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CITY OF RICHMOND,
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IT appearing to the Common Hall of the City of Richmond, that the regulations of the Trustees of the Free School in this city, have been established on liberal and just principles, whereby many poor children of both sexes have received at the said school, such advantages of their education, as result from a continued course of the institution, it is therefore resolved, that the Chamberlain of this City, and Messrs. Paine and Samuel Pleasants be requested and empowered to receive subscriptions that may be subscribed for school; and that it be recommended to the business and liberal individuals by subscription other funds for the purpose of continuing the said institutions.
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 22d, 1804.
MOTION ON THE DEFENCE OF THE NATION.
MR. ADDINGTON, Chancellor of the Exchequer—"Sir, I am induced to offer myself to your notice at this moment, rather than at a more advanced period of the debate, for the purpose of combating the arguments which the hon. gentleman has argued at considerable length, in support of one of the most extraordinary motions, that, within my parliamentary experience, has ever been submitted to the consideration of this House. I have another inducement also, arising from some incidental circumstances in the speech you have just heard, for trespassing, at this early hour, upon the attention of gentlemen. The hon. gentleman has alluded to the zeal and unanimity which at present (even he is candid enough to confess) pervades all ranks and classes of society; but his approbation is qualified by the observation, that it is a zeal and unanimity solely to be attributed to the fear of invasion, inferring thereby, that his Majesty's ministers, neither by their measures nor their conduct, have conducted either to excite or maintain it. The hon. gentleman has adverted to some discussions which took place at the commencement of the war; but it must be in the recollection of gentlemen, that the observations which fell from him on one of those occasions, drew forth the reprimand of the House—on another question, I had the benefit of that hon. gentleman's support. When a motion was made, the tendency of which was to contemn me and my colleagues for engaging in the war, that hon. gentleman refused to support it. By his vote on that question, he did, in the fullest and most unqualified manner, absolve and acquit us entirely from the guilt of having commenced that war—but, Sir, we do not depend for our justification on the accidental approbation of that hon. gentleman, great as the effect of his approbation might be. We build it on much more solid and extended grounds, the almost unanimous vote of this House, by which it has been sanctioned and confirmed. I come now to the hon. gentleman's present motion, certainly one of the most extraordinary that has ever been brought before this House; for which there is no precedent in the parliamentary history of this country; to which there is nothing analogous in the parliamentary usages of this country, and which I am well justified in describing as a measure most uncommon and extraordinary, when coupled with the strange and singular matter that the hon. gentleman has contrived to mix with it. The object of his motion is to appoint a committee, to receive the acts that have been passed for the defence of the country, and to consider of and provide adequate means for the protection of it in future. Sir, there is no man in this House who more highly values the privileges of Parliament than I do, there is no man in the House who is more ready to assert and maintain them. I know that by the constitution it is invested, and it is fitting it should be, with very great and extensive powers, and I will not deny its right to institute a committee for the purposes that are proposed. But, Sir, while I admit the power of the House to do this, I think I may safely apply to the discretion of gentlemen, that they will not, by supporting the motion, countenance the establishment of a committee, which, in its proceedings and result must terminate and become, to all intents and purposes, a committee of a purely military nature. Such a committee would be rather a novel and uncommon mode of manifesting either the authority or the prudence of this House, and one to which, I am persuaded, it will not easily recur, except upon much stronger grounds than the hon. gentleman has brought forward in support of his motion of this night. There is something peculiar also in the matter of the hon. gentleman's motion. For reasons peculiar to himself, no doubt, but which the House will have little difficulty in guessing at he has totally omitted all mention or allusion whatever to the navy, and has wholly excluded from his consideration, the four hundred thousand volunteers, composing so essential a part of our means of defence. But this peculiarity is not to be exclusively appropriated to the purport of his motion, or the various details that it is intended to embrace. He has so worded it, as to take in all descriptions of persons in this House, with all their floating and contradictory opinions; one man objecting to too great an extension of one part of our force, another lamenting any attempt at its diminution; some recommending a greater and some a lesser addition to the army, and others who differ as to that particular species of naval force we should employ; some preferring a large number of small vessels; all, all these, the hon. gentleman has found means to gratify, in their individual capacities, and to include them all within the compass of this sweeping general motion. And I come now to another part of the hon. gentleman's argument, in which he has said that he did not attach much credit to the apprehension of invasion. The hon. gentleman, as I stated before, has been pleased to declare, that the mania arose entirely from the actual danger of the country. I know not by what dexterity of argument the hon. gentleman will be able to reconcile those two observations, that, as he says, there is no danger of invasion, and again, that our unanimity is entirely owing to it. Nor am I very solicitous on that head, when I recollect that during the last war, that hon. gentleman continually asserted, that it was the injustice of that war which prevented us from being unanimous then. During that war, I believe it cannot be imputed to that hon. gentleman, that he ever came forward with any proposition to avert any danger with which the country might have been menaced, nor during the actual hostility, has he ever favoured his Majesty's ministers with any project or suggestion of his, or given them any way whatever the advantage of his great talents. Indeed the hon. gentleman has said, that if ministers had frankly communicated to him that they were really apprehensive of danger, he would have concurred in any augmentation to the public force they might have thought necessary for the public defence. But, Sir, was it necessary that this should have been made the subject of particular and specific communication to him, or to any thinking man in this country? Is it possible that that hon. gentleman would have shut his eyes, and closed up his enlightened mind against the active, unceasing, and immoderate ambition of France, stimulated and invited
to the exertion of that ambition, and possessing the means of gratifying it, in the possession of so many hundred leagues of sea coast, extending almost from the Texel to the Adriatic? In the course of the hon. gentleman's speech, he has frequently adverted, but with a partiality which I have reason to complain of, to the declarations of ministers respecting the probable duration of the peace of Amiens. Sir, we never did pledge ourselves for the continuance of that peace. On the contrary, we always thought, and omitted no opportunity of declaring so, the best security for the continuance of peace was to impress France, and not only France, but all Europe, with a conviction that our strength, our spirit, and our means, were whole and inexhausted; and that although we were willing to adhere to the peace we had made, we were ready for war, whenever insult or aggression, on the part of any power should compel us to it. It was, Sir, from these motives, that our peace establishment so greatly exceeded the peace establishment of 1792, an augmentation which brought down on us the censure of the hon. gentleman. I come now to the hon. gentleman's motion, narrowed and restricted to a degree, inconsistent with his usual candor, and unworthy of his great mind. He has directed his observations principally to the regular and militia force, omitting the navy & volunteers, and has recommended, with his accustomed zeal and perseverance, the adoption of his favorite project of adding an armed peasantry. He has chiefly relied upon two points, for the appointment of this committee, from which he affects to suppose, that so many advantages may be derived: one is, that the pernicious principle of recruiting by competition may be abolished in it, and next, that the extent of service may be altered from life to a term of years.
I trust I shall be able to prove to the satisfaction of the House, that it would not be justified, that it would not be prudent nor advisable in it, to proceed to the formation of such a committee, upon such flimsy and insufficient reasons as have been mentioned. My noble friend who sits near me, (Lord Castlereagh) has stated, from authentic documents, that although the recruiting for general service was not so great at present, as it was on former occasions, yet that it was as great as circumstances gave us a right to expect. When gentlemen, Sir, are informed, that the persons who are entrusted with his Majesty's government, were compelled to collect and take out of your population no less than 200,000 men for the purpose of recruiting your army and your navy, and that within the space of little more than twelve months they will cease to express any surprise that the recruiting service should have experienced a momentary cessation; when I declare to this House, on the part of that government, that there is at present a regular force in this country and in Ireland, composed of troops of the line and militia, of no less than 184,000, I trust it will be acknowledged that his Majesty's ministers have not been remiss or improvident in making adequate preparations for the defence of the country. When gentlemen reflect upon the difficulties we had to encounter, that we had the militia to raise, that we had the army of the line to recruit, that we had the army of reserve to establish, that we had the defence act to prepare, and that we had a regular army, line and militia, of 184,000, that we have 400,000 volunteers, that we have 27,000 sea fencibles, independent of troops in other points, in garrisons and in colonies, making in the whole, a force little short of eight hundred thousand men, and greater in number by 200,000 than the greatest exertions of the enemy can bring forward. I say Sir, which such difficulties & such successes are weighed against each other, I trust the House and the country will admit that we are not that incapable and incompetent description of men, the hon. mover of the question before you endeavours to present us. This, Sir, could be proved by documents, the most authentic and irrefragable; and though, for many reasons which will be obvious to gentlemen, I feel strong objections to the production of such information, yet I will consent to give those gentlemen, who make the want of it a ground of complaint and accusation against ministers, an account of the military and naval force of the country as it actually is, but upon the express condition that they do not ask for the distribution of it. I am persuaded, Sir, that if such an account were laid on the table, it would be the best. I will go farther, and say, it would be a decisive answer to the best argument the hon. gentleman has urged in support of his motion. The hon. gentleman has gone at considerable length into the consideration of that principle expressed in the Defence Act, that it is his Majesty's prerogative to call upon the services of all ranks of his subjects capable of bearing arms in case of invasion. Sir, in discussing that bill, that principle was frequently alluded to in debate but never opposed; for it was admitted, that his Majesty possessed such a prerogative in case of invasion, and the only question was, I well remember, whether he might not resort to it before invasion? The hon. gentleman affects to acquit ministers of any blame in introducing the assertion of that particular prerogative into that bill, by presuming that in their anxiety to prepare for the defence of the country, a solitary instance of recognizing it might have escaped their observation. Sir, I desire that principle may be thoroughly examined and enquired into. I desire that it be not taken, pro tanto, but that it may stand on its fair and general constitutional grounds. With respect to the hon. gentleman's motion, I am to look for other motives, than those he has thought proper to avow, for proposing it. I am to seek for other reasons, for a motion peculiarly calculated to collect all the floating regiments of the House, and to create such an opposition to his Majesty's ministers as would tend to produce a change of administration. If that be the object of the hon. gentleman's motion, let him state so, broadly and unequivocally; let him produce some specific accusation; let him bring forward some direct, explicit charge; and let him take the sense of the House on it; but let him not bring it forward in this covert and underhand mode, and by a DEUTERO endeavoured to stigmatize, those he has not the courage to assail boldly and manfully. Let not the hon. gentleman, I say have recourse to a paltry expedient of this nature, it is unworthy of him. If we are fairly attacked, if we are accused upon specific grounds, we are ready and willing to meet the charge, and we shall find, I trust, no difficulty in defending and justifying ourselves upon fair, open, and constitutional principles. To the motion on the hon. gentleman's motion I feel the strongest objections, and I am bound to resist it upon every consideration of prudence and of public policy. I call upon every member of this House to look at the state of the country, and to say, whether such a committee is practicable or advisable? To accomplish all the objects proposed by it, you must bring officers from their duty, with great inconvenience to the public service, and possibly with greater danger to the public safety; you must collect documents and information from various quarters, you must have all the records and accounts, the plans and the proposals that are possessed by, or have been submitted to the different departments, laid on that table and examined; and what is no trivial objection, made public before you can come to a right, or indeed to any conclusion, as to whether the naval and military force of the country has been properly employed and administered. I do not mean to say, that a great state necessity may not justify the appointment of such a committee; but I leave it to the wisdom of the House to determine, if any proofs of such necessity have been advanced in support of the present dangerous and extraordinary measure. It is, upon these grounds, I oppose the motion of the hon. gentle-
man, and I hope that a great majority of this house will agree with me in opinion, that no found reasons have been urged to recommend it; that no necessity has been proved to justify it; and that as it has been brought forward from motives different from what are professed, it is unworthy to be entertained or adopted by the house."
