The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-12-27 00:00:00

TUITION.
WINGFIELD Academy (in the forks of Hanover) will be opened the second Monday in January next. In this Seminary youth will be taught the Greek and Latin languages, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Geometry, Geography and the use of the Globes.
There will be two sessions in the year, the one to continue from the commencement to the 1st of June, the other from the 1st of July to the 10th of December.
The price of board, tuition and washing for each boy under fifteen years of age, will be twenty-eight pounds, and for every other thirty pounds to be paid quarterly in advance.
The tuition and lodging house will be put in good order for the reception of twenty pupils, and ten or twelve may be accommodated with bedding at forty shillings each.
The greatest attention will be paid to the health, morals, and literary and scientific improvement of the boys.
PETER NELSON, and WILLIAM NELSON, Jr.
December 14.
Louisiana County Court, October 14th, 1805.
Nathan D. Anderson, plaintiff.
Against
Wm. Leary and James Pulliam and
Thos. Daelper, executors of John
Pulliam, deceased, Defendants.
THE defendant Wm. Leary 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 he appear here on the second Monday in January next and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this decree be inserted in some of the public newspapers printed in the city of Richmond for eight weeks successively and published at the front door of this court house on some court day.
A Copy: Teste, JOHN POINDEXTER, C. C. November 15. (F2m.)
Louisiana County Court, October 14th, 1805.
Joshua Morris, Plaintiff.
Against
Ruth Nutt, & Stephen Perkins, Defendants.
THE defendant Ruth Nutt not having entered his appearance, and given security according to law, 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 he appear here on the second Monday in January next, and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some of the newspapers, printed in the city of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of this court house on some court day.
A Copy: Teste, JOHN POINDEXTER, S. L. C. November 15. (F2m.)
TO BE RENTED.
MY HOUSE and LOT, upon Shockoe Hill, is an airy pleasant situation. For terms, apply to Mr. Samuel M. Moore, who is fully authorized by me, to treat for the same, or to the subscriber. Possession may be immediately had. WILLIAM MANN. August 30. (F4f.)
At a court held for King & Queen county, at the court-house on Monday the 9th of Sept. 1805.
UPON AN INJUNCTION IN CHANCERY.
Richard Brooke, Plaintiff.
Against
Wallace Johnson & Maire & Robt. Price, Dft's.
THIS day came the plaintiff by his counsel, and the defendants, Wallace Johnson and Maire not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly, in such case made and provided, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth. On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel: It is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the second Monday in November next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some public newspaper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of this court-house.
A Copy: Teste, ROBT. POLLARD, C. C. October 11. (F2m.)
HATS, SHOES, &c.
THE subscriber has received a good assortment of Hats, Shoes and Hatters' trappings. 4-4 Cotton Shirting and Irish Linens, Stevensons Bleach by the piece. For sale by D. J. BURR. Second door above the Eagle Tavern. November 29. (04w6w.)
TO NON-RESIDENTS OF KENTUCKY.
THE SUBSCRIBER living in the neighborhood of Frankfort, Kentucky, having undertaken to pay the taxes of a number of gentlemen residing in Virginia and elsewhere, on their lands in this state, and finding that the remitting of money to him for that purpose is attended with great difficulties, risk and trouble, proposes it to those gentlemen and any others who may find it an accommodation to them, the following plan, to wit: That they shall deposit their money in either of the banks of Richmond, Alexandria, George Town or Baltimore, on or before the first day of May annually, and authorize some person at those several banks to advise him by post of the amount, and to whose credit it shall be applied, and empower him to draw for the same, payable on sight. The lands of non-residents are advertised about the first of July, which is an expense of twenty-five cents on each tract. The subscriber's draft will command the cash in this state, and as soon as his bills are honoured at any of the abovenamed banks, he will advance the money in Kentucky, deducting seven and a half per cent commission for his trouble, in attending to and executing the business. He will inclose duplicate receipts to those banks in which the money is deposited, or to the proprietors of the lands, keeping the original in his own possession, to correct any errors which may occur in the auditors office of Kentucky. To those gentlemen who may wish to pay their taxes in this way, and who have not a personal acquaintance with the subscriber, he begs leave to refer them to the Hon. John Breckenridge, the Hon. Matthew Walton, Esquires, now in congress at the city of Washington, or to Gen. John Preston of Montgomery county, and Col. James Breckenridge of Botetourt county, Virginia, as to the confidence which may be reposed in him.
NATHANIEL HART.
N. B. The postage on all letters directed to me on the above business must be paid. December 10. (eF4m.)
THE HIGHEST PRICE (IN CASH) WILL BE GIVEN AT THIS OFFICE FOR CLEAN LINEN & COTTON RAGS.
TO BE RENTED or SOLD,
To the highest bidder, on the premises, on the 3d day of January next:
THAT Valuable Plantation called WINDSOR, the property of the late William Dandridge, dec'd. situated on James River, about four miles above Richmond, containing by a late survey 777 acres. The situation is healthy and high, commanding a most beautiful and extensive prospect of the river and adjacent country. There is convenient to this place, an excellent Fishery, where the finest shad, rock and other fish may, in their season, be had, with little expense, abundantly. There is attached to this farm about 120 or 130 acres of as good low land as any on the river. There is an orchard containing about 600 apple trees, besides other fruit trees of a superior quality to any in that part of the country. The buildings are a two story dwelling house, with two rooms and a passage below, and three rooms above stairs; a barn 40 feet square, the first floor of which is out of house; a hay house 30 feet square, with sheds which are used as stables, and may with little repair be made excellent.
At the same time and place. WILL BE SOLD—All the Stock of Cattle, Horses, Mules, Sheep, Hogs, &c. Plantation Utensils, Household and Kitchen Furniture, and about 30 likely Negroes; among them are an excellent Blacksmith and a Rope-maker. All of which is the property of the said Dandridge.
Also will be Sold,
A valuable collection of LAW BOOKS, &c. &c. The Land is subject to the widow's dower; if sold the terms of payment will be made known on the day of sale. For the other property a credit of twelve months will be allowed by giving bonds with approved security.
Should a purchaser prefer paying cash, a discount of 6 per cent. will be allowed. For all sums under ten dollars, cash will be expected.
WILLIAM LANGBORNE, Executor of Wm. Dandridge, dec'd.
WILL BE SOLD, At Public Auction, at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on Monday the 6th day of January:
TWO LOTS in the said city on Shockoe Hill, one of which is at present occupied by Doctor McClurg, and joining one of Major Duvals; on this lot is a two story brick dwelling house, 36 feet square, with convenient out-houses. The other lot also joins one of Major Duvals, and is occupied by Mr. M. Bates; this lot has a Dutch roof framed dwelling house on it 36 feet by 18. This property is likewise subject to the widow's dower.
The terms of payment will be made known on the day of sale. Wm. LANGBORNE, Exe't. Nov. 19. epif
EDUCATION.
DURING the ensuing year J. Ogilvie will resume and pursue the professional instruction of youth in the town of Milton, Albemarle. The healthiness of the situation, the cheapness of boarding, the almost total exclusion of every opportunity or incitement to dissipation, are amongst the reasons that have induced him to remove from Richmond to Milton. In returning to this employment, (which painful and imperious circumstances, have for a few months, compelled him to suspend) he brings with him an undecayed sensibility to its attractions, and a determination to perform its duties with all the assiduity and zeal he is able to exert. His course of instruction is divisible into two parts: The first part will comprehend English Grammar, Geography, Elocution, Euclid's Elements, Arithmetic. Particular attention will also be paid to the study of the dead languages, where it may be the will of parents. The second part of the course will comprehend, the Philosophy of Rhetoric, Logic, Ethics, Political Economy, Criticism, Composition, History, some of the most curious and useful branches of Natural Philosophy, and a variety of miscellaneous information, which it would be difficult to classify and arrange under distinct heads. He thinks it must be obvious to every person possessing any degree of candour and intelligence, that such a course of instruction, is better calculated to improve the faculties of the mind, to purify and expand the best affections of the heart, than an exclusive attention to the study of the dead languages. Of its superior efficacy in overcoming indolence, awakening curiosity, inspiring a love of knowledge and a generous emulation in the pursuit of it, and above all in training young persons to habits of candour, benevolence and self-command, a personal and persevering experience for several years, has afforded him the most satisfactory evidence. When these circumstances, combined with the additional labour both of mind and body, which the execution of this plan must require, are impartially considered, he trusts that his charge for tuition will be deemed reasonable. From ten to fifteen years of age, would form in general to be the period best adapted to the studies, that compose the first part of the course: From fifteen to eighteen to those, which compose the second. Boys who commence at the age of ten or twelve and advance gradually and regularly through every part of the course, are likely to reap far greater advantages, than such as enter at a more advanced age, when their habits are less flexible and when they are obliged to hurry precipitately over, or omit altogether, the elementary studies. The latter is one of the circumstances, which has heretofore occasioned his frequent change of place, and which, except in a very few instances, has prevented him from exhibiting an impartial specimen of the comparative and practical merits of his course of instruction. It is his most anxious wish, that a majority of his pupils may be composed of boys from ten to fifteen years of age, who will continue under his tuition until they shall complete the course. Under these circumstances he indulges a hope that it would be in his power to render services permanent and substantial, and to inspire his pupils with a love of knowledge and a predilection for many, useful and honourable sentiments and pursuits, which would exert a predominant and decisive influence over their future happiness and usefulness in society. He wishes to receive from twenty-five to thirty pupils: His charge for tuition, will be forty dollars per annum for boys under the age of fifteen, and fifty dollars per annum for young persons above that age: Parents who may be disposed to place their sons under his tuition, will make application to the subscriber by letter or otherwise, in Milton. The school will be opened on the second Monday in January, 1806. JAMES OGILVIE. Milton, November 22, 1805.
AT the request of Mr. Walter B. Gilliam, and in conformity with a Deed of Trust from Mr. John S. Moore, for the purpose of securing the payment of money to the said Gilliam, the subscriber, one of the Trustees, will proceed to sell at the Eagle Tavern, on the 10th day of February next, to the highest bidder, a tract of LAND, lying part in Hanover and part in Goochland, containing five hundred and sixty acres more or less, and adjoining the lands of Capt. Elisha Leake, Samuel Mosby, and William Woodfin, as shall produce the following sums of money, with costs and charges of sale. Forty pounds, balance of three hundred, due on the 10th of Oct. 1804, with interest till the day of sale; and two hundred and thirty three pounds for billings and eight pence, with interest from the 10th day of October last, till the day of sale. MERTWETHER JONES, Trustee. December 24.
NOTICE.
HAVING commenced the BURR MILL STONE MAKING, in September last, at my shop, near the Basin of the Canal, I have now finished for sale four of 4 feet 4 inches 6 and 5 feet diameters of best quality and workmanship. I have a large proportion of Close Hard Burrs, suitable for grinding corn, and will shortly receive additional supplies of good materials. Those who please to favour me with their commands, will be served faithfully on reasonable terms. I will choose bolting Cloths for those who desire it, suitable to their purposes. I tender my thanks to the public for past favours, and hope for future encouragement. JOHN MOODY. December 24. T&S&w.
JOHNSON & REAT,
JEWELLERS, SILVER-SMITHS & GILDERS, A few doors above the Bell-Tavern, Richmond:
RETURN the public in general their thanks, for the liberal encouragement they have received, and with confidence of giving general satisfaction, they hope for a continuance of it.
They have now on hand, a handsome assortment of work, consisting of the following articles, viz:—Table, Desert and Tea Spoons; Soup, Table, Sauce and Mustard Ladles; Salt Shovels; Sugar Tongs; Tooth and Ear Picks; Pencil Cases; Pincushion Chains and Reams; Scissor Chains; Silver Thimbles; Tortoise Shell and Pearl-handled Penknives. Miniatures drawn and set upon the shortest notice; Mourning and Fancy Lockets; Rings ditto; Bracelets ditto; Breast Pins of various Sizes and shapes, mourning and fancy; Gold, Silver, Pearl and Conk Seal Buttons; Gold and Hair Watch Chains; gold Seals and Keys of different sizes and shapes; an elegant assortment of fashionable Tortoise Shell Combs, ornamented, of various sizes and shapes, just from Philadelphia; Ear-Rings of the most fashionable forms and sizes; Gold and Gold Mounted Jet Necklaces; Ladies and Gentlemen's Morocco Pocket Books; Gentlemen's Pale Knee Buckles—& many other articles too tedious to enumerate—all of which they offer on the most reasonable terms.
Persons wishing to purchase by the quantity, will be allowed a reasonable credit by giving approved security in the city. Orders will be strictly attended to, and discharged with dispatch, by the subscribers. JOHNSON & REAT. N. B. The highest price given for Old Gold and Silver. Nov. 19. epif
A NEW TAVERN.
RUBEN BURNLEY respectfully informs the public, that he has opened a House of Entertainment in that commodious new building west of the Court-house. Attached to the premises is a new stone stable inferior to none in the state; and that he is in every respect, well provided for the accommodation of genteel company. N. B. Very liberal wages will be given for a good Cook—a male would be preferred. Charlottesville, Nov. 22. ep2m
HUGHSON'S newly invented PATENT METALIC HORSE, may be had at Mr. Geo. Greenhow's store, opposite the Eagle Tavern. The utility of this machine for setting Razors and other instruments which require a fine edge, renders it an object worthy the attention of every individual who may have occasion for its use. December 12. tf.
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, ARRIVED, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. Dec. 4. [epif.]
