The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-04-14 00:00:00

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The Enquirer.
VOL. 5.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1809.
[No. 107.]
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE GLOBE TAVERN, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
A PRESSMAN. That is master of his business, and can produce satisfactory recommendations, will meet with employment at this office. March 21.
THE subscriber has removed to the OLD STAND formerly occupied by his father, where he continues, as usual, to sell GROCERIES, on very reasonable terms for cash, and often in exchange for country produce. JOHN H. STROBL. April 11.
SALES AT AUCTION!!!
ON Monday the 17th inst. will be sold 73 feet of land adjoining to Mrs. Leiper's & running 330 feet back, to be divided into 3 lots in front & 3 lots back. Three and six months credit will be given on the sale of the above property, & notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia with approved indorsers will be required. FOSTER & SATCHELL, Auctioneers. April 7.
NOTICE. —The subscriber has, for the present, removed his VENDUE OFFICE, to the front room of the house occupied by Mr. Carter B. Page, opposite to Messrs. Hovey and Sizer where he transacts business as usual. He has on hand a quantity of West India and other GOODS, and is prepared with convenient store-houses to receive any further consignments that may be made to him. JAMES BROWN, Jr. Auctioneer. April 11.
NEW BOOK-STORE—JOHN R. JONES, Has this day opened a Book and Stationary Store, at the north-west corner of the main street, and that leading to the head of the basin, (near the Eagle Tavern) and respectfully solicits a share of the public patronage. He hopes by assiduity and attention, to give satisfaction to those, who may favor him with their commands. Such articles as he may not have on hand, will be procured, if to be had, either here, or in Philadelphia. April 11.
PURSUANT to a decretal order of the chancery District court of Williamsburg, will be offered for sale, at Westmoreland court-house on the 4th Monday in May next, being court day, that very valuable FARM , situated on Nomony river, in the county of Westmoreland, the property of John Matthews, late of said county, containing 643 acres. A credit of 12 months will be given, the purchaser executing bond with approved security to the commissioners acting under the aforesaid order and a deed of trust on the land to secure the payment of the purchase money, according to the terms of the decree. April 11.
MONSIEUR D'AVIGNE, HAIR-CUTTER, &c. &c. thanks the Ladies and Gentlemen of Richmond for the encouragement already bestowed: He has been solicited to Petersburg for a few days, from whence he will return (certainly) on to-morrow week. April 11.
NEAL NELSON, Richmond, BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURER. —Respectfully informs his customers and the public at large (that in consequence of the late fire, where he was a sufferer) he has removed three doors above the Eagle Tavern, to the house lately occupied by Gibson & Jefferson—where he manufactures boots and shoes equal in point of workmanship and materials to any in general use. April 7.
RACING! ACING!—The Tappahannock JOCKEY CLUB RACES, will commence on Thursday the 25th May next. 1st DAY—The Jockey Club Purse of $320* four mile heats 2nd DAY—The Jockey Club Purse of $240* three mile heats 3rd DAY—The Proprietor's Purse of $100* entrance 10 dollars, two mile heats, (five horses or no race) WEIGHTS AS FOLLOWS: An aged horse, lb. 130 4 Years old, lb. 100 6 years old 120 3 Do. 86 5 Do. 110 And under that age a feather. The course, &c. will be in good order, we therefore may expect fine sport; stables and litter provided gratis, upon timely application to the proprietor of the course. A. S. BROCKENBROUGH, Secretary and Treasurer. April 11.
* The Secretary cannot state accurately the amount of each day's purse, but supposes they will be as above stated, after deducting the Jockey Club dinner and the expense of advertising the rates from the subscription.
THE subscriber, who was brought up in a County Court office, and was upwards of ten years Clerk of the District Court held in Richmond, and during that time had constantly an opportunity of inspecting the records of the General Court, proposes to publish by subscription, a collection of the most useful and approved forms of process, judgments and orders used in the County and District Courts—also, of bonds usually taken in the said courts, and executions on judgments thereof; records on appeals from, and writs of supersedeas to, judgments of the District Courts; of proceedings on the arraignment of criminals in the last mentioned courts, and of the entries used on the trials thereof—To which will be added, some forms of the most correct Declarations in special actions, Indictments in Criminal cases and a few of the most unusual and difficult sorts of conveyances, and a complete index to the whole. The volume will contain about 480 pages of octavo—The price whereof will be 12 dollars, as I expect to contract for printing only a small number of copies, which will be bound in boards. The work can be printed in five or six months after it is put to press, and it is now ready for it, but will not be published till subscriptions for 100 copies are obtained, and ten dollars of the price of each paid. Those gentlemen who wish to be considered as subscribers, will be pleased to communicate it, and remit the above amount of their subscriptions to Samuel Shepard, Esq. Auditor of Public accounts in the city of Richmond, who will refund the money in case any circumstances should occur to prevent the publication. I shall endeavor to forward the copies to subscribers as soon as possible—upon receipt thereof the balance of the subscription money is to be paid. J. ROBINSON. March 28 1809.
REMOVAL. —The Subscribers (in consequence of the late Fire) have removed to a brick tenement belonging to Messrs. J. & R. Gamble, on the street leading to Mayo's Bridge, opposite Messrs. Brown and Rives's Accompting-House, where they have for sale, a general assortment of GERMAN GOODS, CONSISTING OF Oznaburgs & Ticklen- Fine Shirting Linen, burgs, Bed Tick, Dantzic Rolls, Damask Table Cloths, Brown Rolls, Looking Glasses, Sheeting, Liquor Cases, Dowlas, Quart, Pink and 1 Pint Platillas, Decanters. Also, Fresh RED CLOVER SEED BOHN & HUBNER. April 4.
ANY person who may possess a file of Virginia Papers for 1778, will render a service to the literature of the state, by forwarding it to this office; after it has served the purpose of utility for which it is intended, it will be thankfully returned in the same state of preservation in which it was received. In general, all authentic documents, either printed or manuscript, relative to the Revolutionary War, will be thankfully received, used and returned as before mentioned. Communications, by letter too, upon this subject, by those now living, who were engaged in the revolutionary struggle, or were eye-witnesses of important events, will be thankfully received. March 31.
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The fast sailing Ship, WOODROP SIMS; Built of live oak and cedar, copper fastened, and coppered up to the bitts; her upper works, sails and rigging new and in complete order—Will load immediately, and sail as soon thereafter as possible, or may be stayed until the first 15 days after the next meeting of Congress. For terms apply to M. CHAS. H. SAUNDERS, Or, SHANKS & BINFORD. Norfolk, April 7.
PURSUANT to a Deed of Trust executed to the subscribers, by Samuel Parsons & Sarah his wife, for the benefit of Wm. Cooke and Thomas and Amos Ladd, and other Creditors of the said Samuel Parsons, will be exposed to Sale at Public Auction, on the respective Premises, on Wednesday the 3d of next month the following PROPERTY , lying in the City of Richmond, viz. nearly three-fourths of the LOT described in the plan of the said City by No. 436, on the S. W. side of the Basin, and between Thomas Ladd's and the Hay-Market Square, bounded on the North-East by the street running between the Hay-Market Square and the public Warehouse. All that part of LOT, No. 412, on the N. East side of the Basin, which is bounded by the street running by the Bank and Robert McKim's to Cary street, thence by the last mentioned street to the tenement occupied by Mr. Smith as a bakery, & back to the alley which divides said Lot from R. McKim's. One Moiety of the Tenement on the Main street, now occupied by David Logan, containing 24 feet front, and extending back to an alley leading to Byrd's Warehouse, on which are a two story brick store house, lumber house, kitchen, stables, &c. Also, ten SHARES in the Richmond Turnpike and a COACH-House and Horses, together with sundry Household-Furniture, &c. The sale will commence at the Tenement occupied by David Logan for the Moiety thereof, the Turnpike Shares and the Personal Articles; and will thence adjourn in course to the other LOTS mentioned. Terms of sale will be, cash for the Personal property, the Turnpike shares and the Moiety of the Tenement in the occupancy of D. Logan; and twelve months credit for the other property, on notes negotiable and payable at the Bank of Virginia, satisfactorily endorsed, and titles to be withheld as further security, until full payment of the respective notes—or, at the option of the purchaser, one fourth to be paid down and the other three-fourths to be secured by deed of trust on the property purchased, and bond of the purchaser. The Lots will be sold as they stand, or be divided as may appear reasonable. E. CARRINGTON, RICHARD ADAMS, } Trustees. GEO: GREENHOW, Richmond, April 7.
JOHNSON & REAT, JEWELLERS, have (in consequence of the late conflagration) removed their Store opposite to Mrs. Davidson, Milliner, where orders from their usual customers will be attended to with their usual punctuality. March 31.
JOHN ALCOCK, informs his friends, and the public, that he is carrying on his CABINET MAKING BUSINESS , in all its branches where he makes all kind of Mahogany Furniture in the best manner, and on the newest fashions.—Any gentlemen or ladies wanting any Furniture, will find good work executed, and on low terms, as can be bought in New-York, or any other place. Any orders left at my shop, in the Cross-Street, adjoining Prosser and Moncure's Vendue Store, or at Mr. George Greenhow's where I keep my Ware-Room, will be pointedly attended to, and great care taken to deliver it in good order. N. B. Two Apprentices wanted at the above business, who can come well Recommended. January 17.
THE RECORDS & PAPERS OF THE HUSTINGS COURT, In consequence of the late fire, are removed to the Office of the General Court, opposite the Chancery Office, in the Capitol. TH: C. HOWARD. April 4.
WANTED TO HIRE. —A young Woman, who is well acquainted with house-work, particularly sewing, industrious, honest and sober—Also, an elderly Woman, for a Nurse, who is well acquainted with the treatment of young children—Apply at this office. April 4.
THE CAROLINE JOCKEY CLUB RACES, will commence at the Union Tavern in Caroline County on Wednesday the 19th of April next. 1st. day—A sweepstake for 3 years old colts & fillies, 8 Subscribers, 60 bushels of wheat each, and closed. 2nd. day—The Jockey Club purse—50 Subscribers, 5$ each. 3rd. day—The proprietor's subscription of 30$ with the toll of that, and the preceding days, and 10$ entrance. The Rappahannock Jockey Club Rules to govern. PHILIP SAMUEL, Sec'y. March 19.
IN pursuance of a deed of trust executed to the Subscribers by Wm. French, to secure the payment of a debt therein mentioned, due John Redd: Will be exposed, for sale, at the late residence of said French, in Henrico county, on the second Monday in May next, if fair, at the next fair day, one NEGRO MAN named Ferris , one dark bay MARE called Nester , one sorrel COLT three years old, ten head of CATTLE , one Walnut DESK and BOOK CASE , one CUPBOARD , five FEATHER BEDS and FURNITURE , three TABLES , two Chests , or so much thereof, as will be sufficient to meet the interest of the said trust deed, together with the excess of sale. GEORGE WALLACE, Jr. } Trustees. JOSEPH HOPSON, April 4.
EUROPE.
WASHINGTON, April 8. Arrived in this city from England, Mr. OAKLEY, (son of Sir Charles Oakley) as secretary of Legation to the U. States of America. This gentleman, we understand, is bearer of dispatches to his excellency the English Ambassador.
Arrived at Norfolk on the third of this Month, his Britannic Majesty's sloop of war Rosamond, capt. Walker, in 41 days from England. By this arrival we have received London papers to the ninth of February, inclusive. It is estimated in these London prints, that Saragossa has been subdued.
And that Castanos, with 10,000 men has submitted to the French.
The British have sent an Expedition to Cadiz.
American affair occupy the second place in the estimation of the English public.—Monitor.
On the 3d inst. his Britannic Majesty's sloop of war Rosamond, captain Walker, 41 days from Falmouth, arrived at Norfolk with dispatches for Mr. Erskine. We have received London papers to the 9th of February, from which we have made copious extracts, which will be continued in our next.
On the 7th of February lord Grosvenor moved, in the House of Lords, to go into a committee to enquire into the state of the nation. This motion was negatived without a division.
On the 1st of February lord Auckland gave notice in the House of Lords that he should on the 13th of that month offer a motion relative to the orders in Council. In the House of Commons, Mr. Whitbread gave a similar notice.