(Debate to be continued.)
Thursday, May 3.
VOTE OF THANKS.
LORD CASTLEREAGH rose pursuant to notice, to call the attention of the house to the late brilliant successes of the British arms in India. The house and the country were already in possession of the principal facts and details, and sure he was, that they would, with the utmost cheerfulness, accede to the motion with which he should conclude. He should certainly wish to separate completely the military portion of the transactions from all reference to civil policy or arrangements, and he earnestly implored the house to avoid all discussion or allusion to the late Treaty. He begged also to be understood as not giving any opinion on the propriety of the war, but that he should submit to the consideration of the house, the general quantum of merit displayed in leading the army into the field to glory and renown. He then proceeded to state, the provision made by Lord Wellesley, for the defence of the Company's territories in India, which he had completely secured, and after sending off a strong detachment to Ceylon, his Excellency brought into the field an army of 55,000 effective men. This, he contended, placed the military power of the company in a very striking point of view. There was another instance of well directed precaution, which was, that this large force should be enabled to act at once and the same time on the most remote parts of the enemy's territory. On the north of the Mahratta dominions, General Lake, attacked; on the south, General Arthur Wellesley; in the Guzerat, General Murray; and, on the west, General Harcourt. These officers acted promptly at once, which afforded a very strong proof of the wisdom and foresight of the Marquis. But to those who recollected that his Excellency had destroyed the power of the house of Mysore, that decision and energy would not, perhaps, appear more than the merest of the campaign, which did not last more than three months, and produced the entire conquest of Guzerat, and the Dekan, and all the immense tract between the Jumna and the Ganges. Eight strong places had been taken, four of them by escalade, but the operations of the army were not confined to storm and assault; four pitched battles had been fought, two by General Lake, and two by General Wellesley. He then stated the particulars of these engagements, which have already been detailed in our paper. His Lordship dwelt at considerable length on these points, and in the course of the speech congratulated the house on the successful issue of the military operations in India. Respecting the cause of the war, he should abstain from any opinion until the official documents should arrive. The motion he intended to make was, that the thanks of the house be given to Marquis Wellesley, Captain General of the troops in India, for the energy with which the British resources in India had been applied in the late war against Sindia and the Rajah of Berar, and for the promptitude with which they had been used, to which the house attributed the result of the war, &c.
MR. FRANCIS contended, that before the house should agree to the motion, some enquiry ought to be instituted respecting the origin of the war; and, on this ground the house ought not blindly, in the first instance, to agree to a vote of thanks, unless it approved of the war; on the contrary, by agreeing to the vote before making the enquiry, they shut themselves out from censuring or condemning the origin of the contest. He also argued, that very little merit was to be attributed to Marquis Wellesley, for leaving General Lake with a handful of men, as the Noble Lord had stated, to fight a body so very much superior to him in numbers. War in India was at all times contrary to the law of this country. But let it be proved that Marquis Wellesley was justified in doing what he had done, and he would be perfectly satisfied. Previous thanks were extremely improper, they would neither do credit to those who received them, or to those who might bestow them.
MR. ADDINGTON agreed in the latter point of the hon. Genl's speech; but he contended that the motion rested on the same basis which had always guided the house in a vote of thanks for military services. The services were performed by the civil governor of India, also the Captain General; and it was on that ground the motion had his support. He admitted it would be premature to say anything on the nature of the war, as he was at present uninformed of its cause. The act of Parliament said, that no war was to be undertaken for the sake of conquest in India; but to say, that being once engaged, conquest should be precluded, was completely ridiculous. Conquest, as a cause of war, was forbidden, but it could not be prevented as a consequence.
MR. FOX said, that in thanking the Captain General in India, he could see no reason why the commander in Chief at home should receive the Thanks of the House for any battle fought on the Continent; or why the First Lord of the Admiralty should not receive thanks for any such naval actions as those of Lord Howe, Lord St. Vincent, Lord Duncan, and Lord Nelson. He opposed the motion, and concluded by moving the previous question.
MR. WALLACE quoted as precedents, similar motions to Lord Clive and Mr. Dundas last war.
MR. HOBHOUSE and Sir Theophilus Metcalf supported the motion, and Mr. Johnstone, Mr. Grey, & Mr. Wilberforce opposed it. At length the question was put on the original motion, which was carried without a division. Similar motions of thanks to Lord Clive, the Governors of the different Presidencies, and the other Officers and Privates.
MR. ALEXANDER brought up the several Tax Bills of the Budget, raising additional duties on Exports and Imports and Wine. He also brought up the Loan Bills, 1,500,000. for Ireland, and 14,500,000. for Great Britain. These Bills were severally read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.
Adjourned.
PHILADELPHIA, July 9.
Yesterday arrived the ship Commerce, Capt. Ray, 50 days from Belfast. Sailed the 14th of May, and brings Belfast papers to that period, containing London dates to the 8th, being two days later than our last accounts. Capt. Ray reports, that Ireland was perfectly tranquil, and the necessaries of life are very low. In her came 56 passengers.
The following are the principal articles which we perceive, in our Irish papers, nothing definitive as to the change of the Ministry was known at Belfast on the 14th, although it was generally believed that Pitt was immediately going into office.
Price of English Stocks, May 7.—3 per cent. Consols 56 5—6 3 per cent. Red. 55 1—8 Omnium 3 3-4 prem.
Irish Stocks, May 3—5 per cent. Gov. Deb. 89 3-4—3 1-2 per cent. 67.
LONDON, May 5.
We feel it to be our duty, in the present most interesting situation of affairs, to caution
our readers against giving credit to the various rumours and speculations which are afloat respecting the new Administration, because we can assure them upon unquestionable authority, that no final arrangement has yet been made. At the same time we have no doubt, from the information of which we are in possession, that we shall very speedily have it in our power to congratulate the public upon the formation of an Administration embracing such a portion of talent, energy, and rank, as will entitle it to the perfect confidence of the country at large, and the respect of all Europe.—Sun.
A Commercial House of considerable consequence in the West India Trade, has stopped payment for upwards of 800,000. A meeting of creditors has been held, whose report is rather favorable.
The work which lately appeared on the continent, under the title of "Napoleon Bonaparte, and the people of France under his Consulate," and which attracted general attention, is now prohibited in almost every part of Germany. The Chief Consul has even sent orders to diplomatic agents to demand its suppression. The booksellers in Hamburg are subject to a fine of 100 dollars for every copy they sell.
May 7.
Yesterday his Majesty gave an audience to the Lord Chancellor.
Nothing decisive has yet been determined upon.—It is rumoured that his Majesty's sentiments are extremely adverse to the arrangement proposed by Mr. Pitt, who it is said, was to be honoured with an interview with his Majesty this day at noon. But we do not believe that any such event had taken place when this paper was put to press. Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox have not yet had any personal communication with each other. This is rather curious—those, who, we are told, are to be at the head of the new administration, have not yet seen each other, nor held a single conversation upon the subject.
Courier.
In this state of affairs, it is probable that the Marquis of Stafford will bring forward his motion in the House of Lords to-day. Mr. Fox will postpone his till tomorrow or Wednesday, because it is wished by the confederates to renew their strength in the House of Lords.—Ibid.
Since writing the above, we have heard that his Majesty's opinion upon the arrangement proposed by Mr. Pitt, was adverse to that part in which the introduction of Mr. Fox was proposed. His Majesty is said to have inquired, with what consistency such a measure could be proposed by a party which had advised Mr. Fox's escape from the List of Privy Councillors.—Ibid.
Some motion, it is rumoured, will be made in Parliament to-day, upon the subject of his Majesty's supposed illness.—Ibid.
Some accounts have been received from Paris to the 26th of last month. The Senate is believed to be occupied upon the subject of conferring a new dignity upon Bonaparte. A broad hint has been thrown out by a Senator, in an address to one of the Electoral Colleges. After a fulsome panegyric upon Bonaparte, he concludes by saying:—
"Led astray by the ardour of my feelings, and by personal connections, I fear I should run too forward with secrets and wishes, which are within your hearts, as well as mine, but which you yourselves will make known."
Joseph Bonaparte has set out for Boulogne, to take the command of his regiment.
Private letters state, that Mr. Frere, our Minister at the Spanish Court, has sent circular letters to all the British Consuls in Spain, stating, that having received information that privateers were fitting out in several of the ports there, which he knew must be intended to act against the ships of Great Britain, he remonstrated with the court on the subject, and an order was accordingly issued, prohibiting the condemnation of all prizes whatever, in any of the Spanish ports.
On Saturday, Mr. Pitt and a large political party dined with Lord Melville.
The Sherborne Journal of Friday last, contains the following paragraph:—"On Tuesday died at Dorchester, in the prime of life, of a broken heart, universally regretted by all who knew her, Mrs. Gordon, wife of the Rev. Lochhart Gordon."
Cork, May 7.
We are happy to learn that the crew of his Majesty's ship the Loire, of 44 guns, now in our harbour, are in a remarkable sickly state. On Friday last the ship had a general fumigation, and the sick able to be removed, were conveyed on shore to Haulbowling Island; on the fourth side of which tents were erected for their reception.
Two Gentlemen of Cork a few days since had the curiosity to open a vault belonging to the family of the Grants, in Lower Saundon Churchyard, which had not been disturbed for about 22 years, and to their astonishment discovered a coffin empty, with the lid removed, and the corpse lying prostrate along side of it. From the inscription on the coffin, it appeared that the body it contained was that of a Mr. Grant, who was interred in the year 1752. As many instances of premature interment have occurred in this country, it is highly probable that this gentleman had been only apparently dead, and might possibly have recovered, but for the culpable haste of his interment.
Paris, April 20.
Every where the public have answered to the appeal made to them; and the police had only to follow the indications given by the mass of citizens, to seize at different places more than forty miscreants, provided with gold, arms, and with every means that could be obtained by a long habit of robbery.
