The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-07-04 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 6.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1809.
[No. 16.]
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE GLOBE TAVERN, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
NOTICE. —The next stated annual meeting of the Visitors of William and Mary College, is on the fourth of July. The affairs of the College require the attention of the Visitors, and it is hoped that a Convocation will on that day be formed.
JAMES SEMPLE, Rector. Williamsburg, June 27.
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JOHN R. JONES, N. W. corner of the main street, and that leading to the head of the basin, nearly opposite the Eagle Tavern, has just received a few copies of a new & interesting novel, by the celebrated Miss Owenson, author of the Novice of St. Domingo &c. called Woman or Ida of Athens , 2 vols. $2, also a few copies of Thaddeus of Warsaw , by Miss Porter, 2 vols. $2. A new map of Spain and Portugal, by Don Thomas Lopez, Geographer to his catholic majesty—price $3. Letters from England: By Don Manuel Alvarar Escriella, descriptive of the manners, customs and state of that kingdom 2 vols. $2.—Poems by the Revd. George Crabbe $1.—The geographical, natural and civil history of Chili, by Abbe Don J. J. Molina, with notes &c. and a map, 2 vols. $5.
John R. Jones having engaged a Bookbinder from Philadelphia—respectfully offers his services to his friends and the public in that line and flatters himself from the execution of the work the punctuality that will attend his engagements, in addition to the reduced prices, at which he will execute the orders of those who may thus favor him, that he will obtain & be enabled to merit a share of the public patronage. He will keep continually on hand a general assortment of blank books of all kinds, also a general assortment of stationery, of which he has received in considerable supply in addition to his stock on hand, per Capt. Fissler from Philadelphia.
SUGAR, COFFEE, &c. &c. —Received per the Schooners Atlantic and Richmond, from New York: Brown Sugar, Green Coffee, Earthen Ware, Stone Ware & Prime Pork. For sale by GEO: WATT.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. —Ran away from the subscriber on the 16th of last month a bright mulatto boy named BILLY, about seventeen or eighteen years of age, five feet 8 or 9 inches high, rather slim, his face sharp, has a scar on one side of his face, but whether right or left, is not recollected. He had on when he ran away, pantalettes and short coat of blue plains. He was purchased of Mr. Page, city of Richmond. But it is rather supposed he is in Hanover, as his father is free and lives near the court house, the above reward will be given for the delivery of him in Richmond and jail.
PURSUANT to a decree of the worshipful Court of Hanover, will be sold to the highest bidder, at James Hazelgrove's Tavern in Hanover, on Friday the fourteenth day of July next, two or three NEGROES of the estate of William Tinsley dec'd. which the Children of Philip Tinsley dec'd. are now entitled to, as the representatives of their Father, also a tract or parcel of LAND of 25 or 30 acres of the same estate lying in the county of Hanover, in the neighborhood of the Oaks. A credit of twelve months will be allowed the Purchasers upon giving bonds and approved security.
THE COMMISSIONERS. All those who have claims against the Estate of William Tinsley dec'd. are required to bring them forward on or before the 14th day of July next, as his admin'x is anxious to settle her administration on said estate immediately, & those indebted are earnestly requested to make payment as no longer indulgence can be granted.
ELIZABETH TINSLEY, Admin'x. June 30. ep4#
United States, Virginia district, May 23 1809. The United States, Libellanta , against the sloop Jenny , whereof John Wright is master & commander, Respondent. THIS day came the attorney for the U. S. & it appearing that the publication directed at the last term, had duly made and proclamation having been made, as the court did direct, that the said vessel would be considered as forfeited to the United States unless a claim should be interposed for the same and no claimant appearing, on the motion of the attorney for the United States, it is decreed and ordered, that the said vessel, her rigging, tackle, apparel and furniture be considered as forfeited to the U. S. and that the marshal of this court, do sell the same to the highest bidder for ready money after giving 10 days notice in some one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmond, and make return of his proceedings, and bring the proceeds to the next court in order for a final decree.
A Copy Teste. WILLIAM MARSHALL, Clk. By virtue of the above decree will be sold at Powell's Tavern in the Town of Petersburg, for ready money to the highest bidder at Public Auction the sloop Jenny her rigging tackle-apparel & furniture as named above.
WILLIAM MANN, Deputy M for JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D.
HATS, SHOES, PORTER, &c. J. BURN, offers for sale, at the same house in which is kept the Penitentiary Store , second door above the Eagle-Tavern,
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF HATS. Including Gentlemen's black, drab and patent silk BEAVERS, CASTORS, RORUMS, &c. Chip and Leghorn Hats, Mens' and Boys' Wool do, Servants' Glazed Leather do, Malters' Trimmings and Materials.
SHOES. Ladies' Morocco and Kid Slips and Ties, Gentlemen's coarse and press Shoes and Pumps, constantly on hand a large stock of bottled Porter, Ale and Cider, Philadelphia Beer, &c. &c. April 13. tf
CASH given for VIRGINIA MILITARY LAND WARRANTS granted for services in the Continental Line. Apply to GEO: GREENHOW.
PURSUANT to a deed of Trust executed to the Subscribers, by Samuel Parsons and Sarah his wife, for the benefit of William Cooke and Thomas and Amos Ladd, and other creditors of the said Parsons, will be sold, at Public Auction, on the respective premises, on Monday the 17th of next month, (July) the following property situate in the city of Richmond, viz. Nearly three fourths of the half acre of ground, designated in the plan of the said City by lot No. 436, between Thomas Ladd and the Hay-Market square, bounded on the North East, by the street which passes between the Hay-Market square and the public Warehouse.
All that part of lot No. 413 on the North East side of the Basin which is bounded by the street running by the Bank and Robert McKim's, to Cary Street, thence by the latter street to the brick House occupied by Mr. James Smith as a Bakery—thence at right angles to the alley between the said lot of Robert McKim's—thence by the said alley to the first mentioned street. This lot is held by a deed which conveys all the interest of Byrd's Trustees and Heirs. But is subject to the appearance of a Ticket. The title papers of both lots will be exhibited at the sale. The grounds will be sold entire, or divided, as may appear convenient.
Ten shares in the Richmond Turnpike Company—also a Coach and pair of horses, together with sundry articles of household and kitchen furniture and other personal property. Terms of sale will be twelve months credit of the lots, or Notes negotiable and payable at the Bank of Virginia satisfactorily endorsed, & Titles to be withheld as further security until the notes be fully paid; or at the option of the purchasers, one fourth in hand, and deeds of Trust on the property sold to secure the other three fourths. The Turnpike shares and the personal property will be for cash or a short credit, as may be deemed fit on the day. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock on Lot No. 413.
NOTICE. —That on the 17th day of next month, will be sold to the highest bidder, on the premises in this city, (unless privately sold before,) a three story brick house, (unfinished) 20 by 40 feet, together with the ground of the same width, extending back to an alley, situate on Cary's Street, running parallel with the Basin, and opposite to Nicholson and Heath's Coal yard. Terms of sale, $1000 in hand, $1000 in six months, the remaining balance, divided equally in 12 and 18 months, from the first instant. A Deed of Trust, on the said property, and bonds of the purchasers, will be required to secure the three last payments.
SAMUEL PARSONS. 6th mo 29, 1809. HAVING executed a deed of trust to Benjamin Oliver, jr. William Cunningham, and Samuel Richardson, conveying certain property therein mentioned, to them, for the purpose of making sale thereof, in order to discharge all debts for which I am bound for my Father, and my own debts,—It is therefore my wish that all such creditors may as soon as possible, make their respective claims known to the above named gentlemen, that they may know how far to carry the sales, which will take place the 1st of August next.
JOHN M. SYME. June 9.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
PURSUANT to a deed of trust executed to us, by John M. Syme, of the County of Hanover, for the purpose of satisfying all debts for which he is bound for his Father's & his own debts—we shall, on Tuesday, the first day of August next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, upon the premises, proceed to sell, four hundred and sixty three acres, (by a late survey) of prime and valuable land, adjoining the Town of New Castle, upon Pamunkey River, and the ferry across that river. Also, ELEVEN NEGROES, consisting of MEN, WOMEN, BOYS and GIRLS, all the stock of HORSES, CATTLE, HOGS, SHEEP, and implements of Husbandry, &c. conveyed by the said instrument. Such title as we hold as trustees will be made the purchaser or purchasers, and possession of the land given at Christmas with the privilege of seeding wheat this fall. The terms of sale will be one third cash, one third in six months, and the balance in 12 months, from the day of sale. Interest will be expected upon the distant payments. Bonds with approved security will be required of the purchasers of the personal property, and Bonds with deeds of trust upon the land and ferry of the respective purchasers. The land & &c. will be shown by Mr. WM. CUNNINGHAM, living in New Castle, or either of the Mr. SYMES, to any person wishing to view the premises. Creditors will be allowed to purchase, and their claims discounted.
According to Mr. John M. Syme's notification above, we or either of us, will receive the amount of any claim, and it is our wish that they be made known prior to the day of sale. There are some previous liens upon this property, or some of it, to secure certain debts, which will be first paid, according to their several dates. Proposals for any part of the above property will be received by either of the trustees prior to the sale.
BENJAMIN OLIVER, jr. WM. CUNNINGHAM SAML. RICHARDSON. New-Castle, June 9. tds
By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed by James H. Gordon dec'd and Maria his wife, to the subscriber, on the first day of November, 1808, and recorded in the Hustings Court of Richmond the 12th December 1808, for the purpose of securing to Robert Johnston the punctual payment of a debt, particularly described in said deed of trust.
Will be sold on the premises the highest bidder on Monday, the 10th day of next month, one LOT or GROUND, denominated by number seventy, containing a half Acre, lying and being in a part of the City of Richmond, commonly known and designated by Duvall's plan of lot's, on which is a brick tenement, the sale will take place at five o'clock in the evening, under the provisions of the act of last assembly of Virginia, entitled "an act concerning executions and for other purposes."
June 27. HENRY TURNER, Trustee. ep4#
NOTICE. —Pursuant to a deed of trust, executed to us by John Harper of Nottoway county and recorded in the same court, bearing date the first day of July, 1808, in order to secure the payment of a debt due Owen Smith:—We shall, on the first day of July next, at Jennings's Ordinary, proceed to sell, to the highest bidder, the following SLAVES , to wit: old John, Betty and her increase, young John and Rachel, or as many of them as may be sufficient to satisfy the purport of said deed and cost accruing.
JOHN BOOTH. JOHN P. SMITH. June 2. W4#
CONGRESS.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
SENATE OF THE U. STATES.
MONDAY, June 27.
The Vice-President being absent, the Senate proceeded to the election of a President pro-tempore, and elected Andrew Gregg.
The bill supplementary to the act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt, passed to a third reading, with amendments—Yeas 18—Nays 10.
The bill concerning the naval establishment was likewise passed to a third reading.
June 10.
The bill in addition to the act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland (Md.) to the state of Ohio, was passed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, June 26.
Mr. Marion presented the petition of J. Rinaldi, master of the schooner William, praying a remission of penalties incurred by the violation of the law prohibiting the importation of slaves, in bringing a number of slaves from the Island of Cuba into Charleston. Referred to a committee of the whole to whom the bill from the Senate on that subject is referred.
BATTURE AT NEW ORLEANS.
Mr. Sheffey, after a speech of some length, in the course of which he examined the title to this much contested piece of alluvion, moved the following resolutions:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, &c. that the President of the United States be requested to cause the several persons who were removed from the batture of the suburb of St. Mary, in the city of N. Orleans on the 25th day of January, 1808, to be restored to the possession thereof; to be held with the same rights with which they respectively held the same immediately prior to such removal, any subsequent act or thing to the contrary notwithstanding.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, &c. that if the President shall be of opinion, that the United States have such a legal claim to the batture opposite the suburb of St. Mary in the city of N. Orleans, as will justify the expense of prosecuting the same, he be authorized, with the consent of the parties removed, therefrom on the 25th day of January, 1808, to name three referees, who shall have full power to hear and finally to determine all right, title, claim and demand whatsoever, as well of the United States as of the parties removed, both in law and equity, and their award or that of a majority of them, shall be binding as well on the United States as the said parties.
Resolved, That if the President of the U. States shall deem it most expedient, he may compromise the conflicting claims of the U. S. and the persons removed from the batture of the suburb of St. Mary in the city of N. Orleans, and cause the same to be tried in a court of the U. S. in such manner and at such place as will secure an impartial trial.
The House agreed to consider the first resolution, Ayes 67. A motion was made to refer it to a committee of the whole; which, after debate, in which Messrs Love, Poydras, Smilie, Dana, Troup and Bibb participated, was agreed to, 60 to 21; and it was made the order of the day for to-morrow.