FOR HIRE, the ensuing year:
A BLACKSMITH, perhaps inferior to none in Virginia. He has been brought up to execute the iron work of the carriage making business. Enquire of Wm. B. PAGE, Shockoe Hill. December 14. ep5t
ELLIS & ALLAN
Have just received by the Ships Protege and George from Liverpool, and Swift from London, A SUITABLE and a well selected assortment of FALL GOODS.—Amongst which are:
Duffel and Point Blankets. Rote Blankets from 6-4 to 11-4. Napped Cottons. Kerseys white and coloured. Plaids do. do. Yarn and Plaid Hose. Nails from 3d to 30d. Crown window glass 10 by 8, 11 by 9 and 12 by 10. Putty and Glue. Boiled Linseed Oil in Jars. English White Lead ground in oil. Yellow Ochre. Spanish Brown. Verdigris in pots. Bellows, Anvils, Vices and Smiths hammers. Liverpool Filled Salt. London Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, single and double Mill'd. Patent Woollen Cords. Velvets, Hunters and Constitution Cords, Corduroy, and Thicksets. Ladies London Kid and Morocco Shoes and Boots. Silk, Cotton and Worsted Hose. Silk Bath Inlet do. White Angora Hose, very fine. Gentlemen's Silk, Cotton, and Worsted Hose. Angoras and Lambs Wool. Lambs Wool Half Hose. Real Italian Sarcenets plain and checked. Chambray Mullins. Plain and Tamboured Jacquet Mullins. Colonnade, Pique, & Laced Colonnade & Carabac do. Coloured Cambrics and Calicoes. Elegant Silk Shawls, do. Cambric do. Brussels and Kidderminster Carpets and Carpeting. Gentlemen's Real Beaver, Fashionable Hats. Patent do. Ladies Trimmed do. Rich Black Molekin. Rich figured do. Guns and Pistols. Elegant Fowling Pieces. Seine Twine. 6-8 and 10-4 Diaper and Damask do. 8-4, 10-4, 10-18 Damask and Diaper Table Cloths. Irish Linens and 5-4 Irish Sheeting. Which will be sold on moderate terms. October 25. tf.
McCABE & WALKER,
WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS, At the corner house opposite Messrs. Gamble's Store Richmond.
OFFER their services to the public. From their attention to all commands appertaining to their business, and the pains that will be bestowed in the execution of their work, they have full confidence to hope for a continuance of the favours they may receive. Great care will be taken in repairing all kinds of watches and clocks. December 24. tf.
European Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, December 18.
These details will be found worthy the attention of the politician; of the news brought by the Neptune, they are second in importance only to the gallant achievement before Cadiz.
We learn, from other sources, that a secret expedition, consisting of the Coldstream regiment, the 3d guards, the 4th or king's own, the 14th and 23d regiments, the 95th rifle corps, the German legion, and the artillery, sailed from the Downs for the continent on the 5th of November. The Duke of York, who was to have had the command, will join them in the spring; but the Dukes of Cumberland and Cambridge, Generals Burrard, Moore, and Lord Chatham, accompanied the troops as commanders of columns.
The advanced guard of the Russian troops entered Boitzenburgh, on the Elbe, on the 27th of October; the Prussians entered Hanover on the day following.
The armies of Prussia are disposed into four divisions; one of these, reinforced by 24,000 Saxons, and 20,000 Hessians, is to cover the frontiers of Prussia; a second has proceeded to Hildesheim, a third is to march to the Rhine, and a fourth to remain in Brandenburg. The Duke of Brunswick commands the army in Lower Saxony, which is to be joined by the Russians, Swedes, and the British expedition above noticed. There is a probability that one of the Prussian armies will invade Holland; to defend which French troops were on the point of marching into the republic.
The Dutch minister quitted Hamburg on the approach of the Russians, and the French minister was preparing to follow him. Sir R. Strachan was off Pineriffe, and had intelligence that the Rochefort squadron had not got into port on the 30th of October.
The Ottoman troops at Cairo have obtained a complete victory over the refractory beys; the heads of seven of them, in conformity with the usual practice of Turkey, were publicly hung up on the gates of the Seraglio at Constantinople, among whom was said to be the celebrated Ezz Bey. Msc. Adv.
PARIS, October 26.
CONSERVATIVE SENATE.
Extraordinary Meeting, Thursday, Oct. 26. At one o'clock this day, the Members of the Conservative Senate met in virtue of a convention extraordinary, ordered by his highness Prince Joseph, Grand Elector.
His imperial highness Prince Louis, Conservative—his serene highness the arch chancellor of the empire; and some of the Ministers, were present at the sitting.
It was opened under the Presidency of the Grand Elector, with the following speech pronounced by his highness:
"Senators—In the midst of its triumph, his majesty has felt the necessity of giving to the senate a new proof of his esteem; it is the object of the message which his majesty has ordered me to submit to you. You will perceive, gentlemen, that his majesty is impatient that the French youth should take their share of the fresh successes which await him. But already our conscripts are in motion; they are setting out, or have already done so. All parents know, that when their children go to the grand army, they go to place themselves under the shield of the common father of the French, who is more sparing of their blood than he is anxious for glory. The emperor and his army have exceeded the hopes of the nation; I have the happiness of informing you, that it answers, in a manner worthy of it, the glorious invitation of its Chief."
The Message of the Emperor and king, which his imperial highness read to the meeting, is expressed in the following manner:
"Senators—I send you forty stand of colours, which my army has conquered in the different actions which took place since that at Wertingen. It is a homage which I and my army pay to the ages of the empire; it is an offering made by children to their father. Senators, accept it as a proof of my satisfaction for the manner in which you have always assisted me in the most important concerns of the Empire. And you, Frenchmen, cause your brothers to march; let them hasten to combat by our sides, in order that, without shedding of blood, without extraordinary exertions, we may repel far from us all the armies created by the gold of England, and overwhelm with confusion the allies of the oppressors of the seas. Senators, a month is not yet elapsed since I told you that your emperor and his army would do their duty—I am impatient to say, that my people have done theirs. Since I began the campaign I have dispersed an army of one hundred thousand men; I have almost taken the half of them prisoners; the rest are killed, wounded, or deserted, and reduced to the greatest consternation. These brilliant successes, I owe to the affection of my soldiers, to their patience in supporting fatigue. I have only lost 1500 men killed and wounded. Senators, the first object of the war is already fulfilled.—The Elector of Bavaria is re-established on his throne. The unjust aggressors have been struck, as if by lightning, and with the help of GOD, I hope, in a short space of time, to be able to triumph over my other enemies."
"From my Imperial Camp at Elchingen, 26 Vendémiaire, October 18. (Signed) "NAPOLEON."
SIXTH BULLETIN.
ELCHINGEN, Oct. 18.—The day of Ulm was one of the most brilliant in the history of France. The capitulation of the town is annexed, as well as the account of the regiment shot up there.—The emperor might have taken the place by assault, but twenty thousand men, defended by fortifications and wet ditches, would have made a resistance, and his desire was to save the effusion of blood. General Mack, Commander in Chief of the army, was in the town: it is the fate of Generals opposed to the Emperor to be taken in fortified places. It will be recollected, that after the brilliant movements on the Breneta, the old field Marshal Wurmsier was made prisoner in Mantua; Melas was also at Alexandria; Mack also at Ulm. The Austrian army was one of the finest that Austria ever had: it consisted of 14 regiments of infantry of the army of Bavaria, as it is called, 13 regiments from the Tyrol, and five regiments which had been sent in waggons from Italy—altogether 32 regiments of infantry, and 15 regiments of cavalry.
The Emperor had placed the army of Prince Ferdinand in the same situation in which he had placed that of Melas. After having long hesitated, Melas adopted the noble resolution of piercing through the French army, which occasioned the battle of Marengo. Mack took another resolution: Ulm is the point of union of a great number of high roads; he had formed the plan of making his divisions retreat by these roads, to re-assemble them in Bohemia and the Tyrol. The division of Hohenzollern and Werneck marched off by Heydenheim. A small division retreated by Memmingen, but the Emperor on the 15th hastened from Augsburg to Ulm, immediately disconcerted the projects of the enemy ordered the bridge and position of Elchingen to be carried, which rendered every thing secure.
Marshal Soult, after having taken Memmingen, went in pursuit of other columns. Prince Ferdinand had therefore no other resource than to suffer himself to be shut up in Ulm, or to endeavour, by cross roads, to join the division of Hohenzollern:—this Prince adopted the latter resolution, and proceeded to Axen with four quadrans of cavalry.
In the mean time, Prince Murat was in pursuit of Prince Ferdinand. The division of Werneck endeavoured to oppose him at Langenau. He took three thousand of them prisoners, one of which was a general officer, and two bands of colours. While he made a movement on his right to Heydenheim, Marshal Lannes marched towards Aalen and Nordlingen. The progress of the enemy was retarded by five hundred wagons, and they were weakened by the battle of Langenau. At this action, Prince Murat had much reason to be satisfied with the conduct of General Klein. The 20th regiment of dragons, the 9th light infantry, and the chasseur of the Imperial guard, particularly distinguished themselves. The aid-de-camp Brant displayed a great deal of courage.
The action did not retard the march of Prince Murat. He advanced rapidly towards Neresheim, and on the 17th, at 5 in the evening, he arrived before that position. The division of dragons of General Klein charged the enemy. Two standards, a general officer, and 1000 men were again taken at the battle of Neresheim. Prince Ferdinand, and seven of his Generals, had barely time to get on horseback. Their dinner was found on the table. For two days they had no place of rest.
It appears that Prince Ferdinand will not be able to escape the French army, unless by disfiguring his person, or getting off with a few squadrons by some bye path of Germany.
As the Emperor was passing through a crowd of prisoners, an Austrian Colonel expressed his astonishment to see the Emperor of the French wet, covered with dirt, as much and more fatigued than the meanest drummer in his army. One of his aid-de-camps having explained to him what that Austrian officer said, the Emperor ordered this answer to be made: "Your master wished to make me recollect that I was a soldier, I hope he will allow that the Throne and the Imperial Purple have not made me forget my first profession."
The appearance of the army on the 15th was really most interesting. For two days the rain fell in torrents; the whole army was dripping wet; the soldiers had no provisions distributed to them; they were up to the knees in mud.—But the Emperor infused fresh spirits into them; and at the moment he perceived whole columns in this state, he ordered long live the Emperor to be cried.
It is also mentioned, that the Emperor replied to the officers who surrounded him, and who expressed their surprise, how, in a moment of such distress, the soldiers could forget all their wants and appear only sensible to the pleasure of seeing him. "They are in the right: it is to spare their blood that I make them undergo such great fatigue."
The Emperor, when the army occupied the heights which commanded Ulm, sent for the Prince of Lichtenstein, Major General, who was shut up in the town, to communicate to him, that he wished it would capitulate; telling him, that if he took it by storm, he would be under the necessity of acting as he did at Jaffa, where the whole garrison was put to the sword; that it was one of the melancholy rights of war; that he wished that both he and the brave Austrian nation were spared the necessity of so dreadful an action—that the place was not tenable; that it ought therefore to surrender. The Prince required that the officers and soldiers should have liberty to return to Austria. "I will grant it," replied the Emperor, "to the Officers, but not to the soldiers; for who will be my security that they will not be made to serve again!" Then after having hesitated a moment, he added, "Well then, I will rely upon the word of Prince Ferdinand. If he is in the town, I wish to give him a proof of my esteem, and I will grant to him what you require of me, hoping that the Court of Vienna will not break the word of one of its Princes." Upon M. de Lichtenstein assuring him that Prince Ferdinand was not in the town, "Then," said the Emperor, "I do not see who is to be my guarantee that the soldiers I send you back will not be employed again."
A brigade of four thousand men occupies one of the gates of Ulm.
On the night of the 16th there was a terrible hurricane; the Danube completely overflowed, and carried away almost all the bridges, which straitens us very much in our supplies of provisions.
On the 15th, Marshal Bernadotte having pushed his advanced posts as far as Wallenbourg & Haag, on the road of Burenau, took 4 or 500 prisoners, and 17 pieces of cannon, of different sizes, having thus taken, since his entry at Munich, 1500 prisoners, 19 pieces of cannon, 400 horses, and a quantity of baggage, without the loss of a single man.
The Emperor passed the Rhine on the 18th of October, the Danube the 6th, at five o'clock in the morning; the Lech the same day, at half past three, his troops entered Munich on the 12th; his advanced guard arrived on the Inn on the 13th. On the same day he was master of Memmingen, and on the 17th of Ulm.
He took from the enemy, at the battle of Wertingen, Guntzburg, Elchingen, the days of Memmingen and Ulm, and in the actions of Albeck, Langenau, and Neresheim, 40,000 men, infantry as well as cavalry, more than forty stand of colours, a great number of cannon, baggage, waggons, &c. and to accomplish all this, only three marches and manoeuvres were employed.
In these partial actions the loss of the French army amounts to no more than 500 killed and 1000 wounded. It is a common remark

among the troops: "The Emperor has found out a new method of making war—he only makes us use our legs instead of our bayonets." Five-sixths of the army have never fired a shot, which has mortified them much. But they have all marched a great deal, and they redouble their activity, when they have hopes of overtaking the enemy. The eulogy of the army may be made in two words.—It is worthy of its Chief. The Austrian army may be considered as annihilated. The Austrians and Russians will be obliged to make many levies of recruits to re-form the French army, which has destroyed an army of one hundred thousand men, without experiencing, we may say, any loss.
SEVENTH BULLETIN.
ELCHINGEN, Oct. 19. On the 18th, at five o'clock in the morning, Prince Murat arrived at Nordlingen, and succeeded in surrounding the division of Werneck. This General solicited a capitulation. The terms of capitulation, will not arrive until to-morrow. Lieutenants General Werneck, Baillet, Hohenzollern, and Generals Vagal, Mackery, Hohenfels, Weiber, and Dientzburg, are prisoners on parole, with permission to return home. The soldiers will be sent to France as prisoners of war. More than two thousand cavalry have surrendered, and a brigade of dismounted dragoons have been mounted on their horses. It is asserted, that the Reserve Artillery of the Austrian army, consisting of five hundred carriages, is taken. It is supposed that all the remainder of the column under Prince Ferdinand is at this moment surrounded, Prince Murat having out-flanked his right on the side of Aalen, and Marshal Lannes his left towards Nordlingen. We expect to hear the result of these manoeuvres, Prince Ferdinand has now but few men left. After an audience, which the Emperor granted to General Mack, at two o'clock this afternoon, Marshal Berthier and that General signed an addition to the Capitulation, purporting that Ulm must be evacuated by the Austrian Garrison on the 20th.