The police also continues to collect information concerning those who have let lodgings to them.—An investigation made in a house where Victor Couchery was secreted, has procured the discovery of a Correspondence of Couchery the elder, a libeller at London, with one Joueleurs. This very voluminous correspondence proves that he has several times received money from Couchery the elder, particularly on the arrival of Pichegru. There has also been found about him some blank paper, with a signature representing George III, also a phial of muriatic acid for the secret correspondence, and for washing the passports. This man, who, with a deal of ingenuity, prepared several lodgings, concealed himself immediately on the arrest of Couchery. The police is in quest of him.
Boulogne, April 17.
Our soldiers are daily afloat. They manage the oars, and lift & lower the yards as well as

the oldest sailors—and why should they not? The gun-boats are not more difficult to manage than the Roman galleys were; and we all know that the Roman legions were as capable of manœuvring vessels as of fighting on a plain.
The expedition so authoritatively announced by the English, and which occasioned an embargo, has vanished in smoke. Few spectacles are so interesting as that of frail boats in open seas, forming a line in fight of those immense ships; it is, as several of the English will express it, the combat of David with the giant Goliath. Like Goliath, the English challenge us to combat; but, as we approach them, they retire. We had not, they said, a sufficient number of ports near their coasts, capable of containing so large a number of vessels.—Bonaparte said to the soldiers, "let ports be dug," and instead of one, they have dug four. According to them, it would take us several years to build the vessels, and in less than six months we have prepared a number sufficient to carry 200,000 men. It is impossible, as they stated, to collect these vessels at one point, and they have navigated every where; from the banks of the Garonne to the Scheldt, the movements have been continual, and the engagements daily. We have seen the light artillery traversing the shores, the patroles multiplying on the coasts, and rapidly repairing to our batteries. All our assemblies have been made without any loss. The Englishmen assert, that we cannot pass in the face of their ships. When the signal shall be given, they will see, but for once only, whether this impossibility be really more demonstrable than the three others. Our battalions once formed, and our standards unfurled in the heart of Albion, we shall see what can be done by the swarm of manufacturers, workmen and shopmen, commanded by King George and the invincible Duke of York.
NEW ADMINISTRATION.
[From the Times.]
The following was handed about in some fashionable circles as the outline of a new administration; to comprise, according to the notions lately supported by some Members in both Houses of Parliament, all the talents, virtue, and experience of the nation.
Lord Grenville to be Commander in Chief both by land and sea; Master-general of Ordnance, to conduct the march to Paris, which is to end in nailing the ears of the First Consul on the gates of the Tuilleries.
Earl Stanhope to be Lord High Admiral—in action to command the sub-aqueous division.
Earl Fitzwilliam to be Archbishop of Armagh, with the liberty of celebrating mass on all proper occasions in his private chapel.
The Earl of Carlisle to be Ambassador extraordinary to the United States of America. N. B. Red-heeled shoes not to make any part of the diplomatic apparatus, nor the name Yoseph Read to be mentioned in any of the dispatches. As his Lordship is of a liberal spirit, it is understood that on this occasion he serves his country from pure patriotism, and without any emolument.
Colonel Patten to be Public Orator, with a pension on the Irish establishment. Though this will be a new office, yet it is generally understood that it will be a sinecure.
Mr. Windham to be Master of the Revels, & Director of the Royal Sports, in which bull-baiting and bruising are by no means to be omitted. As this employment, however, will not be sufficient to occupy the whole of this gentleman's extensive talents, it is supposed that the office of Comptroller of the King's Kitchen is to be added to it, with a distinct salary to arise out of the saving of cheese-parings and candle-ends.
Mr. Horne Tooke (for this plan is to include the distinguished names among all parties) to be Lord High Chancellor: to form a new plan of parliamentary reform, in which the Bishops are to be deprived of their seats in the House of Lords, but to be eligible to seats for all the rotten boroughs, and to have the liberty of wearing bag-wigs and coloured clothes when they attend their parliamentary duty.
The other offices to be disposed of ( comme il faut ) to the different branches and dependants of the House of Grenville, who are themselves exclusively to form the Cabinet Council.
Capt. Elwell, of the brig Greyhound, arrived yesterday from Cowes, England, which he left the 7th of May. Brings no news later than we have already published. Capt. Elwell left France the last of April, and was there when the Duke d'Enghien was executed. He says the people of France were restrained from expressions of feeling on this occasion, but that the impressions made by the murder of the Duke was evidently that of horror and disgust. We have been favoured with a Paris paper of April 1804—the Argus , an English publication devoted to the support of Bonaparte. It contains a long dissertation on the impossibility of revolutionizing the consular government. A principal argument offered in support of it, is the infinite extent of official patronage and dependence. As a striking instance of which, is quoted, the legion of honour; a nobility created by Bonaparte, and owing all their consequence to his authority. We can obtain no further information respecting Moreau.
[Boil. Repertory.]
Last evening arrived Ship Merchant, CURRETS, from Liverpool, 53 days. We are favoured with the papers of that place to May 12, containing London dates of the 10th.—On the 7th, in the House of Commons, Mr. Rouse said "I am authorised to state, that a member of this house has personally received His Majesty's command to lay before him a plan of a new administration for his consideration." The member alluded to was undoubtedly Mr. Pitt. A change of Ministers is certain, but there are various reports as to the persons who are to compose the next Administration. By some expressions which dropped from Mr. Fox, it appears he does not expect to be included in the new arrangement. Mr. Pitt is undoubtedly to be Prime Minister. It was reported that he had taken upon himself the duties of the office. A writ had been moved for the election of a member of Parliament for Cambridge in the room of that gentleman. It is asserted, that Mr. Addington delivered up the seals on the 10th of May. There is nothing new with respect to the "invasion," except that the Dutch preparations are represented as in very great forwardness.
The British Minister had left the Court of Madrid. [Boil. Palladium.]
The ship Sally, captain Thomas, arrived at New-Bedford on Wednesday the 4th inst., in 43 days from Liverpool, and brings London News to the 20th of May. Captain Congdon, who reached this port yesterday in 4 days from New-Bedford, informs us that the report of Bonaparte's being proclaimed Emperor of the Gauls is confirmed! and that Mr. Pitt is once more at the head of the British ministry. [N. Y. Mer. Adv.]
FROM A LATE BRITISH PAPER.
Government are said to have received accounts from France respecting the marching of the troops from the coast to the interior. Some of these are gone towards the Rhine and Switzerland, and a considerable body has been ordered into Hanover.
An account is said to have been received from the coast of Holland stating, that a Dutch corps which had refused to embark on board a division of the Flushing flotilla, had been broken and the officers made amenable to a military tribunal.
The king of Prussia presented his queen on her birthday, with a diamond necklace worth 180,000 florins. On the same day, citizen La Force presented her, from
madame Bonaparte, with a lace gown, veil and head-dress estimated at 300,000 livres.
Mr. Wilberforce has given notice in the house of commons, that on Friday next, he is to make a motion for the immediate abolition of the slave trade. This is a subject which has long occupied the attention of this gentleman.
The value of British produce and manufactures exported from all parts of the world, as ascertained under the acts of the 42nd and 43rd of his majesty, cap. 43, 70, and from other correct sources of information, amounted in the year ending 5th Jan. 1803, to 48,500,688l. and in the year ending 5th January, 1804, to 40,100,870l. The number of vessels which belonged to the several ports of the empire, on the 30th of September in the year 1802 and 1803, was 21,445. The number of men and boys employed in navigating them 155,445.
In a letter to the Editors of the Decade Philosophique, the celebrated Bernardin St. Pierre complains bitterly that, through the unprincipled rapacity of the book pirates, and the bankruptcy of the person in whose hands he had trusted the fruits of his literary labors, he finds himself deprived of the means of making a provision for his wife and children. "I am now nearly sixty years old, (says this venerable philosopher) my oldest daughter is not more than nine, and my youngest boy is still carried about in the arms of his young mother who sucks him. As for myself I am descending the mountain of life, without a struggle, and without regret; but they have to climb it when I am gone without my supporting hand. During the difficulties of the journey, they will be looking for some marks of my paternal foresight and solicitude." For this purpose St. Pierre proposes to give a new corrected edition of his Paul and Virginia, which, both with respect to typographical execution, and the style of the engravings and other embellishments, will be executed in such a manner as to defy the arts of the pirates. When we consider this charming work has won the approbation of every feeling reader throughout Europe, we may confidently predict that the hopes of the amiable author will not be disappointed.
A new religious society has lately been formed, in Holland, entitled, Christo Sacrum. At first it consisted of only four members; but in a short time the number of the sect increased so rapidly, as to amount to three from four thousand. The object of this society is to unite all religious sects. The principal place of meeting is at Delft, where the society has already built a church, in which we find Calvinists, Lutherans, Mennonites, Catholics, and persons of various other religious persuasions, amicably assembling. The society does not admit of any dominant or exclusive system—they have no priest, but only orators, who, while delivering their discourses, stand at the altar. The service is divided into that of worship, and of instruction; the object of the former being to show the greatness of God, by directing our attention to the admirable regularity which reigns in all the productions of nature. For this purpose they assemble every Sunday, at six or seven o'clock in the evening. The service of instruction is held every fifteenth day, when they discourse about different subjects, and particularly revealed religion. Six times each year they assemble to celebrate the Lord's supper; and during the prayer and the blessing, the whole congregation continues prostrate. The Dutch clergy have strongly opposed this society, but without effect; and the present Dutch governments favors the new sect.
Domestic Intelligence.
FROM THE (TRENTON N. J.) TRUE AMERICAN.
New Amendment to the Constitution, proposed by Massachusetts.
The Governor of this state has received the following Letter from the Governor of Massachusetts, enclosing the subjoined proceedings of the Legislature of that State.—As it is probable these proceedings will be acted upon by our legislature at their next session, we have thought it our duty thus early to obtain and lay before the people of this state a correct copy thereof, that they may have time duly to consider them, and to confer with each other and their representatives as to what measure is best to be pursued touching them.
Boston, June 22d, 1804.
Sir, The Legislature of this Commonwealth have requested me to inform your excellency of their doings which are stated in the enclosed resolution, and to request that similar measures may be adopted in the state of New-Jersey. I have the honor to be, Sir, with great respect, Your Excellency's most obedient servant, CALEB STRONG.
His Excellency the Governor of the State of New-Jersey.
[Here follow the Resolutions originally proposed by Mr. Ely, and concluding with the following:]
And be it further resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit to each of the said Senators, an attested copy of this resolution. And be it further resolved, That his excellency the Governor be requested to inform the chief magistrates of the several states, of the doings of the Legislature of this commonwealth, and request them to adopt the same measures. Sent up for concurrence.
H. G. OTIS, Speaker. In Senate, June 20, 1804. Read and concurred. J. D. COBB, President.
Extract of a letter from Capt. David Ross, of the ship William Wright, of this port, dated Cape Francois, June 15.
