for the disposition of certain copies of the laws of the United States, went before a committee of the whole, which having made some amendments thereto rose and reported, and the House having incorporated the amendments into the bill, it was ordered to be read a third time on Monday.
Mr. Purdie gave notice that on the third Monday of January he intended to introduce a resolution giving to the district of Columbia a durable legislature of their own, on which the opinions of the heads of departments were to be obtained.
Adjourned.
ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1804.
Most of the readers of this paper will no doubt recollect an article which appeared in the No. of the 22nd inst. on "The impeachment of Judge Chase." Had the fifth paragraph of that article, obtained a more mature consideration, I am willing to confess that I should not probably have composed and published it at the present period. At the same time I am bound to declare, that I should have suppressed that paragraph, not because it contains any assertion, which from all the evidence present to my mind, I believe to be substantially incorrect, but because it may tend to excite or revive prejudices, which public justice would at the present time, have covered with the mantle of oblivion.
Judge Chase, standing at this time before the bar of his country to answer the articles of impeachment which have been already collected and arraigned against him, has certainly a claim upon the impartial and fair handling judgment of his opponents. He certainly has a right to demand that no new reproaches should be accumulated upon his head; that no new charges should be brought forth against him, which however well adapted they might be to make against him in the opinion of his judges, he could have no time or no means of controverting.
But it was not the situation of Judge Chase alone, which was entitled to the forbearance of my silence. There was something also in the case of Mr. David M. Randolph, the late Marshal of Virginia, which should have inspired me with a similar sentiment. Had I maturely considered all the circumstances of that gentleman's situation: that though he was once the marshal of the state, he is no longer so, and will not probably be so again: that the very power, of whose improper exercise on the trial of Callender, I had heard so many and such various complaints, no longer existed in his hands, and that with it had expired all the chances of its abuse, and all the occasions of complaint; that of course any investigation into his official conduct on that trial could no longer exist for his own amendment or the useful information of his countrymen: had I considered on the other hand, how much this gentleman's feelings had been formerly wounded by similar reproaches; how much the spirit of party had been exasperated by mutual accusations and retorts on this very case, and how much each of those sentiments would once more be excited by a repetition of this old, obscure, and unproductive tale; on which so much can be said, and so little can be ascertained: had all these circumstances been presented to my view, in that latitude of consequences and strength of colouring, in which they now appear to my imagination; I have reason to believe that the fifth paragraph of that article would never have been written; that the name of Mr. Randolph would not have accompanied the name of Judge Chase; and that the original purport of this article should have been strictly pursued, of giving a new arrangement to the articles of impeachment, which have already been urged against him, and not of collecting new matter for accusation and reproach. These reflections have however come too late. The paragraph which contains these improvident passages, has already been published. The name of Judge Chase has once more been ushered into the world, covered (as they see) with a new and weighty accusation: and Mr. Randolph has once more been brought before the public, to meet certain reports, which were formerly circulated about his official conduct.
What is the consequence? The feelings of Mr. Randolph have been once more disturbed; and they have given birth to the following note, which was delivered to me on Wednesday morning, to be published in the next paper:
Mr. Ritchie,
I have observed in your "Enquirer" of the 22nd. inst. a communication on the "Impeachment of Judge Chase." So far as it is predicated on a rumour which may be designed to injure my honor or to create a belief that in my official duty upon the trial of Callender, I was "obsequiously obedient to the extra-judicial mandates of the judge," I declare to be unfounded and untrue; the respectability of the authority from which your inferences are drawn, notwithstanding.
D. M. RANDOLPH.
December 25, 1804.
The paragraph to which Mr. Randolph makes his objection, may be divided into the following propositions - 1st. That in a conversation which took place between Judge Chase and Mr. Randolph, the former directed the latter to strike off the names of all the democrats, which he had placed on the panel of jurors, for trying J. T. Callender: 2dly. That the names of the jurymen had been deignedly transposed on the panel; the democrats, who had been summoned first not having been called in court, and the jury being entirely composed of federalists, some of whom had not been summoned until some of the democrats had been: and 3dly. That no juror sat on the trial, who was not at that time the political opponent of J. T. Callender.
1st. The evidence of the first fact will rest upon the following deposition of John Heath, Esq. one of the Executive Councillors of Virginia, upon the faith of whose word, the assertion was originally made:
In the May Session of the Federal Circuit Court for the Middle District of Virginia, in 1800, held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, when Judge Chase presided - I visited the Judge at his Chambers, in the house of a Mr. Crouch, on the subject of an injunction, for a Mr. Gordon vs. Mr. Smith of Baltimore; and during a conversation with the Judge on this subject, Mr. David M. Randolph, the Marshal of Virginia at that time, kept in, with a paper in
his hand. The Judge instantly accepted him, by asking what it was he had in his hand - Mr. Randolph replied, it was the Panel of the Petit Jurors summoned for the trial of James T. Callender. - The Judge then emphatically said, "have you any of those people or creatures called Democrats on that list or panel?" Mr. R. hesitated for a moment, and then replied: that he did not know; he had not made the discrimination, or words to that import. "Then," says the Judge, "look again, and if you have, strike them all off." - To this the subscriber will depose.
JOHN HEATH.
