The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-03-21 00:00:00

THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) PUBLISHED BY RITCHIE & WORSLEY, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM...payable in advance.
NUMBER 96.]
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1805.
[VOLUME 1.]
CONDITIONS.
 I. The ENQUIRER will appear twice a week...During the session of Congress and the Virginia Legislature, either a third paper or a supplementary half-sheet, during the week.  II. Terms of payment FIVE DOLLARS per annum, in advance.  III. ADVERTISEMENTS, from those who do not subscribe to the paper, should not exceed a square in length, shall be inserted for seventy-five cents the first time, fifty cents for each time during three weeks, and for every additional insertion thirty-three cents; long ones in the same proportion.  IV. SUBSCRIBERS shall have their advertisements inserted for fifty cents the first time, and thirty-three cents for every additional insertion. 
Richmond Prices Current.
   D. C. D. C.     TOBACCO : 5 50 6 —   FLOUR : superfine : 11 — 11 50   — fine : 10 — — —   — middlings : 9 — 9 50   WHEAT : 1 75 2 —   INDIAN CORN : 5 — — —   WHISKEY : — 50 — 60   BACON : — 13 — —   HEMP : 170 — 180 —   BAR IRON : 110 — — —  
Auction Sales.
THOMAS TAYLOR & Co.
Will in future sell at the store occupied by M. W. Hancock & Co. on Wednesdays in each week; and at their office, on Tuesdays and Fridays as usual. Dec. 1, 1804. eptf
FOR CASH.
Will be sold for cash, on Saturday the 30th inst. at the house of Mr. John Trabue, by virtue of a deed of trust from James Cheatham - to the subscriber to satisfy sundry debts therein mentioned.
ONE sorrel horse, three feather beds and furniture, and a negro man named Billy or Will - Sale to take place at one o'clock.
ROBERT GRAHAM. eptds.
Manchester, 19th March.
ADVERTISEMENT.
To be SOLD to the highest bidder, on a credit of twelve months,
FIVE TRACTS OF LAND, belonging to the estate of Thomas Anderson, dec. viz: - One in Campbell county, of 400 acres, lying on both sides of the main road, on the branches of Beaver Creek; this tract to be sold at next April Campbell court, being the 30th day of the month.
One in Botetourt county of 160 acres, lying on Catawba creek; this tract to be sold at next April Botetourt court, being the 11th day of the month; these two lots to be attended by Mr. Anthony Dibrell, who is hereby fully authorized to act for the executors of the said Thomas Anderson.
One of 400 acres, one of 147 acres, and one of 50 acres, lying in Buckingham county, the two former on the waters of Rock Island creek, and the latter one on Irving's ferry road. These three last tracts to be sold at next May Buckingham court, being the 13th day of the month. Bond with approved security will be required, to bear interest from the date, but if punctually paid the interest shall be remitted.
NATHAN ANDERSON, & ROBERT RIVES.
Exrs of Thos. Anderson, dec.
Albemarle county, March 19, 1805. tds.
PHILADELPHIA BOTTLED PORTER.
ORDERS for the above article, addressed to the subscribers (if accompanied with cash) will be placed in the hands of experienced bottlers, and promptly complied with under their particular direction, at the rate of one dollar eighty-seven cents and an half per dozen, bottles included.
ISAAC W. MORRIS & Co.
Brewers, Philadelphia.
March 15. 4t.
IRISH Linens and Sheetings; Superfine Cloths and Callicoes; India, Italian and French Silks; Do. Mull Mull Muslins; Do. do. do. Muslins; Fancy Muslin Veils and Shawls; Calicoes Muslins; Cambric Dimities & Callicoes; Lace Caps and Veils; Do. Hdkfs. and Shawls; Do. Gloves and Mitts; Wasp Leather and Kid Gloves. For Sale by
BARTLETT STILL.
January 18. tf
FOR SALE,
By the Subscribers, at their PAINT & OIL MANUFACTORY, Water-Street, Norfolk:
WHITE LEAD, Yellow Ochre, Venetian Red, Spanish Brown, Black & Lead Colour for painting roofs, and Green in pots of 1, 2 & 3 lbs. each, American, Prussian Blue, Patent Yellow, Red Lead, Litharge, Sugar of Lead, White Vitriol, Ivory
ALSO,
1200 gallons Dutch Linseed Oil, Sperm, of Turpentine, Copal and Turpentine, Varnish and Window Glass, of all sizes. - Orders for any of the above articles, left with Messrs. Proffer & Monroe, Richmond, will be attended to immediately, by
JOHN RORKE & CO.
Norfolk, March 1, 1805. (eptf)
TO PRINTERS.
HENRY OURAM - PRESS-MAKER, Southeast corner of Prune and Sixth-streets: ESPECIALLY informing the trade, that he undertakes to supply Printing-Offices with every thing in his line, having a complete Printer's Shop, constantly employed in making the second set of Presses, Furniture, Rules, &c. - Cakes of all sizes, Composing Sticks, Brays & Wood Galleys, &c. &c. constantly on hand, or made to order with dispatch and neatness. Orders from any part of the Continent attended to. Philad. Jan. 5. eptm.
BRADDICK & SKIPWITH
HAVE this day dissolved their partnership; for settlement of all accounts, reference is made to S. P. BRADDICK, who alone is hereby authorized to that effect.
S. P. BRADDICK, WILLIAM SKIPWITH.
March 8th.
TO MR. CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON, OF SOUTH-CAROLINA.
SIR, As you are not a resident of this Commonwealth, and have no agent or Attorney within the same, to whom a legal notice can be given; you are hereby informed, that by virtue of a commission issued from the office of the High Court of Chancery, for the middle district of Virginia, by law directed to be held at the Capitol in the City of Richmond, in the suit in Chancery depending in said court, in which you are Complainant, and I am Defendant, I shall proceed on the second Monday in April next, at the Tavern of George in the county of Goochland and state of Virginia, to take the depositions of Thomas Johnson, John Johnson, Zachariah Pulliam, John Freewell, and William Click, to be read as evidence in the said suit, and that if the same cannot be taken on the day aforesaid, the taking thereof will be continued by adjournment from day to day until the whole are completed; when and where you may if you please attend. I am Sir, Yours, &c.
BERRYMAN JOHNSON.
Louisa county, and state of Virginia, February 22, 1805 (ep 4w)
TO BE SOLD - FOR READY MONEY,
In pursuance of a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States, between Phineas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plaintiff, and David Ross, and others, defendants, in order to raise the sum of 7000 dols. 40 cts., with the expenses of sale, A NUMBER OF SLAVES and to much of that valuable Estate in the county of Campbell, known by the name of the OXFORD IRON WORKS, as shall appear sufficient to raise the said sum of money and the said expenses; the said land being now in the occupation of the said David Ross, and the slaves aforesaid, being on the land.
The sale will take place at the Oxford Iron Works, in the county of Campbell, on Thursday the 11th of April next.
The slaves are represented to be very valuable. The land is so well known, as to render a description unnecessary.
BEN MOSBY, D. M. for
JOS. SCOTT, M. V. D.
March 1, 1805.
NOTICE.
THAT Mr. Anthony Dibrell of Buckingham county, is hereby fully authorized to make sale of one TRACT OF LAND, in Patrick, containing 5000 acres, lying on Dan river - three ditto in Grayson county, lying on the waters of Little Reed Island creek - two of a thousand acres each, and one of 500 acres; the said Dibrell will attend at next April Grayson court for the sale of the said lands for and on behalf of NAATHI ANDERSON. Albemarle county, March 19, 1805. tds.
FOR RENT:
THE Large White House at Rocketts, formerly occupied by Mr. William Fenwick, and afterwards by Mr. Braxton Craddock. For terms apply to GALLEGO, RICHARD & CO. January 11. (tf)
SPANISH HIDES.
FOR SALE, a large quantity of Prime Spanish Hides, on moderate terms. Apply to the subscriber opposite the Post-Office, Richmond. MICAJAH DAVIS. 2d Mo. 19th. tf
MAP OF VIRGINIA.
PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A Map of Virginia: FORMED FROM ACTUAL SURVEYS, AND THE LATEST AS WELL AS THE MOST ACCURATE OBSERVATIONS. BY JAMES MADISON, D. D. PRESIDENT OF WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE.
To which will be added, A MAP of the greater part of the State of Ohio, from actual surveys; including the whole of the Virginia Military Tract; with all that part of the State West of the Ohio River, to the Indiana boundary line.
The north-east corner of the Map will be ornamented with an interesting View of the City of Richmond. The size of the MAP will be five feet six inches in length, and three feet eight inches in breadth. An ingenious and skillful Engraver is engaged to execute the work, in a style not inferior to any similar work in the United States.
CONDITIONS.
The price to subscribers will be eight dollars, neatly mounted, colored and glazed. One dollar, (to lighten the great expense of publication,) to be paid on subscribing.
To non-subscribers the price will be ten dollars. [COPY RIGHT SECURED.]
In offering the above work to the public, the proprietors are sensible that excellence is not often attainable; but with candor and truth, equally remote from arrogance and parsimony, they can say, that they conscientiously believe it has a just claim to the confidence and patronage of the people.
A Map of Virginia has been long and anxiously looked for: None has been published, on the plan of the one now offered, for many years, when Augusta was the frontier country.
The labor, expense, and apparent difficulties, in accomplishing so interesting a work, have deterred several from the arduous undertaking. The proprietors, finding that most of the other States had recently given encouragement to similar productions, and entertaining a high sense of the real dignity and importance of Virginia, embarked in the business, from a well-grounded belief that the magnitude and utility of the work, would insure, if accomplished, a remuneration. And while Virginia is powerfully stimulated with the love of science and virtue, they hope and believe she will view somewhat productions, which prove eminently useful, with a generous price.
Those gentlemen who take subscription papers, are requested to return them to the subscriber, in Petersburg, by the first day of May. The maps will be ready for subscribers in the course of the ensuing summer.
WILLIAM PRENTISS.
Petersburg, February, 1805. Subscriptions received by RITCHIE & WORSLEY and others with whom subscription papers are lodged.
THE SUBSCRIBER OFFERS
FOR SALE,
SIX hundred and forty acres of the well known Tract of Land called "THE SEATON'S FERRY TRACT"; lying upon the Peasekinton river in Goochland county, adjoining the land of Mr. Johnston, the estate of Benjamin Marable, dec. and others. This land is heavily timbered with the best chestnut, oak, hickory, dogwood, and a second growth of pine, capable of being converted into common plank or scantling. There are not more than two hundred acres of cleared land upon the tract. A stream runs through the body of this land, upon which an over-shot mill might be erected at a small expense. No situation in the low Country of Virginia, has more the advantage of good water, fish, oysters, & salubrious air, than this. The improvements are inconsiderable. The dwelling House has lately been in part repaired, and consists of three rooms and a passage below, and two above stairs. The terms will be made known upon the premises.
James R. Micou. eF 3m. Seton's Ferry, Feb. 19.
TO THE PRESIDENT & DIRECTORS OF THE JAMES RIVER COMPY.
I FIND that our last Legislature has directed that you shall have the Navigation of the Canal connected with Tide-water by means of Locks. Much has been said on this subject, and many have suggested their doubts as to the practicability of erecting such Locks as will be permanent, and answer the purpose. In my opinion, it is practicable, plain, and easy; but the cost will far exceed common computation, but not more than some of you calculate.
As I have made myself well acquainted with two plans that will answer, differing from each other only in the materials, I hereby offer myself to you as a superintendent of the building of them on the following terms, viz:
Ten thousand dollars for my services, to be paid at the end of five years from the time the Locks are finished, provided they stand; otherwise, nothing. It will be equally agreeable to me, to take a larger or smaller sum, on a longer or shorter time, adding or deducting at the rate of one thousand dollars per ann.
If you wish to have my plans explained to you, you will please to address me through the medium of this paper, and I will attend you in person at any time and place you may appoint.
Should you conclude that my price is more than you will give, in the event that you shall approve my plans, nothing need be said by you to me on the subject.