There are at Ulm 27,000 men, 3000 horses, 13 Generals, and from 60 to 80 pieces of cannon, with their horses. Half the Emperor's Guard had already set out for Augsburg; but his Majesty consented to remain here to-morrow, to see the Austrian army file off. We become more certain every day, that there are not 30,000 men escaped of this army of 100,000 men, and this extraordinary advantage has been obtained without the effusion of blood. The Emperor did not stir out of Elchingen to-day. The fatigues and continual rain to which he had been exposed for the preceding week, required a short repose. But repose is not compatible with the direction of this immense army. Every hour of the day and night officers arrive with reports, and it was requisite that the Emperor should issue orders. He seemed much satisfied with the activity and zeal of Marshal Berthier. To-morrow (the 20th) at three in the afternoon, 27,000 Austrian soldiers, 60 pieces of cannon, and 13 Generals, will pass the Emperor in file, and lay down their arms. The Emperor presents the colours he has taken at Ulm to the Senate; they amount to 80, instead of 40 stands, at which he formerly flattered them. It is supposed that the Emperor will set out for Munich to-morrow evening. The Russian army has arrived on the Inn.
Eighth Bulletin of the Grand Army. ELCHINGEN, Oct. 20.—The following are the two capitulations announced in the Bulletin of yesterday, which were concluded, by order of Prince Murat; the one being signed by the Chief of Prince Murat's staff, and the other by Gen. Fauconnet. The Emperor took his station, from two o'clock in the afternoon to seven in the evening, on the heights near Ulm, where the Austrian army filed off in his presence. Thirty thousand men, two thousand of which are cavalry, with sixty pieces of cannon, and forty stands of colours, have surrendered to the victorious army. The French army were posted on the heights. The Emperor, surrounded by his life-guards, sent for the Austrian generals, and kept them with him until their troops had filed off. He treated them with the utmost distinction. There were present, besides the General in Chief Mack, eight Generals, and seven Lieutenant Generals.—The names of the Generals and regiments will be given in the subsequent Bulletin.
The number of the prisoners since the commencement of hostilities, amount to 60,000 men, and 30 standards have been taken, besides artillery, baggage, &c. It is supposed that the Emperor, after dispatching his couriers, will set out this evening for Augsburg and Munich. CAPITULATION OF GENERAL WERNECK. It has been agreed upon between Marshal the General of Division, Belliard, Chief of the General Staff of his Royal Highness Prince Murat, Marshal of the Empire, and Lieutenant of his Majesty, the Emperor of the French, and King of Italy; and M. the Lieutenant General Werneck, Commander and Chamberlain in the service of his Majesty the Emperor of Germany, and commandant of a division of the army:
1. That the body of troops under the orders of M. the Lieutenant General Werneck, shall lay down their arms, become prisoners of war, and be sent into France. 2. That Messieurs the General and Subaltern officers shall be prisoners of war, on parole, & be sent into Austria. They engage not to serve with the French armies, or those of the allies of his Majesty the Emperor and King, Napoleon, until they shall have been exchanged. 3. That the horses belonging to the cavalry, the artillery, with the carriages, caissons, and ammunition, shall be surrendered to the French army. 4. All the regiments, battalions, squadrons, or detachments separated from the body of troops under the orders of M. the Lieutenant General Werneck, shall lay down their arms, and become prisoners of war, subject to the 2d, 3d and 4th articles.
Observation of General Werneck. "I understand this article as applying to such troops as belong to the body under my own command." 5. All the horses and equipments belonging to Messieurs the General and Subaltern officers, shall be left in their possession. 6. All the French prisoners of war at Trotelningen, or other places occupied by the troops under the command of M. the Lieutenant General Werneck, shall be immediately set at liberty. Trotelningen, 27th Vendemiaire, 14th year, (19th Oct. 1805.) The General of Division and Chief of the General Staff (Signed) BELLARD. Lieut. General and Commandant of a body of troops, (Signed) WERNECK.
CAPITULATION of the Commandant of the corps of the heavy baggage of the Austrian army.
This day, being the 28th Vendemiaire, 14th year, (October 18.) the Brigadier General Fauconnet, one of the commandants of the Legion of Honour, and commandant of the Chasseurs of the 13th and 14th regiments of the 5th division of the grand French army—And M. Locatelli, Major of Hohenlohe's regiment of dragoons, have concluded the subjoined capitulation, in consequence of a summons sent by M. the General Fauconnet, to the said M. Locatelli, to cause the corps of cavalry appointed under his command, to escort the heavy baggage of the Austrian army, to lay down their arms: Article I. All the hussars and light horse, which compose the detachment escorting the artillery and baggage of the Austrian army, are prisoners of war, and shall be conducted into France. They shall therefore lay down their arms, and deliver up their horses to the regiments under the orders of M. the General Fauconnet.—Agreed to. II. Messieurs the officers shall retain the horses on which they were mounted at the time the corps was taken. Each of them shall also have the privilege of retaining a valet in his service, and their equipage shall be preserved. The soldiers shall retain their effects.—One valet shall be allowed for the Major, and for each of the Messieurs the Captains, and one for every two Lieutenants or Sub-Lieutenants. III. All the petty detachments of infantry and artillery, turned in flank by the French troops, and closely pressed by the cavalry under M. the General Fauconnet, are also prisoners of war, and shall surrender their cannon, wagons, caissons, and arms; and Messieurs the officers shall enjoy the same advantages as those granted to the officers of cavalry.—Agreed to. IV. Messieurs the officers of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, made prisoners, and comprised in the present capitulation, shall be at liberty to return home, on giving a written parole of honour, not to serve against the armies of his Majesty the Emperor and King, or those of his allies, until they shall have been exchanged, or until the conclusion of a peace, should an exchange not take place. His Royal Highness Prince Murat is requested to grant this condition, which is submitted to his approbation.
Done at Head-Quarters, at Bopfingen. October 18, 1805. (Signed) LOCATELLI, Major. The General of Brigade, FAUCONNET.
NINTH BULLETIN.
ELCHINGEN, Oct. 21. The Emperor has just issued the subjoined proclamation and decrees: "His Majesty set off for Augsburg at noon this day. "We are now in the possession of an accurate list of the army which was shut up in Ulm. It consisted of 33,000 men, to which number the 3000 wounded being added, the total amounts to 36,000. There were also found in the place, 60 pieces of artillery, with their carriages and ammunition, and 30 stands of colours. "Nothing can form a more striking contrast than the disposition of the French army, and that of the Austrian army. In the French army heroism is carried to the highest pitch; in the Austrian army dejection has reached its lowest level. The Austrian soldier is paid in paper money; he can remit nothing to his family, and he is ill treated. The French soldier thinks only of glory. A thousand traits might be particularized like the following: Breid, a private in the 76th, was about to have his thigh amputated—Life was already almost extinguished—At the moment when the surgeon was preparing to operate, the soldier stopped him—"I know that I shall not survive the operation," said he, "but no matter! The loss of one man will not prevent the 76th from marching with their bayonets extended, and formed in three ranks, against the enemy."
"The Emperor had occasions to complain of nothing except the excessive ardour of the soldiers. Thus the 17th light infantry, which arrived before Ulm, rushed into the place; and thus, during the capitulation, the whole army were so anxious to storm it, that the Emperor was obliged to declare it as his positive intention, that the place should not be stormed. "The first column of the prisoners at Ulm has just begun its march for France. The following is a statement of the total of our prisoners, at least of those actually known to have been taken, with their present situations:—10,000 at Augsburg, 33,000 at Ulm, 12,000 already on their march for France. "The Emperor, in his proclamation, says, that we have made 60,000 prisoners; it is probable that these exceed that number. He states the captured standards at 90; it is also probable that these amount to a greater number. "The Emperor addressed the Austrian Generals whom he sent for, as their army was filing past him, in the following terms:—"Gentlemen, your master carries on an unjust war. I tell you plainly, I know not for what I am fighting; I know not what can be required of me. It is not in this army alone that my resources consist, though were this the case, still my army and myself would make considerable progress. But I shall appeal to the testimony of your own prisoners of war, who will speedily pass through France; they will observe with their own eyes the spirit which animates my people, and with what eagerness they flock to my standards. This is the advantage of my nation, and my position. At a single word, 200,000 volunteers crowd to my standard, and in six weeks become good soldiers—whereas your recruits only march from compulsion, and do not become soldiers but after several years. "I would give my brother the Emperor of Germany one further piece of advice—let him hasten to make peace. This is the moment to recollect that all Empires have an end—the idea that the end of the dynasty of the House of Lorraine may have arrived, should impress him with terror. "I desire nothing upon the Continent. I want ships, colonies, and commerce; and it is as much your interest as mine that I should have them."
"M. Mack replied, that the Emperor of Germany had not wished for war, but was compelled to it by Russia." "If that be the case," said the Emperor, "then you are no longer a power." "Most of the Generals have confessed how disagreeable this war was to them, and how much they were affected to see a Russian army in their country. They condemned that blind system of politics, which would bring into the centre of Europe a people accustomed to live in an uncultivated country, and who, as well as their forefathers, might take a fancy to settle in a milder climate. "The Emperor has treated Lieutenant General Kienau (whom he knew as Commander of the regiment of Wurmsier) with much civility, as also the Lieutenant Generals Gislau, Gottscheim, Ries, and the Prince of Lichtenstein, &c. comforting them in their misfortunes, and telling them that war has its chances, and that though frequently conquerors, they might sometimes be conquered."
THE IMPERIAL HEAD-QUARTERS AT ELCHINGEN, October 21. "Soldiers of the Grand Army—In a fortnight we have finished a campaign. We have accomplished our purpose. We have expelled the troops of the House of Austria from Bavaria, and re-established our ally in the Sovereignty of his States. That army, which with equal ostentation and imprudence, had posted itself on our frontiers, is annihilated. But what does this signify to England. Her purpose is accomplished. We are no longer at Boulogne, and the amount of her subsidy will thereby be neither increased nor diminished. "Of 100,000 men who composed that army, 60,000 are prisoners; they will go to take the place of our conscripts in the labours of their fields. Two hundred pieces of cannon (their whole park), 30 stands of colours, and all their Generals, are in our hands; there have not escaped of this army 15,000 men. Soldiers, I have announced to you a great battle; but, thanks to the bad combinations of the enemy, I have been able to obtain the same success, without running any risk; and, what is unexampled in the history of nations, so important a result has not diminished our force more than 1500 men. "Soldiers, you owe this success to your unbounded confidence in your Emperor: to your patience in supporting fatigues and privations of every description, and to your singular intrepidity. "But we will not stop here. You are impatient to commence a second campaign. We are about to make that Russian army, which the gold of England has transported from the extremities of the Universe, undergo the same fate. "In this contest is more particularly implicated the honour of the infantry. It is this which will, a second time, decide the question, already resolved in Switzerland and Holland—whether the French infantry be the second or the first in Europe? Here there are no Generals, in combatting whom I can have any glory to acquire. All my care shall be to obtain the victory with the least possible effusion of blood—any soldiers are my children. Given at my Imperial Camp of Elchingen, 29th Vendemiaire, 14th year (21st October, 1805.)
NAPOLEON, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH AND KING OF ITALY.
"Taking into consideration that the Grand Army has, by its courage and zeal, obtained results which were not to be expected but from a complete campaign; and being desirous of giving it a proof of our Imperial satisfaction, have decreed, and hereby decree as follows: "Art. 1. The month of Vendemiaire, 14th year, shall be accounted as one campaign, in favour of all the soldiers composing the Grand Army. This month shall be so estimated in all the accounts relative to the valuation of pensions and those which respect military services. "2. Our Minister at War, and of the Public Treasury, are charged with the execution of the present decree. (Signed) "NAPOLEON." "Given at my Imperial Camp of Elchingen, October 21."
NAPOLEON, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH AND KING OF ITALY.
We have decreed, and do hereby decree as follows: Art. 1. Possession shall be forthwith taken of all the states in Suabia belonging to the House of Austria. 2. The military contributions which shall be levied thereon, together with the produce of the ordinary contributions, shall be entirely appropriated to the army. All the magazines taken from the enemy, those of artillery and provisions excepted, shall likewise become its property. Every individual shall share in the said contribution, in proportion to his rank. 3. All contributions levied by individuals, and all articles taken out of the enemy's magazines, shall be restored to the general mass; it being improper that any person should avail himself of the laws of war, to the prejudice of the general mass of the army. 4. There shall forthwith be appointed a Treasurer and Director General, who shall account monthly to a Military Council of Administration, for the produce of the contributions levied, a statement of which, with its repartition, shall be printed. 5. The pay of the army shall be regularly advanced from the funds of our Imperial Treasury. 6. Our Minister at War is charged with the execution of the present decree. (Signed) NAPOLEON.
TENTH BULLETIN.
