The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-10-07 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE.....AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.....(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 45.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1806.
[VOLUME 3.]
VIRGINIA BANK STOCK.....at par.
Richmond Prices Current
   Dolls. Cts.     Tobacco, 6   Wheat, New, 1   Flour—superfine, New, 6 50   fine, 6   Corn Meal—per bushel, 1   Bacon—per lb. 12   Bar Iron—per ton, 120   Whiskey—per gallon, 58  
Sales at Auction.
To be sold at public Auction on Saturday the 1st of November next.  THAT valuable HOUSE and LOT whereon Moses Davis now resides opposite to Mr. John Taylor's—The Lot is 66 feet in front and an hundred and fifty back—The House has an elegant store room, counting-room, and cellar, and is well calculated for a store. There is also on the lot a good kitchen, tobacco factory, lumber-house, stable, carriage house, a good spring, and a garden well enclosed. Terms will be made known on day of sale.  PROSSER and MONCURE, v. m'rs. September 16. epitLN.
NOTICE.
To the creditors of Daniel and Wm. Guerrant.  THAT the Trustees of said D. and W. Guerrant, will on Friday the 3rd day of October next, meet at the house formerly occupied by them as a store in this place, in order to make a second dividend of MONEY (to subscribing creditors), collected under said trust.  The non-subscribing creditors are particularly requested to attend on that day.  By order of the Trustees, Wm. GUERRANT.
N. B. A few dry Goods will be offered at vendue, on the day and at the place above mentioned, belonging to the late concern of D. and W. Guerrant.  W. G. New-Canton, September 19. oaw3w.
DOCTOR WILSON
HAS just received at his shop, opposite the stores of Messrs. John and Robert Gamble, and Mr. Neil McCoull; a general assortment of MEDICINES. He offers them for sale, on lower terms than they can be procured at any other house in Richmond. He has on hand, a variety of Pain-killers, Varnishes and Oils. Also, Spirits of Turpentine, and Turpentine Varnish by the barrel, at unusually low prices.  Sept. 12. (cotf).
LAND FOR SALE.
THE Subscriber wishes to sell three different tracts of LAND, in Hanover County, the one whereon he now lives, containing about 450 acres, on Crump's Creek, about four miles above Hanover Town, formerly known by the name of the Glebe, being the former residence of Parson Henry. On this tract is a large Brick Dwelling-house two stories high, with four rooms on each floor, and at a small expense might be made a handsome situation for a genteel family. Another tract on the same creek, about one mile from the former tract, containing about 700 acres, in good order for farming, and at a small expense, about 30 or 40 acres of excellent meadow land might be reclaimed. The other tract contains about 300 acres, about two-thirds of which is in woods, and no part has been in cultivation for some time, lies in about thirteen or fourteen miles of Richmond, nearly adjoining the road leading from that place to Hanover Town. For all or either of the above tracts of Land, I should wish to receive one third of the money in hand, and the balance in two annual instalments. A good bargain may be had, especially in the two last mentioned tracts.  LANEY JONES. September 23. oaw4w.
TO RENT.
THE TENEMENT formerly occupied by Messrs. James and Alexander Dunlap and lately by Wm. T. Stone, at the west end of the Market bridge and adjoining the house in which an extensive Vendue Store is about to be established. If more agreeable, I would sell, on reasonable terms, a lease of about seven and an half years in the said tenement.  WILLIAM M'KIM. August 1. cotf.
FALL GOODS.
THE Subscribers respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they are receiving from London, Liverpool, and different ports of Holland & France, an extensive and very general assortment of MERCHANDIZE, adapted to the approaching season, which they will sell by the bale, package or piece on the lowest terms for cash, country produce or approved notes.  Those goods being carefully selected by one of the partners who went to Europe for the purpose, they flatter themselves will give general satisfaction; and that country Merchants and others will find it their interest to get their supply from them.  They have for rent, three Brick HOUSES covered with slate, lying on the street leading to Mayo's Bridge, opposite Messrs. Brown, Rives, & Co. Those Houses will be fitted up, at the shortest notice, for stores, if required.  JOHN & ROBERT GAMBLE, Jr.
Robert Gamble, senior, continues to do business in the line of a commission merchant.  September 16. oaw2m.
FOR SALE.
On Wednesday the tenth day of December next, at the plantation of the late Edward P. Chamberlayne, in the county of Cumberland.
ALL the STOCK thereon, consisting of Horses, Horned Cattle, hogs, and sheep, together with the crops of corn, fodder, shucks, &c. and also, the plantation Utensils, for which a credit of twelve months from the day of sale, will be given on all sums above 20 dollars, on the purchaser giving bond with good security, bearing interest from the date, if not punctually paid—Also may be leased for ten years, or any shorter period, not less than three, at any time between this & then, the said plantation, containing 383 acres of excellent qualified LAND, in order for cultivation, with a large crop of wheat now feeding, the most liberal terms for what is called an improving lease, may be had by applying to Mr. William Cooke very near thereon, or  W. B. CHAMBERLAYNE, Adm'r. Henrico, September 20. (oaw4tf)
FOR SALE OR RENT.
MY HOUSE and LOT in the Town of Columbia, the House is very large, quite new and entirely finished—application must be made to  J. WILLS. N. B. Possession will be given in November next. Cassan, Pluvanna, September 28. oaw3w.
United States Court, fifth circuit, and Virginia District. May term 1806.
Patrick Corran, against, Samuel Perkins executor of the last will of Martha Corran dec'd. John Shore and James S. Gilliam, and Edwin Daingerfield, Bathurst Daingerfield, Theoderick Bland Daingerfield, Henry Daingerfield, Samuel Moseley & Hannah B. Moseley, Edwin Starke, Daingerfield Starke, Bolling Starke, Robert Starke, Nancy Starke, William Newsum and Mary his wife, William Allen, John Edloe and Nancy his wife, Miles Selden Jr. and Patty his wife, William Allen Harrison and Carter Harrison Jr. infant children of Carter Harrison and his late wife Polly, heirs at law of Martha Corran deceased, and Peter Robinson. Defs.
IT appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that Bathurst Daingerfield & Henry Daingerfield are not inhabitants of this District, on the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney—It is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the plaintiff's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the news-papers published in the City of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Capitol in the said City.
A Copy. Teste. WILLIAM MARSHALL, c. l. c. September 9. co2m.
IN CHANCERY.
Louisiana County, August Court, 1806. Richard Johnson administrator of Richard Johnson (m. s.) dec'd. against, John Cocks and John Michie, Defs.
THE defendant John Cocks, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state; therefore on the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney—It is ordered and decreed by the court, that the said defendant Cocks, do appear here on the second Monday in November next, and answer the plaintiff's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the public news papers printed in the City of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of the Court-House of this County, on some Court day.
A Copy. Teste, JOHN POINDEXTER, c. l. c. September 9. co2m.
WHEREAS that portion of the funds, of the Mutual Assurance Society against fire on Buildings of the State of Virginia, which belongs to the Country, is inadequate to the payment of the losses by fire, which have actually occurred, and which are exclusively chargeable on the Country funds, whence, as arises the indispensable necessity, of calling for the payment of part of a quota, from the persons who have insured in the country, which requisition ought properly to be limited to those members who had insured prior to the happening of the great fire in Norfolk, on the 24th of February 1804, by which fire the joint-funds of the Society were nearly exhausted.  And whereas common principles of justice obviously require, that the part of a quota to be called for, should place all the members (new and old subscribers) of the country part of the said Society on an equal footing, which can only be done by requiring from those who had insured before the said 24th of February 1804, such part of a quota or quotas, as being added to the amount of the country funds, at the date of the division of the joint funds between the towns & the country would make a sum equal, or nearly equal, to the aggregate of the premiums originally paid, by those who had insured anterior to the 24th of February 1804.  And whereas the Board of Directors of the said Society, have accordingly deemed it necessary and just, in conformity to a statement and estimate prepared & to them submitted by the principal Agent, to demand from each member who had insured a building or buildings in the country, prior to the 24th day of February 1804, part of a quota or quotas, equal to two-thirds of a premium or premiums originally advanced by such member, to be paid on or before the 10th day of December next.
I do now therefore in pursuance of a resolution adopted by the said Board of Directors, hereby make known to all persons whom it may concern, that the said requisition of two-thirds of a quota, on each building insured in the country as aforesaid, before the said 24th day of February 1804, to be paid on or before the 10th day of December next, has been made for the causes aforesaid, by virtue of the authority vested in the President and Directors, by an act of the General Assembly, entitled, "An act for carrying into execution the constitution of the Mutual Assurance Society against fire on buildings of the State of Virginia, lately adopted at a general meeting," and by the rules and regulations of the said Society.—And I do further hereby, in pursuance also of the resolution aforesaid, notify to all persons concerned, That every insurance on which the said two-thirds of a quota shall be payable, under the foregoing requisition, will be forfeited, unless payment thereof, that is, of a sum equal to two-thirds of the premium mentioned in the policy, be made on or before the said 10th day of December next; and such insurance will remain forfeited, until the payment of two-thirds of a quota is withheld and interest thereon, shall afterwards be either voluntarily made, or coerced in the mode prescribed by law.
ALEX: MCRAE, President M. A. S. General Office of Assurance, } Richmond, 12th Sept. 1806. law4w
TO BE RENTED.
THE large THREE STORY HOUSE on the Main-Street east of the Market, formerly occupied by Cohen and Isaacs, and lately by Capt. John S. Pleasants; it is a good stand for business and suitable for the accommodation of a large family.  Also, the HOUSE (formerly known by the sign of the third in hand) at the corner of the street leading to church hill: to both of these tenements gardens are attached. The terms will be moderate, and made known on application to James Whitelaw, sergeant of the City, or to  JACOB I. COHEN. (law tf)
February 25. oaw3w.
ADVERTISEMENT.
CAME to my plantation in the upper end of King William, about the middle of July, a dark brown gelding Mule, supposed to be two years old last spring, without mark or brand that can be perceived, about four feet high—appraised to forty dollars, he had on a yoke and a leather collar. The owner is requested to take him away and pay the expense of advertising and posting.
CHARLES C. PAGE. September 23. oaw3w.
TO RENT.
THE TENEMENT, which Mrs. Phebe lately occupied on the street leading by the Governor's, consisting of a large cellar, a room used as a kitchen, a very well fixed store, a cooking room, a drawing and bed room, and three sleeping and a lumber room in the garret; immediate possession may be had. Enquire of William Z. A. A.  August 29. (tf)
At a meeting of the Directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, held at Edward Hallam's tavern in the city of Richmond, on Tuesday the 29th of July, 1806.
RESOLVED, That five dollars be paid on each share held by the Stock-holders in the said company to Nathaniel Sheppard their treasurer on or before the first day of September next.
Resolved That propositions be received from any persons inclined to undertake the work on the Turnpike until the first day of October next, and that the same be filed in writing with the clerk of the Company by the persons making such propositions.
An extract from the minutes. N. SHEPPARD, Clerk.
N. B. I have been directed by the president and directors, to request the persons making propositions for undertaking the abovementioned road, to make their statements in such a way, as to give the amount upon a supposition, that the road is from forty to one hundred feet wide: and also, to inform them, that the time for receiving proposals, is postponed till the first day of November next.
N. SHEPPARD, Clerk. (tf)
September 9. 3,000 wt. SALT PETER'D BACON, 1,000 wt. first quality N. ENGLAND CHEESE, 10 gross BOITLED CYDER, A few buthels CLOVER SEED, 150 pieces PAPER HANGINGS. For Sale by EDWARD HALLAM.
Constantly for Hire—An Excellent Carriage and Horses—apply as above. May 27. cotf
TAKEN up and committed to Jail on the 10th of May 1806, a negro man by the name of HARRY, the property of John Reifler, Esq. of Richmond; the owner is hereby requested to come forward and pay charges, or he will be sold to satisfy his jail fees, agreeably to an act of Assembly. Given under my hand this 20th day July 1806. TRIPLETT T. ESTES, jailer. Sept. 16. 3m. Augusta County.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RANAWAY, or conveyed by some person from the subscriber, living in the county of Granville, state of North-Carolina; a young negro fellow named OBA; he is between twenty and five and twenty years of age, has a thin visage, dark complexion and is tolerably well spoken, has a lump on the back part of his neck, a small knot above his left hand crooked. The said negro had on when he went off a pair of cotton trowsers, round short coat napped with black wool and cotton, wove-plain; took with him two pair of buff calimere breeches, two waist coats one of white, the other of grey cloth, a pair of ribbed woolen stockings and a double breasted grey broad cloth coat.
All persons, particularly masters of vessels, are forewarned from harbouring the said negro. Any person giving intelligence or will secure the negro so that I get him, or will bring him to me, shall receive the above reward of ten dollars with all necessary charges.
RICHARD WOOD. September 12. 1m.
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, Aug. 1.