Your silence for three months, I shall consider as full disapprobation to my proposition.
A CITIZEN OF RICHMOND. (eF2m)
March 1.
VIRGINIA:
At a superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and five -
Between Francis Elcan and William Temple, administrators of Hooper and Toler Bankrupts, Plaintiffs, and Thomas Stewart and company and William McKenzie and Company, Defendants.
The defendants Thomas Stewart and company, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this country; on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the capitol in the said city. P. Tinsley, C. C.
March 5. (eF2m)
A VALUABLE PLANTATION,
Lying on Fighting-creek, in this county, will be offered for sale to the highest bidder at Powhatan April court, which is the 17th day of the month it is supposed to contain 808 acres, but previous to the day of sale, a survey will be made thereof, and a plot exhibited on that day; in the mean time, it will be flown to any person desirous of viewing it, either by myself or my overseer living thereon. It is distant from Richmond 30 miles, Peterborough 40; James river 10; Appomattox 1; and is thought by judges to contain a body of coal. A small proportion of the purchase money will be required in hand, one half of the remainder on the 1st day of January next, and the balance in two equal annual payments, for which security on the land or otherwise will be expected.
BRETT RANDOLPH.
Fighting-creek, Powhatan county, Feb. 17, 1805. eF8w.
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY
WILLIAM DAVIDSON.
near the Market. Dec. 4. [eptf.]
Debate,
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.
WEDNESDAY, January 31.
DEBATE ON THE GEORGIA CLAIMS.
[Continued.]
MR. ROOT began by observing that he should not undertake a lengthy and elaborate discussion of the merits of this claim. He was not disposed minutely to enquire into the legality or equity of the claims derived under the act of Georgia of 1795. Although he believed that the New-England purchasers were entitled to recover, both in law and in equity - that the fee of the lands in question was vested in them beyond any legislative control, yet as they had offered terms of compromise, and as gentlemen have inclined to put the issue upon the expediency of the measure, he should chiefly confine himself to the answering of such objections as he had heard offered in opposition to the claim. He said that he had listened attentively during this debate, and the first objection which possessed any claim to argument, fell from the first gentleman from Virginia, (Mr. J. Randolph). The objection is this - that the New-England company were purchasers with notice - that is, that they had notice of the fraud before they became purchasers; that they knew the sales by Georgia were void, and purchasing with their eyes open, they must sustain the loss - and how, he inquired, has this notice been served? By whom and on whom has it been served? The gentleman from Virginia who first spoke on this question has, to be sure, referred us to the President's message of the 17th of February, 1795, and this he is
pleased to nominate a notice. It may be a notice for ought I know, but surely it did not satisfy even Congress, much less the citizens of Boston, that the act of Georgia was passed in fraud, was ab initio void, or that a subsequent legislature would annul the grant. That message did notify Congress that Georgia had passed a law for selling a part of her vacant lands, and expressed some apprehensions for the future peace of the United States. [Here Mr. Root read the President's message of the 17th February, 1795, and inferred from the message itself that the President's apprehensions arose from the circumstance of that country's being inhabited by warlike Indians, and that he communicated the information to Congress in order that pacific measures might be adopted.] Is this, continued Mr. R. a notice of fraud? Is this a carreat to notify purchasers to beware? But Mr. Speaker, this message interpreted into a notice of an adverse claim? If so, in whom did that adverse claim exist? Surely not in Georgia, after she had passed all her right. Did it exist in the United States? Such a claim was not asserted by the President in his message. And indeed it appears from a perusal of the bill reported by the select committee to whom that message was referred, that no assertion of claim to the lands in question was then contemplated. (Mr. Root read the bill alluded to, purporting as follows: "Be it enacted, &c. that the President be authorized to obtain or accept by purchase or donation, from the state of Georgia, a relinquishment and cession of the claim of the said state to the whole or any part of the lands lying within the limits of the same, and without the ordinary jurisdiction thereof.") Georgia owned other vacant lands out of her ordinary jurisdiction, then those sold by her to the federal companies of 1795. A cession of these lands to the United States appears to have been the object of that committee - and how could they have acted otherwise? It was known to the gentlemen composing that committee that Congress under the old confederation, and since the adoption of the federal constitution, had repeatedly recognized the right of Georgia to the lands in question. Prior to the year 1788, Congress had, at three several times requested the state of Georgia to cede a portion of her vacant territory to the United States. In that year the state of Georgia by an act of her legislature authorized her delegates in Congress to cede and convey to the United States a portion of her vacant lands including the same tract now claimed by the New-England purchasers. This territory was to have been ceded under certain restrictions and conditions for a certain compensation to be paid by the United States. Congress refused to accept of the cession - not because the lands were claimed by the United States, - not from any supposed defect of title in Georgia, - but because the terms were thought to be improper and inadmissible. And Congress thereupon by another resolution proposed to accept a cession of the lands in question, on other terms and under other conditions. (Here Mr. Root read copious extracts from the journals of the old Congress, to show the recognition of the right of Georgia to the lands now in controversy.) By several public acts and documents, continued Mr. R. have the government of the United States, since that time, acknowledged and maintained the right of Georgia to these lands. The United States have also, by tacit consent, acknowledged the right of Georgia. That state as early as the year 1780, asserted her claim by a public act of her legislature. In 1789, she made a conditional sale of the same lands, and in 1795, by a legislative act sold them to the federal companies under which the New-England purchasers claim to hold. No objection on the part of the United States was made to these several public acts - and by a known rule of law, silence and acquiescence in such cases is tantamount to an express consent and confirmation. Under these circumstances I should hardly suppose that the President's message amounted to a notice of an adverse claim. Another gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Clarke) alleging that "an actual notice is not necessary" - that "a constructive notice is sufficient," which positions I shall not undertake to deny, has relied with much apparent confidence on the circumstance that the deed to the New-England company was executed on the same day that the rescinding act of Georgia was passed. He infers from this that the citizens of Boston must have known on the 13th of February, 1796, that the legislature of Georgia were about to annul their grants, and pass their rescinding act on that day. We have not yet been told that that celebrated act was long in its passage through the different branches of the legislature, nor have we any evidence to convince us that the effect of the rescinding act upon the New-England company was an electric shock almost instantaneous from Georgia to Massachusetts. It is fair to presume that the purchasers that the purchasers never conjectured that a rescinding act could be passed till after their contract was completed. The covenant for the purchase was entered into at Boston, in the month of September, 1795, between the agent of the original grantees and the New-England purchasers. In October, 1795, payment in full of the balance of the consideration money was made, and the executive of Georgia made out his order for delivering satisfaction on the mortgage and for discharging the same. The act of the legislature of Georgia authorizing the grant, the deed executed by the governor according to law, the certificate of the payment in full of the consideration money, and the executive order for discharging satisfaction on the mortgage, being all shown to the New-England purchasers, could they believe that the grant was void? Bred to respect the acts of lawful authority, accustomed to repose confidence in the contracts of government, and educated in the belief that private rights and private property would not be wantonly despoiled, they required some further notice of the fraud, at least of such fraud as might avoid the grant, than the mere surmises or whispers of the traveller. Thus, Mr. Speaker, I think this formidable notice refutes in this; - that the President had been informed of the passage of the act of Georgia of 1795, - he thought, unless precautionary steps were taken, that it might enrol us with the Indians, and deemed it proper to communicate the information to Congress.
Another objection is made by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. J. Randolph) who first addressed you, that the claimants will perhaps reject the proffered compromise, and afterwards plead our own statute book as a recognition of their claim. This objection can easily be remedied in the bill to be passed pursuant to the resolution now under consideration. A proviso can, and undoubtedly will, be inserted, that in case a compromise shall not be effected, the act shall not be so construed as to impair the rights of the United States, or to strengthen the title of the claimants. Another objection made by both of the gentlemen from Virginia (Mr. J. Randolph and Mr. Clarke) who have spoken in opposition to the resolution reported by the committee of claimants, is that nothing passed by the act of Georgia of 1795, on the ground that the legislature of Georgia had no authority to grant. I flatter myself, Mr. Speaker, that I have sufficiently shown that the lands in question were the property of Georgia as a free, sovereign and independent state, and that she, and she alone, had the right of their disposal. But a distinction is taken between the people and their legislature. It is said that the people of Georgia had never delegated to the legislature the right to dispose of her vacant lands. By the constitution of Georgia all legislative powers were delegated to the legislature, unless particularly excepted, and we do not learn that the power of disposal of their vacant territory was excepted or reserved. The disposition of vacant lands has always been considered legislative power, necessarily belonging to the legislature without any express delegation in a constitution. If such delegation of power is necessary, I imagine that but few valid grants can be found in the several states. In support of this objection it is further insisted that the grant of 1795 was fraudulent; of course, that it is void ab initio . The abominable fraud, the gross and odious corruption which is said to have been practiced by and upon the members of the granting legislature of 1795, have been depicted in the most artful and detestable colours. But even were I to admit for a moment, that the motives of a legislature can be questioned in order to nullify their acts of their legislature, I should extremely doubt whether that abominable corruption did even exist to the extent alleged. Where, let me ask, is the proof of its existence? I can find it no where except in ex parte affidavits taken before - no one knows whom - being voluntary affidavits, the deponents fit perfectly secure from the pains and penalties of wilful and corrupt perjury. If these legislators were so base and impure, why have they not been arraigned to answer for their crimes? We have heard of no prosecution against them for the bribery and corruption. Instead of jails, gibbets and infamy, they have been rewarded by the continued confidence not only of the people, but of the legislature. Several of the members who had charged with bribery, have since been elected by the people to seats in both branches of their legislature. Several others have since been appointed by the legislature to seats on the bench of justice, and one other has since been appointed, by legislative authority, a trustee of the University of Georgia. Can we believe, Mr. Speaker, that the people of Georgia are so lost to every principle of virtue as to elect men tainted with corruption and stained with infamy, to fill seats in the legislative body? Can we believe that the legislature are so basely corrupted as to elect the scoundrel bench of justice with such impurity and fraud? And, last of all, can you believe that the would commit the care of the education of her youth to the very child of corruption? No fir it cannot be. I cannot believe that this transaction is so vile as it has been represented. This objection is still further supported by another gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Clarke) by a recurrence to that "effervescence," which induced the people to "rise in the majesty of their strength and declare the act null and void." It is true, Sir, that the people or rather their legislature, became so effervescent in 1796, as to rise in the majesty of their strength and kindle a bonfire. Disregarding the sacred nature of contracts, setting at defiance the constitution of the United States, they declared that "no state shall pass any ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts," and that "full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state," and forthwith with the rights of innocent individuals, that legislature erected the funeral pyre, bound the helpless victim and laid it upon the altar. Then not like the patriarchs of old who laid coals upon the altar, they furiously called down the fire of heaven to aid in the destructive work. This contract was wedded to the constitution of the United States, - and when the latter was about to perish by the hands of Georgia legislators, the former, like a Hindoo widow, must perish by the same flames, that their ashes might be mingled and gathered in the same urn. But to complete the scene of so soon mockery, a convention was called who engrossed the rescinding act into their constitution. - This effort to give strength to invalidity was equally unavailing. That contract was made under the function and authority of the constitution of the United States, and this constitution which forbids a state to impair a contract, also declares that "this constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding." Another objection made by a gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Clarke) is that the price was so inadequate as to evidence the invalidity of the title. The price, Mr. Speaker, although apparently inadequate, was, under all circumstances, equal or nearly equal to what had been paid for large tracts sold by other states. This country was remote and then owned and inhabited by warlike tribes of Indians. The Spaniards were on its border, and a part of it was actually occupied by settlers under Spanish and British grants. Yet the New-England purchasers paid nearly double the price for which the delightful country of the Tennessee was sold. And by a known rule in chancery, if a contract equal at its creation, afterwards becomes unequal, full execution will be decreed. I perfectly agree with the gentleman that persons ought to come "with clean hands and pure hearts," to seek for justice - and I also agree in another maxim, that the hands of the claimants are presumed to be clean, and their hearts presumed to be pure, until the contrary be shown. They pledge to be innocent purchasers - flow that they are otherwise before you brand them with infamy. The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Lucas) has objected that the legislature of Georgia were

port, by which it appears that the country sold contains nearly double the amount of acres which it was supposed to contain at the time of the sale. Shall this pretence vitiate the contract? Are we to suppose that men selected from all parts of the state possessed less knowledge of her vacant territory, than purchasers at a distance? Shall the merchant absolve himself from his contract by saying that he was cheated in the bale of goods which he had sold, and which for a long time he had under his eye? Will it avail the vendor to say, sir, you have cheated me in the worth of the horse I sold you, and which I had used for a long time? The quantity was equally unknown to the vendors and to the vendees—of course no fraud can be imputed to the transaction on that score.