AUGSBURG, Oct. 22.—On the capitulation of General Werneck, near Nordlingen, Prince Ferdinand, with a body of one thousand horse, and a portion of artillery, had taken to flight as he threw himself into the Prussian territory, and took the route by Gunzenhausen for Nuremberg. Prince Murat followed on his heels, and succeeded in overtaking him; which gave rise to a battle on the road between Furth and Nuremberg, in the night of the 21st. All the rest of the park of artillery, and all the baggage, without exception, were taken. The Chasseurs a Cheval of the Imperial Guard covered themselves with glory; they overthrew every thing which opposed them; they charged Mack's regiment of Cuirassiers. The two regiments of Carabiniers have sustained their reputation. We are full of astonishment when we consider the march of Prince Murat, from Albeck to Nuremberg. Although always fighting, he exceeded in speed the enemy, who were two days march before him. The result of this prodigious activity was the taking of 1500 wagons, 50 pieces of cannon, 16,000 men, including the capitulations of General Werneck, and of a great number of colours. Eighteen Generals have laid down their arms. Three were killed. [Here follows an enumeration of Officers who distinguished themselves.] On the 21st, at night, Prince Murat slept at Nuremberg, where he rested the 22d. The division of Wurtemberg is arrived at Geisingen. The battalions of Chasseurs which had followed the enemy since its passage through Stuttgart, have gone to conduct to France a new column of 10,000 prisoners. The troops of Baden, 3 or 4000 strong, are on their march to Augsburg. The Emperor has made a present to the Bavarians of 20,000 Austrian fusils for the army and the National Guard. He has also made a present to the Elector of Wurtemberg of six pieces of Austrian cannon. During the manoeuvre of Ulm, the Elector of Wurtemberg was, for a moment, apprehensive for his Electorate and family, who then went to Heidelberg, and he disposed his troops to defend the heart of his States. The Austrians are defeated by Germany, well convinced that, without France, Austria would treat them like its hereditary States. No idea can be formed of the misery of the Austrian army—they are paid in notes, by which they lose forty per cent. Our soldiers pleasantly call the Austrians paper soldiers. They are without any credit. The house of Austria could not any where borrow ten thousand francs. The generals themselves have not seen a piece of gold for several years. The English, when they heard of the invasion of Bavaria, made a
little present to the Austrians; they have engaged to remit him the 48 millions, which they had lent him during the last year. If this be an advantage to the house of Austria, it has already paid pretty dear for it.
BULLETIN OF THE ITALIAN ARMY.
OCT. 18th, 14th YEAR.—At four o'clock in the morning the General in Chief caused the bridge of the old Castle of Verona to be attacked. The wall which barricaded its middle, was thrown down by means of a petard. The two companies which the Austrians had made, were rendered practicable by the aid of planks and boards; and twenty four companies of Voltigeurs, springing from the other side of the river, from whence they were followed by the first division. The enemy warmly defended the passage; they were driven back, & chased from all their positions, after a battle which lasted till six o'clock in the evening. They lost seven pieces of cannon, and eighteen covered wagons. We took 14 or 1500 prisoners, and killed or wounded nearly an equal number; but a few combatants fell on our side. We had about 300 slightly wounded. A bridge-head was immediately constructed at the bridge of the Old Castle.—We shall make known the results of this happy day.
LONDON, November 7.
Our readers have perused the modest affecting account of the total defeat of the Combined Fleets, and the ever to be lamented death of Lord Nelson, with those mixed feelings of grief, gratitude, and joy, which it is so well calculated to inspire. We have some interesting particulars to add to it:— It has afforded much surprise, that the combined Fleets should have adopted the resolution of putting to sea, and it has been supposed, that nothing but a total want of provisions could have induced them to hazard a battle with Lord Nelson. The fact was not so—they had received orders to put to sea the first opportunity that should be offered them by our fleet being weakened by detachments from it, or by fresh of weather to quit the blockade of Cadiz. Their object was to make for the Mediterranean, to collect in their passage the Carthagena Squadron, and to proceed to Toulon, where being joined by the vessels in that port, they would have formed a fleet of between 40 and 50 sail of the line, with which it was their design to prevent, if possible, the sailing of any expedition with British troops from Malta, or any expedition with Russian troops from Corsica. Such is said to have been their plan; and the course they were steering, and Vice Admiral Collingwood's dispatches, justify us in giving credit to the assertion.—The enemy heard of Admiral Louis having been despatched with seven sail of the line to Tercuan Bay for provisions and other necessaries, and they conceived that our fleet had been thereby diminished to about 20 sail of the line. It must not be imagined that his Lordship remained directly off Cadiz with his fleet, or within sight of the port. His great object was to induce them to come out. "Let them come out," he would often say. "My object is not to induce them by the display of all my force to remain in Port, but to do every thing in my power to tempt them to come out." In consequence of this design, he never kept all his fleet before Cadiz—This was the manner in which he stationed his fleet. The Euryalus frigate was within half a mile of the mouth of the harbour to watch the enemy's movements, and give him the earliest intelligence—Off the harbour, but at a greater distance, he had about seven or eight sail of the line. He remained himself off Cape St. Mary's with the remainder of his fleet and a line of frigates extended and communicated between him and the seven or eight sail off Cadiz. The advantage of this plan was that he could receive supplies and reinforcements off Cape St. Mary's without the enemy's being informed of it, and thus they remained constantly ignorant of the real force under his command.—But being acquainted, as we have already said, with the circumstances of Admiral Louis having been despatched with seven sail of the line, they conceived his force not to amount to more than 20 sail of the line. Great praise is due to the admiralty for the active and vigorous exertions they had made to place Lord Nelson's force in the best possible state—the combined fleets at Cadiz had in a more particular manner fixed their attention—they had strong reason to suspect what their intentions were. Just before they came out of port, his Lordship had been reinforced by three or four sail of the line from home—of this, by Lord Nelson's judicious conduct in stationing his fleet, the enemy were uninformed. His Lordship had received from the Admiralty on the 18th and 21st of October, such information as induced him to believe that the enemy would soon put to sea. He had arranged, before he left London to assume the command of the fleet, a plan by which he would fight the enemy upon a new principle; it was, we understand, extremely simple, but it was no sooner made known than it carried conviction to every naval officer; it afforded a complete remedy for that inconvenient system which requires a vast variety and frequent changes of signals. "I shall never distract my fleet," he said, "in the day of battle with a superabundance of signals." On the 4th of October he ordered all captains on board the victory and laid before them his new plan. It was one of the peculiar features of Lord Nelson's character to be able, by the clearness and precision of his plan and orders to make every man understand him in an instant; the new plan carried immediate conviction to them—they all exclaimed that it could not but be successful. The last order given before the action, was a short but comprehensive one—"England expects every man to do his duty." He determined himself to fight the Spanish Admiral's ship, the Superb Santissima Trinidad. It is worthy of remark, that he had before gained the highest honour in grappling with the Santissima Trinidad, in the action of the 14th February 1797, off Cape St. Vincent. She was the largest ship in the world, carried 136 guns, and had four decks. Lord Nelson ordered his own ship to be carried alongside his old acquaintance, as he called her, and she was lashed to her. How well the action was fought, how severe the conflict, Admiral Collingwood's excellent letter sufficiently informs us. The enemy were engaged at the muzzle of their guns. Every one knows how full their ships are always of men—every 74 gun ship has about 800 men; the Santissima Trinidad had 1600, including a corps of troops, amongst whom were some sharpshooters. Captain Hardy, who saw from the manner in which these sharpshooters fired from the main top of the Santissima Trinidad into the Victory, that their object was to pick out the officers, & more particularly of course that greatest of all heroes, repeatedly requested, as we stated yesterday, Lord Nelson to change his coat, which was decorated with the stars of the different orders, or at least to put on a great coat over it. His Lordship replied that he had not time to do it. The first that was killed near his Lordship, was his Secretary Mr. Scott—he was killed by a musket ball which entered his head, and he fell dead instantly. The second that a few minutes after, struck his Lordship, & entering how low his left shoulder, took a direction through the vital parts—he staggered against the officer near him, and was immediately carried below. The surgeon was busily employed upon the wounded—his Lordship deferred to take his turn. As soon as the surgeon examined the wound he saw it was mortal. The gallant hero had his eyes fixed attentively upon him—how the surgeon turn pale, and his countenance assume the deepest impression of grief—"it is mortal, I fear," he said. The surgeon did not, or could not speak. He desired to be placed upon a chair, and directed captain Hardy to attend him. He spoke no more of his wound, except when he first communicated to the captain the surgeon's conviction. He employed the short time he lived, about an hour, in dictating orders relative to the battle, in receiving reports, in enquiring what was the condition of the enemy, and what ships had struck. He had from the first thought that he should be wounded; but he spoke of the probability of it with his u-
that he had avoided the enemy in such a situation that they could not avoid an engagement, he displayed the utmost animality, and his usual confidence of victory; he said to Captain Hardy, and the other officers who surrounded him on the quarter deck, "now they cannot escape us; I think we shall at least make sure of twenty of them. I shall probably lose a leg, but that will be purchasing a victory cheaply." Even had the victory been purchased with that loss alone, it would so have been cheaply purchased, but how much dearer a price has been paid for it. To the last moment of his precious life, he was able to give directions with the utmost clearness and precision. Like General Wolfe breathing out his life on the height of Abraham, he enquired "whether the enemy gave way?" He was gratified with the intelligence conveyed him almost every moment, that most of the enemy's ships had struck. As life ebbd fast away the number augmented. He was told that fifteen had struck; he seemed enraptured with the intelligence. The last that struck before his death was the Superb Santissima Trinidad. When he heard that the had struck he appeared convulsed with joy; he lived but a few moments afterwards. In his last moments, with that piety which had ever formed a distinguished feature of his character, he returned thanks to God that he had permitted him to die in the arms of victory. He desired his blessing to be conveyed to all who were the nearest to his heart, and whom he could have wished to have again embraced—but the will of God be done." He laid his head upon the shoulder of Capt. Hardy, who remained with him to the last, and in a few minutes his gallant soul escaped for ever! Admiral Collingwood had previously received the account of his being mortally wounded—Lord Nelson had sent him his final instructions, his affectionate regard, and his last farewell. It was known too on board the Santissima Trinidad that he had been wounded; just after he had received the wound, there was a general shout on board the Spanish ships. Of the engagement we have received some few more particulars—the French and Spaniards both fought desperately—the former seemed to wish to clear themselves from the imputation thrown upon them by the latter, after the action with Calder, of having wished to make the Spaniards bear the brunt of the battle. Admiral Gravina is said to have declared that he had been thrust forward in that action, but that he would this time make the French take an equal share—they did so, and both fought bravely. Many of our ships had two or more on them at once; they poured upon the quarter deck in great numbers, rushed to the flag-staff, and tore down the colours. Our gallant stars were in the highest degree enraged—they immediately turned to clear the deck of every one of the enemy—most were killed, the rest were forced overboard—the colours were hoisted amidst loud huzzas, and the two ships which had boarded her, were forced in their turn to strike their colours.
From the N. York Commercial Advertiser. The following interesting Intelligence we have received from a respectable gentleman, who arrived here on Saturday evening in 41 days from Bordeaux. The day before this gentleman failed private letters from Paris were received at Bordeaux, announcing (a few days subsequent to the capitulation of Ulm, and the capture of Gen. Mack and his troops) the Russian army, having proceeded by forced marches, came up with the column under the command of Prince Murat and Marshal Bernadotte; that a severe action ensued: that Murat and Bernadotte were both killed; 22 general officers either killed, severely wounded, or taken prisoners; and the whole of the French troops defeated with immense slaughter. Such was the information received at Bordeaux, and believed by the best informed gentlemen of that place. The intelligence produced an immediate and considerable effect on the funds at Bordeaux.
Obscillanices.
CURIIOUS EXPERIMENT.
DEAL, Oct. 16.—On Monday morning Mr. Francis, who last year contrived the expedition and constructed the machines which Sir Home Popham ran among the enemy's flotilla at Boulogne, arrived here from Dover; and a rumour was spread that he was going to make an experiment, to blow up a brig of 300 tons, with one of his new invented Catamarans. Curiosity was soon alive, and about four P. M. great crowds of people assembled on the beach from Deal to Walmer Castle, opposite which the brig lay. A few several people working about her, but till dark the brig remained unharmed, and the people much disappointed, thinking the experiment had failed, very liberally cursed Mr. Francis and his catamarans. On Tuesday, however, about three P. M. he again appeared on the beach, where I and only a few, whose curiosity had not abated, were assembled; we followed him to the water's edge, opposite Walmer Castle, where he was met by a Lady, who, I was told, was Lady Esther Stanhope, and niece to Mr. Pitt. After walking some time, he tied a white pocket handkerchief to the end of his cane, and made a signal to the brig, which lay about half a mile from the shore; and instantly a long ten-oared galley darted by the bow of the brig, and threw something into the water, which I presume was the catamaran. Mr. Francis then drew out his watch, and turning to the Lady, I heard him say "fifteen minutes is her time." I was now in anxiety for the result, and held my watch pointing the minutes. In fifteen minutes the explosion took place, not much louder than a four pounder; an immense column of water and smoke was thrown up, which almost obscured the vessel; she appeared to be lifted out of the water, and heeling to larboard, she separated in the middle, and the two ends immediately went to the bottom; in one minute nothing was to be seen of her but morsels of floating wreckage; she was the most awful and grand I ever witnessed. She was riding at anchor, sails bent, new painted, and seemingly prepared for a voyage; and as if by a craft of nature, in one minute she disappeared and went to the bottom. The wreck was quickly surrounded by the boarders of the curious, and I among others, went to view her remains. Her fore-castle and main-deck were floating; she was broke completely in two, the planks of her deck and sides were split in thousands of pieces, the fore-mast was broke in two, the main-mast and pump were blown out of her, and the main-topmast yard was blown up to the cross-trees; her knees were torn from her sides, and the braces of the deck broke in several places; in fact, it is impossible to describe a more complete decomposition of a vessel, or a more dreadful crash of materials. It was perhaps one of the most curious experiments which has been made in modern times; for who would not have concluded that the powder would spend its force on the water, which is moveable, and not pass through the strong framed bottom of a vessel? Why was the report arising from the explosion so inconsiderable, when the effect was so great?