The archduke Charles is indefatigable in his endeavors to increase the numbers, and improve the discipline of the Austrian army. A new system of exercise has been established, the grand feature in which, and a most important one it is, is simplicity. To render the attainment of perfect discipline compatible with the ease and comfort of the soldier, seems to be the object of the general instructions which have been issued to the army on this occasion. It will not be the fault of this brave Prince, if his countrymen shall not be able, at some future period, to contend with the mortal enemies of his house, under better auspices than they have lately fought.
The furniture of a superb state bed was lately worked in China, and intended as a present to the Spanish Prince of Peace. The ship in which it was sent to its illustrious owner having been captured by a British vessel, this magnificent piece of furniture was purchased by Mr. Goldsmid, who has since presented it to the Prince of Wales. The ground-work is of the most beautiful yellow satin. The counterpane represents the Empress of China seated in state, giving audience to a number of Figures which are most exquisitely delineated in the costume of the country.—Mr. Goldsmid had been extremely delighted with so appropriate a present, has ordered it to be placed in the state bed chamber of his Chinese Pavilion at Brighton.
ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, July 29.
The following letter from Rear-Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, addressed to Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, has been forwarded to the Admiralty in his Lordship's letter of the 2d inst.
POMPEE, at Anchor, off Scilia, May 24.
MY LORD—I arrived at Palermo in the Pompee on the 21st of last month, and took on me the command of the squadron your Lordship had done me the honor to place under my orders.—I found things in the state that may be well imagined on the Government being displaced from its capital, with the loss of one of the two kingdoms, and the dispersion of the army assembled in Calabria. The judicious arrangement made by Capt. Sotherton of the ships under his orders, and the position of the British army under Sir John Stuart, at Messina, had, however, prevented farther mischief.
I had the satisfaction of learning that Gaea still held out, although as yet without succour, from a mistaken idea, much too prevalent, that the progress of the French armies is irresistible. It was my first care to see that the necessary supplies should be safely conveyed to the Governor. I had the inexpressible satisfaction of conveying the most essential articles to Gaeta, and of communicating to his Serene Highness the Governor (on the Breach Battery, which he never quits,) the assurance of farther support to any extent within my power, for the maintenance of that important fortress, hitherto so long preserved by his intrepidity and example. Things wore a new aspect immediately on the arrival of the ammunition: the redoubled fire of the Enemy with red-hot shot into the Mole (being answered with redoubled vigour) did not prevent the landing of every thing we had brought, together with four of the Excellent's
lower deck guns, to answer this galling fire, which bore directly on the landing place.
A second convoy, with the Intrepid, placed the garrison beyond the immediate want of any thing essential, and the enemy, from advancing his nearest approaches within 250 yards, was reduced to the defensive in a degree, dreading one of those sorties which the Prince of Hesse had already shown him his garrison was equal to, and which was become a much safer operation, now that the flanking fire of eight Neapolitan gun-boats, I had brought with me, in addition to four his highness had already used successfully, would cover it, even to the rear of the enemy's trenches. Arrangements were put in train for this purpose, and, according to a wife suggestion of his Serene Highness, measures were taken for the embarkation of a small party from the garrison to land in the rear of the Enemy's batteries to the northward.
I confided the execution of the naval part of this arrangement to Capt. Richardson, of his majesty's ship Juno, putting the Neapolitan frigate and gun-boats under his orders.—His European highness possessing the experience of European warfare, and a most firm mind, having no occasion for farther aid on the spot, I felt I should quit the garrison without apprehension for its safety in such hands, with the present means of defence, and that I could best co-operate with him by drawing some of the attacking force off for the defence of Naples. I accordingly proceeded thither with the line of battle-ships named in the margin. The enemy's apprehension of attack occasioned him to convey some of the battering train from the trenches before Gaeta to Naples. The city was illuminated on account of Joseph Bonaparte proclaiming himself King of the Two Sicilies! The junction of the Eagle made us five full of the line, and it would have been easy for their fire to have interrupted this ceremony and show of fealty; but I considered that the unfortunate inhabitants had evil enough on them; that the restoration of the capital to its lawful Sovereign and its fugitive inhabitants would be no gratification, if it should be found a heap of ruins, ashes and bones; and that, as I had no force to land and keep order, in case of the French army retiring to the fortress, I should leave an opulent city a prey to the licentious part of the community, who would not fail to profit by the confusion the flames would occasion: not a gun was fired; but no such consideration operated in my mind to prevent me from dislodging the French garrison from the island of Capri, which, from its situation, protecting the coasting communication southward, was a great object for the enemy to keep, and by so much one for me to wrest from him. I accordingly summoned the French Commandant to surrender: on his non-acquiescence (see the annexed correspondence) I directed Capt. Rowley, in his Majesty's ship Eagle, to cover the landing of marines and boats crews, and caused an attack to be made under his orders. That brave officer placed his ship judiciously, nor did he open his fire till he was secured, and his distance marked by the effect of musketry upon his quarter-deck, where the First Lieutenant, James Crawley, fell wounded, and a seaman was killed: although Capt. Rowley regretted much the services of that meritorious Officer in such a critical moment, he has since recovered.
An hour's fire from both decks of the Eagle (between nine and ten o'clock, with that of a Neapolitan mortar boats under an active Officer, Lieutenant Rivera, drove the enemy from the vineyards within their walls; the marines were landed, and gallantly led by Captain Bunce; the seaman in like manner, under Lieutenant Morrell of the Eagle; and Lieutenant Redding, of the Pompee, mounted the steps; for such was their road headed by the Officers, nearer to the narrow pass by which alone they could ascend. Lieutenant Carroll had thus an opportunity of particularly distinguishing himself. Captain Stannus, commanding the Athenienne's marines, gallantly pressing forward gained the heights, and the French Commandant fell by his hand; this event being known, the enemy beat a parley, a letter from the second in command claimed the terms offered, but being dated on the 12th, after midnight, some difficulty occurred, my limitation as to time being precise: but on the assurance that the drum beat before twelve, the capitulation annexed was signed, and the garrison allowed to march out and pass over to Naples with every honor of war, after the interment of their former brave commander with due respect. We thus became masters of this important post. The enemy not having been allowed time to bring two pieces of heavy cannon, with their ammunition, to Capri, the boat containing them, together with a boat loaded with timber for the construction of gun-boats at Castellamare, took refuge at Maffa, on the main land opposite to the island, where the guard had hauled the whole upon the beach. I detached the two mortar-boats and a Gaeta privateer, under the orders of Lieutenants Filverne and Rivera, to bring them off, sending only Mr. Williams, Midshipman of the Pompee, from the squadron, on purpose to let the Neapolitans have the credit of the action, which they fairly obtained; for, after dislodging the enemy from a strong tower, they not only brought off the boats and two thirty-five pounders, but the powder (30 barrels) from the magazine of the tower, before the enemy assembled in force.
The projected sorties took place on the 12th and 15th, in the morning, in a manner to reflect the highest credit on the part of the garrison and naval force employed. The covering fire from a fleet was judiciously directed by Captains Richardson and Vicuna, whose conduct on this whole service merits my warmest approbation. I enclose captain Richardson's two letters, as best detailing these affairs, and a list of the killed and wounded on the 12th.
On the 12th ult. the boats of the Pompee, under Lieutenant Beauvois, brought out a merchant vessel from Scavita, near Salerno, although protected by a heavy fire of musketry. That officer and Mr. Sterling distinguished themselves much. The enemy are endeavoring to establish a land-carriage there to Naples.
On the 23d, obtaining intelligence that the enemy had two 36 pounders in a small vessel on the beach at Scilia; I sent the Pompee's boats in for them; but the French troops were too well posted in the houses of the town for them to force without, the cover of the ship. Accordingly flood in with the Pompee; sent a message to the inhabitants to withdraw, which being done, a few of the Pompee's lower deck guns cleared the town and neighboring hills, while the launch, commanded by Lieutenant Mousayian, with Lieut. Oats, of the
Marines, and Mr. Williams, drove the French, with their armed adherents, from the guns, and took possession of the castle, and of them. Finding on my landing, that the town was tenable against any force the enemy could bring against me from the nearest garrison in a given time, I took post with the Marines; and, under cover of their position, by the extreme exertions of Lieutenant Carroll, Mr. Ives, Mather, and the petty officers and boats crew, the guns were conveyed to the Pompee, with 22 barrels of powder.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) W. SIDNEY SMITH.
On board his Majesty's ship La Pompee, May 11th, 1806.
Sir, Before I make a regular attack, which must necessarily reduce an infatuated and irregular fortress without works, I have thought proper, according to the custom of war, to summon you to evacuate the post which you occupy. If you refuse, I inform you that you will be forced to yield upon terms more or less favourable, according to the degree of force and time which you may oblige me to employ to reduce you to this extremity; thus, Sir, you see that the terms of the surrender of the post, depends upon yourself to-day.
In the hope of an answer, which will spare blood on both sides, I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) W. SIDNEY SMITH. To the Commandant of the French troops at Capri.
The Commandant at Capri to Rear Admiral Sir Sidney Smith.
Capri, May 11, 1806. I received, Sir, your letter, dated this day, and for answer, I have to observe to you, that a true soldier does not surrender till he has tried his force with that which attacks him. You are, Sir, too good and brave a soldier to blame me if I do not accept your polite invitation. I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) CHERVET, Capt. 101st Reg.
Capt. L'Etang, commanding the French troops, to Sir Sidney Smith, Rear-Admiral of the English Squadron.
ISLAND OF CAPRI, May 12, 1806. Good fortune having favored you, together with the advantages you had in landing, oblige me to make the following proposal:
To give up to you the town of Capri, and all the Island, referring to myself, for my honor, and that of the troops I command, the liberty of returning to Naples, with arms and baggage, at the time which it shall please you to grant me. I expect this generosity from your hands to avoid bloodshed on both sides; in default of which I shall be obliged to continue till extinction.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) L'ETANG.
Pompee, Excellent, Athenienne, Intrepid.
HAGUE, July 20.
Extract from a Royal Decree, dated July 16. "We, Louis Napoleon, &c. considering that it is of the utmost importance that the public debt should be respected, and of course that the annual expenditure of the state should be regulated by the yearly income:
"Considering, that the income for the present year cannot be estimated beyond the sum total of fifty millions; and that the same, even by the adoption of the means recommended by our Message of the 14th, most probably cannot be augmented beyond 55 millions: That, in the interim, 35 millions will be requisite for the payment of the interest of the public debt, and that, of course, only the annual sum of 20 millions will remain disposable for the use of the State; consequently the expenditure for the last six months of the present year, if no extraordinary circumstances should prevent it, the expenditure of the State will be regulated according to its income; it cannot be denied, that in spite of all the reductions which have already been, and shall yet be made in the departments of the war and marine; and notwithstanding every effort for introducing the strictest economy in every branch of the public expenditure has been adopted, it is, nevertheless, impossible to reduce it during the last six months of the present year to the aforesaid amount of ten millions. We have, therefore, decreed and do decree,
"1st, That the expenditure for the last six months of the present year, shall be regulated as follows:— The Civil List 750,000:00 The Government 600,000:00 The Ministry of Marine 1,858,900:00 The Ministry of the Finances 1,500,000:00 The Ministry of the Interior 175,000:00 The Director-General of Justice and the Police 3,000,000:00 The Director-General of War 6,000,000:00 The Director-General of Commerce and the Colonies 175,000:00 Total 14,088,000:00
"Given at Our Palace in the Wood, July 16, 1806, and of Our Reign the First. "LOUIS."
PARIS, July 22.
On the 21st inst. the Minister of the Interior wrote the following letter to Marshal Kellermann:—
"Sir—In conformity to your desire, I have informed his Majesty of the monument which the Society, of which you are a Member, designed to erect to him. The emperor was touched with this proof of the attachment of a number of estimable citizens, among whom he has with pleasure seen you, Sir, who are equally distinguished by your rank, and the services which you have rendered. But the principles of his Majesty do not permit him to accept an offer of this sort, though dictated by a sentiment, as free, as pure, of love, admiration and gratitude. This homage of his subjects, the emperor wishes to merit by his whole life. He will never consent, therefore, that during his life-time, monuments should be erected to him by individuals. It is from posterity, that he awaits this honorable recompence of so many labours. After his death the French may acknowledge, by an homage, the design of which cannot be disputed, the good which he shall have done to the nation which he governed, and whose prosperity and glory, the cont...

fect of his meditations and his watchings, are also the only objects of the ambition of his whole life.
"In transmitting to you these wishes of his Majesty, which I entreat you to communicate to your fellow-subscribers, I join, Sir, my regret to yours, on a decision to contrary to our wishes, and I beg you to accept the assurance of my high consideration."
(Signed) "CHAMPAGNY." N. B. A similar determination has been adopted relative to the project of a pillar, formed by M. Poyet, the Architect, and for which a great number of considerable subscriptions had already been made. This has been notified to the subscribers by the Minister of the Interior.