On the same day a conversation occurred in the House of Lords, respecting a treaty, lately concluded, between Great Britain and Spain. The Duke of Norfolk said he wished to know, whether any circumstances had since occurred to alter the provisions of the treaty. The Earl of Liverpool replied, that no events had occurred which could or ought to alter the nature of the treaty; and he wished to take this opportunity of stating, that no events had since occurred which could or ought to diminish the exertions making by his Majesty's government, for the assistance of the Spanish nation.
This treaty has not been yet divulged.
It was rumored at London that propositions for a peace had been tendered by France.
Serious disturbances were said to have arisen in Sweden.
The Central Junta of Spain are said to have retired to Cadiz, whither the English destined a further expedition of 15,000 men. The surrender of Saragossa, the submission of the army of Castanos to the French and the arrival of Napoleon at Paris on the 23d of January are also rumored. Joseph Bonaparte had returned to Madrid.—Nat. Int.
SPANISH.
TWENTY-FIRST BULLETIN OF THE FRENCH ARMY IN SPAIN.
(No Date.)
The English entered Spain on the 29th October; during the months of November & December, they beheld the destruction of the army of Galicia at Espinosa; of that of Estremadura at Burgos, of that of Arragon and Valencia, at Tudela; of the army of reserve at Somosierra, in fine, they beheld the fall of Madrid without making a single movement, and without any attempt to succour the Spanish armies, to whom however, a division of the English troops would have proved of considerable assistance. In the beginning of December, information was received that the columns of the British army were retreating on Corunna, where they were to re-embark. By later accounts, it afterwards appeared that they had halted, and that on the 16th Dec. they set out from Salamanca in order to take the field. As early as the 15th, the light cavalry had marched from Valladolid. The whole of the English army passed the Douro, and arrived on the 23d in presence of the duke of Dalmatia at Saldanha. As soon as the Emperor was apprised at Madrid of this unexpected determination on the part of the English, he marched in order to cut off their retreat, and pursue their rear. But notwithstanding the diligence exerted by the French troops, the passage of the mountain of Guadarrama, which was covered with snow, the incessant rain and overflowing of the torrents, delayed their march full two days.—On the 22d the Emperor left Madrid. His head quarters were on the 23d at Villa Castin, the 25th at Tordesillas, and on the 27th at Medina de Rio Secco. On the 24th, at break of day the enemy had begun to move, in order to outflank the left of the duke of Dalmatia, but having been informed during the morning of the movement that took place at Madrid, they immediately began to retreat, abandoning their Spanish adherents, whose passions they had inflamed, the remains of the Galician army, that had conceived fresh hopes, some of their hospitals, a part of their baggage, and a great number of stragglers.—They committed great devastations, the inevitable result of forced marches of troops in retreat—they carried away with them mules, horses, and several other effects—they pillaged a great number of churches and convents. In the abbey of Sahagun, which contained 60 monks, and which all along had been respected by the French army, they committed every sort of depredation. Every where the priests and the monks were seen flying at their approach. This disorderly conduct exasperated the country against them, and their difference of language,
manners, and of religion, contributed not a little to that disposition of men's minds.—They reproached the Spaniards with having no longer an army to unite with theirs, and with having deceived the English government. The Spaniards returned for answer, that Spain had numerous armies, but that the English had allowed them to be destroyed without having made any effort to assist them. During the fifteen days that have just elapsed they did not fire a single musquet. The light cavalry only had given some blows with their swords. General Durosnel at the head of 400 light horse of the guard, fell in at the close of the evening with a column of English infantry on their march, sabred a number of soldiers and carried disorder into the columns. General Lefebvre, Disonnettes, colonel of the chasseurs of the guard, detached two days before, with three squadrons of his regiment, having taken a quantity of baggage, of women and stragglers, & finding the bridge of Ezela cut down, imagined that the town of Benevente was evacuated. Carried away by that impetuosity with which the French soldiers have been so often reproached, he swam across the river in order to make for Benevente, where he fell in with the whole of the cavalry of the rear-guard of the English: a long contest here ensued, of four hundred men against 2 thousand.
There was no resisting numbers. Those brave fellows recrossed the river. The horse of gen. Lefebvre was killed by a ball. He had himself received a wound from a pistol shot, and, being dismounted, was made prisoner. Ten of his chasseurs, who had also been dismounted, were likewise taken, 5 were drowned, and 20 were wounded. This sharp affair must have convinced the English what they would have to dread from such men in general action; gen. Lefebvre undoubtedly committed a fault, but it was the fault of a Frenchman; he ought to be blamed and rewarded at the same time.—The number of prisoners taken from the enemy, up to the present moment, and who are chiefly composed of scattered individuals and stragglers, amount to 300. On the 28th the head-quarters of the Emperor were at Valderas; the head quarters of the duke of Dalmatia at Manila, the duke of Elchingen at Villatoro. On his departure from Madrid the emperor appointed king Joseph his lieutenant general, with the command of the garrison of the capital, together with the corps of the dukes of Dantzic and Belluno; the divisions of cavalry of Lasalle, Milhaud, and Latour Maubourg, are left for the protection of the center. The weather is exceedingly bad. To a piercing cold, heavy and continued rains have succeeded. We suffer, but the English must suffer still more.
TWENTY-SECOND BULLETIN.
BENEVENTE, Dec. 31.
On the 30th, the cavalry commanded by the duke of Istria passed the Ezela. On the evening of the 30th it traversed Benevente and pursued the enemy as far as Puente de la Vilana. On the same day the head quarters were established at Benevente. The English were not satisfied with destroying an arch of the bridge of Ezela, but they also blew up the buttresses with mines, a damage wholly unprofitable and which could only be hurtful to the country; the rear betook themselves to the most shocking plundering. The soldiers, in the excess of their continual intemperance, gave reins to all the licentiousness of brutal inebriety. Every thing in their conduct bespoke rather an hostile army than one which came to the assistance of a friendly power. The contempt of the English for the Spaniards gave a sharper edge to the impression made by so many outrages. This experience will throw a salutary damp on those insurrections instigated by foreigners. One cannot help regretting that the English had not sent an army into Andalusia. The army that passed through Benevente ten days ago, triumphed already in hope, and already having their colours hung with trophies, nothing could equal the audacity and security they displayed. On their return, their countenance was sadly changed. They were harassed with fatigue, and seemed to be borne down with shame of retreating without a battle. In order to anticipate the just reproaches of the Spaniards, the English continued incessantly to repeat that they had been promised to be joined by numerous forces; and the Spaniards repelled their calumnious assertions by arguments to which there was no answer. Ten days ago, when the English were traversing the country, they well knew that the Spanish armies had been destroyed.
The commissaries whom they employed to accompany the armies of the left, of the centre, and of the right, knew full well that it was not 50,000 men only, but 180,000 men that the Spaniards had put under arms; that these 180,000 men had fought, while for six weeks the English had remained unconcerned spectators of their troubles. These commissaries could not but have made it known that the Spanish armies had ceased to exist. The English, therefore, could not be ignorant that the Spaniards were without armies. When ten days ago, they again moved forward, intoxicated with the silly hope of deceiving the vigilance of the French general, they fell into the snare which the French general had laid for drawing them into the open country. They had before made some marches on their return to their ships. "You ought," observed the Spaniards, "to have persisted in that prudent determination, or else you should have been in force enough to balance the destinies of the French. Above all, you ought not to have at first advanced with such confidence, only afterwards to fall back with so much precipitation. You should not have drawn the theatre of the war among us, and exposed us to the ravages of the two armies. After having brought down upon our heads such accumulations of disasters, you ought not to throw the fault upon us. We have not been able to resist the French troops; nor do you seem more able to make head against them. Forbear, therefore to accuse us; to outrage us; all our misfortunes we owe to you." The English had reported throughout the country that they had defeated 5000 of the French cavalry on the banks of the Ezela, and that the field of battle was covered with
their dead. The inhabitants of Benevente were much surprised on visiting the field of battle to have found there only three Englishmen and two French. That contest of 400 men against 2000, does great honor to the French. During the whole of the 29th, the river continued to swell considerably, so that at the close of the evening it became impossible to ford it. It was in the middle of the river, and at the moment he was on the point of being drowned, that general Lefebvre, being carried away by the current to the side occupied by the English, was made prisoner. The loss of the enemy in killed and wounded in that affair of advanced posts, has been far greater than that of the French. The flight of the English was so precipitate, that they left at their hospital their sick and wounded, and were obliged to burn a fine magazine of tents and clothing. They killed all the horses that were over-fatigued or wounded, and which might embarrass their retreat. It is scarcely here to be credited how that spectacle, so shocking to our manners, of hundreds of horses shot with pistols, is revolting to the Spaniards. Many persons look upon it as a sort of sacrifice—some religious rite—which gives rise, in the minds of the Spaniards, to very strange pictures of the religion of England. The English are retreating in the utmost haste. All the Germans in their pay are deserting. Our army will, this evening, be at Astorga, near the borders of Galicia.
TWENTY-THIRD BULLETIN.
BENEVENTE, Jan. 1.
The duke of Dalmatia arrived on the 30th December at Mancilla, where was the left of the enemy, consisting of the Spaniards under Gen. Romana. General Franceschi overthrew them in a single charge, killed a great number, took two standards, and made prisoners a Colonel, two Lt. Colonels, 50 officers and 1,500 men. On the 31st, the duke of Dalmatia entered Leon, where he found 2,000 sick. Romana succeeded Blake in the command after the battle of Espinosa. The remains of that army which, while before Bilbon, consisted of 50,000 men, were reduced to almost 5,000 at Mancilla. These wretches, without clothes & oppressed with every misery, filled the hospitals. The English are held in detestation by these troops whom they despise, and by the peaceable inhabitants whom they abuse, and whose substance they devour, in order to support their own army. The mind of the people of the kingdom of Leon is much changed.—They loudly cry out for peace and their King; they curse the English and their fallacious insinuations. They reproach them with being the cause of the shedding of Spanish blood in order to feed the English monopoly and perpetuate the war on the continent. The perfidy of England and her motives are now obvious to the meanest and most illiterate Spanish peasant. They know what they suffer; and the authors of their sufferings are before their eyes. Meantime, the English retreat with the utmost haste, pursued by the duke of Istria, with 9,000 cavalry. Among the magazines which they burnt at Benevente, were, independent of tents, 4,000 blankets and a great quantity of ram. We picked up upwards of 200 wagons of baggage and ammunition, left on the road from Benevente to Astorga. The shattered remains of Romana's army, threw themselves into the latter town, and increased the confusion.—The events of the English expedition to Spain must furnish materials for a fine opening speech to the English Parliament. The English nation must be informed, that her army remained three months in a state of inaction, while it was in their power to assist the Spaniards; that its leaders, or those whose orders they executed, have been guilty of the extreme folly of making a movement forward, after the Spanish armies had been destroyed; that, in a word, it entered upon the new year by running away, pursued by an enemy, whom it did not dare to fight, and by the curses of those whom it had stirred up to resistance, and whom it was its duty to support. Such enterprises and such results can belong only to a country that has no government. Fox, or even Pitt, would not have been guilty of such blunders. To contend against France by land, who has one hundred thousand cavalry, fifty thousand horses for all sorts of military equipment, and nine hundred thousand infantry, was, on the part of England, carrying folly to the utmost extreme; it betrays, indeed, a greediness for disgrace; it is, in fine, to administer the affairs of England just as the cabinet of the Thuiilliers could wish them to be administered. It betrays no small ignorance of Spain, to have imagined that any importance could be attached to popular commotion, or to indulge the smallest hope, that by kindling in that country the flames of sedition, such a conflagration could be attended with any decided result of any material duration. A few fanatical priests are quite sufficient to compose and propagate libels, to carry a momentary disorder into the minds of men; But something else is required to cause a nation to rise to arms. At the time of the French revolution, it required three years and the presence of the convention, to prepare the means of military success; and who that does not know to what hazards France was nevertheless exposed? France was, however, stirred up. Supported by the unanimous resolution to re-assert rights of which she had been deprived in times of obscurity. In Spain, it was a few men who stirred up the people, in order to preserve the exclusive possession of rights odious to the people. Those who fought for the inquisition, for the Franciscans and for feudal rights, might be animated by an ardent zeal for their personal interests, but could never infuse into a whole nation, a firm resolve or a permanent opinion. In spite of the English feudal rights, the Franciscans, and the inquisition, have no longer any existence in Spain. After the capture of Rosas, Gen. Gouvion Saint Cyr, shaped his march against Barcelona, at the head of the 7th corps. He dispersed every thing that he found before that place, and formed a junction with General Duhesme. That junction brought his army to 40,000 men. The dukes of Treviso and Abrantes, have carried all the outworks at Saragossa.