It may not be improper to observe en passant , that there is nothing in this communication which would impeach the character or which would wound the personal feelings of Mr. Randolph. Whatever may have been the demerits of the Judge, they certainly do not reach and contaminate the individual and distinct character of the marshal. There are cases indeed in which the undistinguishing eye of the very best moralist will group together the virtues or the frailties of different persons and will extend the appropriate sentiment to both, which belongs only to the character of the individual.
The present however is not a case of this kind. No man would here confound the marshal with the Judge. We may disapprove, we may detest the conduct of Judge Chase: but we have not the testimony of the deponent, that Mr. Randolph ever submitted to his requisitions. Mr. Heath has still left it in doubt whether Mr. Randolph had not the same disapprobation and loathing at this extra-official interference, as any impartial spectator would have conceived.
2nd. The second enquiry is, were the names of the Jurors on the trial really transposed ? And here I might alledge in my own justification, the general and almost universal belief, which has fixed itself in the minds of the republican party since the trial of Callender, that this shuffling and transposition of names had really been effected. But I will not on the present occasion consent to put the propriety of my own opinions at issue; or to call over the very respectable catalogue of men, who have acknowledged the opinion, and who have led me into this mistake, if a mistake it is proven to be. This is not the question. The only question, which is at present worthy of investigation, is the very simple one, whether this report itself be really true, or whether it was first conceived by party spirit, & afterwards propagated by specious appearances and under the sanction of respectable names.
It is here incumbent upon me to correct one mistake into which I have been betrayed by inaccurate information. I attempted to show in my first essay, that a transposition of the names of the Jurors had been inferred from the supposed variance between the list of Jurors as they were summoned and as they were called over in open Court. It was said at that time, that the original list was indiscriminately composed of Federalists and republicans; but that in calling over the names of the Jury in Court "no one was introduced who had not been distinguished by Federal opinions." The last part of this proposition is erroneous. It is a fact, that the names of a few republicans were called over in Court. Yet the refutation of this error is not sufficient to remove every variance, which was supposed to exist between the Jury as they were summoned and as they were called . It is an incontrovertible fact that one Democrat at least who was summoned among the very first on the list, was called among the very last. And this fact is authenticated beyond a doubt by the following letter:
Mr. Thomas Ritchie.
Sir,
Agreeable to your request, I make the following statement, respecting my having been summoned as a juror at the trial of J. T. Callender. On the first day of the court, I was summoned as a petit juror; in the course of that day, (which I think was Friday,) it was agreed, that the trial of Callender should be postponed for some days, perhaps until the Tuesday following. In the mean time Judge Chase requested the Marshal (Mr. Randolph) to have (as well as I recollect) three juries summoned, for the express purpose of trying Callender. Immediately afterwards, Mr. Randolph came to me, where I was sitting in the court room, and informed me that I must attend as a juror on the day appointed for the trial of Callender, as aforesaid; and observed that the Marshal had generally been accused with packing the juries in trials of this kind, and that he meant to take the blame on himself - From this expression, I supposed that he intended to summon all the jurymen himself, instead of his deputies.
Shortly after, some of my acquaintances hearing of it, came to me, and one in particular, observed, that I would be placed on the hind end of the list - I replied, I did not believe any such thing, and could not believe Mr. Randolph would act in such a manner, being confident that I must have been summoned about the 3d or 4th after the orders were given by the Judge for summoning the jury.
However, when the jurymen were called over, on the day of trial, I, to my astonishment, found myself called about the twenty-ninth on the list! A gentleman of my acquaintance hearing of this, enquired if it was true; while we were talking, another gentleman hearing the conversation, observed he would go to Mr. Randolph and inform him of the particulars, or words to that effect. However, in a few minutes that gentleman returned to us, and said, that Mr. Randolph informed him it was true, he had summoned me through a mistake, and he (Mr. Randolph) wished me to know it, or words to that purport.
Given from under my hand, this 26th day of December, 1804.
WM. M'KIM.
What was this mistake , which Mr. Randolph very ingeniously acknowledged, I shall leave it to Mr. Randolph himself to explain.
This solitary fact, if there were no others of a similar import, would be sufficient to establish the variance between the original list, which was made out by the marshal, and the list which was produced in open court, and which was published in Mr. Randolph's Vindication, in 1802. This single fact would be sufficient to prove that there had been this transposition of names, by which the few capable Democrats who were placed on the panel were thrown back on it, beyond the reach of the legal quorum . This is an important fact, and demands some elucidation.
If the list, which was published by Mr. Randolph, be carefully analysed by a federalist or a republican, either of them will be willing to admit that in the whole space, from the first man that is on it, to the name of the 12th juror who served on the trial, there are to be found two democratic names only, if we may adopt the political discriminations of the eventful era of 1800. These are Mr. Withers Lewis, whose name is first on the list, and Col. Marks Vandewall, who occupies the 14th place.
Mr. Lewis, as well as Mr. Geo. Blakey who is 2d on the list were discharged on account of their immature age: immature, not according to the standard of our law, but according to the prescriptions of the judge. Judge Chase had advised the marshal to "obtain sensible and respectable characters above 25 years of age."
