Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1809-11-24 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVIIth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1703]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS,) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
Four Dollars Per Annum—Paid in Advance.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1809.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
Land Office, November 1st, 1809.
List of Original Land Warrants for which Exchange Warrants have been granted, published agreeably to an Act of Assembly passed the 1st of February, 1809.
   Name of original holder. Right on which original warrant issued. Number of original warrant. Acres. Date. Names of indorsers, assignors and assignees, as also, place of residence of those to whom exchange warrants have issued. Residence. Acres. Number.     Joseph Smith Treasury right 17837 1226 1-2 July 21, 1783 Robert Hadlock, ass'ee of William Evans, who was ass'ee of Joseph Smith Northampton 400 2065   James Inskeep do 12035 1243 May 19, 1783 Same ass'ee of do do do 400 2066   William Goode do 7625 4000 Oct. 27, 1781 Same ass'ee of do do do 426 1-2 2067   William McWilliams do 15671 1000 May 8, 1793 Hansford Tutt and Lewis Tutt, ass'ees of John Grinnan, who was ass'ee of James Inskeep Culpeper 316 2068   Joseph Smith do 17838 5000 July 21, 1783 John Harris ass'ee of Thomas Walton, who was ass'ee of William Goode Buckingham 1000 each 2069 to 2071 incl.   William Cundiff Exch. Treas. Warrant 1098 292 3-4 Sept. 24, 1807 Same ass'ee of do do do 500 each 2072 & 2073   George Pickett Treasury right 18588 2000 Aug. 13, 1783 Robert Hadlock, ass'ee of Richard Lemmon, who was ass'ee of William McWilliams Northampton 500 2074   Joseph Evans do 4173 200 Feb. 20, 1805 Same ass'ee of do do do 500 2075   Same do 4342 300 April 30, 1806 Same ass'ee of William Evans, who was ass'ee of Jos. Smith do 500 2076   George Pickett do 18636 4000 Aug. 13, 1783 Same ass'ee of do do do 400 each 2077 to 2080 incl.   Same ass'ee of do do do 380 each 2081 to 2083 incl.   William Cundiff Prince Wm. 266 1-2 2084   Jacob L. Abraham, ass'ee of Ben Pollard, who was ass'ee of Geo. Pickett Buckingham 500 2085   Henry Bagby, ass'ee of do do do 500 2086   Robert Glover, ass'ee of do do Cumberland 500 2087   Same ass'ee of do do do 500 2088   Joseph Evans Buckingham 511 2089   Christian Snidver, ass'ee of Ben Pollard, who was ass'ee of Geo. Pickett Giles 1000 2090  
EDWARD C. DAVIS, Register.
MISCELLANY.
FROM THE BALTIMORE AMERICAN.
"That man that makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass grow where but one grew before; deserves more of his country than the whole herd of politicians and philosophers together."
A PROLIFIC POTATO.—Mr. Parigoo, of Reister's town, remarkable for raising fine crops of Potatoes, has now in his possession eighty seven potatoes, which are the production of a single one; thirty of which will average one pound weight each; measuring altogether half a bushel.
The following is the history of this surprising vegetable, which I obtained from Mr. P. About the third of June he selected from his seed potatoes one of the largest of the whole kind, and divided it into seven parts, being careful to preserve what is called an eye to each, he then dug a trench about eight inches deep in a corner of his potatoe ground, which had been previously well prepared, and placed the pieces in it with a space of four inches between, covered the whole with a coat of light stable manure and then filled the trench to the surface with mould—which is all the cultivation it received.
Mr. P. is of opinion that after the fibres to which the young potatoes adhere begin to show, the plough and hoe are destructive, as they wound the young shoots and prevent them from extending to that distance which they otherwise would, and thinks nothing more necessary than free ing them from weeds, which may be pulled up by the hand. The usual mode of cultivation leaves a large proportion of the ground vacant for that purpose. But the method pursued in this experiment requires no more ground than will be sufficient for the potatoes to grow in. The half bushel spoken of occupied a space of but little more than two square feet. An acre of ground planted in this way, would, on a moderate calculation produce 1000 bushels and be a great saving of labour.
FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLICAN OF BALTIMORE.
Messrs. Editors. Having observed in the public papers an address, signed, "Many Weavers," wherein they express much anxiety for a Bleaching Establishment to be founded, that would enable them to finish their goods in the European style, we are happy to have it in our power, (through the medium of your paper) to inform them, that we are now actually engaged in such an establishment, which will be carried on under all the advantages arising from those Chemical improvements, so universally adopted in Great Britain, Ireland, &c. &c. which not only facilitate the business, but on an extensive scale, 10,000 yards can be bleached, and dressed in a week, equal to any imported from Europe, and the different seasons of the year will never retard the progress of this Factory, which is not the case in bleaching greens. Different specimens have been presented to Robert McKim, Esq. President of
the Union Manufacturing Company of Maryland, also to Mr. Craig, Secretary of the Maryland Association.—Any person calling at No. 11, South Calvert Street, can see different samples, and every satisfactory information will be given.
November 6, 1809.
FROM THE CHARLESTON CITY GAZETTE.
Messrs. Freneau & Co.—By publishing the following approved method for Drying Cotton Bloe, in your useful paper, you will oblige
A BACKWOODSMAN.
Take one pound of good indigo, break it in middling strong ley for two hours, pour off the ley and rinse the indigo with a little water, then grind the indigo in a clean pot with a cannon ball, or something similar, till it begins to turn to mud, pour in a little water and wash out all that is mud into a clean bowl, and so continue till all the indigo is converted to fine mud. Take three pounds of good Shell Lime, slack it in about two quarts of milk warm water, in a clean bowl by itself. Take one pound of good Green Coppas, melt it with milk warm water, also in a bowl by itself. Have a stand, similar to a churning stand with ten gallons of clean water in it, into which pour your three different bowls of ingredients at once, commence churning (with a common churn staff) immediately, churn about half an hour, or till the water turns a yellow green colour. Just before you finish churning, throw in your stand a full teaspoonful of powdered Yellow Arsenic, let it stand 24 hours and it is fit for use. When you have dyed about half a pound of thread you must churn a little, and let it stand two hours before it is fit for use again. Boil the thread in clean water before you dye it, to cleanse it, and let it be dampened with warm water before you dip it. Make use of rain or soft water in all your processes.
Which is done by passing the hanks of thread over your hands, letting it hang in the dye; which may be repeated at small intervals after the thread has nearly dried.
FROM THE GEORGE TOWN INDEPENDENT AMERICAN.
Agricultural and Manufacturing Society. We have great pleasure in announcing to the public the formation of a society in this town, under the most favorable auspices, for the promotion of objects relating to agriculture and manufactures. The following are the first proceedings of those who have so meritoriously laid the foundation of an institution pregnant with individual gratification and national good.
At a meeting of a number of gentlemen of the neighboring country held in Georgetown on Wednesday the 1st of November, 1809.
Resolved, That we will associate for the purpose of encouraging Home Manufactures and the Rearing of Domestic Animals, by inviting Exhibitions and distributing Premiums—that we will contribute on Tuesday the 28th of November, 1809.
each Ten Dollars annually, during three years, and that we will hold our Meetings, in Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.
Resolved, That Joseph Kent, of Prince George's county—Thomas Crumplin, of Montgomery county—Henry Maynard, of Anne Arundel county—John Mason, of Georgetown—and Trench Ringgold, of Washington city, be a committee on the part of this meeting, to make known their views to the citizens of the neighboring counties of Virginia and Maryland, and of the district of Columbia, and to invite such as may be disposed to encourage the objects in contemplation, to unite with us in rendering the proposed institution as extensively useful as possible.
Resolved, That a meeting of all the subscribers to the plan be held at the Union Tavern, in Georgetown, on Tuesday the 28th inst. at 1 o'clock, P. M. for the purpose of organizing the society, appointing a time for the first exhibitions, making arrangements as to premiums, &c.
Georgetown, (Columbia) 2d. November, 1809.
Sir. We have the pleasure to transmit to you the proceedings of a meeting held yesterday in this town, for the purposes therein designated.
Well persuaded that the plan devised will be of much advantage to the community, by occasionally bringing together gentlemen farmers and others to emulate each other, in the productions of our country, we beg permission to recommend it to your notice and patronage, and to invite you to join your efforts to ours, to encourage the objects in contemplation, and to render the proposed institution as extensively useful as possible.
Should it meet with your approbation, we beg the favor of you to circulate the enclosed subscription paper among your friends for signatures, as early as your convenience will permit.
We hope to have the pleasure of meeting you on the 28th, but should it not be agreeable to you to attend, be pleased to forward to us by mail or otherwise, directed to Gen. John Mason, at this place, a list of the names you may have obtained, so as to reach us previous to that day; as it will be essential, in order to fix the amount of premiums, to know at the meeting then to be held, the number of persons who may have at that time joined the association. The original subscription paper you will please retain for further signatures.
We are very respectfully,
Sir, your obedient servants,
JOSEPH KENT,
THOMAS CRUMLIN,
HENRY MAYNARD,
JOHN MASON,
TRENCH RINGOLD.
We, whose names are subscribed, agree to associate for the purpose of forming and distributing Premiums for the encouragement of Home Manufactures, and of the Rearing of Domestic Animals—to pay Ten Dollars each annually for three years—hold our meetings in Georgetown, and the first meeting for the purpose of organizing the society, at the Union Tavern, in said Town, at one o'clock, P. M. on Tuesday the 28th of November, 1809.