The General of Engineers, Lacoste, is preparing the means of getting possession of that city without loss. The King of Spain has gone to Aranjuez, in order to review the first corps, commanded by the duke of Bel-luna.
TWENTY-FOURTH BULLETIN.
ASTORGA, Jan. 2.
The emperor arrived at Astorga on the 1st of Jan. The road from Benevente to Astorga, is covered with dead horses belonging to the English, with travelling carriages, artillery, caissons and warlike stores. There were found at Astorga, magazines of sheets, blankets and the tools and implements of pioneers. As to Romana's army, it is reduced almost to nothing. The small number that remain, are without coats, shoes, pay, food, and it is no longer to be considered anything. The Emperor has charged the duke of Dalmatia with the glorious mission of pursuing the English to the place of their embarkation, and of driving them into the sea, at the point of the sword. The English will learn what it is to make an inconside-rate movement in presence of the French army. The manner in which they have been driven from the kingdoms of Leon and Galicia, and the destruction of a part of their army, will, no doubt, teach them to be more circumspect in their operations on the continent. All that remains of the Spanish insurgent troops, has been without pay for several months back.
TWENTY-FIFTH BULLETIN.
BENEVENTE, Jan. 5.
The rear of Merle's division, forming part of the duke of Dalmatia's corps, came up with the advanced guard on the 3d. At four P. M. it reached the rear guard of the English, who were upon the heights of Prieros, a league before Villafranca, consisting of 5,000 infantry and 600 cavalry. This position was a very fine one, & difficult to attack. General Merle made his dispositions. The infantry advanced, beat the charge, and the English were entirely routed. The difficulty of the ground did not permit the cavalry to charge, and only 200 prisoners were taken. We had some fifty men killed or wounded. General Colbert advanced to see if the cavalry could form; - his hour was arrived - a ball struck him on the forehead, and he lived but a quarter of an hour.
There are two roads from Astorga to Villafranca. The English took the right, the Spaniards the left - they marched without order; were cut off and surrounded by the Hannoverian chasseurs. A General of brigade and a whole division laid down their arms.
Since the 27th ult. we have taken above 10,000 prisoners, among whom are 1,500 English. We have taken also more than 400 baggage waggons, 15 waggons of firelocks, their magazines and hospitals. The English retreat in disorder, leaving magazines, sick and equipage. They will experience a still greater loss, and if they be able to embark, it is probable it will not be without the loss of half their army. But informed that that army was reduced below 20,000 men, the Emperor resolved to remove his head-quarters from Astorga to Benevente.
We found in the barns several English, who had been hanged by the Spaniards. His majesty was indignant, and ordered the barns to be burnt - the peasants, whatever may be their resentment, have no right to attempt the lives of the waggons of either army. His majesty has ordered the English prisoners to be treated with all the respect due to soldiers who have manifested liberal ideas and sentiments of honor.
On the 4th at night, the duke of Dalmatia's head quarters were ten leagues from Lugo.
Governor de St. Cyr's division entered Barcelona on the 17th. On the 18th, he came up with Generals Reding's and Vive's troops at Lleras, and completely routed them. He took 6 pieces of cannon, 30 waggons and 3,000 men.
TWENTY-SIXTH BULLETIN.
VALLADOLID, Jan. 7.
After Governor de St. Cyr entered Barcelona he proceeded to the Lobregat, and forced the enemy's intrenched camp, and took 25 pieces of cannon. He then took Torrogero, a place of great importance.
TWENTY-SEVENTH BULLETIN.
VALLADOLID, Jan. 9.
The duke of Dalmatia, after the battle of Rios, proceeded to expel the English from the post of Piedra Fella. He there took 1500 English prisoners, five pieces of cannon, and several caissons. The enemy was obliged to destroy a quantity of baggage and stores. The precipices were filled with them. Such was their precipitate flight and confusion, that they left behind them in their carriages a quantity of gold and silver. The property that has fallen into our hands, is estimated at two millions of livres.
Half the English cavalry is on foot. Since our departure from Benevente up to the 5th inst. we counted on the road 1800 English horses that had been killed.
The remains of Romana's army are found wandering about in all directions. The remains of the army of Majorca, of Iberia, of Barcelona, and of Naples, are made prisoners.
The Spanish peasantry have no mercy on the English. Notwithstanding the strictest orders to the contrary, we every day find a number of English assassinated.
The duke of Belluno is on the Tagus. The whole of the Imperial Guard is concentrated at Valladolid.
The cities of Valladolid, of Palmeira, Segovia, Avila, Astorga, Leon, &c. &c. have sent numerous deputations to the king.
The city of Madrid has particularly distinguished itself. Twenty-eight thousand five hundred heads of families have taken the oath of allegiance before the holy sacrament. The citizens have promised his imperial majesty, that if he will place his brother on the throne, they will serve him with all their efforts, and defend him with all their means.
TWENTY-EIGHTH BULLETIN.
VALLADOLID, Jan. 13.
That part of the treasure of the enemy which has fallen into our hands is 1,800,000 frs. The inhabitants assert that the English have carried off from eight to ten millions.
The English general, coming it impossible that the French infantry and artillery should have followed him, and gained upon him a certain number of marches, particularly in mountains so difficult as those of Galicia, thought he could only
be pursued by cavalry and sharpshooters. He took, therefore, the position of Castro on his right supported by the river Tormes, which passes by Lugo, and is not fordable.
The Duke of Dalmatia arrived on the 6th in the presence of the enemy. He employed the 7th and 8th in reconnoitering the enemy, and collecting his infantry and artillery, which were still in the rear. He formed his plan of attack. The left only of the enemy was attackable - he manoeuvred on their left. His dispositions required some movements on the 8th, the duke being determined to attack on the 9th, but the enemy retreated in the night, and in the morning our advanced guard entered Lugo. The enemy left 300 sick in the hospitals, a park of 18 pieces of cannon, and 30000 waggons of ammunition. We made 700 prisoners.
The town and environs of Lugo are choked with the bodies of English horses. Hence, upwards of 2,500 horses have been killed in the retreat.
The English are marching to Corunna in great haste, where they have 400 transports. They have already lost baggage, ammunition, a part of their most material artillery, and upwards of 3000 prisoners.
On the 10th our advanced guard was at Betanzos, a short distance from Corunna.
The duke of Elchingen is with his corps near Lugo.
In reckoning the sick, missed, those who have been killed by the peasants and made prisoners by our troops, we may calculate the loss of the English at one third of their army. They are reduced to 18,000 men, and are not yet embarked. From Sahagun they retreated 150 leagues in bad weather, worse roads, through mountains, whole days closely pursued at the point of the sword.
It is difficult to conceive the folly of their plan of campaign. It must be attributed, not to the general who commands, and who is a clever and skilful man, but to that spirit of hatred and rage which animates the English ministry. To push forward in this manner 30,000 men, exposing them to destruction, or to flight as their only resource, is a conception which can only be inspired by the spirit of passion or the most extravagant consumption.
Lugo was pillaged and sacked by the enemy. We cannot impute these disasters to the English general; it is the usual and inevitable effect of forced marches and precipitate retreat.
Zamora, whose inhabitants had been animated by the presence of the English, shut their gates against Gen. Mangetet; Gen. Domeau proceeded against it with four battalions, he scaled the city, took it, and put the most guilty to the sword.
Galicia is the province of Spain which manifests the best disposition, it receives the French as deliverers.
Valladolid has taken the oath to King Joseph.
THE TWENTY-NINTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN.
Is dated from Valladolid, on the 16th of Jan. It treats of the transactions in the centre of Spain, and relates that on the 13th ult. the Duke de Belluno had compelled 300 officers, 2 generals, 7 colonels, 20 lieut. colonels, and 12,000 men, to lay down their arms while retreating to Alcaiz. The commander, "le nomme Penegas," was killed - The bulletin afterwards recites the compulsory addresses of the Council of State, and other public bodies, at Madrid, to the conqueror.
THIRTIETH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY OF SPAIN.
VALLADOLID, Jan. 21.
The duke of Dalmatia left Betanzos on the 12th instant. Having reached the Mero, he found the bridge of Burgo cut. The enemy was dislodged from the village of Burgo. In the mean while general Franceschi ascended the river which he crossed at the bridge of Sela. He made himself master of the high road from Corunna to Santiago, and took six officers and sixty soldiers prisoners. On the same day a body of thirty marines, who were fetching water from the bay near Mero, were taken. From the village of Perillo, the English fleet could be observed in the harbor of Corunna.
On the 13th the enemy caused two powder magazines situated near the heights of St. Margaret, at half a league from Corunna, to be blown up. The explosion was terrible, and was felt at the distance of three leagues.
On the 14th the bridge of Burgo was repaired, and the French artillery was able to pass. The enemy had taken a position at two leagues distance, half a league before Corunna. He was seen employed in hastily embarking his sick and wounded, the number of which according to spies and deserters amounts to three or four thousand men. The English were in the mean time occupied in destroying the batteries on the coast, and laying waste the country on the sea shore. The commandant of the fort of St. Phillip, suspecting the fate intended for his fortification, refused to admit them in it.
On the evening of the 14th we saw a fresh convoy of one hundred and sixty sail arrive, among which were four ships of the line.
On the morning of the 15th the divisions of Merle and Mermet occupied the heights of Villaboa, where the enemy's advanced guard was stationed, which was attacked and destroyed. Our right wing was stationed on the point where the road from Corunna to Lugo, and that from Corunna to Santiago, meet. The left was placed behind the village of Elvina. The enemy was stationed behind some beautiful heights.
The rest of the 15th was spent in fixing a battery of twelve pieces of Cannon - and it was not till the 16th at three o'clock in the afternoon, that the duke of Dalmatia gave orders to attack.
The assault was made upon the English by the first brigade of the division of Mermet, which overthrew them and drove them from the village of Elvina. The second regiment of light infantry covered itself with glory - General Jardon at the head of the Voltigeurs, wrought a terrible carnage - The enemy driven from its position retreated to the gardens which surround Corunna.
The night growing very dark, it was necessary to suspend the attack - The enemy availed himself of this to embark with precipitation - Only six thousand of our men were engaged, and every arrangement was made for abandoning the positions of the night, and advancing next day to a general attack - The loss of the enemy has been immense. Two of our batteries played upon them during the whole of the engagement. We counted on the field of battle more than eight hundred of their dead bodies, among which was the body of Gen. Hamilton, and those of two other general officers, whose names we are unacquainted with. We have taken 20 officers, 300 men and four pieces of Cannon. The English have left behind them more than fifteen hundred horses, which they had killed - Our loss amounts to one hundred killed and one hundred and fifty wounded.
The colonel of the 47th regiment distinguished himself - An ensign of the 31st infantry killed with his own hand an English officer, who had endeavored to wret
from him his eagle. The general of artillery Bombheat, and colonel Fontaney, have signalized themselves.
At day break on the 17th, we saw the English convoy under sail; on the 18th the whole had disappeared.
The duke of Dalmatia had caused a cannonade to be discharged upon the vessels from the fort of Santiago. Several transports ran aground, and all the men who were on board were taken.
We found in the establishment of the Palloza (a large manufactory in the suburbs of Corunna where the English had previously been encamped,) 3,000 English muskets. Magazines also were seized, containing a great quantity of ammunition and other effects belonging to the hostile army. A great number of wounded were picked up in the suburbs. The opinion of the inhabitants on the spot, and deserters is, that the number of wounded in the battle exceeds twenty-five hundred men.