This perhaps is one of those powers of the judge which no reasonable man would be willing to dispute. But after a jurymen has been summoned, tho' his qualifications were contrary to the ideal standard of perfection in the mind of the judge, or contrary to his own specific instruction to the marshal, do not the rules of our court limit the prerogative of the judge over the summoned juror? Can he dismiss him without a proper challenge by the prosecutor or accused? By the laws of congress, it is provided that a juror in the federal courts should have the same qualifications as a juror in the supreme Courts of that state, in which they are sitting. But by the law of Virginia, every person may be a jurymen who is 21 years old and who has attained the other legal qualifications. Look then, how could the Judge himself release any man upon such a plea as this is? And I ask where could the marshal have derived this privilege? Yet this is a power; which Mr. Randolph exercised, in the case of Mr. Lewis and Mr. Blakey even after he had declared to Mr. Pollard that he "would not excuse any person whom he had or might summon."
I have not forgotten that the same objection was made to Mr. George Blakey, and that he was "released" by the marshal for the same reason. But I have not also forgotten that the omission of Mr. Lewis's name would leave a blank in the first part of the list, which there was no other democrat to fill up; and that Mr. Blakey did not want federal substitutes enough to supply his place. Had then the political predilections of the marshal any influence in striking out Mr. Lewis's name? On this question, I am very willing to confess the influence of my judgment. How far it would have affected the political complexion and the verdict of the jury, are problems of very easy solution.
Col. Marks Vandewall is also placed on the early part of the panel. His summons is triumphantly brought forward as an undeniable proof of a jury indiscriminately and impartially selected. Why then did not this gentleman serve on the jury? Why did he not attend? "The reason of his not attending," was said at that time by the friends of the trial, "to have been his declaration to the deputy marshal, that he was particularly averse to serving on that trial." Is this statement altogether accurate? I am authorized to assert, that it is not . I am authorized to assert that Col. Vandewall was never summoned; although he was in the presence of the deputy marshal on the very day of the trial before the opening of the cause, and although he was in the presence of the court itself, during the whole or the greater part of the trial.
3rd. That "no man served on that trial who was not the political opponent of J. T. Callender" is one of those truths, which no man will require me to prove.
Here then must I pause: & from this short investigation the following conclusions appear to be supported by a sufficient degree of evidence. 1st. That very few republicans were summoned as jurors on the trial of Callender, although they constituted a great majority of the citizens of Virginia. 2dly. Of those few, one democrat at least who was summoned among the first, was called among the last. 3d. That no democrat was placed so near to the top of the list as to have any chance of being enlisted in the legal quorum , except one who was never called in court, and who was released by the Marshal himself, without seeming to possess a competent authority: and 4thly that Callender was condemned by a jury of Federalists, although the panel was indiscriminately composed of "respectable characters" of both parties.
Will it I tate these conclusions, let me candidly declare, that there may be a vast body of exculpatory evidence with which I am unacquainted; that some of the facts which have been brought forward against Mr. Randolph, are susceptible of a milder construction; and that in spite of the arguments which I have suggested and the facts on which they are predicated; Mr. Randolph's conduct may be justified by the strictest precepts of impartial justice. Should this be the case, I hope my errors will be corrected. Let truth be communicated & no man will be more willing than myself to annunciate her decree.
The Editor of the Enquirer.
MONS: FOLLY,
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For the Rainbow . ON SUFFRAGE AND REPRESENTATION.
Representation, both in civil & political affairs, implies the delegation of power to others by one or more men, that they may do for them, what the delegators if present, might rightfully do for themselves; but this function is exercised with very different degrees of accuracy and understanding in these two classes of human action.
When a man appoints an executor, a guardian, an agent by letters of attorney, or employs council in a suit at law, he commonly uses much foresight and circumspection in ascertaining the talents, the diligence and the integrity of the representative. Yet the very man perhaps, who has exhibited a judicious choice in instances of this kind, which only partially affect his interests when he is delegating political power, almost boundless over his own fortune and happiness, over those of his countrymen, and over their joint posterity, shall display a supine indifference, or act under the guidance of errors, prejudices and passions, that would disgrace a savage. It is not very difficult to assign the causes of this difference. Men are stimulated to much attention in conducting their private affairs, not only because they relate to their immediate wants and desires, but because they are within the compass of their understandings. Ignorance of their political concerns is the lot of a great proportion of mankind, who must therefore very obscurely discern, the inestimable relations which these concerns bear to individual welfare and happiness, and consequently it is with great difficulty, that their attention to them can be roused by motives that are, at the same time, active and laudable .
Those who by their information and influence might dispel this fatal ignorance (and that they might do the good, is manifest from the evil they actually effect) are the foremost to promote and increase it. When the people are about to give their suffrages, these men divide into squads, each with a favorite candidate at its head, and commence the art of electioneering. They assail the people by flattery, coaxing, bribery, intimidation & misstatements of public measures. The weapons prepared against the adverse candidate are a merciless scrutiny and exaggerated report of his most minute & private foibles, insinuations derogatory of his understanding, principles and views, & in addition to these, direct falsehoods. On the favorite are lavished extravagant, and therefore unmerited, praises of his talents and desert, and groundless excuses, or impudent justifications of the exceptional parts of his conduct. What few rays of truth & sound judgment might penetrate this mist of error and deception, are too frequently merged in the noisome fumes of gluttony & intoxication.
