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AN ACT
Making further appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, the following sums, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated; that is to say:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, seventy-four thousand, seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-nine cents:
For provisions, thirty-one thousand, four hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifteen cents:
For repairs of vessels, one hundred and forty-two thousand, eight hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty-one cents:
For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, eighteen thousand, five hundred dollars:
For clothing for the same, ten thousand, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars, and forty-two cents:
For medicines and hospital stores, one thousand, two hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty cents:
For ordnance and military stores, three hundred and ten thousand, five hundred and fifty-four dollars, and sixty cents:
For timber for the navy, eighty-seven thousand, five hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. and be it further enacted, That the several sums herein specifically appropriated, shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO: CLINTON, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
November 21, 1807. Approved, TH: JEFFERSON.
WASHINGTON CITY, June 4.
APPOINTMENTS made during the last session of Congress with the advice and consent of the Senate.
William Pinckney of Maryland, minister plenipotentiary of the U. S. at the court of London.
Reuben Williams, governor of the Mississippi Territory.
William Hull, of the territory of Michigan, re-appointed governor of that territory.
Robert Atwater, of Vermont, secretary of the territory of Michigan, collector of the district of Detroit, and inspector of the revenue for the port of Detroit.
Moreau de Lisle, a Judge of the territory of Orleans.
Washington Boyd, marshal of the district of Columbia.
Jonathan Laurence, of S. Carolina, collector of the district of Beaufort, in S. Carolina, and inspector of revenue for the port of Beaufort.
Venables Bond of Georgia, collector of the district and inspector of the revenue for the port of Hardwick, in Georgia.
William Gazzam of Pennsylvania, surveyor of the port of Pittsburg.
Thomas H. Storm of New York, commercial agent of the U. States at Genoa.
Philip Grymes of Virginia, attorney for the U. S. in the territory of Orleans.
James Prince of Massachusetts, marshal of the district of Massachusetts.
Lemuel Trescott of Massachusetts, collector and inspector of the district and port of Machias.
Jonathan Bull of Connecticut, commissioner of loans for the state of Connecticut.
John Vernor of New York, surveyor and inspector of the revenue for the port of Albany.
Oliver Wayne Ogden of New Jersey, marshal of the district of New Jersey.
John Shee of Pennsylvania, collector of the district of Philadelphia.
Lewis Ford of Maryland, surveyor and inspector of revenue for the port of Lewistown.
Lemuel T. Spence of Maryland, collector of the district and inspector of revenue for the port of Snowhill.
Alexander Moore of Columbia, register of wills, for the county of Alexandria, in Columbia.
John M'Kinny of Columbia, surveyor and inspector of revenue, for the port of Alexandria.
Larkin Smith of Virginia, collector of the district of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Thomas Nelson of Virginia, collector of the district and inspector of revenue for the port of York town.
Jacob Decamp of Virginia, surveyor of the port of Charleston, in the district of Mississippi.
John S. West of North Carolina, marshal of the district of North Carolina.
Robert Cochrane of N. Carolina, Collector of the district of Wilmington in N. Carolina.
William H. Ruffin of N. Carolina, surveyor and inspector of the revenue for the port of Windsor.
Abraham Bissent of Georgia, collector for the district of St. Mary's.
George M. Bibb of Kentucky, attorney of the U. States for the district of Kentucky.
James W. Moss of Kentucky, surveyor of the port of Limestone.
Richard Ferguson of Kentucky, surveyor and inspector of the revenue for the port of Louisville.
Joseph Buell of Ohio, surveyor of the port of Marietta.
Thomas Bolling Robertson of Virginia, secretary of the territory of Orleans.
Samuel Croudson of Orleans, naval officer for the port of New Orleans.
Thomas H. Williams of the Mississippi territory, secretary of the said territory.
Lemuel Henry of the Mississippi territory, receiver of the public monies for the lands of the U. S. east of Pearl river.
Jonathan Davis of the Mississippi territory, surveyor of the port of Natchez.
John Coburn of Kentucky, one of the Judges of the territory of Louisiana.
Gideon D. Cobb of Indiana territory, surveyor of the port of Massac.
James Abbot of Michigan, receiver of public monies, for lands of the U. S. at Detroit.
John M'Clellan of Maryland, consul for the United States at the port of Batavia.
FROM THE WASHINGTON MONITOR.
RESOLUTIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS FEDERALISTS.
I feel exceedingly rejoiced, as every republican in the United States ought to do, that the federal legislators of Massachusetts are proceeding in their career of folly. When they have reached the last stage of political profligacy, and their own deluded followers have through shame abandoned them, they will then perceive that although it be possible to succeed for a moment by clamorous misrepresentations, the duration of power is not to be calculated by the fervor of party spirit.
It is unnecessary to dwell upon the means by which the federalists have in the legislature of that state obtained the majority of votes; or to go into a long detail to prove what the republicans might have done. It is sufficient for us to know that the former have succeeded and the latter have failed; and to tell us now that our political friends could have triumphed had they made a proper arrangement, is to them, in a crisis like the present, the bitterest reproach.
Granting that the federal party in Massachusetts have succeeded by a fair, impartial trial of strength, what have they to boast of? A majority of thirty, perhaps, in one house, and of six in the other, in an assembly of so many hundreds, is no great cause of exultation: when we come to consider the basis of that majority, the wonder is that it is so small.
The federal leaders themselves confess, that the embargo is the ground upon which they have contended. I have been my misrepresenting the genuine features of that measure, by spreading alarm and terror through the commonwealth, that they have prevailed. They told the citizens that the embargo was laid on in obedience to Bonaparte's command, and that it would endure forever. When the falsity of those tales shall be made manifest, when time shall have developed the purity of heart and wisdom of head that dictated the measure, the transient power of impostors will pass away, and republican affections will gain a vigor never again to be enervated by the pestilence of party spirit.
Without giving themselves time to cool, a series of resolutions have been introduced in the legislature by a member of the Essex Junto, and laid upon the table. The preamble to these is compounded of certain admitted facts and of erroneous opinions.
That the times are critical, and that the embargo bears hard upon the people, we all know: But that the evil originates in our own government, or that "the ruinous consequences which must ensue from a continuance of the present system of measures cannot be exceeded by the losses and dangers to be apprehended from any information which has been officially communicated to the public," is a gross and palpable violation of the truth.
Can the American government control by open force the contending powers of Europe? Bonaparte is lord of the land, and Britain is mistress of the ocean. Nearly a million of men in military array enforce Napoleon's orders from the Baltic Sea round the shores of continental Europe to the Gulph of Venice: Woe to that kingdom which disobeys his decrees. On the broad seas as well as in the narrow, the fleets of Britain dictate the laws of nations and the rules of trade. These two powers, deadly in their enmity, have cut up all neutral commerce. One of them has proclaimed that no neutral vessel, that has been even boarded by an English ship of war shall be spared. His threats have been carried into execution: His cruisers have captured, pillaged, and destroyed our vessels. On the other hand, Great Britain has told us that we shall only be allowed to fetch and carry merely what we want to consume, and what will buy it; that we may go to the West Indies with a load of flour or fish, and re-
turn direct home with a cargo of rum, coffee, sugar, or molasses: But that if we dare to convey a particle of those productions to any port of continental Europe, without paying her a duty, without first going into her ports, and submitting to examination and taxation, our ships shall be arrested and condemned for the benefit of the captors. Documents containing all these facts, in the most circumstantial manner have been "officially communicated to the people."
There is only one way in which the language of the preamble can be construed so as to render it intelligible. If the Essex Junto deem it less ruinous to coalesce with Great Britain against France; if they conceive that the United States will be more honored by paying tribute to our ancient masters than by manfully resisting their demands; that it is better to be the tools of Britain than her equal; then, indeed there is some sense, some meaning in their expressions. If such be their sentiments how dare they call themselves the friends of Independence? What would they make of us but colonies in disguise; masked provinces of Britain? Suppose them successful in their efforts to effect their wishes; admit that we were connected with England by the closest ties, where could be our trade, our commerce? What becomes of us? Bonaparte interdicts us entirely from his ports: it would then no longer be a question whether we should go to a French port from an English port; but we should not be permitted to go from an American to a French port. When we now speak of France all Europe is understood. Friends and allies of Britain, we should follow her fortunes and partake in her distress. Where is the nation that has not been destroyed or dishonored by her friendship? Why has she not protected them and their commerce? Why does she not protect her own? This then is their object—they would render these states subservient to British policy, and tributary to the English treasury. We should not even have the avaricious satisfaction of being subsidized for the dishonorable submission. Our disgrace would be aggravated by the consideration that we had to pay for it.
The embargo like the declaration of Independence is the test of patriotism; and the Essex Junto who oppose the former stand precisely on the same level with the tories who in 1776 repudiated the latter. The time will come when any man in this country will be proud to say, I supported the Embargo. What difference is there, in truth, between the principle in controversy in the revolutionary war and the one at present in dispute? Then, Britain took Americans across the Atlantic to be tried for pretended offences, and wished to tax us in all cases whatsoever: Now, she seizes and detains our mariners on false pretences, and interdicts our commerce unless we will submit to a taxation laid on by her legislature; not a taxation for trade with her own ports; but taxation for trade with French ports.
The resolutions are nothing more than an amplification of the preamble, like a sermon after the text. With an air of peculiar sagacity, as if it were an original discovery, the first resolution avers "that the citizens of Massachusetts have a natural, necessary, and immediate interest in the preservation and prosperity of commerce, navigation and the fisheries." These are things which no man questions, and which ten thousand resolutions could not render more true. But when we are told, "that to secure protection and encouragement to these most important and unalienable interests, was a primary motive for the accession of the commonwealth of Massachusetts to the constitution of the United States," and that the Essex Junto "view with anxiety and alarm the operation of the embargo" as tending to annihilate those interests, there is something more to be said.