Thus has terminated the English expedition which was sent into Spain. After having fomented the war in this unhappy country, the English have abandoned it. They had disembarked 38,000 men and 6,000 horses. We have taken from them according to calculation, 6,500 men, exclusive of the sick. They have re-embarked very little baggage, very little ammunition, and very few horses. We have counted 3,000 killed and left behind. The men who have found an asylum on board their vessels, are harassed and dejected. In another season of the year not one of them would have escaped. The facility of cutting the bridges, the rapidity of the torrents, which in winter swell to deep rivers, the shortness of the days, and the length of the nights, are very favorable to an army on their retreat.
Of the 38,000 men whom the English had disembarked, we may be assured that scarcely 24,000 will return to England.
The army of Romana, which at the end of December, by the aid of reinforcements which it had received from Galicia, consisted of 16,000 men, is reduced to less than 5,000 men, who are wandering between Vigo and Santiago, and are closely pursued. The kingdom of Leon, the province of Zamora, and all Galicia, which the English had been desirous to cover, are conquered and subdued.
The general of division Lapisse, has sent patrols into Portugal, who have been well received there.
General Maupetit has entered Salamanca; he met there with some sick of the English troops.
[At the end of the bulletin is inserted an intercepted letter, dated Santiago, January, 1809, and signed L. E. Thurn.]
VERY LATE AND IMPORTANT FOREIGN NEWS.
NEW YORK, April 6.
At a late hour last night, the British Packet Prince Adolphus, capt. Boulderson, arrived at this port from Falmouth, via Bermuda. She sailed from the former place on the 21st of February, and the latter 8 days since.
Passengers in the Packet, a Spanish Minister and his Secretary, from the Central Junta - Mr. Thwaits and Mr. Nicholson. The ship Herkimer, Howland, was to sail from London about the 22d of Feb. for N. York.
The King of England was in perfect health on the 19th Feb.
The London paper (The Day,) of Feb. 4, says, "Dispatches of considerable importance are immediately to be sent out to Mr. Erskine, our Minister in America. It is confidently stated, that they will communicate the determination of our government to withdraw our orders in council, provided the government of the United States shall consent to specific conditions, chiefly of a commercial nature. The gentleman who is to be charged with these dispatches, is a Mr. Oakley. If this be true, farewell to British independence and maritime superiority! The Americans will not have struggled in vain, and France will have to boast more of her decrees than ever."
Dispatches were received in London, Feb. 4, from Lisbon, dated Jan. 24. Most of the British troops had been embarked, after spiking the guns on the batteries at Lisbon, except Belen and Fort St. Julian, which places were occupied by the British. Two Russian men of war, and the Danish vessels in the Tagus, were ready to receive the persons and property of British and Portuguese, who might choose to quit Lisbon.
In the House of Commons, Feb. 3, it was agreed to raise 150,000 seamen, and 51,400 marines, for the service of the present year. On the 1st 2d and 3d of February, Parliament were principally engaged in an investigation of the conduct of the Duke of York. We have not the papers containing the result.
It is with pleasure we learn, that the accounts which government have this day received from Lisbon, dated the 24th ult. are of a contrary nature to those which we yesterday mentioned.
No advices had reached Lisbon to that time, of the arrival of the French in Portugal. The people were arming, and appeared determined to resist the enemy. The British troops were not, as reported, evacuating Lisbon, but as one of our regiments had embarked on a particular service, that circumstance might naturally give rise to the rumor.
The British troops from Spain, which had arrived at Plymouth, were ordered to be re-embarked (with the exception of the sick) on the 2d. inst.
From the Courier of Feb. 18, (evening.)
LONDON, Feb. 18.
The Marquis de Romana with the remains of his army, has taken possession of Bayona, a sea-port in Galicia, where it is likely he will be able to sustain himself till we can send ships to bring him away.
The expedition preparing at Cork, goes on with the greatest alacrity. Orders were yesterday received at Portsmouth to dispatch 40 sail of transports to Cork - they will sail the instant the wind is fair.
OF AMERICA.
The first division this session took place in the House of Lords last night upon Lord Grenville's motion relative to America and the orders in council. The motion was negatived 115 to 70. The main ground taken by the late ministers was, that we ought to have accepted the proposition which America made to us last August to repeal their embargo with respect to us, if we abandoned our orders with respect to her - Lord Mel-
ville, who spoke for the first time this session, placed the question in a clear, perspicuous, statesman-like point of view - proving that our orders were in retaliation to the decrees of France, the repeal of which must precede the removal of our orders. The American embargo was confessed by its authors to be a municipal measure, and had nothing to do with the case in point.
Lloyd's List Feb. 7 to 17 - Arrived the ships Dragon, (having above 400 bales of cotton) Echo, Union, Rover, Neptune, Ann and Frances, Halcyon, Minerva, Ambition, Rolla, Carmelite, Marshall, Sampson, Traveller, and Hercules, all from Liverpool from America. At Clyde Swift, from do. The Cincinnati, from Bordeaux, was carried into Falmouth the 16th of Jan.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
THURSDAY, Jan. 19.
This day, the house of Lords met pursuant to prorogation, when the lord chancellor, archbishop of Canterbury, lord Camden, and the duke of Montrose took their seats in their robes upon the wool sacks, as his majesty's commissioners; and the speaker and the members of the house of commons being in attendance, the chancellor delivered the following speech from his majesty:
My Lords and Gentlemen, We have it in command from his majesty to state to you that his majesty has called you together, in perfect confidence, that you are prepared cordially to support his majesty in the prosecution of a war, which there is no hope of terminating safely and honorably, except through vigorous and persevering exertion.
We are to acquaint you that his majesty has directed to be laid before you, copies of the proposals for opening a negotiation, which were transmitted to his majesty from Erfurth; and of the correspondence which took place thereon with the government of Russia and of France; together with the declaration issued by his majesty's command on the termination of that correspondence.
His majesty is persuaded that you will participate in the feelings which were expressed by his majesty, when it was required that his majesty should consent to commence the negotiation by abandoning the cause of Spain, which he had so recently and cordially espoused.
We are commanded to inform you, that his majesty continues to receive from the Spanish government the strongest assurances of their determined perseverance in the cause of their legitimate monarchy, and of the national independence of Spain, & to assure you, that so long as the people of Spain shall remain true to themselves, his majesty will continue to them his most strenuous assistance & support.
His majesty has renewed to the Spanish nation, in the moment of its difficulties and reverses, the engagements which he voluntarily contracted at the outset of its struggle against the usurpation & tyranny of France; and we are commanded to acquaint you, that these engagements have been reduced into the form of a treaty of alliance; - which treaty, as soon as the ratifications shall have been exchanged, his majesty will cause to be laid before you.
His majesty commands us to state to you, that while his majesty contemplated with the liveliest satisfaction the achievements of his forces in the commencement of the campaign in Portugal, and the deliverance of the kingdom of his ally, from the presence and oppression of the French army, his majesty most deeply regretted the termination of that campaign by an armistice and convention, of some of the articles of which his majesty has felt himself obliged formally to declare his disapprobation.
We are to express to you his majesty's reliance on your disposition to enable his majesty to continue the aid afforded by his majesty to the King of Sweden. That monarch derives a peculiar claim to his majesty's support in the present exigency of his affairs, from having concurred with his majesty in the propriety of rejecting any proposal for negotiation, to which the government of Spain was not to be admitted as a party.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons. We are commanded by his majesty to inform you, that he has directed the estimates of the current year to be laid before you. His majesty relies upon your zeal and affection to make such further provisions of supply, as the vigorous prosecution of the war may render necessary; and he trusts that you may be enabled to find the means of providing such supply, without any great or immediate encroachment of the existing burdens upon his people.
His majesty feels assured, it will be highly satisfactory to you to learn, that notwithstanding the measures resorted to by the enemy, for the purpose of destroying the commerce and resources of his kingdom, the public revenue has continued in a course of progressive improvement.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
We are directed to inform you that the measure adopted by parliament in the last session, for establishing a local militia, has been already attended with the happiest success, & promises to be extensively and permanently beneficial to the country.
We have received his majesty's commands most especially to recommend to you, that duly weighing the immense interests that are at stake in the war now carrying on, you should proceed with as little delay as possible to consider of the most effectual measures for the augmentation of the regular army, in order that his majesty may be better enabled, without impairing the means of defence at home, to avail himself of the military power of his dominions in the great contest in which he is engaged; and to conduct that contest, under the blessing of Divine Providence, to a conclusion compatible with the honor of his majesty's crown, and with the interest of his allies, of Europe and of the world.
LONDON, Feb. 14.
SUBSTANCE OF THE THIRTY-FIRST BULLETINS.
Government has received a new set of French Bulletins. A cask filled with these precious articles, was picked up by some boatmen off Dover. The contents have been transmitted to Ministers. [This is the only trade now carried on between this country and France.]
Among the Bulletins so received, is the 31st. It states, that the 42d, 50th, and 52d British regiments were utterly destroyed in the battle of the 16th. Gen. Moore was killed, charging at the head of his brigade; and General Baird wounded; he is reported to have died on the 19th. The night after the battle of the 16th, the enemy entered Corunna in the greatest consternation and con-
fusion, out of eighty pieces of cannon which had been landed, on y one dozen were re-embarked. The French took possession of 60 pieces. Independently of the immense treasure the English had taken, a great quantity had been thrown from the precipices, which had been found by the peasants. Previously to, and in the battle of Corunna, two English generals had been killed, and three wounded; among the latter was Gen. Crawford. The French found in the port of Corunna seven English vessels, three with horses, and four loaded with troops.
The English have gained nothing by the expedition but the hatred of the Spaniards, and disgrace.
General Franchesci, after entering St. Jago, and taking possession of the English magazine, had proceeded upon Vigo where Romana was with about 2500 men, all whom he could rally. The division of Mermet, proceeded for Ferrol. The governor of Corunna took the oath of allegiance to king Joseph, and the people manifested great joy on being delivered from the English.
DOMESTIC.
OLMSTEAD'S CASE.
Process has been issued from the district court of the U. States, against general M. Bright and others, upon a charge of having resisted the laws of the U. States.
This measure is founded on the report of the U. States marshal of this district, who in attempting to carry into execution the process of the United States court, was resisted by a body of men in arms, acting under the authority of the governor of this commonwealth. The force ordered out by governor Snyder, were placed under the command of general Bright, who, in obedience to the orders of the governor, organized a military force, and acted according to written instructions, to him given by the authority from whence he derives his commission.
It is supposed, that every citizen who acted under the same authority, in resisting the decision of the supreme court, will also be prosecuted.
General Bright is as worthy a man as lives in the district, and we have no doubt, deprecates a resistance to the laws of the union, as much as any man; and indeed the same observation as to public fidelity, may be fairly extended to every man of the militia, who, under a sense of duty, turned out in obedience to orders.
The great evil of the case, is the impression it must make abroad, and the handle which it must afford to disaffection in other parts of the union.
The question, however, is so important to the public safety and to the security of the federation of the states, that it requires to be settled.
This state has been dishonored by the operation of an influence that has been for years pestilential to it - a noted story of the name of Charles Smith, a member of the assembly, a notorious intriguer and adversary of the good order and policy of this state for several years, in the legislature, has unfortunately wormed himself into the confidence of the imbecile and incapable men whom Mr. Snyder has selected for his advisers, and the state has been plunged into this difficulty and shame by that man's wickedness, and their weakness.
Smith's object was to obtain a seat on the bench of justice, and his intrigues it was that set on foot the proceedings in the legislature involving the case of Judge Henry, whom Smith expected to succeed, and whom he would have succeeded, if the legislature had not possessed honesty and integrity enough to resist the foul purpose.
Mr. Snyder cannot be supposed to possess extensive or critical legal knowledge, and being without a man of integrity or talents in his suite, was obliged to depend on this worst of all advisers, an inveterate political enemy, and a man who, beside being an office hunter, is reported to be in arrear to the state an immense sum of money - in a word, Smith was the author of the report issued lately in the name of the legislature, and upon his advice it is, that the state has been put in jeopardy, while the people at large abhor the proceedings, and the folly and wickedness by which they have been conducted.
We have refrained as much as possible from the discussion of this subject; preferring every private effort in our power to avert the calamity and shame, to the making it public.
"We have used every means that the most generous dispositions could devise to avert the consequences that we foresaw, and which might have been prevented if our counsels had been pursued."
"To the weak, the counsels of prudence are but as foolishness, and to the wicked they are terrible as the Tiphon," says the Persian poet.