We understand that the circular letters of the committee have been addressed to, and favorably received by a great number of the largest farmers and most enterprising agriculturalists, in the territory and the adjacent parts of the neighboring states; and that it is already ascertained that the fund will be large enough to enable the society to propose, at their next meeting, considerable premiums for the exhibition of various kinds of stock and manufactures, to be adjudged to those who shall merit them, some time in the course of next spring.
How extensively and reciprocally useful must not a plan of this kind become? Gentlemen at a distance from each other engaged in those important pursuits, we have an opportunity of imparting and receiving information on interesting subjects—of forming mutual connections and acquaintances—of exchanging and distributing stock of different and improved breeds—and in short by thus being occasionally convened at a central point, or diffusing throughout the whole district of country embraced by the association whatever advantages may happen to be possessed, not only by any portion of that district, but by any individual member of that society.
From the Charleston City Gazette.
TO THE PEOPLE.
An argument like matter of fact is—
RUDIBRAS.
IT is a matter of fact that the London Phoenix Company have paid for the renewal of its charter, for twelve years, about half a million of guineas. Hence their profit on insurance must be immense. It is a matter of fact that a branch of that company is established in our city, and that it has lost but one house since its establishment. It is a matter of fact, that in the city of London, &c. where the insurance is done much lower than in this city, the Insurance Companies find and pay for the working, engines, buckets, ladders, &c. &c. It is a matter of fact, that the citizens of Charleston procure all their own proper expense, all these articles, and that they alone assist in extinguishing fires, and that the whole city may be buried in ashes for any assistance the Phoenix could afford. It is a fact, that immense gain, not love for us has induced the Phoenix to establish a branch here; and it is also a fact, that gain is procured by the exertions and money of the citizens of Charles-ton, and that it ought of right to belong to them, and that it is more to their crest to keep this money circulating among themselves than to remit it to John Bull, or any other nation on earth. It is a matter of fact, that John Bull has been waging a commercial and financial war, in disguise, against this country, ever since the revolution—humiliating our credit and fully subduing us to our own degradation and her ambition and violence. It is a matter of fact, that the advocates of this British domination are alarmed for the existence of the Phoenix—they are conjuring Heaven and Earth to oppose your contemplated plan of Republican Insurance, well knowing that your example will be fatal to British hold and influence on this country. They will use all manner of sophistry, but they may be answered by this simple matter of fact.
If the Phoenix did not gain great profit would they cross the Atlantic to insure us? Is not this proof as well as our being attacked, by telling you that fires have occurred here that consumed half of your city, and that it may yet happen? These would be a forcible argument to deter the Phoenix from crossing the Atlantic, and yet we see her among us. These gentlemen will not inform you, when these melancholy accidents took place your city was a mere tier of old wood houses; that you were deficient in every means of extinguishing fires, without system or union of action; they will not tell you, that on the score of one of these fires, these houses are now erected brick houses, covered with tile—they will not tell you, that every day is adding new security, arising from various causes—they will not inform you, (tho' ten years' experience proves it) that your risks are not by 100 to one, as great as they were in those days—they will not tell you, that if the reciprocal plan is obtained every citizen will be interested in the preservation of his neighbor's as well as his own property; that a conviction that he is working for himself and fellow citizens, will make him more alert at fires—they will not tell you, that these thirteen commissioners will be men selected from among yourselves, no doubt for their piety, good sense, and the interest which they must feel, in common with you, in the welfare of our common country and interest.
All these considerations will be carefully kept out of view; your fears will be alarmed by reciting to you myriads of exaggerated records, of great calamities; taking special care to conceal the cause that gave rise to them, which in a great measure cease to have existence and are every day becoming less. Be therefore on your guard, fellow citizens—again I repeat to you the question, is it for love of us or for gain that the Phoenix insured our houses—and is not this gain as well kept among ourselves as sent off?
COLBERT.
Let any man cast his eyes over our wharves and principal streets, and compare them with what they were in those days.
FROM THE BOSTON CHRONICLE.
Since the departure of Mr. Erskine for England, the federal papers begin to abuse him for exceeding the powers given him by the British ministry. They charge him with ignorance, and with having too great a partiality for the government of the United States. As this gentleman is now withdrawn from Washington, the federal faction will become more active in their censures against him. But we hope that the public affairs in this country will have a happy tendency to bring into view the wicked projects which have been pursued by individuals of the American junto, in connection with the British minister. We cannot but conjecture, that the failure of the negotiation of Mr. Erskine is solely owing to a combination of the faction in Boston and elsewhere, who plotted their internal projects to induce the British ministry to violate the engagements so solemnly pledged between their minister and our executive. We have the highest reason to believe this to be a fact. It is impossible that so brazen-faced a proceeding would have taken place, unless Canning had gotten assurance, that the friends of the British in America, were sufficiently numerous and powerful to counteract such a measure. Canning found the American papers were supporting all the excesses of the British; that every thing they did could find advocates; that town meetings were held to excite the people to oppose the government, and rebellion appeared the order of the day among those who claim all the religion and all the property of the country. Clergymen propagating the most disorganizing principles—while the rebel priests were countenanced by old men, whose heads were silvered with grey locks. In short, every measure tending to dissolve the union and excite rebellion, was evidenced as the only proceeding which ought to be sanctioned as legitimate. The heads of this faction were more daring than any rebels that ever appeared in the United States. They and his associates were aims in conspiring with them. Their resolutions, addresses, circular letters, &c. breathed not only the spirit of rebellion, but of malice and revenge. Britain found more friends in Boston, Newburyport, &c. in promoting on their population, than could be found in London or Liverpool. Nothing was heard our anti-heroes against our constituted authorities; our elections for the high officers of the state were conducted under his spirit of violence against every man who wished to support the laws of congress. Under all these circumstances, can it be doubted whether Canning was not induced to touch his hand towards us, and therefore refused to ratify the agreement of Mr. Erskine? He must have thought that the strength of the British party was very powerful; as he found more

advocates than he at first contemplated. Encouraged by the spirit which was prevailing, and the success of the elections, there is every reason to suppose that Jackson's mission originated from the prospects which presented themselves so favorable to his views.
In this state of affairs, Mr. Erskine was to become a victim to measures to be adopted in consequence of the appearance within the United States. A new experiment was to be made under existing circumstances: another trial of the strength of parties was to be attempted to place the British influence paramount to that of the American government. The American junto rallied under the banner displayed by Canning; and there is every reason to suppose, that if the success of Bonaparte had not checked the operations in Europe under the direction of the British, the United States would have been involved in a civil war by the proceedings of this desperate faction, which seemed to have no other wish than to prostrate our country to Britain. We cannot therefore but repeat our expectations that when Mr. Erskine finds that this faction in America are desirous to reflect on his honor and integrity, in order to support the British in their present claims under Jackson, he will divulge the base motives of some of the junto, whose conduct while residing in America it is probable he is well acquainted with. This was exactly the case in the course of our revolution. Church Docks together with all the of British emissaries, were finally discovered in their traitorous correspondence by secret communications from England. We cannot suppose that the ministry would have taken such unprecedented ground unless they were confident of the most ample support from their friends in America. Neither can we believe that such high measures would have been adopted by individuals among us unless they had the same confidence in being supported in England. In our elections, we must endeavor to place men in office to whom no such suspicion is attached. Let us have the advocates for American honor, rather than the vindictors of British perfidy.
FROM THE AURORA.
Medicine is one of the most comprehensive branches of science; a correct knowledge of the true principle of the practice of physics, is therefore an acquisition rarely accomplished, and of the utmost importance to the welfare of society; hence it is, that a skillful physician is justly esteemed a comfortable and honorable member of the community; but an empiric is the worst bane to every affectionate family. The state of Virginia is at present most unfortunately infested with empirics, the legislature is culpable, and it is a matter of serious regret, that a state so famous for the production of important characters, useful institutions, and wholesome laws, should be reproached with an omission of such enormity. As the legislature will, in some short time, be organized for the winter session, I seriously hope the assembly will justly estimate the importance of compelling every physician to undergo an examination at some public institution, or board of physicians, before he commences the practice of physics. Such a law would be attended with the most salutary consequences; learned and celebrated physicians would then occupy the ground which is so ignominiously maintained by empirics; and the only reasons which I have ever heard advanced as objections to such an arrangement, are the following, which opposed to a law of so much general utility to the state, and even to the commonwealth, would occupy points of insignificance.
In the first place, it is said, that a physician long engaged in practice, has grown rusty in points deemed requisite. If this be the case, that physician is also too rusty to practice; but a well regulated board of physicians, would assuredly examine a candidate, on those points only, which would be indispensable with a safe practitioner. In this place I may add, that no physician who is qualified to practice, could possibly object to an examination, but on the contrary, in these times of empiricism, would view it as an occurrence of exultation.
Secondly—as to the times, and expense attending such a regulation, boards of physicians could be established in different parts of the state, and the officers of the institutions could meet once or twice annually, at seasons of the year, when physicians are least occupied in practicing physics for the purpose of examining those who wish to be licensed; and this certainly would be but a trivial inconvenience.