"We entered the Spanish harbour of Port-a-Plat on the 29th May, in order to gain information respecting French privateers—after coming to anchor, a boat with two men came up to us, they said about 15 minutes, and informed one of my passengers (a Haytian), as a secret, that the French had taken an American brig the day before, and had failed for Cuba, in number about 400. After this information, I thought it most prudent to make the best of my way out of the harbour, and requested the boat to remain with us until after breakfast, this they refused, at the same time invited us ashore, and assured us there was no danger—we declined and made the best of our way out of the harbour. In 20 minutes we observed a large canoe full of armed men making for us, and loading their muskets—we hailed, and desired them to keep off, of this they took no notice. I then ordered my passengers to make the best use of their muskets, my crew still at the sweeps. After firing about 30 shot, they about ship and pulled for the shore. It soon after fortunately springing up a breeze, we cleared the batteries and fort and reached here next day in safety. A Danish capt. just arrived, from Port-a-Plat informs me that the canoe came out determined to take us and if we refused to massacre us." (N. Y. paper.)
FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN.
Capt. Bruce, who arrived at Boston, from Gibraltar, in 56 days, was informed, by Capt. Decatur, of the United States ship Enterprise, that at Gibraltar, that it was the intention of Commodore Preble, to bombard Tripoli—and that he was building gun vessels for the purpose. He was also informed, that a 64 gun ship, and two other British vessels, which he had spoken two days previous to his arrival, were destined to reinforce Lord Nelson's fleet off Toulon, to enable him to dispatch a squadron to bombard Algiers.
By Capt. Mathers, who arrived at New-York in 18 days from St. Thomas, we learn, that just before he failed, a vessel arrived there from Grenada, with information that 8000 British troops had arrived at that place from England. The same vessel brought a report that the French had been defeated in the Mediterranean by the British fleet under the command of Admiral Lord Nelson. This report gained but little credit.
Dr. Hunter of Philadelphia arrived in this town on Sunday last, on his way to Natchez, where he is to be joined by Dr. Dunbar of the Mississippi Territory; both of whom are commissioned by the President, to ascend Red river to its source; to take the latitude and longitude of the various rivers which enter it, with their courses so far as they can be ascertained; to examine the minerals &c. of the country through which they pass—then to proceed to the head of the Arkansas, and descend that river, making the same observations, enquiries &c. and to transmit the result of their enquiries to the President. They will be provided with a barge, a party of men, and the necessary instruments and apparatus to facilitate their discoveries. (Kentucky Gazette.)
A letter from St. Jago de Cuba, to a gentleman in Philadelphia, dated June 8th, says, "No privateers or prizes are now admitted in this port; of course there is no coffee to be had. Flour at present is 19 dollars per barrel, and none admitted but by the special permission of Count Mayrues."
A letter from a gentleman at Savannah, dated June 11, says—"A few days ago a French privateer brought into port a brig, said to be an American property. The Deputy Marshal having been ordered down to serve a writ on the captain, called in military aid, which consisted of two volunteer corps. Having proceeded down to that most impregnable fortress at Cockspur, the officers, with the commanding officer at Fort Green, together with the Deputy Marshal, went on board this corsair.—The captain swore he would not be taken alive, and made use of very impertinent language, saying that "do you think I will be taken by the handful of men you have at the Fort? no, by Gar, I defy you, the State, and even the United States to take me!" This produced some pretty warm language between him and Lieut. M. of the Rangers, when the fellow threatened to clap them in irons.—The Lieutenant dared the wretch to do it; but, finding the fellow so determined, the officers left her and returned to Fort Green, from whence they proceeded up to town. To give you some idea of the force sent down, I will only say that 36 volunteers, in two open boats, constituted the whole."
Another letter of the 16th ult. says, "Judge Bowen has gone off to the northward."
The emigrants who have arrived in the Aurora, are of upwards of 200 families, from the principality of Wirtemberg, who have agreed to form a settlement in the new state of Ohio, where they are about to procure a large quantity of land. The residue are expected in a few weeks, in two other ships. They are all of that description who will add to the strength, the wealth and the welfare of our country; possessing good morals, great industry and the means of procuring a decent, comfortable and independent livelihood. They represent, that besides these three ship loads, upwards of a thousand will shortly follow them. [Balt. paper.]
The following will exhibit to the reflecting reader some idea of the vast business transacted in the grain line at the Brandy-wine mills near this borough: Since the 1st day of May last, 37 sloops and 2 ketchs have arrived in the river Christiana, from the state of New-York, having on board SEVENTY-NINE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX bushels of wheat. [WILL. FED. ARK.]
Philadelphia, July 9, 1804.
MR. BRADFORD, The Board of Health regard it as their duty to lay before their fellow-citizens, the following candid and honourable communication, this day received, on a subject in which their feelings have been of late so much interested.
JAMES REYNOLDS, Sec'y. New-York, July 6, 1804.
SIR, YOURS of yesterday came to hand this morning.—I immediately convened the Commissioners of the Health-Office, and our Committee of Health and the result of our conference is an unanimous opinion, that this city is perfectly free from Yellow or Malignant fever.
At the Wallabout on Long Island, there have been five deaths of Yellow or Malignant fever, and three deaths at the Marine Hospital on Staten Island, of persons, who fished at the Wallabout, and there are now six sick persons at the latter place in a state of convalescence. One of the persons who died at the Marine Hospital had come into this city from the Wallabout. As soon as his disease assumed a malignant form, he was removed to the Marine Hospital. His house and household furniture were completely purified, and his bedding, wearing apparel and such articles as were most likely to receive and retain infection destroyed.
We have also examined into the state of the houses at the Wallabout, occupied by the fish, and find that they have been thoroughly cleaned and new white washed, and that there is nothing now offensive in the vicinity.
As the Wallabout is separated from the city by the East River, and every proper measure has been adopted to prevent a communication of the contagion to us, we are under no apprehensions of a visitation of the fever from that source.
I have thought it my duty to state to you candidly and fully the facts, which have been presented to me, on this occasion, in order to quiet any alarm that may exist in your city—and if our situation shall be unfortunately changed, and we shall be visited with a pestilential disease, I shall most certainly announce it to you, without the least disguise or reserve, under a full persuasion, that we will in like manner receive the same candid treatment from you.
I am Sir, With great respect, Your most obedient servant, DE WITT CLINTON. DR. JAMES REYNOLDS, Secretary of the Board of Health, Philadelphia.
LOW FOR CASH, OR ON SHORT CREDIT, Direct from Pennington's Manufactory, Philadelphia:
LOAF SUGAR
OF an excellent quality, either by the hog-head, barrel, or single loaf. The supply will be regular and large.
MICAIAH DAVIS. [eW6m]
IRISH LINENS AND SHEETINGS.
THE subscribers have just received a few Boxes of 7-8 and 4-4 IRISH LINENS, and 5-4 SHEETINGS from Belfast, which they will sell on moderate terms.
ELLIS & ALLAN. Richmond, July 7, 1804. (new)
Miscellaneous.
THE LIFE OF WASHINGTON.
The first volume of The Life of Washington, which has been long and anxiously expected, is before the public. By the bequest of the general's papers to his nephew, Judge Washington, provision was made for the execution of this work, from the purest materials; and the commission of the documents to able hands, ensured its public consideration, the production of an authentic and polished piece of biography.
Chief Justice Marshall has presented a volume of digested national history, as introductory to the Life of Washington, or his principal work. His reasons for doing so are, that "the history of General Washington during his military command and civil administration is so much that of his country, that the work would be incomplete and unsatisfactory while unaccompanied by such a narrative of the principal events preceding our revolutionary war, as would make the reader acquainted with the genius, character and resources of the people about to engage in that memorable contest." The want of complete materials for this general history is stated as an apology for the imperfect execution of the volume; and the difficulties experienced in forming this compilation are candidly and clearly exhibited by the author in his preface.—The volume commences with the first colonial establishment in the country, and closes with the peace of 1763.
The propriety of thus introducing the Life of Washington is conceded to admit of little doubt. His situation of the biographer is novel and peculiar. The undertaking is to write the life of a man, most distinguished in his nation, which nation had before found no complete historian of its rise and progress: It is, moreover, the life of a man, whose history is, for that period of time in which he lived and acted, the history of his nation.—Sound judgment will at once decide that a fair exposition and understanding of the immediate subject matter, are much dependent on clear views of the character, circumstances, and situation of that people, with whose history Washington's is so closely interwoven. With great propriety, then, has the author published a digest of national history, calculated to give these views, and to furnish the means of understanding the genius and resources of that people, whom Washington led to independence.
The volume is valuable, more particularly with reference to the immediate object of the publisher, the work which is to follow. "A composition which shall present, in one connected view, the transactions of all those colonies, which now form the United States," Mr. Marshall justly declares to be a desideratum. The materials for the complete execution of such a work are considered as of doubtful existence; and if they exist, are declared to be beyond attainment for the present purpose. Partial details and scanty portions of the histories of individual states are the sources, from which the historian is compelled to draw; and his work, from this circumstance, is removed from severity of criticism, if it be not found entire in the narrative and perfect in the method and connexion. There is much to interest in the history of our first settlements and primitive manners; and copious instruction may be drawn from a view of the spirit and principles which marked and governed our venerated ancestry.
Verbal criticism is not within the scope of the present notice. Mr. Marshall, with indisputable justice remarks, that "for any intention to composition an apology ought never to be necessary." Further that "a work of any importance ought never to be submitted to the public until it has been sufficiently revised and corrected." "Yet," he declares, "the first part of the Life of General Washington goes into the world under circumstances, which might bespeak from candour less severity of criticism than it will probably experience." These circumstances are stated to be, the voluminous extent of documents, the late period of the author's undertaking his task, and the impressing impatience of the public for the work.
It affords us pleasure to speak of the faithful performance of his engagements to the public by Mr. Wayne. Accuracy and neatness of execution distinguish the workmanship, and render it highly creditable to the Publisher. An elegant engraving of the General, by Mr. Edwin, adds ornament to the volume, and is a pleasing exhibition of the progress of the arts among us. [U. S. Gaz.]
THE INVISIBLE LADY.
Within a few days there has been exhibited in this town an apparatus of a very curious and astonishing construction. It is an occult application of philosophic principles which has perplexed the savants of both the old and new world. We do not learn that the mystery of the invisible has been comprehended by any but the original inventor, and the very few who have become proprietors, though the philosophers of Europe and America have inspected the apparatus with the most inquisitive attention.
On entering a considerably spacious chamber we see an octagonal frame in the middle of the room, of about five feet diameter; in the centre of which a small temple is suspended, and in it, a gilt box of about eight inches square and ten deep. This temple is supported from iron rods fixed to the upper part of the frame by small chords, flexible and evidently composed of threads. It is demonstrated that there is no communication whatever, between the box, and any adjacent apartment by tube. The temple is in contact with no visible substance but the cords. In the four sides of the box are inserted four trumpet-mouthed tubes. From the mouths of these tubes proceeded the answers to questions proposed, in a distinct voice, resembling that of a young girl.