It cannot be too often nor too earnestly inculcated, that to give any rational meaning to the terms, or utility to the functions of election and representation, it is essentially necessary, that the electors should have a competent knowledge of the powers they impart, of the duties connected with the exercise of those powers, of the fitness of the objects of their choice to perform those duties, and that their suffrages should be given, unbiased by any base or sinister motive. The substantial benefits of election and representation are annihilated, in exact proportion to the votes that are given under the influence of ignorance, fear, hatred, knavery, or intoxication—the voices of such people are of no more avail to a rational and useful electoral decision, than the neighing of Darius's horse.
The doctrine of representative government has given rise to two questions that merit attention. The first respects the right of the electors to control by instructions the will of their immediate representative; the second respects the description of persons in the community, to whom the right of suffrage should be extended.
The division of a country into counties or districts for the purpose of holding elections, seems alone to have been done for accommodating the people when they assemble to vote and for affording them an opportunity of choosing persons, of whose qualifications, from vicinity and acquaintance, they can best judge. No right of general control is conveyed to the electors of each district over the representative they may choose—the whole representative body represents the whole nation, and as each individual member, may, in turn, form the majority which decides on national questions, it seems wrong that the will of the whole, should be subjected to the control of a small part of the community; and this would certainly happen if each member was bound to obey the instructions of his particular constituents: when the question concerns their local interests in a very special manner, it seems perfectly proper that the representation should strictly conform to their instructions. But the duty of compliance is much more obligatory on the representative body in relation to the people at large, than on an individual representative in relation to his particular constituents. It confounds all just notions of the source of political power, of the sovereignty of the people, to assert, that a majority of the sovereign will shall not control the will of the representative agents. This doctrine leaves to the people no trace of sovereignty, except the privilege of choosing at stated periods, those who shall exercise an elective despotism. On the contrary, not only should the representative body conform to the will of a sovereign majority, but they are bound to listen with deference to the wishes even of a respectable portion of the community, whether that portion amounts to a majority or not; and if a great sacrifice of the common interest be not a manifest consequence, they ought to conform to their wishes; for to resist the expressed will of a numerous portion of the community is always an evil, as it increases discontent and faction: whereas the repeal or omission of fifty legislative acts would generally be a matter of little moment, and not unfrequently of much advantage.
The second question to which I adverted, related to the extension of the right of suffrage. In different countries, in which one or more branches of the government are elective, the regulations of the right of suffrage are very various—in the most liberal, a great proportion of the inhabitants are excluded from the exercise of this right. Women are excluded, although their dearest interests & keenest sensibilities are implicated in the consequences of a just, a foolish or a wicked exercise of the electoral privilege. Males are excluded, who have not reached some arbitrary standard of age; so that a youth, though he excel in probity, information and discernment, shall not be permitted to choose for himself, while twenty blockheads, a few days or hours older, shall have power not only to choose for themselves, but for him also.
This question of universal suffrage merits most serious consideration. The term uninformed , is so far improperly employed, as even the wildest scheme has never gone farther than to multiply the number of voters in some particular country, by removing to a certain degree, the substance, restrictions on the right of suffrage.
In England the nominal regulations place the right of suffrage in the hands of a numerous and respectable part of the people: but in actual practice the fact turns out very differently. The government has carefully preserved the right of suffrage, acquired in their prosperity, to a number of boroughs, long since fallen to decay, and become subject to corruption, or to a ruling, decisive patronage. This, with other abuses has so perverted elections, that in a country containing eight millions of inhabitants, five thousand voters retain a majority of the house of commons—nay, more: an immensely rich and powerful body of about 70 nobles and 90 commoners, together with the treasury, appoint three fifths of that branch of the government, which therefore, whatever other titles to respect it may possess, is grossly misnamed the people's representative . This great electoral oligarchy might exert an unlimited control over the prerogatives of the crown and the rights of the nation, but that in their struggles for power, they are always rent into parties—the party in power for the time being, attach themselves to the crown, their defeated adversaries look to the people for support. All accounts seem to agree, that the purity of election in Ireland is still more debased, than it is in England.
In the United States an abuse of an opposite kind most generally prevails, and seems admirably calculated to favor the growth of the oligarchic corruption, we have just described. Not only do all those vote, who claim the privilege by law, but numbers are smuggled in to vote at elections, who are as destitute of the legal as of the moral qualifications that are requisite to the just exercise of the privilege.