The Minister of the Interior has announced that races of horses and chariots are to form a part of the triumphal fetes of the victorious armies. According to the dispositions made for that purpose, two prizes are assigned to the winners in the horse races; the first of 2400, the second of 1500 francs. The riders must be French, and the horses bred in France. The prizes for which the chariots are to run are, first, a gold medal worth 5000 francs, and secondly, a silver one worth 1800. The riders and drivers must enter their names before the 31st inst. Not more than two horses are to be allowed to the contending carriages.
NEW-YORK, Sept. 29. The ship Otis, captain Crocker, arrived at this port last evening in 60 days from London. She left Deal on the 9th of August, and brings London papers to the 7th. From the "Sun," of that date, with which the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser has been favoured, the following articles are copied. They are silent as to the progress of the negotiation for peace; but captain Crocker and some of his passengers inform us that such an event was talked of in London as likely to take place in a very short time.
LONDON, August 7. Price of Stocks this day at 12 o'clock, Consols 65 1-8—Omnium 11 1-4. We received this morning, New-York papers to the 14th July. We are sorry to find that every effort is still used to inflame the public mind in America against this country. We have extracted an article respecting the behaviour of an officer of the Cambrian to the crew of an American ship, [the Kentucky of Baltimore] not because we give the slightest credit to the statement, but as a specimen of the intemperate and indecent language which disgraces the American papers.
Two Gottenburgh mails arrived this morning. The following is the only article of intelligence they contain:—GOTTENBURGH, July 28. Yesterday arrived a Russian courier in 9 days from St. Petersburg, with dispatches for the Russian minister in London, and for the English government, he will take his passage in the packet that fails to-day. The Russian army, it appears, are all in cantonments, ready to be called forth at an hour's warning. A large body of troops is upon the Polish frontier.
The French frigate Le Rhin, of 44 guns, has shared the fate of La Guerriere: a telegraphic dispatch was yesterday received at the admiralty, stating that she had arrived at Plymouth, a prize to the Mars, capt. Oliver.
Yesterday the signal was made for the expedition at Spithead to get under way; but the wind coming round to the westward, it was soon after annulled. The vessels that failed from the Downs have also been obliged to put back in consequence of the wind changing.
Mr. Fox, according to the report of this day, had submitted to the operation of tapping.—It is said that four gallons of water were drawn off, and that he felt considerable relief. Earl Moira attends at Mr. Fox's office, and transacts business for him.
It is reported, that at the grand fete now preparing at Paris, or when a general peace is proclaimed, Bonaparte intends to announce his nomination of several hundreds of his subjects to be Dukes, Marquises, Counts, and Barons. Among these will be some of the ancient French nobility. Among the members of his family he has also resolved to revive the titles of Duke of Orleans, Princes of Conde and Conti, &c.
[London paper, July 22.]
The Wickham Revenue cruiser, which had been ordered out to cruise for an American ship, that was to carry off passengers from Ireland to America, without licence, and contrary to the act of parliament, had the good fortune to fall in with her, in company with the Ross, on the 5th instant and carried her safe into Newry. She is a fine ship, of nearly 400 tons burthen, and will be a good prize; as it is said the Irish government are determined to put the law in force against her. She had on board 118 persons.
PEACE.—The probability of this important event is strengthened from the circumstance of the news having been sent from Paris to Cadiz By EXPRESS.
We have seen a letter of the 13th of August, from Cadiz, from one of the first houses there.—This letter says "Last Sunday the agreeable news of Peace between England, France, &c. reached us—signed at Paris on the 30th ult. N.Y. Gaz."
Capt. Star, who arrived at Boston the 24th inst. from Rotterdam, informs, that he spoke on the 18th inst. the ship Enterprize, 28 days from London, the capt. of which reported to him, that Mr. Fox was so dangerously indisposed, as to create a belief that he would not survive many days; that being made sensible of the danger of his situation, he had expressed, as the strongest desire of his heart, to live long enough to bequeath to his country a Peace with France. If the dates of this intelligence be true, our previous accounts from England invalidate that part of it which relates to the extreme danger of Mr. Fox's illness.—his real sentiments of Peace are not satisfactorily explained, as yet.
BOSTON, September 26. From Spain—Capt. Shattuck, arrived the 24th inst. from Cadiz, in 40 days, informs, that previous to his sailing, news was received from Madrid, by express to the Chamber of Commerce, that peace was signed between France and England, on the 31st July; and that for two days after leaving port, he distinctly heard the firing of cannon, and other rejoicing in consequence, he presumes of this news.
There were 16 sail of the line lying at Cadiz (French and Spanish) ready for sea. Our advices from France and England, which are to the 7th August, show that there must be some mistake in this report, as they completely destroy its validity. Capt. Shattuck further informs us, that a rumour prevailed for some time, of Peace being concluded between Spain and England; but at his departure had entirely subsided. There were no rumours respecting the posture of the American negotiation with Spain. The frigate Constitution had been at Cadiz, but not being admitted to practice, had failed for Lisbon, as was supposed. N.Y. Gaz.
Domestic Intelligence.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THOUGHTS on the subject of Naval Power in the U. S. of America; and on certain means of encouraging and protecting their Commerce and manufactures.
No. III.
The inconveniences, which the commerce of the U. States sustains are considered here as very numerous, and the injuries are deemed neither few nor small. We are excluded, for example, from the largest part of the dominions of a foreign power, whom we do not shut out of any of our ports. We are subject, in their colonies, to an alien tax, in effect, for selling our own produce, though of prime necessity to the foreign country; while merchants of the same country can freely dispose of all its natural productions and manufactured commodities and all other goods, not only in our old states, but even in our purchased territories and colonial settlements; though, at the same time, we are excluded from the equal carriage of our own produce, and from the regular participation in the transportation of their produce and manufactures from their acquired territories and colonial settlements. If short occasional relaxations are produced by extreme necessity, they are subject to great inconveniences by their unexpected occurrence and transitory existence, while our foreign competitors are liberally allowed a constant enjoyment of all the branches of our foreign trade. Far more favor is extended by us to the produce of their fisheries, than is shown by them to the produce of ours. They exclude all of our manufactures and much of our produce, yet we allow the importation of every thing they grow or make. They prevent our employment of foreign seamen, beyond a certain extent, in our voyages to all their ports, apparently to check our ship building and navigation, while we impose no such unwarrantable restraint upon their vessels or crews. They obtain a footing on the decks of our vessels by "the right of search" for enemies' property and military enemies, and pervert it to impress the seamen necessary for the voyage, though they are lawfully engaged under written contracts, expressly prescribed by our national legislature. A similar conduct in our officers would render them liable to exemplary punishment and heavy damages. They subject our detained vessels, produce, and supplies to unjust and exorbitant charges and ruinous delays, in their ports and in their courts of admiralty, which we cannot nor will reciprocate. They have set up, for many years, principles of blockade totally unknown to the law of nations, destructive of our commerce, deeply injurious to the sales of our crops and exports, and inconsistent with our neutral rights and national independence, the reciprocation of which would subject our officers to damages and punishment. They attempt to prescribe laws for us upon the free ocean, the highway of nations, at the express pleasure of their own executive authority, destroying at will our whole commerce with enemies' colonies, enemies' home dominions, and neutral ports, rivers, and states, though they violate those laws in their own conduct, proclamations, and treaties touching the same or like places, in the time of war. For these evils, and for several others of a like nature, war—demoralizing, impious, frantic and expensive war—is said to be the regular cure. But it is far worse than the disease, and the U. States are happily aware, that, besides war, there is another and a better remedy—the cultivation of the arts of peace, under the direction of the national legislature. Sincerely disclaiming all enmity to the belligerent powers of Europe, we are firmly bent on fair neutrality and honorable peace. It is our earnest desire that our situation and views should be thoroughly understood and well considered at this most awful & unprecedented crisis. Those who apprehend from the U. States intentional injury to themselves will, we trust, be agreeably disappointed; and those who expect from us an acquiescence in real injustice from any foreign country to ourselves, will certainly be mistaken. Our policy, though uncommon in Europe, is clear and found, as we believe. If our situation should compel the reluctant expenditure of twelve precious extra millions, for example, let them not be unwisely lavished in the prosecution of a naval war, by which we may not gain, but let that immense sum be levied, by the calm operation of statute law, on the produce and manufactures of our spoilers, and applied under the direction of our government, to the indemnification of our mercantile and marine sufferers, and to the cordial support of our manufacturing industry. Even in our unwilling but necessary resort to such measures, we shall not be at all influenced by the desire of doing to the foreign nation any harm, but by a fair and right disposition to do good to ourselves. We refrain from hostilities; and as already mentioned, we restrict, prohibit, and duty their navigation and trade much less than they restrict and duty ours. We of course observe the most amicable conduct. Immediately before Divine Providence ordained the separation between Great-Britain and America, the laws and system of the empire were the common property of both countries. The U. States did not incline, at the beginning, to maintain "the navigation act" and the commercial and manufacturing regulations with that strict adherence to their monopolizing spirit, which seemed most advisable to the British kingdoms. Yet we did not consider, even then peculiar and unaltered rigor as a war by them upon us, nor can reasonable and just men now perceive the semblance of war against G. Britain in our later and calm recurrence to the commercial regimen of our ancient and common empire. We adopt the system as the precedent means of prosperity, and as a peaceful measure of subsistence and defence. It is possible that we not even now approve of all the regulations to encourage our navigation, manufactures, and commerce which existed in our joint Anglo American system before 1776, but if we adopt the whole, and thus return to them even all the regulations and prohibitions they have long meted to us, we should not thereby act with any hostility to them, nor even more partially to our interests than they have constantly acted favorably to their own. Let them remove their restrictions, and obey reason under the law of nations, and we will remove our restrictions with cordial satisfaction. We earnestly desire peace and good will with all nations, and with none more sincerely than with them; but they ought to remember, and we shall doubtless consider, that we are not commanded to love even our worthless neighbors better than ourselves. Though it was intended, in this publication, merely to treat of the dangers, obstacles, and expenses of great naval power, and to show that there are safer and cheaper means of protecting commerce, yet it may be proper and useful briefly to notice some connected subject. It is
a matter of just and great astonishment, that an ardent English pamphleteer against our commercial rights has ventured to justify all the measures against neutral trade, which England has taken, and almost all the may yet adopt, by the sweeping and unwarranted assertion, that the neutral states having first submissively allowed the enemies of Britain to encroach on their commercial rights, Britain has, by natural reason, and the law of nations, a claim to exercise similar encroachments! We are sorry to remark, that English aggression upon neutral rights has been so long and variously continued, that her friends have forgotten the commencement, and the most important incidents. We shall therefore endeavor to assist their recollections. It will be found, by recurrence to the British state papers and annual registers, that in the year 1756, while England was at peace with all the world, she began this injurious work by detaining neutrals, as well as sea as in her own ports, laden for France with provisions, with her own bale goods, and with neutral produce and manufactures; and that as this monstrous act was against the law of nations, numerous treaties, and her own municipal laws, the British ministry of that day were obliged to shelter themselves under an act of indemnity. They continued this lawless and injurious conduct till the French declaration of war in Feb. 1756, setting, in time of peace, an evil and unprecedented example to all nations, and to future times. The British government formed separate and successive conventions with Russia, Spain, Prussia, and Austria, "to stop and compel all neutral ships bound to or freighted for France, either to fail back or enter some neutral port." It will be observed, therefore, that before the present allies of France violated, in 1805 and 6, the neutral rights in conjunction with her in the rage of war, England had led them into such deliberate violations in the calm of peace in 1756, and in war in 1756, in conjunction with herself. If Prussia is in these bad practices now, England, it seems, taught them to her many years ago, and took pains to draw Denmark and Holland into the same illegitimate conduct. Neutral vessels were unlawfully detained and taken, in numerous instances, by G. B. and her friends, avowedly to injure the general trade, and disturb the interior peace of France by the awful miseries of famine. We might observe, incidentally, that the dismemberment of France and even dictating a form of government to her were explicit objects of the treaties of Piltzitz and Pavia, and of the British ministry of October, 1756. These are the very outrages of which England now complains against France. We leave to themselves the settlement of thote mutual complaints, which they however ought to adjust before we embark in a war on the side of either. It is not remembered, that the English government thought it proper to wage war with Russia, Austria, or Prussia for their partition of Poland, or for their late repartition of the German empire, under the name of "indemnities," in which operation all these powers partook. Nor did the elector of Hanover ever depart from a "submissive" neutrality.—Why, then, should America plunge into the abyss of an awful and unprecedented war, which she abhors, for reasons which have not heretofore moved the elector and king to war in Hanover or England?
* Our merchants, supercargoes and trading captains are forbid to sell at all, but they do the business in the name of a British colonial merchant, paying a commission which is the tax.