The same gentleman from Pennsylvania, and he is joined by his colleague (Mr. Gregg,) and by a gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Clark,) objects to this claim on the ground that the deed to the New-England purchasers contains a covenant of special and not of general warranty. Thence they infer, that these purchasers might presume that the act was fraudulent and would be rescinded. In my opinion, that inference cannot fairly be derived from the premises. The granting legislature of Georgia, being ignorant of the extent of former grants as well as of the quantity of acres in that tract of country, very properly provided that the state should not be subject to any suit, claim or pretension, on account of any deduction in the quantity of said territory. The limits between the United States and the king of Spain, were not at that time definitely settled. Hence the propriety of the special covenant that the Georgia companies should not be liable to refund to the consequence of any defect in their title from the state of Georgia. They knew, and were willing to encounter these hazards, but they had been too much accustomed to yield confidence in legislative contracts to believe that they would be wantonly violated.
Mr. Speaker, I have attempted as far as my feeble abilities would permit, to answer all the objections I recollect to have heard against this claim, and which appear to possess the merit of argument. If I have been successful, I trust the House will pardon me in declaring, that I believe the claimants are not only equitably but legally entitled to that relief which they ask. That Georgia had the right to convey, I think cannot be doubted. And even admitting for argument's sake, that the original sale was fraudulent and void, and that it is competent to a legislative or a judiciary tribunal to enquire into the motives which influenced a prior legislature in making a contract, still the purchase is good in the hands of subsequent purchasers who come in for valuable consideration and without notice of the fraud; and the subsequent purchasers would more especially be protected against an anterior purchaser, who purchased from the first grantor and with notice of the prior grant. The United States have purchased from Georgia, with notice that that state had years before sold the same lands to certain companies, and that those companies had sold to the present claimants—and shall the United States avoid the first contract as fraudulent? The law books contain no such doctrine.
But suppose, sir, that the act of Georgia of 1795 was rampant with iniquity, was generated in corruption, so that no subsequent transfer could cleanse it of the foul stain, still let me ask, would it not be wise, would it not be prudent to effect a compromise with these claimants? This tract of country is now estimated at about 50,000,000 of acres. It is not proposed, and indeed we are not permitted by the convention with Georgia to allow more than five millions of acres to all the different claimants, in consideration of their relinquishment of claim to the forty-five millions of acres. If their claim is a bad one it would be for the advantage of the United States to give 10 percent. for its extinction. Suppose the Indian title to that country was extinguished and a land office was opened—would the industrious settler pay you as much for that land with this claim impending over it, as he would for the same land if it were free from all conflicting claims? If he would in the latter case pay you two dollars an acre, which is the medium price for which the United States lands are sold, would he give you one dollar and eighty cents an acre, knowing that he must encounter a law suit? No, sir, industrious farmers are unwilling to undertake a law suit. That country will never be held to actual settlers until these claims shall be extinguished or confirmed.
Having offered my sentiments in opposition to the amendment, and in favor of the resolution reported by the committee of claims. I confess, Mr. Speaker, that I feel myself not a little embarrassed. I feel myself in an awful dilemma. I feel that I am reduced to a sad, a desperate alternative. I must either acknowledge that I have been bribed, that I am base and corrupt, or what is almost equally terrible to my feelings, that I have engaged in sentiment with the gentlemen on this side of the House. (pointing to the federal gentlemen) Unwilling to acknowledge myself corrupt, or that I have been influenced by any circumstance without these walls, I think it justice to myself to declare that neither myself, nor any of my connections, nor any of my constituents within my knowledge ever claimed a single foot of this land. If therefore, I am influenced on this occasion by any impure or unworthy motives it must be by a direct bribe. Unwilling to acknowledge this, I am driven to the other alternative, however painful that election may be, and must acknowledge myself a federalist. The gentleman from Virginia (Mr. J. Randolph,) does not hesitate to denounce to the people all those republican members who dare to think differently from him on this question, as having been bribed or as having gone over to the federalists. This denunciation is just cause of alarm to all those, who, like myself, give their votes according to their own judgment, on the best reflection and most mature deliberation. Coming from that gentleman it almost astonishes me. To me it appears terrible as the thunders of Olympus. I fear I shall sink under its weight.
Mr. Speaker, I still entertain a gleam of hope that my constituents will pardon my presumption in daring to differ from that gentleman in sentiment on this occasion. That they may yet think that I may still be a republican, although I decline to follow in the servile track of any particular popular leader. This denunciation and proscription of republican members on this floor, I repeat, is truly alarming. It is equally alarming to reflect that those gentlemen who have shared the public confidence in the republican districts of the Union are now declared to be polluted by the embrace of speculators, and are henceforth to be considered as destitute of every moral virtue. If this be true, if the eighth Congress of the United States have such men among them, if corruption has any proceeds from your executive departments, then indeed have we arrived to an awful crisis. If this monstrous enormity is practiced upon the republican members of this House, then the whole republican system of our government
totters to its base. But, sir, these suggestions are but the fancies of a wild imagination—the chimeras of a heated brain. Before the cool and dispassionate judgment of a discerning mind they “dissipate into thin air.” The officer in one of the great executive departments of our government, to whom the gentleman alludes, I presume is the postmaster general. That valuable officer is represented as the basest of men, wielding his monstrous engine of patronage and influence for the wicked purposes of corruption. Base as he is said to be, I am proud to say that for more than ten years past I have had the honor of his acquaintance. I believe him to be as good, as upright and as honest a man as any of those other valuable characters, who now, happily for our country preside over the great executive departments of our government. His character stands superior to the obliquy of the gentleman from Virginia. The gentleman's denunciations cannot overthrow or destroy him while talents and integrity are considered as deserving of public esteem and confidence. He is too firmly fixed in the esteem and affections of the people in the eastern section of the union; his character is too strongly surrounded by the ramparts of virtue, to be shaken by the artillery of that gentlemen. Envy may lift her pallid front in vain, the well earned fame of the postmaster general will prove an invulnerable shield against her venomous shafts, and they will fall harmless at his feet.
I hope the gentleman from Virginia will learn after this that members are not to be diverted from their object by his threats, and that he will cease to amuse this House with such declamations.
(To be continued.)
EXPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
According to the statements we have published it appears that the total exports of the last year exceed those of the preceding year in the sum of $1,899,041 dollars.
The following will show the relation of the exports of the one year to those of the other.
  The total exports   In the year ending Sept. 31st, 1803—were 55,800,033   In the year ending Sept. 30th, 1804, 77,693,074   Increase the last year 21,899,041   Domestic produce exported   In the year ending Sept. 30th, 1803, 42,205,961   In the year ending Sept. 30th, 1804, 41,467,477   Decrease the last year 738,484   Foreign produce exported   In the year ending Sept. 30th, 1803, 13,594,072   In the year ending Sept. 30th, 1804, 36,231,597   Increase the last year 22,637,525   It will be observed that the decrease in the exportation of domestic produce, is about a thirtieth part of the increase of the exportation of foreign produce. On an estimate being made of the gain derived from the latter, compared with the diminution in the former, it will be found that there is a considerable positive gain. The profit on the exportation of foreign merchandise may be computed at fifteen per cent. which will give a profit of about
  From which take the decrease of domestic productions, 738,000   And there remains 2,657,000   Which may be considered as the relative advantage of our exports for the last year.
It would be doing injustice to our own ideas, as well as to the enlightened character at the head of our finances, to omit a particular notice of the interesting statements, marked A. and B. which accompany the Secretary's Report. They present views, which we believe are entirely new, at once of the power of arrangement, and of the great pillars, we might perhaps have said pillar, on which the prosperity of our country rests. They exhibit in a small compass, what may be called the spirit of our Exports; from which it appears that three-fourths of the whole are the products of agriculture.
During the last year, according to the luminous classification of the Secretary, there was produced from the
  Dollars.   Sea 3,420,000   Forest 4,630,000   Agriculture 30,890,000   Manufactures 2,100,000   Uncertain 430,000   (Nat. Intel.) 
Sales at Auction.
On Wednesday, the 10th day of April next, will be sold, at Public Auction, on a credit of four months, at the dwelling house of Thomas Gilliam:
ALL his HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, consisting of a variety of Valuable Articles. At the same time, and on the same terms, will be sold, a pair of elegant well broke CARRIAGE HORSES, & a SADDLE HORSE. On the same day will be rented to the highest bidder, for one or more years, the HOUSE and LOT now occupied by said Gilliam.
THOMAS TAYLOR, & Co. V. M. March 21.
Sales at Auction.
On Friday the 29th inst. at the Auction room of the subscribers, will be sold without reserve, on a credit of 60 days, for approved indorsed notes, negotiable in the Bank of Virginia;
 20 hds. and 27 barrels Brown Sugar,  7 hds. Rum,  20 pieces Irish Linen,  16 do. fine Irish Sheeting,  10 do. do. Dowlas,  16 do. white Ruffia Sheeting,  25 doz. fancy Cotton Hosiery,  40 lbs. Seine Twine. 
THOMAS TAYLOR & Co. V. M's. March 21.
A TRACT OF LAND.
THE subscriber offers for sale, a TRACT OF LAND, on which he at present resides, situated in the county of Westmoreland, and bounded by the rivers Potomac and Yeoconoco. This tract contains about seven hundred acres of frang lew grounds, one half of which is thickly covered with very valuable pine and oak timber, and the soil well suited to the culture of corn and small grain; the situation a very healthy and handsome one, commanding an extensive view up, and a boundless view down the Potomac. The waters to which this land is immediately attached afford in abundance and with great convenience the finest oysters and wild fowl in their season; and fish in great variety and of the finest kinds throughout the year. The purchaser may have the stock of cattle, sheep and hogs, together with the implements of husbandry on the plantation. One half the amount of purchase must be paid at the time of taking possession, which may be bad with the close of the present year with an indispensable title; for the remainder, twelve months credit will be given on payment being satisfactorily secured.
ALEXANDER PARKER. Westmoreland, March 19. (494v.)
(A)
A SUMMARY STATEMENT
Of the value of the exports of the United States during the year ending on the 30th day of September, 1803, accompanying the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.
  THE SEA—2,635,000.   1. Fisheries.   Dried fish, or cod fishery 1,620,000   Pickled do. or river fishery (herring, shad, salmon, mackerel) 560,000   Whale (common) oil and bone 280,000   Spermaceti oil and candles 175,000   455,000 2,635,000   THE FOREST—4,850,000.   2. Skins and furs (Indian product) 500,000   Ginseng (raw product of forest) 100,000   600,000   3. Product of wood.   Lumber (boards, staves, shingles, hewn timber, masts, &c.) 2,800,000   Oak bark and other dyes 225,000   Naval stores (tar, turpentine, pitch, rosin) 460,000   Asbes, pot and pearl 735,000   4,220,000   AGRICULTURE—32,995,000.   4. Product of animals—Horned cattle.   Beef, tallow, hides, live cattle 1,145,000   Butter and cheese 585,000   1,730,000   Pork, pickled bacon, lard (live hogs) 1,890,000   Horses and mules 460,000   Sheep 55,000   515,000   5. Vegetable food.   Wheat, flour and biscuit 9,310,000   Indian corn and meal 2,025,000   Rice 2,455,000   All other (rye, oats, pulse, potatoes, apples, &c.) 290,000   14,080,000   6. Tobacco 6,209,000   7. Cotton 7,920,000   8. All other agricultural products.   Flax seed 465,000   Hops 90,000   Wax 60,000   Various items (poultry, hemp, flax, indigo, mustard) 15,000   630,000   MANUFACTURES—1,355,000.   9. Manufactures.   Of domestic materials   Soap, tallow, candles, leather, boots, shoes, fadery 395,000   Hats 18,000   Of grain (spirits, beer, starch) 21,000   Of wood, including furniture and coaches 210,000   Cordage, canvas, linseed oil 50,000   Of iron 80,000   Various items (snuff, wax candles, cards, bricks, &c.) 16,000   790,000   Of foreign materials   Spirits, of molasses 481,000   Sugar, refined 18,000   Chocolate 4,000   Gun powder 38,000   Of brass and copper 6,000   Medicinal 18,000   565,000   UNCERTAIN—300,000.   10. Articles not distinguished in returns, either manufactured or agricultural 300,000   Total. Dolls. 42,135,000 
(B)
A SUMMARY STATEMENT
Of the value of Exports of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, during the year ending on the 30th September, 1804.