The House agreed to consider the other resolutions, 48 to 41; which were referred to the same committee.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
On motion of Mr. Smilie, the House resumed the consideration of the report of the committee of the whole, on the bill from the Senate, to revive and amend certain parts of the act interdicting commercial intercourse; the unfinished business of yesterday (the report of the committee on the contested election of Wm. Baillies,) having been ordered to lie on the table, 38 to 46.
The committee of the whole were, on motion of Mr. J. G. Jackson, discharged from the further consideration of the non-intercourse bill—Ayes 70; and it was taken up in the House.
Mr. J. G. Jackson said, he found that there was in the bill no provision authorizing the departure of vessels charged with public dispatches for France, and therefore moved such an amendment—Agreed to without opposition.
Mr. Sheffey observed, that when the bill had been before the committee he had the honor to move the amendment, which he now renewed as follows: "And provided also, that nothing therein contained shall be considered to prevent any public vessel from entering the waters and harbors of the United States belonging to any nation with whom commercial intercourse shall be permitted."
Mr. J. G. Jackson moved to amend the amendment by adding to the end of it the following: "Whenever a full and satisfactory adjustment of our differences shall have been made with such nation."
In a debate of about four hours, which took place on these motions, Messrs. Dana, Livermore and Holland supported Mr. Sheffey's amendment, and Messrs. Taylor, Fisk, Burwell, Johnson, Smilie, Cook and J. G. Jackson opposed it. [This debate in course.]
When Mr. J. G. Jackson concluded, Mr. Sheffey, in order to obtain a direct question on his own amendment, adopted Mr. Jackson's rider to it, as a part of his own motion, and called for a division of the question, taking it first on his own amendment, as first moved.
Some doubt arising whether it was correct to act, according to the rules of the House, Mr. Macon produced a precedent in which he had himself done the same in the case of a motion for the repeal of the second section of the sedition act, nine or ten years ago.
The question was then taken on Mr. Sheffey's amendment as follows:
YEAS—Messrs. Baylies, Blaisdell, Campbell, J. C. Chamberlain, W. Chamberlain, Champion, Ely, Goldsborough, Gold, Hale, Haven, Holland, Hubbard, R. Jackson, Jen-
kins, Knickerbacker, Lewis, Livermore, Livingston, Lyon, Matthews, Miller, Milnor, Pearson, Pickman, Pitkin, Sheffey, Stanley, Stephenson, Swoope, Van Dyke, Van Rensselaer, Wheaton, Whitman, Wilson—35.
NAYS—Messrs. L. J. Alston, W. Alston, Anderson, Bacon, Bard, Bassett, Bibb, Boyd, J. Brown, R. Brown, Burwell, Butler, Calhoun, Clay, Clopton, Cobb, Cochran, Cook, Cox, Crawford, Cutts, Dawson, Desha, Eppes, Findley, Fisk, Franklin, Gannett, Gardner, Gholson, Goodwyn, Heister, Helms, Howard, Huffey, J. G. Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Kennedy, Love, Lyle, Marion, Marion, M'Kim, Montgomery, N. R. Moore, T. Moore, Morrow, Mumford, Newton, Nicholas, J. Porter, P. B. Porter, Randolph, Rea of Pennsylvania, Rhea of Tennessee, Richards, Roane, Root, Ross, Sage, Sammons, Shaw, Smilie, G. Smith, J. Smith, S. Smith, Southard, Stanford, Taylor, Thompson, Tracy, Van Horn, Weakley, Whitehill, Winn, Witherspoon—77.
This motion having been negatived, Mr. Jackson's amendment fell of course. Mr. Gold observed, that he did not consider the last question as decisively trying the point which had been debated; and for that reason moved to insert, after the clause continuing in force certain sections of the non-intercourse act, these words: "and also so much of the first and second section of the same act as provides for the exclusion of public ships or vessels of France from the waters of the U. States."
Mr. J. G. Jackson moved to amend the amendment by inserting between the words "vessels of" and "France," the words "Great Britain and"
Mr. Gold requested of Mr. Jackson to withdraw his motion for amendment, that the question might be taken in a direct mode.
Mr. J. G. Jackson withdrew his motion for amendment, observing that he had but moved it to show how the game played by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Sheffey) might operate, if any person was disposed to embarrass the proceedings of the House.
Mr. Taylor observed, that Mr. Gold's proposition presented the same question as that which had just been decided, and suggested to him the propriety of withdrawing it, to save time.
Mr. Gold observing that he did not wish to embarrass or unnecessarily to consume the time of the House, withdrew his motion.
Mr. Taylor said, that as the House had decided that they would not discriminate between the admission of British and French public vessels; he wished to try the question on the exclusion of both. He made a motion, having in view that object, which was decided as follows, without debate:
YEAS—Messrs. Bard, Bibb, Boyd, Crawford, Desha, Holland, Macon, Marion, Morrow, Pickman, Ross, Geo. Smith, Taylor, Whitehill and Witherspoon—15.
NAYS—Messrs. L. J. Alston, W. Alston, Anderson, Bacon, Bassett, Blaisdell, J. Brown, R. Brown, Burwell, Butler, Calhoun, Campbell, J. C. Chamberlain, Champion, Clay, Clopton, Cobb, Cochran, Cook, Cox, Cutts, Dawson, Ely, Eno, Eppes, Findley, Fisk, Franklin, Gannett, Gardner, Gholson, Goldsborough, Goodwyn, Gold, Hale, Haven, Heister, Helms, Howard, Huffey, J. G. Jackson, R. Jackson, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Kennedy, Knickerbacker, Lewis, Livermore, Livingston, Love, Lyle, Matthews, M'Kim, Miller, Milnor, Montgomery, N. R. Moore, Thomas Moore, Mumford, Newton, Nicholas, Pearson, Pitkin, John Porter, Peter B. Porter, Quincy, Randolph, Rea, (Penn.) Rhea, (Tenn.) Richards, Roane, Root, Sage, Sammons, Sawyer, Shaw, Sheffey, Smilie, John Smith, S. Smith, Southard, Stanford, Stanley, Steiman, Stephenson, Sturges, Swoope, Talmadge, Thompson, Tracy, Troup, Upham, Van Dyke, Van Horn, Van Rensselaer, Weakley, Wheaton, Wilson and Winn—100.
Fifteen for it, one hundred against it, being a majority of eighty-five against the exclusion, at this time, of the public vessels of both belligerents.
Mr. Montgomery observed, that the decision of the courts of the United States had been, that after a law had expired, they had dismissed all suits pending for the recovery of penalties incurred under that act. He conceived, that this bill should have a saving clause, that penalties and forfeitures incurred under it should be recoverable and distributable after the act itself had expired. He therefore moved an amendment to that effect.
Mr. J. G. Jackson, concurred in opinion with Mr. Montgomery.
The amendment was agreed to without opposition.
Mr. Livermore said, that he had an amendment to propose to the bill, which he conceived would essentially benefit the people of the United States, and could injure no one, not altering any principle of the present bill. It would be found, by referring to the bill, that they were about to enact, that it should not be lawful to import into the U. States or territories thereof any goods, wares or merchandise from any port or place situated in France or its dependencies, or any goods of the growth or manufacture of its colonies or dependencies. The Island of St. Domingo, Mr. L. said, was considered as a colony or dependence of France. Now, could any gentleman point out what benefit could arise to the United States from not importing any of the products of that Island into this country? It certainly could not benefit France, who had no commercial connexion with the Island, and would benefit the United States by returning coffee, sugar, &c. for our surplus produce. He expatiated upon the benefits of such a trade, and concluded by moving the following amendment to the bill: "And, for the purposes of this act, no country or place shall be considered a colony or dependency of Great Britain or France, which is not in the immediate possession of Great Britain or France."
Mr. Randolph hoped, that this question would be decided in such manner as would enable the people of the U. States to distinguish the part which their respective representatives bore in its decision. It was not his purpose to trouble the House at length upon it, but merely to ask, if it could be possible that the House of Representatives of
the U. S. a people, one-sixth of whose gross population were in a state of domestic slavery, could incidentally undertake to acknowledge the independence of the Island of St. Domingo on the mother country? Mr. R. said he was not about to consider this question at all in relation to its foreign aspect or bearing, but merely as to its effect at home. With the motives which might have operated on the government of the U. S. to prohibit intercourse with St. Domingo, he had nothing to do; neither had he any right to suppose, but that they were the most laudable. As a southern man, as a slave-holder, Mr. R. said, he did congratulate his country and himself, at the time that the law passed, that all intercourse between that nest of banditti and the country to which he belonged was cut off. He said he knew that much might be said on the subject of this amendment, as it regarded foreign policy, as it regarded accommodation with France. Even in that aspect of things, gentlemen who had expressed their willingness not to interdict French armed vessels from our ports, would hardly be induced to place in the way of accommodation such a bar as this might be. With its foreign bearings, however, Mr. R. said, he had nothing to do. He viewed it solely as it related to domestic policy. He said, there was an immense section of this Union, all the country south of Pennsylvania and south of the Ohio, the best and dearest interest of which, the very existence of which might be implicated to a certain extent in that amendment. And could it be supposed, that the Representatives of the people of that country would listen to such a proposition? He hoped not. He hoped the motion would meet a decisive and unanimous rejection. But a few days ago they had heard of an insurrection of the slaves in Jamaica. What must be the effect of a direct trade between the town of Charles-ton and the ports of the Island of St. Domingo? To say the truth, he had been astonished that long before the traffic to that island was stopped by our government, a sense of self preservation had not united the interests—for it was a mixed interest not to be mistaken; it existed in nature, it existed in things, and could not be gotten over—he had been astonished, he said, that a sense of their own rights, interest and safety had not united every man in the Southern country in bringing forward such a proposition. It would not consent, for one, to put one dollar, 1 cent, into the treasury by legalizing a trade there. He would oppose it every way. What had lately occurred in the island of Cuba? Contrary to law our vessels had been compelled to take on board persons expelled by violence from that island, masters and slaves, males and females. What was now the state of things in St. Domingo? why, that a civil war raged between the chieftains of those barbarians. The first American flotilla which put into Port Francois, or any other port in the island, might be compelled to take on board the brigands whom the dominant party might put on board, to enable themselves to enjoy, as they might suppose, the peaceful possession of the island. The importation of such persons not only might, but inevitably must work in the southern country a dreadful evil. He hoped he had said enough and more than enough to ensure the rejection of the motion.
Mr. Smilie said that the aspect in which the gentleman from Virginia had viewed the motion was certainly correct. Independent of that vote, the gentleman from Massachusetts should have taken a previous step before he brought forward his motion; and that was, to declare the island of St. Domingo independent. If we were ready for that, the motion might be adopted. If the gentleman was ripe for war with France, this motion would answer his purpose; for certainly, if we were to take such a step, we should pave the way for war. France or any other nation would not submit to an imposition of this kind.
Mr. Livermore said he had made this motion, because he believed that a free construction of the act would operate beneficially. Really if he had thought it would operate in the way in which the gentleman from Virginia supposed, he should be the last man to bring forward a motion to interrupt the harmony of the Southern states. He had not supposed that the adoption of the motion would have the slightest effect of that kind. He did not conceive either that there was any ground for such a supposition, which went upon the idea that, because we traffic, with them, the people of that country must be exported into this; for the importation of their produce certainly did not include their principles. The same law that now exists would then exist to prevent the importation of slaves. Did it follow, because an act had been passed by this government to cut off the trade with St. Domingo, that there was no communication between the two countries? The reverse was known to be the fact. He said that there is a trade to a great amount carried on between the U. States and St. Domingo, perhaps as much from North Carolina as any other state, and which was not now carried on in a regular way, but in foreign bottoms. The "banditti" who are to bring with them those principles which would serve to destroy the Southern states, might be imported in that way. I conceive that there is no weight in the objection or I would give up the motion. It was but to legalise a trade which will be carried on in an illegal way, which now is and will be carried on by foreigners between this country and that, that I offered it. The gentleman from Pennsylvania seemed to suppose that we must pass a non-intercourse act with St. Domingo or go to war with France. If we consider ourselves under any obligations to France, we should then certainly observe strict non-intercourse with that island. But, under present circumstances, I conceive that argument to have no weight.
Mr. Macon said he did not rise to debate the question at length; he would not add anything to the force of what had been said by the gentleman from Virginia, and might detract from it. That there were people in North Carolina, as every where, who would sell principle for a little sugar or coffee, might be true; but for one of the Representatives of that state, he disclaimed them. Sir, (said Mr. M.) you are staking the safety of this nation—for what? For the profits of a little

trade in coffee and sugar with barbarians, with people who at this time have no settled form of government. If there be such people as carry on the illegal trade in the state in which I live, they do not live in the part which I represent, but on the seaboard. As it relates to that state, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine would be opposed to the trade, for one that is in favor of it. When we talk about its influence on our relations with France, or in producing a war with her, the question dwindles into nothing. It is nothing to a civil war, and that of the worst kind. Compare the war carried on in St. Domingo with all the horrors of that carried on in Europe; and the latter sinks to nothing in the comparison. I had rather be at war with both belligerents than have this trade.