But to return to neutral rights. In January, 1756, the Prussians, then acting with England, drove from the Hanse towns all the French agents, who were buying provisions for France, as they now drive away the dealers in English goods. In this England supported Prussia, by stopping ships bound from the Hanse towns to France. In the month of June, 1756, England issued her famous executive order for destroying all the neutral trade with France, without even pretending to act on the principle of blockade, or to be forced by necessity. The language of the treaty with Russia, &c. on which lord Grenville avowed to Mr. T. Pinckney, that those June orders were founded, was this: "To unite all the efforts of England and Russia to prevent all other powers not implicated in this war (neutrals) from giving, directly or indirectly any protection whatever, in consequence of their neutrality, to the commerce of France, upon the seas or in their ports."
In the same year, 1756, it was declared, by Prussia and Austria, then allies of England, that the ordinary benefits of neutral intercourse with France, was not to be allowed; and the British minister at Genoa proclaimed, that to be neutral (to preserve the peace of our own nation) was to be an accomplice with France. In the case of Tuscany, things were carried so far by Great-Britain, that her minister, Lord Hervey, made known by letter to the Tuscan prime minister, that the continuance of his royal master's neutrality (his country's peace) would depend upon the opinions of the powers combined with England against France, including Prussia, of whom the English writers now bitterly complain for violating the neutrality of the Hanseatic towns. Lord Hervey addressed a public letter to the minister of Russia in Tuscany, declaring that the neutrality of Tuscany was incompatible with the designs and interest of Europe, and would be guided by them in a manner more suitable to their war plans.
On the 6th of November, 1756, the English government made a secret order of the king and council, and sent it (without notice to any neutral minister) to all their ships of war, ordering the seizure of all neutral vessels having on board the produce of the French colonies, or provisions, dry goods, or other supplies for those colonies. A cargo of A. fish, I. corn, lumber, French produce and manufactures, and other articles, could always be carried from our ports to the French colonies, and molasses, rum, &c. could always in peace, be brought back. Here our own neutral produce, our own neutral property, in our own neutral ships, in an established peace trade under the well known arrest of August, 1754, procured by President Jefferson, was cut up without the least ceremony or notice, by a palpable usurpation of the legislation of the ocean, at the pleasure of the British crown. Yet England, after this unfortunate precedent, thinks we should make war on France and Prussia, for shutting her goods out of Hamburg.
Though Mr. Jay was sent to Great-Britain, in 1794, to effectuate a treaty which should maintain harmony, the British order of council of June, 1793, was renewed in 1795, as soon as it was supposed, in England, that the treaty was ratified: so little decorum, so little justice, was observed towards this great neutral customer of England!
In April, 1797, to punish Spain merely for being at war with England, or rather to aggravate her misfortunes in not being able, with England, and Germany, and Russia, and Italy, & Portugal on her side, to defend herself against France, a proclamation, in palpable violation of
† The writer of war in disguise, 2d part, of May, 1806; called observations on Mr. Randolph's Speech, p. 14.
the law of nations, was published by admiral Nelson, in which all neutral commerce with Spain was forbidden. The plea of necessity was not set up. It was thought sufficient to announce that England had "found it right that Spain should no longer have any trade." Our neutral manufactures and our neutral crops were thus unlawfully shut out of Spain by the friendly navy of England. Yet we are to fight the whole continent of Europe for refusing British goods.
With these and many other evidences of early, and unremitted, and excessive English violations of neutral rights and commerce, and even of English laws before our eyes, it is impossible for the government or people of the United States to assent to the pretention, that our alleged sufferance of later and letter wrongs from the enemies of England, entitle her to claim of our neutrality an indulgence in the numerous and excessive injuries of the current season. With a calm and reasonable firmness, therefore, we recur to the recommendation of a continuance of the peaceable and legitimate protections and indemnifications for our property, commerce, and sufferings, which the legislative power in Nicholson's law, has begun to administer, and of such of those which are respectfully suggested for consideration in this publication. There is yet another and a far better course which the present British government hold at their own command—the infusion of American moderation into the old Anglo-American system of commercial monopoly, and frank justice under the law of nations. It cannot be doubted by any reflecting man, that the recited injuries to our neutral rights give us large claims upon the magnanimity of England, and justify temporary distinctions against her. They have touched American sensibility to the quick, and deeply affected our interests. The perversions of the principles of search and blockade, the violation of mariners' and passengers' contracts, and the legalized extortions in the admiralty business, with the palpable assumption of the right to bind us on the ocean, in all cases whatsoever, by executive orders, have laid a foreign axe to the root of the tree of our prosperity. Nor navigation, nor trade, nor vents for our crops, nor sales for our surplus imports, nor safety to our mariners will abide our submission to these doctrines, to these practices, to this new system of annoying her enemy and monopolizing commerce, adopted by G. B. and the changing circle of her friends. If she persists with her executive orders, and other injuries, the road which our respected government has already entered lies open before our eyes. It is the path of virtuous peace, for we are not wont to seek even justice by the sword. Protection to the industrious, and indemnification to the suffering, at the expense of the injuring, is our will, our moral, and our religious plan.
† The following articles of intelligence prove that Great-Britain still continues her monstrous attempts to force independent neutral states into fatal wars and treaties by her naval power.
Constantinople, May 8, 1806.
"Mr. Arbuthnot, the English ambassador, has had a fresh conference with the Reis Effendi, (or Turkish secretary of state) at which he emphatically declared, that if the Porte (or Turkish government) did not within a few days, come to a determination to renew its treaties with England, an English squadron would certainly make its appearance in the Levant, as any further refusal must be considered as a rupture between the two powers."
The Turkish government simply replied, that it was resolved to maintain the neutrality which it had hitherto observed. These excessive measures of a naval power are calculated to work an abrogation of those precious rules in the law of nations, which have hitherto secured industrious, peaceful, and honest communities from the expences, miseries, and crimes of war.
From the New-York Commercial Advertiser.
The following article was originally published in the Farmer's Monitor, at Herkimer, in the county of Herkimer. The information contained in it, if correct, is certainly deeply interesting to our country. It should at least rouse the vigilance of government.
Whether Col. Burr, as is conjectured in this article, has enlisted partisans for the accomplishment of his projects, in the northern part of this state, we know not. But that he has formed, and that he is now employed in executing, a scheme, highly injurious to the interest, the tranquility, and the welfare of the U. S. we have the strongest ground to believe.
Col. Burr may flatter himself that his plots are covered with an impenetrable shield—he may imagine that a knowledge of his connexions and intrigues, in Philadelphia a few weeks since, with certain Spanish women and Spanish men is confined to themselves; he may, however, be informed that sufficient is known to others to discover that his "busy mind is still plotting mischief;" sufficient is known to open the eyes of the government and the country, and to place them on their guard.
From information recently received, we have been induced to believe that powerful efforts will soon be made to fever the western states from the Union, connect them with Louisiana, and form the whole into a distinct empire with Col. Burr at its head. Whether, if these treasonable efforts should succeed, the new empire will be independent, or a Viceroyalty of Bonaparte, time only will develop.
Important Communication!—By a gentleman of undoubted veracity, who resides in Onondaga county, the writer of this, was three days since informed, that COMFORT TYLER, Esq. formerly clerk of that county, had just left that place on secret business, in a manner that at once excited curiosity and suspicion.
Mr. Tyler shortly before this went to New-York; his circumstances were known to be embarrassed, he was there arrested for a considerable debt; when he came home again his appearance was entirely new and strange; he was dressed and equipped in the most superb manner, with a waiter to attend him; his debt on which he was arrested in N. Y. has been paid off by some unknown hand, and he now has money in abundance in his possession. He said he was engaged in a secret enterprise, but at the same time declared that the object of it was not against government. He has engaged several young men of talents and address to follow after and meet him at Pittsburgh; they are to be dressed and equipped in the same superb style with himself. He has not, it is said, disclosed to them the object of the enterprise; but has promised that when they become acquainted with the scheme it they should at any time within six months afterwards recind from the undertaking, they shall be amply compensated for their time and their expenses borne home again.
The informant further added, that it was conjectured in Onondaga, that the object was either to get possession of the Yazoo lands, or an extensively preconcerted plan to effect a dismemberment of the union, with col. Burr at the head of the combination.
Does not every circumstance with which we are acquainted induce us to concur in the latter opinion? Is it not known that col. Burr has been travelling through every part of that coun-
try? What is his object there? Are his own pecuniary circumstances equal to the expense of this, if the object be merely a tour of pleasure? Have not symptoms of disaffection to the union been constantly manifested from Kentucky and Tennessee? And is it not also known that the inhabitants of the other territories there are dissatisfied under the forms of government established over them? If the object be to get possession of the Yazoo lands, farmers, and not gentlemen of talents and address, would be wanted: but if a dismemberment of the union be contemplated, then the first step would be to draw as many gentlemen of the above description as possible from the other parts of the union, to assist in the measure by their united influence and address. Many such are to be found, who are needy, unprincipled and ready at all times to embark in any desperate enterprise that holds out a prospect of accumulating a fortune. If this be the object, it is to be hoped that government will be vigilant, and ready to crush with a strong arm any attempt at such a nefarious measure.
New-Hampshire Election.
In the late election for members of Congress in this state, the Republican Ticket has prevailed by a great majority, although the meetings were in general, but thinly attended.
The following is a correct statement of the number of votes (exclusive of the scattering) that each candidate received—as taken from the records of the Secretary of the State.
   Republican. Federal.     Storer, 5695 Tenney, 2625   Durell, 5123 Betton, 2825   Smith, 5773 Thompson, 2233   Gardner, 5577 Ellis, 5626   Carlton, 5695 Hough, 2575  
BALTIMORE, September 27.
Captain Wheeler from Laguna reports, that Miranda had effected a landing at Coro, but evacuated the place on the arrival of troops from Caraccas to oppose him. The expedition created no concern in the provinces. One hundred and twenty French troops arrived on the 4th from Guadaloupe.
NEW-YORK, September 30.
Capt. Gold, from Porto-Rico, informs, that news had reached there from the Main, that General Miranda, with 600 men, had landed in the Gulph of Coro, and was immediately joined by 10,000 well disciplined men, and it was expected he would soon over-run the country. This news was received by a Danin Schooner, and was believed. Capt. G. (who believes the news) says Miranda landed about the 25th of August. The news was received at Porto-Rico on the 8th of September.
A letter from Porto-Rico, dated Sept. 2, says, "We learn that Lord Miranda has landed at Coro, and that ten thousand of the inhabitants have joined him—if so, (says the letter) the Spaniards are dishe'd."
[Our readers will compare this with the other Miranda-news, and make their own comments.] Gazette.
Captain Slocum, of the sloop Semiramis, from Charleston informs, that on Sunday the 21st inst. off the Capes of Virginia, he fell in with Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron, consisting of the following ships, viz. Boudroyant, Courageux, Namur, Ramillies, Fame, Hero, and Amazon frigate.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of respectability at Antigua, dated Aug. 23d, 1806.
"My last respects was dated the 20th, mentioning my arrival, and as a court of admiralty was held yesterday, I have an opportunity of informing you of a trial which took place, and the novelty of the case, with the final issue in this place, strikes particularly at the trade among these islands, and I am fearful the merchants and underwriters in the United States will suffer materially. The case is the brig Triton, Prestons master, which vessel sailed from Portugal with a cargo of lumber and provisions, arrived at Barbados, and sold such part of the cargo as was permitted by the custom-house to be landed, and cash, with bills of exchange, received in payment; the vessel proceeded with the remainder of the cargo to Vaccarin in Martinique, where it was disposed of, and molasses and sugar taken in return, and sugar and coffee purchased with the bills and cash received at Barbados; the vessel was returning to Portland when taken and brought to this island. A claim was given in by the master on behalf of himself and Thomas Merrell, both natives of America, for the vessel and cargo. The attestation to support the claim, stated very fairly all the circumstances relating to the voyage. The captors proceeded against the vessel and cargo solely on the ground of such voyage being illegal, inasmuch as it was not permitted by the instructions issued at the commencement of the war to his majesty's cruisers, that neutrals were only allowed to trade directly between the enemy and their own country, that such a trade as the vessel was engaged in, was of the most injurious consequences to Great-Britain and ought not to be tolerated, that the illegality consisted in receiving money and bills at Barbados and trading with them to Martinique. For the claimants it was contended, that his majesty's ministers in allowing a direct trade between the colonies of the enemy and the neutral countries to which the vessels might belong, never could have entertained an idea that such a trade as the Triton was engaged in, would be deemed illegal—the judge was of opinion that the act of selling part of the cargo at a British Island and the remainder at a French island was a circuitous and indirect trade, and not being within the letter of the instructions made the voyage illegal. He therefore condemned the whole property to engaged."