  THE SEA—3,420,000.   1. Fisheries.   Dried fish or cod fishery 2,400,000   Pickled do. or river fishery (herring, shad, salmon, mackerel) 640,000   Whale (common) oil and bone 310,000   Spermaceti oil and candles 70,000   380,000 3,420,000   THE FOREST—4,630,000.   2. Skins and furs 956,000   Ginseng 84,000   1,040,000   3. Product of wood.   Lumber (boards, staves, shingles, hewn timber, masts, &c.) 2,540,000   Oak bark and other dyes 88,000   Naval stores (tar, turpentine, pitch, rosin) 322,000   Asbes, pot and pearl 640,000   3,590,000   AGRICULTURE—30,890,000.   4. Product of animals—horned cattle.   Beef, tallow, hides, live cattle 1,520,000   Butter and cheese 490,000   2,010,000   Pork, pickled bacon, lard (live hogs) 1,990,000   Horses and mules 270,000   Sheep 30,000   300,000   5. Vegetable food.   Wheat, flour and biscuit 7,100,000   Indian corn and meal 2,500,000   Rice 2,350,000   All other (rye, oats, pulse, potatoes, apples, &c.) 300,000   12,250,000   6. Tobacco 6,000,000   7. Cotton (averaged at 22 cents) 7,000,000   8. All other agricultural products.   Flaxseed 420,000   Brown sugar 80,000   Hops 55,000   Wax 65,000   Various items (poultry, hemp, flax, indigo, mustard) 70,000   690,000   MANUFACTURES—2,100,000.   9. Manufactures of domestic materials.   Soap and tallow candles 770,000   Leather boots, shoes, fadery 200,000   Hats 40,000   Of grain (spirits, beer, starch) 70,000   Of wood (including furniture & coaches) 300,000   Cordage, canvas, linseed oil 81,000   Iron 110,000   Various items (snuff, essence of bark, cards, bricks, tobacco, lead and turpentine spirits) 60,000   1,650,000   Of foreign materials.   Spirits of Molasses 245,000   Sugar refined 23,000   Chocolate 2,000   Gun-powder 150,000   Brafs and copper 9,000   Medicinal 21,000   450,000   UNCERTAIN—430,000.   10. Articles not distinguished in returns (either manufactured or agricultural) 430,000   Total. Dolls. 41,470,000 
WASHINGTON, March 14.
Having heard much said in commendation of Mr. Burr's Valedictory Address to the Senate, we have solicited and procured the following, which we present to our readers without comment.
Wash. Fed.
On Saturday the 2d inst. Mr. Burr took leave of the Senate—this was done at a time when the doors were closed, the Senate being engaged in executive business, and of course when there were no spectators. It is however universally said to have been the most dignified, sublime and impressive that ever was uttered; and the effects which it produced, justify those epithets. I will give you the best account I have been able to obtain from the relation of several Senators, as well federal as republican.
Mr. Burr began by saying that he intended to pass the day with them, but the increase of a slight indisposition (fore throat) had determined him then to take his leave of them. He touched lightly on some of the rules and orders of the house, and recommended in one or two points alterations of which he briefly explained the reasons and principles.
He then said he was sensible that he must at times, have wounded the feelings of individual members.—He had ever avoided entering into any explanations at the time; because a moment of irritation was not the moment for explanation—because his position (being in the chair) rendered it impossible to enter into explanations, without obvious danger of consequences which might hazard the dignity of the Senate, or prove disagreeable and injurious in more than one point of view; that he had therefore preferred to leave to their reflections his justification, that on his part he had no injuries to complain of; if any had been done or attempted, he was ignorant of the authors; and if he had ever heard he had forgotten; for he thanked God he had no memory for injuries. He doubted not but that they had found occasion to observe, that to be prompt was not therefore to be precipitate, and that to act without delay was not always to act without reflection; that error was often to be preferred to indecision; that his errors, whatever they might have been, were those of rule and principle, and not of caprice; that it could not be deemed arrogance in him to say that in his official conduct he had known no party—no cause—no friend. That if in the opinion of any the discipline which had been established approached to rigor, they would at least admit that it was uniform and indiscriminate.
He further remarked that the ignorant and unthinking affected to treat as unnecessary and fallacious, a rigid attention to rules and decorum; but he thought nothing trivial which touched, however remotely, the dignity of that body; and he appealed to their experience for the justice of this sentiment, and urged them in language the most impressive, and in a manner the most commanding, to avoid the smallest relaxation of the habits which he had endeavored to inculcate and establish.
But he challenged their attention to considerations more momentous than any which regarded merely their personal honour and character: the preservation of the Law , of Liberty and the Constitution —this house, said he, is a sanctuary and a citadel of law, of order, of liberty—and it is here—it is here—in this exalted refuge—here, if any where will resistance be made to the forms of popular phrensy and the silent arts of corruption:—and if the Constitution be destined ever to perish by the sacrilegious hands of the Demagogue or the Usurper, which God avert, its expiring agonies will be witnessed on this floor.
He then adverted to those conflicting sensations which attended a final separation—a dissolution, perhaps forever, of those associations which he hoped had been mutually satisfactory. He confessed himself, however, and them with the reflections, that, though separated, they would be engaged in the common cause of disseminating principles of freedom and social order. He should always regard the proceedings of that body with interest and with solicitude—he should feel for their honor and the national honor so intimately connected with it—and took his leave with expressions of personal respect and with prayers and wishes, &c. &c.
In this cold relation a distant reader—especially one to whom Col. Burr is not personally known, will be at a loss to discern the cause of those extraordinary emotions which were excited—the whole Senate were in tears, and so unmanned, that it was half an hour before they could recover themselves sufficiently to come to order and choose a Vice-President pro tem.

The following letter from Thomas Paine, the celebrated author of the RIGHTS OF MAN, demands an explanation, and it deserves a comment. The reader will see that it is addressed to Mr. Hulbert, one of the federal members of the Massachusetts Legislature, who has lately played a very distinguished part in certain proceedings of that honorable body. These proceedings have not hitherto attracted the notice of our paper, because had every fact been laid before the public, which was necessary to a complete understanding of the subject; the printed piece which first led to the investigation, the long debate in the Massachusetts Legislature, and the report of their select committee; they would all have occupied a space in our paper much too great, whether we consider the public consequences, which they were likely to produce, or the information which they might have imparted to our readers. Where there was much matter of a general and interesting nature to lay before the public, what it has been proper to have omitted in our paper, is a series of libelous facts and scurrilous expressions, as fell from the federal printer and the federal legislators of Massachusetts. To these men and to men of similar sentiments, we leave the elevated office of retorting such scurrility and invective; whilst to us remains only the humble duty of gleaming the history of these proceedings, and of following them as an explanatory preface to the following letter of Mr. Paine.
The editors of the New-England Palladium of Boston, who were printers also to the legislature of Massachusetts, had published a very scurrilous attack upon the private character of Mr. Jefferson. In this polite and polished essay, with the title of "The monarchy of federalism" were revived all those mean and illiberal insinuations, which emblazoned for the most part by the malignant genius of J. T. Callender, had been disseminated with so much zeal by all the federal presses in the country. It was this poor and miserable miscreant, who had at first strung anew the federal harp, at the era of Mr. Jefferson's administration: It was this, which the federalists have never ceased to touch upon with a skillful, tho' forceless hand: & it was by harping on its discordant strings, that the Editors of the New-England Palladium drew to themselves a notice, to which they were by no means entitled. Disgusted by an attack so false in fact & scurrilous in expression, upon a man so eminently distinguished for his virtues and his services, Mr. Allen, a member of the legislature of Massachusetts, introduced a resolution which was to deprive these editors of the office and emoluments of the public printing. This resolution was in itself most imprudent and unwise.
Mr. Allen himself might have foreseen the construction, which it will to well bear, and which the lyx-eyed vigilance of the federalists would not fail to put upon it: that its object was to reassert the liberty of the press. And he might have known from the experience of Great Britain and of this country, that this is an argument too deeply laid in truth for party spirit not to employ it with ardour and with the greatest success on every occasion. Few will believe that this resolution was introduced from any such intention, or that it would have produced such a disastrous effect: But then it had this appearance of oppression and the very effort to punish a libelous publication would have encouraged as severe a libel against his own party and against the administration. Besides could Mr. Allen have expected that this official punishment would have arrested the propagation of these very tales themselves; and that it would have diminished the number of those who were to tell and who would believe them? Was it not even evident, that this persecution of the martyr-like libellers might have produced a sympathy for their exertions which all their labours would never have exacted; and imparted an air of dignity and curiosity to those libels, which their intrinsic importance could never have obtained? And after all, what danger was there to have been apprehended from all their labors and all their ingenuity? what were the lessons of terror, which the experience of four years had taught to the friends of the administration? Mr. Jefferson elected in the year 1800, by a majority of 8 only, is once more in 1805, hailed the President of the United States by a triumphant majority of 148. When during this momentous crisis those very tales had been circulated with so unparalled an avidity; when almost all the labors of thought and all the tricks of cunning had been exhausted in vain, in bringing the president and his supporters and their various measures into unmerited disrepute; what rational apprehension could be indulged that their future exertions would be accompanied with greater success! Already "has the experiment been tried, whether a government conducted in the true spirit of the constitution, with zeal and purity, and doing no act which it would be unwilling the whole world should witness, can be written down by falsehood and defamation." And what has been the result? "Our fellow-citizens have looked on cool and collected. They saw the latent source, from which these outrages proceeded. They gathered around their public functionaries: and when the constitution called them to the decision by suffrage, they pronounced their verdict, honorable to those who had served them, and consolatory to the friend of man who believes he may be entrusted with the control of his own affairs."
Mr. Allen's resolution was then in all probability a unseal and imprudent one; but the scene which it served to introduce into the Legislature of Massachusetts, is much less calculated to obtain the tribute of our approbation. After this resolution had been offered, a select committee was appointed to enquire into its merits: their report was unfavorable to the object of the resolution; and it was in the justification of this report, that the federal phalanx displayed a rancour and scurrility, which would have almost reflected a disgrace upon some of those public prints, which disgrace the literature and liberty of our country.
In the course of this debate, it was, that Mr. Hulbert, consented to become the honorary historiographer general of those scurrilous and scurrilous libels, which the federal party have separately and collectively spun out of their own productive imaginations, or from those incidents partly misrepresented and partly misunderstood which the enemies of Mr. Jefferson have attempted to discover in his long and conspicuous career. Embracing a long lapse of years; collecting his farnilies or his facts from prejudiced prints, from scraps of letters not impartially estimated, & from the anecdotes of private families; the Legislator of Sheffield has hung together a tale which passes all the beauties of consistency, without the merits of truth. Mr. Jefferson represents the fanatic and hideous monster, and his is the magic spear of Lhuyd, that is to restore him to his true shape and expose him to the people in all his deformity. This is the man to whom Mr. Paine has addressed the following letter.