Mr. Dana said he thought it was desirable that the legislature should pronounce the political import of the term "dependence," rather than that it should be left to judicial decision; but he was not certain that the amendment proposed to define it in the best manner. He believed the general idea of the mover to be correct, that there should be a definition; for he understood that a question had now arisen, which might be referred to the courts, and he thought it peculiarly unfortunate, that the judicial authorities should be called upon to decide. For himself he said he was not at all satisfied that the construction of the Secretary of the Treasury was a correct one; he was by no means certain that Holland was not a political dependency of France. For himself, he was not by any means solicitous to enter into the question of the superiority of black or white men. I am not (said he) such a democrat as say that all men, whatever be their colors, should be liberated and placed on an equality. I consider myself on all questions of this sort as a republican under the federal constitution; that is, a friend to elective liberty. But whatever be my theory, I am controlled by the constitution of the U. States, which does not permit me to indulge in theories on this subject. Whatever shall tend to disturb the state of things in the Southern country, a state of things which by implication I consider as guaranteed by the constitution, I shall consider as not conforming to that constitution, which, as a federalist, I am bound to respect. As the introduction of this amendment into the bill might effect the question of the independence of Hayti, or interfere with the relations between St. Domingo and France, I should be unwilling to adopt it; and yet I think it proper that some definition shall take place of the word dependence . Under the view which I have taken of the amendment, however, I cannot vote for it.
The question was then taken on Mr. Livermore's amendment by Yeas and Nays, as follows:
YEAS—Mr. Livermore. NAYS—98, all present voting in the negative, except Mr. Livermore himself. Absent from this vote, forty-three members, viz.
Messrs. Breckenridge, J. C. Chamberlain, Champion, Chittenden, Clapton, Crist, Davenport, Deming, Ely, Gardner, Gray, Hale, Hubbard, R. Jackson, Jenkins, Kenan, Key, Love, Lyon, Matthews, McBridge, McKee, Miller, Moseley, Nelson, Newcomb, Nicholson, Pearson, Pitkin, Potter, Ross, Say, Seaver, Smell, Stedman, Stephenson, Sturges, Taggart, Tallmadge, Upham, Van Rensselaer, Wheaton & Whitman; of whom those in Italics are absent from the city on leave, except Mr. Denning, who has not taken his seat.
Mr. Gold suggested an amendment to the bill in the part providing for the recovery and distribution of such fines as "have been" incurred under the sections of the non-intercourse act revived and amended. He moved to amend it by making it read "may be" instead of "have been." At present he conceived the bill to contain in this respect an ex post facto provision, inasmuch as it directed the recovery of fines and penalties, the suits on which must abate on the expiration of the law under which they were commenced.
Mr. Sheffey objected to the amendment. He said that laws when made ought to be observed, and that the usual mode of coercing obedience to our revenue laws, was by fines and penalties on the violators; and although the law under which a penalty is incurred, expires before the recovery of the penalty, yet still the offender should be liable to the punishment of his offence; that the suits for penalties should not expire with a law inflicting them.
Mr. Gold contended that it was impossible to recover penalties incurred under one law by another law, or to recover them after the law under which they were incurred had expired, unless their subsequent recovery was provided for under the law which inflicted them. The penalty must stand or fall with the act under which it was incurred. This was an ex post facto provision; for it was a principle, that a judgment could not be obtained for a penalty after the act expired under which it had accrued.
Mr. Gold's amendment was negatived, six or seven gentlemen only rising in the affirmative.
Mr. Milnor suggested an amendment to that part of the law remitting from forfeiture all vessels which have come into the U. S. between the 20th May and the 10th of June. He wished to add after the word "vessels," the words "and their cargoes."
Mr. J. G. Jackson said he had no objection to the amendment, though he believed the whole section might be dispensed with, inasmuch as he had understood that the secretary of the treasury, under the powers given him by former laws, had already remitted all the penalties.
Mr. W. Alston objected to the amendment, inasmuch as it would take away the discretion now reposed in the secretary of the treasury; and although there might be in the cargo goods forfeited for violation of the ordinary revenue laws, yet the injunction would be peremptory on him to remit the whole cargo.
Mr. Miller's motion was negatived. The bill was then ordered to a third reading to-morrow, without a division.
TUESDAY, June 27.
A bill from the Senate for freeing from postage all letters from Thomas Jefferson, was twice read. [The act of the last session only freed from postage letters to Thomas Jefferson.] Mr. Macon opposed the bill on the ground that the privilege of receiving letters free was sufficient, having himself an objection to the whole privilege on principle; and Messrs. Dana, J. G. Jackson, Livermore, Taylor and Montgomery supported the bill, because that it was proper to give to T. Jefferson the same privilege which had been heretofore granted to Geo. Washington and
John Adams. The bill was ordered to be read a third time, and was subsequently read a third time and passed.
EXPENDITURE OF PUBLIC MONIES.
Mr. Randolph from the committee appointed to enquire into the expenditures of public money, &c. made the following Report:
"REPORT in part of the committee appointed to enquire and report whether monies drawn from the Treasury since the 4th of March, 1801, had been faithfully applied to the object for which they were appropriated, and whether the same have been regularly accounted for:"
"Your committee beg leave to lay before your honorable House such information as they have obtained from the several departments touching the application of public monies, which, from the pressure of time and business, they have not found leisure thoroughly to investigate, but which they deemed would prove acceptable to the House of Representatives. It will be perceived, that the respective communications from the War and Navy Departments are of an unsatisfactory nature, differing in character from those required by the committee. A representation to this effect has been made to the heads of these departments respectively, and they have been notified that the information sought by the committee is essential to the prosecution of the enquiry with which the committee have been charged by the House of Representatives. Expectation is held out that it will be prepared by, or during the course of, the next session. "Respectfully submitted."
The documents accompanying the report having been partly read through, a motion was made that they lie on the table, and carried 46 to 40; and the report and documents were ordered to be printed.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
The bill to revive and amend certain parts of the act "interdicting commercial intercourse between the U. States and G. Britain and France and their dependencies and for other purposes," was read the third time; and on the question "shall the bill pass?" Messrs. Pickman, Pitkin, Taylor, Quincy, Macon, and Dana stated their reasons for voting against the bill.
[Debate in course.] The question was taken about 5 o'clock by yeas and nays as follows:
YEAS—Messrs. L. J. Alston, W. Alston, Anderson, Bacon, Bibb, Boyd, J. Brown, R. Brown, Burwell, Calhoun, Campbell, Cobb, Cochran, Cook, Cox, Cutts, Dawson, Desha, Emott, Eppes, Findley, Fisk, Gardner, Gholson, Goodwyn, Gold, Heister, Helms, Hufst, Jenkins, Johnson, Kennedy, Knickerbacker, Livingston, Love, Lyon, Lyle, Marion, Matthews, McKee, Milnor, Montgomery, N. R. Moore, Newton, Pearson, J. Porter, P. B. Porter, Quincy, Rhea (of Pen.) Rhea, [of Ten.] Richards, Roane, Sage, Sammons, Sheffey, Smilie, G. Smith, S. Smith, Southard, Stanley, Stephenson, Swoope, Thompson, Tracy, Van Dyke, Van Horn, Weakly, Wheaton, Whitehill, Whitman, Winn, Witherspoon—72. NAYS—Messrs. Blaisdell, I. C. Chamberlain, Dana, Davenport, Ely, Hale, Haven, Holland, Hubbard, Livermore, Macon, Pitkin, Ross, Stanford, Taylor—15. Absent 54 members.
The House then took up the amendment of the Senate to the bill making further appropriations for the contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress during the present session. The amendment expunges the additional appropriation for the library. The House concurred in the amendment, 52 to 37.
The House then took up for consideration the report of the committee on the contested election of William Baillies, 67 to 35.
After debate, a motion was made to postpone it indefinitely.
The debate on this subject was continued to a very late hour, many motions of adjournment having been made without success.
About 9 o'clock the question was taken on indefinite postponement of the report, and negatived, Yeas 45, Nays 65.
The question then recurred on the adoption of the report which was further debated; and, after debating in favor of the first resolution, reported by the committee, the House were compelled to adjourn at a little past one for want of a quorum.
EUROPE.
From the London Sunday Review of April 26.
PATRIOTIC MEETINGS.
Never has the tide of public spirit run so high or so extensively as at the present moment, since the institution of the corresponding Society, and the plan of reform projected and supported by Mr. Pitt, and the Duke of Richmond, in their best days of patriotism and independence. The important facts disclosed by Mr. Wardle's very extraordinary investigation, has roused the whole country into one unanimous vote of thanks to him for his boldness, circumspection, and perseverance; and it has also roused it to a general demand of a reform in Parliament, as the only means of effectually guarding against similar atrocities in future; and more especially as the only means of bringing such atrocities to light, by destroying the corrupt influence of Ministers, whose perpetual object it appears to be to squash, instead of promoting all enquiry into their nature; and more especially, still as the only means of obtaining honesty and independency in the majority of the representative house, and verdicts founded upon the evidence before the house and consequently in unison with the plain blunt sense and honest feeling of the people at large.
We have already noticed the meetings of this sort that have taken place at Westminster Hall, and Guildhall, the former very numerously attended by inhabitants of the highest respectability, and the latter by as many of the Livery as could crowd within the walls.
We have also noticed, that a meeting for the same object was held by the common council of the metropolis, who concurred almost unanimously, not only in voting Mr. Wardle the freedom of the city in a gold box, but in resolving that the ministry had lost the confidence of the nation, and in asserting that the late decision of the majority of the house was in direct opposition to the evidence before them, and apparently given from corrupt motives.
We now proceed to state that the Metropolitan county has had a meeting of a similar description, and that a series of similar resolutions has been followed up with equal unanimity and spirit; that the Borough of Southwark has imitated so patriotic an example; and while it has forborne to pass a vote of censure on its representative who was in the majority, in consequence of his general respectability of character, as was severally done in the cases of the city and of the Mid-
dlesex meeting, it has exacted a pledge of both its members, that they will support the principle of a parliamentary reform whenever it shall be introduced before the House.
Liverpool, Nottingham and a multitude of other cities and towns have felt the same impulse, and pursued the same conduct; and Norwich and many others are on the point of proceeding to PASSUS AGIS. At Liverpool, a piece of plate of 1000£ value was voted to Mr. Wardle, with an appropriate inscription.
We trust, therefore, we shall not stop where we are; other meetings, and in connection with the grand object of preventing similar abuses in future, by more effectual means than the mere dead-lettered reports of parliamentary committees, and parliamentary commissioners, are already arriving, and as we hope, are about to bring forward with temper and moderation, the great national question that has been so long suffered to lie dormant. "England," said Montesquieu, most admirably, "can only be ruined by her own parliament;" and it is now high time to take care that she fall not a sacrifice to this only means of her destruction. But should nothing more be done than has been accomplished already; for every villain who may chance to be employed by government will be in no trifling degree deterred from pursuing the suggestions of his own base heart, by a dread of speedy and condign punishment.
This, however, is not the whole that has flowed from Mr. Wardle's most salutary investigation. A prosecution has already taken place, under the direction of the minister himself, against a set of wretched agents concerned in negotiating for the sale of places under government. The church is likely to be purified in some degree from the same contaminating spirit of barter; one reverend gentleman has actually been discharged from a lucrative office, in consequence of the late disclosure; and if report speak correctly, the prince of Wales, and the duke of Clarence, are both on the point of discharging several of their chaplains from their patronage, for having hired their hands in the same filthy stream .
The East India Company is likely to be as much benefited by this most wholesome investigation, as the nation at large. One of its directors has already fallen a victim to the searching spirit that is abroad; and he is by no means the only one that is likely to suffer. The case of Mr. G. W. Thellusson is as clear as the daylight, notwithstanding all the efforts that have been made to white-wash him also from the charge of connivance or corrupt participation. He stands convicted by his own evidence, and that of other witnesses, before the committee of the house of commons, of having (exclusively of an improper distribution of cadetships) from year to year, for three years successively, sold to his cousin, Mr. Emperor Woodford, his nomination to a writership, valued at from 3000 to 3500£ each, in purchase of the place or receiver of rents issuing from freeholds, bought under the will of the late Mr. Thellusson, by the aforesaid Emperor Woodford, as one of the executors named in the said will, and as one of the trustees of the estates purchased.