It is said Mr. Francis is a celebrated foreigner, who is in this country; he is a tall gentle man, about thirty, speaks good English, with rather a German accent, and is perhaps a Hanoverian.
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NEW-YORK, December 21.
RICHMOND, 27th DECEMBER.
The following extract of a letter from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to a merchant in this city, dated November 28th, is communicated to the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser for publication:
"The trial of the Ocean, capt. Hussey, came on the 13th inst. The ship was liberated, but the whale of the cargo decreed for further proof. Mr. Stewart, leading counsel for the claimants, has given us indications as to the kind of proof necessary, and we expect a copy for your information."
The claimants must produce the original letter or order, or a notarial copy of it, by virtue of which the goods from Amsterdam were shipped on neutral account, together with all letters of advice and of correspondence, bills of lading and invoices, which concern the shipment, certified by the attestations of clerks or other indifferent persons. This proof should be accompanied by the self affidavits , as it is called, of the party himself, swearing to his neutral character, and fully stating his right to the property claimed by him, and the funds by which he acquired it. It should conclude, with the usual averment, that no enemy of Great Britain has any concern with the goods, that they were at the time of capture, and would be if restored, the sole and exclusive property of the claimant. Copies of letters and papers should be authenticated by a notarial certificate of comparison, and not by the attestation of the party."
A letter from St. Louis says, "authentic information is received that Spain has agents among the Indians of the Mississippi and upper part of the Mississippi, persuading them to take up arms against the United States."
The United States brig DOLLY, Captain Bright, anchored in Charleston Roads on the 8th—the mounds 14 guns, and has 70 men—she is intended to cruise off that port for some time.
Commodore P-Mile, we learn (says the Boston Gazette) has been sent for by express to repair to Washington; and is now on his journey thither.
His Excellency the Governor has communicated to both branches of the Legislature, a circular letter from the Secretary at War, signifying that an immediate draft of the Militia of this State, may be called for by the General Government. This, it is supposed, will occupy their immediate attention.
Louisville Gazette.
FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN.
Extract of a letter from Capt. Daniel Rogers, of the ship Resolution, to his owners at Gloucester, dated
Malaga, Sept. 29.
"On my passage from St. Andrew, I was boarded by the Revenge, 74 guns, off Cadiz and treated politely, although I had a Spanish cargo on board, and bound from one Spanish port to another; but I knew that I was clear, or I should not have taken the wheat; there was an order of the Court of St. James, not to stop neutral vessels loaded with wheat, bound to Spanish ports, although it was Spanish property. That order still exists."
"There have been a great number of American vessels carried into Spanish ports, and condemned vessels and cargo, but that is done with; there has been an order from Madrid, to deliver them all up again."
The sale of the estate of Wm. Dandridge, deceased, advertised in this paper, will take place on the 15th January, instead of the 3d.
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY.
9th requisition. THE shareholders of said company, are hereby required to pay into the hands of James Brander, treasurer, the additional sum of ten Dollars, on each share, on or before the 8th day of February next.
DELINQUENT SHARERS ON FORMER REQUISITIONS.
NOTICE is hereby given, that all shares upon which there shall appear to be due delinquent sums of former requisitions, will be offered for sale at Mr. Brooks's tavern in Manchester, on the 11th day of February next, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon.
By order of the Directors, JAMES BRANDER, Clerk. December 27.
STRAYED OR STOLEN.
FROM the subscriber on the 30th day of November last, a BAY MARE, four years old; she has some white in the face, her hind feet one of them are white to her hock, the other foot some white on it, a tolerable long tail, she is shod before. Ten dollars reward will be given to any person that will deliver said beast to me at capt. Richard Netherlands's in Powhatan county or to John Schools in King and Queen county. URIAH SCHOOLS. S&T2tp. Dec. 27.
THE ELEPHANT.
WILL be removed this evening from the Washington Tavern in Richmond, to Mr. Brooks's tavern in Manchester, where she will be exhibited till Saturday evening the 28th inst.—Admittance 25 Cents, Children half price. December 27.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber intends to open an Academy, in the town of Fredericksburg, on the second Monday in January ensuing, for the instruction of youth. The strictest attention will be paid to the improvement, in the English language, of such pupils as may, at the same time, wish to acquire a knowledge of the Latin and Greek.
To the morals and general deportment of the pupils, as well as to their literary pursuits, an assiduous attention shall be paid; and every effort made
To rear the tender thought; To teach the young idea how to shoot; To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind; And fix the generous purpose in the breast. Thomson.
The house procured for the purpose, is large, convenient, and well situated; and a few small boys, to live in the house with me, and to be under my immediate observation, may be accommodated with everything except bedding.
The terms for Board, Tuition, Fuel, Washing, &c. will be $50 a year; and for tuition only 30 dols. to be paid in each case, quarterly; and to receive payment for the first quarter only, would be an accommodation.
A young man as an assistant, of sobriety, and general good character, and capacity, will be wanted in the Academy, and may, perhaps, be agreeably accommodated by applying to
ABNER WAUGH. Fredericksburg, Dec. 27.
AFFAIRS OF EUROPE.
The incidents now passing on the theatre of Europe, whether we regard the victory of Nelson on the sea or the victories of Bonaparte on the continent; the specious pretexts or the real incentives of the war; the impressions which it may produce upon the fate of Europe or of the United States; are too mighty to be grasped by the most spacious imagination. What can the Emperor of Austria or his brother of France propose to accomplish by this unprofitable contest? What is likely to be its catastrophe? What changes is it to produce in the balance of power in Europe, & its forms of government? What impressions, in conjunction with the British successes at sea, upon the interests of the only nation on earth, which aspires not to conquest; which sacredly respects the rights of Europe; and in whose welfare we feel a most anxious and undivided concern? These are questions, which cannot be too carefully pondered; but where is the man who possesses the materials for a profound investigation, or that prophetic spirit, which catches such events before they arise & discerns effects in their most distant causes? Every arrival from Europe transmits us new and unexpected intelligence. Every day and almost every hour shifts the course of events. And where, may we ask, is the man, who can pretend from the shape and dimensions of a passing cloud, to calculate its phases for some future hour? If we retrace the history of the few past months, we perceive nothing but mystery in the diplomatic movements of Europe. Contrary to the rational expectations of every impartial statesman, the Emperors of Austria and Russia have become a party in the war. Is there any, who will dare to decipher the intrigues of their cabinets and the secret objects, which they have in view? Was it from the charms and intrigues of some British adroitness, who figured on the Theatre at Petersburg, that the Emperor Alexander like his infame father, has been persuaded to unsheath the sword of destruction? Or was it some other accident; some other passion, equally contemptible in itself, but equally fatal in its consequences, wherever the fate of nations is entrusted to the blind judgment of one man; the infusion of a glass of water upon the splendid petticoat of a lady, or the frown of a courtier? Was it from the more solid argument of subsidy and gold, on which Bonaparte harps with so much dexterity in his address to his troops, that the cabinets of Vienna and Petersburg have given up their subjects to the devastations of war? Was it some more splendid and substantial object; some one that will not melt away under the touch of time; such as the acquisition of Swedish Pomerania; the chance of rounding off her possessions by the addition of Galicia or extending her frontier to the Melsfont, that has conducted Russia into the midst of Europe; & may we believe it to be a fact, according to the pledged declaration of General MACK, that "the Emperor of Austria had not wished for war, but was compelled to it by Russia?" Or are we at liberty, from what we know of the monarchs and the prevailing spirit of Europe, to assign a more honourable motive for the coalition which has been lately formed? It may be, that alarmed by the previous usurpations of Bonaparte at home and among foreign nations; conscious of the necessity which his situation imposed upon him of dazzling his new subjects by the splendid prospect of extending their territory and their fame, and like the Patriarchs of old Rome, of diverting the eyes of his people from his own hollow pretensions to some acquisition that would tickle their frivolous vanity: perhaps alarmed, too, for the safety of their own dominions, the courts of Austria and Russia deemed it necessary, at such a crisis, to step between the ambition of Bonaparte and the salvation of Europe. The crisis at which they came forward for the confirmation of this political enigma, seems, indeed, in one point of view, to support this honourable explanation of their motives. It was at a time when the legions of Bonaparte were encamped on the shores of the English channel, ready, to all appearance, to effect their descent upon Great Britain; a nation which, whatever may be thought of the oppressions of its own people or its encroachments upon the rights of the seas, is to be regarded as a counterpoise to the actual power of the French, or the advancing strength of Russia. Had Bonaparte succeeded in the conquest of Britain, her navy, her wealth, her distant possessions, united to his own, would have constituted a force difficult to be resisted by the coalitions of Europe, and wielded by a man of gigantic ambition. Is it then to resist this impending danger, that Austria and Russia are now fighting under the banners of the political cross of Europe? Is this to be the honourable motive assigned for the recent coalition; or must we go back to the secret motives, which Bonaparte has assigned to them: the influence of the gold of England, and the ambition of Russia? This question, about the real causes of the present coalition, is all-important in the history of the war. If Russia and Austria and Prussia, have gone into the contest, for the sake of resisting Bonaparte's ambition, and of securing the Balance of Power, they will forcibly lay down their arms before these objects are accomplished. Bonaparte must relinquish his designs upon England, his secret influence in Holland and Switzerland, and his iron sceptre in Italy; he must at least consent to be shorn of some of his beams, before the terms of pacification can be pleasing to the coalition. But if this coalition has been hatched in the intersticed views of all or of one of the combined powers; if Russia has gone into the war for no other purpose than to see how much she may make out of it; if interest and not virtue is the cement of this confederacy; it will, like all other ill-assorted combinations, soon melt away. The Emperor of France will have no other policy to pursue than to bribe off the armies of Russia and Prussia by some valuable consideration; or to enfeeble the energy of the coalition, by holding up the idea of secret corruption, and scattering suspicion among them. We owe it to the contempt which we feel for the spirit of monarchical governments, and for the spirit of aggrandizement, which seems to have taken the place in Europe of the spirit of innovation, to adopt the latter explanation. We cannot more strongly describe the image which Europe at this time presents to our imagination, than by comparing her principal powers to so many vultures fraying for their prey, and the feeble states of Hanover, Holland, Italy, and Turkey herself, the helpless victims of the feast of carnage. But whatever may be thought of the real objects of the present war, we cannot but be surprised by the inconsistency of the materials, which form the coalition. On the one side we behold a nation, that has put up a claim to the favouring of the seas, and on more than one occasion, has made Russia herself feel the weight
of her encroachments. On the other we behold this very power, who during the American war had aspired to the honour of heading an "armed neutrality" for the purpose of protecting the freedom of the seas; and which, during the last war in Europe, had entered into a similar compact for the same purpose. We behold them thus united in a war, which has been, until within the few last months, a war altogether of the seas: a war in which England has extended the right of blockade, both of belligerent and neutral ports, far beyond any measure of precedent or justice; in which she has aimed to destroy, not merely the commerce of France and Spain, but of every neutral nation; that has any chance of rivaling her own; in fact a war, in which the new principles of the laws of nations, advocated by England, must hereafter excite the vehement indignation of Russia. To what then are we to ascribe this unnatural combination? But this is not the only incongruity which it discloses to our view. We may admire as much as we please the wonderful art and dexterity, with which Bonaparte attempts to justify himself to foreign nations & to excite the ardour of his troops against the enemy, by exalting upon the rising strength and the teeming projects of Russia. We may admire as much as we please that political juggling, by which he wishes to turn the eyes of Europe from his own immediate aggrandizement to the future & menacing power of his enemy: to conjure up an image of Russian ambition, which may or may not go into effect, to conceal or to justify his own exciting usurpations. But after all the indignation and disgust, which we may think proper to feel towards the Usurper of the French; who is as much a Cossac in the tendency of his plans as Alexander's subjects are in their habits; we are still compelled to admit that Bonaparte has laid hold of an argument of as much strength as subtlety. That the borders of Russia are once more able to overthrow the means of civilization, is idle and ridiculous declamation; but it is not so, that they mean to carry their conquests into the South of Europe. All who have read Tooker's or Catherina's history of Catherine must know that such was one of her favourite objects; that she had sent even for Greek nurses from the isle of Naxos to teach the young prince Constantine the language of his future people. Every one must know that the Russians had extended their frontiers to the Dnieper and the sea of Azoph; that the reigning prince has taken possession of the Ionian Isles; and has even landed a body of troops in the Morea. It is the interest of Europe therefore, however much it is to be wished that the Turks were driven from her bosom, to prevent the Russian conquests in Turkey. It is the interest of England herself and of Prussia. Such at least was supposed to be their interest in the year '91, when Russia was about to receive from Turkey the possession of Oczakow. For it was on this subject, that in the house of commons on the 29th of March 1791, after receiving his majesty's message, Mr. Pitt enlarged much on the necessity of attending to the preservation of the balance of power in Europe. "The influence of the Turkish empire, (said he, was) of great effect in the general scale. Its present situation was such as to afford just cause of apprehension to other powers; and to Prussia in particular it must be highly injurious, to suffer the Turkish Empire to be diminished in force and consequence." But what is the scene that Europe now exhibits? England the great opponent of Russia in her designs upon Turkey, has now even subsidized her in a war, which is likely in its course to shake the very centre of the Turkish empire, to give Russia a pretext for increasing her military force in its bosom, and the power of accomplishing her long-formed plan of usurpation. Surely this is not the least inconsistency, which the present war has given birth to.
(To be continued.)
TAX ON LAND.