So complete is the deception, that many persons have left the room under strong conviction that there was, in fact, a dwarf within the box, and it is true, the senses lead to no other conclusion.
The conversation on the part of the lady, proceeds in opposite directions from the box in the centre, through the tubes.
On holding any thing near a globular reflector over the box, her ladyship, gives a particular description of it.
She can be heard to breathe through the tube and throws her breath sensibly upon the hand, when applied to the mouths of any or all of the trumpets.
The Abbe Sicard has asserted that her breath was sometimes impregnated with the odour of liquors; but since her residence in this country, she has so far adopted our steady habits as to give occasion to no such scandalous remarks.
But without pretending to understand the construction of the apparatus, which produces these extraordinary phenomena, it is undoubtedly a very ingenious application of the doctrine of acousticks, and the voice we hear is a reverberation of sound from quo nos non scimus . It is not the effect of ventriloquism, for the proprietor is said to leave the room at pleasure, during the process, and we observed that he frequently spoke while the lady was engaged in a conversation.
We examined the room. It is plain and close. There are closets, but they are well closed, and in whatever part of the room you stand, the voice is heard from the trumpets only. Were it ascertained that some person from without gives the responses, the manner in which they are communicated is no less a subject of surprise and perplexity to the philosopher. It is doubtful if the most complete and amusing deception that has been exhibited.
While the mystery of the invisible fair has nonplussed the musing philosopher, it has afforded ample scope for the omnia tentans imagina-
on of the past; and with the exquisitely beautiful lines of Moore, addressed to this incomprehensible, we shall close our remarks.
TO THE INVISIBLE GIRL.
THEY try to persuade me, my dear little sprite, That you are not a daughter of Ether and Light, Nor have you any concern with these fanciful forms, Who dance upon rain-bows, and ride upon storms; That in short you're a WOMAN, your lips & your bread, As mortal as ever were tasted or eat! But I will not believe it,—no, science to you, I have long hid a last and a careless adieu: Still flying from nature to study her laws, And dulling delight by exploring its cause, You forget how superour for mortals below, Is the fiction they dream to the truth that they know. Oh! who, that has ever had rapture complete, Would ask now we fed it, or why it is sweet? How rays are confus'd or how particles fly Thro' the medium refus'd of a glance or a sigh. Is there one, who but once would not rather have known, Than written with Hervey whole volumes upon it? No, no,—but for you, my invisible love, I will swear you are one of those spirits that rove By the bank, where at twilight the poet reclines, When the star of the West on his solitudes shines, And the magical fingers of Fancy have hung Every breeze with a sigh, every leaf with a tongue; Oh! whisper him then 'tis retirement alone Can hollow his harp, or ennoble its tone; Like you, with a veil of seclusion between, His song to the world let him utter unseen, And, like you, a legitimate child of the fishes, Escape from the eye to enrapture the ears. Sweet agent of mystery! how I would love In the wearisome ways I am fated to rove, Forever to have you invisibly nigh, Inhaling forever your song and your sigh. Mid the crowds of the world & the murmurs of care, I could sometimes converse with my nymph of the air, And turn with delight from the clamorous crew, To steal in the pauses one whisper from you! O come and be near me; forever be mine; We shall hold in the air a communion divine: As pure, as of old, was imagin'd to dwell In the groto of Numa, or Socrates' cell! And oft at those lingering moments of night When the heart's weight is down & there eyes are light, Oh! shall come to my pillow and tell me of love, Such as angel to angel might whisper above! Oh spirit! and then could you borrow the tone Of that voice, to my ear so bewitchingly known, The voice of the one upon earth, who has twi'd With her essence forever my heart and my mind; Though lonely and far from the light of her smile, An exile, and weary, and hopeless the while, Could you shed for a moment her voice on my ear, I will think at that moment my Cara is near, That she comes with consoling enchantment to speak; And kills my eye-sled and sighs on my cheek; And tells me the night shall go rapidly by, For the dawn of our hope of our heaven is nigh! Sweet spirit, if such be your magical power, It will lighten the lap of full many an hour. And let Fortune's realities frown as they will, Hope, Fancy, and Care may smile for me still. [Byron's Repertory.]
EPIGRAM.
FROM THE ITALIAN.*
'Tis passing strange, that you, who laugh At every foul you view, Should laugh not at yourself, though a Laugh at yourself but you.
* "Mirabili cosa! ridere "Di tutt'ognor tu fai; "E di te, di cui ridono "Tutil, non ridi mai."
FROM "PAPERS ON AGRICULTURE."
Published by the Massachusetts Agricultural Society.
ON CURING HAY WITH SALT.
A letter from Samuel W. Pomeroy, Esq. to the Rev. Dr. Parker, Corresponding Secretary to the Society for Promoting Agriculture in Massachusetts.
Cambridge, 15th May, 1804.
Sir,—Agreeably to your request, I have the pleasure to relate the following experiments on clover cured with salt, about the middle of July, 1802. The produce of less than an acre of clover, supposed to be two tons when dry, was cut between 9 and 12 o'clock, and immediately spread; it covered the ground very thick; by 5 o'clock it was made up into cocks, and the next day, without opening, was carried to the barn, put upon the scaffold, and mowed into a form nearly square. As it was spread upon the mow, two bushels of refuse salt from the provision barrels, was strewn upon it as equally as possible; it was very green, and my foreman observed, that it would, in a short time, be thrown into the yard for manure.
The winter following, this hay came out perfectly sweet, of a good colour, and was eaten freely by horses and oxen; even the stalks, which were large, were not left.
The beginning of last July, a field of six acres of clover, supposed when dry to produce ten tons, was cut from 8 to 9 o'clock, and a part spread. Before 5 o'clock the whole was made up into small cocks, some of which had not been cut two hours.
The next day none of it was opened, the carts were in the field by 9 o'clock, and before sunset the whole, which made fifteen heavy loads, was carried to the barn, put into a loft and formed a mow fourteen feet high. On each layer of clover, of about one-fourth of a load, was strewn coarse Liverpool salt, in the proportion of three pecks to a ton; this clover was drier when cut than that mentioned in the first experiment, though half of it was not in bloom, and few heads had turned brown; but owing to the drought it began to waste. The evening it was carted considerable heat was observed by thrusting the hand as far as one could reach into the mow; the next morning, however, no heat was perceived, nor was there afterwards the least appearance of fermentation. A few days after, three tons more, managed in the same way, was added to the mow, which was supposed to contain thirteen tons of dry hay. The whole of this hay came out very bright and sweet; some of it has been sold at a higher price, in proportion to other hay at the same time, than clover cured in the common way generally bears. My horses have been kept upon it for three months past, and I never had them look so well with so little grain; they appear more fond of it than of any other hay, and there is less left in the manger.
It may be proper to remark, that the weather when the clover was out and cured, was very fine; and that the cocks upon the mow land were turned bottom upward half an hour before they were put upon the cart. How this method will answer in cloudy weather, or when the clover has been wet, must be determined by other experiments.
A Letter from Mr. Asa Packard.
Marlborough, Dec. 5th, 1803.
Honoured & Dear Sir, Yours of 2d inst. was duly received, by post. In compliance with your polite request, I have consulted several of the most obliged

George Williams, on which you have a partial recollection of conversing with him several years ago. His plan embraces the opinions and the prevailing practice of his most judicious neighbours.
With all my labourers I enter the largest and most luxuriant growth of clover as soon as the dew is off; the fork follows the scythe as soon as possible. All that is mowed that day lies spread by 12 o'clock.
When perfectly ready for the team, juice may be squeezed by the finger from a single straw. From a wisp of it, the size of your hay rope, a man may ring moisture, possibly a drop.
Of his ordinary process he gave me the following illustration in a simple statement of facts: Last year I cut a small piece of heavy clover. My year were belated, and a part of it were standing at 12 o'clock.
Thus, Sir, I have realized the pleasure of stating to you, particularly, the most approved process of curing clover known in this vicinity.
The Agricultural Society have offered the following PREMIUM.
To the person who shall, by actual experiment on a quantity not less than half a ton, shew the best method of curing clover with salt; regard to be had to the quality of the hay and the saving of labour, and the shortness of time between cutting and packing it in the mow.
Samples of the hay to be exhibited 3 months after it is cured to a majority of the selectmen, or to the settled minister and justice of the peace in the vicinity.
An ingenious method of propagating CUCUMBERS, for several crops in succession, without sowing them.
As soon as there appear several flower-beds on a plant, bend the second or third joint of a branch below the blossom, fasten it firmly in the ground, and cut off the capillary point of the plant.
NEW INVENTION.
In France, M. Lebrun has invented a new method of preparing hemp and flax, by which he gives these raw materials an appearance perfectly new, and obtains from them a kind of cotton and silk thread.
BRITISH MANUFACTURES.
Last week at the Pontefract Sessions, the Cloth Supervisors delivered in to the Magistrates the account of the number of Broad and Narrow Cloths milled in the West Riding, for the last twelve months of which the following is an exact statement.
The immense quantities of Kerfeymeres and Swandowns, now manufactured, are not included in this statement; nor the cloths manufactured in Lancashire.
[Lond. pap. April 17.]
RICHARDSON'S PATENT STILL.
HAS been advertised some time since in the Argus, with as accurate a description of it, as could be given without plates and figures. It was accompanied with certificates from gentlemen who had seen her work.
JOHN MCAUL.
Richmond, July 18th, 1804.
[E.W.S.W.]
Although the science of Electricity has certainly received many considerable improvements since the days of Dr. Franklin, it does not yet appear to have reached the same certainty and solidity of principle, which distinguishes the other physical sciences.
The weather had been very sultry during the three or four preceding days: the Thermometer standing in the shade at 92, 94 or 96 degrees.
In a small bottom on Shockoe Hill, a tree about 40 feet from the road, was struck in a singular manner. A small stream of lightning appeared to have struck its dry top, and to have descended in a spiral manner, until it reached a small knot about the middle of the tree.
The preceding curious and superficial observations were written solely for the purpose of exciting the curiosity and exercising the ingenuity of the medical students in Richmond.
PYRRHO.
neral imbecility of his name, or from some peculiar quality of the electric fluid.
COMMUNICATION—on the preceding case.
Three different plans were successfully suggested and employed by the physicians who assembled on this occasion: The copious affusion of cold water, bleeding, and friction and warmth.
River, about five hundred miles up the Missouri, and fifteen hundred from the City of Washington. The writer of this communication has received a letter from a friend, giving the following description of these chiefs.
It is now certain that Capt. Lewis has removed all obstacles to his journey; and is proceeding, with twenty one native Americans, who are prepared to meet the difficulties and dangers they must inevitably encounter.