Lord Castlereagh affords however, a more atrocious instance still of a corrupt application of means to a political end. This immaculate minister stands at this moment convicted, by evidence given before the same committee, of having endeavored to purchase a seat in the house of commons for his friend Lord Clancarty, by giving to the person who could procure it a writership in the East India Company, value we have before observed, at 3500£. It may be said here was no actual offer of money; but it was a much worse negotiation than if it had been; for where money is offered, the traffic is only dishonorable & corrupt on the one side of the barter; in the present instance it is a dishonorable and corrupt traffic on both sides; it is a double sale of illicit commodities, equally atrocious towards the East India Company as towards the purity and privileges of parliament; and unless parliamentary precedents go for nothing in the present day, the noble lord must either, like the duke of York, unvoluntarily resign , or be forcibly expelled. But the question is already before the house, and in the able hands of Lord A. Hamilton, who has given notice of his intention to bring it forward on Friday next; and in this nobleman's hands we shall leave it for the present.
FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
FRANCE AND AUSTRIA.
It is about 17 or 18 years since the troops of Austria were put in motion, to effect the annihilation of the Republic, and the dismemberment of the territory of France. Thrice she was defeated and permitted to exist. The fourth time has doubtless proved fatal. The battle of Rhen, which Mr. Relf is pleased to term "a mere petty affair," has decided the fate of the house of Austria. We have no intention of an enquiry into the causes and motives of the powers, which in the first coalition, made war upon France. These things in the gross, are generally known and understood, but there are certain facts of great importance, connected with the events of that period, which are daily developing themselves, & which throw a blaze of light upon the history of those times.
It is known to all the world, that France, previous to the unprovoked system of war against her by the government of England, was more anxious to preserve peace and a cordial good understanding with England, than with any other government in Europe. But the confidence which the republicans of France put in the government of England, and the demonstrative evidence which they gave of that confidence and of their desire for peace with all the world, are not sufficiently known. It is, at length, published to the world, that the republican government of France to avoid a war with Austria, with that Austria which she has now crumbled into dust, was willing to submit to George III. the settling of all matters in dispute, between France and Austria. This humane and benevolent purpose was rendered of no avail by William Pitt, at once rejecting the proposition.
The fact is disclosed, with many others to prove the innate corruption of the government of England, by Major Cartwright, who has published in London, "Reasons for Reform," to which we are indebted for the following very interesting letter from Earl Stanhope to the author.
"BARNERS STREET, Jan. 3, 1809. Dear Sir, You desire my testimony on an important subject, you have a right to it, but it be your intention to communicate the facts to the public, I expect you will give them fully or not at all, upon my authority.
"After the French revolution, and previously to the first war between France and Austria, I remember expressing my regret to Monsieur Talleyrand, that two such great & enlightened nations should cut each other's throats, for such small objects as those which were then the ostensible pretexts for hostilities between them. He expressed with great warmth and eloquence, how totally he coincided with me upon the folly and immorality of unnecessary wars; and he said that the French nation wishes to avoid a war with Austria as much as he did; & he assured me that the French nation had such high respect for the English nation, as the only free country in Europe, except France, that the new government in France would willingly leave to his majesty, the King of Great Britain, or to any commissioners his majesty the king George the third should be pleased to appoint, the settling the points then in dispute between France and Austria."
"I felt, I must confess, great pride and pleasure, as an Englishman, at this idea of a reference to the first magistrate of my country, as a free country, so horrible to us in that respect, so handsome on the part of the friends of liberty in France, and by preserving peace in Europe, so beneficial to humanity. I asked Monsieur Talleyrand whether it was their intention to propose to our government such an arbitration."
"He told me, if they were sure it would be accepted by our government, the offer would be made formally; but that they did not think it right to make such an offer, if it were not certain that it would be accepted here. He then said, that as I had several near relations in the British cabinet, he should be much obliged to me to endeavor to find it out. I replied to him that I would do it with great pleasure."
"I went to lord Grenville; but I did not obtain any satisfactory answer. He told me generally, that he was only one, that he must consult others, or to that effect."
"I then went to my brother in law, Mr. Pitt. I made a full communication of what had passed between Monsieur Talleyrand and myself, and I expressed the high satisfaction I felt at my having it in my power to give him such pleasing information."
"Mr. Pitt, without a moment's hesitation, rejected the idea totally. I urged with great earnestness, every argument which occurred to me in favor of the proposal; but wholly without effect—I received this answer with sensations more painful than I have any words to express."
Believe me sir, Most sincerely yours, "STANHOPE." To John Cartwright, Esq.
The consequence of this answer from Mr. Pitt was, that no official character was announced by Mr. Talleyrand, and he left England without having had any audience with any of its ministers. The sword was unsheathed; thousands and tens of thousands of human beings have been murdered, other thousands have suffered all the sad variety of woe, thrones have been overturned, in a word the continent of Europe has been revolutionized in consequence of the depravity of that man whom the convention justly proclaimed to be "The enemy of the Human Race."
By the noble lord's speech in parliament on the 24th of Feb. 1800, it appears that Mr. Talleyrand and others were at this time in an "official capacity," although for reasons or policy here explained, their credentials had not yet been made known to the English ministry.
If any of the old friends of Cobbett, have had an opportunity of perusing the London papers brought by the Pacific, their bowels must have yearned at the facts they disclose. There was a meeting on the 24th of April last, in the city of Winchester, to consider the recent disclosures of corruption in the different departments of government;—at this meeting Cobbett took the lead, and in a speech which occupies two columns of a London news paper, pronounced as bitter a Philippic against the "stupidous fabric" as could flow from the tongue of any thoroughbred jacobin. As the testimony of this man was some years ago held in high repute by one half of the population of Philadelphia, and as to our own judgment, he has much stronger claims to respect now than when he was here, we beg leave to announce to his former patrons, that Cobbett now acknowledges a number of facts, which we have constantly been making known to the public.
We have said that the ins and outs of the parliament, are equally disposed to employ corruption: Cobbett confesses this, & says, that among the opposers of the late scrutiny, were Grey, Sheridan, Wm. Smith, Pownall, by and other leaders of the reputed whig oppositions.
We have said, that the members of the established church, support and profit by the corruptions of the government—on this subject Cobbett says, "No less than five clergymen of the establishment, have been detected in corrupt practices. In peaceable times, we have seen a clergyman of this country bursting hogsheads under him, establishing volunteers, and promoting other political measures." Our New-England clergy appear to follow this example.
We have said that there is no such thing as a representative of the people in parliament—Cobbett says—"I want to see a house of Commons that shall not pocket the money they are sent to take care of; I don't want to see a house of Commons filled with men notoriously bought and sold like bullocks in Smithfield market; in such a system, the members are not our representatives, any more than they are representatives of the deer in New Forest; but I will tell you whom they represent, the people in the dock yards, custom houses and barracks."
We have spoken of the army and of its cost—Cobbett says, "the annual expense of the army amounts to no less than twenty millions of pounds per year, and of this five millions go for the pay of foreign troops, who, whilst the native troops are sent to die in the West Indies, or perish in defence of the Spanish monks, repose in safety in the heart of England."
Of the corruption of the ministry, Cobbett says: "in saying this, do not suppose I am going beyond the truth, they confess it themselves: only look at the case of Lords Castlereagh and Clancarty, convicted out of their own mouths; but do not think that Lord Castlereagh will be turned out of office—we never saw any punishment inflicted upon speculators, whose plundering transactions are brought to light, so that the only advantage we enjoy is that of paying the wages of the commissioners who detect them."
Contrasting the condition of the English and Irish, he says: "the people of England
assemble, although the liberty to meet and express their sentiments is denied to the people of the sister kingdom where they are deterred by the bayonet."
And to complete the metamorphose from Cobbett in America to Cobbett in England this old federal champion quoted the following jacobin lines from Goldsmith:
Princes and Lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Since a residence of ten years, under the blessings of the English monarchy has produced this change in one of its oldest and most zealous champions, the sooner his former associates leave this shocking land of freedom, the better."—Aurora.
NEW YORK, June 26.
Capt. Somersell, in 18 days from St. Pierres Martinique, informs us, that the inhabitants were all peaceable and well disposed towards the new government—that no attack had been made on Guadaloupe by the British; and that no troops had left Martinique for Jamaica, as no intelligence of an insurrection in the Island of Jamaica had been received at Martinique.
PHILADELPHIA, June 26.
FROM TENERIFFE.
By the Resolution, Love from Teneriffe, we learn, that the accounts from Spain received there, were highly favorable to the cause of the patriots. Some time previous to his sailing, the advices from Cadiz were down to the beginning of May. Fifteen hundred French prisoners had arrived at Teneriffe, and orders were issued for preparing to receive an additional number.
FROM MADEIRA.
Capt. Blake, arrived at Boston on Wednesday last, from Madeira, informs, that accounts had been received there, to May 10, from Lisbon, which stated, that all apprehension of an immediate visit from the French had subsided; and that the force collected in that quarter was of such magnitude, as to create the most lively hopes of future safety and protection. There are no accounts from England, Spain or the continent, later than what we have before received through other channels. There were large quantities of cotton, &c. landed at Madeira, and freights to England low.
WASHINGTON, June 28.
The Senate yesterday confirmed the nomination by the President of the U. States, of John Q. Adams, as Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of St. Petersburg—Yeas 19—Nays 7.—Nat. Int.
On Monday the VICE-PRESIDENT of the U. S. left the City.—Id.
The U.S. States' schooner Enterprise, capt. Tripp, sailed from this port on Saturday morning to cruise off the Texel.
The Wasp sloop of war, capt. Robinson, now laying in the Delaware below the city of Philadelphia, is ordered to be fitted for foreign service.
ADVERTISEMENT.—The subscriber wishes to sell the place known by the name of the Hot Springs, lying in Bath county, within five miles of the Warm Springs, and on the main road leading to the Sweet and Sulphur Springs, Lewisburg, Kanawha, state of Ohio, and Kentucky. This Tract of Land, contains about five hundred and forty acres, about fifty of which, is cleared, and a part of it will make excellent Meadow.
On the said place, are a large House two stories high, a good kitchen, a large and commodious stable lately erected, a granary, a number of out houses, and a number of small houses for the accommodation of Gentlemen and ladies who resort the waters during the bathing seasons.
There are also three baths in complete order, the temperature of which, are one hundred and six, one hundred, and ninety six degrees by Fahrenheit's Thermometer. The medical qualities of these waters, and the effectual cures which they have performed, in the removal of various diseases, are so well known to the public, that the subscriber conceives it to be unnecessary to make any remark thereon.
On the purchase of these possessions, one fifth of the money must be paid down, and the balance rendered in four annual payments. If a sale be not made before the first day of October next, the place as described above, may be rented out for a term of years.
In the occurrence of either of these two instances, the subscriber will have it in his power to furnish household, and kitchen furniture, and servants as may be agreed on.
By application made to the subscriber living on the place, the particular terms will be made known.
BENJAMIN THOMPSON. Hot Springs, July 4. law4w4f
FOR SALE, 1005 acres of LAND, lying on the waters of Tye river, in the county of Nelson, (formerly part of Amherst) —This tract, being part of the estate of the late Col. John Rose, is situated about ten miles from New-Market, and is conveniently contiguous to Major Massey's Merchant mill. Two hundred acres are cleared, the residue is covered with heavy and valuable timber. The soil is peculiarly adapted to the production of tobacco, corn, wheat &c.—The tract will either be sold entire, or divided into 2 or 3 equal parts, as may meet the convenience of the purchaser.
Slightly detached from the main tract, are 70 ACRES bearing a heavy growth of pine, that will either be sold separately, or in conjunction with one of the divisions—One fourth of the purchase money will be expected in hand, the balance in three equal annual instalments. The land will be shown by Mr. John N. Rose, or by Capt. Morgan, living in the neighborhood.—For further particulars apply to the subscriber.
THOMAS FITZHUUGH. N. B. The purchaser will have liberty of seedling in the fall, and possession at the commencement of the ensuing year.
Stafford, July 4. T. F. It
WILL BE SOLD On the 31st day of July next, at the dwelling house of the late Joseph Prentis, in the City of Williamsburg, the personal estate of the decedent—The sale will be continued from day to day until the whole or the greater part of the personal estate is sold. There will be some valuable household and kitchen furniture, and plate for sale. And it is probable several house servants will also be offered for sale. There are several Milch Cows, two Horses, and a neat single Paxton and Harness quite new.
The sale will be made on a credit of nine months, to bear interest from the date; and if the payment is punctually made, the interest will be remitted—Bond and approved security will be required from the purchasers before any article which may be sold is delivered.
JOSEPH PRENTIS, Esq. &c. Williamsburg, July 4. 3w
FOR SALE, a likely young NEGRO WOMAN, with her first child. She has been raised as a ladies maid.—Apply at the office of the Enquirer. July 4. 2t

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER.