Thirdly—it is said, that society would be deprived of a class of men, who from long experience, and a mysterious kind of deportment, has attracted the attention of many persons, and are supposed to possess exclusively the art of curing certain diseases, such as cancers, ulcers, the teeth, and several others. This I believe in a number of instances to be true, but these men unfortunately profess themselves adequate to the cure of all diseases, in this on examination, they are found to be deficient, and on this point rests the objection of the law. But it would be an easy matter for such a candidate to produce ostensible certificates of his extraordinary success in the treatment of a special disease; and it would be equally as consistent with the spirit of such an institution, to grant a chart diplomatic of his skill in that branch exclusively.
Fourthly—it is apprehended by some, that such a law would deprive every person of the liberty of applying to a neighbor (or any person not licensed) for medical aid, and hence its oppression would be felt most forcibly by the indigent; but such a clause is not requisite to the accomplishment of the general design. In this place I beg leave to mention that such a custom originated in the scarcity of physicians in new countries, and has been perpetuated by memorizing many an honest farmer into
an imposing and concealed quack. They maintain their situation by priority of establishment to the utter exclusion of physicians justly distinguished by that honorable epithet, from their proficiency and attainments. But I think myself warranted in saying, that if empirics were compelled to relinquish their practice, (and the law proposed, is the only means of effecting it) each station would then be occupied by men happily qualified for the duties of such a profession; and in men thus qualified, the pauper would find hearts at least as susceptible of the impressions of humanity, as his neighboring farmer or quack doctor. In every profession are to be found persons of merit, and such is the case in empiricism. For the want of medical institutions in that state, acquiring a diploma or certificate, has been almost impracticable to some doctors of this class, who ill deserve the ignominious epithet of empiric. To such then this law should be remedial. The weight of such a law, would consequently rest exclusively on genuine quacks; and I hold it a correct principle in legislation, that the interest of a few should be sacrificed to the common good of society. The barrister is examined on law before he can plead, the divine generally on ethics before he can preach, and I know no reason why the physician in like manner is not compelled to undergo an examination, before he is permitted to practice physics. Inasmuch as life and health are valuable; it is obvious that a physician above all professional characters, should be the first to obtain a license or diploma, before he is permitted to practice; because the science is peculiarly enveloped in mystery, the community prone to credulity, and extremely liable to the impositions of quacks. Hence it is indispensable the duty of our legislatures to interfere in a matter of so much importance, and every representative should feel himself bound to his constituents to exert himself in the extermination of empirics.
For the want of medical institutions, authentically organized in Virginia, we see the empiric, the graduate, the learned and illiterate, in medicine, equally encouraged by law to practice. It is melancholy to ask, where is the distinction of merit? Where is the laur- that should be expected by the hand of every wise legislature, prompt to crown with distinguished honor, the attainment of proficiency in every useful science!
AFFECTING OCCURRENCE.
During the disastrous defeat of General Moore's army from Spain last year, an officer of one of the British regiments overcame with fatigue and hunger, and no longer able to keep up with his companions, had dropped behind. He espied a tuft of trees in a field adjoining the road, towards which he crawled, with a view of resting his weary limbs secure from the saucies of the pursuing enemy. On his coming near to the trees, he perceived a woman, seemingly a soldier's wife, stretched upon the ground, and a little infant lying near her. He approached to administer such assistance as was in his power. It was too late; the hand of death was upon her, and she was scarcely able to utter these words—"God bless you, it is all over," when she expired. The officer sat down beside her; he felt her hand, it was clay cold; he had nothing to succour her with; a brook was near, he filled his hat with water, and besprinkled her face and hands—all was in vain, and he was convinced she was utterly gone. Having rested himself so as to be able again to go on, he tied the little infant in the poor woman's handkerchief, and having fastened it to his back, he pursued his march—in this condition, procuring what subsistence he could for himself and the little orphan, he at last, after a long and wretched journey reached the port of Vigo, which at that time happened to be unoccupied by the French; there he got on board of a transport, and at last reached England with his little charge. His regiment (or rather the remnant of it) had arrived before him, and he joined it, still accompanied by the infant. He has it (it is a boy) always with him, and has one of the women of the regiment to nurse it; and he declares that this little orphan, whom Heaven threw upon his protection, shall, let his future fortune through life be good or bad, share it with him.
NEW-YORK, Nov. 18.
The following particulars are received at Boston, from Capt. William Hathaway, master of the ship Belvidere, which has arrived at New Bedford, from London. "On the 25th Oct. 1809, in lat about 43, long 46, W. at ten P. M. after a chase of 16 hours, the ship Belvidere, of Boston from London to New Bedford, was taken possession of by a French schooner privateer, called the Lis, of Rochelle, Louis Flavelle, owner and supercargo. Besides a number of others, they fired two shots at the ship that went between the masts, a little above the hull, after we had hove too, and they within hail. They detained us until the 26th, when at 4 P. M. they dismissed us—in the mean time they robbed us of two barrels pork, half the beef we had on board, one barrel of bread, half our potatoes, all our cheese, four casks of water, most of our porter, all our live stock, a quantity of new sail cloth, old canvas, sail twine, needles, one barrel of tar, the ships cambouse, (leaving a poor one in exchange) the stern boat, oars, and tackle; the hanging compass and cabin compass, a kedge anchor, topgallant stays, carpenters tools, and several small articles, such as hooks, thimbles, marline spikes, spun-yarn, maws, points, robins, &c. They took all the letters on board the privateer, opened them, and delivered them up again."
PHILADELPHIA, Nov 20.
From the Aurora. GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE.
Francis James Jackson.—There are persons who frequent our coffee house, that some time since complained of the animadversions which were made on the peculiarity of the character chosen by the British government, to send
as a negotiator to the U. S.—What, said they, have we to do with Mr. Jackson's character? "Is he not sent here to represent the government of Great Britain?" "It is totally unimportant to us what governments in Europe, he may have bullied and insulted—he did nothing more nor less than what he was instructed to do by his government, and therefore personality is out of the question, let our government receive him as if he was the best man in the world, and try whether he will insult us."
This reasoning was incontestibly correct, and it was accordingly adopted by the executive. Mr. Jackson was received as the plenipotentiary of the British government, without any notice being taken of the indecency of sending us as a peace maker—such a character as Mr. Jackson.—What say those partisans of Great Britain now that this representative of the British government has added the bit to the blows, which our government had previously received from the English government?
Why, truly, that this last insult is merely personal—that it is not an affair between the two governments—that it has been occasioned by the peculiarly hot temper and vulgar manners of friend Barclay's friend Jackson—that our government have done right in putting the affront on the mere footing of personality, and offering to receive any other minister from the British government.
Indeed I hardly know an object which would be more entitled to commiseration, than this same Copenhagen negotiator, if I did not know to a certainty, that his feelings have been long since prepared by anticipation, to sustain with equanimity, the abuse and scorn which this job has cast upon him from all quarters—friends as well as enemies.
That our administration have acted correctly, in declaring on the dismissal of Jackson, that they would receive another minister from England, is perfectly true. But it is not true, that they have placed the affront merely on a personal footing. In diplomatic discussions, between the ministers of nations, there is no such thing known as personality. If Jackson's affront had been personal, the affront must have been to Mr. Smith, the secretary of state, who conducted the correspondence, & those who know Mr. S. know well that he would receive the lie from no man with impunity. The real truth of the matter is—that Mr. Jackson was sent out for the express purpose of completing the degradation of this country, by insulting our administration to their very beards—and that in the mode generally adopted by the lowest blackguards. Mr. Jackson was chosen as the fittest instrument for the purpose, and his employers have not been disappointed in their man—he has completed the job he undertook, and has nothing to do but receive payment for it. It is a shame—a great shame for his old friends to abuse him for fulfilling his contract.
Thus it is also, that poor Canning & Castlereagh are abused by their old friends in this country, and their retirement from office hailed as the harbinger of a change of measures towards the U. S.—Lord help us! how little do the simpletons who really believe in this, know of the materials which compose the British government—and the manner in which the affairs of the nation are conducted.
GREENE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE AURORA. Sir—I have been reading the account you published of the extraordinary language Mr. Jackson used in his correspondence with secretary Smith, I have also heard some persons express themselves with warmth and indignation against him for it.
In so doing it appears to me they are wrong. Mr. Jackson is only the organ of those who sent him. Fixing on Mr. Jackson, is a proof they knew their man, and knew well how to choose. The language and sentiment is then rather that of the British ministry, than that of Mr. Jackson; the
blame in that case ought rather to be attached to them than to him. I am the more inclined to this opinion, when I consider that his predecessor was recalled in consequence of his exceeding his instructions. Such at least is the reason given. Now as Mr. Jackson was sent here to replace Erskine, who had run as they say counter to instructions, it is not to be presumed in his first communications, that Mr. Jackson would imitate a bad example, and risk being recalled in disgrace. He must then I presume have been instructed before he left England, in that manner and in what language he was to commence and pursue his correspondence; and when it is compared with the style with which Mr. Canning addressed our minister, Mr. Pinckney—one would be inclined to believe, they flowed from one and the same source.
The most mortifying circumstance to me is, that they should presume from the ill treatment we have put up with, that they might carry it to any length—and that bully and abuse as they would, we did not possess spirit enough to resent it. Mr. Jackson, bringing his lady and children, evinces that he contemplated residing long with us—and is a further proof of their believing us fallen so low as not to dare to resent such language as it merited, and as Mr. Smith has done, for which he is receiving from every quarter, the warm applause of a grateful though injured people. No act of any government ever gave more general satisfaction.