The following Extract is from an Oration delivered at Port Royal on the 4th of July, by JOHN TAYLOR LOMAX.
The moral is analogous to the physical world. We may trample the herbage under our feet; with desolating hand, we may blast the luxuriance and fertility of vegetation; we may raise the lofty forest to the ground; nature by her vivifying impulse soon protrudes her works again to our view, adorned in their pristine splendour and beauty.
If, my fellow citizens, we take a review of the transactions of this revolution, what American heart does not swell with exultation. No bloody sacrifices blot the history of our struggles in the cause of freedom—no victims appear marked out to appease the sanguinary fury of an infuriated mob—no terror rises to appal the imagination—no enormity darkens our bright path to the temple of liberty.
The Editor has received the following information from Mr. Tunstall, the Patentee of the new Threshing Machine. An accurate judge who has seen the machine at Mr. William Mayo's saw-mill, near Richmond, executed upon this model, may probably render a service by communicating the result of his observations to the public.
The parts of the machinery appear to be very simple, yet very comprehensive for the purposes assigned them. In place of a whirl with extended arms, or a large round cylinder, as we have had sometimes in use, an envelope, (having nine sides) or solid body, which is only two feet diameter, and has nine projecting parts, each one inch square, to be covered with sheet iron, is employed.
COMMUNICATION.
The Ojage Indian Chiefs are now in Washington. They were induced by Capt. Lewis to visit the President, whom they term their GREAT FATHER.
TOASTS which are drunk at a National Festival, may perhaps be regarded as a good test of the prevailing politics of a free country. Although the following selection has not been made with this view alone, it will be found to illustrate not only the general spirit of the country, but some of the current sentiments of certain divisions of the Union.
PETERSBURG, (Virg.)
John Page, governor of Virginia—like the state he represents—who early saw the prejudices and errors of nations, and who uniformly advocated the rights of man, upon the sound principles of reason and truth.
DINWIDDIE COUNTY. The people of Ireland—Freemen throughout the world rejoice at their emancipation from tyranny—4 cheers. Gen. Warren—May the sons of Columbia be in like manner conquerors or die in the defence of their liberty.
PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY. The constitution of the United States—Eternal infamy to the man who would sacrifice it to individual aggrandizement.
Our Sifter States—May they judge us by our conduct, not by the aspersions of our foes.
NORFOLK. Samuel Adams, John Hancock and James Madison—a constellation of patriots who lighted us, amidst the convolution of elements to liberty and happiness.
The Commerce of the United States—May her vessels waft our produce from India to the Pole—may her flag triumph o'er the main—and may the despotism which would invade her neutrality, tremble before her Majesty.
The American Navy—May the stars of their ensign enlighten the world, and their stripes humble tyranny.
ALEXANDRIA. The arts and sciences of the East—May they find a perpetual asylum in the free and independent regions of the West.
Paulding, Williams and Vanhook—The Americans who preferred virtue and their country to British bribes and laurels.
PHILADELPHIA. Agriculture, commerce and manufactures, arts and sciences—The pedestal, the shaft, and the Corinthian capital of our country.
The republicans of our country—May their conduct be conciliation and conciliation, their motto union.
The legislature of South Carolina—May the genius of American liberty frown on them with indignation, until they repeal their dangerous and infamous slave act.
The American Press—May they ever find a citadel for the protection and defence of virtue in the arms of Citizen Soldiers.
The aborigines of America—in the great work of civilization—May we trudge more to practice than preaching.
Education—The most important duty we owe to posterity.
The governor of Pennsylvania, his virtues have silenced detractors—May his penetration protect him from lies.
Postscript of a letter from a gentleman in New-York, to his friend in Richmond, dated July 11.
This moment I hear the report of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr having fought. Duel, in which the former was shot through the breast and cannot live an hour.
ANOTHER POSTSCRIPT. The whole town is in indistress. It is but too true.
This day's paper concludes the publication of the laws of the last Session of Congress.
We have received a small additional supply of MADEIRA WINE, of a superior quality, which we offer for sale by the hoghead and quarter-cask.
GIBSON & JEFFERSON, esqrs. July 18.
FOR SALE, THAT beautiful and well improved TENEMENT on the Hill, now occupied by Mrs. Benjamin Mosby.
BARTLETT STILL. [Esqrs.] PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT the President and Common Council of the City of Richmond, will at their next monthly meeting, to be held on the third Monday in August next, proceed to appoint one of their members to act as CAPTAIN of the NIGHT WATCH within the said City, for the term of one year.
ANDREW STEVENSON, CLK. C. H. July 18. cp im
FOR SALE, On liberal terms, by the Subscribers, THE HOUSE and LOT near the River Bank, at present in the occupancy of Mr. John Taylor.
PROSSER & MONCURE. July 18. ep 8
TUNSTALL'S PATENT THRESHING MACHINE. THE advantages to be gained by farmers, by applying some effectual parts to Threshing Machines, which have greater velocity, adequate strength, and greater cheapness than hitherto, and applicable to any machinery, are universally allowed to be very great.
WILLIAM TUNSTALL has obtained a Patent for such improvements; and wishes to benefit the public on the most reasonable terms.
N. B. A Mill Wright and Iron Worker for the respective parts, are wanted—apply as above.
These Machines will hull Clover and thresh Rice, Buck Wheat &c. preferred free from grits—Counterfeits will be dealt with as the law directs. July 18. EW—4f
MUTUAL ASSURANCE OFFICE, RICHMOND, JULY 24, 1804. THE very extraordinary FIRES that have taken place since the institution of the Mutual Insurance against fire on goods and furniture in the State of Virginia, renders it necessary to call a quota from each member who was insured previous to the 28th of February last.
The Board of Directors therefore resolved, and it is hereby required, that each member insured as aforesaid shall pay to the Cashier General of this company in Richmond on or before the first day of October next, one full quota, that is to say, the full amount of premiums as expressed in their respective policies.
A compliance with this requisition will reinstate the funds agreeable to the intention of the law and the rules and regulations of this company, and thereby enable them to pay for losses in future—and where it is considered that many of the members have been insured more than six years for premiums which do not average more than 3 per cent; the advantages of this humane Institution no doubt be properly appreciated.
Punctuality is expected, and when the members of this Company advert to the incorporation act they will see the necessity of a strict compliance with the above requisition.
It is however pleasing to reflect that we have succoured the distresses of so many of our fellow creatures, who might have been reduced to poverty, and had they not insured in this Company they might not have insured at all, while our own property has been at the same time insured for less than half as much as it would have cost had we insured elsewhere, notwithstanding the most extraordinary fires that were ever known before in this State.
BENJAMIN DUVAL, President M. I. C. As each member has been furnished with a Copy of the Constitution Rules and regulation of the Company by referring to which, they will see the incorporation act.

The Editor complies with the promise which he gave in No. 18 of this paper, to make further extracts from Miss Seward's Life of Dr. Darwin. The following sketch from this work comprehends some curious anecdotes of a gentleman, who has made some figure in the literature of England. There is scarcely a school-boy in this country, who is not familiar with at least one of the productions of Thomas Day; the author of the admirable "History of Sanfords Merton." From the heroic energy which is described, and the unpolished morality which is inculcated in many parts of that interesting philosophical Tale, he had formed a high opinion of the moral character of its author; and he is happy to discover that the slight sketch which Miss Seward has given of the man, has amply supported the bold presentiments that had formed from his works. We shall in the following extract perceive him undertaking an extraordinary adventure as any which interests us in the fictitious Tale of a Romance. Frank Henly, consenting to sacrifice his own happiness to the principle of justice, and uniting with his beloved mistress in her exertions to reform his rival, exhibits a character not more singular & astonishing than T. Day, turning with disappointment from the female society to which he had been accustomed, & rejoicing to form a protegee of a foundling hospital, into an accomplished partner of his future days. Men of the world may smile at the attempt, and perhaps cast an undistinguishing ridicule upon the character of its author. The Editor, however, is willing to confess that to him there appears something peculiarly grand & independent in this curious project. Perhaps the scheme itself was wild & romantic. But the independent energy which suggested and carried it through so many difficulties which opposed its execution, commands his admiration. Had this energy conducted schemes of more certain utility, he should have pronounced him worthy of a much more valuable boon than it was afterwards his good fortune to meet with in his accomplished wife.]
After having established a friendship and correspondence with Dr. Darwin. Mr. Edgeworth did not return to Litchfield till the summer of the year 1770. With him, at that period, came the late Mr. Day, of Bear-hill, in Berkshire. These young men had been fellow-students in the university of Oxford. Mr. Day was also attracted by the fame celebrated abilities, which, five years before, had drawn his friend into their sphere. He was then twenty-four, in possession of a clear estate, about twelve hundred pounds per annum.
Mr. Day looked the philosopher. Powder and fine clothes were, at that time the appendages of gentlemen. Mr. Day wore not either. He was tall and stooped in the shoulders, full made, but not corpulent; and in his meditative and melancholy air a degree of awkwardness & dignity were blended. We found his features interesting and agreeable amidst the traces of a severe small-pox. There was a sort of weight upon the lids of his large hazel eyes; yet when he declaimed,
"Of good and evil Passion and apathy, and glory, and flame," very expressive were the energies gleaming from them beneath the shade of sable hair, which, Adam-like, curled about his brows. Less graceful, less amusing, less brilliant than Mr. E. but more highly imaginative, more classical, and a deeper reasoner; strict integrity, energetic friendship, openhanded bounty, sedulous and diffusive charity, greatly overbalanced, on the side of virtue, the tincture of misanthropic gloom and proud contempt of common-life society, that marked the peculiar character, which shall unfold itself on these pages. In succeeding years, Mr. Day published two noble poems, The Dying Negro, and The Devoted Legion; also Sandford and Merton, which by wise parents is put into every youthful hand.
Mr. Day dedicated the third edition of the Dying Negro to Rousseau. That dedication has every force and every grace of eloquence. The sentiments are strongly characteristic of their writer except in the philippic against American resistance just commenced when the address to Rousseau was composed. Generous indignation of the slave trade, practised without remorse in the southern colonies of North America, induced Mr. Day to refuse them all credit for the patriotic virtue of that resistance to new and unconstitutional claims which threatened their liberties.
In the course of the year 1770, Mr. Day stood for a full-length picture to Mr. Wright of Derby. A strong likeness and dignified portrait were the result. Drawn as in the open air, the surrounding sky is tempestuous, lurid, and dark. He stands leaning his left arm against a column inscribed to Hombden. Mr. Day looks upwards, as if meditately meditating on the contents of a book, held in his dropped right hand. The open leaf is the oration of that virtuous patriot in the senate, against the grant of ship-money, demanded by king Charles the first. A flash of lightning plays in Mr. Day's hair, and illuminates the contents of the volume. The poetic fancy, and what were then the politics of the original, appear in the choice of subject & attitude. Dr. Darwin sat to Mr. Wright about the same period. That was a simply contemplative portrait, of the most perfect resemblance.