Permit me, Dear R. to salute you upon the return of this day so exquisitely dear to every American. There is perhaps no principle in human nature which possesses a more impulsive force, than that which leads mankind to trace the rise of their national existence. Memory upon most occasions pursues the directions of judgment, but upon this, it acquires an interest and feeling of its own; it throws aside every thing like restraint, and insists upon laying before us the interesting scenes of our History. Yes, there is something indeed about the fourth of July which awakens the most vivid and delightful sympathy, it seems to possess the very air by certain tender influences and to communicate a kindred passion throughout every order of society. Under this ascendancy of feeling, we are naturally inclined to examine the earliest lineaments of our infancy, to mark the disasters which hung upon our youth, to look with pride and admiration upon that band of Patriots, who amidst every calamity broke the heavy chains which bound us in servitude, and lastly to contemplate our advancement in refinement, and the science of SELF GOVERNMENT. At one time we behold ourselves feeble, forlorn and powerless, at another blooming into prosperity, then again encountering the insidious arts of tyranny which would have kept us in the bondage of impotence, never to have known the maturity of manhood, never to have felt the thrilling transport of independence and never to have established this happy and harmonious system of polity. It appears to be impossible, my Dear R. that any American can look upon this picture without the most tremulous sensations at every feature, without feeling that "warmth divine" which lights up in the bosom of man the most glowing affections. There never was a people bound by such a variety of ties to hold their ancestry in dear and grateful remembrance as the Americans. They have only to look around and they will not find a people upon whom the sun shines from the moment "he pillows his Chin upon the orient wave" until he retires in the west, who can boast of a banquet so pure, so rich and supremely transcendent as that which this day gives to them. It is the radiant Era of political reform they celebrate when, man rose from humility and despondence to claim the unalienable gifts of nature, the only source and type of his dignity and happiness. A reform which like the Shepherd Lad in holy writ overthrew the great Goliath, and banished from one quarter of the Globe the disastrous influence of tyranny. Unlike the vassals of Europe they do not assemble to offer the faltering homage of applause to the revolving birth day of a King, nor fearful of the petrifying glance of power do they hail with trembling consciences the coronation of a Despot.
We know that national festivals have been held in every age, and perhaps in every country. But none can we compare to this. If we turn to the enlightened nations of antiquity, we are instantly impressed with the united emotions of surprise and contempt at their superstition and idolatry. They were chiefly dedicated to the purposes of fable and religion , and were either intended to give importance to priest craft, to set off the ostentation of wealth or to promote the views of intrigue and ambition. The Lupercales of Rome and the Panathenaea of Athens, cannot be considered by the student of their history in any other light than as the objects of senseless phrensy and delusion. But far be it from me to draw any comparison between ourselves and those celebrated people. Every age has the vanity to claim the pre-eminence. Let us not stop, however, to examine the manner in which they poured forth the warm and trembling libation of animal blood, by way of sacrifice to an imaginary God, or how they boasted in delirious revelry at the idea of their birth, being co-eval with the glorious luminary which rolled above them. How very different is the American festival! We assemble to offer up the incense of gratitude to that blessed genius of liberty, that kindred spirit inspired in regions of mild and serene air, which inspired our forefathers in the embattled plain, and protected them from the blasting smite of despotism. It is our consecrated republic we celebrate, where man is man , where the humble tenant of the furrowed field is equally the object of law and justice as even he who could boast of the golden showers of Peru. The government we adore, is the mild and equal sway of just and generous laws in imitation of that grand and infinite wisdom, where every thing is controuled by a regular, calm and harmonious system—where every sphere is kept within its own activity. But let us not forget to look upon that great chain of events which led to this glorious result. Here permit me to remark, that I shall not fatigue your patience with the familiar and perhaps uninteresting detail of circumstances which preceded the birth of America. But for this, I might be apt to indulge myself in wondering at that spark of chance which kindled it into being. But for this, I might follow that bold and aspiring genius, which pregnant with celestial fire, shot its rays thro' this dark and unknown region and convinced astonished Europe, there was "Another and a better world"—But for this, I might pause over the difficulties he encountered—How for eight years, he flew from court to court before he could equip his little navy and how, at last, he was borne to these desert shores,—Such in miniature was Columbus—such the man who, upon his first step, fell prostrate on the earth to receive the maiden kiss of this new-born world. All Europe now awoke as from a dream. The spirit of adventure which was not a little stimulated by the hope of avarice, spread with surprising rapidity, and the American shore was soon impressed with the footsteps of the emigrant. It was needless to say, that Great Britain put forth her claim among the first, and it was equally so, to investigate its justice. But so it is, the very soil upon which we erect the altars of liberty, and the country, through which on this day resound the psalms of triumph, and the songs of independence, was planted by her hands and in honor of her Queen—named Virginia . It is perfectly unnecessary for me to point out, that well known and neglected spot, where these strangers first arrived; its unkindness to their first approach, the wilderness of the scenery around them, the difficulties which embarrassed them, or the dangers with which they were environed. James Town will never be forgotten as the place of their original settlement. Tanta mole erat No manum corde gentem.
Suffice it to say, that the principles of prudence and frugality upon which their internal government was conducted, promised the most rapid elevation in wealth and prosperity. Nor did they prove untrue. For comparatively speaking, in no great while felicity began to blossom all around, the crescent of hope was bright and inspiring, and but little of the ken of divination was required to foresee that our rank in the society of nations would be among the first, and our destiny among the happiest. Population increased with unexampled success, the fertility of the soil brought the most luxuriant reward to the farmer, and commerce rose from our waters like the goddess of Apelles, the beauty and the envy of the world. What better idea can I give you of the enterprising character of the times, than in the words of that electric genius of Ireland, who in Parliament said, "that whilst we were looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite regions of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. We know that while some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed with their fisheries, no climate that is not witness to their toils." With intrepid activity like this, it was easy to perceive that we should rival, if not surpass the most adventurous nations of Europe. Such, it seems, was our character. Nature rose up in every direction to display the majesty of her strength and the vastness of her resources. It was now, my dear R. that the evil eye of Great Britain was intensely fixed upon us. She viewed our towering prosperity with jealousy and alarm. Jealous of our skill and boundless adventures, and alarm lest some kind angel should stoop from its sphere to whisper freedom and independence to the American. Under this combination of feeling, she determined in addition to chains, to force on manacles and fetters, that our slavery might be more complete, the energies of our nation more subservient to her interest and our means of resistance more powerless. There never was perhaps, a scheme of hostility or of sanguinary oppression so elaborately adjusted as that which was preparing for the Americans.
It commenced with a systematic aggression upon our commerce, our legislation and our manufactures, for it was the boast of Lord Chatham that he would not suffer us to make even a Hob nail for a Horse Shoe . Their design was too plain to be mistaken, and it was evident that nothing would satisfy them but an entire suspension to the Loom, the Anvil, the Anchor and the Plough. But our fate was to be read in the tragedy of a Country which had a little time before been reduced by inhumanity, that would have disgraced a Tartar or a Goth to the most humiliating and unqualified submission.
ALAS POOR IRELAND!
The Americans could but look upon this dreary and frightful perspective with some awful sensations, although every nerve was firm with determination. They were shown of the powers of sovereignty and the measures of vengeance which hung over their heads would unavoidably have sunk them into the most abject and grovelling state of misery and dependence. Even the tyrants of antiquity who had the most ample means to enforce passive obedience were element enough to grant some few privileges to their conquered countries. But these very few were denied by Great Britain to the unconquered Americans. In Rome, each had a Patron or Protector in the Senate, but the idea of any kind of Representative from us was treated with mockery and contempt. The voice of complaint was regarded as the sound of disloyalty and the act of remonstrance was considered as strongly infected with the crime of rebellion. The refusal and contest of the British Empire which in the scale of human estimation can find no counterpoise even in fancy, constituted a standing army which was quartered upon us, and paid by us and without the smallest necessity for its existence. Acts of outrage & excess distinguished their conduct and their Ports afforded them so many sanctuaries from whence they never could be brought to justice and punishment. Our judiciary was composed of men selected entirely for their poverty and temper of extortion, who held their offices during the pleasure of the crown and whose salaries were either diminished or enlarged in proportion as they displayed their loyalty and justice in adjudging of fines, penalties and forfeitures. The trial by jury which was held inviolable by them, was denied with contumely to us. No law whatever, no matter its urgency and import could possess any force, unless it first received the Sic Jubet of his majesty. Taxation was imposed without any regard to our situation and without suffering us to have any representation in the House of Commons. And if resistance to payment should be made, the individual was instantly forced from his friends & witnesses across the vast Atlantic to undergo his trial under the avowed reason that an honest jury could not be found in the Colonies. The idea of being taxed under the pretext of supporting the dignity of the crown , when the subjects of the mother country were exempt was too daring an attempt at slavery not to meet with the most violent & odious opposition. Thus we were doomed to feel all the miseries of their Government without being allowed to derive one solitary benefit from any of its principles. Like the Egyptian task masters they demanded aid from the Colonists and at the same time imposed the most heavy restraints upon their resources. To toil like slaves for ministers and Financiers and to make a whole continent, in fact, tributary to the pride and luxury of the metropolis of Britain. These are but a few outlines of the Character of the mother Country. You are too well acquainted with it to justify a more minute investigation. What a striking contrast presents itself to the mind in looking at our present situation and that to which we were doomed by the Grenville policy. At this very moment we might have been under the scourge of tyranny worse than that which inflicts the miserable peasant of Ireland or the more wretched inhabitant of Indostan.
But while Great Britain expected these things to intimidate, they only served to produce the very opposite effect. She had forgotten that there was an ultra point in prosperity as well as in adversity beyond which she could not move. But notwithstanding this great variety of provocations, we were not hurried away by resentment, our conduct was chastened with temperance and our repeated remonstrances breathed filial affection and a fond desire for conciliation. Every mind, however, was a rock of adamant upon which the fury of Great Britain was spent in vain. In this gloomy state of things, the only determination which remained was to perish or to conquer.
Our revolutionary patriots looked through nature up to nature's God , and found that their cause was just and glorious. It was tried in the language of Condercet in the tribunal of opinion and, as it were, before the assembled nations of mankind. The rights of man were discussed and strenuously supported in writings which circulated from the banks of the Niva to those of the Guadalquiver. Among their ardent and eloquent advocates were the ever living names of Voltaire and Rousseau. Such, my dear R. was the sacred character of our cause. Such was the importance of these rights at issue, without which the dignity of man shrinks into a toy—he becomes the blighted victim of tyranny, and his soul as it were, disdaining the innumerable clay, leaves him the hollow image of despair and wretchedness. Here then, it was time to take their stand. They did so. They refused with the energy of Freemen to submit. And here the spirit of domination became more fierce, and that of resistance more immovable. The temper of hostility on the part of Great Britain arrived to such a pitch, that if a friend of the colonies was heard to breathe a sigh of sympathy, he was instantly consigned to a jail or perhaps to the more happy mansions of profound oblivion. The memorable causes of tea which had been distributed to the waves of Boston, exhibited a temper on the part of America that was not to be subdued by threats and violence. This conduct of the Bostonians has incurred the reproach of rashness and precipitancy from some few historians, but every American will be likely to give it the suffrage of his warmest admiration. It was followed by a rapid succession of hostilities until the battle of Lexington where the first blood was shed . Here we may date the actual commencement of that war which was conceived in injustice, nurtured in folly, and whose footsteps were marked with slaughter and devastation. In less than twelve months came on that glorious 4th of July which ever since we have hailed with the enthusiasm due to a jubilee of Freedom. If the Roman Senate was regarded as an assemblage of Gods, may we not look upon our first Congress in the same light with greater piety and truth? Fancy almost enraptured them to our view as the commissioned saints of Heaven with a pen of inspiration marking out the rights of man and the independence of America; and if there be a recording angel , may we not expect that its brightest page will be devoted to the immortality of the author?—Here was established this happy, and I trust, imperishable republic, two hundred and eighty-four years after our discovery and one hundred and sixty six after our first effectual settlement. But this did not put a period to the progress of war, and the ravages of desolation. Its course, however, is almost too familiar to be susceptible of any new interest.
It is unnecessary to portray the immense force which was displayed under the colours of Royalty and the incredible weakness of that in comparison on the side of the Americans.