As citizens, and as members of the same political body, we have done our duty - even the duty of forbearance and counsel - higher duties we have never lost sight of - and now we shall think it our duty to discuss the subject in the utmost latitude, because we wish to do justice and to rescue the state and the legislature from the disgrace which attaches to these proceedings; as well as the citizens who, as militia men, considered themselves bound to obey the orders of the executive.
We foresaw, as soon as the report of Smith was published, that the inevitable effect would be such as has now arisen out of it; that the delusion held forth of a future amendment of the constitution was a mere delusion; as no such amendment could affect this case.
The attorney of the district, Mr. Dallas, we understand, has signified the determination of the executive to support the laws of the U. States, as he is bound to do.
The district court of the United States opens on Tuesday, the 11th instant, and it is supposed the citizens of the militia who have been unfortunately called on to act in this case, will be prosecuted under the act of congress of 30th April, 1790, entitled, "An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the U. States." The 22d section of which is in the words following - "Be it enacted, that if any person or persons shall knowingly or willingly obstruct, resist, or oppose any officer of the United States, in serving or attempting to serve or execute any mesne process, or warrant, or any rule or order of any of the courts of the United States, or any other legal or judicial writ, or process whatsoever, or shall assault, beat, or wound any officer or other person duly authorized, in serving or executing any writ, rule, order, process, or warrant aforesaid, every person knowingly or willingly offending in the premises, shall on conviction thereof, be imprisoned not exceeding twelve months, and fined not exceeding 500 dollars."

This case has now come to an issue which must involve those who have instigated and propelled it, in disgrace, if there is virtue or a sense of justice in the country.
The same men appear to be alarmed at the discussion of an hypothetical amendment; with only suggesting the legal and constitutional mode of an amendment.
The plain question now is—shall the laws of the union be violated or maintained?
These doings cannot go on—the essays of parties written in newspapers thirty years ago, the evidence or the allegation of men who received a part of the spoil illegally torn from the proper captors at the time, the evidence of the British crew captured, at the time, is not to be held forth at this day as of greater validity than the decisions of the court established from its own members, by the most virtuous assemblage of men that, perhaps, ever met together, the old Congress; these things are all brought forth now in vain, to prop up error and to mask the imbecility which has plunged the state into its present perplexity.
The case stands upon the constitution of the United States altogether—and may be very briefly addressed to the understanding of every man in the few following sentences.
The case of Olmstead was carried into the supreme court in legal form—and after having been previously investigated and decided upon in the district court.
The supreme court has jurisdiction of "all cases in law and equity, arising under the constitution, the laws of the U. States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more states; between a state and citizens of another state; between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states."
The powers of the supreme court are laid down in the law of the U. S. of Sept. 1789, section XIII. corresponding with the powers recited in the constitution; which clause states, that—"The supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction from the circuit courts and courts of the several states, in the cases herein provided for."
The supreme court issues no execution on its own decrees in matters of appeal, but sends a special mandate to the inferior court to award execution.
Now the decree of the supreme court is issued, and the inferior court has obeyed the law of the U. States.
Will the parties who have obeyed the mandates of the governor submit, or resist—or evade the law of the U. States?
But this suit was instituted in court before that law passed. Then the pretence of state rights under that law is ridiculous. But if there were any other rights infringed—why was not the jurisdiction demurred to? Why was there no protest against the proceedings in the U. States' court, made a question in proper form before the nugatory and absurd and unconstitutional law of 1803, was passed. The object was to wear out the life of Olmstead, which had been already wasted in pursuit of his property. But the man was made of sterner stuff, the man who could direct Captain Houston to quit the deck of the Active or he'd shoot him, was not willing to abandon, but with his life, the fruits of his dangers and his sufferings and his just vengeance, and of 30 years most barbarous litigation.
A committee of the legislature, a few years ago, had the humiliating meanness to recommend, that a land warrant for 1,000 dollars should be offered to Olmstead in lieu of his claim. What! give a man a land warrant for 1,000 dollars, who had no claim? Olmstead spurned it; but it is now said that he offered to take something less than his right, say eight, or ten, or 5,000 dollars; and it is now attempted to be put up as an argument of his argument of his having no right or claim whatever, because it is said he was willing to accept less.
Might it not with more strength be said, that the legislature is not very apt to give 1,000 dollars where it is fairly due—much less to give 1,000, where there was none; and that their offer was good evidence of their own conviction, that the man's claim was fair and just?
The matter has now come to that issue, when reserves are no longer requisite;—while there was a hope of seeing an end to it in any delicate or honorable way, we wished to avoid saying much—too much now cannot be said on the odious oppression and plunder of an injured, aged and brave citizen, who fought and suffered in the cause of his country—Aurora.
NEW-YORK, April 5. We understand that application has been made to the circuit court of the U. States now sitting, for an order to show cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel the Collector to grant certain clearances, and that to-morrow is set apart to hear arguments of counsel, at the picture room in the City Hall.
CHARLESTON, April 1. The Georgia Revenue Cutter, JAMES MADISON, capt. Newell, got under weigh yesterday morning and went to sea—just before, she fired a six pound cannon, which had a ball init. directly towards the ship; the shot entered one of the Brick Stores belonging to Samuel Prioleau, Esq. on his wharf. Fortunately the piece was considerably elevated, or, by this act of carelessness, much injury might have been done, as there was, at the time, a large number of negroes at work on the wharf. It would be very agreeable to the citizens, if Capt. Newell, when he next pays a visit, will be a little more attentive to their safety.
THE ENQUIRER. RICHMOND, APRIL 14, 1809. FOR THE ENQUIRER. On the retirement of the late President from office, the feelings of a grateful country were poured forth in addresses from every quarter. The citizens of Albemarle, eager on this occasion to express in the strongest manner, the affection and esteem which they felt for their neighbor and friend, had determined to meet him in a body at the extremity of the county, and conduct him home. Lest however, they might, while obeying the impulse of friendship, inflict a wound on that modesty which has ever characterized him, it was thought best to submit to him this intention. In his reply, he expressed in the most obliging and affectionate terms, his wish that his friends should not take, (as he termed it,) so much trouble on his account. The idea was accordingly given up.
Subsequently, to wit, on the 6th of March, 1809, "At a meeting of the people of Albemarle county, at the courthouse, WILLIAM D. MERIWETHER was called to the chair; and ALEXANDER GARRETT appointed secretary. A committee was appointed to prepare an Address to THOMAS JEFFERSON, late President of the United States, expressive of the feelings and sentiments of his countrymen, on his recent retirement from office; and submit the same to the consideration of the people on Saturday next."
Wm. D. MERIWETHER, Chairman. Attest, A. GARRETT, Secretary. Accordingly at a meeting of the people of Albemarle, on Saturday the 11th March, 1809, Wm. D. MERIWETHER was called to the Chair, and PETER MINOR was appointed secretary. The committee appointed on Monday last, to prepare an address to Thomas Jefferson, reported the following, which was unanimously adopted, and William D. Meriwether, Nimrod Brannan, Dr. Charles Everitt, Thomas W. Maury and Dabney Minor were appointed a committee to present the address to Mr. Jefferson.
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, LATE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES. SIR, The inhabitants of Albemarle, your fellow citizens and your friends, beg leave to congratulate you on your return to yourselves and to your native country. They invite you to the enjoyment of that domestic happiness from which, your public services have so long abstracted you, and for which you have so fair a prospect. In the bosom of your family, surrounded by your neighbors, and followed by the affections of a grateful country, they hope to see realized, those sweets of retirement, for which you have often sighed, and to which they are now anxious, personally to contribute. While gratulations of love and applause from every part of the Union, testify the feelings of the nation towards you; we your countrymen, strongly participating in the public sentiment, can have nothing to add, on the score of public gratitude; we hear with pleasure and delight, the plaudits of a free and grateful people, attending their chief magistrate, as he voluntarily descends from the highest offices of State, to the tranquil walks of private life; and we dare not express our feelings when we reflect, that this voluntary relinquishment of honors and of power restores to us a friend and neighbor, as exemplary in the social circle, as he eminent at the helm of State.
The mariner, who has weathered the tempest and storm, feels a delicious pleasure in contrasting present safety with former peril; so the cares, the labours, the perplexities, the pomp, the turmoil, and the bustle of office, will doubly endear to you the calm enjoyments of domestic life. As individuals among whom you were raised, and to whom you have at all times been dear, we again welcome your return to your native country, to the bosom of your family, and to the affections of those neighbors who have long known, and have long revered you in private life. We assure you, sir, we are not insensible to the many sacrifices you have already made, to the various stations which have been assigned you by your country; we have witnessed your disinterestedness, and while we feel the benefits of your past services, it would be more than ingratitude in us, did we not use our best efforts to make
your latter days as tranquil and as happy, as your former have been bright and glorious. On behalf of the meeting. Wm. D. MERIWETHER, Chairman. Attest, P. MINOR, Sec'y. To which Mr. JEFFERSON returned the following Answer.
TO THE INHABITANTS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, IN VIRGINIA. Returning to the scenes of my birth and early life, to the society of those with whom I was raised, and who have been ever dear to me, I receive, fellow citizens and neighbors, with inexpressible pleasure, the cordial welcome you are so good as to give me. Long absent on duties, which the history of a wonderful era made incumbent on those called to them, the pomp, the turmoil, the bustle and splendor of office, have drawn but deeper sighs for the tranquil and irresponsible occupations of private life, for the enjoyment of an affectionate intercourse with you, my neighbours and friends, and the endearments of family love, which nature has given us all as the sweeter of every hour. For these, I gladly lay down the distressing burden of power, and seek with my fellow citizens, repose and safety under the watchful cares, the labours and exertions of younger and abler minds. The anxieties you express to administer to my happiness, do of themselves confer that happiness; and the measure will be complete, if my endeavours to fulfil my duties in the several public stations to which I have been called, have obtained for me, the approbation of my country. The part which I have acted on the theatre of public life, has been before them; and to their sentence I submit it; but the testimony of my native country, of the individuals who have known me in private life, to my conduct in its various duties and relations, is the more grateful, as proceeding from eyewitnesses & observers, from tryers of the vicinage. Of you, then, my neighbors, I may ask in the face of the world, 'whose ox have I taken, or whom have I defrauded?' whom have I oppressed, or of whose hand have I received a bribe to blind mine eyes therewith?' On your verdict I rest with conscious security. Your wishes for my happiness are received with just sensibility, and I offer sincere prayers for your own welfare and prosperity. TH: JEFFERSON.
April 3d. 1809. The following falsehood is from a late London paper of Feb. 18. A ship has arrived from Charleston, which place, in common with every trading town of America, feels sensibly the mischiefs arising from the Embargo. The commercial people here, have been much surprised by the arrival, within these two or three days, of no fewer than 28 ships from America laden with cotton, grain, etc. and giving us a seasonable supply of many other valuable commodities. On an enquiry, we find that all these are consigned to the house of Sir Francis Baring & Co and that they come, not like their precursors, with the stigma of violating the Embargo, but under the licence and authority of the republican government. It is well known, that the mercantile house just alluded to is the agent of the U. States for the payment of the demands of claimants in this country on the American funds. It has become necessary to the credit of the republic, that these demands should be satisfied, and the difficulty was, under the circumstances of the Embargo and Non-Intercourse acts, to discover the means by which such payments should be made here. There is no doubt it will be found, that Messrs. Baring have undertaken to discharge the accruing debt to the proprietors of American stock, and that the consignments of the cargoes and others, is the mode provided for their repayment.
The present number is almost wholly dedicated to foreign news. The English accounts and entire series of French Bulletins are presented.
MEMBERS ELECTED TO THE NEXT ASSEMBLY. Stafford—Peter V. Daniel, Wm. Brent. Caroline—William Jones, William Hoomes. New Member. Col. PAULDING, of this city, is appointed Adjutant-General of this state, in the place of Solomon Van Rensselaer, Esq. removed. N. York Paper.
MARRIED, on Tuesday evening last, by the Revd. John D. Blair, Samuel McCraw, Esq. to Mrs. SARAH GUNN, all of this city.