Even at that period, "when youth, elate and gay, steps into life," Mr. Day was a rigid moralist, who proudly imposed on himself cold abstinence, even from the most innocent pleasures; nor would he allow an action to be virtuous, which was performed upon any hope of reward, here, or hereafter. This severity of principle, more abstract and specious, than natural or useful, rendered Mr. Day sceptical towards revealed religion, though by no means a confirmed deist. Most unlike Doctor Johnson in those doubts, he resembled him in want of sympathy with such miseries as spring from refinement and the softer affections; resembled him also, in true compassion for the sufferings of cold and hunger. To the power of relieving them he nobly sacrificed all the parade of life, and all the pleasures of luxury. For that mass of human character which constitutes polished society, he avowed a sovereign contempt; above all things he expressed aversion to the modern plans of female education, attributing to their influence the fickleness which had stung him. He thought it, however, his duty to marry; nursed romantic ideas of the force of philosophical tuition to produce future virtue, and loved to mould the infant and youthful mind.
Ever despicable in Mr. Day's estimation were the distinctions of birth, and the advantages of wealth; and he had learnt to look back with regret to the allurement of the Graces. He resolved, if possible, that his wife should have a taste for literature and science, for moral and patriotic philosophy. So might he be his companion in that retirement, to which he had destined himself; and assist him in forming the minds of his children to stubborn virtue and high exertion. He resolved also, that the should be simple as a mountain girl, in her dress, her diet, and her manners; fearless and intrepid as the Spartan wives and Roman heroines. There was no finding such a creature ready made; philo-
sophical romance could not hope it. He must mould some infant into the being his fancy had imagined.
With the late Mr. Bicknell, then a barrister, in considerable practice, and of taitless reputation, and several years older than himself, Mr. Day lived on terms of intimate friendship. Credentials were procured of Mr. Day's moral probity, and with them, on his coming of age, these two friends journeyed to Shrewsbury, to explore the hospital in that town for foundling girls. From the little train, Mr. Day, in the presence of Mr. Bicknell, selected two of twelve years each; both beautiful; one fair, with flaxen locks, and light eyes; her he called Lucretia. The other, a clear, auburn brunette, with darker eyes, more glowing bloom, and chevinet tresses, he named Sabrina.
These girls were obtained on written conditions, for the performance of which Mr. Bicknell was guarantee. They were to this effect; that Mr. Day should, within the twelvemonth after taking them, resign one into the protection of some reputable tradeswoman, giving one hundred pounds to bind her apprenticeship; maintaining her, if she behaved well, till the married, or began business for herself. Upon either of these events, he promised to advance four hundred more. He avowed his intention of educating the girl he should retain, with a view to making her his future wife; solemnly engaged never to violate her innocence; and if he should renounce his plan, to maintain her decently in some creditable family till she married, when he promised five hundred pounds as her wedding portion.
Mr. Day went instantly into France with these girls; not taking an English servant, that they might receive no ideas, except those which himself might choose to impart.
They teized and perplexed him; they quarrelled, and fought incessantly; they sickened of the small-pox; they chained him to their bedside by crying, and screaming if they were ever left a moment with any person who could not speak to them in English. He was obliged to sit up with them many nights; to perform for them the lowest offices of attendance.
They lost no beauty by their disease. Soon after they had recovered, crossing the Rhone with his wards in a tempestuous day, the boat overset. Being an excellent swimmer he saved them both, though with difficulty and danger to himself.
Mr. Day came back to England in eight months, heartily glad to separate the little squabblers. Sabrina was become the favourite. He placed the fair Lucretia with a chamber-milliner. She behaved well, and became the wife of a respectable linen-draper in London. On his return to his native country, he intrusted Sabrina to the care of Mr. Bicknell's mother, with whom he resided some months in a country village, while he settled his affairs at his own manor-house, from which he promised not to remove his mother.
It has been said before, that the fame of Dr. Darwin's talents allured Mr. Day to Litchfield. Thither he led, in the spring of the year 1770, the beauteous Sabrina, then thirteen years old, and taking a twelve months' possession of the pleasant mansion in Stowe Valley, resumed his preparations for implanting in her young mind the characteristic virtues of Arria, Portia, and Cornelia. His experiments had not the success he wished and expected. Her spirit could not be armed against the dread of pain, and the appearance of danger. When he dropped melted sealing-wax upon her arms she did not endure it heroically, nor when he fired pistols at her petticoats, which he believed to be charged with balls, could she help starting aside, or suppressing her screams.
When he tried her fidelity in secret-keeping, by telling her of well-invented dangers to himself, in which greater danger would result from its being discovered that he was aware of them, he once or twice detected her having imparted them to the servants, and to her play-fellows.
She betrayed an aversion to the study of books, and of the rudiments of science, which gave little promise of ability, that should, one day, be responsible for the education of youths, who were to emulate the Gracchi.
Mr. Day persisted in these experiments, and sustained their continual disappointment during a year's residence in the vicinity of Litchfield. The difficulty seemed to lie in giving her motive to exertion, self-denial, and heroism. It was against his plan to draw it from the usual sources, pecuniary reward, luxury, ambition, or vanity. His watchful cares had precluded all knowledge of the value of money, the reputation of beauty, and its concomitant desire of ornamented dress. The only inducement, therefore, which this lovely artless girl could have to combat and subdue the natural preference, in youth, to slothfulness, of ease to pain, of vacant sport to the labour of thinking, was the desire of pleasing her protector, though she knew not how, or why he became such. In that desire, fear had greatly the ascendant of affection, and fear is a cold and indolent feeling.
Thus, after a series of fruitless trials, Mr. Day renounced all hope of moulding Sabrina into the being his imagination had formed; and ceasing to behold her as his future wife, he placed her at a boarding school in Sutton-Coldfield, Warwickshire. His trust in the power of education faltered; his aversion to modern elegance subsided. From the time he first lived in the Vale of Stowe, he had daily conversed with the beautiful Miss Honora Sneyd of Litchfield. Without having received a Spartan education, she united a disinterested desire to please, fortitude of spirit, native strength of intellect, literary and scientific taste, to unswerving truth, and to all the graces. She was the very Honora Sneyd, for whom the gallant and unfortunate Major Andre's inextinguishable passion is on poetic, as his military fame and hapless destiny are on patriot, record. Paternal authority having dissolved the juvenile engagements of this distinguished youth and maid, Mr. Day offered to Honora his philosophic band. She admired his talents; he revered his virtues; she tried to school her heart into softer sentiments in his favour. She did not succeed in that attempt, and ingeniously told him so. Her sister, Miss Elizabeth Sneyd, one year younger than herself, was very pretty, very sprightly, very artless, and very engaging, though countenance inferior to the endowed and adorned Honora. To her yet less love-luckless fate transferred the heart, which Honora had with sighs resigned. Elizabeth told Mr. Day she could have loved him, if he had acquired the manners of the world, instead of those austere singularities of air, habit, and address.
He began to impute to them the fickleness of his first love; the involuntary iciness of the charming Honora, as well as for which her sister accounted. He told Elizabeth, that, for her sake, he would renounce his prejudices to external refinements, and try to acquire them. He would go to Paris for a year, and commit himself to dancing and fencing masters. He did so; good daily an hour or two in frames, to screw back his shoulders, and point his feet; he practiced the military gait, the fashionable bow, minuet, and cotillions; but it was too late; habits, so long fixed, could no more than partially be overcome. The endeavour, made at intervals, and by visible effort, was more really ungraceful than the natural stoop, and unfashionable air. The studied bow on entrance, the
suddenly recollected assumption of attitude, prompted the risible instead of the admiring sensation; neither was the showy dress, in which he came back to his fair one, a jot more becoming.
Poor Elizabeth reproached her reluctant but insuppressible ingratitude, upon which all this labour, these sacrifices had been wasted. She confessed, that Thomas Day, blackguard, as he used jeeringly to style himself, less displeased her eye than Thomas Day, fine gentleman.
Thus again disappointed, he resumed his accustomed plainness of garb, and neglect of his person, and went again upon the continent for another year, with pursuits of higher aim, more congenial to his talents and former principles. Returning to England in the year 1773, he saw, that spring, Miss Honora Sneyd united to his friend Mr. Edgeworth, who was become a widower; and, in the year 1780, he learned that his second love of that name, Miss Elizabeth Sneyd was also, after the death of Honora married to Mr. Edgeworth.
It was singular that Mr. Day should thus, in the course of seven years, find himself doubly rivalled by his most intimate friend; but his own previously renounced pursuit of those beautiful young women, left him without either cause or sensation of resentment on their account.
From the year 1773 this hitherto love-renounced philosopher resided chiefly in London, and amid the small and select circle which he frequented there, often met the pretty and elegant Miss Esther Mills of Derbyshire, who, with modern acquirements, and amongst modish luxuries, suited to her large fortune, had cultivated her understanding by books and her virtues by benevolence. The again unpolished stoic had every charm in her eyes.
"She saw Othello's village in his mind."
But from indignant recollection of hopes so repeatedly baffled, Mr. Day looked with distrust on female attention of however flattering semblance; nor was it till after years of her modest, yet tender devotion to his talents and merit, that he deigned to ask Miss Mills, if she could, for his sake, resign all that the world calls pleasures; all its luxuries, all its ostentation. If, with him, she could resolve to employ, after the ordinary comforts of life were supplied, the surplus of her affluent fortune in clothing the naked, and feeding the hungry; retire with him into the country, and shun, though remaining existence, the infectious taint of human society.
Mr. Day's constitutional fault, like poor Cowper's, seemed that of looking with severe and disgusted eyes upon those venial errors in his species which are mutually tolerated by mankind. This stain of misanthropy was extremely deepened by his commerce with the world, retrained as that commerce had ever been. Satiric, jealous, and discerning, it was not easy to deceive him, yet in a few instances, he was deceived by the appearance of virtues congenial to his own:
"For neither man, nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invincible, except to God alone."
To proposals so formidable, so sure to be rejected by a heart less than infinitely attached, Miss Mills gladly assented; but something more remained. Mr. Day insisted, that her whole fortune should be settled upon herself, totally out of his present or future control: that if she grew tired of a system of life so likely to weary a woman of the world, she might return to that world any hour she chose, fully empowered to resume its habits, and its pleasures.
They married, and retired into the country about the year 1780, according to the best recollection of the author of these memoirs. No carriage; no appointed servant about Mrs. Day's own person, no luxury of any sort. Music, in which she was a distinguished proficient, was deemed trivial.
She banished her harpsichord & music-books. Frequent experiments upon her temper, and her attachment, were made by him, whom she lived but to obey and love. Over these she often wept, but never repined. No wife, bound in the strictest fetters, as to the incapacity of claiming separate maintenance, ever made more absolute sacrifices to the most imperious husband, than did this lady, whose independence had been secured, and of whom nothing was demanded as a duty.