A letter from our correspondent at New-York states, that in the ship Columbus, Captain Clifton, arrived there on Thursday from Cadiz, came passenger, an officer belonging to a Spanish regiment of dragoons, who informs, that his regiment was embarked and would sail the first opportunity for Louisiana, which country his government intended to resume.
Poulton's American Daily Ad.
Jamaica Fleet—Captain Knight, of the brig Speedwell, which arrived at Newburyport on Sunday the 10th of September, lat. 36, 36, long. 62, 47, homeward bound Jamaica fleet, which originally consisted of 140 sail, under convoy of three frigates and one brig, there were only 43 sail left, 9 were ascertained to have been lost, with all their crews, and it was supposed the greater part of the other 88 must have shared the same fate. One of the frigates, captain Dalhwood, who commanded the convoy, had put into Bermuda (with the loss of her masts) for repairs.
The cargoes of those saved were all more or less damaged.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29. The Two Brothers, having the Tunisian Minister on board, has put into Marblehead; the Minister being indisposed.
BALTIMORE, September 29. Extract of a letter, dated Nachitoches, 11th August, 1806.
"An opportunity serving to Port Adams, I take advantage of it to make known to you the present state of things here. In my last I informed you of 600 Spanish horsemen which had arrived at Bayou Pierre, they have been since reinforced by between 3 and 400 more, and have extended their line within 50 miles of this post. A few days since Major Porter went out to hold a conference with the Spanish commander, whom he met 50 miles from hence; the result of the conference we can only judge from the effects, for no offensive measures have followed; though duty is performed with the same strictness, and no relaxation whatever in our measures of precaution. Indeed our troops are, though comparatively few, in excellent spirit, and anxious to be led against the Spaniards; if they were obliged to engage, I feel no apprehensions about the result, for though they are very numerous, they possess neither the same discipline nor the intrepidity that we do; love of our country is not a passion of theirs, and they come with very evident signs of reluctance, and if an excuse offered, would be very glad to go back again. Two Americans who were taken at Bayou Pierre, when the Spaniards arrived there, attempted to escape, one of them, of the name of Watkins, has succeeded, the other failed in the attempt."
"There are reports of the Spaniards having overtaken and obliged captain Freeman's party to return back; but this I do not credit."
OHIO. CINCINNATI, Sept. 2. Just as our paper was going to press, we were informed by a gentleman of respectability, that captain Sparks with a number of men, was taken by a party of Spaniards, and that colonel Cushing, from Nachitoches, had been dispatched after them.
WASHINGTON, October 1. Extract of a letter from major Claiborne, private secretary of governor Claiborne, dated New Orleans, Aug. 29, 1806.
"It is now within a few minutes of the time when letters must go to the post-office. I have waited to give you some information from Nachitoches, in case any should arrive; but no dispatches are received from governor Claiborne, nor do we hear any thing more of the governor of Texas and his nine hundred men."
"The city of New Orleans is in perfect tranquillity; and the inhabitants thereof, and of the country continue to enjoy entire good health. The summer has been mild, and the rains frequent and refreshing." Nat. Int.
Extract of a letter from St. Stephens, Miss. Ter. dated August 30.
"The Spaniards have just passed an order allowing us to navigate the Mobile river. But we are still, as I understand it, to pay 12 per centum on all our exports and on all our imports, and to go ten miles out of our way to Mobile, in order to do this. It was paid on provisions for the troops, just come up. And yet I know it will be trumpeted over the U. S. by persons residing in the Spanish dominions, that all difficulties are removed by Spain, and that we have now a free trade. We are happy in the belief that the government of the U. S. will make us befriended." Ib.
NEW-ORLEANS, August 29. Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Fort Adams, to his friend in this City, dated August 25.
"As to our war-like affairs on the Red River, nothing has transpired since my last. Governor Claiborne, and his adjutant general are gone to Nachitoches, captain Lockwood and Hains, left this to-day for that post, and col. Kingbury with the troops will follow to-morrow, our militia are mustered and under drill."
NOTICE. WHEREAS, in consequence of the death of Rob. Burton, the partnership of Brown, Rives & Co. and of the different branches of that House, at Norfolk, Caira, Creek Bend, Lynchburg, New-Market, Warrenton and Milton, will terminate, agreeable to the several articles of copartnership, at various periods, between the first day of August last, and the first day of January next. This is to give notice to all persons interested, that the business of each establishment will be closed immediately after the time limited for its expiration.
JAMES BROWN, ROBERT RIVES, Surviving partners of Brown, Rives & Co. The business carried on by Brown, Rives & Co. will be continued by the subscribers, under the firm of Brown and Rives, and the Store at Caira, &c. furnished with their usual supplies. JAMES BROWN, ROBERT RIVES, Richmond, October 7. 4w.
SPORTS OF THE TURF. Will be run for over the Aylett's ware-house course, (in King William), on Thursday the 23rd instant,
A SUBSCRIPTION PURSE, two mile heats, free for any horse, mare or gelding that never won a Purse or Sweep-Stake: entrance 20 dollars. On the second day, a Sweep Stake for colts three years old, one mile heats, free colts entered and the subscription closed. FRANCIS NEALE, October 7. oaw3w.
NOTICE is hereby given, that one of the Houses, intended for the education of youth, in the New Glasgow Academy, is now in such forwardness as will be fit for the reception of students in a few weeks. The Trustees of the said institution, therefore, propose to commence a public school about the first day of November next, ensuing; and in the mean time, to engage some gentleman of talents and capacity, in the line of a teacher of the Latin and Greek languages, and such branches of the Mathematics & philosophy as are usually taught in Schools. It is presumed none will apply but those distinguished for their ability in this line & of established uprightness and virtue. The Trustees, with to be particular in this respect, from personal knowledge, or well attested communication; and it is hoped and expected, that the pecuniary emoluments and other inducements in this institution, will be such as to warrant & justify a well grounded belief that the prospects of a Tutor, and President well fitted for the duties of such a station, will be amply gratified in the commencement & further progress of this infant seminary of learning. For further particulars, application will be made to William S. Crawford, Esquire, near the premises. It is also further notified, that decent and comfortable board, very convenient to the buildings, can be procured for the accommodation of students upon moderate terms. THE TRUSTEES. October 7. 4w.
FOR SALE. A YOUNG and active House SERVANT. Enquire at this office. October 7. 4w.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 7th OCTOBER.
PRINCIPLES AND NOT MEN.
The Aurora has not been "sufficiently explicit," in its remarks upon the interrogatories of the Enquirer. The Enquirer did not "wish to know whether the Aurora had any partialities or prejudices in relation to a future choice of President;" but what were its sentiments respecting "the interesting transactions of the last Congress." The precise question which it propounded was, "why has not the enlightened Editor of that paper, explicitly deliver" its own opinions, respecting the conduct of the republican minority and of the administration."—On this great topic, the Aurora has not advanced a single remark in the comments to which we refer.
"In relation to a future choice of President," the sentiments of the Aurora were not explicitly, nor in the most distant degree insinuated. For it is one of those topics, on which every unsophisticated republican should decide, & publish with the most cautious circumspection. Why? Because the decision may involve anecdotes and occurrences, which are yet in the womb of time, and on the promulgation of those opinions may depend the very union, harmony, and strength of the republican party.
There is time enough before them to decide upon the candidate to be supported; and it would therefore be a premature experiment to nominate the candidate, whom we would at present prefer, or to disseminate any remarks which would provoke an investigation into this deeply interesting question. Let this case avoid the public papers, until time and circumstances shall imperiously call it out of the bosom of politics; but let not this interval be idly or unprofitably spent. Let the free investigations be set on foot into the private characters and political views, of every man who may have pretensions to the executive chair; so that when the moment of deciding may arrive, we may have collected all the necessary materials for making a selection, honourable to ourselves, and useful to our country. But let this investigation be conducted in a private, not in a newspaper form; in the contracted circles of social intercourse, and not in those public channels of communication, through which every miserable editor or every anonymous scribbler may hurl his firebrand into the midst of society.—Let this truth be written in letters of gold upon the memory of the republicans, that even now, the federal papers are eagerly crouching for this expected harvest of republican broils. Let us disappointed these delusive dreams of fickle ambition. Let us hope that on the great question of nominating a candidate for the presidency, some expedient may be found for reconciling, and uniting every conflicting interest; & that when they approach this momentous measure, all the real republicans of our country will march together in one firm Macedonian phalanx. But should any difference of opinion be yet found to exist, let us resolve to put off the period of schism and of dissolution as long as possible.
But if these reasons extend to the republican party throughout the union, there are others which apply with equal force to the republicans of Virginia. It is a truth that two out of the three Presidents, who have already filled the executive chair, have been selected from Virginia; that at the expiration of Mr. Jefferson's present term, 16 out of the 20 years will have been administered by her sons. It is a fact equally certain, that many of the most distinguished republicans of the other states, have once more listened to the idea of selecting their next candidate from Virginia. What then is her disposition at such a delicate crisis? It is such as, we will venture to avow, will do no discredit to her own established character or to the great republican principles which she has supported.
Virginia is proud of her two sons, who have been named as candidates for the presidential chair. She deems them both virtuous and able men; both apparently fitted for the high office, to which they have been named. But she has no ambition at war with the interests of her country. She cares not whether the president be named James Madison or James Monroe, provided he be the man most eminently qualified for his station.—She will even go a step farther. She would prefer to see a president selected from any of the other states, if he were equally well qualified with the worthies her sons. She is satisfied with the worthies her sons which she has already enjoyed; rather than provoke the ungrounded jealousies of her sister states, she would leave the following harvest to be reaped by them. Is it necessary then to say, that Virginia will not be the first to nominate one of her own sons to the vacant chair? That she devolves the choice of a proper candidate upon the other republicans of the Union; resolved to support the man whom they would prefer, but referring to herself the right of impartially investigating his merits?—It is necessary then to say, that the Enquirer would have been, among the very last papers in the union, to have nominated a candidate to the presidential chair; or to have provoked a discussion of the subject? The Aurora was therefore mistaken, when it supposed us to enquire into its own "partialities or prejudices," in relation to a future choice of President. We shall not be the most reluctant to declare our sentiments when the proper occasion shall demand them; but in the mean time we shall be contented, with the Aurora, to adopt for our motto the sentiment of the Great Frederick: "La politique demande de la patience & le chef d'oeuvre d'un homme habile est de faire chaque chose en son temps & a propos."
But there are some comments made by the Aurora on this subject, which we deem it no deviation from these principles for us to notice. On the question "whether it has any partialities or prejudices in relation to a future choice of President?" the Aurora observes; "On this point we shall be so explicit that none can mistake. If we thought there was but a ray of hope that Mr. Jefferson would serve again as president, the Aurora would prefer him to any other man, even with the evil genius of Gallatin in the cabinet, and the intrigues of Granger over the whole nation, as alloyed in the beneficent policy which he has pursued with regard to foreign nations; and the general scheme of his governmental views—Is this sufficiently explicit?"
We are at complete variance on this point with the Editor of the Aurora! It is our most ardent hope that Mr. Jefferson will not recede from his resolution to retire from the presidential chair, unless some extraordinary crisis should occur. We are convinced, that he will more securely consult his own un sullied reputation, by such a display of disinterested patriotism. The resolution which he has embraced to resign the chair of state, is not less honourable to him, than the immortal services which he has rendered in that capacity; but to abandon it at the very moment when power shall once more tempt him with all her allurements,
would cast the whole disinterestedness of his life into suspicion. Need we address any arguments to demonstrate, that such is the duty which he owes to his country? The greatest defect of our constitution, is to be found in the regal powers of the president. Whence the advantage of these monarchical features? Whence the necessity of giving him a qualified veto over the laws? of placing so many appointments at his disposal? Let the people depend upon it, that their liberties will never be secure, until they have removed this blemish from their constitution.
Then, what is the obvious refuge against these exorbitant powers, supposing them already exercised? Next to the vigilance of the people, is to be found in the shortness of their duration. If these powers are exorbitant, the shorter the time when they can be exercised by one man, the better for the public liberties. But our constitution has provided for no such limitation. An individual may ascend the Chair of State, for an indefinite term of years. He may be our regal president for four years, for eight years, for twelve years; he may be our president for life. Is this right? Is this suitable to that rotation of office, that security against slow and accumulating power, that freedom from all temptation in the bosom of the executive magistrate, which constitute the very genius of republics?
Where then is our remedy? Since there is no constitutional regulation upon the subject, we expect it from the virtue of an individual. We call upon Mr. Jefferson to display an example of disinterestedness, which may descend to his successors. We call upon him to bind up and controul their ambition, by the force of a precedent, which cannot be resisted; for with what face shall any man hereafter dare a third time to solicit the suffrage of his countrymen, when a man so illustrious and so popular as Mr. Jefferson, shall have retired from the helm of affairs; for the express purpose of paying homage to the principles of republicanism?