How unprovided they were in arms and resources! How they endured the combined miseries of nakedness and hunger; or how like the game of the hunter they were to be tracked by their blood across the indurated snow and mamoncks of ice. But under all these calamities, they proved inexorable to the seducing promises, and fearless of the cruel threats which constantly issued from the quarters of their enemy. Nor did they forget to gratify their ferocity. The guilt of the murderer and the innocent circumstances of the victim, the configurations of the incendiary and the scenes of suffering, are to be found in every page of the Revolution. The unhappy lot of the American soldier who became a captive to his relentless foes was indeed horrid and lamentable. They pursued the example of the Indian, whom they had bribed into alliance, whom with toys and trinkets they had drawn from the wilderness to gather the scalps of the white man . How after his savage mode of cruelty, when the victim exhibits the signs of death, he is released from the stake, and his suspended energies soothed and courted into life, merely to undergo similar pangs; somewhat like this was the fate of the soldier. Day after day, he lingered under the importunate cravings of the human appetite, until reduced to his last hour; then he was brought into the fresh air not to be fed! but merely to be tantalized with food, unless he would forsake his country and join its merciless invaders. To the glory and renown of the American soldiers, many of them preferred to sink under the horrors of famine, rather than be guilty of parricide. But their fury was not limited to the soldiery. The dwelling of the farmer was doomed to tumble in ruins over his head, and his property of every description to be seized, not for the purposes of want, for humanity would have spared as much, but merely for the sake of spreading calamity and throwing his wretched family back as it were upon the hands of providence. The brandishing torch was next to be seen at the Hamlet, where the best hopes of every age and sex were committed to the devouring flames, and from which many inhabitants were flying from every thing dear, to escape the dread punishment of being treated as traitors. Their infuriated desolation was not satisfied even here. Towns and cities remained. They were just rising into wealth and importance from their convenience to commerce, or from being the depositories of Agriculture. But these destroyers came, and nothing was afterwards to be seen but the naked monumental walls of the wretchedness of thousands.
We are naturally inclined, my dear R. to believe that they must have felt some thing like pity or perhaps may have heaved some pious sigh at the dismal waste they had made. But O no, sensibility had long since flown from the cold Regions of their bosoms, the habits of rapine and desolation had rendered misery a pastime, and suffering humanity the source of subsistence. It was exultation to the British incendiary and the pride of his officer, for some of them who were taken prisoners not only possessed the trophied list of what they had destroyed, but of many more they had marked upon the fatal paper. Such was the ferocious character of British warfare. Murder stalked upon the land begirt with every torment that imagination could conceive, or human nature endure, and rapacity feasted upon smiling villages, luxuriant fields and without distinction upon the mansions of the poor and the rich. We should suppose that here at least was a boundary to their outrage and
The celebrated Horne Tooke who proposed some relief to the Bostonians during the occupation of their port by the Boston Port Bill, was sentenced for this act of humanity to a long and severe imprisonment.
A LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE POST OFFICE, AT RICHMOND, on the 30th day of June, 1809.
A—John Adams, Mrs. Eliz. Adams, Elizabeth Archibald, Samuel Alexander, Thomas Armstrong, Colin Auld, William Anderson.
B—Samuel Bell, Joseph Boyce, J. Daniel Brown, Miss Mary Bush, Gerard Banks, David Bullock, Joseph Doughman, Miss Martha Bryan, Jesse Bowles, Mrs. Selina Brooke, Redmond P. Barry, Richard Brooke, John Brennan, James Boyle, Aaron Borden.
C—Wm. W. Cunningham, Samuel R. Coldwell, John Cupinghem, Rawleson Colston, Mrs. Eliz. Cordes, John Craddock, Joseph Carter, John M. Campbell, John Clark, Charles Clark, Capt. Crutchfield, John Coaker, Elizabeth Catland, Philip Crump, Miss Nelly Calpatrick, George Cross, Curtis Carter.
D—The Revd. Thomas Logan Douglass, Rivers Drake, John Donnelly, Capt. James Davis, Samuel Davis, Mr. Davidson, Samuel Doyle, Miss Elizabeth Dabney, Miss Sarah Morrison, Miss Emily Davis, Dr. Ashley Davis.
E—James Edwards, Thomas Evans, Samuel Evers.
F—Benj. B. Ford, Col. Wm. Fontaine, Wm. Flowers, Jackson Frashure, The hon. Judge Flemming, Polly Frasher, Wm. Frost.
G—Seaton Grantland, Samuel Gillman, Willis Godwin, Mrs. Mary Gray, John Glynn, Revd. Jacob Gregg, Luke Johnson, Daniel Giles, Thomas Gudwin, Nathan Gason, Maj. Daniel Guernant, John Godfrey, Samuel L. Greenwood, Mrs. Milner Gerford.
H—Granbury and Hancock, John Hopkins, Capt. H. Henley, Dr. Peter Hockings, William Hendley, Alexr. C. Hanson, Capt. Wm. Hooper, Nicholas Hallam, Maj. David Holloway, Calhoun Howard, George M. Hill, Peter Hester, Sylvester Reavey, Patrick Hendren, Sally Harlow.
I—Rudolf L. Jones, Joseph Jackson, Paul G. Jones, John Jenkins, Merewether Jones, Robert M. Jones.
K—Peter Kemp, Peter Kean, Christn. Kaety.
L—Charles Lee, Spottswood Lipscomb, Hezekiah Lockett, Sarah Lester, Martin Lemons, Samuel Livermore, Thos. A. Ladd, Miss Nancy M. Lawrence, Carter Littlepage.
M—Curtis K. Moore, Thomas Miller, Armsstead Morley, Gen. John Minor, Thomas Macon, John McCormick, Edward Magee, Chas. and Wm. Morris, Wm. Henry Morris, Wm. Middleton, Mr. Maulde, Ramsay Mery, Revd. Smith Mead, Moses Myers.
N—John New, Norvell, Wyatt and Bullock.
P—Gen. John Preston, Wm. Patrick, Thaddeus Prentiss, Joel Pollard, Joseph Pope, Charles M. Perry, Walter Potter, Richd. Phipps, Samuel Parsons and Son.
R—Richd. Randolph, Frederick Y. Roddey, James Robins, Lt. James Rags, Henry Randolph, Miss Maria A. Radford, Nathaniel Roberson, Wm. H. Rumm, Thomas Robertson, John Robinson, David Ross.
S—J. H. Short, Henry S. Shore, Capt. Wm. Saunders, John Skeving, Mrs. Judith A. Smith, Capt. Humphrey Scott, Maj. S. H. Saunders, Thomas Swan, Edward Sampson, Hugh Steel.
T—Creed Taylor, Charles Thompson, Miss Adelaide Tamm, Francis Thornton, Doct. Philip Turpin, Charles L. Terrell, J. B. Tillery, Benj. Tayloe, Geo. K. Taylor, Morgan Tompkins, Saml. Taylor, Avery Tabon, John Tawman, Thos. Tawman.
V—Capt. Christopher Vail, Richard Veitch, &c.
W—Monsieur Vergne, Matthew Whiting, Pleasant P. Watkins, Wm. Wingo, Miss Rhoda Wm, Mrs. Mary Wood, James Warrel, Alexr. Watson, Miss Maria Moody, Mrs. Judith Webb, Miss Mary White, John Webb, Thos. Winburn, Wm. Wright, Miss M. Winston, Miss Sally Whitlock, Anselm B. Walker, Maj. Samuel J. Winston, Robert Wilkinson.
WM. FOUSHEE, P. M.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD—Ran away from the Subscriber on the 20th day of June 1809, a light colored Mulatto woman named Laurena, about twenty two years of age, rather inclined to be fat, & somewhat under the common height—She has very bushy hair, and a freckled face, and had sores on both arms, one of which was occasioned by a burn just above her left elbow—there is also a scar on one side of her neck—She was dressed in a white India cotton wrapper when she went away; but it is probable she may change her dress and cut off her hair. It is possible she will endeavor to pass as a free woman, and to get to some of the Northern States. All captors of vessels are forwarded from carrying her out of the state. If she is taken out of this City, reasonable expenses will be paid besides the above reward.
ANNA BYRD.
JOHN & JOSEPH BOYCE, Jr. Stationers and Book-binders—Having opened a store on the main-street opposite to the Globe-Tavern, (where may be had every article in the stationery business) Respectfully solicit the favors of their friends, and the public, and beg leave to assure them that any work committed to their care shall be faithfully executed and their favors gratefully acknowledged. N. B. An Apprentice wanted. July 4. w3w
FOR RENT—The two following tracts of LAND, lying on James river, in the county of Powhatan. That large estate called BELL MEAD, at present occupied by Mr. James Tucker. The plantation immediately below it, now in the occupancy of Mr. David Mead. Also, the Tract of Land, called the Old Courthouse Tract, in the county of Powhatan, lying on Deep Creek, and now occupied by Mr. William Wilburn. These Lands, will, without reserve, be rented to the highest bidder, at Powhatan Courthouse, on the 19th of July next, (being the first day of the court) unless before privately rented—Apply to JAMES CARTER, Goodland, NELL MCCOULL, } Richmond, or to JOHN ST. JOHN. } ep19thj
MANNERSFIELD FOR SALE—The Subscriber offers the elegant and highly improved estate called Mannersfield for sale. It is situated within less than two miles from the Town of Fredericksburg. The quantity of Land proposed to be disposed of is about 1500 acres—The mansion house and out-houses are equal to any in the state. A considerable credit will be allowed, for the greater part of the purchase money. The encumbrance on this property will be discharged out of the proceeds of the Sales, so as to leave to the purchaser an undisputed Title. MANN PAGE, BENG. BOTTS, Fredericksburg, July 4. L. BOLLING. Buckingham, July 4. w3w
VALUABLE LOW GROUNDS—The subscriber offers to lease, for a term of years, those valuable Tenements at present in the occupancy of Messrs Isbell, Robinsons & Wm. Bailey, being part of his estate, lying on the Piananta River, in the county of Amherst, (from 4 to 6 miles below the flourishing town of Lynchburg,) and consisting chiefly in rich low grounds. The leasing will begin on the place where Mr. Zaxn. Isbell now lives, on Tuesday, the first day of August next, and continue from day to day, as the weather will permit, until all are let—The terms will be made known on the day. L. BOLLING. Buckingham, July 4. w3w
BANK OF VIRGINIA, 3d July 1809. The President and Directors have this day declared a dividend of three per cent, which will be paid after the 15th inst, on application at the Bank in person or by attorney. JOHN BROCKENBROUGH, Cashr. July 4.
The marvellous story of the $40,000 found in Grayson County, turns out, as might have been expected—were Judge—We have just conversed with a man from the neighborhood of the locality.

REPORT.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 20th, 1809.
SIR, I have the honor, in obedience to the resolution of the H. of Representatives of the 17th inst. to transmit copies of the following documents, viz:
A. Proceedings of the commissioners of the sinking fund, at a meeting held on the 18th of March, 1809, directing the application of a sum not exceeding 2,250,000 dollars, to the reimbursement of the principal of the exchanged six per cent. stock, and authorising the secretary of the treasury to borrow, with the approbation of the President of the United States, and in conformity with the provisions of the 10th section of the act, "making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt," a sum equal to that of the principal of the exchanged six per cent. stock, which might be thus reimbursed.
B. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the President of the bank of the United States, dated 21st of March, 1809, inquiring whether the proposed loan might be obtained from the bank; and also whether the bank would assent to a contemporaneous reimbursement of the whole amount of exchanged six per cent. stock owned by that institution.
C. Answer of the President of the bank of the United States, dated 24th March, 1809; stating, that it appears to the board of directors that they are not authorised by the act of 1795 to make a loan for the reimbursement of the stock created by the act of 1807; that the bank will agree to the loan, provided it is not wanted for a more distant period than the time when the present charter of the bank will expire, and provided also, a law be obtained giving them authority to make it; and that the board prefer a reimbursement of only so much of the exchanged six per cent. stock which they own, as may fall to the lot of the bank.
D. Proceedings of the commissioners of the sinking fund at a meeting held on the 26th Dec. 1795, authorising a loan of 500,000 dollars pursuant to the first section of the act above mentioned, passed the 3rd of March, 1795.
E. Contract with the bank of the U. States, dated 31st December, 1795, for a loan of 500,000 dollars obtained from that institution, in pursuance of the last mentioned proceedings of the commissioners of the sinking fund.
F. Proceedings of the commissioners of the sinking fund, at a meeting held on the 15th December, 1798, authorising a loan of 200,000 dollars, pursuant to the provisions of the act above mentioned, passed the 3rd of March, 1795.
G. Contract with the bank of the U. States, dated 17th December, 1798, for a loan of 200,000 dollars obtained from that institution, in pursuance of the last mentioned proceedings of the commissioners of the sinking fund.
No other loans have ever been obtained under either the first or tenth section of the act of 3rd March, 1795; nor can I find in the minutes of the commissioners of the sinking fund, any other proceedings touching the exercise or construction of the duties or powers contained in those sections.
It appears by the document (A.) that the commissioners of the sinking fund, at their meeting of the 18th March, 1809, construed the words "public debt" in the 10th section of the act of 3rd March, 1795, as embracing the exchanged six per cent. stock; and considered the section generally as authorising them to borrow, with the approbation of the President, the sum requisite for the reimbursement of that part of the principal of the public debt, if there was, in their opinion, reason to apprehend that all the demands on the treasury, including such reimbursement, could not be discharged, unless a loan to that amount was obtained.