FOR THE ENQUIRER. As the sun went down yesterday, the 8th inst. died CARTER BRAXTON, attorney at law. The writer who was formerly his classmate, and then imbibed a strong partiality for him—which has never decreased, altho' they widely differed in politics—can with truth affirm no man could have died more justly or severely regretted & lamented in his domestic circle. The heart felt sorrow of his children and relatives, the affliction & anguish of his wife are beyond description—indeed the care and tender affection he manifested towards his amiable and estimable consort; the interest and zeal he exercised in the good conduct and education of his children, might well render them deeply sensible of the irreparable loss they have sustained. The crowd of his weeping servants testified that he had always acted towards them, like a kind and good master, and as a christian ought—indeed it was a sad scene.
He had removed to this place for the benefit of his family; had remained here but a few months, and by his mild, affectionate and gentlemanly manners had already gained the esteem of all who knew him—the town has lost a useful and valuable citizen. He had his Virginia federal opinions—they were honest, for he had a deep pledge in the prosperity, happiness and liberty of his country. He died a christian and a patriot. Williamsburg April 9. The above tribute of respect is offered by a friend, who was a witness to the distressing scene which he has so pathetically described. The friendship, civility and kind attention shown by the inhabitants of Williamsburg to the deceased during his short illness, and their sympathetic attention since, have made an impression on his surviving friends which no time can erase.
NEW CHEAP DRY GOOD STORE, Just opened at Mr. Thomas's Yellow House, on the Capitol Hill, nearly opposite the Swan Tavern, consisting of a variety of handsome and fashionable printed Cambricks, Chintz, and Calicoes, rich Laces, printed Shawls & Handkerchiefs, Pocket Handkerchiefs, Mouselines, white & colored Vesting, Leno Shawls assorted, India Cottons & Cotton Linens—together with, generally, every article in the Dry Good line; all which are retailing & at wholesale at nearly prime cost, on account of the owner returning in a few weeks to the Northward. April 14.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 27, 1809. WHEREAS, in conformity with the provisions made by law, for the reimbursement of the Exchanged Six per Cent Stock, created by the second section of the act entitled "An Act supplementary to the act entitled 'An Act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States,' passed on the 11th day of February, 1807, it has been determined by lot, that the Certificates of said Stock, designated by the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, should be reimbursed on the first day of October next:
PUBLIC NOTICE. Is therefore given to the proprietors of the Certificates of Exchanged Six per Cent Stock, created by the act aforesaid, and bearing the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, that the principal of the same, will, on surrender of the certificates, be paid on the first day of October, 1809, to the respective Stockholders or their legal representatives, or attorneys duly constituted, either at the Treasury or at the Loan Office, where the Stock thus to be reimbursed may then stand credited to the proprietors thereof. It is further made known for the information of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the certificates of Exchanged Stock bearing the permanent numbers, contained in the annexed Schedule from the Books of the Treasury, or of any Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the first day of September next. And the interest on all the certificates contained in the said Schedule, will cease and determine on the day preceding the day hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof.
ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury.
SCHEDULE. Table with 4 columns: Certificate Number, Amount, Interest, and Remarks. Lists various stock numbers and their corresponding values.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 28, 1809. WHEREAS, in conformity with the provisions made by law, for the reimbursement of the Exchanged Six per Cent Stock, created by the second section of the act entitled "An Act supplementary to the act entitled 'An Act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States,' passed on the 11th day of February, 1807, it has been determined by lot, that the Certificates of said Stock, designated by the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, should be reimbursed on the first day of January next:
PUBLIC NOTICE. Is therefore given to the proprietors of the Certificates of Exchanged Six per Cent Stock, created by the act aforesaid, and bearing the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, that the principal of the same, will, on surrender of the certificates, be paid on the first day of January, 1810, to the respective Stockholders or their legal representatives, or attorneys duly constituted, either at the Treasury or at the Loan Office, where the Stock thus to be reimbursed, may then stand credited to the proprietors thereof. It is further made known for the information of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the certificates of Exchanged Stock bearing the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, from the Books of the Treasury or of any Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the first day of December next. And the interest on all the certificates contained in the said Schedule, will cease and determine, on the day preceding the day hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof.
ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury.
SCHEDULE. Table with 4 columns: Certificate Number, Amount, Interest, and Remarks. Lists various stock numbers and their corresponding values.
THE SUBSCRIBER has just received from New-England, a supply of excellent IRISH POTATOES in barrels.—Also FRESH CLOVER and TIMOTHY SEED the growth of the last season; also a partial supply of CAR- DEN SEED.—The great advantage from changing seed must be obvious to every person who has made the experiment.—By taking seed from a Northern to a Southern climate, it is soon matured, and the crop much more abundant. He has choice FAMILY FLOUR by the barrel, SALT PETRE, BACON & SCOTCH SNUFF, by the keg or lb. EDWARD HALLAM.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.—Being about to move to the Western Country—I wish to sell the following valuable property.—That valuable and highly improved site Fairfield. If pure air and good water contribute to health, this place possesses those advantages—this tract contains about three hundred and eighteen acres, or thereabouts—this I wish to divide, as the road runs from Richmond to Hanover Town—the part on the west side contains the following valuable buildings, a two story dwelling house, well finished with three spacious rooms below stairs, with an airy passage—three above with a passage also, and a good dry cellar under it, a yard handsomely paved in a garden of four acres well paved in and laid off in a beautiful style, and in high cultivation, with a handsome summer house in the centre, three kitchens with brick chimneys, smoke house, dairy, rabbit houses, ice house, seven stables, &c. all in good repair.
On the east side is the Fairfield Race Ground; this is a newly built two story dining house fifty by twenty, below is three rooms, above is a room the full size of the house, a bar-room and a room for the Judges, plan'd perhaps superior to any in this country, with several small booths, a well of good water in the yard; an excellent apple Orchard of choice latter fruit; also about ten likely NEGROES, one a Barber equal to any in this country, a good man Cook, &c. also several brood Mares, Colts and Fillies of the first stock in this country; two mules, two plough horses; several valuable milk Cows, about forty head of Sheep, some of them of the Cape, others of the improved barbary breed—a good stock of Hogs of the stock of Col. John Mayo; plantation Utensils, a Carriage and Horses, three Carts, a Wagon and gear, some valuable Household and Kitchen Furniture, &c.
Terms of Sale, one half cash, the balance in twelve months, with notes negotiable and payable in the Bank of Virginia, with an approved indorser. E. SMOCK. Fairfield, April 14. W.12May. RANAWAY on the second inst. from the plantation of Wm. Moseley dec'd. in Powhatan county, a NEGRO MAN by the name of DICK. He is about 22 years of age, 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, very black and has a sly and impertinent look. His dress was composed of a full suit of purple Virginia cloth. It is probable he is lurking in Richmond, as he has once been taken up in that place. Whoever will deliver him to the subscriber living in Powhatan County, or lodge him in goal, shall receive a liberal reward besides the payment of reasonable expenses. EDWARD MOSELEY. Powhatan county, April 14. law4-wf
IN RICHMOND HUSTINGS COURT, April 11, 1809. UPON consideration of several late and continued instances of the appearance of the SMALL-POX in this City, notwithstanding the most vigilant care to have the patients removed as soon as known to be infected, and of the importance of avoiding a general inoculation, while effectual means should be used for ensuring the extinguishment of the disease in the City. It is ordered by the Court, that the work-house be continued, as lately authorized by certain magistrates, a place of reception for persons who shall casually break out with the small-pox, and have not some other lice need place to retire to. It is further ordered, that it be recommended to the inhabitants of the City, to have their families and dependants forthwith vaccinated at their respective homes, as it will be attended with no danger by contagion, nor with inconvenience or unusual restraint. And upon consideration, that some poor persons may not be able to encounter the expense of employing physicians for adopting the course recommended; It is ordered that any magistrate of the City may in his ward, and not elsewhere, upon application, if in his opinion the applicant be an object of the public assistance, grant an order addressed to such physician as may be chosen by the applicant, to attend him or her, or his or her family through the course recommended; and for this service, when performed to the satisfaction of the magistrate, there shall be paid from the funds of the city, to the physician, one dollar for every person vaccinated. It is further ordered, that the work-house as far as it will afford room, and the seat of the Revd. John Buchanan, be licensed for inoculation for the small-pox: provided that no person shall be admitted therein after the 10th of next month.
A COPY. TH: C. HOWARD, CLK. We the subscribers, practitioners of physic in the City of Richmond, inform the inhabitants, that they are now vaccinating with a matter which they recommend as genuine. JAMES LYTON, J. H. FOUSHEE, JAMES DREW MCCAW, JAMES GREENHOW, J. TRENT, JOHN ADAMS.
NOTICE.—All persons indebted to the estate of the late JOHN STROBLIA, are desired to make immediate payment, and those who have claims against the estate are requested to make them known to the Subscriber, properly authenticated, that they may be instantly discharged. JOHN H. STROBLIA, Admr. April 14.

BRITISH ACCOUNTS OF EVENTS IN SPAIN.
Battle of Coruña—London Gazette Extraordinary, dated Downing Street, Jan. 24, 1809.
The hon. captain Hope arrived late last night with a dispatch from lieut. gen. sir David Baird, to lord viscount Castlereagh, one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state, of which the following is a copy:
His majesty's ship Ville de Paris, at sea, Jan. 18, 1809.—My Lord, By the much lamented death of lieutenant general sir John Moore, who fell in action with the enemy on the 16th instant, it has become my duty to acquaint your lordship that the French army attacked the British troops in the position they occupied in front of Coruña, at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of that day. A severe wound, which compelled me to quit the field a short time previous to the fall of sir John Moore, obliges me to refer your lordship for the particulars of the action, which was long and obstinately contested, to the inclosed report of lieutenant general Hope, who succeeded to the command of the army, and to whose ability and exertions in direction of the ardent zeal and unconquerable valor of his majesty's troops, is to be attributed, under Providence, the success of the day, which terminated in the complete and entire repulse and defeat of the enemy at every point of attack. The honorable captain Gordon, my aide-de-camp, will have the honor of delivering this dispatch, and will be able to give your lordship any further information which may be required.
I have the honor to be, &c.
D. BAIRD, Lieut. Gen.
His majesty's ship Audacious, off Coruña Jan. 18, 1809.—Sir, In compliance with the desire contained in your communication of yesterday, I avail myself of the first moment I have been able to command, to detail to you the occurrences of the action which took place in front of Coruña, on the 16th instant. It will be in your recollection, that about one in the afternoon of that day, the enemy, who had in the morning received reinforcements, and who had placed some guns in front of the right and left of his line, was observed to be moving troops towards his left flank, and forming various columns of attack at that extremity of the strong and commanding position, which, on the morning of the 15th, he had taken in our immediate front. This indication of his intention was immediately succeeded by the rapid and determined attack which he made upon our division, which occupied the right of our position. The events which occurred during that period of the action you are fully acquainted with. The first effort of the enemy was met by the commander of the forces, and by yourself, at the head of the 42d regiment, and the brigade under major general lord William Bentinck. The village on your right became an object of obstinate contest. I lament to say, that soon after the severe wound which deprived the army of your services, lieutenant general sir John Moore, who had just directed the most able dispositions, fell by a cannon shot. The troops, tho' not unacquainted with the irreparable loss they had sustained, were not dismayed, but by the most determined bravery not only repelled every attempt of the enemy to gain ground, but actually forced him to retire, although he had brought up fresh troops in support of those originally engaged. The enemy, finding himself foiled in every attempt to force the right of the position, endeavored by numbers to turn it. A judicious and well-timed movement, which was made by major general Paget, with the reserve, which corps had moved out of its cantonments to support the right of the army, by a vigorous attack, defeated this intention. The major general having pushed forward the 95th (rifles corps) and 1st battalion 52d regiments, drove the enemy before him, and in his rapid and judicious advance, threatened the left of the enemy's position. This circumstance, with the position of lieutenant general Fraser's division, calculated to give still further security to the right of the line, induced the enemy to relax his efforts in that quarter. They were, however, more forcibly directed towards the centre, where they were again successfully resisted by the brigade under major general Manningham, forming the left of your division, and a part of that under major general Leith forming the right of the division under my orders. Upon the left, the enemy at first contended himself with an attack upon our picquets, which however, in general, maintained their ground. Finding, however, his efforts unavailing on the right and centre, he seemed determined to render the attack upon the left more serious, and had succeeded in obtaining possession of the village through which the great road to Madrid passes, and which was situated in front of that part of the line. From this post, however, he was soon expelled, with considerable loss, by a gallant attack of some companies of the 2d battalion 14th regiment, under lieutenant colonel Nicholls: before five in the evening, we had not only successfully repelled every attack made upon the position, but had gained ground in almost all points, & occupied a more forward line than at the commencement of the action, whilst the enemy confined his operations to a cannonade, and a fire of his light troops, with a view to draw off his other corps. At six, the firing entirely ceased. The different brigades were re-assembled on the ground they occupied in the morning, and the picquets and advanced posts resumed their original stations. Notwithstanding the decided and marked superiority which at this moment the gallantry of the troops had given them over an enemy, who from his number and the commanding advantages of his position, no doubt, expected an easy victory, I did not, on reviewing all circumstances, conceive that I should be warranted in departing from what I knew was the fixed & previous determination of the late commander of the forces, to withdraw the army on the evening of the 16th, for the purpose of embarkation, the previous arrangements for which had already been made by his orders, and were, in fact, far advanced at the commencement of the action. The troops quitted their position at about ten at night, with a degree of order that did them credit. The whole of the artillery that remained unembarked having been withdrawn, the troops followed in the order prescribed, and marched to their respective points of embarkation in the town and neighborhood of Coruña. The picquets remained at their posts until five in the morning of the 17th, when they were also withdrawn with similar order, and without the enemy having discovered the movement. By the unremitted exertions of caps. the hon. H. Curzin, Goselin, Boys, Rainier, Serrett, Hawkins, Digby, Cerdan and McKenzie, of the royal navy, who in pursuance of the orders of rear admiral de Courcy, were entrusted with the service of embarking the army, and in consequence of the arrangements made by commissioner Bowen, captains Bowen and Shepherd, and the other agents for transports, the whole of the army were embarked with an expedition which has seldom been equalled. With the exception of the brigades under major generals Hill and Beresford, which were destined to remain on shore until the movements of the enemy should become manifest, the whole was afloat before day light.