If the essential benefits of representative government depend almost wholly on the moral and intellectual qualities of the constituent and the representative, the security, nay the existence of these benefits are rendered very precarious, where those necessary qualities, in either of them, are very defective; and as a very great proportion of all the people we either do or have known, have been very defective in the requisite qualities of morals and understanding, it would seem, that universal suffrage would be a great evil. But how shall the right of suffrage be limited? Is there any practicable standard, whereby the requisite degree of moral and intellectual competency in the electors can be determined? I answer no; but an imperfect rule may be easily formed on the basis of property, which violates natural right , no more than do a thousand other coercive restraints of positive law, which the ignorance and pravity of the bulk of mankind have rendered indispensable to the order and security of civil liberty. Nothing can render one man more dependent on another, than the wants of necessary subsistence on the one side, and on the other, the will as well as the ability to satisfy those wants. A person thus situated cannot properly be said to have any elective will of his own; he is the mere organ of him who tenders him support. A certain amount of property, especially of real property, secures subsistence to the owner, and places him on the list of the immediate objects of taxation. By means then of property, he is sheltered from a powerful temptation to surrender his independence into the hands of another, and is continually exposed to the only stimulus, the exaction of his money, which possibly could rouse his torpid ignorance, to bestow any attention to his own rights, or to the conduct of his rulers. It is in vain that we appeal, on this subject, to the speculative rights of man; their use in the abstract is inestimable, as they exhibit the true sources of social happiness, and serve as beacons to direct our progress in attaining it, by the improvement of our knowledge and morals. The further we proceed in this progress, the nearer we approach to the point, at which theocratic truth may be fully incorporated into our common practice. The great difficulty is to ascertain clearly the time when we have arrived at that point, and this is exclusively the function of consummate wisdom, not of the crude judgments of self-interest, prejudice and passion. Errors in practice of this kind, are never indifferent; premature claims to the exercise of abstract rights, have filled the records of mankind with melancholy memorials of their consequences; even in our own state, a class of men exist, whose claims for redress, derived from abstract right, are far stronger than those of a few paupers, and the brothers, sons and relatives of actual freeholders. Yet the boldest reformer, except he be a lunatic or a knave, must shrink with horror from the attempt to give activity and effect to those claims. Numerous as are the examples, they are obscured in the recency and magnitude of the warning furnished by the precipitancy, the miseries and the results of the French revolution.
A virtuous and wise reformer will deem it his first duty, not solely to look at the defects and evils of government, but scrupulously to examine the state of society in which they occur, and to decide before-hand, whether their abolition will be followed by the substitution of some positive good, or will merely make way for equivalent or greater evils, which the new current of things may render irrepressible. The conditions necessary to the exercise of this duty apply to all schemes of reform, whether they are meditated in the extreme despotism, or in the most prosperous republic.
A more ample prosecution of this subject would inculcate a serious lesson to the friends of freedom; it would teach us that no form of government, of itself, is absolutely good or bad: all have a relation to the condition of the societies, severally subjected to their rule. It is highly probable, that the government of the U. States, suddenly transferred to Spain or Turkey, would induce consequences more pernicious than the sudden introduction of their governments would occasion here. In the first case, a recoil of the worst passions, acting under an ignorance, nay, an oblivion of the best rights of social man, would produce a scene of anarchy and desolation, which would gradually sink into torpor under regenerated despotism; in the second case, the sense and spirit of the people might soon demolish a government so adverse to their habits, opinions and interests. It would also teach us to judge more modestly of distant nations, among whom liberty has been long extinct, or is declining, or is buried under the ruins of abortive efforts for its establishment; to look with a steady and impartial eye into the foundations of our own republicanism, before we claim more merit than is our due; to decide fairly how far it depends on the absence of those grand materials of royalty and aristocracy that oppress its friends in other quarters; how far it depends on the abundance of land, the equality of its tenure, and on the comparative equality of its distribution; or how far it rests on a diffusive knowledge of our rights, and on correspondent moral habits, which are alone the firm securities of freedom, against the mischiefs whose germs are hourly generating for its destruction, in the very bosom of prosperity.
In order to determine in what degree we are entitled to the positive merit due to those internal qualities which give permanent security to freedom, or to the negative merit derived from anterior circumstances, which afford it a temporary support, we must accurately examine our prevailing manners. Is the education of the young sufficiently cherished? Does candour, independence and probity mark our various intercourse? Are our social pleasures such as are approved by reason, and refined by a correct vivacity? Do rapacious commerce, servile place-hunting, foul electioneering, fraudulent litigation, make any part of our character? How far do we indulge excess in horse-racing, gambling, duelling and licentious amours?
The true answers to these and similar interrogatories, will decide, whether our constitutions and bills of right are shrinking into dead parchment, or whether they are the sacred written depositaries of practical principles, that are existing, acting and improving throughout the community.
CASH WILL be given for 12 or 15 BOYS, from 7 to 15 years old. Enquire of the Printers. Dec. 15. [epf.]
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE DEBTORS OF ROSS & FORD, THAT in compliance with my duty as assignee, I shall commence suits indiscriminately against all those who do not come forward and give assurances when payment may be expected. December 22. (tf) NEIL MCCOULL.
A SCHOOL. THE subscriber intends opening a School at his plantation in Hanover county, about ten miles from Richmond, as early in the month of January 1805, as he shall have the assurance of six scholars: and wishing to pay a particular attention to the youth entrusted to his care, will not undertake the instruction of more than fifteen; which number he will be enabled to accommodate with board, &c.
He purposed to teach the English language grammatically, and in such-wise as to obviate the necessity for a knowledge of the dead languages; he will reach the practical branches of Mathematics and Geography. The most approved English authors will be read with a view to forming the taste, and applying the rules of grammar: the sense and scope of those authors, with the derivation, definition, and government of words, will be expounded. The ancient classics will be read in translation, whence the learner will become as familiarly acquainted with the customs, manners and mythology of the times when, and about which those authors treat, as if read in the original, and in a much shorter time.
The price of tuition, board, lodging and washing, will be forty pounds for each scholar per annum, to be paid quarter-yearly. JOHN SEABROOK. Richmond, Dec. 1. [8f]
P.S. J. Seabrook will be thankful to those persons disposed to encourage him by confiding pupils to his care, to give him as early information thereof as possible, that he may be enabled to make the necessary arrangements in time.