By their own reasoning the authors of the resolutions have reduced the question to this: Is the Embargo a measure that will protect our commerce in the most effectual way it can be protected?
Protection must always be adapted to the nature of the thing to be protected, and to the danger which threatens it. If a man perceives a cannon ball coming in a direct line towards his
head it is no protection of himself to extend his hands and stand still: he gets out of the way as dextrously as he can, wisely resorting to caution where all his force would be unavailing. Commerce is a thing founded in the amicable relations of different countries: It cannot be encouraged by war, because war destroys commerce; and to talk of protecting commerce against those with whom commerce is to be carried on, is a most despicable paradox. The Essex Junto to wish to defend and promote commerce by "such preparations as the experience of ages demonstrates to be alone safe and effectual;" by which, I suppose, we are to understand a navy, for they say "a naval force is highly important for the defence of this country." Now, we all know Great Britain has a naval force superior to that of all the world; yet she cannot sell a single bale of her manufactures the more for it to the people of Europe; she cannot by her navy dispose of her sugar and her coffee for a better price. Human nature will not be beaten into good fellowship; at least some portion of it; for the conduct of the Essex Junto seems to require in this particular an exception in their favor. Those gentlemen judging by their own disposition, appear to think Europe is like a stubborn child, who, refusing to eat its cake can be flogged into compliance. If it were only fighting for a passage across the ocean in order to come at a good market, the thing would be different: but the misfortune is, that the greatest danger exists in the ports of foreign powers. Go to a British port and they tax or detain you; go to a French one and they seize and sequester you. All the fighting we could do would not prevent this. Seeing, therefore, that force can effect nothing, it is not wiser, it is not the only way to gain protection, to withdraw from the ocean till the contending parties are weary of combating each other, and reserve our means for more auspicious seasons? The good sense of the people must weigh this reasoning and decide agreeably to their own correct impressions.
But why do the Essex Junto tell us of an embargo of "unlimited duration?" Do they intend to keep up the farcical notion of its eternal continuance? Congress have limited its duration precisely. When trade can be pursued with safety; when France and Great Britain shall acknowledge and observe the legitimate laws of nations, the embargo will be at an end. The cause of the disease is at London and at Paris; in the heart and head of George the third and of Bonaparte. These madmen of Massachusetts exclaim against the Physician instead of the disorder.
But they have begged the question. They tell us "a temporary embargo may be on some occasions expedient as a measure of precaution, and the right to impose it, may be admitted as incident to the powers of the national government to regulate commerce." Whence, then, their cavil? The existing embargo is temporary, its termination is marked as legibly as it can be. When Europe shall return to a sense of justice, when our trade can traverse the ocean and enter the ports of foreign powers free of danger and exempt from taxation, is the limit prescribed. If, therefore, a temporary embargo be allowable, surely the one in operation is admissible. If an embargo can be laid for one day it can be laid for one hundred; if for ten days for ten thousand. The authority is the same in both cases. The regulation of commerce consists in wholesome restraints; and if it be threatened with total annihilation an embargo is as justifiable as an impost and tonnage duty in ordinary times.
"The most grievous restraints and embarrassments imposed upon the intercourse between different states, and even between different parts of the same state," is another item of Essex Junto complaint. A little while ago the cry of partiality was the rallying point; now it seems, the embargo presses alike on all parts of the Union. What do these precious politicians want? Do they wish some states to enjoy an illicit trade whilst others are entirely prohibited? They know well enough, that for the law to be constitutional, it must be equally binding on all the states, and that the reason for the evasive restrictions on the inter-

course between the states arose from the knavery of those who were encouraged by the Essex Junto to violate the law as originally enacted. Whilst on the one hand they contend against the constitutionality of the law, they remonstrate on the other against the constitutional enforcement of it. Pleased with nothing, they verify the fable of the old man and his sons; and let the government do right or not, they are sure to find fault.
To say that "congress cannot repeal the embargo against the consent of the president," is to say that when a law is made it must go its time out; and the observation will apply as well to one law as to another. The remark, therefore, proves nothing in the present case.
The regulation of the coasting trade and the permission of supplies to those states that want them, arise out of the same clause of the constitution which declares that all commercial restrictions shall be equal. Thus, whilst the law is rigidly enforced in all ports, it is necessary that our citizens should not be made to suffer greater privations in one quarter of the Union than in another. Hence the president's circular; hence the various custom house injunctions under the embargo laws. What the Essex Junto call "exemptions and dispensations" arise out of the president's sworn duty under that constitution, and are the very means of preventing the embargo from pressing with greater weight on one part of the community than on another. What do these men wish? Would they have the commonwealth of Massachusetts inhibited from a necessary supply of flour?
They tell us they are "ready to sustain all privations." But do not their own resolutions convict them of falsehood? If they are "ready to sustain all privations," why do they complain of the embargo, why do they excite weak and ignorant men to resist it? Is the embargo no privation; or what do they mean?
There is such an incongruous mass of ideas huddled together in some of the paragraphs, that one is confused in reading them. "The true policy of the U. States (we are reminded) points to the cultivation of peace and amity with all nations." This, the reader will remember, has always been Mr Jefferson's policy. The Essex Junto then tell us they are willing to make every exertion requisite to support the dignity, and enforce the reasonable pretensions of the nation." What are we to understand by this observation? I presume they mean to say that the dignity of the United States has not been insulted, and that the pretensions of the nation are unreasonable! In the name of Heaven, what kind of stuff are these men made of? Where was the dignity of the nation when Love insulted the government at Charleston? Whitby at New York? Humphreys off the Capes of Virginia? and Douglass at Norfolk? The language of the resolutions goes to support those acts of outrage: It says to the British officers, "Come again, my lads; kill a few more of our citizens, brave our laws, defy our chief magistrate, and fear not; we will countenance you, not only at our feasts and in our toasts, but in the legislature." Then, as to our "pretensions:" if our ships and merchandize are taxed or captured, or our mariners impressed, we have, I suppose, according to the Essex Junto, no pretensions to complain. Was not this the very language of the Tories last war? "Obey the king, you dogs (said they) and be quiet."
Keep in mind, good reader, that all this, on the part of the Junto is intended as an apology for Britain. When they squint at France, a different key is touched. "It being certain (say they) that no degree of forbearance and moderation will exempt neutral nations, at all times, from insult and aggression, and that the claims of military ambition can be satiated only by universal dominion [this is precisely the cant of an Englishman] it is the duty of government to prepare for events which it may be impossible to avert." Here we have nothing about naval ambition, against which we have the greatest cause of complaint, nor is there one word concerning it throughout the whole of the resolution. But military ambition, against which we are impregnable, and universal dominion, to which we are in no danger of subjection, are the stilts upon which their hobbling patriotism moves. The President told the nation long ago, that "forbearance and moderation" were no protection to us, and advised Congress by an embargo to "prepare for events." Well; congress did prepare: The gun boats are in preparation, the embargo is preparation, the 100 000 minute militia men are in preparation, the 6000 regulars are in preparation, and the fortifications, going on are preparation. Yes but say the Junto, we want "such preparation as the experience of ages demonstrates to be alone safe and effectual." They want, in short, a navy.
Now what does the "experience of ages" tell us on that head? Why, that France, Holland and Spain have had navies, and that the fleets of Great Britain have destroyed them; the powers of Europe opposed to England have at this moment above a hundred ships of war, yet scarcely a squadron dare sneak along shore; and we are told to build a navy! To fight whom? France? Ridiculous!
France has nothing on the ocean to capture of any great value. To fight Britain? Not I presume, when all Europe, with more than an hundred sail of the line, with many more seamen than we have dare not face her. It is not our courage but our force, which cannot be made adequate by a navy. But we must build a navy because nations in ages past have done so. Is there no wisdom but in antiquity? Was Ulysses a fool because he was younger than Nestor? If the "experience of ages" tells us that great navies have been built, the same experience tells us they have been destroyed. Let the British go on increasing their navy; the increase will insure its ultimate destruction. It is a voracious monster, and after devouring the substance of the English nation, will destroy itself.
These Essex men would fain make us believe there had once existed a large naval force in this country, and that the present administration had impaired it. The history of their own former doings, however, is too well known for the imposition to pass. The few vessels of war which we had in addition to those now belonging to the United States, were sold by themselves. And when did they "provide for the defence of our ports and frontier?" Where are their fortifications, their frontier ramparts? What shocking hypocrites do they prove themselves. They claim the twelve first years of the federal government; yet they cannot point to a single angle of our coast that they have rendered secure. Ask them what they have done, they lower their eyelids, look towards the ground, clasp their hands, and sigh out, "Ah! the great Washington!" They do this in a tone of the most admirable knavery: "Ah! the great Washington! It is well for them to shift the subject from themselves to Washington: the more of him and the less of them the better. Their own actions have no intrinsic merit, and they appeal to the general's. They put me in mind of a fellow cheating his neighbor with the words of God in his mouth.
The attempt to draw a distinction between the administration and the government is the very essence of absurdity. It is precisely Yrujo's excuse for impertinence when Major Jackson, editor of the Philadelphia Register, told of his attempt to bribe him. I wonder the Essex Junto would borrow so stale a conceit from a Spaniard, considering how much they despise everything that has any connection with Bonaparte. Without circumlocution, the rule of subjection will prove that an existing administration and the government are the same thing. Take administration from the government, and nothing of government will remain; and conversely, take government from administration and nothing remains.