One fact more; and then I am done with the history of this proceeding. The report of the select committee was adopted by a majority of six only; and the Editors of the New-England Palladium still hold the office of public printers.
So much for the explanation, which Mr. Paine's letter demanded; and now for the comment, which it deserves.
For the illustrious talents, the philanthropic spirit and the almost unrivalled services of Thomas Paine, few men can have a deeper veneration, than the author of these remarks. When I hail him as the literary hero of the American revolution, as the man, who did as much service by his pen, as almost any other men could have done by their sword; when I declare my gratitude for the services which he hastened to the United States, to the British nation, and to the principles of political philosophy, by his celebrated publication on "The Rights of Man" when I confess from my heart that even his most deranged enemies, have contributed to give me a true
idea of the magnanimity of his soul, and the active ingenuity of his mind: no man will dare to believe that any criticism which I may offer upon the conduct of Thomas Paine, can flow from a mind actuated by malevolence or blind to his virtues. Is there a man on the contrary who will not admit that such impressions would be too apt to generate a bias in his favour; that they will too frequently dispose me to cast the mantle of oblivion over those foibles, which I should never conceal from myself nor palliate to others? Much as I admire Mr. Paine, there is a still higher obligation which I owe to immutables truth! "Plato is my friend, but truth is still more my friend."
Be it my office then to declare, that the style & the sentiments of the following letter do not command all my approbation. There is a vein of satire and of illiberal misconstruction running through it, which is little calculated to conciliate the esteem of his opponents. There is a habit of scurrility thrown over it; there is not only a harshness, but a coarseness of expression in it, which so far from exhibiting a model of the controversial method of writing, is calculated to increase that partial and scurrilous composition, which mark the common literature of this country. Mr. Paine who has examined the public prints in America, must have seen and must have lamented that many of the papers of his own as well as of the adverse party, are addicted to illiberal construction and vulgar abuse. Why then did Mr. Paine encourage by such an example as the present, the prevailing immorality of the press? Why did he not content himself with refuting the insinuations of Mr. Hulbert by that clear exposition of facts, in that terse & easy style, which distinguishing all his composition? If Mr. P. had not occupied the first place in the ranks of literature, the example would have been less pernicious, and its influence upon the American press might not have been so extensive. The Editors of papers, or at least their scribblers, may hereafter say, or at least contemplate, since Mr. Paine has sanctified the custom. It is perhaps an unfortunate propensity of our nature, that where a combination of qualities exists, some of which are good, and some of them bad, our approbation of the first, frequently gives an extenuation and even charm to the last. The infirmities of a great man are eclipsed and even exalted by his virtues; and the style of Mr. Paine may appear to A. or B. or C. to derive new lustre from his celebrated name. Such is the ludicrous picture, which Pope has given us of his ridiculous Iyophans; and such is the principle on which they attempted to reconcile him to his own imperfections.
There are, who to my person pay their court; I cough like Horace, and though lean, am short: Ammon's great son one shoulder had too high; Such Ovid's nose, and "if you have an eye." Go on, obliging creatures, make me fee, All that disgrac'd my better met in me. Say, for my comfort, languishing in bed, Just so immortal Maro held his head; And when I die, be sure you let me know, Great Homer died—three thousand years ago.
FROM THE AURORA. To Mr. HULBERT, of Sheffield, one of the mortified federal members of the Massachusetts legislature.
When the poison-tooth of a rattle snake is drawn, the bite and laver of the reptile, like the slander and foam of Mr. Hulbert, become deprived of the power of injuring. The success of the republican ticket in Massachusetts has, at last, drawn the teeth of the rattle snake of federalism, and reduced the mischievous animal to laughable insignificance. In this toothless and pitiless condition the rattle in its tail, like the rattle of the legislator of Sheffield, is heard without alarm.
Slander belongs to the class of dastardly vices. It always acts under cover. It puts insinuation in the place of evidence, and tries to impose by pretending to believe. Its loudest language, when it speaks, is a whisper. At other times, it disguises itself in anonymous paragraphs, for which nobody is accountable. But it is a refinement on meanness when the slanderer covers himself with the privilege of a legislator speaking in his place. It requires no courage to tell a tale, or to invent a calumny, where the prerogative of the place protects him from punishment, and the absence of the person slandered precludes immediate detection, and this is what Hulbert has done.
Mr. Jefferson, at the distance of six or seven hundred miles, and myself at the distance of almost four hundred miles, have both been attacked in the legislature of Massachusetts, by this toothless rattle snake, the legislator of Sheffield. Mr. Jefferson, as president of the United States, has other matters to attend to than that of answering this successor of Callender, who finished his career of slander by putting an end to his existence; and as to myself, Mr. Hulbert may see by the reply I now make to him, that I hold him and his abuse in laughable derision.
One of his attacks on Mr. Jefferson is introduced in the following manner: "Does any one doubt (said he) that Mr. Jefferson invited Thomas Paine to leave France and return to the United States. Let him read his letter and he will doubt no more." Here Hulbert read part of Mr. Jefferson's letter.
Any one unacquainted with the case would suppose, from the misification with which the legislator of Sheffield brought forward the letter that he had made a discovery that had remained concealed from all the world beside, and been miraculously revealed to him for the salvation of the feds. Poor foolish impostor!
The whole of Mr. Jefferson's letter to me, was published in my sixth letter to the citizens of the United States, the summer before last. The falling faction of the feds, feeling themselves sinking into the bottomless pit of public contempt, had been, for several months before, inventing and publishing falsehood upon falsehood with respect to the supposed contents of this letter, and when they had run their length, (for only give such people rope enough and they will hang themselves) I published the letter to expose their falsehoods and put them to confusion. The letter when publicly known did honor to the writer of it, and the re-election of Mr. Jefferson, by a majority of one hundred and sixty-two votes, out of an hundred and seventy-five, confirms it to be a fact.
The part which this toothless rattle snake, the aforesaid legislator of Sheffield, attacks, is that in which Mr. Jefferson, after he arrived at the presidency, looks back with generous and even grateful remembrance (a virtue which the ulcerated heart of federalism knows nothing of) on the long services of a former fellow labourer in the vineyard of independence. I was myself among the first that proposed independence, and it was Mr. Jefferson who drew up the declaration of it. Here follows the part which our graceless legislator read. It was in answer to a letter received from me: "You express a wish (says the letter) to return to America by a national ship. Mr. Dawson is charged with orders to the captain of the Maryland to receive and accommodate you back, if you can be ready to depart at such a short notice. You will find us, in general, returned to sentiments worthy of former times. In these it will be your glory to have steadily laboured and with as much effect as any man living. That you may live long to continue your useful labours, and reap the reward in the thankfulness of nations, is my sincere prayer. Accept the assurances of my high esteem and affectionate attachment."
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
There is one thing, of which Mr. Hulbert may be assured, which is, that it is impossible for any man, whether president or private, to write such a letter to him, without telling a lie in every line.
Our legislator, (who was now acting the part of a slanderer and also of a hypocrite as I shall show) having read this extract, proceeds with his remarks thereon:
"Is this, said he, the language of cold indifference? Is it the language of ordinary civility? No, (said he) it is the ardent expression of high esteem and affectionate attachment "to one of the most unprincipled and abandoned of the human race"—Well done thou herald of old Satan—thou shalt fit at his right hand.
In the next paragraph our legislator goes a step further, for lying has no limit. It has been said, continues Hulbert, that the writings of Thomas Paine were useful to this country at the commencement of our revolution; so, said he, were the exertions of Benedict Arnold. Both were once useful men, both turned traitors to their country.
As it is totally unnecessary to contradict that which all the world knows to be a lie, I republish it to proclaim the ingratitude and baseness of its inventor.
In the volcano of his abuse he next involves France, with out knowing any thing of the subject he speaks of, except what one lying impostor of his own class had told to another.
"It is true, said he (he ought to have said it is a lie) that by a national decree, all religion had been banished in France—the idea of a God discarded—and it had been, said he, impiously inscribed over the entrance of all the burying places in France, that death was an eternal sleep."
It would, perhaps, be happy for such unprincipled impostors as Hulbert, if it was true, that death was an eternal sleep, for he has much to answer for. But it is false to say, that such an inscription was put up by a national decree, or by any other decree or order whatever, or that it was put up any where.
It is also false, that all religion in France was abolished by a decree. The national assembly passed a decree to banish the refractory priests. Those who took the oath of fidelity to the republic, performed their worship as before, except that they were prohibited making public processions in the streets with their crucifixes, images of the Virgin Mary, saints, &c. and as to the Protestant church in the Rue St. Thomas, at Paris, the service in it was never interrupted.
It is also false, that all idea of a God was discarded by a decree or by any authority whatever. The only decree that was passed by the convention, on the subject of creeds, is directly the reverse of what this impostor says. The decree was, "the French people recognize the Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul." and this decree was inserted in the French language, on several of the churches where the constitutional priests officiated.
There was also another inscription put up in time of Robespierre in front of the building where the national convention sat, which, though it does honor to the French with respect to humanity, stands as a contradiction to this licentious libeller. The inscription was, "The Divine its condemns tyrants; the French people executes the decree."
The religious society of the Theophilanthropists, a word compounded of three Greek words, and meaning, adorers of God and lovers of man, was established in the time of the directory, and Rivelliere la Peaux, one of the five directors, was one of its principal founders. It professed two articles as its creed, the belief of a God, and a feast of future existence. Its moral dogmas were exceedingly good.
Having now detected Hulbert in his falsehood not by mere assertion, as he deals in, but by the evidence of fact, I go to show that he is an impostor and a hypocrite, for notwithstanding his clamour about religion, he does not believe the christian religion himself, nor holds it to be true.
It is neither his belief nor his disbelief that I trouble myself about. Every man must answer for the truth or falsehood of his creed at the tribunal of his creator, and not to that of man, nor of one man to another. It is Hulbert's hypocrisy only that I expose.
If Mr. Hulbert, or the speaker of the house of representatives, who heard his nonsense, will write to Mr. John Fellows, Water-street, New-York, he will be informed of the evidence that will prove the hypocrisy of Hulbert.
Slander and hypocrisy are class mates in the school of vice. They are the necessary aids of each other. The same cowardly depravity of heart that leads to the one conducts to the other, and Hulbert has made the tour of both.
Had not Hulbert prophaned the sanctuary of legislation, and covered himself with the privilege of a legislator, to pour forth his abuse, his slander and his falsehood, he would have drawn no reply from me. I should have let him pass, unnoticed, among the group of nameless and indiscriminate libellers who have wasted their venom and their invention in vain.
THOMAS PAINE.
Miscellaneous.
The following Summary from the London Monthly Magazine of last November, which the Editor has been fortunate enough to borrow from one of his friends, will furnish a few interesting articles to the literary reader. He will probably derive some amusement from perusing some of those pursuits to which the literary genius of England is now directed. He may be instructed by tracing the connection between the literature and science, which he has already accumulated, with some of the discoveries which the following view lays open before him. He may ask with anxious regret why the literary genius of his own country has so long slept: He may enquire into the causes, which may contribute to enlighten and civilize the genius of a nation, confessedly inferior to none other on the globe. Perhaps such views may inspire him with a feeble desire of employing such expedients himself to promote the intellectual civilization of his own country.
VARIETIES.
LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL, Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic & Foreign
THE foundation of a new building at the British Museum has been just laid; the principal apartment of which will be entirely devoted to antiquities. We understand the great Sarcofagus from Alexandria will be placed on four arches; and in different parts of the same room the other monuments from Egypt. It will communicate with the fourth wing of the present structure, but we believe it is not yet settled whether the same style of architecture will be followed. The Museum, as it now stands, rests upon brick arches; and being originally intended only for a private dwelling, cannot be expected to be so durable as a building solely erected for a national repository.