Jackson appears to have blundered as Mr. Erskine did in mal-timing things—Erskine's error was in making his arrangement after the partial repeal of the embargo law—Jackson, in following the orders of ministers after they were dismissed.
We now, Mr. Printer, stand on fair ground, and before we enter on further negotiation, I do hope our government will make it a sine qua non—that they (the British) commence with proper concession for the insults offered our flag, in the affair of the Chesapeake—restore our impressed seamen, recall their orders in council, and pledge themselves that our neutrality shall for the future be respected—that done, let us treat as friends, but not before.
YOUR FRIEND '76.
CANNING'S LETTER.
As many persons have forgotten what were the precise conditions on which Mr. Canning proposed to revoke the orders in council, as contained in his far-famed despatch to Mr. Erskine, dated 23d of January, 1809, we have been induced to republish the article, without comment; recommending it, however, to the attentive perusal of all.
When Mr. Erskine's explanatory letter to Mr. Secretary Smith is communicated to the public, as it certainly will be in a very short time, we shall have much light on those parts of the British ministerial proceedings which are enveloped with mystery. This letter will inform us as well of the ground on which Mr. Erskine made those propositions to our government which, with so much "promptitude and frankness," were accepted, as well as of his reasons for not communicating the despatch of Jan. 23, as, from the face of it, it seems he was authorized to do.
Balt. Ev. Post.
Copy of a despatch from Mr. Secretary Canning to the honorable D. M. Erskine; dated Foreign Office, 23d of January, 1809.
SIR, If there really exists in those individuals who are now a leading share in the new administration of the United States, that disposition to come to a complete and cordial understanding with Great Britain, of which you have received from them such positive assurances; in meeting that disposition it would be useless and unprofitable to recur to a recapitulation of the causes from which the differences between the two governments have arisen, one of the arguments already so often repeated in support of that system of retaliation to which his majesty has unwillingly had recourse.
That system his majesty must unquestionably continue to maintain, unless the object of it can be otherwise accomplished. But after the profession on the part of so many of the leading ministers of the government of the United States, of a sincere desire to contribute to that object in a manner which should render the continuance of the system adopted by the British government unnecessary, it is enough right that a fair opportunity should be afforded to the American government to explain its meaning and give proof of its sincerity.
The extension of the interdiction of the American harbors to the ships of war of France as well as of Great Britain, is as stated in my former despatch, an acceptable symptom of a system of impartiality towards both belligerents; the first that has been publicly manifested by the American government.
The extension of the non-importation act to other belligerents is equally proper in this view. These measures remove those preliminary objections, which must otherwise have precluded any useful or amicable discussion.
In this state of things, it is impossible for G. B. to entertain propositions, which, while such manifest partiality was shewn to her enemies, were not consistent either with her dignity or her interest.
From the report of your conversations with Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin, and Mr. Smith, it appears:
1st. That the American government is prepared in the event of his majesty's consenting to withdraw the orders in council of January and Nov. 1807, to withdraw contemporaneously on its part the interdiction of its harbors to ships of war, and all non-intercourse and non-importation acts, as far as respect to France, and the powers which adopt or act under her decrees.
2d. (What is of the utmost importance, as precluding a new source of misunderstanding which might arise after the adjustment of the other questions.) That America is willing to renounce, during the present war, the pretensions of carrying on in war time all trade with the enemy's colonies, from which she was excluded during peace.
3d. Great Britain, for the purpose of securing the operation of the embargo, and of the bona fide intention of America to prevent her citizens from trading with France, and the powers adopting and acting under the French decrees, is to be considered as being at liberty to capture all such American vessels as may be found attempting to trade with the ports of any of these powers; without which security or the observance of the embargo, the raising it nominally with respect to G. B. also, would in fact raise it with respect to all the world.
On these conditions his majesty would consent to withdraw the orders in council of Jan. and Nov. 1807, so far as it respects America.
As the first and second of these conditions are the suggestions of persons in authority in America to you, and as Mr. Pinckney has recently, but the first only, expressed to me his opinion that there would be no disposition on the part of his government to the enforcement by the Naval Power of G. Britain of the regulations of America with respect to France, and the countries to which these regulations continue to apply, but that his government was itself aware, that without such enforcement those regulations must be altogether nugatory; I flatter myself that there will be no difficulty in obtaining a distinct and official recognition of these conditions from the American government.
For this purpose you are at liberty to communicate this despatch in extenso to the American secretary of state.
Upon receiving through you, on the part of the American government, a distinct & official recognition of the three mentioned conditions, his majesty will lose no time in sending to America a formal and regular treaty.
As, however, it is possible that the delay which must intervene before the actual conclusion of a treaty may appear to the American government to deprive this arrangement of part of its benefits, I am to authorise you, if the American government should be desirous of acting upon the agreement before it is reduced to a regular form, (either by the immediate repeal of the embargo, and the other acts in question, or by engaging to repeal them on a particular day) to assure the American government of his majesty's readiness to meet such a disposition in the manner best calculated to give it immediate effect.
Upon the receipt here of an official note, containing an engagement for adoption by the American government of the three conditions above specified, his majesty will be prepared on the faith of such an engagement, either immediately (if the repeal shall have been immediate in America) or on days specified by the American government for that repeal reciprocally to recall the orders in council, without waiting for the conclusion of the treaty; and you are authorised in the circumstances herein described, to make such reciprocal engagements on his majesty's behalf.
I am, &c. GEORGE CANNING.
NORFOLK, November 20.
A French government schooner, named the Tilt, [No. 2] capt. Desmoulin, arrived in Hampton Roads on Friday night last in 43 days from B. onne, with despatches for Mons. Turreau, the French Minister—She sails this day for Baltimore.
PORTIA.
NEW-YORK, Nov. 17.
Capt. Miller of the ship Devotion, from Tonningen, informs us, that on the 20th of September he was at Hamburg, and about that time, the King of Westphalia made a demand upon the Hamburgers for a large sum of money, which was refused; and in consequence of the refusal to pay the sum of money demanded, 600 Westphalian troops marched into the city and compelled the Hamburgers to comply with the demand made on them.
Capt. M. further states, that it was reported at Tonningen, that Hostilities had re-commenced between Austria and France.—Ver. Adv.
DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY BY THE PERSIANS.
A Persian newspaper, containing an account of some of the principal occurrences which immediately preceded the departure of the ship Rahimshaw from Bushire has within these few days, been received by a respectable Arab merchant, at present resident in Calcutta. Among other matters, of less importance, it communicates the details of the conflict between the Persian and Russian armies in Georgia; which, as relating to an event of which no authentic account had previously been received, will, doubtless, be perused by our readers with considerable interest. We give them pretty nearly in the terms of the original.
"By the ship Rahimshaw, we have received an account of the victory lately obtained by the warriors of Iran over the armies of Russia. This event happened towards the latter end of the month of Ramazad, in the year 1223 of the Hijjerah, corresponding with the middle of Nov. 1808, of the Christian Aera. The following are the particulars. A large Russian force, well appointed and accoutred, and powerfully supported by a formidable artillery, having marched from Teffleez, for the purpose of reducing the fortress of Prawn, intelligence of their movements was communicated to Mahomed Houssain Khan, Kujur of Coveen Begler Begee, the High in Dignity. Immediately on the receipt of this information, that Chieftain assembled together such troops of the vic-

torious army as he had in readiness, and proceeded, by rapid marches, to meet the Russians. As soon as the two armies came within sight of each other, the enemy opened a heavy fire from their artillery, which destroyed a portion of the Persian troops. Upon this, Mahomed Houssain Khan, the renowned for bravery, calling to mind the words of the proverb (which may be translated—"The better part of valour is discretion")—had recourse to the warfare of flight. He thus inveigled the Russians to follow him and directed his way towards the fortress of Abomee, where the tents of his soldiers were intermixed with the dwellings of the inhabitants. The pursuit was kept up by the enemy with much eagerness and precipitation, until they came within the range of the fortress: when the Persian artillery opened, and, at the first discharge, a vast number of the Russian soldiers were consumed in the fire, or mortality. At the same moment, the victorious troops of Mahomed Houssain Khan pushed, with drawn scimitars, among the ranks of the enemy, and completed their discomfiture. In the conflict which ensued, about 7 or 8,000 Russians fell a prey to the remorseless sword, many of their chieftains were made prisoners, and a great part of their guns, arms, and accoutrements, fell into the hands of the conquering Persians. The Russian commander in Chief fled towards Teffez.
"As soon as Mahomed Houssain Khan was completely assured of the defeat and flight of the enemy, he transmitted an account of this great victory to the Prince of the World, Abbas Mirza, who sits on the Throne of Royalty at Tebrez. At the same time Mahomed Houssain Khan himself proceeded towards Teffez, in pursuit of the Russians. When the intelligence reached the Prince Abbas Mirza, he immediately forwarded a detail of the circumstance of the victory to the King and taking the field in person with a powerful army, also set out in the direction Teffez, with a fixed determination, in his valiant mind, to extirpate the Russian nation!"
"Mahomed Kurreem Khan Afshaar (a relation to the Prime Minister, Mirza Mahomed Shusse) received instructions from the King, to spread abroad the tidings of this joyful event. Three dispatches upon the subject were accordingly sent from Tebrez, one to the Prince of the World, Ruler of Persia and Khokhalpoys, of all the Ravens and Shores, and of the Land of Lhar, another to Mahomed Nubee Khan, Lord of the Sea—and a third to the British Envoy."