It is worthy of remark, that the resolutions present only one side of the picture: There is no statement of the injuries and insults of England and France, which were the real cause of the embargo? It would not, I presume, have answered the purposes of delusion if the whole aspect of affairs had been presented in a clear light: it was necessary to the views of the Essex Junto to give nothing but a profile; this, they imagine, will set the people to quarrelling. I trust, however, the citizens will examine for themselves; and look on every side before they determine. If they act otherwise, they will do no better than the two knights who met at a pillar erected on a high-way, one avering it to be black and the other white, which terminated with a battle wherein they were both wounded; when they found, on examination, that the pillar was black on one side and white on the other, and that a little investigation would have convinced them without fighting. Thus, the embargo is an evil, but that does not demonstrate that there is not just cause for its existence. Let the thing be investigated all round, and it will be found perfectly a correct measure, and there will be no wrangling among honest men about it.
And now I will close these strictures with one remark on the inconsistency of the resolutions with the avowed principles and the tenets of the federal party. They call themselves federalists, they have contended for strengthening the hands of government, and have stigmatized their opponents as disorganizers. But these resolutions breathe dissolution to the federalism of the states, tend to excite anarchy & disobedience, to relax the power of government at a time which their authors say is "critical and alarming," and are in spirit and in form jacobinical in the extreme. I ask every federalist of honor and of principle, whether he can, consistently with his own doctrines, subscribe to those resolutions?
BOSTON, May 30. FEDERAL RESOLUTIONS. Mr Wheaton of No. 1, after a number of remarks on the situation of our common country, and the proceedings of the Legislature at the last session in adopting certain Resolutions appro-
ating the Embargo, and other measures of the National Administration, moved for and had leave to lay the following Resolutions on the table:
Whereas the present critical and alarming state of our national affairs renders it peculiarly necessary and proper that our rulers should be correctly informed of the sentiments of the people, who are the only legitimate source of power—and whereas certain resolutions passed at the last session of the Legislature, before means had been afforded to consult their constituents, may have led to a misapprehension of the state of public opinion.—And whereas the people of this Commonwealth are placed in new and extraordinary circumstances, interdicted by the National Government from the use of the ocean, and from the habits and occupations to which they and their fathers have been accustomed from the first settlement of the country—and at the same time, the surplus produce of their fields and fisheries is perishing on hand, for want of a market, and the ruinous consequences which must ensue from a continuance of the present system of measures cannot be exceeded by the losses and dangers to be apprehended from any information which has been officially communicated to the public: Therefore,
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled,
That the Citizens of Massachusetts have a natural, necessary, and immediate interest in the preservation and prosperity of Commerce, Navigation and the Fisheries;—to the successful extension of which, under the late administration of the National Government, they are, with the blessings of Providence, principally indebted for the rapid improvement in agriculture and the arts, and for the unexampled increase of their domestic resources.
That to secure protection and encouragement to these most important and unalienable interests, was a primary motive for the accession of this Commonwealth to the Constitution of the U. S.
That we therefore view with anxiety and alarm, the operation of an Embargo of an unprecedented extent and unlimited duration, by which not only foreign commerce is annihilated, but the most grievous restraints and embarrassments imposed upon the intercourse between different States, and even between different parts of the same state: That although a temporary Embargo may be on some occasions expedient as a measure of precaution, and the right to impose it may be admitted as incident to the powers of the National Government to regulate commerce: Yet the power to create a permanent Embargo upon foreign and inland commerce, which a majority of Congress cannot repeal against the consent of the President, was not, it is believed, contemplated by the framers of the constitution; and the adoption of this measure with a view to coerce foreign nations, is, in our estimation, a novel and dangerous experiment, which discourages industry by destroying its reward, disturbs the natural relations of the citizens, is equally repugnant to the national honor and interest; and while its effects in counteracting the oppressive policy of any other nation, is at least doubtful, is pregnant with disastrous consequences to our own:
That if this unexampled prohibition of commerce could rightfully be enforced by Congress, yet the delegation of an authority to the executive, to regulate the coasting trade, and the ordinary intercourse between the citizens of the same state, and to grant exemptions and dispensations at his discretion to individuals of districts, would be not less dangerous and extraordinary, as it might become the foundation for oppressive monopolies and exclusive privileges, and prepare the country for the habitual surrender of the legislative power into a single hand:
That while the true policy of the U. S. points to the cultivation of peace and amity with all nations, yet if these blessings be unattainable by means consistent with national honor, the people of this commonwealth will be ever ready to sustain all privations, and to make every exertion requisite to support the dignity, and enforce the reasonable pretensions of the nation; and it being certain that no degree of forbearance and moderation will exempt neutral nations, at all times, from insult and aggression and that the claims of military ambition can be satiated only by universal dominion, it is the duty of government to prepare for events, which it may be impossible to avert: That the spirit and resources of the country are fully adequate to the protection of its maritime and territorial rights, and ought
to be directed and employed in such preparations as the experience of ages demonstrates to be alone safe and effectual. We cannot, therefore, but deprecate a system of measures, which instead of providing for the defence of our ports and frontier, by usual and obvious means, has impaired our naval force, and left us exposed to every invader.
That in the estimation of this Legislature, a naval force is highly important for the defence of this country and the protection of commerce; and that it is the duty of the Senators and Representatives of this commonwealth in congress, from time to time to use all due means for the gradual creation of an effective navy:
That the general Government, having been instituted expressly to provide for the common defence and general welfare, and to preserve to us and to posterity the blessings of liberty, must be supported at every expense and every hazard, while it secures these inestimable blessings by an equal and paternal solicitude for the various parts and sections of the Union:—But that government must not be confounded with the administration as the latter can only be entitled to the confidence of the people, when by a fair and frequent display of their purposes and policy they rescue themselves from the imputation of partiality, and prejudice undue fear of affection in the conduct of our foreign and domestic concerns.
It was then voted, that they be printed for the use of the Members; and that the further consideration of them be assigned for Tuesday next, (to morrow) at 11 o'clock.
Latest Foreign News. NEW YORK, June 8.
The ship Liverpool Packet, capt. Parsons, whose arrival below we noticed in yesterday's Mercantile Advertiser, left Liverpool on the 27th of April. We have received by her a file of Liverpool papers to that date, London papers to the 25th, Lloyd's Lists and Prices Current to the 23d.
Mr. Rose, in the Statira frigate, reached Lymington in 21 days from the United States, and arrived in London on the morning of the 23d of April.
The London Courier, says: "Whilst this gentleman's mission has terminated favorably otherwise, we have not yet heard. But some gloomy reports prevail in this city, and it is said here that it has failed; that is, the American government would not separate the affair of the Chesapeake from the discussion of the other points in dispute between the two countries."
Second Edition.
Courier office, three o'clock. "We have just received the following information respecting Mr Rose's mission. The affair of the Chesapeake, we understand has been adjusted. The embargo in America, however, is to be continued. But the American government, we hear, declared to Mr Rose, that its continuance was to be attributed to the present situation of Europe, and not to any particular hostility towards this country."
On the day captain Parsons sailed, it was reported that the Osage was detained in France under the Milan decree, which subjects to seizure all neutral vessels who may have been spoken on their passage by British cruisers. We are strongly inclined to discredit this rumour, were it only on the authority of the following letter, which mentions the arrival of Mr. Nourse in England, and which comes to us from so respectable a source as to silence every doubt we might otherwise cherish on this subject.
Extract of a letter from a merchant in Liverpool to his correspondent in New-York, dated April 27th.
"I have just time to inform you that the "Statesman" of Monday (a copy of which I could not procure in time to send by the Liverpool Packet) stops the press at four o'clock in the afternoon to announce the arrival of Mr. Nourse from France, and that general Armstrong had left Paris. This information you may rely upon. It is not known whether General Armstrong is recalled, or whether his departure indicates a rupture between France and the United States. This matter, I presume, will be better known on your side the water."
The newspapers contain very little intelligence of an interesting nature. We have given the most important occurrences.
Captain Parsons has brought dispatches from our minister in London to the Secretary of state.
From London Papers to April 25th, received at the office of the Mercantile Advertiser by the ship Liverpool Packet.
London, April 20. By the Gottenburgh mail some letters have been received from Dantzic, which state, that an American vessel had arrived there, whose papers certified her to have come from New-York. She was in consequence, permitted to land her cargo, which sold at a very high price. From the examination of the crew, however, it was found that the vessel came last from Liverpool. —On this discovery, the Consul who sanctioned the clearance was sent to the gallies, and the whole amount of the cargo was obliged to be delivered up to the French commander, general Rapp.
The military part of the expedition now preparing consists principally of the troops which lately returned from the Mediterranean, under Sir John Moore. It is supposed to be destined for Sweden. Sir James Saumarez after receiving his last instructions, left town yesterday morning, to proceed with his squadron to the Baltic.
We have reason to believe, that a part of the military force in the Mediterranean, under the command of general Spencer, is destined for the protection of Sardinia, upon which island the enemy have for some time meditated an attack.
Letters in town from Madrid, mention that the Prince of peace had disappeared, and no one knew whither he had gone. The private letters received from Spain contain in general very little intelligence. Such is the terror excited by the presence of a French army in that country, that the writers seem afraid to describe the events that are passing around them, or to express any political opinion.
A letter from Sweden says, "the important fortress of Sweaborg, in Finland, was attacked by a force of 10,000 Russians, who after an obstinate contest of two days, were completely repulsed leaving 1500 men killed and wounded on the field."
Dispatches were received this morning at the Admiralty, from Sir Samuel Hood, dated off Gottenburgh, the 11th instant. We do not understand that they bring any news of importance.