A TRACT OF LAND. By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to the subscriber, will be sold to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the 14th day of January next, at Buckingham Court-House, being court day.
CERTAIN Tract or Parcel of Land, lying in said county, containing one thousand acres, more or less; bounded by the lands of Michael Jones, Jeffrey Smith, Richard Gilliam and others, and lying on the Pickingham road—to secure the payment of a certain sum of money therein mentioned, due from John Miller, to Willis Willis, and the expenses attending the execution of this trust. GEORGE S. HARE, Trustee. Buckingham, Dec. 18454u. Buckingham, Dec. 8. [68 6t.]
NOTICE. THE subscribers and members of the Mutual Insurance Company against Fire on Goods and Furniture, in the state of Virginia, are hereby requested to attend their annual general meeting, to be held agreeable to their constitution, on the second Wednesday in January, which being the 9th day of next month, by ten o'clock A.M. at the General Office of Insurance, in the city of Richmond. W. F. ASH, Principal Agent M.A.S. Richmond, Dec. 10, 1804. 18454u.
TO NON-RESIDENTS OF KENTUCKY. THE SUBSCRIBER living in the neighbourhood of Frankfort, Kentucky, having undertaken to pay the taxes of a number of gentlemen residing in Virginia and elsewhere, on their lands in this state, and finding that the remitting of money to him for that purpose is attended with great difficulties, risk and trouble, proposes it to those gentlemen and any others who may find it an accommodation to them, the following plan, to wit: That they shall deposit their money in either of the banks of Richmond, Alexandria, George town or Baltimore, on or before the first day of May annually, and authorise some person at those several banks to advise him by post of the amount, and to subsecuently it shall be applied, and impanel him to draw for the same, payable on sight. The lands of non-residents are advertised about the first of July, which is an expense of twenty-five cents on each tract. The subscriber's draft will command the cash in this state, and as soon as his bills are honoured at any of the above mentioned banks, he will advance the money in Kentucky, deducting seven and a half percent commission for his trouble, in attending to and executing the business. He will enclose duplicate receipts to those banks in which the money is deposited, or to the proprietors of the lands, keeping the original in his own possession, to correct any errors which may occur in the auditors office of Kentucky. To those gentlemen who may wish to pay their taxes in this way, and who have not a personal acquaintance with the subscriber, he begs leave to refer them to the Hon. John Breckenridge, the Hon. Matthew Walton, Esqrs. now in Congress, at the city of Washington, or to Gen. John Preston of Montgomery county, and Col. James Breckenridge of Botetourt county, Virginia, as to the confidence which may be reposed in him. NATHANIEL HART. N.B. The postage on all letters directed to me on the above business must be paid. December 15, 1804. (81 May.)  ADVERTISEMENT. AGREABLE to a decree of the county of King and Queen—will be sold at Mr. John Miller's Tavern on the 12th day of January next, one TRACT OF LAND belonging to the estate of Thomas G. Rowe dec'd. lying in the county aforesaid, containing about 550 acres. The land lies nine miles from Tappahannock and seven from Dunkirk, this land joins the lands of Col. John Hopkins, and the Rev. Robert B. Sample. ALSO—will be sold on the 14th day of said month at King and Queen Court-House, it being court day. Seven very LIKELY NEGROES belonging to the said estate. Twelve months credit will be allowed the purchasers for the Land and Negroes, on giving bond with approved security to the COMMISSIONERS. December 22. (3w.)  WASHINGTON TAVERN. THE subscriber has taken a lease of this tenement for a number of years, and has put it in a state of repair which renders it not inferior to any in this City. Besides the Tavern has detached buildings, well calculated to accommodate those who are anxious of greater privacy than a tavern usually affords. These tenements adjoin the public squares, and are within two hundred yards of the Capitol. They have decided advantages over any other house in this City, with respect to pure air and excellent water. He has good STABLES and a constant supply of the best FORAGE. He tenders his services to his friends, and the public, and offers them, that no unlawful gaming, nor any other practice which might, in any degree, have a tendency to disturb the peace of his house, will ever be permitted. EDWARD HALLAM. Richmond, September 26.  THE TRUSTEES TO the following Lottery hereby give notice, that on Thursday the tenth day of January next, they will certainly commence the drawing of the said Lottery at the Capitol in this city. Richmond, December 18, 1804. (By Authority.) SCHEME OF A LOTTERY, CLASS NO. 1. To build an Academy in the city of Richmond.  $750 Tickets at 10 dolls. each, dolls. 37,500 1 Prize of dolls. 5000 dolls. 5000 1 Do. 2000 2000 5 Do. 1000 5000 5 Do. 500 2500 10 Do. 300 3000 20 Do. 100 2000 1500 Do. 12 18000—$7,500  1542 Prizes. 2208 Blanks. 3750 Tickets at 10 dolls. each. 18 drawn Ticket having a blank to its number after 2000 tickets are drawn, dolls. 