"As, moreover, it was manifest, that in this affair, the Russians had been the aggressors, it now occurred to the mind of the King, that they must have acted under the influence of the French Ambassador, at present in attendance at the Court of Persia. The dust of vexation, therefore, settled in the skirts of the Royal favor towards the French nation; and it became desirable in the eyes of the King, that the friendship subsisting with that people should be dissolved. He was inclined to dismiss the Embassy; and according to one report, has actually done so. According to another, however, which is considered as the more authentic of the two, he has postponed the execution of his purpose until the arrival of the English Envoy."
MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.
THE Annual General meeting of the Mutual Assurance Society against fire on buildings of the State of Virginia, will be held at adjournment, at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on the second Monday in December next, [being the eleventh day of December.]
SAMUEL GREENHOW, P. Agent M. A. S. Richmond, 10th Nov. 1809. "P.S. As much inconvenience and unnecessary expense results from the present mode of collecting the contributions of the members; which annually diverts a considerable part of those contributions from the uses for which they were intended—burdens individuals with heavy costs and greatly delays the collections, to the injury of the credit of the Society, the general meeting at their last annual session, applied to the legislature to authorise a more certain, expedious, and less expensive mode of collection—their application was rejected, under an impression that the members of the society might not approve of this act of their proxies. Having been informed that a similar proposition will be submitted to the consideration of the next general meeting, and believing some amendment in that respect necessary to the prosperity of the institution, I have thought it proper to give this public notice thereof."
S. GREENHOW, P. A. Other printers in this state, are requested to insert the above in their papers till the eleventh December next. S. G.
BOARDING FOR DELEGATES. WILLIAM RALEIGH, has taken the house belonging to David Bullock, Esq west from the Capitol, and lately occupied by William Wirt, Esq.
He can accommodate from 15 to 20, and shall make preparations for that purpose. He begs leave to inform his friends as well as those who may confide in him, that he will devote himself with the greatest attention to give satisfaction to them, as well as to obtain the approbation of his own mind.
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed by John Dennis to the subscriber, bearing date the 25th day of July, 1807, of record in the county court of Richmond, for the purpose of securing a debt due to Ezekiel Levy; will be sold, at Farnham Church, on the 6th day of December next, to the highest bidder, under the provisions of the act of assembly passed last session, entitled "an act concerning executions and for other purposes;" the following property conveyed by the said deed, to wit—Schoolner Henry, of Tappahannock, with all her apparel, and sundry negroes, whose names are Sarah, Sam, George, Hannah, and Joe; three horses, ten head of cattle, and five feather beds and furniture, or so much of the said property as will raise the sum required. Provided the day of sale above mentioned should be bad weather, the sale will take place the first fair day after.
B. MCCARTY, Trustee. Richmond County, 11th Nov. 1809. 3w
Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1809.
Extract of a letter from our Correspondent, dated Washington City, November 21, 1809.
"THE Independent American" has saved me the trouble of copying for your use the Appeal of Mr. Jackson to the public. The subjoined "circular" is that appeal, in the form of an address to the English agents residing in the United States. It is a sort of General Orders to the British party in America how to act in the present exigency. That it is an appeal there can be no doubt; because, if the object were merely to inform his Britannic majesty's consuls and others, that Mr. Jackson was about to remove to New York and that they must address their letters to him at that place, it was by no means necessary to enter into a statement of the incidents which had led to the repulsion of Mr. Jackson. The circular was disseminated pretty widely in manuscript before it got into print, and there was a species of shyness to publish it manifested by the opposition prints, which clearly indicates that there has been some information from Mr. Jackson on the subject, and, by undeniable inference, proves that there is an understanding between him and at least some of the newspaper printers in this country. He wished, beyond all doubt, that the Gazettes friendly to the administration should first publish the circular, by which means he may have hoped to have escaped the stigma of being the publisher. But his impatience has got the better of his discretion—for, finding that no republican paper was in a very great hurry to insert the government, the thing has been published under his very nose at Georgetown, in this District. In point of indecorum and outrage to the government, by this act of writing and publishing, perhaps the offence was greater and the conduct of Jackson more insidious, by circulating the appeal in a private way, than if he had come out openly in the first instance. If there were no other act of iniquity on record against him, this circular would convict him of being a shuffling, contemptible knave. You will perceive that he represents himself as being charged with a very important and interesting negotiation. I understand, from good authority, that this representation of the case is a scandalous falsehood; that he not only had nothing new to offer, but that his whole behavior towards the government in his correspondence has been insolent from beginning to end, and that it has been an act of very great forbearance in the executive that he was not dismissed long ago. The overture, which he says was not answered, is believed to have been, both in its nature and in the form of its presentation, a gross aggravation of the point which it proposed to adjust. Respecting the submission of the conditions by Mr. Erskine, rely upon it that Jackson is guilty of base equivocation; and in relation to the statement that Mr. Smith was made acquainted with that view of the subject which represents that Mr. Jackson meant not to offend the government of the United States, I will only observe to you, that a man who insults another, repeats and ad-heres to the insult, does not, by merely saying that he meant no offence, and without retracting the insulting words, make proper atonement—he rather adds to the outrage—more particularly when, as it is believed was the case with Mr. Jackson, the person insulting, at the very moment of declaring, and in the very terms of the declaration of the non-intention, insists upon the offensive points."
"What number of manuscript copies of the circular Jackson has sent to the American Tories, is not certainly known. A deputy of old Hamilton's (consul at Norfolk,) who resides in Alexandria, is said to have been very busy in putting them about. I do not vouch for the fact that he did so; but it is asserted by very respectable authority that he did do it. The government ought to be made acquainted with these meddling agents of Jackson's. The duties of British consuls and their deputies is commercial, not political, and if they assist in the dissemination of calumnies against the government to which they are accredited they deserve to lose their commissions."
"I conclude, by informing you that it is now said that Jackson will remain in this city until the commencement of the congressional session. This is quite accommodating: Mr. Pickering and some others of his stamp might not find it so convenient to consult him if Jackson went to New York before the old year gets here. It is reported that Mr. Okey has departed hence for England."
CIRCULAR. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 1809.
SIR, I have to inform you, with much regret, that the facts which it has been my duty to state in my official correspondence with Mr. Smith have been deemed by the President of the United States, to afford a sufficient motive for breaking off an important negotiation, and for putting an end to all communication whatever with me, as the minister charged with that negotiation, so interesting to both nations and on one most material point of which an answer has not even been returned to an official and written overture.
One of the facts alluded to has been admitted by the Secretary of State himself in his letter to me of the 19th October, viz.—That the three conditions, forming the substance of Mr. Erskine's original instruction, were submitted to him by that gentleman. The other, viz: That that instruction is the only one in which the conditions were
prescribed to Mr. Erskine for the conclusion of an arrangement on the matter to which it related, is known to me by the instructions which I have myself received.
In stating these facts and in adhering to them, as my duty imperiously enjoined me to do, in order to repel the frequent charges of ill faith which have been made against his Majesty's government, I could not imagine that offence would be taken at it by the American government, as most certainly none could be intended on my part; and this view of the subject has been made known to Mr. Smith: But as I am informed by him that no further communication will be received from me, I conceive that I have no alternative left which is consistent with the King's dignity, but to withdraw altogether from this city, and a wait elsewhere the arrival of his majesty's commands upon the unlooked for turn which has thus been given to his affairs in this country.
I mean in the interval to make New York the place of my residence where you will henceforward please to direct your communications to me, as I shall be accompanied by every member of his majesty's mission.
I am, &c. (Signed) F. J. JACKSON.
Agreeably to our promise we this day submit to our readers extracts from Vattel of a considerable length, which merit a dispassionate attention, not merely because they vindicate the course pursued by our government, and indeed manifest its mildness, but because they define the existing character of Mr. Jackson, notwithstanding the necessary step taken by the President, and show especially that he still preserves all the inviolability attached by the law of nations to a public minister. Had the President even gone further than he has, and ordered him to leave the country, while he remained in it he would continue to enjoy all the immunities attached to his appointment. The inviolability of his person and the respect due to his office would be in no wise impaired. It requires no argument to show that, in a case where the government has gone a much lesser length, the same inviolability and respect attach to him. Although the President has refused to receive any further communication from him, he is still a public minister and the representative of the British government in many important respects.
Our comparative unacquaintance with the law of nations, arising from the infancy of our national existence and our fortunate freedom from foreign connections or collisions, renders the diffusion of these truths at this time more important, lest the indignation likely to be excited by Mr. Jackson's conduct should prompt any of our citizens in the warmth of their feelings to offer an insult to him, or be wanting in those offices which his station entitles him to claim. Such an incident, independent of the just reproach to which it would expose our character, might have an unpropitious influence on the concerns of the two nations, as, at the very moment our government was urging to that of Britain a just complaint against her minister, she might have cause to complain of the conduct of our citizens, and the acts, although distinct, be but likely to be blended together.
Should the feelings of any one tend to excite a disposition to treat Mr. Jackson indecorously, let him reflect on the punishment to which he would thereby inevitably expose himself, and to the deep injury he might, however unintentionally, inflict on his country, and we are persuaded he will feel it a sacred duty to abstain from all violence or indecorum, leaving to his government the management of an affair of so much delicacy and importance.
[Nat. Int.
PECUNIARY RESOURCES.