April 22. The account of the hostile feelings of the Americans, experienced by Admiral Duckworth's squadron during its stay in the Chesapeake, as stated in the Globe, yesterday, made a serious impression in the city, and the funds fell 1-2 per cent. The attack of the Leopard upon the Chesapeake frigate was the cause of the President's Proclamation, interdicting the entrance of all British ships of war into the waters of the United States, and prohibiting all intercourse between them and the shore. Ample reparation has been long since made for this offence, by the recall of admiral Berkeley, and the renunciation of all claim to search ships of war; but from the inhospitable treatment received by our squadron, it appears, that the reparation offered by our government has not been received, and that the hostile proclamation continues in force. It does not follow, however, that the apology was refused on the ground of insufficiency. It most probably has arisen from the determination of the American government to abide by the demand which they have made, of bringing the whole of their complaints forward together, and not to make the affair of the Chesapeake a matter of separate discussion. It might have been expected that Mr. Rose's mission would at least have procured for our squadrons the rights of hospitality, if it did not effect a complete re-establishment of the former good understanding between the two countries; but so far it has not been attended with desired success.
April 23. The most active preparations are making to fit out the expedition destined for the assistance of Sweden. The whole force will probably exceed 20,000 men. Orders have been given for the horse transports to proceed from the River to Ramsgate, there to take the horses and men on board, the number of transports thus ordered will be sufficient for four thousand cavalry.—Part of the troops will, we understand, embark at Harwich. They comprise 4000 of the German Legion. The 4th, 25th, 52d, 79th, 92d, and 95th, British regiments, have already received orders for this service. Two brigades of artillery, with a proportionate number of drivers, will accompany the expedition.
The naval strength of the expedition consists of seven sail of the line, several frigates, gun brigs, and some boats of a particular construction, built for the purpose of the enterprise. The whole will be under the command of admiral Keats, and Sir James Saumarez.
Sir John Duckworth's squadron has arrived in Cawsand Bay. They ran down the Leeward Islands, as far as St. Domingo, and then proceeded to the Chesapeake, where they remained eight days, & from thence returned to Europe, leaving the Statira frigate in the Chesapeake, waiting

for Mr. Rose, and also the Eurydice frigate, not Euryalus, as stated in the paper of yesterday. During the eight days the ships remained in the Chesapeake, they could get no supplies, and found the Americans hostile to this country. It is the opinion of many of the officers of the squadron, that war with America is inevitable. It seems a point entirely undecided whether the Rochefort squadron is in the Mediterranean or in the West Indies.
Government it is now asserted, believe that the squadron seen on the 7th of March by the Mullet schooner, was Sir John Duckworth's, and not an enemy's squadron; otherwise, it is presumed, it must have fallen into the hands of Sir John.
Price of Stocks on Monday. 3 per cent. Consols, for money 65 1/4. Do. for May 65 1/2.
LIVERPOOL, April 27. POLITICAL REVIEW. Mr. Rose has arrived in London from America; he came in the Statira frigate. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office on Saturday last, to deliberate on the subject of his communication; we are sorry the accounts from America are not very favorable to England. Although nothing has hitherto transpired which renders an amicable adjustment hopeless, yet certainly there exists good reason to fear that the negotiations are attended with much difficulty. The American government seem determined to abide by the demands which they have made, of bringing all their complaints forward together, and are not disposed to be satisfied with a mere apology and reparation for the affair of the Chesapeake. The disputed points between the countries involve questions of vital national importance; and, however inclined we may be to wish for a friendly termination of the difference, we see more reason to fear than to hope. But the refusal of the American government to permit Admiral Duckworth to water his squadron in the Chesapeake, does not of itself render war more probable. It was understood, when the last accounts came away, that the embargo remained in full force, and that no relaxation of the measures which the American government had adopted was to take place till an answer had been received to the dispatches transmitted to Europe. Mr. Erskine remains in America. We understand that the report of an insurrection in the Western Country, and of a revolution in the Floridas, under the direction of the French General Moreau, are without foundation.
At this period of the year it is very uncommon to experience such severity and change of weather as has been for the last ten days. The fall of snow during the last week was almost general throughout the country. Accounts from Cambridge, Lincolnshire, and Scotland, mention that it lay on the ground for two days.
A letter from London, received in Glasgow on Thursday, says, "We lose no time in furnishing the important information, that the Portuguese Ambassador has at length relaxed in his prohibition of cotton piece goods to the Brazils."
THE EXPEDITION.
RAMSGATE, April 21. Orders have been received for the following regiments to embark at Ramsgate immediately. They are to march in here on the days under mentioned, viz. 2d Light Inf. of the German Legion, 24th inst. 1st do. do. 25th 1st Regt. of the Line German Inf. 26th 2d do. do. 27th 5th do. do. 28th 7th do. do. 29th The first battalion of the 52d regiment is also under embarkation orders, and, it is supposed, will immediately follow the above regiments; near 300 picked men of the 2d battalion of the 52d regiment were yesterday drafted, to complete the first battalion, and marched to Canterbury to join; it is a remarkably fine body of active young men. Other British infantry regiments are also mentioned as being under orders for embarking; they are not yet correctly known. The number of British infantry to embark is said to be six regiments. We understand that only one regiment of cavalry (the 3d light dragoons, German Legion) has as yet received orders to embark. This is a fine regiment. It is commanded by colonel Baron Radein, and is nearly 1000 strong; the men and horses are in fine condition. They are at present quartered at Ramsgate, Storar Barracks, and by the coast. A part of the transports for infantry are already arrived in Ramsgate harbor; more are expected from the Downs this day and to morrow. The horse ships are lying ready equipped in the river, and a few hours sail will take them to Ramsgate.
Various conjectures are formed as to the destination of this expedition, but we hope it will be kept a profound secret until it has sailed. We know that Commodore Owen, of the Clyde frigate, [late of the Immortalities] has been sent for to town.
There are eight or nine sail of the line in the Downs, and two or three flags flying, one of which is that of admiral Keats.
Found On the road leading from Powhatan Courthouse to Manchester, about the 1st of May, a Small Sum of Money in Silver. The owner may have the money on application to the Subscriber, proving property and paying the expense of this advertisement.
JOSEPH WARRENER. Powhatan county, June 8, 1808. 1*
Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND: TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1808.
STRANGE EVENTS!
Altho' the public prints are barren at present of important FOREIGN news, (the late change in the monarchy of Spain and war with Sweden being regarded as trivial matters in this age of extraordinary revolutions) yet, the INTERNAL transactions of the United States are not deficient in circumstances to furnish amusement for the minds and employment for the tongues of our QUIDNUNCS. As some of the readers of the Argus might otherwise suppose that in these Embargo times nothing surprising or entertaining was going on, we will mention a few STRANGE EVENTS which have certainly taken place.
1. The REPUBLICAN State of Massachusetts, merely thro' the apathy and neglect of many of its towns, is misrepresented by a FEDERAL Legislature!
The FEDERALISTS having got into the saddle, begin to ride that State rather roughly; which, in men of so much COOLNESS and DISCRETION, as they heretofore exhibited, when they rode the U. STATES, is STRANGE indeed! As a proof of this,
3. They have turned out of the Senate JOHN Q. ADAMS, the statesman (of all in Massachusetts perhaps) possessing the best talents and qualifications; for no other reason but because he opposed the TORY PRINCIPLES of TIMOTHY PICKERING, and stood faithful to the government of his country! This, from a party which formerly talked so loudly of supporting our national independence, whose favorite toast used to be "MILLIONS for DEFENCE, but not a cent for TRIBUTE," seems a LITTLE STRANGE!
SED TEMPORA MUTANTUR ET NOS MUTAMUR CUM ILLIS. In those days it was FRANCE which violated the maritime rights of America; and against France they levelled all the artillery of their eloquence; but NOW that G. BRITAIN treats us an hundred times worse than France did THEN; by impressing our seamen, condemning our vessels and cargoes, and attempting to TAX US WITHOUT OUR CONSENT; these worthy Federalists approve of it all, and reject their former friend because he disapproved of it, and supported the EMBARGO, the only feasible measure of opposition which this country's situation would allow of its adopting. Mr. ADAMS however may comfort himself with reflecting that, when men of a certain description rule the roost, "the post of honor is a private station."
4. The REPUBLICAN WATCH-TOWER of New-York, has denounced the TRUE Republican JAMES MADISON, and said that his election to the Presidency will destroy the republican party! It even calls him a QUID, and abuses him by surmising that many of the Federalists will probably give him their votes. This conduct in the editor of a "Republican Watch-Tower" is so unaccountable, that many suspect him not to be what he calls himself, and some even believe him a "Wolf in Sheep's clothing."
5. The same Editor abused the Embargo, and promoted the election of Federal candidates for congress in New-York, by the unfounded prejudices against the administration which he industriously contributed to excite. Yet his paper is constantly filled with abuse of the Federalists also! What a strange fondness for ABUSE must this man have!
6. Many of the Federalists are for preferring the FLAMING REPUBLICAN CLINTON to MADISON THE QUID, notwithstanding the promotion of the latter would destroy their enemies the republicans!
Thus it seems that all things are contrary. The FEDERAL Republican JOHN Q. ADAMS is turned adrift by STAUNCH FEDERALISTS, because they think he is tainted with Democracy; and yet it is reported that they wish to make the VIOLENT DEMOCRAT GEORGE CLINTON President of the United States, in opposition to the MILD and MODERATE MADISON.
"Sure these events are most unnatural! Portents and prodigies indeed! They thicken."
"From strange to stranger!"
7. The uncontrollable democrat JOHN RANDOLPH has for a long time past promoted, by his CONDUCT, (tho' we believe not with his INTENTION,) the measures of the British Monarchy; and the CL-DEVANT Monarchy-man JOHN ADAMS, late president of the U. S. now said to be a friend to the republican administration of THOMAS JEFFERSON!
From these circumstances, there might be some reason to conclude that the MILLENIUM foretold by the ancient prophets is now at hand; for the lion has already begun to lie down with the kid, but unfortunately too much discord and squabbling among parties remains to warrant a supposition that the happy time of universal peace is approaching.