The literary world will be glad to hear that the second volume of Mr. HORNE TOOKE'S Epes Parentalia , is completely finished, and will be sent to the press immediately. In the course of November will appear, illustrated with plates, The Testimonies of Dr. CLARKE, respect-
ing the supposed Tomb of Alexander the Great, surrendered to the British army at the capitulation of Alexandria, and now in the British Museum; with an Introductory Dissertation on the Apotheosis and Portrait of Alexander, and a Brief Account of the Ruins of Sais.
In a few days will appear two elegant volumes of ORIGINAL ESSAYS, by Dr. MAYOR, under the title of " A Kallos's Gift to his Children ." This is properly the second edition of an anonymous work, which appeared a few years ago, under the name of the " Truth's Misfchefs ," and which was very favourably received; but it is so much improved and enlarged, as to constitute a new publication.
A charitable Institution, embracing an intricate class of diseases, those of the Eye and the Ear, is about to be instituted in this metropolis, by Mr. J. C. SAUNDERS, the demonstrator of Practical Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital. A portion contributing an annual subscription of One Guinea is to be a governor, and to have the right of recommending, and keeping under the care of the charity, one out-patient; or two, if his subscription amounts to Two Guineas. Such a charity cannot fail to receive powerful and general support, and it has already been strongly recommended by the testimonials of several of the most distinguished physicians and surgeons of the metropolis.
Mr. L. W. DILLWYN, of Swansea, and Mr. DAWSON TURNER, of Yarmouth, are engaged in preparing a Naturalists' Guide through England and Wales , designed to assist Naturalists, by presenting them at one view with the Plants, &c. that they may expect to find in the different countries; and they will be obliged by any information as to the loci notatis of any of the rarer animals or plants, addressed to either of them, as above.
Mr. EDLIN, of Uxbridge, has just completed a Treatise on the Art of Bread-making. The intention of the author has been to concentrate into one point of view every thing that is at present known respecting the manufacture of Bread, in order that the knowledge of an intricate and interesting subject, which has hitherto been very imperfectly explored, might be diffused through every class of society.
The arrangement of the Christmas Course of Lectures at the Royal Institution, which commences on the 18th of November, is as follows, viz. Mr. DAVY will deliver twelve Lectures on Chemical Analysis.—Mr. FLETCHER twenty-four Lectures on Natural Philosophy.—Mr. LANDSEER three Lectures on Engraving.—And Dr. CROTON six Lectures on Music.
Mr. WINDSOR, the patentee of the new Coke, is every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday exhibiting the curious and very beautiful effects of this new discovery, at the Lyceum, in the Strand. To the economical, as well as to the natural philosopher, the exhibition will be deemed of the utmost importance. Mr. W. demonstrates very satisfactorily to those who are at all acquainted with the principles of chemistry, that all combustible substances, such as the wood and coal which we commonly use, will yield, at a small expense, five costly products viz. oil, pitch, acid, coke, and inflammable gas: that the latter product alone not only, when properly managed, furnishes the most intense heat, but the purest light. Hence he infers, and apparently with great justice, that the discovery must, if properly encouraged, be the most prolific source of the wealth of nations.—We mean in our next number to give a full account of the whole process.
The discovery said to have been lately made, by Earl Stanhope, of a particular mechanism by which the keys of musical instruments are made to print the notes when they are touched, has been claimed, as is usual in cases of this kind, by certain continental mechanicians. A Berlin Journal affirms that a similar invention was produced at Berlin, by Huldfield, fifty or sixty years ago. Pfeiffer, an organ-builder, at Sturgard, has also given out that he is at present constructing a machine by which whatever is played on the keys of an instrument, will be printed by the idea from Bregal, a mathematician, of Biberach. We state these claims, but, at the same time, inform the several claimants that the method was known and described in one of the early volumes of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
Several new editions of the Classics have lately made their appearance in Germany, where polite literature is very much cultivated. SCHMIEDER has just published Quintus Curtius, with notes and elaborate commentaries.
WAGNER is about to present the public with a new edition of Cicero de Legibus.
SCHUTZ, well known as the editor of Eschylus, is proceeding in an addition of the Complete Works of Cicero.
And KONIG has lately published a Commentary of the Satires of Persius.
FABRE D'OLIVET has lately published, at Paris, a translation of the Poetry of the 13th Century, in two volumes. The work is entitled the Troubadours , or Ocitanian Poetry of the 13th Century . The word ocitanian is formed from the Oc language ( langue d'Oc ) in which the Provencal Troubadours wrote.
A French emigrant, of the name of PARENT, has lately, by means of a subscription, been enabled to commence a search for antiquities at the village of Augst (formerly a Roman colony of Augusta Rauracum) near Basil. His labours, at present, have hitherto been only rewarded by a few coins and other relics of little value. Another subscription is set on foot to continue the work.
Nothing can be more grateful to the friends of humanity than the information which we receive, from time to time, respecting the progress of instruction in the vast Russian Empire. The superiors of several Russian monasteries have engaged for themselves and their successors, to pay considerable sums, out of their revenues, for the erection of schools in their respective dioceses. M. SEVERGIN has presented the Institute of Public Instruction, at St. Petersburg, with a Cabinet of Minerals, collected by himself. The Emperor has ordered the revenues of the City of Tchernigow to be appropriated to the erection and maintenance of useful institutions in that place. In consequence of which a house for the education of fifty orphans, and another for the instruction of 408 scholars in mechanical arts, have already been opened. At Odessa a commercial school has been lately established. The St. Petersburg Free Society of the Lovers of Literature, Science, and Art, have published the first volume of their transactions, which contains the regulations of their society, its transactions during the first two years, and productions of various writers in prose and verse. At Moscow no less than four periodical works have, in a very short space of time, made their appearance: the following are the respective titles— Novelties of Russian Literature—Pythagoras—The Political Journal, and the Lover's Journal . At Kaluga another periodical work has been established, entitled Urania .
VAUQUELIN has, in his own opinion, completely ascertained that the new supposed earth of Klaproth, denominated Ocroite , owes its peculiar qualities to a mixture of oxide of iron, and that the mineral from which Klaproth extracted it contains no new earth whatever.
Mr. HARDING, of Bremen, is said to have discovered a new moveable star, on the first of September; it appears to be of the eighth magnitude, and is supposed to be a new planet, similar to the Ceres or Pallas; its motion was retrograde to the south.
THE ANNALS of AGRICULTURE, by Mr. ARTHUR YOUNG, have, of late, attracted extraordinary notice in Germany. A man of eminence in the knowledge of rural economy, Mr. ALBERT THAIN, is, accordingly, preparing to commence, with the beginning of the year 1805, a publication under the very same title, which is to consist, in part, of translations from Mr. YOUNG's work, and partly of details respecting the rural economy of Germany, similar to those by which YOUNG illustrates that of England.
The manufacture of paper is now prosecuted with very considerable activity and skill, at different paper-mills which have been established in the vicinity of St. Petersburg.
The Society lately instituted at Lausanne, to exterminate the Small-pox by Vaccination, have publicly offered to pay 100 livres to any person who, after suc-
cessfully undergoing vaccination under their care, shall take the small-pox.
In a memoir lately read to the Physical Society of Geneva; M. HORNES proves, by decisive experiments, 1. that bees make wax, by an internal secretion; therefore, the wax does not exist in the pollen of the filament, but they extract it from the saccharine part of the honey; 2. that the sugar given them for food, furnishes wax just as well as honey itself; 2. that the pollen of the filament is destined entirely to feed the worms or larvae of the bees. If, therefore, you deprive a hive of pollen, and give the bees honey, they will still make wax, but the worms will perish of inanition; if you deprive it of honey and leave the pollen, the worms will continue to thrive, but the bees will not make an atom of wax.
In a paper presented to the Agricultural Society of the department of Vienne, by M. SLAUVE, a method is suggested for the purification of water, used for domestic purposes, and for the separation of those particles of selenite, to which are owing the incrustations on tea-kettles, and other utensils. This method is extremely simple, and consists in placing horizontally, in the middle of a common water-pot, a false bottom perforated with a great number of small holes. The heat being thus divided into two equal parts, the water is filled with pieces of charcoal, which must neither be too large nor too small, thrown by handfuls, light and well-washed. Immediately under the cork, by which the water enters the butt, must be placed a small hollow cylinder, capable of holding one or two quarts, and perforated with several holes at the lower extremity. The use of this cylinder being to prevent from falling upon the charcoal with such violence as to break it into any part of the dirt, and wash them through into the lower receptacle, it is of little consequence into what material it is made. The water thus filtered directly into the lower division of the butt, will always be perfectly limpid and salubrious. M. Slauve thinks, that this contrivance might be made subservient to the interests of agriculture as well as domestic economy; and that it would be highly advantageous to provide water thus filtered for the cattle, during the whole of the dog-days, and particularly when the ponds and streams are infected by the rotting of hemp and flax.
In a chemico-medical dissertation, lately published at Leyden, the author treats of the diminution of the number of persons afflicted with the Stone, in Bavaria. He first traces an outline of historical sketch of the above complaint, in his own country; he then shows that this cruel malady was not formerly so common as it has been since: in the 17th century it became more frequent, since that time the number of persons subject to the calculus malady has diminished gradually, as is demonstrated by tables communicated to M. SCHULTENS, by the learned baron M. V. VOLCK; according to the above tables, the following is the number of the operations performed at Amsterdam: From 1701 to 1725, 220—1726 to 1750, 139—1751 to 1755, 64—1776 to 1800, 99. It would be interesting to ascertain the cause of this diminution: it would lead perhaps to the discovery of a remedy for the stone, or the means of preventing it. M. Schultens gives a chemical analysis of the colic , which he has observed, and of the urine of patients that had lived under different ailments: he has remarked, that the different kinds of malt liquor produce a great quantity of phosphoric acid, in those that were not accustomed to it; whilst a moderate, but habitual, use of the same liquor produces less of the phosphoric acid and more of the uric acid; he considers wine as the cause of the formation of the glutinous matter which combines the uric acid, and produces the calculus. Animal substances appear likewise, to him, to be very proper to form the uric acid; while, on the contrary, a vegetable nourishment conduces to the formation of the phosphoric acid, the action of which is always freed, separate, and remugnant to that of the uric acid, which produces the calculus. It results from these observations, that calculus patients, or persons afflicted with the stone, ought to drink water and live upon vegetable substances.
The Emp. rer. Russ. has granted permission to dispose of, by lottery, a large collection of Russian books, worth 500,000 roubles. The printed catalogue extends to 145 pages, and contains the titles and prices of 2612 books; in the Russian language. The winner of the highest prize will be entitled to 10,000 roubles worth of books.
The notices of the ensuing month, December, shall soon follow.
HINTS TO TYPOGRAPHICAL BRETHREN.
The Editor of the Nottingham Ledger , in his paper of March 15, has said, that "should the proposed amendment of the classic Mr. Randolph (as his friend Ritchie terms him) &c. &c. The Editor of the Ledger is requested to say, whether the classic Mr. Randolph are the same, or synonymous expressions. In the sense in which it has been here employed, the phrase is figurative, but it is apt to the occasion. It serves to convey the idea of a mind, rising in its power above the profane malignance, and the physical disease, which at once opposed it.
Mr. Colman, the Editor of the N. York Herald , has done this paper the honor of saying, that the Richmond Enquirer was "afflicted by the labours of your Edmund Randolph, your Hays, your Masons and others of the fine bunch." Let us correct the error of Mr. Colman.—1st, Mr. Randolph has not once penned a paragraph for the Enquirer —2dly, Mr. Hays has communicated some valuable compositions; but not one of them has related to a political and party topic—3dly, We have not received the affliction of the Masons. No such men live in or near Richmond. George Mason, the Member of our convention & Stephen Thompson Mason the Federal Senator, have already attended with honor to the Tomb. Let Mr. Colman then enquire, before he makes his next assertion!
At a numerous meeting of the Democratic Republican Freeholders, of the city of Richmond at the Bill Tavern in the said city, on Saturday the 16th of March, 1805.
It was resolved, That the Freeholders who attended the said meeting, would use their best endeavors in supporting the election of such gentlemen of republican principles, as should, by a majority of the said Freeholders, be elected as a proper person to represent the said city, in the next General Assembly.