1,000 Do. after 2500 do. are drawn, 1,000 Do. after 3000 do. are drawn, 1,000 Do. after 3500 do. are drawn, 1,000 Last drawn Ticket, 5,000  This Lottery has been authorised 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 30,000 dollars, and 2,500 dollars in addition, for defraying the expenses of drawing, &c. The Trustees to insure success, have divided the Lottery into four distinct classes, so as to raise the sum contemplated by an annual lottery, for four years, to raise every year 5,000 dollars, that the work may progress; it is expected that the present Lottery may be drawn by the first day of January next.  It is hoped that the gentlemen who have purchased Tickets in the Richmond Academy, will still hold them, as the division of the former Lottery into four classes was deemed necessary by the Trustees, to insure success to so useful an institution. The town of Boston (to the honor of its citizens) has public schools in which are about sixteen hundred pupils. The flourishing and increasing city of Richmond cannot boast of one public school. The Trustees of the Richmond Academy, have about thirteen acres of ground, nearly one half is accepted as a donation, and the remainder they have contracted for, on which they intend to erect the Academy. The site is elevated, healthy and beautiful. If any gentleman who has purchased Tickets is dissatisfied with dividing the Lottery into four classes, if he returns the tickets the money will be repaid, provided they are returned in ten weeks from this day.—Drs. William Fouthee, William Du-Val, William Price (Register), and George Tucker, are appointed by the Trustees to sell and dispose of the Tickets, who are authorised to appoint agents for the above purpose.  The remaining tickets may be had of the said committee, of Robert Mitchell, Esq. Mayor, Samuel Pleasants, Jr. Aug. Davis, Printer, William Prichard and William Moffey, Treasurer. Richmond, Dec. 18, 1804. (1wid)  TO MR. CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON, OF SOUTH-CAROLINA.  SIR, As you are not a resident of this Commonwealth, and have no Agent or Attorney within the same, to whom a legal notice can be given; you are hereby informed, that by virtue of a commission issued from the office of the High Court of Chancery, for the middle district of Virginia, by law directed to be held at the Capitol in the City of Richmond, in the suit in Chancery depending in said court, in which you are Complainant, and I am Defendant. I shall proceed on the second Monday in February next, at the Tavern of James George in the county of Goochland and state of Virginia, to take the depositions of Thomas Johnson, John Johnson, Zachariah Pulliam, John Fretwell, and William Chick, to be read as evidence in the said suit, and that if the same cannot be taken on the day aforesaid, the taking thereof will be continued by adjournment from day to day until the whole are completed; when and where you may if you please attend. I am Sir, Yours, &c. BENJAMIN JOHNSON. Louisa county, and state of Virginia. December 22. (eS 4w.)  MISS ROBBINS, AFTER making her sincere acknowledgements to her friends and the public, for that portion of patronage which she has experienced, wishes to inform her patrons, that she has removed her SCHOOL to a house nearly opposite to Mr. Copland's on Shockoe Hill where she can accommodate a dozen young Ladies as Boarders. Nov. 3. eS2m  TO RENT—For the ensuing year, THE WHITE HOUSE at Hanover Court-house, together with the lots adjoining thereto, that are not attached to the Tavern. The house is a very commodious one with all the necessary offices.  Also, for rent, a field containing about an hundred acres adjoining the premises, well calculated for the cultivation of corn. The above property will be rented separately or together, as may best suit those wishing to rent. Terms will be made known by the subscriber living at the Courthouse. BARBARY O. THILMAN. Dec. 1.  FOR SALE. BY virtue of a deed of trust, executed to the subscriber by David Gillispay, Senr. of Albemarle county, to secure the payment of a debt due Brown, Watson and Co. and John Watson, will be exposed to public sale, to the highest bidder for ready money, on Tuesday the first day of January eighteen hundred and five, at McCredie, Higginbotham and Co's store, ten miles above Charlottesville, the tract of land whereon the said Gillispay at present resides, containing one hundred and seventy-five acres, be the same more or less. WILLIAM WOOD, Trustee. Albemarle, Dec. 8. (3w.)  FOR SALE. BY virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to the subscriber by Walter Watson of Albemarle county, to secure the payment of a debt due Brown, Watson & Co. will be exposed to public sale to the highest bidder for ready money, on Tuesday the first day of January eighteen hundred and five, at McCredie, Higginbotham & Co's store, ten miles above Charlottesville:—The TRACT of LAND whereon the said Watson at present resides, containing two hundred and sixty-four acres, be the same more or less. GEO. GARRETT, Trustee. Albemarle, Dec. 8. 3w  W. COWAN, WATCH AND CLOCK MAKER, one door below the Eagle Tavern—repairs Watches and Clocks of every description, at the shortest notice. W. C. returns his grateful acknowledgements to his friends and customers, and hopes to merit a continuance of past favours. N. B. He has on hand a few good Watches, with a variety of Chains, Seals, Keys, &c. Which he will dispose of low for each. December 4. (epf.)  WILL'S or LADING, SHERIFFS' BLANKS FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.  BILLS ON NEW-YORK, At Tea to Sixty Days sight—FOR SALE BY M. W. HANCOCK & CO. Dec. 22. tf  Irish Linen and Madeira Wine.  