Mr. JOHN Q. ADAMS is called a TURN-COAT by the Federalists, because he no longer disapproves of Mr. JEFFERSON'S administration. It would seem, from this, that Federalism consists in no settled principles, but only in a spirit of indiscriminate opposition to EVERY THING THAT THOMAS JEFFERSON DOES. What then will become of Federalism when THOMAS JEFFERSON will be no longer in office?
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Charlotte county, dated the 8th inst.
"I have seen with great pleasure in your useful paper, accounts of the growth of, and encouragement given to our youthful manufactures, and the determination of some of the counties of this state to appear at their public assemblies clothed in Virginia cloth, particularly on the ever-memorable 4th of July. I have to inform you that the good people of Charlotte have determined to attend public worship on that day -- a sermon will be preached on the occasion in the neighborhood of the courthouse, where the people will meet to thank the great disposer of events, for the blessings he hath conferred upon, and continued with us, of the best organized, and the best administered, government (it is believed) that the Sun ever shone upon -- The people on this occasion are to appear clad in home-spun."
"Mr. John Randolph attempted yesterday in a speech delivered in the courtyard, to vindicate the course he has latterly taken on the floor of congress; but fell far short of giving satisfaction."
of the best organized, and the best administered, government (it is believed) that the Sun ever shone upon -- The people on this occasion are to appear clad in home-spun."
"Mr. John Randolph attempted yesterday in a speech delivered in the courtyard, to vindicate the course he has latterly taken on the floor of congress; but fell far short of giving satisfaction."
COMMUNICATION.
Those citizens of Richmond, who wish to see SOMETHING DONE, for their own honor and the good of their country, towards the encouragement of Virginian Manufactures, begin to be impatient for a report from the very respectable committee appointed some time ago. It would be a circumstance forever to be regretted, if difference of opinion among its members, or any other cause, should prevent that committee from answering the public expectations, by producing some practicable and useful plan for promoting the great object to which their attention is directed.
The House of Representatives of the state of Massachusetts on Thursday proceeded to the election of a National Senator, in the room of John Quincy Adams, whose term of service will expire on the 3d day of March next; when The Hon. James Lloyd jun. had 248 votes, Hon. John Q. Adams -- 213 and Laban Wharton, Esq; -- 1. Mr. Lloyd is, consequently, elected.
Mr. Rose left Hampton Roads the 29th March, and was in London on the 23d April -- both days included, 26 days. About 20 days after his arrival, the question, what course G. Britain will pursue in relation to the U. S. may be determined, which would bring the departure of advice to about the 14th of May, to which add 30 days for passage -- ought to give us news about the 20th instant -- Prudent men will look to it, and prepare for the worst. -- Aurora.
Mr. J. Q. Adams has committed an offence inexcusable, against the friends of a union between Great Britain and the eastern states. In order to reign over the people as Sarraps, there is a faction in the eastern states willing to subvert the union; Mr. Adams has had the honesty to repel, resist, and expose them; and he is removed from the senate. He has, in his removal, the consolations of a virtuous man, and the applause of his country, while those who would betray their country to the flagitious designs of Great Britain, already meet the national execration. -- ib.
The recent conduct of the judiciary at Charleston is only an additional proof of the monstrous absurdity of what is called the independence of the judges -- they are, in fact so independent of control, and of every other tie but that of their own perverse and adverse will against the very principles of the government; that unless their tenure of office is altered, and that corps brought to some sort of responsibility, they must in the end destroy the government.
If the laws and policy of the nation are to be set aside upon a quibble -- if the very principles of peace and war are to be involved in the wretched subterfuges and equivocations of this subtle class of men -- what avails all the superiority of a representative government, which cannot check nor chastise the crimes of such a class. -- ib.
The following is the answer of the President of the U. S. to an address of the delegates of the Democratic Republicans of the city of Philadelphia, in general ward committee assembled.
The epoch, fellow citizens, into which our lot has fallen, has indeed been fruitful of events which require vigilance, and embarrassed deliberation. That during such a period of difficulty, and amidst the perils surrounding us, the public measures which have been pursued should meet your approbation, is a source of great satisfaction.
It was not expected, in this age, that nations, so honorably distinguished by their advances in science and civilization, would suddenly cast away the esteem they had merited from the world, and, revolting from the empire of moral ty assume a character in history, which all the tears of their posterity will never wash from its pages. But during this delirium of the warring powers, the ocean having become a field of lawless violence, a suspension of our navigation, for a time, was equally necessary to avoid contest, or enter it with advantage. This measure will indeed produce some temporary inconvenience; but promises lasting good, by promoting among ourselves the establishment of manufactures hitherto sought abroad, at the risk of collisions no longer regulated by the laws of reason or morality.
It is to be lamented that any of our citizens, not thinking with the mass of the nation as to the principles of our government, or of its administration, and seeing all its proceedings with a prejudiced eye, should so misconceive and misrepresent our situation as to encourage aggression from foreign nations. Our expectation is that their distempered views will be understood by others, as they are by ourselves. But should war be the consequence of these delusions, and the errors of our dissatisfied citizens find atonement only in the blood of their sounder brethren, we must meet it as an evil necessarily flowing from that liberty of speaking and writing which guards our other liberties; and I have entire confidence in the assurances that your ardor will be animat-
ted, in the conflicts brought on, by consideration of the necessity, honor and justice of our cause.
I sincerely thank you, fellow citizens, for the concern you so kindly express for my future happiness. It is a high and abundant reward for endeavors to be useful, and I supplicate the care of Providence over the well-being of yourselves and our beloved country.
TH: JEFFERSON. May 25, 1808.
There are 67 vessels belonging to the U. States and valued at eight millions of dollars, carried into British ports under the late orders of council. Messrs. Bainbridge and Brown of London, are agents for the far greater part of this immense American property -- and yet, strange to tell, those gentlemen signed the petition to the British House of Commons in favor of those very orders in council.
Dem. Press.
THE FRENCH.
We mentioned in Monday's Gazette, the scandalous robbery committed by the French Government, in a general confiscation of American property at Hamburg. The procedure, though it was long foreseen by many, yet was it such a profligate abandonment of every thing like honesty, that some doubted the probability of its having extended to property beyond the wide scope of the Milan Decree. But it has, reader, one "fell swoop" has indiscriminately lodged in the fangs of Bonaparte, all the merchandise of our fellow citizens within the reach of his Hamburg Robbers. That the last deep shade of unprincipled rapine might not be omitted; the cargo of the ship Juniatta of this port, was included. We are credibly informed that this ship had not even been boarded by a British cruiser, and that certificates of origin had been forwarded to Hamburg; leaving no possible pretext, save the unparalleled effrontery of the "Friends of the Liberty of the Seas!" -- Balt. Fed. Gaz.
NEW YORK, June 8.
By the arrival of the Liverpool packet yesterday, we learn that Mr. Nourse has arrived in England. It is very probable that dispatches have been transmitted by him to the executive. Report also says, that Mr. Armstrong had left Paris. When Mr. Rose resided in Washington, he also left that city, but it was for the purpose of visiting Alexandria; and, perhaps, Mr. Armstrong may have left Paris to visit Versailles. In the present political era, we are left to conjecture upon every subject. Until the blow is struck, nothing official is published, by which an inkling may be formed of the intentions of the diplomatic rulers. Empires are established and governments overturned before we have an opportunity of even forming opinions on the subject. Such proceedings may be proper, may be absolutely necessary, but still excite dissatisfaction. The account of Mr. Armstrong having left Paris is, however, not improbable; as from late accounts, he has not been treated with the respect due to the representative of an independent nation.
The feelings of a republican must, in such a case, be severely tried; and from the known tenor of Mr. Armstrong's mind, it is not to be supposed that he would brook any indignity offered either to himself or his country. On Mr. Nourse's mission a great deal depends. The unfavourable issue of Mr. Rose's embassy to this country may have excited some exacerbaton in England both in the minds of the military and the people.
With anxiety we therefore, look forward to the issue of the negotiation. "Be it well, or be it ill," we hope that there is fortitude and energy among the citizens of the United States to encounter every difficulty. When opposition is made at Passamaquoddy, and in almost all the seaports of the Union to the measures of government, we need not be surprised to find that foreign nations will adopt the same means, and endeavor to profit by our dissensions, & appropriate our dissenters. On national energy, every thing now depends, & we hope that that energy will never be relaxed by the machinations of ambitious individuals, or the intrigues of foreign agents. -- L'Oracle.
MARRIED -- On Thursday morning last, at half past 9 o'clock, by the Rev. Mr. Ellis, GEORGE WM. SMITH, Esq. attorney at law, and member of the Privy Council of this State, to Mrs. JONES, relict of the late Meriwether Jones, Esq. -- all of this city.
DIED -- On Sunday morning last, after a lingering illness, col. MARKS VANDEWALL, Post Master in this city.
Notice.
ALL persons to whom the estate of the late Joseph Benning, dec. of Buckingham county, is indebted, are desired on or before the 6th day of November next, to bring forward their claims properly authenticated that provision may be made for payment, and to all claims exhibited after that period, this advertisement will be plead in bar. Those indebted to said estate are invited to make payment by that time, as no indulgence will be given. DMUND GLOYER, ex'r. 1st June, 1808. 2p
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SOME vile incendiary, in the absence of the Compositors on Wednesday afternoon, after the matter contained in the first page of Tuesday's paper had been corrected for the press, made his way unperceived into the printing office, and for purposes which can only be known to his own depraved mind, made an alteration in the type by taking out one word, and substituting another in its place. It could only have been done, by a person acquainted with the printing business, or suspicious rest upon an individual well known. The above reward will be paid to any person who will fix the fault on the disgraceful wretch who committed it. Argus Office, June 10.