We have before us an account of the state debt of Maryland to the 1st. November, 1809, which was laid before the General Assembly of that state, by the Auditor General, on the 6th of the present month. By this estimate it appears that there is a balance 40, 712/ 18s. 2-4d, current money, and 1,000,500 dollars 43 cents in stock of the United States, in favor of the state of Maryland, exclusive of 209,641/ 13s. 4d. current money, funds in different institutions of the state of Maryland. A recapitulation of the above, reduced to federal currency, would stand thus:
Balance of the state debt, $ 109,567 76 United States stock, 1,060,500 43 Funds in institutions, 359,044 43 Total, dolls. 1,728,112 62
The legislature of Tennessee have passed an act, to disqualify any person,
who may hereafter give, receive or bear a Challenge, from holding any office or appointment under the government, giving evidence in any court of record, or serving as a Jurymen—And enacting that in case a challenger shall publish or denounce the other party, who "is unwilling or refuses to fight," as a coward, a paltron, or by any similar epithet, such words are to be held as slanderous and an action may be maintained against the speaker or publisher thereof.
We long since assured the public that Mr. Erskine's instructions were not communicated to the Executive of the United States; in other words, that our Executive when it entered into the arrangement with Mr. Erskine, did not know that he was unauthorised by his government to make such arrangement. It now appears that the President in the late correspondence with Mr. Jackson, has pledged himself to the British government and to the world that such was the case, and has refused to hold further diplomatic intercourse with Mr. Jackson, in consequence of the repeated insinuations of that gentleman to the contrary. In this the president has conducted in a manner worthy of his own character and of the American name.
Invariably have we asserted that the President was sincerely desirous of an accommodation with England, & that such an accommodation would ultimately take place. We still continue of the same opinion.
Freeman's Journal.
MARRIED. —On Saturday evening last, Mr JOHN GUNN, to Miss M'CAW, daughter of Samuel M'CAW, Esq. all of this city.
COMMUNICATED.
DIED. —On Thursday morning last at 4 o'clock, at his seat on James river, Mr. COLLIER HARRISON, of Charles City county—leaving a disconsolate and affectionate wife with three children, long to lament the loss of the best of men.
In the different and diversified relations of husband and father and master and friend, Mr. Harrison shone in a preeminent degree. The widow and the orphan will long have to deplore the loss of a man who could forget self interest, when humanity and charity pointed out to his view, their distressed and forlorn and friendless situation.
How often did he hear, with fresh delight. Their earnest tales, or watch their passions With timorous attention; then did he tell Of justice, for rude, and public weal, And with the while each rigid precept smooth, With winning tokens of parental love.
BY virtue of the last will and testament of Edwin Motley, deceased, will be sold, the highest bidder, on the premises, on Thursday the 24th day of December next if fair, if not, the next fair day, a TRACT OF LAND, called Booth situated in Gloucester county, on Portopack creek and within one mile of York river, containing between six and seven hundred acres. Also, on Tuesday the 12th of Dec. if fair if not, the next fair day, will be sold, to the highest bidder, on the premises, a TRACT OF LAND situated in the lower end of Spottsylvania county, near Thornton's Springs, containing 200 acres. A credit of one year will be given for one half the purchase money [in each case] and two years for the last payment—bonds with approved security will be required of the purchasers—and to be divided to suit the payment of legacies devised in the will of said deceased. The above tracts of land were to have been sold, one on the 15th, and the other on the 23d of November, agreeable to an advertisement lately inserted in the Enquirer, but in consequence of its not being stated where the sales were to take place, it is postponed as above. 3p ELIZABETH MOTLEY, Adm'x. King & Queen County, 18th Nov. 1809.
THE co-partnership of Caleb H. Turner and Ass Hopkins, clock-maker, was dissolved by mutual consent on the first day of instant, November—The business will be carried on in future by Caleb H. Turner, who alone is authorised to settle all contracts made with the above firm.
CALEB H. TURNER. ISA HOPKINS. Prince Edward, 1st Nov. 1809. w2p N B. Cabinet Work of all kinds made to order. C. H. TURNER.
WILL BE SOLD, at Buckingham courthouse, for ready money, on the 8th day of January next (it being court day) by virtue of a deed of trust executed by Charles Talley to Henry Rawlins and David Bell, as trustees, for the purpose of securing a debt therein mentioned due to the executor of John Adcock, dec. a TRACT OF LAND, containing 140 acres, lying and being in the said county, between the two Buffalo creeks, branches of Willis's river, and in the neighborhood of Cairo.
HENRY RAWLINS, Surviving Trustee. Nov 9th, 1809. 4w
WILL BE SOLD. —To the highest bidder, at Haley Cole's tavern, in the county of Chesterfield, on the 9th of December next, one fourth part of a valuable Coal Mine, on Falling creek, in said county, containing 34 1/2 acres, more or less, and commonly known by the name of "Union Pitts." The pits have only been worked to an extent to ascertain that the mines are of sufficient thickness to be rated among the best seams or beds of coal now known.—Also will be sold at the same time and place, one twentieth part of the pits commonly called Ellison and Woolridge's pits containing 103 acres, more or less, and immediately joining the other. An indisputable title will be made to purchasers, and the terms made on the day of sale.
JAMES CHEATHAM. Nov. 22, 1809. 4ds
VINE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA
THE Managers of the Vineyard, at Spring Mills, conceive it a duty that they owe to the lovers of the Vintage in the United States, to inform that they have a large number of fine plants and cuttings of various kinds, for sale at very reasonable prices for the Autumn & next Spring's planting. Orders addressed to Mr. Bernard M'Mahon, seedsman and florist, in Philadelphia, or to Peter Leagoux, at the Vineyard, post paid, will be carefully attended to.
JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale at this Office the eight edition making near twenty thousand copies already sold, of the Life of George Washington.
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Ye living Sires! with pleasure all attend, And read the History of your Glorious Friend. Lisp! lisp his name, ye Children yet unborn! And with like deeds, your own bright lives adorn.
BY THE REV. M. L. WEEMS, Formerly Clergyman of Mount Vernon Parish, and intimate with the grey-haired veterans of the last century, who were the playmates and companions of the great Washington from his childhood.
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REMOVAL. THE subscriber has removed near the Basin where he continues to keep a house of Private Entertainment. He has also for sale, a general assortment of GROCERIES. Likewise sells all kinds of country produce on commission.  HEZEKIAH PURYEAR. Richmond, May 17th, 1809. N. B. The highest price given for wheat. H. P.
One Thousand Pounds WANTED. FOR the interest of which, a plantation of 500 acres of valuable land will be given, until the money is repaid. Nearly 100 acres are in low ground, now in cultivation, lying on navigable water, the improvements new and very good in a healthy and desirable country. Enquire of the Printer. September 8, 1809. tf
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. Stolen from me about the 12th of Nov. 1807, a negro man slave named Cesar, the property of the subscriber. He formerly belonged to Mr. Robert Alexander, of Campbell county, and was bought from him a small boy, in the year 1789. He is now about 6 feet high, one of his big toes is very remarkable, being split with an axe through the nail and nail as high as the second joint, so that it is much broader and larger than the other. He was accustomed to run James River above the falls. I was informed that he went up James River in a skiff owned by one Green, to the other side of the mountains. On delivering him to me or securing him in some jail so that I get him again, shall be paid by me, the reward of twenty Dollars. This is to forewarn any person or persons from harboring or concealing him, as they may depend on it that I will prosecute such violators of the law to its full extent.  ROBERT MITCHELL. City of Richmond, July 27th, 1809.
NEW MEDICINE STORE. THE subscribers have recently taken a store, near the Market Bridge, opposite Messrs. White and Shelton's, where they offer for sale a general assortment of DRUGS & MEDICINES , a few of which are enumerated, viz:    Camphor  Patent Medicine.    Ammon  Steers Chemical Opo-    Asa Foetida  delid    Arabic  Batemans Drops    Gutaca  British Oil    Camphor  Essence Peppermint    Myrrh  Wellington's Balsam of    Opium  Life    Coal  Dr. Rawson's Celebrat-    Shell Lac  ing Ich or Beautify-    Tragacanth  ing Ointment    Aqua Fortis  Do. do. Genuine    Annatto  Antiphlogistic and Epi-    Arrow Root  maestic Bitters    Campbor  Do. do. Worm    Cowhage  Powders    Red and Pale Bark  Wheatson's Itch Oint-    Cean Tarax  ment    Chamomile Flowers  Doctor Lee's Genuine    Magnesia  Windham Billious    Island  Pills    Ipecac  Anderson's do.    Calomel  Hooper's do.    Red Iron  Dr. Thompson's Aromat-    Extrac. Murgamot  ic Tooth Paste    — Lotion  Do. Eye Water    — Spruce  Ferriage's Electary    Cloves  for Ague and Fever    Nutmegs  Hinkley's Infallible Re-    Mace  medy for the Piles    Cassa, &c. &c. &c.  Dr. Cooley's Vegetable     Elixir or Cough Drops     Genuine Spice Butters.    ALSO A general assortment of PAINTS & DYING DRUGS —all of which will be sold as low as at any other store in this city. Medical practitioners and gentlemen who are in the habit of selling medicine in the country, will do well to call.  VAIL & ROGERS; Richmond, 29th Aug. 1809.