Was it possible to destroy this single objection; there is not a man in the universe whom we should prefer to Mr. Jefferson. We do not believe that there is one who possesses the same admirable qualifications for the office of a President as himself; but though there was every "ray of hope" that he "would serve again;" though he were "the candidate agreed upon by the old republican party;" yet would the Enquirer prefer many other men to him—unless, as has already been observed, some very extraordinary emergency should arise.
Of the mode of nominating the next president, it is unnecessary to speak. But there seems to be a difficulty in this subject, which no ingenuity can remove; no constitutional provision can prevent.—What is the best mode of collecting the general sense of the people, and of reconciling the collisions of contending interests? Perhaps the best mode is to produce a nomination of the candidate by means of a republican caucus at Washington; but here arises a problem of infinite importance; how is it possible to destroy the undue influence, to which such a body would be exposed, through the intrigues of candidates, who being already upon the spot, and installed into some of the high departments of the government, would have the means of corruption in their hands?
With respect to the principles of the candidate to be next supported, we unite "heart and hand" with the Aurora. On general principles we must be agreed; as well as in the position, that no virtuous republican can "support any man who has a concern directly or indirectly in that stupendous scheme of plunder the Yazoo Speculation; or who is a supporter thereof, or who may give a tacit countenance to that fraud, as the price of his influence to gain the presidential chair."—We do not wander beyond our present province to suggest, whether the republican caucus at Washington are not even bound to demand most explicitly of the candidate to be supported, his decided sentiments on certain stipulated and essential points.
The Aurora has called upon us to exercise a "corresponding frankness" on certain questions, which though not reduced to the formality of an interrogatory, we can scarcely misstate; but will the Aurora be satisfied, if we for the present wave an explicit reply, on the plea of a want of information?—A few words will illustrate this remark. With respect to the intrigues of Mr. Granger, we possess no positive facts, nor even very strong presumptions. So far as we have understood his concern in the Yazoo business, we disapprove of it from the very root. So far as Col. Loomis's affidavit goes, taken as it was "under the special authority of commissions appointed by a committee of the House of Representatives, and with the knowledge of Granger and his friends present;" we cannot possibly decide upon the face of it, as to all the charges which it embraces. For these three questions naturally force themselves upon us:
Who is Col. Loomis; and what credit is due to his assertions? With the most unblemished integrity in the world, may not Col. L. have misunderstood many of Mr. G's remarks, or in other words, is it not possible for Mr. G. to produce counter affidavits to invalidate col. L's assertions?
Is it to be presumed, that a man so intriguing as Mr. G. is represented to be, would have committed himself, upon such a variety of topics, in the way which col. L. has represented?
With respect to Mr. Gallatin, our mind is not yet fixed to any one point of the Compt. How he has interfered with the politics of Pennsylvania, we know not.—Nor are we intimately acquainted with the whole course of policy, which he has pursued, since he was intrusted with the keys of our Exchequer. His official acts have been plain, palpable, and as publicly applauded. His private intrigues, if aught of that kind exist, are yet hid from our view; but the evasions of his memorable note to Congress, & his mysterious tamperings with the Republican minority have furnished abundant matter for suspicion. Thus far and no farther."
It has been lately enquired; in case of a Spanish war, who would be the proper person to place at the head of our army? Gen. Wilkinson is labouring under the strongest suspicions of his virtue. Col. Burr is even in a worse situation.
A late transaction in the upper country seems to point out the man, who would wish to fill this very honourable office.
SLEEP NOT!—It needs no argument to prove, that the Western country, from the very peculiarity of its situation, will become the asylum of disappointed ambition, of intrigue, & of conspiracy. It requires still less to prove, that the territories of Orleans and Louisiana will drink deepest of these cups, until its old inhabitants are more strongly knit with the U. States, a regular government fixed, and the precepts abundantly established among them.—On this subject, the following memorable anecdote may not be altogether mal a propos.
When Gov. Claiborne assumed the reins of government of Orleans, he consulted the opinion of the emigrant Edward Livingston of New-York, of whose attachment to the administration he entertained no doubt. Mr. L. is now the first lawyer at the New-Orleans Bar, with an annual salary of not less than $5,000 Dollars. Mr. Livingston was the author of the celebrated Louisiana memorial. His advice to Governor Claiborne was of the most judicious kind; calculated to produce disaffection among the people and opposition to his measures.—Such was the precise posture of affairs, when Governor Williams of the Mississippi Territory visited Orleans. Governor Claiborne informed him of the steps which he had taken, of the embarrassment which he had incurred, and of the apprehension which he had even entertained, of being dismissed by the P. U. S. "Reverse your steps completely, (observed Gov. Williams); dismiss such men as E. L. from your councils; enquire and act upon your own judgment; and you will regain the ground which you have lost." Gov. Claiborne pursued the hint, and the consequences are rapidly proving the justness of the suggestion.
Such is E. L., such are many of the emigrants to Orleans; such is the hero of the following piece from the Western World, and of the interesting extract in this day's paper from the Herkimer Monitor of New-York. Whether the designs there attributed to Mr. Burr, are correctly drawn, are yet obscure as his own unfathomable spirit; but our mind naturally pauses to muse upon the destiny of such a man. What might he not have been? Within three years the president of the Union; in case of a Spanish war, the commander of our armies. Yet what is he now? Scathed by the lightning of republican indignation; his very steps dogged; and suspicion hunting him, wherever he roves.
EXTRACT from the W. W. of Sept. 13. THIS extraordinary character arrived at Frankfort from Cincinnati on Tuesday evening last, about an hour after ten. He took his lodgings at Major Love's Tavern, the house adjacent to Mr. John Brown's, and consequently more convenient than any of the other taverns for visiting his bosom friend and arranging the plans of their future operations. In a few minutes after his arrival he paid his respects at the palace of Mr. Brown, and we believe spent all the evening until 12 at night and the greater part of next day in secret consultation as to the most effectual mode of preserving the secrecy of the future proceedings of the Western Association. At five o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday he departed for Lexington: but we understand he is to return in a few days. About a fortnight ago, one of his political pioneers, a younger brother of Mr. Swartwout, the dismissed marshal of New-York, passed through Frankfort. This youth as is the common practice of the various tools of col. Burr, displayed the greatest indifference as to the object of his visit to Kentucky. He appeared to have no introduction to any of the citizens of the town, and although he was doubtless well acquainted with Mr. Brown, yet it was good policy to appear a stranger in this place. Various have been the conjectures of Col. Burr's visit to Kentucky, last year and likewise his return this season. The article of the Spanish Conspiracy, inserted in the Western World this day, may furnish the curious with a key to unravel the views of his mysterious journey. In some of our subsequent numbers about two months hence the complete detail will be laid before the public."
COMMUNICATION. AFTER the remarks published in the Enquirer of Friday last, respecting the city nightly watch, the Editor's candour, upon a full development of facts, will no doubt induce him to correct any unfavourable impressions which they may have made on the minds of the citizens in regard to those men. The city nightly watch is composed of ten persons, two of whom are properly stationed in the cage. The arrangements for the duty are, two to patrol on Shockoe Hill, two on the Canal, and the remaining two to Rockets, and two others employed as a silent watch patrolling alternately the several districts; the small number of men, together with the disposition of the Houses in this city, preclude the impossibility of the Richmond watch executing the important duties expected from watchmen in large cities, where the watchmen are numerous, the buildings compact, and the districts small.
2nd. The watch of the city of Richmond are extremely limited in their powers. Servants or persons pretending to be so, upon hearing the approach of the watchmen, fly into the first inclosure. The watch are prohibited entering into any yard or house whose gate or door is shut, and when it has been suspected that persons have shut themselves up who did not belong to the premises, upon the watchmen entering to ascertain the fact, it is no uncommon thing for them to be abused and directed to retire; and remonstrances have been laid before the common hall to call the watch to account for taking suspected and suspicious persons out of negro houses, whose doors have been found open after 12 o'clock at night.
3rd. Many persons blame, from a want of knowledge of the true state of the watch of this city, the watchmen for every offence against the peace of the city, the above facts will not justify the belief that they are blamable.
Last Evening's Mail.
NEW-YORK, September 30.
Mr. Fox.—The following particulars of that distinguished statesman, are contained in an account of his situation, lately transmitted to Senator Mitchell, from a most respectable source in London, dated July 26, 1806. "I am persuaded that our best informed ministers are friendly to you. For peace and cordiality here. You and we possess the trade of the world. I am sorry to add, the health of Mr. Fox, is in a low and dangerous state. With emaciation of the upper part of an originally firm trunk, the lower extremities are anasarous; and, though it is proposed to prolong existence by scarification it will not renovate the body. Added to these drooping affections, a morbid liver, is disorganizing the functions of the nobler parts. His death would certainly be a great loss at this time. I cannot, however, avoid fearing, he would be too precipitate in concluding a peace, when peace would only prove a dangerous truce." Com. Adv.
BALTIMORE, October 2. The Editors of the Evening Post have again to offer the tribute of their thanks to their generous correspondent, for the following Extract. In addition to its contents, as here given, we understand that the original letter informs, that dispatches, containing the important news of peace, had been forwarded to the government of the United States by the same vessel which conveyed this letter.
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman in Bordeaux, to a friend in Baltimore, dated July 30th, 1806. Preliminary articles of peace between France and Russia were signed at Paris between
M. D'Oubril for the latter and General Clarke for the former power, on the 20th of the present month. Preliminary articles of peace between France and Great-Britain were signed about 4 o'clock on the evening of the 25th, at Paris, between the same gen. Clarke on the one part, and Lord Yarmouth on the other part. With respect to the terms, nothing has transpired, and probably nothing will, till the ratification of the preliminaries. The idea that prevails here, generally, is, that France, Russia and England have in this treaty of peace considered each other as first-rate powers—and the other powers of the earth as secondary; and that of course each will make liberal concessions to the other. A new German confederacy has arisen on the Rhine.—The kings of Bavaria and Wurtemberg, the emperor's brother-in-law the duke of Cleves, and the prince of Hesse Cassel, and some others, are parties to it; Cardinal Fesch, as coadjutor of the Arch-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, is to preside over the civil part of it: the whole being under the guarantee of Napoleon the Great.
France thus surrounds herself with a wall of fire; and after a very few years of peace will become the most flourishing country in Europe; especially now all Italy is secured for ages from all probability of attack.
Whenever the present Pope expires, the Holy See will be transferred to Avignon, and the territory of Rome form a new kingdom between Naples and Milan.
Europe is about to be arranged under a system that promises duration.
The U. States will act wisely if its government adopts a system of domestic manufactures and commerce, instead of attempting to hold what will be wrested from them by the cordial concurrence of France and G. Britain within a very few years after the peace shall be confirmed."
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of Samuel Scherer dec'd. are requested to bring them forward, properly authenticated, before the 1st of November, at which time the administration of the subscriber will be closed, and if application shall not be made by the time above specified, this notice will be considered as a release from the payment of their claims.
Those indebted must see the necessity of making immediate payment, as no further indulgence can be given. GEORGE SCHERER, Adm r . October 7. 4w.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Mutual Insurance Society against Fire on Buildings of the State of Virginia, held at the General Office, on the 30th of September 1806.
The following Resolution was adopted, which is by order of the Board published for the information of all persons concerned, viz:
A GREAT variety of causes, having concurred to render it inconvenient and impracticable to complete the revaluation of those Buildings, in the Towns and in the country, which had been insured prior to the 30th of January 1805, at the period limited by the last resolution of the Board on that subject.
Resolved, therefore, that the special agents of this Society be allowed till the first day of December next inclusive, to complete the revaluation of all buildings which have been insured as aforesaid, within the districts and towns for which they may have been severally appointed; and that no further indulgence, hereafter, will be extended to those members of the Society, who shall fail to have their buildings revalued, on or before the said first day of December next.
ALEXANDER M'RAE, Prof. M. A. S. Teste, LEWIS M. RIVALAIN, C. B. D. October 3. oaw4w.
ROBERT JOHNSTON,
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has removed his Store from the house he lately occupied opposite the Eagle Tavern, to one of Mr. Thomas Mitchell's new houses nearly opposite to Messrs. Taylor and Brown's Vendue Office, where he is now opening a general assortment of DRY GOODS & IRONMONGERY, which he will dispose of at a moderate profit.
N. B. He will Rent or Sell his Brick Tenement on Shockoe Hill, adjoining to Mr. Robert Gordon's. October 7. 4w.
MARSHAL'S SALES.
TO BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, under a decree of the Court of the U. States for the Fifth Circuit in the Virginia District, between Phineas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plaintiff, and David Rofs and others, defendants, in order to raise the sum of twelve thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars thirty-three cents, due and payable on the first day of July last, and sundry charges and expenses of sale.—That valuable and well known estate in the county of Botetourt, called FORT LEWIS, sitated by the said Rofs to contain 2608 acres. The sale will take place on the premises on the 14th day of November next.