Thus Mr. Day found, at last, amid the very class he dreaded, that of fashionable women, a heart whose passion for him supplied all the requisites of his high-toned expectations.
Some eight or ten years after his marriage, the life of this singular being became, in its meridian, a victim to one of his uncommon fancies. He thought highly of the gratitude, generosity, and sensibility of horses; and that whenever they were disobedient, unruly, or vicious, it was owing to previous ill-usage from men. He had reared, fed, and tamed a favourite foal. When it was time it should become serviceable, declining to employ a horse-breaker, he would use it to the bit and the burden himself. He was not a good horseman. The animal disliking his new situation, heeded not the soothing voice to which he had been accustomed. He plunged, threw his master, and then, with his heels, struck him on the head an instantly fatal blow. It was said that Mrs. Day never afterwards saw the fun; that the lay in bed, into the curtains of which no light was admitted during the day, and only rove to stray alone through her garden, when night gave her sorrows congenial gloom. She survived this adored husband two years, and then died broken-hearted, for his loss.
He began to impute to them the fickleness of his first love; the involuntary iciness of the charming Honora, as well as for which her sister accounted. He told Elizabeth, that, for her sake, he would renounce his prejudices to external refinements, and try to acquire them. He would go to Paris for a year, and commit himself to dancing and fencing masters. He did so; good daily an hour or two in frames, to screw back his shoulders, and point his feet; he practiced the military gait, the fashionable bow, minuet, and cotillions; but it was too late; habits, so long fixed, could no more than partially be overcome. The endeavour, made at intervals, and by visible effort, was more really ungraceful than the natural stoop, and unfashionable air. The studied bow on entrance, the
mity with the provisions which were by law in force, previous to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN BROWN, President of the Senate pro tempore. February 25th, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT Continuing for a limited time the Salaries of the Officers of Government therein mentioned. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the last day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, the following annual compensations, and no other, be, and they are hereby granted to the officers herein enumerated, respectively, that is to say: To the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars; The Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars; The Secretary of War, four thousand five hundred dollars; The Secretary of the Navy, four thousand five hundred dollars; The Attorney General, three thousand dollars; The Comptroller of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars; The Treasurer, three thousand dollars; The Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars; The Register of the Treasury, three thousand four hundred dollars; The Accountant of the War Department, two thousand dollars; The Accountant of the Navy Department, two thousand dollars; The Postmaster-General, three thousand dollars; and The Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand seven hundred dollars—which sums shall be respectively paid quarterly, at the Treasury of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force for three years, and from thence until the end of the next session of Congress thereafter, and no longer.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN BROWN, President of the Senate, pro tempore. February 20, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT An act Supplementary to an act, intitled "An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia." BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act intitled "An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington, in the district of Columbia, except so much of the same as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby continued in force for and during the term of fifteen years from the end of the next session of congress." Sec. 2. And be it further enacted That the council of the city of Washington, from and after the period for which the members of the present council have been elected, shall consist of two chambers, each of which shall be composed of nine members, to be chosen by distinct ballots, according to the directions of the act to which this is a supplement; a majority of each chamber, shall constitute a quorum to do business: In case vacancies shall occur in the council, the chamber in which the same may happen shall supply the same by an election, by ballot from the three persons next highest on the list, to those elected at the preceding election; and a majority of the whole number of the chamber in which such vacancy may happen, shall be necessary to make an election. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the council shall have power to establish and regulate the inspection of flour, tobacco and salted provisions, the gauging of casks and liquors, the storage of gunpowder, and all naval and military stores, not the property of the United States, to regulate the weight and quality of bread; to tax and licence hawkers and pedlars, to restrain or prohibit tipping houses, lotteries, and all kinds of gaming; to superintend the health of the city, to preserve the navigation of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers, adjoining the city; to erect, repair and regulate public wharves, and to deepen docks and basins—to provide for the establishment and superintendence of public schools; to licence and regulate, exclusively, hackney coaches, ordinary keepers, retailers and ferrymen—to provide for the appointment of inspectors, constables, and such other officers as may be necessary to execute the laws of the corporation; and to give such compensation to the mayor or the city as they may deem fit.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the levy court of the county of Washington shall not hereafter possess the power of imposing any tax on the inhabitants of the city of Washington.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN BROWN, President of the Senate pro tempore. February 24, 1804. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
SPRING GOODS. WILLIAM TEMPLE HAS just received, by the ship Rebecca from London, and Yorkshire from Liverpool, AN ASSORTMENT OF GOODS, Suitable to the season, which he will dispose of on the usual terms. Richmond, May 9th, 1804. (1)
NOTICE. THE office of Supervisor of the Revenue for the District of Virginia being discontinued, and the unfinished business of the said Office transferred to me; the Collectors of the Direct Tax and Internal Revenue, whose accounts have not been finally adjusted and paid, are hereby informed, that they are now requested to call at my office, in the city of Richmond, without delay, and pay the balances due to the United States. And those whose lands have been sold in the district of Virginia by authority of an act of Congress of the United States for non-payment of the Direct Tax, may redeem such lands, by paying to me within the time limited, the principal costs and fees as the law directs. As most of the abovenmentioned lands were sold in Dec. 1802, the privilege of redemption will continue until December next. The money received by me for the redemption of the said lands, will be returned to the purchaser, with interest at the rate of 25 per cent per annum on the purchase money, to the day on which it may be paid to me. JOSEPH SCOTT, Marshal V. D. July 7. ep-tf
NEGROES FOR SALE. I WILL sell for cash, or on a short credit, a likely young FELLOW, who is a good crop Negroe; and a young WOMAN about 18, who is an excellent house servant, well acquainted with and fond of the management of children, and a good seamstress. THOMAS RICHARDSON. Goldmine, Hanover, July 11. 1w.
WILL BE SOLD, To the highest bidder, in Charles City county, on September Court Day, THAT well known TRACT OF LAND, called the INDIAN FIELDS; containing between eight and nine hundred acres, pleasantly situated on a main road leading through the county. The situation is so generally known and admired, that a minute description would be superfluous. Presuming that any person who wishes to purchase, will previously view the land, I shall only observe, that the houses are all in good order, having lately gone through a thorough repair; and the small proportion of land in cultivation, proves it to be very valuable and productive; the soil being admirably adapted to the culture of Corn and small grain.—Any person wishing to view the land will call on Mr. Royster who lives on the place.—The terms of sale will be made known on the day of sale. WILLIAM EDWARDS. Surry County, July 7. ep-1m
DOCTOR WILSON, HAS taken (as a temporary residence) the house lately occupied by Doctor Adams, opposite the Bell Tavern, and intends to combine the APOTHECARIES BUSINESS with the PRACTICE OF PHYSIC. He is now opening a part, and expects to receive by the next arrivals from Philadelphia, the balance of a fresh and very general supply of MEDICINES, and other articles in the Apothecaries Line, which will be sold on the lowest terms. Orders from the country, Recipes, &c. will be carefully attended to. June 27. [eWsm]
WALTER POTTER, BOOKBINDER & STATIONER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND, THANKFUL for the encouragement he has received since commencing business, hopes by his strict attention, and faithful execution of all orders, which he may be favoured with, to merit a further continuance of Patronage. He has lately received a fresh supply of STATIONARY, and has now on hand a large assortment of BLANK & RULED BOOKS. Merchants accompt BOOKS, ruled to any pattern, and BOOK-BINDING in its various branches, executed with neatness, accuracy and dispatch. June 27. [eWsm]
CAROLINE SPRINGS. THE subscriber intends to open a TAVERN at the Caroline Springs, on the first day of June next; and hopes, from the pleasant and healthy situation, exclusive of the Medicinal qualities of the waters, that it will be a place of general resort. The Springs are situated about 56 miles from Richmond, 18 from Port-Royal, 12 from the Bowling-Green, and 14 from Fredericksburg. The roads leading to them are remarkably good... they are surrounded by an agreeable and respectable neighbourhood. There are out-houses for the accommodation of those who wish to live separate from the Tavern. The subscriber flatters herself, that these inducements will not only operate on invalids, who, in the sickly season, attend the Springs for the sake of having their health restored, but will also be felt by those whose only object is the enjoyment of company, as it may be safely said the society will be equal to any in the country. No exertion will be wanting to make every thing perfectly agreeable. ANN GATEWOOD. Fredericksburg, May 19. 31/2/2.
Virginia. At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, 14th of September, 1803—
Between Mary Ruffin, executrix, and Herbert Claiborne, James Ruffin and William Ruffin, executors of Robert Ruffin deceased, and the said James Ruffin, Robert Ruffin and Sterling Ruffin, protesting in their own rights. Plaintiffs. And William Clack, and James Cargill Jones, and Richard Jones, infants by Charles Binns Jones, their guardian. Defendants. IN this cause, abated as to the plaintiffs, Mary Ruffin and James Ruffin, by their deaths, and heard on the bill, answers, exhibits, and examinations of witnesses, and argued by counsel, the fourteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three, the court directed one of the commissioners to state and report the credits, to which the defendants are, if to any they be, intitled, exclusive of the paper money tendered, and justly rejected in November, of the year one thousand seven hundred eighty one, towards discharging the debt, for securing payment of which, the mortgage proposed to be foreclosed, was granted.
A Copy—Teste, P. TINSLEY. May 25th, 1804. (awm) (1)
On the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, John Jones is assigned guardian to the infant defendants, to defend them in this suit, in place of Charles Binns Jones, who is dead. A Copy. P. TINSLEY. COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, Richmond, May 26th, 1804. THE parties concerned are desired to take Notice, That I have appointed Wednesday the twenty-fifth day of July next, for carrying into effect the within decree; upon which day their attendance is required at my office, with their papers and accounts, ready for examination. WM. HAY, M. C.
The following Six Hogsheads of TOBACCO, now lying in Dymers's Ware House, will be sold according to Law: 1800, January 10th—Judith Kelly, marked I. K. No. 5, Gross 1111, Tare 114, Nett 997. 1801, January 9th, do. do. No. 10, Gross 1190, Tare 113, Nett 1077—January 23, William Diggs, marked W. D. No. 17, Gross 1165, Tare 120, Nett 1045—Do. John Brent, marked L. B. No. 21, Gross 1038, Tare 137, Nett 946—January 30, George Brent, marked G. B. No. 25, Gross 1179, Tare 146, Nett 1033. March 13, Spencer George, marked S. G. No. 43, Gross 1052, Tare 106, Nett 946. THOMAS HURST, } Inspectors. WM. MEREDITH. } May 19. 1aw3m.
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND, MAKES BOOTS and SHOES to any Pattern or Fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use. Imported BOOTS and SHOES, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. June 30. (ep6m)
Printing, IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE of the ENQUIRER.