A BANK NOTE of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS was taken from a black boy who called himself James Smith, & says he found it in the street—No thinking it proper to let the boy keep it, I detained it for the proper owner, who may have it, on giving satisfactory evidence of his or their right to it, and paying the expense of this advertisement.  JOHN McDONALD Richmond, March 10th, 1809. tf
20 Dollars Reward, is offered for apprehending ANDREW , a negro slave, who about the beginning of this month RUN AWAY from the subscriber residing in the neighborhood of Amelia Court House. Andrew is about thirty years old, an intelligent, active, small man, a good house and stable servant, drives a Carriage well, understands a little of Shoemaking, and readily performs any kind of plantation labor. Some years ago he was in the service of Mr. Turner at the Bell Tavern in Richmond, where I believe he generally acted as hostler and after wards to Mr. Christmas, was employed by Mr. Henry L. Grimes of Manchester, in his tobacco stemmery. He has a wife living at the Manchester coal yard, a free mulatto woman named Sukey Mottinger, by whom I have reason to believe he is secreted. I will pay the above reward to any person who will deliver to me the above mentioned slave, or secure him in Jail, so that I get him again.  James Menderson. 20th June, 1809. tf
IN COUNCIL, Sept. 19th, 1809. It is advised, that from and after the 1st day of January next, the Auditor be instructed in every case where any claim by virtue of an order or certificate of court is presented to him by a person whose name is not mentioned therein, to require such person to produce also an order or power of Attorney from the individual in whose favor such order or Certificate of court was made, together with an affidavit of one witness at least, certified by a Magistrate or Notary Public, that such individual actually signed and acknowledged the same. And to give general information of this rule, it is advised, that a copy hereof be published in the Virginia Argus, Enquirer, Petersburg Intelligencer, Norfolk Herald, Lynchburg Star, Staunton Eagle, and Winchester Gazette, once a week, until the first day of January next. Extract from the Journal, (WILL) DANIEL L. HYLTON, C. S.
For sale at this office, A FEW COPIES OF BISHOP MADISON'S MAP OF VIRGINIA.
FOR SALE. —A handsome, second hand, London built CHARIOT , which has been but little used and is in a good state of preservation. Apply to the printer, or to Mr. Hughes, coach maker, opposite the Old City Tavern, where the carriage may be seen.
BLACKSMITH FOR SALE. FOR sale, a most valuable Blacksmith about 30 years of age. He is a stout well disposed negro; and probably inferior to no smith in the State. Enquire of the printer. September, 11th 1809. (3m)
DISSOLUTION. —The partnership of THOMAS, MILES and MCKINNEY , and THOMAS, MCKINNEY & Co. in this day dissolved by mutual consent; all persons having claims against either of the firms will apply to William McKinney for payment; those indebted are requested to come forward and settle their accounts with him, who alone is authorized to receive payment and grant discharges.  JOHN THOMAS.  WILLIAM MCKINNEY.  WILLIAM BALDWIN. Greenhill, Charlotte Sept. 1st. 1809. 3m
THE subscriber wishes to employ TWO good Workmen in the Wheelwright business, to whom good wages will be given; he works may be at liberty to work by the piece—Also two Apprentices are wanted to the Wheelwright business.  A. Quartier. Richmond, 24th Oct. 1809. tf
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly for leave to dispense with the lock required to be built at my Mill Dam until some efficient measures shall be adopted for improving the navigation of Banister River.  JOHN WIMBISH. Oct. 15th, 1809.
THE subscriber having taken the whole of the large Brick Building belonging to the estate of the late Mr. William Price, on the street leading from the Capitol, will be prepared to accommodate from fifteen to twenty of the Members of the next assembly.  JUDITH NELSON. Richmond, 23rd October, 1809. tf
NOTICE. —The subscriber having administered upon the Estate of the late Mr. JOHN HUGHES , senr. of Cumberland, now Powhatan county, is earnestly requested if there be any demands against that Estate, that they may be brought forward, before the first day of January next, properly substantiated, and receive payment, as I intend to make a division of the residue of that Estate immediately after the said first day of January next, after which this advertisement will be plead in bar against any claim whatsoever.  JOHN CUNLIFFE, Adminr. with the will annexed. Conduit, Chesterfield county, 16th Oct. 1809. (13)
CASH will be given for a good male house servant and female cook.  JOSEPH TRENT. (3d), 27th, 1809. tf
NEW STORE. THE SUBSCRIBER, is now opening, opposite the Globe Tavern, a General assortment of Piece and Fancy GOODS; AMONGST WHICH ARE,    Superfine and Com. White and coloured Broad Cloths  ed Habit do.    Do. do. Cassimere.  Cambric Muslins.    Do. do. Coatings.  Plain and Seeded Flannels.    Do. do. Plannels.  Mull. do.    Fancy Vesting.  Spider Nett and Red & Black Bom.    Red & Black Bom.  Fancy Crepe do.    Worsled. Cotton & Silk Hosiery.  Knotted and Sprigged Leno. do.    Conghage.  Diagonal and Veil. ed do. do.    Cotton Shirting.  Elegant Worked Dresses.    Linen and Dowls.  Ditto Silk Shawls & Handkerchiefs.    Fine and common Printed Calicoes.  Black Plain and Plain Coloured Linens.    Velvets.  Plain, Silk and Fancy Cut Velvets.    Cords.  White Satin and Crapes, &c. &c. &c.    Umbrellas.     Torceds.     Sewing Silks.     Extra long white and coloured Red Gloves.     JOHN WOOD. Richmond, Nov. 10, 1809. tf
At a meeting of the directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company on Wednesday evening, the 15th of November, 1809. Resolved, That all shares of delinquent holders of shares in the said company be sold at the Washington Tavern in the city of Richmond on the 19th day of next month at 12 o'clock. Resolved, That a call of five dollars on each share be paid by the share-holders in the company to the treasurer, on or before the first day of December next. A Copy. N. SHEPHARD, CLK.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. —Stolen from Johnson's dock, in this City about 10 o'clock to-day, a yellow Bay Horse with a Saddle and bridle on, he is about 5 feet 2 in. high, 5 years old, next spring, the hair rubbed off his left side, where a piece, gallop, pace and gait—when pushed in a pace, he has a kind of a bunch over his shoulder. Any person who will deliver him to John Johnson of this city, or to me in New Kent shall receive the above reward.  JUDITH NELSON. Nov. 16th, 1809. Sep.
C. THOMPSON. PORTRAIT PAINTER, respectfully informs the public that he has commenced his business in the house opposite the Swan Tavern, where some specimens may be seen.
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY. THE annual meeting of Stockholders will be held at Brooks's Tavern in Manchester, on the first Monday in December next. Such members as cannot attend in person will, it is expected, appoint their proxies. The undersigned requires to be furnished, so soon as possible, with the necessary evidence of shares sold and purchased, since the last meeting; in order that transfers may be made on the Company's books, and shares duly represented.  JAMES BRANDEN, CLK. Manchester, Nov. 3d. 1809.
FOR SALE, A TRACT of LAND, in the county of Cumberland, within a mile of Farmville, containing four hundred acres, not quite half of which is cleared. The remainder is for the most part prime tobacco land, uncommonly well timbered and watered. The cleared land is generally in excellent heart. There are on the tract a commodious framed granary situated all around and two tobacco houses. The situation is esteemed uncommonly healthy. If not previously sold, it will be offered at public sale, on Friday the first day of December next, in the town of Farmville—where also, the subscriber has for sale an excellent well built small dwelling house with a commodious store house and lumber house adjoining, with good cellars, &c. Mr. EDWARD RANDOLPH , who was last adjoining the land, will show it to any one disposed to purchase.  JOHN RANDOLPH. November 1st, 1809. 6w
SURRY COURT HOUSE FOR SALE. BY CONSENT of parties and under a deed of trust executed to me by Richard Mason and Wife for the benefit of John H. Cocke, will certainly be exposed to sale, to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 5th day of December ensuing, upon the premises, the following very valuable property. The large and elegant Tavern, containing sixteen rooms, Kitchen, Smoke House, and Dairy suited to such an establishment; Granary, Carriage House, and Stables for six or seven Horses; two hundred acres of Land, more or less; two small Orchards, a large Ice House with a pond contiguous, abounding in Fish, and an elegant Race Course, together with the following Tenements. A dwelling House containing five Rooms, Kitchen, Dairy, Smoke House, Stable & Granary attached, with ten acres of Land, occupied by Mr. Reuben Butler. A convenient Store House and Counting Room & Lumber House, occupied by Messrs. Cole & Hendrick. A commodious Dwelling House containing four Rooms, Kitchen, Dairy, Smoke House, Granary and Stable, with two acres of Land attached, occupied by Mr. Smedge. The three last Tenements are under a lease for a term of years. A handsome Dwelling House containing three Rooms, calculated for a Store, Kitchen & Smoke House, with one and half acres of Land attached thereto. A small Dwelling House occupied by Mr. Mahone, (specifying with it Kitchen and Blacksmith's Shop. And a convenient House at present occupied as a Post-Office. The terms of sale will be Four Thousand Dollars with interest on two Thousand Dollars for two years to be paid down, and twelve months credit from the time of giving possession will be allowed for the balance of the purchase money; the purchaser giving bond with approved security to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. At the time of sale a Deed will be made to the purchaser, and he giving a Deed of Trust upon the property to secure the payment. Possession will be given on the first day of January. To any person disposed to engage in the business of a publican the above property will be truly desirable, and as a stand for mercantile business few if any are superior in the lower country.  CHARLES H. GRAVES, Trustee. Surry County, 4th Nov. 1809. (tds)
FOR SALE, between 4 and 500 acres of GLOUCESTER LOW GROUND —That valuable plantation called SHIP YARD belonging to the estate of the late Benjamin Dabney, situated on Ware River. It is well timbered and convenient for fish and oysters. Terms may be made known by application to  TH. G. SMITH, Ex'r. and SARAH DABNEY, Ex'rs. November 4, 1809. 2mp
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. —On the 27th inst. will be sold, at public auction, at Shirley, in the county of Charles City, all the Household and Kitchen Furniture belonging to the estate of the late Charles Carter. The terms of sale will be cash for all sums under 50 dollars, and bonds with approved security payable in 12 months, for that sum and upwards to bear interest from the date if not punctually paid.  WILLIAMS CARTER, Ex'r of ROBT. CARTER, deceased. Nov 13th, 1809. tds
FOR RENT. —The House & Lot at present occupied by Mr. George Watt, situated on the east side of Shockoe creek. For particulars apply to Mr. Watt or to JOSEPH GALLEGO.