I. The commissioners of the sinking fund did not decide, that the words "public debt" in that section, comprehended any debt which did not exist on the 3rd day of March, 1795, when the law was passed; nor even any portion of the debt then existing, which might, (as in the case of the three per cent. stock converted by virtue of the act of 11th Feb. 1807, into a six per cent. stock,) have been subsequently altered either in the amount of its capital, or in the rate of interest payable thereon. The construction which they gave to the law applied only to the six per cent. stock issued, by virtue of the act of 11th February, 1807, in exchange of the old six per cent. or deferred stocks. No alteration whatever was produced by that exchange, either in the amount of principal, in the rate of interest, or in the manner of transferring the debt. The only change is the manner in which the principal should be reimbursed, and that certainly did not alter the nature of the debt. This exchanged stock is therefore, in the opinion of the commissioners, precisely the same debt which existed in March 1795, and to which the powers vested in them by that act are strictly applicable. But although the grounds on which a different opinion was entertained by the bank, are not in this moment understood; it appeared eligible, in a case where doubts were suggested, to apply to Congress for an explanatory act, and in the mean while to suspend any further proceedings respecting the proposed loan. The resolution of the commissioners of the sinking fund has not, therefore, been yet submitted to the President of the U. S. for his approbation.
II. The commissioners of the sinking fund are, by the 10th section of the act of 3rd March, 1795, empowered and required, if necessary, to borrow with the approbation of the President of the U. S. the sums requisite for the reimbursement of the principal of the public debt. The general expression "if necessary" have been taken by the commissioners as confining the power thus vested in them, not to the case when the sums which they are directed to pay annually might exceed the probable receipts into the treasury for that year, but to that of those receipts being insufficient to discharge all the annual expenditures, including the payments of the sinking fund. The question of priority of payment in favor of that fund was not taken into consideration, because, although the obligation to pay at this time eight millions of dollars annually on that account is indisputable, it is equally necessary that all the other expenses authorised and directed by Congress should be paid. The meaning and object of the section appeared indeed so obvious, that no doubt had suggested itself on that subject previous to its late discussion.
The first section of the act authorises the commissioners of the sinking fund to borrow from time to time such sums in anticipation of the revenues, (not exceeding in one year, one million of dollars) as may be necessary for the payment of the interest on the public debt. The restrictive word is the same in this as in the 10th section of the act. If it be insisted that the necessity of borrowing can never exist in this case, unless the revenues appropriated should fall short of the sums payable on account of the interest, there has been no year since the law passed, in which such loan could have been legally made. It will appear by reference to the documents D and E, that in December, 1795, a loan of 500,000 dollars was, by virtue of the first section of the act of 3rd March, 1795, authorised by the commissioners of the sinking fund, approved by the President, and obtained from the bank. The necessity of the loan to rest, not on a comparative view of the revenues appropriated for the payment of the interest, & of the sums payable on account of that interest, but on the general state of the treasury, and on a general view of the receipts and expenditures for the three last quarters of 1795, and for the year 1796. The amount of revenues which were pledged for the payment of interest, are there estimated for the
year 1796, at near six millions, and the amount of interest at only four millions of dollars.
The papers F and G refer to a loan of 200,000 dollars obtained in December, 1798, from the bank, for the purpose of reimbursing an instalment of the principal of the loan of two millions of dollars, had of the bank pursuant to the 11th section of the act of incorporation. The loan is through some error of the transcriber, stated to be by virtue of the 6th section of the act of 3rd of March, 1795; which section does not confer any authority to borrow money. And the loan was evidently made under the 10th, and not under the first section of the act; for it is intended for the purpose of reimbursing an instalment of principal, and not for paying the interest on the public debt; and it was also made for a term of four years, (though reimbursable sooner at the pleasure of the United States,) which could not have been done under the power vested by the first section, which directs an absolute reimbursement within a year from the time of each loan. This loan was made because there was "no surplus of revenue in the treasury applicable to the payment of the said instalment," by which it is not meant that surpluses of revenue were alone appropriated for that object; for so much of the duties on imports, and spirits distilled, and stills, as would be sufficient to pay the instalments of that two millions loan, were appropriated by the 8th section of the act of 3rd March, 1795; and the commissioners were directed by the 11th section of the same act, to reimburse the said instalment as they became due. Nor was there in the year 1798 any deficiency in the revenues appropriated for the payment of interest and principal which the commissioners of the sinking fund were directed to make; for the revenues pledged exceeded by three millions of dollars, the payments made on that account. At that time, as at present, the necessity of recurring to the authority to borrow, vested by the act in the commissioners, resulted from a deficiency in the general receipts, which during that year fell short of the general expenditures.
Under those impressions, it was stated in the report made on the 1st inst. that it might be necessary to borrow a sum equal to the amount of the principal of the public debt reimbursed during the year 1809; and that provided the authority vested by the act of 3rd March, 1795, should be expressly extended to the stock issued under the act of 11th February, 1807, no other provision seemed necessary for the public service of this year. And as in the statement and estimates from which those conclusions were drawn, the monies actually in the treasury at the commencement of the year are stated at near ten millions of dollars; and the demands on account of the public debt for this year, at less than six millions and a half, the report was evidently founded on the supposed correctness of the construction above mentioned. But if that construction shall be deemed incorrect, and if the powers vested in the commissioners by the 10th section of the act of 3rd March, 1795, shall be considered by Congress, as applicable only to the case, when the monies in the treasury, together with the probable receipts for the year, shall fall short of eight millions of dollars: the provision suggested by the report (and which was intended only to remove a doubt respecting the nature of the debt to which the powers were applicable) will not be sufficient. It will then be necessary to pass a law, giving an express authority, to borrow the money which may be wanted.
I must acknowledge that, so far as relates to the extinguishment of the debt and independent of the question respecting the true construction of the law, I perceive no material difference between the two modes. Whenever the expenses of the nation shall exceed its revenues, loans must, in some shape or another, be obtained; and the important question, is, whether all the expenses incurred be really necessary, or even useful. On the decision of that question the Secretary of the treasury has no control. If the had, there would certainly be no necessity to borrow money in time of peace.
Permit me to add some observations, explanatory of the letter written to the President of the bank, on points not immediately embraced by the resolution of the House.
There were two reasons, why it was thought more eligible in this instance to negotiate a loan with the bank than with individuals. It is still uncertain when, and to what amount the money may be wanted. A contract with individuals requires previous notice and arrangements, and is absolute, so as to compel government to receive the amount lent, according to the terms of the contract. But with the bank it was sufficient to ascertain whether the loan could, if wanted, be obtained from that institution; the contract might be delayed till it was ascertained whether, and to what amount, the loan was necessary; and it might be avoided altogether, if not actually necessary. The reimbursement would also be made with more convenience, & some interest saved, because the re-payments may be made to the bank from time to time and in any sums whatever, according to the situation of the Treasury.
In proposing to the bank that they should give notice to the treasury of their wish to be reimbursed the whole amount of their exchanged six per cent. stock, my object was to facilitate the loan, since by that operation there would have been no real payment, but only a commutation of debt; and also to accommodate, so far as was consistent with the public interest, those individuals who, by accepting the terms of the act of February, 1807, had become owners of exchanged six per cent. stock, and who, that stock being above par, could not desire to be reimbursed. As it related to the bank, that consideration was immaterial, as it was not presumed that they wanted to sell their stock.
I have the honor to be, With great respect, sir, Your most obedt. servt. ALBERT GALLATIN.
The Honorable the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(A.) Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, at a meeting held on 18th March 1809. (Copy.)
At a meeting of the commissioners of the Sinking Fund, held on the 18th March, 1809:— Robert Smith, Secretary of State, Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury, C. A. Rodney, Attorney General of the United States.
The Secretary of the Treasury laid before the board a report, dated the 18th day of March, 1809, which was read, and is as follows, to wit:
"That there was paid during the year 1808, in order to complete the reimbursement of the eight per cent stock, a sum of 1,547,000 dollars in advance, and on account of the annual appropriation of 8,000,000
of dollars, on account of the public debt, for the year 1809, leaving a sum of 6,453,000
which must in conformity with existing laws, be applied during the present year, to the payment of the principal and interest of the public debt."
"That the payments to be made during the present year, on account of the interest on the debt, including the annual reimbursement of the six per cent. and deferred stocks, were estimated at 4,226,000
dollars; leaving a sum of 2,227,000 dollars, which, the market price of stock being
above the rate fixed by law for purchases, can only be applied to the reimbursement of the exchanged six per cent. stock, in conformity with the provisions of the act, entitled "An act making further provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the U. States."
And that, considering the probable amount of receipts and expenditure during the present year, it is not believed, that all the demands on the Treasury, including the above mentioned sum of 2,227,000 dollars, can be discharged, unless a loan can be obtained, equal to the amount of principal of the public debt, thus reimbursed.
Whereupon, Resolved, That a sum not exceeding 2,250,000 dollars be applied, during the present year, to the reimbursement of the principal exchanged six per cent. stock, in conformity with the provisions of the act last above mentioned.
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorised with the approbation of the President of the United States, to borrow a sum equal to that of the principal of the public debt which may thus be reimbursed, in conformity with the provisions of the 10th section of the act, entitled "An act making further provision for the support of public credit, & for the redemption of the public debt."
(Signed) R. SMITH, Secretary of State. ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury. C. A. RODNEY, Attorney General of the United States. (B.)
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to the President of the Bank of the United States. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 21st 1809.
SIR, The commissioners of the sinking fund having directed the reimbursement of a sum not exceeding 2,250,000 dollars, of the new exchanged six per cent. stock, and authorised in conformity with the 10th section of the act making further provision for the support of public credit, and for the redemption of the public debt, passed the 3rd of March, 1795, a loan to the amount of principal thus to be reimbursed, I beg leave to enquire, 1st. Whether the bank of the United States will be disposed to lend that sum in two equal instalments, viz. on the 1st October next, and on the 1st January 1810, being the times at which I intend to effect the reimbursement? 2dly. Whether the bank will assent to be reimbursed the whole amount of said exchanged six per cent. stock, which they own at the times above mentioned?
The two propositions may be considered as independent one of the other: it being however understood, that if the bank does not wish to make the loan, it would suit government better, not to reimburse the bank exclusively, but only according to lot, in common with other stockholders.
If the bank will assent to make the loan, but refuse to receive the reimbursement, (so far only as may be determined by lot) it will not be material that the sum lent should be paid by the bank into the Treasury, precisely in two instalments as above mentioned. The times & amounts of payments may in that case be arranged when a formal agreement shall be entered into, so as to answer the wants of the treasury, and the convenience of the bank. It is only in case the bank will accede to both propositions, that as there will be no real payments, but only a communication of exchanged six per cent. stock, into a temporary loan, it will be seen necessary that the loan should be made on the same days, and for the same sums as the reimbursements.
If the bank will assent to both proposals, it will be seen by reference to the 8th section of the act, supplementary to the act entitled "An act making further provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," passed on the 11th February, 1807, that an exclusive reimbursement of the exchanged six per cent. stock, held by the bank, cannot take place, unless notice be given to this department in writing of the wish of the institution to be thus reimbursed. And that notice must reach me prior to the 30th inst. as I must otherwise determine by lot, what certificates of that stock shall be reimbursed and give public notice thereof, in conformity with the second section of the same act, on or before the first day of next month. I am sensible that this is pressing for an answer within a shorter time than may be convenient; but under the pressure of current business, I did not attend to this operation, till within the last three days. I therefore request, that you will have the goodness to lay the subject immediately before the board, and to favor me with the answer. If that answer be in the affirmative, I will thank you to enclose it, the notice in writing, asking for the reimbursement, in order that such notice unconnected with any other subject, may be filed as a voucher, authorising me to reimburse in conformity therewith.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) ALBERT GALLATIN.
DAVID LENOX, Esq. President of the Bank of the U. S. Philadelphia.