Whereupon, the said Freeholders having proceeded to vote, to the choice of such person, a majority of votes was found in favor of Lewis HARRIS, Esq.
Telle, ROBT. MITCHELL, Chairman. J. ROBINSON, Secretary.
M. BOUDET & SON,
RESPECTFULLY acquaint the Ladies and Gentlemen of this City, that they intend opening a PAINTING ACADEMY this day, Thursday the 21st inst. in the house opposite the Swan Tavern—and which was occupied by Mr. Warren; where they will take Likenesses in large and in Miniature, in the most elegant style, every morning from 9 until 12 o'clock; (no likeness, no pay!) and will teach Drawing by the belt and shortest method, three days in the week; viz. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, from 12 until 2 o'clock. BOUDET, jun. will also teach Dancing at the same house, three days in the week; viz. Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday, from 4 until 6 o'clock in the evening. The terms for Drawing are six dollars per month, that will be up in thirty days from the first lesson. The terms for dancing, are five dollars entrance, and ten dollars per quarter, that will be up in ninety days from the first lesson. March 21. (St. 5.)

Register, OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.
FRIDAY, March 1.
The House proceeded to consider the amendments of the Senate, to the bill making an appropriation for the payment of witnesses summoned on the part of the United States, in support of the impeachment of Samuel Chase—Whereupon,
Ordered, that the amendments, together with the bill, be committed to a committee of the whole House, immediately.
The House accordingly resolved itself into said committee.
Mr. Dawson in the chair. And after some time spent therein, the committee rose, and reported their disagreement to the same.
The House then proceeded to consider the said amendments of the Senate—Whereupon,
The question was taken, that the House do agree with the committee of the whole, in their disagreement to the first amendment of the Senate, for striking out, in the first section of the bill—line 3d, the words “on behalf of the House of Representatives, and of all the people of the U.S. to attend the Senate in support,” & to insert in lieu thereof, the words “to attend the Senate in the trial.”
And resolved in the affirmative, 60 voting for, and 18 against it.
Resolved, That the House disagree to all the other amendments of the Senate to the said bill.
The bill from the Senate, supplementary to the act making an appropriation for carrying into effect the convention between the United States and his Britannic Majesty, was read the first, second and third times, and passed.
Mr. Griswold, made a report from the committee, to whom were referred the resolutions of the Senate, expressive of the sense of Congress of the gallant conduct of Commodore Edward Preble, the officers, seamen and marines of his squadron, which was read and committed to the same committee.
A message was received from the Senate notifying their agreement to the conference demanded by this House, on the subject matter of the amendments disapproved of by the Senate, to the bill making further provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds &c. and have appointed conferees on their part.
The House, then, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole House.
Mr. Dawson in the chair. On the bill making an appropriation for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties, and after some time spent therein, the committee rose and reported the bill with several amendments, which, after being read, and considered by the House, were agreed to.
Ordered that the bill, with the amendments be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
Adjourned to 9 o'clock, to-morrow morning.
SATURDAY, March 2.
An engrossed bill making an appropriation for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties, was read the third time and passed.
On motion, Resolved, That the committee of accounts be authorized to adjust and settle an account of Wm. Duane, for arrears of printing, the second session of the seventh Congress, and to direct payment for such sum as they shall allow thereon.
Mr. Findlay, from the committee of elections, to whom was referred the certificate of election of G. Clinton, jun. reported that they have examined the said certificate, or credentials of the election of Geo. Clinton jun. and are of opinion that he is entitled to a seat in this House.
Ordered to lie on the table. The House according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
Mr. VARNUM in the chair. On the bill for the relief of sundry persons therein named; and after some time spent therein, the committee rose and reported the bill without amendment.
Ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-day.
Mr. Dana reported from the managers appointed to attend a conference with the Senate on their disagreeing votes on the amendments to the bill to make provision for persons disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the United States, that they could come to no agreement on the subject matter of said amendments.
The House according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
Mr. VARNUM in the chair. On the bill to revive and make permanent the act to prescribe the mode of taking evidence in cases of contested elections for members of the House of Representatives, and to compel the attendance of witnesses; and after some time spent therein, the committee rose and reported two amendments, which having been twice read, were concurred in by the House.
Ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-day.
The House according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
Mr. GREGG in the chair. On the bill from the Senate to extend jurisdiction in certain cases, to the state and territorial courts; and after some time spent therein, the committee rose and reported the bill with several amendments, which having been twice read, were concurred in by the House.
The bill with the amendments were then read the third time and passed.
An engrossed bill for the relief of Robert Patton and others was read the third time and passed.
Mr. R. Griswold, from the committee to whom were recommended their report on the resolutions expressive of the sense of Congress of the gallant conduct of Commodore Edward Preble, &c. made a supplementary report, proposing sundry amendments thereto, which were read and concurred in by the House.
Ordered that the resolutions with the amendments be read the third time to-day.
An engrossed bill to revive and make permanent the act to prescribe the mode of taking evidence in cases of contested elections of members of the House of Representatives, &c. was read the third time and passed.
A motion was made and seconded, that the clerk be authorized to pay out of the contingent fund of this House 200 dollars to Joseph Wheaton, sergeant at arms, to Thomas Claxton and Thomas Dunn, the door-keepers and assistant do. for their extra services; and to John Phillips and Alexander Claxton, 50 dollars.
Another motion was made and seconded, that the further consideration of the above
motion be postponed until the first Monday in December next.
And was resolved in the affirmative. Mr. Varnum one of the members from Massachusetts, presented to the House, a letter from the governor of said state, including an attested copy of two resolutions of the Senate and House of Representatives of Massachusetts instructing the Senators, and requesting the Representatives of said state in Congress, to take all necessary and legal steps—and to use their utmost exertions, as soon as it is practicable, to obtain an amendment of the federal constitution, so as to empower the Congress of the United States to pass a law whenever they may deem it expedient, to prevent the further importation of slaves from any of the West-India islands from the coast of Africa or elsewhere, into the United States, or any part thereof; Whereupon,
A motion was made and seconded that the House do come to the following resolution.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states, as an amendment to the constitution of the United States, which when ratified by three fourths of the said legislatures, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of the said constitution, to wit: “That the Congress of the United States shall have power to prevent the further importation of slaves into the United States, and the territories thereof.”
The said proposed resolution was read and ordered to lie on the table.
The resolution from the Senate, expressive of the sense of Congress of the gallant conduct of Commodore Edward Preble, the officers, seamen and marines of his squadron, with the amendments, were read the third time and unanimously agreed to.
The House, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. DAWSON in the chair.
On the bill to provide for a light house on Watch Hill point, in Rhode Island, and after some time spent therein, the committee rose and reported the bill without amendment.
Ordered, That it be engrossed for a third reading to-day.
The order of the day was called for on the bill for the relief of Philip Nicklin and Robert Eglesfield Griffith.
Whereupon, A motion was made and seconded to postpone the further consideration thereof, to the first Monday in December next.
And resolved in the affirmative.
Mr. Newton, made a report on the petition of sundry inhabitants of York county Pennsylvania. Ordered to lie on the table.
The House proceeded to consider the amendments of the Senate, to the bill for the more effectual preservation of peace in the ports and harbours of the United States, &c. Whereupon,
The bill, with the amendments, was committed to Messrs. Nicholson, Crowninshield, and Huger.
It was moved and seconded that the thanks of this House, be presented to Nathaniel Macon, in testimony of their approbation of his conduct, in the discharge of the arduous and important duty assigned to him, while acting as Speaker, and unanimously resolved in the affirmative.
Whereupon, Mr. Speaker made his acknowledgements to the House, as follows: Gentlemen,
Accept my thanks for the vote which you have been pleased to pass, approving my conduct in the chair, permit me to assure you that it has been my constant endeavor to so conduct myself as to do justice to each member, and the highest gratification which I can receive is your approbation.
A message was received from the Senate, notifying that they had passed the bill for the more effectual preservation of peace in the ports and harbors of the United States, and in the waters under their jurisdiction, with several amendments.
A motion was made and seconded that the clerk of this House be authorized to pay out of the contingent fund of this House, 250 dollars to Samuel Hamilton jun. for his services in the library, and 250 dollars to Alexander Claxton for his services as a messenger.
The House proceeded to consider the said motion, when
Another motion was made and seconded to postpone the further consideration to the first Monday in December next.
And was resolved in the affirmative.
A message was received from the Senate, notifying that they adhere to their disagreement to the amendment insisted on by this House, to the bill in addition to an act to make provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the United States during the revolutionary war.
An engrossed bill to provide for a light house on Watchhill point, was read the third time and passed.
Adjourned to 5 o'clock P. M.
By Authority.
LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT, Concerning the mode of surveying the Public Lands of the United States.
BE it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the surveyor general, shall cause all those lands north of the river Ohio, which by virtue of the act, entitled, “An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States, in the territory north-west of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river,” were subdivided, by running through the townships parallel lines each way, at the end of every two miles, and by marking a corner on each of the said lines, at the end of every mile; to be subdivided into sections, by running straight lines from the mile corners thus marked, to the opposite corresponding corners, and by marking on each of the said lines, intermediate corners, as nearly as possible equi-distant from the corners of the sections on the same. And the said surveyor general shall also cause the boundaries of all the half sections, which had been purchased previous to the first day of July last, and on which the surveying fees had been paid according to law by the purchaser, to be surveyed and marked, by running straight lines from the half mile corners, heretofore marked, to the opposite corresponding corners and intermediate corners, shall, at the same time be marked on each of the said dividing lines, as nearly as possible equi-distant from the corners of the half section on the same line: Provided, That the whole expense of surveying and marking the lines, shall not exceed three dollars for every mile which has not yet been surveyed, and which shall be actually run, surveyed, and marked, by virtue of this section. And the expense of making the subdivisions, directed by this section, shall be defrayed out of the monies appropria-
ted, or which may be hereafter appropriated for completing the surveys of the public lands of the United States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the boundaries and contents of the several sections, half sections, and quarter sections of the public lands of the United States, shall be ascertained in conformity with the following principles; any act or acts, to the contrary notwithstanding.
1st. All the corners marked in the surveys, returned by the surveyor general, or by the surveyor of the land south of the state of Tennessee, respectively, shall be established as the proper corners of sections, which they were intended to designate; and the corners of half and quarter sections, not marked on the said surveys, shall be placed as nearly as possible, equidistant from those two corners, which stand on the same line.
2d. The boundary lines, actually run and marked in the surveys returned by the surveyor general, or by the surveyor of the land south of the state of Tennessee, respectively, shall be established as the proper boundary lines of the sections, or subdivisions, for which they were intended, and the length of such lines, as returned by either of the surveyors aforesaid, shall be held and considered as the true length thereof. And the boundary lines, which shall not have been actually run and marked as aforesaid shall be ascertained by running straight lines from the established corners to the opposite corresponding corners; but in those portions of the fractional townships, when no such opposite corresponding corners have been or can be fixed, the said boundary lines shall be ascertained, by running from the established corners, due north and south, or east and west lines, as the case may be, to the water course, Indian boundary line, or other external boundary of such fractional township.
3d. Each section, or subdivision of section, the contents whereof, shall have been, or by virtue of the first section of this act, shall be returned by the surveyor general, or by the surveyor of the public lands south of the state of Tennessee, respectively, shall be held and considered as containing the exact quantity, expressed in such return or returns: and the half sections and quarter sections, the contents whereof shall not have been thus returned, shall be held and considered as containing the one half, or the one fourth part respectively, of the returned contents of the section of which they make part.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act entitled “An act making provision for the disposal of the lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes,” as provides the mode of ascertaining the true contents of sections, or subdivisions of sections, and prevents the issue of final certificates, unless the said contents shall have been ascertained, and a plot certified by the district surveyor, lodged with the register, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
A. BURR, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
February 11, 1805.
APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
CHOICE LANDS—FOR SALE.