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STRAYED or Stolen from the Subscriber on Friday the 3d inst. off the commons of Richmond, a large Sorrel Horse fifteen and an half hands high, five years old, shod all round, paces, trots and canters well, and runs in any kind of a carriage well, one hind foot white and a small knot on the inside of one of his fore legs, below the knee. I will be above reward to any person that will deliver said horse to me near the market house. M. TURNER. Richmond, 14th June, 1808. it
American Literature.
Just Published, By C & A Conrad, & Co. Philadelphia, and for sale by Samuel Pleasants, Jr. Richmond: The Columbiad; A Poem in 10 books. By Joel Barlow.
THIS title announces a work of the highest interest that the rest of our country or of any other can furnish. With regard to the merits of the execution, it would become us, the publishers, to speak in that strain of commendation which alone would give utterance to our sentiments. Of this, the public, to whom it is now offered, will judge for themselves. We will only state one circumstance, which ought to be understood by the purchaser before we solicit his patronage. The ancient Juvenile Poem of Mr. Barlow called the Vision of Columbus, is so far absorbed in this, as henceforward to disappear from the list of his works. All that he has thought worthy of the subject in that Poem has been incorporated in this -- which may amount to one fourth or one third of the former work. He has now in his mature years and judgment, taken a much wider range over the immense regions of fact and fancy, than the fortunes of this hemisphere have opened to his view, and "the work is now probably destined to stand, the epic song of his country."
No pains or expense have been spared to give it a dress and ornament suitable to its intrinsic merit.
It is in one volume royal quarto illustrated by twelve engravings on the following subjects: I. Hesper's appearance to Columbus in prison; II. Capae and Osia instructing the savages in agriculture and the domestic arts -- III. Zamor killed by Capae -- IV. Inquisition -- V. Cesar passing the Rubicon -- VI. Cruelty prevailing over the Prison Ship -- VII. Murder of Lucina -- VIII. Cornwallis resigning his sword to Washington -- IX. Rape of the Golden Pears -- X. Initiation to the Mysteries of Isis -- XI. Final resignation of prejudices.
These eleven subjects were painted by the celebrated Smirke, expressly for this poem. The pictures are now exhibited in the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, where the public can examine their admirable execution, and form some idea of the expense and labor bestowed on the decorations of this work. They were engraved by the first artists in England; and the engravings were in such high estimation among the patrons, that several proof copies were sold in London at six guineas a set. To these is added a portrait of the author, painted by Robert Fulton, and finely engraved by Arthur Smith.
The paper we believe, is better than any before made in this country; and the printing by Fry & Kammerer, may be regarded as a specimen of typography hitherto unsurpassed, and seldom equalled in the world.
Also just received, and for sale as above, THE 2d NO. of COL. TOURAUD'S American ARTILLERIST'S COMPANION.
The Discarded Son; or Haunt of the Banditti; a tale; by Regina Maria Koche, author of the Children of the Abbey, &c. Modern Chivalry; containing the adventures of a captain, and Tague O'Reagan his servant, by H. H. Brackenridge. The Lay of the Last Minstrel; a Poem; by Walter Scott.
The Horror of St. Domino; written by a Lady at Cape Francis.
The Lay of an Irish Harp; The Wild Irish Girl, and St. Clair. By Miss Owenson.
The Pleasures of Hope and Pleasures and Pains of Memory. Jonathan Poffeffer, of the Hones; Yankee, a musical farce, in 3 acts. By L. Beach. April 3 1808 w4
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A Winter in London; or Sketches of Fashion; a novel, in 2 volumes, by T. S. Surr.
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Time's a Tell Tale: a Comedy, in five acts, by Henry Siddons.
Corinna, or Italy; by Mad. De Staël Holstein, in 2 vol.
Rural Philosophy; or Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue and Happiness; chiefly in reference to a life of retirement in the country, by Ely Bates, Esq.
Ira and Isabella; or the Natural Children; a novel, by the late W. H. Brown, of Boston.
Historical Grammar; or a Chronological Abridgement of Universal History, by C. Bingham, of Boston.
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Wirt's Speeches.
The Editor of the Argus has lately published the SPEECHES of WILLIAM WIRT, Esq. on the trial of AARON BURR, and others;

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Cut Herrings and Shad. THE Subscribers are receiving a few hun- dred barrels of Cut Herrings and one hun- dred barrels Shad, IN PRIME ORDER, which they will sell on moderate terms for cash or ap- proved paper at 30 days.
IN STORE, Salt in Sacks and a General Assort- ment of Groceries. RUSSELL & WALLACE. May 24, 1808.
10 Dollars Reward RUNAWAY from the subscriber on the 11th of December last, a negro woman named CHARLOTTE late the property of a Mrs. Timberlake of Hanover county. She is of a light complexion about five feet high, has a scar on her forehead, supposed to be 35 or 36 years old. It is supposed she is harbored in Rich- mond by her husband who is hired at the Armory, or in New Kent by some of his relations, or acquaintances. The above reward will be paid to any person who will deliver the said woman to the subscri- ber or secure her in any Jail. WILLIAM W. DICKINSON Richmond, April 27, 1808.
Lot and parcel of Land, lying and being in the county of Henrico, contig- uous to the city of Richmond, being a part of the same. A parcel of Land, conveyed by Richard Adams and Elizabeth, his wife, to said Moses Davis by deed, dated 3d day of March, 1807, beginning and running on the road or street, leading from the Market House, in the city a- foresaid, to Du Val's Village, north 4 1/2 de- grees, west 4 chains and 32 links, to a street for- ty feet wide, dividing said lot and parcel of land, and the lot formerly William Cannon's, now John Doyle's, and building on said street, north 89 degrees, east, 4 chains and 94 links to the cor- ner of the said street; thence on the back street, south 4 1/2 degrees, west 4 chains 32 links to a corner street 40 feet wide next towards said city, and binding on said street, south 89 degrees, west 4 chains, 36 links to the said road about the beginning, with the buildings and improve- ments thereon, consisting of
A Large Framed House, making three tenements—or so much of said premises as will raise the instalments, or balance now due of the aforesaid debt, with the interest thereon, and the charges and expenses attending the sale. The sale will commence at or after 10 o'clock in the morning. George Wm. Smith, City of Richmond, May 24, 1808.
10 Dollars Reward. RANAWAY from the Subscriber in the latter part of the year 1807, a negro boy by the name of ISHAM, he is of a thin visage, and a pleasing countenance when spoken to, about 16 or 17 years old. The last information that I had of him he was crossing Mayo's bridge on his way to Manchester. I do suppose that he is at this time in Petersburg where his father lives, a free man by the name of Jesse Logan; or at his grand father's Jacob Logan, of about twelve miles below the city Richmond. I will give a reward of ten dollars if delivered to me in Pow- hatan county near the courthouse, or eight if confined in jail and I apprised of it; he is of dark complexion. Joseph Howard. May 22, 1808.
TO RENT, A GOOD TENEMENT on Market Alley, opposite the Market House; it is amongst the best stands in the neigh- borhood for a grocery. For terms apply to the subscriber or to Harry Tompkins. ISAAC WEBSTER. February 15.
THAT in virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by John Williamson, Jr. and duly re- corded in the Richmond district court, I shall on Thursday the 16th day of June next, upon the premises; proceed to expose to sale by public auction for ready money, 100 Acres of Land, (or so much thereof as shall or may be necessa- ry to satisfy the objects of the said trust,) lying in the county of Henrico, and being part of the tract of land whereon the said Williamson now resides, and which part adjoins the lands of Na- thaniel Wilkinson, Charles Sneed and Thomas Taylor, and is so to be laid off. Watson Patman, trustee. Henrico, 28th May, 1808.
Mr John Warren, administrator of Jo- seph Fugate, deceased: As you are not an inhabitant of the State of Virginia, and have no known agent therein, I take this method of giving you notice that, on the first Monday in August next, between the hours of nine in the morning and of sunset of that day, I shall, at the Charlotte court house, in the state of Virginia, proceed to take the affidavits of William Morton, Francis Scott, and others, witnesses in my favor, in support of an injunc- tion which I have obtained from the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, to stay proceedings on a judgment of Prince Ed- ward District Court entered in your favor against me as executor of William Price, dec'd. I am, Sir, yours, &c. William Price. Amelia county, Virginia, May 26, 1808.
I WILL DISPOSE OF MY TRACT OF LAND, LYING in Powhatan county, containing 500 acres, of which there is 80 or more prime low grounds, which never is over-flowed by the river Appomattox. There is also a fine mill seat, the dam nearly completed, and timbers ready go- to complete the mill, upon a never failing stream. The terms will be one-half cash, the balance in 12 months. I will sell or treat with any one be- tween this and the 1st July next, otherwise it will be sold upon the premises, to the highest bidder, together with other property. The terms of the personal property will be made known on the day of sale. John H. Saunders. January 5, 1808.
Valuable Lands. I AM desirous to exchange the following pro- perty, or any part thereof, as may be agreed on for a small tract of good Land, in a healthy situation, with a dwelling house and other im- provements, a good spring of water, and an a- greeable neighborhood, at a distance of 30 to 100 miles up the country. To say for Houses in this city—Lands in Henrico county, joining the aca- demy lands, and near this city—2,000 acres on Richland creek, in Lincoln county, Kentucky— 1,000 acres on the waters of the Ohio, in Mason county—and two tracts of Military Lands on the river Tennessee, each 566 2/3 acres. Robert Mitchell. Richmond, Feb. 6, 1808.