It is not our purpose at present to examine the system of taxation which Virginia has adopted by its "qualifying law" of 1782, with regard to the rate of the tax upon land. This rate is completely unjust; because it is completely unequal. There is force a political economy, even under the privileged governments of Europe, who does not lay down the equality of taxes as one of the fundamental maxims of taxation. "The subjects of every state (says the immortal Smith) ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities: that is, in proportion to the revenue, which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State." But how is it possible for us to reconcile to this rule, the discrimination made by the act of '82 in the rate of the land tax, not according to the different value of the land, but according to the district in which it happens to be found. By that law, all the counties in the commonwealth are laid off into four districts; "the average or standard of the first district" is ten shillings; that of the second seven shillings and six pence; that of the third five shillings and six pence; and of the fourth three shillings. What is this but declaring that an acre of land in the county of Accomac, is bound to pay three and 3/4 times as much tax as an acre in Monongalia, though it be of the very same quality and value? that is, "though it yields the very same rent and revenue to its proprietor?" It is ridiculous to urge, that the lands on the banks of our rivers are infinitely more productive than those to the west of the mountain; because though the great body of the land may be thus superior in value, there are a great many tracts which are not so. It is a much better argument to urge, that this diminution in the rate of the tax upon the western district of Virginia is no more than a compensation for their inferiority of representation and influence in the Senate.
It is our purpose at present to show in a cursory manner the different changes, which have been made by our laws in the mode of compelling delinquents to pay the tax, whatever be its rate. These changes have been more or less favourable to the proprietor and to the greedy speculator, without producing a corresponding benefit to the state.
By the 5th sect. of the act of 1790, it is provided that "if a case the tax on any tract of land within this commonwealth, shall not be paid for the space of 3 years, the right to such lands shall be lost, forfeited and vested in the commonwealth; and it shall be lawful for any person to acquire a title to any land so forfeited, in the manner prescribed for acquiring titles to waste and unappropriated lands within this commonwealth, on the Eastern waters, by an act, entitled "an act to dispose of the waste and unappropriated lands, in the commonwealth of Virginia, on the Eastern waters."
By recurring to this act, which is chap. 40 of the year 1785, we discover that vacant and unappropriated lands may be located "on paying the consideration of twenty-five pounds for every hundred acres, and so in proportion for a greater or smaller quantity."
The act of 1792, in its 5th sect. provides "that no warrant shall issue to be located on any lands which may vest in the commonwealth on account of the non-payment of the taxes
thereon, unless the person applying for the same shall pay in consideration thereof at the rate of one hundred dollars for every hundred acres." The act of 1795, in order to remedy the injury resulting to the commonwealth from "in discriminately requiring one dollar per acre," "by reason of the difference of its value in different parts" of the state, enacts "that whenever any person in future be desirous of locating (forfeited) lands, they shall in the first instance procure from the commissioners of the land tax, within whose precincts the same may lie, a certificate of the price at which such lands stand charged, which certificate being delivered to the auditor, shall entitle the party to an order on the treasurer for the receipt of so much money as such lands may stand charged with, which being paid, & other requisites of the act complied with, shall entitle the party to all such right as the commonwealth may have had therein by means of the non-payment of such taxes."
The law of 1803, which is the next in order, lay still more rigid penalties on the delinquent proprietor. For it declares that all such land may be located on the same terms with vacant and unappropriated land; that is, at the rate of 2 dollars for every 100 acres.
From this review, it plainly follows that the law of '90 disposed of the title for 83 3/4 cents per acre.
for the price on the commissioner's books for 2 cents.
It is useless to make any comment upon the rigid provisions of such a law. It would be ridiculous to point out, what must be obvious to every man, that it is directly in the face of the plainest maxim of taxation; that no man ought to lose, what the treasury does not gain. It is true that every delinquent proprietor ought to be made to pay the tax upon his land; but he ought to lose no more of his land than is sufficient to pay it. In other words, there is not the smallest comparison between the advantages of taking a man's land from him altogether, and taking a sum of it (according to the U. States law and the law of some of the other states) that is sufficient to pay the tax and leaving him the residue of the land or its proceeds. The idea of seizing an individual into a compliance with the law by disproportioned punishments, has been found of very little effect in preventing crimes; and will be found to have almost no effect in preventing delinquencies.
Let us, in place of these rigid penalties, employ a mild but more efficient corrective. It is difficult indeed to discover a cure for all our political as well as all our physical maladies; but we may not hope for some success from the following prescription? Let it be enacted that every delinquent proprietor shall pay a double interest upon the amount of his tax, for every year that he fails to pay it; that the land is in all cases to be pledged for the payment of the tax; but that after a certain time, it is to be considered as under a mortgage to the treasury. The proprietor is to lose all right of selling and transferring it to another, and the attorney of the state by a simple motion to the court, may obtain an order to have so much of it sold, as may discharge the accumulated debt. Such at least we are told is partly the process in New-York; & if it succeeds there, why may it not in Virginia? But does it succeed there? It is a question we are incompetent to answer. We have no doubt that the present legislature will turn to the finances of their sister states for more satisfactory information; and that in the laws of those states, which they will find heaped up in the council chamber, they may discover better modes of exacting the payment of the land tax, than the Draconian law of 1803 has provided.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
New Political Nomenclature for Richmond.
It is proposed to make some alteration in the distinguishing epithets of party in this city: inasmuch as the present are not only borrowed, but do not express with sufficient accuracy and precision, the description of men intended to be characterized, nor the kind of principles intended to be designated. I should take no small credit to myself, had I been the original inventor of the proposed improvement in our political dictionary; but I must do justice to the gentleman from whom I borrowed the idea, and, therefore, freely declare it is not my own; hereby avoiding with proper care the charge of literary theft—a charge which is but too often, now-a-days, justly brought forward. In conversation with this gentleman the other day, he made use of these words—"I am afraid such will be the event of a certain election, they carry their damned modernism so far." The word struck me—I thought it was new . Not to be behindhand with the gentleman, after I left him, I endeavoured to invent a word that should suit the party who have such a detestation for moderation , I presume, but what the gentleman, before alluded to, denominates, with elegant brevity, modernism . I at length succeeded with the assistance of a few friends: we held a caucus , of three persons, and it was decided by a majority of one, that the term most peculiarly suited to that gentleman and his party was botherism . A speech was made upon this occasion, and the point argued by an orator every way qualified to decide upon a topic of such magnitude. He stated that botherism was aptly opposed to moderation ; that these terms were new, he said, "it was most true," gravely quoting Shakespeare; but he contended that upon the present occasion there was a necessity for new terms; that no term heretofore in use could be applied with propriety to our little divisions; he was opposed to branding any set of men, in our country, with such opprobrious epithets as some had done; he called no men Robespierres or Dantons, for if they had the will, which he did not believe, they certainly had not the power to practice in our city the revolutionary purgations of a Robespierre or a Danton; still less did they deserve any English designation of political parties—they were certainly neither whigs nor tories; they were not quids—Pennsylvania had exclusively monopolized this term, and this description of men: they were not monarchists, aristocrats, or federalists—they had gone beyond democracy; he therefore observed that there was a necessity for inventing a new term, and none he thought could be better or more appropriate, than the one which he had the honor to propose— BOTHERISM!!! The gentleman spoke at great length, and with such "indignant eloquence" that I could not take notes as fast as he manufactured metaphors;
For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Some hold the one, and some the other, But howe'er they make a pother: The difference was so small, his brain Out-wrigg'd his rage, but half a grain.
However, he concluded at last; and so for I by recording, in characters of deathlike fame, the substance of his eloquent remarks. He said that botherism was a word of Irish extraction; but in this country we received the individuals of
that much-injured nation with fraternal cordiality; and ergo, he contended, that there ought to be no objection raised against botherism merely because it was descended of Irish parentage. Having thus not only invented a term, but settled the point of its application and legitimacy, he proceeded to observe, that for the future, botherism should be considered as a generical term, the trunk from which all the branches spring. Thus when we have occasion to speak of the principles of that party, to convey a correct idea of them, we should make use of the word botherism ! When we speak of the party collectively, we should call them the botherists !! When we see an individual of the party, we exclaim a botherist !!! And when we shall allude to the doings, workings, and operations of the party, we should call it— botheration !!! Here the orator concluded, and here ended
"The class of arguments, the jar of words, More than the mortal brunt of rival swords."
The assembly, was too small, or perhaps the fame "buzz of applause" would have run it. The caucus that Sallust so elegantly and interestingly relates to us, pervaded the Roman senate, when Julius Cæsar concluded his oration against inlicting the punishment of death upon the conspirators of Cataline.
EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Friday, December 20.
A communication from the Senate by their clerk. The Senate have passed the following bills, to wit:
An act, to amend an act, entitled, an act, "Providing for the poor and declaring who shall be deemed vagrants."
An engrossed bill, "Incorporating the town of Wheeling in the county of Ohio," was read a third time and several blanks therein filled up;
Referred, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act, "Incorporating the town of Wheeling in the county of Ohio."
DEATH.
With pain it falls to our lot to record the death of Col. JOHN HOOMES, of the Bowling Green, in Caroline County, on the 15th inst. after a painful and lingering illness, which he bore with the greatest fortitude and christian resignation. He has left a widow and an amiable family of children to lament the loss of a tender husband and affectionate parent.
In the various relations of a public character, he has uniformly been faithful to the interests of those who had chosen him to serve them. In private life he has fulfilled an amiable reputation and very few men have possessed a greater share of genuine, solid virtue and unassisted benevolence. The loss of friends and acquaintances will be severely felt.
"Adieu! kind friend, to each fine feeling true Thy virtues many and thy foibles few; Another's woe thy heart could always melt, None gave more free, for none more deeply felt. Adieu! kind friend, thy own harmonic ways Have culptured out thy monument of praise; Yes, these survive till time's removed day, Till drops the dust, or boastful tomb decay."
RICHMOND POST OFFICE.
December 1st 24th, 1805.
ON account of the great loss and inconvenience in collecting News Paper Postage, after it becomes due. After the first day of January next, no papers will be delivered before one quarters postage is paid in advance, except to those persons who have quarterly accounts kept open at the office. December 23 (f & t)
FASHIONABLE GOODS.
READY made white Satin Pelisses; various dark colored Silk ditto; Florence Silk and Satin Spencers; elegant Souffle Dresses; Rich Brocades and figured Satins; Plain and figured Lena and Pique Mullins; A handsome variety of plain, checked and striped Sarisets; Ladies' Tamboured Neck Handkerchiefs; Shoulder Ornamentals; Lace Sleeves and Gloves; which, with a general assortment of fashionable goods, are offered for sale, at moderate prices, by M. & B. MYERS. December 23. (f & t)
I HAVE received direct from Bordeaux, 100 Boxes of PRUNES, which I shall sell very low; they are fine and very fresh. Those who feel an inclination to purchase a few boxes, will apply to the publisher on Shockoe-Hill, in one of Judge Wythe's new brick houses. LEWIS M. RIVALAIN. December 27. (f & t)
GEOGRAPHY.
This day is received and for sale at the Book Store of J. Johnson, Richmond. A Sketch of the Geography and present state of the United States of North America—price 37 1/2 Cents. The same work beautifully printed on cards—62 1/2 Cents. * * Casks or books will be given for clean linen and cotton rags. December 27. S&T84.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
For a Horse, &c.
TAKEN from the street, (opposite the Post Office) in this city, between six and seven o'clock in the evening, of the 21st inst. a bright bay HORSE, (with Saddle and Bridle) supposed to be five years old, last spring, about four feet 10 or 11 inches high, two or three white spots on his back, (occasioned by the saddle) and an old hurt that is not haired over, (tho' well) a small white spot (I've been informed, on the inside of one of his thighs, he has rather a thick mane, and is coarse made, has a strong steady trot, carries his head low, and a sleepy countenance when still. The saddle is double skirred, and the stirrups iron plated, and has been in use about twelve months; a double reined bridle, with a leather curb. Whoever delivers the Horse Saddle and Bridle to me, near the Basin, shall receive the above reward, and five dollars for the horse alone, it taken up out of this county, and half that sum if within the county. 'Tis supposed he was rode off, not with a view to keep. SAMUEL PARSONS. December 27. (f)
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or stolen from Shockoe Ware-house, on Thursday the 19th of December, 1805, a bright bay HORSE, about five feet high, ten years old, one hind foot white a few white hairs in his forehead. Whoever will deliver the said horse to the subscriber, at the Washington tavern, shall receive the above reward. PETER M. DANIEL. December 27. (f & t)
NEIL MCCOULL.
HAS received, by the late arrivals from London and Liverpool, his usual supply of FALL & WINTER GOODS. October 22.

DOCUMENTS Accompanying a MESSAGE from the PRESIDENT of the United States. Comprising a full length all the papers not previously inserted in the Enquirer. New-Orleans, August 7th, 1805.
SIR, In my communication of the 29th ultimo was included a letter to me, from the marquis of Casa Calvo, (soliciting that the Spanish officers now in this territory may be exempted from the payment of the municipal tax) together with a copy of my answer thereto. I now have the honor to transmit you a second letter from the marquis, on the same subject, together with a list of the officers alluded to; and if it be not improper, I should be glad to hear your sentiments as to the propriety of the exemption solicited: my own opinion is, "that the officers generally, who possess property within this territory, are liable to taxation; nor can an exemption be made in favor of the marquis and the members of his family, until he shall have been recognized by the president as an agent of Spain." You no doubt, will be surprised to find so many foreign officers in this city; the fact is, Sir, they are wedded to Louisiana, and necessity alone will induce them to depart. I have repeatedly, by letter and verbally, informed the marquis that the continuance in this territory of "so many Spanish officers so long beyond the right occasion for it," was not seen with approbation, and urged their departure. The marquis has often assured me of his disposition to comply with my wishes, but you will perceive that the inconvenience is not yet remedied. I have the honor to be, Sir, With great respect, Your humble servant, WILLIAM C. C. CLAIBORNE.
The honorable JAMES MADISON, SECRETARY OF STATE.