FOR SALE, A Negro MAN, that has been regularly brought up to the House Carpenter's and Joiner's trade, is an excellent workman and would suit a gentleman that is a out to make improvements on a plantation, or one who carries on that branch of business in the country— Enquire at this office. June 13. w3w
NEGROES FOR SALE.—Pursuant to the power vested in us by a deed of trust executed on the 11th day of Dec. 1807, by Nicholas Syme and John M. Syme, will be sold conformably to the act entitled "An Act concerning executions and for other purposes." On Tuesday, the 1st of August next, if the day admit, otherwise the next that does, at the tavern of Wm. McDougle in the town of New-Castle, in the county of Hanover, the following Slaves, to wit: Jack, Tom, Davy, Arthur, Spencer, Patty and child Rachel, Sukee, Lavinia and Joe, with the increase of the females, or such of the said Slaves as he living, to satisfy and comply with the purposes mentioned in the said deed. THE TRUSTEES. May 25. w9w
THE Subscriber offers for lease or sale, his MERCHANT MILL, in the upper end of Hanover county, on the south fork of Pamunkey river, about twenty-two miles from Richmond, and in either case, would annex (if desired) from fifty to two hundred acres of land: the mill was lately repaired, and is ready for business, possession may be had at any time. In case of a sale, landed property, conveniently situated, would be received in part payment; or long credit may be had on paying interest. MICAJAH CREW. 6th Mo. (June 13.) w4w
NOTICE.—Pursuant to a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by Robert Saunders of Buckingham, and recorded in the said county court, bearing date the fourth day of Jan. 1808, in order to secure the payment of a debt due John Lockland: We shall, on Thursday the 20th day of July next, proceed to sell, agreeable to an act of the Virginia Assembly, entitled "An act concerning executions, and for other purposes," at the house of Mr. J. Hendricks, Buckingham, a negro man named CLEMM, to satisfy and comply with the purposes mentioned in said deed. Wm. M. THORNTON, CLAUDE WEST. June 20. w3w
THE Subscriber offers for lease or sale, his MERCHANT MILL, in the upper end of Hanover county, on the south fork of Pamunkey river, about twenty-two miles from Richmond, and in either case, would annex (if desired) from fifty to two hundred acres of land: the mill was lately repaired, and is ready for business, possession may be had at any time. In case of a sale, landed property, conveniently situated, would be received in part payment; or long credit may be had on paying interest. MICAJAH CREW. 6th Mo. (June 13.) w4w
NOTICE.—Pursuant to a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by Robert Saunders of Buckingham, and recorded in the said county court, bearing date the fourth day of Jan. 1808, in order to secure the payment of a debt due John Lockland: We shall, on Thursday the 20th day of July next, proceed to sell, agreeable to an act of the Virginia Assembly, entitled "An act concerning executions, and for other purposes," at the house of Mr. J. Hendricks, Buckingham, a negro man named CLEMM, to satisfy and comply with the purposes mentioned in said deed. Wm. M. THORNTON, CLAUDE WEST. June 20. w3w
NOTICE.—All persons indebted to the firm of Gilliat and Kirby, by bond or open account, are requested to come forward and discharge their respective balances, on or before the first day of September next, as suits will be instituted against all those who are delinquent at that time. THOMAS GILLIAT, Acting partner of GILLIAT & KIRBY. N. B. In my absence, Francis R. Stroble is fully empowered to receive and discharge all debts due to and from Gilliat and Kirby. June 27. THOMAS GILLIAT. w15.
VIRGINIA—In the Staunton Chancery District Court, the 28th day of Nov. 1808.
Between Samuel W. Barrett, plaintiff, & Wm. Hylton, sen. Wm. Hylton, jr. M'Cheyne Campbell, George Lawrence, Luke Tiernan, &c. defts. Between Daniel L. Hylton and Wm. Foushee, plffs. and Samuel Werdon Barrett, Wm. Hylton sen. and Miles King, defts.
These causes came on together this 28th day of Nov. in the year of our Lord 1808, to be heard on the bill, answers and exhibits in the original cause, and the bill, answer of the defendant King, and the proceedings had against Samuel W. Barrett and Wm. Hylton, as absent defendants in the cross bill, and upon the report of Commissioner Hay, to which there is no exception—Whereupon, it appearing to the court, that the plaintiffs have duly proceeded, by publication according to the rules of the court, against the first defendants, and they still failing to appear & file their answers, the said cross bill is taken, as confessed against them; and it further appearing to the court from the exhibits and reports of master commissioner Hay, as aforesaid, that the defendant, Wm. Hylton, is justly indebted to the defendant King, and to the plaintiffs in the following sums, to wit: To the defendant Miles King, the sum of £251 6s 6d with 5 per cent interest on £225 10s part thereof from the 14th day of July, 1808, until paid; to the plaintiff Wm. Foushee, the sum of £1563 18s 9d with 5 per cent interest on £1700 10s 9d part thereof from the said 14th day of July, 1808, until paid; and to the plaintiff, Dan'l L. Hylton, the sum of £1039 18s 4d with 5 per cent interest on £664 11s 11d part thereof from the said 14th day of July, 1808, until paid; and the court being of opinion, that these debts are justly chargeable on the Rich Neck Estate—Therefore, without pronouncing on this time any decree on the merits of the question made by the original bill between the plaintiff Barrett, and the defendant Wm. Hylton, it is adjudged, ordered and decreed that the defendant Wm. Hylton, do pay unto the said King, Foushee, and Daniel L. Hylton, respectively, the said several sums of money with interest, and on default of payment thereof, it is further adjudged, ordered and decreed, that the said Miles King, Wm. Foushee, and Daniel L. Hylton, do execute a sufficient deed of conveyance for the said Rich Neck Estate, to the said Wm. Hylton, and deposit the said several sums of money with interest as aforesaid, to said King, Foushee, and Daniel L. Hylton, or the defendant, Barrett, shall pay the same for him, on or before the first day of February next, then it is further adjudged, ordered & decreed, that Robt. Saunders, Robt. Greenhow, of Williamsburg, and Robert Nelson, of York, be appointed commissioners, any two or more of whom may act, who are hereby authorised and required, after duly advertising the time & place of sale for six weeks in some news paper published in the city of Richmond, and some other newspaper published in the Borough of Norfolk, to proceed to sell at Public Auction, for cash, in such manner, either in parcels, or in whole, as they may think best calculated to enhance the value of the property in the market, the Land, together with the Mills and appurtenances thereto belonging, called the Rich Neck Estate, mentioned in the proceedings, in this cause, and lying in the county of Warwick; and out of the proceeds of said sale, after defraying the costs and charges attending the same, the said Commissioners are directed to pay in the first place, to the said Miles King the above said sum of £251 6s 6d, with interest on a part thereof as aforesaid; and next pay to the plaintiffs Foushee and Daniel L. Hylton, the respective sums above mentioned, to wit, to Daniel L. Hylton, the sum of £1039 18s 4d, with interest on part thereof, as aforesaid; and to William Foushee, the sum of £1563 18s 9d, with interest also on a part thereof, as aforesaid; and that they retain the residue of the purchase money, if any, in their hands, subject to the future order of this Court. If the Commissioners proceed to make sale under this Decree, during the continuance of an Act of Assembly concerning the sale of property under execution, and incumbrances passed the first day of February, 1808, they are required to proceed according to the provisions of that act, and not otherwise.
And on the motion of the plaintiffs in the cross bill, it is ordered that Humphrey Garrett, the representative of Charles Graves and William Fenwick, the Creditors of Rich Neck Estate, mentioned in the aforesaid Commissioners report, be made parties to the said cross bill, and they are hereby required, on service of a copy of this order, to adjust and state their respective claims before Commissioner Hay, who is authorised and required to settle and report the same to this Court, with such matters as he may deem pertinent, or the parties may require. A Copy. Teste. HENRY J. PETTON, c. c.
In pursuance of the foregoing decree, we shall proceed to sell the Land with the Mills and appurtenances called the Rich Neck Estate, containing 4800 acres of valuable Timbered Land, of the best White Oak for ship building, with a fine Yard. This Land lies on a branch of James River, within 55 miles of the flourishing town of Norfolk, where a great quantity of timber is always wanted—This Land will be positively sold, on the premises, to the highest bidder, agreeably to the 14th Section of an Act of Assembly passed 31st of January, 1809 entitled "An Act concerning executions and for other purposes." On Thursday the 10th of August next, being Warwick court day. The Land and Mills with the dwelling-house, will be sold together or separate, in such parcels as may be most advantageous to those concerned. ROBERT SAUNDERS, } Comrs. ROBERT NELSON. } June 20. w6w
* NB. The 14th Section of this law, directs that Property so circumstanced shall be sold on a credit until the rising of the next Legislature—This will probably be about the beginning of February next—Such valuable property is seldom at Market and Meri's attention.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.—Ransaway from the subscriber two NEGROES, to wit Burrell Gates and Long; Burrell Gates is about thirty years of age, five feet, eight inches high, rather slender-made, well proportioned except he has a very large foot, he was purchased of Mr. Wilkinson (Chesterfield,) & has a wife at Mr. John Spear's in the same county; Long was purchased of Mr. Richard E. Armstrong, a film over one of his eyes, this fellow I suppose is lurking about this City. The above reward will be paid for delivering them to Mr. Chan H. Saunders, Richmond, and ten dollars for either of them, or if secured in any Gaol in this Commonwealth so that I get them again. JACOB FACKLER. May 26. wtf
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IN CHANCERY—In Henrico County Court, June 5th, 1809.
John Lynch, Compt. against John Bernard, Deft.
The defendant not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant, by his Counsel: It is ordered, That the said defendant do appear here on the first Monday in August next, and answer the complainant's Bill: And that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers printed in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and another copy posted at the door of the Courthouse of this County. A Copy. Teste. J. B. WHITLOCKE, CPA. June 6. w8w
VIRGINIA, to wit:—At a Chancery District Court, held in the City of Williamsburg, the 14th day of April, 1809.
Kendall Lee Plff. against Ann Spiller, widow of Benjamin Spiller, deceased, Benjamin Spiller, Susan Hurst, George Smith and Nancy his wife, and Grace, Patrick, Roxillana and James Spiller, infants, by their said Benjamin Spiller their guardian, and William Spiller and Hickman Spiller Defts.
THE defendant, William Spiller, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the Act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country: On the motion of the plaintiff, by his counsel: It is ordered, That the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Richmond news-papers, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former Capitol in this city. A Copy. ANTT. ROBINSON, C. C. May 9. w8w
VIRGINIA, to wit:—At a Chancery District Court, held in the City of Williamsburg, the 15th day of April, 1809.
Wm. McFeters and James Wardlaw Plffs. against John W. Fox and Elizabeth L. Fox, infants, children and heirs of John Fox the younger, and John Lewis administrator of the said John Fox, Ann Fox, Thomas B. Fox, William Fox, Henry Fox and Isaac Shelby Defts.
THE defendant Isaac Shelby, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the Act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this 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 the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Richmond news-papers, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former Capitol in this city. A Copy. ANTT. ROBINSON, C. C. May 9. w8w
LAND FOR SALE.—Will be sold, to the highest bidder, on the 18th day of July next, the tract of Land, whereon the late David Owen, dec'd lived, containing 473 acres, lying in the county of Powhatan, about four miles from the Courthouse. There are two settlements on this Land, on each of which is a good orchard, from which a considerable quantity of excellent cider is annually made: the quality of the Land is such as is usually to be found in the neighborhood; it will be divided into two lots, or sold in one, as may be most conducive to the interest of the estate. The terms will be, 500 dollars paid on the day of sale, 500 dol. in six months, and the balance in two equal annual payments. Bond will be required from the purchaser, the bonds to carry interest from the date, if not punctually paid. Possession given the first day of Dec. next, with the privilege of sowing small grain the first of September next. Mr. George Owen, living on the land, will show it to those who may wish to view it. JOSEPH MATO. Exec'r of the late will and testament of DAVID OWEN, Decd. June 13. F5w
A PAIR OF HORSES STOLEN.—TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.—Stolen from the commons of Manchester, on Thursday night, the 8th inst. a pair of black HORSES—one a brown black, very thick set, and well made, his left hind foot white—the other, a jet or deep black, of rather slender make; both nearly the same age, eight or nine years, about five feet high—they pace, trot and gallop, and run well in harness. I will give ten dollars reward with reasonable expenses, to any person delivering them to me, or five dollars for such information that I get them again, and twenty dollars for the apprehension and conviction of the thief. CORNELIUS BUCK. June 20. 4
SWEET SPRINGS, VIRGINIA.—The subscriber has been at great expense and trouble to render this much esteemed place comfortable and pleasant for the present season. Gentlemen and ladies who are desirous of visiting those waters, may depend upon every exertion on the part of the subscriber, to make their time agreeable. O. TOWLES, Jr. June 20. 5w
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.—Ransaway, about the 14th of last month, from the subscriber, residing in the city of Richmond, a Mulatto Man named GEORGE, about 23 or 24 years of age. He is, I believe, about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, with rather large limbs, and is a little knock-kneed; his complexion is tolerably bright, and his hair is rather more straight than that of mulattoes generally. He has lost the first joint of his middle or fore finger of one of his hands, which, I think, is the right hand, but the finger is perfectly cured. I do not recollect any other visible mark by which I can describe him. I am informed that he has changed his name, & it is probable that he will, with forged papers, attempt to pass as a free man. All boatmen and masters or skippers of vessels, are particularly cautioned against carrying him away. The above reward will be given to any person who will bring the said slave to me, or apprehend him so that I may recover him. J. ROBINSON. June 13. 4
AN ELEGANT ESTABLISHMENT FOR SALE.—The House and Tenement where the subscriber lately resided. This tenement justly ranks amongst the first in this place, combining elegance, convenience, contiguity to the Capitol, and in the centre of a most agreeable neighborhood. For terms apply to Mr. Wm. Long who is fully authorised to contract for the same. J. PENN. June 23. 4
PRINTING, IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE ENQUIRER. A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF BLANKS, FOR SALE AT THIS