THE subscriber will sell, on a credit, or ex- change for Property in Richmond or its neighborhood, the following LANDS, to wit: 823 acres in the state of Kentucky, by survey bearing date the 10th day of October 1797, lying and being in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, on Little Barren river. Also, 1000 acres, in Kentucky, by survey bearing date the 10th October 1797, likewise ly- ing in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, on the north side of Little river, a branch of Cumberland ri- ver, and about two and an half miles from the mouth of Little river. Also, 450 acres of Land in the county of Ma- son, state of Virginia, on Old Town creek, about 8 miles from Mason courthouse. Indispensible titles will be made to the above mentioned lands; and plots of each tract may be seen on application to the subscriber residing in Richmond. THOMAS BOHANNAN. January 23d, 1808.
THE public are hereby notified that I shall move the county court of Charlotte on the first day of July next to discontinue the public road leading from Cadwallader Jones's Tavern by my house to Coles's Ferry road in the said county of Charlotte. EDMUND PATRICK. May 16.
NOTICE. ALL persons to whom the estate of the late Judith Robinson, dec. of Cum- berland county, is indebted, are desired on or before the first day of October next, to bring forward their claims properly au- thenticated, that provision may be made for payment, and to all claims exhibited after that period, this advertisement will be plead in bar. A division of said estate among the legatees will be made on the above day. JOHN HATCHER, Ex'r. March 17, 1808.
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To be Sold FOR ready money at Buckingham June court, which will be on the 13th day of the month, to the highest bidder. A few Likely Negroes, belonging to the estate of Thos. E. Pleasants, a bankrupt. Lightfoot Janney, assignee for the creditors of said estate. May 28, 1808.
The noted & much admired ENGLISH HORSE Jack Andrews; IMPORTED by W. Light- foot, Esq. of Charles City county, and now his property, full 15 and a 1-2 hands high, a blood bay, finely formed, in high health, vigor and spirit, the most active and best bottomed horse ever imported into this country, now rising 14 years old. Will stand the ensuing season at Tem- ple Hill, on Mechanic's river, in Albemarle county, ten miles above Charlotteville, within 1 mile of German's mill and 2 miles of the brick tavern, and will be let to mares at five guineas the season, which may be discharged by the payment of 20 dollars if paid by the 10th day of August. Gentle- men's notes will be required with their mares for 5 guineas discharged as above; 3 guineas the leap, and 40 dollars to insure a mare to be with foal, and one dollar with each mare to the groom; the leap and groom money to be paid when the mare is covered. Provided the mare is changed the owner shall be liable. The season will commence the first day of March and end the first day of August. Extensive low and high ground pasture, well enclosed, in three separate fields, gratis. Servants will be boarded at $2 per week, and grain will be furnished at the market price and given in manner and quantity agreeably to di- rection, and all possible care taken to pre- vent accidents and escapes but will not be liable for any that may happen. JAMES KINSOLVING, For William Lightfoot.
This celebrated horse's performances in En- gland, has not been inferior to any horse there, except his brother Dick Andrews, who is con- sidered now the best horse in that country, giving 7 pounds—Jack Andrews won twice in 1797, then Mr. Lord's property—See Racing Calendar for that year. At Worcester, July 5th, a maiden plate of £50 for 3 years old, 6 stone, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, at 3 heats, beating Mr. Darling- ton's ch f Miss Edwin, 4 years old; Mr. Atkin's son's ch m Priscilla, aged; Sir W. W. Wynns ch m Sweet Botherem, 5 years old; Mr. Hardin's ch m Regalante, 4 years old. Stafford, October 7th—The town purse of £50 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, 3 years old, at 3 heats, beating Mr. Betterton's Little Pickle, 4 years old; Mr. Barlow's Roderick, 4 years old; Mr. Denham's Honest Tom, 6 years old; Sir W. W. Wynns's b h True blue, 5 years old. In 1798, at Nantwich, Thursday, July 8th— £50, for 3 and 4 years old, he won, beating Mr. Bayles' ch c Cannon, 4 years old; Stamford's b f Scotland, 3 years old. Denby, August 15th—He won £50, free for any horse, beating Lilly of the Valley, Falconer and True Blue. In 1799, he won twice, to wit: A Lulworth, on Friday, the 4th of July, 4 mile heats, free for all ages, beating Lord Oxford's ch c Dart at 3 heats. At Worcester, August 8th—He won the city and county subscription of £50 4 mile heats, at 3 heats, beating Mr. Atley's filly Duchess, 4 years old; Mr. Coventry's b h Integrity, late Partner; Mr. Snell's ch g Hocks, 5 years old— after the first heat 4 to 1 on her; after the second heat 4 to 1 on Jack Andrews. In 1800 he won 6 times, to wit: At Lewes, then the property of Major Rookes, August 12th, he beat Lord Sackville's b h Laborie, 4 mile heats for 50 guineas. At Oxford, the town plate of £50, in August, was won by Jack Andrews, at 4 heats, beating Sir F. Pooe's ch m Duchess of Lumb, 5 years old, Lord Doneghill's b h Wrangle distanced the 4th heat—September, at Warwick, he won the town plate of £50, 4 mile heats, beating Mr. Tharm's b h Marquis, Mr. Brooke's b h Sheshire, Mr. Edwards' b m Dut- chess.
At Abingdon, Tuesday, September 16th, the members' purse of £50, for all ages, 4 mile heats was won by Jack Andrews, at 3 heats, beating Sir F. Pooe's ch m Miscreant, 5 years old, Mr. Wheley's b h Expectation, Mr. Fragley's b h Cupid—six to four on Miscreant. In 1801, Jack Andrews at New Market, April 20th, received forfeit from Mr. Hethercoat's Symmetry, 8 stone, 5 lb. 200 guineas, half for- feit. Bedbury, June 16th—The Bedbury stakes, a han- dycap of 100 guineas each, half forfeit, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, aged, beating Lord Sackville's b h Expectation, 5 years old, Sir H. T. Vane's Cock fighter, 5 years old, Mr. R. Heath- coat's Hippoma, aged, his royal highness the Prince of Wales's b h Dick Andrews, Mr. Heath- coat's Popinjay and Cox's Edwin. June 17th, a sweepstakes of 5 guineas each, 20 subscribers was won by Jack Andrews, beating col. Grovenor's Lady Catherine, Mr. Howorth's Snuff Box. Bedford, September 10th—The Woburn Stake of 10 guineas each, 4 miles, 5 subscribers, was won by his royal highness the Prince of Wales's b h Jack Andrews, aged, beating Mr. Watson's b h Triumph, Mr. Gilding's b c Skyrocket. Enfield, September 23, £50, for all ages, 4 miles heats, was won by Jack Andrews, aged at 3 heats, beating Mr. Popley's gr g Ploughboy, Velvet horse Little Thought Of, Hephaston and Conqueror—See Racing Calendars for these years. It would swell an advertisement to too great length to mention all the races he has won. Sweepstakes of 20 guineas each, 2 mile, 5 subscribers, Mr. Rookes's Jack Andrews, aged, 11 st. 7 lb. walked over—See Racing Calendar for 1802, page 385. At Lambourne, in Sept. Wednesday 10th, he won the £50 gift of Lord Craven, 4 mile heats, at 4 heats, beating Mr. Coventry's ch h Sacripant, Mr. Bacon's b m Snap. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT.
PEDIGREE Jack Andrews was got by Joe Andrews, his dam by Highflyer, his grandam Cardinal Puff, his great grandam by Tattler, his great great grandam by Snip, his great great great grandam by Lord Godolphin's Arabian, his great great great grandam by Stanyan's Arabian, which mare was own sister to Frampton's White Neck, full sister to the Minbury Galloway, great great great great grandam by Sauce Box, a son of Gegg, sire of Grog's Old Partner. JAMES LORD. (Seal.) I do hereby certify that the above pedigree is a true copy from the original one sent me in by Jas. Lord. Given under my hand and seal this 23d of December, 1804. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT. (Seal.)
Joe Andrews was got by Eclipse, his dam Al- amanda by Omnium, her dam Cloudy by Blank— Grab. Wedding on mare by Partner—General Sud Book, page 6th, printed in 1803, by James Wheatherby.
The Famous High Blooded English Horse HAMBLETON, Bred by the Duke of Graf- ton, a beautiful bright bay, near 16 hands high, of high form and elegance, rising 16 years old, in good health and great per- fection, imported by Wm. Lightfoot, Esq. of Charles City county, will stand the ensuing sea- son, at my plantation in Hanover county, 20 miles from Richmond and 2 from Hanover Town and New Castle, to cover mares at 5 guineas the sea- son, for which a note will be required, discharge- able by the payment of 30 dollars at any time be- fore the first of August next, when the season will expire, with one dollar to the groom for each mare, paid at the stable door. Ten dollars the single leap, and 40 dollars to insure a mare with foal. Good and extensive pasture, well enclosed, with branches running through the flat land affording as good forward pastures as any in this part of the country, gratis. Servants that may be sent with mares will be boarded for two dol- lars per week, and mares fed, if required, on rea- sonable terms. The greatest attention will be paid by my overseer, Mr. John Hog, but no liabi- lity for escapes or accidents. * Any gentleman putting 6 mares to Ham- bleton may send one gratis. February 15, 1808.
PEDIGREE. Hambleton was got by Dungannon, sire of Bed- ford and one of the best sons of O'Kelly's famous Eclipse, who was esteemed to be the best horse in England of his day, and covered at fifty guine- as—his dam by Snap, sister to Jupiter, bred by Mr. Cross, 1793—her dam, Young Marak's dam by Blank, Stirling, Miss Meynell, by Partner, Greyhound, Curwen Bay Barb, Lord D'Arcy's Arabian, Whiteshirt, Old Montague mare. Thus it appears he descended from the best running stock in England.