The brigade of major general Beresford, which was alternately to form our rear guard, occupied the land front of the town of Coruña; that under major general Hill was stationed in reserve on the promontory in rear of the town. The enemy pushed his light troops towards the town soon after 3 o'clock on the morning of the 17th, and shortly after occupied the heights of St. Lucia, which command the harbor. Notwithstanding this circumstance, and the manifold defects of the place, there being no apprehension that the rear-guard would be forced, and the disposition of the Spaniards appearing to be good, the embarkation of major general Hill's
brigade was commenced and completed by 3 in the afternoon; major general Beresford, with that zeal and ability which is so well known to yourself and the whole army, having fully explained to the satisfaction of the Spanish governor, the nature of our movement, and having made every previous arrangement, withdrew his corps from the land front of the town soon after dark, and was with all the wounded that had not been previously moved, embarked before one this morning.
Circumstances forbid us to indulge the hope, that the victory with which it has pleased Providence to crown the efforts of the army, can be attended with any brilliant consequences to Great Britain. It is clouded by the loss of one of her best soldiers. It has been achieved at the termination of a long and harassing service. The superior numbers, and advantageous position of the enemy, not less than the actual situation of this army, did not admit of any advantage being reaped from success. It must be however to you, to the army, and to our country, the sweetest reflection, that the lustre of the British arms has been maintained, amidst many disadvantageous circumstances. The army which had entered Spain, amidst the fairest prospects, had no sooner completed its function, than owing to the multiplied disasters that dispersed the native armies around us, it was left to its own resources. The advance of the British corps from the Duero, afforded the best hope, that the south of Spain, might be relieved, but this generous effort to save the unfortunate people, also afforded the enemy the opportunity of directing every effort of his numerous troops, and concentrating all his principal resources for the destruction of the only regular force in the north of Spain. You are well aware with what diligence this system has been pursued. These circumstances produced the necessity of rapid and harassing marches, which had diminished the numbers, exhausted the strength, and impaired the equipment of the army. Notwithstanding all these disadvantages, and those more immediately attached to a defensive position, which the imperative necessity of covering the harbor of Coruña for a time had rendered indispensable to assume, the native and undaunted valor of British troops was never more conspicuous, and must have exceeded what even your own experience of that invaluable quality so inherent in them, may have taught you to expect. When every one that had an opportunity seemed to vie in improving it—it is difficult for me in making this report, to select particular instances for your approbation. The corps chiefly engaged were, the brigades under major generals lord Wm. Bentinck, and Manningham, and Leith, and the brigade of guards under major general Warde. To these officers, and the troops under their immediate orders, the greatest praise is due. Major general Hill and colonel Callin Crawford, with their brigades on the left of the position, ably supported their advanced posts. The brunt of the action fell upon the 4th, 42d, 50th, and 81st regiments, with parts of the brigade of guards, and the 26th regiment. From Lieutenant colonel Murray, quarter-master-general, and the officers of the general staff, I received the most marked assistance—I had reason to regret that the illness of brigadier general Clinton, adjutant general, deprived me of his aid—I am indebted to brigadier general Slade, for the action, for a zealous offer of his personal services, although the cavalry were embarked. The greater part of the fleet having gone to sea, yesterday evening the whole being under weigh, and the corps in the embarkation necessarily much mixed on board; it is impossible to say before you at present a return of our casualties. I hope the loss in numbers is not so considerable as might have been expected. If I was obliged to form an estimate, I should say, that I believe it did not exceed in killed and wounded from seven to eight hundred; that of the enemy must remain unknown, but many circumstances induce me to rate it at nearly double the above number. We have some prisoners, but I have not been able to obtain an account of the number, it is not however considerable. Several officers of rank have fallen or been wounded, among whom I am only at present enabled to state the names of lieutenant colonel Napier, 92d regiment—majors Napier and Stanhope, 50th regiment, killed; lieut. colonel Winch, 4th regiment, lieut. col. Maxwell, 26th regiment, lieutenant colonel Fane, 59th regiment, lieutenant col. Griffith, guards, majors Miller and Williams, 81st regiment, wounded. To you who are well acquainted with the excellent qualities of lieutenant general sir John Moore, I need not expatiate on the loss the army & his country have sustained by his death. His fall has deprived me of a valuable friend, to whom long experience of his worth had sincerely attached me. But it is chiefly on public grounds that I must lament the blow. It will be the conversation of every one who loved or respected his many character, that after conducting the army through an arduous retreat with consummate firmness, he has terminated a career of distinguished honor by a death, that has given the enemy additional reason to respect the name of a British soldier. Like the immortal Wolfe, he is snatched from his country at an early period of a life spent in her service; like Wolfe, his last moments were gilded by the prospect of success, and cheered by the acclamation of victory. Like Wolfe, also, his memory will forever remain sacred in that country which he sincerely loved, and which he had so faithfully served. It remains for me only to express my hope, that you will be speedily restored to the service of your country, and to lament the unfortunate circumstance that removed you from your station in the field, and threw the momentary command into far less able hands.
I have the honor to be, &c.
JOHN HOPE, Lieut. general.
To Lt. gen. Sir DAVID BAIRD, &c. &c.
Copy of a letter from the hon. Michael De Courcy, Rear Admiral of the White, to the hon. William Wellesley Pole, dated on board his Majesty's ship the Tonnant, at Coruña the 17th and 18th inst.
January 17, 1809.
Sir, Having it in design to detach the Cossack to England as soon as her boats shall cease to be essential to the embarkation of troops, I seize a moment to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the admiralty, that the ships of war as per Margin, and transports, under the orders of Rear admiral Sir Samuel Hood, & Commissioner Bowen, arrived at this anchorage from Vigo on the 14th and 15th inst. The Alfred & Hindostan, with some transports, were left at Vigo to receive a brigade of three thousand five hundred men, that had taken that route under the Generals Alton and Crawford. In the vicinity of Coruña, the enemy have pressed upon the British in great force. The embarkation of the sick, the cavalry and the stores went on. The night of the 16th was appointed for the general embarkation of the infantry; and mean time, the enemy prepared for attack. At three P. M. an action commenced; the enemy, which had been posted on a lofty hill, endeavoring to force the British on another hill of inferior height, and nearer the town. The enemy were driven back with great slaughter; but very sorry am I to add, that the British, though triumphant, have suffered severe losses. I am unable to communicate further particulars, than that Sir John Moore received a mortal wound, of which he died last night; that Sir D. Baird lost an arm; that several officers and many men had been killed and wounded; and that the ships
of war have received all such of the latter as they could accommodate, the remainder being sent to transports. The weather is now tempestuous, and the difficulties of embarkation are great. All except the rear guard are embarked; consisting perhaps at the present moment of 2,600 men. The enemy having brought cannon to a hill overhanging the beach, have forced the majority of the transports to cut or slip. Embarkation being no longer practicable at the town, the boats have been ordered to a sandy beach near the light house, and it is hoped that the greater part, if not all, will still be embarked, the ships of war having dropped out to facilitate embarkation.
January 18.
The embarkation of the troops having occupied greater part of last night, it has not been in my power to detach the Cossack before this day; and it is with satisfaction I am able to add, that in consequence of the good order maintained by the troops, and the unweary exertions of Commissioner Bowen, the captains and other officers of the navy, the agents, as well as the boats' crews, many of whom were for two days without food and without repose, the army have embarked to the last man, & the ships are now in the offing, preparatory for steering for England. The great body of the transports having lost their anchors, ran to sea without the troops they were ordered to receive, in consequence of which there are some thousands on board the ships of war. Several transports, through mismanagement ran on shore. The seamen appeared to have abandoned them, two being brought out by the boats' crews of the men of war, 2 were burnt and 5 were bilged. I cannot conclude this hasty statement, without expressing my great obligation to rear admiral Sir Samuel Hood, whose eye was every where, and whose exertions were unremitted.
I have the honor to be, &c.
M. DE COURCY.
Hazy weather rendering the Cossack obscure, I detach the Gleaner with this dispatch.
Ville de Paris, Victory, Barfleur, Zealous, Implacable, Elizabeth, Norge, Plantagenet, Resolution, Audacious, Endymion, Mediator.
LONDON, Jan. 31.
We have heard that government has received by late conveyance, accounts of the complete dispersion of general Reding's army in Catalonia; and that in truth, there is no body of troops collected together in any part of the south and south east of Spain.
February 9.
The intelligence of the continuance of the American embargo, has caused a great sensation in the north of Germany, where colonial produce has become very scarce.
SIR JOHN MOORE.
PARTICULARS OF THE HERO'S DEATH, BY AN EYE WITNESS.
"I met the general on the evening of the 16th instant, as some soldiers were bringing him into Coruña, supported in a blanket withashes. He knew me immediately though it was almost dark—squeezed me by the hand, and said, "do not leave me." He spoke to the Surgeons on their examining his wound, but was in such pain he could say but little. After some time he seemed very anxious to speak to me; and, at intervals, expressed himself as follows: The first question he asked was "Are the French beaten?" which enquiry he repeated to all those he knew as they entered the room. On being assured by all, that the French were beaten, he exclaimed, "I hope the people of England will be satisfied. I hope my country will do me justice. You will see my friends as soon as you possibly can—tell them every thing—say to my mother—" (here his voice failed him)—"Hope—Hope—I have much to say, but cannot get it out. I col. Graham, and are all my aid-de-camps well? I have made my will, and have remembered my servants. Colborne has my will, and all my papers." Major Colborne (his principal aid-de-camp,) then came into the room—he spoke most kindly to him, and then said to me, "Remember, you go to _____, and tell him it is my request, and that I expect he will befriend maj. Colborne, he has been long with me, and I know him most worthy of it." He then again asked major Colborne if the French were beaten; and on being told they were repulsed on every point, he said, "it was a great satisfaction, in his last moments, to know he had beat the French." "Is general Paget in the room?" On my telling him he was not, he said, "remember me to him." "I feel myself so strong, I fear I shall be long dying—I am in great pain." He then thanked the doctors for their attention." "Captains Percy and Stanhope came into the room, he spoke kindly to both, and asked Percy if all his aid-de-camps were well. He pressed my hand close to his body, and in a few minutes died without a struggle." "He said to me while the Surgeons were examining his wound—"You know I have always wished to die this way." As far as I can recollect, this is every thing he said, except asking to be placed in an easier posture."