A FEW COPIES OF  Burk's History of Virginia IN THREE VOLUMES Are for sale at this office.
FOR SALE. 160 Boxes English Grown Glass, 12 14 10 12 8 10. 50 Boxes Baltimore do. do. 10 12 8 10 300 Kegs British White Lead 100 do. Spanish Iron, amongst which are 12 ton suitable for Hoes and Axes, 2 ton, American and Swedish Steel, 12 Bales Cotton of a Superior quality, with one small assortment of Groceries.  RUSSELL & WALLACE. Richmond, Nov. 20, 1809. 2m
THE GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA will meet in the Mason's Hall, in the city of Richmond, at 6 o'clock in the evening of the second Monday in December next, being the 11th day of the month. November 19th, 1809. tdm
WANTS EMPLOYMENT, in Counting House in Richmond or Manchester, a young man who was bred to the mercantile business—is a good clerk, and can show satisfactory recommendations. It will suit him to commence any time before the 15th inst. A letter addressed to L. E. C. and lodged in the Lynchburg post office, will be attended to. November 10th, 1809. 4p
FOR SALE. 30 bds brn. Sugar 50 boxes fresh raisins 100 bds do. do. 50 boxes soap 20 bds loaf do. 10 casks sherry wine 15000 lb green Coffee 10 do. malaga do. 2000 yds twill sackg 30 bag. pepper 10 ton hoop Iron 25 bags rice 60 lb sewing Silk 10 reams writing paper 5 bds brn. Quince per 10 gross Eagle playing cards 3 boxes refined salt per 15 bds Planners oil Bittered, staly, sh, shoes, gauging tools, winter stained oil, &c. &c. Apply to  HOVEY & SIZOR. Richmond Nov. 20 1809. 3w
NOTICE. —A petition will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying that a law may pass for selling the lands of Samuel Dixon, deceased, lying in the county of Hanover. The object of the said intended sale is to make a more beneficial division of the subject among the subscribers. Mary Richard, H. Mary St. John Dixon, George Dixon, Resanna Dixon and George Dixon, Jr. (who are the only heirs at law of the said Samuel Dixon) then it is believed can otherwise be effected, as the said Samuel Dixon died intestate, and some of the said subscribers are alienists, and the said land is not susceptible of an advantageous division.  Mary Richard.  Henry St. John Dixon.  George Dixon.  George Dixon, Junr. By their near, best friend,  Resanna Dixon, John Richard October 6th, 1809. wtf
NOTICE. —Intend to petition the legislature at their next session for leave to convert one of my mills on Bear Garden Creek, near New Canton, into a manufacturing mill, which shall be exempt from the necessity of grinding corn, while the other is kept for that purpose.  RANDOLPH HARRISON. October 24, 1809. wtf
WILLIAM WARDLAW, informs his friends that he is receiving by the PROOF-READERS from Liverpool, a large supply of VIALS, WINDOW GLASS, PAINTS ,—also by the POWATAN from LONDON , a general assortment of MEDICINE, SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, AQUA FORTIS, &c. Richmond Nov. 1. (8.w)
VIRGINIA. At a superior court of chancery held at the capitol in the city of Richmond, the eighteenth day of September, 1809. High Mercer, Plff. Betsy Green, Deft. THE defendant not having entered her 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 she is not an inhabitant of this country, on motion of the plaintiff by counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the bill of the plaintiff—and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper 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  PETER TINSLEY, c. c.
VIRGINIA. At a superior court of chancery held at the capitol in the city of Richmond, the 15th day of October, 1809. Thomas Foster and Susanna his wife, which said Susanna is the daughter of John Mitchell, deceased. Robert Scott, administrator of John Mitchell, the said Robert Scott, administrator of Susanna Mitchell, and the same Robert Scott and Janet his wife, Thomas Holoway, administrator of John Mitchell, junior, deceased, and Walter Logan and his wife, defts. THE defendants not having entered their 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 they are not inhabitants of this country, on motion of the plaintiffs by counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs—and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper 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  PETER TINSLEY, c. c.
EDUCATION. THE Subscriber intends to continue his School in the Forks of Hanover the ensuing year, where he offers to teach spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, geography, the use of the globes, rhetoric, natural philosophy, geometry, and the French language. The price for board, tuition and washing will be $75, payable half yearly. The term will commence the tenth of Jan. and end the tenth of Dec. Vacation one month, beginning the tenth of June. This school will be critically examined in June and December.  JAMES BYARS, Junr. Nov. 10th, 1809. wtf
In Powhatan county court, October the 18th 1809. William Jenkins, assignee of Allen Bowler, Plff. Samuel Owen and Joseph Maye, executors of David Owen, dec. Defts. IT appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant Samuel Owen is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth—therefore it is ordered, on motion of the plaintiff by his attorney, that the said defendant Samuel Owen do appear here on or before the first day of February next, and answer the plaintiff's bill—and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers printed in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the court-house in this county. A Copy—Teste  JAMES POINDEXTER, CLK.
A TUTOR well qualified to teach the English language grammatically, Arithmetic, Geography, with the use of the Globes, some of the most simple branches of the Mathematics, & who writes a good hand. Such an one coming well recommended as well for these qualifications as for correct deportment, will meet with liberal encouragement from the subscriber, who may be seen in Richmond from the 20th to the 26th inst.  RANDOLPH HARRISON. Cumberland, Nov. 4th, 1809. wtf
NOTICE. —A petition will be presented to the next Legislature for the passage of an act authorizing the sale of the lands of which Robert Mackay died seized, in order to provide for the support of his widow and children. October 24. wtf
WANTS EMPLOYMENT in a retail store or merchant's counting house, a YOUNG MAN from the country who will produce satisfactory recommendations. He has some knowledge of business, has been engaged in a retail store, about two years, naturally possessing a sprightly disposition, added to the benefits which can equally result from a good education, there exists no doubt but he is now capable of the most rapid improvement. He will make an engagement for one or two years for a small consideration, provided he can obtain an eligible situation. A letter addressed to P. W. G. and left at this office, will meet with prompt attention. N. B. He understands Book-keeping. ROBT. MITCHELL. City of Richmond, Sept. 7th, 1809. wtf
NOTICE. —Once more, it is hereby requested that those who are indebted to the trustees of the Richmond Academy, do make payment to the subscriber, as the work is now begun and it is expected that there will be laid from one hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand bricks in the walls of the Academy this fall. He has undertaken the collection by agreement with John Brockenbrough and William W. Henning, the other members of the committee, appointed by a board of trustees: Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that the collector may have as little trouble as possible in the collection, in order to have money in hand, to carry on so laudable an undertaking. ROBT. MITCHELL. City of Richmond, Sept. 7th, 1809. wtf
THE subscriber being anxious to discharge his debts, offers for sale, that valuable Plantation, lying in Amelia county, on Flat Creek, containing upwards of 900 acres, a considerable quantity of which is very valuable meadow land. For terms apply to  WILLIAM MURRAY. Grove Brook, Oct. 12th, 1809. wtf
STOLEN from the subscriber, near Prince Edward court house, in the night of the 22nd September, a four year old GELDING about four feet eight inches high, well formed in full flight, and handsomely spotted; his mane and tail in their natural state. It is believed his handsome spotted body, must attract the notice of those who may see him; I have therefore to request, among my friends, the aid of the owners of ferries, to enquire for information; and if any can be obtained from their boatmen to be so good as to advise me by post.  FRANCIS WATKINS. Oct. 13.
JUST RECEIVED FROM NEW YORK, AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE:  A FRESH SUPPLY OF  CHURCH'S & LEE'S  GENUINE  Patent Medicines. INCLUDING Worm Lozenges, Ague and Fever Drops, Cough Drops, Restorative Balsam, Hamilton's Elixir, Essence and Extract of Mustard, Hahn's Antiphlogistic Pills, Ich Ointment, Eye Water, Eye Salve, Vegetable Lotion, Alternative Pills, Hill's Balsam of Honey, Turlington's Balsam, Anderson's Pills, Antispasmodic or Fit Drops, &c. &c. &c.
For sale at this office,  HENING'S  New Virginia Justice, CONTAINING The Duties of a Justice of Peace, &c. together with a variety of useful precedents adapted to the laws now in force. Also forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, lease and re-lease, mortgage, trust, &c.
Pamphlets, CARDS, H. N. D. B. L. & L., LAWYERS, CLERKS & SCRIFTERS BLANKS, &c. ARE NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY PRINTED AT THE ARGUS OFFICE.