JOHN HENRY has imported in the ship LATONA, captain Thurston, from Liverpool, a few small boxes of well assorted 4-4th IRISH LINEN, purchased in Dublin in July; which, with fine old London particular MADEIRA WINE, in pipes and half pipes, he offers for sale on moderate terms. Nov. 7. epf.  SADDLERY.  JOHN MENERY, SADDLER, respectfully informs the public in general, and his friends in particular, that he has just received an elegant and well chosen assortment of Saddlery, Coats and Harness Mountings, Whips, Spurs, &c. &c. &c. laid in under his own inspection, whereby he is enabled to offer them on the most reduced terms. November 21.  ENOCH SULLIVAN, JEWELLER & HAIR-WORKER, (First door below the Eagle Tavern.)  BEGS leave to inform the public that he has for Sale, A FASHIONABLE ASSORTMENT OF JEWELRY & SILVER WARE; Also, A HANDSOME SUPPLY OF LADIES ELEGANT COMBS, POCKET BOOKS, &c. Dec. 8. epf.  BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. Dec. 4. [epf.]  WHITE CHIMNEYS.  THE subscriber wishes to rent the Tavern and Store House at this place, either altogether or separately; the eligibility of the stand for a Tavern and Store is well known by many; the salubrity of the air and the quality of the water, are unexceptionable. Possession may be given on the 1st of January next. For terms apply to FRANCIS GALTAN. White Chimneys, Dec. 15, 1804. (epf.)  BROKER'S OFFICE.  THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Counting-house of Thomas and Amos Ladd. All business confided to him, will be transacted with fidelity. THOMAS NORVELL. October 3. tf  NOTICE.  ALL persons indebted to the late firm of BUCHANAN, DUNLOP & CO. of Petersburg, ROBERT POLLOK & CO. of Richmond, and DUNLOP, POLLOK & CO. of Manchester, are hereby notified, that James Dunlop, late a partner in the above concerns, has become purchaser of the outstanding debts—they will therefore be pleased to make payment to Mr. John Tompkins residing in Richmond, or the subscriber residing in Petersburg, who alone are authorised to make collections and grant discharges.—Suits will be indiscriminately commenced against all who do not make payment before the first of February next. JOHN DUNLOP, Attorney For JAMES DUNLOP. Petersburg, Nov. 15, 1804. epf.  J. TOMPKINS  RESPECTFULLY informs those concerned, that he has removed the books and papers of the late concern of Robert Pollok & Co. and Dunlop, Pollok & Co. to a new Brick House near the Basin, and directly opposite to the Scale-House. Where he has for sale, a few pipes of OLD COGNAC BRANDY, of superior quality. December 11.  NOTICE.  WE the undersigned, partners in the late concerns of BUCHANAN, DUNLOP, & Co. at Petersburg, of ROBERT POLLOK, & Co. at Richmond, and of DUNLOP, POLLOK, & Co. at Manchester, have sold to Mr. James Dunlop, our interest in said concerns, the debts now due to, and outstanding at these different establishments.—Those indebted will therefore please to take notice, that hereafter payments are to be made only to the said Mr. James Dunlop, his attorney or attorneys, and to whom those having claims against these concerns will apply for payment. DAVID BUCHANAN. By ROBERT POLLOK, his Attorney. Virginia, Petersburg, Dec. 6, 1804. (ep3m)  IRISH LINENS & 5-4 IRISH SHEETINGS.  THE SUBSCRIBERS have just received from Belfast a handsome assortment of 7-8th & 4-4th IRISH LINENS, and 5-4th IRISH SHEETINGS, which they will sell on moderate terms. ELLIS & ALLEN. December 20. [ep 4w.]  T. SULLY, Portrait and Miniature Painter.  SPECIMENS of his work may be seen at his rooms above Dunifure & Turner's Grocery, Main-Street, Richmond. December 4. (epf.)  FOR SALE—at Rocketts.  THE LOT, and two story BRICK HOUSE, containing three tenements, which the subscriber purchased at the sale of George Nicholson, deceased. The lot is well situated for a warehouse, and the brick building for a bake-house, lumber-house, or Tobacco Factory. JOHN ELLIS. November 14. tf  CHOICE LANDS—FOR SALE.  A DIVISION of the famous Saura Town Lands having taken place between the heirs of James Park Farley, Esq. dec'd. and Col. John S. Farley and his sister Mrs. Elizabeth Morson, the subscriber, Robert Taylor of Norfolk, and Charles Duncan at Roslin, near Petersburg, are fully empowered by the said Col. Farley and Mrs. Morson, to dispose of their proportion, containing 12,832 acres, which are surveyed and laid off in eight lots, containing from 500 to 2800 acres, agreeable to plots in the possession of the said Duncan. The four largest lots are of excellent quality, each containing a considerable proportion of the richest low grounds, which produce tobacco of the very first quality, as has been experienced by one of the subscribers, who shipped it for a number of years. Those lands lie on Dan and Smith's rivers, in Rockingham county, on the borders of North Carolina, about 170 miles from Petersburg and Richmond. As there are seldom such lands for sale, they must be an object to those who want to purchase such as will produce fine tobacco, hemp and small grain. One third of the price must be paid in ready money, one third in twelve months, and the other third in two years, the purchaser giving bond with unexceptionable security bearing interest from the date if not punctually paid. Those who wish to purchase will be shown the lands by Doctor John C. Cox, living at Leekville, near Rockingham Court-House, and the terms made known by ROBERT TAYLOR, or CHARLES DUNCAN. Petersburg, Nov. 24. epf.