Also, under the same decree and on the same terms, will be sold at the Oxford Iron Works, in the county of Campbell, on the 18th of the same month, a number of VALUABLE SLAVES. BENJAMIN MOSBY, D. M. for JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. Oct. 7, 1806. tds
FOR SALE,
A TRACT OF LAND, in Albemarle County, on the waters of Buck Mand Creek, on the south side of the Rivanna River, containing by survey four hundred and seventy acres, patented to John Davidson, by grant, dated 19th of September 1796. This tract was conveyed by Davidson to me, to raise by sale of it divers sums of money, which he owed to Davidson and Goddard, Merchants Baltimore, and to John Goddard, by deed, under which, I shall expose it to public sale, on the 8th day of November next, at Charlottesville, before the Tavern of Mr. Eris. At which time I will exhibit the patent and deed, under which I am authorised to make this sale. The title will be made in pursuance of the authority vested in me. HUGH NELSON, Trustee. October 7. 4w.
NOTICE.
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly, for leave to erect a TOWN and Inspection of Tobacco at, or adjoining Goodland Court-house, particularly on the land of Samuel Woodfin, thereunto adjoining. October 3. 4w.
THE FARMER'S VIRGINIA ALMANACK, for the Year 1807, printed by Thomas Ritchie, is now for sale, by the gross, dozen or single, at the ENQUIRER Book-Store. Also—A General Assortment of Lawyers' and Sheriffs' BLANKS, just printed.
ALEXANDER STUART, Esquire, of Richmond, and Col. William Daniel, of Cumberland county, are so obliging as to undertake my law business. The former will give his attention to it in the federal court and in the court of appeals. The latter in the superior court of chancery for the Richmond district. CREED TAYLOR, July 18, 4w.

The following are the memoirs of the Chancellor of the English Exchequer, not more an object of attention, from the influence which he derives from his present office, than from the way, which his great talents may hereafter give him over the destinies of his country.
From the Universal Magazine, for May, 1806.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF LORD HENRY PETTY.
Lord Henry Petty, the youngest son of the last marquis of Lansdown, by his second lady Louisa Fitzpatrick, sister to the existing earl of Upper Ossory, and to the late dowager lady Holland (mother to the present lord Holland) was born in July, 1780. At nine years old, lord Henry was deprived of the affection of his accomplished mother, lady Louisa, who died August 2, 1789.
The superintendence of the instruction of lord Henry having now devolved, exclusively, on the marquis of Lansdown, that nobleman entered, with renewed ardour, on the "delightful task." With him, as with the great lord Holland, in the education of the present Mr. Fox, and as with the great earl of Chatham, in the education of the late Mr. Pitt, the formation of the mind of his youngest son appears to have constituted his primary gratification. All these noble statesmen, each of them honourably remembered for his talents and measures, are remarkable for the attention bestowed by them on their younger sons, and the anticipations they entertained, as to the future eminence of their favourite offspring. Between the fortunes of lord Henry Petty and the late William Pitt, there exists, indeed, as far as it can be carried, a striking parallel. Both were the youngest sons of statesmen, celebrated for patriotism and abilities, who evinced equal affluence in the tuition of their respective children, with similar presentiments of success. Like the late Mr. Pitt, lord Henry early distinguished himself as a parliamentary advocate for the liberties of his country: if, at the age of 24 years, Mr. Pitt became chancellor of the exchequer, lord Henry fills the same office before the completion of the 26th year; both of these ministers finished their studies at the university of Cambridge; and lord Henry Petty succeeds Mr. Pitt, not only as chancellor of the exchequer, but also as representative for the university of Cambridge. It was acknowledged something in favour of Mr. Pitt, at the dawning of his political day, that he was the cherished son of the great earl of Chatham; it is not a little to the credit of lord Henry Petty, at a similar time, that he is known as a son of whom the great marquis of Lansdown formed considerable expectations.
The age is not ascertained at which lord Henry became a pupil at Westminster school, whence he was sent to the university of Cambridge, under the care of the Rev. Mr. Debary, who had been his preceptor during the time he was placed at Westminster. His lordship gave early promise of his talents; and his oration before the university, exhibited such a display of excellence, as to confirm the favourable opinion at first entertained of his abilities.
A noble theatre was soon presented for his lordship's exertions, on his being returned a member of parliament for Calne, in Wiltshire, at the general election for 1802, and about the 22d year of his age. Previously to this event, and immediately after the pacification treaty of Amiens, lord Henry Petty, accompanied by Mr. Dumont, a gentleman high in political estimation, a native of Switzerland, visited that once happy and admired country, going first to Paris, and then to Geneva.
The first subject that particularly excited his lordship's attention, after becoming a member of the national representation, was the Irish bank restriction bill, on the discussion of which measure (February 13th, 1804) he delivered his "maiden speech." He was followed by the celebrated Mr. Foster, who expressed great deference for the remarks made by his lordship.
During this session of parliament, lord Henry voted in favor of an inquiry into the conduct of the Irish government, pending the rebellion in that country; he also divided with Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt, on the motion respecting the inefficacy of our naval force, & on that against the Irish militia augmentation bill; his lordship afterwards voted (June 5th) against Mr. Pitt's (then minister) additional force bill; and on the 23d of the same month, he gave his hearty assent to the motion against the lord advocate of Scotland.
Nothing of senatorial importance again occurred, till the motion for: criminalizing lord Melville, as treasurer of the navy, which was agitated in the house of commons on the night of April the 8th, 1805. It was on this occasion, that lord Henry Petty distinguished himself in such a manner as afterwards entitled him (Feb. 12, 1806) to be added to the committee for managing the impeachment of lord Melville. "I recollected," said Mr. Fox, taking this opportunity of calling the attention of the house to the brilliant efforts of his lordship when Mr. Pitt made his first essay in this house—"I recollected the just pride which we all felt to see him, much at the same age then, that the noble lord (Petty) now is, distinguishing himself in hunting down corruption, in unmasking abuses in the public expenditure, in proposing and enforcing reforms of various kinds." Perhaps it is worth remark, that on this occasion lord Henry Petty rose immediately after Mr. Pitt (whom he has immediately succeeded in office) had sat down.
The death of that eminent minister however, who has been panegyrized, and abused, and lamented by his adversaries, soon afterwards terminated the splendid career of opposition politicians. Lord Henry's last proceeding, as a parliamentary antagonist of administration, took place on January the 21st, 1806, when he proposed an amendment to the customary address, which he waved only in consideration of Mr. Pitt's illness, pledging himself, notwithstanding, to a future discussion of the subjects comprised in his amendment. This inquiry, it is almost needless to observe, has not been prosecuted.
After much and various consultation, the new ministerial arrangements, rendered necessary by the death of Mr. Pitt, were finally settled at Buckingham-house, on Sunday, February 2, 1806. On the 5th of February, a new writ was moved for Calne, in the room of lord Henry Petty, by Mr. Fox, his lordship having accepted the Lord Chancellor having accepted the offices of Chancellor and Under-treasurer of his Majesty's Exchequer; and on the 12th of the same month, he was sworn, and took his seat, on his election to represent the university at Cambridge, in the room of Mr. Pitt.
Lord H. Petty took no part (January 27) in the debate on awarding funeral honours to the merits of Mr. Pitt: nor did he take any concern (February 3) on the motion for the payment of Mr. Pitt's debts. His lordship was, perhaps, at this time, actively engaged in canvassing for his university election. His first official notice (February 17) was, that the House should adjourn for a week; and announcing his resolution, at the expiration of the time thus specified—to move for the revival of the Committee for investigating the joint account between Great-Britain and Ireland.
During the debate on lord Ellenborough's seat in the cabinet (March 3) the new Chancellor of the Exchequer rose to rectify Mr. Canning, as to a statement on the authority of the parliamentary reports, respecting the late Marquis of Lansdown, for whose re-putation he evinced a laudable and filial solicitude. Mr. Canning had stated, in support of his resistance to the practice of admitting the Chief Justice of the King's Bench to a seat in the Cabinet Council, that "Lord Mansfield having sat in the Cabinet, while lord Chief Justice, was thirteen years afterwards imputed to him as a charge by the father of a Noble Lord opposed to him (Petty), and the question directly put to him, whether or not the thing was true." This was contested by Lord Henry, who observed with peculiar effect, that the correctness of the publication quoted by Mr. Canning, might, for various reasons, be disputed, particularly in giving an account of sentiments, where, in order to do justice to
them, it was necessary to preserve the very words—"It was impossible," his lordship added, that "his noble and revered relation could be ignorant that Lord Mansfield had been a member of the cabinet, because, in point of fact, his noble relation had, in the year 1763, when in the board of trade, been frequently summoned to cabinet councils, at which lord Mansfield sat. That could be no discovery in the year 1775; and, if he knew it, he could not have considered it unconstitutionality, without, at the same time, expressing that opinion, which Lord Chatham and others, had they thought so, would likewise, in all probability, have done." He concluded with defending the admissibility of Lord Ellenborough into the cabinet.
"It will be my lot," said lord Henry Petty, in supporting the motion (March 26, 1806) for impeaching lord Melville in Westminster Hall, "and arduous will the task be, to propose, in a few days, a large augmentation of the public burdens. If I may be allowed to feel, more than any other man, the importance of convincing the public their money is rightly applied, and that their burdens should not be unnecessarily increased, it must be my anxious wish that every species of enquiry should take place, that they shall see their interests are upheld." This principle will be found to have pervaded the principal measures submitted by his lordship to the House, since he came into authority. To these sentiments the country is indebted for his various plans for regulating and controlling the treasury of the public purse, for the investigation he has already made as to the state of the national accounts, and for the determination he has manifested to remedy the mismanagement that may formerly have attended the application of our financial resources. So far, indeed, the new ministers are entitled to the thanks of all disinterested men. In proportion to the difficulty of augmenting our supplies, on which they repeatedly and forcibly insist, ought to be the vigilance exercised by them over the persons to whom the expenditure of government is entrusted.
FROM A LONDON PAPER.
A memoir has been published at Madrid, by the authority of Spain, containing a detail of the successful experiments which have been made in that country, with a machine for purifying the air contrived by M. Guyton de Morveau. These have proved, beyond a doubt, that mineral fumigations are an excellent preservative against the yellow fever. A physician, whose skill is equal to his intrepidity (Don Miguel de Cabanellas) lately that himself up with his two sons, and forty eight persons besides, in an hospital at Cartagena, where a number of victims had perished, and where the traces of the yellow fever still remained, and with no other precaution than mineral fumigation, they remained there forty days, without experiencing the least inconvenience.
The arrangements for a telegraphic communication between Plymouth and London, by way of Portsmouth, have been about nine months in completing. The distance is so great that numberless difficulties occurred in finding proper places for erecting stations to convey the communications; but the object is at length accomplished by thirteen stations between Plymouth and Portsmouth, and we understand, the Lords of the Admiralty have begun to receive communications from Plymouth by the Telegraph.
The Danish government has nearly finished a regular town in Iceland, called Keytowig. A feminary on a liberal scale for the gratuitous instruction of the natives, is already established there at the sole expence of the crown.
A German writer has enumerated six hundred poets within the last century, and out of this number not twelve have been known to have made a will—the reason is obvious.
Otto von Rosse.—The produce of Attar, or Essential Oil of Roses, obtained at the New Plantation and Manufacture, at Wadsworth, is stated by the Rev. Mr. Butcher at 2 oz. 2 drams, from 100 bushels or 600 lbs. of Roses. This produce, if genuine, greatly exceeds any obtained from the most successful operations in India. Col. Polier, who, some years since, had 13 acres under roses, never obtained more than 2 1/2 drams per 100 lbs. of flowers. In many parts of Asia the rasings of sandal-wood, and in others (in Cashmere particularly) sweet-scented grass are used, to increase the quantity of Attar; but it is consequently, less pure. The Attar, or Otto, is the cream, or scum, which floats on the rose-water when it cools after distillation. London paper.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 29.
Extracts of a letter from an American gentleman at Tunis, dated July 9, 1806.
"I am now on the site of the once renowned Carthage—where Scipio fought, where Hannibal conquered, where the intrepid old Belisarius himself drew out his legions, and bid the light of heaven for 17 long days with the smoke of that noble city, deflagrated by his own hand. About one mile from where I now sit, stands a stupendous archway and gate, the only entire surviving monument of ancient Carthage! This was the southern entrance into the town; and in its vicinity are a number of mutilated cisterns, and part of the aqueduct which brought water from the celebrated mountain of Tounza (within sight) which is more than fifty miles distant. Till within a few years there remained, I think, fourteen entire arches of this admirable memorial of human labour and perseverance, which were near an hundred feet high, supported by columns about sixteen feet square, and 11 1/2 ft. apart; but his supreme excellency, the old powerful and magnificent Mohammed Ali Bey, his present worship, thought proper to build two or three paltry batteries to grace the rising grounds near Tunis, and caused all these fine arches to be pulled down, to furnish stone for that nobler purpose."