To the governor of the Territory of Orleans. SIR, In consequence of the letter that your excellency has been pleased to write to me, relating to the doubt which I manifested concerning the persons employed in the commission of limits and other subjects of his Catholic majesty, who are yet in, but about to depart from this province, I enclose to your excellency the lists of the persons who now compose the said commission, together with that of the individuals who are about to depart from this country, as soon as their business therein shall be terminated, & also that of the retired individuals, and of the widows on pensions, who may remain in this province. May your excellency live many years, Signed, THE MARQUIS DE CASA CALVO. New-Orleans, the 2nd of Aug. 1805. I do certify the above translation. MOREAU LISLEY, Interpreter.
A list of the individuals composing the expedition of the limits of the province of Louisiana, as approved by his Catholic majesty's order of the 20th August, 1804. Principal commissioner—the brigadier general, marquis de Casa Calvo; Associate commissioner—lieutenant col. don Joseph Martinez, de Crois, brigade major in the corps of engineers; Secretary—the commissary at war ad interim, don Andrew Lopez Arriaga; Clerk—the first sergeant of the regiment of the Havana, Antonio Martinez; Captain—don Nicolas Finiels; Captain in the army—don Stephen Minor; Captain in the militia—don Thomas Power; Chaplain—don Sebastian Gil; Surgeon—don Josephin Abalde; Commander of the escorting troops—don Benigno Garcia Calderon, adjutant in the regiment of Louisiana; Sergeant of the fame—John B. De la Cruz, with a corporal and ten grenadiers; Adjutant—don Ignatius Fernandez, adjutant of the regiment of Louisiana; Officer of the revenue—don John Tala; Clerk of the fame—don Felix Tala, his son; Surgeon of the hospital—don Fernando Moreno; Commander of the galliot and smaller boats—don Anthony Molina; Carpenter—Manuel Guillemin. NOTE. That for the purpose of purchasing timber for the navy, the fourth officer of the naval administration, don Anthony de J. Carra, and his clerk, don John B. Bernadez, are in this place. Signed, ANDREW LOPEZ ARMESTO. Secretary.
New-Orleans, 30th of July, 1805. MOREAU LISLEY, Interpreter.
A list of the persons employed by his Catholic majesty, who are to depart as soon as their business shall be terminated. ADMINISTRATION OF THE KING'S REVENUE. 1 Don John Ventura Morales, paymaster general of the army, late intendant, pro tempore, in this province; 2 Don Gilbert Leonard, treasurer of the army, late paymaster general, pro tempore, in this province; 3 Don Manuel Arriaga, treasurer, pro tempore; 4 Don Caetano Vaydez, secretary of the intendant; 5 Don Francis Arroyo, defined by a royal order for Porto Rico; 6 Don Joseph Rueda, who is to go to Campeche. CUSTOM-HOUSE. 1 Don Joseph Anthony de Hoz, administrator; 2 Don Anthony Morales, treasurer; 3 Don Manuel Taledano, officer of the guard of the custom-house. ROYAL HOSPITAL. 1 Don Joseph Truffa, surgeon, who has order of the king to retire into Pensylvania. SURVEYOR-GENERAL. 1 Don Charles Trudeau. Signed, DON ANDW. LOPEZ ARMESTO, Secretary of the commission.
New-Orleans, 30th July, 1805. I do certify the above translation. MOREAU LISLEY, Interpreter.
A list of the officers in his Catholic majesty's service, who are to depart immediately after having terminated their business. OFFICERS WHO BELONGED TO THE LATE STAFF OF THIS PLACE. Town major—lieut. col. don Gilberto Guillard, who is on the point of going to Pensylvania; Adjutant—lieut. col. don Paulle Blanc, who is to go to the fame place; Adjutant—captain Henry Mentzinger, who is ordered to go to the fame place. OFFICERS OF THE REGIMENT OF LOUISIANA. Captains. Lieut. col. don Zenon Truffa, deat. don Ignatius De-lino, deat. don Joseph le Blanc, deat. don John Lafitte, deat. don Felix Trudeau, deat. Militia. Captain—don Lewis de Clonet, late commander of the fame. Lieut. col.—don Peter Barleau, who has solicited his retreat. Captain—don Henry Pey:oux
Don Peter Marin, late administrator of the fame. Signed, ANDREW LOPEZ ARMESTO. New-Orleans, July 30th, 1805. I do certify the above translation. MOREAU LISLEY, Interpreter.
List of the retired officers, and of other persons employed in the service of his Catholic majesty, who remain in this province, in order to settle their business, or an account of their old age or usual infirmities. 1 Don Nicholas D'Annoy, colonel of the royal corps of artillery; 2 Don Manuel Perez, lieut. colonel; 3 Don Peter Favot, lieut. col. and captain of grenadiers, (with a royal permission for two years) 4 Don Manuel Panzas, } Captains. 5 Don Francis Rivas, } 6 Don Joseph Barmonde, } 7 Don William Dupare, } 8 Don Lewis Tudice, } Lieutenants with the grade of captain. 9 Don Stephen La-morandier, } 10 Don Charles Morant, adjutant general of militia; 11 Don Charles de Vil-lers, } 11 lieut. of militia (with a royal permission for 3 years.) 12 Don Jno. Vives, } 13 Don Peter Faillon, } 14 Don Joseph Piernas, } 15 Don Manuel Soileau, } 16 Don James Fernandez, } 17 Don Silvestre, } 18 Don Henry Darcanel, officer of administration. NOTE. By a particular favor of his majesty, the widows of the persons employed, who are enjoying of pensions, though they are unable to go to Pensylvania, are the following: 1 Donna Marquise Waths, widow of the brigadier don Manuel Gayere de Limos, late governor of this province; 2 Mrs. Villenont; 3 Mrs. Bouligny; 4 Mrs. Paris; 5 The baroness de Browner; 6 Mrs. Trevino; 7 Mrs. Caufot; 8 Donna Francis Trudeau; 9 Mrs. Zepedes. NOTE. There was a small number of retired serjeants and privates, who are to go to Baton Rouge or Pensylvania. Signed, ANDREW LOPEZ ARMESTO. New-Orleans, 30th July, 1805. I do certify the above translation. MOREAU LISLEY, Interpreter.
The governor of the Mississippi territory to the secretary of State. MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY, TOWN OF WASHINGTON, 14th September, 1805. SIR, The enclosed affidavits marked No. 1 to 11, inclusive, will inform you of some outrages committed within this territory by two Spanish parties. The letters marked No. 1 to 5, and an order to col. Ellis, will inform you of the steps which I have thought it advisable to take. The messenger with my letter to governor Grand Pre has not returned, although he was requested, and undertook to be back by this morning. I have not received any answer to my dispatch to you on this subject of the 14th June. If, Sir, I am to refuse any thing on this occasion, it shall be in defence of the liberties and the property of the citizens, and in support of the honor and independence of my government: and I hope the measures taken and advised by me will not be found adverse to the views of the executive or to the interest of the United States. I am with respect, yours, ROBERT WILLIAMS, The Hon. James Madison, Secretary of State.
AFFIDAVIT No. 1. WILKINSON COUNTY, Mississippi territory. Personally appeared before me, one of the justices of the peace for said county, Arthur Cobb, jun. and being duly sworn according to law, on his oath deposed, that on the night of the 3d of September, 1805, being at the house of Samuel Kemper or otherwise the tavern of the Kemper, between the hours of eleven and twelve, he wakened from his sleep by the cry of murder and robbers. On leaving his bed, he saw a man in actual conflict with Samuel Kemper—on proceeding further he saw another man and afterwards one more, and all being armed with the instruments of death, such as guns and pistols, he thought proper to retreat to call assistance; that afterwards a pistol was found, which must have belonged to one of those men, and from every appearance he believes it to belong to Ira Cook Kneeland. (Signed) ARTHUR COBB, jun. Subscribed and Sworn to before me, [Signed] JOSHUA BAKER, J. P.
AFFIDAVIT No. 2. Likewise, as above No. 1. appeared William Westberry, and deposed, that at the same time being awakened from his sleep by the breaking open the door, that on rising he saw he thinks five men in the act of beating with a stick Samuel Kemper in the town of Pinckneyville—that he saw them drag him by the hands, heard the men give orders to tie his hands with a rope—that said Samuel Kemper gave the cry of murder, and that was the last he saw or heard of them. [Signed] WILLIAM WESTBERRY. Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 3d day of September. [Signed] JOSHUA BAKER, J. P.
AFFIDAVIT No. 3. Likewise at the same time appeared before me James Latta, who deposed on oath, that at the same hour, being just awakened from sleep, he saw Samuel Kemper, and being asked who he was, said a friend; that they then being in the house, broke open the door of said Kemper's private lodging room, that he, Latta, attempting to rise, was thrown back on the bed by two men, who said they would take his life if he spoke. That there appeared to be five men in number, and all disguised in black paint, that after some short time he got an opportunity of escaping, when he went for assistance, and before his return they had borne off the said Samuel Kemper, and he saw them no more. [Signed] JAS. LATTA. Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 3d day of September. [Signed] JOSHUA BAKER, J. P.
AFFIDAVIT No. 4. WILKINSON COUNTY, Mississippi Territory. Personally appeared before me, one of the justices of the peace for said county, John Atkinson, Henry Gamheart, Richard Richardson and John Whittaker, who being duly sworn according to law, on their oaths deposed, That on the night of the 3d Sept. 1805, being at the house of Nathan Kemper, in the vicinity of Pinckneyville, between the hours of 11 and 12, they heard some person hail the house, and on being asked two or three times who they were, they readily affirmed it was captain Abrams. Immediately afterwards they opened the door, which swung on the inside of the house and was fastened by a string on the inside—immediately on this Reuben Kemper appeared to be only at that moment awakened from his sleep, asked who was there? when they immediately seized him, dragged him out of the house, and tied him, after bruising him very much with a club or clubs. [Signed] JOSHUA BAKER, J. P.
Attest at the same time they dragged Nathan Kemper from the bed wherein he lay with his wife, and tied him also, but did not beat him as much as they did Reuben. Said Nathan Kemper requesting to see his wife, was refused in very rough language; the likewise was refused in her request of seeing her husband. On Nathan Kemper's asking what they had done to deserve such treatment, was answered, God damn! you have ruined our country, which he, Atkinson, believes to be the American territories of Spain.—That the said Nathan Kemper's wife received considerable injury from the violence of these men, who all appeared armed with guns, pistols or clubs.—That in the act of confining the above two men, they cocked and uncocked their guns a great many times, and ordered every man in the house to tell his name, and kept a strict guard at both the doors of the house, and would not admit of any one of the family or any one that did not belong to their party passing and repassing, as they frequently presented their guns cocked, and said they would blow the first one through who attempted to oppose them. That they then gave a regular military word, forward march, and at the second word of command they proceeded on their way, and bore off both Reuben and Nathan Kemper. That the next morning they saw a considerable quantity of blood apparently issuing from the wounds of Reuben Kemper. Signed, JOHN ATKINSON, HENRY GAMHEART, RICHARD RICHARDSON, JOHN WHITTAKER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 3d day of September. [Signed] JOSHUA BAKER, J. P. (To be continued.)
JUST PUBLISHED, AND NOW FOR SALE AT THE BOOK STORE OF JACOB JOHNSON, A few doors below the Market, Richmond. THE Young Carpenters assistant; or, a system of architecture adapted to the style of building in the United States, by A. Biddle—house carpenter and teacher of architectural drawing in Philadelphia, illustrated with 44 elegant designs; Rollins Ancient History, 8 vol. Village Maid; Cobwebs to catch flies for youth; Prince Lee Boo, with plates. A large assortment of the most interesting and finely executed books for children, ever published in the United States—Catalogues of these books may be had at his store. J. Johnson is now publishing a beautiful edition of select British Poets, to make from 80 to 100 vols. of this work he has already published. Milton's works, 4 vols. Gray's works 1 vol. Armstrong & Green, 1 vol. Watts' do. 2 Pope's works, 5 vols. Young's do. 4 Thomson's do. 2 Addison's do. 1 Akenside's do. 2 Johnson & Collin's work 1 vol. Burn's do. 2 The price of this work is 75 Cents in boards, or one Dollar in handsome binding. Gentlemen who with a complete set of this valuable mass of Poetry, will have the goodness to send their names as soon as convenient to the publisher's book store in Richmond, and they may rely on being served with the volumes, not yet out, as regularly as the magnitude of the work will permit. STATIONARY. Wove and plain Folio Post Paper, Fool's Cap and Letter paper; Day books, Journals and Ledgers; Receipt and Memorandum blank books suitable for the office; Slates and Pencils; Mathematical Instruments; Boxes of Paints; an elegant assortment of Penknives, and a general assortment of articles in the stationery line. December 24. 1 & 2 w.
WARDLAW, has received his fall supply of Medicines, by the ship Rolla from London; also a great variety of Paints, Varnishes, Surgeons Instruments, patent Medicines, &c. &c. And by the ship George from Liverpool, a large supply of vials and shop glass.—Those who favor him with their custom may depend on being supplied with every article in his line on the most liberal terms. The citizens of Richmond are requested when they apply at his shop by a child or servant to put the name of the article wanted on paper to prevent mistakes. Nov. 1. tf.
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE, In the county of King William, belonging to the estate of William Brooke, dec'd. lying on Mattaponny river, two miles above Fraziers ferry, within seven of King William Court House, and about four miles from King and Queen Court House. This tract contains by a late survey 762 acres of highland and about 100 of valuable wild salt marsh, abounding with a variety of wild fowl in their season. The buildings on this land are a new barn and stable and other houses fit for the accommodation of an Overseer and negroes. A further description is deemed unnecessary, as those who are disposed to purchase will undoubtedly view it. The sale will take place at Fraziers ferry on Saturday the 28th of the present month, at which time the terms of sale will be made known; should this land not be sold on that day, it will be rented for the ensuing year. RICHARD BROOKE, Executor. December 21. tf.