A DIVISION of the famous Saura Town Lands having taken place between the heirs of James Park Farley, Esq. decd. and Col. John S. Farley and his sister Mrs. Elizabeth Morson, the subscribers, Robert Taylor of Norfolk, and Charles Duncan at Roslin, near Petersburg, are fully empowered by the said Col. Farley and Mrs. Morson, to dispose of their proportion, containing 12,832 acres, which are surveyed and laid off in eight lots, containing from 500 to 2800 acres, agreeable to plots in the possession of the said Duncan. The four largest lots are of excellent quality, each containing a considerable proportion of the richest low grounds, which produce tobacco of the very first quality, as has been experienced by one of the subscribers, who shipped it for a number of years.
Those lands lie on Dan and Smith's rivers, in Rockingham county, on the borders of North Carolina, about 170 miles from Petersburg and Richmond. As there are seldom good lands for sale, they must be an object to those who want to purchase such as will produce fine tobacco, hemp and small grain. One third of the price must be paid in ready money, one third in twelve months, and the other third in two years, the purchaser giving bond with unexceptionable security bearing interest from the date if not punctually paid. Those who wish to purchase will be shown the lands by Doctor John C. Cox, living at Leekville, near Rockingham Court-House, and the terms made known by
ROBERT TAYLOR, or CHARLES DUNCAN. Petersburg, Nov. 24. epf
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
WILL BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, on the premises, on the third day of April next, at 12 o'clock, an undivided moiety in the two lots of ground, formerly the property of Andrew Ronald, decd. fronting the Baion of the James River Canal, near the center of the city of Richmond, with an undivided moiety of all the valuable buildings thereon, consisting of a large three story BRICK BUILDING, eighty feet in length, with four tenements, twenty feet wide and forty-five feet in length, with fire places on the first and second floors, roomy garrets in each, with large wheels fixed for hoisting and lowering packages, &c. with dispatch and ease, good dry cellars, with fire places in each. This house has been lately built and in good repair; adjoining is a well lighted two story framed dwelling house, thirty eight feet square, with two good cellars, with fire places in each for cooking, in the first and second floors are eight rooms and six fire places—Also, a small two story Brick House with four rooms, with fire places in each, convenient for a store or small family, likewise a small wooden building with a cellar, built for a kitchen, and may be used as a shop; also two stables and a carriage house. The buildings except the kitchen-stable and carriage house, are insured in the Mutual Insurance Company against fire in the state of Virginia, and the premiums paid. The lots front the Baion on one side, and are bounded by Cary's street, and the street leading to Shockoe warehouse, on the two other sides of them, and are as convenient for commercial or other business as any in the city.
The terms of sale, will be seventeen thousand dollars in ready money, the residue payable the fifth day of August next, for which residue, bond with approved security will be required. It is deemed unnecessary to state the great value of the above property, to those who reside in this city, but for the information of strangers, the subscriber begs leave to state, that the aforesaid property is immediately opposite the lower part of the basin of the James river canal, where all the produce of the upper country is landed; and to any person desirous of carrying on the commission business extensively, perhaps is superior to any other in this city.
WILLIAM AUSTIN. February 8.—ef
CHARLES SPENCER,
HAS just received by the ship Industry, from Liverpool, a variety of Japanese and Hardware, amongst which are Joiner's, Blacksmith's & Bricklayers Tools; a quantity of English Glue, Seine Twine, Drum Cork and Bath Cork; some Mustard Flour, of superior quality, in Bottles of 4 and 1lb. each; Travelling Shaving Cases, with the very best Razors; Blank Memorandum and Pocket Books, in great variety; a few reams of extricated Wrapping and Cartridge Paper, &c. March 8.—(2awsw)
WILL BE SOLD,
At Public Auction, on Saturday the 20th day of April next, at the Rawleigh Tavern, in the city of Williamsburg;
That valuable Plantation called YARMOUTH, lying in James City county, on Chickahominy River, ten miles from Williamsburg. The improvements, a two story brick house, with two rooms and a passage above and below; porticoes on each side; a large and capacious barn, and three other out-houses. The whole tract, including an island, in view of the house, high and low land with marshes, contains about 2700 acres; scarcely one third of which is cleared. Two thirds of the island is arable, which, with the land adjoining the house, is of superior quality. Adjacent to the island are two bold and navigable creeks, with a convenient landing to each. The range for cattle is very extensive, and the marshes and meadows will supply an abundance of hay. Fish, and wild fowl, in their respective seasons, may with ease be obtained at your door. The orchards, consisting of the greatest variety of all kinds of fruit, selected with care, are now in their prime. The terms of sale are one third cash and one, two and three equal annual payments, for the balance. PETON RANDOLPH, jr. For ELIZA INNES. Feb. 19. (eptds)
LANDS, LOTS & CANAL SHARES, FOR SALE.
On Monday, the twenty-fifth day of March next, Will be exposed to Public Sale at the Eagle-Tavern, in the City of Richmond, in order to close the Mercantile concern of Buchanan, Dunlop, & Co. the following
TRACTS OF LAND, &c. viz. A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND, SITUATED in the county of Campbell, on the branches of Cub Creek and Falling River, containing 2,500 acres, bounded by the lands of Hughes and M'Reynolds.
ALSO, ANOTHER TRACT OF LAND, in the same county, on the waters of Beaver and Poffum Creeks, containing four hundred and fifty acres, by a late accurate survey, and including part of what is called Cooper's mountain.
ALSO, ANOTHER TRACT OF LAND, in the said county, on the branches of Poffum, Rockcastle and Flat Creeks, containing 850 acres, and bounded by Steven's, Gandler's and Martin's lands.
ALSO, ANOTHER TRACT OF LAND, in said county, containing 870 acres, on the head branches of the south fork of Falling River, and upon the south east side of Long mountain, and bounded by Osby's, Farber's and Stitt's lands.
ALSO, ANOTHER TRACT OF LAND, in said county, containing 90 acres, on the head branches of the south fork of Falling River, on both sides of the main road, and bounded by the Long mountain and Richard Stitt's land.
ALSO, ANOTHER TRACT OF LAND, situated on the western branches of Buffalo Creek, in the county of Campbell, containing 350 acres, and commonly known by the name of Turner's place.
ALSO, A TRACT OF LAND, situated in Parson county, North-Carolina, containing 99 1/2 acres, sold under an execution against Duncan Rife, jr. and purchased at the marshal's sale at Raleigh, North-Carolina, as per deed to John Tompkins, made by the marshal, recorded in Parson county court.
ALSO, A TRACT OF LAND, in Patrick county, Virginia, on the head waters of South Mayo river, containing 1020 acres, more or less, as per deed from John Hughes to Buchanan, Dunlop & Co. recorded in the county court of Patrick, at February Court, 1800.—A considerable part of this tract is rich low grounds.
ALSO, LOTS No. 4 & 5, each half acre, situated on the main-street, in the town of New-London, on which are a store and dwelling house.
ALSO, LOTS No. 45 & 46 in said town, containing 5 acres, adjoining the above half-acre lots, whereon are a Barn and other out-houses now standing.
ALSO, LOT No. 41 situated in said town, containing eleven acres, & No. 42 & 43, containing each eight acres.
ALSO, A TRACT OF LAND adjoining the above lots, containing 200 acres, which land Thomas Reid purchased of Pandia Grump, as will appear by the deed of indenture, recorded in the district court of New-London.
At the same time and place and upon the same terms, will be Sold, ANOTHER TRACT OF LAND in Campbell county, containing 400 acres.
At the same time and place will be sold, FIVE SHARES IN THE UPPER APPOMATTOX CANAL COMPANY.—A further description of the lands and lots is deemed unnecessary, as those inclined to purchase, will of course view them.—Mr. Thomas Reid will show the lands in Campbell county and lots in New-London.—Mr. Duncan Rife, jr. the lands in Parson county, and Mr. Samuel Stapler that in Patrick county, and the deeds may be seen on application to Messrs. Prosser and Moncure of Richmond.—On the lands and lots a credit of 18 months will be given, and on the Canal Shares, a credit of 12 months—the purchaser giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date, if not pointedly paid.
DAVID BUCHANAN, By ROBERT POLLOK, his Attorney. JOHN DUNLOP, Attorney for JAMES DUNLOP. February 8.—tdf.
NOTICE.
THE subscribers having put an end to their retail business, request the debtors to this firm to come forward, without loss of time, to have their accounts adjusted, and to pay what may be due. As great indulgence has been already given, further cannot reasonably be expected. George McCreddie will attend at this place, for the purposes of settling the accounts, and receiving payments. Those who do not pay, or give satisfactory assurance of paying soon, must blame themselves if suits are instituted against them. LYLE & McCREDDIE. Mancheffer, Feb. 5.—(ep8aw.)
FOR SALE,
On a credit of 18 months, at the Eagle tavern, on the 25th March ensuing:
A Certain tract or parcel of LAND, lying in Patrick county on Mayo river, containing 550 acres more or less, being that tract lately owned by John Spencer, and sold by virtue of a deed of trust for the benefit of Dunlop, Pollok & Co. Col. Geo. Penn of Patrick, will show the land to any person disposed to purchase. An undisputed title with general warranty, will be made the purchaser on payment of the money—undoubted security will be required. PROSSER & MONCURE, V. M's. February 19.
LAND FOR SALE.
A TRACT of about 850 acres, lying on James River, adjoining the town of Lynchburg; one hundred and forty of which is low ground, and said to be of the first quality; a considerable proportion of the high ground lies well, and well adapted to the culture of tobacco and grain. It has an excellent flax and rock fishery on it; a small apple orchard, a good dwelling house and convenient out-houses; a mill flax, supposed to be superior to any in that part of the country—the mill house would set within thirty-six poles of the river, on navigable water. Likely negroes would be received in part pay, and a generous price allowed for one or two blacksmiths that are under 36 years of age, and good workmen. For further particulars, apply to the subscriber on the premises, or Mr. William Brown, merchant, in Lynchburg. LEWELLEN JONES. March 1. (eptf)
Wm. M'KENZIE & Co.
HAVE FOR SALE—4000 Dollars Military Certificates, bearing interest at 6 per cent, and stock of the Bank of Virginia. February 26. epf
BROKER'S OFFICE.
THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Counting-house of Thomas and Amos Ladd. All business confided to him, will be transacted with strict fidelity. THOMAS NORVELL.
He has for sale—A FEW SHARES IN THE MANCHESTER TURNPIKE.
Also—Old State Certificates, bearing five per cent interest. March 12. tf
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the late firm of BUCHANAN, DUNLOP & CO. of Petersburg, ROBERT POLLOK & CO. of Richmond, and DUNLOP, POLLOK & CO. of Manchester, are hereby notified, that James Dunlop, late a partner in the above concern, has become purchaser of the outstanding debts—they will therefore be pleased to make payment to Mr. John Tompkins residing in Richmond, or the subscriber residing in Petersburg, who alone are authorized to make collections and grant discharges.—Suits will be indiscriminately commenced against all who do not make payment before the first of February next. JOHN DUNLOP, Attorney For JAMES DUNLOP. Petersburg, Nov. 15, 1804. 4/5
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. epf
NOTICE.
Mutual Insurance office, Richmond, March 4th, 1805.
THE members of the mutual Insurance Company against fire on Goods & Furniture in the state of Virginia, are particularly requested to meet at the said office, either in person or by proxy on Monday the 8th of next month (April) on business of the utmost importance to the company.
On referring to the 21st article of the Constitution of the said company, it will be found that no member is at present insured, or can be, until a meeting shall be convened, and certain rules and regulations complied with, which, without other matters of much consequence renders it necessary that there should be a strict compliance with the above requisition.
BENJAMIN DUVAL, President. (ep, 3aw)
THE subscriber wishes to sell the HOUSE & LOTS in Williamsburg, whereon he resided the last year—there are four acres of ground, with a comfortable dwelling, and every necessary out-house; has new enclosed, is situated in an agreeable part of the city, and possesses the advantage of having excellent water on the spot. The terms are one thousand dollars. WILLIAM MCANDLISH. Williamsburg, March 12. (St&Law2m)
NOTICE.