PERFORMANCES. This horse ranks very high as a racer, both for speed and bottom, as he proved successful in 20 races before he left the turf, 4 of which he walked over, none venturing to start against him. In '94 at Hambleton, Yorkshire, on Wednesday, May 14th, he won a sweepstakes of ten guineas each, for 3 year olds 6 subscribers, 2 miles, beating Mr. Ber- thel's b f by Magnum Bonum. Pierce's b f by Young Marske, Turner's Confederacy, and Gradi- dock's ch c Leicester. At York he won 50l. for 3 year olds, beating Lowther's b c Griffin, Cromp- ton's ch c Ambush Sheppard's Madcap, Clifton's b c Cedar, and Garforth's ch c even betting on Ambush against the field. At Manchester, in June, he won 50l. for 3 year olds, two mile heats, beating Foreigner and Loyalist. At Stockton Sept. 20, he won a sweepstakes of 20 guineas each 5 subscribers, then Sir H. Williamson's property formerly Mr. Hutchinson's, beating Field's High- flyer, out of Wren and Turner's Delphine. In 1795, Hambleton won 5 times, to wit: a handicap purse of 50l. 2 mile heats, at 4 years old, beating Insect, Blacklegs and Wathin's b c 5 years old. At Edinburgh, July 20, he won his majesty's plate of 100 guineas 4 mile heats, beating Greyson's b h Archer, 6 years old, Mr. Peacock's ch g Farmer, and Mr. Wilson's Greeping Kate. At Dumfries in Oct. he won 50l. beating Lord Dar- lington's b m Conquest. In 1796, Hambleton won at Kelso, Oct. 5, a purse of 50 guineas beating Mr. Bal- four's Black Cock. In 1797, he won 8 times, to wit: at Middleham in Yorkshire, a sweepstakes of ten guineas each 5 subscribers, 3 mile heats, beating Merr. Lad and Arthur. At Edinburgh, on Wed- nesday the 26th, 50 guineas for all ages, beating Eliza Fox and Betsy. On Friday the 28th, the ladies subscription purse of 50 guineas beating Fletcher's Jane At Montrose, in Scotland, August, he walked o- ver the ground for a 50l. plate, and also walked over the ground for a subscription of 50l. At Kelso, Oct 16 for a plate of 50 guineas he walked over the ground, and also his majesty's 100 guineas given to the Caledonian Hunt, for any horse, &c. carrying 12 st at 4 mile heats, then 6 years old, he won against Mr. Wentworth's Trumbush, Piermont's Trimmer, aged, and Kinkade's Hector, aged— and Saturday following, a purse of 50l. given by the Hunt, free for any horse, &c. beating Fare- well and Rotiker. At Carlisle he won 100 guineas for Mr. Sitwell, beating his b f by Meteor. In 1798, he won at Edinburgh, August, 50l. for all ages, beating Maxwell's Arab, and Mr. Maule's Hip- popotamus. At Montrose he won a plate of 50 guineas for all ages, beating Pi-fouche and Contradictor. See the racing Calendars for the foregoing years. Wm. LIGHTFOOT.
Colt's Performances—London. Hambleton's colts also rank very high as racers, both for speed and bottom, as they proved them- selves good runners in England. In 1805, at Car- terick bridge, on Thursday 18th, Wentworth's b c Silverheels by Hambleton, two years old, won a sweepstakes of ten guineas 8 subscribers, two miles beating Mr. Riddle's b c by Overton, dam of Spa- nisher; Mr. Londale's ch c by Pipsator dam by Pay- master; Lord Stratmore's g f by Overton, dam by Delphin—Several others also started but were not placed—Durham, Wednesday, 24th, a Maid- en Plate of 50l., given by the country members, for all ages, 3 mile heats. Sir H. Williamson's b c by Hamilton, 2 years old, run 4 heats, and proved second best—and 4 others started and pro- ved themselves good runners.
CERTIFICATES. London, 17th February, 1806. William Lightfoot, Esq. Dear Sir,—Hambleton ought to stand very high with you, as his colts in this country turn out excellent runners, &c. Ro. Crew. Charlotte, 10th May, 1806. I put five mares to Hambleton, and they all proved in foal, and the colts fine and large—I al- so have a mare which has bro't me four colts, one by Diomed, one by Dragon, one by Seagull, and another by Hambleton, and the Hambleton colt has the preference of either: I think her one of the finest fillies, both in size and figure that I ever saw—Given under my hand. Henry Lester. Lunenburgh, 5th May, 1806. This will certify that I put a mare to Hamble- ton in 1804, when he stood at Mr. H. Lester's in Charlotte county, and am as well pleased, if not better, with the colts by him, than with any the same mare ever had—she previously bred by Coeur de Lion, Diomed, Quicksilver and Dion Bed E. Lester. Charlotte county. In the year 1804, I put a mare to Hambleton, then kept by Mr. H. Lester of this county, and am fully persuaded that it is the best colt the mare ever had, and is in my estimation the best colt I ever bred from any horse.—I moreover never have heard of any complaining of their colts from that horse. I herewith certify that Mr. Wm. Lightfoot's horse Hambleton, stood at my stable the last sea- son, and that he has proved an excellent foal ge- ter: his colts would do credit to any horse on the continent. Mr. Wm. Morris of this county and I put five mares each, all of which proved in foal. Given under my hand this 7th day of May, 1806. John Thornton. Albemarle county, Temple Hill (Va.)
I do hereby certify that Mr. Wm. Lightfoot's English horse Hambleton, stood at my stable two seasons, viz in 1806 and 1807; and I consider him
to be an excellent sure foal getter, as any horse that I have been acquainted with—I have seen a number of his colts; I consider them large, fine and handsome.—Not one that I have seen was in- different—I have previously put my fine mare Lady Slipper to Precipitate, Knowlesy and Ham- bleton, and she brought a colt by each, the Ham- bleton I consider much preferable. Given under my hand 10th December, 1807. James Kinsolving. Charlotte County, 6th May, 1806. We the undersigned subscribers had colts drop- ped last season by Hambleton, and they are es- teemed by us and we believe by the neighbours generally, to be remarkable good colts; being for the most part large, fine and handsome. We also believe that the season he stood in this coun- try, he got as many colts as any horse could get with the same number of mares. William Mitchell James Lawkin Clent Smithson Overton Pettus Thomas Pettus Wm. L. Morton W. B. Lester.
In King William County Court, May 25, 1808. Mary King, adm'x with the will annexed of Miles King, dec'd. Complainants, AGAINST Robert Brooke, adm'r. of John Fox and Eliza Fox and Thomas Pemberton, guardian of Mary Fox, orphan &c. of the said John Fox, de- ceased, Defendants. IN CHANCERY. THIS day came the complainant by her counsel, and the defendant Robert Brooke not having entered his appearance and given security accor- ding 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 complainant it is ordered that the said deft. Brooke do appear here on the 4th Monday in August next and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper pub- lished in the city of Richmond for three months successively and another copy posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A Copy—Teste, Robert Pollard, C. C.
Nicholas Hallam, FEW DOORS ABOVE THE SWAN TAVERN, HAS FOR SALE, on equally good terms as so d in Richmond, 360 wax and fair Calf Skins, } Philadelphia manufacture. } First quality Cossack boot legs } do do. Long, three quar- } ter and half, draft, calf } skin and Cordovan, do. } Calf and Cordovan roundings } and binding skins } Bridle leather, &c. &c. Boots and Shoes. Nails of all kinds. Family Bacon, Butter, Cheese, } Lemons and Apples. } A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF WELL CHOSEN GROCERIES. Boots and Shoes made to measures at short notice, and rip's mended gratis. April 12. Iawtf
GUN POWDER FOR SALE, and SALT PETE, WANTED. THE Subscribers have become partners in the GUN POWDER WORKS, in the neighborhood of this city, formerly carried on under the firm of Hugh Warden and Sons—the said firm being dissolved by mu- tual consent. The partners whose firm is hereunto subscribed, will contract for a large quan- tity of Salt Petre, either crude or refined, of the best quality, to be delivered to them in this city, or to Mr. John Lesage on Mr. Joseph Darnstadt, merchants, who will keep samples of the gun powder made at the works and receive orders for it. Letters addressed to the subscribers in Richmond will be duly answered. They assure the public that their powder has met with general approbation, it is made glazed and clean, equal in quality to imported powder, and they will furnish it in large or small quantities of every description, according to orders which may be sent to them; it will be delivered new from the works, and on such reasonable terms as they hope will procure it a preference to powder from abroad or from other states. As the said works have been establish- ed at considerable expense, and are superi- or in several respects to any in the upper country, so as to make the powder in a more perfect manner, the partners hope they will meet with that encouragement which improvement deserves from a gene- rous people. JOHN ELLIS AND HUGH WARDEN. Richmond, April 18th, 1808. w3m
Notice. THE co-partnership of Baugh and Winston, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All those who have claims against the said firm, or Isaac Winston, & Co are therefore requested to bring them forward for settlement. All those indebted to either of the aforesaid concerns are earnestly requested to make payment to John Baugh, who alone is authorised to settle the bu- siness. John Baugh, Isaac Winston, Jefferson, Powhatan, May 26, 1808. w6
Land for Sale. PURSUANT to a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by John C. Miller, for the pur- pose of securing the payment of sundry debts therein mentioned: will be sold upon the 6th Monday in January 1808 for cash, upon the pre- mises, a tract of land, mentioned in said deed, lying upon the waters of Lockett's and Harris' creek, in the county of Prince Edward, and sup- posed to contain between six and seven hundred acres. We shall make such title as is transfer- red to us by said Miller, saving all former incum- brances. The improvements upon this land are such as are usual upon snug plantations in this part of the country, but better fenced than usual. Charles Woodson, James Madison, Trustees. Prince Edward, Oct. 16, 1807. The above sale is postponed till Tues- day the 28th day of June next. 10w