"The cisterns (about sixteen or twenty remains to be traced) are indeed admirable specimens of the ingenuity of the ancient Carthaginians. They are about fifty yards long, ten wide and fifteen deep, all under ground; and I imagine would contain sufficient water to supply Carthage five years, admitting two hundred thousand gallons destroyed daily."
Telegraphs.
NEW-YORK, September 22.
COMMUNICATION.
Directions for making sweet, clear Cider, that shall retain its fine flavour, and keep good for a long time in any bottle, like wine.
There are persons in this country who have for years been in the habit of making a particular fine rich and sweet cider, which they fell from six to ten dollars per barrel; the method of doing it they have endeavoured to keep a profound secret.
The writer of this being acquainted with the art, is desirous that all Cider makers may profit by it, and takes this method to make it more generally known. It is of importance in making Cider that the mill, the press, and all the materials be sweet and clean, and the straw clear from must. To make good Cider, fruit should be ripe (but not rotten) and when the apples are ground, if the juice is left in the pumice for 24 hours, the Cider will be richer, softer and higher coloured; if the fruit is all of the same kind, it is generally thought that the Cider will be better; as the fermentation will certainly be more regular, which is of importance. The gathering and grinding the apples, and pressing out the juice, is a mere manual labour, performed with very little skill in the operator; but here the great art of making good cider commences, for as soon as the juice is pressed out, nature begins to work a wonderful change in it. The juice of fruit, if left to itself, will undergo three distinct fermentations, all of which change the quality and nature of this fluid. The first is the vinous; the second the acid, which makes it hard and prepares it for vinegar; by the third it becomes putrid. The first fermentation is the only one the juice of apples should
undergo to make good Cider. It is this operation that separates the filth from the juice, and leaves it a clear, sweet, vinous liquor. To preserve it in this state, is the grand secret; this is done by fumigating it with sulphur, which checks any further fermentation, and preserves it in its fine vinous state. It is to be wished, that all Cider makers would make a trial of this method; it is attended with no expense and but little trouble, and will have the desired effect. I would recommend that the juice, as it comes from the press, be placed in open headed casks or vats; in this situation it is most likely to undergo a proper fermentation, and the person attending may with great correctness ascertain when this first fermentation ceases; this is of great importance, and must be particularly attended to. The fermentation is attended with a hissing noise, bubbles rising to the surface and there forming a soft spongy crust over the liquor. When this crust begins to crack, and a white froth appears in the cracks level with the surface of the head, the fermentation is about stopping. At this time the liquor is in the fine genuine clear state, and must be drawn off immediately into clean casks; and this is the time to fumigate it with sulphur. To do this, take a strip of canvas, of about two inches broad and twelve long, dip this into melted sulphur, and when a few pails of racked Cider is put into the cask, set this canvas on fire and hold it in the cask until it is consumed, then bung the cask and shake it, that the liquor may incorporate with and retain the fumes; after this fill the cask, and bung it up. The Cider should be racked off again the latter part of February, or 1st of March; and if not as clear as you would wish it, put in shavings to fine it, and stir it well—then put the cask in a cool place, where it will not be disturbed, for the fining to settle. Cider prepared in this manner, will keep sweet in casks for years.
It is certainly of great importance to the people of America, to cultivate the fruit, that is natural to the soil of this country, and to make the most of the fruit, which that soil produces; especially when its produce is an article of value, and of great consumption in this country.
A lover of good Cider.
The limits of ancient geography are every day enlarged. Mr. Gell has determined the topography of Homeric Troy; Major Rennell that of the Tower of Babel; and Mr. Lavang has traced the foundations of ancient Carthage. Chron.
The following is a severe but just satire on the manners and fashions of the present day.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
Ye belles, and ye lords, and ye poor little things, Who trip in this frolicsome round, Pray tell me from whence this indecency springs, The fees at once to confound? What means the cock'd hat, and the maculina air, With each motion design'd to perplex? Bright eyes were intended to languish, not stare, And oaths the test of your sex. The girl who on beauty depends for support, May call ev'ry art to her aid; The bosom display'd, and the petticoat short, Are samples the gives of her trade. But you, on whom fortune indulgently smiles, And whom pride has preserv'd from the snare, Should slyly attack us, with coyish and wiles, Not with open and insolent air. The Venus, whose statue delights all mankind, Shrinks modestly back from the view, And kindly should seem by the artist design'd, To serve as a model for you. Then learn with her beauties, to copy her air, Nor venture too much to reveal; Our fancies will paint what you cover with care, And double each charm you conceal. The blushes of morn, and the mildness of May, Are charms which no art can procure; Oh! be but yourself, and our homage we pay, And your empire is solid and sure. But if Amazon-like you attack your gallants, And put us in fear of our lives, You may do very well for sifers and aunts, But, believe me, you'll never be wives.
ADMONITION TO THE LADIES.
Myrrha, rising with the dawn, Sees roses from the blushing morn; But when Myrrha sleeps till ten, Aurora steals them back again.
NOTICE.
THE partnership of FISHER & LEEVER was dissolved on the first instant; all those having claims against said firm, will call on the subscriber for payment, and all those indebted, will please to make immediate payment to the same, he alone being authorized to grant discharges.
JAMES FISHER.
N. B. The business will be continued at the same place by JAMES FISHER, for his own account; he is receiving from New York and Philadelphia, the following goods: which he will sell on the lowest terms to his old customers, and on the usual credit.
Brown sugar of a superior quality, do. do. second do. Green coffee in bags and barrels, Salt loose and in sacks, Molasses and Treacle, Pickled & smoked Salmon, Scotch and Pearl Barley, Madeira, Port, Sherry & Malaga Wines, Fresh Muscattell Raisins, and Currants, Copperas, Allum, Brimstone and Madder in small kegs, Salt Petre, English Gunpowder, Patent Shot, Hiber's Porter & Brown Stout, Segars in small boxes, of a superior quality, Bar Iron, Blistered and Creloy Steel, A constant supply of Loaf Sugar by the Hoghead or Barrel at the Philadelphia prices. October 3. ep1m.
REMOVAL.
THE Subscribers have removed their COMPTONING HOUSE, from the Main-Street to one of David Bullock's Brick Buildings, at the lower end of the Basin, between the Tanneries occupied by C. and T. Saunders, and Norvell, Watt and Bullock—where they continue their purchases of wheat as usual. They also keep for sale a regular supply of Flour, Corn Meal, Hominy and Bran. THOMAS & AMOS LADD. 10 Mo. 3d, 1806. ep1f.
By virtue of a Decree of Trust, executed to me by Samuel Pearce, to secure the payment of a debt due by him to John L. Wilkins.
I SHALL, on Wednesday the 15th of October next, at the house of the said Samuel Pearce, in the lower end of Buckingham, proceed to sell so much of that Valuable FARM, containing eight hundred and one fourth acres of Land, on which he now lives, as will pay the sum of about three hundred and sixty pounds, with interest from the first day of May last, until paid. ARAD WELTON, Trustee. October 3. 4c.
FAIRFIELD RACES.
ON Tuesday the 7th October will be run for—the JOCKEY CLUB PURSE of Five Hundred Dollars, four mile heats.
2d Day—THE PROPRIETOR'S PURSE of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, three mile heats.
3d Day—A HANDY CAP.
There is open a Subscription for three years old Colts and Fillies, for the 4th Day, Fifty dollars entrance. The Subscription for Colts and Fillies one year old last spring, to be run for in the fall 1808, will remain open until the evening of the Second Day's race—There are five Colts now entered, at one hundred dollars each—half forfeit.
Table with 2 columns: Weight, Age. Aged Horses, 133 lbs.; 4 Years Old, 106 lbs.; 6 Years Old, 128 lbs.; 5 do. do. 118 lbs.; 3 do. do. 90 lbs.; Mares & geldings allowed 8 lbs.
E. SMOCK, TREASURER. The Dining-House and Booths in the field are to be Rented.—Toll will be received at the gate as formerly.—Foot passengers admitted gratis.
E. SMOCK, PROPRIETOR. Richmond, August 29th, 1806. 1awf
CHARLOTTESVILLE RACES.
ON Monday the 13th day of OCTOBER next, will be run for over the Charlottesville course, a sweepstakes purse for colts two mile heats, eleven colts entered at one hundred dollars each.
ALEX. GARRETT, Proprietor of the course. September 16. 1m.
HANOVER JOCKEY CLUB.
THE Hanover Jockey Club having been organized, the races will commence at this place, on the 2nd, Wednesday in October next.
1st. Day—3 mile heats, free for any horse, mare, or gelding.
2nd. Day—2 mile heats, confined to untried colts, not exceeding 4 years of age.
The regulations with respect to weights, &c. are adopted from those of the Fairfield Jockey Club.
A general meeting of the Club, is requested on the day preceding the first day's race.
SKELTON JONES, Secretary to the Club. Hanover C.H. August 12. (240.)
N. B. The day fixed upon as the commencement of the Races at Hanover Court-House, interfering with the Fairfield Races, those at the Court-House, will not take place until the 3rd Wednesday in October next.
A General meeting of the Club is requested at next Hanover Court, instead of the day above advertised.
A GREAT Bargain offered in 785 acres of LAND, lying in King & Queen county, one & a half miles from York River, and bounded by Poquoson Creek, the Lands of captain William Shackelford and Zachariah Shackelford. This land is level, fertile and well timbered, with tolerable good buildings and excellent water—The abundance of fish and oysters at the very spot, may also be mentioned as a great inducement to any person wishing to purchase. This Land may be had low for cash, or good bonds at short payment. For further particulars apply to John H. Smith, or to the subscriber. JOHN TEMPLE. Walkerton, September 26. tf.
MR. ZACHARIAH TALLIAFERRO,
PLEASE to take notice, that I shall, on the 10th day of November next, at the Tavern of Archibald Branch, at Buckingham Court-House; and on the 25th day of November next, at the Tavern of David Tryal, in the Town of Warminster, Amherst County, Virginia—proceed to take the depositions of sundry persons, to be used as evidence in a suit now depending and undetermined in the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond district, wherein you are plaintiffs, and myself and others, are defendants. WILLIE WILLS. September 19. 4w.
FOR SALE,
THE LOT and HOUSES wherein John Hamilton, Esq. the British Consul, resides: on it are a three story Dwelling-House, an Office and Kitchen, and other necessary Houses for family use; a Well of good Water, newly fitted, and a Garden lately laid in, a Ware House and Cellar under it; the remains of a Wharf, which will make a good foundation to build on; with all the privileges of lots situated on the river, of extending a wharf. Also—271 1/2 Acres of well-timbered LAND, with a good Fishery on Willoughby's Bay, taking in the mouth and part of Malon's Creek, where the best of Oysters and Fish can be conveniently taken. Also—A LOT in Smithfield, between Mrs. Purdie's and Captain Todd's lots: For terms apply to THOMAS NEWTON. (tf.) August 22.
THE HOUSE at present occupied by Doctor James McClurg; possession will be given on the 2nd day of October next. And The house lately occupied by Mr. Moses Bates; possession to be given immediately. Each of these houses, are convenient to the capitol, and will suit a genteel family. For terms, apply to Samuel Greenhow. WM. LANGBORN, Executor of Wm. Dandridge, dec'd. (cptf.) September 12.
FOR SALE—on the lowest terms: 2500 sacks of LIVERPOOL SALT, and 90 crates of LIVERPOOL EARTHEN WARE of superior quality & well assorted, just arrived in the ship Merchant, Captain Johnson, from Liverpool, at Bermuda Hundred— OVERTON ANDERSON. tf. May 23.
THE Brick TENEMENT, nearly opposite Dr. Greenhow's, and lately occupied by Mr. Benjamin Mosby.—For terms apply to THOMAS NORVELL. (tf.) August 29.
FIRST CONSULT OF PHILADELPHIA, NOW in training for the last time, will run any Horse, Mare or Gelding in the United States for Five Hundred Guineas a side p.p. over the Jockey Club Race this fall, four miles and repeat, carrying 9 stone each. Application to be made to either the editor of the Philadelphia Gazette, or Baltimore Telegraph, within 15 days from the date. The Norfolk Ledger, Richmond Enquirer, and Washington Federalist will please insert the above five times, and send their bills for the same, to the Office of this Gazette. Sept. 13. 5t.
PICKLING VINEGAR.
OF superior quality, made from two years old cider—For sale by WILLIAM HART, Opposite the State House.
ALSO— SALT, loose and in sacks, 30 Barrels cut HERRINGS, Brown SUGAR in barrels and by retail, COFFEE, TEA and other Groceries, Philadelphia bottled PORTER, Do. Draft BEER. September 19. ep1f.
TO BE RENTED—The Tenement where I now reside, and possess an given in time. J. PENN. April 11. tf.
Printing, IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE ENQUIRER.