ENOCH SULLIVAN, SILVER, GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER, Returns his grateful thanks to his friends and the public for the liberal encouragement afforded him in his line of business, and hopes by his punctilious attention to the business, to which he was bred, to insure a continuation of the favor of a liberal public. He offers now for sale at his shop adjoining the Eagle Tavern, a general assortment of silver ware and jewellery of the most fashionable kind, consisting of silver Tea Pots, cream Urns, Tumblers, Spoons, and mourning and fancy Earrings, Lockets, Finger Rings, and Breast Pins, jet, white and coral Necklace and Earrings, a general supply of Combs, plain and ornamented Pocket Books, thread Cates, Miniature and ring Cates, gold and gilt Seals, Keys and Chains. Highest prices given for old gold or silver. December 3. tf.
FOR SALE, THE HOUSE and LOT at present occupied by Mr. John Ismond on Shockey Hill. One fourth of the purchase money will be required in hand, and great accommodation will be given for the balance. Enquire of THOMAS NORVELL. December 17.
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND, MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use. Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. Gentlemen at a distance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as if they were on the spot. A—the length of the Boot—C—round the Calf—B—the pitch of ditto—D—round the heel and instep—E—round the instep—G—across the ball of the foot. Fix the heel against a perpendicular, and stick a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. January 1. epif
WANTED ON RENT, A COMMODIOUS HOUSE and LOT, with stable attached thereto.—The vicinity of the town would be preferred. Apply to the Editor of the Enquirer. December 10. TTS tf
MILITARY CERTIFICATES. FOR SALE, Certificates of this state, bearing interest of 6 per cent. and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrears of taxes, prior to the year 1798. WILLIAM PRICE, Cashr. Genl. M. A. S. May 1. tf.
THE subscribers offer for sale, their reversionary right in a new fire-proof warehouse on Maxwell's wharf in the Borough of Norfolk, described in the will of Doctor John K. Read, dec'd. as his uppermost warehouse. In this property, Mrs. Helen Read has a life estate. MERIWETHER JONES, BENJAMIN F. READ. It is probable that I may leave this state ere long: in which event, Meriwether Jones will be fully authorized to act for me. BENJAMIN F. READ. November 1. tf.
THE VIRGINIA ALMANACK, FOR 1806: PRINTED FOR T. RITCHIE AND COOK & GRANT. LAND-containing A considerable variety of matter; Political, Agricultural, Medical and Miscellaneous. Among others, an Essay on the Oratorical Character of Curran, attributed to the author of the British Spy.
Printing, IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE ENQUIRER.
NOTICE. If Francis Lightfoot, a native of the county of New-Kent, and formerly a resident of the state of Virginia, be now living, or has any legal heir or descendant living, either in the United States or elsewhere, by applying either in person or by special agent, and producing sufficient evidence of their being such legal descendant, to Wm. or Nicholas Lightfoot of the county of James City, to Geo. or Lightfoot Poindexter of New-Kent, or to James Poindexter of Powhatan, will hear of something highly important and much to their advantage. The Printers throughout the U. S. are requested to insert the above twice, in their respective papers, and transmit their accounts to the Editor of the Enquirer. Nov. 19. ep2m
GENERAL OFFICE OF INSURANCE. THE members of the Mutual Insurance Company against Fire on Goods and Furniture, in the state of Virginia, are requested to take notice, that agreeably to the fourth article of the Regulations of the said Company, a general meeting will be held at this office, on Wednesday the 8th day of January next. It is hoped that the meeting will be full, and that those who cannot make it convenient to attend in person, will not fail to appoint proxies in time. Wm. H. Fitzhughson, P. Agent. December, 24.
Will be sold, at Probation January court, being the 15th, to the highest bidder. A Valuable TRACT OF LAND containing 1300 acres, on Deep Creek, in the said county, either altogether, or in lots to suit purchasers. The value of this land will be best known by an accurate view of the different lots, to which are attached rich low grounds, which will be shown by Mr. Hatcher, on the premises, with whom is left a plot, by a late survey. There is a good crop of wheat sown thereon. Twelve likely hands will be hired, which are under an overleaf, engaged for the ensuing year, with every thing prepared for a crop. One-fourth of the purchase money will be required on taking possession, and the remainder in three annual payments, to carry interest from the date; but good bonds, properly secured, of residents within the districts of Richmond or Peterburgh, will be accepted for the different payments. WILLIAM MAYO. S&tdf. Powhatan, Dec. 24.
EDUCATION. THE course for the ensuing year will commence on the 10th January and end on the 15th of August. The annual commencement of the course in future will be on the 1st of October, the fall vacation beginning the 16th of August preceding and expiring that day. The course of instruction will comprehend the Latin, Greek and French languages, Mathematics, Geography with the use of the Globes, History, English Grammar, Elocution, Logic, Composition, Moral Philosophy, and some of the most useful and curious branches of Natural Philosophy, &c. &c. The expenses of a student for a course are as follows, viz. Board from 1st Oct. to 15th Aug. following 88 Washing, candles, &c. 15 Tuition 50 133 To some, these charges may appear extravagant, but by comparing them with those of Wm. and Mary (which by the last statement published amounted to 250 dols.) it will appear that the expenses of a student at the Rumford Academy for near 11 months are little more than half those of a student at Wm. and Mary for 9.—The expenses of the present course will be in proportion to the above statement. G. H. DEVENISH. King William, December 14.
GEORGE WILY, BROKER & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Near the Basin, BUYS and sells all kinds of Produce—Alfalfa, and Lots, and houses, Bank Stock, &c. He has for Sale, LOTS No. 141, 2, 3, and 4, which make one entire square in Du-Val's addition.—There is a good Spring attached to them. These lots are well worth the attention of any gentleman wishing to build a summer retreat for his family. July 23.—tf.
DOCTOR LARUS, BEGS leave to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of this city, and the Public generally, that he will continue, as formerly, to practice as a DENTIST. Those who may please to employ him in the line of his profession, may rely on the strictest attention by him to give satisfaction. December 2.
OYSTER HOUSE. GEORGE WATSON, HAS commenced his former and well known occupation of furnishing OYSTERS, BEEF STEAKS, COLD SNACKS, and RELISHES, at the white House near the Union Tavern, wherein the Post-Office was lately kept. He begs leave to assure those who may favor him with their company or commands, that nothing shall be neglected on his part which promises to give satisfaction. October 15.
WANTED ON RENT, A COMMODIOUS HOUSE and LOT, with stable attached thereto.—The vicinity of the town would be preferred. Apply to the Editor of the Enquirer. December 10. TTS tf
MILITARY CERTIFICATES. FOR SALE, Certificates of this state, bearing interest of 6 per cent. and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrears of taxes, prior to the year 1798. WILLIAM PRICE, Cashr. Genl. M. A. S. May 1. tf.
THE subscribers offer for sale, their reversionary right in a new fire-proof warehouse on Maxwell's wharf in the Borough of Norfolk, described in the will of Doctor John K. Read, dec'd. as his uppermost warehouse. In this property, Mrs. Helen Read has a life estate. MERIWETHER JONES, BENJAMIN F. READ. It is probable that I may leave this state ere long: in which event, Meriwether Jones will be fully authorized to act for me. BENJAMIN F. READ. November 1. tf.
THE VIRGINIA ALMANACK, FOR 1806: PRINTED FOR T. RITCHIE AND COOK & GRANT. LAND-containing A considerable variety of matter; Political, Agricultural, Medical and Miscellaneous. Among others, an Essay on the Oratorical Character of Curran, attributed to the author of the British Spy.
Printing, IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE ENQUIRER.
DOCTOR HALLER will open his Seminary in Richmond, on the first day of January, 1806. His course of instruction will commence every morning, (Sundays excepted), at 9 o'clock, and continue till one o'clock and half past 5 o'clock in the afternoon. There are the hours appointed for public tuition, which will comprehend the following branches of learning: Latin, Greek, English Syntax, Rhetoric, Rudiments of Tusi, Composition, Arithmetic, Book Keeping, Geography, Civil and Natural History, Hebrew, Algebra, and such branches of Mathematics as are most applicable to real use in life. Also Philosophy, Logic, some parts of Metaphysics, Practical Philosophy which comprehends Political Economy, &c. These branches of learning will be taught systematically to the respective classes. The charge for his public tuition will be 15 dollars per quarter; before five dollars entrance money for each scholar, who must be entered on or before the first day of January next, as during the ensuing course of study, which will last for several months, no scholar will be admitted into this institution, on account of the inevitable arrangement, which Dr. H. is to conform precisely to the actual number of his pupils, not only in engaging a proportionate number of assisting teachers, but also in affording to each class a correlative course of study—which might be done otherwise by admitting new members in the intermediate course of his instruction. The following branches of learning will be taught only at particular desire, and at these hours which are not included above. An extra charge will be made for such private tuition. For the Lectures on Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, with experiments and the use of the philosophical apparatus, 20 dollars per quarter, each scholar. For teaching the French language, 10 dols. per quarter. Italian 15 do. Spanish 16 do. Only children of parents residing in Richmond, will be admitted as Day Scholars; all others, whose parents reside at any distance, must live in the buildings of this institution. His charge for Boarding, Lodging, Candle and Fire, (the fees for tuition not included), will be 10 dollars per quarter, to be paid in advance, as customary in all institutions of this nature. Each boarder must furnish himself with his own bed. But any person without entering this institution in the quality of a regular student, may at any time be permitted to join a class in the private tuition, for the purpose of learning any particular branch of science or language, in which the class shall be at private hours engaged; Provided, the respective fees be paid in advance. Dr. Haller's plan of education and discipline is left for the inspection of the respective parents and guardians, with the Editor of the Enquirer. Richmond, Dec. 10. TTS tf
CHINA WARE, &c. THE subscriber has just received a handsome assortment of China, Glass, and Liverpool Ware, amongst which are some elegant sets of Tea China gilt with burnished gold, and a great variety of interior kinds in complete and broken sets, China Bowls assorted, China and China glazed dining, breakfast, & desert plates, and China glazed Pitchers of various sizes, also Tea Pots, Sugar Dishes and Cream Urns of the pearl and wedge wood kind. His glass chiefly consists of sets of Decanters, wine and claret Glasses, Tumblers and Goblets, oval cream Bowls, Sweet Meats and Salts handsomely cut and engraved, caster and liquor Bottles in morocco frames, and a pretty general assortment of German plain Glass. His Liverpool ware is generally assorted, from which he can pick assorted crates to suit country retailers at a very moderate advance. He continues to keep a general assortment of groceries for retailing, of the best quality, and has now on hand, brown Sugar by the hoghead and barrel, Rum by the puncheon and bill. Coffee by the bag, New-York Candles by the box, Imperial Tea by the chest, Salt by the sack, and Castings well assorted, by the ton or smaller quantity, all of which articles will be sold reasonable for ready money or negotiable paper. DANIEL TRIPLETT. December 3. (ep4w.)
DOCTOR J. WORRALL, HAVING taken the first brick house on the right hand side after passing the corner of the Cross-street, leading from the Brick-Row to the head of the Basin, offers his services to the citizens of Richmond and its vicinity in the different branches of the MEDICAL PROFESSION. Families residing in the country, requiring his assistance, may depend on the most prompt and assiduous attention. October 28. (ow2m.)
NOTICE. THE Surveyors of the Stage Roads from Richmond to Charlottesville, are requested to take notice, that repeated complaints have been made to me, of the danger to which the passengers in the Stage were exposed, and still are subjected to, from the badness of the roads, resulting more materially from the inattention or negligence of those, who ought to see them regularly repaired—therefore if on any further complaint of the difficult passage of the Stage, or objection as above, I shall proceed at the law direct to enforce the most exemplary punishment on those who are in default. The general good of society, the dispatch necessary for the conveyance of the public Mail, and my own interest, are motives alone, sufficient for such a determination. RICHARD TERRELL. December 17. (ow2m.)
WILLIAM MCCAY RETURNS his grateful acknowledgements to his numerous friends and customers for the liberal encouragement he has received, and informs them that the business will in future be carried on under the firm of MCCAY & COWAN WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS; Who tender their services to their friends and the public in the line of their profession, and hope from unremitted attention, to merit the confidence of their customers—Repair watches and clocks of every description. M. and C. have just received a large and fashionable assortment of jewellery, consisting of Large, fancy, mourning, plain and set Earrings, Gold and gold set Necklaces, A handsome assortment of ornamented Tortoise Shell Combs, Mourning, fancy, wedding, plain and plain set Finger Rings, Mourning, plain and plain set Breast Pins, Gold Miniature Settings and Chain, Mourning and plain Bracelets and Neck Clasps, Mourning and fancy Lockets, Ladies and gentlemen's gold, gilt, steel and silk Watch Chains. Gold, gilt, pebble, and glass Seals, Gold, gilt and steel Keys, Gold, silver and tortoise shell Sleeve Buttons & Studs, Silver Thimbles, Salt Spoons, Netting Needles, Tooth Picks and Shoe Clasps, with a variety of other articles. They have likewise on hand a few good Watches, all of which they offer on the most reasonable terms. N. B. Miniature Settings and Hair-Work executed in the neatest manner. WILLIAM COWAN
Returns his acknowledgements to his friends and the public for the liberal encouragement he has received since his commencement in business, and flatters himself from his present connection to merit their future confidence. N. B. Persons who have watches remaining in his hands will please call at the shop of McCay & Cowan. November 26. ep2m.
BUCKINGHAM, ft. TAKEN UP, by Julius Coleman, a Dark Bay MARE, about four feet eight or nine inches high, has some white hairs on her off hind foot lock, and branded on the near shoulder and thigh (5 C) or 8 G. appraised to 40 dollars. A Copy, Teste, B. ELDRIDGE, Jr. D. C. Dec. 10. 137