For the French Accounts, see the 1st and 2d pages, on which their superior length has thrown them.
MISCELLANY.
Interesting account of the destruction of a Royal Tiger, by one of the officers of the 2d battalion of the 7th regiment, N. I. stationed at Kaira. On the 15th of June, some of the officers of the corps formed a party to visit the celebrated ruins of Mahmoodabad; on approaching them, they were alarmed by a sound like the roar of a Royal Tiger. They did not however immediately see the animal, and proceeded towards the ruins; but on advancing a little further, he suddenly burst upon their view, in all his terrors, & sprang at them with incredible ferocity. A precipitate retreat was the natural consequence, & one of the gentlemen, who was but indistinctly mounted, perceiving that he could not depend on his horse, with the promptitude of a vigorous & decisive mind, directed his course to a tree, which he immediately ascended, with his fowling piece in his hand. His victim thus singled, the tiger gave over the pursuit of the others, and bounded on the horse, who stood paralysed with fear at the foot of the tree. At this crisis, the gentleman in the tree took a cool and steady aim at the savage, and wounded him, though not mortally. The tiger feeling his wound, retreated to some distance, but almost immediately returned with increased fury. In the mean time the officer had loaded, and taking aim at him again, while venting his rage on the miserable horse, wounded him mortally. On the first attack of the tiger, the retreat of the party was too precipitate and general to admit of individual attentions. Each person trusted to the speed of his horse, and our hero was undesignedly left behind. But when, in rallying in a neighbouring village his comrades perceived that he was missing, they instantly armed themselves, and returned with a large concourse of the natives to the spot. They came in sight of the tree just as the tiger had received his mortal wound. He
again retreated, and was traced into a jungle, where they found him writhing in agony. On their approach, he collected his remaining strength into one final effort, and prepared to spring, but the spear of a native prevented him, and put an end to his struggles. On measuring him, he was found to extend ten feet eight inches from the nose to the tip of the tail. The poor horse was so mangled, that he was immediately put to death.—Bombay Gazette.
We not only follow the conqueror upon the field of victory, but observe with solicitude his conduct towards the conquered people. The French have experienced the most powerful resistance from the nobles. To depress their power becomes his first object. And this he can never hope to obtain while the people depend upon them not only for the rights they enjoy, but for the means of their necessary subsistence. His first attempts in correcting their Civil government are against the authority of the courts, which the nobles hold in Spain. Of these the Supreme Council has existed for nearly 600 years, and for 200 years it has had five courts with their proper judges. Besides these are the Councils of State and of War. Above 30 judges are employed in the Courts of the Supreme Council, and besides these are other courts which owe their existence to the former condition of the different parts of the kingdom, and to the commercial affairs of the nation. In the towns and villages, justice is administered by officers whose power has no correspondence with our institutions, excepting in the objects upon which they are employed. Cities have their judges, who also have subordinate appointments in their authority. They are represented as enjoying almost the same prerogatives as the Kings in the higher offices, when uniting military with the civil power. The books from which their justice is administered, are of great antiquity, and the Roman Law has still its full share of authority. The Upper or Supreme Inquisitorial Court is at Madrid. The inferior courts are in the principal cities, as the diminished cruelties of these courts arise more from the present habits of society, and the want of general example in Europe, than from any essential changes in the spirit of the laws, or from any acknowledgment of the rights of the subject in matters of religion. But these laws are in a good train for abolition.—Essex Register.
IN CHANCERY.—Buckingham County January 7th, 1809.
George Hilton, plaintiff against Cornelius Thomas and Reuben Patterson, Defendants. On the motion of the plaintiff by Counsel and appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant Thomas is not an inhabitant of this state. It is ordered and decreed, That unless the said Thomas shall appear here on or before May Court next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, the same will be taken for confessed as to him and the matter thereof decreed accordingly, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city Richmond for two months successively and another copy be posted up at the front door of the Courthouse of this County. A Copy. R. ELDRIDGE, jr. d. c. 1aw8w#33
March 7.
IN CHANCERY.—Buckingham County March 7th, 1809.
James James Plaintiff against William Cannon, William Anderson, senior, and William Anderson, jr. Defendants. On the motion of the plaintiff by counsel and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant Cannon is not an inhabitant of this state. It is ordered and decreed, That unless the said Cannon shall appear here at June Court next and answer the plaintiff's bill. The Court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to him and decree the matter thereof accordingly, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and another copy be posted up at the front door of the Courthouse of this County. A copy. Teste, R. ELDRIDGE, jr. d. c. 1aw8w#35
April 7.
IN CHANCERY.—Charlotte Court, March 7th, 1809.
Robert Smith, Plaintiff, against James Weaver and Wm. Smith Defendants. THE defendant Weaver, not having entered his appearance according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this state: On the motion of the plaintiff, by his attorney, It is ordered, That he appear here on the first day of June Court next, and enter his appearance, and give security for performing the decree of the court, and that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the news-papers printed in Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the court-house of the said county. Copy. Teste, THOMAS READ, Clk. w8w#
April 7.
IN CHANCERY.—Charlotte Court, March 7th, 1809.
Robert Bailey, administrator of Lucy Bailey, dec'd. Plff, against William Smith, administrator and distributee of John Smith, dec'd. John Smith, George Jones & Molly his wife, Edward Clarke and Elizabeth his wife, James Weaver & Nancy his wife, Charles Smith, Samuel Smith, David Bailey and Elizabeth his wife, and Francis Smith Defendants. THE defendants, John Smith, George Jones and Molly his wife, James Weaver and Nancy his wife, Charles Smith, Samuel Smith, David Bailey and Elizabeth his wife, and Francis Smith not having entered their appearance, according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this state: On the motion of the plaintiff, by his attorney, It is ordered, That they appear here on the first day of June court next, and enter their appearance, and that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the news papers printed in Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the court-house of the said county. Copy. Teste, THOMAS READ, Clk. w8w#
April 7.
IN CHANCERY.—At a quarterly Court, continued and held for King and Queen County, at the Courthouse on Tuesday the 14th of March, 1809.
Joseph Temple, senr. Plff, against John W. Semple and Edward Hill, Defendants. The defendant John W. Semple not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that he is not an inhabitant of this state. On the motion of the plaintiff by his Council; It is ordered that the said defendant John W. Semple do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the Bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order, be forthwith published in some public newspaper, printed in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of this Courthouse. A copy. Teste, RO: POLLARD, s. c. 8w8w#
March 24.
NEGROES WANTED.—Wanted fifteen or twenty laborers to work at any Coles in Chesterfield county, for which a liberal price will be given. CORNELIUS BUCK. Oct 31
PROPERTY FOR SALE.—The subscriber desires of removing to the western country, offers for sale his HOUSES & LOTS, in Richmond. He deems a particular description unnecessary, and wishes those inclined to purchase, to view the property. The dwelling-house, for elegance and convenience, is certainly not inferior to any in the city; the offices are commodious; the garden and yard will be laid out in a style adapted to the buildings, and the situation combines the advantage of privacy and retirement to that of proximity to the scene of business. A small portion only of the purchase money will be required at the time of the sale, and the residue in such instalments as may be agreed on, or slaves will be received in payment, for a part or the whole of the property. JOHN BROCKENBROUGH. January 27.
THE Subscriber, offers for sale or lease, his BRICK TENEMENT, in the town of Manchester, it is one of the best stands in the place—the buildings are full sufficient for whole sale & retail, and rooms well finished for the accommodation of a genteel family. If leased, the lowest term 7 years—if sold, one half in cash, the balance in two equal annual payment.—For further particulars, apply to the subscriber, on the premises. DANIEL GORDON. March 29.
THE Subscriber has a well-situated GROCER'S SHOP on the Canal, lately occupied by Mr. Moore—Also, some ROOMS on an upper floor in the corner-house opposite the scale-house, near the end of the Basin. For terms apply to Robbins & Henderson in the corner house who will show the other tenement, or to SAMUEL OVERTON. oaw3w#
FOR SALE.—Upon liberal credit, for cash or good bonds, 515 acres of LAND, in Middlesex county, advantageously situated upon the Piankatank, being the House Lot of Shooters Hill tract. This Land is of a good quality, has a good Fishery, Oysters at the door, and wild Fowl in abundance. If not sold before the first of Nov. next, it will be leased for a term of years, with or without 615 acres adjoining. For terms apply to Major Paulin A. Blackburne of that county or to AUSTIN BROCKENBROUGH. Tappahannock, April 7. v5m#
JUST RECEIVED, and for sale by BYRON & PARKHILL, Young Hyson } Tea. English Gunpowder in Imperial and } sup. kegs, and papers of one lb. each, Shot in bags, Brown Sugar in Hds. Whiskey in tierces and barrels, Molasses in Hds. Raisins in boxes and kegs, Mould Candles, Filberts in bags, Ginger in kegs, Butter in firkins, Pepper in bags, Coffee in bbls. They are in daily expectation of receiving a new supply of Hard-Ware and Shoes, in addition to their present assortment. April 7. w4w
NEGROES FOR SALE.—To be sold at Charlottesville in the county of Albemarle, if not previously disposed of at private sale, on Monday the 7th August next, being Albemarle court day, about forty NEGROES in families.—The terms of sale will be one half cash, and for the other half bonds with approved security will be required, payable in 6 months. Mr. Benj. Hackney my agent will conduct the sale. WILSON M. CARY. Williamsburg, March 10. 1aw2m
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by Alexander B. Rose of the county of Nelson, to secure to Samuel Jones, a certain sum of money therein expressed, will be sold in the town of Warminster on Saturday the 13th of May next, one certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the county of Nelson, (mentioned in said deed Aulderst) containing by estimation twenty five hundred acres lying on the waters of Tyo River and Hat-Creek, and adjoining the lands of Thomas Massie, Thomas Fitzhugh, Henry Rose, Ext. of Edmund Wilson, David S. Garland and Ext. of Nathaniel Hill, and the same tract on which the said Alexander B. Rose, now lives. Acting as trustees, we will convey such title only as in us is vested and those claiming under us. JAMES FREELAND, ARCHD. AUSTIN. Buckingham, April 7. 4#
LANDS FOR SALE.—By virtue of a deed of trust executed by John Bibb, of the county of Charlotte, to the subscribers, to secure the payment of a debt due to Messrs. Buchanan and Pollock of the town of Petersburg: Will be sold, on Thursday, the 4th day of May next, at the house of the said John Bibb, to the highest bidder, for ready money, two tracts of LAND lying and being in the said county of Charlotte, one containing one hundred and sixty five acres, it being the tract on which the said Bibb resides, and the other one hundred and fifty acres, it being the tract purchased by him of Benjamin Sulis, senr. lying on the waters of Cub creek. HENRY M. WATKINS, Wm. M. WATKINS, TH: B. MANLOVE. tds
LANDING from the Schooner RICHMOND, Isaac Seaman, Master:— 50 Boxes Raisins, 10 Bales Soft Shelled Almonds, 5 Casks Green Coffee, 19 Barrels Prime Pork, and 1 Pipe London Particular Madeira Wine. IN STORE. 17 Hogsheads Brown Sugar, 25 do. Molasses, 5 Tierces Green Coffee, 75 Boxes Havannah Segars, 3 Bales Welch Planes, Family Flour in barrels and half barrels, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin and Souchong Tea, 10 Boxes Mould Candles, FOR SALE BY, GEORGE WATT. January 17. if
THE subscriber respectfully informs the citizens of Richmond, that he has commenced the WHEAT FAN MAKING & WIRE WEAVING BUSINESS, in its various branches, between the Court and Market-Houses, where he had, on the shortest notice, Wheat Fans and Wire Safes, on the best and most improved construction: Likewise, all kinds of Wire Sifters, for wheat, coal, ore, flax-seed, clover-seed, barley, oats, sand, lime, flour, Indian meal, shakes, rolling and standing screens for mills, cutting boxes and bird cages of every description, wire for cellar and milk-house windows, and almost any articles in the wood and wire line, &c. DAVID H. BROMWELL. April 7. 4#
Merchant's, Lawyer's, Sheriff's and Constable's BLANKS, For Sale at this Office.